Yeah.

I would say that corporations weren't giving the same when President Obama was in office because he was less transactional, if he was transactional at all.

Certainly, corporations give with lobbying.

There are things they care about and things they don't.

What's happening today is, you know, night and day.

Now you can actually team up with the politician itself and everything's become, you know, pay to play.

And so it's totally different.

Which you are not normally

Make, make money.

That's part of this.

That's not the main reason why I got into this, is the money part.

But it is a perk.

So I was...

Talking to a client while I was out scouting the field and we noticed some gopher damage and he says, okay, across my fields, you know, is it worth reseeding? What do you see? And my first reaction was, well, it's probably about 200 acres over a 10,000 acre farm that we've got to, you know, maybe do some reseeding.

And so I said, but before we make a decision, let me run it through some AI and get some satellite imagery, real satellite imagery and find out different levels of damage on the field through the satellite imagery, run it through an agent.

Uh, Robert, what, where do you see this going?

So what do you make of that, being a Democrat, someone who has a great good standing in the Democratic Party? I'm a little disturbed, frankly, Robert, that more Democrats are not speaking out against some of the ideas that are being spouted.

Yeah, I mean, listen, I think if we look at our country, you know, 60 plus percent are center left, center right.

And in some ways you could say we're the silent majority.

But right now the book ends on both sides, whether it's the ultra conservative, you know, what I would call MAGA wing.

That is where I would call them nationalist populists or the far left, you know, you know, democratic socialist, you know, or in some ways, populist progressives, you know, they right now, both sides have the bully pulpit.

I mean, you could argue that's how president Trump became president with a populist view.

And you could argue that's how Zoran Mandani became, you know, mayor.

So you're a perfect person to answer this question that, you know, when you advise Democratic candidates, you know, from the more of the centrist Democrats to some of the more liberal ones like Mondami, what is your message to them? What should be the message of the Democratic Party on July 4th? This is where sometimes

So what do you make of that, being a Democrat, someone who has a great good standing in the Democratic Party? I'm a little disturbed, frankly, Robert, that more Democrats are not speaking out against some of the ideas that are being spouted.

Yeah, I mean, listen, I think if we look at our country, you know, 60 plus percent are center left, center right.

And in some ways you could say we're the silent majority.

But right now the book ends on both sides, whether it's the ultra conservative, you know, what I would call MAGA wing, that is where I would call them nationalist populists or the far left, you know, you know, democratic socialist, you know, or in some ways, populist progressives, you know, they right now, both sides have the bully pulpit.

I mean, you could argue that's how president Trump became president with a populist view.

And you could argue that's how Zoran Mandani became, you know, mayor.

And I think the one thing that they all have in common is that, although I do think President Trump has kind of gone off the track, but with some of his globalism approach with tariffs and the war, but was affordability was front and center.

So you're a perfect person to answer this question that, you know, when you advise Democratic candidates, you know, from the more of the centrist Democrats to some of the more liberal ones like Mondami, what is your message to them? What should be the message of the Democratic Party on July 4th? This is where sometimes

You're basically allowing them to continue their uranium program because they will do it.

Well, we should be clear.

If you looked at the nuclear deal 2.0, they weren't enriching uranium.

They weren't doing that.

They were actually being... being looked at uh by intelligence and now they've built up since since we've had no check and balance also by the way if you open the suez canal if you think about what energy would do energy would go from north of a hundred dollars a barrel down to my guess below 60. so if you're tolling a dollar a barrel you're actually lowering everyone's price dramatically number two i think you can this is to me during the idea of we're trying to do an iran iran deal 2.0 it doesn't need to be forever i just think it's a way to start having a real negotiation because right now it feels to me there's no exit strategy in sight the other thing is You know, President Trump is one of the greatest marketers ever, whether you believe it or not or like him or not.

You know, we wake up to him, we go to sleep to him.

And to me, he could say, listen, we killed Ayatollah.

So you don't think it will be a more hawkish Fed with Warsh at the top of it?

The deals aren't happening.

But I think you know this probably as good if not better than anyone, because you've been in journalism for so long and media.

You know, he is a tweener.

He's either a master marketer or he's a carnival barker.

But either way when he says something from his bully pulpit, even if it's reversed the next day, the first time he says something, 90% of the people believe it.

They don't remember the reversal the next day.

So, my point is, when he says he's meeting with, you know, Putin or there's a China deal, most people aren't listening to what Bessen says.

Which wa- which was kiss, which was kiss their ass?