Rebel News Podcast - Bernie or Biden？ US Democratic primaries are down to the socialist and the “doddering” one-time VP

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I've got a fun recap of the Democratic presidential primaries in the

00:00:07.420 states. And obviously, I support Donald Trump and regard myself as a Republican, even though

00:00:13.280 I'm a Canadian. I'm not a member of any U.S. party. Obviously, my sympathies are with them.

00:00:18.580 But I got to tell you, it has been so entertaining watching the Democratic Party. I've been

00:00:23.740 riveted to it, and I think everyone has, I think. I'm going to take you through some of my favorite

00:00:28.840 moments of the campaign. I think I've got 10 clips for you that really tell the story.

00:00:34.720 Some of them you've got to see with your own eyes. There's one of Michael Bloomberg

00:00:38.460 touching a pizza and licking his fingers and then touching the pizza again. Oh, my God. I mean,

00:00:49.280 oh, so you've got to see it. So you can get some of it on the podcast version, but you've got to get

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00:01:08.160 and it's really easy to find a subscribe button. Eight bucks a month. And you'll see the video part,

00:01:14.000 too. Okay, here's the rest of the audio podcast. Tonight, what just happened in the U.S. Democratic

00:01:35.140 primaries? I'll show you some video clips that help tell the story. It's March 4th,

00:01:40.060 and this is The Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon

00:01:46.380 consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing

00:01:52.020 I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right

00:01:56.620 to do so. I normally rely on U.S. experts like our friend Joel Pollack to dissect what's going on

00:02:08.720 in U.S. politics, and Joel is particularly good because he really follows the Democratic Party.

00:02:14.360 He goes to their events, I mean. He talks to them. He tries to understand them on their terms.

00:02:19.540 He's not a partisan Republican sniper. He's not into gotcha or unfair criticisms. He's obviously

00:02:25.400 conservative in his ideology, and he supports Trump, but it's not blind love for Trump, and it's not at

00:02:31.040 the expense of his journalistic and intellectual integrity. I really rely on Joel for the Democrats.

00:02:36.480 I'd like to think that I, personally, would give Democrats credit where it's due, too,

00:02:42.320 but to be candid with you, I'm having trouble sympathizing with any of their candidates right

00:02:47.300 now. I like Tulsi Gabbard, but I admit that some of that is just aesthetic. I like the fact that

00:02:54.060 she's young and attractive and a military veteran who's actually served. I like the fact that she

00:02:59.600 bucks the Democratic Party's establishment, and she even sued Hillary Clinton when Clinton alleged that 0.95

00:03:05.120 Tulsi is a Russian agent or something. Imagine a life of military service and then servicing Congress

00:03:12.840 and having Clinton call you a traitor, the same Hillary Clinton whose Clinton Global Foundation 0.97

00:03:19.920 accepted literally hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments and corporations

00:03:24.040 during Clinton's time as Secretary of State, clearly for political and business quid pro quo.

00:03:29.400 I like Tulsi just for that, but alas, she never took hold. Perhaps it was because she was from Hawaii, 0.90

00:03:36.900 a small and remote state. Perhaps it's because the Democratic establishment just refused and rigged the

00:03:43.440 rules of their party debates. In fact, they changed them again today in a way to rule her out, but to let 0.93

00:03:48.580 others like Tom Steyer in. He's the California billionaire who tried to buy his way in, and he did buy his way

00:03:57.140 into various debates. Oh, well, too bad. Let me play for you my video, my just one last video of Tulsi Gabbard,

00:04:05.200 just because it's so cute. Look at this.

00:04:07.580 Where I live, there are rainbows, with life in the laughter of morning and starry nights.

00:04:23.640 That's her husband, by the way, if you didn't get that. I gotta tell you, they're quirky, but they're real.

00:04:48.400 I liked that she didn't indulge the madness of her party, too, by the way. She voted present, I think,

00:04:53.880 or abstain or something neutral on the impeachment vote, which shows some sanity. But alas, she is not

00:05:00.800 a contender, so let's look at who was. I mentioned that Tom Steyer, the global warming-obsessed

00:05:06.700 impeachment-obsessed billionaire, tried to buy his way into the race, and he did, in fact, buy his way

00:05:11.980 onto the stage. He was cardboard, though. He dropped out. But what about this guy? That guy

00:05:19.720 is actually, can you see it there, the meatball in the front? That is a meatball that looks like

00:05:26.340 Michael Bloomberg, who doesn't just have $1 billion like Tom Steyer. Bloomberg's estimated to be worth

00:05:34.700 more than $60 billion, and he spent it like mad, including on that meatball meme. Bloomberg bought

00:05:41.800 that and paid for that. He spent his money on anything. He bought weird ads, anything. Really,

00:05:47.120 anyone with an idea could sell it to him. It was a miracle for ad agencies. Look at this one.

00:05:53.380 Donald Trump eats burnt steak. Mike Bloomberg likes his media wear. I mean, Bloomberg is 78 years old,

00:06:00.520 and he has more than $60 billion. Let's say he lives another 10 years. May he live many more.

00:06:06.360 But let's say he lives 10 years. That's still $6 billion a year he could spend. Actually, more,

00:06:13.100 since Bloomberg's wealth is still increasing. That means Bloomberg could spend $500 million

00:06:18.780 every month and still not spend all of his money. So he literally thought,

00:06:27.780 buy anything and everything, any kooky idea, every kooky idea. He just said yes,

00:06:33.180 because money is literally no object to him. I've been in the U.S. a little bit in recent months,

00:06:38.680 and wherever you go, if there's a TV on in the background, you know, a lot of restaurants and

00:06:43.460 bars have a TV on. You can't escape Mike Bloomberg and his TV ads just everywhere. He dropped between

00:06:50.380 $500 million and $700 million in just a couple months. I don't know the final figures.

00:06:56.640 And yet it was a disaster. He just didn't move the needle. I think he won American Samoa.

00:07:04.800 Not sure how that happened. He literally could have offered every Democratic Party delegate $10 million

00:07:11.500 cash to vote for him, and he would have done better and spent less money.

00:07:16.340 He was a bit weird, as billionaires can be. Look at this. This is a video his own team released.

00:07:23.820 If you didn't know who this guy was, and he was at the community picnic touching all the food and

00:07:29.580 then licking all of his fingers and then touching the food again, you'd say, ooh, gross, smarten up.

00:07:37.600 Don't do that. Don't double dip. Don't lick your fingers and touch everything in this era of

00:07:42.000 coronavirus. But when the weirdo licking and touching and licking and touching is worth $60

00:07:48.680 billion, no one around him says anything because they're either scared of him or more likely looking

00:07:56.600 to ingratiate themselves with him. He's had lots of weird moments like that that made him, I think,

00:08:02.520 weird and unlikable. Like this one. Did you see this?

00:08:05.240 You spent a lot of time in Texas? Tejas, we'd say here. Tejas. Tejas. That's Spanish for Texas.

00:08:14.500 Okay. You're in a Cuban neighborhood, so you've got to know where you're on.

00:08:20.780 Yeah, man. Woo! You just... Tejas. That's what we say here. I read my briefing notes from my PR agency,

00:08:31.140 and they said to call it Tejas, because everyone does. Don't mess with Tejas. Have you been to Dallas, Tejas?

00:08:40.740 Oh, my God. Yeah, no. Bloomberg makes Mark Zuckerberg look lifelike and human.

00:08:49.700 Bloomberg is many times richer than Donald Trump, who is also a billionaire.

00:08:53.540 And by many measures, look, Bloomberg is more successful than Trump, but Trump, at least, is a human.

00:09:01.180 He knows how to fight and to laugh and to fight while laughing and laugh while fighting.

00:09:05.380 Like this, that Trump said just last weekend in his speech at the CPAC convention I was at.

00:09:10.920 She was really mean to Minnie Mike, I'll tell you, the way she treated her. 1.00

00:09:15.220 He didn't know what hit him.

00:09:16.240 He's going, oh, get me off of this stage.

00:09:21.320 Get me off! Get me off of this stage! 1.00

00:09:29.180 I'm sorry. Don't tell me you didn't laugh. That's funny.

00:09:32.120 I don't care what you think of Trump. You have to admit he has a comedian's timing.

00:09:35.940 He's a quick wit. He's an entertainer.

00:09:38.060 He wouldn't say, oh, they call it Tejas.

00:09:41.620 What?

00:09:42.020 Now, Trump was talking there in that little clip about how Elizabeth Warren took Bloomberg out to the woodshed in the debates a few weeks ago.

00:09:50.600 It was amazing.

00:09:52.120 I showed you this clip the other day. Remember this?

00:09:54.360 The mayor has to stand on his record.

00:09:57.140 And what we need to know is exactly what's lurking out there.

00:10:00.640 He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements, 0.95

00:10:06.700 both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.

00:10:12.020 So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements

00:10:17.840 so we can hear their side of the story?

00:10:20.540 We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.

00:10:31.820 How many is there?

00:10:32.560 Let me finish.

00:10:33.300 How many is there?

00:10:34.000 None of them accused me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.

00:10:39.920 And let me just put – and let me point – there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them.

00:10:48.100 They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.

00:10:50.360 So, wait, when you say it is – I just want to be clear.

00:10:53.980 Some is how many?

00:10:56.860 And when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege,

00:11:08.340 that's now okay with you? You're releasing them on television tonight?

00:11:11.400 Senator – Senator, no.

00:11:12.920 Is that right?

00:11:16.460 Senator –

00:11:17.060 Is that right tonight?

00:11:17.880 Senator, the company and somebody else, in this case, a man or a woman, or it could be more than that,

00:11:23.400 they decided when they made an agreement that they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interest.

00:11:28.180 They signed the agreements, and that's what we're going to live with.

00:11:30.420 I'm sorry.

00:11:31.320 No, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you? 0.96

00:11:36.500 And you could release them from that immediately, because understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character.

00:11:44.800 This is also a question about –

00:11:47.380 I've got to tell you, that was deadly.

00:11:51.060 As Nigel Farage put it in a tweet just today, only ideas and personality win in politics, and you can't buy those with money.

00:12:01.500 I don't know about you, but I found it deeply comforting that a guy who dumped, I don't know, $700 million,

00:12:08.200 and remember, that's U.S. money, so that's almost a billion Canadian dollars,

00:12:14.440 he couldn't move the needle in a democracy.

00:12:17.200 And whatever Tom Steyer, the billionaire, spent – isn't that comforting?

00:12:20.640 I mean, seriously, I thought it was.

00:12:22.440 And it shows what a hoax the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing was. 0.97

00:12:25.880 As you know, in the end, the Russians spent just over $100,000 in Facebook ads in the 2016 U.S. election,

00:12:33.080 and the media claimed that rigged the election.

00:12:35.780 Hey, $700 million didn't rig the election.

00:12:39.160 Now, Pete Buttigieg was really odd as a candidate, I thought.

00:12:43.600 He looked like he was made in a lab, too.

00:12:46.280 Bloomberg was weird, but he was weird in his own quirky way, like Howard Hughes, maybe,

00:12:53.040 like a recluse billionaire, but Buttigieg was weird in a robotic way.

00:12:59.140 He obviously studied and tried to mimic Barack Obama.

00:13:03.260 The way we do every other election, by giving it to the person who got the most votes.

00:13:06.880 Just a thought.

00:13:08.680 Because this country was built.

00:13:11.800 It is a movement reaching into church basements,

00:13:14.360 and in our schools, and in our universities, and with our kids.

00:13:17.620 And if we can line up the neighborhoods, and we can line up the city.

00:13:21.140 Shining as a beacon around the world once more.

00:13:24.020 And this is our chance to change.

00:13:25.160 This is our chance to answer that call.

00:13:26.480 Yeah, something odd about him.

00:13:28.040 I think he was with the CIA.

00:13:30.500 I got nothing against a guy who works for the CIA, per se,

00:13:33.900 although it feels like he's living a life as an alias, as a cover story.

00:13:38.920 He just didn't seem real.

00:13:40.580 He really felt phony.

00:13:41.620 So much so that the New York Times, of all people, basically called him out.

00:13:46.580 Take a look at this.

00:13:47.520 You've been on the front lines of corporate price fixing.

00:13:49.880 You've been on the front lines of our misadventures in foreign policy.

00:13:55.280 You've had direct experience of many of the things

00:13:57.940 that make a lot of young people very angry

00:14:00.320 about the way that this country is operating right now.

00:14:04.080 You don't seem to embody that anger.

00:14:06.680 So the proposition that I've been on the front lines of corporate price fixing is

00:14:09.620 just to get that out of the way.

00:14:11.740 You worked for a company that was fixing bread prices.

00:14:15.320 No.

00:14:16.060 I worked for a consulting company that had a client

00:14:18.600 that may have been involved in fixing, or was apparently in a scandal.

00:14:23.140 I was not aware of the Canadian bread pricing scandal until last night.

00:14:27.940 Hmm.

00:14:28.860 They didn't like him, and they like every Democrat.

00:14:32.560 There's another candidate named Amy Klobuchar who dropped out quickly, too.

00:14:36.420 Almost all of them dropped out and pledged their support to Joe Biden at the same time.

00:14:40.220 Biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not.

00:14:45.520 Yeah.

00:14:47.140 Buttigieg, Klobuchar, even Beto O'Rourke, remember him?

00:14:50.800 He dropped out earlier.

00:14:51.920 All of a sudden, they all assembled next to Joe Biden on the same day.

00:14:57.940 This was before last night's Super Tuesday vote.

00:15:01.420 And that was the point.

00:15:02.320 The Democratic Party establishment was getting all the moderate candidates out of the race

00:15:07.960 to coalesce behind Joe Biden, but leaving Elizabeth Warren, the leftist activist, in 1.00

00:15:13.840 to split Bernie Sanders' radical left vote.

00:15:17.940 She has no chance of winning.

00:15:19.420 Zero chance.

00:15:20.400 But last night, she surely cost Bernie lots of support in key states like Texas and California.

00:15:27.200 So it was smart to leave her in for the Biden-Democrat establishment.

00:15:31.940 Remember how it worked for Donald Trump four years ago?

00:15:35.120 Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination in much the same way.

00:15:39.800 He was the only interesting guy, and he was running against more than a dozen competitors.

00:15:44.880 So the vote split between one Trump and many anti-Trump candidates, establishment candidates.

00:15:51.380 So he won even without a majority at first.

00:15:54.840 The Democrats are trying to stop that dynamic to make it one moderate, Joe Biden, as the

00:16:01.240 anti-Bernie.

00:16:02.700 And to keep Elizabeth Warren in to split the hard left vote. 1.00

00:16:05.780 They're trying to flip the dynamics around on Bernie Sanders.

00:16:08.460 Now, Bloomberg stayed in just long enough to realize that his $700 million campaign wasn't

00:16:13.800 working and wouldn't work.

00:16:15.520 He had to find out for himself, I guess.

00:16:17.420 So now it's down to two, really.

00:16:19.540 Yeah, Elizabeth Warren is in there, but not really.

00:16:21.560 It's down to two.

00:16:22.860 Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

00:16:25.200 The others remaining aren't really serious.

00:16:26.880 And you know what?

00:16:28.540 Joe Biden is actually in the lead now.

00:16:30.640 And I'm pretty sure he's going to win.

00:16:33.160 They'll arrange it that way, like they arranged for Hillary Clinton to beat Bernie Sanders last

00:16:37.740 time.

00:16:38.140 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:16:39.320 That's what they did with intricate insider rules last time.

00:16:42.920 It was that superdelegates could overcome the foolish choice of mere Democratic Party

00:16:48.380 members.

00:16:49.400 So they replaced Bernie Sanders last time, a radical socialist, who for years wasn't even

00:16:55.200 really a Democrat.

00:16:56.000 You know, Bernie Sanders wasn't in the Democratic Party.

00:16:58.320 He was in the Socialist Party.

00:17:00.080 But Bernie Sanders, from an electoral point of view, at least he had passion and authenticity.

00:17:04.440 They replaced him with an evil robot, Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:17:08.320 At least Bloomberg is a goofy robot.

00:17:11.500 And Tom Steyer and Pete Buttigieg are bland robots.

00:17:15.560 Clinton was an unlikable robot. 0.61

00:17:17.940 And those are the worst kind of robots.

00:17:19.940 So now the option is Joe Biden, who is likable.

00:17:23.720 He's losing his marbles.

00:17:25.420 Sorry to say it.

00:17:26.260 He is.

00:17:27.000 But he's usually likable.

00:17:29.520 Usually.

00:17:30.780 Now, he's 77 years old.

00:17:33.220 Bloomberg is 78 years old.

00:17:35.620 Bernie Sanders is 78 years old, too.

00:17:38.560 Trump is 73.

00:17:39.780 But I got to say he feels 63 to me in terms of his energy level.

00:17:44.560 Bernie had a heart attack on the campaign already.

00:17:48.720 And I'm not sure about Biden.

00:17:50.140 But remember, look at that eye.

00:17:51.260 Look at his eye there.

00:17:52.180 Strange things happen to him.

00:17:53.120 In one of the debates, suddenly his eye was full of blood.

00:17:56.980 It was terrifying.

00:17:57.940 I don't know what that meant.

00:17:58.640 Was it just a tiny little blood vessel burst?

00:18:00.440 And why?

00:18:00.860 I don't know.

00:18:01.520 But mainly, I think Joe Biden's losing it a bit.

00:18:06.940 Forgetting what day it is.

00:18:08.020 Forgetting what place he's in.

00:18:09.100 What state he's in.

00:18:10.160 Now, maybe that's excusable.

00:18:11.400 He's flying around so much.

00:18:13.800 But I don't know.

00:18:14.760 Is this normal?

00:18:17.620 Look, tomorrow is Super Thursday.

00:18:20.820 And I want to thank you all.

00:18:23.080 I tell you what, I'm rushing ahead, aren't I?

00:18:24.800 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability.

00:18:33.980 It would put 720 million back, million women back in the workforce. 1.00

00:18:40.320 Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.

00:18:43.560 My name's Joe Biden.

00:18:44.780 I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.

00:18:47.320 What's not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?

00:18:50.240 And what a neat town.

00:18:51.900 Play the radio.

00:18:52.860 Make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.

00:18:57.680 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. 1.00

00:19:01.080 We choose science over fiction.

00:19:03.220 We choose truth over facts.

00:19:05.800 Think about it.

00:19:06.780 We hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:19:09.500 All men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing. 0.99

00:19:13.560 Yeah, I do know the thing.

00:19:17.480 So Biden is 77.

00:19:19.240 He would be 78 years old when inaugurated if he wins.

00:19:23.960 I just don't see it.

00:19:25.560 Him going full tilt, global travel, 18-hour work days like Trump does.

00:19:31.220 I just don't see it with Joe Biden.

00:19:32.660 Biden is likable, so that's a plus.

00:19:34.440 It's odd, though, that Barack Obama, who endorsed Justin Trudeau, for heaven's sakes,

00:19:38.900 hasn't quite fully, really endorsed Joe Biden yet, has he?

00:19:44.340 But here's an official ad rolled out by Bernie Sanders.

00:19:48.280 Bernie is somebody who has the virtue of saying exactly what he believes,

00:19:54.120 great authenticity, great passion, and is fearless.

00:19:57.920 Bernie served on the Veterans Committee and got bills done.

00:20:00.480 I think people are ready for a call to action.

00:20:05.360 They want honest leadership who cares about them.

00:20:08.500 They want somebody who's going to fight for them.

00:20:10.540 And they will find it in Bernie.

00:20:12.640 That's where I feel the burn.

00:20:15.360 I'm Bernie Sanders.

00:20:16.560 If you're a lefty, that's inspiring, I think.

00:20:20.640 Here's another one-minute Bernie Sanders ad.

00:20:23.140 I know it's socialism and group identity politics,

00:20:26.300 but again, there's energy and authenticity and passion here.

00:20:30.000 Take a look.

00:20:30.640 With these hands, we will rise.

00:20:35.260 With these hands, we will transform this country.

00:20:40.100 With these hands, we will have Medicare for all.

00:20:44.200 With these hands, we will have college for all.

00:20:48.060 With these hands, we will have criminal justice reform.

00:20:52.820 With these hands, we will strike down the vestiges of racism

00:20:57.380 and discrimination and homophobia and xenophobia.

00:21:00.560 With these hands, be we black or brown or red or white or yellow

00:21:08.420 or the swirl in between.

00:21:11.400 With these hands, we will elect Senator Bernie Sanders

00:21:16.700 as the next president of the United States of America.

00:21:25.400 Now, look, Bernie isn't pure. 0.90

00:21:27.440 As Bloomberg himself pointed out,

00:21:30.180 Bernie doesn't rage against millionaires anymore,

00:21:33.000 just against billionaires,

00:21:34.460 because Bernie himself has become a millionaire

00:21:38.000 with three houses.

00:21:40.220 What a wonderful country we have.

00:21:46.640 The best-known socialists in the country

00:21:48.380 happens to be a millionaire with three houses.

00:21:50.440 What did I miss here?

00:21:53.340 But still, as Washington lifers go,

00:21:55.700 Bernie is relatively clean, not so for Joe Biden.

00:21:59.560 Joe Biden's family cashes in

00:22:01.420 and has for years, like Hillary Clinton and Bill would do.

00:22:06.220 Joe Biden would make a political move,

00:22:07.940 and his son and other family members

00:22:09.920 would monetize it in the private sector.

00:22:13.100 Yeah, right.

00:22:14.060 Joe Biden, for example, threatened Ukraine

00:22:16.480 if they didn't do what he said,

00:22:18.220 like calling off a prosecutor

00:22:19.620 from investigating corruption.

00:22:21.680 Do you remember this?

00:22:22.720 I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev,

00:22:27.280 and I was supposed to announce

00:22:29.860 that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.

00:22:33.140 And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko

00:22:35.980 and from Yatzenyuk

00:22:38.760 that they would take action

00:22:39.900 against a state prosecutor, and they didn't.

00:22:42.520 So they said they were walking out to the press conference,

00:22:44.760 said, no, I said, I'm not going to,

00:22:46.340 we're not going to give you the billion dollars.

00:22:49.220 They said, you have no authority.

00:22:50.680 You're not the president.

00:22:51.500 The president said, I said, call him.

00:22:54.420 I said, I'm telling you,

00:22:55.400 you're not getting the billion dollars.

00:22:57.160 I said, you're not getting the billion?

00:22:58.560 I'm going to be leaving here,

00:22:59.560 and I think it was, what, six hours?

00:23:00.900 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.

00:23:02.440 If the prosecutor's not fired,

00:23:04.480 you're not getting the money.

00:23:05.960 Oh, son of a bitch.

00:23:07.980 You got fired.

00:23:09.200 And they put in place someone who was solid.

00:23:13.600 Bit of a quid pro quo there, wasn't there?

00:23:16.120 It just so happens that Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden,

00:23:20.660 went to Ukraine to offer his services

00:23:22.960 for $50,000 a month

00:23:26.640 to a Ukrainian energy company,

00:23:29.300 despite having no experience or expertise.

00:23:31.820 It was all meddled up

00:23:32.840 with what Joe Biden was doing politically.

00:23:35.500 Same sort of thing happened

00:23:36.580 when Biden went to China.

00:23:38.600 He literally had his family

00:23:40.520 on the plane with him

00:23:42.140 because they arrived

00:23:43.320 to make parallel deals.

00:23:45.760 Here's another clip.

00:23:47.340 A 2013 trip to China,

00:23:49.600 getting new attention this morning,

00:23:51.100 not for what Joe Biden did,

00:23:53.040 but for who he brought with him.

00:23:55.160 His son, Hunter,

00:23:56.400 joining the then vice president

00:23:57.760 on the official visit to Beijing,

00:23:59.500 along with Hunter's daughter, Finnegan.

00:24:01.820 Unknown to the press back then,

00:24:03.380 Hunter Biden was forming

00:24:04.480 a Chinese private equity fund,

00:24:06.600 planning to raise money,

00:24:07.860 including from Chinese investors.

00:24:09.660 Years later,

00:24:10.340 Hunter Biden acknowledged

00:24:11.440 that during the trip,

00:24:12.700 he met with a Chinese banker,

00:24:14.300 which his spokesperson describes

00:24:15.680 as a social visit,

00:24:17.060 not a business one.

00:24:17.960 Ten days after the Biden's trip,

00:24:20.840 Shanghai authorities issued

00:24:22.140 the fund's business license.

00:24:25.100 Hmm.

00:24:26.420 So that's the Democrats' choice now.

00:24:29.500 Bernie the socialist

00:24:30.500 or Joe Biden,

00:24:32.740 the doddering corrupt insider.

00:24:36.120 I'm worried about both.

00:24:37.660 Bernie is a radical,

00:24:38.480 a socialist, a leftist,

00:24:39.880 a Cuba lover

00:24:40.900 who literally took his honeymoon

00:24:43.640 in the Soviet Union.

00:24:46.980 That's real.

00:24:47.760 That really happened.

00:24:49.880 Or, on the other hand,

00:24:50.920 Joe Biden,

00:24:51.480 which means all the deep state folks

00:24:53.400 really pulling the strings again.

00:24:54.700 I mean,

00:24:55.280 you don't really think

00:24:56.240 he'd be making the decisions

00:24:57.440 himself, do you?

00:24:58.560 You can't even remember

00:24:59.300 what day it is.

00:25:00.320 It would be deep state

00:25:01.480 plus his family scammers

00:25:04.240 raking it in by the billion.

00:25:07.380 So, yeah,

00:25:08.680 I'm for Trump.

00:25:10.300 How about you?

00:25:10.920 Stay with us for more.

00:25:13.640 Welcome back.

00:25:25.920 Hey, do you remember

00:25:26.640 this very excruciating

00:25:29.920 attempt at a walking interview

00:25:32.820 by our own Kian Bexty

00:25:35.380 in Washington, D.C.?

00:25:36.800 Take a look.

00:25:37.960 Ilhan, if I could get

00:25:38.820 a moment of your time,

00:25:40.460 if I could get a moment

00:25:41.420 of your time,

00:25:41.900 could you tell me

00:25:43.400 why you filed

00:25:44.160 illegal tax returns

00:25:45.300 in 2014 and 2015?

00:25:47.680 And it's which committee?

00:25:50.900 Can you tell me

00:25:51.660 definitively or not

00:25:52.880 is Ahmad Elsie

00:25:54.000 your brother?

00:25:54.900 For the MACA?

00:25:55.940 Is he your brother in the middle

00:25:57.840 of the legislative briefing?

00:25:58.700 We're going to the...

00:25:59.700 We're going to the...

00:26:00.780 Is he your brother?

00:26:01.660 We're going to which one?

00:26:04.120 It's foreign affairs.

00:26:05.900 I'll go with you.

00:26:08.140 Can you tell me definitively,

00:26:09.580 yes or no,

00:26:10.300 is he your brother?

00:26:11.200 And why can't you answer

00:26:12.240 that question?

00:26:13.280 The remarks you gave him

00:26:14.520 earlier.

00:26:14.820 Why did you refer to him

00:26:16.200 as your child's uncle

00:26:17.780 on Instagram?

00:26:19.240 And why did you lie

00:26:20.080 on court documents

00:26:21.900 saying that you hadn't

00:26:22.600 seen him since 2011

00:26:24.000 when in fact you'd been

00:26:25.140 talking to him all the time

00:26:25.960 on Instagram?

00:26:26.540 Sir, we're not doing

00:26:27.180 ambush interviews?

00:26:28.200 This isn't an ambush.

00:26:29.600 You can send me an email.

00:26:32.040 Why are you so afraid

00:26:33.060 to answer these questions?

00:26:34.680 I got to tell you,

00:26:35.740 if someone asked me

00:26:36.640 if I had married my sister,

00:26:38.080 my first reaction would be

00:26:39.060 explosive laughter.

00:26:40.960 I'd say, what?

00:26:41.500 And then if they were serious,

00:26:43.300 I'd say, no, of course not.

00:26:44.760 I found it extremely odd

00:26:46.300 that she would not answer

00:26:47.420 those questions.

00:26:48.300 But there are many odd things

00:26:49.700 about Ilhan Omar,

00:26:51.560 the hijabi Muslim migrant

00:26:53.700 to the United States

00:26:54.740 who is now a congresswoman.

00:26:57.400 Kian has done some great work

00:26:58.920 trying to get answers

00:27:00.300 on the scene.

00:27:01.680 But now there's a new book

00:27:03.060 with the wonderful name

00:27:04.780 American Ingrate 0.95

00:27:07.540 that I think just perfectly

00:27:09.140 sums up Ilhan Omar.

00:27:11.500 And we're glad to be joined now

00:27:13.380 via Skype from New York City

00:27:14.700 with the author

00:27:15.620 of American Ingrate,

00:27:17.480 Benjamin Weingarten,

00:27:18.860 who is also a senior contributor

00:27:21.060 at The Federalist.

00:27:22.520 Welcome to the channel,

00:27:24.000 American Ingrate. 0.85

00:27:24.800 I have to compliment you.

00:27:26.760 That's how she strikes me.

00:27:28.620 Someone who left

00:27:29.380 the world's worst country

00:27:31.560 by any measure, Somalia,

00:27:34.400 came to one of the world's

00:27:35.740 best countries, America,

00:27:37.900 was given everything,

00:27:39.100 has high privileges and status,

00:27:41.500 and yet so clearly

00:27:42.880 despises her new home.

00:27:44.980 American Ingrate, 0.67

00:27:46.040 that's just perfect.

00:27:47.980 Well, Ezra,

00:27:49.060 thanks for having me

00:27:49.920 and appreciate the praise

00:27:51.580 on the title,

00:27:52.400 which I agree really gets

00:27:54.340 to the core of

00:27:55.360 what so irks people

00:27:56.700 about Ilhan Omar,

00:27:58.280 someone who has risen

00:27:59.180 to the height of power

00:28:00.740 in Washington, D.C.,

00:28:01.880 as not only a congresswoman

00:28:04.160 who sits on the House

00:28:05.200 Foreign Affairs Committee

00:28:06.140 dealing with her most sensitive

00:28:07.480 national security

00:28:08.800 and foreign policy information,

00:28:10.580 but as well as someone

00:28:11.620 who is the co-chair

00:28:12.740 for Bernie Sanders' campaign

00:28:14.480 in the all-important state

00:28:16.020 of Minnesota in 2020,

00:28:17.940 someone who's put out

00:28:18.700 a battery of bills

00:28:19.940 that Ben Rhodes,

00:28:21.520 the former National Security

00:28:22.900 Council official

00:28:23.620 from the Obama administration,

00:28:25.180 has called

00:28:25.640 the new progressive baseline.

00:28:28.140 And the fact

00:28:28.760 we can't even get basic answers

00:28:30.920 about this alleged

00:28:32.420 and I think heavily substantiated

00:28:35.060 issue of marriage fraud

00:28:37.580 associated with potentially

00:28:38.680 marrying her brother,

00:28:39.940 which implicates also

00:28:40.920 immigration issues,

00:28:42.740 perjury,

00:28:43.840 all manner of other crimes

00:28:45.280 as well,

00:28:46.540 is a remarkable thing.

00:28:48.280 And I will say

00:28:49.120 that after this book came out,

00:28:51.020 reflecting the fact

00:28:52.040 that she and her camp

00:28:53.680 have never grappled

00:28:54.720 with these issues

00:28:55.320 and may never grapple

00:28:56.260 with these issues,

00:28:57.160 is that within days,

00:28:58.520 her campaign put out

00:28:59.480 a fundraising email

00:29:00.960 in which they claimed

00:29:02.200 that my book

00:29:03.200 was incitement

00:29:04.880 and I was trying

00:29:06.120 to incite violence

00:29:07.300 against her

00:29:08.100 as an Islamophobe

00:29:09.900 and she threw 1.00

00:29:10.800 all sorts of other

00:29:11.620 invective at me

00:29:12.680 when this is a book

00:29:13.820 with 1,200 endnotes

00:29:15.140 that is heavily,

00:29:17.000 diligently substantiated

00:29:18.500 and grapples with

00:29:19.940 all manner of issues

00:29:20.740 regarding Ilhan Omar.

00:29:21.920 Her background plays

00:29:22.880 just one small part

00:29:23.980 in one chapter

00:29:24.740 and that alone illustrates

00:29:26.280 the danger of Ilhan Omar

00:29:27.520 that these compromising issues

00:29:29.180 are barely a footnote

00:29:30.480 in her entire record

00:29:31.780 and the fact

00:29:32.300 that she would attack anyone

00:29:33.420 who dares subject her

00:29:34.820 to the same scrutiny

00:29:35.700 that every American

00:29:36.840 elected official

00:29:37.480 should be subjected to

00:29:38.500 reflects the fact

00:29:39.640 that she doesn't want us

00:29:40.460 to know the truth about her.

00:29:41.960 Yeah, you said a lot

00:29:43.220 of things there

00:29:43.860 but the fact

00:29:44.440 that she would imply

00:29:46.080 that your book

00:29:48.840 about her

00:29:49.600 is some sort of

00:29:50.420 call to violence,

00:29:51.520 it's incredible.

00:29:52.420 Let me play a few clips

00:29:53.560 that you referred to

00:29:54.640 in your book.

00:29:55.780 One is when she calls

00:29:56.800 9-11

00:29:57.600 the worst terrorist attack

00:29:59.800 in American history,

00:30:00.580 the worst death toll

00:30:01.760 in America

00:30:02.220 since the attack

00:30:05.960 on Pearl Harbor.

00:30:07.260 Some people did something.

00:30:09.280 Here, take a quick look

00:30:10.040 at that.

00:30:10.680 Some people did something?

00:30:12.660 Just so blasé.

00:30:14.560 I want to show you

00:30:15.060 one more thing.

00:30:16.320 She was doing a TV show

00:30:18.420 and she called,

00:30:19.720 she praised Al-Qaeda,

00:30:21.880 how people even say Al-Qaeda.

00:30:24.380 Take a quick look at this.

00:30:26.320 And so it was,

00:30:27.020 the thing that was interesting

00:30:28.620 in the class

00:30:29.520 was every time

00:30:31.360 the professor

00:30:33.060 said Al-Qaeda,

00:30:34.400 he sort of like,

00:30:35.580 his shoulders went up

00:30:36.780 and, you know,

00:30:37.420 it was sort of like,

00:30:38.000 Al-Qaeda, you know,

00:30:39.680 hospital.

00:30:40.000 He's an expert.

00:30:41.740 Thanks for letting me

00:30:42.440 show those clips,

00:30:43.200 Benjamin.

00:30:43.600 My point is,

00:30:45.480 she has the audacity

00:30:47.060 to imply that you

00:30:48.300 support violence

00:30:49.740 when she either praises

00:30:52.080 the honor of Al-Qaeda 1.00

00:30:53.640 or writes off 9-11

00:30:55.260 as us.

00:30:55.740 Some people did something.

00:30:57.640 Yeah, she treats

00:30:58.700 a disaster,

00:31:00.120 a jihadist attack

00:31:01.060 perpetrated on Americans

00:31:02.200 so flippantly.

00:31:03.780 And then actually,

00:31:04.720 if you read the full

00:31:05.860 context of her remarks,

00:31:07.100 because she'll always

00:31:07.820 claim that her quotes

00:31:09.160 are taken out of context,

00:31:10.380 what she's actually

00:31:11.020 trying to argue

00:31:11.720 in that clip

00:31:12.500 is that Muslims

00:31:13.820 were the real victims

00:31:14.800 because they were brought

00:31:16.460 under the scrutiny

00:31:17.180 of American law enforcement

00:31:18.660 after 9-11.

00:31:20.360 And she frequently

00:31:21.280 portrays herself

00:31:22.060 as the victim

00:31:22.920 as she did

00:31:23.840 in response

00:31:24.600 to my own book.

00:31:26.200 And as for Al-Qaeda,

00:31:27.360 it's even worse

00:31:28.120 than just the notion

00:31:29.200 of trying to create

00:31:30.560 legitimacy.

00:31:31.700 But she argues

00:31:32.560 in that clip

00:31:33.260 that Al-Qaeda 1.00

00:31:33.860 is essentially

00:31:34.520 somehow morally equivalent

00:31:35.940 to the U.S. military,

00:31:37.360 for example.

00:31:38.420 This is someone

00:31:38.900 who sits on the

00:31:39.580 House Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:31:41.340 It's absolutely remarkable

00:31:43.020 that someone

00:31:43.760 could have access

00:31:44.940 to our most sensitive

00:31:45.840 national security

00:31:46.680 and foreign policy information

00:31:47.940 with views like these.

00:31:49.960 And as I delve

00:31:50.580 into at great length

00:31:51.660 an American ingrate 0.51

00:31:52.540 in a time where

00:31:53.420 we are so concerned

00:31:54.320 in America,

00:31:54.980 supposedly,

00:31:55.760 about foreign interference

00:31:56.880 and collusion

00:31:57.740 in our elections

00:31:58.960 and our political system,

00:32:00.680 Ilhan Omar has

00:32:01.600 substantial ties

00:32:02.880 to Islamists,

00:32:04.040 both domestic

00:32:04.700 in terms of terror-tied groups

00:32:06.480 like the Council

00:32:07.340 on American-Islamic relations,

00:32:09.040 as well as foreign,

00:32:10.260 including leadership

00:32:11.040 in both the Turkish

00:32:12.160 and Somali governments

00:32:13.580 as well.

00:32:14.040 I added an op-ed

00:32:14.780 in the New York Post

00:32:15.480 about her ties

00:32:16.560 to the Erdogan regime

00:32:17.800 just about a week ago.

00:32:19.740 It is truly staggering

00:32:20.860 when you consider

00:32:21.720 not just her rhetoric,

00:32:22.960 but her actions

00:32:23.820 and her associations

00:32:24.980 as well,

00:32:25.820 that this is someone

00:32:26.660 who is a leading light

00:32:28.140 in the Democratic Party today.

00:32:29.500 Yeah, well,

00:32:30.580 that's the incredible thing

00:32:31.680 is that, listen,

00:32:33.200 if she was elected

00:32:34.380 in a heavily Somali district

00:32:36.660 in Minnesota,

00:32:37.880 there's only so many things

00:32:39.340 that the broader

00:32:40.900 political establishment

00:32:41.820 can do about that.

00:32:43.040 If you have mass

00:32:43.980 Muslim immigration

00:32:45.320 that ghettoizes itself, 0.68

00:32:47.300 you were going to get

00:32:48.080 a reflection

00:32:48.620 of that demographic,

00:32:50.140 but she has been elevated

00:32:52.120 to these high positions

00:32:53.600 and accepted

00:32:55.200 by senior people

00:32:58.480 in the party,

00:32:59.000 whether it's Bernie Sanders

00:32:59.980 or you mentioned Ben Rhodes,

00:33:01.400 the former Obama administration,

00:33:03.440 Poobah,

00:33:04.080 or even just Nancy Pelosi

00:33:05.760 giving her various

00:33:07.360 committee assignments,

00:33:09.380 she is who she is,

00:33:11.320 but she has been held up

00:33:13.080 as a symbol

00:33:14.100 of the Democratic Party

00:33:15.900 by others

00:33:16.820 who should know better.

00:33:17.840 Why don't they know better?

00:33:19.640 Do they want to capture

00:33:21.340 the Muslim vote?

00:33:22.660 Do they want to capture...

00:33:24.440 Why would the Democratic Party,

00:33:27.840 which historically,

00:33:28.780 for example,

00:33:29.180 has been the party

00:33:30.060 that many Jews supported?

00:33:33.000 Fifty years ago,

00:33:34.000 you could even say

00:33:34.740 it was a party

00:33:35.360 that believed

00:33:35.960 in national events.

00:33:38.100 I guess it's longer

00:33:39.100 than that

00:33:39.760 for John F. Kennedy.

00:33:41.380 But what is in it

00:33:42.540 for the Nancy Pelosi's

00:33:44.000 and the Bernie Sanders

00:33:45.460 of the world

00:33:46.840 to promote

00:33:47.740 such a radical?

00:33:49.860 Yeah,

00:33:50.060 you make a lot

00:33:50.820 of interesting points there.

00:33:52.220 And what I argue

00:33:53.020 in the book

00:33:53.620 is that really

00:33:54.920 this sort of switch

00:33:56.240 that has happened

00:33:57.120 in the Democratic Party.

00:33:58.900 And it is encapsulated

00:34:00.380 in the issue

00:34:01.060 of Israel

00:34:02.340 and those who purport

00:34:03.340 to be anti-Zionist 0.62

00:34:04.580 when in reality

00:34:05.300 they're Jew haters.

00:34:07.240 Israel is sort of 0.86

00:34:07.960 the proxy

00:34:08.520 for a whole host

00:34:09.480 of other issues

00:34:10.400 as to where

00:34:10.880 the Democratic Party

00:34:11.800 has shifted.

00:34:13.240 You're absolutely right.

00:34:14.380 Nancy Pelosi

00:34:15.060 caved first

00:34:16.500 when the Democrat-controlled House

00:34:18.780 would not censure

00:34:20.160 Ilhan Omar by name

00:34:21.540 and for her invocation

00:34:23.080 of anti-Semitic tropes

00:34:24.400 specifically.

00:34:25.960 And it even started

00:34:26.620 before that

00:34:27.180 as you noted

00:34:27.700 when Pelosi

00:34:29.000 made a deal

00:34:29.620 with the devil

00:34:30.180 with the progressives

00:34:31.100 and put Ilhan Omar

00:34:32.380 on that House

00:34:33.520 Foreign Affairs Committee

00:34:34.580 in the first place.

00:34:35.960 And as to the question

00:34:36.840 of why

00:34:37.440 I think it is twofold.

00:34:39.020 There's a part of this

00:34:39.900 which is

00:34:40.640 sort of cynical

00:34:41.720 ideological

00:34:43.040 and partisan

00:34:44.520 which deals

00:34:45.720 with the fact

00:34:46.320 that Ilhan Omar

00:34:47.260 and those like her 0.97

00:34:48.480 represent

00:34:49.280 sort of the personification

00:34:50.660 of the multiculturalist

00:34:52.620 intersectionalist

00:34:53.700 identity politics

00:34:54.960 grievance-based

00:34:56.540 victimology

00:34:57.700 part of the

00:34:58.460 Democratic Party.

00:34:59.380 They stand

00:35:00.500 sort of

00:35:01.080 at the highest point

00:35:02.220 on that privilege

00:35:03.400 or anti-privilege

00:35:04.840 hierarchy.

00:35:06.260 And so there's

00:35:06.540 a political reason

00:35:07.360 why Democrats

00:35:08.700 believe in promoting

00:35:09.840 Ilhan Omar

00:35:10.420 and her acolytes.

00:35:12.040 And then there's

00:35:12.540 also the fact

00:35:13.100 that the Muslim

00:35:13.660 population in America

00:35:14.840 votes or self-identifies

00:35:17.060 at about two-thirds

00:35:17.900 or more Democrats.

00:35:19.320 It's a substantially

00:35:20.480 growing population

00:35:21.700 and if you think

00:35:22.820 the views on Israel

00:35:24.060 and Jewish people

00:35:24.740 generally are odious

00:35:26.500 then I think you have

00:35:27.500 to consider

00:35:27.960 and I make this case

00:35:28.840 in the book

00:35:29.320 that Democrats

00:35:30.260 are basically trading

00:35:31.500 Jewish votes

00:35:32.140 for Muslim votes.

00:35:33.280 Muslim votes

00:35:33.800 will be a growth

00:35:34.760 industry for the

00:35:35.880 Democratic Party

00:35:36.520 and increasingly

00:35:37.520 the Jewish vote

00:35:38.600 for Democrats

00:35:39.440 is likely going to

00:35:40.580 decline or

00:35:41.320 become de minimis.

00:35:42.480 And what I argue

00:35:43.080 in the book

00:35:43.540 extensively

00:35:44.080 is that

00:35:44.680 the forgotten person

00:35:45.920 in all of this

00:35:46.480 is Barack Obama.

00:35:47.500 Barack Obama

00:35:48.040 over eight years

00:35:49.040 paved the way

00:35:50.040 for Ilhan Omar's

00:35:51.420 radical rhetoric

00:35:52.260 or radical policies

00:35:53.480 her associations

00:35:54.620 with all manner

00:35:55.480 of Islamists 0.91

00:35:56.200 and other radicals

00:35:57.080 both foreign

00:35:57.800 and domestic.

00:35:58.740 He's the forgotten

00:35:59.280 player in all this

00:36:00.160 and he hasn't

00:36:00.780 gotten his due

00:36:01.400 but in my book

00:36:02.100 I give him his due.

00:36:03.300 That's an excellent point

00:36:04.880 and I should tell you

00:36:05.620 up here in Canada

00:36:06.560 where a Somali migrant

00:36:09.500 became Justin Trudeau's

00:36:11.460 immigration minister

00:36:12.260 and by the way

00:36:12.920 Ahmed Hassan

00:36:13.940 as you can see

00:36:15.160 in this photo

00:36:15.840 is quite chummy

00:36:17.500 with Ilhan Omar

00:36:18.640 which is terrifying.

00:36:20.080 In Canada

00:36:20.560 that math

00:36:21.340 you talked about

00:36:22.000 has absolutely

00:36:22.720 come true.

00:36:24.000 The Jewish population

00:36:25.060 in Canada

00:36:25.640 has remained static

00:36:27.120 at about 1%

00:36:28.680 whereas the Muslim 0.96

00:36:29.920 population

00:36:30.480 is now 3-4%.

00:36:32.400 Trudeau can do

00:36:33.580 the math

00:36:34.060 and he knows

00:36:34.580 which side of that

00:36:35.360 divide he's on

00:36:36.440 on many policies.

00:36:38.120 Let me ask you this.

00:36:39.500 Is there any way

00:36:42.100 to stop it?

00:36:43.420 Is there any way

00:36:44.300 to roll back

00:36:45.480 this move?

00:36:46.120 I see that

00:36:46.580 Bernie Sanders

00:36:47.420 staggered a bit

00:36:50.240 in the Super Tuesday

00:36:51.360 Democratic primaries

00:36:53.080 but I don't think

00:36:55.680 that that's a rebuke

00:36:57.440 of Ilhan Omar.

00:36:59.780 I think I'm stretching

00:37:00.700 too far.

00:37:01.580 Maybe online

00:37:03.320 Twitter Democrats

00:37:04.420 are a little edgier

00:37:05.340 than actual Democrats

00:37:07.200 who show up to vote

00:37:08.060 but is that wing

00:37:09.700 of the party

00:37:10.320 the AOCs

00:37:11.640 the Ilhan Omars

00:37:13.200 is it strong

00:37:15.200 on the ground

00:37:15.860 or is it more

00:37:16.620 a media concoction?

00:37:18.700 How can Democrats

00:37:20.080 take ownership

00:37:20.840 of their party again?

00:37:22.000 Working Democrats

00:37:22.780 working class

00:37:25.000 middle class Democrats

00:37:26.340 non-radical Democrats

00:37:28.540 or is that

00:37:29.040 moment passed?

00:37:31.400 I think what we're

00:37:32.540 witnessing right now

00:37:33.580 in real time

00:37:34.740 is the

00:37:35.840 last gasp

00:37:37.160 fight

00:37:37.660 of the Democratic

00:37:38.580 establishment

00:37:39.220 against the

00:37:40.360 progressive

00:37:41.000 young Turks

00:37:42.320 so to speak

00:37:43.240 and what I would say

00:37:44.260 is that while this

00:37:45.020 might not be reflected

00:37:46.080 in an AOC

00:37:47.960 dominated house

00:37:49.380 and AOC

00:37:49.960 becoming speaker

00:37:50.840 in 2020

00:37:52.500 or two

00:37:53.400 or even four years

00:37:54.340 down the road

00:37:54.900 just one statistic

00:37:57.140 that I cite in the book

00:37:58.160 is very staggering

00:37:58.980 and that's that

00:37:59.680 when the

00:37:59.960 Congressional Progressive

00:38:01.580 Caucus

00:38:02.040 was founded

00:38:02.980 in the early 90s

00:38:04.020 there were six members

00:38:05.200 including Bernie Sanders

00:38:06.720 Speaker Pelosi

00:38:07.960 was also one of the

00:38:09.020 early members

00:38:09.740 before she left

00:38:10.720 when she became

00:38:11.860 minority leader

00:38:12.980 the first time around

00:38:13.940 today

00:38:14.780 there are nearly

00:38:15.760 100 members

00:38:16.700 of the Congressional

00:38:17.640 Progressive Caucus

00:38:18.600 more than 40%

00:38:20.000 of all Democrats

00:38:21.800 forming the majority

00:38:22.740 in the House

00:38:23.700 are members of the

00:38:24.320 Congressional Progressive Caucus

00:38:25.560 I'd simply ask

00:38:26.680 in terms of their

00:38:27.240 political power

00:38:28.000 would Nancy Pelosi 0.72

00:38:29.020 under normal circumstances

00:38:30.460 in a pre-squad world

00:38:32.300 have pushed

00:38:33.440 for the impeachment

00:38:34.540 charade

00:38:35.080 that we witnessed

00:38:35.920 in America

00:38:36.460 would Gerald Nadler

00:38:37.900 would Elliot Engel

00:38:38.920 would even necessarily

00:38:40.180 Adam Schiff

00:38:41.380 I think it's very clear

00:38:42.740 and also

00:38:43.680 would Democratic

00:38:44.480 presidential candidates

00:38:45.500 be staking out

00:38:46.660 the most left positions

00:38:47.820 that we've ever seen

00:38:48.780 from a Democratic field

00:38:50.400 from its very start

00:38:51.700 I think the answers

00:38:52.740 are self-evident

00:38:54.120 and that should tell you

00:38:55.420 the fact

00:38:55.840 that Democrats

00:38:56.700 are good at math

00:38:57.480 they can count

00:38:58.400 they see that the future

00:38:59.520 is one that progressives

00:39:00.880 stand to inherit

00:39:02.060 and I think what you're seeing

00:39:03.760 is this generational

00:39:05.160 and ideological divide

00:39:06.820 playing out in real time

00:39:08.220 but the sort of fight

00:39:09.480 between the Mensheviks

00:39:10.260 and Bolsheviks

00:39:10.980 is going to rage on

00:39:11.980 beyond this election

00:39:13.000 well that is terrifying

00:39:14.900 we started by

00:39:16.360 showing you a clip

00:39:17.380 and then you gave us

00:39:18.040 more commentary on

00:39:19.020 the immigration

00:39:21.480 and marriage fraud

00:39:23.180 issues that have

00:39:24.200 embroiled

00:39:24.860 Ilhan Omar

00:39:26.160 and

00:39:26.820 and you're right

00:39:28.640 she hasn't confessed

00:39:30.320 to them

00:39:30.820 but there's so much

00:39:32.260 evidence that has

00:39:33.160 come forward

00:39:33.740 as you say

00:39:34.220 they're largely

00:39:34.800 substantiated

00:39:36.240 Al Capone

00:39:38.000 in the end

00:39:39.020 was undone

00:39:39.980 not in a bank robbery

00:39:41.740 or a murder

00:39:42.460 but through

00:39:43.060 mail fraud

00:39:44.080 wire fraud

00:39:44.840 like a technical

00:39:46.000 offense

00:39:47.240 that put him away

00:39:48.080 Ilhan Omar's

00:39:51.360 greatest offense

00:39:52.740 to the world

00:39:53.340 was not

00:39:54.180 the fake marriage

00:39:55.160 to her brother

00:39:55.880 a sham marriage

00:39:56.980 for immigration purposes

00:39:57.980 but it may be

00:39:59.340 her undoing

00:40:00.440 what do you think

00:40:01.800 the likelihood

00:40:02.580 is

00:40:03.360 of that

00:40:04.300 turning into

00:40:05.180 a formal

00:40:06.280 criminal charge

00:40:07.340 I know that

00:40:09.020 you know

00:40:11.420 prosecutions

00:40:13.120 of any crime

00:40:13.860 have to be done

00:40:14.780 in a non-partisan

00:40:15.840 way

00:40:16.440 and it can't be

00:40:17.720 just ordered up

00:40:18.760 by some

00:40:19.700 politician

00:40:20.440 but

00:40:21.360 do you think

00:40:22.860 it's likely

00:40:23.660 that Ilhan Omar

00:40:25.320 will be prosecuted

00:40:27.320 for that crime

00:40:29.460 and do you think

00:40:30.920 that'll take her 0.81

00:40:31.500 out of the game

00:40:32.080 well let me say

00:40:34.280 this first of all

00:40:35.360 as to the state

00:40:36.500 of our justice

00:40:37.420 system

00:40:38.020 in America

00:40:39.020 when it comes

00:40:39.800 to made men

00:40:41.220 and made women 0.99

00:40:42.160 to stick with

00:40:42.940 the sort of

00:40:43.480 mafia parlance

00:40:44.420 that you reference

00:40:45.380 in terms of Al Capone

00:40:46.360 it's very clear

00:40:47.600 there's a double standard

00:40:48.580 in our justice system

00:40:49.660 and that alone

00:40:51.120 I think speaks

00:40:51.840 to the challenge

00:40:53.080 of me believing

00:40:54.780 that the odds

00:40:55.400 are strong

00:40:55.920 that there will

00:40:56.480 be prosecution

00:40:57.560 of Ilhan Omar

00:40:58.360 on top of the fact

00:40:59.780 that there are

00:41:00.520 potentially statute

00:41:01.580 of limitation

00:41:02.540 issues as well

00:41:04.540 but all of that said

00:41:05.740 she acts

00:41:06.700 with such impunity

00:41:07.840 that I think

00:41:08.520 it's very likely

00:41:09.420 for there to be

00:41:10.120 any number

00:41:10.660 of missteps

00:41:11.580 and in some sense

00:41:12.700 her lawlessness 1.00

00:41:13.660 and her kind of 0.93

00:41:15.020 just flaunting

00:41:16.040 the fact that

00:41:16.700 she can do

00:41:17.140 whatever she wants

00:41:18.000 is indicative

00:41:19.300 of not just

00:41:20.400 ingratitude

00:41:21.160 but that lawlessness

00:41:22.160 bleeds into

00:41:23.240 animus

00:41:23.920 and a lack

00:41:25.000 of respect

00:41:25.580 for the country

00:41:26.500 which cannot happen

00:41:27.520 if you're a legislator

00:41:28.520 your job is to abide

00:41:29.760 by the laws

00:41:30.900 but what I will say

00:41:31.920 is that there have

00:41:32.540 been ethics violations

00:41:33.820 that have been committed

00:41:35.000 and it's also very clear

00:41:36.640 that she also

00:41:37.540 fudged her tax forms

00:41:39.140 in part relating

00:41:40.080 to that original

00:41:41.220 likely marriage fraud

00:41:42.300 and that she filed

00:41:43.200 jointly for taxes

00:41:44.140 for at least two years

00:41:45.300 with a man

00:41:46.100 who was not

00:41:46.700 her legal husband

00:41:47.500 so do I think

00:41:48.900 there's more criminality

00:41:50.260 likely to come

00:41:50.980 and ethics violations

00:41:51.880 to come

00:41:52.420 absolutely

00:41:53.180 but there needs

00:41:53.840 to be an outcry

00:41:54.640 and it has to be

00:41:55.300 a bipartisan outcry

00:41:56.460 and the sad thing

00:41:57.660 about her district

00:41:58.380 and you mentioned

00:41:58.980 the large Somali

00:41:59.820 refugee population

00:42:00.780 there

00:42:01.320 is that it is really

00:42:02.780 based upon my time

00:42:04.020 spent on the ground

00:42:04.820 there

00:42:05.100 the white woke elites

00:42:06.620 the upper crust

00:42:07.700 in the Minnesota

00:42:09.080 Twin Cities area

00:42:10.560 the Minneapolis

00:42:11.160 Twin Cities area

00:42:12.140 who are really

00:42:13.180 her biggest supporters

00:42:14.060 she has actually

00:42:14.940 enraged

00:42:15.840 some portions

00:42:16.680 of her fellow

00:42:17.800 Somali refugees

00:42:18.640 and the biggest

00:42:19.560 whistleblowers 1.00

00:42:20.180 have ironically been

00:42:21.340 Somali-American

00:42:22.520 Muslim refugees

00:42:23.880 who feel that

00:42:24.580 she is such a danger

00:42:25.460 that she must be exposed

00:42:26.600 that's a really

00:42:27.560 telling fact

00:42:28.360 isn't that incredible

00:42:29.460 we're talking

00:42:30.400 with Benjamin Weingarten

00:42:32.060 the author

00:42:32.640 of American In Great

00:42:34.700 I have one last

00:42:35.640 question for you

00:42:36.280 and by the way

00:42:36.680 we're going to have a link

00:42:37.480 underneath this video

00:42:38.600 in the description

00:42:39.320 to the Amazon page

00:42:41.140 fascinating

00:42:41.840 something that we've

00:42:43.080 been interested in

00:42:43.940 from afar up here

00:42:44.860 in Canada

00:42:45.320 now Donald Trump

00:42:46.580 has deliberately

00:42:47.740 shone the spotlight

00:42:48.920 on the squad

00:42:50.100 not so much

00:42:50.820 in the last few months

00:42:52.160 as the Democratic

00:42:53.480 presidential primaries

00:42:54.780 have taken center stage

00:42:55.880 but before that

00:42:57.160 I think Trump's

00:42:58.660 strategy

00:42:59.040 if I can guess

00:43:00.040 was to emphasize

00:43:02.500 the craziest part

00:43:04.120 of the Democratic Party

00:43:05.560 to make that

00:43:06.340 the face of it

00:43:07.340 to show

00:43:09.280 to middle America

00:43:10.280 as opposed to

00:43:13.360 say a Joe Biden

00:43:14.880 face

00:43:15.480 of the campaign

00:43:16.900 what do you think

00:43:18.040 of Trump

00:43:18.840 emphasizing

00:43:20.000 the wackiness

00:43:21.000 wacky is too gentle

00:43:22.080 a word

00:43:22.400 emphasizing the radicalness

00:43:24.360 of Ilhan Omar

00:43:25.140 and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:43:27.200 is there a danger

00:43:29.800 that Trump thinks

00:43:30.720 it's offensive

00:43:31.260 but he's actually

00:43:31.900 giving more oxygen

00:43:33.460 to Omar and AOC

00:43:36.140 who might be successful

00:43:37.180 what do you think

00:43:37.760 Republicans should do

00:43:39.660 I guess is what

00:43:40.360 I'm asking

00:43:40.860 yeah

00:43:42.380 my view is

00:43:43.500 be careful

00:43:44.060 what you wish for

00:43:45.000 it looks like

00:43:46.220 Bernie Sanders

00:43:47.000 may be done

00:43:48.840 effectively

00:43:49.580 after what's transpired

00:43:51.240 over the last 72 hours

00:43:52.600 which shows you

00:43:53.280 the power

00:43:53.720 that remains

00:43:54.780 in the Democratic

00:43:55.360 establishment

00:43:55.940 but all that said

00:43:57.020 I don't think

00:43:57.840 that if the general

00:43:58.620 election had been

00:43:59.720 Bernie Sanders

00:44:00.380 versus Donald Trump

00:44:01.380 that it would have been

00:44:02.440 such a layup

00:44:03.800 as many people

00:44:05.000 seem to believe

00:44:06.440 because in part

00:44:07.520 the Bernie Sanders

00:44:09.000 AOC squad

00:44:10.180 progressive wing

00:44:11.000 really has a message

00:44:12.360 that they ardently

00:44:13.240 believe in

00:44:13.900 and articulate

00:44:14.400 and they have

00:44:14.940 a very passionate

00:44:15.720 base

00:44:16.460 much more impassioned

00:44:17.580 than the Democratic

00:44:18.800 establishment supporters

00:44:20.380 so what I would suggest

00:44:21.960 is this

00:44:22.440 it certainly pays

00:44:23.380 to emphasize

00:44:23.980 the radical part

00:44:24.940 of the Democratic Party

00:44:25.860 on the politics

00:44:27.180 but I think

00:44:27.760 substantively

00:44:28.520 it's actually right

00:44:29.560 I think the president

00:44:30.740 is right

00:44:31.220 this is the core

00:44:32.660 of the Democratic Party

00:44:33.800 it is not

00:44:34.400 the majority yet

00:44:35.620 it may be

00:44:36.420 a plurality

00:44:37.220 but ultimately

00:44:38.160 I believe

00:44:38.820 and I argue

00:44:39.340 in this book

00:44:39.920 that it stands

00:44:40.980 to triumph

00:44:41.700 that today

00:44:42.460 we may have a squad

00:44:43.480 but tomorrow

00:44:44.560 it might be a battalion

00:44:45.900 and bigger than that

00:44:46.980 because all of the trends

00:44:48.880 in American life

00:44:49.640 whether you look

00:44:50.200 at woke capital

00:44:51.080 and the executives

00:44:52.060 who run our corporations

00:44:53.060 and their radical leftism

00:44:54.400 or you look at

00:44:55.280 multi-generations

00:44:56.120 of schools

00:44:56.860 producing people

00:44:57.880 like Ilhan Omar

00:44:59.060 and AOC

00:44:59.880 and Rashida Tlaib

00:45:00.880 and the others

00:45:01.620 you look at all

00:45:02.760 of our core institutions

00:45:03.840 essentially

00:45:04.360 they're dominated

00:45:05.240 by people

00:45:05.760 who think like the squad

00:45:07.060 and who want to

00:45:07.800 hold the squad up

00:45:08.700 and it is really

00:45:09.740 the white woke elites

00:45:10.900 that have swung

00:45:11.640 the most left

00:45:12.920 over the last couple

00:45:14.120 of decades

00:45:14.560 and they have

00:45:15.680 substantial political power

00:45:17.180 relative to other

00:45:18.000 demographic groups

00:45:18.960 when you break it down

00:45:20.140 by demographics

00:45:20.920 so all that said

00:45:21.860 I think in the long run

00:45:22.900 it is the squad's party

00:45:24.200 to lose

00:45:24.680 but it's going to be

00:45:25.620 a knock down

00:45:26.140 drag out fight 0.99

00:45:26.980 as this works itself out

00:45:28.480 and as a conservative

00:45:29.720 I'll look forward to it

00:45:31.320 with a big bag of popcorn

00:45:32.300 amazing

00:45:33.700 well I'm so glad

00:45:34.660 that you made some time

00:45:35.680 for us

00:45:36.040 I know

00:45:36.420 Ilhan Omar

00:45:37.300 is a big issue

00:45:38.380 in the United States

00:45:39.200 but she has been turned

00:45:40.880 into a sort of heroine

00:45:42.240 in Canada's media party

00:45:44.560 as well

00:45:45.060 and no doubt

00:45:46.100 in some ways

00:45:47.240 we're further progressed

00:45:48.300 down that road

00:45:49.200 in our country

00:45:49.880 up here too

00:45:50.380 the book's called

00:45:51.300 American Ingrate 0.95

00:45:52.000 you can buy it

00:45:52.980 at the Amazon link

00:45:54.100 in the description below

00:45:55.020 we've been talking

00:45:55.880 with author

00:45:56.520 Benjamin Weingarten

00:45:57.480 who's also

00:45:58.060 a senior contributor

00:45:59.340 at the Federalist

00:46:00.540 great to have you

00:46:01.100 with us today

00:46:01.600 thank you so much

00:46:02.380 thank you so much Ezra

00:46:03.900 appreciate it

00:46:04.600 all right

00:46:05.120 our pleasure

00:46:05.620 stay with us

00:46:06.640 more ahead on The Rebel

00:46:07.460 hey welcome back

00:46:17.360 to my monologue yesterday

00:46:18.220 about the top secret

00:46:19.340 document I sent

00:46:20.560 to the elections commissioner

00:46:21.460 Carol writes

00:46:22.420 I can't stop laughing

00:46:23.760 about your response

00:46:24.360 to election Canada's

00:46:25.280 demand for documents

00:46:26.100 all joking aside though

00:46:27.160 I think your worst fears

00:46:28.360 are about to become reality

00:46:29.420 I believe they will

00:46:30.640 raid the rebels office

00:46:31.560 and instead of five lawyers

00:46:32.820 there will be ten

00:46:33.660 how do you sleep

00:46:34.780 with all these investigations

00:46:35.840 your wife mustn't have 0.99

00:46:36.980 much hair left on her head

00:46:38.260 with all this stress

00:46:39.240 well Carol look

00:46:41.300 I believe we're going

00:46:43.680 to win in the end

00:46:44.320 I think that's my secret

00:46:46.040 source of confidence

00:46:47.120 is that I feel like

00:46:49.240 I can see how this story

00:46:50.540 is going to end

00:46:51.280 and I think it's going

00:46:52.820 to end well

00:46:53.600 because although

00:46:55.200 elections Canada

00:46:56.540 is clearly out of control

00:46:57.960 I've read the law

00:47:00.700 and I don't think

00:47:01.580 we violated it

00:47:02.620 and if someone

00:47:05.480 finds that we do

00:47:06.340 I know that we'll

00:47:06.900 appeal that to a court

00:47:08.020 and I am confident

00:47:09.680 enough that there is

00:47:10.520 still enough freedom

00:47:11.500 left in Canada

00:47:12.320 that we will win

00:47:13.500 now how do I get

00:47:14.180 from here to there

00:47:16.040 there's two major

00:47:17.900 types of obstacle

00:47:19.180 one is stress

00:47:21.880 hassle

00:47:22.820 time

00:47:23.520 that's I guess

00:47:24.580 the one you're

00:47:25.120 referring to

00:47:25.760 I don't know

00:47:26.480 I sort of live

00:47:28.100 at a certain stress

00:47:29.080 level

00:47:29.380 if things aren't

00:47:30.060 stressful enough

00:47:30.900 I get bored

00:47:31.660 so I don't mind

00:47:33.100 the stress so much

00:47:34.080 because I feel like

00:47:34.980 we're going to win

00:47:35.540 in the end

00:47:35.920 the other is financial

00:47:37.320 I literally an hour ago

00:47:39.580 got our latest bill

00:47:40.980 from our lawyers

00:47:41.760 it's a big bill

00:47:43.220 and that's not something

00:47:45.260 I can just calm

00:47:46.280 myself through

00:47:47.200 so that's the major

00:47:48.940 threat

00:47:49.680 is the financial threat

00:47:50.940 so for that

00:47:52.500 I rely on our viewers

00:47:53.580 what else am I going to do

00:47:54.520 I'm not going to get

00:47:55.180 money from the government

00:47:56.100 we're not part of the

00:47:58.080 corporate legacy media

00:47:59.180 we're not going to get

00:47:59.740 a bailout

00:48:00.280 so if I can

00:48:02.320 I can keep my confidence

00:48:05.580 because I know

00:48:06.060 we're going to win

00:48:06.640 I don't mind the stress

00:48:08.460 of the fight

00:48:09.080 and as long as our

00:48:10.280 viewers are with us

00:48:11.120 we'll pay the lawyers

00:48:12.520 to win

00:48:12.920 I think we're going to win

00:48:13.700 Bob writes

00:48:15.380 you got to put that

00:48:16.800 cartoon on a t-shirt

00:48:17.780 I want one

00:48:18.480 Bob

00:48:19.160 we have the t-shirts

00:48:21.540 I'm not sure

00:48:22.600 if they're on our

00:48:23.300 store right now

00:48:24.220 but yesterday we were

00:48:25.240 so excited by this

00:48:26.360 cartoon that we

00:48:27.780 made it available

00:48:28.500 on our store

00:48:29.280 if it's not available

00:48:30.120 right now

00:48:30.760 it will be really

00:48:31.680 shortly

00:48:32.140 plus I want to wear

00:48:33.720 that shirt around

00:48:34.380 because it's a fun

00:48:35.120 shirt and I show

00:48:36.580 that shirt to my

00:48:37.460 family and they

00:48:39.280 liked it too

00:48:39.780 because you don't

00:48:40.680 even have to be

00:48:41.100 politically to think

00:48:41.800 it's a fun shirt

00:48:42.920 Sidney writes

00:48:45.220 Ezra next time you

00:48:46.600 talk to the book

00:48:47.280 cops thank them for

00:48:48.580 selling another book

00:48:49.200 for you

00:48:49.560 it should be arriving

00:48:50.560 soon from Amazon

00:48:51.280 can't wait to read it

00:48:52.420 well Sidney it's funny

00:48:53.480 you say that

00:48:54.020 because this morning

00:48:56.500 my book once again

00:48:57.960 reached number one

00:48:59.300 political bestseller

00:49:00.400 on the Amazon.ca list

00:49:02.580 number two book

00:49:03.540 overall of any books

00:49:05.100 fiction or non-fiction

00:49:06.200 Canadian or form

00:49:07.140 and I mean I think

00:49:09.280 the book is good

00:49:09.960 thank you

00:49:10.440 but it was really

00:49:12.860 made for the election

00:49:13.920 and the election was

00:49:15.140 over in October

00:49:15.820 and it's March now

00:49:16.940 so the book had

00:49:18.080 naturally fallen out

00:49:19.420 of the bestseller list

00:49:20.940 I don't know what

00:49:22.400 the ranking was

00:49:23.120 but it wasn't in

00:49:23.900 the top ten anymore

00:49:24.880 and after the first

00:49:26.960 interrogation the book

00:49:27.880 hit number one

00:49:28.620 and yesterday

00:49:29.940 and this morning

00:49:30.640 again it hit number

00:49:31.520 one as the best

00:49:32.180 political book

00:49:33.080 bestselling

00:49:34.000 so yeah I mean

00:49:35.680 I don't want

00:49:37.080 these book prosecutors

00:49:38.860 but that's the thing

00:49:40.840 if you tell people

00:49:41.700 you're not allowed

00:49:42.580 to read this book

00:49:43.380 about Trudeau

00:49:44.120 why?

00:49:45.180 because Trudeau says so

00:49:46.460 I can't think of

00:49:47.980 better marketing than that

00:49:49.120 now I would rather

00:49:50.300 it would be left

00:49:51.020 to live in a free country

00:49:52.720 and sell the book

00:49:53.440 on its own merits

00:49:54.340 by the way

00:49:55.540 last I checked

00:49:56.200 it had over 400

00:49:57.300 reviews on Amazon

00:49:58.480 and the average review

00:50:00.340 is five stars

00:50:01.220 out of five

00:50:01.860 so I guess people

00:50:03.620 like the book

00:50:04.280 but I have to tell you

00:50:07.140 the truth

00:50:07.560 our number one salesman

00:50:08.980 is Justin Trudeau

00:50:10.160 and his book banners

00:50:11.080 themselves

00:50:11.640 isn't that weird?

00:50:13.640 well that's our show

00:50:14.200 for today

00:50:14.600 until tomorrow

00:50:15.220 on behalf of all of us

00:50:16.120 here at Rebel World

00:50:16.780 Headquarters

00:50:17.220 goodnight

00:50:17.660 keep fighting for freedom

00:50:19.220 paid respect for freedom

00:50:19.720 do

00:50:21.200 nothing

00:50:22.380 would be left

00:50:22.580 no

00:50:23.580 do

00:50:24.720 need

00:50:25.460 nothing

00:50:25.960 to do

00:50:27.520 do

00:50:28.100 do

00:50:28.840 you

00:50:31.540 you

00:50:32.100 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - March 05, 2020

Bernie or Biden？ US Democratic primaries are down to the socialist and the “doddering” one-time VP

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