Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report with us today. We have Daniel McAdams, our co-host. Daniel, good to see you.

Happy Monday, Dr. Paul, how are you? Are you well rested? I am fairly well

Is your mind rested from the fact that you didn't have much to listen to?

No news?

Everything the world is all better off.

And no more war and no more spending. You know usually on a

Mondays where they're like what are we going to talk about but today we got a lot to talk

about. A bunch of things and the one that's going to we're going to spend some time on there's a couple things we're going to talk about.

But one is budget again.

We always talk about the budget.

The budget involves spending and debt and finances and the Federal Reserve and everything.

So we will be talking about because a major agreement.

Democrats and Republicans working together,

we should be thankful that they're getting together, bipartisan.

We don't want them fighting up there.

You know, we may have chaos in the streets if that happened. But anyway, we'll spend some time on that, but we'll also want to talk with somebody else who's hogging the news. The main reason he's hogging the news is he

doesn't want it the news. Yeah, yeah. And that's the defense secretary. You know, he

wanted to sort of blend away, but everybody knows now he was in the hospital and he won't tell us what happened.

And so it was sort of whatever he was up to it backfire.

I know the sentiment of, you know, you don't have to, you don't like to talk about personal

things and you know that I'm not anxious to have it either but when you're when you're an

important person you have to know about you so that so he he generally

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