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00:00:06.000Well, it is highly unlikely that Donald Trump is actually going to be arrested today.
00:00:09.000Donald Trump suggested over the weekend that he was likely to be arrested or at least indicted on Tuesday.
00:00:14.000But apparently the grand jury in Manhattan only closed testimony on Monday night.
00:00:19.000And that means that they're probably going to consider it today.
00:00:21.000And then even if an indictment is brought, it's going to take a little while to work out the details of the arrest because the chances that You're going to send federal authorities down to Florida, for example, to just grab Donald Trump and rip him out of Mar-a-Lago in handcuffs.
00:00:35.000What is likely to happen if Donald Trump is indeed arrested is that he's going to work out the details of the arrest with his lawyers that he can present himself for the arrest.
00:00:43.000And you saw the same thing with Steve Bannon.
00:00:44.000When Steve Bannon was arrested, he presented himself at the courthouse with his lawyers and the sort of more dramatic photos that the left is looking for.
00:00:51.000Donald Trump crying on his way to the police vehicle or something like that is not what's going to happen here.
00:00:56.000According to Forbes, Truth said on Truth Social on Saturday that he'd be arrested on Tuesday and called for protest, but his attorneys later confirmed that that was speculation and that they'd had no information suggesting that today would be the big day.
00:01:06.000The grand jury hearing the case will vote on whether or not to approve the charges against Trump meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
00:01:14.000There's no indication that they voted on Monday.
00:01:15.000So that means that Probably they'll be considering tomorrow whether or not to arrest Donald Trump or put out an indictment for arrest for Donald Trump.
00:01:24.000Fox News actually reported that the grand jury is going to hear from another witness on Wednesday, which suggests, again, that this may go on a little bit.
00:01:30.000It's unclear if their work would wrap up then or continue all the way until Friday.
00:01:35.000One thing is pretty clear at this point, which is that the possibility of Donald Trump being arrested is now very, very high.
00:01:41.000And that possibility is going to grow as time goes on here.
00:01:45.000Remember, there are multiplicity of cases against Donald Trump.
00:01:48.000The one that we're talking about in Manhattan, the one that is most likely to result in the soonest arrest, is not the only case that's ongoing.
00:01:53.000There's another one in Georgia over the possibility of, for example, obstruction of justice in calling a bunch of election officials in Georgia.
00:02:01.000Also, there's also a politically motivated prosecutor who's at work in Georgia on that particular score.
00:02:06.000The important thing to understand about what's going on in the Manhattan DA case, in this particular Stormy Daniels Campaign finance fraud case or whatever it is, is that it's extremely sketchy and everyone understands that it's extremely sketchy.
00:02:17.000In fact, everybody sort of knew that this thing was dead as of 2019.
00:02:23.000According to Politico, in 2021, inside the Manhattan DA's office, then run by Cyrus Vance, again, a dedicated opponent of Donald Trump, the Daniels saga, the Stormy Daniels saga, was known as the zombie case.
00:02:32.000It was dead and brought back to life by Mark Pomerantz, who led the Manhattan DA's Trump investigation when he started that job in early 2021.
00:02:38.000Pomerantz first dug into the hush money payments because he later wrote it was interesting and easy to understand, unlike the complex financial investigation of the Trump Organization that he would later bring some prosecutions on, for example, Ellen Weisselberg.
00:02:51.000In 2018, prosecutors in STNY, the Southern District of New York, unraveled the entire affair.
00:02:55.000They charged Michael Cohen with making illegal federal campaign contributions.
00:02:58.000And in the sentencing memorandum written after Cohen pled guilty, the Fed said that Cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of Trump.
00:03:04.000When all this was disclosed, there was a lot of speculation that Donald Trump would be brought up on charges even as of 2019.
00:03:13.000Pomerantz wrote a book about the case, and he surmised that there were probably two factors.
00:03:17.000One, the DOJ had guidance that they shouldn't actually indict a sitting president.
00:03:20.000And two, they had a really difficult relationship with Michael Cohen, who was never offered a formal cooperating witness deal, and they didn't want to rely on him as a witness.
00:03:28.000Apparently Alvin Bragg has no such qualms.
00:03:30.000He's happy to use Michael Cohen as a witness, despite the fact that Michael Cohen is, in fact, a convicted liar.
00:03:37.000And that is what Trump is counting on, is that Michael Cohen is not exactly the world's best witness.
00:03:42.000And those two big potential weaknesses of the case remain, according to Politico.
00:03:45.000One, can prosecutors overcome the ambiguity of the statute to ensure a felony charge?
00:03:49.000And two, how much will prosecutors' needs rely on Michael Cohen?
00:03:53.000So, again, the possibility of an arrest today?
00:04:22.000But one of the weird aspects of this particular case is obviously that it's a bombshell in the middle of the presidential race.
00:04:28.000So the I think the weirdest thing that's happening right now is a shift of focus from Team Trump From Joe Biden, Democratic administration, Alvin Bragg, you know, the people that the Republican base really should be angry at, a shift of focus to his other primary opponents.
00:04:46.000I mean, to be honest with you, it's really gross that Donald Trump, I'm sorry, but Ron DeSantis, any other candidate on the Republican side of the aisle is not responsible for what is happening here.
00:04:59.000There are a bunch of people who theoretically you could blame for the situation that Donald Trump now finds himself in.
00:05:03.000You could blame, at least in part, Donald Trump for allegedly having stooped Stormy Daniels while he was a married man, and then having paid hush money in order to cover it up.
00:05:13.000You can blame Stormy Daniels for having shot that story around endlessly.
00:05:16.000You can certainly blame Alvin Bragg for bringing what appears to be a frivolous case against Donald Trump.
00:05:21.000How that turns into Other Republican candidates are on the hook for Donald Trump's activities or the targeting of Donald Trump is beyond me.
00:05:30.000And by the way, the other Republican candidates who have been asked about it have universally sided with Trump against Alvin Bragg.
00:05:35.000But I guess the idea is that Donald Trump has the capacity to call on all other Republicans to defend every aspect of his behavior while simultaneously Donald Trump tries to take a knife to all the other Republicans in the race, which is a very, very strange dynamic.
00:05:47.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:06:53.000Donald Trump yesterday decided to focus his fire, not really on Alvin Bragg, but on Ron DeSantis, which again is a very, very weird take.
00:07:02.000So Ron DeSantis had been pressured over the weekend to sound off about Donald Trump's claim that he was about to be arrested.
00:07:06.000And I said yesterday on the show, I do not think that it is the responsibility of any sitting politician, including members of Congress, by the way, to sound off on an indictment that has not yet happened.
00:07:16.000Typically, you don't actually sound off on an indictment until it comes down.
00:07:19.000Like what happens exactly if you come out and you suggest that the indictment is garbage and hooey if you're an elected politician and then there is no indictment?
00:07:26.000The grand jury says we're not interested in prosecuting Donald Trump and now you've put yourself out over the line for a case that was never real based on rumors that Donald Trump tweeted into the ether.
00:07:37.000But OK, if you are going to comment, you probably are going to say precisely what all the politicians have said at this point, which is we're waiting to see all of the details.
00:07:47.000But there appears to be no rationale other than political motivation and targeting for Alvin Bragg to be going after Donald Trump.
00:07:54.000And every politician has said this, right?
00:07:55.000Speaker McCarthy has said this in the House.
00:07:58.000And now finally, Ron DeSantis, who is being pressured by Team Trump.
00:08:01.000Again, the game that Trump is playing campaign-wise, forget about the legal, because the legal is going to handle itself.
00:08:06.000Team Trump is going to win that case, I think, because again, that case is extremely weak.
00:08:10.000But the political here is somehow to refocus the Republican public, the conservatives who are voting in the 2024 primaries, on his opponents.
00:08:22.000This whole thing is about Donald Trump.
00:08:24.000It really is not about any of the other Republicans.
00:08:26.000The only thing the other Republicans should be pointing out, just in terms of national politics, is that this appears to be political targeting and political targeting has become part and parcel of Democratic politics.
00:08:38.000And it is, in fact, authoritarian to be selectively prosecuting people that you do not like, right?
00:08:42.000That's the only thing that Republican politicians should be saying.
00:08:45.000So finally, Ron DeSantis commented on this yesterday.
00:08:47.000And here are the things that Ron DeSantis said.
00:08:49.000He started by saying that he's not gonna get directly involved in a crisis manufactured by the Manhattan DA.
00:08:55.000So like, I'm not gonna follow the bouncing ball just because the Manhattan DA wishes for us to follow the bouncing ball.
00:09:01.000You have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments.
00:09:18.000You know, that's an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office.
00:09:24.000And I think that that's fundamentally wrong.
00:09:26.000And in terms of, we are not involved in this, won't be involved in this.
00:09:32.000I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA.
00:09:41.000Right, so he's saying, I'm not going to get involved in some sort of bleep fight with the Manhattan DA over what appears to be a frivolous prosecution.
00:09:49.000And then he went on along these lines.
00:09:51.000And the reason that Team Trump is upset with DeSantis today, because everything that he says right there is identical with what Trump says, is because they are angry that DeSantis mentioned the actual reason for the case, which is that Donald Trump stripped everything in sight while his wife was pregnant in 2006.
00:10:05.000DeSantis is apparently not allowed to mention that.
00:10:06.000You're not allowed to mention the actual underlying peccadillo that led to this.
00:10:10.000And by the way, he did it very kind of subtly.
00:10:13.000He kind of just mentioned it and moved on.
00:10:15.000It wasn't like he sat there and stewed in it or something.
00:10:18.000He basically just said, I don't know how this went down.
00:10:19.000I don't know how hush money payments to porn stars work, but this is not an issue that I think ought to be prosecuted.
00:10:27.000One, that, and two, they've now manufactured a narrative where it is the governor of Florida's job to stop the extradition of Donald Trump.
00:10:34.000First of all, there is no extradition of Donald Trump.
00:10:36.000No extradition has been requested, nor is an extradition necessary.
00:10:39.000Donald Trump's lawyers say he will present himself for arrest in Manhattan.
00:10:42.000Two, the governor of a sovereign state does not actually have the ability to deny extradition on the conditions that Donald Trump is currently undergoing extradition.
00:10:50.000If there were an extradition, which there isn't.
00:10:52.000Anyway, here's what DeSantis had to say yesterday.
00:10:55.000I've not seen any facts yet, and so I don't know what's going to happen.
00:11:00.000The Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor.
00:11:05.000And so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.
00:11:18.000He has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.
00:11:23.000He says he doesn't want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes, and what we've seen in Manhattan is we've seen the crime rate go up.
00:11:32.000I also think it's important to point out when you're talking about these Soros-funded prosecutors, yes, they may do a high-profile politicized prosecution, and that's bad, but the real victims are ordinary New Yorkers, ordinary Americans in all these different jurisdictions, that they get victimized every day.
00:11:55.000So, again, he's ripping on Brad, the same guy who's currently prosecuting Trump.
00:11:59.000And Donald Trump's response is to attack Ron DeSantis.
00:12:02.000yesterday he put out on Truth Social this ridiculous message quote Randa Sanctimonious will probably find out about false accusations and fake stories sometime in the future as he gets older wiser and better known and he's unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman even classmates that are under age or possibly a man I'm sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do so this is typical Trump now suggesting that there will be
00:12:29.000allegations of sexual mis-impropriety against right and then by the way that's not where the link ended It ended with a link from Midas Touch, which is like a left-wing interest group.
00:12:40.000To a bullcrap story about Ron DeSantis going to some sort of party when he was a high school teacher with recent graduates of the high school at which alcohol was served.
00:12:49.000There was no actual accusation of any sexual impropriety of any sort at that party.
00:13:22.000He's just the wildest kid in your high school class, the one you never want to get into a fight with, because it might start off as a fight, and then you never know, the guy might just pull a knife and start trying to cut you.
00:14:03.000It's just it's so kind of gross and silly.
00:14:06.000And again, there is a real issue here that is worthy of of the conservative public coming to Trump's defense.
00:14:13.000Namely, Donald Trump has, in fact, been targeted by the left since the first day that he announced he has been targeted for improper reasons.
00:14:19.000And the mechanisms of law enforcement have been militarized against him and weaponized against him.
00:14:24.000They have been whether you're talking about the garbage Russia collusion investigation or whether you're talking about this Alvin Bragg prosecution.
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00:15:42.000Okay, so the Team Trump has also suggested that it's DeSantis' job to block extradition.
00:15:50.000Now, there has been, number one, no actual contested extradition request from New York.
00:15:56.000The way it works under Florida law is let's say that Trump's defense team was like, listen, we don't think this extradition request is proper.
00:16:01.000Well, the governor can then intervene only to the extent necessary in order to investigate whether the extradition request is properly fulfilled.
00:16:44.000Or whether the petitioner is in fact a fugitive from the requesting state.
00:16:47.000So New Jersey cannot seek extradition of a person who is a fugitive from Connecticut or something.
00:16:53.000But the notion that DeSantis has the unilateral ability to stand in the doorway of Mar-a-Lago and prevent the extradition of Trump, if that were to happen, is just silly.
00:17:02.000I mean, number one, it's not coming up according to Trump's own attorneys.
00:17:06.000And two, he doesn't actually have the power to do any of that stuff.
00:17:10.000But this is also part of the game, is where is it?
00:17:25.000The fact that Trump's supporters, some of them, a small coterie of Trump supporters are trying to attack the other Republican candidates on the basis of a story that does not involve any of the other Republican candidates.
00:17:33.000Involves Donald Trump, involves Alvin Bragg.
00:17:35.000And the fact that the person they're attacking has explicitly come out in favor of Trump not being prosecuted makes it even more silly.
00:17:42.000Again, Florida is part of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act.
00:17:45.000Under state law, it is the Santa's duty to quote, have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state of the United States, any person charged in that state with treason, felony, or other crime who has fled from justice and is found.
00:17:56.000So literally the only thing that he could do is order his law enforcement to figure out whether an extradition request is valid.
00:20:07.000I mean, I think there are a lot of people who believe that this is going to help.
00:20:11.000Help Donald Trump, certainly in the primaries, because there is a rally around the Trump effect when it comes to unfair attacks on Donald Trump.
00:20:16.000Now, is that going to help him in general election?
00:20:19.000I'm not sure that there are any independent voters who are going to be like, man, you know, now that people are going after Trump in unfair ways, I think I'm switching my vote.
00:20:25.000Like everybody knew that back in 2020.
00:20:26.000So it's not like that would be a new revelation.
00:20:29.000And it's not like the new revelation that he's being gone after over porn star hush money payment, that that exactly, you know, jogs the suburban women into voting for him.
00:20:39.000But, is it going to help Trump in the primaries?
00:20:41.000Yeah, it's certainly going to help Trump in the primaries, and I do wonder whether Democrats know that.
00:20:45.000By the way, this is not going to be the only prosecution that Trump is likely to undergo.
00:20:49.000Right now, according to the Washington Post, lawyers for Trump filed a motion in Georgia court Monday seeking to quash the release of the final report of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated whether Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.
00:21:01.000Now, again, I think that this case is also really, really flimsy.
00:21:04.000This is the idea that Trump violated election law when he called up the Secretary of State of Georgia and said, I want you to find me 11,270 votes or whatever it was.
00:21:11.000Right now people are saying that on the prosecution side that that is him trying to essentially manufacture fake votes.
00:21:18.000But the reality is that Trump could have convinced himself that he won Georgia.
00:21:30.000It might not be something that you like.
00:21:31.000It might not be something pretty, but it certainly wouldn't be illegal.
00:21:34.000The motion filed in Fulton County Superior Court also seeks to preclude the use of any evidence derived from a special grand jury investigation claiming it was conducted under an unconstitutional statute and through an illegal and unconstitutional process that violated Donald Trump's due process rights.
00:21:49.000Now again, they're attempting to essentially make sure that Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, a Democrat, Can't prosecute Trump.
00:21:56.000It is very, very likely that Fannie Willis will attempt to prosecute Trump.
00:22:01.000They're trying to recuse Willis's office.
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00:23:28.000Okay, so, Donald Trump again, facing down the possibility of charges in Fulton County.
00:23:35.000Willis, Fannie Willis, the prosecutor there, has indicated publicly and in court filings that her office's investigation has now expanded to include a bunch of other lines of inquiry, including false claims of election fraud that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other Trump associates made to the Georgia state lawmakers, threats and harassments targeting Georgia election workers, the creation of an alternative slate of Republican electoral college electors who met at the Georgia Capitol in December of 2020, and Willis and her team are said to be closely examining not only Trump's phone calls, but what knowledge he had and role he played in efforts, including the fake electors effort.
00:24:04.000If it had about 75 witnesses appear, including Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senator Lindsey Graham, and other top Trump allies.
00:24:13.000So Willis would have to present her case to a regular grand jury.
00:24:15.000There's still a little bit of ways away before a possibility of targeting Trump legally here.
00:24:20.000But what's going on once the seal of targeting Trump has been broken by Alvin Bragg?
00:24:25.000You can imagine there will be more prosecutions on the way, all of which presumably are going to help Donald Trump with the base.
00:24:30.000Because again, regardless of the fact that Trump is misdirecting to DeSantis and it's weird and it's strange and it's ugly, the reality is that when he says he's being targeted and that he's being targeted because he was the Republican president, he is not wrong about that.
00:24:41.000And meanwhile, the Biden White House is filled with only the most serious people, the most serious people.
00:24:47.000I bring to you as exhibit A of the most serious people, the fact that Joe Biden featured at the White House the cast of Ted Lasso.
00:25:28.000But bringing in Jason Sudeikis and the other cast members from Ted Lasso to meet Joe Biden and Jill Biden at the White House to discuss the importance of mental health.
00:25:38.000The Biden administration has made mental health a priority, according to the White House.
00:25:41.000The president's, quote, strategy is focused on training more providers, making care more affordable and accessible, and creating healthier and safer communities.
00:25:49.000And all of this obviously requires you to bring in the stars of a show that has just had its latest season released on Apple TV.
00:25:57.000I mean, if you're going to promote mental health, what you do is you go get one of the biggest shows on TV and then you bring in all the stars and you put them in the White House briefing room.
00:26:09.000Biden on Sunday tweeted a photo of the Oval Office with the word Believe taped above an entryway, which is a nod to the show Ted Lasso above Ted Lasso's office.
00:26:17.000He's a coach of an English soccer team.
00:26:18.000He's an American football coach who ends up as a an English soccer coach.
00:26:21.000And he tapes the sign Believe above his office.
00:26:23.000So Joe Biden actually tweeted a photo of the word believe above the Oval Office and then the and then the word tomorrow.
00:26:31.000Wow. Just amazing, amazing stuff. They're so serious, guys.
00:26:38.000Here was Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis at the White House speaking about mental health, not somebody who's like an expert in mental health, an actor who plays somebody who's not even an expert on mental health. It is sincerely an honor to visit the White House and I have the opportunity to speak to the president and the first lady about the importance of mental health. So like no matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter who you voted for, we all probably, I assume, we all know someone who has or have been that someone ourselves actually that's struggled, that's
00:27:07.000felt isolated, that's felt anxious, that has felt alone.
00:27:11.000I mean, all of that is perfectly fine.
00:27:13.000Also, why is Jason Sudeikis at the White House along with the entire cast of Ted Lasso flanking him?
00:27:18.000I'm just, I'm very confused as to what this has to do with the elected government of the United States.
00:27:22.000Remember that time that the elected government of the United States was supposed to be humble, small, non-celebrity oriented?
00:27:29.000And this is always what's driven me crazy, is that everybody on the left is like, you elected a celebrity president in Donald Trump.
00:27:35.000You took a guy from The Apprentice and you made him president.
00:27:36.000Yeah, you guys elected a first-term senator from Illinois because he was good on TV.
00:27:41.000You decided that he was good on TV, and then you turned him into a celebrity.
00:27:44.000And now he has a Netflix deal, and a deal from Spotify, and all the rest.
00:27:49.000You Hollywood-edited the entire White House process to the extent that now we're supposed to just take it as a matter of course that Hollywood actors show up to lecture the American people on mental health from the podium.
00:28:00.000It doesn't matter what they're saying.
00:28:03.000It became even more absurd, however, when Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, then took the podium.
00:28:10.000And again, behind her are a bunch of actors.
00:28:13.000A bunch of professional, good-looking people who say words that other people write for them.
00:28:18.000Which, I mean, Corinne Jean-Pierre is kind of a, that's what she is, right?
00:28:22.000She's a professional, good-looking person who says words that other people write for her, but we're supposed to pretend that she's a great intellectual.
00:28:28.000Anyway, she is then, Harangued by a White House reporter from News Africa.
00:29:02.000They are, as a class, not the most serious human beings.
00:29:05.000You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody who would argue otherwise, including actors.
00:29:09.000But apparently, we're supposed to be just abashed and ashamed that a reporter would dare to demand that Corine Jean-Pierre call on him at a White House press conference in front of the actors.
00:29:19.000How dare you humiliate this White House in front of the greatest people in our society, the actors from Apple TV's Ted Lasso.
00:29:29.000And by the way, this will never appear on SNL, because even though it's hysterically funny and absurd on its face, SNL only makes fun of Republicans.
00:29:35.000So the fact that you now have a White House press secretary who's acting ashamed that a White House press person is asking her a question, and she doesn't want to be asked a question, and how dare you humiliate me in front of these very important actors on a sitcom?
00:30:50.000And then the AP's Zeke Miller got up and apologized to Corinne Jean-Pierre for the incident.
00:30:56.000Apologized on behalf of the press for the incident in which she was humiliated in front of the actors, in front, oh my, in front of the actors, guys.
00:32:01.000Beyond parody, we're here to hold the government accountable.
00:32:04.000And the way that we hold the government accountable, says Zeke Miller of the Associated Press, is by not asking you any questions in front of the actors.
00:32:10.000That's how we hold you accountable, is by yelling at the reporter who is actually trying to get a question answered.
00:32:14.000That's how we hold you accountable, is by kissing your ass because we would never want the ugly spectacle of you having to answer a question in front of Jason Sudeikis and a bunch of rando no-name actors that nobody's ever heard of inside the United States until Head Lasso premiered about a couple of years ago.
00:32:31.000Slow clap for both the Press Corps and for Corinne Jean-Pierre and our entire federal government.
00:33:55.000If you watch the first two episodes of the new Daily Wire Plus series called, What We Saw Cold War, you'll see just how horrific it really was.
00:34:01.000Here's a clip from our brand new show, Cold War.
00:34:04.000Russia was cluttered with dots marking each of these places, which looked like ants scurrying across the map of the world's largest country.
00:34:14.000423 of these dots would eventually be built, and here's what they would be called.
00:34:26.000That acronym for the series of what were called main administration camps, the Gulag, was strung out like an island chain in what one of their residents, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, would refer to as the Gulag Archipelago.
00:34:41.000One of these dots, just one, was located in Kolyma.
00:34:47.000Nobody knows how many people actually died in the gold mines of Colima.
00:34:52.000All agree that in wintertime, the temperature in and around the camp was the only place where, by coincidence, both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales happened to converge, and that is at 40 degrees below zero for each of them.
00:35:06.000Initial estimates of 3 million people killed at Colima alone were no doubt too high.
00:35:12.000The lowest well-researched figure is about 500,000.
00:35:15.000And the actual total, most likely, was around 800,000 human souls.
00:35:22.000Now that means that Colima is almost certainly tied for second place with Treblinka at 800,000 dead on the leaderboard from hell.
00:35:33.000It's unlikely, but it's entirely possible.
00:35:36.000That the total death in this worst single island of the 423 islands in the Gulag archipelago exceeded the 1.1 to 1.6 million people killed at Auschwitz.
00:35:49.000No one's ever heard of Kolyma, because unlike with Auschwitz and Treblinka and Belzec and Sobibor, there are no pictures that survive from these death camps In Cold War, storyteller and writer Bill Whittle will take you back to the beginning just after World War II, when the struggle between communism and freedom began in earnest.
00:36:08.000It's actual history where verifiable facts come to ugly life.
00:36:12.000You need to go check it out right now.
00:36:13.000We're making the first episode available for everyone to see.
00:36:15.000Head on over to dailywire.com slash coldwarnow to watch it.
00:36:18.000If you want to keep watching, you have to become a member.
00:36:20.000So head on over to dailywire.com slash coldwar today.
00:36:23.000Meanwhile, our White House is very, very serious.
00:36:25.000Again, the most serious people, not only are they inviting Ted Lasso's cast to the White House, And then really, really pumping that up to the extent that the press secretary is supposed to not answer questions.
00:37:03.000Quote, Dear Dylan, I send you my warmest greetings as you celebrate your 365th day of living authentically.
00:37:09.000See, before that, Dylan Mulvaney was not living authentically.
00:37:10.000Before that, Dylan Mulvaney was living a lie.
00:37:13.000Before that, everyone just thought that Dylan Mulvaney was a really gay dude.
00:37:15.000And now, it turns out that Dylan Mulvaney is a woman, and was a woman all along.
00:37:19.000If only Dylan Mulvaney had discovered this sooner.
00:37:22.000Quote, thank you for courageously sharing your story and your journey, writes the Vice President of the United States.
00:37:26.000I appreciate your continued advocacy for transgender equality, including during your visit to the White House last year.
00:37:31.000Through your work as an activist and advocate for the LGBTQI plus minus divided by sign community, you continue to break barriers and inspire young people across our nation and around the world.
00:37:42.000I think the most inspirational thing is when Dylan Mulvaney dressed up as Eloise from the children's book and then gallivanted around in the Plaza Hotel.
00:37:49.000That is a thing that actually happened.
00:38:11.000The vice president continues, quote, while we have made incredible progress from advancing marriage equality to enacting historic protections for trans people, the fight is far from over.
00:38:20.000Administration stands with the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji, poop emoji community in the ongoing struggle for true equity and equality and against hate and discrimination in all forms.
00:38:30.000I'm grateful for your dedication and courage, and I hope you continue to use your platform to spread positivity and create change.
00:38:36.000I look forward to seeing all that you will accomplish in the future.
00:38:45.000Dylan Mulvaney has been pretending to be a woman figure and got a letter from the VP.
00:38:49.000It turns out that we have in the United States approximately 170 million people who don't just pretend to be women, they actually are women.
00:38:56.000How many of them received a letter from the Vice President of the United States on their not birthday?
00:39:40.000Well, the bill Removed a Labor Department regulation that would have allowed retirement plans to consider ESG in their investment decisions.
00:39:52.000So before, the idea was that retirement plans were supposed to take into account the interests of shareholders.
00:39:57.000And then the Labor Department was like, you know what?
00:39:58.000They should take into account a bunch of left-wing policy priorities.
00:40:04.000We will do things that are economically idiotic.
00:40:08.000But we'll do them in the names of environmentalism and social justice and all the rest.
00:40:11.000And the Labor Department was promoting that.
00:40:13.000So, the House, on a bipartisan basis, and the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, actually passed that bill to remove the Labor Department regulation.
00:40:28.000I just signed this veto because the legislation passed by the Congress would put at risk the retirement savings of individuals across the country.
00:40:37.000They couldn't take into consideration investments that wouldn't be impacted by climate, impacted by overpaying executives, and that's why I decided to veto it.
00:40:49.000Okay, no, it is not making your investments less lucrative.
00:40:52.000It's making them more lucrative is what the actual bill would have done because it would have prevented idiotic, woke managers at these hedge funds from essentially dictating to the 401k programs that they have to take into account global warming when they make their investment choices.
00:41:27.000West Virginians are under increasing stress as we continue to recover from a once-in-a-generation pandemic, pay the bills amid record inflation, and face the largest land war in Europe since World War II.
00:41:35.000The administration's unrelenting campaign to advance a radical social and environmental agenda is only exacerbating these challenges.
00:41:41.000This ESG rule will weaken our energy, national, and environmental security while jeopardizing the hard-earned retirement savings of 150 million West Virginians and Americans.
00:41:49.000Despite a clear and bipartisan rejection of the rule from Congress, Biden is choosing to put his administration's progressive agenda above the well-being of the American people.
00:41:56.000But don't worry, he is doing it because he wants your...
00:42:00.000He wants your investments to be better, says Joe Biden, because, you know, he's lying.
00:42:04.000Among other lies that the Biden administration is telling, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has no actual expertise in the area of energy, well, she suggests that her Inflation Reduction Act, that the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act is going to be amazing for low-income Americans if they want to go green.
00:42:20.000Well, actually, the Inflation Reduction Act is going to be very, very good for people who wish to buy electric vehicles, which does not include most low-income Americans.
00:42:28.000Where will our viewers see the results in their own lives, and how can they take advantage of it?
00:42:35.000Yeah, it's a great question because there are huge opportunities for individuals, especially as they consider perhaps retrofitting their homes to be more energy efficient.
00:42:46.000So, for example, if you wanted to install a heat pump in your home or replace your HVAC system, perhaps it's gone out, you can get significant tax credits to be able to do that.
00:42:57.000And the more moderate or low income you are, the greater the benefits are.
00:43:04.000Oh, so it's really about the low-income people, is the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:43:08.000They spend, you know, like a trillion dollars on random nonsense, including a bunch of green junk.
00:43:16.000Winning friends and influencing people every single day.
00:43:20.000When you watch the experts at the Biden administration be expert, you know, Kamala Harris sending letters to Dylan Mulvaney and Joe Biden and Jill Biden meeting in the Oval Office with the cast of Ted Lasso, you think to yourself, man, these people should probably have more power.
00:43:31.000And that becomes, you know, even more clear when you watch the people with this much power interact with the commoners.
00:43:37.000So there is a show on PBS A documentary that followed Muriel Bowser, the Washington, D.C.
00:43:45.000mayor, and Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors.
00:43:48.000Well, second greatest, Dr. Jill, obviously.
00:43:50.000Medical doctor par excellence, Dr. Jill.
00:43:53.000They went door-to-door in Washington, D.C.
00:43:57.000And PBS followed them along with cameras as part of their American Masters series, which aimed to help viewers discover insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.
00:44:07.000Unfortunately for Dr. Fauci, he and Muriel Bowser then got randomly schooled by a bunch of what appeared to be low-income residents of Washington, D.C.
00:44:42.000But if it allowed thousands of people like you don't get vaccinated, you're going to let this virus continue to percolate in this country and in this world.
00:44:50.000Something like the common flu then, right?
00:45:20.000Because when you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start talking about incentivizing things to get people vaccinated, there's something else going on with that.
00:45:34.000And more DC residents, as it turns out, were schooling Dr. Fauci on his vaccine.
00:45:39.000You know, the fact that he is, you know, skeptical of vaccine.
00:45:42.000By the way, this is the stuff that the media would not feature in 2021, because every person who was skeptical of the vaccine in 2021, after it had been shown not to actually reduce transmission in any serious way, and that the preventative effects in terms of death and serious disease were basically relegated to people who had serious underlying conditions and the elderly.
00:45:59.000Once that had been proved, the media continued to trot out this line because Biden was pushing it, that there would be a winter of death and despair and it would be entirely relegated to low-income white Trump voters.
00:46:10.000It was those people who were going to die.
00:46:11.000So this kind of footage never got shown on national TV.
00:46:13.000You have to wait until 2023 to see this kind of footage.
00:46:16.000And if you mention the fact that vax rates in the black community in low-income black areas were really, really low, well then, they blame systemic racism.
00:46:23.000So the way that it worked is if poor white people in red areas didn't want the vaccine, that was because of systemic racism because they were the racists.
00:46:30.000And if it was poor black people who didn't want it, it was because of systemic racism.
00:46:33.000It couldn't have been that there were just a bunch of poor black people who didn't trust the government on these issues because the government has not been, you know, super forthcoming on these issues.
00:46:40.000Here is again Muriel Bowser and Dr. Fauci being schooled by yet another D.C.
00:46:46.000In fact, we got to get you vaccinated so that if you were to get infected, you could pass it on to them.
00:46:50.000So you're actually protecting your family by getting it vaccinated.
00:46:52.000Okay, that way you won't give it to them. I thought I thought I would give it to him if I get it No, no, not at all In fact, we got to get you vaccinated so that if you were to get infected you could pass it on to them So you're actually protecting your family by getting him vaccinated. Well, I heard that it doesn't Cure it and it doesn't Stop you from getting no so on the very very very rare chance that you do get it
00:47:20.000Which, as it turns out, was not correct.
00:47:23.000Okay, so the case that she's making, which is that it does, I mean, he's literally encouraging small children to get it, not to pass it, which as it turns out was not correct.
00:47:35.000But you know, amazing job by the federal government as always.
00:47:39.000My favorite part here is that Dr. Fauci, in the middle of this particular special, then says it's the red states that are keeping the pandemic smoldering.
00:47:45.000There's literally footage of them going around a poor area in Washington, D.C., where the residents are all like, nah, not interested.
00:47:50.000And he's like, you know who's doing this?
00:48:17.000And we've got to break that, you know, unpack that.
00:48:21.000We gotta break that and unpack that, he says, right before talking to a poor black resident of Washington, D.C., who is almost certainly a Democrat, saying, I don't wanna take it, and my family's not getting it either.
00:48:37.000Speaking of just the science, the UN has a brand new report out.
00:48:40.000They've updated it because it's 10 years later and we have not yet seen the world completely implode.
00:48:46.000The UN has another report saying, world is on brink of catastrophic warming.
00:48:50.000The best meme on this that I saw was the meme of Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused.
00:48:55.000You know, the famous line from Dazed and Confused where he says, the thing I like about high school girls is I keep getting older, but the high school girls, they keep staying the same.
00:49:03.000Right, so this is how it works with the UN.
00:49:05.000Right, that we keep getting older, but the headline just keeps staying the same.
00:49:10.000And then it's like 10 years later, like 10 years till end of world.
00:49:13.000So according to the Washington Post, the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming, unless nations drastically transform their economies and immediately transition away from fossil fuels.
00:49:25.000Well, bad news, it ain't gonna happen.
00:49:29.000I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings here for the environmentalist left, but the reality is the mass transition away from fossil fuels, that is not going to happen because the alternatives to fossil fuels simply are not nearly as effective.
00:49:40.000And that is particularly true in the developing world, but it happens to be true pretty much everywhere.
00:49:44.000The report released Monday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found the world is likely to surpass its most ambitious climate target, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
00:49:54.000By the early 2030s, beyond that threshold, scientists have found climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt.
00:50:01.000Basic components of the Earth's system will be fundamentally irrevocably altered.
00:50:05.000Heat waves, famines, infectious diseases could claim millions of additional lives by century's end.
00:50:09.000Now, what they don't say in that part of the report is that those kind of specific predictions are very, very low confidence predictions.
00:50:17.000So they have kind of broad, whenever you read the IPCC reports, they have various levels of confidence that they announce.
00:50:41.000More likely than not would be 50 to 100%.
00:50:42.000About as likely as not would be 33 to 66%.
00:50:44.00066 to 100% more likely than that would be 50 to 100% about as likely as now would be 33 to 66% unlikely would be 0 to 33%.
00:50:54.000There's some additional terms like extremely likely or high levels of confidence, right?
00:50:59.000These sort of terms, again, they have sort of percentages attached to them.
00:51:02.000Basically, the most scary, the most scary sort of predictions are all the very low confidence predictions, right?
00:51:12.000Those are the ones that actually are the ones that the media tend to focus on because whenever they say that there is something terrible that's going to happen in the future, Of course they can only say that with very low confidence.
00:51:26.000They can kind of tell general trend lines, but they can't tell you that there's going to be a giant heat wave in the American Midwest in 2045 with high confidence.
00:51:36.000You can't really say that sort of stuff.
00:51:38.000Which is why that's not the sort of stuff that the media tend to The report is the confidence level.
00:51:44.000So for example, here's a very, here's a low confidence report from the IPCC.
00:51:49.000Over the next 2000 years, global mean sea level will rise by about 2 to 3 meters if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 to 6 meters if limited to 2 degrees Celsius.
00:52:18.000But that's not going to stop the media from essentially using this as an excuse to restructure the entire global economy.
00:52:24.000It is not a shock that yesterday, Joe Biden warned that climate change could upend all the federal spending programs.
00:52:29.000According to the New York Times, a chapter in the new economic report of the president focuses on the growing risks to people and businesses from rising temperatures and the government's role in adapting to them.
00:52:38.000Administration economists said that reassessment should include a new look at climate adaptation implications of aid to farmers, wildland firefighting, and wide swaths of Medicare and Medicaid.
00:52:47.000So we're going to have to spend more money on Medicare and Medicaid because of global warming.
00:52:52.000I noticed that what you're doing is doing the thing you want to do and then claiming that global warming is the rationale for that thing.
00:54:15.000So I do like it when members of the left say the quiet part out loud.
00:54:18.000So they did that a little bit yesterday.
00:54:19.000There is a Georgia state representative and this Georgia state representative named Lydia Glaze.
00:54:24.000She was talking about why it is that basically parents should have no impact on their kids' education.
00:54:30.000Now she admitted in the course of explaining that she has been sending her own kids to private school, but she says basically parents are too stupid to decide what to do with their kids.
00:54:42.000I see parents being able to direct their child's education and they are already in the lower 25 percentile, meaning a lot of those parents did not finish high school and could not finish their own education.
00:54:57.000I am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those decisions.
00:55:13.000Parents are not qualified to make decisions about the education of their children, but we should definitely spend tens of thousands of dollars on social welfare programs where we put cash directly in their hands to make financial decisions.
00:55:22.000And also, we should make sure that every one of them votes.
00:55:25.000Okay, you're going to need to explain why all those things are true at the same time.
00:55:28.000Parents are too stupid to take care of their kids in terms of deciding where they go to school, but they're not too stupid to vote or to spend federal taxpayer and state taxpayer money.
00:55:39.000Either parents are capable of agency, particularly when it comes to their children and the educations they receive, or parents are too stupid to basically function in society.
00:55:48.000The entire schtick is, we like their votes, because their votes empower people apparently, like this person, Lydia Glaze.
00:55:54.000And we like to spend money on them because essentially we think that if we spend money on them, then they'll vote for us.
00:55:58.000But we don't want them to be able to move their kids around because if they do that, maybe they might get this taste for this thing called freedom and responsible decision making.
00:56:07.000There are a lot of people out there who would like to keep citizens of the United States in thrall to the government and would like to use them as tools toward their own reclamation of power.
00:56:13.000Meanwhile, not abiding by any of the rules themselves.
00:56:15.000Again, Lydia Glaze says in this same clip, actually, that she sends her own kids and sent her own kids to private school.
00:56:21.000OK, time for some quick things that I hate.
00:56:30.000You know, I've talked about this before.
00:56:31.000I obviously spend a significant amount of time in Israel.
00:56:35.000I tend to go by the Jewish holidays every year.
00:56:37.000And as I've pointed out, the media never ever cover the simple fact that if you are a Jew or perceived as an outsider and you drive into a Palestinian-controlled area, there's a high likelihood that you will be beaten or killed.
00:56:49.000And that that is a very serious security risk.
00:56:51.000And if an Arab accidentally drives into the middle of Jerusalem, nothing happens.
00:56:54.000But if a Jew accidentally drives into the wrong area of East Jerusalem, that person could be murdered.
00:57:00.000I've talked about the fact that when you drive into the so-called West Bank, into Judea and Samaria, that you are greeted by red signs that say, on the side of the freeway, if you are a Jew or an Israeli citizen, do not enter this area.
00:57:58.000I did not know if I would go out there alive, because they had so much hate against us.
00:58:05.000Suddenly came out of the taxis and kind of surrounded us, and we tried to explain in English that we are tourists, that we are from Germany, we are both not Jewish, so we are not a target for them.
00:58:22.000And they started first to bump with their fists against our car.
00:58:29.000And then they took some traffic signs and rocks that they were throwing against us.
00:58:35.000Okay, so just to see, for those who can't see the footage, it's literally just a group of young Arab men who are grabbing rocks and stones and throwing them, smashing windshields, attempting to break windows to get at the people inside and physically harm them.
00:58:46.000Okay, now, the key line there is, we tried to tell them in English, we weren't Jews.
00:58:55.000The level of anti-Semitism in sort of commonplace Palestinian society is extraordinary.
00:59:01.000Like the tacit kind of acceptance of the world that if you are a Jew and you drive into an Arab area in the Palestinian Authority that you will very high likelihood be murdered or at least physically harmed.
00:59:12.000And the rest of the world just kind of goes, oh, okay.
00:59:14.000And then has the gall to suggest that Israel is an apartheid state with a 20% Arab population, Arab parties sitting in the Knesset, Arab judges on the Supreme Court and all the rest.
00:59:21.000The goal is really, really astounding.
00:59:23.000And of course, that's not going to get shown on the nightly news because it's not newsworthy.
00:59:29.000The bigotry of low expectations, the soft bigotry of low expectations that extends to Members of a population that will pull people out of a car and beat them for being Jews is extraordinary.
00:59:59.000As my friend Dennis Prager is fond of saying, when it comes to the Israeli-Arab dispute, if the Arabs put down their guns, there'd be a Palestinian state tomorrow.
01:00:05.000If the Israeli put down their guns, there'd be 7 million dead Jews.