The Never-Ending Saga of Granite Park

rid of this guy. The bizarre sort of makeup of the board where you had Miguel Arias plus other people influenced by as Morel de Suria as Mereldasauria, who was engaged to Terrence Fraser. I don't know if they're married

or I'm not sure what their status is. Uh. Soria couldn't directly vote on stuff, but because she was recusing herself that there wasn't Basically, her recusal was as effective as a no, and there just weren't enough votes on the city council for a long time to get rid of Central Valley Sports Foundation as the tenant at Granite Park. And Granite Park has had a number of problems going all the way back to Lee Brand's administration, Brand asked,

Fraser came to the city for more money. Brand initiated an audit. The audit showed tons of financial irregularities. Since that time, Fraser tried to sue the city for racial discrimination. You know Lee Brand, apparently, Lee Brand, whom if you've ever met him, I mean, there are probably some things politically I don't all fours agree with Lee Brand about. But he's a very nice guy. I mean, he's a

perfectly affable gentleman. Yeah. The idea that Lee Brand's got a ku Klux Klan outfit hiding in his closet, and that's why he initiated the audit, just to stick it to Terrence Fraser because he's a black. No, he Fraser wanted more money. They did an audit because it's public money. You got to publicly scrutinize this. They found all these irregularities. They said, well, no, we're not going to give you

more money. Fraser sues the city. Since then, Fraser's business partner within Central Valley Sports Foundation, the now disgraced former Congressman T. J. Cox. I say now disgraced because he has pled guilty to various fraud charges. So the whole thing was gross. The whole thing was disgusting. Here was this guy who was in a relationship with a sitting member of the city council as Melda Sorry, who thank god, is now not on the president city Council. Sorry for

her constituents whom she presents with her assembly district. Finally she's out of the city council. Analisa Perea, who certainly on a Lisaprea is farm more liberal than I am, but it seems like she isn't that exceedingly corrupt, or at least she's not literally sleeping with someone who's at city tenant. So Analisa Perea does not have the same need to play Kate. Terrence Fraser. Terrence Fraser was also a big time local Democrat fundraiser and kind of a

bit of a power broker. You know. He was throwing fundraisers at his house for Miguel Arias and stuff like that. Now, I had thought that we had finally gotten to this point because for a while it was just the mayor, Gary Brettefeld, and uh, maybe one or to others on the city council. I think Mike Carbasi was not thrilled with the whole thing who were saying, this is terrible. We need to get this person out, We need to

get this person kicked out of Granite Park. This is not a person that we should be in business with. He's delinquent in paying all kinds of things. There was a whow where he didn't have appropriate insurance for the place he was doing, all this stuff that was shady and bad, and finally I thought we were at a point of okay, well we've got enough. You know. The problem was that various kinds of property decisions like that are not really in the hands of the mayor and

the city manager. The mayor was on board with needing to get rid of this guy. City manager was on board with needing to get rid of this guy. Some of the city council was on board, but not all of them. And critically, there was not a majority on the city council willing to get rid of this guy. Well, clearly now there is okay, even the liberal members of the city council. They don't have any ties, any need to placate this dude. So they're all okay with getting

rid of them. That the tide is turned. But now Terence Fraser is fighting the eviction process from this city owned property. The City of Fresno is going to court. The story from GV wire about it, written by David Tobb. The City of Fresno is going to court to force the nonprofit Fraser Operates to exit the Granite Park Sports Complex. The city filed an unlawful detainer lawsuit in January, and the judge next week will decide if the eviction case

continues or ends. Fraser, the president of the nonprofit Central Valley Community Sports Foundation, is combating the city in court and with his words, I'm willing to walk away from the park if city Manager Georgie an White or Mayor Jerry Dyer can stand by their state and say that I own rent, that I owe rent. If I prove to them that I do not owe rent, are they willing to leave their job? Fraser told GV wire, I

don't know that that's I think. If I'm trying to judge between Terrence Fraser and Jerry Dyer about whether Terrence Fraser owes rent, I think I'm gonna put my money down on Jerry Dyer and the city manager. If they're not willing to walk away from their job, that should tell everybody in the city of Fresno that what they're doing is wrong, defamatory and all lies. Fraser said, I don't think that's how this works. You're the tenant, you owe money, You've done bad stuff. We want to get

rid of you as a tenant. Like no, Jerry Dyer doesn't have to stand, but has to gamble his job to demonstrate that you owe rent. Okay, that's silly, Fraser said. The city's allegation in this lawsuit quote are premised on a complete fiction lacking any basis in fact. I'm gonna bet no it's it's premised on a lot of facts

that are just inconvenient for Fraser. A twenty fifteen lease called for Central vallec Community Sports Foundation pays sixty two five hundred dollars in yearly rent and share digital billboard revenue. The city says that the nonprofit has failed to do so. It's this digital billboard revenue that has been a real point of contention. The lease also gives Centralveilic Community Sports Foundation an additional one hundred and fifty thousand dollars subsidy,

something Fraser said the city has not paid. Yeah, because they've been so delinquent with their other stuff? Why are you? I believe that's one of the problems is that the city has said that at different points, Central Vali Community Sports Foundation has owed like four hundred thousand dollars in a billboard revenue. So why give them the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars subsidy? If they're that delinquent in

paying thing. If Central Valid Community Sports Foundation is four hundred thousand dollars dollars delinquent in paying certain of its revenues that it's supposed to pay, why would you give them the one hundred fifty thousand dollars subsidy. Without the subsidy, Fraser said, he will have to lay off fifty employees. Yeah, well, whose fault is that God allows the enemy to tempt you same as he did with job. So yes, I'm getting persecuted, Fraser said, referencing the Bible. This guy is

a nut. Uh. The January fourteenth unlawful detainer filing said the Central Valid Community Sports Foundation owes seven hundred eight thousand, two hundred and ninety eight dollars in unpaid rent. The litigation followed demands in May and November of twenty twenty four from the city. So, really, you want to get your one hundred and fifty thousand dollars subsidy when you who don't you owe seven hundred and eight thousand dollars. You're just going to take that money, spend it all and run.

I mean, why should the city pay its subsidy if you're not upholding your end of the bargain. Those employees aren't going to be able to last anyway. The litigation followed demands in May and November twenty twenty four from the city the Central valid Community Sports Foundation quit the lease for failure to pay. The nonprofit refused to leave, remaining in operation. In illegal declaration Georgia and White, the city manager listed reasons for an expedited eviction hearing. One

the city continues to lose rental income. Two the city's inability to use the premises for supervised sporting events with necessary safety measures. Three increased legal exposure from potential jury, injuries, vandalism or nuisance complaints at the park. White also made

several other accusations. They include Central Vali Community Sports Foundation failing to clean up after events, using tents on the property in violation of fire codes holding the February nineteenth celebration of Fresno Native and Kansas City Chiefs star Xavier Worthy while not legally allowed on the premises, and they got a picture of Xavier Worthy. Xavier Worthy is a draft He was like a first round draft pick or something by the Kansas City Chiefs and played in the

Super Bowl this year. Defendant's persistent non compliance dating back to at least twenty twenty three reflects a clear disregard for the terms of the lease, White said. White also accuses Huntrebollo Community Sports Foundation of letting its workers compensation insurance expire, also back there. This is a train wreck. Fraser denied those allegations, sharing an email with Gvire from his insurer that coverage renewed on February eleventh without a lapse, okay.

Fraser also alleged that well, it renewed on February eleventh without a lapse. Was there some other period that you had a lapse? Well, because there were other insurance policies over the course of this saga, over the last like three years. There was one point at which they didn't have appropriate insurance for anyone to consume alcohol on the premises and they were allowing like alcohol sales or something or like. They had all kinds of insurances that they

didn't have on file. And like anyone who runs a business, I mean, I have to do this for I have to do this for right to life. I had to do this for ro Obia Clinic when I was at CEO. There's like a bevy of different insurances that any business has to maintain and has to get renewed year over year. With nonprofits, you also have to have officers and directors insurance, you have to have employment practices, liability insurance, you got to have workers comp you got to have your general

liability covers. You know, your premises, liability, slip and fall, you know, stuff like that. Everyone has to maintain that stuff, and it seems like they were run so poorly that they were having these big lapses. Fraser also alleged that the city quote continued to coerce baseball tournaments to leave Granite Park and use facilities of Fraser's now arguing that he's coercing that the city is coercing baseball tournaments to leave Granite Park and use city facilities, falsely alleging that

the lease has already been terminated. Well, if the city is contending that the lease is terminated and that there's certain kinds of insurances that aren't covering the event, what's

the city supposed to do? So? Oh yeah, come on in, come on in keep having events set this park and increasing the potential liability risk to the city for this train wreck of an operation where we don't know what insurances they have on the books, or don't know what insurances they have on the books, and someone that we're not even sure is legally allowed to be operating the park and who has all these other violations, tents, and

all kinds of things that are up to snuff. Central Valley Community Sports Foundation, represented by attorney Lance Armo, filed a demurr, which is a defense arguing that the city that the plaintiff's motions are defective. The city, through its law firm Whitney Thompson and Jeff and Jeff Coach, wanted to speed up the originally scheduled demur hearing of March twelfth. Judge Judge Robert Whalen on Monday set the date for March fourth. Fraser said he's paid millions of dollars from

his own pocket in attorney's fees fighting the city. It's cost me a lot of money and it actually changed my entire lifestyle because I'm fighting for these kids. I'm fighting for these kids. I'm fighting for the citizens of Fresno. Is there anything less believable than I'm just doing this for the kids, Like, come on, bron, don't give us. We saw like we've seen an audit of your enterprise.

I kind of know the game here. The city is not doing this out of a demonic like this is not the devil being allowed to tempt and test job. You haven't paid a bunch of stuff you owe. If you were paying all the stuff you owed, the city wouldn't be doing this. This is nonsense. This, this thing has been such a train wreck for the city at a time when the city could really you know, is strapped for cash. You know, the city's running a deficit, and here we've got this, this thing that should be

a There's no reason. I mean, maybe there are reasons. I don't know. Maybe there's something wrong with the fundamental business structure of a place like this. It doesn't seem to me, like, you know, if the city got into this with the idea that this could be a revenue generative property for the city, a successful nonprofit running all

kinds of youth sporting events, advertising revenue. It clearly that there must have been some way in which running this would be a revenue generative thing for the city, and instead it's just been an absolute eyesore. And I guess my question would be, what's the what's the plan going forward once they're able to finally get Fraser out of there, which eventually they have to do. I mean, he can

only go so long not paying money. The basic reality that he owes about eight hundred thousand dollars in rent is somewhat inescapable, and at some point he will get out of there. What's the city going to do with this property? And you know, if it's not something that's revenue generative, is there a way for the city to sell it or is it something that could be run better with someone more intelligent in charge. When we return, more city news, a proposal to target smoke shops and

shut them down in the city of Fresno. That's next on the John Girardi Show. Just getting all kinds of city news for today, probably better after my yesterday just talking about international geopolitics. John Girardi ranting about it was yesterday's show was a real moment of as our beloved producer Agent Squires always says, I'm just a simple country

boy out here trying to make a living. But which is his way of sort of disclaiming any criticism for what you're about to say, just a I don't know anything, but here's what I think. Anyway. That's me when I talk about geopolitics. I feel like I'm a little firmer ground talking about stuff like a City of Fresno business ordinances.

And there's this ordinance in front of the City Council, in front of well, actually right now, it's in front of the Fresno Planning Commission, a proposed ordnance that could result in the closing of about seventy different smoke shops in Fresno the Fresno City Council. Here's a story from gvire about it, by Edward Smith. As the Fresno City Council will consider an ordnance Thursday, potentially closing down about

seventy smoke shops. A coalition of business owners has retained an attorney who says the city's proposed action verges on eminent domain. The ordinance from council members Miguel Arius Nalisiprea and Nelson Esparza. It's interesting that it's the the real hardcore liberal block of the court doing this Arius Onalsaperea

and Nelson Esparza, but you know it makes sense. I mean a lot of the regions of Fresno where they have tons of these smoke shops, and I do agree with them that they are a real blight, so anyway, good for them. The ordinance from council members Miguel Arius Nalisiperea and Nelson Esparso would force future and existing smoke

shop owners to apply for conditional use permits. The ordinance only allows seven per district, and it doesn't allow smoke shops to be within one thousand feet of a school or other sensitive sites, so that would mean we could have forty nine total of these shops in the city.

The President of Planning Commissioners at their meeting February nineteenth, recommended increasing the number of permits, grandfathering in businesses near schools, extending how long businesses have to clear out inventory if not approved, and making approval for permits based off of merit rather than a lottery council members, So it seems like the planning commissioners they're not as on board. But my guess is that this is something that's within the

decisional domain of the council members. Council members say smoke shop owners bring blight to the area. True. Code enforcers and police have found marijuana, guns, and illegal gambling at some locations during inspections. City Attorney Andrew jan said all businesses they inspected had code violations. Only businesses without signals nificant violations would be eligible for approval, So we have

to lower the bar so far. Yeah, you had code violations, but they weren't significant, so we'll let you, let you keep existing. But okay, this is what's happening. Legal weed was introduced into cal You know, maybe I'll save this for I might save this for the next segment, maybe do a broader rant about legal versus illegal marijuana. Needless to say, I totally agree these smoke shops are bad.

They are bad for the city. Basically a lot of them just have become a front for you know, there are only so many legal marijuana dispensaries in the city of Fresno, which, by the way, here's a fun game to play. Anytime you see illegal marijuana dispensary, look at its name and think whether that name would work for or maybe has been used for a non nominational Christian church. That there's one that's near my work. It's near a place where I a Mexican joint where I go to

get tacos for lunch sometimes. And this works at one hundred percent. Works like do just anytime you see a marijuana dispenser, look at the name and think, would that work is the name of a non denominational church. I bet it would. But basically these places have become fronts for selling marijuana illegally because basically there are only so many legal marijuana dispensaries in the city of Fresno, and there continues to be a really large market for illegal

weed because guess what, potheads don't like paying taxes. We'll talk about that next. This is the John Gerardi Show on Power Talk. President City Council is considering an ordinance that would result in the band of some seventy smoke shops throughout the city of Fresno. You've all seen these.

They all have the same distinctive looking kind of weird sort of not really christmasy rope lights, but these kind of like very bright like white white or red sort of string of lights all around the windows, really brightly lit up. And in part because I think their hours of operation are always crazy. It's to accommodate the hours when potheads are awake. Generally, potheads are not up and doing their grocery shopping at the smoke store at eight

o'clock in the morning. They're showing up at eight o'clock at night, ten o'clock at night, et cetera. Now, these smoke shops are bad. I am down with the City Council of Fresno in wanting to get rid of them, wanting to limit them, wanting to curb them. I think

it's it's a bad thing for the community. These are not These are businesses that I think very often are just fronts for people to sell marijuana illegally, and they a lot of these stores managed to get I think at some point that there was reporting out about how a lot of these stores managed to get city approval claiming to be like grocery stores because they sell like, you know, you know, Fredo's chips and potatoes, you know, snacks and basically for you know, stuff that's funions, you know,

stuff that's appropriate for someone who has ingested some kind of a drug that gives them the munchies. And a lot of these smoke shops that they're very like open about what they're about. This is about weed paraphernalia, drug paraphernalia. And again out of the back of a lot of these places, they're smelling, they're selling the weed illegal and in some of these places have been fronts for even

worse crimes than that. There's some allegations of like prostitution and all kinds of gambling operations, which is not as bad as prostitution, let me make that clear, and all kinds of things that are just bad, bad, bad, bad bad. It brings blight to a community. It's bad good for the city trying to curb it, you know, not often that I'm going to come on here and say Miguel Larius Nelson Asparza and Elisa Barea are totally right on the money. But I will say that here they are

right on the money. I think it's great idea that they're trying to target this stuff. And I don't know this whole GV Wires story that says, could it cost taxpayers millions of dollars in tax revenue. There's there's no way that there isn't some other kind of business that could operate in those spots that wouldn't be more productive than a smoke shop. Just forget about it. Like the idea that that's all, thank god we have these smoke shops. They're keeping the you know, like Atlas holding up the

globe there, or the only thing keeping the city budget afloat. No, that seems silly to me. I don't know. Maybe you can make the argument that some of these places there's no other likely productive tenant. It's gonna take those spots, and that a lot of those places are just gonna lie fallow and be vacant. Okay, maybe, but I still think that the social impact of these things is net bad. But here's the main point of this. The proliferation of these smoke shops is a real testament to what a

lie and what a flop. The ongoing proliferation of legal weed has been in California. The whole premise of legalizing marijuana was basically, why are we criminalizing this activity? It's dangerous, it empowers drug cartels. You know, it's bad for people. Why not take this activity which isn't that bad, you know? And then all these studies come out to try to

say that marijuana is not that bad. Although now there's more studies coming out that there's all kinds of stuff, psychosis and all kinds of things that are linked to marijuana use. More and more, the evidence coming out is showing marijuana it's not good for you. It's clearly depressive, it's clearly something that's not a good thing as a

lifestyle choice for you. But the idea was, hey, let's take these transactions out of the dark into the light, have it be sold legally, and hey, while we're at it, let's tax it. And if there's one thing that is absolute canip for state and local governments, it's a new source of revenue where you're not imposing attacks on everybody, a voluntary activity that you can tax that generates revenue.

City governments, county governments, state governments love that stuff. Why because city, state, and county governments, unlike the federal government, they can't spend into the red indefinitely. Federal government can just keep on printing money. State of California can't do that. State of Colorado can't do that, State of Vermont can't do that. State governments can't do that, and certainly the city can't do that. Certainly the county can't do that.

So local and state governments have this gree sort of inquisitive nature that they take on of. They will do anything for a new source of revenue. If it's a federal dollar, they will bend over backwards and break their own spine to get that, you know, gusher of federal money. If it's something that You've also seen the proliferation throughout the country of casinos. Okay, why are we having so

many casinos? Why are there so many new casinos? If you go out into the great American hinterland beyond California, casinos are popping up all over the place. States are legalizing gambling in all kinds of ways. I remember living in Springfield, Massachusetts, and they were like, yes, we're gonna bring us casino to Springfield, Massachusetts. It's like, all right, well,

why would why are we doing that? Why would someone go to Springfield, Massachusetts for a casino rather than go to you know, I don't go to Atlantic City, which is not very far away. Well, because nobody has to gamble, right, nobody has to gamble. It's a totally voluntary activity. And the attitude of the average taxpayer is, all right, sure have a casino that generates revenue. I'm not going to go gamble, but you know, some some moron will. It's basically a tax on dumb people, a tax on people

who can't do math, much like the lottery. So state governments love taxing, a voluntary activity that dumb people engage in. And because it doesn't feel the same as like increasing a sales tax. You increase a sales tax, everyone's like, well, this sucks. Now I have to pay more money in sales tax You forcibly forced me. Is there any other way to force someone? I guess you forced me to pay more in sales taxes. That stinks. Why is the

government forcing this? Ah? Right, right, rare. All of a sudden, you're spouting off libertarian slogans like taxation is theft and stuff like that. But if it's again, if it's a voluntary activity, if you're only being taxed because you go to table, mountain, casino or chick chance to go whatever, well, all right, I'm not gonna get mad at the government because they tax you know, casinos, they tax revenue from casino. I'm not mad at it. I chose to go there.

It's my own dumb fault if if the government gets a bunch of money off of me. Same thing with weed. But here's the problem. Potheads like paying for cheap weed. When weed is taxed, it's more expensive. So guess what happened. There's still like a sixty billion dollar industry of illegal weed in California. It's enormous. People are still buying illegal weed. All the people who were able to get weed with relative ease prior to California legalizing marijuana for medical purposes

or recreationally. And by the way, plenty of people were able to get marijuana prior to California legalizing it, and those people have said, hmm, should I I had a fruitful, easy going relationship with my marijuana dealer prior to legalization. The weed I was able to get was an text, it was cheaper. There's very little risk of me going to jail as a results of it. Why would I change that just because weed's now legal? Why not just

keep paying for weed illegally? And that seems to be the calculus that many of much of the citizen rya Fresno has decided upon. And that's why these weed shops are all springing up all over the excuse me why these smoke shops are all over the place. It's people selling weed out the back. There are only so many legal dispensaries in Fresno. There are way more potheads than there are legal dispensaries. Now, one of the arguments that will be made is, well, why husband Fresno approved way

more legal dispensaries, all right? Really that that's your solution. Just more weed, more weed for everybody. This is a really productive, healthy for society. Great, Make America healthy again, make America stoners again. This is great. Basically, much of the argument for legalizing this is my cynical and I think correct view. When weed legalization was being introduced, who did you have on one side and who did you

have on the other side. On the pro side, we're venture capitalists looking to get in on the ground floor of what could be a multi multi billion dollar industry, tens of billions of dollars. If you're the grower, if you're the shipper, if you're the distributor whatever for legal weed. If you're going to be the owner of franchise, you're going to start a franchise, and you have franchises all over California or something. For weed legalization, you're looking to

make gazillions of dollars. Yes, who was on the other side, Well, a bunch of people looking to vindicate Christian virtue. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of money in that. So all the money was on one side of that debate. Oh, here's all this research that marijuana's that came out in the two thousands of twenty tens, that all marijuana's not habit forming, even though these people really seem to have a pretty consistent habit. Oh here's a long term it's

not that bad for you. Oh it's not nearly as bad as cigarette smoking. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, even though it's just more toxic chemicals that you're breathing into your lungs. Oh, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. M What a cuinky dink That the side with all the money starts seeing all the research in their favor, and of course they have all the money. They have all the money to pay for lobbyists to lobby for their position. And again, who are

they pitching it to state and local governments? State and local governments that would break their own arms, sell their own mother if it meant there was another source of revenue for the state, or for the county, or for the city. So of course, legal weed has not become the panacea that everyone said it would be. If anything, what is it done? Pretty much every state that's adopted legal weed has seen the number of young people smoking

weed increase. It's led to more traffic fatalities, more marijuana use. In total, it's just not good. And this is really where libertarians and conservatives, I think their paths diverge. Libertarians basically say, well, if they want to do it, it's fine. It's just up to them. Everyone's allowed to do whatever they want within the perimeter of their swinging fists, and as long as you're not hurting other people, it's fine. And conservatives would say that's an unrealistic way of looking

at ethics or humanity. Everybody impacts everyone. Human beings are not an island unto themselves. Everyone has connections of family, friends, work, society, et cetera. Man is a political animal. That means not that every man likes watching Fox News, but it comes from the Greek word polis, which means the city, the political community, the Aristotelian principle that human beings, by their nature are meant to be in community, to live in

communities with other people and interact with other people. It's therefore, I think, a totally legitimate function of government to say that, you know, while there's a certain degree to which the regulation of private activity is going to start causing more harm than not, and the regulation of private action can become sort of deleterious to public flourishing, nonetheless, the idea of the state saying, and in America we have this sort of two tiered system where state governments have more

authority over this than the federal government, I think it's totally reasonable for a state government to say, hey, this is not good. This is not good for society in general, it's not good for kids. It's something that has it takes people sort of out of the realm of many people, not every person, but many many people, out of the realm of productive citizenry. So, in short, I think the the proliferation of these smoke shops that, oh, this is

bad and deleterious to society. Look, guys, if you proliferated legal weed licenses as broadly, there's probably gonna be a bunch of deleterious. It's going to have a similar blighty effect as the smoke shops do. It's gonna be the same people selling much of the same crap, doing many

of the same shady things out the back. And by the way, throughout all this weed legalization, you know who hasn't suffered at all, drug cartels because they move from weed to fentanyl, they move from weed to heroin, they move from weed to other stuff, or they move from weed to still selling weed because there's still this massive illegal weed market. Potheads often don't have a lot of money and they're not gonna want to pay premium for getting stoned. When we returned the person in the Trump

administration who is happiest with the constant fixation on Elon Musk. Next, there's this constant focus in the media on Elon Musk and what Elon Musk is doing. Oh, it's terrible. The the controversy, nontroversy DuJour, is that Elon Musk attended a cabinet meeting. Elon Musk isn't in the cabinet. How come he's attending a cabinet meets. He's not Senate confirmed. If he's doing Senate confirmed things, he needs to be Senate confirmed.

This is Meanwhile, we ignore that Jill Biden practically ran a recent you know, Biden cabinet meeting for reasons that are now obvious. By the way, do you see that Jake Tapper is publishing a book on Biden's mental decline in the last year? A classic? This is a classic of the genre. After it matters, and after it would have threatened the relationships that he needed to maintain as

a journalist. Now he empties his notebook and tells us all the dirt that would have been really useful to know prior to the election or at any point during the Biden administration about how Seni Al Biden was. Anyway, nobody is happier with this fixation on Elon Musk than Stephen Miller. Who's Stephen Miller. Steven Miller is like one of President Trump's in Trump one and Trump two most important policy advisors, and he has a couple of different

nonsenate confirmed positions in the Trump administration. He's an architect of most of Trump's policy. He is so thrilled that there's this fixation on Elon Musk. No one is thinking or talking about him, and he's getting everything he wants out of this Trump administration. And by the way, fundamentally, if the president wants an advisor to do stuff within the executive branch, it's going to be hard to stop him.

Constitutionally and legally, that'll do it. John's already shows you next time on Power Talk.