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Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the program.

So happy that you are here.

I say that every day, but it's true.

I really am happy that you're here.

And it warms my heart to read.

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And I'm like, wait a minute, say that again.

I don't even know if they know that's what's happening.

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So, hi everyone.

Let me know where you are.

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Jobs, Halligan.

I mean, you should be like, Jobs.

Because it's just a whisper.

We got the Jobs report.

And also I don't know if you guys can tell,

I'm still fighting a cold.

Hopefully I can get some rest

for the Thanksgiving holidays.

Are you guys looking forward to Thanksgiving holidays?

I know some people actually don't look forward

to the holidays because they get a little down

and depressed in the dumps or whatever.

Anyways, hi, New Jersey.

Hello, Miami.

Oh, Miami.

Is it nice and warm in Miami right now?

Compton, California, New Orleans.

Hello, hello, hello.

Okay, so let's talk this morning.

First of all, can you guys please do something?

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So, you know, that and sponsors and, you know,

so there we go.

And I'm just being honest with you guys.

So thank you for your support.

We appreciate it.

Welcome to all of our new members

who are going to join today.

Some of them joined already.

And yeah, so someone said that there's a certain

news station talking too much about Dick Cheney today.

Yeah, we're not doing that.

May God rest his soul.

But Dick Cheney is no longer here.

And we already talked about him when he passed.

And so, you know, we shall move on

and discuss what's happening.

So I was sitting here this morning getting ready

with my cup of tea and, you know,

just letting it cool a little bit.

Cause you know, I like it hot.

I like the lemon and then the honey,

you gotta be careful with the heat and honey,

it can burn you.

So I'm letting it cool a little bit.

I took the first sip and I could feel something before

I even like started talking about the news.

Cause you know that feeling,

I always tell you that I have a good spidey

since you know, your body knows before your mind catches up

and I can tell where the day is going

and what's going to happen.

And if it's going to bring something heavy

or not something real, something that you can't ignore.

Women call it women's intuition, right?

And men call it, oh, my spidey senses, right?

And so that's where I am right now.

And once you become a person of a certain age,

once you become where it says old people who be knowing,

you'll understand exactly what I'm talking about.

You already know the day that you are going to have

the day that you deserve, you already know it,

or the day that you're not even, you don't even deserve.

So sure enough, the first headline I saw this morning,

because it always comes out, usually it's supposed to,

but you know, this administration don't know,

the jobs report, okay?

So the jobs report, and we're going to get to Epstein,

don't forget, I know Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,

the jobs report, 119,000 jobs added,

unemployment climbing to four, climbing.

Remember, this is the hottest country, it's great,

whatever, the unemployment numbers are going up 4.4%.

That is the highest that we have seen in years.

More than 7 million people are out of work right now.

Are we great again yet?

Isn't it so great to be so, it's great to be so great

that people are, can't find work.

And that New York Times, it says, look,

jobs report shows gains in September,

but unemployment rate rose.

But you forget, don't forget about the negative jobs

that happened months before, and also,

we may never get the October numbers

because the government will shut down.

So if you just stop there with this,

then you're going to miss the truth

because the truth is not in the headline.

The truth is in the people that nobody counts,

the people who are working part time,

but need full-time work, the people who are working jobs

and they don't have a living wage,

the people who are making minimum wage

that does not pay for their life, a modest life.

I'm not talking about something that's extravagant,

I'm not talking upper middle class,

I'm not really even talking middle class.

The people who want a job

but cannot get back into the labor force

because the door has been closing on them slowly for years

and now it's being shut because we have an administration

that cares about the stock market,

making money for rich people, tax cuts for rich people.

You saw Donald Trump during the election,

I'm gonna make you so rich.

There was a chart going around this morning

that's shown the reality of

underemployment in this country,

underemployment that we don't talk about,

not unemployment, but they call it underemployment

in this country.

Folks who want more hours, folks who want steady work,

folks who want a job, period, that's what they want.

And when you put all those groups together,

you see a picture that is a lot closer

to the worst parts of the pandemic.

Remember, look, yeah, look, there it is, underemployment.

So this is like closest to the worst parts

of the actual pandemic.

Remember when the economy was in the shitter?

And guess what?

Guess who that was?

That was Donald Trump the first time.

So he is competing with himself.

And so any of these Republicans in Washington,

they don't wanna admit that.

It's not trending up, it's not stabilizing,

it's not, it's not, it's not stabilizing, it's slipping.

And you can hear it in the way people talk about work now.

You can hear it in the way

that they talk about their bills.

You can hear it in the way people say that they,

they're just holding on because, but barely.

That's the real story.

Not the headline number, that's the real story.

And we're gonna have someone to come on

and talk about that in a moment.

It's not the press release, that's not the spin.

That's none of that, okay?

And let me tell you something.

When you get to a place where even Fox News

is speaking like I'm speaking now

and they are poo poo in the economy

and how people feel about the economy,

you know something serious is happening

because Fox will spin anything

if it helps the narrative, anything.

But when even they can't sell this economy as strong,

it means their viewers are feeling the squeeze.

Watch.

But the issue of affordability,

the issue of how people feel about the economy popping up

in our latest polls, a personal financial situation now,

excellent good, 40%, only fair or poor, 60%.

You can see that changing from July.

Condition of the US economy,

also a perception totally upside down, 76 to 25,

and that changing a bit.

And then economic conditions for the nation

and you personally, again, 25% positive, 76% positive.

Negative for the nation and then 60, 40 personally.

So that ain't good.

Now, excuse me.

I told you yesterday,

because old people be knowing,

I told you yesterday that they can spin all this stuff.

People are gonna look and say,

why is Donald Trump doing this?

Why is the administration doing this?

Why are they doing this?

When they are, I'm looking for

my wallet, I don't have here.

When they are, what they know,

they know the numbers in their wallet.

They know how much money they're spending.

They know they know they know.

And then so that they're gonna get to a point

where they go, wait, what's, you're not taking care of me.

What's all this noise?

I said this yesterday.

And then I said the, a couple, maybe a week or so ago

when he's like traipsing off to Europe and everywhere

and he's doing all these things.

Okay, that stuff is important,

but that stuff does not improve your standing

among American people, especially those who are hurting.

And so I said, he can spin all he wants about Epstein.

He can spin all he wants about,

which is really hurting people,

people being out being dragged into, you know,

SUVs and cars and picked up off the street and detained.

So many of them American citizens, all those things.

He can distract with all of the, all of the things,

but people know their wallets.

They know how much money they're spending.

They know what's coming in.

They know compared to other times how little they have.

They see the prices at the grocery store.

They're getting the energy bills, whatever, you know,

whatever con ed or this Midwest power or Northeast power

or whatever it might be.

PSC and G, but just, these are just numbers that companies

that I know supply is electricity.

They know what their energy bill is costing right now.

So over at the Fox news and the conservatives,

that their base, the MAGA folks, they're writing in

and they're saying, "Hey, whoa, what's all this stuff?

"We can't breathe financially."

They're tired.

And that's when Fox news has to step away

from the cheerleading and they

have to start sounding nervous

because they are not just reading the tea leaves.

They're out there getting statistics.

And when Fox news sounds nervous about the economy,

that is a sign, it is a big one.

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair,

he keeps calling this a curious pattern,

but there's nothing curious about, you know,

when people are afraid,

there's nothing curious about that.

And that's what this is right now.

And so this is my overall,

has been my overall theme this week.

And then the underlying under employment,

the underlying theme that I've been telling you

since this Epstein thing came is Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

And this is a thing that breaks the spell.

And this is when Donald Trump starts to lose support

and power.

So that's what I meant when I

said Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,

keep focusing on that.

He doesn't want reporters asking about that.

And I told you the number one question

that I can't believe no one has asked him,

especially publicly, maybe someone will see this,

maybe there were some a reporter,

somebody will get some cojones and ask them the question.

Is there anything in those files that is hurtful to you

or anything that shows that you did something inappropriate

with an underage girl?

And please, can we stop saying underage women?

Because women are not underage.

Girls are underage.

You don't say underage men, you say underage boys.

So let's just call it for what it is.

So why, so someone needs to ask that question to him live

in a big interview, something, did you have anything

just like the whole, did you do anything appropriate?

Bill Clinton, I did not have sex

with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.

We all, if you grew up and you, Bill Clinton

was your president and you went through the whole scandal,

you know the line for line.

You saw the deposition of Bill Clinton.

You saw him lie in the deposition.

You're supposed to be honest about what it is.

Someone asked him a question directly.

So why doesn't the media have the balls to ask Donald Trump

if he did anything inappropriate with an underage girl

or boy, whatever, anyone underage?

And is it reflected in those files?

Does it show that?

Now I'm sure people, you know, the AI might freak out.

They may take us down.

They may restrict us.

First we're asking a very truthful question.

That I'm sure the media folks or the journalists

are afraid to ask because, hey, we're gonna get sued

or he's gonna call and get any fire.

So that's where we are.

And people know what's going on.

People are not quitting their jobs

because they're afraid that they won't be,

because they're afraid that won't be another one waiting.

So there are people who are like miserable,

but they're not gonna do it

because there's no, there are no jobs out there.

And I have friends who are,

it's terrible in any sort of media business.

If you're an AI, you're doing well.

And some of the tech companies,

well, even out all the tech companies

because they're laying people off left and right too.

But there are no jobs.

Or as my friend said yesterday,

who lost his big job and said,

Don, this is scary,

cause ain't no jobs out there.

And I said, yeah, you're right.

Companies are not hiring because they are afraid

of where the country is heading right now.

We have a labor market that is not moving.

It's not breathing, stuck in place,

held together by hope and caution

and artificial intelligence.

And at the same time that we're dealing with that,

Washington is shaking over what I call it,

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, the Epstein files.

You can feel the tension there.

And in the way that people are talking about it,

in a way that they are distancing themselves from it.

You see some courageous Democrats are out there.

Democrats are feeling a little bit of a sigh of relief

and a bit of confidence, but the Republicans, no.

Now I haven't watched Fox News that much,

but I just wonder,

I'm gonna have to watch to see how they are.

And if you have, let me know in the chat

to see how they are framing this

and how they're reporting on it.

You see in the stories is they are suddenly trying

to reshape a quiet panic among powerful people

who once treated the whole thing like a joke.

People who thought the truth that would never reach them,

they thought it was gonna get the Democrats.

And now they're like, oh shit.

People who thought the world would forget.

But the truth is a way of finding people.

And when it moves, as I said, it moves fast.

And the truth has found people.

And I believe even the Fox

News viewer is finding the truth.

And even over on the Fox News,

there is a reality check slips in every once in a while.

And even then, I want you to pay close attention.

Okay, Lemonheads, even then they still try to spin it.

It doesn't make sense.

In this, I want you to watch because in this report,

she goes, wait a minute.

I just gave you a direct quote.

What are you talking about?

Watch.

But this idea that the Epstein files is going to be

reframed as a Democratic hoax is never going to work.

The American public is not cool with it.

What is it?

Trump has a minus 39 approval on handling the Epstein files

and only 45% of Republicans even approve at this point.

The narrative about Hakeem Jeffries,

everyone at this table knows how fundraising emails work.

So that email was from someone named Lisa Rossi,

who's from a random fundraising group called Dynamic SRG,

asking if Epstein wants to go to a generic DCCC dinner

that Obama and Jeffries were going to be at.

There was never any meeting.

There was never any donation.

And he appears one time in the Epstein files

by the Miami Herald's count.

Trump has mentioned over a thousand times

in the latest tranche that just got out.

And people are not going to forget that in 2002,

for instance, Trump said,

"I've known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy.

He's a lot of fun to be with."

It's even said he likes beautiful women as much as I do.

And many of them are on the younger side.

I have never alleged, and I am not alleging now,

that Donald Trump has done anything untoward

with an underage woman.

But if you want to be throwing around single emails

from a random fundraising group to try to make

Brooklyn, Barack look bad and not acknowledge

how many times Donald Trump is mentioned in these files,

you're just going to look dumb.

And I would encourage everyone to not look dumb.

But it's other people mentioning him.

It's not his fault when people want to get him.

I just read a quote about him.

Other people are mentioning to stop him.

They're like, "The other person, they want to..."

They're all trying to stop Trump.

Why did he want the files to not come out this badly?

Why? Just tell me why.

Why do you always fall for this stuff?

Is the bigger question.

This is Russia, Ukraine, everything.

It's unbelievable.

I just gave you a direct quote where the man said

that he likes younger.

Donald Trump said that.

That was a direct quote.

That was a quote from Donald Trump.

I should we say allegedly or reportedly.

That's what's been reported.

Like say what?

That was a quote from Donald Trump.

It's other people.

They're still not believing it.

I wish, I don't know if I sent this to you guys overnight,

but there was, I saw this thing of a man

who is saying someone asked him,

even if there is someone of a certain age.

And he goes, "That's not a big deal."

That shouldn't be a big deal.

Maybe I saved it.

I don't know.

He said, "That's not a big deal.

There's so many things that are happening right now.

Can't we just look at it and be together and so much good?"

They said, "What if it's like a 14 year old?"

And then the MAGA person goes,

"Well, I don't know. Why do we care about that?"

It's like, "Wait, what? Why do we care about that?"

I thought I sent it to you guys,

but apparently I did not because I'm looking for it

and I cannot find it.

But it is shocking that these folks do that.

But there are the Democrats out there

who are feeling a little bit more confident

and Ro Khanna has every, every reason to feel confident.

Ro Khanna, Chris Murphy, a lot of them.

But let's get to Ro Khanna first.

The minute Donald Trump signs this,

it will be the law of the land.

What does that mean?

If you're in the Justice Department,

if you're in the FBI and you are thinking

about tampering with the evidence

or not disclosing the evidence,

now you're not just betraying

a Donald Trump campaign promise.

Now you're subjecting yourself to prosecution.

Now you're subjecting yourself to congressional contempt.

And when Robert Garcia is the chairman in 2027,

I don't think you want to take that chance.

And when we have a Democratic president in 2029,

I don't think you want to take that chance.

So this is now the law of the land

and people will be held accountable.

But here's why I'm confident

that we will be able to call them on any tampering.

The survivors lawyers have seen these files.

They know that there are men, powerful,

rich and powerful men who abused and raped

and sexually trafficked these girls

whose names are in there.

And we will know if those are coming out or not.

There are other career officials who have seen these files

and they will know whether there's tampering or not.

And yes, the attorney general holding them in contempt

and prosecuting them is a very high bar.

But that doesn't apply

to career justice department officials.

That does not apply to all of the people

who would have to have a conspiracy to violate the law.

And many of them could get prosecuted

and could go to jail and could lose their careers.

And so I just don't recommend it

for them to be taking that risk,

especially given the attention

that is gonna be on this issue.

Hmm.

And that's where we are pretty much

as it relates to this Epstein story.

Now, again, to the Kilimede Fox News part of the story

and what Fox News viewers are going to see and hear.

And to my point yesterday about what we've seen so far

with the release of the,

what the documents have already been released,

that should be enough

for Donald Trump to be pushed out of office,

just for his connection, the number of times mentioned,

the things that were written about him, the quote

that Jessica Tarlov just talked about.

That should be enough.

And for those of you who are maybe sitting

and you're listening to mainstream media, so to speak,

and you are getting this sort of,

okay, well, there's no evidence

you did this one of you have to say it after every time

because people even Jessica said,

"I'm not insinuating that anything."

Well, what are we left to think

if you tried to hide these for so long?

What are you left to think?

What are people left to surmise here?

People come up all the time, but well, wait a minute.

They do that in courtrooms.

What is the circumstantial evidence?

What is the logic here?

This leads to this.

Logically, this leads to this.

And logically, this leads to that.

This guest that was on MSNBC,

I believe it was this weekend,

I think really lays out the severity of what we have seen

and what we know so far.

And people are just,

they just keep upping, moving the goalposts.

Watch.

And be honest with you guys,

I actually went through the files this weekend in depth.

Donald Trump is not only named over and over in them,

it is discussed this trial in which he was accused

of raping a 13-year-old at Epstein's house.

There is extensive discussions about a subpoena

of Donald Trump in one of Jeffrey Epstein's cases

in which he was accused for rape and sexual abuse.

He was subpoenaed and gave a deposition in that case.

There is extensive discussion between Donald Trump,

Ghislaine, Maxwell, and Mr. Wolf

about not only Trump coming to his house,

but Epstein says in these emails

that he has photographs of Trump with girls.

Yeah.

And someone mentioned,

we talked about that this morning,

someone mentioned Katie Johnson.

And that's a whole other thing to report on

about retracting and all this stuff.

But if you can find me the escalator video too

about the young girl,

and he says, "I'm gonna be dating her in 10 years,"

or whatever, and this is like a clearly an underage girl

going up the escalator, if we can find that,

it's out there.

Let me know when we have it.

It's really shockingly unbelievable

because what we have right now is enough.

And Chris Murphy is saying

that this could be the biggest scandal

in American history.

Watch.

So the Department of Justice has 30 days now

to release the Epstein files.

How much faith do you have that it will?

Very little.

I mean, listen, I think there's only one reason

Donald Trump has been fighting so hard

to stop the release of these files.

It's because this is potentially the biggest scandal

in presidential history.

He wouldn't have been squeezing arms as hard as he has been

over the course of the last

few months, if that wasn't true.

So there are a variety of ways he could go,

all likely not in compliance with the law.

He could say that he's not releasing the files

because there's an ongoing investigation of Democrats

that he ordered.

He could redact 50% of the words or all of the names.

I'm sure they are meeting in the White House right now

trying to decide how they can get around complying

with the law, and maybe that we will ultimately have

to take them to court to make sure

that they do what the statute says.

They are required to do, which is tell the American people

the truth about what happened, the extent

of this child sex ring, and whether the president

or other powerful people were involved.

Yeah, so there you go.

And he said it, child, someone in the chat said,

why don't we just say child?

And say what it is, why don't we just say child?

Here's the other thing too.

First of all, let me think, Maureen Marfel, thank you,

because of Maureen's generosity,

and the 10 people get to

become members of the Lemon Nation.

And welcome to all of our members, Jocelyn,

welcome new members, and AmazingLove68,

welcome to the Lemon Nation, appreciate it.

So also here is the video that I'm talking about,

just to prove the point, here it is.

Thursday night, you're going up the escalator?

I'm gonna be dating her in 10 years, can you believe it?

Okay.

Okay, that was a little weird.

I just have to say that was a little weird.

And again, to Chris Murphy, Donald Trump and Republicans

and MAGA folks keep saying, well, it's the Democrats,

it's the Democrats, what about the Democrats

who are in there?

As if that's some sort of own,

that Democrats are gonna go, okay, ooh,

maybe we shouldn't release them, I don't know,

maybe we should.

This is how everyone I know who is a Democrat,

and most of the, even the Republicans that I know

or the independents that I know,

this is how they feel if there is a Democrat in there.

Please answer the question for me, Chris Murphy.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that there are Democrats

in those files, there are Republicans in those files,

there are, you know, Wall Street executives

who have no political affiliation.

What we want is to understand who was involved in this.

I mean, I don't think the president is so selfless

that he was, you know, stopping the release of these files

for so long because he was protecting his friends.

I just think it stands to reason

that he's very much connected to this scandal.

And we may or may not know the extent of that

because it could be that the president

is gonna try to find a way to redact any information

connected to him from those files.

But to me, it just doesn't matter,

the political affiliation, the laws of the law,

they need to release the files.

His first words weren't asked if there were Democrats

in there, he said, "So what?"

And I think that's how most people feel,

so what if there are Democrats in there?

I have much to say, we have much to discuss on this,

as well as what's happening with the economy

and with the jobs.

I have someone who can break it down for us.

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And by the way, thank you for joining us.

We appreciate it.

Happy to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so look, you say here basically,

you said unemployment is at 4.4% in September

with 7.6 million unemployed,

a little movement across the demographic groups,

payroll rose to 119,000 driven by healthcare,

food services and special assistance, transportation,

warehousing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

But you said the most interesting part

that you found was that Jerome Powell called it

a curious pattern.

We may never get the October numbers.

So where exactly are,

and you also talk about underemployment,

where exactly are we?

Because we had negative job numbers

in one of the reports, recent reports.

We may never see the October job numbers.

And here we are now in November, almost December.

Where are we?

So the thing that is funny about this jobs report

is that people were just kind of happy to get anything

and to know that the economy wasn't crumbling

before the shutdown, because we really feel

like there is probably going to be some contraction

that is going to come out during the 36 day shutdown.

There was a lot happening during that time.

So for right now, it kind of

feels like for many economists,

like September feels like so long ago.

So you're taking this with a grain of salt.

You are pleased to know like the economy was doing

sort of okay with the labor market specifically,

but you're also looking forward to the December reports

and November data and you're unsure

what that is going to say.

But the discussion on the broader measures

of on and underemployment is something

I did find interesting because these are people

who want a job but aren't in the labor force

or they're working part time

and they're still trying to find like a full-time job.

And it's the worst it's been since the pandemic.

So these are job seekers who are struggling

in the job market and they feel that it has been worse

since the 2020 pandemic, which was a global phenomenon

that was really shattering for a lot

of people's job stability.

So that is something that personally worries me,

as well as the losses that we are seeing

in transportation, warehousing, manufacturing.

I mean, when you look at those sectors,

the first thing that pops to my mind is, well, yeah,

we have been seeing a lot of uncertainty

when it comes to our supply chains,

when it comes to our trade policies.

Now that's starting to impact workers

when the intended goals was to revive the said industry.

Yeah, so I think, well, the only thing that's really,

I believe propping up the

economy, you mentioned healthcare,

but it's open enrollment healthcare

and there's, you know, people are concerned about that,

but it's really AI is the bright spot in the economy.

Where would this economy be without the innovations of AI

and what was happening with that sector?

Yeah, so AI is something that everyone is trying

to get in on and it really is doing a great job

propping up the economy.

I know that there were some revisions

when it came to California's budget.

The only reason why they were able to stay above budget

was thanks to the tech sector,

that they were able to fund for other social services.

So we wouldn't know where we are

without the AI economy right now,

but we do know that it is something

that is powering us through this.

And if we are not to find stability outside of that,

when it comes to, you know, leveling our trade policies,

not changing our economic policies every single day,

not sending out tariff checks and so forth,

we will start to see those contractions show up.

Hmm, not sending out tariffs checks.

What do you mean?

Tell me.

Well, so the math behind the tariff checks

have not really checked out.

He plans to send this out mid-2026.

I'm not gonna get my 2000 bucks

that I'm supposed to get.

I mean, do you make under a 100K?

That's kind of the baseline.

And even at that point,

if you have to all Americans who are making under 100K

to send them 2000s, even at conservative estimates,

that's going to be almost double

than what we have for tariff revenue.

So how are we supposed to pay back,

pay all of these people with these $2,000 checks,

pay down a deficit and do all the other things

that we plan to be doing.

We're also supposed to be sending aid to farmers.

We're also supposed to be sending aid to Argentina.

Like the money is just not there.

So when you have all of these

confounding factors happening,

it definitely is going to show up into the data.

But like I said before, we've had a government shutdown.

We're kind of still running very hazy

and will for some time.

So if you are someone who is out there

looking for a job and it's tough right now,

I know folks who are looking for jobs

and it's really tough right now, what advice do you have?

This is something that I think right now

it's become very tricky.

It's become very noisy.

You see a lot of people on LinkedIn

and all these other job sites

and they're really leveraging AI,

which is a great tool if you want to,

like spruce up your resume and so forth.

But it's kind of taken out the personality from it

where people are all becoming a bit of numbers.

I would recommend to people if you were

in like the professional services

to always have a human element,

reach out to hiring directors,

like straightforward, send out cold emails,

talk to people directly.

I personally have lost faith in the quick apply button

that these websites offer because it kind of goes out

into the ether where no one is hearing about them anymore.

But when I mentioned the curious balance of four,

it was something that Jerome Powell mentioned

at one of the most recent Fed meetings

is that one, people don't want to really leave their jobs.

They don't have as much confidence

as they would like to in the job market.

So they're holding steady, but also supply and labor

going out the window because we've been seeing

a lot of like deportations.

So you're losing a lot of people

in like the construction industry

because they are either too scared to show up to work

or they're being deported overnight.

So it's either people are not hiring

because they're unsure if their business will go forth

or the ban and the supply are going away

because they are being deported.

Do you, now listen, I know that there are some people

who are saying, well, this is great.

I guess it's as you sort of alluded to,

people are looking for something positive, right?

Maybe perhaps wishful thinking, I want to play this.

This is from CNBC and CNBC I've been watching

is being very careful.

They know Donald Trump is watching.

And so they've been sort of hedging.

I just want to get your take on this, watch.

And here we go.

This is the September Job, Job, Jobs Report.

Non-far payrolls are up a robust 119,000.

119,000 would be the best since April

when we were up 158,000.

In the rear view mirror, well,

last month it was downgraded from 22,000 to minus 4,000.

Now, if we look at what's going on

with the unemployment rate,

it ticked up from 4.3 to 4.4.

That was unexpected.

4.4 would, last time we were at that level,

boy, I have to go back a ways.

October of 2021, when it was 4.5%.

Now, if we look at labor force participation rate,

it ticked up, that's a good thing.

62.4 equals where we were in May.

You have to go to April of this year

when it was 62.6 to find a higher number

in terms of the earnings,

average hourly earnings month over month, up 2.0.

That's a bit on the weak side.

We're expecting up 3.0, up 2.0 equals.

Oh my gosh, well, Tara, it reminds me

of when Kevin Hassett stands in front of the White House

and he just smiles and he's like, pretends like,

yeah, well, you know, the rich people

are gonna get a tax cut and that's gonna help him.

This guy is smiling through, like, this is not great.

Yeah, the unemployment is highest in October 2021.

People can still hear you, do you recognize that?

I think they just think Trump is going to be scrolling

through the channels, like, well, they're smiling

and I see green, we're doing fine.

So what do you say to that report though?

I mean, come on.

I do believe it's still a mixed bag.

We are just going to be continuing to run hazy

and the fact that we weren't able to collect any data

during October is a bit worrisome.

It's not that they're hiding it or anything,

it was just, they were not instructed to collect anything,

which is just, like, frustrating on my own end.

I would like to have more transparency

and see where the economy is going,

but it just shows that the Fed is going to have

a really tough decision when it comes

to their upcoming decision because people still don't know

what they're going to do.

I'm unsure if this is giving them the relief

that they need to make that decision because, like I said,

it's very lopsided at times.

You still have jobs being added,

but you also have an employment number that is the highest

since, again, the year after the pandemic,

which is not good.

Which is not good at all.

I mean, Tara, yeah, that report reeks of desperation for me

and also, like, he's jumping through hoops,

(mumbles)

to appease the president, to please the president.

Thank you, Tara Hoops.

Yeah, thanks for happening.

Director of Economic Analysis at the Chamber of Progress

and also on the West Coast, so it's really early for her.

Thank you for jumping on.

We hope to have you back.

Appreciate it, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Much more, I want to talk more about Epstein,

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By the way, it's Thursday, almost Friday.

It's Friday, Eve.

I wish it was Friday, but anyways.

So we don't wanna rush anything.

So yesterday, we talked about Lindsay Halligan,

and the questions her name raises,

and you guys know Lindsay Halligan.

She's a prosecutor, the one that Donald Trump handpicked.

No experience, virtually no

experience, very under experience.

If anybody was a DEI hire,

according to the Trump administration

or the MAGA folks' definition,

it would be Lindsay Halligan.

They should put this in the dictionary next to

Trump DEI hire definition.

That's his definition of DEI hire.

So all the questions that are surrounding her

did not fade away overnight, okay?

Because we talked yesterday,

they got even louder.

Look, I think even more pointed when people start to study

just how bad it is, if you watched any of the,

on social media, any of the digital shows,

people are like wondering what the hell is going on here.

And this whole Comey case

could be thrown out because of it.

This is serious embarrassment

for the Trump administration.

You can sense now something in the way that certain people

are acting about this, the sudden explanations

by some of the people who are close to her,

but Donald Trump is not really saying anything.

And there's all this sudden legal chatter around here.

The sudden desire to sort of ship the story.

It's fear.

People are afraid, they're afraid, they're afraid,

they're afraid of what's happening right now.

Because the people who feel safe, right?

Randy, Randy Lane, 76, Halligan is cooked for sure.

And our panel yesterday said,

they don't believe this case will last much longer.

That it's gonna, they're gonna throw it out.

And then what happens to all the other cases

where he has gone after his political rivals

or his perceived political enemies.

Because people who feel safe, they don't behave like this.

If you believe in the truth,

and the truth is harmless,

then you don't scramble like this.

All of this, all of these threads, right?

They're pulling at the same dress, the same slip.

They all land sort of in the same place.

The country feels unstable, not just economically,

as we spoke about with Tara and before,

not just politically, but emotionally, spiritually.

People are tired.

People right now, they're tired, they're stretched.

People are trying to hold on to dignity

and in a moment that is really taking a toll on everybody.

And maybe it's I'm, like my friend, Dr. Frieda says,

or my friend Monique Presley says,

but Don, you're an empath.

I have to stop absorbing this stuff.

You see it when someone says their hours get cut.

You hear it when a friend says that they applied

for 20 jobs and they never got a call back.

You feel it when someone says that they are working harder

than they have ever worked and

still they are falling behind.

That's where we are in America right now.

Do not be fooled by the rhetoric.

And then on top of all that,

you have this political class that is terrified

about what might come out of those damn Epstein files.

They're trying to portray competence.

I wanted this all along.

You guys know the truth

and you heard what I said before and I truly believe this,

what is in there so far is enough.

So I don't know what more there could be in there

that he would be so afraid of

or who he would be protecting or what.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But something ain't right in Denmark

and something ain't right at the Department of Justice.

They don't want certain names in the air.

But there's a name in there

that's been in there over a thousand times.

They don't want certain connections revisited here.

They do not want the public to remember the things

that they worked so hard to bury here.

They don't want to control the story.

The story is not letting them do it anymore.

Because this is a moment that I've been telling you

that's bigger than their control,

bigger than their excuses,

bigger than the spin.

And I keep coming back to this, everyone.

When the economy gets shaky

and it's, yes, it is the economy, stupid.

James Carville was right.

Carville has to say about this.

He's gonna sum it up for you.

So call your friends and tell them to tune in right now.

When the economy is shaky and

then the truth starts to rise,

it starts rising at the same time,

then you get a moment like the one

that we're living in right now, right?

These things that are colliding.

A moment where the mask slips.

These people appearing behind the curtain,

wizard behind the curtain is not the all powerful odds

as they think.

Excuse me.

A moment where the country can no longer pretend

or where the things that we pushed into the dark

come back into the light.

And it doesn't happen.

It doesn't happen.

It's not soft, right?

It's just not a nudge,

but it's not gently, it's with force.

And I think people know it.

You feel it in the conversations

and you see it when you're like,

well, what happened?

I used to pass that house

and they had all that Trump shit up there.

Where did that go?

You feel that the grocery store,

if you flip on, you see

Marjorie Taylor Greene too on the TV

talking to, sounding like a

Democrat or somebody who has sense.

So again, as I said, you feel that the grocery store,

you feel it when you talk to your family,

you feel it in the way that people are moving right now.

They're cautious or concerned, they're stressed,

they're awake, or they're doing

what some of the Republicans in Washington are doing.

They're rejiggering, they're re-strategizing,

they're trying to figure out, oof,

where do we go with the next moment?

They're stressed.

People are stressed and they're awake.

So this is not just about the economy.

It's not just an economic movement.

It is,

this is the system resetting itself.

Not in the dramatic sense, but in a human sense,

a moment where people are realizing

the people who run this country are not being straight.

Where people are questioning everything

because nothing feels stable anymore.

And so when you have a shaky job market,

a confused federal reserve, a tight labor force,

a rising unemployment, a political class,

in open and some places quiet panic,

and even Fox News, the Fox News is saying

the economy is soft.

You know the country is sending a signal right now.

Look at the results of the election couple Tuesdays ago.

You know the truth is rising,

whether people want to face it or not.

And some of it is quiet because those polls were wrong.

This person is running a bad campaign

and Mikey Sherrill's campaign is terrible

and now the girls fan burgers this,

he's not a dynamic candidate, all this stuff.

And people just said, I'm just gonna vote.

So I just want to say something simple to you in this show.

This moment is not asking us to panic.

That's why I said,

I've been saying to you guys,

you should feel good about it,

but don't take your foot off the gas.

Cautiously optimistic.

Keep an eye on Margin Taylor Greene.

She's saying the right things right now,

but you know, you guys know,

everyone has someone like that in their family.

You know, you already know.

And sometimes the people in our families,

they do change, you've seen that, right?

Sometimes they have a come to Jesus.

Sometimes they find the Lord.

This moment right now is asking us to pay attention,

to listen, to look closely,

to understand that we are living through something

that is real, something that is shifting the ground

underneath our feet.

Something that is pulling the truth into the open

and we cannot ignore it.

We can't pretend it away.

We can't tell ourselves that everything is fine

or we can't look directly at what,

and we can look directly at what this moment is showing us.

We can look directly at the fear and the vulnerability,

the instability, the truth

that has been waiting to be heard.

So be confident people.

Know your power, know your value.

Because I think the country is ready to hear this truth.

Now here is a truth bomb for you.

The great democratic political consultant,

extraordinaire James Carville.

Listen closely, especially if you are a MAGA troll

or a Donald Trump stand in this show or in the chats,

I want you to take a deep breath, turn the volume up.

Listen, roll it.

I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen.

A Democrat is gonna be elected in 2028.

You know that, I know that.

He's gonna be a Democratic House,

gonna be a Democratic Senator.

The Democratic president is gonna announce

a special transition advisory committee

on the reform of the Supreme Court.

And we could have our third branch of government

has lost faith in trusted American people

and his president, I'm gonna do everything alone.

He's gonna point a blue ribbon,

maybe Judge Lutick and the Dean of the,

you know, just the usual fucking suspects, all right?

And they're going to recommend

that the number of Supreme Court justices

go from nine to 13.

That's gonna happen, people.

That's gonna happen to you.

They're going to win.

They're gonna do some blue ribbon panel

of distinguished jurists.

And they are going to recommend 13

and a Democratic Senate and House.

They're gonna pass it.

And the Democratic president is going to sign it

because they have to do an intervention

so we can have a Supreme Court

that the American people trust to get.

So just keep that in the bag of your mind.

And I would bet a lot of money

that that's what's gonna happen.

A lot.

I'm with him.

I'm not on the Supreme Court part,

but I've been telling you,

I'm not so sure about the Supreme Court part, we'll see.

And, but I do believe that the pendulum

is gonna swing back to the more progressive side

in this country.

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