Trump crushes CNN's Kaitlyn Collins in a CNN town hall style debate, and it was the best night in the primary that Donald Trump has had in this primary, period. Trump is a creature who thrives on opposition, and Donald Trump is the guy who you want to bet on him in a fight mainly because he s crazy and might hit somebody with a kitchen sink. CNN needs Donald Trump to be the nominee, because when Republicans see Donald Trump being oppositional, and when he s faced with an oppositional person like Caitlyn Collins, Republicans resonate to that. And that s the dynamic that played out in full force last night, and you can see this: Donald Trump was super happy about going on CNN. Why did Donald Trump do it? Because he knows that the thing that makes people love him is the fact that he will just deliver a roundhouse, wild, flailing punch to somebody out of left field, using whatever is at his disposal. And the Republicans cheer if they don t like that person enough. And that was the dynamic played out last night on CNN, which means there s a lot of kayfabe going on, and that s a good thing for CNN, because they re going to get some fantastic Trump ratings like none other. And they re in serious trouble, and they need Donald Trump in order to survive in 2020, which is why they need him to be their nominee. and they want him to win the nomination, which could be a disaster for them or it could be the beginning of a new era of fake news, right here in New Hampshire, right? Let's see what s going to happen tonight, shall we? Tweet me what you think of it! Timestamps: 5:00 - What did you think? 6:30 - Is this a good night for Donald Trump on CNN? 7:15 - Is it a disaster or a disaster? 8:00 9:20 - What s going on with CNN s ratings? 11:40 - Does he really have a chance to win in 2020? 15:35 - Can he be the nomination? 16: Does he have a shot at it? 17: Is he a good presidential candidate? 18:00- Is he really running for president? 19:00 -- Is he running for President in 2020 or not? 21:30 -- Can he run for President? 22:10 - Is he going to be a serious contender?
00:00:00.000Well, last night was Donald Trump's big town hall on CNN.
00:00:03.000There was a lot of consternation at the halls of CNN over having Trump on in the first place.
00:00:07.000About a year and a half ago, CNN was saying they would not have anybody on who had been an election denier.
00:00:12.000Anybody who said that there was a rigged election in 2020 was not welcome on the airwaves at CNN.
00:00:16.000Chris Licht came in, the new head of CNN.
00:00:18.000He said, we're going to open this thing up and we're going to allow broader conversations.
00:00:21.000But there was one problem for CNN last night.
00:00:23.000When they had Donald Trump on, they did not Not prepare Caitlyn Collins.
00:00:27.000Not only was Caitlyn Collins not really prepared, Caitlyn Collins came at the entire event from the wrong angle and Donald Trump just steamrolled her.
00:00:34.000It was the best night that Donald Trump has had in this primary, period.
00:00:38.000It was the best day that he's had in this primary, period.
00:00:40.000It was better than the day that he went to Ohio and he spoke with all the people who had been affected by the train crash.
00:01:04.000It's like, but it's a cartoon, so he can't.
00:01:06.000He just pulls out the jackhammer, just goes to town.
00:01:08.000Hey, that is Donald Trump in a debate.
00:01:10.000And so when Republicans see Donald Trump being oppositional, and when he's faced with an oppositional person like Caitlyn Collins, Republicans resonate to that.
00:01:18.000Now, does that mean that Donald Trump has a better shot of winning in a general election because he can beat up Caitlyn Collins on CNN over election stuff?
00:01:25.000No, but it does make Republicans really, really happy, which means there's a lot of kayfabe going on last night.
00:01:32.000Kayfabe is the WWE sort of fake conflict that's going on.
00:01:48.000And CNN needs Donald Trump to be the nominee, because CNN, ever since Donald Trump has been president, When he left the presidency, CNN's ratings took a nosedive.
00:02:05.000Donald Trump was super happy about going on CNN.
00:02:06.000Now, if you are normally, you know, a Republican, you look at the Republican candidates, the first rule of Republican politics is don't walk into a rigged interview.
00:02:17.000Don't put yourself in a position where you're going to be asked a bunch of ridiculously biased questions, and then the media is going to cut it up and use it for campaign ads on behalf of the Democrats.
00:02:27.000He knows that the thing that makes people love him, I think rightly, the thing that makes people love him is the fact that he will just deliver a roundhouse, wild, flailing punch to somebody out of left field, using whatever is at his disposal.
00:02:41.000Again, just pick up a frying pan off the counter, pick up a toaster and just smack somebody with it.
00:02:45.000And the Republicans cheer if they don't like that person enough.
00:02:58.000I'll be doing CNN tonight, live from the great state of New Hampshire, because CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic Trump ratings back.
00:03:08.000They were ratings like none other, and they want them back.
00:03:13.000They made me a deal I couldn't refuse.
00:03:15.000Could be the beginning of a new and vibrant CNN with no more fake news, or it could be a total disaster for all, including me.
00:03:24.000Let's see what happens tonight at 8 o'clock.
00:03:27.000Okay, that's the exact same problem he would do if he was actually wrestling in WWE.
00:04:13.000The missing documents from the National Archives.
00:04:15.000Alvin Bragg's allegations about campaign finance and Stormy Daniels.
00:04:18.000That's just a small list of things that Republican primary voters do not give any crap about at all.
00:04:24.000Here's a list of things that Republican voters probably care about.
00:04:27.000If you're talking about Donald Trump, why did Donald Trump appoint Anthony Fauci and then listen to him throughout the pandemic while condemning both Ron DeSantis and Brian Kemp for reopening their states?
00:04:36.000Why did Donald Trump do criminal justice reform at the behest of Kim Kardashian in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots?
00:04:42.000These are questions that, like, if you want to ask a tough question of Trump, these would be the tough questions.
00:04:46.000On the election fraud argument, President Trump, if you believe that the 2020 election was fraudulent, what would you do to reverse that result other than saying things about it on Truth Social?
00:05:03.000If you think it was stolen, how do you stop from being stolen again?
00:05:06.000If you say, I'm up in the polls, well, so what?
00:05:08.000The polls aren't the election and you say the election was stolen last time.
00:05:11.000So how do you, like, these are questions that I think every Republican wants to know the answers to because those go to, should I vote for you or should I vote for the other Republican?
00:05:18.000So what did Caitlin Collins ask last night?
00:05:51.000He turned her into like the Judge Doom pancake.
00:05:54.000And to the cheers of Republican audiences and to the lament of many on the Democratic side of the aisle, because here's the thing.
00:06:01.000Democrats, they have two conflicting wishes.
00:06:03.000One, they want Trump to be nominated because they think he's eminently beatable.
00:06:06.000And two, they really hate Trump and they want to see him clocked.
00:06:09.000But the thing is, the way that you are going to clock Trump if you are a Democrat is not by asking him about all the things you already hate him about.
00:06:17.000You're going to have to ask him something new.
00:06:19.000You're going to actually have to, if you're going to fact check him the way that Caitlin Collins is trying to, you actually have to be prepared for him to do what he does, which is say a thing and not really care about how true it is.
00:06:27.000You're actually going to have to play a video of him, right?
00:06:29.000If you're Caitlin Collins, this is just from the interviewer's perspective.
00:06:32.000If you're going to do a fact check, the way that you do that typically is you do what Jonathan Swan has done, right?
00:06:36.000So what Jonathan Swan, the reporter, has done with many people he's talked to is he will ask them a question.
00:06:43.000And then he says, OK, let's roll the tape.
00:06:44.000And then he rolls the tape and it shows that they're saying precisely the reverse five seconds ago.
00:06:48.000But Caitlin Collins didn't do any of that.
00:06:49.000So instead, she just looked flustered as Donald Trump ran right over her.
00:06:52.000We're going to get to the clips of this because it was a very successful night for Donald Trump in the primaries.
00:06:56.000How that impacts the general election is anybody's guess, because again, that goes back to, is Donald Trump a super electable candidate?
00:07:02.000Or is he just sort of the alternative to the dead man who's really bad at his job in the White House right now?
00:07:07.000We'll get to all this in a second, because again, the best quality of Trump is his aggressiveness, and that was on full display last night.
00:07:13.000I mean, that was an aggressive performance by President Trump.
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00:09:21.000He's getting a standing O before he even sits down in a Republican, in a Republican primary town hall event.
00:09:27.000Now, again, this is like the best thing for him because he's not going to be asked about anything that Republicans care about.
00:09:33.000He's going to be asked, as we'll see, about only issues Democrats care about, and then he is just going to hit Caitlyn Collins over and over and over and over.
00:09:43.000Now, imagine this were another candidate, say it was Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley.
00:09:47.000All the questions, presumably, would be about things that many Republicans actually do care about.
00:09:51.000If it were Ron DeSantis, then what you'd be getting are questions about COVID.
00:09:55.000You've been getting questions about him taking on Disney.
00:09:57.000You've been getting questions on policy.
00:09:59.000For Trump, it's all about Donald Trump personally.
00:10:01.000And Republicans, when Donald Trump is attacked personally, they take it personally because they understand that Democrats have no standards on this crap.
00:10:08.000That Democrats are perfectly willing to allow Democrats to get away with anything.
00:10:11.000That the same Caitlyn Collins, who asks Donald Trump about E. Jean Carroll's allegation that he raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf, that that same exact Caitlyn Collins will never ask Joe Biden about Tara Reade.
00:10:26.000Tara Reade alleged something very similar about Joe Biden, in what I think is a significantly more credible fashion.
00:10:32.000And yet, that apparently is of no consequence.
00:10:34.000So when people go after Trump on the personal sort of stuff, on the personal conduct sort of stuff, everybody on the right's like, that's all baked into the cake.
00:10:56.000And Trump then claims that the election was rigged.
00:10:59.000And then she, instead of saying, I want, like, specifics, and then saying, okay, here's a tape of, like, if you're gonna go this way, right, if you're gonna go this way, you better have the receipts.
00:11:08.000And her just arguing with him, it turns into a he said, she said, whatever, they're all saying things, and then the attitude is what matters more than anything.
00:11:16.000You either come with the receipts or you don't come with the receipts.
00:11:18.000So here's Caitlyn Collins versus Trump on the quote-unquote rigged election.
00:11:22.000If you look at the FBI and Twitter, they call it Twitter files.
00:12:03.000Like, just as the moderator, you should be prepared for that sort of thing, should you not?
00:12:07.000By the way, what he's saying at the very end there is not even true, okay?
00:12:08.000I know Katherine Engelbrecht, at Truth or Vote, we had her on the show when 2000 Mules came out, and she explained that that's not even what she was alleging.
00:12:16.000Okay, so what he's saying there is actually not true, but she doesn't know how to fact-check him because she actually hasn't studied the issue because she didn't take it seriously in the first place.
00:12:36.000I don't think that voter fraud decided the 2020 election.
00:12:38.000I think Trump lost, but that does not actually mean that the election wasn't rigged.
00:12:43.000When you bar stories from coming out in the month before the election through a series of bullcrap maneuvers, using the federal government and the Joe Biden campaign to issue statements about Hunter Biden's laptop, that they're Russian disinformation, and you launder that into public view using the mechanisms of government, that's super duper corrupt!
00:13:00.000When you talk about changing all the voting rules, when you have major social media companies shutting down entire news media accounts, when you have attempts to actively Fund ballot harvesting in major states.
00:13:14.000When you do all that, of course that changes the course of the election.
00:13:16.000Of course it's rigged in sort of an informal sense.
00:13:36.000I really, really hope that you've changed those recently.
00:13:38.000But I mean like the brand of underwear that you are wearing or the pairs of underwear you have in your drawer.
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00:14:47.000This is a Democrat question from a Democrat moderator for a Democrat audience, but in front of, in a room, a very friendly to Trump Republican audience.
00:14:55.000How do you think that's going to go over?
00:14:57.000Even the question means that the audience is begging for Trump to put Caitlyn Collins through a wall, and that's what he does right here.
00:15:01.000Do you have any regrets about your actions on January 6th?
00:15:07.000Well, you know, January 6 was again, we go back to it.
00:15:10.000But January 6 had to do with the fact that hundreds of thousands of people and you don't see the pictures very often.
00:15:17.000A lot of the people here probably were there January 6.
00:15:20.000It was the largest crowd I've ever spoken to.
00:15:23.000That was prior to the walk down to the Capitol building.
00:15:27.000I don't think and I've spoken to hundreds of thousands of people.
00:15:30.000I've never spoken to a crowd as large as this.
00:15:33.000And that was because they thought the election was rigged.
00:16:19.000They pledged to CNN audiences what CNN audiences expected, which is Caitlyn Collins will get Trump in the crosshairs and then go for the kill.
00:16:25.000And instead, Trump just walked all over her.
00:16:35.000Like the best ratings that they have had in probably three years.
00:16:38.000Okay, there was a point last night, again, when we're talking about Trump walking all over Caitlyn Collins.
00:16:41.000So she says, you waited three hours to say anything about people who are storming the Capitol.
00:16:45.000But Trump, because Trump is, again, very good at this, Trump then proceeds to take out of his pocket a full timeline of his activities, January 5th and January 6th, and then read it to her.
00:21:08.000After CNN finished asking Trump about election 2020 and January 6th, then they moved on to other issues of vital importance to Republican voters like E. Jean Carroll.
00:21:16.000Now, I understand Kaitlin Collins has to ask Trump about this.
00:21:19.000There was a verdict yesterday in a civil case in which Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse or sexual touching.
00:21:29.000And for defamation, but not for rape and all of this.
00:21:31.000I understand she has to ask him, but if you think this is like top of mind for Republican voters, you're out of your mind.
00:21:35.000Republican voters don't think of this as top of mind at all.
00:21:38.000In fact, most Republican voters see the E. Jean Carroll allegations in the same way that I do.
00:21:43.000By the way, I think most reasonable people see those allegations in the same way that I do, which is they came 30 years after the fact.
00:21:49.000Every verifiable detail had been obscured by E. Jean Carroll.
00:21:53.000The trial really was about you don't like Donald Trump and you don't like him, but grab him by the comment.
00:21:58.000That was the thing that the trial was really about.
00:22:02.000So, she doesn't just go after Trump on this, and Trump gets really aggressive.
00:22:25.000My poll numbers went up and they went up with the other fake charge, too, because what's happening is they're doing this for election interference.
00:22:50.000She was a sex advice columnist back in the 1990s.
00:22:53.000And then, as we played yesterday on the show, she literally went on CNN after the allegations about Trump and she said, I think most people find rape sexy.
00:22:59.000What in the actual... So here was Donald Trump going after her.
00:24:45.000said if you're famous the audience already said but I said of your star you
00:24:51.000are and I said women let you I didn't say you grip I said women let you know
00:24:56.000you didn't use that word but if you look women let you now they said will you
00:25:01.000take that back I said look for a million years this is the way it's been
00:25:06.000I want to be honest, this is the way it's been.
00:25:09.000I can take it back if you'd like to, but if you're a famous person, if you're a star, and I'm not referring to myself, I'm saying people that are famous, people that are stars, people that are rich, people that are powerful, they tend to do pretty well in a lot of different ways, okay?
00:26:38.000Okay, but this is why I say CNN had a goal.
00:26:41.000Raise the ratings, make Caitlyn Collins a hero because she asked Trump difficult questions, and three, make sure that Trump is the nominee because it raises the ratings and makes Caitlyn Collins a hero.
00:26:50.000So they actually achieved it for all of the consternation that the left is feeling today.
00:28:02.000And when he talks about the fact that Democrats just keep spending and spending and spending, I think most Americans actually resonate to that.
00:28:07.000Then he was asked about guns and he again said the correct thing.
00:28:10.000He said it's a mental health problem that we're talking about here, not really a guns problem.
00:28:14.000Here was Trump on the Second Amendment.
00:28:16.000With gun violence and mass shootings in the news cycle recently, I'm worried that state governments and the federal government are going to act to repress gun rights.
00:28:23.000Under your administration, you instructed the Department of Justice and the ATF to ban bump stocks.
00:28:28.000If elected president again, how would you act not only to defend our Second Amendment rights, but to restore rights that have been taken from us, such as, by example, recently the ATF's ruling on the pistol stabilizing braces?
00:28:39.000As you know, the bump socks are actually a very unimportant thing.
00:28:43.000And NRA, I went with them and they said it doesn't mean anything.
00:28:46.000Or actually, all they do is teach you how to shoot very inaccurately.
00:29:16.000But, you know, again, not a bad answer.
00:29:19.000I consider the other side to be radical because the other side under Roe v. Wade and other things, the other side, they're radical because they will remember the debate with Hillary Clinton.
00:29:29.000They said rip the baby out of the womb at the end of the ninth month.
00:29:33.000They will kill the baby In the ninth month.
00:29:36.000If you look at that crazy governor of Virginia from the former governor, where he said, no, the baby will be born and then we'll decide essentially whether or not to execute the baby.
00:29:45.000But Mr. President, can we talk about what you would do if you are re-elected?
00:29:48.000It's not the pro-life people that are radical.
00:29:50.000But if you are re-elected and you're back in the Oval Office and you get legislation to your desk, would you sign a federal abortion ban into law?
00:29:57.000What I'll do is negotiate so that people are happy.
00:29:59.000They could kill the baby in the ninth month or after the baby was born.
00:30:05.000But I think this is a really important question for you to answer because this is something every Republican, including those who are running against you for the nomination, are being asked about is would you sign a federal abortion ban into law?
00:30:15.000And many of them are going to give you the same answer as I. I am, first of all, I am honored to have done what I did.
00:30:21.000And a lot of people said, they said in 150 years, he's now the most consequential president because he saved so many lives.
00:30:32.000OK, and this is a very good answer on abortion.
00:30:33.000It's actually, I thought that just in policy terms, that was Trump's best answer of the night.
00:30:39.000And so the combination of Trump knocking people through walls and actually giving some solid answers on, for example, the Second Amendment and abortion, that was good.
00:30:47.000His answer, he was asked about Ukraine as well, and he played the game where he said, I'll end the war in Ukraine tomorrow.
00:30:53.000But again, that's what many people want to hear.
00:30:57.000The question, however, is going to be on these issues, right?
00:31:00.000If Trump ran on these issues, I've said this before, if Trump ran, On the platform.
00:31:04.000Things were better when I was president, and here's how I will handle the current slate of issues.
00:31:08.000Then he has an actual shot of beating Joe Biden in an election.
00:31:12.000If the campaign is on the first hour of the Caitlin Collins content, he wins the primary and he has a real problem in the general.
00:31:18.000Here was Donald Trump on Ukraine yesterday.
00:31:21.000The current administration has made it clear that we should continue to provide military equipment to Ukraine so that they can defend themselves.
00:31:29.000Do you support this decision and how would you deal with the increasing threat posed by Vladimir Putin?
00:32:18.000He was, you know, he was not asked to sort of dig down into what he meant by any of this stuff.
00:32:23.000All the serious questions, all the sort of adversarial stuff was reserved mainly for all the personal stuff, which, again, is the stuff that Republicans want to see Trump hit back on.
00:32:30.000And that all ended with Donald Trump basically doing what you knew Donald Trump was going to do at a certain point.
00:32:35.000He just turned to Caitlyn Collins and to the hoots and applause of the crowd, called her a nasty person.
00:33:44.000They needed to get Trump off the air because he was just beating Kate and Collins up so bad.
00:33:48.000OK, we'll get to the fallout from all of this in just one second, because there's fallout for Democrats who are very upset with CNN and upset that Trump has had the spotlight.
00:33:57.000And then there's the fallout for Republicans, because again, anything that elevates Trump means it's more likely that he will be the nominee.
00:34:03.000So what does that actually look like in practice?
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00:36:23.000I think the answer is there's some internal conflict over there.
00:36:26.000Joe Scarborough, who's had himself a very rich history with Donald Trump, including
00:36:30.000you'll remember during 2016, hosting Donald Trump regularly on MSNBC, including to watch,
00:36:35.000you know, various debates and involve himself in various events.
00:36:38.000And then he turned against him because Donald Trump was actually Hitler, which was weird because he was in the room with him five seconds ago.
00:36:42.000Well, now Joe Scarborough is comparing that town hall to January 6th, which I've been informed by reliable sources, like Joe Scarborough, was the worst thing ever to happen in the United States.
00:36:51.000It was just it was a disgraceful performance.
00:36:56.000I'm constantly telling people not to catastrophize over Trump that he's actually going to lose because he keeps drilling down deeper and deeper into his base.
00:37:11.000But it is, I can't believe I'm going to use catastrophizing language here.
00:37:20.000But it was just, it was disgraceful on every level.
00:37:24.000What I saw last night at least was as chilling as anything I've seen on television since January the 6th.
00:37:35.000And then there's a list of all the terrible, evil, very bad things that Donald Trump said that he puts up there, including the fact that he said that Caitlyn Collins is a nasty person.
00:37:46.000Meanwhile, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the irrepressibly stupid congresswoman from New York City, she tweeted out, CNN should be ashamed of themselves.
00:37:53.000They've lost total control of this town hall to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of January 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.
00:38:01.000The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.
00:38:05.000Everyone here saw exactly what was going to happen.
00:38:07.000Instead, they put a sexual abuse victim in harm's way for views.
00:38:11.000This was a choice to platform lies about the election and January 6th with no plan but to have their moderator interrupted without consequence.
00:38:16.000Now again, of course that was going to happen because this program was directed at Democrats.
00:38:29.000Instead, they asked him about stuff that AOC cares about, and then she's unhappy that Donald Trump didn't, like, crumble into a quivering ball of sadness in the corner, crying to himself and rocking.
00:38:37.000Or maybe taking a picture of himself outside some sort of fence, wearing a white outfit and weeping for the cameras.
00:38:42.000She's disappointed that Donald Trump was still Donald Trump, which is really funny.
00:38:48.000Meanwhile, you had the Daily Beast's Justin Baragona.
00:39:57.000On the other hand, there are the Democratic politicos.
00:40:00.000And let's be clear, the Democratic politicals, like the people who are interested in the 2024 election, not the posturing and preening of AOC, for example, the people who are actually up running against Donald Trump are very, very happy.
00:40:11.000Joe Biden tweeted out immediately after this happened, quote, It's simple, folks.
00:40:16.000If you don't, pitch into our campaign.
00:40:18.000His entire campaign relies on you thinking about Donald Trump 24-7, and in particular, thinking about the stuff that Caitlyn Collins was asking Trump about and that he seemed very warm to talk about.
00:40:29.000If there's a confluence of interest between Donald Trump and CNN on the stuff that should be talked about in a Republican primary, namely, E. Gene Carroll, missing documents, Trump Organization foibles, January 6th, election rigging.
00:40:42.000If Trump wants to talk about that and CNN wants to talk about it, Trump wants to talk about it because he loves that stuff and he loves talking about himself and all the victimization routine that he does.
00:40:53.000It's what he does 80 to 90% of the time.
00:40:56.000And if CNN loves talking about it because it pleases the base and also elevates Trump, then the chances are very strong that Trump ends up the nominee.
00:41:03.000And then meanwhile, when it comes to the actual election, it doesn't play all that great because this is what Democrats are begging for.
00:41:25.000He lost to him last time by 7 million votes in the popular vote.
00:41:30.000And aside from, like, some national polls showing him competitive with Biden in the early going, on a state-by-state level, the polls do not show Donald Trump winning a majority in places like Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan.
00:41:44.000Those are the actual stats that matter, by the way.
00:41:46.000And so, CNN, counter to popular opinion, everybody got what they wanted last night.
00:41:51.000Instead of seeing everybody as sort of dissatisfied, we should see everybody as pretty satisfied.
00:41:55.000CNN's Chris Lick got the ratings, and he elevated Trump.
00:41:57.000Trump got elevated, and he got to shellacked Kaitlyn Collins.
00:41:59.000Kaitlyn Collins got to stand up to Trump, and appear to be a sort of heroine for doing so.
00:42:23.000But there's another 70 percent who might have wanted to hear some answers to those questions.
00:42:26.000None of those questions were even asked last night.
00:42:29.000And if you look at the data, there's a guy named Chris Wilson, who's the head of data for a group called Never Back Down.
00:42:36.000And he quotes, this is a DeSantis group, but he quotes a study from WPA Intel, analyzing research, and what they found is that Trump probably cost Republicans in 2022 15 seats, 11 in the House and 4 in the Senate.
00:42:52.000And down ballot, he elevated Democrats.
00:42:54.000So, you know, again, does that mean that Trump necessarily will lose?
00:43:37.000If we're all talking about Trump on CNN last night, you know what we're not talking about, and what Joe Biden would prefer that we not be talking about, is the allegations of corruption that have now been brought to the fore by the House Oversight Committee Republicans.
00:43:48.000So according to News Nation now, the House Oversight Committee claims it uncovered evidence indicative of the Biden family's influence peddling and financial deception on Wednesday, warranting further investigation and legislative solutions.
00:43:58.000Representative James Comer is the committee chairman.
00:44:00.000Here he was laying out some of the allegations.
00:44:04.000Every one of those subpoenas returned valuable information that had been unreported and that contributed to this committee's understanding of how the Bidens conducted their businesses.
00:44:15.000The committee is concerned by the complicated, suspicious network of over 20 companies.
00:44:22.000We have identified the Bidens and their associates used to enrich themselves.
00:44:28.000Most of these companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden's vice presidency.
00:44:35.000The bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies.
00:44:48.000The committee is accusing Joe Biden of lacking transparency regarding the family business, claiming the bank records reveal the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign sources.
00:44:57.000Now the media are immediately jumping on this saying, well, you haven't shown that Biden received any of the money.
00:45:00.000That's why they're doing further investigation.
00:45:02.000Also, you might, you know, point out at this point that it's weird that the entire Biden family, like everyone, was picking up foreign cash while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States.
00:45:12.000Comer wrote a memo saying the transactions in Romania and China show related but separate issues identified by the committee that raise serious questions about financial disclosures and risks to national security.
00:45:21.000So again, they were picking up like giant bags of cash pretty much everywhere.
00:45:23.000We got Romania, we got China, we've got Ukraine.
00:45:25.000Like, name a country and there's a good shot that a Biden family member was picking up cash from there while Joe Biden was VP.
00:45:32.000Comer alleged that nine Biden family members had received foreign-sourced payments.
00:45:36.000These include Joe Biden's brother and Hunter's uncle, James Biden, Hunter Biden, James Biden's wife, Sarah, Beau Biden's widow, and Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend, Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buell, Hunter Biden's current wife, Melissa Cohen, and three children of Joe Biden and or of James Biden, all recipients of such payments.
00:45:54.000Now, you know what might be helpful is if we actually had access to all the information.
00:45:58.000Unfortunately, they're not getting access to all that information.
00:46:03.000Because, as it turns out, the FBI is actually refusing to give Congress the information that it currently seeks.
00:46:08.000Now, imagine for a second that the Democratic Congress had sought documents on the relationships between Donald Trump's kids and foreign sources.
00:46:16.000And the FBI were like, nah, don't think so.
00:46:18.000The media would be all over it, right?
00:46:19.000And you'd be like, wow, that's kind of weird that the FBI, which is in the executive branch run by Donald Trump, is not giving over the information that might be damaging to his kids.
00:46:29.000And now, according to the New York Post, the FBI has refused to give Congress an informant file alleging that President Biden took bribes while he was VP.
00:46:36.000House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comey issued a legally binding subpoena last week, requiring the FBI to turn over the file by noon on Wednesday.
00:46:43.000The Bureau instead replied with a six-page letter raising various objections.
00:46:46.000FBI Acting Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Christopher Dunham said, information from confidential human sources is unverified, and by definition, incomplete.
00:46:53.000Oh, so now we're gonna worry about unverified information being released into the public.
00:46:57.000That's weird, because I'm old enough to remember when the head of the FBI, James Comey, laundered into the public view of the Steele dossier.
00:47:21.000Denham said, as is clear from the name itself, confidentiality is definitional to the FBI's confidential human source program.
00:47:26.000Confidential human sources often provide information to the FBI at great risk to themselves and their loved ones.
00:47:32.000Comer then slammed the FBI's stonewalling.
00:47:34.000He said it's clear from the FBI's response that the unclassified report the oversight committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the committee.
00:47:43.000So there's a document somewhere in the halls of the FBI alleging open bribery of Vice President Biden and the FBI won't turn it over to Congress.
00:47:52.000Well, let's just say that our trust in the FBI is at low ebb.
00:47:55.000Now, this should be one of the big stories of the day, should it not?
00:47:59.000Or how about the fact that the Biden administration, when it was the campaign, the Biden campaign worked hand in glove With members of the former Intel community in order to lie about Hunter Biden's laptop and claim it was Russian disinformation.
00:48:12.000And now we find out that according to the Washington Examiner, at least 11 ex-intelligence officials who signed that letter have scored numerous visits to Joe Biden's White House.
00:48:21.000Between October 2021 and January 2023, 11 letter signers frequented the White House a total of 24 times.
00:48:57.000Because maybe, A man who loves attention so much that every camera has to be on him will allow the attention to be drawn to him and away from the guy who's really bad at this because every day Joe Biden proves he's unfit for this job.
00:49:08.000Yesterday, Joe Biden got lost on stage again.
00:49:12.000Set that work days without accident sign back to zero.
00:49:40.000What we should be doing, and I'm proposing when I try to finish this job, and proposing that we, for example, if we start instead of Head Start, which they want to cut 21,000 Head Start spots in this state alone, We should be sending, all the studies show that if we sent, no matter what the background of a child, if we sent that child to a school at age 3, learning reading, writing, arithmetic, to age 3 and 4 and 5, we end up increasing by 56% the chance they'll graduate from high school and go on beyond high school.
00:52:37.000But equity understands that not everybody starts out on the same base.
00:52:43.000So if you're giving everybody an equal amount, but they're starting out on different bases, Are they really gonna have the opportunity to compete and achieve?
00:53:45.000If she actually became president and Disney had to put her in Disneyland in the Hall of Presidents, the animatronic robot in the Hall of Presidents would be significantly more lifelike than Kamala Harris.
00:53:55.000Kamala Harris is one of the few human beings I've ever seen who actively herself falls in the Uncanny Valley.
00:55:57.000And John Fetterman went absent from the Senate for like two months because of depression, because they forced a man who had a debilitating stroke to run for the Senate.
00:56:05.000That makes George Santos like the third least qualified person to be in Congress at this point.
00:56:21.000As you can see, out of car, into a wheelchair.
00:56:23.000The 89-year-old Democrat has been recovering from shingles.
00:56:27.000In a statement released a short time ago, she said she is still experiencing side effects from the virus, and her doctors have advised her to work Things are going amazing.
00:56:37.000committee has held up the confirmation of multiple Biden nominated federal judges.
00:56:41.000That prompted calls within her own party for her to resign.
00:56:44.000But of course, now she's back up on the hill.
00:56:46.000Things are going amazing. Things are going absolutely amazing. Okay. Meanwhile, on the
00:56:53.000international scene, one of the greatest moral tests in America and abroad is how you feel
00:57:01.000when terrorist groups fire rockets at random Jews in Israel.
00:57:05.000If you are a bad person, then you think that there is a level of moral equivalence between people who deliberately fire rockets civilians and people who try to kill terrorists.
00:57:12.000Yesterday, there have been 200 rockets that fell yesterday in the middle of Israel from the Gaza Strip, which is run entirely by a terrorist group, Hamas.
00:57:20.000Israelis are running from cover in the state.
00:57:21.000You can see the sirens go off and literally you're just on the side of the road.
00:57:28.000So you simply sort of hope that Iron Dome, which is this miraculous technology that is capable of shooting down rockets above major Israeli cities.
00:57:38.000Here's what that actually looks like and sounds like.
00:57:48.000And that's life in Israel right now, where every so often, every few months, they just
00:57:51.000have to worry about rockets falling in their major civilian sensors.
00:57:55.000In the middle of that, the Democratic Party, at least some members of it, like Rashida Tlaib, who's a radical anti-semi-terrorist supporter, she decided it was a wonderful time to hold Nakba Day.
00:58:03.000Nakba Day is, according to radical Palestinian activists, the day of Israel's establishment.
00:58:07.000So they say that Israel is established On this day, therefore it is a disaster, it is a catastrophe.
00:58:14.000So Nakba Day literally means catastrophe day.
00:58:16.000And it means the establishment of the state of Israel is a catastrophe that can only be rectified by the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:58:21.000So she is commemorating that while terrorists fire rockets at the state of Israel because, you know, solidarity and all.
00:58:26.000Originally, she was supposed to hold this in the house.
00:58:29.000And then the House Democrats are like, no, we don't really want to be associated with this.
00:58:32.000So she went to her best friend, Bernie Sanders, and Bernie gave her the space to hold Macba Day.
00:58:59.000When people say that Bernie Sanders is Jewish, he's Jewish only in the technical sense that his mother was Jewish.
00:59:03.000He has no connection to Judaism, he has no connection to Israel, he has no connection to Jewish values, he has no connection to anything remotely Jewish.
00:59:09.000And using Bernie Sanders like a frontman for your radical anti-Semitic pro-terror activity, which is what Rashida Tlaib is doing here, demonstrates what a moral What a moral disgrace Bernie Sanders is.
00:59:22.000According to the Jerusalem Post, House Speaker McCarthy had blocked her from holding Nakba Day because it turns out that what you typically don't want to do if you're in the American Congress is call the establishment of your allies a disgrace.
00:59:33.000That same day, Palestinians fired 500 rockets at Israeli civilians, but Bernie Sanders let her hold the event in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing room.
00:59:42.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not have the jurisdiction to stop the chairman from hosting meetings in their committee rooms.
00:59:49.000And there, she argues that the Nakba never ended, meaning the continuation of the existence of the State of Israel is continuing to be a catastrophe.
00:59:58.000The only solution for that, presumably, would be the disestablishment of the State of Israel, the destruction of the State of Israel, and the death of millions of Jews, because that's what would attend upon that.
01:00:05.000Representative Cori Bush, adjunct member of the Squad, she attended the event as well.
01:00:11.000These are just delightful, delightful people.
01:00:14.000And a reminder that for all of the talk about, you know, the supposed anti-Semitism of Republicans, Rashida Tlaib takes the cake and so do her allies like AOC and Bernie Sanders and the like.
01:00:25.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
01:00:32.000So, Tom Hanks, old school Hollywood is beginning to sort of sound its voice.
01:00:38.000You have Richard Dreyfuss, who the other day said he doesn't like any of this crap about how you have to have diversity qualifications in order to be nominated for an Oscar.
01:01:34.000I think there are some liberals who are of the left, and there are many members of the left who would consider themselves liberals, but they are not the same group.
01:01:40.000They are overlapping, but not identical.
01:01:43.000If you're an old school liberal, you disagree with me on taxes, you disagree with me on abortion, you disagree with me on a wide variety of issues.
01:01:48.000But, you believe in free speech, and you believe that people should be able to say what they say, and you believe that old authors shouldn't be bolderized in order to make people feel better about the now.
01:01:56.000If you're on the left, you believe that basically anything you don't like is morally evil, and therefore ought to be banned from the public sphere.
01:02:02.000That is the difference between liberals and the left.
01:02:04.000So, Tom Hanks, like an old school liberal, it's good to see some sanity left in Hollywood from people like Tom Hanks.
01:02:09.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
01:02:15.000Okay, this may be the most indicative headline in terms of American society I've ever seen.
01:02:37.000The state of Washington has now passed a law That will prevent parents of kids who claim that they need gender affirming care, meaning to chop off their genitalia or carve fake genitalia or get hormone treatment.
01:02:51.000The state of Washington will now prevent parents from having input on any of that.
01:02:55.000So the state is more important than the parents.
01:02:57.000Because the predominant assumption of that headline is that parents are the threat to children, not the state.
01:03:04.000Not the social media infrastructure, which dictates a social contagion, saying that boys are girls and girls are boys.
01:03:19.000Not the state that is removing a minor child from the care of their parents because the parent says to a little boy that he's a little boy, not a little girl.
01:03:30.000According to the Associated Press, The new law is part of a wave of legislation this year in Democratic-led states intended to give refuge amid a conservative movement in which lawmakers in other states have attacked trans rights and limited or banned gender-affirming care for minors.
01:03:42.000I mean, so many euphemisms there that you lose count.
01:03:45.000Licensed shelters and host homes in Washington had generally been required to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor came into their care.
01:03:55.000They show up in Washington State in a homeless shelter.
01:03:57.000The homeless shelter is supposed to call you within three days.
01:03:59.000But under the new law, facilities can instead contact the State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible.
01:04:07.000So the state decides whether you're reunified with your missing child.
01:04:10.000Youths will be allowed to stay at host homes, private volunteer homes that temporarily house young people without parental permission.
01:04:16.000That's not a recipe for predators at all.
01:04:18.000You have a group of people like, yes, I'll take your child.
01:04:21.000I'm happy to take your child from you.
01:04:25.000I will be their new mommy, says the male.
01:04:30.000Inslee said, quote, With this bill, Washington leads the way by taking a more compassionate, developmentally appropriate, reasoned approach to support these youth as they access gender-affirming treatment and reproductive health care services.
01:04:41.000So apparently it's also going to be about abortion.
01:04:43.000So you have a kid, your kid runs away, your kid wants an abortion, they run to Washington State, go to a homeless shelter.
01:04:54.000Separating kids from parents on the basis that Jay Inslee and people, Youth Services of Washington know best for your child about whether they might carve a false flesh penis from their arm.
01:05:08.000This should be, by the way, a pretty obvious violation of constitutional rights.
01:05:12.000If you're a parent, you have rights over your child.
01:05:14.000The state of Washington does not have rights over your child to prevent you from seeing your child because you don't believe that your child is a member of the opposite sex.
01:05:35.000It literally says that parents don't even have to be notified if there's a disagreement between the child and the parents.
01:05:40.000The Washington legislation requires the State Department of Children, Youth, and Families to make a good-faith attempt to notify parents after they are contacted by shelters or host homes and offer services designed to resolve the conflict and accomplish a reunification of the family.
01:05:52.000Family reunification efforts would be pursued when possible.
01:05:55.000But when possible is the entire thing.
01:05:58.000Because they'll just say it's not possible to reunify the family.