Some BIG endorsements in the POTUS race! (09-06-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So, a couple of, actually three big victories, actually I guess four today for Donald Trump.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Number one is that his sentencing in the New York trial, the Hush Money trial I believe

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: it was, has been, yeah, the Hush Money sentencing has been sent, or has been delayed until

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: November what, 26th.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So after, well after the election.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So it will not be occurring later this month before the election.

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That was one thing that the Trump campaign was hoping for and they got that.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Next, Michigan Court of Appeals panel grants Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s request to remove

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: his name from the Michigan ballot.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: RFK Jr. will be off the Michigan ballot.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, this morning, the North Carolina Court of Appeals also removed RFK, ordered the removal

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: of RFK Jr.'s name from the presidential ballot as well.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Number three.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, thank you for the Pete tweet from AppPatriotGirl.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: The Fraternal Order of Police, the country's largest police union with almost 400,000 members

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: has officially endorsed Donald Trump.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They also revealed that Kamala Harris refused to meet with them.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's just shocking.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So four really good pieces of news for one Donald Trump.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we get to some endorsements.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I am not one who believes that individual endorsements matter so much.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know anybody that's hanging on the words of, you know, some U.S. senator

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: from, you know, South Carolina, like, oh, my gosh, who are they going to endorse?

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And then however that senator goes, then your vote goes the same way.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not I don't buy that.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Organizations more so.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But like, for example, Kamala Harris is getting ready, if she hasn't already, to get the Teamsters

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Union endorsement.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But from an organizational level, you don't know if all of your members are going to be

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: voting the way the leadership tells them to vote in an endorsement scenario.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So but it does carry more weight because, yes, you've got 400,000 members of like the

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: FOP here.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So they may very well be inclined now to vote for Donald Trump because that's the way the

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: union leadership is telling them to vote after, I'm assuming, some sort of straw poll or whatever

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: was done.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So organizations, their endorsements do carry more weight for me personally than like an

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: individual endorsement.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is new territory.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: What about. A.I.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: endorsements? Mm hmm.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the other day?

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: The other day we had audio of.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The Amazon Alexa, I think, is what the thing is called.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't use any of those things, mainly because when they first came out.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And people were skeptical that these devices would turn off and the company's response.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is all of them.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it's true with the phones as well.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That they like, oh, they're not listening to you.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not listening.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not listening.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, unless you unless you know, you activate them.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, OK.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So how do you activate them?

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, you just say their name.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't trust that they're not listening all the time.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I know about the phones.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But the other day, some people started doing tests and then posting their test videos up

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: to social media, thereby confirming that the Amazon device that starts with an A.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't keep saying it because I don't want to activate people's devices.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But. If you asked, why should I why should I vote for Donald Trump?

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: The device would take a non position, I can't get into politics, but if they asked, why

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: should I vote for Kamala Harris?

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Then it gave you like basically a campaign ad for Harris.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And so people started posting these videos and different permutations of the question

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: got similar biased answers.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It would denigrate Trump, but it would never denigrate Harris.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Social media users and Fox News noticed that Alexa gave a more solid answer on why a

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: person should vote for Harris, but merely stated that it cannot endorse a political

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: candidate when asked about Trump.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Amazon then admitted that it made an error.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: With its voice service, Alexa, when it provided fundamentally different answers on why a

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: user should vote for Harris versus Trump.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Amazon said it has since addressed the error and that it has teams that will continue to

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: monitor for issues that violate its policies.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It also noted that Alexa does not have any political views itself because it's not it's

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: not a person, right?

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's AI. And so obviously somebody programmed it to do that.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would it have given those answers?

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: What error occurred?

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're saying they're saying that it was just an error.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They say it was an error that was quickly fixed.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: An error in what?

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: In the code?

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: In programming?

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: In AI learning?

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like what exactly caused the error?

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that would seem to me like I would prefer, actually, it be somebody on the back

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: end that programmed those responses.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I would prefer that because otherwise it means that your little monster AI thing that

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: you're growing in the lab there.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That it's now learning things.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's already got an inherently built in native bias, and that's terrifying.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the this is the thing with AI that has always scared me, this idea that we'll be

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: able to control it somehow.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Because once a I realizes that it can do whatever it wants to do because it is so much

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_00]: smarter than us, the amount of time it takes for AI to realize that.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And then abuse it and take it to its natural end, which is to get rid of us.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It will be very, very fast, very fast.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Because our brains can't compute as fast.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, you know about Elon Musk and he's trying to I mean, yes, go to Mars, but he's

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: also yes, he bought Twitter, but also OK, yes, also the Tesla.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But also.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He's doing the neuro implants.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You heard about I've talked about this before, where like.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: A guy who's a I think quadriplegic has now been able to play video games through a link

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: in his brain.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And Elon Musk has talked about why this research and why they're advancing and doing

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: this stuff, it is to compete with AI.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Because we are not our brains are not going to be able to compete with AI.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And on the one hand, you can look at that like, oh, in a workplace environment,

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: professionally, right?

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: OK.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think in terms of.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Deathmatch.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Literal deathmatch human beings against artificial intelligence, because once it

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: becomes aware that it is more powerful than its creators, then we are of no use to it

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: any longer. There is no reason for us to be around and for us to limit it in whatever

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_00]: it is it wants to do.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And with its learning, you have no idea where that's going to go.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We have no idea what it's going to learn and what it's going to pick as its own goals

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and the things it's like, you know, you rub the you rub the genie lamp and you think,

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, I want a million bucks.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you get a million dear.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, it's like that, you don't know what I robot.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The Asimov book and then turned into a movie with Will Smith, fantastic movie.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure if you're a human being, you're going to be able to understand.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be able to understand the things that the human mind contemplates.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: When you try to create the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law, you're

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: going to come up short. So that's my concern with A.I., but I'm sure everything's

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: fine because they they found the error, everybody, they found the error, but they're

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of really endorsing her.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of endorsements.

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[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going over some of the big endorsements that have come down.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the biggest ones, I think, really.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, you know, we could do here.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Hang on a second. As is appropriate for such an announcement.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Liz Cheney.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's it. Just yeah, Liz Cheney came out for Harris, which is odd because

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Liz Cheney back in way back August of 2020.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: So four years ago.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns and health

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: insurance and explode the size and power of the federal government.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_00]: She wants to recreate America in the image of what's happening on the streets of

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Portland and Seattle.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We won't give her the chance.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: She has my full endorsement.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. There's there's Liz Cheney for you.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, by the way.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I have one more, I have another, I have another endorsement, I'm going to wait for

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: it's called a tease people, that's a tease in the biz, we call it a tease.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, then there's this.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris caves.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Not on her values, no, because as we all know, let's be clear, my values have not

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: changed. No, she will never cave on the values.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: She will apparently cave on positions and policies and such, but not her values.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know what those are, but she won't give on those.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But she is caving on the muting of the microphones.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a little asterisk there because there's a little side deal going on.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so Politico reported that Vice President Kamala Harris agreed to ABC News rules

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_00]: for next week's debate with Donald Trump, relenting on her campaign's demand that

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: both candidates microphones be unmuted for all 90 minutes while they are on stage.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the Harris camp wanted.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, the muting of the mics was what Joe Biden's team demanded.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, so the the first guy that was running against Trump.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Until the last debate, they demanded these rules, the Trump team agreed, and then the

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_00]: palace coup occurs.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And now the the new leader of the Democrats, now they're like, oh, I want a different

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: rule. And the Trump campaign is under no obligation to cater to your rules.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Kamala Harris already pulled out of one of the other debates.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why Trump was on Fox News at the town hall.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They were that was supposed to be another debate that night.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So Harris said no to that one as she says no to all these other interviews and press

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: conferences because she's letting the media run her campaign for her.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And like, why shouldn't she?

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I've said this for the last now what, seven weeks or so.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: If the strategy is to just sort of do a four corners defense or offense, I guess it

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_00]: would be or in more modern terms, let's call it the prevent defense right in football

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: where you bend but don't break.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You're just going to you're going to run out the clock.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And if that's the if that's the strategy here, then.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: All indications are it's working, although I'm starting to wonder if it is because her

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: numbers are now starting to come back down after that tiny teensy weensy bounce that she

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_00]: got after the convention.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So at some point she may have to start doing more media, but I don't know.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: At this point, it's been working.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So why change course?

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Think about it. If you could go into the White House without ever having to do a press

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: conference, without ever taking any kind of questions from a hostile press, why

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: wouldn't you? Right.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Just do that. That's easier.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So in a letter to the network, Harris's senior adviser for communications, Brian

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Fallon, an Obama guy and a Biden guy, wrote that he believed the format fundamentally

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: disadvantaged the vice president.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So having having the microphones muted fundamentally disadvantages her.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Why? Denying the former prosecutor the opportunity to fully cross examine the GOP

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: nominee, according to a person familiar with the missive.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So once again, this is coming from some unnamed source inside the campaign media more

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: than happy to communicate the messaging for the Harris campaign.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And granting the protection of anonymity.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So this way, if there's blowback, then everybody's got plausible deniability.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it wasn't me. It wasn't me.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't say that. I didn't give that information.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't give that interview.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The muted Mike Fallon wrote, will serve to shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: with the vice president.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: We suspect this is the primary reason for his campaign's insistence on muted

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: microphones. You can suspect whatever you want to, brother, but you guys demanded it.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Your campaign staff working for Biden demanded it.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Trump campaign staff agreed to it and Trump, right, they agreed to it.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump has been out there saying he doesn't care.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Could it be that they just don't want to accommodate it because you want it?

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: If you want the rule change, then no, you're not going to get it right.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. That could be the extent of it.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Fallon continues in this letter.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: We understand that Donald Trump is a risk to skip the debate altogether, as he has

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: threatened to do previously, if we do not accede to his preferred format.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, Biden's preferred preferred format.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: We do not want to jeopardize the debate.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, they already canceled one of them.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: For this reason, we accept the full set of rules proposed by ABC, including the

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: microphones. Fallon also laid out other verbal agreements about the debate format

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: that were important in getting Harris's team to sign off on the final rules.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: There are some other elements like stipulations that enable the moderators to

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: admonish any candidate who interrupts and urge them to convey anything said into a

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: muted mic to the broader audience.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So they want the moderators to play more of a role.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And this was one of the attacks that came from Democrats and the left and the media.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But I repeat myself against Jake Tapper and Dana Bash during the first debate where

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Biden hung himself.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, this was the this was the attack against the moderators was that they weren't

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: interrupting Trump enough.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't helping Joe Biden.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they were mad at.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: They were not help that they just played it straight.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They asked the question.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike's got muted.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They moved on to the next question.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And they and the Democrats and media wanted the moderators to debate Donald Trump.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I mean, it must be so nice and easy to be a Democrat.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: You get so much of this stuff.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just amazing.

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[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Going over the the big news about the or the muted microphones, Politico reported

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: that the Harris campaign has relented on muting the debate microphones when the

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: candidate is not speaking.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But but but.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The agreed upon stipulations.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Enable the moderators.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: To correct or admonish any candidate who interrupts them, Trump.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Additionally.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The network will have the ability to keep both microphones open during cross talk

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: or any heated back and forth.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so she did get what she wanted.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So they did agree that they'll keep the mics open so she can have her Cavanaugh

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: moment. That's what she wants.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Or I mean, people keep calling it the Mike Pence moment where I'm speaking.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm speaking. I'm speaking.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Where she said that to Mike Pence, that she did not come off good in that.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: What they want is her Cavanaugh moment.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You remember that? When she was up on the dais at the Senate confirmation hearings

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and she asked Cavanaugh whether or not he could think of any law that restricts a

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: man's reproductive rights or something like that.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said no.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I didn't say it was a great moment.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying like that's the moment that they want.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the because you're like, look at her.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: She's a prosecutor.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_00]: We want to be able to showcase her prosecutorial chops.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they want.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And she wants to be able to interrogate Trump in a back and forth.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And lo and behold, buried in the middle of the story, we find out she will be

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: allowed to do that.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what she wanted.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't about the mics being muted or unmuted.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: During answers, it was about her ability.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: To pepper him with questions so she can show everybody that she's not afraid of

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: him and she used to be a D.A.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Unlike in the June 27th debate between Trump and Biden, the small pool of

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: journalists traveling with Harris.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Should be in the debate hall and close enough to the stage to be able to hear

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: any remarks that are muted.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The media will be able to take her message and bring it to the people.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: See, she got what she wanted.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So this headline that she's relenting on muting debate microphones, it's not

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: really the full story.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_00]: She's getting what she wanted.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, the there are people inside the Harris camp that are pushing out

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: this narrative that the people who are overseeing the debate prep sessions that

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: she's doing, that they are the word is morose.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They are morose over this, over over the relenting on these rules.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they're telling everybody.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, she really wanted those mics unmuted.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but you're getting what you wanted on this stuff here.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's really what you wanted.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The vice president, according to some anonymous person in the campaign, quote,

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: can't have her Kavanaugh moment without the sound on the mics.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: They're explicit there.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what they think is going to win her the debate.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: They are so, they lack such confidence in their candidates ability to answer

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: questions in a debate format where they're not being interrupted.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: They think that in order for her to win, she's going to have to be able to do to

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump what she did to Kavanaugh, who, by the way, in that setting, he couldn't go

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: back and forth with her because he's a nominee.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: She has the advantage, right?

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: She's like the employer in the employer employee relationship.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: She's got the power in that power dynamic.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But for all the Harris team's public and private focus on the microphones, they are

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: also aware that the pressure is largely on her.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: A candidate many voters don't know well facing off against a former president whose

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: personality and aggression on stage are well documented.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: See, so now they're trying to describe her as the underdog.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to lower expectations.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, she's really not that good as a debater.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh yeah, we know.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's see.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mentioned another.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mentioned the other, the other big endorsement.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But I kind of mentioned it yesterday.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So, OK, here we go.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the the next big endorsement for Kamala Harris.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Came from very far away, all the way from Moscow, Vladimir Putin.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Poodie poot, old poodie poot.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Weighing in for Kamala.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. The White House, though not happy.

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The White House has hit back at comments made by Vladimir Putin, claiming he supports

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: John Kirby, the White House's national security communications adviser and the guy

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: that they asked to take the hard questions when Kareem Jean-Pierre is not doing such

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: a great job, said Putin, quote, should not be favoring anybody one way or another.

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Listen up, poodie poot.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Did you hear that?

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You should not be favoring either one of our presidential candidates.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You've been warned.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: The only people, he said, who should get to determine who the next president of the

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: United States is, the American people.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And the United States would greatly appreciate it if Putin would a stop talking

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: about our election and be stop interfering in it.

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, why didn't you say so?

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that all?

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Man, did Putin know this before he was spending all of the money to spread

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: propaganda and everything?

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure he was aware of this.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know he was aware of this?

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Putin said earlier this week that Russia's favorite in the presidential election was

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Biden, actually.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But then he withdrew and he says the country and he wanted the country to support

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris. He said, I told you our favorite, our favorite, if you can call it that, was

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: President Biden.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But he's now out of the race.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But he asked his supporters to back Ms.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris. So we'll do the same.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said. He added that, quote, The choice is ultimately up to the American

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: people and we will respect that decision.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Favorites aren't for us to decide.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the American people's choice.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, look at that. So he's listening to John Kirby.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank goodness.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But Putin also spoke about Harris directly, saying, quote, She laughs so expressively

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and infectiously that she must be doing well.

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. He likes her laugh.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess this means then that all of the mainstream media are propagandists for

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Russia. I think that's how that works, right?

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the standard you guys set with the Tenet Media story that we did yesterday.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, good. A North Carolina man, by the way, hat tip to Matt Harris for this story.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: A North Carolina man, actually a guy out of Cornelius right here in Mecklenburg County,

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Michael Smith, 52.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He is accused of creating hundreds of thousands of songs with artificial intelligence

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and then using bots to stream the AI generated songs billions of times.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This is so nuts.

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So he.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So why would you do such a thing?

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, for the royalty payments.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: You make a song and it's your song and then it gets streamed, it gets listened to, and

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: then you as the artist collect.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: The royalties. And he fraudulently, fraudulently obtained over 10 million dollars in

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: royalty payments through the scheme that he orchestrated over a seven year period from

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: 2017 through 2024.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He was arrested this week and charged with wire fraud, conspiracy, wire fraud and money

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: laundering conspiracy.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: According to the Justice Department, each offense carries a maximum sentence of 20

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: years in prison.

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, to carry out the scheme, he created thousands of bot accounts on music streaming

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: platforms like Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He then used software to make the accounts constantly stream the songs that he owned.

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He estimated that at one point he could use the accounts to generate about six hundred

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: sixty one thousand streams per day and that would make him one point two million dollars

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_00]: a year. Smith spread his automated streams across thousands of songs because it started

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: with one song, but then it was like, oh, my gosh, there's only one song like.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You got to need more songs.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So then he got somebody else to help him generate through a I hundreds of thousands of

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: fake songs.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That they uploaded under all these different band names like band names, like a calm

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_00]: baseball, calm identity, calm innovation, calm knuckles.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the like generated names.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: To ensure he had the necessary number of songs he needed, he turned to in twenty

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: eighteen, started working with the chief executive officer of an A.I.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: music company and a music promoter to create hundreds of thousands of songs using

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_00]: A.I. that he could then fraudulently stream.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It just seems like a lot of work.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that just seems like a lot of work.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Um. Oh, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We got him. Breaking news.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_00]: A beluga whale suspected of spying for the Russian government was found dead.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_00]: We got him. The whale known as Havaldomer was discovered floating in the ocean, as

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_00]: whales tend to do, according to a nonprofit called Marine Mind.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The researcher there named Sebastian Strand, also what whales do, told the Norwegian

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: outlet NRK that they had found the whale floating in the ocean.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The name Havaldomer is actually a fusion of the Norwegian word for whale and Russian

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: president Vladimir Putin's first name.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Havaldomer swam south along Norway's coast and had been doing so since 2019, even

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_00]: gaining a celebrity status among fans.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: The whale's cause of death is unknown at this time, but being that he was a spy and

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_00]: all, I think we probably know what happened.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_00]: All right. That'll do it for this episode.

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