you know why? Do you know what Putin's popularity is in the Russian country? Putin's popularity I think it's north of 80 percent. And I don't see people saying that's a fake number. Now obviously the news is very controlled but Russia has the internet do they not? Can't every Russian get to the internet and see all free information everywhere? I think they can. And they still decided that even in a war that looks to us very optional from Russia's point of view that even in a war the popularity of Putin is like 80 percent.

So just think about this. The best approach that the Democrats could come up with when our border is open and people are pouring over with every kind of crime and fentanyl that you could imagine as well as good people of course. That while the country is frightened to death that they're saying watch out for the dictator because we don't want you to have a president that has 80 percent popularity and closed the border like Putin did. Yeah Putin closed his border. 80 percent popularity.

Now I'm not coming out in favor of Putin. This you know somebody will take the clip and take it out of context and say oh you're favoring Putin. No I'm not. I'm not favoring dictators. I'm not saying Trump's a dictator. I'm not saying Putin's a good guy. He's not. What I'm saying is it's hilarious to me that the Democrats picked as their main attack to smear Trump with the dictator label when the dictator is the most popular person in the world right now with his own people. 80 percent right?

Do you know who else is that level of popularity? I believe the president of El Salvador. Right president of El Salvador just put like a million people in jail. He put a million people in jail. Does it sound like he followed all the democratic processes? No. He's very popular because he acted like a dictator. Yeah now it's not being presented that way in our press. He's being presented as a champion of democracy and he got rid of the bad guys which he did. But I think he might have bent a rule or two to get rid of those bad guys you know dictator style. It's just that the public loved it. They said yeah if that's the dictator you're going to be I'll take a little more of that.

And when Trump says I'm going to be a dictator when it comes to the border I don't say I want less of that. I say when it comes to the border yes be a dictator. That is exactly what I want. I want you to be a dictator on the border. Everything else well that's a different conversation but on the border yes yes be a dictator. Go take control and close that thing.

All right. Well I talked about CNN being entertaining. MSNBC I just find disturbing because and I'm going to say this this is not an exaggeration. I mean this in the literal literal scientific medical sense. When I watch CNN it looks like people lying and maybe they know they're doing it and they know they're pushing a narrative. They don't look crazy. But when I turn on MSNBC they don't look like they know they're lying. They actually look mentally ill.

Now Nicole Wallace she looks like she knows she's lying. She doesn't look mentally ill to me. But when I watch Joy Reid or Rachel Maddow they actually look like they're having a mental health crisis on TV. Now again I'm no mental health professional so you shouldn't take my mental diagnosis from a distance from people I've never met in person. That wouldn't be smart. But the way I receive it just as a viewer I receive it as mental illness. Do you see that or is it just me? Do you see that CNN looks more like just traditional liars who have a point of view that they're pushing and MSNBC looks actually like mental illness to me? Not all of them you know. Chris Hayes looks like he's normal. He just has a point of view.

Yeah I also think it's interesting that Joy Reid her name is to read. You know her job is to read a teleprompter but without the joy. So she's literally Joy Reid whose job is to read stuff but remove the joy and tell you how it's all bad because Trump. That's a weird coincidence. And don't get me started on Rachel Maddow. Now that's a weird coincidence too.

All right. Did you hear the secret recording of Carrie Lake attempting to be bribed by Republican party chair Jeff Dewit? Allegedly caught on a secret recording. Allegedly. Lots of allegedly have to be put on here. You know in the era of AI I don't automatically know it's real right? So I think it's probably real but you don't automatically know that's real especially in audio only. So don't assume it's real unless Carrie Lake confirms it which she might have. She might have done that. Has Carrie confirmed that it's real? Because if she says it's real then it's real.

All right did anybody see that yet? Looks like the comments are working again. All right well so what happened on the recording was this. Republican party chair said there were powerful people who want to keep you out of the race when she was running for Senate in Arizona and that they would be willing to bribe her. He put it right out there. There are powerful people that he wouldn't name and he actually said they want to offer you like a high paying position. And she was like no no you know this is about the country. I'm not looking for the money. And then when he said name a number he actually said give me a number to take back to them. In other words how much money would it take? And I think he said something like 10 million or you know he was putting out some big numbers and he was going to take that back to them and say for this amount of money she would leave.

But she said get out of here. I don't do that. You know you're trying to bribe me. This is about the country falling apart. This isn't about making money. Now if Carrie Lake is the one who created that recording and it's not real that would be hilarious. I don't think that's the case but I have a much better feeling about Carrie Lake's honesty after hearing the recording. Now you can't rule out that she prefers to be influenced by some other entity so you don't know that. But at least she wasn't willing to take a Republican bribe you know. And you would think that someone who was at least willing to consider a bribe from anybody would have gone further in the conversation right?

If she were the person who would take a bribe from anyone the way she would have handled it I think is no that's crazy. What kind of number are they talking about? Right? The fact that Carrie had zero interest in what kind of a number they were talking about like how many millions of dollars they would give her. She didn't even want to know a number. Now that tells me she's not one likely to take a bribe in any context because if you don't ask for the number you're really not interested. I mean that's the minimum you'd ask for. It's like no I would never do that. How much are they offering? Because I even I do that in my own life. People will make an offer for something I don't want to do. I remember early in Dilbert there was some company that did tobacco products wanted to advertise using Dilbert. I said I'm not going to advertise tobacco that's crazy. And then I said but just out of curiosity how much would they offer? Now of course I asked the question but no there's no amount of money that I would have taken to advertise tobacco in case you're wondering.

All right let's see what else we got. Kansas City has a reparations plan has been delayed. So the Kansas City reparations commission they needed more time. Yeah so that's going to be delayed. So that's too bad because we were really expecting something useful and good to come out of that.

Over in Boston similar. They're forming a task force but it's going to take a while. Now do you know what I call this technique? The form a task force and get back to me technique. That's called the pointy haired boss strategy. The pointy haired boss strategy involves oh yeah I'm totally interested in that thing you're proposing that I'm totally not interested in.