Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2827 CWSA 05⧸02⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:19.060 Ah.

00:01:21.160 So good.

00:01:23.400 So, so good.

00:01:24.640 So, I wonder, I wonder if there are any scientific studies that they didn't need to do because

00:01:33.420 they could have just asked me.

00:01:35.660 Well, oh, here's one.

00:01:38.600 New York Post is reporting that a study was done on magic mushrooms, USSF did a study, and

00:01:47.480 they found that a single dose of psilocybin, that's the magic mushrooms, one dose.

00:01:54.640 It can help Parkinson's patients with a dramatic improved mood, motor function, and memory.

00:02:01.280 And it even lasts, even after one dose.

00:02:03.680 Now, I wouldn't have known specifically that this would work for Parkinson's, but when was

00:02:13.160 the last time you ever saw a study in which psychedelics were involved and the result was it didn't work?

00:02:22.340 They could test it work for whatever it was.

00:02:25.400 They could test it for depression.

00:02:28.080 Yep, it works.

00:02:29.540 They could test it for a variety of mental problems.

00:02:34.400 Yep, it works.

00:02:35.820 They could test it for really anything that's happening in your brain or your body.

00:02:40.900 If you have a, what would you call it, not a drug exactly, but if you have something you

00:02:51.200 can take that works every single time you test it, it doesn't even matter what you're

00:02:56.060 testing it on, and there's basically no downside whatsoever, I would have guessed accurately

00:03:04.360 that it would have been good for Parkinson's patients.

00:03:08.140 Without any knowledge whatsoever, I would have just said, well, does it work for everything

00:03:13.540 else you test it for?

00:03:15.640 All right.

00:03:16.400 Probably it'll work for the next thing too.

00:03:19.640 All right.

00:03:20.300 Here's one.

00:03:22.160 This one's so dumb.

00:03:23.540 It's just funny.

00:03:24.220 There's a Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and they found out that the children

00:03:32.380 who have increased physical activity have a lower risk of developing symptoms of depression.

00:03:46.160 How many times are they going to do that study?

00:03:50.240 Well, let's do it in Norway.

00:03:51.840 Anyway, all right, let's study 13 to 15-year-olds.

00:03:56.600 Okay.

00:03:57.320 How about 15 to 17-year-olds?

00:03:59.340 It's all the same.

00:04:01.140 Physical activity is good for your brain, just like psilocybin.

00:04:09.260 You could have just asked Scott.

00:04:11.620 All right.

00:04:11.980 Here's one.

00:04:13.180 I would have gotten this one right too.

00:04:14.980 It turns out that you, if you compare, and the University of Basque Country did this.

00:04:22.660 I don't know who they are.

00:04:24.260 But they did a study, and they found that children who learn to write, you know, actually

00:04:30.040 physically write with their hand, they develop better reading and writing, well, better reading

00:04:38.480 skills, I guess.

00:04:39.260 Now, would you have known that?

00:04:43.180 I would have known that because how many times have I taught you that your entire body is

00:04:50.140 your brain?

00:04:51.660 When I studied for tests, you know, back when I was a student, one of my tricks was to get

00:04:58.840 as many of my senses involved.

00:05:02.480 So if I were trying to memorize something, I would definitely write it down.

00:05:07.340 And then I would draw a picture of it.

00:05:10.600 And then I would hum it.

00:05:14.960 And then maybe I would chant it.

00:05:17.660 Like I'd say, you know, and the West was settled in the year, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:05:22.620 And if I could have smelled it, or heard it, or gotten any other senses involved, I would

00:05:31.840 have done it.

00:05:32.700 Now, you can't really smell history or math.

00:05:36.080 But the idea is, the more parts of your body that get involved, the more learning, because

00:05:43.520 your entire body is part of your memory system.

00:05:46.840 It is.

00:05:47.380 If you can get something into your head through all five of your senses, it'll stay there.

00:05:55.820 If you get it into your head through one of your senses, let's say just reading it on

00:06:00.440 a page, it might stay there, but it's not going to be nearly as sticky.

00:06:05.460 So the more of your body that gets involved, you could dance it, you could sing it, you can

00:06:11.080 chant it, you can write it down.

00:06:13.800 Children, this is a great study trick.

00:06:16.940 I would have gotten that one right.

00:06:20.400 All right, here's a story.

00:06:22.280 Business Insider is writing that the U.S. Army plans to flood its forces with drones.

00:06:29.640 So every division of the Army is going to have all kinds of drones.

00:06:33.800 You've got drones here and drones there, and they'll probably have fewer aircraft and ground 0.67

00:06:39.500 vehicles, but boy, they're going to have drones. 0.98

00:06:42.200 Now, my big question was, wasn't it just a few years ago where the common wisdom is America

00:06:52.500 couldn't make drones and that only China had all the parts and the know-how to make drones,

00:06:59.040 at least make drones in an economical way?

00:07:02.020 But apparently, the U.S. has quietly developed quite the drone-making industry, but we don't

00:07:11.400 really know who they are.

00:07:13.620 Or, you know, we know about Anduril, but, you know, that's a bigger enterprise.

00:07:19.260 They do lots of different products.

00:07:21.620 But there must be a bunch of other ones.

00:07:25.500 Someone else, I guess, was involved in one of these drone companies confirmed that, you

00:07:30.720 know, they're making drones and lots of others are making them.

00:07:33.900 So I guess the problem of making drones in the United States has been solved, which is

00:07:40.000 a really big deal.

00:07:41.040 Now, probably they're not cost-effective for consumers, but they're being made for the

00:07:49.260 military.

00:07:50.320 Now, if you build a big factory that's, you know, ultimately automated and it's got robot

00:07:55.760 arms and stuff, and it can make drones, probably the price is going to come down and probably

00:08:01.920 there'll be consumer, you know, consumer products too.

00:08:05.980 So the United States is finally getting competitive in drone-making.

00:08:13.520 So that's good news.

00:08:16.040 Did you know that because the anti-drone technology is getting really good, and again, Anduril is

00:08:24.620 a company that can knock down drones with a man-portable device, apparently the Russians in their war 0.88

00:08:34.080 with Ukraine are starting to use drones that are on the fiber-optic cables.

00:08:40.500 Now, does that seem like something that could work?

00:08:45.300 If you use your common sense, do you think that a drone that has to be physically connected

00:08:52.580 to the operator with a very long fiber-optic cable, how much distance are you going to get

00:09:01.340 on that?

00:09:02.580 Well, it turns out, I asked that same question of somebody who knows a lot about drones, and

00:09:08.640 apparently the Russians can get these fiber-optic-driven drones.

00:09:13.540 They can't be knocked down with an electronic attack.

00:09:19.800 They can go from 5 to 12 miles.

00:09:23.760 Does that even seem possible to you, that this little fiber-optic cable could stretch a

00:09:31.340 for 5 to 12 miles, and then they could just rewind it and use it again?

00:09:37.680 Anti-tank missiles are wired, somebody's saying.

00:09:41.500 So I had no idea that you could get that kind of distance.

00:09:45.960 But they don't have too many of them because it's very hard to make the spools and the cable

00:09:51.900 that's strong enough.

00:09:52.860 So the war of anti-drone versus drone, anti-anti-drone, anti-anti-anti-drone is in full blast.

00:10:06.240 But apparently these fiber-optic cable drones are a thing, and they would operate with visual

00:10:13.020 commands.

00:10:14.120 So the operator would just be seeing through the drone.

00:10:17.440 So there's no satellite connection, and the electronic countermeans would be useless

00:10:24.120 against them.

00:10:25.940 I'm sure that'll change fast, too.

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00:10:43.580 Well, there is a big revolution in AI that if you don't follow AI, you wouldn't know.

00:10:53.000 But the problem with AI, maybe it wasn't a problem, maybe it was the right thing for

00:10:58.380 the right time, was we've all been watching AI develop, but it wasn't really connected to

00:11:06.120 any of your real work.

00:11:07.500 It could write some code, but it was still up to you to take that code and figure out

00:11:14.340 how to make your computer recognize it and use it.

00:11:17.460 So in other words, there was almost like a wall between what the AI could do and what

00:11:24.040 your other apps would do.

00:11:26.480 But that's coming down quickly, I think because the AI is more capable.

00:11:31.460 So here's another example.

00:11:34.120 The AI called Claude can now look at your files, according to TechCrunch.

00:11:40.860 So it can look at your files.

00:11:42.520 It can look at other files.

00:11:44.000 It can activate your PayPal and your Zapier and your Atlassian.

00:11:49.560 And it can do stuff like summarize tasks or automate your boring work.

00:11:55.240 In other words, it can connect to the other stuff on your computer with permission and

00:12:02.400 do stuff.

00:12:03.520 So it can send stuff, activate stuff, use your other apps.

00:12:08.420 And we saw that Visa, the Visa payment company, was also talking about making Visa available

00:12:16.840 to AI so AI could operate it.

00:12:19.300 And we're seeing a lot of what you would call agentic apps.

00:12:27.180 I heard that word yesterday.

00:12:29.660 I decided I was going to use it.

00:12:31.820 Agentic.

00:12:32.880 So an agent would be like a little fake AI personality where you could just tell it what

00:12:39.580 to do.

00:12:41.040 So that's the next level.

00:12:44.040 Instead of simply knowing what to do and being able to write prompts and make you do something,

00:12:49.300 you'll just have a person and you'll say, hey, could you look through my files and find

00:12:54.700 that thing and then write up a little summary about that thing and then send an email out

00:12:59.800 to these four people and it would just do it and maybe check with you, but it could just

00:13:06.020 do it.

00:13:06.920 So if you look at all the AIs now becoming at least capable of connecting to your other

00:13:14.900 apps, this is where we give up all control.

00:13:19.300 So I got to tell you that I'm having mixed emotions about it.

00:13:26.140 One of my emotions is, are you kidding?

00:13:28.920 I could automate my entire operation?

00:13:32.520 Because there's a whole bunch of things that I do that are just purely, you know, idiot work.

00:13:37.980 I just have to do it over and over again, that I would love to be able to tell an AI to just

00:13:43.160 go do, such as publishing my Dilbert comic every day.

00:13:47.600 It knows where the comic is.

00:13:49.500 It's always in the same folder.

00:13:51.460 And it knows what it has to look like and where it needs to be published.

00:13:54.660 I should be able to just tell Claude to go publish it and not even tell it.

00:14:01.800 You could just do it automatically every morning, looking through my files.

00:14:06.000 So I'm very tempted.

00:14:07.440 But on the other hand, I can't even imagine allowing AI access to any of my financials.

00:14:14.740 So I'm probably, I would probably want to keep up some kind of a wall.

00:14:20.880 So I might say, for example, all right, you could have access to my PayPal, but not my bank account.

00:14:28.620 You could have access to my credit card that has a low limit, but not my one that has a high limit.

00:14:35.840 So I feel like I wouldn't totally trust it, nor should you.

00:14:43.720 Well, according to Ludnick, I guess he made a claim on CNBC that Apple was only waiting for some robotic arms to be able to make iPhones in America because, you know, the labor costs are different.

00:15:01.880 But do you believe that?

00:15:02.800 Do you believe that Tim Cook of Apple, the only thing that's preventing them from building a significant iPhone manufacturing capability in the United States is that they don't yet have robotic arms?

00:15:20.820 And you know what my first question about that would be?

00:15:25.220 Who makes the robotic arms?

00:15:28.800 Would it be China? 0.90

00:15:32.800 Is it possible that we're waiting for China to deliver the robotic arms so he can make his stuff not in China?

00:15:43.940 I don't know if that's the case, but who else makes robotic arms?

00:15:48.180 If they were made in the United States?

00:15:52.080 I don't know.

00:15:52.940 Are we at capacity?

00:15:54.720 We can't spare a few robotic arms for Apple? 0.73

00:15:58.040 Well, it seems like it seems like if they were made domestically, he would already be building the factory in anticipation of, you know, if it takes a year, they can make a few robotic arms for the factory.

00:16:12.100 So it might be China.

00:16:14.100 So that part, I'm just guessing, speculating, but maybe South Korea, you think?

00:16:21.720 Maybe South Korea?

00:16:22.980 Could be.

00:16:23.440 Well, you probably all saw the story that Mike Waltz was promoted fired, which is such a perfect Trumpian thing to do.

00:16:38.980 So I guess Trump didn't want external forces to make him fire Mike Waltz, but the cry for his termination was going.

00:16:49.460 He was the U.S. National Security Advisor, but he also was accused of some mistakes in SignalGate.

00:16:56.720 And Trump, presumably, we can't read his mind, but the smart people say Trump just didn't want to, you know, give up the W.

00:17:09.620 So instead of firing and firing him, he does remove him from the office.

00:17:15.660 But hours later, Trump announced that he was going to nominate him to be the U.N. ambassador, a role requiring Senate confirmation.

00:17:24.980 Now, I'm going to tell you a story from my college experience, because it's the only other time I've ever seen this happen.

00:17:33.500 So he got fired into a promotion.

00:17:36.520 You know, some are saying that's a better job, the U.N. ambassador.

00:17:39.540 I don't know if that's true.

00:17:41.140 But let me tell you something from my college experience.

00:17:45.740 I'll make it fast.

00:17:46.720 Before I was a trained hypnotist and before I had, you know, learned persuasion, I still thought I was kind of persuasive, but only in sort of an arguing way, you know, sort of a good debater.

00:18:03.040 I didn't really have the skills that I developed over a lifetime.

00:18:06.380 But even in college, I knew I was more persuasive than the average person.

00:18:13.340 So one of the side jobs I had in college was I had volunteered to be the finance guy, because I was an economics major, the finance guy for the only business that operated, student business, that operated on campus.

00:18:29.100 We had something called the coffee house, which is where we served beer and peanuts, and we'd have live entertainment.

00:18:38.580 It was sort of the only place on campus you could go and sit down and, you know, buy a beverage and stuff like that.

00:18:46.000 Now, this place had never made money.

00:18:49.160 So somehow it was a monopoly on campus, and it was usually full, and somehow it didn't make money.

00:18:56.660 So I was the finance guy, and they'd never had a finance guy.

00:19:00.960 I went in and implemented some accounting and some accountability and negotiated with some vendors and made it profitable.

00:19:09.780 So the first thing that happened was I won a full doge on it before doge was the thing, and it worked, because it just needed a little tweaking, and then the college didn't have to supplement it, which it had been.

00:19:24.320 So if you do something that works, and people see it, and it's visible, you get all this credibility.

00:19:32.780 So because the other people on the committee, it was all student-run.

00:19:37.460 There were no outside people, just students running the thing.

00:19:41.300 If you make something work, you become more credible.

00:19:44.140 Now, one of the things I did was one of my good friends wanted a job as a bartender, and I recommended him.

00:19:53.980 And because I was, you know, a member of the working committee that ran the place, my recommendation carried some weight.

00:20:01.380 Now, unfortunately, he was very bad at his job.

00:20:05.160 He was a very capable person, but, you know, not everybody can do every kind of job.

00:20:12.000 So he was just sort of not good as a bartender, would come in late after basketball practice, and, you know, he'd be too tired, and, you know, he just wasn't up for it.

00:20:23.060 So one day, the people who ran the coffeehouse, we had a meeting, and there were two major things on the agenda.

00:20:31.020 Number one was we needed to elect a leader for our own committee, the people who ran the coffeehouse.

00:20:39.060 We had lost our leader.

00:20:40.880 So we needed a new leader.

00:20:42.720 The other thing that was on the agenda was the proposition of firing my friend, the bartender.

00:20:51.840 So I decided that I wanted to see if I could get my friend to promote fired.

00:20:57.980 Fired as a bartender, but hired as all of our bosses.

00:21:05.720 Now, do you think I pulled that off?

00:21:10.100 Do you think I pulled off getting my friend fired for being a bad bartender and simultaneously hired to be the person who would be all of our bosses?

00:21:22.740 So we would fire him and make him our boss at the same time.

00:21:26.820 That's what I, so I actually said, you know, the skills that are required to be a bartender are very different from the skills to be a leader.

00:21:36.900 And people looked at me and they said, well, okay, I mean, I suppose that's true.

00:21:41.980 And I went on and by the time I was done, we fired my friend, the bartender, and made him our leader.

00:21:54.860 But when I say leader, I might mean puppet because he was my friend.

00:22:00.400 And if I had anything that I really needed to get done, I would just bring it up with him and he would bring it up with the committee and we would get it done.

00:22:07.760 So none of it was evil.

00:22:10.840 He was actually a very good leader.

00:22:12.600 He turned out to be great.

00:22:14.140 He did a good job as a leader.

00:22:16.020 But it's the only other time I've seen somebody promote fired.

00:22:21.360 And I got to tell you that that was about the time I realized that my ability to persuade wasn't normal.

00:22:32.580 Because I walked out of that thinking, did that really happen?

00:22:35.520 Did I actually pull that off?

00:22:39.260 And then later, that same friend and I and a third friend, we recommended to the administration of the college that the three of us should be in charge of our dormitory.

00:22:51.980 And that we should get a salary.

00:22:54.300 And each of us should get a private room.

00:22:56.700 Now, if you know what a private dorm room is worth in a college where not many private rooms existed, you would know what kind of a reach that was.

00:23:10.540 And we actually pulled that off.

00:23:12.080 We actually convinced the administration to fire or not hire again, I guess, the professional guy who lived in the dorm just to make sure that we were in line.

00:23:27.280 And we convinced the administration to put us in charge and to pay us a salary and to give us private rooms.

00:23:34.460 And how did we do?

00:23:38.480 Great.

00:23:39.820 It became a model for the rest of the college because we ran the thing really well.

00:23:45.660 So it turns out that I made a bunch of promises, but we actually delivered.

00:23:52.580 You know, we had lower expenses and basically we were really successful.

00:23:58.060 So long before I entered this domain, I was aware that I had unusual powers of persuasion and I didn't know what the limit was.

00:24:13.220 And I still don't.

00:24:14.880 And neither do you.

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00:25:17.340 Apparently, the FBI assistant or special agent, a guy named Elvis Chan, who had been apparently the main censorship liaison between the FBI and social media during the 2020 election.

00:25:35.000 As you know, the FBI tried to suppress things on social media.

00:25:41.040 And he was the main guy, and he's been placed on terminal leave.

00:25:44.620 So the Trump administration continues their purge of people who were censors or, in their view, bad actors in the past.

00:25:57.520 Here's no surprise.

00:25:59.120 A federal judge ruled that the Alien Enemies Act, the one that Trump is using to deport the Venezuelan gangs, does not apply.

00:26:08.520 And so, therefore, Trump cannot deport the Venezuelan gang members using the Alien Enemies Act. 0.60

00:26:19.280 Now, the argument is that they don't meet the definition.

00:26:22.880 And this judge said that it must involve an organized armed force entering the United States to engage in conduct destructive of property and human life in a specific geographic area.

00:26:38.440 So, that's Judge Fernando Rodríguez Jr.

00:26:43.080 He's actually a Trump appointee.

00:26:46.300 But he says the rarely used law, because it's a very, very old law, can only be invoked when a, quote, organized armed forces entering the United States.

00:26:56.000 Now, to me, it seems like these Venezuelans, at least we've been told by our administration, are organized and are sent by Venezuela with the express purpose of messing up the United States. 1.00

00:27:14.440 So, to me, it meets the definition.

00:27:17.600 And I also think that the commander-in-chief is the one who should decide if it meets the definition.

00:27:23.740 I don't feel like the courts should even make that decision.

00:27:29.620 It just feels like it shouldn't be their domain.

00:27:32.920 Maybe it is.

00:27:34.560 But if you have a commander-in-chief whose job it is to protect the country, and we allow the commander-in-chief to have a pretty wide latitude, because you don't want them to be handcuffed by process if they're trying to protect the country,

00:27:49.080 I just feel like I would give the nod to the commander-in-chief on this one.

00:27:54.640 So, we'll see what happens with it.

00:27:56.640 The ACLU was, you know, arguing that it should not be the law.

00:28:02.440 Now, what would be the alternative?

00:28:04.080 If we don't deport them, that wouldn't stop us from arresting them, right?

00:28:09.460 So, would we just have to build some kind of El Salvador-like facility for jailing them?

00:28:19.380 So, it just seems like it's going to be expensive.

00:28:23.160 And what are we going to do?

00:28:26.060 Leave them there forever?

00:28:27.080 Because they're still going to be non-citizens. 0.98

00:28:32.540 And if we can't deport them, what do you do with them? 0.69

00:28:36.680 Put them in our American jail just forever? 1.00

00:28:40.720 Because they're still non-citizens and they're still, you know, have a criminal connection? 0.54

00:28:47.220 Maybe Gitmo?

00:28:48.300 Somebody says Gitmo?

00:28:49.880 I don't know.

00:28:51.000 I don't know what the alternative is.

00:28:52.760 We'll see.

00:28:54.540 Well, I think this is funny.

00:28:55.860 The CIA is saying publicly that they've got some videos that are in Mandarin and they're

00:29:05.200 aimed at recruiting Chinese officials.

00:29:10.180 And John Ratcliffe of the CIA says one of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence

00:29:17.500 by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets.

00:29:21.680 Now, isn't it funny that we say that out loud?

00:29:25.860 Hey, China, we want to recruit some of your citizens.

00:29:29.920 Here's a video.

00:29:31.540 And when they become traitors to your country, we're going to have them steal your secrets and 1.00

00:29:36.880 give them to us.

00:29:38.200 Now, it's not like we don't know this goes on, right?

00:29:41.500 Obviously, China has a zillion spies in the United States.

00:29:47.880 Obviously, even our allies have spies in the United States.

00:29:51.960 Obviously, the United States has spies in every country we can put a spy in.

00:29:56.220 But it's something hilarious about just saying it out loud that we can just say, oh, by the

00:30:04.280 way, China, we're trying to recruit some of your officials.

00:30:09.240 We'd like to get our spy numbers up.

00:30:11.840 So we'll be offering them excellent deals and retirement packages.

00:30:16.080 But yeah, we'll be recruiting your people as our spies.

00:30:20.420 Now, it makes me wonder, is the real play to get extra spies, which maybe partly that's

00:30:31.240 the real play, or is it to make China doubt their own cohorts in government?

00:30:39.660 Because I love the fact that if China saw we were making a big push, then everything that

00:30:45.580 the other leaders were doing would start looking suspicious.

00:30:51.140 So what this does is, this is a persuasion play as well as a recruiting play.

00:30:57.780 The persuasion would be, if you put in China's head that we're actively recruiting, then anything

00:31:06.960 that another Chinese leader says that isn't exactly what you want them to say, you're going

00:31:13.140 to say to yourself, ah, I wonder, I wonder if that one got promoted or got recruited.

00:31:22.240 Hmm, I don't know.

00:31:23.880 You're acting a little bit suspicious.

00:31:26.440 Why is it you need access to this information?

00:31:30.300 Oh, well, under normal times, it would be normal for somebody to say, I need some access

00:31:37.460 to some confidential information to do my job.

00:31:40.520 But if it were in your head that America was recruiting more spies, and then your fellow

00:31:51.740 leader said, oh, can I have access to that private information?

00:31:56.080 You'd say to yourself, hmm, why?

00:32:00.060 Why do you need that?

00:32:02.280 So I think it's very clever in making the Chinese leadership doubt other Chinese leadership.

00:32:08.420 So that's kind of clever.

00:32:13.080 Well, we heard from, I guess, Susie Wiles, chief of staff for Trump, that Elon Musk is no

00:32:20.620 longer physically in any kind of office in the West Wing.

00:32:24.740 He's doing things remotely by phone.

00:32:27.340 He's still involved, but to a lesser extent.

00:32:32.120 And obviously, he's going to be paying more attention to his businesses.

00:32:36.700 But Jesse Waters met with the Doge team, and they did make some news, but I'm not going

00:32:42.280 to report any of it.

00:32:43.380 As you know, I've made the mistake of repeating what Doge has claimed in the past, and I got

00:32:52.560 bitten every time.

00:32:55.580 So they have some provocative claims that if they were true, would be pretty newsworthy.

00:33:04.120 But since I can't tell what's true, and Doge has overclaimed or left out in context, and

00:33:11.800 in some cases, just been maybe wrong about what something meant, I do believe that they're

00:33:18.840 honest in the sense that they don't say stuff unless they think it's true.

00:33:23.920 I don't think they necessarily get everything right.

00:33:26.840 So I'm not even going to report the provocative claims of the things they say.

00:33:33.620 I do think that directionally, Doge is good.

00:33:39.080 And I don't think it came anywhere near its own stated goal of finding a trillion or so.

00:33:48.700 And I'm not even sure if the $160 billion they claim will actually prove out.

00:33:53.800 But here's what I think is the biggest benefit of Doge.

00:33:59.240 It made Doge a thing.

00:34:02.940 Now when people in the States realize that they need to get their budgets under control,

00:34:08.500 they use the word.

00:34:10.380 They say, we need a Doge.

00:34:12.140 And what they mean is, it can't be the usual people in government.

00:34:16.400 It probably needs to be some kind of independent people brought in who can audit things and maybe

00:34:23.600 improve things technically.

00:34:26.720 So to the, if I were going to evaluate Doge on meeting their, let's say, their own goals,

00:34:37.440 I would say, doesn't look like they did.

00:34:41.360 But if I were to evaluate them on their long-term impact on the country,

00:34:45.740 it might be one of the best things that's ever happened.

00:34:50.140 Meaning that we now understand that the Doge is completely necessary and needs to be permanent.

00:34:58.180 In other words, there just needs to be some smart people really paying attention

00:35:03.720 so that all our money is not being stolen.

00:35:06.960 So the idea of Doge looks like it's going to live on forever.

00:35:12.680 And it's got a word.

00:35:15.020 You know, once you've got a word associated with it.

00:35:18.120 And so I think that they're honest.

00:35:21.460 I think they're well-meaning.

00:35:23.640 I think directionally it's all correct.

00:35:25.920 And it might take longer to get the kind of benefits that they wanted from it.

00:35:31.420 But it's all good.

00:35:32.920 I just don't believe any specific claims.

00:35:35.740 So I'm not even going to repeat them.

00:35:39.400 Well, meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, according to Just the News,

00:35:44.460 she's closed an office she claimed to act as a, quote, slush fund for DEI. 0.98

00:35:51.100 What was the name of that office?

00:35:52.320 It was the Intelligence Community Human Capital Office.

00:35:57.060 So she shut the whole thing down. 0.71

00:35:59.200 And it will save taxpayers $150 million.

00:36:03.840 And she said it was a slush fund for DEI.

00:36:08.860 Now, on one hand, there's so many reports of a DEI thing being made illegal,

00:36:17.180 a DEI thing being threatened, a DEI thing being closed down.

00:36:22.320 I'm not sure I believe any of it.

00:36:26.020 Because it looks like they're just trying to go dormant until another Democrat gets in power.

00:36:33.100 And then it will just go, bring, hey, surprise, it was always here.

00:36:37.340 We just used a different name to call it by.

00:36:39.400 So there will be a few situations, like the Tulsi Gabbard one, where they closed the entire office.

00:36:48.280 That might work.

00:36:50.300 So that might be a case where they did, in fact, reduce some DEI.

00:36:54.560 But with all the colleges and the big corporations and all the various little entities of government

00:37:01.280 that are trying to be part of the resistance instead of the administration,

00:37:06.480 I feel like they're just going to hide all this stuff with secret names and just change the look of it

00:37:14.800 until they get power back.

00:37:17.140 And then it will just completely come back.

00:37:19.360 So I don't know that it can be killed, even though it's being treated as unconstitutional

00:37:25.900 and illegal by the current administration.

00:37:28.760 All it's going to take is the next administration to say, oh, no, actually,

00:37:33.040 it's completely legal and everybody should be doing it.

00:37:36.600 So we're going to do it like crazy.

00:37:38.700 So I don't know about that.

00:37:40.060 Well, here's some good news.

00:37:43.400 Joe Hoft is writing about this.

00:37:46.920 Mercedes says they're going to shift more vehicle production to the U.S.

00:37:50.920 Now, that would be in response to the tariff threats.

00:37:55.380 But they're not the only ones.

00:37:57.960 So here's a list, I guess, according to the administration of other automakers

00:38:03.000 who are looking to move more production to the U.S.

00:38:06.840 So you've got BMW is thinking about adding more production in South Carolina.

00:38:12.820 You've got Honda plans to shift production from Japan to the U.S.

00:38:19.280 You know, some production.

00:38:20.720 So all of these are parcels.

00:38:23.260 Hyundai is going to do some big investment in the U.S.

00:38:26.460 Kia plans to produce hybrid vehicles in Georgia.

00:38:31.560 Nissan is considering moving production from Mexico to the U.S.

00:38:35.020 Stellantis, I don't know who that is, says it will reopen its Belvedere, Illinois plant

00:38:40.700 for mid-sized trucks.

00:38:42.580 And Toyota said it will boost hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia plant.

00:38:49.060 Now, those seem like pretty big accomplishments.

00:38:54.340 But it gets better.

00:38:55.540 So now, you have to be careful about whether all these news reports are exactly true.

00:39:02.880 But it's starting to look like Trump is getting big wins in the automotive industry.

00:39:10.520 And those would be good jobs.

00:39:12.680 So that would look like a win.

00:39:14.500 But Tim Cook is reportedly excited, according to 9to5Mac, whoever they are, that TSMC, the big chip-making company

00:39:30.260 that's based in Taiwan, is going to break ground on their third U.S. chip plants.

00:39:37.860 So that would mean that they're building three of them, because I don't think any of them are complete.

00:39:43.480 So that would mean they're building three U.S. chip plants.

00:39:47.760 And Apple's Tim Cook says he's excited to be the first customer of the Arizona chip plant.

00:39:55.260 Now, let's say this is true, too.

00:39:59.000 This would be really, and then we heard about NVIDIA,

00:40:02.040 making sure that it's going to do a gigantic increase in capital expenditure in the United States to make their stuff.

00:40:12.340 So is this really happening?

00:40:17.840 Is Trump actually successfully bringing the automotive industry back to the U.S.?

00:40:23.500 Because it looks like it, at least to some degree.

00:40:26.440 At the same time that the biggest, most important chip companies are wildly building production in the United States.

00:40:36.820 Because it looks like it.

00:40:39.060 This is very impressive.

00:40:42.080 This is very impressive.

00:40:46.200 And we'll talk about China and the tariffs in a little bit.

00:40:51.220 But, you know, you saw that the stock market is up today.

00:40:56.440 There are reasons for that.

00:40:59.900 If Trump gets this to work against, you know, all the experts' recommendations that trade wars are always bad

00:41:09.340 and tariffs are always bad and there's no exception,

00:41:12.620 it's going to be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president ever.

00:41:16.880 Now, it's too early, much too early.

00:41:19.920 So I'm not going to declare that it's working.

00:41:21.860 But, boy, it looks like it's working.

00:41:27.600 And I don't say that easily.

00:41:30.480 Because I would have been a, you know, wait and see, you're not going to know anything for two years.

00:41:37.320 But it kind of looks like it's working already.

00:41:40.240 And that would surprise the hell out of me.

00:41:41.960 And the rate of it working would surprise me, not that it worked.

00:41:48.700 Meanwhile, Trump has, he's trying to cut funding on NPR and PBS.

00:41:54.460 Now, you should know that that doesn't close them down, but it will put them under pressure.

00:42:00.900 Because a lot of that federal funding would go to the local and urban stations.

00:42:07.880 And then some of that money would flow back to the national ones.

00:42:12.600 So they may have, you know, they might have to downsize a little bit.

00:42:16.880 And maybe some local stations won't operate.

00:42:19.860 But for the most part, they'll stay in business.

00:42:22.440 Because most of their funding is from private donations.

00:42:26.180 And if it goes the way things usually go,

00:42:29.460 the Democrats will just donate more money so they don't go out of business.

00:42:35.100 So, but I am happy that the government is not funding a biased news entity.

00:42:41.140 So, that would be, and there's also, Congress would need to approve the cuts.

00:42:47.880 And there could be legal challenges.

00:42:49.880 So, it doesn't even mean that their funding is going to be cut.

00:42:53.380 Because you know there's going to be legal challenges.

00:42:55.920 And they're just going to shop for some judge that will say anything about anything.

00:43:01.000 And at the very least, they'll have to probably fight it to a higher court.

00:43:05.100 Trump also says he wants to take away the tax-exempt status from Harvard.

00:43:14.560 And the reason giving is that they are racists.

00:43:18.680 And they're violating civil rights.

00:43:20.960 Basically, because they're DEI and hiring preferences, etc.

00:43:25.240 So, I don't know.

00:43:27.800 This feels right.

00:43:28.780 If Harvard absolutely wants to continue violating the Constitution by favoring one race over another, etc.,

00:43:41.200 I don't want them to be tax-exempt.

00:43:46.860 Maybe you can do things privately illegal, but why would we keep giving you money?

00:43:51.860 So, I understand that they do super valuable things for research, etc.

00:43:58.160 But why does all of our research have to go through universities?

00:44:02.540 Is that necessary?

00:44:05.000 Maybe what we really need is that our research facilities are no longer connected to a university.

00:44:12.580 Because you know what happens if you give a million dollars to Harvard?

00:44:18.460 How much of it actually goes to the scientists?

00:44:21.860 Not much.

00:44:23.280 Actually, most of it will go to the overhead for the college.

00:44:28.020 So, don't you think we just need to completely retool where we're giving money for scientific research?

00:44:36.460 I feel like there's a much less expensive, more effective way to do it than to have it couched in some racist college.

00:44:46.900 So, maybe that'll turn into something good.

00:44:51.860 So, I'm going to mention this probably more than once.

00:44:55.780 I've already said it.

00:44:58.300 But I'm still laughing at Chuck Schumer doing a public event that was built entirely around pointing out how Trump's approval ratings have dropped.

00:45:09.440 So, that was the whole point.

00:45:12.040 Trump's approval ratings on polls have dropped.

00:45:16.440 And then one of the reporters called out and mentioned that Schumer's own polls are even worse than Trump's.

00:45:24.920 And Schumer says, well, polls come and go.

00:45:28.020 So, with one question, they got Schumer to completely debunk his own point that the polls were telling you something useful.

00:45:40.020 As soon as it was about him, he's like, well, polls come and go.

00:45:43.220 Now, on one hand, it's a funny story about an elderly Democrat leader who's just a clown and was completely outmatched by one question.

00:45:58.700 One question just destroyed his whole thing.

00:46:02.020 But there's a bigger thing going on.

00:46:04.200 I think the biggest gaslighting that's happening right now is the idea that the polls are driven by public opinion.

00:46:14.300 Because that's what you think it is, right?

00:46:16.700 The pollsters ask the voters, what's your opinion?

00:46:21.340 And then they give us the result.

00:46:22.940 Well, I was listening to Victor Davis Hanson explain that some of these recent decreases in Trump's polls are because the pollsters simply didn't ask many Trump voters the question.

00:46:38.540 So, instead of asking, let's say, half of the people who are Trump supporters and let's say half who are not, what do you think of Trump?

00:46:50.580 Because that would match the actual vote, right?

00:46:54.240 Because the vote is usually, you know, almost a tie.

00:46:58.280 So, if you wanted a good poll, you'd want to talk to about half of the people who voted for Trump and half of the people who didn't.

00:47:05.160 And then that would tell you something.

00:47:07.740 But if you favor the people who didn't vote for Trump and you say, what do you think about his approval?

00:47:15.080 And they say, hmm, not so much.

00:47:17.300 You haven't really measured the public.

00:47:20.580 What you've done is you have a fake poll, which is done for completely political reasons, to move the public.

00:47:29.300 But beyond that, where does the public get its information?

00:47:35.120 It gets its information from the fake news, for the most part.

00:47:39.200 It's not like people are doing their own deep dive and doing their own investigation.

00:47:44.120 They're doing what the media tells.

00:47:46.160 They're basically just parroting the media.

00:47:48.040 Have you seen the people on the street, when they do the street interviews, and somebody would say, what do you think about Trump?

00:47:54.760 And they'll say, well, too much chaos.

00:47:58.260 And he should use a scalpel instead of, and Doge should use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw.

00:48:04.180 Where do you think they get those buzzwords?

00:48:06.960 They didn't do their own deep dive and come up with the same buzzwords.

00:48:11.040 They're literally reporting what they heard on the news, which we know is fake news.

00:48:17.000 So you've got your fake news that's come up with this trick.

00:48:21.380 I don't know how long they've been doing it, but they're doing it now.

00:48:23.920 Where they pretend that the public makes up its own mind.

00:48:29.280 The public doesn't make up its own mind.

00:48:32.160 It makes up its mind based on what the media told it.

00:48:36.160 So if the media has collectively decided to say chaos a million times and scalpel a million times,

00:48:44.160 what do you think the voters that they talk to are going to say?

00:48:48.080 Well, the Trump voters are still going to favor Trump.

00:48:52.700 The polls show that.

00:48:54.440 But what about the other people who are oversampled?

00:48:58.180 The oversampled people are just going to repeat what they heard on MSNBC and CNN. 0.98

00:49:03.580 Oh, they didn't use a scalpel, and there's so much chaos.

00:49:08.620 Can you give me an example of the chaos?

00:49:11.080 Well, they didn't use a scalpel.

00:49:14.080 Okay, well, we talked about the scalpel thing, but what would be the chaos?

00:49:19.500 Well, all the tariffs seem to be moving, and they're complicated, and they keep changing.

00:49:29.220 And then you would say, you mean exactly like Trump tells you he always negotiates,

00:49:34.940 where he brings great uncertainty into a situation until people are begging for certainty,

00:49:40.980 and then he negotiates and gets what he wants?

00:49:44.080 You mean that?

00:49:45.020 Is that the chaos you're talking about?

00:49:47.220 Oh, no.

00:49:47.960 On MSNBC, they said it was all bad.

00:49:50.600 It must be bad chaos.

00:49:52.820 There's nothing like public opinion happening here.

00:49:57.640 There is just brainwashing, and then the media looks at the pollsters and go,

00:50:03.640 go check to see if our brainwashing is working.

00:50:05.940 And it does work, because they're using Nazi technique. 0.91

00:50:11.900 The Nazi technique is you tell a big lie, and then you repeat it endlessly to the media that you control. 0.82

00:50:19.440 That's what we're watching.

00:50:21.900 You're watching Nazi technique that the Democrats use very successfully, and then they launder it through polls, 0.90

00:50:30.720 so it looks like people made up their own minds.

00:50:33.220 It's the greatest gaslighting that's happening right now, and I'm impressed as hell.

00:50:38.340 Meanwhile, I always tell you about the designated liars, the DDLs, the Democrat designated liars.

00:50:46.080 So, Swalwell is one, Jamie Raskin is another, Adam Schiff is another.

00:50:53.840 There's a certain set of Democrats who will tell the big lie that is sort of part of the Nazi propaganda that regular Democrats won't do.

00:51:06.220 So, your normal Democrats will just sort of stay out of the news, but the ones who want to be in the news, they will tell any lie.

00:51:15.320 So, they're the ones saying, Trump wants to cut your Social Security.

00:51:20.300 There's literally no evidence of that, and there's plenty of evidence that he says, absolutely not, I won't do that.

00:51:27.460 But the designated liars will say it, and people will believe it.

00:51:31.700 It's part of the Nazi propaganda that they use. 0.78

00:51:35.920 Well, here's one that Eric Swalwell is trying to push.

00:51:39.640 So, despite all of the election denial stuff that's happened over 2020, Swalwell was on some kind of podcast with some leftists,

00:51:51.320 and there was an allegation brought up that enemies of the U.S. stole U.S. data,

00:52:01.840 and that somehow Elon Musk's Starlink was involved.

00:52:05.340 Now, what evidence is there that Starlink was involved in any of the election stuff,

00:52:13.820 and certainly, you know, what evidence was involved that if they were involved,

00:52:18.120 I don't even think they were involved in any elections.

00:52:20.760 They're not part of the election system, as far as I know.

00:52:24.880 And what evidence would there be that they somehow participated in helping Russia get election data?

00:52:32.060 I mean, it's just a ridiculous accusation.

00:52:35.920 So, what does Swalwell say?

00:52:39.160 He goes, Elon Musk has done nothing in the last five months to make me think that we shouldn't ask questions

00:52:45.820 about what the hell he was doing in 2024.

00:52:49.460 In other words, Swalwell, one of the Democrat-designated liars,

00:52:56.080 wants you to believe that the 2024 election might have been rigged by Elon Musk.

00:53:07.240 Meaning technically rigged, you know, not just that he participated and that he funded stuff

00:53:12.600 and, you know, he was effective in the campaign.

00:53:15.720 They don't like that.

00:53:17.100 But how shameless do you have to be to say something like this?

00:53:23.500 Well, you know, we can't rule it out.

00:53:26.720 They certainly ruled it out in 2020.

00:53:29.600 So, are we to believe that the election systems are that vulnerable?

00:53:35.860 If we are to believe that they're that vulnerable,

00:53:38.980 then wouldn't they also have been vulnerable in 2020?

00:53:42.320 Or did they only become vulnerable when Trump won?

00:53:48.260 Just insane lies coming out of the designated liars.

00:53:54.780 Well, meanwhile, according to the AP,

00:53:57.880 you know that 60 Minutes report that caused Trump to sue CBS?

00:54:04.520 And so on where Kamala Harris was being interviewed

00:54:07.680 and there was at least one edit that allegedly made her answer look more coherent than it really was.

00:54:16.140 And that's part of what Trump is suing over.

00:54:19.400 And apparently that report, that segment of 60 Minutes,

00:54:25.680 is nominated for an Emmy Award.

00:54:30.520 It's nominated for an Emmy Award.

00:54:32.640 Now, that is just the classic Democrat thing.

00:54:38.160 Because remember the Russia collusion hoax?

00:54:41.180 It won Pulitzer Prizes for some of the writers.

00:54:47.120 The people who are pushing the biggest hoax this country has ever experienced,

00:54:52.400 probably the biggest one, got a Pulitzer.

00:54:54.760 And now the fake, and now the 60 Minutes thing that will probably end up in a win for Trump.

00:55:03.920 So Trump will probably get a big paycheck out of that.

00:55:09.720 They nominated for an Emmy Award.

00:55:13.140 Oh, that's funny.

00:55:14.360 Well, Tom Homan says that they've already rescued 5,000 children.

00:55:23.320 And of the 300,000 migrant children who went missing or were trafficked,

00:55:28.400 they claim, under the Biden administration.

00:55:31.220 So I don't think it's disputed that 300 children came through

00:55:35.180 and we don't know what happened to them.

00:55:37.160 So that's what, I think that's what RFK Jr. was referring to

00:55:44.820 when saying that the United States was complicit in child trafficking,

00:55:50.000 is that we allowed 300,000 kids to come through without really checking

00:55:54.740 where they were going or who they were with,

00:55:59.600 at least checking enough.

00:56:00.860 And so 5,000 of them had been rescued

00:56:04.280 and at least some of them were in forced labor.

00:56:10.340 What kind of forced labor do you think that was?

00:56:14.360 Because, you know, I've never met anybody who was in forced labor

00:56:18.860 in the United States.

00:56:20.180 So there's probably some enormous underground, you know, thing going on.

00:56:26.940 But, you know, I don't have any contact with it, thank God.

00:56:31.820 Anyway, according to Just the News, the House Judiciary Committee

00:56:36.020 that's working on the current write-up of the 2025 budget proposal,

00:56:41.960 it looks like they're going to put a cover charge on entering the United States.

00:56:48.140 And I always used to joke about this,

00:56:51.620 that entering the United States should have a cover charge

00:56:54.700 and maybe a two-drink minimum.

00:56:57.160 But here's what they're proposing,

00:57:01.820 or at least they're noodling on.

00:57:03.300 We don't know if this will become an actual proposal yet.

00:57:06.400 But the asylum seekers and parolees would pay a $1,000 minimum fee

00:57:11.280 if you're an asylum seeker.

00:57:15.140 Now, how many asylum seekers could afford $1,000? 1.00

00:57:17.880 So I assume this would be a way to reduce the number of asylum seekers.

00:57:26.220 And then migrants requesting temporary protected status,

00:57:30.720 and I don't know how that's different from an asylum seeker, 1.00

00:57:34.200 but let's say it is, would have to pay $500.

00:57:36.760 Sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children would be charged $3,500.

00:57:43.940 Now, I assume that would also include us vetting them

00:57:47.380 to make sure that the children don't get trafficked.

00:57:51.220 And then many work permit applications would also have a $550 fee.

00:57:57.240 So I like the general idea of charging people to come into the country.

00:58:03.140 I don't know if these are specifically the best ideas.

00:58:08.200 According to the Post Millennial, the Texas State House

00:58:11.720 is passing a bill banning political memes

00:58:16.340 with fines of up to one year in jail.

00:58:19.640 Now, when I first read that,

00:58:21.860 I was kind of dealing with it at the headline level,

00:58:25.520 and I thought, are you kidding me?

00:58:27.220 You could go to jail for a year for a meme?

00:58:30.740 But it turns out this would be limited to the paid political advertisers.

00:58:36.920 So in other words, if you were running an ad,

00:58:40.220 yeah, if you were running an ad on TV, for example,

00:58:44.100 and it was a paid political ad,

00:58:45.880 you couldn't use AI to make it look like

00:58:50.300 your opponent did something that they didn't do.

00:58:53.460 It would not apply to you and I making a comic

00:58:57.980 and putting it on social media.

00:59:01.320 So it's not that different

00:59:03.660 than requiring some kind of honesty in political ads.

00:59:08.880 But my question is this.

00:59:11.200 When has there ever been an honest political ad?

00:59:14.000 I thought that political ads were always lies,

00:59:19.800 no matter who did them.

00:59:22.040 Isn't that your experience?

00:59:23.600 That political ads are always lies?

00:59:26.580 How in the world do you distinguish between a meme,

00:59:30.040 which would be a political lie

00:59:32.320 if it were showing something that didn't really happen in real life,

00:59:35.720 versus them claiming,

00:59:37.900 let's say that Trump is going to cut your Social Security?

00:59:41.380 Do you think there are any political ads that are going to say,

00:59:45.840 Trump is going to cut your health care and your Social Security?

00:59:50.240 Which, as far as I know, will not happen.

00:59:52.740 It's not true.

00:59:54.280 Would you go to jail for a year for claiming that he will?

00:59:58.480 Or is that just an opinion?

01:00:01.140 Whereas if you had some AI,

01:00:04.720 and the AI looked like Trump's saying something

01:00:07.980 that he didn't really say,

01:00:09.960 would you go to jail potentially for a year

01:00:13.300 because the AI is more persuasive

01:00:16.380 than simply saying he said it?

01:00:19.840 I don't know.

01:00:20.720 I got a lot of questions.

01:00:21.760 I'm not comfortable with this.

01:00:23.340 But at least it's limited to paid political ads.

01:00:28.800 Well, I saw Tucker Carlson pushing for asylum

01:00:31.980 for Russell Brand.

01:00:34.920 And I'm going to read what Tucker said.

01:00:38.800 And I don't know exactly,

01:00:40.960 you know, obviously I don't know about the charges

01:00:42.780 against Russell Brand.

01:00:44.680 But I'm also in favor of offering him asylum.

01:00:49.420 Because it feels like,

01:00:51.800 and Tucker says this better,

01:00:53.360 I'll give you what Tucker said.

01:00:55.160 It does feel like it's politically driven

01:00:57.800 as opposed to driven by actual victims.

01:01:04.120 So here's what Tucker said on X.

01:01:07.560 Russell Brand was once a famous left-wing actor

01:01:10.300 celebrated by the British establishment.

01:01:12.740 Then he criticized the government

01:01:14.520 for using COVID to turn the UK

01:01:16.540 into a totalitarian state.

01:01:18.800 The accolades abruptly stopped.

01:01:21.360 A government TV station accused Brand

01:01:23.540 of committing sex crimes

01:01:25.000 against anonymous women they refused to name.

01:01:28.540 Government officials called for his opinions

01:01:30.560 to be scrubbed from the internet.

01:01:32.760 Again, this is Tucker Carlson saying this.

01:01:35.440 Last month, British prosecutors charged Brand

01:01:37.880 with rape and sexual assault.

01:01:40.740 None of the charges are backed by hard evidence.

01:01:43.280 All of them supposedly took place

01:01:45.460 more than 20 years ago.

01:01:46.800 One of them from the 90s.

01:01:48.920 The entire case is transparently political

01:01:52.080 and absurd.

01:01:53.280 A near identical replay

01:01:55.480 of the fake rape charges

01:01:57.900 authorities brought against Julian Assange

01:02:00.840 15 years ago.

01:02:03.660 Russell Brand, whose youngest child

01:02:05.740 is barely a year old,

01:02:07.720 now faces life in prison.

01:02:10.160 He has no shot at a fair trial

01:02:11.960 because Britain is no longer a free country.

01:02:14.840 Over the last few years,

01:02:16.380 millions of foreigners have applied

01:02:18.020 for asylum in the United States.

01:02:20.440 Russell Brand actually deserves it.

01:02:22.540 Say a prayer that the Trump administration

01:02:25.000 comes to his rescue.

01:02:27.080 I'm going to say yes.

01:02:29.720 I'm going to say yes.

01:02:31.100 Political asylum,

01:02:32.420 we should absolutely offer it to Russell Brand.

01:02:38.520 Because it does look so political.

01:02:42.220 I mean, he became one of the most effective

01:02:46.640 non-anti-Trump people

01:02:50.660 because he wasn't anti-Trump.

01:02:53.800 And it seems like a really big coincidence

01:02:57.980 that when you get somebody

01:03:00.300 who is that effective,

01:03:02.240 suddenly they have rape charges.

01:03:03.700 it's just a little bit hard for me to believe

01:03:08.880 that these are based on reality

01:03:10.660 as opposed to it's just the normal play

01:03:13.560 that comes from the,

01:03:15.160 you know,

01:03:15.540 usually the intelligence wing of a country

01:03:17.840 that's trying to stop somebody

01:03:19.280 from doing what they do.

01:03:22.780 So remember,

01:03:24.380 you know,

01:03:25.220 Assange isn't the only one.

01:03:26.840 Trump,

01:03:27.400 Trump too was,

01:03:28.840 you know,

01:03:29.320 brought up on charges

01:03:30.280 that to me

01:03:31.780 looked pretty suspicious.

01:03:34.480 So yes.

01:03:36.340 Now I will tell you that,

01:03:38.960 when was it?

01:03:41.440 Was it two years ago?

01:03:43.760 One year ago?

01:03:44.880 I'm losing sense of time.

01:03:46.660 So I was asked to be a guest

01:03:48.080 on Russell Brand's show,

01:03:49.800 which of course was,

01:03:51.300 you know,

01:03:51.640 a gigantic,

01:03:52.560 you know,

01:03:53.480 honor.

01:03:54.160 And he was at the top of his game

01:03:56.400 before the accusations.

01:03:58.000 And the very week

01:03:59.520 that I was going to be on his show

01:04:01.880 is when all this news

01:04:03.240 first broke

01:04:04.460 that he had been accused

01:04:06.160 of this terrible crime.

01:04:08.000 And I got to tell you,

01:04:09.600 he did the best he could,

01:04:11.740 but boy,

01:04:12.860 was he affected.

01:04:14.300 I mean,

01:04:14.620 you could tell

01:04:15.280 he was not his usual self.

01:04:17.120 So I never got to experience

01:04:18.940 being on his show

01:04:20.680 when he was at

01:04:21.560 the top of his game

01:04:22.800 because he had taken

01:04:24.860 a gut punch,

01:04:26.460 you know,

01:04:26.740 that very,

01:04:27.380 I think within just

01:04:29.400 day or two

01:04:31.020 of me being on the show.

01:04:32.460 So I felt very bad for him.

01:04:35.840 And yes,

01:04:37.000 asylum.

01:04:38.120 Let's check in with Germany.

01:04:40.740 According to Reuters,

01:04:41.720 the,

01:04:42.380 I guess,

01:04:45.180 the leading conservative party,

01:04:47.700 the AFD,

01:04:49.420 which is leading in the polls,

01:04:51.640 has been designated

01:04:52.700 an extremist entity

01:04:54.100 by German intelligence.

01:04:55.440 Does that sound legitimate?

01:04:59.580 Do you think that

01:05:00.800 just as this political party

01:05:02.980 is picking up popularity

01:05:04.540 to the point where it could,

01:05:06.620 you know,

01:05:07.000 potentially get into power,

01:05:09.520 it's not there yet,

01:05:11.260 is this a coincidence

01:05:12.560 that German intelligence

01:05:13.880 has designated them

01:05:15.140 an extremist entity?

01:05:16.820 And do you think

01:05:17.600 the facts will support that?

01:05:19.680 Now,

01:05:20.280 I'm not saying

01:05:20.840 there are no extremists

01:05:22.040 in the party

01:05:22.640 because every party

01:05:23.520 has some extremists,

01:05:25.360 but,

01:05:25.860 uh,

01:05:28.380 that looks a little

01:05:29.340 suspicious to me.

01:05:31.020 So that's what

01:05:31.640 Germany's up to. 0.86

01:05:32.560 When I found out

01:05:33.560 my friend got a great deal

01:05:34.980 on a wool coat

01:05:35.740 from Winners,

01:05:36.600 I started wondering,

01:05:38.240 is every fabulous item

01:05:39.860 I see from Winners?

01:05:41.160 Like that woman over there 1.00

01:05:42.640 with the designer jeans.

01:05:44.060 Are those from Winners?

01:05:45.620 Ooh,

01:05:46.240 or those beautiful gold earrings?

01:05:48.080 Did she pay full price?

01:05:49.400 Or that leather tote?

01:05:50.420 Or that cashmere sweater?

01:05:51.620 Or those knee-high boots?

01:05:52.780 That dress?

01:05:53.880 That jacket?

01:05:54.560 Those shoes?

01:05:55.620 Is anyone paying full price

01:05:57.320 for anything?

01:05:58.520 Stop wondering.

01:05:59.800 Start winning.

01:06:00.740 Winners.

01:06:01.320 Find fabulous for less.

01:06:03.020 Let's check in with Israel.

01:06:05.980 According to the Times of Israel,

01:06:09.160 Netanyahu was asked

01:06:10.320 about the goal of,

01:06:11.760 you know,

01:06:12.280 getting the hostages back

01:06:13.620 from Hamas.

01:06:15.320 And,

01:06:15.720 uh,

01:06:16.740 Netanyahu had this

01:06:18.360 very honest answer.

01:06:20.200 He said,

01:06:20.640 it's a very important goal,

01:06:22.500 meaning getting the hostages back.

01:06:24.840 But then he continued,

01:06:26.600 um,

01:06:27.020 but the war has a supreme goal.

01:06:29.580 And the supreme goal

01:06:30.600 is victory over our enemies,

01:06:32.360 and this we will achieve.

01:06:33.960 So he's got an important goal,

01:06:36.700 but also a supreme goal.

01:06:39.980 Now,

01:06:40.980 he is very honest about this.

01:06:44.080 And,

01:06:44.420 and there's something about transparency,

01:06:46.400 uh,

01:06:47.880 in this domain that,

01:06:49.920 as horrible as the situation is,

01:06:53.080 I do appreciate transparency.

01:06:55.920 And so he's saying,

01:06:57.060 as clearly as possible,

01:06:58.300 if the hostages get in the way

01:07:00.720 of us destroying Hamas,

01:07:02.880 we're going to destroy Hamas.

01:07:07.240 And if you're a family member

01:07:09.400 or friend of the hostages,

01:07:10.800 that's the worst thing

01:07:11.680 you could ever hear.

01:07:13.240 But,

01:07:13.840 it is leadership.

01:07:16.600 And it is very clear.

01:07:19.200 And it probably is the

01:07:21.180 smartest thing you could say

01:07:23.180 because,

01:07:23.840 you know,

01:07:24.100 Hamas is listening to.

01:07:25.400 You can't give them too much power

01:07:27.380 and you can't let

01:07:29.060 taking hostages work.

01:07:31.860 So,

01:07:32.460 he's,

01:07:33.360 he's taking the hard road

01:07:34.740 and he's saying,

01:07:35.860 we're not going to let hostages work.

01:07:39.120 And if that means

01:07:40.380 that the hostages don't come home,

01:07:43.660 the supreme,

01:07:45.180 the supreme goal is to

01:07:46.740 get rid of Hamas. 0.85

01:07:49.140 So,

01:07:50.040 it's horrible,

01:07:51.620 but it's transparent.

01:07:53.800 And I'll tell you,

01:07:56.220 transparency goes a long way

01:07:58.020 to making the horrible

01:08:00.060 not acceptable,

01:08:02.340 but,

01:08:02.540 but at least,

01:08:04.400 you know,

01:08:04.720 barely tolerable.

01:08:06.540 So,

01:08:07.540 there's that.

01:08:10.060 And by the way,

01:08:11.120 that's what I,

01:08:11.920 that's what I predicted

01:08:13.260 would happen.

01:08:14.780 Um,

01:08:15.400 you know,

01:08:15.900 that they would,

01:08:16.580 that defeating Hamas

01:08:17.900 would be

01:08:18.460 ultimately the,

01:08:19.980 the primary goal.

01:08:20.980 Well,

01:08:22.820 according to,

01:08:23.660 uh,

01:08:23.940 President,

01:08:24.400 uh,

01:08:25.120 Trump,

01:08:26.200 he said that,

01:08:27.320 uh,

01:08:27.540 all purchases of Iranian oil

01:08:29.820 or petrochemicals

01:08:31.240 must stop now.

01:08:32.840 He says that any country

01:08:34.080 or person who buys

01:08:34.980 any amount of oil

01:08:36.160 or petrochemicals

01:08:38.000 from Iran

01:08:38.660 will be subject

01:08:39.960 to immediate

01:08:40.760 secondary sanctions.

01:08:42.660 And so,

01:08:43.460 I said to myself,

01:08:44.700 who buys,

01:08:45.900 who buys oil

01:08:46.840 from Iran?

01:08:48.320 Who exactly

01:08:49.440 is he threatening?

01:08:50.780 So,

01:08:51.240 I went to Grok 1.00

01:08:52.060 and said,

01:08:53.780 who buys oil

01:08:55.280 from Iran?

01:08:56.600 Well,

01:08:56.860 apparently 90%

01:08:58.000 of it is China.

01:08:59.400 So,

01:09:00.020 did he just threaten

01:09:01.000 China

01:09:01.500 with

01:09:02.260 what would be

01:09:04.360 kind of

01:09:05.200 permanent

01:09:05.860 secondary

01:09:06.620 sanctions?

01:09:08.940 Because it's

01:09:09.740 90% China.

01:09:11.040 But there's also

01:09:12.060 Syria,

01:09:12.980 which I can't believe

01:09:13.780 they buy much

01:09:14.600 oil.

01:09:15.800 Uh,

01:09:16.120 Turkey,

01:09:16.780 which could be

01:09:17.840 a bigger deal.

01:09:18.500 you know,

01:09:18.960 a NATO member.

01:09:20.700 UAE,

01:09:21.720 Bangladesh,

01:09:22.500 Oman,

01:09:23.300 and Venezuela.

01:09:24.900 Can you believe

01:09:25.820 that Venezuela,

01:09:27.300 which is an oil

01:09:28.220 exporting country

01:09:29.400 or should have been,

01:09:31.200 has to buy oil

01:09:32.400 from Iran?

01:09:34.020 Boy,

01:09:34.680 that is,

01:09:35.060 that is a failed

01:09:35.880 country right there.

01:09:37.100 And then,

01:09:38.060 allegedly,

01:09:38.620 some European countries

01:09:39.780 might try to buy

01:09:40.760 some oil from Iran,

01:09:42.500 but that's harder

01:09:43.720 to verify.

01:09:45.540 So,

01:09:47.100 I don't know.

01:09:47.960 Is this a play

01:09:48.840 against China?

01:09:50.900 Or,

01:09:51.460 does it really

01:09:52.020 make a difference

01:09:52.700 to Iran?

01:09:54.520 I don't know.

01:09:57.020 Well,

01:09:57.560 according to

01:09:58.040 the New York Post,

01:09:59.260 the,

01:09:59.480 uh,

01:10:00.760 the Russian

01:10:02.100 Security Council

01:10:03.060 Deputy Chairman,

01:10:04.380 Dmitry Medvedev,

01:10:05.700 who is very well

01:10:06.500 connected,

01:10:07.300 so he's a,

01:10:08.040 he's a Putin guy,

01:10:09.720 he talked about

01:10:12.120 the mineral deal

01:10:13.660 that the U.S.

01:10:14.340 signed with Ukraine,

01:10:15.360 and he doesn't like it

01:10:16.540 at all.

01:10:17.420 And here's what he says,

01:10:18.720 and he certainly

01:10:19.900 chooses his words

01:10:21.180 in an interesting way.

01:10:23.360 Um,

01:10:23.920 so Medvedev

01:10:25.360 said on Thursday

01:10:26.680 that the mineral

01:10:28.100 rights deal

01:10:28.720 with Ukraine,

01:10:30.200 um,

01:10:30.880 he praised it,

01:10:31.820 um,

01:10:33.440 sarcastically,

01:10:34.700 praising the U.S.

01:10:35.880 leader for making

01:10:36.600 a deal with a nation

01:10:37.620 that will soon

01:10:38.320 disappear.

01:10:40.060 What?

01:10:41.860 Will soon

01:10:42.760 disappear?

01:10:44.760 So this is

01:10:45.840 Putin's right-hand

01:10:47.080 person

01:10:47.660 who says that

01:10:49.300 Ukraine will 0.90

01:10:50.220 soon disappear?

01:10:52.440 That really

01:10:53.320 doesn't sound like

01:10:54.180 somebody who wants

01:10:54.860 a peace deal

01:10:55.620 in which Ukraine

01:10:57.800 thrives,

01:10:58.840 and they just

01:10:59.640 keep the stuff

01:11:00.340 they've already

01:11:00.820 taken.

01:11:02.920 That,

01:11:03.560 doesn't that feel

01:11:04.440 like he's revealing

01:11:05.360 a little bit more

01:11:06.240 than he was supposed

01:11:07.000 to reveal?

01:11:08.560 I mean,

01:11:09.240 if you say

01:11:09.800 that the nation

01:11:10.480 will soon

01:11:10.960 disappear,

01:11:12.340 aren't you

01:11:12.860 kind of saying

01:11:13.640 that Putin's 0.51

01:11:14.800 plan is to

01:11:15.640 take the rest

01:11:16.280 of Ukraine?

01:11:17.820 And if that

01:11:18.860 is the plan,

01:11:20.780 why is he mad

01:11:21.780 about the

01:11:22.520 mineral deal

01:11:23.600 unless

01:11:24.900 the mineral

01:11:26.860 deal

01:11:27.320 is a good

01:11:29.500 strategy?

01:11:30.080 so I was

01:11:33.340 kind of

01:11:33.700 criticizing the

01:11:34.660 mineral deal

01:11:35.300 as too

01:11:36.000 weak,

01:11:37.180 meaning that

01:11:37.860 it wouldn't

01:11:38.260 stop Russia 0.96

01:11:39.360 from doing

01:11:39.900 anything.

01:11:41.560 But maybe it

01:11:42.540 isn't.

01:11:43.840 Maybe it

01:11:44.300 isn't.

01:11:45.220 Because if the

01:11:46.380 second,

01:11:47.220 if the right-hand

01:11:48.020 person of

01:11:48.880 Putin,

01:11:50.100 you know,

01:11:50.320 somebody that

01:11:50.820 close to Putin,

01:11:52.220 feels that he

01:11:53.380 needs to

01:11:53.900 criticize the

01:11:54.760 deal,

01:11:55.160 that means

01:11:56.760 the deal

01:11:57.320 has some

01:11:58.000 importance.

01:11:59.440 And it

01:12:00.020 means that

01:12:00.480 Russia is 0.79

01:12:01.160 saying,

01:12:01.620 oh,

01:12:01.900 crap,

01:12:03.440 this is

01:12:04.220 going to

01:12:04.400 make it

01:12:04.720 harder for

01:12:05.300 us to

01:12:05.680 disappear

01:12:06.220 Ukraine.

01:12:06.820 So I'm

01:12:09.820 going to

01:12:11.300 tentatively

01:12:11.860 revise my

01:12:13.020 opinion about

01:12:13.820 the mineral

01:12:15.080 deal.

01:12:15.880 Now,

01:12:16.320 we don't

01:12:16.600 know if

01:12:17.020 it'll

01:12:17.300 translate

01:12:18.000 into

01:12:18.400 actual

01:12:18.840 money

01:12:19.560 and

01:12:20.020 mining

01:12:21.060 and,

01:12:22.060 you know,

01:12:22.320 we don't

01:12:23.480 know if

01:12:23.760 it'll

01:12:23.980 actually

01:12:24.300 economically

01:12:24.940 work yet.

01:12:26.060 But

01:12:26.500 politically,

01:12:27.540 it looks

01:12:29.020 like it's

01:12:29.380 already

01:12:29.660 working.

01:12:30.580 Because if

01:12:31.460 Russia hates 0.94

01:12:32.220 it,

01:12:33.780 that feels

01:12:34.900 like it's

01:12:35.340 on target.

01:12:36.820 If Russia 0.80

01:12:37.540 didn't care

01:12:38.180 one way

01:12:38.680 or the

01:12:38.940 other,

01:12:39.460 then I

01:12:39.740 would have

01:12:39.940 said,

01:12:40.180 well,

01:12:40.460 see,

01:12:41.760 you know,

01:12:42.060 it was

01:12:42.380 irrelevant.

01:12:43.980 But apparently

01:12:44.880 it is

01:12:45.300 relevant.

01:12:46.420 So if

01:12:47.020 it bothers

01:12:47.460 Russia,

01:12:49.300 maybe it's

01:12:50.120 right on

01:12:51.300 point.

01:12:54.000 Well,

01:12:54.560 according to

01:12:55.060 Newsmax,

01:12:55.900 there are

01:12:56.400 riots in

01:12:57.220 China over 0.98

01:12:57.980 the tariffs

01:12:59.860 causing them

01:13:00.600 to close

01:13:01.160 factories and

01:13:02.080 people not

01:13:02.600 getting paychecks

01:13:03.560 and people

01:13:04.120 laid off.

01:13:04.800 So there are

01:13:07.560 riots and

01:13:08.120 mass protests

01:13:09.020 spreading across

01:13:09.900 China.

01:13:11.200 Now,

01:13:11.780 as I've

01:13:12.480 told you

01:13:12.880 before,

01:13:13.520 every time

01:13:14.240 I see a

01:13:15.500 story about

01:13:16.140 China's 0.76

01:13:16.700 economy,

01:13:17.700 whether it's

01:13:18.540 these factory

01:13:19.960 closing and

01:13:20.900 riots happening,

01:13:22.740 I eventually

01:13:24.920 learned that

01:13:25.940 it was

01:13:27.300 hyperbole

01:13:28.000 and that

01:13:29.560 China is 0.85

01:13:30.520 surviving just

01:13:31.480 fine.

01:13:31.820 so I

01:13:33.580 don't know

01:13:33.960 if this

01:13:34.340 is real

01:13:34.820 yet.

01:13:36.820 Goldman Sachs

01:13:38.060 estimates as

01:13:38.840 many as

01:13:39.280 16 million

01:13:40.020 jobs could

01:13:40.740 be lost

01:13:41.160 in China.

01:13:42.660 Again,

01:13:43.500 is that

01:13:43.980 enough to

01:13:44.620 make them

01:13:45.160 change

01:13:45.940 path?

01:13:47.420 Is 16

01:13:48.200 million jobs

01:13:49.220 in the

01:13:50.200 context of

01:13:51.520 China having 0.97

01:13:52.940 an iron

01:13:54.100 fist,

01:13:55.040 does that

01:13:55.700 make a

01:13:56.000 difference?

01:13:57.720 We'll see.

01:13:58.740 But China

01:14:00.540 does seem

01:14:01.160 to have

01:14:01.580 been easing

01:14:03.280 up on

01:14:04.160 its rhetoric

01:14:04.700 at the

01:14:05.600 same time

01:14:06.220 that allegedly

01:14:07.220 they're getting

01:14:08.540 all this

01:14:09.000 economic

01:14:09.580 pressure.

01:14:11.060 So

01:14:11.180 apparently

01:14:11.600 China is 0.85

01:14:14.400 quote

01:14:14.740 evaluating

01:14:16.020 an offer

01:14:17.080 from Washington.

01:14:18.260 This is

01:14:18.820 from Reuters.

01:14:20.420 So they

01:14:21.300 say that

01:14:21.840 Beijing is

01:14:22.900 evaluating an

01:14:23.840 offer from

01:14:24.600 Washington to

01:14:26.100 hold talks

01:14:26.820 over the

01:14:27.720 tariffs.

01:14:28.740 China's 0.76

01:14:31.120 commerce

01:14:31.740 ministry

01:14:32.320 said on

01:14:32.780 Friday,

01:14:33.860 although it

01:14:34.420 warned the

01:14:34.760 United States

01:14:35.320 not to

01:14:35.780 engage in

01:14:36.480 quote extortion

01:14:37.560 and coercion. 0.98

01:14:39.960 And that at

01:14:40.380 the same time

01:14:41.140 China was 0.98

01:14:41.760 kind of

01:14:42.080 quietly

01:14:42.460 exempting

01:14:43.200 a bunch

01:14:44.720 of U.S.

01:14:45.380 imports

01:14:45.840 from tariffs.

01:14:47.940 So

01:14:48.260 quietly

01:14:49.680 they're taking

01:14:50.900 some of the

01:14:51.520 tariff pressure 0.51

01:14:52.260 off on the

01:14:53.580 important stuff

01:14:54.420 like pharma,

01:14:55.740 et cetera.

01:14:57.040 And

01:14:57.680 in terms of

01:14:59.420 their rhetoric

01:15:00.120 all they're

01:15:01.660 really asking

01:15:02.360 is that we

01:15:03.540 stop saying

01:15:04.460 aggressive

01:15:05.160 things about

01:15:06.080 them.

01:15:07.440 And Trump

01:15:08.360 is.

01:15:09.420 I think

01:15:10.000 Trump is

01:15:10.540 doing his

01:15:10.960 usual thing

01:15:11.600 where he

01:15:11.940 starts out

01:15:12.520 you're bad,

01:15:13.620 you're bad,

01:15:14.300 you're little

01:15:15.080 rocket man.

01:15:15.780 And then

01:15:17.240 as soon as

01:15:18.020 things start

01:15:18.580 going in

01:15:19.180 more of a

01:15:19.760 well you

01:15:20.300 know we

01:15:20.560 could be

01:15:21.000 friends

01:15:21.440 direction

01:15:22.460 then he

01:15:23.740 stops that

01:15:24.400 rhetoric

01:15:24.700 and now

01:15:26.280 you're his

01:15:26.660 best friend.

01:15:28.360 So what I

01:15:28.920 would expect

01:15:29.660 is that

01:15:30.580 Trump's

01:15:32.000 rhetoric

01:15:32.360 will very

01:15:33.080 quickly

01:15:33.600 assuming that

01:15:35.220 China stays 1.00

01:15:36.060 cool

01:15:36.540 and so far

01:15:38.060 the suggestion

01:15:38.880 is that

01:15:40.020 they're going

01:15:40.340 to stay

01:15:40.700 cool because

01:15:41.320 they need a

01:15:42.580 deal too

01:15:43.180 right?

01:15:43.680 They need to

01:15:44.160 get past

01:15:44.640 us if

01:15:45.800 they stay

01:15:46.360 cool.

01:15:47.880 I think

01:15:48.120 Trump is

01:15:49.380 going to

01:15:49.660 change all

01:15:50.220 the way

01:15:50.580 from his

01:15:52.620 really bad

01:15:55.600 rhetoric about

01:15:56.380 China and

01:15:57.480 it's suddenly

01:15:57.980 going to go

01:15:58.540 to President

01:15:59.860 Xi is very

01:16:00.700 smart.

01:16:02.680 He knows

01:16:03.680 that he

01:16:04.500 can make a

01:16:05.040 better deal

01:16:05.640 that's good

01:16:06.180 for China.

01:16:08.040 He sure

01:16:08.480 knows how

01:16:09.440 to run a

01:16:09.880 country and

01:16:11.660 that's when

01:16:13.060 you know

01:16:13.400 there will be

01:16:13.840 a deal.

01:16:15.600 So

01:16:15.960 this stuff

01:16:17.620 that the

01:16:19.180 Trump critics

01:16:20.220 call

01:16:20.660 chaos,

01:16:23.920 how many

01:16:25.120 times do

01:16:25.600 you have to

01:16:25.960 see the

01:16:26.340 chaos work

01:16:27.320 before you

01:16:29.460 understand that

01:16:30.420 he tells you

01:16:31.480 in advance

01:16:32.200 that being

01:16:33.520 unpredictable

01:16:34.260 is his

01:16:35.180 technique

01:16:35.740 and then you

01:16:37.200 watch it

01:16:37.860 and you can

01:16:39.380 label it

01:16:39.960 chaos all day

01:16:40.800 long if you

01:16:41.380 want but it

01:16:42.740 works and

01:16:44.660 it looks like

01:16:45.320 it's working

01:16:45.900 again.

01:16:47.560 So we'll

01:16:48.800 see.

01:16:49.620 I don't think

01:16:50.620 it's an accident

01:16:51.340 that the stock

01:16:52.200 market is looking

01:16:53.060 stronger than

01:16:53.900 people expected

01:16:54.740 because I think

01:16:56.160 the stock market

01:16:57.000 is saying you

01:16:57.640 know what I

01:16:59.180 think there's a

01:16:59.880 pretty good

01:17:00.600 chance that

01:17:02.200 China is going 0.98

01:17:03.020 to you know

01:17:03.760 get the rhetoric

01:17:04.920 it wants

01:17:05.600 because things

01:17:06.400 just calm down

01:17:07.280 over time

01:17:07.920 and then

01:17:09.580 they're going

01:17:09.940 to say

01:17:10.280 all right

01:17:10.860 now we're

01:17:11.700 we can

01:17:12.460 negotiate as

01:17:13.300 peers and

01:17:14.700 we won't

01:17:15.180 negotiate like

01:17:16.260 we're being

01:17:16.640 blackmailed and

01:17:18.200 maybe we can

01:17:18.840 get something

01:17:19.340 done now.

01:17:20.000 We'll see.

01:17:21.480 We shall

01:17:22.280 see.

01:17:23.440 All right

01:17:23.840 that's what I

01:17:24.300 got for you

01:17:24.760 today ladies

01:17:25.760 and gentlemen

01:17:26.380 I'm going to

01:17:27.340 talk to the

01:17:27.920 locals people

01:17:28.800 privately if

01:17:29.760 all my

01:17:30.160 technology works

01:17:31.360 and the rest

01:17:32.260 of you thanks

01:17:32.900 for joining.

01:17:33.500 I will see you

01:17:34.100 same time

01:17:34.620 same place

01:17:35.360 tomorrow

01:17:36.500 and we'll

01:17:37.480 have some

01:17:37.800 more fun.

01:17:39.240 All right

01:17:39.380 locals let's

01:17:41.020 see if I can

01:17:41.740 go private

01:17:43.020 with.

01:18:05.360 Bye.

01:18:35.360 Thank you.

01:19:05.360 Thank you.

01:19:35.360 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 02, 2025

Episode 2827 CWSA 05⧸02⧸25

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