Donald Trump leaves Mar-a-largo and heads to Manhattan for an arraignment. He is expected to plead not guilty to a 34-count indictment brought by the Manhattan DA against him on Thursday morning, but it's not clear if he'll actually be handcuffed or if he will just be let go without a hearing. Trump supporters lined the streets in droves to greet him as he arrived in Manhattan, and he was greeted by supporters at Trump Tower. Later, he will be arraigned in front of a judge who will decide whether or not he should be charged with a crime, and if so, what he should do with the evidence. Trump is also expected to deliver remarks at a rally later in the day, and later tonight, he is scheduled to deliver a speech at Mar-A-Largo where he will address his supporters at a dinner party hosted by his wife, First Lady, Karen Trump, and his daughter, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at 8:15pm. Today's episode is brought to you by the New York Times, the Daily Mail, the Washington Post, and Rolling Stone. The Weekly Standard, and the Associated Press. Click here for the latest updates on this and other stories on Trump and his future in the case, including a new report from the Times on the investigation, and an interview with a former White House correspondent. . The New York Post reporter for The Daily Mail. Check out our new piece on Trump's new book, "Trump's New York apartment. Here's a copy of the book, The Art of the Dealers' Guide to Trump's life in the new book. New York Magazine's new novel, "The Most Powerful Man in the Most Powerful Person in America: Trump's Most Powerful People in the Making of Trump's Life: How He's a Billionaire Is a Man Who's Not There, He's Not Here." and much, much, Much More! in the latest issue of Playboy, out now on Amazon Prime Video, also on the new issue of Vogue, out on the paperback edition of the new edition of The Cut, out in paperback and on the Kindle, and on Audible, coming soon on the Apple App Store, and also on Vimeo, and Pluto, too! in paperback, on the 27th edition, and on VaynerSpeaker, coming soon, and more! Subscribe to Vogue.
00:00:02.000Last night, Donald Trump flew from Mar-a-Lago to Manhattan in order to turn himself in to be arraigned.
00:00:08.000What that means is that later this afternoon, he goes in front of a judge who will plead not guilty.
00:00:13.000The order of the day goes something like this.
00:00:15.000At 11 a.m., he is scheduled to show up at the courthouse and he is going to surrender.
00:00:20.000By surrendering that doesn't mean they're going to handcuff him, doesn't mean necessarily they're going to take a mugshot.
00:00:23.000None of that is really public information at this point.
00:00:26.000There's been some debate inside sort of the Trump camp over whether there should be a mugshot or there shouldn't be a mugshot.
00:00:31.000Apparently, according to Time Magazine and Michael Isikoff, it's unlikely that he is going to be mugshotted, that he will actually be, he might be spared that.
00:00:39.000Trump's team apparently wants the mugshot for publicity purposes.
00:00:43.000Hogan Gidley, who is a part of Trump's re-elect efforts, he has suggested that it will be the most manly mugshot of all time.
00:00:50.000I'm not kidding, that's an actual quote from Hogan.
00:00:53.000Apparently, the judge in this particular case has already ruled, his name is Murchin, he has already ruled that no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom aside from a brief still photo spray before the arraignment begins, which is a departure from the normal no cameras period procedure that is usually inside the courthouse, but it's a far cry from the live video coverage the media outlets actually wanted.
00:01:12.000Unclear at this point whether cameras will be allowed, as usual, inside the courthouse hallways.
00:01:17.000At 10.30am, there's a rally for Trump that Marjorie Taylor Greene is holding.
00:01:21.000At 11am, that is when Trump is going to surrender.
00:01:24.000He will be moved to the internally connected courthouse.
00:01:33.000It's not as though he's going to be frog-marched into the building.
00:01:37.000According to Rolling Stone, Trump World is trying to play this up.
00:01:40.000Now, again, take everything Rolling Stone says with a giant block of salt, not just a grain of salt, a giant block of salt, because Rolling Stone is often wrong.
00:01:46.000But according to their reporting, quote, it's kind of a Jesus Christ thing he is saying.
00:01:50.000I'm absorbing all this pain from all around, from everywhere, so you don't have to.
00:01:53.000At 2.15, Trump is expected to plead not guilty in front of the judge.
00:01:57.000The defendant typically doesn't speak.
00:01:59.000The lawyer just says not guilty, and then they move on with the process.
00:02:32.000All of this, of course, followed hard on the insane media coverage yesterday, in which we basically got Donald Trump's plane leaving Mar-a-Lago treated essentially like O.J.
00:02:43.000Simpson's Ford Bronco back during the NBA finals.
00:02:49.000So we begin with Trump leaving Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:52.000A lot of his supporters lined the roads, as you would imagine.
00:02:54.000Again, this is a bizarrely An horrifically historic moment when the party in power or members of the party in power decide to indict the opposition leader.
00:03:04.000Donald Trump is, by every available polling metric, the frontrunner in the Republican nomination race.
00:03:09.000He is the former president of the United States and possibly the future president of the United States.
00:03:13.000And now he's arrested in New York for crimes that are extremely flimsy.
00:03:18.000His supporters lined the road near Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:20.000There was some tape that Eric Trump, his son, released on the Twitters.
00:03:38.000Much smaller crowds showed up in Manhattan outside of Trump Tower to greet him as he actually showed up at Trump Tower.
00:03:43.000Here's some video of Trump arriving at Trump Tower.
00:03:47.000Tonight, former President Donald Trump waving as he arrived in New York, where less than 24 hours from now, he is due to surrender to face criminal charges.
00:03:56.000His journey from Mar-a-Lago receiving live coverage on cable TV, supporters lining the route to cheer.
00:04:04.000After landing in New York, streets were blocked off to make way for his motorcade.
00:04:09.000Tomorrow, the former president will become just another criminal defendant on the downtown docket.
00:04:21.000What was amazing is that the media apparently have learned nothing from giving Trump billions of dollars in free political coverage in 2015-2016.
00:04:29.000Again, the media are going whole hog wall to wall on the cover.
00:04:39.000He is the greatest political story that we have seen in our lifetime.
00:04:42.000He is a person who went from being a real estate magnate on the cover of Playboy to being a person who ran for president without any prior political experience, somehow won, pulled an inside straight and beat Hillary Clinton.
00:04:54.000Then proceeded to run against the entire media and his own law enforcement apparatus, who was targeting him for destruction during his administration.
00:05:03.000Lost to a dead man in 2020 after a worldwide pandemic and massive, most damaging riots in American history.
00:05:10.000January 6th, and now he's being indicted in the middle of a race where he is the current Republican frontrunner.
00:05:15.000I mean, if this were a novel, you would not actually believe this was happening.
00:05:20.000Because, again, this would be a bad novel, but it is, in fact, reality.
00:05:24.000So there's a reason why the media are covering this stuff wall-to-wall.
00:05:28.000Although I will say that watching all four networks simultaneously covering Donald Trump's plane on the runway was kind of absurd.
00:05:35.000Here is some cable news coverage of Donald Trump's plane.
00:05:39.000We are going to continue our live coverage here as we see Trump's private aircraft there at Palm Beach International Airport getting ready for takeoff.
00:05:58.000Two hour, two and a half hour flight up to New York.
00:05:59.000Just watch that plane the whole way, guys.
00:06:04.000Again, the media, listen, the media are getting everything they want out of this.
00:06:09.000It makes it much more likely that Trump is the nominee to keep him at the center of the news, because the media essentially treat Republicans the way that I treat my three-year-old when I want her to eat her vegetables.
00:07:45.000Again, Trump left the Mar-a-Lago compound around noon yesterday, and he traveled in that motorcade, and he wrote on social media Sunday night, quote, on Tuesday morning, I will be going to, believe it or not, the courthouse.
00:07:55.000America was not supposed to be this way.
00:07:57.000New York City officials, warning of road closures, they say they are deploying extra officers in Manhattan during Trump's visit.
00:08:04.000Because Marjorie Taylor Greene is showing up in New York, because, again, there are a lot of people who are going to make a lot of money off of this particular incident.
00:08:12.000I don't blame Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing up to rally for Trump.
00:08:15.000Frankly, I don't blame the media for covering this.
00:08:53.000And folks on the right, obviously, are resonating to Trump's cause because they feel correctly that he is being unfairly targeted.
00:09:00.000So, Marjorie Taylor Greene is showing up in New York, and this is causing Eric Adams, the garbage mayor of New York, to rip into Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:09:07.000Adams actually called her out and said, we just want her to keep things peaceful.
00:09:10.000First of all, that'd be the first time anyone in New York has not committed a serious, violent crime on the streets if Marjorie Taylor did not.
00:09:17.000It seems like that city, that hellhole of a city that is now run almost entirely by pizza rats, is probably safer with Marjorie Taylor Greene and her friends showing up.
00:09:26.000But Eric Adams is very wary, obviously.
00:09:29.000While there may be some rabble-rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple.
00:09:40.000New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger.
00:09:46.000We are the safest large city in America because we respect the rule of law in New York City.
00:09:53.000And although we have no specific threats, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she's coming to town.
00:10:05.000While you're in town, be on your best behavior.
00:10:11.000This is a city that deeply respects the rule of law and wouldn't want your misplaced anger to, you know, shatter all the windows on Fifth Avenue during a 2020 Black Lives Matter riot.
00:10:19.000You definitely would want to make sure they're not shoving people in front of subways.
00:11:10.000New York mayor is trying to intimidate, threaten, and stop me from using my First Amendment rights to peacefully protest the Democrats' unconstitutional weaponization of our justice system against our top Republican presidential candidate, President Trump.
00:11:20.000Mary Adams should be more concerned about New York citizens and taxpayers being murdered, raped, robbed, and carjacked than an elected member of Congress coming to town.
00:11:27.000Or should I be the one concerned that the mayor of New York will weaponize his government or maybe his thugs like DA Alvin Bragg against me?
00:11:32.000And not an unfair critique there from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:11:35.000Meanwhile, again, in all of this WWE play acting, Michael Cohen, who is the chief witness for the prosecution, presumably, in this particular case, he's just appearing on the mainstream media, which is always what we do in criminal cases.
00:11:47.000It's always great when you have the key witnesses in criminal cases who have been convicted of perjury appearing on MSNBC, which is a network that hates the person who is now under indictment, talking about Donald Trump's crowd size at Trump Tower and mocking it.
00:12:00.000Yeah, these are all very serious people engaging in very serious business.
00:12:04.000Or alternatively, this is all just ginned up political activist nonsense that is designed to polarize America politically for the gain of political elites.
00:12:15.000Well, if there's so many people concerned, why aren't they out in the streets today?
00:12:55.000Now, it is very real for Donald Trump because, you know, now that he's getting indicted in Manhattan, he could actually go to jail.
00:13:00.000In the high likelihood, we spoke to Professor Alan Dershowitz, who's sort of part of the Trump advisory team.
00:13:04.000He suggested that if Trump actually does his trial in Manhattan proper, a Manhattan jury will probably convict him of pretty much anything.
00:13:12.000So they're real consequences for them.
00:13:13.000They're real consequences for the country.
00:13:14.000But our political class, it doesn't feel like they're real consequences for any of this.
00:13:18.000It just feels like they're using their power in order to achieve particular purposes, more money for themselves, more power for themselves, a more polarized political environment in which they can get away with legitimately anything.
00:13:29.000And that feeling is exacerbated by the fact that they apparently do not want Americans to see much about what is going on inside the courtroom.
00:13:36.000There's a lot of talk today about a gag order being placed inside the courtroom, which would prevent Americans from actually seeing what's happening, which would, of course, lead to a thousand conspiracy theories blooming.
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00:14:53.000All of this, obviously, is helping Donald Trump in terms of his fundraising.
00:14:58.000According to Trump aide Jason Miller, the campaign has raised $8 million since news of the indictment broke, which is a pretty solid number.
00:15:06.000Meanwhile, they've added, has the Trump team, a new lawyer, Todd Blanche, who's been a partner at the firm Cadwallader, Wickersham, and Taft, pretty significant law firm.
00:15:16.000And he has experience representing defendants in Trump's orbit, including, particularly, Paul Manafort.
00:15:20.000So again, it's the same set of lawyers who tend to defend the same set of people.
00:15:25.000Trump's current lawyers, Susan Ishellis and Joe Tacopina, remain on the team.
00:15:28.000Tacopina is also set to defend Trump in a civil trial later this month on allegations by an advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who alleges that Trump raped her in a dressing room.
00:15:40.000Meanwhile, one of Trump's attorneys, Alina Haba, is accusing the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, of actually leaking the charges and accusing Alvin Bragg of a felony.
00:15:51.000We'll get to the contents of the charges in just a moment.
00:15:55.000A gag order to silence a candidate, the leading candidate, number one.
00:15:58.000Number two, to silence the defendant in a case where the plaintiff, the state of New York, the D.A.
00:16:14.000We know that because it came from their camp.
00:16:15.000And it could only come from their camp.
00:16:17.000And that, by the way, Benny, is a felony.
00:16:21.000Okay, so what exactly did Alvin Bragg leak at this point?
00:16:24.000So again, it's unsubstantial where exactly the leak came from, but leaks by their very nature generally have to come from people with knowledge of the charges.
00:16:31.000Presumably Trump's team has already been informed of the charges as well, so the leak could have come from Team Trump, unclear at this point.
00:16:36.000However, what we now know is that Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he's been charged with 34 felony counts for falsifications of business records.
00:16:43.000They're all felonies that he's being charged with, according to Michael Isikoff, who is reporting for Yahoo News.
00:16:49.000A New York City police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will be prepared and entered into the court system before he goes to the courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.
00:16:58.000Again, it appears that he's not going to be handcuffed or put in a jail cell or subjected to a mugshot at this point.
00:17:04.000The charge of falsification of business records can be prosecuted in New York State as a misdemeanor, but Bragg bumped all of those charges to Class E felonies.
00:17:11.000That's the lowest level of felony in the New York State Penal Code, on the grounds that the conduct was intended to conceal another underlying crime.
00:17:17.000According to the source, under that New York State Penal Code, a conviction for a Class E felony of falsifying business records could result in a prison term of up to four years.
00:17:37.000Unclear whether if you are convicted of falsification of a lot of business records, the sentences run concurrently, or if Trump would get any sort of jail time.
00:17:47.000We haven't even seen the indictment yet.
00:17:49.000Trump, for his part, went on Truth Social, and he put out a statement saying, wow, District Attorney Bragg just illegally leaked the various points and complete information on a pathetic indictment against me.
00:17:58.000I know the reporter, and so, unfortunately, does he.
00:17:59.000That means he must immediately be indicted.
00:18:02.000Now, if he really wants to clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, indict himself.
00:18:06.000He'll go down in judicial history, and his Trump-hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him.
00:18:12.000That is unlikely to happen, but you know, again, not a bad talking point for Donald Trump.
00:18:19.000Trump's lawyers at the moment are opposing cameras in the courtroom.
00:18:22.000They say that it leads to a circus-like atmosphere.
00:18:25.000If you are, in fact, Trump's team, I'm surprised at this.
00:18:28.000I think that you would probably want more cameras in the courtroom because you actually don't want people Lying about what's happening inside the courtroom, if you don't trust the system.
00:18:37.000Apparently, Trump's attorney said on Monday that there is no scenario in which the Manhattan judge presiding over the ex-commander-in-chief's arraignment on Tuesday would impose a gag order.
00:18:45.000That's what Joe Tacopina told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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00:20:47.000The predictable result of all of this is that Trump has really bumped in the polls.
00:20:52.000He is supposed to speak, as I say, a little bit later tonight after the arraignment.
00:20:56.000He's going to be speaking at 8.15 tonight from Mar-a-Lago.
00:21:01.000And presumably he is going to, again, sort of hit the system very hard.
00:21:07.000This stuff is very good for Trump because Trump's entire campaign is basically they're coming after me so that they're not coming after you, right?
00:22:03.00062% of independents approved of the decision to indict Trump.
00:22:06.000Those are not great numbers if you're hoping for a general election victory for Donald Trump.
00:22:11.000The fact that 62% of the people who declare themselves independent say that they are in favor of him being legally prosecuted is probably not a great sign for his re-elect efforts in a general election.
00:22:21.000An ABC News Ipsos poll released on Sunday found 45% of Americans believe Trump should be charged with a crime.
00:23:18.000Now, none of those people are inside the Republican Party, which is, again, presumably what the Democrats want from all of this.
00:23:23.000It is not a coincidence that it is right in the middle of this.
00:23:26.000The Democrats on Monday released a 500-page op-ed drop on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:23:32.000American Bridge 21st Century, which is one of the largest tracking and research groups in progressive politics, compiled the trove.
00:23:37.000They released it as a website after spending one year gathering data on DeSantis to brand him as a quote-unquote MAGA extremist.
00:23:44.000Now, again, if you are a Democrat and you actually cared about the country and you think that Trump truly is a fascist, Hitlerian figure who is going to, if he were on the brink of victory, wreck the country, wouldn't you want somebody else to get nominated?
00:23:55.000But no, the reality is that Democrats want Trump nominated because they think he will be easy to beat, which is why you drop a 500-page oppo dump on his chief opposition inside the Republican Party in a primary, like in the middle of this news cycle.
00:24:05.000That is the only reason that you do this.
00:24:08.000Meanwhile, the Trump team is putting out ads against DeSantis as well.
00:24:10.000hoping to convince voters that DeSantis is caught up in culture wars, unfit for office, utterly unprepared for the public pressure that comes with a contentious Republican presidential primary.
00:24:18.000Meanwhile, the Trump team is putting out ads against DeSantis as well.
00:24:23.000A Trump super PAC put out an ad on DeSantis and their chief hit on DeSantis is that he is not far left enough.
00:24:28.000And this is the beauty of being Donald Trump is that you can legitimately hit everybody Nobody expects any sort of positional consistency from President Trump's campaign.
00:24:37.000So here you have President Trump's campaign smacking Ron DeSantis from the far left.
00:25:11.000Yeah, apparently our values are endless entitlement programs.
00:25:14.000That's exciting to learn inside the Republican Party, where I've spent literally my entire political career.
00:25:20.000The traditional Republican line was that entitlement programs actually do need to be restructured at a certain point because we are going to go bankrupt.
00:25:27.000Everyone literally knows this, but apparently this is now an attack ad on Ron DeSantis from Donald Trump's campaign.
00:25:33.000I say it again, it is very, very obvious who the left would like to see be the nominee.
00:26:00.000If you look at all of the available data, I would say it's a pretty unlikely thing to happen, considering that Trump has not gotten more popular since 2020.
00:26:07.000He's gotten significantly less popular since 2020 by every available public opinion poll.
00:26:11.000That doesn't mean that Trump can't win.
00:26:12.000It just means he's not super duper likely to win, which is precisely why Democrats are pushing him.
00:26:16.000So if you are a Republican, you can do two things at once.
00:26:19.000One, you can support him against a bunch of Confabulated charges against him.
00:26:27.000You should say these charges are nonsense.
00:26:28.000This appears to be a weaponization of the justice system against a person Democrats just hate when people go into office claiming they're going to prosecute people before even deciding what the crime is.
00:26:38.000That is obviously a perversion of our justice system.
00:27:56.000I agree that this what we are seeing right now in Manhattan is a travesty and it is setting the predicate for a for a true crack up in the country.
00:28:25.000Well, yesterday, literally yesterday, senior officials in the Biden administration hosted a roundtable at the White House about affirming trans kids.
00:28:33.000United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice hosted a number of trans kids and their parents on Friday to discuss efforts in some states to ban so-called sex change surgeries for minors, according to the Daily Wire.
00:28:46.000Attendees discussed the joys, hopes, and challenges associated with their supposed identities.
00:28:50.000A readout of the meeting from the White House said, quote, As one roundtable participant shared, it feels scary when the politicians elected to represent you don't care about your well-being.
00:28:57.000Families participating in today's roundtable highlighted transgender kids can thrive when parents love and affirm their trans children and when trans kids have access to the support they need at their schools and in their communities.
00:29:09.000Your your child's teacher is going to pick their agenda.
00:29:12.000Definitely we should vote based on what feels good and not based on stopping these people and their perverse agenda.
00:29:18.000Or, theoretically, we could try to stop them.
00:29:19.000It seems like trying to stop them would be a more important thing to do.
00:29:24.000How radical and insane is this agenda?
00:29:25.000Again, they're doing this in the midst of a news cycle in which a trans person, a person who is a girl who declared that she was a man, decided to murder a bunch of Christian school kids.
00:29:33.000Have you heard one statement from the White House about the targeting of Christians on the basis of hatred for biblical doctrine?
00:29:45.000Instead, what you have heard is them come out in full-scale support of the transgender agenda.
00:29:51.000And meanwhile, we are finding out that the shooter in this particular mass shooting had been preparing this thing for months.
00:30:00.000According to NBC Philadelphia, police have not established a motive for the shooting.
00:30:03.000Oh, well, it's probably a big mystery wrapped in enigma and all.
00:30:06.000Both Nashville police and the FBI continue to review writings left behind by the shooter, both in the shooter's vehicle and home.
00:30:13.000It is known that the shooter considered the actions of other mass murderers according to the police.
00:30:17.000They know perfectly well what is happening here.
00:30:23.000I'm generally in favor of not saying the names of shooters, which is why I still have not said the name of the shooter.
00:30:27.000I'm also in favor, generally, of not releasing the manifestos of shooters.
00:30:29.000But it doesn't work in the sense that if you are going to release manifestos from one side but not manifestos from the other side in order to shield the political agenda of one side, that's not how any of this is supposed to work.
00:30:40.000What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
00:30:42.000It has to be one rule for everyone when it comes to these manifestos.
00:30:46.000And there's a reason they're not releasing this manifesto yet, and I think we all know what that reason is.
00:30:50.000And it's because the White House is pushing the same ideological agenda that boys can become girls and that it is an act of quote-unquote genocide to deny that.
00:30:58.000That presumably is what the shooter in this particular case thought, and that's an uncomfortable thing for the media and for the left to have to deal with.
00:31:06.000Meanwhile, the entire culture is pushing it.
00:31:07.000It's not literally the entire culture.
00:31:08.000Wall to wall is pushing the same absurd agenda.
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00:33:25.000It is the most influential book in all of history and hopefully people can walk away with at least a sense of that.
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00:33:44.000Okay, meanwhile, one of the things that is driving me absolutely up a wall is the fact that as we have these contentious and important political battles about, say, Trump being indicted in New York, the left continues its steady cultural march in favor of true radicalism.
00:33:56.000This is a target-rich environment for conservatives if they can actually chew gum and walk at the exact same time.
00:34:03.000As we've been talking about, Bud Light has made Dylan Mulvaney, a man who pretends to be a little girl and dresses up as Audrey Hepburn, one of their brand spokespeople.
00:34:15.000In a statement shared with Fox News, the brand now says that the collaboration was designed to quote, authentically connect with audiences.
00:34:20.000The statement added, quote, from time to time, We produce unique commemorative cans for brand influencers like Dylan Mulvaney.
00:34:25.000This commemorative can was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone.
00:34:29.000Dylan Mulvaney spending 365 days pretending to be a woman, which is just, it's incredible.
00:34:37.000Again, the woke bosses, the corporate bosses, they hate their customers and they want to change their customers.
00:34:42.000They believe that their customers are a bunch of united fools and they need to be ushered into a new era.
00:34:47.000We have reached the point where elite major institutions no longer fear market competition enough to actually have to subject themselves to the desires of their customers.
00:34:56.000If you think that the average Bud Light customer, in other words, 95% male and almost 100% non-trans, We think they're desperately clamoring for Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson or brand influencer.
00:35:10.000But this got pitched inside the halls of Bud Light and they figured, OK, well, we'll get some earned media out of it and probably people will drink our piss water if we do this.
00:35:16.000And there's no way that conservatives will stop drinking it because conservatives are too stupid to actually stop drinking this sort of stuff.
00:36:34.000So you wouldn't think that the CMT Music Awards would be like the chief place where you would expect to see all sorts of trans propaganda.
00:36:46.000And yet that is precisely what happened at the CMT Music Awards in Austin, Texas.
00:36:52.000According to the Los Angeles Times, Kelsey Ballerini drew heat and praise Sunday night after featuring all-star drag queens from RuPaul's Drag Race during a colorful performance at the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
00:37:03.000The Peter Pan and This Feeling singer, who also co-hosted the fan-voted country music awards show, sang her new ride-or-die best friend anthem, If You Go Down, I'm Going Down Too, backed by a quartet of drag race stars dressed as glam mid-century housewives.
00:37:15.000Because there's nothing quite like not only promoting the idea that men can be women, women can be men, and that it is an act of good for men to dress as women and prance about in ridiculously parodic fashion.
00:37:25.000But also, you have to hijack all of the imagery from the 1950s and then use it against Americans.
00:37:30.000That's the most important thing, is to hijack American history and then trans-American history.
00:37:35.000That's the thing that's really important for a largely white, rural, conservative, and Christian audience.
00:37:40.000This is what was happening at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday night.
00:37:43.000Again, they will not stop until every aspect of the culture has been taken over.
00:38:16.000According to the Los Angeles Times, the live performance made quite the statement amid a brewing debate over anti-LGBTQ legislation in Ballerini's home state of Tennessee.
00:38:24.000With this year's CMT Awards taking place at the Moody Center in Austin, Ballerini appeared emboldened to broadcast her political stance while she is- What a heroine.
00:38:45.000The people who run these corporations hate their audience.
00:38:48.000The very people they are supposed to cater to.
00:38:50.000They think that you are a benighted homophobe who hates trans people, and you're a garbage person, and therefore you have to be preached to by the stars of RuPaul's Drag Race, our great moral exemplars in Western civilization.
00:39:01.000The people, the most brave people, we have been told by the White House, are people who believe they're members of the opposite sex.
00:39:47.000This week I was incredibly fortunate to get to meet six young people who agreed to come and share their stories with us.
00:39:54.000And also to have a conversation about allyship and the people in their lives who have shown up for them and made a positive impact on their lives and their journeys.
00:40:03.000I'm excited to share that conversation with you.
00:40:06.000I would love to talk to you all if you're, depending on how much you want to say, but, like, I'd love to know about all your journeys and, like, discovering who you are.
00:40:15.000And I'd also like to talk about some people in your life that may have helped or that you see as an ally in some way.
00:40:39.000And by the way, Daniel Radcliffe is a superhero because the person who actually made him famous, J.K.
00:40:42.000Rowling, for writing the Harry Potter series actually believes that girls can become boys and boys cannot become girls because she is still more connected to reality than the actor who reads all of the words on the screen.
00:41:34.000It's ritualistic obeisance to an entire worldview.
00:41:37.000And the more ridiculous they can make you, the more ridiculously and deeply they can make you bow, the more they will have achieved victory.
00:41:44.000And they have achieved total political victory, by the way.
00:41:46.000It's certainly internationally on the left.
00:41:48.000Matt Walsh's question, what is woman, has completely broken the brains of people on left because it turns out that they actually can't defend any of their actual positions.
00:41:56.000Here, for example, is the New Zealand Prime Minister being asked what a woman is and being utterly confused by the most obvious question in human history.
00:42:03.000How do you and how does this government define a woman?
00:42:07.000To be honest, Sean, that question's come slightly out of left field for me.
00:42:57.000Yes, even reality itself must be disturbed by the predations of the left.
00:43:02.000In just one second, we'll get to the latest on the economy.
00:43:06.000Because here's the thing, real things are happening in the world!
00:43:08.000We're all focused in on what makes us feel good about voting, what makes us feel good about politics.
00:43:12.000How about we win some victories against bad agendas?
00:43:14.000We'll get to more on that in a moment.
00:43:16.000First, it is difficult to trust anything or anyone these days.
00:43:18.000Literally, our politicians can't define the word woman.
00:43:21.000And we're supposed to take them seriously?
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00:44:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, McDonald's has temporarily closed its US...
00:44:29.000offices this week and has started informing corporate employees about layoffs being made as part of a broader company restructuring.
00:44:35.000Some McDonald's workers began to hear about the fate of their jobs on Monday.
00:44:37.000The company's corporate vice president of insurance said he was informed on Monday his position was being eliminated and he was leaving the company after 20 years.
00:44:44.000McDonald's is laying off hundreds of corporate employees this week, according to people familiar with the McDonald's plan.
00:44:50.000The Chicago-based fast food chain sent an internal email last week to U.S.
00:44:53.000employees and some international staff that should work from home Monday through Wednesday so they can basically fire people.
00:45:01.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, remember that time that he said that the Saudis were the worst people on earth and that we should punish them and that they're just awful?
00:45:08.000And then the Saudis went across the street to the Chinese?
00:45:10.000And then you remember right before the election, the midterm elections, Joe Biden went over there and begged them We really, truly begged them to up their oil supply, and they're like, nah dude, not interested anymore.
00:45:21.000Well now, because of the Biden administration's idiotic actions in the Middle East, Saudi has addressed some sort of mild rapprochement with Iran, brokered by China.
00:45:31.000And they're punishing the United States by cutting their oil production, which helps, wait for it, China and Russia.
00:45:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a Saudi Arabia-led production cut vaulted crude prices 6.3% higher Monday in their steepest one-day increase in more than a year.
00:45:43.000But with oil markets facing a host of challenges, including a possible recession, only the most bullish analysts see prices touching $100 a barrel soon.
00:45:49.000So again, the fact that the economy is sinking is the only thing that is keeping the oil from truly spiking through the roof right now.
00:45:58.000The swing's out of complication for central bankers balancing the need to tackle inflation with worries about the health of the banking system.
00:46:03.000If crude prices continue to rise, they're likely to feed into higher gasoline bills for drivers, which boosts inflation, which in turn is going to generate higher interest rates, which in turn is going to generate more economic recession, presumably.
00:46:15.000Apparently, the production caught by the Saudi-led group showcased how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is increasingly giving priority to a nationalist energy policy over U.S.
00:46:23.000Why, almost as though this idiotic administration alienated one of our chief sources of energy, and we are now feeling the cost of that.
00:46:34.000Why, it's, again, well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of Joe Biden's own stupid actions.
00:46:40.000Fareed Zakaria, writing at the Washington Post, is now positing the possibility that Russia, China, Brazil are actually going to form an alternative to the United States dollar as the world currency.
00:46:52.000According to Zakaria, the dollar is America's superpower.
00:46:54.000It gives Washington unrivaled economic and political muscle.
00:46:57.000The United States can slap sanctions on countries unilaterally, freezing them out of large parts of the world economy.
00:47:01.000When Washington spends freely, it can be certain its debt, usually in the form of T-bills, will be bought up by the rest of the world.
00:47:08.000However, however, the dollar may be in a bit of trouble.
00:47:13.000So Zakaria says the dollar dominance is firmly entrenched for a lot of good reasons.
00:47:16.000A globalized economy needs a single currency for ease and efficiency.
00:47:21.000That's why China's efforts to expand the yuan's role internationally have not worked.
00:47:24.000Again, the Chinese economy is not particularly stable, but.
00:47:28.000There are a lot of countries that are starting to diversify a little bit away from the dollar.
00:47:32.000The share of dollars in global central bank reserves has dropped from 70% 20 years ago to less than 60% today and falling steadily.
00:47:38.000The Europeans and Chinese are trying to build international payment systems outside of the SWIFT system so they can avoid sanctions.
00:47:43.000Saudi Arabia has flirted with the idea of pricing its oil in yuan.
00:47:47.000India is settling most of its oil purchases from Russia in non-dollar currencies.
00:47:51.000Digital currencies might be another alternative.
00:47:54.000Again, as you sink the American economy, and as you break all the ties that bind you to allies, it turns out that they look elsewhere for economic help, and that actually has some real consequences for the American economy.
00:48:05.000The good news is that the left continues to be completely disconnected from actual economic reality, which is kind of the story of every Ezra Klein column over at the New York Times.
00:48:14.000So he has a piece over at the New York Times called The Problem with Everything Bagel Liberalism, talking about how you can't go for everything, everywhere, all at once, essentially.
00:48:22.000And even though he is saying that you can't pursue, say, DEI and economic growth at the same time, he tries to pretend that you actually can.
00:48:32.000He talks with Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce, about the fact that, for example, in trying to generate American-made microchips, Forcing companies that are going to create factories over here to have, say, childcare is an idiotic thing.
00:48:46.000That's not something the American taxpayer should be overly concerned about.
00:48:48.000If it's a national security issue, you just fund the making of the chips, not the childcare or the diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives associated with forcing companies to do those things.
00:49:00.000Every one of those requirements, or they're not really requirements, are for factors or criteria we think relate directly to the effectiveness of the project.
00:49:08.000The unemployment rate in the building trades is basically zero.
00:49:10.000If you don't find a way to attract women to become builders and pipefitters and welders, you won't be successful.
00:49:14.000You have to be thinking about childcare.
00:49:17.000So, Raimondo is now suggesting that we have to spend more money on less competitive workers in order to boost the economy, When Klein pointed out that this costs us more money, she said, I was thinking too narrowly.
00:49:30.000Quote, I consider it a fact that a more diverse workforce is a more productive workforce.
00:49:33.000Well, you may consider it a fact, but it is not true.
00:49:35.000I'm sorry that there is no evidence whatsoever that simple diversity is the key factor in productivity.
00:50:29.000One of them is that guns were to blame and therefore you can't have more guns at schools in order to protect against people who are attempting to murder school children.
00:50:37.000And two is that trans people are actually the victims when a trans identifying person murders a bunch of school kids.
00:50:42.000When it comes to narrative number one, the left has taken the bizarre position that it's a bad idea to have armed guards at schools.
00:50:47.000Dana Bash tried to make that point to Dan Crenshaw and it didn't go amazing for her.
00:51:42.000Big controversy has now erupted because apparently people watched a women's basketball game.
00:51:47.000So first of all, congratulations to women's basketball on people finally watching a women's basketball game.
00:51:52.000Presumably a lot of that has to do with the ESPN was really featuring the female NCAA tournament heavily, like more than the actual men's NCAA tournament on their homepage, for example.
00:52:02.000And so people actually watched the final four in the women's NCAA tournament.
00:52:11.000One is a woman named Caitlin Clark, who plays for Iowa.
00:52:13.000And the other is a woman named Angel Rees, who plays for LSU.
00:52:16.000These were the two teams that faced off in the NCAA Finals.
00:52:20.000And the LSU Tigers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 to win their first national championship program.
00:52:26.000But that's not where the controversy was.
00:52:27.000The controversy is then in Caitlin Clark, who's a very good player apparently.
00:52:31.000She, in an earlier, again, I wouldn't know these people from Adam because I don't watch women's basketball because I would rather stick my face in an oven.
00:52:39.000But in any case, Caitlin Clark, she was apparently playing a little bit earlier in the tournament and at a certain point she taunted an opposing player by doing the John Cena Hand gesture.
00:52:55.000John Cena apparently does this hand gesture in front of his face that you can't see me.
00:53:16.000And here is Angel Reese, then responding to the end of the game.
00:53:18.000And Angel Reese does the you-can't-see-me motion to Kaitlyn Clark near the end of the victory, and also points to her ring finger, suggesting, I just won a national championship, and you did not.
00:53:32.000And everyone went nuts on Angel Reese.
00:53:34.000A lot of people went crazy on Angel Reese, talking about how it was disrespectful and terrible.
00:54:08.000Like, there were a bunch of people who got really, really upset about all of this stuff.
00:54:11.000And because they got upset about this stuff, because apparently they didn't realize that Caitlin Clarke had done it earlier in the tournament, or they didn't like that this happened after the game or something, this, of course, prompted spasms of apoplexy.
00:54:21.000Because if you got upset about it, this meant you were a racist.
00:54:23.000So, I'm annoyed with everyone on all sides of this particular stupid issue.
00:54:27.000Here was Stephen A. Smith torching the backlash to the Angel Reese taunt.
00:54:32.000We all know that there's a white-black issue here.
00:54:35.000Because the fact of the matter is, when Caitlyn did it, people were celebrating it.
00:54:39.000And they were talking about nothing but her greatness.
00:54:42.000But then the second a sister stepped up and threw it back in her face, now you got half the basketball world saying, well you know what, that's not the classiest thing to do.
00:54:52.000And the fact that that hasn't been brought up tells us a lot about our society as a whole.
00:54:58.000Yes, Shanae Ogumike is not taking it there.
00:55:02.000You know exactly what the hell you're doing as people when you want to bring up how Angel Reese acted, but you don't want to bring up how Caitlyn Clark acted.
00:55:12.000Okay, so do I think that it's racism that people think that there is a slight difference?
00:55:16.000I mean, it does look like there's a slight difference there.
00:55:17.000Do I think that Angel reached in anything wrong in doing that?
00:55:24.000Trash talking in sports is kind of a thing.
00:55:26.000It's been a rather large thing in sports since Muhammad Ali was doing it.
00:55:29.000I mean, going back to like the early 1960s.
00:55:32.000So I'm not sure exactly why we are supposed to be shocked or appalled by anything that happened right here.
00:55:37.000The only thing that I find shocking and appalling is Joe Biden.
00:55:39.000So Joe Biden, who is, of course, the greatest doctor in American history, On Monday, she said that she wanted to invite the Iowa women's basketball team also to the White House, as well as LSU.
00:55:48.000Which, by the way, is so unbelievably toned up.
00:55:50.000So the Iowa team is largely white, and the LSU team is largely black.
00:55:53.000And so a lot of black fans of the LSU team are like, what the hell?
00:55:57.000Like, if the races were reversed, would Jill Biden be inviting the other team also to the White House?
00:56:01.000Is it going to be a beer summit, exactly?
00:56:42.000Speaking of unpleasant, one final thing that I hate.
00:56:44.000So Colin Kaepernick, a person who just will not go away because obviously he has to make a living somehow.
00:56:49.000He has now decided that the best way to make a living is to go full Prince Harry and just rip on his family.
00:56:54.000So the white family that adopted him, raised him, it gave him every privilege and allowed him to become a successful athlete.
00:57:00.000until he actually turned out to not be a very good football player and got benched for the immortal Blaine Gabbert and then knelt and became a national hero because that's how you become a national hero in America. Well now he is doing the I hate my parents tour, which is rather teenage of him. Here he was talking about how he had trouble calling out his white parents when they were being problematic. How about this dude? They gave you literally everything. They are your parents and this is utterly classless and gross. It is very difficult for people to have a
00:57:29.000nuance conversation around it. Yeah, I.
00:57:34.000Yeah, the people that love you and that you love can also perpetuate very problematic elements.