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With Trump, if you've covered him as I have, you know, it's a one way street.

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But she literally is learning that in real time right now.

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Literally yesterday she said, I've been so loyal to him and they're calling me a traitor.

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I think she is realizing that Trump is not there for her. Okay, so it's not about the loyalty thing that Marjorie Taylor Greene feels betrayed. The reason that Marjorie Taylor Greene is pissed off is because she doesn't like his foreign policy and she wanted to run for the Senate and she was going to lose and Trump told her he wasn't going to back a Senate run where she was going to lose. That's why she's pissed off. And so she's tried to turn this into a moment where she breaks the Republican Party. And yes, that is going to have some impact on Republican levels of support for the President. Also, when you have popular podcasters and voices who continue to malign the president without saying his name, because they're cowards who continue to go out there and say that the administration is covering up the Epstein files, the administration, without saying Trump's name because they don't want to offend Trump. They're afraid that Trump will reach over like King Kong and just crush them. And so instead they simply imply and imply and imply without just saying the thing they want to say out of pure unbridled cowardice. It's pretty impressive. Meanwhile, Democrats, of course, are happy to jump on this bandwagon. Chuck Schumer was out there blasting President Trump on Epstein yesterday. But I want to Be very clear. The job is not done. The vote is not the end. It's only the beginning. Once the President signs the bill, he must apply and execute it faithfully. There must be no funny business from Donald Trump. He must not use the excuse of frivolous investigations to release some Epstein documents while intentionally hiding others that deserve to be seen by the American public. This is not an invitation for Donald Trump to pick and choose his version of the truth. This bill is a command for the President to be fully transparent, to come fully clean, and to provide full honesty to the American people, even if he doesn't want to. So I want to be clear. Anything less than full transparency will be unacceptable in the eyes of the American people. If Donald Trump refuses to comply, if he refuses to obey the law, Senate Democrats will hold him accountable. I mean, I'm sorry, Senate Democrats are going to hold him accountable to what? Okay, the DOJ has policies and procedures. The law itself, the one that just passed, that Trump signed, allows exceptions for redaction for national security reasons and for legal reasons. So the bill was just a bunch of virtue signaling by people who don't like Trump. That's all it was. Meanwhile, people like Stacey Plaskett, it's amazing. This is a Democratic delegate from the Virgin Islands, and here she was. She had a relationship with Epstein, right? She was. She was emailing with him. And she says she has no regrets, no regrets at all on Jeffrey Epstein. There are a lot of people who have done a lot of crimes. And as a prosecutor, you get information from people where you can. I've interviewed confidential informants. I've interviewed narcotics, drug traffickers and others. And that doesn't mean that I'm their friend. That doesn't mean that they are friendly with me. She had no idea. He's just another constituent who is a sex trafficker of the underage. Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett, the brilliant congresswoman from. From Texas who would like to run for Senate herself. We'll see how that goes for her. It's a bold move, Cotton. Here she was with Caitlin Collins on CNN trying to suggest that Lee Zeldin had taken money from Jeffrey Epstein. There's only one problem. There's more than one Jeffrey Epstein in the country, and the person she's talking about is not, you know, the Jeffrey Epstein you mentioned.

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Lee Zeldin there, he's now a cabinet secretary. He responded and said it was actually Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the convicted sex trafficker. Unfortunate for that doctor, but that is who donated to a prior campaign of his. Do you want to correct the record on the people? Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand when you make a donation, your picture is not there. And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I knew that they.

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Didn'T even try to go through the fec.

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So my team, what they did is they googled. And that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein.

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Unlike Republicans, I at least don't go.

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Out and just tell lies because it was not the same one. That's fine. But when Lee Zeldin had something to say, all he had to say was it was a different Jeffrey Epstein. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people.

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Slow clap on that one. She wasn't trying to mislead people by saying that he took money from a Jeffrey Epstein. There's no implication that it was the Jeffrey Epstein. She was just putting out that the guy had the same name. Then what would your point be, madam? Literally, there would be no point. That's like saying that I found a 5 foot O white guy named Michael Jordan and I defeated him in basketball. And then I went on Twitter the next day and I said I just destroyed Michael Jordan in basketball. And when called upon it, I didn't, hey, I didn't say it was that Michael Jordan. I mean, like then of what relevance would it be? Oh my God. Like this is our Congress. By the way, speaking of the insanity of our Congress, I have to say the tastes of the American people when it comes to our congress people undefeated. We make some. We make some interesting decisions. Representative Corey Mills of Florida is a disaster area. He's been a disaster area for quite a long time. Representative Nancy Mays is now planning to force a vote on censuring Corey Mills and removing him from several committees. Democrats had triggered a vote on Tuesday today censure Mills and kick him off the Armed Services Committee. And then they withdrew it because the GOP put forward a measure to censure Stacy Plaskett for her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. So basically there was a dirty deal where Republicans decided not to censure Mills and Democrats decided not to censure Plasket and they both should have been censured. I mean, Corey Mills is, I mean, like his record is quite bad. And the measure is going to touch on a wide array of allegations against Cory Mills, including domestic abuse, stolen valor, and financial misconduct. Nancy Mace sent a letter to the speaker asking him to censure. Why? Well, because apparently prior to serving in the US House of Representatives, according to Representative Mace, Mills founded Pay Some Solution International LLC and Pay Some Defense LLC and acquired Amtech Corporation, companies which engage in security and military contracting with the US Government as well as the governments of foreign nations. Mills retains an ownership interest in those entities. In 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct found that PACEM Defense ALS has been actively contracting with the federal government, securing close to a million dollars in federal contracts for munitions and weapons distributed to prisons across the country. 94 of those contracts have been awarded to entities owned directly by Mills. Apparently, he may have entered into, held or enjoyed contracts with federal agencies while a member of Congress. Also apparently Pay Some Solutions does work with the U.S. iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, UAE, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia and Kuwait. And he had tried to enter into contracts to sell munitions to foreign nations, including Saudi, Ukraine and Colombia. Also, there are credible allegations that he misrepresented his military service and that he engaged in stolen valor. Also, there are many accusations that are currently floating around that he committed crimes against women with whom he had romantic relationships, including allegedly physically assaulting a woman and also allegedly threatening to release intimate photographs and videos of another. Now, why do I bring this up? Because if you don't want to lose congressional seats, you shouldn't run bad congressional candidates. All right, coming up, Our Congress is a mess. If Republicans wish to retain the Congress, they might need to dump a couple of pretty bad candidates first. The holidays will be here before you know it, and for many families, that means excitement and a little stress between gifts, travel, higher prices. 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Stick.

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See blinds.com for details. Go check them out. That's blinds.com here's Nancy Mace going after Mills yesterday. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2A1 of rule 9, I rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows, censuring Representative Corey Mills of Florida and removing him from the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Okay. Well, it turns out Democrats are salivating at the prospect of going up against Mills. According to the Orlando Sentinel, multiple Democratic candidates are now looking at his district, which is the Florida 7th district. That would be a vulnerable district normally wouldn't be. That is a district that Mills, in his last congressional election, won, I believe, by 13 points. But historically, that has been a seat that has been held by Democrats before, before Mills. So if he's a bad candidate and if he's going to lose, it would certainly behoove him to get out of the way, and it would Behoove Republicans to push him out of the way and get a better candidate in there so that they don't lose that seat. Meanwhile, turns out again, Congress is filled with wonderful people. One of those wonderful people is apparently Congresswoman Sheila Sherfilis McCormick, another congressperson from Florida. So my state is doing yeoman's work in Congress these days. Apparently the DOJ is charging her with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, laundering the proceeds and then using the money to support her 2021 congressional campaign. She faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted. According to the indictment, the DOJ says that Sherphilis McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Sherfilis, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health care company on a FEMA funded COVID 19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds. Again, apparently they conspired to steal that 5 million, allegedly, and they routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. So we are only bringing the best. It's been a wonderful, wonderful day for Congress, which remains a repository of enormous amounts of stupidity. And meanwhile, in some positive news for the Trump administration. So we've talked about the Epstein of it, we've talked about the sort of drag effect on Republican approval ratings for President Trump. The biggest issue for the President, obviously, is the affordability issue, is the. As always, as always, if people do not feel secure about the economy, then they start to blame that on the President of the United States. No matter who the President is, that's just the way it works, whether it's fair or whether it's unfair. Hey. Well, a couple of pieces of good news for the President. So the September jobs report, which was delayed for some six weeks, and we don't know if there will be an October jobs report at all or when it will come out. But apparently the US added 119,000 new jobs in September. That is above expectations of 53,000 jobs. The unemployment rate climbed, but that's because more people are joining the job market. That's what happens sometimes. You can have an increase in jobs, but the number of people who are now seeking a job has increased to outmatch that. That's what happened with the unemployment rate. So the, the, the question remains as to whether the Fed is going to cut the interest rates or not. If they believe that employment is slowing, they may in fact cut the interest rates. On the other hand, the stock market continues to churn along so the, the Dow Jones industrial average today is likely to pop a little bit. That's because of the Nvidia earnings report that went out yesterday. So Nvidia has been just raking it in and we've talked about some of the circular deals that are allowing for this to happen in which Nvidia buys stock in a private company like OpenAI and OpenAI then takes that money and pumps it right back into Nvidia Chips, which pumps up Nvidia stock. So it's kind of a weird indirect version of a stock buyback in a way, kind of. Well, Nvidia apparently continues to just sell and sell and sell and sell. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia reported record sales and strong guidance on Wednesday helping soothe jitters about an artificial intelligence bubble that have reverberated in markets for the last week. Sales in the October quarter day record 57 billion billion. Holy moly. As demand for the company's advanced AI data center chips continued to surge. That's up 62% from one year early and exceeded the consensus estimates, the company increased its guidance for the current quarter. They estimate that sales this quarter are going to reach $65 billion. So in pre market trading on Thursday, the stock was already jumping. Jensen Huang said we've entered the virtuous cycle of AI. AI is going everywhere, doing everything all at once. By the way, when we talk about skilled immigration, which we'll get to in a moment, Jensen Huang is like a pretty good indicator of why America. You know, it's good to brain train other countries and bring the best and brightest here. Jensen Huang is Taiwanese. He is here in the United States because his parents came here and his company is now worth more than the entire economy of Germany. And it's based in the United States creating an awful lot of wealth and jobs. So that, that is the good news. The good news is the employment market is churning along. More people are joining the the lines to try and get a job again. The Nvidia profits were big. On the other hand, there's still a lot of nervousness and the nervousness is not misplaced. Number one, we don't have data on the October unemployment rate. So it's unclear exactly what the Federal Reserve is going to use for its guidance in terms of raising or lowering the interest rates or just keeping them the same. But meanwhile, Target is having trouble. So at the retail level people are just buying less stuff, which suggests that all the extra money that people have, a lot of it is going into the upper end of the tech market, but some of it's not bleeding down into the sort of basic, everyday staples. According to the Wall Street Journal, Target's plan to fix its continuing sales slump involves billions of dollars in investment. Apparently. Incoming chief executive Michael Fidelke said the retailer would invest about a billion dollars more next year to improve stores, its merchandise selection and digital capabilities, bringing total new investment next year to $5 billion. That change will include store experience improvements and more exciting merchandise, along with better tech and e commerce systems. In recent years, shoppers have been complaining of messy stores, items missing on shelves and less exciting products. Well, I mean, I think there's truth to that. My family, my family and I routinely shop at Target. I will say that it's gotten messier over the years. It used to be a lot cleaner of a store. It used to be better run. So there's truth to that. But the drop in profits, I don't think is entirely attributable to that. People might just be buying less because of the inflated price of things like groceries and basic staples, and now they're pulling back on their spending. This was the 12th consecutive quarter or week or falling sales for Target. The company said fewer shoppers visited its stores. Those who did spent less during the quarter. Comparable sales from those from stores and digital channels operating for at least a year fell 2.7% in the three months ended Nov. 1, according to the Wall Street Journal. He said that Fidelki, who's the CEO, he said that discretionary items like home to corn apparel are where they are really seeing a downturn, not particularly on groceries, but on the other sort of stuff. Target has already been cutting jobs. So are those stock market gains at the upper end of the market producing jobs in the same way? No, and that's not unusual. So, for example, in the aftermath of the dot com bubble that burst in 2000 at the tail end of the Clinton administration, there was a fairly quick recovery in terms of the stock market under George W. Bush. But it took a little while for the jobs to come back because it turns out that when a bubble bursts, there tends to be consolidation. The consolidation increases the revenues and profit margins of companies, but it takes a while for that to bleed down into I now want to hire additional people. Now, again, there is some good news for the Trump administration here in, for example, the price of groceries. As I've said before, one of the big problems the Trump administration has in terms of the affordability argument is that what people actually want is not a thing that the Trump administration probably is capable of delivering and that is 2022 prices. 20, 20 prices. Right. That very unlikely. We're getting back to that level. So people in their own minds are not comparing what they paid for groceries this year to what they paid for groceries last year. If they were, that's kind of a small incremental increase or debt, even. What they are doing is comparing the price of groceries this year to the price of groceries four years ago. And there really, Biden did bake this into the cake. Once you have prices inflated by 10, 12, 15%, the only way the prices go back down 10, 12, 15% to what they were originally is a dramatic lack of demand because, particularly with regard to groceries, a radical increase in supply very often is not possible. With that said, it is true, and the President has said this, that the inflation rates are down pretty dramatically from the Biden years. According to Axios, the average classic holiday feast for 10 will run 55 bucks 18 this Thanksgiving, per the American Farm Bureau's Federation new annual survey. That's about five bucks 52 per person, down 5% from last year. So that actually is a decline. However, as they say, three years of declines don't fully erase dramatic increases that led to a record cost of 6,000, 405 in 2022. That estimate is based on turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing, and more cheaper. Turkey is driving a lot of the overall decline. So, again, the Trump administration has been handed a real bag when it comes to inflation and affordability and then been told to solve it. It isn't quite that easy. Now, when it comes to the matter of affordability, the big question for President Trump is what can he do about affordability? Well, there are two things he can do on immigration. One thing is he could take the unskilled immigrants who are here illegally and he could deport a lot of them. This would presumably be less of a drain on public resources. It would also presumably increase wages at the bottom levels. Now, that comes along with the increased prices of the things that those wages are used for. However, the vice President has pointed out that it would take some pressure off of housing. That's probably true, at least in the short term. He so. So that's one aspect of immigration. And then the other aspect is you do need to bring in skilled immigrants. I know this has somehow become a very, very controversial matter. On the political right. There's a big debate over H1B visas. We've talked about the flaws in the H1B visa program, which are quite real. People abusing it, people using it to bring in people who are Sort of lower level tech people who could easily be Americans filling those jobs. But we do in fact need skilled immigrants coming into the country if you wish to make things more affordable. Because again, the only way to make things more affordable on A basic econ 101 level is you increase supply and the demand stays the same or you reduce the demand and the supply stays the same. That is, that's the only way to reduce prices because prices are a function of supply and demand. Those are the only two factors that are going into the prices. Now there are a lot of things that go into the supply and the demand, everything from subsidies to regulation. However, if you wish for cheaper products, which is what affordability is, and again, I'm kind of amazed that we constantly hear this drumbeat from the right, we, you know, all these Americans buying their, their cheap foreign products. Well, what if Americans just want. There's another word for Americans wanting to buy cheap products. It's called affordability. Right. That's literally what that means. Doesn't have to be a foreign product, but it does have to be affordable. And if you wish for things to be affordable, then the inputs in making that thing also have to be cheaper and more plentiful. Okay, so the President has taken a lot of flack from members of his sort of heritage American right, shall we say about his comments on skilled immigration. This is not the President in favor of mass migration. This is the President saying what is clearly and obviously true, which is that if you have a factory and you do not have people who are capable of staffing that factory in fruitful fashion, you can't just take somebody off the unemployment line and have them producing missiles tomorrow. You may need at least temporarily to bring in some foreign skilled labor in order to make that factory run. Otherwise the factory gets outsourced and then Trump tariffs it and now it's expensive for Americans. I mean, this is all very, very basic stuff. But the basic has now become controversial. Here is the President speaking at the US Saudi Arabia Investment forum yesterday talking about skilled immigration. You can't come in, open up a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona. And think you're going to hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're going to have to bring thousands of people with them. And I'm going to welcome those people. Now my, I love my conservative friends, I love maga, but this is maga. And those people are going to teach our people how to make computer chips. And in a short period of time, our People are going to be doing great, and those people can go home where they probably always want to be. Okay, so again, he is not wrong about this. He's taking an awful lot of flak for this. One of the things about President Trump is that the people who don't like Trump's policy very often wishcast his policy into something else. So isolationists will wish cast his policy into a sort of paleocon isolationism, which is not actually his policy, or they'll wishcast his economic policy into some sort of economic autarky that is not his actual policy. His policy is a mix of impulses. Some of them that tend to be more paleocon in nature, like tariffs, and some of them that tend to be pretty free market based, like, for example, the free flow of skilled labor, which he tends to be more in favor of. But if you want affordability, one of the things the government can do to actually make things more affordable is, for example, allowing companies to bring in labor that is useful to them, at least on a temporary basis, in order to get the factories up and running, which will increase wages and keep jobs at home here in America, preventing outsourcing, preventing higher wages and prices from being the result. Again, just supply and demand. Meanwhile, again, the President is cracking down on illegal immigration. Now, Zoram Dani in New York isn't. Zoram Dani is now vowing that he is going to prevent the NYPD from assisting ice. Here was the new mayor. I mean, New York is going to get it good and hard. They deserve it. They voted for it. Here is. Here is Zaramdani. People are living in fear. And what we will ensure is the NYPD will be delivering public safety, not assisting ICE in their attempts to fulfill the administration's goal of creating the single largest deportation force in American history. So that is his chief priority. Again, the things that Mamdani is doing right now, he's not going to get a lot of his economic plans done. Thank God for New Yorkers. But he is going to virtue signal a lot about illegal immigration. And so I hope that he enjoys the next time a Democrat is president and decides to reopen that southern border and Greg Abbott or whoever the governor of Texas is, start shipping those illegal immigrants up to New York. I hope that he. I hope he has fun with that. Here is Mom Donnie saying that he will tell Tom Homan that this city is an immigrant city. I will tell Tom Homan what I will tell anyone who asks, which is the fact that I am looking forward to representing the entirety of this city, and this city is also an immigrant city. It's a city that's proud of its immigrants heritage. It's proud of the fact that so many from across the world find their home in this city. And we will protect those New Yorkers as we protect every New Yorker. So does he mean illegal immigrants? Because apparently he does. And meanwhile, all of this is leading to where is the state of the current economy? So the Trump administration believes that if they can keep the interest rates low, if those interest rates can drop even more, they can spur demand. If they can spur demand, then presumably they will increase demand for labor, people will have higher wages and all the rest of the. Okay. The problem is again, we have an inflationary economy. We do okay. The inflation rates are still riding about 50 too high. I understand that we all got used to 10% inflation rates, but the reality is that the inflation rate is still riding somewhere between 2.8 and 3%. That is 50% higher than the Federal Reserve would want. It is 2.8% higher than I would want. I, I want the, I want the inflation rate to be zero. I think it's ridiculous that we gradually inflate the currency based on what I think is, is bad Chicago school economics theory. I'm more of a Vienna school guy. But put that aside. The President is angry at Chairman Powell over at the Federal Reserve for not lowering the interest rates even more than he has already done. Here he was yesterday. Mortgage rates are down despite the Fed. I mean, Scott, you got to work in this guy. He's got some real mental problems. No, he's. Something wrong with him. It's just sweet. I'll be honest, I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fine. Guy's grossly incompetent, okay? But here is the thing. Putting all of America's failures or successes in the economy on the Federal Reserve is a mistake. It is a systemic mistake. The Federal Reserve is considering not cutting the rates. I would say that's the likelihood at this point. You have an economy that is overheated in terms of the stock market. Huge, huge numbers pouring into the stock market. The stock market again, it's jumping again today based on those Nvidia earnings. The question is whether those circular deals are going to end up paying off in the end, whether it is a bubble or whether it's legit. You already have a, an employment market that does not seem to be cratering. It's kind of holding steady. So I guess the idea here would be that you have to lower the interest rates into an already hot market in order to keep the unemployment rate from spiking. But the unemployment rate is like 4.4%. There's not a historically high unemployment rate here in the United States. I do not think that this is the way that affordability happens is by again, more bubblish helicopter money. That does not seem like, like a great idea to me. Meanwhile, one of the ways that you could actually create affordability would be to stop with the bad left wing policy. And one of the things I noticed too often on the right is this belief in the free market goes away the minute that it is tested by any economic question at all. The minute that the free market, literally the minute the free market produces a lag effect, a bunch of people on the right jump off the bandwagon on the free market. Oh no. Now we need. This is when we need government policy. Government should step in and stop everything cold. This is when we need a new national socialism. Or maybe not. Maybe it turns out that bad policy remains bad and that the economy has hiccups all the time. And maybe it's true that the government turns those hiccups into full blown cardiothoracic problems. Case in point, the Free Press has a good piece by Matt Miller talking about the ghost apartments in New York City. What he says is that strict limits on rent increases under 2019 laws in New York have left an estimated 50,000 apartments vacant across the city. Because the restrictions on what landlords can charge for these apartments often don't even cover the cost of maintaining them. They become ghosts. It's like they don't exist at all. Incoming New York Mayor Zaramdani promised during his campaign to immediately freeze the rent for rent stabilized apartments. But those rents have essentially been frozen since 2019. At the time, the laws were widely heralded as the strongest set of rent regulations anywhere in America. They were designed to protect tenants from supposed price gouging. But actually what has happened is that sometimes tenants die, sometimes tenants move. And if you can't raise the rent, well, then it actually costs you more money to keep the apartment lights on with a renter there than it would be to just leave the apartment totally empty. New York's rent laws rely on vacancy controls, which means rents don't reset between tenants. Right. So just because somebody leaves doesn't mean you can charge a new higher rent to the new tenant. The government instead assigns a maximum rent for every rent stabilized apartment. That rent can't be meaningfully increased no matter how much money I have to spend on renovations. According to the authorities the Rent Guidelines Board, the average cost to operate an apartment in a rent stabilized Manhattan building built before 1974 was 1, 560 bucks a month, not including mortgage payments rounding for simplicity's sake, assuming $50,000 of renovations, that maximum legal rent on the apartment would only increase to about 1230 bucks. After all the work was done, an apartment owner would still be upside down on that apartment. Because once again, it turns out the government policy usually achieves the reverse of the thing that it is attempting to achieve. So good, so good, so good. New markdowns are on at your Nordstrom Rack store. Save even more up to 70% on on dresses, tops, boots and handbags to give and get cause I always find something amazing.

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There's information that new information, additional information. And again, we will continue to follow.

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The law to investigate any leads. If there are any victims, we encourage.

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All victims to come forward and we will continue to provide maximum transparency under the law.

A (50:15)

Okay. So again, a new investigation will please pretty much no one and also drag this thing out for several more months. So well done once again, to the attorney general, Pam Bondi again, everything from her Epstein binders to the original announcement that there would be no additional charges brought with regard to people related to the Epstein case announcements. There was no foreign intelligence intervention. All of that was handled about as badly as you can handle it. And apparently she is going to keep that pattern going. So well done there. Meanwhile, in positive DOJ news, I mean positive only in the sense that the DOJ is doing its job. Apparently a New Jersey man whose lengthy prison sentence for fraud convictions was commuted by President Trump in 2021 is now headed back to federal prison for another fraud conviction. U.S. district Judge Michael Shipp, according to ABC News, handed down a 37 year sentence on Friday to one Eliyahu Ellie Weinstein of Lakewood, also known as Mike Koenig. Apparently, he has to pay $44 million in restitution due immediately. He was convicted in March on charges he helped defraud dozens of investors out of $35 million. Apparently, according to prosecutors, Weinstein and others falsely promised investors access to deals involving scarce medical supplies, baby formula and first aid kits destined for wartime Ukraine. This would be the third time he's been convicted in a New Jersey federal court for defrauding investors. The first case involved a real estate Ponzi scheme. The second stemmed from additional fraud he committed while on pretrial release. He caused losses of $230 million. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison. President Trump commuted his Term to time served. About eight years into his sentence in 2021, just before leaving office and right after he was released, he went back to doing this. He's now going back to jail. Put him in jail forever, man. Put him in jail and leave him to rot. Truly, what a scumbag. Just gross. Okay. Meanwhile, on the drama scene, I have to say that Olivia Nuzzy, man, that I don't know what's going on with that lady, but pretty wild. So, Olivia Nuzzy, who has worked at a wide variety of outlets, she seems to have made a bad habit out of sleeping with the people that she covers. That would include, of course, RFK Jr. Right, she, she didn't sleep with RFK Jr. Apparently she was just sexting him. But she's had, she has a long history apparently of attention seeking. Apparently when she was a teenager, she did a Lady Gaga esque track called Jail bait. An old MySpace page from 2009 shows her posing in a purple tank dress, thigh high boots, and a skinny headband with a revealing lace top and handcuffs. So that's great. So she of course was fired when she was from New York Times Magazine because she was sexting with RFK Jr which is really quite awkward. And then it turns out that she has a more bizarre history as well. Apparently when she was 21, she dated Keith Olbermann when he was 55, which. Okay, man. Apparently, according to Ryan Lizza, who was her fiance, she also slept with ex South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford in 65, who was 65 while they were dating. So apparently they'd also traveled the Appalachian Trail, which was, as you recall, an excuse that Mark Sanford used to for one of his other affairs. Apparently, Olbermann had paid for Nuzzy to attend college, covered her rent, and outfitted her in luxury designs from Tom Ford, Herve Lajer and Cartier. Sounds like some solid journalism. Sounds great. I'm, I'm, I'm glad that our journalistic crew is doing such a wonderful job day in and day out. She also has a brand new book titled American Canto that is coming out December 2nd. So there'll be a movie made out of that, that's for sure. I think the real story there is is the a story as, as old as time. Older men will do pretty much anything to sleep with younger women, no matter how crazy those younger women appear to be. Again, nothing new there. That is just the nature of the beast. Unfortunately, human beings are filled with sin. Joining me on the line is Mary Margaret Olahan. She, of course, our Daily Wire white House correspondent covering events there day by day. Merrick. Margaret, good to see you.

B (54:41)

Good to be here, Ben.

A (54:43)

Okay, so let's talk about the latest in Epstein Gate mania that just continues day by day. I am a person who is highly irritated by this entire story because I don't think anything new is going to break. It seems as though all of it seems to have been spun up, or at least a large part of it is spun up by people who don't like the President's agenda. That seems to be the feeling at the White House as well. How does the White House plan to deal with sort of next steps in Epstein Gate scandal mania?

B (55:08)

Yeah, I think a lot of people around here feel the same way you do, Ben. I think the, the vibe around the White House is that a, the Democrats did not care about the Epstein files until recently when they could become more of a political talking point. And at the same time the President and his team have been saying over and over, you know, this is a Democrat led hoax, which has led a lot of people to say, wait, what? The Epstein files aren't exactly a hoax. But what the White House is telling me is that's the perception of how the Democrats are handling it. They're not actually interested in it because of the victims. According to the White House, they're interested in it in order to score political points. Now, the President did sign the Epstein bell last night. We're supposed to be seeing these files sometime within the next 30 days. But there's a couple of things to note here. One is that we're not going to see everything. There's going to be a lot of stuff redacted. Whether that's to protect the identity of some of these young female victims, whether that is related to what the DOJ says, something along the lines of death. If they're too related to death, we might not know about it. I'm assuming that means Jeffrey Epstein's death. A couple different factors there. And so what the White House knows, and I think what all of us know at this point is that there are going to be people who are not satisfied with the release of these files. There are always going to be people that are saying that the doj, that the Trump administration, that future administrations are covering things up, they're purposefully not revealing the full truth about the Epstein files. And so that's definitely an anxiety in and of its no one is going to be satisfied with the release of the files. And there's always going to be more questions that we want to answer. And so The White House is grappling with all of this, but in the meantime, their messaging is to lean into the revelations that we've learned about Democrats. They didn't want the files released, and then Democrats released some of them. And lo and behold, a whole bunch of Democrats are implicated in these release themselves. So what the White House is doing is they're sending out messaging to reporters and to the public on some of these Democrats who are implicated, such as Larry Summers, such as Katie Couric, such as a whole other host of Democrats, such as Stacey Plaskett, and they're highlighting the relationships that these people had with Epstein, such as Stacey Plaskett texting with Epstein during a congressional hearing related to President Trump. I actually spoke with Donald Trump Jr. The president's son, and I asked him, do you think the Democrats are going to regret releasing these files? And he said, yes, he thinks so. He thinks this is not going to play out well in their favor. And the more we learn, the more these Democrats are probably going to be making some angry phone calls to their friends in the House of Representatives and saying, why did you put us in this situation? No one is winning.

A (57:42)

Now, Mary Margaret. Meanwhile, there's been some talk that Zoram Hamdani might be headed to the White House for a meeting with the President of the United States. What have you been hearing about that?

B (57:53)

Yes. So he's coming tomorrow, and I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping that he was coming today. I'll be in the White House press pool today, which means that if there is an open press event in the Oval Office, I get to go in there and hopefully ask the president some questions. But he'll be coming here tomorrow and he'll be meeting with the president who announced that he was coming in a rather unusual truth social post where he called Zoran a communist and said that he asked to come to the White House on Friday. So that's going to happen. Obviously, this is going to be some great television if the press is allowed into that meeting. I heard one person say that we haven't seen a little moment like this since the Zelensky Trod Vance moment in the Oval Office. And, you know, Zoron is very interested in press himself. He's very good at it. He's gotten a lot of national attention, global attention, and the president is aware of this. And, you know, he says he wants to make sure that New York City is a good place. Zoran allegedly does as well. And so that'll be a very fun meaning to tune into as we prepare to head to our Thanksgiving holidays.

A (58:58)

Well, that is going to be some spicy stuff and, you know, hopefully it'll help get that turkey digested. Mary Margaret, thanks so much for the time and thanks for the coverage as always.

B (59:07)

Thank you, Ben.

A (59:09)

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