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rats. There is some organization called Cook Political who does predictions about midterms and they have updated their predictions and they give the Republicans the edge in the House in the midterms. Now, that would be a

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big deal because it's very unusual for the party that has the presidency to also win the midterms in the House. It just it's automatic that it goes the other way because the public doesn't like it when one party has too much power basically. However, this might be the exception because things are going so poorly for Democrats. And the Cook Political people, they're predicting a Republican victory in the midterms. Now, I don't know. I don't have any insight into midterms, so I don't have a reason to disagree with them, but we'll see.

Roger Stone posted this. So I'm just going to read what Roger Stone said on X. He said, "I was arrested at 6:06 a.m., but at 6:22 a.m., so just a few minutes later, Sarah Murray of CNN sent my lawyer a draft of my criminal indictment, which was sealed until 10:30 that morning. And the metadata tags were the initials of the man who wrote it and leaked it was Andrew Weissmann who is one of the legal pundits on CNN." So Roger Stone says no wonder CNN was there. So if I understand this, he believes that Andrew Weissmann wrote the indictment and also works for or with CNN and that he's kind of assuming that's where the leak came from. Well, maybe.

So apparently a bunch of Epstein survivors, the young women who were the victims, will hold a press conference on Capitol Hill on September 3rd. Now, do you believe that the victims, the survivors will have something new to say? Because it's starting to look like Jeffrey Epstein was mostly a money laundering expert who was teaching the rich and powerful how to hide their money and essentially keep it from the government or I don't know their spouse or wherever they're keeping it from and that he was definitely the one who did a lot of the sex crimes and there might have been a few buddies that were in on it but so far we're not seeing proof that there's like a client list and it's a blackmail operation and it might have been and it might have been like a subtle blackmail operation where he didn't actually blackmail anybody but anybody who got into that kind of illegal activity with him would just sort of know it would be better to keep him happy than not. So it doesn't have to be blackmail. It could just be putting them in sensitive situations so they're more likely to play ball with him in the future. Could be. Could be just that. I don't know.

So here's what I expect. There will be no new prominent names named at the press conference. Anybody want to take the other side of that bet? I say there will be no new person implicated. Might be a name you've heard before, you know, like Prince Andrew, but I'm going to say no new names will be presented. Just a prediction.

Trump's floating the idea of renaming the Pentagon back to what it used to be, the Department of War. He says it's

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because we won World War II and won World War I. Although there might be some disagreement about that from the Russians and maybe some others, but that's Trump's version that we're winning all these wars and that the Pentagon should be called the Department of War. All right, here's why that's a terrible idea. And I'm very surprised that Trump doesn't have the same opinion I'm going to tell you r…

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