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on real estate. They made deals all over the world. But if you check the record, they've been doing that forever. It has nothing to do with Trump being president. Oh, that might help a little. But the day before Trump was president, they were doing the same exact deals all over the world. That's what they've been doing for a living. 60 Minutes asked Trump about the corruption. 00:03:48 Speaker 3: I devote almost no time to my network. 00:03:51 Speaker 2: Remember, the guy comes into office with $ 6 billion. Now, if you've got $ 6 billion, you don't put that in the bank. If you've got $ 6 billion, you don't put that in a checking account or a savings account. You can't just let it sit there. Your $ 6 billion has to be put into all different investments and spread out and diversified. And then somebody's got to manage all of those. Basically, it's Erica. coordinating with all the financial experts that manage the money. And Trump pays no attention. 00:04:20 Speaker 3: I devote almost no time to my net worth. 00:04:22 Speaker 2: I don't care. 00:04:23 Speaker 3: I have a lot of money and far more than I ever thought I'd have. And I guess it's gone up. I don't even know. I have a son who's a very straight, good guy. He watches over money. 00:04:38 Speaker 2: I don't even talk to him about it. 00:04:39 Speaker 3: He watches, he gives, they gave my money. I have a lot of cash. I've had a lot of cash long before I came in here. I don't take a salary. 00:04:47 Speaker 2: Yeah. Now listen, he's made a lot of money while he's in office, but check the record. He made the same amount every year before he got into office as well. Um, now he, uh, on that same 60 minutes interview, it was interesting because, uh, At one point, they were asking about immigration, and he said, well, we have to go after the illegals who are criminals, gang members. You have to get them off the street. But then he said, you know, if they've been here 10 years and they're hardworking and paying, well, maybe they can. Well, that's a whole different attitude from the president. Now, what is he doing there? He's doing what Bill Clinton did, which is called triangulating. That's how Bill Clinton won. Triangulate. You got your position. The Democrats have their position. you start to find a position that kind of takes away, it combines both positions. It combines your position and their position. That way they got nothing to run on. Whatever they were yelling and screaming about, you've already incorporated that into your position. So it takes away their issue, triangulating. Ron DeSantis making a lot of noise over the weekend, looking like he wants to run for president. They called it the soft launch of his campaign. I don't think that'll go very well for him. He's got too many enemies, too many enemies in the Republican world, in the RNC, Trump. He's a strange sort of a character, brilliant governor. He's been the finest, best governor in America for the last eight years. But I don't know why in real life he's nasty to everybody he's got to work with, nasty to everybody in politics. I'm talking about donors, the RNC, all these people tell you, Horror stories about dealing with him. I don't know why he does that, but I'm just reporting the facts here. Also, when it came to this race in Florida, Byron Donalds won as a Republican. He's the new governor of Florida. You might want to credit DeSantis, but check the record. DeSantis refused to help. He refused to get involved. He never campaigned. for byron donalds he would not come to the rallies that trump was holding for him he wouldn't take part in them the night before he put out a video sort of endorsing byron donalds but the entire campaign he stayed the hell away and wouldn't get involved you know one of those rallies trump came to florida to do a rally for byron donalds desantis showed up at the airport to greet trump getting off the plane took pictures with him got on the news and then left he wouldn't go to the rally wouldn't help at all with the campaign DeSantis' plan was, he's term-limited out. They have term limits in Florida on governors. His plan was that his wife would run and become the new governor. Then his wife had a little bit of a scandal, and that screwed her up. She cannot run with that scandal. So that was, I don't know what he's going to do next. He could test the waters for president, but he's got a problem there. Hey, Cornell has another problem, Cornell University. There's another sexual assault case, it turns out. Also from 2023. I think the one we've known about, I think that was 2024. But here's another one from a couple of years ago. A woman sued over it, but apparently the whole thing got buried. It was a case at Cornell. Sexual assault with 10 students involved, according to the claim. 10 students sexually assaulting a woman. Cornell somehow made it go away. But this now coming out, that's not good for Cornell. It's looking bad for them. Kathy Hochul is going to start raising taxes everywhere and anywhere. You're going to get taxed like crazy by Hochul. Blakeman warned everybody. 00:08:43 Speaker 1: As a candidate for governor of New York State, I pledge to follow it. No tax increases. I pledge to oppose and veto increases in income tax, property tax, energy taxes, and government-imposed fees. No hidden property tax increases. I will oppose unfunded mandates. 00:09:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, now she's going to try. You'll see. You're going to start getting taxed by Hochul. She claims, we need the money, we need the money. When we have a severe need to do something, extraordinary, I'm willing to do what has to happen. I had to increase the payroll mobility tax to make sure that we would keep the lifeline of New York City functioning, and that is the subway system. I did that for the MTA. 00:09:23 Speaker 3: Again, I couldn't let New York City have its bond rating downgraded, causing chaos. 00:09:29 Speaker 2: I need to help the mayor get out of a problem

he didn't create. All these stupid excuses. The budget of New York State is double what it should be. Double. MTA budget is double what it should be. Why? Because they're wasting money. waste, fraud, bloat. They overpay by 10,000% for everything. If you send in a team of honest experts, they could get the cost down. Florida has many, many more millions of people than New York, and their budget is half of ours. Our Medicare budget is like quadruple what Florida's– even though Florida has like 5 million more people than we do. Absolutely ridiculous. Just crazy, out-of-control spending. So Democrats will go crazy now when they take power in January. They will go crazy. They'll impeach Hegseth. They're going to go after Todd Blanch. He's the attorney general. Again, I don't know what the hell you're going to go after him for. There's this Garcia in Congress who's a lunatic. 00:10:27 Speaker 4: He wants Blanch's... Todd Blanch is not Stephen Miller's lawyer, and he's not the lawyer of the president, even though in his head that's what he wants to be. At the end of the day, he's the lawyer for the Department of Justice and the people of this country. And it's shameful that he goes out and defends Stephen Miller this way. Yeah. 00:10:42 Speaker 2: Now, Stephen Miller's the new chief of staff, Susie Wiles. A wonderful woman, but there were conflicts with the president. There was a lot of things bothering him. One, her background is a lobbyist. She'd been a lobbyist for many years with a lot of clients as a lobbyist, and she did not separate herself enough from those clients when she came into the chief of staff job. She kind of moved the clients over to her daughter, but still tangled up with the lobbying. The other problem is she's very Rubio-centric. She's very tied to Rubio. And the other problem was in the White House, she formed, there was a cabal of people that she formed. They're in the process of busting that up right now and getting rid of some of those people. The other thing is the president about to go to war. This will be wartime against this new Congress. So you can't bring in just anybody as chief of staff. There's no time to have somebody train, get adjusted for a couple of months. No, you've got to, You've got to have somebody you're instantly in sync with. Stephen Miller's been with Trump since the very, very, very beginning. Nobody knows Trump or speaks his language more than Stephen Miller. So he's the perfect choice. Now, in 60 Minutes, he said there might be some other changes coming. They said he's thinking of firing anybody else. He goes, well, yeah, maybe. So there'll be some other changes. Susie Wiles, who was asked about it by reporters. 00:12:10 Speaker 3: I wanted to make a change. I think Suzy's done a very good job, great job, but I just wanted to make it. Stephen's been great, and we've got. 00:12:23 Speaker 2: To make moves. Well, now, remember The Godfather? They loved Tom Hagen. Tom Hagen was great, but at some point they were going to war, and they had to get him. Remember Tom says to The Godfather, why am I out? And Michael goes, you're not a wartime conciliare, Tom. So that's when you've got to make a change. Hey, Israel, Netanyahu basically won the election, but the Israeli president, and this is up to him, has decided to give the first chance to form a new government to the opponent of Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot. Eisenkot will be given the first chance to form a government. Now, the problem is there's little Arab parties. There's enough of them. that you can't form a government. You got to get to 61 seats. You can't do it without these Arab parties. So they're a big, big, big factor. But, uh, Eisencott will be given the first chance. If he can get enough of them together, form a coalition. He is the new prime minister of Israel. Eisencott. He's not a bad guy. He doesn't, we love Netanyahu, but Eisencott, uh, is like, some people have called him the Eisenhower of Israel. He's a former, uh, Israeli Defense Fund general. He's run the war. And nobody knows war better than him as a general. He lost a son in the war. And so he would not be bad. It would not be a bad thing to have Eisenkot. He'd like to keep Netanyahu, but Eisenkot wouldn't be bad. He disagrees with Netanyahu on some things, on some things. He's all for going after Hamas and securing Israel. He's not so big on the Iran war. That's the main difference. Hey, once again, the economy, the fake news had everybody convinced the economy was in shambles. The economy was actually in very good shape. Consumer spending has been way up in the last year and a half. That's one way you can tell. Consumer spending is way up. And you can tell when the economy is really strong because the spending is on luxuries and hospitality, what they call hospitality. People don't spend that when they're having money troubles. But restaurant spending is up dramatically over the last year. You know, last month, $ 93 billion in one month spent in restaurants. Last month. It's way up dramatically. Last year at this time, it was $ 91 billion. So it's the eighth consecutive month of sales growth. Consumer spending way up. The people shifting from... Eating at home to eating out is up dramatically. Restaurant sales are way up. That's when you know an economy is booming because the eating out is considered a luxury. And people are doing it more than ever. Hey, we'll take some calls next. If you're a new caller, we'd love to hear from you. We like new callers. It's 800-321-0710. Call me now. 00:15:26 Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.