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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, July 13, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9046.
	This is no agenda.
	Dodging selfie sticks and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet in the capital of Gitmo Nation Renaissance Man in Florence, Italy.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I get better reception than he does, and I got glassware all over the studio, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's BlackBot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Better reception?
	Yeah.
	What do you mean, better reception?
	Better reception.
	Okay.
	I don't know what's going on.
	We have weird sounds going on here in Florence.
	I've got high-pitched whines in the background.
	I don't know what's going on.
	We'll just have to live with it.
	Yeah, well, I wonder if the chat room thinks you're coming in as poorly as you're coming in here, but it's okay.
	Well, it's not okay.
	It's not okay.
	Well, now you're coming in great.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, there you go.
	It's perfect.
	Who knows what's going on?
	Yes, John, here I am in Florence, Italy.
	Could not be more downtown in Firenze.
	Oh, good.
	No, it's not good because I think actually because I'm here right downtown, there's just electrical signals everywhere.
	If you look out the window, there's wires strung all over the streets.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what the Italians do.
	They haven't gone to the underground cabling yet in Florence.
	No, I don't think they'll ever go to that.
	There's just tons of electrical bits and bobs.
	What an interesting place Florence is.
	Okay.
	Have you ever been?
	No, I've never been to Florence.
	I've always wanted to go because everyone says, oh, you've got to go to Florence because if you like art, every time you turn around, there's art.
	It's the town of art.
	Yeah, well, no.
	I would say if you want to go to Florence, book two days exactly.
	No more, no less.
	Okay.
	Now, we're here for a couple of reasons.
	One is, of course, my sister.
	Wait, stop.
	You can't say something like that.
	I'm going to explain.
	I'm going to explain that, but I have to give a little background.
	The reason we're here is my sister lives outside of town in Florence, and it was Tina's birthday.
	We're going to do a big birthday celebration, which I'll talk about later, perhaps.
	But of course, when you're in Florence, there are some great things to see.
	There is the Michelangelo's David, obviously, which is once you really see it, you really start to understand what the Renaissance was about, the Renaissance man, and just really how unbelievable the technology was back in the day.
	And I question what happened to all of that and why did it take so long for us to figure stuff out again.
	Then there's the dome, you know, the famous cathedral.
	Yes, the dome.
	I wanted to see that.
	That dome is famous.
	Yeah.
	And then there's about 8 million tourists with selfie sticks all walking around like frickin' retarded moron douche knuckle dick heads.
	It is horrendous.
	It's stupid.
	Oh, that's kind of art in itself.
	No, it's not.
	You have no...
	I mean, first of all, who decided that selfie sticks was still a thing here?
	It's crazy.
	And no one is present in what they're seeing.
	Everybody's just walking around with these damn selfie sticks.
	Oh, look!
	They're not actually looking at the art.
	No.
	They're looking at their screen of the art.
	Humanity is lost here.
	Lost.
	And besides that, they're only shopping.
	It's just shopping.
	It's like, oh, we have an H&M. Oh, yeah, let's go to H&M. Oh, I bought this wonderful USA t-shirt in Florence at the H&M. At H&M. It is disgusting.
	It is incredibly disappointing.
	Really, it is...
	That sounds amazing.
	I shouldn't go at all.
	You shouldn't...
	Well, it's...
	Again, just for a day, a day or two, just...
	Clearly to come and see...
	We didn't go up to the top of the dome, you know?
	Although we had plenty of opportunities to...
	Skip the line!
	Skip the line!
	John, it is so over-commercialized and the people...
	And it's just a million Asians.
	I'm not racist.
	Well, I wasn't.
	I am now.
	I'm totally racist.
	Chinese or Japanese?
	Who gives a crap?
	And they just walk around aimlessly.
	They walk around aimlessly and they stop just right in front of you.
	You're constantly bumping into people.
	I started body checking.
	I really did.
	You seem a little bit on edge.
	I am a little bit.
	It's also very warm.
	It's warmer than typical for this time of year.
	So all you see here, and I'm not kidding, besides the obvious, you want to go to the academy.
	That's where David is.
	The tours are pretty good.
	Did we talk about the touring system that they seem to have in Italy?
	Maybe it's just me that I've never seen this before.
	It used to be, you know, you'd have someone with an umbrella and they'd hold up the umbrella and you follow them and they'd tell you what's going on.
	Now the umbrella has been replaced by, oh yes, a selfie stick.
	Typically with a, you know, like a piece of pink underwear on top of it or some kind of, you know, recognizable scarf.
	And they hand out these little receivers to everybody.
	It's a little plastic, you know, it's a VHF receiver and you get a mono earpiece and then these tour guides Are the earpieces replaceable so you don't get somebody's ear waxing?
	And you don't have to give that back.
	You get that.
	But it's even cheaper than what you get in the airplane.
	Like, hey, would you like some headphones?
	The things that you say, no, thanks.
	I don't want those.
	I got my own headphones.
	So they give you those.
	And so it's almost like a wireless LAV transmit and receive system.
	So the tour guide will have their little lav microphone, which of course they're not going to put on their lav.
	No, they're going to talk right into it.
	And I will give you...
	I love that!
	I will give you a demonstration of how it sounds.
	Welcome, everybody.
	And so, of course, I walk up to the tour guide and I say, could you please remove it a little bit from your mind?
	You can change volume!
	Change volume!
	No, the problem is you're over-modulating a little bit.
	I had to teach a couple people.
	You can't use a lot.
	People do this.
	You see people do this at speaking events.
	They're dicking with their love, and they're moving it around, and then it falls off, and so they decide to grab it, hold it in front of their mouth, and talk into it as though it was like a regular microphone when it's not.
	That's exactly what I would say.
	Every tour guide I've seen was doing this, and they hold it up between their finger and their forefinger and their thumb, like...
	Won't they just give them a stick microphone?
	Well, that would make everything good.
	I mean, apparently they don't want everything to be good here.
	It's truly flabbergasting.
	The level of turismo that has taken hold of this town, and of course I don't know much about it, but I mean the streets are just...
	But you're right in the middle, right dead center in the middle.
	But there's nothing else here.
	There's nothing else to do.
	I mean, you are either in the center or you're not in the center.
	And if you're not in the center, then there's nothing there.
	And please, I want to make clear that to see Michelangelo's work and to see some of the unfinished work that they found in his atelier, it's stunningly beautiful.
	And even with the distorted tour guide sound, I learned a lot.
	I learned a lot of really interesting things about Michelangelo and really about the Renaissance and what David signifies.
	It was very, very interesting.
	But all the retarded morons who apparently are only here for gelato and Abercrombie and Fitch, it's killing me, man.
	It's killing me.
	And the selfie sticks, which of course are being sold by migrants.
	That's what they're doing here.
	There's your migrant problem.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	They sell selfie sticks and USB dongle, USB chargers.
	And the new thing apparently this year is...
	Lord knows why you'd come to Florence and buy one of these.
	It's like a blob and you throw the blob on the ground and it makes a noise.
	And then it splats out like a piece of goo and then it reassembles itself.
	It's one of these novelty things that you would find in the mall typically.
	That's what's being sold here.
	We went to the Ponte Vecchio, a very famous bridge.
	Hey.
	Yes?
	You have to bring me one of those back.
	No!
	I said, you got to bring me something back from Italy.
	You got it.
	He said, what did you get me?
	I said, I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	You just described the product I want.
	It's made in China.
	Well, I don't see them here.
	No.
	When you go to China, I should mention this as an aside, when you go to China and you're roaming around, you'll see all these vendors of junk like this, and a lot of it you've never seen before, and you go, wow, this would sell like hotcakes anyplace else.
	It's pathetic.
	I think you stumbled on one of them.
	It's really, but I mean, just, you can see that the people, the tourists, they're just not present.
	They are not looking...
	At anything, they are looking through their screens, and it's like, the only thing that appears important is to say, here I am, with my group, and we're in front of something.
	Click.
	Let's go take a look, make sure everybody look good.
	Oh, no, I didn't look so good.
	Okay, let's do it over again.
	There is no appreciation.
	This is, I'm telling you, John, retard central.
	Humanity is lost.
	I'm very, very disturbed by it.
	Eh.
	Eh.
	You know, people have been bitching about this same topic, only with different stylistic things to bitch about.
	Your stuff is all new to me, but I think this has always been the case with these tourists.
	Yeah.
	Probably, but it's so busy.
	It is just so busy.
	A couple of good things.
	We left Rome, we went from Rome, we took the high-speed train, which is reasonably high speed.
	It does about 250 kilometers an hour, which is faster than anything we have in the States, I think.
	I think.
	It was about 150, 150.
	No, well...
	I don't know.
	It's beside the point.
	Yeah.
	And that's a painless, a totally painless ride.
	A lot of fun.
	You get out here.
	Now, the cabs can come all the way down into the city center, but no other cars are allowed.
	And we got it at the Airbnb.
	I have to say, it's a beautiful Airbnb.
	All the romance, everything you want is here, except it's not really.
	Any restaurant you go to, it's so different compared to Rome.
	Rome, you turn a corner, there's something new.
	Rome is for more than just ruins and stuff.
	It's obviously, there's government there, there's all kinds of things that keep the country running for whatever that takes.
	But here, it's just, there's the dome, that's where David is, and here's the shopping.
	Oh, and it's tax-free, of course.
	You know what?
	It's like being in a huge airport tax-free shopping center.
	That's what Florence has become.
	People like buying stuff.
	And the selfie sticks.
	I just don't understand.
	I thought that was over.
	You are wrong.
	Very wrong.
	Very, very wrong.
	So anyway, we did see all the sights.
	We didn't go to the top of the dome.
	I mean, it's way too warm here.
	I think it's 95, 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
	So it's, yeah, you don't want to be standing in the line.
	Skip the line or not, you don't want to be standing anywhere too long.
	You just fry.
	And expensive.
	It's very expensive.
	How expensive is it?
	Are you talking about the dome itself or just the whole place?
	Just the whole place.
	Just food or just buying anything.
	Of course it is.
	All those tourists.
	Right.
	But you want Florence to be more than just a big tourist trap, and I'm sorry.
	It just kind of isn't.
	Go in November.
	Okay.
	Well, it didn't work out that way for us.
	Now, on the other hand, driving out to where Willow lives, and she and her husband cooked a typical Florence or Florentine dinner outside, the fire.
	We had the hills of Tuscany all around us.
	I mean, that was fantastic.
	Really, really amazingly beautiful.
	Which is one of the reasons we were here to celebrate Tina's birthday.
	And we had a really good time.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	And then tomorrow we pack up and we take off for Nice.
	Nice.
	Which presents its own little issues.
	I've looked at a million different ways to try and get from here to Nice.
	If you want to do it by train, you can go up to the border, pretty much to Genoa, and then you have to get an...
	It'll take you about 18 hours, so that's a non-starter.
	I was like, well, why don't I just drive?
	That should be easy.
	Yeah, the European Union hasn't quite figured out how to do one-way car rentals yet.
	So we could rent a car for one day for 3,000 euros.
	As long as I drop it off.
	If I drop it off anywhere in France.
	Yeah.
	You can't just get a one-way rental and drop it off at the same company's rental office in a different country.
	So that's a non-starter.
	Then there's one...
	It sucks.
	Yeah.
	Then there's one...
	Can you get one of those migrant boats after they drop the people off to take the crossings?
	I actually did look into ferry crossings, but that also takes eight hours.
	It's crazy.
	So the quickest way, which is only an hour and a half flight on Mistral Airlines.
	Oh yeah, wait for it.
	Then they have regulations about how, you know, we have regulations for baggage.
	In the States, we have it.
	It's 50 pounds.
	That's about 22 kilos.
	Not here, though.
	No.
	15 kilos is the weight you can have.
	You can take as many bags as you want to pay for, but they can't be over 15 kilos.
	So we have to buy, you know, we had to buy another suitcase to transfer stuff over.
	It's a little nightmarish in that regard.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Well, that stinks.
	Eh.
	Nah.
	I think we're having a good time.
	You know, I didn't...
	Just another little story.
	So I'm in, I think it was London, or one of these airports in Europe.
	And I had, because they have a weight limit that's a little different than the United States.
	I think it's typically 44 pounds or less.
	And so I've got my bag and I stick it on the thing and it's 48 pounds or 46 maybe.
	No service for you.
	And the guy says, no, no, no, you can't take this on.
	He says, this bag is no good.
	I said, hold on a second.
	And so I open the bag, take my laptop out, put it under my arm, put the bag back on.
	Good to go!
	He says, okay, good to go.
	I take the bag off the thing, put the laptop back in, and it gets put on.
	Off it goes.
	I know.
	Exactly.
	But there's a difference when you have 22 kilos, which we're a little bit under, but we're not 15 kilos.
	So I'm going to go buy a bag.
	It's very odd.
	Very, very odd the way some things are run here.
	So again, if you want to come to Florence, I highly recommend it.
	It's beautiful to see.
	But two days, and you've had it.
	Two days is more than enough.
	More than enough.
	You can kind of see everything you need to see.
	Sounds good.
	Yes.
	I have no trips planned.
	So I do have some Euro news.
	I've obviously been trolling a little bit of the, again, still we have not seen CNN or Fox or anything like this since we landed there.
	Well, what do you know?
	What do you know about the Donald Trump Jr.
	fiasco, which has taken over the news?
	Every single newscast starts and ends with Donald Trump Jr.
	Yes, yes.
	And I will say...
	Well, let me tell you what I know.
	And I do have a few clips that I picked up that I thought were interesting from an outsider's perspective of what I kind of got here.
	That's what I want, yeah.
	And this is maybe why you're hearing a little bit of extra frustration in my voice.
	Because really the only connection we have with what's going on in other news is the face bag.
	And...
	It has gotten...
	Now, there are people...
	You know, too.
	Aaron Bursell, Chris Bershears.
	I'll just mention a couple of names you know.
	And they are consistently, incessantly talking about Diaper Don, Fredo.
	They're all going to jail.
	They're unbelievable.
	He incriminated himself.
	And these are intelligent people, John.
	We know these guys.
	They're intelligent people.
	They have gone completely off the deep end.
	And it's depressing me.
	I have to say, I am really, really, really depressed.
	In fact, I have a jingle for it.
	Times of depression.
	Exactly.
	It is...
	I cannot believe the vile...
	Bigoted.
	Fat shaming.
	Everything is just...
	They seem so full of glee.
	I look at whatever is going on.
	I think I have kind of a handle on what happened.
	I'm like...
	What is wrong with you?
	Do you really think that someone's going to jail over this?
	What is wrong with you people?
	Absolutely.
	They're on their way to the slammer as we speak.
	It's full-on retard.
	Full-on.
	Yeah, it's pretty bad.
	But let's get a handle on first before you give us your side of the story.
	Let's at least give you what's going on over here so you can kind of balance it.
	Great.
	And I want to play...
	I have two...
	I don't really have a lot of clips about Don Jr., but I do have the setup clips that refer to Don Jr.
	CBS stuff.
	Yeah, I want to mention something on the CBS one, which is...
	Why am I not finding it on my list?
	I see Don Jr.
	CBS background.
	No background.
	Yeah, the problem...
	Yeah, the reason I said that...
	What is that?
	I don't even see that on my list.
	What the hell is the problem?
	Oh, I see what happened.
	Oh, that's not...
	Anyway, I printed out the same clip number.
	Clips one...
	And clips two are the same.
	What is this?
	What are you doing, man?
	I do see elephant sex again.
	I've been waiting three weeks for that clip.
	Yeah, I have been doing it.
	Okay, let's go with it.
	You've got the junior clips in front of you.
	Yeah, I do.
	Now, the CBS one, I got to right from the beginning.
	I got the whole thing here, except when they do the follow-up, but Right from the beginning, they never tell you.
	It's as if everybody in the entire world knows what they're talking about.
	They don't actually give any background.
	There's no, it's just right into the story.
	And I found it was like, wow, this is like, you know, this is, it's like, what?
	Before we launch into that.
	And this is CBS. Let me just give you, from my perspective, how this took place here.
	And by the way, no one really is talking about this here.
	You know, Willow and everything.
	And I was like, whatever, they don't really follow it.
	I kept reading, again, I read the Diaper Don, Fredo.
	Is Fredo, is that a Lord of the Rings reference or something?
	Am I supposed to understand?
	No, no, it's a reference.
	No, the Fredo reference is, and this was a popular thing on Twitter for about a day.
	This is a reference to the dumb brother of Corleone and the Godfather II. Oh, yeah.
	Godfather II, who the hell watches that?
	Nah, I don't watch that.
	Okay, I get it.
	But can you believe that Aaron Bursell and Chris Breshears are doing this?
	Just to name check them again.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah.
	I actually can't believe.
	I can believe anybody.
	So I had to go and read in reverse order these three New York Times articles to understand what they were talking about.
	And even in reading them and rereading them, I'm like...
	What?
	So?
	I mean, okay, but this is not illegal.
	I just don't understand why they think that this is it.
	You know, smoke, meat, gun.
	I mean, really?
	What are we talking about?
	So that's all I know.
	All right.
	Hello?
	Where'd you go?
	I cannot continue the show unless I get these clips printed out.
	I have two pages of the same clips, so I don't know what clips I have because I have it set up.
	Let's start with the CBS background, which assumes that you know everything.
	President Trump is heading to Paris tonight after tweeting that the White House is functioning perfectly.
	He also said he has little time to watch television, but he apparently saw his son on Fox last night.
	The president said Don Jr.
	did a good job in the interview and was, quote, open, transparent and innocent.
	We begin tonight with Major Garrett at the White House.
	In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	told Fox News he now realizes his meeting with a Russian government lawyer looks bad, but still wishes it had produced the promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
	It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame.
	In an interview today with Reuters, President Trump defended his son, saying, quote, I think many people would have held that meeting.
	The president also said he only learned of it a couple of days ago.
	The June 2016 meeting was arranged by music promoter Rob Goldstone on behalf of a Russian pop star whose father is a wealthy oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin.
	In video uncovered today by CNN, Mr.
	Trump can be seen with all three men in Las Vegas in 2013.
	Yeah, that's their backgrounder?
	Like, everyone should know what's going on?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is why I had trouble understanding it.
	What is going on?
	I had to really focus on it.
	A little more detail can be found here in the PBS report.
	Okay, you don't want to do number two for CBS? Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	That's right.
	I don't have the clips in front of me.
	That's okay.
	I'll do number two when you go print your clips.
	Okay.
	An outside White House advisor described the revelations about Trump Jr.'s meeting as, quote, very bad, a Category 5 hurricane.
	Today, the president remained out of public view for the third consecutive day and pushed back on Twitter against reports he was enraged by television news stories on the investigation.
	But the revelations keep coming.
	CBS News has learned that U.S. intelligence picked up electronic intercepts of Russian officials discussing presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump, as far back as mid-2015.
	What?
	Although a source familiar with the intelligence says it was not until the spring of 2016 that the conversation pivoted to helping Mr. Trump.
	Trump's campaign.
	Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation as well as those of two congressional committees are also looking into whether the Trump campaign's digital operation in any way coordinated with Russians to target voters with fake news stories.
	That operation was overseen by the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
	California Democrat Adam Schiff on CBS This Morning.
	I'm not saying that that's what took place, but the Russians used a whole variety of methods to try to influence not only our elections, but elections in Europe.
	And if there was a data analytical component to this in which there was some level of coordination, that we need to look into.
	The Senate Judiciary Committee will call former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who attended the Russian meeting with Trump Jr., to testify.
	CBS News has confirmed Manafort provided some information to Congress about that meeting, also attended by Kushner, in recent weeks.
	And there's absolutely no other setup to these clips.
	That's exactly how the piece aired.
	Yes.
	Like, we understand what's going on.
	Apparently, you must have.
	That's pretty crazy.
	I know, it sounds ridiculous, but what you heard was the beginning of the show, then he mentioned that Trump's going to Paris, then he cut into the, Donald saw his son on TV, and then he went on to whatever it was, and then what you've heard there is the second part of that whole thing.
	There's nothing that I left out.
	Wow.
	Okay, so what I'm hearing is what I'm reading is connect the dots.
	Finally, we can connect the dots, but they're connecting dots from wiretapping to collusion.
	What happened?
	This is mass hysteria, what I'm seeing here.
	And I'm really outside of the bubble here.
	I mean, I really am outside of the bubble.
	And all I see is mass, mass, mass hysteria over seemingly nothing.
	I guess it looks bad.
	Actually, can I interject with a quick clip before we go to PBS? Because I got one clip.
	Yeah, play.
	Charles Krauthammer.
	As you know, respect the guy a lot.
	I've got to keep my eye on him because Tina likes him a little too much.
	But he was very negative about what Don Jr.
	did, and so that got my attention because he's typically a big supporter.
	Well, I love it.
	Other fatal words.
	The defense of the Trump administration...
	For the last six months, which I supported, was there doesn't appear to be a there there.
	I was saying this is a cover-up in search of a crime.
	There wasn't any evidence of collusion.
	There were lots of coincidences, lots of meetings, lots of non-disclosures, but that's all circumstantial.
	There was nothing to show that the Trump administration was aware of or supporting the Russian interference in our elections.
	And this just showed up today in black and white, released by Don Jr.
	himself.
	This is not released in the anti-Trump media.
	So you see it in black and white.
	This is not to say that collusion is a crime.
	It never was.
	But it is to say that the denial of collusion is very weak right now because it looks as if I don't know if there's any other explanation.
	Don Jr.
	was receptive.
	It's a hell of a defense to say that your collusion was incompetent and that it didn't work out.
	The fact is that this is not just opposition research.
	This is not somebody coming out of the woodwork in Indiana with a story about the Clinton.
	Easy on Indiana.
	This is a foreign power.
	And not just any foreign power.
	An adversary foreign power.
	A foreign power that invades our allies.
	In Georgia.
	In Ukraine.
	Hold on a second.
	That's where Krauthammer lost me.
	I'm sorry.
	Russia did not invade Georgia.
	That's a lie.
	Buzzes our airplanes.
	Just last week in the UN, it nixed any attempt to get sanctions increased on North Korea.
	That supports a genocidal regime in Syria.
	This is our most serious adversary, one could argue, in the world, and to receive information from them.
	But here's the deal.
	They denied they did this.
	They agreed with The critics, today's critics, that this is a bad thing to do, and they were saying for six months, we didn't do it, there's no evidence that we did it, how can you even imagine that we did it?
	Now they're saying, oh yeah, we did it, but it wasn't so bad, and we were incompetent at it.
	That's not a very good defense.
	So I totally understand what Krauthammer is saying.
	He's saying that they've all said there was no collusion, we weren't as bad as the other guys, but they were just as willing to get any dirt they could.
	What's unclear to me, though, is this was a meeting and some lawyer woman, she said, you know, I have some dirt on Hillary Clinton taking illegal finances from Russia.
	I think you'd take that meeting.
	Well, that's what Trump himself said.
	Right.
	That he'd take the meeting.
	And then if I understand properly, the discrepancy here is if they had heard about a crime that had taken place, then they should have reported that or at least said, hey, we had this meeting about X, Y, and Z.
	But the Trump campaign camp, whatever, is saying, because there was nothing, there was no finance rules broken.
	It was a 20-minute meeting and whatever.
	And then they just left it for what it is.
	Is that what happened?
	Well, the meeting was supposed to be, it turned out to be, this woman represents one of the 2012 sanctioned oligarchs.
	This is from the McGinsky Act?
	Yes, that act.
	We follow that, yeah.
	Yeah, we followed it very well, closely.
	We just don't know what it's called anymore, but we followed it.
	Well, they still call it that in these reports.
	And she, well, here, this is a little backgrounder.
	This is the clip, the Russian lawyer backgrounder one.
	All right.
	Natalia Veselnitskaya says she didn't have any dirt on Hillary Clinton.
	The Russian government says they don't even know who she is.
	But like most things Kremlin, there's more to that story.
	Veselnitskaya, who speaks no English, represents a wealthy, Kremlin-connected family in Moscow, the Katsievs.
	They've lobbied hard to overturn U.S. sanctions against Russian officials accused of money laundering in what's known as the Magnitsky Act.
	The 2012 law enraged Russian President Vladimir Putin so much that he banned Americans from adopting Russian children.
	She's like the consigliere of a very prominent Russian family.
	She has a wide range of tasks.
	She's not just a lawyer, as she's been described.
	She's an operator.
	Hedge fund manager Bill Browder pushed for the sanctions and calls her a formidable adversary.
	He says she wouldn't have been in the U.S. lobbying to overturn Magnitsky without the Kremlin's blessing.
	They don't give out business cards from the Kremlin saying, you're a Kremlin lawyer, go to Washington and do this.
	After Veselnitskaya's meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
	last June, she went to Washington, organized a screening of an anti-Magnitsky film at the museum, and was in the first row at a congressional hearing on U.S. policy toward Russia.
	Last year, she also took on former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, who had accused Denis Katsiv of that Kremlin-connected family of money laundering.
	The case was settled after Bharara was fired by President Trump.
	In court documents, Veselnitskaya says she's argued and won more than 300 cases and that her clients include large state-owned and private corporations.
	She's a nonpartisan advocate for a bunch of crooks back in the Russian government.
	Crooks, man.
	Crooks.
	This is CBS again, and I want to point something out before we go on and play part two.
	They bring this guy in as his expert, a hedge fund guy.
	This is CBS again slanting the story by, in this case, in a very awkward way, by using Bill Browder.
	Bill Browder, who...
	I think is a straight shooter for the most part, but he's not a hedge fund manager anymore.
	He's the guy, if you remember, he's the guy who was involved.
	There's a lot of reports about him, and he wrote a couple of books.
	And you go to BillBrowder.com, and you can see where he's coming from.
	And when you see where he's coming from with his books, he is a Putin hater.
	Hmm.
	Because he tried to do a hedge fund deal with a bunch of Russians and got his lawyer killed.
	He got a bunch of other people tortured.
	He got run out of the country and I think he actually lost all his money.
	Okay, so he has an axe to grind.
	Right, he has a grudge.
	And so they're using him as a source in this news story.
	I think that's really poor journalism personally.
	But CBS does this constantly.
	And let's play part two of that.
	And people should go to BillBrowdery.com.
	In fact, he has a Russian version of this book that he wrote, and he gives it away on PDF in Russian.
	That's how pissed he is, can you imagine?
	The Justice Department settled that money laundering case against Veselnitskaya's client four months after Mr.
	Trump came into office.
	Today, House Democrats sent a letter asking the Attorney General if that Kremlin-connected client got any special treatment.
	Anthony?
	I thought that was pretty fishy.
	Viewers should be talking about that, but they're not.
	They're talking about poor Don Jr., who I might add on MSNBC, which I was scoping for a lot of these clips, Lawrence O'Donnell.
	I'd say for half the show, because it was from the New York Post, he felt he was obliged to do this.
	He had on the screen, he's sitting there kind of over to the left or over to the right as you view him.
	And where there would normally be like a big plugged in like a screen or where they put, you know, graphics or all this other stuff there's room for, right?
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Right, right.
	It just had New York Post logo and then it said, Donald Trump Jr.
	is an idiot.
	Ha!
	He may be.
	I don't know.
	I think he might be.
	There's a lot of jokes going around like, well, we thought Eric was the dumb one.
	So I have, again, I only have three clips, but this is just stuff that I, from outside an American English speaker, just picked up stuff saying, oh, this is interesting.
	Now I can at least hear both sides of what's going on.
	And one of, to me, the most interesting conversations was between Evan McMillan.
	You recall he is the The CIA guy who they threw in at the last minute to run as a candidate for Utah.
	Remember that guy?
	Oh right, the CIA guy, right.
	They thought they were going to upset the whole election with this guy.
	There was something very fishy about him.
	Yeah, he's a CIA guy.
	What do you mean?
	Of course it's fishy.
	All of a sudden he was there, he had money, and he was running.
	It's like, okay.
	And this retired Army colonel, who I believe also is ex-CIA somehow.
	So they're on, I think it's CNN. And they're arguing...
	Wait, before you go on...
	I don't have the clip because I accidentally erased the whole thing, but our favorite CIA guy...
	Way to go, Richard Nixon.
	The favorite CIA guy, Bear.
	I just forgot about it because I was getting other clips.
	Oh, I've got to go back and clip that little Bear thing.
	Bob Bear, I think, is his first name.
	Is he still alive, Bob Bear?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he lives up in Aspen.
	I haven't seen him a lot.
	I know he doesn't come on a lot, but he came on and he was on Rachel Maddow.
	And he, along with the guy running for vice president with Hillary, what's his name?
	Tim Kaine.
	Tim Kaine.
	Tim Kaine first says, oh, this is treason.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	He agreed?
	Yes.
	Treason can only be if you're at war with someone, can't it?
	Well, there's a very specific clause in the Constitution.
	In fact, Dershowitz keeps coming and saying, hey, you guys, why don't you read this, what treason is, because this isn't even close to treason.
	Dershowitz.
	Dershowitz is going to get in trouble.
	He's not appeasing his left-wing masters.
	No, he's not.
	All right.
	So these two guys are going at it.
	This was helpful to me because I was able to understand the disconnect between what possibly, or what, I guess, according to a published email, just stepping back for a second.
	This is what got me right off the bat.
	People that, on the face bag, people I have known for decades, decades I tell you, Are convinced that Donald Trump Jr.
	is so dumb that he incriminated himself.
	Whereas Occam's Razor kind of would say, if you publish all this stuff and you're saying here's what happened, don't you think that these guys or someone would check it out and say, hey, if I publish this, will this get me in trouble?
	But no.
	The conviction, what I see here in Florence, Italy, the conviction is that guy is such an idiot that he incriminated himself.
	Like, that doesn't seem very logical.
	There's no way that he would have put that out without talking to a lawyer first.
	You'd think.
	So here are these two guys.
	They're going at it.
	And what it boils down to is the interpretation of what you need to report.
	And so...
	Maybe you can give me some background before I play the clip.
	Who needs to report what on what forums for what reason?
	Can you please help me?
	Because that seems to be a big part of this.
	Lawrence O'Donnell had one of these sheets in front of him with the idiot thing in the back.
	And he showed a box you're supposed to check if you had any meetings whatsoever with any foreign contacts during the election cycle.
	Stop right there.
	Foreign contacts.
	You mean just like I was talking to Gene?
	Like this meeting.
	Like I was talking to Sir Gene.
	He's a Russian national.
	If you were running for office and Sir Gene had a meeting with you, you probably should have to report it unless he's an American.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if he's an American.
	Well, then you probably should just report him anyway.
	But the point is...
	Hey, you haven't donated, Gene.
	I'm reporting you.
	The point is, there was some paperwork that was not properly filed, is what this amounts to.
	And they, the way I see, the way Don Jr.
	explains, and he did this on the Sean Hannity show, he says, he goes to this phony meeting, he says, we had to waste 20 minutes of our time.
	They keep pulling that clip on all the news outlets.
	And it was, we didn't think much about it, and that was the end of it.
	It was just a stupid meeting that didn't go anywhere.
	And so, I guess in the process of filing out paperwork, even though I don't ever thought he was a campaign lawyer, Primary campaign guy that would make a difference one way or the other, but everyone says he is now.
	So yeah, there's paperwork.
	Alright, so I'm going to play this clip, and I learned a couple of things.
	One is the term oppo-research.
	Oppo-research.
	Yeah.
	Oppo-research, which is opposition research, which is what everybody does for everybody against the other team.
	You try and find dirt on them.
	And so this was an oppo research fact-finding mission.
	And I understand where Krauthammer's coming from, saying, well, you know, to say that you guys were clean and you weren't trying to get any dirt on Hillary is a lie.
	And that, I think, is true.
	I think that is the egg on the face.
	That's what that is.
	But I don't see where it's illegal or criminal, etc.
	But now we have a CIA guy who ran for president.
	We have an ex-army guy who calls himself a CIA operative.
	And they're arguing about this very topic.
	Something we often have are something called walk-ins.
	Out of every ten walk-ins, one turns out to be correct.
	This is the ex-army guy who is saying, you know, you get walk-ins.
	So you take the meeting, you find out what's going on.
	The fact that all this information was shared behind the scenes is no big deal.
	You want to have that come in, and for two reasons.
	Let's be very clear about this.
	This is a campaign.
	You want all information from all sources, even foreign, if it's offered.
	Then why not report it?
	On Saturday, why think it was about the orphan?
	Let me finish my answer.
	And the second thing is if it's something that is blackmailable, it goes both ways.
	If Hillary Clinton was subject to blackmail, you want to know that.
	So if, again, let me be clear, if that level is achieved, that is to say the information actually is what it is advertised to be, then of course it's going to be shared.
	Otherwise, it's but one more piece of fluff in a number of events going on.
	You have to understand, and I think you do, that during a campaign there's Thousands of things going on all the time.
	So something to rise past the kind of daily just buzz, you have to have something significant.
	So I agree with Mr.
	McMullen about the fact that the meeting should have been had.
	What I'm disagreeing with him on is the fact that it wasn't achieved.
	The meeting wasn't what it was advertised to be, and therefore it was killed instantly, and I don't think it went any further than that.
	Yes, but let's just say this.
	I'm sorry.
	So here's the CIA guy who ran for president.
	You know, I know what you're talking about, about walk-ins.
	When you're an intelligence officer, you take a walk-in.
	Absolutely.
	When you're running a presidential campaign in the United States, and a foreign adversary or a representative of a foreign adversary comes to you and says, we are trying to help you win, and we have compromising information on your opponent.
	Propaganda.
	Drop the propaganda.
	That's not what the meeting was about.
	That is not what was in the email.
	I want to remind you, these are two intelligence officials, intelligence guys, who are arguing about what is right or wrong or what is legal or not legal, and they're both ill, really.
	That is not what was in the email you just talked about.
	So do you deny that?
	The White House isn't even going to deny that.
	I do deny that, but you do.
	Colonel?
	I'm denying the fact that there was any direct saying that a foreign power is coming forward.
	If you look at what was said, it said that there was information available potentially from a foreign source.
	That's what I'm saying.
	It was not confirmed that this was from the Russian government.
	That's what you're trying to stipulate.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	was informed that the Russian government was trying to help the campaign and that they had an emissary who was offering compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
	You didn't know that.
	That was all hearsay.
	And they took the meeting and didn't report it.
	They didn't report it.
	Stop.
	What was the reporting requirement?
	And then after that, they changed the Republican platform.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You're changing history.
	You're changing history there, Mr.
	McMullen.
	You're making stuff up.
	Okay, turn on.
	And let's just keep it simple.
	On Saturday, why would Donald Trump Jr.
	say, I didn't know what it was.
	It was a meeting about orphans.
	And today it's a completely different story.
	Okay, so let me just understand this bit.
	And again, I'm just a dumb American here in Florence with my selfie stick.
	So, because the meeting was sold as we have some important information...
	Sorry?
	Dirt.
	Dirt.
	Specifically, that the Clinton campaign was taking illegal foreign donations, which is a Federal Election Commission violation.
	I think it's a serious one.
	That because they were going after that...
	They therefore were colluding, were trying to collude with Russia.
	That is the concept here.
	But because the meeting was about something completely different, they said, eh, screw it, dumb meeting, move on.
	But they should have reported.
	But it's not even about the report.
	No, the argument is, I'll give it to you.
	Okay.
	It seems the Trump side says, oh yeah, we had this stupid meeting that was a waste of time.
	Mm-hmm.
	And we didn't, at the time, we didn't think to report it.
	Manafort was there.
	Don Jr.
	was there, and so was Jared.
	Those were the three, supposedly, that were at least this meeting.
	And they say, what was this waste of time?
	And they went off and had coffee or went to dinner.
	Who knows what they did.
	But they never thought that this was reportable.
	And so they didn't report it, but it was tracked by somebody and they got busted out.
	I got it.
	But what they're saying here, and this is back to Krauthammer's point, is to say that they never tried to collude with Russia is a lie because they totally tried to collude with getting information about the Clinton campaign's illegal financing.
	That's an issue.
	That's what I'm hearing.
	Is that right?
	Yes, that's exactly right.
	Okay, good.
	Why do you do that?
	It's not a different story.
	I've read what his lawyer said.
	He talked about the atmospherics of the meeting.
	Who was in the meeting?
	What happened?
	I'm talking about Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	himself started on Saturday.
	This was about orphans.
	Why is it so different today?
	Why change the story?
	Why wouldn't Jared Kushner have disclosed this meeting?
	Why do we have five members of the campaign meeting after meeting not disclosed?
	Just help me understand that.
	Do you, again, do you understand what goes on in a campaign and all the meetings that happen?
	Do you understand what happens in a campaign?
	I'm sorry, this is not a normal meeting.
	Well, apparently you lost, so your campaign wasn't very effective.
	This is not what happens in American campaigns, sir.
	Yes, it is.
	And you do a tremendous disservice to the American people suggesting this is exactly how things happen in campaigns.
	Sir, turn off.
	I don't know what universe you live in.
	Hold on, I do.
	I know what universe you live in, in the alternate universe.
	This is not what happens.
	I don't know what universe you live in.
	All information isn't taken during a campaign.
	They want to know what's going on, especially if it's blackmailable.
	Not from foreign adversaries.
	You contact the FBI and then you report it in every other way possible.
	So the fact that you didn't want to hear about that, that's fine.
	Okay, Colonel, we're going to leave it there, but to be clear, just because you have a lot of meetings doesn't mean you don't disclose all of them.
	That is your obligation.
	No, it's not.
	Yes, sir, it is.
	No, it's not.
	Okay, so there's the issue.
	Yes, sir, it is.
	You have to report every meeting, every fart you smelled, and he's saying no, but then wait for it because now we have the CIA guy from Utah telling us exactly why you need to report it.
	It is.
	No, it's not.
	There is no clearance involved.
	If you have a security clearance, yes.
	Kushner did not have a clearance.
	It's an American duty.
	What's the matter?
	It's an American duty.
	I see the violation.
	There's no duty here.
	There's no duty to disclose.
	There is absolutely no duty.
	Something now that came up during an investigation.
	That's when it should come up during the investigation.
	My goodness, we've lost our way.
	You've lost your way.
	Whee!
	All right.
	No, America collectively has lost its way.
	Wow, that was actually quite good.
	Yeah, but these are high-level guys.
	Yes, and they're arguing.
	Bigly.
	According to Bob Barrett's treason, so there you go.
	Let's go.
	Okay, let's get to wrapping by doing the PBS. This is not the whole report.
	This is just kind of the middle of it.
	This is the Don Jr.
	PBS? I probably would have done things a little differently.
	Again, this is before the Russia mania.
	This is before they were building it up in the press.
	For me, this was opposition research.
	This morning, Mr.
	Trump gave his eldest son a rave review.
	He was open, transparent, and innocent.
	This is the greatest witch hunt in political history.
	At his confirmation hearing to be FBI director, Christopher Wray was pressed on that point.
	He had a different view of the investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, than the man who nominated him.
	I'm asking you, as the future FBI director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt?
	I did not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.
	Meanwhile, the president's legal team tried to distance their client from his namesake.
	The president wasn't aware of the meeting, did not participate in the meeting, did not attend the meeting, and was only made aware of the emails.
	Actually, reading the emails, seeing the emails was yesterday when they were released.
	For Mr.
	Trump, the Russia story's become a burden he cannot escape no matter how hard he tries.
	Every time he appears to be moving in a different direction, another disclosure puts it right back front and center.
	Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov seemed to sympathize.
	Today, I turned on the TV again, and all the Western channels are discussing only this.
	It is amazing how serious people can make a mountain when there might not even be a molehill.
	There's sure to be more discussion next week, when the Senate Judiciary Committee wants former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to testify about his role.
	For the PBS NewsHour, I'm John Yang.
	Later, the president told Reuters that he only learned of Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Russian lawyer a few days ago.
	But he said, quote, I think many people would have held that meeting.
	He also said that he asked Russian President Putin last week if he had meddled in the U.S. election, and that Putin said twice, absolutely not.
	I'm really happy that I wasn't in the U.S. for this, because I think I have a very outsider's take just on what's been going on.
	I learned a couple of things.
	This may be true or not.
	That this lawyer woman, that she apparently worked for the firm that was hired for oppo research that came up with the Steele report, which is the hookers peeing on the Obama bed for Trump in Russia.
	Is that something we know for sure?
	We have not seen that piece of information go by the desk.
	Okay, which would mean that this might have been a setup, but okay.
	I like the idea of it being a setup because this whole thing is quite fishy.
	Makes sense.
	The other thing I learned, which I had to go and look up, which is obviously it works very poorly.
	It comes across as deflection.
	But it does give you a sense of how oppo research works, and I got this from two different sources.
	The first one is, now this is Allison Camerota from CNN, who has become quite the personality in going up against people with Sebastian Gorka.
	So Sebastian Gorka is going to deflect this and then bring up the Clinton-Ukraine OPPO meeting in the Ukraine embassy.
	Was it a good idea for Don Jr.
	to meet with this Russian lawyer?
	Was it a good idea for the DNC to send its operatives to the Ukrainian embassy?
	I'm not sure that answers my question.
	No, you know, if there's a meeting that was wholly appropriate, but which led to nothing, let's compare that to the DNC sending its people to the Ukrainian embassy to coordinate oppo attacks against our candidate.
	I'm a little sick of this word, too.
	This oppo.
	Oppo.
	Oppo.
	If you want to see...
	It just showed up.
	It just really just showed up.
	You're going to be stuck with it.
	It's going to go away fast because it's ugly.
	Collusion.
	It's in the DNC. I mean, it is up to their neck.
	So just let me follow your line of logic.
	You're saying it's inappropriate for the Democrats to meet with a...
	A foreign country, Ukraine.
	But it's not inappropriate for your campaign, for Donald Trump, to meet with the Russians.
	Russians?
	What do you mean the Russians?
	Who did this woman work for at the time, do you know?
	Well, this is the question, Mr.
	Gorka.
	I mean, this is what investigators are obviously trying to...
	What is the answer?
	What is her connection to the Kremlin?
	Yeah.
	Yes, tell me.
	There was no connection.
	She was a private lawyer who had an interest with regards to the Russian adoption program and used a pretext to get a meeting with the campaign, which the campaign representatives almost immediately realized was not done in good faith, that she had another agenda, and therefore the meeting ended.
	What's funny, Mr.
	Gorka, is that they wanted the original agenda.
	They wanted the dirt.
	Which is what political campaigns do, but we don't meet on the soil of foreign nations at their embassies to get opposition research.
	So what he's saying is, hey, you know, this is what happens in campaigns.
	The Democrats, the DNC, they tried to get oppo research from the Ukrainians.
	They did it in their embassy.
	Talked to foreign nationals by what you told me earlier regarding Sir Gene.
	That would be to say you would have to report that meeting.
	I don't know if they reported that meeting.
	I have no idea.
	I don't know if they disclosed any of that.
	But that's the parallel he's drawing.
	If you want to look at a real story, that's the story.
	Oh my gosh.
	If you want to look at a real story, the 126 leaks of national security importance in the first 125 days.
	This deflection tactic is not working.
	No, I don't like it at all, but he does come up with something really funny at the end here.
	This was also on the up and up.
	Can I stop you for one more second?
	Of course, of course, of course.
	There's another thing he's doing wrong, which is using a shotgun approach, which is he's not targeting his deflection.
	He's saying, and this, and there's this, and there's Georgia, and then there's Ukraine, and then there's this, and then there's 126, and then there's an email survey.
	He just doesn't target it.
	It's dumb.
	It's dumb.
	It's no good.
	It's poor, but he does come up with a funny line, and that's really the reason for the clip.
	Did the president's son, Don Jr., not only not disclose it, but didn't actually use the right story when first asked about it?
	He claimed that the meeting was about adoption.
	Again, again, they're in this whole, you know, he lied, he lied, but he said it was about this.
	That wasn't what the real story was.
	And he's not alone.
	I mean, let me just pull up this graphic for you of the seven people connected to the Trump campaign somehow.
	Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Don Jr., Carter Page, J.D. Gordon.
	None of them adequately disclosed their meetings with Russians until the press found out about it.
	What's going on?
	Nothing.
	You heard their statements.
	You heard Don Jr.'s statements that told you everything you need to know.
	He's not even a member of the administration.
	I mean, this is the shocking thing.
	Again, the amount of time you spend in desperation on a topic that has plummeted you to 13th place in viewership ranking across America.
	More people watch Nick at Night cartoons than CNN today.
	You know, I hate this because it's total horse crap, but it's funny.
	And he doubles down.
	Our ratings are doing just fine.
	I mean, if you want to go there, our ratings are doing just fine.
	But what ratings represent is that people are interested in this.
	And our ratings reflect that Americans are interested in this.
	This is ad-hot crap.
	It just made me laugh.
	More people are more interested in watching cartoons than watching you.
	I thought it was funny.
	Well, that's just generally true with the public.
	Now, then my final clip here, my final clip, will be with the Cuomo kid and some Trump attorney.
	And Trump is a talking point.
	It's a total talking point.
	They've agreed to talk about this.
	They've agreed to continuously bring up Ukraine.
	Why?
	Because you don't let Russia interfere in an election.
	You don't do that.
	You know that.
	If he came to you, you would say, don't take the meeting.
	Donald Jr.
	has said as much.
	Republican supporters have said as much.
	Donald Jr.
	was very direct last night when he was on Sean Hattie's broadcast talking about that.
	But I want to ask you this question also, Chris, or just put it out there.
	Please.
	You know political campaigns well.
	You come from a long heritage of families and political campaigns.
	You know what happens in the Hida campaign.
	There's a lot of meetings.
	The Ukrainian government was giving information to the DNC and to Hillary Clinton's people on who?
	Donald Trump.
	So we're acting as this doesn't happen.
	So let's look at it.
	Let's look at it very quickly.
	Ukraine is not Russia, okay?
	You can get oppo research from whoever you want.
	But if you solicit information from a foreign government, let alone a hostile one, you could be in trouble with the FEC. But again, I don't want to talk about legality.
	That's not my place.
	If you don't think it was inappropriate, To take this meeting, not only are you disagreeing with Donald Jr., but I think that we have different ethical standards.
	I'll put you on the Gorka side, I'm on the other side.
	No, no, no.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	said, in retrospect, he would have handled things differently.
	Which I think is the right thing to say, and that point is therefore closed.
	I want to just finish up with this.
	Please.
	You just said that if it's the Ukrainians, it's okay.
	If it's the Russians, it's not.
	That's not the law.
	And you know that, and I both know that.
	No, no, no.
	I'm saying Ukraine is not Russia.
	I think they would be analyzed differently.
	This is the idiocy.
	This is where the idiocy comes from.
	This Russia hate, you can hate Russia all you want, but they're not our enemy yet.
	We're not at war with them yet.
	Except in people's minds.
	That's what this is about.
	People have been completely brainwashed.
	Yeah, Russia's bad.
	Totally.
	Now, a couple of things before I want to get to my Rachel Maddow clips.
	Damn.
	Because she, of course, is just beaming.
	She's glowing.
	I'm so happy I haven't been able to watch that.
	I don't know how much longer I can do this show.
	People are too retarded.
	I just can't handle it.
	We have our no agenda army that is fine.
	Okay.
	Thank goodness.
	Let me get to...
	There's a clip here I have.
	Soros meddling in elections.
	Oh, in Hungary.
	Yeah, this is a big deal.
	This I've heard about over here.
	This is news.
	This is news.
	All right.
	Want me to play that clip?
	Yeah, number one.
	Well, although Israel's ambassador to Hungary initially criticized that campaign, Tel Aviv quickly released a clarification condemning the actions of Soros both in Hungary and in Israel.
	We discuss the situations in both countries with an Israeli activist.
	Souris is very hostile towards Israel, and here was a kind of awkward situation in Hungary, because what Souris did, he supported all kinds of what we call orange revolutions, which on the surface were very peaceful.
	But at the end of the day, we saw this blood spilled in Ukraine, blood spilled in Belize and many other places where Souris put his fingers.
	As you know now, There is a huge campaign in the United States that Russia meddled in the U.S. elections.
	I don't understand what I'm talking about.
	The United States government invested money in undermining Israeli Prime Minister during the campaign.
	They do it openly.
	They interfere, they meddle, and then they accuse others of doing it.
	I mean, this is kind of hypocrisy which needs to be stopped.
	And we agree with the government of Hungary when they want to say stop.
	Stop.
	So this is the news that I'm seeing here everywhere.
	We're seeing video and photos of Hungary with huge Soros posters plastered everywhere.
	Like, this guy is destroying Hungary.
	Stop Soros.
	Stop Soros.
	The subways, everywhere.
	There's just one poster.
	You can play the ISO. Stop, stop.
	You might find it useful.
	It's always useful.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	Yes, I think that's very useful.
	That should be my ringtone.
	So you may want to play now Soros meddling in elections too.
	And Soros' alleged meddling is also becoming a concern in the United States.
	Back in March this year, several Republican senators attempted to launch a probe into where taxpayers' money ends up after being sent to George Soros' NGOs.
	But the initiative was rejected despite a collective letter sent to the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
	Now, Hungary is not the only European country to openly denounce the activities of George Soros.
	The Polish Prime Minister has alleged that Soros has violated the Polish constitution, while a former Macedonian leader said Soros, using his NGOs, has been meddling all across the world.
	We spoke to an international affairs commentator who supports those views.
	Complaints about George Soros are entirely justified because we see in his behavior somebody who has got a will to power and if he doesn't like the results of a democratic election he will do his best to topple that democratic government.
	So for example in the case of Hungary clearly pursuing a nationally oriented policy and that government knows that it will be targeted sooner or later by Soros for daring to pursue a national policy rather than a Soros policy.
	In essence, what George Soros is about is the complete opposite, the antithesis of democracy.
	He has money which he uses to buy power and influence by creating organizations which he tells what to do, and they tell the world what to do and what to think.
	He talks about transparency, but everything he does is veiled in secrecy.
	He talks about democracy, but he seeks to overthrow democratically elected governments just because he doesn't like them.
	This is a kind of megalomania on a James Bond villain scale, and it really should And here's what I'm hearing over here.
	That Hungary is anti-Semitic by going after Soros for some reason.
	Sure.
	They're anti-Semitic.
	And in addition, I don't know if you remember on the show where we talked about...
	Even though Soros was a Nazi collaborator.
	Yeah, he put Jews on the train by his own admission.
	By his own admission, he helped his dad out, and it was the happiest time of his life, he said.
	But we talked about the G20 and the Schwarze Block, which is the German for the black block.
	It's sponsored by Soros.
	And this is not some big secret.
	It's Black Lives Matter.
	We know it's all the NGOs, and there's all these little million here, million there, and he's financing that.
	So we mentioned this on the show.
	Oh, John, I got a tax, like, triangulated on Twitter by South Jersey Antifa, by Montana Antifa, and they were attacking me on Twitter.
	I just blocked them.
	But now we see what's really happening.
	You go after their money, you go after their Soros guy, and then they come out, and they're after us now.
	So I did tell them, hey, you should go after our advertisers.
	Shut us down.
	That'll really help.
	I did.
	Go after our advertisers.
	I did.
	I did.
	You're just a jerk.
	Yeah, yeah.
	All right, so I'm coming to the conclusion that much of what we're hearing with the Trump Jr.
	and the rest of it, is Soros-related.
	And I believe that Soros has joined forces with the neocons and elements within the CIA, which was brought to the fore by your thing with the two CIA guys going after each other.
	Yes, exactly.
	And it would make sense that the guy who ran for president in Utah would be somehow Soros-connected, because who's going to fund that stupid campaign?
	So that's a Soros guy now that we see it.
	So you can say CIA, but you can also say Soros.
	Soros.
	So let's look at Rachel and what she's up to.
	Because what we're going to listen to is Rachel Basking.
	There's two of these clips.
	Rachel Basking with new usage.
	Wow.
	Whether there was Trump campaign involvement in what has otherwise been seen as a Russian operation.
	So...
	What?
	What?
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	What did she say?
	Says it was, this whole thing's a Russian operation, the whole campaign, the whole Trump campaign.
	It was a Russian operation.
	And then she does it here, play that Rachel Isol.
	She makes this noise.
	Ow.
	Ow.
	Whether there was Trump campaign involvement in what has otherwise been seen as a Russian operation.
	Oh man, she is irritating.
	You mentioned that the lawyers involved in this, the people who are suing the Trump campaign here, are freaking highfalutin, high-powered people who know what they are doing.
	I have an ISO of that.
	I got it.
	Highfalutin, high-powered people who know what they are doing.
	Highfalutin, high-powered people who know what they're doing.
	What is she talking about?
	That's a descriptor for her.
	Highfalutin?
	For her audience.
	Oh, they're highfalutin.
	And they know what they're doing.
	Oh, Trump is dead in the water.
	What exactly does highfalutin mean?
	Highfalutin means they're hoity-toity.
	High-powered people who know what they're doing.
	Top of the game.
	They're top of the game.
	Highfalutin.
	They're like...
	The J's.
	Top dog.
	Uh-oh.
	And I should mention that the lawyers involved in this, the people who are suing the Trump campaign here, are freaking high-falutin, high-powered people who know what they are doing.
	So, there's that.
	I mean, if you think about this from the perspective of the Trump White House.
	Okay.
	If you think about the perspective from their lawyers, their legal team.
	Okay, I'm open to it.
	I'm listening to you, Rachel.
	The people who are trying to defend the president and defend Trump campaign people on the Trump-Russia affair just on that issue.
	They're now dealing with the special counsel Robert Mueller investigation.
	They're dealing with the Senate Judiciary Committee looking at possible obstruction of justice.
	They're looking at the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, both broadly looking at the question of the Russian attack and potential Trump campaign collusion in that attack.
	Now, in addition to that, they are looking at what may be a very high-powered offensive through the court system, through the federal courts.
	Oh, God.
	Now she's going to go into the second part of this, which I have, which includes, and you'll start to hear it, a smear of the highest order.
	Highfalutin?
	It's a highfalutin smear.
	She starts to smear a guy, and she does it, and she's not comfortable doing it.
	She's swallowing a lot, she's pausing and saying, well, and she's making jokes, and she's doing all these different things, but she is smearing Donald Trump's lawyer.
	And her site has put up an article about this guy.
	And I looked at this article.
	We could post it on our site.
	It's a smear.
	It's just a smear article about what a douchebag this guy is.
	And he likes to get drunk at Christmas parties.
	Is he a douchebag?
	He's a lawyer.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	What am I thinking?
	Decide for yourself.
	Yeah.
	All tied to that second prong of the Russian attack, that hack of the DNC where they stole that information and turned it back on the American people.
	Imagine trying to manage the defense.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
	Okay, everything's a Russian attack now by Herb's standards.
	So it's a Russian attack and they stole the data from the DNC and turned it back on the American people like they use as a weapon.
	This DNC hack did one thing.
	It showed that Bernie was screwed.
	It didn't do anything else.
	It didn't turn it back on the American public.
	It just said Bernie Sanders was screwed by Debbie Washerman Schultz.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah, that's what I remember, right?
	I remember that, right?
	Now, it's not as if...
	This is turning, oh, they did this and there's an attack on the Americans.
	No, it was an attack on their campaign against Bernie.
	But okay, we'll take the whole thing.
	Let's keep going, Rachel.
	Can you get to your smears?
	Go.
	All tied to that second prong of the Russian attack, that hack of the DNC where they stole that information and turned it back on the American people.
	Imagine trying to manage the defense on all of those fronts.
	Sure.
	The guy who's supposedly the captain of that team managing the defense is Mark Kazowitz, who is the New York lawyer who had previously represented Donald...
	Which is code for Jew, I think, when you say New York lawyer.
	Isn't that code, John?
	Isn't that code for...
	Yeah, I know that you mentioned it.
	He's a Jew.
	He's a Jew.
	He represented Donald Trump in his business interests and his divorces and stuff.
	That's who Trump brought on, brought to Washington to run his Russia defense.
	Mark Hazowitz is not the only lawyer involved in that defense, but he's supposed to be in charge of the team.
	Well, today, the New York Times reports that Mark Hazowitz is considering resigning.
	Oh, wow.
	ProPublica has also today published an enormous...
	Oh, she missed an opportunity to say ginormous.
	I'm very disappointed.
	I know.
	I was thinking about...
	Believe me.
	I thought she was going to say ginormous, but I think when she's going to...
	Because she doesn't want to lighten up the smear.
	Right.
	She has to enhance it.
	She drops it down to enormous.
	Now, that other article, by the way, the headline doesn't seem to really indicate that he's about to quit.
	That's a supposition.
	She almost made that up.
	Today published an enormous hair-curling story about Mark Kazowitz today, which is part personal profile, but also part cliffhanger in terms of whether or not Mark Kazowitz is going to be able to continue in his role leading the Trump defense.
	And even if he does stay on and he doesn't resign, they're raising the question as to whether he can continue to effectively run this defense.
	We have posted this ProPublica story on our website as well tonight.
	It's long.
	It's fascinating.
	If you are interested in this side of the story, I should tell you, though, it's got a lot of disparaging personal information about Mr.
	Kazowitz, including stuff like about his lifestyle and even medical.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	His lifestyle?
	Is he gay?
	Is he an alternative lifestyle?
	Is he transgender?
	He's drunk, apparently.
	I don't know.
	Even medical issues for him.
	It's got a lot of details about, I kid you not, his behavior at office.
	I kid you not.
	That comes from the Jack Parr show.
	Yeah, I kid you not.
	If you're at office Christmas parties, it is an unusual thing.
	There are some unnamed sources in the piece, but there are a lot of named sources as well, including named sources who are people close to the president.
	So, I don't have that much appetite for, like, learning about the palace intrigue in terms of who likes who and who's on the outs and, you know, what's happening among the people who work for the president on personal terms.
	But between this New York Times reporting that the president's top Russia lawyer might resign and this incredibly well-reported litany of negative personal information that was just published in this big story about him at ProPublica with this very damning sourcing, Whether or not you care about the personalities involved here, that is starting to become a factor that we ought to pay attention to in terms of whether or not the president really is getting an adequate defense.
	Okay, so what she's saying is lawyers are assholes.
	Well, she's not saying that.
	She says this guy in particular is a smear.
	It's a smear job.
	This guy in particular can't handle these.
	He's a loser.
	But it's beside the point.
	The smear is there.
	You can go read it for yourself.
	You can do anything you want.
	What she left out is ProPublica is a George Soros operation.
	That's right.
	That's what I was going to mention.
	He funds a lot of that.
	Yes, and he's, in fact, I would recommend to anybody out there to look up George Soros ProPublica and take a look at what Google comes up with, and I didn't realize that Soros was behind the IRS learner thing about going after these conservative groups during the last election.
	He funded a lot of that and encouraged it, and he's the one who leaked a bunch of data, or ProPublica did.
	This guy is involved up to his neck in this whole thing.
	And why he's not being investigated, I'll go back to my original thesis.
	He's got deep ties within the CIA, which should be rooted out.
	And he's also done a deal with, obviously, the neocons.
	Jeez.
	That's pretty incredible.
	We can wrap this up from my end, because now...
	I still have two more.
	I still have two more.
	Oh, go ahead.
	Rachel.
	Please.
	More Rachel, please.
	Well...
	Rachel brought a guy on who's from the Wall Street Journal, has some stuff to say, and she brought him on and she tried to make him say stuff he didn't really say, and she's kind of reading between the lines.
	But they do bring up something interesting, which kind of cracks me up when you hear it.
	I'm sure you'll find this amusing, too.
	This is Russians sending money into U.S. elections, the first clip.
	Russians sending, well, this is what the whole thing is about.
	Russia.
	You're reporting that intelligence officials were warned in 20, U.S. intelligence officials were warned in the spring of 2016 by their European counterparts that Russian money might be flowing into the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
	What can you tell us about that?
	Yeah, Clinton.
	Right, I think this is a really important point.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Because, of course, it sort of falls at the point before Donald Trump has clinched the nomination, but it really is one of the first signals, as it's been described to us, where intelligence services are beginning to think, wait a minute, there is some kind of Russian interference potentially going on.
	It is still not clear to people I've talked to who are close to the investigation exactly what the nature of this was.
	Was it Russian government money somehow being funneled into a campaign?
	Was it being laundered?
	These are questions that investigators are still struggling with right now.
	But it was enough that European intelligence services flag this to the US intelligence community.
	and said we think there's reason to believe that Russian funds are finding their way into your elections process and it seems like this is one of those moments where the signals really start to increase and intelligence officials become more alarmed at that point at what they're seeing that ultimately starts to build later into that summer into what we know now was the hack of the DNC that was revealed in June by the time you hit that time frame in June of 2016 It is really kind of an open secret at this point that the Russians are
	meddling in the elections, and some months later the intelligence community, of course, would confirm that publicly on the record.
	So what I know, the only thing I know about Russian finance is that millions of dollars came into the Clinton Foundation from Russia, which would be deemed a quid pro quo or a thank you very much or an attaboy for the uranium contracts.
	There's that.
	One of many elements, I'm sure.
	Yes, thank you for the uranium deal.
	Which we haven't explained on the show too much, but let's just put it this way.
	Much of the United States uranium supply is now owned by Russia.
	Thanks to Hillary.
	Well, not just Hillary alone.
	There were 8 million other people had to sign off on it.
	Everyone will be quick to say that.
	But the actual money going into the Clinton Foundation, that's traceable.
	That's truthful.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	Well, let's go.
	Now, Rachel, of course, sees this totally different.
	Uh-oh.
	She sees it as a whole thing as being right to Donald Trump being in bed with the Russians, and this is terrible.
	We'll say that last point, I don't want that.
	It's not in the headline, but it may end up actually being the most important thing about this story.
	Reports in the spring of 2016 that European intelligence agencies were warning U.S. intelligence agencies about Russian money making its way into the U.S. presidential election.
	I mean, spring of 2016 is sort of the wrapping up of the primary process, right?
	So we know who the general election candidates are going to be.
	I don't know what we will eventually find out about that, but that detail, reported for the first time tonight in the Wall Street Journal by Shane Harris, that, if nothing else, probably explains why there have been so many people signed up as lawyers on the Bob Mueller probe, whose background is in international money laundering.
	Well, I hope he doesn't dig too deep, Rachel, because he's going to find Podesta with shares in Russian companies.
	He's going to find, man, all kinds of money.
	Well, you know, I wonder about this.
	I mean, I know Comey and these guys are all buddies.
	The new guy they're bringing in is a buddy of all these guys.
	They're pals.
	Comey, Mueller, and this Ray guy, the new guy.
	Yeah.
	And who got confirmed.
	Or is getting confirmed.
	He's getting confirmed as a shoo-in.
	I'm wondering, though, if you're in that office and you've worked under the different guys, and you have to know about the Clintons.
	You think?
	And you may, although Comey worked for them, you just wonder if they're thinking maybe that we can do this investigation and not make a lot of noise about it and actually go after the Clintons.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, it's...
	Well, wait, wait, wait.
	You bring this up.
	But this is how deep the shit show is going to go, because here we have Congressman Steve King, who is threatening exactly that.
	It's this, that if this continues, this immobilization of the presidency over these kind of things, it's going to force this Congress to do an investigation, a complete and thorough investigation, and that means go back all the way to the 650,000 emails of Let me be clear.
	That's where you think all this is headed, where you think that questions about Russian collusion and whether or not Russia meddled, you would like to see it in terms of what Hillary Clinton May have done.
	You don't think there's anything to see with the current Trump White House?
	Is that what you're saying?
	I don't know whether there is or isn't.
	I've not seen it yet.
	But what I'm saying is this, that the Comey investigation, now him picking the special counsel on top of it, on its face appears to be collusion.
	My goodness.
	Thank you.
	How will this end?
	Well, I do want to do one little short clip.
	How will it end?
	Well, I don't know.
	It depends on the donations.
	So, I want to do this one little clip because I just want to remind people, this is the Trump screw-up reminder clip.
	It's just a short little clip, and I want to make a comment.
	The president said the Russia investigation was on his mind when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey.
	Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on Mr.
	Trump's nominee to succeed Comey.
	Okay.
	This is, it's still, it's got, if it's not in Trump's craw, it should be.
	This is that stupid interview he did with Lester Holt on NBC, where he offhandedly made the comment after they fired Comey for a poor job on the Hillary investigation.
	That's what all the, that's what Sessions said, that's what everybody who investigated this is.
	Mm-hmm.
	But then, Trump goes on Lester Holtz and says, why?
	It was because of the Russians.
	This was so stupid.
	He just likes to talk too much.
	He's a chatterbox.
	Now, we didn't play these, but I have a multi-clip bit here from The Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo, with John Podesta from a couple weeks ago.
	We didn't get to this, but now it makes sense to play this.
	Okay.
	All right.
	This is Maria Bartiromo, the original Money Honey CNBC. And because of who she is, it's very easy for her to get people like Podesta on.
	And here's the first clip.
	You met with the Senate Intelligence Panel as part of this investigation.
	House Intelligence.
	House Intelligence.
	What can you tell us about that meeting?
	Well, they wanted to know essentially what had happened to me and what the effect was on the campaign, the Russian interference in our democratic process.
	And they're probing what actually happened, whether there was collusion, and what are we going to do about it.
	They asked me not to get into I don't know the specific questions that they asked me and my specific answers, but in general terms, they're taking a bipartisan look at this stage.
	You know, they had trouble in that committee when their chairman, Devin Nunes, was kind of working with the White House to try to Both cover sort of for whatever had happened in the Trump White House and Trump campaign, and particularly the Mike Flynn matter, but I think they're back on track with the bipartisan investigation, so they're members from both sides, and they asked probing questions about what had happened during the campaign.
	Alright, now let's dig a little deeper.
	Do you find it odd that there's been so much attention on the Trump campaign and the Trump associates and potential collusion with Russians when in fact it's really the Democrats who have deeper and stronger ties to Russia?
	You know, you've got to respect this woman.
	You've got to respect.
	If you just go, hey, isn't that crazy that really you guys have all the contacts with the Russians?
	Isn't that crazy how the world is upside down?
	I mean, John, I've got to ask you about your own situation, your ties to Russian entities.
	You joined the board of a small energy company in 2011.
	Two months later, a Russian entity directly funded by the Kremlin invested $35 million in the company.
	You were given 75,000 shares in a Russian company, which you failed to disclose when you became an Obama associate.
	Maria, that's not true.
	I fully disclosed and was completely compliant with, and by the way, I divested before I went into the White House.
	But where did you divest it, John?
	A lot of people feel like you divested it to your adult children.
	I divested it consistent with the advice that I was given.
	Oh, great answer.
	Well, this was the advice I was given by smart people, so I divested it to my children.
	By the White House Counsel's Office.
	Isn't that exactly what they accused Trump of, to divesting to his children?
	Yeah.
	And I was fully compliant and fully transparent about what I had done.
	And so, you know, the fact that you're picking through my emails that were stolen by the Russians and released by WikiLeaks, you know, and creating a story which is not true, is, you know, something that we have to deal with.
	So you weren't given 75,000 shares of stock in a Russian company?
	You were not given 75,000 shares?
	I didn't have any stock in any Russian company.
	So go back and get your facts straight, Maria.
	Ben.
	That's not true, John.
	We know that you own 75,000 shares.
	You're on the board of Jolie.
	It's not a Russian company.
	They own less than 5%.
	It's backed by the Kremlin.
	I didn't own any shares in that company, Maria.
	When you stepped off the board, you were given 75,000 shares from Jolie.
	No, that is not true.
	How many shares were you given, John?
	Maria, I didn't have any shares in any Russian company.
	I was on the board of an American company that did business here and only here.
	The Russian company had a small investment in that company.
	It was a clean energy company that was trying to deal with the issue of trying to produce energy, liquid fuel, from Liquid fuel.
	It's like gold.
	A biotechnology process.
	It was based in Boston.
	You know, the Russian company had a very small investment in it.
	And you could keep saying that they gave me stock, but they didn't.
	I'm just following all the widely reported information here, John.
	There's also Hillary Clinton, obviously.
	Maybe you're looking at widely reported information from Infowars.
	Oh, there you go.
	This is the New York Times.
	This is the Wall Street Journal.
	No, it's not.
	That's what I'm looking at, John.
	No, it's not.
	Then there's Hillary Clinton.
	Then there's Hillary Clinton, of course we know, who got $100 million from Russian companies after she allowed that Russian company to acquire 20% of the U.S.'s uranium.
	So the point I'm making here, John, is that there's much deeper ties to Russia on the Democratic side than there are on the Republican side.
	And it's just a head scratch.
	That this has been taking all the oxygen out of the room over Trump, when in fact it's been your team that has been in bed with the Russians.
	You know, Fox can do whatever it wants to do on this matter.
	The truth is that Vladimir Putin, at his direction, according to 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, interfered with the U.S. election to help elect Donald Trump.
	Why was that?
	That was because Donald Trump had adopted Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, lock, stop, and barrel.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I got two more short clips.
	I think it's worth it, but this is too funny.
	There's a real question about what the response from the DNC was when your emails were hacked.
	I mean, look, obviously your emails were hacked.
	The DNC emails were hacked.
	It was a huge deal during the campaign, and it may very well have swayed people in terms of the election.
	Now, Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina is asking why a decision was made not to turn over the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's email server To law enforcement or intelligence agencies.
	When you got hacked and the DNC got hacked, why wasn't the DNC server passed?
	Why wasn't it given to law enforcement and the intelligence agencies?
	Did you not want government agencies to investigate this?
	Look, the Hillary Clinton servers were turned over to the agencies.
	Oh, with respect to DNC, I wasn't involved with that.
	I was the chair of Hillary's campaign.
	That was a matter for the DNC. I don't know the circumstance of whether they were asked for them or whether they said yes or no.
	Oh, really?
	Right.
	If anything, it looks like the FBI was fairly casual, maybe is a kind word, about the fact that they were, what they knew, how much they were investigating.
	They were lackadaisical in their approach to the DNC. And, you know, so I think you have to look at the whole picture, and it seems like, if anything, it's on the FBI that didn't come forward and really inform the DNC about what was going on until long after, essentially, the horse was out of the barn door.
	Why?
	I mean, is the FBI just politicized, John?
	Was that what it was?
	I don't know.
	And then finally she's going to stick a fork in him.
	You know, look, that will be on the ballot in 2018, but I think most importantly in the next presidential race.
	And I'm sure there's going to be a competitive primary.
	I bet you there are 15 or 20 people who at least think about or dive into running, and the party will decide which direction it's going by the presidential candidate they pick, not by the majority leader of the House of Representatives.
	Do you believe that's why Hillary Clinton lost?
	There wasn't enough messaging in terms of the issues that America cares about, like jobs?
	Look, I think we had a strong economic program that we put forward, but it was hard to get.
	The sun was sort of blocked out by the debate we were having with Donald Trump on his antics and his issues.
	John, we appreciate your time this morning.
	Thank you so much for answering the important questions America cares about.
	Well, I like the way she walks that back.
	Yeah.
	Thanks.
	Bye.
	Hey, thanks.
	All right.
	Well, so again, I remain.
	That was a great series of clips as a group.
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day because you should have, you know, dynamite.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	It's right in.
	Clip of the day.
	Russia?
	Don't worry.
	Russia?
	Be happy.
	Oh, come on.
	Bones to get...
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Collusion Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry, all the morning to, also in the morning to the feet on the ground and the boots in the air and the subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to have you, everybody there, lined up, happy to be part of the program.
	And I want to thank our artist for episode 9 or 4 or 5.
	Of course, the title of that was Gigabits.
	And our artist was...
	Here we go.
	Conan Salada.
	We like this a lot.
	This was...
	This was...
	Was this Hamilton with his jerk hat on?
	Yeah.
	No, that's Jefferson.
	Jefferson's the jerk.
	Jefferson with his jerk hat on, yes.
	Yeah, Jefferson the jerk.
	Now, this is very interesting because I saw a post...
	From my whole family, total obots.
	And my rocket scientist uncle, this is the other uncle I don't talk about a lot, Ren.
	He was a NASA scientist, and he's retired now.
	The rocket scientist, pure rocket scientist.
	He posted or reposted or retweeted He's surrounded by these people.
	Tell me about it.
	A Jefferson quote, and I can't find this Jefferson quote anywhere.
	It was Jefferson.
	Probably bogus.
	That's what I thought.
	Jefferson apparently said, when a leader speaks against the press, that is the hallmark of a tyrant.
	I'm like, I don't, you know, Jefferson hated the press.
	That doesn't sound right.
	Jefferson hated the press.
	Yeah, that sounds like some bogus quotes somebody just put together.
	There's a lot of bogus quotes out there.
	You just take the quote, put it in Google, and it should show right up with the guy's name.
	No, I could not find it.
	And it's not a Jefferson quote.
	And I questioned him on it, so I've yet to hear back.
	I'll check the bag.
	This Jefferson quote is bullcrap.
	Let me see if he responded yet.
	Nah, he hasn't responded.
	Gee, I wonder why.
	He's listening to the show once, and that was the end.
	My family hates me.
	Well, a lot of people don't hate us, and they're the people that help us produce this show, and I'm going to name a few of them.
	Thank you.
	I'm going to give them name by name, although there's a few anonymous come in once in a while, but not that many.
	So let's start off with our $500 donor, the top donor for today in Carlsbad, California, Lieutenant Colonel Elvin J. Van Steenbergen.
	Wow.
	Do we know the Lieutenant Colonel?
	He's a retired Marine.
	Wow!
	And I don't know that we've had much...
	He is a knight.
	I mean, he's the knight of the SoCal underachievers.
	But I don't know that we...
	We haven't gone back and forth with him a lot.
	But he did send a nice note in.
	He has a nice...
	Not easy to read, but pretty handwriting.
	And then his wife wrote the check.
	That's why I kept the check here.
	His wife wrote the check.
	Don't forget to cash it.
	Sorry?
	Don't forget to cash it.
	No, it's going to go into the...
	Okay.
	And she wrote in the note of the check, a husband's continued dedouching.
	Continued?
	Which I thought was...
	But what's funny, and I don't want to insult anybody, but it's Jay is his name.
	He calls himself Jay, the middle name J-A-E. He's just like my daughter.
	He has better handwriting than his wife.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And not by a little.
	But I think he needs a de-douching because it says so on this show a check.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he sends a letter on United States Marine Corps letterhead, which is very nice.
	Nice, nice.
	Please accept this donation from a humble knight to help you through the summer doldrums.
	Thank you.
	Thank you both for your outstanding program.
	We never watch the MSM5M, so your show is vital to help us understand what is going on out there in the alternative universe.
	Mm-hmm.
	As an aside, the newsletter with the Chris Christie photos was the best, in my opinion, by far.
	Did you see Chris Christie with me in Rome?
	Yeah, I did it.
	He says, keep up the great work.
	Semper Fi, Jay.
	SoCal Underachievers.
	And I want to thank him.
	I'm going to give him some karma.
	Marines, man.
	You've got karma.
	These guys make the difference.
	Yeah.
	Hold on.
	Mail then.
	This was from...
	You looking for your cursor?
	No, no.
	I'm looking for the note I printed out from Jeffrey Gordon, our second executive producer, full executive producer, 34543.
	Please send the email.
	Here it is.
	He says, I made a donation today and the note field was a little too short, blah, blah, blah.
	Hi, guys.
	First time donor.
	I need a long overdue de-douching.
	Here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Yeah, this is the worst note.
	Please give some fuck cancer karma to my fiancé who has terminal breast cancer and the rest of our family.
	The cancer had previously spread and remained in her bones, but we found out a few days ago it's now spread to her liver, which makes the prognosis more grim.
	The kids are far too young to lose their mom.
	Thank you for your courage and the value you provide for each and every episode and many gushing compliments.
	I really, I don't know, but when we do jobs karma, it works.
	It often works.
	I really wish this shit worked too.
	I hate that!
	I hate cancer.
	You've got karma.
	Annoying.
	Yes.
	Felt bad about that.
	Yeah, of course.
	Shit.
	Sorry.
	Well, you never know.
	A whole bunch of people send positive karma.
	You never know.
	David Oosterbon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	33333.
	It's funny.
	ITM gentlemen, this donation plus a penny from Adam raises me to the level of knighthood.
	The credit substantiates an honorary knighthood I received from Adam many years ago.
	Adam may recall being on a radio show called Computer America.
	I was a caller named John from Milwaukee who was interested in getting my product, medieval rings, out to the people who want them.
	It was not so subtle jab at John's lollygagging and getting the knight rings out to the deserving recipients.
	The clip was played on the following show to shame John, if only a little bit.
	I failed to find the clip.
	Yeah, sure you got a clip.
	I hope one of the listeners can help me find it, and I'd like to add it to my archive.
	I am proud to say I can now join the Knights of the Round Table a day after my 33rd birthday, which was on the 11th.
	Is he on the birthday list?
	I hope so.
	He is, yes.
	Please knight me Sir Dave O'Knight of the Traveling AV Techs.
	You got it.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	Clip request.
	Maxine, stay woke.
	JCD, you will obey.
	And a little girl, yay, followed by some karma.
	My millennials, stay woke!
	You will obey.
	Wow!
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	I look forward to your ceremony, sir.
	Onward.
	John Upper in Austin, Florida.
	333.
	Greetings, John and Adam and fellow knights.
	I say fellow knights because if my calculations and memory are correct, this donation allows me the desired title.
	Nice.
	I have been listening and donating since 2012.
	I was a man overboard for some months, not because I disagreed with your analysis, but because of the shock of eating the red pill.
	It can be somewhat jolly.
	Yes.
	I like this voice.
	When the BS of Ebola was in full swing, it's kind of the Harry Truman.
	No, it's like the old Polygon movie.
	A little bit?
	Harry Truman talked like that.
	Yeah, it's like, I heard this one time.
	When the BS of Ebola was in full swing, I knew that I needed to return.
	Now, this reminds me of this voice, which you can hear when you watch old, really old movies of boxing matches.
	You'll hear this.
	Round one!
	This Italian wine is good.
	Of course it's good.
	It's Italian wine.
	Italian wine, yeah.
	Anyway, I was a man overboard for some months, not because I disagreed with your analysis, but because of the shock of eating the red pill.
	When the BS of Ebola was in full swing, I knew that I needed to return.
	To get free of the fear cage this system forces the general population.
	Yeah, way to go.
	I'm glad to be in the stadium seats watching the players in the game rather than being a player in the game.
	I owe it to both of you and the No Agenda family for my seat.
	I would...
	I'd like to thank Chad Lastin for turning me on to the show.
	He heard me rambling about harp one day on the job, and pow, right in the mouth.
	Here I am.
	Please may I receive the title.
	Hold on.
	I just want to visualize that for a second.
	So he's at the office.
	Hey, man, they're turning on harp again.
	You know what that means.
	Earthquake machine.
	And the guy goes, yeah, right on, bro.
	You gotta listen to this show.
	That's all they talk about.
	Once a tile, sirloin, night of the new Smyrna Beach, shark shallows and surrounding shorelines.
	Nice.
	Seashells by the seashore.
	Adam, just overlap some two of the head...
	For fun chaos and some house building karma.
	Thanks, my brothers.
	Alright, my brother.
	You've got karma.
	By the way, I got a note from someone about that.
	Hold on a second.
	I got a note about the pew-pew.
	We know this is from one of those bogative outfits who have a map that goes pew-pew, but the actual sound effect...
	Hold on a second.
	I saved this somewhere.
	The Pew Pew is...
	Here we go.
	This is from Peggy Lee.
	And Mr.
	Curry would like to comment on your Pew Pew sound clip.
	I believe this comes from a Chinese interview clip.
	Mrs.
	Fu Yuanhui is an Olympic swimmer.
	She unexpectedly won third place this past year.
	Unlike most Chinese, she is not conservative or reserved.
	It is her openness, happy, and expressive demeanor that makes her adored by millions of people.
	Check this out.
	In the interview, she tells...
	Of her trip to Dubai Shopping Center to see a famous musical water fountain.
	She could speak only a little bit of English.
	She said pew-pew when describing the jets of water.
	The help desk understood and directed her to the fountain.
	She laughs when telling the story.
	And then, I have not heard this, so it's kind of, we're going blind on this.
	But here it is.
	Let me see.
	Hello.
	Do you know the music?
	Pew!
	Pew!
	There you go!
	The etymology of pew-pew.
	Okay, well.
	There you go.
	Onward.
	Joseph Sorrentino in Kissimmee.
	Kissimmee.
	It's Kissimmee.
	Kissimmee.
	$333 in Florida.
	He did send a note in the scan as a check.
	And a welcome check.
	In the morning, gents, I'm a listener boner since what I've...
	I'm a listener boner since what must have been the single digit episodes.
	Just thinking back on it.
	Anyway, I've lived with the guilt all this time by using the excuse that no agenda website and the donation mailing address might be a sham site designed to siphon off donations.
	Sure looks that way, doesn't it?
	Well, in a recent episode, John, you mentioned the address, and that checks were actually preferred.
	So here's my first contribution on my accent to ascent.
	He's got accent, but it's ascent.
	The knighthood.
	I've always had just enough Christian in me not to dare look at the show notes or newsletter.
	Why?
	He doesn't say.
	Now, I guess we expect it to be a bunch of porn.
	Mm-hmm.
	Now I feel liberated to do so.
	I hope it's only out of modesty that you guys self-deprecate and mock your analysis of current events because it really is important what you do.
	Thanks again.
	Thank you.
	Another mysterious comment.
	When do we self-deprecate and mock our own analysis of current events?
	Do we?
	Maybe we do.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it just comes across that way.
	Oh, there's always that.
	Okay.
	Karma or anything?
	Or karma?
	Or jingles?
	No, but I'll give him some karma.
	I will.
	You've got karma.
	Done and done, my friend.
	Oh, great.
	That's great.
	Because I've got Teresa Morgan.
	I went through these things, and I see how Eric misses stuff once in a while, because I went through these things because I was doing the show, starting the show early, so I got up, and I failed to see my email from IndieHuxley2 at Yahoo.
	So now I have to go.
	You just doxxed her, man.
	Terry Morgan is a shout-out to my high school fan.
	Teresa Morgan.
	Okay, what is this now?
	This is...
	Yeah, Terry Morgan, you're right.
	Indy Huxley.
	Okay, let me just do a quick search.
	We'll just do a search for Indy.
	That should find it because Squirrel Mail is that good.
	Squirrel Mail is the bomb.
	So Indy Huxley should be right here at the bottom.
	Unfortunately, it's a bomb from World War I, but it's the bomb.
	Hey.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I saw this note.
	Okay, well, here it is.
	I had opened it.
	I got it.
	Okay, this is from Terry.
	I'm getting together with my five fantastic 50-year-old high school non-pregnant males or girlfriends.
	Non-pregnant male, of course, referring to the pregnant male story that we played out.
	Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	This is a dollar for each birthday.
	Linda, Linda, Susie, Kathy, and K-Bay.
	And a note to people that don't contribute is bad karma.
	I forgot to donate before my last girls trip and we ended up with one less purse with charges to hookers on a credit card.
	How times have changed.
	Okay, she has some requests.
	Seed man with the cow babies.
	A little girl build the wall.
	Do we have that?
	Wasn't that an ISO that you had?
	No, I don't think it was an ISO. I think it was something as a part of the clip.
	Oh yeah, so it was an ISO and I think I did ISO. No, no.
	It was in a clip and you, we never ISO'd it.
	Ah, damn it.
	Build the wall!
	Build the wall!
	So you're not going to get that one.
	I'm sorry.
	And since I hate Canadian geese, we and karma.
	Okay, another peculiar comment, because I really don't know what hating geese has to do with the sound effect we or karma.
	And if you can do any Obama no-no-no at the end of the show, I'm hoping they will stay tuned and become producers.
	Oh, she's talking to her girlfriends.
	I can do a little bit of no, no, no right here, and I got some of that for you.
	My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
	Hey, listen.
	Hey, you're in my house.
	Hey, same on you.
	You couldn't be doing it.
	Close.
	You've got karma.
	Close, but no cigar absent.
	I tried, I tried.
	Cigar, yes.
	He looked.
	The cigar was gone.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Sir Richard Lord of the Law Libraries and something.
	And Lincoln...
	The Law Libraries and Lincoln, that's what it is.
	And Lincoln, because he's in Lincoln, Nebraska.
	That's correct.
	267.
	And he says, this donation is for my lovely wife, Wendy.
	She's a true saint and deserves this donation that we have to make sure to put her name on here instead of his on the list of producers and deserves this donation that brings her to Damehood.
	I request that she be knighted as Dame Wendy, saint to the Lincoln Letter Clan and faithful companion to Sir Rich Lord of the Law Libraries in Lincoln.
	This is also in honor of her birthday.
	I don't know if she's on the list.
	Well, she reminded me I missed with a donation on 629.
	I'm in the doghouse.
	Uh-oh.
	Thanks to No Agenda for saving our sanity and giving us endless hours of topics to bicker and laugh over.
	Excellent.
	Please, you got her on the list?
	Yes, we do.
	Somebody please think of the children.
	Poop police.
	Which I don't recall.
	I do.
	Obama, no, no, no, and MILF! Oh!
	Won't somebody please think of the children?
	Detective Dookie!
	Detective Dookie!
	Poot Police.
	SPU. Special Poopers Unit.
	You know what?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Milk.
	That's one mother.
	I like that.
	You've got karma.
	Boom shakalaka.
	Boom shakalaka.
	We got a lot of executive producers that carried the show.
	Chris Wilson, $257.65 in Australia.
	That's our man from Australia, yeah.
	This letter has been shortened by Eric because it obliterated the spreadsheet.
	That was my fault.
	I sent this note to Eric and told him to add it to the spreadsheet, which was probably unwise.
	I'm John and Adam.
	Prostate care donation.
	Please email following on from episode 944 and your discussion in the A block.
	Please find my prostate care donation of $257.65, which is the number of ejaculations us blokes need each year.
	Based on the figure of 17 a month, over 365 days per year, an important number for me, as there is family history of prostate issues.
	And now for the gushing praise.
	I guess gushing praise has now become a meme for us.
	I love you guys.
	No homo.
	Well, maybe a bit, but that's probably the atrazine talking or the zucchini in my pocket.
	No, wait.
	It's the lingering smell of fresh meatloaf.
	The guy's a comic.
	Douchebag call out the Kors...
	Korsnatin.
	Douchebag!
	Over Dimension B's anti-capitalist party for calling me a class reductionist and kicking me out.
	What a pack of anti-abolist idiot retards.
	Douchebag call-out to Jake Hooft.
	Douchebag!
	Or Hoyft.
	I hit him in the mouth more than a year ago.
	He never heard his name mentioned once.
	Also, not so much a call-out, but a douchebag check to Chris Richardson up in Alaska.
	It's been a while, mate.
	Okay.
	Special thank you to Adam for keeping the noagendasocial.com safe space operational.
	I need to thank Aaroner, at Aaroner.
	Do you remember we had this big problem when we were in Rome?
	All of a sudden, the let's encrypt certificate expired.
	Yeah, I had Tina's birthday.
	I went through a very dark time.
	I said, I can't.
	I'm on my vacation.
	I can't.
	You know, and then Python was breaking.
	I'm like, what the hell?
	You're whining.
	But then...
	Yeah, and Python 2 wouldn't work with 3.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And then, all of a sudden, one of our producers shows up and says, hey, look, man, I'm a government contractor security expert.
	I can do this for you, no problem.
	Five minutes, John.
	Five minutes.
	What do you do?
	Done.
	Thank you, Aaron.
	Yeah, that's because he's a pro.
	Done.
	Yeah, and us amateurs have to suffer.
	But we can at least bitch.
	He goes on, he's a fuck cancer for his friend Nadine, who is going through chemo at the moment.
	There's a donation reminder clip sequence attached.
	If you could please play the Ned, Jeffrey, and Sir Isaac of the Shocking Truth Mastodon jingle.
	I don't know what that is.
	At the end of the show, it would be great.
	Healthy dose of karma for everyone.
	I want the truth.
	You can't handle the truth.
	Mastodon.
	Mastodon. Mastodon.
	You've got karma.
	We are tight today, John.
	Yeah, you are.
	Tight.
	You've been having that Italian wine.
	That's right, baby.
	Hey, Tina, if you want some, it's almost done.
	You better hurry up.
	Chris Richardson, 225 bucks.
	Hello, lads.
	Here's 225 PayPal-ing its way to you right now, and that's the cost of having your horse shod.
	Don't forget to put boots on, please.
	And he says...
	Okay, he says, don't want to deal with lost shoes.
	I guess that's what the boots do.
	And he says, please tell Chris Wilson to piss off.
	Because I guess he's been called out as a douchebag.
	And here he is.
	And Chris Wilson called him out, and now he told him to, okay, yes, and we have documentation that you've been sent.
	Alright, some karma then.
	You've got karma.
	Now, Renee Schwerin in Sende, I can't even pronounce it, in Deutschland, 222 bucks.
	She sent a note in, or a he.
	Sorry.
	Dear John and Adam, you can't tell if Renee's a he or a she in Europe.
	Renee is probably a dude.
	Generally, it's a he.
	Dude.
	Generally.
	Yeah.
	I am listening to your podcast now for about a year from Germany.
	I finally got some money to give to a good cause.
	I am disagreeing you more often than not.
	Good.
	Especially climate change issues.
	Disagree me, baby.
	Now, the thing I want to throw in here is that if you're in Germany, Deutschland, and you don't disagree with climate change issues and you're obviously not even walking around the streets...
	Because they are inundated.
	And the EU in particular, I was just reading over a...
	I was listening to...
	I'm sure.
	No, I was listening to Joseph O'Brien, one of the leading London's British conversation guys on the radio, who is unbelievable.
	He is one of the...
	I would not recommend anyone going on his show.
	He'll kill you.
	And in fact, I'm going to deconstruct a clip he did with Nigel Farage, where I took Farage to the cleaners.
	He's a pro-Remainer.
	He thinks everything, you know, he's just so bright, but he's so good at it, at suckering people into making misstatements at the end, and he just destroys them.
	It got me just doing some research on some of the stuff the EU is up to, And it's almost 90% of what the EU is about is climate change.
	Yeah.
	That would be a different discussion.
	Anyway, but he goes on, this guy, Rene.
	Rene.
	But I enjoy the style of the topics in your show very much.
	I would be commuting to my new job in August for five hours every Friday and Monday, so it's a perfect time to listen.
	Absolutely.
	Please give a shout out to the Aufwachen podcast.
	Aufwachen, ja, it's a very famous podcast.
	Stephan and Tilo brought me to you.
	They're apparently fans of ours.
	Yes.
	I would like to hear a Kim Jong Yum Yum Un Un Resist We Much and some Job Karma.
	Keep up the good work.
	Okay.
	Kim Jong Yum Yum.
	What was the other one?
	Resist We Much and Job Karma.
	And I really appreciate this kind of donation.
	You know, instead of...
	You know, attacking me on Twitter like Antifa.
	You know, here's a guy who's saying, you know, I don't agree with everything you say, but, you know, I get some value out of it and I appreciate what you're doing.
	Now that is someone who's open-minded.
	Duncan.
	Feeling Duncan, my friend.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	You've got karma.
	Resist be much.
	I don't know about you, but I'm sure I do this, and I'm pretty sure most No Agenda listeners and producers, when you see these signs resist, you just can't not add we much.
	You can't help, but listen, you hear it in your head.
	Resist be much.
	Oh yeah, that's true.
	Matthew Olmsted, $207.13 tomorrow or today when you're reading this coincides with my bride-to-be's and my wedding.
	Well, happy wedding.
	Fabulous.
	Yes.
	The 7-13 date has much numerical significance for us and by happenstance is a palindrome date and on a show day.
	I'd like to request karma for the nuptials happening after the show and job karma for my soon-to-be wife.
	Do you think they're all listening there in the church?
	I don't think so.
	Okay.
	But they might.
	You never know.
	Who needs electrical engineering?
	At least they get to get, hopefully, the show in early and they can get dotted here early.
	Who needs electrical engineering position?
	It says, wait.
	Job partnership with my wife.
	Who needs electrical energy?
	In other words, he needs a job, too.
	He needs one, too, I bet you.
	Keep up the good work, gentlemen.
	Thank you for your scheduling the train museum trip after the San Diego Comic-Con weekend.
	I'm sure you had that in mind.
	I should have.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Of course, I've got some jobs, Carmen, for you.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And the last of our associate executive producers on this long list, and we thank you much.
	Kurt from Illinois, 200 bucks.
	Please just say, I'm Kurt.
	Holy cow, Adam, what a nightmare getting data for that last week's show.
	Thank you for making sure the show goes on.
	Any regular listener who listened to the last show and didn't donate today is a douchebag.
	You guys really helped me get through the recent breakup, and I really appreciate it.
	There's a lot of life left in the show.
	Joined around the 790s, and I hope you both are willing to continue it for a lot longer.
	John, I would love to hear another recording of you screwing with the telemarketer.
	You know, it's funny you say that because I've been trying to get one.
	Anyway, clips.
	Please play Italian, yes, Das is Important.
	I don't know what this is.
	I don't know what that is either.
	The Das is Important guy, it was an ISO from a clip about the Pope.
	Pope ISO. We're not going to find that one, I can tell you.
	He wants a single pew.
	In other words, not pew pew, but pew, and a goat scream.
	I can do the pew and the goat scream, but I don't know what the...
	Yeah, well, it's okay.
	What is this thing about the Pope?
	Well, hold on a second.
	Let me just check.
	Give me one second.
	It might be in here.
	Let me see.
	Okay.
	You said it was the Pope.
	It was the Pope.
	It should be related.
	It should have the word Pope, I would hope.
	Yes, that is important.
	Yes, that is important, guy.
	It was an ISO clip about the Pope.
	Do we have any Pope clips whatsoever?
	No, I don't have it.
	I'm sorry.
	Hello.
	Oops.
	That's a wrong pew-pew.
	Now I'm confused.
	I was so tight before.
	Sorry, hold on.
	You were bragging.
	I was, I know.
	I spiked the ball.
	I'm a moron.
	I'm a moron.
	I shouldn't have done it.
	Here we go.
	Pew-pew.
	You've got karma.
	We want to thank all these ladies and gentlemen for the support, executive producer and associate executive producer support for show 946.
	Yes.
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	All right, I gotta give you a little Euro news, man.
	A little Euro news.
	What's going on here?
	There's some stuff happening.
	What's going on?
	Yeah, we got...
	Well...
	The Eurozone is dysfunctional.
	In case you didn't realize it, it's very dysfunctional, and we have not only is the United States President in France for 14 Juliet, that'll be the big celebration tomorrow, their Independence Day, but I believe Angela Merkel was hanging out with Macron.
	Emmanuel Macron is hosting Angela Merkel in Paris for the last Franco-German summit before the German elections in September.
	The French president has called on Berlin to take action to help put right what he calls a dysfunctional Eurozone by accepting more public and private investment in Europe.
	In an interview published in French and German newspapers, Macron says he has nothing against German competitiveness but argues it's partly due to the weakness of other economies.
	The two leaders are also discussing defense, security, and counterterrorism on Thursday.
	Merkel's visit to Paris coincides with that of Donald Trump, but there are no plans for the German leader to meet the U.S. president.
	Yeah, no surprise there.
	There's also, not in this report, there's now talk all over the Eurozone of appointing a singular EU finance minister.
	People, you know, you didn't want to believe us when we told you none of this was a good idea, but now your money is going to be centrally dictated by your Eurozone finance minister.
	So that will also be on the agenda.
	I had a lot of conversations with Willow and the family about the migrants, of course, and we were talking about, on the way up to their house, she picked us up here in town.
	We were talking about...
	Italian law being significantly...
	There's a lot of precedence here.
	There has not been, to my knowledge, any terrorist attack, a radical Islamic terrorist attack in Italy, where we've seen that happen in other countries.
	And there's probably some obvious reasons for that.
	But one thing Willow alerted me to is they do not have the niqab or burqa issue in Italy.
	And that stems back to the, geez, was that the 80s?
	They had a lot of terrorists.
	Maybe even the 90s.
	Well, they had terrorist attacks here.
	But not from radical Islam.
	There was all kinds of stuff going on.
	What was the name of the group who were bombing stuff in Italy, John?
	What group was that again?
	I don't know.
	The first thing that comes to mind is Battermeinhoff.
	I don't remember.
	It wasn't them.
	Well, anyway, it is illegal, illegal in Italy to cover your face in public.
	You cannot go into a store or any place of business with your helmet on.
	All of that is outlawed and illegal, and somehow they're still able to maintain this.
	Hold on a second.
	The French have similar laws, and every time the French talk about doing anything like that, they get shouted down by the media.
	How come nobody's ever said any?
	I didn't know this.
	I didn't know it either.
	But also, you know, Italy is welcoming.
	You know, Italy is for, oh my gosh, how long has Italy been taking in migrants?
	For eight years now?
	This has been ongoing for a long, long time.
	However, in Brussels, they finally pushed it through.
	Belgium can ban Islamic face fails in public, judges have ruled.
	That's a decision from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
	Belgium's ban was introduced in 2011.
	Two women had challenged it because they wanted to wear the niqab, which covers everything but the eyes of the wearer.
	The court hides behind the states by failing to find a violation of what is called the principle of subsidiarity, but it points out Belgium is embarking on a dangerous path.
	It could really lead to stigmatization.
	It recognizes that Belgium has made a choice, that it's a choice of society with all the dangers that go along with that, but in the end it doesn't rule against it.
	Supporters of secularism in Belgium hailed the decision, saying that there should be some restrictions on religious freedom.
	In any case, it's a decision that's logical because it goes along the same lines as other decisions.
	So we find that this goes in the right direction.
	In the end, there's a certain logic of living together.
	We must have freedoms which are as wide as possible, but there must also be some limits.
	At the time of the ban being approved six years ago, Belgium said it was necessary on security grounds.
	You just wait and see how that packs out.
	Has that guy got a mouthful of marbles?
	Yeah, that's Euro news.
	It's hard to get anything else in English that is really playable.
	Now back to Italy.
	So there's a political turmoil right now.
	And we have Renzi, who has now stepped down.
	He said he would, depending on how everything has been going in the past few months.
	And now there's blame going on about...
	The migrants, of course, as you know, the Italian migrants are being blocked.
	You can't get into any other country if you go into Italy.
	And now you have the, I guess what used to be the left is now kind of center-right, and they're saying, well, you guys back in the day in 2000, I think it might have been back in 2008, Four even, as early as that.
	You guys said bring all your migrants here, and now look at it, now we have all this going on.
	So there's a lot of turmoil about who's to blame for the migrant crisis, which is rampant now in Italy.
	The EU has shown solidarity with Italy in the face of the arrival of migrants by the Mediterranean, but there are still disagreements.
	Twenty-eight interior ministers gathered yesterday in Tallinn for an informal meeting.
	They all agreed on an action plan presented earlier this week by the European Commission.
	Since the start of the year, nearly 85,000 people have landed on the Italian coast, according to the International Organization for Migration.
	But there are divergences.
	Italy hopes other member countries will open their ports to ships carrying migrants.
	However, that question is being postponed, according to the Italian interior minister.
	We've sent a letter to the institution that must deal with that, which is Frontex.
	We'll discuss about it next week.
	It's clear that on this point there are opposite positions.
	If it has its own point of view, other countries have their point of view.
	As it's fair, we'll discuss about it.
	And we'll discuss, if I may say so, with the necessary determination.
	Which means, screw you, you're stuck with him, you're not going to get rid of him.
	But they don't seem to have a big problem with it.
	The Italians don't seem to be that freaked out about it.
	They also, they have, they're not so much refugees.
	They say, well, we have a lot of economic migrants and we got a spot for them.
	They can sell selfie sticks and USB adapters, which seems to be working out fine.
	What do you need a USB adapter for?
	I don't know, but these guys have their own little cardboard setup.
	It's just basically a cardboard box.
	And they open it up right after all the bag guys, the bag BAG, clean up their rip-offs.
	And I got to tell you a funny story in a minute.
	And then, you know, it's like right around dusk, then they come out on the streets and they have, you know, their little cardboard table and it's got selfie sticks.
	They've got USB power adapters for your phone and plug adapters for European to U.S. So we go out.
	We needed another suitcase.
	I told you this.
	You know, suitcase.
	And we're walking around.
	And of course, when you're not looking for a suitcase, every store has a suitcase.
	We're looking for a suitcase.
	We can't find one.
	So we wind up walking past the dome here.
	And this is an interesting suitcase.
	It's also a nice...
	Italy is well known for its leather products as well.
	Beautiful leather products.
	And very inexpensive.
	Because they're all made locally.
	They do still to that.
	And we walk into this one store.
	And I say, oh, this is a nice suitcase.
	You know, like 65 euros.
	That's a good size.
	That's a reasonable price.
	The first thing the sales lady says, not Chinese.
	I say, what do you mean?
	Not Chinese.
	And then the owner comes out.
	We don't sell Chinese or Pakistani crap.
	This is all Italian.
	Screw them.
	He's like, wow, you're pretty racist.
	Yes, very racist.
	Yes.
	Just a tad racist.
	I don't know where that was going.
	Well, good.
	I think that's good.
	I've had this situation where I had to get an extra bag or two.
	I always go to usually a Chinese shop and buy some $15 loser.
	Just some junker I know will make one flight.
	This will make a couple.
	This is sturdy.
	It was nice.
	Good piece.
	Good piece.
	Oh, I do have a couple of fun clips.
	We are behind.
	Well, before we go there, I want to do a couple of get some Trump stuff out of the way that has to do with what's going on.
	And since you brought up that he went to Paris, there is a funny bit that they did.
	This has not gotten very far, but it's funny.
	This was on MSNBC again.
	This was Brian the Liar.
	And I didn't notice this, but I've listened to enough Trump speeches that I know that he tells this anecdote.
	And this is the story of Jim.
	Jim?
	I have a friend.
	He used to like France.
	He used to.
	And he was going to France.
	And I said, how's your trip going?
	He goes, where?
	France.
	He said, I'm not going to France.
	Because France is no longer France.
	If you look at what's happening in France, it's no longer France.
	Friends of mine that used to love to go to Paris, they say, we're not going to Paris anymore.
	It's no longer Paris.
	I have a friend, every year he goes to Paris.
	I haven't seen him in a while.
	Paris, oh, the City of Light, she's told me.
	For years, Paris, Paris.
	I see him like a month ago.
	How was Paris this summer?
	I don't go to Paris.
	Are you kidding me?
	It's no longer Paris.
	I have a friend.
	He's a very, very substantial guy.
	He loves the City of Lights.
	He loves Paris.
	I hadn't seen him in a while.
	And I said, Jim, let me ask you a question.
	How's Paris doing?
	Paris?
	I don't go there anymore.
	Paris is no longer Paris.
	You get the gist.
	That's the short and curious story of Jim.
	Vivian adds this in her story of Jim.
	Quote, whether Jim exists is unclear.
	Trump has never given his last name.
	The White House has not responded to a request for comment about who Jim is or whether he will be on the trip.
	I love Jim.
	I'm thinking.
	Jim?
	Jim?
	I don't go to Paris anymore because there's not Paris anymore.
	Whoa!
	And now he's in Paris.
	Hmm.
	Yes, that's the reason I think they did this.
	It's a needle him.
	Of course it is.
	But I know nobody's picked up on this, but Trump does repeat himself on his speeches.
	Because he's got to talk for two hours.
	If you remember when he first started doing these stump speeches and he gave these big crowds...
	And, of course, they'd report on Trump as an idiot, and, of course, they wouldn't even...
	What bothered me about the media, and I think which was important about the DNC break-in, was that Bernie would get as big a crowd, if not bigger, than Trump always.
	Absolutely.
	He could have beat Trump.
	But they never reported on anything Bernie had to say.
	He could have beat Trump.
	I think so, too.
	I've always felt that way.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah, a real possibility.
	The other one...
	The other little clip that's a little aside, this is the Stockholm Syndrome clip, and this is, let me set it up, this was a guy, he's a historian who does his history of presidents, Meacham I think is his last name, he looks like Gary Johnson, almost dead ringer, and he was on MSNBC,
	and they were discussing the fact that after all this crap that's going on, 85% of the Republicans still approve of Trump's, you know, they talk about those lousy ratings, but 85% of Republicans Like Trump, and they still do.
	And so this is dimension B. They have no idea how this could possibly happen.
	So here's the explanation.
	I take it back.
	And 63 percent.
	But what and not making fun.
	But I do think that the Republican Party right now, the only way I can explain that 85 percent as a rational matter is they have Stockholm Syndrome.
	They sold their souls in many ways for victory with this man who came in and swamped a field of very traditional candidates that included governors and senators.
	And they are trapped in this really kind of tragic embrace.
	The question to my mind, the answer to the question about the tipping point, is there needs to be a two in front of his overall approval rating.
	And I think at that point, people in that 85% may come down.
	But we live in two, as you just said, we live in two very different countries right now.
	Oh, jeez.
	You mean universe is douche.
	Stockholm Syndrome.
	Same country.
	We know who really has the Stockholm Syndrome.
	Jeez.
	Well, I got an MSNBC clip.
	A really crazy one.
	And I think we're going to be seeing more of this.
	Ivanka Trump is to be hated.
	And this is not abnormal in my opinion.
	I've been around a bit.
	I've been around the globe for a bit.
	I've been around the world for a bit.
	Pretty women are often hated.
	We just get hated.
	Eventually.
	Eventually.
	Certainly if they're successful.
	And then you need to talk them down.
	And we all know that Ivanka, she's not successful because she's successful.
	It's because of her dad.
	And we know that she's a horrible person.
	This is a contributor on MSNBC, Joan Walsh.
	Are you familiar with Joan Walsh?
	Yeah, I've seen Joan Wash.
	What's her deal?
	I think she's a writer.
	I could be wrong.
	I don't remember.
	I've seen her.
	She may be a professional talk show person.
	Could be.
	And she has a nice sleeveless dress on, sleeveless with a décolleté, and she has a nice diamond pendant.
	She looks like a professional woman on television.
	There's nothing wrong with it.
	Fine.
	Fine.
	Pearls.
	She should be wearing pearls.
	Go on.
	Well, she should be wearing pearls.
	Pearly necklace.
	But she is very, very disturbed by the fact that Ivanka sat in for her father during the G20. This is another...
	You know, this is funny because I was thinking about putting some stuff together for, like, not the...
	I think this was, like, a show ago, at least, when this happened.
	And everybody was...
	It was just, to me, it was like a...
	Talk about a non-news story.
	We've got to start documenting this.
	So they go from one of these little events to another, to another, and they're sitting down at the table...
	In her dad's seat was huge.
	Oh!
	This is unbelievable!
	And wasn't it...
	Was it the woman's thing?
	Was that what she was sitting down for?
	No, no.
	What happened, they were at the main table for the G20. The main table, I believe.
	And there was some meetings off campus or just in the back room.
	I don't know where they were.
	But Donald had to get up and he asked his daughter to take his place in the seat.
	Because she's, you know...
	I would say she's decorative.
	She's kind of sexist, but a fact.
	Don't worry.
	What you're about to hear is nothing compared to what you're saying here.
	Nothing at all.
	And so they put her down there, and I didn't say, so what?
	Yeah.
	Well, but this represents, I believe, thinking of a lot of women, a lot of women in Dimension B, certainly if they appear on MSNBC, and I'm quite blown away by it, that I thought women were supposed to stick together and are supposed to You know, hate men.
	I mean, what are you doing?
	Well, it's like blacks are supposed to stick together, but not if they're a Republican.
	Yeah, I think that there's one woman benefiting from Ivanka's crusade for women, and that is Ivanka Trump herself.
	That $50 million fund for women entrepreneurs is being controlled by her.
	The fact that she doesn't take a salary only reflects her own great wealth, thanks partly or largely to her father.
	And, you know, when she's tried to go to bat for us, allegedly, her solution to the defunding of Planned Parenthood was to tell Cecile Richards, just stop performing abortions.
	You know, that was her brilliant compromise, which would hurt many poor women around the country.
	So I think that feminists, that women, really ought to give up the idea that Ivanka is our person in the White House, because if she is trying at all, she's completely ineffectual.
	Also, it's a little muddy about not taking a salary while having the status of being a federal employee, yet not having to be held to different ethical standards.
	Also saying that she doesn't want to be involved in politics.
	She's sitting for her father at the G20. Right, with big bows on her sleeve.
	I mean, I don't mean to sound sexist.
	It can be dangerous to comment on what women wear.
	The fact that she sat in for her father in a dress that was so incredibly ornamental was such a contradiction in terms.
	And I think that what we see is that in authoritarian societies, daughters have great value.
	They are property.
	And the message that she is sending about her own value, about her place in the White House, and about the place of women in this administration, I think are really pretty frightening.
	You think you're opening yourself up about the Boves?
	Are you looking at Twitter yet?
	Not yet, but I will.
	It's a pink dress with big bows on the elbows.
	There's something incredibly ornamental.
	That's not a dress that's made for work.
	That's not a dress that's made to go out in the world and make a difference.
	That is a dress that is designed to show off your girliness.
	And, you know, God bless her.
	Show it off.
	But don't then tell us that you're crusading for an equal place for women at the table because you're not.
	So you can't be a feminist and be girly at the same time?
	You can be a feminist and be girly.
	We all have our girly days, but I think showing up, taking your father's seat in a pink dress with big bows on the sleeves is really an interesting message.
	I also don't know why H.R. McMaster and Rex Tillerson didn't quit on the spot that they wouldn't sit in, that she would get to sit there.
	I mean, they're playing.
	There's some head games going on here, and I'm just going to, you know, break it down.
	I know Twitter's waiting for me, Thomas, but I'm giving you my unfiltered reaction.
	From the broader American perspective, I think, you know, as we recoil under a president that wants to be an isolationist, the only people that raise their profile is a Trump over and over again.
	So we'll see if there is action that backs up the initiative.
	Oh, man.
	Too pink and with bows.
	Oh, no.
	You don't represent women.
	You have to be ugly and wear shitty clothes.
	Baggy.
	Wear something baggy.
	Disgusting.
	Maybe if she had a pink pussy hat, it would have been okay.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, probably would have been.
	That to me is really, really sexist.
	And then to say, maybe it's sexist.
	I have to break it down now.
	I've got to break it down.
	I've got to break it down.
	These people make me sick.
	Well, they're sickening.
	Oh, hey, John.
	Because we talked about it, I got the full-length quote.
	I've been tracking Stephen Hawking.
	Stephen Hawking, who doesn't seem to be Stephen Hawking anymore.
	Yes, this theory of yours is getting traction amongst the more liberal-minded, let's say, of our audience.
	Yes, well, you'll recall I had this quote, it was just a little quote from him.
	Now, I tracked down the full BBC interview, or at least what they aired of it, and it's only audio.
	It is not of him.
	You don't see him on camera.
	But I have the full climate change quote from Stephen Hawking, which is really quite astounding coming from a scientist.
	We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible.
	Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink to become like Venus with a temperature of 250 degrees and raining sulfuric acid.
	Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent if we act now.
	By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.
	I mean, that's really a scientific quote there.
	I'm very, very surprised that this is coming from the mind.
	Are we sure this isn't bogus?
	Well, the BBC... How's it going to start raining sulfuric acid?
	I mean, at what point do you not trust the BBC? But wait, there's more.
	Just to follow up on his disease, it is indeed ALS, and he has a wish.
	A cure for motor neuron disease, otherwise known as ALS, or at least a halt to its progression.
	When I was diagnosed at 21, I was told it would kill me in two or three years.
	Now, 54 years later, albeit we turn in a wheelchair, I am still working and producing scientific papers.
	But it's been a great struggle, which I have got through only with a lot of help from my family, colleagues, and friends.
	There you go, the longest survivor of ALS ever.
	Fabulous.
	This is bogus.
	His caulking is dead.
	Whoever they put in his place is a stooge.
	Sorry.
	This can't be true.
	Yeah, well, again...
	I don't have really anything to say about this.
	I normally should be just debunking you, but the logic of it is correct.
	I'm sorry to say it, but what else can you make of it?
	And there's been a lot written about this.
	The giveaway to me is that commentary about raining sulfuric acid.
	We're going to become Venus.
	250 degrees, please.
	It just doesn't make any sense at all.
	I mean, I understand.
	By the way, we do play these sorts of climate stuff for our friends in Germany.
	Yes, specifically for our friends in Germany.
	You do get the information.
	It's just that we think it's crazy.
	Well, I got a couple of things.
	Yeah, I'm respectful of your time because I know you need to leave on time.
	We still have a whole donation segment to go through.
	Right, I'm just trying to get through my clips.
	Okay.
	I do have some update on the ceasefire in Syria.
	Yes, please.
	That's falling apart because of the, again, I think it's the neocons and the Soros people.
	Well, you know, I've got to say just one slight aside note.
	Now there's all this, oh, the strategy in Afghanistan isn't working, and oh boy, what are we going to do?
	Afghanistan, Afghanistan.
	John McCain is out in full force.
	My military contacts unanimously say...
	We need more sales.
	We need more sales.
	Afghanistan is now the new place because no one knows what the hell is going on there.
	So we'll just say the strategy is not working and then we'll go sell some more stuff.
	They're selling a lot of stuff.
	The Syria thing is again kind of like we're supposed to do a deal with the Russians thanks to Trump, but this has been kind of busted up and We've got a back and forth.
	I've got three clips we can get through.
	Everyone will be caught up on this.
	Let's get this out of the way.
	Ceasefire, nobody is clear.
	The details of the agreed ceasefire in Syria, which came into force last Sunday, are just one of the things the U.S. government appears to be playing down, as Jacqueline Vugo reports from Washington.
	The highly anticipated bilateral meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit ended with high hopes that the two countries could finally leave all the bad blood behind and see a new stage in relations.
	After the two presidents met in Hamburg, Tillerson came out saying that they had great chemistry.
	They discussed cyber security and the ceasefire in Syria and were really ready to move forward.
	Putin and Trump did discuss that joint cybersecurity unit, but Trump has since backtracked on that with a post on Twitter after the idea was widely attacked here in Washington.
	And about that ceasefire in Syria, the most important achievement reached by the US and Russia in conjunction with Jordan, Moscow has already outlined what role in the suspension of hostilities they will play, but America's has yet to be clarified.
	Yeah, and the State Department chimes, and apparently the State Department has taken over the program.
	Which irks the Pentagon.
	And I find that rather suspicious.
	But let's get to part two and we'll be done with this.
	And recent reports show that the Pentagon was left completely out of the process.
	We reached out to the Pentagon to see if they could shed some light on the plan.
	And they in turn said that the State Department was the head agency and referred us to them.
	But they also have yet to come up with a solid strategy.
	In terms of who is doing what, when, where, how, some of those details are still being worked out.
	So no real answer there either.
	And the spokeswoman also had a rather strange reaction to Russia's foreign minister having made comments about working on a ceasefire monitoring station in Jordan.
	Is there any clarity so far on the monitoring of the Syrian ceasefire?
	Obviously Lavrov said yesterday that it was going to be done with the United States and Jordan from a center in Amman.
	Do you have any more details on that?
	Mr.
	Lavrov likes to talk a lot and get out ahead, I think, of some of the negotiations that are underway.
	That is all still being worked out.
	So we're seeing again, one step forward, two steps back.
	What's becoming the usual U.S. approach to working with Russia?
	And what network was this that had this reporting?
	RT, of course.
	I gotcha, gotcha.
	That was clip two?
	Yep.
	Number three?
	Some of America's partners in Europe have also pointed out the inconsistency of America's Russia policy.
	A German government official, Gernot Erle, has lashed out at the U.S., saying its policy is a, quote, an indecisive back and forth with no clear direction.
	Former U.S. diplomat Jim Jatras told us what's behind the mixed signals coming from Washington.
	If the Russians believe the Americans are talking with two voices, that's because we are.
	Clearly, I think President Trump is very sincere in trying to work out some kind of a broader arrangement with Moscow and that he faces tremendous opposition here in Washington from people who didn't want this meeting to take place at all or wanted to be at best a pro forma handshake and pleasantries kind of thing, not to affect any substance.
	We have a lot of people here, if you will, in the deep state Who don't want any cooperation with Russia at all on anything, particularly on Syria.
	And there is a huge potential that somebody may try to sabotage it.
	But I'm still rather optimistic.
	Yeah.
	Same old stuff.
	Yeah.
	You got your neocons.
	You got your Soros.
	You got your CIA. Where are the Kegans in all this?
	They're very quiet.
	Yeah, of course they're quiet because everything is going as planned.
	Yeah.
	I just nodded myself.
	Yes, it is.
	What am I even thinking?
	Everything's going fine, swimmingly, just according to plan.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We do have a few people to thank.
	We're going to run through their names.
	And Sir Dangerous.
	Night of the Men with something, with Hill?
	You get a longer thing there?
	Night of the Men with Hill.
	Anyway, yeah, with Men with Hill is what it says.
	That's what I got.
	He says he compliments you for getting to show out while you're in Rome.
	We do our best.
	We do.
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	KI7HDT, 73s.
	73s, key to 5-alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
	Joseph Harrell, $100.
	Thanks for making this show happen from Europe.
	Jorge or Jorge, depending.
	Alvarez, $100.
	Sir Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	He's got a, I don't know if he's on the list, but there should be somebody on the list.
	Yes, he's got the boob palindrome to celebrate palindrome.
	Yes, palindromes.
	Nelson Silhan, another boob.
	And he sent an interesting note in.
	I forgot what it said, but thanks for the note.
	It was a great note.
	It was a great note.
	He was talking about something I wish I could remember, damn it.
	Joe Besezi, 78-71.
	Nicholas Oman in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, 77-77.
	Chris Beggio, 73-73.
	That's him.
	He's K-9-C-A-B. 73s to you.
	73s.
	Melissa Hodges in Oklahoma City, 71-17.
	These are 71-17 specific palindrome week.
	Have you seen the, you know, this is palindrome week, and there are a lot of palindromes, but if you look at the, of course you haven't seen, if you look at the face bag, when someone says, hey, it's a palindrome, immediately, immediately they get jumped on.
	Yeah, only in America, you moron, because you do the dates wrong.
	Oh, jeez.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's exactly how it sounds too.
	Gamer Rose Shabazzian in San Francisco.
	Sir Slotkar in Loomis, California, 71-17.
	Both those.
	Sir Brian Longnecker, 71-17.
	That's the end of our little promotion.
	And I want to thank Sir Brian Longnecker.
	He's really started to bring us some cool end-of-show ditties, and it's highly appreciated.
	Good for him.
	Yeah.
	I really appreciate all the people that do production like that.
	No kidding.
	Brian Tobias in 7093, Skyler Viscani in Bakersfield 6006, which is the mini-boob, I think.
	We're not going to give you a douchebag.
	You don't deserve it.
	What's he a douchebag for?
	I don't know.
	He says he's a douchebag.
	You can't give yourself a douchebag.
	You can't.
	Michael Giles, 5973.
	You have to get a douchebag from one of your friends.
	You don't know if you're a douchebag.
	Your true friends, yes.
	5973 from Michael Giles.
	Oh, that's a 5x973 huge ham donation.
	Oh, yes.
	KC7TWW in Madison, Alabama, 73.
	5x973.
	Bradley Ledin in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 55-10.
	Arkansas is a beautiful state.
	Trent Wabbis, 51-51.
	William Wellhorn, Kennesaw, Georgia, 50-33.
	Trent Wabbis again.
	Uh-oh.
	50-17.
	What is going on with Trent?
	It's up to $100.
	All right.
	Gary Wiley, 50.
	These are all $50 donors, name and location.
	Gary Wiley, parts unknown.
	Mike Westerfield, Sir Mike, in Enderlin, North Dakota.
	Branded Savoy, also a sir.
	Mm-hmm.
	Don't know where he's from.
	Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	Jesse Nolet in Arlington, Texas.
	Richard Gardner.
	Sir.
	Who may also be a sir.
	I think he is.
	Jay...
	And he's...
	I don't know where he is.
	Jay Codicini.
	Codicini.
	In Newark.
	Delaware.
	Newark, New Jersey, that is.
	No, it says Delaware.
	Oh, Newark, Delaware.
	Hmm.
	Alistair Campbell in Tampa, Florida.
	Mark Little in La Jolla, California.
	And last but not least, Jason Clegg came in from somewhere.
	San Diego, California.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping produce the show.
	Number 946.
	Yes.
	And we got another show coming up, and we still need continued help.
	And another sad note, I hate these, but I'm happy we can do them, from Jerry Besailin.
	In the morning, Adam and John, I'm a wreck at the moment.
	My cousin, I grew up with him, was on that crash, the KC-130 in Mississippi.
	I know.
	I wonder if we could have a love and light for Marine Sergeant Joseph Murray.
	It would mean a lot to me, and I look forward to your analysis of the crash with your aviation experience if you do talk about it.
	I have not studied it, but flippantly we would say it's a day wrecker, and I'm sure any aviation person would say the same because that's how we kind of deal with these things in aviation, and we're very sorry about that.
	So, a karma and also a jobs karma because lots of people need that in these times.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	All right, here's a list for today's Sir Richard says happy birthday to his lovely wife, Wendy, as she celebrated on June 29th.
	I guess we're a little bit late with that.
	David Osterman celebrated on July 11th.
	And Sir Herb Lamb says happy birthday to his son, Max.
	He'll be turning 16 on July...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	On the 19th.
	That's right.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here, including Uncle John and Uncle Adam at the best podcast in the universe.
	It's your friend.
	Okay, we have one dame, and we have two knights.
	Oh, by the way, it's going to be legal now to carry swords around in, I think it was Austin, actually.
	It's about time.
	I know, and I have a great one.
	I can't wait to open carry my sword.
	So if you could grab your blade, John, that would be helpful.
	Yeah, I got it right here.
	Okay, perfect.
	Alright, David Osterbaum, John Auperin, Wendy Leitner, come on up here and join us, please, on the podium.
	For the three of you are about to enter the very special club, the Club of the Knights and the Dames.
	It's at the round table, and I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as the following.
	Sir Dave O'Knight of the Traveling A.V. Techs.
	We have Sirloin, Knight of the New Smyrna Beach Shark Shallows, and Dame Wendy, Saint of the Lincoln Lighter Clan.
	For you, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	We've got Runny Eggs and Grapefruit Juice, WWE and Dabs, Arrowgate and Ambien.
	We've got Labian Lasagna, Sappho and Spice.
	We've got Fry Bread and Fembots, Progressive Rock and Russian Imperial Stout, Porn Stars and Pot, Kanalinga Yoga and Jambo.
	Oh, we got three gates to the bucket of fried chicken, breast milk, and pavling.
	And, of course, mutton and mead.
	Head on over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	And we will make sure that Eric, the show, gets your ring out to you as soon as possible.
	And please tweet that.
	Because we love retweeting that to show people that we have a real community here.
	And it's true.
	We do.
	It's a good one.
	I'm very proud of it.
	Very, very proud of it.
	Okay.
	Let me see.
	I got a little crazy for you.
	Want some crazy?
	Some social justice warrior crazy just to laugh?
	Oh, I love that.
	You can play the goat screaming at the end.
	Oh, well, let me get the goat all queued up.
	Nothing like a goat.
	Got a bit of goat.
	Let me just test the goat.
	Yes, the goat is functional.
	Good.
	I'm not sure where this took place, but it's been doing the rounds on the YouTubes.
	There's this group...
	And they go, so if people are fishing in a lake, you know, just off a bridge in this case, they will go up to the fisher, fishermen, fisherwomen, fisherpeople, and grab their fish and throw them back into the water.
	So you've, and they're fishing legally, they have a fishing license.
	And there's like kids who are fishing.
	He's like, catch a fish.
	And these people with these t-shirts, I don't know exactly what group they're with, they run up and they grab the fish and they throw it back in the water.
	Because, John, fish is not food.
	Killing animals is wrong!
	I'm wrong for telling kids that?
	You're wrong for making a scene, bro.
	I'm wrong for telling kids that you're disturbing property.
	I'm wrong for telling kids that fishing is wrong?
	That doesn't make any sense, dude.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	This guy is calling the cops because I just saved an animal's life.
	Yeah, I saved a fish's life.
	It's not food.
	It's violent.
	It's not food.
	It's violence.
	Fishing causes pain to other beings.
	I mean, stop it.
	Use some compassion.
	Use your minds, okay?
	If you wouldn't kill a child, then why would you kill a fish?
	Why would you kill a chicken or any animal?
	It's not food.
	It's not food!
	It's violence!
	Killing fish is no kindness!
	It's not food!
	It's violence!
	Fish feel pain!
	Just like us!
	Fish want to live!
	Just like us!
	It's not food!
	It's violence!
	Killing fish is no kindness!
	Well I had the right idea.
	Fish is not food.
	It's violence.
	It's violence.
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day for that.
	Wow!
	Thank you.
	Two clips of the day.
	My goodness.
	No, three!
	I got a threefer.
	Wow!
	You didn't get three.
	You got two.
	I know.
	I got a clip for the Podesta.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	No, I got one earlier, too.
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, maybe it did, but I don't remember it.
	It was too long ago.
	This show goes on forever.
	I know.
	Well, let's wrap it up then, Johnny boy.
	Play us out here.
	Well, just a couple of things.
	Can we do the elephant sex?
	Is elephant sex any good?
	No, no, that's too long and it leads to a long discussion.
	We'll put it off for a week.
	Okay.
	We got a couple things we can do.
	The Ray FBI guy is going to be affirmed by the CBS report.
	It's not that interesting.
	I found this little clip, this short clip, a little more interesting because of people that listen to me and talk about the stock market.
	Ah!
	I know some of my opinions.
	And this is the Yellen to dump bonds clip.
	Monetary policy is not on a preset course.
	We're watching this very closely and stand ready to adjust our policy if it appears that the inflation undershoot will be persistent.
	Separately, Yellen said the Fed could begin to unload its massive bond holdings this year.
	It bought government bonds during and after the recession in order to lower long-term interest rates and to boost economic activity.
	Wow, they're going to dump them?
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is not good.
	This is what you predicted.
	This is how it starts.
	Well, it starts somehow, but we don't know if that's good.
	You don't know whether that's going to start it or exacerbate it.
	One of the two.
	But when I heard that, I said, oh, another one, just another one.
	And there's a lot of these little things.
	There's a checklist of things that are not good when it comes to the bond collapse, which is due.
	Right.
	And if you want to make some money, here's Adam's tip from the future.
	Short snap.
	It's below its IPO price now.
	I already predicted that.
	It's going to about $5.
	These are not recommendations.
	You actually read the spiel out loud on Horowitz's show once.
	We do not give stock advice, and what he just said is not advice.
	This is purely for entertainment purposes.
	Yes, there you go.
	So, on Sunday, you will have our fabulous two-hour mix special.
	Look forward to that.
	And coming to you from Florence, Italy.
	That's right, the capital of the Renaissance man.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm sitting here on garbage day, and the weather sucks.
	It's windy.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	Adios, mofos.
	Nonsense.
	And this is where it's headed.
	Well, John, our country was built on slaves.
	The slaves built our country.
	Once this Robert E. Lee...
	They did.
	At least in the South.
	Once Robert E. Lee is being taken down for...
	I don't know what...
	I'm sorry, because he was a great general for all practical purposes.
	Then it's going to just go, it's going to get worse.
	They're going to start rewriting history and people like that girl that was cited in the first report.
	Wow, you know, wow, you know, wow, wow, wow.
	You know, I mean, and then, and then to top it off, Trump, not my president, taps, hooting on the back.
	It was like a tap, you know.
	Like, where is your collusion, people?
	Like, if you can't, if you can't see that, seriously, if you can't see that, there's something wrong with you.
	There's something seriously wrong with you.
	Well, I mean, Madonna had a black one.
	This guy leaves from South Carolina and ends up in a Motel 6 in Austin, Texas.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this guy, and he's escaped before.
	He's one of those guys.
	And I like the native ad.
	They left the light on.
	That was good.
	I will never, I will never again attend a meeting of this kind.
	What?
	You know, I gotta check something.
	Well, that would be a red flag.
	This dude has got such a fixation.
	Why are you all dressed up?
	Who are you trying to oppress?
	You trying to get somebody in trouble?
	Calm down.
	The White House says there is no agenda.
	But we are acting responsibly and legally.
	Well, that would be a red flag.
	You can't out-bully a bully.
	It seems like it was a plan.
	The White House says there is no agenda.
	Because if it's going to go down with heat, it should go up with cold.
	The time is going to blow up in a billion years and we need a long-term look.
	It seems like it was a plan.
	Well, and the plan is working well.
	I have no agenda.
	The White House says there is no agenda.
	I have no agenda.
	I think this is what it sets in.
	Keep playing.
	Keep playing it.
	Keep playing it.
	Oh, the food truck.
	This dude has got such a fixation.
	And once again, Russia is the prime suspect.
	Yes, I'm going to Russia, so I brought my own toilet paper.
	I will never, I will never again attend the meeting of this kind.
	This dude has got such a fixation.
	The White House says there is no agenda.
	Keep playing it.
	Well, I'm here in Rome, John.
	So are you roaming around?
	If you ever come to Italy and you're looking for data, this is a word you will hate.
	Giga.
	It's not gigabyte, it's gigas.
	I want that you buy another gigabit.
	Why?
	This is a word you will hate.
	Giga.
	Giga.
	Two gigas.
	No gigas for you.
	We don't want your money.
	You cannot buy any additional data.
	Giga.
	Two gigas.
	No gigas for you.
	Jiggas, jiggas, jiggas, jiggas.
	I'm just checking.
	Are you still with me, John?
	Yeah, yeah.
	You should have been prepared.
	Five networks.
	T-Mobile is flatlining.
	SOS data.
	Now it's 2.30 in the morning.
	Jiggas, jiggas.
	Two jiggas.
	No jiggas for you.
	They won't take your money.
	Won't take your money.
	Jiggas, jiggas.
	Two jiggas.
	No jiggas.
	Uh, hi, Scott.
	Yeah, no, I hope you're calling for Adam.
	I feel really effing valued right now.
	Can I have ten of the two Jiga cards?
	No!
	So why is this terrorism?
	Jiga, Jigas.
	Two Jigas!
	No Jigas for you!
	Oh, you better start rapping it because it's getting...
	Jiga, Jigas.
	Two Jigas!
	No Jigas for you!
	Well, I can now say, I'm sorry I asked.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A- Stomp.

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