This is an I Heart podcast, guaranteed human, didn't catch the latest Roland Martin unfiltered podcast. Here's what you missed. There should not be a single law enforcement agency that does not have body cameras. It's real. Black farmers have been under attack. This is just the latest example of them just slapping DEI on anything. It's raw. And I'm sitting here going, they are playing y'all for fools. Catch Roland Martin's daily commentary on the Black Information Network. Download Roland Martin unfiltered on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast. Oh, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, Ready or Not 2024 is here and we here at Breaking Points are already thinking of ways we can up our game for this critical election. We rely on our premium subs to expand coverage, upgrade the studio, add staff, give you guys the best independent coverage that is possible. If you like what we're all about, it just means the absolute world to have your support. But enough with that, let's get to the show. Good morning and welcome to Breaking Points. We've an amazing show today. Don't we Emily? You know, we really do because we have a lot of Ryan Grimm original reporting in today's show. A lot of drop site original reporting, some Ryan Grimm, some. Some Ryan Grimm. Ryan Grimm edited reporting. There you go. Let's go with that. And great stuff too. And on both the Iron Beam, we're going to get in all of this, but also midterm election reporting out of Michigan. We're going to start because the Fed's announcement is expected with no matter of hours. So we're going to start going through a whole lot of economic news. We actually had a hard time dividing the economic news from the Iran news. We're going to do blocks on both of them, but they're, of course, intertwined. There's so much going on now as the Fed debates its potential rate hike. I think we're all pretty much expecting a rate hike. We're expecting. We'll see. And midterm's continuing to look terrible for Republicans, especially bad in Michigan as a new drop site report is going to make microagency pretty damn bad. Yes, indeed. We'll also talk about Section 219 is going to come before the Senate now that they're back in session. That's the one that would merge the Israeli and American militaries. Bertasa Hussein and I looked into some of the claims that are made that it is actually the U.S. that benefits from our collaboration with the ingenious indigenous innovators over in Israel. So, we're going to take a look at particularly the Iron Beam also at the Arrow missile program. And the real story. It's America's first reporting. The real story is you'll be surprised to know different than what you've been told before about that. Cash Patel was up on Capitol Hill talking about beach reality. Patel? Yeah. He was talking about beach reality. Among other things, Patel and Bess and both on Capitol Hill yesterday. We have clips from both of those, but yes, we will break down what happened with Cash Patel yesterday. So much ground covered, including, of course, beach reality. And then Ryan, we'll be talking about the Houthis because you recorded an interview with Pro Houthi. Well, yeah. So, I was explaining it to Emily yesterday. So, we're going to, we're yesterday interviewed Hussein, Albu Qaeda, whose brother Muhammad is actually in the political bureau of the Vahnsara Law. And so, I said, he's sort of like, he is to answer our law as I am kind of to DSA. We're kind of sympathetic, but we're willing to be critical when we think that they're going astray. Fascinating, especially given all the news coming out of the Israeli world right now. Yeah. Very, very interesting interview. Stick around for that. The most fun thing that we've been doing, though, has been kind of humiliating soccer on a weekly basis as people kind of now wait until Wednesday or Friday to sign up for their free month. If you go to brainpoints.com for this weekly ritual of soccer commiliation, you do it there. Sign up. You get one free month. I was thinking about what we could offer here in the context of today's program. And the world is really falling apart, and you're going to, I think, have a greater sense of dread, 20 to 30 minutes from now, after you've gone through all of the latest updates on the economy and the war, which are very much interrelated. So it is a fair forecast that you are going to have much less money a year from now. So I think if you go ahead and do brainpoints.com, do the one free month, forget to cancel it, end up doing an annual subscription. If you email me a year from now, and you're broke, we'll give you an extra year. How about that? And that means someone also goes, "Only if you're broke, but you have to be broke." But you're going to have to give your email.
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I really can't emphasize enough how much the wheels are coming off of this economy. However, if you don't want to hear that, I have Scott Besson for you. So let's roll A1. Under President Trump, the private sector has created over 1 million jobs. Real wages are outpacing inflation. The bottom 25% of wage earners are seeing larger wage increases than those at the top. And the working families tax cuts has delivered the largest share of tax relief directly to millions up below and middle income Americans. It's a little bit like you quoting the Atlanta Federal Reserve as a GDP projection for the third quarter. Atlantic Federal Reserve has a GDP projection that is double what the survey of professional forecasters is saying it will be at 2.5%. So I saw a lot of happy talk about the economy, which by the way is political malpractice. When the American people, and this is in the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, see consumer sentiment lose 20 points since the beginning of the Trump administration. You have a political problem. I don't expect you to comment on that, but you have a political problem. Which is why my friends on the other side of the aisle are not talking much about the economy today. Congressman, there's a survey problem, because Democrats are now poisoning the survey. Mr. Secretary, you're better than that, but reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time. So the economy is great. The problem is that you all out there are lying to the survey people and telling them that it's not great. That is best since argument here. That's a pretty bad messaging strategy. Pretty bad. You cannot trust these lying American people to be honest about how awesome things are. He got a question saying, what is the expiration date on blaming Biden for this economy? That's a pretty fair question, because what is the expiration date? I don't know. I mean, when you take office, it's pretty hard to say what he said it was. I don't remember what to say. I don't actually don't even know if he got an answer out, because it was one of those back and forth where they're squabbling over each other, but it was, I mean, as soon as you take office from a messaging standpoint, you pretty much have to own the economy. And now we're almost two years into the second Trump administration. So it's especially grating in a midterm cycle when you're in the middle of a war by choice on top of all of that from this administration, also a tear for by choice. You do have to own it. So that's a tough one for Besson to wiggle out of. And to be fair to Besson, it is true that under both Biden and now under Trump, the opposite parties, voters were more willing to say the economy stunk than in the past, like Republicans under Clinton or Democrats under Reagan would be more willing to separate out. So there's something to that. However, there is also a material reality to the economy of which the bottom is falling out. He also, he defended his efforts to shovel endless amounts of money into the burning pit that is his attempt to manipulate the way that the global economy is reacting to what is happening both in the war and with the American economy. And he said, quote, we will be talking about a fiscal consolidation plan that is coming. So more, you know, he's, fiscal consolidation is his word for, you know, deeper and deeper intervention into the, into the bond market. What he's, what he's doing, he's in the phase that so many of you have been in so, so many times, which is, hey, don't cash that check yet. I got to move, I got to move some things around. And then, and let me get back to you when you can cash that. So he's in the, I got to move some things around phase of, it's such a perfect description of what's happening. That's what he's doing. He's, he's moving some things around that that check is good. I try, I promise, just don't cash it right now. Give us a minute. Yeah. We're now speaking of checks being in the mail, put up a three, just, and this is why we don't know whether to count this as, you know, war news or this is economy news. So this is oil analyst, Brett Erickson, Reuters reporting that Saudi Arabia is cancelling shipments of crude oil to Europe after the catastrophic destruction of the Saudi, East West pipeline in recent days paired with unsourced lost strikes against various Saudi infrastructure.
So they canceled late September, we're basically in September 16th now. They canceled late September deliveries. There is reporting that there are also that October deliveries are wobbly as well. In other words, if you're in Europe and you ordered a tanker of oil from Saudi Arabia, it's not going to show up. Which you can move some things around if you're Scott Besson. In that situation, but there is a fundamental material reality to our global oil-based economy that is being absolutely ripped to pieces right now. Meanwhile, we can put up a plan in Juliet run by ExxonMobile, producing enormous amounts of diesel is offline. And it looks bad, like the video of it. What happened here? Because you had to write this one. The thinking is that, so plants are supposed to go down for regular maintenance. And when you're running a normal economy, that's how you do it. When you are running massive shortages across the world, and when spreads are so huge, if you have a diesel plant, you're processing 24/7. And so the thinking is that they pushed it beyond the limit and broke their plant. And so you had the Gulf oil top energy analysts say, like 2-day, you're going to start seeing huge increases in diesel and gasoline prices at the pump, particularly in the kind of mountain west and the Midwest. And I don't know exactly how much connection there is to that, but that's a huge plant. But what he was saying is that the inventories are so low that you're starting to immediately see it. Now Libya, meanwhile, the national oil company of Libya said that it was likely going to declare force measure, which means basically, you know, hey, there's nothing we can do about this. And they are not going to be exporting oil. It's like when Michael Scott declared bankruptcy. Right. And then basically, if you can cite force measure, then you don't have to pay on your contracts. You don't have to pay the default fees. They are facing protests all throughout Libya right now. And so Libya, you know, a non-trivial contributor to our global oil production. Didn't catch the latest Roland Martin unfiltered podcast. And the argument is, do you want to win? If you don't win, you have no power. It's real. Those are the very people who I always say vote against their own economic interests, and they complained about the very thing to receive. It's wrong. I knew that the issue of transgender athletes was not going well with a lot of black men. Roland Martin unfiltered. I said, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all go scream at Chanel, but you don't want to see a black luxury company in the same bag. 12 seats. Those are moving south. So if you Democrats, you don't wait to 23, you better be hitting the ground going hard in the south now. 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The Seahawks win Super Bowl 60. They are bringing Lombardi back to the Northwest. If it's happening on a football field, NFL daily will cover it. Listen to NFL daily on the iHot Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. So Trump's eyeing the crisis that he produced because he just couldn't say no to Netanyahu. So serving the wreckage of the world. He tells Zelensky, "Look guy, now is not the time to be smashing Russian diesel production facilities and at least Russian diesel." The rest of the oil infrastructure would probably be great if you didn't, but he's not going to push on that. You can't ask for too much from our allies, but he's a diesel. Please back off. He didn't say please. He ordered him. Stop attacking the diesel infrastructure. So we can put up this next element. Ukraine strikes Cisron refinery in Russia despite Trump claim of energy truce. Ukraine struck the oil refinery in Russia's Samar region as Kiev continues its campaign against Russian energy targets. The Samar government confirmed an industrial facility was hit, but did not identify it while images of the attacks circulated on social media. The strike came despite Trump's claim earlier this week that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on each other's energy infrastructure. Russia's simultaneously launched around 200 drones at Ukraine overnight, killing two people and damaging petrol stations at Kiev as well as energy and port infrastructure elsewhere. Zelensky said Ukraine was prepared to suspend such attacks, but one incredible guarantee is that Moscow would also stop Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Trump's proposal, quote, "a very good idea." So what's their target about? So Trump had a great idea, but I guess Zelensky and Putin have another idea and they're going to continue bombing each other's energy infrastructure until the other one stops. Two things can be true at once. Trump had a great idea and it's going to keep going. That's apparently what the Russian statement is telling us there. We also should get to this Reuters survey of property experts. This is going to be a four. So Reuters reporting yesterday on their survey, US mortgage rates will stay higher than previously forecast and decline only modestly overcoming quarters. It's according to their poll of property experts. They say it's going to keep home price growth muted. Yes, of course. Through next year, those barring rate expectations published a day before the US Fed is set to raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time this year. We're spying too low and leave government efforts to revive the US housing market looking, looking increasingly hollow. Again, worth emphasizing, this is about the opposite of what the Trump administration wanted to see from the economy a year ago when Trump was relentlessly pushing the Kevin Worsh nomination, pushing investigations into Jerome Powell worth noting this is again the opposite of what they wanted the economy. Trump was pushing Worsh specifically because he wanted rates to come down. He was pushing Powell specifically because he wanted rates to come down. He wanted to see people moving people buying houses. Basically, that's everything that he thought he was going to be able to do with the economy was such a high priority for him. We're going to break all of these norms when it came to Powell and here we are because of his choice in the around war, not even Kevin Worsh is going to be raising, there's going to be lowering rates at this point Ryan. That's the expectation at least. Right. And every quarter point on your mortgage is a huge amount of money that you have to pay every month to pay your mortgage off. often. So it really changes how much house you can afford and if you're selling
your house, how much you can ask other people to pay for it because, you know, if they're paying, you know, huge interest rates, then they have less money to pay. If you go and look at any of the mortgage interest charts, I just pulled up Freddie Mac, but you can look at any of them. The day before Trump launched the war in February is, is the lowest on record for, you know, going back to and COVID. What is it? COVID was super low. Just under six percent for 30 year mortgage. That's painful to hear. Um, was, and you're, you're looking right. So you, you're kind of familiar a little bit with, uh, it's brutal. Looking passively. I mean, yeah, I haven't met early 30s. There are a lot of people in their early 30s right now who are looking to buy a home for not just like economic reasons wanting to put some of your, wanting to invest in, in property and a house, but also just to have some, I don't know, there's a lot of like cultural benefits that come with owning a home in your community and kind of being part of that planning route. So at Trump talked about that all the time. Trump started talking about that all of the time. Uh, and he had a boost in young voters voting Republican in 2024. They were talking about this a lot. And it was a huge priority for them to try and be able to talk about this. Nothing. They got nothing except for higher rates. And the rates last peaked in November of 2023 and that were pushing 7.75. And so, and then they start coming down, coming down rapidly as, uh, as both the Fed is tightening interest rates and also the economy is struggling at, you know, which is, which two things are connected. Uh, and we're emerging from COVID. And you know, more or less, you know, a little bumpy, but more or less steadily coming down, uh, over the next, over the next couple of years, until you get to their coming steadily down under Trump. Like you can, you can see, you can see a real possibility for Trump to oversee, okay, pretty strong economy throughout his entire term, like all the numbers we're heading in the right direction. Even with the trade war. And I actually think that's an important point. There were a lot of dire forecasts about the trade war. And it's not as though there haven't been some negative externalities and consequences behind it. I should say negative consequences behind it. Obviously, if you look at the chart, you get a significant bump because of liberation day in April. Yes. But, you know, manage bull. And then it's, and then it starts trending down again. So a bump there, people were scared. Then it starts coming down again. And then boom, uh, he goes to war. And the numbers just been up, up until the right since then. And they've been down over seven percent, like yesterday, it eclipsed an average of seven percent, which is puts housing out of reach for just so many people. So many people, I mean, you have to be like rich, live in a really low cost area, or be pretty comfortable with that to take part in what we always considered the American dream home ownership right now. Right. And so especially for people in their 20s and 30s, we're trying to enter that with the boomer home, boomer home ownership where it is right now. They're just not a lot of single family homes rates are really high. So all these things that they were trying to tackle, they were touting this report yesterday to just bring in what best, this came out well, best it was testifying. It was a census, census bureau data that found real median household income rose by 2.6% to 87,000 for 60 last year, according to that census bureau report, the poverty rate fell by a nearly half point to 10 point 2%. The poverty threshold for a family for last year was $32,970, best celebrated the data CNBC reported. But they also note the census data covers 2025 and doesn't account for recent changes in inflation or other economic shifts since they were on war started. So Ren, this gets to exactly your point, but how all of the economic indicators were trending in the right direction for the Trump administration until February 28th, when he decides to launch this war. Yeah, and we didn't know which block to put this in, but I was also talking about it here and then transition to the next one. We put a B4 actually, so this is Shanghai crude oil hitting a new record, $135. And what you're seeing here, when they say Shanghai crude or otherwise they identify it by a location, that's what people are actually paying for it, like when it's delivered. And you see the huge gap between how it's trading in the market, which can be heavily manipulated by speculators and by Scott Besson, who's out there constantly trying to, you know, using American money to short it, to keep the pressure down, which is basically just constantly losing bets, deliberately losing bets to people on the other side of the bet. We're just basically handing people money to keep that number on the screen a little bit lower. But then when somebody has to actually buy it at the port, they have to shell out Shanghai crude $135 a barrel. Yeah, it's a tough case for Scott Besson to have to make, which is why you're seeing him strain and saying it's what people are telling the polsters that the Democrats who are being pulled are polluting the data. So stop lying about how great things are and everything will be great. Suck it up. Can't you buy? Can't you also buy a mansion in Charleston if you put your mind to it? Right. And also think about this, you don't need a mortgage if your parents just give you the money for the house. Why don't you think about that? That is a good point. Have you all not considered this? Make that call just ask nicely. Yeah. Come home for Thanksgiving. See what happens. Yeah. Or your grandparents. Yeah. It's a diversity of ways to succeed in America. Well, we should move on to Iran because there's a lot of news in the middle, coming to the Middle East right now as well, Ryan, that intersects with everything that we were just talking about. But Thomas Massey moved to impeach Pete Heggseth yesterday. Let's get to it. It's real. Those are the very people who I always say vote against their own economic interests and they complained about the very thing they were seeing. It's wrong. I went off. 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Listen to NFL Daily on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Outgoing Republican Congressman Thomas Bassie moved to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth yesterday on War Power Grounds. Let's take a listen to what Representative Massey said on the House floor. Mr. Speaker pursuant to clause 2A1 of rule 9, I seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows. Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
for high crimes and misdemeanors. Resolved that Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, also referred to as Secretary of War by the administration, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate, articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Peter, Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense. Inmatements and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. - Well, spoiler, I actually have Tucker on after party tonight and I asked him about that yesterday, if he would support the impeachment of Hegseth and of Trump. Massey also said by engaging in hostilities in Iran for more than 90 days without congressional authorization, Secretary Hegseth is breaking the law and must be held accountable. Congress must not turn a blind eye to Secretary Hegseth, unconstitutional and illegal actions. And so, Ryan, this is obviously not going anywhere in the Mike Johnson-controlled House of Representatives. It could go somewhere in a Democratic-controlled Congress. - Well, the problem is it would have to go somewhere in the Senate. - Yeah, that's gonna happen. - But because you need a two-thirds vote to convict. - Yeah. - But I don't wanna rule out the value of it because we were all raised taught about the checks and balances that make our government like worth preserving. Like that's the thing that makes us a republic we're told. And we very clearly in the Constitution delegate the power to declare war to Congress. The War Powers Act itself specifically outlines the way that Congress can intervene on questions of war and peace. In pretty much a first, Congress passed a War Powers' resolution, demanding that the Iran War be ended. Like this is not the kind of thing that you need fancy constitutional scholars to debate. - No, we're referring to it as a war. The President referred to it as a war. - It's right there. And Congress actually, a Republican-controlled Congress, shockingly did its job, voted on the war, and voted it down. And they pursued it anyway. Which is, and so then, okay, the next check in the process is we're impeaching you. Like that is not a radical move. That is just, that is the process that we have set up to try to maintain checks and balances. The party nature, where people are more loyal to a party than they are to the Constitution, is the thing that doesn't have a check in the system, other than complete and total lack of popularity. If Republicans lose in Kansas, we're gonna talk about Kansas in our midterm block. If they lose in Kansas and they lose in Nebraska and they lose in Texas, maybe there are some senators who just demand he resign. And maybe he just resigns as the fall guy, like Donald Rumsfeld resigned after 2006, the 2006 midterms, which were understood to be a referendum on Bush's war. But Congress at that point had not ordered it, ended. And Bush wasn't continuing illegal. - There's way more public support in that regard. - And legally, it was illegal, kind of generally. - In 2006, there was way more public support for the Iraq war at that point. Even as it was going down dramatically. - Probably still, yeah. - Yeah. - Yes. And additionally, we can put this up next. This is from the Washington Sun. A CBO report is saying that present Trump's war with Iran has cost the U.S. nearly $40 billion consumed as much as two thirds of some critical U.S. missile interceptors and is expected to push inflation higher into next year. The CBO and Tuesday released its first projections for the war, finding that the conflict had directly cost the U.S. $38 billion through August 1st and will continue to cost roughly $2 billion to $3 billion each month. Those, each month, those costs could rise during periods of heavier fighting. The Sun adds more than half of the cost so far. So far, $21.7 billion comes from replacing munitions, including $13 billion worth of missile defense interceptors. And that, first of all, the CBO estimate is lower than what different news outlets have come up with trying to do the math itself. But it is the CBO, it's an acknowledgement from the CBO that, yes, inflation is being caused by the Iran war. Not that anybody needed a CBO report to tell them that, but it also goes with this report that came out of the Pentagon watchdog. Just, we have government reports now acknowledging what the administration is not acknowledging. So from NBC News, they reported on September 14th, two days ago, the Defense Department's Inspector General released his first report on the war with Iran on Monday, saying the conflict has resulted in a shortfall of U.S. munitions and bottlenecks in supply chains as the Trump administration works to replenish weaponry. The word bottlenecks is a direct quote from the report. And so you don't have a CBO report saying, yes, the war has worsened inflation. And you have a Defense Department IG report saying, yes, the war has cost munitions shortages. That sounds obvious if you're watching this show, it is something the administration is outright being deceptive about. Right. And so the report found hundreds of buildings were destroyed across at least 15 bases. Dozens of aircraft added up to well over $30 million. They're estimate, but that is before-- and they're clear about this-- that's before the cost of rebuilding all of this, which we can hopefully forget about, because can you imagine us rebuilding any of this? We have pictures, right, of some of the recent damage. Yeah, we should get to this. Let's put up this is-- From CBS News. CBS News. So they're Reddit. Look at them doing some journalism. There you go. CBS News got its hands on these pictures showing damage to buildings and vehicles at several US-- They're calling that slain damage. Yeah, damage. Just put it in the shop for a couple of days. It'll look out good as new. This was-- where was this? I think it was in Jordan. In Jordan, yeah, that's what I was thinking. OK, so look at that. I mean, if you're listening to it, under destruction. Yeah. So the rebuilding costs will be significant. Yes. It's-- yes. And that doesn't count the number of munitions that we fired off. Remember how we had said, was it last week or the week before, whenever it was that Iran launched that salvo at our Jordan base, that it looked like at least 50 anti-ballistic munitions were used in order to just save that off, including some sad missiles, which are the most expensive. Turns out it was 70. You didn't know we were conservative broadcasters here. We're like underselling to you how bad it is going. And they estimate something like 20 Iranian ballistic missiles, which are much, much less expensive than the 70. And forget the price, the time it takes to make them is in the months and years. Yes. And we shot them all in a span of like five minutes. Yes. Quite an opening for Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping wanted to take Taiwan. Yes, Putin as well as allies in Europe are well aware at this moment. CBS News reports that picture we showed you of the plane was at Prince Salton Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia. And that is the back half of a Boeing E3 century four-engine aircraft, as CBS says quote, "It's tail-severed from the charge fuselage that also supported a rotating radar that is essential for collecting mid-air intelligence that one that looks like a tent everyone was looking at just a moment ago, that's Kuwait. And they have pictures of US military trailers being absolutely destroyed by an Iranian strike at Camp Burring in Kuwait as well. So we haven't seen a lot of these images. And I think Ryan, that does change the mindset of the public when you can physically review the destruction. It's kind of abstract, really. Like, oh, that's what it looks like. Yeah, that doesn't look good. Doesn't look good. Looks like your ability to get health care just going up and smoke. We'll talk about this probably more in the iron beam block of we can put up B5, too. Tucker did some reporting on this as well. So Trump is now-- and also we've-- hey, mainstream media, you've got to do something about the use of the word sale in these headlines and leads. So this is a Washington Post article Trump's plan sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years. And so Congress was notified at some point yesterday the day before that Trump is planning-- and I'll read from the Washington Post-- what they say, quote, "the largest single sale of the controversial munition in recent years." Again, it's not a sale. We're giving it to them. We are paying for it. It says-- so the $2.8 billion package, which would be purchased with US taxpayer dollars. This is from the UK.
from those same Washington Post article, includes 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK84s and 20,000 BLU 117s, said the official, who, like others, spoke in the condition of Manon Imdi. The sale also includes 20,000 I-2000, Tena Tritter Warheads. So, in what world does the word sale belong in the headline in the lead, when in the second paragraph we learn that it's going to be, quote, "purchased" with US taxpayer dollars? - Yes, sale, sale. - So, we have a black later in the show where you get into the quote-unquote sale related to Iron Beam. You just are throwing out a deep reporting project on this, which is why I think it touched a particular nerve, but it is absolutely ridiculous that what you're pointing out is insane. - Yeah. And to the post-credit, and John Hodges is a very good reporter who wrote this, I think this is just how the paper requires them, and every other MSM outlet to cover this. But it says, he writes, "Among the most destructive munitions in Western military arsenals, an MK-84 explosion sends metal fragments in every direction for thousands of feet, can rip through metal and fit concrete and often creates large craters in the earth. What, what would Israel need that for?" - So, Tucker wrote on this, I do talk to him about this in the episode that our tonight, but I just got his daily newsletter. He wrote on to this, "How big is this shipment?" It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. This is actually kind of helpful. He says, for a perspective, the largest American air raid of World War II was the Eighth Air Force's attack on Berlin. In March of 1945, combined the 2000 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That's seven and a half percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. - For what, like Southern Lebanon? There's nothing left of bomb in Gaza. They, however, they still continue to bomb. - I was gonna say, yeah, very well could be for Gaza. - I'm sure you've solved this. They did another double tap strike yesterday. They killed a boy and then another boy is running up. And we have a rare footage of the actual second strike. And recall that a few months ago, the IDF bragged, and it's now video saying that they were about to bomb a gathering of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but were able to see that there were like curly sideburns and they recognized that, oh, these are Jewish Israelis. So we're not gonna bomb them. And they said this publicly as evidence of their ability to be restrained. So what they're telling you is that they can see the contours of a person's hair from the sky before they strike. So they clearly saw this child running up to this other injured person and struck anyway. 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One that the court system took forever to give, and then blamep it in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally corrupt and out of control, mail-in voting disaster, which is a laughing stock all over the world. He goes on to say Justice of Lido and Thomas, legends both strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans and America itself. It makes cheating by the radical Democrats. I'm sorry, on mail-in ballots, a much easier thing to do. Now, what he's talking about is the Supreme Court ruling that SCNBC reports blocked a controversial in the US Postal Service Rule on mail-in ballots from being used for the upcoming midterm elections. Let's go down a little bit further here, just to say, SCNBC is saying, on Monday, this was three liberal justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, catching folks up if they didn't see this decision yesterday. They said that you have to leave in place what this Boston court judges in Junction said that prevented the Postal Service Rule from the Trump administration from being applied to ballots mailed in for November's election. That is a mouthful and complicated, but that's the process. It leaves in place an injunction from a federal court in Boston on the Postal Service Rule. That was, came from an executive order. It was trying to have standards, SCNBC reports, for ballot envelopes, and then it required states to enter information about voters and ballot envelopes into a Postal Service Portal. So the injunction on that is standing. - Yeah, basically, what they were doing was trying to produce a system that would be unworkable. Like you'd have, the state would have to send a list of like, say, for every tranche, like 10,000 voters, and then they would send 10,000 ballots to the Post Office. That would be mailed out to these 10,000 people. And if the Postal Service could find an error in the spelling of any of the names, or a hyphenated name, or one person doesn't live at this place anymore, then they would be ordered not to deliver the entire 10,000 tranche. And so clearly, somebody was told to sit down and figure out a way to basically use rules to make mail-in, balloting, impossible for the states to actually effectively roll out. Hopefully for voting, this is early enough that states can get their ballots out on time and get everything done. It does suggest that the Supreme Court, after kind of playing footsie with allowing this to go through a couple weeks ago, is now saying that was a procedural ruling and now that we're getting closer to this being coming real, we're not gonna allow this to happen. - And it seemed to be a procedural ruling at the time.
But you never know how these things go when they're actually voted on. So this comes as, let's put this New York Times, this is C8, New York Times tear sheet up on the screen. New York Times Ciena polling has found, quote, "even some Republicans are losing faith in Trump's economy and Democrats were favored on the top issues as the sprint to the midterms gets underway, so you can see right there." Some of their polling on this question of the 2026 General Election for Congress for Health Today, which parties candidate would you be more likely to vote for in your district? So this is the Times Ciena generic ballot, Democratic candidate, that is at 51% Republican candidate, is at 43%. So pretty significant gap there, Democratic voters, I'm sorry, voters overall are giving Democrats a 60% to 36% advantage on health care, 52% advantage on immigration, very unusual in recent years, by the way, for Democrats to have the advantage on immigration and on the economy, 51% to 45%. So that's Democrats plus seven on the economy, according to New York Times Ciena polling. So, yeah, I think there are plenty of principled objections to mail-in ballots that people in the administration have, but there are practical ones that they have as well right now, which is they're in rough shape, and they know those mail-in ballots are not going to, not going to go their way. And so anything they can do to tamp that down, by the way, we're not having debate here about mail-in ballots. I generally hate widespread use of mail-in ballots, but all that is to say, this is more pragmatic, I think, right now, than it was principled. Yes, I think they're against ballots. They're against people at this point. Yes, because as Besson said, people are out there saying the economy is lousy when it's actually incredible, and their Democrats are going to go in and they're going to poison the ballot box by voting against Trump. Before we get to the news out of Michigan, see seven, put that up. So Republicans are Republican pollsters out, telling Republicans how to talk about data centers. The only issue that Republicans in that New York Times poll even had any advantage, and it was plus two, was on AI. So what are the GOP maestro's telling their candidates to say on data centers to survive? And actually, by the way, this is good advice. It's good advice. They're saying basically to acknowledge, it's good advice, but it's sneaky, to acknowledge concerns. I feel your pain. Yes, hear the voters. Yes, it's bad. Say, we are going to, because we hear you, because we acknowledge that these can be real problems, we are going to get every squeeze everything out of these companies that is possible to bring money into the area. So it's a three step process, but those first two steps from this Fabrizio, Tony Fabrizio memo, are the important ones saying, we hear you. And we're going to put the screws to these companies as they come into your neighborhood. We're going to get so many concessions. Politically, I think again, good advice, but it's a sneaky way for Republicans to basically back data centers to the Hill. Right. Yeah, that's the question. And it comes down to credibility. People trust that you're actually going to get any concessions that make it worth what the data center is going to cost your community. Right. And cost it in terms of noise and pollution and water usage and all the things that people are concerned about. Which the company's building the data centers can afford. They could always afford it. They never needed the tax breaks ever. They never needed the incentive packages. Never had to happen. So now you can see it's pretty clear that we're going to hand in glove with the Republicans just to figure out how to sell this better. So they can keep building the data centers and hyper scaling to fuel the AI boom. Yeah. So we have a couple of Michigan related stories. And we get to over at Dropsite. The first is from Alexander's Hick, great reporter. We put this element up on the screen. His headline got oxy. How Michigan's mic Rogers helped fuel the opioid crisis. And so we were looking at this. We took a look at this because Rogers in the in the 2024 campaign was hit by slotkin a little bit for his his work on fueling the opioid crisis. And Abdul Al-Sahid has made some kind of over the top allegations about what his role was. Which turned out not to be really that accurate. And so we're like, well, let's let's take a look at exactly what Rogers did. And I frankly was stunned. I did not I did not realize like how tied at the hip. Mic Rogers was as a member of Congress to the secular Purdue farm of funded effort throughout the 2000s to basically push this idea that there are a hundred million people in America who are living with untreated pain. And it is cruel to deprive them of oxy, basically. And we need the NIH and we need the federal government pushing so that doctors understand that they should be basically much looser with how they're prescribing oxy to people. It was extraordinarily effective campaign run through the American pain society, the American pain foundation. And one congressman was the lead champion of this in the early 2000s up through it getting into a lot of it getting into law through the Affordable Care Act actually. And his name was mic Rogers and put up we put up see three here. So this is in September 2003. He've got mic Rogers appearing with the American pain society announcing that declaring that like the headline and the U. P. I hear pain is the biggest US health problem and announcing his lead that he's going to tackle legislation. They write here U. P. I. writes congress is aware of the problem and has declared this the decade of pain control and research. But the legislative body looks unlikely to do anything significant soon to address the problem. Representative mic Rogers Republican of Michigan has introduced a bill in the house called the National Pain Care Policy Act which seeks to improve pain treatment. It does not look likely to pass this year and as yet there is no companion bill in the Senate. Despite the small chance Congress will pass any significant pain legislation this year, Rogers said he is not deterred and remains committed to improving pain treatment. If his bill fails to pass this year, Rogers plans to reintroduce it in 2004. "I'm like a bad rash. I'll keep coming back year after year," he said. That is mic Rogers promising to be a rash. And hopefully someone can get some oxygen for the rash. He made good, he made good on his promise. It did not pass that cycle. He reintroduced it again the next cycle. He reintroduced it again the next cycle and continually got more support for it, more co-sponsors. There was more of a public PR campaign around it. And then eventually through the Affordable Care Act they put most of the legislation through at that point we'll get to that in a second. But one thing that Zaychik found, we can put up C4 here. So this is a PowerPoint presentation given at the 2004 American Pain Foundation conference. And where they're listing their "advocacy accomplishments." And they right here developed mobilization project description and proposal. The piloted mobilization strategies resulting in increased co-sponsorship of HR 1863, that's mic Rogers' bill, contributed to HR 1863 strategic planning conducted Hill Day's advocacy training. If it's not clear exactly what they mean by that means they helped mic Rogers write the bill. They helped him strategize how it was going to get through the Hill. They helped him get co-sponsors to build support for it. And they brought people to Congress and trained them how to talk to members of Congress so that it didn't sound like it was the sacklers saying we feel like we could make billions of dollars a year if we get people addicted to opioids. That's not going to work. Here's what we're going to say. Pain is what they call it the fifth vital sign. This is the organization, the group of organizations that came up with this idea of the fifth vital sign where, and then you come up with this number that 100 million people are in untreated pain. They would always say in their lobbying, it would be good if there are some pain treatments that are not addictive. However, they were constantly against medical marijuana, and they never put forward treatments that were not addictive. But they would say in the meantime, let's use what we can. And so when mic Rogers started this, I think the number of people who died of a overdose was in the low thousands. Last year it was 70 plus thousand. And there were, there have been many years, it was over 100,000, and that doesn't count the people who were brain dead or went into a coma or were revived in time, were revived in time that they didn't die.
going to suffer lifelong consequences from this, there is just no question that this American pain society, Sackler, Purdue campaign, was responsible for the increase in opioid use throughout the 2000s and 2010s, and there's no question that microaggers was their lead champion in the house. And I actually hate to say it, I did not know that he had played that central role in this, and it took Alex, a decent amount of work to go back and look through the congressional records and everything else, because in 2011, Rodgers, after it gets pushed through on the ACA, Rodgers joins the Intelligence Committee, and after that, he pivots politically and from then on, he's this national security guy. So the microaggers that you know is this deep state, national security, tough guy is going to fight terrorists. He came from the FBI, right? He did four or five years in the FBI, and so he basically dropped that entire thing. American pain society dissolved in 2011, and the 2010s, they were in retreat, the numbers were still going up, but they're getting sued by everybody, they're getting dodging prosecutions, they're getting their names taken off of buildings, as the consequences of what they did become impossible to ignore. And so I think Rodgers as a savvy politician was like, okay, a decade of this was good. I don't need to have my name associated with opioids anymore, that's not going to be. Well, it just gets to the point of like we have buried so much of the history, because there was genuinely a reckoning for the Sackler family. They did face a reckoning, but they had all kinds of things that still have some decent amount of their money, but they faced a huge social reckoning, and they had to pay some money. They had to pay. And stripped off those sorts of things, yeah, it's probably not fair to call it a total reckoning, because they didn't go to prison, frankly, but they faced social consequences, some financial consequences, but they had a whole lot of people in an apparatus boosting them in Washington, Wall Street, and my Rodgers was a big part of that. And what they were so good at doing, so by the time they got a lot of this through the Affordable Care Act, it created a couple of pain commissions, basically, the NIH and Institute of Medicine, and by that point, Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers had so thoroughly seeded this pain industry with their people that even put up the next element, put up C-5, that basically all the commissions then became stacked with these industry people. And so these questions would go, what should the prescription levels be set at? How should we write the guidance to doctors about the risks and the benefits of these medications? And the people writing all of these things that were put through the Affordable Care Act that came from Rodgers's bill had all themselves were getting paid off for the most part by this quote-unquote pain industry. Want to make sure blood boil? Yeah, it's bleak, it's really bleak. There was this detail in the Times C-N-A-Pole that we were talking about, it's actually really interesting. They say those earning less than $50,000 were more than twice as likely to say they would vote for a Democratic Congressional candidate this fall rather than a Republican. Those numbers are 63% to 31%. The Times says that would represent a dramatic shift from 2024 when Mr. Trump nearly carried that group according to exit polling. I bet this is similar in Michigan, if we were able to zero in on Michigan voters to what the Times C-N-A-Pole are finding nationwide, where you have people earning less than $50,000 a year who actually supported Trump according exit polling in 2024 flipping for Democrats. The Rodgers story is, and that's tough for him to try and make any more in rows. It gets to this idea that there was a trajectory of this working rights realignment that was going to outlive Trump for the Republican Party. It's actually not even lasting through the second Trump administration. It was growing, right? Previously, and now it has been just halted in its tracks, and part of the reason is probably their insistence on running people like Mike Rodgers who have such baggage. Yeah, I mean, how do you present this guy? And so Rodgers did not respond to our request for comment, but in the past when he's been asked about this, he has cited his support for a bill called The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 PDMP. It created a national prescription drug monitoring program, he'll say, "Look, I was trying to do that." But the industry is generally supportive of the pain industry, generally supportive of this measure, because what it did is it pretended to address the problem, and it would use this database, and it would find some people who were addicted to opioids by measuring the amount that they were getting and how long they'd been getting it, and then just, boom, just cutting them off. Most of them then go to the street, but what it didn't do is focus on Purdue Pharma or the other distributors, like the whole series of distributors. In other words, all the data was right there. Who were telling Dr. Sober Prescribid? Yeah, and this stuff was being made very publicly in, you're not making this stuff in a back alley. They're making it in a facility that is FDA approved, like, so the other approach that people were calling for was, no, get, investigate these companies. They know which pill mills they're sending in millions of pills to. That's what we want to know. Find these and then shut them down. And then, you have to come in with a holistic project as well, but otherwise, everybody is I'm just going to turn to heroin, which is now flooding in from Afghanistan at that time. So, triple quadruple, whammy going on, but this database was a very common Washington tactic. Okay, there's pressure to do something. Let's channel that pressure into something that looks like we're doing something, but actually doesn't do anything about the system. Now, we don't have this article up yet. It should be up. Maybe by the time this goes up, we'll have it up. But since we're picking on good ol' mic Rogers, this one's wild. Tom Parkinson's is a great reporter and Michigan, he wrote this for Dropslight News as well. So, if you remember, there was this group called Michigan Jews Against Extremism, which was roughly 400 people who said they were Democrats and wanted to support the Democrats, but they were so infuriated by Al Sayed's quote-unquote anti-Semitism or his criticism of Israel that their conscience is dictated that they were going to have to support mic Rogers. And this creation of this 400-person group ended up creating enormous amounts of media attention nationally, is Al Sayed going to lose all of these Democrats who are supportive of Israel. So, what Tom did is he looked through the list of people. He found that roughly 50 of them were involved with Jews for Mitt. This is crazy. The 2012 thing where people said that they were Democrats, but that Barack Obama was so anti-Israel that their conscience is insist that they were going to have to vote for Mitt Romney. So, the people who were saying that they're really hardcore Democrats are saying that Barack Obama was too anti-Israel for them. And so, at least since 2012, they've been voting for Republicans. And then he looked through the rest of the list and you find enormous numbers of people of the 430 on this list who have donated to Donald Trump, donated to Republicans, been involved in Republican causes. You even have, so the chair, the finance chair for mic Rogers' campaign. So, in other words, this is not a Democrat. Look, he signed the Democrats for Mitt thing. This time, he-- And now he's the Rogers finance chair. Now he's a Rogers finance chair. This time, he had the good sense not to sign this letter because he's publicly the finance chair for the mic Rogers campaign. So, don't pretend that you otherwise were going to vote for El Sayed. Six of his family members are on this, who have Republican links, are on this list of supposed Democrats. You look very close to tons of Republicans. He also looked-- this is less surprising, over 90-- I think roughly 90% were highly active with pro-Israel groups, which you would expect, although it wasn't really-- it wasn't put forward as like an APEC project. Because mic Rogers has nothing to do with APEC. He's not interested in APEC's help. Please, APEC, stop associating with mic Rogers. Yeah. So, if you want to-- A little joke about mic Rogers trying to actively distance-- if you haven't seen it, he's trying to like-- He told them-- He told them, please.
don't spend publicly, even after they said publicly, that they were going to spend publicly for him. He said, "Actually, please don't do that because that's going to make it look really bad for me." Then that weekend, he goes to California for three different fundraisers. Bobby Schostack is the former head of the Michigan Republican Party and the finance chair for the Microdger's campaign. So, yeah, hardcore dams here. We'll look forward to that over at Dropsite. This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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