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Longtime Beacon artists will perform 12th holiday show After playing the Woodstock '94 festival in Saugerties, The Costellos heard from record labels. "Our lawyer advised us that the terms were terrible," says Bob Costello. "So I told [wife] Lynn, 'I have a good degree, let me go into corporate America. We'll start our own label, and we can do whatever the hell we want.' " Their career includes five albums (with another on the way), opening slots for Bon Jovi, Todd Rundgren and Belinda Carlisle, and repeated gigs in Beacon and Philipstown. On Sunday (Dec. 22), they'll add another date to that list with the 12th iteration of their annual Christmas show at the Towne Crier in Beacon. "Around four years in, we wanted to stop doing it," says Bob. "But everyone from new Beacon to old Beacon said, 'You can't. It's a tradition now.' " Their guests will include Rob Daniels, the Flurries and Dmitri Archip, who will deliver a dramatic reading of The Night Before Christmas. Art Labriola will provide an organ interlude. The headliners plan originals and seasonal cuts, along with "one surf rock chestnut," says Bob. The couple met in 1990 and started writing and playing together. After rejecting the 1994 recording offers and a life of touring, they bought a house in Beacon and raised three children. "In 2001, Beacon was a hellhole," says Bob. "A gang had lived in the house, which needed a lot of work. But we could feel a change in the air." Lynn worked for the Beacon schools and Bob is in the health care industry. Over the years, they built up a regional following by constantly writing music and gigging as much as possible. "With every song, the process is different," says Lynn. "Maybe Bob writes the music and lyrics, and I'll tweak the melody. Or I bring music and he adds lyrics or a bridge. Both of us have contributed to every song." The tunes, says Bob, are designed to "take advantage of Lynn's tremendous voice and go no longer than three minutes and 20 seconds." Their sound is rooted in hooky pop and country lite. "We try to serve the song," says Lynn, who often plays a 12-string guitar that emits a brighter sound than a six-string. A new album, Hold On, is almost in the can and, now that their children are adults, they look forward to singing and playing more. "For inspiration, we look to Colonel Sanders," who opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet when he was 62, says Lynn. "We're happy with the way things worked out over the last 34 years." The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main St. in Beacon. Tickets for the show, which starts at 5:30 p.m., are $20 at townecrier.com or $25 at the door.

  Managing vast amounts of data, reducing alert fatigue, and improving threat detection can all be accomplished with automation.  This week on Feds At the Edge, we have three experts in automating cybersecurity response to provide guidance on best practices to deploy automation. They highlighted the need to establish a valid baseline for expected network behavior to identify deviations effectively, reducing false positives.   Bob Costello, CIO at CISA, stressed keeping humans involved in the process, citing a recent incident where AI breached an organization, bypassed security features by defeating automation.   Richard LaTulip, Field Chief Information Security Officer, Recorded Future, addressed resistance to AI in cybersecurity, warning that the overwhelming volume of attacks makes proper automation essential for staying competitive.  Tune in on your favorite podcasting platform as we discuss how automation is essential but must be applied with caution and human oversight to ensure robust defense mechanisms.      

Listen to Bob Costello on Cats & Cosby from Friday, May 31st, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Brennan, former payroll lawyer for Donald Trump, slammed the ex-president for insisting Bob Costello take the stand in his criminal hush money case, RadarOnline.com has learned.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Trump's only witness for his defense in the NY criminal trial lawyer Bob Costello tried to intimidate Judge Merchan with stares and glares and improper disrespectful comments while testifying, leading to the courtroom being cleared and the judge finding him in contempt and threatening to strike his testimony. Michael Popok does a deep dive into Bob Costello, his connections to Trump and Giuliani, and explains the impact on the jury of Costello's outrageous conduct. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/LEGALAF and use the code LEGALAF to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/legalaf Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colbert cartoon shows someone waking up Trump with an air horn. Trump ad includes text that predicts a "unified reich." All the other indicators of Trump's version of fascism. How videos like this are produced. Trump's NRA speech. Why Bob has been shouty lately. Trump's wanna-be Mafia posse. Bob Costello forced Judge Merchan to clear the court on Monday. 15 things that will happen if Trump is president again. Breaking through the information logjam. Trump Media reports massive losses in 2024 so far. The latest on Sam Alito's Stop The Steal flag. With Buzz Burbank, music by Freekbass, Jody Hamilton and Lonny Paul, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Closing arguments coming in the Trump trial as attorney Bob Costello rebuts Michael Cohen's testimony. Meanwhile outside the courtroom, the list of Trump supporters grows with Congressman Ronny Jackson

Unrelenting drama in today's Trump 'Hush Money' trial and there were three things that happened in the court room that are worth noting: Firstly, The 1.5minute phone call Cohen made to Schiller and surprise, Trump was right there with Schiller so it's plausible Cohen DID speak with Trump telling Trump he made the payment and secondly, Michael Cohen skimmed money off a Trump hush money payment (did this hurt Cohen's credibility...) and lastly, Bob Costello, an attorney that Cohen spoke with that tried to discredit Michael Cohen. Drama seems to follow Trump and then after it's all over Trump says " I've never seen anything like it" LOL  

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports the judge in Donald Trump's case is weighing a motion to dismiss the case, as defense witness Bob Costello is set to be back on the stand.

On today's show, I open with Joe Biden deciding he is now all-in behind the defense of Israel. He left no wiggle-room for the unhinged Leftist lunatic in the Democrat party. He said Israel is vastly different than Hamas, that Israel is NOT committing genocide and the US will always support them. We then need to spend more time on the Alvin Bragg case and the utter disaster of putting Michael Cohen on the stand. We dive into back-to-back comments from CNN, first from Elie Honig, then Jake Tapper and Laura Coates. Then I play a long soundbite from Bob Costello and his experience with DA Alvin Bragg and the grand jury. Turns out, Judge Juan Merchan wasn't happy to have Bob Costello brought to the stand and, at one point, yelled for him to get out of the courtroom. Next we visit a thread from Brad Smith, former chair on the Federal Election Commission. Turns out, Judge Merchan did not want a federal election expert to testify in a case about a possible crime in a federal election. Seems odd, don't you think? We then turn to two US Senators opening two investigations in the the DA's office of Fani Willis. It seems she may have misused federal grant funds, as a prior whistleblower stated, and now they want to look deeper. Senator's Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) are leading that investigation. So, where do democrats go when they are in trouble? Straight to the Legacy/mainstream media. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow totally misrepresents the investigative commission setup by the Georgia Legislature to look into issues with District Attorneys. This was made into law because of the Ahmad Aubrey murder case. It has nothing to do with Fani Willis. And, to make it worse, Fani Willis intentionally misleads the audience to believe the investigative body was setup only after 14 “minority” DA's had been election. Finally, we close with an echo back to a book put out by a former guest on my show, Carol Roth's, “You Will Own Nothing.” To go with this, I bring you some thoughts from WEF Young Global Leader, Ida Auken. She gets so much wrong, all in the pursuit of asking why anyone would want to own anything? Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

VLOG: #TrumpTrial evidence ends with Bob Costello, most answers objected to and sustained, then Justice Merchan tells the jurors they will be off for a week, closings next Tuesday May 28, deliberations May 29. Book: The Fixer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2M7LGQ5

In the first hour of The Rita Cosby Show, Rita discusses the crazy day at Trump's hush-money trial. Michael Cohen finishes his testimony, Bob Costello is shut down by Judge Merchan, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In the first hour of The Rita Cosby Show, Rita discusses her groundbreaking interview with attorney Bob Costello and his perspective on Michael Cohen's time on the trial and the lies he may be telling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show, we open with something to help more easily recognize how bad inflation still is for the average American. We look at the typical food prices from 2020 versus 2024. Most are paying around 46% more for food than they were four years ago. Yet, Joe Biden has twice lied about the inflation rate being at 9% when he took office. WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to explain it away, but the internet has a long memory. Seems the reason we lost Niger is due to Biden's Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Molly Phee. The Nigerian Prime Minister said she threatened them and to say who they can have relationships with as a nation. He said she did that with a condescending tone and a lack of respect. Let's hear it for the Biden Touch! We now have Afghanistan 2.0. We then spend a good amount of time with a Congressional hearing into collusion between the DOJ, the White House and the Alvin Bragg case. One of the key witnesses was Michael Cohen's former lawyer, Bob Costello. From Lawfare, to weaponizing the DOJ, to colluding, Costello's testimony is both riveting and disheartening. We hear from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Rep. Harriett Hagemon (R-WO). While we are breaking that down, the cross of Michael Cohen resumed today and we got word that Judge Merchan is doing all he can to block the defense and aid the flailing prosecution. But, as CNN had to admit, things are not looking good for the Bragg prosecution. Apparently, Cohen went on an unhinged rant, calling the judge corrupt, the proceedings corrupt and, in fact, that he was the only there who wasn't politically motivated. Finally, on the topic of unhinged rants, we got to a professor from UC Irvine in California who was being led away from a protest. Just like other Ivory Tower campus elites, her pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic behavior finally got her arrested. But, it's her shrill screaming that tells you all you need to know about how far academic institutions have fallen. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- While appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, Michael Cohen's former attorney Bob Costello accused Cohen of lying in the Donald Trump “hush money” trial. Costello said that Cohen once told him: “I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump…I don't have anything on Donald Trump.” You can read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3004761/michael-cohen-lawyer-accuses-lying-trump-trial/ 6:15pm- Legal expert Paul Mauro—Professor of Law at John Jay College & a Fox News Contributor—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the “hush money” charges brought against former President Donald Trump. 6:30pm- Elizabeth Pipko—Spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the 2024 presidential election. Pipko is the author of the book, “Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True.” You can find the book here: https://a.co/d/3c6u2Hv 6:40pm- Amanda Harding of The Daily Wire writes: “Two human stars of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' say they are on the side of the animals due to the current state of the planet. The Associated Press shared a clip of stars Freya Allan and Owen Teague discussing the topic while promoting their new film. ‘I'm fully team ape,' Teague says in the clip. Allan agreed with that assessment. ‘Listen, I'm obviously—when I'm playing Mae, I'm team human, but I'm team ape—Freya's team ape. I mean look at the planet—oh here we go…” she added, acknowledging that her statements would cause controversy among listeners. ‘Look at what the humans have done to the Earth,' Teague added. You can read the full article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/stars-of-latest-planet-of-the-apes-movie-say-theyre-team-ape-because-humans-destroy-the-environment

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/15/2024): 3:05pm- On Wednesday, in a video posted to X, President Joe Biden accepted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's debate challenge. According to reports, Biden's team only agreed to the debates under the condition that there would be no audience in attendance. In order to participate, Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will need to poll at 15% nationally and have ballot access capable of creating a pathway towards earning the 270 electors necessary to win the presidency. 3:20pm- While appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, Michael Cohen's former attorney Bob Costello accused Cohen of lying in the Donald Trump “hush money” trial. Costello said that Cohen once told him: “I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump…I don't have anything on Donald Trump.” You can read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3004761/michael-cohen-lawyer-accuses-lying-trump-trial/ 3:50pm- While appearing on CNN, Communications Director for the 2024 Biden Campaign Michael Tyler revealed that it was the Biden team's preference to hold the presidential debates in a studio instead of a venue with an audience. 4:05pm- Following President Joe Biden's announced intention to debate in June and September, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Hugh Hewitt that he's looking forward to it. 4:20pm- Listeners call into The Rich Zeoli Show. Given the number of concessions Trump's team made in order to guarantee June's scheduled debate against President Joe Biden happened—including microphones only being active during the candidate's designated turn to speak and no live audience—will the debate ultimately help Donald Trump's candidacy? Listeners overwhelmingly believe that even with a format that favors Biden, Trump will still dominate. 4:40pm- Congressman David Trone (D-MD) spent a record $62 million on his campaign to win the Democrat nomination in Maryland's race for U.S. Senate—he somehow still lost by 12% to Prince County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. Meanwhile, former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan captured the Republican nomination. 5:05pm- While speaking with Tucker Carlson, New York Jets all-pro quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he was intrigued by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s offer to be the independent presidential candidate's 2024 running mate, but ultimately concluded he is a football player—not a politician! During the conversation, Rodgers praised several policies advocated for by Donald Trump, including the border and exorbitant foreign aid packages—though, he suggests the former president should have done more to end the “deep state.” But is that a fair critique? 5:20pm- Should tacos and hotdogs be considered sandwiches? And why is Matt so angry about it? Rich, Matt, and Henry discuss. 5:40pm- According to a recent report from Axios, President Joe Biden and his campaign team are dismissive of polling that shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump winning 5 of 6 key swing states. CNN Data Analyst Harry Enten noted that Biden was very receptive to those same exact polls in 2020 when they indicated he was ahead. 6:05pm- While appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, Michael Cohen's former attorney Bob Costello accused Cohen of lying in the Donald Trump “hush money” trial. Costello said that Cohen once told him: “I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump…I don't have anything on Donald Trump.” You can read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3004761/michael-cohen-lawyer-accuses-lying-trump-trial/ 6:15pm- Legal expert Paul Mauro—Professor of Law at John Jay College & a Fox News Contributor—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the “hush money” charges brought against former President Donald Trump. 6:30pm- Elizabeth Pipko—Spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the 2024 presidential election. Pipko is the author of the book, “Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True.” You can find the book here: https://a.co/d/3c6u2Hv 6:40pm- Amanda Harding of The Daily Wire writes: “Two human stars of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' say they are on the side of the animals due to the current state of the planet. The Associated Press shared a clip of stars Freya Allan and Owen Teague discussing the topic while promoting their new film. ‘I'm fully team ape,' Teague says in the clip. Allan agreed with that assessment. ‘Listen, I'm obviously—when I'm playing Mae, I'm team human, but I'm team ape—Freya's team ape. I mean look at the planet—oh here we go…” she added, acknowledging that her statements would cause controversy among listeners. ‘Look at what the humans have done to the Earth,' Teague added. You can read the full article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/stars-of-latest-planet-of-the-apes-movie-say-theyre-team-ape-because-humans-destroy-the-environment

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Wednesday, in a video posted to X, President Joe Biden accepted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's debate challenge. According to reports, Biden's team only agreed to the debates under the condition that there would be no audience in attendance. In order to participate, Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will need to poll at 15% nationally and have ballot access capable of creating a pathway towards earning the 270 electors necessary to win the presidency. 3:20pm- While appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, Michael Cohen's former attorney Bob Costello accused Cohen of lying in the Donald Trump “hush money” trial. Costello said that Cohen once told him: “I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump…I don't have anything on Donald Trump.” You can read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3004761/michael-cohen-lawyer-accuses-lying-trump-trial/ 3:50pm- While appearing on CNN, Communications Director for the 2024 Biden Campaign Michael Tyler revealed that it was the Biden team's preference to hold the presidential debates in a studio instead of a venue with an audience.

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Sept. 20 at 6:57 a.m. CT: ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As migration to the United States from Venezuela and other countries soars, Democratic elected officials are pressing the Biden administration to quickly grant work permits for asylum-seekers while their cases wind through immigration courts. In New York City, tens of thousands of migrants have arrived over the past year. Mayor Eric Adams has increasingly sounded alarms and Gov. Kathy Hochul is floating the idea of state-issued work permits. Asylum-seekers must wait at least six months before they can get a work permit. That cannot be changed without Congress, but some Democrats say there are other steps that President Joe Biden could take. The Fed is set to make an announcement on interest rates later Wednesday. The expectation is for it to announce no change. The United Auto Workers union is preparing to expand its strike against Detroit's Big Three unless it sees progress in contract negotiations. UAW President Shawn Fain says workers at more factories will join those already on strike at noon Friday unless there is “serious progress” toward agreements. Meanwhile, Canadian union Unifor said late Tuesday that it reached a tentative agreement with Ford covering 5,600 workers in Canada.. But in the U.S., the UAW strike, which is limited to three plants, is now in its fifth day. A White House official says the Biden administration reversed a plan to send the acting Labor Secretary and a senior White House adviser to Detroit this week to meet with both sides. KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. will spend more than $750 billion over the next decade to overhaul nearly every part of its nuclear defenses and replace systems that in some cases are more than 50 years old. But until each of those programs is ready, it's up to young military troops and government technicians across the U.S. to care for the existing bombs, often through delicate maintenance performed by hand. The Associated Press was granted rare access inside military nuclear missile bases and government weapons facilities to report on how they are adjusting to meet the increasing workload. HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process. The Ferromex railway said Tuesday that it has temporarily ordered a halt to 60 trains. The company said in a statement that “in recent days, there have been about a half-dozen regrettable cases of injuries or deaths” among migrants hopping freight cars. The company, part of Grupo Mexico, said some even hopped on moving freight cars with children “despite the grave danger that represents.” It comes as migrants are increasingly desperate to reach the U.S. border. The Orioles win a battle of the AL's top two teams, the AL West race tightens, the AL and NL Central leaders lower their magic numbers, and surgery for Shohei Ohtani and Nick Chubb.  On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. CT: UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine. And he's warning other world leaders that the same could happen to them. Zelenskyy spoke Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly's annual top-level meeting. He noted the war's effect on global food and fuel supplies highlighted the situation of Ukrainian children who were taken from their families after Moscow's invasion. Russia hasn't yet had its turn to address the assembly. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden has made his case before the U.N. General Assembly that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression. In an address in New York on Tuesday, Biden warned that no nation can be secure if “we allow Ukraine to be carved up” as he tries to rally support for Kyiv's effort to repel a nearly 19-month-old Russian invasion that has no end in sight. The U.S. president called on world leaders not to let support for Ukraine diminish and he argued that Russia is counting on countries to grow tired of prolonged conflict in Kyiv which would “allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence.” Biden is scheduled to host talks Thursday at the White House with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his family's business dealings. The Sept. 28 hearing is expected to focus on “constitutional and legal questions” that surround allegations of Biden's involvement in his son Hunter's overseas businesses. That is according to a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee, which is leading the hearing. The committee also plans to subpoena the personal and business bank records of Biden's son. The White House has called the effort by House Republicans “extreme politics at its worst.” EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker says he's “disappointed — but not surprised” that the school intends to fire him for misconduct involving activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy. In a statement Tuesday, Tucker suggests that “other motives are at play” in the school's decision. The university informed Tucker on Monday that he will be fired without compensation for misconduct involving Tracy, who said Tucker sexually harassed her during an April 2022 phone call. She later filed a complaint with the school's Title IX office. Tucker has called the allegations “completely false.” He said Tuesday that, “A cursory reading of the facts and timeline should cause any fair-minded person to conclude that other motives are at play." NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will hire 250,000 full and part-time workers for the holiday season, a 67% jump compared to last year. The company wrote in a blog post that it will also raise the average pay for warehouse and transportation roles from $19 to over $20.50 per hour. The company noted more jobs are available because it opened over 50 new fulfillment centers, delivery stations and same-day delivery sites in the U.S. this year. Other retailers have also begun announcing their holiday plans. Target said on Tuesday it will add nearly 100,000 seasonal roles for the holiday season. Macy's Inc, which owns the department stores Macy's and Bloomingdale's, said on Monday it planned to hire more than 38,000 full- and part-time seasonal employees. DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's attorney general is suggesting conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Like Whitmer, Dana Nessel is a Democrat. She told a liberal group Monday that the trial was held in a “very right-leaning county.” William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of providing material support for the scheme's leaders last week. They were the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. Nessel says the verdicts last week were “terrifying.” A former federal prosecutor, Matthew Schneider, says the remarks were inappropriate and that it's not helpful to "trash" the “American jury system.” The Walt Disney Co. is planning to invest approximately $60 billion into its theme parks and cruise lines over the next decade, as the company looks to continue growing one of its more successful business segments. The company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that the planned investment is nearly double what it spent in the prior 10-year period. NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani's former lawyer has sued him, alleging the ex-New York City mayor has paid only a fraction of nearly $1.6 million in legal fees he's racked up from investigations into his efforts to keep Donald Trump in the White House. Robert Costello and his law firm, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, say Giuliani has paid them just $214,000 and still has a $1.36 million tab. Giuliani's last payment, according to the lawsuit, was $10,000 on Sept. 14 — about a week after Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for Giuliani at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. Giuliani said Monday that he “can't express how personally hurt I am by what Bob Costello has done.” ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays put the finishing touches on plans for a new 30,000-seat ballpark in St. Petersburg. It's part of a $6.5 billion development project announced Tuesday that includes affordable housing, retail, bars and restaurants and a Black history museum. The site is on the same 86-acre tract of downtown land where Tropicana Field now sits. An official with the Rays says that domed, oddly-tilted ballpark will be demolished once the new one is built, in time for opening day in 2028. The plan would keep the Rays in St. Petersburg for the foreseeable future. But, it still has to clear some political hurdles on funding and approvals. LONDON (AP) — YouTube says Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned influencer. YouTube says Brand's account has been suspended “following serious allegations against the creator.” Brand's main account has more than 6.6 million subscribers. He denies allegations of sexual assault made by four women in a Channel 4 television documentary and The Times and Sunday Times newspapers. The accusers have not been named. One of them said she was sexually assaulted during a relationship with him when she was 16. Another woman says Brand raped her in Los Angeles in 2012. NEW YORK (AP) — A taped package containing several thousand dollars' worth of fentanyl was discovered inside the New York City day care center where a 1-year-old child died of an opioid overdose last week. But the owner of the day care center, Grei Mendez, maintained she had no knowledge of the presence of the highly potent opioid. Her attorney noted she had rented a room in the apartment to a man, Carlist Acevedo Brito, who may have been responsible for the drug operation. Mendez pleaded not guilty in court Sunday night to the charges. Brito was awaiting arraignment. His attorney did not immediately response to a request for comment. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is a senior producer for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are delighted to welcome journalist and best selling author, Miranda Devine. Miranda has written the most intriguing, absorbing, funny and comprehensive book on Hunter Biden's laptop in just 200 pages. We have touched on this subject a couple of times with Phelim Mcaleer who directed the movie 'My Son Hunter' and with Garrett Ziegler from MarcoPolo USA, but by writing a bestselling book on this topic, she has brought this sorry tale of addiction, greed and corruption to the wider world. As a journalist she shares what first brought the now infamous laptop to her attention and why she had to write this book. So join us this episode for Mirandas insights as we take a deep dive into why the Biden Crime Family affects us all. Miranda Devine is a New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor. She also works for the Australian media as a Daily Telegraph columnist and a Sky News contributor. Born in Queens, New York, she grew up in Tokyo and Sydney, and attended North-western University in Chicago. A reformed mathematician and mother of two, she lives in New York with her husband. 'Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide' available in paperback, e-book or on audiobook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/1637584857/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=miranda+devine+laptop+from+hell&sr=8-1 Follow Miranda on social media... TWITTER https://twitter.com/mirandadevine?s=20 GETTR https://gettr.com/user/mirandadevine TRUTH https://truthsocial.com/@mirandadevine Interview recorded 4.4.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Miranda Devine, the journalist who wrote Laptop from Hell, Hunter Biden. And I had the fascinating privilege of hearing Miranda speak at a conference in February. She was the keynote speaker there. And I immediately got hold of the book. I'd followed the work she had done, read it cover to cover, fascinating, short book. And I know we've delved into this topic before. Miranda brings, again, everyone brings something unique, something fresh and I know you will enjoy listening to her. She unpacks not only Hunter Biden's lifestyle, his lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and sex addiction, which is a sorry, sorry tale, although it is quite comical the book at the beginning and I find myself laughing. I don't know whether I should have been. Through the early parts as she writes a tale and tells a tale, a sorry tale, a sad tale of a chaotic lifestyle financed by Joe Biden. And then we go into that corruption side and how Joe Biden is very much part of that and the Biden name is used for corruption for financial deals across the world with multiple companies. So join us as Miranda delves into the dark world of Hunter Biden and the corrupt world of his father Joe Biden.   It is an absolute delight to have Miranda Devine with us today. Miranda thank you for your time today. Thanks for having me, Peter. [1:47] Not at all. I had the pleasure of seeing you in CPAC and also in Miami a month earlier. So it's absolutely wonderful. And we have touched on Hunter Biden before. We have had Phelim McAleer before. And we so we've looked at a little bit before, but I've had great fun reading through the laptop from hell. I will get into that. Your handle @MirandaDivine. There is your Twitter handle and all the links to the book and everything else are in the description. [2:20] Now I think in the intro you say that a month before the 2020 election, I think it was you talked about Rudy Giuliani emailing you with info from the Hunter Biden laptop. Was that your dissent into Hunter Biden's world?   Yes it was. It was actually Rudy Giuliani's lawyer at the time, Bob Costello and he texted me some just a few choice grabs from the laptop and he said it was late at night I think a Friday night and he said I'm just sending you this so you know that it's legitimate and let's talk. This is you know he'd spent the past since the end of August this was now, the beginning of October, he'd spent all that time just verifying as best he could that this was real, that the laptop repair shop owner who had sent him the material, sent him the hard drive [3:24] was a legitimate person, and he was satisfied to the extent that he felt that he could approach the New York Post. And so I guess that was the beginning of it and of course, you know, when we published, I mean it was a legitimate story, it's been proven over and over again since then that the emails that we published were real, but we were immediately censored. [3:53] Well, you talk about that as being kind of a moment that made you kind of become curious in the issue because when I guess a story is censored you begin to ask why it's been censored. So was it that that kind of perked up your interest in this, curious to find out why it was being restricted. Oh no, I mean I knew from the minute that, you know, we got a look at what was on the laptop that this was a bombshell story. So there was no question that the story was huge and, you know, all credit to my editors for having the courage to publish it where no one else would and all credit to my colleagues, particularly Emma Jo Morris, for actually digging down and getting the story out there. So look, there was no question in any of our minds that this was an enormous story that showed corruption at the very highest levels in Joe Biden's campaign. And we're talking about one of the two candidates for president, and we felt that it was important that the American people had [5:03] all the evidence at their disposal about the characters of both men, so that they could form an educated judgment about who to vote for, but unfortunately that wasn't possible because of the heavy-handed intervention of big tech. And so I think what changed for me there was just I knew that we were going to get a lot of pushback and criticism for publishing the story, particularly from the Biden campaign, which refused, remember at the time, to engage on this at all other than than to tell other media organisations that it wasn't true, that Joe Biden had never met with Hunter Biden's business partner from Ukraine in Washington, DC, as we had shown through this email or a couple of emails that he wasn't the big guy who was getting 10% from this Chinese business deal, et cetera. He swore blind that he knew nothing about his son Hunter's business dealings and that our stories were wrong. And of course, you know, with time that's just [6:07] proven to be completely wrong and even the New York Times and the Washington Post had to admit it. But I guess we knew we were going to come in for some stiff opposition. What we didn't anticipate was that Twitter and Facebook would shut us down within hours of the story going live. You know, this was an extraordinary intervention into the free press by these unaccountable oligopolies. And, you know, shortly after they did that to us, they said they threw the sitting president of the United States off their platforms. And that frightened even, you know, Emmanuel Macron in France, because world leaders were looking at this and saying, if these companies have the power to unseat, de-platform the leader of the free world, what else can they do? Absolutely. Could I ask about your, I mean, your journalistic background is substantial. I mean, Boston Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Sun, Sunday Times, and now with New York Post. Did, I mean, your experience as a journalist, did it not make you question going up against this subject, which is right at the heart of the, I guess, the American establishment? [7:33] What do you mean? Like not wanting to do it? I mean I would have thought that any journalist would want to do this story once that they had confirmed that it was real. I just, I don't see, you know, I wouldn't care if it was about Joe Biden or Donald Trump. I mean it's a really important story that goes to the heart of American national security. Here is a situation where Joe Biden has lied about his involvement in his family's influence peddling scheme that was running throughout his vice presidency and in fact he's run some form of influence peddling via his family for four decades out of Delaware. And so you know I think that's a really important story and it's just the sort of story that journalists are supposed to do without fear or favour. So I mean whether you have a lot of experience or a little experience. [8:30] I think it's just crystal clear that this is a bombshell story and that's why it's even more inexplicable that you know these news organisations like the New York Times with enormous resources, way more resources, way more investigative reporters than we have at the New your post. They really have done very little with this story. They ignored it initially. You can almost forgive them for ignoring it before the election because the stakes were so high. They didn't have the hard drive. They hadn't had the benefit that we had of the early, you know, the head start. But it took them then, I think, 19 months, the New York Times, to even acknowledge that this was a real laptop and that the material on it was legitimate and authentic and that it raised questions for Joe Biden is something that they just wouldn't tackle. [9:24] The New York Times published a story acknowledging that these emails were real, but it buried it in like the 23rd paragraph of the story on page A19, I think. And after that, then that was sort of the green light for the Washington Post and CNN and so on to follow up. But all of them had this boilerplate paragraph in their stories, there is no evidence this has anything to do with Joe Biden. There's so much evidence, ample evidence. That was our entire stories, everything I've ever reported from this laptop has been about Joe Biden. It's not about Hunter Biden, who is a poor, sad soul. You know, he was a crack addict throughout this. [10:08] You know, most of this nine year period that his laptop covers. You know, he had his personal life was in turmoil. Split from his wife, he was undergoing an acrimonious divorce. He had, despite the millions of dollars that was coming into his coffers from China and Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan and elsewhere around the world, he had serious money difficulties. He also seemed to have some sort of a sex addiction, judging from the amount of hookers that he was ordering online and sex cams and you know homemade porn etc. So this was a very troubled person and you know I feel sorry for him. I think that there is room for people to have some sympathy for this very troubled soul and wish him the best. He says now that he's clean and let's hope that that's the case. But where I think there is no sympathy and should be none is with regards to Joe Biden, Hunter Biden's father, who deputised his drug-addicted son to go and be the bag man for the family in these countries carrying the Biden name. [11:22] And reaping millions of dollars from America's adversaries. That is something that he has, it's unequivocal that he's lied about it. So what I think the Republicans in Congress are trying to do is nail down the money trail. They're doing a pretty good job of that now systematically. And also ask the questions about whether or not Joe Biden compromised America's national security and is now tailoring foreign policy because of this influence peddling scheme that was so lucrative for his family. At the beginning, I find myself actually chuckling, probably laughing a little bit, reading the first few chapters. You've got the interaction, and it is a dark comedy. It's tragic, with, I guess, Hunter playing this hapless villain, I guess, in it. [12:22] I don't know whether you meant to inject some of that dark humour or whether I was just being heartless reading it. I'm not sure, but yeah, let us know how you put that together because I found some of the interactions and the messages, you obviously have taken that from the laptop and put that down, and it was kind of comically sad, I guess. Yeah, I think that's a good way of describing it. It really is. You know, some of the situations that Hunter gets himself into are, you know, if they were in a movie, you would be laughing out loud. And it is a black comedy. He just is this sort of... He and his uncle Jim just bumble their way around the world and they're, you know, they're in palaces and sumptuous mansions of oligarchs and eating chicken feet in high-flying skyscrapers in private clubs of Chinese military people who are in the inner orbit of Xi Jinping. [13:29] Who end up then disappearing. You know, it seems I feel like with Hunter Biden that he's like one of those characters in a sort of cops and robbers blow him up movie where the main character just, you know, all around him there are cars blowing up and buildings on fire and he just walks through the smoke and emerges unscathed. And all around him everyone was going to jail, getting killed, getting locked up, you know, getting into all sorts of trouble, and he just seemed to emerge unscathed. [14:07] You know, there's a lot of speculation people I've talked to in, who know about, you know, intelligence services and how they operate, who would say to me that there's no way that the son of the Vice President mixing in those circles that he was in the inner sanctum of Xi Jinping in China and Vladimir Putin in Russia, going, you know, to Lake Como to mingle with oligarchs and and Hong Kong and Shanghai, I mean, Monte Carlo. [14:39] This is the most incredible international story of intrigue and mystery and danger. And that there's no way that the US intelligence services would not have been keeping an eye on Hunter. And it did feel like he had a guardian angel. Every time he was in a scrape about to come unstuck, suddenly he's okay, he's back stateside and everything's hunky-dory and he's ordering [15:06] crack from his dealer again and meanwhile off the laptop goes, you know, the super chairman or someone else, you know, that maybe he's been warned off, you know, don't mix with that person that's going to get you into trouble. I don't really know what went on behind the scenes but we also know he had various contacts in the FBI. So that's a whole new story I think that will be unraveled potentially by another committee the Republicans have set up which is the weaponization of the federal government which is looking, among other things, looking at how the FBI covered up the story of the laptop.   Yeah, completely. This is the laptop from hell with [15:50] A hunter looking quite rugged there with a cigarette. Many images of him, but some of the stories you put through the book are of him being, as you said, being rescued by Secret Service, I guess. Especially at times where he shouldn't have had protection. There was no reason for him to have that protection, and yet they seem to be there to help him out of different situations he find himself in?   Yeah, look, there could be a couple of reasons for that. There are some invoices on the laptop that show that a couple of these former Secret Service people, including a very high-ranking guy who had been the head of the Vice President's Secret Service detail when Joe Biden was in office, and they actually had gone into private practice and Hunter Biden and his brother Jim Biden had hired them to go and do some due diligence on some of, [16:53] for prospective business partners and so there was an invoice for a few hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars that hadn't been paid. This is why it sort of came to the attention or came to my attention because there were various emails going backwards and forwards between Jim and Hunter about who should pay this money. I mean it was it was months and months overdue which was not uncommon. There are a lot of bills including with Joe Biden that seem just not to get paid or to be very, very late being paid. And I'm told by some people in Wilmington, Delaware, where Joe Biden lives, that a lot of the local tradesmen just don't get paid. There seems to be this sort of expectation from the Bidens that it's such an honour to do work for them that you shouldn't expect to get any money for it. But that's one reason. And then, you know, another reason is, I think, we know that there was one scandal where Hunter Biden's lover at the time, Hallie Biden, who was actually the widow of his late brother, Beau, they were living together off and on. They had a very volatile relationship. And for reasons we still don't know, Hunter decided to buy a gun at a store in Delaware. [18:11] And shortly after he bought it, Hallie seemed to get worried about what he might do with it. And so she drove it to the local shopping centre and threw it in a garbage bin, a trash can. And then she tells Hunter, or Hunter looks for his gun, he can't find it, and she says, oh, I threw it in the trash can. So he says, go back and get it. She goes back, it's gone. A homeless guy's found it. [18:34] So then the cops have to come. And it's not just the local cops, it's the state police, it's the FBI. And what's really quite sinister is that two men who said they were from the Secret Service flashed a Secret Service badge, went to the gun shop and demanded the papers, the background check papers, the paperwork that Hunter had filled out to do with the gun, which of course if he took that away there's no proof that he ever bought the gun and so to his credit the gun shop owner said no I can't do that because he's worried that he's going to lose his license if something terrible happens with that gun. But you know when we ask the secret service why did you do that, Hunter Biden was not under secret service protection, his father was out of office, etc. The secret services, we did have nothing to do with that, that wasn't us. So maybe it was ex-secret service people presenting themselves as secret service. I'm told that the former secret service agents still have a badge, it's a different type, but a smaller badge than the real one but I guess how would you know the layperson and so maybe these are former Secret Service people. We do know one other thing which is that Joe Biden... [19:52] But we know this from the laptop too. Joe Biden really sucked up and curried favour with the Secret Service people around him. He, you know, in his... Before he became a sort of defund the police guy, he...now he's back to his original persona, which was as a, you know, as a working-class Joe who's all for the cops. And so he had support from police unions and so on previously, not in the 2020 election, but he did things, Hunter tells us in various emails, like he would [20:32] get Secret Service agents, kids into elite colleges that they wouldn't be able to get into otherwise, or do other favours that they're not really bribery because it's not really cash, But it's just favour trading, which is what Joe Biden specialises in, using his power to, get things happening for people who otherwise wouldn't be able to avail themselves of that, those kind of perks. So, and then we also know that the guy who was the head of his Secret Service detail, his, one of his parents died, I think it was his father died somewhere in the Midwest. And Joe and Jill Biden flew on Air Force Two to that funeral. And so, you know, that kind of gesture really engenders a lot of loyalty in people, particularly people who are in service jobs. And so I think, you know, it was probably a combination of maybe paying people to look after you, but also just vestigial loyalty to Joe Biden. [21:40] There's another thing that keeps coming up and it's the amount of money. And I had no idea until I was going to it. Eva just at the beginning, the first couple of pages you talk about. [21:54] Talk about one overcast day, Hunter's catching up on porn, he spent $1,000 on his Wells Fargo debit card. Annoyingly, Wells Fargo keeps sending alerts. He's tripping his card limit of $65,000. You then talk about him getting invoices of 82,500 retainers from international business development. Then he says, he talks about his balance shows 1 million, but there's a debit of 2 million. I mean, they're crazy sums of money to any average person reading this. I mean, tell us about that. I guess the greed involved. Yeah, and the chaotic lifestyle that Hunter had, I mean, there were millions of dollars coming in. [22:41] But, you know, I think his alimony was 30 or 40 thousand dollars a month. He had this heavy crack addict habit. He had various households that, I mean, there was his, Hallie Biden's family that he presumably, I mean I know that they shared a credit card and they were running up $250,000 a year on one Amex and they put everything, you know, all their kind of working, living expenses seemed to go on the Amex. He had very lavish tastes in clothes, like his father, he would go to, you know men's boutiques in midtown Manhattan or on Madison Avenue and think nothing of spending, you know, five grand, ten grand here on a coat, on a jacket or, you know, a tie. [23:33] And so he just spent like he was the big spender, but he always seemed to have money problems. And I think part of that was because the money that was coming in wasn't all for him. And I'll give you a perfect example. And this is just from the very new bank records that were [23:58] put out the other day by James Comer, the head of the Oversight Committee, the Republicans who were looking into the money trail of the Biden's. So he's found, we already knew that there were these two, three million dollar payments from the Chinese energy company that paid the Biden's millions of dollars, but these two, three million dollar wires went to Hunter's business partner in in Arkansas, a guy called Rob Walker. And so we always knew that that money was destined for Hunter, but we never could see how it made its way there. And so what James Comer has found, at least with one of these $3 million wires, he's only been able to find one, that $1 million went to the Biden family, 1,065,000. And it was split up between four Biden's. So there was Hunter Biden, his uncle Jim Biden, who's Joe's younger brother, Hallie Biden, who I told you that sister-in-law turned lover, and then another fourth unnamed Biden. It's just on the wire, it just says Biden. And so, and these payments were made over three months in small dribs and drabs. [25:13] Presumably to keep them away from authorities. Didn't work because the reason we know about them is that the banks, it tripped some suspicion in the banks automatically and so they had to file suspicious activity reports with the Treasury. So we know from that $1 million, Hunter got about a third of it, I think [25:37] From that money, you know, so there's three million and he's getting about 400,000. And so he's told his business partners that $800,000 a year is not enough for him to live. So really he was burning through cash and what would have seemed, you know, to any normal person, a huge amount of money to him was barely enough. And then remember, he, it was supposed to pay tax on this money. And obviously he was not good at paying his taxes because this is one of the issues that the IRS and the US Attorney in Delaware is looking at him for is tax evasion, alleged tax evasion, alleged money laundering and foreign agent violations to do with his foreign businesses. And we know that he's paid back, I'm told $2.8 million to the IRS. So that means, you know, he earned five and a half million to owe that. And, you know, he earned a lot more than that, we know. [26:43] But, and also, I mean, maybe he's having to pay tax for money that he never received that went to other members of the family, you know? So he does feel sorry for himself a lot in the laptop and he talks about giving half his money to his father. Bitterly he complains about that. And he bitterly complains about having carried or supported the rest of the family all the time. And this is a guy that wanted to be an artist or an author. [27:13] And instead he was put to work straight out of Yale, that his father got him into Yale Law School, pulling some strings. So he gets straight out of Yale and goes into this inflated salary job for for one of his father's, you know, donors in Delaware, but boring job. And that's been his life, doing a series of boring jobs and inflated salaries, getting, you know, various sinecures and, you know, like the Ukraine Burisma board appointment for a million dollars a year, a huge amounts of money. But he's got to share that with the rest of the family. So you see him spiral down into addiction and chaos. And he's bitter and angry all the way, and particularly when it comes to that period when he abandoned his laptop in Delaware at that laptop repair shop. He's really in a rage at that time and feels that his family doesn't respect him and doesn't appreciate all he's done for them. Obviously Joe Biden is the figure that's behind a lot of it and one of the quotes is Don't worry about investors, Jim Biden would say, according to an unnamed executive quoted by Politico. We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden. None of what happened to Hunter, I guess, was because of Hunter's brilliance. It was all to do with his father. [28:42] Oh, absolutely. And, you know, this is influence peddling. I mean, this is a a Washington DC wide disease and it's bipartisan. Both sides do it. How many, you know, look at Nancy Pelosi. I mean, look at so many of these Republican and Democratic politicians who go to Washington and become very rich by the time they leave. It's really unseemly and disgusting. Joe Biden lives an incredibly lavish lifestyle And it would be impossible to sustain that on a senator's salary for 40 years plus. So I think it's been out there in plain sight and it's a terrible thing. Washington is very corrupt and I'm not sure that there's appetite on either side to clean it up. [29:41] What's special about Joe Biden is, for one thing, he's really the master of influence peddling through his family. And secondly, as vice president and now as president, he is crucial to our national security because as vice president, Barack Obama deputized him to be his man in charge of China and Ukraine and various other parts of the world. And Joe Biden was given some very important tasks when it came to China. He was supposed to stop China militarising the South China Sea and threatening America's allies there. And he was supposed to stop China from stealing America's intellectual property. I mean, this was 2013. This was a time when China was really ramping up its aggressive tactics. And it could have been nipped in the bud there and then. [30:45] But Joe Biden did nothing. He got nothing out of it. All that happened was his family was bought off. And when Hunter Biden flew into Beijing on Air Force Two with the vice president, it was crystal clear to the Chinese what that meant. This was a princeling. Hunter Biden was a princeling like the princelings in China who are related to the top CCP officials. And this was American power come to do private business and private business happened. Joe Biden shook the hand of Hunter's now new business partner, and Hunter left and within a few days, he had 10% stake in a Chinese business which had two and a half billion dollars funds under management at one point. I mean it doesn't mean he had 10% of 2.5 billion but he had 10% of whatever the profits were. We still don't know how much that's worth. It's been estimated, I think Peter Schweitzer estimated it at 20 million [31:48] dollars, could be less, could be more. Hunter Biden's lawyers keep vaguely saying he's divested himself of that fund, but there's no actual evidence of that. It's still listed on the Chinese stock exchange websites as being owned, 10% owned, by Hunter Biden's company, and Hunter Biden still owns that company, Skinny Atlas, even though he hasn't, I mean, it's gone dormant, I think, because he probably hasn't paid some bills. So, I think that's the kind of thing you know, it's pretty worrying that the son of the President, if he still owns that 10%, is in business with the Chinese Communist Party. And all we get from the White House and from Joe Biden is lies and stonewalling. So that's why this is an important story. It's not about Hunter Biden. I wish him the best. It's about the President and whether he's compromised. And and that's why the Republicans are going down this path of trying to find where the money went. [32:52] One of the chapters, The Delaware Way, I guess, looks at what Joe Biden has done, how he has built up that influence over, what, 35 years as a senator, and has taken that influence, that peddling, global, I guess, with the Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan. I mean, what do you mean by The Delaware Way? Well that was a phrase that was coined by a prosecutor actually many moons ago, I can't remember what it was, the 80s or the 90s I think, and they were investigating some irregularities with one of Joe Biden's re-election campaigns and there was a family called Tagani, there were a wealthy beer brewing family from the area, a young guy called Chris Tagani about the age of Joe's sons and he was sort of turned witness for the prosecutors, wore a wire to try and [33:54] see if the Biden's were doing illegal things to do with, you know, funding the Joe's campaign. Well, turned out that he didn't manage to find anything and he went to jail. But during the prosecution, one of the prosecutors described this sort of cosy quid pro quo relationship that goes on in Delaware politics as the Delaware way. It's you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. And there's something really insidious about Delaware. It's a very small state, doesn't have much in the way of an economy apart from the fact that it is the headquarters for practically every corporate in the country, because it's kind of described as the Virgin Islands of America because it has a very opaque, that sort of corporate structure and you can't see who owns companies and so on. So it makes it very easy for the Biden's to sort of hide [34:53] money but more importantly what it did for Joe Biden when he arrived as a 30 year old senator was he was being oppressed by a lot of very powerful, very wealthy people to do favours for them in the Senate and as he became more and more powerful in the Senate he was chairman of two very powerful committees, the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee for many years, those favours became bigger and bigger and his power grew and he was really king of the castle in Delaware and despite really, the state not amounting to very much, he was in this unique position. And so that was why when his donors, you know, were offering to buy houses from him or sell houses to him, or give his family jobs and inflated salaries, that was all of great benefit to him. And in return, you can see policies that he was pushing that seemed to benefit his donors. But whether or not you can really draw the line and accuse him of a crime is a whole other matter. But certainly that's the Delaware way. [36:08] What about you personally as you delved into this? You come face to face with Hunter Biden, a tragic story, and then Joe Biden, absolute power, corruption. What was your takeaway from going into this? Because I guess when you begin to research something, you don't know where it's going to lead. So what were your kind of takeaway thoughts as you did the research and you put the book together?   Well it was just so much bigger than I had ever imagined. I mean I remember there was one night I just pushed myself away from the desk and had to and clear my head because I could not believe what I discovered. And it's not just from the laptop, you have to understand that this is also material from Tony Bobulinski, who's Hunter Biden's former business partner. It's, you know, had the contents of his three devices that he'd given to the FBI. It's also a lot of financial records that came from [37:11] Chuck Graslie and Ron Johnson, the two Republican senators who were very prescient back in mid-2020, they were investigating Hunter Biden's role in Burisma. Their report was, I think, Hunter Biden, Burisma and corruption. And that was the Ukrainian company that was paying him $83,000 a month for, basically nothing. And so they had a lot of treasury records. And also speaking to, to various sources off the record. You piece together this jigsaw puzzle and when I realized just how enormous the China deals were, there's one deal where Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin [37:59] get together and this company, CEFC, that was paying Hunter and Jim Biden millions of dollars, their partner in China was brokering this deal for China to buy a $9 billion chunk of the Russia state-owned oil company, energy company, Rosneft. And this would have shifted the geopolitical tectonic plates in a way that was very detrimental to the United States. I mean, it's along the lines of what's happening now with Russia and China getting into bed over Ukraine, but this is on energy. And really a very damaging thing that Joe Biden's son and brother were part of. They were helping broker it. [38:50] And they would have profited from it. So it's incredible that the whole thing fell apart when the Trump administration now had come into office. And for whatever reason, the FBI arrested one of Hunter Biden's Chinese business partners from this company, CEFC at JFK. And this is a case where we're now told by, this is a whole another weird part of the story that's just happened in the last couple of weeks, but there's a, an Israeli scientist, but also former high ranking officer in the Israeli defence forces, who has just been arrested in Cyprus a few weeks ago, on suspicion of gun running charges and is about to be extradited back to the United States and he's still in jail. But I've talked to his lawyer. His lawyer says that Hunter Biden had a mole, an FBI mole called One Eye, who tipped off his Chinese partners from CFC that the FBI was investigating them. And sure enough, I mean, there's some evidence on the laptop that corroborates part of his story. And part of that is that [40:08] just shortly before Patrick Ho was arrested at JFK by the FBI in 2017, Hunter was invited to the palatial penthouse in Manhattan of the boss of CEFC, a guy called Chairman Yee, and offered $1 million to be his legal counsel in case he got into any trouble. And then Chairman Yee skedaddled it back to Shanghai and according to this Israeli, told Patrick Ho that the coast was clear for him to come back to New York. And as soon as Patrick Ho arrives in New York, he gets arrested on bribery charges. And what the Israeli says is that Patrick Ho was the fall guy. He was sort of the sacrificial lamb to the FBI. [41:00] And so, there again, we come back full circle to what we were first talking about, Hunter Biden having protection from the FBI, the Secret Service. He certainly had connections at the FBI. We do know that because after Patrick Ho was arrested, there's an email showing that he'd contacted his FBI sources about how to help Patrick Ho. To finish, the book has been out a year. What has been the response? And also the second part, how does that fit into a Republican-controlled Congress? Because you've given them a manuscript, you've said here is the evidence in a 200-page book, you can now run with this. So what was the response coming out a year ago and how can it be used by, I guess, the Republicans now in charge of the House. [41:57] Well, it's been an amazing bestseller. I mean, it just keeps on selling even today. It's still in hardcover and, you know, it was on the list apart from, of course, the New York Times. And so I think, you know, the reviews on Amazon from regular people have been good. I mean, I think it's like 4.6 out of 5 and 10,000 reviews. And the feedback I get is that people appreciate it because it's such a complicated story and this is sort of putting it into narrative form. James Comer has told me, who's the head of the oversight committee, that he loved it, he read it. I think it's just useful in terms of just itemizing what's important on the laptop. There's a lot of extraneous material And I think a mistake that a lot of people have made is to get caught up on the sort of sex and drugs and rock and roll part of it. There's no crimes there. It's sad. It's dysfunctional. But it's irrelevant. It's just gossip. What's important is the financial and international [43:13] schemes that the Biden family was involved in. Excuse me. No, absolutely. Well, to the viewers and listeners, you can get it. It is available hardback, it is available paperback, it is available audiobook, and also on Kindle. I personally like getting a paper copy so I can make notes. It's not paperback yet, unfortunately. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah, but it's still hardcover, ebook, and Kindle.   I warn the viewers that actually often I read books for interviewing and sometimes you find them too intriguing and this was one of those that actually I ended up marking far too much in the book that there's so much information. But Miranda, thank you for coming on and sharing about the experience of putting that together and sharing the story. Thank you so much. Thanks Peter, great to talk to you. Thank you so much.

Sean covers the latest legal issues for President Trump including the very strange silencing of former Trump attorney Bob Costello.... our legal system is being used as a political weapon... and it's not okay.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Bob Costello and the Democrats' Cohen problem. Hunter Biden's FBI mole named "One-Eye". Comer demands White House "correct" a "misleading and dishonest" statement by Biden.

Carl Jackson sits in for Brandon.  Who is Alvin Bragg? Meet the attorney who could become the first prosecutor to charge a former president; Bob Costello testifies to grand jury, says Michael Cohen is a 'serial liar'; FBI spent 16,000 more hours on Jan 6 investigation than entire summer of BLM, Antifa riots.  Jennifer Van Laar, managing editor of Red State joins Carl to discuss a Biden judicial nominee thinks a Brady Motion, a key issue in J6 prosecutions, has to do with 'Second Amendment'The Officer Tatum Show is now available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SalemPodcastNetwork.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We begin with news items. A FOIA has shown that the CDC expected 1,000 adverse reaction reports every day BEFORE the COVID VAX was released. Kari Lake has won the right to show that Maricopa County violated Arizona law in a way that threw the election to Katie Hobbs. The CHIPS Act was supposed to subsidize computer chip manufacturing in the US, but unions and others who have nothing to do with chip manufacturing are lining up for a pied of the $52 billion.And the final act. New York Attorney General got elected with a promise to convict Donald Trump. Now it looks like his Grand Jury is ready to ride him out of town on a rail for prosecutorial misconduct.

The Manhattan DA has told the Grand Jury to stay home today; Trump's indictment is postponed. Apparently attorney Bob Costello's testimony may be the reason.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023Today, in the Hot Notes; Giuliani's lawyer Bob Costello appeared before the Manhattan DA Grand Jury today; a 1/6 defendant gets bench slapped for lying about his whereabouts; a Trump indictment could happen Monday or Wednesday sending law enforcement scrambling; four Oath Keepers are found guilty on all counts; Fulton County prosecutors seek to question Christina Bobb; plus AG delivers your Good News. Want some sweet Daily Beans Merchhttps://shop.dailybeanspod.com/ Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill https://twitter.com/allisongillhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedy Promo Codes:Thanks, Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/dailybeans to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Google Doc of current legislation threatening trans people and their families:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fTxHLjBa86GA7WCT-V6AbEMGRFPMJndnaVGoZZX4PMw/edit?usp=sharing Have some good news; a confession; a correction?https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes; Giuliani's lawyer Bob Costello appeared before the Manhattan DA Grand Jury today; a 1/6 defendant gets bench slapped for lying about his whereabouts; a Trump indictment could happen Monday or Wednesday sending law enforcement scrambling; four Oath Keepers are found guilty on all counts; Fulton County prosecutors seek to question Christina Bobb; plus AG delivers your Good News.  Want some sweet Daily Beans Merch https://shop.dailybeanspod.com/ Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Promo Codes: Thanks, Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/dailybeans to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Google Doc of current legislation threatening trans people and their families: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fTxHLjBa86GA7WCT-V6AbEMGRFPMJndnaVGoZZX4PMw/edit?usp=sharing Have some good news; a confession; a correction? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What are the key IT priorities for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)? How is CISA ensuring its field staff have the best technology solutions and devices? What are the key cyber challenges facing U.S. federal government agencies? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Costello Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on The Business of Government Hour.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. economy is poised for a short and shallow recession during the second half of the year, but circumstances specific to current economic conditions — including high interest rates, persistent inflation and a cooling housing market — make predictions more challenging than usual, said American Trucking Associations chief economist Bob Costello.

Attorneys for Hunter Biden on Wednesday asked state and federal agencies to investigate Garrett Ziegler, John Paul Mac Isaac, Robert Costello, Rudy Giuliani and Stephen Bannon for disseminating contents of Hunter's laptop. Attorney Bob Costello joins America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even with a stronger-than-expected 2.9% fourth-quarter increase in gross domestic product, two of the nation's most prominent freight transportation economists say the threat of a recession will persist this year. Bob Costello, American Trucking Associations' chief economist, and Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, said, however, that the economy continues to perform at a strong level.

For decades, companies have used a just-in-time inventory model to reduce excess supply and create a lean production process. But recently, we've seen firms take a more conservative approach with a just-in-case supply used to avoid running out of stock. The pandemic-induced devastation of supply chains put a spotlight on some of the challenges we face and exposed vulnerabilities in the just-in-time model. Does this mean the just-in-time process is no more? What lessons have we learned and what more needs to be done to ensure reliable on-time delivery of goods?   To answer these questions and discuss future inventory management strategies, Host Jonathan Betz sits down with Greg Plemmons, Sr. VP of Sales for Old Dominion Freight Line, and Bob Costello, Chief Economist, and Sr. VP of International Trade Policy and cross-border operations for the American Trucking Associations.   Key Takeaways:   Greg describes the common disruptions in the current supply chain and the lessons shippers have learned over the last three years. [1:12]   Bob shares the idea of a just-in-time-plus model and offers an optimistic outlook for keeping systems up and running during brief lags. [2:18]   Greg highlights the benefits of a close relationship between shippers and their carriers. [3:52]   Bob reflects on the e-commerce trends over the past three years and future-casts business shipping and inventory needs, based on personal consumption data. [5:18]   Beyond a solid relationship with their carrier, Greg details the steps shippers can take to manage changes and mitigate risk. [8:31]   Bob shares competitive data on the important role surface transportation plays in the shipping industry. [9:31]   Greg and Bob weigh in on what will make the just-in-time method work for suppliers and the value of acknowledging drivers. [11:58]   Bob and Greg discuss the challenges and changes of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. in the near future. [15:22]

What are the key IT priorities for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)? How is CISA ensuring its field staff have the best technology solutions and devices? What are the key cyber challenges facing U.S. federal government agencies? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Costello Chief Information […]

What are the key IT priorities for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)? How is CISA ensuring its field staff have the best technology solutions and devices? What are the key cyber challenges facing U.S. federal government agencies? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Costello Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on The Business of Government Hour.

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On today's show I open with letting you know I intentionally said nothing Thursday or Friday regarding the anniversary of the 13 military personnel who died a year ago in Afghanistan during the worst retreat in our nation's history. I wanted to see if President Joe Biden would acknowledge the day or their sacrifice for his disastrous plan. I wanted to see if the Legacy/mainstream media would honor the fallen. I was hoping to be surprised, but, sad to say, I was not. Not one word. Next I dive into the ongoing investigation by Miranda Devine of the NY Post on Mark Zuckerberg's staggering admission of Facebook cooperating with the FBI's request to censor the news and free speech. Her piece follows the chain of events from when the Hunter Biden laptop was first dropped off at a repair shop to the confiscation of Rudy Giuliani's electronics from a dubious warrant that led to no charges at all. What we do wonder is how the FBI was able to find out the NY Post was about to drop the laptop story a good 2-3 weeks ahead of time? Were they spying on Giuliani? Did they get copies of all his emails including one from Bob Costello from August 27, 2020 telling Rudy about the “amazing discovery” which was all about the laptop? We know from previous stories on the FBI whistleblowers, agents were told to stand-down on the laptop, to not investigate it and to downplay it as Russian disinformation. We know the name of the FBI supervisory intelligence analyst who called it disinformation was Brian Auten. Yes, the same Brian Auten who was called out by IG Michael Horowitz for the 17+ serious and egregious errors committed by the FBI during Operation: Crossfire Hurricane. And, the same Brian Auten who is part of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. There is too much circumstance to ignore the existence of an unholy cabal within the Beltway of Washington, D.C., made up on un-elected bureaucrats, who have decided they are the power to pick winners and losers based on their own political ideology. It cannot be argued against, now that we have seen the lengths to which the DOJ and the FBI have gone with the raid on Mar-a-Lago. With the heavily redacted affidavit, it's telling how much they want to hide and it has nothing to do with the names of investigators or those on whatever grand jury. We can easily see how this was, in fact, a generalized fishing expedition with the hopes of finding something, ANYTHING, even if they have to manipulate the criminal code, to bring to bear on a political enemy. We see they are willing to do ‘whatever it takes' (a la Liz Cheney) to make sure Trump is indicted on something, even if they have to make it up to ensure it happens. And while the President, his Press Secretary and others spent the weekend calling half of American voters, semi-fascists, it's easy to see who is embracing fascism and who isn't. As is often the case with guilty people, they are the first to accuse others of the actions and behaviors they, themselves, are guilty of committing. The more they name-call and try to rewrite definitions to suit their purposes, the more the average American is seeing them for how they really are – Marxist/socialist wannabes. Finally, we end with a campaign ad that every Republican should be adding to their rotation. The spot is a satirical look at Biden's decision to wipe out college debt and putting the financial burden of that program onto the backs of hard-working Americans. It captures in the space of 60 seconds, just how hurtful, immoral and elitist this President and his Administration are. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page.

July truck tonnage rose 5.1% year-over-year, but dropped about 1% from June's number, per American Trucking Associations. The federation's chief economist, Bob Costello, said: “While tonnage is much stronger than a year ago, the monthly gains have moderated as the year has gone on. The combination of softer consumption of goods, home construction falling and slower manufacturing activity are the main reasons.”

July truck tonnage rose 5.1% year-over-year, but dropped about 1% from June's number, per American Trucking Associations. The federation's chief economist, Bob Costello, said: “While tonnage is much stronger than a year ago, the monthly gains have moderated as the year has gone on. The combination of softer consumption of goods, home construction falling and slower manufacturing activity are the main reasons.”

Today on the Brett Winterble Show Brett and Coach Matt Doherty talk with prominent New York attorney Bob Costello about this week's raid on Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. Costello explains why he sees this as an overreach that will backfire + if he thinks President Biden was in the loop about the raid and compare the situation to that with Hunter Biden's laptop.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the Brett Winterble Show we kick things off with Merrick Garland's live comments on the FBI's raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Property + Coach Matt Doherty is back to share his thoughts about the raid and talk with attorney Bob Costello about why the raid was a "massive mistake," that could blow up on the left. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At some point, we've all handled conflict in our classroom---among students, between a student and the teacher... In this episode, Shey and Anna speak with guest Joe Voigts about his approach to conflict in the classroom, from handling disagreements among his Israeli and Palestinian students in Jerusalem to butting heads with his high-schoolers on the South Side of Chicago. Listener quote: "There were times that students treated me disrespectfully. I knew that they were teenagers and if I had reacted harshly, the situation would have been so much worse. What I did was to pretend I hadn't heard what had been said. I continued the lesson and when the class ended, I asked that student to stay for a couple of minutes. I talked to him and he felt sorry for what had happened. The consequence of this reaction of mine was so positive. That student was so happy that I didn't say anything to him in front of the eyes of his friends and he turned to the most active student in the class." - Amir References & Resources: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, Amanda Ripley The Power of Storytelling to Build Cross-Cultural Connections Joe Voigts, TESOL The Restorative Practices Handbook: For Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators, Bob Costello & Ted Wachtel Questions for reflection: How do you feel when conflict comes up in the classroom? What general advice would you give to teachers for handling conflict when it arises? What strategies can you suggest for handling conflict in a positive and productive way? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teacherthinkaloud/support

Many businesses continue to face difficulties in their supply chains, both domestic and international.   In a new episode of Sustaining Capitalism, Bob Costello, Chief Economist, American Trucking Associations, sits down for a conversation with John Gardner, Vice President, Public Policy at the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board.   Costello shares his thoughts about how trucking is responding to the crisis, how supply chain issues may progress over the next few months, and ways to address the current truck driver shortfall.

In the latest episode of the Nutmeg State Transportation Report, we are joined by Bob Costello, who is the Chief Economist for the American Trucking Associations to discuss inflation.

Thank you for leaning in and listening to this replay of episode 18 of CALM Conversations about Learning!  Season One's final episode will FINALLY  be here next week! The M in CALM is for Management and I will examine the meaning of the word within the context of teaching and learning. Classroom Management is an important part of teaching and learning. It is both practical in the sense that teachers have a responsibility to oversee the activities, behaviors, pacing, productivity and general flow of the environment. There are a lot of considerations to make when managing a classroom, ranging from ensuring students' safety and well-being to determining student seating arrangement for optimal learning. But often, classroom management is approached from a point of control and consequences with no long-term goal for building healthy relationships with students and providing opportunities for students to practice self-management.Which makes me wonder: What is the long game? Are we educating young people so that they will grow up to become adults who respond best to being managed because they have not had opportunities to practice managing themselves? Conversation Points: Even though classroom management addresses concerns from student seating arrangement to student behavior, it requires teachers to try to “control the weather,” thus placing them in charge of managing all the energy in the classroom environment. Classroom management does not inform college-readiness or LIFE-readiness if it doesn't provide students with opportunities to practice self-management. Classroom rules tend to be arbitrary, ambiguous and absolute.Classroom norms promote autonomy, accountability and audacity.Rules and norms must be distinguished; their meanings are the difference between punishment and consequences.Encouraging self-management represent the #relationshipgoals of the classroom.Visionary Homework: Explore these questions in a journal write: What does “management” mean to you?Who are you managing currently? Who's managing you? What does it feel like to manage or be managed? What is the long game for managing your child or students' learning?The Proof:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers,Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted WachtelPlease and Thank You: Follow! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Editing by Devonne Williams Music by Cipriana Bethea

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Today on the Rudy Giuliani Show: Bob Costello joined the show to discuss the Steve Bannon case. He believes it's unconstitutional.

Thank you for leaning in and listening to this REPLAY of CALM Conversations about Learning!This episode is from me to you about the ULTIMATE in self-care: Checking in with yourself to assess your needs and getting those needs met, as well as locating your “nearest exit” no matter the situation...and speaking of which, I share about a  situation that I am not proud of. But checking in and locating my nearest exit made it all better!**I appreciate your patience as I check in and locate my nearest exit in real time, during this time! But I will return next Thursday with part 2 of the Management Pillar. Conversation Points: The power of performing a SELF Check-inResponding versus Reacting What it means to locate your nearest exit NOT “finding your happy place” Why it's called a “practice”PLEASE and THANK YOU:Follow! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Edited by Devonne WilliamsBeats by Cipriana BetheaThe Proof:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel

Thank you for leaning in and listening to episode 18 of CALM Conversations about Learning!The M in CALM is for Management and I will examine the meaning of the word within the context of teaching and learning. Classroom Management is an important part of teaching and learning. It is both practical in the sense that teachers have a responsibility to oversee the activities, behaviors, pacing, productivity and general flow of the environment. There are a lot of considerations to make when managing a classroom, ranging from ensuring students' safety and well-being to determining student seating arrangement for optimal learning. But often, classroom management is approached from a point of control and consequences with no long-term goal for building healthy relationships with students and providing opportunities for students to practice self-management.Which makes me wonder: What is the long game? Are we educating young people so that they will grow up to become adults who respond best to being managed because they have not had opportunities to practice managing themselves? Conversation Points: Even though classroom management addresses concerns from student seating arrangement to student behavior, it requires teachers to try to “control the weather,” thus placing them in charge of managing all the energy in the classroom environment. Classroom management does not inform college-readiness or LIFE-readiness if it doesn't provide students with opportunities to practice self-management. Classroom rules tend to be arbitrary, ambiguous and absolute.Classroom norms promote autonomy, accountability and audacity.Rules and norms must be distinguished; their meanings are the difference between punishment and consequences.Encouraging self-management represent the #relationshipgoals of the classroom.Visionary Homework: Explore these questions in a journal write: What does “management” mean to you?Who are you managing currently? Who's managing you? What does it feel like to manage or be managed? What is the long game for managing your child or students' learning?The Proof:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers,Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted WachtelPlease and Thank You: Follow! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Editing by Devonne Williams Music by Cipriana Bethea 

On today's show, Jeremy Reymer, Founder & CEO, DriverReach, talks with  longtime Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the American Trucking Associations, Bob Costello.Remember you can submit any questions or comments, including those which may appear on upcoming Deeper Dive segments - at podcast@driverreach.com.  And don't forget to rate and review Taking the Hire Road on whatever platform you listen.Follow Taking The Hire Road on Apple PodcastsFollow Taking The Hire Road on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

On today's show, Jeremy Reymer, Founder & CEO, DriverReach, talks with  longtime Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the American Trucking Associations, Bob Costello.Remember you can submit any questions or comments, including those which may appear on upcoming Deeper Dive segments - at podcast@driverreach.com.  And don't forget to rate and review Taking the Hire Road on whatever platform you listen.Follow Taking The Hire Road on Apple PodcastsFollow Taking The Hire Road on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

Thank you for leaning in and listening to episode 12 of CALM Conversations about Learning!This episode continues this month's Pillar Talk about lessons. Lesson-planning and delivery are important parts of teaching and learning but can only be effective if the lesson begins with intention and ends with impact.   We begin with intention in this episode, where I share about a student who refused to learn from me and what I learned about teaching, as a result. Conversation Points: Part of teaching lessons involves learning lessons.The standard definition of  the word “lesson" is the material that's taught and learned; the content or skill or the how-to of something. Lesson is the action of the curriculum; it is meant to move the learning process.A learning standard is simply a structure and through structure comes freedom.We teach students not standards.The STANDARD QUESTION: What do I want my child/students to know, do or learn?The SALIENT QUESTION: What kind of learning experience do I want my child/students to have? ...*And what kind of teaching experience do I want to have?No lesson will be effective without considering engagement, environment and most importantly, the relationship. Visionary Homework:Journal about the learning experience that you'd like your child or students to have --and the teaching experience that you'd like to have when engaging with the lessons that you deliver. Consider relationship, engagement and environment. Take note of any frustration you feel currently and how you'd like to feel instead.DM me on the INSTAGRAM @zenani116 if you have any questions or would like to share your experience; I would love to hear from you!CTA: Do the Podcast-Listener Thing: Follow. Subscribe. Rate. Review. The Proof:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers,Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel 

This bonus episode breaks down the CALM Pillars, the structures that were my best practices for effective teaching and have now been repurposed for this podcast.Conversation Points: A VISION must be supported by VALUES. VALUES must be enacted for the VISION to become VIABLE.Pillar 1 is the Check-in (1.) AKA the Relationship Pillar; promotes mutual empathy, respect and dignity; fosters connection, self-awareness and accountability;  creates safe and brave spaces; serves as the foundation for the other three pillars.Pillar 2 is the Agenda, which builds trust  through routines and ritualsPillar 3 is the Lesson and is ideally designed and taught with thoughtfulness and knowledge of students' strengths, challenges and cultural contexts.Pillar 4 is Management, promoting student agency and accountability.DM me @zenani116 with YOUR Vision for your child's/students' education; I would LOVE to share it with other Visionary listeners! Please and Thank You: FOLLOW! SUBSCRIBE! SHARE! RATE! REVIEW!PROOF:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel

It's An FBTV Podcast Extra... - ATA Says' Theres a Driver ShortageBob Costello, Chief Economist for the ATA delivered a presentation to the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting last week touting the reasons for the driver shortage. The ATA say's there is a driver shortage, OOIDA says it's a hoax. This and more on this FBTV Podcast from TALTOA. https://taltoa.comhttps://freightbrokertv.com

Thank you for leaning in and listening to episode 5 of CALM Conversations about Learning!This episode is from me to you about the ULTIMATE in self-care: Checking in with yourself to assess your needs and getting those needs met, as well as locating your “nearest exit” no matter the situation...and speaking of which, I'll be sharing about a recent situation that I am not proud of. But checking in and locating my nearest exit made it all better!Plus, I have an invitation for you: Come join me on the Instagram, LIVE for a quick Visionary Check-in, next Wednesday, July 28th @ 11am-noon! We won't be in a Circle but we can still share and connect @zenani116!Conversation Points: The power of performing a SELF Check-inResponding versus Reacting What it means to locate your nearest exit NOT “finding your happy place” Why it's called a “practice”PLEASE and THANK YOU:Follow! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Edited by Devonne WilliamsBeats by Cipriana BetheaThe Proof:The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel

Description: Thank you for leaning in and listening to episode 4 of CALM Conversations about Learning!C is for CHECK-IN...at least where the CALM Pillars are concerned! So, in this episode, I'll take you on a mini-tour of what it means to be “restorative” and how Check-in Circles can deepen our relationships with our young people!  Plus, there'll be a little Visionary homework for you! WOOO HOOOOO!!Conversation Points: The origins of Restorative PracticesWhat it means to be “restorative” The power of the Check-in Circle What REALLY matters is... Please and Thank You:Follow! Subscribe! Rate! Review! The Proof:The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education by Katherine Evans and Dorothy VaanderingThe Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel

This bonus episode breaks down the CALM Pillars, the structures that were my best practices for effective teaching and have now been repurposed for this podcast.Talking Points: A VISION must be supported by VALUES. VALUES must be enacted for the VISION to become VIABLE.Pillar 1 is the Check-in (1.) AKA the Relationship Pillar; promotes mutual empathy, respect and dignity; fosters connection, self-awareness and accountability;  serves as the foundation for the other three pillars.Pillar 2 is the Agenda, which creates safe and brave spaces.Pillar 3 is the Lesson and is ideally designed and taught with thoughtfulness and knowledge of students' strengths, challenges and cultural contexts.Pillar 4 is Management, promoting student agency and accountability.DM me @zenani116 with YOUR Vision for your child's or students' education; I would LOVE to share it with other Visionary listeners! SUBSCRIBE! SHARE! RATE! REVIEW!The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello, Joshua Wachtel and Ted Wachtel

In this episode of The Roadmap to TIC 3.0, Constance Sayers, president of Government Executive Media Group, will speak with Chris Hocker, systems architect at Cisco Systems and Bob Costello, strategic advisor for public sector at WWT to hone-in on how TIC 3.0 can improve network performance and manageability, cybersecurity, and operational effectiveness for federal government networks.

“I have a cadet who I've known his family since before he was born…he said, you know the worst place for a white male Christian is the U.S. Air Force academy,” Gen Bishop said. Our guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Boris Epshteyn, Lt. General Rod D. Bishop Jr. , Matt DePerno, Bob Costello Stay ahead of the censors - Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 05/17/2021 Watch: On the Web: http://www.warroomorg.wpengine.com On Podcast: http://warroom.ctcin.bio On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240, Dish Channel 219, Roku, Apple TV, FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. #news #politics #realnews

“I have a cadet who I’ve known his family since before he was born…he said, you know the worst place for a white male Christian is the U.S. Air Force academy,” Gen Bishop said. Our guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Boris Epshteyn, Lt. General Rod D. Bishop Jr. , Matt DePerno, Bob Costello Stay ahead of the censors - Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 05/17/2021 Watch: On the Web: http://www.warroomorg.wpengine.com On Podcast: http://warroom.ctcin.bio On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240, Dish Channel 219, Roku, Apple TV, FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. #news #politics #realnews

Today's episode features a re-run of The Dairy Download, a podcast from our partner organizations Blimling and IDFA. This episode (S2E3), Trucking Along: A Focus on Freight tackles the important issue of supply chain logistics and the role they play in moving product; featuring a perspective on global dairy from DairyAmerica CEO Patti Smith, a analysis from Bob Costello, Senior VP and Economist with the American Trucking Association, and a market report from Blimling's Phil Plourd and Kathleen Wolfley, hosts. We also hear a brief LUC update from Rashell. We hope you enjoy this episode and a new podcast to tune into! We'll see you next week with a return to our regular programing.

Click, pay, collect. From gaming consoles to groceries, it’s never been easier to buy online for home delivery. But who’s getting those goodies from stores and warehouses to your doorstep? The latest episode of “The Dairy Download” explores the (often bumpy) pathways that connect products and consumers across the world.We first get a global perspective from DairyAmerica CEO Patti Smith, who offers a look at the way logistics are impacting her business. As head of the world’s largest milk powder marketer, Smith talks about how her company is coping with supply chain challenges and what’s next for US dairy exports.Bob Costello, chief economist and senior vice president with American Trucking Associations, also joins the podcast to discuss how the trucking industry fits into the picture. From a crush of retail sales to declining energy exploration, Costello gives a look through the windshield at how the pandemic and other forces are changing the way haulers do business.Today's episode is sponsored by RSM. "At RSM, “We Know Dairy.” With industry recognized and award winning Microsoft solutions from Dynamics 365, Office, Teams, Power BI and more, RSM is your stop for a Dairy focused technology solutions provider. Learn more at digital.rsmus.com."If your company is interested in sponsoring a block of episodes of The Dairy Download, contact IDFA’s Melissa Lembke at mlembke@idfa.org. Questions or comments about the show? We want to hear from you. Send a note to dairydownload@idfa.org and your feedback could be included on a future episode.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Bob Costello, Chief...

On this throwback episode, we chat with Lynn and Bob Costello of The Costellos Maverick Pop! Listen in to hear more from the folks behind the music as they share their love of the Beacon community! To download their music and keep up with the latest happenings with the band here on their website: https://www.thecostellosmusic.com Be sure to follow them on Facebook here: https://m.facebook.com/TheCostellosMaverickPop/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iambeacon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/iambeacon/support

How is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) enhancing its enterprise networks? What is the CBP's “mission first” approach to network and technology solutions? How is CBP working to built a resilient enterprise systems network? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Costello, Executive Director, Enterprise Networks and Technology Support, Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Customs and Border Protections

How is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enhancing its enterprise networks? What is the CBP’s “mission first” approach to network and technology solutions? How is CBP working to built a resilient enterprise systems network? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Costello, Executive Director, Enterprise Networks and […]

With the Democratic presidential nomination all but secured by former Vice President Joe Biden, the spotlight now shifts to the Senate. This November, 35 senate seats are up for grabs with 22 controlled by the Republicans. Tom Bevan, co-founder and President of Real Clear Politics, discusses the recent poll numbers from swing states and how the balance of power in the senate will be determined on November 6th.  America's truck drivers are still on the road moving the majority of freight amid the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of cross-border policy at the American Trucking Associations, Bob Costello discusses the supply and demand from truckers during the Covid-19 outbreak, some of the obstacles they face and what precautions they're taking.    Plus, commentary by former aide to Senator Chuck Schumer and radio host Chris Hahn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimated a record-high driver shortage of 60,800 at the end of 2018—almost exclusively in the over-the-road for-hire truckload segment. And forecasted it to increase to 160,000 by 2028. Bob Costello, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at ATA joins host Chris Caplice in this episode to break down their estimate, understand the root causes, and explore some possible solutions. Think: Attracting new drivers, enabling increased shipper productivity, and adopting driver-assisted technologies. This episode wraps up with Inam Iyoob sharing the most recent North American truckload market rate trends and forecast powered by FMIC.[4:45] Grab a free copy of ATRI report, “An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2019 Update” by Dan Murray here: https://truckingresearch.org/2019/11/04/an-analysis-of-the-operational-costs-of-trucking-2019-update/[8:05] Grab a copy of the ATA Truck Driver Shortage Analysis 2019 report here: https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/ata-releases-updated-driver-shortage-report-and-forecast.[19:56] Listen to the full David Correll episode here, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://freightvine.podbean.com/e/solving-the-driver-shortage-the-value-of-12-minutes-david-correll/

The US Bank Freight Payment Index collects actionable data from the national and regional levels to give businesses important insight into market conditions to help inform their decision making. The trucking industry uses that data to stay keenly aware of recent trends to avoid potential pitfalls in a fluid and shifting economy. Bob Costello of the American Trucking Association, and Bobby Holland of US Bank, join us to share their observations on some of the recent trends they’re tracking. FOR MORE INFORMATION: U.S. BANK FREIGHT PAYMENT INDEX: www.freight.usbank.com AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION: www.trucking.org   WANT TO RESPOND TO THIS EPISODE? Call our Dialog Line: 888-878-3247 DOWNLOAD THE NEW INBOUND LOGISTICS APP featuring the 2019 Logistics Planner! Available on iTunes and the Google Play Store: http://bit.ly/ILMagApp   http://bit.ly/ILMagAppGoogle  Are you a #logistics Thought Leader that would like to be featured on the Inbound Logistics Podcast?  Connect with me on Twitter:  @ILMagPodcast Email me: podcast@inboundlogistics.com   Connect with Inbound Logistics Magazine on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/inboundlogistics Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ILMagazine Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InboundLogistics Catch our latest videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/inboundlogistics   Visit us at www.inboundlogistics.com

Trucking and logistics have gone hand in hand for decades. As the industry evolved, freight companies had to be mindful of the change dynamics and either be agile enough to adapt to the times or face a rough road ahead. Bob Costello of the American trucking Association and Bobby Holland of US Bank join us to talk about how US Bank’s Freight Payment Index is helping to provide companies with vital and actionable data to keep their supply chains moving. FOR MORE INFO ON US BANK'S FREIGHT PAYMENT INDEX: www.freight.usbank.com FOR MORE INFO ON THE AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION: www.trucking.org WANT TO RESPOND TO THIS EPISODE? Call our Dialog Line: 888-878-3247 DOWNLOAD THE NEW INBOUND LOGISTICS APP featuring the 2017 Logistics Planner! Available on iTunes and the Google Play Store: http://bit.ly/ILMagApp   http://bit.ly/ILMagAppGoogle  Are you a #logistics Thought Leader that would like to be featured on the Inbound Logistics Podcast?  Connect with me on Twitter:  @ILMagPodcast Email me: podcast@inboundlogistics.com   Connect with Inbound Logistics Magazine on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/inboundlogistics Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ILMagazine Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InboundLogistics Catch our latest videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/inboundlogistics   Visit us at www.inboundlogistics.com

Many of you who are NOT current clients, have asked WHAT is included in the Valerie V Mentoring Program. So today I'm giving you the full run-down. My advice: Take the leap. Let's talk about it. 888-404-1513 or schedule an appointment to talk to my colleague Bob Costello https://ltcep.appointlet.com/s/30/bob

What can the Agile approach teach us about sustaining momentum in team coaching engagements? How do leaders and organizations need to evolve in order to enable a shift to agile teaming? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast with Host Dr. Krister Lowe and guests Art Pittman and Bob Costello to learn the answers to these and other intriguing questions. Art Pittman is a Leadership Coach with the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, an Agile Team Coach with the Eliassen Group and an Adjunct Staff at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bob Costello is a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group-an IT Staffing, Recruiting and Consulting Company. In the episode, Art and Bob share their insights about coaching leaders, teams and organizations to become more agile. Some themes covered include: -Trends in agile -The mainstreaming of agile -The role of leaders in agile change -The story of the Chicken and the Pig -Shifting to team-based organizational designs in new companies vs. large established ones -Factors that impact momentum in team coaching -Complex adaptive systems and simple rules -The role of norms in teams -Team maturity and indicators of development -Mindset in teams -Vulnerability and psychological safety -And more! This is a rich episode brimming over with practical insights, tips and resources that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Get in The Team Coaching Zone Today and start taking your team coaching practice to the next level!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational coach Bob Costello—a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bob offers over 20 years experience in the software industry and has held leadership positions in both software startups and large organizations. He has a background in software development, product management, and engineering. For the last 8 years Bob has been helping organizations, both at the team and leadership levels, to make the transition to agile. Bob excels at helping organizations achieve both their business and organizational goals of an agile change program, with leadership coaching, team coaching and change management. He has a rich background of experience with IBM Design Studio, BlueCollar Objects, Akkolade Consulting, Valtech, ACS, CGI-AMS, BEA Systems, Deloitte, Next Software and more. In this episode Bob shares his journey over the last 20 years rising up through the ranks in the software development industry to becoming an agile leadership and team coach. Themes covered in the podcast include: working at NEXT Software with Steve Jobs; The Agile Manifesto; the changing operating context that catalyzed the agile movement; agile principles and practices; coaching agile mindsets vs. process; “being” vs. “doing” agile; using situational leadership for coaching agile leaders and teams; shared leadership in agile teams; the 4 SCRUM ceremonies; managing your role as an agile team coach; team maturity and development; agile teams as learning teams and more. Bob also shares some great stories coaching agile teams as well as recommendations on books and team coach training programs that focus on agile. All team coaches including both generalist practitioners as well as specialists in coaching agile teams will find Bob’s insights and lessons learned well worth the listen. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!