The investigation into who left cocaine at the White House has ended, and shock of shocks, there is no one who has been identified as a suspect. No one has been named a suspect, and there are no suspects whatsoever. And now we are being told that a baggie of cocaine that was left in a pretty highly trafficked area, they have no idea who left that baggie, and they have closed the investigation after just 11 days. It is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, and it s enraging congressional Republicans who demanded answers about how an illegal drug got into one of the most secure buildings in the world. Meanwhile, Democrats are happy as clams that this investigation is done. They say, "We're done here. There's nothing to see here. It's all over. We've done all we can to find out who left this baggie in the West Wing, and we haven't found a suspect." Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says, "You can't tell me who left it. We don't know who delivered it. And we don't even know who brought it in here." And, of course, there's a conspiracy theory that involves a man named Hunter Biden, who is not a member of the Secret Service staff, and he's not a crack dealer, but he does have a laptop with crack in his possession. So, who delivered this bag of cocaine? And why is he not a suspect? And what does he get to be treated differently than the other people in America? And why does this guy get the same treatment than I get it the way I get a chance to be tested on the way in and out of a drug test? And who is Hunter Biden the same than I do that I get the chance to get the drug test on the same thing? Well, it seems to be a little more than anything else than I'm supposed to get a shot of cocaine in a cup of cocaine like I'm not getting a test on my own? I don t know what's going to be enough, do you think I'm going to get it, do I have it, right, or I'm getting it, or am I not, or not this, I'm just not enough, or this, or a little bit of it, I don't think that I'm gonna have it? -- What's the problem, right? -- Is it more than that, you're not getting it? -- -- -- --
00:00:15.000There are cameras pretty much everywhere.
00:00:17.000And now we are being told that a baggie of cocaine that was left in a pretty highly trafficked area, they have no idea who left that baggie of cocaine.
00:00:25.000And they've closed the investigation after just 11 days.
00:00:30.000According to the New York Post, the Secret Service ended its investigation into cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House after just 11 days without identifying a suspect, enraging congressional Republicans who demanded answers about how an illegal drug got into one of the most secure buildings in the world.
00:00:43.000The protective agency said its probe was closed due to a lack of physical evidence.
00:00:47.000After FBI forensic testing on the bag, the cocaine was found and failed to turn up fingerprints or sufficient DNA, which in and of itself is a little bit weird.
00:00:55.000I mean, why aren't there any fingerprints on the baggy would be an interesting question.
00:00:58.000I mean, you would imagine that might be true during the winter when people are wearing gloves walking into the White House, but it is the middle of the summer.
00:01:04.000So you'd imagine that somebody had their hands on this thing.
00:01:06.000Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule Where the cocaine was discovered, the service said.
00:01:14.000Now, as others have pointed out, if this was Anthrax, I don't think the Secret Service would be shutting down the investigation quite so quickly.
00:01:20.000Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee stormed out of a briefing offered to lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee moments after it began, calling the conclusion bogus and the investigation a complete failure.
00:01:29.000He said, they know who goes into the White House.
00:01:50.000I'm satisfied that the Secret Service and the White House are on top of it.
00:01:54.000You know, I was reading a book about Lincoln recently, and anybody in Washington could just walk right into Lincoln's White House, go directly in and try to find the president and talk to him.
00:02:06.000And obviously, we're in a very different security environment than that.
00:02:11.000But I don't know how many people would want to go to the White House if they were going to be administering a drug test on the way in, which is what some of my colleagues have suggested.
00:02:20.000Some people are saying everybody should be drug tested on the way into the White House.
00:02:25.000These are the same people who are opposed to COVID-19 tests.
00:02:29.000So I don't see a lot of coherence in the criticism.
00:02:39.000All of you are in favor of COVID-19 tests for everyone.
00:02:41.000And in fact, you shut down the entire country over COVID-19.
00:02:44.000But you're like, yeah, it would be too much to ask that somebody not be high on cocaine when they visit the White House.
00:02:48.000Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said they were able to narrow down a list of approximately 500 people that had left a small bag of cocaine.
00:02:54.000My question to them was, have they drug tested this list of 500 potential suspects that brought an illegal substance or drug, cocaine, into the White House?
00:03:00.000Their answer was no, and they are unwilling to do so.
00:03:04.000President Biden's staff is subjected to routine drug tests, but White House visitors, including those given West Wing tours by invitation only, are not.
00:03:10.000Also, you know, who is not a member of the White House staff would be a man named Hunter Biden.
00:03:16.000That guy is not a member of the White House staff, technically.
00:03:18.000Obviously, there are a lot of suspicions that a person who's been addicted to crack cocaine, there's pictures on his laptop of himself doing crack cocaine while going 172 miles an hour down the road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, that maybe that guy might be a suspect in all of this.
00:03:32.000House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News the probe was a farce.
00:03:34.000He said, you can't tell me in the White House with 24-7 surveillance in a cubbyhole by a Situation Room, they don't know who delivered it there.
00:03:39.000We should get an answer to the question.
00:03:41.000It seems to me that in America, anything today involving Biden Inc.
00:03:43.000gets treated differently than anything else.
00:03:45.000And that shouldn't exactly be the case.
00:03:46.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump has his own theory.
00:03:48.000He says that it is not, in fact, Hunter who's responsible for the cocaine.
00:04:35.000I said that on my TV show just this morning.
00:04:37.000I said it's either Hunter or it's Joe because he's so bad that before each speech and interview they probably need to give him something to juice him up.
00:05:03.000Meanwhile, we are now learning that the Secret Service actually discovered pot twice in Joe Biden's White House, and they did nothing about it.
00:05:09.000The possession of less than two ounces of marijuana is not a crime in D.C., but marijuana is in fact federally banned and prohibited on federal property, according to Breitbart.
00:05:16.000The Secret Service said that in both cases, the marijuana found was under two ounces, a weight that could cost a buyer on the street upwards of $700.
00:05:21.000Honestly, this is an easy one for the White House.
00:05:25.000has jailed more people for marijuana than anybody else in America.
00:05:28.000She put Kamala Harris on the one thing she's competent at doing, tracking down the person who brought the pot into the White House.
00:05:33.000The Secret Service initially revealed the information to members of Congress on Thursday.
00:05:37.000They said no one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of the marijuana confiscated did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or D.C.
00:05:44.000The marijuana was collected by officers and destroyed.
00:05:47.000destroyed. So that is excellent. How much institutional failure can one country take?
00:05:53.000It goes from the small to the large. Every institution of American government seems to
00:05:56.000be failing in its most basic function. And the Secret Service is apparently no different at
00:06:01.000this point. And are you suspicious of all this?
00:06:05.000I'm at least a little bit suspicious, given the fact that we know for a fact that the Secret Service attempted to insert itself into the Hunter Biden gun case.
00:06:12.000You'll recall that way back in 2018, President Biden's son, Hunter, and his daughter-in-law, Haley, were involved in a bizarre incident, according to Politico, in which Haley took Hunter's gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
00:06:25.000She took his gun and threw it away because he was high on Coke at the time, apparently.
00:06:29.000And she was scared that he was going to use the gun in a terrible way.
00:06:34.000Secret Service agents then went to the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom had first-hand knowledge of the episode, the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact.
00:06:45.000The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork to Secret Service, suspecting that they wanted to hide Hunter's ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime.
00:06:53.000The owner later turned over the papers to ATF and then of course all of that resulted in a plea deal in which Hunter Biden received no actual charges on applying for a gun license while being high as a kite.
00:07:05.000So yes, has Secret Service intervened in this way before?
00:07:09.000The institutional failures in this country are stacking them.
00:07:11.000Then they wonder why institutional trust is gone.
00:07:13.000This would be the reason why institutional trust is absolutely gone.
00:07:16.000And just a second, we have more on the Hunter Biden corruption stuff because that continues to percolate.
00:07:21.000First, as central banks in countries like China, India, and Australia begin transitioning to digital currency, the Federal Reserve has been contemplating the same for the United States.
00:07:28.000With a digital currency, the government can track every single purchase you make.
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00:08:16.000The smart investors diversify, particularly when it comes to the Okay, meanwhile, The Daily Caller has an exclusive about Hunter Biden in which they find that Hunter Biden and his business associates attempted to get Burisma founder Mykola Slavchevsky a U.S.
00:08:37.000visa shortly after the president's son became a board member of that Ukrainian energy firm.
00:08:41.000The emails in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop archive show a coordinated attempt to obtain a visa for Slavchevsky while he's being investigated by Ukrainian authorities for corruption.
00:08:49.000By the way, it is amazing how for just a couple of years here, really since the Ukraine scandal regarding the Bidens burst into the open, there's been an overt attempt by the media to pretend there is no corruption in Ukraine.
00:09:00.000Ukraine is by far one of the most corrupt countries in all of Europe, including Eastern Europe.
00:09:05.000Ukraine has serious corruption problems.
00:09:07.000Everyone who's spent any time examining the situation knows this.
00:09:12.000Even people who are very sympathetic to the plight of people in Ukraine recognize the government there has been plagued with corruption for decades.
00:09:18.000And so it shouldn't be a shock that Hunter Biden was playing around there because obviously that is where the guy makes his money.
00:09:24.000Biden and some of his associates were potentially engaging in registrable lobbying activity.
00:09:28.000One email indicates that the Foreign Agents Registration Act violations could have been occurring outside of the exchanges.
00:09:33.000A FAIR expert who reviewed the emails told the Daily Caller, From 2014 to 2016, Hunter worked with former Burisma board member Devin Archer, Rose Montenegro advisor Eric Schwerin, former Boyce Schiller and Flexner LLP partner Heather King and other business associates to assist Mykola Zlochevsky with his visa reapplication process after the State Department revoked his visa back in 2014.
00:09:51.000Slavchevsky is the foreign national involved in a bribery scheme with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, according to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:09:59.000She said that she's viewed a redacted version of an FBI form where an informant details how Slavchevsky spoke to him about making a $10 million bribe to the Bidens.
00:10:07.000FBI Director Chris Wray redacted the foreign national's name according to Green, but within the same sentence it says him slash Burisma.
00:10:12.000So in other words, it looks as though the person who may have been attempting to bribe the Bidens was also lobbying Hunter Biden to try and get his visa renewed in the United States.
00:10:33.000Because again, so much of presidential politics relies not just on the policies of who the president is and the popularity of those policies.
00:10:38.000If that were true, Donald Trump would still be president.
00:10:40.000So much of presidential policies relies on the popularity of the figure at the top.
00:10:45.000Joe Biden has not budged in the polls in terms of popularity since the Afghanistan pullout.
00:10:49.000When the mask came off of Joe Biden and this carefully constructed facade that both he and the media had been complicit in building, this facade that suggested that he was a kindly old gentleman who truly cared about people like you, that was ripped off his face.
00:11:02.000And what was underneath was something quite ugly.
00:11:04.000It was, in fact, an incredibly self-interested politician who was very selfish, a person who really only cares about the people who are very close to him, and was perfectly willing to subject people, including American troops, to greater danger for his own personal glorification.
00:11:17.000Since that time, Joe Biden has not recovered.
00:11:19.000And the Hunter Biden stuff just underscores that.
00:11:22.000The fact that, for example, he has disowned one of his grandchildren.
00:11:26.000Disowned her because apparently Hunter Biden doesn't want to take responsibility for this grandchild.
00:11:30.000So that grandchild doesn't exist to Joe.
00:11:32.000Because in Joe's world, the only people who matter are people with the last name Biden.
00:11:35.000So you deny the last name Biden to a four-year-old girl, the only asset that the Biden family has, by the way.
00:11:40.000The only reason Hunter Biden is a wealthy man today is because of that last name.
00:11:43.000The only reason Frank Biden is a wealthy man today is because of that last name.
00:11:47.000They deny that to a four-year-old girl because the only people that matter to Joe Biden are the people in his immediate circle.
00:11:51.000Now, again, venal corruption on a familial level is nothing new in politics in Washington, D.C.
00:11:56.000The Clinton family was deeply corrupt also.
00:11:59.000However, the gap between sort of the garrulously charming Bill Clinton and the elderly octogenarian corruptocrat Joe Biden, that's pretty significant.
00:12:09.000And that means that Joe Biden is a very vulnerable candidate.
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00:13:55.000Streaming has destroyed the traditional Hollywood model.
00:13:58.000The traditional Hollywood model has not worked for at least 10, 15 years.
00:14:02.000Basically, everything that goes into a theater, if you're a movie actor, there are only a couple of types of movies.
00:14:06.000One of these indie movies that make no money, unless you have sort of a breakout horror hit.
00:14:09.000And the other is these giant tentpole films that these studios are spending $300 million on so that presumably some no-name director can make the Oscar bait that they can brag to their friends about at the cocktail parties that no one has ever watched.
00:14:21.000In other words, you make a Marvel movie so that somebody else can make Moonlight.
00:14:24.000That's typically the way this works in Hollywood.
00:14:26.000But one of the things that's been happening is the Hollywood star system is dead.
00:14:31.000The system by which any sort of sorting has happened is dead because of the prevalence of material, because there's such a hunger and demand for material, because of the plethora of streaming services, because of the ability to substitute in one actor for another actor, or one writer for another writer, because the supply of writers is higher right now than the demand for writers, because the margins again have gone down.
00:14:51.000The same thing is true in the acting industry, and so the union, which is designed to jack up the pay of these people, They're attempting now to push Hollywood to grant higher margins for them, greater pay for them, believing that this will somehow be sustainable.
00:15:05.000The answer, unfortunately for them, is that it is not.
00:15:07.000It's not stopping anybody from going forward with this thing.
00:15:09.000According to the New York Times, the Hollywood Actors Union approved a strike on Thursday for the first time in 43 years.
00:15:14.000Bringing the $134 billion American movie and television business to a halt over anger about pay and fears of a tech-dominated future.
00:15:20.000The leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the union representing 160,000 television and movie actors, announced the strike after negotiations with studios over a new contract collapsed, with streaming services and AI at the center of the standoff.
00:15:31.000On Friday, the actors joined screenwriters who walked off the job in May on picket lines in New York, LA, and dozens of other American cities where scripted shows and movies are made.
00:15:39.000Apparently, actors and screenwriters have not been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was actually head of the Actors Union.
00:15:45.000Dual strikes pit more than 170,000 workers against studios like Disney, Universal, Sony, and Paramount, as well as Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.
00:15:53.000Fran Drescher, who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, gave a news conference in which she explained the demands.
00:16:00.000So it came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads, but we had no choice.
00:16:12.000We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.
00:16:20.000I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us because at some point the jig is up.
00:16:31.000You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored.
00:16:39.000The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI, Apparently their demands total 48 pages that's triple the size of the list during their last negotiations in 2020.
00:16:56.000So what exactly are the big issues that they are striking over according to the Washington Post?
00:17:11.000And the reason for that is because people binge these days, as opposed to the entire basis for the sort of terrestrial platforms, the TV-based platforms being that you have to stick around week to week, series like Bridgerton The entire idea of it is that you're releasing two, three, four, maybe even eight episodes at one time.
00:17:27.000These mini-series have become the way that streamers actually get an advantage over their competitors.
00:17:32.000For writers, pay issues dovetail with concerns over streaming and the use of mini-rooms.
00:17:35.000Mini-rooms are these writer rooms where you have kind of core writers and then you bring in supplemental writers to sort of help out, as opposed to having these giant writers rooms.
00:17:42.000Again, that is one way of bringing down the cost structure if you are one of the studios.
00:17:46.000For actors, a combination of outdated contract terms and rapidly changing media landscapes means shorter season orders and longer hiatuses between seasons.
00:17:53.000Also, they're deeply worried about the use of AI.
00:17:56.000They're worried that the studios are going to start using AI in order to generate script Now, I've seen some of the AI scripts.
00:18:02.000They're not particularly good, but they are going to get better.
00:18:07.000Now, we're looking at all this from the producer's side.
00:18:09.000If you're an actor or you're a writer, I totally understand why you're upset about all of this.
00:18:12.000However, if you're a consumer of TV, if you're a consumer of the product, the product is getting cheaper.
00:18:17.000The people you don't like very much are getting paid less?
00:18:19.000Is this really like the end of the world?
00:18:21.000It's going to depress wages on one side, but it's certainly going to depress costs on the other.
00:18:24.000Right now, if you want to subscribe to all the various streaming services, it's going to cost you probably more than it did to pay for your bundled cable package way back when.
00:18:33.000Well, that's probably going to go down now, because again, the cost structure is declining, and it has to, because again, the profit margins have been declining for a very, very long time.
00:18:43.000When it comes to AI, many of the SAG-after actors are worried about their likeness, voice, or performance being used without their consent or without compensation, because AI can mimic all of that.
00:18:53.000But the truth is, the star system is basically dead.
00:18:55.000Aside from Tom Cruise, maybe Chris Pratt, name a star who can open a film.
00:19:00.000And this, I'm just going to put directly on both the studios and the actors.
00:19:03.000So it used to be that if you wanted to create a star, the way that you created a star in Hollywood is scarcity.
00:19:08.000The only time you saw a star in Hollywood in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s is when they were in the film.
00:19:13.000Their personal life, there would be sort of gossip tabloids that would try to get a hold of it, but the studio did a good job of guarding its people from becoming publicity figures outside of the movies.
00:19:23.000Outside of Marilyn Monroe, who is of course having affairs with nearly every major person in sight, the fact is that the biggest stars of the 40s, 50s, and 60s were guarded by the studios.
00:19:33.000And once you take away the veneer of celebrity and glamour from people, and it just turns out that they're kind of losers who lead dissolute lives, people will actually have a hard time separating when they go over to the movie theater.
00:19:46.000And once the star system is dead, you can just hire anybody to be an actor.
00:19:49.000There are a thousand talented actors out there, and not all that many are members of SAG-AFTRA.
00:19:55.000So what we have here is just a mismatch between the way the industry actually works and the way that everybody who used to work in the industry wishes that it worked.
00:20:03.000And there's something mildly delicious about this, not for the grips and not for the kind of people on set who are doing the actual hard work of putting things on film, but for the talent, for the actors, for the writers, the same people who are telling all of the people in middle America five seconds ago, learn to code.
00:20:18.000All those people now being slapped with AI.
00:20:20.000There's something kind of funny about all of that.
00:20:22.000We'll get to more on that in just one second first.
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00:21:28.000OK, so we're seeing some virtue signaling from Democrats on the on the basis of this Hollywood strike.
00:21:34.000So, for example, the execrable Adam Schiff, who is trying to run for Senate in the state of California, he signaled his support for the actors and writers strike.
00:21:43.000Today over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members went on strike for better pay and better working conditions.
00:21:49.000And I want you to know I stand with you.
00:22:02.000And what's more, your fight is the fight for workers all over the country.
00:22:06.000This is a fight to make the economy work for people again.
00:22:09.000The industry is very profitable, and you should share in those profits.
00:22:13.000After all, you're the folks who make that magic happen.
00:22:16.000So I'm going to be out there in the picket lines by your side.
00:22:18.000I'll be yelling through that bullhorn.
00:22:20.000I'll be supporting you until you get the deal that you have earned with good pay and good working conditions.
00:22:27.000So, proud of what you're doing, and I stand with you.
00:22:29.000If this was the deal that they had earned... See, he's so pathetic.
00:22:31.000If this were the deal that they had earned, they were already making the pay.
00:22:34.000Because the fact of the matter is that the actual business expertise that has generated enormous profits in places like Netflix, that is not the actors and the writers.
00:22:41.000The actors and writers are valuable, no question.
00:22:43.000They're some of the inputs in terms of labor.
00:22:44.000But the simple fact is that it's been strategic decision-making at the top levels of these companies that have made them profitable.
00:22:50.000There are a lot of movie and production companies that have a lot of talent working for them that are not profitable.
00:22:54.000Well, Bob Iger, who I really do not like as a human being, he's the head of Disney, but he also happens to be a competent business person.
00:23:02.000So he said, listen, simple fact is these demands are unrealistic.
00:23:07.000We're in the midst of a writer's strike and very likely it would seem to have a actor's strike.
00:23:13.000How is that going to impact things and what are your expectations there?
00:23:17.000Well, I think it's very disturbing to me.
00:23:18.000You know, we've talked about disruptive forces on this business and all the challenges we're facing and the recovery from COVID, which is ongoing.
00:23:28.000This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.
00:23:32.000I understand any labor organization's desire to Work on the behalf of its members to get the most compensation to be compensated fairly based on the value that they deliver.
00:23:45.000We managed as an industry to negotiate a very good deal with the Directors Guild that reflects the value that the directors contribute to this great business.
00:23:54.000We wanted to do the same thing with the writers and we'd like to do the same thing with the actors.
00:23:58.000There's a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic.
00:24:03.000And they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive.
00:24:29.000I mean, it's not a huge amount of money that you are talking about distributing to everybody else.
00:24:34.000That's not going to solve the problem.
00:24:35.000It isn't about the executive pay of these companies.
00:24:37.000The biggest problem is, as Iger says, the model has completely changed in Hollywood.
00:24:40.000Now, here is the biggest problem for the actors and for the writers and for the companies.
00:24:44.000No one has any sympathy for any of them.
00:24:46.000No one has any sympathy for any one of them.
00:24:47.000And no one has sympathy for Disney because Disney has decided to become extremely political.
00:24:52.000As I mentioned before, nobody has sympathy for the actors because no one knows who any of the actors are.
00:24:56.000You might have had sympathy for actors back in the 1960s, 50s, 40s, because you had great allegiance to them on screen.
00:25:04.000The star system was very much in play.
00:25:05.000So if Cary Grant had decided that he was going to lead a strike with Ronald Reagan and with the rest of the members of SAG-AFTRA, then everybody would be like, whoa, where's my favorite star?
00:25:13.000Right now, if Tom Holland disappears from your screen, are you going to be thinking about that very much?
00:25:18.000If suddenly Timothee Chalamet isn't in every movie, are you going to be like, weeping, heartbroken, if Zendaya doesn't show up?
00:25:26.000If she doesn't show up on your screen, are you going to be like, whoa, oh no, what are we going to do?
00:25:29.000Or are you just going to wait for them to cast the next 22-year-old beautiful person who is fairly decent as an actor?
00:25:35.000So the sympathy level for all of these people is very, very low.
00:25:39.000And it's particularly low for the corporations as well.
00:25:41.000So again, I don't think most Americans feel a stake in this particular labor fight.
00:25:45.000That's particularly true because the same Bob Iger, who's making a correct business argument, also happens to be a person who injects himself into politics, alienating half of the American people on a regular basis.
00:25:54.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration is upping the ante over in Ukraine.
00:26:00.000So, according to Politico, President Biden wrapped up his visit to Europe on Thursday, touting the strength of NATO and the alliance's ability to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:26:09.000But diplomatic breakthroughs overseas came with lingering uncertainties about the future of the war.
00:26:13.000Biden capped off his trip in Helsinki, projecting a dramatically different presence than the last American president to visit the Finnish capital.
00:26:18.000Five years ago this week, Trump sided with Putin over America's intelligence agency's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
00:26:25.000As it turns out, the Russian interference in the 2016 election was actually quite minimal, and Trump wasn't entirely wrong about that.
00:26:30.000All the intelligence agencies suggested that Russia had some sort of mass scale effect on the 2016 election, and that was not true.
00:26:37.000However, Biden patted himself on the back and said, Putin's already lost the war.
00:26:48.000Well, but he's not going to just say he's out.
00:26:51.000And he's particularly not just going to say he's out given the set of incentives that the West has currently set up.
00:26:55.000A set of incentives in which the West keeps saying that Zelensky is going to take back the whole thing.
00:26:59.000Putin has no interest in Zelensky taking back the whole thing.
00:27:02.000Plus, the United States has said Zelensky gets to lead the charge here.
00:27:05.000He's going to say that he takes back the whole thing.
00:27:06.000And also, we're not going to let him into NATO until he finishes.
00:27:09.000Which leads Putin to want to, presumably, continue the war as long as humanly possible.
00:27:15.000So, the Ukrainian counteroffensive, this much-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive, which was supposed to set up the Ukrainians for a better stance in negotiation against Russia, that has turned into a pretty long slog.
00:27:27.000Biden has said that he is going to guarantee the U.S.
00:27:28.000would remain in NATO, which, of course, I don't think is in serious contention.
00:27:32.000I know that Donald Trump has talked about the possibility of pulling the United States out of NATO, but that seems, I think, exaggerated to me.
00:27:39.000Meanwhile, Putin has now ordered 3,000 reservists to be ready for European deployment.
00:27:45.000Although it's not clear whether Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plans to actually deploy these reservists anytime soon, the move suggests the United States' training mission in Europe, along with deployment of several new brigades after the invasion, has now stretched its active duty forces.
00:27:56.000So we're not even involved in an actual ground war in Ukraine.
00:27:59.000We don't actually have troops in Ukraine in any large numbers.
00:28:01.000We have advisors there apparently, but we don't have massive troops in Ukraine.
00:28:05.000Joe Biden had to call up 3,000 more reservists.
00:28:07.000The level of reservists that he's calling up are like the backups to the backup.
00:28:10.000That's how thinly stretched the American military is right now.
00:28:14.000The president's order for the first time designates Operation Atlantic Resolve, according to Politico, the U.S.
00:28:19.000effort in Europe as a contingency operation, which allows the Pentagon to call up reserve forces and implement sped-up acquisition authorities to supply those troops with equipment.
00:28:28.000The designation not only allows the president to mobilize reservists, it also provides support for families and dependents of reservists who might be deployed.
00:28:34.000had rushed 20,000 more troops to Europe after the Russian invasion, so we have over 100,000 on the continent, including rotations of 10,000 troops in Poland.
00:28:42.000The big story here is not that we're sending additional troops to Europe.
00:28:44.000Again, we have 100,000 troops there already.
00:28:46.000Big story is that we are so stretched militarily because of our recruitment failures under the Biden
00:28:50.000and yes, the Trump administrations, because of the military's woke problem,
00:28:56.000because of the military constantly failing in its missions thanks to political leadership,
00:29:02.000because of the frankly out of shape American youth who are not capable of passing basic fitness tests
00:31:12.000I just don't agree with your facts, which began with a presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that I hear, which is this private jet.
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00:33:25.000We have run out of enough racism in America to power the machine.
00:33:29.000So there is a left-wing media machine that demands racism, demands it.
00:33:33.000And the demand is wildly outstripping supply, which means that we now have to create kind of ersatz racism.
00:33:38.000So the latest non-troversy involves Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, who accidentally referred to people of color or black people as colored people.
00:33:45.000He did this on the House floor, and this, of course, drove people into spasms of apoplexy.
00:33:59.000Here is the actual clip of Eli Crane yesterday.
00:34:02.000My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay?
00:34:09.000It has nothing to do with color of your skin, any of that stuff.
00:34:14.000What we want to preserve and maintain is the fact that our military does not become a social experiment.
00:34:22.000We want the best of the best, we want to have standards that guide Who's in what unit, what they do, and I'm going to tell you guys right now, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, they are not doing this because they want the strongest military possible.
00:34:40.000I'd like to be recognized to have the words colored people stricken from the record.
00:34:47.000I find it offensive and very inappropriate.
00:34:52.000Okay, so now we're going to be told that this is because this member is racist.
00:36:06.000It is language that was used for a very, very long time in the United States, but it was not like using the N-word.
00:36:11.000In fact, you may remember that the NAACP, right, which is still the most prominent black rights organization in the United States, the NAACP was originally the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, right?
00:36:24.000Is that because they were calling themselves the N-word?
00:36:26.000No, it's because that was the parlance that was used for a very long time.
00:36:38.000And we all know it's not true, and you know it's not true, and you're just trying to turn this into a major issue when it's clearly a slip of the tongue.
00:36:45.000NPR says, quote, Language is, and always will be, an essential element in the struggle for understanding among peoples.
00:36:50.000Changes in the words and phrases we use to describe each other reflect whatever progress we make on the path toward a world where everyone feels respected and included.
00:36:57.000A Google Ngram search compared the frequency of the use colored people, minorities, and people of color delivers interesting results.
00:37:03.000The use of the phrase colored people peaked in books published in 1970.
00:37:07.000For minorities, the top ranked year was 1997.
00:37:09.000Since then, the term has steadily declined but continues to significantly outstrip the use of people of color.
00:37:14.000So, if you look at the actual origin of people of color, it was originally used in 1807 in an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:37:27.000The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest references to people of color is from the French, homme de couleur, in the late 18th century.
00:37:35.000Person or people as a term for human beings, that's pretty much uncontroversial.
00:37:38.000Color is a word packed with history, prejudice, and confusion.
00:37:41.000The adjective form of colored, the Oxford English Dictionary says, quote, usually considered offensive.
00:37:47.000But now, because colored was adopted in the United States by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War, it was rapidly replaced from late 1960s as a self-designation by black and later by African-American, although it is retained in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
00:38:02.000In Britain, it was the accepted term for black, Asian or mixed race people until the 1960s.
00:38:08.000In a 1988 New York Times column about the phrase, William Sapphire, who's big into language, he talked about Martin Luther King referring to citizens of color in his speech at the March on Washington.
00:38:18.000He said times change and terms change.
00:38:20.000Racial designations go through phrases.
00:38:22.000At one time, the word Negro was accepted, like the Negro Leagues.
00:38:24.000At an earlier time, colored, and so on.
00:38:26.000This organization has been in existence for 80 years.
00:38:28.000The initial NAACP are part of the American vocabulary, firmly embedded in the national consciousness.
00:38:32.000We feel it would not be to our benefit to change our name.
00:38:45.000And one term is better than another today.
00:38:47.000But the notion that this congressperson didn't just slip of the tongue, this was meant as like a racist reference is absolutely ridiculous.
00:38:54.000And this is the game that we now play.
00:38:56.000The game we now play is not, is the Biden administration's policy to benefit one racial group over another in American law?
00:39:12.000Let's talk about whether this Arizona congressperson used the phrase colored people rather than people of color, which clearly means that he's a closeted member of the KKK.
00:39:22.000If you spend your days deeply worried over what is... I mean, the guy tries to correct himself in real time.
00:39:28.000He realizes he has flubbed and that is why he corrects himself.
00:39:31.000And then it turns into a national scandal.
00:39:33.000Guys, how about we concentrate on some real problems in the United States, including problems of racism that have real world effects, particularly on people of other minorities.
00:39:44.000It's just ridiculous, but again, people must have their quotient of racism in everyday media coverage, and so they'll manufacture it if they can't come up with the really good stuff.
00:39:54.000Okay, it's time for something that we haven't done for a while here on this program, and that is story time.
00:40:00.000So there are some books that you've seen on the shelves when you walk into Barnes & Noble, and we're going into a weekend, so we have to have some fun.
00:40:06.000It's time for story time with Uncle Ben.
00:40:11.000Today's story time is titled, Let It Lizzo.
00:40:16.000Apparently this was found by one of our producers.
00:41:41.000When you read various traditions in religion, various religious traditions from all over the world, who've been searching for some sort of spiritual placidity, some sort of connection with a higher way of life, very few of them had stumbled upon the magic that is, in fact, thrusting your ass in the air repeatedly.
00:47:43.000Your soul and your mind can accept the punishment for a crime.
00:47:47.000But when you've actually done nothing wrong, I think jail is a lot harder.
00:47:51.000I mean, one of the things that makes Tate sort of an interesting person and character is this tough-minded approach that he projects toward everything.
00:47:59.000Now, as far as the actual specificity of the charges, my understanding is that his characterization of the charges is not what the Romanian government is saying what the charges are.
00:49:06.000And they can create a narrative that just is not true.
00:49:08.000We saw this with the Trump-Russia narrative.
00:49:10.000We saw this with the idea that everyone, including small children, had to be vaxxed for COVID or everyone was going to die and all of the rest.
00:49:18.000I think that he over-attributes to the Matrix.
00:49:21.000In other words, every symptomatic failure is obviously attributable to the Matrix.
00:49:25.000So it's, again, I think that there is such a thing as middle-level bureaucracy in the United States government who are responsible for doing bad things.
00:49:32.000Does that mean that every bad thing that happens is attributable to that middle-level bureaucracy?
00:49:37.000But his overall take, that there are forces at work that are consolidated with one another and pursuing certain narratives, obviously that's true, and that's one of the reasons his message is popular.
00:49:46.000Why do you think support for the war in Ukraine, support for Ukraine's side in the war against Russia, support for a war against Russia in the West, is kind of the bottom line issue for the people who run the U.S.
00:50:00.000government and for the American media.
00:50:45.000But I understand very well, I like to believe what's happening with Ukraine and Russia.
00:50:51.000And what I will say to the people who are watching this at home is that if you are naive enough to believe that there are good guys and bad guys in wars and it's as simple as good and bad and that the bad guys are crazy and the good guys want freedom then you need to do a little bit more investigation into what's really happening and when you look at
00:51:12.000The vested interest of any country or any person... Can I just ask you to pause and just comment?
00:51:17.000That's the truest thing, what you just said.
00:51:19.000And anyone who doesn't understand that should shut the f*** up.
00:51:25.000Anyone who's telling you that it's Churchill versus Hitler...
00:51:30.000Okay, but even in Tucker's last statement that everyone's telling you that it's Churchill versus Hitler, but that was a case where you had an actual, like, evil person versus forces of good on one side.
00:51:41.000So, Tate is making a global statement that there's never any conflict in which it's good versus evil, or in which one side is completely right and the other side is completely wrong.
00:51:51.000I think there are certainly cases in which one side is right and the other side is wrong.
00:51:54.000I think that happens, actually, fairly frequently.
00:51:56.000Now, does that mean there isn't complexity to every war or that the rationales that are presented to the public for war are the same as the rationales behind closed doors?
00:52:04.000But the kind of generalized moral relativism that is being expressed there is something with which I fully disagree.
00:52:10.000World War II was not a battle between two sides who had competitive but understandable versions of what was true.
00:52:17.000World War II was a battle between a fascist force that wished to wipe every Jew off the planet And a force that wished to preserve Western democracy and civilization.
00:52:25.000I mean, that is what World War II was.
00:52:28.000The same thing happens to be true with regard to, for example, the Civil War.
00:52:31.000One side in the Civil War wanted to preserve slavery.
00:52:34.000The other side in the Civil War wanted to overrun slavery.
00:52:36.000Now, is there more complexity than that?
00:52:39.000Yeah, sure, there's more complexity than that, but the overall narrative is not false.
00:52:42.000And what I see here is that complexity, the scales of gray are being used to eliminate the colors black and white.
00:52:49.000Now, if you want to say that there is grey to the picture, that's fair.
00:53:22.000When I say depression isn't real, what I'm... That really upset the world, especially the liberals, because they all live on medication, right?
00:53:29.000When I say depression isn't real, I'm saying that because I don't believe in things that can take away power from me.
00:53:34.000If I believed in depression, I would have been depressed in jail.
00:53:37.000But I can't be depressed if I don't believe in it.
00:53:39.000If you don't believe in ghosts, how can you be haunted?
00:53:42.000You have two people in a haunted house.
00:54:15.000So if I don't believe in it, how can it happen?
00:54:17.000Okay, again, I think that's spoken of somebody who doesn't have depression.
00:54:19.000So, I don't have depression either, but there are certainly people who are manic depressives, right?
00:54:23.000That's an actual mental condition where people go from absolute mania to absolute depression.
00:54:28.000Now, one of the things that he is saying that I generally agree with is that very often, depression should be overcome with cognitive behavioral therapy, right?
00:54:35.000That's actually what he's talking about there, is where you say, listen, my chain of thought here is wrong, and so I'm gonna correct that chain of thought.
00:54:41.000But the idea that depression just overall doesn't exist if you ignore it, for some people, it pretty clearly does.
00:54:47.000And sometimes it's caused by, you know, tragic life events, and sometimes it's caused by actual brain issues.
00:54:55.000But to kind of dismiss wholesale all depression, again, I think this one is actually more complex, and I think foreign policy is a little bit less complex than he's suggesting.
00:55:02.000So, yeah, are there people who require medication for depression?
00:55:12.000So, he's right that for a person who does not suffer from preconditions that lead to depression, or a person who doesn't have manic depression, or something like that, that the way to overcome depressive states is to kind of work your way through it.
00:55:24.000That obviously is true, but that's not even in conflict with, you know, sort of the best of psychotherapy.
00:55:29.000So men are replacing genuine sexual relationships with just the computer screen and porn, and it's becoming a very, very big problem.
00:55:37.000And that's also exasperated by the fact that I think the sexual marketplace has become globalized.
00:55:44.000A lot of men come to me with problems, and my only answer to them is masculine excellence.
00:55:49.000I say that in the world we live in today, being a normal man or below normal is gonna be terrible.
00:55:56.000You have to be an exceptional man, because the sexual marketplace, especially, even if you just want to find a wife, is globalized.
00:56:02.000If you, in 1955, if you met the hot girl in the Nebraskan town, she was the hot girl in the Nebraskan town.
00:56:10.000If you meet her today, she's being offered to go to Courchevel and go skiing in France, and she's being offered to fly to Dubai, and there's millionaires who can just fly her anywhere and give her anything she wants.
00:56:24.000It's getting harder and harder as a man to even find the most basic human function of reproduction.
00:56:32.000Even to just find a woman you can reproduce with.
00:56:34.000It's becoming more and more difficult.
00:56:36.000You also couple that with the fact that they've destroyed morality in women also.
00:56:41.000So when you destroy the morality in men and you destroy how a man should act and then you destroy how a woman should act, you're both going in the opposite direction.
00:56:48.000Most women out there are very happy to share a man who's just rich and famous and they don't care.
00:57:18.000What he is saying here is absolutely true.
00:57:20.000That the big imbalance between men and women, which has been created by the sexual revolution in which men and women were not expected to marry one another and then pair off one-on-one, has created tremendous imbalances just population-wide.
00:57:32.000And also he's correct that obviously you have to be more successful in order to achieve appeal to women in today's day and age because they have many more options with regard to men.
00:57:42.000But also because men aren't pairing up one-to-one with women, women aren't pairing up one-to-one with men.
00:58:02.000Now, there is an element that, again, I think is missing, and that is that if you actually wish to society-wide cure this problem, he's right on the individual level.
00:58:09.000There's no substitute for excellence and achievement and success and all the rest.
00:58:13.000On a society-wide level, that's not going to solve the problem.
00:58:15.000On a society-wide level, the only solution to this is a return to the sort of values that build families.
00:58:21.000In other words, one solution here is become more successful so the attractive girl is attracted to you as opposed to the millionaire 45-year-old who's got a wife.
00:58:30.000The other solution is inculcate from the time people are young a set of values in which men and women are meant to marry each other and raise children so that the values you're looking for in the other person are an important component of how you date and marry.
00:58:42.000That's the part that I always feel like is missing in some of these conversations.
00:58:45.000If a black billionaire and a white billionaire meet somewhere, I don't think there's much conversation about race.
00:59:16.000We can sit and I have my own theories.
00:59:19.000Okay, so the sort of classism argument, the reason that this is being pushed is on behalf of the upper class elite.
00:59:25.000He's right in one sense and I think incorrect in another.
00:59:28.000So he's certainly right that when you go to upper class enclaves, the amount of racism is virtually non-existent because, again, people tend to identify by class more than they do by race.
00:59:38.000If you go to very poor areas of the United States, very often you see black and white people living together pretty much okay, right?
00:59:43.000Go to the rural south and you see this actually a fair bit.
00:59:46.000And if you go to very rich areas, like San Francisco, you see very rich black and white people living right next to each other with no actual gap.
00:59:51.000So why is it that the elite, or what he would call the matrix, are pushing the racism narrative?
00:59:56.000I don't think that that's necessarily for the preservation of economic power.
00:59:59.000I think that that is because a lot of those people actively believe that people who are not like them are bad.
01:00:07.000Like people who are not living in my little San Francisco enclave.
01:00:10.000They are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes who despise each other, just as Barack Obama talked about.
01:00:15.000The people he was meeting with in San Francisco when he was talking about the bitter clingers, they're all like Barack Obama, but everybody else is actually bad.
01:00:22.000So it's not that they are doing this to preserve their own power as much as they have this very self-centered view of the world in which they're the only good people.
01:00:29.000Everyone else is in fact racist, which is why you need racial preferences programs, for example.
01:00:35.000So I was a little bit surprised to see Greta Thunberg with Zelensky this morning.
01:01:47.000I mean, again, when he talks about the Matrix, the Matrix is, you know, this kind of generalized A net between people like Greta Thunberg, who really should not be a world-famous figure.
01:01:58.000She was a child when she was exploited for her political point of view.
01:02:02.000And people like Vladimir Zelensky, who's an actual world leader in the middle of a war.
01:02:07.000The obvious imbalance there, but the attempt by the Matrix to paint that as a sort of meeting of equals is ridiculous on his face.
01:02:17.000So every survey of female happiness in the West shows just a straight decline since about 1970 till now.
01:02:23.000Women are becoming less happy in the West.
01:02:49.000But if you destroy one side of the equation, then the other side is going to be completely and utterly miserable and unhappy.
01:02:56.000How as a woman can you be happy if you can't find a man who you believe can protect you, provide for you, sticks up for you, has morals, has principles?
01:03:06.000So then what they do is just go from man to man trying to find it.
01:03:09.000And by the time they've been through enough men to maybe find someone semi-close to it, they've been through too many men to ever be happy.
01:03:15.000And then you have the absolute destruction of Western society.
01:03:17.000We talk about why men don't get married anymore.
01:03:20.000I can tell you why I wouldn't want to get married in America.
01:03:23.000I don't see the point in being married to a woman who's had so many partners before me that she can't properly pair bond with me and then giving her the opportunity to financially destroy me.
01:03:35.000I think that would be a bad chess move.
01:03:37.000I mean, again, everything he's saying is true.
01:03:39.000So he should get married and he should be monogamous and have kids.
01:03:42.000Because the union that actually provides all of this is the marital union.