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r word that sounds like that. I don't know. It could be anything. We'll find out later, but we'll keep an eye on that. All right. It looks like my guest has entered the green room. And let me make sure I'm going to accept him. Boom. You will be accepted. And then can I make you appear? Nope. Oh, there you are. Hey, Chris. "Hey, can you hear me? Okay, Scott." I can. Let's make sure the audience…
← Previous segment →n Abby Phillip had actually a pretty good response to that. She said, "I mean, you can make that argument about every single person who's implicated in these documents." Oh, implicated. Implicated. Every single person who's implicated. Yes, you could make the argument that anybody who has not yet been accused must be more likely innocent, but that wouldn't apply to Trump. So as soon as you compare any normal person or even a CEO to Trump, you're in weird territory because there's no comparison. If one of the CEOs had done a terrible crime on the island and 10 years had passed, do you think you necessarily would have heard about it? You can't know for sure, but I feel like maybe not. But what if somebody like Elvis or Trump had done some bad thing and then 10 years go by and the stakes are so high, do you think you wouldn't know about Trump? So that's a good question from Scott Jennings.
And then Scott points out very cleverly, he says, "You used the word implicated." So he caught that. He goes, "If someone's name appears on these documents, it doesn't necessarily mean they did anything wrong, but I'm sure this is going to lead people to say, 'Oh, they've been implicated.'" And so we'll see what comes out. Implicated. You're going to hear implicated a lot.
All right. Breaking. So now Representative Stacey Plaskett, apparently she was caught on video. I think the video was from some time ago. It had to be some time ago because Epstein was still alive. And it was she was in Congress in a 2019 oversight hearing. And there's evidence on the text messages that she was messaging Epstein to ask him for advice on how to ask a question or answer a question in a live hearing.
Now, a bunch of people went, "Oh, oh my god, no. We must censure her or something because she talked to a convicted pedo." But I have a different take on that, which is she's an elected representative. She can talk to anybody that she represents no matter what crime they committed and no matter what reason she gives. There is no reason and never will be that an elected representative should be denied in any way the ability to communicate with somebody in their own district. And apparently that's where Epstein lived. You know, the island was in her area. So no, I completely disagree with this and I don't care about it at all. Does it affect anyone? Now, does it give me confidence in her as a representative? No, not really. But it's not like the biggest problem in the world. I mean, if she's getting the job done otherwise, you know, it's fine. Don't care about it at all.
Well, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia visited and that's always a big day for President Trump. He likes it. My favorite part is when he took MBS, the crown prince. He took him for a little, I don't know if it was a tour or they're just walking from one place, but he takes him down that hallway of paintings of all the presidents' faces that includes the autopen of Biden. Now, it's one thing that he would blame that Trump would blame Biden for the autopen. It's a whole other thing that he would have a picture put up to replace him in the hallway of presidents. That's a whole different level. But I think he took it yet to another level that I didn't even know was possible when he brings the head of state, one of our strongest allies and a head of state to take a tour of the autopen of the art of the autopen just so MBS can see how he's humiliating his predecessor.
Well, Trump says that Saudi Arabia is going to invest a trillion dollars in the US in the next one year and that we're now the hottest country in the world. And he predicted that we would have $21 trillion in future investments. Trump says we've done things nobody can believe. Oh, that's true. $21 trillion will be the amount invested in the US or committed to invest in one year. Well, there's a big difference between invested and committed to invest. One is money and one is talk. How much talk do you want for my money?
So I guess I don't have to tell you that there's some possibility that Trump has used a little hyperbole. There's some possibility. He's just talking like a salesperson. Maybe 21 trillion won't happen right away. But I don't mind this at all. You know, no matter how accurate or not accurate it is, it's all fine because if it makes people think, hey, the US is the hottest country. We should invest there. That's all I want. If the real number, and I'll just pick a number out of the air. If the real number was 10 trillion, that's a god-awful amount of money. So if it's 10 trillion and there's a commitment for some unspecified amount more, I would call that a huge win. I wouldn't peck him to death over the exact numbers.
So once you learn how to navigate the Trump world where a claim is sometimes a statement of fact that you could fact check and sometimes the claim is just part of running the country. It's basically branding the country, making sure everybody knows we're the hottest country and showing that there's an investment mechanism that they all have available to them to put money into this hottest country. So as long as he's doing all that, that's what I want. I don't need any super accuracy on the numbers. What difference would it make to me? So but I think the world is getting used to Trump now.
All right. Marjorie Taylor Greene got a little quieter today. I don't know if she was quieter or just the other news stuff took over, but she's not too happy that she's being called a traitor. I think Trump called her Marjorie Traitor Greene. That's pretty rugged. She says she fought for six years and gave him her loyalty for free. So yeah, I do worry about that relationship in the sense that we don't want it to affect us. But if I were Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I like by the way, then you should hope that maybe the next president is a Republican, whoever that is, and maybe it's someone who wouldn't mind you in a cabinet position that would give you some serious power that was equivalent and made sense for your background and experience. But if she goes to the cabinet and just does a good job and comes out the other side, I think we're all going to be happy with her. And if she wanted to run for some other office, president would be tough. But if she wanted to run for senator or something after that, I think people would start feeling that made sense. So she does have a path, but probably maybe not through her the normal course. So I hope she stays in public life. I think it would be...
Let me get a feel from you. Even if you hated some of her recent opinions because they were opposite of Trump's. Don't you think she's an important asset for the country and that we're better off when she's in the fight? Even if she's on the other side, we're just better off when she's in the fight. Same thing I say about Massie. Same thing I say about Rand Paul. Yeah.
All right. I see some disagreement and nothing wrong with that. We are allowed to disagree on this podcast.
All right. I see your comments. Well, the Trump DOE is going to give Microsoft a partner $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island. How would you like to take on that? You know all the big companies, they rushed to grab a hold of some kind of nuclear asset when they knew they would need it for AI. And how would you like to be the slowest one? And by the time you get there, they're like, all right, we're going to grab some nuclear assets that didn't used to be great, but we're going to, now peop
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le thinking about it differently. They're not as anti-nuclear. So we're going to take that nuclear asset and we're going to turn it into something valuable. Well, which one is it? Well, we got there a little late. Okay. Okay. But which one did you get? Well, as I said, a lot of the good ones were snatched up right away. Okay, you're not answering the question. Which one did you get? Three Mile Isl…
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