to the emergency room because the emergency room still has to take them. So I'm sitting there with I don't know maybe half of the people didn't have health insurance and I had to wait my turn. Not ideal.

Here's another idea. How about tasking the big AI companies with creating a free version of healthcare? Now, not free in terms of drugs. That would be a separate thing and not free in terms of hospital care. But what if Trump said, "All right, here's my executive order. AI will be super disruptive to the country, but we want to make sure that AI since that's where all the profits are going to go to these AI companies that they would be in charge basically of creating a free permanent healthcare portal that's AI. So it doesn't have to be any people. It could be just a portal, but have one that really is fact checked for no hallucinating etc."

Now, would that work? I don't know, but it would sound like a Republican plan, and that would be better than having no plan.

And then there's the RFK Jr. play, which is to act like your healthcare costs will go down if you've solved some of the healthy eating and autism problems. And you know, I'm optimistic that RFK Jr. did in fact find out the main cause of autism. It might be circumcision and Tylenol. It might be. And if he did, then we could reasonably claim that all those costs for autism might go down a little bit, not right away, but over time. And so there might be some argument that says we're going to lower healthcare by getting rid of these chronic health problems. We're going to make it so that everybody has at least a free AI doctor, which we're very close to the crossover point where the AI doctor will be better than a regular doctor. Not quite there yet. We're not there. Regular doctor is still better than an AI doctor, but we're very close. So the executive order could just say get there fast.

He could make a case that getting rid of the illegal people will lower your costs. He could do a price transparency thing and he could offer to use some, but not all of the tariff revenue to plug the gap.

Now, do any of those sound like they would at least sound good? Because remember, the Republicans have two problems to solve. One is healthcare, but the other is how to get anybody on the other side to agree to whatever it is you're proposing. So you might have to take a suboptimal plan, but you got to get one that you can get through. So would any of these things be hard to get through? Who's against price transparency?

I'm seeing some things in the comments. According to Leading Report, Oregon Democratic officials are reportedly set to allocate more than twice as much funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants as for the state police, per Fox News. So that's how dire it is.

Anyway, let's talk about phase two of Gaza. Do you think Trump will be successful there? I think nobody wants to be the police in Gaza. It's too dangerous. So good luck getting even another Arab country to step up to that. And I don't think Hamas has agreed to disarm. So I don't know how phase two is going to go. But phase one looked impossible and Trump got it done. Phase two doesn't look nearly as impossible, but really hard. So we'll see if he gets this done.

I always talk about a user on X called Maze, Maze Z, always has wonderful clips of things. I don't know how he finds things, but he finds just the most on-point old clips. And when I say old, I don't mean old old, but just ones that have been before. And he found clips of CNN's John King and Dana Bash talking about Trump. And John King said that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza. What do you call that? That's called mind reading.

If I've taught you one thing, it's that when people are doing mind reading, they're not serious people because you can't read minds. How would John King know that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza? Do you think that there's any adult human being who only cares about one thing when there's so many variables in play? You don't think that Trump wanted a Nobel Prize? You don't think that just on humanitarian reasons he wanted the killing to stop? You don't think he wanted to be a good president? You don't think he wanted to be a good partner with Israel? What the hell would you be thinking to imagine that Trump is the only person in the world who has one concern and it's about building a hotel in Gaza, which by the way would be the very worst place you could ever put a freaking hotel.

May I give you some real estate advice? If you're thinking of investing in a resort or hotel in Gaza, don't do it. That would be freaking crazy. Now, it might not be crazy if you're an Arab country, a Muslim country and you want to build a hotel there. It might not be a target, but would you ever build a Trump hotel and put it on the beach? No. No. That would last about five minutes. That would be the number one terror target in the world.

So for John King to imagine that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza, where does that come from? That's just weird mind reading, right? And then Dana Bash said talking to him at the same time. She says people actually believe Trump would end the war, meaning Gaza. And then she said Trump doesn't understand the conflict. What's that? That's mind reading. How do you know what he doesn't understand? How do you know you're the one who doesn't understand it? And now that he's essentially solved it, would it be fair to say he understood everything he needed to understand? And there was something that you did not understand, Dana Bash. There's something you didn't understand. You didn't understand his skill set. You didn't understand that he's not like other people. You didn't understand that he can sometimes do the thing that nobody else can do. But you're locked in your little mind reading weird world where you think you can read his mind and because Democrats said there's something wrong in there that there's just a bunch of rats running around in his head. Not so much. Turns out he's really really smart. Surprise. He's really really smart at this especially.

Anyway, here's something I may have been part of the cause. Do you remember there was a photo that showed the Texas National Guard unit deploying in Chicago. And people noted that the service people, the National Guard troops looked a little bit obese, like all of them, not just a few of them, but all the ones in the picture looked pretty portly. And a lot of people pointed it out, but I also pointed it out and I reposted the picture on X with the following comment: Paging Pete Hegseth.

Now I assumed that the Secretary of Defense is not following me on X, right? Fair assumption that the guy who's in charge of our military probably doesn't follow me on X. So it's not like he's going to see my post where I'm calling the National Guard guys fat. And then this morning, I thought maybe he follows me. So I took a look. Turns out Pete Hegseth does follow me in his personal account, not his government account, but he would have actually seen me and other people mention that those guys are not... those particular we appreciate their service of course, but their physical fitness was not up to Pete Hegseth's level. And apparently he acted on it. He actually pulled some of those guys out and I don't know what happens. I don't think they're out of the service. I think they'll just have to lose some weight. But I feel a little bit guilty just because I have a large account. So when the large accounts make some kind of a statement, people do notice, right? So I'm kind of hoping that I'm not the reason that those service people are getting... I hope I'm not the... it wasn't just me. It was a lot of other people who mentioned it too. But I'm just worried because my account is bigger than theirs.

Anyway, I saw a lot of people jabbering about whether Israel is the tail wagging the dog or whether Trump has gotten control of that situation and he's in control and who is in more control? Is Netanyahu controlling Trump or is Trump controlling Netanyahu? Well, at the moment it looks like Trump has full control of the situation.

But we also wonder about the intel services Mossad versus the CIA. So somebody asked John Kiriakou, who you've probably seen on social media. He's great. He's an ex-CIA officer, but he's off the reservation. So he's talking honestly about what it was like being a CIA and he was a real type. Like he was deployed like he was doing the dirty stuff. So he really knows. He wasn't a desk jockey. He was doing the real stuff, so he knows. And his statement he goes to tell you the truth, he was on some podcast, I don't remember which one, he said, to tell you the truth, and please forgive my language in advance, but I think historically the CIA has been Mossad's bitch. That's really what it comes down to. He said, quote, "Where over the course of my career and certainly subsequently from that we've seen either leaked to the media or released to the media, we get nothing out of that liaison relationship and the Israelis get everything out of that."

Now, what's the first thing you need to know about the context of this story? Number one, it's being told to you by one guy whose job was to be a professional liar. I'm not saying he's lying about this, but if you were an ex-CIA officer, is it not true that you were trained to lie whenever it made sense to lie? So he could... John Kiriakou comes off as completely honest to me. If I'm going to be a judge of character, which is always sketchy. None of us are that good. But my judge of character is that he's telling the truth and that that's his actual assessment. But remember, when you're only hearing something from one source, I'd want to hear it from somebody else. Yeah. I'd want at least a few other people say, "Oh yeah, that was our experience." So I don't know. I don't know how much difference it makes either.

So I saw a story yesterday that I could not