ust play the tape forward for a couple years and whoever was in that position would be stealing a trillion dollars a year because they can. You could even put an honest person in that position and after a few years they'd be like seriously every time somebody asks for a check I just authorize it and nobody checks? Nobody checks where I authorize the payment? Nobody ever sees if it's legal or appropriate or ordered by Congress? Nobody ever? Do you think that person's not going to steal your money? Probably nine out of 10 people in that situation would end up saying well maybe a little bit of money could come my way. I'm so underpaid it would just be fair. So yeah it's almost a guarantee of corruption if you don't have anybody watching the store. Guaranteed.

Some say that Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation to DNI might be in trouble. I guess she got mostly in trouble for not being willing to say that Edward Snowden is a traitor, only that he broke laws. But apparently as of this morning there were no Republicans who had said publicly they would not vote to confirm Tulsi. So if the Republicans stay united she still gets in. But the thinking is that maybe even some Republicans are going to have a problem with her. So we're going to, I think we're treating this one as a coin flip. I don't know if Trump and supporters will go as hard at the politicians if they don't say yes to this one. If RFK Jr. gets turned down people are going to flip out and I'm one of them. I'm just going to flip out and I'm just going to want something to be corrected very fast. The other nominees I might say as I do with Tulsi I say huh I would very much like her to get confirmed but if she didn't I don't know if I'd go to war especially if the other side had a reason. They go okay here's my specific reason and this is a line I can't cross. I think I could live with it. But I wouldn't live, I couldn't live with the Kennedy confirmation being derailed by fake news and stuff. I can't live with that. That one's life and death. Got to get that one.

I do want very much Tulsi to get confirmed and Kash Patel especially. I think Kash is going to be okay. So I'm going to say yes on Kash, he'll get confirmed, and Tulsi's still a coin flip. Could go either way.

Remember Bernie Sanders was arguing with RFK Jr. in the confirmation hearings and RFK Jr. pointed out he's one of the main recipients of pharma donations. And Bernie argued no I'm not taking anything from the executives. I'm taking, I only accept small donations. Those are from just employees. And then I say what's the difference? What is the difference? If the pharma industry, be they the executives or be they the employees, have decided that you're the person that they're going to give money to because they like what you're doing, you're not going to change what you're doing right? Why does it matter that the employees gave it versus the executives? It's exactly the same thing. It's exactly the same.

So no that's not a dodge. And also if you're familiar with the real world, let's see how many of you know the real world. If you found out that an industry such as pharma had a lot of individual employee donations so much so that when you summed it up it became the biggest number on the chart, what would you say about the willingness of the employees to give money to Bernie Sanders? Well let me tell you how the real world works. This is your CEO. We've decided that we like Bernie Sanders and we're going to give him some corporate money but we don't want to do it with our money because it would look like we're putting too much of a thumb on the scale. So we'd like to encourage each of you to use your own judgment. We're not going to tell you who to donate to. We like Bernie. We like Bernie. But we're not going to tell you who. Maybe there'll be a few others. They'll get some money. But here's a list of five people we think you should consider. So anybody on this list. Oh and by the way we can't tell you for sure that