Trump DC TAKEOVER, Nick Fuentes vs Tucker & Candace, California Land Grab EXPOSED | PBD Podcast 628
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick break down Trump’s unprecedented move to federalize Washington, D.C., the heated feud between Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, and allegations of a California land grab tied to the Pacific Palisades fire.
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09:06 - Texas Dems flee over redistricting efforts.
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54:04 - Nick Fuentes fights with Tucker, Candace & Musk.
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We got to cover this redistricting, this gerrymandering, this California, Chicago, Illinois.
You got to see the history of gerrymandering.
What the hell is gerrymandering about?
How did they come up with the name?
How often can they redistrict?
There's all these details about these things, and some states do it better than others.
Newsome's now threatening Trump twice, going after him, telling him what Abbott has done is absolutely uncalled for.
And then last night, we get the Senate hearing for Texas approving the new congressional map ordered by Trump after everybody left and could potentially replace five new seats, with one of them being Representative Jasmine Crockett, which is something you ought to know about.
That's why this redistricting thing right now is something that everybody is talking about.
And Newsom is using this, as usual, politically, to make it seem like if they do redistrict in California, it's because of Trump, not because he ever wanted to do it.
Of course, he would never want to do such a thing.
It's all because of Trump's fault.
So we'll cover that.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, I believe.
There's a few other things that we have to discuss.
He's already doing it.
Outside of that, D.C. sending national security.
Some people are saying, wait a minute, why are we sending national security?
And in Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough is caught trying to read this text from a liberal in D.C.
That is an extremely liberal guy that's in D.C., talking about how unhappy he is with safety in D.C. You can tell he's uncomfortable wanting to read it.
Either Joe was uncomfortable wanting to read it or his producers are don't read it and he read it anyways.
Either way, good on him for reading it.
I'll show it to you in a minute.
I don't know what's going on with Candice, Nick Fuentes, Tucker.
Elon got involved.
There's a bunch of things going on there.
Who do you believe?
Go, I believe him.
I believe her.
I believe I'm with him.
Either way, there's a lot of it going on and people are getting involved.
Elon jumped into it as well.
So we're going to have to respond to that and give some thoughts.
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling in a state.
Could this become a federal thing?
Because that is a state.
Who knows?
Wall Street stunned as inflation defies odds on tariffs.
And everybody said, oh my God, you know what I'm talking about?
Inflation is going to go up because of tariffs.
It's not happening.
Then next one is Elon Musk and Sam Altman engage in a fierce war of words on X. All you need to know is you see Sam Altman retweets at Elon because Elon's threatening to sue Apple because X is not showing up or Grok has not showing up on the app downloads.
I think it's X that's not showing up and they're not happy about it.
But then Sam had some stuff to say.
Trump defense taking 15% cut of NVIDIA.
AMD chip sales to China.
Tom's got a lot of thoughts on that.
Harry Enton from CNN admits Trump has the best political instinct he's ever seen.
The good news is Harry's very young, but it's been a long time that he's been seeing this.
So great.
We'll see what he has to say about it.
Trump Russia.
Trump criticizes Zelensky over Ukraine land swap objections amid Putin talks.
And European leaders plan to meet with Trump before Putin talks.
That's a Wall Street Journal story.
They're worried that, you know, look, we just want you to know, please, when you meet with Putin, don't invite him to be part of NATO.
What are your motives?
What are your intentions?
They're worried about it.
Trump takes extraordinary actions to push bloodshed and BM in D.C. by seizing control of local police, unleashing National Guard.
Pete Hexit said he's ready for it.
Middle-class residents of Demron City say they're trapped in unsellable homes surrounded by drug markets.
Tom's got some thoughts on that.
We're, of course, going to talk about the redistricting.
California City approves a $100,000 fund to help migrants pay rent.
Oh my goodness.
Just brilliant when you think about that.
Ready for this next one?
Folks in real estate or those that want to buy, you may want to listen to this.
Fed governor maintains outlook for three interest cuts in 2025.
What?
Not just one?
Not two?
Three?
Is this like the LeBron James of interest rate cuts?
Not one.
Yeah.
Not two.
Not three.
That's right.
Six, I believe.
Yeah, he said he kept going, but obviously he's been wrong for a long time.
I'm taking my talents to the Fed.
Comer, Bill Clinton, crime suspect in Epstein investigation.
And then we got a few other stories.
Bill Maher had Drew Barrymore on from 50 First Dates or Poltergeist, whatever movie you remember her from.
Or E.T. or Fire.
She was getting drunk.
Fire stars, five years old.
That stuff.
Her and Adam Sander were good friends.
Maybe they're still good friends.
Yeah, they probably are.
Bill Maher says the view co-hosts are not the best advertisement for women in blunt criticism.
And last but not least, this is the story Adam wants to talk about.
My brain was breaking.
Former right-wing trad wife, a blast, abusive male power.
All right, so that's Adam's story, which makes sense.
And then we got a few other stories here that we'll get into if we have the time.
We have a shot clock up here, folks.
You don't see it.
I love it.
But that is specifically for Adam.
And it's angled in a way for Adam to see to.
What's your point?
We should call it the What's Your Point Shot Clock.
Yes.
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Is there a link that you have for it?
It's actually pinned inside of the chat on YouTube.
Okay, but is there a link for it for people that are only listening to audio?
Like if it's in different places?
Not that I'm aware of.
I can look and find out.
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All right.
Let's get right into it.
What is gerrymandering?
What is redistricting?
Why are people losing their minds?
In the state of Texas, you have the governor, state of Texas.
What's his name?
Governor Abbott.
It's Abbott.
Greg Abbott.
Goes out there and they announce that they're going to be redistricting.
And they're going to, a lot of people, they're gerrymandering, they're redistricting.
And then it goes to vote on the Senate seat, which I believe it's 31 senators, state senators in Texas that have to vote for it.
They vote 19 to 2.
Okay.
Nine Democrats are not even there.
They left.
Many of them went to Illinois.
Some of them went to Massachusetts.
Some of them went to New York.
They're complaining about what's going on in the state of Texas.
By the way, it was their duty to appear and vote.
It was their duty to appear and vote, and they did it.
So is that like, meaning, is it an arrest?
Oh, let me tell you what happened.
So first of all, what would happen if the cops go on strike?
Cops can't go on strike.
These are elected officials went on strike.
They went on strike.
They left.
One of the ladies even said this is, you know, Hokul called this.
I mean, she went off saying things.
One of the representatives even called this, you know, the Holocaust is what she called it.
I'm not even.
Jolanda Jones.
Can you type in Jolanda, Jolanda Jones, Rob?
Jolanda Jones called it a Holocaust.
Is that Jolanda Jones?
Yes.
Okay, watch this one here.
This is what she called it.
Go ahead.
And then integration happened and everybody thought they accept this.
They don't accept us.
They are showing us who they are.
We should believe them.
And we better have the courage to stand up.
Otherwise, we will fall for anything.
And in this country, we will be defeated, deported.
I mean, we will lose all of our rights.
Okay, fear porn.
Fear porn.
I would like it to be a lot of people.
Fake joy.
To the Holocaust.
She's criticizing citizens of Texas that elected her.
You got elected.
They don't hate you.
There are some number of them that elected you, woman.
Tom, we got it.
So she says Holocaust.
Jasmine Crockett is worried because one of the seeds could potentially get her to lose her seat.
So then last night they vote.
And when they vote, it comes out that Texas Senate approves the new congressional map ordered, they say, by Trump.
This is obviously not coming by Trump, but they're calling it order by Trump because a lot of people are saying they're doing this right before the midterms because they're worried Texas could go blue and may as well do it now before it's too late.
So Texas Senate approved the new congressional boundaries on Tuesday with a vote of 19 to 2, aiming to secure five additional Republican seats in the House for the 2026 elections as pushed for Donald by Donald Trump.
That's what they're saying.
But House Democrats' absence from Austin has stalled the Texas House from approving the map for over a week.
Nine Senate Democrats walked out, the caucus, and then Senate Democrats labeled the map unconstitutional.
But Senate Phil King argued no one has presented data or, frankly, any compelling case that this map violates any of the applicable laws as the Senate votes proceed.
Now, that's the part to keep in mind.
So let's talk about what's gerrymandering and redistricting.
The way to look at it is if you go to, Rob, go to Illinois districts in 1950.
Okay.
If you go to Illinois districts in 1950, okay?
And if you just type in images and you go to it, yeah, go to the one on the top left, the first one that you have.
That's what it looked like.
And if you zoom in, this is the part that people are kind of zooming.
If you can, okay.
Do you see how it makes sense?
Because they're all within the same community.
You see how all the purple is together.
The light blue is all together.
The brown, it's pretty much, it's the same community.
This is what it used to be back in the day.
What does this mean, Pat?
Not to cut you off.
So these are the districts.
They have a representative.
Okay.
It could be a Democrat or Republican.
Gotcha.
But this is 1950.
Okay.
What Illinois looked like.
Can you rock pull a distance?
It has roughly the same number of people.
That's why you have small ones in cities, big ones rural.
It's about the same number of citizens.
This is the districts today, if you come to it.
And if you can do me a favor for Illinois, go to District 3.
I think it's District 3, Illinois, District 3.
It could be District 3 or 7.
They call it 3.
And District 9.
Yeah, they call it the earmuffs.
Type in Illinois district earmuffs.
Yeah, earmuffs.
Watch this.
Go to images.
So you notice what you just saw.
Okay, click on that.
Vinny, that's now a district.
What?
Yeah.
So that's called gerrymandering.
So what they do is they split it up to take things like, let's just say if that place is too much Republican in one district, and the representative in that area could end up being a Republican, they'll split it into different districts to have the Republicans be the minority of another district, so intentionally lose.
They call this gerrymandering.
The same thing happened in Maryland, Rob.
If you go to Maryland District 3.
Can you look at Chicago 9 real quick?
Yeah, we'll go to that as well.
Go to Maryland District 3.
Democrats are smart, huh?
So go to 7.
Go to Maryland District 7.
I just want to see it's one of the two.
There's another one that is extremely weird.
We'll show some of these to you guys.
Okay, look at that one right there.
Do you see how it's cut?
Yeah.
It's cut intentionally that way to hurt some of the folks that, like, imagine you cut a Republican county, a community in a certain way to hurt them.
You do it this way, then you win.
So now, while we're going through the history of gerrymandering and how this whole thing came about, this goes all the way back to 1800s.
There was a governor, I think, the governor of Massachusetts, his name was Elbridge Jerry.
Rob, can you type in Elbridge Jerry G-E-R-R Y?
There you go.
So this guy is the first guy that understood what redistricting was, and he built a district that looks like a salamander.
So type in Elbridge Jerry Salamander.
He's the first guy that did it.
And he was part of the Democratic-Republican Party.
Back in the days, there was a Democratic-Republican Party.
Go on the top left.
That's the district.
Let's go freaking.
He drew that district.
That was scary.
Do you see how he drew that district?
He drew a dragon.
That's a salamander.
The name came from Jerry and Salamander.
They called it gerrymandering.
This is how the name came about from the 1800s.
So it became a brilliant strategy for a lot of people to use to hurt the opposing party, to eliminate competition, to be able to push whatever policies you want.
And in a lot of cases, they say there's three reasons for it.
Some of them, they do it because it's bipartisan.
Both sides are like, I think this is fair.
It's okay.
It's fair for everybody.
Some are partisan.
And some of them, they're like, look, whether you care for it or not, we're doing this anyway.
So this is called chaos.
Newsome responds at Trump yesterday, multiple times.
I think is this the clip about him talking about, but this is different, Rob.
This is, oh, is this it?
Yeah, this is where he says fighting fire.
Okay, go for it, Rob.
Go ahead.
Hey, President Trump, it's time to stand down.
It's time to make another phone call to Greg Abbott.
This time, instead of calling him and telling you, quote unquote, entitled to five congressional seats, it's time to tell him to stand down.
It's time to recognize that democracy is at risk.
It's time to, dare I say, do the right thing.
Dare I see how that feels for you doing the right thing.
If you don't, California will neutralize anything you do in the state of Texas.
California will continue to punch above its weight.
We believe in democracy.
We believe in the enduring values of our founding fathers.
249 years.
We're not going to sit back passively.
We can pause our actions.
So that was yesterday.
Then there's another one.
He puts a second threat, which, Rob, if you can go to.
California will fight fire or fire is probably not the metaphor that Gavin Newsom wants.
That's true.
That's true.
That's a good idea.
So, Rob, go to X real quick.
So if you go to X right there, that's his last one.
Now, before I go into anything else, I'm going to pause here.
Tom, I'm going to come to you here.
What are your thoughts with everything that's going on with redistricting and gerrymandering?
I have a bunch of other thoughts on this, why this is so important.
But what are your thoughts on this, Tom?
Well, welcome to the sausage making that is American politics.
You have right now Gavin Newsom using it to step up and do a peer leadership, a peer presidential, and to do this to put himself in the spotlight.
California was already doing it.
California Democrats were already moving and Schiff was worried about it because of what was happening in San Diego and Orange County.
And if we were to look at how San Diego and Orange County voted in the presidential election, you can see, and the central states, just get all of them, the California district map, blue-red for the 2024 election.
And you'll see California was already on red alert because they're entitled.
Yeah, see, take a look at what was happening here.
The entitlement that the Democrats felt in California was already in the middle of the year.
No, Rob, go on that one right there, right there.
Watch this.
Look at the last 20, look at the last four years, Vinney.
So red is red is red is Republican, blue is Democrat.
Look what's happened last four years.
Go ahead, Tom.
Perfect.
And so the Dems were already in red alert saying, what are we going to do about this?
Because their concern was Orange County and San Diego going red.
Their concern was like, wow, no, wait, wait, wait.
We got real areas here.
We need to redistrict these because we can neutralize the 54% red by just moving it around, gerrymandering.
They were already going to do it.
Then Texas had its moment and everything.
And that became very public because they ran off so that they didn't have to vote and everything, abdicating their responsibility.
And now Gavin Newsom says, we will fight fire or fire.
And I've already said that's the wrong thing he should be saying, but he's already getting ready to do because of that, what he's already accusing the other side of doing.
But they're both doing it.
And in my view, this gets a little crazy because both sides can be accused of putting their thumb on the scale.
Both sides can be accused of doing this.
And this isn't where the fight should be.
I think the fight should be over issues.
I think Newsom.
There's a problem there, Tom.
You know what the problem is?
There is no federal jurisdiction on gerrymandering.
That's exactly right.
By state.
Did you understand this?
Like, Vinny, both states can do this forever, and the government has no say in it.
Nothing.
That's not right, though.
It's not about that.
That's not right.
They build it this way.
And this Elbridge, Jerry figured it out.
And others said, well, listen, if he can do it, I'm going to do it.
Yeah, of course.
So you essentially prevent the other side from winning your state in a long time.
Like it becomes mathematically impossible for you to win.
And by the way, the Dems like to talk about threat to democracy.
What about those areas and around air muffs that now feel underrepresented?
They can't win.
They can't get the guy elected.
So you have a community that 60% wants to elect somebody, but they are manipulated with other voters.
So now their 60% becomes 42%.
Do you see what happens?
They keep diluting it.
It's like water.
Here's hot water.
And they just keep diluting it with ice from other areas.
So the bad part of gerrymandering is Texas has to do it to block what California is doing.
And that is the order that it's happening.
It's not Texas instigating right now.
This was California was already starting it because the California Dems led by Schiff and Newsom were like, hey, man, we got to do something.
Reds coming.
So redlining, gerrymandering, redistricting.
This whole conversation is coming up.
I think I remember learning about this like in eighth grade.
But so what happens is this: every 10 years they do a census.
So, Vinny, you've been sort of on the move on what's going on with illegal immigrants coming through because the census, there's more people, more districts.
What's going on here?
So, every 10 years they do a census, and where they end up are in certain districts.
So, every congressman or congresswoman has their district, their quote-unquote neighborhood that they're representing.
So, gerrymandering, imagine we have a pizza party, we order a pizza.
You're with me?
Yeah.
And typically, all right, I get a slice, PBD gets a slice, you get a slice.
Rob obviously is going to get two slices.
Tom gets a half a slice, he's low carb.
But now it's redistricting and gerrymandering is like, I'll take my slice, I'll take some of your pepperoni, I'm going to take the mushrooms off Tom's pizza, I'm going to throw in some crust.
You're like, What happened to my slice, buddy?
That's exactly what's going on here.
Rather than everybody getting a slice, redlining is like certain people can't even get a slice.
F you, F you, you're cool, you can eat, and then redistricting and everything that's going on here is basically throwing pepperoni, throwing mushrooms around.
The point is this: it's ugly, it's messy, it's musical chairs with your votes, and everybody gets a seat in this one.
Well, they're never going to change, like, is there any way to change this legally?
So, so here's everybody, here's the problem with this.
So, I looked up to see how often you can gerrymander.
How often was going to be so?
When you get the census every 10 years, 2020, they give the new census.
Some states you can only gerrymander or redistrict once a decade.
And it's like six states.
North Carolina is one of them.
And it's a few states that you can do it only once every 10 years.
Once you do it, stays like that for 10 years.
Okay.
And of course, there has to be a vote.
And bipartisan, both sides have to agree to it.
Some states, yeah, right there.
You see, North Carolina can only do it once.
Some states, you can do it as many times as you want, Vinny.
There's no jurisdiction on how often you can do it.
You can gerrymander two times, three times.
Again, there is no federal jurisdiction on this of what can happen with it.
Now, the problem with this is the following: here's California.
California's got 52 representatives.
Out of the 52 representatives, you know how many of them are Democrats?
40.
43 are Democrats.
Damn.
Nine are Republicans.
83.7% of California is Democrats.
And then you got the 17%.
He's threatening Newsom to take it from 17 to 8 is what he's threatening to do.
He being Newsom of Republicans.
Because if imagine you got a Jasmine Crockett that may lose her job, which is what just happened right now, she literally may lose her job.
There may be a Republican representative that's got a lot of voice in California that's annoying to people like Newsom, who may also lose his or her job because of what Newsom could do.
Then Pritzker goes on, Kristen, what's her name?
Kristen Welker.
Kristen Welker.
And Kristen Welker, as well as Stephen Colbert, both call him out.
Both of them call him out.
Oh, of course.
By the way, he looks a little skinnier.
Watch this year.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Look, sticking on your state's map, every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps gives your state an F. F. Common cause and nonpartisan government watchdog.
Even says your map, and I'm going to quote, represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong with redistricting.
And I guess the question is, you talk about preserving democracy.
How do you preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that you've criticized Texas Republicans for?
But as I say, what they're talking about is a distraction.
The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do.
That's what's wrong with their efforts right now.
And the fact that the president of the United States knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it.
Let's see if she's going to be able to do that.
That is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now.
Democracy is at stake.
And these Texas Democrats are standing up to what the GOP is at.
You know, he's living on family.
This is G.B. Pritzker doing his Kamala Harris impersonation.
Do you know what his number is?
Do you know what his number is?
For Illinois?
Illinois.
Illinois is 84% Democrats.
16, 15% Republicans.
They have a monopoly on this conversation here.
California's got a monopoly.
Illinois's got a monopoly.
But some people on the Republican side also have monopolies.
It's not like this is just a thing that's going on on the left.
It's something that goes on on both sides.
But this conversation is leading to Florida jumping in.
And Florida says, look, if you guys are doing it, we may jump in as well.
Now, Florida's saying, you know, a story comes out with Axios.
Florida looks to join Trump's redistricting push.
Rob, I don't know if you have this video or not.
Florida jumps in.
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced last week he will create a select committee to consider drafting a new congressional map aligning with President's Trump call for decade redistricting with Governor Ron DeSantis supporting the effort.
Is this it, Rob?
Go for it.
Yes.
This is DeSantis talking about the voter flop here in Florida since 2020.
Go ahead.
If you had to put a number on it, how many seats do you think Republicans might pick up if in fact there was fair redistricting?
I don't know because I think Florida, our Constitution limits, you know, you can't draw snake districts in Florida.
They got to be normal shape, compact districts, which I think is great.
But I will tell you this.
When I got elected governor in 2018, there were 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
Today, there are 1.3 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
The state has grown by many millions of people.
Wow.
Got to give him credit on what he's done with that.
So, Tom, I'll give you the final thoughts on this here before we move on to the next story.
I think Florida's got a sensible constitution that says, let's not be ridiculous.
I think that's what Governor just said.
And so I think either we need a federal control or we need the states to voluntarily do this.
But guess what?
The home of political corruption, the OG of political corruption, has been Chicago and Illinois.
If you just go look up the history of America and elections, Mayor Daly and the machine that was there and the corruption, and it would represent upsetting the Apple cart and just redrawing everything.
But I think what people fail to see, the screaming blue states that are talking about this, Pat, are losing citizens and they're going to lose representatives and they're going to lose electoral votes anyway.
Yeah.
And so the people that are crying are the people that are losing citizens by their own policies.
And I think America needs to look at that.
Let's take a look at where people are moving to.
Yeah.
It's got it.
Okay.
Sounds good.
There you have it.
So we'll see what happened there.
Next trial I want to go to is Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
They engage in a fierce war of words on X. All you need to know.
So Elon threatens to sue Apple.
Rob, if you have this one here, Elon threatens to sue Apple.
Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal anti-trust violation.
XAI will take immediate legal action.
Now, here's a reader's added content.
Rob, what's the reader saying just one month ago on July 18th?
Perplexity reached number one overall in India's App Store.
January 2025, DeepSeek reached number one overall on App Store.
Both of these occurred over after the OpenAI-Apple partnership announced on June 10th of 2024.
So maybe there's a correlation between the two.
So then Altman responds.
And here's what Altman has to say about what's going on because this is a real war going on right now.
And it's the AI war.
And they know who the most powerful person apparently is, whoever they're suing, which is who?
Apple.
Apple.
Apple controls who's getting the love, who's getting the traffic, who's getting all of it going to them.
And Sam Altman comes out and says, wait a minute, you keep coming after us, but how about the fact that, do you see this one here?
Sam Altman.
This is a remarkable claim, given that what I heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like.
So Sam is coming back and saying, wait a minute, you bought X and everything favors you.
Musk, you got 3 million views on your bullshit post, you liar, far more than I received on many of mine, despite me having 50 times your follower count.
Will you sign an affidavit that you have never directed changes to the X algorithm in a way that has hurt your competitors or helped your own companies?
I will apologize if so.
Did Elon respond back to that or I did not see a response?
Okay.
So obviously there's a back and forth going between these two guys and it's a true war.
It's a true fight that's taking place.
People are watching it firsthand on what's going on here.
Adam, what are your thoughts on the story?
So race for impact.
This is going to be the tech overlords who are going to be running our lives for the next, not four, not 10, not 20, 40 years.
Remember the tweet that Elon Musk said about Donald Trump?
He goes, listen, you got him for another three and a half years.
You're going to have me for another 40 years.
By the way, Sam Altman and ChatGPT and Gronk and Elon are going, this might be the tech overlords for the next 400 years.
It's pretty scary.
As far as their personal relationships, forget about the companies, forget about what they're doing with AI.
This is personal.
This is competitive.
And this is going to get ugly and nasty.
Sam Altman is number one in terms of AI.
Why?
Chat GPT, ChatGPT.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is running some sort of Nazi propaganda machine over there on Grok.
Not my opinion.
I pronounce it Grok, not Gronk.
Good.
All right.
There we go right there.
But the thing is this: Elon is not used to being number five.
He's suing him because Grok is number five on the App Store.
Chat GPT is number one.
There's a couple other companies that I guess are above Grok in there.
But Elon is obviously competitive and he's not used to not being number one, not number two, not number three, number five in this regard.
They've had a few mistakes with Grok that's been public.
Yeah.
And it's a few royalty big mistakes.
Big time.
And that's because they've been glitching like crazy.
And listen, we all saw the story about the Nazism.
Listen, I use ChatGPT for this reason.
I get enough hate comments on YouTube.
I don't need to go to Grok to be reminded about how hateful people are.
But the reality is this.
Sam Altman is number one in the AI world, and Elon is fighting for his place at the table.
We're going to see how nasty this thing's going to get.
Last point.
This whole Apple being sort of the guard of what's able to go on.
Do you remember in 2020 who sued Apple for what they were doing with the App Store?
Do you remember it was a company called Epic?
They're the owners or company that does Fortnite.
Remember, they were suing Apple over the 30%.
There it is, right there.
What you can charge on the App Store.
Apple is the tech overlord, and everyone's trying to become number one on Apple on the App Store.
And right now, it's Sam Altman, and Elon is just sort of crying like Justin Timberlake, Chris Meyer Rivers.
I agree with what Adam said about the tech bros.
And right now, the tech bros are probably happy to see Sam Altman and Elon fighting.
You want to know why?
Because Meta and Google, you know, what have they been doing?
No, they've been completely innocent.
They don't do shadow bans of content they don't like.
They don't do things and push people back on vax and then completely suppress your video.
They didn't suppress the laptop story on Hunter Biden.
They didn't move political things and weight them differently.
They didn't manipulate the teenage girls on meta and causing them to see more stuff that was actually harmful to them and they knew what it was doing.
No, no, they've never done that.
Google has never modified ad weights on AdSense or let things show up differently.
Never, never.
The tech bros haven't done this.
So what Elon Musk is doing, he's gerry, what did he gerrymander some outcomes for his own?
Maybe he's maybe he did.
And maybe Altman is saying, sign an affidavit.
But everybody else has gerrymandered results in tech.
That is the danger of tech.
And that's why tech needs competition to keep it honest.
Because you look at this.
This happens all across the board, even to the point of people getting really harmed.
As we look back when the tech bros were taking their cues from the federal government.
And you know what's interesting while we're talking about this?
You know who just bought a company from Google for $34, $35 billion, Rob?
Do you have that story?
I don't know if you guys heard this or not.
Oh, is this a story where they're attempting to buy it?
Or did they actually buy it for $30 billion?
They're attempting to buy AI startup Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion.
You know, Chrome, they use Chrome.
Yeah, I'm on Army.
White City is buying, wanting to buy Google's Chrome for $34.5 billion.
Here's the issue I got with this is.
Why is Google selling?
Why do you need to sell?
Why would you sell?
Pending antitrust decision where they're going to be forced to give up AdSense or Chrome.
So it's one of the two.
So if I have to give up one of the two, I'm going to sell the Chrome browser to Perplexity.
Or maybe he can't come for me on Monopoly and antitrust and all the other items.
Or maybe it's not being offered.
Perplexity is just saying, hey, the federal government are going to cause you to sell something, Pat.
I'll tell you what, I'll offer you $30 billion.
Let me ask you a question.
You're telling me how much you think this is an offer that was made without Google being aware of this offer?
Was it a knock at the, I think it could be a knock at the door offer.
It's like, hey, yeah, I don't think Google went out and got a bankruptcy.
A $34 billion knock on the door.
Perplexity and AI startup made an unsolicited or unsolicited offer to buy Google's Chrome for 34 and a half with its chief executive Arvandis stating in a letter to Pichai, chief executive of Google parent company alphabet, that the offer was designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy and highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable independent operator.
The bid comes as Judge Amit Mata, U.S. District ruling expected as early as this week could face Google to sell Chrome to reduce its dominance and the internet search perplexity valued at 18 billion has backing from outside investors for the potential deal.
According to Jesse Dyer, a spokesperson, the Justice Department has pushed for Google to divest Chrome, arguing that Google's monopoly controlling about 90% of the search marketing requires forceful antitrust changes to foster competition with David Dalkus, the government's lead litigator, stating this court's remedy should be forward-looking and not ignore what's on the horizon.
And Google is using the same strategy that they did for search and now applying it to Gemini.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
So what a brilliant move, Tom, right?
If you think about it, it's like, hey, we know you're getting pressure on antitrust.
Let us just make an offer without anybody knowing.
Now it's public.
So the government may say, well, wait a minute, we have an offer on the table from Perplexity and they're qualified.
So you have something that you're dealing with.
That's right.
And the government can say, well, maybe you should take that because I'm breaking you up.
Who do you think could be potential other buys outside of them?
Well, it's very, very interesting because everybody's looking for a dance partner.
And the odd man out is Apple.
What is Meta doing?
They're grabbing everybody's people for the super intelligence lab.
That's their play.
They've been stealing guys from Apple.
Well, we're not really going to do things at Apple.
So tell you what, I'll take $10 million worth of stock that could be worth $100 million.
That's how those big offers have been calculated.
So you have Meta trying to get a place.
Google is betting on Gemini and is sitting there with its ass in court, waiting to be broke up like this.
Autopilot is already over there at Microsoft.
And by the way, if you're scoring at home, Microsoft and NVIDIA are now 15% of the SP 500 pat.
Wow.
Oof, that's a little overweight there, relating to it.
And then you get NVIDIA making the chips for AI.
Remember, this is an AI war going on.
And then you got OpenAI with ChatGPT by themselves.
So you see how these armies are being formed?
And so Perplexity needs a broadcast mechanism.
And so it's going to go get Chrome.
Google has to get broken by the government.
They don't want to do it, but they got to sell something to somebody.
They're going to be forced to.
And Google's got Gemini and Meta's stealing every engineer that's not nailed down to go for superintelligence.
I've got that list right now.
It says OpenAI, potentially Apollo Global Management, Yahoo, and maybe Duck.go.
Duck.go has expressed long-term interest in acquiring Chrome.
But Duck.go, you're going to be able to raise that kind of money?
I don't know about that.
If they are, good for them.
And maybe just conversation.
Which one do you use?
You got Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity.
You got Deep Sea.
You got some dude named Claude out there that's giving you information in French.
I honestly, I do ChatGPT first, and then I do Groctus to see how different it is.
I don't know if I use Google at all.
Once in a blue moon.
I don't know if I use Google.
Once in a blue moon.
I think Google for me is less than 5%.
I'm still using Yahoo.
This is crazy.
Well, actually, interesting to me here.
I use Perplexity first to get the deep search, and then I compare with ChatGPT and Gemini.
Got it.
Okay.
Sounds good.
All right, let's get to the next story here.
Give me one second.
Rob, what was it that we had?
Okay, let's talk about DC takeover.
What's going on with our capital?
Trump takes extraordinary action to crush bloodshed and bidium in DC by seizing control of local police and unleash a National Guard.
By the way, I want to show you guys a clip by Morning Joe after this one here.
So here's President Trump talking about what's going on in D.C. Go ahead, Rob.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.
This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.
We're taking it back.
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
You know what that is?
No.
And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.
Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening.
They've done it before.
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job.
Okay, so watch this.
Judge Pirow, who is now on there.
Rob, I don't know if you have that clip.
I do.
A young kid tries to call her out saying, hey, the numbers have been better.
Is this that one, Rob?
I'm sorry, this is her warning young punks.
Give me one second.
Yeah, there's another one where a young person jumps in and says something.
I've seen that.
She comes to the ground.
He's going to come on the side and says, explain that to the kid that just got broke his nose and his teeth were smashed in.
And I explained this to that person.
Explain to this person.
She goes after it and says a lot of things.
Now, by the way, Hexed comes in and supports the decision, of course, what the president's doing.
We've mobilized the National Guard and have others specialized units ready to address the D.C. crime.
Here he is.
Go ahead, Rob.
At your direction this morning, we've mobilized the D.C. National Guard.
It'll be operationalized by the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, through the D.C. Guard.
You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week.
At your direction as well, sir, there are other units we are prepared to bring in.
Other National Guard units, other specialized units.
They will be strong, they will be tough, and they will stand with their law enforcement partners.
This is nothing new for DOD.
As the president noted, at the border, we've got 10,000 troops down there who've been operating in defense cooperation areas, defense zones, where there's zero, zero illegal crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the border.
We've been protecting other people's borders for 20 years.
It's about time we protect our own.
And we're working with ICE and CBP.
In Los Angeles, we did the same thing.
Working with the California National Guard.
So when you're seeing what's happening here, a lot of the people on the left are calling this authoritarian and what they're doing.
However, Morning Joe had to read a text from one of his friends that lives in D.C.
And not only does he read the text, but at the same time, while he's going through it, he himself tells them what it was like when he was working in D.C. Watch this here.
Go ahead.
I want to read you a text from someone who I won't say their name, but we'll just say that they're very liberal.
And he says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in D.C.
I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant.
I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at.
None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8 p.m. 13-year-olds are committing many of these crimes, quite a change from the decade ago when things were much calmer.
Well, that actually sounds like the D.C. that I lived in when I lived a block behind the Supreme Court.
And, you know, every three days, one of my neighbors was getting help at gunpoint.
I mean, there has been a crime problem in D.C.
And I want to read you.
It's pretty bad when you got the other side supporting what's going on there.
Vinny, what are your thoughts on this story?
Well, first of all, if the mayor of D.C. and the chief of police did their jobs, this wouldn't be happening, okay?
And I love the argument of like, by the way, 2024 was one of the highest murder rates was in Washington, D.C.
Yes, the numbers are finally coming down as if that's an excuse.
This year, there's been at least 100 murders, and you're seeing this tree both.
And they're attacking people that are working in Washington.
And there was a clip yesterday where they're talking to the mayor and the chief of police who is, I think her name is Pamela Smith, I believe.
And they ask her, Pat, they're like, so now what's the chain of command?
Pam Bondi, who?
And she goes, what is that?
What does that mean?
The chief of police in Washington, Rob, if you can find it.
Look, she doesn't know what the chain of command is.
Look at this, just real quick.
And then the mayor has to jump in.
What the chain of command is now?
What does that mean?
Look, she has to leave.
So the executive order is clear.
The president has requested MPD services and our home rule charter outlines the process.
The president designated Attorney General Bondi as his proxy to request services.
The chief of police doesn't know what the word chain of command is, which is not a good thing.
But then yesterday, Rob, I don't think you're going to be able to find it because I have to watch the whole CNN episode.
Yes, guys, I watched the whole CNN thing.
They did a poll on Abby Phillips show that the people who live in D.C., Pat, they asked them if they thought crime was low, moderate, or extreme.
91% of the poll said it was moderate to extreme, okay?
And I can care less, like I said, about the numbers of 2024.
And good, good that they're coming down.
It doesn't mean that they're gone.
And then, Rob, I sent you this clip on Slack.
Simone Sanders, the girl that took over our friend, Joy Reed Spot, she was asked on Joe Scarborough if she thinks more police are safer on the streets.
You're not going to believe.
She said, as a black woman, she doesn't think so.
Can you play this clip, Rob?
You don't think more police make streets safer?
No, Joe.
I'm a black woman in America.
I do not always think that more police make streets safer.
She could just end the conversation there.
You don't see a police officer on every corner, but you don't feel unsafe.
So what is it about talking about Southeast DC, right?
Ward 8, if you will, that people say, well, we need more officers to make us safe.
I think we have to rethink what safety means in America.
This is the defund.
I would love to know how many times you don't think 111 in her life.
Rethink what safety means in America.
I love that you said that.
I love that you said that.
So wait, what's she saying?
As a black woman in America, more cops.
It doesn't make any sense.
And by the way, just FYI for everybody out there that's just, you know, if they're just reading headlines and stuff, this is a 30-day plan.
This is a 30-day see what's going on.
And just yesterday, they arrested almost 25 people.
They took a bunch of guns off the street.
Okay.
And remember when we talked about the tariffs?
Everybody was tripping out, Tom.
And what do we say?
Let him cook.
Let it happen.
Okay.
We need drastic times, meet drastic measures, okay?
And then on top of that, Pat, the White House unveiled a sweeping plan to address the homelessness in D.C., okay?
They're going to be physically going up to people that are in encampments, okay?
And they're going to tell them, listen, they're going to offer them shelter and services.
And if not, they're going to enforce the law.
Brock, did you play this clip?
The police department, with the support of the new federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws that are already on the books here in Washington, D.C. For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored, and the homelessness problem has ravaged the city.
So DC Code 221307 and DC Municipal Regulation 24100 give the Metropolitan Police Department the authority to take action when it comes to homeless encampments.
So homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services.
And if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time.
Okay, Rob, you can see that.
And you know I love Pat enough.
Like people just talk.
This is not a dictator.
This is not authoritarianism.
It's in the law.
They are stating the law.
And talk the left just has to go opposite.
Enough is enough.
We just got back from LA.
It looked like a third world country.
And my heart goes out.
Guys, I get emotional sometimes when I talk to them and I give them money and stuff.
And I hate when people are like, well, you're giving them money.
What are they going to buy?
They're going to just buy drugs.
I'm like, they're not going to invest in the SP 500.
All right.
I'm not stupid.
I'm not stupid.
You are correct.
But Tommy, here's my thing.
Help them.
They're offering.
I'm like, hey, listen, you can't be here.
We're going to put you in a shelter.
We're going to try to get you off drugs.
And if you say no, that's it.
We're going to freaking lock your ass up.
Enough is enough.
I love it.
He's not going after crime, Tom, and he's going to clean up the streets.
By the way, and I have some receipts to go with your passion.
Give it.
Do you know when the act, the District of Columbia Home Rule Act started when?
December 24th, 1973, it was put in place after unrest.
And the federal government had small militias, not that militia just means a small group of soldiers that were providing security around the district.
Why?
Because the president of France may show up and do a speech, so they made sure there was security in the district.
Well, things were starting to get out of control, so they said, stop.
And there's also residents here.
So on December 24th, 1973, they passed the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to give them the ability to, quote, limited self-autonomy.
And they inserted section 740 that said, but if you get out of hand, we, the government, who have been governing this since way back when, when they burned down the White House, when the British burned down the White House and it was attacked, it was the military protecting the city.
And in 1973, December 24th, this part I'm not sure about, but I think Santa Claus got sledge acted.
And so they said, we got to do this.
But December 24th, 73 is when it happened.
They put this and they put Section 740 in there.
So for everybody that's saying President Trump is the authoritarian, no, he's not.
They're opening this up and saying crime is out of control.
We have a provision here that if you couldn't get your squat together and take care of the city with your own police force and governance, we were going to step back in because we ran the place for 154 years before we put this act in place and gave you the ability to govern the citizens that lived in the little suburbs that were close in.
So I think everybody that's trying to make this political about authoritarianism, why don't you go back and read the act and look at why it was created, where it was created, and then look at Joe Scarborough, no friend of Trump saying, yeah, it was pretty bad where I lived and I was only a block behind the Supreme Court.
Adam.
Well, defend the police.
Don't defund the police.
I know we had a little play on words last episode, but Trump came out and when he first came out, he said, we're going to be the party of law and order.
And guess what?
I alone can fix it.
Do you remember that?
And I remember 10 years ago and being like, what a narcissist.
You alone can fix it, Trump, Donald Trump, 2025.
You alone, please fix it.
Please.
Because the last thing we need is our capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., turning into a ghost zombie land full of homeless drug addicts.
And I'm just talking about the Congress people.
So let's clean this act up.
Do you remember what happened in New York City in the 90s?
We had a guy named Rudy Giuliani, and he cleaned up the streets.
He cleaned up the mafia.
He basically, what was it?
The what do you use to stop the microphone?
It was at the Ricochet.
Rico Suave.
Hey, Rico.
And that's what needs to be.
Sherman went inland.
There you go.
And that needs to be done in D.C. If there's one city we need in America that doesn't look like an absolute hellhole, it might as well be the capital of the United States.
I said this last episode because we've spent a lot of time in D.C.
It's suits by day, sirens by night.
Anyone you talk to goes, oh, no, no, no, no.
When the sun sets, get the hell out of here.
Don't walk around D.C. Did you see what Dana Bash said, Pat, about complaining about Trump cleaning up D.C. Dana Bash said the most violent day was January 6th.
That was her, that was her.
Can you play?
It's really very, very short.
Look at she's reading up.
The most violent moment in recent history in D.C. was January 6th.
That's what she's worried about.
It was an attack on the United States Capitol by a lot of people who were doing it in the name of Donald Trump.
And it included the people who were hurt, included members of Lawn.
Well, the reality of it is she can say that all she wants.
A report just came from Western Journal.
Ma'am, it's long past time.
Ex-Capitol Chief Police hits Pelosi with three damning memories after she criticized Trump on D.C. National Guard use.
Okay.
Nancy Pelosi.
Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake.
Now he's activating D.C. Guard to distract his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, healthcare, education, immigration, just to name a few blunders.
And Chief Stephen Sund responds, watch this, Vinny.
Ma'am, it's long past time to be honest with American people.
On January 3rd, I requested National Guard assistance, but your sergeant-at-arms denied it.
Under federal law, I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval the same day Carol Corbyn at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority.
On January 6th, while the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your sergeant-at-arms again denied my urgent request for over 70 agonizing minutes running it up the chain for your approval.
When I needed assistance, it was denied.
Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with Concertina, wire, barbar, and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.
I mean, this is the part about how be patient.
Time is going to reveal truth.
A lot of people are getting exposed with things that are going on right now.
And I love the fact that they're doing this right now in D.C. There's no way in the world the capital, the capital that we live in of the greatest country in the world should be unsafe.
It should be the safest place in the world.
For sure.
And I'm glad they're working on making that happen.
All right, let's get to the next story here.
Next story I want to get to is Candace Owens slams Nick Fuentes for claiming she is coordinating with Elon Musk to attack him.
Call streamer a sheltered theater kid.
Rob, do you have a clip on this or is it a tweet?
So I have a tweet and then a few clips as well.
This is the original tweet from Candace.
All right.
So Nick says what?
Full-blown coordinated attack on my credibility for the past week.
And then she says, what?
Laugh myself.
Here we go again, guys.
Nick talks stretch about literally everyone claiming they are frauds.
But when the very people he speaks about reply to him, he says, it's some high-level coordinated attack.
Me coordinating with Elon Musk at all.
Have you watched even a minute of my content?
Didn't you say that I was working with Russia?
Tonight he'll say defend me.
They are trying to kill me.
Meanwhile, I'm being sued by President of France.
The Tate brothers are actually facing a coordinated multi-state-level attack from various countries, and none of us are cry victimhood.
Maintain Nick Fuentes is a sheltered theater kid who cries and lies pathologically.
All right.
So, this story, Adam, go for it.
Well, welcome to Mean Girls, uh, Nazi Edition with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens.
These two were never going to get along.
If you know anything about Nick Fuentes and how he feels about women and the blacks and loud-mouthy black women, they were never going to get along.
And Candace, who was a very logical actor until she got deathly stricken by the anti-Semitic bug, used to make a lot of sense.
And now, one thing I can say about Candace, other than the anti-Semitism and the demonic stuff that she's doing, actually a nice person.
But one thing I will say is follow the patterns, follow the receipts with Candace.
She goes to a place, leaves after a few years, goes to a place, leaves after a few years, fights with somebody, leaves after a few years.
These people don't play well with others.
They're talented.
They're smart.
They have opinions.
They know how to galvanize their audience.
They know how to entertain.
But they're not going to be part of a team.
There's no way that Candace and Nick Fuentes were going to have a happy, happy ending overall.
It's almost like entertainers and rat beef.
They're going to shoot their shots.
They're going to do their thing.
What I want to know.
This will end that's what I want to know.
What happened here?
The vibe.
Who called who out?
Rob, Vinny, what do you know about what happened?
Okay, so, I mean, in July, when Candace was on the Tucker Carlson show, she said the conversation was great.
However, when it aired.
This is after the Nick Fuentes conversation.
Yeah, and then Fuentes said he called Owens in anger cursing at her because she did a 180 and told him.
This is what he's saying.
And Candace later questioned what it provoked the reaction.
But then Nick on July 15th, he did a Rumble video and he said it was a failed hit job.
And what it's coming down to, Pat, is he's saying, what Nick is saying is he's been OG from day one.
He's saying that Tucker, Candace, Milo, Charlie Kirk, a lot of this is stemming from their support of not only not all of them, but Israel, that he's saying, because Candice obviously is not, you know, pro-Israel.
What?
Candace?
But he's saying that their backing or their positive speaking, Pat, of JD Vance, because he has a, and oh, and this is another thing.
Them claiming that he might be a Fed, not Candace, but the other ones are saying that he might be a Fed.
He had receipts.
He's like, if I'm a Fed, how am I on the no-fly list?
How am I not being able to fly?
And then he does a thing where he shows, he googled Peter Thiel, because this is all going back to Peter Thiel propping up JD Vance, the upcoming of JD Vance, how they're kind of going against Trump.
But then he showed, Rob, I sent you the clip.
Look at this, Pat.
Originally, Peter Thiel was some sort of informant.
This is right here.
This is on Business Insider.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant.
Like, these are just facts on.
On who?
I don't know.
I think he was on Fourn.
I think it was on something about Fourn.
I want to read that story, Robert.
Peter Thiel wore many hats over the years.
Socombale founder Trump like a donor and cryptocurrency of Brunson Democrat.
But there is yet another face to Theal, one that has remained secret until now.
In the summer of 2021, Insider has learned that Theo began providing information on the Confidential Human Resources CHS.
Jonathan Momo, LA-based FBI agent, was specialized in investigating political corruption and foreign influence campaign.
Charles Johnson, a longtime associate Theo and a notorious figure in the far-right movement that Theo was subsidizing for a decade, told Insider in a statement that he helped recruit the billionaire as an informant by introducing him to Buma, a source with knowledge to relationship to the FBI whose identity is known to the insider, but who insisted on anonymity, corroborated Johnson's account, telling Insider that Johnson brokered a relationship between Theo and Burma.
Buma Insider was able to confirm through an additional source that FBI had added Theo to its former roster of registered informants.
Interesting.
So very interesting.
So he's pissed, Pat.
He was furious, because mind you guys, I've watched the whole last two episodes, even a little bit last night, which was weird at the end of it, because, Bob, it's kind of a longer clip.
He says, like, I'll sit down with Candace.
We should hash it out.
So it's like, it's kind of flip-flopping, but I think the good clip to play Pat would be the one where he's talking about JD Vance and where he came from and how this is all.
That's one of the most angry that he is about.
Enchilada, you want to know why they're so mad about my show?
Not even from last Friday, but from the week before that?
I'll give you a little spoiler alert.
It has everything to do with the vice president.
We are living in House of Cards right now.
JD Vance went from being an unelected civilian in 2022 to a senator to the vice president in 24 to within four years, potentially the president of the United States.
That is some serious House of Cards shit.
This is a guy that in six years has gone from never Trump author to potentially president of the United States.
And he was empowered to get there by Peter Thiel, who designed the surveillance state itself, by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who owns the platform X, and Tucker Carlson, who is maybe the most influential voice in Republican politics, courtesy of Rupert Murdoch, his former boss, and Rebecca Mercer.
And I'll show you how it all comes together at the end.
I'm Zoe Barnes.
What if there was a coup against the American government?
What if there was a coup against the America First MAGA movement by the deep state to usurp and subvert Donald Trump and install a deep state puppet, a never Trumper Silicon Valley artifice who was nobody.
And in six years, he'll be the heir apparent president from MAGA, president of the United States.
And what if one guy stood against him?
What if one guy who didn't take money from Peter Thiel?
What if one guy who wasn't taking support from Silicon Valley, one guy who's paying attention and is skeptical?
What if one guy was calling that out?
Well, he get hit with the Death Star laser.
Who's the one guy?
That's what's happening.
I'm going to give credit where credit's due, which I always do.
Pat was the first one.
And I know we've changed because the debate and all that's not that we change.
But Pat from the beginning was kind of like, I don't know, about JD.
And now when somebody actually breaks it down from Pat being a nobody to the vice president, and guys, I don't know, man.
That's what he's saying.
This is what Nick is saying about where the beef and why everybody's upset with him because he's calling this out.
Do you believe him?
I don't know.
I don't know.
My opinion is like, bro, when people piece things together, like connecting the dots, and you start to go, okay, came from nowhere.
Peter Thiel funded him.
He is where he is now.
By the way, the rise to fame, it's like Obama.
Like Obama came out of nowhere.
And it was just like, yes, we can.
And the change and this and that.
And what happened?
He became the president like that.
Yeah, because people voted for him.
Yeah, of course.
But where did he come from?
In Nigeria, obviously.
No, no, no, no.
You're not even.
I'm not going to Trump.
No, the difference is, respectfully, Obama didn't come out of nowhere.
He crushed his DNC speech in 04.
Correct.
Exactly.
And it was known as the greatest speech.
Whether you're black or white or brown or gay or straight or Republican or this.
I don't believe in red states or blue states.
I believe in the United States.
That was the day where you're like, the greatest speech given in the last 40 years of Democrats was Obama.
And they're like, this guy's going to be the president.
Easy, they take him in and he becomes a president of the United States.
But to me, with this case going back and forth, Elon jumps in and supports that he might be a fed.
Okay.
He calls Fuentes as a fed.
And then Fuentes responds and says, oh, you're now in this as well.
And to give credit to Candace, Candace has been critical of Elon.
So to me, it's kind of like a, so maybe he doesn't know that part of it.
But then saying, well, maybe you are a fed, but him and Milo had an exchange together where he's like, are you going on January 6th?
Well, you may want to show up.
You have to show up.
So why is the Feds going to be Feds are going to be there?
So he's showing receipts.
And remember, guys, 12 years ago, Milo was the guy that not 12 years ago.
Yeah, probably 12 years ago.
Milo was a superstar.
Milo would go on Bill.
Milo was everywhere until some of the events that happened.
And I don't know.
I don't know when I'm going back and forth.
There's a couple of things that's just very weird on some of the interviews that are happening.
And I said a few years ago when the alliance was being built and Elon, when Tucker went to X, and I said he made a great decision because Elon was retweeting, if you remember, his first 50 interviews or so Elon retweeted.
And if a 200 million account person retweets you and you have 1 million followers, it really means that you have 200 or 1 million followers.
I don't know if you understand what I just said right there.
So what's more important?
And if you remember Tucker, in the last two and a half years, he went from having a couple million followers.
Do you know how many followers Tucker has on X right now?
Go look up Tucker's followers on X.
I thought it was a brilliant move by Tucker to go there.
We made an offer to him.
But he went there.
If you look up Tucker Cross, and I think he's at 12 million followers, 10 million followers, he's in the 16 and a half million followers.
Wow.
All because Elon Kibby retweeted his stuff and because he did the legwork of going to Russia, going to everywhere to do the interviews.
He wasn't waiting for people to come to him.
So you got to give him credit on that as well.
But right now, it's very interesting what's going on here.
It's very interesting how some of this is being handled.
Some of them are, you know, taking it in a way where there's Israel involved.
There's MAGA involved.
It's Trump's fault.
It's this.
It's JD Vance.
It's Peter Thiel.
It's Elon.
Establishment, anti-establishment.
But a lot of our young guys, and I always look at our young guys when we're doing podcast prep just to kind of hear what they're saying because I know they follow this stuff more.
I run nine companies, guys.
I'm in meetings all day.
So I can't be glued to the screen seeing everything that's going on.
But we have researchers who are.
And the guys that were pro-Candice and pro-Tucker, die hard, die hard for the last two and a half years in the last two weeks are becoming more knick-knacks.
Yes.
You know who I'm talking about.
I want to give names.
100%.
But I'm kind of like, they were complete.
They're like, yeah, I don't know.
He brought the receipts and he did this and he did that.
And, you know, the way he's doing it, why are they targeting him now?
Is it because he's not part of anybody?
Because he's not getting money from anybody.
Well, you know, he went and got money from P.
He went to ask Thiel for money, but Thiel didn't give him money.
And he's butter and all the all these conversations of what's going on.
But if it's the younger people that are paying attention to who's doing what, everybody is playing the Avengers are in many different ways.
And there's like a massive war going on right now.
It's a civil war going on right now with not necessarily Republican Party, to be honest with you.
The way I'll put it is there's a civil war going on right now with conservative influencers on X.
I wouldn't even say it's the Republican Party.
No.
I would say it's conservative influencers on X because the search for Epstein has dropped 89% in the last three weeks.
There is no interest in Epstein anymore.
The interest has dropped dramatically.
And this is CNN telling you this.
Go ahead, Rob.
At least the political point of view quickly turning into a dud of a story.
What am I talking about here?
Which is wild.
Which is wild.
This has been for three weeks.
Exactly.
Take a look here.
Google searches for Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago, falling through the floor.
It is no longer the top term searched alongside.
So what's the point?
This is an X interest that led to Google and the power to X. There was, at one point, it was the most trending.
2.3 million people had used the word Epstein on X, and obviously made it very trending.
So I think there's something going on on the Republican conservative MAGA America First debate on X that a lot of younger people are following.
And there was a little bit of a and also when it for the people that was extremely cool to be anti-Israel in the weirdest way, they are right now more.
Look, if I have to choose between Israel and Islam and Muslim and what they're doing to all these other places, I hate to say this.
If it's between the two, I'm going Israel over that.
And I listen, all these guys, I've had them on.
I'm in communication with many of these guys.
I talked to most of them here.
Not all of them, most of them here.
And I'll host Dave Smith.
We've hosted Candace many times on election night.
We've host, you know, you name them, many of these.
And who knows?
Maybe in the future, we'll have Nick on as well to have a conversation with them.
But it's been a very interesting, specifically, Vinny.
I would say it's been a very interesting last three weeks.
And Nick said it himself from his mouth.
He's on a generational run.
And right now, I don't care what anybody says, he is freaking on fire.
You believe Nick, though.
I get a feeling.
You know what it is, Pat?
Because, okay, name the person that can't even be on YouTube.
He can't be on YouTube because of the stuff that he says.
They froze his bank account.
I guess he had like $500,000 in an account.
They froze him.
He's at the Capitol.
They made it seem like he was running into the Capitol.
He was on the grounds where you can do it.
And I'm just saying, and regardless of what that stat says, 89% down.
If it's so not, it's a nothing burger, they keep pushing because they want us completely to forget about it, Pat.
Why is Colmer saying that Bill Clinton's a prime suspect?
And they're investigating.
They're still digging deep and looking for people to get it.
We'll get there.
We'll get there in a minute.
But, Rob, somebody told me that Nick did open up his potty mouth.
Yeah, do you want to see?
Yes, he did.
What'd you do?
Nick, well, you have to see.
Rob, did they edit this?
Is this what you're going to do?
This is the edited part.
But what part is it?
We can't play the whole four minutes.
Can you go to the part where it's like, here he goes?
You know, PBD tells me whatever, because I think Humberto, one of the guys, showed me that text.
While he's looking for it, with all due respect, and you got to give credit where credit's due, he goes crazy.
He cusses at Candace.
He goes after Charlie.
He's no whole button.
Milo Tucker.
He craps on all of them.
And in that rage, whenever your name comes up, he goes, and PBD, Patrick McDavid, PBD Pucketts.
It's like the fire calms.
And then he goes back.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Candace is so young.
Look at this.
Look at this screen share.
Played, Rob.
Played.
I am America First.
You are not.
You're not even American.
Who isn't?
And to the extent that you are, you're a traitor.
Oh, and Elon.
That's the last word on that.
No, it's not.
Ask the show.
Who is the Fed?
Will the real federal agent please stand up?
Who is it?
Who's the real federal agent?
Elon, Peter Thiel, JD Vance Tucker, and George Farmer, the son of the head of the Alliance of Christians and Jews in the UK Or the realest you know.
Patrick Bed David said, Why do you say the N-word?
It's to show people I'm real.
Why do you roll?
I'm as real as he is.
Here's my N-word.
Why do you want to be a sign?
You're going to have hate sex with Candace Owens.
Why do you say that?
You know, it's crazy.
You can pause that here.
Here's the thing: that I, you know, of course he's passionate.
He's 26.
He's doing his thing.
I, you know, if he would not use five words, they would play his clips on mainstream and would introduce him to a new audience.
Nope.
Yes, yes, they would.
Yes, they would, Adam.
Let me tell you, you're saying nope.
You're saying nope.
There's a lot of nopes you have to bite your tongue right now when you said, nope, Trump won't win in 2016.
Nope, Trump won't win in 2024.
Nope.
A lot of nopes have become yups.
Okay.
A lot of nopes have become up.
How much do you want to bet?
Nick Fuentes is never going to be played on mainstream media.
He didn't say that.
He's going to do that to yourself.
He didn't say that.
He's saying that.
Don't bet.
Don't do that to yourself.
Okay.
Listen, I had a $1 million PPD.
Let me put it.
Listen, I'm actually more likely to have it.
It is more likely that mainstream is going to play his clips.
If they haven't already, then Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is more likely that they're going to play his clips.
But the only thing.
If they're going to do a hit job on him, yes, they'll play his clips.
But that's part of playing his clips.
By the way, guess what?
Well, okay.
No, no, it's not.
Okay.
What do you mean?
Oh, okay.
A part of it is he has to realize that he has play offense, give your arguments, have the receipts, go do your thing, all of that stuff.
But man, he has to have a quote like right underneath his iPad.
I have met the enemy of his eye, Alexander the Great.
He's his own enemy in certain areas.
Because, you know, as you're going up and you make enemies with everybody, you have to find ways to build some alliances.
Yep.
You know, there is a, huh?
What do you mean, that pause?
He has a lot of money.
No, no, no, hang on.
Hang on.
Let me just make my point.
You can say whatever you want to say.
But as you're going up and you're moving up, this is sincere feedback to all of them.
It's not even just any one of them.
Dana just closed a $7.7 billion deal with Paramount.
Dana 20 years ago went to Spike and gave them $10 million to show UFC.
Did you understand what I just said right there?
You go to Spike.
I don't even know what Spike is.
UFC goes to Spike or Wuss.
Can you tap in Spike UFC 10 million on Google?
Spike UFC 10 million.
If you go Spike UFC 10 million, I want to say he offered them 10 million bucks 20 years ago, right there.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Yeah, there you go.
UFC pitched Ultimate Fighter to several networks, but none of them were interested until Spike TV came along.
However, Spike wouldn't air it until UFC paid the production cost.
So the Fortita brothers and Dana White invested $10 million to get the show on Spike.
And now he just got $7.7 billion over a five-year deal.
I think it's five or 10 years.
I don't know what the numbers.
I think it's seven years or five is one of the two.
How?
You got to like, if your plan is long-term, you need to have a little bit of a better approach towards building, not alliances, but you know, yeah, 7.7 over seven years, 1.1 per year.
Yeah.
You have to do a little bit of a better job building alliances.
Dana builded with Trump.
Imagine Dana without Trump.
What if Trump doesn't support Dana?
What if Dana didn't build that relationship?
He loses that opportunity.
I just think a little bit of it, it's just a little bit of business sense.
Like, go read, out of all the political books you read, read five business books.
It's the only thing he reads five business books.
I would give those five business book recommendations for him just to look at it from the perspective of what the upside could look like.
That's the only feedback I would give because all the other stuff.
And he's going to do, he's the kind of guy, like for me, you couldn't tell me what to do.
I'm working at Bally's.
A guy named Fernando Loss, who ends up becoming one of my groomsmen at my wedding.
The singer?
Yeah, the singer.
Love that guy.
I come in at Bally's.
I just got out of the army.
You know how I talk?
Hey, what's up, motherfuckers?
Oh, yeah, me too.
And I'm like, finally, one day Fernando said, can I talk to you?
He says, yes.
We don't know each other.
You've just been working here for a week.
I'm willing to bet you would sell two times the amount of memberships if you stop saying the F-word.
I said, there's no way in the world you're right.
And he says, try it.
I went 30 days.
I'm like, that's freaking right.
Because the clients that were maybe a little bit more, you know, certain level of people, they're like, yeah, I'm willing to entertain this guy.
Language matters, especially when you're that good of a communicator.
A great communicator doesn't need to add those words.
But to each his own, it's freedom of speech.
You do whatever you do.
And we're not someone that has to sit there and you better do this or else no.
I just think he's his own enemy sometimes and he can get out of his own way.
Go ahead, Adam.
Well, word to the wise.
Stop saying the N-word.
I mean, that's pretty basic.
You're saying that Nick Fuentes is going to be some sort of mainstream darling, allegedly.
No, I'm sorry.
No, no.
He's going to be played on mainstream.
Say darling.
Okay.
No, I inserted.
Because the mainstream media needs enemies to play.
Perfect.
He is the perfect enemy.
If he changes a bit of his language.
Well, not a fan of the N-word.
I'm just going to go.
I'm going to take a leap of faith here and say that most people are not.
Now, just because I'm criticizing that does not mean I don't think he's smart and capable and well-read and a good communicator.
That's all great, but he's also incredibly toxic.
So, you know, risk versus reward.
Does not play well with others.
Does not have friends.
I know he has his crew, the Groipers.
I'm sure they'll see this clip and come at me.
It's all good.
I'm not disparaging the man's character, how smart he is, how wise he is.
I'm just saying a guy like this will never go mainstream in that capacity.
Last thing, he talked about, I am America first.
No, you're not, bro.
Donald Trump is.
Have a little respect.
If there's anything that I could say about Donald Trump, he started this.
He's MAGA.
He's the movement.
Nick Fuentes has been excommunicated from this movement since the day that Kanye brought him to Mar-a-Lago and Trump said, no, no, no, you're fired.
You're gone.
Since then, he brought up JD Vance.
Stop with this whole charade that it's this smoky room thing.
He wrote a book about his real life story, about his grandma and everything that raised him.
This was not fabricated.
He wasn't, this wasn't a Manchurian candidate.
He was elected in 2022.
He beat a congressman named Tim Ryan, who was going to basically take Nancy Pelosi's place.
JD stepped up.
Donald Trump Jr. hand-selected him after vetting the entire field.
And he won the election.
And now we're about to say it's some big conspiracy.
Sometimes if you want to play the conspiracy game, you can.
Sometimes it's just he won elections and these are the consequences.
Don't we say elections have consequences?
JD Vance won.
Nick Fuentes, smart guy, completely BS on his JD Vance narrative.
Tom, final words before we move on.
Final words.
I'll give you some receipts on this.
To back up what's been talked about here in terms of mainstream media would love to have this guy.
Absolutely love.
I'll give you a super, super, super, super fast case study.
1994 Harold Howard Stern goes on e-network.
E-Network even said, we're taking a deep breath.
We hope this will work.
He goes on E.
It's very successful.
He starts calling himself the king of all media.
I spoke to producers and showrunners in LA.
This is 94 to 96.
So I was getting my MBA at Pepperdine.
And they told me, Does Howard Stern realize that he would get paid four or five times what E is paying him if he would just turn it down a little bit, just here and there?
Kind of like the five words comment.
Then Clear Channel, he stole the radio show, kept having to suspend him for decency things.
And that kept it.
And finally, this one guy that gets Sirius and XM to merge together then gives him the on Sirius XM.
If you look at what Howard Stern made, Howard Stern would have made so much more, been over on mainstream if he had just moved a little bit.
There's the receipts in a case study.
Nick Fuentes has got the same thing from a political angle.
If he would just move a little bit, they would pick him up and fly that.
What's the one thing they said about Howard Stern and his audience?
If you remember that movie, Private Parts, they said, fun fact, the people that love you listen to for an hour.
What's the most common reason?
They want to hear what you're going to say next.
The people that hate you listen for an hour and a half to two hours.
Why?
The most common reason?
They want to hear what you're going to say next.
Shock jocks are a thing, but shock jocks are not the real world.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So let's go to the next story here.
Next story I want to go to is Fed governor remains maintains outlook for three interest cuts in 2025.
Okay.
So three cuts now?
2025?
That's what they're saying?
Yep.
They're saying three cuts in 2025.
Let's read this here.
So Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bauman, Vice Chair of Supervision, reiterated her projection of three 25 basis point interest rate cuts in 2025, despite the Federal Open Market Committee decision to maintain the benchmark federal funds rate at 4.25 to 4.5.
She spoke at Kansas Bankers Association 2025 CEO Manager Senior Management Summit in Colorado, Spence, Colorado, emphasizing her dissent from July decision alongside Fed Governor Christopher Waller, marking the first dual dissent favoring cuts since 1993.
Bowman based her stance on the signs of fragility in labor market conditions, stating economic conditions appear to be shifting.
And as a result, we should reflect this shift in our policy decision.
Tom.
Yep.
This is the individual that I gave credit to.
And I said, you know what?
This is the first time in 32 years that we had dissenters.
And she was right.
And I commented at the time that I thought that Weller, Waller, excuse me, was saying it because he actually wanted to be.
Justin Waller?
Yeah.
No, no, Christopher Waller.
He actually wanted to be the next Powell.
And so I said, well, him dissenting, you know, okay, but he's kind of campaigning.
But Michelle Bowman was absolutely, I think, well within her rights and was correct about the dissent.
And now she's saying we're going to get three cuts, which will be September 16th, 17th, October 29th, and December 10th, 25, 25, 25.
That's what she's looking at.
And by the way, if you go look at CME, CME, which is the federal tracker of the federal board of governors and what they say at their speeches and stuff, here we go.
CME, Fed Tracker, just say Fed Tracker.
Let's go take a look at where it is.
Okay, 35 days, three hours and 36 minutes.
They even have a countdown clock here, Pat.
It's amazing.
Now go down, just scroll down.
And oh my goodness, what does that say at the top of that blue, blue bar?
Oh my gosh, 97.9%.
Is that what that says?
97.9% chance that we're going to get a cut coming up here on the 16th, 17th of September of a quarter point.
I think she's absolutely right.
And she's out there pushing it because we are seeing a little bit of unemployment.
We're seeing things that make sense for the cut.
And so I happen to be right there with Michelle Bowman.
And I think she's had the guts to stand up.
First time in 32 years, we had two governors actually stand up in dissent, although you got to discount Waller a little bit because he's kind of lobbying to be the next Powell.
Interesting.
All right.
Did you hear who Scott Besson said that Trump's considering Janet Yellen?
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
That's kind of interesting, isn't it?
Very much so.
It's called the team of rivals.
Rob, can you play that clip?
By the way, good.
Look at that hair.
Wow.
Candidates.
There's a lot of talk about it.
Chris Waller, Kevin Warsh, Kevin Hassett, and so forth.
And other names.
You're casting a wide net.
Very wide net.
And as you know, more than anyone, President has a very open mind.
He even considered reappointing Janet Yellen.
So we want to see what everyone's thinking.
It's not ideological.
It's about economics.
What's best for the American people?
What's best for the economy?
And as I talk to the candidates, I'm looking at three things.
Monetary policy, regulatory policy, and the ability to run and revamp the organization because it's really gotten bloated.
And I think that this bloat puts its monetary independence at risk.
Now, you said.
All right.
There you go.
The fact that he is entertaining Janet Yellen.
Now, that could also be a misdirection.
That also could be something that they're trying to throw you off.
But I think Trump is a guy that would actually entertain a Janet Yellen.
I should think he would entertain it.
I think Trump's the guy that would be open to it, Tom.
Yeah, sure.
And I think in team of rivals, you have to think about things.
A friend of mine from inside the administration said that Besson's hat wasn't thrown into the ring by Besson.
Besson's hat was thrown into the ring by Luttnick, who felt that he'd be a strong candidate.
And then Luttnick kind of self-nominated and said, and if you need somebody over at Treasury, I'd be glad to do it.
So I think we've got a lot of really good people and a team of rivals.
And that answer from Besson we just heard there, I thought was balanced.
And he's talking about the exact things the economy needs.
This place is being run like a business now.
And guess what?
It's showing up in the results.
I got to be honest with you.
I'll go real quick.
I think I'm very impressed with Scott Besant.
He seems very capable.
I mean, he's the one who allegedly got Elon Musk out of doge.
But let me take one quick angle right now.
Don't look now, but this is the richest I've ever been.
I'm assuming this is the richest you've ever been.
I'm assuming this richest ever been.
I know this is the richest you've ever been.
Inflation is down.
The S ⁇ P 500 is at all-time high.
NASDAQ is at all-time high.
Dow is reaching all-time records.
Bitcoin at all-time high.
Things are looking pretty darn nice.
And, you know, you have zero control of what the Fed does with rate cuts.
Zero.
Goes up.
Trump fires Powell.
Hires Yellen.
Whatever happens, happens.
But you do control your bank account.
You do control how hard you work.
Work, earn, save, invest.
Work, earn, save, invest.
Do it on rinse and repeat.
Keep your costs low.
Stay the course.
And here's the biggest thing.
Tune out the noise.
Three, four months ago, they thought the world was falling apart.
Tariffs.
Oh, my God.
Now we're at all-time highs.
Donald Trump is sitting there laughing at everybody that thought the economy was going to tumble.
And now take your money to the piggy bank, Vinny.
Yeah.
I mean, look, it's, again, three times I don't know.
Janet Yellen possibility.
A lot of moving parts, but we'll see what's going to happen here with the store.
Next story I want to go to is Trump defense taking 15% cut of NVIDIA AMD chip sales to China.
This is kind of weird, but he didn't ask for it.
They offered it.
So if they offer you 15%, what do you do?
And that's going to come back into paying off the debt that you have a national, you know, the national debt that you have.
It's an interesting thing, but he's being asked about it.
President Trump defends a deal requiring NVIDIA and advanced microchip devices, AMD, to pay U.S. government 15% of their China sales revenue for export licensing.
And here's what he had to say.
Go ahead, Rob.
But the H-20 is obsolete.
You know, it's one of those things, but it still has a market.
So I said, listen, I want 20% if I'm going to prove this for you for the country, for our country, for the U.S.
I don't want it myself.
You know, every time I say, like, I don't want to, like, 747, I want, I want, yeah, for the Air Force.
Yeah.
So I just wanted, so when I say I want 20, I want for the country.
I only care about the country.
I don't care about myself.
And he said, would you make it 15?
So we negotiate a little deal.
So he's selling an essentially old chip that Huawei has a similar chip, a chip that does the same thing.
And I said, good, if I'm going to give it to you, because they have a, you know, they have a stopper, what we call a stopper, not allowed to do it.
It's really known as a restrictive covenant.
And I said, if I'm going to do that, I want you to pay us as a country something because I'm giving you a release.
I release them only from the H20.
Now, on the Blackwell, I think he's coming to see me again about that.
But that will be an unenhanced version of the big one.
Like, I don't know if you know it, we will sometimes sell fighter jets to a country.
Tom, thoughts.
You love this.
So NVIDIA goes to the federal government and says, hey, look, we sell a lot of different chips.
And when he's talking about the H-20, the H-20 was a chip that was made for the Chinese market.
And there's a whole lot of companies over there that use it for a lot of things.
This isn't going to be something where the Chinese government is buying 1,000 of them, 10,000 of them, 100,000 of them, and running AI Sims to spy on us.
That's not where these are going to be used.
There's a bunch of Chinese companies doing it.
And Jensen Wayne goes to the government and says, hey, you know what?
In the midst of this stuff, I can keep making these, and I'm a U.S. company.
He says, is it okay if I sell these here?
And, you know, I've got this tariff on top of it.
So I got this tariff thing.
And so what Trump is basically saying, well, tell you what, I'll give you liberation to actually sell it on the embargo, but instead of the tariff dollars, pay the federal government, pay us.
And so guess what?
It's left-hand, right-hand.
And so he said, Jensen says, great.
Yeah, I guess we'll do that.
And he said, now those Blackwell chips, the enhanced Blackwell chips, that's the super AI chip.
That's the Shelby Mustang of AI chips, or if you want to call it the, yeah.
What was this, Tom?
I held up from making a really bad, bad decision of something like that.
No, Tom.
No, it's very good.
Go for it.
No, The Blackwell chip, the enhanced Blackwell chip is the super horsepower, big, beautiful chip that you don't want them to have.
And so this is basically, once again, I'll say it again.
I said it a minute ago, but I will say it again.
It says, you know what?
This place needs to be run like a business, and it is being run like a business.
This place comes up.
That's uncomfortable with me.
So here's what I'm going to ask you, Tom.
Do you know where I'm going with this?
Yes.
Where am I going with it?
You're going with this is that you open the floodgates for the next guy.
For the next guy, for the next guy, which is...
Who maybe doesn't like you and just wants to take your company from you.
You know what this, yeah.
Yeah, 50%.
I'll do it.
Listen.
That's like the Putin deal.
Do you think I would negotiate the same way Trump is negotiating with NVIDIA?
Yes.
Yes.
I would.
Okay, skip the tariff, pay the country.
That's right.
But maybe tie it to a project.
So, meaning this is the way I would do it.
I would say the first, let's just say, how much revenue you think they're going to get from this chip, AMD and NVIDIA.
How much do you think they're going to get from the chip?
Give the number.
That's just going to be billions of dollars.
Give me a number.
Let's just say it's $300 billion of revenue.
I'm just making up a number.
15% is what?
$45 billion.
You know what I would say?
Here's what I would say.
As a form of project that we're working on right now, you guys going to pay for the wall?
Or are you guys going to pay for this?
Or you guys going to pay for the drone?
Or are you guys going to pay for that?
It becomes a where the audience says, okay, so that 15% for the government, you're going to pay half of the dome, or you're going to pay for half of the disc.
Are you going to have that?
Tie it to a project for it to be like, okay, they're going to pay for this instead of the government's going to be a business partner with you on some of this stuff.
Because this is where you open up the nationalize and all this other stuff.
You're just doing, you're giving the opposition an argument for it.
And I'm telling you, I love the way it's being negotiated.
I love the way it's done.
I love what they're doing with it and the revenue that's going to be coming in for taxpayers.
And there's so many guys.
Oh, inflation's nothing happened.
Tariffs, nothing happened.
Up until now, nothing.
And by the way, the China deal's not done.
The India deal is not done.
A lot of deals are still not done.
And still, inflation didn't skyrocket when everybody said, and yesterday was a record-breaking day for the stock market.
Just two days ago, we read an article.
Well, you know, the market was affected.
Yesterday, up 500.
What happened?
What happened with it?
Adam, thoughts on this?
Well, Trump made the whole phrase quid pro crow famous, which is basically like, scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
You know, funny thing about my back is that whole thing.
But the media will spin this story about NVIDIA cutting a deal of 15% of their revenue for their exporting chips to China.
And they're going to say, Trump's enriching himself and Trump's just making money on this.
And I'm so glad that Trump was like, I'm not doing this for myself.
I'm doing this for the country.
This is the art of the microchip deal.
Now, speaking of NVIDIA, I think just two weeks ago, a week ago, they became the first company that reached $4 trillion market cap.
And now, look at this little earthquake.
$4.47.
Now they're about to hit $5 trillion.
Don't bet against NVIDIA.
So I'm totally in favor of what Trump is doing.
It's basically saying you're making a ton of money.
You're making a ton of money selling to China.
Pay me.
Show me the money is what Trump's saying to NVIDIA.
By the way, Jensen Huang, if you put him on a lineup, I guarantee you 99% of Americans could not pick this guy up.
This guy is running the most profitable, biggest market cap company in the world, and nobody even knew his name or NVIDIA's name five years ago.
By the way, he's worth $150 billion today.
He's doing okay.
But you know what they say?
He's thinking about starting a GoFundMe.
$158 billion.
It's not this.
It's not that.
Save that money.
All right, let's go to the next store here.
Let's go to the next door here.
That's going to be a Stefano Ricci crocodile.
They should go get this guy.
By the way, did you hear what he said the other day?
What was that?
It was in our panel.
He goes, What is it that makes America the greatest country in the world when it comes to technology and everything?
He goes, Yeah, one thing: Donald Trump.
Do you remember when he said that?
Yeah.
I mean, look, we're back to people not being afraid of talking and telling the truth, which is great.
This is the clip right here, I believe.
Yeah, go ahead.
You see our America's unique advantages that other countries don't have.
America's unique advantage that no country possibly have is President Trump.
There it is.
And let me explain why.
One, on the first day of his administration, he realized the importance of AI and he realized the importance of energy.
For the last, I don't know how many years, energy production was vilified, if you guys remember.
Yeah.
We can't create new industries without energy.
You can't reshore manufacturing without energy.
You can't sustain a brand new industry like artificial intelligence without energy.
If we decide as a country, the only thing we want is IP to be an IP-only, a services-only country, then we don't need much energy.
But if we want to produce things, something as vital as artificial intelligence, then we need energy.
And so I'm just delighted to see pro to accelerate AI innovation.
This is where they jump cut to the picture of Trump being like.
Yeah, that's great to see that.
All right, let's get to the next story here.
Let's get to the next story here.
Let's get to the next door here.
So, Vinny, you almost went into the story, but I'm going to get into one before we get into that one, which is real estate.
California, FEMA.
Remember a few months ago, right after the fire that happened in the Palisades, and Adam Carolla went up there and said, here's what's going to happen.
They're probably going to take all these properties and they're going to do this and they're going to do that.
Well, let me tell you, before we watch the video by Adam Carolla, I'm going to read you what phone call Grant Cardone just got.
Okay.
Grant Carton was contacted by FEMA and can confirm the Pacific Palisades as a land grab.
Democrats are burying the homeowners in structural upgrade costs.
The crazy part is three months ago, Adam Carolla predicted the same exact thing that was going to happen to LA, would steal the land.
He was right.
California is a land grab.
And by the way, before I get into this next thing, I just want you to see what Carolla said a few months ago and what's allegedly starting to happen in California.
Go ahead, Rob.
And the other thing that people need to understand is everything here is on septic.
Nothing is on a city sewer system.
Every dwelling in Malibu has a separate septic system.
And these houses in front, many of them were built in the 40s, in the 50s, in the 60s.
And the codes were almost non-existent.
So they have septic systems that are in place now that are completely unacceptable in 2025 when they rebuild.
Not that they'll rebuild in 2025, 2055 when they rebuild.
And they're going to have to update the septic system, which means Coastal Commission, Ocean, Sierra Club, dig it all out.
And because of the proximity of the ocean, they're going to have to build seawalls so that erosion won't take their septic system.
So they're going to be several million dollars into stuff that's buried in the ground, a seawall, not above the ground, but a seawall that's in the ground so that the storm and the erosion can't get to it.
New septic system.
I mean, they may be three, four, five million dollars into it before one piece of two by four is even put up in terms of framing the new house.
Do you know how much bureaucracy, red tape, and permits worth of nightmare this is going to be?
Because regardless of whatever the mayor says, whatever the governor says about expediting this stuff, a septic system is a septic system.
The code is the code.
The seawall is the seawall.
And they're all going to have to happen.
Okay, Tom, thoughts on this?
I think he's right.
I went through this.
Earthquake in 1994.
I went up and I bought a house in Northridge.
And before I go, you had a permit to extend the kitchen.
And I wanted to move one wall.
And they said, we're not going to approve this unless you put a sheer wall on your back of your house.
I said, what are you talking about?
This house was built like in 1965.
The foundation is still here.
It went through the earthquake in 1971, in 1973, in 1994.
And now I'm sitting here in 2004.
And they said, sorry, Pat, they were waiting for the first person to do the upgrade and they did it.
So they've been doing this all over the place on saying, oh, you need to do the upgrades.
Adam Carolla is right about this.
And the septic system is a system that you need.
And so there will be reasonable things here, but he's pointing out that all the stuff's going to be upgraded.
Meanwhile, there's other ways that Grant Cardone is about to point out where they insist on upgrades that are designed to create expense so you'll abandon the land.
Two different things.
Adam Corolla talking about old septic systems to be upgraded with new ones.
You want them to be safe.
They're going to need a seawall.
They can't have the house erode and fall down and have all that septic stuff go in the ocean.
But if they then say up on Palisades, well, you people need to re-level this and bring it up, and that's going to add a couple million bucks.
People with more limited insurance who already got screwed because they were under fair plan, only gave them a maximum amount.
Those people, guess what?
Now they got to abandon the land and California is going to take it.
And do you remember when the fires were still burning and the Palisades literally smoke and ash and Gavin Newsom was standing in the middle of all those people and he was talking about talking about the governor or and he started doing that weird body snake movement about land surveyors.
Remember, like he said it.
He said it right here.
I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii.
He had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like.
So we're going to have to move those things forward.
And we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
Yeah, talking about because Hawaii had the fires and everybody there was complaining about, yo, they're coming in and buying the land.
He's saying it.
Rob, can you do me a favor and go to ChatGPT and type in what is Senate Bill 549?
What is Senate Bill 549?
What is Senate Bill 549?
California?
Yeah, watch this.
Senate Bill 549, specific to California.
There it is.
Yeah.
Senate Bill 549.
They just announced this and it's been now put on pause.
This bill will move certain powers from enhanced infrastructure financing district under second neighborhood infill finance and transit improvements, notably the ability to use sales and use tax revenue and the requirements for districts to be coterminous with the creating city or country.
By the way, with the county, if you go a little bit lower, the idea of this when they announced it was for them to use a portion of the area, establish a government resilient rebuilding authority that could purchase fire damage parcels in Pacific Palisades, then develop a portion into low-income or supporting housing.
Objective, address the housing, affordability, and post-fire rebuilding efforts in LA County.
Let me explain this to you.
The properties that were the waterfront properties, they proposed, why don't we take this and turn some of it into low-income?
The pushback bill met with strong local opposition from residents who felt it constituted a land grab, citing loss of property rights and demographic change in the community.
Over 23,000 locals signed objections and leaders like Pacific Palisades Resident Associations voiced deep concerns as a result.
It was put on a pause in mid-2025 to allow for more community input and consultation.
By the way, so when you hear these things being said, it wasn't just a theory.
It was actually what they were trying to do in California.
And a lot of people are like, what the hell are you talking about?
What the hell are you talking about?
And, you know, obviously, you know, as they're going back and forth, I pull up the numbers on permits because that's the one I always look at, how fast permits are being given.
As of July of 2025, which is last month, the city of LA has received 389 rebuilt permit application tied to Palisades.
About 8% of the estimated 4,700 properties affected.
145 permits were approved, allowing homes to begin major repairs and reconstruction.
And then in the Altadena area, only 15% of applications were approved.
And this is an ongoing thing that's going on right now.
So again, to a lot of people, they moved on.
Life goes on.
The people that were affected by the Palisades, their life is still impacted by what happened there.
The Palisades, Altana.
Go ahead.
Scroll back to the top and look at what they call it.
Sometimes your government hides its corruption in plain sight.
It's called right there, The Second Neighborhood Infill, Finance and Transit Improvement.
What is the second neighborhood low-income housing that they're going to force on you after they steal your neighbor's land?
Let's see what's going to happen there.
Adam.
By the way, Adam Carolla, just stay on him for one second.
What complete divergent career paths Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla have taken?
Can we just highlight that for a second?
Do you remember 25 years ago, these guys were the host and co-host of The Man Show, a show that lived on Comedy Central that was famous for beer chugging and juggie dancing?
And now Jimmy Kimmel has gone completely left, shill of the left, Adam Carolla has gone right, and just keeping it real.
And everything he said here, just sort of capturing the essence of what's going on in California, very important.
The reason I bring that up is this: I would love to see those two have a conversation.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Apparently, they're still friends, but apparently they don't talk politics at all.
Who do you think doesn't want to talk politics of the two?
Here's the question I want to ask you.
Just last week, we did a clip on Kimmel, and I dared Kimmel to have a Republican on.
And I said he wouldn't do it, right?
Apparently, the Fallon producer, some young person there that follows PBD podcast heard it and took an idea to him, right?
Yep.
And said, hey, Fallon, let's shock the world and let's have Guttfeld on.
Are you kidding me?
So the number one late night show, Greg Gutfeld, that beats these other guys, and he's on Fox News.
He goes on Jimmy Kimmel.
And guess what happened to the results?
Tonight's show rating soar to multi-year high on Gutfeld visit.
So by the way, kudos to Fallon's group for listening.
And obviously, Kimmel's going to do whatever Kimmel is doing because his show is going to be canceled here soon because he's not a late night show host comedian.
He is a pundit from CNN MSNBC that's placed into the late night show.
And Kimmel should simply resign and go to MSNBC.
He should go to CNN instead of doing what he's doing.
These are the numbers that came up.
Guttfeld drew approximately 1.7 million viewers, a peak audience for the show since late 2023.
This represented a season high regular, non-sports-led in sports.
In the key 25 to 54 demo, the episode attracted 294,000 viewers, marking a 13% increase over the average of 2024.
According to Nielsen Live Plus same data, the viewership increased during Guttfeld segment compared to the half hour before.
Unusual, as late night show, typically you lose viewers over the hour.
Maybe you ought to go to bedavid.com, Bed David Consulting, and hire somebody from here to help you double your viewership because before you also have to shut down both of your shows, because how embarrassing it is.
Kimmel goes out there and has 170-something guests who are all on the left.
And the only conservative he ever brings is who?
Liz Cheney.
Guess what, Kimmel?
You got a shot at doing something as well yourself if you bring a conservative on.
The fact that Fallon brought him on, I'm happy for them.
And good for Gutfeld to be in front of an audience that probably never watches him because they never watch Fox News.
By the way, a lot of the Fallon audience was actually not happy.
Oh my God.
His true fans.
Yes.
We're not happy about Gutfeld, but good for Kim, good for Fallon.
I respect the fact that Fallon had him on, and I hope they continue doing this.
And if they do, their producers listen, they're going to start getting a little bit more balanced.
And all of a sudden, oh shit, this model works.
Of course it works.
Because bring America on, not just Democrats on, or else you're just CNN.
I fully agree with you, and I'm fully happy that you point that out.
Here's the catch: Will Jimmy Fallon and his team have the balls to deal with the backlash they will receive?
This one guy was outraged on Reddit and wrote a whole thing basically saying there's no defense of this.
Jimmy Fallon has always been soulless and weird.
Do you have the wherewithal?
That's just a soul.
And the chutzpah, and you have the chutzpah to basically say, I'm going to do this.
And here's the whole thing.
They said, I can't believe he normalized the right, normalized the right.
Do you remember Jimmy Fallon was the guy that took Trump's hair, messed it all up, disheveled it?
The problem is this, and here's the essence of the problem of the left.
Not only do they not think it's normal to have these guys, they don't think that these people are human.
Why are you humanizing these people?
Why are you humanizing Trump?
Why are you normalizing these people on Fox News?
They are soulless MAGA extremists.
Let's see if Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel for that matter have anybody from the right on because the backlash is going to be here's another challenge for you.
Let's see which one of you guys will pull it off first because I guarantee it'll be the most viewed show you've had.
You're listening.
Non-celebrities the next whatever 10 years.
You ready?
If Kimmel or Fallon, either one of them have Trump on, it'll be the most viewed show you've had on and your rating is going to go to the roof.
If you can get Trump, but if you can get Trump and you have the audacity to sit in front of him and maybe even say a few words and maybe Kimmel apologize for a couple things in a humorous way, not in a serious way, in a humorous way, I think it'll be record-breaking.
So guess what?
If I'm a producer for Fallon or Kimmel and I'm a competitive guy and I'm somewhat center, let's say I'm a conservative gay man working for or libertarian producer who is a capitalist financially, but socially you're liberal.
Let's just say, and you're working for Kimmel or Fallon, but you're still competitive and you want to compete.
You don't want to be the next Colbert where under your watch, your show got canceled because that's on your resume.
I'd be the one calling the White House and saying, hey, man, what can we do to get the president?
Jimmy Fallon would like to extend an invite to the president and we'd like to host him and he can talk about whatever he wants to talk about.
Whichever show gets them first, it shows you're open-minded and the audience will show up.
You'll see the audience will show up and your viewers will go.
That's a crazy idea.
I don't think they're going to do it.
To have people on you disagree with that?
That's crazy.
Oh my God.
I think it'll be exposed to this.
And by the way, over under we got to live in an echo chamber.
Who do you think is more likely to have it?
Kimmel or Fallon?
Fallon.
Fallon.
And who do you think Trump will most likely like to go back?
Fallon.
Fallon.
Who do you think?
Fallon.
Kimmel.
Oh, he would just show Fallon.
This time, don't touch the hair.
It's my hair.
Well, who's you?
By the way, what was the chutz?
Because we're almost spit on the microphone.
Jake said, be careful because you're going to short the mic.
True.
But you're going to be on the late Night Fallon show.
You know who the executive producer of the tonight show for Fallon is?
Who is tell us?
Lauren Michaels, SNL.
So that attitude, you guys are just anti-Republican, Trump hating.
Just look, look at SNL.
Trump was on SNL.
No, when?
What year?
Where he did the hotline bling.
Yeah, but what I'm saying is like you have to adjust.
Just like with who's going bye-bye, Stephen Colbert.
You're losing 40 million, but the propaganda hate machine is so strong, Tommy.
Are you saying that these people should not live in echo chambers?
What are you doing?
I know this is weird, but stop it.
But what's tribalism above everything?
I got you.
Guys, we're about to finish the podcast.
Hey, this is the first week of us doing Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
And it looks like you guys are loving it.
The fact that we're going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, because the numbers are skyrocketing on viewership, which is great.
And we'll test this out for a few weeks.
And if it works, we'll continue.
Hopefully, it'll work, guys.
Couple things I want to remind you again: August 27th, networking event here at our office.
Anybody that has a general ticket, the first 200 that register, you'll be able to come down, get a private tour of the place, but you got to own a ticket.
So go get a ticket for the Vault conference.
If it's general, you'll be able to network in our hangar and hang out with all the other 200, 400 people that are going to be there.
If you're a platinum or an executive, we get a private tour of the entire property.
Founders and CEOs, I'm going to give you a private tour on the entire property.
And who knows?
Maybe even afterwards, we'll go show you our cigar lounge that we just opened up down the street from here and have a cigar with a couple of the guys.
But go to the link right here that Rob has.
Rob, can you go a little bit lower so they can see what's there?
You just have to go there.
The information is there.
Fill out the information below to make a reservation.
Then, the first 200, you'll be able to bring a guest with you.
Qualification, you have to have a ticket, and we're going to verify all of it when we call you and check with you on that.
And gang, appreciate you guys.
Love you all.
We'll do it again Friday, and we have a special interview coming here soon as well.
