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Meanwhile, there's an alarming report out of CBS News today. U.S. intelligence assets reportedly beginning to see indications that Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Moments ago, as Lucas referenced President Trump posting on Truth Social, if Iran has

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put out any mines in the Hormuz

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Strait and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed immediately.

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If for any reason mines were placed

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and they are not removed forthwith, the military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before.

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If, on the other hand, they remove

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what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction. Now, this comes as the US Weighs its options for naval escorts in the waterway.

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Okay, so obviously about 11 days into this thing, I don't have to repeat myself, you guys know how well it's going in terms of getting rid of their ability to shoot rockets, which are going down virtually every single day, taking out the leadership, all of the stuff. Now, ultimately this will come down to eventually, when enough of the infrastructure and the mullahs are out of the way, can the people take over? That'll sort of be, as I said yesterday, that's part two of trilogy. And then there'll be a trilogy after that and everything else. But you can see that Iran in a desperate move here because they've completely lost their airspace and everything else they started firing rockets at Now, I think 13 different countries not just tiny, little, very naughty Israel, but 13 different, largely Arab, Muslim nations, and they are not the good guy in the area. 20% should be noted. 20% of the world's global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. So you can understand why it's a key part of the world and a key part for what Iran is doing. And 87.7% of Iran's oil exports go through there, largely to China. Phoenix, I need you to roll for me, okay? And about 30,000 vessels pass through there per year. So let's get into some of the economics around that and why maybe Trump is doing this. Kevin o' Leary went on CNN with Cassie Hunt, and he talked about how Trump's number one goal right now is to take out the bad actors.

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The market has said, okay, let's be volatile in 20, 25% volatility daily on oil until we know when the Strait will be open. But that's not the number one concern post this war.

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What is the number one concern?

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That this erratic government stops doing what it's been doing. The number one concern is if you're going to go do this and disrupt the region and have all this happening, the outcome better be that this bad actor is eliminated. I mean, that's what the market wants, because we don't want more of this. I don't know how long these guys can take this pounding, and I don't like to see it happening, and I hate to see civilians affected. But there's a reason that this occurred. They were doing a tremendous amount of disruption in the region and threatening. This is before the Palestinian war. Shutting down the Strait every nine months is not good for the global economy. That's basically what's happening. Every once in a while you would nuke a boat, and that can't go on.

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Okay, so what o' Leary is doing there is giving you sort of a blue sky version of what's happening here. Right. The Strait of Hormuz, we know for basically for 40 plus years, it can be used as a leverage point. Right. They can make it more difficult to get shipped through or less difficult to get shipped through. And when things are flowing, then the price of oil basically stays the same. When there's peace in the Middle east, then prices are regulated, et cetera, et cetera. I did mention a month ago when we went in. Now it's a little more than a month ago. And we get in, we go in, we get Maduro out of Venezuela. We now have access to their oil. So the oil markets haven't gone crazy for one day. They did go up and then as we reported on yesterday, they went back down almost to the exact same spot yesterday. So the markets are somewhat regulated. China's looking going, oh, our access to cheap oil is now threatened. That's a problem. Trump is saying if you mfers do anything with mines or anything else, you're going to suffer even more than you're suffering right now. Here's I'm going to show you two more clips from o'. Leary. Here he is talking about how the price of war can't even compare to what Iran could do if they could cut the world off from energy.

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I was listening to the narrative earlier. You talked about the cost of the war so far being $5 billion. And that's horrible that obviously that's happening. But in the context of a global economy that is concerned about recession fears, if they are cut off from energy, that's irrelevant. And so you have to think about what is the end game here. And remember, Persia or Iran was, was a very advanced society for centuries until the last 60 years. And when we had some bad actors that have started to affect the stability of the whole region.

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So again, the reason I play so many clips of him, I think he has a really good way of just cutting through the BS and explaining what really is going on. So nobody is thrilled. Like, even, even the people that are the most pro war. I don't think Trump is looking at everything going, look how much are we spending every day. This is spectacular, right? But what O' Leary is saying is it's worth $5 billion now to reorder the world so that Iran will not have so much leverage over the world's energy markets because over the long term, that will have a way bigger price to pay. And again, when you connect that to China and their desire to encroach on the entire world, it seems fairly obvious. Now the other part that's been really interesting here and they really are not a glutton for punishment. And occasionally I do tune into these mainstream media things, even on clips that we don't show you here. And one thing that they're really not not doing on any of mainstream media is talking about how the other Arab Muslim nations in the area, the 13 now who have been hit, they are against Iran, like really, really against Iran. They know Israel is not really their enemy. They use it as a little Satan, big Satan, oh my God, they're always coming to get us. But they know if they leave Israel and America alone, we're not coming to get them actually, we're offering them lots of protections in many ways and blowing rockets out of the sky that are coming for them. So right now, by Iran doing the wounded animal thing and a wounded anim just lashes out whoever it can and it fires rockets every which way. Thirteen countries, they've actually turned their neighbors who I think were largely against the mullahs anyway, but sort of were afraid to do it publicly. They've really turned them against Iran.

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O' Leary, what's unique about this situation, I'm not pro or con on this, I'm just telling you it's obvious to everybody that it's an investor is they somehow turned the entire world against them. They're disrupting every single economy in the world and shooting missiles at their neighbors that were once not their adversaries. And so I'm thinking to myself, okay, what's going to happen as an outside of this when this ends? Whatever happens, number one, we're going to start to talk about energy security and safety in North America in a way we've never had before. That's going to be a number one agenda because obviously there's risk out there, right?

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So we will have, we and this, I mean the worldwide community will have better energy security for sure. At the end of this, however it shakes out, at the end there will be new alliances, there are going to be new leaders in the Middle east, there are going to be new peace deals signed. And people are going to realize, boy, one way or another, whether we don't know how it will end on the ground, right? Does the shah's son come back? Do the mullahs sign some deal? We'll have more on that in just a second. We don't know how all that is going to end. But the idea that the number one state sponsor of terror, that their infrastructure, their ballistic missile program, their nuclear program, their terrorist proxies will have been, will have been decimated, set back for years, that does, let's say, angle the world towards a more peaceful place. And that's why sometimes you have to lead through peace, through strength, right? Like sometimes you have to fight so that you don't have to fight all the time. You can't just have low grade warfare and bad actors can make the price of energy go up and they can shoot rockets occasionally. Sometimes you have to just say, we're gonna do some stuff for a couple weeks to degrade this system so badly that it will buy us hopefully years of peace. We will see. Here's Bill O'Reilly predicting what he thinks will happen over the next couple weeks.

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I believe that what will happen going forward is you'll have sustained bombing for another week, maybe 10 days. That should do it. That should knock out all the infrastructure, including the mines and the Strait of Hormuz. Every kind of weaponry they have, all the drones they have. Another seven to 10 days should knock it down. Okay. Then I think you'll see an announcement that the mullahs, who's ever going to be in charge want to talk. Okay. And then there'll be a meeting in Geneva and there'll be some kind of capitulation on the part of Iran that Iran won't live up to because they'll be so desperate they'll sign anything and they're not going to live up to it. And Trump will say, hey, we won. That's the likely scenario.

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All right, so that basically sounds right to me. So just to reiterate, you got, let's say you get another week or two of bombing. Like we've, let's say by the end of that, we have so decimated everything they have to to use on offense against their neighbors that then the mullahs come back. Now there aren't many of them left and their leadership has been destroyed. And that doesn't solve the problem of the Persian people taking their country back. So at what? So you could argue, and this is. And Trump will have to work through this. You can absolutely argue. What right at this point do the mullahs have to be the ones to come to the table and say, okay, we'll sign some deal, which of course they will never live up to. But who are they at this point? They've been, in essence, illegally rul Persian people of Iran. What right do they have the ones to be at the table? But I think that the broad point that Bill was making there is right. Another week or two of degrading all of the military stuff and then some meeting somewhere. Maybe it's the mullahs saying we're done. Let us move to likely Russia. Right. Like, let us just get safe passage out. And then bringing in the new leadership, the more Western friendly leadership and then the people taking over also. We're not even playing it on or we're not even reading it on today's show, but Netanyahu put out about an eight thread tweet yesterday directly to the Iranian people saying we are almost done degrading their systems enough. Your chance is coming. So it will ultimately be on the Iranian people. I thought this was interesting from polymarket, which obviously checks the betting odds on when things are gonna happen. And it's just sort of a good overall way at seeing what the people, what the people of the world think. The Iran, Israel, U.S. the Iran, Israel, U. S. Conflict end by 4%, say by March 15th. That's next week. So that's probably not happening. 28% by say by the end of this month, March, 68% by May 15th and 77% by June 30th. So that also shows you that where the appetite is on this thing, you know, right now, I saw a poll yesterday, I think it was on CNN actually, that 91% of Trump of MAGA supports Trump on this. But they obviously don't want forever wars. And I don't think Trump wants forever wars. So he knows he has a window here to do something nicely. Also, there's a hu amount of pressure on Trump so that it wraps up nicely so that whatever comes after, so okay, the bombing ends, but whatever comes after still has to be pretty good so that Trump can roll into the midterms feeling good about things. Here's O'Reilly on that.

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The risk for Trump is that he loses in November. That's the risk that his all his power evaporates if this thing doesn't work out. And I think that there is a way to work it out without a regime change that doesn't seem to be happening. And the way is just to annihilate Iran's ability to cause trouble militarily. And I think that will happen.

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Yeah. I just said to Phoenix during the break, it's like if you would have told me, told me 20 years ago when I was a lefty that I would agree with Bill O'Reilly on so much in 2026, I would have never believed you. You know, my first ever TV appearance, actually, Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor back in I still lived in New York, it was probably around 2010 or something, and we were arguing on the show, actually. But anyway, that aside, he's right. Like, Trump needs the win here. That's what I've been saying from day one on this thing. Trump needs a win and something that looks clean. So that. Because the other thing that a win does, not only is a win good for America, and it's good for the energy markets and everything else. The win for Trump, meaning the win of the war and bringing in new leadership, and it all being kind of clean, and then all the Arab nations maybe signing some new peace deals with Israel, and all of that kind of happening around the summertime before the midterms. It also really neuters all the hysterical people. Like, yes, the Democrats are all hysterical, but even the hysterical people on the right, the Tucker Carlson types who have been hacking away at Trump and trying to break the MAGA coalition, they will all look ridiculous. And then maybe, maybe, maybe they'll shut up before the midterms and help Trump and the Republicans win so that Trump then has two more years of ordering the world in a positive way before the next presidential election. I think that's the broad vision Trump has. Get the win in the midterms and then finish as much of the stuff that he's trying to do, and he's trying to do an awful lot. And again, most of this really has to do with China, but people don't want to talk about that just yet. All right, all right, all right. Let's go to the View. Here's noted racist lunatic Sunny Hostin saying that Trump doesn't have a plan. A man who has had a plan about everything for the last 10 years, who's been directionally right about virtually everything, who consistently gets all of his critics wrong and exposes them to be liars and frauds and buffoons. This time, he just doesn't have a plan.

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I mean, it's something to your point, Whoopi. You know, I've said it before. It's very easy to get into a war, very hard to get out of one. And we know that. And I don't think he has a plan. I don't even think he has concepts of a plan at this point.

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Health care?

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Yeah. Like health care.

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Well, I mean, the Kansas of a plan on how to get out of Iran. He's saying there is no leader. Actually, the son of the person that used to be the leader is and is considered far more right, is now in charge. And I think these mixed messages really are going to ultimately affect the American people.

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She just doesn't know what she's saying the son of the guy who's considered far more right. So, yes, Khamenei's son, who apparently is in charge. No one's seen video of him. And there's actually rumors that he's actually actually laid up in a hospital right now. He's the new Supreme Leader. He's far more right. How much more right could he have gotten than Ayatollah Khamenei? She doesn't know what she's saying. And the idea that Trump doesn't have a plan. Trump has even alluded to this in all the negotiations Trump's been doing over the years. He always says, do you think I'm gonna tell you all that right now when they ask him? That's a stupid question. You think I'm gonna show you all my cards, right? We're playing poker right now. Here's all my stuff. What do you wanna win? What do you wanna be like these people? It is so brain numbing. Part of what Trump Derangement syndrome does, perhaps the number one symptom besides violent diarrhea and, you know, thoughts of suicide and everything else, the number one thing is that you just become dumb. Now, let's juxtapose that with someone who's not dumb. Senator Josh Hawley, who really, I think, is just an absolute all star in the Senate and seemed like he was on a major, major rise about five years ago, he's kind of quiet these days. I think he's really just right on almost everything. Here he is explaining that, yes, this thing is going well, despite what Mark Kelly from Arizona, Senator, and several other Democrats are saying.

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So you have one of your colleagues,

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Senator Kelly, saying the war's not going well. How could he say that? Well, I would just say this, Jesse. If you look at our overriding priority here, which is to deny nukes to these crazy people, how can you look at what's happened in the last year? I mean, you had Trump taking out the nukes back in June. Now you've had the last 10 days. Does anybody really think that these people are ever going to try to make a nuke again? What would they make it with, like charcoal? I mean, this is an overriding success. Our military is astounding the world. And I agree with what the President said last night. You look at all the success that we've had in the last 10 days. I mean, this thing is a victory. I think we should be hailing our military as the heroes they are. We ought to be thanking them for their service and we ought to be saying we've achieved our objectives here big time.

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Right. So the Democrats. So either Hawley is lying, all the video evidence coming out about all the infrastructure being blown apart in Iran, the Navy, that is completely gone. The dominance. We completely, we and the Israelis completely control their airspace. It is a. Can you throw the map up again? It's a large country and in basically two days, I mean, that's only a portion. Maybe we can get a more zoomed out version of it in just a second. We took their airspace in basically two days. The rockets, as we pointed out yesterday, the rockets that they are shooting out of the country, it's down something like 87% since day one at the war. There is no evidence whatsoever that we are losing or that this is not going well or that Trump doesn't have a plan. But that obviously is what they relentlessly need you to think. The other thing that they relentlessly need you to think is that people don't need an ID to vote. So let's bring this back to some of the domestic stuff right here, because the SAVE act is still, it is the number one thing right now. Like you could say the war, this war that goes well, doesn't go well, affects the midterms. Fine. I've just made several arguments that Trump needs to win this thing cleanly for the midterms. But really what the future of America is about is will we have a system in place for our elections that will ensure that only Americans vote? And there is a party in this country right now that simply does not want that. The SAVE act is designed to make sure that only people who are citizens can vote. Democrats are freaking out, and we have several squishy Republicans. Let's just get an update here from the Daily Wire. Senate Republican leaders are signaling that the path forward for the SAVE act demanded by President Donald Trump could be far more complicated than some conservatives expect. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested much of the current pressure campaign surrounding the legislation is being driven online rather than inside the Senate itself. The SAVE act would impose new nationwide election integrity requirements, including proof of citizenship, documentation to register to vote, and voter identification requirements for ballots cast in both persons and by mail. The House has already passed the bill, and Trump has recently increased pressure on Senate Republicans to move it forward, declaring he would refuse to sign legislation that does not include the Sabe Act. But Thune indicated even many Republicans remain uncertain about how the Senate could realistically pass the measure. There's support among GOP senators, he said, but the process and how do you ultimately try to get a result is still unclear to me. Some conservatives have floated forcing the legislation through using the talking filibuster strategy designed to pressure Senate Democrats and move the bill forward with a simple majority. Thune, however, warned that the tactic would be difficult to execute. The talking filibuster is one on which there is not certainly a unified Republican conference. And there would have to be, he said after a Senate GOP meeting. Okay, so let me explain this for those of you that don't pay attention to every little bit of procedure in the senate. You need 60 votes, right? So you. Well, it. Well, let me back up. What you need actually is 50 votes plus JD without the filibuster. Okay? So the Republicans can do this. Meaning that right now The Republicans have 53 seats, okay? So right now to get the SAVE act passed without the filibuster, they need seven Democrats to come across. To get 60. There is zero chance. Zero. First off, you need all 53 Republicans. You have some loser Republicans like Mitch McConnell who doesn't even know where he. Right. So. So there is zero chance you're going to get the 60 by doing. By doing what they call the nuclear option and the talking filibuster. You can do it. You can do it with a simple majority. Now, the argument against it is a procedural one. The argument against it is if we do it with a simple majority, then what will the Democrats do when they have it? And I understand that argument. And I actually believe in the Constitution and I believe in the separation of powers and I like proper procedure. However, we are in a time now where the Democrat Party is so radically against America, radically against free and fair elections. Clearly for fraud, clearly for flooding our country with illegals, openly saying they will pack the Supreme Court when they can. Every single norm that we have, the Democrats are in opposition to. And they are telling us that when they are in power again, they will do everything they can to shred all of those norms and rules and foundational documents. Documents. So the Republicans right now, while they have the House and the Senate and the potential tiebreaker with the vp, they have to do it. And what I would say to somebody, if you get into a debate about, with this, with a friend, the real debate is what is political power and do you use it effectively when you can? And I would say think about what Bukele has done in El Salvador. We've covered this a ton over the last two years. He took a country that was a third world nation, that was number one in murder and up there in crime and basically gangs were running the nation. And he went in and he used political power and now it is one of the safest countries in this hemisphere. I was there a few weeks ago and it was safe and clean. And you do see some soldiers out on the street, which for a Western person, that can be a little bit odd. But I was in El Salvador when it was a third world nation over a decade ago, and it was wildly unsafe. They've cleaned it up. What would Ron DeSantis do in a political situation like this? Would he wield his power effectively or would he not? Right. So either we can keep playing by the rules that they don't even believe in, or we can make something happen. So thune like stop being. What would be a word that I can say with my new rules around here? Not being a. Like being a donkey head. Don't be a donkey head, man. Be cool. Be a frame mogger. That was good. I got that right. Wow.

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Wow.

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Applause. Here is thune being more of a donkey head.

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Do you run a risk of being on the wrong side of President Trump and your resistance to do this talking filibuster tying the Senate in knots for weeks? We don't have the votes either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it. But that's just a. That is just a function of math, and there isn't anything I can do about that. I mean, I understand the President's got a passion to see this issue addressed as we all do. Does he understand that, though? Well, we've conveyed that to him, but we will continue to make that argument because I think it's important that everybody understand that this really is about.

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About.

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It's about the votes. It's about the math.

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Again, I'm just not totally sure what he's saying here. Yes, they don't have the 60, but as I just illustrated, there is a way around it. They have the 50 at minimum, plus JD as the tiebreaker. So what he's saying there is. Well, yes, we don't, we can't do it the traditionally nice way. But I don't think he's hearing what Trump is saying or what I've just said or what. What I think it's something like 91% of Republicans are saying, which is, you pass this thing no matter what, because otherwise we're giving away the keys to the kingdom. Gunther Eagleman over on the Twitter X machine tweeted, does John Thune realize how bad he is effing up? And Elon responded and said, not yet. Here's a bit more from Thune talking about maga's expectations. Doing this without a Democrat. President Trump told me yesterday that it would take Democratic votes to pass the Save America Act. Do you think the MAGA base has an unrealistic expectation of passing that legislation without Democrats?

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I think there are a lot of. There are a lot of optimistic views about what Democrats may or may not do. We all know, because we deal with them every day, that the Democrats are not all of a sudden going to decide, decide that this is something they want to be for.

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Yes, they are not going to, but you have a chance to do it another way. Have I explained myself properly today? I think I have. Now, here's a doozy for you. So then Chuck Schumer shows up and nobody likes Chuck. If there was a show about Chuck, it would just be called Nobody Likes Chuck and there wouldn't be a laugh track. It would just be sad Chuck in front of his little barbecue. Remember when he was trying to make a cheeseburger that day and the flame wasn't lit and he put the cheese on while the patty wasn't even cooking and just like trying. And he's smart, you know, and he's got his glasses like this, and he's like this, trying to make a hamburger. Like, nobody likes Chuck. Nobody respects Chuck. He's on his. Oh, there it is. Nobody makes a cheeseburger that way. Chuck. It's not even. What did he do there? You put the cheese on the end. That's it. I can't take it anymore. But anyway, here's Chuck. And Chuck somehow admits that if the SAVE act is passed, that we're going to kick millions of people off the voter rolls. But the SAVE act is only so that legals can vote. So he's basically saying if we pass the SAVE act, illegals will not be able to vote. It's about voter registration. It makes It. It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls. Off the rolls. And they don't tell them until election day. And you show up and you say, you're not registered anymore. You're not registered here. You're not on the rolls. And they say, I didn't know that. This is a bill that destroys the country. And it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote. It's about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights. In a algorithm put together by ice, put together by Doge and Musk. It's an outrage. Everything he said there was complete nonsense. You know, the Billy Madison thing. Everything you just said there has made everyone in this room dumber. That's what he just said. ICE has nothing to do with voter rolls. ICE is out there on the streets getting illegals out. So if ICE does their job, millions of people won't be able to vote. Well, are you telling me, I mean, what you are telling me is that millions of illegals do vote and somehow Doge and an algorithm and Elon Musk are the ones forcing us to have citizens to vote? It's really hysterically insane what these people are doing. And so the question, again, the question for every thoughtful person out there. I understand procedure. As I said, I like separation of powers. I'm weary of a system that gives too much power to itself and everything else. At this point, with everything that's happening here, with jihadists running around our country, with a party that literally, at the State of the Union, wouldn't stand up to say that they're more for American citizens than for illegals, with all of the complete and utter absurdity that is happening right now, if the Republicans don't use their power when they can, then they probably don't deserve that power, and that would be a damn shame. Here's Caroline Levitt on just the general absurdity around the narrative on this thing,

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the Save America Act. It would prevent married women from voting in elections or make it harder for them. What do you have to say to those claims? Is there any validity to them? And where do you think they're getting this from? There is zero validity to these claims. And I'm glad that you brought them up because you have the Democrats who have created this myth. And it has been perpetuated, unfortunately, by many in the mainstream media. Let me be very clear. The Save America act does not prohibit anyone from voting with the exception of illegal aliens. And the greatest way to disenfranchise American citizens from voting in American elections is to allow illegal aliens to vote, which is what Democrats want to do. We see it taking place in Democrat jurisdictions at the state and local level across this country.

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She communicates quite effectively and she's pretty good at this job. But let me, I'll try to dumb it down. Maybe I'll speak a little slower for certain people. If you think that if the SAVE act passes that moms are going to pull up in their SUVs, drop the kids off at school or soccer and then go to vote. And then someone over there at the voting thing is going to be like, lady, you're married, you can't vote. You are an idiot. I don't know how to say it any other way. This is fear mongering at the craziest possible level. But even if the Democrats believed any of this, if the Democrats believe black people can't use printers and they don't know what a computer is and women who would change their name because they get married can't vote, and let's say all of those things were true. Let's say the 10 craziest things that the Dems say about this is true. You should still want voter id. So why wouldn't you guys create a government program? That's what you love doing more than anything else. Why wouldn't you create a government program to solve those problems? Oh, it turns out that if they pass the SAVE act, women who can't, who are married can't vote. Let's create a government program to solve that. Black people can't use printers. Let's create a government problem to solve that. Black people don't know what computers are. Let's create like that's what they would do if that, if this was actually about integrity. But I think you understand and it is actually not about personal nor election integrity. Here's Fox and Friends talking about how the partial shutdown we are in right now, which is because of the Democrats cuz they don't like ice, which is already funded through 2029, is now causing not only crazy delays that we covered yesterday at airports, but 300 TSA employees have quit just in the last day

A (36:20)

or so four hours at some airports. And you wonder why. It's because unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled since the shutdown. 300 employees have quit.

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I mean they haven't been getting a paycheck.

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And remember this is the second round of a shutdown, so they missed two paychecks. The first Time. I think they've already missed one paycheck this time around. Okay, so who's being punished right now? Look, you can make all the jokes you want about TSA and how sort of ridiculous theater it is and go to jfk, and if you think these people are the best qualified people to check your bags, like, okay, fine, we can make all those jokes, but in the midst. In the midst of a war, in the midst of an Austin jihadist shooting two weeks ago, where 16 people were shot, two were killed. The IED bomber at the mayor's mansion, who the mayor sort of pretended was going after him, but was actually just going after some other people. All the other. The guy on the Southwest Airlines flight plane to Nashville. We didn't even show the video of it, but that happened, too. Who started screaming Allahu Akbar and I'm gonna bomb this plane and everything else. You maybe don't want to shut down DHS right now. And again, it has nothing to do with funding ICE, which is funded through 2029. Here's a woman who I. What were the numbers on this? Let me just fact check this real quick. From 2021 to 2023, one likeliest Congress member to scare children in bad lighting. Premia Jayapal saying that DHS must be

A (37:55)

dismantled, handled fema, tsa, some of the other entities within the Department of Homeland Security, which never should have been combined, by the way, into the Department of Homeland Security. I don't think that DHS should have been created after 9 11. That's when it was created, which we have been 150% clear. We are not funding DHS, ICE and CDP, not a penny more.

C (38:21)

Can you go back to the hole you came from, lady? Like, just go back. Go away. You know, like, okay, you know, you can make. Like you actually can make a sane argument that after 9 11, we went a little crazy with some of the things that we did, and we made government programs related to security that weren't particularly good. We made them bigger, and they're not that efficient. I'm more than happy to make all of those arguments, but those are not what you're doing. You're trying to make it seem like if we do anything to protect our borders, if we do anything to protect our elections, if we do anything at this point to protect our citizens who are being killed and raped. Raped and all of the stuff by illegals, that we're somehow the bad guys and we're not the baddies. Do they ever just look in the mirror and say, maybe we're the baddies here is Rhode Island Democrat Gabe Amo pointing out that it is important that the Dems are. That is important that TSA is paid. And many Democrats want to fund dhs except for ice. Except ICE is funded already.

D (39:21)

When and how is this gonna be resolved? Well, as a member of Congress, I find myself in airports quite often, and it's important to me that the TSA agents are paid like they deserve to be for the important work that they're carrying out. And that's why many Democrats, including myself, have said, let's fund the rest of the Department of Homeland Security, except for ice.

C (39:45)

First off, that clip is incredible because we found a black man who can get on an airplane. Amazing. Dude, dude. Buddy. I've never heard of you before. It's spectacular that you can get on a plane and you have an ID. You're an exceptional Mensa level human being. Except ICE is funded already through 2029. How many times? Look, we're showing you from the National Immigrant Justice Center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE is funded through September 30, 2029, via substantial 75 billion bill allocated for the one big beautiful bill Act. So every. I don't understand how these people don't. They have people who work with them. Joseph, come here and wave to the people for just a second. This is Joseph. He sits at a computer. He's my associate producer. Wave to the people. Just look, wave. How old are you?

D (40:32)

23.

C (40:33)

He's 23 years old. Occasionally I turn to him and I ask him, did I get that right? And he goes to the computer and I don't know how you're doing. You're typing and whatever. Yeah, usually typing in something. And then he gets information. That is true. I don't know how you do it. It's incredible. Thank you. You can sit down now and you can have that. I feed him a bucket of fish heads once a week in the corner over there. It's incredible. But why don't they have people like Joseph? Why don't. Before you go on television, Mr. Congressman, and again, I think you're a spectacular person because you've been able to figure out how to get an ID to vote. Why don't you have someone that says, you boss, you know you're about to go on TV and maybe you should know a little bit about what you're talking about. So the DHS funding has nothing to do with the ICE funding because it was funded with $75 billion through. Here's Vermont Senator Peter Welch toning down the Rhetoric via ice. That's sarcasm. We're at a fraught time.

D (41:35)

What we're seeing is a rampage by ICE in the name of so called protecting our citizens. We've had a debate in this country about open borders and Mr. Chairman, there's been, there's been success in closing the border. A country does have a right to define what its borders are.

B (41:53)

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C (42:23)

Oh, a country has a right to define what its borders are. Well, you're a Democrat and did you do anything for the four years that Joe Biden or auto pen let 15 to 21 million illegals in? Are you doing anything about getting those people out? Of course you're not. So you guys get everything wrong and then you have the gall to lecture us on ICE trying to do their job. By the way, since he is Vermont senator, it should be noted that Duada Mayanja, a violent Ugandan illegal rapist was arrested by ICE in Bennington, Vermont. Had nothing to do with Mr. Welch there. Here is John Thune, who we've smacked around a little bit on this show. Here he is, he's pissed actually that the Democrats are shutting down DHS for these 26 days because he knows it has nothing to do with ICE saying

D (43:06)

they don't even want to sit down and talk. Overtures were made yesterday to the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Countless overtures have been made to the Democrat leadership and they have basically said, sorry, sorry, we don't want to talk. So here we are in the 26th day now of a government shutdown instigated by Democrats after they had agreed to the very bill that they are now opposing and are now opposing, even sitting down and talking and negotiating on the things they say they want. Explain that one.

C (43:48)

All right, so Thune, who again we smacked around a little bit at the top of the show here, everything he said there was right. Might I offer a theory on today's program? And my theory is this the reason the Democrats won't Sit down. And the reason they don't mind. Well, there's two things going on here. I'll do the lying part. First, the reason they don't mind lying. So the guy who we just showed you there, and they don't mind repeating the thing over and over, we're going to fund DHS to stop ice, even though those things have nothing to do with each other, is because they know that their base is dumb. I don't know how to say it another way. Their base is misinformed and dumb and I suppose watches MSNBC or the ridiculous clown car of leftist podcasters and they lie to them over and over. And because their whole pool of information has been so polluted, they don't care. Right? So they know if you're Schumer or you're Welch or one of these guys, you don't mind if you keep lying about it because you will pay no price for it. It. The other part of it is, is that because you're going to pay no price for it, the pain then starts appearing at the airports, right? And now someone who's not particularly political, maybe they're a little bit of a Democrat or maybe, maybe even there is nominal Republican, they go to the airport and now they're waiting for extra hours or their flight got delayed or they got to stay overnight or whatever might happen here, they miss their connection because of the DHS shutdown. Who are they going to blame? Well, if they're largely misinformed, if they don't pay attention to anything or they're misinformed, they will blame Trump. That's just how the cult of personality around the presidency is. They're going to go, wait a minute, wait a minute, we're in a war in Iran. They know about that. And the flights are delayed here. Trump, that's what will happen here. So the Democrats, they like the lying to their sort of dim witted base because the more pain there is, the more people will point it at Trump. Not rightly, but because their base is not particularly bright. Here's Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, who is bright. I've had him on the show many times. I like him a lot. Here he is just laying out how ridiculous the Democrats have become for the previous four years.

D (45:52)

President Biden and the Democrats opened up the border. Now, I like this chart. First of all, saved the President's life. But the other reason I like this chart is it shows cause and effect. And the catalyst for this explosion in illegal immigration really was deferred action on childhood arrival. That's what sparked this, that created the first incentive for people to come to this country illegally. That started the first wave. Now back in 2014, these were massive numbers. I remember President Obama calling 2000 a day was a humanitarian crisis crisis. I think under Biden we had over 14,000 in a day average.

C (46:34)

Yeah, that's good. Sorry, can we just go. Can you screenshot that real quick just so I can. So just screenshot and I'll just show. I mean what he's showing you right there is under the Obama years. Obama was saying that these people coming through that this is a horrible problem. And we've shown you a million videos where Democrats have done this already. It's okay, you can come back to me and then look at the explosion under Biden. So everything Trump is doing is trying to reverse what Barack Obama's viol vice president did. And again, Biden didn't know he was doing it likely. And who the hell was signing off on this and everything else. But the real issue is that when these people get here, they do all sorts of horrible things. They've already broke the law once. Even though Jasmine Crockett, who we won't have to talk about much longer, doesn't seem to think coming to the country illegally is, is illegal, which of course it is. But then they do horrible things. In the last couple days in New York City, a Honduran illegal push two people onto the New York City subway tracks. Here's a report from CBS.

A (47:31)

34 year old man now faces charges including attempted murder by Ron Hernandez, accused of pushing actually two men onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd street station Sunday. Victim John Rodriguez managed to take video of the man who he said was the culprit. Rodriguez ended up with his arm in a sling. The other victim, 83 year old Richard Williams, his granddaughter tells us he has multiple fractures and also bleeding on the brain.

C (48:03)

You think Democrats are ever going to say the names of the victims? Right there. An 83 year old man, if I'm not mistaken, he was an army veteran as well. Bleeding on the brain, multiple fractures, 83 years old, just trying to go somewhere on the subway. And Democrats will never say his name. You think moron Zamboni is going to hold a press conference today saying his name? We'll get to more on him and in just a second. But they won't. They don't care. They only care about the bad guys. So now let's stay in New York City because we showed you that there was a terrorist attack in New York City outside of Gracie Mansion. And the media tried to frame it as if somebody. As if basically implying that a white supremacist was trying to bomb a bunch of Muslims. Of course, it was completely the reverse of that. Here is video on the investigation.

A (48:49)

Right now we are here in New York City's Upper east side neighborhood. We're actually a couple blocks down from Gracie Mansion, which, yes, is the home of New York City Mayor Zora Mamdani. Right now, officers are investigating a suspicious device that was found in a popular park nearby called Carl Schurz. We've seen officers block off this area to traffic. And we've got members of the NYPD bomb squad and another command unit that are out here. Big breaking update. We're hearing reports that Gracie Mansion is being evacuated. Again, that's the official residence of the New York City mayor. So that's a pretty big update. Reports coming in that Gracie Mansion is being evacuated.

C (49:33)

Okay, so let me slightly clean that up. There were two incidences. One was the IED incident where the guy threw the bomb that thankfully didn't blow up because the guy has now admitted there were two guys that did it. One second generation from Turkey, one second generation from Afghanistan. They wanted it to be bigger than the Boston bombing. Fortunately, that didn't go off. And then there was this other threat. So anyway, the point is there's a whole bunch of threats now around New York City. You know, they mentioned that that was at Carl Schurz Park. I'll just tell you a story real quick about Carl Schurz Park. I used to live on 90th and 1st, which was about a block or two away from Gracie Mansion. This is. Well, I was there for 9 11, so this is around 99 to maybe 2002 or so. And I used to play basketball all the time over there. And after 9 11, it's about a month after because, you know, for the few weeks after 9 11, the city was utterly chaos. We were all just watching TV all the time. It was, you know, you could still. Even on 90th and 1st, which is polar opposite part of New York City from ground zero, you could still smell. You'd walk outside and you could still smell the soot and the debris and all that stuff. So you didn't even want to be outside for that long. But about a month after 9 11, I went to Karl Scholes park to play basketball, which is where I played basically every day for years while I was up there. And we started playing and it was just a bunch. I went alone and it was A pickup game. A bunch of guys, 10 of us, were on the court, and these two guys kind of crashed into each other, and they were talking smack, and they were. They got in each other's faces, started screaming. And I know this sounds made up, but I swear to you, it is true. They got in each other's faces, and they both started crying at the exact same time. Time. I just got chills up my spine telling you that. I've told that story a couple times before. That was what New York City was like after 9, 11. And the fact that right now we have someone in the. In Gracie Mansion, which is right there. Gracie Mansion's right outside Karl Schultz park who is sympathetic to that is just absolutely insane. So here is Zoron on his advice to young people who might be drawn to terrorist ideology.

A (51:35)

So given that both of the alleged attackers at Gracie were said they were inspired by isis, and given New York City's sort of perennial status as a soft target, I was wondering if you had any words of advice to any young people who might find themselves being drawn to that particular ideology.

D (51:53)

I think, first and foremost, just to make it clear to everyone that extremism and hatred of any kind will not be tolerated in our city. And that is, regardless of whatever ideology motivates any person to commit an act of violence, there is no tolerance for it.

C (52:13)

Here he is evil. And you know, when Ronald Reagan said that when socialism comes to America, it's gonna come with a smile. That is that guy. She said, would you like to talk about this particular ideology? Particular ideology. That's the ISIS ideology, which we now know both of these guys were following. They've seen their phones, They've seen their computers. We know that she asked about particular ideology. And of course, he talks about extremism and hatred in all forms because he kind of likes the ISIS ideology. And how do we know that? Well, here he is where he refused, and this happened multiple times. This is just one of many videos of him doing it, refusing to condemn Globalize the intifada.

A (52:54)

You were recently asked about the term globalize the intifada. If it makes you uncomfortable in that moment, you did not condemn the phrase. Now, just so folks understand, it's a phrase that many people hear as a call to violence against Jews. There's been a lot of attention on this issue. So I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now. Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?

D (53:20)

That's not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.

A (53:31)

But do you actually condemn it? I think that's the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond, have. Do you condemn that phase Globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear, is a call to violence against Jews.

D (53:45)

I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with. I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner especially of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail, who's just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that very supposed crime of speech.

C (54:03)

He's so evil. And I don't even want to get into Mahmoud Khalil thing. Who was leading those campus protests, who should be deported, who is not a legal citizen, who just had dinner with him at Gracie Mansion. I think the night or the night after this mosque, you might have had the police officer. Can you grab the guy? The image of the police officer, that incredible man and what is his name jumping over the barricade to figure out what was happening with the bomb. You could add him over for dinner. You didn't do that. It's the image of the year already. You know, when Time magazine or one of those Newsweek, when they do their image of the year, it's the image of the year, I'll call it right now. And let's get his name. You could have had him over for dinner after the attempted bombing, but you didn't. You had Mahmoud Khalil, who's all about globalizing the intifada, and just admitted it. Like, that's the thing. Just admit it. You're for globalizing the intifada, the last intifada, which killed 1200 Jews. You're for it. You're for river to the Sea, which would be a call for genocide. Chief Aaron Edwards is the man. And do we. I think we might have the image. Look at this image. This is the image of the year. Chief Aaron Edwards. God bless this guy. So the bomb gets thrown. There he is jumping over that barricade. That's the guy you should have had over for dinner. Instead you had the LARPing terror tourist over for dinner. Right? You had the guy who was making sure that Jews and other students who wanted to go to campus safely at Columbia couldn't get in, who was. You know, they say I'm for the universality of. No, you're not. No, you are not. No, you are not. But how is it that you became mayor? Well, it's partially because there's a media layer that runs cover for you people. So we read you yesterday. What I said was probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on the show. The CNN tweets tweet about the bombing where they completely fabricated a wonderful children's story about two young guys who were just having. It was a spring day and they just wanted to bring a Molotov cocktail and an IED to the city. You know, here's Abby Phillip on her show and well, listen to how she framed it.

A (55:53)

Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor Zoran Mamdani. And the House Speaker, Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.

C (56:07)

Attempted terrorist attack against New York City's mayor. Are you telling me that the two ISIS guys were throwing the bomb? They threw the bomb at a bunch of. That is true. They were anti Muslim. Let's say protesters. You can have issues with that or not. You can. They were exercising their free speech. Okay, you can argue that either way, they were not throwing the bomb at. At the mayor. That is. She completely, 100% lied. So she did tweet this out. I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers were thrown into a crowd of anti Muslim protesters and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn't catch it ahead of time. I apologize for the error, but leave that up for just a second. Was thrown into a crowd of anti Muslim protesters. Okay, that is true. They were protesting against Islam. That is true. And not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. What are you talking about? Specifically? It had nothing to do with Mayor Mamdani. They are on Mayor Mamdani's side on this. So even in her apology, that woman, she is so damn dim. Dim. This clown person, Wajad Ali, I've been on Piers Morgan with him and owned him a couple times. He went on Joy Reid podcast. Why are we even doing. I don't know. Sorry about this clip, but. Well, you'll see, it's kind of. It's actually sort of pleasant in a weird way, but I apologize in advance.

D (57:33)

We found out, Joy, and this pains me as an American. Other countries were laughing at him and laughing at us. I want to tell you all something about Pakistan.

C (57:42)

My parents are from Pakistan. It's a country with many challenges.

D (57:44)

My cousin came here from Pakistan, studied, went back. He was about to come to America. You know what he said? Said he goes, hey, man, I was about to buy a ticket to America, but things look really bad. I'm just going to stick back in Karachi. When people in Pakistan are looking at

B (57:57)

us and they're like taking pity.

A (57:59)

Yeah, joy for you.

C (58:02)

Oh, that's a shame. We're not going to have more Wajat Ali family members from Pakistan coming to America because listen to this. The just depart. The Justice Department alleges that Wajat's parents were part of a scheme to defraud Microsoft Corporation by obtaining discounts, discounted software under false pretenses. They were convicted in 2006 on 30 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and spent nearly five years in prison. But Ali said his parents, like many Muslims in the US at the time, was unfairly targeted. Oh, gosh darn. We're not gonna have more of the Alis. What are we gonna do to wrap this whole show together? We are consistently seeing, guys, just a divide in this country between the blue and the red, between Republican state states that are roughly sane and Democrat states that are completely losing their minds. And again, good luck to you in New York City. If you think it is bad now and you think there's been an uptick in terror and hate, it is going to get much worse. That is the point. He is going to smile as it gets worse. But let's stop there because let's jump over to Washington State where if things are not good in New York, they're about to try to catch up over in Washington. Listen to this from Autism Capital breaking. Washington state passes their first ever income tax. Incomes over a million a year will be taxed at 9.9%. Married couples share a single one million dollar exemption. So if combined incomes are more than one million, you're getting taxed. This will obviously eventually extend beyond millionaires. What comes for others, eventually will come for you. RIP Washington State. So they're going after the rich, right? Any, virtually every single person watching this would love to make a million dollars a year, whether it's you solo or combined with your spouse, house. So that's who they're going after right now we just need 10% more of your money. You already pay 80% of the taxes and we don't tax lower income people and everything else. But Washington has been a state that has had no income tax. They are now saying it's not a spending issue, it's an income issue. We just need more of your money. And as they point out in the tweet, of course it will never end with that. You think the government, after five years of a program where we just take the money from the guys who are making a million a year, of course the government five years from now will say, well, you know, we actually, even though nothing will get better because of it, right? Things will get worse. They'll then say, well, you know, it's not just the guys who make a million a year. How about the 750s? And then we'll throw two more years in and then it's the 600s and the 400s and then eventually it's the hundreds and the 80s and everything else. So what has happened? Well, the fleeing from Washington has already begun. Listen to this LinkedIn post from Howard Scholz, who is the CEO of Starbucks. It's a little lengthy, but I think it's worth reading. 44 years ago, Sheri and I made the cross country trip from New York City to Seattle in our 1979 Audi. Along with Jonas, our golden retriever, we were starting a new life. Sheri would be the breadwinner in the family, taking on a career in design. And I started a new job on September 7, 1982 at a place called Starbucks. Back then, the Pike Place Starbucks only sold whole bean coffee. Today it is the most visited Starbucks in the world. The history of the company is bound up in the very foundation Walt and floorboards of the first store in the city's historic market. The spirit of continuing forward has long underpinned our approach to life in business, in philanthropy and most importantly, as a family. For those of you who know us well, we have entered the retirement phase of our lives, a term we are both just getting used to. Last year we traveled to dozens of places around the world. Places we were just too busy to see when building Starbucks and raising kids. And we have moved to Miami for our next adventure. Together we are enjoying the sunshine of South Florida and its allure to our kids on the east coast as they raise families of their own. Like many other Seattle based companies, Starbucks today stands on the shoulders of many Pacific Northwesterners who built the company. They help shape the culture, the benefits and the brand contributing to the civic community and public life of the city and state. It is our hope that Washington will remain a place for business and entrepreneurship to thrive, creating essential opportunity for those in Seattle and the surrounding area areas. Over the years, as Sherry and I grew our family and built Starbucks globally, we were witness to the astonishing development of Seattle, we focused on doing on our part to help those at risk and facing hard times in our city. In 1990, Sherry started the Scholz Family foundation, launching critical work to help others in our community and beyond. Work that has grown in scale and impact with each passing year. We've entrusted the leadership of the foundation to our dear friend Vivek Varma, with a mandate to accelerate our philanthropic investment to drive meaningful change. While our private family office will move to Miami, our foundation will continue operations in Seattle. We will be forever grateful for the memories made in Seattle and the relationships built along the way. To the family, friends and partners who made Seattle our home for so many years. Onward, thank you. Onward, Sherry and Howard Scholz. So, okay, you did it again. Congratulations, Democrats. You just wanted more of somebody who produces. I've been to that Pike Place. What's the market called in Seattle? It's the famous market. Oh, it's the Pike. It's literally the Pike Place Market. And that's where the Pike Place Starbucks is. How they put them all back together. Incredible. That is the first ever Starbucks. It's iconic. It's right where the fish market is and everything else. I should also note that it's not just Howard Scholz that fled Seattle. Connor, over here. Remember the guy lived a block away from Chop. Remember their semi autonomous zone with the rapes and the murders and the drugs? And then one day a guy named Dave Rubin calls him up and says, come with me. Let's make your life better. That's the happiest guy I know right now. Okay? And he fled to Miami too. And so did this guy over here, and so did that guy over there. So once again, we got Sergey Brin from Google last week. Zuckerberg just moved here. Look, I'm not thrilled with some of their political ideologies, but all of the people who create, all of the people who are innovating, leading an AI revolution and everything else, they're coming to places. Most of them happen to be coming to Miami. A lot of them are going to Nashville too. But they're coming to places where business will thrive. And then think about it this way. Put aside money and taxes and all everything else, you're going to get a certain type of person, a certain type of person who maybe won't burn down a Best Buy because they're not happy about something. And then things start flourishing in some places and start degrading in other places. Two quick videos of Howard to close the show here. Here he is where he rejected being a billionaire. He didn't want to be called a billionaire during a Senate hearing. Which was interesting because they were going for the Senate. They were going for the billionaires first.

D (64:13)

The last thing you said, and it's been said many times by the chairman. I just want to make a point of that. This. This monarch of billionaire. Let's just get. Get at that. Okay. I grew up in federally subsidized. Let me finish. I grew up in federally subsidized housing. My parents never owned a home. I came from nothing. I thought my entire life was based on the achievement of the American dream. Yes, I have billions of dollars. I earned it. No one gave it to me. And I've shared it. People of Starbucks. And so anyone who keeps labeling this billionaire thing, it's. Michelle, I. I don't mean to cut you off. We have time limits here, and you have the opportunity. I'm not cutting you off. It's your. It's your moniker constantly. It's unfair.

C (64:59)

No, it is not.

D (65:00)

You have had more time. I've been generous with the time that. I'm sorry, I. Mr. Chairman, we have a room full of people. We have paddle to go after. You're not the only person. Test.

C (65:09)

All right, guys, I know everyone's waiting for me to do the Bernie thing. I'm not doing it today. But what. What a bad man. Bernie Sanders is trying. I'm really trying. Right? Like, there's somebody like, put aside the time. Like, he would never cut off one of his commie socialist comrades in the middle of all of this. But there's someone talking about the American dream. I grew up with nothing. My parents never owned a house. House. I. He. We just read you the statement. The guy drove cross country with him, his wife and his dog. Right? That's literally what we did. That's what we did back in 2013 when we went from New York and we didn't. We didn't have 20,000 bucks combined. We had nothing. Actually. I had a lot of debt. So we had negative dollars and we moved to LA with our dog and made it in la. And then we fled to Miami, too. So I'm very sympathetic to Schulz's predicament. And once. And now he's here. We'll try to get him in studio. But. But that Bernie would cut him off. He's giving. What the American dream is, is the American dream is. Oh, you came with nothing. You had a. You had passion for something. You tried to do something and you did it, and you made money while doing it. Then as he points Out. He's done all of these philanthropic things. And what right is it for you, Bernie, to take what is his. You've got three houses. Well, apparently he sold one of them, but he doesn't give any rooms to those illegals, which I'm still confused about. So how do you succeed, guys? How do you succeed amidst all this? How do you succeed in a system that seems to be working against you all the time? You got to have passion. That may be more than anything else. You have to have relentless passion, because sometimes it's just not going to make sense on paper to keep going forward. But if you have passion, you might succeed here. Scholes.

D (66:36)

I think that success in business is a very difficult thing to achieve, and it's more difficult today, probably, than any other time, despite the vast number of opportunities. And as it relates to finding your calling in terms of what the opportunity or the entrepreneurial adventure is going to be, it has to be linked to something that you are so passionate and crazed about that you're willing to knock down walls and climb mountains and do the things that are going to put yourself in a position of sacrificing so many other things for its success. And you can only do that when there's a compelling, un. Underlying feeling that you have that this is something I'm gonna fight to the death for. And I think you can't really succeed at the levels that you want to unless you find that thing that you're so passionate, excited, and in love with.

C (67:30)

So that's the guy that Washington State just kicked out. Does he strike you as evil? Does he strike you as greedy? Who's greedy? That guy who led with passion, came from nothing, parents didn't own a house, built a freaking unimaginable empire with Starbucks, whether you like their coffee or not. I happen to like Starbucks coffee way more than Dunkin Donuts, which I despise. It's not coffee. It's just brown water. I like. I like strong, like, dark, almost burnt coffee. That's just what I like. So I really like Starbucks. But. But that aside, he built something amazing. A brand that is quite literally everywhere. There are Starbucks inside of Starbucks, inside of Starbucks. Okay, he did that. And Washington said, we want more of your stuff. Now he is here in Miami in the free state of Florida, where we have no income tax, we have less regulation, we are creating the conditions to flourish. And, you know, I don't get to the city center here that often. I live a bit in the suburbs. I went to Brickell the other day, which is you know, that's our kind of downtown here in Miami. And I can't believe how much it's booming and how much they're building. Like, as much as I know about this city and talk about it all the time, I just hadn't been down there in a while. And to watch these high rises going up, watch the amount of infrastructure going up, the roads that are being built every which way because we do have traffic now, because it's a function of success. Congratulations, Washington. Let me end with a quote from Thomas Sowell that I think will wrap this up nicely. He writes or he said, I've never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. It Bernie Sanders, thank you for watching. Postgame show in 30 seconds. Rubinreport.locals.com, see you tomorrow.

D (69:12)

And it's very cool.

A (69:15)

Oh my gosh,

D (69:18)

isn't that great? Just what up yesterday.

C (69:22)

Wow.

B (69:28)

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