dn't know how to handle the money from the federal government. And even the other blue states didn't make this mistake. It is the worst of the worst of even the Democrat states.

How do you become president? How in the world did the person who was presiding over all that become president? Now I haven't even gotten into the $50 billion for the bullet train that never happened. How do you possibly become president?

So one of the things I suspect fairly strongly is that Republicans are doing the, what's the movie where the Scottish warrior goes "hold"? What's that movie? Braveheart. Thank you. Yeah, the movie Braveheart when the two armies are getting ready to face off and then what's his name? The actor? Mel Gibson. Thank you. Mel Gibson is the actor. And Mel Gibson is on his horse and he's going, "Hold! Hold!" I always love that. That was one of my favorite movie bits. But it feels like the smartest people in the Republican party by now they must have figured out that Newsom is the weakest candidate they could possibly run. I mean maybe even worse than Kamala Harris. So I feel like the Republicans are saying, "Hold. Wait till he gets nominated. That will take him out."

Well, apparently Yale has no Republican professors across 27 of their departments. So as you know the liberal elite colleges are all cesspools of one-sided thinking and that conservatives are basically shut out from higher education. I mean in terms of being the professors. And I'm wondering if that will quickly be resolved by AI. So what we need is a Grok college. I don't think Grok is where it could do that yet, but it's very close. So don't you think that maybe in a year or two you can have a choice of going to Yale or Harvard or Grok? And if you go to Grok, it will take out the bias and you can get a degree that your employer will say, "Oh, you mean you learned all the useful stuff?" And then somebody from Harvard comes in to apply for the job and the employer will say, "Oh, you learned to be a pain in the ass and care about all the wrong stuff."

So clearly at this point in history, it would be way better to have an Ivy League degree than some kind of made-up AI Grok degree. But I feel like that could be completely reversed in maybe two years. Two years. So I think the free market, given the new tools, the AI and stuff that will be available, I think the free market's going to fix this. And it won't be because the government did it and it won't be because the higher education decided that they needed to be less biased. I don't believe it's self-correcting, but it doesn't need to be if alternatives pop up and I think maybe two years.

Well, there's a story in the news I think is no story at all, which is Bari Weiss, who's now the CBS News editor in chief, she killed a story that was a 60 Minutes segment about Venezuelan migrants being deported to that notorious El Salvadorian prison. Now the knock against her is that the segment had already been blessed by their lawyers and they'd done all the work and they're ready to go on Sunday and that mean old Bari Weiss told them that they should wait until they at least had some comments from the administration because apparently it was a story about what the administration did that did not include any quotes from anybody useful from the administration. And so the way the reporters at 60 Minutes and others, I guess, are complaining about it is they're saying, "Hey, you're censoring us or you're just agreeing with the administration." I don't think that's what's happening.

If you've been involved in any kind of news or editing environment, as I have for most of my career, this is the most normal stuff in the world. If you had an option of you could see this segment right now and I guess it would have run on Sunday. So your options are you could see it now and it would not include any important opinions from the administration or you could wait a week, maybe two weeks and you could see the exact same thing except it would include, I think she wanted Stephen Miller to be the voice of the administration and that would be a good choice. Doesn't have to be him. What would you pick as a consumer? Wouldn't you rather wait a week and then have some chance of seeing both sides of the argument? Of course you would.

So I think that this feels like more of an anti-Bari Weiss story than it is about anybody made a mistake. This is definitely not censorship. In the real world of news, in the real world of editing, in the real world of anybody who has an editor, this is just normal behavior. Now if you wait a few weeks and the story never runs, well then I revise my opinion.

So we'll go back to the very first reframe that began today's podcast. I will change my mind if this does not produce a useful counterpoint that makes the story more valuable because I think she was hired to make the news business better not worse. And if you put me in her job, well, let me say it this way. If you put me in her job tomorrow, I would have made the same decision. I would say this is not ready to go. So I'm not defending her because then you're going to say, "Oh, you're just being a pro-Bari Weiss." I really don't know what Bari Weiss is up to. I have not been following her. I don't know if she's a good egg or a bad egg. I don't know if giving her any support makes the world a better place or a worse place. I don't know. I have no idea.

But if you take the personalities out of it, I would do the same thing. I say, "You're not ready." Now how many reporters have ever finished a story, wrapped it up, and then when their boss delayed it, said, "I'm happy about that." Never. In the history of reporters, no reporter is going to say, "I agree with my editor. This story was not good." No, that's not going to happen. So I say hold your opinion on this for at least two weeks. If after two weeks you hear that it's just going to be banned forever and it'll never run, I might revise my opinion.

Well, apparently the Pentagon has failed an audit for the eighth consecutive year the Epoch Times is reporting. Now you probably knew that the Pentagon doesn't pass audits. It's good that audits exist, but remember I've been complaining that it's not that they exist or don't. There's something about the way we do it that guarantees they don't work or that they don't have the effect you would like, which is fixing all the problems. But part of the problem is that auditing is such a boring story that the public hears a story, they go, "Oh, the Pentagon failed an audit. Well, better luck next time." And then they think about something else because it's just not interesting.

So one of the questions I have is in a cursory reading of how they failed the audit again, a lot of it is they can't find their assets or they can't account for things like spare parts. And if you can't account for you