(5-13-26) Ep. 208: Fauci Bombshell Rocks D.C. as CIA Whistleblower Speaks & Much More.

Today's Articles:

(National Review) - CIA Whistleblower Testifies Fauci’s ‘Cover-Up’ of Covid Lab-Leak Origin Was ‘Intentional’. (New York Post) - Possible Illinois hantavirus case not linked to outbreak on MV Hondius cruise ship. (ZeroHedge) -  Trump Says 'Open Up China' Before Landing In Beijing For Pomp-Filled Red Carpet Airport Welcome. (Reuters) - US dollar rises as inflation jumps; Trump-Xi talks begin. (Slay News) - Democrat Mayor Arrested in California for Acting as Illegal Agent of Chinese Government. (Fox News) - Spencer Pratt’s mayoral run backed by Paris Hilton, Kristin Cavallari as celebrity divide deepens. 

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Hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to today's broadcast. This is the Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 episode of the Marco Gerais Show, the only show where the facts are facts and hard truths thrive. Halfway through our week, ladies and gentlemen, I've got a plethora of solid topics we'll be discussing on today's show, so make sure you're sticking around for the entirety of it. We'll be talking about what President Trump is doing in Beijing, what's going on with the strength of the dollar, and did a California mayor actually clandestinely work with Beijing? All that more in today's program. Don't miss it. Make sure you stick around. Let's get down to brass tacks. I've got a very important topic we've got to discuss right out of the gate here, and that is the CIA whistleblower that says that Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in the cover-up of the COVID-19 origins was actually intentional. What's going on here? James Erdman, who is a career CIA operations officer who spent much of last year on a joint assignment for the Director of National Intelligence Directors Initiatives group, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and the Governmental Affairs just this morning. And what did he say? He told the committee members that Fauci influenced the analytical process and the findings by leveraging his position to ensure that the intelligence community consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, is what public officials and scientists alike have now assorted. So here's the problem here. Fauci clearly, clearly was covering things up, certainly about the origins of the virus. He clearly was not upfront about what took place, certainly from the NIH standpoint. Now, what Ertman further said was that the CIA and the DNA analytic managers responsible for examining the origins of COVID made decisions inconsistent with the conclusions of subject matter experts and the analytical traitcraft, consisting favorably with the theory of the natural origins of it. So right off the bat, we're getting so much conflicted information from Fauci, telling Senator Paul that he didn't know what gain of function research was. All these things are very, very questionable. And we know that one of his top advisors went down as far as what was going on with the research that was being conducted as well. Now, in 2021, as the intelligence community worked to make an assessment as to whether the COVID-19 began with a lab leak or was it via natural origins? Right off the bat, I gotta stop here and let everybody know this. If you can patent a virus or any type of discovery or vaccine or anything of that line, medicine, you name it, anything you have a patent in cannot come from a natural origin. We know that they have a patent on the virus, so therefore it has to be coming from a lab leak. That's just common sense. Now, Fauci offered investigators a list of subject matter experts to contact. Now, Erdman said that he and others would later discover that the list included experts who had been in Fauci's orbit for more than 20 years. So see how the route runs deep here? And they have also authored a scientific paper that Fauci infamously commissioned to debunk the hypothesis that COVID escaped from the laboratory in Wuhan, China. Now, of course, we have the Chinese also not working with the United States to talk about the origins of the virus or what potential illnesses could come from the virus. So this was being covered up for quite some time. And now we are really coming to terms with what actually took place. Now, some of these scientists whom Fauci directed the intelligence communities to contact were part of the Biological Sciences Experts Group. This is an office of the Director of National Intelligence Advisory Board. Now, these members are often receiving considerable funding from Fauci's own department, the uh the Department of Infectious and Diseases and Allergies, and the public health agencies. This is what Erdman is saying right now. And he's calling attention to the overly complex infrastructure to the public health community that leads to conflicts of interest and preventing proper oversight. So he's really blowing the whistle here on all this. Now, what one of the things I think is is really damning in all this. He talks about how Fauci endorsed various experts, of course, and these experts participated in what was called the Planning Event 201 in 2019. Now, this was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise, curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the event was attended by Fauci himself, several other individuals with intelligence community ties, like former DNI Averill Haynes, again, that'd be the director of national intelligence. And he goes on to add, too, that Dr. Anthony Fauci's influence over the intelligence community's COVID-origin analysis and the witting and unwittingly roles that some of these BSEG scientists, that same group I just mentioned, and some of the IC personnel played in the cover-up exposed why the issue is of top concern. Now, here's the problem with all this. Here's the problem with all this. You have people like Fauci making sure that they do things, for example, like rewrite the definitions of what gain of function actually means back in 2015, to lift the funding pause on dangerous research. Now, gain of function research is defined as the modification of viruses for the purpose of making them more infectious or deadly for a study in a laboratory. We know that this took place with the funding that went through the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Eco Health Alliance, several of the players involved in all that. This is exactly what they were doing with the coronavirus proteins or the viruses that they they were studying. Now we have a lab leak, and we know that the labs of which the Wuhan Institute of Virology had were kind of a lower tier as far as safety. So that means it wasn't one of these, um, I guess you'd call it like a stage five or or whatever it would be. It was a very low security risk as far as coming in and out and how the virus could get in and out and what have you. And this is how this all took place. Now the virus gets out. We know that the outbreak took place in in China, we got all the wonderful propaganda coming out of China. And then, of course, it spread to the United States in October of 2019. Nothing would happen until March and later of 2020 when it was originally announced as a pandemic and Trump issued a state of emergency for it. Again, he's taking Fauci's lead on all this. Now we could talk about other events, uh, much very similar to this planning event 201 in 2019. There have been other events as well. Ten years prior to the COVID lockdowns, where they were actually going through these seminars and talking about making these viruses more deadly than they they ought to be, studying them, and they also simulated what a pandemic would look like with these viruses. I mean, this is all just coming to a T right now. Now, do I think anything's gonna happen to Fauci? We know that on Monday the Statue of Limitations ran out for him, so I don't think the DOJ is gonna get involved in arresting him. But my God, this looks terrible, folks. We had a member of our government, a bureaucrat, a politician, that's what Fauci is. You know, he could have the word doctor in front of his name all he wants, but he actively participated in these events where he knew exactly what the coronavirus could do and what would happen if it were to obviously reach the public, and he covered it up. And then on top of that, he lied about ways to make people safe. The lockdowns were a complete failure. We know that the wearing the mask was a complete failure, standing six feet apart or social distancing was a complete failure. We know that the vaccine was a complete failure, and actually it has many ramifications and side effects to taking it. All these things are major problems, and he lied every step of the way. And on top of that, he botched every single pandemic we've had since he took over of the uh director of uh what is it? Infectious diseases and allergies, that w whatever his group is that he works for for in the NIH. Um but this is his his specialty group, and he's botching everything the entire time. I mean, Fauci should have been gone roughly 20 years before this. I mean, so this is very, very bad, folks. And again, to see someone like this, who knew exactly what was going on, who has patents on this virus, who's probably made a lot of money off them, by the way, telling you all to go get a vaccine, um, again, that was not safety tested, had about two months of safety testing, all the animals died in the research study, and then giving it an emergency use authorization by quieting everybody on social media, by the way. So not only does he do this, he's working with the tech bros, if you will, to silence any type of opposition to what's taking place with the coronavirus. So if you came out, for example, and said, there's a 99.997% chance I'll survive this, it's not really a big deal. Now, if had you known that in March of 2020, people probably wouldn't have bought this. But he sold you a bill of goods that said that this was something very detrimental and it was very serious, we don't know how to combat this, even though we've we've come in contact with several other coronaviruses, probably every single day of our lives. So this is nothing new, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but of course, it was lab-made. But the funny thing I always say with all this, this was out in the open inside the United States for six months prior to it being a national emergency, a state of emergency, if you will. And yet, did we see hospitals lining up with people? Of course we did. Did we see people just dropping dead in the streets? No, we did not. Now that's what was being sold to us. We saw this on social media, on the television. You had people in China dropping to the ground. We had, you know, noses with you know blood dripping down, people passing out. That's what was coming out of China. Now, of course, that didn't happen, but that was the fierce aspect of it all. It was fear mongering. Let this play out. But how interesting. We have several of these bureaucrats and many of these groups that take our government money and they're lying to us, especially in the intelligence community as well, working with Fauci on this. And look at the influence he wields over some of these people. Again, it's very troubling. But this is what happens when you have zero oversight. And again, I commend Rand Paul for going through with this and getting this out in the open. But now we know that Fauci was actually attending these events that simulate these scenarios where what would happen if we had a pandemic of the COVID-19. And of course, everything seems to be playing out exactly as is. So the question is now, was this planned in advance to do this? That only Fauci and his cohorts would probably know this. But isn't it interesting? He is the one that was up front and center. He was the one on television, he was the one taking the interviews, he was the one instructing what to do, when to do it, and where to do it. And how to do it. He's the one that was pushing the vaccine. The vaccine, of course, that we know now doesn't even prevent the transmission of the virus, doesn't prevent you from getting it. These are all things that are very troubling, as you can imagine. And so my question to you now is where do we go from here? Do we actually try to go out after Anthony Fauci? Do we try to take him down? Should he be arrested for this? Should he be tried for this? And why did the DOJ not do anything about the why do we wait till the last minute, by the way? I mean, we could have had these hearings on day one of Trump's first term, excuse me, second term, day one. He could have had people going after Anthony Fauci, right? We could add a committee, we could have this whistleblower come forward and say all these things and get to the bottom of this. Instead, we waited till the last minute and now nothing can be done about this, so-called. And Fauci, of course, has a pardon. Pardon for what? God only knows. But Joe Biden was keen enough to give that to him. So that tells you there's something dirty going on with Fauci, and probably for quite some time before that. I mean, again, this guy has made so much money off this. And again, it should be very troubling to not only myself, but you and I, because this greatly affected how this country worked. I mean, we had the economy go under, we had many small businesses go out of business, we had people's lives change, we had people that were, again, not seeing family during the holidays or what have you, going to see their elderly relatives. It was all ridiculous, folks. Absolutely 100% ridiculous. And it was all to push this vaccine that nobody should be taking. Again, you can go back to any of my shows where I'm talking about the ramifications of them, the the adverse effects. I mean, you look at the Vay's report, even today it's over 2.6 million people on it. And when we talk about the Vayers report, it's not just anybody can come out of the woodwork and say, you know, I took this shot and now I'm sick. Everything is a legal binding document where people come forward and say, I took the shot and then X, Y, and Z happened to me. Or I was totally fine before I took this shot, and all of a sudden now I've got pericarditis. I got myocarditis. I have sterility now, or I had a heart attack, or I've got blood clots, or I've got, you know, all these other conditions associated with this. There's so many of them that we can look at, but all of them have spiked I mean, well over 100% in all of them. So, and again, people like Edward Dowd have done great research on this too. You can look at his work on this about people that have died as a result of uh the the vaccine, or I guess what you would call a vaccine. I don't call it a vaccine, I call it a shot. That's what it is. It doesn't, it's not, it doesn't act as a vaccine. It makes your body become a host to create spike proteins using this mRNA technology that should not be used in vaccinations. Even the guy that invented it, um, was it Robert Malone? Dr. Malone? Yeah. He said we shouldn't even be using this. And of course, this is what we're using. We're trying to use this now for flu shots, if you will. So, again, folks, the the rat runs deep. I wish we got to the bottom of this. I wish there was some come up in for Anthony Fauci. I really do. And I think most Americans do as well. So that's why I wanted to bring this up to you. That yes, you've been lied to, you were lied to by the government, and of course, nobody gets taken down. And the Trump administration either purposely let this run out, but we should all be very, very upset about all this, I think. Especially moving forward, there needs to be some limits of as far as what these government organizations can do. They were actually, during the Biden administration, working with OSHA, trying to force companies to make sure that people were taking this COVID shot. A shot that you didn't ask for, a shot that was not properly tested. Trump actually took off the safety guards, according to uh, obviously, to create these shots, and then they pushed them out right away and told you they were safe and effective, right? We kept hearing that. Well, they weren't safe, obviously. I just told you they weren't. I mean, when you have turbo cancer now being a thing, getting any of these cancers from, you know, 300% to 900% fold on people coming down with these illnesses that took these shots. I mean, this is this is very problematic. And then again, you're seeing in Europe, you saw what, soccer players passing out on the field and dying? I mean, that's that's not something common, folks. We saw it here in America. Football players passing out on the field that had taken these shots. Now, some people will say, well, Derace, that's correlation. Well, again, pretty high correlation, though, don't you think? I mean, these are professional top-of-the-line athletes. These are not your average athlete. They're in the top echelon. They're passing out and dying on the field of a heart attack? No, I'm sorry, folks, that doesn't make any sense. And we shouldn't accept this either. Let's just be very clear about this. We shouldn't be accepting this not so. But again, I feel like it's deja vu now. And just to shift over to another important topic, we gotta talk about this article out of the New York Post. It says here, possible Illinois hantavirus case not linked to outbreak on the MV Hondius, I believe is how you said, the cruise ship that, of course, just recently docked and everyone was expatriated back to the United States. But now we're we're trying to use this fear-mongering yet again. Hantavirus, what is it? We don't we never heard about it. Nobody seems to get these. Uh what's going on? And of course, it spreads fear, people are worried about just like the whole monkey puxing. So that was a total scam, too, folks. Now, again, the hunt the hantivirus. The CDC itself has been studying it since 1993 and of course tracking it, and in the time frame from 93 to 2023, right, a 30-year span, they've documented at least 860 cases. Now, there is a high mortality rate associated with it. But the way it's contracted, it's not a communicable disease. So to me, the fear-mongering is all ridiculousness. Yeah, that didn't stop them from suggesting that a suspected hantavirus case being investigated in Illinois, saying it's not linked to the outbreak of what took place on this cruise ship, uh, but health officials are still looking into it. And the sickened residents of Winnebago County didn't travel aboard the ship and most likely picked up the virus while cleaning a home that had rodent droppings. So here's what we know about this virus it's spread not through you talking to someone or you sneezing on somebody, but you coming in actively in contact with rodent droppings somehow. I know it sounds disgusting. Rodent urine, rodent droppings, or rodent saliva. Now, if you don't do those things, you're not gonna get this virus. Now, thankfully, the cleaner's symptoms were mild and didn't require hospitalization. Um, but folks, we've we've got to understand something. They're showing you pictures of people in, you know, the the the the works, you know, they got the masks on, they've got the smocks on, all this other nonsense. And it's order to scare you. We've got to take these people and monitor them for a certain amount of time. Again, listen, if someone is not ill, and again, we saw this during COVID too. If someone is not ill, why are they taking these PCR tests that will, any way they detect, depending on how many cycles you use with them? So, in other words, if you swab somebody's nose and you run the swab sample and you run it through enough cycles, it'll eventually find some type of maybe foreign matter from a virus you may have previously had. And if it can detect that, it's gonna show that you're positive, even if you're completely fine. And again, I was working in a school system at the time, and we had students who were, oh, this student's got it. Yep, they showed you were positive. Gotta go home. You gotta go home for at least three days now, quarantine. And the student's totally fine. They're getting pushed out of school. Now, I don't know how they're detecting if the person has or has not contracted this virus, uh, but the idea of someone is is fine, we're making a big deal about this and making sure they don't have it, um, but the the problem is, what they're pushing here is that they have a mortality rate roughly of about 40%. Now, here's the other problem with all this. In those 860 cases, of the 300 or so people that have died in that 30 year span, by the way, we don't know anything about these people. They have other comorbidities, or are they sick with something else? What happened? Uh is the hantavirus really the case that was the reason why they died. We we don't know about any of this. Were they elderly people? Were they very young people? So these are all things we should know. And by the way, the same thing happened with COVID. The people that were primarily dying were people that were elderly and they had roughly two to three comorbidities. Those are illnesses like cancer, pneumonia, other things like that. And we don't even know if the COVID was the primary cause. We know that they kept, again, amplifying the amount of cases, again, with the false positives. And of course, the people that were probably likely going to die anyways. And we even know now that if the doctor felt that they had COVID, they can just lose it as a COVID death. And what happened as a result of that, they were able to get more money to their hospitals. Again, it's, you know, rinse, wash, and repeat, right, folks? That's what it always comes down to. So to me, this is all fear-mongering. I really don't think we should be worried about this as a nation. I fear that most people are going to fall in line with this. Uh, we're talking more and more about this. We're seeing in the press more that these uh people have come back to the United States and being monitored. But again, I I don't see right now. I guess we have what, 16 now that are in a quarantine unit in Nebraska remain currently asymptomatic. Well, that means they're not sick, folks. They're not sick. That's what it comes down to. I mean, there's no other way. To say this to you. This isn't something you should go on and fear. This isn't something you should go and be worried about. So go about your daily life. Of course, you shouldn't come in contact with obviously rat droppings. I mean, that's not what I'm telling you to do. Obviously, you want to keep a cleanly house. But to me, what takes place here on this cruise, and by the way, I never tell you to go on cruises, they're usually disgusting, anyways, by the way. The cleanliness in them are horrible. Why would you want to be in a boat for several weeks, by the way? It's ridiculous. Now, if you're taking a short cruise, maybe from some place to another, you know, fine. But why would you want to be weeks out in eating this disgusting food, by the way? I'm told the Disney cruises are the worst, by the way, from friends that have been on them. Anyways, my point is, obviously there was some type of contamination with the food supply, more than likely. That's how these people were probably, I hate to say this to you, but they were coming in contact with food or something that the rats contaminated and got in their system, and they got this virus because these rats were infected with it. That's what it comes down to. So when we look at the world right now, I mean we're looking at, you know, so many look at this, tested positive. We have like four cases of people that have tested positive all around the world, folks. This is not something we need to get worried about. But what I fear right now, especially the way the economy is going, when you have the CEO, I believe, of Shell coming out and telling us that we have, you know, we're one million barrels short of the oil supply that we need right now. And you don't want to get people moving around, you don't want people to leave their houses? Hey, you throw something out there like this. Now, do I think that will actually happen? I hope not. I hope people don't fall in line with us again or start wearing masks like idiots, like we saw during COVID. Again, the masks didn't work at all. That's just a fact of you know the scientific studies that were taking place. If you don't believe me, go look at Dr. Simone Gold's study. She outlined this very, very clearly in her research. Perfect study, by the way. And I know because I read it at the time. And again, not to brag, I I know how to read case studies because I have a master's in health, so I understand what's going on. I can read the science. And by the way, anybody can read the science as well for themselves. But you gotta read the right science, not the science that is put forth like the Faucies of the world. They got their own buddies to put forth the funding or the research to say, oh, yeah, no, no, no, there's no way it came from a lab. It must have come from, you know, bat soup, right? Remember, we were told that too? Almost came from a uh, you know, one of these bat, you know, soups or whatever the hell it was, something ridiculous like that. Not that I implore you to eat that. But this is what we were being told. And again, it was all a bunch of nonsense. That's what it comes down to. Um, so again, obviously, if you came in contact with this, obviously you should seek medical help. But again, if you're asymptomatic after all this time, you're probably gonna be okay if these people that are on the ship right now. Okay, folks. So again, just wanted to clear that up for you. Don't get worried about the hantavirus, don't start running out buying masks or you know, whatever. But one thing I want to say to you too, before I finish this segment. What's interesting to me, they come out now and there's talking about the hantivirus vaccine. What's interesting to me, this is what I just found out yesterday evening. They put out the the patent for this, they applied for this way back in 2022. Hmm. So are people gonna freak out now and request the hantivirus vaccine? God only knows, folks. God only knows. But I again I wouldn't take this stuff. I wouldn't take anything unless there's a proper uh you know, long-term safety testing and get a double-blind clinical testing for these vaccines as well. That's what you should always be looking at. Never take anything under emergency use authorization. Okay, that's what uh that's my advice to you. Uh, coming from someone who has a a background in health. Okay. Anyways, let's move on, shall we? Let's move on to what's also very important right now. We have to look at what President Trump is doing. This comes out of Zero Hedge. So President Trump has made his way through Air Force One with his entourage now. Yeah, I saw Marco Rubio. He's in a Nike tracksuit now. They really want him to become president. Did you know that? I mean, they they show him DJing, they show him, you know, now in his his nice tracksuit to go with President Trump. What the hell is he doing there, anyways? He's not gonna meet with G, is he? He's not gonna be with any of the counterparts there. What the hell's he doing there? He's been working on trying to get this deal with the Iranians. That's what he should be doing right now. That's what we need. Anyways. He was greeted by a lavish red carpet welcome, of course, as you could expect. We should always expect that we are treated well when we go abroad, no doubt about it. President Trump said we're two superpowers, what he told reporters just before departing to China the day prior, we're the strongest nation on earth in terms of military. China is considered second. Well, I don't know. They were we're the strongest military in the world, yet we can't defeat the Iranians, who we've uh you know helped destroy their economy. Hmm. Certainly the most expensive military. I will give you that. We do have a strong military and we do have the most expensive military. That's no doubt about that. Now, the official event with President Xi Jinping will take place on Thursday, 10 a.m. local time, with a formal welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, leading into the first meeting with President Xi, after which the Chinese leader will host President Trump for a state banquet at 6 p.m. So, again, I'm interested to see about how this goes. I've told you what I think about this. I talked a little bit about this yesterday. I believe that President Trump's gonna ask Xi for help on getting Iran to agree to some of these U.S. demands that he wants to end this war. Because President Trump cannot leave the Iran war with people thinking that he has capitulated. He can't do that. Certainly he can't accept that he's gotten a loss here, which we really have. So I think China obviously helped Iran get to Pakistan to obviously come to the talks for us multiple times. And I think Trump is going to try to get Xi to get the Iranians to come to the table yet again, to I don't want to say, again, surrender themselves to us, but to kind of get them to agree to some terms of ours too. So in other words, they they'll throw in their 10 or 14 points out there and say, this is not negotiable. But I think they're gonna try to get the Iranians to say, also you will do X, Y, and Z too for the United States. I do believe that's what it will be. Uh, again, we know that the US wanted this ceasefire. We we know that it was them. Uh the Iranians really didn't want it, but they accepted it. So again, it's the United States that wants the war over because, again, of the economic blowback that Trump's getting right now. And by the way, China doesn't like this too. They want the straight to be open. They don't want it, they don't want this headache about this, because again, they get roughly about 20% of their daily oil consumption coming out of the Persian Gulf. They don't want that disrupted. Okay? That makes sense. But Trump also doesn't want another JCPOA type deal, which he condemned Obama for brokering, by the way. But unfortunately, President Trump, again, it might be his only way to achieve this small victory, and again, is to pretend that we've won the war, which fine, whatever gets the war over with, I really don't care. I mean, we all know we've lost this conflict. We know that the Iranians are controlling the Strait of Four Boos. We know they're gonna charge you a fee. That's again, these things are non-negotiable for them. And so, I hear some commentators saying, you know, China couldn't care less about Iran. You know, maybe that's true. I I don't know. I don't know what the Iranians think. I don't know what the Chinese think about one another. But G is thinking about economic terms on this. And if Iran is then in the hands, for example, of the United States, or if they install a puppet president, and instead of sending that oil to China, for example, they're sending that oil to the United States, that affects Chinese economy. It affects how they operate. They don't want any type of kind of a, you know, anything to block that. And so this is why I'm saying this to you. Um, you know, if, for example, you have a weaker Iran or a US-controlled Iran, that's not good for China. It's not good for BRICS. I don't think China or Russia would like to see a weaker BRICS. They want to see BRICS do better. And notice, too, you have Iran is now trading in the Chinese Yuan, which means, again, a higher demand for their currency. And wouldn't China like to replace the dollar as the world reserve currency? I think so. I think they would love that. It would definitely bring up their status as far as, as as Trump said, we're the two superpowers. And China understands this. China knows that we're vulnerable right now. We couldn't beat the Iranians. And if there's a higher demand for the Chinese Yuan, if now you have a certain percentage of the ships crossing through the Strait of Hormuz now, which you're estimating to be $96 billion every year, to have a lot of that paid in the Yuan and the demand for that, that's gonna look good for the Chinese economy. It's gonna bo bolster up their economy. They want those things. They like these things. They need these things. This is what they want. Again, folks, it all comes down to a power play. This again weakens the United States globally, and the Chinese, of course, would love to see that. Absolutely, 100%. Now, on the tariff issue, I think is gonna be the other position that will be discussed, and of course, sanctions as well. I think President Trump is always kind of caved in this situation. One time he would, you know, oppose or excuse me, impose a higher tariff. He'd redact it, then he'd come back to it many times before. I think the same deal will be made too. Obviously, reduce the sanctions that have been recently placed on the Chinese. I think that's gonna be obviously something that's very, very important. You'll see the Chinese companies in return ask for something, obviously, and trouble asks them for something too. You'll probably see that tariff or those sanctions kind of being uh relinquished at some point. I I do believe that. And then the other topic they're discussing probably will be Taiwan. I think that's gonna be not really a huge factor in all this. Again, anyone that cares can look up and see that the tiny the Taiwanese government right now are moving towards uh again, voting to be annexed back into mainland China. I again I don't know if the US wants that, but if you look at what they want, they want this. They want to be brought back into China. They don't want the headache of having to be invaded and whatnot. And the the country itself is moving back towards that. I mean, historically, Taiwan was always a part of China. I believe until the late 1800s, uh, it was brought back into Japan, of course, and then after World War II, it was given its independence, and you know, now they're they're coming back into wanting to be part of China again. Now, again, would you want to give arms to the Taiwanese who may be brought back into the Chinese government and have our arms to be used, possibly against us in some way? I don't think so. I really don't believe that. So Trump needs to get a handle on all that too. What do the Taiwanese actually want? Do they want to be brought back into the Chinese government? Maybe they do. Maybe they maybe they come back as kind of like a, you know, an offshoot of what they were before. Again, but kind of like an umbrella under what China is. That could be something that would obviously, uh, especially in terms of the being in the South China Sea, do we have a not have another ally there? Again, the China's making these power plays, folks. And again, it's all working in their favor. So I don't think we should be selling them arms, especially right now if that's what they're considering doing. So we'll see what President Trump and G talk about. We'll see how Trump sells this to the American people. Uh again, I don't think he wants to go into this meeting looking like he's not brought anything back. I think that's why he's he's waited for this for so long. Um, but one of the things I think is is extremely remarkable, and again, you know, Trump says a lot of things. Uh, but this is what he said just yesterday uh before boarding to go to China. Let's take a listen to this about what he has to say about the war with Iran.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

It's unbelievably weak, I would say. I would call it the weakest right now after reading a piece of garbage they said. I didn't even finish reading it. I said, I'm not gonna waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. They understand these are all medical people, and Dr. Raz' life support is not a good thing, do you go? Backpot. I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Well, good thing that Trump is a Red Cross doctor, right, folks? Thank God for that. So he he didn't even finish reading it, but he knows it's a piece of garbage. So wait a minute. The president of the United States gets a proposal from the Iranians to end this conflict, to end this ceasefire, to end the war, and he doesn't even read all of it. How much of it did he read then? Now, he might not like the provisions out there. I again, I don't think he wants to be dictated about how to end the war. But it clearly shows that the Iranians are in control right now. They are brokering the deal that is gonna be beneficial to them because again, as I told you before, they did not want this ceasefire. They didn't want it. They didn't need it. And the Trump administration, on the day that we attacked on February 28th, we ultimately reached out and said, Can we get a ceasefire? And they said, No. Now we're in the war. They asked to get on April 8th. They said no. And it took a little bit longer to, of course, achieve that ceasefire. Um, but of course, they're gonna want the U.S. naval blockade to be removed naturally. And again, Trump cannot, again, his own personality. Trump is obviously, we know, is an egomaniac. I don't think anybody can deny that. He wants to be seen as a great president, a great leader, someone who's strong. He doesn't want to show that he's been defeated and look extremely weak in that manner. That the Iranians, whose government we've always tried to destroy, were able to defeat the, again, as he said, the number one military in the world. So is he actually going to show that type of defeat? I don't think he wants to do that. That's why I think he's gonna be talking with G about this. I do believe that. He'll try to get G to work in some way to allow the United States to exit this war without it being a complete disaster for President Trump, and of course making him look bad on the world stage. But we all know what took place here. We wanted regime change, we didn't get it. They were able to fight us off, they were able to circumvent this naval blockade to the tune of at least 150 ships right now. They were able to destroy a lot of the military infrastructure we have all throughout the Middle East and the Gulf Arab States. They were able to do a lot of damage in Israel, too. They were able to circumvent an Iron Dome. So, again, this is bad for many, you know, not just the United States, but again, this is going to be very bad for Israel as well, especially moving forward. So, again, is he going to be able to reel in Netanyahu, though? That's the big question, because again, that is going to be one of the provisions on the table here. Will the war in Lebanon stop? Will the fighting in Gaza stop? Will all this in the West Bank stop? Only time will tell. And it's gonna be a big thing for Trump, too. Will he be able to do this even? That's the that's the other question we have to ask ourselves. Will he be able to re-linhahu again? I don't think so, folks. I really don't believe so. And I told you before, I think the war is gonna go on. I said it's probably gonna go on after he meets with the G. Something will happen again. He'll say, oh, look, they they've broken the ceasefire. We've got to go back in, and we resume the fighting. What we will do, I don't know. If it'll be uh try to be a bigger barrage of fighting, will they hit some of the targets he's said, like the the nuclear power or the energy infrastructure or the desalinization plans, hitting civilian targets, which again are war crimes. I don't know if he's gonna want to do that, but what else does he have? He has no other way to get out of this. And the War Powers Acts, the 60 days are now over. And of course, I saw today, though, that Congress uh didn't vote to end the war. They they were a vote shy of that, John Fetterman being that vote that allowed the war to somewhat go on. So we'll see what exactly happens if they let President Trump go on with all this. But they're already brazenly talking about going on with the war. You know, you hear the likes of the the Marco Rubios, the the other ones on, you know, Fox News, for example, the the the General Keynes, of course, the Lindsey Graham's always going on saying, well, we've got to go and do this, we've got to continue on. They're even talking about now arming the Iranian people, as you know, as I've told you before, which is again not gonna go over very well. But listen to Rubio talking about what we have to do next. This is great. This was just a couple days ago, Rubio being Rubio, um, showing exactly why this war was totally and utterly not planned accordingly.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out, the United States of America holds all the cards. There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation, they wind up getting the last say. But our preference is for these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed to be opened, back to the way it was. Anyone can use it, no mines in the water, nobody paying tolls. That's what we have to get back to, and that's the goal here.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

So, in other words, we have to get back to the way the war was. I mean, excuse me, the way it was before the war. So, in other words, we can't have a uh closure of the Strait of Four Moose, we can't have a toll booth there. Yeah, actually, Mr. Rubio, they can. For the reasons I laid out for you before. Anything from any country shoreline to 12 miles is their water. It is not international water. Now, that waterway, of course, is used by other countries. But if the Omanis want them and Iran to work together, to create a toll system, they can actually do that. It's not unheard of. Look what Egypt does with the Suez Canal. Now you say, well, they built it themselves, they allow that passage, they they take tolls. Fine. It's still a national waterway, isn't it? Excuse me, international, excuse me. But they charge the tolls on there. And that's how they get they're allowed access to it. So we've got to come to terms with, yes, moving forward, the Iranians will actually be allowing this toll to take place. They will get the two million dollars. That's gonna be the reality. You can mark my words on that. They're not gonna move away from this. And the damage they've had inflicted upon them, they'll use that money to pay for that. And probably a lot of other things as well. And of course, the ships of countries that were involved in this, they will probably have to pay a little bit more too. Now, how they do that, I don't know, but that will be something the Iranians do moving forward. So Trump can, you know, Trump could say this, Rubio can say this, all they want. Hey, they don't hold all the cards, we hold all the cards. Really? Now why are they sending you such, again, brazen demands that they want? If they were losing this conflict, or they wanted it to be desperately over. Or if it was so-called on life support, which I again I don't believe it is on life support at all. That is their terms. Trump said they were negotiable. Now he's saying, well, you know, we're not gonna do that. They're so ridiculous, they're so stupid. A piece of garbage, I think the word was words were piece of garbage. Okay, fine. Then how do we get this war over with? Because we're certainly not gonna beat them militarily. And if we believe that putting troops on the ground is going to be something beneficial, I think we've got something else coming to us, folks. Just thought I'd be honest with you on that. Okay. Now, where do we stand here in the United States? We gotta look at this. This is again a part of something much, much bigger. And this is why I want to, again, draw your attention over to this article in Reuters. And I said that the dollar gained on Wednesday after hitting a two-week high following the stronger than expected U.S. inflation rating, with talk set to begin between Beijing and President Donald Trump in the spotlight. So, the dollar actually gained, and I know some of you are saying, well, wait, how would the dollar gain when we have inflation, Jurece? We lose purchasing power. That's true. That's true, we are losing our purchasing power still, no doubt about that. But on terms of the foreign exchange markets, when they see that the interest rates of the United States will probably begin to go up because we're seeing much higher than expected inflation. Again, as I just told you, it's probably gonna hit roughly 4.2, 4.5% this year overall. They're not gonna lower interest rates. As a result of that, the dollar is more desirable. So, therefore, if the interest rates are higher, you get a stronger dollar. When the interest rates get lower, you see a weaker dollar. That's why Trump says he always wants a weaker dollar because he wants to lower interest rates, more people will borrow money, and the economy itself would then expand. That's the way he thinks about these things. But again, when we look at the U.S. Labor Department and they're talking about the producer price index, final demand surged 1.4% last month. That's the largest since March of 2022, well above the 0.5% estimate of economists polled by Reuters. Um, you know, you're getting you're seeing those PPI numbers go up. As I've said to you before, this is all going to be a part of a Massive inflationary spike. And we're just seeing the brunt of it right now. That's what it all comes down to, folks. And it says here that the stronger producer prices reading came a day after an annual reading of consumer prices posted its largest gain in three years. So we're looking at really the Biden economy in 2022. Those are the readings that we're starting to get. And as I said to you before, it's only the start of it. It's going to continue to climb. Now, markets have largely priced out any chance of a rate cut this year by the Fed. That's why, again, the dollar is growing. That's why it's gaining some strength. With expectations for a hike of at least 25 basis points at the central bank's December meeting, have climbed to 35%. Yep. Yep, this is what it's coming down to, folks. And again, it's not going to go down anytime soon because I don't think inflation is going to come down anytime soon. I really don't. But we're looking at PPI numbers that are 6% higher than it was this time last year. You're going to see the consumer price index for inflation beginning to go up significantly. And that's just the truth of the matter. And we're going to probably hit a period of stagflation as a result of this war, depending on how long it goes on for. And I do believe it's going to continue to go on. I don't think it's going to stop. I do believe you will see that inflationary numbers beginning to tick up, and you'll see the interest rates go up as a result of this. And by the way, I saw earlier, just before I began today's show, that Kevin Warsh was nominated as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell. So I don't think he'll be lowering the interest rates anytime soon. Certainly not meeting the 2% estimate, of course, which we always use for that. Yep, folks, it's uh it's a lot. But this is where we are right now. Yep, we're seeing especially the oh yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be devastating what we see coming up. Uh again, I I think the 4.2% may be even a a low ball of estimate as to what we're seeing right now, especially that we haven't even really hit the supply chain and the bottlenecking issues that we are about to see. And we've never seen anything like this, by the way. We've never seen anything like it. So I can't even pull back at a time in American history where we've had so much of the world's oil supply. I mean, we can look at certain oil embargoes and certain time frames. We look at the late 70s when we had gas lines in the United States. I think it's gonna be even worse than that. I really do. When you choke off again 31, 32% of the global oil supply, we've never seen anything like this before. And as a result, that's gonna be very, very devastating for a lot of us. Even though President Trump says he's not worried about the financials of Americans. Well, you better be, Donnie, because uh, again, this is a midterm year. And you being indifferent to everyday Americans, again, especially the farmers of which most of them have put you in power, I think you should be a little bit more concerned about this. Just thought I'd share that with you. Now I want to talk about another very important topic, and this is something uh I think that we all need to come to terms with, that a lot of these Democrats are bought and paid for inside the United States, but this is very damning. This is very damning, this article out of Slay News. It says now that federal prosecutors have charged Arcadia Mayor Aileen Wang with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government in what the U.S. Department of Justice described as a covert effort to spread Chinese Communist Party propaganda right here inside the United States. Now, uh this this Wang, who uh serves as the mayor of LA's count uh uh city city of Arcadia, allegedly worked directly with the Chinese Communist Party-linked officials to publish this pro-Beijing messaging while concealing her ties to the Chinese government. Now, the charge carries a maximum sentence of ten years in a federal prison. Prosecutors have also revealed that Wang has also agreed to plead guilty under the plea agreement filed in a federal court. So here's the problem with so many things that's wrong with Americo. California. California, Michael Savage once called it the bridge to Beijing. I believe that's what he referred to San Francisco as. But look how deep California is entrenched in this Chinese Communist Party effort to, I guess, destroy the country and garner more influence inside the country. Not a good thing, by any stretch of the imagination, but federal authorities now say that Wang operated under the direction of officials tied to the People's Republic of China between 2020 and 2022. You know, it's it's remarkable to me. You have Diane Natufeinstein, our senator in California for quite some time. Uh what did she serve for? Almost 30 years, I believe. From I think 1992 until her death, which I think was a couple years ago in 2022. Uh, and then, of course, you have Eric Swalwell. We know what he did with Fang Fang. He did the bang bang with her, and of course, being bought off by him. I think she influenced some other politicians as well. And now you well, let's look at Gavanusome. Look no further than Gavin Newsom. China inflicts this virus on the entire world, destroys the U.S. economy, and he buys a billion dollars worth of masks coming out of China. I mean, it's it's it's laughable, but it's the truth. I mean, the these politicians are bought and paid for. They really are, and they all have ties to the CCP. That's what it comes down to. All right, now U.S. Attorney Billisale, who he was very great when he was in the California State Assembly, by the way, said that individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy. Absolutely. Uh, but what does this say about us? What does it say about the United States? Where we have these politicians? Get Diane Feinstein having a driver, uh, Chinese spy for 20 years. Eric Swalwell being obviously compromised by a Chinese spy as well. Getting, again, this leverage here inside the United States that affects each and every one of us. There's no getting away from that. Now, the allegations have been described as deeply concerning because, particularly because Wang allegedly maintained this undisclosed relationship with the Chinese government while serving in public office. Again, that has an effect all over the country, though, folks. We we have to come to terms with this. Now, according to prosecutors, Wang worked alongside Mike's son, a Chino Hills resident, previously sentenced to four years in prison for a related federal case. So again, the rot runs so deep, folks. The Trump administration now wants to bring in more Chinese students into the United States to take the place of Americans? Because we'll make money off it. That's what he said. And I think the number they wanted to bring in was 600,000 of them. You don't think the Chinese government's gonna pick and choose which 600,000 people they send to the United States? You're dreaming if you don't believe that. Let me just point that out to you. Federal prosecutors claim that the Chinese government officials directly instructed Wang and Sung on what content to publish in support of the CCP interest. So, in other words, they bring up the CCP. Court documents cite multiple communications between Wang and the Chinese officials. In one 2021 WeChat exchange, a Chinese government official allegedly distributed pre-written propaganda articles denying allegations of genocide and forced labor of Chinese Xinjiang region. Yep. So again, they they tur they change the way, of course, the perception of China is inside the United States. To look at it in a more favorable view. For example, you wouldn't want to talk about the two million Uyghur Muslims inside China being put in internment camps. You wouldn't want to talk about that. Yeah, it's never, ever rarely mentioned, is it not? Prosecutors say that Wang published the material on her website and then sent the official direct link confirming the article had been posted. Mm-hmm. Bon paid for. Another exchange, Wang allegedly edited an article at the request of a Chinese official before sending screenshots showing the article had been generated by more than 15,000 views. Folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Do you think they only have three people inside the United States that are working on behalf like this? And by the way, it's not just the Chinese government that does these things. Don't think that's the only place this happens. We can look at AIPAC inside the United States. What did I just tell you yesterday about Thomas Massey? The guy who he is running against, Ed Galreen, has taken almost $10 million from APAC. Do you not think that this person will act on behalf of the Israeli government? You're dreaming if you don't think that's true. And by the way, we know this is true among many of those in the Republican and the Democratic Party right now that are sitting in office. And Thomas Massey, who has taken not a cent, not anything from AIPAC, who actually wants APAC to register as a foreign lobby inside the United States, and they should. And by the way, why are we allowing this anyway? Why would we want a foreign government to influence our elections and our politicians? I think we need to have a serious conversation. And by the way, it's not just Israel or China, it's every country. If Britain had a pack and they were buying off politicians that way, I'd say the exact same thing about that. Our politicians should be loyal to the United States, to our own constituents, in the districts of which they represent, or so-called represent. But just because it's one mayor getting caught, now all of a sudden it's a big scandal. Of course it's a big deal. Don't get me wrong. But I mean, this is treasonous on so many levels. Because obviously we have legislation that favors certain policies. Certainly we get $3.8 billion every single year to fund the Israeli military. That's our money, that's our taxpayer dollars. But when we we talk about what's going on with with China now, especially, again, we look at their position in the world, they want to be the next superpower. I don't know how any other way I could say this to you. They believe that the 18th century was the century of Great Britain. I'm sorry, the 19th century, excuse me. They believe that the 20th century was that of the United States, and obviously continuing on now, and they believe that the 21st century is going to be that of China as the next global superpower. Again, thank you, Bill Clinton, for putting them in the World Trade Organization. Wonderful job, Bill. Fantastic work. Okay. Now, again, I don't have anything more I could really say to you about this, other than there needs to be very, very grave justice brought to these politicians that are working on behalf of foreign governments. And by the way, any government. And I'll just end with this quote that they're saying here in this article. Individuals who act on behalf of foreign governments to influence our democracy will be identified, investigated, and brought to justice. What should that justice be for being a complete traitor, selling out the United States to prop up China or any other country for that matter? What should the ultimate penalty be? Because obviously she didn't have any concern in the world about getting caught. And she's even going forth with pleading guilty to it. And I'm sure she'll be taken very well care of by the Chinese Communist Party afterwards. Which brings me into my next point, folks. This is again just unfolding. Now, this is a very interesting position. Again, you know, I used to live in California, know all about it, and uh LA, of course, and how it's been completely mismanaged for quite some time now. But this is interesting to me. Pratt comes in kind of as this unknown figure, obviously we know he's an actor. I don't I've never watched anything he's been in, by the way. And he plays himself off because his house was burned down on the Palisades fire again, completely mismanaged by Karen Bass, who he's kind of been targeting this entire time. And he's been gaining a lot of traction running as a Republican in this race, you know, vying for that seat, of which Bass, I believe, has still about 30% of the vote right now, which I find very funny. I find that very funny, though the woman who who burned down most of the Palisades and part of Malibu, um her incompetence led to such disaster. It was so ridiculous. And you know, the pollution and all of the devastation and loss of property and ownership that took place as a result of what she did, and of course, Gavin knew some uh his policies as well, also being intertwined in all that. But throughout the campaign, Pratt has emphasized issues such as homelessness, public safety, wildfire response, and of course government spending, positioning himself as a political outsider, challenging the status quo inside Los Angeles, and of course, drawing some support for voters dissatisfied with the current leadership. So, why do I bring this up to you? Why do I bring this up to you? Though Pratt is a registered Republican, he's still running as an independent in this race that's supposed to be a nonpartisan race, but the issue I have with this, and again, I can't confirm this with you, but this is what I'm seeing right now online from people I view as very, very credible that kind of do a lot of digging as far as who these politicians are. And it looks like Pratt has. It looks like he's been getting some money flowing from a lot of these NGOs that work with this homelessness budget, if you will. Right? The government gets the money to the homelessness problem. It flows through these various groups. Yeah, these groups are supposed to go out and cure the homelessness problem inside Los Angeles. Um, these groups that do nothing. They've taken parts of this $24 billion given to California, they do nothing with it.

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SPEAKER_00 59:01

The homelessness problem is only exacerbated in recent years. It's absolutely disgusting. But the main issue I have with all this is that is he going to be someone that will stand up to these people? That's the question you have to ask yourself. If he's getting bankrupt by them, will he actually stand up and actually do something about the homelessness problem, or will you know he just be another status quo figure? Now, only time will tell. I always tell you folks, you should mix it up a little bit in politics. That's what I said when Trump was running. Back in 2016. I said, let's change it up a little bit. He's an outsider, let's see if he can come in and do some good for us. And by the way, in Trump's first term, I thought he did a fairly decent job, by the way. Some policies I look at, I say, I don't like. But remember, you got more from Trump than you would have got from Hillary. You got more from Trump now than you would have got from Kamala Harris. Now does that mean everything's great? Of course not. We should always demand more of our politicians, but will Pratt be good or will he be bought out as always? Only 20 minutes now, folks. Let's change it up a little bit in the LA. Let's do something you can't hire another bit. That's it for today's show, folks. Thank you for being here as always. Enjoy the rest of you. I'll see you back here tomorrow for more round breaking news on the next market show. So then be good. Stay busy.