00:00:04.000Today, we have an action-packed hour here where we break down all the ways in which Michael Cohen has had a very bad couple of days: how his testimony doesn't line up, what other witnesses are saying about him, and why it's all a sham trial brought against Donald Trump simply because his name is Donald Trump.
00:00:23.000Then we break down the inflation numbers that just hit today.
00:00:31.000We sit down with Scott Besant, who is being floated as a possible Treasury Secretary under President Trump, should he win in November, who's also the CEO and founder of Key Square Group, who, by the way, has a history with George Soros.
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00:04:17.000But it's much more difficult to follow along since there isn't recorded video of each of these interactions.
00:04:24.000But Michael Cohen is currently on the witness stand.
00:04:27.000He's getting crossed by Trump's attorneys.
00:04:31.000But yesterday was the first time that the prosecution had a chance to go over all of their case with Michael Cohen, the so-called star witness.
00:04:42.000This guy has had a rough couple of days.
00:04:45.000Witness after witness apparently just detests this human being.
00:04:52.000You've got media reports saying he was sweaty, he was nervous, and everything felt overly rehearsed.
00:05:01.000And there might be a good reason for why it was so rehearsed.
00:05:05.000The prosecution realized that they have a dirtbag, a scumbag on the stand, a convicted perjurer, and nothing can go wrong.
00:05:13.000So this was literally canned answer after canned answer as if he knew the exact answer he was supposed to give verbatim each time the prosecution would ask him a question.
00:05:24.000And, you know, that there might be a really good reason for that.
00:07:39.000I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David, you know, so that I'm going to do that right away.
00:07:50.000Actually, come up to me, and I've spoken to Alan Weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding.
00:09:21.000There's a few other, there's a few other details here that are worth covering.
00:09:25.000The prosecution tried to link payments, alleged payments to Karen McDougall to Stormy Daniels, to the Stormy Daniels, to establish a pattern of activity.
00:09:36.000But it turns out there was never any payments to McDougal that were ever made.
00:09:42.000Then the timeline, the timeline's all over the place.
00:09:45.000The evidence proves that Trump, the Trump camp knew about the Stormy Daniels extortion attempt well before the campaign ever kicked off.
00:09:54.000So before Trump came down the golden escalator.
00:09:58.000And then the reimbursement payments were not made until well after the 2016 election.
00:10:05.000And by the way, they were not made from campaign accounts, which is the whole allegation here, at least as we can understand it.
00:10:11.000Nobody seems to know what the actual crime is because he's not been convicted for a federal crime.
00:10:17.000Then there's this, which I think should be the entire kit and caboodle.
00:10:21.000Cohen has stated now on the stand that the payment was lawful and not a campaign contribution.
00:10:28.000Doesn't this end the case right there?
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00:12:16.000So, first of all, I learned a lot from being in there in person.
00:12:19.000It is one of the most depressing places I have been in my life, but it is fitting because the only thing more depressing than the environment of that courtroom is what's actually happening in there.
00:12:29.000The prosecution's main strategy appears to be to bore the jurors into submission.
00:12:34.000And if you look in that direction, sadly, it may appear to actually be working.
00:12:39.000Now, I would like for anybody, anybody here in the press, anybody at home, anybody in MSNBC or the media afterwards, to clearly state what exactly is the crime that Donald Trump committed.
00:13:19.000I think everybody that is supporting this president that has a national platform should make a pilgrimage over to New York, get behind President Trump, show them that the people are behind him.
00:13:58.000It's hard to keep up with all these details, but the details are important because time and time again, they reveal that this is a sham kangaroo court.
00:14:05.000And to quote Vivek right there, it's Kafka-esque.
00:14:09.000The key thing here is to emphasize the kangaroo nature of this court itself.
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00:18:52.000Now, Scott, I am going to get to the inflation news, but I was looking through your bio, and, you know, I'd heard so much over the years about George Soros and how he shorted Sterling.
00:19:06.000And it was like, you know, this, this, you know, I mean, it's big story when you're talking about George Soros, who's become such a boogeyman in our political discourse these days.
00:19:16.000He's one of the biggest funders of far-left causes.
00:19:23.000But, you know, I think what's fascinating is that of three CIOs, one is also a very large Trump donor, and one is one of the largest Republican Senate donors.
00:19:39.000So, You know, we've seen the machine for the inside, and you know, we know what it is.
00:20:19.000Look, you know, what they call team transitory, that it's just a complete breakdown in analysis.
00:20:27.000And let's go back to the original sin and then get to where we are now.
00:20:33.000This was a choice that the Biden administration made.
00:20:37.000They wanted to spend, spend, spend, and somehow, you know, have magical thinking that this wouldn't lead to inflation.
00:20:47.000And, look, that maybe we could make the case that the original $2 trillion with a T, the CARES Act, you know, during COVID, nobody really knew what was happening.
00:21:21.000But this just set off the great inflation.
00:21:25.000And between the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, they've inflicted this on the American people.
00:21:32.000And I think a good way for your viewers to think about it is if we rewind to under President Trump, why did we have strong non-inflationary growth?
00:21:48.000So the Trump tax cuts were a private sector solution and they caused the upward demand shock, but it was met by the supply response of deregulation.
00:24:04.000His everyman basket, which is just things that people have to have, groceries, insurance, auto, that's up 28%.
00:24:13.000So, you know, like this is why, you know, Americans are in a crunch.
00:24:19.000And, you know, I know like a lot of your audience are younger people.
00:24:26.000And younger people are really in this bind too.
00:24:31.000I'm sure you've seen the surveys of people under 40 think that they'll never be able to own a home and or people are having to go under their credit cards to just finance living expenses.
00:24:49.000And actually, I think, you know, we've seen some interesting polling data this election cycle, Scott.
00:24:56.000We've seen that actually Trump is up with young people.
00:25:00.000And we have a great Van Jones clip, actually, Ryan, if you could flag that for me, where he says the reason that young people are actually polling more negatively towards Biden right now than before is largely because they're struggling with pocket book issues as well.
00:25:26.000So if, you know, when you look at the way boomers, boomers are actually soft for Trump as opposed to previous elections, which is causing a lot of people to scratch their heads.
00:25:35.000I'm having a lot of offline conversations about why are boomers a little soft this time with Trump.
00:25:40.000Well, Joe Biden keeps saying the economy's working just fine.
00:25:43.000We have the best economy in the world.
00:25:44.000Well, if you're an incumbent, meaning if you're of a certain age with a certain asset portfolio and your assets are inflating along with the economy, you're richer than ever.
00:25:57.000Meanwhile, those that are trying to get into the financial upward ladder of success, namely buying a home, buying assets, private equity, stocks, bonds, whatever, they're getting ring-fenced out of this economy.
00:26:11.000And it's, I'm telling you, Scott, if you want to sow the seeds of societal chaos, then you just make sure a whole generation has no stake in the economy of your country.
00:26:21.000Yeah, Andrew, I couldn't agree with you more.
00:26:23.000And look, you know, your generation's gotten, I teach, I used to teach economic history at Yale.
00:26:30.000So I've studied how these things happen.
00:26:34.000And your generation's gotten a bum deal.
00:26:37.000And when I see these surveys on, you know, like, how do young people feel about capitalism?
00:26:42.000How do they, you know, there's like, you know, a core group who are patriots and believers, but it's easy to see people get discouraged.
00:26:51.000And you couldn't be more right is the top 20% of income and asset owners in America have never done better, never done better.
00:27:04.000And I like your phraseology, incumbents, because in Joe Biden's America, there are two kinds of people.
00:27:13.000There are people with assets and people without assets and debt.
00:27:20.000And the asset inflation that we've gotten, that's driven by the Federal Reserve and Treasury spend, spin, spend and propping up asset prices.
00:27:33.000But as a result of propping up the asset prices, they've had to keep interest rates high and inflation stayed high.
00:27:41.000So, you know, I'm just so tired of hearing, you know, the Paul Krugmans, the Allen Blinders, the Greg Ip in the Wall Street Journal saying, you know, Americans don't understand how good they have it.
00:28:05.000Good times are rolling is, but everybody else, whether it's interest cost, is, I don't know if you've seen these statistics, is average car payment is up 80%.
00:32:48.000What is that doing to average working Americans?
00:32:51.000What is that influx of cheap labor doing?
00:32:56.000Look, you know, it's interesting now that Jerome Powell is saying that it's helping keep wages down because for 10, 15 years, this selective academic research said that somehow the only market in the world where supply and demand don't work, where the laws of supply and demand are suspended,
00:33:24.000is the U.S. labor market related to immigration.
00:33:28.000Of course, more supply pushes down wages.
00:33:32.000And, you know, what Chair Powell, in an amazing piece of sophistry there, is saying is, yes, it's pushing up the economic growth, but Americans shouldn't care about economic growth.
00:33:48.000What we care about is per capita economic growth.
00:33:53.000So per capita and per household economic growth is dropping.
00:34:00.000So, you know, this is low quality growth.
00:34:03.000And I just keep going back to the, you know, could you imagine what low end wages would be doing under President Trump's immigration policies?
00:34:15.000And, you know, when he said there's a labor shortage, I guarantee you at the proper salary level, people would come running back into the workforce, running back into the workforce.
00:34:28.000But, you know, they always say, well, the jobs that Americans don't want to do is what gets taken up.
00:34:35.000You know, it's jobs that are price, you know, maybe not at $10 an hour, maybe, maybe not at $15, but at $25.
00:34:59.000I mean, all of my family did jobs that so-called Americans don't want to do.
00:35:03.000And what kind of message does that send to a whole generation, by the way?
00:35:06.000I just, from a moral standpoint, I'm not even talking economics here, where we tell a whole generation of Americans, you don't do those jobs.
00:35:45.000But this disorderly, the chaotic situation at the border, I actually think is backfiring on the, you know, it is making average Americans anti-immigration.
00:36:02.000And I think all of us are in favor of people who follow the rules.
00:36:06.000You know, I just brought in, you know, it's incredible.
00:36:10.000Eight or nine years ago, I brought in my French mother-in-law.
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