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00:00:56.720 Well, First Lady Melania Trump has announced she's going to be doing an Easter egg roll.

00:01:04.340 You know, they always do that at the White House, an Easter egg roll.

00:01:06.680 But I remember the days when I used to do Easter egg events when I was a kid, and it was always about the money.

00:01:15.560 You know, if you found an egg of a certain type, you'd get a certain amount of money.

00:01:19.240 It wasn't much.

00:01:19.880 It was like 10 cents or 25 cents.

00:01:21.860 But I think if I went to the White House egg roll, I would just, like, grab the eggs and run away, maybe resell them.

00:01:31.240 How can they afford to have an egg roll?

00:01:35.040 I don't know.

00:01:35.460 Maybe Doge found enough money so they can afford eggs now.

00:01:39.840 Meanwhile, core inflation has dropped to a seventh-month low of 2.6.

00:01:45.140 Do you know what core inflation is?

00:01:48.160 Core inflation is the one you don't care about because it doesn't include food or energy,

00:01:54.600 the two things that have gone up the most.

00:01:57.320 No food, no energy.

00:01:58.500 Well, at least the rest of the stuff isn't going up too much.

00:02:03.500 It's still too high.

00:02:04.460 You want your inflation to be around 2%.

00:02:07.440 But, hey, it's the best in seven months.

00:02:11.900 Meanwhile, let's talk about all those Epstein files we've seen.

00:02:17.880 What Epstein files?

00:02:20.840 And I'm going to say again, I realize Cash Patel did some kind of a post the other day,

00:02:26.540 but he's been really quiet.

00:02:29.960 Do you think there's anything going to happen on these Epstein files?

00:02:33.320 I'm going to double down on my prediction and say that no matter how well-intentioned

00:02:38.480 the administration is, no matter how much they really, really mean it,

00:02:43.100 and they're not lying, I don't think there's any chance.

00:02:46.680 I don't think there's any chance we'll see any, you know, good Epstein stuff.

00:02:52.800 Anyway.

00:02:53.140 So, you probably have all seen by now the video of the Zelensky debacle, some say, in the White

00:03:03.480 House.

00:03:04.760 So, but you haven't gotten my take on it yet.

00:03:07.480 So, that's why you're here.

00:03:09.180 You know, I hate it when something happens right after my show, and then I have to wait

00:03:13.620 all day to talk about it, and everybody's already picked it over, so there's not much to say.

00:03:17.140 But I'll just say this, two reality TV stars who both became presidents walked into the White

00:03:26.460 House.

00:03:28.500 What do you think was going to happen?

00:03:33.160 These are two experts at making a spectacle in front of a crowd.

00:03:39.860 Nobody better.

00:03:41.040 I mean, they're the most experienced spectacle making put on the show.

00:03:44.440 And it's funny that when it was over, Trump, you know, looked at the media and said, you

00:03:49.060 know, it's good TV.

00:03:52.240 So, I think a lot of people are confusing the show with anything that matters in the real

00:03:57.840 world.

00:03:58.760 And I think the show is really fun, and probably in the end, none of it will matter in the real

00:04:03.780 world.

00:04:04.240 One way or another, it won't really matter.

00:04:06.600 So, here's what we got.

00:04:08.780 It looks a lot like an episode of The Apprentice, didn't it, where Zelensky was, you know, basically

00:04:17.100 getting fired by Trump and kicked out of the White House.

00:04:21.780 It was just like The Apprentice.

00:04:23.520 You're fired.

00:04:24.500 Get out of here.

00:04:26.660 So, anyway, what Bannon was saying, and some others have said, I don't know the details,

00:04:33.060 but apparently Zelensky was getting some advice from other senators.

00:04:38.860 Some are calling them rhinos.

00:04:41.440 And I guess he had a breakfast that day with some rhinos, and there's an indication that

00:04:46.540 maybe Susan Rice was advising him, which some would say would be a violation of the Logan

00:04:51.220 Act, where you're not supposed to be negotiating for the United States unless you're in the

00:04:55.900 government, and they're not.

00:04:58.400 So, maybe he got bad advice.

00:05:00.700 Yes, it sort of looked like he was a little emboldened, like he could push Trump a little

00:05:05.580 bit, but that didn't work out.

00:05:09.480 So, I guess the big problem is that Zelensky agreed to this mineral deal, which seems like

00:05:16.760 it was, you know, part of a larger package, which we don't know about yet.

00:05:21.600 But then he gets there, and he says he doesn't necessarily want a ceasefire.

00:05:25.860 He wants a security deal, and that wasn't part of the deal.

00:05:29.140 So, he made the mistake of trying to negotiate with Trump and J.D. Vance while indicating to

00:05:37.180 them and to the world, right in front of them, that maybe they didn't understand the risk

00:05:42.220 of Putin.

00:05:44.820 Now, how do you think that went over?

00:05:48.020 It didn't go over well.

00:05:49.140 Well, so J.D. Vance goes first and, you know, starts dressing him down in the public for

00:05:56.180 not being thankful enough and trying to come to the White House and being a little bit

00:06:05.380 of a jerk. 0.95

00:06:06.320 He didn't use those words.

00:06:08.100 But once J.D. Vance lit into him, you knew that Trump would have to double it, which he

00:06:13.500 did.

00:06:14.200 And by the way, Trump is the best talkover debater I've ever heard.

00:06:19.660 He can talk over somebody as long as it takes until they just give up.

00:06:24.940 And that's what happened.

00:06:26.180 He and Zelensky tried to talk over each other, and Trump just wasn't going to lose that.

00:06:31.380 Now, I'm going to keep talking until you shut up.

00:06:33.780 And he just talked over him, and you didn't hear anything that Zelensky said for like two

00:06:38.260 minutes in a row.

00:06:39.040 And finally, Zelensky just gave up because he couldn't even hear what he was saying.

00:06:44.200 And then Trump went on, and that's what happened.

00:06:47.960 Anyway, when Zelensky said that, you know, Trump might feel different or feel differently

00:06:55.800 when Putin crosses the ocean someday and comes for them, and Trump says, don't tell me what

00:07:03.620 I'm going to feel.

00:07:04.740 You don't have the right to tell me what I feel.

00:07:06.480 You have no cards.

00:07:07.800 No cards.

00:07:08.400 So, basically, it looked like Zelensky was criticizing Vance and Trump for either not doing enough

00:07:17.020 or not understanding the real threat with Putin that you can't appease him.

00:07:21.160 He's just going to come for you eventually.

00:07:22.640 But, so he kicks Zelensky out, and, you know, I thought there was some chance he might come 1.00

00:07:36.820 back that same day, but it didn't happen.

00:07:38.500 He's already going off to Great Britain, Zelensky has.

00:07:41.880 Now, I'm going to judge this whole event on at least two dimensions.

00:07:46.760 Dimension number one, entertainment.

00:07:50.040 Oh, my God, it was entertaining.

00:07:51.340 It was wonderful.

00:07:53.560 I felt proud to be an American and have my president not take shit in the Oval, well,

00:08:01.100 in the White House.

00:08:02.320 I just liked that Vance and Trump weren't putting up with it.

00:08:07.580 That's exactly what I wanted to see.

00:08:09.820 So, entertainment, it was a 10.

00:08:11.640 I replayed it multiple times.

00:08:13.280 It was just fun every time.

00:08:15.880 But here's the thing you need to know.

00:08:17.480 In big deals like this, whether it's a merger or any kind of really big deal, it's pretty

00:08:23.880 common for one of them to walk away.

00:08:26.940 And it's pretty common if they both want the deal, and there's a deal to be had, and it's

00:08:32.420 a good deal, that they'll probably come back.

00:08:34.420 The one thing that people say about Trump that's meant to be an insult is that he's transactional,

00:08:42.540 meaning that he would immediately get over his feelings if there was a deal, because he'd

00:08:48.240 rather have the deal than anything else.

00:08:49.740 So, the funny part, oh, even Lindsey Graham sided with Trump.

00:08:58.320 Now, Lindsey Graham is sort of a famous Ukraine war hawk, has been supporting cranes, getting 0.98

00:09:05.140 weapons and everything.

00:09:06.620 But even Lindsey Graham said that he was a strong advocate for Zelensky in Ukraine, but

00:09:12.920 he said he was devastated by Zelensky's behavior and that undoes all the hard work of recent

00:09:18.120 years, and he suggests that Ukrainian people find a new leader, and he praised Trump for

00:09:23.680 standing up to him.

00:09:26.420 So, that's interesting.

00:09:30.400 But remember I told you that, well, James Garville told you, and then I told you what James Garville

00:09:36.020 said, that the Democrat's strategy now is to wait for Trump to make a mistake, because

00:09:42.240 they don't have anything to add.

00:09:43.380 So, literally, they're going to wait for Trump to make mistakes, and then they can attack

00:09:47.980 him.

00:09:48.520 So, that means that they're going to define everything that Trump does as a mistake.

00:09:53.820 Not really different than the past.

00:09:56.280 But they're not going to put up with anything he does at all.

00:10:00.260 They're going to say, well, there it is.

00:10:01.720 That's chaos.

00:10:02.500 That's the end of the world.

00:10:04.180 Every single day.

00:10:04.620 He walked across the lawn.

00:10:06.000 Well, look at how he walked across the lawn with that chaos legs.

00:10:09.540 And, you know, all that.

00:10:13.180 But the funny part is watching the theater kids on the Democrats, because they have to

00:10:18.080 pretend that they don't understand the situation, and that they feel really bad.

00:10:24.400 So, they all put on their disgust face.

00:10:27.940 You need to look at the, there's some copilations of people on MSNBC pretending to be very sad about

00:10:34.700 this event, and they all have the, hmm, oh, oh, oh, face, oh, oh, I'm so sad, oh, my country

00:10:44.560 got embarrassed, oh, oh, and they're competing to see who could do the most theater kid thing.

00:10:52.340 And it's so unserious.

00:10:54.300 That's ridiculous.

00:10:56.280 Let's say, was it David Axelrod?

00:10:58.500 He goes, and opposed to the next, he says, I love my country with all my heart, and I've

00:11:03.800 never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval

00:11:08.740 Office.

00:11:10.100 Really?

00:11:11.880 This is one of the guys who supported Joe Biden through four years of obvious dementia.

00:11:19.420 And then we all found out that they all knew it, and they were all covering it up.

00:11:24.320 And that was not more embarrassing?

00:11:26.340 What is it that makes you embarrassed, David Axelrod?

00:11:31.020 It makes you embarrassed when the president of the United States stands up to some pissant 0.90

00:11:36.940 in the White House who's challenging him.

00:11:39.260 That's what embarrasses you.

00:11:41.380 But keeping a mentally deficient president in the office while nobody knew who was in charge, 0.98

00:11:48.940 lying to the world, and then getting caught because he does the debate, and it became obvious

00:11:54.840 that he wasn't there, none of that was embarrassing, nothing, but this.

00:12:00.740 Yeah.

00:12:01.100 No, none of this is real, meaning that the Democrats are pretending to be terribly upset.

00:12:07.600 Are they terribly upset?

00:12:09.720 No.

00:12:10.180 No, nobody's terribly upset.

00:12:13.940 Nobody's really embarrassed.

00:12:15.740 Nobody's shamed by it.

00:12:17.740 I think we'll survive the shame.

00:12:20.140 I think we'll survive it.

00:12:22.900 Anyway, in my opinion, Putin probably should not increase his military attacks.

00:12:31.780 He probably doesn't want to do a ceasefire unilaterally, but if Putin is smart, he's already got a little

00:12:42.080 bit of a win, so he should just play it really cool and still look for some way to end the war.

00:12:50.600 I think he will.

00:12:51.460 But as long as this deal ever made sense, and I'm not sure it did because I don't know the deal,

00:12:59.180 but if the deal ever made sense and Zelensky ever liked it, just the mineral part, then it'll get done.

00:13:07.600 I mean, it might take a while or whatever, but if they both want it, the fact that they had a little dust up

00:13:12.720 in the White House, it won't stop anything.

00:13:15.300 Now, let me put this back in the context of the reality TV stars.

00:13:21.600 If this were a reality TV show, how would it end?

00:13:26.680 It would almost certainly end with the two combatants, three if you count J.D. Vance,

00:13:32.880 doing another public event because you would have to tune in.

00:13:38.000 You'd be like, oh, my God, it's going to happen again.

00:13:40.120 It's going to happen again.

00:13:41.080 It would be must-see TV.

00:13:42.240 But this time, maybe they just signed the deal.

00:13:47.520 So I don't think you can discount that you have two individuals who operate at the highest level

00:13:53.340 of understanding the show.

00:13:56.520 The show.

00:13:57.640 It's part of politics.

00:13:59.040 You've got to put on a show.

00:14:00.740 And the fact that they put on a tremendous show, everybody was entertained,

00:14:06.080 even if you were embarrassed.

00:14:07.900 Oh, oh, I'm so embarrassed for my country.

00:14:11.260 Even then, you probably enjoyed it.

00:14:14.420 So, yeah.

00:14:15.200 If I had to predict, I would say if it was ever a good deal, and that's a big if,

00:14:19.800 because I don't know that it was a good deal.

00:14:22.420 But if they both liked it at one point, it'll get done.

00:14:26.820 And it'll be another reality TV biggest ratings for a political event of all time.

00:14:34.220 No, no real lasting problem.

00:14:37.660 If I had to guess, there's no lasting impact on the real world.

00:14:42.820 The deal will be the deal if they like it.

00:14:45.280 There'll be a deal with Russia or not.

00:14:47.680 But none of this will matter.

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00:15:51.320 One of the things Trump said was that Trump and Putin

00:15:56.920 went through a lot together with the Russia collusion hoax.

00:16:00.880 So people said, my God, do you love Putin or what?

00:16:04.860 Why are you saying that you went through a lot together?

00:16:07.420 Well, let me explain this.

00:16:09.480 Putin is trying to flatter and, let's say, pace Trump,

00:16:18.120 and he's doing a good job.

00:16:19.620 Trump is trying to flatter and pace and tell him he's a friend to Putin,

00:16:25.580 and he's doing a good job.

00:16:27.560 Both of them are operating at the highest level of persuasion.

00:16:31.260 Both of them are right on point.

00:16:32.880 And let me say it again.

00:16:35.780 Trump is the best when it comes to this, but Putin's in the same weight class, right?

00:16:41.740 It's not a completely unfair fight.

00:16:44.760 They both have the skills all the way down.

00:16:47.480 So what we're watching is that there might be some larger deal that Trump wants to do with Russia.

00:16:56.340 We don't know what that is yet.

00:16:58.300 But it's funny that we talk about Russia as our enemy 0.86

00:17:01.120 when China, Mexico, and Canada are poisoning us with fentanyl and Russia isn't.

00:17:08.060 Russia is just trying to sell us energy.

00:17:09.800 Now, I get that he has imperial ambitions.

00:17:14.300 He wants to conquer some of those countries and maybe all of Europe

00:17:19.420 for the greater good of, I don't know, who knows what he really wants.

00:17:24.180 We just assume we know what he wants.

00:17:26.980 How about Ukraine?

00:17:29.080 Who's been a bigger pain in the ass to us lately, Ukraine or Russia?

00:17:32.900 Well, our money is going to Ukraine and it's dividing the country. 0.55

00:17:39.600 So it's hard to talk about it without being called a Putin lover

00:17:45.680 because that's what all the dumb people do. 0.90

00:17:48.440 You know, Democrats, if you say anything they don't like,

00:17:51.000 they call you a racist and a bigot.

00:17:53.380 And it's just automatic.

00:17:54.740 It doesn't matter what you say.

00:17:56.820 If you mention Putin in any context other than

00:18:00.000 we must spend all of our blood and treasure

00:18:02.280 to destroy the evil Russian empire, 1.00

00:18:05.380 if you say anything but that.

00:18:08.000 Oh, oh, I see you want to have oral sex with Putin is what you're saying.

00:18:12.660 Oh, oh, you love him?

00:18:15.160 Did you send him a Valentine's card?

00:18:17.920 Oh, well, you seem to be a Putin apologist.

00:18:20.620 Some kind of a Putin puppet-pologist.

00:18:22.720 Oh, oh, oh.

00:18:25.220 So it's just the latest stupid Democrat thing to say.

00:18:28.240 It's so unmoored from any adult anything.

00:18:33.960 So I saw Sean Davis say, wait till Democrats.

00:18:38.460 Wait till Democrats are other people too, I guess.

00:18:41.400 Wait till they find out who we partnered with in World War II.

00:18:46.460 Stalin. 0.56

00:18:48.980 So the dumb people, the people who, I don't know,

00:18:54.660 they just don't have good arguments.

00:18:56.040 Their argument is that the only people we should be nice to

00:19:00.680 are other democracies like Europe.

00:19:04.320 And that if somebody is a dictator,

00:19:06.120 we shouldn't be nice to them or work with them or do deals with them.

00:19:10.000 But I live in the real world.

00:19:13.460 Dictators exist.

00:19:15.180 If they didn't exist, well, that would be great advice.

00:19:18.320 But they exist.

00:19:19.980 And they have access to huge amounts of energy, which matters.

00:19:25.340 And they have lots of weapons, which matters.

00:19:28.600 And sometimes we have, you know, things we disagree with and sometimes we agree.

00:19:33.380 So if you can't work with dictators and democracies, you're just a crippled government.

00:19:41.460 You would be a government that just can't do anything because there are so many dictators.

00:19:46.200 If you only were nice to democracies.

00:19:49.900 And by the way, the democracies we're talking about are the ones trying to censor Americans

00:19:56.560 through the social media networks.

00:20:00.180 I don't know that Trump has ever, I don't know that Putin has ever tried to censor me.

00:20:06.300 What problems has Putin caused for me?

00:20:10.600 But Europe has caused some really damn problems.

00:20:14.720 I still blame the UK for whatever happened with that Russia collusion thing,

00:20:19.740 because there were just too many British people involved in that whole deal.

00:20:24.120 So, I don't know.

00:20:26.700 I would say maybe our friends are kind of a problem too.

00:20:31.760 You know, not as big a problem as, you know, maybe Russia, if you want to rank it.

00:20:36.780 But there's nobody here who's innocent at all.

00:20:41.540 All right.

00:20:42.480 So, here's the thing that I wonder about.

00:20:49.780 If the only way that Ukraine were going to be protected from any further onslaught by Russia, 0.68

00:20:58.880 if the only thing that would be protecting them is America's contribution and weapons and stuff,

00:21:05.340 and then Europe's,

00:21:07.180 does Trump's idea of just doing a mineral deal with no security guarantees,

00:21:14.480 does that mean that you basically were giving away Ukraine and it's not ours to give away?

00:21:21.700 Although you could argue that we did overthrow Ukraine and install a puppet,

00:21:26.960 and maybe it was ours at one point, and maybe we do kind of own it.

00:21:31.820 We do kind of own it.

00:21:33.760 We're just pretending we don't.

00:21:35.320 So, anyway, how does it work that Putin would not attack Ukraine

00:21:47.780 because we did a mineral deal with Ukraine?

00:21:51.460 If we didn't have military assets there, is it just the risk that we would turn on the flow of money

00:21:59.500 and fund Ukraine with better weapons?

00:22:03.180 See, Trump has made the claim that there wouldn't have been a war if he had been president.

00:22:07.680 But he also makes the claim that if he makes a peace, it will hold, again,

00:22:13.980 because of the force of his personality and whatever relations he's created with Putin.

00:22:20.760 Do you believe that?

00:22:22.400 Do you believe that if Trump is president, he could do an adequate risk assessment and threat

00:22:32.320 so that Putin would say, you know what?

00:22:35.220 This is really not the time to get adventurous.

00:22:38.400 Because we're sort of getting along, and I don't really need to own Poland.

00:22:44.060 And, all right, what happens when Trump leaves?

00:22:48.640 What if Trump leaves office?

00:22:51.700 Is Putin going to be held in check because he either respects the new president

00:22:57.800 or he fears the consequences?

00:23:01.120 I don't know.

00:23:02.200 So, I do think that Trump needs to do a better job

00:23:05.040 of explaining what it looks like

00:23:08.540 and why anything that we're involved in would keep Putin from taking the rest of Ukraine

00:23:15.460 the moment it's underfunded.

00:23:17.400 Now, you might say, Scott, it'll never be underfunded because Europe can just step up.

00:23:23.900 And if they want, it's completely up to them.

00:23:27.200 They can put a massive amount of money in there to replace whatever money we were given.

00:23:31.320 And everybody's good.

00:23:34.580 Now, that would be okay with me.

00:23:37.420 If Europe wants to be paying nearly all of it, and we're just out from the funding perspective,

00:23:44.120 but, you know, maybe we sell weapons to Europe to give to them or something, that would be fine.

00:23:50.580 I wouldn't have any problems with that.

00:23:54.260 Well, a million dead Russians, that is a domestic problem for Putin,

00:24:00.420 but it's not like he's going to, you know, be kicked out of office.

00:24:03.540 He's pretty secure.

00:24:04.340 All right.

00:24:07.880 So, Farid Zakaria on real time.

00:24:11.440 So, let me just finish that point.

00:24:12.860 I think Trump needs to do a better job

00:24:14.560 of describing what the future of Ukraine looks like

00:24:19.760 if the only security guarantees are no security guarantees.

00:24:24.240 We're just doing a big deal with you.

00:24:26.500 And so, Russia wouldn't dare attack your country

00:24:30.180 when we have major assets there.

00:24:34.140 Is that the whole game?

00:24:36.660 Or is there something we don't know about yet,

00:24:40.720 but that part is the important part?

00:24:43.400 Now, I told you before that the real secret of this negotiation

00:24:46.600 is it can't be just about Ukraine and Russia.

00:24:50.380 It's got to be about a more comprehensive,

00:24:54.080 how do we deal with Russia in the future,

00:24:56.000 you know, on all levels, militarily, energy-wise, economically?

00:25:02.080 Are we increasing NATO or not?

00:25:05.680 So, that stuff hasn't been discussed yet.

00:25:09.000 And I've heard people say,

00:25:10.860 oh, Putin's the big winner, 0.80

00:25:12.700 to which I say, how do you know that?

00:25:15.640 How do we know anything?

00:25:16.580 We don't know what any kind of a deal would look like.

00:25:18.960 Is Putin the big winner?

00:25:20.120 And then I say, if two countries are at war

00:25:24.760 and they don't want to be at war,

00:25:26.540 and the people who are paying for it

00:25:28.300 don't want to be paying for it,

00:25:30.100 and then somehow Trump can make all that stop,

00:25:33.520 who's not better off?

00:25:36.040 Isn't Ukraine better off not being in a war?

00:25:38.820 Are we better off not paying?

00:25:40.300 Isn't Putin better off consolidating his gains?

00:25:44.040 So, a good agreement would be good for everybody

00:25:49.360 relative to the alternatives, which are ugly.

00:25:54.260 Here's what Fareed Zakaria said on Real Time last night.

00:25:59.380 He basically jokingly said that Zelensky's mistake

00:26:04.200 is that he should have gone in there and said,

00:26:07.580 Mr. President Trump, I'm paraphrasing,

00:26:10.200 you've been such a godsend to Ukraine, 1.00

00:26:12.940 you're the greatest, we want to give you

00:26:14.760 the highest Ukrainian civil award,

00:26:17.940 and maybe build a statue to you.

00:26:19.980 I'm paraphrasing a little bit.

00:26:21.140 But the idea was, Fareed said,

00:26:23.400 he didn't play to Trump's ego,

00:26:26.440 and that's what went wrong.

00:26:28.560 To which I say, what kind of an analysis is that?

00:26:32.880 The deal was already done.

00:26:35.500 All Zelensky had to do was sign it.

00:26:40.400 That's it.

00:26:41.120 He didn't need to do any flattering.

00:26:43.720 There was no flattering requested,

00:26:45.820 no flattering given, and they had a deal.

00:26:49.180 So, I would say that maybe he didn't have to offer anything

00:26:53.040 because they already had a deal.

00:26:56.320 So, that's sort of a dumb analysis.

00:27:00.120 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:27:02.320 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:27:04.740 She was so focused on visualizing

00:27:06.540 that she didn't see the column behind her car

00:27:08.580 on her backhand side.

00:27:10.900 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,

00:27:12.800 the insurer with the largest network

00:27:14.480 of auto service centers in the country.

00:27:16.560 Everything was taken care of under one roof,

00:27:18.560 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:27:20.980 I made it to my tournament

00:27:22.380 and lost in the first round.

00:27:24.220 But you got there on time.

00:27:26.400 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:27:28.960 Certain conditions apply.

00:27:29.860 Speaking of dumb analysis,

00:27:33.360 the Wall Street Journal editorial board,

00:27:35.680 I swear that their editorial board,

00:27:37.820 it read like a high school essay.

00:27:40.300 I just read it and I thought,

00:27:41.760 what?

00:27:43.080 What is wrong with you?

00:27:46.100 So, their headline for their editorial on this is,

00:27:49.740 Putin wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spectacle.

00:27:52.840 Is that really the way to frame this,

00:27:56.620 that Putin won?

00:27:58.540 Now, we know that Putin liked it,

00:28:00.860 and the Russians thought it was great entertainment,

00:28:03.380 but so did I.

00:28:04.820 Why don't they say,

00:28:06.260 and the MAGA people won,

00:28:08.320 because they really enjoyed it.

00:28:10.260 So, Putin enjoyed it,

00:28:11.820 and we enjoyed it.

00:28:13.360 What will be different?

00:28:15.540 I can't think of anything.

00:28:17.540 I don't think it'll really affect the real world.

00:28:19.900 I don't think it'll change what would have been their funding,

00:28:24.040 because Trump wanted to get out of that anyway.

00:28:26.920 And I don't think it'll affect anything.

00:28:31.440 So, but they think somebody won.

00:28:34.060 That's just the worst way to look at a three-way negotiation,

00:28:38.240 four-way if you count Europe,

00:28:39.580 and I guess you should.

00:28:41.860 And they said that Vance,

00:28:45.860 J.D. Vance started the public fight.

00:28:47.940 Okay, how many times do I have to read

00:28:52.800 some dumbass in the news

00:28:54.540 not understanding who starts a fight?

00:28:58.300 If I hear one more person tell me

00:29:00.240 that Russia started the war in Ukraine

00:29:02.880 without any reference to the things that happened

00:29:06.000 before he crossed the border,

00:29:08.080 as in the NATO expansion and blah, blah, blah,

00:29:12.860 if none of that's mentioned,

00:29:15.720 you're not really a serious person.

00:29:18.240 And the Wall Street Journal editorial

00:29:19.960 does the same thing with J.D. Vance.

00:29:24.040 Do you think J.D. Vance should have just sat there

00:29:26.420 and let that little punk in the White House 1.00

00:29:30.140 while they're trying to help,

00:29:32.300 do you think they should have let him lecture them

00:29:34.540 on how they don't understand negotiations

00:29:37.640 and they don't understand Putin

00:29:39.160 and he's going to come for them over the ocean

00:29:40.920 and that this deal isn't really good

00:29:43.120 and you haven't really done much for us,

00:29:45.000 you've just weakened us, in effect.

00:29:48.820 So who started the fight?

00:29:51.940 I don't think J.D. Vance started the fight.

00:29:54.740 I think he was quick.

00:29:56.340 He was quick to enter it.

00:29:59.120 But then once he entered it,

00:30:01.200 Trump had to double it.

00:30:02.920 So then Trump did his thing

00:30:04.420 because there's no way that Trump

00:30:06.040 is going to let J.D. Vance

00:30:07.880 be the baddest mofo in the room. 1.00

00:30:11.360 That just isn't going to happen.

00:30:13.360 So J.D. Vance goes in as a really bad mofo, 1.00

00:30:16.960 like quite impressive, I must say,

00:30:19.240 that he took him on directly

00:30:20.860 and even from a position of number two,

00:30:24.860 number, well, maybe number three

00:30:26.580 if you count Secretary of State.

00:30:28.400 But he wasn't the one in power,

00:30:31.120 but he just defended America,

00:30:34.480 defended the White House,

00:30:35.380 defended his president,

00:30:36.860 defended everything.

00:30:40.080 So that was quite baller.

00:30:42.020 I have to say I really,

00:30:43.600 that was a look from J.D. Vance

00:30:46.760 that will probably go a long way

00:30:48.280 to making him the top candidate after Trump.

00:30:52.920 But like I said,

00:30:54.240 there's no way in any world

00:30:56.260 that Trump is going to let somebody else

00:30:58.580 be the baddest mofo in the room. 1.00

00:31:00.700 So he had to take it up a level

00:31:02.020 as he does.

00:31:04.580 And it was brilliant.

00:31:06.380 It was brilliant in the showman way.

00:31:11.900 And that's all it was.

00:31:13.160 It was just a show.

00:31:15.540 All right.

00:31:16.860 So and then also the whole Putin wins

00:31:21.740 just ignores the fact

00:31:23.240 that we have a much bigger set of interests

00:31:25.340 with Russia.

00:31:27.220 And until we know what that looks like,

00:31:29.420 you know, what kind of a deal

00:31:30.500 we would have with Russia, 0.97

00:31:31.860 until we know what that looks like,

00:31:34.240 you can't really say anybody won

00:31:35.680 because we don't know what that looks like.

00:31:38.300 But did they imagine that Trump

00:31:39.880 was just going to give Russia 0.96

00:31:41.340 everything it wanted?

00:31:43.340 Doesn't sound like Trump.

00:31:44.500 Joy Behar accused Elon Musk

00:31:49.460 of supporting apartheid

00:31:50.820 when Musk grew up in South Africa.

00:31:54.380 Now, he did not.

00:31:55.620 There's no evidence of that whatsoever.

00:31:59.460 But here's what she said,

00:32:00.860 Joy Behar on The View.

00:32:02.620 The guy was not born in this country.

00:32:05.260 Okay.

00:32:06.240 Oh.

00:32:07.280 Oh.

00:32:08.700 Oh.

00:32:10.260 Oh.

00:32:11.260 Oh.

00:32:11.820 Oh.

00:32:12.800 Oh, my God.

00:32:14.560 She abandons the most core Democrat principle

00:32:18.160 that if you decide to live in this country,

00:32:23.880 you call yourself an American,

00:32:25.680 you act like an American, 0.78

00:32:26.940 you're an American citizen,

00:32:28.100 and you're doing more for America

00:32:30.960 than just about any other citizen.

00:32:32.660 And she has to start with,

00:32:35.160 you're not an American 0.97

00:32:36.040 or you're not born in this country.

00:32:39.260 That's basically throwing away

00:32:40.940 their most basic principle

00:32:42.700 just to get a dig at Elon Musk.

00:32:45.800 And then she goes on.

00:32:47.600 So he has this mentality going on.

00:32:50.180 Does he?

00:32:50.940 Because she's reading his mind, right?

00:32:52.640 He was pro-apartheid. 0.75

00:32:54.160 Now, there's no evidence of that.

00:32:55.780 As I understand it, he told her.

00:32:57.940 And then after,

00:33:00.100 then there was a break.

00:33:01.580 And I guess she got her ass kicked 1.00

00:33:03.320 by the management

00:33:04.940 because there's no evidence

00:33:07.480 that he's ever been pro-apartheid.

00:33:09.900 And if you call somebody pro-apartheid

00:33:12.480 like it's a fact

00:33:13.640 and you do it on television,

00:33:15.420 in our current environment,

00:33:17.420 that's a $25 million mistake.

00:33:21.080 So they were probably 10 seconds away

00:33:25.120 from losing $25 million

00:33:26.560 to dumb old Joy Behar

00:33:28.720 for just making shit up. 0.73

00:33:31.180 Just making shit up.

00:33:34.520 And then here's how she responded to it

00:33:37.340 once she'd been corrected

00:33:39.180 and that they came back.

00:33:41.180 I'm getting some flack

00:33:42.340 because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid.

00:33:44.720 I don't really know for sure if he was.

00:33:47.880 Imagine saying that

00:33:49.000 when you didn't know for sure.

00:33:50.620 God.

00:33:51.040 And then she goes,

00:33:52.980 he grew up at that time

00:33:54.140 when apartheid party was in full bloom 0.69

00:33:57.060 before the great Nelson Manzela fixed that.

00:33:59.960 He was around at that time.

00:34:02.980 What?

00:34:05.320 Like she's trying to still be right

00:34:07.340 even though there's no evidence whatsoever.

00:34:10.380 And she's trying to make the, 1.00

00:34:11.720 well,

00:34:12.540 he was around during that time.

00:34:14.040 So QED.

00:34:18.020 Oh my God.

00:34:23.120 And then,

00:34:24.060 oh,

00:34:25.060 then she goes on.

00:34:26.160 Maybe he was,

00:34:27.080 maybe he wasn't.

00:34:29.120 Is that how you treat

00:34:30.380 an American citizen?

00:34:32.720 That,

00:34:33.120 well,

00:34:33.680 you know,

00:34:34.000 I don't know if he's a Nazi.

00:34:36.100 Maybe he was,

00:34:37.280 maybe he wasn't.

00:34:38.620 I don't know.

00:34:39.140 It's sort of ambiguous.

00:34:40.900 Seems like he hung around

00:34:42.060 with people who had bad opinions,

00:34:43.780 even,

00:34:44.320 you know,

00:34:44.540 maybe not personally,

00:34:45.460 but he was in the same country

00:34:47.040 with people who had bad opinions.

00:34:48.440 So you can't ignore the fact

00:34:50.700 that he was in the same country

00:34:51.920 with people who had bad opinions.

00:34:54.560 Yeah,

00:34:55.060 you can.

00:34:57.400 So

00:34:57.840 this is terrible.

00:34:59.820 I can't believe she still has a job. 0.97

00:35:02.920 Then Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan.

00:35:05.220 You may have seen it.

00:35:06.540 And he was talking about

00:35:07.740 that they were doing to him,

00:35:09.180 meaning the Democrats,

00:35:10.300 doing to Elon Musk

00:35:11.360 what they did to Trump,

00:35:13.040 which is the Hitler play.

00:35:15.920 And he says directly,

00:35:17.840 they're basically trying

00:35:19.260 to get me killed 0.88

00:35:20.140 by comparing me to Hitler.

00:35:22.720 And that's exactly

00:35:23.780 what they're trying to do.

00:35:24.960 That's exactly

00:35:25.720 what they're trying to do.

00:35:27.700 So

00:35:28.140 unbelievable.

00:35:31.480 We're so lucky

00:35:32.640 that Musk is still willing

00:35:35.340 to help the United States

00:35:37.020 when the United States

00:35:37.980 is acting like

00:35:38.740 it doesn't deserve it.

00:35:39.780 that takes a lot of character

00:35:43.040 to still be all in

00:35:45.500 on the United States

00:35:46.380 when

00:35:46.840 when half of the United States

00:35:48.580 is calling him a Nazi.

00:35:50.420 That takes character.

00:35:54.100 Well,

00:35:54.680 the Wall Street Journal

00:35:55.400 has an article

00:35:56.160 by Joanne Lipman.

00:35:57.940 Can white men

00:35:59.840 finally stop complaining?

00:36:02.860 And the subtitle

00:36:04.420 of the article,

00:36:05.320 this is the Wall Street Journal.

00:36:07.340 And for 50 years,

00:36:08.680 we've been hearing

00:36:09.280 from white men

00:36:10.080 who feel threatened

00:36:10.900 by the gains

00:36:12.040 of women and minorities.

00:36:14.420 No,

00:36:15.080 you stupid bitch. 1.00

00:36:16.500 We're not complaining

00:36:17.680 because we feel threatened.

00:36:19.160 We're being,

00:36:20.260 we're complaining

00:36:20.920 because for 50 years,

00:36:23.240 we've been overtly

00:36:24.660 discriminated against

00:36:25.820 for being straight white men.

00:36:28.000 You can't get a job.

00:36:29.220 You can't get a contract

00:36:30.400 for 50 fucking years. 0.88

00:36:32.420 And the reason

00:36:33.320 that you didn't know

00:36:34.160 how bad it was

00:36:34.980 is because white men

00:36:35.940 are not allowed to talk

00:36:37.160 like you saying,

00:36:38.980 can white men

00:36:39.480 finally stop complaining?

00:36:40.880 That's right.

00:36:41.760 We were trained

00:36:42.760 that if we even complained

00:36:44.340 for a minute,

00:36:44.920 it meant we were

00:36:45.640 fucking bigots.

00:36:48.240 Bitch. 1.00

00:36:50.120 That's over.

00:36:50.920 People like me

00:36:52.580 gave up everything

00:36:53.520 so that we could say

00:36:55.140 what we were feeling.

00:36:57.520 I gave up everything.

00:36:59.140 I'm going to say

00:36:59.620 what I'm feeling.

00:37:00.400 You're a piece of shit

00:37:01.540 and you're the problem.

00:37:04.180 And this is pure

00:37:05.580 racial discrimination

00:37:06.680 and bigotry

00:37:07.660 against white men

00:37:08.580 and I won't have it.

00:37:10.120 And I think that

00:37:10.840 we've outgrown this.

00:37:12.140 I think that we can just say,

00:37:13.600 fuck you, 0.99

00:37:14.520 don't care,

00:37:15.840 move on.

00:37:16.720 Get rid of your stupid DEI.

00:37:19.260 Get rid of your stupid ESG.

00:37:21.620 And let's try to compete

00:37:23.460 on merit for once.

00:37:25.380 How about that?

00:37:27.720 Piece of shit.

00:37:30.000 Anyway,

00:37:31.580 speaking of.

00:37:34.540 So the Hill says

00:37:36.180 that Kamala Harris

00:37:37.080 hasn't decided

00:37:38.640 to run for governor

00:37:39.580 of California.

00:37:41.120 But here's the funny thing.

00:37:42.880 So because she hasn't decided,

00:37:45.080 the other candidates

00:37:46.600 can't really wade in

00:37:48.960 and they can't really

00:37:49.600 get any money

00:37:50.340 because everybody thinks

00:37:51.760 she would be the front runner 0.82

00:37:52.780 if she gets in.

00:37:53.800 So she's really frozen

00:37:54.980 the entire

00:37:55.720 California

00:37:57.200 Democrat party.

00:37:59.120 They can't

00:37:59.780 kind of do anything.

00:38:01.060 They're just

00:38:01.480 frozen.

00:38:03.020 Now,

00:38:03.640 here's the funny part.

00:38:05.920 Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:38:07.040 but Kamala Harris 0.56

00:38:07.860 destroyed the entire

00:38:09.240 federal,

00:38:11.040 let's say,

00:38:11.520 national

00:38:11.960 Democratic party,

00:38:13.740 didn't she?

00:38:14.120 don't you think

00:38:16.080 it was mostly Kamala Harris

00:38:17.440 that just destroyed

00:38:18.460 Democrats?

00:38:19.580 Because she was

00:38:20.840 the ultimate DEI

00:38:22.080 candidate

00:38:23.500 and they just

00:38:25.820 took DEI

00:38:26.460 to the ultimate

00:38:27.060 conclusion

00:38:27.700 and everything broke,

00:38:30.040 just like you would

00:38:31.760 imagine it would

00:38:32.380 on paper.

00:38:33.080 And now she's 0.62

00:38:34.000 taking that same

00:38:35.080 toxic,

00:38:35.900 destructive thing

00:38:37.000 and she's taking it

00:38:38.540 to California.

00:38:39.320 Now she's going to

00:38:40.500 ruin Democrats

00:38:41.480 chance of winning

00:38:42.380 maybe forever

00:38:43.880 by running

00:38:46.040 for governor.

00:38:47.240 Now she might 0.87

00:38:48.020 actually even win,

00:38:49.180 which is the

00:38:49.840 weird part

00:38:50.840 because,

00:38:51.620 you know,

00:38:51.720 we're such a blue state.

00:38:53.100 But the fact that

00:38:54.760 she's destroying 1.00

00:38:55.580 the Democrat party

00:38:56.600 nationally

00:38:57.180 and then started

00:38:58.100 destroying it

00:38:58.820 in the biggest state,

00:39:01.060 boy,

00:39:01.960 she's got a, 0.76

00:39:03.300 she's got something

00:39:03.960 to put on her

00:39:04.620 Wikipedia page

00:39:05.440 right there.

00:39:07.900 Anyway,

00:39:08.420 good for you,

00:39:10.240 Kamala.

00:39:10.640 You're almost done

00:39:11.360 destroying everything

00:39:12.220 about the Democrats.

00:39:13.860 When I found out

00:39:14.880 my friend got a great

00:39:16.040 deal on a wool coat

00:39:17.060 from Winners,

00:39:17.940 I started wondering,

00:39:19.580 is every fabulous

00:39:20.920 item I see

00:39:21.620 from Winners?

00:39:22.700 Like that woman 1.00

00:39:23.480 over there

00:39:23.980 with the designer jeans.

00:39:25.440 Are those from Winners?

00:39:26.960 Ooh,

00:39:27.580 or those beautiful

00:39:28.240 gold earrings?

00:39:29.420 Did she pay full price?

00:39:30.760 Or that leather tote?

00:39:31.780 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:39:32.960 Or those knee-high boots?

00:39:34.440 That dress?

00:39:35.220 That jacket?

00:39:35.900 Those shoes?

00:39:36.920 Is anyone paying

00:39:38.140 full price

00:39:38.660 for anything?

00:39:39.880 Stop wondering.

00:39:41.140 Start winning.

00:39:42.080 Winners find fabulous

00:39:43.340 for less.

00:39:45.060 Well,

00:39:45.700 Secretary of Defense

00:39:46.500 Hegseth

00:39:47.100 has confirmed

00:39:48.440 that Trump

00:39:49.520 has lifted restrictions

00:39:50.760 on military raids

00:39:52.140 and airstrikes.

00:39:52.920 Now,

00:39:53.200 that doesn't mean

00:39:53.760 all restrictions.

00:39:55.140 But,

00:39:55.540 they won't have to

00:39:56.980 get approval

00:39:57.920 so much.

00:39:59.440 So,

00:39:59.800 I think this is

00:40:00.480 just taking it back

00:40:01.260 to where it was

00:40:01.780 in the first administration.

00:40:03.080 and I do believe

00:40:05.380 the reporting

00:40:06.020 is that the military

00:40:07.160 became a lot more effective

00:40:08.520 because they didn't

00:40:10.540 have to ask

00:40:11.100 so much for permission

00:40:12.180 and that makes

00:40:13.160 a big difference.

00:40:14.460 So,

00:40:14.880 that's a good move,

00:40:15.900 probably.

00:40:17.300 Speaking of Democrats,

00:40:18.960 in New York City,

00:40:21.420 former Governor

00:40:22.140 Andrew Cuomo

00:40:23.000 is getting ready,

00:40:25.820 people think,

00:40:26.500 to run for

00:40:27.320 mayor of New York City.

00:40:28.980 Now,

00:40:31.200 how bad

00:40:33.080 is the pool

00:40:34.820 of Democrats

00:40:36.020 that Andrew Cuomo

00:40:37.560 who had scandals

00:40:39.640 that involve

00:40:40.260 sexual harassment

00:40:41.520 which he resigned

00:40:42.940 rather than,

00:40:43.940 you know,

00:40:44.260 go through,

00:40:45.280 I suppose it could have

00:40:46.260 gotten worse

00:40:46.680 if he didn't resign.

00:40:48.260 And,

00:40:48.620 and then he

00:40:50.180 also had the scandal

00:40:51.120 of the unreported deaths

00:40:52.480 in the COVID

00:40:53.540 nursing homes.

00:40:55.700 Can he overcome

00:40:56.940 the sexual harassment

00:40:58.000 claims?

00:40:58.980 If you're a Democrat,

00:41:00.180 if you're a Democrat male,

00:41:02.280 can you get elected?

00:41:03.980 If you've got these

00:41:05.180 credible sounding claims,

00:41:07.380 I'll say sounding

00:41:08.380 because I'm not the one

00:41:09.880 who believes claims

00:41:10.740 are real,

00:41:11.660 just automatically.

00:41:12.960 They might be.

00:41:14.140 Anything's possible.

00:41:15.420 But I don't know.

00:41:16.120 I wasn't there.

00:41:16.880 So,

00:41:17.080 I'm just going to say

00:41:18.100 there are claims.

00:41:20.320 That's the only thing

00:41:21.100 I know.

00:41:22.480 So,

00:41:22.860 but do you think

00:41:23.400 that the Democrats

00:41:24.260 can get the,

00:41:26.920 you know,

00:41:27.640 the white guy,

00:41:28.920 the straight white guy

00:41:29.900 who's got claims

00:41:30.860 of sexual harassment,

00:41:32.380 can they really

00:41:33.220 elect him

00:41:34.120 in today's environment?

00:41:36.000 I don't know.

00:41:36.980 But it's hilarious

00:41:37.660 to me that he might

00:41:38.560 be their best shot.

00:41:39.840 I will say that,

00:41:40.960 that Cuomo

00:41:43.100 probably is the best

00:41:45.300 talker they have.

00:41:47.500 We'll talk about

00:41:48.140 Fetterman in a minute.

00:41:49.460 But Andrew Cuomo,

00:41:51.440 he just has that

00:41:52.560 leadership charisma

00:41:54.540 voice

00:41:55.300 thing going on.

00:41:57.240 So,

00:41:57.540 he can act like

00:41:58.320 he's a leader

00:41:58.820 and he can pull that off.

00:42:01.500 So,

00:42:01.940 he does have the chops.

00:42:03.420 I mean,

00:42:03.660 he was governor,

00:42:04.320 right?

00:42:04.960 So,

00:42:05.420 we know he has the chops.

00:42:07.320 I don't know.

00:42:07.740 I don't know

00:42:08.520 if he can get over

00:42:09.160 these scandals.

00:42:11.620 Well,

00:42:11.880 meanwhile,

00:42:12.400 Bill Maher

00:42:12.920 on his show

00:42:13.540 said that

00:42:14.220 the best candidate

00:42:16.040 for president

00:42:16.840 who is a Democrat

00:42:17.700 would be Fetterman.

00:42:19.740 And his argument

00:42:20.420 was that Fetterman

00:42:21.960 talks like a normal guy

00:42:23.240 and even Trump

00:42:24.240 said he's a

00:42:24.800 common sense guy

00:42:25.680 and he has

00:42:27.260 authenticity

00:42:27.900 and charisma

00:42:28.800 and balls. 0.74

00:42:30.900 I was trying

00:42:31.340 to imagine

00:42:31.840 a president Fetterman

00:42:33.120 having a meeting

00:42:34.560 with Zelensky

00:42:35.300 on casual Friday.

00:42:41.020 That would be

00:42:41.780 the sloppiest

00:42:43.880 looking meeting

00:42:44.480 you ever saw

00:42:45.000 in your life.

00:42:47.080 Zelensky

00:42:47.540 would be the

00:42:48.200 well-dressed one

00:42:48.940 in that case.

00:42:51.620 Well,

00:42:52.300 I'm going to agree

00:42:53.340 with Bill Maher.

00:42:55.340 The Fetterman

00:42:56.060 is the only one

00:42:57.240 I see on their party

00:42:58.340 who,

00:42:59.240 in my opinion,

00:42:59.880 could make a serious

00:43:01.900 play

00:43:03.140 for the presidency.

00:43:05.980 Now,

00:43:07.120 you know,

00:43:07.400 he may have

00:43:08.100 other problems

00:43:08.960 that we don't know about.

00:43:10.360 You know,

00:43:10.520 maybe if you run

00:43:11.620 for president

00:43:12.140 they bring out

00:43:13.300 the big guns

00:43:13.960 and the reports

00:43:15.560 of things

00:43:16.120 that we haven't

00:43:16.600 heard before.

00:43:17.360 So,

00:43:17.720 anything could happen.

00:43:19.260 But I have to

00:43:20.260 completely agree

00:43:21.060 with Maher on this

00:43:22.800 that if you're

00:43:24.600 just looking at

00:43:25.400 the vibe he puts off

00:43:26.920 and how he connects

00:43:27.760 with ordinary people,

00:43:28.800 on top of having,

00:43:30.780 you know,

00:43:31.080 Ivy League degree

00:43:31.940 and some

00:43:33.240 government experience,

00:43:35.260 he would be

00:43:37.680 one to beat.

00:43:38.700 I think he would

00:43:39.320 be one to beat.

00:43:44.440 There's a public

00:43:45.360 interest law firm,

00:43:46.380 I didn't get the name

00:43:47.040 of it,

00:43:47.420 that's filing a

00:43:48.240 civil rights complaint

00:43:49.620 against New York

00:43:51.760 and Wisconsin

00:43:52.540 on behalf

00:43:53.580 of contractors.

00:43:54.960 So,

00:43:55.220 I guess if you're

00:43:55.980 contracting with

00:43:57.500 the government

00:43:58.000 in those two places,

00:44:00.300 New York

00:44:01.700 and Wisconsin,

00:44:02.480 if you don't

00:44:02.940 get the

00:44:03.760 just right

00:44:05.300 approval

00:44:05.840 of diversity,

00:44:07.360 so if your firm

00:44:08.600 doesn't have,

00:44:10.080 you know,

00:44:10.540 just the ideal

00:44:11.260 diversity,

00:44:12.240 you can't get

00:44:12.960 the job.

00:44:14.580 And one

00:44:15.420 of the contractors

00:44:16.320 said this,

00:44:16.980 multiple times a day

00:44:17.960 we lose orders

00:44:18.940 because we're

00:44:19.560 not a minority

00:44:20.260 business.

00:44:21.900 The source

00:44:22.580 who supplies

00:44:24.080 contractors

00:44:24.720 for the government

00:44:25.240 infrastructure projects

00:44:26.300 requested anonymity

00:44:27.900 because of fear

00:44:28.700 of reprisals.

00:44:30.240 So,

00:44:30.720 there's a white

00:44:31.240 man who can't 0.92

00:44:31.940 even talk in

00:44:32.620 public with

00:44:33.540 his own name.

00:44:35.560 Can't even

00:44:36.280 talk in public

00:44:37.180 with his own

00:44:38.860 name when he's

00:44:40.100 complaining about

00:44:40.880 being discriminated

00:44:42.140 against.

00:44:44.040 And the case

00:44:45.340 for him being

00:44:45.940 discriminated against

00:44:47.060 is not even

00:44:47.780 controversial.

00:44:49.480 Well,

00:44:50.000 it's controversial,

00:44:50.900 but it's not

00:44:51.420 in question.

00:44:52.480 There's nobody

00:44:52.980 who says,

00:44:53.460 oh,

00:44:53.660 yes,

00:44:54.060 you must be

00:44:54.580 bad at what

00:44:55.040 you do.

00:44:56.240 You can get

00:44:56.940 as many

00:44:57.280 contracts as

00:44:57.980 you want.

00:44:58.780 Why are you

00:44:59.380 white men

00:44:59.860 complaining?

00:45:00.820 No,

00:45:01.140 everybody knows

00:45:02.140 that you can't

00:45:03.360 get contracts

00:45:04.160 unless you have

00:45:04.920 some,

00:45:05.260 you know,

00:45:06.200 golden ratio

00:45:07.460 of diversity

00:45:08.380 in male

00:45:09.400 and female.

00:45:10.540 So,

00:45:11.360 there's lawsuits

00:45:12.040 coming.

00:45:13.040 Good.

00:45:14.320 I hope the

00:45:15.120 lawsuits are

00:45:15.640 successful.

00:45:17.760 Meanwhile,

00:45:18.440 the White House

00:45:18.900 said that

00:45:19.480 29 Mexican

00:45:20.760 cartel members,

00:45:21.900 and one

00:45:23.500 of them

00:45:23.780 is like

00:45:24.220 described as

00:45:25.180 the most

00:45:25.600 evil cartel

00:45:26.420 boss,

00:45:27.060 one of the

00:45:27.560 evil ones,

00:45:28.460 are being

00:45:28.900 extradited to

00:45:29.700 the United

00:45:30.120 States.

00:45:30.760 29.

00:45:32.200 That's a lot.

00:45:34.200 If they're

00:45:34.780 really bosses,

00:45:36.000 I mean,

00:45:36.400 if they're just

00:45:36.960 people,

00:45:37.880 it's not a lot.

00:45:38.940 But if they're

00:45:39.380 all kind of

00:45:40.000 bosses,

00:45:41.240 no,

00:45:41.680 I guess some

00:45:42.060 of them are

00:45:42.380 just members

00:45:42.960 and there's

00:45:43.960 one,

00:45:44.320 at least one's

00:45:45.020 a boss.

00:45:45.440 But here's

00:45:48.600 my question.

00:45:50.120 We all

00:45:50.840 suspect that

00:45:51.520 the Mexican

00:45:52.000 government has

00:45:52.940 some kind of

00:45:53.520 arrangement with

00:45:54.260 the cartels.

00:45:55.460 But at the

00:45:56.140 same time,

00:45:56.780 they have to

00:45:57.280 pretend that

00:45:57.820 they don't.

00:45:59.440 So,

00:45:59.940 do you think

00:46:00.480 that these

00:46:01.100 29 Mexican

00:46:02.560 cartel

00:46:03.140 members

00:46:03.680 just went

00:46:06.560 through the

00:46:07.140 legal system

00:46:08.360 in Mexico

00:46:08.940 and it's

00:46:10.400 all perfectly

00:46:11.120 copacetic?

00:46:12.120 Or is it

00:46:13.560 slightly more

00:46:14.200 possible

00:46:14.720 that a

00:46:15.900 competing

00:46:16.300 cartel

00:46:16.840 said,

00:46:17.280 you know,

00:46:17.560 you could

00:46:17.840 get rid

00:46:18.200 of 29

00:46:19.480 people for

00:46:20.120 us.

00:46:21.080 You know,

00:46:21.260 they're in

00:46:22.380 our territory

00:46:22.920 and we'd

00:46:23.400 like to get

00:46:23.860 our territory

00:46:24.340 back.

00:46:25.320 So,

00:46:26.320 why don't

00:46:26.820 you pretend

00:46:27.420 you're working

00:46:27.960 with the

00:46:28.280 United States

00:46:29.040 productively,

00:46:30.080 but really

00:46:30.780 just get rid

00:46:31.360 of our

00:46:31.620 competition

00:46:32.160 and we'll

00:46:32.920 bribe you

00:46:33.300 to do

00:46:33.580 that?

00:46:34.540 How would

00:46:35.120 we know

00:46:35.460 if that

00:46:35.760 were happening?

00:46:37.200 See,

00:46:37.700 every time

00:46:38.240 there's a

00:46:39.320 cartel

00:46:39.980 person that

00:46:40.560 Mexico gives

00:46:41.320 up,

00:46:41.900 you know,

00:46:42.060 they capture

00:46:42.520 them and give

00:46:42.940 up,

00:46:43.580 I always

00:46:43.980 wonder if

00:46:44.400 they're just

00:46:44.680 working for

00:46:45.180 the other

00:46:45.500 cartel.

00:46:46.840 You know,

00:46:47.120 they got

00:46:47.380 better bribed

00:46:48.100 by the

00:46:48.400 other cartel.

00:46:49.520 I have a

00:46:50.280 real problem

00:46:50.840 thinking that

00:46:52.320 what's happening

00:46:54.380 is that Mexico

00:46:55.140 is doing its

00:46:55.780 level best to

00:46:57.140 battle the

00:46:57.760 cartels with

00:46:59.260 the United

00:46:59.580 States'

00:47:00.040 help.

00:47:00.780 It doesn't

00:47:01.560 feel like I

00:47:03.280 live in a

00:47:03.800 world where

00:47:04.640 things are

00:47:05.460 that clean.

00:47:06.860 So,

00:47:07.500 I guess I'll

00:47:07.960 be skeptical

00:47:08.500 about these

00:47:09.140 cartel members.

00:47:10.960 Meanwhile,

00:47:12.120 all the

00:47:12.580 boxes from

00:47:13.500 Mar-a-Lago,

00:47:14.220 remember

00:47:14.580 Boxgate and

00:47:16.300 the accusations

00:47:17.200 that Trump

00:47:17.940 had taken

00:47:18.400 with him,

00:47:19.220 nuclear secrets

00:47:20.180 and just

00:47:20.780 stored them

00:47:21.200 in the

00:47:21.520 bathroom

00:47:21.880 at Mar-a-Lago?

00:47:25.660 Well,

00:47:26.380 apparently they

00:47:27.320 weren't that

00:47:27.760 sensitive because

00:47:28.560 they've all

00:47:28.940 been returned.

00:47:30.100 So,

00:47:30.720 the charges

00:47:31.160 dropped and

00:47:32.520 100% of

00:47:34.040 what he had

00:47:34.460 is being

00:47:34.780 returned.

00:47:35.180 Now,

00:47:37.320 to be

00:47:37.560 fair,

00:47:38.920 Trump could

00:47:39.760 have just

00:47:40.180 declassified

00:47:40.880 him because

00:47:41.260 he's the

00:47:41.600 president again.

00:47:42.820 So,

00:47:43.560 he certainly

00:47:44.020 would have

00:47:44.340 the ability

00:47:44.780 to declassify

00:47:45.580 them.

00:47:46.120 But,

00:47:46.460 do you think

00:47:46.800 he would

00:47:47.060 have

00:47:47.200 declassified

00:47:47.960 nuclear

00:47:48.480 secrets?

00:47:50.200 No.

00:47:51.420 No.

00:47:52.080 Do you

00:47:52.340 think he

00:47:52.580 said,

00:47:52.880 I'm

00:47:52.980 president,

00:47:53.520 so I'm

00:47:53.740 going to

00:47:53.900 declassify

00:47:54.540 this how

00:47:55.320 to make

00:47:55.640 a nuclear

00:47:56.080 bomb and

00:47:56.700 I'm just

00:47:56.980 going to

00:47:57.160 keep it

00:47:57.440 in the

00:47:57.620 bathroom

00:47:57.980 at Mar-a-Lago

00:47:58.600 in a

00:47:58.900 box?

00:47:59.740 No.

00:48:01.440 So,

00:48:02.040 do we

00:48:02.380 have,

00:48:02.800 do you

00:48:03.080 feel that

00:48:03.460 we can

00:48:03.820 confirm at

00:48:04.640 this point

00:48:05.200 that that

00:48:07.120 was all

00:48:07.460 fake?

00:48:08.620 I think

00:48:09.220 we can,

00:48:09.620 right?

00:48:10.080 That was

00:48:10.620 pure law

00:48:11.200 fair,

00:48:12.240 pure fake,

00:48:13.320 because otherwise

00:48:13.920 they wouldn't

00:48:14.340 give it all

00:48:14.820 back.

00:48:15.680 If they

00:48:16.220 gave 90%

00:48:17.040 of it

00:48:17.340 back,

00:48:17.980 then I

00:48:18.740 would have

00:48:18.980 said,

00:48:19.420 maybe there

00:48:20.580 was something

00:48:20.920 to it.

00:48:21.840 Maybe they

00:48:22.220 did have

00:48:22.580 some secrets

00:48:23.100 in those

00:48:23.460 boxes.

00:48:24.320 But,

00:48:24.820 if they

00:48:25.100 give it

00:48:25.380 all back,

00:48:27.020 I have a

00:48:28.000 real tough

00:48:28.380 time believing

00:48:28.960 it was ever

00:48:29.460 a problem.

00:48:32.480 Anyway,

00:48:33.180 the,

00:48:33.360 the,

00:48:34.640 according to

00:48:35.820 New Atlas,

00:48:37.340 two beers a

00:48:37.960 day shrinks

00:48:38.420 your brain

00:48:38.860 as much

00:48:39.260 as a

00:48:39.540 decade

00:48:39.800 of aging.

00:48:41.520 So,

00:48:42.480 if you

00:48:42.940 have four

00:48:43.660 beers a

00:48:44.100 day,

00:48:45.320 you'd be

00:48:46.300 aged 20

00:48:47.360 years.

00:48:49.020 Alcohol is

00:48:49.660 poison.

00:48:50.240 I've got lots

00:48:50.720 of stories

00:48:51.080 about this.

00:48:51.600 I don't need

00:48:51.940 to go any

00:48:52.360 deeper.

00:48:54.360 Accordingly,

00:48:55.060 the Trump

00:48:55.560 administration,

00:48:56.380 according to

00:48:56.720 the National

00:48:57.140 Pulse,

00:48:58.200 has removed

00:48:59.780 50,000

00:49:00.620 migrants so 1.00

00:49:01.820 far,

00:49:02.920 most of

00:49:03.340 them ones

00:49:04.260 who had

00:49:04.500 legal

00:49:04.840 troubles.

00:49:06.700 Does that

00:49:07.000 sound like

00:49:07.400 a good

00:49:07.660 number?

00:49:08.780 Do you

00:49:09.420 feel like

00:49:10.020 you're getting

00:49:11.060 your money's

00:49:11.500 worth from

00:49:12.060 Tom Homan?

00:49:13.160 50,000 in

00:49:14.520 two months?

00:49:16.120 Well,

00:49:16.440 less,

00:49:17.040 a month and

00:49:17.520 a half,

00:49:17.800 right?

00:49:18.460 50,000?

00:49:19.720 If they're

00:49:20.440 the 50,000

00:49:21.400 worst,

00:49:22.860 or they're

00:49:23.360 among the

00:49:23.960 worst,

00:49:25.620 that's a

00:49:26.400 really big

00:49:26.960 deal.

00:49:28.140 Because this

00:49:29.380 might represent

00:49:30.000 a reduction

00:49:30.940 of violent

00:49:31.780 crime of

00:49:32.480 like 50

00:49:33.800 to 100,000

00:49:34.920 per year.

00:49:36.060 Because these

00:49:36.800 were the

00:49:37.120 worst of

00:49:37.500 the worst.

00:49:39.120 And if you

00:49:39.860 get rid of

00:49:40.200 the worst

00:49:40.560 of the

00:49:40.800 worst,

00:49:41.260 you know,

00:49:41.440 the violent

00:49:41.820 ones and

00:49:42.340 the dangerous

00:49:42.820 ones,

00:49:43.880 it feels like

00:49:44.500 that's a

00:49:44.900 whole lot

00:49:45.520 of crime

00:49:46.100 that's been

00:49:46.580 reduced.

00:49:47.320 That seems

00:49:47.800 like a big

00:49:48.220 number to

00:49:48.640 me.

00:49:50.260 Do you

00:49:50.800 remember the

00:49:51.180 big hoax

00:49:51.780 in Canada

00:49:52.900 where there

00:49:54.320 was some

00:49:54.620 claim that

00:49:55.300 there were

00:49:55.720 over 200

00:49:56.400 I guess,

00:49:59.360 I don't

00:49:59.800 know what

00:50:00.000 you call

00:50:00.380 them in

00:50:00.800 Canada,

00:50:02.400 but is it

00:50:02.980 First Nations?

00:50:04.520 They have a

00:50:05.120 different term

00:50:05.700 for the

00:50:06.300 indigenous

00:50:06.760 population

00:50:07.500 before the

00:50:08.240 other Canadians

00:50:10.500 moved in.

00:50:11.680 So in

00:50:11.980 America,

00:50:12.420 it would be

00:50:12.700 the Native

00:50:13.120 Americans.

00:50:13.800 I don't

00:50:13.960 know what

00:50:14.160 they call

00:50:14.400 them in

00:50:14.600 Canada.

00:50:15.180 But anyway,

00:50:15.540 the thought

00:50:15.860 was that

00:50:16.740 there was

00:50:16.960 some kind

00:50:17.320 of indigenous

00:50:18.940 mass graves

00:50:20.940 that would

00:50:22.000 be suggesting

00:50:23.180 that the

00:50:23.940 Canadians of

00:50:25.520 not too

00:50:26.100 long ago

00:50:26.700 were just

00:50:28.140 murdering

00:50:28.720 them and

00:50:29.120 putting them

00:50:29.600 in a mass

00:50:30.060 grave.

00:50:30.400 So there

00:50:31.080 were big

00:50:31.320 protests,

00:50:32.040 it was a

00:50:32.380 giant thing,

00:50:33.040 it was a

00:50:33.320 big story,

00:50:34.360 and Trudeau

00:50:35.580 put together

00:50:36.140 this committee

00:50:37.460 of experts

00:50:38.580 to go look

00:50:39.240 for any

00:50:39.900 more because

00:50:40.480 they thought,

00:50:40.900 oh man,

00:50:41.580 this might not

00:50:42.540 even be alone,

00:50:43.360 there might be

00:50:43.780 other mass

00:50:44.700 graves.

00:50:45.900 And so they

00:50:46.960 looked and

00:50:47.560 they looked

00:50:47.960 and they

00:50:48.280 looked.

00:50:49.660 Guess how

00:50:50.180 many they

00:50:50.520 found?

00:50:50.860 Well,

00:50:53.420 none,

00:50:53.880 and they

00:50:54.380 just disbanded

00:50:55.260 the entire

00:50:56.020 committee.

00:50:57.220 The entire

00:50:58.120 thing was

00:50:58.780 a hoax.

00:50:59.940 There was

00:51:00.500 never any

00:51:01.220 mass grave

00:51:01.920 in that

00:51:03.540 category.

00:51:04.760 And even

00:51:05.680 after looking

00:51:06.260 for it

00:51:06.680 really hard,

00:51:07.700 didn't find

00:51:08.260 any.

00:51:09.460 So that's

00:51:10.060 Canada's

00:51:11.100 fine people

00:51:11.640 hoax,

00:51:12.020 basically.

00:51:15.980 Apparently,

00:51:17.040 according to

00:51:17.860 a publication

00:51:20.360 called The

00:51:20.960 New Arab,

00:51:22.040 the U.S.

00:51:22.900 is going

00:51:23.200 to pitch

00:51:23.580 to a bunch

00:51:24.040 of Arab

00:51:24.820 real estate

00:51:25.240 developers

00:51:25.780 Trump's

00:51:26.860 Gaza

00:51:27.540 plan.

00:51:29.900 So that's

00:51:31.020 going to

00:51:31.280 come up.

00:51:33.640 So the

00:51:34.320 U.S.

00:51:34.600 will convene

00:51:35.060 a summit

00:51:35.520 with regional

00:51:36.760 real estate

00:51:37.260 developers.

00:51:38.300 That seems

00:51:39.000 like a

00:51:39.520 productive

00:51:39.960 thing.

00:51:41.360 Now,

00:51:41.940 you could

00:51:42.280 disagree

00:51:42.680 whether that

00:51:43.520 should be

00:51:44.000 developed or

00:51:45.400 who should

00:51:46.140 own it and

00:51:46.580 all that,

00:51:47.020 but I

00:51:48.320 kind of

00:51:48.660 like the

00:51:49.080 fact that

00:51:50.220 the conversation

00:51:51.020 is about

00:51:51.600 who's going

00:51:52.260 to develop

00:51:52.760 it because

00:51:54.200 that feels

00:51:54.620 like it's

00:51:55.860 a little

00:51:56.080 optimism,

00:51:57.080 a little

00:51:57.280 potential for

00:51:58.800 the future.

00:52:00.700 I don't

00:52:01.340 know that

00:52:01.660 it'll be

00:52:02.100 optimized and

00:52:05.240 then people

00:52:05.600 will move

00:52:05.940 back, but

00:52:06.720 we'll see.

00:52:08.160 But it's

00:52:08.440 good that

00:52:08.760 they're having

00:52:09.120 that.

00:52:10.880 Did you

00:52:11.300 know,

00:52:11.680 according to

00:52:12.080 SciPost,

00:52:12.980 Eric Nolan's

00:52:13.680 writing,

00:52:14.460 that AI can

00:52:15.300 spot depression

00:52:16.360 of old

00:52:17.040 people through

00:52:17.680 their driving

00:52:18.260 habits.

00:52:20.720 Don't all

00:52:21.420 old people 0.85

00:52:22.220 drive exactly

00:52:22.980 the same?

00:52:24.480 I don't

00:52:25.040 know how

00:52:25.300 you can tell

00:52:25.680 which ones

00:52:26.140 are depressed.

00:52:28.880 But,

00:52:30.500 oh, it is

00:52:31.040 called the

00:52:31.320 First Nations.

00:52:32.160 Yes, thank

00:52:32.560 you.

00:52:35.960 All right.

00:52:38.720 So, anyway,

00:52:39.560 that's happening.

00:52:40.040 And that's

00:52:41.860 all I had

00:52:42.180 today.

00:52:44.100 So, after

00:52:44.960 the show,

00:52:45.840 fairly soon

00:52:46.920 now,

00:52:48.300 Owen Gregorian

00:52:49.120 will be

00:52:49.620 hosting a

00:52:50.400 Spaces

00:52:50.940 event on

00:52:53.860 X.

00:52:55.480 And that

00:52:55.880 will be

00:52:56.340 for anybody

00:52:59.120 who wants

00:52:59.520 to talk

00:53:00.500 about this

00:53:00.900 stuff or

00:53:01.320 more.

00:53:01.960 I know

00:53:02.480 you've got

00:53:02.800 lots more

00:53:03.280 to say

00:53:03.720 about

00:53:04.460 Zelensky.

00:53:05.040 By the

00:53:06.020 way, how

00:53:06.380 many ways

00:53:06.840 are there

00:53:07.180 to spell

00:53:07.600 Zelensky? 0.85

00:53:09.080 I've seen

00:53:09.680 it with

00:53:09.960 Z-E-L-E, 0.82

00:53:11.980 Z-E-L-I, 0.81

00:53:14.220 and sometimes

00:53:14.940 with one

00:53:15.460 Y at the

00:53:16.000 end and

00:53:16.340 sometimes

00:53:16.720 with two.

00:53:18.180 And AI

00:53:18.740 doesn't help

00:53:19.280 me because

00:53:19.820 it just

00:53:20.080 goes back

00:53:20.540 and forth.

00:53:22.120 So, I

00:53:23.180 don't know

00:53:23.400 what's going

00:53:23.740 on with

00:53:24.020 that.

00:53:24.800 Anyway, so

00:53:25.440 join Owen

00:53:26.540 Gregorian and

00:53:27.560 Spaces.

00:53:28.360 You can just

00:53:28.840 Google him and

00:53:30.000 you'll find his

00:53:30.620 account and

00:53:31.200 you'll see.

00:53:31.540 I also

00:53:32.300 reposted the

00:53:33.560 announcement so

00:53:35.060 you can find

00:53:35.440 the link

00:53:35.780 there.

00:53:36.920 And thanks

00:53:37.700 for joining

00:53:38.200 everybody.

00:53:38.900 I'm going

00:53:39.140 to say a

00:53:39.460 few words

00:53:39.820 to the

00:53:40.300 locals

00:53:41.240 people

00:53:41.620 privately,

00:53:42.620 but the

00:53:42.900 rest of

00:53:43.180 you, thanks

00:53:43.600 for joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 01, 2025

Episode 2765 CWSA 03⧸01⧸25

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