g and cooling. You could if they want to live outdoors and the street people certainly do.

Now here I’m talking about the so-called homeless more than the so-called repeat criminals. But you’ve heard the idea of not treating the people who are in a special situation, repeat criminals or street people. Their situation is not like anybody else’s. So maybe you need a place that’s not like the way we treat everything else. Maybe jail is where a normal person who made a mistake or two ends up. But maybe the lifetime repeat criminals don’t go to jail. Maybe they’ve got this 600 building. Maybe they’ve got a campsite, but you just don’t come back. You just don’t come back. That’s the important part.

So yes, Charlie Sheen, your idea is excellent. There are probably a variety of ways to do it.

Byron York is reminding us how John Brennan lied to Congress. You know the thing I worry about this is that whole Russiagate hoax thing. As it ages, Democrats will forget it ever happened. And indeed, I wonder how many of them could tell you that this was a real story. I feel like it’s none.

So I’m going to read you what Byron York summarized about John Brennan lying to Congress, and I want you to decide how many of your Democrat friends would know this. This is so important. If you didn’t know this, almost nothing would make sense about what Trump is doing to get his enemies or nothing would make sense. And also your credibility that you put in our election systems would be totally influenced by whether or not people knew that this happened which has nothing to do with the election per se. It’s in that domain.

But if you realize how crooked the people at the top were during the time that elections were being held, it’s really hard to imagine that this was the only bad thing they did.

So here’s York on X. He goes, “How John Brennan lied to Congress.” Here’s the bottom line. Republicans have believed for a long time, which Republicans have believed for a long time, in the politically supercharged atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier—that’s the Steele dossier—was BS. All right? So 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS.

That fact may be known to zero Democrats and it’s one of the most important facts in the history of the United States. I’ll bet they don’t know it.

Going on. So even though they knew the dossier was BS, they knew they had no business including it in their assessment of Russia’s 2016 activities, but they included it anyway because it told them what they wanted to hear, that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia. He did not collude with Russia.

Then under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it. So it’s bad enough that they did it, but the part that can really land you in jail is the lying about it to Congress.

If you gave a serious survey to Democrats, how many would know that this happened? How many would know that in 2017 that at the very top, Obama, Brennan, they all knew that the Steele dossier was BS but they knew it could take down a president? Maybe and change the government of the United States. That’s a coup, right? That’s a coup.

But they’ve been taught that January 6 was a coup and that Republicans try to take over countries by bringing no weapons and marching around in one building for an afternoon. And that’s how they overthrow a country. Not that they did what they said they were doing, which was we’re trying to make sure this election wasn’t rigged. Can you give us a day? You know, just give us a little time to make sure this wasn’t rigged. That’s what actually happened.

Anyway, so I worry that’s being forgotten.

I had a little back and forth with Jessica Tarlov. You know her from The Five on Fox. And she said about the question of opening up the government on X she said don’t Republicans control the House, Senate and White House asking for a friend.

Now you’ve heard the Democrats say this, right? You’ve heard them say it’s the Republicans who run everything. You know, they’ve got the House, the Supreme Court, they’ve got the Senate, they’ve got the presidency. So if the government is closed, it clearly must be the people who are in charge.

So I replied to Jessica on X and I said, “You’re failing the Turing test, Jessica. A human would remember 60 votes are needed.” So the Democrats who are underinformed on this topic apparently—not the people at top, Jessica knows exactly the situation. She understands it perfectly, but she’s trying to use the Republicans are in charge as sort of, I’ll say, a narrative.

So I said, “You’re failing the Turing test, Jessica. A human would remember that 60 votes are needed.” The Republicans have 52, I think. So they would absolutely need Democrats to reopen the government because all the Republicans were saying yes, except one.

So then Jessica replied and she said, “Indeed! I know full well,” which is what I told you. Of course she knows. She understands the government. She’s not confused. She knows the news. She goes, “I know full well,” which is true. But like when—now listen to this—but like when Democrats are in power, it’s on them to compromise to get the votes they need. Johnson doesn’t seem to get that.

You know why Johnson doesn’t get that? Because that’s not a thing. That’s not a thing. Where’s the logical connection between Democrats are not in power and therefore the people who are in power should compromise to the people who are not in power? Where is that written?

What if the compromise is what if the most reasonable compromise is let’s just pay people till we work it out because it’s only weeks. That would be the reasonable thing.

So here’s what I think. I think Jessica being unusually smart and well-informed, she knows that her argument is not like a real argument. It’s more of a narrative, you know, more of a my team kind of thing. But no, there’s no requirement that the Republicans, it’s not in the Constitution, it’s not my expectations. Aren’t they both just supposed to play for the benefit of the public? Where’s the part where they’re going to do what’s good for the public? Yeah, maybe they have an obligation to do that, to do what’s good for the public, you know, like paying people.

However, I appreciate Jessica’s back and forth, and I’ll say again, I think she’s the best that The Five has had in the Democrat chair. You know The Five always has one prominent Democrat and they take them around sometimes. Harold Ford Jr. is great, but I think Jessica brings a little more fire. She has a better understanding of how the interplay should work for entertainment purposes. I think Harold Ford Jr. is one of the greatest character role models you’ll ever see. Just seems like a great guy. But he likes to decrease the tension whereas it’s a TV show where a little bit of tension would be fun.

So I think Jessica has the best understanding of the TV show as well as the government.

Rick Scott was recently interviewed on 60 Minutes and he was asked if we’re getting ready to invade Venezuela. He said he’d be surprised if we invaded Venezuela, which is an interesting political. I think I’ll use that answer from now on. Well I’d be surprised. Does that really tell you that he knows what’s going to happen and it’s not going to happen? It does not. But he wouldn’t know. I mean in theory he shouldn’t know. It would only be that probably the only person who would know would be Trump and maybe Hegseth if they’d made that determination. Maybe a general, but he’d be surprised if we invaded Venezuela. I think I would be surprised too if it was some kind of a general military invasion. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

But the CIA has been approved for covert activities. And the other thing that Rick Scott said, which makes me think he’s talked to the boss before he did it—Trump being the boss—he said, quote, “If I was Maduro, I’d head to Russia or China right now.” Rick Scott said his days are numbered.

So it could be that our government wants Rick Scott and people like him to say you know smart move is to leave and then you don’t need to do an invasion. So the smart move is to get him out of the country and install your preferred puppet who wants Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

And then Rick Scott pointed out—I think it was him that pointed out—that that would also be the end of Cuba because Cuba is being propped up by cheap or subsidized Venezuelan oil. So would that give us, the United States, anything we want out of Cuba, or would that be bad for us? I feel like it might stimulate a massive wave of illegal immigration from Cuba, right? So we might have a Cuba risk if we go hard on Venezuela. It looks like we’re going to go hard on them. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some regime change chicanery going on in Venezuela right now. But I do worry about the Cuba effect.

Let’s check in with another anti-Trumper. So remember the Canadian premier Doug Ford. He was the one who created that Ronald Reagan anti-tariff advertisement that got Trump so mad that he canceled trade negotiations with Canada over the ad.

But here’s what Doug Ford says about his gigantic mistake, which is what I call it. Quote, “My intention was to make sure the American people were informed and have a conversation, and it really started a conversation.”

Okay, here’s a little tip for you. The biggest red flag for incompetence is saying that what you’re shooting for is a conversation. If anybody ever tells you, “Well, I did this so we could have a conversation about this or that,” they don’t have a plan. They don’t have a suggestion. They don’t have anything. They have nothing. All they’re doing is getting attention and saying, “Well, we ought to have a conversation.”

Do you think we didn’t want to have a conversation about tariffs? Do you think we weren’t having a conversation about tariffs? Did you think having a conversation about them would solve anything?

So he replaced a negotiation which would be a path to a solution with a conversation. Conversations don’t do anything. It literally is a weak. It’s just a weak word. Like if the best you can do is put a weak word on it and then run an ad that canceled all trade negotiations. This guy’s the biggest clown in Canada. Canada is sitting up there bleeding tariffs because this idiot thought that he wanted to create a conversation about Reagan.

Now, I get that you love your Reagan. Some of you do. But how is he relevant? How is he even a little bit relevant? Not at all. It’s not a conversation we need. Not a conversation that’ll help. No, you’re a dope. And that’s the bottom line.

All right, I think we’ve done what we wanted to do today.

If you joined late, I’ll give you my personal update that I have been as of last night approved for the Pluvicto cancer drug that’s new and it’s not a cure. But for a lot of people it gives them some degree of relief. I hope I’m one of them. I will let you know how that goes.

I’ve got MRIs coming and radiation coming and treatment com