As Joe Biden continues to fall apart, the media are rushing to shore him up, but there is nobody in the wings to replace him. Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Chris Matthews, Cory Booker, and Elizabeth Warren are all potential replacements, but none of them seem to be quite up to the job Joe Biden is supposed to be doing, and they know it. And it s increasingly bad day by day, as Biden struggles to get things done, and the media do their best to distract us from what s really going on in Washington, D.C. and around the world. And that s not even getting us to the bottom of the problem, which is that Joe Biden isn t doing nearly as good as they think he is, and no one seems to realize it, because they re so busy gushing over the guy who s actually doing a pretty good job in the White House, that they don t give him a chance to do much of anything at all, let alone get much of a head start on the things he needs to do in order to be a good president. And guess what? He s doing a good job, and he s doing pretty good at it, and we re just as good at what he s supposed to do, and better than anyone else in the history of presidents ever has before him, too. And we re not only that, but we re doing a great job, too! We re a lot better than they ever have before, and it s an amazing job, we re a country that s doing amazing things, too, and that s going to do a pretty damn good job at it too, you re going to get a lot of things right and we can t thank them enough for what they ve done so far, and you re gonna do a lot more than we ve ever done before. And we ve got a chance at doing it, so why not do it right, right? in the end, right here, we s gonna do it, right in the river, we ll do it right here and we have a chance, we have to do it in a place that s gonna go swimmingly, right everything we can do it. - Chris Matthews - I ll tell you what s going swimmingly like to swim like that - - and I s gonna jump out of my boat in the Potomac, right there, right by the river.
00:00:00.000So as Joe Biden continues to fall apart, the media are rushing to shore him up.
00:00:03.000There is nobody really waiting in the wings.
00:00:05.000I understand there's a bit of a Gavin Newsom boomlet going around, but the fact is that Gavin Newsom, he's not been a very good governor of California.
00:00:11.000He's extraordinarily vulnerable to a variety of counter charges, including the fact that he's actually lost population during his tenure as governor.
00:00:17.000Gretchen Whitmer over in Michigan, she didn't do a good job during COVID.
00:01:15.000He's doing a very, very basic presser with Rishi Sunak, who presumably Joe Biden thinks works at 7-Eleven, because Joe Biden, you know, once made mention of the idea that everyone who works at 7-Eleven was Indian.
00:01:32.000Joe Scarborough has an entire piece over at The Atlantic claiming that everything is hunky-dory, that all of the bad feelings Americans have about Joe Biden and his presidency so far, well, it's because they are misinformed.
00:01:43.000It is not, it is not the Democrats who are wrong, it is the kids.
00:01:47.000The full principal Skinner here, Joe Scarborough says, America is doing just fine, quote.
00:01:52.000As Americans celebrated the 4th of July by watching baseball fireworks and Joey Chestnut hammering home his 16th win in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, poor Uncle Sam labored through the midsummer celebration, beleaguered and under siege from all sides.
00:02:02.000News items over the course of the holiday weekend reported Americans were feeling more skeptical of their country's future.
00:02:07.000Uncle Sam deserves a modern day Atticus Finch to argue his case before the American people, but he doesn't have one.
00:02:12.000But the real problem here is that, of course, we are being too hard on slow Joe Biden.
00:02:17.000If only we were just... If only we recognized that Joe Biden is actually doing an amazing job.
00:03:10.000They're doing a great job, but here at home, and you talked about that earlier this morning, this distinction where people cannot say what you said in your article for The Atlantic.
00:04:07.000Joe Biden has been a nasty character since he first walked onto the American political scene.
00:04:11.000This attempt to recast him and recapitulate him as a nice gentleman, as a person who gets along with everyone, it is nonsense.
00:04:19.000He was leading the charge during the Clarence Thomas hearings, pushing forward the Anita Hill nonsense.
00:04:25.000It was Joe Biden who has threatened his political opponents and yelled at them and bloviated for literally five decades in the United States Senate.
00:04:34.000There's this belief system that Joe Biden is suddenly a nice elderly gentleman.
00:05:18.000In fact, everybody remotely connected with the Biden family who can use that Biden name has traded off the family name, but Joe Biden and Hunter, they've denied this baby the ability to use the Biden name, a name so lucrative that you can travel to foreign countries like Ukraine and pick up bags of cash, sacks of cash.
00:05:32.000And then Joe Biden, when asked how many grandkids he has, he always says six, even though there are seven, obviously.
00:05:36.000But according to the media, the real problem here is that Republicans are pouncing.
00:05:40.000It's the Republican pouncing that's the problem.
00:05:41.000Here's Dana Bash defending Joe Biden's missing seventh grandchild routine.
00:05:45.000This is a story that is sad and disturbing on so many levels.
00:05:52.000Yes, it is political for a couple of reasons.
00:05:57.000Number one, yes, Republicans are using it and are going to take advantage of it in a way that is Unfortunate and inappropriate.
00:06:05.000But the reason they are doing that is because, and able to do that, is because of the brand and the kind of person that we all know and believe Joe Biden to be, because it's who he says he is, and it's somebody who is a family man.
00:06:25.000We know it's disturbing because we know he's such a wonderful man.
00:06:28.000And it's only these Republicans that keep being mean about the fact that he has completely disowned a seventh grandchild and pretends that grandchild does not exist.
00:06:35.000And the talking points don't match the reality for the Democratic Party, but they're going to soldier right on through.
00:06:40.000We'll talk more about this in a moment.
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00:08:15.000The reason that's happening is because the right wing, who again is weaponizing everything related to Hunter, keeps asking, so how many children do you have?
00:08:25.000Well, maybe Maureen Dowd should find something else to write about.
00:08:51.000If it were the Trump family, do you think Whoopi Goldberg would be saying it's private?
00:08:54.000You hear her take a side slap there at Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist.
00:08:57.000That's because Maureen Dowd, who is certainly no Republican, had the temerity to write a column in the New York Times over the weekend titled, It's Seven Grandkids, Mr. President.
00:09:05.000She says even my Republican sister is not immune to Joe Biden's gregarious Irish charm.
00:09:08.000She met him at media holiday parties over the years and was so impressed she got seduced to the other side for a time, voting for the Obama-Biden ticket in 2008 and writing in Biden's name for president in 2012.
00:09:17.000She sent out a Christmas card one year with a picture of herself cheek-to-cheek with Biden.
00:09:20.000Some of her Republican friends stopped speaking to her.
00:09:22.000So I was surprised recently when I discovered my sister writing a letter to President Biden, a plea she had started in the middle of the night after mulling over the matter for quite a while.
00:09:29.000I watched as you told the nation you had six grandchildren and you loved each one of them.
00:09:33.000What I cannot believe and what I find unconscionable is that you refuse to admit or accept the fact there's a beautiful little four-year-old girl living in Arkansas by the name of Navy Joan, who's your seventh grandchild.
00:09:42.000In his 2021 memoir, Hunter wrote dismissively about Navy's mother, London Roberts, whom he met while he was spiraling into addiction and going to Washington strip clubs.
00:09:49.000He wrote that the women he had sexual encounters with during his drug rampages were hardly the dating type.
00:09:56.000But Maureen Dowd points out that none of that matters.
00:09:59.000Quote, I have sympathy for Hunter going into a dark, bleak hole, as he called it.
00:10:02.000I have sympathy for a father coping with a son who is out of control and who may still be fragile.
00:10:06.000With Hunter, his father can seem paralyzed about the right thing to do.
00:10:09.000But the president can't defend Hunter on all his other messes and draw the line at accepting one little girl.
00:10:13.000OK, but according to The View, even Maureen Dowd should not be signing into this particular bae because the precious must be protected at all costs.
00:10:19.000Here's Sonny Hostin actually blaming mom, blaming Hunter's paramour who sired his child for this even being a public issue.
00:11:15.000Disgusting male then tries to lower his child support payments and deny use of his last name to the child.
00:11:20.000Would you ever believe that the women of The View, these great feminist defenders, would abandon that woman and blame the woman?
00:11:26.000No, she's trying to wedge herself into the headlines, wedge herself into the family.
00:11:30.000It really is quite vile, but they must defend Biden at all costs.
00:11:33.000They have to defend Biden at all costs.
00:11:34.000I mean, we shouldn't be surprised by the ladies of The View because they are indeed some of the stupidest people walking the planet right now.
00:11:39.000It's a wonder that they can stay upright.
00:11:41.000I mean, just as another piece of evidence, Ana Navarro yesterday was talking about how she apparently drives around the state of Florida shouting, I say gay or something out the windows.
00:11:49.000Just demonstrates the high levels of intelligence every day, evidence on The View.
00:11:55.000It wasn't me in New Hampshire screaming, we say gay.
00:12:18.000That was weird, but yeah, again, you shouldn't expect much of these women, but it is impressive how they are willing to put aside all of their feminist bona fides, all their female solidarity nonsense, the minute that the old white man is threatened.
00:12:30.000Never threaten the old white man who they rely upon politically, even if it means that he is disowning his own grandchild.
00:12:38.000Speaking of things that could be quite disgusting, I'm sure we're going to find out more details.
00:12:42.000The whistleblower in the Hunter Joe Biden case, one of the whistleblowers, this particular whistleblower alleging actual contact between members of the Chinese government and the Biden family.
00:12:52.000That guy's now getting arrested by the DOJ.
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00:13:49.000Meanwhile, there is a whistleblower who came out a few months ago.
00:14:13.000And according to the New York Post just a little while ago, he laid out bribery allegations against the Biden family
00:14:19.000in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location well on the run.
00:14:23.000In the 14-minute recording obtained exclusively by the New York Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee, that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence, and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
00:14:43.000he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the DOJ in
00:14:46.000a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019, but then he says that it was covered up.
00:14:50.000Here is Dr. Gal Luft making allegations about the Biden family.
00:14:54.000The same CFC that the US government claims was associated with a Chinese intelligence
00:15:00.000and quote, an international criminal organization was a 501c3 charitable organization registered
00:15:08.000in the state of Virginia and approved by the IRS.
00:15:13.000CFC Secretary General Dr. Patrick Ho, who paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God knows what, was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury when he was tried in New York in 2018.
00:15:25.000The very same prosecutor who is now after me, Daniel Reikenthal, told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would, quote, add a political dimension to the case.
00:15:44.000Which means that if I'm ever brought before a U.S.
00:15:46.000court, I would not be allowed to utter the word Brussels or Biden.
00:15:53.000And the real context of my arrest, me being patient zero of the Biden family investigation, would be hidden from the jury.
00:16:04.000These are pretty bombshell allegations that Left is making right here.
00:16:08.000He says that the government actually has minutes of a Brussels meeting involving Joe Biden.
00:16:13.000He says he told the DOJ and FBI in Brussels that Joe Biden, soon after the vice presidential term ended, had attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C.
00:16:20.000with his son Hunter and officials from the CEFC.
00:16:22.000That, of course, is the Chinese company that did business with Hunter Biden.
00:16:25.000Left accounts of the former's VP presence at that meeting was corroborated 21 months later when the FBI interviewed another attendee, Biden family associate Rob Walker, according to recent testimony before Congress.
00:16:33.000Another whistleblower, by the way, had testified that Rob Walker was basically never interviewed by the FBI as a follow-up.
00:16:41.000No questions were asked during the Hunter Biden investigation.
00:16:43.000Love disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 a month to his uncle, Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China's Belt and Road Initiative around the world, and that the money was actually being funneled through Rob Walker.
00:16:58.000The Oversight Committee has written to Walker demanding he submit to questioning about his role in distributing more than a million dollars from China to at least three of Biden's relatives.
00:17:06.000Apparently the DOJ sent a delegation of six people to meet Luft in Brussels, he alleges.
00:17:10.000There'll be four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York.
00:17:15.000He said, over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family's financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures.
00:17:22.000I also provided the name of Rob Walker.
00:17:24.000He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named One-Eye who had tipped off his CEFC associates that they were under investigation.
00:17:32.000So in other words, members of the Biden family were in touch with people in the FBI who were actually funneling information to Hunter's business partners.
00:17:39.000Luft is apparently well-connected in intelligence circles in Washington, D.C., where he ran a think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, with former CIA Directors James Woolsey and former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane as advisors.
00:17:50.000And he learned in 2017 Hunter and Jim Biden were being paid by the CEFC because Luft was in partnership at the time with a non-profit think tank associated with CEFC as well.
00:18:00.000When Ho was arrested in 2017 in New York on bribery charges, the first person he tried to call was Hunter Biden.
00:18:05.000But at his trial, Ho was blocked by prosecutors from mentioning the Bidens, according to Luft.
00:18:09.000So he's alleging that the prosecutor who is currently going after him is apparently attempting to stifle all questions about Hunter Biden.
00:18:18.000Well, this is now being paired with the story that this whistleblower is now going to be arrested.
00:18:27.000According to the UK Independent, a whistleblower who has repeatedly accused the Bidens of corruption has now been charged by the DOJ with arms trafficking, acting as a foreign agent for China, and violating Iran sanctions.
00:18:37.000Luft is accused of paying a former advisor to Donald Trump on behalf of principals in China in 2016 without registering as a former agent.
00:18:45.000So, to make a rather complicated story short, apparently Gal Luft is suggesting that he had personal knowledge that money was being passed via CFC to Hunter Biden, and presumably to Joe Biden as well, in return for Joe Biden's leverage over the FBI.
00:19:01.000Left has now been indicted by Joe Biden's DOJ.
00:19:04.000So is the content of the indictment real?
00:19:08.000Is the indictment political in nature?
00:19:11.000I mean, it's very difficult to tell at this point because we just don't know the answer to that.
00:19:16.000I mean, why wouldn't we be suspicious at this point, given the militarization of the FBI and the CIA against, for example, Donald Trump from 2015 through 2020?
00:19:26.000According to Newsweek, Luft was previously believed to be a key figure in House Republicans' probe into the Biden family's alleged corrupt foreign business dealings, although he was reported missing by GOP figures.
00:19:38.000One of the officials Luft is accused of covertly attempting to recruit and pay on behalf of principals based in China was an advisor to then-President-elect Donald Trump.
00:19:46.000That presumably would be former CIA Director James Woolsey, who was a national security advisor to Trump during the 2016 election, and who was also associated with Luft.
00:19:54.000Elsewhere in the indictment, prosecutors say that Luft sent an email in 2016 to a person named only as CC1, identified by the Washington Post's Aaron Blake, as a now-convicted Chinese oil executive, celebrating that Woolsey had joined Trump's team.
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00:21:32.000Okay, so that's not the only Hunter Biden whistleblower-related story.
00:21:35.000So you'll remember there's another whistleblower.
00:21:37.000Gary Shapley, who served as the lead IRS official on the Biden case, who alleged that David Weiss, the U.S.
00:21:43.000Attorney for the District of Delaware and the lead investigator into Hunter Biden, was essentially barred by the DOJ and Merrick Garland from special prosecutor status, which would have allowed him the independence to charge Hunter Biden pretty much anywhere.
00:21:55.000Now, Weiss is coming out and saying that that's not true.
00:21:58.000He sent a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham, the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee.
00:22:02.000He said, to clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion, I wish to make
00:22:05.000one point clear. In this case, I have not requested special counsel designation. Rather,
00:22:10.000I had discussions with departmental officials regarding potential appointment under a different
00:22:14.000provision of law, which would allow me to file charges in a district outside my own without
00:22:17.000the partnership of a local U.S. attorney. I was assured that I would be granted this authority
00:22:21.000if it proved necessary. This assurance came months before the October 7th, 2022 meeting
00:22:25.000referenced through the whistleblowers allegations. Now, here is the problem.
00:22:29.000Shapley made direct claims that prosecutors had refused his request to bring charges against Biden.
00:22:34.000And Shapley claims that at that meeting, David Weiss explicitly told not just him but a bevy of witnesses that he had been rejected for special counsel status.
00:22:42.000This is a point that Annie McCarthy is making over at National Review.
00:22:46.000He says it has been quite something to watch U.S.
00:22:51.000Sweating him on one side are the credible whistleblower allegations by law enforcement agents.
00:22:54.000He obviously told them he was not the deciding official when it came to whether criminal charges should be brought against Hunter Biden.
00:23:00.000Pressuring him just as hard on the other side is Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:23:03.000When his now familiar slippery style insists Weiss was always the deciding official, I was instructed that if he ran into any interference, he'd only ask Garland for special counsel authority and he'd be permitted to file any charge.
00:23:13.000The circle can't be squared, of course, but the spotlight is on the wrong guy.
00:23:16.000The spotlight, says Andy McCarthy, should not be on Weiss.
00:23:19.000It should, in fact, be on Merrick Garland.
00:23:25.000He says, think about the nonsensical construct Garland has built around the public question of who sabotaged the Hunter Biden prosecution.
00:23:31.000Who dragged it out for years, willfully undermining the investigator's ability to investigate, even as we were told that the ongoing investigation necessitated resisting congressional inquiries.
00:23:39.000Who pulled that off for so long the statute of limitations lapsed on some of the most revelatory corruption charges.
00:23:44.000Who choreographed the inevitable sweetheart plea deal.
00:24:56.000Very encouraging stuff as Joe Biden steps onto the world stage.
00:25:00.000Right now the big question with regard to NATO is whether Ukraine will be offered the ability to join NATO.
00:25:05.000That seems incredibly unlikely at this point.
00:25:07.000NATO has taken the bizarre position that they are not going to allow Ukraine into NATO until the war is over.
00:25:12.000But at the same time, that actually gives Real weight to Vladimir Putin to keep the war going, because if the minute the war is over, Ukraine joins NATO, then why exactly would Putin not just keep pounding Ukraine?
00:25:27.000In fact, what the United States should do is say, with regard to NATO, that we are happy to make NATO a part of a broader discussion that involves the end of the war, but we're not going to make NATO membership contingent on the war's end.
00:25:41.000Again, that actually makes it in Putin's interest to make the war last as long as humanly possible.
00:25:48.000Meanwhile, the other big headline that came out of NATO is that Sweden has basically now been, in all but name, admitted to NATO.
00:25:56.000That, of course, is a big loss for Vladimir Putin.
00:25:58.000That is another state near his borders that is joining NATO.
00:26:03.000Turkey had been holding this up for the moment because they want their own EU status.
00:26:10.000But now, apparently, Turkey has dropped its opposition, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:26:14.000The agreement was reached in the final hours before a NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Tuesday, potentially allowing NATO to expand across more than 1,000 miles of territory, straddling the Baltic Sea, shifting the balance of power in Northern Europe, and creating a potential choke point for Russian warships and aircraft in the region.
00:26:28.000So now Putin, who started this war presumably to break out of NATO's grip, has actually
00:28:00.000These Azov commanders have now been returned to Ukraine.
00:28:02.000He authorized France to monitor a nuclear reactor that Russia is building in Turkey and asked for a resumption of EU accession talks as well.
00:28:09.000This is according to Timur Kuran, who's a professor at Duke University.
00:28:15.000His visceral hostility to the West is well known.
00:28:18.000But as with Anwar Sadat's memorable 1972 decision to try to make peace with Israel, Erdogan's ongoing pivot may endure.
00:28:24.000If it brings more Western investment, he and his team may find partnering with the West too seductive.
00:28:29.000I mean, that's possible, or it could just be tactical in extreme.
00:28:33.000I mean, it could just be that he is attempting to actually worm his way into the NATO alliance specifically so he can take aggressive action in the Middle East and then it prevents NATO allies presumably from supporting the people he would target in the Middle East.
00:28:47.000So, things could get very ugly with regard to this buy-off to Turkey.
00:28:53.000Again, according to CNN Politics, One major consequence of Erdogan's reversal could be a souring of his relations with Putin only days after he invited the Russian leader to Turkey in August.
00:29:02.000Erdogan wants to wield Turkey's power to broker an extension to a deal that allows Ukraine to export grain from Black Sea ports as well.
00:29:09.000It looks as though Erdogan has made a significant break with Putin.
00:29:12.000But again, he's probably playing both sides.
00:29:14.000And this is actually the real legacy of Joe Biden's administration.
00:29:18.000Joe Biden's administration has essentially created incentive structures for everyone to play both sides as often as possible.
00:29:25.000Because Joe Biden is just not a very good ally.
00:29:28.000Joe Biden is always somebody who has his eye on domestic political concerns.
00:29:32.000And not only that, he is very beholden to his left.
00:29:35.000So you've seen pretty much every country in the Middle East now triangulating with China.
00:29:38.000Saudi Arabia is triangulating with China.
00:29:50.000Everybody is having to try to decide exactly how to hold this sort of middle balance between China and the United States.
00:29:57.000And that is largely because the United States has not proved itself to be a durable ally in a lot of these cases.
00:30:02.000And so Turkey is now playing between the West and between Russia.
00:30:05.000And that's going to be the smart play from here on out for all of these non-aligned states.
00:30:10.000The United States could make those countries into allies if the United States would simply recognize these countries have their own interests and then try to work within those interests.
00:30:20.000But the Biden administration has the peculiar sort of weird ideological notion that they're going to cram down universal liberalism on everybody.
00:30:29.000It is amazing they continued to push that.
00:30:31.000So, this will be played as a big Biden win, but you don't know what the actual downside is going to be until we find out what Turkey got in exchange for all of this.
00:30:39.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden has been around touting his economic record, and we now have some information on where income is actually growing in the United States.
00:30:49.000And it is not growing in the areas that Joe Biden wishes it were growing.
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00:32:03.000Right, but just in terms of approval on how the president's handling the economy, it's under water.
00:32:09.000So it just doesn't... I think Bidenomics in action is going to move those numbers.
00:32:13.000We're already seeing some traction in that direction.
00:32:16.000So why don't we come back and talk about that next time.
00:32:21.000Okay, you're not seeing any traction in Joe Biden's economic numbers.
00:32:24.000In fact, the Federal Reserve's Regulatory Chief, according to the Wall Street Journal, has now outlined steps to strengthen the financial cushions for larger banks, which he said would help boost the resilience of the system after a spate of mid-sized bank failures this year.
00:32:34.000The reason they're having to require that people hold more cash in the banks is because the banks invested in American bonds, and those bonds got absolutely shellacked because of the increase in the interest rates.
00:32:43.000Bringing up the yields and therefore making last year's bonds worth literally nothing, which is why the Silicon Valley Bank went under.
00:32:50.000The changes which regulators are expected to propose this summer come after what Barr described, this of course would be Michael Barr, the Fed's Vice Chair for Supervision, described as a holistic review of big bank capital requirements.
00:33:00.000Under the plan, large banks could be required to hold an additional two percentage points of capital or an additional two bucks of capital for every $100 of risk-weighted assets.
00:33:07.000The precise amount of additional capital depends on a firm's business activities.
00:33:11.000Banks would face more difficult stress tests to gauge their ability to weather a hypothetical recession.
00:33:15.000So we're still going to, instead of, you know, strengthening the economy, we're going to blame the banks for the failures of the government, which is the typical way that the Biden administration works.
00:33:22.000Meanwhile, all the talk about the Biden sort of economic comeback, it turns out that that's largely in red states.
00:33:29.000The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal points out President Biden will never admit it, but he has Republican-led states to thank for the resilient U.S.
00:33:36.000Witness how an earnings surge in right-leaning states is helping compensate for sluggish growth in progressive ones.
00:33:41.000New state personal income data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis highlights how aggregate worker and proprietor earnings in red states grew significantly more in the last year than in the blues.
00:33:49.000The disparity owes to GOP-led states adding more jobs, including in higher-paying industries like tech and finance, along with faster-growing wages.
00:33:57.000Earnings nationwide rose 5.4% on average between the first quarters of 2022 and 2023, but way less in New York, California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Illinois.
00:34:09.000Meanwhile, earnings in the same period surged in North Dakota, almost 10%, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, Nebraska, Hawaii, South Carolina, Alaska, and Texas.
00:34:18.000So some of those states, Hawaii, Florida, Nevada, that's tourism resurgence.
00:34:22.000Some of those states, New Mexico, North Carolina, Alaska, that could be energy.
00:34:26.000But one of the other things that's happening is that the southern states are gaining in economic credibility and content.
00:34:34.000Okay, meanwhile, Donald Trump is leading in the polls by leaps and bounds.
00:34:38.000He apparently is not going to participate.
00:34:40.000In a town hall event that is going to take place at the Leadership Summit this Friday.
00:34:46.000The lineup is going to be Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis.
00:34:51.000And they're going to be moderated by Tucker Carlson, so it should definitely be worth the watch.
00:34:55.000But Donald Trump is not going to participate, even with Tucker moderating, which is kind of a shocker.
00:35:00.000It would be nice if at some point he actually, you know, Yes, he has an overwhelming lead at this point.
00:35:08.000I understand the tactical idea that he is not going to debate the other candidates.
00:35:11.000But as a Republican voter, I would certainly like to see him ask questions.
00:35:14.000I'd like to see him ask some questions.
00:35:16.000He actually hurt himself pretty badly yesterday in Iowa.
00:36:22.000Meanwhile, an amazing story out of California.
00:36:25.000Apparently, the California Reparations Task Force that is moving ahead with this idea that they're going to spend billions and billions of dollars to basically just pay black citizens of the state of California, they're now asking the Democrat-controlled state legislature to eliminate all interest on past due child support, as well as any back child support debt for black residents of the state.
00:36:44.000So now, if a black dad knocks up a lady and abandons her, then the state of California would like to alleviate that debt on the basis of slavery and Jim Crow.
00:36:59.000If you would like to, you know, incentivize people to have babies and then ditch them and then not pay mom, this seems like a pretty good way to do it.
00:37:05.000In a final report released last week according to Fox News, the group claimed discriminatory laws have torn African-American families apart and that one effect of that is the harms caused by the disproportionate amounts of African-Americans who are burdened with child support debt.
00:37:18.000Oh, it was discriminatory laws that made a 25-year-old dude knock up a 23-year-old lady and then leave her and not pay his child support.
00:37:38.000That the dude in 2000, who was born in 2000 and knocked up a lady last year, ought to be alleviated of his child support obligations.
00:37:45.000You're not talking about the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:37:48.000It's not even soft bigotry, it's just hard bigotry.
00:37:49.000You're talking about people who have no agency.
00:37:52.000Pretending that you have no agency to, you know, take care of your own children in 2023 because of the legacy of Jim Crow, which ended formally in the United States in the mid-1960s, and slavery, which ended in the United States in the 1860s.
00:38:05.000The nearly 1,100-page document stated that black Californians represent a far larger percentage of those who owe child support debt than their proportion of the state's population.
00:38:14.000That if black people represent a higher percentage of single dads than, say, Asian Americans, it must be because of racism and not because of anything else.
00:38:23.000It also claimed that the 10% interest the state charges on back child support hinders their ability to finance further education, attend job training, find employment, and maintain housing because of the legal consequences of not paying such debt.
00:38:33.000You know, there's a solution to paying the debt.
00:38:35.000And that is pay up to the mommy of your baby.
00:39:17.000Again, it is amazing that the city of Los Angeles is now pursuing exactly the same bad bail policy that ruined the city of New York.
00:39:23.000But this is the way left-wing governance goes.
00:39:26.000The good news is that over in Portland, they've decided that they are going to essentially save drug addicts by providing them snorting kits.
00:39:33.000Quote, Portland homeless drug addicts, according to Jason Rantz, are being enabled with snorting kits, which allow them to snort drugs rather than use needles.
00:39:41.000It's part of a so-called harm reduction strategy that encourages drug addiction.
00:39:45.000The Multnomah County Health Department announced its new initiative on a Friday, hoping few would notice.
00:39:48.000The plan is to provide addicts with tools that cut down on potentially harmful bacteria through sharing or reusing certain drug paraphernalia.
00:39:55.000Snorting at kits typically include straws, plastic razors, and something to use as flat surfaces to make snorting drugs easier to accomplish.
00:40:03.000In other news, Hunter Biden has announced his relocation to the city of Portland.
00:40:09.000Advocates of this approach argue it's a way to push drug addicts away from dangerous intravenous drug use, where blood-borne illness can more easily spread.
00:40:17.000So, they're now actually encouraging people to snort drugs so that they don't shoot up the drugs.
00:40:22.000Meanwhile, over in New York, where they've done an amazing job with their drug problem, including just, you know, leaving people on the streets to die, the New York Post reports that the flesh-rotting animal tranquilizer killing unsuspecting users nationwide has significantly infiltrated drug mills in the Bronx, leading one expert to call New York City's current drug supply its most dangerous ever.
00:40:39.000The animal sedative, xylosine, known as Trank, arrives in the borough via box truck after being smuggled across the southwest U.S.
00:40:45.000border or through California-New York City, special prosecutor Bridget Brennan told The Post.
00:40:50.000It's then cut into other drugs, including fentanyl, heroin, meth, and cocaine, at packaging mills, many near the Bronx Zoo.
00:40:56.000From there, the dangerous drugs are distributed throughout the city and the entire Northeast, leaving Bronx neighborhoods like Melrose, Bathgate, and Morris Heights especially ravaged, according to the data.
00:41:04.000Brennan said overall, our black market drug supply in the city is probably the most dangerous that I've ever seen.
00:41:09.000People who believe they're buying one drug may well get another drug they have no tolerance for whatsoever.
00:41:13.000Xylosine is certainly a sad part of that story.
00:41:17.000Users of xylosine often develop rotting flesh and then require amputation.
00:41:43.000Despite the media's essentially giant blackout on On Sound of Freedom.
00:41:49.000Sound of Freedom is just raking it in at the box office.
00:41:52.000First of all, it's become a must-watch for pretty much anybody who considers themselves conservative because it is a very good movie.
00:41:57.000Also because Jim Caviezel has the luster of playing Jesus in Passion of the Christ.
00:42:02.000The movie apparently is really, really good.
00:42:04.000And not only that, the media have decided that they don't like it.
00:42:08.000So members of the media have been suggesting it's a QAnon movie, which is insane considering that the entire movie is about real-life attempts to fight sex trafficking.
00:42:16.000Sound of Freedom opened last Thursday, according to Variety, generating a mighty $14.2 million on the Independence Day holiday.
00:42:21.000It then picked up another $18.2 million between Friday and Sunday, enough to place third on the domestic box office charts behind Insidious, Red Door, and Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
00:42:32.000It's only playing in 2,850 North American theaters.
00:42:35.000That's much smaller than Insidious and Indiana Jones as well.
00:42:39.000It's an incredible showing for Sound of Freedom.
00:42:43.000It's one of the biggest openings in recent times for a faith-based film, according to Comscore.
00:42:49.000Hollywood rarely backs films that are geared toward this particular demographic, but people do show up for it, specifically because there is a shortage in this particular area.
00:42:58.000So, pretty amazing stuff from Jim Caviezel and company.
00:43:04.000The attempt by the press to treat this as QAnon stuff.
00:43:08.000Rolling Stone called it a QAnon-tinged thriller.
00:43:10.000One that is, quote, designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer.
00:43:15.000Simply because a movie actually takes on sex trafficking of children doesn't make the movie a QAnon thriller.
00:43:20.000I just mean, it seems like you guys are a little soft on sex trafficking when you get uptight with this sort of stuff, to be honest with you.
00:43:24.000Meanwhile, in other things that I like, Dana White, who's the head of UFC, he was accused of racism for scheduling fights in a particular way.
00:44:20.000This is the proper attitude to stupid questions about this sort of stuff.
00:44:23.000And by the way, to pretend that race has not played a role in boxing before, I mean, the kind of stuff that Muhammad Ali used to say about Joe Frazier was brutal and awful, and yes, racist, and no one cared about any of that, because that is indeed the fight business.
00:44:35.000Good for Dana White for suggesting that he doesn't care, because frankly, no one really cares.
00:44:39.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:44:46.000Okay, so there's an op comic, which I suppose is like an opinion comic, over at the Los Angeles Time called, What If Abortion Were Self-Defense?
00:44:53.000And I wanted to analyze this for a moment, because it really is one of the dumbest things that I've ever seen in my entire life.
00:44:58.000So, this comic shows, for those who can't see, a chart Of maternal mortality.
00:45:04.000Quote, in the U.S., pregnant people die of pregnancy-related causes at a higher rate than police die in the line of duty.
00:45:09.000This piece, again, titled, What If Abortion Were Self-Defense?
00:45:12.000So the idea is that people who are pregnant are at a higher risk than people who are police officers.
00:45:18.000Okay, so number one, police officers are being targeted by criminals.
00:45:23.000Women who die are not being targeted by their babies.
00:45:27.000Women who die with relation to maternal mortality very often have other conditions that are exacerbated by pregnancy.
00:45:33.000Maternal mortality tends to congregate in women who have previous medical conditions, who have high levels of obesity, for example.
00:45:43.000The actual rate, I should mention here, of maternal mortality is one woman per 3,040 live births dies of maternity-related causes.
00:45:52.000Okay, but notice where this goes next.
00:46:00.000The reason is that the United States actually measures births differently and maternal mortality differently.
00:46:05.000So in European countries, they just don't count certain births as births.
00:46:10.000Like if a baby dies very quickly, they don't count it as a maternal mortality.
00:46:14.000There's an actual difference in the counting statistics with regards to maternal mortality in the United States as opposed to other places.
00:46:20.000And then they suggest, quote, this danger will only worsen in a post Roe versus Wade
00:47:01.000Anti-abortion advocates argue that an embryo should be accorded all the rights of a human being.
00:47:05.000If one accepts this argument, given the deadly risks, does a pregnant person not have a right to self-defense against someone threatening their safety?
00:47:12.000Here's where this thing goes wildly off the rails.
00:47:15.000Okay, so we'll continue the argument and then I'll explain how stupid this is.
00:47:18.000Quote, And then it shows a bunch of presumed Republicans who are carrying guns.
00:48:13.000So, the suggestion by this op-ed writer is that every woman should be able to kill her baby at any time without presenting any evidence that the baby was a threat to her, because one out of every 3,040 live births may end in maternal mortality.
00:48:27.000So, the actual argument that this moron is making is that if police officers, in every single traffic stop, just shot the person they were stopping, because whether they're a risk or not, that would be perfectly okay with the American public.
00:49:01.000And the actual terminology that is utilized with regard to a baby that threatens mom's life is the terminology Rodayf, meaning a pursuer, like a person who's trying to attack and kill you.
00:49:11.000It's one of the justifications for abortion in such a case in the Talmud.
00:49:15.000But all pro-life people that I've ever heard of believe that if mom's life is in danger, abortion may be appropriate to save mom's life.
00:49:22.000But that's not what this person is arguing.
00:49:23.000This person is arguing we need abortion on demand across the country because all babies are inherently a threat to mom.
00:49:39.000So, I have to admit that I laughed really hard at Chuck Schumer suggesting that it's time for the FDA to probe Prime Energy Drink because it has lots of caffeine.
00:49:48.000Here's Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, God help us all, talking about the evils of Prime.
00:49:54.000What is specifically targeted at kids but has more caffeine than a cup of coffee?