France Erupts in Protests, Trump Lifts Russia Sanctions & Talarico Surges| PBD Podcast #875
PBD Podcast
October 19, 2026
France erupts in nationwide protests as rising living costs fuel violent clashes, arrests, and renewed calls for the Yellow Vest movement. President Donald Trump waives new sanctions against Russia as his administration faces mounting pressure over energy prices and the war in Ukraine.
Speakers Patrick Bet-David
TopicsBusiness
Patrick Bet-David (0:35)
All right, gang, hope you guys had a good weekend. Obviously, I had a decent one. We had a birthday, 48 We had a good time with the family. Lots of good surprises, good relationships, good conversations. The wife got me a pretty nice gift, and all the birthday wishes were very, very nice from many of you. My neck was filled, DMs were missed, were sent, it was great. But anyways, we got a lot of stories to go through here. This was a weird weekend. There's a lot of crazy stuff that's going on, Vinny, that we gotta go through. At 10 o'clock, we have an announcement that we've been making to you about election night, as well as who'll be there with us that night, and where you'll be able to see PBD Podcast on election night. But I'll get that to you as we get closer to it. A few things, we're glad the Pope is doing better. He was discharged. He's back at the Vatican. That's great news. You wanna make sure he's doing very well.
Health-wise, this is good news for a lot of folks that are following the story closely. In France, it's a mess what's going on over there with the protesting, with the looting. I mean, we would go shopping at all these night stores. Vinny, this is like a really nice area in France where Hy-En, Patek, Louis, all these stores, you go shopping there, they are destroying them. They're saying it's students. Oh, it's students. Students are not happy. Students are not happy. Why don't these students show their faces? Why is it that when you pull the students' faces, they all look like they came from Afghanistan. They all look like they came from a country in the Middle East that hates Europe. They hate the Western way of doing things. Why is that? Is it students? Is that manipulation? Are they trying to confuse and gaslight a lot of different people? We'll have a talk about that. There's so many great and tragic clips. One woman is in front of her store, is like, dude, what are you doing? I'm a business owner. Leave this place. Go to a different place. There is a video of two girls going through the street while the looting and the fires are taking place. One's got a pink luggage. The other one's, I think, got a blue or a green luggage. You're just walking through it while the madness is taking place. Imagine you're on vacation. Like, hey, babe, let's go to France. Go shopping. Let's go to France. Let's go. And then you go there and boom, this is what's taking place. So we'll talk about that. And then some of this stuff, they're saying it's happening in Milan and other places. I think that's manipulation. Tom's got some thoughts on that.
Katie Zachariah lasted five days. Apparently, while she was being interviewed, Jason Miller came in and said, hey, JD wants to talk to you. She had to go to the back to talk to JD and we never saw her again in the interview. And then next thing you know, while that is taking place, while that is taking place with the interview, we find out she's done, okay? And she's been out of it. And if you remember last week when we were talking, I said, I can guarantee you, there was a handful of other people that were up there as options and few people probably turned it down, because one, nobody wants to follow Caroline Leavitt, and some people probably couldn't do it. Now rumors came out that one of them was Maria Bartiromo, and number two was Scott Jennings. And so there's a clause of nine months, which we'll get into what Maria could talk about, couldn't talk about. So even though she was approached, Trump wanted her. Apparently, allegedly, that's what was taking place, and it didn't happen. So somewhere in the world, Anthony Scaramucci is upset that his Guinness Book of World Record was broken by Katie Zachariah, and even Anthony Scaramucci gave her some love and said, hey, here's what I suggest you do this weekend. Alyssa Slatkin, who was a former member of the Obama administration, came up and said something very weird. Says, we want conservative students who come out to be afraid of joining the Republican, or you know, I want the deterrence message. Michigan Dem Slatkin wants to prosecute Trump administration to scare off young conservatives. So they want to...
They're telling you their plan. They want to scare the crap out of the youth, so they don't want to go join the conservative movement afterwards. We will address that. We will address what Abdul El-Said is saying lately to the point, you know it's bad when CNN has turned on you. You know things are getting very, very bad. When CNN puts a poll, they're plus minus and Scott Jennings is out there saying all the things that this guy said in the past and Dear Abby is trying to do her best to protect it. And she's like, well, well this and well that and all of a sudden Ilhan Omar, Tom Homan is being interviewed. It's like, is something gonna happen here? Is something gonna happen here? Is something gonna happen here? And then all of a sudden, you know Obama comes out to defend it, to defend it.
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