hat's a big deal, a big deal for deals. It's days away from finalization. So it's not done done, but it looks like it's going to happen. And I think what it does is allow a US company that has not been yet named to be a major player in exploiting the oil that Pakistan has. So that sounds positive.

Every one of these trade deals and that oil deal I say to myself nobody thought of this before. It feels like Trump is just picking up all this free money. It's like, well, why don't we negotiate with them? Okay. And then he has this tariff idea that allows him to negotiate effectively and also put an artificial time limit on when they have to make a deal. I believe there's a really good chance assuming that inflation doesn't get out of control. But if things keep going well, and so far they are, but remember, we don't know yet. By the end of the year, we'll know a lot more. If Trump keeps pushing this approach where the tariffs are used as a lever and a weapon and then he simply proposes deals with all kinds of different countries, he could just keep doing that forever and it will go down in history. That's probably just the smartest thing any American president ever did. I don't know if history will ever give him the full weight of respect for how he's created an asset out of nothing. He created an asset out of nothing. The whole tariff thing was like it didn't exist until he got there. Now it not only exists, he's made it the biggest thing that our allies worry about. So they better get that fixed otherwise it's going to cost them anyway. So that's happening.

And then according to a post on X by NASA AI which I don't know if that's an AI account or somebody who's just involved in AI but anyway it was a good summary there of what the Make America Healthy Again commission delivered. Apparently, they've delivered their report and they found four root causes that I believe they want to look into more that are causing all the childhood chronic diseases because the chronic diseases are out of control. They've narrowed it down to ultra-processed foods, environmental toxins, chronic stress and inactivity, and over medicalization of children. And to me, that feels right. Again, I remind you that everything we knew about health for the last 1.5 million years, all of it wrong. But finally, we're right. I don't know. We'll see.

And then apparently some things are getting done that are good such as Trump approved waivers to SNAP. That's the food that's made available through the government to people who can't afford food. SNAP. But SNAP will not now, you won't be able to buy junk food with your food stamps. So Nebraska, Indiana, and Iowa have all already signed on to that. So you can't buy junk food. And the FDA is phasing out eight common artificial food dyes. So they will no longer be approved by the FDA after a little time has gone by to phase them out. And then Trump is doing that most favored nation thing with pharmaceutical stocks where he says we won't pay more than the other countries pay. So that could be a big saver. We'll see. And of course he's got that tariff club he's using on that too. And then I guess RFK Jr. is doing something about institutional capture, which is where the FDA and other approving organizations get staffed with people who know they have a job at the very place that they're approving as soon as they're done. So you want to get rid of that conflict of interest. So those are good things. I don't know if that's enough, but they're good things.

I was listening to RFK Jr. talking at some event and he very cleverly started his comments by saying that he's been coming to the White House for 65 years because his relatives were or JFK was there and he said that the White House has never looked better just the physical look of the inside of it. Apparently he's impressed with how Trump has improved the decorations or the furniture or whatever. And so he brought that up to sort of compliment Trump in front of a room full of people while the cameras were going. And it was one of the smartest compliments you'll ever see in your life because you know that Trump cares about that. He cares that he could make the White House look better than it had ever looked before. Great compliment.

So if you know here's one of the things I try to teach in my books. Compliments are free. If you're thinking of giving somebody a compliment and it's genuine, you're really impressed by something and you keep it to yourself, that's not exactly something to be proud of. It didn't cost you anything. And if you deliver that compliment, there would probably be some great payoff, at least to the person who got the compliment. So compliments are something you should learn how to give. You'll never see a better one. RFK Jr. knows how to give a compliment. That was one hell of a well-crafted compliment that came at an unexpected time which also helps.

By the way, here's the other tip. A compliment that's not expected and it's not triggered by something in the atmosphere is way more powerful if you just drop a compliment nobody expected like that. But I also noticed that RFK Jr.'s voice appeared the best it's ever been. And I wondered if he's continuing to improve or maybe because he's not actually running for election for anything, maybe he's talking less and maybe that gives his voice some strength. But have you noticed that his voice isn't perfect, but if you were to compare it to what it was three years ago, it looks really improved. And my observation, which I'd love to give to him in person, is that it looks like he's figuring out the mechanics of speech. And every now and then when he tries to speak and he doesn't have enough air, it's imperfect. But when he takes a nice breath and makes everything vibrate when he speaks and speaks up in the mask of his face, it's nearly perfect. So I feel like if he's figured out how to produce the perfect voice, all he has to learn is to pause so they can stay perfect because the temptation is to finish your sentence. If you're talking in public, you know, if you start a sentence and then you run out of air, you still want to finish the sentence because you started it and it would be weird if you just stopped in the middle. But I would advise anybody who has a similar situation to stop in the middle. People won't even notice. Watch this. I'm going to start a sentence and then I'm going to make you wait before I finish the sentence. All I did was take a breath so that the second part of the sentence is as strong as the first part because I was running out of breath a little bit. That's it. So I think RFK Jr. is on the verge of fixing his voice just through his own work.

I think what I saw is Chanel Rion of OAN talking about Gina Haspel who was the head of the CIA under Trump and Biden. Did you know that she was sort of a favorite of John Brennan and he had picked her to be the London station chief of the CIA? So when Brennan was the head of the CIA, he picked her for one of the most important assignments. And she was there in London when the Steele dossier was created. And according to Kash Patel, she had also blocked some Russiagate evidence. So Chanel Rion is suggesting that the hint is that she might be one of the bad guys. So I don't think we have proof of that, but more documents are coming out. And so apparently according to Just the News there will be some newly declassified evidence coming out that says the FBI conspired with Clinton to legitimize the Russiagate allegations and we expect that the new declassified documents again this is according to Just the News who has some sources the new stuff is going to say that the FBI was a willing participant in the plot. They weren't somebody who was also fooled by Clinton. They knew exactly what she was doing and they participated. Now, if that's true, meaning that it's true that we have documentation that demonstrates that clearly, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

Well, Brennan and Clapper apparently did an opinion piece in the New York Times to try to defend themselves. Their defense is we did not technically say anything wrong. We said that the assessment said that Russia didn't directly change votes with their hacking. We did not say that Russia influenced things with their influence campaign. So that's what they said. So they basically use the complexity of the situation along with the fact that they know that 99% of the public can't follow this story. I can just sort of barely keep up by warning you that I probably get some of the details wrong. You know, I'm smart and it's part of my job at the moment to keep up with it and I can barely do it and I have what would you call it? Impostor syndrome. It's not really impostor syndrome if it's true that you're not good at the thing and I'm definitely not good at the thing. The thing being explaining the story about the Russia hoax.

But luckily, we have Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, who is on X, which you might know as the number one news app in the world. So if you're not on X, you're probably a little lost about everything. Honestly, if you're not on X, you really don't know what's going on. Have you tried to look at news without X