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All right, folks, hope you had a good, happy fourth of July. It's not like anything happened this weekend. As if a, you know, Musk may be starting a new party called the America Party, causing the stock Tesla on Monday, yesterday to drop nearly $80 billion of valuation just in a single day. And then at the same time, they. They dropped this one guy. This they say, they claim he's a bad guy. Now, he's not a bad guy. He's an okay guy. People are trying to figure this guy out. His name is Jeffrey. His last name, I think, is called Epstein. And they show a cell that he was in that everything's okay, nothing happened to him. Then there's a minute break. Then it doesn't match the CBS one that they show where the cell was. The windows are cut in different ways. So how quickly were they able to cut the windows? There's videos. You know, he's not guilty of doing anything. No blackmail, nothing like that. Market reacted. People are sitting there saying, what the hell is this all about? Possibly the biggest fumble they've had of the administration so far because there's been so many contradictions. And what's so funny is this is happening at a time where they're having so many other victories. Vinnie's good friend Bibi was in town and had a meeting with the president. And at the meeting, they explained the fact that, you know, he believes the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Peace Prize. And, you know, that conversation took place and there's A bunch of other stories that we're gonna get into. So let me read off some of these stories for you guys here. Spike in Trump ugs fleeing America, but they'll quickly regret it. Scott Besson says Dems who oppose Medicaid work requirements believe poor people are stupid is what he said. Besson teases new Aug. 1 deadline for tariffs as Fed chair can't cut rates for Trump like Trump wants. Trump says us to start notifying trade partners of tariffs as high as ready 70%. Trump starting to notice how much money we're making off of terrorists. Like, listen, let's raise it on everybody. Not necessarily everybody, but he realizes the income. Trump says tariff letters to 12 countries signed going out by Monday. Some people saying that Scott Besson may be replacing Jerome Powell here soon. I think he was even asked about it. Tom will give you some insight on that. Musk's America party could split Republicans. Trump allies fear Elon Musk launches America. We got a lot of talk about that. Besson even reacts and says something that was very interesting. Mark Cuban may want to team up with Elon Musk. Think about that one. Anthony Scaramucci may want to team up with Elon Musk. Pretty much anybody who hates Trump and is angry with Trump may want to team up with Elon Musk. There's a lot of talk there. Doj, I told you about Jeffrey Epstein. They found no Jeffrey Epstein client list and confirms it was suicide. Nothing. You know, it's like all these people that think some happen. Nothing really happened there. Russia's minister dies by suicide hours after getting fired by Putin. Can you imagine that? You lose your job, you're like, shit. I mean, they're going to kill me. Let me just kill myself first. Right? And he got military experts weigh in on China's new mosquito, like spy drones. I don't know if you saw this one or not. It's point six millimeters, by the way. Point six millimeters. Iran's supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance since Iran, Israel war started and doesn't at all say, you know, death upon America. It's a lot of loving chants, you know, freedom to America, love towards our friends, Israel, very friendly. And then Tucker does an interview. Glass top, maybe Tucker does an interview. Tucker does an interview with the existing president of Iran. And, you know, Tucker asked him a question about what does death upon America mean? You have to watch it. It's actually comical for somebody who lived in Iran. You have to hear what he has to say. So NETanyahu heads to D.C. for the deal of the century. And then Ackman backs Adams to stop socialist. Mamdani calls on Cuomo to drop out. This Mamdani. A lot of interesting things coming up with Hamdani Parliament. Mamdani went to Colombia. He was black, according to his application. Some. Some stuff is really coming out here with him. New York, ready for this one, folks? Check this out. Imagine if you are a cop in a city and you find out this guy named Mamdani is about to become the mayor of that city. And you hear retirements, N.Y.P.D. retirements reportedly hit historic highs. Cops are saying, I'm out. I don't want to be a cop for you. Definitely not when you're the mayor. And union says Zoharon Mamdani could make it even worse. Former AOC backer has a stark warning for young Mamdani fans. They're selling a fantasy that doesn't work. Weather agency under fire after failing to warn of Texas flood. And you should see this one tweet. This lady said, you know, she worked as pediatrician at this one hospital. Where did she work at? Was she a teacher?
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Patrick Bet-David
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Vinnie Fisher
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Patrick Bet-David
I know you want me to go into Bloomberg Economy, all that other stuff. I've chosen to go into the Jeffrey Epstein story first with, you know, just, I know you don't want us to go this direction, but we'll do it. So here we go. Story comes out. ABC News DOJ FBI review finds no Jeffrey Epstein client list confirms suicide. That's the memo that comes out. And Rob, I think you may have a video on this one. Not just one. You got a lot of videos that we're going to be going through, folks, on this one here. So to remind folks, as we're going through this, Justice Department and FBI review ordered by President Trump appointed leadership found no evidence that notorious deceased financier Epstein kept a client list of associates whom he blackmailed or conspired with to victimize dozens of women. Stating that investigators did not cover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. The review revealed released hours of reported footage perpetrated footage confirming Epstein died by suicide in Manhattan jail in 2019. The DOJ memo states, Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends now. Attorney General Penn Bondi faced criticism from Trump supporters for delays in releasing Epstein's case files, which she attributed to tens of thousands of hours. This is one of the videos, Rob. Is this one the original videos when she talked about it?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. So I have February, March and April of this year, three different instances where Pam Bondi talks about the Jeffrey Epstein client list. This is from February.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it. So this is the first one, maybe.
Adam Sosnick
Releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the President from all of these.
Patrick Bet-David
So that's the first.
Adam Sosnick
So have you seen anything?
Patrick Bet-David
That's the first one. Then it goes to the next one. Go for it. Ramp.
Adam Sosnick
And the FBI handed over a couple hundred pages of documents. But you know, Sean, I gave them a deadline of Friday at 8am to get us everything. And a source had told me where the documents were being kept. Southern District of New York Shock. So we got them all by hopefully all of them. Friday at 8am, thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them. And cash is also, now that we have cash here, it's a game changer, of course. And cash is going to Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why.
Patrick Bet-David
So far we know. Now go to the next one, Rob. And this is after o' Keefe Media Group found video.
Adam Sosnick
The restaurant.
Patrick Bet-David
Right, the restaurant. So after o' Keefe Media Group found the video and Pam Bondi, this is what she had to say. Go for it.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. The FBI, they're reviewing. There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims and no one victim will ever get released. It's just the volume. And that's what they're going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that. I haven't seen that statement, but I'll call.
Patrick Bet-David
You can pause that here. And then this is. This is what, Rob, this is.
Adam Sosnick
This is Alina Haba. This is her with Piers Morgan back in February where she talks about the Jeffrey Epstein client list and the names being revealed.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it.
Adam Sosnick
But in this case, in Epstein's case, it is incredibly disturbing. We have flight logs, we have information, names that will come out. Is it going to be shocking? I don't see how it's not shocking that there were so many individuals that were hidden and kept secret and not been held accountable. Let's talk about the reverse. I believe in accountability. So you have to now go through your process. Now, I won't say they're guilty until.
Patrick Bet-David
They go through their time in court.
Adam Sosnick
But again, now it's time for accountability. We have seen for so many years, Pierce, in this country, many investigations, subpoenas, testimonies in Congress, et cetera, et cetera. But there's a general frustration with accountability. We take it halfway, we don't take it home. And I really believe that now with Cash and Pam, there will be accountability.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, so you can posit that. Now we got a lot of other clips. Okay, Rob, if you can go to the one clip about the video released of the cell. Okay, so they dropped the video footage of the cell. Okay. Assuming this is the cell, but it doesn't match the one from cbs. So what's the key factor here, Rob? Because this is. It skips a minute, right? Isn't there a clip where it skips a minute? And we don't see a minute of. Okay, so this is the one that. Tell us, Rob. This is one from CBS.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. So 60 Minutes did an in depth expose into Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide. This was from the footage that filmed at the. The prison that Jeffrey Epstein was being held at. They claim CBS 60 Minutes claims this is the cell that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in. But if you take a look at the CCTV footage that was released yesterday, you can tell the doors are different.
Patrick Bet-David
No, this is not even the same. Doors are different. The glass is different. The color is different. The. The wall is not flat. The other one is flat. Press play on this one, right?
Adam Sosnick
And then you'll see right down here, Pat, where the timing is. 1158, it counts all the way up to 1159 and skips 1159 to keep a look at the left corner right there.
Patrick Bet-David
So. So minutes. So let's assume it was it. It skips a minute, doesn't match the one from cbs. There's just so many contradiction. Maybe the biggest fumble. It's not. Maybe it is the biggest fumble of the administration's, one of the items that they were trying to attack and address so far in the first, you know, six months of being in office. Five and a half months of being in office. Vinny, your thoughts on this entire matter here.
Vinnie Fisher
There is a guy, pretty short time, you guys are going to know. George Orwell. Was that his name? Yes, George Orwell. Who said the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Which basically means when the totalitarian regime wants full control, it doesn't just lie. It forces you to deny what you see and hear with your own sentence. Okay, this is one of the biggest, not only slaps in the face. I mean, I knew we were never gonna see anything like the guy suicide himself in jail. We were promised all this stuff. Everybody's lying. Okay, Cash Patel. And we talked about this earlier, Pat. I want to know, when they came in with all these promises, who is the main guy? Who is the top person? It's not Trump. I hate when people are like, trump was with girls. I don't want to hear none of that shit. Trump was never with little kids. The left would have jumped on his ass earlier. Who is the main blackmailed person that's holding this from coming out? Who is the top. Who's the main person? Okay, because we all know you saw it from Elena Haba. You saw him from Pambandi. He had cameras and they had terabytes. Terabytes of information. That's a billion, billions of dollars of evidence on all these people, Pat. And Alex Acosta, do you remember this guy, Robbie? He was a DOJ official. He gave Jeffrey Epstein the sweetheart deal in 2008. He was quoted by saying he was told to, and I quote, to back off of Epstein because He belonged to Intelligence, and then mysteriously, he had 11 months of DOJ emails to him in that time period that mysteriously disappeared. Then you have Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, who confirmed every pinhole, every. Every area in there was recorded and they know it. So somebody has that. And here's my thing, Pat, Stop gaslighting us. Stop bullshitting. Because we all know what the deal is, okay? We all know. And apparently, if you're a pedophile, your job should be to get as powerful and as rich and get into politics. Because rich pedophiles, you walk away and you dodge the raindrops, nothing happens to you. You're untouchable. If you're poor, guess what? If you're a poor pedophile and you're broke, you wind up in a freaking kitchen with Chris Hansen and they go, oh, sit down. And then they show you your text. It's disgusting. I think Pam Bondi and all these people, they have lied to us. She should actually resign, Pat, if that. At that level, if you're bullshitting us and you're lying like that, resign. Dan Bongino people are like, well, what do you want them to do? Is the whole system gonna come down? Dan Bongino and all these people? If you're a real Christian, if you're a real person like that, Pat, I would come out and say the freaking truth and resign and leave and just tell the truth. The truth has to come out. And then notice how random it is. All this stuff's coming out. And then Virginia, goofy, what, two months ago, she gets hit by a car. No police report, no nothing. And then she even says she's like, I'm going to die in the next couple days. And then she dies. And it's always this suicide stuff. It's just. I'm fed up with the bs. We all know. We all know what is going on, but we can't prove it. And now what's going to happen? The American people, in a week, we're going to forget about this. In one week, you're going to forget about them lying their asses off to us. And it's ridiculous. It pisses me off.
Patrick Bet-David
Adam, thoughts?
Tom Zawacki
I knew Vinnie was going to be fired up about this. So Jeffrey Epstein, at this point, I'm not even sure what's real and what's a rumor at this point. You know, people like Vinnie, and I mean this sincerely, wake up every day and they're like, where's the Epstein files? Where we at? That's not me.
Adam Sosnick
I.
Tom Zawacki
This is into my top Three things. But at this point, with Epstein, we are not even sure what's. What's real, what's rumor, what's myth, what's mystery. He's part monster. He's part complete. Miss. We don't. We're not even sure what's happening.
Patrick Bet-David
What do you think? So what do you think he is?
Tom Zawacki
Here's what I think. So let me, let me, let me. Let me just go down some facts here. So we arrested the guy that had the ownership of the island, the sex island. We arrested the lady that was allegedly bringing women to the island, to the sex island. But we haven't arrested or hold, held anybody accountable for who was on the island. So there's a missing ingredient here. So what's the missing ingredient? It's, as I always say, follow the money. Who are these people, I would suspect are the richest, most powerful people in the world? So here it is. Who do you want to please? Who do you want to upset? You have the elites, and then you have what I would call the angry mob. The elites are whispering, yo, bro, if you're talking to this, I'm telling you right now, there's a bit. The mob are yelling, bro, I want to see the. You're going to upset somebody. So in my estimation, whether it's Pam Bondi, whether it's Trump himself, whether it's Bongino, whether it's cash, they're saying the following. We're gonna upset somebody here if this thing comes out. We're gonna have the richest, most powerful people in the world who we need, whether it's Bill Gates, whether it's Leon Black, whoever it is, we need them on our team because they know all the dirty secrets out there. We can't upset these guys. At the same time, we're gonna upset some angry, loud mob type voices who are not going to let this go. So there's these two competing voices. Who do you want upset? Who do you want to please? Do you want to please the elites or do you want to please the mob? And at this point, they're just siding with the elites.
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Adam Sosnick
So I'm disappointed. I'm also disgusted. Do we know for sure if he was Mossad or MI6 or. As a truly an intelligence asset, we had a lot of people who seemed believable to say, look, this guy was intelligence. That's why I couldn't prosecute him way back when. And he got the little hand slap deal and it went away. And that's, to me, that's kind of disgusting. You know, I don't know for sure what happened. I don't know for sure where he is, but I know for sure one thing, you just put all of the facts as we see them. You know, just Pam Bondi says this in a restaurant, says this to a camera, now says this. Kash Patel says this. And Dan Bongino says this. Cash Patel and Dan Bongino do an interview and they look like this. I can see all those facts and go, you know, this is fishy. This is terrible. This is horrible. And I'm disgusted. And I'm really disgusted. History has allowed us to go back and look at the Warren Commission for what it was. The Warren Commission was a sham to produce a document about the Kennedy assassination. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren chaired it, invited Allen Dulles to it, who, who was tight with lbj. And now we know because certain documents have been leaked that the CIA was with Oswald, helped Oswald and Russia. And we now see a few of these things to the point that if you go to the National Historic Place at the sixth floor of the Book Depository in Dallas, you put on headphones and the US Government who runs the tour tells you you are about to hear multiple shooters and gunshots. So now that's. They're not even on one shooter. Oswald. History has taken it down. And then, you know, LBJ set up. It's just so funny. And then Allen Dulles, Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission and they produce a document with a magic bullet. And we look back now and we say that there's no way that happened. It was just a complete sham. And I feel like is history repeating itself with a. With say, okay, well, we've looked at everything and never mind what we said publicly, never mind what you saw people do, never mind statements that have actually been made. You know what? There was nothing there. Nobody was intimidated. And there was no client list. Are you kidding me? We got flight logs. And now you're looking America in the face and you're saying this?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. So judge, Judge o' Brien was on Alex Jones. Okay. And you know who Judge o' Brien is? We have him on the podcast right here.
Adam Sosnick
He signed here.
Tom Zawacki
He was incredible.
Patrick Bet-David
And he said, he said, rob, I know it's a three minute clip. Can you get to the point of when he actually, you find it? But here's what he says. He says the President is using all the information he has to hold the establishment accountable. And, you know, what's the word? Not held hostage. What's the word?
Adam Sosnick
Leverage them the other way.
Patrick Bet-David
Leverage them the other way. This is his way of arresting and holding the establishment accountable. Now, to people who are in that game, there's a clip that Tate posted yesterday where he says, this is above your pay grade. You're not somebody that's gonna know what's going on. I don't know when he gets into it, when he talks about what's going on here. If you don't know about it, you don't know about it. These are deals that are being done at the higher level. And he said this on the podcast when he was here with us. Rob, is this it?
Adam Sosnick
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it.
Adam Sosnick
You talk about the Epstein list. I would argue it's a very similar scenario. It's all about money. It's all about who has the money and controlling the money. Is America as a country prepared to upset all of its richest people? I don't know.
Vinnie Fisher
Is it.
Adam Sosnick
Is it prepared to upset all of its richest people to appease bloodthirsty brokies who don't even care about justice? They just want the drama. Yep. Another question. Because I would argue that the murders that happen every day on the street are very interesting, but no one cares about that. Ms. 13. And all this, no one's really cares about that. But this Epstein list, they really care about. They want justice, sure. But it's a drama. It's interesting. They want to find out. They're curious. And I'm asking you as a professional. You're in charge of a country. Your primary objective is to keep your oligarchy happy, to keep the wealth inside of your nation and to make them obey you when it comes to sanctions and such other things, and to ensure that the US dollar becomes and stays the predominant Currency globally. There's a bunch of bloodthirsty brokies on the Internet who barely pay taxes, who want to go through a list. Who are you going to prioritize?
Tom Zawacki
Who do you care about?
Adam Sosnick
I'm not saying it's fair.
Patrick Bet-David
I got a question.
Adam Sosnick
Anyone who believes.
Patrick Bet-David
Pause. I got a question for you. As you're going through this. I wrote out a tweet. Rob, if you can go to my. Do you have the clip on what he says? Is that the main part or.
Adam Sosnick
No, I'm still looking for it. But I can get to your.
Patrick Bet-David
Go to the tweet if you could. So I wrote out a tweet. I'm not going to go through the whole thing because it's long, but I shortened it for you when they announced what they announced, right? This is a terrible look for the FBI and the DOJ no one believes in. Not as haters, not as supporters, not including Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't believe it. So now I said, okay, I have a ton of questions, but let's start with a few possibilities. Maybe they're right. Maybe nothing happened. Okay? I don't believe it. Number two, maybe they know something the rest of us don't know. It's above our pay grade. Maybe. Maybe there's a ton of evidence of people being held hostage through blackmail. That helps keep the whole thing together, right? Mossad, CIA, working collectively, together, blackmail, accountable hostage, whatever you want to call it. Fourth one. Maybe he was actively working with Mossad, sending intel to them to empower Israel. Maybe that's what it is. He has a few other questions to continue. If there was nothing the recording found on Epstein yet, the FBI or DOJ want to gain trust from the people, arrange a Julian Maxwell interview with somebody and put a lie. Detective Death Star. Use Megyn Kelly if you really want the American people to believe do that. Why did Pam Bondi act disturbed of what she claimed was found in those videos? Why did Cash and Dan Bongino, two men who were convinced of what really happened, changed three hours we spent with Mark Epstein. And when I'm talking to Mark Epstein, I asked him about a guy named Leon Black. 150. Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, was at our cigar lounge just a few months ago. We did a two hour interview with the guy. Okay? No camera on him. Rob, I think you were in the room when that interview took place.
Tom Zawacki
You didn't show his face whatsoever.
Patrick Bet-David
Never showed his face. We saw his face, but he never showed his face. I asked him about why would Leon Black, pay your brother $158 million. And then if you remember, Rob Mark Epstein brought up a name that we didn't even have any plans of asking about, talking about the fact that that guy may have taught him how to blackmail. Do you remember that name that was accidentally dropped? Do you remember the name or no, I don't.
Adam Sosnick
I can go back and find it.
Patrick Bet-David
You'll find it. And then if you go a little bit lower. If Musk is this confident about starting his own political party, did he get deep enough in the government the first hundred days to find out for himself what happened with Epstein? Imagine if Musk got the intel. I just want to make that very clear. What if he has individuals in the inside of the FBI who saw everything and chose to resign to become a whistleblower to show what's in there? If there's an enemy of the administration today that's capable of that, it's Musk. It's not like FBI agents make a lot. They make 80 to 150 a year. I have a feeling Musk would find a way to offer financial protection if things got nasty. My concern is things could get very ugly in ways that I don't want to type it out. So here's the thing. Which one of the guys the cash is? The Pams, the Bonginos, the Habas? Put all these names. Which one of them, Vinnie, do you think right now that knows all the dirt, but it's playing ball because they know who they're holding hostage, who they got a briefing of the real powerful people to say, here's why we're all going to take this position. Which one of those characters that is on the administration is conflicted the most right now? Let me ask the question one more time, Tom. Adam, who knows that? They know what happened? Whose names are on that list? Okay. Who is certain what they did to kids? Who is certain the videos and all that stuff that's out there. Who is conflicted the most and is having a hard time keeping their mouth shut right now, deep down inside when they go to sleep?
Vinnie Fisher
Okay, great question, by the way. I think the most conflicted is gonna be Dan Bongino. I don't think he knows everything. You know, who knows everything?
Patrick Bet-David
Who?
Vinnie Fisher
Pam Bondi. She is the number one law enforcement officer. She was in Florida, Pat, on the cleanup of this whole Epstein thing. She knows where the bodies are buried, so to speak. But I don't think she's conflicted because she's been involved the whole time. I think Dan Bongino you know what I mean? They asked him, you know, I don't know who offered him the job and came in. He's seen enough, Pat, where he's like, holy shit. He's a Secret Service agent. He loves America. He's a Christian. I think he is having the most.
Patrick Bet-David
The.
Vinnie Fisher
I. I could see it in his face. When you see Dan Bongino in the interviews now, he looks as if somebody has taken something from him. Like a part of his soul is gone. Like, I think he. They pulled open the current and saw it, and they said, shh, you can't say anything. I think it's him. The most conflicted. I don't think it's cash. I don't think it's cash. I think cash is good in front of the camera, likes to talk a big game. I think Pam knows everything. I think Dan Bongino has seen enough to make him go, holy shit. But he's gotten the kibosh. And that's where it conflicts with me, Pat, because my thing, and you know me as a Christian, I'm sorry, I will go down with the. Put me in jail, kill me, I don't care. You have to say the truth. The truth has to come out. It has to. It has to. And I'll let them answer, because I want to ask you a question after, too.
Adam Sosnick
So I'm. I see it differently in terms of person. Everything else that you said, I agree. And I think when you bring up faith, I have faith in one thing. I have faith in the Lord God Almighty, and he's going to adjudge the people. And if Epstein was dirty, as the Lord said, if you cause one of these little ones to sin, it'd be better that you're bottom of the sea with a millstone around your neck. And no one understands that verse. They think, oh, it's better you die that way. No, no, you drown in the first 12ft.
Vinnie Fisher
Yes.
Adam Sosnick
What he's saying is, it would be better that you're at the bottom of the sea, he hidden where I cannot find you, where that the Creator of all doesn't find you now. So I agree with you on the face side. When I look at the human side here, I see dramatic. We've spent time with Dan, we've spent time at ufc. He's been here, we've looked at him, and I'll tell you, I see a guy whose countenance has really changed, and so I think there's something there. But I also saw the interview with Cash on the Kennedy stuff. And he sat back on that couch and he looked around and he said, you're asking about a who. Remember this quote? It's not really a who, it's a what. And then we had those other documents that came out that implicated the CIA. And so he said, then there's more in there that is coming. And you could see like he wanted to say something in that. And I think that he's. But remember where he came from. The reason he was nominated is because he was already knee deep in some of it. Now he's neck deep in it and sees it. I think Cash is one there that has wanted to say some things. And I also think, you know, our friend, you know, a noble servant in the Secret Service. I think what's going on there at Dan Bongino is a tremendous difference in his countenance. But I also think that Andrew Tate makes an interesting point. You know, who are they protecting and what's being protected? You know, do we want the bloodlust of knowing everything out there, or is there something bigger at play? Obviously, there's something bigger at play. But to your question, those are the people that I think are conflicted.
Patrick Bet-David
Rob, did you find a clip of what he says?
Tom Zawacki
I do.
Adam Sosnick
I have it right here.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it. Here's JoJo Brown deal of what happened.
Adam Sosnick
With Smith and Milagro when the FBI raided it some years ago.
Patrick Bet-David
And this thing that clearly they had no standing to go against about him supposedly having classified confidential documents, when, as we have discussed, the President of the.
Adam Sosnick
United States, under the Constitution, as chief diplomat and Commander in chief, has been.
Patrick Bet-David
Held to have absolutely unquestionable authority as.
Adam Sosnick
To what he declares either confidential and.
Patrick Bet-David
Secret or decides to declare is not such.
Adam Sosnick
So my sneaking suspicion is that a lot of what he refused to turn over to the archivist, which was unconstant.
Patrick Bet-David
In terms of what it was trying to put in place through statutory override.
Adam Sosnick
Of constitutional authority, which is wrong, is.
Patrick Bet-David
That there was wrongdoing, that if he turned it over to the archivist, was.
Adam Sosnick
Going to be turned over to the.
Patrick Bet-David
People who were recorded.
Adam Sosnick
Doing wrong, and they would destroy it.
Patrick Bet-David
So we had an obligation to the.
Vinnie Fisher
Basically saying that when Trump took those documents and all that stuff out, you know, and kept them in Mar? A Lago or wherever, that a lot of that stuff had this type of stuff. The Epstein stuff. The Epstein information. And. Yeah. And Pat, just really fast, and we kind of. We didn't gloss over it, but that one minute, Pat, that one minute that they showed us this video that they've been promising us. Where is that minute? Why is it like, I mean, what else could we do? Why can't we say, okay, timeout. Where is that one minute that you guys are trying to bullshit us? And hi, it's in plain sight. So you want to show this to us? Like, we're gonna go, oh, whoops, there's the minute. Let's talk.
Patrick Bet-David
But the part of it, Vinny, that's so weird to me is it's so sloppy.
Vinnie Fisher
It is.
Patrick Bet-David
It's so sloppy. Like, you almost want people to stay skeptical. Like, by the way, this is the guy that when I was talking to Jeffrey Epstein's brother, he talked about a guy that played a role of a mentor. I never brought up this name. He brought up this name. Steve Hoffenberger. American businessman and a fraudster. He was the founder, CEO, president of chairman of Tower Financial Corporations, a debt collection agency which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. In 93, he's a rescue New York Post from bankruptcy and briefly on the paper, Tower's financial collapse in 93. 95, please. Pleaded guilty to what does it say? Pilking investors out of $475 million. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison plus a $1 million fine restitution. But if you go a little bit lower to what things he had problem. There it is. In 87, he met Jeffrey Epstein, a British defense contractor. Douglas Lessee, who Hoffenberg claimed was an arms dealer. Lessee was Saudi Adnan's Khashoggi and Prince Bandir Bin Sultan Al Saud, architect in the billion dollar Al Yamar arms deal, Britain's biggest arms deal concluded. Hoffenberg set up Epstein up in offices in Villard's house. They unsuccessfully tried to take over Pan Am in a corporate raid with Tower Financial and raiding vessels. Their bit failed in part of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. When you see the link between. During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet. He began using the Towers financial funds to pay earlier investors. And then in the court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the Ponzi scheme. Epstein left Tower's financial collapse and then Hoffenberg and some of his victims sued Epstein seeking restitution. And in July 2019, following Epstein's arrest on the charge of sex trafficking, Minors and conspiracy commit sex trafficking. Huffenberg claimed that Epstein was his uncharged co conspirator in the Ponzi scheme. So they're saying maybe he taught him some of these things. And this is coming from a brother, when this name came up, that out of nowhere, I don't know what's going on here. I think it's the most sloppiest launch of a news that a big percentage of MAGA voters, Trump voters, wanted to find out. These are people that are Christians. These are people that are family people. These are people that probably have kids, nephews, nieces, who wanted to know what the hell happened here. This is by far the biggest fumble of this administration thus far. Adam.
Tom Zawacki
Well, you asked the original question, like, who should be. How did you phrase it? Who should be most worried, who the most conflicted. So you have Pam Bondi, you have Dan Bongino that you mentioned. You have Cash Patel. I think it's Cash, because I never even heard of Cash Patel until I heard him basically say, when I get in there, day one, FBI, I'm coming in, I'm cleaning house. Everybody was going to know what's going down. And just add the Epstein to all the laundry list of conspiracies that we still don't know about. RFK, MLK, JFK, Roswell, Aliens, 9, 11, I don't know. Epstein's just now. Another thing on that list, in my opinion. Here's what happens. You show up, you get to the government, you say, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. And they wizard of Oz your ass. And they go, yeah, tough guy. Yeah, you're real tough. How about this? Take a look at this. Is this what you want to expose? You want to bring down America? You want to bring down all these people? You want everyone to see what's going on with wizard of Oz? Shut your stupid mouth. And the guy goes, oh, damn. Oh, damn. And at some point, you're gonna have to make the decision whether you want to do what Andrew Tate said we're talking about. Do you want to appease the elites and the people that are really actually running the country, or appease the angry mob? And the angry mom has a point, and so do the elites. And it's clear at this point who they're appeasing. Who is it they're appeasing?
Vinnie Fisher
The elites. Yeah, because they know that the mob, us, we can't do anything. But, Adam, I'm telling you, as a Christian, how do you think God feels about this situation? How do you think God feels where people are like, well, we don't want to piss off the rich pedophiles, so Guess what? The average American, the average person can't find out. And I have a question. You know the old saying, Adam, I said it before. Let justice be be done though the heavens fall. No matter what. No matter what. Justice has to be held up, no matter the consequences, number one. Number two, here's my question, Pat. I want to ask you guys, what would. What's worse? That allegedly Mossad used Epstein to run a blackmail ring with underage girls? Number one. Or that the world's most powerful men eagerly joined while now the DOJ lies through its teeth and buries the evidence? Which one's worse? What is worse? The actual Mossad secret Israeli intelligence setting them up to do it or the guys doing it? The actual pedophiles? And now that the DOJ helps them cover it up, what do you think is worse? And Umberto asked Chad gbt. It was so random. I asked him yesterday. You know what, Chad GB I'm sorry, what Grock said about this question. Both elements are profoundly immoral. But the eager participation of powerful men and the DOJ's cover up is worse. It betrays public trust, enables systemic abuse, and perpetuates injustice. Allegations of intelligence involvement remain unproven per FBI findings. But I beg to differ.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, I mean, look, I understand the point and I understand what he's saying. My question is, once a person gets in, in a job like this, if you have people that are conflicted, they're going to have a hard time. Are they going to come out and release and even go a step further? Let's go to the next step here. Okay. Who was the most powerful person in Trump's administration? Who was the last one, the first one? This.
Vinnie Fisher
This one.
Patrick Bet-David
Who. Who helped the most with this election?
Vinnie Fisher
Eli?
Patrick Bet-David
Are they on good terms?
Tom Zawacki
No, I would.
Patrick Bet-David
Was he happy with the, you know, big, beautiful bill?
Vinnie Fisher
Absolutely.
Patrick Bet-David
No. Trump says it's because the. The ev stuff isn't in it. And Musk says it has nothing to do with that. It's purely about spending money. And so Musk tweets out about Epstein. Okay. And he says, well, here's something for you. The fact that Trump's on the Epstein list. Okay, so now, Rob, go to that one, what he just posted yesterday. What's the time? Oh, look, it's. No one has been arrested o clock again.
Vinnie Fisher
It's kind of funny.
Patrick Bet-David
The Jeffrey Epstein pedophile arrest counter. Okay. Zero. Who is he calling out? Trump. Is he going to keep pressing on this? Yes. Who are the people that he's going to gain? Is he Going to gain highly influential people or is he going to gain the mob by playing to this? The mob?
Tom Zawacki
The mob.
Patrick Bet-David
He's not winning the influential people. He's going to win the mob. The mob is going to be running towards him.
Tom Zawacki
And not the mob like the Sam and the bull mob.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm talking. No, I'm talking about angry people.
Tom Zawacki
Angry, broke, he says.
Patrick Bet-David
So now watch this here. So disclose. This is when the USDJO found nothing. They put the whole letters and I look at Musk on the bottom. So then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for? Stuff like this doesn't improve faith in the government. I agree. It's one of the first thing I thought about. Why is Maxwell in prison for 20 years, by the way? She's in prison for. For what? And I know it's for.
Tom Zawacki
Can we find out what she's actually.
Patrick Bet-David
She's got five different. She's got five different counts on why she's in prison for. Yeah, you can type it in.
Adam Sosnick
Trafficking, conspiracy, trafficking.
Patrick Bet-David
But. But I'm. Who did she traffic? Yeah, okay. She's in prison right now for five different things. Let's wait for this. Rob, since Adam is asking. Sex trafficking of minor, transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sex. Three counts of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Related felonies. 20 or $750,000. Fine. Okay, so how much does this help Musk's desire to want to start a third party?
Vinnie Fisher
Big time.
Patrick Bet-David
So you just pissed him off with the bbb? If no promises were made, fine. Trump comes out and tweets out the following about Musk. Cuz Musk ran two polls. One poll he ran about needing a third party. Rob, I don't know if you have the first poll he says independence. Not this one. Rob, there was another one. He runs the first poll about a third party. 80.4% people vote that they want a third party. Okay, that's for the 80% of Americans. That's funny. He says about the 80% of Americans and exactly 80.4% of Americans voted. That's it right there. Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? Exactly. 80% of people voted and said yes. Okay, so then he puts the other poll. Independence Day is the perfect time to ask if you want independence from the two party system, should we create America party? Yes, 65.4%. Then he comes out and says to do this. He comments on the bottom. One way to execute on this is to be laser focused to just two to three Senate seats and eight to 10 House districts. Given the razor thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people. Trump responds in his own truth social of what to say about this and his response to Musk is it's very long. And Musk responds to this as well. He said, I'm saddened to watch Musk go completely off the rails, essentially become the train wreck over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a third party. Despite the fact that there's never been, never succeeded in the United States. The system seems not designed for them. The one thing third parties are good for is the creation of complete and total disruption and chaos. And we have enough of that with our radical left Democrats who have lost their confidence in their minds. Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth running machine that just passed the biggest bill of its kind in the history of our country. It is a great bill, but unfortunately for Elon eliminates ridiculous EV mandate which would have forced everyone to buy an electric car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning. People are now allowed to buy whatever they want, gasoline powered hybrids or new technologies. No more EV mandate. I've campaigned on this for two years and quite honest even Elon gave me his total and unquestioned endorsement. I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV mandate. It was in every speech I made and in every conversation I had. He said he has no problem with it and I was very surprised. Additionally, Elon asked one of his close friends to run d NASA. While I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he had been a blue blooded Democrat who had never contributed to a Republican party. Elon probably was also. I also thought it's inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon who was in the space business to run NASA when NASA is such a big part of Elon's corporate life. My number one change. Rob, I can't read. The bottom camera's hiding it. Number one charge. My number one charge. Can you read it? Is to protect the American public. I think that's what it says.
Tom Zawacki
Yep.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so that's what he puts. Elon responds back. I don't know if you guys saw Elon's response to that. He says, oh, you should see what he says. He says, no, no, not that one. It's true. Social. Never heard of it. No. He says, oh, okay, I'm good. You Feel like that, though. Too long of a message. I'm glad you shared how you feel sarcastically towards him. All right, so now about third parties. What's funny is, do you know who's the last third party that was started that became a president? Do you know who's the last third party candidate that became president?
Adam Sosnick
No.
Patrick Bet-David
You ready? You were ready.
Tom Zawacki
Never happened.
Patrick Bet-David
1860, a new party was started, the Republican Party, and Lincoln became president.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, wow.
Patrick Bet-David
So the last third party that was started, that actually was succeeded is Lincoln, who became one of the best presidents of all time.
Adam Sosnick
Before that was like Democrats and Whigs, I think.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, yeah. So. So. So the question becomes, is this gonna create enough of a division to get some of the people from the MAGA side, Trump side, to want to run towards him and some people from the left who don't have a place right now to say, I'm gonna go join Musk. I mean, Mark Cuban comes out of nowhere and he says he'd be interested in the American party. Scaramucci comes out of nowhere saying, I would be interested in the third party. Andrew Yang came out. Mark Cuban says, I work with voter choice. This will help you get on ballots. This is their mission. So there's the people who cannot stand Trump now are coming towards Musk. Tom, your thoughts? Third party and the whole falling out of how Epstein was managed, do you think that's going to influence Musk to go even further with America Party?
Adam Sosnick
Well, Musk has a chip on his shoulder because there's two sides to Tesla. And I connected with a couple of people last night was talking about it, and they agreed with my take. My take is everybody's looking at the cars. It's not the cars. 60%. Six zero, ladies and gentlemen, of the high voltage chargers in America are owned and operated by Tesla under contracts with literally every other EV maker. So when you take away the EV mandate, you're not just, you know, causing issues with Tesla, the car company, you're causing issues with Vinnie Tesla, the gas station, the electric gas station. And so there's a lot of that in that. And he's real upset about it. And there was an altercation with Scott Besant. Something happened. You know, did Scott Besant get under his skin or get into his right eye? You know, I mean, or maybe a little of both. Or did somebody charge somebody else? I don't know. But clearly you have a very angry Elon. So now he's angry. Now, to answer your question directly, Pat, he realized how he could influence an election because he just did he went out there with his money and his support and everything that went with it. Was it good that RFK walked on stage in Phoenix? Yes, it was. Was that helpful? Yes, it was. Was RFK trying to pull himself off the ballots but the Democrats wouldn't let him remember? No, no, no. You gotta stay put. You gotta keep doing this. Yeah, there was that shenanigans going on. But Elon Musk learned through the election that he could influence it. And so now he's upset, he's pissed off for many reasons. His buddy, I think, is the reason Trump talked about that. I think his buddy not being on NASA really upset him and the EV mandate has upset him. So if you're Elon Musk, it doesn't have to be rational, Pat. Right. It's just. Wait a minute, did I help just you get guys get elected and now I know we talked about the EV mandate, but this really screws with Mitesla on both sides. The service station, the electric service station side and my cars. And now you won't even let me. I just helped you guys. I just helped you get a couple of guys home that Boeing couldn't. And so now you're not even going to help me maybe with one of my guys. Isn't this the way it works? The life insurance industry and all these different industries have their desires in Washington and they talked to their senators and said this could help, that could help. Now I talk to you and I don't get it. And now what's going on here? He's tapping into America's feelings about fairness and he's connecting with that. And, and he's got people that are coming up like Mark Cuban, who is a dissatisfied guy on more, far more left, but a dissatisfied guy. And so now we have this. It's not as simple. And I went back and looked at this. It's not as simple as what happened in Connecticut. In Connecticut, you know, they got upset. They got really upset with their senator and so they said we're gonna primary you. And they did. And what happened? Boom. They got their guy on the ballot and he was primaried out. And then what he did, I'll run as an independent. And the rest of Connecticut came back and said, well, now that we can all vote, not just the Democrats, we voted for a guy and suddenly we have an independent senator. So away we go. So you can see cases where it's happened. And he's right about one thing. Strategically, I think he needs more than that. I think you need four senators and about 10 seats. But he's not wrong in the point. We're only talking about the math here because I went back and looked at his math. But 4 in 10, with the current fractured Congress and Senate, you could control a hell of a lot. You could influence a hell of a lot, because you could be the deciding vote and said, nope, you got to go back. You know, pork. Remember what we found out was in the Inflation Reduction act money for Ukraine. How does that. Well, guess what? It's in every bill. So now these people in the America Party could go in and say, hey, I need this, and I need this. And now you've got our votes and you're over the top, but I need this.
Patrick Bet-David
There's. There's. There's one thing. So you got Andrew Yang that started a party, right, called the Forward Party. And this is the whole UBI thing, right? Universal Basic Income, when he had some momentum. But nothing's happened with the Forward Party. Nobody. Andrew Yang doesn't have the kind of weight that Musk has. The last, most closest thing that comparison you can make to starting a third party is Ross Perot. Ross Perot spent $63 million, $60 million in 1992 running for office to become president. And he got all the way up to 18.7 19% when he ran in 92. But he ran as an independent in 92. Then two years later, he starts a new political party called the Reform Party, and he spends 10 or 15 million dollars to start a Reform Party. And he runs again in 96. But in 96, with a new political party, Reform Party, he only gets 8.4%. Now, to compare Ross to Musk, Ross was worth $3 billion at the time. What's $3 billion, Tom? In 92 in today's money, 3 billion and 92 in today's money, say at the low end, 6 billion. At the high end, 20 billion. Is that fair to say?
Adam Sosnick
It's probably around 8. Let's do. We. Can we do the calculation?
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so let's just say, okay, 3 billion, 92 would be $6.7 million today. No problem. All right, so let's just say he's worth 7 billion. Musk today is worth what? What is Musk worth today?
Vinnie Fisher
600.
Patrick Bet-David
That's. No, he's. He's worth $300 billion, $400 billion. Some number like that. Remember, Tesla lost $80 billion of valuation yesterday. So what's his net worth today? Musk is going to be roughly $346 billion net worth. Okay, he lost $15 billion yesterday. Devastated financially. Right. Obviously he's not. He's got $350 billion. Okay, so he's got about 100 times more money than Ross Perot had. Now what did Ross Perot have that Elon doesn't have? What's the one thing Ross Perot had when he started a political party that Musk doesn't have? One thing. You know what it is? Ross Perot is an actual natural born citizen. Which means later on, the Reform Party. You know what happened? When's the last time you heard about the Reform Party? Nothing. Pat Buchanan. There was a fight. You know, I can't believe this. I can't believe that. And it completely disappeared. So say Moscow starts a political party, then he needs a face. The person to be the face to run, to become a president for him. He has to assume that person is going to listen to 100% of what Musk tells him to do. Who's going to be that person? Think about what I just said. Okay? He has to assume, Tom, that whoever he gets has to listen to 100% of what he says. Who's that going to be? Vivek? I don't think so. Vivek has got a strong personality. Is he gonna go after JD Vance? Cuz some say that's his candidate through Peter Thiel. Who's he gonna go get? So you go start a political party.
Vinnie Fisher
Who'S gonna be the main guy?
Patrick Bet-David
Who's gonna be your guy?
Vinnie Fisher
I don't think it's Vivek. I don't think he's strong enough.
Patrick Bet-David
Again, the challenge, no matter who it is, though, what bothers Elon is that you don't do. You have to do 100% of what Elon believes or else what's the point of him starting a political party?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, you're right.
Patrick Bet-David
Think about what I'm saying to you right now. Is he gonna be able to control 100% of any individual that runs? So here's what happens. They get into the office, what's the first thing people gonna say? Hey man, I just want to make sure you're not owned by Elon. Are you? Are you your own? Your own man? I'm my own man.
Vinnie Fisher
I've been saying this since such and such.
Patrick Bet-David
Really? So now what's Elon going to do? Attack him again?
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, exactly.
Patrick Bet-David
But doesn't matter. You can attack again. He's in. He doesn't have to listen to you anymore.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Do you do it? So. So then in his mind he's gonna be like, well, then Maybe I need to get into the blackmail business.
Vinnie Fisher
I was just gonna say that. Record him doing something.
Patrick Bet-David
Maybe I need to get into the blackmail business that I really can have 100% control of you.
Vinnie Fisher
There you go. That's how it works.
Patrick Bet-David
Do you understand what I'm saying? So eventually, you know, the only way you can get a candidate to do 100% of what you tell him to do is you gotta have some black Melania.
Vinnie Fisher
Damn right.
Patrick Bet-David
Because you're not born here. So how much money you think Elon would be willing to spend to change the laws for him to be able to run for office?
Vinnie Fisher
A billion dollars.
Patrick Bet-David
How much money do you think he would spend? Because that's the only thing that's in his way.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, I think it'd be a billion dollars.
Tom Zawacki
Hopefully the answer is zero, because if you're not born in America, I don't think you should be able to be president.
Patrick Bet-David
But.
Vinnie Fisher
No, but he's running a party.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm asking you, how much money do you think he would be willing to spend to pass a law where somebody like him can run? Because then, then, and only then would he be able to control exactly what policies would get passed if he was in. Well, what type of money if he.
Tom Zawacki
Had the ability to run for as president?
Patrick Bet-David
Yes.
Tom Zawacki
I think he would spend all his money.
Patrick Bet-David
I agree. Not all his money. I think he'd spend $50 billion. I think he'd spend $50 billion.
Vinnie Fisher
I thought you were talking about to put for another vote for himself.
Patrick Bet-David
No, remember him. For him to.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, that's 50 would be. Because I'm thinking about. He just lost 80. Just on a stock.
Tom Zawacki
Exactly. I think he owns, what, 15 of Tesla, whatever the number is.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
So the. The thing that I keep going back to is something that you basically told us at the beginning of the year, the concept of signal versus noise. So Kevin o' Leary actually just came out. It was a great story he told about Steve Jobs, but I guess he worked for Steve Jobs. And he talked about how Steve Jobs, who he called an asshole, by the way, had this unique ability to stay focused on the signal and tune out the noise. And he basically edifies Elon. He goes, elon Musk does it better than anybody. The way that he has the ability to just tune out all the noise and focus 100% on signal. So my counter argument to me with that is him forming this third party, this a new America party. Is this signal signal, or is this noise? To me, it's kind of a lot of noise. Because if you look at his. How much money did they lose in Tesla just now? $80 billion. All right, let's see how much they lose today. There's a lot of people who are part of his companies that are like, dude, enough.
Patrick Bet-David
Did you hear? What's this Boston stuff? Play what Scott Besson said. Watch.
Tom Zawacki
See if you have that.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, Scott Besson said they asked him about Musk starting a third political party. Watch what he said here.
Adam Sosnick
Let you know it's not a big secret that you had your differences with Elon Musk when he was working in the administration. He announced this weekend that he is starting a new political party. Does that worry the Trump administration?
Vinnie Fisher
Look, the principles of Doge were very popular.
Patrick Bet-David
I think if you looked at the.
Vinnie Fisher
Polling, Elon was not.
Adam Sosnick
So I believe that the boards of.
Vinnie Fisher
Directors at his various companies wanted him.
Patrick Bet-David
To come back and run those companies, which he is better at than anyone.
Adam Sosnick
So I imagine that those board of directors did not like this announcement yesterday and will be encouraging him to focus.
Vinnie Fisher
On his business activities, not his political activities.
Tom Zawacki
I.
Adam Sosnick
Think Scott Besson already knows the answer to that question.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, think about it.
Adam Sosnick
If you're Elon Musk, board members and everything and everything connected in the legislative world, to me, the compliance world, that is Wall street, you don't think Besson has heard whispers from some of the people that are on those boards?
Tom Zawacki
Of course, Tesla speak, especially the Tesla.
Adam Sosnick
Board and the compensation committee that said no Neuralink.
Tom Zawacki
Boring company. StarLink, Twitter, X Xai. All these companies need to be run. And now he's completely focusing on the noise that is this. This third party. But I guess it all depends on the objective. If you want to sort of just shape the narrative or shape policy, there's a possibility to do that with a third party, but your chances get lower and lower and lower the bigger you dream. So if you want to have seats in local or state Congress. All right, great, we can make that happen. If you want to even get on the stage the presidential debates. All right, Ross Perot did it. I don't know. But to win electoral votes, zero percent chance. Nobody's ever won an electoral vote since basically the Civil War to win the presidency, zero percent chance. So it seems like a pipe dream to me. But if you want to affect change locally. All right, let's see what happens.
Vinnie Fisher
Elon needs to read the book that one of my friends, you know him, Patrick, by David, wrote. It's called choose your enemies wisely. This is the worst enemy to pick is Donald Trump. This is the worst enemy to Pick the whole third. All this, all this nonsense. It's like, bro, you got allegedly got punched in the face by Scott Bessett. Just move on.
Tom Zawacki
Letting his son, he said it was his four year old son.
Vinnie Fisher
Well, listen, but here's the thing. The Trump is not the guy to go to war with in this arena. I'm sorry, Republicans, Ohlone as, then the maga. It's like, bro, it's, it's not going to work. It's again, you nailed it. It's all noise. It's all noise. But you think Trump is really focusing.
Tom Zawacki
Like Trump is going, how committed do you think Elon is to this? Meaning does he have the stomach to go through this and through this and through this at the expense of his board, his shareholders, his stock prices plummeting, plummeting, plummeting. At what point does he just bail?
Patrick Bet-David
Nobody can pull the rip. Course guy, he has it, he has a stomach to go do it. But it's. His businesses may take a hit and he may find a different strategy to go about it. Right now you have to realize this is a guy that, to have the level of drive that he has. That drive doesn't come just because you want to be somebody. That drive doesn't come just because you want to have money. That drive doesn't come because he wants a nice car and impress the girls. The guy's been with, you know, enough girls to, to where he can put that list together and impress anybody else's list of girls that they've been with. Right. This is about who offended him at what level. The guy's been offended at the highest level by the most powerful man in the world, Trump. And that level of being publicly humiliated and offended. He's not gonna let go. He's not.
Tom Zawacki
So you're saying he's being emotional?
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, that's his fuel. You know, people run on different kind of octane fuel. You know, some cars can't run on the same high octane fuel as other cars run on. You put it in there, it's just not going to work.
Tom Zawacki
Some cars are EVs.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Sometimes you need EV mandate.
Patrick Bet-David
This guy's a high octane offensive. You offend him. He ain't forgetting about. Think about the like Michael Jordan was known as the ultimate grudge guy. He held grudges at the highest level. This guy's on top of that. Because Jordan only held grudges in what sport?
Vinnie Fisher
Basketball.
Patrick Bet-David
This guy holds a grudge in everything, in every single thing. It is not going away anytime soon. It's not going away anytime soon. And I have a feeling that one tweet. Do you guys remember when he said, you guys have to realize you have only Trump for four more years? You got me for 40 more years. He ain't lying. He revealed so much in that one hour. Of all the tweets, you learned so much about every one of his motives and all of those tweets that he put up. Do you remember which one I'm talking about when he said, trump's only four? You know you only have Trump for four years.
Tom Zawacki
No, he deleted the tweets. So my memory isn't racist. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't exist anymore.
Patrick Bet-David
So if you're asking a question, I think this guy is just getting started. And if he wants to start a political party, the only thing, and I guarantee this is the one right there. Rob, you have it. This is when he says, if you can find this, Rob, I'm looking for.
Adam Sosnick
An actual photo of the tweet.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, the tweet's gone. What does it say the images should be? Oh, there it is. Is that the one? No, no, that's not the one.
Adam Sosnick
Oh, here it is right here.
Tom Zawacki
Save that.
Patrick Bet-David
Rob says. Oh, and for some, food for thought as they pondered this question. Trump has three and a half years left as a president. I will be Iran for 40 years. This may be the most powerful tweet he's ever tweeted that nobody paid attention to. Look at that. No one paid attention. That's nothing. 16,000 likes, 2.6 million views. That is nothing. Nobody saw this. This is exactly what you're going to hear about for decades to come. You will see that tweet will be showing for a very long time to come. Rob, save that tweet, because that ain't going away anytime soon. This guy's got a chip at the highest level, and he's going to be coming and he's going to be recruiting, and he's going to be very aggressively recruiting, but he's going to have a wall he's going to hit. Tom. He's going to have a wall he's going to hit. You know what that wall is? He can't be Ross Perot.
Adam Sosnick
Nope, exactly. And by the way, it's not as simple as just passing a law. He has to get Congress and the Senate pass it, and then he's got to go through each state, two thirds of the US States, Complicated. Very complicated.
Patrick Bet-David
Some states. Virginia, very complicated. Each signature in Virginia, it costs you 40 to $100,000. It's a lot of work. But if there is a guy that could pull it off, Tom, it's this guy. If there's a guy that could pull it off, it's this guy. Now, while that's going on, Netanyahu comes to D.C. to visit, texts Vinny first, but he comes to D.C. to pay a visit to the president. NETanyahu heads to D.C. for the deal of the century. Rob, is this the video that you got? Let me read this first to know what the context of this visit was. Vinny, do you know why he was in town? Do you know what the purpose of the visit was?
Vinnie Fisher
I don't.
Patrick Bet-David
Prime Minister Netanyahu is heading to Washington not just for a ceasefire deal with Hamas, but for a much bigger deal of the century, so to speak, according to Dan Diker, great last name president of the Jerusalem center for Security and Foreign Affairs. He told ILTV News that this is a momentum play by both Netanyahu and the US President Trump. He said that Netanyahu has insisted on several red lines in Gaza over the last more than 20 months, and one has been the elimination of Hamas as military and political power in Gaza. So he said if Netanyahu has really agreed to end the war, then Israel should expect to see the deportation of Hamas leaders from the strip. Rob, if you can play the clip on there together.
Adam Sosnick
So I have four clips, which one would you like? Bibi Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize right here.
Patrick Bet-David
So watch. Watch this one here. Go for it. The president has already realized great opportunities he forged the Islamic courts. He's forging peace as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other. So I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It's nominated you for the Peace prize, which is well deserved.
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Adam Sosnick
Mac or drop a crispy fry between the car seats or use your McDonald's bag as a place, Matt. Then that wasn't the road trip.
Vinnie Fisher
It was just a really long Drive.
Adam Sosnick
At participating McDonald's.
Patrick Bet-David
You should get it.
Tom Zawacki
Thank you very much. I guess I didn't know. Well, thank you very much.
Patrick Bet-David
Excellent Rio coming from you in particular.
Vinnie Fisher
Radcliff, cic.
Adam Sosnick
Thank you very much.
Patrick Bet-David
Thank you. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you. So that's that Nobel Peace Prize. Okay. That would be the day he gets Nobel Peace Prize. You know how much people are going to lose their mind on the left? They're going to go crazy the same.
Adam Sosnick
Way they lost their mind on the right when Obama got a Peace prize because he did a speech at the Berlin Wall.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, Vinny, I mean, okay, listen, I think Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for the last administration. No wars, zero. No, he killed one person. But like, this is just. He just helped bomb another country and he's offering him a Peace Prize. That's like giving Jeffrey Dahmer a Michelin star for his unique taste in meat. It's the wrong time. It should have happened four years ago. And I'm not saying it's not like they killed a bunch of people, but you just technically went to war. How are you going to give him a peace prize? It doesn't make any sense to me. So like I said, he deserves it for the last four years. He doesn't deserve it for right now.
Patrick Bet-David
Press, press play on the next ones. Let's see what we got here.
Adam Sosnick
Do you think that there can be a two state solution that creates an independent.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know. I asked maybe that question. You have the greatest man in the.
Adam Sosnick
World to answer that age old question. Two state. Go ahead, give him your honest answer.
Patrick Bet-David
I think Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers should threaten us. That means that certain powers, like overall security, will always remain in our hands. Now that is a fact. And no one in Israel will agree to anything else because we don't commit suicide. We want life. We cherish life for ourselves, for our neighbors. And I think we can work out a peace between us and the entire Middle east with President Trump's leadership. And by working together, I think we can establish a very, very broad peace. Adam.
Tom Zawacki
So the whole question in the Middle east is who do you trust the most? So this might upset some of you guys. I would argue that whether it's Trump or any American president, you trust Israel more than any other name on that list in the Middle East. Who do you trust? Them. Who do you trust more than Israel in the Middle east, it's not 0 or 100. So maybe you trust Saudi, you know, 30%, you trust Iran, 1%, you trust Qatar, 20, whatever the number is, here's what I guarantee you. The trust of Israel is over 50%. Is there any other country in the Middle east you would even put above 50%? What other country in the Middle east would you even. Would you proclaim is our ally? I'll wait while you try to throw out names. I don't think it exists. You trust them to the point where you get what you pay for. Qatar, all right, we have a base there. Saudi, we have a relationship there. We're selling them arms. I don't know who did 911, Iran. We just had a war with them. So with Israel, it's not 0 or 100. Trust. I know there's a lot of people that are like, we hate Israel. There's our. There are enemies. We'll never work with them. Well, that's not what the government's doing. There's other people like Israel and United States are completely allied, and there's zero daylight between them. Well, I don't think that's the case, either. They are what is known as strategic allies. Now, you talked about whether Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize. There's two parts to that. There's something called peace through strength, I think. And if you look at what Israel has done in conjunction with the United States, they basically looked at, I would call it warmongering psychopaths, jihadists, and said, we're gonna have to take care of these people before they take care of us. So they went after Hamas, the Houthis, still dealing with that. Hezbollah, Syria, Islamic Jihad, tip of the spear with Iran. And I think that Trump will be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize when the dust settles in the Middle East. So we'll see what happens with that.
Patrick Bet-David
Tom?
Adam Sosnick
Well, I think there's a bit of.
Patrick Bet-David
It's actually a good question. Who do you trust more in the Middle East? Out of all the countries in the Middle east, who do you trust the most?
Adam Sosnick
Well, there's. There's a couple of ways to look at trust. It's not necessarily, you know, did you.
Tom Zawacki
Put any country above Israel or.
Adam Sosnick
No, I don't. But I'm saying is trusting outcomes. You know, I. When you look at sports, I trust certain players to do certain things. Whether I like those teams or I'm not a fan of those teams, or I'm not a fan of the player. I trust that they're going to Behave a certain way. And Israel, I can trust them to do what I think they're going to do. I don't always agree with everything, but I can trust them to do what they're going to do because everybody else, there is a complicated labyrinth under there that they have a foundational desire to dispose of Israel. So do I trust them to be them? Yeah. And that makes me not trust them long term. And so I trust Israel to be Israel, and I trust Israel to do things in a certain way and to behave a certain way. And I don't think there's anybody else in the Middle east that I trust more than that.
Patrick Bet-David
Vinny, who do you trust more than?
Vinnie Fisher
I mean, I, I, you know, me, I don't trust anybody over there, but if I had to pick the militarily and strategic and fighting and war, stuff like that, yeah, it'd be Israel. We're not teaming up with anybody else to fight anybody. But morally and some of the things that they're probably doing, if Epstein, you know, going back to Mossad and all this stuff and, you know, AIPAC and our congressmen and stuff like that, it's like, I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't put like Jordan, uae, Saudi Arabia.
Patrick Bet-David
What do you think now, Vinny, I'm asking you, who in the Middle east you were in the military.
Vinnie Fisher
I don't, I don't trust anybody. But who would I trust?
Patrick Bet-David
Them? No, no, no. In the Middle East. Can you pull up the Middle east map? It's a good question. Pull up the Middle east map. Who in the Middle east do you trust more than Israel? Rob, nobody can see the words on that.
Vinnie Fisher
I was just going to say, I'm not stalling.
Tom Zawacki
I can't see the worst map ever.
Patrick Bet-David
Who do you trust more in the Middle East?
Tom Zawacki
Just hit maps. Like, instead of images, like images, maps. That's what I did. And it gave me the other one. So hit images.
Patrick Bet-David
You're so funny.
Tom Zawacki
You are so funny. There you go.
Patrick Bet-David
Here we go. Vinny, who do you trust?
Tom Zawacki
Vinny, I don't know if you can locate Israel. They're the tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little area.
Vinnie Fisher
Is Jordan bad? Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel.
Tom Zawacki
The fact that you don't even know anything about Jordan already gives you the answer.
Vinnie Fisher
Michael.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, Michael Jordan. Okay? The guy dunking on people in the.
Vinnie Fisher
Middle, he won championship.
Patrick Bet-David
But think about it, think about it.
Adam Sosnick
For a second, American.
Patrick Bet-David
Which of these guys this, which of these guys would be the biggest allies of.
Vinnie Fisher
Well, obviously Israel, because of the military alliance that they have with us.
Tom Zawacki
There is none. You don't trust any of these mother effers.
Vinnie Fisher
Adam, I told you from the beginning, I don't trust anybody. I don't trust Trump, anybody.
Tom Zawacki
His own cabinet.
Patrick Bet-David
How it works, though. No, that's not how it works. You could say you don't trust Israel. Just say it. But what, what you can't say is when you're in a room 19, let's just say criminals. Okay? You still have to have one person you trust above the 19 criminals.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
You have to have somebody. They're gonna go and say, I'm gonna trust that guy more. This isn't a. You know, because again, this is part of the problem of what's. What's going on with the Middle east. Because the interview takes place. You know, the interview with Tucker Carlson and the President of Iran, Rob Elon. Tucker announces that he's going to be doing the interview, which a lot of people ask me the question, what do you think about the fact that he's doing the interview? I love it. I love the fact that he's doing the interview. The more I get a chance to hear what the president of any country has to say, say. But you don't understand. Do you realize he's given eyeballs to this? I got a lot of shit when I interviewed the founder of a Islamic revolutionary guard. And they're like, I cannot believe you're doing this. No. I learned a lot about what that guy did. So I applaud Tucker for doing the interview. Now, having said that in the intro. Rob, is this the intro or is this the.
Tom Zawacki
I can grab the intro. Hang on.
Patrick Bet-David
Which clip is that, Rob?
Adam Sosnick
That is where they talk about death to America being chanted.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so here's a question that was asked about Death to America. You as an audience, folks, run a poll. The poll is once. Once this is done, do you believe the President? Iran's explanation of what death to America really means? It doesn't really mean what you think it means. Right? It doesn't. It has a complete different meaning when they say death to America. It's more poetic, it's more loving, it's endearing. It's coming from a place of gamesmanship. We're just kind of flirting with each other. You know how you talk dirty and you say, babe, I'm gonna do this to you tonight. You're not really gonna go destroy her. You're just gonna have some fun. So the way Iranians talk dirty to Americans, like, listen, man, death upon America, mother. You know?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Vinnie Fisher
That's the way they kill that, you.
Patrick Bet-David
Know what I'm saying? Coming from a very nice dirty, you know, way of speaking. Rob, do you want to just go to the question and let him light it up? Is this the whole thing?
Adam Sosnick
Yep.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it. I can't talk dirty.
Adam Sosnick
You say you're not afraid, but Americans are afraid.
Patrick Bet-David
Go back a little bit. I hear myself in the background. Yeah, I hear my.
Tom Zawacki
We have a poll running in the back.
Adam Sosnick
Hang on one second.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, okay, got it. If you can close the poll. There you go. And then go back to it. So I'd watch this one here.
Adam Sosnick
It's a term of endearment.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, it's a term of endearment. Watch this, folks.
Adam Sosnick
Many Americans are afraid of Iran. You say you're not afraid, but Americans are afraid of Iran. And they believe that Iran would like to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon. They see video of Iranians saying death to America, describing our country as the Great Satan. What is your opinion of that? Should we be afraid of Iran?
Patrick Bet-David
I believe that this is a very wrong impression that anybody might have of Iran or the Iranians. I would like to remind you that Iran has never invaded another country in the last 200 years. When they say death to the United States, it doesn't mean death to. They don't mean death to the people of the United States or even to the officials of the United States. They mean death to crimes, death to killing and carnage, death to supporting killing others, death to insecurity and instability.
Adam Sosnick
This is.
Patrick Bet-David
Have you ever heard that Iranian killing an American.
Vinnie Fisher
Have you ever heard that?
Patrick Bet-David
Or a terrorist that was Iranian and he carried out a terrorist attack against the Americans. No, it was your president who confessed that the Americans created ISIS in our region and they were responsible for this wrong image that is portrayed of religion or the Muslims in, in the world. And once again I would like to tell you and remind you that this is not death to the American people or to the officials. Death to crimes and atrocities, to, to bullying, to the use of force. And I'm coming to you first.
Adam Sosnick
Well, we've never invaded another country. I bet that's. I bet that little report surprised the hell out of the Iraqis that spent 10 years going back and forth. I think there was five. I'm going to get this wrong, but there was this huge number of people. I thought it was 5 million on each side that died in the 10 year Iran Iraq war where Iran never set foot in Iraq, didn't do anything, wasn't invading, they were going Back and forth with each other. This. I find it stunning. You know, I find it absolutely stunning. There are only a million people.
Patrick Bet-David
Half a million on each side.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, half a million.
Patrick Bet-David
But still. But go for. Listen, I thought.
Adam Sosnick
Boy, ten year war. Yeah, a little ineptitude there. So I think when I listen to this full list, what goes in my head is like, who are you kidding? The Iran Iraq war. Who are you kidding? You sponsored terrorism. Who are you kidding? This. I have no idea what his audience is and who he thinks is really believing it. Unless it's just.
Patrick Bet-David
The question is, does the audience of Americans believe it? What percentage of Americans just watch that and say, wow, he's right. That's not what that means. Like, how many people did that? Right there, what he just said. Work on. How many Americans did that work on?
Adam Sosnick
I'll give you an answer there. 42%.
Patrick Bet-David
Look at that. Right?
Adam Sosnick
There are Democrats.
Patrick Bet-David
Our audience. Do you believe the Iranian president? Explanation? 8, 20. 20% believe him.
Adam Sosnick
Okay, so take 20%.
Patrick Bet-David
And that's our audience.
Adam Sosnick
Okay, let's take.
Tom Zawacki
Right. Which means it's 40, 30 to 40 that believe this.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. And a big chunk, I think a big chunk of the. The Democrats believe it. I think probably 33% of Democrats believe that because they want to believe that. See, we can be globalists and all get along. It's okay. They're not really doing this. This is subversive stuff, because that is what 30% of the globalist, hard, globalist Democrats want to believe.
Vinnie Fisher
Wow, Vinnie, what about. Oh, you think I believe him? I don't believe him at all. But I. I was on a deeper thing. I was seeing a lot of stuff on. On Tucker and how, you know, everybody was pissed off at him. But he started interviewing, like, think about. He's interviewed Putin. Who else is Putin? This guy Orban. And it's almost as if I heard reports and it was. It was like people like him, and they named one other person. I'm trying to figure out who it was that they think that they're getting money from. You know, everybody always says, well, Israel's paying them and Israel's in their pocket. I've heard, allegedly, that these guys are starting to get money from the other side, from the Middle East. Like, if you think like, Theo Vaughn was one of them, too. I saw reports where it was like, Theo Vaughn, who? Guys, we all know he's a comedian. He said he's hilarious is all the interviews. Once he went to Qatar, he was there when the President was there. He got back and the Moment he got back, all of a sudden it was, you know, what's happening in Gaza is. Is a genocide. And I'm saying he's.
Patrick Bet-David
Go ahead.
Adam Sosnick
Wait a minute. I want you to elaborate then a little bit more because there was an ad network and there were things out there that, it turns out people were getting ad dollars. And it was a big embarrassment to a lot of podcasts. Not this one.
Vinnie Fisher
Nope.
Adam Sosnick
We didn't take it where they, you know, I'm talking about, Pat, where they all got surprised by the ad network, came from some bad people. Are you talking about that?
Patrick Bet-David
No.
Adam Sosnick
And if that was. What are you talking about now? I'm talking about.
Vinnie Fisher
I saw, I saw a bunch of stuff on the Internet on a bunch of posts where the timing of people's attitudes changing about the Middle East. Like, for instance, when, by the way, Theo Vaughn went to Qatar and went on stage and was making people laugh and everything. And mind you, I personally, I know Theo Vaughn, and I never heard anything about anything about Middle east diplomacy, anything, war, anything, once he got back from that trip. And then, then it was, you know, he started being way more vocal against Israel. So I'm just saying that's the type of stuff that I was hearing. And so when it comes to, like, Tucker as well, I saw other people pointing out to the fact that he's starting to interview. Not starting, but he's interviewing all these people and giving them a voice to try to prove their theirselves and make them look like they're not. Because, by the way, saying death to America, I don't give a damn who you are. How you spin it, saying death to America is saying death to the country, death to all the people, and that you wish that that place doesn't exist. That's what death to something means, Meaning no life, no breath, nothing. It's death. I don't believe.
Tom Zawacki
Well, Vinny, welcome to reality, because Qatar has been paying everybody. I'm not saying that they're paying Tucker, but here. Rob, I'm going to send you a little thing of.
Vinnie Fisher
I'm saying again, Adam, I don't know. I'm just saying I've been hearing a lot of it, and I'm a timing type of guy. When it happens like that, when all of a sudden you switch, it kind of makes me question.
Tom Zawacki
Sure. Well, I think people have been yelling from the rooftops, watch out for the Qatari money for quite some time because a lot of people basically say, who's a bigger foe in the Middle East? Is it, Is it Iran? Who's basically broke and has spent their. All their money on nuclear weapons or proxies, and we see the ROI that that's having. Or is it Qatar, who's basically printing money with liquid gold and has been funding universities, NGOs, anti American, anti Israel. That's where Al Jazeera is based. None of this is new to anybody that's been following Qatar. Now, as far as. As far as Tucker goes, here's how this works. Is Tucker being funded by Qatar? Well, no one in their right mind would be like, yo, here's your money, buddy. No, you were. You use a intermediate intermediary or a third party to act as the sort of bag man to collect the money. Because in America, there's something called the Farah F A R A, the foreign agent. Find out what the pharaoh thing is. Foreign agent, registry. Registry and associate. Whatever it is.
Adam Sosnick
One of Charlie's Angels, I thought.
Tom Zawacki
There you go.
Vinnie Fisher
Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Tom Zawacki
There you go. So if you take money from a foreign entity, you have to register as that, but if you allegedly have a third party in between, there's a way of doing this. This is what Qatar is doing. I'm not breaking anybody news. Anybody who's been following Qatar knows that they're basically. They've already done it in Europe. If you look at Europe, why is Europe such a dysfunction? Everyone I talk to, whether it's Germany, whether it's the UK to Paris, they say the following. Oh, dude, Europe has fallen. Qatar has bought every official, every diplomat, every single person in Europe. And if you look what's going on in Europe, that's what they're trying to do with America. And who's easiest people to do in America? The left, the progressives. You ever see that interview with the one guy I think he was interviewed by? It starts with a dude that. He's been on our show, the Indian guy. He's very. He goes, dinesh, respect to you. He goes, why do hardcore Muslim extremists vote or give their money to the progressive leftist? He goes, oh, it's so easy to understand. They have no values, they have no principles. They'll take the money, they'll say, whatever. A man's a woman, a woman's a man. You know, go, go, go, go. Have abortions. Energy. You can find that clip. Agree. He goes, I don't give money. There's no Muslim conservatives in Congress, by the way. Zero. They're all on the left because they have no values, they have no principles. Basically what he's saying. So to get Back to this concept of Tucker. Here's what I know for sure. If you want an easy softball interview and you're a thug like Putin, if you're a terrorist state like Iran, if you're funding terrorism around the world, go to Qatar, go down to Tucker and get your little softball interview. There'll be zero pushback. He's not gonna refute any claims that you say. He's just gonna see there and do this stupid looking face and then when you say something, and that's Tucker. I would 100% go on Tucker if I was a foreign autocrat and I wanted zero pushback on that. Now, as far as believing the president of Iran, death to America. No, we don't want death to America.
Patrick Bet-David
We want to give you a big.
Tom Zawacki
Hug and kill you with love. Does anybody believe that? Well, apparently 20% of our artists believe that.
Patrick Bet-David
Where is that poll at right now, Rob? I'm curious. Keep going at him. I just wanted.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, I mean, the one last thing I'll say is this. You want to have respect from, from me, Tucker, go interview the people in Iran. Go interview the people that have been suffering from the Iranian regime for the last 46 years. Go interview those people and see what they have to say because I guarantee you're going to get a completely different response. Those people want to see the Iranian regime go and go immediately. But you're going to sit there with the president of Iran and take him at face value and then just smile. Pathetic.
Patrick Bet-David
Here's where I'm going to be at. Ok. To me, Tom, I think Iraq attacked Iran the moment Shah fell and they saw weakness. And that's where the opportunity came in with Saddam. I don't think Khomeini had a bone of military background in him to know how to have any kind of attacks being done. So they were exposed because he killed off a couple thousand of Shah's generals and colonels and leaders. So their military was dismantled and Iraq saw that as an opportunity. But again, that's a war that happened. It cost a lot of innocent people's lives. But for them to say nothing, the amount of fatwas Khomeini put. Didn't Khomeini put a fatwa on Salman Rushdie? They put so many fatwas. Even, you know, Rua Law Khamenei recently said death upon America. They talked about John Bolton, they talked about all these other guys. Stop with this nonsense bullshit that you're all innocent and it's not death upon America. When I was in Iran, and we would learn how to write. It's so important. Iran, Iranians take writing very seriously. And they would teach you how to write. Like it's like art. Honestly, it was like I would. I would have a hard time with it because it was like art. The way you would raise the hieroglyphics and the way you would go, it was so beautiful. Iran gave us. Gave us Hafiz. Iran gave us Roomy. Iran gave us some of the most incredible poets of all time. So what is poetry? Words. What do words have a lot of power? You mean to tell me that you can say death upon America? You don't really mean what it means? Let me get this straight for you. You'd say something like that to an average guy who may take it. Do you know, when we had the professor that came from Harvard that was doing a study about police brutality, was.
Adam Sosnick
There really a bias on police attacks on blacks?
Patrick Bet-David
That's right. Police attacks on blacks. And he came up with the report a couple times, and he went on very Weiss, if you remember. And then we brought him in here. Do you know what was the other research he was doing? Do you know what was the other research he was doing that he was going to be launching what? The impact of hip hop. You know how they say CIA was involved with hip hop? The impact that hip hop had on kids. You know what he said? He gave a glimpse of what his research was coming along with. He said hip hop didn't have a negative influence in the ghetto. Hip hop didn't have a negative influence in streets like, you know, Baltimore or Compton or la, because they're living hip hop. He said hip hop had a negative influence in the suburbs of a bunch of white kids being raised who started listening to hip hop. And the words of hip hop got them to act, commit crimes, became criminals. Act like they're gangsters. Why? Because words have power. What is the. The song by Tupac that, say, cost his life? What does the start saucer start off with? That's why you bitch, you fat mother. Right? And he goes into it, right? You know, he calls out everybody in that thing. Hit him up. Yeah. And if you dmx, you go to Bone Thugs and Hummer. More murder. More murder. Come. Come again, right? Eazy, E. Real mother. You go listen to all the lyrics here, these lyrics, and when you listen to these words, they do something to you. If you're telling me mad bad America doesn't have any meaning, then stop saying it, right? Why don't you stop saying it? Why don't you stop saying those Words. Why don't other countries say? Because a 12 year old kid is going to hear it and they're going to be like, I'm so loyal to Khamenei, I'm so loyal to you that I'm actually going to act upon these words of death upon America. I'm actually be willing to go commit suicide because I may have a place in heaven if I'm able to commit suicide and do it for my country, do it for my religion. What other religion goes out there and tells you to go commit suicide for your religion? Do we do? Have we taught that, Tom? Christianity? Are we taught to go commit suicide on behalf of our God? What does our God say if we commit suicide?
Adam Sosnick
Going to the. No, no, no. It says going to all the world and teach people about me, baptize them and teach them to obey.
Patrick Bet-David
What does Christianity teach you about suicide?
Adam Sosnick
Teach you about suicide? Well, the Catholics seem to believe that it's an unforgivable sin, but the Bible doesn't indicate that suicide is.
Patrick Bet-David
Is there anything in there, Tom? Is there anything in the Bible that encourage you to commit suicide to show respect to Jesus?
Adam Sosnick
Especially nothing to nothing to kill off the Catholics off other people?
Patrick Bet-David
Do Catholics believe in that? Do Jews believe in that?
Adam Sosnick
No.
Patrick Bet-David
Do Scientologists believe in that?
Adam Sosnick
If you talk about suicide bombers, who.
Patrick Bet-David
Believes in suicide bombers? Only one religion. Why is that? Why?
Adam Sosnick
And by the way, none of the guys in charge think it's a good idea, but we. None of the clerics will say, I'm going to do it first. I'll show you how. They want everybody else to.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, the challenge here becomes you can fool a percentage of people that hear that. Like my follow up would have been Tucker would have had an opportunity to have so many additional follow ups there to that one specific topic. Similar to the way he pushed Ted Cruz. Because to me, that Ted Cruz interview was phenomenal. That Ted Cruz interview was incredible for both sides. Yeah, it was great for both sides. I thought that was one of the best interviews he's ever done. You know, that interview ended up getting the podcast to go all the way to the top. I think he was number one for like a week or so. It was that good of an interview on Spotify. He crushed it with that interview. That's the pushback that we sometimes need with these guys to ask the follow up. Really? That's what you say? What about that? He knows how to do it. He did it with Tad. He knows how to do it. He knows how to reengage, he knows how to bring some of that stuff up. So to me, the only argument I would make on behalf of Tucker why he wasn't able to push it was because maybe the other site said, we will only do the interview if you don't push and you only have 28 minutes. And Tucker had a list of seven questions to ask in those 28 minutes. And he knew he couldn't stay on that one topic and even said at the beginning of the interview, there's some questions I'm not going to be asking because we all know we're not going to be getting the answers. Well, that applies to anybody, though, doesn't it? Yeah. I mean, you can ask Ted some questions about aipac. Are you really going to get all the answers on? So this whole thing about, you know, Qatar is doing what they're doing with the money, so is Israel with aipac. So we can't say that's also not happening. This isn't a part of that. The only difference for me here, not gonna sit here, by the way, just so everybody knows, I don't make friends when I take these positions because I don't fully gain my Israel audience and I don't fully gain my. What do you call it? The lady yesterday. Because the. What do you call it? The VT News contest winners were over here and they had a chance to come through here.
Vinnie Fisher
And Heather and the crew.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, Heather and the crew. And I had cigars with them last night at the cigar lounge. It was Heather Irby, who's. I'm definitely. She's listening on the way to the airport, Loris Spatofra, I think he came all the way from Montreal, if I'm not mistaken. And we had Zach, Geoff. Okay, who were here. Very nice gift, Zach. That gift that you gave me is in my car. Just so in. Avinia says as well the scripture. It's in my car and I read through it. But we're sitting there last night. You know what she says? She says, I follow the comment section so closely, and it's so interesting. One minute, you know, the Muslims are so happy that you're calling out Israel, and one minute they, you know, the Jews hate you, and the next minute, the Jews are so supportive of what you're saying about Muslims. And the next minute, Muslims hate you. It's so funny. It's like nobody really knows. I'm like, look, what do you want us to do? We're not making friends here with the positions I'm making. We kind of telling you where it is. But the reality of it is. You want me to sit here and believe that death upon America is not what it means? Get the hell out of here. Trying to talk to people as if they're dumb, you know, trying to. Then change your language. Language is a form of art in your country. Iran. You know how powerful language is. Change it. You have the right. By the way, what says Khomeini? Khomeini and the president cannot stand up today. Today. What says today Khamenei and the president of Iran cannot stand up in front of their people and say, moving forward, we can no longer use the words death upon America and death upon Israel. Can you say that? Can you say that? Can you get up and tweet that? Can Khamenei on his Twitter account that is still active till today, can he get up there and say, moving forward, we are a religion of peace, and as a religion of peace, leading the rest of the world, we will no longer be using the phrase death upon America and death upon Israel, even though the amount of damage that they've done to our great country of Iran. Let's just say you say that even with that last sentence. I would retweet that if they put that up there, but they won't do it. 0% because it's part of their profile, because it's what they believe in. Deep down inside that rage, that anger is in them, and they keep duplicating that with others. So, yes, to the people that are upset that Tucker did the interview, I am so glad he did the interview. Phenomenal job with the interview, because you either are being sold into a bunch of BS propaganda that death upon America really means, you know, it's a shot at crime. You really are that naive. If you're really that naive, wait to see what's in store for you in the future. If you're that naive, wait till you see what's in store for you in the future. Wait. Naive people are gonna get. I can't use this word, but it's gonna get very bad for naive people in many different ways. You're gonna fall for it. You're gonna fall for it, and you're gonna fall for it, and then eventually you're gonna be like, oh, my God, I thought it was just. But that person on social media was saying this, but I thought they were all good. No. Naive people get destroyed. Wake up, folks. Wake up. Only the paranoid survive. Wake up. That's what's gonna be happening. These guys are trying to sell you a bunch of propaganda. And unfortunately, some people are Buying it.
Tom Zawacki
I wanna ask you this, speaking of Khomeini, you know, he came out and just made his first appearance in Cold War. Makes first public appearance since Iran, Israel started. He came out and of course he comes out and he says Tehran had delivered a slap to America's face by striking the US base in Qatar, warning against further US or Israel attacks and aggression.
Adam Sosnick
Hysterical.
Tom Zawacki
Like after we just destroyed their nuclear program to get all their sites. Zero missile defense at this point. But they're the ones that, you know, took out our base in Qatar. And then you see what Trump response was. He goes, look, man, you're a man of great faith, a man who's highly respected in his country, but you have to tell the truth. Buddy, you got beat to hell. This is what Trump said to Khamenei. So here's my question, dude, they just lie and lie and lie. If you're Tucker or if you're Tucker's producer and you push back against Ted Cruz, we saw what you can do. But then you give 0, 0 pushback against the President of Iran who's lying to your face. Why does Tucker not push back in your eyes? And if they say, listen, you have a half hour, please don't push back.
Patrick Bet-David
I think that's the reason. I honestly think that's the reason.
Tom Zawacki
So then, then you're bought, you're paid for. So which one is it?
Patrick Bet-David
I'm not going there. I'm not going there, bro. I just think he had 28 minutes sometime when he got a 28 minute interview. Your job as a. Because remember at in the court, he's a journalist. So it's like, what? Here's the questions. Go. Audience react.
Adam Sosnick
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
And make up your mind. Right. The podcast. This was not a podcast. What he did here was a. It was a Fox News. Yeah, Fox News interview.
Vinnie Fisher
That's what that was with the translator.
Patrick Bet-David
But the Ted Cruz, the podcast, by the way. Yeah, the Putin was a podcast. The Putin. The Putin is not a. The Fox thing. Because he had two hours with the guy. Putin gave you two hours. He could have pushed with Putin. I don't criticize him on this one. On this one, I just think the only a little bit was Death upon America. We've always been a religion of peace and all this other stuff. Yeah, he had 20.
Tom Zawacki
I look at it a little bit differently. If he went to Russia to interview Putin, we saw how he just like made how the train stations are so amazing. I would argue when you're in the presence in the Kremlin, maybe you don't want to do a little pushback.
Adam Sosnick
All right.
Tom Zawacki
You know, fear for your life. We just talked about some guy who just suicided himself.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, yeah.
Tom Zawacki
You're doing a freaking zoom interview with the president of Iran and who lies to your face about death to America. And you're like, all right, next question. You don't want to push back 30 seconds, Tucker. You don't want to take 30 seconds for 28 minutes to maybe give a little pushback to me that you talk about how Dan Bongino or Cash Patel or Pam Bondi are losing credibility. This is why you lose credibility. You're not going to push back for 30 seconds, bro.
Adam Sosnick
I, I see, I see your point there. It's weak, but I do see it a little differently. If I got 28 minutes, I want to get as many answers out of him as I can. And if he gives me that depth, America, I think in my head, I'm going to put a narration on the front of that and I'm going to call this guy out on the short clip and I'm going to publish the clip. I'm going to say, and then I asked him this about. And then he did this. I can clip that later because I got my answer and I can go with it. And it would be so obvious to the jury of public opinion that sits out there. But in 28 minutes, I want to get as many answers out of him as possible, which gives me as many places to go as possible.
Tom Zawacki
So you're saying that you'd basically justify not pushing back after the fact, but not during the interview.
Adam Sosnick
No, during the interview. It's like, that was a long question. Which part of that are you going to push back on? You're going to go, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Tom Zawacki
Do just the whole.
Adam Sosnick
Did you just say all that? That's a long question from the guy.
Tom Zawacki
I mean, all you had to do was with this goofy chuckle and just like, laughs face.
Vinnie Fisher
My thing is, and I think, I mean, you talked about it a couple days ago when it actually happened, saying, I'm not even going to ask him this because we know what the answer is going to be. I don't like that. Ask it so I could see the guy's body language. I want to see his face. I want to see. Even if he goes, whatever. Bs, bsbs. I want to look, because we're not done. We could tell a body language question. Don't be. Don't be soft in that sense. And that's where people start asking questions about, you know, and don't get me wrong, I love, I absolutely love Tucker. I think he's one of the most important voices to do, especially this type of stuff. But I do agree, you got to push back, especially death to America. And you're one of the most American, pro American patriots out there. I would have been like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Seriously, bro, seriously. Just something, one pushback and you nailed it. He's doing zoom with the interpreter. It's less than 28 minutes.
Patrick Bet-David
Listen, listen, guys, I hope he does more of these. So I know this is not a popular for some of you guys, I hope he does more of these. And there's nobody that gets more criticism when you interview crazy people like this, but we need more of them. We need them talking. So in whatever context that you get a person talking, get them talking. Okay, let them talk. And with that, this to me is a success because I get to see. Because at the end of the day with Iran, with everything that they're going through, this was the closest Iran got to a regime change. Closest Iran got to a regime change in 46 years. And that's gone boom, period. It's gone to the next one. And who knows when the next one's going to be coming around again. That doesn't mean that there's not a surprise and an ace up Trump's sleeve that something could happen the next few weeks or a few months. Because Trump's one thing Trump's made very clear. I frickin love it. I know most people don't like this. He's made himself very unpredictable. It is such a great quality when it comes down to a president that's going against his enemies. And you need to stay a little bit unpredictable. And he's doing that. Okay. All right, so let's go to the next story here on what we got with, what do you call it? New York Mayor Mamdani. I'm going to go to the New York mayor situation and I'm going to come back to the financial stuff. So this guy, this is getting very interesting here to the point where ackman, Bill Ackman, $10 billion guy, backs Adams, Mayor Adams to stop socialist Mavdani and calls on Cuomo to drop out. Here's his tweet. In summary, in a light of inability to add a new name to the ballot and the low probability of success of a write off in campaign, the only candidate with a credible chance to beat Mamdani are Cuomo and Adams. I met with Adams and Cuomo to discuss the upcoming election and I spent an hour or so with each of them. In short, my takeaway is that Adams can win the upcoming election and that the governor should step aside to maximize Adams probability of success. I say this while having a high regard for Andrew Cuomo and his contribution to New York State, but it was abundantly clear in his body language, his subdued energy, and his proposals to beat Mamdani that he is not up for the fight. Bill Ackman is becoming a heavy heavy. He's always been, but he's becoming at the highest level right now a power player on what types of things they're doing when it comes on to stuff like this. And while this is going on, NYPD retirement reportedly hits historic high and union says Mamdani could make it even worse. So cops are sitting there saying what the hell am I being a cop in New York City for? Especially when a guy like this about to come right behind us and become the mayor. The new police department is experiencing a high, historic high retirement with 1555 officers filing for retirement ready this week, folks. This week. That's a 48% increase from last year and a 65% increase from a decade ago, which was 941, according to a data provided to the New York State by the New York Post by the pba. Union leaders reported to the Post that this level of retirement in the first half of the year is unprecedented in New York history. Democratic socialist Mamdani's mayoral candidacy is seen as exasperating the NYPD's staff crisis with the past statements on X calling the NYPD wicked and corrupt and advocating to defund it, dismantle it, end the cycle of violence. PBA President Patrick Hendry stated that the city cannot afford a leader who ignores the staffing crisis or pushes the NYPD backward. Tom thoughts?
Adam Sosnick
So what's really interesting going on right now is what's behind the scenes. Everybody that is on the capitalist side and the stability side are freaking out and industries are getting behind them. Check this out. What just happened over the weekend over 4th of July, Eric Adams was going party to party to party up and down the Hamptons in Long island, but he wasn't there having a beer and clinking glasses. He was there because they're concerned. And you've got the real estate investors who are concerned about what is a real estate investor concerned about? Vinnie? Enough people to rent your building or businesses to rent your building if it's commercial and if the economy gets screwed up, there's no one to rent your building. And so they don't want that and during his tenure, Eric Adams made friends with developers and he had this thing called the City of Yes program. So you know what he was doing? Trying to make permitting and building easier and quicker. Who is not doing that? California. Right. But he was out there trying to be the City of Yes. So the City of Yes initiative. And they Green lit apparently 80,000 new homes in New York. Now that's gonna be different type of buildings and things like that. Cause they don't have any property. It's how you rebuild on what's already. There's Casta Matitis, Fischel, Mark Holiday. All these folks are out there saying two things. Andrew, please don't run a disruptive third party. And you know what Cuomo told him? Apparently he said, I'm not making up my mind till September. I may make up my mind on doing it or not doing it. September. So what he's saying is the 60 day run from September to election Day, that's when Andrew Cuomo supposedly. That's what these people are saying. And we know his brother, we could probably get confirmation or not, but are saying he's going to wait until then to do it. And they're asking him, Andrew, please assure us you're not going to do that. Let's all line up behind Eric and let's run this thing. And there were more than just real estate, but there was all kinds of people in the Hamptons and again, weren't there celebrating fireworks. They're all taking this very, very serious. And these were supposedly ultra serious meetings, among the levity of fourth of July, but deadly serious because they're concerned about the economic future of their city and don't want it led by a socialist. And they were all saying, eric, we got money behind you. We may not agree on everything from before, but we're with you. And the developers were recultivating and saying, we think you got it right with City of Yes. And we're with you.
Vinnie Fisher
How much, Tommy? How much do you think Andrew Cuomo has a chip on his shoulder for how the Democrats treated him with all the scandal and they basically got his ass out. How much of this is revenge and payback to say f all of you because you guys treated me like this, I'm going to be the disruptor of this. And he doesn't care if the city burns.
Adam Sosnick
Well, I can't read his mind and tell you how much. But how can there be zero?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
There cannot be a zero chip on Andrew Cuomo.
Patrick Bet-David
One phone call fixes that. One phone call fixes that.
Vinnie Fisher
From djt.
Patrick Bet-David
One phone call. DJT fixes that. One phone call.
Vinnie Fisher
If Trump calls him and says, yo bro, we're not trying to have a frickin communist, a jihad sympathizer.
Patrick Bet-David
One call. Because remember, Trump had a relationship with Mario Cuomo. Trump wrote Mario Cuomo letter. And if you get that book of all of Trump's letters that he got, I think the second page of the book is a letter from Mario Cuomo and that's Andrew Cuomo's father. I don't know if you can you, can you find. Yeah, that one right there. Can you find the letter from Mario Cuomo to Trump?
Adam Sosnick
That's Cuomo. That's Trump to Cuomo.
Patrick Bet-David
No, there's one letter that's from Mario Cuomo to Trump. It's on the second or the third page. Who wrote it to who? I know it's in that book right there with all the letters. But I think someone needs to find a way to save Andrew Cuomo's face. I think there's only one person that can do it. Because the reality of it is they really went after him. He had a massive screw up. No one's gonna sit here and not dispute the fact that he did a massive screw up. He had it and it was tough and he had to address it. And he's gonna have to address it for a long time to come. Every time you interview Monica Lewinsky, guess what's gonna always come up?
Vinnie Fisher
Bill Clinton and the cigar.
Patrick Bet-David
And every time you interview Bill Clinton, guess what's gonna come up?
Vinnie Fisher
Same thing.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. So guess what? It's part of your story. You're gonna, you're gonna have it. That's gonna come up no matter what. So. But to me is as you're going into New York, I have some thoughts. But Adam, I'm going to get your thoughts before I get into mine. What are you thinking about, Mamdani? What's going to happen with Adams, with the New York situation with the cops? What do you think about it?
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, I mean, just welcome to the world in 2025. Where? In the heart of New York, in the heart of capitalism, the heart of the United States. You're about to tell me that a communist jihadist is potentially be the mayor of New York city. Yeah, it's 2025, so it's sort of writing on the wall. So a couple things that are going on in New York. Number one, we're about to find out how selfish and or delusional Andrew Cuomo is. Because the Democratic Party in New York Told him to his face how they feel about him.
Adam Sosnick
They'd rather have.
Patrick Bet-David
This is not about him being delusional, Adam.
Tom Zawacki
Well, clearly he's delusional if he hasn't dropped out of the race yet.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, because he's offended.
Tom Zawacki
Well, then he has to remove his emotions from. From.
Patrick Bet-David
That's not how it works, though. Well, he's offended, and he feels like he's given the city his entire life.
Tom Zawacki
I understand that he's offended, and he has a right to be defended, sure. But the Democratic base, the people who voted for him and basically said, thank you, your time has come. Go away. We'd rather have this person. And this is not a. A glitch.
Patrick Bet-David
You're not wrong.
Tom Zawacki
And the Democratic Party. This is what the modern Democratic Party in New York, the progressives, want. This wasn't an accident that they wanted Mandani. This wasn't like, oh, my God, They. They wanted him. The Democratic left wanted to say, no, no, this is what we stand for now, Mamdani.
Patrick Bet-David
We stand the state. When the state became more Republican, but the left became more left.
Adam Sosnick
The city.
Tom Zawacki
I'm talking about with the state. This isn't the governor's race.
Patrick Bet-David
I get it.
Tom Zawacki
This is the city of New York.
Patrick Bet-David
Yes.
Tom Zawacki
This wasn't an accident. They said. No, no, no. Yeah. The socialist guy.
Patrick Bet-David
Sure.
Tom Zawacki
The jihadist guy. Yeah. That's our guy. Because that is who the Democratic Party is at this point.
Patrick Bet-David
Right.
Tom Zawacki
And if you don't believe me, look at the numbers. They talked about a poll. Harry Enton, I think, did a thing about how in the last 10 years, the Republican Party in 2015. How do you feel about patriotism? And how patriotic are you? How do you view America? It went from 90% in 2015 to 92% in 2025. 2% difference. The Democratic Party, the pride in being an American has plummeted. Is this the stat right here? Democrats are no longer proud to be American. Democrats are no longer proud of what American values are. Patriotism is not going the right way in the Democratic Party. And New York is the tip of the spear where they're like, dude, f. America, we want someone to come in here and blow it all up. Give us Mamdani. So the last but not least, follow the money. Here's a couple articles. You talked about how Bill Ackman is basically potentially funding Eric Adams big real estate. People are going to be funding this. There's a flip side of the coin, which I text. Text you, Rob. You ever see these, like, billionaires that are also Socialists like the Mark Benioffs of the world. It's a weird concept. So now they're calling it the Mandani Millionaires. The millionaires are supporting the socialist for New York City mayor. I don't know, I don't understand it. But right now we're sort of in the summer malaise of like, all right, let's have some fun. It's summer. Come the fall, all eyes are going to be on New York City because the election is in November. Yeah, it's just heating up.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, this, this is not going to go. And by the way, this former AOC backer, Rob, I don't know if you have this clip or not, has stark warning for young Mamdani fans. Watch this here. Go for it.
Adam Sosnick
So New York City just nominated this guy Zo Ron Mamdani, who is a socialist, to represent them for the mayor's election. And I, if I was 25, I would be obsessed with Zoran. When I was 25, I was actually 26, 27. I helped get AOC elected. I made a video for her campaign.
Vinnie Fisher
That went super viral.
Adam Sosnick
I met her a ton of times and I was a huge AOC person. Now I'm 35, and like every stereotypical person, I've grown up and I've learned that these feel good politics of promising free food, free college, free apartments, like, you get free, you get free, you get free. It feels so good. You feel as a young person when your frontal lobe is not fully developed and you're thinking more in black and white that this is going to be good. Right. You're indoctrinated as a young person in America to believe that capitalism is bad and all your problems are because of these evil business owners. But I have to warn young people who are caught up in the Mamdani vibe is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And we've seen time and time again in countries and cities that adopt these socialist programs is that the rich people who are going to pay for them are going to leave because of a high taxes. And then we just get more taxes and less for it. And one example of this on a smaller scale is in New York. In 2019, there was a law that.
Tom Zawacki
Was passed by the State House, all.
Adam Sosnick
Democrats, to pause rent stabilization on.
Tom Zawacki
Sorry, to pause rent hikes on rent.
Adam Sosnick
Stabilized apartments so they could no longer rent hike. So say, for example, an apartment is rent stabilized. It's had the same tenant since the 1970s. It comes up for rent.
Vinnie Fisher
Landlords, because of this law, can only.
Adam Sosnick
Raise the rent by 2%. So say in 1970, someone was paying $200 a month. You're now going to be paying $220 a month in 2025. But the problem is that rent stabilized apartment needs to be renovated and brought up to 2025 code. So because of this law, what's happened is now there are tens of thousands of empty apartments in New York that are rent stabilized, that the landlords are not renovating because they know they cannot make their money back if they renovate them. And again, these landlords are not like evil people. And when you're indoctrinated into this sort of leftist, oppressor, oppressed mindset, you think like business owners are evil. They're not. Many of them are small businesses. You know, they're living, they're working on a margin and so it's not affordable. Affordable for them to.
Patrick Bet-David
What's her name? I just want to give a shout out to her.
Vinnie Fisher
Awesome.
Patrick Bet-David
Can you go back all the way to the front to see what her name is? So I think her account.
Adam Sosnick
It's Lucy Biggers.
Patrick Bet-David
Lucy Biggers. Lucy, good for you. I don't know what you do for a living, I don't know where you are, but good for you. You ought to keep creating more content and maybe even starting your podcast if you don't already have one. By the way, do you know what happens to rich people? They migrate to other places. This is millionaire migration in 2025. Look at the country all the way to the bottom. Who is losing the most millionaires right now? Uk.
Adam Sosnick
Holy cow.
Patrick Bet-David
Can you tell me why? What has entered UK causing millionaires to leave uk? What do you think? I wonder what it is, right? Of course, it's got nothing to do with the migration. Migration from Pakistan and other places. What's the number two country at the bottom, Rob? China is losing people, India's losing. South Korea, Russia, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany, Israel.
Adam Sosnick
Look at Bric. Bric, the liberal darlings of the new emergence.
Patrick Bet-David
All the brick Vietnam people are leaving.
Adam Sosnick
Bric.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. South Africa, Indonesia, Nigeria, Iran, Lebanon. Now go all the way to the top, Rob. Go all the way to the top and it's not us. Look who's number one. Uae. If you can zoom in a little bit, Rob. There you go. UAE number one ahead of us. Then it's Italy, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Portugal, Greece, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta. And you got the rest of the countries there, right? Guess what? If you don't take care of your job creators, there is another state city or a country that would be more than happy to take them. So if UK policies don't protect the job creators and those who work their asses off with their investment that reinvests into the economy in uk, they're going to go to a different country. By the way, you know what DeSantis offered for cops that want to come to Florida? Do you remember the bonus that he was offering? Who remembers that?
Vinnie Fisher
What was it?
Patrick Bet-David
$5,000? Remember it was a 5,000. If you can find that. The $5,000 bonus yet for cops is that it launched in 2022, the first of its kind of underscore Florida's nation's leading commitment to supporting law enforcement. The program provided a one time $5,000 bonus after taxes to newly employed officers to show appreciation and incentive for choosing to serve Florida. A lot of those guys that are resigning from New York may be moving to Florida, be a cop here and guess what? We like cops in Florida. If Ma' am Dunning wants to kind of do this, the point is the city's gonna get on safer. So I would not be surprised if the most random people get involved to help Adams get this done. But do not be surprised by the crazies to also show up to make sure Adams doesn't get it done in the state of New York, in the city of New York. And my thoughts on Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo was offended and he has either got to be welcome to a different party because he's not welcome to the Democratic Party. He's either got to be making a decision to go independent Republican, he's got to make a move. He is not going to be able to get nothing done with the party he's a part of because they're not fans of yours, period. Okay, he's either got to apologize and just add a royal screw up with XYZ and find a way to go on a podcast and talk to a bunch of different people to kind of get it off because you have to go through it, right? You kind of have to go through it. He hasn't done that yet. And if you keep playing this card of not willing to do that, guess what the market's gonna say. Look, all we want to hear from you is you effed up and we'll move on. That's all we want to. He says it a couple times, but I think can do a better job with that. I think the only thing he needs, he needs to be welcome somewhere. I think he's been offended then one phone call could address that issue. No problem. Okay, so let's talk.
Tom Zawacki
He should drop out, though.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, I think he should drop out. There's no question about it. He should drop out. That's not even a question.
Tom Zawacki
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
Weather agencies under fire after failing to warm of Texas floods. Okay, so check this out. This is catastrophic. And I don't know if you have the clips of what happens with it. I don't know what word to use, Rob. I mean, this is devastating, scary. You know, the story of one father breaks his arm, is bleeding to save his family, and he's telling his family, you guys go, I'm bleeding too much. I'm not going to be taken care of just to save them. So let me read the stats. Do we have it in here or not? National Weather Agency service faced criticism for the delayed floods warning in Texas where the Guadalupe river surged nearly 30ft. That's three stories. Killing at least 50 people, including 15 children. With the residents, that's July 6th. I don't know what the exact update is today, Rob.
Adam Sosnick
I think that number agenda page two at the top. Texas flood death toll tops 100.
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, my God.
Adam Sosnick
As of last night, 100 have passed away. 28 children, 27 campers and staff.
Patrick Bet-David
You got to be kidding me. Okay, so that number's.
Adam Sosnick
And there's still 30 some odd missing.
Patrick Bet-David
This. This will be a rough week and we need your prayers. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick acknowledged flood warning sirens along the Guadalupe river that have saved lives, but was not installed due to cost concerns. Rescue efforts face challenges with ongoing flash flood risk. As a National Weather Service warned, any storm that moves across the extremely vulnerable region will rapidly cause flash flooding. Predicting 2 to 3 inches of rain per hour on Monday night, with up to 10 inches possible in some areas. Chris Boyer, executive director of national association for Search and Rescue. You've got to get these folks quick. But with floods, you don't typically find a lot of people alive. Rob, go ahead and play this clip here. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile.
Adam Sosnick
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Patrick Bet-David
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Vinnie Fisher
It, they issued the flash flood watch.
Patrick Bet-David
12 hours in advance, the warning three hours in advance.
Adam Sosnick
Contrast that to the Estes park flood back in 76 in Colorado.
Patrick Bet-David
It killed 144 people.
Adam Sosnick
Same kind of channeling of water with stalling thunderstorms.
Vinnie Fisher
The first flood warning was not issued until three or four hours after the flood was going on.
Adam Sosnick
So that's absolutely.
Vinnie Fisher
They were all ready for it.
Adam Sosnick
They understood their duty. And a lot of the guys that work in these weather service offices, they look at themselves the same way as people, you know, that are in the army, that they're trying to, you know, help their country. And they did a great job with this, you know. But how do you get that warning.
Patrick Bet-David
Out at 1:30 or 2 in the morning?
Adam Sosnick
And you got to understand, folks, this area of Texas from Del Rio to west of the metroplex is known as the flash flood alley. Okay, Kerr County, 1987, July 16th had the same thing.
Vinnie Fisher
The Guadalupe river went out of control.
Adam Sosnick
Medina, Texas.
Patrick Bet-David
A dying tropical storm dumped 48 inches of rain.
Adam Sosnick
Then the next day went up to Shackelford county and dumped 30 inches of rain. Your daughter goes to AM.
Vinnie Fisher
I grew up down there.
Adam Sosnick
My dad went there. I can remember Tropical Storm Abbey came in in 64.
Vinnie Fisher
The darn Brazos river was a mile wide.
Adam Sosnick
That's how fast the water comes up in Texas. And it's any mountainous area, this will happen. We had it here in Pennsylvania. Johnstown flood, July of 77. 12 to 16 inches of rain in a 6 hour period and broke all the dams around it. Yes, I have a. Here's the Guadalupe river as it overflows. So it takes about 37 minutes this entire video, but they fast forward it. You can see the water starting to rush.
Vinnie Fisher
Crazy.
Adam Sosnick
This is so this is where it begins. And then I'm gonna fast Forward real quick.
Patrick Bet-David
Go for it.
Tom Zawacki
And look to what it gets to.
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, my God.
Vinnie Fisher
Looks like a tsunami.
Patrick Bet-David
Keep going.
Adam Sosnick
And it gets even harder.
Tom Zawacki
Look.
Adam Sosnick
I mean, it starts overtaking the bridge.
Patrick Bet-David
Jeez, bro. Does it get worse than that? Stuck in that? You're done.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, yeah. Where are you going? You're finished.
Adam Sosnick
They just start showing the. The debris starts piling up near the bridge, and it starts sending water over.
Tom Zawacki
The bridge as well.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, Tom, your thoughts on this?
Adam Sosnick
So this is. This is horrifying as a weather event, and you just have to take the warning seriously. And unfortunately, I read a lot about people that says, you know, these warnings used to happen, like every other day, every other day in this area, and sometimes you don't take them seriously. And those campers, it was at night, it was 2am to 4am where the campers were, phones were going off and sometimes just tempted to go, oh, yeah, another flood warning. And it's clear that in these camping areas, apparently they didn't take it seriously. Wake everybody up and just go out to high ground. And it's that simple. High ground is only a couple miles away, and it's that simple. And they didn't do it. And I think the alarms and the warnings with people that I've read that are upset with the weather service and saying maybe they happen too often. You're doing too good of a job. And it kind of numbed everybody, like the boy who calls wolf. And this came between 2:00am and 4:00am as I understand it. And by the time you got much later than that, you were in trouble because once it started, they said it 45 minutes, I think it said 40, 27ft and 46 minutes was the Guadalupe river at that area where the camps were. And they're right. Once you're in, it's gory and it's terrible. But it's not like you put on a life preserver, you're moving at high speed, and you are being rammed into things and you are being hit by tree debris. And so people that drowned often drowned unconscious. It's just. There's no safe way out once this wall of water with all the debris in it happens. And so my. My assessment was the phones went off gang. And there was a lot of people that didn't pay heed to that. But it also happened at 2 to 4am so you gotta pop out of bed, get going, get those kids in the trucks and get out of there.
Patrick Bet-David
I mean, there's some. There's some very strange tweets made by some People. Vinny, I don't know if you saw some of these tweets.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, like this is Christina. All visitors, children, non MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry. Cook County MAGA voted to gut fema. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.
Adam Sosnick
May I?
Vinnie Fisher
Go ahead, Robbie.
Adam Sosnick
Real quick. This is Caroline Levitt dismissing that narrative.
Tom Zawacki
Democrat elected officials are trying to turn.
Adam Sosnick
This into a political game and it is not.
Vinnie Fisher
This is a national tragedy.
Adam Sosnick
Tragedy.
Patrick Bet-David
And the administration is treating it as such.
Adam Sosnick
We know the National Weather Service provided.
Patrick Bet-David
Early and consistent warnings. They gave out timely flash flood alerts.
Adam Sosnick
There were record breaking lead times in the lead up to this catastrophe. There is ongoing flood monitoring and these offices were well staffed. In fact, one of the offices was actually overstaffed.
Patrick Bet-David
They had more people than they need.
Adam Sosnick
So any claim to the contrary is completely false. And it's just sad that people are pushing these lies. No one's talking about. And you can find it, you can find it on X of the groups of people and trucks and everything. No one is talking about how many people got out that are at this, this mall parking lot. They said, yeah, we were rolling at 3am we heard this and we came up here. And now they're telling us you can't even go back there. So we're stuck here for a couple days and there's all those people. Where do they come from? Yeah, they got the warnings and they heeded the warnings and they got out. And so no one wants to talk about all the people that got out. Now, in the face of tragedy, loss, loss is first and foremost the thing to worry about. But you know what happened was this happened late at night. That's what happened. If there was even an inkling to what was coming. And this is nine in the morning. I don't think the death toll is here. I think it happened so late at night and. But a ton of people got out and got, and got in their trucks. And those are the people that are in there saying, saying we don't think our cabins are, we don't think our place is there. We were down here visiting. We don't think our vacation thing is here. I unhooked the guy that says, I unhooked the rv. Everybody got in the pickup. He had a fifth wheel called big trailer in the back. I unhooked it and we left. I don't think it's there.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, where?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, exactly where I left because I got the warning.
Vinnie Fisher
Yep, exactly. And I, and okay. And in these moments, what's that Rob?
Adam Sosnick
This is CBS News reporting on a U.S. navy. Yeah. Coast Guard his name's Scott Ruskin saved 165 people in the flood.
Patrick Bet-David
Let me see this.
Adam Sosnick
As the Guadalupe river surged in Texas on the fourth of July, US Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin who is from New Jersey and his team flying.
Tom Zawacki
Through severe weather to get to Camp.
Adam Sosnick
Mystic where hundreds were trapped on the ground.
Vinnie Fisher
Ruskin, who was on his first mission.
Adam Sosnick
Out of air station Corpus Christi finding himself setting up triage and comforting many girls at the camp.
Tom Zawacki
It was pretty traumatic.
Adam Sosnick
I mean, yeah, you have a lot of kids.
Vinnie Fisher
They're having probably the worst day of their life.
Adam Sosnick
They're missing friends, they're missing loved ones. They don't know where they are.
Patrick Bet-David
The 26 year old who was sworn.
Adam Sosnick
Into the US Coast Guard while at Rider University during the height of COVID.
Patrick Bet-David
Then rescuing 165 flood victims with the.
Adam Sosnick
Help of the Air National Guard guards.
Tom Zawacki
They were in need of airlift.
Adam Sosnick
There was no other way to get them out. Bridges were gone, roadways were gone and the water was coming up too high for boat rescue.
Patrick Bet-David
Man. Thank you for your service, buddy. Oh, Scott Ruskin, bro. Are you kidding, sir?
Vinnie Fisher
And look at this. And in these moments, these moments of tragedy and our and our hearts and our prayers go out to all the freaking kids that are have deceased them men, everybody that's gone. You have guys like this stepping up and doing their thing and it goes to show you, I mean I don't know it's political stance but notice how the left and these Democrats respond in moments of tragedy like during the Biden administration guys when girls were getting raped and murdered. We criticized the Biden administration because of people like Mayorkas and all them letting them in. When this type of natural disaster happens, this is when you see the true colors of the Democrat and when we say they're the party of violence and they're the party of evil, they have no freaking souls. There's a video. Did you see what Rosie o' Donnell the sick miserable woman went on said she tried to blame Trump for what happened.
Adam Sosnick
A way to blame him Playbook page one. What a horror story in Texas.
Patrick Bet-David
The flash floods in Texas, the Guadalupe.
Adam Sosnick
River, 51 missing, 51 dead. More missing children at a camp. And you know when the president guts all of the early warning systems.
Vinnie Fisher
Systems lie. Didn't have weathering forecast abilities of the government lie.
Adam Sosnick
These are the results that we're going to start to see on a daily basis because he's put this country in so much danger.
Vinnie Fisher
By his horrible. Look at her horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law. Think about.
Tom Zawacki
She looks incredible.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, yeah, she looks great. Just like. What's her name? Kathy Griffin. Rob, you should find out a picture.
Tom Zawacki
Of her name again.
Vinnie Fisher
Kid, kids are dying in Texas and her first thing, this miserable human being. You are Rosie o'. Donnell. You're going to blame Trump, not the storm, okay? You moved across the freaking. You left this country and you went to Ireland. Stay there and nobody wants to hear your stupid ass opinion, okay? They're not just floods, Rosie. They're funerals. Did you hear that guy? Little kids that have the worst moment of their freaking lives watching their friends die in front of them, probably their mom or whoever die in front of them. And she wants to. You know what she says? Let me go in front of a. Let me go tweet a stupid video. And by the way, she's saying that this big beautiful bill did all this time, it's all a lie, okay? The bill was about immigration enforcement, asylum reform and border security. It has nothing to do with early flood warming systems, all right? It doesn't NOAA funding and it doesn't shut down weather stations, ok? It doesn't even touch fema. It's not even in the same category. Okay? Girls are dead. And she's a freaking psycho, by the way. This is what Kathy, this is what happens when you go for Trump invade your mind and your body and your soul. You turn into this person. That's Kathy Griffin, the one that had Trump's head chopped off. And I don't even. I just want to show you. This girl cusses a lot. So I kind of want to give them a heads up.
Patrick Bet-David
Up.
Vinnie Fisher
You want to talk about evil? This girl says that little girls died because of racism. And look at the evil in her. And she says you reap what you sow. You want to see? Have you seen this one?
Patrick Bet-David
Let me see.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay, just a little bit.
Adam Sosnick
Y' all scary as.
Vinnie Fisher
And I don't give a damn.
Patrick Bet-David
Look at her eyes.
Adam Sosnick
Dumb little girls.
Vinnie Fisher
Them people died because of racism, not politics.
Adam Sosnick
Boom.
Vinnie Fisher
I said it. I don't give a. Oh, my God.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, I don't even want.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, my. Disgusting. Yeah, disgusting.
Patrick Bet-David
Human beings give final thoughts.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, look, I'll just try to make some sense of this. Look, there's God made natural disasters and then there's man made disasters. Every single one of the situations that happen in America is a combination of both. And it just. How do you sort of. Where does it Fall in the spectrum. So for instance, you know, Hurricane Katrina, God made disaster. But what happened with the levees? What happened with the LA fires just a handful of months ago?
Adam Sosnick
Right.
Tom Zawacki
Was that God made? Was that man made now that we're seeing the Texas floods?
Adam Sosnick
What do you mean God made.
Tom Zawacki
Natural disasters?
Adam Sosnick
It's a natural death. Well, God's not up there making natural disaster. He allows the broken world to spin.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, maybe you're taking my what I'm saying literally, but. Well, I don't want hurricanes, earthquakes. These aren't. Man doesn't cause these natural disaster. Cause these.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
I'm not saying that God is.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, good.
Tom Zawacki
Pulling the strings and want this, but these are natural disasters. Yes, yes.
Adam Sosnick
I don't. Okay to think that you're saying the other.
Tom Zawacki
I don't think anybody interpreted like that, but thank you, Tom.
Adam Sosnick
You don't read the comments.
Patrick Bet-David
The.
Tom Zawacki
The reality is this. Something like this has happened in Texas before in the 80s. I want to say yes, 87.
Adam Sosnick
I actually have a video of that.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, so maybe we can play that. But it's almost like fool me once, right? Shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Texas should have been better prepared for this. Now people want to blame Trump. Okay. I think the Governor Abbott bears responsibility here. 25ft of flooding. It's the greatest flooding I think they've ever seen since whatever. In the 80s there was no. There was a lack of warning systems, there was a lack of escape routes. You know, there's missiles that are flying in Israel every single day that the entire country basically has missile warnings. Get to shelter. How do they not have this in rural area in Texas? Flood warnings, any sort of device mechanism to basically alert people. So not all floods are going to happen at 9am on a Tuesday. It happened at 1 in the morning on July 4th, I want to say. So you can't predict the timing. What about escape routes? What's going to. Also, there's planning, there's budgeting, there's staff, there's. There's questions of underfunding. The same questions that we asked in la. The same questions that should be asked in Texas.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, I mean that's fair to have the accountability. I will tell you though, when stuff like this, this is tragic. The governor should take inventory and audit, see what's going on. Forget the nasty comments. This one right here, what the person made. Pediatrician fired right after the comments she made. What they voted for, that's what they got. The non MAGA voters. That's going to be happening. It's very nasty. You learn about people's profiles of where they're at. But the reality of it is, by the way, she got fired. Just so you know.
Vinnie Fisher
Good.
Patrick Bet-David
They didn't do anything. She got fired. But Texas should find a way to address this. You know, we lived in Texas for five years, and, Tom, you lived in a place where the second floor. The pipes blew up and your bed fell on your daughter's bed. And God willing, nobody, thank God, nobody was in the house on that day. When you remember the cold weather, when the pipes were blowing up and all over Texas, it was amazing.
Adam Sosnick
The pipes froze. We had an event for an hour.
Patrick Bet-David
You remember TJ had an event at the Gaylord that they were freezing in a hotel room. Do you remember that zoom that we were doing? And they're all cold there. But let's go to the last story here before we wrap up. Vinnie. Ice in LA. Mayor Bass confronts federal agents in MacArthur park, demands withdrawal. Now here, this thing backfires because you got to see this, folks. So MacArthur, according to Mayor Bass, is a very peaceful place.
Vinnie Fisher
Children of skipping and playing.
Patrick Bet-David
Very peaceful place.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
A federal immigration speech by Immigration and customs ice occurred at MacArthur park in L A Westlake District on Monday morning with aerial images showing agents in armored vehicles, unmarked white vans, and on horseback, prompting LA and Mayor Bass to confront them, asking, can I talk to him? And stating, I'm going to let you watch this clip here. This is the scene. I Believe it's at 1107. Call the sweep. Go ahead, Rob.
Adam Sosnick
Any comment? Mayor, my comment is they need to.
Patrick Bet-David
Leave, and they need to leave right now.
Tom Zawacki
Who did you speak with.
Patrick Bet-David
On the phone just now?
Tom Zawacki
Who did you speak with on the phone?
Patrick Bet-David
Why don't you ever care this much when homeless junkies take machetes and hit women? What was the other clip, Rob that.
Adam Sosnick
So here's drone footage of what MacArthur park usually looks like.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, you can let that. It's. That's an average day at MacArthur Park. That guy smoking crack. This guy just has a gun. Gang members are there. These guys are tripping out all freaking day. This is MacArthur Park. Not what Karen Bass is. Is lying to you guys about. For the people that don't know anything about California, if you never lived there, okay? That's what they're doing out in the open, shooting up heroin and doing crack. That's McCarthy.
Tom Zawacki
They just have President Xi of China show up, just like Gavin Newsom will clean up San Francisco. That's what they got to do with this situation.
Vinnie Fisher
It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. The fact that she's there, Pat, she's out there, okay? Getting a photo op and, and interfering with ice. Okay, that's obstruction. This isn't. This isn't leadership. This is them going through. Did you see this?
Adam Sosnick
Nasty.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, they're going, Pat, they're going through. To clean up the BS they're going through.
Adam Sosnick
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Greenlight.Com Spotify where is this, Rob?
Adam Sosnick
This is MacArthur Park. This is the ICE agents arriving and.
Vinnie Fisher
They'Re walking through to make sure everybody get the hell out of there. And they're finding people that are illegally into the country and they're getting rid of all the people that are doing drugs. Look at, look. This is that, and this is them, Pat. This is a faster sped up mode of it.
Patrick Bet-David
And what are they doing? They're trying to find people.
Vinnie Fisher
Well, here they're just sweeping to get rid of everybody that's doing drugs. And, and, and they're looking for gang members because a lot of gang members and stuff hang out here and they're selling drugs here. That's what they're doing. So her showing up there, she's obstructing. That's what she's doing.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay?
Vinnie Fisher
And meanwhile, she's there. The madre fire is raging in San luis Obispo. Over 80,000 acres. It's not contained. This is her priority, okay?
Patrick Bet-David
And the Democratic Party, she's the mayor of this place. San Luis Obispo is two hours away. Yeah, but the challenge is with how nasty that city has turned into. And is this gonna lead to somebody else getting elected? Who knows? Is this gonna lead into somebody else coming in, taking charge. And now you're seeing what ICE tomorrow did. You see the stories about some of the employees are just not showing up to work because they're worried about someone's going to come and figure out that they're illegals and send them home in California. There was a story there last week we had on that, Rob, I don't know if you remember that. I'm sure it didn't roll into today's story.
Adam Sosnick
It's in Immigration News.
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, you do have 11.
Adam Sosnick
Yes. ICE raids derail Los Angeles Economy. Workers Go on a Hike.
Patrick Bet-David
What page is that? Is that addendum or main page?
Adam Sosnick
Main page 11.
Patrick Bet-David
Guys, if you're watching this and you want these notes that we're going through, all you have to do is go to PBD podcast, Manect Circle, and that's the QR code right there. Go to it. You'll be able to follow these stories with us and connect with other people that watch the podcast. But let me go to this. So ice the raid. ICE Raids Derail LA Economy as Workers go into hiding. This is from Bloomberg. Immigration raid by ICE between June 6 and June 22 arrested 1600 people in LA. Damn. Targeting car washes, construction sites and 20 and day labor hubs, causing workers like farmers and landscapers to abandon job sites. Arturo Snyder, chief executive officer of Primester, said, we don't have enough people to staff and work and we're scrambling to figure it out. Noting that it's triggering delays. Mayor Bass stated, we know that Los Angeles, the test case, and we will stand strong as the rates cause severe economic damage to rebuilding efforts Post wildfires. The rates have disrupted L. A. S economy, already strained by wildfire that torched over 16,000 structures, with a report estimating a need of 70,000 additional workers by mid-2026. Claire de Debir, founder of LA based CC Ventures, said, We're already labor challenge and you're adding unpredictability through the raids, which is only going to increase cost and slow things down. Tom.
Adam Sosnick
Hey, you know what? Their supply. So basically the underground economy in LA.
Patrick Bet-David
Is.
Adam Sosnick
Preying on these people that are coming here and paying them what they're paying them to do these jobs. And now that's been going on so long, so unchecked. Sanctuary state. Remember, we're not just a sanctuary city, Viddy. We're a sanctuary state. Right, okay. And now the raids are coming here to find out who's right, who's wrong. And this parallels into Pat Trump talking about yesterday, saying that he what is it? He will consider an amnesty program or they're evaluating potential amnesty program that if you've been here, what, four years, no crimes, prove you've been playing paying taxes, even if you had a bogus Social Security number, you've been paying taxes that, you know, we'll figure out a path for you. Because he's saying apparently, you know, lobbyists and people from hospitality and agriculture coming to him, saying, hey, buddy, we get a lot of people here that we think they're good people, but they're here illegally, they shouldn't be here and they're here illegally, but they're working for hotels or working for in agriculture. You know, what if we had, you know, this goes back to Obama and the Dreamer act, you know, do we find out who's naughty, who's nice and let the ones that are proven that you were paying taxes, behaving yourself and trying to assimilate and working, not taking a bunch of free stuff, but actually working.
Patrick Bet-David
Is this it, Rob?
Adam Sosnick
This is the announcement from July 4th. Yes. About the amnesty program. Go for it. You know, you probably saw I got.
Patrick Bet-David
Myself into a little trouble because I.
Adam Sosnick
Said I don't want to take people.
Patrick Bet-David
Away from the farmers.
Adam Sosnick
And we're going to do something. I think that's going to be good because we want all the criminals out.
Patrick Bet-David
Everybody agrees. And we're finding the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers, we're getting them the hell out of here.
Adam Sosnick
But the farmers, some of the farmers, many of you sitting right here, I have four friends right in the fifth row. But some of the farmers, you know.
Patrick Bet-David
They'Ve had people working for them for years.
Adam Sosnick
And we're going to do something. We're working with Christie and we're going to do something that, that we're going to sort of put the farmers in charge. And if somebody, if a, if a farmer has been with one of these people that work so hard, they bend.
Patrick Bet-David
Over all day, we don't have too many people can do that, but they work very hard. He'll tighten up the messaging because you have to find a way to give the messaging the right way because there are some people that literally want everybody out. There's a group of people that want every one of these illegal.
Vinnie Fisher
And that's a lot. And you saw the Anton, Rob, was that a Anton CNN poll.
Tom Zawacki
I have some stuff.
Vinnie Fisher
Well, he said they're supporting what Trump is doing with. Yeah, this is it.
Tom Zawacki
This was cnn. Majority of Americans approve of deporting.
Patrick Bet-David
None of that is Fox, by the way.
Tom Zawacki
I Guess this is. But these are all taken within the last illegal immigrants.
Patrick Bet-David
And there's real uniformity here. That's what I really think you see is real uniformity. Deported, all immigrants were here illegally. 55%. The New York Times. Marquette, 64%. CBS News. 57%. ABC News with a slightly different question, 56%. So what you're seeing essentially here is a very clear indication that a majority of Americans, in fact, when they're asked this blunt question, which I believe gets.
Tom Zawacki
At the underlying feelings, do in fact.
Patrick Bet-David
Want to deport all immigrants who are here illegally. There's no arguing with these different numbers because they're all essentially the same across your market. You could just be abc, closer to trust more in immigration. Democrats versus Republicans. Got three different polls for you across the board. They all tell the same story. Republicans lead on the issue of immigration.
Vinnie Fisher
You see it here.
Patrick Bet-David
CBS+6.
Vinnie Fisher
You see it here.
Patrick Bet-David
CNN +6. You see it here, Ipsos even bigger. Plus19. No matter what poll you look at, no matter which way you cut it, the American public is with the Republicans. The American public is with Donald Trump. Let me tell you that to a much greater. You know that chart we showed a minute ago on how much UK lost millionaires? Rob, just pull it back up because it's gonna be a different clip than the other one. So some audience just watches clips. They don't watch the whole thing. Watch this one here. Zoom in. All the way to the bottom. All the way to the bottom. Look who's lost the most. Millionaires. Uk. It's not even close. Why? Migration. Forcing people to not feel safe of their country. So they're going elsewhere. And guess who's no longer number one. Go all the way to the top. We used to be number one. Guess who's number one. Uae. Now it's uae. So us. This is a place we competed. First place for many, many years. So a lot of Americans are like, look, man, you gonna come here, you're gonna love America. You're gonna love what we're all about. You're not gonna sit here and trash us. You're a guest here. You better respect the house that you come in to be a guest in. Instead of coming and trying to trash this place. If you want to do that, go back to your country. And I understand that part. It's actually very clear argument. Adam, go ahead.
Tom Zawacki
No, look, the stats. What is. What does Tom always say? Words talk. Numbers scream. The numbers speak for itself.
Vinnie Fisher
Are screaming.
Tom Zawacki
They're screaming. Rob, I sent you a couple different things here. The biggest thing for me was how much the world has changed and perspective has changed just in the last 10 years. June of 2017, go down 1. June of 2017, Trump's net approval on immigration. This was basically his first year as president. He's underwater 21 points. Now he's up. There's another stat over here that shows 2020. The Dems. Do you have that other one? This one right here. Who do you trust more on immigration? Do you trust the Democrats or you trust the Republicans? In 2020, when Trump had just left office and Biden was showing up 32 points plus Dems. Now it's plus 40 swing in favor of, of Trump. Basically, what's happened is everything that Trump talked about, people weren't ready for 10 years ago. And now, as the manifestation has played out, especially under Biden, everyone's like, can we just have what Trump was talking about in 2016? And that's exactly what they're signing up for.
Adam Sosnick
And by the way, it's not opinion. This is a poll of their opinion. But these opinions are being driven by facts. When we did the decision 2024, where week by week we counted down, we can tell you absolutely conclusively, in Arizona, you had Democrats and Republicans that could see the homeless, the, the illegal immigrants that were homeless by gas stations, by. In front of Walmart. They saw it on their front porch. And immigration was number one for Democrats and Republicans in Arizona because they both took their children down to Walmart and both said, what is up with all this humanity here? That doesn't make me feel safe. That's it. That's the way they felt in Texas. That's the way they felt in Mississippi. That's the way they felt in Florida. And then you go to Southern California, take a look what happened to San Diego and Orange county, how red that got during the election. Now go to Missouri. Missouri, all of a sudden, women's right to choose is number two. The economy was number one. Immigration number three. Why? Because it wasn't sitting there on their front porch in Missouri. And so the experience that Americans are happening and what everybody saw with what was coming across the border, Americans have said, wait a minute, wait a minute, this isn't an opinion poll. This is an absolute, is a poll, but it's not an opinion. This is the experience of the American people under the last four years of unchecked immigration that are saying, wait a minute, make it stop. And they're happy that he made it stop. And by the way, would you like to know what community has the highest anti illegal immigration sentiment.
Patrick Bet-David
Latinos.
Adam Sosnick
First generation citizen Latinos. You go down to Miami and stuff, and they'll say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I came here legally. My parents, my mom came here legally after my dad came here. We're talking first generations. These are people that you went to school with, Adam, in a community like Miami that was very diverse and had a high percentage of Hispanics. Pat and I saw it in php. A high percentage of people that are first generations. The first generation Hispanics, they are more. You want. You know why? You know what they say, Vinny, doesn't make perfect sense to you. Because the illegals come to our neighborhoods because it's easy to hide. And they get. They get people giving them lodging and helping them and stuff. And so then some of the bad apples are there in our community. We get impacted first because the criminal element hides right among our community. What are they going to hide? Greenwich, Connecticut. No.
Tom Zawacki
That was a good joke.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, okay, folks, there's a bunch of other stories we can get into, but we are. We've been going for almost three hours today to catch up on a lot of stories, and we're going to be doing this again on Thursday. I ran a poll the other day, and I'm curious to know what you guys think about whether we should go back to doing a podcast two days a week. Tuesday, Thursday, or we go Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or we go every day, five days a week. A lot of people voted. It's somewhere there, Rob, that I retweeted from Peabody Podcast. If you just go to Peabody Podcast, it'll be right there under Peabody Podcast. Some of you guys, if you have thoughts about this, if you want to connect us, let us know. Manect me, Manect Vinnie, Manecta Tom, Adam, or right there, that number said 51 versus Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Vinnie Fisher
Rob, stop smiling, bro.
Patrick Bet-David
So we'll see what direction we're going to be going and how that would work out. Panels, all this other stuff. Let us know and gank if. If you love what we do here, press that subscribe button on the bottom. We'd like to see PBD podcast get to 10 million subscribers because the audience is out there. People want to hear what we have to say. The arguments, the debates, the issues. And we appreciate your support on a weekly basis when you come and join us, no matter what part of the world you're in, whether you agree with us or disagree with us, the fact that you tune in, we appreciate your time. You could be doing a lot of different things. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye.
Tom Zawacki
Bye.
PBD Podcast Episode Summary: "Epstein Client List BOMBSHELL, Musk’s 'America Party' & Tucker's Iran Interview | Ep. 611"
Release Date: July 8, 2025
Host: Patrick Bet-David
Co-Hosts: Adam Sosnick, Vinnie Fisher, Tom Zawacki
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The episode delves into the recent DOJ and FBI review regarding Jeffrey Epstein's death. ABC News reported that no client list was found, confirming Epstein's suicide. However, inconsistencies in video footage presented by CBS’s "60 Minutes" have sparked skepticism among the hosts.
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Elon Musk's announcement to start a new political party, dubbed the "America Party," is scrutinized. The hosts debate the feasibility, motivations, and potential impact on the American political landscape.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated former President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, commending his efforts in forging peace deals.
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The contentious New York City mayoral race between Eric Adams and socialist candidate Zo Ron Mamdani is examined. The discussion focuses on high NYPD retirements, economic concerns, and political maneuvers.
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The devastating Texas floods and the National Weather Service’s response are critically analyzed. The hosts defend the weather services against accusations of failure, highlighting the complexities of disaster management.
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The impact of ICE raids in Los Angeles on the local economy is discussed, highlighting how these operations have led to significant workforce shortages in critical sectors.
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An incident where LA Mayor Karen Bass confronted federal ICE agents in MacArthur Park is examined, critiquing the mayor’s handling and the broader implications for law enforcement and community relations.
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Patrick Bet-David wraps up the episode by emphasizing the need for continued vigilance and political engagement among listeners. He encourages feedback on podcast scheduling and underscores the importance of addressing critical issues like immigration, economic stability, and public safety with informed and strategic approaches.
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This episode navigates through complex and emotionally charged topics, reflecting the hosts' commitment to uncovering truths and advocating for accountability in political and social systems. With robust discussions and pointed critiques, the PBD Podcast delivers a comprehensive analysis intended to inform and engage its audience deeply.