Stormy Daniels is expected to take the stand today in the criminal hush money trial against former President Donald Trump. We re told that on her way in to the courtroom, Stormy Daniels was confused by the lights and cameras and began to undress.
00:00:51.080Russia announced drills to simulate the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in its war with Ukraine.
00:00:56.800It followed French talk of sending its own troops to Ukraine and the U.K.'s approval of Ukraine using British weapons to strike inside Russia.
00:01:06.060A Kremlin statement on the war game said, quote,
00:01:08.880We hope that this event will cool down the hotheads in Western capitals.
00:01:13.360Meantime, Israeli tanks have seized control of Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing.
00:01:17.800The move comes despite urgent warnings from close allies, including the United States, against moving into the southern city where millions of civilians have taken refuge.
00:01:27.420Overnight, Israeli officials rejected a ceasefire proposal that Hamas had put forth late yesterday.
00:01:33.040The fury unfolding on college campuses for weeks trying to interrupt fashion's biggest night.
00:01:38.940The NYPD saying close to a thousand pro-Palestinian protesters made their presence felt in Manhattan near last night's famed Met Gala.
00:01:57.500And I want the world to open up to all of them, because when you have their diverse voices, innovating solutions through technology, then you're really addressing society's broader challenges.
00:02:10.180Well, first of all, I don't even think they have the authority to subpoena me, but they need to learn the law.
00:03:43.840For example, she asked the judge if it was going to be a hung jury.
00:03:50.480She then also put in a slight request.
00:03:53.500She said, judge, is it possible to get one of those gag orders?
00:03:56.140Now, we know, we know that Alvin Bragg has a lot riding on Stormy Daniels today, but human events sources say he's hoping she doesn't blow it in court.
00:04:10.200You know, one thing that we're told as well, that Stormy Daniels wanted to settle out of court, but the judge, in fact, insisted on a climax.
00:04:20.960Now, during testimony, Stormy Daniels said that she had started, okay, okay, she'd started directing.
00:04:27.000When she was 23, she was involved in a number of productions, 40-year-old Virgin, Knocked Up, Finding Bliss, and a TV show called Dirt with Courtney Cox.
00:04:34.660President Trump then cleared his throat.
00:04:36.400She admitted, well, there may have been a few other productions as well.
00:04:43.380And reportedly, Stormy Daniels got a little bit confused because at one point she requested to be sentenced to community service because she said,
00:04:50.960and I quote, she's used to servicing the community for years.
00:06:15.600We've got Senator Mike Lee, as well as human defense columnist Kenny Cody.
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00:07:14.660Now, I really have to ask you, this is something that you and I connected on on Twitter and, you know, have been going back and forth.
00:07:23.520And you were probably, of everyone that's out there in the Senate, you were probably one of the first, most outspoken people when it came to the Ukraine war and the United States government, specifically the United States government's involvement in this war.
00:07:39.640How was it that you came, number one, to your position on it?
00:07:43.080But number two, what does the Ukraine war funding and the continued funding say about us and say about the nature of the U.S. government more than it even says about the dispute between Ukraine and Russia?
00:07:57.500Well, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that decision makers here in Washington, including people from both political parties and both houses of Congress, have made a decision to prefer another country half a world away to our own at a time when our country is being invaded.
00:08:15.920Now, look, it wasn't long ago when Republicans made a promise, a promise that we made to ourselves, to each other, to the American people, to our voters, that before we sent another dollar, another dime or another penny to Ukraine,
00:08:30.560we would, at a minimum, ensure that our own borders were secure, that we would pass something that would compel Joe Biden to actually do what he's been resistant to do all along, which is enforce the border and enforce his hand.
00:08:45.760Yet, here we are, or we've decided to just go ahead and pass a bill, it sends nearly $100 billion to other countries, while the security of our own country languishes and our own borders remain unsecured.
00:09:03.280Now, look, I've warned about the risks of Ukraine becoming the next forever war for the United States, proxy wars where the United States of America is concerned, where any world power is concerned.
00:09:14.400Eventually, eventually have a high likelihood of becoming hot, direct wars, not proxy, but, you know, hot conflicts.
00:09:22.840With talks of a potential 10-year bilateral security guarantee on terms potentially even more generous than even those currently afforded to NATO members, which Ukraine, of course, is not a NATO member,
00:09:37.760the Biden administration's goal of long-term entanglement with Ukraine is becoming abundantly and increasingly clear.
00:09:45.760It's also clear that this is a move to tie the hands of future presidents and of President Trump when he becomes the 47th president of the United States.
00:09:54.400Look, the idea that such an agreement can even be struck entirely by the incumbent president of the United States is laughable, and it's hugely constitutionally problematic.
00:10:07.380It's anti-constitutional, you might say.
00:10:10.140Such an agreement can't amount almost to a treaty and therefore must, without question, be submitted to the Senate as a treaty, and that requires two-thirds supermajority approval to ratify it.
00:10:26.540Meantime, any attempts to circumvent the Senate in that effort should be met with absolute fierce opposition.
00:10:33.700But in the meantime, we're stuck with a real problem in that Republicans made a promise starting, I think, in November or December of last year that we wouldn't be sending more money to Ukraine until we fixed our border, until we tied Joe Biden's hands and made it so he couldn't continue to invite this torrent of invading illegal immigrants to come into our country.
00:10:56.920And we failed, and it's as though a whole lot of Republicans just forgot about the promise and expect their constituents to forget as well.
00:11:06.400And so this is what is so vexing to me and so confusing, I think, to a lot of people out there, is we can see that there isn't an appetite for some, there's not some massive groundswell in the United States saying, oh, we need to defend the Ukrainian borders, we need to defend the Ukrainian borders.
00:11:23.500And I don't mean to moralize the situation. I've been there. I've traveled to these areas. What's going on is horrific.
00:11:29.100But at the same time, the question is, I suppose I should ask it this way, Senator, who's really benefiting from this conflict?
00:11:36.280Because it's not clear to me that it's the Ukrainian people.
00:11:40.340Yeah. In fact, you could say that the Ukrainian people are being thrown into a deeper and deeper conflict that's going to result in even more death and more suffering among the Ukrainian people.
00:11:52.400And that those who benefit are American politicians who enjoy a momentary season of praise after they appropriate nearly $100 billion to send to foreign countries.
00:12:04.460And I suppose the biggest single winner would be the military-industrial complex, which benefits to a very obscenely large degree every time we do something like this.
00:12:16.340So, yeah, they're the winners. It's not at all clear that this is going to make Ukrainians any safer.
00:12:20.740In fact, insofar as you perpetuate a war beyond the season when the incumbent country can afford or can muster the willpower to do it,
00:12:32.000for keeping the war itself on life support through, you know, first $113 billion and now an additional $60 to $61 billion going to Ukraine,
00:12:44.880But what I'm not hearing from anyone, not from the Biden administration, not from any of the pro-Ukraine hawks in the House or in the Senate in either party,
00:12:53.760is a plan for peace, is a plan for how we translate the obscene amounts of money that we've been sending to Ukraine already,
00:13:01.100that we're about to send to Ukraine now under the new legislation.
00:13:03.580And how that translates into the achievement of peace is nowhere to be heard, because I think that's not on their minds at all.
00:15:32.300The American people are never told this by those who are constantly speaking of Ukraine as if it must be treated as a NATO ally.
00:15:40.440And certainly not by those who are formally calling for it.
00:15:45.840They cannot, in good conscience, claim that that's anything other than a call for us to go to war with Russia.
00:15:51.560Now, Senator, do you think, and this is just my analysis looking at it, but I'd love to hear your take.
00:15:57.260Do you think that's why we just saw the news this morning coming out that Russia and potentially Belarus are going to be conducting nuclear drills either this week or coming up very soon?
00:16:07.160Do you believe that's in a response to all this chatter that we've heard from NATO?
00:16:11.880Because that's really the one wild card that they have left, a reminder of, as President Trump likes to say,
00:16:18.820whenever Putin gets pushed into a corner, he says the N-word, nuclear.
00:18:47.040He's warning us all about the danger of escalation with one of, or honestly, the largest nuclear power on the face of the earth.
00:18:57.120President Ronald Reagan understood that the way to peace in the Cold War was to keep it a cold war
00:19:05.240and not get U.S. or NATO troops directly involved in entanglements with the Russian army.
00:19:11.200But, of course, this is now shifting as NATO troops, we're told, more and more are going to be or potentially being looked at for going into Ukraine.
00:19:49.300Russia remains a nuclear power, and it remains a nuclear power that has a lot of warheads.
00:19:54.360And, you know, my view is that we've been cheated on in our nuclear arms treaties with Russia for decades,
00:20:04.120and that they probably have more warheads even than we think.
00:20:09.700But even just the ones that we know about that they acknowledge, they've got enough to blow us off the map many times over.
00:20:15.700Now, it doesn't mean we should never speak ill of Russia.
00:20:18.780It doesn't mean we should never, under any circumstance, push back on Russia.
00:20:22.200But the minute we get involved in a war with Russia, even a proxy war,
00:20:27.660and then the minute that proxy war becomes increasingly escalatory,
00:20:32.360we avoid sending certain weapon systems because they could be used offensively for a long time,
00:20:37.420then we start sending those same weapons, and then even more weapons with even more potential offensive uses.
00:20:43.880We're getting closer and closer to a hot conflict with a nuclear-armed adversary.
00:20:50.940That's not something that we should treat lightly.
00:20:53.860And I feel like too many people in Washington are treating it lightly, and they shouldn't.
00:20:58.300We will do that to our own detriment if this continues.
00:21:00.620And this is an issue because there's so much, call it hubris, call it just being used to being hegemonic overstretch,
00:21:12.480whatever you want to call it, that in Washington, D.C., there doesn't seem to be much of an understanding or at least appreciation for this.
00:21:21.160I mean, I remember, I'm not old enough to have gone through most of the Cold War,
00:21:26.280but I did go through at least one of, you know, the desk drills.
00:21:30.380You remember the desk drills in schools because the Russian bombs were about to,
00:21:34.300I never quite understood why it was that, you know, somehow going under your desk would protect you from a nuclear weapon.
00:38:39.140And they want to embrace bipartisanship instead of actually going out and prioritizing everyday American positions,
00:38:45.300like prioritizing our jobs not going overseas, prioritizing mass deportation like most Americans in most states in this country prioritize.
00:38:54.400They are too scared of that because of the last 25 years of moderation in GOP politics.
00:39:01.460But in order to get a good speaker, in order to get a good majority leader in the Senate,
00:39:05.900in order to actually win races, Republicans have to want to conserve something.
00:39:10.560We are conservatives for a reason, but for some reason, we are just Democrats with an R label when it comes to the House GOP,
00:39:18.200to the Senate GOP, and oftentimes some governors and some state legislators across our country.
00:39:23.220If we want to win, we have to reject moderation when we can, and we have to reject centrism as a party as a whole.
00:39:29.540Like you said, it's okay in some districts to be electorally viable in some districts,
00:39:34.340to exchange positions on some policies and not vote for their most right-wing positions.
00:39:38.140But we cannot let the moderates and the centrists of our party to have impact and to influence solid red Republicans.
00:39:45.400When we can afford to be as right-wing as we can, we need to be, and we need to conserve something and fight for something,
00:39:52.220just like Donald Trump is in the courtroom in New York.
00:39:56.340And look, this is what it really comes down to.
00:39:59.240Do people have the stomach for the fight?