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This is your award-winning Kim LaNation Media Assassination Episode 1676.
This is No Agenda.
With Spokes on Speed Dial and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're wondering why Rose Hanbury's having sex with Kate Middleton's husband.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
Who is having sex with who?
Rose Hanbury.
Who's Rose Hanbury?
Why would I even know this?
I wouldn't know, I'd never heard of her until the news came out that they've been scrubbing every single report they can from the UK media that Rose Hanbury's having an affair with the Prince.
It still doesn't answer the question who Rose Hanbury is.
She's a consultant, like a political consultant in the UK.
And she's having sex with who?
She used to work for Gov, that guy Gov.
Oh, Gov.
She's having sex with who?
With the, what's his name?
Harry?
No.
No, the prince, the next king of England.
That guy.
Harry, not Harry.
Willis, Willis, Willis.
William, William, yes.
I can't keep track of you.
Well, this is horrible.
So his wife has cancer and he's cheating on her now?
Could have been cheating before.
All I know is they're scrubbing the... I wouldn't have ever heard of this woman had I not heard about them scrubbing articles.
This is kind of the backlash to censorship.
Well, I was going to surprise you with some sports ball.
Oh, what?
Well, I'm very sad.
I'm very disappointed.
The semifinals yesterday.
I bet you're just in the dumps about whatever it is you're going to tell me.
I am.
The Netherlands lost to the United Kingdom in the Euro 2024 competition, the semifinals, 1-2.
It was 1-1 in the 90th and final minute!
I thought this was the finals.
I thought that was the end of it.
No, no, that's the semifinals.
Now it's the UK versus Spain.
Spain.
Yeah, Spain will kick their ass.
I'm going to go with the UK this time.
Yeah, well, you can go with whatever you want.
You don't even like the sport.
This is the only sport I actually understand.
There's not much to it.
It's what I know.
Explain offsides.
That's when you are, when the player is in the defensive field and the ball is passed to that, it doesn't have to be passed, and he's behind the line, the final defense line in front of the keeper, the goalie.
So then you're offsides.
You can't go behind that line, behind all of the defenders.
There you go.
I didn't know.
I did it.
I'm proud of myself.
I did it.
I think.
I'm not sure if it's right, but it is what it is!
Yeah!
New player enters the arena!
Thank goodness!
We were waiting for him.
We know he's a spook.
We know he's tied to intelligence.
Whenever you need, really, really need something, you gotta roll out George Clooney.
Well, more importantly to my thesis, He's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Yes.
Let's have a listen.
Hollywood speaking out for sure.
You have this op-ed from actor George Clooney now.
He threw this multi-million dollar fundraiser for the president and now he's come forward and said You know, the president needs to step aside.
We need to pick a new Democratic nominee here for president.
And then now I'm seeing even on The View, Michael Douglas, actor Michael Douglas, came forward saying the same thing.
Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, all these sort of heavy-hitter Hollywood entertainment types kind of jumping on behind these eight House Democrats that have now defected, calling for the president to drop out for re-election.
What do you know from What do you know?
What are you learning?
It seems like the dam is breaking.
That Clooney op-ed also reverberated around the halls of Capitol Hill this morning.
As Rachel noted earlier, the Pelosi comments made the biggest impact here at the Capitol for obvious reasons.
But I've talked to House Democratic sources who said that Clooney op-ed didn't turn down the pressure on their bosses.
Some of these are staff sources one way or the other.
As Rachel knows, There have been a lot of Democrats here on Capitol Hill who have privately said that they don't think Biden should be the nominee, who have seriously privately questioned, to me, to Rachel and others, his ability to win in November, but there still is this difference between the Democrats who are willing to say that privately and the handful of House Democrats who have gone on the record and said publicly they think Biden should step aside.
Well, now it's Clooney, and of course this was an op-ed in the New York Times, so people are only reading it.
But on your No Agenda Show, we have exclusive audio, because Clooney really is the guy who's out there to fire Joe Biden.
So although I wish I were here with better news, the fact is that you and I are sitting here today because this will be your last week of employment.
This is not an assessment of your productivity.
Try not to take this personally.
Well, I just had a bad night.
One longer clip.
We could do this bad night joke forever.
I'm glad you liked it.
One month ago, George Clooney was a featured star at a blockbuster fundraising event for Joe Biden.
Now he's calling for him to exit the race.
In an op-ed in the New York Times Wednesday, the Oscar-winning actor and director writes, the party needs a new nominee in order to save democracy.
Referring to the fundraising event, Clooney said the president, quote, wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020.
He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
So before we get into some actual clips, and I see you've been very busy, you've been a busy buddy.
Busy buddy.
Your clips came in, I never listen to them, but I see the titles and I'm like, oh, John's got multi-partners.
The only person in the media who accurately describes what really is at hand here and what we really need to take or pay attention to.
And I really hope people who liked Biden, voted for Biden, will pay attention to the media.
Because the media doesn't work for the Democrats or the Republicans.
The media works for the true owners of the company, and when the call goes out, they do whatever they tell them to do.
And Molly Hemingway is the only person so far I've heard accurately describe this.
The vast majority of Americans have, with their own eyes and ears, witnessed the decline of this president.
It was a major talking point in 2020.
We're talking about a White House press corps that had no problem running wild with accusations and anonymous sources and conspiracy theories when it was a Republican, Donald Trump.
But now we're supposed to believe that they were somehow duped, that the rest of the country could see something that they couldn't see.
I don't buy it.
I don't think any Americans buy it.
The level of media corruption that we're seeing is complete at this point.
They didn't cover the story because they thought it would be bad for Democrats to talk about the senility of the president.
And now they're covering it because they've lost confidence in their ability to drag Joe Biden across the finish line.
There's nothing honest about this and they don't get any points whether they start covering it now or not.
All of this desire to oust Biden is happening only among the media and other top Democrats.
You are not seeing a groundswell calling for change from Democrat voters.
Again, they just had a primary election.
They just overwhelmingly chose this man to be their nominee.
And now the media are acting like there's like basically But that doesn't matter.
They don't feel confident in Biden.
They want to replace him.
And you have a media who are claiming that they were lied to because they think it would be better.
They're willing to look stupid.
And you have to be stupid to have not seen this story coming for five years.
Or they're saying that they were lied to and they're so bad at their jobs they can't figure out how to deal with liars.
And both of those things mean that it's the media who should actually resign.
Good luck with that, but I agree.
I agree.
That's really the story.
Hopefully people see this.
I'm tilting at windmills here.
You're dreaming.
You're dreaming.
You okay?
I always hope that people can go to their more left-leaning friends and say, don't you see now, don't you see that they're doing exactly the same thing they did to Trump, but they're doing the same thing to Biden, when it behooves whoever is really in charge.
And I'll remind everybody of our thesis, which of course does involve the Council on Foreign Relations, but the Biden crime family is currently in negotiation for their exit.
And in fact, I got a quick article here because they really stepped it up.
This is from RT, but it comes, it's citing New York Times deal book, which is kind of a Wall Street rag.
Some donors have discussed elegant ways for Biden to step aside to preserve his reputation, while others believe that dropping out sooner is better, the New York Times DealBook letter said.
DealBook cited its sources as saying prominent financiers and investors, including Larry Flink of BlackRock, John Gray of Blackstone and Peter Orszag of Lazard and Robert Wolf, former U.S.
executive, quote, close to Barack Obama, are discussing whether to stick with Biden.
So they're preparing the exit package.
I'm still sticking with the Beau Biden Foundation for a swift, nice sinking to the background and with a hundred million dollars and then the new legislation which will add another billion.
Maybe more than that.
I want to back you up with the three clips.
Dynamite.
Vivek was on... Wait a minute, Vivek is the guy who thinks Michelle Obama is going to... Well, he still thinks so.
Okay.
But that's beside the point.
Vivek was on, of all things, he was on Jesse Waters.
Those two get along like they're brothers.
It's kind of a sick thing to watch.
I can't believe you watched it.
I wouldn't have normally done this, but I figured, well, you know, let's do this.
This is the Vivek analysis.
He does an analysis.
This is an analysis piece on what's going on.
And this is the first one is JWPT, which is Jesse Waters' prime time.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a former 2024 presidential candidate, who I have to tell everybody, because if I don't, he will, that Vivek predicted that Joe Biden would not be the nominee.
What happened?
I've said this for the last year and a half, Jesse, and I still stand by it.
Biden is not going to be the nominee.
But here's how I see it.
The longer they wait between now and late August, the better it actually is for the Democrats, and here's why.
There's going to be a honeymoon phase for whichever new puppet, whichever new candidate they put up in the initial phase, before the scrutiny phase begins, and they want November to come around while the public is still in that honeymoon phase with the new candidate.
Think about it.
Whoever the Democrats put up, it's going to be like the public and the Democrats' attitude is like a tortured prisoner has towards the person who sets him free.
That's the window they want the election to take place within.
So they're in a rush, but not that much of a rush.
And I think they're going to let this play out for another month to get as close to late August as they can before they make the switch.
That's what I think.
So you could have an at the convention you're saying, because that is in late August and primetime will be there.
So you do a switcheroo, maybe Kamala at the convention.
Okay.
So I, by the way, I never heard that theory before, but I liked it.
The switcheroo at the convention?
Well, you know, there's the idea that you push this off way, so you get this honeymoon period with the new candidate.
And before people realize that, whoever... That person, she...
Yes, it's an idiot.
Yeah, it's an idiot.
You don't have enough time.
So I thought that was good.
But here we go with part two, which is, which is, I see listening to our show.
I'm not sure, but here we go.
Who doesn't?
Do you think Joe can survive a month and a half with this type of scrutiny?
Or does it just become, like what happened to Uncle Bozie, cannibalism?
I think at this point it's a negotiation, Jesse.
Everything else is posturing.
So the reality is the harder a stand Biden takes, the more they're negotiating their golden parachute.
Literally or metaphorically, what does their landing look like?
And now it's up to that Democratic Party establishment to make sure the Biden family, which has always looked out for itself financially at the expense of the country, is set up well for themselves.
That's what's going to happen in the next six weeks is that negotiation.
Everything else is public posturing.
That's cutting through the smoke right there.
OK, that's that matches with you.
And then, of course, and then to finish it, we might as well put this third clip in.
Alright, so you have been pretty accurate with predictions.
Do you think it's Kamala?
I think it's either Kamala or Michelle Obama.
That's the only way the Democrat Party gets around their identity politics issue.
Oh, this is at least at least he's consistent.
Well, this is interesting because and it's fun to watch because there's definitely some different teams here.
And I'm not so sure that Obama is necessarily on the big money team anymore.
I'm still on the fence about it.
But when it comes to a black woman, and we'll have to put quotes around black for Kamala and woman for Michelle, Sonny Hauston.
Sonny Hauston.
I mean, neither of them are a black woman.
Sonny Hauston, from The View, has a different take on this.
But what I will say is, they say behind every great man is a great woman.
Kamala Harris, as Anna said, is prepared, she's ready, she's presidential.
She spoke at the Essence Festival this weekend.
Oh man, we didn't mention that, but this Essence Festival, they have a short clip here.
Kamala was interviewed by a dude...
Freak.
What was that dude?
He had like huge shoulder pads.
It wasn't shoulder pads, it was wings.
He had wings and it was a weird... It was a freak show.
It was a total freak show.
The guy was a freak and she was acting like this was all normal.
If you think that the gender identity thing is an issue now, let Kamala Harrison see where it goes.
I think we have a clip.
I want to show it very quickly.
You have the former president.
Who is running to become president again, who has openly talked about his admiration of dictators and his intention to be a dictator on day one.
Who has openly talked about his intention to weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies.
Who has talked about being proud of taking from the women of America a most fundamental right to make decisions about your own body.
Okay?
She's presidential.
She's ready.
She can assume it.
So if he cannot complete a four-year term, we know that we are protected.
I will say this.
I am uncomfortable with him stepping down because I don't know that this country will vote for a black woman.
If this country could not vote for Hillary Clinton, one of the most decorated and successful politicians and people in the world, I don't know that Kamala Harris can be a convicted felon.
Sorry about that.
So she doesn't think America's ready to elect a black woman.
Whoopi, and Mo actually told me to keep an eye on The View, he says, because there's opposing views on The View, for once.
Of course, it's a highly scripted show, so you never know if it's real opinions or not, but Whoopi Goldberg has her own little quotes.
I don't care if he's pooped his pants.
I don't care if he can't put a sentence together.
Show me he can't do the job, and then I'll say, OK, maybe it's time to go.
I have poopy days all the time.
All the time.
I step in so much poo, you can't even imagine.
Now, I'm not running the world, but I don't know anybody who doesn't step in stuff at some point.
So she claims that she's crapping all over the place and stepping in it.
What kind of an image is this?
Is she walking around the house naked and just poops when she feels like it?
What is that all about?
Nobody needed that visual, but thank you.
Now, I know you have a number of clips from the call to MSNBC.
Before we get to it, I just want to play because I didn't clip it because I saw you had it.
So I'm like, OK, good.
Don't have to do that.
I do want to highlight one One little bit first, which is where Team Obama is in all this.
And it was very obvious from what President Biden said that the Obamas want him out.
They are on the get Joe out team.
Okay, so you have repeatedly said that all of these people and entities are wrong.
And let me go through them.
The New York Times editorial board, The Economist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Jerry Nadler, Seth Moulton.
Let me go to Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, David Axelrod, David Remnick, Richard Haass.
Yeah, I know which one you're responding to there.
Did you notice how she even accentuated it?
David Axelrod!
Who, of course, was Obama's handler throughout his first presidential run.
And then Obama says, oh really, you're kidding me?
Hmm, gee.
So he's not that crazy.
He at least knows who his enemies are.
Better.
And I'll just play one more clip here.
So from Team Obama, we have Axelrod on with Dana Bash at CNN and Jon Favreau who is on the Pod Save America.
If President Biden does withdraw from the race, replacing him at the top of the ticket could be chaotic.
But here's what a top Biden fundraiser and longtime supporter, George Clooney, said about that in his op-ed this morning.
Would it be messy?
Yes, democracy is messy, but would it enliven our party and wake up voters who, long before the June debate, had already checked out?
It sure would.
The short ramp to Election Day would be a benefit for us, not a danger.
Jon Favreau and David Axelrod are back with me.
Axe, what do you think about that?
Axe!
Hello, Axe!
Argument.
Yeah, you know, it's starting to be like, you know, billions.
You know, the show, Billions.
I never watch that show.
The guy's name is Axe Capital.
So everyone calls him Axe.
Axe.
Axe.
Argument.
Look, I think there's merit to it.
Sometimes this is all a matter of risk assessment.
There's risk associated with everything.
The question is whether the risk of the status quo eclipses the risk of trying something else.
And I think we've reached the point where many have come to that conclusion.
But the thing about the piece, Dana, that I thought was particularly Impactful was Clooney who just hosted a fundraiser, a major fundraiser for the president a few weeks ago in California said you can't win the battle against time, none of us can, it's devastating to say, but Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago, the fundraiser was not the Joe Biden of 2010, he wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020, he was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
That is devastating.
That's devastating.
Yeah, and that's exactly what I was going to ask John about, because John, you were at that fundraiser as well.
I don't know if you spend as much time with President Biden as George Clooney did, since he was one of the hosts.
But that, I'm totally with you, David.
That quote was like, wow.
I mean, it was not surprising to any of us who were at the fundraiser.
I was there.
Colini was exactly right.
And every single person I talked to at the fundraiser thought the same thing, except for the people working for Joe Biden, or at least they didn't say that.
But I remember my wife Emily turned to me after the fundraiser and said, what are we going to do?
I mean, and I said, well, there's a debate in a week.
I like the way they reverse engineer everything.
And I love how he throws his wife under the bus.
Well, she said it.
My wife said it.
Did you know that George Clooney is one of the largest bundlers in all of Hollywood?
about it and so here we are i like the way they reverse engineer everything and i love how he throws his wife under the bus well she said it yeah my wife said it um now of course we know did you know that george clooney is one of the largest bundlers in in all of hollywood yes and and he's real tight with obama you know they're on that boat together
Yes, it was a lot of people believe that that editorial that went in the New York Times had to be approved by Obama.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So now, I mean, I can only imagine that Obama is trying to pull some strings.
I don't know if he has the Wall Street connection, though.
That's what I mean.
I hear these other, you know, the Black Rock guy and the Blackstone guy, and I'm like, I don't know.
I'm not sure exactly if they're all in the same camp.
Or if they're just, okay, you know, we, we are going to approve this and here's, we're going to do it.
So we'll pay off Joe.
We'll take care of it.
I don't know.
Well, the BlackRock guys, uh, I don't have the names in front of me, but BlackRock is need is, is neck deep in the Biden administration.
According to Seymour Hersh, they're running it.
That would make sense.
And I don't think Obama is part of that team.
No, I wouldn't think so.
But they're losing against the media, which, you know, I mean, at this point, intelligence is involved.
You know, they gave Comer basically the information that the White House doctor, you know, who checked Joe out, has ties to the family.
So, you know, then you bring in Clooney.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Known spy.
I mean, so this is...
Come on, we all know it.
Once intelligence gets into it, you're toast.
They've just got to wrap this up, but how long will it go?
I think the VEC's got it right.
It's going to go as close to the election as possible.
So even past the convention?
No, it'll have to be at the convention.
At the convention, yeah.
So I have a tapper deconstructing the phone call, but I think maybe it's better if we do the phone call first since you clipped it seven times.
I have a lot of clips.
Some of them are pretty short, one's 19 seconds.
But I will say this, about halfway through these clips I decided to do deep fakes.
Or, I'm sorry, cheap fakes, and edit it a little bit to make it easier to understand what the hell is going on.
Oh, good.
Okay, so it's... Entertainment ahead!
It's funny, it's clip five and six in particular.
Hold on a second.
Entertainment ahead!
Okay.
But let's start with the real deal, which is... This was, by the way, I think it was about a half an hour.
Oh, yes, it was.
It was very long.
He called in and let's start with the intro, which is clip one.
Now for something a little different and from inside the White House, we have a special guest joining us now, the 46th President of the United States and presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, calling in to Morning Joe right now.
Good morning, sir.
Hey Megan, I'm more than presumptive, I'm going to be the Democratic nominee.
More than presumptive, Mika.
Get on your game.
Isn't her name Mika or Mika?
I think it's Mika.
He said Mika.
No, he didn't say Megan.
No, he did not.
No.
Let me listen.
Let me listen again.
Hey, Mika.
I'm more than presumptive.
I'm going to be the Democratic nominee.
Who knows?
Who knows?
I think he said Mekin.
Okay.
But that's okay.
Let's go to clip two.
Mr. President, that leads to the letter that we just received a few minutes ago.
And I'm curious, there's a part of it where you talk about The fact that you got 14 million votes, 87% of the vote, it was an open process, you only had three people running against you, you have 3,900 delegates, and then you ask this question, do we now just say the process didn't matter, that the voters didn't have a say?
I'm curious, is that an allusion also to Donald Trump and the fact that Democrats, you believe, I gotta stop this for a second.
that Donald Trump tried to do in 2020, and that is overthrow the popular will of Democratic voters.
Well, look, let me say it this way.
I got to stop this for a second.
I am incensed that MSNBC and the White House, although the White House may be doing it purposefully, that they let him talk on speakerphone on a radio interview.
You gotta put the handset up to your face.
This is no good.
It makes him sound even more feeble than he already is.
The audio that has been done to this man is despicable, as a professional.
But it's always been that way.
We remember years and years ago, we were bitching about the sound quality.
But this is really bad.
Yeah, I think it's because he's got to hold the sheets that he's reading from, and he doesn't read the... Oh, clearly.
Yeah, clearly.
But still, I mean, you know, it's like... I know, it sounds amateurish.
It does.
Well, look, Democrats... Gentlemen, let me say it this way.
The reason I've been out on the road so much, all over the country, and while Trump is riding around in a golf cart, filling out his golf cart before he even hits the ball.
He hasn't been anywhere in 10 days.
I've been all over the country, number one.
And I've gone over the country for several reasons.
One, to make sure my instinct was right about the party still wanting me to be the nominee.
And all the data, all the data shows that the average Democrat out there who voted, 14 million of them that voted for me, still want me to be the nominee, number one.
Number two, the idea that Donald Trump is What everyone kind of forgets in this is how they railroaded RFK.
his argument to why he should be president is anywhere convincing than it was uh two weeks or three weeks ago it's just not there and we're just getting we're just starting to focus on what everyone kind of forgets in this is how they railroaded uh rfk and didn't let me joe he wasn't even going to be the nominee and they finagled that thing there's 14 million people didn't vote for him.
They screwed everybody else on that deal on the primaries.
That was not a clean primary at all.
And they all know it.
I agree.
Is that the end of that clip?
Yes, it was.
Okay, we'll move on to clip three.
Look, I attended services, spoke to over 600 people at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philly.
Yeah, stop for a second.
I watched him at the church.
Where's the separation of church and state when you're doing a campaign stop in a church?
Good point.
I mean, it wasn't just a, you know, like, hey, get your Jesus on everybody.
No, it was, I did this, and I can do this, and I'm going to do that.
It was a campaign stop in a church.
Yes.
I'm just saying.
By the way, it was the most awkward thing I've ever witnessed.
It was.
In fact, on the Monday Gutfeld Show, Charles Payne, the black finance guy, was on.
And he was killing it on the show, just laughing his ass off over how frightened Biden seemed to be in an all-black church.
Didn't know where to put the money.
He was walking around with a $100 bill in his hand.
I didn't see that.
Oh, that's great.
Oh yeah, he had this $100 he wanted to give to somebody.
No, I don't take it.
And he's wandering around with this $100 bill.
It's hilarious!
Look, I attended services, spoke to over 600 people at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philly.
I stopped by campaign field offices with John Fetterman and Madeline Dean, both strongly supported me.
The president and the first lady, we spoke at a campaign ice cream social for APSME.
Ice cream.
Council 13 in Harrisburg, 40 minutes after we spoke with supporters.
Stopped by Denim Coffee.
I mean, I was with the governor of that the average voter out there still wanted Joe Biden.
I am not going anywhere.
So we we we noted yesterday that you lost and you said, well, as long as I did the best I could do, that's the that's the most important thing.
That's caused Democrats concerned who believe that losing is not an option.
What would you say to those who are concerned by that answer?
It's not an option.
And I'm not lost.
I haven't lost.
I beat him last year.
I didn't hear that.
I'm not lost.
I'm in the White House.
I think.
Is this the Oval?
I'm not.
I mean, I haven't lost.
I'm not.
Where am I?
It's not an option.
And I'm not lost.
I haven't lost.
I beat him last time.
I'll beat him this time.
And this is a guy who, look, we talk about debates.
Look at his performance with debates.
He lied over, you know, Trump has 50 lies.
50 lies.
50 lies.
I mean, look, this is a guy who says 10% of the universe, ah, yeah, I want to get into Bennett.
Who says 10% of the universe, ah, yeah, I want to get into Bennett.
He's just a liar.
Liar.
And he hasn't done a damn thing since the debate.
He's been riding around in a golf cart for 10 days without a Mar-a-Lago talking with his wealthy friends.
I'm not running because of these guys, Joe.
Well, you can see where I was getting bored.
Very bored, yes.
So when I'm bored, these clips get a lot better.
Out comes the razor blade!
And by the way, 97% of all the people who contribute to us, people make it under 200, contribute under 200 bucks.
I think we have the largest continuing ever in history.
I'm not positive of that, but I think that's true.
And so, I want the support, but that's not the reason I'm running.
I'm not running about what they think, what they care about.
And by the way, you don't see a whole hell of a lot of them clocking to Trump.
You don't see a whole lot of CEOs clocking to Trump.
You don't see any, you see the major economists out there talking about what I have been able to do.
Oh, he's the 16 Nobel laureates who said he did a great job.
Major economists.
I don't hear anybody talking about his economic plan likely to bring America around and keep America first.
And by the way, Here's Trump talking about all that he's done, and all that, and you know, Trump, Trump, and his debate night.
He's a pathological liar, he lied about Roe, he refused to accept the outcome of the election, he refused to condemn January 6th, and he says, he claims, he spoke with Putin before he invaded.
What the hell are we doing, Joe?
What are we doing?
This is bizarre.
You know, the mistake that, well, it's not a mistake, but if you really wanted to be president, and you had your own mind and wits about you, which I'm not saying he doesn't, but he has problems getting it out, you'd say, instead of, because all you're hearing is, gotta beat Trump, gotta beat Trump, gotta get somebody to beat Trump, Kamala can beat Trump, Big Mike can beat Trump, everyone can beat Trump.
How about what the American people, I believe, really want to hear, I do believe, They want to hear what you're going to do for the country.
They don't want to hear what that guy did or what he said.
Anybody could stand up and say, hey, I'm going to do this, this, and this.
And it would be better than what this guy is doing right now.
This is a known fact in politics.
You just attacking the other guy is not like anything positive about it.
It costs you votes.
Always does.
Yes, yes.
It makes no sense.
So we go on.
You assure the American people that you won't have another night like the one you did in Atlanta.
Look at my career.
I've not had many of those nights.
It was a terrible night, and I really regret it happened.
But the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be on, you know, faith I can intervene on your way to go to, you know, work tomorrow?
Age, age wasn't, you know, the idea that I'm too old.
Again, taking credit for stuff that people don't like.
I toured for the ACA, beat Big Pharma, relieved student debts for 5 million people, first black woman in the court.
So I think I had a significant run.
And that's how I'd measure me.
Measure me what I've done.
And by the way, I'm not bad at what I do.
Again, taking credit for stuff that people don't like.
No one is happy.
Nobody's happy.
Oh, look what I did!
Love my truck!
He should have said that.
That would have been great.
I love my truck, and I know I love what I do.
Okay, which clip are we on?
We're on six.
Shorty.
Okay, go.
I'm always watching people react.
You make the judgment.
You make a judgment.
And by the way, I'm going to have all these foreign leaders here.
I've been in contact with the new British Prime Minister.
was the diana diana diana diana the country oh poor man Poor man.
Poor man.
This is the last clip.
This is the clip that most people played.
This is edit free.
This is straight up.
The American public is not going to move away from me as the average voter.
And again, I'm here for two reasons, pal.
One, to rebuild the economy for hardworking middle class people.
Give everybody a shot.
Just a straight shot.
Everybody gets a fair chance.
Number one.
Number two.
Remember all this talk about how I don't have the black support?
Come on.
Give me a break.
Come with me.
Watch.
Watch.
I'm getting so frustrated by the elites.
Now, I'm not talking about you guys, but about the elites in the party, who they know so much more.
If any of these guys don't think I should run against me, go ahead.
Announce the president.
Challenge me at the convention.
Yeah, this is perfect because this is a lead-in to this series of short clips, these are quite short, of Jake Tapper.
Jake Tapper, as we know, when it's the CIA assistant director's birthday, Jake Tapper's at the party, all the CNN people, really.
Also counts on foreign relations.
And Tapper, I mean, it's almost like he said, you know, because, you know, CNN just announced they're going to fire hundreds of people.
If I get the boot, I could always go work at that No Agenda show.
I know how.
I can do what those guys do.
I know how to do it.
And he deconstructs this call based upon the elites quote.
And of course, Tapper is, by definition, one of these elites.
Listen to this.
Today, President Biden called into one of his favorite TV shows, Morning Joe on MSNBC, and he railed against what he called the elites.
I'm getting so frustrated by the elites.
Now, I'm not talking about you guys, but about the elites in the party, who they know so much more.
President Biden seems to be trying to frame what's going on right now as the average voters who want him versus the elites of the Democratic Party, donors and lawmakers and opinion makers, many of whom have serious concerns about Biden's ability to be the candidate and have called for him to step down after that Debate performance that let's call baffling.
Baffling?
In reality, 72% of voters say that they believe President Biden is too old.
That's according to CNN's most recent polling.
Voters have been saying this for quite a long time.
The reality is that the Democratic elites are mostly late to acknowledge these age and ability issues compared to the rest of the public.
The elites have been forced to reckon with it after the debate just 11 days ago.
What a bunch of hogwash.
These guys have been protecting Biden for as long as they were told to, and he's fine, sharp as a tack, everything's good, don't worry about it, but now... Sharp as a tack's my favorite.
All of a sudden... He wore you out!
You wore him out!
Yeah, I mean, I couldn't even keep up with him.
So let's mock him on his age, shall we?
Look at my career.
I've not had many of those nights.
It was a terrible night, and I really regret it happened.
But the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're gonna be on, you know, faith I can intervene on your way to go to, you know, work tomorrow?
Age, age wasn't, you know, the idea that I'm too old.
The fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be out on, you know, on your way to go, you know, work tomorrow, age, age wasn't, you know, the idea that I'm too old.
See, now all of a sudden, CNN decides to make fun of how he talks, how incoherent he speaks, which we've been doing since 2018.
Or before.
Drunk or not drunk.
Drunk or not drunk.
And so now, in one of those typical Joe Biden gaffes, although it's very understandable what he meant, what President Biden meant, Now all of a sudden, Tapper's gonna pretend like Joe is insane with what he's saying.
He called into a couple of black radio stations, where he said, among other things, this.
By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president.
He's proud to be the first black woman?
Not coherent.
Oh, really, Jake Tapper?
I mean, that's a cheap shot.
Even we wouldn't fall over that.
There's nothing...
Look, this is the United States of America.
He's proud to be the first black woman?
Not coherent.
Oh, really, Jake Tapper?
I mean, that's a cheap shot.
Even we wouldn't fall over that.
I do have that clip, though.
Which way?
I have that clip in a context...
Let's just interrupt your train here.
I have that in context.
Again, I got this from Jesse Walters and I kept him in it to keep context.
I keep it in context, which is the fact that the clip was really not about Biden saying he's a black woman, but it was about busting out the fact that the White House is controlling the narrative on black radio.
A Philly radio host admitted the White House sent her a list of questions to ask the president.
Were those questions given to you by the White House or did you have, or the campaign, or did you have to submit questions ahead of this interview?
The questions were sent to me for approval.
I approved them.
Okay, so the White House sent the questions to you ahead of the interview?
Yes.
Okay.
I got several questions, eight of them, and the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved.
Even when Biden knows the questions, he can't answer.
By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president.
Well, I'm glad that you inserted that because I'll give you the update.
A Word radio host is leaving the station after a controversial interview with President Biden.
Andrea Lawful Sanders admitted to asking questions provided beforehand by Biden's campaign.
As Ray Strickland reports, this happened less than a week after the president's poor debate performance.
Effective immediately, I am no longer an on-air host at WRD, where the policy- Andrea Lawful Sanders announced her departure from Word in a post to her followers on Instagram Sunday.
I tendered my resignation yesterday.
I'm glad that you all were patient.
Lawful Sanders, who hosted a radio show called Thesaurus on Word, made headlines following her interview with President Biden that aired on July 4th.
It's so bad.
That when this woman, poor lady, admits what the media has been doing forever, including giving the questions in the debate to Hillary Clinton, we haven't forgotten that, now she admits it?
Oh, you better resign.
That's a black mark on our reputation.
Let's stop for one second and go back in time, because you were in the business long enough to know that they used to send out 16-inch transcriptions of the answers to questions that you didn't even talk to the person.
You would play, you would have a series of questions.
This is very common in radio.
You had a series of questions to ask a transcription And you would ask these questions and then the transcription would play the answer.
I will take it one step further.
In 1985, Janet Jackson, she did come to our studio later, I was in Holland.
They sent out an electronic press kit, an EPK?
Electronic Press Kit, which had answers from Janet Jackson about her album, and I, in collusion with my production team, pretended that I had her on satellite.
And I edited this reel.
It even had some fake, like, satellite snow.
Oh, we're connecting.
We're connecting to Los Angeles.
I bet you it's on YouTube somewhere.
Oh, we're connecting to Los Angeles.
Hey, Janet!
And she goes, hello.
And I had my questions rehearsed.
I did it in real time, knowing exactly how long those gaps were in between the answers that we edited on basically your answer tape.
It's all phony.
I've been a part of it.
You've been a part of it.
In fact, we were phonies.
Until podcasting.
So yes.
I was never, I never took part in one of those transcription interviews, but yeah, if you're working in the business period, you're part of it.
The whole thing is a giant scam, not to mention the fact that when she, this poor woman busted it out, it's not new to anybody.
There was probably not one broadcaster in the world that said, Oh, that's a shock.
Yeah.
Final clip from, from Tapper where, uh, He does another one of these, making fun now, just making fun of the president's speech, which we know has been challenged.
George Stephanopoulos asking him how he would feel if he ultimately loses to Donald Trump, which polls have suggested he will.
I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest jobs I know I can do, that's what this is about.
As long as he gave it his all and did the goodest job he could do.
That's what it's all about.
Is it?
The president has said that Donald Trump, his opponent, poses an existential threat to democracy in the United States.
Is his giving it his all and doing the goodest job he can do enough?
Downright mean.
That's a terrific clip by the way.
NBC brought on a neurologist, the goodest.
A zoologist?
A neurologist.
And I learned some interesting things because this guy is going to tell us that the president has Parkinson's, which it was always Alzheimer's until you introduced Lewy body disease, which is a subset, a rare form of Parkinson's disease.
Again, you're no agenda show ahead of the curve.
The truth always catches up to us eventually.
And just listening to President Biden understanding who his enemies are, Axelrod, Obama, makes sense in the context of these few clips I have here about the president's state of mind, his Parkinson's, and here's the neurologist they brought in.
I'm joined tonight by Dr. Tom Pitts.
He's a quadruple board-certified neurologist.
He sees patients with Parkinson's all the time.
He diagnoses it.
I want to be completely transparent here.
You've never examined President Biden.
From my knowledge, you've never even spoken yet to President Biden.
And we're just going to use what we have so far, which is what we've seen, the President's interviews, and the information coming out of the White House.
So my first question to you is, as somebody who's a neurologist, what you've seen from the president over the last two years, what you saw at the debate, the last few interviews, the way he speaks, the way maybe he walks, have you noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor?
Oh yeah, I see him 20 times a day in clinic.
I mean, it's ironic because he has just this classic features of neurodegeneration.
I mean, word finding difficulties and that's not, oh I couldn't find the word, that's from degeneration of the word retrieval area.
No, this is not a palatal issue or a speech discrepancy, which is very different from a limino dysfunction, actual word retrieval, where you pick a similar question or talk around the issue, plus the rigidity, monotone voice.
Wait, go back to the rigidity, what do you mean?
Rigidity, loss of arm swing, standing up lordotically.
You notice when he turns, it's kind of end block turning, it's not a quick turn.
So that's one of the hallmarks of Parkinsonism, is rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movement.
And he has that hallmark, especially with the low voice that was a cold.
Hypophonia, a small monotone voice like this over time, is a hallmark of Parkinsonism.
I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.
Yeah.
I like the neophonism.
That's an interesting one.
So, these symptoms are pretty obvious to anyone who knows what they're talking about.
Funny though, it's only now, it's only now that we're getting analysis of this from your news media.
Hallmark shuffling gate, we call that, so little steps.
Loss of arm swing from the rigidity.
When we walk, we have a nice cadence.
You notice he doesn't really swing his arms.
And end block turning, meaning he kind of pivots around his foot.
If you said, hey, President Biden, he wouldn't go like this.
But I also know, and tell me if I'm wrong here, it's very hard to diagnose Parkinson's, isn't it?
It's not simple.
I mean, I've heard that it can be... It's one of the easier movement disorders to diagnose, actually.
There's very little other... And I'm a Democrat, I always say.
It's just like...
This guy's not a hard case.
But I've had relatives who have gone through issues, neurological issues, and I've heard that sometimes Parkinson's is not very easy to nail.
You have to take a lot of tests.
I mean... Early on, if you're just presented with like hallucinations, that could be a variety of things, or just the cognitive problems.
That could be Alzheimer's versus Parkinsonism, and that becomes a little nebulous.
But once you start manifesting the hallmark motor symptoms... Right.
Slow movement, rigidity, mass faces, hypophonia.
I mean, if a med student did not pick Parkinson's on the test, they'd be remediated.
So even a med student, if they didn't say the guy's got Parkinson's, they'd be kicked out.
Okay.
Just as an aside, I have a quick note from one of our producers.
She writes, yes to everything you said about Lewy body dementia.
It's worse than you can even imagine.
My mom died of it, as did Robin Williams in her mid-90s.
Mid-90s was a good run.
In 2019, she was doing so well and then it hit and progressed quickly to where she could do absolutely nothing for herself.
Yes to hallucinations as well, as she would sometimes say when she could still talk, there was a cat hiding in the house plant in the corner of the room.
No cats.
In earlier stages, she would point to the TV where a handsome news anchor was presenting the day's events and proclaim, I'm now engaged to him!
We will be married soon!
That's where Biden is.
This is why the Council on Foreign Relations is freaked out.
They don't need this aggravation.
Well, to back you up from Sir Greg, who was a retired emergency room nurse in Mesa, Arizona.
He also had two relatives die of Lewy Body Dementia around 2009.
For men with that diagnosis, from the time they are diagnosed, they are usually dead within two years, plus or minus a few months.
They also have a tendency to get violent slash abusive with caregivers and family and end up in locked nursing homes where the staff and the building are prepared to deal with violent outbursts, escape attempts, and patients who are resistant to their care plan and nursing home rules.
They also tend to deny they have a problem, but I can say that for the patient during a violent outburst, it feels like they are in a nightmare, but they are aware something is wrong.
It's their awareness of being irrational that causes frustration and angry outbursts toward caregivers and family members.
Imagine being stuck in a nightmare where everything goes wrong and makes you mad.
Nobody listens or understands you.
Their final weeks of life are usually bedridden and asleep most of the time.
Their head CT scans usually show a physical shrinking brain.
Oh, God!
Yeah, so, but, as we're about to hear in this final clip from the neurologist, the sharper as attack thing is actually not even necessarily wrong, because the president may actually be very cognizant of what's going on, and there's ways to test this.
You know, a lot of people have called for a cognitive test.
What exactly would that entail?
What does that mean?
Now that's the key, because word finding, retrieval, doesn't necessarily mean you don't know what you want to say.
What I cannot comment on is his ability to make good decisions.
His motor symptoms are degenerating.
He has Parkinsonism.
That is a fact.
You know, he has degeneration of the brain.
Show me the MRI.
Show me he doesn't.
You know, put your money where your mouth is.
He definitely has it.
But the problem is, when you look at his situation, you can't say, I know for a fact that because he didn't retrieve the word, he didn't know what he wanted to say.
And that's why both him and Trump should take the four-hour neuropsychological testing, which is the hallmark test for cognitive performance.
What do you do in this test?
A lot of things.
So, for example, they may have you say, like, say as many words as you can in a minute that start with F. Block building, retrieval.
I may say cup And have you recall, three minutes later, a trail drawing.
These are done with a professional PhD in neuropsychology.
It has nothing to do with psychiatry.
And we can tell if you have that.
It's four hours long?
Four hours.
It's a full day.
We tell people, bring a snack.
It is a full day.
And that's not the mocha, which was a bedside test that President Trump took.
You know, these are tests that are screening tests.
They don't rule in.
You know, if you do great.
There's no there's no way to sort of lie in this test to sort of ace it, even though you're saying no way.
This one will, it will come out in the wash.
I'm gonna test you, John.
I'm gonna say cup later and see if you can retrieve the word.
Cup!
What?
So now to some humorous bits because of course it is just funny what's happening and you're seeing who's on the outs and who is in the wrong spot at the wrong time and it gives me no pleasure to say Joy Reid is probably one of them.
All of that happened this weekend.
But please, please, privileged, rich, white, elected Democrats, you just keep publicly defenestrating your party leader and president to feed the media thirst for Democrats and disarray stories because you're scared for your own seats and apparently don't know how to campaign on a surging economy, high-tech jobs, and $35 insulin.
I mean, you're the most important thing here, right?
You and your donors, of course, not the actual voters in your party base who can't afford to see prices double on everything they buy due to Trump's China tariffs and who would be the first ones fired from their federal civil service jobs under Project 2025 or shot in the streets by Trump's stormtroopers if they protest.
You do you.
Wow!
Go ahead, Joy Reid.
Go rail on the rich white people.
There you go.
There's no problem there.
Yeah, she's going to be a short timer.
She's going to be eventually, you're going to see her on YouTube only.
Yeah, well she's already ramping up the TikTok career.
They're doing a shakeup at CNN.
She's a goner.
She's not been read in.
She's being set up to get fired.
She's too dumb to know it.
As predicted.
Even Harvey Levin, TMZ, knew all of this.
Eleven months ago.
I talked to somebody who is very high up in the Biden world and was told they don't want him doing anything after 8 o'clock at night because he starts wandering, repeats stories and all this.
But if they're telling him that for a year, why was this such a secret?
He is 81.
These kinds of things happen to old people.
It's nothing bad about Joe Biden.
It just means he shouldn't be president of the United States.
Did you watch the debate?
Did you watch it afterwards?
He said... I don't think I did, no.
He said it like we couldn't remember.
So, Peter Doocy from Fox News, known troublemaker, is now taking advantage of the situation to embarrass his nemesis, Jarin Jean-Claude Pierre Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he's just laying it on.
So, say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke.
It's 11pm.
Who do you call?
The First Lady?
He has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the American people.
He has someone that is decided, obviously, with his National Security Council, and who gets to tell him that news.
Well, she's a diplomatic answer, but he's not giving up.
So, Kevin McCarthy just said that when he was the Speaker, many times when we had meetings in the Oval Office, Jill was there as well.
When the First Lady's in these meetings, is she making decisions or is she just advising the President?
No.
The President is the President of the United States.
He makes decisions.
And the final one.
Another family member.
President Biden has told me before he and his son don't have any business dealings together.
So what is Hunter Biden doing in White House meetings?
Are you talking about the meeting where they came together from Camp David and the two of them walked to the president's meeting and he was there?
There's a report that aides were struck by his presence during their discussions.
Look, I can't, I'm certainly not going to get into private conversations that occur.
What I can say is, and I talked to this, I spoke to this before, is that when they came back from Camp David, the President spent a couple days at Camp David with his family.
He is very close to his family, as you know.
It was the week of 4th of July, which is why his family members were here last week.
They walked together, and they walked together into the meeting.
Can you say if Hunter Biden has access to classified information?
No.
Even Ed O'Keefe from the CIA broadcasting systems really got into a beef with Carter.
Oh no, Ed O'Keefe really got into it with her and he seemed, it's almost as though he's, yeah, I was, I've seen this clip a lot, which people enjoy.
I have two, I have two clips actually, two clips.
And it's like, as if he was miffed about the fact that if they're going to create a facade, they have to keep it up, and now it looks like they threw the media under the bus, and he considers it a personal insult, it seems to me.
It's a very basic, direct question.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, hold on.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait a second.
Eight times, or at least once, in regards to the President specifically.
Hold on a second.
That's what you should be able to answer by this point.
Wait, no, no, no, no, no.
No, wait a minute.
Ed, please.
A little respect here, please.
So, every year...
Around the president's physical examination, he sees a neurologist.
That's three times, right?
So I am telling you that he has seen a neurologist three times while he has been in this presidency.
That's what I'm saying.
I am telling you that he has seen them three times.
That is what I'm sharing with you, right?
So every time he has a physical, he has had to see a neurologist.
That is answering that question.
No, it's not.
No, it is.
It is.
You're asking me... Dr. Kevin Kennard, kind of the White House... I also said to you, Ed, I also said to you, for security reasons, we cannot share names.
We cannot share names.
We have to... Others he would have met with, but you can't share names in regards to... No, no, no.
If someone came here... We cannot share names of specialists.
Broadly.
From a dermatologist to a neurologist.
We cannot share names.
There are security reasons.
We have... Yeah, this O'Keefe, he's clutching his pearls because he knew, they all knew, he was a part of the whole cover-up.
Yeah, definitely.
Let's back this up a little bit, get a little background on what this beef was about.
The beef was about, for people who don't, didn't follow it, there was a Parkinson's expert who showed up at the White House and is listed on the White House logs and he showed up over the past year or so.
Eight times.
Between eight and ten times.
That number seems to vary with the reporting.
But whatever the case was, this guy, this expert on Parkinson's Disease kept showing up.
And so he's asking, what can you tell us about this guy?
She can't even say his name because of some security bullcrap.
O'Keefe, even though you can hardly hear it, starts to complain that he's listed on the White House logs.
That's not much of a state secret.
And then they get into that back and forth.
Although I'm pretty sure that he was there for the Parkinson Foundation.
That would make sense for the legislation that was signed on July 5th.
He was probably advising on that.
But here's the I'm miffed clip.
We have to, we have to, I understand that.
I hear you.
I hear you.
I cannot from here confirm any of that because we have to keep their privacy.
I think they would appreciate that too.
We have to give them, we have to keep their privacy.
I hear you.
I hear you.
Guys, guys, guys, guys, hold on a second.
There's no reason to get back and go back and forth and be in this aggressive way.
What do you miss about?
Everything he just asked about.
What do you miss about?
What do you miss about?
Everything he just asked about.
And then every time I come back and I answer the question that you guys asked.
And you answered it incorrectly and you didn't have to come back and clean it up.
I never answered the question incorrectly.
That is not true.
I was asked about a medical exam.
I was asked about a physical.
That was in the line of question that I answered.
And I said, no, he did not have a medical exam.
And I still stand by that.
Matter of fact, the president still stands by that.
He had a verbal check-in.
That is something that the president has a couple times a week.
A couple times a week.
Now in regards to Dr. Kevin Canard.
And I am telling you right now that I am not sharing confirming names from here.
It is the security reasons.
I am not going to do that, Ed.
It doesn't matter how hard you push me.
It doesn't matter how angry you get with me.
I'm not going to confirm a name.
It doesn't matter if it's even in the log.
I gotta give her credit, though.
I mean, she knows that she's out, she's out of a job, and I would say everybody dislikes her.
She's just a dislikeable person.
And she's a very dislikeable person.
She'll get back on MSNBC if they let her.
Well, let's see who else is on the wrong side of the being read in.
I do want to play for you, Congresswoman, what Senator Michael Bennett said on CNN just in the last hour.
We have Maxine Waters on this particular clip.
Donald Trump is on track, I think, to win this election and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the Senate and the House.
I think that we could lose the whole thing.
What's your response to that?
My response is I'm more optimistic than he is about our ability to win.
He doesn't frighten me, doesn't scare me, can't predict any more than I can predict.
I predict we're going to win, that Biden is the honorable, respected man, and that Trump is a liar.
He is not trusted.
Our allies are baffled by the way that he's treated them.
You can go on and on about a man who told us to drink disinfectant when COVID was killing people.
And so I think in a final analysis, people will understand that our democracy is at stake.
Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
All right, so Maxine has not been read in.
And again, the prophecy is coming through.
All the black women, they're all being pushed out front.
You take the heat.
You go talk about it.
Corrine.
Maxine.
Joy Reid.
All of them.
It's whoopee.
It's amazing that this is a very racist bunch of people who are pushing.
You go take care of it.
I don't want to deal with you.
I was going to just interrupt again, since you mentioned racism, and play the Elizabeth Warren clip.
Have you heard this?
No, I have not.
How much do you think the typical student loan borrower owes 20 years after taking out their loans?
Well, the typical white borrower owes about 6% of what they originally borrowed.
20 years on, and they still owe 6% of what they borrowed.
The typical black borrower owes 95% of what they originally borrowed.
Canceling student loan debt is about racial justice.
There's no doubt about it.
Ah, this woman.
Remember, she's also black.
She's Indian.
Oh, she's a person of color.
Well, Becky Pringle black woman.
She is the president of the National Education Association, the Teachers Union, I believe that is.
You know, I meant to go back and get this clip.
Do you have the long version, I hope?
Yeah, it's pretty long.
$1.22, long enough.
The most I could handle from her.
This clip, I almost could pre-give you a clip of the day, because this clip, this is the Teachers Union, and she's out of control.
And the Teachers Union, I think they're supposed to support teachers whose job it is to educate our children, I would say in the United States.
Just from the performance itself, it's been very dismal.
Just look at the reading levels, the comprehension levels, forget about all the woke programming that is being pushed in.
But she does not I don't care about that.
No, it's all about, hey, we're a union.
We have power.
So we're going to vote, and we're going to win, and we're going to win, and we're going to win.
It's about us.
Screw the kids!
We are the ones who helped to shape the heart of this nation's hopes and dreams.
We are the ones who hold steadfast to the belief of the plausibility of the possible.
We are the heirs of all who did this work before us.
We must keep going!
N.E.A.
delegates, we can do this work!
We must do this work!
We get to do this work!
We will do this work because our students are depending on us to win all the things!
N.E.A.
we have to win all the things!
All the things!
Our colleagues are depending on us to win all the things!
Keep going, NEA!
To preserve our democracy, we must win all the things!
Delegates, we won't go back!
We will keep going forward because we are the NEA!
We are the NEA!
We are the NEA!
And that's what we do!
Thank you, NEA!
Thank you, NEA!
These people should not be in charge of anything with children.
No, that is unhinged.
Yes, that is the definition of unhinged right there.
And speaking of racism, Sam Shepard who I watched for years in New York he was I think he's always been a weatherman but maybe he did show business news well now he's now he's on the panel now he's part of the news team and I looked at earlier I think it's about 85 degrees today in New York City and 85 degrees in the city in the summer is not pleasant no matter what but it's not like the humidity is too high
It's not like it's 120 degrees, but... So, we have been talking to you, and you've been talking to us back and forth about a major heat threat for days now, and it's tough to see these numbers for long periods of time in our city.
We know that an estimated 350 New Yorkers die from heat-related illness each year, and that's not even going through the prolonged stretch that we've been through.
So, New Yorkers of color are actually twice as likely... Since when is there New Yorkers of color?
How about that 65-70% of New York?
It's a melting pot, Sam.
New Yorkers of color, oh, it's even worse for them!
True.
So, New Yorkers of color are actually twice as likely to be impacted.
Joining us now is the NYC Emergency Manager, First Deputy Commissioner, Christina Farrell.
Christina, I'm so glad to see you.
Can I just get this out of the way first?
I haven't seen a lot of reporting of heat deaths in our area during this range of heat that we've been in.
Can you update me on that?
How are we doing on that front?
Hey, do you got any dead people we can talk about?
Because I just hyped it.
You know, dead black people for me.
Come on, lady.
Hello.
So we have seen an increase in 9-1-1 calls and in emergency room visits, which is to be expected when the weather is this extreme, this hot.
There is often a lag in the reporting of heat related deaths.
So we may see some numbers, you know, a little later in the season connected to that.
But we are doing extensive outreach.
As you noted, this is the fifth day of this heat wave.
This is the second heat wave of the summer, which is still young.
So, you know, we're doing a lot of outreach to try to prevent those deaths.
All right.
Get to us with anything that you hear as soon as you get it.
Oh my goodness.
Hopefully a lot of people getting to cooling centers.
I know they're all over the city.
So this report said no one's dying.
There's no one dead.
The lady's like, uh, yeah, it's okay.
Well, maybe it's coming, but, uh, so, but then, then, oh my God.
Oh my God.
Those poor New Yorkers of color.
Oh my God.
Shut up.
You people are horrible.
No worse than Deutsche Welle because they like this word unprecedented.
With extreme temperatures across the globe, last month became the hottest June ever measured, breaking last year's record.
Oh yeah, it's never been cooler in June and July in Texas.
So I don't know what you're measuring!
But it's great here!
...breaking last year's record.
And as heat waves continue into July, people in many countries are struggling to cope with the health effects, like in North America, where many cities are now experiencing unprecedented hot weather.
Unprecedented, John!
It's not unprecedented!
51 degrees Celsius.
It's chilly here.
People in Mexico's northern state of Baja California are used to soaring temperatures in the middle of the summer, but this time they exceeded the average readings by nearly 10 degrees, making new records and bringing more hardship.
At my age, it's very difficult.
I'm 72 years old and I've lived here for 50 years.
How do you deal with the heat?
Well, I spend some time in an air-conditioned room and outside.
That's what we do.
Climate scientists say not only the temperatures are getting higher, but also the stretches of hot days are getting longer.
In Portland, in the U.S.
state of Oregon, People are trying to cool down as the city sizzles with temperatures reaching 39 degrees Celsius or 100 Fahrenheit.
Oh, and they got pictures of kids playing in the water.
That's what you do.
That's what you do.
You go in the air conditioning, you play in the water.
That's what you do.
This fear-mongering, unprecedented, no, lie.
It's just not true.
It's not true.
I did get a nice whistleblower clip, which I had not expected.
Now, of course, I've been tracking chemtrails for the longest time.
I'm sorry, geoengineering projects.
Before you go, before you go on, I just checked, right now it's noon in Portland, 74.
in 74. 100.
100!
No, it's 74.
74.
This is a military veteran who is a whistleblower interviewed on the streets I think this was a whistleblower hearing by some German podcaster or some dude.
So we're here with Kristen Megan.
She's a military veteran, right?
Yes, I was in the US Air Force for nine years.
Wow.
And you came out and blew the whistle on geoengineering, things that you witnessed were going on.
Can you give us a real nutshell?
Absolutely, basically I had heard of what many people know as the term chemtrails and I worked in a job called bio-environmental engineering and I figured I thought that was insane and why would we do something like that modify the weather by using hazardous materials in our atmosphere so and actually the process of trying to debunk it or disprove it I realized it was actually coming right out of my office as I was one of the people that was approving the chemicals And it really shook the core of my oath.
And I did a lot of sampling, a lot of investigation, and I blew the whistle and I got out.
And I've now used my credentials, my oath, and my powers for good to help people understand it's very real.
It's now openly admitted.
There are multiple forms of weather modification.
I specifically found the one of stratospheric aerosol injection.
And collectively around the globe, we have to understand that it is now being admitted because they're saying it's combating climate change.
While the climate change we need to be worried about is man-made climate engineering, also known as geoengineering.
And when you say you had chemicals being pumped into the air, what kind of chemicals are they putting out that's rained down on humanity, basically?
Nanoparticulate metals, like we had different sulfates and barium and stromium.
I know it's probably changed over time.
I know they use silver iodide for certain things, but the odd part of it was the quantities that I saw them coming in, the form that they were coming in, and it's the same type of materials that I was trying to engineer out of the workplace to substitute with safer materials.
And when you notice that the, what's called the safety data sheet, the information about a chemical of what personal protective equipment to wear, how do you dispose of it, how do you pack it to ship it?
Barium?
When key information is missing, I ask questions.
And my questions led to demonization, and I knew I found something I shouldn't have.
Barium, that doesn't sound good.
She said stromium, I think.
And barium.
What's stromium?
No, no, she said barium, but what's stromium?
Do you have any idea?
No.
I've never heard of it.
Stromium.
Stromium.
Uh, it is an element?
Okay.
Doesn't tell, this is named after Strontium.
Oh, it's a small town in Scotland, that's no good.
Do you think she meant Strontium?
She said Stromium.
Stromium.
So she's the big expert and she said Stromium.
I just did some sketchy reporting.
Maybe you're supposed to swallow the N and the T in Stromium.
Well, I didn't take into account the possibility that she... Yes, that's... With today's pronunciation, it's always... Yes.
Alkaline earth metal strontium.
Strontium is maybe what she was talking about.
You know what that is?
Yeah, yeah.
Strontium was the big, was the element that got radio, easily made radioactive.
And we had strontium-90 in the atmosphere for years when there was atmospheric nuclear testing.
And that was one of the reasons they were actually, during the 50s and 60s, they were testing milk products because the strontium would get into the soil and the cows would eat it.
And the strontium-90 would get into milk products and they were poisoning the country.
So they had to stop the chemtrails.
They had to stop the chemtrails.
They had to stop.
Well, strontium and strontium-90 aren't the same product.
Well, luckily, all this climate change, as we know, really comes from burning fossil fuels, you know, driving cars is no good.
We have to stop that.
We got to go to wind and solar and, well, it's... Walking, bicycling.
Yes, it seems like in California, at least, we've reached peak solar.
Across California, it's a common sight.
Rows of suburban homes topped with solar panels.
But as the state works towards its ambitious clean energy vision, an almost counterintuitive problem has emerged.
California is at times generating too much solar, meaning loads of good clean energy is going to waste.
Since solar power relies on the sun, it's often the middle of the day, on days when it's not too hot, that you can run into this issue of essentially having too much solar.
People aren't home, they're not running their ACs, and the system can generate more than the state can use.
This imbalance has been dubbed the duck curve.
It's belly, the time of day when solar production can exceed demand.
So that's the duck curve?
That's the duck curve.
Yep, there it is.
Inside California's independent grid operator, CEO Elliot Mainzer showed us how they manage the state's electricity in real time.
There is solar energy right now that's essentially being thrown away.
You know, the bottom line is that there are times when we do not have the demand for electricity for the full production of the solar fleet.
Sometimes we're able to export it, and there are those times under certain extreme conditions when we do have to curtail it.
When you say curtail, you mean throwing it away?
We say sending dispatch instructions to those fleets to reduce their generation, yes.
In recent years, the amount of renewable energy curtailed, most of it solar, has skyrocketed, both from oversupply and so-called congestion, when there's more electricity than the transmission lines in some areas can handle.
Where are the batteries?
We were promised batteries.
There's a lot of promises that weren't kept.
Meanwhile, our prices of energy in California per kilowatt hour are out of this world.
You have no idea.
Well, give me an example.
I don't have the numbers in front of me because I was not expecting it, but believe me.
Have you seen your energy prices go up in your own home there?
Yeah, they've gone up probably over the last two years.
They've almost doubled.
Wow.
You don't even have air conditioning.
No.
I got a couple just B-Link computers and that's all it takes.
Yeah, those B-Links though.
They'll suck it right up.
How about that Nook?
That thing's probably a energy sucker.
That thing's a hog.
It's an energy hog.
And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put both C's in Cole Clooney.
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In the morning, all ships to sea.
Boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
And the dames and knights out there.
Hey there, trolls, in the troll room.
If you could stop running around.
That's pretty good.
We had 1655, last troll count on Thursday.
1873!
So we're up by a couple hundred trolls.
Good to see them.
That's pretty good.
We had 1655 last troll count on Thursday, 1873.
So we're up by a couple hundred trolls.
Good to see them.
I'm sure that they were all excited.
What that's about.
Didn't show up in the donations.
Tina will say, how many donations did you get?
I'll say, well, it's a little less than normal.
She'll say, John will be grumpy.
It's like the bellwether.
Like, uh, but you know, uh, that's what it is.
That's, that's the grind of being a podcaster.
Particularly value for value.
I think this last one, I didn't, I could have done better on the newsletter.
Somehow the newsletter, uh, send from name got screwed up.
And I think that went, I think it went to spam for a lot of people.
A lot of spam, got a lot, a lot of spam, which is a shame because this was a special newsletter with some hilarious Joe Biden memes.
I think people should go dig this newsletter up and go look at them.
These memes are the perfect.
So what happened?
What do you mean, what happened with the wrong from address?
What happened?
What happened?
Yeah, somehow, and I think it was MailChimp, because they're supposed to check this.
It went out as O-Agenda.
What?
Oh, so the email address was O-Agenda?
What was it?
No, the end was missing.
And that screws up the whitelisting, and it also screws up that there is no agenda at Dvorak.org.
There is no such name, and they're always checking, so a lot of these mail things go back and say, this is a real address, and they send it, and they get a bounce.
They say, ah, this is bullshit.
Spam.
Spam.
Yeah.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
But the fact, here's what's irksome.
You could never do, in the early days of MailChimp, This could never happen.
Why not?
Because MailChimp did that check itself and said, yeah, this address is no good.
And you'd have to fix it.
But now they don't have an error message for it.
They don't care.
You can put anything in there and it just goes out.
So we blew our DMARC whitelisting probably.
We still love all of our trolls.
aspect.
Disc sim, whatever it is.
It's a bunch of stuff.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
We got screwed.
Yeah, we did.
Oh, well, we still love all of our trolls.
I mean, it's good to have you here.
I'm happy to see you and everyone seems well behaved today.
Come on.
A lot of trolling happened today.
You can join him at TrollRoom.io, which is 24-7.
If you tune in earlier, you can listen to Darren O'Neill on Thursdays and Sundays.
There's always something going on on the No Agenda stream at TrollRoom.io.
And the cool thing is, you get in there, you can be a troll.
You can just say, hey, I'm a troll.
Whatever you want to do.
It's a free-for-all.
It's a bonanza, I tell you.
A lot of these trolls help us out by bringing people into the troll room, part of our value for value model.
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And by the way, I take great exception to Andrew Horowitz putting the DH Unplugged Show in the YouTube ingestion hole.
You should bitch to him.
He produces the show.
Well, I know he listens to this show.
I mean, that's an insult.
I know that he listens.
He doesn't have a single 2.0 feature, but then he's like, I'm going to let YouTube have it all.
It's funny you do his voice perfectly.
I'm nailing it, I know.
I can't do any voices but horror.
I can put it on YouTube.
That'd be good.
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John and I pioneered this many, many years ago, and we live by the sword, we die by the sword.
At least we're not, this bugs me.
So I saw, let me see if I can find it now.
You're bugged about that.
I finally got the Costco issue on podcasting.
Oh, how annoying was that?
Oh, what a turd!
Yeah, you want to just quickly recap what was going on with that?
Yeah, it's just some woman... No, I don't want to recap.
I'm just saying people have complained about it and I can see why.
So Tucker, who, now I signed up to Tucker's TCN, Tucker Carlson Network.
To support him, you know 75 bucks a year like I'm gonna support him.
I think it's good I think he's trying to do something and now I see him on X and he's post I have not watched he had an interview with Katherine Harridge the pixie girl who got fired from CBS and then it says includes paid partnerships partnership paid partnerships with Unplugged get $25 off a new phone with code Tucker
That's that Eric Prince bullcrap phone that he did a whole paid segment for.
Wait a minute, he's asking for money but he's got advertising?
Yeah.
And underwriting?
Yeah.
I wouldn't give him 75 bucks for that.
I'm canceling.
Paid partnership with Parler?
Get the parlor app?
What kind of loser app is that?
They still have an app?
Apparently.
Parlay.
Parlay, apparently.
And then the final paid partnership is Jace Medical.
Use promo code Tucker at Jace.com.
And what is this?
What is this Jace?
Personal medication supply.
The right meds the moment you need them.
Be prepared today.
So Big Pharma is already up his butt.
How long do you think you'll take?
Hey, Tucker, could you go a little easy on the down talk about, you know, about pharmaceuticals or big pharma?
It's not really, you know, we have this paid partnership with you, Tucker.
I don't think that's a very good idea.
So you can't trust the guy now?
I would agree.
Yeah, I can't trust him.
It's just too untrustworthy.
I think it's bad.
I can't believe why he did that.
Well, I know why, but... He has high, he has cash flow needs that are way over ours.
He's probably in the millions and millions of dollars, because he was getting like, I don't know, a fortune from Fox, and he's trying to get that money back.
Let me see some of them.
Obviously didn't save anything or invest wisely.
Let me see.
Do you recognize any of these medications?
Amantadine.
Amantadine.
What is that?
I don't know.
I just recognize it.
Amitriptyline, bupropion, buspirone.
Are any of these SSRI type deals?
Duloxetine?
Fluoxetine?
That's got to be one.
Fluoxetine.
We have to look them up, each individually.
Trazodone?
You sign up and they send you a pot full of drugs?
Is that what goes on here?
Here you go!
Here you go, boys!
There's a pot full of drugs!
You do a little five-minute survey and you talk to the guy on FaceTime.
Hello, I'm John.
I'm Dr. Wilson.
I don't feel good.
You look fine.
Let me give you these pills.
He doesn't even have boner pills.
Come on, get with it.
Get with it, Tucker.
My goodness.
So that's one of the main reasons why we went value for value, because not only did we not think it would be a good idea to have the pharmaceutical industry telling us what we could or could not report on, and we'll keep an eye on it.
Let's see how many more segments he does on SSRIs.
And second of all, can you imagine the meetings you have to have?
This is your real complaint, and I don't blame you.
Yeah, I don't want to have to talk to the Jayme guys.
Because you're the guy that, between the two of us, you'd be the guy who has to go out because you're younger and better looking than me.
And you have a nice smile now.
So you'd have to go out.
And you also, you know, you've done it before, so you're used to it.
Dance, monkey boy, dance for the advertiser!
Yes, John, I'm on my way!
Hello, Jace people!
Hey, I got a great idea, let's do Code Bongino!
People love that one!
I'm sorry, I'm cancelling my Tucker Carlson Network subscription.
Makes no sense.
So instead, we ask people to support the show.
Very valuable is when people support it with their time and their talent because these are things that you can't even put a price on.
For instance, the arts that our Dutch masters always give us a selection of.
Before I mean really during the live shows They're already making stuff so that we can select something which we feel is a big benefit to the show because you know often They're very funny.
They're intriguing people like oh, it's a no agenda guys again Let's go see what's what's up with that, and I would say that the the artwork for episode 1675 we titled that flying cars that is what Former president Trump has promised us freedom cities with flying cars very excited very excited, but I'm going to move Um...
Sir Shug, a.k.a.
Foe Diddley, a, well, a very well-known Dutch master, he created just a piece of art that was, it had so much depth to it.
Even if you didn't know what we had talked about in the show, which was when President Biden, during the Easter egg, you know, was at the East Lawn egg roll or the egg hunt and that big bunny came up to him and he probably thought he was having a Lewy body dementia hallucination.
Hallucination?
Yes.
Oh my God, look at this thing!
Look at that thing!
And so this was the bunny in the White House, and it had dimensionality to it.
It was very, very good.
Even the other Dutch masters were complimenting Sir Shug on it.
It was really good.
On the phone, he's got a tie, he's got an ink blotter on the desk.
What's the name of that desk?
The Resolute Desk.
The Resolute Desk, which is a chart that says likes you.
It's going down.
Likes you.
It was just, it was funny.
I mean, you could just look at it and go, that's funny, even if you don't know what we talked about on the show.
So we appreciate that.
Good one.
It just looks like a rabbit on the phone that gets a laugh.
It always gets laughed.
So we had many other pieces that people tried to slip in on us.
A lot of fire hose of lies, which most of them weren't.
You know, they really didn't hit us, I guess.
Yeah, and I also nixed Firehose of Lies as a meme.
Yeah, we didn't want to promote it.
A Democrat meme that's just, no, no, we're not using that.
Yeah, lots of AI, of course.
A couple of our Dutch masters did pills, Lewy body disease, dementia pills, which I think we thought that was overstepping a line somewhere.
He's like, I don't know about that.
Comics or blogger with his tons of AI art?
No, pass.
A couple of... A couple of cheesecakes.
Scaramanga, of course.
Cheesecake.
A butt with freedom on it.
Was there anything else that caught your eye that you liked?
No, not really.
I really saw the bunny right away and said, I think this should work.
So we thank Pho Diddley for that.
Excellent, excellent work.
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We also give away credits for this, which are valid anywhere credits are recognized, which of course you can put anything you want on your LinkedIn, your social media profile, but you can actually open up an IMDB account with this, which is different.
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Meanwhile, we've got Sir Pursuit of Peace and Tranquility.
He's in Japan somewhere.
And he came with 33333 also, and he says, ITM keeping it simple, which is nice.
Usually those guys are in Osaka.
That's where most of the, there's a big no agenda contingent in Osaka.
Oh, good.
Uh, Sir Don of the Fire Bottles, good to see him back on the chart here.
Spokane, Washington, 333.33, no notes.
Did you receive anything from Sir Don?
That surprises me because he generally sends us something.
I don't know, maybe the note got lost?
Well, let me give him a double up karma then, just to make good with it.
The Jim Berkenstadt in Madison, Wisconsin, also 33333, and he did send a note in and prove it.
I got the paper here.
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Jim Birkenstadt is known in the entertainment world as the rock and roll detective.
He wrote a book.
Does he have a new book out?
Yeah, brand new one.
Having consulted to George Harrison, The Beatles, Apple Corps, Martin Scorsese, and others, he deconstructs and solves true rock and roll mysteries.
His new bestseller is called The Beatle Who Vanished.
Oh.
He did it on the 60th Beatles Anniversary Tour Edition.
Here's the blurb.
How is it possible a session drummer, Jimmy Nicol, Could appear on stage with the Beatles in place of the ailing Ringo Starr at the start of the Beatles' first world tour in 1964, then vanish one year later.
Though his days as a Beatle made headlines, the true mystery of Nicole's story is riddled with blacklisting, drugs, bankruptcy, and an eventual disappearance that led many to ask, what happened to this Beatle?
Is Jimmy dead or alive?
What happened to this Beatle?
The case is now solved.
Check the book out at Amazon.com or get a signed copy at www.TheBeetleWhoVanished.com.
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Nice.
Yeah, Jim has been writing these books for a while and they're very good.
They're just good books.
Well, thank you very much, Jim.
Appreciate it.
Everybody go pick up his book.
We move on to Associate Executive Producers shorts today.
Callipygist Colin dubs Spring, North Carolina 222 Short Row of Ducks.
He says, please accept this short row of ducks for the persistence of the no agenda show where the producer credits are real and the birds are fake.
Please, please provide some baby making karma for me and my smoking hot wife.
Thank you.
You got it, brother.
No problem.
You've got.
Karma.
And remember, you gotta name the kid John or Adam, or both.
Eli the Coffee Guy, our buddy in Bensonville, Illinois, 20711.
7-11.
A friend and I recently were discussing the COVID foolishness, especially face masks.
The conversation inspired me to look up the number of masks used during this pandemic.
The stats were disturbing.
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Big NATO meeting.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Big one!
Big one!
Big money!
We'll see how long this lasts.
I have a few clips.
Well, this is the 75th anniversary of NATO.
Yeah, 010.
Yes.
And they did, it looks like Disney produced the event.
Oh, really?
Oh, it just sounds spectacular.
It was like, you know, by the way, here's, I'll do the tip later, but I have a Disney tip.
OK, especially for people in Southern California.
But let's listen to it.
I have some reports from the NATO thing from NTD.
I think they pretty much hit it properly.
Let's go with report one.
This is NTD.
President Biden urging NATO leaders to ramp up their industrial production amid threats from China and Russia and the U.S.
rolling out a new move to prevent China from flooding U.S.
markets.
NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao brings us this report.
As world leaders gather here in D.C.
for the NATO summit, President Biden's calling on these leaders to produce more defense equipment more quickly as Russia is making more weapons with the help from China.
Here's President Biden speaking at a working session this morning.
Watch.
They're significantly ramping up their production of weapons, munitions, and vehicles.
And they're doing it with the help of China, North Korea, and Iran.
We cannot, in my view, we cannot allow the alliance to fall behind.
And President Biden also highlights the tens of billions of dollars of investments that the U.S.
is making in our defense manufacturing.
President Biden in recent months has been increasingly warning that the Chinese Communist regime is providing Russia with materials and equipment used in the war against Ukraine.
Yeah, this is a big deal around the world.
If you don't mind me interjecting a short one-minute clip from France 24, this looks more and more like the pivot to the Indo-Pacific is taking place.
A stern rebuke from NATO as allies gather in Washington.
The military alliance called out the world's second largest economy for its no-limits partnership with Russia.
China has become a decisive enabler of Russia's war against Ukraine.
And China's support increases the threat Russia poses to Euro-Atlantic security.
Allies have stated clearly that China cannot enable the largest conflict in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting their interest and reputation.
It didn't take long for Beijing to hit back at NATO.
China warning the alliance against provoking a confrontation over its ties to Moscow.
It is obvious to the international community who is finding flames and adding fuel to the fire in the prolonged Ukraine crisis.
We urge NATO to reflect on the root causes of the crisis and its own actions.
Listen carefully to the just voices of the international community and take practical actions to defuse the situation rather than shifting blame.
They're setting it up, teeing it up for Trump.
Big ships, beautiful subs.
I'd like to ask the question because just within just the last year, They supposedly were talking to China about not helping Russia and the Chinese, you know, we're not doing anything.
And now all of a sudden they're like in bed with Russia helping them in this war in Ukraine.
I don't think that's true.
I think this is a lie.
That's what the Chinese dude just said.
He said, look at your own stuff, man.
You're the ones that started this.
Kind of.
That's kind of what he said.
Okay, let's go to part two.
In addition to protecting Europe, the NATO Secretary General on Wednesday emphasized the need to maintain a focus on the Indo-Pacific.
And we will reinforce our partnerships in the Indo-Pacific to push against the growing alignment of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
It seems like a lot of the reporting out of this Disney celebration was about China.
At least that's... What is... What is...
And say North Korea and Russia from the Pacific side have to do with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.
What does NATO stand for?
It stands for North Atlantic.
What are these guys trying to butt into?
They want to have Japan join NATO now?
Is that where this is headed?
Philippines join NATO now?
Is that what's going to happen?
I wish I had clipped it out of the MSNBC Morning Joe interview.
No, I can't remember what interview it was, but President Biden said, I expanded NATO!
Yes, he did.
No, we had that clip in the clips of In the clips I had, it was in there.
He expanded NATO, yeah, into Ukraine.
Douche.
Who needs this aggravation?
Okay, part three.
In their final joint statement to be released this week, NATO leaders are expected to call out China's threats to Western countries.
And President Biden will hold a press conference at the NATO Summit on Thursday, and he's expected to cover both domestic and foreign topics.
And in another move to counter China, the Biden administration on Wednesday announced new tariffs targeting steel and aluminum routed through Mexico.
And that's a move to prevent China from circumventing existing U.S.
tariffs to export its cheap, state-subsidized metals to the U.S.
The administration says these steps are all to prevent China from harming American workers, especially in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
All political.
All political.
Well, that's political for Ohio and Pennsylvania, this showboating.
Meanwhile, I have two more clips.
Meanwhile, because of this event and Biden getting all this attention, we had to have showboaters.
First, the Senators start making some racket, and I have that clip.
That says congressional leadership from both parties met with Zelensky and NATO leaders.
NTD's Washington correspondent, Luis Martinez, has the details.
Is Zelensky in NATO?
Is that what you're talking about here?
What's Zelensky doing there?
I'm sorry, President Biden expanded NATO into Ukraine.
Did you miss that part of the interview?
That says congressional leadership from both parties met with Zelensky and NATO leaders.
NTD's Washington correspondent Luis Martinez has the details of the high-profile meetings happening on the sidelines of the NATO summit.
A group of bipartisan senators led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell met with NATO leaders this Wednesday morning on the sidelines of the NATO summit.
Also this Wednesday morning, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg praised the bipartisan nature of U.S.
congressional supports towards NATO.
And in the U.S.
Congress, there is strong bipartisan support for NATO.
U.S.
security interests It's to have a strong NATO, strong bipartisan support, and that European allies are stepping up investing more.
I expect that the United States will remain a strong ally regardless of the outcome of the elections.
Yeah, a couple of things.
First of all, what's this sidelines nonsense?
Why isn't that front and center?
It's on the sidelines, like on the Q2.
They did the same thing with the second clip, which is the house guys.
Just play that, we can talk.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is also set to meet with NATO leaders, in particular Greek Prime Minister, the President of the Czech Republic, and the newly elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Senate leadership also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky presented Senator Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell with the Medal of the Order of Merit First Class in recognition of their support of Ukraine.
Zelensky also met with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, but not all House Republicans were pleased with the Speaker's decision.
I think Speaker Johnson, instead of meeting with Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, should be more focused on doing everything he can to make sure the SAVE Act, which would protect our elections across the country, is made into a law.
Speaker Johnson could be using one of the most powerful positions in the country to do things like that instead of meeting with President Zelensky, talking about sending more of our hard-earned tax dollars over there.
It's ridiculous.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged U.S.
lawmakers not to wait until the November general elections to continue providing the necessary tools for Ukraine to counter Russian aggression.
So I see you have Save Act clips, so we'll get to that in a minute.
So why wasn't Rutte there?
Isn't this where they should introduce him as like the next guy, the next big man on campus?
I mean, I saw no, no footage of him, which I found to be odd.
I don't get that.
Well, they wanted to focus on Stoltenberg because everyone had to give each other a bunch of awards.
Ah, yes.
So Stoltenberg got an award.
You know, Biden put some sort of a thing, a reef around his neck or something, a noose.
I'm not sure what it was, but they threw it around his head.
I got this report from, uh, from France 24, the big ticket announcement.
There was a big, speaking of Disney.
It was an A-ticket ride!
Well, Ukraine is obviously a big focus of the NATO summit that will be on today in Washington, and we're going to talk more about that now with NATO Specialist Mark Webber, who joins me from the University of Birmingham.
Mark, will anything concrete on Ukraine come out of this summit, do you think?
Could there be more military aid?
There will certainly be an announcement of military aid.
The figure that's being Kicked around at the moment is some €40 billion.
It's not entirely clear what that's made up of and how it is to be funded.
And as recently as the Secretary General's press conference a couple of days ago, there was some uncertainty as to exactly what it will entail.
But I imagine there will be a big-ticket announcement using Some sort of figure and some sort of announcement with the detail as to exactly how it's to be funded and what it is to be spent on coming after the summit itself.
We know exactly how it's funded.
It's funded from the Russian money that has been confiscated.
Although it was an interesting... Yes?
I want to correct something you said.
It's the E ticket.
That's the high-end ticket, not the A ticket.
Thank you.
Because somebody would write in on that.
Yeah, they can write in anyway.
That's true, but with that voice meowing around a zero hedge had a report that the Saudis apparently threatened to sell European bonds Yep, if the Russian assets were confiscated now, they've been confiscated.
So I don't know does that mean they also know?
They didn't confiscate the bonds in Russian money just the profits so the profits from the money can Russia have the money back then if it's not confiscated No I don't know what the deal is with this, but this is all bad.
Bad for the world economy.
Well, but, yes.
It is.
But that's the number.
I mean, 40 billion euros.
I mean, yeah, you can finagle that.
A little stretching, get it to 50 billion dollars, which the U.S.
is going to loan.
Or going to lend, I should say.
And then we'll get it later.
Again, our money.
It's fine.
Go ahead.
It's house money.
Uh, Antony, Antony did make an announcement which puzzled the Dutch.
Also pleased to announce that as we speak, the transfer of F-16 jets is underway.
Coming from Denmark, coming from the Netherlands, and those jets Those jets will be flying in the skies of Ukraine this summer to make sure that Ukraine can continue to effectively defend itself against the Russian aggression.
So in the Dutch press, which I can read and I do read, and of course the Dutch press was, the Dutch are not concerned about this because they're all just bummed out about the sports ball loss.
But there was an article that says, well, yeah, we can pack them up in containers, but we got no one to train you.
How are you going to train everybody over there?
All right, well, here's your jets.
Well, no, they've been trained.
I have a similar report, but it was a little more complete, the F-16 clip.
Well, I'm just telling you what the Dutch news media is saying.
They're saying we got no one to train him on.
The first batch of American-built F-16 fighter jets is on its way to Ukraine to help counter the Russian onslaught.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the announcement today during the NATO summit.
As we speak, the transfer of F-16 jets is underway, coming from Denmark, coming from the Netherlands.
And those jets, those jets will be flying in the skies of Ukraine this summer.
Ukraine has long been asking for the F-16 jets to upgrade its air force.
The nation's first group of fighter pilots received training earlier this year.
In a post on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the latest weapons transfer is a, quote, clear signal that Russia's ability to terrorize Ukrainian people, cities and communities will continue to reduce.
NATO members have already sent out several strategic air defense systems to help the war-torn nation, and more aid is expected to be announced during this week's summit.
So going back to what Gash told us, you know, former naval pilot, even if you have the jets, even if you've trained the pilots, you need runways, you need facilities, you need hangars.
These things won't last five minutes.
I agree.
Those jets, they might as well just give them to the Russians.
They'll be blowed up on the ground.
Ridiculous.
They probably will be blowed up on the ground.
Some kind of Top Gun fantasy.
They won't even get in the air.
It's a Top Gun fantasy they have.
This was part of what the meeting was really about.
Olivia, what progress do world leaders hope to make on the situation in Ukraine?
And what's at stake for the President?
There's been a lot of pushback from Republicans here in the United States in both the Senate and in the Congress over funding for Ukraine.
Tell us what the stakes are.
Absolutely, Vlad.
It's great to be with you.
Good morning.
Well, we actually just heard moments ago from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who announced that F-16 fighter jets are finally on their way to Ukraine.
They're being sourced from Denmark and the Netherlands, and he said they're expected to be flying in Ukraine skies later this summer.
That's of course in addition to this more robust package of air defense capabilities that President Biden announced last night.
That crucially includes those Patriot battery systems that President Zelensky has been appealing for for months as Russian missile attacks have been unrelenting across the country.
Secretary Blinken also laid out additional elements of the overall package that Ukraine can ultimately expect to receive coming out of this summit.
He noted that there would be a dedicated NATO liaison officer now stationed in Kiev and said that Ukraine's eventual membership path would be a quote, strong, robust, well-lit bridge.
Now we know that that membership is not currently on the table, and we haven't yet seen the full communique that the alliance is working on.
Members are still hashing out that language to be finalized in the coming days of this summit.
A well-lit bridge, ah yes.
I expanded NATO!
And right on cue, we got to blame the Russians for Killing children!
Tonight, Ukraine is reeling after a ruthless Russian missile attack on a children's hospital in the capital city of Kyiv.
Nearly 40 civilians were killed and more than 170 injured in missile strikes all across Ukraine.
CBS's Ramion Asensio tonight has disturbing images of the aftermath.
More than 40 different kinds of Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine's capital and four other cities.
This projectile slowed down for clarity, unmistakable in this morning's rare daylight assault, which devastated apartments, office buildings, and the country's biggest pediatric hospital in Keynes.
Rescuers carried out cancer patients as other children fled, still connected to intravenous drips.
I could not think there could be attacks on the hospital with sick children, said this mother.
No words, even swear words, can describe it.
But what matters most is that they're alive, said his father of his wife and son.
Volunteers frantically sifted through the rubble of what once was the hospital's dialysis department, looking for survivors.
Russia denied it targeted the hospital.
Ukraine said it found remnants of a Russian cruise missile.
Beyond any doubt, we are going to answer these savages from Russia, said Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting neighbouring Poland.
Russia targeted Zelensky's hometown of Krivyi Rih too, killing nearly a dozen people and injuring almost four times as many.
Today's deadly Russian barrage across eastern and central Ukraine raises questions about the country's air defences.
One day before Zelensky meets NATO leaders in Washington to discuss how to strengthen them.
There was a report, and I have to take the Russian side on this, but that claims by doing some forensics that that hospital was hit by one of the defensive missiles that went astray.
Yes, I have boots on the ground.
From our fine military producers who like to send me stuff.
So what was happening is the Russians were targeting the airport.
Probably to stop the stupid F-16s from being able to land.
Or being able to be deployed from there.
And it was Patriot missiles that were intercepting The incoming, and so it intercepted one of these Russian, I don't know if it was a cruise missile, but intercepted one of them, and that's when part of, probably both came down on the hospital.
So, but, you know, that is immediately, and war sucks.
I mean, this is what happens in war.
Maybe we should give up this stupid war, just a thought.
Yeah, I know.
Pipe dreams, pipe dreams everywhere.
Weird.
Pipe dreams everywhere.
You know, and Nora was almost crying there.
Yeah, well, this is exactly what happens.
Um, so, you know, you announced that you're going to send some F-16s, you know, what do they do?
Well, you know what?
We don't really, you know, we're going to make sure you can't put them there.
So we'll take out your airport, get rid of all that.
Good to go.
And then, yeah, well, if you're shooting them down, then yeah, stuff happens.
So it's, you're not wrong as far as I'm concerned on this being, uh, an unfortunate, uh, part of war, but there was no direct targeting like, oh, these Russians just want to kill children.
Meanwhile, the Prince of Peace, Viktor Orban, is getting raked over the coals for having the audacity to try and create some kind of peace with Putin.
Oh no!
Die Welt even sat down with him.
I only got kind of the intro to it.
It's in the show notes.
It's worth watching the whole half hour.
Because here's a guy, and this, remember he made the deal?
They wanted his vote, and that final vote was about the interest on the frozen money.
Do you remember that?
The European Parliament, or the Council, whatever it was?
Vaguely.
Right.
And then he was the last one to go, and like, oh, he made some kind of deal.
Well, the deal he made, I think, is that he is, you know, of course they have the rotating presidency, and I think I don't know if he's double crossing on the deal or what happened exactly, but he's really trying to create a diplomatic communication with Putin to stop this, and he says if we don't, it's going to get far worse.
Thank you for having us here.
The whole EU is talking about you again.
I see furious statements from various leaders.
Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen, Kaya Kalas are just a few of the reactions about your trip to Moscow to meet Putin.
What did you want to achieve with it?
Okay, the Hungarian rotating presidency started 1st of July this year, which means that we have to help the European Union to work better and to achieve certain goals.
This is a very technocratic approach.
Dossiers, legislatives, competitiveness, very important issues.
But we can't neglect the fact that we are living in a very special time.
This is wartime.
So I think the Presidency of the European Union, I mean the European Council, simply cannot afford not to deal with how to get closer to peace and whether is there any chance to close the war, ceasefire or peace talk.
So if any rotating European Presidency of the Council would not deal with that, that would be hypocrisy.
So I have a strong moral and political motivation that we have to do something and My estimation is that in the forthcoming 2-3 months, till the American election, what will happen on the front line, it will be far worse than it was up to now.
More weapons are there, and the Russians are moving consistently ahead.
energy of the confrontation, the number of deaths, the lost lives, the casualties will be more brutal than it was in the last seven months, even the previous period was also very brutal.
So what is ahead of us is far worse than we think now.
So my motivation is that if we would like to do something, and I wish so, and to change from war policy, war supporting policy, to rather to the peace policy, this is the right The question is how we can do that.
Well, he's at least trying.
At least there's one guy out there, and they, whoa, they're all mad at him.
What are you, what are you doing?
Didn't you get your check?
Unbelievable.
He also, and I realize it's a little hard to understand him, although I think it's funny he talks about the American erection, which is probably the problem, but that is a problem.
Our American erection is a problem everywhere in the world.
But he also had this document, and I'm not sure exactly what venue he was in, where he held up this document from Soros.
Have you seen this?
No, I'm not familiar with what he's referring to.
Okay, it's a document from Soros which was the plan to flood the EU with at least 1 million asylum seekers every single year.
And this document is from 2015.
He says asylum, but he means asylum.
It's shorter than this previous one.
I do remember how Mr. George Soros published his plan in English, in a Project Syndicate publication.
It was done 2015, September 26.
And he published a plan.
He said that he is my, I'm quoting, he writes the six components of my comprehensive plan.
I'll just quote two or three points of that.
First is, he said very clearly, in 2015, that, quoting again, EU has to accept at least a million asylum seekers annually.
That was the first point.
Second, he said, adequate financing is critical.
And he proposed So there's Soros' plan all along.
Yeah, we're going to flood the EU with asylum seekers and we're going to finance taking care of them with euro bonds.
the European Union.
So there's Soros' plan all along.
Yeah, we're going to flood the EU with asylum seekers, and we're going to finance taking care of them with euro bonds.
Well, that's his business.
That's his business.
That's literally what he does.
Oh, I got a great idea.
I'm going to make a killing on this stuff.
I'm not getting into this bond here.
Maybe he wrote the bond for all I know.
That guy's no good.
And you see his son has proposed to Uma Abedin?
Yeah.
She gets around.
Something's up with her.
Well, now we're connecting.
We bring the Clintons back into the cash.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely that.
Yeah, I don't know what to make of that.
Of Uma and Alex?
Yeah.
Honestly, I look at him, I think he looks gay.
I mean, I know I'm judging.
Well, she was with Hillary for a long time.
She may be gay, may be a gay, may be at one of those convenient marriages.
The two gays marry each other.
I thought that only happened in Hollywood.
Yeah, well they have to have a trans kid to make it work.
Speaking of Hollywood, Alec Baldwin is on trial for shooting and killing his director.
The cinematographer.
Yeah, cinematographer.
I'm quite sure at one point, just the irony of it, I'm sure that somewhere he did Trump on Saturday Night Live about, I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue.
Yeah, he probably did.
I know he did Trump.
He did a poor job of Trump.
But the irony of, you know, perciflaging Trump about being able to shoot anybody and getting away with it.
And here he is on trial for shooting somebody and probably going to get away with it.
Although I don't think he meant it, obviously.
I know.
He didn't mean it.
He was, it was careless.
I mean, it's homicide.
You can't just... I mean, if you get into a car wreck and somebody dies and you get... Yeah, you get sued.
Vehicular manslaughter.
You didn't mean it.
You didn't mean to kill anybody, but you're still stuck with the charges.
Of course, we have wall to wall to wall coverage of Alec Baldwin shooting and manslaughtering one person, hurting another.
And this, 38 seconds of news.
We just got the official numbers from the Chicago Police Department.
CPD reports a total of 109 people shot over the July 4th weekend.
19 of those people were killed.
That far surpasses the numbers we saw over the July 4th weekend last year.
Both the police superintendent and the mayor call the situation unacceptable.
At the same time, They are sticking with their crime-fighting strategy.
They say they made adjustments, including changing officer shifts based on what they saw on the holiday itself, and they reiterated this cannot be just a police problem.
104 people shot.
Just a toss away.
You know, we got 30 seconds to fill until the commercial break.
Throw this one in.
And then do a whole piece of Alec Baldwin.
I got a couple of these crime stories that are funny.
If you want to call it funny.
Funny?
I got the robbery story, which I think is a winner.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Three suspects have been charged in connection to an attempted armed robbery which led to the death of a foreign national.
New Zealand business executive Doug McKay and his wife Patricia were targeted outside a mall in Newport Beach.
The suspects reportedly demanded the expensive items they were carrying and then proceeded to kill Patricia by running her over with a car.
Doug McKay was the former chair of the Bank of New Zealand and a friend to the nation's prime minister.
The leader of the robbery crew, 26-year-old Leroy Ernest McCrary, had been on probation.
He reportedly dodged prison time in another case.
Did you hear about the carjacking?
I got the carjacker clip.
Oh, okay.
Is it under carjacker?
Yes, carjacker.
Here we go.
A deputy U.S.
marshal shot a carjacking suspect while on duty near Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's D.C.
home.
Early last Friday morning, police say the 18-year-old suspect approached a deputy marshal and pointed a gun at him in an apparent carjacking attempt.
The marshal drew his service weapon and fired several shots at the teen.
Law enforcement officials say the attempted carjacking was random and it does not appear that Sotomayor was being targeted.
The suspect was treated for his injuries and now faces several charges including armed carjacking.
You know, what was more, I think my clip is a little more interesting with some detail about, uh, and so these are, these, these are officers who are supposed to protect the Supreme Court justice.
And just listen to this, this is from ABC.
New details emerging today about an alarming incident involving gunfire near the home of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
It was just after 1.17 a.m.
Friday morning when authorities say Kentrell Flowers, 18, approached a car sitting in front of Sotomayor's home.
Police say Flowers walked to the driver's door and pointed a gun at the occupants, attempting a carjacking.
But what he didn't realize is that the people in the car were U.S.
Marshals.
Marshals?
Checking the home of the Supreme Court Justice.
One of the Deputy U.S.
Marshals firing four shots, wounding flowers in the mouth.
So, four shots?
And all you do is just zing them in the mouth?
And you're a U.S.
Marshal?
Hmm.
Back to training.
I would think.
That's not a good- Just the guys moving around a lot.
Well, not anymore.
A friend of the show is quite good friends with one of the astronauts on the International Space Station.
And he says, you know, this whole thing about they can't come back, he says, this is bullcrap.
There are 12 ships docked to this thing on what they call the deep end of the pool, the deep end of the International Space Station that could easily take them back.
But this is, of course, as this report shows, a much bigger issue for Boeing.
A mission only scheduled for eight days now rolls into its fifth week, as the Boeing Starliner's return journey has been repeatedly postponed due to leaks and thruster failures.
Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams are confident they can return home after testing.
In the meantime, their spirits are high aboard the International Space Station.
We've been thoroughly busy up here, integrated right into the crew and every about once a week we get to jump into Starliner and talk to our control team there.
The system that enables the capsule to back away from the space station into the Earth's atmosphere is faulty.
Boeing have branded this moment as advantageous, a chance to do further checks while the craft is still in orbit.
This is the world of test.
This is a tough business that we're in.
Human spaceflight is not easy, in any regime.
And there have been multiple issues with every spacecraft that's ever been designed, and that's the nature of what we do.
You know, that mantra you've heard, failure is not an option.
That's why we are staying here now.
We did have some degradation in our thrusters, and we know that.
And that's why we're staying, because we're going to test it.
That's what we do.
A year behind schedule and 1.5 billion dollars over budget, this NASA Boeing mission had experienced technical issues before it left Earth.
After multiple incidents and two high-profile crashes in recent years, Starliner, Boeing's first manned expedition, was pegged as a reputation rebuilder.
With no timeline for return, the astronauts might have to jump aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to get home.
Eh, gonna hitch a ride on Elon's, uh, Elon ship?
This is not good.
Boeing, man.
Something's gotta happen with them.
I don't know how much, uh, um, how much... ...hanky-panky's going on with SpaceX.
A lot.
In other words, we had this, you know, this long time ago, the show, maybe 10 years ago, we talked about the various weird crashes between Boeing and the Airbus operation.
And there was something going on with these two battling for control of the air and the business.
And now all of a sudden it's SpaceX and Boeing and Boeing's getting the short end of the stick.
Makes you wonder.
Additional Boeing news.
A Boeing aircraft mechanic was sucked into the plane's engine in... where was this?
In Iran.
They had, like, video.
Not of him getting sucked in, but, you know, blood splatters everywhere.
A lot of dudes standing around going, dude, there's not much left of him.
And a positive update for Boeing, not good for Southwest.
You recall the Southwest plane that entered into a so-called Dutch roll?
Yes.
So it turns out that it was not an issue with the, not a structural issue with the plane as Boeing makes it, but
On May 16th, Southwest had left this aircraft outside in New Orleans at the airport, where there were 84 mile an hour winds, and conclusion now from the NTSB is that the rudder was damaged during that storm.
And that's why they had this issue.
So it was more a Southwest mistake than anything.
But that's no fun.
Boeing sucks!
DEI!
I love that people always say, oh, it's DEI.
Yeah, it's dangerous flying because of DEI.
No.
No, it's just cutting corners.
I thought you were going to go somewhere from there.
No, no.
It can go all kinds of places, but I figured you might want to pick it up.
Okay, well let's go to the EPA and the fact that we're getting screwed by the government.
What?
EPA head Michael Regan answers questions about the estimated $1.6 trillion in regulatory costs, which the agency has imposed during his three and a half years at the helm.
1.6 trillion dollars of new federal regulatory costs.
EPA head Michael Regan took questions from Congress Wednesday.
A major theme, regulatory burden.
One agency in less than four years has imposed more costs than the entire federal government did under the eight years of all things the Obama administration.
Representative Pat Fallon suggests the EPA has been overreaching.
Rep.
Tim Burchett says complying with new rules increases costs for businesses.
URAL's rule on line manufacturing plants imposes costs of $2.5 billion on a small industry with a $2.3 billion in revenue.
Y'all think it's necessary?
Regan answered.
The rule that has been proposed is done in a way that we believe maximizes protection from an environmental health standpoint.
But as I mentioned to a colleague earlier, this is something that I would love for our staffs to have a conversation about.
Regan says his EPA tries to evaluate the burden of all its rules.
And we weigh that against the opportunities for these companies to invest in new technologies that might provide efficiencies in some other areas, while also lowering the pollution burden on the environment.
Rep.
Byron Donalds voiced concerns that the EPA's Clean Power Plan regulates coal and natural gas too harshly.
Under the EPA's Clean Power Plan 2.0, essentially coal will be regulated out of existence.
Donald's asked whether the plan would raise power prices for poor families.
Regan answered.
These control technologies don't have to be put in until 2020, 2031, 2032, so we're talking about some time down the road.
Number two, all of our cost estimates say that the actions we're taking will only potentially increase price by less than 1%.
Bull crap!
What?
What a ripoff.
They're going to take coal offline and it's going to only increase the cost of power by 1% or 2%?
That's just a blatant lie.
Yeah.
And by the way, I think the one congressman who pointed out that there's, I forgot what business it was, the entire business was a $2.3 billion industry and it had $2.5 billion in EPA fines.
How does that work?
Well, play your second clip and then I have a boots on the ground report.
Okay.
The Trump administration rolled back EPA rules considerably, cutting regulatory costs for businesses.
Former Trump officials suggest he may do it again if re-elected.
We would have significant impacts to our water quality.
Emerging contaminants like PFAS would run amok.
We would continue to have lead-poisoned water all across the country.
Oh yeah, PFAS!
We need money.
The way he says it, they're poisoning the water.
I mean, if you listen carefully to what he said, he says, oh everything's gonna run amok, we're gonna have more poison water.
We would have significant impacts to our water quality.
Emerging contaminants like PFAS would run amok.
We would continue to have lead-poisoned water all across the country.
This is nonsense.
Well, I got a note, boots on the ground, from one of our producers and he asked to remain anonymous.
A soon-to-be former government employee, boots on the ground, wanted to send this short report after John mentioned his experience and perspective on working in the administrative state.
I could not agree more and I'm ashamed that I have landed in such a dark place mentally during my tenure.
Some background on me is I've worked in corporate finance, Notice I said finance.
For nine years and for the last year I've been working for the state of Oregon.
32 year old working professional who wanted to test the waters around working for the state.
Here's my analysis.
The main reason I'm reaching out is because I am part of Oregon's education agency.
In my last year working for the state I would like to summarize the following.
Oregon has numerous workers who are well beyond working years.
There's someone here who's turning 75 and makes over $300,000, yet they do not use the computer since it's, quote, not something they can learn.
Along with that, there are folks in leadership who talk about how their jobs are only performative.
Our senior leadership team all makes well over $250,000 and some have no expertise or knowledge around what their department does.
We have one person who has held their position as department head for six years and they are just now discovering aspects of their department and are trying to write missing policy and procedures.
Our procurement department is over a year behind getting money out the door.
We are still trying to process contracts from last May.
Our leadership and procurement department doesn't know the difference between a contract or a grant.
I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on.
The most recent jobs report, I believe something like 70% of the new jobs that were saved or created by the Biden administration were government jobs.
Yeah, and he described exactly what's going on.
This is a complete rip-off of the American taxpayer.
We're being robbed, literally.
Our constitutional lawyer Rob writes in with the first domino to fall for Chevron deference.
The HHS regulation that would have withheld federal funding from states that refused to provide sex changes is now on hold nationwide.
This case proves that the whole notion that we must trust agency experts with making decisions is bullcrap.
That's lawyer speak.
It's just a way for the executive branch to override Congress and the judiciary.
As Obama once quipped, we didn't need Congress because he's got a phone and a pen.
And he says he expects an initial wave of suits seeking to overturn many types of regulations, but the courts can probably handle a lot of this, and of course we still have the, what's the other, Skidmore deference to deal with.
But it is starting.
It is already starting.
Well, the agencies will back off on their own.
They have to.
They want to keep their jobs.
Yes, that's the reason.
I don't think there's going to be that much of a burden on the courts.
No.
No, that's what he says.
Not such a big burden.
Of course there was an upset in France with the far right.
Yes, this was kind of a surprise.
It was a shocker.
Well, what they did is the left bandied together with the center parties and they said, hey, let's screw those guys.
We're not going to let them win.
But in this clip from France 24, what's this lady's name?
I can't remember her name.
She's in Parliament.
It's not like the left have won, per se, because they have a long way to go now, because what they've wound up with is an unprecedented situation, there's that word again, where they now have to figure out how to govern with parties that don't even agree with each other.
As you saw on Sunday, there's no bloc that is able to govern on its own, and this is a very unusual situation.
We've never had this.
It's unprecedented in France.
And right now, every single bloc, no matter what you hear, has to negotiate and talk to the others.
So yes, there's a lot of negotiations taking place.
Can you tell me what is, according to you, what is going to happen according to you?
Is it going to be a left-wing government, a center-right government, a centrist government?
What do you feel?
It is still very early to say.
You have to move fast, but at the same time, right now I don't see anyone making the steps necessary to form a coalition that would be broad enough.
So the other option is to form an agreement to govern, you know, with two different blocs as you have in Germany, for instance, or had in Spain.
Right now, what I know is that we've never had this and we need to learn how to make compromises.
People talk about a government of technocrats in order to overcome political differences.
Is that a possibility?
It is indeed a possibility, but I don't think it would be a good choice because right now we had two elections, two very important ones, the European elections and now, after the dissolution, the legislatives.
And I think people want to see their ideas in power, even though you have maybe two different parties agreeing to govern together.
This is going to be just like Belgium.
Where they had basically no government.
They have to form a coalition, but they can't.
They can't without Le Pen.
So they're going to do some kind of agreement.
Agreement to govern.
This is not what the French want.
No, it's going to be very left.
Yeah, but still, they have to have the numbers, and they don't seem to be able to have the numbers for a majority in Parliament.
But, you know, we can always just do what the Americans did with Trump.
You could say it's been a bad week for Marine Le Pen.
First, her far-right National Rally Party came in third in legislative elections, after many predicted it would win.
Now, the 2027 presidential hopeful is facing questions about the financing of her campaign in 2022.
A race she lost to Emmanuel Macron.
The probe was launched following a report by the National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing, whose role it is to scrutinize candidates' election expenses and funding.
Details are forthcoming, but prosecutors say they're looking into allegations of embezzlement, forgery, fraud, and the acceptance of a loan by the campaign.
Le Pen, who has run for president three times, has previously denied wrongdoing in connection with campaign financing.
And it's not the first time she's faced such scrutiny.
Ahead of Le Pen's 2017 presidential run, the National Rally took out a 9.4 million euro loan from a Russian bank owned by a billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin.
The loan has since been repaid, but it prompted allegations that she and her party were under the Kremlin's influence.
She denied at the time.
Putin's puppet!
Putin's puppet.
That's how you do it.
Just go in.
Putin's puppet.
Yeah.
It works.
So we still need to see if we can get the mail-in ballots going for everybody.
I believe we have a state of emergency in, I want to say, Colorado.
Uh, for something.
So, you know, whenever you have a state of emergency, then you can do mail-in ballots.
That's always good.
And, uh, let's take a look at, uh, New Jersey and New York.
CDC!
CDC says that cases of the dengue virus have increased, particularly in New Jersey and New York.
41 cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been reported in the Garden State.
Pennsylvania has 25 reported illnesses, while Delaware has four.
Dengue fever is most common in tropical and subtropical areas of the world.
There are more than 2,500 infections in the U.S.
so far.
Most people became sickened while traveling.
Now we know the dengue fever was high on the list in the testing industrial complex, so we'll see if that pans out.
You heard the little... Yeah, people have been traveling abroad.
I know, I know.
It's bullcrap.
That's where you get dengue.
Those mosquitoes, that's a very specific type of mosquito that has dengue.
It's not every local mosquito.
Yeah, but it doesn't matter.
We just need a state of emergency for mail-in ballots.
That's all you really need.
How about them ballots?
Let's keep some other things alive.
Let's keep people a little bit afraid.
COVID cases are rising in 39 states across the country.
This is a new variant is popping up in the U.S.
but experts say hospitalizations and deaths are still low.
ABC's medical contributor epidemiologist Dr. John Brownstein joins me now for more on this.
Dr. Brownstein, thanks for coming on.
Let's just start with the basics.
How worried should we be about this uptick in cases?
We've gone from concern to worry.
I think it's a downgrade.
Well, Diane, this is... Okay, wait.
Wait.
I'm guessing in this clip.
I haven't heard the clip.
That there's no solid numbers, that he gives no numbers but percentages.
Not even that!
Well Diane, this is all part of the normal cycle that we expect from COVID.
We see these increases in the summer mostly because of gatherings that are taking place and we see this emerging new variant and of course now we're seeing these increases across the country.
We're flying blind a little bit because we're not really tracking cases.
We're using wastewater as an indicator.
But what we do know is that hospitalizations are still at record lows, and that we're seeing those really among the elderly and the most vulnerable, and deaths also are incredibly low.
So this variant is spreading fast, but it's not creating severe illness and death, which is good news for us.
It's good news.
We're testing the poop water.
We know everything.
We know all.
What is this new variant, which has been around for two months?
So what do we need to know about the FLIRT variant?
So the FLIRT variant is a descendant of Omicron, and we've spoken many years about all these different variants.
What we're talking about now is two sub-variants, KP.2 and KP.3, and they're spreading quickly.
In fact, I'm seeing in my family first cases of COVID ever.
So this is a variant that's spreading fast, but what we know is it's not causing different symptoms and it's not creating more severe disease.
So ultimately, we're not increasingly worried, but we still have to continue to monitor these variants, understand the genetic makeup, but recognize that this is all part of the normal evolution of the virus.
And then there's this clip which everyone's mocking this poor child, woman, young woman.
I find it incredibly sad.
It sounds like she's vaccine injured, which...
You know, long COVID is to blame, but I think it's vaccine injury.
Are you talking about Garner and Affleck's kid?
Yeah, Violet.
Violet Affleck, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter at the LA Board of Supervisors meeting.
Hi, Violet Affleck, Los Angeles resident, first-time voter, I'm 18.
I contracted a post-trial condition in 2019.
I'm okay now, but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief.
One in ten infections leads to long COVID, which is a devastating neurological cardiovascular illness.
That can take away people's ability to work, move, see, and even think, stands to exacerbate our homelessness crisis, as well as the suffering of many people in our city.
It hits communities of color, disabled people, elderly people, trans people, women, and anyone in a public-facing essential job the hardest.
To confront the long COVID crisis, I demand mask availability, air filtration, and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities.
We must expand the availability of high-quality free tests and treatment, and most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason.
They do not keep us safer.
They make vulnerable members of our community less safe and make everyone less able to participate in Los Angeles together.
Thank you.
It's amazing that this COVID, I mean, we're in fat city, John, because we're not gay, we're not of color, we're not invalid, and so we have nothing to worry about.
It only hurts minorities, in all sectors of minority-dom.
This is child abuse of this child.
And she has a mask on at the meeting, and she wears a mask all the time, if you ever see her.
You find a picture of her without her mask, it's like pulling teeth, you can't do it.
You know who else?
Who else?
It was some actress who was at the airport.
And the other child, you say you have three kids, the other one's a trans kid, of course, because in Hollywood, You have to have a trans kid in your family so you can be with other... So you can go to the meeting.
Go to the meetings, yeah.
And what was that cute... She used to be cute.
The actress with the blonde hair.
Oh, that narrows it down.
She's older now.
Um, she was in the airport and she did like a, you know, a live or a tick tock or I have no idea what you're talking about.
And she's like, you know, I'm, I'm keeping my mask on.
I forget who she is.
People don't realize that when you have that, generally speaking, you're breathing.
Most of the stuff you're breathing in is your own effluent.
Morgan Fairchild.
Morgan Fairchild was turned into one of those people?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a shame.
It is.
It is.
I like Morgan Fairchild.
There it is.
Funny clip.
Uh, which went around, which I thought was worth playing.
I just play, I'll play a little bit of it.
It was much longer.
Um, you know, project 2025, 2025.
This is what they're going to kill us with.
They want to kill black people.
They're going to shoot you as Trump's storm troopers.
Wasn't that what she said?
Yeah, she said the stormtroopers are gonna come and shoot you.
Yeah, Project 2025 is gonna kill everybody and so this is the new new narrative against Trump.
Because the lies thing, that's not working anymore.
Everyone's like, okay, whatever, he's a politician, fine.
So now it's Project 2025 and for some odd reason Ben Shapiro winds up testifying before Eric Swalwell.
And Swalwell is no match for Benny Boy.
I think Shapiro did a pretty good job on this one.
I think like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.
Well, let's just talk about pieces of it, and I guess you can tell me if you support it.
You probably want less bureaucracy, right?
I do.
I want less bureaucracy.
You want more efficiency?
I do.
I want more efficiency.
You want taxpayer money spent wisely?
I do.
Congrats on becoming a Republican.
My parents would be proud.
Cutting Social Security.
Do you support that part of 2025?
I'm not sure what Project 2025's position on Social Security is.
I'm in favor of the restructuring of Social Security along the lines of privatization and lowering and increasing the retirement age because you as well as every other congressperson knows Social Security is going to go bankrupt and yet everyone seems to have an interest in lying about it for the next decade and a half until we have to take austerity measures or radically increase inflation or taxes.
And bans against books about slavery.
Do you support that part?
Why would I possibly be in favor of bans about books about slavery?
That would be absolutely ridiculous.
What I am in favor of is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for, say, a 7th grader and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons and genderqueer.
That's not quite the same thing.
He just went on and on and on.
Shapiro would actually be a pretty entertaining politician.
It'd be a big step back in pay, but he would be fun to have.
Well, he's so sharp that I don't know why anyone even tries to take him on.
He's too quick.
Stupid!
He's always been... I played a Shapiro clip on this show almost 15 years ago, and you kind of got on my case for it.
I was very young.
And you remember this, that I got on your case for it?
I do.
I do.
And I didn't blame you because I thought you probably were correct but when he was a kid, I mean Shapiro's not that old and you go back 15 years and you know he's like a kid and so I had some clip and he was the same glib fast talker
and there's something about it you didn't like and it was just but I thought you were correct in the in the complaint and then we didn't play Shapiro forever and then he came up he came around to being who he is today same guy he is a fast-talking quick-witted guys not funny for a Jew you think he'd be funny no If he was funny, he'd be devastating.
Yeah, he does need to get, well, he had a little bit of humor there.
Oh, it's very little.
It's not, it's not a good, good Jewish humor is extremely cutting and biting.
It's dynamite.
It's the best.
And he's got none of that.
He's just mostly an intellectual type.
And he thinks, what he thinks is funny is usually juvenile.
Let's do the scam, the Save Acts scam, because I know nothing about this.
Yeah, play these clips.
I have two clips and that should summarize it, part one.
And breaking news, the House has just passed a bill that would prevent non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
NTD's international correspondent, Ariane Postar, has the details.
Non-citizens can vote in some local elections across the U.S., for example in Washington, D.C., but a House bill introduced by Chip Roy of Texas would now prohibit them from voting in nationwide elections.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAFE Act, aims to secure nationwide elections It would make it so that voters have to provide proof of U.S.
citizenship to cast ballots.
And the rules are even stricter for people who want to sign up to vote.
They need to present a U.S.
passport or a government-issued photo ID.
And if the photo ID doesn't show the applicant's place of birth as the U.S., then it must also be presented with a supporting document, for example a birth certificate or a naturalization certificate.
Democrats say the bill isn't needed because there is no proof of widespread fraud being committed, and that the U.S.
already has laws that prohibit non-citizen voting in nationwide elections.
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark sent a letter to colleagues criticizing the bill, writing that a Real ID driver's license, a tribal ID, or a military ID would be unacceptable unless coupled with additional documentation.
This would be an extreme burden for countless Americans.
A 2022 report by the non-profit Movement Advancement Project estimates that around 15 to 18 million adults in the U.S.
don't have access to documents to prove their citizenship.
But Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday said it's what Americans want.
Here's the number.
89% of Americans believe that only Americans should decide our elections.
And that includes, by the way, 82% of Democrats, 80% of black and African-American voters, 78% of Hispanic Latino voters.
Alright, so this bill is a fake.
This is one of those little things these Democrats and the Republicans both try to pull on each other just to kind of embarrass the other side.
This is the counter to the supposed bipartisan immigration reform bill that the Republicans voted no on because it was a bullcrap bill.
Right, right.
Which even Schumer voted no on.
Yeah.
It's his bill.
And so this was a, this is a phony baloney scam to make it to show it.
Look, the Democrats, they're voting there.
And, and also there's a lot of research coming out.
I think it's all part of the same scheme showing that they're interviewing people that are immigrants that are living in the country illegally and they're all registered to vote.
And, and the, and the idea that, uh, Biden's going to take the hordes.
The only reason he's letting immigration flow in is so they can all vote for Democrats, which we kind of subscribe to.
Well, you know, you keep saying it and I'm not saying it's not true, but I heard Jay Powell, I didn't clip it, but he was in Congress, you know, his little show, a dog and pony show.
And he's like, well, you know, again, he said it before.
Oh, the, you know, the immigration is doing good.
Just so I, you know, we're filling up all these jobs that nobody wants to do.
Yeah, which I think is what... Which suppresses the wages, which is what they want.
Yeah, clip two of this and we can finish the conversation.
Johnson recently published a report citing a 2014 study that analyzed the 2008 and 2010 elections, which concluded that the votes of non-citizens likely determined the outcome in certain areas.
Former President Trump has long supported the bill.
On Wednesday morning, he said that Republicans should pass the SAFE Act immediately.
The bill is now heading to the Democrat-controlled Senate.
I have a clip from C-SPAN, I think, about this bill.
It's short.
Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose.
Let me be clear.
They don't want you to vote.
They don't want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices, young voices.
Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized.
And this xenophobic attack that we're debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote.
My Republican colleagues will claim that requiring IDs is a small ask, but nearly 30 million people lack a valid driver's license.
And about 15 to 18 million adults don't have access to documents proving their birth or citizenship.
Americans don't need more obstacles.
It's already hard enough.
How can you be trans and not have a birth certificate?
I mean, this is all such a lie.
No, it's all posturing.
If there's 30 million people who don't have documentation, they're undocumented!
There's your number, 30 million.
Yeah, that's a good point.
And that is a number that has cropped up, that exact number, 30 million.
That's how many people that are in the country undocumented.
I have two more quickies.
For some reason, AOC gets the push to go and file the articles of impeachment against two Supreme Court justices.
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduces articles of impeachment against two Supreme Court justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
AOC criticized gifts Justice Thomas has received and she's also raising concerns with both justices failing to recuse themselves from cases in which they might have a conflict of interest.
Other justices have also been criticized for relationships with groups that have cases before the court.
The Congresswoman has not filed articles of impeachment against them.
So that must just be, I mean, isn't that just a waste of cycles?
That's not going to happen.
No, it's not going to happen.
It's going nowhere.
She's just doing that as a showboating thing.
These people actually spent more time doing their job instead of doing this sort of thing that we'd probably get somewhere.
But then again, I've always had this theory, when I was working for the administrative state, as I like to put it, is that you want, you know, I would go to the mall.
You're fed!
You're fed!
Don't encourage these people to do their work.
It's a bad idea.
Let them goof off because the less they do, the better off you are.
I have two quick tech stories.
So, both Microsoft and Apple appear to be giving up their observer seat, whatever that means, on the OpenAI Board of Directors.
Now, they're saying, oh, you know, regulatory, it's going to be a regulatory issue.
I don't know.
To me, it seems like they don't want to be around when the fallout happens.
Does that make any sense to you?
Well, there are liability issues when you're... because when things collapse, shareholder lawsuits make your... I was told this by one of these executives at that level, that shareholder lawsuits are not worth it.
They're some of the worst experiences you can have.
You're in court all the time.
You can't get anything done.
And so, yeah, you bail out before the going gets tough.
Makes sense.
You know, we keep trying to identify the moment when it's all going to come crashing down.
I just thought that was interesting that Microsoft, I mean, they have actual skin in the game.
You know, Apple, kind of, you know, they've got the open AI stuff in the new iOS.
But for them not to, I mean, it's not even a vote, supposedly, not even a voting seat.
Just an observer.
If you don't even want to be doing that.
I guess not.
Something smells.
Well, that's beside the point.
There's this great video of Sam Altman driving around, it must be San Francisco, in this massive supercar.
Um, I can't remember what it was called.
Like, terra fogara, something, something.
I've never seen it before.
Like, it must be a $2 million car.
Lamborghini?
It's not a Lamborghini.
No, no.
It's, it's, it's something like special.
It's almost like one of those Lotus deals that cost a million bucks.
Yeah, and he looked like a douche in it.
I mean, why would you even want... No, you always look like a douche in those cars.
It's like, why would you even want that car?
It's douche-mobile.
That's what it's called.
Douche-mobile.
Yeah, it's a total douche-mobile.
And the final one is, you know, all this security that we have on our phone.
Let me write that down.
Douche-mobile.
Um, the security that we always have on our phones, you know, it's all locked up.
You can't get it.
You know, and of course everybody uses, uh, you know, your face now to unlock your phone or your thumb.
I thought this was a fun little fun little news report.
In a 49-page affidavit filed in D.C.' 's Superior Court, investigators laid out a gruesome and diabolical scheme.
D.C.
police believe Fossil Tackle Mariam had been dead inside his third-floor apartment here on Peabody Street Northwest for about four days before his body was discovered.
According to a court affidavit filed in the case, he had suffered blunt force trauma to the head, he'd been stabbed, and his right thumb had been cut off.
A witness told police that the thumb was used to gain access to a cash app and to buy liquor and drugs.
I'm sorry that he's dead.
Just cut off the thumb!
Yeah, that's the problem with those fingerprint things.
It's fantastic!
Alright.
Got anything else?
Well, if you're going to beg me for stuff, I do it.
I'm begging you for one more.
One more.
One more.
Let's do the Biden supercut on his background.
Uh, okay.
I, uh, was sort of raised, uh, in the Puerto Rican community.
I had a very close relationship with the Greek-American community, for real.
I am Joe Bidenopolis.
I grew up in a heavily Irish Catholic community in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and a heavily Italian-Polish community.
When I say I got, uh, I got raised in the black church, he knows I'm not kidding.
The Persian culture.
This is amazing.
As a student of the Persian culture, I probably went to shul more than many of you.
I come out of the black community.
The background of my family is Irish American.
Not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people.
I was raised in a neighborhood where I felt self-conscious.
Synagogues in my state.
Everybody in town is either Polish or Italian.
I grew up feeling self-conscious.
My name didn't end in S-K-I.
I was raised in a neighborhood where I felt self-conscious.
My name didn't end in O.
That's kind of how I was raised.
Like so many Americans of Irish heritage.
In HBCU, in your home state, Mr. President.
Let me tell you, forget about it.
That's where I got raised, man.
Just like rabbis, synagogues, and Jewish community centers in your hometown.
And that's the tradition I got raised.
Hard-working people, the middle class, the neighbors I got raised in.
I was raised on GM.
I was raised by Danny Inouye.
I was raised by a righteous Christian.
I got raised on automobiles.
You know what that is?
That's a fire hose of lies!
It's a fire hose of lies.
I'm going to show myself food by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Before we thank people $50 and above, shouldn't we be creating some kind of Deadpool, some kind of timeline for Biden to go out?
That he leaves for good?
Shouldn't there be something that we can...
We can set up here?
That we can somehow get more donations by exploiting some situation?
Is that what you're saying?
Is that what you're asking?
Is that what you're looking for?
No, not really.
From the marketing department?
But I like, I like it.
I like the idea a lot.
We'll work on it.
We'll have a meeting.
We have so many of them.
We want to thank the rest of our producers who've supported us for episode 1676.
We got a couple of meetups to talk about and some birthdays, including a very special one.
So, John, hit it!
Yes, thank you.
I will hit it.
Karen Smart Wiley starts us off.
She's in Arvada, Colorado.
She came in 167.60, and she's asking for Jobs Karma for her daughter, Alira.
We'll give her that at the end, if you can recall.
Yeah.
Greg Hoy in Pacifica.
Hoy, hoy, hoy!
Pacifica, California, 133.33.
Ah, there's our Dame Rita Harrington.
She's in Sparks, Nevada.
She comes in at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Yarmour.
I know I'm pronouncing that wrong.
He's in Israel.
I'm going to assume it's an Israeli name.
Here comes my annual present to myself, a birthday shout out for July 12th for the best podcast in the universe, he writes.
Accompanied by some Jew money, for you fine gentlemen.
Woo!
Yarmor, currently in the military service in southern Israel.
Nothing like some Jew money.
About time.
Yeah, we get this too.
We're rolling in dough here.
We need some more intelligence community money.
Yeah, step it up, boys.
That's the big money there.
We're short here.
Step it up.
MFDX of Anjou, and I have to assume it's a Frenchman.
It's the 86-98, which refers to boobs on knees.
I don't get it.
You get it?
No, I don't see it.
Well, yeah, it's the two eights on the side and the knees, I guess.
So, 6'9".
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
There he is, 8008.
He's the Archduke of Luna.
Eric Haleen in Grafton, Ohio, 8008.
Shekels for the show!
Jew money, shekels for the show!
Shekels for the show, now you're talking.
A new promotion.
Yeah, that'll bring it in.
Computer Solutions Systems in Bulton, California, 7823.
And he's got a happy insurrection day.
He says it's from, oh, from Viscount Sir D.H.
Slammer.
Donating because of Bingit.
So awesome, he says.
Bingit.io is awesome.
He's also reached for the water filter of my recommendation.
I got to plug that as a tip of the day, that water filter I use.
Sir Mainframe in Ventura, California, 64.
Dame Trail Boss in parts unknown, 5711.
Eric Hulse in Richmond, Texas, 5377.
Abelson Dos Santos in Luanda, you know, somewhere in Africa.
Angola, I guess.
Oh yes, it is Angola.
$52.72.
Yes, for money from Africa.
Bad Idea Supply!
There they are!
$50.05.
Look it up on Google, Bad Idea Supply, and get yourself a... They have some... Bad Ideas.
No, they got burning equipment that is dynamite.
You want a backyard fireplace?
Go there.
Bad Idea Supply.
Capic Chiropractic in Capic, Michigan.
50.
Oh, these are all 50s.
We're already there.
Geez.
Just naming locations.
George Wuschit in La Vernia, Texas.
William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware.
William Spain in Springdale, Arkansas.
Louis Hollingsworth in Medford, Oregon.
Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Stephen Schumach.
In Zinnia, Ohio.
John Spade in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York.
Tom Del Vecchio in Brrrr-Blandon, Pennsylvania.
Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia.
Leslie Wilbur in Lovahatchee, Florida.
Sir Luke in London.
Collective Karma for all, we put that at the end.
Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Walker Phillips in San Rafael, California.
Surprise, Knight of Astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma.
Baroness Knight in Edmonds, Oklahoma.
I'm sorry, Edmonds, Washington.
And last on the least, last on the least, is David Kekta in San Tan Valley, Arizona.
And he has a call-out, Jeremy Mack is a douchebag.
That's our group.
Yeah, and David Keka has an end of show mix for us.
He donates, he douchebags, and he does a mix.
It's fantastic.
That's the triple threat.
And we're looking for a producer.
So we want to thank all these folks for Show 1676.
And we're definitely looking for end of show mixes with some musical taste to it, if you feel so inclined.
And here's the Jobs Karma as requested.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for Jobs.
That's right.
NoahJennerDonations.com.
Thank you all for supporting us in any amount.
You just send it to us.
That's how value for value works, and we appreciate all of it.
And we start off with the big birthday today.
The birthday girl, the keeper, Tina Marie Curry celebrates today, along with Jay Lawton.
Wait a minute!
Another big birthday!
Two birthdays!
I didn't even know it was her birthday!
Nah, she's Jay Lawton, formerly known as AKA Dvorak.
Dame Trail Boss turns 48 today.
Ronnie Ross, 33.
Yar Moore will be celebrating tomorrow, and Frank wishes Dame Amsterdam the happy one for the 14th.
And David Cacta, as we just heard him, wishes his minion Helene a happy birthday.
She'll be turning 14 on July 15th.
Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
No titles, no nights, no dames, straight to the meetups, everybody!
Yeah, the summer months have kicked in for sure, and I don't even have meetup reports, but there is a meetup today, the Northern Wake No Agenda Meetup.
Version 2.4, Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.
We have the 7-Eleven Denver Meetup at 6.30 in Denver City Park, Denver, Colorado.
On Saturday, the No Agenda Meetup in McKinney.
That's McKinney, Texas, at The Pub.
Make sure you check that out.
Schweddy is organizing that for you.
The North Carolina Triad, 2 o'clock on Saturday.
Little Brother Brewing, previously Kernersville Brewing, Colorado, and it's in Kernersville, North Carolina.
So just a name switch, I guess.
Release the Seattle Kraken!
Two o'clock, Dick's Burgers and Edmunds, Washington.
The Treasure Valley Boise Meetup at three o'clock at the Heritage Social Club in Garden City, Ohio.
July Club 33 Mac and Cheese Fest by Ayn Rand.
J.K.
O'Donnell's, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
That's something you got to check out.
Barbecue, Musique and Fleur, the Wobo Meetup.
We've been trying to figure out what this Wobo means.
That's going to be on Saturday at the Town Park, Lisbon, Sloterweg, Amsterdam.
So, Sir Joe Dirk sent me the Wobo.
Now I know what the Wobo is.
The Wobo is a bottle of Heineken beer that is, I think, exclusively sold in Africa.
I should take a picture of it.
He sent me, I think, eight of them.
So it's kind of like a small, you know, the small bottle about the size of a Red Stripe, that size bottle.
And it's green, the Heineken green, but on the sides of it, it has all these little bumps so you can actually fit them together and you can build walls and houses out of them.
Wow!
What?
Yeah, yeah.
And apparently Heineken makes them specifically for the African market, so you can drink and then add another piece to the wall of your house.
Wow!
It's an innovation.
It was very... It's like Legos beer.
Yeah.
Exactly, exactly that idea.
It's very fun, very fun to receive that.
It's a great idea if you could build a little shack or something with the bottles.
Hey man, I built my shack!
I'm hammered!
On Sunday, the Rabbit Hash Kentucky Meetup, 1 o'clock.
Rabbit Hash!
In Rabbithash, Kentucky.
See the website for details, because that's going to be something else, I guess.
And also on Sunday, the No Agenda Southwest New Hampshire Meetup, 3.33 p.m.
in Keene, New Hampshire, at the Keene New Hampshire Local Burger.
Also on the list, man, we got so many for the month of July going into August into September.
We definitely want to get some of these meetup reports.
I'm looking at you Trinidad and Tobago on July 29th.
I'm looking at you Wiesbaden, Germany on the 27th.
And what else do we have?
Foreigners.
No, all the rest are in America, but go to noagendameetups.com.
This is a part of the No Agenda Experience.
You have to witness at least once.
You go to one, It is no charge for entry.
It's producer-organized.
You're going to meet people that you normally would not have spoken to, probably.
You'll be like, I'm not going to talk to that person.
And you will meet them at the meetup.
We've had people marry, fall in love.
We've had long-term friendships.
Because once you connect, you get to protect.
That's right, noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
Like a party!
We are on season... I think it's 11, the last season of Cheers.
You want to be where everybody feels the same Like a party!
We are on season...
I think it's 11, the last season of Cheers.
We have about 20 more episodes to go.
Then we've watched the whole series.
Wow.
That took a lot of time.
They did 28 episodes a season of that thing.
That's the good old days.
That's when they actually worked for a living.
Yeah.
And in the last season, the executive producer, Fef, he's not there anymore.
And I noticed this because his name is P-H-O-E-F.
F. Feff.
That's the guy's name.
And he's not- It's because you get ti- you get pooped.
You already got enough residuals coming in to last the rest of your life.
Yeah, no kidding.
No kidding.
Alright, I only have two ISOs.
We'd like to choose them before we end the show.
I'll play mine.
I don't know if there's anything good, but here we go.
That quote was like, wow.
Okay, and this one?
Bring a sack.
Well, I like to quote one because it was clear.
Yes, yes.
What you got?
And that's usually what wins.
Mine are just really obscure.
Let's try Arg.
Yeah, a lot of music in that.
It was just an idea.
Yeah.
Here's the... Bad Idea Supply!
What?
Bad Idea Supply.
Get your burners there.
And then Lordy.
Well, that's a tough one.
I like that.
That quote was like, wow.
How about the two combined?
It's not bad.
I'm going to go with Lorde.
I like it.
That kind of thing is like, wow, this was such an amazing show.
I have to give credit.
That was one of our producers that sent me that.
No commercials.
More content.
Your No Agenda Tip of the Day.
It's time once again for John's Tip of the Day.
Sounds like you have a couple of tips of the day lined up for us today.
Well, I had one earlier and I forgot what it was.
It was something about the water filter or something?
I'm going to do the water filter one, because people need to know this.
And I'll have to give the background on it.
The product that you're looking at here is Clearly Filtered, and you can just go find it.
It's clearlyfiltered.com.
And it's a water filter that lasts about a year.
They're very expensive.
It's very expensive.
But this is this water filter, supposedly, takes out fluoride and everything, pretty much almost everything.
The Berkey does that.
Well, a lot of them don't.
The Seaman's Berkey.
But here's all these water – where I got this tip from was from JC's wife, Jessie, who's kind of nuts about stuff because she's got all these allergies and she's got issues and who's kind of nuts about stuff because she's got all these allergies and she's got issues and she's – and Like I tried the Zero filter, which I – I thought you liked the Zero.
You used to be... I did, but then I found out it doesn't take some things out.
This stuff... Like the PFAS?
The PFAS?
It leaves the PFAS in there?
I don't know what that is.
The PFAS, that's all that stuff they're lying about.
PFAS, PFAS.
Oh yeah, I don't know.
All I know is there are filters mostly for parts per million of dissolved solids.
It takes those out.
But this takes out all kinds of stuff supposedly, and filters last about a year.
They're very expensive.
But it lasts about a year or so, depending on how often you fill it.
If you fill it daily, it's probably about six to nine months.
There's no way of really checking it.
But this is the filter she finally concluded is the best one.
The packaging stinks.
The container that holds the filter and the rest, the lid doesn't fit properly and it will come off.
But the water's delicious, so I'm going to promote this.
Clearly Filtered.
Clearly Filtered.
Available on Amazon, or do we have to go to TMU for that?
I think I got my refills at Amazon.
All right, there it is, ladies and gentlemen, your tip of the day!
Great advice for you and me Just a tip with JCD And sometimes Adam That's right everybody And here's my prediction Biden will be taken out with Poopgate God bless you.
What?
Poopgate.
He's gonna drop a load, and people are gonna know it, and everyone's gonna see it, and that'll be the end of him.
Poopgate.
Perfect way.
Perfect way to let him go.
There's no timing on this, but it's just the event that will end it all.
Well, it's an interesting prediction.
It'll be a great show title.
Goes right in the Red Book.
It sure does.
End of Show Mixes, David Kekta, talked about him earlier.
Jamie Hellams, new to the End of Show Mixes, as far as I know.
And Space Force 7, that's right.
All of it, coming right up.
At the end of your show.
And stay tuned to noagenestream.com, trollroom.io.
Use it on your modern podcast app.
We have Hog Story coming up next.
Number 404, title of that one is Boner Rage.
You do not want to miss it.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg, Texas, FEMA region number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Sunday.
Please join us then to see what's going on in your world.
Don't watch any news in the meantime.
Go outside, read a book, it'll be fine.
Remember us, noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios mofos, hooey hooey and such.
You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
Come to me, come to me.
I'm staying in a race.
I'll speak down the top.
After the debate, we ran a poll.
And every single person we polled thinks that you're a retard.
We polled African Americans.
They all say you're a retard.
Hispanic Americans also think that you're retarded.
They call you el retardo.
You polled actual retarded people.
Even they say you sound absolutely retarded.
You see where this is going, Mr. President?
Donald Trump's fire hose of lies and promises to destroy the democracy.
Firehose of lies!
Charter 10 new freedom cities that include flying cars.
Yes, flying cars.
And of course, finally, he promises to finish building that wall.
Freedom?
Flying cars.
I mean, count me in on all those things.
I'm good with that.
I want to live in this freedom city with flying cars.
Don't do it for me.
Trump's performance in the debate, which was filled with Mies.
Mies.
Mies The president will hold a press conference.
I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it.
They're not like us.
They're not allowed.
They're not.
The president will hold a press conference.
I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it.
A big boy press conference.
What's up?
Big boy.
Oh, I am a big boy.
A big boy.
A big boy.
Oh, I am a big boy.
And this is what I do.
Yo, you did such a great job.
You answered every question.
You knew all the facts.
Oh, I am a big boy, a big boy, a big boy.
Oh, I am a big boy, and this is what I do.
They're describing it at the White House as a big boy press conference.
What's up, big boy?
Oh, I am a big boy, a big boy, a big boy.
Oh, I am a big boy, I'm just this what I do.
Two, ten, twelve, fifteen.
Hope stepping on them.
There's a, that's black.
Oh, I am a big boy, a big boy, a big boy.
Oh, I am a big boy, a big boy, a big boy, a big boy, a big boy.
Well, one way to stop getting people to focus on him being 81 and possibly having issues with his acuity is just to call him a big boy.
