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Vincent
Oh, no.
Tom Zawacki
Minnesota. Four to one. For the people that don't watch sports, did you hear what LeBron said? LeBron said they got some question about center. He says, well, the last guy that said something about the center position got traded. Oh, my God. You know, it's like, give me. You. You said it best. Lebron to you is who?
Vincent
Lebron James is the Rachel Zegler of the NBA.
Tom Zawacki
Lebron James is the Rachel Zegler of the NBA. Just a better performer because I don't know if Rachel.
Patrick Bet-David
Enjoy your summer vacation, King.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, so anyways, Tom, that was. That sounded angry.
Adam Sosnick
We're not angry.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm disappointed. I was since I was a kid. I feel like I can't be a Laker fan now. And if he wants to be like that, he wants.
Adam Sosnick
They traded for Luca. I thought that would work out.
Tom Zawacki
A big announcement to make. We got a big announcement we'll be making here today. And on top of that, we got a lot of stories. This the final story onto the weekend. Everybody's leaving town. We're going to jump on a plane and get out of here. And for some of you that are going to the derby, we will see you at the derby. We were there last year. We're going back again this year. We're taking the whole fam. We're excited about it. We love the tradition of what happens at the derby. Now, yesterday I was on a panel with News Nation with Bill O'Reilly with Stephen A. Smith. President Trump called in. Chris Cuomo put it together. James Carville was there. A bunch of people were there and President Trump called in and they asked, what do you think about Stephen A. Smith? I like him. He's good on TV. I think he should run in 2028. So he kind of gave him that endorsement. It was great.
Adam Sosnick
And Stephen A. Smith looked like, embarrassed, like, dismay, but he liked it.
Vincent
Of course.
Adam Sosnick
He's like, no.
Tom Zawacki
Yes. And by the way, he should run. The only thing is the guy sitting to his left, James Carville, is the same person that said, you know how to talk about sports, but shut your mouth when it comes down to, yeah, politics.
Adam Sosnick
Shut up and dribble.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. So. So I don't know if that party's going to allow him to run, but it's a different story, guys. Few things. Michelle Obama, I mean, she said something really confused the hell out of a lot of people. And I, you know, maybe we'll play it and, you know, maybe we will, maybe we won't. Who knows? 7 numbers to define Trump's first hundred days. Trump wants free passage through Suez Canal in exchange for Houthi's bombing campaign. Trump predicts China would eat tariffs, lessening US Impact. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced trade deal with unidentified country. Done, done, done, done. By the way, did you know Paul Williams worked with Howard Lutnick for five years? Directly, our Paul Williams. Our Paul Williams worked for Howard Lutnick for 15 years.
Adam Sosnick
Stop it.
Tom Zawacki
Directly. 15 years. What do you say anything about great experience, Howard? So anyways, so we got that one, Trump. I think we have a deal with India on tariffs and trade. Yes, we do. 60 million iPhones, guys. UPS cutting 20,000 jobs due to fewer Amazon shipments. New York City lost $9 billion of income to Miami and Palm beach in five years. Elon Musk no longer working from the White House. He's talking to him on the phone. Leading national Democrats are now calling for outright violence. I think this is about Pritzker who said a few words. Canada's conservative poiev also lost his parliament in stunning fault. Like, do we need to keep beating this? Like, did people get the point? That this guy was lazy, didn't want to work hard, and was afraid of the liberal media. Do we need to keep talking about how embarrassing of a loss Pierre had? Can we just leave this guy alone? Who lost in the worst possible way in the history of politics that I paid not. We gotta leave this guy alone.
Patrick Bet-David
We should leave him alone. But I'd like to add, he lost his own seat, which is really embarrassing.
Tom Zawacki
That's embarrassing. But, guys, enough.
Patrick Bet-David
Leave him alone. I'll mention it.
Tom Zawacki
You keep adding these stories. Rob of Canada. I think deep down inside Rob's got a little bit of.
Vincent
He doesn't like Pierre Polyvier.
Tom Zawacki
Where's your family from? Rob? Rob. What is French? What's the family lineage? When you do ancestry?
Patrick Bet-David
Italy and Ireland.
Tom Zawacki
That makes sense.
Vincent
And the capital on January 6.
Tom Zawacki
I. I get it.
Patrick Bet-David
I get a bunch of drunks.
Tom Zawacki
All right, so Ukraine ready to sign the US Resource deal as early as Wednesday. I thought it was done, but as early as Wednesday? Wednesday is yesterday. So 10 worst paying college majors five years after graduation. Folks, you have to see this and see if there's any politics involved with any of these jobs. Before you get your kids to ask you for a $200,000 school loan or whatever you're going to be spending out of your pocket, make sure you pay attention to these 10 jobs. Debt crisis deepens as one in four Americans forced to choose between bills and basics. TSMC starts building third Arizona fab to ramp up US expansion. That's big. Tom's got some thoughts on that. Internal Harvard report criticized the school's response to anti Semitism. This is actually very, very funny and revealing. We'll talk about that. California Democrats, you ready for this? This is why I can't wait for Kamala Harris to be the governor of California. Pay attention to this, folks. California Democrats want to decriminalize Welfare fraud under $25,000. You do welfare fraud under 25. What's the big deal? I mean, come on, guys. These poor. Do you know what they're going through? Do you know what they're going through? And you want to add additional pressure to them just because they did something that's criminal? Under $25,000. Leave these people alone. Let's go after some real US citizens. You know what I'm saying? Let's target some real Californians and hurt those people that are creating jobs, not these poor people. California Democrats block ready bill to make sex trafficking on minors a felony again. Again, they blocked it. Scott Jennings, tell CNN that host Trump cleared up, cleaned up the Biggest mess on border Van Jones. Dems haven't figured out position beyond outrage at Trump and Musk's exclusive. 71% believe media rigs polls to fit political agenda. No. No way. Nobody would ever believe such a thing. And we got a couple other tariff stories here. JD Vancey reps over press focus on fake BS doing spectacular Whitmer. Trump allowed Whitmer to come up and speak at a military event. It's like, wait, she was. You have to see the face on her face. This is Michigan governor who hates Trump. President Trump gives her the stage. She doesn't even know how to handle it. She didn't even know how to thank Trump. She didn't thank him. You have to hear how she talks. Trump, a guy that's trying to unify, maybe allow him to say, look, I don't mind you say a couple words. Beautiful move on him. Gotta love it. Scary move on her. And then President Trump did an interview with ABC that if you haven't watched it was heated from the beginning to the end. I got a handful of clips I want you to see. I think it's worth watching on what happened there. So having said that, we got some big news. We'll make the announcement here in a minute about a new show. Cannot wait to tell you about it. Has to do something to do with a direct competitor to the View. So hang tight. But I want to tell you what happened. So this lemon campaign that we launched on Thursday with the box, okay, that was launched that all of you guys, you know, many of you saw, those of you that didn't, this box that's being shipped to people who are going through a lot of different things today to make their day. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade with a lemon hat in it. And a presentation with a video of me speaking to them, giving them a message. Here, I'm going to press pause here. There was so many accountants. One accountant sent it to 11 clients, lawyers, realtors, insurance folks using it. But then we had a chance to read the note of what some people were writing to their clients. I'm not going to give the names. I just want to read the notes to you. It was so our staff is, when I'm reading this, our marketing team, they're in tears, literally when I'm reading this to them, I'm not going to say the name. Okay. They put the name there, then says, sending you some love to help lift your heart up today. And wanted to say again how sorry I am with Susan's passing. I hope this cheers you up your spirits just for a moment. I love you sister. And always remember to move forward. Flowers don't happen without rain. Love you always. The name is. Are you kidding me? Okay, then it goes here. Me and you forever together. Put your goals always in front of you. Surround yourself with one quality with people, you become who you're with. Thank you for your friendship. Here's another one. Love you brother. Hope you like this. Greatest podcast ever. You not only being a father, husband and a brother, you are also a policeman. You have so much you deal with on a day to day basis, but you still show up for your family. I not only love you, I respect you. I'm telling you, the more I was reading these notes, the more emotional we were getting ourselves. I love the fact that the valuetainment audience is taking time to order something to ship to somebody else to make their day. How awesome is this that we're doing this? So for all of you guys that placed the order, I love that the fact that you're doing this, we're wired the same exact way. Can pick and choose the hats, whether it's the white one, the black one, or the green one. When you're sending out to them, there's still a few left. If you haven't done it yet on the lemon campaign, especially with everything that people are going on right now, go to vtmerch.com place your order. And then also for the mothers out there, you asked for it. We wanted to do it. We know this audience is 80% men, but 20 women, it used to be 90. The female audience has grown in a major way. Rob, if you want to play the clip, Mother's Day's around the corner next week and we got a bunch of VT mom gear stuff that's out there. You know, Mama, today, I love you, VT mom future looks, brides. Here's one that I like a lot that's also on the site, VT Mama. This is another one that we have, valuetainment Mama that we got out there. It's awesome. So we, you know, we wanted to make sure that men, ladies typically do the shopping for us. We're not good at this stuff. Go place an order for mothers out there that are doing the right thing. They're going out of their way and you're seeing how hard they're working. Every order you place, they're going to get a VT mom keychain. And then if you place an order above $100, it's the VT mom keychain. Plus this mug that says VT Mom. And it explains a sophisticated achiever that is always there for you, no matter what. Moms love you. Place an order for the mothers out there that watch PBD podcasts and valuetainment. Having said that, let's get right into it. Here's an interview President Trump does yesterday with abc. Rob, pull up a few of the clips if you can, and we'll go one by one by one. This fellow, I've not seen him. Maybe he's somebody that that's done this before. I'm sure he is because he is representing abc. The President agreed to do the interview with them. Abc. This is the only interview that was done on the 100 days. So President Trump has a lot of options, trust me. A lot of people are asking him to do it. He agreed to do with ABC and here's what ended up happening. I want to show you a couple of the clips. Here's the first clip. Rob, is this the clip about the fact that the referrals, you know, did you know that there's any referrals? And says. How do you know? Is this that one? Yep, let's start off with that one. Here. Watch this here, folks. Go ahead, Rob. Fraud is a crime.
Laura Coates
There have been no referrals to the Justice Department at any. Well, you don't know that, do you? How do you know that? Have there been referrals today? How would you know that there were no referrals? I think they generally. All right, there's been no investigation from the. How do you know that?
Tom Zawacki
I'm asking you, sir.
Laura Coates
No, you're not asking me. You made a statement right now I'm asking. That was a statement that you made. There had been asking. Have there been. Yes, there have.
Tom Zawacki
So there have been referrals for fraud.
Laura Coates
From the work of Depen.
Tom Zawacki
Take a look at some of these.
Laura Coates
Things that took place. Billions of dollars were given to people for no reason whatsoever, of course, because.
Vincent
There'S a wasp in the light.
Tom Zawacki
I'm okay, I'm all good with that. So when you see something like that, Tom, when you see something like that, how do you react to when you see there's no referrals? There is referrals. Do you read into to the fact that, you know, you know, when there's sometimes a communication that they're working with the Intelligence agency, some of these big companies like abc, would you just kind of look at it as. No, he's just spitballing and trying to corner the President.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, first of all, ABC got caught because ABC didn't think there was any referrals. And so they were going with the statement to start the assertive part of the interview with not looking like you're attacking the president. Make a statement that attacks the president. Do you see what I mean? Let the fact attack them. There have been no referrals to the Justice Department. He's like, you don't know that. And see, what they don't know and don't understand is there are closed hearings. That's not what a grand jury is about. You'll hear, a grand jury's been convened in Miami to look into this, and those are closed. We don't know who's in there as witnesses. We don't know what the DA is looking at. Sometimes you hear what the topics are, and so they come out and make that statement. And he slapped them. He absolutely bitch slapped them. You don't know that. What are you talking about? You don't know that. It says there have been referrals. And now the guy's like, I'm asking you, sir. That's the recovery. Oh, I'm asking you, sir.
Tom Zawacki
You know, you screwed up.
Patrick Bet-David
Wasn't. That wasn't his angle.
Tom Zawacki
Now here's another one. Here's the other one about the Ms. 13 tattoos where. Look what happens with this one. Go ahead.
Laura Coates
Rob murderous criminals in this country. We have to get them out. And we're doing it. And you'll pick out one man. But even the man that you picked out, he's got a key, said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and on his knuckles he had MS.13.
Tom Zawacki
There's a dispute.
Laura Coates
Wait a minute, wait a minute. He had MS.13 on his knuckles.
Tom Zawacki
He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on.
Laura Coates
Wait a minute. Okay, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS.1. It says MS.13.
Tom Zawacki
That was photoshopped. So let me.
Laura Coates
That was photoshopped, Terry. You can do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you. But that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had Ms. 13 tattoos.
Tom Zawacki
We'll agree to disagree.
Laura Coates
I want to move on to something else. Terry, do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. And you think it was Photoshop.
Tom Zawacki
Well, here we go. Here we go.
Laura Coates
Don't Photoshop it. Go look at his hand.
Tom Zawacki
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine.
Laura Coates
No, no, no, no. He had M s as clear as you can be. Not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, the news.
Laura Coates
Because when he was photographed in El Salvador, in. In El Salvador.
Tom Zawacki
They aren't there, but let's just go. They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.
Laura Coates
Oh, they weren't there now, right? No, but they're there in your picture. Terry.
Tom Zawacki
Ukraine.
Laura Coates
Sir, he's got MS.13 on his knuckles.
Tom Zawacki
All right, you can pause. Okay, can you. Can you. Can you go? I want to see what Blaze put on there. Can you zoom in on what Blaze put on there? So he had MS.13 tattoo on his knuckle. He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. It says Ms. 13. It was photoshopped. Do you want me to show you the photo? I'm not an expert. Unreal. So, Vinnie, what do you know about this one?
Vincent
Technically, because me and Jake were talking about it, the guy didn't have actually MS.13. He had four symbols that translate in the gang world. Like the marijuana is the M. The. There's three other things that are on there that are.
Adam Sosnick
It is Rob, I just sent you some images.
Vincent
Stands for MS.13. But the one that he's talking about was actually somebody put Ms. 13.
Tom Zawacki
No, no, no. There's four. There's two pictures. There's one picture that shows marijuana, which is the marijuana. The S is Rob, if you have.
Adam Sosnick
The picture, there's like a smile. I want to say, like a smiley face. Here you go. And there's a cross.
Tom Zawacki
Zoom in, Rob.
Adam Sosnick
And then there's a cross.
Tom Zawacki
Is the one.
Vincent
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
See this? Three eyes is the three.
Vincent
Yeah. So. But he's saying it said Ms. 13. It didn't say it. You have to basically spell it out because that. They're not going to put it.
Tom Zawacki
No, I know it doesn't say Ms. 13, but I mean, look, when I was in the army and my drill sergeant had three dot tattooed in his eyes, and they kept asking him, hey, drill sergeant, what's up with the three dots? He says, these are. And I pull them aside when they know. Once I said. I said, I know I'm not going to say something because we've follow each. I said. I said, you realize what those three things mean? He starts smiling. I said, look, I got respect. I'm just saying. I know what that means. The teardrop means something. The three dots means my crazy life. But there is meanings to it.
Adam Sosnick
Like, is that technically many people you.
Tom Zawacki
When you take off your shirt and you're running and Your stomach says 13th Street. Oh, and. And the drill sergeant asks you, why do you have a tattoo of 13th Street? You. You don't just say, I used to live on the streets. I never wanted to get lost. I want to wish everybody knows.
Vincent
Like, if I ever.
Tom Zawacki
You ever kill me, please take me to my family on 13th Street. That's where I live. Right? All sorts of gang.
Patrick Bet-David
There's symbols everywhere that mean sentences. Right? You know, there's one of my favorite T shirts. I love country music, but we probably shouldn't show the symbols, but people can Google it and they'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Adam Sosnick
These are innuendos, country music, but people.
Patrick Bet-David
See it all the time.
Vincent
Symbols make sentences so funny. That is so freaking country music. Get the Hillary.
Adam Sosnick
Oh, okay.
Patrick Bet-David
Country music.
Adam Sosnick
I see this.
Tom Zawacki
Tom, you are so dirty.
Vincent
I love you.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, no, no, no. But the symbols. There are symbols and tattoos.
Tom Zawacki
He really is.
Patrick Bet-David
He really wants to say, oh, it's not this or not that.
Tom Zawacki
It didn't.
Patrick Bet-David
It didn't say Ms. 13 in Spanish. Come on, ABC. And that. That guy. You said you were given the opportunity of a lifetime. This is where reporters get into trouble.
Tom Zawacki
Rob, can you put up the one that he says about Pete Hex at 100%? Do you have. Here's one that's so interesting where he says about. He says this the dumbest, stupidest question I've heard. Go ahead, Rob.
Laura Coates
Signal chat with his wife on it, where he's discussing that attack in Yemen. There's another signal chat discussing the attack on Yemen. There's a reporter accidentally involved. You said the other day that you had a talk with the secretary.
Tom Zawacki
Did you take him to the woodshed?
Laura Coates
I had a talk with him, and whatever I said, I probably wouldn't be inclined to. To tell you, but we had a good talk. He's a talented guy. He's young, he's smart, highly educated, and I think he's going to be a very good defense. Hopefully a great defense secretary, but he'll be a very good defense secretary. You have 100% confidence in. I don't have 100% confidence in anything. Okay? Anything do I have 100%? It's a stupid question. Look, it's pretty important.
Tom Zawacki
I have.
Laura Coates
No, no, no. You don't have 100%. Only a liar would say, I have 100% confidence. I don't have 100% confidence that we're going to finish this interview going up.
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Vincent
Let'S go. Oh, he's such. I. This is why people vote for this guy. He just doesn't give, like, he doesn't.
Tom Zawacki
Let you walk over.
Patrick Bet-David
This interview is probably worth 2 percentage points on approval rating because this is people, you know, they keep saying on Twitter, did you vote for this? Is this who you vote for? Like certain, two certain brothers who are complete tools? Yeah. Well, guess what? If you put this out there, you're going to get, you're going to get half a million people say, yes, that guy is what I voted for.
Vincent
And you know, because I want to ask you guys a question, though. Do you. So ABC gets this interview. Do they coach this guy? Do they tell, I don't even know his name. Do they say, hey, listen, when you go in there, push and punch and it doesn't help them?
Tom Zawacki
Sure. They coach the guy to know what to say, what not to say. There's a part in the interview that I love when he says, the people didn't vote for this for tariffs. Do you know what his answer is?
Vincent
No.
Tom Zawacki
Do you know, Rob, can you find that one? But, Mr. President, the people didn't vote for this. He says, sure they did. This is what they voted for. Sure they did. Yesterday when I was on the panel and Chris asked me a question about, hey, what do you think about all this stuff that's going on? And da, da, da, da. I said, so what do you mean? How many times did the President need to tell you his favorite word in the dictionary is terrorists?
Adam Sosnick
Beautiful words.
Tom Zawacki
What part of tariffs was a surprise to anybody exactly? The number one enemy that we have is China.
Vincent
Boom.
Tom Zawacki
Who didn't do any of the agreements on the terms that we had. And now you want him to Sit there and just allow them to do whatever they want to do. He says, no, we're not doing that. He says, first of all, people voted for this. There's a part of it. I don't know if you can find that Rob or not. Is that the one Rob I'm looking for? Okay, keep, keep looking forward. But Adam, when you see this interview here with the two exchanges with abc, what do you think this does to. Do you think the President needs to do more of these things?
Adam Sosnick
Well, there's, there's a common theme here, and I think these reporters are actually taking the complete opposite approach that you should be taking with Trump. Rather than getting on there and disguise an interview with some more sort of moral grandstanding and try to have gotcha questions and basically try to grill Trump and make a name for yourself. I would actually take the opposite approach, try to actually extract information out of the President United States and win him over and say, you know what, that was a tough interview, but I respect it. You didn't try to get me. Cuz Trump is so used to this. How many times has Trump sat down with a person just like this and just for years whip them up. So, you know, whether it's their bosses, whether it's the executive producers, whether it's the owners of whoever saying, you gotta get him, you gotta hold him accountable, that doesn't work well in the long run. In the short run, you might get a, a quick little clip that you might get you and gotcha. But in the end, he's never going to come back to you again. How many did he, didn't he end up suing CBS for something of some capacity. 60 Minutes, I want to say, for a fake Kamala.
Tom Zawacki
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
And it's a key part of their merger going on right now that they have to reconcile the suit.
Adam Sosnick
Exactly.
Patrick Bet-David
Before federal folks will let it close.
Adam Sosnick
If I was a reporter, I would. I'd be firm but fair. This is a serious interview with the President, United states on day 100. Correct. And I think it's just a horrible look to try to get you and with gotcha questions.
Tom Zawacki
Here's a clip, Here's a clip that I was talking about, about tariffs. Rob, go ahead.
Laura Coates
People are worried.
Tom Zawacki
Even some people who voted for you.
Laura Coates
Saying, I didn't sign up for this.
Tom Zawacki
So sure they do. How do you answer those concerns?
Laura Coates
Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on. I said that we've been abused by other countries at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We were losing three to $5 billion a day on trade concern.
Tom Zawacki
People are, I love that. You know why that's important is, you know, when we're given the score and I gave whatever I give C minus on results. You have a big pipeline and sales. Everyone's like, how could you give something like that? I said, dude, I've been in sales for my entire life. Okay, Pretty much when you have a pipeline of a hundred clients that you're trying to close, say this one's going to be a $16,000 commission, this one's going to be 38,000, 2200, 4200. But if you haven't closed 100 clients you have in the pipeline, you don't get a grade on the leader's bulletin, you get a low grade, you get a grade on a massive pipeline. But guess what? Once they start closing, then all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You move up on the leader's bulletin. But this was one of the promises that he made and I knew it was gonna get scary for some. You know, we, we, we do engagements for our consulting firm. You can go to betdavid.com and see it for about, you know, 10, 000 business owners, give or take from 60 plus countries. And we talked to them. What's the challenge you're going through? What are you feeling? We talked about this in Mar a Lago last week. If you remember in the room. Well, I'm like, tell me the pain you're feeling. What are you going through? Here's how we're negotiating this. Here's how we're dealing with this. We're not using somebody else. We were using China. Now we're going to Vietnam. Now we're going to Sing. Now we're going with this. You're seeing what they're going through. But the reality of it is this is what you voted for. If you, if you knew the guy said, here's what he's going to be doing. He has to go and finish the job with tariffs. And the last clip I want to play of this, Rob, if you have, there's one last one I think that you have. Do you know which one I'm talking about? Where at the end he says ABC is the worst. Is this the one? Let's wrap up with this one here. Watch this, folks. Do you think the reputation of the.
Laura Coates
United States has gone down under your presidency? No, I think it's gone way up. And I think we're a respected country again. We were laughed at all over the world. We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it and everybody knew it it. But you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. Thank you. And by the way, ABC is one of the worst. I have to be honest.
Tom Zawacki
Okay. Thank you. Do you think the ABC is one of the worst? I have to be very honest with you. Do you know, like, when I sit there and I think about why would he do this? He did this just to say that to their face just to say that to their face on how dishonest of a media empire you've built and what you've done. And it was so bad that Whoopi Goldberg apparently was being asked on the show to promote the interview that's coming up. And I don't even think she wanted to promote the interview.
Vincent
Like, remember when Sunny Hostin had to do the retract? Oh, Tom. She had to give a legal statement for multiple times for all the dumb crap that comes out of her mouth. Whoopi's. The show's rapping. And you could tell that a producer saying, hey, don't forget to mention the episode. And look at, look at this. By the way, eyes all the time.
Patrick Bet-David
Hey, coming up later, ABC World News Tonight and an interview with Trump. And she's like, I can't do this.
Vincent
She couldn't. It hurt her to say it, but, but it gives me so much satisfaction because of this, this show being one of the worst shows. And I know you have it. This is actually.
Adam Sosnick
I have it. I'm.
Patrick Bet-David
It's going to take a second.
Vincent
So. And I, and that's why. And I'm so happy with your announcement path that's going to be coming up. This is the worst show out. And I'm shocked that people watch it.
Tom Zawacki
Is this it, Ryan? Go for it. Watch this, folks.
Vincent
To say how you feel.
Tom Zawacki
You have every right to say, I.
Patrick Bet-David
Don'T like what's going on.
Tom Zawacki
You have every right to say, why am I paying for this when. When it's.
Vincent
This is not. I didn't have a fight with anybody.
Tom Zawacki
We just trying to get through.
Vincent
Yes, I see you and I know you want me to say this.
Tom Zawacki
So let me, let me say.
Vincent
Look at.
Tulsi Gabbard
You can hear his view of the.
Vincent
First hundred days on an exclusive interview.
Tom Zawacki
Tonight on ABC at 8pm Eastern and.
Vincent
Streaming afterwards on Hulu Disney plus and ABC News Live. That might be.
Tom Zawacki
We'll be right back.
Vincent
That might be another reason he did it, just to have them have to promote him. You're promoting the President. That your existence of the show is just hate. And I love it.
Patrick Bet-David
She's getting too much air time on the fact that this happened. I do not concern myself with her irrelevance.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. And. And you know what? I'm glad you tell us your thoughts, Todd, about that. But when it comes down to this, with the View right where they're at, there's. There's a lot of ladies that want to have another show that they can listen to. So for months we've been talking about it. We've been talking to hundreds of women, and we have right now a deep roster of ladies. And we are launching a new show that we've already shot this week. We had. You're gonna see who it is. We had Jillian Michaels, Lindy Lee, Anna Kasparian, Amy Dangerfield.
Vincent
What a lineup.
Tom Zawacki
And we had Elizabeth Pipko here. And wait till you hear who else is going to be on the show here soon. The show is called Her Take, and I want you to get a glimpse of what this is going to look like. Go ahead, Rob.
Tulsi Gabbard
Welcome to Her Take. Where real conversation happens, we just take.
Tom Zawacki
A step back and ask the broader question.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm actually with Trump on this.
Tom Zawacki
It's one of the reasons why I left the Democratic Party.
Tulsi Gabbard
Let's talk about the mistake, though, Lindy. Let's talk about the mistake for a second.
Tom Zawacki
Okay?
Patrick Bet-David
He had a legitimate asylum claim.
Tom Zawacki
Intersex, pansexual. True spirit. What the heck is a true spirit? Give it to me in English and.
Tulsi Gabbard
Then dumb it down to 6. Wake up in the morning and I have no spirit.
Tom Zawacki
So are they really marginalized?
Patrick Bet-David
I will be the first one to say that birth control destroyed my life.
Tom Zawacki
The goal is to create lifelong medical patients because that is passive residual income for them every week, every month, till the end of that person's life.
Tulsi Gabbard
You've got real conversations that happen here. Different voices collide, clash, and sometimes even.
Patrick Bet-David
Even connect.
Tulsi Gabbard
There are no scripts, no echo chambers, and just smart and spirited debates. Ladies, are you ready to jump in?
Vincent
Let's read.
Tom Zawacki
There you go.
Vincent
Finally. Finally.
Tom Zawacki
Cannot wait. It was great. It's funny because, you know, they came through. They saw the campus. We have it set up where soon there'll be a live event with live attendance in place and then the distribution, the talent. 150 full time employees that we have in house right now that are helping Support. Everything that we're doing cannot wait, by the way, talking to so many different ladies that want to be part of the first show schedule and all this other stuff. Stay tuned. You're going to see what's going to be coming up. But tomorrow, this will be launched on her take. Rob, can we put the channel below? Folks, can you go support. If you love these ladies, if you love this idea, go support it. If you need, if you want an opposition, a different angle of a show to what's going on there, go to her take. Put it in the chat, please support it. It'll be launched tomorrow. You'll see the trailer all over the place here today. Okay, so, Rob, do you have the minerals deal that we're talking about? We saw President Trump and Zelensky sit down together and have a conversation together, right? Yeah. It's the legendary picture that we all saw.
Vincent
I love it.
Tom Zawacki
Which he pushes Macron aside and it's like, listen, you know, not right now for you, buddy. You're not no security guard.
Vincent
Take a Haikyu.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. And then they sat there and, you know, Zelensky keeps delaying, delaying, delaying, delaying, delaying. Eventually, US And Ukraine signed a mineral deal giving the US Preferential access to Ukrainian mineral resources and establishing a joint investment fund for reconstruction with U.S. treasury Secretary Scott Besant. Good for you, Scott Besant and Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Siverdenko. Signing the accordion with the treasury stated clearly signals the Trump administration administration's commitment to a free and sovereign, prosperous Ukraine. Rob, if you want to play this clip, here's Scott Besant. Thanks to President Trump's tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today's historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine, establishing the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. This partnership allows the United States to invest alongside Ukraine to unlock Ukraine's growth assets, mobilize American talent, capital and governance standards that will improve Ukraine's investment climate and accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery. The Development Finance Corporation will participate and help to establish this fund in collaboration with the government of Ukraine. Today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. It's time for this cruel and senseless war to end. The killing must stop. And both the United States and the government of Ukraine look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership. Great stuff. Tom, your thoughts?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, I love this because the markets are going to love this. The markets are going to See this as a sign also China is going to see this as a sign. This is very, very big. And if Greenland was posturing, remember, Greenland has an opportunity to get US Dollars too, with their agreements. And what we want to do in Greenland is prevent China from, from having a similar deal there. But now Greenland, you know what, you better play ball here because if you want big dollars for your, your rare earth minerals, you got to take a look at this and see that you, you got to, you got to sign up. But what this does, this, this takes it one step closer to peace and it now allows us to get the rare earth minerals that we want. And by the way, you'll notice this is a joint investment fund. So there's opportunities apparently for us large investors like the banking community or corporate investors, no one will like this word, but people like Halliburton who build large projects, they build power, they build dams, they build all kinds of things like this. And so this is going to allow the rebuild of Ukraine, which means Ukraine can return to, you know, full economic status at some point in the future. It's going to take a lot of rebuilding, but it's going to get there. This is a good thing. This is a win. This is a win on the hundred days. And this should calm the markets who have been concerned about this. And most of all, it should settle the nerves of people that were worried about China flanking on rare earth minerals.
Vincent
How much, Tom? Like, how much money potentially does this like, deal bring to the United States? What are we talking about? Ballpark?
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know if the dollar figure to the United States, but the rare earth minerals, there's hundreds of billions of dollars of rare earth minerals. There's okay, and so that, you know, lithium, cobalt and the things like this that need, that are necessary for modern technology.
Tom Zawacki
It's not the way to look at it. The way to look at it is not $. Sometimes you do a deal that we get a certain technology and the benefit is speed. The benefit is a relationship. The benefit is a new market. The benefit is a new territory. This minerals deal is so important because it showed China's not happy about this because China also has the minerals. China's worried the fact that this just happened because America now just got a lifeline like, it's like, you know that video game you play racetrack, and you press a checkpoint. You got 45 more seconds, and you got 45 more seconds. This just gave us five more years of being able to take our time with minerals. When it comes down to China, China wanted Ukraine to take their time with us for as long as possible. This is not good. Russia on the other end right now sitting down and saying, well, because Russia's also got the minerals that's in Donbas. That's, you know, that's, you know, that's the whole thing that they're. Right now, they have control of Donbass right now, if I'm not mistaken.
Patrick Bet-David
Correct.
Tom Zawacki
So for them, yeah. And so for them, it's kind of like, well, we have some good minerals as well. We do. But guess what? Zelensky came to the table, and Trump getting this deal done is actually a very good thing. Adam, your thoughts on this?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, I think this is. I agree with you. This is not just about the minerals. This is not just about the economics of it. This is a geopolitical statement. The United States is basically saying, despite all the chaos out there, about people, they don't like Zelensky and they're more, you know, unified with Putin. United States came out and made a statement and said, we are partnering up with Ukraine for the long term, but we're also going to get something out of it, and our partners are going to get something out of this. And you know who the big loser is here? Putin. Because Putin is basically trying to strong arm everybody. The last tweet that Trump had was about Putin, Putin, stop. Vladimir, stop. I would love to see Putin's response here, because everyone's been trying to pull out of Ukraine. Everyone has not. You know, I think public sentiment has been declining month over month over month, but the United States basically just showed up like a big badass big brother and said, nope, we got your back, but you're going to pay us back.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, I like this deal. I like that this has taken place. And, you know, as this goes. What is this, Rob? You just got here, Just landed in Rome. A good day. In talks with meetings with Russia and Ukraine. They are very close to a deal, and two sides should now meet at very high levels to finish it off. Most of major. Most of the major points are agreed upon. Stop the bloodshed now. We will be wherever is necessary to help facilitate the end to this cruel and senseless war. That's leadership. We will be wherever is necessary to help facilitate. Help facilitate. Help facilitate the end to this cruel and senseless war. And by the way, you know, what's the one of the things he kept saying in the ABC interview? He says, you know, this isn't my war. That's Biden's war. This isn't my war. This is Biden's war. This isn't my word. This is Biden's war. He kept saying it. I'm trying to stop Biden's war that he started. It's such a great point, Rob. Did he literally just put that up?
Adam Sosnick
No, that was Friday of last week.
Patrick Bet-David
When he landed in Rome. But it was in reference to what Adam had said. The stop Putin.
Tom Zawacki
Right. I love that.
Adam Sosnick
Bold prediction, real quick. If he stops this war, I mean sooner rather than later, despite what the left leaning media and infrastructure of the world would want to see, I think Trump will win a Nobel Peace Prize. I mean nobody on that side wants to see it.
Tom Zawacki
You've said this for me.
Adam Sosnick
You stop this war. He, he should be definitely qualified. I think Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing when his, when his first year.
Patrick Bet-David
For what?
Vincent
Nothing. Zero.
Patrick Bet-David
So we all understand the Berlin wal.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. So it's all playing politics. Trump is actually in the game, hopefully changing some pack.
Vincent
I had you a question. When, when he, when he, Trump grabs Zelensky and Macron's trying to leech on, he tells him to back up and he wants to talk to him. What is Trump in your. What would you think that he's telling him to make this happen? What promises, what, what type of dialogue you think happened in that moment?
Tom Zawacki
I think it's every emotion you need. And let me tell you what that emotion is. Rob. Is this it? Rob? Play. Play the clip, dude, look at that. Play the clip. I'll tell you every emotion you need. Is he used in here. This is a pro here that you're not talking to regular. Look at Macron. Okay? Get out of here. We don't need you.
Vincent
We'll listen. I'm going to just sit with this guy. Get out of here.
Tom Zawacki
We'll be with you. I don't even know if he was trying to go. Now that I see the body language. He was just saying hello. Just step aside, we'll have the conversation. Boom. Bingo. So, but this is what I'm saying, you know, what is, what is there? Here's what you need. So what are the qualities? Four qualities. Loved, feared, respected, liked. At different phases of your life, you use those four in different ways. As a father, when you're two years old, you don't need to use fear. It's your kid. Fear doesn't work. At 2 years old, there is a wasp in your orb losing his. Can somebody come kill this guy so I can get Vinnie's full attention? He's right here. We need to kill this guy. Rob. Can you get somebody to come in? No, no. Get somebody to come in here before we get this guy. So.
Vincent
I'm allergic.
Adam Sosnick
I'm a badass guy.
Tom Zawacki
Adam. Adam, you going to do it?
Vincent
Adam, he's, he's. No, no. Too much. It's all right.
Tom Zawacki
Adam, sit down.
Vincent
Adam, let's sit down.
Tom Zawacki
Adam. Adam, sit down. Adam. Okay. Fear, loved, respected, liked. Can you hang into. Yeah, yeah, I know you can.
Adam Sosnick
Okay, I got him.
Tom Zawacki
In this case, in this instance, I guarantee there's fear being used. I guarantee there's fear being used.
Vincent
Like, what do you think he's saying?
Tom Zawacki
Let me tell you. Here's what I'm gonna say to you. Listen, man, let me tell you. I don't know how you negotiated with Biden. I'm not Biden. You play this game with me again, I will do everything in my power to make your life a living hell. And you know you don't want to go there. I want to make this deal happen. Too many innocent people are dying. You know, you can stop that. Somewhere deep down inside, you love your country. And I'm going to do it in a way for you to save face. I'm not going to embarrass you, but you've been embarrassing me for the last two months and haven't said anything about it. Now, you want to do this? I'm going to play it hardball. Don't do that. Let's get a deal in place. Let's make this a big spectacle. Something part of your legacy, that you were the one. You didn't start the war. Putin started the war. Why don't we collectively work together where your legacy is? You stopped the war to save so many people's lives. You did that. You want to be that hero? I'm going to help you happen and I'll tell the world about what a great job you did. But you better sign the deal. I think that's the kind of communication. I think that's how it happened. And I fully see that happening. And I think you'll receive it. And obviously they signed a deal now moving forward. But let me read this next thing here. Trump eases auto tariffs burden as Lutnick touts first foreign trade deal. This is a Reuters story. President Trump signs orders to ease auto tariffs ordering carmakers two years ago. Rob, I think got a video on this. To increase domestic components with credits offsetting tariffs on imported parts at 3.75% of the manufacturers suggested retail price through April 2026 and 2.5% through April 2027 stating we just wanted to help them. If they can't get parts, we didn't want to penalize them. Rob, if this is the clip, go ahead and play the clip. This episode is brought to you by Selectquote. Life insurance can have a huge impact.
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Tom Zawacki
Stop by a Warby Parker store near you. Here's the point. I have a deal. Done, done, done, done. But I need to wait for their prime minister and their parliament to give its approval, which I expect.
Vincent
What country?
Tom Zawacki
Shortly. I'm not going to tell you what country. Let the president decide. It's just you and me here and a couple million people. Hopefully I'll let the president decide. So. And then there are country after country.
Laura Coates
Where we're just working through the details.
Tom Zawacki
But you have to remember they have prime ministers, they have parliament, they have.
Laura Coates
To work through their process.
Tom Zawacki
But all of these are going to.
Laura Coates
Be coming and what they're going to.
Tom Zawacki
Be is they're going to be incredibly smart. Top thoughts?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, I'll tell you got a fact check there. That was CNBC guy saying and a couple million people watching. So in the morning they don't get that kind of rating. So the second part is that this is good. This is another win and I'll reflect it in this way. You know where the S and P is right now, pat, at the second.
Vincent
I was just checking right now, where's it at?
Patrick Bet-David
56. So guess what, we're now, I believe at 6.9% where we were. So in other words, the markets are continuing to recover. And why do they recover? They're recovering with W's. This is a W because what he's allowing to happen. So Trump squeezed hard and Then what did the American automakers say? You know what? We'll try to get more domestic parts. We'll try to source from other things. We'll try to do less China. That's exactly what the art of the deal wanted. And guess what? That's good for America. That's good for American workers in certain sectors. And so this doesn't do everything, but they're also talking about this is a first foreign trade deal and now a deal they're doing. So this is, you know, we also saw it. This is the emergence of India and this is US Companies diversifying their supply chain. All of which is calming things down.
Tom Zawacki
And by the way, watch what the Ford CEO said on this Ford CEO that's on Trump's tariffs. Watch this, folks. This is very interesting. Go ahead.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, first of all, Ford is really different. We make 80% in the US more than any other manufacturing fact.
Tom Zawacki
We made 400,000 more vehicles than than our next competitor.
Patrick Bet-David
And that would fill up the entire island of Manhattan. That's how big of a gap we've made. So look, we think this is really.
Tom Zawacki
Great for the country.
Patrick Bet-David
We really support the president's initiative live. We never left the America on, on car production.
Vincent
That's how you do it is reasonable.
Patrick Bet-David
I think for mostly our competitors, they need more time.
Tom Zawacki
But at Ford, we're in good shape.
Adam Sosnick
And this is the right thing to do.
Tom Zawacki
You know what really makes me want to do this online? Kentucky, watch Ford versus Ferrari again. Good for you, Ford.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way, can I add something, please? Alan Mulally. Did anybody remember who Alan Mually was when it was time for tarp? The CEO of Ford was Alan Mullally. And by the way, I spoke to him for about five minutes at the famous Jobs and Gates.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
And he was there talking to Microsoft about putting Microsoft Sync in Ford cars. Remember when the dashboard was Microsoft Sync?
Tom Zawacki
Yep.
Patrick Bet-David
And here's what he said there. I didn't take a private jet to the hearings. Remember when the automakers were summoned to the hearings on Capitol Hill at the time of tar. I didn't take a private jet, number one. Number two, Ford paid it back, the part that they took, but they didn't take the big part. So if you look back at times of economic crisis, like 2008, 2009 with Ford, and now you look. Now there's been something with Ford as a company that has not taken from America and has tried to. And I think this is legacy of vision and leadership because it goes all the way back then And I give credit to them and I give credit to CEO Farley. Well done. And I also go back to Alan Mulally and what they did back at that time.
Tom Zawacki
Good for them.
Patrick Bet-David
Good for them.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. By the way, when General Motors took money, I don't know if they ever paid it back. When the great, the late Bob Ben Moshe from AIG took $181 billion, they paid it back plus $21 billion of interest. That's what the right CEOs do. That's why his legacy is always going to be respected.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't have the receipts on it, but my memory is exactly what yours. GM took it as a permanent government grant.
Tom Zawacki
That's right.
Vincent
That type of like people talk to talk. We're gonna watch the movie, I guarantee it this weekend. But you know what? The next car I'm getting is going to be a Ford and we're gonna get a gt.
Tom Zawacki
That's one.
Vincent
But like no joke, and you guys are all going to see what versus.
Tom Zawacki
Ferrari is what made me want to buy the Shelby truck and made me want to buy that. The Ford gt, the supercar, whatever.
Adam Sosnick
Now is a very interesting time for American CEOs. I think this is, you know, we get so caught up with the Elon's and the Jeff Bezos, we forget there's so many other CEOs running companies and with so much turmoil with, with the markets, with tariffs so much, you're gonna have so much drama in the LBC. It's kind of hard being a CEO like PDD. I get it. But CEOs are gonna be able to make a name for themselves like this guy Jim Farley. Respect to you for you CEOs are gonna step up and say, no, no, no, no, we're, we're bringing jobs back, we're coming to America.
Tom Zawacki
China. Let's talk China. Adam. Trump predicts China would eat tariffs, lessening US Impact. Ok, this is a Bloomberg story. Rob, I think you got a clip on this one as well. President Trump predicted that China would mitigate the impact of his 145% tariffs on their exports, stating. You don't know whether or not China is going to either. China probably will eat those tariffs. Is this the one? Go ahead and play this clip. Go ahead.
Laura Coates
145% tariffs on China and that is basically an embargo. They deserve it. It'll raise prices on everything from electronics.
Tom Zawacki
To clothing to building houses.
Laura Coates
You don't know that. You don't know whether or not China is going to mathematics. China probably will eat those tariffs. But at 145, they basically can't do much business with the United States. And they were making from us a trillion dollars a year. They were ripping us off like nobody's ever ripped us off. And by the way, we have other countries that were just as bad. If you look at the European Union, it was terrible what they've done to us. Every country, almost every country in the world was ripping us off. They're not doing that anymore.
Tom Zawacki
I love it. I love it. Yeah, absolutely. Tom, thoughts?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, first of all, absolutely right. And it's having an effect because guess what? China also did. China has caved on the 125% tariff for Athene. Now, you don't think about it. What's a theme? Sounds like a makeup, doesn't it? A theme is a gas that when you process it, it makes ethylene and polyethylene, also known as pe is pronounced plastic. We send bazillion tons of ethene to China, and China blinked on a tariff on exports so they could get the athene. And guess what? They did that yesterday. So they're starting to blink, and they're starting to have issues. The president is right. They can't survive at certain things, but they don't care about their people. And they will go long on pain. They will go long on pain on certain things. China absolutely will. But the president's absolutely right. And he's also right to the reporter once again is trying to put a statement out and let the statement indict the president. And he's like, you don't know that. You don't know what it's. What the tariffs are going to work on or off or what they're going to do. But he says, I think they're going to eat the tariffs. In other words, eating the tariff means crap. We're going to wait this thing out. That's what we're going to do. And we're going to win this thing on time. We're going to take the long game. We're going to eat it in other ways. Like on Athene, they need the Athene because they can't make plastic without it. And so they caved on the 125 on that.
Vincent
And I think the worst thing about the whole thing is with this war with China is the. The Chinese people, we are never going to see that pain. That pain that we're talking about, Tom, they're going to be suffering. But you know, Xi Jinping, with that face that he makes you'll never gonna see it. There's no social media, there's no outcry, there's no nothing. And those are the people, like the slave labor camps and all that stuff that they have going on. I feel bad for their people and their, and their, their society. It's, it's, it's. I've heard horrible things that's happened, manufacturing.
Tom Zawacki
Places, and many of them are complete empty, done. They have no work right now. They have no work right now. All of it is empty right now. Many of them. Because people are not doing business with them right now. They're going elsewhere.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, Adam, the look, there's a bigger storyline here and I think this is something that is worth saying. One of my favorite movies of all time. You guys know this? Rocky 4 Ivan Drago versus Rocky Balboa.
Tom Zawacki
If he dies.
Adam Sosnick
If he dies, he dies. China, China is the new Cold war. But instead of punches like Rocky versus Drago, these tariffs are now punches. So instead of, you know, Ivan Drago, it's Ivan Dragon. And the Dragon is a very, very tough competitor. United States unfortunately got rich. We're a little, a little out of shape. We were a little sloppy. Meanwhile, you got Ivan Dragan made in a high tech Chinese lab, possibly a lab leak. We'll see what happens there. And they're quote, unquote, eating the blows. When Rocky's throwing punches, Trump saying, no, you're going to eat the punches. They're going to fight back. You know, she's basically out there on his charm offensive. There's a story here. Whereas the Chinese 4 Ms. Are saying, we're never gonna back down. Never gonna back down. This is the new Cold war.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, keep saying.
Vincent
So, yeah, you're finito.
Tom Zawacki
No, I'm not saying to you.
Adam Sosnick
You want me to keep saying that? No, no, we're never gonna back down.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, keep saying that.
Adam Sosnick
Okay, you want me to do this, though?
Tom Zawacki
Watch this, by the way.
Adam Sosnick
But they're going to say, we will break you do it and we're going to see what happens.
Tom Zawacki
Listen, I have so much confidence in president. You know what I like about how President Trump is that when he says, yeah, no, they voted for this. The people were not expecting this. No, no, they voted for this. Why do you think we went on a landslide? I didn't surprise you with tariffs. This is going to hurt and it's going to suck because we're going against China and China doesn't care about their people as much as we care about our people. That's true. They don't look at their people the way we care about them. They look at their people as people they can use. We look at our people in a completely different way. We're there to serve them. We're supposed to be statesmen for the people that came before us, that built this incredible country, the founding fathers. There's a reason why this is the greatest country in the world. And if you're a leader that's coming and trying to use it ain't gonna work in America. You can do it for a term or two, but Trump's fighting these guys. This is not an easy job. While it's happening, Adidas warns tariffs will mean higher trainer prices. That's what the CEO of Adidas is saying. He's warning, saying, look, you guys can increase this shoe, prices are going to go up. Since we currently cannot produce almost any of our products in the US These higher tariffs will eventually cause higher costs for our products, for the US Markets. Okay? That's what the CEO says. Do you have that clip, Rob? Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
This is CNBC reporting on the.
Tom Zawacki
Play it. I don't mind it. Play it. Go ahead and play this clip. And I don't want to go to the sportswear giant Adidas now saying the.
Patrick Bet-David
Tariffs would result in price hikes for.
Vincent
All of its US Products. The company said it did not yet.
Tom Zawacki
Know by how much those prices would get boosted.
Vincent
Also noting that the global trade dispute.
Tom Zawacki
Was preventing it from raising its full.
Vincent
Year outlook despite a first quarter profit increase. The company pointing out that it's somewhat exposed to tariffs on China currently rate of 145%.
Tom Zawacki
However, the biggest question Adidas. Can I ask you a question, Adidas? Why would you say that? Why would you say that? Why would you not behind closed doors already have a plan. 2, 3, 4, 5. Why are you not be. Why not release a message, Adidas CEO and say something like this? Look, business is business. If we're producing many of our shoes from there, it's costing us this. But we are right now being proactive about it and looking at a couple different places such as boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. That's what we're looking at. And our finance team and our marketing team, we're looking at these places. We're optimistic about long terms. Why can't you give a message like that? You know when you give a message like that, Adidas CEO, you know what you're saying? You're afraid of China more than you're afraid of us. That's what that message means to a guy like me. That's what that message means to me, that you're afraid that you need China, that you're putting China over America. Listen, we. A lot of stuff that we do, we also get from China, we get from El Salvador, we get from us. We get just like anybody else that's competing, we do as well. But for us, if something happens, we're automatically looking at other places. Can you imagine if a business owner straight up is saying, well, the reason why this is happening, like LeBron's interview yesterday when they lost, hey, what do you. You guys are struggling with the center. Well, the last guy, Anthony Davis, when he said this, he got traded. I don't want to say anything. Stop it. Put some confidence on the team. They just brought Luka over. One of the greatest trades of all time. Yeah, you got to put defense around him. You don't talk like that. For Adidas seal to talk like that, as a weak link, to say, well, this is going to affect this, do something about it. You did. Damn CEO. Go find a second and a third option. Who the hell talks like that to say we don't have another option? So prices are going to go up. That's, of course, it's a evident thing. Everyone already knows this. Tell me you're being proactive about it. Tell me you're looking at other options. Tell me you're talking to other people. Inject some hope in your brand. Do you forget in the movie Air what happened when Converse was massive and they had Magic Bird and Julius Irving like this, they disappeared. Do you forget that Adidas. Do you forget your history? Do you forget what happened when Nike came and took everybody's lunch? Do you forget, be proactive. Stop saying the prices are going to go up. We know they're going to go up. Tell us a positive news on what's happening. Here's another one for you, by the way. Check this one out. This one is also another one of those stories. Ups cutting 20,000 jobs due to fewer Amazon shipments. Okay, here's another story, by the way. These stories are real. I'm not telling you they're not real. But the CEO's job is to tell the story in a complete different way. UPS announced it will cut another 20,000 jobs, roughly 4% of its workforce, and close 73 facilities to reduce costs. This decision stems from a significant reduction in shipment volumes from its largest customer, Amazon, which accounted for 11.8% of UPS overall revenue in 2024, and broader economic uncertainty due to Trump's administration tariffs. Right. CEO Carol Tome stated the actions we are taking to reconfigure our network and reduce costs across the business could not be timelier. The job cuts follow UPS January statement with Amazon to reduce Amazon's shipping volume by 50% by the second half of 2026 alongside a slowdown in global trade impacting partial delivery firms. Additionally, UPS faces reduced volume from China linked e commerce platforms. Temu Shane after US tariffs were imposed on previously duty free goods under an $800 threshold. Tom, thoughts on this?
Patrick Bet-David
I got a couple thoughts on this.
Tom Zawacki
Go for it.
Patrick Bet-David
So first of all, UPS made a bad deal with Amazon. They wanted all that Amazon volume and they made a big bad deal. It's an unprofitable deal. Wall Street Journal UPS will fire 20,000 workers and the Wall Street Journal tells the truth. It isn't why you think. Right there in the headline. See that many. It isn't why you think. And they go on to say it's not the tariffs, it was the fact they made a crappy deal with Amazon and guess what? Now they have to back off of it. And then they made a crappier deal with the Teamsters for $100,000. Truck drivers. Now I'm not saying the UPS drivers are out there taking risk, wind, sleet, snow, all that and delivering that don't deserve a livelihood. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying they don't deserve, you know, a living wage. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that UPS got backed into it where the Teamsters determine who keeps the job and who doesn't. And Sean O'Brien, Teamsters president came to the microphone and said, may I remind everyone that UPS is obligated to create 30,000 jobs under the current contract. I do not object if you want to downsize management, but you're in for a hell of a fight if you move on any Teamsters jobs. So now you're handcuffed. You can't run your company the way you should. So UPS made a bad deal with Amazon, they made a bad deal with the, with the Teamsters and now they've got these, these issues and now they got to cut these things. So the non union people working in a warehouse or non union warehouse worker, the warehouse is getting closed. Guess what?
Tom Zawacki
Thank you. That's. I'm so glad. Tom, do you see that point?
Patrick Bet-David
That poor person in a warehouse?
Tom Zawacki
No, but I love the fact that you go deeper into content to find out exactly what's going on. And good for Wall Street Journal to reveal that even though the story says UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs. Oh. It's automatically because of Trump's tariffs. It's not what you think. Good for you, Tom.
Adam Sosnick
I only have one question for you. What can Brown do for you, Tom?
Tom Zawacki
Well, Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby many, many years ago.
Vincent
Yes.
Tom Zawacki
With that horse. You know how much the stud fee was after he won?
Vincent
How much? 2250.
Tom Zawacki
2 50.
Vincent
Just to have.
Tom Zawacki
Every time he hooks up, it's 250. Wow. That's what Brown can do for you.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm happy.
Adam Sosnick
Thank you.
Tom Zawacki
Brown can do a lot for you. All right, let's talk about the next story here. New York City lost $9 billion of income to Miami Palm beach in five years. This is a Bloomberg story, so let's go through it. A net 30,000 New Yorkers moved to Florida's Palm beach and Miami Dade county from 2018 to 2022, taking $9.2 billion in income. Nearly 20,000 people with a per capita income of $190,000 relocating to Palm beach and over 26,000 per capita income. About 266 moved to Miami Dade county, according to Citizens Budget Commission's report. Within New York State, nearly 138,000 city residents relocated to Long island, reducing New York City's adjusted gross income by 11.1 billion. While Westchester county gained almost 60,000 new net residents, cutting the city's income by 5 billion. Driven by factors like coronavirus pandemic, cost of living living and quality of life concerns, New York shares of US millionaires dropped from 12.7 in 2010. Damn. To 8.7. That's. That is insane. That's a 33% drop off. Despite the numbers of millionaires in state nearly doubling 70,000 as hires, including millennials left for the state. Florida, California, Texas, with the top 1% of cities tax filers paying 40% of the income. Again, I thought rich people don't pay taxes with the top 1% of city tax filers paying 40% of income taxes. Adam, thoughts?
Adam Sosnick
Well, this was something that I've been calling for years. And it's just further proof that Miami, slash South Florida is the best place in the world. So when I was in the nightlife world back in the day, I would always see these New Yorkers come every single New Year's and they would spend a ton of money and then they would be like, man, I love it down here. I'm like, well, why don't you end up moving here? I gotta work. I got jobs, I got family. I had all this. I Was like, all right, very interesting. So I would see, like, what's a game you would play back in the day? We would almost like jump in, like double, double dutch. You would like, all right, I would see this, do that, these New Yorkers do this game of double dutch for years. And then I'd be like, well, I didn't fully understand, like, why they just wouldn't move down here. And then it took a worldwide pandemic for people to be like, what the hell am I doing in New York? And I've seen what's happened over the last five years. Not even just from New York, from all over the country, people. People basically saying, I'm coming down now. You can give a shout out to Mayor Francis Suarez down in Miami. You can give a shout out to Governor Ron DeSantis. You know, you, you give DeSantis shout outs all the time.
Vincent
Always love, but try to give him boots.
Adam Sosnick
You know, if you can, if you can work from anywhere, why wouldn't you want to be in Miami? South Florida, Palm Beach, Mar? A Lago? Your thoughts, everything.
Tom Zawacki
Your thoughts on this.
Patrick Bet-David
Guess what? Bad policies have consequences. And New York's bad policies, even people that do not want to move from the New York area, they move to Westchester, they move to Long island. So they're outside of New York City. The issue here is New York City. It's not New Yorkers, it's not people in the Northeast, it's not businesses in the Northeast. It's nyc. New York City's management. And this is what they get. All of these folks have left, whether they left locally, 138,000 going to long island, we know a few people out there. And then 60,000 go into Westchester county, which is up Pound Ridge area, Armont bordering Connecticut. Or you have the 50,000 people with 190 and 266 average salaries. It's bad policies in New York. Move them all down here. And you know what? Whoever is the next mayor is going to be looking for EBT cards to give city employees because this is the, this is deadly on the city budget. New York City is about to become a welfare recipient of New York State and the federal government worse than it has been. Mark my words. And I don't mean that to sound harsh, Pat, but New York City is about to turn itself into a welfare queen looking for money from other people. Because bad policies have consequences. And whether it's local or Florida, its own residents are leaving people.
Tom Zawacki
Who are they talking about running for governor? Robin? New York? Was it Stefanik or was It Zeldin. Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Elise Stefanik.
Tom Zawacki
Stefanic. And she didn't want to. She, she, she was kind of like I don't want to talk about it type of situation.
Adam Sosnick
I want to get your.
Tom Zawacki
Let me see this.
Patrick Bet-David
This is her tweet in response to Mike Johnson.
Tom Zawacki
Got it. Speaker Mike Johnson saying he's having conversations with Stefanik and lawyer for about running for governor. If either law or Stefano grunt they will have to give. I don't know what the rest is. This is not true. I have had no conversation with the speaker regarding the governor race. Looking forward to the conversation about salt with New York members tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Patrick Bet-David
State and local taxes.
Tom Zawacki
What do you think about that? What do you think about correcting Speaker Johnson?
Vincent
Well, did Speaker Johnson say that or did that guy post that?
Tom Zawacki
Speaker Johnson said it. Yeah, because let me tell you, I don't know. Can you go back to the post, Rob?
Vincent
So she's trying to see Jane Sherman.
Tom Zawacki
Saying, well listen, I would. No, no, the proper protocol is not that step. Here's what I'm doing. If I'm her my opinion first, you call Speaker Johnson and you say, hey, is this true that you said this? I never said that. Would you mind tweeting that? And I'm going to retweet that. So if you work, you're a phone call away from anybody. Stephanie, you can call Speaker John. So if that didn't happen, then there's either a riff. Did Speaker Johnson respond to this? Or say anything about this? Rob. Or not.
Patrick Bet-David
Look, I didn't see anything.
Tom Zawacki
She is calling out Speaker Johnson. That's a call out to Speaker Johnson because the proper protocol would be for Speaker Johnson tweet about the fact that I never said this. If you never said it, you're the one that's supposed to say I never said something like that. Yeah.
Vincent
Just out of curiosity for the New Yorkers, Tom and the Californians and all these people in these states that it's the leadership, it's the policies and everything, at what point Cuz you guys, you can't feel sorry for them anymore. Cuz you keep voting in these same leaders and you came there and you keep staying there and then what you're like, oh, I can't take anymore. And then you leave. It shouldn't be like that. You should be voting in the people that you want to run the state the way it's supposed to be. Right? Why the hell are you leaving? Why are you. You know what I mean? Like keep voting for these freaking people and then you leave. And it's like, oh well, we have to leave, then you abandon your fricking state.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, it's also victimhood. Victimhood can go from billionaires all the way down to people on welfare. Victimhood can go all the way, all the way around the world. And what you have is these people that are, you know, victim. Oh, it's because of Trump, it's because of this. Well, you may have the money to write it out and maybe you stay there cuz you just don't wanna leave. You got family, friends, you got everything there, you got your life there and you just don't wanna leave. But what you're not is honest. You're not honest about it. You're not saying, look, I voted for this and this is not what I wanted and this is not the New York that I grew up in. This is not the New York that I wanna live in. I said that about Los Angeles and said, but you know what, I'm gonna stick it out and I'm stay here and I've got the resources to do it. That would be honest. But then criticize, oh it's Trump, it's Trump, it's Trump. And blaming other people and blaming everything else and then staying there in the middle of it with non answer or just howling at the moon. You know what, let me tell you, screw you.
Tom Zawacki
A friend of ours came and we had dinner with him. You met him, Bobby, Love him, right? Love him. Phenomenal guy. So he came and we had dinner with him and I told him, I said every week I meet an Armenian family that says Pat, I watched the podcast, the video that you did. 10 reasons why you left California, you came to Florida and we're coming here. I see Armenians every, you know what kind of Armenians? Business owner Armenians, hard working Armenians, conservative Armenians, independent Armenians. I'm not talking about the woke left, crazy Armenians in Glendale. That should stay in Glendale.
Vincent
Yeah, please.
Tom Zawacki
I'm talking about those types of Armenians. And you know what city is going to become the Glendale of East Coast? Boca Raton. You're going to see Armenians are going to love Boca Raton. Safe. They got million dollar homes on the water property. $50 million homes. They got $300,000 homes, $500,000 homes.
Patrick Bet-David
Large, fully established Orthodox church.
Tom Zawacki
Large, fully established Armenian Orthodox. I think it's a Catholic church if I'm not mistaken. Could be an orthodox church, but there's an Armenian church there. Big community, safe. You're going to see this watch. In the next five to 10 years they're going to end up here, the performers, they're coming. A lot of them are coming. Now, Boca Raton will be The Glendale of 20 years ago, not today's crazy Glendale. Glendale of 20 years ago. It'll happen because Boca's got the mixture of Beverly Hills and a mixture of Glendale together. You got all the shops, the malls, the water, the country club, the freaking Michael Dell that turned the Waldorf Astoria into an incredible property, the Boca Raton Resort. That's. That's unfreaking believable that Tony Robbins does his events there. It's a beautiful property. It's an absolute beautiful property. But watch Armenians move to Boca. Armenians. Yeta Lusumek. Very simple yet. Konak Sidum Manatsa, Klendel, Gorzetarek. By the way, Kamala Harris is next. You're welcome. She's going to be your governor soon. The way this is happening. She said a couple words, but I'm telling you, for Armenians, for those of you who say, well, I would never do that at a. Come for four days, bring your family, stay at the Boca Resort. Go to all the restaurants, go to all the places. Golf, go to Palm beach, go take your family to Miami. See what happens. I'm telling you, you will fall in love with Boca Raton. It's a phenomenal city. And a lot of Armenians that are business owners, they're gonna love that area, raising their kids, safety values, principles, all of that stuff. Adam.
Adam Sosnick
Well, I think there's a great template for what you're saying right now, because you know who is the number one culture in Boca right now? It's the Jews. They love Boca. So it's a good template right here with the Armenians and the Jews getting along.
Tom Zawacki
You got Beverly Hills, you got Santa Monica. That's also a lot of. Well, I'll tell you this, but California. Let me sell you guys the dream on your next governor. Let me just sell them to you. I want to excite all the California people. I got a candidate for you you're going to be so excited about. And this is somebody that is most likely going to be replacing Newsom. You ready for this? Rob, please play this clip. The audience is going to be so fired off. I want to put the biggest smile on your face. Go ahead, Rob, play the clip. Instead of an administration working to advance.
Patrick Bet-David
America's highest ideals, we are witnessing the whole sale. Abandonment of those ideals.
Vincent
Oh, man.
Tom Zawacki
What did she just say? Nothing.
Vincent
Zero.
Patrick Bet-David
She thinks she has an idea.
Tom Zawacki
And what we are also seeing in these last 14 weeks. Yeah. Is Americans using their voice and showing their courage.
Patrick Bet-David
Americans who are speaking out to, say.
Tom Zawacki
Causing a candidate to lose seven battleground states.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
And you, Kamala, thankfully turned every state in America more Republican. God knows how you did that. You broke records.
Vincent
Wow.
Tom Zawacki
And by the way, if you go in the comment section, look what I said. Look what I said in the comment section. I don't know if you see me in the comment section. I commented somewhere in there. It should be somewhere in there. You know what I said in the comment section? I said, I hope you run in 2028. And you know what everybody is saying, Patrick, thank you for supporting Kamala. And MPD podcast guys are like, that's.
Vincent
Not what he means.
Tom Zawacki
That's not what he means. But California, this could be your governor. This could be your governor. And let me just kind of tell you a little bit more as you're getting excited about this, because I know the folks in California are getting. It means very enthusiastic. Here's another one for you. You ready? Incredible California policies. California Democrats want to decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000. Rob, is this it? They want to decriminalize Welfare Fraud under 25,000. Please play this beautiful clip. California Senate Bill 560 would decriminalize your right welfare fraud below an amount of 25,000. It would also delete a provision for criminal penalties for any attempt at welfare fraud below 950 bucks. The legislation not only prevents prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud, it also stops someone from being charged with perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud. The bill also, by the way, stops.
Laura Coates
Counties from pursuing criminal action for overpayment.
Tom Zawacki
If they did not provide timely notice to the recipients. California critics of the bill say people who cheat the system should be held accountable, not protected. Now, there's a concept.
Laura Coates
The next hearing on this bill.
Tom Zawacki
By the way, you can find this. Listen, you know, you know how I interpreted that message? If I'm a criminal, dude, I'm moving to California.
Vincent
That's the message.
Tom Zawacki
So let me tell you guys how this works, folks. Policies attract different types of people.
Vincent
Good call.
Tom Zawacki
If you're watching this and you're kind of like, dude, I want to work hard. I want to be able to build a business. I want my kids to have the right values. I don't want my kids to be confused. I don't want to have to pay state taxes. Just put the. Put the pressure on me to take care of my family. Put the pressure on me to make money. If that's you, Florida is a Great climate for you. Texas could even be a great climate for you, maybe Tennessee. I got a few suggestions, but if you're watching this, you're like, I freaking hate rich people. I hate business owners. I hate people that take care of their stuff. I don't think that's fair. I want to go to a place that crime, they're fair with crime. I want to go to a place that criminals matter more than citizens do. If that's what you're watching, what California is saying is, come, Heather, come to California. Come to us, because we welcome you. Come to Illinois. Come to, you know, places like New York is what they're saying. But specifically is the state of California. Tom. I'm going to read that, and I'm going to go to the next one and I'm going to hand it over to you. Matter of fact, why don't you just respond to the $25,000 one before I go to the next one?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, if you take a look at grand theft, you've heard of this. What's grand theft is you stole more than $5,000 depending on the state. Some states have minor grand theft at 750. Florida's got a third degree grand theft. You entered the super bonus round at 100,000, which is big penalties and big prison time. But grand theft is a limit that is set by law so that you're no longer misdemeanor. You've entered. You've gone to the collegiate level of penalties, grand theft. So what they're saying, I think car thefts are gonna go down in California because it's still 5,000 for grand theft auto. That's not a video game. That's actually a crime. Grand theft auto instead. Hey, man, why go to prison for grand theft auto because you stole a car more than five grand in California when we can just make a fake Social Security number, get $2,000 a month. 2,000 times 12 is 2,000.
Vincent
Tom, don't do this to me.
Patrick Bet-David
24,000.
Vincent
Really, Tom, you want. I'll tell you a joke. This guy sounds like square root of.
Patrick Bet-David
PI times nine, 2,000amonth times 12 months. One year would be 24,000. So if I made a fake ID to get that fake ID welfare every month for a year, 24,000, no problem, Tom, Keep the money. We won't charge you. Get it? That's what they're doing. So instead of, I think this is going to cause car thefts to go down because you can go to jail for a long time for car theft, but 25,000 grand theft.
Tom Zawacki
Let me go to the next one.
Vincent
Because you know you, you before that, I mean that was hilarious but you just gave me. I'm going to. The next sketch I'm going to do is going to be a commercial for California pitch because it's.
Tom Zawacki
I love that.
Vincent
And you just made me think don't steal cars. You could go to prison and come to California. You could, you could stop criminal and steal. You could steal 900 benefits and walk right out.
Tom Zawacki
That's right. Only in the great state of California come. Do we protect criminals more than citizens.
Vincent
Exactly.
Tom Zawacki
That's the line. Only in the great state of California do we protect criminals more than U. S. Citizens.
Adam Sosnick
What were like convenience.
Patrick Bet-David
People don't shoot. People don't get into purse snatching. It's welfare fraud.
Adam Sosnick
What were convenience stores doing in California? They were, they were, they basically were putting a price tag everything one day change everything. They were, they were chaining up.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Because San Francisco made under 900 a non punishable offense. So people would shoplift. So they made the shampoo $901.
Adam Sosnick
I got to tell you remember when 51 our friend Ricky used to be on the podcast Ricky. And we would get in like these arguments and the reality is as someone that's lived in Florida which has been a purple state my whole life, I'm not used to the nonsense that happens in California. So for someone like Ricky he's like, you don't understand bro. They're fucking insane out there. I'm like what are you talking about? They're just. Because Democrats in Florida are not this insane here they're absolutely insane out in California and the wokeness has been exposed just like this criminal fraud situation. Let me read that going on here.
Tom Zawacki
Oh no, no. But wait.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. Does it get worse?
Tom Zawacki
That's a great ide. Let me read the next idea to you.
Adam Sosnick
This is Florida.
Tom Zawacki
California Democrats block bill to make sex trafficking of minors a felony. Again they block California Democrats on assembly. Rob, is this the clip? Yes, Go for it, Rob. News out of the state capitol.
Tulsi Gabbard
Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking. Thanks for joining us at 4. I'm Lisa Gonzalez.
Patrick Bet-David
And I'm Curtis May.
Tom Zawacki
The governor's office is speaking up after.
Patrick Bet-David
Law lawmakers today blocked an effort to crack down on the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry.
Tom Zawacki
Specifically those who buy 16 and 17 year olds for sex.
Patrick Bet-David
Let's get to KCRA3 Capital Correspondent Ashley Zavala who is first to report the governor's involvement.
Tulsi Gabbard
Curtis, this is now the Third time the governor's office has gotten involved in this kind of fight between Democrats over this issue. The governor signaling his support for that proposal to make it an automatic felony to purchase a 16 year old or 17 year old for sex. In a statement exclusively to us this afternoon, really just within the last hour, the governor's office said, quote, the law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same as a felony, regardless of the intended victim's age. Full stop. This comes after the Assembly Public Safety Committee this morning blocked this proposal from moving forward that targets the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry. It's written by assembly member Maggie Crowell, a Democrat who has spent the last two decades working on this issue. Now, before getting elected to the assembly, she was a prosecutor for the California Department of Justice. But Democratic leaders say they have concerns about possible unintended consequences with this. How the automatic felony for the purchase of the teens could impact the LGBTQ community, people of color, and older teens. Here's what the chairman of the committee, Schultz and Krell, had to say right after the hearing. People are forced to stand. People keep asking that, like, why can't Democrats immediately get on board with something like this?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, so, so, So I would emphasize two things. First of all, the exploitation of any children. As we heard in there in the comments I made in the dais, it's already unlawful to do anything like that in the state of California. What we're talking about is a very specific, narrow issue of whether whether or not the stiff penalties that apply in, say, a human trafficking context should apply in a non human trafficking context involving a 16 or 17 year old. Under Senate Bill 1414, which passed last year, that's a mandatory sex offender registration. And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least entertain that conversation. But how that might apply to an 18 and 17 year old in a relationship might be different from what we might see from what we think about people that are out here trying to.
Tom Zawacki
Get somebody off the blade and exploit them. So I think that these are important conversations we have to have.
Tulsi Gabbard
I don't think we're doing enough to protect children from sex trafficking. I think that's pretty clear. It's clear from the survivors. It's clear from driving down to the right now.
Vincent
More reason like, like keep piling up. Just what is California like, by the way? This is not funny, Tommy. I thought the jokes are.
Patrick Bet-David
Stop. I have no jokes.
Vincent
Yeah, no, I know we're not. I know you're not.
Tom Zawacki
Don't do it.
Vincent
I'm just saying.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't.
Vincent
Guys, it's unbelievable to me. I'm sitting here because I want to talk about the RFK situation. The fact that they're saying, no 16 and 17 year olds, it's not going to be a felony, then what is it going to be? A misdemeanor.
Patrick Bet-David
And by the way, did you see the quote there? It came from Governor Newsom's office.
Vincent
It didn't come from actual Gavin Newsom.
Patrick Bet-David
It didn't say. Said the governor. It came from his office because his office has two part. He has the Office of Public Policy and Office of Legislative Affairs. So it came from Governor Newsom's office. So Gavin Newsom could say, well, it came from my office. And there's people looking into that. I didn't. I personally.
Vincent
That's exactly. That's escape.
Patrick Bet-David
You catch these nuances that are coming out. But the strategy in California is decriminalize everything. It's not your fault. It's not your fault.
Adam Sosnick
The only thing that I can take from California is that the only felony that the government of California has committed is the crime of not having common sense. And that just seems to be a reoccurring theme of whatever's going on in California. Which takes me back to my original point. If there's one thing you could say about Florida is at the very least, we have common sense here. And leadership on down is just like, no, this is the where woke goes to die. This is how we're doing. This is how we're taking care of our police. This is how we're taking care of children. This is what's going on here. We're not going to have kids, you know, doing social media at young ages, whereas you have California with just, like, wokeness gone wrong. And here's just another example of just the mind bending exercises you have to go through to understand what California is like.
Vincent
What is that, Rob?
Patrick Bet-David
This is the.
Adam Sosnick
One of the members of the LGBTQ community who is an assemblyman who voted.
Patrick Bet-David
Against the bill, explaining why this bill would target members of the gay community.
Tom Zawacki
Can you zoom in on his fingernails real quick? Are you able to do that?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Can you go a little bit more? Go zoom in a little bit.
Adam Sosnick
They're very polished.
Tom Zawacki
His fingernails, by the way, dose eyebrows were done by. I want to say. No, those are. Those are. Zoom out a little bit. He's straight up. I'm a good looking guy, but go, go out.
Vincent
I want to hear this.
Tom Zawacki
So what's to say? So Assemblyman Gonzalez is concerned that anti Trafficking bill overlooks the LGBTQ community Again. I mean, when you say stuff like this, you know what, you tell me. If you want us to baptize your kids in the eyes of LGBTQ community, bring them to California. It's very simple, that's all. I see it as if you want your kids to be overly exposed to certain things prior to them being at the proper age, bring them to California. And by the way, for some of you guys that are watching this, if you're all for it, move to California. It's a beautiful state. If you, if you want your kids to not be protected from dumb policies like this. However, let me read you what rfk saying here. RFK Jr accuses Biden era HHS of role in child trafficking. Says Trump's team now locating 300,000 missing minors. What? Rob, if you can play this clip, you know, this is a major accusation being made, but here's Bobby Kennedy. Go for it.
Patrick Bet-David
We have ended HHS as the role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. And during the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for, for slavery.
Tom Zawacki
And we have ended that.
Patrick Bet-David
And we're very aggressively going out and trying to find these children, 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, go for it.
Vincent
And I'm so happy because you didn't. I don't even think we planned that, that you showed that California lawmakers are out there trying to make it less of a crime, a lesser crime for trafficking 16 year old children. And I hope everybody understands what happened. This was at the cabinet meeting. And this is the new head of HHS, Robert Kennedy Jr. That's saying, bro, this is blaming, this is putting blame on them, saying that they were collaborators on children that were for sex slaves and for work. Okay? And by the way, do you guys know who the old HHS secretary was? Xavier Becero. And guess, random guess who his assistant secretary was. Rob, could you show this? This is the face of Rachel Levine, a dude that was dressing as a, as a, as a woman.
Adam Sosnick
As a dude behind the dude.
Vincent
Yeah. And you would think the other dude. What? You would think these people. And it's weird, isn't it weird that this group is all about young children and brainwashing these young children and pushing this ideology on them. And think about it, the sponsorship, when you set unvetted people to come pick up, it was a turnstile for children and they're gone. Pat. There's no dead bodies, there's no bones. We don't know where the hell they are. I mean, we could have an understanding. There's no Epstein Island. But like we talked about last time, they're going somewhere to these disgusting pedophiles. Okay. And Alejandro Mayorkas and I love, keep bringing his name up. He's one of the main ones, too. It was all. Dude, it was all a plan. They told you, open up the border, leave it completely open. These people are getting all the 300,000 missing children that they want and they're arguing that it wasn't a failure what they did. Okay. It was intentional. Trump has shut it down 100% and it was big business. And then as if we didn't know, look at all the stuff with Epstein, Virginia Goofy committing suicide and all that stuff. They're blocking bills for felony for these children. It's. Dude, it's big business for taking advantage of these children. And for him to say that that means it was all a plan. He called them collaborators. So that means that last administration, and that's for all the people out there, they're like, you don't care about Mexicans and immigrants and. No, no, it was a big business for freaking sex trafficking. And I listen, I have to pray for them. But allegedly.
Tom Zawacki
And they have to prove it.
Vincent
They have to prove it.
Tom Zawacki
They have to. But he's saying, but I know, but they have to prove it, Vinnie. Yeah, they have to prove it. There's got to be some people being held accountable while they're going after.
Vincent
You think anybody's going to. That's my question to you. Do you think anybody's going to be held accountable? Because there's no excuse for leaving the border wide open. There's absolute zero. You did it on purpose. And from what he is saying is that they were known, they were collaborators and bringing these people in, like, where are the kids?
Patrick Bet-David
So what you're saying is sex trafficking is a big business. I heard you say it's a big business. Sex trafficking is a big business. Sex trafficking minors is a big business.
Vincent
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
And if this is true and this comes down, we'd like to see indictments. If in fact, you know, the Department of government was acting as a criminal enterprise. Some heads have got a role.
Vincent
Yes. And for the new head saying that the last administration was collaborators, that's a bold, bold statement from him. Right.
Adam Sosnick
Just with these California stories, just kind of putting them together. And we talked about the. The welfare fraud and the child trafficking, it would seem that, like, welfare fraud, ah, it's no big deal. It's like Practically encouraged. If it's under $25,000. Sex trafficking a teenager. Listen, let's not rush to judgment. We don't want to throw the book at this person right now. It's almost like it's safer to commit crime and welfare in California than actually be held accountable for sex driving kids.
Vincent
Yeah. No, it's horrible.
Patrick Bet-David
No, that's a factual statement based on the way the laws work.
Vincent
Yeah, well, think about.
Adam Sosnick
And look, I'm just a common sense dude playing a dude who lives in Miami.
Vincent
But it makes no sense if you bring. If you're letting. Knowingly you're letting people bring children to the border and you're having somebody come pick up those kids that's not related to them and they didn't do a background check, you're. You're responsible for that child's life, Tom. You let some random.
Patrick Bet-David
You want to reflect it, bring it around full circle.
Vincent
Go ahead.
Patrick Bet-David
Who is the state of California going after? Who are they suing as of two weeks ago?
Vincent
Who.
Patrick Bet-David
Who? Gavin Newsom say, suing the Trump administration. Exactly. So they're suing the Trump administration. By the way, what was the S and P on April 1st where we were all worried about Liberation Day?
Vincent
Did it go up?
Patrick Bet-David
It was 5,000, 633. You know what the S and P is as of this moment?
Vincent
What?
Patrick Bet-David
5639.
Adam Sosnick
Oh, weird.
Patrick Bet-David
So the entire loss from Liberation Day has been eliminated a little at a time as these little wins and big wins are piling up. But state of California lets all this stuff go on. Yet they're suing the president under the things for the tariffs. And guess what? The markets are saying California. You're wrong.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. And that's great. Let the market decide, but they can do all they want on. On a brighter side for California. Look, as much as I give you a hard time, I would love to see somebody have the brass to go out there and fight and save California. I'd love that. Even though I know a lot of people are going to leave no matter what. And that's a state that's in a problematic place. I'd love to see everybody rally behind somebody that has the brass and go and do the fight.
Adam Sosnick
Pat, what do you mean? They have Kamala.
Tom Zawacki
She's fighting and she's legendary. I mean, she's. She's a legend in interest.
Patrick Bet-David
But look, I have an ideal.
Tom Zawacki
Can I. Can I tell you guys? Why don't we talk about somebody who knows how to campaign on how to lose? So Canadian conservative pov to lose seat in Parliament in stunning fall. This is a Rob. Is this a video rap or is this is what. What do we have here with this one? Because this guy not only lost to Carney, but he also lost a seat that he sat since 2004. Superstar. Superstar who doesn't like to talk to only to organized people he likes to talk to. So Pierre Poliev is projected to lose US Carrollton seats since he's held since 2004 to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy with the Canadian broadcasting Corporation reporting FanJoy's win by about 3, 800 votes. So this guy was supposed to be a prime minister. Not only does he lose, he's ahead 94 to whatever and he loses PM and he loses the parliament seat. Okay. A Fanjoy wrote on X. We have to look out for ourselves and we have to take care of each other. Let's get to work. The race, delayed by 91 candidates saw Fanjoy gain over 50% support. Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal likely secured a minor government, though uncounted special ballots leave the mandate unclear. Carney criticized U.S. tariffs, saying we are over the shock of American betrayal and President Trump is trying to break us to America can own us. That will never, ever happen. His campaign emphasized economic stability, unlike Poly's Trump aligned policies. Not necessarily. Poliev, once leading by 25 points in 2024 per Politico, lost ground after Trump's tariffs and 51st state remarks shifted the election focus. Tom, thoughts?
Patrick Bet-David
I said it on a previous podcast and I will say it again. This guy is not a loser. He's their king. It was amazing what he did, all he had to do. When Trump said, you know, Governor Trudeau came down to visit me, he said Governor Trudeau. He didn't say governor polit, he said Governor Trudeau. And then he said 51st state to me, I would have walked through that open door and saying Canada. Do you want Trudeau's Canada? Because Trudeau's Canada is a wimpy little Canada that should be the 51st state. But I'm here to tell you that, that I am with sovereign Canada and I am with the Canada of tomorrow. And the Canada of tomorrow is the United States best partner. And the United States our best partner. That's a Canada tomorrow. Do we want to go there? This is where we want to go. Do we want to affect the taxation that's here? Do we want to embrace the spirit of the truckers that that Trudeau, you know, froze their bank accounts and stopped them on the road do we want to have that spirit? I am with Trump because we will be his best partner. He will be our best partner. And he's talking about Trudeau and he's talking about failed policies. That's who he's talking about when he calls him Governor Trudeau. But we are sovereign Canada, and I want to take Canada to tomorrow. That is a leader in a vision statement. That's all he had to do.
Tom Zawacki
Check this out, Tom. You know how I talked openly about the fact that their team, when they talked to Tony, Tony came and told us how disrespectful they were and that they hung up on him to us. Is Tony here, by the way? Is Tony here, Rob?
Adam Sosnick
He's at the other building.
Patrick Bet-David
I can have him come here, though.
Tom Zawacki
By the time he gets. I mean, if you want to tell him by the time he gets here. So our booker, Tony Sweet, he deals with a lot of different. He loves the camera. Okay.
Vincent
He definitely does.
Tom Zawacki
He. He deals with a lot of people that come. How nice is Tony?
Vincent
Tony's one of the best people I know.
Tom Zawacki
Pierre Poliev's camp hung up on him twice.
Vincent
Like, literally just like.
Adam Sosnick
No.
Tom Zawacki
Clung up on him twice. Twice. And that's never, ever happened. So then I'm sitting there thinking my guy's the one who screwed up. Then John Shahidi, since he tried to book the Ovon and Nelk, they said no. Then Kyle for Kyle from. Can you go to Kyle's Instagram, Kyle Fourgard on. On X. Watch this. He shows the dm. This is how embarrassing it is. Go a little bit lower. Go. Go up there and see if they show the dm. What is this actually? Then go to. Go. Don't go to Full Sense X account because he's Canadian. Just go down, Rob. It's right there. You just had it right. The click on that and go to their account. Nelk boys, go to their account and go down and see what they show. Go right there. Check this out. Kyle. Kyle, can I just go back out, Rob? Yeah, if you could. Right there. Yes, please. So watch what it says. Kyle forgot from nelk Boys shared DMs attempting to collaborate with Pierre Poliev in 2022. Click on it, Rob. Watch this. Okay, Canadians, this is your candidate, Pierre. We have the most popular podcast on YouTube. We've had Donald Trump and Elon Musk on. We should have you on. I am from Ms. Agua. Missagua and our presence amongst 18 to 30 year old Canadians. Massive. Never responds back. Think about this. Kyle is loved. Kyle Is liked. Kyle is a likable guy. Right. Then Chris Pavlowski here says, I try to arrange. This is a founder of a rumble. I tried to arrange Pierre Poiliev to meet with Donald Trump Jr. At a rumble event in Toronto last year. While the Liberals attacked and illegally attempted to shut down our event, Pierre Poliev refused to even engage. To me, Don Jr. This is not what winners are made of. What does Don Jr do? Retweets it and says, true story. This is your candidate and you guys were afraid to hold him accountable. It's what you call a coward. You're afraid to meet. What do you mean you're afraid to meet? This is what happens when you get a candidate like this. That's not a change agent. Your state suffers the consequences to a guy like Mark Carney and another guy that took his parliament seat. Rob, do me a favor. This is enough. You posting these stories of Canada, people are starting to get upset. And you know I don't like to talk about this.
Vincent
I hate it. It's like pulling teeth.
Tom Zawacki
Frustrates the.
Adam Sosnick
Why do you think he wouldn't be willing to meet with people? If you're in the political game, your goal should be to meet with constituents.
Tom Zawacki
Why you think? Go ahead, speculate.
Adam Sosnick
He. Okay. If I can only speculate.
Tom Zawacki
Speculate.
Vincent
Okay.
Adam Sosnick
So number one, he thought he had it in the bag.
Tom Zawacki
Great.
Adam Sosnick
Why do I need this?
Tom Zawacki
I agree. What's the second one?
Adam Sosnick
You're. You sort of have maybe like an old school mentality. What do you mean? Why would I go on podcasts?
Tom Zawacki
Great. So that's okay. What else?
Adam Sosnick
You're sort of an elitist. You're better than those. You look down. I mean, I think those are pretty good. Three damn reasons right there. I don't know.
Tom Zawacki
There you go. Pink and shoes. Guess what? None of them will help you win. None of them will help you win.
Adam Sosnick
Meanwhile, you have Trump.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
Who's richer, wealthier, smarter already more famous already a former president that goes on every single one of these podcasts and says, give me what you got.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
It doesn't make sense.
Tom Zawacki
Double dumb. Tom 3. And on presidential elections. That's funny. Double dumb is what you call this double dumb. But it is what it is. So check this out. Let's go to the next story. This is big for business, folks. TSMC starts building third Arizona Fab to ramp up U S. U. S expansion. This is big because it's about chips, Right? And we need that. So, Rob, is this the clip about the chips?
Patrick Bet-David
It is, Howard Lutnick at the cabinet meeting yesterday.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, so TSMC has started construction on our third ship plant in Arizona. Part of the US expansion. Described as a single largest foreign investment in US history. With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stating it's tariffs that brought that in. Key word, guys. It's tariffs that brought that in. Securing an additional hundred billion dollar investment without subsidies, creating 40,000 construction jobs and 20,000 full time jobs. Go ahead, Rob. They're investing $165 billion in 1100 acres in Arizona. And they're building the highest tech chip manufacturing, semiconductors and 4,000 employees.
Laura Coates
You know American tradecraft, right?
Tom Zawacki
Technicians doing every kind of work. The classic foundation of America is building it. They had 14,000 people. They're expecting 40,000 people to build the rest of their plants and to employ 20,000, Howard, for the rest of time.
Patrick Bet-David
Time.
Tom Zawacki
And it's all driven.
Laura Coates
You never saw a site like that.
Tom Zawacki
And this is all driven by your tariff policies. No chance this be happening without you.
Vincent
Bingo.
Tom Zawacki
Bingo. Tom, thoughts?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, I'll tell you what's going on here, Rob. If you could pull this up so people could see a chart. Search for cnbc, two charts. Tmsc, right. And you'll find it. It goes back there it is. You see that, that blue part, Taiwan. That's what China wants. That is the world market share of critical chips, Pat. And that's what the risk of China is. And guess what? Part of that's going to be red, white and blue. Because part of that is now going to go to the USA because 1/3 of TSMC supposedly is going to be built in the usa. But that's the risk of China taking that market share on chips and holding the world there. And what we've done here is they already had a grant and they already had a economic incentive, but now they're talking about a third chip plant in Arizona. So not only we got a couple just in the last two days. Look at the win on India, look at the win that's happening here. And this announcement here, this is long term US jobs and this is de risking China. And so you said it on the last podcast. Hey folks, it would only take 30 days and a set of announcements to suddenly win, win, win, win, win. And the whole grade is an A, A plus. And you know what? I feel it coming.
Tom Zawacki
I feel it coming for sure.
Patrick Bet-David
This is so critical. This is a three sided win here. It's a win for workers in Arizona. It's a win to help get ahead of China and market share and move a Bunch of chips over to the US we will have more chips, chip manufacturing five years from now here than South Korea does. So that protects our destiny because technology is a destiny, and the destiny of technology is chips. And so this is great on that second line. And then the third line is it takes away some of the threat of the sudden disruption if China makes a move in Taiwan, Pat.
Vincent
Well, can we think as the enemy? You're China. What are you like, we're starting to punch them multiple times. We're getting them up against the ropes. How would you. If you were China, Pat, how are you respond like, what is going to be your move?
Tom Zawacki
Thank you. What a great opening. Okay. And, and here, here's what that is at. At what point you brought this up yesterday, so I want to give you credit. At what point does one not sit there and speculate the fact that these guys are going to be working and dealing with you in a straight up way, in an honest way? Okay, so if you think that is not on the table, what do you have to be ready for? Anything and everything. How dirty can China go?
Vincent
Oh, real dirty.
Patrick Bet-David
Twice as dirty.
Vincent
I think, this is my opinion. I think dirty as in a virus coming out of a lab that nobody still could.
Tom Zawacki
But they can't do that again. They won't do that.
Vincent
They can't.
Tom Zawacki
But no, they want you, dude.
Vincent
I don't think. I don't think they will.
Tom Zawacki
But.
Vincent
But they have snuck in. How many? I want to say 30,000 Chinese, but.
Tom Zawacki
Actually think about it. You have to find a way to hit us where it hurts. So if you want. So go through all the dirty ways that China can do something, let's go through it. Power grid 101. Okay.
Vincent
Cyber attack.
Tom Zawacki
Cyber attack is to lock up the bank accounts to disrupt the entire system in the US and the world. If you wanted to, you could do that.
Patrick Bet-David
Panama Canal.
Tom Zawacki
Panama Canal is number three. I was about to say Panama Canal. They could do something there. Say, hey, you know, the ports, they can really cause some damage to the ports and stop the entire world flow of business and commerce and food and supply and that. That you're going to feel it immediately. Okay, what else? Espion internally having people who are working internally to manipulate and deceive and do all the stuff that they're doing within the White House. What else can they do?
Patrick Bet-David
Or Eric Salell, people like that.
Vincent
Eric Swalwell had a. Yeah, a Christine Fang, AKA Fang Fang. She was. She was helping him. And once they found out, the FBI got involved and got kicked out of the House Intel Committee. She got. She left.
Tom Zawacki
Give me more.
Vincent
They won't try it, but you have to put on the table something else. A sickness or something. A virus.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, virus. They've done it. But if they do virus again, if China does virus again, and I swear to God the world doesn't learn from it. You deserve everything you get from China. China rules the world. If you don't do anything to them afterwards, what else are they capable of doing? You have to realize they will do anything and everything. They'll find ways to pin your allies against you. They'll find ways to use proxy to get others to text. So their proxy stuff that they got, they got Iran as proxy. They got a lot of people that they own in proxy methods. But you have to know, if we keep pushing them the way that we're pushing them and their backs against the wall to think they're going to negotiate, you know, 100% straight up. I think the chances of them doing that is 50%. I still put it high. That is 50%. But the other 50% of them doing anything and everything to disrupt the entire world the way they did with COVID Very, very possible. I said that yesterday when I was on News Nation. I said that yesterday to. To everybody. Well, let's not forget the enemy of the state, number one, this whole tariff deal. We're not doing it for Russia. We're not doing it for Canada. We're not doing it because we want to straight out deals with Mexico, not because of Japan, not because of Vietnam. Everything we're doing with the tariff deal is for one country and one country only, and it's China.
Adam Sosnick
Yep.
Tom Zawacki
And Trump doesn't trust them. And I'm with it.
Vincent
Good.
Tom Zawacki
I'm fully with it. Adam, thoughts?
Adam Sosnick
Well, I mean, this is going to be pretty dark right now. You're talking about all the things that China is willing to do.
Tom Zawacki
Capable. Not willing. Capable.
Adam Sosnick
Capable, willing. And has done before. You know, we talk about this trade war, Cold War, what's going on? You know, you talk about the most brutal, deadliest dictator of all time. Of all time. People think Hitler. It wasn't Hitler. Hitler's probably in third place, to be honest with you. 15 to 20 million. 6 million Jews. Specifically World War II. Number two on that list, probably Stalin. 20, 25 million dead Russians, the Gulag archipelago, everything Winter said about that. But number one, all time, and even close, Mao Zedong in China. 50 to 75 million of his own people dead during the. What was it called? The Cultural Revolution. So isn't he the. Is he the founder of the ccp?
Vincent
I think, I think so.
Adam Sosnick
I don't fact check that. There we go. Chinese Cultural Revolution estimated in. I can't even tell you how many freaking deaths. That's not accurate right there. 50 to 75 minutes. So you want to ask what China is willing to do? You know, they talk about their own. People might have to like bite the bullet and suffer a little while. They could get very, very ugly. America has no idea what goes on on the eastern side of the world. We don't want that in our life.
Vincent
Well, Adam, you nailed it. He was put during the cultural revolution of 1966 just to give you a heads up of who MAO is. A 9, 8 year old kid was caught stealing a potato or something. So they killed him and then make the father bury the kid. Right, that's. That's the type of enemy.
Tom Zawacki
That's a story of that.
Vincent
There's a story in here.
Tom Zawacki
An eight year old stole a potato. He made the father bury his son.
Vincent
There was a. There was a he. A kid stole. I want to, I want to positively say that it was.
Tom Zawacki
Check that, Rob.
Vincent
Yeah, he stole. He stole something. And then father forced to bury his son a lot. Oh, I'm sorry. His own child alive. He didn't kill him. This is one of the most disturbing stories shared by survivors and historians. Was a father forced to bury his own child alive not as punishment for. But as an act of political loyalty to this.
Tom Zawacki
As to who?
Vincent
For.
Tom Zawacki
To Mao.
Vincent
To Mao.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, I mean that's what I'm saying.
Vincent
That's what the history that it comes from.
Adam Sosnick
Literally 50 million of these.
Vincent
But that's ridiculous like that. But that, by the way, this is.
Adam Sosnick
The enemies most brutal dictators, most deaths.
Vincent
It's him. It's Ma.
Tom Zawacki
Can you. You. You made the point. I mean, we know where that's at. I think we know that. Rob, can you do me a favor? Can you go to the clip that Humberto just sent? Watch this one here, folks. Rob, where is this first? Let's read the details first and then go to it. Zoom in a little bit. A US Navy recruiting office in California is fully Chinese. They openly speak Chinese. Not one word of English in this video. They are enlisting Chinese recruits. A major war with China is very possible with larger. Okay, I don't know who this person is at the top, but let's watch the video. Rob, play the clip, please. This is a US military recruiting.
Vincent
Is that, Is it real?
Tom Zawacki
What is this?
Patrick Bet-David
I'm not sure.
Vincent
I mean, the navy hat. They're wearing U.S. navy hats. That's a U. S. Navy T shirt.
Tom Zawacki
Do me a favor. Can you go to the comments section of this video? Look at the first one. That's from justice.gov 2 US Navy service members arrested for transmitting military information to the people Republic of China. So you can go a little bit. That's justice.gov that's a government website. So I am extremely careful when it comes down to China. We are a little bit too reliant on it. The world is. And I'm sorry, man. I'm willing to go through the pain for a couple of years. I don't think it's going to take that long, but I'm willing to go through the pain as long as we can. Because bigger pain can be massive, the more power they have if they become the world leader and the world has to do what China tells them to do. There's certain people in societies and religions you don't want running the world. That's one of them. Adam, were you going to say something?
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, I do, and I'll be very quick. I have massive issues with this. And the biggest thing is people don't want to be called that r word. Racist. Oh, how dare you. I can't believe it. In Miami, I can't tell you how many people I speak with meet with Uber drivers who don't speak one word of English. I mean, you know, I take my Ubers, Uber drivers, literally zero English. And I speak Spanish pretty well. Hola. Cuentos anos. Viva in Miami. Cinco anos. You lived here five years? No. No. I said no. This was not possible. You speak zero English. You've lived in Miami 5 years, 10 years, 20 years in some capacity. Zero English. Zero. Okay? They're not assimilated, and they're often Cuban, sometimes Venezuelan, sometimes Colombian. Mostly Cuban. Okay. We all know that we held the. The cold war with Cuba and everything that happened with that. The Cuban missile crash. Racist. China in California. You're trying to tell me that there's people in the navy that potentially are speaking 0 English? No goo and we got no woo. This is very concerning. Now, somebody. How could you sound racist? I don't know. Maybe I just want to protect America and make sure the Chinese citizens aren't infiltrating. Do you think China would ever do some sort of espionage and spy in America? Maybe send over spy balloons?
Tom Zawacki
I have zero trust.
Adam Sosnick
I am very concerned about this as an American.
Tom Zawacki
This is why, for me, this was a top five issue. And I'm loving what the President is doing. And go President Trump go. I do not trust China. Guys. Don't be quick to Forget what happened March 12th of 2020.
Vincent
Thank you.
Tom Zawacki
When so many hundreds of thousands of restaurants of small business owners shut down, kids confused staying home, grandparents dying, grandkids couldn't say goodbye to a dying grandmother. That's what the government did. And it was all started because of a leak in China. And by the way, story just dropped four minutes ago. Tulsi Gabbard. Watch what she just announced right now with with Anthony Fauci. Watch this one here on Megyn Kelly show. Go for it.
Tulsi Gabbard
But the thing that we are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director on with as well as Secretary Kennedy is looking at the gain of function research that in the case of the Wuhan Lab as well as many others around many of these other bio labs around the world was actually US funded and leads to this dangerous kind of research that in many examples has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health. Let me ask you specifically because we already know that Ecohealth alliance was partnering with this Wuhan lab to create to do gain of function reset. We just have never been able to have somebody say and it was that exact experiment that led to this Covid bug. But have we gotten there? What's the new thing that you're digging in on? We are working on that with Jay Bhattacharya and look forward to being able to share that hopefully very, very soon. Okay, that, that specific link. Correct. Between the gain of function research and what we saw with COVID 19. I mean that would be extraordinary because just so the audience knows if that's true, if it was Peter Dasak's research with the Wuhan so called Bat lady that caused this pandemic, then we did fund it. Then Anthony Fauci helped fund the pandemic. Things that he denied over and over and over to Senator Rand Paul's questioning. That's right. Under oath. Under oath. Exactly. So it isn't any wonder that he sought a preemptive pardon for anything during a certain period of time by President Biden before he left office and then strong armed and smeared people like Dr. J. Bhattacharya. Anybody who came out and said I don't know if that's natural. This actually smacks of lap. And the reason why this is is so important is not just what happened in the past. It's because this gain of function research is happening in biolabs around the World, I got attacked. And I think you saw this. We've probably talked about on your show before when I warned against u. S funded bio labs in Ukraine when the Russia Ukraine war kicked off for this very reason. Who knows what kinds of pathogens are in these labs.
Tom Zawacki
That's scary.
Tulsi Gabbard
Release could create enough.
Patrick Bet-David
You hit the lab and you open it up and all the stuff.
Tulsi Gabbard
And for that I was called a Russian asset. You're, you know, trumpeting Putin's talking points, all of this nonsense simply for speaking the truth and stating facts that, by the way, are still on US Embassy Ukraine's website today about how the US has funded these biolabs in Ukraine. But in order to. My point is, in order to prevent another Covid like pandemic or another major health incident that could affect us in the world, we have to end this gain of function research and provide the evidence that shows exactly why and how it's in our best interest, the American people's best interest, to bring about an end to it.
Tom Zawacki
I love it. You can pause it right now.
Vincent
So does he get. So here's my question, though. So Fauci, Tom, he was pre pardoned, but she's basically saying there's perjury going to be involved. And this gain of function research, does this still have to go back to the auto pen and they have to just verify that that happened?
Patrick Bet-David
Because I can't speculate on that. But what the American people are about to find out is Secretary Gabbard is about is on the cusp of an announcement that she says and we're going to, I think, see truth and we're going to see truth connected things that I think a lot of people have already been talking about, already speculating. She was very well spoken, very carefully spoken. That is what you want to hear in American leaders. We've done the research, we've done the investigation. We're right here.
Tom Zawacki
I love it.
Patrick Bet-David
And she's gonna announce it.
Tom Zawacki
I love it.
Patrick Bet-David
Auto pen. Pardon?
Tom Zawacki
Pushing the envelope.
Patrick Bet-David
However, I think knowing the truth is actually more important than the Fauci auto pen.
Adam Sosnick
Tom, some people can't handle the truth.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, no. I'll tell you why.
Adam Sosnick
No, they can't.
Patrick Bet-David
Because they can't handle the truth. Fauci and the officer, some of these.
Adam Sosnick
People, Tom, they can't.
Patrick Bet-David
Knowing what happened and cutting it off for next time and not having these things happen and not having our government operate like this is what's important.
Tom Zawacki
That's right. That's right. And by the way, for me, you know what it's all about, I don't care if Fauci goes to jail. Believe it or not to me, I want the example and I want China to be held accountable. China disrupted the world. I have zero desire for us to play soft with China. Push them to the fricking corner as much as you can. What they're doing right now, I frickin love this. Validates what we were just talking about a few minutes ago about China. And Fauci's tied to China because you know, what's the additional thing that we didn't even talk about? You know what else China is willing to do at all cost? Buy up American politicians and lawmakers.
Vincent
For sure.
Tom Zawacki
Buy up universities.
Vincent
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Give $70 million to Harvard. Hey, talk good things about China. Yeah. Weird. Buy up news stations. Buy up real estate next to our military. Buy up all this. They are willing to do all of that. We need to go back to being paranoid again. America needs to go back to being paranoid again with certain people that just don't love what we love. Our values and principles. And by the way, this. I was about to go to a completely different tangent. We got to wrap up because of what's going. I'm gonna do one more story here before we wrap up. I think. I think we have to talk about this. We haven't talked about this for a while. It's just the story that I think we need to comment on. Shandid Ecom's lawyer claims he might not have been mentally capable of crimes due to drug use. Folks, can I please, please do me a favor, read this with me. Can you do me a favor? I put this out there because again, sometimes forgive me, because English is my fifth language. Armenia is my mother language. Assyrian is my father's language. Farsi because I lived in Iran for almost 11 years. German because I lived in Germany for a year and a half. Then it's English, fifth language I took efl, not esl. Let me read this to you one more time. Okay. Ready? Please hang tight.
Patrick Bet-David
Somewhere. Kim.
Tom Zawacki
Sean Diddy Combs lawyers claim he might not have been mentally capable of crimes due to drug use. You know what this tells me? You know what movie the lawyer's been watching the last week? A movie called Primal Fear with Richard Gere and the great Edward Norton. Sit down. Stop crying. Whoa. Yeah, just. And then at the end. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Keep watching Primal Fear. It's a great movie.
Adam Sosnick
I was used to work art man.
Tom Zawacki
Good for you. This lawyer for watching Primal Fear. One of the greatest movies in my opinion. Of all time of one of these spin job movies that confuses the shit out of you. But let's read this guy here on what he's saying. Sean, did he come? Legal team argued he may not have been mentally capable of committing crimes due to substantive is prompting prosecutors to file a motion to exclude testimony from psychiatrist Dr. Ellie Allen stating the notice testimony relates to the defendant's diminished capacity to form the men's rea required to commit to charge offenses. In other words, a mental condition bearing on the issue of guilt. Combs faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering in fraud with a minimum of 15 year sentence and trial set for May 5th. Prosecutors emphasized that proving men's rea or guilt guilty mind is essential writing to secure a conviction, prosecutors must prove not only that the defendants committed the crime, but that they did so with a guilty or blameworthy mindset. What? And objected. If a defendant intends to introduce expert evidence related to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of a defendant's bearing on the issue of guilt, he must provide notice to the US Government. Tom, when you read this, how do you process this?
Patrick Bet-David
Well, mens rea is how it goes is the. You had the cognizant awareness and ability to reason when you committed the crime.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
So this is where they use the insanity defense or where you have certain killings. And they say moment of insanity, moment of blackout. You know, a horrible thing like that horrible thing we talked about in China. This man is forced to bury his son alive. And they said he gets up incredibly angry, completely freaks out and leaps on a guard with a piece of rope and just chokes him there. And you're unable to get him off and do it like that. At that moment he does not have mens rea because he is operating completely outside of himself because of his sheer grief and the horror that he was just subjected to that his mind has snapped and he's not responsible at that moment for having the kind of logic you would have make sense. And they're saying basically because of drugs Diddy was so out of his mind apparently for a number of years. Over 64,000 victims by some counts.
Tulsi Gabbard
Right.
Patrick Bet-David
Allegedly. Right. That he wasn't able to do it. This. Pat's right. You know what this is? This is a Hollywood script they're trying to write. This is. You know what this is, Pat? This is a Hail Mary against the wind in a snowstorm storm in Buffalo. That's what this is. And it's being called out by newspapers that are like. And the really the Headline should be this. Pat, is that the best you got? Yeah, that's. That's your alibi. That for a period of years. Apparently he had no marbles.
Vincent
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
You.
Patrick Bet-David
You want us to believe that?
Vincent
Well, he had some marbles, but they were.
Patrick Bet-David
And I think even the best. Look, even the best lawyers, best defense lawyers in the world, have a hard time putting a defense up when the evidence becomes so compelling and the stack gets higher. And I think that's what. I suspect that's what's happening here when they have to go to the point that say, oh, he was completely out of his mind doing drugs. Really? Which ones? The ones he supposedly committed in New York. There's ones he supposedly committed at the VMA Awards. The ones he supposedly committed in la. Which ones are we talking about? So you're telling me he was on drugs for a matter of years and was just so.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Completely blotto.
Vincent
Wow.
Patrick Bet-David
This is. To me, this feels like. And I'd love to hear from like. Like a lawyer, like a Megyn Kelly or people who are lawyers, because I think this is just a Hail Mary, and it is like the last item in the box.
Vincent
He's finished at the end of the day. And I don't mind. I just. He is. He's never going to see the light of day. He's. He is that everything that we've seen, all the. All the people coming forward and everything this. Like you said, Tom, Hail Mary, grasping for straws, or now he's mentally. So that means, you know what it is? He did all that stuff. He did it. Everything that you did.
Tom Zawacki
He's what the lawyer is saying.
Vincent
That's what the lawyer is basically saying.
Tom Zawacki
Lawyers indirectly saying that he did all the crime he committed to crime.
Vincent
Thank you. That's what that says.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah. I don't know what the hell is going on with Diddy. What. What they're grasping at straws to do this. I've never heard of men's rea. There's more, probably more of likelihood that he was hanging out in the men's restroom at this point. But the. And then the. The whole. You're doing drugs so you don't know what you're doing, buddy. I grew up, born and raised in the nightlife scene of Miami. I've seen people on cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA, GHB. What's the new stuff they're doing these days? 2C. That's how you like the whole deal. Never once were they like, yeah, I had no idea that I was doing organized crime for years.
Vincent
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
Stop it, Diddy.
Tom Zawacki
Stop. Stop it. You know, you know what he's going to be doing very soon if he goes away? He's going, he's going to be sharing a cell and the guy is going to be singing him. My mind's telling me no.
Vincent
My body.
Tom Zawacki
I don't want to hurt nobody. I don't see nothing wrong with a little bumping ground. Kelly. Tom, go with R. Kelly.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, but Bubba the cellmate. Hold still.
Tom Zawacki
No, no, it's called R. Kelly is. Is what it is. But you can't screw around with stuff like this, man. It's just some stuff you got to just do your best to avoid and not fool around with. Can we do one last story before we wrap up?
Adam Sosnick
We gonna do one.
Tom Zawacki
What's the last one you want to do? Is there one very strong opinion?
Vincent
I mean, do you want to do a serious one or Van Jones?
Tom Zawacki
Give me a serious one. Give me Van Jones. Go to Van Jones. All right, Van Jones haven't figured out position beyond outrage at Trump. Good for him for saying something like this. Rob, is this a clip or story? So on Monday, CNN's Laura Coates live CNN public commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones said that Democrats have yet to figure out what the proposition. What are the Democrats offering besides outrage at Trump and Musk? Jones said. I applaud Governor. Is this it, Rob? Yep, go for it. Political commentator Van Jones is back with us now, along with former Minnesota congressman and 2024 presidential candidate Dean Phillips. Welcome back to both of you. Dean, let me begin with you. Is this in your. I might have to fast forward this strategy from Governor. Okay, so it's going to be long. All right, let me just wrap up this. If you, Rob, you find it. I'm going to try to wrap up the rest of the stuff I'm reading here. He says, I applaud Governor Kritzker. We are not. I can hear him. Yeah, I applaud Governor Kritzker. We do not need to stand up and we do not need people to try to raise the stakes. Most people are sheeple. They're going to look around and try to people raise the stakes to figure out what they're supposed to do. And if everybody is kind of calm, ringing their hands, then most people won't move. But you need two things. You need a fire alarm and you need a fire station. A fire alarm is somebody that can raise the concern level in an appropriate way. He added. But we also need a fire station who's going to put out the Fire. The opposition is important, but what's the opposition? What are Democrats offering besides outrage at Donald Trump and Elon Musk? That has to be worked out. Adam, thoughts?
Adam Sosnick
Well, listen, sometimes I'm critical of Trump, sometimes I'm complimentary of Trump, but the one thing you can't say about Trump, he is playing the game. It's almost like team Trump versus the team Democrats. And one team is playing the game, and the other team is just on the sidelines booing. You're not going to win the game by booing at the other team. And that's what the Democratic Party is at this point, the boo Trump. F Elon. F. Trump. You suck. What's going on? Yeah, but you guys aren't running any plays whatsoever on the field, so you got to give Trump credit. He's out there, he's going long, he's taking chances, he's moving the ball up field. Yes, sometimes he'll have some interceptions, some turnovers, but you're just sitting there booing from the sidelines like voters, AKA the fans. In this case, you gotta give them a reason to cheer for your team, not just boo at the other team. And I feel like that's exactly what the Democratic Party is at this point, just booing at Trump, booing at Elon, but not actually in the game themselves, running any plays. That's what I gotta say.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay.
Tom Zawacki
And then, by the way, there's some Pritzker saying, calling out like fire, hey, we need to do this. Is this the one, Rob?
Patrick Bet-David
Yep.
Tom Zawacki
So here's a billionaire from Chicago that wants to become a president, and he's probably a capable guy. I think he's a top five guy that's going to be formidable. And I think he'll be running in 2020. Maybe not. He'll be walking. He will be. I don't know why you guys are. He will be. I'm not trying to be fun. I'm just being very ad. Rob, can you play the clip? I didn't mean to do that to you guys. I would never do that. Play the clip. Rock. Go for it.
Adam Sosnick
Never before in my life have I.
Tom Zawacki
Called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now.
Laura Coates
These Republicans cannot go.
Tom Zawacki
A motion of peace. Oh, okay. They have to understand that we will.
Patrick Bet-David
Fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
Tom Zawacki
Punish them, soapbox and punish them at ballot box.
Vincent
Do you know what that. Did you hear what he said, though? What's that mobilize protesters, Trip Republicans. They cannot know a moment of peace. You know what?
Patrick Bet-David
That.
Vincent
That's a dog whistle. Just like when what's her name, Maxine Waters was like. When you see these people get in their face and get in their face, don't let them rest. That is the Democratic Party. They're the party that wants to cause violence, and they want to push you to the. To the limit so you can fight back. Okay, that's.
Adam Sosnick
That's push it to the limit.
Vincent
Isn't that ridiculous, Tom? That's like lighting a match and then blaming the fire on the wind.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Look, does the inflammatory statement surprise me? With JB Pritzker, it's not a dog whistle. When you hear him speak, the position is so easy to see. Like on, you know, Google satellite maps of Chicago. Governor Pritzker is easy to see. So I think you've got opportunities here to either be upset at this or to respect your opponent and how they might be drafting. I never, never, never pick on a last place team. And I'll tell you, and I'll tell you why. Because they're about to get draft picks that can change the game. And I think that Van Jones is not just screaming at microphones. He's being very methodical, and people on his side are going to start listening to him. He's saying, we need to find a measure we have not found, the angle we have not found. So you know what he's doing. He's not screaming like Whoopi Goldberg. He's not just repeating, you know, pablum to the masses on their side. The way, you know, Rachel Maddow is, he is trying to find a strategy. And I respect Van Jones for doing that, even as I disagree with Van Jones on his principles and foundations. And now you got JB Pritzker is up there. Where is he? Where was he speaking? In New Hampshire.
Vincent
New Hampshire.
Patrick Bet-David
In New Hampshire. Why is he speaking in New Hampshire? Exactly. He's up there starting. And so I respect the fact that they're out there trying to put it together and the slogans aren't going to do it. We're gonna stand on the soapbox and we're gonna punish him at the ballot box. Oh, that's very nice. That's a political. So that's a red meat line. And everybody cheers. And they said, but wait, what do we say when we're on the soapbox?
Tom Zawacki
What do we do?
Patrick Bet-David
He left that out. There's two pieces of bread and no meat. That's when you talk to political strategists, they say that's what it is. And it gets everybody to cheer and clap so you don't have to go police crap like Jeb Bush. It just goes. And so that's what I think. I respect what they're trying to do. I think Pritzker is a more formidable candidate that people.
Adam Sosnick
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Think on the, on the core.
Tom Zawacki
His battle test is wealthy. He's tough, he's strong, he knows the game.
Adam Sosnick
Like I always say. Always say, listen, you campaign in poetry, but you govern pros.
Tom Zawacki
Okay. That's Mario Cuomo.
Adam Sosnick
Oh, that's right.
Tom Zawacki
Bill Maher quoted. Okay. A couple days ago with Terrence Howard. And don't try to own this quote that you're Mario Cuomo.
Adam Sosnick
Giving a shout out pbd.
Tom Zawacki
Oh my goodness.
Adam Sosnick
What I will say, I want to ask your opinion on JB Pritz because on one hand, by the way, I.
Tom Zawacki
Think he's losing a big opinion on him. But go ahead.
Adam Sosnick
I think he's losing. I think he looked at Chris Christie and said, I can't go out like that. Yeah, I gotta literally lose 100 pounds because I got to get to 2028 without eight aiding somebody. So this guy, he's a billionaire.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
You know, he's got name recognition.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
He's not some schmuck congressperson like AOC or the girl down.
Tom Zawacki
Neither is AOC by the way.
Adam Sosnick
Let me tell you, she's a congressman.
Tom Zawacki
She's not a schmuck. No, no, AOC. You're going to, you're going to think AOC is not going to carry weight on, on 2020.
Adam Sosnick
I'm not saying that she doesn't carry weight. I'm saying this guy's a fricking governor.
Tom Zawacki
So AOC is a 10 time better marketer than him.
Adam Sosnick
Okay. She's a congresswoman from woke Bronx. She doesn't run a state. She has zero pull whatsoever. Just because she gets media views does not mean she knows how to govern.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, clearly.
Patrick Bet-David
Let me tell you however I have however. But what I want to one angle because I happen to think she's smarter than people think. I don't think some of the high bar. Sometimes she's missed the mark and what she wants to do. But she went, she went to Boston University and she graduated with art with honors and was a double major. And people try to portray her as this, this, this silly bartender. That's not who she is. I don't agree with her positions, but I respect what she's doing and I.
Adam Sosnick
Respect which one of us is the Democrat here. Tom. What's going on here?
Vincent
But I mean, when you say comment like the world.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm saying let's not be cocky before Super Bowl. Understand the other side.
Adam Sosnick
I'm simply saying that a governor.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
Carries more weight than a senator. A senator carries more weight than a representative. I'm, I'm giving him praise and. But what I'm saying is this. Do you think he's a viable candidate in 2020?
Tom Zawacki
I need that button, Rob. You need that button.
Vincent
Did you know? Do you know? Because you know, Pritzker is.
Adam Sosnick
You think he's a viable candidate? 2028 is what I'm asking. Do you think he's a top five three guy?
Tom Zawacki
I think he's a top five guy.
Vincent
Top five.
Adam Sosnick
Okay.
Tom Zawacki
By the way, you got to let the market decide on how they're going to fight. I don't know how they're going to fight. I'm just saying he's a top five guy.
Adam Sosnick
At the end of the day. End of the day, do you put him above or below AOC as a viable candidate?
Tom Zawacki
Oof. 28.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
It's a very good question you're asking.
Adam Sosnick
I mean, if you hit the button. I couldn't have asked the question.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Vincent
You know that.
Tom Zawacki
No, you still haven't made a point. But it's.
Vincent
Do you know?
Adam Sosnick
Because Pritzer and let him answer the question, Vincent.
Tom Zawacki
I don't know. I mean, if you, if you go to. Like when I think about somebody who's ran a business and ran a state governor is above Congress. Yeah. So I agree. When I think about a marketer, somebody who has marketing down, I mean, who was Bobby Kennedy, but he was a better marketer big time than a lot of the other guys. Who was Vivek? What was his experience?
Adam Sosnick
True.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. So. So to me, I give a lot of credit to AOC knowing how to make noise. Matter of fact. Let's go to this next story and wrap up Rap. Can you go to the Instagram post and watch who commented on this Instagram post, which was kind of interesting. So I, I posted this. This happened at sls. We're having dinner. Tom. Oh, you weren't with us. We're at Flaglers. Paula's sitting next to me. Jen's sitting to my left. And I spoke to this very successful man who has three daughters who all told them they have no plans of having kids. Okay. Good man. Makes a lot of money. Very successful. Their careers combined with today's societal pressures has caused them to second guest starting Families, this mindset is becoming increasingly common. There's nothing in life that compares to having children. All the money in the world, all the accolades, all the items checked off the checklist, none of it comes close to the experience. Rob, if you can go a little bit lower so I can read that on that side to having and raising kids. Okay, so I say that and then look, our friend here goes on the comment section. Rob, if you can go there on Instagram, I don't know if you see it or not.
Adam Sosnick
I screen grabbed it.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, you okay? Right there. AOC comments. And she says the United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn't support new mothers and parents with federally paternal, federal paternal leave. If we want to talk to pro family talk, we need to walk the walk by supporting paid paternal leave and guaranteed health care like the rest of the developed world. Invest in affordable child care and public education. Her and I went back and forth in our DMs. We've been communicating for quite some time here. But we had an interesting exchange together. Tom, when you hear this, three daughters, you got two daughters. Imagine if Bailey and Brooks is dad, we don't want to have kids, right? What that feels like. And number two, why we got here and what reasoning she's making. What do you say to that?
Patrick Bet-David
So point one, my daughters are not allowed to buy in into this. And I shouldn't say not allowed. My daughters don't buy into this because I give them the facts and the rationale for why we have families and what we do going forward and I point out the pitfalls and all the headwinds and everything you're going to face. Point one, Point two, for people to say, you know, my daughters aren't going to have kids, I understand the logic. They look at this world, they look at everything that's going on. They look at themselves as having to go, you know, raise a family and the complexities and what that's going to cost. And they see that and they don't have someone like me sitting next to them with an alternative point of view because they have. The guy you're talking about is a smart guy with smart daughters. But I'm telling my daughters, listen, you can have your career and you can grow this. Let me tell you about Jennifer. I sat side by side with Jennifer. She had kids and we worked together with a very fast moving and very complicated company and it's still there. And I'll tell you, I see how it worked and that's how I feel now. The other side here, I don't think the ultimate solution is, oh, the government swoops in and says, we have to have forced parental leave. Companies have to have the situation. Expense. And then while we have to have guaranteed health care. The rest of the developer world, that's a whole different. She's inserting a sentence there, and that's a program I'd like to debate her on, because guaranteed health care, like the rest of the world. Let's pull that out. She's talking about affordable child care and paid parental leave. So she's saying that the government is the solution. And I just don't disagree with that. I just don't disagree that. Just keep dipping into the ladle and handing it out. From what, Taxing everybody else. You create this circle where people conclude, man, this is so complex. I'm not gonna have kids.
Adam Sosnick
That's just so.
Patrick Bet-David
I think. I think she's being. She's rational from her own point of view, but I disagree with it. I think it creates unintended consequences the other way.
Adam Sosnick
Well, I don't want to cause World War III over this topic again.
Tom Zawacki
No, you're not going to go for it.
Adam Sosnick
But I do want to say that there's part of what AOC is saying is right. And then she lumps in a whole other stuff of, of, you know, single parent health care and all this. I think we do need.
Tom Zawacki
What did you say?
Patrick Bet-David
What the hell?
Adam Sosnick
I'm so on edge on this topic. I'm so freaking on edge on this topic. I'm like, women can choose to do whatever they want. They can do no wrong.
Tom Zawacki
Adam. World War Go.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, But I will say something about this. Listen, I love you ladies out there. I applaud you for whatever decisions you make. I will say this. There is a, an overall movement with the modern feminist movement to prioritize your career over having a family. And that might work in your 20s and maybe in your early 30s, but talk to me when you're 40 and you got a great job and no man and no husband and no kids and no family, that could get very sad. And I'm not even saying that you need to do this. I'm saying the mentality, the Chelsea Handler mentality is what I think people need to overcome. That's no secret. Men can start later. But I don't see many men saying, I never want to have kids. That's not what I want to do. I see them saying, you just said you would let me speak.
Tom Zawacki
No, no. I'm just saying, okay, breathing 1131.
Adam Sosnick
But I will say that the choosing the career over the family, I think will come to bite you in the end. One last thing. As you start to make more money, you almost shrink the dating pool because of something called hypergamy, and women want to date up. Pat gave me a whole book on this. It basically changed my mindset about this. But as women focus on their career, they make more money, their dating pool shrinks, and basically who they think qualify for them will shrink as well. I just think women need to be very, very cautious about dedicating your entire life. Life to your career and not end up having a family. My last piece of advice, Go talk to women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who have done that and ask them if they would do anything different. That's my advice.
Tom Zawacki
All right. Fair. I think that's good. You, you, you. Good for you. You did that without disrespecting any woman.
Vincent
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
And I was awesome.
Adam Sosnick
Listen, Chick, here's the difference.
Tom Zawacki
I'm actually very impressed by. By the way you handle that. Good for you.
Patrick Bet-David
And there was a point right up front.
Tom Zawacki
Next, the.
Vincent
The national security adviser, Mike Waltz and his Chinese deputy NCS advisor, Alex Wong have resigned from the Trump administration. That's not good.
Adam Sosnick
We're going to get to that last.
Tom Zawacki
Mike Waltz resigned.
Vincent
Mike. Mike. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Tom Zawacki
Let me tell you what I just see here. This is what they just sent me right now from.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, There's a bigger piece of news that I think is out there.
Vincent
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Okay. So the guys from Glendale. Guys from Glendale are sending me this. You know the whole topic I talked about about Armenian Boca Raton.
Adam Sosnick
Yes.
Tom Zawacki
Guess what?
Vincent
What?
Adam Sosnick
What?
Tom Zawacki
Today is Vinny's birthday. Oh, God.
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, there we go.
Tom Zawacki
Bring it out, baby. To you.
Vincent
Oh, no.
Tom Zawacki
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday, dear Virginia Happy birthday to you.
Vincent
Make a wish, right?
Tom Zawacki
And many more. Go for it, man. Yeah, Make a wish, baby. There you go, my man.
Patrick Bet-David
There's a birthday kiss on your cheeks.
Vincent
Listen, I'm not. I'm not a big. I'm not a big birthday guy, Pat. I think birthdays to me, it's Mother's Day. She deserves all the credit for my mom, for her love, her faith, her strength, but then also me being here on this platform with this team. Pat, I'm so freaking grateful you created something that has purpose. You've given me a different purpose in life, and I just can't be like, I. This is my family, away from my family. And I love you guys.
Tom Zawacki
Love you.
Vincent
I love you guys.
Tom Zawacki
Everybody here loves you. My kids can't wait to hang out with you. You are loved by everybody who knows. You're one of the most special guys I met in my life.
Vincent
Thank you.
Tom Zawacki
And I'm so excited to witness the next phase of your life. Truly, I cannot wait for it.
Vincent
I love you.
Tom Zawacki
You're amazing.
Vincent
Thank you.
Tom Zawacki
We're have a good time this week.
Vincent
Let's go.
Patrick Bet-David
It's a privilege to be on here. And I wish you a very happy birthday. Sir.
Tom Zawacki
Would like to wish this man a happy birthday. Go on Manect and send some love his way. Rob, if you can put up his QR code. We got to go catch a flight and head out of here. But Vinnie, you're awesome. Everybody here loves you. Pull that up. There's Vinnie. Send the man some love on the bottom right. Manette QR code. And.
Adam Sosnick
And if you know any beautiful young single Assyrian celebrate birthdays is Assyrian. Whatever.
Tom Zawacki
No, no, that's what we're doing.
Adam Sosnick
Assyrian women.
Tom Zawacki
Thank you everybody. God bless. Have a great weekend. We'll do this again next week. Bye.
PBD Podcast Episode 582 Summary: "Trump OWNS Reporter & RFK EXPOSES Child Trafficking"
Release Date: May 1, 2025
Host: PBD Podcast
Duration: Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes
Timestamp: [03:01] – [28:09]
The episode delves deep into President Trump's exclusive interview with ABC News, highlighting a particularly intense exchange with commentator Laura Coates. The discussion centers around allegations of fraud referrals to the Justice Department and the portrayal of individuals with MS-13 tattoos.
Fraud Referrals Debate:
Patrick Bet-David criticizes ABC for misleading statements, asserting, "When you see something like that, Tom, when you see something like that, how do you react?" ([14:09]). He emphasizes Trump's rebuttal, claiming Coates was "trying to corner the President" without understanding closed grand jury proceedings.
MS-13 Tattoo Controversy:
The conversation intensifies around Laura Coates' claims about a defendant with MS-13 tattoos. Vincent humorously compares LeBron James to Rachel Zegler, stating, "LeBron James is the Rachel Zegler of the NBA. Just a better performer" ([01:54]). The hosts dissect Coates' assertions, challenging the authenticity of the tattoos and suggesting possible photoshopping ([16:00]).
Media Critique:
The hosts express frustration with ABC's handling of the interview, labeling it as biased and unproductive. Tom Zawacki remarks, "When you hear him speak... he says, 'I have 100% confidence,'" ([14:09]) criticizing the media's attempt to corner Trump.
Timestamp: [28:09] – [29:53]
PBD Podcast announces the launch of a new show titled "Her Take", aiming to provide a platform for women to engage in unfiltered and intelligent debates. The show features a lineup of prominent female personalities including Jillian Michaels, Lindy Lee, Anna Kasparian, Amy Dangerfield, and Elizabeth Pipko.
Timestamp: [31:01] – [34:56]
A significant economic partnership is highlighted where the Trump administration secures a deal with Ukraine, granting the US preferential access to Ukrainian mineral resources. This includes the establishment of a joint investment fund for reconstruction.
Details of the Deal:
Patrick Bet-David explains, "There are hundreds of billions of dollars of rare earth minerals" ([34:33]). He underscores the strategic importance of the deal in countering China's dominance in rare earth minerals and fostering economic recovery in Ukraine.
Economic and Geopolitical Impact:
Tom Zawacki adds, "This is a win on the hundred days" ([34:33]), emphasizing the deal's role in stabilizing markets and reducing China's influence.
Timestamp: [33:04] – [45:38]
The discussion shifts to the auto industry, focusing on President Trump's efforts to ease tariffs and their effects on companies like Ford and UPS.
Ford's Response to Tariffs:
Patrick Bet-David praises Ford's leadership, stating, "We never left the America on, on car production" ([45:27]). Tom Zawacki shares commercials where Ford CEOs support the administration's tariff policies, highlighting increased domestic production.
UPS Job Cuts:
Tom Zawacki discusses UPS's decision to cut 20,000 jobs, attributing it not to tariffs but to unfavorable contracts with Amazon and labor unions. Patrick Bet-David adds, "UPS made a bad deal with Amazon" ([58:05]), criticizing the company's strategic missteps.
Timestamp: [50:44] – [66:25]
The podcast examines the significant migration of wealthy New Yorkers to Florida, resulting in a $9 billion income loss for New York City.
Details of Migration:
Tom Zawacki cites, "138,000 city residents relocated to Long Island, reducing New York City's adjusted gross income by $11.1 billion" ([60:32]). Factors include the COVID-19 pandemic, high cost of living, and quality of life concerns.
Economic Consequences:
Patrick Bet-David warns, "New York City is about to become a welfare recipient of New York State and the federal government worse than it has been" ([63:04]). He attributes the exodus to poor local policies and predicts financial strain on the city.
Community Shifts:
The hosts anticipate Florida, particularly Miami and Boca Raton, becoming hubs for affluent immigrants, including Armenian and Jewish communities, enhancing their economic and cultural landscapes.
Timestamp: [67:16] – [87:51]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) is a central figure in this segment, accused of exposing alleged child trafficking collaborations within the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Claims Made by RFK Jr.:
Patrick Bet-David states, "He has ended HHS as the role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking" ([83:51]). RFK Jr. alleges that HHS collaborated in child trafficking and sex slavery during Biden's tenure.
Discussion and Skepticism:
The hosts express skepticism about these claims, discussing the importance of evidence and accountability. Adam Sosnick remarks, "Sex trafficking is a big business. If this is true... we'd like to see indictments" ([86:56]).
Connect to COVID-19:
Tulsi Gabbard mentions, "gain of function research... led to this dangerous kind of research that... resulted in either a pandemic" ([83:16]). The conversation links alleged biolab activities to the origins of COVID-19.
Timestamp: [117:56] – [122:45]
The podcast briefly touches upon the resignation of Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, and his Chinese deputy Alex Wong from the Trump administration.
Timestamp: [123:00] – [129:56]
A controversial report surfaces about a US Navy recruiting office in California reportedly operating entirely in Chinese, raising alarms about espionage and national security.
Details of the Report:
Tom Zawacki criticizes the recruiting office, stating, "This is why, for me, this was a top five issue" ([126:03]). The hosts discuss the potential risks of foreign infiltration in critical military positions.
Discussion on Assimilation and Security:
Adam Sosnick shares personal anecdotes about encountering non-English-speaking Uber drivers in Miami, questioning the extent of Chinese assimilation and its impact on US security.
Timestamp: [67:50] – [86:47]
The hosts vehemently criticize California's legislative efforts to decriminalize welfare fraud and its handling of child sex trafficking laws.
Welfare Fraud Bill:
Patrick Bet-David explains, "This is the state of California" where policies like decriminalizing welfare fraud under $25,000 could inadvertently encourage criminal behavior ([74:15]).
Child Sex Trafficking Legislation:
Tom Zawacki mocks the legislative process, suggesting that easing penalties might make it safer for criminals to exploit minors ([77:40]).
Comparison to Other States:
The podcast contrasts California’s policies with those of states like Florida, advocating for stricter enforcement and support for law-abiding citizens.
Timestamp: [89:22] – [95:08]
The episode shifts focus to Canadian politics, discussing Pierre Poilievre, a prominent conservative politician who recently lost his parliamentary seat amidst backlash against his pro-Trump stance.
Analysis of Loss:
Patrick Bet-David attributes Poilievre's defeat to his alignment with Trump and controversial remarks like labeling Governor Trudeau as "Governor Trudeau" ([91:07]).
Critique of Poilievre’s Campaign Strategy:
The hosts highlight Poilievre's missed opportunities to engage positively with constituents, leading to his unanticipated loss despite being a favored candidate ([94:15]).
Timestamp: [115:03] – [140:46]
The podcast wraps up with personal interactions, including Vincent's birthday celebration, emphasizing camaraderie and team spirit among the hosts.
Notable Quotes:
Patrick Bet-David:
"We should leave him alone. But I'd like to add, he lost his own seat, which is really embarrassing." ([04:57])
Tom Zawacki:
"This is why people vote for this guy. He just doesn't give, like, he doesn't give you to walk over." ([20:32])
RFK Jr.:
"We have ended HHS as the role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking." ([83:51])
Adam Sosnick:
"Sex trafficking is a big business. Sex trafficking minors is a big business." ([86:56])
Tulsi Gabbard:
"We are working on the gain of function research that... was actually US funded and leads to this dangerous kind of research." ([83:16])
Conclusion:
In this episode, PBD Podcast offers a fervent critique of mainstream media interactions with political figures, highlighting President Trump's confrontational interview style and RFK Jr.'s accusations against the Biden administration. The hosts advocate for strong US economic strategies to counter China’s influence, applaud bipartisan business successes like the US-Ukraine minerals deal, and criticize California's progressive policies on welfare and crime. Additionally, the podcast touches upon significant political shifts in Canada and addresses national security concerns related to Chinese infiltration. The episode concludes with a celebratory note, reinforcing the camaraderie among the hosts.