00:02:01.800He, like you said, he had on St. Patrick's Day, he had the Ireland leader here where they participated in a lot of traditional kind of, you know, ceremonies that they've been doing for 50 plus years.
00:02:11.860The passing of the Shamrock Bowl and just lots of great conversations.
00:02:16.500but it's interesting to see how these foreign leaders are still, they want to talk to him,
00:02:20.940but they're staying very neutral. And you see with the Japanese prime minister coming today
00:02:25.240and the Ireland leader that came just a few days ago, they kind of don't want to speak
00:02:31.260about what is happening because they have a lot of interests of their own,
00:02:34.720but they also want President Trump to be on their good side. And so they're kind of finding that
00:02:39.860neutrality in it all. And so that has been a huge thing at the White House, but obviously
00:02:44.480Capitol Hill is booming right now. We still have the DHS shutdown that's happening,
00:02:49.640the new confirmation of Senator Mark Wayne Mullins. So we have just had so much information here this
00:02:55.480week. That's great. That's a great topic, actually, to talk about, Benny, because we've got Mark
00:02:58.660Wayne Mullin, and Rand Paul has had a very adversarial relationship with Mark Wayne Mullin.
00:03:03.080And we saw some of this play out. I saw a clip where Rand Paul was basically saying,
00:03:07.020do you want to say this stuff to my face, things that you've said to me in the past? It seemed like
00:03:10.260almost it was a Democrat versus a Republican in a lot of ways. And what's interesting to me,
00:03:14.240Benny, is that John Fetterman voted for Mark Wayne Mullen and Rand Paul voted against him
00:03:19.380in committee. Yeah. And that is intriguing to me. We were just talking about this. If that flip
00:03:23.700wouldn't have happened, it would have been a tied confirmation hearing. And so but the important
00:03:28.040thing to note, Bo, is the Rand Paul. He is very similar to that Thomas Massey kind of that
00:03:33.140libertarian. I would say he's very conservative, but he also he challenges it a little bit. And I
00:03:39.420I guess they had some sort of fight or something in the past where Senator Mullins, he had, he's a very, he's a bold guy, Senator Mullin.
00:03:47.900And he had said something, you know, kind of criticizing Rand Paul.
00:03:51.680I think he said he could understand why someone could attack Rand Paul.
00:03:54.100I want you to say that to my face here in public.
00:03:56.140In that committee hearing, he basically said, why would you say that to me?
00:03:59.700So I kind of think Rand Paul was using that a little bit as a vengeful tactic maybe.
00:04:05.280But it's pretty interesting to see how he he was the only Republican to vote against.
00:04:09.900And it's interesting, Benny, before we started, I was thinking about John Fetterman and how he has seemed to be the only voice of reason or sanity in the Democratic Party.
00:04:17.340He's been very supportive of this, this military action operation, Epic Fury.
00:04:21.240And, of course, just understanding the geopolitics of it, the global consequences, what happens with China.
00:04:25.220And even if we look at the prime minister of Japan being here today, they've got no oil.
00:04:28.940They have no oil. So they have to have this conversation with President Trump, who does hold all the cards.
00:04:33.240And what we hope doesn't happen, and we've seen this in some headlines today, Benny, is Trump is saying, I may go bomb basically these oil fields or these gas refineries if you keep taking actions against Qatar.
00:04:45.260Because now what's happening is Iran is attacking oil hubs that are in ports that are in some of these neighboring Arab nations, which is causing, drawing their ire as well.
00:04:53.940The thing about the Fetterman situation, too, is I think he can he's laying a very good foundation for the Democrats to kind of look at him as this is something that is good for everything that is happening.
00:05:06.480He's not looking at it from a Democrat Republican perspective, in my opinion.
00:05:09.980I think that he is really looking at the facts and saying, listen, you know, I don't maybe agree with everything you're doing, but this is what's best for the nation.
00:05:17.920And so I think it's giving, hopefully, starting some sort of, you know, movement on Capitol Hill to bring some of those voices that maybe have been very, you know, against Trump and against Republicans and kind of bringing them over to understand in a different perspective.
00:10:55.020Because I think the consensus among a lot of people that don't live in California is that it's a foregone thing, that California is blue as it comes.
00:11:03.200All the Republicans moved out, all the Republican money moved out, that no Republican stands a chance.
00:11:07.800But in one poll that I saw this morning, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco were the top two candidates.
00:11:12.080And what's interesting to me is that California uses this top two primary system where the two highest vote-getters, regardless of party, move on to the general election.
00:11:19.900which means the Democrats risk being shut out in November if they don't have someone in those top two.
00:11:24.500How does this work? I mean, that's kind of a crazy system.
00:11:26.500Do Democrats gamble on the fact that it would always be two Democrats in those top two slots?
00:11:31.360I think that that's where it went wrong. Exactly.
00:11:34.480It's called a jungle primary, and it's the one opportunity for someone like me to actually get in charge.
00:11:39.600Somebody who's like a business person who can do math, that understands a budget and a balance sheet, a schedule of values.
00:11:45.340god forbid i should get in someone like me who says yes audit everything that's been stolen we
00:11:51.700need to find the 750 billion dollars it's missing that's why they're going to block it because this
00:11:57.000jungle primary allows for someone like me pulling at 4.6 as an independent which is as high as katie
00:12:03.680porter and chad bianco who've been in the race by the way for well over a year i just got in about
00:12:09.06020 days ago. Why did I get in? Because the bench is so shallow, it's like a puddle, number one.
00:12:15.320Number two, if any of these guys win, they can't run the state.
00:12:19.460So Elaine, tell me the top two or three issues that you feel are the most important issues right
00:12:25.280now with California. You mentioned auditing it. I think every state should have a doge. Personally,
00:12:28.540I think we've seen that. We need to see where corruption is, where waste, fraud, and abuse
00:12:32.020exist. For you, if you're speaking to the people of California, which you undoubtedly have, but
00:12:36.420just to the rest of the country right now,
00:14:26.200we have been donating our money. Corporate donors, these huge corporate donors control the narrative.
00:14:31.900That's why the billionaires are leaving over this billionaire's tax. This is crazy. They pay 47%
00:14:37.020of our general fund. We depend on billionaires, 47%. Out of 17.5 million taxpayers, okay,
00:14:45.580the money that we pay, someone like me, it takes me four years to buy one Patriot missile.
00:14:50.540Think about how unsustainable it is. We lose the billionaires. They're gone over this billionaire's tax. We are going to lose $122 billion a year in our general budget. We are not focused on things like this. There's no narrative for it. Why? Because we get blocked by the billionaires who pay all the donors and all of the donors who pay for the politicians. There's no middle ground. We're going to get blocked out again. We need you guys here.
00:15:18.060Elaine, speaking of billionaires, I want to get your reaction to a CBS story.
00:15:21.720I don't know if we have it to pull up on the screen just yet, but it's from Twitter,
00:15:25.980and it's a CBS news story that says the FBI and IRS are going to be investigating nonprofits linked to Antifa.
00:15:44.520You're in a state where Antifa has been big.
00:15:46.940The whole West Coast is. I'm curious what you think about your reaction, your reaction to this particular story and whether you think that there are nonprofit groups in California that could be held accountable as a result of some of these investigations.
00:16:00.260OK, first of all, when the Tax Act and Jobs Act in 2017 was passed, people like me who had donation lines on my tax credit on my tax form were taken away.
00:16:12.300They basically said you can still have a deduction, but you need to send 100 percent of your taxes to the federal government.
00:16:18.560During that time, 37 million households across the United States and 20 billion dollars a year went into funds unchecked by people like me.
00:16:25.920OK, so the money that's now going to Antifa and places like that is because it's completely unchecked with NGOs.
00:16:31.760And not only that, it's by design. The Biden administration set these things up so they can't be audited.
00:16:36.320They have no requirements to be audited.
00:16:38.580Once the money arrives into any kind of slush fund, if Antifa is in there, you would never know it because they are not under audit requirements, even though they are acting as a non-government, non-government agency, okay?
00:16:51.360An organization that is non-government, they have no requirements to do an audit.
00:17:16.660Okay, so I'm curious only because as it won Best Picture at the Oscars recently, this whole film is complete garbage in terms of it basically supports an Antifa-like group, the very things we're going through right now.
00:17:29.980And it's reminded me that the entire group of Hollywood, and you're sitting in this state which has these bubbles of liberalism, awarding a film, giving it best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay for something that completely glorifies Antifa.
00:17:43.200And I think that's art replicating life.
00:17:46.540The problem people don't understand is like you live in Hollywood to be an actor and to work in that industry, and you have watched your industry be completely strip-minded and taken from you.
00:17:56.080and then the people that control you are the people that hire you which are the big studios
00:18:00.080and the studios are under all these dei you know mandates essentially we are a mandated state okay
00:18:06.480sacramento mandates everything including sanctuary cities sb 7-9 all of the homeless programs
00:18:12.700everything is mandated and these mandates are unfunded and this includes dei not just in
00:18:17.540hollywood but also in schools and all of these actors who are really pretty nice people you know
00:18:22.360just want to earn a living and get their voice out there they are all under the same mandates
00:18:26.540imagine and they're in these movies that don't have any originality and are scripted based on
00:18:30.980a very specific narrative and then the oscars happened and as you can see it was poorly attended
00:18:35.160it was even the clothes i mean everything was just bad why did chanel bounce the day after
00:18:40.740the oscars maybe they didn't want to be on the oscars i don't know but my feeling is that industry
00:18:45.640has been completely strip-mined of any type of individuality and true creativeness.
00:27:53.660Bo Davidson and Benny Ray Harmony here.
00:27:55.140We still have Rich Barris, which we brought in back from the last block because we didn't get much time with him.
00:28:00.160Rich, based on our private conversation with Elaine Collati, who is running as an independent in California,
00:28:04.640This is a fascinating race because, as I said to her, I think a lot of Republicans and conservatives think that, you know, California is a foregone conclusion.
00:28:14.860A Republican can't win there, yet Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco hold the top two places, which means they could ice a Democrat out because they're not consolidating behind Eric Swalwell.
00:28:26.460And explain to me the differences in demographics that have happened even since 2018.
00:28:30.060Yeah, I'm glad you bring up California because this is one of the more interesting races that we have coming up as opposed to the ones we talked about last segment that already happened. And the reason why is, you know, in 2018, this was we do think about this as a big blue state.
00:28:43.960You had Travis Allen and John Cox trying to split the vote, and then you had Gavin Newsom on the Democratic side with Mayor Villagorosa, and Mayor Villagorosa eventually collapsed, and Gavin Newsom was able to take the standard bearer, right?
00:28:54.920And you had John Cox, who got the endorsement of President Trump at the time, but Travis Allen had this core base that didn't want to vote for Cox.
00:29:01.860But for people who don't know, you can ice a party out because it's the top vote-getters advancing.
00:29:07.280That's the way the rules are in California.
00:29:08.820So if Democrats, because the roles are reversed this time, we have three top voting vote getting Democrats and two top vote getting Republicans.
00:29:16.940And if Democrats don't consolidate there, they could get iced out here because it's a different state demographically than it was in 2018.
00:29:24.940And even with vote preference, it's interesting.
00:29:27.760This is something I mentioned during the break in 2020 when we saw so many battleground states move toward the left or toward Joe Biden.
00:29:33.840California kept shifting to the right.
00:29:35.640It's been happening under the radar for many years, and if this trend continues, what it means is that Democrats have got to learn, even in a big blue state, to consolidate behind a candidate.
00:29:46.380Otherwise, they could split the vote too much and end up with two Republicans running.
00:29:50.180Rich, what is the likelihood of that happening?
00:29:51.920I mean, I'm trying to look at this with glass half full here, but I mean, how likely is it?
00:29:57.000Because eventually the Democrats are going to realize, especially in the money, they've got to get behind Swalwell.
00:30:03.580And so I'm just wondering, how likely is it? I mean, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco surely know this.
00:30:08.100They know that the top two vote getters move on. How likely is that to happen?
00:30:12.760This likelihood based on two things in my mind. One is Republican turnout.
00:30:17.560You know, in California, typically there could be lower turnout for Republicans in off cycle years like this.
00:30:22.760But if they don't do that, and again, some of these demographics that are voting in Republican primaries are changing over time.
00:30:28.380So if they get out the vote in sufficient numbers, which, you know, there's mixed evidence so far on how Republicans and Democrats have been voting.
00:30:37.320But if they do do that, then, of course, it increases the likelihood.
00:30:40.700The other thing, the other factor Republicans have no control over, and that's what you just mentioned, which is whether or not Democrats get their act together.
00:30:48.160And here's one of the reasons, you know, if you're a Republican, it gives you a little ray of hope.
00:30:51.960Democrats, as well as they have been doing in special elections, are leaderless and they're in disarray.
00:30:56.720Gavin Newsom, ironically, the outgoing governor, he's been trying to take that mantle of leader, but it doesn't really seem to be where even in his own backyard, he hasn't been able to corral a base of his own.
00:31:09.160He hasn't been able to command the loyalty of a segment of the Democratic coalition that could help a candidate in this race like that.
00:31:16.820So, I mean, one thing is completely in Republican control. They get out to vote and they have a lot of control over this. They can have a great impact.
00:31:26.060The other is really on Democrats. And, you know, that remains to be seen. But I do think that it's more possible than people realize. The Central Valley is not blue anymore. Right. Once upon a time, that was the case. Orange County, very swingy. It was trending Democratic, but it moved back under President Trump a little bit.
00:31:45.040So, you know, there's a lot of there's a lot in flux in that state, I guess, is the point I'm trying to make.
00:31:50.380And if they can get that Central Valley vote out, then you leave Democrats effectively fighting over two metropolitan areas, which is a lot of votes in.
00:31:59.220Don't get me wrong. But it's not a place you want that.
00:32:02.420Rich, what is some of the latest polling that you have?
00:32:04.460If you could give us kind of a sneak peek of Americans feelings towards Iran.
00:32:07.720This has shifted, even has fractured, of course, MAGA.
00:32:11.080It has fractured a lot of the conservatives who say, hey, wait a minute, Trump said no
00:32:14.760foreign wars, as opposed to those who believe in the mission of this overall.
00:32:18.000What are you seeing in some of your polling?
00:32:19.940Polling Iran has been really fascinating for a pollster.
00:32:22.700And you get bored after a while asking, do you approve or disapprove, right?
00:32:27.180But it's interesting because it's changing who's identifying as MAGA.
00:32:31.180It's changing the size of that coalition.
00:32:33.220It's changing, you know, the race, age, you know, the demographic subgroups that we've
00:32:38.820been measuring and tracking for years with that identification. Ultimately, Republicans and
00:32:44.540people who voted for President Trump in November of 24, they want to get behind him, right? But
00:32:51.340the fact of the matter is they didn't vote for foreign conflicts. So there is a section of his
00:32:56.960vote that is struggling with this a lot. The problem, I think, the biggest problem that I
00:33:01.180see for the president is that the rally around the flag effect that he got. And when we first
00:33:05.660poll this before it happened. It was 70% opposed, only a little over 20% supported. He has gotten
00:33:12.040a rally around the flag. We're going to release a poll very soon showing, you know, where that's
00:33:16.320come, but it's a weak one. Historically, it's a very, very weak one. So what the president's
00:33:21.720advisor should be telling him is that, you know, you have limited time to sew this thing up before
00:33:27.320it can really get on. It's already unpopular with independents. It's unpopular with Democrats
00:33:32.280And it's unpopular with a part of his own coalition.
00:33:36.280So, I mean, the clock is ticking on how long this can be drawn out without causing severe political damage.
00:33:44.580And, Rich, I saw something on CNN the other day, actually, and it was talking about, you know, the 100 percent of MAGA supports President Trump, right?
00:33:53.100Going forward, I mean, these next few years are really important.
00:33:56.220And obviously, you know that you spend a lot of time looking at all of this.
00:33:59.300where, I mean, Beau, I know he kind of just spoke about that. Where does that leave MAGA going into
00:34:04.360the midterms, going into even 2028? I just want, I'm so glad you brought that up because I got to
00:34:10.180tell you, I find this funny that after 10 years of pollsters all over legacy media failing to
00:34:15.860poll President Trump precisely because they could not poll the MAGA coalition are suddenly these
00:34:21.340authorities on polling MAGA, right? And all of my pollster friends, you know, yesterday when we saw
00:34:27.140that clip we were just laughing harry enton is not a dumb guy when it comes to statistics getting0.93
00:34:33.380a hundred percent of a subgroup something that large is basically impossible it was just ludicrous
00:34:39.360on its face it reminded me of quinnipiac in 2020 polling and saying that donald trump had zero0.91
00:34:44.900percent of the black vote right or two percent it's just ridiculous on its face um i think this0.72
00:34:51.100is a real danger to the president's coalition going forward. It's a little bit funny because0.94
00:34:57.040a year ago, we would have polled and asked, who is, do you identify as America first? Do you
00:35:01.120identify as MAGA? And the group of people that would have said yes to that was younger, less
00:35:06.860white, right? Than the group that is saying it now. So that's why I said it is an interesting
00:35:12.960time for a pollster because there's so much going on. But at the end of the day, the group now that
00:35:18.680is the most loyal to the president is not enough to win an election and that is the most important
00:35:23.460part of all of this that's you know the the new MAGA these other people that he risks losing in
00:35:28.540the coalition they are how he got from negative four and a half percent in the popular vote to
00:35:33.580about a point and a half they are that difference so uh I mean that it's horrible to say but
00:35:39.680honestly sometimes when it comes to politics this is a game of addition and sometimes some voters
00:35:44.440really do matter more than others when you're considering what to do in decision making.
00:35:48.680You need to win to affect your policies, right? You need to win to advance, you know, your
00:35:53.580to advance down the field, to advance your agenda down the field. So it is important. It does matter.
00:35:59.120I know it's obviously a difficult thing to juggle. It's coalition building. It's tough. But at the
00:36:05.600end of the day, these voters are going to want to feel heard. And I've never seen, I don't think we
00:36:09.580have, any of us have a president basically pull a trigger on a military action that was so
00:36:14.300unpopular without making a case first. And we're in uncharted waters. And I think people should be
00:36:18.940very conscious of that. So what kind of a time frame is he on then, Rich? Because I said from
00:36:24.680the beginning, it's going to have to be quick, but it's not quick like Venezuela was quick. It's much
00:36:28.700more complex than that. And we're seeing that now with the choke on the Strait of Hormuz,
00:36:33.340so many of the things geopolitically going on. I do think that the coalition building of the
00:36:37.160Gulf states prior to this with Jared Kushner and Abraham Accords was very important in this.
00:36:41.520But at the same time, middle class and lower class Americans are feeling the pain at the pump.
00:36:46.040They want to know, wait a minute, if we've got all these great natural resources, why are we still paying high gas prices?
00:36:50.860So I think you make a very great point about this fracture and what could happen in the midterms.
00:36:55.840I know we think of things always politically and what's going to happen.
00:36:58.120But what kind of a time frame is President Trump on?
00:37:00.420Because the more losses of life that you have, God help us that we have no more, but war is war.
00:37:05.860He said casualties may be a part of this.
00:37:07.520What kind of a time frame and what kind of foreign policy do you have to put forth so that your people understand the overall mission in addition to the losses that you're going to have temporarily?
00:37:18.360Yeah, I, you know, not to sound negative, but I do think we're in a situation right now where we should be thinking about this, that we're already on borrowed time as far as, you know, taking risks.
00:37:29.440Like how much time do we have in order to course correct and go in a different direction?
00:39:24.380Only last days we retained the Sergeant Alili Eridz's During Kait Wright, the Said
00:39:31.020Chief and the Sergeant Sergeant, and these are the people who dominate
00:39:35.320So, of course, that was the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:39:40.240who was speaking on the conflict in Iran.
00:39:41.740We don't have translation for that, which is why we're coming out of it.
00:39:44.240Otherwise, I know a lot of our American viewers will not understand what he's saying.
00:39:47.200So we want to make sure that we're giving credence to that.
00:39:49.600But also, we want to discuss some other topics.
00:39:51.460And we have from the post-millennial Libby Emmons.
00:39:54.480Libby, good to have you with us today.
00:39:56.620Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.
00:39:58.460Absolutely. Well, Libby, let's talk about it.
00:39:59.840Let's dive in more of this Antifa and the report that came out about this.
00:40:02.900I want to get your take on it, because I know you know a lot about it.
00:40:05.120And I kind of just want to give you the floor to talk about these investigations, where you think they will go, if a George Soros group could be finally held accountable.
00:40:15.200I'm really excited that the FBI and the IRS are teaming up to get to the bottom of this.
00:40:19.200A lot of Antifa groups and leftist groups that engage in violence, you know, they undertake these charity organization statuses that they can get from the IRS.
00:40:30.120and you apply and then you're a designated charity and you can go through and, you know,
00:40:35.380get donations from everybody. And so it'll be really interesting to see what the IRS and the
00:40:41.120FBI can uncover because of this, excuse me, what they can team up and find. But they're not going
00:40:47.240to find everything because a lot of Antifa groups operate on a mutual aid kind of principle instead
00:40:52.440where people give them money, but it's not tax deductible or people give them donations of
00:40:57.440things that are not tax-deductible. So it's sort of a combo, but I do think that something will
00:41:03.620come of it, and I'm looking forward to that. And so Libby, you've been writing and doing
00:41:09.380stories about Antifa in these cells and groups for years now, leading up to this bombshell report
00:41:15.820that we're seeing. Talk to us a little bit about some of those things that you have seen, some of
00:41:21.180the stories that you can share with us to really give our viewers and just the American people an
00:41:25.160understanding of how deep these Antifa organizations go. Yeah, and the people that I work with at the
00:41:32.040Postal Millennial really have a deep expertise in this, and I've been very blessed and grateful to
00:41:37.000get to work with them and hear what they've been working on and then edit their work and talk to
00:41:41.300them about it. That's Andy Ngo, Katie Davis Court, Jack Posobiec at Human Events, and also Ari Hoffman
00:41:46.400have really dug into this, and it's been fascinating to see their work continue to grow. Three of them
00:41:52.820were at the president's Antifa roundtable in the fall.
00:41:56.160But what we see is a changing apparatus of Antifa.