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Back to episode — Episode 2863 CWSA 06/09/25

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nest with you. For the first time in my 100 days on this job, the other night I said to myself for the first time, I don't know if I want to do this anymore," Martin said. And then he said, "No one knew. No one knows who the hell I am." Right. No one knows who the hell I am. Can you imagine being Ken Martin and you're trying to do the business of the DNC and you call somebody up and you say, "Hey…

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think it's a good idea to out some other head of state or a family member of a head of state? That would be a terrible idea because we would create this whole animosity with some other countries that we didn't really need to. Now, would justice be served? Nope. But when you're dealing with international relations, you end up doing all these terrible tradeoffs. You know, people die if they do this, but people die if they do the other thing. So international relations is a contact sport. So even though there might be a situation where justice would not be satisfied, you can imagine that that would be a state secret because it's a messy world. So if it sounds like I'm in favor of that, then check yourself because I didn't say that. I'm just saying that that might be the reality of it.

Cash Patel also said they found the missing Fauci phone. I guess one of his older phones they hadn't been able to find for years, but somehow magically they found it. Do you think there's going to be anything on Fauci's phone by now that would cause trouble? I don't know. I'm so jaded. Even though this has nothing to do with the Epstein files, you know, the Fauci phone and the Epstein files, no connection. You know, if you imagined anything about one that affected the other would be analogy thinking, so it wouldn't even be good thinking. But there's something about just what we've been observing for the last several years that makes me think that there will be nothing interesting on Fauci's phone because every time we think we've got something, it's like, ah, we got them. We found the secret documents. It just doesn't really work out that way, does it? So I'm going to say that there will be no major Fauci revelations unless they're just sort of embarrassing or interesting or funny, but nothing that's going to make him go to jail.

According to a federal appeals court, Trump will be allowed to ban the AP, the Associated Press, from the Oval Office. A two-to-one ruling that blocked the lower court's block or something. So what do you think of that? Do you think it's fair that Trump can block one part of the major media? Well, here's a little persuasion lesson for you. If he blocked all of the major media that said things that were untrue and maybe they even knew they were untrue, then there would be no media left for his press events. If he blocked nobody, just nobody got any pushback, then the bad media would feel free to make up more lies about him and not worry about it. But if you can take one of them, in this case the AP, and drive a stake through their heart and say this could be you. You know, if you do the same thing that they did, we'll drive a stake through your heart too because you don't have automatic access to the White House. And so persuasion-wise, putting a stake through the heart of one major brand name media enterprise is the very smartest thing he could do because it's going to make all the rest of them say, maybe we should look twice at the way we're wording this. And that's what he would want. So smart.

In news that is a little bit alarming, the Trump administration has allegedly, according to the New York Post, diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles that were meant for Ukraine and they're being sent to US troops in the Middle East. Now, why would US troops in the Middle East suddenly need 20,000 anti-drone missiles? Do we need them more than we needed them a month ago? Is it just an ordinary increase in capacity and a change in priorities where Trump says, "Okay, Ukraine is less important, US is more important, so we're going to move them." All right, you're way ahead of me in the comments. You're way ahead of me. Yeah, it kind of suggests that we're preparing for a war with Iran. Now I always tell you this: preparing for war does not mean war. Preparing for war

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just means you have a military. If your military has not prepared for every likely or even potential war, they're not really doing their job. So would it make sense, even if we had no intention of starting a war, would it make sense for us to move a bunch of weapons into US control away from Ukraine? And the answer is it probably makes sense to move those weapons. But it also makes a good warning…

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