d of instinct to connect everything that doesn't need to be connected. And so somehow he's trying to put together the price of eggs with the democracy being stolen around. And as Scott Jennings proved on the CNN panel, they don't really have examples of anybody losing their democracy. So the democracy has not yet been stolen. I guess they're waiting for that any minute. Uh-oh, they took my democracy when I wasn't paying attention. But yeah, once that democracy goes away, well there's your price of eggs. Your price of eggs is going to go right through the roof.

Now seriously, is there anyone smart left on the left? Anyone? I did hear that Jon Stewart offered to Elon Musk to do an interview and I guess Elon said yes with a couple of conditions: it's unedited and it's on X. Now I don't know if Stewart has agreed to that because he might want to do it for his own podcast, but he might do it. And at least Jon Stewart is capable of understanding an argument on each side. Now he might not embrace it but he's capable of understanding it and then even repeating it back. So that could be the most interesting conversation of the entire year. I am so down for that. You haven't seen anybody on the right interview Musk who could actually ask good questions, could actually accept that some things are good and some things are bad, could accept that maybe his intention is not to destroy the country or just make money. You know, just get rid of the crazy stuff. Because here's what I don't think Jon Stewart will ever say. I don't think he'll say, Elon Musk, you're stealing my democracy. What do you say about that? I don't think he's going to ask that question because it's a dumbass question and obviously he knows that. So wow, I'm there for that. I'd love to see that conversation.

Anyway, Trump and Zelensky are supposed to meet on Friday for the big mineral deal. I think I'm going to not hold my breath that the mineral deal is going to go off smoothly, but at the moment it looks like they have a mineral deal. I'm going to wait a little bit on the details because I think we're still in fog of war and there might be some last-minute tweaks to it. But the basic idea is that we would be partners in some kind of a mineral exploration deal. They would make some money, we would make some money. Allegedly both sides have backed down on something. So Ukraine backed down on security guarantees because presumably they thought it was good enough that America would have a big financial interest in the country and that might be enough to incentivize America to protect its own interests, which would protect Ukraine at the same time. So it could be that they don't need it to be explicit if it's sort of built into the business model, I guess.

Let's see what else. And then the US is not going to try to claw back $500 billion from their natural resources. They're just going to split the money in what looks like a better deal. And apparently there's some bigger picture things that they've not told us about. So there might be some non-mineral related stuff.

Now here's what I think is the amazing part of this story. While we're watching one of the greatest things I've ever seen any leader ever do is happening and I don't see anybody calling it out as directly as I'm going to call it out. We don't know if this is going to work yet, right? So it's too early to say the mineral deal is a spectacular success, but it looks good at the moment. It looks like it has a pretty good chance of working. But here's my take. If Trump succeeds in reframing a hot war into a series of business deals that are good for everybody, in the history of leadership that will be the greatest thing anybody ever did if it holds. Now I'm not naive. Putin is Putin. We know that we can't predict or trust what he does. We know that people with the best of intentions, maybe things don't work out. We know that implementation might matter as much as having a good idea. So if it's not implemented properly it doesn't work. A million things could go wrong. I get it. I get it. You don't have to tell me that it could go wrong. I get it.

But just think about this. He's on the verge of maybe reframing an actual hot war into a business deal. And so far all sides have entered his frame. They've all entered his frame. Nobody else can do that. You're seeing a once-in-a-thousand-years set of talent from Trump and the people that he's hired to help him. This is so unprecedented. And I haven't seen anybody report it the way I just described it. Have you? Have you seen anybody describe it the way I did? Everybody knows the fact, but has anybody described this as the greatest reframe maybe in history? Like who ever did anything even close to this? If you can turn a hot war into a business deal where everybody wins and it sticks. And of course I'll say it again, we don't know if it'll work. We don't know if it'll stick. We don't know if Putin will just use it as a delaying tactic until he does worse things maybe. But it definitely has a chance of working and more than a good chance. He's got a solid chance of working. Incredible. Incredible.

Anyway, this is also incredible. So Senator Jim Bank