Rebel News Podcast - March 05, 2020


Bernie or Biden？ US Democratic primaries are down to the socialist and the “doddering” one-time VP


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

160.75348

Word Count

8,204

Sentence Count

437

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

Ezra Levant gives his thoughts on the Democratic Primary Debates, and why Tulsi Gabbard is not a contender. Plus, why the Democratic establishment rigged the primary debates and why Tom Steyer bought his way into the race.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I've got a fun recap of the Democratic presidential primaries in the
00:00:07.420 states. And obviously, I support Donald Trump and regard myself as a Republican, even though
00:00:13.280 I'm a Canadian. I'm not a member of any U.S. party. Obviously, my sympathies are with them.
00:00:18.580 But I got to tell you, it has been so entertaining watching the Democratic Party. I've been
00:00:23.740 riveted to it, and I think everyone has, I think. I'm going to take you through some of my favorite
00:00:28.840 moments of the campaign. I think I've got 10 clips for you that really tell the story.
00:00:34.720 Some of them you've got to see with your own eyes. There's one of Michael Bloomberg
00:00:38.460 touching a pizza and licking his fingers and then touching the pizza again. Oh, my God. I mean,
00:00:49.280 oh, so you've got to see it. So you can get some of it on the podcast version, but you've got to get
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00:01:04.000 And you get Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, too, and David Menzies' show, too. Just go to rebelnews.com,
00:01:08.160 and it's really easy to find a subscribe button. Eight bucks a month. And you'll see the video part,
00:01:14.000 too. Okay, here's the rest of the audio podcast. Tonight, what just happened in the U.S. Democratic
00:01:35.140 primaries? I'll show you some video clips that help tell the story. It's March 4th,
00:01:40.060 and this is The Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
00:01:46.380 consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing
00:01:52.020 I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right
00:01:56.620 to do so. I normally rely on U.S. experts like our friend Joel Pollack to dissect what's going on
00:02:08.720 in U.S. politics, and Joel is particularly good because he really follows the Democratic Party.
00:02:14.360 He goes to their events, I mean. He talks to them. He tries to understand them on their terms.
00:02:19.540 He's not a partisan Republican sniper. He's not into gotcha or unfair criticisms. He's obviously
00:02:25.400 conservative in his ideology, and he supports Trump, but it's not blind love for Trump, and it's not at
00:02:31.040 the expense of his journalistic and intellectual integrity. I really rely on Joel for the Democrats.
00:02:36.480 I'd like to think that I, personally, would give Democrats credit where it's due, too,
00:02:42.320 but to be candid with you, I'm having trouble sympathizing with any of their candidates right
00:02:47.300 now. I like Tulsi Gabbard, but I admit that some of that is just aesthetic. I like the fact that
00:02:54.060 she's young and attractive and a military veteran who's actually served. I like the fact that she
00:02:59.600 bucks the Democratic Party's establishment, and she even sued Hillary Clinton when Clinton alleged that
00:03:05.120 Tulsi is a Russian agent or something. Imagine a life of military service and then servicing Congress
00:03:12.840 and having Clinton call you a traitor, the same Hillary Clinton whose Clinton Global Foundation
00:03:19.920 accepted literally hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments and corporations
00:03:24.040 during Clinton's time as Secretary of State, clearly for political and business quid pro quo.
00:03:29.400 I like Tulsi just for that, but alas, she never took hold. Perhaps it was because she was from Hawaii,
00:03:36.900 a small and remote state. Perhaps it's because the Democratic establishment just refused and rigged the
00:03:43.440 rules of their party debates. In fact, they changed them again today in a way to rule her out, but to let
00:03:48.580 others like Tom Steyer in. He's the California billionaire who tried to buy his way in, and he did buy his way
00:03:57.140 into various debates. Oh, well, too bad. Let me play for you my video, my just one last video of Tulsi Gabbard,
00:04:05.200 just because it's so cute. Look at this.
00:04:07.580 Where I live, there are rainbows, with life in the laughter of morning and starry nights.
00:04:23.640 That's her husband, by the way, if you didn't get that. I gotta tell you, they're quirky, but they're real.
00:04:48.400 I liked that she didn't indulge the madness of her party, too, by the way. She voted present, I think,
00:04:53.880 or abstain or something neutral on the impeachment vote, which shows some sanity. But alas, she is not
00:05:00.800 a contender, so let's look at who was. I mentioned that Tom Steyer, the global warming-obsessed
00:05:06.700 impeachment-obsessed billionaire, tried to buy his way into the race, and he did, in fact, buy his way
00:05:11.980 onto the stage. He was cardboard, though. He dropped out. But what about this guy? That guy
00:05:19.720 is actually, can you see it there, the meatball in the front? That is a meatball that looks like
00:05:26.340 Michael Bloomberg, who doesn't just have $1 billion like Tom Steyer. Bloomberg's estimated to be worth
00:05:34.700 more than $60 billion, and he spent it like mad, including on that meatball meme. Bloomberg bought
00:05:41.800 that and paid for that. He spent his money on anything. He bought weird ads, anything. Really,
00:05:47.120 anyone with an idea could sell it to him. It was a miracle for ad agencies. Look at this one.
00:05:53.380 Donald Trump eats burnt steak. Mike Bloomberg likes his media wear. I mean, Bloomberg is 78 years old,
00:06:00.520 and he has more than $60 billion. Let's say he lives another 10 years. May he live many more.
00:06:06.360 But let's say he lives 10 years. That's still $6 billion a year he could spend. Actually, more,
00:06:13.100 since Bloomberg's wealth is still increasing. That means Bloomberg could spend $500 million
00:06:18.780 every month and still not spend all of his money. So he literally thought,
00:06:27.780 buy anything and everything, any kooky idea, every kooky idea. He just said yes,
00:06:33.180 because money is literally no object to him. I've been in the U.S. a little bit in recent months,
00:06:38.680 and wherever you go, if there's a TV on in the background, you know, a lot of restaurants and
00:06:43.460 bars have a TV on. You can't escape Mike Bloomberg and his TV ads just everywhere. He dropped between
00:06:50.380 $500 million and $700 million in just a couple months. I don't know the final figures.
00:06:56.640 And yet it was a disaster. He just didn't move the needle. I think he won American Samoa.
00:07:04.800 Not sure how that happened. He literally could have offered every Democratic Party delegate $10 million
00:07:11.500 cash to vote for him, and he would have done better and spent less money.
00:07:16.340 He was a bit weird, as billionaires can be. Look at this. This is a video his own team released.
00:07:23.820 If you didn't know who this guy was, and he was at the community picnic touching all the food and
00:07:29.580 then licking all of his fingers and then touching the food again, you'd say, ooh, gross, smarten up.
00:07:37.600 Don't do that. Don't double dip. Don't lick your fingers and touch everything in this era of
00:07:42.000 coronavirus. But when the weirdo licking and touching and licking and touching is worth $60
00:07:48.680 billion, no one around him says anything because they're either scared of him or more likely looking
00:07:56.600 to ingratiate themselves with him. He's had lots of weird moments like that that made him, I think,
00:08:02.520 weird and unlikable. Like this one. Did you see this?
00:08:05.240 You spent a lot of time in Texas? Tejas, we'd say here. Tejas. Tejas. That's Spanish for Texas.
00:08:14.500 Okay. You're in a Cuban neighborhood, so you've got to know where you're on.
00:08:20.780 Yeah, man. Woo! You just... Tejas. That's what we say here. I read my briefing notes from my PR agency,
00:08:31.140 and they said to call it Tejas, because everyone does. Don't mess with Tejas. Have you been to Dallas, Tejas?
00:08:40.740 Oh, my God. Yeah, no. Bloomberg makes Mark Zuckerberg look lifelike and human.
00:08:49.700 Bloomberg is many times richer than Donald Trump, who is also a billionaire.
00:08:53.540 And by many measures, look, Bloomberg is more successful than Trump, but Trump, at least, is a human.
00:09:01.180 He knows how to fight and to laugh and to fight while laughing and laugh while fighting.
00:09:05.380 Like this, that Trump said just last weekend in his speech at the CPAC convention I was at.
00:09:10.920 She was really mean to Minnie Mike, I'll tell you, the way she treated her.
00:09:15.220 He didn't know what hit him.
00:09:16.240 He's going, oh, get me off of this stage.
00:09:21.320 Get me off! Get me off of this stage!
00:09:29.180 I'm sorry. Don't tell me you didn't laugh. That's funny.
00:09:32.120 I don't care what you think of Trump. You have to admit he has a comedian's timing.
00:09:35.940 He's a quick wit. He's an entertainer.
00:09:38.060 He wouldn't say, oh, they call it Tejas.
00:09:41.620 What?
00:09:42.020 Now, Trump was talking there in that little clip about how Elizabeth Warren took Bloomberg out to the woodshed in the debates a few weeks ago.
00:09:50.600 It was amazing.
00:09:52.120 I showed you this clip the other day. Remember this?
00:09:54.360 The mayor has to stand on his record.
00:09:57.140 And what we need to know is exactly what's lurking out there.
00:10:00.640 He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements,
00:10:06.700 both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.
00:10:12.020 So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements
00:10:17.840 so we can hear their side of the story?
00:10:20.540 We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.
00:10:31.820 How many is there?
00:10:32.560 Let me finish.
00:10:33.300 How many is there?
00:10:34.000 None of them accused me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.
00:10:39.920 And let me just put – and let me point – there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them.
00:10:48.100 They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.
00:10:50.360 So, wait, when you say it is – I just want to be clear.
00:10:53.980 Some is how many?
00:10:56.860 And when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege,
00:11:08.340 that's now okay with you? You're releasing them on television tonight?
00:11:11.400 Senator – Senator, no.
00:11:12.920 Is that right?
00:11:16.460 Senator –
00:11:17.060 Is that right tonight?
00:11:17.880 Senator, the company and somebody else, in this case, a man or a woman, or it could be more than that,
00:11:23.400 they decided when they made an agreement that they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interest.
00:11:28.180 They signed the agreements, and that's what we're going to live with.
00:11:30.420 I'm sorry.
00:11:31.320 No, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you?
00:11:36.500 And you could release them from that immediately, because understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character.
00:11:44.800 This is also a question about –
00:11:47.380 I've got to tell you, that was deadly.
00:11:51.060 As Nigel Farage put it in a tweet just today, only ideas and personality win in politics, and you can't buy those with money.
00:12:01.500 I don't know about you, but I found it deeply comforting that a guy who dumped, I don't know, $700 million,
00:12:08.200 and remember, that's U.S. money, so that's almost a billion Canadian dollars,
00:12:14.440 he couldn't move the needle in a democracy.
00:12:17.200 And whatever Tom Steyer, the billionaire, spent – isn't that comforting?
00:12:20.640 I mean, seriously, I thought it was.
00:12:22.440 And it shows what a hoax the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing was.
00:12:25.880 As you know, in the end, the Russians spent just over $100,000 in Facebook ads in the 2016 U.S. election,
00:12:33.080 and the media claimed that rigged the election.
00:12:35.780 Hey, $700 million didn't rig the election.
00:12:39.160 Now, Pete Buttigieg was really odd as a candidate, I thought.
00:12:43.600 He looked like he was made in a lab, too.
00:12:46.280 Bloomberg was weird, but he was weird in his own quirky way, like Howard Hughes, maybe,
00:12:53.040 like a recluse billionaire, but Buttigieg was weird in a robotic way.
00:12:59.140 He obviously studied and tried to mimic Barack Obama.
00:13:03.260 The way we do every other election, by giving it to the person who got the most votes.
00:13:06.880 Just a thought.
00:13:08.680 Because this country was built.
00:13:11.800 It is a movement reaching into church basements,
00:13:14.360 and in our schools, and in our universities, and with our kids.
00:13:17.620 And if we can line up the neighborhoods, and we can line up the city.
00:13:21.140 Shining as a beacon around the world once more.
00:13:24.020 And this is our chance to change.
00:13:25.160 This is our chance to answer that call.
00:13:26.480 Yeah, something odd about him.
00:13:28.040 I think he was with the CIA.
00:13:30.500 I got nothing against a guy who works for the CIA, per se,
00:13:33.900 although it feels like he's living a life as an alias, as a cover story.
00:13:38.920 He just didn't seem real.
00:13:40.580 He really felt phony.
00:13:41.620 So much so that the New York Times, of all people, basically called him out.
00:13:46.580 Take a look at this.
00:13:47.520 You've been on the front lines of corporate price fixing.
00:13:49.880 You've been on the front lines of our misadventures in foreign policy.
00:13:55.280 You've had direct experience of many of the things
00:13:57.940 that make a lot of young people very angry
00:14:00.320 about the way that this country is operating right now.
00:14:04.080 You don't seem to embody that anger.
00:14:06.680 So the proposition that I've been on the front lines of corporate price fixing is
00:14:09.620 just to get that out of the way.
00:14:11.740 You worked for a company that was fixing bread prices.
00:14:15.320 No.
00:14:16.060 I worked for a consulting company that had a client
00:14:18.600 that may have been involved in fixing, or was apparently in a scandal.
00:14:23.140 I was not aware of the Canadian bread pricing scandal until last night.
00:14:27.940 Hmm.
00:14:28.860 They didn't like him, and they like every Democrat.
00:14:32.560 There's another candidate named Amy Klobuchar who dropped out quickly, too.
00:14:36.420 Almost all of them dropped out and pledged their support to Joe Biden at the same time.
00:14:40.220 Biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not.
00:14:45.520 Yeah.
00:14:47.140 Buttigieg, Klobuchar, even Beto O'Rourke, remember him?
00:14:50.800 He dropped out earlier.
00:14:51.920 All of a sudden, they all assembled next to Joe Biden on the same day.
00:14:57.940 This was before last night's Super Tuesday vote.
00:15:01.420 And that was the point.
00:15:02.320 The Democratic Party establishment was getting all the moderate candidates out of the race
00:15:07.960 to coalesce behind Joe Biden, but leaving Elizabeth Warren, the leftist activist, in
00:15:13.840 to split Bernie Sanders' radical left vote.
00:15:17.940 She has no chance of winning.
00:15:19.420 Zero chance.
00:15:20.400 But last night, she surely cost Bernie lots of support in key states like Texas and California.
00:15:27.200 So it was smart to leave her in for the Biden-Democrat establishment.
00:15:31.940 Remember how it worked for Donald Trump four years ago?
00:15:35.120 Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination in much the same way.
00:15:39.800 He was the only interesting guy, and he was running against more than a dozen competitors.
00:15:44.880 So the vote split between one Trump and many anti-Trump candidates, establishment candidates.
00:15:51.380 So he won even without a majority at first.
00:15:54.840 The Democrats are trying to stop that dynamic to make it one moderate, Joe Biden, as the
00:16:01.240 anti-Bernie.
00:16:02.700 And to keep Elizabeth Warren in to split the hard left vote.
00:16:05.780 They're trying to flip the dynamics around on Bernie Sanders.
00:16:08.460 Now, Bloomberg stayed in just long enough to realize that his $700 million campaign wasn't
00:16:13.800 working and wouldn't work.
00:16:15.520 He had to find out for himself, I guess.
00:16:17.420 So now it's down to two, really.
00:16:19.540 Yeah, Elizabeth Warren is in there, but not really.
00:16:21.560 It's down to two.
00:16:22.860 Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
00:16:25.200 The others remaining aren't really serious.
00:16:26.880 And you know what?
00:16:28.540 Joe Biden is actually in the lead now.
00:16:30.640 And I'm pretty sure he's going to win.
00:16:33.160 They'll arrange it that way, like they arranged for Hillary Clinton to beat Bernie Sanders last
00:16:37.740 time.
00:16:38.140 It's not a conspiracy theory.
00:16:39.320 That's what they did with intricate insider rules last time.
00:16:42.920 It was that superdelegates could overcome the foolish choice of mere Democratic Party
00:16:48.380 members.
00:16:49.400 So they replaced Bernie Sanders last time, a radical socialist, who for years wasn't even
00:16:55.200 really a Democrat.
00:16:56.000 You know, Bernie Sanders wasn't in the Democratic Party.
00:16:58.320 He was in the Socialist Party.
00:17:00.080 But Bernie Sanders, from an electoral point of view, at least he had passion and authenticity.
00:17:04.440 They replaced him with an evil robot, Hillary Clinton.
00:17:08.320 At least Bloomberg is a goofy robot.
00:17:11.500 And Tom Steyer and Pete Buttigieg are bland robots.
00:17:15.560 Clinton was an unlikable robot.
00:17:17.940 And those are the worst kind of robots.
00:17:19.940 So now the option is Joe Biden, who is likable.
00:17:23.720 He's losing his marbles.
00:17:25.420 Sorry to say it.
00:17:26.260 He is.
00:17:27.000 But he's usually likable.
00:17:29.520 Usually.
00:17:30.780 Now, he's 77 years old.
00:17:33.220 Bloomberg is 78 years old.
00:17:35.620 Bernie Sanders is 78 years old, too.
00:17:38.560 Trump is 73.
00:17:39.780 But I got to say he feels 63 to me in terms of his energy level.
00:17:44.560 Bernie had a heart attack on the campaign already.
00:17:48.720 And I'm not sure about Biden.
00:17:50.140 But remember, look at that eye.
00:17:51.260 Look at his eye there.
00:17:52.180 Strange things happen to him.
00:17:53.120 In one of the debates, suddenly his eye was full of blood.
00:17:56.980 It was terrifying.
00:17:57.940 I don't know what that meant.
00:17:58.640 Was it just a tiny little blood vessel burst?
00:18:00.440 And why?
00:18:00.860 I don't know.
00:18:01.520 But mainly, I think Joe Biden's losing it a bit.
00:18:06.940 Forgetting what day it is.
00:18:08.020 Forgetting what place he's in.
00:18:09.100 What state he's in.
00:18:10.160 Now, maybe that's excusable.
00:18:11.400 He's flying around so much.
00:18:13.800 But I don't know.
00:18:14.760 Is this normal?
00:18:17.620 Look, tomorrow is Super Thursday.
00:18:20.820 And I want to thank you all.
00:18:23.080 I tell you what, I'm rushing ahead, aren't I?
00:18:24.800 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability.
00:18:33.980 It would put 720 million back, million women back in the workforce.
00:18:40.320 Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.
00:18:43.560 My name's Joe Biden.
00:18:44.780 I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
00:18:47.320 What's not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?
00:18:50.240 And what a neat town.
00:18:51.900 Play the radio.
00:18:52.860 Make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.
00:18:57.680 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
00:19:01.080 We choose science over fiction.
00:19:03.220 We choose truth over facts.
00:19:05.800 Think about it.
00:19:06.780 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:19:09.500 All men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.
00:19:13.560 Yeah, I do know the thing.
00:19:17.480 So Biden is 77.
00:19:19.240 He would be 78 years old when inaugurated if he wins.
00:19:23.960 I just don't see it.
00:19:25.560 Him going full tilt, global travel, 18-hour work days like Trump does.
00:19:31.220 I just don't see it with Joe Biden.
00:19:32.660 Biden is likable, so that's a plus.
00:19:34.440 It's odd, though, that Barack Obama, who endorsed Justin Trudeau, for heaven's sakes,
00:19:38.900 hasn't quite fully, really endorsed Joe Biden yet, has he?
00:19:44.340 But here's an official ad rolled out by Bernie Sanders.
00:19:48.280 Bernie is somebody who has the virtue of saying exactly what he believes,
00:19:54.120 great authenticity, great passion, and is fearless.
00:19:57.920 Bernie served on the Veterans Committee and got bills done.
00:20:00.480 I think people are ready for a call to action.
00:20:05.360 They want honest leadership who cares about them.
00:20:08.500 They want somebody who's going to fight for them.
00:20:10.540 And they will find it in Bernie.
00:20:12.640 That's where I feel the burn.
00:20:15.360 I'm Bernie Sanders.
00:20:16.560 If you're a lefty, that's inspiring, I think.
00:20:20.640 Here's another one-minute Bernie Sanders ad.
00:20:23.140 I know it's socialism and group identity politics,
00:20:26.300 but again, there's energy and authenticity and passion here.
00:20:30.000 Take a look.
00:20:30.640 With these hands, we will rise.
00:20:35.260 With these hands, we will transform this country.
00:20:40.100 With these hands, we will have Medicare for all.
00:20:44.200 With these hands, we will have college for all.
00:20:48.060 With these hands, we will have criminal justice reform.
00:20:52.820 With these hands, we will strike down the vestiges of racism
00:20:57.380 and discrimination and homophobia and xenophobia.
00:21:00.560 With these hands, be we black or brown or red or white or yellow
00:21:08.420 or the swirl in between.
00:21:11.400 With these hands, we will elect Senator Bernie Sanders
00:21:16.700 as the next president of the United States of America.
00:21:25.400 Now, look, Bernie isn't pure.
00:21:27.440 As Bloomberg himself pointed out,
00:21:30.180 Bernie doesn't rage against millionaires anymore,
00:21:33.000 just against billionaires,
00:21:34.460 because Bernie himself has become a millionaire
00:21:38.000 with three houses.
00:21:40.220 What a wonderful country we have.
00:21:46.640 The best-known socialists in the country
00:21:48.380 happens to be a millionaire with three houses.
00:21:50.440 What did I miss here?
00:21:53.340 But still, as Washington lifers go,
00:21:55.700 Bernie is relatively clean, not so for Joe Biden.
00:21:59.560 Joe Biden's family cashes in
00:22:01.420 and has for years, like Hillary Clinton and Bill would do.
00:22:06.220 Joe Biden would make a political move,
00:22:07.940 and his son and other family members
00:22:09.920 would monetize it in the private sector.
00:22:13.100 Yeah, right.
00:22:14.060 Joe Biden, for example, threatened Ukraine
00:22:16.480 if they didn't do what he said,
00:22:18.220 like calling off a prosecutor
00:22:19.620 from investigating corruption.
00:22:21.680 Do you remember this?
00:22:22.720 I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev,
00:22:27.280 and I was supposed to announce
00:22:29.860 that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.
00:22:33.140 And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko
00:22:35.980 and from Yatzenyuk
00:22:38.760 that they would take action
00:22:39.900 against a state prosecutor, and they didn't.
00:22:42.520 So they said they were walking out to the press conference,
00:22:44.760 said, no, I said, I'm not going to,
00:22:46.340 we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
00:22:49.220 They said, you have no authority.
00:22:50.680 You're not the president.
00:22:51.500 The president said, I said, call him.
00:22:54.420 I said, I'm telling you,
00:22:55.400 you're not getting the billion dollars.
00:22:57.160 I said, you're not getting the billion?
00:22:58.560 I'm going to be leaving here,
00:22:59.560 and I think it was, what, six hours?
00:23:00.900 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
00:23:02.440 If the prosecutor's not fired,
00:23:04.480 you're not getting the money.
00:23:05.960 Oh, son of a bitch.
00:23:07.980 You got fired.
00:23:09.200 And they put in place someone who was solid.
00:23:13.600 Bit of a quid pro quo there, wasn't there?
00:23:16.120 It just so happens that Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden,
00:23:20.660 went to Ukraine to offer his services
00:23:22.960 for $50,000 a month
00:23:26.640 to a Ukrainian energy company,
00:23:29.300 despite having no experience or expertise.
00:23:31.820 It was all meddled up
00:23:32.840 with what Joe Biden was doing politically.
00:23:35.500 Same sort of thing happened
00:23:36.580 when Biden went to China.
00:23:38.600 He literally had his family
00:23:40.520 on the plane with him
00:23:42.140 because they arrived
00:23:43.320 to make parallel deals.
00:23:45.760 Here's another clip.
00:23:47.340 A 2013 trip to China,
00:23:49.600 getting new attention this morning,
00:23:51.100 not for what Joe Biden did,
00:23:53.040 but for who he brought with him.
00:23:55.160 His son, Hunter,
00:23:56.400 joining the then vice president
00:23:57.760 on the official visit to Beijing,
00:23:59.500 along with Hunter's daughter, Finnegan.
00:24:01.820 Unknown to the press back then,
00:24:03.380 Hunter Biden was forming
00:24:04.480 a Chinese private equity fund,
00:24:06.600 planning to raise money,
00:24:07.860 including from Chinese investors.
00:24:09.660 Years later,
00:24:10.340 Hunter Biden acknowledged
00:24:11.440 that during the trip,
00:24:12.700 he met with a Chinese banker,
00:24:14.300 which his spokesperson describes
00:24:15.680 as a social visit,
00:24:17.060 not a business one.
00:24:17.960 Ten days after the Biden's trip,
00:24:20.840 Shanghai authorities issued
00:24:22.140 the fund's business license.
00:24:25.100 Hmm.
00:24:26.420 So that's the Democrats' choice now.
00:24:29.500 Bernie the socialist
00:24:30.500 or Joe Biden,
00:24:32.740 the doddering corrupt insider.
00:24:36.120 I'm worried about both.
00:24:37.660 Bernie is a radical,
00:24:38.480 a socialist, a leftist,
00:24:39.880 a Cuba lover
00:24:40.900 who literally took his honeymoon
00:24:43.640 in the Soviet Union.
00:24:46.980 That's real.
00:24:47.760 That really happened.
00:24:49.880 Or, on the other hand,
00:24:50.920 Joe Biden,
00:24:51.480 which means all the deep state folks
00:24:53.400 really pulling the strings again.
00:24:54.700 I mean,
00:24:55.280 you don't really think
00:24:56.240 he'd be making the decisions
00:24:57.440 himself, do you?
00:24:58.560 You can't even remember
00:24:59.300 what day it is.
00:25:00.320 It would be deep state
00:25:01.480 plus his family scammers
00:25:04.240 raking it in by the billion.
00:25:07.380 So, yeah,
00:25:08.680 I'm for Trump.
00:25:10.300 How about you?
00:25:10.920 Stay with us for more.
00:25:13.640 Welcome back.
00:25:25.920 Hey, do you remember
00:25:26.640 this very excruciating
00:25:29.920 attempt at a walking interview
00:25:32.820 by our own Kian Bexty
00:25:35.380 in Washington, D.C.?
00:25:36.800 Take a look.
00:25:37.960 Ilhan, if I could get
00:25:38.820 a moment of your time,
00:25:40.460 if I could get a moment
00:25:41.420 of your time,
00:25:41.900 could you tell me
00:25:43.400 why you filed
00:25:44.160 illegal tax returns
00:25:45.300 in 2014 and 2015?
00:25:47.680 And it's which committee?
00:25:50.900 Can you tell me
00:25:51.660 definitively or not
00:25:52.880 is Ahmad Elsie
00:25:54.000 your brother?
00:25:54.900 For the MACA?
00:25:55.940 Is he your brother in the middle
00:25:57.840 of the legislative briefing?
00:25:58.700 We're going to the...
00:25:59.700 We're going to the...
00:26:00.780 Is he your brother?
00:26:01.660 We're going to which one?
00:26:04.120 It's foreign affairs.
00:26:05.900 I'll go with you.
00:26:08.140 Can you tell me definitively,
00:26:09.580 yes or no,
00:26:10.300 is he your brother?
00:26:11.200 And why can't you answer
00:26:12.240 that question?
00:26:13.280 The remarks you gave him
00:26:14.520 earlier.
00:26:14.820 Why did you refer to him
00:26:16.200 as your child's uncle
00:26:17.780 on Instagram?
00:26:19.240 And why did you lie
00:26:20.080 on court documents
00:26:21.900 saying that you hadn't
00:26:22.600 seen him since 2011
00:26:24.000 when in fact you'd been
00:26:25.140 talking to him all the time
00:26:25.960 on Instagram?
00:26:26.540 Sir, we're not doing
00:26:27.180 ambush interviews?
00:26:28.200 This isn't an ambush.
00:26:29.600 You can send me an email.
00:26:32.040 Why are you so afraid
00:26:33.060 to answer these questions?
00:26:34.680 I got to tell you,
00:26:35.740 if someone asked me
00:26:36.640 if I had married my sister,
00:26:38.080 my first reaction would be
00:26:39.060 explosive laughter.
00:26:40.960 I'd say, what?
00:26:41.500 And then if they were serious,
00:26:43.300 I'd say, no, of course not.
00:26:44.760 I found it extremely odd
00:26:46.300 that she would not answer
00:26:47.420 those questions.
00:26:48.300 But there are many odd things
00:26:49.700 about Ilhan Omar,
00:26:51.560 the hijabi Muslim migrant
00:26:53.700 to the United States
00:26:54.740 who is now a congresswoman.
00:26:57.400 Kian has done some great work
00:26:58.920 trying to get answers
00:27:00.300 on the scene.
00:27:01.680 But now there's a new book
00:27:03.060 with the wonderful name
00:27:04.780 American Ingrate
00:27:07.540 that I think just perfectly
00:27:09.140 sums up Ilhan Omar.
00:27:11.500 And we're glad to be joined now
00:27:13.380 via Skype from New York City
00:27:14.700 with the author
00:27:15.620 of American Ingrate,
00:27:17.480 Benjamin Weingarten,
00:27:18.860 who is also a senior contributor
00:27:21.060 at The Federalist.
00:27:22.520 Welcome to the channel,
00:27:24.000 American Ingrate.
00:27:24.800 I have to compliment you.
00:27:26.760 That's how she strikes me.
00:27:28.620 Someone who left
00:27:29.380 the world's worst country
00:27:31.560 by any measure, Somalia,
00:27:34.400 came to one of the world's
00:27:35.740 best countries, America,
00:27:37.900 was given everything,
00:27:39.100 has high privileges and status,
00:27:41.500 and yet so clearly
00:27:42.880 despises her new home.
00:27:44.980 American Ingrate,
00:27:46.040 that's just perfect.
00:27:47.980 Well, Ezra,
00:27:49.060 thanks for having me
00:27:49.920 and appreciate the praise
00:27:51.580 on the title,
00:27:52.400 which I agree really gets
00:27:54.340 to the core of
00:27:55.360 what so irks people
00:27:56.700 about Ilhan Omar,
00:27:58.280 someone who has risen
00:27:59.180 to the height of power
00:28:00.740 in Washington, D.C.,
00:28:01.880 as not only a congresswoman
00:28:04.160 who sits on the House
00:28:05.200 Foreign Affairs Committee
00:28:06.140 dealing with her most sensitive
00:28:07.480 national security
00:28:08.800 and foreign policy information,
00:28:10.580 but as well as someone
00:28:11.620 who is the co-chair
00:28:12.740 for Bernie Sanders' campaign
00:28:14.480 in the all-important state
00:28:16.020 of Minnesota in 2020,
00:28:17.940 someone who's put out
00:28:18.700 a battery of bills
00:28:19.940 that Ben Rhodes,
00:28:21.520 the former National Security
00:28:22.900 Council official
00:28:23.620 from the Obama administration,
00:28:25.180 has called
00:28:25.640 the new progressive baseline.
00:28:28.140 And the fact
00:28:28.760 we can't even get basic answers
00:28:30.920 about this alleged
00:28:32.420 and I think heavily substantiated
00:28:35.060 issue of marriage fraud
00:28:37.580 associated with potentially
00:28:38.680 marrying her brother,
00:28:39.940 which implicates also
00:28:40.920 immigration issues,
00:28:42.740 perjury,
00:28:43.840 all manner of other crimes
00:28:45.280 as well,
00:28:46.540 is a remarkable thing.
00:28:48.280 And I will say
00:28:49.120 that after this book came out,
00:28:51.020 reflecting the fact
00:28:52.040 that she and her camp
00:28:53.680 have never grappled
00:28:54.720 with these issues
00:28:55.320 and may never grapple
00:28:56.260 with these issues,
00:28:57.160 is that within days,
00:28:58.520 her campaign put out
00:28:59.480 a fundraising email
00:29:00.960 in which they claimed
00:29:02.200 that my book
00:29:03.200 was incitement
00:29:04.880 and I was trying
00:29:06.120 to incite violence
00:29:07.300 against her
00:29:08.100 as an Islamophobe
00:29:09.900 and she threw
00:29:10.800 all sorts of other
00:29:11.620 invective at me
00:29:12.680 when this is a book
00:29:13.820 with 1,200 endnotes
00:29:15.140 that is heavily,
00:29:17.000 diligently substantiated
00:29:18.500 and grapples with
00:29:19.940 all manner of issues
00:29:20.740 regarding Ilhan Omar.
00:29:21.920 Her background plays
00:29:22.880 just one small part
00:29:23.980 in one chapter
00:29:24.740 and that alone illustrates
00:29:26.280 the danger of Ilhan Omar
00:29:27.520 that these compromising issues
00:29:29.180 are barely a footnote
00:29:30.480 in her entire record
00:29:31.780 and the fact
00:29:32.300 that she would attack anyone
00:29:33.420 who dares subject her
00:29:34.820 to the same scrutiny
00:29:35.700 that every American
00:29:36.840 elected official
00:29:37.480 should be subjected to
00:29:38.500 reflects the fact
00:29:39.640 that she doesn't want us
00:29:40.460 to know the truth about her.
00:29:41.960 Yeah, you said a lot
00:29:43.220 of things there
00:29:43.860 but the fact
00:29:44.440 that she would imply
00:29:46.080 that your book
00:29:48.840 about her
00:29:49.600 is some sort of
00:29:50.420 call to violence,
00:29:51.520 it's incredible.
00:29:52.420 Let me play a few clips
00:29:53.560 that you referred to
00:29:54.640 in your book.
00:29:55.780 One is when she calls
00:29:56.800 9-11
00:29:57.600 the worst terrorist attack
00:29:59.800 in American history,
00:30:00.580 the worst death toll
00:30:01.760 in America
00:30:02.220 since the attack
00:30:05.960 on Pearl Harbor.
00:30:07.260 Some people did something.
00:30:09.280 Here, take a quick look
00:30:10.040 at that.
00:30:10.680 Some people did something?
00:30:12.660 Just so blasé.
00:30:14.560 I want to show you
00:30:15.060 one more thing.
00:30:16.320 She was doing a TV show
00:30:18.420 and she called,
00:30:19.720 she praised Al-Qaeda,
00:30:21.880 how people even say Al-Qaeda.
00:30:24.380 Take a quick look at this.
00:30:26.320 And so it was,
00:30:27.020 the thing that was interesting
00:30:28.620 in the class
00:30:29.520 was every time
00:30:31.360 the professor
00:30:33.060 said Al-Qaeda,
00:30:34.400 he sort of like,
00:30:35.580 his shoulders went up
00:30:36.780 and, you know,
00:30:37.420 it was sort of like,
00:30:38.000 Al-Qaeda, you know,
00:30:39.680 hospital.
00:30:40.000 He's an expert.
00:30:41.740 Thanks for letting me
00:30:42.440 show those clips,
00:30:43.200 Benjamin.
00:30:43.600 My point is,
00:30:45.480 she has the audacity
00:30:47.060 to imply that you
00:30:48.300 support violence
00:30:49.740 when she either praises
00:30:52.080 the honor of Al-Qaeda
00:30:53.640 or writes off 9-11
00:30:55.260 as us.
00:30:55.740 Some people did something.
00:30:57.640 Yeah, she treats
00:30:58.700 a disaster,
00:31:00.120 a jihadist attack
00:31:01.060 perpetrated on Americans
00:31:02.200 so flippantly.
00:31:03.780 And then actually,
00:31:04.720 if you read the full
00:31:05.860 context of her remarks,
00:31:07.100 because she'll always
00:31:07.820 claim that her quotes
00:31:09.160 are taken out of context,
00:31:10.380 what she's actually
00:31:11.020 trying to argue
00:31:11.720 in that clip
00:31:12.500 is that Muslims
00:31:13.820 were the real victims
00:31:14.800 because they were brought
00:31:16.460 under the scrutiny
00:31:17.180 of American law enforcement
00:31:18.660 after 9-11.
00:31:20.360 And she frequently
00:31:21.280 portrays herself
00:31:22.060 as the victim
00:31:22.920 as she did
00:31:23.840 in response
00:31:24.600 to my own book.
00:31:26.200 And as for Al-Qaeda,
00:31:27.360 it's even worse
00:31:28.120 than just the notion
00:31:29.200 of trying to create
00:31:30.560 legitimacy.
00:31:31.700 But she argues
00:31:32.560 in that clip
00:31:33.260 that Al-Qaeda
00:31:33.860 is essentially
00:31:34.520 somehow morally equivalent
00:31:35.940 to the U.S. military,
00:31:37.360 for example.
00:31:38.420 This is someone
00:31:38.900 who sits on the
00:31:39.580 House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:31:41.340 It's absolutely remarkable
00:31:43.020 that someone
00:31:43.760 could have access
00:31:44.940 to our most sensitive
00:31:45.840 national security
00:31:46.680 and foreign policy information
00:31:47.940 with views like these.
00:31:49.960 And as I delve
00:31:50.580 into at great length
00:31:51.660 an American ingrate
00:31:52.540 in a time where
00:31:53.420 we are so concerned
00:31:54.320 in America,
00:31:54.980 supposedly,
00:31:55.760 about foreign interference
00:31:56.880 and collusion
00:31:57.740 in our elections
00:31:58.960 and our political system,
00:32:00.680 Ilhan Omar has
00:32:01.600 substantial ties
00:32:02.880 to Islamists,
00:32:04.040 both domestic
00:32:04.700 in terms of terror-tied groups
00:32:06.480 like the Council
00:32:07.340 on American-Islamic relations,
00:32:09.040 as well as foreign,
00:32:10.260 including leadership
00:32:11.040 in both the Turkish
00:32:12.160 and Somali governments
00:32:13.580 as well.
00:32:14.040 I added an op-ed
00:32:14.780 in the New York Post
00:32:15.480 about her ties
00:32:16.560 to the Erdogan regime
00:32:17.800 just about a week ago.
00:32:19.740 It is truly staggering
00:32:20.860 when you consider
00:32:21.720 not just her rhetoric,
00:32:22.960 but her actions
00:32:23.820 and her associations
00:32:24.980 as well,
00:32:25.820 that this is someone
00:32:26.660 who is a leading light
00:32:28.140 in the Democratic Party today.
00:32:29.500 Yeah, well,
00:32:30.580 that's the incredible thing
00:32:31.680 is that, listen,
00:32:33.200 if she was elected
00:32:34.380 in a heavily Somali district
00:32:36.660 in Minnesota,
00:32:37.880 there's only so many things
00:32:39.340 that the broader
00:32:40.900 political establishment
00:32:41.820 can do about that.
00:32:43.040 If you have mass
00:32:43.980 Muslim immigration
00:32:45.320 that ghettoizes itself,
00:32:47.300 you were going to get
00:32:48.080 a reflection
00:32:48.620 of that demographic,
00:32:50.140 but she has been elevated
00:32:52.120 to these high positions
00:32:53.600 and accepted
00:32:55.200 by senior people
00:32:58.480 in the party,
00:32:59.000 whether it's Bernie Sanders
00:32:59.980 or you mentioned Ben Rhodes,
00:33:01.400 the former Obama administration,
00:33:03.440 Poobah,
00:33:04.080 or even just Nancy Pelosi
00:33:05.760 giving her various
00:33:07.360 committee assignments,
00:33:09.380 she is who she is,
00:33:11.320 but she has been held up
00:33:13.080 as a symbol
00:33:14.100 of the Democratic Party
00:33:15.900 by others
00:33:16.820 who should know better.
00:33:17.840 Why don't they know better?
00:33:19.640 Do they want to capture
00:33:21.340 the Muslim vote?
00:33:22.660 Do they want to capture...
00:33:24.440 Why would the Democratic Party,
00:33:27.840 which historically,
00:33:28.780 for example,
00:33:29.180 has been the party
00:33:30.060 that many Jews supported?
00:33:33.000 Fifty years ago,
00:33:34.000 you could even say
00:33:34.740 it was a party
00:33:35.360 that believed
00:33:35.960 in national events.
00:33:38.100 I guess it's longer
00:33:39.100 than that
00:33:39.760 for John F. Kennedy.
00:33:41.380 But what is in it
00:33:42.540 for the Nancy Pelosi's
00:33:44.000 and the Bernie Sanders
00:33:45.460 of the world
00:33:46.840 to promote
00:33:47.740 such a radical?
00:33:49.860 Yeah,
00:33:50.060 you make a lot
00:33:50.820 of interesting points there.
00:33:52.220 And what I argue
00:33:53.020 in the book
00:33:53.620 is that really
00:33:54.920 this sort of switch
00:33:56.240 that has happened
00:33:57.120 in the Democratic Party.
00:33:58.900 And it is encapsulated
00:34:00.380 in the issue
00:34:01.060 of Israel
00:34:02.340 and those who purport
00:34:03.340 to be anti-Zionist
00:34:04.580 when in reality
00:34:05.300 they're Jew haters.
00:34:07.240 Israel is sort of
00:34:07.960 the proxy
00:34:08.520 for a whole host
00:34:09.480 of other issues
00:34:10.400 as to where
00:34:10.880 the Democratic Party
00:34:11.800 has shifted.
00:34:13.240 You're absolutely right.
00:34:14.380 Nancy Pelosi
00:34:15.060 caved first
00:34:16.500 when the Democrat-controlled House
00:34:18.780 would not censure
00:34:20.160 Ilhan Omar by name
00:34:21.540 and for her invocation
00:34:23.080 of anti-Semitic tropes
00:34:24.400 specifically.
00:34:25.960 And it even started
00:34:26.620 before that
00:34:27.180 as you noted
00:34:27.700 when Pelosi
00:34:29.000 made a deal
00:34:29.620 with the devil
00:34:30.180 with the progressives
00:34:31.100 and put Ilhan Omar
00:34:32.380 on that House
00:34:33.520 Foreign Affairs Committee
00:34:34.580 in the first place.
00:34:35.960 And as to the question
00:34:36.840 of why
00:34:37.440 I think it is twofold.
00:34:39.020 There's a part of this
00:34:39.900 which is
00:34:40.640 sort of cynical
00:34:41.720 ideological
00:34:43.040 and partisan
00:34:44.520 which deals
00:34:45.720 with the fact
00:34:46.320 that Ilhan Omar
00:34:47.260 and those like her
00:34:48.480 represent
00:34:49.280 sort of the personification
00:34:50.660 of the multiculturalist
00:34:52.620 intersectionalist
00:34:53.700 identity politics
00:34:54.960 grievance-based
00:34:56.540 victimology
00:34:57.700 part of the
00:34:58.460 Democratic Party.
00:34:59.380 They stand
00:35:00.500 sort of
00:35:01.080 at the highest point
00:35:02.220 on that privilege
00:35:03.400 or anti-privilege
00:35:04.840 hierarchy.
00:35:06.260 And so there's
00:35:06.540 a political reason
00:35:07.360 why Democrats
00:35:08.700 believe in promoting
00:35:09.840 Ilhan Omar
00:35:10.420 and her acolytes.
00:35:12.040 And then there's
00:35:12.540 also the fact
00:35:13.100 that the Muslim
00:35:13.660 population in America
00:35:14.840 votes or self-identifies
00:35:17.060 at about two-thirds
00:35:17.900 or more Democrats.
00:35:19.320 It's a substantially
00:35:20.480 growing population
00:35:21.700 and if you think
00:35:22.820 the views on Israel
00:35:24.060 and Jewish people
00:35:24.740 generally are odious
00:35:26.500 then I think you have
00:35:27.500 to consider
00:35:27.960 and I make this case
00:35:28.840 in the book
00:35:29.320 that Democrats
00:35:30.260 are basically trading
00:35:31.500 Jewish votes
00:35:32.140 for Muslim votes.
00:35:33.280 Muslim votes
00:35:33.800 will be a growth
00:35:34.760 industry for the
00:35:35.880 Democratic Party
00:35:36.520 and increasingly
00:35:37.520 the Jewish vote
00:35:38.600 for Democrats
00:35:39.440 is likely going to
00:35:40.580 decline or
00:35:41.320 become de minimis.
00:35:42.480 And what I argue
00:35:43.080 in the book
00:35:43.540 extensively
00:35:44.080 is that
00:35:44.680 the forgotten person
00:35:45.920 in all of this
00:35:46.480 is Barack Obama.
00:35:47.500 Barack Obama
00:35:48.040 over eight years
00:35:49.040 paved the way
00:35:50.040 for Ilhan Omar's
00:35:51.420 radical rhetoric
00:35:52.260 or radical policies
00:35:53.480 her associations
00:35:54.620 with all manner
00:35:55.480 of Islamists
00:35:56.200 and other radicals
00:35:57.080 both foreign
00:35:57.800 and domestic.
00:35:58.740 He's the forgotten
00:35:59.280 player in all this
00:36:00.160 and he hasn't
00:36:00.780 gotten his due
00:36:01.400 but in my book
00:36:02.100 I give him his due.
00:36:03.300 That's an excellent point
00:36:04.880 and I should tell you
00:36:05.620 up here in Canada
00:36:06.560 where a Somali migrant
00:36:09.500 became Justin Trudeau's
00:36:11.460 immigration minister
00:36:12.260 and by the way
00:36:12.920 Ahmed Hassan
00:36:13.940 as you can see
00:36:15.160 in this photo
00:36:15.840 is quite chummy
00:36:17.500 with Ilhan Omar
00:36:18.640 which is terrifying.
00:36:20.080 In Canada
00:36:20.560 that math
00:36:21.340 you talked about
00:36:22.000 has absolutely
00:36:22.720 come true.
00:36:24.000 The Jewish population
00:36:25.060 in Canada
00:36:25.640 has remained static
00:36:27.120 at about 1%
00:36:28.680 whereas the Muslim
00:36:29.920 population
00:36:30.480 is now 3-4%.
00:36:32.400 Trudeau can do
00:36:33.580 the math
00:36:34.060 and he knows
00:36:34.580 which side of that
00:36:35.360 divide he's on
00:36:36.440 on many policies.
00:36:38.120 Let me ask you this.
00:36:39.500 Is there any way
00:36:42.100 to stop it?
00:36:43.420 Is there any way
00:36:44.300 to roll back
00:36:45.480 this move?
00:36:46.120 I see that
00:36:46.580 Bernie Sanders
00:36:47.420 staggered a bit
00:36:50.240 in the Super Tuesday
00:36:51.360 Democratic primaries
00:36:53.080 but I don't think
00:36:55.680 that that's a rebuke
00:36:57.440 of Ilhan Omar.
00:36:59.780 I think I'm stretching
00:37:00.700 too far.
00:37:01.580 Maybe online
00:37:03.320 Twitter Democrats
00:37:04.420 are a little edgier
00:37:05.340 than actual Democrats
00:37:07.200 who show up to vote
00:37:08.060 but is that wing
00:37:09.700 of the party
00:37:10.320 the AOCs
00:37:11.640 the Ilhan Omars
00:37:13.200 is it strong
00:37:15.200 on the ground
00:37:15.860 or is it more
00:37:16.620 a media concoction?
00:37:18.700 How can Democrats
00:37:20.080 take ownership
00:37:20.840 of their party again?
00:37:22.000 Working Democrats
00:37:22.780 working class
00:37:25.000 middle class Democrats
00:37:26.340 non-radical Democrats
00:37:28.540 or is that
00:37:29.040 moment passed?
00:37:31.400 I think what we're
00:37:32.540 witnessing right now
00:37:33.580 in real time
00:37:34.740 is the
00:37:35.840 last gasp
00:37:37.160 fight
00:37:37.660 of the Democratic
00:37:38.580 establishment
00:37:39.220 against the
00:37:40.360 progressive
00:37:41.000 young Turks
00:37:42.320 so to speak
00:37:43.240 and what I would say
00:37:44.260 is that while this
00:37:45.020 might not be reflected
00:37:46.080 in an AOC
00:37:47.960 dominated house
00:37:49.380 and AOC
00:37:49.960 becoming speaker
00:37:50.840 in 2020
00:37:52.500 or two
00:37:53.400 or even four years
00:37:54.340 down the road
00:37:54.900 just one statistic
00:37:57.140 that I cite in the book
00:37:58.160 is very staggering
00:37:58.980 and that's that
00:37:59.680 when the
00:37:59.960 Congressional Progressive
00:38:01.580 Caucus
00:38:02.040 was founded
00:38:02.980 in the early 90s
00:38:04.020 there were six members
00:38:05.200 including Bernie Sanders
00:38:06.720 Speaker Pelosi
00:38:07.960 was also one of the
00:38:09.020 early members
00:38:09.740 before she left
00:38:10.720 when she became
00:38:11.860 minority leader
00:38:12.980 the first time around
00:38:13.940 today
00:38:14.780 there are nearly
00:38:15.760 100 members
00:38:16.700 of the Congressional
00:38:17.640 Progressive Caucus
00:38:18.600 more than 40%
00:38:20.000 of all Democrats
00:38:21.800 forming the majority
00:38:22.740 in the House
00:38:23.700 are members of the
00:38:24.320 Congressional Progressive Caucus
00:38:25.560 I'd simply ask
00:38:26.680 in terms of their
00:38:27.240 political power
00:38:28.000 would Nancy Pelosi
00:38:29.020 under normal circumstances
00:38:30.460 in a pre-squad world
00:38:32.300 have pushed
00:38:33.440 for the impeachment
00:38:34.540 charade
00:38:35.080 that we witnessed
00:38:35.920 in America
00:38:36.460 would Gerald Nadler
00:38:37.900 would Elliot Engel
00:38:38.920 would even necessarily
00:38:40.180 Adam Schiff
00:38:41.380 I think it's very clear
00:38:42.740 and also
00:38:43.680 would Democratic
00:38:44.480 presidential candidates
00:38:45.500 be staking out
00:38:46.660 the most left positions
00:38:47.820 that we've ever seen
00:38:48.780 from a Democratic field
00:38:50.400 from its very start
00:38:51.700 I think the answers
00:38:52.740 are self-evident
00:38:54.120 and that should tell you
00:38:55.420 the fact
00:38:55.840 that Democrats
00:38:56.700 are good at math
00:38:57.480 they can count
00:38:58.400 they see that the future
00:38:59.520 is one that progressives
00:39:00.880 stand to inherit
00:39:02.060 and I think what you're seeing
00:39:03.760 is this generational
00:39:05.160 and ideological divide
00:39:06.820 playing out in real time
00:39:08.220 but the sort of fight
00:39:09.480 between the Mensheviks
00:39:10.260 and Bolsheviks
00:39:10.980 is going to rage on
00:39:11.980 beyond this election
00:39:13.000 well that is terrifying
00:39:14.900 we started by
00:39:16.360 showing you a clip
00:39:17.380 and then you gave us
00:39:18.040 more commentary on
00:39:19.020 the immigration
00:39:21.480 and marriage fraud
00:39:23.180 issues that have
00:39:24.200 embroiled
00:39:24.860 Ilhan Omar
00:39:26.160 and
00:39:26.820 and you're right
00:39:28.640 she hasn't confessed
00:39:30.320 to them
00:39:30.820 but there's so much
00:39:32.260 evidence that has
00:39:33.160 come forward
00:39:33.740 as you say
00:39:34.220 they're largely
00:39:34.800 substantiated
00:39:36.240 Al Capone
00:39:38.000 in the end
00:39:39.020 was undone
00:39:39.980 not in a bank robbery
00:39:41.740 or a murder
00:39:42.460 but through
00:39:43.060 mail fraud
00:39:44.080 wire fraud
00:39:44.840 like a technical
00:39:46.000 offense
00:39:47.240 that put him away
00:39:48.080 Ilhan Omar's
00:39:51.360 greatest offense
00:39:52.740 to the world
00:39:53.340 was not
00:39:54.180 the fake marriage
00:39:55.160 to her brother
00:39:55.880 a sham marriage
00:39:56.980 for immigration purposes
00:39:57.980 but it may be
00:39:59.340 her undoing
00:40:00.440 what do you think
00:40:01.800 the likelihood
00:40:02.580 is
00:40:03.360 of that
00:40:04.300 turning into
00:40:05.180 a formal
00:40:06.280 criminal charge
00:40:07.340 I know that
00:40:09.020 you know
00:40:11.420 prosecutions
00:40:13.120 of any crime
00:40:13.860 have to be done
00:40:14.780 in a non-partisan
00:40:15.840 way
00:40:16.440 and it can't be
00:40:17.720 just ordered up
00:40:18.760 by some
00:40:19.700 politician
00:40:20.440 but
00:40:21.360 do you think
00:40:22.860 it's likely
00:40:23.660 that Ilhan Omar
00:40:25.320 will be prosecuted
00:40:27.320 for that crime
00:40:29.460 and do you think
00:40:30.920 that'll take her
00:40:31.500 out of the game
00:40:32.080 well let me say
00:40:34.280 this first of all
00:40:35.360 as to the state
00:40:36.500 of our justice
00:40:37.420 system
00:40:38.020 in America
00:40:39.020 when it comes
00:40:39.800 to made men
00:40:41.220 and made women
00:40:42.160 to stick with
00:40:42.940 the sort of
00:40:43.480 mafia parlance
00:40:44.420 that you reference
00:40:45.380 in terms of Al Capone
00:40:46.360 it's very clear
00:40:47.600 there's a double standard
00:40:48.580 in our justice system
00:40:49.660 and that alone
00:40:51.120 I think speaks
00:40:51.840 to the challenge
00:40:53.080 of me believing
00:40:54.780 that the odds
00:40:55.400 are strong
00:40:55.920 that there will
00:40:56.480 be prosecution
00:40:57.560 of Ilhan Omar
00:40:58.360 on top of the fact
00:40:59.780 that there are
00:41:00.520 potentially statute
00:41:01.580 of limitation
00:41:02.540 issues as well
00:41:04.540 but all of that said
00:41:05.740 she acts
00:41:06.700 with such impunity
00:41:07.840 that I think
00:41:08.520 it's very likely
00:41:09.420 for there to be
00:41:10.120 any number
00:41:10.660 of missteps
00:41:11.580 and in some sense
00:41:12.700 her lawlessness
00:41:13.660 and her kind of
00:41:15.020 just flaunting
00:41:16.040 the fact that
00:41:16.700 she can do
00:41:17.140 whatever she wants
00:41:18.000 is indicative
00:41:19.300 of not just
00:41:20.400 ingratitude
00:41:21.160 but that lawlessness
00:41:22.160 bleeds into
00:41:23.240 animus
00:41:23.920 and a lack
00:41:25.000 of respect
00:41:25.580 for the country
00:41:26.500 which cannot happen
00:41:27.520 if you're a legislator
00:41:28.520 your job is to abide
00:41:29.760 by the laws
00:41:30.900 but what I will say
00:41:31.920 is that there have
00:41:32.540 been ethics violations
00:41:33.820 that have been committed
00:41:35.000 and it's also very clear
00:41:36.640 that she also
00:41:37.540 fudged her tax forms
00:41:39.140 in part relating
00:41:40.080 to that original
00:41:41.220 likely marriage fraud
00:41:42.300 and that she filed
00:41:43.200 jointly for taxes
00:41:44.140 for at least two years
00:41:45.300 with a man
00:41:46.100 who was not
00:41:46.700 her legal husband
00:41:47.500 so do I think
00:41:48.900 there's more criminality
00:41:50.260 likely to come
00:41:50.980 and ethics violations
00:41:51.880 to come
00:41:52.420 absolutely
00:41:53.180 but there needs
00:41:53.840 to be an outcry
00:41:54.640 and it has to be
00:41:55.300 a bipartisan outcry
00:41:56.460 and the sad thing
00:41:57.660 about her district
00:41:58.380 and you mentioned
00:41:58.980 the large Somali
00:41:59.820 refugee population
00:42:00.780 there
00:42:01.320 is that it is really
00:42:02.780 based upon my time
00:42:04.020 spent on the ground
00:42:04.820 there
00:42:05.100 the white woke elites
00:42:06.620 the upper crust
00:42:07.700 in the Minnesota
00:42:09.080 Twin Cities area
00:42:10.560 the Minneapolis
00:42:11.160 Twin Cities area
00:42:12.140 who are really
00:42:13.180 her biggest supporters
00:42:14.060 she has actually
00:42:14.940 enraged
00:42:15.840 some portions
00:42:16.680 of her fellow
00:42:17.800 Somali refugees
00:42:18.640 and the biggest
00:42:19.560 whistleblowers
00:42:20.180 have ironically been
00:42:21.340 Somali-American
00:42:22.520 Muslim refugees
00:42:23.880 who feel that
00:42:24.580 she is such a danger
00:42:25.460 that she must be exposed
00:42:26.600 that's a really
00:42:27.560 telling fact
00:42:28.360 isn't that incredible
00:42:29.460 we're talking
00:42:30.400 with Benjamin Weingarten
00:42:32.060 the author
00:42:32.640 of American In Great
00:42:34.700 I have one last
00:42:35.640 question for you
00:42:36.280 and by the way
00:42:36.680 we're going to have a link
00:42:37.480 underneath this video
00:42:38.600 in the description
00:42:39.320 to the Amazon page
00:42:41.140 fascinating
00:42:41.840 something that we've
00:42:43.080 been interested in
00:42:43.940 from afar up here
00:42:44.860 in Canada
00:42:45.320 now Donald Trump
00:42:46.580 has deliberately
00:42:47.740 shone the spotlight
00:42:48.920 on the squad
00:42:50.100 not so much
00:42:50.820 in the last few months
00:42:52.160 as the Democratic
00:42:53.480 presidential primaries
00:42:54.780 have taken center stage
00:42:55.880 but before that
00:42:57.160 I think Trump's
00:42:58.660 strategy
00:42:59.040 if I can guess
00:43:00.040 was to emphasize
00:43:02.500 the craziest part
00:43:04.120 of the Democratic Party
00:43:05.560 to make that
00:43:06.340 the face of it
00:43:07.340 to show
00:43:09.280 to middle America
00:43:10.280 as opposed to
00:43:13.360 say a Joe Biden
00:43:14.880 face
00:43:15.480 of the campaign
00:43:16.900 what do you think
00:43:18.040 of Trump
00:43:18.840 emphasizing
00:43:20.000 the wackiness
00:43:21.000 wacky is too gentle
00:43:22.080 a word
00:43:22.400 emphasizing the radicalness
00:43:24.360 of Ilhan Omar
00:43:25.140 and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
00:43:27.200 is there a danger
00:43:29.800 that Trump thinks
00:43:30.720 it's offensive
00:43:31.260 but he's actually
00:43:31.900 giving more oxygen
00:43:33.460 to Omar and AOC
00:43:36.140 who might be successful
00:43:37.180 what do you think
00:43:37.760 Republicans should do
00:43:39.660 I guess is what
00:43:40.360 I'm asking
00:43:40.860 yeah
00:43:42.380 my view is
00:43:43.500 be careful
00:43:44.060 what you wish for
00:43:45.000 it looks like
00:43:46.220 Bernie Sanders
00:43:47.000 may be done
00:43:48.840 effectively
00:43:49.580 after what's transpired
00:43:51.240 over the last 72 hours
00:43:52.600 which shows you
00:43:53.280 the power
00:43:53.720 that remains
00:43:54.780 in the Democratic
00:43:55.360 establishment
00:43:55.940 but all that said
00:43:57.020 I don't think
00:43:57.840 that if the general
00:43:58.620 election had been
00:43:59.720 Bernie Sanders
00:44:00.380 versus Donald Trump
00:44:01.380 that it would have been
00:44:02.440 such a layup
00:44:03.800 as many people
00:44:05.000 seem to believe
00:44:06.440 because in part
00:44:07.520 the Bernie Sanders
00:44:09.000 AOC squad
00:44:10.180 progressive wing
00:44:11.000 really has a message
00:44:12.360 that they ardently
00:44:13.240 believe in
00:44:13.900 and articulate
00:44:14.400 and they have
00:44:14.940 a very passionate
00:44:15.720 base
00:44:16.460 much more impassioned
00:44:17.580 than the Democratic
00:44:18.800 establishment supporters
00:44:20.380 so what I would suggest
00:44:21.960 is this
00:44:22.440 it certainly pays
00:44:23.380 to emphasize
00:44:23.980 the radical part
00:44:24.940 of the Democratic Party
00:44:25.860 on the politics
00:44:27.180 but I think
00:44:27.760 substantively
00:44:28.520 it's actually right
00:44:29.560 I think the president
00:44:30.740 is right
00:44:31.220 this is the core
00:44:32.660 of the Democratic Party
00:44:33.800 it is not
00:44:34.400 the majority yet
00:44:35.620 it may be
00:44:36.420 a plurality
00:44:37.220 but ultimately
00:44:38.160 I believe
00:44:38.820 and I argue
00:44:39.340 in this book
00:44:39.920 that it stands
00:44:40.980 to triumph
00:44:41.700 that today
00:44:42.460 we may have a squad
00:44:43.480 but tomorrow
00:44:44.560 it might be a battalion
00:44:45.900 and bigger than that
00:44:46.980 because all of the trends
00:44:48.880 in American life
00:44:49.640 whether you look
00:44:50.200 at woke capital
00:44:51.080 and the executives
00:44:52.060 who run our corporations
00:44:53.060 and their radical leftism
00:44:54.400 or you look at
00:44:55.280 multi-generations
00:44:56.120 of schools
00:44:56.860 producing people
00:44:57.880 like Ilhan Omar
00:44:59.060 and AOC
00:44:59.880 and Rashida Tlaib
00:45:00.880 and the others
00:45:01.620 you look at all
00:45:02.760 of our core institutions
00:45:03.840 essentially
00:45:04.360 they're dominated
00:45:05.240 by people
00:45:05.760 who think like the squad
00:45:07.060 and who want to
00:45:07.800 hold the squad up
00:45:08.700 and it is really
00:45:09.740 the white woke elites
00:45:10.900 that have swung
00:45:11.640 the most left
00:45:12.920 over the last couple
00:45:14.120 of decades
00:45:14.560 and they have
00:45:15.680 substantial political power
00:45:17.180 relative to other
00:45:18.000 demographic groups
00:45:18.960 when you break it down
00:45:20.140 by demographics
00:45:20.920 so all that said
00:45:21.860 I think in the long run
00:45:22.900 it is the squad's party
00:45:24.200 to lose
00:45:24.680 but it's going to be
00:45:25.620 a knock down
00:45:26.140 drag out fight
00:45:26.980 as this works itself out
00:45:28.480 and as a conservative
00:45:29.720 I'll look forward to it
00:45:31.320 with a big bag of popcorn
00:45:32.300 amazing
00:45:33.700 well I'm so glad
00:45:34.660 that you made some time
00:45:35.680 for us
00:45:36.040 I know
00:45:36.420 Ilhan Omar
00:45:37.300 is a big issue
00:45:38.380 in the United States
00:45:39.200 but she has been turned
00:45:40.880 into a sort of heroine
00:45:42.240 in Canada's media party
00:45:44.560 as well
00:45:45.060 and no doubt
00:45:46.100 in some ways
00:45:47.240 we're further progressed
00:45:48.300 down that road
00:45:49.200 in our country
00:45:49.880 up here too
00:45:50.380 the book's called
00:45:51.300 American Ingrate
00:45:52.000 you can buy it
00:45:52.980 at the Amazon link
00:45:54.100 in the description below
00:45:55.020 we've been talking
00:45:55.880 with author
00:45:56.520 Benjamin Weingarten
00:45:57.480 who's also
00:45:58.060 a senior contributor
00:45:59.340 at the Federalist
00:46:00.540 great to have you
00:46:01.100 with us today
00:46:01.600 thank you so much
00:46:02.380 thank you so much Ezra
00:46:03.900 appreciate it
00:46:04.600 all right
00:46:05.120 our pleasure
00:46:05.620 stay with us
00:46:06.640 more ahead on The Rebel
00:46:07.460 hey welcome back
00:46:17.360 to my monologue yesterday
00:46:18.220 about the top secret
00:46:19.340 document I sent
00:46:20.560 to the elections commissioner
00:46:21.460 Carol writes
00:46:22.420 I can't stop laughing
00:46:23.760 about your response
00:46:24.360 to election Canada's
00:46:25.280 demand for documents
00:46:26.100 all joking aside though
00:46:27.160 I think your worst fears
00:46:28.360 are about to become reality
00:46:29.420 I believe they will
00:46:30.640 raid the rebels office
00:46:31.560 and instead of five lawyers
00:46:32.820 there will be ten
00:46:33.660 how do you sleep
00:46:34.780 with all these investigations
00:46:35.840 your wife mustn't have
00:46:36.980 much hair left on her head
00:46:38.260 with all this stress
00:46:39.240 well Carol look
00:46:41.300 I believe we're going
00:46:43.680 to win in the end
00:46:44.320 I think that's my secret
00:46:46.040 source of confidence
00:46:47.120 is that I feel like
00:46:49.240 I can see how this story
00:46:50.540 is going to end
00:46:51.280 and I think it's going
00:46:52.820 to end well
00:46:53.600 because although
00:46:55.200 elections Canada
00:46:56.540 is clearly out of control
00:46:57.960 I've read the law
00:47:00.700 and I don't think
00:47:01.580 we violated it
00:47:02.620 and if someone
00:47:05.480 finds that we do
00:47:06.340 I know that we'll
00:47:06.900 appeal that to a court
00:47:08.020 and I am confident
00:47:09.680 enough that there is
00:47:10.520 still enough freedom
00:47:11.500 left in Canada
00:47:12.320 that we will win
00:47:13.500 now how do I get
00:47:14.180 from here to there
00:47:16.040 there's two major
00:47:17.900 types of obstacle
00:47:19.180 one is stress
00:47:21.880 hassle
00:47:22.820 time
00:47:23.520 that's I guess
00:47:24.580 the one you're
00:47:25.120 referring to
00:47:25.760 I don't know
00:47:26.480 I sort of live
00:47:28.100 at a certain stress
00:47:29.080 level
00:47:29.380 if things aren't
00:47:30.060 stressful enough
00:47:30.900 I get bored
00:47:31.660 so I don't mind
00:47:33.100 the stress so much
00:47:34.080 because I feel like
00:47:34.980 we're going to win
00:47:35.540 in the end
00:47:35.920 the other is financial
00:47:37.320 I literally an hour ago
00:47:39.580 got our latest bill
00:47:40.980 from our lawyers
00:47:41.760 it's a big bill
00:47:43.220 and that's not something
00:47:45.260 I can just calm
00:47:46.280 myself through
00:47:47.200 so that's the major
00:47:48.940 threat
00:47:49.680 is the financial threat
00:47:50.940 so for that
00:47:52.500 I rely on our viewers
00:47:53.580 what else am I going to do
00:47:54.520 I'm not going to get
00:47:55.180 money from the government
00:47:56.100 we're not part of the
00:47:58.080 corporate legacy media
00:47:59.180 we're not going to get
00:47:59.740 a bailout
00:48:00.280 so if I can
00:48:02.320 I can keep my confidence
00:48:05.580 because I know
00:48:06.060 we're going to win
00:48:06.640 I don't mind the stress
00:48:08.460 of the fight
00:48:09.080 and as long as our
00:48:10.280 viewers are with us
00:48:11.120 we'll pay the lawyers
00:48:12.520 to win
00:48:12.920 I think we're going to win
00:48:13.700 Bob writes
00:48:15.380 you got to put that
00:48:16.800 cartoon on a t-shirt
00:48:17.780 I want one
00:48:18.480 Bob
00:48:19.160 we have the t-shirts
00:48:21.540 I'm not sure
00:48:22.600 if they're on our
00:48:23.300 store right now
00:48:24.220 but yesterday we were
00:48:25.240 so excited by this
00:48:26.360 cartoon that we
00:48:27.780 made it available
00:48:28.500 on our store
00:48:29.280 if it's not available
00:48:30.120 right now
00:48:30.760 it will be really
00:48:31.680 shortly
00:48:32.140 plus I want to wear
00:48:33.720 that shirt around
00:48:34.380 because it's a fun
00:48:35.120 shirt and I show
00:48:36.580 that shirt to my
00:48:37.460 family and they
00:48:39.280 liked it too
00:48:39.780 because you don't
00:48:40.680 even have to be
00:48:41.100 politically to think
00:48:41.800 it's a fun shirt
00:48:42.920 Sidney writes
00:48:45.220 Ezra next time you
00:48:46.600 talk to the book
00:48:47.280 cops thank them for
00:48:48.580 selling another book
00:48:49.200 for you
00:48:49.560 it should be arriving
00:48:50.560 soon from Amazon
00:48:51.280 can't wait to read it
00:48:52.420 well Sidney it's funny
00:48:53.480 you say that
00:48:54.020 because this morning
00:48:56.500 my book once again
00:48:57.960 reached number one
00:48:59.300 political bestseller
00:49:00.400 on the Amazon.ca list
00:49:02.580 number two book
00:49:03.540 overall of any books
00:49:05.100 fiction or non-fiction
00:49:06.200 Canadian or form
00:49:07.140 and I mean I think
00:49:09.280 the book is good
00:49:09.960 thank you
00:49:10.440 but it was really
00:49:12.860 made for the election
00:49:13.920 and the election was
00:49:15.140 over in October
00:49:15.820 and it's March now
00:49:16.940 so the book had
00:49:18.080 naturally fallen out
00:49:19.420 of the bestseller list
00:49:20.940 I don't know what
00:49:22.400 the ranking was
00:49:23.120 but it wasn't in
00:49:23.900 the top ten anymore
00:49:24.880 and after the first
00:49:26.960 interrogation the book
00:49:27.880 hit number one
00:49:28.620 and yesterday
00:49:29.940 and this morning
00:49:30.640 again it hit number
00:49:31.520 one as the best
00:49:32.180 political book
00:49:33.080 bestselling
00:49:34.000 so yeah I mean
00:49:35.680 I don't want
00:49:37.080 these book prosecutors
00:49:38.860 but that's the thing
00:49:40.840 if you tell people
00:49:41.700 you're not allowed
00:49:42.580 to read this book
00:49:43.380 about Trudeau
00:49:44.120 why?
00:49:45.180 because Trudeau says so
00:49:46.460 I can't think of
00:49:47.980 better marketing than that
00:49:49.120 now I would rather
00:49:50.300 it would be left
00:49:51.020 to live in a free country
00:49:52.720 and sell the book
00:49:53.440 on its own merits
00:49:54.340 by the way
00:49:55.540 last I checked
00:49:56.200 it had over 400
00:49:57.300 reviews on Amazon
00:49:58.480 and the average review
00:50:00.340 is five stars
00:50:01.220 out of five
00:50:01.860 so I guess people
00:50:03.620 like the book
00:50:04.280 but I have to tell you
00:50:07.140 the truth
00:50:07.560 our number one salesman
00:50:08.980 is Justin Trudeau
00:50:10.160 and his book banners
00:50:11.080 themselves
00:50:11.640 isn't that weird?
00:50:13.640 well that's our show
00:50:14.200 for today
00:50:14.600 until tomorrow
00:50:15.220 on behalf of all of us
00:50:16.120 here at Rebel World
00:50:16.780 Headquarters
00:50:17.220 goodnight
00:50:17.660 keep fighting for freedom
00:50:19.220 paid respect for freedom
00:50:19.720 do
00:50:21.200 nothing
00:50:22.380 would be left
00:50:22.580 no
00:50:23.580 do
00:50:24.720 need
00:50:25.460 nothing
00:50:25.960 to do
00:50:27.520 do
00:50:28.100 do
00:50:28.840 you
00:50:31.540 you
00:50:32.100 Thank you.