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Unknown Speaker
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JJ Harris
I'm JJ Harris, Ellensburg Rodeo Clown and I want to invite you to the rodeo. Come hang out with us in Ellensburg. Great rodeo, great time. Two performances on Saturday. One is the extreme Bulls of the year event. Do not miss the Ellensburg Rodeo August 29th through September 1st. We'll see you there.
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Ben Meisellis
Donald Trump is getting hit hard by a source who he did not expect. Donald Trump did not see this coming. Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Wall Street Journal is having the Wall Street Journal publish the following op ed that goes after Donald Trump for Trump's attack on the media. The full editorial board of the Wall Street Journal just penned the following op ed. Trump's lawfare against the free press. He suggests prose CNN while pressuring a settlement out of cbs. Seems that state regime media recognizes that as if it does not remain state regime media. It is next. It is next in Donald Trump's shakedown routine. I think it's also important to note and I've been studying the Fox social media. They've published very little on the disastrous budget bill. They focused on a ton of other stories. But when they did publish a story on the disastrous budget, um, or, or post an interview with MAGA Mike Johnson like this one, the comments were just devastating to Fox and to the MAGA Republicans. Like here's like one of the only posts I saw on their Instagram where they covered the disastrous budget bill. And it's comments like it's comments like this that they got. It was an interview for MAGA Mike Johnson who says the big beautiful bill is at the one yard line. And then people responded, how is adding $4 trillion to the national debt conservative. Another person said that I've been with Trump through thick and this doesn't seem fair to me at all. Someone go stop trying to make it sound like you're for the people. I don't see how any MAGA person can support this adding 3.5 trillion. It's 5 trillion that's being added. 3.5 trillion to the national deficit is not savings. Yes, we hate our constituents but love our donors. The Republican party has no morals. Speaker Johnson. Sickening. I don't know how you look in the mirror. Little Johnson fumble vote no piece of s and and they said let them eat cake right there. Let's take a look at this op ed from the Wall Street Journal. On Trump attacking the free press President Trump has taunted the media for years, and some of his jibes are deserved. Given a group think in most newsrooms like that they start off trying to be favorable to the Trump regime. What's happening now, though, is different. The president is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn't like. It's like a it's a low move in a free country with a free press. On Tuesday, M Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested CNN might be prosecuted for publishing a report about an app called Ice Block, which lets users flag locations where they've spotted operations by Immigration and custom enforcement agents. Ms. Gnome was asked if CNN could be in legal jeopardy for having pushed the app. We're working with the Department of Defense and department we're working with the Department of Justice rather to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activity operations, Mr. Noem said. What they're doing we believe is illegal. Mr. Trump indicated this is fine by him and they may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran, he said, insisting again that its nuclear sites were obliterated. CNN had reported otherwise, citing an analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA. So they may very well be prosecuted for that, Mr. Trump added. What they did there we think is totally illegal. What's wrong is thinking this is illegal. Traffic app such as Waze and Google Maps sometimes warn drivers that other users have flagged police activity or speed traps ahead on public roads. Ice Block isn't operated by cnn, which merely ran a story on its existence. The DIA is early assessment of the Iran strikes was hyped given its analytical limitations and low confidence. But accurately reporting the contents of government documents isn't illegal. It's journalism protected by the First Amendment. Whoever gave CNN the DIA's conclusion might face repercussions, though finding government leakers isn't easy. Is Mr. Trump prepared to start notice they call him Mr. Trump versus President Trump as well. Is Mr. Trump prepared to start jailing journalists until they reveal confidential sources? Maybe if they want to, they can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter national security who gave it, Mr. Trump told Fox News. And I suspect will be doing things like that. Separately, Paramount says it's agreed to pay $16 million to settle Trump's meritless lawsuit accusing CBS of distorting a campaign interview. Last year, Kamala Harris faced the nation in 60 minutes air different halves of Ms. Harris's applied to a question, but the full tape proved that CBS didn't put words in her mouth. Yet. Trump sued, claiming $20 billion in damages. His real leverage is that Paramount requires federal approval for its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. Apparently, Paramount executives decided that paying eight figures to Mr. Trump was better than risking the deal. The $16 million, minus Mr. Trump's legal cost will go towards his presidential library. The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret. Paramount said not to Mr. Trump at least, which is nice. But CBS viewers and journalists might like an apology for the sellout. Wall Street Journal calling CBS for selling out the company also agreed that 60 Minutes will now routinely release transcripts of future interviews with presidential candidates. This can be good journalistic practice, but the president has no business dictating CBS editorial policies. Democrats are raring to investigate. Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. Senator Ron Wyden wrote on social media. When Democrats retake power, I'll be the first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court. If the result is two grim years of partisan trench warfare and whether this technically counts as bribery. Thank you, Mr. Trump. And for what? Another chance for Mr. Trump to bluster about fake news. The price for the country is another worrying precedent as the political culture spirals downward into lawfare. But y' all supported this guy, Murdoch. Y' all supported this guy.
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Ben Meisellis
Proud of you, Popo.
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Michael Popak
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Ben Meisellis
Yeah, let me bring out some data points as well. Here is the Pentagon's press secretary confirming that Iran would be able to have nuclear weapons in a year to two years. Just so you can hear it for yourself, let's play this clip right here.
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Kristi Noem
You know, our assessment of the battle damage around Fordeau, Nantes and Istofan remains unchanged. I mean, we, we believe, and certainly all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe that Iran's, those facilities especially have been completely obliterated. And the interesting kind of side point about this, Tara, is that all of the conversations that we've had since Operation Midnight Hammer with our allies all around the world, but certainly also in the region, they say a couple of things. They share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran's nuclear program and the fact that we have degraded their program by one to two years, at least. Intel assessments inside the department, and I think their intelligence shares that conclusion.
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Unknown Speaker
Current assessments by this department think it's been degraded or delayed by one to two years.
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Kristi Noem
I think we're thinking probably closer to two years. Like degraded their program by two years.
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Ben Meisellis
Okay, here is Kristi Noem talking about arresting us, going after CNN and arresting journalists. So you can hear it for yourself. Let's play that clip right here.
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Unknown Speaker
Remember that many of these law enforcement officers live in these communities. Their children go to those schools, they go to chur there. These are their neighbors they're trying to protect. And to have someone like CNN openly describing how to use technology to reveal the activities and the operations that these law enforcement folks are trying to conduct, it's shameful and it could be prosecutable. So I'm glad that Pam is looking into it now.
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Ben Meisellis
I think one of the things we've seen on Fox as well, and whether this is being directed by Murdoch, Trump is crashing the economy. He's causing serious damage to the economy. And you may go, well, Ben, saying crash is hyperbolic. The markets are up now. The markets go up and down. And to have it back to basically even is not exactly something that should be applauded. But core inflation is rising. The dollar's at its worst start since 1973. And if you look at jobs, we are losing jobs every month. If you look from January to now, jobs are being lost. And the past month in June, the jobs report was actually talked about on Fox. There were supposed to be 100,000 jobs created, but there was 30,000 jobs that were lost. Watch what went Down. Let's play this clip.
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Unknown Speaker
Trump would like to sign this right before the July 4th holiday to celebrate freedom and independence. John, we are 30 minutes away from the opening bell for a Wednesday in a holiday shortened week. Your your thoughts?
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Well, our big surprise today had to be that ADP report on private sector sector employment that was down by 33,000 jobs. The labor market is softening, it's flattening out. And that tells me that companies can go ahead and increase prices in response to higher tariffs. But I don't think that consumers are going to respond positively. They'll pull back on spending. So any increase by inflation because of tariffs will be quite limited. Ultimately, tariffs may drop, do more to increase federal revenues, reduce the federal deficit than to add to price inflation. And of course, all this adds up to lower than expected interest rates by the end of this year.
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Yeah, great point. Markets have turned negative now 30 minutes before the open on the heels of that weaker than expected June ADP report. That's why President Trump keeps talking about growth. Ashley. John, you just mentioned, you know, people will have to raise prices. Not in Mamdani's New York, Ashley. No, no, no, no. Not is running the grocery store.
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Ben Meisellis
Now. Here is Maria Bartiroma again with a MAGA Republican senator talking about how they were about to applaud the job growth but then they found out that we lost 33,000 jobs. That's very bad. And that may get revised downward even more. Here, play this clip.
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Unknown Speaker
Of course, President Trump is talking about this bill leading to growth in the economy. We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs numbers for the month of May. The expectations call for the ADP numbers numbers to be up 95,000 for the month of June. Rather it's the June jobs data. And we'll of course right now seeing the number actually show a decline in jobs down 33,000 on ADP. The bill includes $25 billion for the golden Dome, the missile defense system. Senator, you introduced a bill supporting the construction of that system.
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Ben Meisellis
And by the way, here's very far right wing propagandist Brian Kilmeade. He's speaking with Treasury Secretary Scott Besant here. And here's Bessant's response of at least, at least Kilmeat asked in the right question like dude, what's going on with these rare earth minerals? China's not releasing these rare earth minerals and that's significantly harming, you know, our country's ability to manufacture things here. Watch what he says. Let's play it true or false. The Chinese still are not giving us the rare earth we're paying for.
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Unknown Speaker
We are hoping that they will flow at a faster rate. Rare earth magnets are flowing. They are not flowing as they did before April 4th, but we are confident that the Chinese will live up to their side of the deal.
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Ben Meisellis
And, you know, finally, it is a sellout by CBS for settling with Donald Trump for $16 million. I don't care that they say they're not offering an apology. They're giving him $16 million. What are you giving him 16 million for? It was the most frivolous lawsuit, in my opinion, that I had really ever seen. What that 60 Minutes aired one version of the interview. That was the same version of the interview that Face the Nation added. That was what that, that was edited a slight amount. There was no material change. Some ums and odds were taken out to make the thing go quicker. The full video was out there. Wasn't like they were hiding anything. And Trump was too scared to show up. Up for that interview with 60 Minutes. Trump got invited to be on 60 Minutes and he would not do the interview. Former Vice President Kamala Harris did the interview. So Trump sits back, whines about an interview that he doesn't do, sues CBS, gets them to pay $16 million. I, look, I don't know how you can be. I don't know what the journalists at CBS are doing right now. I'm sure there are good journalists that still work. There are smart people who still work there. I don't know how you're able to do your job in that environment. I just, I don't know how you're able to do that job. We saw the 60 Minutes executive producer resign, Right? We saw the president of CBS News resign. There you have it. That's what Murdoch said.
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Unknown Speaker
Anyway.
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Ben Meisellis
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