Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick cover Donald Trump's tariffs against China, Canada, and Mexico, DOGE shutting down the USAID, Zelenskyy admitting billions missing in U. S. aid, and David Hogg's election as Vice Chair of the DNC. ----❤️ GET THE VT VALENTINE'S DAY COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/40H8RuT📺 VOTE ON TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS: https://bit.ly/4gXLioq👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH: https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/41rtEV4📰 VTNEWS. AI: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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• 0:12Speaker 00

  My handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here. You are a one of one?

• 0:17Speaker 01

  My son's right.

• 0:25Patrick Bet-David?

  But it's still going, so you understand what I'm saying, so okay. All right, gang, obviously a ton of stories to cover with everything going on with Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama. I mean, there's a ton of things that's going on there. And then you have stories about Bukele this morning showing their prison, which looks insane, offering inmates from here to be, he didn't show it today, he showed it yesterday, inmates from here to be sent to El Salvador. And some are saying it's not constitutional, but that's a way of being a partner, so we'll talk about that. And then, at the same time, Luca, which is kinda weird, Luca gets traded from the Mavs to the Lakers, and nobody knew about it, LeBron didn't know about it, Luca didn't know about it. Even Mark Cuban seems flabbergasted about the trade because he sold majority of the company to somebody else. We will talk about trades, we will talk about Pierre, we will talk about Justin, we will

• 1:11Patrick Bet-David?

  talk about Panama Canal, we will talk about how Xi weighs retaliation after Trump hits China with 10% tariff. And Schumer says Trump's tariffs will increase price of Super Bowl party staples, he holds a, I think, a Corona and guacamole, which is... Oh, yeah, avocado. Avocado, yeah, avocado. Gold prices hits record high on Lumen US there right now, I think a kilo of gold is officially $90,000. To put that in perspective, four years ago it was $55,000, $53,000. It's now $90,000. Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID, and a lot of people lost their minds. Trump says he opened California's water, local officials say he nearly flooded them. Good.

• 1:54Patrick Bet-David?

  He lashes out at Jerome Powell, Trump does, after Fed doesn't cut interest rates, and then he switches and approves the Fed's decision, so we'll definitely discuss that. Rubio visits Panama Canal and discusses the influence of what's going on there with them stopping with China.

• 2:10Patrick Bet-David?

  DNC was, uh, some call it a, I want to use a politically correct word, a shit show. Some people called it what happened with Ken Martin wins election as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. And David Hawk elected as the vice chair of the DNC. So means they're more doubling down on what they got going on. That's it for us. CBS, um, forked, forced to fork over edited Harris interview transcript and new staffers irate over talk of paramount settling Trump 60 minute lawsuit. Chuck Todd quits NBC News, however, for those worried about it, he does take Chuck Todd cast with him. So you can still listen to him. Dozens of listeners. Pacific Palisades rebuilding must include low income housing. Let me read that one more time.

• 2:53Patrick Bet-David?

  New law for LA Pacific Palisades rebuilding must include low income housing. We'll talk about that. Zelensky not happy the fact that he only got 76 billion out of the 177. Cocaine's expensive. Uh, some claim Iran is secretly creating nuclear weapons with 1800 mile radius. And some said, oh, you can give them the 150 billion dollars. They said they would not build a nuclear weapon, so we believe them, right? Yeah, okay, and they're gonna sit there and wait for you and not build it in the desert that nobody can track. Costco Teamsters reached tentative deal, even though at the same time Costco decides to raise $30 an hour for non-union employees. Leaving 18,000 union members waiting.

• 3:37Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, it's a very strange strategy, but I actually love it. And we'll talk about the Luca trade and then on top of that, the addendum, there's a couple of the things that came up with Tom Homan. Uh, with New Jersey governor coming out there saying, I'm gonna have people here refusing. He reveals he's housing a migrant at his residence and tell the feds, good luck trying to get her. And then Homan says, yeah, we're coming for you, buddy. If you have somebody like that, we're coming for you. It's illegal to do that. Uh, Trump says he wants Ukraine to supply US with their rare earths. Don Lemon has a weird moment with Kanye West when they face off. Uh, I don't know if you, I'm sure you haven't seen it. Of course, it's not all over the internet. Kanye West's wife was wearing, uh, the three piece suit that was missing.

• 4:20Patrick Bet-David?

  But, uh, we'll, we'll talk about the Kanye and Don Lemon. And then a few other things that we have here if we get time to get into it. Anyways, having said that, couple of things, gang. Uh, today's podcast is going to be heavy with a lot of stories. But Valentine's Day, we're only how many days away from Valentine's Day? Exactly 10 days away. You got 10 days to place an order. So here's what we did. My wife's birthday is on Valentine's Day, February 14th. This is her birthday. And so it's a special day in our family for some of you that were asking. I want to get something for my wife. She loves Vitamix, she loves PBD Podcast, she watches the content. No problem. Here's what we're doing for you to place the order now. The first 100 people that do place the order, you got a special gift here. We got the pink Future Looks Bright hat with the Vitamix logo, the American flag on the right. And a Future Looks Bright on the bottom.

• 5:04Patrick Bet-David?

  We got the red Future Looks Bright hat. Okay. Then we have this new black, by the way, this sweater's quality is insane. But ladies, you asked for it, you're getting it. And our ladies are actually wearing this in Vitamix with the Vitamix logo. And on the back that says Future Looks Bright. This looks so good that even Adam was thinking about wearing it because Adam likes black and silver. All the time. And then we have this red one here and a few others, uh, pink hats that's out there as well. The red Vitamix logo with the Future Looks Bright, this material. That sticks out? Oh my God, Vinny, where, just feel the material that sticks out on the silver at the front. It's really soft and it's got an emboss to it. It's insane.

• 5:44Patrick Bet-David?

  So for the first 100 people that place an order for value, uh, for Valentine's Day, Rob, if you can go to the top, you get that sticker that says, I love VT, okay? Be my VT Valentine, which is kind of cool, the V and T are together as well. And you get the gold and black. ValueTainment keychain. So if you get the stickers, you get to put the stickers. The other day I had this sticker that I'm putting on my phone. It says I am VT. Stickers are going to listen. I'm 46 and I still like stickers. But Valentine's Day, go to VTmerch.com, place your order. We want a million people wearing the Future Looks Bright gear. Again, go to VTmerch.com. First 100 people to place an order,

• 6:25Patrick Bet-David?

  get the keychain and the limited edition ValueTainment stickers being sent your way. All right, let's get into the story. Tariffs, Mexico, Canada, and China. Justin Trudeau comes out very strong about the fact that if you're gonna do 25% tariffs, and this is not fair, and what kind of a partner are you? And he gives this speech. Is this the first one or the second one, Rob?

• 6:48Speaker 03

  There's a few clips. This is where he says specifically 25% retaliatory tariffs against the United States.

• 6:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead and play this clip here.

• 6:56Speaker 04

  Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the US trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods.

• 7:11Speaker 04

  This will include immediate tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods as of Tuesday, followed by further tariffs on $125 billion worth of American products in 21 days' time to allow Canadian companies and supply chains to seek to find alternatives.

• 7:30Patrick Bet-David?

  He's so tough. So that happens. And then Pierre Polivier comes out and also puts out a strong tweet about what he's gonna be doing with US and how this is unacceptable and how you can't say something like this. So both of them are going strong against Trump. Rob, just go to, yeah, there you go. So both of them go fairly strong at US. And if you go a little bit lower, you'll see one basic tweet that that's Pierre, that he puts a long tweet if you want to read it, all the way at the top. I asked him a couple of questions, which we'll address here in a minute, based on his response. Why is Canada's economy weak? Because he said that. Then, you know, military, we talked about military, which we'll get into that because they don't invest much into the military. You and I were talking about it the other one. You brought it up. Yep. So go a little bit lower, Rob.

• 8:15Patrick Bet-David?

  This is the other part that I don't think Mexico or Canada understand, which is 77% of Canada's exports go to the US. 84% of Mexico's exports go to the US. You know what that means? That's your number one customer, okay? You're talking to your number one customer. Your business owners are taking hits. Both of them rely on US. Quick tip for Trudeau and Shinebomb. Read the art of the deal. Number two, take a cold shower. Three, apologize to DJT. Four, pray. Moments later, what does Trudeau do? He comes out with a very clear plan, right Rob? I don't know if you have it, if you just go to his account. Writing out exactly what they're going to be doing.

• 8:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Complete switch from what he said earlier. He said, "I just had a good call with the president. Canada's implementing our $1.3 billion border plan. Reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel. Enhance coordination with our American partners and increase resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border. In addition, Canada's making new commitments to point a fentanyl czar. We will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7..." It sounds like Trump.

• 9:24Tom Ellsworth?

  What happened?

• 9:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Exactly, it sounds like "ensure 24/7 eyes on the border. Launch a Canada-US joint force strike to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I've also signed a new intelligence directive. And organized crime and fentanyl, we'll be backing it with $200 million." Go a little lower, Rob. Please, proposed terrorists will be paused for at least 30 days while we work this thing together. Okay. There's obviously a bunch of things. Your time, I'll come to you first and then we'll go into some of the other stories. Your thoughts on this, when you saw this first?

• 9:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, let's unpack it all together here. The first thing to unpack is remember, Trudeau has not resigned. He only said he was resigning, as head of the party and as prime minister. And the reason he hasn't fully walked offstage yet is he has a key ally named Jagmeet Singh in their government. Think of him as the Schumer of Canada, working with the president. So Jagmeet is Schumer, and Trudeau is that. And so, he's held off actually leaving.

• 10:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Actually leaving and what that means is that the liberals still are clinging on to power and they're making decisions because they still have what's called the coalition government. And so, most people wanted us to point out, and I've gotten some inex from people, and we've seen comments that says, hey, people need to understand that us here in Canada, he told us he was resigning, but he hasn't actually left. He's resigning as head of the party and as prime minister. If he was to run against Polivier, he's going to get his butt kicked. It's going to be the worst defeat in electoral history in Canada. But Jagmeet wants to stay in power. Some people say he's got some financial interest and even a pension that he's trying to preserve. So that's what's going on. So, you have Trudeau dealing with the US, which is not what the rest of the Canadian parliament wants.

• 11:04Tom Ellsworth?

  And so, when Trudeau comes out and says, me and the coalition government, we're doing this, plus this, plus this, they have weak support. You know what I mean? It's kind of like having a 50-50 senate, very weak support. He picks up the phone and calls Trump. Trump says, I'm sending you an email, cut and paste it. If you could put it on Twitter, that would really be helpful. Because that there was exactly what the US wanted, and it's very similar to what Mexico has said. Hey, we're going to control fentanyl, we're going to put some troops at the border. So people need to understand that's what's going on. You're looking at a weak guy that is getting pushed around in Trudeau.

• 11:37Patrick Bet-David?

  So, now, while we're doing this, let me read to you what others are saying about this. Wall Street Journal slams Trump's tariffs, the dumbest trade war in history. Okay? And I got a clip I want to play to you guys, that I don't think any one of you guys have seen. I want you to see it, just to see how you react. Rob, there's no pages on today's, um, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, this is going to be tough. Okay, so I gotta go through the pages. What does it say? Wall Street, okay, there we go. So, the Wall Street Journal editorial board calls President Trump's new tariff on Canada, Mexico, and China one of the dumbest trade wars in history, arguing that they will harm key US industries. Rather than achieve their stated goals, the board dismissed White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's Claimed that the tariffs would curb drug smuggling stating drug,

• 12:22Patrick Bet-David?

  drugs have flowed into the US for decades and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it. What a, what a position to take. Did you hear that by the way? Let me, let me read that to you folks one more time. So this is what Caroline Levitt claims that the tariffs, not Caroline Levitt. Drugs have flowed into the US for decades and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it. Okay? Nothing we can do about it to stop it. I don't know if I agree with that. The op-ed criticized Trump's broader trade philosophy stating, "Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn't import anything at all, that Americans can be perfectly closed economy making everything at home." And warned them targeting auto imports would backfire

• 13:03Patrick Bet-David?

  since the US auto industry is really a North American industry with highly integrated supply chains. So while this is going, while this is going on and people are saying this, a clip comes up of Ronald Reagan from 1987 that I want to play to you guys. Rob, is this the one? I have it. Okay. So this is the clip from Ronald Reagan. Uh, the date on this clip, I want to say sometime in 1987. To give you the exact date on this, I'll pull it up the date. Play this clip on what he said about high tariffs and how he breaks it down. And I want to kind of see a little bit of debate on this here. Go ahead, Rob.

• 13:40Speaker 06

  Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. Now, there are sound historical reasons for this. For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing. And today, many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley Tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery. You see, at first, when someone says, "Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports", it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.

• 14:25Speaker 06

  And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is first homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers and less and less competition. So soon because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

• 15:09Speaker 06

  Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. Now, it hasn't always been easy. There are those in the Congress just as there were back in the 30s who want to go for the quick political advantage, who risk America's prosperity for the sake of

• 15:38Patrick Bet-David?

  This is what people are scared of, watch this.

• 15:40Speaker 06

  ...to some special interest group who forget that more than 5 million American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export business and additional millions are tied to imports. Well, I've never forgotten those jobs, and on trade issues by and large, we've done well.

• 15:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so you hear a message like this, Rob, you just sent the date, the date is what, April 25th, 1987, the radio address to the nation of free and fair trade from Camp David. This is what that was, okay? When you see a message like that and you see folks are saying, "I'm afraid of, this is gonna be the worst trade war ever, we shouldn't do this, Reagan was against this," all this other stuff, there's a couple of things people don't think about when they hear Ronald Reagan saying this. At the time when he said this, 1987... Do you know what percentage of the global GDP China had? 1987, China, global GDP?

• 16:39Adam Sosnick?

  Probably less than 5%.

• 16:40Patrick Bet-David?

  It's 1.9%.

• 16:42Adam Sosnick?

  Okay.

• 16:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay?

• 16:43Adam Sosnick?

  Now they're at what, 20%?

• 16:45Patrick Bet-David?

  It was, it was.

• 16:47Adam Sosnick?

  Now they're at 17, 18, 19, 20%?

• 16:49Patrick Bet-David?

  You'll see a number that says it was around 1.9% in 1987. It's a very small number, whatever. I mean, maybe, if you look it up, Rob, to see what that number is. So, today, they're at 19.4%. Now, US in 1987, uh, US in 1987 was at 28.5%. Can you do US GDP, global GDP, uh, global, uh, uh, share of GDP 1987?

• 17:19Adam Sosnick?

  And now we're probably at what, 25%?

• 17:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Look at what we were at. Look at what we were at. Zoom in a little bit, it should be 28.7%. Look at that. 1987, we're 28.7% US. That's when, that's when Reagan gave the speech. Go to US global GDP today. Just change that and just put 2020, uh, 2024.

• 17:38Adam Sosnick?

  Probably lower, right?

• 17:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, watch this. Percentage, zoom in. Uh, no, it should be percentage. Percentage, we are at 25.9% today.

• 17:55Adam Sosnick?

  So, China's up big time and we're significantly lower.

• 17:58Patrick Bet-David?

  We're down 3% since then. And China went from a small number that they had, I don't know what their exact number was, we'll pull it up right now, Rob, if you can find it, to us being, to we went down, China went up. So, one could say, at the moment, Reagan was right. But one could make the argument to say, 37, 38 years later, they helped strengthen China into a superpower that we're relying on them. Look at that. China's percentage of global GDP was at 1.6%. Is that what it was, Rob? Is that what it's saying? 1987. Can you ask what, uh, what it is today? China's today? What is China's, uh, percentage of global GDP today?

• 18:43Patrick Bet-David?

  So they went from 1.6, 1.9% to 19, it should be like 20%, 19 or 20%.

• 18:49Adam Sosnick?

  Yep, you're right.

• 18:50Patrick Bet-David?

  19.3% today. So China 10xed.

• 18:55Patrick Bet-David?

  In 38 years, and we dropped 10%. So guess what? It may have seemed like a noble thing to do at the time, and we all love Reagan, what an incredible man. But economically, we have strengthened everybody else while US got weaker.

• 19:15Patrick Bet-David?

  By percentage. Is that how we're supposed to play the game? Isn't that a philosophy of socialism? Strengthen others, but weaken yourself? I don't know in any game that that's the right philosophy. I'm not sitting here trying to criticize a policy that the president came back from 38 years ago. I'm just saying sometimes something may seem good at the time, that may be problematic later on. Tom, your thoughts on this here? Because this is really the debate that's going on between the two sides.

• 19:40Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep, and I think the other side knows what they're saying, and they're full of crap. What's happened here is that, look at what's happened under Trump's leadership. But this is about leadership, not about permanent tariffs, and the tariffs haven't been permanent. The tariffs under Trump have been tactics, not taxes. He's taken a tactical position, and he's gotten people to move. And by the way, look at that list from Trudeau. If that gets through the Canadian Parliament, that is a good list that makes them a stronger country unto themselves, and a helpful partner with the United States. That's a good list. And the Wall Street Journal is treating it like permanent legislation. Oh, this is wrong-headed, da-da-da.

• 20:24Tom Ellsworth?

  When the Journal's editorial board, they know damn well that these are tactics, not permanent taxes. And so they're coming out after him, because these are Trump's enemies. But take a look at his leadership. His leadership could not be more clear than Qatar. Hours after he's elected, and Qatar says, hey, we're looking forward to the new leadership, and by the way, we're making some changes here about people that can be in our country. If you're associated with Hamas and the Arab Brotherhood, you know what, we're not, no part of that. That was Qatar. Colombia, last week, I'm gonna ship Colombians back to Colombia. And those of them, I'm sending people home who have criminal records. And he says, no, no, no, you're not gonna do that. And he says, hey, escucha. Tariff muy grande. And he goes, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, you know, we thought it over, you know, you can send them here.

• 21:08Tom Ellsworth?

  That was, what was that, four hours? Colombia moved in four hours? And now you've got Canada moving in less than 48 hours? You are seeing leadership on one side and you're seeing Trump's enemies using this tariff argument. Oh, he's going to destroy the world, he's going to destroy the economy and everything. What tariffs right now are permanent? Name one. What's permanent? The world is moving.

• 21:29Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm in a different place. I'm in a, and by the way, I'm with you, you're right, none of them are permanent, but I'm in a very different place. Adam, your thoughts on?

• 21:35Adam Sosnick?

  I'm going to understand your place, if you don't mind.

• 21:37Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, go ahead, give me your thoughts and I'll give you my final thoughts.

• 21:39Adam Sosnick?

  Well, I think anyone that jumps to conclusions right now just doesn't really understand what's going on right now because you talked about the Wall Street Journal, you know, obviously Trump is famous for the art of the deal, but basically what's happening right now, it's the art of the temporary deal. Everything that he's doing right now is like, alright, listen, here's what's going on, 25% tariff, 25% tariff. We're going to revisit this in 30 days. If there's anything we can understand about Trump, it's the following. He's trying to make America wealthy again. You know, if there's anything we know about Trump, he feels like we're being treated very unfairly, we understand that. And there's a template for how he's maneuvering. So in his first administration, a lot of, a lot of people thought that he was more like an Andrew Jackson, right?

• 22:21Adam Sosnick?

  This sort of rebellious guy bucking the system. Do you know where he's getting this tariff ideation from? Do you know what president that he's mentioned over and over and over again? Have you heard this? President William McKinley. Have you heard him talk about this at all? Um, so William McKinley became president, I believe in 1896. By the way, fun fact, shot, killed while in office. Interesting, right? So he was known as the tariff king, he was the tariff man on a tariff platform. And basically, after he was shot, Teddy Roosevelt took over. But basically, here are the three Rs that they talk about of understanding trade.

• 23:04Adam Sosnick?

  There's number one, that's bringing in revenue, our revenue. Number two is restriction or protectionism. And number three is reciprocity. Alright, if you do this, we'll do this. If you do this, we'll do this, sort of playing the game, but you can't do all three at once. So there's one thing that Trump is trying to do is trying to Bring in revenue and restrict the flow of illicit activity that's going on in the country and using that as a bargaining chip.

• 23:31Speaker 08

  First of all, it baffles my mind that Wall Street Journal and the Democrats don't see what's going on. Okay, and Tom, you nailed it. These people, Donald Trump is showing dominance in the region, okay? Democrats, I can't blame them for being scared, Tom. They're not used to having an alpha male lead the country, okay? We just went from Joe Biden, who was a doormat, to Donald Trump, who was a mat adore, okay? This guy is a freaking bull. He doesn't give a shit.

• 23:57Adam Sosnick?

  I saw what you did there.

• 23:58Speaker 08

  Yeah, you saw that, Tom. And here's the thing, like, can we understand why? Guys, let's get to the why, okay? He is sick and tired of Canada is cool and A as they are. They let all these freaking people invade our freaking country, okay? They don't know, we don't know who the hell is in here because of them from the north. From the south, we have Mexico, who they're supposed to be our allies. They don't give a shit. They have cartel, they have sex trafficking, they have the freaking fentanyl, they have all this shit coming in. What is he supposed to do? Go to war with these people? No, that's his tactic. You do these tariffs and what happens? Days later, 24 hours later, everybody changed their tune. And I did the research. United States only imports 15% of our goods internationally, okay?

• 24:38Speaker 08

  The rest is domestic, alright? So of that 15%, Canada and Mexico only produce 5% of that. So it's like, if they wanted to play this same-

• 24:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Not 5% of 15, 5% of the total 15%.

• 24:51Speaker 08

  Total, yeah, of the total.

• 24:52Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, 1/3 each.

• 24:53Speaker 08

  1/3 each. So if they wanted to play this game, they would-

• 24:56Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, no, Tom, no, no, no. That's not what he's saying. That's very important.

• 24:59Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 25:00Patrick Bet-David?

  15% comes from outside. Say that 15% is, whatever, $20 billion. I'm just making up a number.

• 25:08Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 25:09Patrick Bet-David?

  5% of that 20 billion, he's saying is Canada and China, Canada and Mexico. Are you saying 5, meaning each of them have a third of them?

• 25:18Speaker 08

  Only 15%, Canada and Mexico only produce 5% of that total 15% of our entire.

• 25:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Those are two different numbers, 5 of the total 15%. So it's not between the two of them, they're 10 out of the 15 because where's China? Where's everybody else? It's not what you're thinking.

• 25:34Speaker 08

  Yeah, so if they wanted to get into this trade war and I think they realized very, very quickly, Pat, they would turn into a third world country, which Mexico, I mean, you're kind of already there. But this is a, this is a boss, this is a freaking guy that's tired of people walking all over us. And guess what? You're gonna pay your fair share. That's fair.

• 25:50Adam Sosnick?

  Can I ask you a question? Because I went and re-watched the video that you did probably two months ago on Trump tariffs. And there was a quote that I kind of want to tee up, but Trump basically came out this weekend and made crystal clear to me. And he goes, "Instead of taxing our own citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens." And then I went back and I realized that in the 1800s, I think, almost 100% of our federal revenue came from tariffs. Now it's closer to 2%. So you did a whole expose on basically how this works. What are your thoughts on basically what Trump is doing now?

• 26:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so to me, it's a couple of different things. Okay, for me with China and Mexico, that's the craziest thing. All right, US, you know how much we spend on our military every year?

• 26:35Adam Sosnick?

  Trillion dollars.

• 26:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Trillion dollars. You know what percentage of our military expenditure, from our GDP, is our military expenditure?

• 26:42Adam Sosnick?

  Probably 10 to 15%.

• 26:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, it's not that, but watch this, Rob. Do me a favor, pull up military expenditure by countries. This is very important that, that when you look at this, this, this is, no, go back, go back, all, and go on that LinkedIn right there. Yeah, go on Wikipedia. This is very important. And before you look at this, here's what I want you to think about. Do you remember when he exposed the NATO concept? And everybody was like, "Hey, why are we giving more money than you guys are? You should be more interested in this." I started looking at this and digging and I'm like, "Wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense to me." So watch. Go to US global percentage GDP.

• 27:15Adam Sosnick?

  A percentage of GDP, probably 3%.

• 27:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, you just saw it. It says 3%.

• 27:19Adam Sosnick?

  No, no, because, because part of our actual revenue is closer to 10%.

• 27:23Patrick Bet-David?

  I got you. So click on that. So watch. Guess who's the lowest? Mexico. They only spend 0.7% of their GDP on military. Why? Because America's their neighbor, we offer protection. They spent 11.8 billion on military. That's it.

• 27:37Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 27:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Mexico doesn't have a military. They don't have a military and Luke was number seven on that list. Canada, 1.3%. You don't put money into the military. By the way, if they matched, and US is what? Go to US is, I'm gonna do the math here for you. US is what? 3.4%. We spend 9.16, okay? Billion. But 3.4%. What would happen if even Greece? Greece spends more money on their military than Mexico and Canada combined times two. Think about how embarrassing that is. Now, go back to, uh, go, go flip it, Rob, if you could. Yeah, so go back to, uh, the lowest at, okay, Mexico. Watch this.

• 28:17Patrick Bet-David?

  What would happen if Mexico spent the same amount that we do to protect their border and protect their country? What's 3.4% divided by 0.7%? Five. What's five times 12 billion? 60 billion. What's the difference between 60 billion and 12 billion dollars? Forty eight. They're spending, they're saving 48 billion dollars just because they know military of US is strong, so no one's gonna attack them. Then watch this. Look at Canada. Canada's at 1.3%. If Canada wanted to invest the same amount of money in the military as we do for expenditure, and they went to 3.4%, guess where they would be at? That's 2X, 2.5X.

• 28:58Patrick Bet-David?

  So that's gonna be 54 billion, add another 13, 67 billion. 67 billion is an additional 40 billion. So these guys are saving 40 billion dollars and Mexico is saving 48 billion dollars because they're relying on US's 3.4 billion dollars. Cry me a flipping river. Keep the 25%. Keep it. Keep it for four years. Let them realize, hey, you want us to provide protection? No more. Your neighbor. Spend the same amount of money as well. You buy some security. Why are you always relying on me to pay security? So imagine you live in a community, gated community, and you said, "We wanna have security and cop over here. It's gonna cost us 12 grand a month." You pay for it because you're the richest guy in the area. We don't need to pay for it. Bullshit. You pay the cop. You pay the security. I have a problem with this.

• 29:43Patrick Bet-David?

  So to me, now somebody may say, well, it's military industrial complex and all this other stuff. Build a bit of a stronger military. When's the last time you thought about Mexico or Canada as a strong military?

• 29:51Adam Sosnick?

  Never.

• 29:52Patrick Bet-David?

  When's the last time you thought about them being a superpower on the military side? You don't think about them. This to me makes me think you are not worried about your border. So if you're not worried about your border, of course, you're not going to be sitting there thinking about what you need to be doing. So I'm all about keeping the tariffs on them or telling them, strengthen your damn military. Guess what? If you can show me that you're going to spend forty to fifty billion strengthening your military, so you're also not going to be attacked. I don't want my neighbors to be unsafe. Both you guys are aside me. Guess what? You better take care of your family. You take care of your family. I want your house to be protected. If I leave my, say I go out there and buy a million dollars of security for my house hypothetically. Okay? And you leave your door open.

• 30:36Patrick Bet-David?

  You leave your back door open. And it's so open for anybody to come and do anything to you. I'm looking at you saying, hey, bro. What are we doing here? Why are you doing this? You're, somebody robs your house. Guess what house they're looking at? Right next door. Who's next door? Me. Where's fentanyl coming from? Through you guys. Through who? China. And then what does China say? Here's what China said. Look what an irresponsible comment China is making. This really, you know, when you, when you think about China says the following. China says, you know, fentanyl is America's problem. Fentanyl is America's problem. Where is fentanyl produced?

• 31:11Adam Sosnick?

  Well, China and Mexico.

• 31:12Patrick Bet-David?

  From China and it comes to the border, yeah.

• 31:14Adam Sosnick?

  的操作

• 31:15Patrick Bet-David?

  So watch this here. So China's government on Sunday denounced on Trump's administration's imposition of long threatened ten percent tariff on China's imports while leaving the door open of talks with the US. Beijing said it would be, take unspecified measures. Go to the part where they say it's not our problem. Little bit, Low Rob, if you could zoom in a little bit and find the fentanyl phrase. Trump on Saturday ordered twenty-five percent. Uh, yeah, go a little bit. There you go. Okay. Fentanyl is America's problem. China's Foreign Ministry, the Chinese side, has carried out extensive anti-narcotics cooperation with the United States and achieved remarkable results. Really? Okay. So then the US is dealing with Mexico and Canada? This is not going to work out. It's just not going to work out. So this is not the US of nineteen eighty-seven. We had a,

• 31:59Patrick Bet-David?

  you know, one point nine percent global share of GDP versus two point twenty-eight percent. Where we had a fifteen X lead on China.

• 32:08Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 32:10Patrick Bet-David?

  You you know what a 15x lead is? That means you imagine you're beating somebody up. The score is, let's make up the score. Forty five to three is the score. You're playing football. They got one field goal. Forty five to three. You're like, well, it's not fair. Throw some interceptions. Allow them to have some statistics so they can. I love you, Ronald Reagan. I got your picture on the wall. But I'm sorry, long term, that affects because China got so much stronger. I'm also, I think Nixon had a lot of great policies. But Nixon also going off the gold standard and opening up China. There was also some measures there. So for us, I I I think this is a form of socialism to please the world. I I I don't think I I don't know about that. I'm I'm not I'm not fully there.

• 32:53Patrick Bet-David?

  So for me, I would sit there and have a conversation with exactly what the president did with Canada and what do you call it? With Mexico and say, you better get your act together to be safer. Or else we have a problem. We're not going to have any more of our kids dying because of drugs and fentanyl. And we're just not going to be doing that. You don't get your act together, we're done. So I I have a very, very big problem with how laxadaisical those two countries are with their military, with making it a safe place. And if they're not safe, the border is not good. I have a very big problem there. For me, it stops right stops right there.

• 33:23Adam Sosnick?

  Quick follow up, and I love how you use the sports analogy. So if it was forty five to three forty years ago, how close is the game now? Forty five, thirty five?

• 33:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Just do twenty five? No, the score is twenty five nineteen. The score is twenty five nineteen.

• 33:34Adam Sosnick?

  If we still have forty five is what I'm saying.

• 33:35Patrick Bet-David?

  No, we don't. Okay, we lowered. Oh, I see what you're saying. So if it's forty five, three, twenty five, nineteen, twenty percent, that's kind of like.

• 33:42Adam Sosnick?

  They made a comeback in the second half.

• 33:43Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what the score is? The score is right now fifty to forty.

• 33:47Adam Sosnick?

  These mother is making a comeback.

• 33:48Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the score. We scored five more points and they've scored thirty seven more points. And we're sitting there saying, don't worry about it, guys. It's okay. Let them keep going.

• 33:58Adam Sosnick?

  Can I show you something very interesting? Why I think what you pointed out with Mexico is so important. I had Rob put in chat GPT. What are the most dangerous cities in the Western Hemisphere? You ready?

• 34:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Juarez.

• 34:11Adam Sosnick?

  The top three are all the top three. Oh, my God. One, two, three, four, nine out of the top ten cities are all in Mexico. Are you kidding me? So you're talking about international aid and how much you're spending on GDP for your military. How about your police forces? What's going on with these cartels? No wonder they want to label all these cartels terrorist organizations.

• 34:32Speaker 08

  Well, yeah, yeah.

• 34:33Adam Sosnick?

  What has happened? The most dangerous cities? By the way, in Haiti, Puerto Princ, where some of my friends are at, that's a full-on war zone these days. It's not even as dangerous. Scroll down to see where Puerto Princ is in this. It's not even on there. Unbelievable. Where's Juarez? Right there. That's number nine.

• 34:52Speaker 08

  Juarez is...

• 34:53Adam Sosnick?

  So you're telling me in Mexico, our neighbor, just to the south, nine of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the entire western hemisphere are in Mexico?

• 35:06Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 35:06Adam Sosnick?

  By the way, Bogota, I'm sorry, not Bogota, I've been to Bogota.

• 35:10Adam Sosnick?

  The, what's the capital of Venezuela? Caracas. It's an absolute sham what is happening over there. You're saying that those cities in Mexico are more dangerous than Caracas?

• 35:20Speaker 08

  But, Adam, the fact that, let's say, they let the cartel, the cartel runs the show, okay? And the amount of shit that comes over our border, from the drugs, from the sex trafficking to everything, how are you guys not dealing with your problem? That's your problem. So deal with that shit. That's not, why is that resting on us?

• 35:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, can you give your, can you be a devil's advocate to what I just said? Could you do that? Like, find a leak to the argument I just gave?

• 35:49Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, so, kind of hard for me to do, because I agree with you, and I agree pretty strongly with you about what has happened and how it has all come back. And there's numbers that back up what you said about specifically Canada, you know? You know where NORAD is? What's NORAD? You're in the Air Force.

• 36:09Speaker 08

  I don't know the actual acronym.

• 36:10Adam Sosnick?

  NORAD is in Denver, Colorado.

• 36:13Speaker 08

  Colorado.

• 36:14Tom Ellsworth?

  Thank you, Adam. Good. Colorado Springs. NORAD, North American Air Defense. It's a joint effort to protect Canada and US airspace on the north side from Russia sending over. And by the way, Canada committed, here we go, Pat, $38 billion over 20 years, in 22, during COVID.

• 36:37Tom Ellsworth?

  And it was to upgrade it because it needs upgrades and stuff and Canada is not really paying its fair share. So we are protecting Canada. It's not just a metaphor you're talking about. NORAD was built to protect Canada and they're doing an advanced computer upgrade right now, which is 1.5 billion dollars. So that's like one year of Canada's contribution. Forty billion. So what you're hearing is absolutely correct. They're underspending, we are spending and I, the numbers back that up. So your point about Mexico and Canada not spending because we have a strong neighbor next to them is absolutely correct. And going the other way, so you say, okay, well, you're not going to put the tariffs in place because it, I can't play devil's advocate

• 37:21Tom Ellsworth?

  because I'll give you some other facts. China never let the renminbi float with international currency. And so they played games, that's sort of a negative tariff. You follow that, Pat? You won't let your currency float with others. That's like a tax on other people because you're artificially undercutting them on the price of goods and services on an international scale. And so I agree with some of what Reagan said in 1987 in the history books, but today you have to look at it and say, wait a minute, wait a minute. You can't look at this isolation. China didn't let its currency float. You know, I look at it. It's hard for me to be devil's advocate because I agree with you. Times have changed and things are different and we're getting

• 38:03Tom Ellsworth?

  leadership. And the other side, you know, Chuck Schumer waving guacamole around? If all you got, Chuck, is guacamole to talk about, that tells us all we need to know about your position on the topic.

• 38:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I have a problem with that. And by the way, play this clip, Rob, and then go to the other one with CNN showing the trust American people are uncomfortable with. Here's Schumer for you.

• 38:24Speaker 09

  Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday, okay?

• 38:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 38:27Speaker 09

  Where he's gonna be making cheeseburgers frozen. It's gonna affect beer, okay? Look at him. Most of it, Corona here, comes from Mexico. What a weasel. It's gonna affect your guac. Because what is guacamole made of? Avocados. Both from Mexico.

• 38:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so. That's great, man. By the way, you know what that is? That works for day-to-day, average Americans like, oh my god, my price is gonna go up. But the real question is, we also have Bud Light.

• 38:54Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 38:55Patrick Bet-David?

  We have, uh, you know, Coors. We have, what else do we have? We have, go to another one. California makes guacamole as well. We have plenty of different opportunities. Modelo, that's in a price war. We have a lot of them. Listen, I'll go old school too. Is Mickey's ma- where's Mickey's made out of, Tom? Mickey's? Mickey's Big Mouth? Right, where's that made out of? I thought that was in the United States. Yeah, I'll go to, if it comes down to that, that's the messaging, right? But play the clip, Rob. Mickey's is from where? Wisconsin, Milwaukee, there you go. So, uh, uh, who was the Hall of Famer for Milwaukee Brewers? Uh, not George Brett, the other guy. Harmon Killer Brew. No, Yount. Robin Yount. Robin Yount. So can you go to, uh, can you go to the other clip right there? Milwaukee's best. You got 3,000 hits, by the way, go ahead.

• 39:37Speaker 10

  I feel like, uh, Howard Stern's mother. Something horrible has happened to you. That's what's going on. You're getting on my biggest New York Jewish accent I could. Trump's tariffs on Canada, China, Mexico. Look at this. Just 38% support. You don't have to be a mathematical genius to figure out that 51% oppose is larger than the 38% support. Look, Trump has done some fairly popular things in his first few weeks in office. This is not one of them. No, no, no. Horrible, horrible, horrible, to quote Charles Barkley. The American folks are opposed to these tariffs. When you ask it specifically like this about the three countries, or if you ask it more vaguely about tariffs overall, they simply put, do not like it, Mr. Trump.

• 40:20Speaker 11

  It's interesting, even with China in the question, people say that they are opposed to tariffs. The majority here, and there's not a majority on a lot of things these days. How about how Americans say they want to see Donald Trump focused in this first 100 days? And whether tariffs should be a focus?

• 40:36Speaker 10

  You know, the two big focuses for Trump in the polling are immigration and the economy. Tariffs ain't it, my dear friend, tariffs ain't it. Trump should focus on tariffs. In November of 2024, when Ipsos asked it, it was 1%. Look at what happened in December of 2024. It doubled, it doubled, but to. Only 2%, when you double to only 2%, you know that the American people don't want Trump's focus to be here. They don't like it, they don't want his focus to be there, they want it to be on other issues.

• 41:03Adam Sosnick?

  I'm sorry. Are they paying attention? I'm sorry, I genuinely feel this way. I don't think most Americans understand tariffs. I don't think most Americans understand what they're there for. I don't think that they want Trump to focus on it, because they don't want to focus on it. They just want to live their lives and do what they gotta do. But go talk to the parents or the family members of someone who has died from fentanyl. And we know that I just literally came back from New York because I was at a friend's funeral because he overdosed on fentanyl.

• 41:35Speaker 08

  Accidental, accidental, I wouldn't even say overdose, but go ahead.

• 41:38Adam Sosnick?

  The reality is, this is a problem, this is an epidemic, the opioid crisis is a real thing. It's been here for a decade or two right now. And the doctors just giving out pills and Vicodins and OxyContin's and all these sort of like pill labs that are popping up all over the world, China, Mexico, basically throwing them in here. So if you're Trump and you're like, alright, I have two options here. Okay, Corona and guacamole might cost a little bit extra. Or let's save literally tens, if not hundreds of thousands of lives. For Trump, it's not even a question. By the way, there's one thing, you know, one thing is getting clearer and clearer and clearer. Trump actually has an ideology.

• 42:22Adam Sosnick?

  Before, he was sort of like, whatever, whatever people want to hear. One thing he's always said is, what does he tell all his kids? No drugs, no tattoos, no drinking, no smoking. He's seen drugs pour through Mexico and Canada, and he's like, enough's enough. We're putting it into this. So that's, I think that's a major part of why he's doing it.

• 42:44Speaker 08

  Fentanyl deaths in 12 months, it was 100,000 Americans dead, that's two Vietnams. If, where's that, do you know the war on drugs that we had? That is a war, and you're right, Adam, the average person tariffs, they don't know shit, they don't know. Okay, we have to fight fire with fire, what's he supposed to do, bomb them? Let's bomb, let's just bomb Mexico. No, you idiots, that's what we do, you hurt them in their wallet? And that's how we roll, bro. I'm proud of them, good.

• 43:10Tom Ellsworth?

  I have a quick parting shot on this and on Harry Ensign, I normally like what Harry does and with the numbers and everything, because I'm a numbers person, but that was disingenuous, Harry. What he's looking at, if you look at, and Adam hit it, if you were to ask people back in December, "What issues do you care about?", just because the election was over, they still cared about immigration, they still cared about inflation, they still cared about cost of housing, they still cared about interest rates on mortgage, and if you looked at lists, those were top to bottom. Last night I went back and forth, connected a little bit with our good friend Mark Mitchell over at Rasmussen, and guess what, we were both calling it the art of the deal, and Americans that were looking at it, understand

• 43:51Tom Ellsworth?

  that Trump is dealing, they understand that he's negotiating, and so when Harry says, "Oh, tariffs went from 1% to 2%," you have to look at it, it's like a stack rake analysis, you know, and people are still concerned about immigration, they like what they're seeing on that, they're still concerned about inflation, they're waiting to see what happens at the gas pump and for heating oil, and they're still very concerned about cost of living and housing. And so, you know, by the way, if it went the other way, if it went the other way, do you think CNN would be saying, "America's feelings double", you know, 1% to 2%, if it would go in their place, they'd hide the number instead and say, "America's feelings doubled on this issue", and they'd go the other way. So, Harry, I like the work you're doing and everything, but come on, you just cherry pick that out of that, and you're poking a little bit.

• 44:36Patrick Bet-David?

  All right, so that's enough on the tariff stuff, but obviously, we have our own opinions, we're gonna see what's gonna happen. We'd love to hear your thoughts, that's where you get to comment and share with each other and tell us how you feel about it. We'll see. A lot of Canadians messaged me saying, "Pat, you know, it sounds like you guys don't like Canadians." I said, "This has got nothing to do with you, this has got nothing to do with Mexico, with Mexicans." Some of my best friends in the world are Mexicans, literally Mexicans, from Guadalajara, from Michoacan, from all of those places. However, this, but go back with El Salvador, our top earner in the insurance company is from El Salvador, Rodolfo Sessi Vargas. I love what Bukele just said, even though it's not constitutional,

• 45:21Patrick Bet-David?

  I love what he just said the other day. So, Marco Rubio goes there, and is this the message, Rob, is this the...

• 45:26Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes.

• 45:27Patrick Bet-David?

  And then if you can prepare the tweet after this as well to talk about what he's saying. So, he goes to meet with Bukele, and Bukele offers to take the inmates from US there at their jail that they have. You have to see this place. Go ahead, Rob, play this clip of Marco Rubio.

• 45:40Speaker 12

  He has agreed to accept for deportation. Any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal. From any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tendadagua. And house them in his jails. He has offered. To house in his jails. Dangerous American criminals. In custody in our country. Including those of US citizenship and legal residence.

• 46:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, go to the tweet and show the picture. Go to the clip and show the picture if you can go on Twitter. This is what he posted.

• 46:13Tom Ellsworth?

  Rubio did?

• 46:14Patrick Bet-David?

  No, Bukele. Just go to my most recent tweet, you'll see it right there. So, but, let's read his tweet. Yeah, here we go. We have offered US, our, the opportunity to outsource. We are willing to take in only convicted criminals. Including convicted US citizens into our mega-prison. In exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the US, but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable. Look at that right there, okay?

• 46:39Tom Ellsworth?

  You know what that statement means?

• 46:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I know what that means.

• 46:42Tom Ellsworth?

  We'll take the revenue.

• 46:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, and by the way, we spend, taxpayers pay 47,000 per year per inmate. But in El Salvador, it's gonna be roughly 10,000 or 11,000 dollars.

• 46:52Tom Ellsworth?

  So, also, we're saving 30,000 dollars?

• 46:54Patrick Bet-David?

  36,000 dollars.

• 46:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Weird.

• 46:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Right.

• 46:56Tom Ellsworth?

  Weird.

• 46:56Patrick Bet-David?

  So, the thing is, and then I wrote here, I said, "This is how you strengthen your relationship with America. Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and others should take, consider this approach." The question I got for you, Tom, is this constitutional? Can we send our inmates from here to El Salvador? Rob, can you Google that on, search it to see if that is constitutional? Go ahead, Tom.

• 47:18Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm unsure about it, but I do know this. That once you are a federal criminal, you commit a felony at federal level. You lose your right to vote. You lose a lot of things, Pat. And so, do you also lose, and you have your right to the appellate process, but could the US outsource incarceration?

• 47:40Tom Ellsworth?

  And you're still appealing, but you're incarcerated other places? Um, I don't know, but I do know you lose a lot of rights. And by the way, this is not unprecedented. Do you know what populated Australia for the most part? You know, that came from Britain? Prisoners. They sent their prisoners to Australia.

• 48:02Speaker 08

  For the Brits.

• 48:03Tom Ellsworth?

  Correct. And

• 48:04Speaker 08

  A bunch of criminals in all these.

• 48:05Tom Ellsworth?

  Today, in Bermuda, certain crimes, you, they send you to the UK. They do not have prisons in Bermuda. They, you go back to the UK for certain crimes. As long as it's not drunk driving or misdemeanor

• 48:18Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 48:18Tom Ellsworth?

  Bar fight, you know, if you do something, you have to go. So around the world, it is not unprecedented where prison populations other place. Now, in the US, I'd love to understand what it is. I don't know offhand, but I do know when you get convicted of a crime, you lose a lot in the United States. You have your right to the appellate process, but you lose a lot of rights.

• 48:40Speaker 08

  Yeah, I, I think, well, think about it. Okay, American criminals that are in jail, okay, whatever. But if you're from Venezuela, if you're from Colombia, you're from any country and you do anything illegal or you even enter here illegally, no questions asked, airplane, dump their asses back. You don't belong here. I don't even know why the argument, like these people just don't understand. You're not supposed to be here, take your people back. What did he do, Tom, with Colombia? In 24 hours, what did he do?

• 49:06Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, he, Trump said, hey, we're sending these Colombians back to Colombia. And these are illegal aliens and people that have criminal records. We're sending them back to Colombia. And Petra, I think is the dictator there, Petra in Colombia? He goes, ay, caramba, you will not send those people here. In which Trump says, escuche, tariff muy grande.

• 49:25Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 49:26Tom Ellsworth?

  And he said, you know what? We thought it over. You know what? Tell you what, we'll swing by and we'll pick the guys up ourselves.

• 49:30Speaker 08

  Yeah, spend your own gas money.

• 49:32Tom Ellsworth?

  And it was a flip.

• 49:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, let me see that on VT news that AI. What does it tell us? So you asked the question, is it constitutional to send American prisoners to a Salvador prison to serve their sentence? The constitutionality of sending American prisoners to serve their sentence of assault that would likely face significant legal challenges while no such program has been implemented, the proposal raises several concerns, eight amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, the conditions in Salvadorian prisons that scrap that's hard endangerment, the US department could potentially violate this amendment, due process, the fifth and fourteenth amendment guarantees due process rights, transferring prisoners to foreign jurisdiction could be seen as infringing on these rights, right to counsel, the sixth amendment ensures the right to legal representation, this could be compromised if prisoners are moved to foreign, equal protection, there could be concerns about selective enforcement

• 50:16Patrick Bet-David?

  if only certain prisoners are chosen for transfer, and then what's last one, treaty powers such as arrangement would likely, by the way, so VT news.ai gave a better answer than chat GPT, that's, do me a favor, go back to the website, zoom out a little bit, and, sick, good shout out to VT news.ai, and that was the part with the VT's AI that gave the answer, can you go to the first hundred days just while we're here, Rob, go to the first hundred days, let's see what the first hundred days is, right there, what is today's question, will Trump sit for a pre, I say yes, I don't know what the answer is gonna be for others, will he sit for pre-superbowl interview, hell yeah he will, and he should, he should, I think he should, that's my answer, you don't have to agree with it, but I think

• 50:58Patrick Bet-David?

  that's my answer, first hundred days, go to the website and vote for your first hundred days, so there you go, so it says it's gonna be tough through court, but noble idea and a good sign of being a partner, Adam, thoughts?

• 51:11Adam Sosnick?

  So this guy, Nayib Bukele, the first time I ever heard of him, I think he was elected in 2019, right when COVID basically was just kinda getting started out there, and then in 2020, when he was officially took office, he assumed office, and he won the election by just a little bit over 50%, I think, 53% is what he won by, and then since then, what he initially became known for was the Bitcoin guy, he basically made El Salvador take Bitcoin as legal tender, and that's what he was known for, but then fast forward to, one year ago today, literally 2024, February 4th, he was re-elected and assumed office,

• 51:53Adam Sosnick?

  and you know what is, how much he won the election by, 85%. So it was 53% in 2019, five years later 85%. So meaning the country was like, yo, we want this guy. So he's been nicknamed the coolest dictator in the world. And there was an exchange a few months ago when he was basically going back and forth. I think of the European politician and the politician was like, we don't know. We don't like how you, you know, treat your people. And he goes, listen, listen, listen, you do you, I'mma do me. Look at the people I have to deal with in my country. Look what's going on here.

• 52:33Adam Sosnick?

  Maybe you guys in Europe might want to do the same thing to the basic, uh, basically jihadists who are basically entering your country. So he's cleaned up El Salvador. The point is this, I think they were literally the least safe country in the Western hemisphere. And now apparently they're one of the most safe countries, especially in Latin America.

• 52:52Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, to, to transition with that, what you said about Europe. Putin just said the following about Europe. Putin says Europe will stand at the feet of the master at Trump, as Trump's tariffs alarm allies. This is a CNBC story, Rob, I think you got the clip on this. Putin praised Trump's tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China claiming his administration would restore order in Europe. By the way, Putin put China in this statement and we know China is an ally. So think for him to say that China is listening to every word coming from Putin. In an interview with pro Kremlin journalist Pavel Zharubin, Putin stated, I assure you, Trump, with his character, with his persistence, he will restore. Rob, if you can't find it here, Rob.

• 53:34Adam Sosnick?

  I just, I just said it to Rob.

• 53:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 53:35Adam Sosnick?

  Rob, I just liked it, buddy.

• 53:36Patrick Bet-David?

  It's gonna be on Twitter, uh, there you go, okay.

• 53:41Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, your machine, huh?

• 53:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, you have it?

• 53:43Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 53:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, go ahead and play it.

• 53:44Adam Sosnick?

  I love this stuff. Look how sick.

• 53:46Speaker 13

  Что изменилось, что ли, со времен Байдена? Да ничего не изменилось. Они с удовольствием выполняли любой приказ со стороны Вашингтона, при Байдена. Просто им Трамп не нравится, они с ним боролись.

• 53:59Patrick Bet-David?

  They fought him actively, really interfered in political life, in the election process in the US.

• 54:05Speaker 13

  Потом растерялись, когда Трамп вдруг.

• 54:07Patrick Bet-David?

  And then they were confused when Trump suddenly won. And then they mentally liked Biden more, you know, mentally. But Trump has different ideas about what is good, what is bad, including gender policy and some other issues. They kind of don't like that.

• 54:24Patrick Bet-David?

  But I assure you, Trump with his character of persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly. Bingo. ... He will restore order pretty quickly. Хорошо. Молодец. And all of them, you'll see, it will happen quickly, soon. All of them will stand at the master's feet and gently wag their tails.

• 54:41Adam Sosnick?

  You know what that is? This is an alpha boss recognizing another alpha boss. He knows, and that's why he has that smirk. He's not stupid, Tom.

• 54:52Tom Ellsworth?

  Part of it, he's stirring the pot, but what he's not stirring the pot on is gender ideology. Because he gave an impassioned speech at the Russian Orthodox Church three years ago. Do you remember this?

• 55:03Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, of course.

• 55:04Tom Ellsworth?

  Putin, he sat there and he talked all about that. So on that item, he does not, uh, he is, he is honestly and being very legitimate. Now, is he stirring the pot on other things and is he still Vladimir Putin? Of course he is.

• 55:17Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, usually I take what Putin says with a deep grain of salt because he is former KGB, he's a thug, and he's definitely, has zero, um, he does not have America's interests in mind whatsoever. But on this, he's actually being accurate. But I always am very skeptical of whatever Putin says because why is he being so nice? And basically brown-nosing Trump because he knows he's gonna have to renegotiate this Russian-Ukrainian deal. And in my mind, he's just sort of flattering Trump and sort of poking the rest of the world and calling Trump their daddy. So, uh, I actually agree that, uh, Putin is right on this one, though.

• 55:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, alright, so, uh, quote that, folks. Adam defends Putin. Okay, so now, you know, shit.

• 56:06Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 56:06Patrick Bet-David?

  They're gonna come for you, buddy, just so you know that. While all this stuff is taking place, while this is going on, Zelensky is unhappy, okay? A little bit complaining. And he tries to call his boss to say, "Guys, I need some money." And he says, he ran out. Ukraine received only 76 billion out of the 177 billion approved by America. And he's collecting, it's like, "Hey, what happened to my money? I thought you guys said you guys were gonna pay me more." Look at the room he's in while he's saying this. Go ahead, Rob, play this clip. That room looks like it got 76 billion of the money, by the way.

• 56:35Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 56:39Speaker 14

  Я колечую, і раніше чув, і сьогодні ми чуємо від Сполучених Штатів Америки, що Америка дала Україні сотні мільярдів, 177, якщо сказати більш точно. Така звучала точна цифра, яку підтримувала або голосував Конгрес, тощо різні організації. Дивіться, я як президент воюючої країни вам говорю, ми отримали більше 75.

• 57:12Speaker 14

  Тобто 100 мільярдів з цих 177 або 200, говорять навіть деякі люди, ми ніколи не отримували. І це важливо, бо ми говоримо про конкретні речі, бо ми отримували це не грошима зброї. Ми зброї отримали на 70 чимось мільярдів.

• 57:39Speaker 08

  Do you trust that guy? I don't trust any of these people, bro. Are you freaking kidding me? None of that money should be going to them, it should be going to us.

• 57:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, your thoughts?

• 57:47Speaker 08

  Unbelievable.

• 57:48Adam Sosnick?

  I mean, has anybody had a more fall from grace than Vladimir Zelensky? Uh, in, I think, 2022, when the war started? I mean, we all know what happened prior to that, but, uh, everyone was wearing their Ukraine pins, and everyone was pro-Ukraine, and everyone was focused on Russia being the bad guy. And then, uh, that little war in Gaza broke out, and nobody gave up about Ukraine anymore. And then the entire administration, the entire world basically gave up on Ukraine. But meanwhile, how many people, uh, have died in the Russia-Ukraine war? I think a million people.

• 58:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Is this Trump on EU?

• 58:28Speaker 03

  This is Trump yesterday, late last night, discussing, uh, the United States seizing some of, uh, Ukraine's precious metals in return for the foreign aid.

• 58:37Patrick Bet-David?

  Which, by the way, I actually, I, thank you, go ahead and play this clip, please.

• 58:43Speaker 01

  Ukraine, they have very valuable rare earth. We want what we put up to go in terms of a guarantee. We want a guarantee. We want, we're handing them money hand over fist. We're giving them equipment. European is not keeping up with us. They should equalize. And look, we have an ocean in between. They don't. It's more important for them than it is for us. But they're way below us in terms of money. And they should be paying at least equal. They should really be paying much more than us. But let's say equal to us. And they're billions and billions of dollars below. So we're looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're giving

• 59:26Speaker 01

  them with their rare earth and other things.

• 59:30Adam Sosnick?

  By the way, you know, you're seeing all these clips resurface from like what Trump said 10 years ago about tariffs, 20 years ago about China ripping us off, 30 years ago about Japan. Trump is at least consistent. Like I said earlier, I'm starting to see a consistent ideology. If there's one thing Trump cares about, it's the mother flipping money. I want the money. I want the, where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the money? Where's the money? Ukraine, I want the money. Art of the deal, where's the money? Tariff, tax, money, treated unfairly, money, money, money. That's, all he wants is, if you don't give me my money, you're fired. That's Trump, straight up.

• 1:00:12Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, I think there's also a consistent thing that if people look below the surface are going to see. What was the issue with Greenland? He didn't want a 51st state. He was like, hey, look, this is the way we're going to do this. You can be like Puerto Rico. We'll provide vents, we'll do this, but you've got a lot of minerals and stuff that we want here and we don't want you to have that China deal. And Panama Canal, what came out last night? Uh, we've rethought our Panam, our China deal, says the president of Panama. Now, what's he talking about Ukraine? Rare earth minerals. He's looking for rare earth minerals to help US industry, multiple industries. This is semiconductor, this is lithium batteries, this is electric vehicles.

• 1:00:55Tom Ellsworth?

  He is looking to get those resources for the US and eliminate the pinch. Pat, we had a long segment two weeks ago on the Panama Canal, talked about the importance of it and how it gets pinched. He is out there with great consistency. So what you just heard about Ukraine is very similar to what you heard about Greenland. He wants to get those resources for the United States and he wants to limit China's traction on the same thing.

• 1:01:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Great, and by the way, go at it.

• 1:01:25Tom Ellsworth?

  Go for it.

• 1:01:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 1:01:26Tom Ellsworth?

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:01:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Guess what? For the people that voted for him and helped him win, we voted for this.

• 1:01:33Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes.

• 1:01:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Very simple. We voted for this. So there's nobody sitting here complaining. By the way, next one here, Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID. And I don't know if you have the Ilhan Omar clip, Rob. There's an, there's a Ilhan Omar clip and a few other ones where people are just absolutely flabbergasted by this and not happy about this. I'm sure you'll find it. Let me just read this and then we'll go to it. That's the one. Did you have a clip for this as well, Rob?

• 1:01:57Tom Ellsworth?

  I do, I have Jamie Raskin, I have a few clips. I can start with the Ilhan Omar.

• 1:02:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me just read this and then you can play some of the clips. So Elon Musk, here at Trump's, uh, Doge announced on X that he and President Trump are shutting down the USAID and the US Agency for International Development. We're shutting it down, Musk declared in the middle of the night, later clarified, we're in the process of shutting USAID. And he said the plan and full supporter of the president adding, with regard to USAID stuff, I went over it with him in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down. I actually checked with him a few times and said, are you sure? And Trump responded, yes. Trump, while not explicitly confirming the shutdown, said Musk is doing a good job and called USAID run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And here you're gonna see some of the lunatics. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:02:37Tom Ellsworth?

  Uh, so here's Trump actually stating that. I also have Caroline Levitt, who issues, uh, she reads some of the waste from USAID and then I have Jamie Raskin.

• 1:02:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Why don't you play Jamie Raskin first because that's who he's referring to as a lunatic. Go ahead.

• 1:02:49Speaker 15

  Elon Musk, you didn't create USAID, the United States Congress did for the American people.

• 1:02:57Speaker 08

  Oh my God, that guy's tough.

• 1:02:59Speaker 15

  And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's gonna stop him? We are. We're gonna stop him.

• 1:03:14Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm shivering right now.

• 1:03:16Speaker 15

  Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment system.

• 1:03:23Tom Ellsworth?

  Illegally seized power? Hang on, Jamie.

• 1:03:26Speaker 15

  But you don't control the money of the American people.

• 1:03:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, go to Elon's clip. You know what it remind me of from that movie? Nothing but the Benjamins.

• 1:03:35Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm shivering. I'm shivering.

• 1:03:39Patrick Bet-David?

  You will never find. Go ahead.

• 1:03:42Speaker 16

  We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one.

• 1:03:51Patrick Bet-David?

  How's your brother doing?

• 1:03:52Speaker 16

  And here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.

• 1:03:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Look at the guy in the mask. Wearing a mask with glasses.

• 1:04:02Speaker 16

  And you install yourself as the sole power. That is how dictators are made. What Trump and Elon and all of their cronies are trying to do is take away the constitutional power of Congress.

• 1:04:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, God.

• 1:04:21Speaker 16

  We get to decide. We have the power of the purse. We get to decide where money is allocated. And it's the executive's power to make sure that that money gets to where it needs to get.

• 1:04:35Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause it right there.

• 1:04:36Speaker 16

  When we...

• 1:04:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, now you can go to somebody a little bit more friendlier. And the press, yeah, play Trump and then go to her.

• 1:04:44Tom Ellsworth?

  We were minding our own business wasting money.

• 1:04:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:04:50Speaker 15

  Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we're getting them out. USAID, run by radical lunatics. And we're getting them out. And then we'll make a decision.

• 1:05:06Speaker 08

  I mean, Pat, if you guys think about it, 97% of political contributions from USAID employees went to, guess who? Democrats. No wonder why Ilhan Omar and Jamie Raskin are furious, bro. Their money is about to go bye-bye. You understand? Like, that's why the left hates RFK, because that's why Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Tom, they hate RFK because he's messing with Big Pharma money. That's why they hate Cash Patel because he's about to air everybody's laundry.

• 1:05:35Patrick Bet-David?

  They got a $50 billion budget.

• 1:05:37Speaker 08

  50 billion?

• 1:05:39Tom Ellsworth?

  Let's call it what it is. It's a government-funded super PAC for the Democrats.

• 1:05:43Speaker 08

  That's all it is. So no wonder why they're gonna be kicking and screaming.

• 1:05:45Tom Ellsworth?

  And you call it USAID to distract people. We're helping people with aid, like the Inflation Reduction Act.

• 1:05:52Speaker 08

  Yeah. And this is who, Robbie?

• 1:05:54Speaker 03

  Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, talking about some of the waste.

• 1:05:57Speaker 08

  I thought, Rob, when you sent this to me yesterday, I thought it was a joke. Listen to what your money is going to, literally.

• 1:06:04Speaker 17

  ...USAID over the past several years. These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do, to get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government.

• 1:06:40Speaker 08

  Hold on, just FYI, $520 million was spent on ESG consultants, $1.2 billion to undisclosed recipients, and $375 million in DEI agents. Okay? It's unbelievable. I think we're gonna go there. Under, under, over the past 22 years, the Department of Treasury has denied how many requests for payments? You know, I think you talked about it yesterday.

• 1:07:04Patrick Bet-David?

  No, zero.

• 1:07:05Speaker 08

  Zero. Nobody knew any of this until Doge came along, okay? And then what was that guy's name, Tom? David Lebric? He resigns before getting one question from, from any of them for Doge. And that's it, bro. The Pentagon, in fact, just real quick spending. Pentagon spends $600 million on, guess what? Sushi. The IRS is spending $230,000 a month on Starbucks cinnamon roast K-cups. A month.

• 1:07:32Patrick Bet-David?

  How much again?

• 1:07:33Speaker 08

  $230,000 a month on Starbucks cinnamon roast K-cups. And then $1,280 per little disposable plastic cups. Each cup, we're spending $1,228.

• 1:07:46Adam Sosnick?

  You know what this reminds me of?

• 1:07:46Speaker 08

  Ridiculous.

• 1:07:47Adam Sosnick?

  You ever see the movie with Morgan Freeman in the late 80s called Lean on Me? Lean on me when you're not strong. And he basically comes in.

• 1:07:57Speaker 08

  Save your voice.

• 1:07:57Adam Sosnick?

  I'm pleased for the love of God. I've got a great singing voice. So his name was Joe Louis Clark. He was the principal. He shows up at Eastside High School and it's a frickin' mess. There's fights, everything. Kids are skipping class. Drug dealers are out there. Girls are hoeing it up. You know this movie? He shows up with a shotgun. Homeboy rolls in. Look, look at the picture right here. Scroll in right there. There it is, right there, Rob.

• 1:08:21Patrick Bet-David?

  That's a bat.

• 1:08:22Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, all right, maybe it was a bat.

• 1:08:24Speaker 08

  You're doing crack cocaine, aren't you? And you're gonna do a dude expedition thing.

• 1:08:27Adam Sosnick?

  He might have had a gun too. He definitely had a bat. Wow, Louis slugger now makes shotguns. And he basically cleaned up this crime-riddled, drug-infested.

• 1:08:37Speaker 08

  Locked the doors. It was just illegal, but whatever.

• 1:08:39Adam Sosnick?

  A hoe and ass school. And basically, what did everybody say? No, you're mean. No, let us do what we want to do. He's basically like, clean up your room.

• 1:08:48Patrick Bet-David?

  That's true.

• 1:08:48Adam Sosnick?

  Get your grades together.

• 1:08:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Great example.

• 1:08:50Adam Sosnick?

  And that's exactly what Trump is doing.

• 1:08:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Guess what, folks? Go watch the movie if you haven't seen it, okay? And there is no leaning on me in the movie. Like, it is about lean on me, but in a very different way than most people think it is.

• 1:09:00Adam Sosnick?

  Maybe we should sing that song, Pat.

• 1:09:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Some times in my life. We all have pain. We all have sorrow.

• 1:09:11Adam Sosnick?

  Can we get those lyrics, Rob?

• 1:09:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Sound in our lives.

• 1:09:15Adam Sosnick?

  Rob, let's get some lyrics, sir.

• 1:09:17Patrick Bet-David?

  And into tomorrow. Lean on me when you're not strong. And I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on. Let's go on, let's go on.

• 1:09:31Tom Ellsworth?

  Tom, come on, take it home.

• 1:09:33Patrick Bet-David?

  You know who used to sing this song?

• 1:09:34Tom Ellsworth?

  Who's that?

• 1:09:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Costco. Because a lot of people are leaning on the union.

• 1:09:37Tom Ellsworth?

  Okay.

• 1:09:37Patrick Bet-David?

  And Costco said, you know what? We're going to give the non-union members a raise. So let me read the story to you, folks. Costco decides to give a raise to over $30 an hour. To who? Their non-union employees. Leaving 18,000 union members waiting. They're like, oh, wait a minute. Who's getting a bigger raise? The non-union folks are getting paid more than you. But that's not fair. Well, then, don't leave the union, right? Anyways, Costco announced that all the employees of its non-union stores will get a raise just the day before employees at its 50 local locations go on a strike. Hourly pay for non-union members at the Costco pay scale will get an hour raise to 30, 20

• 1:10:22Patrick Bet-David?

  per hour with a dollar raise coming to next two years afterwards. More than half of Costco's employees are at the top of the pay scale owing to extremely low turnover. Non-union employees at the low end of the pay scale will receive 50 cents an hour raise. Raising starting will pay $20 an hour. Additional benefits will be also granted, including an extra week of vacation after 30 years and vacation for new workers in their first year. Tom, tell us what's going on here with Costco, because I'm liking this move a little bit.

• 1:10:51Tom Ellsworth?

  So first of all, let's pull a couple of words out of here. More than half of Costco's employees are at the top of the pay scale, meaning if you have a range for a position, they're at the top of it because of extremely low turnover. So in other words, they've been getting raises each year and they've been moving along and now they're at the top of that. So why is there low turnover? People like working at Costco.

• 1:11:14Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right.

• 1:11:14Tom Ellsworth?

  And now they're getting additional benefits. Oh, extra week of vacation when you've been there 30 years. And vacation for new workers within your first year. You will be granted some vacation in your first year. So it sounds like Costco cares about its workers, is paying rates, you know, $30 an hour for somebody working at Costco? They're paying a meaningful rate. Meanwhile, the unions, once upon a time, unions were out there when factories were run 14 hours a day and they were unsafe and people were getting hurt on factory machinery. And before OSHA and before, you know, balancing, you know, you, you, unions served a purpose. Well, now, the Teamsters, which only represent Costco workers in California, blue, Washington,

• 1:11:59Tom Ellsworth?

  blue, Maryland, blue, Virginia, kind of blue, New Jersey, less blue lately, but blue, and New York. So it's blue states that they've been able to get traction. Why haven't they been able to get traction in the red states? Because the workers are saying, why do I need to give a union dues to you? I'm making almost $30 an hour here and I get vacation, I get benefits, I've been working at Costco 25 years and they've been good to me? Why do I need you, union? And why do I need to pay a, um, a union due to you? You know what? You're insurance that I don't need. I don't need that policy. And so that's what's going on. And Costco, in the middle of dealing with the unions, the timing was perfect. Because now they raised the pay to over $30 an hour, they add more benefits to the people

• 1:12:44Tom Ellsworth?

  that are non-union, so guess what it does? It completely takes the teeth out of the union, and this is Costco saying, I'm doing pretty good. And as the union is trying to lever, trying to create a strike and trying to create problems, you have a lot of people on the other side at Costco are saying, I don't know, this company's been pretty good to me, why do I need the union?

• 1:13:04Adam Sosnick?

  PBD, let me ask you, because I did not anticipate us talking about this story today, because, you know, we all pick our stories, and there's 30 something pages. I didn't have Costco on my bingo card, but the more and more I'm understanding this, I want to find out why you thought this is such an important story. Because I don't go to Costco, I don't go to Sam's Club, hell, I don't even buy, uh, yellow bananas at this point, you never know, uh, green bananas. But, uh, PBD, why was this important, so, story so important to you?

• 1:13:29Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, you know what I like? It's kind of like, uh, because unions always been a throne in a lot of business owners, and they slow things down, and they, they convince the members, there are some, by the way, they, they started with noble ideas. Most unions started with a good idea, but then it became being ran by people that want control and power and influence. And you know what Costco's saying? We're gonna overpay people that are non-union. You're non-union? I would do that. Let's just say we have 10,000 employees and line holdings, say, a few years from now. And all of a sudden, oh, we're gonna go out there and be union? Really? Yeah, we're gonna pay more to the non-union people. Really? Yes. If you're gonna go there, I'm gonna do this to these guys. Go ahead and do it. Because union is just difficult to work with and it...

• 1:14:13Patrick Bet-David?

  The speed of companies' growth, sometimes they get in the way, they make a lot of noise, they turn people against the company. They, they become about themselves, it becomes very challenging for them to do that. And by the way, look at the teachers' union. How are they? Look at the tenure. Who's that benefiting? Look at all these other... How many, what are they doing? They're now big mobs that are controlled by the Democratic Party that are getting the votes. No, I'm, I'm not, I think, I think I like what Costco is doing and I would like to see other businesses see this playbook and when people say we're gonna do this, no problem, I'm gonna pay more for non-union than union. I'm gonna give better benefits to non-union than union. I'm gonna give more vacation time to non-union than union. You wanna do that? This is what we're gonna be doing to the non-union people.

• 1:14:51Adam Sosnick?

  Why haven't companies done this before?

• 1:14:52Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm sure they have, but Costco is doing it at a larger scale where other people are seeing it.

• 1:14:56Adam Sosnick?

  It's like what Byron Donalds said last week. He goes, "Oh, uh, the people in my office want to unionize." Nope, nope, not happening. I'm the boss here. And then we went down the list of how many Democratic politicians' staff unionized, right? Very interesting.

• 1:15:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:10Adam Sosnick?

  So unions, for the most part, were a necessity back in the day. At this point, they're more of, of a pain, a thorn in the side of most companies.

• 1:15:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, there you go. Okay, let's go to the next story here. How about we do a sports story? That's kind of interesting, okay?

• 1:15:25Adam Sosnick?

  Ooh.

• 1:15:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Mavs' Luka Doncic headed to the Lakers on blockbuster trade for Anthony Davis. Which is kind of very weird, because while you hear this story, you're thinking LeBron knew, which people close to the story say LeBron had no clue. You would think the NBA, you know, a lot of, uh, uh, people in the space of... Rob, we have to put the pages in. I can't find anything now with this. Truly, I can't find any of the pages. Is it cut off? Is that what it is?

• 1:15:52Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, I think it's cut off.

• 1:15:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so, so anyway, so there's a lot of stories of what's going on here.

• 1:15:55Adam Sosnick?

  No, no, no, go, go.

• 1:15:56Patrick Bet-David?

  I would like to be able to go to the end, honestly. I don't, just give me the page, I'll go to it. Okay. So, Luka Doncic traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Lakers on a blockbuster deal for Anthony Davis. Doncic?

• 1:16:08Patrick Bet-David?

  And a couple of the guys will join LeBron while Davis and Max Christie are going to play with Kyrie Irving and they're on the other side. The Utah Jazz are also involved. Doncic at the three-time All-NBA First Team selection has averaged 28.6 per game over his career and he's only 25 years old, 30th NBA history behind only Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. He's ahead of LeBron. He's ahead of Kobe at 25. He was the third in MVP voting last season, took his team to the finals, averaging 34 points a game, 10 assists a game, nine rebounds a game, including a historic 73-point game against Atlanta. Okay, Davis, a 10-time All-Star going to on the other side. Here's what's going on, folks. This is what's kind of crazy about this. If he would have stayed with the Mavs,

• 1:16:51Patrick Bet-David?

  he was about to sign a $345 million super contract, five years. Supermax, yeah. Supermax. Going to LA, LA can no longer give him that contract. The biggest contract they can give him now is 230. $115, $116 million less. And this is the craziest part. Anthony Davis just closed a house in Bel Air for $32 million. And guess what? Luka just closed the house for 12 or 15 million in Dallas. Both of them are saying, "I'm staying here." And then behind closed doors, this trade happens. Lots of different stories. Nico and Polinka are friends, so the conversation was being had without anybody else knowing about it. There's another story that's being talked about in here that's kind of very

• 1:17:33Patrick Bet-David?

  strange. If you go to Luka his rookie year, Rob, type in Luka Doncic weight rookie year. Luka Doncic weight rookie year. Weight rookie year was 228, 230 is what I think he looked like his rookie year. 230. 230. Can you put on an image? Go to the image. This is what he looked like his rookie year. Okay, there's actually better pictures that show how slender he was and how skinny he was. Okay, then today, Luka Doncic weight today. Okay, type in Luka Doncic weight today and you see how much he weighs today. You ready for this, Vinny? Do you know what he weighs today? 277 pounds.

• 1:18:12Patrick Bet-David?

  You know who he is bigger than of? He is bigger than the San Francisco 49er Bosa, what's the guy's name?

• 1:18:18Speaker 08

  Nick Bosa?

• 1:18:18Patrick Bet-David?

  He's bigger than Bosa!

• 1:18:20Speaker 08

  Holy crap, and could shoot lights out.

• 1:18:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Bosa's 265, this guy's 277, no, and he's been injury prone all year, so the Dallas, so apparently, rumor has it, they were worried about him being the next Zion.

• 1:18:32Speaker 08

  Uh oh.

• 1:18:33Patrick Bet-David?

  And they're kinda saying, we're not giving this guy the super max contract, the Mavs were worried, they traded him, they got somebody like Davis, this guy doesn't play defense. There's a lot of things that's going on with this year. Adam, I know you got a lot of friends in the NBA yourself, what are your thoughts on what's going on here?

• 1:18:45Adam Sosnick?

  You know, I looked into this, I think the weight is one thing, his conditioning is one thing, but listen, he plays games, so I mean, like, he's on the court, he made it to the NBA Finals last year, I know that they, they obviously lost to the Celtics, but I think, follow the money, if you're never knowing what's going on, follow the money. I think, what have we seen transpire in the last, basically, two years in Dallas? Mark Cuban is no longer the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. It is now Miriam Adelson, the widower of Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, and then I believe her son, or son-in-law is running the team. Great name, by the way, Patrick is his name.

• 1:19:23Speaker 08

  Love it.

• 1:19:24Adam Sosnick?

  Patrick, Google his last name, I don't know what it is, maybe it's not Adelson, though. He's the governor of the Mavs at this point, and he sits on the NBA Board of Governors. By the way, Mark Cuban owns 27% of the team, Patrick Dumont, there he is, right there. The Adelsons, I believe, own 70%, I want to say, Cuban owned 27%. Mark Cuban apparently had no idea this was going on. Now, I don't know who the GM is, you can find that out, but I know the head coach of the Mavericks is none other than Jason Kidd. Luca, Jason Kidd, similar kinda games, although Luca's a way better scorer, way better shooter, although...

• 1:20:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Why do you think this is happening?

• 1:20:04Adam Sosnick?

  So, why do I think this is happening? I think it's something that we talk about in business. So, we saw what happened during COVID, and who had more power? The employees or the employer? During COVID.

• 1:20:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Employees.

• 1:20:19Adam Sosnick?

  Employees.

• 1:20:19Patrick Bet-David?

  No question about it.

• 1:20:20Adam Sosnick?

  Right, we talked about the other day. Who's taking power back now?

• 1:20:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Employers.

• 1:20:24Adam Sosnick?

  The employers. So I think what's happening is because there's stories that are resurfacing is that a lot of NBA owners are having conversations with NFL owners. And they're like, oh, hold on, so you don't have guaranteed contracts? Got it. So if a guy is not performing, you can just cut that guy, right? Ah, okay. So if he's injured and only plays half a season, what do you do? You don't have to pay the full salary? Interesting, interesting, got it. So I think a lot of NBA owners, because there's guaranteed contracts in the NBA. I remember when Chris Bosh signed a contract with the Heat after LeBron left. He signed a contract, five years, hundred something million, never played another game for the Heat. He had health issues. What?

• 1:21:07Adam Sosnick?

  In the NFL, you had the quarterback Kirk Cousins, he went from Minnesota to Washington. He signed a ridiculous mega deal. No, not Washington, where was he on now? Atlanta, signed a mega deal. Midway through the season, they're like, dude, you suck, you're out. They put in a rookie. So in the NFL, you can cut, cut bait from an NFL contract when you want. So I think this is NBA owners, sort of like, taking ownership and saying, nah, I don't know. At the end of the day, do you know who's going to be the MVP of the league, my prediction, this year? This year? Who do you think is going to be the MVP of the NBA?

• 1:21:44Patrick Bet-David?

  The tall, huge guy that you were talking about? Wemby? Wemby?

• 1:21:47Adam Sosnick?

  No, no.

• 1:21:48Patrick Bet-David?

  No?

• 1:21:49Adam Sosnick?

  Who do you think is going to be the MVP? Rob, Google it, but don't show it yet.

• 1:21:52Patrick Bet-David?

  It's probably going to be the shy, or it's going to be, yeah, he's going to be the MVP.

• 1:21:55Adam Sosnick?

  Shay Gilgis Alexander, that's my prediction, I bet you.

• 1:21:58Patrick Bet-David?

  He's a monster.

• 1:21:59Adam Sosnick?

  By the way, does anybody even know his name? These two guys probably never heard of him.

• 1:22:03Patrick Bet-David?

  He's a monster. I watched him play, he's ridiculous.

• 1:22:06Adam Sosnick?

  Do you know that his stats as a, from, for the last five years have been better than Luca's? But everyone knows Luca because, dare I say it, he's a raw white boy.

• 1:22:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me tell you something here. I believe Mark Cuban didn't know. You know, Mark Cuban and I, we're not eye to eye on anything, and I could easily use this as an opportunity to say anything about the guy. I'm not. I think he's a very good owner, okay? And I think guys like playing for him. And I think guys like taking less money just to stay with him because he took care of them. You have the perfect example of what happened with Dirk. So I don't think this is a Cuban thing. I actually think he's probably shell shocked that this has taken place. I think he sold 72% of it. I just think this guy's got a weight issue. And honestly, as an owner myself, I would be saying, dude, I'm done with players like this that are not taking care of them. And my contract writing abilities would change. I wouldn't own an NBA team at all if I was in the game. What happened, Tom?

• 1:23:00Tom Ellsworth?

  Nothing. I'm agreeing.

• 1:23:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Tom.

• 1:23:03Tom Ellsworth?

  No.

• 1:23:04Patrick Bet-David?

  No, I know, go ahead.

• 1:23:05Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm not NBA.

• 1:23:06Patrick Bet-David?

  I know, I'm saying, go ahead. I know you want to say stuff. Go for it. I'm gonna go to your next. What's your story on Luka? What do you think about it?

• 1:23:11Tom Ellsworth?

  I was just listening to you guys. I was reacting. Tom, just give us your insight.

• 1:23:17Patrick Bet-David?

  I know you have thoughts. You follow sports. What are your thoughts on this?

• 1:23:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, the second guy there, instead of being MVP, he won the French Open. But the, um... French Open? Nikola Jokic? No, he's not. The reigning MVP of the league? I guess I do have a thought. And the thought that I have is that, you know, how many... Come on, Tom, you got this. How many situations do you go with where this has been on the table? Shaq would run up and down the court yelling at, saying, "Pay me." In the middle of the game, he would yell, "Pay me." He would get like 25 points and he was yelling, "Pay me." And then you had Kobe, in a very famous interview, commented about that if Shaq's conditioning had been better, he could have won 10, 11 championships.

• 1:24:03Tom Ellsworth?

  And so, conditioning has been out there on the table in a lot of ways. And I think that there's something to be said here. And he just, he hasn't played since Christmas. He suffered a strain that I read a little blurb on that they says, was that conditioning related? Was it weight related? Was it a calf? He turned, he turned differently and so I don't know.

• 1:24:26Adam Sosnick?

  So I actually want to give the, the flip side to this because we're only talking about one side of the equation here. He got traded. He didn't get traded for some slouch. He got traded for Anthony Davis, arguably the best big man in the league.

• 1:24:39Patrick Bet-David?

  32 years old.

• 1:24:40Adam Sosnick?

  Okay. So he's still at the prime of his career. So if we're going to come there and say that Luca is out of shape and he can't get on the court. Anthony Davis, a fantastic top 10 talent, literally is injured half the year.

• 1:24:52Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, somebody said something, somebody said something very, uh, what? You're gonna like this story here. Somebody said, there's a dark conspiracy going on here, you know.

• 1:25:05Adam Sosnick?

  That C word. I hate that word.

• 1:25:06Patrick Bet-David?

  We don't like that word, but there's a dark, uh, uh, you know, uh, thing going on here, coincidence going on here. And here's what it is. Let me tell you what it is. Some are saying that Clutch Sports, LeBron. They indirectly created a situation where Kyrie would go to Dallas to drive Luca insane for Luca to leave to have a, you know, to have issues between them, for Luca to come to Lakers because LeBron wants Luca. Now, as much as I read into that, I'm like, dude, there's, these guys don't even match up well. They're the same exact player.

• 1:25:45Patrick Bet-David?

  It's like, it makes zero sense. Yeah, you said that. It makes zero, zero sense on this going on. And then there's a couple of other stories, but I, but I'll stay at this one.

• 1:25:54Adam Sosnick?

  You want to go down that C word right now?

• 1:25:57Tom Ellsworth?

  Don't say it.

• 1:25:57Adam Sosnick?

  Here we go. What are the chances that LeBron leaves the Lakers after the season? The whole Bronny experiment is obviously disaster. LeBron goes bye bye, maybe goes and does a retirement tour one last year in Cleveland. And then the Lakers rebuild around Luca and then secretly, I think the Lakers, uh, ownership says there's this guy, Patrick Beddavid. There's a massive fan of the Lakers. Now he hates on the Lakers. We gotta get LeBron out of here. What if this were a way to get PBD, part minority owner of the Yankees to go bi-coastal and start going to Lakers games?

• 1:26:33Patrick Bet-David?

  I will root for the Lakers.

• 1:26:34Adam Sosnick?

  Rooting for Luca. Am I wrong on that?

• 1:26:36Patrick Bet-David?

  But you have to realize Luca's hero is LeBron. Luka's a LeBron guy. And the fact that he's working with him, the one area that we can criticize LeBron as much as I can criticize, you guys are fans, I know you're a diehard fan of LeBron. I'm definitely, yeah, I love LeBron. Yeah, we, I can criticize LeBron, but there's one thing you can't criticize on. He's 40 years old and he's in shape and he's killing it and he can help Luka get in shape. So, the same way LeBron played Olympics with Kobe and learned what it is to really train, I hope Luka picks up what it is to train because Luka at 230, he's a formidable guy. And anyways, to all the people that could care less about sports, we like sports. And to those of you guys that like sports, thank you for sticking around and enjoying this sport. I don't really care, it's a great story. Alright, let's go to the next one here.

• 1:27:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, can you pull up Don Lemon and Kanye West when they went on a date at, what, not on a date, but they were at the Grammys? Watch this here. Don Lemon and, uh, uh, and, uh, is this the one, Rob? Or is it, first show the clip of Lemon trying to...

• 1:27:33Speaker 03

  This is the first clip and then the second one is Don Lemon reacting.

• 1:27:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 1:27:37Speaker 00

  Kanye, the number one artist you want to put on right now?

• 1:27:40Speaker 08

  Gimme a second, I'm focused.

• 1:27:42Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 1:27:43Speaker 08

  He's about to, his wife is about to take her clothes off.

• 1:27:48Patrick Bet-David?

  No interviews. No interviews. Alright, so what does he say afterwards?

• 1:27:54Speaker 00

  First of all, Kanye.

• 1:27:57Speaker 08

  Nobody's listening.

• 1:27:58Speaker 00

  Ye, whatever your name is. I did not start a rumor about you being kicked out of the Grammys. I actually corrected it. I saw someone on your team who asked me to correct it because it had been reported everywhere. So, first of all, get your shit straight.

• 1:28:17Speaker 00

  And you, of all people, calling me a coon?

• 1:28:27Speaker 00

  Negro.

• 1:28:28Speaker 08

  Oh, God.

• 1:28:29Speaker 00

  That Make America Great Again hat must be too tight on your head.

• 1:28:37Speaker 08

  Guys, a question. Where is his husband? If you're a happily married gay man, you guys should be in parades,

• 1:28:45Adam Sosnick?

  What?

• 1:28:45Speaker 08

  Dancing and hooking up with each other. This guy's in front of, like, what is he doing?

• 1:28:50Adam Sosnick?

  Hold on, what? Don Lemon's gay?

• 1:28:52Speaker 08

  He's gay, you didn't know that?

• 1:28:53Adam Sosnick?

  Don Lemon!

• 1:28:54Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, so what happened there, Rob? What is the story? So I don't want to spend a lot of time on this if it's not really a story.

• 1:29:00Speaker 03

  So according to, because Kanye showed up to the Grammys with his wife in that revealing outfit. According to Kanye, Don Lemon started a rumor that Kanye was escorted out of the Grammys because of the outfit. Kanye then went on social media, called out Don Lemon. Don Lemon then responds with that video.

• 1:29:18Patrick Bet-David?

  All right, so, and then, and then, but what the real story isn't Don Lemon. The real story is what Kanye's wife was wearing, right? Can you, or what she wasn't wearing? Can you even show it or no?

• 1:29:26Speaker 03

  I can show you guys? I can, please, in the back, do not show this at home.

• 1:29:30Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, can you show one with black, what do you call it?

• 1:29:33Speaker 03

  Bars?

• 1:29:34Patrick Bet-David?

  The black bars? Not the other black bar, because there's a famous picture of a guy with black, I'm talking about...

• 1:29:38Speaker 08

  I don't want to see that one.

• 1:29:41Speaker 08

  Adam loves sending that one.

• 1:29:42Adam Sosnick?

  Oh, Jesus.

• 1:29:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, there it is, there's a blurry one right there, Rob. The bottom right, bottom right?

• 1:29:47Speaker 03

  Captain Trippier.

• 1:29:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so that's the picture.

• 1:29:49Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, I mean, this is...

• 1:29:50Patrick Bet-David?

  So, by the way, was she literally naked?

• 1:29:52Speaker 08

  It was a see-through, she basically was butt naked, but there was like a see-through tan-colored fishing net. Like, basically, yeah.

• 1:30:02Adam Sosnick?

  This is what they do, though, Pat.

• 1:30:03Speaker 08

  Yeah, well, he's a Christian, that's what Christians do. They bring their butt-naked wife out.

• 1:30:07Adam Sosnick?

  He basically parades her around. One time, he brought her around in a pillow, look at the pillow thing in Europe. And I think, uh, London fashion show, or the Paris fashion show, whatever it is. He just parades her around, and, uh, you know, she, there she is, that's what she has to do. She's relegated to just being naked everywhere she goes.

• 1:30:26Speaker 08

  I don't, I just don't get it.

• 1:30:27Adam Sosnick?

  How much money has Kanye lost in the last two years?

• 1:30:29Speaker 08

  And he's still a billionaire, though, isn't he?

• 1:30:31Adam Sosnick?

  No, I think he's definitely not a billionaire anymore.

• 1:30:33Speaker 08

  I just, I just don't like the look, bro. If you're...

• 1:30:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Are you with it, or what do you think about it? Tom, I know you were watching the Grammys closely. What was your reaction when he saw this?

• 1:30:41Tom Ellsworth?

  Look, the red carpet has been a place to be more daring, more ridiculous. Lady Gaga shows up with guys carrying her. Like with an Egyptian, um, uh, you know, shoulder bench and she's in an egg. I mean, come on, it's just, everybody's being more and more shocking because it's called publicity and it's called attention. And so Kanye, for reasons known only to Kanye, yeah, there it is. There we go. A bunch of guys here carrying around, and that's Lady Gaga was in an egg. So you do things that are trying to get attention for yourself. There's nothing revealing about this. This is just kinda crazy, you know, and she pops out of the egg, but that's the

• 1:31:25Tom Ellsworth?

  point. The point of the red carpet is to get views and to be the most amazing person.

• 1:31:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, you may be a fan of this stuff. I'm not.

• 1:31:33Speaker 08

  Tom loves it.

• 1:31:34Tom Ellsworth?

  No, I think it's ridiculous. I think that, I think, and then we give, the media gives these celebrities a voice during the election to tell us who to vote for.

• 1:31:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Seriously.

• 1:31:44Tom Ellsworth?

  Let's think about that.

• 1:31:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Did you watch the Grammys?

• 1:31:47Tom Ellsworth?

  And then George Stephanopoulos says, Lady Gaga, who should America vote for? You know, Swifties, who should you vote for? Really? We're asking these people to give us advice on anything?

• 1:31:56Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't know why you watch the Grammys though, but for me, wouldn't you?

• 1:31:58Speaker 08

  I, I haven't watched one Grammy, one Oscar.

• 1:32:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Alicia Keys said, "DI."

• 1:32:03Speaker 08

  "DI is the best thing that's ever happened."

• 1:32:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Right.

• 1:32:05Speaker 08

  Or, or the, what do you mean? The greatest reaction, I don't know if Rob could find it, Beyonce won country album of the year, and you should have seen her face. She was like...

• 1:32:14Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, wow. She's like, I didn't even do country.

• 1:32:16Speaker 08

  She, on, like, the spit in the face of actual country singers. Have you, look at her face, right in the middle one, Rob, up, up, right there. Look at her face, look at Jay-Z.

• 1:32:25Tom Ellsworth?

  We must say goodbye.

• 1:32:26Speaker 08

  I won, what?

• 1:32:27Tom Ellsworth?

  I had no idea she was gonna come.

• 1:32:28Speaker 08

  She, what are we even talking about, bro? Un-believable.

• 1:32:34Tom Ellsworth?

  Would love to hear what the other country singers, by the way, as far as Kanye goes, I...

• 1:32:38Speaker 08

  He's worth 2.7 billion dollars.

• 1:32:39Tom Ellsworth?

  No, because you gotta read a little bit further.

• 1:32:41Speaker 08

  I don't like to read.

• 1:32:42Tom Ellsworth?

  He was, clearly, he was, uh, worth approximately 2 billion dollars right here. However, following a series of controversies, yada, yada, yada, wait, now what happened there? It dropped to around 400 million. He has now claimed, so if you believe Kanye, that he's now worth even more than before at 2.7 billion, but independent studies conducted by Forbes estimate that his net worth is now 400 million. So basically, it's decreased approximately 1.6 billion. So what's the point? He's doing these publicity stunts because he's trying to get his name back out there. But what is Kanye known for?

• 1:33:20Adam Sosnick?

  Making music, making hits.

• 1:33:22Speaker 08

  The best.

• 1:33:22Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, I don't know, maybe you got his tennis shoes, maybe you got some Yeezys, I don't know.

• 1:33:26Speaker 08

  Top five.

• 1:33:26Adam Sosnick?

  But until he actually makes hits again, I think Kanye's on the decline.

• 1:33:31Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, story just came out that Vinnie sent to us here, watch this.

• 1:33:35Speaker 08

  Tom?

• 1:33:36Patrick Bet-David?

  RFK has just been approved by the Senate Finance Committee as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

• 1:33:41Speaker 08

  Let's go, baby! Fourteen to thirteen moving forward.

• 1:33:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Advancing his nomination to a full Senate vote.

• 1:33:46Speaker 08

  Let's go, baby!

• 1:33:48Adam Sosnick?

  So it's not confirmed yet.

• 1:33:49Patrick Bet-David?

  No, but it is moving forward.

• 1:33:50Tom Ellsworth?

  No, but that's step one, that is...

• 1:33:51Speaker 08

  That's a bit, that's the most important step!

• 1:33:53Tom Ellsworth?

  Actually, that's more like step three.

• 1:33:55Speaker 08

  That's step three!

• 1:33:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Now, he's standing on third base, are they gonna score with fifty votes?

• 1:33:58Speaker 08

  Yeah, fourteen to one.

• 1:33:59Adam Sosnick?

  See, now Tom knows his sports, now he knows baseball.

• 1:34:01Speaker 08

  How gr- like, I am so freaking happy for this guy!

• 1:34:04Patrick Bet-David?

  He just gave me the eye that he does when he wants to say something.

• 1:34:06Speaker 08

  Go play this clip.

• 1:34:08Speaker 18

  Second, the clerk will call the roll.

• 1:34:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop.

• 1:34:11Speaker 18

  Mr. Grassley. Aye! Mr. Grassley, aye. Aye!

• 1:34:14Adam Sosnick?

  That's the oldest guy in the Senate.

• 1:34:15Speaker 18

  Mr. Cornyn, aye. Mr. Thune, aye. Mr. Thune, aye. Mr. Scott, aye. Mr. Scott, aye. Mr. Cassidy, aye. Mr. Cassidy, aye. Mr. Langford, aye. Mr. Langford, aye. Mr. Danes, aye. Mr. Danes, aye. Mr. Young, aye. Mr. Young, aye. Mr. Brassa, aye. Mr. Brassa, aye. Mr. Johnson, aye. Mr. Johnson, aye. Mr. Tillis, aye. Mr. Tillis, aye. Mrs. Blackburn, aye. Mrs. Blackburn, aye. Mr. Marshall, aye. Mr. Marshall, aye. Mr. Wyden, aye. Mr. Wyden, aye. Ms. Cantwell, aye. Ms. Cantwell, aye. Mr. Bennett, aye. Mr. Bennett, aye. Mr. Warner, aye. Mr. Warner, aye. Mr. Whitehouse, aye. Mr. Whitehouse, aye. No, Ms. Hassan, aye. Ms. Hassan, aye. No, Ms. Cortez Masto, aye. Ms. Cortez Masto, aye. No, Ms. Warren, aye. Ms. Warren, aye. No, Mr. Sanders, aye. Mr. Sanders, aye. No, Ms. Smith, aye. Ms. Smith, aye. No, Mr. Muhan, aye. Mr. Muhan, aye.

• 1:35:00Speaker 18

  No, Mr. Warnock, aye. Mr. Warnock, aye. No, Mr. Welch, aye. Mr. Welch, aye. No, Mr. Chairman, aye. Chairman votes aye.

• 1:35:08Speaker 08

  Let's go, baby.

• 1:35:09Adam Sosnick?

  So along party lines, what it says.

• 1:35:11Speaker 18

  Mr. Chairman, the final tally is fourteen ayes, thirteen ayes.

• 1:35:15Speaker 08

  That is so freaking- Can't hurt you, buddy. Yeah. Turn your mic on! He doesn't know what that is.

• 1:35:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Is he saying anything, or no?

• 1:35:21Speaker 08

  Yeah, look, look, look, yeah, he's in charge.

• 1:35:23Speaker 19

  The vote was, would the clerk please restate the vote?

• 1:35:26Speaker 18

  Mr. Chairman, the final vote was 14 ayes, 13 nays.

• 1:35:29Speaker 19

  The vote was 14, 13. The nomination is reported favorably. We will now turn to other senators who would like to make a statement. Since I asked my Republican colleagues to hold off at the outset, I'll go to the Republican side next. First, Senator Tillis. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I voted aye today, and I wanted to just briefly-

• 1:35:49Speaker 08

  Yeah, you can pause. Can I ask you a question? How many, like, the big pharma, the major companies, Pfizer, are they flipping out right now? Are they making phone calls to Pocahontas and Bernie Sanders? And they're like, "What the hell are you guys doing?" He's going to take tril- like, Tom, a trillion dollars away from these people. I, I'm so happy for him. Mind you, this is the same guy, RFK Jr. The same guy that's trying to get employment from the same system that some people might say murdered his uncle and his freaking father. That is so, I'm so freaking proud of him. Good for him. That's freaking awesome news, Tom. That's amazing.

• 1:36:29Tom Ellsworth?

  I, I agree. I, I think this is awesome, but I also think this is gonna be tough. It's gonna be similar to, uh, Pete, where I, I think you're gonna need J.D. Vance. I think this is gonna come down like that.

• 1:36:40Speaker 08

  You're really?

• 1:36:41Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep.

• 1:36:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, you know what I just did to Tom? What he does to me. Here's what Tom does to me, 'cause you guys don't see it. Tom, this is what Tom does.

• 1:36:49Speaker 08

  Can I show a shot? And I'll, I'll-

• 1:36:51Tom Ellsworth?

  I apologize.

• 1:36:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Do me a favor.

• 1:36:52Tom Ellsworth?

  On the NBA, I wasn't doing that.

• 1:36:53Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, Tom, stop. You know you were, Tom.

• 1:36:55Speaker 08

  I'll tell the story.

• 1:36:56Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, zoom in on his face. Say, "Look at Tom."

• 1:36:58Speaker 08

  I wasn't trying to interfere with the event.

• 1:36:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, we played poker one night. Okay, Tom wants his fanbase to say, "Stop being rude to Tom. He is the best."

• 1:37:05Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, no, I get you.

• 1:37:05Speaker 08

  So you want me to start telling the story?

• 1:37:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so you tell the story. I'm gonna be Tom.

• 1:37:08Speaker 08

  I'm gonna start telling the story about-

• 1:37:10Patrick Bet-David?

  When Tom really wants to say something. By the way, in the back, when you guys ever catch him doing it, do, zoom in on him when he does this.

• 1:37:14Speaker 08

  Okay, and I'll, and I'll start talking about, um, my recovery or what I'm not drinking so bad. I, uh, I haven't been drinking, you know, so I figured, like, all these companies- All these companies, I'm trying to tell this, all these companies, alcohol companies, I think they promote on the

• 1:37:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh my god.

• 1:37:30Adam Sosnick?

  Let me see the face.

• 1:37:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen, by the way, can, can somebody, can Rob, can you bring that button? We bought this button just for Tom. The audience has to know this.

• 1:37:38Speaker 08

  I wouldn't give it to them.

• 1:37:39Patrick Bet-David?

  This is what, this button is bought just for Tom.

• 1:37:43Speaker 08

  Oh my god.

• 1:37:43Patrick Bet-David?

  That moving forward, I don't have to get the eyes.

• 1:37:46Speaker 08

  I'm not trying to make a distraction.

• 1:37:46Patrick Bet-David?

  So here's what we're doing. Can you, can you, can you see it? So moving forward, this is just for Tom. We're gonna call this the Tom button. Tom gets to press the button without doing his eyes, and this thing turns red. And I know Tom wants to say something, okay?

• 1:37:57Speaker 08

  That's so funny.

• 1:37:58Patrick Bet-David?

  And so, it, it's just gonna be like that move. We know what Adam's gonna be on. Adam's always gonna be on.

• 1:38:03Speaker 08

  Oh, it's just on.

• 1:38:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Because Adam always wants to say something, and he'll have plus five minutes on it to, uh, extradition.

• 1:38:08Speaker 08

  Shot clock, after the shot clock.

• 1:38:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, so let's get into the next story here.

• 1:38:11Speaker 08

  So freaking funny.

• 1:38:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, Tom, everything good? Are you gonna be okay?

• 1:38:14Speaker 08

  I wasn't trying to, I didn't get that big.

• 1:38:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Bro, my, I have big eyes, but when Tom does that.

• 1:38:18Speaker 08

  Ah, I wasn't.

• 1:38:19Patrick Bet-David?

  It's like, that's the little kid gifts when he wants to say, you're going to timeout.

• 1:38:22Adam Sosnick?

  Hey, listen guys, let's be nice to our friend Tom. I won't have this.

• 1:38:26Patrick Bet-David?

  So Tom, this next story.

• 1:38:27Adam Sosnick?

  I want all the hate over here, guys.

• 1:38:28Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm coming to you, Tom. This next story, okay? No need to do the eyes.

• 1:38:32Speaker 08

  It's okay to talk now?

• 1:38:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Los Angeles, law, Pacific Palisades, rebuilding include, must include low-income housing is what they have to do. Now, Rob, if you got a video on this, if you can pull up the video while I find the page, oh, I found the page, okay, here we go. Go ahead and play the clip, Rob, go for it.

• 1:38:54Speaker 20

  But the most interesting element of my conversation with Mr. Giacometti was when he talked about the possibility of as we start rebuilding, starting to relax some of the zoning laws.

• 1:39:04Speaker 08

  This guy's got Tom's eyes.

• 1:39:04Speaker 20

  Especially in a more working-class neighborhood like Altadena, so that rather than putting up single-family residences, especially on parcels where people might not have the wherewithal to rebuild at all, we allow developers to start putting up duplexes and apartments. In other words, increasing density, but also increasing more housing.

• 1:39:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so while he's saying this, watch this folks. So, rents for new low-income units will be dramatically lower than pre-fire market rates, significantly altering the area demographics. The ordinance sets low housing rent at about $2,000 a month for families earning up to 80K, and very low housing at $1,300 a month for families earning up to $50,000. All pre-1978 buildings subject to rent control must be rebuilt as affordable units. While newer buildings require proof that all tenants in the last five years were high-income, or they will automatically be... Tell me why I should build a real estate business in California.

• 1:40:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, tell us the story, and I'm trying to do... Is this what we think it is, Tom? Or is California completely lost their minds?

• 1:40:14Tom Ellsworth?

  They have lost their mind. This is a... So, what would they love to do? They would love to tax people and just keep flowing it out to the homeless population. And by the way, have Governor Newsom block the audit where they had all the dollars missing for homelessness. And they, "Well, let's have an audit of it." And he said, "No, no, let's not be too hasty," because he knows where some of that waste went. And so what they're saying here is, "Vinnie, your house burned down."

• 1:40:40Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 1:40:41Tom Ellsworth?

  And they're like, "You know what? You're in Altadena. We're going to declare your area a working-class area. And so you can't rebuild your house. You have to rebuild like a four-unit townhouses, four of them together. You have to rebuild that." Why? Because we need lower-cost housing. It'll only cost people two grand a month to stay in that housing. So, you're not going to be rebuilding it because we're rezoning it.

• 1:41:05Speaker 08

  This is legal, Tom? Like, my house burned down, my single-family house burned down, and now you're telling me... Do I have insurance to build again?

• 1:41:12Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, maybe you've got insurance. And maybe your insurance had ALE rider, which means alternative living expenses. Where they pay for your hotel or temporary housing where your home is being rebuilt. By the way, that could be very expensive. That could take a long time. And by the way, there's a little side note in there that maybe some of the insurance companies would rather that you sell your property to a developer than you use your ALE. Oh, man. Get it? Got it. So, they, I say, I'm paying ALE for you so that you could go live someplace while your house is being rebuilt, or you're waiting for a permit and all these things are going on. And you finally get your home rebuilt because you, you had extra money, you somehow managed to do it. You pulled it off.

• 1:41:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Meanwhile, developer comes to your twin brother and says, hey, I'll just buy your land for 1.5 million dollars in Altadena. I'll bet you have a good lot. I'll just pay a million and a half for that and we'll build it. You may just say, I'll take the 1.5, I'll, I'll save it and then I'll go rent something somewhere. Meanwhile, your twin brother says, no, you know, I, you know, maybe, maybe I do just want to rebuild. And they say, no, no, no, no, no. The new zoning that we have here is, um, we need more low-income housing. Why? Because homelessness is a problem. We've wasted our 24 billion dollars and we need more, we need more housing. So, this is basically, think of it this way. They just taxed your previous house down to zero.

• 1:42:40Tom Ellsworth?

  They stole the house from you, forcing you to take whatever you could get from the people buying the land so a developer could build four low-income homes.

• 1:42:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So, okay, so then, Tom, give me the argument why developers are staying in California.

• 1:42:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, certain developers are staying in California because thanks to things like this, they've got something to do. Because they're just like, the developer looks at it, man, I'm glad, this is what I would do. I'll be devil's advocate. I will be a developer. You know what? Man, I am so glad my digs in Encino didn't burn down, but I'm going to be building in, uh, Altadena. I'm going to be building these, uh, four-unit townhomes, uh, you know, four of them in a row. I got three of these people bought, uh, the land, I bought the land. I got 12 of them being built and the city is, uh, is, uh, requiring that I do it this way. So, I'm going to sell 12 units. I just bought the land. So, the developers can stay in business just building what the city says they need to build.

• 1:43:36Tom Ellsworth?

  And then the developers will sell to an investor who then has to rent them, but not at rent above a certain level for low income. This is just another, this is, California knows how to force. I'll sum it up this way. California forces, by 2030, you must...

• 1:43:56Tom Ellsworth?

  Buy a non diesel truck. You must. So we're gonna force that. By 2030, some percent of cars must be electric vehicles. Wait, I thought we didn't have enough power plant. And the power, the PG&E stuff were arcing and starting some of these fires. We're not worried about that. Don't interrupt me. You must have an electric vehicle. So California's in the must. The dictatorial state of socialist California has now come to housing.

• 1:44:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow.

• 1:44:26Adam Sosnick?

  Basically, Canada's leadership would rather rule over ashes than let the other side rule the state. California's.

• 1:44:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, you said Canada. California's.

• 1:44:34Adam Sosnick?

  Canada too, by the way.

• 1:44:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. And by the way, while this is going on, while this is going on, there's another story about California that I'm trying to find. There's another story on California about, if you have the pages. There's a story on California on the water where Trump says he opened California's water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them. Rob, I know we don't have a clip on this, but I'm gonna go to the story to read. If you can find if there's any clips on this. Here's what happened with Trump and California. President Trump declared a long-fought victory in California water disputes, claiming today 1.6 billion. And in three days, gallons by the way, and in three days, it'll be 5.2 billion gallons.

• 1:45:18Patrick Bet-David?

  But local officials scrambled to prevent potential flooding after the Army Corps of Engineers citing Trump's executive order, attempted to release water from two reservoirs at maximum capacity with just an hour notice. "I've been here 25 years and I've never been given notice that quick," said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on Keweah River. Trump falsely blamed the, falsely blamed, what stories is political? The recent LA wildfires on California's water policy stopped, insisting the state had mismanaged resources despite reservoirs being near historic levels. The reservoir is closed. There's no water in it. A mile away from Palisades. This is political, writing this? The Army Corps claimed water releases from Lake Kew-

• 1:46:04Patrick Bet-David?

  And Success Lake were meant to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires, though officials question how water 200 miles away could aid firefighting. Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:46:16Tom Ellsworth?

  I haven't even followed this story a little bit.

• 1:46:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so Tom, your thoughts on this?

• 1:46:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Trump did the right thing because California has been holding water because they have this little fish that they want to protect. Smelt. And by the way, what does it say about those reservoirs? Those reservoirs were at maximum capacity. Filled to the brim. Which means that the winter snow was good, the runoff has come down, and that's usually from the Sierras, the western Sierras, that's usually what fills up the northern California reservoirs. And by the way, Pat and I did a lot of business in Bakersfield and in Fresno and Visalia. And you know what's right next to I-5? The California aqueduct, which is this huge man-made.

• 1:46:59Patrick Bet-David?

  You see it when you drive it, yeah.

• 1:47:00Tom Ellsworth?

  It's a concrete river. So they say, you know, water 200 miles away, they built an aqueduct like Rome did to go from northern California to southern California years and years and years ago for exactly this purpose, to bring water from mountains and snow and melting in spring down to other parts. They did it, and instead, they limited, and then in northern California, they were letting excess run right into the Pacific Ocean. And so Trump is like, wait, you're collecting it in reservoirs up there, and then later you let it run into the ocean? No, why don't you release it down here and just let it go? So this is California's water management is as poorly run as their power management, which is poorly run as their, well, real estate management. And this is California.

• 1:47:45Tom Ellsworth?

  I mean, how many ways do you need to have theoretical bureaucrats who have never run or built anything in their life?

• 1:47:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Thank you.

• 1:47:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Running the sixth largest economy in the world and doing it badly on so many levels? These people would be, if this was a public company, they and the board and all of them would be fired, and they'd be suffering a shareholder suit for diminution of value.

• 1:48:10Speaker 08

  And they keep voting.

• 1:48:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Demunition of value.

• 1:48:11Speaker 08

  That's a fantastic word.

• 1:48:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Right, so.

• 1:48:13Speaker 08

  I'm like, can I be 100% honest with you? I have no idea what that word means.

• 1:48:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Demunition of value is a legal term used to calculate damages when a property or item loses value due to an accident, breach of contract, or other event.

• 1:48:25Speaker 08

  In that, within that regard, I concur. I concur 100% with what Tom says.

• 1:48:29Patrick Bet-David?

  So the root word is diminish. So let's go. Demunition, is that how you say it? By the way. Tom? The idea, the ideas they're coming up with, all I'm thinking and all I'm asking myself is, how many of these ideas are gonna force people in California to say, "I'm done"? What will it take for many of them to flip on policies, or else this is going to continue? This is not gonna stop anytime soon. By the way, CBS News was forced to fork over edited Harris interview that Trump called out. They eventually had to force to send it over, and this is what the clip was. We've all remembered this, and I gotta read a little bit more about this. This was the clip, and I'll tell you more about what's going on here. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:49:09Speaker 21

  But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.

• 1:49:13Speaker 22

  Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.

• 1:49:35Speaker 21

  But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.

• 1:49:39Speaker 22

  We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

• 1:49:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so. That is atrocious. That's right, so watch this. The first one, she didn't even say anything. CBS News owned by Paramount has been ordered to release the unedited transcript footage of Vice President Kamala Harris' October interview on 60 Minutes after President Trump sued the network for $10 billion alleging purposeful editing to harm him from the November 6 election. Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brandon Carr responded, reopened the Center for American Rights Complaint, which had been dismissed four days before Trump's second inauguration. CBS stated. It would comply with the inquiry as we are legally compelled to do so. Trump would took off, took offense to Harris's response on the Israel Hamas conflict claiming CBS News doctored the footage to misrepresent him. A Face the Nation preview showed Harris giving what was called a word salad answer.

• 1:50:32Patrick Bet-David?

  But 60 Minutes aired a different portion of her response. CBS News defended the edit, says the same question, same answer, but time constraints requires a cut. And meanwhile staffers are irate over talk of Paramount settling. And so this whole thing that's taking place. A CBS correspondent said we're helpless to whatever Sharie and the bosses decide to do. But it's a real shame to think the news division is bargaining chip into a broader deal. CBS executive, including CEO Wendy McMahon and 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, Billy Owens, not the old Golden State guy, but different Bill Owens.

• 1:51:10Tom Ellsworth?

  Great player.

• 1:51:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Oppose a settlement fearing it would damage the show's reputation and demoralize staff. A court filing suggests the settlement talk may be underway as Trump's attorneys requested a deadline extension for responding to CBS's motion to dismiss.

• 1:51:24Adam Sosnick?

  Is that the only clip? Is that the one clip or is there multiple clips?

• 1:51:27Speaker 08

  Well, that's the clip, but you.

• 1:51:27Adam Sosnick?

  Is that the only one that they basically did?

• 1:51:29Speaker 08

  Well, that's the clip.

• 1:51:30Adam Sosnick?

  That's what I'm asking.

• 1:51:31Speaker 08

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:51:31Adam Sosnick?

  Well, you know, but that was atrocious.

• 1:51:33Speaker 08

  Because you know what that's considered?

• 1:51:34Adam Sosnick?

  She gave a complete word salad.

• 1:51:36Speaker 08

  And you know what that's considered?

• 1:51:37Adam Sosnick?

  What?

• 1:51:37Speaker 08

  Election interference. That's what that, that's what the problem is. And can we just point out one thing? How much more can Trump win? Okay, the biggest losers in corporate America, Meta, ABC, and soon to be CBS, okay? They spent years censoring Trump, smearing his name, and now they're all going to be cutting freaking fat ass checks. Like for instance, Meta, they banned him after January 6th, Tom, and guess what? $25 million, bingo. ABC, George Stephanopoulos said libel rape, that whole situation, 15 million, boom. And now CBS is sweating bullets, Pat, because that $10 billion lawsuit hanging over their head is like a guillotine because their parent company is begging the FCC to approve their merger. Who's in charge of the FCC now?

• 1:52:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Trump's people.

• 1:52:22Speaker 08

  There, there you go. So now it's like, oh, please settle, settle and let them all cry, bro. Let them all cry. It's not about, guys, it's not about Trump. It's about the media thinking that they get slander and do whatever the hell they want with no consequences. But now one by one, they're all going to freaking pay the price and all their tears are between their legs. Good for them. Good.

• 1:52:40Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, there, there is a subtext here. And so when they say, "We're helpless to whatever Sheri," that's Sheri Redstone, and the bosses decide to do, it's real shame to think the news is a bargaining chip. They need the Federal Trade Commission and the FCC to approve the sale of Paramount and all the CBS assets to Skydance. Skydance is owned by, well, almost all owned, by a man named David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison. And so David Ellison and Skydance want to buy Paramount, and they want the deal to go through. So Sheri wants David Ellison's money, because he's buying it.

• 1:53:25Tom Ellsworth?

  Sheri Redstone wants the money. How do you get the money? You got, the federal government's got to approve the deal. How do you approve the deal? Hmm, federal government's upset with that. You know what we could do? We'll cooperate. And by the way, so all she's doing, she's not grandstanding, she's just cooperating with the federal government that's saying, "Hey, you know what? That may have been election interference. We want to see the unedited film." And you have 60 Minutes saying, "We're not a bargaining chip." No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It has nothing to do with bargaining chip. It may, but you created the problem. You edited this, and you are being called to account for it. Well, they just, now they just want to play nice. Well, no, no, we know what CBS News wants to do?

• 1:54:05Tom Ellsworth?

  They want to be irascible, badgering, puny-minded dolts. That's what they want. They want to hold their line to say, "We're the media, and we're against conservative, and we want to do this," and they want CBS to keep funding it and defend them, even though they did something here. So that's the subtext going on here. Sheri Redstone would like the government to be in a good mood and say, "You know what? Skydance deal, that can go all the way through. It's gonna happen. There you go." And the only way you do that is, oh, wait, Brendan Carr was appointed by... Donald Trump.

• 1:54:41Speaker 08

  Oh, weird.

• 1:54:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Head of the FCC.

• 1:54:43Speaker 08

  Yep.

• 1:54:44Tom Ellsworth?

  So, guess what?

• 1:54:45Speaker 08

  Good luck.

• 1:54:45Tom Ellsworth?

  There's a couple of things woven in between here and

• 1:54:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam.

• 1:54:49Tom Ellsworth?

  I think that's what's going on.

• 1:54:50Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, I mean, back to Kamala's word salad of an answer. That was a very important question because that was not one of the one or two biggest things that people were worried about in election, but was a major issue. What was going on in Israel and Gaza? And her answer, what was that?

• 1:55:04Patrick Bet-David?

  You got something in your mouth?

• 1:55:05Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, word salad. Put it in there for this, for this Pete right here.

• 1:55:08Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you have in your?

• 1:55:09Adam Sosnick?

  A little mint right here, a little word salad.

• 1:55:11Patrick Bet-David?

  You're the mint, I'm like, what sound is that?

• 1:55:13Adam Sosnick?

  A little word salad right there.

• 1:55:15Speaker 08

  Just click on the.

• 1:55:16Tom Ellsworth?

  Adam, do you want to talk?

• 1:55:18Speaker 08

  Click.

• 1:55:18Adam Sosnick?

  So, yeah.

• 1:55:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Do you have something to say?

• 1:55:20Adam Sosnick?

  Well, listen, as I'm motivated, you have to understand that what happened was as we entered the agreement.

• 1:55:28Speaker 08

  The solution, the dissolution.

• 1:55:31Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, that's very, that, that almost became the president of the United States.

• 1:55:34Adam Sosnick?

  That's what I'm saying.

• 1:55:35Speaker 08

  I, you know how, how, as you guys are saying that, she, could you imagine where we would be right now?

• 1:55:40Patrick Bet-David?

  If she's the president today, do you know what's going on?

• 1:55:42Speaker 08

  Oh, my God, Tom's a transgender.

• 1:55:45Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, my God.

• 1:55:45Speaker 08

  Tom's gone.

• 1:55:46Tom Ellsworth?

  He's back?

• 1:55:46Speaker 08

  Tom's trans.

• 1:55:47Tom Ellsworth?

  They would legislate it, but.

• 1:55:50Speaker 08

  Then he's straight.

• 1:55:53Adam Sosnick?

  A whole deal.

• 1:55:53Tom Ellsworth?

  Adam, I'll get to your point. So, what's going on here is that she was making a comment about one of the key issues on a world stage and she gave a word salad answer, leading you to say, that's all you've got to say about Gaza and Israel and that war?

• 1:56:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me ask.

• 1:56:10Tom Ellsworth?

  That's the leadership you show.

• 1:56:11Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, let me ask you this, Tom.

• 1:56:12Tom Ellsworth?

  That's important.

• 1:56:12Patrick Bet-David?

  How did Trump learn that that wasn't the answer?

• 1:56:16Speaker 08

  I mean, it was all over the internet. Somebody leaked, I think somebody leaked it.

• 1:56:19Patrick Bet-David?

  But Rob, how did they find out?

• 1:56:20Adam Sosnick?

  He's probably smart enough to know that she can't answer the question that way.

• 1:56:23Speaker 08

  I mean, that's.

• 1:56:24Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm actually asking a serious question. How did they find out that that was not?

• 1:56:28Speaker 08

  If I'm not mistaken.

• 1:56:28Patrick Bet-David?

  The answer, how was that leaked?

• 1:56:31Speaker 08

  I think someone.

• 1:56:31Adam Sosnick?

  Someone internally must have said something.

• 1:56:33Speaker 08

  Someone internally had to have said something.

• 1:56:34Adam Sosnick?

  They're like, by the way, she did not have that.

• 1:56:35Speaker 08

  A staffer had to be like, no, she didn't say that. And then they leaked it on, because it was on X quick.

• 1:56:38Adam Sosnick?

  Someone on the inside.

• 1:56:39Speaker 08

  Yeah, it was on X quick.

• 1:56:40Tom Ellsworth?

  You have someone on the inside.

• 1:56:42Speaker 08

  Legal team.

• 1:56:42Adam Sosnick?

  Would it be someone at the FCC? No.

• 1:56:44Tom Ellsworth?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 1:56:45Speaker 08

  After differences between.

• 1:56:46Adam Sosnick?

  Well, Tom, what did, uh?

• 1:56:48Patrick Bet-David?

  What's it say, Rob?

• 1:56:48Speaker 03

  Uh, after observing differences between a. Preview clip and the full broadcast. President Trump's legal team became aware of potential editing discrepancies.

• 1:56:57Speaker 08

  Wow, that's good on his team going, wait a minute, she didn't say that.

• 1:57:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, by the way, the interview lasted forty-five minutes, but it was edited down to a twenty-minute segment for broadcast. So they chopped out twenty-five other minutes.

• 1:57:08Patrick Bet-David?

  But that's not, that's not a big deal. No, no, that they do that often. So that is not the sixty minutes model is they get as much content as they can.

• 1:57:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:57:19Patrick Bet-David?

  To cut it for the segment that they can put it to sell airtime, right? That's what they have to do. That's the business model. That's not the part, but imagine I ask you a question, uh, Vinnie.

• 1:57:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:57:30Patrick Bet-David?

  With, with your background as a comedian, some are questioning the fact that you are not qualified to be the governor of the state of Florida. What do you say to those critics?

• 1:57:41Speaker 08

  Kiss my tush.

• 1:57:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so then I say, Vinnie, I love that answer.

• 1:57:46Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 1:57:46Patrick Bet-David?

  It's hilarious. We want to help you win.

• 1:57:49Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 1:57:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you change the answer and say a different kind of an answer? And matter of fact, we have a writer here.

• 1:57:55Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 1:57:56Patrick Bet-David?

  That can give you some suggestions on ways to answer. We want, of course, we needed to be yours because you're a leader.

• 1:58:01Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 1:58:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's some ideas and for you to consider. So you read them and you think, okay, so let me try it one more time.

• 1:58:06Speaker 08

  Go ahead, go ahead.

• 1:58:07Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, hey, Vincent, you know, a lot of your critics are saying that your background as a former comedian, and there's been skits of you, you know, doing some interesting funny skits, questionable skits. Some say you're not qualified to be a governor because of your background. What do you say to those critics?

• 1:58:24Speaker 08

  Uh, well, first I say that comedians are technically modern day philosophers. So I have a philosophy background. I, I, I dig deep. Yeah, I'm funny, but I have a very, very serious side. And listen, I'm all about, you know, the state of Florida. Uh, I want to make it grow. I want to make it, you know, great again.

• 1:58:39Patrick Bet-David?

  That, that makes sense.

• 1:58:40Speaker 08

  Thank you.

• 1:58:40Patrick Bet-David?

  And that's exactly what we thought you were gonna say.

• 1:58:42Speaker 08

  Thank you.

• 1:58:42Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, that's, that's kind of like, you know.

• 1:58:44Speaker 08

  That felt good. Can we keep that one?

• 1:58:45Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the part. That's kind of in essence, hey, let's use something else and look at, but go back to that clip.

• 1:58:50Speaker 03

  And then we edit it this way. We also ask you, what do you think of?

• 1:58:53Tom Ellsworth?

  If you were to meet Vladimir Putin, what would you say? And then our editor goes, hey, this will be funny. We're going to put the kiss my tush answer right after that.

• 1:59:01Speaker 08

  Yeah, that's so freaking funny.

• 1:59:02Patrick Bet-David?

  All right, so let's go to the next story here. Next story I want to go to is the DNC, right? Ken Martin wins election as the next DNC chair. And a gun control young guy, David Hogg, was elected as the chair of the DNC, vice chair of the DNC. So they're trying to regroup and come out with a new strategy to win the young voters over. And this is their face. Go ahead, Rob, play this, uh, play this clip.

• 1:59:30Speaker 23

  Are you ready to go on the offense? Are you ready to go on the offense? We have to win back our young people. I am the only candidate in this race for any of these positions that is under 30. We had a 20-point shift to the right of our young people. We must show our young people, we give a damn about them, that we support them and we invest in them.

• 1:59:52Patrick Bet-David?

  What, you know who that is behind him? She was on a podcast two and a half years ago.

• 1:59:58Speaker 08

  Yeah, you know what this looks like? It looks like, yeah. No, you know what this looks like?

• 2:00:02Patrick Bet-David?

  What?

• 2:00:02Speaker 08

  I'm saying just like visually, I thought it was a, I thought this was a sketch. It's like a Dave Chappelle show fake. I thought it was a fake sketch. It's David Hogg. You guys know who David Hogg is, all right?

• 2:00:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Tell us.

• 2:00:12Speaker 08

  That David Hogg.

• 2:00:13Adam Sosnick?

  Stoneman Douglas.

• 2:00:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Right.

• 2:00:14Speaker 08

  Well, yeah, well, he is, uh, Mr. Bait himself. He wants, this is what he said in the past, that he wants, you know, tweets and all that stuff abolished, defund the police and designate the NRA as a terrorist group. And he's an anti-gun activist. Uh, in 2023, he posted, you have no right to have a gun. That's that guy, okay? And, uh, cause you know, you know what this was all going on, right? This is the DNC winter meetings where they select all their leadership. They just stuck, uh, discuss strategy, upcoming election cycle, and they set priorities for fundraising and all that type of stuff. Now, you would think, you would think after the shellacking that just happened with this election, they would learn their lesson, okay? But it didn't happen. They're doubling down on their race baiting, gender identity, sexuality.

• 2:00:59Speaker 08

  Here is, this is a clip, this is a montage. You have to watch. At least half of this. I thought that this was insane. This is their leadership demanding the DNC elect, well, the first one's the, the non-binary one, but this is how they're kicking it off with their speakers, Rob. This is, could you imagine being in this audience? Play this clip.

• 2:01:16Speaker 24

  Hello, Democrats. Hey, I am speaking and I would love your attention. There is a black woman at this podium and I deserve your attention like the 11 people who went before me. Yes, I am speaking.

• 2:01:29Speaker 25

  Good evening, Democrats. Look up here.

• 2:01:31Speaker 08

  Oh, God.

• 2:01:31Speaker 25

  Three strong black women standing before you.

• 2:01:33Speaker 08

  No, watch.

• 2:01:34Speaker 25

  Three black women who, rather than just grabbing a chair, ran for chair.

• 2:01:39Speaker 24

  Te quiero mucho, habla gracias por todo.

• 2:01:42Speaker 08

  She's gonna have a heart attack.

• 2:01:43Speaker 24

  My name is Arti Blanco, Freddie Blanco's daughter. Vote for me for vice chair.

• 2:01:47Speaker 08

  Benny Blanco? Yeah, Benny from the Bronx. From the Bronx. Wait, watch. This is against-

• 2:01:51Speaker 25

  This is the Democratic Party. We are our strongest when we stand together.

• 2:01:56Speaker 24

  We are in a time in this country-

• 2:01:58Speaker 08

  Gotta lose our watch.

• 2:01:59Speaker 24

  When our democracy and our rights are under attack. We're at a time where black and brown people, women and other minorities are being blamed for everything-

• 2:02:08Speaker 08

  Ready, ready?

• 2:02:09Speaker 24

  That's wrong with this country.

• 2:02:10Speaker 08

  What the hell?

• 2:02:13Speaker 08

  Who's he? I don't- Oh, I'm sorry. What-

• 2:02:16Speaker 25

  Good afternoon, DNC!

• 2:02:20Speaker 08

  Oh, my God.

• 2:02:22Speaker 25

  Let me say something. Over the last several days, we've seen what happens when we have the wrong people in powerful places.

• 2:02:29Speaker 08

  Oh, God.

• 2:02:30Speaker 25

  And so today, I ask for your support and electing me is your DNC vice chair.

• 2:02:35Speaker 08

  Rob, pause this and now, okay, are you ready for this? So, race baiting, all that stuff, this one takes the cake, okay? This guy is a DNC official demanding that the DNC elect nine binary person for the leadership position. Can you imagine being in this room? Jamie Harrison? Yeah, go ahead. Look.

• 2:02:53Speaker 24

  Our rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.

• 2:03:05Speaker 08

  No, I don't even-

• 2:03:06Speaker 24

  With the results of the previous, uh, elections, our elected officers at this point are currently two male and two female.

• 2:03:14Speaker 08

  We need a non-binary-

• 2:03:15Speaker 24

  In order to be gender balanced, we must have, add one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

• 2:03:24Speaker 08

  By the way, and listen to me, I'm an independent, I'm in the middle. But Republicans are gonna be in great shape for a very, very long time. These guys and girls are not getting the picture. How many times you have to lose and how are you not gonna wake up? Okay, and I'm telling you right now, you know they're saying this young vote? David Hogg isn't the answer. And like, you know how Rogan and Zuckerberg and Bezos and Musk all went from Democrats to Republicans? The only hope they have, guys, Tom, and I'm being dead serious. They have to recruit somebody from the other side to come to them. Or grab a young person with a crazy following. It's not David Hogg, nobody even cares or knows who he is. They need like a Kai Sanaat, they need a I Show Speed.

• 2:04:09Speaker 08

  They need somebody with a huge following that they could brainwash for years. This is not, this is not it. This is not it.

• 2:04:16Tom Ellsworth?

  Taylor Swift didn't work.

• 2:04:17Speaker 08

  No, it's not working, but I mean, guys, do you think that, Adam, be honest with me. Is that gonna work? David Hogg and everybody's racist and everybody's gender and my neutral crap?

• 2:04:27Tom Ellsworth?

  There's no substance in these speeches, that's what struck me. I mean, you can be upset and we can howl at the moon and go look at these things. But there is no substance. There is no, I was listening and wondering, is one of these people, even though that they can be a caricature of themselves and be ridiculous and they were doing a good job of that. What's your substance? What's your platform? What do you stand for?

• 2:04:46Speaker 08

  Nothing.

• 2:04:47Tom Ellsworth?

  What are you doing? And that one lady, we need to attack this, attack this, attack this. Wow, it looks like she's been attacking cheeseburgers and the cheeseburgers lost.

• 2:04:53Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 2:04:54Tom Ellsworth?

  So I am really shocked that there wasn't any, hey, we need to turn the page tomorrow with the following few things.

• 2:05:01Speaker 08

  Yes.

• 2:05:01Tom Ellsworth?

  We lost our young people and we need to remind them of the following two things. That is how you build a platform and now try to change people's mind and bring it over. But I was waiting to hear like positions, there was nothing there.

• 2:05:14Speaker 08

  I want your honest opinion, do you think this tactic is going to?

• 2:05:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Do anything for them? Well, I mean, the part like he almost, if you look at the way David Hogg was dressed, go back and see what David Hogg was dressed. He may not know this, but pull it up. Okay, do me a favor, pull up a Charlie Kirk. Go to Charlie Kirk and go to images. Can you do me a favor, just go Charlie Kirk and go to images? Okay? And go to the one on, on bottom left, no, uh, uh, go to bottom, no, go back, close that picture, Rob, if you could? Okay, and so go to the bottom left right there, okay? Zoom in, and I'll go to the David Hogg picture. What a good, what a good comparison. Look at that, go back again, go put, can you find a way to put them side by side? Like, you gotta zoom, you gotta make the other one slightly small, yeah, there you go. And then make the other one slightly smaller?

• 2:06:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, make that one also slightly smaller and put them right next to each other? There you go, look at that. I mean, I mean, night and. Look at that, it's almost as if he said he's gonna, look, he's trying to be Charlie Kirk. That's so funny. David Hogg is trying to be Charlie Kirk. Yeah. But guess what? You either are, or you're not. He's not. You can't be. Nope. He's, it, it, the amount of hours Charlie put on going to campuses and making his arguments, his arguments are not gonna work. Matter of fact, it didn't work with a young Chinese, do you, do you guys remember? Lily Tang! Yeah, pull up this clip, Rob, with Lily Tang. I just texted it to you, like, literally a minute ago, if you see it. Lily Tang, very basic, watch this clip here, okay? Play this clip.

• 2:06:46Speaker 26

  Hi, my name is Lily Tang Williams. Welcome to my live free or die state. Actually, I am a Chinese immigrant who survived communism.

• 2:06:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 2:06:57Speaker 26

  And under Mao, you know, forty million people were starving to death after he sold the communism to them, and twenty million people died, murdered during his Cultural Revolution. So my question to you, David, is that can you guarantee me a gun owner tonight? Our government in the US in D.C. will never, never become a tyrannical government? Can you guarantee that to me?

• 2:07:25Speaker 27

  There's no way I can ever guarantee that any government will not be tyrannical.

• 2:07:28Speaker 26

  Well, then the debate on gun control is over because I will never be back my guns. Never, never. You should go to China to see how gun control works.

• 2:07:41Speaker 08

  She messaged me, she wants to go back.

• 2:07:44Adam Sosnick?

  This debate's over.

• 2:07:46Patrick Bet-David?

  So, one, he tried to be Charlie Kirk, he's not gonna be able to do it. Two, Lily Tang destroyed him, he should have stepped away a long time ago, but it is what it is. They're really trying, I think the way for them to go is gonna be more a Caruso route. I think it's gonna be more a logical route. I think they try to go through Josh Shapiro, but some stories are coming out from Josh Shapiro from back in the days that's extremely disturbing. Look, I mean, they're gonna try to find something. This is not the way to go. It's just not. This doesn't make the opponent say, "Oh, wow, what are they gonna do?" Go ahead, Adam.

• 2:08:19Adam Sosnick?

  Well, even though young David Hogg looks similar to Charlie Kirk, he ain't no Charlie Kirk. Completely conflicting ideology. Obviously, if you're not familiar with David Hogg, he came on the national scene in 2018 during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school shooting when dozens of kids were killed, literally right up the road here. How far is it from here? 20 minutes?

• 2:08:44Adam Sosnick?

  They couldn't have more conflicting ideologies on gun control. Charlie Kirk is a big two-way guy. And religion, principles, values, they couldn't be any more different. Charlie Kirk did not go to college. I think he wrote the book or wrote a lot about college being a scam, whereas David Hogg literally went to Harvard, so you know where he was indoctrinated. But beyond that, the Democratic Party has turned into what? Just a bunch of LGBTQBBW women just yelling about "Listen to me" and misogyny and feminism and "they/them" and "the there" and "who there", "zizei".

• 2:09:24Adam Sosnick?

  There was another clip, I believe, when there was, I think all the, sort of like the board members of the DNC are the people that basically were becoming the board. And they said, "Raise your hands if you think Kamala lost due to racism and misogyny." And every single one was like, "Me, me, me. Really?" Racism and misogyny.

• 2:09:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 2:09:48Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, that's the reason?

• 2:09:49Patrick Bet-David?

  If you got that clip, play it.

• 2:09:50Adam Sosnick?

  Do you have that?

• 2:09:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, this is it.

• 2:09:51Adam Sosnick?

  Here you go.

• 2:09:52Speaker 28

  In this round, so I'm going to, um, I have a show of-

• 2:09:57Adam Sosnick?

  Jonathan Capehart, this guy.

• 2:09:59Speaker 28

  How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris's defeat?

• 2:10:05Speaker 08

  Oh, God. What a bunch of dorks.

• 2:10:08Adam Sosnick?

  All of them.

• 2:10:09Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 2:10:09Adam Sosnick?

  And look, no, no, don't stop, don't stop, Rob. Play the end. Play the end.

• 2:10:14Speaker 28

  So, that's good. You all passed.

• 2:10:17Adam Sosnick?

  That's good.

• 2:10:18Speaker 08

  You all passed.

• 2:10:19Adam Sosnick?

  Meaning, you all passed. Like, if one of you said, "No," just because-

• 2:10:21Speaker 08

  You're done.

• 2:10:22Adam Sosnick?

  She was unqualified, or Trump had a better message, he would have probably lambasted them in front of everybody publicly. That's good, you all passed. How about, rather than focusing on gender ideology, or LGBTQ, or trans, or global warming, you have an economic message that actually resonates with voters? We just had Ro Khanna here the other day, the congressman from Silicon Valley.

• 2:10:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 2:10:44Adam Sosnick?

  And I asked him one question. I go, "Dude, Ro, how are you gonna get dudes to vote for Democrats again? You had my vote 10 years ago, 5 years ago. At this point, there's no way I can vote for this nonsense."

• 2:10:57Speaker 08

  Oh, my goodness.

• 2:10:58Adam Sosnick?

  As a dude, playing the dude, behind the dude.

• 2:11:01Speaker 08

  Trying to vote for the dude.

• 2:11:01Adam Sosnick?

  Trying to vote for the dude. I can't vote for these dudes-

• 2:11:03Speaker 08

  Yep.

• 2:11:04Adam Sosnick?

  In dresses.

• 2:11:05Speaker 08

  That's horrible.

• 2:11:05Adam Sosnick?

  Straight up.

• 2:11:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. I mean, look, this, this is even more of a, like, for me, I'm watching to see what AOC is gonna be doing. I'm watching to see who they're gonna get behind. I'm watching to see what Caruso's gonna be doing. I'm watching to see what the centrist conservatives are gonna be doing, centrist liberals are gonna be doing. And, uh, they're, they're doubling down on the opposite side.

• 2:11:30Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 2:11:30Patrick Bet-David?

  AOC is going after Nancy Pelosi, and so insider trading. Great, which is good. That's kinda like pushing each other out. But, uh, because there's so much opportunity, you're gonna see a dog-eat-dog type of a environment. And I'm not quite sure they have yet figured out how to do it. Don't get it twisted. They're going to come back and compete. This was the most embarrassing loss of their careers. They're not gonna let it sit like this. It's gonna be something that they're going to make that comeback. To come through and find a way to make some kind of progress for themselves. Rob, do you have the other story, the one I just texted you? Is that a yes or a no for this story?

• 2:12:13Adam Sosnick?

  Yes.

• 2:12:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Or you don't know yet?

• 2:12:14Adam Sosnick?

  No, yep, we're good.

• 2:12:15Patrick Bet-David?

  We're good, okay, so then if you have that story, pull up that clip. Do me a favor, pull up that clip. And pull up that clip, so today happens to be someone's birthday. Oh, man. Today happens to be a guy's birthday that's aging backwards. He's turning 39 years old today. Thirty-nine. Today is the legendary Adam Sosnick's birthday. Yeah. Officially, 45, you can no longer tell it from a number because it's online, homie.

• 2:12:45Tom Ellsworth?

  Happy birthday to you.

• 2:12:49Adam Sosnick?

  Thank you.

• 2:12:50Tom Ellsworth?

  Happy birthday to you.

• 2:12:53Adam Sosnick?

  What's your point?

• 2:12:54Tom Ellsworth?

  Happy birthday, dear Adam.

• 2:12:58Adam Sosnick?

  That's his point.

• 2:12:59Tom Ellsworth?

  Happy birthday to you.

• 2:13:04Patrick Bet-David?

  My man.

• 2:13:05Adam Sosnick?

  All right, make a point, blow up the candles.

• 2:13:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Make a point, speech, a wish.

• 2:13:08Adam Sosnick?

  Now, listen, you just exposed everything now, and now all the girls have talked to him.

• 2:13:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, Rob, put it up.

• 2:13:12Adam Sosnick?

  That I'm not, uh...

• 2:13:12Patrick Bet-David?

  That's it, that's the truth.

• 2:13:13Adam Sosnick?

  Still 40 somehow. Let me make a wish real quick.

• 2:13:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it, go ahead, buddy.

• 2:13:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 2:13:19Adam Sosnick?

  All right. Oh, my God, it worked!

• 2:13:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Happy birthday, Adam.

• 2:13:22Adam Sosnick?

  Well, listen, Pat, as I say, as I say all the time, just like this, I'm gonna be 70.

• 2:13:27Patrick Bet-David?

  That's a crazy thing.

• 2:13:28Adam Sosnick?

  In 25 years!

• 2:13:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 2:13:30Adam Sosnick?

  He's gonna fly by just like that.

• 2:13:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, that's the crazy thing.

• 2:13:32Adam Sosnick?

  But, uh...

• 2:13:33Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, for those watching, okay? You know this whole concept about, we're having dinner the other night, I don't know, we're in DC, I think, right?

• 2:13:41Adam Sosnick?

  We're in DC, for inauguration.

• 2:13:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Right, and we're having this conversation about how fast time flies by, and we went to this restaurant. What was that restaurant, Rob? The first night we went to? Oh, man. It was cool. What a freaking great... The waiter was, he brought Arnold Palmer's, like, NASCAR driver change on tires. He was phenomenal, right? The way he would do it.

• 2:13:56Adam Sosnick?

  He was freezing, I remember that.

• 2:13:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, it was freezing. What? The Egrit Grill? Was that it? Is that what it was? Oh, great food, conversation.

• 2:14:03Adam Sosnick?

  Definitely wasn't the name of the word.

• 2:14:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Phenomenal conversations.

• 2:14:06Adam Sosnick?

  Pull it up.

• 2:14:06Patrick Bet-David?

  But we talked about the fact that, you know... Old Ebbett Grill. Old Ebbett Grill.

• 2:14:11Adam Sosnick?

  That's where it was.

• 2:14:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Real cool place. Amazing. And we're sitting, having this conversation about aging, and Adam's got six girls around him, and they're just talking to him, and everyone's trying to validate... Yeah, two of them were trans. Was Adam born in 1980 or 86? We're just kinda having a conversation, going back and forth, and then it came down to, you know... We're gonna be seven years old like this.

• 2:14:31Adam Sosnick?

  Well, listen.

• 2:14:32Patrick Bet-David?

  But let me tell you, while I was in DC, I talked to John Shaheedi.

• 2:14:36Adam Sosnick?

  Oh, Shaheedi, yeah.

• 2:14:37Patrick Bet-David?

  John Shaheedi was a very, very good guy. That whole crew, they're just good guys. We had a moment at the YouTube, if you remember that whole YouTube thing. It was a very interesting moment. He said, you know, that whole thing where life is short? Elon also thinks life is long, okay? Meaning, there's an emphasis on both sides. I'm convinced both sides are right. Let me tell you why. Because right now, you're 45 years old. God willing, you can one day experience what happened to me last night. At 3:45 in the morning, Brooklyn runs the way she does and wakes everybody up. Comes in the room, we're up till 4:45 with Brooklyn.

• 2:15:21Patrick Bet-David?

  But you're kissing her, you're hugging her, she doesn't want to take anything. She wakes everybody up, Senna's laying next to me, all this other stuff. These incredible moments you're gonna share with family one day. As short as life is, life is also long. And you got some of the best years ahead of you. You're gonna build some of your greatest memories ahead of you. I'm so happy for you. God willing, if you choose to make some of those choices that are long-term, the things that actually matter in life, you will experience the real juices, the real good things in life.

• 2:15:49Adam Sosnick?

  Well, if I may, thank God, literally, that I have PBD around me and good influences around me. Because if I didn't have PBD doing this every day, you married yet? You got kids yet? You married yet? You have kids yet? I'd probably be a bachelor for life. But you've helped me get very clear that, just like this.

• 2:16:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I have failed. I've failed miserably. Five years, you're still, you know.

• 2:16:11Adam Sosnick?

  Well, listen, we're getting there. You've not failed. You're just, you gotta try harder.

• 2:16:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that what it is? I'm putting all the girls around?

• 2:16:19Adam Sosnick?

  No, it's good. I think you've set a great example for the young men out there. And I'm getting closer to where I want to be. And I definitely don't want to end up like Bill Maher. I love the guy, but I love where he's at politically these days. But I don't think that being a childless cat man is for me for the rest of my life. And by the way, Vinny, we're gonna get you married too, one of these days.

• 2:16:45Speaker 08

  You sounded like it's a prison term. You're like, "You're gonna get it too." Like, selling me a lemon. You're like, "You like this piece of shit?"

• 2:16:53Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, talking about lemons, there's a lemon story coming out here soon. Stay tuned for that. It's gonna be exciting. But, for everybody else that's watching this, and you wanna wish him a happy birthday, you can on my neck. You know why? Because for the month, Adam is the super heavyweight. For this month, Adam's the super, super heavyweight. Oh, no, no. Tom just passed him up again. Oh, shit, for a minute.

• 2:17:16Speaker 08

  Uh-oh.

• 2:17:16Patrick Bet-David?

  He was ahead. Are we at... Are you guys noticing the points for calls? Is that what you're noticing? Is he giving more points for calls?

• 2:17:22Speaker 08

  No, I haven't done that yet.

• 2:17:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, got it. No, Tom has done 60, completed my necks. Damn, you've done 39 already. Holy shit, we got some catching up to do. Send a manek to Adam, wish him a happy birthday, especially if you're part of the Adam camp, and you wanna see Adam take the lead. Those of you that are big Adam camps, send this guy a manek. Wish him a happy birthday. Have a call with him. Have a conversation with him. And if you have a single lady friend that's wife quality, have her manek him. And, uh, anyways.

• 2:17:52Speaker 08

  And if you're rich, and if you're 80, 85, 90, and you're an older woman, and...

• 2:17:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Manek Vinny.

• 2:17:57Speaker 08

  Manek me. If you're like, almost on the way out, I'll marry you quick. We'll just...

• 2:18:01Adam Sosnick?

  It's so interesting. I'm looking for young and hot. You're looking for old and rich.

• 2:18:04Speaker 08

  Old and just on the couch, where I just come home, I know she's there, she doesn't yell. So, manek me.

• 2:18:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Thanks for tuning in. Have a great day. We'll be out of town, but we will be back. I think we are back on Thursday, and tomorrow, Stephen Greer is going.

• 2:18:16Speaker 08

  Yes, sir. 9 a.m. tomorrow, Stephen Greer.

• 2:18:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Stephen Greer, part three. Very interesting conversation. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.