Trump's Logan Paul Pentagon Problem is Worse Than You Think & Lauren Boebert's $200k Sex Scandal

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Yeah, they've been sold out in Chicago for a while now. You can still grab some in Atlanta and St. Paul right now at crashingouttour.com. And I've got links for you in the description in the top comment. But with that said, we've got a lot of craziness we've got to dive into today, starting with this. Do you remember when Republican representative Lauren Vobert said this? I go to church, find Jesus, like, I mean, why is everybody so horny here? Well, now you've got a lot of people getting as excited as Lauren Vobert on a Beetlejuice musical to turn those comments around on her. And that's because we now know that on September 17th, a sworn ethics complaint was followed with the US House Committee on Ethics alleging that Lauren Vobert had sexual relationships with three House employees under her supervision. Those people were one man and two women, with all of this being interesting for a few reasons. One, this alleged behavior is in violation of the post-MeToo House rule that prohibits members from sleeping with her staff. And two, a lot of people, they see Vobert as someone that says they hate queer people, saying she's someone that constantly espouses Christian family values, but then doesn't live her life that way. And as far as the specifics here, the complaint was filed by American muck rakers is David Wheeler, which, more on that in a minute, and it names three current and former senior aides that Vobert supposedly had affairs with. And one of the big things is that it claims that Vobert sent Navarro $200,000 to stay quiet about this. And this is filed under penalty of perjury, meaning that there is a real risk for Wheeler if it's knowingly false. And also a key thing that I have to mention here is that there is a House Ethics Committee rule that bars the committee from accepting non-member complaints within 60 days of election where the subject is a candidate, and Vobert is up for re-election in November. And so we're going to have to see how all this shakes out, but over the past few days, we've also seen Vobert responding to the allegations with multiple statements, right? In one comment, she said, "Well, I'm not a lesbian or bisexual, and I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff." Also, we had a spokesperson for Vobert saying that she rejects these allegations as early false and saying there is no truth to them whatsoever, calling it nothing more than a politically motivated stunt designed to manipulate the ethics process, create headlines, smear her, and generate clickbait. But with a madding at this complaint came from an activist who has long recycled sensational claims, including numerous baseless accusations previously fact-checked his false. And last night you had Vobert posting this two-minute angry video on social media, calling out journalists for reporting on this. Hey, journalists. Now that I'm finished with my more important task of the day, I have a few words for you. You all ran a smear and called it news. Some sloppy, desperate, obsessive hack stamps under oath on a fake filing, so you'll write penalty of perjury in the headline? Yeah, that's the whole freaking trick. It's a scam, and you fell for it. This reaches into the homes of people who have dedicated years of service to Coloradans alongside of me. I know that you're more than willing to attack me and shame my household, but this is different and you crossed a line. Now, as far as Wheeler, you had a responding to her statements on Sunday saying, "This Vobert runs her classic denial scheme, learned straight out of the swamp and carried out by her minions, saying she deflects and tries to make the allegations about me." And saying, "Vobert truly believes she is not accountable for her actions, nor did the laws apply to her." And also, in addition to Vobert denying, you had Navarro, the former district director named in the complaint, also denying the allegations, saying, "These allegations regarding me are entirely false, defamatory and beyond ridiculous, saying there is absolutely no truth to any part of this claim." But then it also gets more interesting from there because Navarro's ex-husband, Jason Ratzliff, had a different story. Right, saying, "I assume this would eventually surface," saying, "I have no further comment on this topic." The wedding divorce is painful. I have children. I'm three years post-divorce, saying, "This is not my issue." We're getting a very, like, 2016 Taylor Swift. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative take. But then also, with this, you had some saying, "Hey, maybe it's relevant that Vobert also found for divorce from her husband, Jason Vobert back in 2023, citing irreconcilable differences. Are the people wondering, is that, or is that not connected to all this?" But with the claims about Vobert having affairs with women, it's true. I mean, it would be very wild. It would also kind of add her to the heap of hypocrites that are in Congress. But she still says on her government website that she opposes efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman. She's also gone after other members of the queer community. But then also, with this, to tell the whole story, when you dive into it, it is worth noting that Wheeler has made accusations against Vobert before. Right in 2022, he launched a website claiming that she'd previously worked as a paid escort. And he would website, actually, featuring an image of a woman who wasn't her, which she admitted was sloppy, but he stood by his claim. While Vobert threatened to sue, she never did, and Wheeler ends up filing a defamation lawsuit against her over her public threats and legal action, with that lawsuit ultimately getting settled. So that's why, if you look around, you'll see people saying, "Hey, Wheeler has an agenda against Vobert. He's published unverified information about her before, and American mock-rakers is left leaning in target's conservatives." Right to saying that the claims are not coming from an objective place, but also, it's not like Vobert is a stand-up individual or a reliable source in herself. And she's already had sort of, "I won't call it a sex scandal, but we will at least call it a horniness scandal that was called on security camera footage." Right? That's why anytime I go to Broadway, I look to my wife, and I say, "Beatle juice, Beetle juice, Beetle juice." Which gets me one of her lovely smiles, a little kiss, though less than Vobert, who famously got kicked out of her performance of Beetle juice because she and her male guests were eagerly groping each other to the point that security had in her being. And she's not the only one in her family who has had serious accusations against them. Right only about a month ago, her 21-year-old son Tyler Bobert was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, or which is on a completely different level than the stuff we're talking about here. But for now, we're going to have to wait to see how all this plays out, especially because controversy or not, right now, Republicans are getting dragged down into polling hell, thanks to Trump. American research group just put out their poll findings. They put Trump at a 29% approval rate, or which ends up not being surprising, given that Trump's gone after his own supporters, if they don't support his view on AI data centers, which is more and more and more everywhere, and other issues like that, as well as Donald Trump's war of choice, making everything just really expensive. But Republicans do not worry, Trump has it figured out. The way that Donald Trump and this administration are going to write the ship is, by apparently bringing in Logan and Jake Paul. And we'll say, this isn't out of nowhere, whether it be podcast bros or rowy influencers, they help deliver Trump the 2024 election. Right, Aiden Ross calling Trump a true hero to this country, Theo Vaughn calling him a homie, the Nellboys riding on Air Force One and going to college campuses to register young men to vote. And of course, it's in addition to Joe Rogan having Trump on, even endorsing him, though, you've seen more and more of those influencers backing away from Trump, sometimes even calling him out. Carlson's completely split, called out the president, Joe Rogan. He went after Trump supporters. He called them, and this is Joe Rogan's words, rabid and fucking nuts. So seemingly, they were like, which influencers still fuck with us, and they landed on the polls. So we'll say, not the most surprising, if you even have like a passing glance at a number of their business dealings, you're like, oh, these guys are probably fishing for a pardon at some point, especially the one that's balding more right now. Yeah, Trump and Coat, they didn't just bring the polls to Washington. They had the Paul Brothers speak at the Pentagon, or with a video that featured and posted by the so-called Department of War, they were given a tour, they hung out with headsets, they hit some ad to do it to imposes in front of the sign, and they gave a speech to a room full of service members. Also during that same visit, Jake Paul visited Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who apparently decided that this guy was a great example of the American dream, which is a wild thing to say for a number of reasons, including that isn't he one of the people that fled to Puerto Rico, so he wouldn't have to actually pay into taxes like every other American. Jake Paul also posting a photo with JD Vance today. Right, and then with all this, one of the really interesting things that you saw was that it didn't seem to matter left to right. A lot of people are like, what the fuck? Why these two? This is so embarrassing, and that's an addition to the takes like you saw on the photo of Hegseth and the Paul Brothers saying, this photo is why women cover their drinks. But with all that, a common connection you saw, especially thanks to the pentagon video was people connecting the studio, Ron War, saying things like, imagine Logan Paul hyping you up to go die for Israel, others adding, imagine being in the fucking military in the middle of the stupidest war imaginable, and having to listen to Logan and Jake Paul talk about shit. People asking, is anyone told to Ron yet that Jake and Logan Paul visited the pentagon? Surely they'll surrender now. You can have commentators like Sneako out there coming in and just ripping the whole thing to shreds. Logan Paul with this Owen Wilson surfer hair, gnarly dude, we're going to go to war with the Islamist bro. Jake Paul to the side with his head tattoo. What are we doing? Not a YouTube skit. It's not a Netflix show. It's not key and peel. It's not Comedy Central. This is the Department of War. And Jake Paul and Logan Paul, it's not like they're going to enlist. What do they know about war? But despite the incredibly negative reaction we've seen almost universally, the pentagon is standing by the Paul Brothers' visit, saying the so-called Department of War was proud to host Jake and Logan Paul with the pentagon and it's, quote, grateful for their visit and continued support of our military. You know, because this situation is so uniquely stupid and I don't know if I'm able to find the right words to say, I want to fight this bad, unnecessary stupid, with good, unnecessary stupid, with a little help from our musical correspondence, Zach, Shay and Kayla. Thanks Phil. We'll take it from here. No defense against you, Paul, and you too, broos. They're not the warriors that we deserve, but they're the warriors that they chose. 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Maybe it's Mabelie. But then, then right back into the news. Remember all those headlines from just a few weeks ago about how AI is going to kill humanity? Well, now, AI companies appear to be getting sued for trying to do something to stop that from happening. Where with a lot of this, starting when that employee who resigned from Anthropic wrote that the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. But then, much of the AI industry, instead of saying, no, that's ridiculous, hey, we're on it, saying, earnestly, we do believe that AI could kill all humans. And it got to the point that in Anthropic CEO, wrote an essay calling for leaders to slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. That a bunch of AI leaders openly agreeing to the plan, open AI, Sam Altman, writing that AI progress should be slower than it otherwise could be, are doing no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring. And why you've had this debate playing out online of if they actually care about people or this is just a way to try and slow down competitors to some degree so they can really monopolize together. Whatever the case is, you now have a lawsuit that's challenging this, arguing that this joint effort amounts to conspiracy and violates anti-trust laws. And you've got the lawyer for the plaintiff saying that AI will quickly spin out of human control and kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world's most powerful for-profit technology companies. And the plaintiff's who are suing are four paid subscribers of chat GPT, Claude, Groc, and Gemini, and they're seeking a class action status on behalf of other subscribers. But with the lawsuit specifically filed against Anthropic, open AI, SpaceX, AI, and Google. And you've got the plaintiff saying that they do believe that AI should have guardrails with ethical considerations and direct liability. But they believe that these guardrails should not be decided by the defendants, but by we, the people through state and federal regulation and through the voices of juries in our communities. And then adding, the anti-trust laws do not permit competitors to decide among themselves that competition is too dangerous. Whether frontier AI should develop more slowly is a question for each company acting alone or for Congress and the agencies. And so all of this, it connects to the debate we've been seeing clay out. And as for the damages that these subscribers are apparently facing, the suit states, an agreement that slows improvement lowers the quality of what subscribers receive for the price they pay. Saying that is an overcharge and it is an injury of the kind the anti-trust laws were enacted to prevent. They're claiming that it's illegal for competitors to get together and agree to reduce the quality of their products and the rate at which those products improve. And while the AI companies haven't officially responded to the lawsuit in his essay, you had Anthropic CEO, acknowledging that there are antitrust concerns here. And saying to prevent this, the government should mediate sessions about AI safety. And then regarding the concerns of these products with lose value, he also said that pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models. And all of this, at least for the time being, it again, highlights the debate around how AI companies should handle safety concerns. Right since it's not challenging the idea of building guardrails or not, but rather the joint nature of the plan, which exists only among tech CEOs. Because right now, depending on where you go, the opinions on AI, very, very different, though nationally speaking when you're talking about AI data centers, that's definitely a lot more people are against those right now. And that's in addition to people worrying about AI taking their jobs, bending entire career paths if AI could kill us all. Anyway, some of those concerns getting highlighted in another story this week. And when we learn that the FAA is going to be rolling out AI air traffic control tools this week. With that then resulting in a ton of backlash from people who think that that sounds like a recipe for disaster. We're arguing that this isn't right news to hear after we had people at these AI companies saying, hey, there could be an apocalypse soon. As far as the specifics here, the software is called smart, standing for strategic management of air space, routes, and trajectories. You've got to reportedly design to analyze airline schedules, weather, runway capacity, and other constraints to predict potential conflicts and delays. We're also offering alternative routes for flights and it's debuting at three airports in the DC area. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Dulles International Airport, and Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. But after that, it is expected to roll out nationally by 2028, and according to the Wall Street Journal, when fully rolled out across US air space, the software is supposed to act as something like the brains of the nation's air traffic control system. Though I will say with this, you have the transportation department stressing that AI is not replacing any human operators are single-handedly directing any flights, right? It's offering recommendations that controllers can listen to or ignore. Still, obviously, you have a lot of people that are concerned about AI playing any role in our air traffic operation. Though also with this, you have people pointing to things like the recent government shutdown, highlighting just how severe our air traffic controller shortage is. I see people saying, we need inject technology, where it can help, other tools need to be developed. And with all this, you have this transportation department asking for billions to upgrade its system and this smart AI air traffic software, it's part of an $875 million contract. But also, I should note for you here, there are concerns that this tool might not actually address the actual issues that air traffic controllers are dealing with because you have experts knowing that most major problems that cause delays happen after a flight plan is filed. And so this is believed that airlines they might cooperate with the program in the beginning of the rollout, but they also might end up dismissing it later seeing it as an unnecessary FAA intrusion. But then from that, we gotta talk about why all the major TV networks in the White House press pool just suspended their coverage of Trump in solidarity after he randomly decided to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House. Like, even Fox News is joined the battle against Trump here. Right, and all of this, it is truly massive. For decades, the press pool, they've served as an essential window into the president's day-to-day life and TV. It's a huge part of that. Right, and the way that it works is that the pool consists of print reporters, broadcast journalists, and photographers who rotate traveling with the president covering White House events and a redish air footage, photos, audio, and quotes with other members of the media. And it's a system that's made a lot of sense. It would be impossible for every single news outlet to have a team with the president all the time, especially when he's traveling. But Air Force One only has 13 seats in the press cap. And for years now, you've had five networks sharing the responsibility of providing TV coverage with the pool, ABC, CPS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC. But on Friday, you had Trump abruptly announcing in truth social that he was banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, and claiming that the sudden ban was, quote, "a result of their constant reporting fake news and adding media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the president of the United States, the Trump administration, or the United States of America." Other fake news media outlets to follow. Though, like many other Trump policies that have been announced on truth social, it was not immediately clear what this ban was going to look like in practice or how long it would last. Right when press by reporters, Trump just said this. "Oh, the ban on the free press, right? A very simple ban. I don't want them in my office. I don't want them here. I would say the ban would go as far as you can. And if they could straighten themselves out, if they could straighten themselves out, I'd love it." And then the next day, you had CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, all saying that their journalists were blocked from entering the White House grounds and that their press passes were confiscated. And while their numbers had diminishing, the Trump cult is still there. And so you had many supporting this. But also, the backlash against Trump was immediate. For many, accusing him of undermining key democratic principles and acting in clear violation of press freedoms that are explicitly protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. But then, in addition to that, this morning, we got more news. Or with multiple outlets obtaining a memo from Brian Boatson, the Washington Bureau chief at Fox News, who also serves as the acting chair of the television pool consortium. And in that memo, he announced that ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox News would all be suspending their pooled coverage at Trump, writing, "Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president." And then adding, "This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties, saying there will be no replacement pool put in place, all other pool coverage will continue as normal." And you have the five members of the TV pool also issuing their own joint statement saying, "The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate independent information about its government, saying no administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting." But then also beyond that, CNN and MSNound Politico have also filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration this morning, asking the court to restore their access to the White House ASAP. And you have the outlets specifically claiming that Trump is punishing them purely for the content of their reporting, which is a clear violation of the First Amendment. And then actually in addition to that, the groups also alleged that Trump violated their Fifth Amendment rights to do process when he abruptly blocked their access to the White House without notice arguing. The Constitution does not allow the president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting. With the lawsuit then going on to argue that Trump's actions go far beyond these three media organizations claiming, the ban inflicts an injury on all news media organizations who now risk a similar fate if they engage in reporting the president deems insufficiently favorable. And adding the public at large suffers or however along the unconstitutional ban restricts access to current and complete information about their government. But then Trump, who really seems to be down to talk about anything other than his war in Iran, he hit back on truth social this morning, writing in a post, "The White House is not instituting an assault on the free press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the fake news, something that has grown the cancer in our beloved United States of America. Then you also had JD Van trying to put a similar spin on the situation, though, he really ended up fumbling it. - So he's not banning media outlets. What he's doing is saying, we're not gonna give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda. - And actually one of my favorite things about this whole mess is that video. Are you with the White House Rapid Response Account sharing that video? We're saying that there was not a ban as a quote tweet to their own post where Trump announced the ban. And it ends up being another case where people in the administration, they're cornered by the president's own words. He's like, no doubt about it. Trump himself has repeatedly described this as a ban. - Oh, the ban on the free press, right? - Also, Trump saying he cherishes the free press is the most insane fucking like crazy, toxic, abusive boyfriend shit gaslighting. I've seen it a minute. His entire political image has been about undermining the press. Literally fake news is one of the first Trumpisms that really gained traction when he ran in 2016. He's always going after news outlets. He's personally attacking individual journalists. He's used federal agencies to center viewpoints he disagrees with. He repeatedly refers to the free press as the enemy of the people, which is the same language that authoritarian leaders like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao have used to delegitimize the press. And then beyond the words, you've expert saying that Trump's efforts right to block access to himself, they're unprecedented. And other outlets knowing that this ban goes further than anything that we've seen it from him before. Though this definitely is not the first time you start a ban news organizations of their journalists from the White House who's certain events. They're also with us, you have legal experts widely arguing that Trump's ban is blatantly legal and there's past president to prove it. And meanwhile, we're just seeing hilarious footage of some of Trump's events today without the main TV pool. Like this one from Newsmax, where it appears there's literally just no audio because the press pool isn't there. - Okay, so there's no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there. So maybe Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit. - So it's another situation of it's not surprising. It happened, but this is still very big news and should, to a certain degree, be shocking even though I am right there along with many of you, I feel numb to a lot, but we still have to point these things out. Especially because while some judges have kind of kept certain guardrails at times in place, we're largely seeing every day, whether it's on a national level or a super local level, is your vote matters so much? That is the one check and balance they have not completely killed yet and we need to get on it before they do. 'Cause if you give the authoritarian more time with the power that he has, a nightmare will play out. This is not yet the nightmare. - And then from that, I wanna end today's show with some important quick news. We're starting with the news that United Health now has to open its record for the class action lawsuit that's accusing them of using an AI tool with a 90% error rate to decide whether people get coverage. And with that lawsuit saying that in 2019, United Health started using an algorithm called NH predict. And how it would work is that case managers would feed patient data into NH predict, or which would then estimate how long they'll need care by comparing their case to similar cases from the past. And you had those case managers saying that by 2023, they were pressured to keep patient stays within one percent of that predicted date. Otherwise, the patient had to pay for care themselves and there were a ton of problems with that. But the one that really sticks out is that when the program references those past cases, apparently it doesn't, or didn't even consider any other complications that could have added how long those patients needed care. So if this is all true, the timelines those patients were put on, there's a huge chance there weren't even an accurate comparison for their situation. And this lawsuit, it's on behalf of two deceased United Health beneficiaries, right? And one of them was a 91 year old man who suffered a fall that landed him in a nursing facility. But then two and a half weeks into his stay, United Health allegedly cut him off. And so his family, they had to pay around $150,000 at a pocket for his care until he passed away a year later. And the second beneficiary was 74 and was expected to need about 100 days of skilled nursing care after suffering a stroke. But he was cut off after about only 20 days. And while his family, they filed an appeal and won, they then got cut off again. And so they ended up paying about $70,000 at a pocket before he died. And so they say this lawsuit is to keep other families from going through that type of hardship, alleging that United Health, they've been breaching contracts with members like them to keep more money in the company's pockets. Because a lot of the families dealing with stuff like that, they never actually appealed their denials. And so for example, in 2021, only 0.2% of members filed an appeal which meant that the rest of those denials turn into profits for United Health. Though that's also where it appears the 90% error rate comes in. Because when they have appeal, they almost always won like 90% of the time. Because you have the plaintiff saying that the AI tool is blatantly inaccurate. And they claim that United Health has actually known that all along, but they've used it to help the company hold on to that money. And while United Health, they've denied all that, saying that they just use NIH predict as a guide. The plaintiffs and really many others don't believe them, claiming that they've been stuffing the company's wallet quote, "While the elderly are prematurely kicked out of care facilities nationwide or forced to deplete family savings to continue receiving necessary medical care, all because an AI model disagrees with their real-life doctors' determinations." And actually, a key thing here is that the legal team representing the plaintiffs here, they've also brought a case similar to this against SIGMA. And that's as we're seeing more and more people in Congress coming after these companies for leaving these life-re-death decisions up to AI. But hey, words or words and actions are action, so we'll see one, what happens in Congress and two, what happens with these legal fights. And then your last bit of news today starts with a sentence, Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies. But that's what you've got Mark Ruffalo saying, "If your David Ellis industry reached a settlement with California and the other states that were blocking the Paramount Warner Brothers merger." The California apparently folded and then everyone else decided that battle wasn't worth it if they weren't leading the path. And now that they've bowed out, we're getting a few details about the deal as it waits for final court approval. For one, you've got the states that were holding out apparently getting CBS and CNN and independent editorial board. The reported goal being a set of politically balanced journalists, no execs or shareholders. Paramount will also abruptly have to put at least 30 films a year in theaters or they'll get hit with a $30 million fine for each one they miss. They could also have to sell their stake in Miramax as a consequence there as well. Assuming this deal gets approved, the salt gets them off the hook for the $7 million daily late fee that they're gonna have to start paying Warner Brothers in October. And so this basically saves 'em because the people worried about how the merger is gonna affect competition, the cost to consumers, rioters, wages, and the beef with California AG, Rob Bonta, they were down to the wire on this. But apparently when David Ellison started tossing around the idea of moving the company out of Hollywood, lawmakers stopped looking so tough. And he got reports saying that Bonta was actually starting to be on an island by himself fighting that fight. Or with him apparently abandons in a many blaming newsroom for this. It's now, you got many thinking, you know, what actually happens after this merger goes through? Because there are a lot of concerns. Job cuts are basically inevitable. There's also a very real concern about the Ellisons, a family that's close to the White House. Now sitting at the head of a media conglomerate, this massive, among other things. But then my friends, beautiful bastards is the end of your Monday show. Thank you for watching. Again, cannot wait to see a ton of y'all this weekend. Get your tickets crashing out toward.com. But whether you move in things IRL or stay in remote, no matter what, I'll see you right back here tomorrow for another dive into the news.