the ceasefire breaking is going to stop anytime soon. Might get a good result. We'll see.

And let's talk about Trump's third term. So apparently the news today is that Trump has admitted that it's not an option. He said, quote, "It's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. It's too bad." Now, so he's just noting that the Constitution says there's no way he could have a third term. Now, we had all greatly enjoyed watching him troll the left and act like maybe he'd do it. And I don't think that Bannon is done. And I think Bannon, who knows? I can't read his mind. He's a smart guy. He's complicated. So I won't try to presume I can know what he's thinking, but I would assume that Bannon's gonna keep going with the third term stuff because, as I noted before, as long as the Democrats think there's some chance he might be here longer, they won't try to outwait him. I saw Greg Gutfeld mentioning that theory yesterday on the show. Now, he credited me with saying that, but I got that from somebody on X. That wasn't my original. I boosted it, but it wasn't my original thought. It's a good thought that if you don't look like you're going to be there a while, people will try to ignore you like a lame duck. So that might have been what was behind this whole thing. We don't know. But maybe what's behind it is Bannon just wants more Trump. Could be just that. But let's see now that Trump has taken away one of their primary talking points on the left. Will they say he's lying? He really does want to be a king. You have to look at what he's doing, not what he's saying. Is that next? That seems like the most obvious thing the Democrats would do. Oh, he said it directly that he can't do it, but don't listen to what he says. Watch what he does. And he's doing authoritarian things.

Well, let's talk about his authoritarian things. So as you know, Trump's trying to reduce crime in the high crime cities by flowing the National Guard in there. So here's an update on Memphis. So Memphis, apparently the crime rate has been falling for a while, but it's still one of the highest in the country. So I don't know if it's really falling or not, but it's one of the high crime areas. And what I didn't know, so Wall Street Journal is filling me in today, that the mayor who I believe is a Democrat has actually been fighting crime aggressively. So he would be one of the reasonable people who knew a priority and went after it. So nobody is criticizing the mayor for his approach to crime in Memphis. Now, that's kind of good, right? That there's at least one mayor who thinks, yeah, crime's actually really important. We better do something about this. But that allowed him because he's not a crazy lefty anti-Trump no matter what he says kind of guy. He's more common sense-y. That allowed him to work with Trump and his team. So now there are 150 National Guard in Memphis, but they don't have rifles. They're not carrying rifles anyway. And they're not traveling in armored vehicles. So they're just a presence. And apparently that's working. Apparently just as a presence they say that it seems to be reducing crime.

Now, I don't know how that works exactly. I mean, 150 people, that's not much. How do you control a city's crime with 150 people at any given time? Half of them are going to be napping, right? There won't be that many who are actually visibly on the street and they're unarmed. If they don't have rifles, it doesn't say if they don't have sidearms, but I'm guessing they don't, right? So how does a few dozen unarmed people in uniform change the crime profile of an entire city? How does that work? But it looks like it is working, which is weird, but I don't know how it could work. Anyway, so that's a good example of maybe this story deserves some context that we're not getting because I've been skeptical from the start that you could make any permanent change by a temporary surge. It doesn't feel like a temporary surge would ever create permanent reduced crime. But maybe the threat of having Trump come in and do it because it shows that you can't do it. Maybe that's the secret sauce. Maybe the reason that a mayor would try harder to reduce crime is that they just can't let Trump come in and claim credit for it going down. So maybe it has some utility in the long run, but that's the only way I could imagine it would have long run utility if it changed the behavior of the people who are going to be there after the National Guard leave. And I don't know that that's demonstrated, but we'll see. We'll be optimistic.

News Nation has a pretty big scoop here. Apparently, there were people reporting the Palisades fire was smoldering before the fire actually took off. So you'd probably know there was a fire before the fire. The fire before the Palisades fire that was in that same area was efficiently put out by the fire department. And the fire department knows that even when you put out the fire, sometimes it will linger below the surface and continue burning and smoldering and you better watch it for a few days because it might come back. Now, that's a well-known firefighting thing. There are reports that the fire department did not stay long enough to catch the fact that it was smoldering and eventually took off again. Now, I'm no firefighter, so I won't imagine that they stayed the right amount or too long or not long enough, but here's the new scoop. News Nation, there's actually video of hikers who saw the smoldering days before the actual fire and reported it with video. They showed video of it smoldering and it still didn't get a fire department sitting on it to watch it. Now, maybe there'll be some new reporting that makes that not look as bad as it is, but is this possible? Is this possible that hikers, I think might have been more than one, but there's at least one because I've seen the video where they actually took a video of the ground smoldering, which everyone knows what that means. It's literally a fire and everybody knew it was this dry area. And what made it take off was the weather, I guess. You know, the high winds probably gave it that little extra spark. Wow. Somebody's going to have to answer for this. I was not expecting that there would be video of it