Episode 4666： Western Liberalism Is A Dying Star
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Shane Tamura, 27, opened fire in the lobby of a building in New York City, killing four people, including a police officer, before apparently taking his own life. On the heels of the mass shooting at a Jewish Center in Times Square, CNN's Peter Bergen and Sarah Abdurrahman discuss the MAGA movement and its impact on the political landscape.
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Police are saying this all started around 630 this evening. They say Shane Tamura drove into
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Midtown Manhattan. He drove his BMW, double parked that BMW on Park Avenue between 51st
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and 52nd. They say Tamura got out of his BMW alone. They're in Midtown in his right hand.
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Tamura had an M4 rifle. He walked into the entrance of that building. Stephanie,
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he walked in, turned to the right and immediately opened fire on an NYPD police officer who is in
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full uniform. Police say Tamura then shot a woman who was taking cover behind a pillar in the lobby.
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Tamura then sprayed gunfire throughout the lobby before going to the elevator bank. Now, as he
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waited for the elevator to arrive, we're told he shot a security guard who is taking cover behind
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a desk. An elevator door then opened. A woman walked out and we're told police say Tamura allowed
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the woman to walk past him unharmed. Tamura then got into the elevator, went to the 33rd floor. That
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was Rudin Management. He then started firing rounds as he walked the 33rd floor. One person was struck
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and killed there. Police say Tamura then shot himself in the chest, taking his own life. What do we know
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about Tamura? We know Shane Tamura is 27 years old. He is from Las Vegas, Nevada. He drove cross country
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to New York City. Police say he also has a documented mental health history. At this point, police say
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they have no motive. The mayor saying tonight five innocent people were shot, four innocent people,
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including a police officer, were killed. Not only in America and center left in America, what their
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problems are, but those problems, how they're duplicated in Britain and across the rest of
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Western Europe. That is, first of all, they seem to be soulless, believe, don't know what they believe
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in. And secondly, they seem to be intolerant. Walk us through those two.
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Yeah, this is a pattern that's very clearly Western wide. If you look at the malaise that's
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affecting, it's not just center left parties, it's center and center right parties. It's the sort of
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traditional parties of liberal democracy. And I think it's best sort of exemplified by what
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Keir Starmer's Labour Party is going through in Britain. It's only been in power for a year.
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But it's in the doldrums and has been almost immediately after it took office, in spite of
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having won a massive majority. Nigel Farage, the reform party that Donald Trump's friend,
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Nigel Farage, started is surging in the polls. And you're seeing something very similar in France
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with Marine Le Pen's far right party there. Macron, the French president, he's rock bottom approval
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ratings. The new government in Germany, the coalition government between the traditional
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social Democrats and Christian Democrats, only in office a few months, is now behind in the polls to
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the AFD, the far right German AFD party, that J.D. Vance and Elon Musk and others keep boosting.
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And of course, we have a populist in office here in the United States, but with Democrats not doing
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well. And I think the pattern here is the left, the centrists don't really have much conviction about
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what they stand for. They cannot explain their stance on a bumper sticker. And people like Farage,
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people like Trump, people like Le Pen can. And so when the left is in office, the right surge. But
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when the right is in office, the left don't surge. So what I call the law of political laws of hydraulics
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are broken there. The left is not breaking through.
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One of the sort of tenets of modern republicanism was they sort of just unabashed, complete support
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for Israel. But we are seeing some phrase there in the in the MAGA coalition. We have seen
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not just Steve Banatize, but lawmakers suggest this is this is too much. And now we have President
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Trump showing real frustration. The question is, you know, per your reporting, Republicans you speak to,
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what is that? Is that going to translate into action?
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So I don't I don't think it translates in the short term or even the medium term to a lack of
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military and other aid for Israel. I think support for Israel in the Congress will remain strong. But I
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think you have to look at two things. And you referenced the MAGA movement, right? President
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Trump, we know, just doesn't like bad headlines, regardless of how credible they are, regardless
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of what's behind them. He does not like them. And that is likely to cause him to put some
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pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu, either to tell him, you better make the case that this isn't
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what everybody thinks it is, or you better clean it up. And the other thing, and we've talked about
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this in recent days, younger populist conservatives do not have the same affinity for Israel that rank
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and file Republicans do. And I think Israel needs to be cognizant of that. We talk a lot about younger
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progressives and how they feel about Israel and what that's doing inside the Democratic Party's
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coalition. But younger populist conservatives coming up in the Republican Party don't feel
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about Israel the way Republicans have over the past 25, 30 years. And that's something that the
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Netanyahu government has to be or should be aware of. Finally, I would say what is very interesting
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here, there was once a very vibrant peace movement within Israeli politics, right? There was a lot of
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support for a two-state solution. And there was a big split in Israeli politics over that. After years
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of terrorist attacks, threats by Iran, that peace movement evaporated. And Netanyahu has been in
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power so long, in part because there has been such a focus by Israeli voters on security and no trust in
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any sort of peace movement. So the fact that we're seeing voices within Israel speak up in the way that
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they are is a very significant development in Israeli politics.
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A man with a rifle entered a high-rise building during rush hour yesterday evening, killing a New
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York City police officer, as you heard there, and three civilians before fatally shooting himself.
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Video shows a chaotic scene outside the Park Avenue skyscraper, which houses offices for major
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companies like the NFL and the investment firm Blackstone. The lone gunman has been identified as 27-year-old
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Shane Devon Tamura from Las Vegas. Police say he has a documented history of mental health problems.
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According to officials familiar with the investigation, the suspect did leave a note at the scene of the
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shooting where he mentioned his mental illness may be linked to CTE from his years playing high school
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football. Investigators are looking into whether that may be why he targeted the building, but they
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stress the investigation is early and ongoing. Officials also say they found a cell phone at the scene,
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as well as a rifle case, magazines with ammunition, a loaded revolver,
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and medication prescribed to the suspect. Religions that are vibrant, that are expanding,
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those religions look for converts. Those on the wane, those who are dying, they hunt heretics. Talk about
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that and how that has defined the left for over a decade across the West and the consequences of that.
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So I think one of the things that's really blindsided a lot of us in the last few years
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is the surge of support for the right, for the populist right amongst the young, particularly young
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men, but not just young men. And the more I sort of look into this and talk to sort of anecdotally,
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but look at the data, the more I realize that they see themselves as being regulated,
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micro regulated in their lives, what they can say, what they can think, how they express themselves.
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They feel that the establishment is actually a liberal establishment. And that it's kind of
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Victorian, you know, in that you've got people who are extremely privileged and well off and older
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than them telling them what their etiquette should be and what their manners should be.
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And this is a this is a resentment we didn't see coming. We saw the right as basically old people,
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people over 65. Increasingly, it's young people. And increasingly, it's people who feel economically,
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their prospects are really not up to much. But at the same time, they're being told that they're
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just behaving wrongly and have to watch how they behave. This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on this people.
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The reason I got a free shot, all these networks lying about the people, the people have had a
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belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the
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world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like
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that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a
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conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country,
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this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
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It is Tuesday, 29 July in the year of the Lord 2025. Make sure you take your number two
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pencil out and just mark down kind of a red letter day. Why is that the most powerful? This is not a
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rag like the Wall Street Journal. This is the most powerful financial paper in the world, because
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every key decision maker in the world, whether you're in Shanghai, whether you're in Jakarta,
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India, the Middle East, Western Europe, Buenos Aires, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago,
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people that make decisions that make the world go in a certain direction, read this paper every day.
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And the leading columnist in that paper is Ed Luce. We've had him on the show before in his book
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on Brzezinski column liberalism needs to rediscover its convictions. That's kind of a bland headline on
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the front page. But and that's where he was on Morning Joe. And if if he if you didn't understand what
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he was saying, Morning Joe, about the politics of the laws are the laws of political hydraulics.
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Right. Let's just turn right here. Western liberalism's waning star.
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The Financial Times of London is a neocon neoliberal paper. It is the
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mac daddy to its junior partner, the Wall Street Journal. And essentially, intellectually, they just
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raised the white flag and said and particularly his closing. And we're going to have one more
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cut from that later. He said, hey, this is not a bunch of old, angry white folks. This is a rising
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generation of energy and commitment and dedication. These are young people who have had their prospects
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stripped from them. Maybe that is Bannon's people under 35 or nothing more than Russian serfs
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that crowd. So Ed Luce today, Western liberalism's waning star, which is really saying, hey, when
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when Obama or Biden are in office or like Keir Starmer's in office, Nigel Farage, boom, uses that time,
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builds his coalition and rises like no one's ever risen before. This way had Nigel on yesterday or
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you know, out of power from 21 to 24, the war room posse will hammer and hammer and hammer and
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hammer and get ready for greater things ahead after we win. He said the West and that's how it works,
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political hydraulics. But when they're out of power, the Democratic Party doesn't do that. The
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Liberal Party, the Progressive Party just kind of meanders and they're meandering right now. What
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they're meandering away from is the neoliberalism and of Ed Luce. In more traditional populism,
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you're getting Mandami, etc. In there, we had we I wanted to intercut my staff here.
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Spectacular job in the crew in Denver. Spectacular job on the cold open, kind of a mini masterpiece
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because inter interwoven in there was the shooting yesterday. Sheila Matthews joins us.
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Sheila, the reason I love you is that there you are a your your prototypical war room.
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Some person who had a thing was relatively obscure, but you keep hammering and you keep hammering and
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you say nobody's paying attention to this. But this is what it is. You have said from day one,
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this is about mental health, but it's also about the drugs these kids are on. And they never talk
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about that. They can give you they can give you my new detail about the weapon. They can give you my new
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detail about the ammunition that's used. They can give you my new details. My staff points out
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the mantra last night is that he double parked. He double parked. He double parked like that means
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anything. He double parked. He double parked. It's all totally irrelevant. What is relevant here is what
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what are these guys on? What are these young men and now women on? Sheila Matthews is going to join us.
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We got Jim Rickards, Josh Hawley. We're absolutely packed wall to wall. And yes,
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we're putting the big spotlight now. People are finally waking up, folks, to what's happening down
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Okay, welcome. Sister Matthews joins us. Your theory of the case since I first met you about
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this, and we've talked about this I think now for years, and it's quite obvious you're correct.
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And the mainstream media, and nobody wants to discuss this because I monitor it. It's time
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after time after time after time. Make your case, and this is epitomized yesterday where we know the
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gun, the ammo, the car's double parked. The car's double parked. We know all of it,
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except the key thing of actually what's sitting in the evidence sitting in the car about what this
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young man's issues are, ma'am. Well, thank you, Steve, for having Able Child on again. This is
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all about mental health. This is about access to somebody's mind. We know, in fact, that the
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psychiatrist and the drugs are never mentioned. What is all common in all these different mass
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killings is withholding of mental health records and withholding of the psychiatrist's name.
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Now, we already know that they found a suicide note. Now, we went through this with the manifesto
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in Tennessee. We had to fight through that PR, a massive, I would say, like, you know, it's like
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they want to divert us, right? So the bottom line is that what we need is these psychiatric drugs and
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the psychiatrists. They have a huge PR firm. This is a massive behavioral health industry. They know
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already who treated this guy. So his name should be out there in front. Plus, you and I worked on
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Robert Card in Maine. Now, all of a sudden, in the suicide note, they're saying that he had
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some kind of brain damage. OK, so this is a well-crafted marketing campaign by the behavioral health
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industry to divert away from their products and their services that are killing people,
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basically right in front of us. They are saying, you are stupid. The police are uneducated to follow
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the psychiatrist. They just are killing our people right in front of us in malls, in restaurants,
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in schools. And they are burying this data. Some of these hits are done financially to get more of
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the mental health money back in. And others are targeted hits. But you can't ever see that
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because this industry is hiding behind a well-oiled relationship with the federal government.
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No, no, no. It makes total sense. Why is there anyone out there at any state level that's pressing
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this that we got to get back? Because I'll tell you if and I we do it, we curate it so the audience
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doesn't have to. CNN's bad. But if you watch MSNBC, it's shocking. The entire thing is big pharma.
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And half of the big pharma ads are for depression. And not just that, second and third tier drugs you
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should take for depression. I mean, these people that watch, the people that watch MSNBC are the
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most screwed up people in history, just given who the advertisers are trying to reach. So this
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massive industry, this is the other side, you got vaccines on one side, but this is their big cash cow,
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right? And they're everywhere. They're in every school, you know, every and particularly with young
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men, every young, every young man's got a problem, right? And we got to put drugs on it. Is there
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anybody besides yourself at a state level that's trying to force the issue here that every time we
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have this, we got to get in back of who the psychiatrist is, who who recommended the drugs? What's the
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cocktail of drugs he's taking? Like today, we should know absolutely in that car, they said he had his
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medications in the car, we should know what those medic, we should know the medications. At the same
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time, we learn what the ammo is, because the medications are the ammo. That's why these kids
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are doing it, right, ma'am? That's right. And right now we have major hearings in the FDA regarding these
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SSRIs on pregnant women. And it was an amazing hearing last week. So things are trying to come
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to, but it's taken 20 years, Steve. And this is mass murder right in front of our eyes. And on that
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label is the treating psychiatrist. That guy should be brought out in front by the end of today. You
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treated him, you know him, there's no HIPAA. And this is the other thing they say, we can't release
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this because of HIPAA. That's a lie. Because HIPAA, it does not protect public safety issues. This is
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a public safety issue. So this, it goes beyond HIPAA. So yes, this treating psychiatrist should,
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his name should be revealed by the end of the day. And all MSNBC and all these other networks that are
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blaming it on being black or white or Republican. No, this is a human rights issue. And this industry
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is operating behind the scenes and it is an enemy within. I don't, you know, I can give you the
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receipts, but you know what? We need hearings. You know, we have a petition on our website,
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ablechild.org, that's asking for federal hearings into the link between psychiatric drugs and these
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mass shootings. Let us bring experts. Let us have this in front of the American people because we
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have evidence upon evidence. I mean, look at Tennessee with this manifesto. Remember how
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everybody was threatened that they couldn't read it? Now they're stuffing it in the guy's pocket.
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You know, these, we have to understand the power of these psychiatrists. You know, the one in Sandy Hook,
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he was having sex with his patients, Dr. Paul Fox. Able Child revealed that. There's so much about
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these mass shootings that nobody knows about. And it's really a network of really sick psychiatrists
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that could be doing this to gain more money. And we have the right to look at that. This is not a
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crazy theory. You just have to look at what happened yesterday. They're not mentioning the name of the
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drug. And then the psychiatrist gets to walk away. I mean, with the one in Tennessee. I mean,
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how many courts are going to prevent us from getting this data?
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They're accessories. They're accessories. They're accessories to these acts. They're accessories to
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these acts. Sheila, where do people go? I know you got another man you got to bounce to. Where do they go?
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Where do they get the petition? Grace and Moe, let's get this thing out. Let's get,
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let's really get as many signups as possible. We'll make sure Bobby Kennedy, the guys over at HHS know
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Ablechild.org. Ablechild.org. The petition's right on the top. Thank you so much for your eyes on this,
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You keep fighting. Listen, it's very simple. You were a grundoon, right? As many people that come
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here the first time, it's like, they sound pretty smart. What are they talking about? I've tracked this now.
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Every time with you, kind of behind the scenes, and she's right every single time. Every single
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time. And it's now time. You got to out this. This is ridiculous. The drugs, the drug cocktails,
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and who authorizes? These psychiatrists are doctors. This is not some psychologist. You know,
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some theoretical guy took poetry in college. These are doctors, medical doctors. They got to be held
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accountable for what's going on here. Sheila, thank you so much. Let's get everybody to your site
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today. Are you on social media besides the website? Yeah. Up on the right-hand side,
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you can see all our social media. We're on them all, pretty much. Thank you, ma'am. We'll make
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sure this happens. Brilliant. Fantastic. This is what the show is all about. You give a platform to
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somebody, and they're on top of it, and they work their ass off. Next thing you know, they're making
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huge national. In fact, we're going to have Tiffany Justice on later, another perfect example.
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Jim Rickards, brother. So the front page of the Financial Times, let's leave aside Ed Luce's
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editorial. It's all about the EU, the member nations. France and Berlin are saying, what in the hell? We
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didn't think we agreed to this. What did she just do? The IMF just upped, I think, the global growth
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rate. We'll play another clip from Luce on the other side, but just your first take. President
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Trump, when we came out on Liberation Day, we were high-fiving. It was like the liberation of
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working-class people in the United States. The mainstream media and, of course, the Wall Street
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Journal looked down their nose and laughed at us. Trump is on a roll, is he not, brother Rickards?
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Trump is definitely on a roll. There are a couple issues, important ones, where I think he might be on
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the wrong track. But in general, absolutely. Certainly on trade, everything that Scott Besson
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has proposed, the three arrows, Peter Navarro and others on tariffs, Steve Moran on at least the
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beginnings of the Mar-a-Lago Accord. He's getting good advice. He's making very good decisions. Yeah,
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he's on a roll. The Democrats, after the election, didn't know why they lost, didn't know what to do
00:26:28.280
next. Now it's worse, because they're literally buried under the six months and going strong of
00:26:34.360
success. So that's absolutely right. The IMF, it's a pretty bad forecasting record. But I always say
00:26:40.000
you're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. And the facts are that the US economy
00:26:45.040
is doing better than a lot of expectations. And when the IMF upgrades world growth, well,
00:26:50.760
the United States is about 24%, it's about right, of the global economy. So if the US is doing well,
00:26:56.680
it's going to bring the world along with it. It's the so-called locomotive theory, you know,
00:27:01.300
the engine pulls the train. So yeah, it's great news.
00:27:06.940
We got about a minute before we go to break. They all dismissed his tariffs and trade. No one
00:27:13.180
stood up to himself. We have 60% of the world's GDP and nobody. They've all bent the knee. Now we're
00:27:18.820
in, obviously, in Stockholm with the CCP. Give me a minute on that before we go to break.
00:27:24.020
Yeah, we've said this before in your show, Steve, that everyone's like, Trump's radical. He's
00:27:28.480
tearing up the playbook on free trade. He's putting all these tariffs in, et cetera. That's
00:27:32.020
nonsense. The US didn't even start down the free trade road until 1962, and it got worse. From
00:27:37.580
1790, you know, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington to 1962, the US was all about tariffs,
00:27:44.420
tariffs, tariffs. Some part of the civil war was about the fact that the South didn't want tariffs
00:27:49.420
because they were an exporter, and the North did because they had manufacturing. You know,
00:27:53.000
William McKinley, Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, they were all pro-tariffs
00:27:58.780
all the way through. And so all Trump is doing, and it's a big deal, but he's going back to what
00:28:03.580
worked. It was called the American system. I call this American system 2.0. But Trump's not doing
00:28:08.880
something radical. He's going back to what works. Jim, hang on for one second. We're going to take a
00:28:14.720
short commercial break. Jim Rickards on the other side. The American system, which came out of
00:28:19.780
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Welcome back. Ed Luce, can we, I tell you what, I've got Rickards up here. Before I want to pivot
00:29:58.140
away with this, let's play the last clip from Ed Luce, and then I'm going to have Jim Rickards
00:30:04.600
Other than like the speech codes and the sort of political correctness and the belief by young
00:30:12.240
males that they're being attacked by this left-wing establishment, you also brought up COVID and said
00:30:20.500
that the left and the center left are fools if they ever look at another election again without
00:30:25.720
looking back to the lessons of COVID. Can you please explain that? Because I think that's an extremely
00:30:31.160
important part of this piece as well. And that really keys into the sort of young versus old
00:30:36.920
thing. Essentially what we did was we imposed very strict rules, social distancing rules, sometimes
00:30:44.160
lockdowns, that were there to protect the vulnerable, the older people, people with
00:30:50.000
pre-existing conditions, diabetes, etc. At the expense of the young, not just of their schooling,
00:30:57.900
but of their ability to socialize, their ability to live their lives. And this is an absolutely sort
00:31:04.180
of defining moment for anybody who was young. COVID sort of marked their lives, pockmarked their lives,
00:31:11.620
and I think gave them a view of the left and of regulation, not just the CDC, NIH, but the establishment
00:31:21.040
in general, that we are underestimating in terms of how jaundiced they feel about the world. And so
00:31:29.200
COVID is a seminal thing. It's over, but it's not over.
00:31:34.460
Wow. Amazing. By the way, for my crack production team, I got to make sure I get, not our cold open,
00:31:40.720
but let's get the entire Ed Luce segment on Morning Joe to Charlie Kirk and Jack Posovic.
00:31:45.320
He's got to be a guest on Charlie Kirk's show, because that's Charlie's wheelhouse right there.
00:31:51.040
So, Jim, your assessment right there, it's the lead editorial, he's the lead columnist for the Financial Times.
00:32:02.660
The headline inside is essentially they're waving the white flag. Western liberalism's waning star.
00:32:12.460
And he's saying we're the ones that have the energy, we're the ones that have the idea,
00:32:15.880
we're the ones that have the grit and determination. What I said on that PBS interview has kind of gone viral.
00:32:22.480
We're battle-hardened. We're not going to win everything, but we're never going to be defeated.
00:32:26.620
And the great news here is that it's just not a bunch of old people. Yes, we are the vanguard of this,
00:32:33.200
but this movement is actually made up of young men. It's also multiracial and multiethnic, right?
00:32:41.600
We have a huge Hispanic group coming now to the MAGA movement.
00:32:46.180
You have African-American men coming to the MAGA movement.
00:32:49.340
This coalition's building and Ed Luce and the smart folks on the progressive side and particularly in the capital market side
00:32:56.740
are understanding there's a new day dawning. Jim Rickards.
00:33:01.000
Yeah, Steve, I agree completely that Luce ran up the white flag and surrendered.
00:33:08.280
It's like you lost a war, but you don't know why you lost the war.
00:33:11.080
He was talking in the earlier clip of the open.
00:33:13.180
And he was talking about that younger people don't like older people telling them what to do.
00:33:17.660
And he used the word etiquette, teaching them etiquette as if this is about, you know,
00:33:21.520
the right way to slice and then peel a banana at a state dinner.
00:33:24.900
I mean, no, it's not about etiquette. It's about lies.
00:33:30.440
You say, well, they didn't like all the regulation. Younger people didn't like the regulation.
00:33:33.720
But what about the fact that the regulation was unnecessary, that it was a lie, that it was based on false science?
00:33:39.420
And by the way, I wrote a book in 20, it was one of the first books, a bestseller on COVID.
00:33:46.600
And I, you know, was looking at Jay Bhattacharya's research.
00:33:50.780
He's now the head director of National Institutes of Health.
00:33:53.380
But even then, he said, and I said in the book, this is not a vaccine.
00:33:58.760
It's an experimental gene modification therapy.
00:34:05.160
In December 2022, 5 million people who were double-vaxxed and boosted got COVID.
00:34:12.080
Now, tell me that vaccine works, which, again, it's not a vaccine.
00:34:14.580
Tell me it works when 5 million people, double-vaxxed and boosted, got COVID.
00:34:21.080
Masks, the virus is an airborne respiratory virus, right?
00:34:24.880
It is like one five-thousandth the size of the weave in the mask.
00:34:30.900
Social distancing, that came, there was a late 19th century German scientist who said,
00:34:36.180
you know, six feet for, you know, six feet apart.
00:34:43.820
They were pulling stuff like that out of thin air.
00:34:45.800
I still go into stores or even churches where they got these little stickers on the ground
00:34:51.500
The point is, Luce makes it sound like we had a lot of regulation, a lot of rules, and young
00:34:56.660
But he leaves out the fact that the rules were made up.
00:35:10.160
But the point is, it wasn't about old people putting regulation on.
00:35:13.580
It was about regulations that don't work and lying about it and forcing it.
00:35:22.800
Like if a cop came up in an airport and said, put a mask on, all right, I had one in my pocket.
00:35:31.040
And I had to go to great lengths in four states to find, you know, there were a couple
00:35:37.300
of vaccines that were not mRNA that Janssen and one other, but they were impossible to
00:35:43.240
find because the government was suppressing them.
00:35:54.420
So I agree he's running after a white flight, but even now he doesn't know why.
00:36:04.360
The traditional Democratic Party, the kind of traditional liberalism or progressivism,
00:36:13.680
And what you see is a more radical, whether it's Crockett or AOC or Mondami, right, or
00:36:18.900
what's happening down in Texas with Wu, you're seeing a more radical nature of it.
00:36:23.320
Now, given President Trump's on a roll and MAGA's on a roll, there are very big storm clouds
00:36:33.220
These tweets that are going back, he's actually mocking Graham.
00:36:39.540
This whole thing with the Russians, with the, because this is the big storm cloud, both Israel,
00:36:44.400
what's happening in Gaza, what's happening still in Persia, you know, the Middle East.
00:36:48.600
But Ukraine, I think, is quickly going to DEFCON, too, because President Trump has now told
00:36:55.600
Putin, hey, you know, I gave you 50 days, but upon further review, we're 10 days into it.
00:37:10.080
He gives things a lot of thought, very thoughtful.
00:37:11.900
His two sports are, you know, chess and martial arts.
00:37:14.840
So he's a very, you know, kind of, very much of a deep thinker.
00:37:22.460
Now, I'm not saying Medvedev's not telling the truth.
00:37:25.640
But he's the guy who's kind of unleashed to be a lot more, a lot more pointed and point to the fact
00:37:32.300
And then you have Sergey Lavrov, who's the foreign minister, who's like the only diplomat in the world
00:37:38.160
He's from the old school and he knows how to do diplomacy.
00:37:43.060
Like, Trump gave this 50-day, it's really an ultimatum.
00:37:46.560
By the way, ultimatum is not like some throwaway word.
00:37:49.420
In diplomacy and the art of war, ultimatum is, hey, if you don't do this, we're going to hit you.
00:37:55.800
We're going to strike in some way, usually militarily.
00:38:03.380
What Trump doesn't understand, I think he's getting really bad advice from Kellogg, Rubio.
00:38:09.280
Walsh is still on the scene to some extent, and others.
00:38:14.580
I think I've said before, J.D. Vance and Hank South, I think, are the only ones who've got this right.
00:38:25.920
I mean, hold on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:38:31.940
You've crossed the line of demarcation, because this is what we're arguing, you know, this is still not his war.
00:38:39.640
You're saying we already crossed that line of demarcation?
00:38:41.980
We're arguing, hey, if you continue down this path, it's going to be your war.
00:38:47.720
If we just walked away from the entire thing and said pox on both your houses, Jim Rickards.
00:38:54.000
Yeah, I think Putin, sorry, Trump crossed that line a couple of weeks ago when he said we are going to supply additional arms to Ukraine,
00:39:00.600
because there were no congressional appropriations coming, and probably won't be.
00:39:10.080
All it does is continue the war, kills more Ukrainians.
00:39:23.600
They certainly don't respond to ultimata, and that's what Medvedev was saying.
00:39:27.540
If anything, you accelerated the war, because Putin says, well, something's going to happen in 50 days.
00:39:32.060
They better hurry up and take Parvorsk and get to the Dniper River.
00:39:35.360
So I'm not sure that he hasn't killed more Ukrainians by laying an ultimatum down.
00:39:49.220
And then Trump has stumbled into another, well, this is another blunder, because what's going to happen when the 10 days are up?
00:39:56.200
Well, we have an idea, which is these so-called secondary tariffs on countries that do business with Russia.
00:40:04.120
So Russia's been sanctioned every way you can think of.
00:40:13.760
Listen, he just gave the chips to China for the simple reason we've got to get the rare earths.
00:40:22.440
He's got Besant in Stockholm trying to negotiate a deal.
00:40:26.980
The CCP deals, that and India are the last two big pieces.
00:40:30.220
He's got 60 percent of world GDP now, and he's on a roll.
00:40:38.280
India is going to be fine, but China is – he's got a – why would he in 10 days say – the biggest secondary sanctions will be on India and China?
00:40:47.100
Yeah, particularly with China would be – they're the biggest purchaser of oil and natural gas from Germany.
00:40:55.420
And this EU deal kind of cuts – to the extent it can, it kind of cuts Russia out of the energy markets for Germany and for the EU, doesn't it?
00:41:04.560
So if he does secondary sanctions, isn't he going to blow himself up on his CCP deal?
00:41:13.620
You're either going to have to put on the secondary sanctions – and you're right, Steve, it's going to blow up the China negotiation and make things a lot worse – or not.
00:41:21.660
But if not, you give an ultimatum and didn't do anything.
00:41:25.600
That means you were bluffing, and that's a sign of weakness, and that's going to cause problems down the road.
00:41:31.900
He has to do something, but the something is going to blow up the other big things he's trying to accomplish, which is the China trade negotiations.
00:41:38.480
You don't think – I mean the fear is you don't think there will be any kind of bigger arms sales, arms shipments.
00:41:43.760
As you know, Moldova right now I think didn't let in a bunch of guys going to this Make Europe a Great Again conference because it's becoming the center right now of NATO's – the gathering storm of NATO wanting to get militarily involved in the Ukraine.
00:41:57.200
You don't think – you're not concerned about a potential, you know, stepping up militarily here?
00:42:04.160
Well, I can tell you Russia's not concerned, and here's why.
00:42:06.900
Every single weapons system that we sent them has failed.
00:42:09.940
My big takeaway from this, looking at it in a broader perspective, is there's nothing stopping Russia from going to the English Channel.
00:42:18.040
That's how weak NATO is, and that's how weak the U.S. system is.
00:42:20.940
So let's just kind of go down the list very quickly.
00:42:24.520
The Russians hacked the GPS system so those missiles – those shells don't hit the target.
00:42:31.840
Bradley fighting vehicles burning on the battlefield.
00:42:34.420
Abrams tanks, Leopard tanks, Challenger tanks burning on the battlefield.
00:42:38.660
Patriot missile system cannot hit a hypersonic missile, and the Russians have hypersonic missiles.
00:42:45.040
One by one they've blown up the Patriot missile system, anti-missile systems, at a billion dollars a pop.
00:42:51.700
We sent them the F-16s, took Biden two years to make up his mind.
00:42:56.620
Because they get shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft batteries.
00:43:09.060
We have to rebuild the U.S. military from the ground up the way Reagan did, not by replicating these obsolete systems,
00:43:17.380
So the answer is, yeah, you can send them more weapons, and they won't do any good.
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Okay, there's a story in, and if Grace and Mo can get it up today in, and I'll play that, pull the Eric Prince clip from last night.
00:45:11.420
I'm quoted about the situation with Bibi and about, I just blunt, I say, hey, under 30 years old in MAGA, very little support for Israel.
00:45:20.420
And now even people to support Israel are sitting there going, what in the hell is going on here?
00:45:24.580
As we've been saying for months and months and months, that the Tel Aviv-Levin crowd is just burying Israel even more.
00:45:31.660
Yesterday, Trump on the world stage said, hey, it's starvation.
00:45:35.760
And, you know, that's cutting out, that's really taking Bibi's biggest tactic, let's be blunt, and calling it what it is.
00:45:44.020
In fact, it's getting us more, which I don't like, getting us even more drawn into that situation.
00:45:48.840
So, Rickards, militarily, you know, I had Lindsey Graham on Sunday's show saying that Gaza is going to be like Berlin and Tokyo, although I think it looks worse than Dresden right now.
00:46:03.960
Because Bibi and these guys are going to use starvation.
00:46:06.780
They're going to, you know, they're going to do what they're going to do, and that's obvious.
00:46:09.480
And President Trump is now caught in, I think, potentially a quagmire, sir.
00:46:13.780
Well, I've studied every Arab-Israeli war or intifada since 1917, but this really started in 1870, so it's been going on a long time.
00:46:28.000
The point is Israel, and this is important to understand, Israel is utterly dependent on the United States.
00:46:32.940
Yes, they have advanced weapons, good technology, you know, they've mobilized the entire population, brave fighters, all true.
00:46:40.880
But at the end of the day, for ammunition, missiles, and other weapons systems, satellite intelligence, et cetera, they depend heavily on the United States.
00:46:49.500
So if the president wants to dictate a certain course of policy to Israel, they can do it in Israel better.
00:46:55.420
Listen, and Nixon and Kissinger did that very successfully in the 1973 war.
00:47:03.480
It's also the hospitals, medicine, medical treatment, et cetera.
00:47:08.880
We don't want—I mean, U.S. troops could deliver this, but we don't want U.S. troops in Gaza.
00:47:12.980
So they're going to have to basically tell Israel, either you do it, do it well, or we're going to start to cut you off.
00:47:18.980
And then that will get Netanyahu's attention, more than his attention, because he has his eye on the ball in terms of everything they're doing in Iran and with Houthis and Hezbollah and elsewhere.
00:47:29.700
It was a little—you know, go back about a year, maybe a little longer.
00:47:33.080
Remember when the situation in Gaza first deteriorated?
00:47:38.860
There was this floating dock that we were going to build to create a port so we can get goods in there, because there aren't too many natural ports in Gaza.
00:47:48.560
I think it was like a billion dollars or something.
00:47:50.700
The thing literally, the first storm came, the dock fell apart.
00:47:53.240
So it didn't exactly inspire confidence in the U.S. ability to supply.
00:47:56.840
Then they said, well, can't you just parachute stuff in?
00:47:59.100
Well, you can, but the parachutes land, and Hamas takes it and gives it to their own people and doesn't really care about their citizens.
00:48:09.120
But the only way to get them—and they're probably willing to do it.
00:48:11.580
Can the IDF, do you think, militarily, take down the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas?
00:48:20.840
And I know you've got this hostage situation that's very complicated, but do they have the military stroke right now to actually do it, sir?
00:48:30.720
There were—estimates vary, but there were about 40,000 Hamas fighters.
00:48:35.440
History shows you don't have to kill all 40,000.
00:48:38.800
If you kill 25,000 to 30,000, the rest just kind of falls apart, and they're somewhat down that road.
00:48:45.240
But that's independent of everything that's going on with the—you have several million people in the civilian population, ruined infrastructure, a lot more.
00:48:53.500
And look, Hamas puts missile launchers in hospitals.
00:48:56.640
So you want to take out the missile launcher, you're blowing up a hospital.
00:48:59.340
Food arrives, and Hamas takes it and gives it to their own people.
00:49:04.400
That just means you have to work harder and more intelligently to get stuff to the civilian population.
00:49:09.020
If you don't, Netanyahu will lose more support than he has already, and he doesn't want to go down that road.
00:49:17.240
The U.S. is the only power that can really dictate to Israel, and we should just do it.
00:49:23.560
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Chris, Midtown Manhattan, I think it's, and I haven't had a chance to check the news, obviously, since the show started,
00:50:28.180
but I think there's still a lot of confusion on how a guy walks in with a long gun
00:50:33.820
and how he actually gets into an elevator bank, and that elevator bank takes him up in one of the most prestigious office spaces in all Midtown Manhattan.
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You have Blackstone, you've got the National Football League, you've got KPMG, you've got Loeb & Loeb, the legal firm.
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One of the things is that you provide certain products that people, if they're thinking, particularly for their kids, right?
00:51:05.020
If you see every young person running out of that building, he's got a backpack on.
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But tell me about the backpacks that you guys sell.
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I want to I want to I want to develop this more as we get back, because I think that epitomizes where we are as a society.
00:51:57.100
Right. Where you think that and this gets back to what Sheila's Matthews is talking about at the beginning.
00:52:03.080
We got to get to the bottom of this mental, the mental health issues that are driven in many cases by these psychiatrists and the drugs.
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Somebody texted me, one of the engine room people said one of the top schools in Manhattan, boys schools in Manhattan.
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I think the first and second graders, a third of the students were on ADHD drugs by the time they're in like first and second grade.
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