Good evening. The show begins tonight in Gaza.

Gaza, as seen from the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

Bicularly, the bill advanced, I learned from Josh Rogin of the Washington Post the

bill advanced to fund some of the president's request also had a detail in it about the IRS that is forgettable and clearly a

deal-breaker. It appears to Josh Rogan that the Republican House is unserious about meeting the needs of two

wars where one side is clearly fighting for its existence, Israel, and the other side is clearly fighting for its existence Israel and the other side is clearly a

villain a bad actor a malignance force Hamas that is similarly in Ukraine

Ukraine is fighting for its existence. In an event, Josh says that

Senator Graham, Lindsey Graham told him that this would all be sorted out in the politics

of the moment, still alarming.

I then have a happy conversation with Jeff Bliss of Pacific Watch

about Las Vegas getting ready for the Formula One race in a matter of days. I looked at the ticket prices. Looks to be about $1,500 to sit in a good place as this

rebuilt track in Las Vegas. I've never thought about going to Las Vegas, but this looks

tempting. Jeff also says they've got lots of sports teams, lots of fun. It's a

magical place. In profound contrast with San Francisco that will momentarily host Apec,

but at the same time San Francisco is in such disrepair tragic.

Then Gene Marks joins to converse about small business in America.

The credit crunch is here.

Small businesses are feeling it.

The slowdown is here.

Small businesses are feeling it. This is what the Federal Reserve

started to engineer in the spring of 2002. Well, it's arrived. So the question now is, how long

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