 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. Oh hey everybody, welcome to Iran Book Show and this uh what is it? It's Thursday, last day of February. It's one of those years where you get an extra day, always need an extra day. I like it when they extend my life like that so an extra day this year. February 29th, I know some people have their birthday on February 29th so they only get a celebrated sometimes every few years. All right, let us let us just jump in. As I've talked about before we've talked about this immunity case that uh that uh you know Trump is claiming uh trying to dismiss the criminal allegations against him, both for the January 6th case and for the documents case, he's using an argument of presidential immunity, the idea that while he's president he's immune from being prosecuted for criminal action. The opposition is saying or the Justice Department is saying no no no, you can't be prosecuted while you're president but after you're president if your actions were not taken in the wall of president, that is decisions were not decisions that related to decisions appropriate for the president of the United States but decisions made as somebody running for president, decision made in your personal life, decision made to hold down the documents, decision made after your presidency to hold down the documents that you weren't supposed to and then lying about it and hiding those documents and lying to the FBI, all of that uh Justice Department saying no you can't be immune to that that would be ridiculous and that is that is uh the debate. Anyway the the uh Trump uh Trump uh appealed this to the district court, the district court ruled uh in a three to o decision uh the no presidential immunity does not uh they don't accept the expansive interpretation of the uh immunity. If you remember during those hearings for that the um the um lawyers for Trump suggested that even if a president ordered the uh execution of a political rival in the United States he cannot be prosecuted for that uh that that is not a because immunity would cover that the justices seem to make the differ and ruled against him. Well uh it was then appealed to the Supreme Court and there was some question whether the Supreme Court would take the case or whether they would just um accept the uh district court's ruling which is what I expected they would do or exactly what it would do uh part of the issue here is timing. The prosecution would like to get this case done before the election. Trump would like to get this court this case done if even if it is done he'd like to get dismissed but if it's done after the election and then he can tailor Justice Department to walk away from the case or during the election and if he gets elected he can kind of pardon himself but what he doesn't want to do is get into a position where he's uh found guilty can appeal and and even if he wins the election has to go to jail I mean scenarios are mind-boggling in terms of what the possibilities are. Anyway timing I guess is important uh in order to run the trial and give him time to appeal and everything before the election that now does not seem like it's possible because the Supreme Court yesterday decided to take the case uh hearings uh it will hear the case on April 22nd so it's already a month delayed the court the the trial itself is already frozen until a decision is made until the decision is made and um you know and then uh and then they'll have to make a decision and they might make it fast or they might make it slow the Supreme Court itself as as acknowledge the timing here is important the Supreme Court itself as acknowledged that recognizes that that's why they gave it a April 22nd date if they hadn't they would have delayed this into uh way late in the court proceedings much later than April uh and maybe to a different term because it's pretty late in the term already the cases that the hearing now were accepted onto the Supreme Court docket in the past the reason it's relevant is that Trump might win the election and you don't want it to trial happening while he's president and I think the Supreme Court recognizes that that it is relevant to the prosecution so um anyway it's going to be interesting how the court rules two websites for example you know one website says Supreme Court decision might not help Donald Trump after all another headline the Supreme Court just handed Trump an astonishing victory so much for the rule of law so you get it across the board you get the left panicking the right panicking the middle panicking uh it's very hard to get any kind of objectivity out of this I'm just gonna say I'm gonna stick to my opinion and that is that overall the Supreme Court will not rule that Donald Trump has immunity uh it will it will rule by I think a significant majority maybe 7 or 2 or 63 uh that he does not have the immunity does not cover uh the items that he's accused of they might say you can appeal afterwards claiming immunity on these specifics but uh there's no blanket immunity over these things the trial should go hard go ahead and then you can appeal uh and I I also think they'll expedite their decision while they'll release while they'll hear arguments on April 22nd the same thing happened in the Colorado case they're going to expedite the decision right they heard the case quickly and they're going to expedite the decision quickly because anything that has to it where it's relevant for an election uh they're gonna try and hear quickly and try to make a decision quickly and try to take certain issues off the table uh so I think they'll make a decision quickly probably here in May maybe it'll slip into June but probably in May it depends on how big the majority is if there is a majority I you know depends on what the ruling is and then if the how big of the majority is but uh yes I I I still think the Supreme Court will rule uh and maybe this is the opportunity make this is why they took the case is to make a definitive case about the boundaries of immunity but we will we will see and I think the trial will go ahead it'll probably start this summer in July whether they can complete the trial before the election hard to tell these elections take a long time and and and and Trump of course as soon as he becomes president if he wins uh will immediately withdraw you know dismiss the force the justice department dismiss the case and pardon himself just for safe measure if if there's any issues relevant to that um yeah the whole thing is interesting but then what's really interesting is the fact that Republicans want Trump to be their nominee that that I think is the most interesting thing in spite of all this stuff all right uh yeah a gunman shutdown just a gunman shutdown update uh it looks like Republicans it looks like that speak of the house Mike Johnson will put before the house a uh a measure to keep the government open for a few more days basically uh March 22nd uh so fund the those departments of the government who are running out of funding next week and those that were running out of funding the week after that and said so have what they call a partial uh you know partial funding bill uh to run a stop gap measure they call the short term stop gap measure uh to run through March 22nd one of the things that Johnson ran on when he ran to be the speaker of the house was uh his view that the house should never pass these stopgap measures that it was a default in the responsibility that he would never bring a stopgap measure to the floor and that uh they should take up the proper adult responsibility of the legislature and pass budgets well this is like what the third stopgap measure that uh the Johnson has already passed in spite of his not nonsensical campaign rhetoric uh a number of Republicans will vote against this it'll be interesting to see if a majority of Republicans vote against it or not but it will pass because almost all Democrats will vote for it then you can expect later in March a series of budgetary bills if they get their act together to be brought in front of the house to try uh you know to try to uh to try to actually pass budgets there's also a question of will will Johnson Mike Johnson survive all of this if you remember the previous uh speak of the house was was kicked out by the Republicans because he did stopgap measures because he relied on passage of budgetary issues on Democrats so will he survive nobody knows I mean this is just continuation of the the the really the uh absurdity of uh House Republicans and their incompetence and their lack of any principles it's you know it would be one thing if they were fighting for a principle and they were gonna shut down the government for principle I'd be all for that but there's no principle here there's no reason they're doing any of this other than political uh so uh so yeah they will pass a budget they won't shut down the government it's an election year after all everything is politics they don't believe in anything these people and the stuff they actually do believe in is really really bad so I hope your Republicans fail on the stuff they really really do believe in uh let's see what else that was oh yeah and then of course there still is the issue of the Ukraine Israel Taiwan aid bill uh and whether that will be even brought to the floor or whether they can circumvent the speaker of the house and bring it to the floor in spite of him and all the politicking and negotiations and and and um twisting and uh bootlicking that is going on in the background to try to get that one done again uh Republican House that has what a three-member majority good chance that they lose that majority even that three-member majority in uh in 2024 they are so I mean this majority is so incompetent is getting nothing in their agenda really done uh but it's not even that they're creating some kind of stalemate in government that is causing spending to be cut like like previous uh Republican majorities in the house where they didn't have the senator the presidency they're basically mainly spending most of the time squabbling squabbling squabbling between each other that is within the Republican party over BS I think is the technical term not over anything important or anything relevant or anything substantive in terms of the role of government in terms of government spending in terms of programs the government should support uh versus others all right um I know almost nobody wants this story and certainly nobody wants to acknowledge it and and recognize it but I keep carrying back to it and it keeps popping up in my feet because it's true uh and the story is that the US economy is doing okay it's doing far better than expected far better than most people think uh and it's actually doing uh you know well the final quote of last year the economy grew over three percent the numbers have just been uh adjusted downwards a little bit but it's still over three percent which is significant uh on a quarterly basis um I mean it's on an annual basis but in that quarter it grew over three percent the US economy is growing at the same rate or maybe even a little faster as the greatest economy ever in human history under Donald Trump was growing but more than that if you look at the long-term statistics all the things people constantly are complaining about right now the big complaint is millennials millennials have no opportunities they're not going to be as rich as previous generations they're the poorest generation nothing's going you know it's just horrible economy for millennials that is there's a huge generational wealth disparity and because the economy basically has sucked for the last few years the idea is the millennials are behind dramatically well economist Jeremy Hopendahl has looked at general generational wealth right so wealth minus liabilities not not just your plus side but also the abilities because a big the big issue is everybody claims oh no the millennials have massive credit card debt they have student loans they have all this stuff and they can't get good jobs and their jobs suck and they make very little income and therefore their wealth is down and and they're screwed millennials which schools well it turns out it turns out that if you take everything into account and you do the net wealth millennials are uh not the poorest and luckiest generation in American history quite the opposite it turns up it turns out that uh millennials have dramatically more wealth than gen X has had at the same age and of course gen X has had dramatically more wealth than the previous generation dramatically more wealth than the boomers had at their age and indeed the graph is up every generation in America it's still true the american dream in that sense is still alive every generation in America has more wealth net of debt it's just not true no house know this as if they can't as if that is not calculated it just not true you might be poor but that is your you know you as a generation as a group the millennials are richer have more assets have more equity have more net wealth than any generation before at that age so stop feeling sorry for yourself and if you're not keeping up then introspect and figure out why maybe it's you not some systemic thing that is affecting everybody in your court now granted it could be much much much much better but it's just not true now what about income right is it is it is it the case that income is still up maybe they've got wealth because I don't know they've got inheritance or something like it but income is still stagnated a down all these studies take into account housing and they take into account everything else so uh you know housing inflation is basically almost non-existent if you if you move to Dallas or Houston or the midwest or many many many places yeah it's very expensive in California very expensive in new york you don't have to live there and the reality is that income is going up in new york and in in in california the income in california in york is much higher than it is income in the west coast is much higher than it is in the west in the west coast it's but you're giving up something by living in the west coast housing is going to be expensive okay move um all right uh if you so what about income so the american enterprise institutes kevin corinth american enterprise institute not exactly a socialist organization and economist jeff larrymore looked at income levels at generations in a variety of ways they find that each of the past four generations had higher inflation adjusted incomes than did the previous generation they find that this trend doesn't seem to be driven by any other factors like women joining the workforce or single or multi-family incomes so it's just not true that in the 1970s and 80s one income could generate enough income for people to own a home and raise a family and all that stuff and today you need two incomes no even when adjusting for two income households versus one income households people today are making more money and indeed you know the statistics about married couples and single earners and all of that in the 70s 80s are not as favorable to the argument as people might think so the reality is income and wealth are going up again not an excuse to say the economy couldn't be like growing at double the rate that your income and wealth couldn't be dramatically not a little bit higher you know people look at people say yes but as as edward says yeah but it's so much more expensive to raise a family these days well another report by angela richieldy this is by the way from an article in reason magazine by um by uh verinik derougi not exactly a leftist but more of a free market type right oh what the hell come on my computer's giving me problems anyway angela richieldy looks at whether decline in marriage fertility and the increase in my computer in um an increase in out of wedlock childbirth's other result of economic hardship she finds a contrary to the prevailing narrative i'm quoting household and family level income show growth in recent decades after accounting for taxes and transfers not only that but quote the cost of raising a family including housing childcare and higher education costs all that have gone up have not grown substantially over the past several decades that they indicate an affordability crisis so all the pessimism all the negativity all the bitching and complaining by young people that they can't get ahead you're hearing the bitching and complaining of the young people who are not getting ahead there's always people who are not getting ahead and there's always the group that's not but the reality is the reality is um that the economy is doing well people who have jobs people who work are doing well indeed people in uh in blue collar jobs are doing better than white collar jobs in terms of income growth at least in the last few in the last um eight years or so seven eight years or so but generally again generate the milleniums are doing fine the millenials inflation is elevated and income growth is you know pretty much right right there with inflation you know that's what the number show you can emote that that's not how you feel and all of the economic pessimism is really grounded primarily in people's emotion or localized experiences but the reality is that income is matching inflation income growth is matching inflation uh and has certainly has if you take a perspective of a decade or longer periods of time uh you know and this doesn't take into account of course it doesn't take into account the vast increases in technology which improves quality and standard of life which are not measured by any economic measure the fact that you can access all the music in the world the fact that you can stream all the movies the fact that you can use your telecommunication device at a marginal cost of zero the fact that you can search anything you want so the fact that you can ask chat gpt for the biased opinion about a variety of different things that doesn't even come in to any of this wealth calculation this is just money just things economists can measure millenniums are doing fine all right um let's see so yeah we should strive to make things better uh and and maybe it's hard to make things much better when basically things okay maybe maybe maybe it does indeed need to get to the depths of argentina uh to be able uh to get somebody who is actually gonna engage in a program that makes things dramatically better let's hope not let's hope we can uh move things towards the better without having to get to the depths of real despair not the imagined despair of of some people uh one thing about housing inflation um you know there's nothing to say that you need to own a home i you know the whole idea of home ownership as this measure of success is is i think unfortunate there's nothing wrong with renting and uh under certain circumstances there's certain advantages to renting so uh the cost of homes although the cost of housing which includes rent is it should be calculated but the actual cost of buying a home is not the only way in which to think about these kind of things quote savage says he's with me on my analysis thanks quote savage it's the second show you've showed up in a cult actually popped in on my show in hebu and said shalom i i didn't know he could write in hebu that's uh it was pretty cool all right um god every day you wake up and look at the headlines or i wake up and look at the headlines i don't know about you guys and there's some headline about 29 836 deaths in Gaza or today more than a hundred killed this crowds wait for aid hamas run health ministry says that's not bad because that's a fairly you know uh killed by whom one might ask how did they die uh it's good this is at the bbc i'm shocked uh you know typically a bbc headline would be more than a hundred killed by Israelis as crowd waits for aid hamas run health ministry says maybe they'd even skip the hamas run health ministry says or put it in a footnote uh but now they don't even blame it on israel yet they're waiting to see maybe what the facts are that's a change that's a change so i i give them credit for that but it but it's constant right uh in terms of the death toll and how many numbers now the latest is that israel has killed more than 30 000 and that's like a big number 30 000 wow there must be a war crime they've killed 30 000 palestinians and it's it's just absurd it's not a numbers game you know there's no standard by which if you kill three that's okay we're fine but if you kill five thousand that's not but when you kill 10 000 that's okay again and you know what what's the calculation how do you do this is that percentage of the population is it i mean this is really the only war that i can think of maybe about this i'm sure they're probably all of this where the population is held consciously purposefully as human shields it's the only war that i can recall right now where hospitals are used as bases for command and control it's the only war in which schools where rockets are being launched from schools it's the only it's the only war where there are explicit hostages not prisoners of war held in a camp right i mean why aren't the palestinians why is it Hamas following the Geneva conventions and why god damn it why isn't a single international organization condemning Hamas for not fulfilling the the the conventions the the war crime conventions israel has to but why aren't these hostages held as prisoners of war why are they even held most of them are dark soldiers so why isn't why isn't there a death count an ongoing death count of how many ukrainians civilians the russians have killed but here every day you get a number as if it indicates something as if it means anything doesn't mean anything i mean israel has done more to try to avoid civilian casualties in this war than any military forces ever done in any place ever in all of history more than even americans did during the uok war and that was already ridiculous and who suffers because israel does so much to protect palestinian lives israeli soldiers israeli mothers and fathers israeli spouses israeli children that are losing their sons their husbands their fathers and yet there's a daily count and the daily count by the way is produced by oh that completely objective unbelievable organization that cares about objectivity and truth the hamas run health ministry and nobody sees irony in that nobody gives a damn about the fact that they every day they're citing propaganda directly from the mouth of the propagandists now i don't know how many people are killed in god's it could be more it could be less i don't really care so 100 people died you know waiting for aid to be delivered according to the israelis those people died because they they uh uh basically you know attacked the aid trucks 38 trucks that were coming in and uh you know the the palestinians are fed up with all this aid going to the hands of hamas and hamas deciding who gets it keeping much of it and they're not getting it and they're starving and they're hungry they're starving and they're hungry now because of israel they're starving and they're hungry because of hamas and there was a stampede people people got stampeded on and then they got run over by the trucks more people got run over they died from that and then separately a few hundred meters from there this site the some frustrated palestinians started you know running towards an israeli military unit that fight in the air tried to stop them they wouldn't stop they shot them but that's not the story the hamas run ministry of health tells they're saying no israel just opened fire and people peacefully taking aid from the trucks israel just decided to kill a hundred of them what the hell this will make good headlines and of course biden and the leader of katar the leader of katar the funder of hamas the funder of isis the funder of al-qaeda a terrorist organization as a government Joe Biden and the emir shik tamim al-hamad al tam tamni or whatever of katar discussed the tragic and alarming incident that left more than a hundred people killed in Gaza as if the kataris care i mean the blood of everybody dying in Gaza is on the kataris they're the one who have given safe haven to hamas they're the ones who sanctioned hamas they're the ones who have given a home to hamas they're the ones who funded hamas so it's on them since all this blood is the responsibility hamas and the people who made them possible the iranians and the kataris in the meantime in the uk basically anti-israeli pro hamas mobs are in charge they get to they get to decide what's going to happen in parliament last week in a display of complete disgrace members of parliament were free to vote on a provision regarding gaza in israel because they feared for their life so there was a whole procedural thing an all mess an all disaster in in parliament because members of parliament were afraid that if they voted wrong i.e. anti the mob they would get killed by the pro-palestinian pro-hamas mob in london or in the uk these are members of parliament it's gotten to the point where basically this mob the london police is doing very little jews are afraid in london to go out of let's say synagogue or any way that identifies them as a jew and the mob the palace the pro-hamas mob is ruling yesterday i think was yesterday sunak the prime minister of of the uk basically said we can't have this anymore he said that mob rule is replacing democracy in britain i mean he said that not me it's ascending into mob rule he said he's allocated a new budget for increased police security for members of parliament but more broadly he wants more of a crackdown on these mobs on these thugs now what they do and how they do it and whether the london metropolitan police remember the the mayor of london is a muslim who is you know i i don't think he's an islamist but he's certainly not going to be critical of these protests and the london police have been unbelievably tolerant towards the these these mobs towards these protesters shame on them shame on the police you swore an oath you you have a job have some pride in your job one of your responsibilities is maintaining the peace is protecting people against violence and these protests are violent protests they need to stop people need to be arrested they need to be put in jail they need to be real consequences for going out in the street of london and threatening threatening british citizens in the streets all right all right some good news although i'm sure some of you will not view this as good news um figure ai which is a startup company to build humanoid robots human looking human looking robots are set on those that it's raised six hundred and seventy five million dollars that's a lot of money at a two point six billion dollar valuation investors include jeff bezos nvidia and microsoft figure ai is developing a general purpose robot called figure 01 that looks and moves like a human uh they believe that uh such robots will be used in manufacturing shipping and logistics warehouses and retailing uh and and in uh dangerous and just undesirable jobs uh you know the the the robots uh look a little quite scary uh but yeah we are entering into a world in which we will have far more sophisticated robots than we've had in the past hundreds of millions billions actually billions and billions of dollars are going into a variety of different robotic technologies there's an a widget company uh that is building a uh a humanoid robot uh of course boston dynamics has many models of various uh robots uh tesla is tesla the car company is building a humanoid robot called optimus uh and uh there's going to be vast competition here this is a uh this is a huge segment uh and incredibly uh you know it could change could change how work is done in a work is done in the world it could take away like mining jobs really really dangerous jobs jobs and nuclear power plants uh and if you give these robots elements of uh ai so that they can make simple decisions uh you allow them to become dramatically more flexible and and and do a lot more this is a really really exciting i think a really really exciting uh area it's still nascent it's still small it's still starting uh but uh there's analysts at gorma sacks expect a humanoid robot market to reach 38 billion 38 billion uh by 2035 so that's what uh 11 years uh and uh and more and we'll have more than 250 000 units of humanoid robots shipped in just in 2030 in 2030 alone 250 000 of these units so we're not talking about drones we're not talking about ships we're not talking about uh you know automated production lines we're talking about robots that look like human beings uh and we're talking about 250 000 of them shipped in one year 2030 so uh i can tell some of you are spooked by this i can tell some of you are afraid but i'm excited i think this is great i think it's great news and uh i'm looking forward to interacting with my first i mean real i've interacted with robots but i'm talking about a robot that that at least has arms legs is is is you know head that looks at least somewhat like a robot oh we got a comment that was helpful for view valkyrie you got to be careful there um valkyrie wants to know when we get the sex robots i don't know i don't know matt walsh is never going to prove the sex robots i don't think i don't think that's going to be kosher i don't think that's going to be right all right um by the way youtube held back that comment because it had the word sex in it all right that's all i had i'm sure there's a lot more going on in the world but we'll we'll keep we'll keep catching up uh these are the top stories uh as screened by the urant by uran brook all right let's 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think i i what's the downside of of applying for scholarship a little bit of time but if you get accepted you get a free trip to austin and these an amazing amazing amazing content really amazing content so all right let's do this john says this is a follow-up to the question yesterday do you think a successful businessman can have a healthy self-esteem if the company sell alcohol does alcohol differ from the disvalue that are illegal drugs in any significant fundamental way yes i think it does and and i will revise my answer from yesterday it is possible it is possible that once illegal drugs are legalized people find ways to use them in responsible ways that enhance their lives i don't want to rule that out it's one of the things that making them illegal rules out you're not going to risk that on a legal drug but you might risk it on a legal drug and i think that's true of alcohol right what what happened with alcohol is that some people abuse it some people i think drink responsibly they get a little bit of a buzz maybe they don't even get a buzz they just like the taste and they they completely manage their consumption and it's you know it's it's very the toxicity is minimal other people like me almost never drink alcohol but once in a while i don't know once a week a glass of red wine it's great so you know because i would say a majority of people uh you know consume alcohol responsibly that yeah i don't think a successful businessman i don't think this would prevent them from getting self-esteem there is definitely a value in alcohol there's a certain health risk associated with it and you can balance it out but it's not addictive in the way cocaine is and it's not destructive as the way heroin is or fentanyl or whatever and people don't very rarely the people you know drop dead because of alcohol it happens but it's right and maybe it's quite possible that if drugs became legal all these drugs that we've mentioned these illegal drugs that people would develop a variety of strategies to micro dose or to have it in such low quantities or such low potency that it doesn't have the negatives and it does have some positives so i don't rule out that some of these illegal drugs they will they will find positive things to do for them just like right now they are real significant um advancements being made in using psychedelics which are illegal for psychiatric care particularly post-traumatic stress disorder that people go on mushrooms that they go in some form of LSD or micro dose of LSD and they can get over their post-traumatic stress so you know i i you can't rule that out and the reality is we won't know we just don't know until we make it legal and allow people to experiment with it and and and see what kind of markets are created as a result of it and if that were the case if responsible use would develop by a significant majority of the people using the product then i i take back everything i said yesterday about self-esteem with regard to that right so it's it's how it's used if it's only destructive then no you can't get self-esteem but if there's a productive use to it then sure i guess the real question is can somebody who produces really shitty beer anyway um rusevelt happy leap day today is my stepmother's birthday so she gets a birthday this year she is very excited about it that is cool yep um leap year is a fun for particularly for the people who have something to celebrate on this day michael sanders it seems like judges around the country are trying to stop trump will they succeed um i don't know the judges are trying to stop trump maybe they are but again i don't think i don't see any of the court cases except maybe the one about patient paying hush money to the porn star which is about to start the criminal suit is about to start um except that one i don't think any of these uh are frivolous i don't think any of these are you know you could easily say oh no this is completely frivolous completely motivated by politics uh trump flouted the law he did stupid things like hide the documents when he knew the fb i was coming to look for them like he's he put he he presented himself as above the law it would be wrong not to prosecute him because then it basically says well if you're a former president you can get away with anything nobody cares um so i don't i don't view it as judges around the county trying to stop trump uh i think uh january sixth is a legitimate thing to go after the question of whether that is resurrection or whether you should be kept up the valid is a legitimate thing to consider probably the answer is no you should still be allowed to be in the valid but it's not completely nuts to consider it and indeed the supreme court is looking at it they would have completely dismissed it if they if they uh you know uh thought it was completely dismissible but we'll see uh we'll see when they were they're gonna rule soon they'll probably dismiss it they'll probably dismiss it by nine to zero or very close to that or eight to two or something eight to one nine to two but uh but yeah i mean trump is a new phenomenon american politics in just the level of not caring about the law the level of feeling himself above the law the level of contempt for the rule of law and for his fellow americans i don't think any president ever has had so much contempt for other americans as donald trump has and for reality of course um let's see so will they succeed i don't think that is what will prevent donald trump for being president i think you'll find a way around all that i think what will prevent him from being president is he'll lose the election although even that is not guaranteed he might actually win it but right now the polls are showing him leading in all the swing states but it's very early very difficult to tell and um as people start focusing on the election and start focusing on whether they really want trump to have a second term i'm not sure if that'll hold i don't know i'm not good at political forecasting so um certainly it it didn't surprise me that trump was elected the first time but uh certainly months in advance i didn't expect it once it happened it already built up so much that it seemed like it was going to happen but months in advance i didn't see it michael does most cruelty boil down to envy no i mean yeah people are cruel to animals i think most cruelty boils down to self-hatred i think most cruelty boils down to self-hatred i don't think it boils down to envy necessarily i'm mercat in a world where all drugs are legal and we did not need to commit any crime what would walter white be a hero p.s. gaza must be destroyed um walter white would never do what he did because there'd be no profit in it the whole point of what walter white did was that he needed to make a lot of money and because drugs are illegal he could make a lot of money but when drugs are legal drugs are commodity and walter white cannot do what he did i mean he can but he can't make money at it he'll make more money as a school teacher than making money at you know making uh what was it um god uh met methamphetamines so competition drives the profit margin down to very very low what why not make milk or make cookies or make anything cooking meth would be would not be rewarded with a high profit margin because it would be legal so the whole premise goes out the window uh john says thanks you're on great answer that's more of what i was thinking but never but could never articulate it that you're the best thank you john appreciate it thanks for the support all right guys we're pretty close to our target um all right james i stand with israel thank you james i do too on this issue at least uh amit says judge run a new book available now on amazon one of the a great great movie a great great movie of with moral conviction moral certainty great acting long but but really important chapter in history that everybody should watch haven't seen in many years uh might be a good time to to to watch it uh andrew i know about the moral equivalencies but do you think some otherwise civilized people are rooting for russia to defeat ukraine yeah i mean a lot of people on the far right are rooting for russia to defeat ukraine a lot of people now are they otherwise civilized i don't know i don't know how you how you want to categorize otherwise civilized i think uh kandace oren is rooting for russia to defeat ukraine i think at the end of the day deep down tucker colson is rooting for russia to defeat ukraine are they civilized i don't know by the way i watch a little bit of tucker colson's interview with lex freedom i don't know that i can sit through the whole thing tucker is so good as presenting himself as this innocent um just trying to do his job just you know he would go tomorrow to ukraine this day he's got nothing to get you queen um just you know he loves america he you know he don't you know just don't take too seriously the stuff he did in moscow he was really innocently surprised and then he says to american people he says america's need to go travel go to kiev go to moscow okay i have i've actually been to moscow and i've been to kiev more times to kiev than to moscow and i hated moscow and the exact opposite reaction that tucker colson had to moscow what do you make of that tucker so he makes himself out to be this innocent just he wants to see it with his own eyes he just doesn't believe anybody he wants he's he's rational so he wants to he wants real proof um it's sickening how he does this and then it's it's so completely divorced from the reality of what he actually does says and who he interviews and and what he's done in a show for all these years right he's uh you know he's really disgusting really disgusting i need to open my eyes because tucker colson went to the one exclusive grocery store in moscow and was impressed by things that it would take a russian a quarter of the income to buy i mean objective fact show that what tucker colson did in moscow is completely utterly unequivocally bogus and nonsensical anybody with even a just a just a reasonable mind could figure that exchange rates and income and a bunch of other things are relevant how much groceries cost in a grocery store i bet you if you go to venezuela socialism you could fill up your grocery store with goods that are a lot cheaper than new york city so we should all move to venezuela it's what he did in moscow was disgusting and despicable beneath contempt and he should not get away with it and you know and again i think lex was too soft on him but at least lex asked all the questions which he did not do with putin so i haven't watched the whole thing i might watch the whole thing i might have some segments it's always a pleasure on this show to ridicule and criticize and and and show how nasty and horrible tucker colson is and i promise to continue doing that whether it's through this interview with lex or other means all right um savannah says did you see mitch mcconnell announces stepping down from the speakership yeah i did i i i didn't mention in the news because it's just not that important i mean mcconnell has been a middle of the road kind of neither here nor there republican forever standard fair he's basically leaving one because he's old he's 82 but he's the same age as uh biden and only a little older that the trump and yet he's retiring and um but he's really retiring because the republican party you know uh has moved on the republican party now it's trump's party it's not mitch mcconnell's party it's not ronald riggan's party it's not it's not a party of any value it's it's donald trump's party it's a party of populism leftist economic policies uh leftist foreign policy policies rightist social policies and uh i think mitch mcconnell doesn't want to be a leader in an environment where he's got donald trump who might be president but if even if he's not he's the leader of the republican party and a significant number of senators like jd vance and just mark holly who've been elected to the senate who are constantly going to be sniping at him uh and and advocating and pushing policies that he doesn't believe in i think that's what it's all about all right or if it says go no n or w a i no no not no way no why no why no why all right uh that's a that's a robotics company in norway andrew the leftist a yop a yopping about the supreme court being politicized do you sense a greater role of politics or is that a delusion of the leftist bias it's a delusion of leftist bias there's no question the leftist bias i mean look the the district attorney in new york ran on on a pledge to prosecute trump about what well she'd figure it out after she got the job so um no there's no question both parties are trying to politicize the um the courts i don't think uh you know i don't think this is politicized i think the question of immunity is important for the supreme court to rule on it's important to categorize that and to put a line through that hopefully they will write on it but but uh rule on that um i also think there's probably disagreement among the conservatives i don't think it's unanimity i think uh elito and uh and what's his name elito and um um god all right it'll come to me uh a very pro trump and they might be politicized in how they rule i think other conservatives are not i don't think gorsuch and and even cavanaugh and even the woman uh what's her name roberts and and the woman barrett i don't think they are going to vote because it's trump um so um i i i don't think they're gonna be swayed by trump but i do think thomas and i do think elito could be swayed because it's trump i do think they are more political roberts is political in a sense of wanting to keep the peace but not political instead of voting republican or voting for trump or voting against trump in that sense but thomas i think unfortunately might be when will there be a robot soldiers you know i think they're already in development the the the already um robot vehicle type things with guns that could shoot so uh i mean what are drones drones in a sense so it's just a matter of time and soon i think sooner rather than later and at first they'll be just on wheels and then maybe they'll get some kind of other means of transportation but they're already robotic weapons out there with no human being controlling them from afar right and some some of them might be implanted soon with ai mary aleen i've been given fentanyl in a hospital setting it's a powerful pink you know the wears are very quickly used properly it's great yeah i mean there are painkillers certainly the opioids fentanyl and among them are incredible um and and i don't know how we could do a pain management without them so that is not really it's it's uh and if they were legal you know a lot of people are dying right now because they're smoking marijuana or something and it's been laced with fentanyl and and and they're laced with fentanyl under to create addiction so they keep coming back and buying this particular brand of marijuana but sometimes they put too much fentanyl and they kill them so but if it was legal there would be quality control of all these things that's what legality provides quality control of our products i make a trumpet biden coronavirus on both their houses coronavirus is too mild sorry something harsher than coronavirus i make a come at tucca is the elsworth tuy of the right he knows what he's doing i agree i mean i know i don't think anybody's quite as conscious of their own evil as elsworth tuy is but he's of that ilk he's definitely a l n elsworth tuy uh fenda harpa john stewart has returned to the daily show and comedy central might be worth checking out he had a great piece on tucca and trump and biden being very old free on youtube he's great by this medium thanks fend harpa yeah he is he can be very funny he's too much of a leftist but he can be very funny all right on some issues he's particularly good thank you guys i will see you all tonight don't forget tonight we've got a great doctor a real world-class expert on IVF we'll talk about embryos we'll talk about IVF we'll talk about fertility we'll talk about abortion bans we'll talk about all of that i'm looking forward to it if you have any questions about these issues are embryos alive what does it mean for IVF that embryos are categorized as human beings does that change anything in terms of fertility treatment can the republicans fix this recognize that embryos are alive but also have IVF is there an IVF where they don't throw away any embryos is any of that possible those are great questions for tonight 7 p.m. east coast time i'll see you all there thank you and yeah see you soon bye everybody