Trump has been hit with a so-called "target letter" from Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has already brought charges against Trump in the classified documents case, and now may be preparing more indictments against Donald Trump. Will they be in addition to the January 6th indictments, or are they part of a larger conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election to President Joe Biden? Alex Blumberg and John Avlon discuss the latest development, and what it could mean for the future of the investigation. Plus, a new report from the New York Times says that Trump and his allies may be facing a variety of charges, including mail fraud, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice charges, and that they may also be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit perjury, among other things. And, as always, there's always the question of whether or not there's any truth behind the rumors and speculation about what's going on in the White House. -- Is this all a hoax? -- What's really going on, and who's actually responsible? -- or is it all true? -- and what's the real? -- from a special counsel investigation? -- And who's really responsible for it? -- -- and why is it happening, and why should we care? -- Is it even happening? -- Or is it even a thing? ? -- and will it be enough, and how will it affect the 2020 campaign? -- is it enough? and and what we should be worried about? -- also, and is it will have any impact on the mid-term election? And will it have any effect on the 2020 mid-terms, or or -- or will it all be enough? -- -- and does it have a chance to have a fair shake? -- should we even matter? -- including in 2020? -- will it even matter, or not? -- can we even care about the outcome? -- plus, is it really matter, and will we really care about it, or will we care about what s going to happen in the midterms? or is there any of it matter, anyway? -- & will it matter at all? -- are we really matter? And, and can we really have a long-term impact on 2020 really matter in the long term? -- well, we'll find out in the next 30 days? -- We ll find out, and we'll have the answers?
00:00:00.000So apparently Donald Trump's team knew about this since Sunday, but they waited until Tuesday to break the news that they'd received a so-called target letter from Special Investigator Jack Smith.
00:00:09.000Jack Smith, of course, is the special prosecutor who has brought charges against Trump in the classified documents case down in Florida.
00:00:15.000There's a possibility he may also do so up in New Jersey.
00:00:18.000And now apparently he is preparing charges against Donald Trump.
00:00:23.000Along the lines of what Donald Trump did on January 6th.
00:00:26.000Now it is unclear exactly what those charges are going to look like.
00:00:29.000According to CNBC, former President Trump on Tuesday said he'd been told he was a target in that January 6th criminal investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
00:00:37.000Trump suggested he may soon face indictment for the January 6th probe, which is focused on Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
00:00:44.000A spokesman for Smith declined to comment.
00:00:46.000Trump wrote that he was given what he called the horrifying news on Sunday evening by his lawyers.
00:00:50.000This does raise the question as to why Donald Trump released that on, you know, Tuesday.
00:00:55.000I would suspect that it has something to do with the fact that Ron DeSantis was about to do a rather ballyhooed interview with Jake Tapper that night.
00:01:01.000So a great way to take attention away from your chief rival is to drop a massive bombshell, another one, into the middle of the campaign.
00:01:08.000It is, I will say, an incredible dynamic whereby every time Donald Trump gets indicted, his pulls inside the Republican Party go up.
00:01:16.000And then his polls kind of generally go down.
00:01:18.000It's an unbelievable dynamic because, and I understand it, Republicans look at Trump and they see a man who's being targeted over and over and over by Joe Biden's Justice Department.
00:01:27.000And they say, well, if they're that out to get Trump, then probably I need to defend Trump.
00:01:30.000The best way to defend Trump is to vote for him because maybe he'll become president and then he can protect himself from these legal charges.
00:01:36.000I'm just saying that if your chief goal is to win the presidency, maybe nominating the guy who's under multiple indictments is not like the best general election strategy.
00:01:46.000We'll get to that in a moment, however.
00:01:48.000A hearing in the classified documents criminal case is already set for Tuesday in Florida federal court.
00:01:53.000Trump's lawyers wanted to push that beyond the 2024 election.
00:02:48.000The fraud charge presumably would have to do with the idea that he knew that he wasn't actually still going to be president of the United States, but he started raising a bunch of money which he then put in his own pocket and he didn't actually use for his legal cases, for example.
00:03:00.000So that would be the mail fraud or the wire charge or apparently obstruction of justice charges that are also being considered.
00:03:05.000Presumably that would have to do with President Trump going to particular witnesses in the January 6th case and then pressuring them to testify in a certain way.
00:03:14.000That would sort of be the other aspect of this.
00:03:17.000But again, it's hard to sort of say how credible the charges are or how credible the charges are not, given the fact that we don't actually know what the charges are as of yet.
00:03:28.000One thing that is absolutely clear is that the number of different cases coming down the pike against Trump, I mean, there's obviously something political here.
00:03:37.000It is the same DOJ run by the same Merrick Garland that appears to have essentially buried the Hunter Biden case that is now dropping a ton of bricks on Donald Trump via the special counsel.
00:03:48.000Again, there was no special prosecutor who was actually appointed for Hunter Biden.
00:03:52.000That was kept well within the purview of the DOJ.
00:03:54.000In fact, that's one of the big controversies with regard to Hunter Biden is whether the Attorney who ended up bringing charges against Hunter Biden in Delaware, David Weiss, whether he had actually asked for special counsel status and been denied it by the DOJ.
00:04:07.000According to the IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, that's exactly what happened, that they'd been barred from doing a full investigation by the DOJ.
00:04:13.000So the question there is whether the DOJ is blocking charges against Joe Biden allies and pursuing charges against Donald Trump.
00:04:20.000A bunch of theories politically as to whether the Democrats are trying to promote Trump in the primaries by indicting him over and over and over again.
00:04:25.000I don't think it's probably as complex as all of that.
00:04:28.000I think that probably you sick special prosecutors on people and the idea they don't come up with charges is really, really rare.
00:04:34.000That is why when it came to the special The special investigation regarding Trump-Russia collusion?
00:04:41.000That means they came up with less than nothing.
00:04:42.000Because typically the way that it works is the minute you appoint a special counsel, a special investigator, a special prosecutor, any of these things, that person is just going to dig and dig and dig until they hit even some minor level of paydirt.
00:04:53.000And so it is not particularly shocked that once you appoint a special counsel in the January 6th case, that they're going to come up with something.
00:05:01.000The White House, for its part, is claiming that this is the rule of law restored, which I find hard to believe from the administration that continually violates the rule of law.
00:05:11.000Former President Trump received a letter from the special counsel that he's being investigated for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
00:05:19.000House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the Biden administration has decided to, quote, weaponize government to go after their number one opponent, end quote.
00:05:31.000The president respects the Department of Justice, their independence.
00:05:35.000He has been very, very steadfast on making sure that the rule of law comes back in this administration, comes back in the White House and clearly the administration more broadly.
00:05:56.000I mean, they've evidenced zero concern, truthfully, about the rule of law at this point.
00:06:01.000We'll get deeper into what these charges are and what they are not, because one thing that you'll notice is that they probably will not be under the Insurrection Act, right?
00:06:07.000There's not gonna be any charges of treason here from Jack Smith.
00:06:10.000There are not going to be any charges that Donald Trump was attempting an insurrection to overthrow the government of the United States, anything like that.
00:06:18.000He's not going to be hit with the same charges as the January 6thers are being hit with.
00:06:21.000He's being hit with secondary charges like obstruction of justice, like fraud.
00:06:24.000Those are the most likely charges that are going to come up for President Trump.
00:06:27.000We'll get to more on that in a second and how a state case in Michigan may tie into the broader January 6th case against President Trump first.
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00:07:36.000Okay, so the fact of the matter is that when it comes to this particular prosecution,
00:07:41.000it looks like it's going to be on secondary lines.
00:07:46.000Now, there have been some claims that Rudy Giuliani may have flipped.
00:07:51.000The reason there was speculation about this is because apparently he did not receive a target letter.
00:07:56.000There's a lot of talk about the possibility that Rudy Giuliani had been really facilitating a lot of the claims in the aftermath of the election that Donald Trump had won the election and he was going out there and he was actually soliciting alternative electors in various states to create Sort of elector slates that could be theoretically selected by the Congress of the United States in place of the actual certified electoral slates.
00:08:16.000There's a lot of talk that Giuliani was going to get indicted in the January 6 probe.
00:08:19.000Apparently that is something that is not going to happen.
00:08:23.000According to The Independent from the UK, Giuliani reportedly participated in a voluntary interview with prosecutors as part of what is known as a Queen for a Day deal, under which the ex-mayor can avoid indictment for anything he tells prosecutors about during the interview.
00:08:36.000And apparently, again, he did not receive a target letter in the January 6th probe, according to his own lawyer.
00:08:43.000With that said, Giuliani's people are saying that he's not testifying against President Trump in any of these cases.
00:08:49.000Again, it's very hard to assess the merits of the case itself before you actually have the incitement.
00:08:55.000What I will say is that all of this has been pretty public.
00:08:56.000I mean, we all saw all of this happen.
00:10:01.000I want to see what they came up with that supposedly changed the math so radically that now Trump is going to be prosecuted on this, you know, the year before the election while he is currently the Republican frontrunner.
00:10:11.000It is also obvious that the prosecutors want to get this thing in before the election, right?
00:10:14.000They definitely want this guy in the dock during the election season.
00:10:18.000When Trump says this is election interference, again, two things can be true at once.
00:10:21.000Number one, it can absolutely be election interference.
00:10:22.000And number two, it can be that Trump fulfills the elements of the crime.
00:10:25.000That's probably true when it comes to the classified documents case.
00:10:28.000And it does speak to President Trump's lack of common sense with regard to the classified documents case.
00:10:32.000When it comes to the January 6th stuff, and when it comes to obstruction and fraud and all the rest, The same math may apply, that it's obviously political to target him, and at the same exact time, he may fulfill the elements of a crime, especially when you're talking about trying him in a place with a jury that is democratic.
00:10:50.000Presumably, if Jack Smith brings charges on obstruction of justice, he's not going to bring it in Florida.
00:10:54.000Presumably, he's going to bring it in someplace like Washington, D.C.
00:10:58.000Okay, meanwhile, this ties into the larger sort of January 6th election schemes.
00:11:07.000So, for example, Michigan, the state of Michigan is now charging 16 people in the Elector Scheme.
00:11:13.000And that is, you know, kind of fascinating.
00:11:15.000According to the New York Times, the Michigan AG announced felony charges on Tuesday against 16 Republicans for falsely portraying themselves as electors from the state in an effort to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 defeat there.
00:11:25.000Each of the defendants was charged with eight felony counts, including forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery on accusation they'd signed documents attesting falsely that they were Michigan's duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president.
00:11:38.000Here is the Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is a Democrat, who of course is bringing these prosecution charges.
00:11:42.000This seems to me like this might violate First Amendment considerations, which will, I'm sure, be a defense here.
00:11:46.000Here is Dana Nessel announcing the charges.
00:11:49.000As part of the orchestrated plan, we allege that 16 Michigan residents met covertly in the basement of Michigan GOP headquarters and knowingly, and of their own volition, signed their names to multiple certificates stating that they were the duly elected and qualified electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America for the state of Michigan.
00:12:19.000They weren't the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it.
00:12:25.000They carried out these actions with the hope and belief that the electoral votes of Michigan's 2020 election would be awarded to the candidate of their choosing instead of the candidate that Michigan voters actually chose.
00:12:41.000The reason this looks spurious is because I can call myself the President of the United States today if I actively think I'm the President of the United States today.
00:12:48.000If I'm under the weird impression that that is in fact the case, then I have not violated the intent part of this particular statute.
00:12:53.000In fact, what Dana Nessel is doing here Looks very much like trumping up charges as the predicate to going after Trump in Michigan in the same way that you have this attorney, Fannie Willis, down in Georgia, who's preparing to go after President Trump down there.
00:13:07.000As the New York Times notes, Nestle began investigating the matter in early 2021, but then she referred it to the DOJ in January 2022.
00:13:13.000She said at the time there were grounds to bring charges, but there was better investigative resources over at the federal level.
00:13:20.000And a few months later, she posted on Twitter, quote, if we don't hold the people involved in the alternate elector scheme accountable, there's literally nothing to stop them from doing this again because there will have been no repercussions for it.
00:13:29.000By January of this year, federal prosecutors had taken no apparent action.
00:13:32.000Because, presumably, they saw that this was not a crime.
00:13:34.000If I sign a document saying that I'm an elector in the state of Florida, even though I've not been quote-unquote duly appointed, but I think that I am duly appointed because I believe, because I've been told by foolish lawyers, for example, that there was, in fact, a statute under which I could be considered a duly elected member of an alternate slate, and that I could then be selected by the Congress of the United States, intent is part of the crime.
00:14:16.000I have a harder time believing that, and this is the big problem with the case against Trump on January 6th.
00:14:20.000You actually have to make the case that Trump knew full well that he had not been elected President of the United States, and he essentially trumped up all of this in order to avoid the consequences of that.
00:14:29.000Now, as I've said before, proving intent with Donald Trump is actually a really, really steep hill to climb.
00:14:34.000This is why, for example, the tape in the classified documents case is so damaging to Trump, because he's openly saying that he knows the thing that they would have to establish if they didn't have the tape.
00:14:44.000If Trump said, I didn't know that the classified documents were classified, I really thought I could declassify, if you just said that, and he mourned on tape saying, I knew I could not declassify these documents, I was the president, I'm not the president, like, that tape is extremely damaging to Trump.
00:14:56.000On the January 6th matters, virtually all of these crimes are intent crimes.
00:15:02.000Obstruction is a situation where if you offer a thing of tangible value to someone to change their testimony, that's obstruction, which presumably is why they're going to attempt to bring obstruction charges.
00:15:11.000But the fraud charge is an intent charge.
00:15:13.000You have to show that Trump actively knew that the money that he was taking from people was not going to be used for legal defense, and not only did he know it was not going to be used for legal defense, he knew that the legal defense itself was spurious, and he was doing it to put money in his own pocket.
00:15:29.000Now, in a second, we'll get to the politics of all of this, because you can see the sort of way that this has thrown, again, the race into disarray.
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00:16:40.000Okay, so all of the other candidates are now responding to all of this.
00:16:44.000And the response seems to be very similar from all of the other candidates, which is, I would have done what Donald Trump did on January 6th, but the prosecution is political and unfair.
00:16:53.000Vivek Ramaswamy, who's been extremely pro-Trump throughout this race, he said he would have made very different judgments than President Trump did on January 6th, but he also said that this is obviously politically motivated.
00:17:05.000Ron DeSantis, he said that Trump should have done something differently on January 6th, but we can't have partisan prosecutions.
00:17:58.000Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, who is no ally of President Trump, Kemp himself turned down Trump's attempts to swivel the election in Georgia.
00:18:04.000He said they better have some pretty good evidence if they're going to go after him this way.
00:18:08.000What do you make, if true, that he is the target of an indictment regarding January 6th?
00:18:13.000I know there's a lot of people, conservatives like me, that are frustrated by things like the New York indictment, but there's no doubt that these things are a distraction to the former president.
00:18:23.000And I would just tell you, if I was the prosecutor bringing these charges, he better have some damn good evidence if you're going after a former president.
00:18:30.000And we'll see as the process plays out, but it's certainly a distraction from us beating Joe Biden.
00:18:41.000So the question is going to be, in terms of the political consequences, is there a point at which the Republican Party, many members of the base, they have a lot of sympathy for Trump, they think he's being gone after unfairly, and also they realize that it turns out that this battle Is there sort of a drama limit for the Republican Party?
00:18:56.000a problem for them. That the more that Trump is in the headlines about his
00:19:00.000indictment, the more he is fighting legal battles, the less the headline is that
00:19:04.000Joe Biden is a terrible president who ought not be president anymore. In other
00:19:08.000words, is there sort of a drama limit for the Republican Party? You can support
00:19:11.000Trump, you can back Trump, you can think this is all unfair.
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00:21:45.000Or are there many candidates out there who would be good at squaring up against Joe Biden without the drama?
00:21:51.000Again, put aside your heart for a second and think with your head.
00:21:54.000If you think that this election is going to be about Donald Trump and his legal troubles, is that something that is likely to win Donald Trump the presidency?
00:22:00.000Or are you just betting that basically Joe Biden falls down?
00:22:29.000The only hope that you have at that point is that the turnout for Joe Biden is just extremely low.
00:22:34.000But the question is whether all those people are gonna come home to Joe Biden when the actual money is on the line.
00:22:40.000And the answer is, you know, in my opinion, probably yes, that most Democratic voters are still going to show up.
00:22:44.000You have to bet on low Democratic voter turnout.
00:22:47.000Well, the only way you're going to get low Democratic voter turnout is if Democrats aren't motivated by the presence of Donald Trump on the ballot.
00:22:53.000Right now, Joe Biden is in various polls ranging anywhere from like 49% in the NBC News poll, all the way down to like 40% in the Economist poll.
00:23:03.000But again, there are a lot of voters that I would assume are going to come home to Biden.
00:23:06.000Who are the voters who are going to come home to Trump?
00:23:10.000It seems like his poll numbers are pretty stable.
00:23:12.000It seems like Joe Biden has some wiggle room right there.
00:23:15.000Now, when it comes to, you know, Ron DeSantis or other candidates inside the Republican Party, Those candidates have yet to really have a floor or a ceiling.
00:23:23.000So if you look at DeSantis' range, there's some polls that have DeSantis all the way up at 47% and some that have him at 48%, even 52% in one recent poll, and some polls that have him all the way down to like 38%.
00:23:33.000There's a big range, a big fluctuation, because it turns out there may be some people who are like, well, you know, maybe I'll give him a shot.
00:23:40.000Maybe if you're an independent deciding on the last day between DeSantis and, say, Biden, you give DeSantis a shot because you're tired of Joe Biden.
00:23:48.000And again, that is the story of 2016, as I've mentioned, and 2020.
00:23:51.0002016 undecideds broke 2-1 for Trump on the last day of the election.
00:23:54.0002020 undecideds broke 2-1 for Biden on the last day of the election.
00:24:04.000Now, I'm not sure that I buy that entire sort of narrative.
00:24:10.000The reason I'm not sure that I buy that narrative is because if I look at the actual polling data with regard to Ron DeSantis, he's basically been in the same sort of bucket since late May.
00:24:19.000He was polling in the Real Care Politics polling average at about 20%, 19.4% as of May 20th.
00:24:28.000Right, so he hasn't really lost a lot of ground since late May, and we are now in mid-July.
00:24:32.000So for about the last eight weeks, he's been in kind of the same place.
00:24:35.000The problem is, he hasn't caught fire yet.
00:24:37.000So the question is, how does Ron DeSantis catch fire?
00:24:39.000Well, I mean, it's possible that somebody like DeSantis, it doesn't have to be DeSantis, but one of the people like DeSantis might catch fire by going into hostile territory and knocking some heads together.
00:24:47.000So yesterday, DeSantis did an interview with Jake Tapper, this was supposed to be sort of the relaunch of his campaign, and he did a really good job.
00:25:07.000But DeSantis handled him, I thought, very, very well.
00:25:10.000And he didn't require cleanup on aisle five.
00:25:13.000So, for example, here was Ron DeSantis asked about winning Suburban Moms.
00:25:18.000As you go further and further to the right on some of these divisive social issues that could alienate moderates, suburban moms, etc., Republican voters see you as less and less electable.
00:25:29.000I took a state that had been a one-point state, and we won it by 20 percentage points, 1.5 million votes.
00:25:36.000Our bread and butter were people like suburban moms.
00:25:39.000We're leading a big movement for parents' rights, have the parents be involved in education, school choice, get the indoctrination out of schools.
00:25:47.000Of course, there's bread-and-butter issues that matter too.
00:26:16.000Here is DeSantis on abortion, for example.
00:26:18.000So Tapper, again, goes after him and suggests he's a radical on abortion, and here's DeSantis' answer.
00:26:23.000You recently signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida.
00:26:26.000Yes or no, would you support that as a nationwide ban?
00:26:29.000So I said I'm pro-life, I will be a pro-life president, and we will support pro-life policies.
00:26:35.000At the same time, I look at what's going on in the Congress, and, you know, I don't see them, you know, making very much headway.
00:26:42.000I think the danger from Congress is if we lose the election, they're going to try to nationalize abortion up until the moment of birth.
00:26:50.000And in some liberal states, you actually have post-birth Okay, so, again, there's DeSantis taking a position that is absolutely winnable in a general election after having passed an extremely conservative law in Florida.
00:27:05.000And what he's saying is absolutely correct, right?
00:27:06.000You can get a six-week abortion ban in Florida, but you're not going to get that nationally.
00:27:10.000And so this idea that this is like a giant threat, that the Congress of the United States is somehow going to unify and pass a six-week abortion ban, that's really not a thing that at a national level is going to happen.
00:28:09.000Will you stop financial support for Ukraine?
00:28:11.000So first, a vital national interest to me means we would potentially send troops there.
00:28:15.000And I don't think anybody wants to see troops in Ukraine, and I would believe that in 2015 as well.
00:28:20.000It's more of a secondary or tertiary interest.
00:28:23.000The goal should be A sustainable, enduring peace in Europe, but one that does not reward aggression.
00:28:30.000And there's going to be different levers that you're going to be able to pull.
00:28:32.000We will pull some levers against Russia.
00:28:35.000We're going to be much more aggressive on energy and export, because I think that's been Putin's lifeline.
00:28:40.000I want the Europeans dependent on the United States for that, not him.
00:28:44.000We're also going to turn the screws on the Iranians.
00:28:46.000The Iranians have been one of Putin's biggest benefactors, and they've benefited from Biden's approach there.
00:28:52.000So we'll use the leverage that we have.
00:28:54.000But the goal's gonna be a sustainable peace that does not reward aggression.
00:28:58.000Okay, and then Tapper asked him about the trans issues, and he's suggesting that DeSantis is targeting trans, and it's really terrible.
00:29:06.000And look how DeSantis turns this into a normal question for normal people, like, should we be subsidizing trans surgeries for members of the military?
00:29:14.000You know, the actual practical ramifications of all the fuzzy gender ideology that's being pushed by the left.
00:29:19.000Your new policy that you announced today about the military would ban transgender Americans from serving in the military, regardless of their ability, and this comes on the heels of your campaign retweeting a video that the Log Cabin Republicans, which is a conservative LGBTQ group, said, quote, ventured into homophobic territory, unquote.
00:29:36.000There are more than a million trans adults in the U.S.
00:29:40.000What are their lives and the lives of the people who love and support them going to be like under a DeSantis administration?
00:29:45.000Well look, in the military it's all about the mission first.
00:29:48.000So there's a whole bunch of reasons why you focus on mission first.
00:29:53.000People's individuality, it does take, you do have to check that at the door.
00:30:00.000Again, what he's doing is he's taking the temperature down on these issues while maintaining a very consistent conservative position.
00:30:07.000That is a smart way to do politics, what DeSantis is doing.
00:30:09.000It's one of the reasons why, again, he turned a purple state into a bright red state in Florida.
00:30:13.000DeSantis is actually very good at this.
00:30:14.000And him being in hostile situations and showing that he's capable of doing this could theoretically recast the race.
00:30:19.000Because if what Republican voters are looking for is someone who can beat Biden and who is very conservative, Then they might stop looking at the shiny fireworks over here, right, which is all of the Trump indictment kind of stuff.
00:30:30.000And they might start looking at the actual question, which is who can beat Joe Biden and who is conservative.
00:30:34.000So, again, I found DeSantis did an excellent job on Tapper last night.
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00:31:57.000Also, men and women They are different, not just physically, but also on a much deeper level.
00:32:01.000Ironically, the more the left tries to erase those differences, the more pronounced the differences actually become.
00:32:05.000For example, women are generally more nurturing than men.
00:32:08.000That is an evolutionary biological fact.
00:32:09.000If you don't believe me, you can ask my wife as well.
00:32:12.000Holding on to simple facts like this, understanding them, it's essential.
00:32:15.000That's at the heart of Dennis Prager's new episode of PragerU, Master's Program.
00:32:18.000In this series, Dennis is sharing 40 years worth of hard-earned wisdom as he explores all kinds of topics.
00:32:23.000How to be a good person, hurdles to happiness, and the case for marriage.
00:32:26.000This newest episode is extremely important because the more men and women understand each other, the more they'll be able to accept and celebrate their unique differences.
00:32:33.000It's a great episode, you're not gonna wanna miss it.
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00:32:39.000Okay, meanwhile, now the real issue in the 2024 campaign should be the current president of the United States.
00:32:44.000Typically, the incumbent is the person upon whom there is a referendum.
00:33:24.000So, for example, yesterday he was meeting with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.
00:33:28.000This is part and parcel of a broader attempt by the Biden administration to draw away from Israel.
00:33:35.000Joe Biden, who is not congenitally pro-Israel, and neither is anyone in his administration.
00:33:39.000Jake Sullivan, all the holdovers from the Obama administration.
00:33:41.000Obama was by far the most radically anti-Israel candidate and president in American history.
00:33:46.000Well, Barack Obama staffed his people, his administration, people who hated Israel.
00:33:50.000A lot of those people are holdovers in sort of the foreign policy department of the Biden administration.
00:33:55.000He has seen the current sort of divisions in Israeli society over judicial reform as an opportunity for him to drive a wedge between Israel and the United States.
00:34:03.000And that's why he invited Isaac Herzog, who's the president of Israel, not Bibi Netanyahu, who's the prime minister.
00:34:07.000There's been some talk that now he's inviting Bibi.
00:35:01.000We're told by the media he's totally fine, he's in great shape, he's fit as a fiddle and ready for love.
00:35:06.000And I'll just remind you that Joe Biden is the one who said the only way that he would run for re-election, basically, is if Donald Trump was the nominee.
00:35:13.000Joe Biden was asked some questions, like people in the audience, right, the journalists who are assembled for this little presser, they start shouting questions at Biden, and he reacts like your 80-year-old grandmother would react if you burst into the room asking her very loud questions.
00:35:25.000Because Joe Biden is your 80-year-old grandmother who's in a state of decline.
00:36:03.000Which, by the way, is why a bunch of Silicon Valley money people are now buzzing about RFK Jr.
00:36:07.000They're just looking for anybody who is not Joe Biden on that side of the aisle.
00:36:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has recently voiced support for RFK Jr., who's running against Biden for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
00:36:20.000Kennedy has been feted by a handful of other tech titans, including SPAC King Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sachs, co-founding executive of PayPal and trusted ear to Elon Musk.
00:36:29.000Again, there are a lot of people who are looking at Kennedy, not because they think Kennedy is any sort of great shapes, but because he is just not Joe Biden.
00:36:36.000And that is what the polls are showing inside the Democratic Party, by the way.
00:37:35.000He's supremely vulnerable and he should be supremely vulnerable.
00:37:38.000That's why presumably he's now resorting to bribery again.
00:37:42.000So Joe Biden is now, he tried to bribe everybody with the student debt relief nonsense.
00:37:45.000He tried to say he had the unilateral power under statutes that clearly didn't apply to simply relieve student loan debt to the tune of trillions of dollars.
00:37:52.000Well, now they're trying a second attempt.
00:37:54.000James Cavall, the Undersecretary of Education, according to Politico, said Tuesday the administration was moving as quickly as possible under the law to craft a new debt relief program in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling last month that struck down Biden's initial plan to wipe out 20 grand of debt for tens of millions of borrowers.
00:38:08.000So Cavall is now going to try to end a round.
00:38:10.000It's not going to work, but that's the Biden way.
00:38:13.000He's going to make empty promises and then hope that you don't notice when they go unfulfilled.
00:38:18.000Joe Biden's administration is on very, very shaky legs.
00:38:21.000He's relying on the continued strength of the economy.
00:38:23.000I think economic stagnation is around the corner, and I'm investing like it.
00:38:44.000You have the Democratic Party, a segment of which is doubling down on the radical anti-Israel rhetoric, and Joe Biden doesn't even have the strength to put down that revolt.
00:38:52.000So you'll recall that Pramila Jayapal, who's made several anti-Semitic remarks with regard to Israel, again, there's a difference between being critical of Israel and saying that Israel cannot exist as a Jewish state and be democratic.
00:39:02.000Or Israel is a racist state, as Pramila Jayapal said.
00:39:06.000Treating Israel differently than any other state on earth is a form of anti-Semitism, obviously.
00:39:11.000That is something that Democrats in the Squad particularly love to do.
00:39:14.000Rashida Tlaib, who's a wild anti-Semite, I mean, like, associates with actual known terrorist supporters.
00:39:20.000Rashida Tlaib came out yesterday and said, Israel's just like South Africa, which is absurd.
00:39:44.000But here is Rashida Tlaib going after Israel yesterday, and the congressional leadership of the Democratic Party refuses to slap her or any of the other members of the squad down.
00:39:53.000The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Israel's own largest human rights organization, B'Tselem, all agree that Israel is an apartheid state.
00:40:03.000To assert otherwise, Mr. Speaker, in the face of this just body of evidence is an attempt to deny the reality and to normalize violence of apartheid.
00:40:15.000This week, we're going to hear consistently that, you know, people totting about, like, oh, this is bipartisan support here.
00:40:21.000But don't forget, this body, this Congress, supported the South African apartheid regime, and it was bipartisan as well.
00:40:31.000Oh, you mean that you're going to cite a bunch of left-wing NGOs who hate Israel and openly associate with anti-Semitic bodies?
00:40:37.000Was there any response from Democratic leadership to that?
00:40:41.000AOC used to be anti-Semitic adjacent, now she's just anti-Semitic.
00:40:43.000I mean, AOC doesn't just hang out with anti-Semites, she routinely says anti-Semitic things.
00:40:47.000Here's her latest example, where she says that Israel is in the middle of a crisis of democracy and apartheid, and she's mirroring the idiocies of her fellow anti-Semites Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
00:41:09.000There's currently a crisis of democracy and apartheid, and I think that this is something that has been a consensus among human rights organizations.
00:41:17.000Now she's wearing her smart people glasses, so we can pretend that she actually has an IQ above 75.
00:41:22.000It's always very impressive when she wears her smart people glasses.
00:41:25.000In any case, The White House was specifically asked about condemning these sorts of comments, and they're like, no, no, no, we're not going to condemn them.
00:41:32.000We're glad that people are sometimes walking them back like Pramila Jayapal, but we're not going to condemn those comments.
00:42:02.000Did it come up at all in the conversation with President Herzog?
00:42:06.000What we didn't hear was any condemnation of her comment from the White House.
00:42:14.000The apology was the right thing to do.
00:42:16.000And we've been very clear when it comes to anti-Semitism, this administration and the entire Biden-Harris administration have been clear that when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hate, that's anti-Semitism.
00:42:33.000One of the reasons, and I just said this moments ago, back in May, the President put forward a comprehensive plan on how to counter anti-Semitism.
00:42:44.000It is something that is one of its first of a kind strategy that we've not seen before, and it is comprehensive and it is ambitious.
00:42:53.000I noticed you're not condemning the other members of the Democratic Party who are doing anti-Semitic things.
00:42:57.000I noticed that also, the supposed anti-Semitism fight that the administration has taken on involved getting the Council on American-Islamic Relations involved.
00:43:12.000Meanwhile, just contrast, here's how the White House dealt with RFK's comments.
00:43:15.000So you'll recall that RFK was at a dinner and he suggested that maybe a bioweapon had been engineered by the Chinese government because there were certain genetic markers with regard to COVID that made it less likely to attack Chinese people or Ashkenazic Jews.
00:43:54.000And they put our fellow Americans in danger.
00:43:58.000If you think about the racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that come out of saying those types of things, it's an attack on our fellow citizens, our fellow Americans.
00:44:09.000And so it is important that we essentially speak out when we hear those claims made more broadly.
00:44:37.000Okay, this new Jason Aldean song is a massive hit.
00:44:40.000It is called, Try That in a Small Town.
00:44:43.000The video is controversial, so controversial that it was removed by, actually, Country Music TV.
00:44:50.000It was removed because it essentially showed various riots, and then it said, like, try that in a small town and see how it goes for you.
00:44:57.000The accusation is that this was racist.
00:45:00.000Which is weird, because there are a lot of black people who live in small towns.
00:45:02.000And it turns out black people are also not super fond of rioting.
00:45:06.000But apparently the take of the media is that if you oppose riots and you think that in a small town that sort of thing doesn't go, that means that you actually want to kill black people just randomly.
00:45:14.000That of course is not what the song is even remotely about.
00:45:17.000Here is some of the music video for Jason Altine's song.
00:45:39.000And he's, uh, you know, basically the idea is, try this Antifa crap here and see how it goes for you.
00:45:45.000There's not gonna be looting in a small town because we actually have a sense of community, right?
00:45:53.000And then you put out a statement saying, When you grow up in a small town, it's that unspoken rule of we all have each other's backs and we look out for each other.
00:45:59.000It feels like somewhere along the way that sense of community and respect has gotten lost.
00:46:02.000Deep down, we're all ready to get back to that.
00:46:04.000I hope my new music video helps you all know that you are not alone in feeling that way.
00:46:18.000You're not allowed to show, presumably, criminals who are black and then say that you don't wish for criminality to prevail, and in a small town it wouldn't.
00:46:26.000Now, it doesn't matter that many of the criminals in the video are also white.
00:46:45.000These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.
00:46:47.000There's not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it, and there isn't a single video clip that isn't real news footage.
00:46:53.000And while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music, this one goes too far.
00:46:57.000As so many pointed out, I was present at Route 91, where so many lost their lives, and our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy.
00:47:03.000No one, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart.
00:47:08.000Try That In A Small Town For Me refers to a feeling of community that I had growing up where we took care of our neighbors regardless of differences of background or belief.
00:47:15.000Because they were our neighbors and that was above any differences.
00:47:17.000My political views have never been something I've hidden from.
00:47:19.000I know a lot of us in this country don't agree on how we get back to a sense of normalcy or where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night.
00:47:25.000But the desire for it to, that's what this song is about.
00:47:29.000And that apparently is super duper duper bad.
00:47:33.000Again, the The fact that there are people on the left who feel the necessity to treat criminality and opposition to it as aspects of race is itself racist.
00:47:44.000If I say criminality doesn't fly in my community and your immediate take is that's racist, you are being racist.
00:47:50.000You are suggesting that the crime is only from black people or that by targeting crime you're actually targeting black people, which is ridiculous.
00:47:56.000A majority of the crime in the country is coming from white people.
00:48:00.000And now, again, a disproportionate share of crime, violent crime, like murder, is taking place among black people, by young black people.
00:48:08.000That doesn't mean that if I oppose murder, I oppose black people.
00:48:11.000The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of black people ain't committing murder, obviously.
00:48:15.000It is the left that it suggests, that if you target a behavior, a disproportionate share of which is performed by a particular race, you're actually targeting the race?
00:48:40.000You really think that Jason Aldean was like, well, I'm gonna go to a town that had a lynching 102 years ago, and that's where I'm gonna film this video because that's where I really want this film.