There were only plans in which people get killed. The president chose a plan in which Americans didn't get killed but other people did. That's sort of his job. That's the president's job.

Now of course all the people like Romney and the people who are complaining about our honor, the United States has lost this honor and that's a valuable asset. Is it really? In what imaginary world were other countries dealing with us based on our honor? That is a complete imaginary sensory situation. Sure there are other countries who have positive feelings about the United States and pulling out of this Kurdish situation might make them think less of us. Is somebody not going to do a trade deal with us because of that? Is somebody going to leave NATO because of that? Is there anything anybody's gonna do in any way that makes any difference because of that? No. No. Is there any fighting force that wouldn't want to join up with us if we had a common enemy now? Because fighting a common enemy it always makes sense to team up with the United States. Why wouldn't you?

So I cannot identify anything in the real world that is in any way even hypothetically damaged by what the president did. And I think that you know here's his choice: got X number of people killed. Every other path no matter what he'd done would get X other people killed. Do you think Turkey was gonna wait forever and just let the Kurds set up a homeland and be able to export terrorism across their border? No. No. No. That path was not available. Nobody had that option. Do you think the Kurds were willing to be flexible before we said we're out of here? No. If we had said we're thinking of pulling out we're gonna give you lots of time Kurds you have all the time you need to work something out we'll work with you we don't want to just pull out can you be flexible, what would the Kurd say? No we're not going to be flexible. Do you think that they were ready to deal? No. The president shaking the box and say all right you're on your own is the only thing that made the Kurds flexible. Short of that nothing good was going to happen. So yes it caused some lives to be lost but every path had that downside. And I wonder if we'll ever find out who got killed in that area.

All right, what else we got? I'm having a good time watching Fox headlines. They're funnier than usual. So they may use my pun in a headline. No it's my, I'm not saying that they got it from me because it's an obvious pun but it's one you heard me make. I said that Hunter Biden was more a gatherer than a hunter. Hey for a hunter he's kind of a gatherer. And so Fox headline today is a "Hunter Gatherer" talking about Hunter Biden because there's a report. So Fox News is saying this that Hunter Biden was paid eighty-three thousand dollars a month even more than we thought by Burisma since 2014 to be quote a ceremonial figure with a quote powerful name a report said Friday.

So I read this and I thought a report said Friday okay where's the link to the report? Who, what exactly the report was that I don't think the story says. Now maybe it says that I missed it but I looked for it. Do you believe any news organization that says a report said and they don't mention what the report is or who did it or where it came from? I'm not so sure that's a report that I find credible. You got to name the report and maybe it's in the story like in a footnote or something. I just couldn't find it. My guess is that it has to be there. I can't believe an editor at Fox would let somebody write a report said and then quote it without telling us whose report it was. So maybe that was just an editing error or maybe it's my error. So I'm not gonna say it's Fox. There I'll say that I couldn't see at least obviously where that report was. Does anybody know? Anybody else know where that report came from? If you do know say so in the comments. Somebody said that John Solomon reported this weeks ago but they don't name him.

All right so they also said here's another headline on the Fox News page. It said longtime Trump critic's comments start frenzy at president-bashing network. What do you think is the president-bashing network? So Fox News refers in the headline to a president-bashing network and you all know who it is. That's pretty funny if you think about it. Now as I've said the news is our new form of humor and I think Fox News embraces this far more than the other networks. When I watch Fox News which is the primary thing I watch I always make sure that I sample CNN and then all the time to make sure I see both sides but more time I spend on Fox News by far. Now partly the reason I do that is that it's so well produced and so well staffed. The talent and the way they produce it at Fox it was sort of unparalleled. There's a reason they're number one. Just the professionalism on every level from the human talent to the way they produce it to the technology. It's the best in the business. But they certainly understand that there's a humor element to the news and you see them playing to it with their headlines here because when they say the president-bashing network you know that first of all they know you know what they're talking about but secondly that's sort of with a wink. It's that you know the president-bashing network wink and you're supposed to laugh. Likewise with hunter-gatherer. That's obviously intentionally to make you laugh. So Fox News understands who their audience is really well and they understand that the humor of it is part of the entertainment. So I always appreciate that.

So the Brooklyn Nets fans brought some pro-Hong Kong signs to a LeBron James game I guess. Brooklyn Nets were playing must be the Lakers where LeBron plays at Barclays Center. And so I think this is going to be a thing now. The protesters I think are gonna follow LeBron probably all season or at least as long as the Hong Kong problem goes on which is probably all season. So that's fun. Imagine trying to be LeBron and trying to concentrate on your playing basketball when a big chunk of your audience is hanging up signs about Hong Kong and how you messed that up. Because you know even LeBron is thinking he messed up don't you think? I'm not reading his mind but I'm just saying if you were LeBron or anybody in his position would you think well I had a good week or what do you think it looks like I messed up this week? I mean I think he thinks he messed up. So these signs get to remind him of one of his maybe his biggest public unforced error.

All right he has to feel bad about it you think because it's all negative attention and it's taking away from the team, the sport, it's taking away from everything he cares about. So you have to think he thinks it wasn't a good week and reminding him of it with these signs and t-shirts that's got an effect. His playing I would think it's gonna affect his mental game. But to be fair you know while we can disagree with him on his political statements I think we'd all agree LeBron James is probably one of the most mentally solid athletes of all time right? So it could be that he's one of these rare people who could maybe even raise his game. Maybe even likes it. Maybe he likes you know playing against the protesters. So it might actually make him better. You never know. LeBron's not like other people. He's a super athlete and mentally he's super strong as well. Sports wise he thinks people who disagree with him are misinformed. Well I don't believe he