dreds for a few days. But only 600 people crossed illegally on Sunday. That's like a ridiculously low number. Now turns out that closing the border wasn't that hard, just like Trump said.

Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Justice Department fired more than a dozen lawyers that were working with Jack Smith's prosecutions of the president. Now I'm completely in favor of that. I think that if you were a prosecutor and you willingly take an assignment that is clearly lawfare and the person you're trying to lawfare gets into office, you're fired. You're very fired. And that's the way it should be. Because if you're going to cross that line and lawfare somebody because you can, when they get in power, they're going to fire your ass. And I am so on board for that because that's what we need. That's good for the country. It's good for the country that the bad guys know that there's a price, and the price is their jobs. And if you want to think, oh, I'm just being a lawyer, just doing what I'm told, no, you better think about it next time. You better think it through because Trump's coming for you if you came for him. And I'm absolutely on board with that. You got to rebalance the power structure. You got to make sure there's a deterrent for bad behavior.

Nvidia is up 0.5%. Yeah, so I think that might have been a one-day scare. And a lot of people are trying to get into Nvidia at a good entry price. So I think there was a ton of money on the sidelines thinking, well, I kind of want to own Nvidia, but it seems to just go up too much every day and I haven't bought it yet. And then it looks like it's a good price. So all right.

So you might know that Scott Bessent got confirmed. So he's going to be the treasury secretary. And he's helping Trump push the idea of tariffs as opposed to income tax. Now I wanted to run some numbers. So I used Perplexity AI, which got different numbers than, so I'll tell you both. So I thought to myself, is that really something that could happen? Like how much do we collect in taxes or how much is the budget, I guess? How much is the budget? And then how much would we have to charge in tariffs to replace all of our income tax? And so I did a quick calculation, and it looks like if Trump put a 20% tariff on every single thing that comes into the country, it would be 5 to 10% of what we need to cover the budget. 20% tariff on every single import, every single one, would only be 5 to 10% of what we need to cover the current budget.

Now the current budget is probably twice what it should be. I'm not sure we can ever reduce that. But let's say that goes down 30%. You know, let's say DOGE is just wildly successful. You're still not even close. So I don't really understand the whole tariff instead of income tax. Is that really based on something real? The numbers don't look like they could possibly add up. But I would like to be corrected about that. So if I'm wrong about that, you let me know.

The good news about tariffs is it encourages local production because it would therefore give some cost advantages to doing things locally. So that's good. But I don't think that's enough of a boost to make it make sense. What might make sense is tariffs at the same time as other things.

According to Anna Giaritelli for the Washington Examiner, there are two law enforcement officers who have said that the Mexican cartel has put a green light to open fire on US federal enforcement at the border. Do you believe that? I'm not sure I could totally trust some law enforcement people who said they heard it. So I don't know if they have good sources. But do you believe the cartel just said it's war, just open fire? We're going to have to wait and see. It doesn't feel like the right play. You know, as much as you want to hate the cartels, they do act like a well-oiled machine, unfortunately. And would it make sense for them to escalate before they had to? Seems like they should try to avoid all contact with the US m