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September 25, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2

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	Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
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	Hearing now, ladies and gentlemen, that Congress says that they've about agreed on a set of principles.
	But we don't know yet what the set of principles that they have agreed to are.
	And I don't want to start assuming anything, but I'm seeing a lot of smiling faces of senators and congressmen who are on television being interviewed about this whole thing.
	I want to continue the analysis of this because we don't know who to trust.
	We don't, the definition of terms eludes us, default credit swamps, derivatives, all of these things that just got piled and piled and piled on top of each other to the point that there's a debt that nobody can pay except the government.
	And they can do it because they can cheat.
	They can print money.
	They can say they got all kinds of money that they don't have, and borrow it or what have you, print it.
	But here's what, again, just to rehash.
	What it appears to me has happened here is the federal government is nationalizing the financial markets, at least for a time.
	These loans are not, as I said yesterday, unmistakably so, they're not worthless.
	They have not yet defaulted.
	They're risky, but they haven't yet defaulted.
	The market will recover, it always does.
	When that happens, the federal government will be able to make lots of money selling the undefaulted loans back to the private sector.
	Even if they are sold below their original value, it'll be more than the government paid to take them off the hands of the financial institutions today.
	Number four, Wall Street is desperate for this to happen.
	So that these financial institutions that are in need of cash can get it and get it fast, whatever the price they have to sell their loans for it.
	They don't have any cash.
	They can't borrow, they can't lend.
	They can't do business.
	And it's not just that.
	I mean, stupid accounting rules, I'm going to get to all that here in just a second.
	The federal government, as Mr. Kessler, Andy Kessler in the Wall Street Journal today makes clear, the federal government will have a windfall of potentially trillions of dollars if his computer models are accurate, which it will, I think, use to massively expand the federal government.
	I have yet to see a massive pile of money show up that was unexpected, that's either given back to us or used to reduce debt.
	And that takes me to this business that taxpayers stand to earn a lot of money on this.
	You see them use that phrase as they try to sell this.
	Taxpayers could really score.
	Now don't insult us.
	They don't mean us when they say the taxpayers could really make out.
	They mean them.
	They mean the government.
	Do you think let's say that this guy is right.
	Now let's say that all of this at the end of the day generates an unexpected 2.2 trillion dollars to the government.
	Okay, there are maybe 40 million taxpayers.
	The population 200 and some odd million.
	We got a lot of people in the cash economy, we got a lot of kids that don't uh file tax returns.
	I'm guessing that that it's let's say it's just for an even round list, a hundred million people file tax returns.
	So you divide a hundred million into two point one trillion, whatever you get, are they gonna send us each a check?
	So how do we stand to profit?
	Especially if they're just gonna use all this newfound money to expand the government.
	And I guarantee you, if Obama wins the election and this deal gets cut, they're gonna think they've got between a trillion and two trillion that they didn't plan on, and they're gonna start spending it now on his social programs and all these other promises that he is making in order to enrich Democrats and their electoral chances in the future.
	Now the fix for this, and apparently it's already been taken, it's already been done, we just don't know what it is.
	But I trust conservatism.
	When in doubt, I go to conservatism.
	Growth, growth, growth is the answer.
	It always is in economic matters.
	We need to attract more investment in our country, not less.
	We need to take down the obstacles which stand in the way of investment, which are confiscatory taxes on capital investment and successful business activity.
	We have got to stop punishing success and punishing risk.
	We need to reward it.
	Successful business activity is called what?
	Profits.
	Our government can't wait to tax them.
	We have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world.
	That's not going to help us attract new investment.
	Get rid of the corporate tax rate for a year or two.
	Same thing with the capital gains tax.
	Get rid of it.
	And watch what happens.
	You watch the investment, you watch the stock market, you watch everything that happens.
	In terms of growth, now is not the time to continue to promote through our tax policy, big government, and socialism, which is the purpose of high corporate income tax rates and capital gains tax rates.
	You legitimately pump new money into our economy by getting it out of Washington.
	And you do that by cutting taxes.
	I know the cap gains rate's only 15%.
	Corporate tax rates 35%.
	You want growth.
	You want money in the economy.
	You know, the economy's not just Wall Street.
	And by the way, when you hear these clowns talk about, we gotta make sure we protect Main Street.
	Main Street has one definition in all this.
	And that's the people who are holding all of these mortgages that they can't service, they can't that might not be paid back.
	That's Main Street.
	Main Street's not the five and dime and a building and loan as in it's a wonderful life.
	That's not the main street that they're talking about now.
	So there are things that we can do economically.
	Whatever this deal is, it will be compounded as a disaster if Barack Obama is elected president and has a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate.
	And that's why, in addition to whatever we do economically, we can do some political things, because this is largely a problem caused on the political side of things.
	This is not a free market.
	Screw up.
	This is not a capitalism flaw.
	This was all caused by Democrats in government.
	If there were a Republican to blame, he would have been found and he would be in jail, or his life would be ruined as the result of never-ending congressional hearings.
	We have to continue to identify, to expose, and punish the politicians who are responsible for undermining the market with political demands for risky loans to risky borrowers, and they use the power of their positions to force this.
	There were loans that were made out to people who were not even asked to explain what they did for a living.
	There were countless mortgages given to illegal aliens and other minorities without any concern that they'd be able to pay it back.
	This is the compassion the Democrats talk about.
	This is their definition of affordable housing.
	This is the good intentions of their large hearts.
	And once again, we see their good intentions have totally bollocks up what used to function as a really rational market, the mortgage industry.
	So we have to do what?
	We have to punish Chris Dodd by throwing him out of office.
	We've got to punish Barney Frank by throwing him out of office.
	We've got to punish Chuck Schumer by throwing him out of office.
	Now, these three and others are protected from the national popular will because they are elected from very blue parts of the country.
	Nevertheless, the people who are responsible for this, even after all this is settled, their roles must be highlighted.
	Their roles in obstructing the kind of changes in policy that would have helped lessen the current crisis.
	There were warnings given throughout this decade about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	Warnings from George Bush and other places, and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer and all the others didn't want to hear about it.
	It's fine, there's no problem here.
	They stood in the way of quote unquote reform.
	We have to identify what was done as a matter of political and social policy that precipitated all of this, including the creation of subprime mortgages in the first place that were created, and they were hailed as a way of helping people buy homes who didn't have the income to buy homes.
	Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton took credit for this when they did it, but they are evading responsibility for it now, and the House of Cards has collapsed, and Clinton's even out there in Good Morning America today while dropping neutron bombs on Obama, by the way, suggesting that he did everything he could to get this whole thing report.
	He's the architect of this.
	And it must be said over and over.
	Now you got people like Warren Buffett, hailed as a great businessman, other people like him, hovering over all of this, looking for ways to make billions and billions more dollars, of course, with the government's help.
	They support this massive bailout because they see it as a way to make another fortune, so Buffett buys a big stake of Goldman Sachs, which is Hank Paulson's former firm.
	He's not doing that out of philanthropy.
	He's doing it because he knows that these risky loans are going to one day have value.
	He wants to be around to profit from them when they have value, which is fine.
	But it ought not ought not be on the taxpayers' dime.
	And it's going to be.
	We have far too many people who are becoming rich from government policy rather than the give and take of the free market.
	So put simply, based on this article I read in the last hour from Andy Kessler in the Wall Street Journal.
	The federal government appears to be the only entity capable of coming up with the enormous amount of money it's going to take to take over these loans, which have not failed yet, but which the government itself requires these banks to devalue as assets.
	Now they are required to base their value on current prices.
	This is what mark to market is.
	And that is a change forced on them by the Sarbanes Oxley accounting legislation, which was a classic typical overreaction to the Enron thing.
	And so rather than being able to peg asset value down the road, you have to peg it to asset value today, and that's why some of these firms are going under.
	Because the value of what they hold is so little that their stock prices plummeted, nobody wants to invest in them simply because of an accounting change.
	That's another thing that's got to be done away with.
	Go back to the old asset accounting rules, accounting rules, get rid of mark-to-market.
	All of these people in Washington who have never run businesses, who have no clue, who set up things to fail in the first place.
	And when they fail, they get to act like they are innocent bystanders and spectators.
	Well, who screwed this up?
	We're going to punish whoever did it, and then we're going to fix it.
	And they just bollocks it up more and more.
	So this accounting rule, mark-to-market, the banks have to offload these loans.
	And what Paulson's saying, okay, hey, I got the money.
	I'll buy them at a fire sale because I got a blank check.
	Or I want a blank check, and I'm probably going to be given one here in a couple days because I've created a necessary panic.
	So our government buys them, holds them, waits for the economy to pick up, or rather than wait, primes the economy to pick up through spending and monetary policy, possibly risking inflation.
	Maybe not, who knows.
	Anyway, it's going to drive up the value of these risky loans, and they're going to start to sell them back to the private sector at a huge profit, and that's where we taxpayers supposedly going to make out like bandits.
	But I guarantee you will never see a dividend check.
	So the federal government is then going to take the trillions or so that it makes them all this.
	And if, say Obama is elected, use it to further massively expand the size of federal government.
	And they're going to have trillions more to do what they always do, and not pay down the debt, not shore up some entitlement program, but expand government.
	That's what always happens.
	Another problem with all of this, and I hear no talk about getting rid of these community reinvestment loans, which started this entire mess, and I hear no talk about eventually getting rid of these government-run companies, Stanley Mae and Freddie Mack.
	I hear that we need to increase regulations on the private sector.
	We need to increase taxes on the private sector.
	No, we need to get rid of some of the stupid government ideas and institutions that caused this.
	This is not a capitalist problem.
	You know, more than ever, what we need to do, we need to dust off old Milton Friedman's proposed constitutional amendment.
	That would limit how much of the national economy the federal government's permitted to consume.
	His amendment would have limited federal spending to less than 20% of GDP.
	I think that's what it was, as the best way of preventing the federal government from destroying the economy.
	If the economy grew, the income of the federal government would grow in absolute terms.
	If the economy shrank, so too would the absolute dollars coming into the federal treasury.
	Now, there were severe emergencies like war where the uh cat the cap could be raised in his constitutional amendment.
	It's not going to happen.
	Uh nothing happens unless and until it becomes part of the national dialogue.
	And until we see exactly what's happened here, uh, it's going to be difficult to uh do an on the spot analysis of it.
	Victor Davis Hanson today, uh, writing at National Review Online says, hey, gang, we need a reality check here.
	Uh who elected all these shady politicians of both parties?
	Who fostered the cash-in culture in which both Wall Street profit mongering and Washington lobbying are nourished and thrive?
	We citizens did.
	Red state conservatives, blue state liberals, Republicans, Democrats alike, we may be victims of Wall Street greed, government excess, but not quite innocent.
	Because we keep re-electing the same crown to go back despite knowing all they're doing wrong.
	He titles this piece, Dr. Frankenstein's Wall Street.
	A quick timeout.
	We'll be right back after this.
	Okay, Democrats and Republicans have reached agreement in principle on the rescue plan.
	Now, what does this tell us?
	Well, it tells me a couple of things.
	One, that the Obama Democrats panicked into a quicker compromise to try to show that McCain didn't matter.
	You know, McCain's not meeting with Bush till four o'clock, and Obama's gonna be in the meeting too.
	So they get this done before four o'clock, before Bush and Obama and McCain meet.
	So uh this this the fear of McCain coming in and getting this done, forced the Democrats, because look at one thing, if despite all this talk about how great uh bailout plan, how huge it is, how might it it really just expand the size of government in ways we've never seen.
	It the Democrats here, their the their strategy was to try to only commit to about 25% of the $700 billion at first, and sort of like a trial balloon uh to see if it would work.
	Now, what does that tell you?
	It tells you they're afraid to do nothing because they are in control.
	They also, and I'm very cynical about Democrats, as you know.
	I think they, if they could, their preference would be to not fix the whole thing more authoratively, because they thrive on chaos.
	They thrive on chaos and despair, particularly with 40 days to go to the election.
	They love this.
	They love this chaos and despair.
	That's why Harry Reid said, stay away from here, McCain.
	We don't need you.
	That's why Obama said, hey, call me if you need me.
	So they two things happened.
	They did not want everybody says it was the Republicans holding this up.
	Do not be fooled, my friends.
	It's the drive-by media telling you that.
	The Democrats did not Want this thing to go this fast.
	They wanted to string it out.
	They wanted us to be teetering on the verge of national destruction and bankruptcy.
	They wanted you to be thinking that.
	And then all of a sudden, McCain decides to suspend the campaign, leaving Obama in the bathroom, primping in Clearwater, Florida for the debate tomorrow night that now wasn't going to happen.
	He's going to go to Washington.
	That's right.
	I'm frightened leadership.
	I'm going to get this done.
	Somebody has you.
	Democrats, no, no, no.
	This is a little we don't.
	So they got rushed.
	Now that tells me we could have gotten a lot.
	I don't know what we got as Republicans.
	We could have gotten a lot for the haste the Democrats wanted this get done before McCain could get credit for it.
	I hope we didn't screw up too bad.
	Audio sound by time here.
	Uh competing sound bites in a sense.
	Chris Dodd, one of the architects of this mess.
	And one of the profiteers, in a sense, all the campaign donations he received and a favorable mortgage rate from countrywide.
	Chris Dodd uh this afternoon in the rotunda of the Capitol.
	We've reached a fundamental agreement on a set of principles.
	One uh for taxpayers, which is tremendously important.
	We're giving the Secretary authority that he will need in order to act, and the funding that he will need.
	Uh we also have dealt, I think effectively with the issue of uh effective oversight uh with homeownership uh preservation, uh as well as executive compensation.
	White House caved on that, by the way.
	They caved on the exact compensation yesterday.
	Okay, so Colonel Sanders here walks out and has just told us that the chickens he killed are okay.
	And that we don't have anything to worry about.
	Here's Barney Frank, who apparently this at the same place, but I don't know what he got the message.
	Some of us have been invited to go to the White House today to uh try and break a deadlock, and I'm glad that we'll be able to go and tell them that uh there really isn't that much of a deadlock to break, but I'm always glad to get to go to the White House.
	I bet to be glad to have you up there.
	The uh White House, so Barney was gonna go to the White House, but there's not much of a deadlock to break.
	Did you understand that?
	Did you understand?
	You you didn't let me let me see if I can help.
	Snerdley says that he didn't understand what Barney said.
	Sumabus.
	He's been invited to go to the White House.
	Big, big, deadlock.
	There's no, don't, there's no deadlock.
	There's no deadlock.
	But I've called a White House, because I love, you never know what you're going to run into.
	crash
	Barney Frank.
	Polling data.
	Gallup, daily tracking, tied 4646.
	Gallup, daily tracking.
	McCain Obama tied 4646.
	A poll with the question including uh today's response.
	Uh respondents reacting to news last night and today.
	Over at Zogby, September 19th and 20th.
	You had Obama and Biden uh basically up, looks like two and a half points today.
	McCain and Palin are up two.
	There has been a four-point shift.
	Zogby announced this at one o'clock this afternoon.
	So the uh, you know, this is this is pretty interesting stuff because we've been here in like the Washington Post poll yesterday, ABC News, Washington.
	Oh, yeah, Obama's up nine, it's over.
	We finally see it what we always expected to see.
	There's another pollster who would I I've got this in the stack, I'll get to it, who takes that poll to task.
	So I gotta take a phone break here, folks, because I've people have been waiting patiently, and we haven't we had a couple phone calls so far, but people have been waiting on it.
	I really don't like that they have to hold on as long as they do, but these are extraordinary times.
	So here's Kelly in uh in New Palestine, North Dakota.
	Nice to have you on the program.
	Hey, Rash, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, I just have two quick points.
	The first one is I really Like what McCain did by suspending his um his uh campaign.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	Uh you know, whether you like the the idea or not, it kind of lends credence to his Maverick persona, and I think it makes Obama look like he's floundering out there, which he is.
	Well, here's the thing.
	McCain was doing what McCain does.
	Any opportunity McCain has to make it look like he is above the fray putting the country ahead of politics.
	Right.
	Uh he will do.
	And this if this is politics.
	All of this, the his business is politics.
	But it's a gimmick.
	He's running a I I think the polling date apparently is he's uh it's worked for him.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I uh it did make Obama look like uh you know he didn't know where he was.
	Yeah, I thought I thought it was a bold move, and and I liked it.
	And uh another point is Obama this morning.
	Uh you're exactly right when you're talking about if we get any money out of this, we're not gonna see a penny.
	Obama pretty much confirmed that.
	I was listening to um um talking at the Clinton Global Initiative, and I just caught a little bit of it.
	But what I caught, all he talked about was the billions and billions he's going to throw into these global economy and global organizations that he wants to socialize our nation and and it just uh it's upsetting.
	He's got a global poverty initiative, fifty billion a year.
	He and the UN, of course, they have a similar idea.
	Look at Obama thinks he's citizen of the world.
	Well, I don't like it.
	I want to be the United States of America.
	I want the capitalism market to thrive here like it always has, and and Obama just every time he opens his mouth, it's so socialist to me.
	Umist leader we've ever had.
	Oh, I'm the y the I think perhaps the first pure socialist leader that we've had, and he's making no bones about it.
	He's that this I I saw some of what you saw at the Clinton Global Initiative where he was promising all this stuff, and that's if if he gets elected, all this money that's going to come in here from this uh this this rescue plan, he and the Democrats are gonna start spending it before they even have it.
	By the way, we all know the name of Alcy Hastings.
	Uh Congressman Alcy Hastings from Florida.
	Thankfully, uh, and you have no need for concern, Alsie Hastings does not represent us where we live here.
	But he said on Wednesday, if Sarah Palin isn't enough of a reason for you to get over what your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention.
	Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews in black black.
	So you just think this through.
	Now, Alcy Hastings is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
	He made these comments in Washington, D.C. while participating in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Jewish Democrat Council.
	Asked what the Congressman meant by this.
	Hastings spokesman David Goldberg told ABC News that he was trying to argue that Palin is an extremely conservative woman who is out of touch with mainstream America.
	After saying that Palin don't care too much about Jews and blacks, Hastings argued that African Americans and Jews should come together behind Obama because there are many issues on which they agre agree.
	He said, Asked about the Hastings criticism, Palin's spokeswoman Maria Comelo said, We're taking a pass on this one.
	Uh if Sarah Palin isn't enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Obama, and what is their problem with Obama.
	Can we can we be on?
	No, what that's not their he's he's talking to Jewish people.
	He's talking to Jewish Democrats.
	He says, Whatever your problem whatever your problems with Obama are, well, how about campaign contributions from Hamas?
	Campaign contributions from Hezbollah, said he would give up half of Jerusalem.
	He said he wants to meet with Mahmood Akhmadinizad without preconditions.
	Ahmadinejad meeting in New York with Code Pink protester Jody Evans, who is a fundraising bundler for Barack Obama.
	You could say that a Bach a Barack Obama intermediary met with an anti-American by definition, she'll claim she's anti-American.
	Code Pink, and she was she was part of the fundraising apparatus that generated the nine million for Obama in Hollywood recently.
	She meets, and along with others in her group with uh Ahmadini Zad, she's part of the Obama team.
	I don't know what Jewish people would be concerned about myself, frankly.
	So he comes along and he says, Sarah Palin isn't enough of a reason for you to get over what your problem is with Obama, then you damn well better pay attention.
	Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.
	Man, people have come unhinged.
	Look.
	Can I explain his comment?
	No, that it doesn't require explanation.
	It stands alone.
	What needs to be followed here is a question.
	And I'm going to pretend that I'm speaking right now to the National Democratic Jewish Organization, wherever Alcy Hastings was.
	Let me get the uh name right.
	The National Jewish Democratic Council.
	Would you, members of this audience, please enlighten me as to how any one of you could even consider voting for Barack Obama.
	Because it's something I and a lot of people do not understand, other than liberals or liberals first.
	Then everything else be damned.
	Other than that, you have no idea who you're voting for.
	You have no idea.
	Look, look at look at I know he was he was a judge.
	Hastings was a judge, but he was defrocked or whatever you call him.
	He was impeached.
	Yeah, but he's in the total nutcase.
	They all are nutcases.
	By the way, brief correction, Obama did not say that Jerusalem uh should be divided in the past, excuse me, folks, previous governments have said the status of Jerusalem must be determined by the parties involved.
	And then uh uh with the Palestinians carping over that, he rephrased his statement.
	So he doesn't, he doesn't think that um it should be partitioned.
	Now, save our Biden.
	SOB, the new operation chaos.
	Just in from Haret's News in Israel.
	Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was quoted Monday as telling senior Israeli officials behind closed doors that the Jewish state will have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.
	In the unsourced report, Army Radio also quoted Biden as saying that he opposed opening additional military and uh diplomatic front.
	Biden, chairman of the powerful Senate foreign relations committee, has long been considered strongly pro-Israel.
	His nomination as Obama's running mates been expected to shore up the Democrats' strength with uh Jewish voters.
	Army Radios of Israeli officials expressed amazement over Biden's remarks.
	Now, the remarks here are unsourced, but it's from Haretz in uh in Israel.
	Biden quoted as saying Israel will have to reconcile it.
	Look at the the the job of a vice presidential candidate is to echo and mirror the presidential candidate.
	And he's on, he's on thin ice anyway, he's out there disagreeing with uh some of Obama's ads, some of the way Obama's uh ads are being run and so forth.
	So we might be, if this is true, we might there be able to conclude that this is actually the view of the anointed one, the uh Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, the most merciful.
	Back to the phones, Colleen in Bergen County, New Jersey.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush Megadiddos from uh non-lipstick wearing, non-nail polish wearing, uh mow my own woman for Sarah Palin.
	Well, terrific.
	Yes.
	Okay, I'm gonna get to the point because I know people are holding it.
	Harry Reid.
	Um Harry Reid stands up there yesterday with his smug uh typical Harry Reid style, warning the president that he better not blame or bully Congress.
	And then within the same breath, he starts wooing and bragging about all the hard work that Chris Dodd has done, and that when he had called Chris Dodd last night, uh Chris Dodd had been tucking his little baby um children to bet.
	Now, you know, I get so nervous calling you because you are Rush Limbaugh, and it's very intimidating to call you.
	But you are— I'm just a harmless lovable little fuzzball here.
	No, you're the best.
	You really it's so it there everything you say is so right on, and I'm gonna start just spewing out these names because just like he said, I'm watching the TV, and all of a sudden the rats start coming out.
	I see Rom Emanuel now coming out on MSNBC.
	I haven't seen him in two weeks.
	And Ram Emmanuel came into Congress in 2003 worth 40,000, and now he's a millionaire.
	And I know that doesn't sound a lot.
	But you know how these people get rich, Rush?
	They get rich off of all the real estate deals that all of them do.
	They're all involved in these big real estate deals.
	They buy up all these buildings.
	This is exactly look at this is exactly what I was saying earlier when I was analyzing whatever this bailout's gonna end up being.
	The time for people enriching themselves as a result of being in government's got stop.
	And these people who are enriching themselves in government, doing nothing, are the ones trying to limit exec pay, CEO pay, trying to raise taxes on everybody else.
	It's uh it's a cesspool.
	It it literally is it it's it's become a cesspool.
	You're exactly right, Colleen.
	Thanks much.
	By the way, she mentioned Dingy Harry.
	We have a couple sound bites here.
	This is this is uh Dingy Harry yesterday.
	Uh, and yeah, this is when McCain said, you know, I'm suspending the campaign, I'm gonna go up to Washington, I'm gonna fix this.
	With all due respect to my friend John McCain, we're doing just fine.
	This should we should not have presidential politics enter what we're doing here.
	There's enough going on with presidential politics that we don't need that.
	The debate should go forward.
	I said that to him.
	I believe that.
	It appears to me that John McCain is trying to divert attention to his failing campaign.
	No, Senator.
	What's obvious is you don't want McCain coming in there and speeding up the process and forcing you guys to have to agree to something so that he doesn't get the credit for it.
	We're doing just fine.
	We shouldn't have presidential politics enter what we're doing here.
	But sir, this is everything to do with the campaign, and then Obama.
	But the this this this is choice this morning via satellite.
	Obama's speaking to the Clinton Global Initiative.
	If I can be helpful, then I'm prepared to be anywhere anytime.
	If you need us, if I can be helpful, I'm prepared to be there uh at any point.
	You know, presidents are gonna have to deal with more than one thing at a time.
	Uh it's not necessary for us to think that uh we can only do one thing uh and suspend everything else.
	Uh yeah.
	Good, cool, whatever.
	Uh if you need me, call me.
	Then this at the same speech in Africa, a child dies from a mosquito bite every thirty seconds.
	And by the way, this is something I've seen personally.
	Uh if you go to the village where my father grew up, where my grandmother still lives, uh, the toll of malaria remains throughout the region.
	And beyond the devastating human toll, malaria weighs down public health systems, setting back global capacity to fight other disease.
	Hey, Obama, it's called DDT.
	It's called DDT and Rachel Carson.
	If you have you hadn't banned D give DDT back in there, you won't have a problem.
	But here he's talking about uh the hut where his grandmother lives.
	If you go to the village where my father grew up, my grandmother's still we know his relatives live in huts.
	So he's been to Africa.
	We know that, and he's seen people get malaria, but he didn't apparently go see his brother, George Bongyang, who's seen Obama living in the hut.
	By the way, another correction here, the uh the story about Joe Biden.
	It's the September 1st story.
	It didn't happen this Monday.
	It happened September 1st.
	We're just learning about it now.
	This is uh apparently where the uh Israeli Army Radio IDF forces said um that Biden's in the Israel is just gonna have to get used to a nuclear Iran.
	Okay, we got one hour left.
	Still gonna be jam-packed.

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