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It's not Cynical as much as it is in I mean, he he literally sees this world in which he deserves to get this money. He deserves the rewarded Jan. said U I never thought it would happen Godsite I realize we should be at the state fair. We should have gone down to DC because we keep saying we're going to go on the road and explore America. We should have gone down otherther than the fact that it's one hundred degrees in Washington, so we would truly be the only ones there which is no reflection on the state fair is a reflection on the fact that no human being see this week But it's also a reflection on the state. Maybe. But you know, I want to defend Trump on this Really? Yeah There's nobody there. There's nobody there from. Yeah, totally, absolutely true. Politicians can't put on these kind of events. They're just too square. They they they are too square. I mean pol cannot do Entertertainment, even Donald Trump Oh, come on, UFC he did. UFC you might not be a UFC fan, but that was an event. G good good point. That was. actuallyually Donald Trump is great at this. So what is Let me reverse it completely. Right Rvert. Um, yeah Okay, well, I wish we'd gone to the state for one hundred degrees or not. I'm now used to one hundred degree temperatures and we could have started you and now Gratefulotely I'm grateful for not The Trump hotel is not the Trump hotel anymore. Oh, is it gone? Yeah gone, gone I'm grateful for not being there. We could have gone to the club though the club that costs in theory half a million dollars to join which has Don Jr. on the board Yeah no. Listen, I am available to go places. You are You can't go places because you are always somewhere else. I was. You've given me such a hard time over this. It's so unfair I was, as you know, in the UK for a long time. Th I had to go to France, but now I'm back Now I'm back and we have to You know what we should ask people, Wh should Michael and I go? No one has to go to France They kind of do They kind of do. Anyway, I realized my son is investment number one and I actually for the first time ever got a dividend because I got to stay with him free of charge. the first time ever. So the a long invest beginning to pay off. Yeah ye. Well, we should ask people, where should we go? We could go to you know where I've never been and I'd like to go Mount Rushmore We could go to Mount Rush The only place behind. The only place I wanted to go was Greenland. And what happened with that? Yeah, What did happen? It fell off the news No one's going to want to pay for Mount Rushmore. No one's gonna to want to pay for Walkingon This the Dakotas, right? Mount Rush. Okay, so I wonder if the Dakota Tourist Office would like to pay for us to go I think we could give it some good publicity We could also phhotoshop it. You could do on your Instagram with your face at the edge of it So it's all those presidents and then Michael Wolf. Hear them You're truly cheesy I'm high on two coffees this morning. That's the issue. Just before we go, I just want to remind people what we're going to be talking about today. So we've got the Scotus decision And we're waiting for the birthright citizenship to drop any moment. We've got the Strait of Hormz, who's paying for it We've got the staggering levels, new levels of GIF, just as you thought the GrF couldn't get bigger. it does And then we've got a surprise for Michael a surprise from the past Michael U And remember those quiz shows when I was growing up when they used to bring out someone from your past? Yes. It's a bit like that. We've got a surprise for you, a bit like that. And of course, no surprise asking you to support our independent conversations because we're independent media with a subscription to the Daily Beast. So press your subscription button wherever you get your podcast, you can become a friend of the Beast, which has all sorts of incredible benefits F of the Beast with benefits indeed Kazakhstan critical minerals. Tunongsten. Who knew that it was necessary to make everything more lethal I did you did. I did and obviously the Trumps, the Trump boys knew Theyre try everyverybody does. How new too who is out to make a buck. Yeah. Right I mean, it's it An extraordinary story I mean, I can't even I mean, the grrift is the grift and the grift is there, but this is like completely out in the open. We're the Trump boys I mean, get this. So the the United States is financing a mining deal in Kazakhstan U a deal promising to you know make billions and billions and it's a I mean, I'm sure the U. S probably should should do this makes a lot of sense U The Trump boys, so the sons of the president of the United States have gotten a piece of a deal that is. possible The deal is possible because the United States is putting up the money for it So therefore the sons of the president of the United States are directly benefiting from taxpayers. Right, Right. And so the United States putting up the money to build the critical facilities to start the mining, right? E Exactly. And then there's this this other interesting thing that there's this investment bank invvestment Bank in the middle of this Deman, it's called And Domani, where where are the offices of Domani? Well they sound like they should be in Tehran. Where are they? No, they're in Trump Twower. Oh, they're in Trump Tower. Yes. O course Of course O course this is like this is does does no one care? Does no one see But let's so they don't. 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Morgan and Morgan will fight to get their clients the best results and their fee is free unless they win For more information, you can go to for thepeeople d. com slash Trump Let's go back to the the Really interesting thing is Donald Trump thinks about Mmm, um, And and we we tend to think of this see him as he's completely cynical just giveive me the money I don't think that that's exactly the case I think it is that he is profoundly in his mind in his head believes he deserves this He has it's a fair exchange. I'm Donald Trump. I'm the president of the United States I should get something out out of this. Does he and is this because he feels that he was Um you know, persecuted during the four years. Well, yes. and that is that's also the thing. So it's not just It's not just him, it's truly revenge a revenge that he deserves. So it's revened He is due R that he right right. So, but this is this is I mean this is an important thing and a step beyond I think An any He kind of Griff I'm familiar with, even historical Giff in which the grifter is not like I'm going to, you know I'm doing it. I'm getting I'm'm, you know, I'm I'm feathering my nest It's a whole much more elaborate psychology here Yeah in which in which He deserves it He is They've they've the the the system. This is all Donald Trump always against the establishment and the system. And they've done they've done me wrong So I should be paid So he's sort of self adjudicating. He's readdressing the balance. He feels that first time out He got a rum deal Right. So it's not much money did he make from his first witness? justice it's not cynical as much as it is demented deented. I mean, he he literally sees this world in which He deserves to get this money. He deserves to be rewarded Okay, well his sons are getting rewarded and nobody seems The sons are just the agents of this, obviously I mean, that's the other thing. The sons are You know, just the Trump lackkeys and the irony is delivered to. The irony here is The irony here is that Donald Trump was broke when Mark Burnett picked him up to be on the apprentice. He played a successful businessman when he wasn't, but he got paid a lot for the show The show was so successful and now He's in office for the second time as president turns out to be a successful grifting businessman I mean, he's going to l more money. It's pretty easy to be a successful grifter when you're the president of the United States. That's the point. And yet and yet the last That's why we make a thing. you know, you know, you shouldn't if you're the president of the United States, you shouldn't be self dealing. But that's what's extraordinary. because if you look back over the last few presidents, none of them were accused of doing that to any great extent, right? Maybe there was Um There was sort of fishy stuff with Dick Cheney, right? At one point. he had shares in Black Rock and Halliburton and they were being used in the Iraq warar, but there was nothing like the scale of what's going on now There's There's nothing like the transparency of what's going on now There's no effort to hide this Although Domani, the So the board of Dani B board of Demani. Well, I think the Trump boys are have a have have an advisory role an advisory role. Exactly. So U Dmented, not cynical. Yeah. I mean, that's the other thing It's the other I think profound misunderstanding about once again, and we've talked about this before, about how to understand what's going on in in Trump's head There was a piece, I can't remember in the Tes recently about the election stuff about Trump trying to subvert election about how his well, your point, I think his campaign strategy is to try and sow confusion around. Well no no, it's actually more more about, you know, he believes the election was stolen from him. And then the time's position, which is common you know, flat footed position was was that, you know, that he's cynical that he's trying to, you know, that this is He's just using using this as the excuse to do what he wants Again, I think a profound misunderstanding And that truer way to look at it is that he believes or has come to believe or it has been so convenient that he has convinced himself that this is absolutely true So this is a more serious condition than I'm a cynical guy in doing this It is again demented He has come to believe, He comes to believe in his own realities That's a more serious situation then, um, than someone who is just exercising some meritritious strategy. O greed, or greed, just exercising extreme deep levels of greed. Right, there's a logic to that This has departed logic All right, so is he going to eventually put up a tollgate on the strait of ormz I mean, what's happening? I don't know if we're at war or not. We have a memo of understanding that both sides are hurling thingsings at each other. it's all a mess And th it feels like it's going to be one of those things that now just carries on going that there are going to be f I mean I think I think you have it. I mean, I think that that that Iran has won. I mean, they made it about the straight of Hormz. So that's it. and we've been saying it's the, you know, the Hormz war and they seem to have actually Wh? They control it it's I mean I mean, there was a there's an announcement today or or or a story about the possibility that Oman and Iran have gotten together and they will together U control it impose this this toll on the straight. So and split it God knows how, but but nevertheless There was the strait of Hormuz before this war began was free passage. Now it is not. Now it is controlled by The rank That is what Donald Trump has achieved. Al terrifying to be on one of those tankers and not know whether or not you're going to get Well, that's the point. That's how you how you control the straight of mo No, I understand that, but for the poor men and I'm sure there are very, very few women. you know, actually running those tankers through, you're sort of taking your life in your That's why you don't go through. That is precisely the calculation that gives you control over the strait of Hormuz. You don't know. right. It's existential unless you pay. And then if you pay, you get free and it now looks like it's going to be two million dollars a tank of for the coal. I And Donald Trump is not going to want to not be in on that two million dollars U Yeah, well, I don't know how he gets in. I mean, I mean this is this is this is you have to cast this larger. This is such phenomenal in every single way. And there's another aspect of this that basically You know, this this deal is going to free up an enormous amount of cash for the Iranians. I mean, all of the three hundred billion dollars All of the sanctioned money is going to funnel back from them. So Let's get this. The original goal here. And this really was the originally the paramount goal was to get rid of the regime, right The result The end product now of this effort is to finance the regime So the regimes going it. Well, there's a fair amount of outcry, but it's also a complicated subject And that's one of the interesting things that will be in terms of in terms of the midterm elections fourour months away, is this forgotten by then? But it's not that complicated. Donald Trump ripped up the previous deal under the Obamas, the JCPOA The minute he ripped it up in twenty eighteen, the Iranians started enriching uranium again. And then he created a much worse deal where we are, as you said, financing the new Iranian regime. The people didn't rise up as he'd called on them to do And we're stuck now with tolls in the Strait of Hormuz all of which had been played out by previous American presidencies and they'd all resisted that siren call of Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war for Israel's bidding. Well absolutely. I mean the tragedy is actually the low threshold of what is complicated in American politics. That should not be complicated One thing I've been thinking about a lot lately is how easy it is to go through life just assuming everything is fine until something isn't I feel like so many doctor' visits end the same way. Everything looks fine. drrink more water, see you next year. Meanwhile, I'm left wondering am I getting enough nutrients? How's my metabolism? What should I actually be focusing on? That's why I'm excited about superpower. Superpower takes a completely different approach. They send a licensed professional to your home or you can visit a nearby lab. 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Well, the price is at the pump, the price is for fertilizer, the price is for food. Everything is more expensive when gas is more expensive. In four months. he now has four months for those prices to come down Will they come down? I don't know. Well, the price at the pump has come down a little bit, but the other prices are going to be baked in for the next at least I would think, eighteen months, because everything's gone up. plus there's inflation at four and a half percent. Even though he says he doesn't care about inflationice at pump Everything else is built in and yes, and it creates an effect and creates a a mood. is what everybody experiences. They see it. S like a man who I don't think goes to the grocery store very much. I bet you go to the fancy grocery store in Aammagansa you go to Citarella and pick out nice fresh fish, but I bet your wife doesn actual groceryte Actually, that's completely not Really? Yeah, I go to the IGA and I go all of o How much is a pint of milk? How much a pint of organic milk not a pint of What are those What is that? half a board? threeree thirty nine. three thirty nine, That's unbelievably cheap. You're not buying organic. No, of course, I'm not buying organic mil. You're not buying organic milk. No. You've got children.. But you should be buying organic milk. You don't want you don't want antibiotics and hormones in the milk I can't believe you don't have organic God. You're so privileged What orrganic eggs and organic milk. This iscil ultimate. This iscil Can't believe you pay so little for your milk. That's impressive organic. You don't go to the grocery store. I do go to the grocery store. I go to Instacart. That's an non This is. This is totally not true. This is This is appalling. You don't. And I'm sure you have when was the last meal you cooked the time No, you don't clook all the time. do. I I into your house. you bring it in Sometimes I, you know I do without a month of cooking now down too. I cook all the time to Sometimes I c. All right, I do occasionally cook. I do occasionally cook. Okay, well, I cook every day Not a single day passes. All right. so Iran's winning the Battle of Hormuz. Donald Trump is losing your imagination at the moment. I think it's fair to say Um digging in on It's a it's a catastrophe. I mean, he's literally looking at a catastrophe in every in every Race, certainly in every poll but in also every swing race, this could go down the drain for him like literally on november third, which is four months from now Everything could change. Essentially, Donald Trump could go out of business. Well, and he could have a historic loss, right? Well, that's me. Right, The biggest loss ever biggest loss ever people love the loss. Yeah No, I mean, it is It is the end of as a matter of fact, you know, I've started to write this U this substack little substpect digression column or whate whatever we call them called downfall which is because I think that is very clearly what we are seeing in almost every aspect of this. His mind, his body his policies and his popularity So So it's an emergency for him What do you do? What do you do if you're Donald Trump and you are looking at the end of everything you theoretically have achieved. And the Supreme Court has refused to side with him on Ee Carroll. so he's now officially a sex abuser. So we have a sex abuser in the White House So, the midtermss four months away Um what he has now doubled down on. I mean, he's not doubled down on any change in direction of his policies He's not suddenly becoming a kinder Donald Trump One thing you can say for Donald Trump is that a focus group is not at all times running in his head. it for so many Democrats. So he's looking at this. I can still win this. I can still ek out a victory here if I screw around with the election rules That is now also what he's become singularly focused on, obsessed about So in so obsessed that basically he stopped the work of the United States Congress because it won't pass The law that he wants this what save Bill the sa Sve Yeah, whatever. which in effect creates a whole new series of hurdles to vote, which would theoretically, not necessarily, by the way theoretically public inv vote. Right But the Congress isn't going to pass this and they keep telling them, were can't pass this because we don't have the votes to pass this Never mind, stop everything You have to do this. a pass get rid of the filibuster then. No, no, We're never going to get rid of the filibuster, mr. President It doesn't matter Obsessed. obsessed, you know, in again. demented kind of way. Right. veryery fixed on it. And of course it worked for him before when he denied the results of twenty twenty. I mean, it worked for him as a kind of rallying cry for all his people and everybody fell into line when he got reelected I mean it's astonishing the people, especially well, obviously the Republicans at the time said, you didn't win, sir. you lost the election, sir, who then circled back and said You won the elections. of course, you were cheated out I mean, it's astonishing how many people with Ivy League educations proper you know, people that should have known better pretend that he actually won twenty Yeah, no, and that, you know, that was a curious thing because I actually I was I was had begun writing book about the election then and was kind of on the scene talking about that was actually a rich moment because Was this landslide? Yeah, because all of, you know, a lot of the Trump people who were out of jobs you know, suddenly were talking and literally at that moment. january sixth happened Um And it was, I mean, the election happened and Everybody. The whole Trump White House was like, okay, we don't want any part of this of this denial. And then the crazies Rudy Giuliani came in and then january sixth that happened. and then you just thought there was just that absolute moment when you thought this is over not be anything but over. Every Republican leader in the Senate you know, shaking their heads Well, and some of them have been truly frightened By what happened on January b? Almost immediately thereafter, was three days after january sixth. White House said let's Okay. seemeems bad hole in the field o, let's put a pole in the field And they put a poll in the field I think X number of days, eight, nine days later came back showing over yet an overwhelming pular support among Republicans for Donald Trump, and that almost immediately brought Ebody, the general Republican leadership any Republican office holders back into the fold But why would people take notice of that when he'd just lost the election because he maintained that base with the Republican Party. So it's not Democrats who are suddenly saying that. it's Republicans who understood at that point elemental thing Donald Trump still controlled the Republican Party that has been, you know, that's this theme that you have to keep looking at here The Republican Party itself has no control over the Republican Party. Right. It's Donald Trump who has that control. Well, and he appears to have control over the Supreme Court. Though at least there were two decisions this week that didn't go his way. One was the Mississippi mail in voting, which allowed people to still mail in votes on election day and count votes that arrived after election Day are something that he's pointed to in California and said, oh, this points to fraud, even though no Republicans in California are saying it points to fraud might point to a slightly sloppy election process, but not to fraud And then of course the refusal to allow him to fire Lisa Cook on the board of the Fed, which he tried to do because largely she was in line with Jerome Powell, not wanting to reduce interest rates So he tried to elbow her out of there. And then of course this decision They were not going to look at re adddressing the Egene Carrool case for five million dollars But the larger thing was a victory for him. which is basically He got the power, a vast expansion of power to fire almost anyone in the who works in the executive branch. So any agency that's controlled by the executive branch and Yes traditionally thoseose agencies have had a and moder can't have indicated. level of independence. In other words, it wasn't easy to fire them. Now it is easy to fire them Essentially, he's been given direct control. Not They exempted this out direct control of the Fed direct control of all of these other agencies, which is one of the things from the beginning from twenty seventeen. what he has wanted. This is this is remember Steve Bannon talking talking about the war on the administrative state. Y. This is what this is. He's just He can just now declare victory on the in the war on the administrative state, not victory in the war in Iran, but on administrative state. So which is I, you know, which is my belief that that's what the Supreme Court is is is doing is Threading this needle that it is not for them not not an issue of of constitutional law anymore It's an issue of what we We have to give Donald Trump what we can withhold from Donald Trump. what we have what Filty we owe to Donald Trump. and they're doing this in a very, very careful basis which is in itself corupt Right. Okaykay. well We woke up this morning to Moscow receiving more drones. They're not receiving more drones. they're being attacked by more drones. Okay ha to do is get more drones, but they don't have them Okay, so Mos Everybody everyverybody it turns out needs more drones. Okay, except Ukraine. Yes. Ukraine the supplier of drones to the world. Exactly. So and I'm not calling it the Ukraine anymore. It's just Ukraine very pleased with that development Um Ukraine's coming out on top at the moment Well, one of the interesting things I think you they certainly are. And one of the interesting things from the inside Trump's head view is that he picked wrong the wrong side I mean, which is kind of you know, another thing, you would think that he would be held to account for. Well, and againly ad fice. You're a loser. You pick the losing side and against all the advice of his advisors, you know, Lindsey Graham Well, Um How could even thenide? What is his obsession with Russia? Why does he want to be friended with Putin? I understand the strrongman thing, but none of this makes sense. Why would you as Georgia Maloney said, Why would you treat your allies like this Why are you sucking up to Putin and i? and not being more friendly to your allies. Why aren't you supporting Europe? He looks at a map And he sees Russia that's big Right All that layen all that layen Ukraine much smaller I'm gonna go with the big guy and I swear to God. That's what he is. This is the level of analysis urs here I mean, again, this kind of thing that no one know what we don't have to the to appreciate. how phenomenally stupid Donald Trump is. It's not just stupid. it's how phenomenally incurious, how phenomenally I't uninterested in any information, unable really to take in any information. Well, and also, especially historical information. there's no context for what he does. Well to say the very least. Okay,one would be resentful about about there having to be that context. So how does he What happens to Russia and Ukraine at this point I know that Europe is very anxious about Europe. that I can't tell you Oh, I thought you were going exix I thought But you know, I think we can I mean, the truth is that this is This is complicated. And everything in this war, which is you know, which is pretty interesting. I suppose it's like all boars, but this seems to happen in in a much speeded speeded up sense that there's an advantage and it's a technological advantage basically And then it exists until the other side compensates and comes to parody with that advantage. But they haven't got that yet. Russia is taking so long No. Well, they haven't. I mean, they have at several points during the this has been going on for four plus years and at several points they actually they actually have. I mean, this is, I mean The pattern of this war is is is Ukraine manages to come out cure an advantage and then Russia meets that advantage and then it goes into a stalemate until the Ukrainians come up with an additional advantage. So how long this goes on? I mean, I think the Ukraini that there that the Russians will are going to have to say, you know, okay, let's let's let's figure out a way out of this Almost a million Russians have been casualties of this war. So So it certainly does seem that at some point is in trouble. Now rememarkably he has not been in that much trouble. today still may not be in that much trouble. In the Trump narrative, it would have been so easy for him to have to have to have seen if we can see anything besides small on the map that the Ukrainians were that that this would be a It would have vastly redounded to his credit to have been on the side of the little guys. Well to and to have managed to bring about the peace deal, he promised he would bring on his first day in office but by backing the wrong No you remember in the And remember when Zelenssky shows up in the oval office, he says You know, he said, you know, you don't have any cards. You don't have the cards. And he said that on ts of. They had all the cards Still my favorite joke when he says that about the Iranians. you don't have any cards and they have the straight of fmoose. Such a good line. such not my line. I've found it somewhere, but it's a very good one. All right. So we're recording this on Tuesday morning And we've just got a news fllash that the Supreme Court have struck down Trump's executive order demanding end to birthright citizenship, something that's enshrined in the Constitution. and yet it's still a six three decision Um I mean don't I don't think that there was anyone who thought this would go in any other direction. No, no, I think that's right, but I'm still staggered that three justices dissented You know, there's these u who Gch Alito and I think Clarence Thomas, it must be Clarence Thomas. Alito and Thomas are a hundred percent cent notothing They're even further to the right of Trump, I think. Well well they're just they're consonspiracy theorists almost at this point. Yeah. ye. And they're I mean, they're old and they're racist and they're it's just they fly their flags It doesn't make a difference. So two people, you can just put them aside. they don't really count in in a kind of kind of logic you're asking for some logic here. Okay They don't count So Gorsit, I don't know what the I haven't read the Well, it's literally just come out so we're trying to Mars So I would say six to three in this in this context is is unanimous a recognition that that this was an absolutely lunous thing to bring. Absolutely ridiculous. And I don't think the Trump people thought this was anything else, but this is this is performance. like having performative Okay. Well, happily it's been struck down because how on earth would you enforce it It's utterly uninforceable. It's just it's It was never going happen. performative. Can we talk about the most attractive couple in politics, the Newsoms who are made to go to the White House, aren't they? I mean, his hair, her hair, they are Bravo type Brother the channel Fabulosity Yeah, you know, I was at the Oh Biden debate in um Atlanta I think it was in Atlanta. Yes. I certainly was there. Yes Um One of them only the one where Biden failed to answer and it caused the Yes. and start of all our problems. And that was I mean, that was kind of kind of extraordinary because you know, they did this, Biden did this debate and then after all of the surrogates come out on the floor. and And you wait for them and the Republicans came out and the Democrats didn't come out they had no idea to say Um, And then Finally They came out in a scrum around Newson I mean, he was, they were kind of all and What you saw and what you focused on was his hair. first thing he's very tall and the hair is kind of extraordinary. And you really said Okay. This is if if being the president of the United States is t least one factor is about what kind of hair you have then he might have a very good shot at this So what we heard last week from Gavin Newsom was that Trump has started investigations into him. This is politically motivated, obviously, according to Newsom. Yeah, I mean, I think it turns out that this investigation began almost a year ag something somewhat about a year ago in a U. S. attorney's office. now. obviously controls the Justice Department and has enormous sway with U. S. attorneys. but apparently So This may or may not be Trump directly Trump related Apparently there was a whistleblower involved and they started an investigation in the U. S. atttorney's office, I assume in California And this is to do with how Gavin Newsom raises money and it's basically pay for play That's the accusation that he receives U Yeah, no, I mean, there's a good Wall Street Journal article. Well Let me this is This is u an article by the editorial Bard of the Wall Street Journal, which is particularly tends to end this two almost always is a takes a Republican and conservative voice Um, Although not necessarily pro Trump voice, we should point out. They've been a robust opposition actually at the journal Both the news pages and it turns out the sometimes sometimes sometimes the the editorial page att any rate It says reads, for years, the governor has leveraged his power to get businesses to cough up cash for progressive causes Tw beneficiaries are nonprofits founded by his wife, Jennifer Siebel neverever a good look Mh The repepresentation project and the California Partners project She has collected more than one point nine million dollars in compensation from the former So So it's not only her organizations, but she's getting paid. The question is on what basis do you raise this this money. they call this tested payments.. And this may not be. you can probably argue, which they will certainly argue that this is not illegal at all It is though as the u This is politics. And so theoretically, it is the appearance of conflict we seek oid R. We may that that that may be in a old and discarded point of view, Donald Trump wiped it away. The appearances don't matter anymore but it also could mean? Gavin Newsom, who is the front rununner for the Democratic nomination in twenty twenty eight, not that he Not that he will remain the front runner, but certainly at this could be knocked out by something Well, it also says that he's raised I mean, the total amount he's raised since twenty eleven is three hundred fifty millionars according to the journal, has poured in since he became governor in twenty nineteen U That's a lotck, three hundred and fifty million.. Yeah, noheended payments. and they're legal but they're not seemly and And maybe they're not. I mean, obviously investigation has been obviously, there are some questions about the legality of O there's a mischievous whistle bllower and it's going to cause him damage These kinds of things and we should start to log these kinds of theseese kinds of things because ly relevant to twenty twenty eight. And what Gavin Newsom has done has leaned into the Trump way of handling it, which is to say they're coming after me. it's a witch hunt and make and putting it centre stage as opposed to putting it in the background and telling people not to worry about it So he's actually campaigning on this now? Yeah. fascinating and we will continue to. Yeah no. and I think that I mean, this is this is the kind of This kind of thing is actually a test of of your metedal for getting the nomination. Right. This is why In other words in order, Yes, in order to Be the person who should get the nomination then you see if you can survive this kind of stuff And do you think he's going to survive it? I think he's thriving on it? Yeah, and u there are the questions are Should he survive it? and then Will he survive U Should he survive it and will he survive it? All right you mentioned H as a candidate and we have a surprise for you T this man with all the hair. Long ago This ha. Come on. I would never in a million years have thought that this was your hair. I would never, I imagine that you would have very bushy hair Look at this, this is magnificent here. For those who aren't watching us, for those who are actually listening to this, what we have found is, I guess is this your high school year book? It is. It's Michael It's a picture of Michael a photo from his high school yearbook. in which his hair is magnificent. It's shiny, it's straight. It's curled in basically a bob just behind your ear And then there is a description of you can read the description Arguing a point with Mr. Kerner in English, Mike Wolf, Student cououncil Pident, you swap, student council Cncil presresident concerned with the problems of the school The cities, a serious student of history, philosophy, his dazzling rhetoric leading to victory in debates, discussions might Wolf introverted but serious and with fabulous hair That is election worthy hair. You could win elections on that hair on its own. I've seen that. You see, but that's the problem. elections. You have to be able to continue the hair until you are of age the elect We wouldould you should I get a hair piece for you? I would just like to see what it looks like. I mean, it's magnificent hair It actually for the first time made me think about what it's like losing your hair. was day of my life. It took a lot to keep that hair and, you know, you have to tend that hair. Yeah. this hair No ending. Did you actually make a decision to just shave it all some point I feel like ever since I've known you, you've not had any hair. No Right. Now I remember Scott Galloway saying it was a huge relief when he got rid of his hand What have ever known you with hair How old were you when you started getting bald I in my thirties So your kids cannot remember you with hair No fascinating. Anyway, this is this election where the. No wonder you were think'm handsome. Of course you're handsome. No wonder you were school president. You won the school presidency because of your hair. It's a really underestimated thing in politics Have we ever had a bod president? I Well, I mean, Eisenhower was not a guy with a lot of hair. They had some hair. That was a real comb It was a com over I mean and it was And television was less of a thing then. Yeah. Television was less of a thing Anyway, Gather Newson's got fabulous hair H his wife's got fabulous hair Behested payments are legal acccording to the Wall Street Journal And he says he's being investigated because Donald Trump has launched a witch hunt against him because he knows Gavin might win. You know who is Getting a surge of attention is Andy Bashir Andy Bashir is never going to be president. The man speaks in policy parags. I had a dinner with him last summer in the Hamptons, of course, where everybody shows up Democrats show up to raise money. I think some Republicans sure, but the Republicans stay in South Southampton, y. the Democrats this strictly Eastampton. Wayne Scott and Eastthampton and very much Sag. And he was, you know, I thought I was a you know, Eremely nice guy and extremely intelligent Governor of a red state all of this as dull as you could sibly be Right. I mean it was at this there were only a few people at this dinner, but everybody their eyes up Well, he's milk toast, isn't he? I mean, he's governor of Kentucky, so Red state, that's impressive that he's done that. But he doesn't have the charisma, I think, to be president in the age of social media and everything else. Well, a conversation that will continue. A bit of a stray there, poor old Andy Bashir qu a stray from our conversation. However We will be back and we'll be back on Thursday. We're not going away. andess Donald Trump launches a witch hunt into us He has the launch one into me Ohah have. Oh, I have Do you have an update on where you are with his wife Yes, but let's save that for little Okay so Thursday we'll be back. We'll talk about the update in Michael's case suing the First lady and If you have been, thank you for joining us. 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