The Atlantic Posts 'Attack Plans' | Strange Blue Spiral Over Europe

gate on something, signal gate, whatever it is. When we had a reporter that was added to a signal messaging app chat that was discussing the attacks on the HOUTHI rebels in Yemen, I said, somebody's gonna lose their job for this. I thought it might be Mike Waltz, who it sounds like he's the guy that brought the journalist in, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic. They brought him in, he added him to the chat, and I said, you know, that is a that is such a colossal screw up

that somebody's gonna have to pay the price for this. Yesterday, it sounds like the President has said, no, everything's great, even saying it was a learning moment, he learned his lesson. He's a really good guy. Kelly Mayor is the News Nation White House correspondent. You see her making waves whenever she's talking with the Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt and Kelly, it's great to have you on the program. This has

to be a thank you. Oddly surreal moment when you're talking with the Press secretary about this, because yeah, yeah, it sounds like what she's saying is there's no classified information. There were no war plans. But I mean I saw the texts. I'm looking at them as we speak. That sure looks war planny and confidentialistic to me.

top intelligence officials on the panel. The Director of National Intelligence SULCI Gabbert, the CIA director John Radcliffe, and the FBI director Cash Piteuse. And we just heard Rep. Castro saying this is a lie to the American people to say this is not classified. He says, this is classified information. The White House is pushing back on this article again this morning, because we just saw that The Atlantic published more messages just because of the pushback that they were

getting from the White House that this wasn't authentic. And the White House is saying that this wasn't war plans, there was no timing, no locations, it wasn't classified. The wording that Gabbard used in the hearing just now is it was candid and sensitive, but it wasn't classified.

in your bathroom. As well. I know I'd like to sit on the commode and review some of those things, including the Kennedy and Epstein files for the president in the past who said he can just simply say not classified and it's no longer classified, which we all learned is not the case. Have they put painted themselves into an awkward position now where by saying that the communication was not classified, now Goldberg can go ahead and publish this information without fear of retribution.

argue the release against the release in a statement. And that was interesting to see, and I think you're seeing in the hearing as well, some of the pushback on haig Seth really that his messages were the most stamming of anyone. Waltz might have been the one that added Goldberg to the chat, but haig Seth was really the one that discussed the war plans, the attack plans, the

timing when this was happening and broke it down. So there it seemed as though even Gabbered in her testimony today said she didn't think it was classified under the ODNI guidance, but or she said it was maybe classified under ODE and I guidance. But in terms of what they were going off of, she says, we're going off of Department of Defense guidance, and she was kind of

pushing that responsibility on to them. So whether or not he becomes the fall guy in all of this, but right now, as you mentioned, the President is standing by his national security team and standing by Waltz in this.

towards some of the European nations either. Hegsith said he also has loathing for European free loading. Is this likely to have consequences when it comes to foreign relations with some of those European nations?

was really what was revealed in that chat. Not only that apologize I'm on my way to the White House and there's just loud noises, But not only that, but Vance in these messages as well also kind of showed his divide with President himself, showing that they're not always in agreement. So there's that part of it as well.

any consequences or where the fault lies. So right now, it does seem like Republicans, at least on the surface publicly or saying that there needs to be a bipartisan investigation and are keeping it pretty much, you know, status quo. But it might be more behind the scenes happening as well.

lose their job over this? The President says no. But at some point, if you start getting some pressure from the White House, excuse me, from Congress, then the White House might have to throw up a sacrificial lamb. I don't know, you know, yesterday I was I said, mark it down, bank it that somebody's gonna lose her job. Today, I'm feeling about fifty to fifty, which is a little more than I was feeling when the show started. I was thinking, I was there was still about a ten

percent chance. But I don't know. Man Trump has this way of just making trouble slide right off of him. But this one isn't on him. This one is on the others that were in that chat, and he may be more willing to allow a sacrificial lamb as long as it keeps some of the pressure off of him. We will watch how this plays out. How confident are

you when you go to the store. Well, as you know, we have a consumer confidence index that comes out once a month, and even when things go well, if the perception is that things are not going well, consumer confidence kind of comes down a little bit. In fact, that was the case if you took a look at some of the numbers during portions of the Biden administration, we

saw high inflation, consumer confidence dropped, wages were up. We saw some other economic indicators that were positive, including the stock market that was doing very well. But generally speaking, we go to the grocery store, we see the price of eggs cresting seven eight dollars a dozen, and our confidence right on down the toilet. Well, as you might imagine, when we have the tariff hokey pokey, then people feel like there's a lot of volatility, and volatility scares people.

Eggs are still very high. We still have a high cost of other protein products. We'll get to those here

in a minute. And if you haven't noticed, it's not like your energy bills are coming down, So we are getting hit boom boom boom, another bill, another bill, another bill, and the prices keep going up, and it's gonna be a hot summer and you're gonna be running that air conditioner and your power prices are higher than they were before, and how are you gonna run that air condition All that stuff, right, and so consumer confidence is starting to dissipate.

Even it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sign that the economy is sinking. It means that people are worried that the economy is sinking. In fact, I think it was Yeah, Bloomberg was discussing.

Here's what we are seeing though, that is freaking some people out. The consumer optimism is gone. Walmart has lowered their their profit forecasts. Right Target, We already know Target has been hurting. You can argue about whether it has to do with being woke, or DEI initiatives or anything else. Like that, but target sales are dropping, Macy's, Best Buy, Abercrombie, Fitch,

Dollar General also getting cautious about their expectations. Home and car sales are dropping, although it doesn't seem to be loosening up the housing market at all, and certainly your housing continues to be very expensive. So all of these things mark uh, these are bad markers. And those bad markers lead another survey to say that the probability of

a recession is approaching fifty percent. Now where this gets very interesting is there could be if we have tariffs going to effect, and we have taxes go up, and we have inflation and this sort of thing, that would be that would be a direct cause for a recession. But we can also worry ourselves into a recession. For instance,

consumer confidence drops. You're not you're you don't know where the next paycheck is going to come from, or you don't know how much of that next paycheck is going to have to go to necessities like your your power bill, your mortgage, Well you know what your mortgage is gonna be, but uh you you know, uh, some of these other food costs, whatever else it might be. So you go, I'm I'm not going to spend my disposable income on a new TV this time around. I've got the money.

I want a new TV, but I don't know what's going on with the cost of power this year. Is

that gonna go up? And if that goes up and it's a hot summer, I want to make sure that I'm taking care of I don't know what's gonna go on with the clothing I need to put on my kids for next school year, because if Tariff's go into effect and all of a sudden, clothing starts going up in price because it's imported and I have to buy American made clothing and that might be more expensive anyway, then you go, my back to school bill is gonna be something I've never seen before. So you are starting

to squirrel away your acorns. You're starting to put them away. And when you start to put those acorns away, that means you're not spending the money, which means that these different companies start to see a downturn. They start to see their expectations come down, their realizations come down, and that means, oh, we're gonna have to shutter this store,

We're gonna have to lay off this many employees. We have to cut these hours, whatever it might be, which means there's less money filtering through the system, and all of a sudden, we do start to see a downturn. We do start to see a recession. We see a contraction simply out of concerns about the volatility that we have surrounding these real issues. Whether those real issues materialize or not, our concerns over those issues manifest into effectively

a recession. Now. One area where you are continuing to see the hurt is when you go to the grocery store and you try to buy that burger. I don't know if you've seen the price of beef lately. It's getting a bit wild. Fox News was talking about that and they mentioned that some places are starting to freak out. A butcher shop hasn't seen their customers balk at higher prices because they see the prices, they see the inflation, they see that everything is going up, and so the

butcher shop says, well, that's good. People understand, and yet I'm not happy about it. I don't know about you. I like to buy my I like to buy things in bulk and throw it in the freezer. But I got a room in the freezer. I'll buy a larger quantity and then I will freeze it, right, get a little bit cheaper. I don't like it when I see the price of beef five six dollars a pound. That's crazy. That's exactly what we're starting to see. Cattle herd is

experiencing a down cycle. Cattle inventories are at historically low levels, according to Bovine Experts. A Department of Agriculture reporting in late January, the US farms had let me see a decline of one percent of their beef inventory. So they say they're killing smaller cattle. They're trying to kill them faster to create the supply that demand is needing, and they keep the larger cattle around I guess, and just

kill the small ones faster. It is interesting too, that demand remains high, which is why they have to continue to slaughter the cattle. If your supply is low, it's because you slaughter too many cattle and you didn't breed enough. But it's only because demand is high enough that you end up slaughtering more cattle. Right, I mean, really, when we talk about supply and demand issues, we are talking in in agriculture. It is very quick. It is is

on the nose. All right, Enough rambling about that stuff. How about something fun. Get this. Think about the last time that you lost something. Right, could be your keys, could be your wallet, purse, cell phone. And think about something and how frustrating that is when you lose it, and how relieved you are when you find it. Now, think about the time that you found something. Maybe you

found twenty dollars. I once bought a desk at a garage sale and my wife used that desk for four or five years, and she asked me to move it one day and my buddy comes over and he says, I'll help you move the desk and we pulled the drawers out. Six thousand dollars was behind the drawer in the bottom of that desk. We'd owned this desk for years with six thousand dollars sitting in there, just cash. Evidently it had been used at somebody's business and they're

paid casht or fell back there. But the business was gone and the people that sold that were selling it on a state sale. I couldn't track them down, and so we bought a TV. So think about the time that you found something big, or think about the time that you lost something big. You ever misplaced something, something, something major, or something of tremendous value. You always hear these stories about the kids in Poland that are out playing in the woods and then they run across the

World War two a bomb or something that's undetonated. In fact, I think, didn't we have that. Yeah? I think I was in San Diego and they had the kids about ten years ago. I think kids were they discovered some unexploded ordinance and they had according everything off. That's scary. Now, imagine you're an astronomer and you find something really impressive. That's exactly what has happened now as astronomers have officially declared we found moons, and you say, wow, where are

these moons that you just recently found? They must be light years away for you to find over one hundred new moons and have never discovered them in the past, these must be these must be a long long ways away, and you can Nope. A new study found that Saturn has one hundred and twenty eight new moons in orbit and they've been there the whole time that we've been staring at the skies. Yeah, Saturn now officially as two hundred and seventy four moons. It's got more moons than

any other planet in our Solar system. The second is Jupiter. Jupiter is ninety five. So these moons they say were probably formed by cosmic smashups. They sent debris into Saturn's orbit about one hundred million years ago. Galactically speaking, that's pretty young. But that's been a while. So this team of astronomers finds these new moons and then I have to do a bunch of tests to make sure that sure enough they are new moons, and then they're able

to announce it to the world. So one hundred and twenty eight new moons that they didn't observe in the past. I should, however, clarify before we bag too much on the astronomers that misplaced moons. Some of these moons are small, only a couple of miles wide, and when you compare that to our moon, which is a couple thousand miles wide, it makes it a little harder to detect. It's not as though they could simply point their telescope at Saturn

and go, there's one, there's one, there's one. Indeed, they had to use some more sciencing in order to discover that these were there. It wasn't observed with the eye. It was observed with the math, which always blows my mind that astronomers can pick things out using the math. What you could see with your eye, if you were in a certain a certain location around the world, is you could see this weird blue spiral in the sky that looked ominously like a portal to another dimension. What was it?

all in the sick bay. Astronauts on the ISS are being plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies, and a variety of infections. No, it's turning into a giant swingers party up there. Come to find out, it's because the lab is too clean. If if anybody happens to talk to my wife, do not tell her that this is a possibility. It is enough trouble for me to try to get her to clean up after dinner. Lord knows, if she thinks there's such a thing as too clean, she'll tell

me she's doing it for my health. They need bacteria, they say, our bodies need that bacteria. You've probably heard the You've heard the advice about don't use too much antibacterial soap because your body needs that bacteria. We need the germs in order to fight off infections, things like that. So there's a microbial imbalance on a space station because it's too clean, and scientists are hypothesizing that cultivating a diverse set of microbes on the International Space Station could

improve astronaut health. They say there's a big difference between exposure of healthy soil from gardening versus just stewing in our own filth, which is kind of what happens if we're in a strictly enclosed environment with no ongoing input from those healthy sources of microbes from outside. So what we're saying is if if the environment is too clean, it can't set off, it can't offset how disgusting you are. Kind Of like my mom used to say growing up,

God made dirt, so dirt don't hurt. Get outside play. Come to find out, there's another health benefit other than just our mental health of being outside. It's the dirt actually helps us stay cleaner from the bad bacteria. Who knew? Always excited when we get to welcome in, Gary and Shannon, did you guys have to catch a strel that beard transplants are taking off? Because I'm fascinated by.

a few follicles. What's happening is they're they're taking follicles from the back of the head, just like they do with with the hair transplants, and they're taking follicles from the back and the sides, and then rather than putting it on the top where you've got your Meryl pattern boldness. They're dropping it into your face. The composition of facial hair is different than the composition of hair on your melon. So I don't know if it I don't know if

it's really working out so well for the people. But I've seen photos before and after photos, and some of them have that that scruffy Orlando Bloom Pirates of the Caribbean look, and then when they're done, they've got that whole idris elbow look, which, let's face it, cono and I can do that others.