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son in Congress for looking into or finding out about UFOs and UAPs and all that. Now, he seems convinced that they're real because people who talk to him who seem like credible people are whispering in his ear things that sound real. And there are some people who have said things under oath at this point. He says that would suggest that we have alien bodies or alien crafts. Now I'm going to come…

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Even Hillary Clinton has commended—she even used that word—I commend President Trump for what she calls significant progress in the Gaza situation. How do you interpret that? How do you interpret that the most dependable critic of the president, obviously somebody who has a long history of hating him, that even she was not looking for the downside? How do you interpret that? Here's how I interpret it. I think it means that she found out how to make money. Don't you think? Because what this will lead to—this whole Abraham Accords thing—if the Abraham Accords expands, it looks like it might. But at the very least it'll be massive money flowing into the area. And don't you think that Hillary Clinton may have possibly even cut a deal to say, I'll support this as long as we get a taste, as long as one of my friends gets a big contract. I'll say I'm all on board for this. There's got to be a monetary incentive there. Because if it were just purely political, I think she'd say something like, "What took you so long?" or "It's going to fall apart," or "You did part of it wrong," or "The only way you got it is working with Russia." You know, something like that. She must have found a way to make some money there.

Well, the biggest news is that China—well, I won't say they started a trade war, but they accelerated it. So the details are a little murky. Still a little fog of war going on, but it looks like they're massively tightening up on their rare earth materials, which would be a gigantic problem for the economy of the United States. And our stock market responded by going in the toilet, as did the crypto market, all responding to the fact that international trade is at great risk or some risk. I don't know if it's great risk because the smart people are saying that what China is doing is creating assets to trade away because there's big trade talks coming up. So I'm always telling you that Trump is the champion of creating something out of nothing and then trading the nothing away for something. And that looks like what China just did. So they created a something out of nothing by creating massive barriers to getting their rare earth materials. Now when they negotiate, they have something to trade away that they made out of nothing. So it's a very Trumpian approach and clearly they've studied his approach so they know how to do this stuff.

So it's too early to know if this is a big deal or just a medium big deal. It's at least a medium big deal. But what we don't know is, is it really just a bargaining chip and it will get bargained away and we just have to be uncomfortable for three months until we know what's going on with that stuff? Maybe it could also be because it's so ill-defined that it won't be bargained away. It'll be defined away as in, well, you know, now that we give you the details, we didn't mean that it would apply to any phones and then that whole category will be excluded and then we'll be like, oh, I thought it was going to

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be worse, but it doesn't include phones and it won't include laptops. Oh. Oh, you know. So it'll end up being defined smaller but also negotiated. So who knows? But it's a big deal. It's a big deal. I would, if I were giving advice, I would say the odds of us getting some kind of a workable solution eventually is pretty high. So I'd be gambling that it does get worked out in, I don't know, several…

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