ught maybe the sentence was too much or something. So there's some noise about maybe he was being mistreated in jail but nobody gets treated well in jail. So I don't know if the thinking here, what I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want the thinking behind this to be he's a Republican so we're going to get him out of jail. I hope that's not the thinking. I do like Trump being protective of his base. So I do like commuting all the January 6 stuff, including some of the people who went way too far. I'm in favor of that because that's just protecting his team and I think he has to. But is he protecting the team or is this just a criminal who maybe should have paid his dues? He may have been over sentenced compared to other people. That could be part of it.

Trump's also backing a primary challenger to Thomas Massie. I don't love that. I'll reiterate my Thomas Massie opinion. Yes, he's a gigantic pain in the ass to Republicans, but just the kind I like. Not everything has to be smooth. Sometimes you need that alternative voice and Massie is insanely brave with his alternative voice and also insanely rational and he's almost always on the right side of principle. Maybe always on the right side of principle, but principle doesn't get the job done right. We live in the real world. Sometimes you're gonna have to vote with your team to get anything done because it's so close. But I would rather keep a Massie even at the cost of losing one dependable Republican vote because I think his voice is too important and we cannot lose it. So I will disagree with Trump, but I understand why he wants his people to vote for him. Everybody understands we can understand both sides of this situation.

Well, there's a meeting with Trump and Putin coming up in what country? Bulgaria or someplace? I don't know, Hungary. One of those countries over there that I always get confused. So we don't have a specific date, I don't think. But Trump thinks that maybe we're at a point where talking to Putin could get something done.

Now, cleverly, as you know, Zelenskyy with two Y's. Do you know why Zelenskyy's name is spelled with two Y's at the end of Zelenskyy? It's because that's what everybody asks when they hear him. Zelenskyy, why? Why?

Anyway, so Zelenskyy wants these Tomahawk missiles that only the US can supply and they would give him range to go way into Russia and bomb their energy infrastructure and whatever else. So Trump is not eager to make things worse. But he did. Once again, Trump did his Trump thing where he created an asset out of nothing. So the asset out of nothing is, "Oh, we might give Ukraine these Tomahawks any minute." Yep, we might. Any minute. You want to talk? Oh. Oh, you'd like to talk? So Putin wants to talk now because Trump has created this asset that didn't exist before, which is maybe I'm going to give Ukraine some Tomahawk missiles and you're really going to be up. So he creates that risk and asset to trade away and then he schedules the meeting. Pure Trump.

Do you think that Biden would have done that? Probably not because he wasn't smart enough. He just literally wasn't smart enough. You create the asset and then you talk and then you trade away the asset. It's a real asset. When I say he created the asset, I don't mean it's imaginary. It's a real asset. He really could and maybe even probably will give these Tomahawks to Ukraine eventually. I feel like if literally nothing comes out of this meeting, I think Ukraine's going to get Tomahawks. What do you think? I think they will because Trump's not going to just say, "Well, we tried." I don't think so. I think he's going to say if we can't get it done with this level of mutual threat, I'm going to increase the mutual threat and then we'll try again. So who knows what he's thinking internally, but if you're Putin, you would have to worry that the Tomahawks are definitely coming if you blow this meeting.

Do you think Putin's risk management would allow him to take a chance on those Tomahawks coming online? I don't know. That'd be a pretty big risk for Putin. I don't think he likes that kind of risk. That would be a little bit more than he might want to take on because correct me if I'm wrong, but the Tomahawks could just turn off the power in Russia, right? If you had a thousand Tomahawks all of a sudden, you don't think you could take out the entire energy infrastructure of Russia right before the winter? I bet you could. Logically, you would imagine that Russia could turn off Ukraine's power too. But would they? They probably would if they got attacked that hard.

Well, Malibu is looking to arrest homeless people over fire risks because I guess the homeless have started lots of 30 fires. Usually not intentionally. I guess they're just starting fires to stay warm, but things get out of control. Some of them probably intentional. But Malibu now is not as blue as it used to be. Now maybe it wants those homeless people to not be so dangerous. We'll see where that goes.

There's something strange happening with Venezuela and the US. So Trump says that Maduro has offered everything, meaning that we're negotiating with Venezuela through some channels, I don't know, but that Venezuela has reportedly offered to give the US a dominant stake in Venezuela's oil and other mineral wealth. What? How is that even a real thing? Are you serious? That Venezuela is trying to buy its way out of trouble by giving the US equity in its natural resources? I didn't see that coming. Is that even real?

Well, here's what I think won't work, which is it looks like here's how I interpret it. So this is just my interpretation. My interpretation is Maduro knows he has no chance of survival because once he's been determined to be a cartel head as opposed to a legitimate head of state, they can just take him out. And they know that Trump is someone who won't hesitate to take out a terrorist head or the head of the cartel. So Maduro is probably saying, "Okay, I got four weeks to stay alive basically. I'm going to have to offer whatever it takes for them not to kill me specifically because I'm pretty sure that they would do a decapitation strike. I don't think they would go in and try to grind it out and beat the military. That seems like a bad idea. But they would definitely know where Maduro is and they would definitely be able to put a drone on his ass anytime they wanted." So Maduro is probably thinking, "All right, I got to come up with something that can keep me alive for the next month because it's not looking good." So he may have promised Venezuela's assets to keep him in power, which is a pretty smart offer because you know that Trump would want to claim success. He'd want an economic bump. But it's not good enough because Maduro would still be the head of a cartel and a terrorist organization according to the United States. So I don't think you can bribe your way out of that situation, can you? But it's a hell of an offer. And Trump seems to ha