00:01:20.980So did he get out ahead of you or what happened there?
00:01:23.360No, nobody got out ahead. I mean, I just say that in order to do it, they have to be a member of the Abraham Accords, which have been very successful.0.91
00:01:32.300But it's time now that they do it. They and others didn't want to do it because of the problem that they had with Iran.0.92
00:01:39.480You don't have that problem anymore. You don't have a great power there anymore.
00:01:43.080You have a problem, but the problem is disappearing day by day.1.00
00:01:48.940They were the bully of the Middle East.0.99
00:01:50.920They were not going to be that much of a bully anymore.1.00
00:01:53.060Probably, I think, instinctively want to be.
00:01:56.080But you don't have the same problem that you would have had four or five months ago
00:01:59.740before they had no Navy, no military, no anti-aircraft, no leaders.
00:03:20.460The Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan,
00:03:24.340is now asking Trump's DOJ to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith.
00:03:29.660Late last night, Jordan sent a criminal referral to Todd Blanche,
00:03:33.260accusing Smith of lying to Congress about his investigation into Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
00:03:40.260Now, folks, let's be clear. There's no evidence, non-zero, not a nilch, that Jack Smith lied about anything under oath, period.
00:03:51.280But we do know the president and his allies want to punish Smith for telling the truth about the president's actions.
00:03:58.500And the stunt follows repeated calls for Trump, by Trump, and from others around Smith to be prosecuted.
00:04:06.220Tonight, Smith's legal team is fighting back. Smith's lawyers have sent a letter to Jordan and Blanche saying this absurd criminal referral, quote, reflects a chilling eagerness to weaponize the justice system.
00:04:18.980So because of that, can he even just walk away?0.84
00:04:21.540If the Iranians have control over the strait and they're going to send missiles to provoke people or charge a toll or block up the global economy at will, which they can now do, can the president just walk away and say this mess is for somebody else?0.99
00:04:39.460We've got allies in the Middle East who we who want to make we want to make deals with and they want to make deals with us.
00:04:46.600Is it possible for the U.S. just to throw up its hands and say, you know what, we're done, we're going to pull up all of our troops back or do we suffer more consequences?
00:04:54.980If I were advising the president, God love me, and he was actually listening to me, what I would say is he can and should do that and allow the Gulf states to create a compromise, essentially something that looks like the management of the Dardanelles, where the Omanis and the Iranians jointly manage some fund that is paid into by countries in the region, maybe some others, not the United States.
00:05:23.520a call it reconstruction call it management it's not going to be a per ship toll um for now and the
00:05:30.640reason you do that for now is because right now the americans do not have the ability to um defend
00:05:38.040either their allies in the region from iranian strikes shahed drones ballistic missiles and do
00:05:45.460not have the ability to defend the the uh the strait from iranian disruption but the iranian
00:05:52.820leverage in the region is wasting over time. Countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq,
00:06:01.280Syria, they are building alternate infrastructure to avoid the strait. You need to get radar in
00:06:09.960place for the Gulf states. You need to get advanced Ukrainian drone capabilities that will
00:06:17.000shoot down Shaheds and eventually ballistic missiles in six in 12 months time with that0.93
00:06:24.080capacity, you can drive a much harder bargain against the Iranians or else.0.98
00:06:29.540But the U.S. is not in that position today.
00:06:32.820And Trump's ego may not be willing to allow that recognition, but the United States should
00:06:40.020be keeping its powder dry until they can drive a better outcome for the American people,
00:06:45.040for their allies in the region and for the global economy.
00:06:48.420But just to be clear as day about this, just tell us what you make of the allegations Republicans are making in this referral.
00:06:57.160Sure, because this is one of these instances where I know that usually we're very careful to say, you know, it seems like or it appears.
00:07:06.320But this is one where there's just no two ways about it that this is preposterous.
00:07:13.100And the easiest way to do that is to just tell you what is alleged.
00:07:17.640What is alleged is that Jack Smith lied in response to the following question.
00:07:23.400He was asked, did you get the content of text messages from members of Congress through a search warrant?
00:07:33.720Did you get the content of text messages of members of Congress through a search warrant?
00:07:39.220to which he said, no, I didn't. I only got telephone records through this other process.
00:07:47.120That is 100 percent truthful. The fact that Jack Smith also got documents from the National Archives
00:07:56.080was not asked. He was in any way, shape or form. So this story is not just about the sort of
00:08:04.920retribution that we've seen from the Department of Justice. To me, this is the complicity of,
00:08:12.100in this case, Jim Jordan, who is the signatory of the letter with doing the referral.
00:08:20.020On its face, it is not perjury, period. I'd love to, I usually am more careful to say,
00:08:28.960you know, it seems like, or we don't know everything they have. You cannot read this
00:08:33.540letter and just in any way view this as perjury americans don't trust the media any longer um and
00:08:42.200this has been it's been a downward slope for many years now many decades donald trump accelerated
00:08:48.340yes social media has divided us even further all sorts of outside factors but we have been
00:08:54.080dealing with this for a long time in the press haven't found a good solution for it um at the
00:09:00.160same time, in order to continue doing the thing we do, most companies have big corporate ownership
00:09:06.960structures that enable them to continue doing the journalism that is so necessary. But those
00:09:14.900corporate entities are then put in a position by this White House to bend the knee. I mean,
00:09:21.080we'll put up on the screen Donald Trump demanding money from various media companies. We've talked
00:09:27.480about this, you understand it. He's suing the BBC. He's suing the Des Moines Register. He's suing
00:09:33.140News Corp and the Wall Street Journal. He's gotten a settlement from Paramount, from Meta,
00:09:37.840from YouTube, from X, from ABC News and Disney. Stephen Colbert was canceled. Jimmy Kimmel was
00:09:44.420suspended and then reinstated. How do you how do you fix this? We don't have the same viewership
00:09:51.380and trust and readership that we once did. And in order to continue operating, you have these
00:09:56.920corporate structures. And then it's, you know, again, subject to the president. How do you fix
00:10:00.860it, David? It's a great question, Katie. And there's not a great fix right now, especially
00:10:07.860in a very closely divided country. But here's one thing that I would say is an option, something
00:10:12.720that needs to be really considered. And that is at the end of this administration, you're going to
00:10:17.760see in all likelihood Trump engaging in mass scale pardons. But I would say that there is still an
00:10:23.060option that is available to our branches of government, even in the face of a pardon.
00:10:28.460And that is for those officials in the Trump administration who systematically violated
00:10:32.660the First Amendment rights of American citizens and systematically attacked the freedom of
00:10:38.140the press, I think it should be on the table in the event of a solid victory by the other
00:10:43.280side that you impeach these officials and convict them so that they can never serve
00:10:48.060in public federal office ever again because if we actually have a situation in which people are able
00:10:54.220to violate the constitution with impunity receive pardons for any criminal activity enjoy the
00:10:59.380benefit of broad wide immunity for civil violations and there's nothing that happens to them they're
00:11:05.840just going to really reload and recharge for the next time that they're in power so i do think we
00:11:11.480need to think creatively about is there a way that even in the face of pardons and immunities we can
00:11:16.480hold people accountable when they systematically violate the First Amendment.
00:11:19.640You've got a statement from Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskins on vindictive criminal referrals.
00:11:26.560This is what he said yesterday. This referral deliberately distorts and misstates the facts,
00:11:35.300including what questions the Republicans actually asked at Mr. Smith's interview.
00:11:39.940The Republicans fault Mr. Smith for not reading the minds of congressional investigators and not
00:11:45.380for volunteering information they didn't ask for.
00:11:54.080And this is all out of this effort now, as we saw with Josh Hawley and his crazy,
00:12:01.080leaving out a significant part of the point in the question,
00:12:06.440saying that Mr. Smith deliberately lied, that he lied before Congress.
00:12:12.660everybody looking at this know that didn't happen what what's your take um on that knowing
00:12:19.620jack smith having been in that process and that crucible with him um i said this about jack smith
00:12:25.940i've never met the man i just observed the man from a great distance and he strikes me as someone
00:12:32.540you just don't want to trifle with at the end of the day at the end of the day this is a brother
00:12:36.700you just don't want to get in close quarters with because you will you will find out otherwise
00:12:40.740And I think that that's that is more threatening to Trump than anything else, because he is relentless in his pursuit of justice.
00:12:51.880And that's why this criminal referral crap is being leveled up right now.
00:12:57.180Yeah. So I've I've known Jack Smith for a long time when he was chief of the chief of the public integrity section.0.81
00:13:05.200Then I was a spokesman for the for the criminal division.
00:13:07.940So he is somebody that just does what he should. Right. He follows the facts. He follows. He does the right thing in the right way.
00:13:17.380And if he felt that he could walk away from from that case, he would have.
00:13:21.880And so I think what people what people see is they they are trying to manufacture anything they can to make life difficult for him because the president has multiple times said he wants Jack Jack Smith to be criminally indicted.
00:18:24.780We just want to get Jack Smith because he's an evil criminal.
00:18:28.020But this was a huge deal, and they knew about it.
00:18:30.760In fact, they argued the exact opposite at the time, didn't they not, Vice Roy?
00:18:34.500Yeah, and they're trying to say, well, he testified that he didn't get these telephone records, these text messages from the 44 members of Congress, 44 members of Congress, 20 senators, 24 House members, including the House Speaker and the number two.
00:18:54.040And he said that he didn't get these records through a search warrant or a subpoena.
00:18:59.820He got them through a back channel at the at the Biden National Archives.
00:19:04.120He lied. Right. He he he he knew what he was doing.
00:19:08.240He was hiding what he did from congressional investigators.
00:19:12.500And so they're trying to say, well, he didn't he didn't technically get it through a search warrant.
00:19:16.600So he didn't lie. He did. He lied through omission. Right.
00:19:19.180He he told a half truth here. This guy is a smart lawyer.
00:19:24.040He's a smart prosecutor. He knew exactly what he was doing. They asked him if he got the contents of the records. He said, no, he just got the toll records. He just got two from Duration and did not get the contents. He lied, right?
00:19:39.320And this is a big problem, as you said, Steve, because there is a separation of powers problem.
00:19:44.320You can't have these partisan rogue prosecutors on these partisan witch hunts and spying on a separate branch of government.
00:19:53.140They did it to House leadership, senators, rank and file House members.
00:19:57.720What if they did it to federal judges? Would that be acceptable?
00:20:00.140acceptable. This is not acceptable. And he lied about it to cover it up. Not only can he get
00:20:05.360charged with perjury and providing false statements under 1001, he can also be charged0.87
00:20:10.760with obstruction of a congressional investigation, and he should be. And if they want to make
00:20:16.100these arguments to a jury, make them to a jury. Let a jury of Jack Smith's peers decide. But
00:20:24.360it's unacceptable if he gets away with this. And this is just the first of much of Jack Smith's
00:20:31.360reign of terror that's being investigated right now and will be brought with criminal referrals,
00:20:36.620so we'll get to that. I want to play something, because you've warned people about this.
00:20:40.480I'm not so sure people in the administration are quite focused on this, but they are looking in
00:20:46.000this midterm not just to stop President Trump with Trump derangement syndrome. They want to
00:20:51.600stop what they call Trumpism. They want to stop the MAGA movement. And one of the ways they want
00:20:55.620to do it is they want to eviscerate like the Romans at Carthage. They want to destroy it0.69
00:21:01.660and salt the earth around it. And the way they're going to do that is impeachment and criminal
00:21:05.840referrals. Let's play this clip that they said the quiet part out loud. Let's go ahead and hear it.
00:21:11.320It's a great question, Katie. And there's not a great fix right now, especially in a very closely
00:21:15.900divided country. But here's one thing that I would say is an option, something that needs to
00:21:20.760be really considered. And that is at the end of this administration, you're going to see in all
00:21:25.800likelihood Trump engaging in mass scale pardons. But I would say that there is still an option that
00:21:30.780is available to our branches of government, even in the face of a pardon. And that is for those
00:21:36.560officials in the Trump administration who systematically violated the First Amendment
00:21:40.620rights of American citizens and systematically attacked the freedom of the press. I think
00:21:46.880it should be on the table in the event of a solid victory by the other side that you impeach these
00:21:52.560officials and convict them so that they can never serve in public federal office ever again because
00:21:58.720if we actually have a situation in which people are able to violate the constitution with impunity
00:22:03.420receive pardons for any criminal activity enjoy the benefit of broad wide immunity for civil
00:22:09.220violations and there's nothing that happens to them they're just going to really reload and
00:22:14.720recharge for the next time that they're in power so i do think we need to think creatively about
00:22:20.140is there a way that even in the face of pardons and immunities we can hold people accountable
00:22:24.680when they systematically violate the first amendment right there that was president david
00:22:29.620french no he actually did run for president against president trump actually in the general
00:22:35.600election i think i think he's put his name in no he's not the one jd voted for jd voted for the
00:22:39.700other wingnut from utah uh that ran uh mike davis right there they tell you what they're going to do
00:22:46.100talk to me about it it's amazing they tried to do this before they they they threw you in prison
00:22:54.020steve bannon they put neter peter navarro in prison they tried to use the 14th amendment to
00:22:59.740to throw president trump off the ballot in colorado and maine and elsewhere they tried to
00:23:05.220throw Trump in prison for the rest of his life. They look, they're desperate. And this is what
00:23:10.260they fear. They fear American voters, right? They don't want to have, they don't want American
00:23:14.940voters to have a choice. They want to take the choice away from American voters and make it
00:23:22.900that Trump officials can't run for office under this Democrat theory because Democrats are scared
00:23:30.520of american voters no this is they are looking at i mean this is what i talked about russ vote
00:23:36.180the other day they're going to impeach you're going to move if they take the house they're
00:23:39.360moved to impeach trump in the first week or two of 20 uh 27 but they're not going to actually
00:23:45.600bring it to trial for a year every day is going to be subpoenas every day is going to be front
00:23:49.280page of the wall street of the washington post and the new york times but they're also going
00:23:53.600after other cabinet officials they're going to go up to todd blancher go up to the deputy
00:23:57.420You're going to have the pay dag. Anybody that had to get confirmed, the 1,000, you remember, we get 4,000, 3,000 show up day one, 1,000 take a while.
00:24:07.280In fact, we still haven't gotten him because of the Senate. But Mike, they're going to go after everybody because they want to destroy Trumpism.
00:24:15.220They want to destroy MAGA. They want to make sure that even after they get President Trump, and we're not going to let him, but that they've cast the net broadly so that they've taken care of everybody,
00:24:25.440including these great heroes that are in the administration, are taking incoming every day, sir?
00:24:31.540Yeah, they can't impeach and bar the viceroy, and maybe Steve Bannon as well.
00:24:36.860So maybe we can run for president and vice president and really make their heads explode.
00:25:45.940He'll be confirmed by August 6th if the war room posse lights up both of their home state senators, Democrat and Republican, and let's get the Save America Act to President Trump for his signature, whether it's reconciliation or canceling August recess.
00:26:03.360Now, Mike, you do, you would agree that we're at a phase now, particularly they need recess appointments, but, you know, the president, they're going back and forth between Thune and the president, kind of taking some early shots at each other.
00:26:16.980If Save America is not pushed forward, if you don't get more appointments done, if they go on August recess, is it now time to actually say, hey, look, we've got to have a leadership fight?
00:26:30.500You've had a great run over there with Grassley and the team and others.
00:26:33.360that have pitched in. But aren't we, aren't we coming to some end point about this?
00:26:38.940If, if John Thune can't get the Save America Act with the support of more than 80% of Americans,
00:26:45.640including a super majority of Democrats, a super majority of minorities, and, and even a super0.92
00:26:51.460majority of black Americans who Democrats pretend can't get a voter ID so they can let their illegals
00:26:57.280vote. If John Thune can't get that to the president's desk, John Thune needs to go back
00:27:01.900to South Dakota and go, go work at a Walmart because he's not capable of being the Senate
00:27:08.360majority leader. Wow. You get, you go pretty far in the woods to get Mike, to hit Mike Davis's
00:27:13.960tripwire on the Senate. Mike, thank you so much. Social media, where they, where they catch you on
00:27:17.600Twitter, sir? M-R-D-D-M-I-A, my initials in Des Moines, Iowa. Thank you. Thank you.
00:27:24.860appreciate you. Thank you. Birch Gold. Talk to Philip Patrick and the simplest way I think is
00:27:33.020take your phone out and text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, 989898. They can tell you about gold IRAs. They
00:27:40.840can talk to you about rolling over your IRA or 401k and tax deferred method. There's all types
00:27:46.700of methodologies, modalities, all of it about how you get into gold. Talk to Philip Patrick
00:27:52.860also about the end of the dollar empire the eight free installments a ninth is coming talk to
00:27:59.100philip patrick and his team uh they will take care of you we're gonna have one of the smartest guys
00:28:04.660i know in finance join us next ed dowd from out in hawaii he's got something to say about
00:28:10.160artificial intelligence and capital expenditures capex next in the war room
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00:29:47.200stephen k bann ed dow joins us uh one of the smartest hard numbers guys i know ed uh i want
00:29:55.440to talk to you can we get the piece up as in zero hedge today a fantastic piece about capex ai
00:30:01.280the math itself just just you know we've had a number of these really top quality financial
00:30:07.560analysts go around and say hey look um the candle's not worth the game here if you run the
00:30:13.800numbers they just don't see after it's up and operating these large language models they're
00:30:19.460saying hey the roi is going to be fairly de minimis um you really haven't found business
00:30:25.260models for this that work do you believe that is that one of the reasons the capex concerns you
00:30:30.520Absolutely. We've got three factors that are changing second derivative wise. I follow the second derivative. First is private credit. There's an issue there. That whole sector is stalling and that feeds back into AI. We've got enterprise demand cracking.
00:30:47.420There's been a revolt on the token maxing.
00:30:50.240And we also have power constraints looming, which don't make the math work long term because there's not enough money for all these projects and CapEx being announced to plug into the grid.
00:31:00.660So that's going to make cost projections higher.
00:31:03.660And then finally, open source pricing pressure.
00:31:06.660DeepSeq and others had already been putting pressure on prices because people that don't need frontier models could use those.
00:31:14.520And now we have the Kimi K3 Moonshot Chinese model that apparently is just as good as the frontiers.
00:34:51.680The real value from AI will come after the bust when companies figure out how to monetize this and use the cheap compute that's going to be cheap eventually.
00:35:00.340So this is classic bubble investment, boom and bust.
00:35:05.120Bubbles are a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
00:35:08.400And unfortunately, there's going to be pain coming from this hangover.
00:36:11.540My goal is to write for the financial layman and, you know, in a thousand words or less, these posts are going to try to be brief but to the point.
00:36:22.820And by the way, anytime the Zero Hedge team does a great job of curating all the best stuff out there, if it's up on Zero Hedge, that means you got to read it and they do a great job of following your stuff.
00:50:26.900He keeps saying, I'll pick up the phone.
00:50:28.520Like, no one could accuse President Trump of not trying to get this thing done through diplomacy.
00:50:36.620And I would say that probably the military's most unfortunate acronym is for boots on the ground, BOG, because it gets you bogged down.
00:50:45.540And that's that's the joke that the foot soldiers talk about. And that could be the reality.
00:50:52.260Well, I know if you go, that's really going up the escalatory ladder. I do like the fact that, as he said today, they are reaching out, they are talking, etc.
00:51:00.680What I don't like is we got, you know, Netanyahu's coming for his 25th visit.
00:51:08.920He and Zelensky are coming to, and far be it from the war room to say anything bad about the dead,
00:51:15.000but they're coming for the funeral of Lindsey Graham, or supposedly Zelensky,
00:51:19.920and we'll talk about that tomorrow, Zelensky and the prime minister of Israel.
00:51:25.700Anyway, Neil, what's your social media?
00:51:28.000Where do people follow you over the weekend?
00:51:29.500And hey, and I tell you, if the balloon goes up in a big way, Real America Voice will be back live and we'll cover it.
00:51:36.260Whether it's tonight, tomorrow night, anytime over the weekend, you can count on Real America Voice having resources and assets along with the War Room to make sure that you get full wall-to-wall coverage.