ast. So it has a precedent. We know how they work.

But what it would do is it would take power and attention away from the Palestinian Authority. And it might be something that the Palestinians themselves, you'd have to probably do more than one emirate, but it's something that the Palestinians themselves might be willing to say, oh, well, it's not a state, but we're not going to get a two-state solution anyway because Israel is not in favor of that at the moment. So what is the second best thing we can do? Emirates.

So I do not have an opinion whether it's a good idea or a bad idea or who it would be good or bad for, but I've never heard it before. And so maybe there's something to work with here. I don't know. The UAE has seven emirates in it and they seem to be doing fine.

Meanwhile over at CBS News, you knew that Trump sued CBS because of the way they edited the Kamala Harris interview. And it looks like he got paid maybe, it's unconfirmed, but $16 million for winning that lawsuit or settled. He didn't win it. It was settled. And I learned some new things about that. A New York Post article by Charles Gasparino.

Did you know that the company that wants to buy the CBS parent company called Paramount, did you know that that was run and owned by Larry Ellison's son? So Larry Ellison's son is the one who's looking to buy Paramount and CBS. Apparently when Sherry Redstone got control of her company, it was worth $40 billion. Now the whole thing's only worth two billion. Imagine taking your husband's fortune from 40 billion down to two billion. Ouch. That's what she did. So she's looking to sell out and rest under two billion.

But CBS News is almost certainly not profitable. We don't know for sure because those numbers are not broken out. But if Larry Ellison's son is apparently a pro-Trumper just like Larry Ellison is, and that would put CBS in the firm control of somebody who likes Trump. Didn't see that coming. For some reason I was not aware of that that would be coming. Anyway, Larry Ellison's company produced Top Gun: Maverick and Mission Impossible, the new one. So they really got it going on there. So we'll see what happens with CBS News.

Trump's sending out his tariff letters telling people that some of their tariffs will be as high as 70 percent, which I interpret as really just rattling their cages so they'll try harder to make a trade deal that's better for them and not bad for us. So I think that's just a smart Trump approach to say if you were not serious enough to get this deal done in the period that we said we needed a trade deal done, then we don't need to. We'll just send you the bill and you can live with these crushing tariffs if you like. If you like.

Have you noticed that the big beautiful bill is full of stuff that is so hard to understand you can't even tell if it's good for you or bad? I don't know how many of the elements fit into that category, but one of them is the SALT deductions. All right. How many of you, if I went in the street and stopped people randomly, adults, and said, do you know what the SALT deduction is? How many people would even know what that is?

So SALT stands for state and local taxes, which used to be deductible so you could deduct it from your income before you did the federal taxes that you owed. And that changed. That went away because Trump didn't want blue states to have this extra advantage. And it was asking red states to sort of subsidize blue states because only the blue states had these high taxes.

Anyway, the SALT deductions were put back in, but they have a cap, but they also phase out, but they also have income limits. And if you have an S corporation, you might have a workaround. So I'm reading this and saying to myself, I don't even know if I'm making money or, you know, I live in a blue state so in theory it should be to my benefit. I can't tell. How many variables are you going to put on this? There's an income cap. There's a phase out. There's income limits. If you have an S corp, I mean, come on. Lawyers write this stuff. And you can't even tell if it's good or bad.

Yesterday I asked on X and we talked about it a little bit. What is it that Democrats are seeing or feeling when they say, and they look like they're being honest but emotional, when they think they're living in a Trump hellscape of authoritarianism? And I asked, what exactly are you experiencing that I'm not experiencing? Because to me every day I wake up is a lot like the day before. And I didn't see any hellscape. What am I missing?

And so it turns out I got a lot of feedback in the comments and it turns out that there are a lot of American citizens who believe that they personally or their family members who are also American citizens could be deported. And I'm not tal