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Speaker 8:
[03:15] Donald Trump just finished up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. He was crashing out and the feed cut out as he seemed to be saying that I could use a shit right now. Here, play this clip. No, I'm not sure what's going on medically right there, but he did seem to say I could use a shit. Now, he continued to crash out in the Oval Office when talking about the catastrophic war in Iran. I guess the purpose of this press conference was supposed to be to talk about reducing prescription drug prices, but then he started talking about the war in Iran, his catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. And then Donald Trump started saying, I deserve so much credit. I saved eight young women, beautiful young women. I saved the young women. As he's covering up the Epstein files, he's created a fictitious story where he believes he saved eight young girls in Iran and that he deserves credit for that. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[04:19] Or the military operation, whatever you want to call it. And they're coming to us. The problem they have is they are very disorganized right now. Well, now yesterday, and I was very pleased with this, eight young women were going to be executed yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock. And I asked them, call it a favor or call it just a moral request that they not be executed. And they came back with an answer that they won't be executed. They're going to release, it was protesting, eight beautiful young women, very young women, and they were, the pictures in the paper. And it's been a story for a little while. And I saw that and I said, let's see if we can save them. And they were, it was very nice what happened. So they're not going to be, what they're doing is, as you know, they're releasing four of them very shortly and they're going to keep four of them in jail for a period of one month and release them. So they won't be actually good, yep.

Speaker 10:
[05:15] So if you're asking for-

Speaker 8:
[05:17] And then Donald Trump is asked, so how much longer are you going to wait? How long is this war going to take? Trump's like, Vietnam lasted 18 years, be quiet. Donald, you dodged the draft five separate times and made up that you had bone spurs. But here's what he says, play this clip.

Speaker 10:
[05:34] On the war with Iran, how long are you willing to wait until you get a five response?

Speaker 9:
[05:39] Don't rush me, Jeff. You know, guys like you, you want to say, Oh, so we were in Vietnam, like, for 18 years. We were in Iraq for many, many years. We were in for all the I don't like to say World War II because that was a biggie. But we were four and a half, almost five years in World War II. We were in the Korean War for seven years. I've been doing this for six weeks and their military is totally defeated. They're outside of the little wise guy ships. I call them the wise guy ships, the little boats that they have running around with guns in them. We'll take them out too when we see them.

Speaker 8:
[06:19] But so there are more questions like give us a timeline, man. Give us a time. He's like, it's only been 5.5 weeks. He just like makes up times and reporters like, no, it's actually been two months and you said it was last four to six weeks and so now it seems like it's never going to end. And he's like, what a disgraceful question you're asking here, play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[06:37] We have no pressure. It's only guys like you with a question like that about what's your time. We've been doing it for five and a half weeks.

Speaker 11:
[06:44] But sir, is your eight weeks that the US now has been involved with Iran, you had initially said it would be four to six weeks.

Speaker 9:
[06:51] Well, I hope that, but I also took a little break.

Speaker 8:
[06:54] I gave them a break and And then Donald Trump's like, look, if we ended the war right now, it would be a tremendous success already. Think about it, we control the Strait of Hormuz. You don't, you're delusional, you're literally a psychotic human. We do not control the Strait of Hormuz. What the hell are you talking about, play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[07:10] I'm gonna break and remember this. I want to make the best deal. I could make a deal right now. Do you know that if I left right now, we had a tremendous success. It would take them 20 years to rebuild, but I don't want to do that. I want to have it everlasting. I want to have it where they never get, they never have a chance to get it. I mean, the way you asked that question, you know, I did say it. I thought it would take four to six weeks, and I was right, because at the end of six weeks, at the end of four weeks, the military was decimated. But now what I'm doing, I can't tell you that. I don't want to put that kind of a timetable on it, but it will go pretty quickly. And we'll have the Strait opened up. Now, right now, we have it closed. We have total control of the Strait. And the fact that it's closed, you know, they would have opened it up three days ago. They came to us and they said, we will agree to open the Strait. And all my people are happy. Everybody was happy except me. I said, wait a minute. If we open the Strait, that means they're going to make $500 million a day. I don't want them to make $500 million a day until they settle this thing. So I'm the one that kept it closed. We have total control of it. And it'll open when they make a deal or something else happens that's very positive.

Speaker 8:
[08:23] And then he talks about Martin Luther King and how he gets more people in his crowd than Martin Luther King got in the led by the Lincoln Memorial by the reflecting pool here play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[08:35] And you'll see the ramp to we're keeping the ramp and that was for FDR. He needed a ramp. Some people would know. And in his honor, we're leaving it. I wanted to leave it means something. The other thing that we're doing that's taking place right now is the Lincoln Memorial has a beautiful reflecting pond or lake. They call it a pool, lake and pond. But the word reflecting is a good term. It was built in 1922 and it was built out of granite and various stones on the bottom. And it never looked great because it's not really meant to be a stone that's under water for that much of a period of time. It's about a foot and a half to two feet deep. You all know it well. That's where Martin Luther King gave his great speech. And he had a million people and I had the same exact crowd, maybe a little bit more, but they said I had 25,000 people until I fought it. I have pictures of Martin Luther King's crowd, my crowd. It's the exact same everything, but it was 70 years difference. The exact same crowd, but I actually had more people, but that's okay. They gave him, they gave him a million people. They said a million people and I had 25,000 people. So these are the things that we had on July 4th, a few years ago, first term. So you have this reflecting lake, pond.

Speaker 8:
[10:03] I mean, completely outrageous. And then he starts talking about the prescription drug prices and how his name is on, how his name is now going to be on all the drugs that are backed by the government and they're going to call it Trump Drugs. Dudes, what are you talking about? Let's play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[10:17] I didn't put the name Bobby did in Austin. It's true, actually. Remember I came in, I said, what's this? It'll be better. It'll sell better. Would you help us? So I now have my name on medication.

Speaker 8:
[10:33] And no one really cares about that. No one cares about Golden Ball rooms. Nobody cares about triumphal arches. No one cares about Club Rose Garden or you getting Qatari Jets or, and what we really care about is, what are you doing for Americans right now who are suffering and struggling and who can't afford anything? And so what he does though, is because he's been a con artist his whole life, he just starts making up numbers again. And he's like, well, we secure gigantic discounts, 600% discounts, stupid. Stop saying stupid things, man. 600% discounts that the pharmaceutical companies aren't paying people. Just stop, stop. Here, play the clip.

Speaker 9:
[11:10] They're part to bring down the cost of health care for all Americans under our most favorite nations agreement. We've secured gigantic discounts with price differences from four to five and even 600%. 600%.

Speaker 8:
[11:25] Yes, that's not a real thing. It can't go down that much. Just please, just people aren't dumb. Just speak to people like a normal grown up. Like, can we start with that baseline? But then you have RFK. He chimes in and he's like, Oh, one of the Democrats thought they were being all smart. And they're like, you can't reduce something by 600%. And I'm like, you don't know the way we do percentages here in the Oval Office here. Play this clip.

Speaker 9:
[11:49] So Bobby, please. Thank you.

Speaker 12:
[11:52] Thank you, Mr. President. I was reminded when the president was speaking of a conversation that I had yesterday with one of the Democratic senators was questioning me during the hearing, and she was ridiculing President Trump for his math. And she was saying, is it mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600% cost, which he had claimed? And I said, well, if the drug was $100 and it raised the price to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from 600 to 100, that's a 600% savings.

Speaker 8:
[12:29] How are these, how is this even real? How is this not idiocracy? It is, it's just real and people are really suffering from these idiots. Then you had Howard Lutnick today testifying that he's only sold one of these Trump gold cards. You know what he previously promised he was going to sell? Remember, he was going on all the right wing podcasts. Here's what he said. Let's play it.

Speaker 13:
[12:48] By the way, yesterday I sold a thousand.

Speaker 12:
[12:52] Oh, you did?

Speaker 13:
[12:53] I got a poly market I created on how many of you guys are going to sell this here.

Speaker 12:
[12:55] And how many people do you think there are that could qualify in the world?

Speaker 13:
[12:58] There are 37 million people in the world who are capable of buying the card.

Speaker 9:
[13:02] In case you were wondering.

Speaker 13:
[13:03] 37 million.

Speaker 4:
[13:05] That's a lot more than Chad GPT told me.

Speaker 13:
[13:07] Who are capable of buying. Who are capable of buying it. Now, I'm not saying they will, but they're capable of buying.

Speaker 5:
[13:12] How many do you think you'll sell?

Speaker 13:
[13:13] The president thinks we can sell a million.

Speaker 11:
[13:15] So, five trillion.

Speaker 6:
[13:17] The stupidest stuff in the world.

Speaker 8:
[13:18] They've sold one thus far, and I'm not even sure if that's true, but he said under oath one. Then you have Jameson Greer, Donald Trump's trade representative, testifying, watches. He was cross-examined by Democratic Congressmember Suozzi. Let's play it.

Speaker 13:
[13:32] Are tariffs increasing prices for the American consumer?

Speaker 10:
[13:35] So, I'm going to say no.

Speaker 13:
[13:37] Have you ever heard the expression that businesses crave predictability? Sure, we've heard about that. Would you agree that there's been some instability and volatility caused by the trade policy of this country?

Speaker 10:
[13:48] We saw some volatility last year.

Speaker 13:
[13:49] Do you disagree with the statement from the Tax Foundation that these tariffs are causing cost to go up $1,000 per household? Do you disagree with that?

Speaker 14:
[13:56] I do disagree with that, yes.

Speaker 13:
[13:57] And you disagree with the statement from the Yale Budget Lab that this is costing each household $2,400?

Speaker 14:
[14:02] I do disagree.

Speaker 13:
[14:03] On an annual basis? How about from Moody's Investment Services? These tariffs are raising inflation and the cost of living. Do you disagree with that?

Speaker 10:
[14:10] I do disagree.

Speaker 13:
[14:11] And you disagree with the fact that Moody's also says this reduces jobs and reduces the strength of our economy?

Speaker 3:
[14:18] We have, we are the strongest economy in the G7.

Speaker 13:
[14:21] The US Chamber of Commerce, the Tax Foundation, these are conservative institutions that are saying that these are costing consumers $1,000 a year, $2,400 a year, $4,200 a year. So you disagree with all of that? Do you disagree with Neil Bradley from the US Chamber of Commerce, who says that these tariffs have caused significant cost increases?

Speaker 8:
[14:40] There's a bunch of ridiculous people. I want to bring in Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi, who you saw do that cross-examination right there. Congress member Suozzi, it's good to see you. And with all of Donald Trump's distractions and fake deadlines and not meeting the deadlines, I think that the media often is covered of that. But people in your district and throughout the country right now, this is how they describe it to me. I'm psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck right now, and things are only getting worse. And so you saw there with your cross-examination of Jameson Greer, they're living in this Mar-a-Lago fantasy, Bernie Madoff fraud world. Can you talk to us about it, Congressman?

Speaker 13:
[15:20] Yeah, I think this is catching up with them. You know, when the president says affordability is a hoax, and his team of people like Ambassador Greer, as well as the Republicans running for office, going along with that, they're going to have to pay for that in November. Because the biggest issue for Americans today is affordability. And there are specific policies of this administration that are making things more expensive. They're not even like debatable. Tariffs are making things more expensive. The war is making gas prices more expensive. The big, beautiful bill caused the biggest deficit in the history of the United States of America. That's upward pressure on interest rates. It's keeping interest rates high. You can't buy a house. You can't lease a car because the interest rates are so high. Energy costs are going up because they cut all the green energy supply at a time there's increasing demand because of all these data centers. For 20 years, energy demand was flat. Now, for the first time in 20 years, it's going up because of the data centers. They're cutting supply by not doing all the above, by cutting the green energy project. There's so much more that goes into this as well. Things that are all causing upward, even though the immigration policy has reduced the size of the workforce, and it's causing upward pressure on the costs in America. They're saying it's a hoax, they're not even focusing on it, and they're talking about everything else. What I've always said, and I'll stop talking, the president's like a pickpocket. What do pickpockets do? One guy bumps into you, and when you're bumped into and you're distracted, the other guy picks your pocket. He'll talk about crazy stuff. Health insurance rates are going through the roof, and we were trying to deal with the premium tax credit issue and the cuts in Medicaid, and what did he make the issue? Venezuela and Greenland. He tries to change the topic by attacking the Pope, or by, you know, we're going to wipe out a civilization, just so we don't talk about the real issues that are affecting real people's lives.

Speaker 8:
[17:14] You know, it's a tactic used by con artists, right? I mean, at some point, the Ponzi scheme runs its course and people say, you know what? I want my deposits back, Bernie Madoff, and what do they say? Just give me two weeks. We've got a great plan. Give me two weeks. Give me two weeks. And now we're in this two week Donald Trump failure loop, which frankly you from New York, you've seen the Trump failure loop play out your entire life. Whether it was failed businesses in Atlantic City or nearby, it's this loop where adults and grownups who confront problems have some humility. Look, we all fail in life sometimes, but you recognize the problem, you try to address it, you bring in experts, you deal with it, you try to progress, maybe you fail, but you learn from your mistakes. He does this two-week loop where he just delays, delays, delays, denies, and he turns a bad problem into a worse, a worse into a catastrophic, a catastrophic into a bankrupt. I just feel that's where we're being brought now into the abyss with everything he's doing now with this catastrophic war and everything he's doing at home. It's just a delay, delay, delay. Then I think he wants to dunk it on when a Democratic president comes into power, and then the MAGAs are all like, we're fiscal hawks. Look what you do. Oh my gosh. We'll have to fix it, right? Yes.

Speaker 13:
[18:35] It's delay, delay, delay, distract, distract, distract. I think it's finally catching up with them. It was funny watching the whole thing about the 600 percent decrease. If you cut the drug price from 600 to 100, which they haven't really even done, that means you're cutting it by $500. $500 divided by $600 is 83 percent. It's not 600 percent. It's my math thing. I'm a CPA. These guys are really just bamboozling people, and I think the public is catching up with it. You can go in a hearing and you can say, these tariffs are not increasing prices. But then when people walk into the supermarket and they're buying things, they're like, oh my gosh, what's happening? When people go to the gas station and they see the gas prices, they're like, oh my gosh. Biden had a little bit of this problem as well when they were talking about, the stock market is doing well, we're recovering quite a bit, we're creative, a lot of new jobs. But people saw what was happening to the economy, and it's worse now than it was then. They're just ignoring it. When he literally says on multiple occasions, this affordability issue is just a word, it's a hoax. And people's real lives, they feel disrespected, and they feel like nobody's hearing them. And the problem is, for both sides, Democrats and Republicans, is everybody's just pointing fingers at each other. You're no good, you're no good, blah, blah, blah. And the people are out there and they're like, what about me? What are you doing for me? So we have to make sure that we are showing people that we have to have a rational tariff policy. Let's go after our strategic adversaries like China. That's okay. But don't treat our friends like Canada and Europe the same as we treat our adversaries. Can we try to negotiate better deals? Yeah, that's all for that. But let's treat them like they're our adversaries. These are our allies over long periods of time and a very important part of our economy and our lives here. So we have to have some rationality. You say all the above during the campaign and then you say, no, it's just oil and gas we want. Okay, you want to do oil and gas, you want to do natural gas, fine. We shouldn't do as much, climate change is real, but let's do solar and wind. They canceled projects that were 80 percent complete. Wind projects were 80 percent completely try to cancel them, and then the court ruled against them. The court ruled against them on the tariffs that what they were doing is illegal. They cut the premium tax credits, came so close to fixing it in the Congress and the Senate bailed on us. So we have so much to do. But the first thing we have to do is recognize that people are suffering. I heard someone say the other day, because of all these economic problems, people have to delay the purchase of a home and delay the leasing of a car, which is bad. That's not bad. But you know what? There are people who can't pay their rent. They can't pay their basic bills. It's not even buying a house or leasing a car, which that's important too. But some people are just suffering paycheck to paycheck. The first thing we have to do is recognize that we, Bill Clinton was famous for, I feel your pain. We have to show people that we understand that they are suffering and that we care, and that we will work hard to try and solve those problems. Enough with just the distractions and the pickpockets.

Speaker 8:
[21:53] Your congressional district is mixed. I mean, you won your district, but Trump got more votes than Kamala in your district.

Speaker 13:
[22:03] 19,000 votes he won my district by. Yeah.

Speaker 8:
[22:06] Yeah. We see in the national numbers these shifts. Trump's approval now at 33 percent, on the economy 30 percent. Are you seeing when you go around to the different spots that you go to over there?

Speaker 13:
[22:24] There are people that voted for Trump that are having buyer's remorse and there's a reason that they're raising this enormous amount of money. There's reason that they started the whole thing with the redistricting in Texas because Trump's going to do everything he can to defy history, which is that the sitting president often loses, his party often loses in the midterms. He wants to do everything he can to change that. He's going to cheat like the redistricting in Texas, that started this whole redistricting war, and Hakeem Jeffries and others have fought back and won these fights. He's raising this enormous, crazy amounts of money. The Republicans just have way more money than the Democrats do. He's going to try all this distraction maneuvers, and he's going to try and make it so that he depresses turnout, so everybody's mad at everybody. They're mad at all the politicians, and they're discouraged, and they're disengaged, so they don't participate. So the most important thing we need people to do is show up and to pay attention, and to get out and vote and say we want our country back, and we want to address the very real issues that we face. We want to address the affordability. We want to have a real fix for immigration. We need to address the health care costs in our country, and we have to deal with this crazy war in Iran right now. When the war first happened in Iran, because I was born in 1962, I was 18 years old, my first vote was 1980 during the Iran hostage crisis. And when we first attacked Iran, I was like, you know, let's get those guys. They've been treating us death to America and all this bad stuff. They're supporting the Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah all these years. We got to get those guys. Then we went to the briefing and I was like, wait a minute, this really doesn't seem to be a plan here. There's no plan. Then we heard about the Straits of Hormuz, and we saw the whole gas price thing. We're like, wouldn't you think that that's like one of the most basic things you would have thought of ahead of time before? There's a reason they've been doing all this bad stuff for 47 years, and nobody ever attacked them before, because there's a lot of consequences, but they're acting off of instinct, and they think they can just bluff their way through this stuff. This is serious life and death business, and we have to get serious people who are going to work together to solve problems.

Speaker 8:
[24:34] Congressman Suozzi, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 13:
[24:37] Thanks, Ben.

Speaker 8:
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