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Start your free trial@shopify.com Good morning everyone. Lots of news to cover this morning. The White House is scrambling right now ahead of the fourth of July to ensure that the President of the United States has a large crowd on the National Mall despite the fact that we're about to see record breaking heat in Washington D.C. temperatures well above 100 degrees this weekend. And it comes after reportedly behind the scenes the President was quote, livid at the fact that he didn't have a strong crowd presence during his speech at the Great America State Fair, a state fair that as you know has been marred by small crowd sizes. At the same time today the President unveiled his Qatari Air Force One jet. He'll be using that to travel this morning to the Dakotas for a speech at the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library and then again to Mount Rushmore tomorrow. ICE detained a nun walking to her local parish and well, the President's financial disclosures show that he made billions and billions of dollars off of crypto. He says, well everyone just makes money. As always. Like Comment share and if you can subscribe to my substack link below to support my work. We're building this in real time and we're going to have some exciting news soon. So if you can click that subscription button and let's build. I want to begin by talking about the fourth of July and what you should expect this weekend. As you may know, the President has co opted the fourth of July to make it a campaign style speech on taxpayer dime on the National Mall. Well it starts at 1:30pm and is scheduled to run until close to midnight. Fireworks won't begin until after 11pm and right now we're expecting record breaking heat in Washington D.C. and according to reports this morning, Trump and officials at the White House are livid that this week's Fourth of July celebration could draw disappointing crowds after last week's kickoff rally in the Great American State Fair saw sparse attendance. Trump was said to be angry after seeing aerial photos showing empty areas at his rally, prompting internal finger pointing over poor turnout and efforts to ensure a fuller audience for his Independence Day speech through free ticketing. The fair also has faced significant logistical problems, including performers backing out, weather disruptions, uneven state events and security restrictions that have discouraged attendance. Now, Trump previously claimed that his speech was huge. 45,000 people were there, that it was completely full. They were able to do it. He wishes they had a larger area to do it. It was packed to the brim. But the truth is it was not full, it was not packed to the brim. And that's why right now they're scrambling to try to make it better. The celebration has become closely tied to Trump's personal political image, with the president viewing it as a key part of his legacy alongside events like the World Cup. Trump envisioned the nation's semi quincentennial as a defining moment of his presidency. But critics are arguing that essentially him being so polarizing is making it difficult. There was a Confederate flag display in North Carolina's tent, which was not provided by the state of North Carolina, but rather officials, private organizers and organizers continue to claim without evidence that more than 150,000 people have attended the State fair. But when you think about it, the state fair has been running for over a week. That's about 10 to 15,000 people per day. That's not actually that many people. And if you look even at the videos, it's likely much less. And it comes ahead of the Fourth of July holiday where now the mayor has said that the fireworks will not begin until 11pm later than previously noted. It comes as we're about to have record breaking heat, 105 degree heat on Friday, 100, 203 degree heat on Saturday in Washington D.C. we're about to have multiple days of over 100 degree heat. And so the President is asking folks to show up at 1pm in the heat and then stay all the way through 11pm outside. And well, because of security restrictions they're not going to be able to carry much. They're going to have to go through multiple metal detectors. It has a potential of really being a difficult situation Speaking of difficult situations, I want to talk about what happened to this woman. She's a Catholic nun. Sister Letitia Ugbowaja was released from ICE custody after she was detained while walking to church in her religious habit. And she was only released after intervention from members of Congress. She was arrested near the US Mexico border. She was later released and returned home. But faith leaders across the United States of America are actively being detained by ice. She was arrested by ICE simply while walking to volunteer at her local parish. Had members of Congress not stepped in to this moment, she would still be behind bars in an ICE detention facility. And it comes after Muslim faith leaders have been detained and others across the United States of America. Well, right now, Trump is heading to, I believe, North Dakota to speak at the Roosevelt Presidential Library. He's unveiling his first ever new Qatari jet that the United States will now use as Air Force One. Heading to the jet, he was asked about his personal financial disclosures, which have shown him earn billions and billions of dollars. I want you to take a listen to what the president had to say this morning, essentially excusing the disclosures. Your financial disclosure shows you at a very lucrative year.
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Last year.
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What message to average Americans, especially those.
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I don't get involved in my personal. We have funds that run my money.
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But you are benefiting.
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Well, I've made a lot of money before I became president, and they invest my money and I don't talk to them. I never, I don't even speak to them. So I have many people, I don't know what they call closed accounts or something. You put your money in and that's it. I don't talk to them. They're big institutions and they run it. But, yeah, I've had a great career in business. I've had a great career. I don't know if I've had a better career in politics or business, but I had a great career in business. And, you know, you saw the cash and you report the different things. And what they do is, we gave it, I think it's called the blind account, but they basically, they take it. And I purposely, I never speak to any of the people that run the money, but they're at big institutions and they invest in whatever they invest.
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He's fine with it. He says everyone makes money. When asked about the Qatari jet, here's what he had to say.
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The first flight of what I think is maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built. I said to Boeing, what's the best one? They said, this is the best plane ever built and you're going to have the privilege of flying it. And I have a privilege also of flying it. But this is the first flight. We're going to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library opening and that'll be very good. That'll be a lot of fun. But I think, you know, to be honest with you, I'm excited about the first flight. It's something nobody's ever seen anything like it.
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Vice President Vance is facing criticism following remarks he made about foreign workers. Take a listen. And I also am a Catholic convert, so of course I was fascinated by your book. And you write that your faith shapes how you govern. So was there any time or your Catholic faith caused you to oppose an administration action or where your opinion changed even slightly because of your faith?
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Well, I think that my faith is constantly asking me to have humility about what's going on. So, you know, one of the things I try to do, Laura, is constantly ask myself, what have we learned? Has what we learned is it, is it consistent with what I thought was going to happen or is it inconsistent with what I thought was going to happen? I really do think the Christian faith calls political leaders to be humble because real humility is how you learn. It's how you learn about other people and it's how you make better decisions over the course of time. The other thing, Laura, I'd say that my faith really motivates me towards is to remember that our economic policy, it doesn't exist for corporations, it doesn't exist for Wall Street. As much as we want everybody to be successful, it exists to support the dignity of, of human beings. We want every American to be able to raise a family, to be able to support themselves in comfort and in dignity. That's why we're trying to bring investment in manufacturing back to the United States of America. That's why we don't like low wage foreigners coming in and undercutting the wages of American workers. We want normal Americans to be able to live a dignified life. And I think that's a very, very Christian concept. The final point I'll make that's the
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