00:07:44.500you're muted erica you're on mute it's china they muted her hi okay so let's chat about this
00:07:52.500really quick one reason i wanted you to read that is because i'm obsessed that he calls him tim apple
00:07:58.080so that's amazing and um and he he's done that several times which is fun and it's you know
00:08:04.300it's like his little nickname for him um but wow so i'm i'm nervous because i keep saying people
00:08:12.580say that they're nervous about this trip and his safety so you know a sitting president hasn't been
00:08:18.420to china in a decade and the last time a president went to china was president trump so um why is
00:08:25.720everybody nervous i'm nervous because they're nervous and i'm nervous because all of these like
00:08:31.500massive ceos are going which i'm wondering is that also for protection for trump i don't know
00:08:37.180so can we just riff about this for a minute do you guys have an opinion on why people are nervous is
00:08:43.120it just because i mean i don't think they're nervous but i could be wrong no i'm hearing
00:08:51.820people like news people and and talking heads saying that they're worried for his safety and
00:08:57.720they're nervous about the trip and then i saw like glenn beck was like oh i just don't have
00:09:01.520a good feeling about this i'm i'm worried about his safety i'm like what is happening why is
00:09:06.380everyone's saying that. So I'm glad a lot of you aren't nervous.
00:09:10.280I mean, China is an adversarial nation. We obviously have this sort of, you know,
00:09:15.420cooperation, but also competition and that they are considered, I think, by most people,
00:09:21.100one of our biggest military threats. And, you know, Trump is this unique figure where it would
00:09:27.320make a huge difference to how the United States does foreign policy, potentially, if Trump was
00:09:33.420killed and so you know i can understand why people would be worried i can understand especially
00:09:39.760people like glenn beck who obviously would be very we shouldn't be there at all um but i you0.54
00:09:47.920know i think i i don't see a lot of risk i don't think it's likely that china would do anything or
00:09:53.580allow anything to happen just because you know it would clearly potentially result in world war0.64
00:09:58.780three if it did and it would be a huge disruption and bad for them and bad for us so i personally
00:10:04.100am not overly concerned from a safety perspective but i can totally understand that you know you're
00:10:09.000in a foreign country you don't know how friendly they are to us and um you know potentially they
00:10:15.640could have some kind of other agenda in place but i i personally would not be too worried about
00:10:21.340something happening there i mean he's gone even into places like north korea before and i mean
00:10:25.220that that was some a place where we thought we were about to go to war when he started and he
00:10:29.960did that and um so you know trump is clearly not you know having any fear about these things and i
00:10:36.540think um i'm expecting it will go smoothly um i did see some of the lefties and and reporters
00:10:43.640apparently saying that he couldn't walk when he got off the plane but clearly i saw him walking
00:10:47.800so i don't think that's true didn't we just walk and he went down the stairs too right so yeah
00:10:53.700yeah carried him yeah um yeah the thing that i wanted to talk about all the fake news
00:11:01.460god marcella the thing i wanted to talk about is that bill o'reilly was on chris como and i think
00:11:06.900some of you guys watched it um that yesterday he had um i don't know bill what connections he has
00:11:14.500in china but he said that the chinese want to talk to trump obviously trump is going to talk
00:11:19.700about iran and the chinese want to help trump with iran and as we know iran and china have a good
00:11:28.980like a solid uh trade partnership um and what basically bill reilly was saying is that in
00:11:38.500in exchange for talking to iran or you know playing peacemaker china that they want to
00:11:46.180talk about taiwan and that would be the exchange so i i don't know how far they want to go with
00:11:53.540taiwan but uh that's what bill reported so i don't know we'll see good well there's a lot of people
00:12:02.180there that i think will be rooting for you know taiwan for jimmy live for all those things i hope
00:12:09.540i hope we pray and by the way speaking of jimmy lie you guys thank you so so much i was talking
00:12:15.700I was talking to a couple of friends yesterday and saying like, oh my God, I'm so excited when I go on X. Like so many people that were on the show are reposting about Jimmy Lai. Maybe some of you watched the documentary, but I just want to say thank you so much. Even if you already knew about him and his plight, thank you so much for amplifying that message. It really meant a lot to me personally. So I appreciate you guys.
00:12:41.640Um, I don't want to forget you guys don't think I'm slipping. I'm having an off day, but I'm not
00:12:48.760slipping, slipping. Um, I just want to give you one quick animal update because we need to just
00:12:54.600quick do like a little palate cleanser. Cause we were just like whacked at the beginning.
00:12:58.760Um, I just want to show you my little punchy, my little punch monkey. For those of you who know,
00:13:03.860he's a macaque monkey in Japan. He's getting so big and look at him, you know, testing his limits
00:13:13.300with a bigger macaque. He's like, ah, I won't really hit you, but I could, but I won't.
00:13:23.060And now the older one's like, uh, yeah, listen, kid, look how he like digs his feet in. I love it.
00:13:55.260of what the reflection pool looked like.
00:13:58.520Okay. Look how gross. This isn't our nation's capital, right? It's supposed to be reflecting0.98
00:14:05.480the buildings and be like beautiful and whatever. It's disgusting. So this was after Obama's,0.99
00:14:14.020I think $34 million renovation, $34 million renovation. And look at, you're going to indulge
00:14:23.180us all with this clip so this is from cnn there's plenty to take pictures of in downtown washington
00:14:29.540dc the lincoln memorial the world war ii memorial and then there's this folks snapping photos of
00:14:36.260the reflecting pool it's really sludgy up this end and what's in it it's disgusting it doesn't
00:14:41.740it's not right algae it's like smells like wet dog down here you know when my dog came home from
00:14:46.680the stream you always smell like this and it's gross the lincoln memorial reflecting pool reopened
00:14:51.840at the end of August to great fanfare after a $34 million renovation that lasted nearly two years.
00:14:58.520But less than a month later, the famous pool of water is full of algae. Algae are simple organisms
00:15:05.000that thrive in areas where there is heat and sunlight. You have plenty of that here.
00:15:10.200The water may not look great, but it doesn't pose a health or safety hazard. It's really just
00:15:15.760the yuck factor. If it's sunny, if it's really warm, it will rise to the top. So on some days,
00:15:22.960depending on the weather, you will see algae at the top. And it looks like small islands of algae.
00:15:29.400But why has algae suddenly become a problem? The reflecting pool was renovated to fix cracks and
00:15:35.160leaks, but it also included installing a system to draw water from the nearby tidal basin into
00:15:40.400the pool instead of using city drinking water algae naturally grows in the tidal basin plus
00:15:46.400the renovated pool holds less water that shallow depth is a perfect condition for algae to grow
00:15:52.400a bit of an embarrassment for the park service it's really a shame that they hadn't planned
00:15:56.960out this a little bit better so you wouldn't have algae growing after uh after all this time and
00:16:02.400money the reflecting pool is not reflecting it's nasty much of anything lisa sylvester cnn
00:16:10.400so i just found that interesting i just found that interesting um and you know and for those
00:16:20.680of you that are like oh it's a waste of money just like the ballroom just no it's not it's not
00:16:25.640you know it's like your your forward face how are you representing yourself in your capital
00:16:32.740i think that's money well spent um i think it should look beautiful i think it should be
00:16:38.880completely safe and beautiful in our nation's capital. So that, that I like to see. I'd like
00:16:45.340my potholes filled and other things to happen too, but I have no issue with us looking like
00:16:52.180a, I don't know, like the country people apparently look up to. So they're going to
00:16:57.660come here and see that crap. So I have no issue with that. And you know, who else doesn't have1.00
00:17:02.380an issue with that our one sane democrat john fetterman i just want to tell you so there was
00:17:09.500an article in on the i want to say on the hill in the hill um so he just said uh john fetterman
00:17:18.900said stop this hen pecking 13 million this is an iconic american place and was in serious disrepair
00:17:26.000fetterman said on the social platform x sharing a screenshot of the headline for the time story
00:17:31.460get over the tds and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th uh trump earlier on tuesday
00:17:38.960blasted the outlets reporting accusing the times of justifying former president obama and biden's
00:17:44.880expensively botched attempt at fixing the long broken unsightly and unsanitary reflecting pool
00:17:49.680that now sits majestically between the washington monument and the lincoln memorial um trump ordered
00:17:57.080the project to coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary with the completion slated by July
00:18:03.5004th. And then, of course, an education and advocacy organization, however, filed a lawsuit
00:18:10.020last week. The Cultural Landscape Foundation and its founder, Charles Birnbaum, said the project
00:18:16.360violates environmental and preservation laws. They accused the administration of altering the
00:18:22.020historic character of the reflecting pool without following congressional mandatory procedure.
00:18:27.080This latest desecration of the reflecting pool is part of a pattern, you know, and also because they destroyed the East Wing.
00:18:37.020President Trump has done more to make our nation's capital a shining beacon than any other president in the history of this country, an Interior Department spokesperson previously told The Hill.
00:18:47.700So, yeah, get over it. You know, we don't need to have sludgy ponds and teeny tiny rooms and then put up a, you know, install a temporary tent to hold state dinners and galas in America. So that's where my harsh opinion on that. So, Marcella, I'm going to come to you first on this. Are you are you crying in your soup over this?
00:19:10.460you know thank god that we have trump and then he is able to correct this uh debacle of a city
00:19:20.040because the crime was out of control um everything i've been to dc i did not walk around at night
00:19:27.680because it was very dangerous when i went um i mean the the democrats complain about trump
00:19:34.960wasting money but as you showed in the clip there was 34 million dollars to get a swamp in there
00:19:42.100you know so it kind of reflects the politics of the democrats the the reflecting pool right um
00:19:51.100i i just think it's not marcella the reflecting pool one reflects the swamp and one's gonna
00:52:44.360It just shows that the Democrats are willing to do anything to get power.
00:52:47.340They'll change whatever rules they have.
00:52:49.060I mean, it reminds me of all the stuff they did with Trump where they changed the law
00:52:53.400just temporarily just so they could get that E.J. Carroll or whatever her name was.
00:52:58.280And I don't remember the name, but the, you know, the person who E. Jean Carroll and you know, but that was like so transparent that they were like, okay, we'll just change whatever rule we have to, to screw Trump. And even if it has to be temporary, because we know we don't really want this rule. We just want it temporarily in place for, for getting Trump. They're willing to do it. They were, they were willing to just throw everything out the window just to try and fight him.
00:53:23.520and um you know i think this is another example of that where they're just willing to do whatever0.96
00:53:28.840they have to to gain power marcella but you know when i see them as dumb evil villains you know
00:53:35.620like they're planning all these things then they try to do all these things but at the end it never0.86
00:53:39.640works out for them just like they were trying to do the virginia thing and it didn't work out for
00:53:44.280them. They tried to do the EJ, whatever name is, Carol. And, you know, the president, Trump is
00:53:53.980president. So they always try all these things and then it always backfires. So I always think of it
00:54:00.240as a little bit cartoonish. I guess the simulation showing, I mean, to me, it's let's let them try
00:54:07.780They'll never get, they'll never, they will never win in the end.