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	The grand jury of Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, the Manhattan District uh attorney, uh, has decided um uh don't bother coming in today.
	There have been many reports now that there's total chaos inside of his office.
	Uh I started this week out and I thought, you know, over the weekend I thought it was 99% in terms of a chance that Donald Trump was gonna get indicted and probably arraigned.
	Uh I'm below way below 50% now, because clearly there has been a pause, and for good reason, by the way, if you if you listen to, you know, even lawyers and pundits on on liberal networks and liberal publications.
	I mean, they they're all saying the same thing.
	This is a horrible case.
	You know, an unprecedented inquiry, Zero Hedge put out there.
	The Manhattan DA fired off a letter blaming Trump for the arrest rumors.
	He actually said the letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene.
	Sounds to me like Bragg is backing off his very tough stance that he's quote, not going to be intimidated.
	Anyway, this phony case, uh, it continues to unfold.
	Um, and it's amazing.
	Rolling Stone put out many top New York City attorneys loathe Trump, but they don't like Bragg's chances.
	Now, this is a guy as uh the DA in Manhattan, when he has a jury trial, he's lost 49% of his cases.
	He's not exactly the most the most incredible lawyer in the world to be handling this job.
	But two major things came out this week.
	And one has to do with this letter that we spent a lot of time on this program yesterday and on TV last night.
	And this is from the counsel of Michael Cohn uh to the head of the FEC, and it goes into great detail and specificity.
	I read it all yesterday.
	I won't read it again now.
	Uh but it had a big impact on the case.
	And the other thing that happened is on Monday, Bob Costello went in uh with all the credibility in the world and contradicted everything that Michael Cohn was saying and called him a serial liar.
	I'll play some of that in a second.
	There is one other development that we're looking at and following on the show, uh, and this has now been reported on multiple websites that uh we had Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina is going to join us in a second on TV last night.
	And if you're wondering how Bragg's case against Trump is unraveling so quickly, uh let me tell you something.
	Joe Tacapino last night was as fierce as any lawyer as I've ever seen.
	I've known him for decades.
	And uh so now there's an effort that apparently they are trying to disqualify Joe Tacapina, saying, well, he had contact with Stormy Daniels uh back uh in 20, I think, sixteen or eighteen, whenever it was, I think it was twenty eighteen, and there's an effort afoot by the left to get Joe Tacapino off the case.
	Joe Tacopina joins us now.
	How are you, sir?
	Great Sean, how are you doing?
	Listen, wild horses could not get me away from this case.
	And it's uh it's it's really completely a non-issue.
	It's uh, you know, look, uh they don't want me in this case, they don't want me near this case, I'm sure.
	Um, you know, I think they understand what I'm gonna do this case.
	But the bottom line is I never spoke to Storm and Daniels.
	I never met Stormy Daniels.
	Yeah, she called my office to see if I'd be interested in representing her like a lot of people do.
	One of my associates sort of vetted the uh call, spoke to her, and then relayed to me the information.
	Um it went no further than that.
	Um bottom line is that doesn't that doesn't they're trying to claim that you once said on an interview that there was attorney client privilege.
	Is that true?
	I did you know what happened?
	I did, um, but doesn't make it an attorney client privilege, which means sidestepping something.
	So here's what happened.
	Um, you know, really when when we were I I was on I think Don Lemon Show, which I guess that's what I get for going on Don Lemon Show, and he uh I apparently from Mike Avenati had heard that I had been uh approached by Stormy Daniels and asked me that on the air.
	So I sidestepped what was an unexpected question by by a TV host by providing a response that I may lack clarity, but for the sake of clarity, I you know I never spoke to her, I never said I met with her, never said I spoke with her.
	And what I said was, you know, my reference to attorney climate privilege really intended to terminate the inquiry because you know, someone on Stormy Daniels' behalf had asked whether I would represent her, and I didn't wish to discuss the matter on national television like that, because it wouldn't be appropriate anyway.
	But and even if there was for the purpose of that consultation, it's a client privilege with my office regarding what she had said.
	That's why she wrote a book and discussed everything that she would have said to my associate.
	I mean, we have uh you know an email that was nothing substantial over superficial, but she's written a book.
	But they claim in some reports that text messages were handed over.
	You're saying they were not from you.
	Text messages, no, no.
	They said email with with some associate from my office, not for me.
	I never emailed her, never text messaged her, never spoke to her, Sean.
	I never met her.
	There's no scenario where that's an attorney client privilege situation that could get me bounced on the case.
	And even if it were all true, and I did speak to her about that limited issue, which is not an issue in this case, by the way, it would only mean that I couldn't cross examine her.
	Doesn't mean I get to step down.
	Okay, so it's it's just really much to do about nothing.
	It's it's the you know, the far left, the the the CNNs of the world, the M S NBCs of the world trying to make something where there's nothing.
	Uh she didn't tell my associate or whoever she spoke to anything that has not been in the public domain.
	So that rules out the issue of whether or not there's any attorney client privilege.
	If she's even a witness, she wasn't even called in the grand jury.
	I don't think she's a relevant witness in this case, so honestly, I I'm I have not even a one percent concerned about that being an issue, uh as much as they would love it to be an issue.
	The less thing they want to see me doing is cross examining their witnesses in this case.
	Let me ask you, why do you think the grand jury proceeding was canceled now for the second day in a row?
	You know, it's just rank speculation.
	I I don't know.
	I mean, it's been reported widely that there's there's chaos in that office.
	Uh I've heard from people, you know, why no one's in that office were saying it's it's uh it's a circus at it uh atmosphere in there, and and I just don't know, Sean.
	I mean, it really could be something that is a logistical thing, a scheduling thing, or it could be something more.
	It could be someone finally sort of talking some sense into VA and saying, What are you doing?
	This is an unsustainable case, there's no crime here.
	But do not make out a crime in any way, shape, or form.
	And I've been saying that since day one, Sean.
	Well, all right, let me move on to my interview uh earlier this week on TV with Robert Costello.
	And in the course of this, he said the Cole told uh Cohn told him he paid Stormy Daniels on his own.
	Uh he told me he said after contemplating suicide that Cohn told him he doesn't have anything on Trump.
	He was very specific.
	He says that he volunteered information because the DA's office wasn't going to cover information that he wanted to give.
	And then he says during the two hour meeting, Cohn would rant that he would do whatever he had to do uh to never spend a day in jail.
	Listen to this part.
	And I especially made one point.
	I pointed out to them that during that first two hour meeting, Michael Cohn, who, as I said before, was pacing back and forth, would suddenly stop in the middle of whatever he was talking about and turn and point his finger at us and say, I want you guys to understand I will do whatever the F I have to do.
	I will never spend a day in jail.
	He said that at least ten to twenty times during that two hour period.
	It was it was a bizarre mantra, but it made it clear to us that Michael Cohn was saying, I will lie, cheat, steal, shoot someone, I will never spend a day in jail.
	Well, what happened?
	He did spend more than a day in jail.
	And who does he blame?
	Not himself, even though counts one through seven related to times that uh before he even met Donald Trump.
	So he blames Donald Trump.
	He's a convicted uh felon, an admitted liar.
	Uh and I'm listening to this guy who has all the credibility in the world.
	I think that has to be in Alvin Bragg's mind, knowing that that that attorney will contradict every single thing that Michael Comb may say in trial.
	Star witness.
	Without without question, and and then when you add to it the letter from the law firm that was unearthed yesterday, um, which is even is equally devastating and corroborates everything Bob Costello was saying about the uh, you know, about the um you know issue regarding the FEC, the Federal Election Committee, where the law firm represented on behalf of their client, Michael Cohen, um, that the transaction was made by himself.
	Um he was not reimbursed for that transaction um by Trump organization or the Trump campaign.
	And um, you know, it takes it, it was not a campaign contribution.
	Um that's what, you know, that's what they said in that letter.
	So that's a federal agency.
	So if that's a lie, that's another felony in a five-year count that Michael Cohen is is staring down the barrel of.
	Well, let me ask you have the statute of the limitations as Jonathan Turley's been arguing, have they run out on both the um both issues?
	On a misdemeanor for sure.
	Uh for sure.
	That's two years.
	If they topple a felony together by adding two misdemeanors, saying one was made to corrupt the other, which is you know, just it would be really really an abuse of prosecutor of discretion.
	The whole case would be if they brought it.
	But, you know, then there's going to be some calculations that need to be done because there was a tolling of one year and forty-five days, Sean, by Governor Cuomo at the time, um, during the COVID period of uh of criminal matters.
	So um, you know, they'd have to do some math on that.
	It's very, very close, though, no matter what is very close.
	Um that's one of several legal arguments.
	Obviously, we'd have a selective and targeted prosecution um argument to be made here.
	This case was put in the grand jury by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office more than two years ago.
	Put in the Stormy Daniels case, and then they took it out.
	Initially they thought it had to do with a a tax deduction being taken when they realized uh President Trump didn't take a tax deduction for this.
	Um they were like, uh, okay, that's not a case, and they pulled it out, which is mind boggling that it's being put back in, and then this is what we're talking about here.
	I mean, you know, understand this.
	This was a nuisance settlement, a civil settlement made from an incident that occurred now 17 years ago.
	How common are these nuisance lawsuits settled like this with NDAs?
	Every day, every day.
	You know, everyone I mean, if you had a venturer guess, for example, over the years, even before Bragg became the Manhattan DA, I would assume that office probably has their own NDAs.
	Would that be a good guess on my part?
	Yeah, it probably would be, Sean, it probably would be.
	But the bottom line is that's a common legal maneuver.
	You know, you get a nuisance settlement um to resolve an issue, um, and and you make something that could be personally embarrassing to yourself, to your family.
	Go away.
	Had nothing to do with the campaign.
	Um, and and and and and that's what Cohen said when he said guilty.
	So you understand it's something that was done with personal funds.
	Personal funds.
	Well, let me let me go to the letter then, uh, and this is from Michael Cohn's attorney at the time.
	It stated February 8th, 2018.
	His counsel is Stephen M. Ryan.
	It's to the FEC.
	Uh, it's addressed to uh Jeff Jordan at the time, and he says, I'm writing on behalf of Michael Cohn in response to your letter dated January 30th, 2018.
	He said, in a private transaction in 2016 before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohn used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of 130,000 to Miss Stephanie Clifford.
	Neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohn for the payment directly or indirectly.
	Now, contrary to the allegations in the complaint, which are entirely speculative, neither Mr. Cohn nor essential consultants, LLC, made any in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for President uh Inc.
	uh or any other presidential campaign committee.
	Mr. Cohn has not been a government employee during any of the relevant time period.
	The payment in question does not constitute a campaign contribution or expenditure, and therefore the FEC lacks jurisdiction over this matter, and the complaint have not and cannot present any evidence to the contrary.
	Accordingly, the complaint should be dismissed.
	Now, if that's not exculpatory, I don't know what is.
	This is Michael Cohn's attorney writing this.
	Yeah, it's it's unbelievable.
	And and so that means that's what he told his attorneys.
	And this is 2018.
	I mean, this is you know, close in time for the the the period where he played guilty.
	Um it is unbelievable.
	And and it again, what this also means is that he, if this is is not true, then he I mean, if this is true, if this letter is accurate, then he lied to Congress.
	Okay, which is another felony.
	I mean, this guy's stacking up felonies like uh champion.
	He's really he's really got a Yeah, but he's a liberal now, so it's okay, he won't get charged.
	Only conservatives get charged for jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk.
	Sean, he was there was no one who wants to be on TV more than Michael Cohen to say how great Donald Trump was.
	What a great president, what a great man, what a great boss, what a great client, what a great everything.
	I mean, every night.
	And if you said anything contrary, he would start a personal attack on you.
	You know, the funny part is no one would give him an audience at the time with credibility.
	MSNBC used to mock him, CNN used to mock him.
	Now he's like uh like he's like a guy.
	He's he's become the new Michael Avenatti.
	I mean, that's really what he's become.
	And we know where he's sitting right now, right?
	We certainly do.
	All right, I have two more important questions.
	I don't want to take up all your time, and I know you will be on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on Fox.
	Uh, also, we're doing an audience show again tonight.
	Uh, former vice president Mike Pence will be in studio tonight for tickets, they're free.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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	A quick break more with the president's attorney on the Manhattan case, Joe Tacopita on the other side.
	I have a very important question to ask him.
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	All this horrific economic news, including the prediction by J.P. Morgan that, sadly, we are beyond the tipping point on all of this.
	That is not good news for the American people that are already struggling mightily.
	anyway, Joe Tacopina, more with him next than your call straight ahead as we continue.
	All right, we continue with President Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopina, for the second day in a row, the grand jury of Manhattan has been canceled.
	Um I wanted to ask you one more question.
	We'll get into more of this tonight when you're on TV.
	Uh I want to play candidate Alvin Bragg running on a c run running a campaign to go after one man, one company, and one family.
	That man is Donald Trump.
	That company is the Trump organization.
	That family is the Trump family.
	Listen.
	A lot of people are wondering whoever has this job.
	Are they going to convict Donald Trump?
	Look, that that that is uh the number one issue.
	I'm the candidate in the race who has the experience with with Donald Trump.
	I was the chief deputy in the attorney general's office.
	We sued the Trump administration over a hundred times.
	I'd be hard to argue with the fact that that's that'd be the most important uh most high profile case.
	Uh and I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he can do.
	And you believe it should happen.
	I yeah, I I I believe we have to hold him accountable.
	All right, so there you have a candidate, just and like Letitia James as well, the AG in New York uh state, running a campaign to go after one man, one family, one organization.
	Now, that doesn't sound like equal justice under the law to me, Joe Tacapina.
	That doesn't sound like equal application of our laws.
	That sounds like uh prosecutors uh that have determined they want to go after an individual and find the crime later.
	Uh that to me is political persecution, not prosecution.
	You know, when a candidate for any office talks about a target before they get into a law enforcement position, it should send troopers down anyone's spot.
	Letisha James did it, she campaigned.
	She was a private citizen campaigning on she's gonna get Trump.
	How did she know?
	How did she she had no access to evidence at that point?
	The same thing Alan Brent just said.
	I I heard that just now.
	I was like, I'm I'm shocked.
	Literally shocked.
	I mean, I he's basically saying when I become a prosecutor, which is the chief law enforcement officer in that county, okay.
	I'll go after him.
	I've been I've gone after him before, you know.
	I've How do you know?
	What that says is I have the person, I will find the crime.
	And Sean, in this country, we don't do that.
	That's what they did in Nazi Germany, did it in Russia in China.
	You target an individual that you don't like for political reasons.
	Show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
	You got it.
	And and and and that's what I just heard, which is shocking.
	What's even more shocking is I donated money to his campaign.
	So I I think you need your money back.
	Uh that's that's the irony there.
	Uh, I wanted to hold you for just for that one question.
	I know you've been very generous with your time.
	You're gonna be joining us tonight.
	We have a live audience show.
	You will be there.
	Uh former vice president Mike Pence will be there in studio.
	And uh uh I think this case is falling apart.
	We'll know in the days to come.
	Joe Tacopina, we really appreciate you being with us.
	Okay, thanks, sir.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
	Chad is in the free state of Texas.
	Chad, how are you?
	Glad you checked in.
	What's going on?
	A whole lot is going on, Sean.
	It's always great and lucky to get to the busy phone lines there on your show.
	Uh, you're in my top six favorite of all time, and you're a top six.
	You got to do one more than a top five.
	So you you're you're and you're not I don't even want a nose ahead of me.
	Thanks a lot.
	No, no.
	You're you're in my top four hundred talk show hosts in the country.
	I really appreciate it.
	Thanks, man.
	So my top six is President Donald J. Trump.
	Yeah.
	You, George Strait, Tore Aikman, Rick Flair, and Mike McDonald.
	That's my You know what?
	I'm I'm I'm cool with that list.
	I like everybody on the list.
	So we're good.
	With no problem anymore.
	Okay, fantastic.
	I'm your number one talk show host.
	That's all I wanted to hear.
	You could have said it that way, and and we wouldn't have had this diversion.
	But go ahead, what's on your mind?
	You are.
	I've been listening to you for twelve years a day.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	You know what?
	You make you make this show possible.
	You're welcome.
	Very welcome.
	So this uh whole charade.
	Uh once again, who is it against one man, one family, one organization, Trump organization.
	Now, isn't it amazing?
	Trump organization is still going on and thriving, even without him, with him being a president and now whatever involvement he had of not being a president.
	But this district attorney Bragg, 100% politically driven and motivated case.
	So Democrats, so they preferred to say hush money, not an NDA.
	Which you said it and you've been saying it the last number of days.
	Every single day, thousands of thousands of non-disclosure agreements.
	By the way, it's only hush money for Republicans.
	For Democrats, they're called non-disclosure agreements, NDAs.
	Yeah.
	I mean, because it sounds more sinister.
	It's hush money.
	You know, it sounds more sinister.
	It sounds more sinister because remember, for a Democrat, it's guilty until proven innocent, not innocent until proven guilty.
	So can you can you imagine how many non-disclosure agreements that have been conducted by whatever politician of a Democrat of a Senate senator, governor, re uh, or a president?
	I mean, heaven forbid.
	A couple more things here, Sean.
	Lead star witness is a longtime pathological liar, Michael Cohen, 130,000 paid to aka Stormy Daniels, not from the Tor Trump organization, not from Donald Trump himself, and at the time to boot to how illegitimate he is when when this was all arising back in the remember the statute of limitations when this was going on.
	Who was her repr who was her counsel?
	Michael Avanti.
	So you're really telling me all of this with the pathological liars that Michael Cohen is, Michael Avanati, the disgrace disbarred attorney.
	Speaking of disbarred attorney, I think him and Bill Clinton have something in common with that.
	Last thing I'm gonna say on this, Sean, something I want to always like to leave it with a little bit of sissy humor.
	Now, this is a uh disclaimer.
	I'm not saying this is Donald Trump's legal team.
	But could you imagine this legal team for Donald J. Trump, the individual you've had on for the past couple of days and uh tonight?
	And also, could you imagine if it was him plus Jay Secul plus Greg Jarrett plus Leo Point two oh two point oh and last but not least, can you imagine if he had Vincent Logata Gambini on his left.
	I'm a I'm a big fan of my cousin Vinny.
	Well, look, you you obviously understand this and you're clearly a very informed listener.
	You know, one of the things that I'm I'm so happy about and proud of is you know, the people that listen to this show are some of the most well informed people in the country.
	Because the information we give out on a on a daily basis on radio and television, you're not gonna get elsewhere.
	I mean, the the media has been borderline orgasmic over the potential indictment of Donald Trump.
	You know, remember Rush years ago would do a Gorbasm, the love, the feeling of of Mikhail Gorbachev.
	It's the same thing.
	I mean, they they have been out of their minds.
	Even how it stern said something about M M SNBC, like enough already.
	I got it.
	You won't you hate Donald Trump.
	You want him to be indicted.
	This case though is falling apart.
	Well, look, when I started this week, after the weekend, what did I say?
	I said, you know, all weekend long, all my sources, uh, I felt it was inevitable and it was gonna happen.
	Uh then I went when I came on the air on Tuesday, I said, you know what?
	I'm now at about seventy-two percent and and falling rapidly.
	Now with two days in a row with the grand jury proceeding canceled.
	I'm now down to and last night I was fifty-fifty.
	I'm I'm now down uh odds are it won't happen.
	You know, and Bragg's comments in particular say, well, well, Donald Trump created this expectation of uh of an arrest.
	Um that tells me that they are very afraid, and they should be, and a lot of things happen this week.
	And as usual, we're in the middle of all of it.
	It's always in my life, it's a shift show, Adam Schiff show, just to be clear to people.
	And and you know, this interview that I had with Bob Costello was devastating to Alvin Bragg's case.
	This letter that we got a hold of, uh, and I believe we printed first.
	Uh maybe others did, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we did.
	And that's a letter to the FEC and a gentleman by the name of Jeff Jordan, and it was written by Stephen M. Ryan, counsel for Michael Cohn from February of twenty eighteen.
	It was devastating.
	It is exculpatory.
	So they don't know what to do.
	All the reports of chaos within the Manhattan DA's office, I guarantee are a hundred percent accurate.
	Sean, this also could be calculated on a Democrat side because of the whole Adam Schiff show of what's going on to this country.
	This is more stuff on their end to defer of what's going on in this country this country.
	I'm going to put a lint on it.
	To close, Sean, on your t on the on your television side, it's not football season, but you still throw it pretty nice spiral to your audience.
	I do.
	I throw out a whole box of footballs every night.
	Okay.
	If this can happen, it will make my day.
	So the greatest of all time, the Tom Brady has got a little bit more time on his hands.
	Could you imagine if Sean Hannity, Sean Hannity is the Rush Limbaugh with the late Rush Limbaugh would say, if you could get Tom Brady, Sean Hannity, he dropped the golden E IB microphone.
	I'm by the way, I miss him so much.
	I really do.
	I loved him.
	He was so great for the country.
	But anyway, go ahead.
	What have you, before he got sick with cancer was him for three hours.
	Not every day, but most days.
	Hamper three, you for three, and Mark Levan.
	Get off the phone, you big dope.
	Get off my phone, you creep.
	Can you imagine if you got Tom Brady to come on your show to do sports and culture, which you do, and maybe get a little bit out.
	What are you looking for?
	You know, he's got the Fox positioning.
	I'd love to put Tom Brady on.
	I'm a fan of Tom Brady's.
	You know, I don't like the fact I I saw the interview with Giselle, his uh wife.
	Uh I guess it's in Vanity Fair.
	I have no interest in people's personal lives.
	You know what I I wish for both of them happiness.
	I hope their kids are okay with all this.
	It's it's always tough on kids when there's a divorce.
	And I I uh it's bad karma to wish bad things on people.
	I really you know, my the Christian part of me says, you know what, you don't know what goes on behind the scenes, period.
	Sean, I talked about this last fall on my own little platform.
	I digress on that.
	But can you imagine they're going through a divorce?
	But then again, that the whole bleeping world knows you're going through a divorce.
	Oh, it sucks.
	It sucks.
	The shoes that he was filling in.
	All right, you have give you have taken a ton of time.
	I can tell you or will never stop talking, but we loved that you called in.
	You're a great caller, uh, and we really appreciate it.
	What did you want to ask for?
	You were gonna ask me something.
	If you can't get Tom Brady on, yeah.
	My number one of all time is Troy Aikman.
	All right, I'm gonna try for Tom Brady.
	I'll call my buddy Jim Gray.
	Jim Gray's uh does a podcast with Tom Brady every week, and and it would be a very friendly interview because I'm I'm a fan.
	I am uh I like Tom a lot.
	He's definitely a GOAT, and uh I think it's sad for Tampa that he's not playing this year.
	Chad got a run, man.
	Appreciate it.
	Michael is in the free state of Florida.
	What's going on, Michael?
	How are you?
	Glad you checked in.
	Hey, thanks for taking my call.
	So my question to you is about this peace treaty deal that China brokered between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
	So what do you what's your take on that?
	What central What I don't like that is unfolding, and it's all due to Joe Biden being so compromised and weak.
	That's what there's a reason I keep saying, I want to know how much money Joe Biden did with the communist Chinese, him and his family in business.
	How much money did they make?
	I want to know how much money they did in business in Russia, and how much did they make?
	I want to know the same about Ukraine and every other country they did business with.
	But you have two uh our two biggest geopolitical foes, China uh and Russia.
	I'd say China by far number one, uh, now aligning with Iran, and the Saudis, you know, under Donald Trump, he put together a coalition of the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, and the Emirates, and now the Saudis feel that their very existence is in jeopardy, and because they don't they they view America as as rudderless and without leadership, and they're not wrong.
	Uh so they decided to go along with this deal because the only reason all those countries under Trump were aligned together was to stand against Iranian hegemony in the region.
	And they didn't want a nuclear armed Iran.
	Now Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons.
	So I would describe this new alliance as new world order as a new axis of evil.
	And as my mother used to say, God bless her soul, you know, will rule the day that we allowed this to happen.
	Uh anyway, appreciate you being with us.
	Thanks for a good call.
	It's a tough question.
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