Chris Cuomo
Appearances
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
But it's also not car and driver. It's the New York Times, and there is a conflict.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Car and Driver magazine, who cares if you subscribe? There's no agenda. You subscribe to the New York Times, there's a conflict.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And you know which party cares about that more?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Neither. Neither give a damn. They never cut spending on their watch.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You hope they do that? I hope they keep doing it. I have a feeling. Why would they stop doing it? Because something else will become more important. And there'll be the Iran nuclear deal. It'll be what's happening in Ukraine. And then people stop covering it. They stop paying attention. You stop hearing about it.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It's not true about Stiller or Penn. Penn has an organization that he started called CORE. which is kind of like the Red Cross that does amazing work in Haiti and other distressed areas. It is a relief organization. That's what the money was tied to. And they have done a lot of work with displaced people in Poland and in Ukraine. So these guys aren't the problem, photo ops aside.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So that's the problem. That's the problem with the conflict is that – You can have problems with headlines. I mean, headlines are all disingenuous, right? I mean, they almost never reflect what you'll find halfway down a story. That's the problem with balance and media and judging your outlets.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And now they create it in a conflict, and that's what they have to deal with because now the suspicion has a reasonable basis. Nobody has any problem with cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. Literally, the acronym WFA is part of everybody's political science handbook in messaging. They just say WFA, and you know they mean waste, fraud, and abuse. It just never really happens.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And I have no problem with this list of things. If you don't like them, that's fine. But the idea that this is the big nut Everything that they've listed so far from USAID is less than half a percent of its budget. So that's why Marco Rubio came out and said, hey, USAID matters. There's certain things that equate with soft power. But, you know, even this time, he wants more control over this.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He doesn't want Elon to just shut USAID because as secretary of state, you want the power of some money for soft power. So, you know, I think you just got to be careful about the extremes. But the concept of let's go through it and let the people, you know, feel and let political judgments be made. No one's going to have a problem.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Because Elon works for the Republicans. If Biden had done this with Bill Gates, Republicans would be going crazy. Vinny, there is an immutable truth here that everybody has to get their hands around. If you think one party is better than the other when it comes to playing to advantage, then you are being sold by the game.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The hole we'd be going in would be done.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't know, but you guys would be very upset. I know that much.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
How come the Epstein files aren't one of the things that are being exposed, by the way, along with JFK and Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King's deaths? How come they're not releasing Epstein?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They're going one at a time.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think people make choices about what matters to them and what doesn't matter to them. And I don't disagree. I'm not being skeptical of it because, look, my problem with skepticism is it's the lowest form of intelligence. So you now have to take a couple more steps. Is Gates right that millions could die? It's a possibility. It's not a probability. Why?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Because you're doing the things with the mosquito nets and the AIDS and the malaria and all these different things that fall under USAID. I get it. Things could be worse in situations. The mistake is making it like there's a right and a wrong. There's a preference. And they are legitimate political questions. And if Trump wants to go through this, fine. How Musk does it is worthy of scrutiny.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The first thing that should have happened that didn't happen, that would have been very helpful... Musk should have done personally what he's doing with these agencies. What money do you get from the government? What are your relationships? What information are you accessing? And what does that mean to your businesses? That's my only concern about Elon is I don't want him. I don't know him.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I'm not judging him. But you're giving a private citizen access to information. and dynamics when they are in the business of information and those same dynamics. That's all. So I just think he has to be transparent.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Because they lost to somebody they thought they were told. Democrats were told they were going to win. And people get really angry. I disagree.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I have no idea. I doesn't it's not a relevant metric to me. The metric would be go through it line by line. Yeah. And then prove me wrong, because I think that Democrats and Republicans have contributed to their budget since 1961. So you're going to have to look at it and you can go through it. And I don't have any problem with any of that. Yeah. I do think, look, there's always politics at play.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The idea that, you know, Trump was there 2016, 2020. OK, what? There was no waste, fraud and abuse there at USAID. So the idea that this is new.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He went in there saying he was going to drain the swamp. He was going to do exactly what he's doing now.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So Stephen A. said something great on Bill Maher the other day. The truth is rarely easy for everybody to hear. He said, for all of these people trying to wonder how you could vote for someone like Donald Trump, change the question. The question is, what does it tell you that more people in America saw Donald Trump, for all we know about him, as closer to normal than the Democrats?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That's the question you have to be asking. And once you ask that, a lot of things start to be very clear to you. This issue, OK, what's the strength of this issue? It is a common sense vibe, not just for girl dads. You know, I mean, you and I are girl dads, but I don't think you have to be. You don't want somebody like you or like me playing against a female. OK, that's a no brainer.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The Democrats miss that because of what? The nuances of the issue. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than playing against a transgender female athlete. That this is a very bullied class of people and the last thing they need is more pressure on them as being a problem. Those are fair points, but they don't remove the common sense aspect of what this is.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And if it happens so rarely, then don't worry about the prohibition then. Because you're not really affecting that many people anyway. So you might as well do what seems to be common sense to the majority of the country. That's what this issue is about. And the left found itself in a dynamic that we've seen the right in also. This is the problem with the binary system.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They are co-opted by their fringe. radicals that fight their own culture wars their own way, which is not that everything is okay. If somebody wants it, it's okay. Okay, that's America. No, that's not what I'm saying, Pat. You have to say it the same way. You have to believe it the way they want you to believe it.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You have to let your kids use the vocabulary and the ideas that these people want for themselves. You have to use it also. If they want to be called something, you have to say that. And your kids have to be taught that. That's where the left lost the country, was that you do not do this in this country. You do you, I do me.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That ends as soon as what you do for you becomes what I have to do for me. That's where they lost the narrative. And we saw that with canceling. So if I were to question this, look, you know how many times I've said this? You don't want somebody my size playing against your 16-year-old girl. And people come, show me somebody your size doing it. I don't have to show you.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I'm telling you, you don't want that. So to the extent that it's possible, you don't want it. You're a bigot. Why am I a bigot? Because you're basically saying that all trans females are your size. No, I'm not. I don't know that any are my size. I'm saying that as a possibility, it's something that you should rule out. It offends common sense. No, you're putting your mores on these other people.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You're judging. You should be canceled. You shouldn't be in your position. It happened immediately. That's why their numbers are where they are. That's the answer for the left. The question is, how do they get back to what makes sense?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The party doesn't even resemble his party. Trump's base was Mario Cuomo's base.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So the theory, the argument for Democrats with Pop, okay? What was Pop? He was you. Not even, right? Because you were born somewhere else. Pop was first-generation American, not seen as white. Pop got described a lot of the ways that you deal with when people start exposing you, right? Well, he's an ethnic. He's swarthy. You know, he's an other, right? I'm a white guy, okay? My father wasn't.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So he was speaking for people like that. They say we're not good enough. They say we don't belong. They say that they get to tell us how to be and who we are and that we don't get to succeed or fail on our own merits. I'm going to fight them. He was the original anti-elitist. When my father found out I was being recruited, I wanted to go to an Ivy League school. He was so disappointed.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He was only disappointed that much one other time in my life. which was when I decided to leave the law and finance and go into the media. His joke was, why can't you do something that matters more to society, like sell crack? That was his feeling when I went into the media. But when I wanted to go to an Ivy League school, he was like, do you know what they think of me?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Do you know what those people thought about me? And that was his sell to people. I know they think you're not good enough. They're wrong. And their rules will not apply to all of us. That was the sell, the working man. What was the union about? Civil liberties. And what is the government keeping us from? That was his sell. And it was what was his tagline?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
All the government you need, but only the government you need. That was his tagline. What is it now? It's welcome to the freak show. The Democrats flipped their narrative to, hey, this culture war keeps beating us. So let's have our own version of it, which is inclusion, acceptance. And anybody who doesn't want to include and accept as we do, we'll get rid of.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And that's why their numbers are where they are. The AOC mentality. Look, I'm not a straight hater on AOC. I respect success. She's built a real following for herself. There's no question. You got to respect that. She's got passion and she's got purpose. But this is politics. And her calling Musk an idiot.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Look. It's I know their numbers are very underwater. And again, it makes sense. By the way, nobody's doing well. Republicans just had an historic victory that nobody thought would happen. They're underwater. Trump has better numbers. Let's see where he is in five months. You know, he's at 46. He could easily be at 42, which is where most presidents are.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So but within that structure, what do we see? OK, they lost this election by like this much, but they never lose the popular vote. It's very rare.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The issues that they campaigned on to win are, are in the major population centers that minorities are disadvantaged by Republican policies, that the working class are disadvantaged by Republican fiscal policies, and that Trump is crazy.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
and that you have a brand of conservatives that are radical Christian, and if they're not Christian, they're just radical conservative that is bad for America as a place for everyone. Those are their three big spots.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Well, they just lost this. But look, look at the House. They lost by one seat. So obviously they're winning campaigns. Right. Right. They're winning campaigns. You have a Senate advantage. This was supposedly historic. Trump says he has the biggest mandate ever. OK, you adjust for hyperbole. He's got a three seat advantage in the Senate. It's nowhere near a historic margin.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He has like a one or two seat, depending on how you look at it, advantage in the House. So the idea that, well, the Democrats are losing everything all the time, we're not seeing, except at the state level. You look at governorships and state houses, the Democrats have been getting their clocks cleaned. Why? Because what they say doesn't match what they do. And that's their problem.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They are not for the working man. They're not for regular families. They are for small percentage niche cultural agendas.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't think there'll be any transaction where any of these people are in. First 100 days. No.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I get it. I just don't get the America thing. This is a niche issue. It was used very well in the campaign. It is a common sense issue. I don't disagree with your rationale. I'm just saying the idea that this is why people voted, I don't think so. I think it was more of a feel issue.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Make people feel that you're not really in touch with me. I care about the economy. I care about immigration. Those are my two big ones. Foreign, depends on what we're talking about. This is a feel issue. I don't think we're on the same page. I care about other things more, but this makes me feel like you're not getting me. And that matters in politics.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I'm just saying the idea that this is like the 1965 Voter Rights Act, I don't think that that's what it is. You don't have the numbers of people expressing this reality That would make it something where you have to do something about it right away. I'm not arguing with the rationale. I get it. I get what the concern is. I'm just saying I see it as more political than practical.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't know that it's banned, but I don't think there'll be a transaction.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That is a much, much better argument for you guys to be making. Immigration is the biggest failure for Democrats since the New Deal.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
First of all, as with people saying, let's judge what Trump has done since he's gotten in office. Why aren't eggs more less expensive? That's not fair. What are Democrats selling right now? Nothing. They're reeling. I'm still getting emails on my phone this moment from Kamala Harris, the fight fund. So they have not moved forward.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
OK, they are in a paroxysm of pain and self-doubt and blaming in-house USAID money. These people took in billions of dollars. They don't know where it went. And now they're asking me for more? I mean, look, everybody, I get the Trump ones. I get all of them. But my point is, they're not selling anything right now. They're figuring it out.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That's not an unusual place to be after you got knocked out.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It opens up with her going, I missed the bowl.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
My problem with that story from the beginning was, you edit every interview. You edit every interview. I've edited every interview I've ever done with Trump, unless it was live. Why? Because that's what you do. You have a certain amount of time. You're trying to fit it in.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Everybody knows you're not allowed to do that.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And here's the standard. It's subjective, but here's the standard. So I ask you, how are you doing? You say, good, but the other day, and then you go down a road. I have to use the beginning of the answer. What you can do is then edit within that answer something that makes a different editorial point that you want to make. That's okay.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
There is an argument here that that's not what was done, and by 60 minutes of all people to be in this position is really embarrassing, and it is a clear indication. 60 minutes isn't what it was anymore, okay? They don't have people who are recognized as the best in the business, doing the job on issues that are topical, and everybody wants to be there. It's just another media product now.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It's not what it was. And they have things to answer for here. And the silence shouldn't be acceptable. Just like it shouldn't be acceptable for anybody else. When they ask them their questions, you get a no comment. They're not explaining it. And that's on them.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The far left.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think she moved, like they all do, right? Well, this was weird, because it was an artificial process. Pre-election. Pre-election, she was left far left. And then, you know, she does what a lot of politicians do. She moves to where she needs to be to win that particular thing. So when she was running for Attorney General in California... She was saying one kind of thing about law and order.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Then when you want to be on the national stage as senator, you say something else about law and order. That's typical politics. But they are absolutely co-opted, or they have been, by their left fringe. And they have to deal with it and figure out what they want to do.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
There's no need. There's a difference between being anti-diversity of type and what you force on people. There's a very stark difference. And Democrats or anybody, you're not going to be successful in American politics if you think in any way you get to tell people what to think or how to feel. Of course. You will lose.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Although I don't think people, I don't think women see themselves as pro-abortion.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
2%.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
No, I'm saying that trust is at an all-time low. And that's why my point was that Republicans, after an historic victory that wasn't supposed to be able to happen, they're still underwater. Why? The American people are very disenchanted with the two-party system.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He is. But by the way, that's not historically. But hold on.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They're not the same. I'm saying look at them in context. The president is where most are when they just win. OK, so it's not out of the ordinary. Are the Democrats down lower than ordinarily? Yes, for good reason. What are they going to do about it? I have no idea. Well, I'm in the business of watching and making sense as we go. But the idea of why are they so low, I think it makes perfect sense.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And I think you're basically articulating it. I think that what are they going to do about it? I don't know.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Like one of my relatives.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yes.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
There's no question that, again, like I said about 15 minutes ago, the left went way too far. on what they wanted to describe as normal, and what they wanted to insist everybody else must agree with. And that's where they lost the country.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And look, I hope that that's true for another reason, by the way. What else did we see in this election that we've never seen before? More people voted as independent than did as Democrat, almost as many as Republican. That is your no longer black swan. People are sick of the parties. You know who else is sick of the parties? President Donald John Trump. He is not really pro-Republican.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You hear him talk about Republicans, Very rare. I agree. So that's the best hope for us.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think he is damn close, certainly in our lifetime.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think that you've had a couple. I think that if you looked at Clinton, Clinton could have made a case. I don't disagree. Of being in either party. It was a different kind of case. He wasn't an outrage guy.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yeah. So I think that most people have fallen along that line, which is why they used to get so much done. There wasn't that much daylight between them.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Okay, well, no, she definitely just signed an order that she is going to halt specific funding that is under her purview, obviously, for sanctuary cities pending a review of what they're doing and why they are sanctuary cities. And this is a very intelligent position.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Very intelligent position for her. The way she worded it shows why she was, of course, compared to Matt Gaetz, you know, she was going to be a much easier course of choice. But there's an intelligence to her position. She's not saying it even the way Holman is. She knows, you know, she's a good lawyer, Pam Bondi. She knows why Sanctuary City started. They didn't start as what they are right now.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So municipalities were getting jammed up because ICE wasn't funded or staffed in a way to do the job they were supposed to do. So what would happen is you would get these illegal entrants, okay, and you'd be holding them for a really long time because ICE couldn't get it together to come and get them. And these municipalities started getting sued.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And they were losing because they were holding people too long. And that was the birth of it. What it has become is an open hostility towards the existing policy. They're going to lose. And you cannot stop, a state can't stop a federal law from being executed. So if the federal law is we're coming to get them, and it is now, then you can't say no.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And if you do, you're going to lose your federal funding. You're going to lose in court. And this is a no-brainer, and Bondi is doing it the right way. She's not just doing it blanket across the board. She's going to say, I'm going to look at each one of them. We'll see why they're doing what they're doing, and then we'll proceed.
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I mean, I kind of forced the invitation. Did you go? I kept saying, I want to go. I want to go. No, I'm working on it now, because what I don't want is what I saw with Dr. Phil, OK? No disrespect to Dr. Phil. That's not what it's about. But I'm not going there as a propagandist for ICE raids. I want to show the reality over time.
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of what they're dealing with, where they're going, what they're getting. And I think it would be really helpful to the American people. And NewsNation is willing to invest. And I think there's a bigger production to be done here of allowing transparency. Because what's going to happen is you're going to be hearing stories.
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Murphy's playing on something that's not a bad game, which is you're also going to sweep up the wrong people. You're going to people who entered here illegally, but they've done everything right since then. And that is not the threat to the country that was being initially articulated. That'll happen. But I don't want this to be a one-off every time where an exception is being made the rule.
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And I think the more transparency there is, the more fair an assessment the American people have.
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Yes, but here's the thing. And this is why they've been a little slow coming out with their numbers. Where they're going to get people, it's not like they're doing what I thought they were going to do, which is the police tell us this is where the MS-13 guys are hanging out. This is where they live. We know where they are. We just don't go after them because it's like a big deal. Yeah.
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And that's what they're doing. They're going to a place and they're getting people who are also there with other illegal entrants. So they're getting like eight people when they were looking for one specifically. What do you mean they're there with other illegal entrants?
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They're illegal themselves. They're all illegal.
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Yeah, they live there. They work there. They're hanging out there. Whatever it is.
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I get it. I get it. But the idea of what the law is is pretty clear. The idea of whether everybody is the same within that bucket is not true. For instance, Dreamers. I only feel complete compassion for this group of people
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who have, through no will of their own, have been put in a position where they are not able to succeed or fail on their own merits in this country because of their designation as Dreamers. Trump agrees with that. He was going to do it as a one-off in his first term, and the Republicans wouldn't let him, if you'll remember. Why?
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Because they had givebacks that they wanted, chain migration and other things. The dreamer should be taken care of and taken out of this equation. And the fact that it's not is just ugly politics.
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He says, you know what it is? He says, it's a secret test, future looks bright. I was like, no, I don't think it is. I think Pat's just trying to be optimistic. He goes, exactly. If anybody looks at my shirt and says future looks bright and has a problem with it, he goes, they're an Americant. Ha! And I was thinking about it, and I was like, well, that is true. What would be your problem with it?
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DACA has a specific legal definition.
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Future looks bright. That's right. Why don't you want the future to look bright?
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You can't spend your way out of the problem. And it is a great, if misleading, statistic that we pay the most and we get the least. There are a lot of problems with the cost structure, and that is also state by state.
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It's misleading in that the reason it is expensive is because what goes into government funding in the first place. If you look at the funding, it's not that the kid gets $9,000 a year. It's that the system of what the unions have to – what the unions get out of it. and what all the staffing is, and the transportation, and the physical plants.
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There's all this other stuff that goes in it that's all very expensive in America. So that's not why you're failing. Why you're failing is very complicated. Getting rid of the DOE isn't going to necessarily automatically make things better because the states will have more control. Milton Friedman was very good on this. Get rid of the Department of Education.
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He would say yes, but then when you asked him for the rationale, he would wind up really just, it's about scaling. And again, these are political choices. Can Trump do it alone? No, that's easy. That's Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. If Congress funds it, Congress controls its existence. So you need Congress to get rid of a government agency.
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Oh, just like any other law. You don't need a supermajority or anything like that. But you need a congressional act. But that's not the point. He doesn't have to get rid of it to gut it. So he could get rid of it. He could scale it down, but he cannot eliminate an agency. And that's okay, because that's not really the debate we're having. That's the debate they'll make.
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That's what Roe is doing, whom I also think is a fair broker, and I love having him on my show. But it's not about him overtaking constitutional power. That's not where we are. It's about how do you do this better? And everybody knows, look, I'll tell you what a taxpayer wouldn't argue with, okay?
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I'm going to raise your taxes and we're going to have kids in school longer than anybody else in the world. And we're going to have the school day longer. We're going to feed them differently. We're going to educate them. We're going to exercise them. And we're going to do all these things that aren't getting done by families in this country anymore.
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I don't think taxpayers would have the same kind of problem that they do right now because it's about the return on investment. All these kids are failing in the schools. Why? Because the standards have sunk. They're dealing with all these things that aren't education related. And there is no real incentive to succeed for any of these places. Nobody gets punished if their kids don't do well.
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So you can do it without getting rid of the DOE. You can keep the parts that work and you get rid of the parts that don't. And these are political judgments. The president can do a lot of it on his own. If he can't, then he turns to his party. and says, this is what I want.
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I don't think they're going to get rid of the entire agency. But again, you don't have to to make the kinds of changes that are being discussed.
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Yeah. But this has existed for a long time. And we have a culture of accommodation, not of excellence. One of the reasons you guys have been able to distinguish yourselves is that Pat is so results focused and oriented. You do not have that in our culture in a lot of places, specifically within our systems. You don't have it. You don't have it in our government.
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You don't have it in our education system.
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Look, I mean, I don't think these are new arguments. The question gets into, well, how do you change it? And the biggest thing in politics that people don't want to touch, you will not hear, whether it's Trump, I don't care who the politician is, no one's going to say, You know, Pat, your kids aren't doing well. You're not getting it done as a parent. How much phone time you letting them have?
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How much do you make your kid read every night? Well, I got to work. I got to do this. No, I understand. But, you know, it's on you. Your kid is a reflection of your efforts. You're not going to hear anybody say that. You're not going to hear anybody say that. Why? Because you're not voting for me now. So our politics is about giving somebody an excuse for their own behavior.
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And, you know, oh, we don't we spend too much money if we spent less and we did it differently or the states had more control. If you don't raise your kids right, it doesn't matter what school they're going to. I've had my kid, my oldest kid went to what some think anecdotally, to your point, is the best high school in the country. OK, Trinity in New York City, private school.
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I'm telling you, as somebody who watched her go through that school from K to 12, okay, she's only going to do as well as we make her do. She was blessed with a good brain. What she's going to make of it is about what her mother insisted on every freaking night and in the fights that we had over this stupid thing. And the best thing a school has ever done for me?
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Was what my public school in Sag Harbor did of Long Island of making you not allowed to have this phone in school. My kid has changed academically because the environment has changed. She doesn't have to compete with her friends about this distraction machine. And that is something that a school can do. But otherwise, it's on parents. You know, we're trying to absent them from this.
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It's not fair. We are on the same page on the responsibility where it's at. I mean, look at your kids. Look how you are with them. What do you think? It's just genetics that they're doing what they're doing at this young age? You're making it happen for them.
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Have you watched this generation watch a movie at home?
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They watch the movie and they're on the phone. At the same time. And if you say, do you not like the movie? Do you want me to pick another one up? Oh, no, no, I like this. Nothing's happening right now in the movie. I said, what are you talking about? The movie is happening. That's what's happening. No, nothing's happening when something happens.
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I'm telling you, I know our parents were the same way with the TV, the boob tube. Nothing like this. Nothing like this. And the research is all over the place, but we don't deal with it. Why? Because it's hard.
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No social media until 16. That should be the national law. Well, what did DeSantis impose here?
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Social media, yeah.
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Whatever he did is good. I don't even know. I haven't heard of it. But anything, I'm telling you, if I could go back in time and fight one fight, And when? I would have never given my kids a smartphone. What age did you give them a phone? Whatever they wanted it. Whenever the other kids started getting it. And it got younger and younger with each kid. Do you remember what age?
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Bella didn't get it until she was 13 or something like that. Mario was probably then going to be like 12 because she had it. Cha-Cha was going to be like 11 because her friends had it. And you lose because you're weak and you want it easy. And you want to pick your fights. And it's a mistake.
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You're right. And the less and less I go on, you know, Pat was joking around with me when I came in saying, hey, you look good today. I'm telling you, I have made a conscious decision. Now, my timing's not great because social media is more relevant in our world than it ever has been in media. But I have made a conscious decision to not be on it as often. And I've seen the change in my search.
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My search thing is now dominated by car restorations and changing shoes on horses and dealing with problems with cows. I could be a farrier. I watched so many videos about how to deal with ulcers on cow hooves. Why? Because I am making a conscious effort. I'm doing homework all day for my shows.
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But I'm telling you, the more I disengage from what's happening on social media, the happier I become.
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I have not read it.
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I have this book. I have not read it. Somebody just sent it to me. You will not be able to put it down.
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And you see parents adjusting. These new groups, you probably see them here a lot in Florida. Remember when we used to have the girls wear the promise rings and I'm not going to have sex until this age or whatever it was?
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There are kids now who are agreeing not until high school or something like that as middle schoolers where we're all going to stay with flip phones or we're all going to not have social media as a group, as a team until this age. And it's a great way to counter something that you cannot convince me
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I have a huge problem with people who have a problem with it.
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I moved it out of the way. Yeah, you did. Nah, nah, nah.
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He pulled it out.
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He's got that restriction.
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People are making the point. that he is subservient to Israel. That's what they're trying to do. And look, again, you can feel that way. We have never had an American president, and Bibi admitted it on the stage, that he feels more supported by Trump than ever before. That's right.
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He pulled it out from under him.
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Of course. I don't think anybody knew Trump was going to be saying that. It wasn't what was written for him. He had just said the language where he's like, everybody's going to have to be part of this thing and doing it. And then he says it. I'm supposed to have his hostage envoy, who's his Middle East envoy, come on my show right after this. I get a call. Really sorry.
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I got to go into an emergency meeting. I got to go. I got to go in. I can't talk to you right now. I have nothing to say about this. This is what Trump does. OK, now, what I don't like about it is and I got killed for this last night and that's OK.
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Anybody who heard this, and certainly anybody in my business, knows that Trump was going off the cuff and saying something that was never going to be official U.S. policy. But everybody played it to advantage. On Fox, they started saying what a good idea this is. And then on MSNBC, you got Joy Reid, who's in outrage. This is ethnic cleansing.
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Both of these entities knew that Trump was just riffing. Right. But it works for their agendas. And that's the problem with our whole dialogue. God forbid you say anything that shakes it up and makes something happen and you get attacked from both sides. I don't see Trump as the problem on this one. Yes, he said something that nobody wants.
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Levitt came out right away and said, no boots on the ground and we're not paying for it. Well, that's not what he suggested. Yeah, I know. But that's the difference between official statement and when he's just pushing the envelope and rough it.
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There have been problems with the population.
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Look, that was the message that Trump articulated before he started riffing. And now I'm told after the fact that the motivation here was the Arab community has to step up. They call the Palestinians brothers all the time until it's time to pay or to play. And if they don't step up, it's 100% true.
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If they don't step up and pay for, you don't want them in your country, you think you have enough, that's fine. Pay, because there's no reason for America to pay for it. And look, what also doesn't work, and this won't be as popular, Israel being in control of that as an occupied territory doesn't work.
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So you need an international consortium there to make it work until it can establish itself as a standalone entity. And if Trump provokes that through this, then fine.
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But the idea that America is going to put boots on the ground, there's going to be ethnic cleansing, you're not allowed to come back, I think all of that is just to motivate left and right in proving which one is worse, and it's not the reality.
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Now, pause for one second. Everybody watching right now, remember what Tom just said is a fact, and it's probably the most important part of the story, and here's why. The next time any major media outlet plays a no comment as a tacit admission of guilt, remember they refuse to comment themselves. This happens all the time in the media where they'll come to you. They give you no time to respond.
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PBD, it turns out we hear that you're eating babies. And you're like, wait, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Sorry, I got to go to print. I need to hear from you by 3 o'clock. And they play no comment as if PBD has something to hide. They did the same thing when they were asked a question. So just remember that. When someone says no comment, it doesn't mean that they're guilty.
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And outlets like Politico, like the New York Times, it's also involved in this story. I don't know why they're getting a pass. They do this all the time. So just be aware, as a critical thinking citizen, when they play no comment as a tacit admission, they did the same thing.
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Nothing other than what's being said now, and they're reinvestigating it. It certainly doesn't look good. I don't think it's why Shapiro wasn't picked.
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It was Harris' pick.
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Who brought Walls to Harris? Yes. The DNC and a couple of Harris' Biden crossover advisors, when they were looking at the map of where they needed somebody, they were trying to get a Midwestern vibe, but it was a makeup choice. It was Shapiro. Shapiro was the obvious choice. He was the best choice.
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Well, no, because the story could have come out anyway. Look, I think that she didn't pick him because he had a couple of negatives. One, he's better than she is, okay? He's better on his feet. He's not even close. He's a better messenger. The other thing is, he's a Jew, and he's a Jew who was aggressively pro-Israel during a time that the far left part
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of the Democratic Party was decidedly against it. And now, as a basic sell proposition, you are offering America a black woman and a Jewish guy. And those are not minority groups that have absolutely killed it in the electoral process nationwide. And I think it was too much for Democrats to swallow, and I think it made Harris' people nervous. So they didn't pick him.
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I thought it would have been a special moment of a first, like,
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Because the office made a determination that it was something that it doesn't look like it was. So why would you do something like that?
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Yeah. I don't think that this is his big problem. But, you know, the Democrats misplayed it. I'm not saying that it would have made a difference in the outcome. This was a grievance election.
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And they own the status quo, but he is a capable guy.
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Are disagreeers?
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And I like how they believe they can punish me with their reviews. Is that what they do? Yeah.
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They are coming to disagree about something that they either perceive I would support or they want to see whether or not I support something that they obviously don't like. And they're often very engaging. That's why I get back to them so fast. And I do like that in the... It's only a handful of occasions where I knew I was giving this person an answer that they did not want to hear.
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And I knew they were going to ding me with the review. Yeah. And sometimes I'll answer him back and be like, you dinged me with the review, you punk.
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For Politico. You're dovetailing a little bit with what Schellenberger has been talking about with some other coordination that he found between government funding and the CIA and the media, which is very cloudy at this point. The problem with this story when it came out, and I believe it was most likely leaked by the Doge guys because of who broke it, you don't see...
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He's looked like that since he was 16. If he's paying my bills, I think he looks just fine.
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He gave us free speech, and now he's cleaning up the government. Musk did not give you free speech. He bought it. For us. Natural rights gave you free speech. What do you mean natural? And the Constitution codified them. You know what I mean. He is pushing what he likes on a platform that he bought, which is his prerogative. Soros is a little bit of a boogeyman.
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There are a lot of people with a lot of money that inject their will on our politics. Now, today, we call them oligarchs. It's not new. It's why I did what I did at the political conventions. The people with the money push the agendas. It is very rare that you hear any Republican or any Democrat come out with policies that wind up hurting them.
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Even their fair share shit that they say on the left never winds up manifesting itself in any real reason. You could not like what Soros funds. That's fine. Correlation isn't causation with this radio thing. I don't think it was rammed in at the end so Odyssey could be like a big player in the election. I think that this was a bad move.
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I think it's likely illegal for them to do what they're doing on the radio station. And it's certainly a bad look for the radio station, KCBS, in that market. But there are a lot of guys who put their money in it. We've never seen anybody do what Elon's doing. That's why I think he's got to be careful to make sure he does everything in a way that's beyond reproach.
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And he doesn't make it easy for people to take down his efficiency efforts. But telling people where the authorities are is a really stupid thing to do. Really stupid.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Because you're hindering prosecution. You are obstructing justice by definition.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
far-right podcasters breaking a lot of news, right? And they all came out at once with this story, so somebody probably leaked it to them. It was leaked as a USAID story, and it isn't. Most overwhelmingly, the money does not come from USAID.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Right, but it is. So they came out heavy on USAID. Why? Because that's the narrative that they wanted to run, right? And that's what was leaked to them. That's the problem with not being an accountable media organization, is that you'll just take what you're fed. But There is two legitimate questions here. There are two legitimate questions.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Well, the question is why they're going up, what the enticement is. I would like to see Doge take on the military-industrial complex. And this is the first time we've had a Republican environment where they're open to it. Usually the Pentagon has been sacrosanct for them.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You can take the high-end estimate with trans people in the military is somewhere between 2,000 and 15,000, depending on whose number you want.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You have over 2 million people. I don't think that's the issue. But the idea of what are you doing with your defense department and what are you funding and why are you funding it, I can't think of an agency that needs it more than that one does.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It's hard to find special operators these days, which is really the majority of our presence and what we're doing, who don't believe that you're about 20 years past due when we needed to completely shift what our military does. So now, why are you starting somewhere else? Well, I think you want some early wins. And you want where it's manageable and there's going to be less pushback.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Can you imagine if President Trump, let's not see Elon Musk because he's too easy to push back again. The guy hasn't even been vetted, let alone have that kind of authority. But if Trump says, I want to go line by line in the Defense Department and DOD, Pentagon, all of it. And I really want to cut things. And I'm not just talking about $300 toilets.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think that there would be a lot of Republican pushback. And the question is, well, then establishment Republican pushback or Republican pushback? Members of Congress whose constituencies eat from that trough heavily. And you know who else is going to come into play? The oligarchs, the real ones, the guys who get the real big contracts, which are defense contractors.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And they're going to come in and say no. And that's a really interesting fight. I don't have a problem with that. I know, but we're also not having to do it. You know what I mean? That's a lot of money, a lot of power.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It's where we're farthest behind, and we live this all the time. We have real, easy hacking access. People take down our companies, our platforms all the time. And it is the most ignored thing. I mean, just think about it. If guys went to a railway station, they went to Amtrak, and they took over Penn Station, it would be a national story for three days.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
One is, should taxpayer dollars be going to any outlet for any reason? OK, because of the inherent conflict that Tom is bringing up. And I think that's a legitimate question. And it's a little surprising. I've never heard of this before. There's a second question though. Congress funds a lot of regional and local media. A lot of outlets are dying, right?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
It would be a huge thing, and everybody would have to die, right? They take it offline on a regular basis. China takes our power grid offline in different areas on a regular basis. And we never even talk about it. And then the only pushback, well, we do the same stuff to them. I don't care what we do to anybody else in this context. So it's a real conversation to have.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't know that it gets had. I think you start with USAID for a reason. It's easy pickings. It's low fruit. This would be a real fight.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I Ain't No Senator's Son. That song, when they wrote it in the 60s, is applicable today. I Ain't No Senator's Son. Who was it? Creedence Clearwater Revival?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I think that this has always been an us and them situation. I think if you talk to the men and women in the military, they'd be the first ones who would want to see the agencies that control their existence reviewed. And again, but it's a really hard fight. And you've got to think. Right now, and again, this is not a criticism, okay?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You would be foolish to begin an administration taking on fights you may not win. That's silly. Build up some momentum, get some cachet that you can get things done. Smart.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That's his choice. I think he has made a mistake ignoring News Nation. I don't care if he does an interview with me or not. But ignoring an outfit that oversamples to independents who are the fastest growing part of the electorate doesn't make any sense.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Well done, Cuomo.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I'd give him the shake hug. You know, when I first met him, he used to not shake hands. And I totally get it, man. You're around as many people as he is. You know, you'd be sick all the time shaking everybody's hand. But now, you know, he'd get the shake hug. You know, somebody gives you that kind of opportunity. You should show them respect. Also, I'm just that way.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I get told that every once in a while when people see us or I'm hugging and saying hello to you. They'll be like, oh, wow, you really like that Pat guy. I'm like, well, that's what I do when I like somebody.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I feel like he would absolutely dislocate my knee in about 18 seconds.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You're going to go high.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Local news is struggling in a lot of places, especially in print. There's a lot of subsidies. Is that a good use of taxpayer dollars? That's a harder question for me. It's easy to say, should you be giving the New York Times money? It's different if you're talking about the Topeka, Kansas Register newspaper. Why would you give them money, though?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
But I'm saying we haven't heard that story yet.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Do you see anything that isn't a conspiracy?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I know you wouldn't because it would be self-owning.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
But he's not exactly a rock for brains. I think he sees some things.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I have no idea. I'm a Bills fan. I do not think that the refs are why the Bills lost the game. You're a Bills fan? Yeah. I feel horrible for you. You know how to spell Bills? They won against Baltimore. You know how they spell Bills these days?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Listen, I am also a Jets fan, so the Bills are like high cotton for me. But I'll tell you what. They won against the Ravens because a tight end dropped a pass. They lost against the Chiefs because a tight end dropped the pass. So that's football. I have never seen in the modern era a running back dominate the way Saquon Barkley does. Supposedly, you're not able to run in the NFL anymore.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
In the public interest of information and news that you want to inform citizenry and that these outlets are going to close down. There's going to be there will be fewer outlets. There'll be more driven by agendas. And we want to make sure that there's a robust free media, even if that means there has to be some supporting of smaller outlets that wouldn't survive in the marketplace.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And I mean, what this guy is doing is amazing. I am not impressed by the Chiefs run defense. I think Jalen Hurts is good. I believe the Eagles are going to win. I don't know the score. I'm not good enough. But I do not believe that they're going to lose because of Pfizer and Taylor Swift.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
There are bad calls all the time.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They used to say the same thing about Jordan.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And Brady. But go ahead. Let me see this one. This is actually a funny one, too.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
He's cool, though. Don't you want this reporter to get punched in the face?
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Wouldn't you like if he just got up and did what Jim Everett did to Rome? Say it one more time. Oh, Chris Everett.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't know that they're going to get every close call. And look, I should be saying this, what you guys are saying, because the bill's lost, right? But I'm just saying, if you get to a game where you're down to the end and you're given this team a last drive, then you're asking to lose. That's true. You know, win so that there is no doubt.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So what happens if Philadelphia wins 50-10? If Philadelphia wins 50-10, does Vinny come on here with me next week and say, see, they had to make it so obvious because... Of course, because of the Pfizer vaccine.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That's the argument.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
You can argue that we are living proof right now that you don't need to do it this way anymore. Again, it's a political question, not a legal question. And I think that the media has evolved in a way where everybody has immediate access to information and they have their own microphone.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So maybe the situation has changed and it's time to look at it because every dollar you save is a deliverable on what the promise of the last campaign was.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yeah, mostly HHS.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So I did a little research on this. They have an energy, a special, they have a special product that has like deeper experts and stuff. But here's the problem. Congress buys subscriptions also, Pat. But they do like a subscription that you can go in and everybody uses the same code for the New York Times so that all members of Congress can get access to these different media outlets.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
I don't have so much of a problem with that. They want to subscribe to Valuetainment so that everybody can see what's going on here. That's cool. They should be informed about what's happening in significant places. It's when you allow it on an individual basis, you wind up netting up these costs.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
And now you have like 937, as we were talking about earlier, your own audit, people getting separate subscriptions. That's when it gets expensive.