And more in some cases. But whatever i can do to help with regard to speaker. Im also leading biden by a lot. If i wasnt i wouldnt have trials like this. Thank you very much. How is melania, mr. President . You are going through a lot. Bill there you go, last question about the former first lady, right . Martha we were talking as he came out. I hope someone asks him about the speaker question because his name gets getting floated for that. I would say based on the comments he made they should take him off that list. He is focused on running for president. 40 to 50 points ahead. I dont know why anybody wants to run into the buzz saw of Speaker Of The House. Not a productive place to be at the moment. He kind of brushed that idea off. Bill martha maccallum, bill hemmer. Andy mccarthy joins us now. Former u. S. District attorney. You wrote this week with trump already found guilty his new york fraud trial begins. You say the Boll Show Vick Block of the Democratic Party is having its Fantasy Prosecution of donald trump play out in real life. Take it from there. Well, i think what were seeing now is mainly political theater because what makes a trial a trial, and what gives a legal proceeding prestige and decorum is the idea that the judge is projecting scrupulousness, that the proceeding is going to be fair and well see what the outcome is at the end. Trump is told on the eve of trial that he has lost and what the next 2 to 3 months are about is how much Letitia James, the attorney general of new york state, will be able to run up the score in terms of whether she will be able to get a 250 million disgeorgement penalty against trump. He doesnt really have any incentive to behave himself and treat it like its a legal proceeding because in every important way it is now politics. I think legally where he is at at this point, that will be up to the Appeals Courts later on based on whatever legal points he can raise at that time. His immediate need is the electoral calendar and the fact that this proceeding is being used to damage him politically so he is fighting it like a political fight rather than a legal one. Martha every time Letitia James comes out she talks about powerful and rich but not about the fact that anybody was wronged in this case. So when you go to get loans from banks and you have deals with Insurance Companies, you say its worth x and they say it is worth y and you have this back and forth. These banks and Insurance Companies dont walk into these deals and gee whatever you say its worth well believe you. They have to do their own fiduciary responsibility to their investors. Does this case a, does it make any sense to you first of all . And then another question about the judge. Well, it makes sense to me, martha, in this sense. I dont think it is right for people to embellish the value of their assets even if there are fail saves in the transaction where you would expect the other side to do its own due diligence. That doesnt make it right for me, if they can prove this, to intentionally exaggerate. Martha i put my house on the market and say its worth 1 hundred thousand. The buyer says its worth 70,000 and we find somewhere in the middle where we meet. There is some subjectivity to this question, no . Martha, when i was in the u. S. Attorneys office years ago i did accounting fraud cases and really taken aback by how different it is from the normal criminal case. Criminal statutes have to be like Black And White so that the average person knows what the crime is and is on notice about that. But when you get to these accounting cases where it is generally accepted Accounting Principles there is more gray area than anything like Black And White. Even if you read the judges opinion in this case where he is saying that trump exaggerated, you know, some of his assets by 300 and 4 hundred hundred and 500 he says the auditors or appraisers say its worth 114 and 220 million. There is a lot of room between those two amounts. If thats what an Appraiser Idea of exactty toot is. The fail safe is the other side knows its bread and butter is it has to appraise and do its own due diligence. Bill the banks did business with him because though knew they would get paid back. Washington post writes this. Does the new york fraud against trump go too far . Not allowing trump to evade responsibility civil or criminal for his behavior but also entails not treating trump more harshly than any re anyone else in similar circumstances and i worry thats what is happening here. How possible is that line of logic there . I think its entirely logical and goes to the point that martha was just making. What i wanted to say in conclusion with respect to that is that the issue here isnt that its a good thing to exaggerate your assets knowingly. It is what should be the penalty for that . It is a tentative western law that the punishment is supposed to fit the crime. And if you want to tell me that trump should get fined a couple Million Dollars for e acknowledge rating his assets i wouldnt have a problem. If you want to tell me they should ruin a 2 to 300 billion Reals State Empire and regards as an Iconic Business Before Trump became a political enemy of democrats and now they are trying to ruin this guy over this . I think thats way, way out of whack. Martha just want to sneak in one more questions. Judge engoron said that Letitia James should bring the case against trump because he is just a bad guy. Thats what you do against you try to get the bad guys in her position. How does that not prejudice this judge in this case . Well, i think it does, martha. The problem is in new york, you have an elected judicial system. You have an elected District Attorney who ran for office telling constituents she was going to use her power against trump and you have elected judges who get to be elected judges because they are loyal democrats for years and then they get put on a slate of candidates where they get elected basically without opposition. And they call that a judicial system. So when that is the premise of the system, it is hard for any individual act of abuse or out rage to be that out of whack with everything else. I think the whole system is rigged. Martha then you have to count on the integrity of the people in it. They do have that political advantage. They have to be bend over backwards to be fair. Bill i think you nailed it, andy. If the judge found him guilty whats the appropriate penalty . Your last line. As the Rolling Stones say go ahead and bite the big apple, dont mind the maggots. Andy, well talk tomorrow. Thank you for your time. Martha the case everybody is watching. Jury selection is continuing in the fraud trial of ftx founder Sam Bankmanfried. Prosecutors gearing up to follow the money or the bitcoin wherever it goes trying to Connect The Dots between top democratic donors and the dnc. Thats part of this case. Kelly ogrady is live covering it for us in new york city. Hi, kelly. Hi, good to see you, martha. Ftx played out public liang on social media. How ftx used customer funds. They donated 40 million to democrats and seen as a straw man for further democratic donations to funnel over 24 million to republicans. I will highlight only george soros gave more to liberal politicians in the midterms than Sam Bankmanfried and a new book out profiling him reportedly the crypto king sought to fund Midterm Senate candidates to beat out those aligned with trump and even considered paying trump directly to sit out the 2020 election. Prosecutors will allegedly use that funneling of money as evidence to bolster their fraud charges. We expect a slew of communications, Text Messages and money trail that will help Connect The Dots to d. C. Back to you. Martha thank you, kelly ogrady in manhattan. The days of just top down leadership in washington i believe those days are over. But this is not going to be the prettiest picture for everybody to see. The republic as it stands is what will flourish going forward. Bill Byron Donalds spoke with us last hour. Kevin mccarthy is out of a job as speaker leaving the path for his replacement wide open. Right now republicans plan to hold a closed Candidate Forum five days from now. Next tuesday with a possible floor vote maybe on wednesday of next week. Whoever they choose they need backing from some of those eight republicans who voted to oust mccarthy. They did so with the unanimous support of democrats. What a team. Griff jenkins tracking it all every twist and turn looks ahead now at what we expect to happen next there. Griff, good morning to you on the hill. Good morning, bill. Those twists and turns are puzzling those of us up on capitol hill because just seconds ago behind me in this position just off the house floor the speaker mchenry walked behind us with press saying what are you doing here . Unclear what he is doing other than occupying speaker mccarthys Vacant Office and trying to meet. Because the house is in recess. Most members have gone home. Were in uncharted territory here unclear about exactly whats happening and what mchenry may be doing. Shortly after getting the boot Kevin Mccarthy taking to the microphones saying he has no regrets about what happened. Watch. Doing the right thing isnt always easy but it is necessary. I dont regret standing up for choosing government over grievance. It is my responsibility, it is my job. I do not regret negotiating. Our government is designed to find compromise. He says he wont run for speaker again. Here are the people that bounced him. You break it, you buy it. These eight now own it. They were led by matt gaetz in that effort rebellion. A little bit of what he had to say. Im not here to make a judgment on where mr. Scalise stands with his rehabilitation and recovery. He would be the type of person i could see myself supporting. Many people i could see myself supporting. Tom emmer, mike johnson of louisiana, Jody Arrington of texas and kevin hearn of oklahoma. The only thing that is clear were in for a period of deep division among the gop. You are looking at scalise that was mentioned. Perhaps the frontrunner along with tom emmer, Alease Stephanopoulos and johnson and jordan on that list. Well find out what is happening. The real challenge, whoever they end up choosing, bill, is that there is a November 17th Deadline for the government to run out of money again and it is highly unclear that there would be anything different this go around and with that oneman trigger to oust power. Things are very much in uncharted territory as you mentioned before, bill. Send it back to you. Bill well read the tea leaves as we go. Back to lower manhattan. The judge has allowed cameras to go back in the courtroom for the third day in a row in the former president s case. We have the shot coming up right now. He wore a red tie or blue tie . Today back to a red tie. Easy to get dressed in the morning with the former president. Bill it looks like the photographer left the courtroom so thats what you are seeing right now. Well rerack it for you. Martha interesting the way theyll doing it. No cameras in the courtroom. Oh just a little camera and aimed right at trump sitting at that table with all his attorneys and then they say okay now were done and you are out of here. Bill a shot of the judge on monday. The president was asked about this whole Speaker Of The House thing. A couple of people have floated his name. As he was going into court today he was asked about that. I believe we got it. Roll it. This is what he said. Ill do whatever it is to help. My focus, my total focus is being president and honestly making America Great again. Were living in a country in decline. Bill i take it thats a no of today and maybe forever. Martha i would think so. See where it goes. Using these opportunities to campaign because all these court dates are keeping him from the campaign trail. So he is getting some of his big points out there as he heads in for another day at work, which is going to court for him on many days. Bill one is time for the iowa caucus and the monday before super tuesday. Martha President Biden is handing out another 9 billion in student debt relief. This is a huge issue for the president. It polls well for him giving people back their student debt money. So he will go at it a second time try to forgive Student Loans on a wide scale. Bill see how it works out. Members of congress and the white house calling on the nba to ban the sale of merchandise made by forced labor in china. Ens cantor freedom has been part of this story for a long time. He is coming up. My most important kitchen tool . My brain. So i choose new neuriva ultra. Unlike some others, it supports 7 brain health indicators, including Mental Alertness from one serving. To help keep me sharp. Try new neuriva ultra. Think bigger. With the freestyle libre 2 system, know your Glucose Level and where its headed. No fingersticks needed. Manage your diabetes with more confidence. Freestyle libre 2. Try it for free at freestylelibre. Us that first time you take a step back. I made that. 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No one is off limits. Thats what we wanted to establish here. When the cameras come in they can take pictures of anyone inside that courtroom and just wanted to share that with you. All right, 22 past now. Biden administration approving yet another 9 billion for Student Loan Relief as the president marks a second push for widespread debt cancellation. Edward lawrence, fox business, watching this from the white house, here we go again, edward, good morning. What were seeing is really a Public Relations campaign. The white house in releasing this trying to reach the Younger Voters which the president is not connecting to according to polls. You mentioned 9 billion has been announced to be released or forgiven under student debt changes that have already been made to those plans. Making the total forgiveness at 127 billion. Sounds like a big number but only 1. 6 of the 1. 75 trillion in total outstanding student loan debt, an extremely small part. A lawyer suing student loan forgiveness plan. These funds are money belonging to the u. S. Treasury. These loans are assets of the u. S. Treasury and the constitution is very clear that only Congress Gets to spend money that belongs to the u. S. Government. And it has to be something that congress does to solve this problem. Former students are back to paying for their Student Loans. The average payments between 2 hundred and 3 hundred a month according to the federal reserve. Some people could not plan, though, for the expense of that coming back with inflated prices under President Biden. So actually the consumer is getting more and more leverage. Debt has increased. Defaults have increased. The Student Loans are going to come due. It isnt looking great, frankly. For retailers who sell product for the holiday season. So the president and white house trying to turn around the poll numbers especially when it comes to the economy. Bill thank you, well see whether or not it works. Edward lawrence from the north lawn. Thank you. New yorkers are going to start to see visibly that what being out of room means. We are out of room. Martha out of room. It is evidenced on the streets of manhattan. Mayor eric adams just short of begging migrants to stop entering new york city as the citys shelters cannot keep up with the 800 migrants arriving daily. He is heading to mexico to find the source of what is going on and speak to people there and spread his message that people shouldnt come because they cant help them in the facilities that they have here. So will they listen is one of the questions when they see five star Hotel Housing and employment in the big apple in many cases. Fox friends first and Fox News Radio host kennedy and carley shimkus. Carley, start with you. Do you give the mayor credit for going down there . Yes, i do to a certain extent. I think we all need to pause to think about the gravity of the situation, the mayor of new york city personally traveling to mexico, columbia, ecuador and darian gap. To hand deliver the message we do not have room. Do not come to my city. But then his actions dont match his words. He told reporters yesterday we believe the border should remain open. Thats the official position of the city. So its like he is turning his brain into a pretzel trying to come up with a Policy Position when he should be saying we need to close the border, we are out of room. Martha he has said that in the past. Bill i dont know if he had a conversation with the president. The president was here for four days. Dont think they talked. New yorks lack of leadership is turning the empire state into the flop of the heap. In Central America thats the root causes, right . Maybe he should have asked whether the white house i think he should press the Vice President on the root causes. She has had plenty of time to contemplate them. Enough of the academic pondering. They have to come up with some Policy Changes and some solutions for this. My worry is not necessarily the people coming here. I think they want to work, all the resources going to them are being taken away from mentally ill drug addicts and violent and not properly incarcerated when they hurt people. Those are the kind of people that are tons of tax dollars should be going to help. They are the last people to receive help and they will be lower on the list. Bill there was a town hall in chicago that we played last hour. It was stunning. Woman after woman got up and said exactly that same thing. Martha you think about eric adams. Before this started exploding, this situation. He had a new policy to take mentally ill people off the street. Police can remove them from the street and put them in the hospital. How could they possibly hope to do that . You see this poor man stabbed to death in brooklyn by someone who is obviously crazy. I dont think he was after his wallet. Ran up to this person and stabbed him. There are so many different issues when it comes to funding, space, national security. All wrapped up in this. Going back to the messaging thing. It is very interesting to hear what lawmakers in new york are saying now versus what they were saying a few years ago. Governor hochul saying in 2021 our message to the world is send the people out there who need to be cloaked in comfort. Send them our way. Then just a few days ago she said our message is now were at capacity. Bill listen, ladies, it would not be a day unless we talked about taylor swift. On a lighter note now. There is a theory going on out there that taylor swift is going to these nfl games with the jets to detract from her use of a private jet. Not my theory, okay . The headline. Did swifty attend a game to she flies around a lot and doesnt want it to be the google. Search engine optimization. If you have the money and resources to change the search then instead of people if you put in taylor swift jet or jets her trips to the New York Jets came comes up instead of her use of private jets which she is earning billions of dollars for all sorts of businesses across the country and soon to be around the world with her concerts where people are fully engaged and spending lots of cash. She wants to fly on a private jet. Have at it. Have a great time. Bill i dont know if its true or not. We had to laugh. Conspiracy theory. Play the record backwards and it will give a different message. Bill thank you. The summer of strikes has turned now into the autumn of strikes. Tens of thousands of Healthcare Workers walking the line. Kevin mccarthy is out of a job and ken buck voted against him. 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Weve watched this now for ten days. The state of texas has put that barbed wire down to block migrants or dissuade them from crossing the rio grande river. Mildly successful. Every time you see this, you get a backup on the banks of that river and the white house puts a phone call in to Border Patrol and they cut that wire and then you see the line move. Martha it is so crazy. The battle between the leadership of texas on the white house and people in texas largely have to deal with it. 100,000 in new york is just a very small number compared to what they have had to deal with in texas. It is an astonishingly botched, chaotic situation and all these children brought here by Human Traffickers and the cartels. They are in charge of the operation. Bill the federal government repeatedly challenges the state of texas when they try to impede those passing into the u. S. The drone in eagle pass, texas. This morning well have more conversations, different parts of the republican conference. I think well be able to come together quickly, have a new leader and then go ahead and anoint a new speaker and do our business. Martha that was Byron Donalds last hour as House Republicans scramble to rally around the new leader to figure out who that person is going to be after an inprecedented vote to unseat Kevin Mccarthy, to vacate the speaker and that is what happened last night. The first time in american history. It was largely orchestrated by matt gaetz and he was able to get eight members of the g. O. P. They only have a fourseat margin in the g. O. P. Very thin. They joined him with a final tally of 2010 and 216. Ken buck is here. Given the numbers, right, the way that this was pulled off was by you folks voting alongside the democrats in the house in order to get this done. How does that sit with you . Obviously, you know, Kevin Mccarthy said the republicans cant function this way if every time someone gets disgruntled they can throw their hat in the ring with all the democrats and basically shut down the republican agenda. It is rich that Kevin Mccarthy would suggest that conservatives like me and andy biggs and matt gaetz are working with the democrats on something when he needed to pass a debt ceiling bill, he went to President Biden, agreed to a number that was 2 Hundred Billion more than he promised the republican conference and relied on democrats to pass that debt ceiling bill. When we were nearing a shutdown, he lost 90 votes from the republican conference because the bill was so terrible and he relied on democrats the pass the bill. There were eight republicans fed up and dozens more who would have voted for this but didnt need to. They didnt need to stick out their necks out. Some of us felt so strongly about spending and the irresponsibility of having 36 trillion of debt at the end of next year based on the deal that Kevin Mccarthy cut that we stood up and did something about it. Martha their plan was continue to go through the Appropriations Bill over the course of the next several weeks and break them down and get them done. He has a very tough situation. He had a tough situation. The numbers are such that its hard to get real spending cuts across the table. You have to have the senate and the house in order to get that kind of leverage. The New York Post this morning is indicative of several editorials out there, i say Stephen Miller with language last night. A staggering act of stupidity and selfdestruction. Given that this is all everyone is talking about whether cutting spending in d. C. Or ukraine spending. Do you think it is a good move . What is your plan . What will you do next . It was a necessary move and a good move. The idea we were going to start dealing with Appropriations Bills, we knew September 30th was on the call el dar. We could have passed Appropriations Bills in june and july. Could have stayed here in august and done those. But nope, we dont pass Appropriations Bills until the week before the shutdown was imminent. We passed three during that week. Then we have the shutdown hanging over our head so we had to cut a deal with the democrats to get more spending. Not less spending, more spending than we had even this past year. Martha a lot of people are sympathetic to that and would like to see some regular order. Can you tell them why it doesnt happen . Ive covered too many of these shutdowns and it does always come to the last minute. Why didnt that happen . Why werent you working on these bills throughout the summer . A simple reason for it. The special Interest Groups in washington, d. C. Want to make sure that the speaker and the leader in the senate write the Appropriations Bill. They want an omnibus bill passed Christmas Eve to throw everything into it. We get the omnibus bills, a single spending bill as opposed to the 12 spending bills we break the government down into. We get that 3400 page bill the night before we have to vote on it in the morning. So well get it at 9 00 at night and vote on it at 9 00 in the morning. All the secret spending they want is contained in that. They dont want transparency with 12 Appropriations Bills. Martha representative jordan has confirmed that he will run for speaker. Who is the person that you support to be the speaker . How quickly can it happen . And how can you convince the rest of the listeners and your party that something is going to change under one of these new leaders . First of all, i dont know who all is running at this point. People are starting to announce today and starting to make phone calls and talk to folks. Im not ready to announce who i am supporting right now. Im confident that on tuesday evening, wednesday morning we will have a speaker. We will start putting Appropriations Bills back on the floor and be in a position where the House Appropriations bill will be conservative. The Senate Appropriations bill will be liberal and a much higher top line and thats when the compromise happens and when the negotiation starts. Martha Congressman Ken Buck one of the eight who voted to oust Kevin Mccarthy yesterday. Something weve never seen before. Why is everybody going home when you are in the middle of this very important situation, can you tell me that . I cannot tell you that. Patrick mchenry was named and slammed the gavel down and we got a notice soon after that we werent going to reconvene until tuesday. Im here, i will stay here and do my very best to work through this. Martha unbelievable. Hard to imagine a company that would succeed if they were in the middle of this kind of crisis and send everybody home. But you are there as you say. Thank you for spending time with us this morning. Thank you, sir. Congressman ken buck from colorado. Bill there is more labor unrest. 75,000, the largest Healthcare Strike in history. Workers hitting the picket lines over wages. You have the writers in l. A. Auto workers in michigan and now this. Good morning to you. The workers from kaiser permanente. Their demands are simple. They want more pay and Better Benefits. While this is only a temporary strike. It will only last a few days. They believe it will highlight what they say are real problems in the healthcare industry. In virginia those on strike include pharmacists and optometrists. This is a big strike. It is impacting healthcare for 13 million americans at 39 hospitals nationwide. Workers say since the pandemic forced to work longer hours with no Better Benefits and right now it is unsustainable. Ive worked through covid. Until today. Things havent gotten any better. Thinner and thinner, the staffing model is very tight impacting the staff, the work conditions, and our patients at the same time. As i mentioned the strike goes well beyond Virginia Impacting Facilities in california, colorado, oregon, washington state. Doctors arent participating but it affects nurses and a lot of people. The Company Wants to strengthen their position as a best place to work and insure high quality work remains affordable and easy to access. Kaiser is taking steps to hire more workers but take some time. Just like other businesses nationwide, there is a labor shortage. Talking to these workers this morning, the message is they are fed up. Bill. Bill mark, thank you, mark meredith. More to come on that. Day one is just underway. President biden now calling u. S. Allies to try and reassure them that the u. S. Will continue to support ukraine. The white house scheduled a call with e. U. And nato leaders have a Government Funding Deal had excluded the aid for kiev out of that bill fueling doubts about americas support. Retired general jack keane is here. A couple things. I want to get your overall thought about that. John kirby at the white house yesterday during the brief in the q a. Can ukraine still defend itself and a risk that russia can retake its initiative in the war . Well, i mean, to be blunt, to answer your first question is no. Bill general, what is your sense about where this debate goes now . Its not an immediate crisis in terms of funding because there is over 5 billion thats Still Available in the coffers, so to speak, because of an Accounting Error that took place in the pentagon. Obviously if this opposition grows and funding is denied we have a challenge. It is not about just helping ukraine get through the war but defeating russia. Russia decided to expand into ukraine and expand into europe. Thats what were trying to stop. Those who dont want to fund it remind me of the 1930s when hitler was on the march and we didnt want to do anything to help the europeans. Here we have an opportunity, bill, to give the ukrainians the weapons to stop and defeat russia and we dont have to give them any troops. If they run over ukraine and defeat it, its likely our troops will be involved. Thats the danger and threat and why were so concerned about it. Bill do you see that as a possibility . American troops . Look at what putin has said. We didnt take him serious. We dismissed him. He was serious about ukraine from the start. He has said the same thing about the Eastern Europey an states. He wants them back in the Russian Federation part of his design of the russian empire. I say after he has made this move into ukraine and given the horror that weve seen unfolding there, that we take this guy seriously. And thats the next step if he is able to take down ukraine. And also he is joined at the hip by who . By president xi, who is watching all this. If the United States coalition is defeated in the sense it is not supporting ukraine to effectively win against russia, thats going to incentivize president xi, why . Look. He is posing to this International Order in the United States led system and we take a knee and lose to russia. Does that incentivize him to do something about taiwan . I think were here because of afghanistan. Bill as i said from the beginning of the war he we elect our leaders to lead us around international crisis. You have to find your way around it. Michael turner republican from ohio says there is enough money through december. Is that true, general . Yeah, thats basically true. But obviously the funding will have to continue. Listen, if the United States pulls the plug on funding, the europeans, many of our viewers dont understand this, were providing 44 billion plus in terms of funding to the ukrainians for military equipment. The europeans is 43 billion plus. If we pull the plug on the 44 and they dont get anything more the europeans cannot make that up even though they are providing half of the funding. And that no audio for captioner martha lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and the white house calling on the nba to ban products made in Chinese Labor camps. A Bipartisan Commission sending a letter to League Executives stating nba players shouldnt be subsidizing genocide by wearing gear from chinese Sportswear Companies with forced labor. Enes kanter freedom has been on the forefront of the fight. Always good to see you. Just tell anybody who is not familiar with your story what you have been doing on this and how it has alienated you from the nba for a long time. Thank you for having me. I have been it is funny, i have been talking about the problems happening for the last ten years and i got nothing but support. I talk about the problems in china and my phone was dinging once every hour and telling me to stop talking. This was the Players Association where i pay thousands of dollars every month to protect my rights against nba. So when i saw that letter it gave me so much hope because just last year a total of 17 players signed with the chinese shoe brand and that number is growing every day. Just recently one of the best players in nba irvin signed with a chinese brand. We have to hold these companies and organizations accountable. So im glad that it is a bipartisan effort. It gave me hope. Martha can the nba forbid the players from entering into deals like kyrie irving just entered into . All of the things that many players care about is just money. I dont think that nba or nbpa will have any effect of it. Sad to see how these players. Whenever they are problems in america they are the first ones to criticize it but love to go sign with a company who is pretty much using slave labor. It is sad to see. Martha im thinking back to the black lives matter issues, and what they have worn on their shirts and yet they dont seem to care that uighurs are being taken out of their homes and brought to Processing Centers and forced into labor and separated from their families. I guess it is too far away. They dont Pay Attention to it. The issue is money, as you say. They all know, trust me, the ongoing genocide and know their shoes and tshirts and jerseys being made by slave kids with slave labor but they will talk about the problems happening in america because they know it wont hit their pocket. They are too scared to say anything about the Chinese Government because they have shoe deals and jersey sales and many other things. Look at lebron. He became a billionaire . Put yourself in their shoes. It breaks my heart we need to keep Holding People accountable. Martha interesting to see other people pointing out what you are pointing out about kyrie irving and others making millions of dollars from chinese companies. It is a good story to tell and im glad you are doing it. Thank you for being here today. Good to see you, take care. See you soon. Bill interesting approach. See whether or not theyre successful. Before we go, got you something, martha, are you ready . Its the season, halloween decorations so realistic they prompted a visit from the local fire department. Check that out. Martha what . Bill upstate new york. Homeowners used led lights and fog machine to make it happen. Look at that. First time ive seen this. Neighbors thought it was real and called 911. The firefighters showed up and were impressed by the production value, apparently. Martha need a sign out front saying this house isnt actually on fire. Dear fire department. This is a halloween decoration, wow. Bill what you are seeing now is not real. Coming up at 3 00 what will you sfl rocknroll our . Well talk about the reaching out to other folks, jim jordan put his name in the ring. A lot to talk about this afternoon. Bill here is harris. Byebye. Harris breaking in