Rebel News Podcast - C-list celebrity Meghan Markle wants Canadians to pony up for her security costs

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, I want to talk to you about Meghan Markle's demand for security. 0.99

00:00:04.780 I want to compare it to Drake's demand for security and Justin Bieber's demand for security.

00:00:10.560 And I want to ask you why we would pay for Markle's if we don't pay for theirs.

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00:00:27.700 things like that.

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00:00:58.660 Tonight, why should we pay for Meghan Markle's private security?

00:01:07.860 It's January 2nd and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.

00:01:10.400 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:16.260 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:20.320 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:25.180 right to do so.

00:01:26.200 So you have a security system in your home, even something basic, an alarm system, or even

00:01:36.000 a little closed circuit camera in your doorbell like that thing there.

00:01:40.300 They're so cheap these days and they're connected to the internet and your cell phone so you

00:01:44.740 can actually see if someone rings your doorbell or even if they just walk by on your cell

00:01:48.280 phone wherever you go.

00:01:49.060 It's offered by the same companies that hook up your internet and phone and cable.

00:01:54.820 I mean, they can cost 30 or 40 or maybe 50 bucks a month for the full package.

00:01:59.820 My point is millions of Canadians pay for their own security cameras and alarm systems out

00:02:07.200 of their own family budget.

00:02:08.720 I mean, ordinary people do.

00:02:09.860 People who make 50 grand a year or 100 grand a year do.

00:02:12.700 People whose homes are worth, I don't know, a quarter million dollars or I suppose a million

00:02:17.760 dollars in more expensive cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

00:02:20.940 If you're rich, if you have some sort of celebrity, you probably pay more because that's the price

00:02:26.460 of being rich and famous, I think.

00:02:28.440 The Toronto rapper Drake, he's a pretty big celebrity in Toronto and he just built a super

00:02:34.220 expensive house in Toronto in the bridal path, not too far away from Conrad Black's family

00:02:40.240 home.

00:02:41.280 I don't know, what's that, 20, 30 million dollars?

00:02:43.780 The land alone has got to be 10.

00:02:45.380 And he just asked the city for permission to build extra high walls around his house because

00:02:53.800 so many people want to gawk at him, probably trespass.

00:02:56.700 Now, I bet 99% of them are sort of harmless.

00:03:00.040 They're not robbers or kidnappers or anything.

00:03:02.240 But if he's spending, I don't know, 25, 30 million or whatever on a home, he's probably

00:03:06.840 spending more than a million on things like fences and security.

00:03:10.100 And he probably actually has full-time security staff on the premises.

00:03:15.000 And I think he usually has a driver, bodyguard too.

00:03:18.220 My point is, private citizens, all of us, have the protection of police.

00:03:23.980 But it makes sense for some of us each to spend money on some private security too, even just

00:03:30.100 a lock on your door.

00:03:31.060 Obviously, we can't expect people in public service who are threatened.

00:03:35.400 This is a shot of the prime minister's motorcade.

00:03:39.280 It's a little over the top, I think.

00:03:41.020 I mean, good Lord, just how many cars does Justin Trudeau need?

00:03:45.700 I think that's Trudeau footage.

00:03:47.340 But if there was a genuine RCMP decision that he needed that protection, fine.

00:03:54.020 Pay for the massive costs of the prime minister's security.

00:03:57.000 I think that was overkill, probably.

00:03:59.260 But look, it's the nature of the public office that attracts the threats.

00:04:03.840 Justin Trudeau didn't have government security when he was just some playboy running around.

00:04:09.160 It's appropriate for all of us to provide protection for public office holders who are

00:04:14.560 at risk because of the public office, right?

00:04:18.040 But understand, it's not that they're public people in the sense of being well-known.

00:04:22.420 It's that they're doing a public service, or more to the point, a government service.

00:04:26.500 I mean, Justin Bieber, speaking of the other famous Justin, he's a Canadian with a huge

00:04:32.060 public profile.

00:04:33.580 We don't pay for his security.

00:04:37.000 Celebrities sometimes do charity work, by the way.

00:04:39.700 Public service, I guess, but that doesn't make them public servants in the literal meaning

00:04:44.300 of that.

00:04:44.600 So obviously, you know what I'm talking about.

00:04:46.100 You know where I'm going with this.

00:04:47.480 I'm talking about two foreigners, an American named Meghan and a Brit named Harry.

00:04:53.520 Now, they just had a multi-million dollar wedding to which they invited all sorts of other

00:04:59.600 celebrities, and it was subsidized by taxpayers because Harry was a prince.

00:05:05.060 I guess he still is a prince.

00:05:07.880 And then they had their house fixed up with millions more pounds from the British taxpayer.

00:05:13.280 That is a luxurious lifestyle, to be sure.

00:05:17.260 But they are a part of the royal family, and they did duties in support of the country.

00:05:22.620 It's a constitutional role.

00:05:24.140 I get it.

00:05:24.980 But that's done now.

00:05:25.860 They quit.

00:05:27.280 They ambushed the queen.

00:05:28.540 They surprised her.

00:05:29.380 They made a public announcement about it on Instagram before they even spoke with her.

00:05:34.540 Imagine that.

00:05:35.160 I mean, remember, the queen isn't just the head of the royal family, constitutionally

00:05:39.040 and legally, in terms of the government and public service.

00:05:41.540 Remember, the queen is Harry's grandma.

00:05:45.760 Imagine not even talking to your own grandmother about quitting the family, rejecting everything

00:05:52.040 you are and your grandmother is and centuries of tradition, and not even talking to her about

00:05:58.580 it in advance.

00:05:59.560 Harry is a royal.

00:06:02.400 That's the literal definition of having class.

00:06:05.780 There's no such thing as being classier than the royals.

00:06:09.100 But look at him.

00:06:09.840 He's become like his gold-digging wife. 0.56

00:06:12.280 She has lowered him.

00:06:13.680 He has not raised her up.

00:06:15.800 I mean, you saw Prince Harry literally pitching the head of Disney, pressing him to hire Macon

00:06:25.060 to do voiceover work.

00:06:27.020 They're at a public reception for whatever.

00:06:29.560 And he's like, you know, a typical waiter in Hollywood or bartender in Hollywood in a

00:06:36.320 restaurant who sees some big producer or star sit down for lunch.

00:06:40.240 And he grabs the script that he's been hiding on the counter and waiting and says, oh, excuse

00:06:44.540 me, Mr. Spielberg.

00:06:45.900 Ah, can you just read my script?

00:06:48.480 You know, a nuisance, a hack, pitiful, desperate.

00:06:52.460 That's what Meghan Markle has turned Harry into. 0.62

00:06:55.440 Oh, my God, that is so gross.

00:07:15.300 Imagine you marry a prince, you join the royal family, you have everything.

00:07:21.880 And your instinct is to try and cash in on it by having a royal prince at a public function

00:07:30.780 lobby some Hollywood executive to get you doing voiceover work.

00:07:36.620 For that's you, the princess.

00:07:38.180 What can I look up to?

00:07:39.200 Maybe I'll be the voice in some cartoon.

00:07:41.580 Oh, my God, that is so cringe.

00:07:44.520 Look at this.

00:07:45.000 Look how she manhandles him, tells him to sit down, to stand up like she's embarrassed by

00:07:50.080 him when, in fact, as a royal, he obviously knows that high class manners dictate that you

00:07:55.840 don't sit down unless the women have sit down first. 1.00

00:07:58.940 Did you see this?

00:08:13.120 I want to show you one more clip of him doing exactly that again.

00:08:18.840 Just take a look at this.

00:08:25.120 Excuse us.

00:08:26.840 There you go.

00:08:27.440 Yeah, a lot of people blaming Meghan Markle for all this, and it's true. 1.00

00:08:34.320 She's a gold digger and she's a manipulator. 1.00

00:08:37.780 But look, Harry's a 35-year-old man.

00:08:41.720 He's an adult making his own decisions.

00:08:44.000 He's the one who didn't talk to his grandmother.

00:08:47.240 She's estranged from her family.

00:08:48.720 She doesn't care about family. 0.99

00:08:50.040 He's all about family, but he did not talk to his grandma.

00:08:53.000 He's the one who agreed to be the desperate waiter pitching the head of Disney in an inappropriate

00:09:00.100 moment.

00:09:01.760 He's the embarrassment.

00:09:03.140 So they're done with the queen.

00:09:04.640 And she's done with them enough.

00:09:07.040 They won't be able to call themselves their royal highnesses anymore because they're not

00:09:11.560 doing anything for the royal family anymore.

00:09:12.920 The queen is making them repay the money they took to reno, that British house, but they 0.90

00:09:17.080 still plan to cash in.

00:09:19.480 Look, at least Kim Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, at least they built themselves up,

00:09:25.180 created things, built a business and a brand.

00:09:27.820 Kanye creates music.

00:09:29.680 Like, they're worth something.

00:09:32.680 Harry was just born into it.

00:09:34.820 Meghan gold-digged her way into it and then tried to run away with the silverware. 1.00

00:09:39.180 So they want to come to Canada.

00:09:41.260 Aren't we lucky?

00:09:42.940 And I guess, as I pointed out yesterday, Trudeau will literally let anyone come here.

00:09:47.460 Nearly 200,000 people every 90 days.

00:09:50.100 But what's the legal basis for letting these two grifters here? 0.99

00:09:53.760 Meghan Markle's not a Canadian citizen.

00:09:56.220 She's an American.

00:09:57.480 Harry is a Brit.

00:09:58.400 He's not a Canadian. 0.99

00:10:00.600 They're not part of the royal family anymore in the public sense.

00:10:02.980 They quit.

00:10:04.960 They're just a couple of spoiled rich kids now.

00:10:06.700 So why are they here?

00:10:09.360 We allow people to visit us all the time.

00:10:12.080 Meghan Markle worked here for a while before as a C-list actress in a show called Suits.

00:10:18.120 But that was real work.

00:10:20.440 And she was paid.

00:10:21.760 And she, I presume, had a visa of whatever sort that she needed to work here.

00:10:26.880 So why is she here now?

00:10:29.820 And same for him, just because they feel entitled to come here.

00:10:32.600 Do they not have to apply to move here?

00:10:35.180 Or are they above all that?

00:10:37.500 Look, I actually have no beef with them moving here, I should tell you.

00:10:40.980 They should not be above the law.

00:10:42.680 They should have no special status since they quit their status, the ingrates. 1.00

00:10:47.580 I know they want to cash in on it, but Dr. Disney, don't try to shake down the Canadian public, okay?

00:10:57.460 They want to buy a house in Vancouver.

00:10:59.080 As long as they're not using my money, I guess I don't care.

00:11:03.260 The British tabloids, I mean, what, do you think the Canadian media would do the research here?

00:11:09.000 Look, don't you remember that it was the foreign media that reported the Trudeau blackface stories?

00:11:13.460 The British tabloids have done the exposés on the house that Markle and Harry are looking at.

00:11:20.080 $24 million home.

00:11:23.400 Now, I know that Vancouver is very expensive for a detached home near the downtown average house.

00:11:30.220 You're looking at a million dollars.

00:11:32.740 Just for a regular house, a regular person in Vancouver, a million bucks or close to it.

00:11:39.280 It's extremely expensive to live in Vancouver by some measures, even more than in Toronto.

00:11:44.180 Young people have a tough time buying their first home and starting a family.

00:11:48.660 It's crazy.

00:11:50.200 But holy cow, $24 million?

00:11:53.140 That is rock star stuff.

00:11:55.240 Except, like I say, neither Markle nor Harry are rock stars.

00:11:59.080 One was a C-list actress.

00:12:01.440 The other just quit the family business there.

00:12:04.240 Not so much losers as they are quitters and grifters and entitled.

00:12:07.940 I see that Meghan Markle was out walking her dogs the other day with security, as you can see.

00:12:14.740 And her baby there, that's pretty fun.

00:12:17.660 It was photographed.

00:12:18.920 That's the currency of Hollywood, even more than it's the currency of the royal family.

00:12:22.360 Look at her smile for the cameras there.

00:12:24.540 Never believe a celebrity, especially a vain, talentless celebrity, passed her prime.

00:12:30.720 A celebrity who's famous just for being famous, like Meghan Markle.

00:12:33.800 Never believe them when they say they hate the paparazzi.

00:12:36.600 They love the paparazzi.

00:12:39.220 They love the adulation because Meghan Markle wants to be famous

00:12:42.140 and wants the unearned wealth that can come from it.

00:12:46.560 But look at this, look at this, look at this.

00:12:48.440 She's now threatening anyone who takes pictures of her. 0.98

00:12:54.700 Well, you see, we're Canada.

00:12:58.120 And although we have our problems with censorship,

00:13:01.420 those problems until now have not involved a couple of foreigners coming here without legal status, as far as I know.

00:13:06.060 And then demanding that we not be able to do journalism about them.

00:13:10.280 You know, if they keep this up, telling us what we can or can't report about them,

00:13:15.400 which not even the Queen does, by the way,

00:13:18.220 well, I think we better assign our young Kian Bexty to their case, don't you think? 1.00

00:13:22.420 That's what we do here at Rebel News, especially the people who think they're better than the rest of us.

00:13:26.640 I really enjoyed when Kian scrummed Ilhan Omar, remember that?

00:13:30.820 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all the fake celebs. 1.00

00:13:35.100 I think Kian's up for the job. 1.00

00:13:37.020 I'd like Kian to ask Meghan, the Duchess of Gold Digging, a few questions.

00:13:44.040 But really, if Meghan Markle and Harry apply to immigrate here legally,

00:13:51.260 and they stop threatening people, I don't mind if they move here.

00:13:56.720 I mean, they quit the royal family, they're quitters, that's fine.

00:13:59.940 No skin off my nose.

00:14:01.880 They'll quit Canada too when they're tired of us, I'm sure.

00:14:04.660 I'm sure Meghan will quit Harry in due course. 0.96

00:14:07.620 I hope he has a strong prenup, but judging by how she berates him and dominates him, I doubt it. 0.97

00:14:15.760 But look, I really have no beef.

00:14:17.160 Canada has our share of celebrities and a double helping of B-list and C-list celebrities

00:14:23.040 who can't quite make it in Hollywood, but they're big fish in our small pond.

00:14:27.600 Drake and Bieber are truly international stars.

00:14:30.500 I'd put Shania Twain in there too, and maybe William Shatner.

00:14:33.080 But let's be honest, most of those celebs don't spend most of their time in Canada.

00:14:36.880 They follow the money and the audience to America.

00:14:40.020 I have no beef with a C-list celebrity and a C-list royal moving to Canada.

00:14:44.300 I have no problem, just apply to immigrate like anyone else.

00:14:48.260 But here's where I have a huge problem.

00:14:51.060 They want us to pay for their security.

00:14:55.700 We don't pay for Drake's security.

00:14:58.240 We don't pay for Justin Bieber's security or Shania Twain's security or William Shatner's security.

00:15:03.040 Taxpayers don't pay for my security, and I actually have needed it over the years.

00:15:06.880 Because I've received a few death threats in my day for my journalism, especially back when I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.

00:15:13.080 We had to hire security guards back then.

00:15:15.860 Just last week, we spent $1,500 to hire a security detail for Kian to go up to that pipeline protest in B.C.

00:15:23.020 because protesters have been violent.

00:15:25.740 We've probably spent $100,000 over the years on security for rebel reporters and rebel events.

00:15:30.860 I think in some of those cases, the police probably should have helped us for free.

00:15:34.460 But I also know that the police are not there just to prevent Antifa from harassing us out of the blue.

00:15:39.820 Police work for everyone.

00:15:40.980 They're not just assigned to follow us.

00:15:42.400 I'm not mad that we don't have a full-time police escort.

00:15:45.780 I'm not expecting that.

00:15:46.700 I'm not expecting the taxpayer to subsidize us, certainly.

00:15:51.580 It's a bit infuriating.

00:15:54.560 Actually, we're the only media in Canada I know of that gets regularly assaulted,

00:15:58.400 as you can see in these images I've shown you before.

00:16:01.100 But still, I don't demand that the taxpayer protect us.

00:16:04.820 I demand the cops prosecute after the fact, which they don't always do.

00:16:09.700 But this multimillion-dollar couple, depending on who you believe,

00:16:16.400 Macon and Harry are worth $50 million, probably more if they're about to dump $24 million on a house,

00:16:21.780 and they expect that the little people will keep paying their security?

00:16:26.320 They're not serving the state anymore.

00:16:28.860 They're not serving their constitutional role anymore.

00:16:30.560 They're not doing their duty anymore.

00:16:31.980 They literally quit without notice.

00:16:33.780 They quit cowardly.

00:16:35.220 Imagine not even telling your own grandmother.

00:16:38.520 And they want us to pay their security?

00:16:42.140 What would we tell Drake or Justin Bieber if they demanded the same thing?

00:16:46.280 Both of those celebrities are pretty arrogant,

00:16:48.860 but I don't think either would dream of asking Joe and Jane Lunchbucket

00:16:54.000 to subsidize their security and their lifestyle through the taxes.

00:16:57.840 But these two foreigners who have quit their duty to us? 0.87

00:17:02.320 Yeah, no.

00:17:03.780 I'm pleased to see an Angus Reid poll that shows the vast majority of Canadians are saying no.

00:17:09.640 I'd say more accurately, we're probably saying hell no.

00:17:13.000 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation had more than 80,000 people sign their petition to this effect in only a couple weeks.

00:17:21.680 But of course, Canada's D-list celebrities, especially the woke leftists who love the destruction of the royal family

00:17:28.160 and love the feminist global warming claptrap of Harry and Meghan. 0.83

00:17:31.480 And I mean, these are the folks taking private jets, the same way you and I take taxis,

00:17:36.580 and then they give a speech about climate change.

00:17:38.560 It's a perfect fit for Trudeau's Canada, in a way, don't you think?

00:17:42.200 Well, take it from the Liberal Party's unofficial propaganda arm, Maclean's Magazine.

00:17:46.260 Remember, Maclean's receives about a million and a half dollars a year from Trudeau,

00:17:49.960 and it also employs Scott Gilmore.

00:17:52.440 He's the house husband of Catherine McKenna, the former environment minister.

00:17:56.000 So this is pretty much the official Trudeau line.

00:17:59.300 Look at this.

00:18:00.680 Opinion.

00:18:01.720 A royal bargain at any price, Scott Gilmore says.

00:18:05.340 Pay Harry and Meghan whatever they want.

00:18:07.700 They're the best thing that's happened to brand Canada since we invented snowblowers.

00:18:14.420 Seriously, pay celebrities come to Canada.

00:18:18.420 I've never paid anyone in my life to come to a birthday party.

00:18:21.620 I've never sent myself flowers on Valentine's Day.

00:18:23.960 I don't believe in paying for a friend because then they're not your friend.

00:18:28.260 That's prostitution. 1.00

00:18:30.540 We don't have to pay for someone to like Canada.

00:18:34.620 And I don't know what's good for our brand.

00:18:37.940 Who talks that way?

00:18:39.400 Hey, how's brand Canada doing these days?

00:18:43.000 Well, I think it's being affected by Justin Trudeau's buffoonery on the world stage.

00:18:47.880 I'd like to hear more talk about brand Canada before he goes on another costume party trip to India.

00:18:52.160 But who even talks that way?

00:18:54.400 We need to improve brand Canada.

00:18:56.060 Pay them anything.

00:18:56.860 Who thinks that way?

00:18:59.280 By the way, since Harry and Meghan ambushed the Queen, there have been scientific public opinion polls

00:19:05.180 showing that the most hated royals in the whole dysfunctional family

00:19:10.220 are Meghan and Harry second only to Prince Andrew,

00:19:16.520 who was fired by the Queen for his gross friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:20.680 No one likes Harry and Meghan anymore.

00:19:25.540 People don't like Meghan's gold digging. 0.65

00:19:28.240 They don't like Harry's disloyalty and weakness.

00:19:30.600 They realize they're quitters who have a sense of entitlement greater than a sense of duty.

00:19:34.860 I guess he's like Trudeau in that way.

00:19:38.080 But normal people don't have time for it.

00:19:40.200 But Trudeau's, McLean's magazine, loves it.

00:19:42.400 Remember, this is a Trudeau subsidized magazine,

00:19:44.860 and it's being written by a Trudeau insider married to a Trudeau cabinet minister.

00:19:50.020 This same Trudeau here?

00:19:53.560 First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court?

00:19:59.660 Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.

00:20:05.740 Right.

00:20:07.280 They're asking for more than they can give.

00:20:09.200 So read this from McLean's.

00:20:12.260 The possibility we may spend somewhere between $1 and $12 million, estimates vary,

00:20:18.860 protecting the Windsor refugees is being met with stern looks and questions.

00:20:23.020 I find this debate utterly silly.

00:20:25.560 Oh, we should not only pay their security bill, but give them free Air Canada tickets for life.

00:20:34.320 That's how Trudeau thinks.

00:20:35.600 That's how his people think.

00:20:36.880 Of course it is.

00:20:37.480 I mean, look, he gave $10.5 million of taxpayers' money to a terrorist named Omar Khadar.

00:20:42.360 If that's your baseline, giving money to a terrorist,

00:20:45.460 then giving $12 million a year for some C-list celebs seems perfectly reasonable.

00:20:50.360 I mean, taxpayers paid for Scott Gilmore's wife, Catherine McKenna,

00:20:56.020 to hire a Paris fashion photographer for thousands of dollars

00:21:01.780 to photograph her at some global warming conference.

00:21:05.780 So Scott Gilmore and his money-grubbing wife are used to throwing bales of taxpayers' money on the fire just for vanity. 0.99

00:21:13.240 The laugh here is that Gilmore McKenna and Trudeau are just as grasping and desperate and grifting as Meghan and Harry are,

00:21:21.300 so they don't even see it anymore.

00:21:22.440 I mean, remember how Trudeau and his wife, Sophie, finagled their way onto Billionaire Island in the Bahamas?

00:21:29.320 I don't know if you remember.

00:21:30.080 This is from the Ethics Commissioner's report.

00:21:32.220 Sophie kept on phoning up the Aga Khan's daughter, pestering her, saying she wanted the free trip.

00:21:37.320 Eventually the Aga Khan's daughter just said, fine. 0.69

00:21:39.580 It was against the law.

00:21:41.500 Trudeau was convicted of breaking the conflict of interest law.

00:21:43.760 It was super gross and really embarrassing to read about Sophie Trudeau promising to bring all her friends to Billionaire Island

00:21:51.200 by really renting out her husband's reputation. 0.94

00:21:54.000 So yeah, of course, Meghan and Harry are perfect for Justin Trudeau's Canada.

00:21:59.780 And of course, of course they expect you to pay for it.

00:22:04.900 Yeah, like hell.

00:22:07.500 Stay with us for more.

00:22:09.580 There are many overlapping reasons for voting against this resolution,

00:22:24.180 but they all converge on a single idea.

00:22:28.280 Fairness.

00:22:28.840 The trial should be fair to the House, which has been wrongly deprived of evidence by a president who wishes to conceal it.

00:22:41.760 It should be fair to the president, who will not benefit from an acquittal or dismissal if the trial is not viewed as fair.

00:22:51.180 It's remarkable that after taking the action of the breathtaking gravity of voting to impeach the duly elected president of the United States,

00:23:01.780 and after saying for weeks that they had overwhelming evidence to support their case,

00:23:05.780 the first thing that the House managers have done upon arriving finally in this chamber after waiting for 33 days is to say,

00:23:14.700 well, actually, we need more evidence.

00:23:17.340 We're not ready to present our case.

00:23:19.880 We need to have subpoenas and we need to do more discovery because we don't have the evidence we need to support our case.

00:23:25.820 This is stunning.

00:23:28.800 I've got to tell you, I'm bored already.

00:23:31.140 I mean, I will pay attention to this because it's a media criticism story more than anything else.

00:23:36.920 But what you saw there were some vignettes from the impeachment of Donald Trump.

00:23:43.560 It moved from the House, which is dominated by Democrats, and you saw Adam Schiff there, to the Senate.

00:23:49.000 The House, if I can, and I'll be corrected in a minute by our next guest, but the House puts the accusation and the Senate tries it.

00:23:58.060 One is like the prosecutor, Schiff, and the other is like the jury, the Senate.

00:24:03.660 And I think one of the reasons I find this trying and boring and uninteresting is because it's deja vu.

00:24:10.080 I saw all this for three years in the form of the Mueller inquiry, hundreds of witnesses, thousands of interrogations, search warrants, interviews.

00:24:23.420 And at the end of it, Robert Mueller and his massive team of Democrats found there was no evidence that Donald Trump was in collusion with the Russians.

00:24:34.640 And they had their big shot, and they shot it and missed, and I feel like this is a bad sequel to a bad movie.

00:24:42.060 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:24:42.820 Joining us now via Skype from worldheadquartersofbreitbart.com is our friend Joel Pollack, who has been following most closely this impeachment, and we're glad to have him break away for a few moments.

00:24:53.540 Joel, I know I should be more interested just for the flavor and the interest of it, but I don't think even the Democrats believe this is the kill shot they once thought it would be.

00:25:03.460 Am I wrong?

00:25:04.640 No, you're right.

00:25:06.760 I think that their hope is to cause as much political damage to the president as they possibly can while minimizing damage to themselves.

00:25:14.580 But I think that the first day of the impeachment trial did not go particularly well for them.

00:25:20.560 They did have all of the airtime, essentially, and the president's lawyers, the White House counsel, chose not to use all their time.

00:25:27.580 They just made their points and sat down.

00:25:29.460 The Democrats basically used 11 or 12 hours to make substantive arguments on procedural motions that they were bringing to demand more witnesses, to demand more documents.

00:25:41.600 And that clip you played earlier where one of the White House lawyers said, look, you can't show up on the first day of the trial and say you need more information.

00:25:49.080 You've got the indictment.

00:25:50.340 You've already said we believe we can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:25:53.840 But now you say you want us to call these witnesses, you want more proof.

00:25:58.220 It's noteworthy also is that the Democrats did not allow Republicans to call any new witnesses in the House.

00:26:03.760 So why should the Republicans in the Senate allow Democrats to do the same, especially when the Senate is the later part, as you pointed out, of this entire process?

00:26:11.540 The Democrats are now going to lay out the opening argument to get 24 hours of total time to do it over, I think, three days.

00:26:19.900 So they're going to have eight hours a day, followed by the White House counsel laying out their response.

00:26:25.420 We're not clear that they're going to need to use all of those 24 hours.

00:26:29.300 In fact, I described this to someone earlier today as being like a baseball game.

00:26:34.880 If your team is the home team and they're winning in the ninth inning and the visiting team strikes out three outs, you don't have to bat in the bottom of the ninth.

00:26:47.420 Trump's lawyers can simply stand up and say, there's nothing proven here.

00:26:51.220 You've got no case.

00:26:52.180 This is unconstitutional and sit down.

00:26:53.860 They could theoretically dispose of this in five minutes.

00:26:56.500 I think it'll take a little longer than that.

00:26:58.040 They have some points they want to make.

00:27:00.060 But basically, the president's case is that there, first of all, is nothing impeachable here.

00:27:06.000 Secondly, there's a legitimate interest in finding out about corruption in Ukraine by Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, election interference from Ukraine.

00:27:14.080 If there's any legitimate interest in what the president was asking Ukraine to do, there's no grounds for impeaching him.

00:27:20.220 And the Democrats have come in saying there is no possible legitimate interest.

00:27:24.200 It's just not a supportable argument.

00:27:25.980 I don't know why they've done that to themselves.

00:27:28.040 They've made a number of mistakes along the way.

00:27:30.360 So we're basically sitting, as you pointed out, we're sitting here and listening to the same thing we've heard for the last several weeks in the House, for the previous three years on the media, on CNN and in the House and in the Senate and online and everywhere else.

00:27:45.080 So this is going to be quite a grueling, boring marathon.

00:27:50.400 There are a few fireworks here and there.

00:27:52.320 The chief justice had to intervene to rebuke.

00:27:54.580 He rebuked both sides because he's got to look impartial.

00:27:56.800 But really, it was to rebuke the Democrats.

00:27:59.360 House Democrats came in and accused the White House counsel of lying, which you don't really do.

00:28:03.680 It's considered not just uncivil, but unprofessional for lawyers to do that.

00:28:09.540 And he also, as Adam shifted, said that the Senate would be derelict in their duty if they didn't vote the way he wanted them to vote.

00:28:17.060 No, the Senate has a duty to vote according to its own conscience, according to its own conclusions, but they don't have a duty to vote the way Democrats want them to.

00:28:24.760 You can't accuse them.

00:28:25.800 Actually, Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said they would be voting against the United States.

00:28:31.740 That's an exact quote, against the United States if they voted not to remove Trump from office.

00:28:36.600 So it's really just extraordinary, the fact that they've come in here with that.

00:28:42.280 That was one of the only exciting moments.

00:28:43.860 Chief Justice admonished both sides.

00:28:46.080 I think that the Democrats have a tougher task ahead than they did in the first day of the hearings because they're going to repeat themselves over and over and over again.

00:28:54.760 Schiff is not very likable.

00:28:56.860 He whines a lot.

00:28:57.880 He's got no sense of humor.

00:28:59.800 The other House impeachment managers are a little better.

00:29:03.060 One or two of them have surprised me by being better than I thought they would be, but most of them are pretty poor.

00:29:08.460 Representative Garcia of Houston essentially put everybody to sleep on the first night.

00:29:13.380 So it's going to be long, grueling, and boring.

00:29:16.240 The president's lawyers generally did a very good job.

00:29:19.220 Pat Cipollone, the lead counsel, was excellent.

00:29:22.520 And I think the highlight is going to be Alan Dershowitz coming in.

00:29:25.460 Dershowitz is not coming in to make an argument about the facts.

00:29:28.600 He's coming in to make an argument that this entire impeachment is unconstitutional based on his expertise as a constitutional law scholar and historian.

00:29:36.680 He's written several books about the Constitution, about the Bill of Rights.

00:29:40.300 Adam Schiff has twice now trashed Donald Trump, excuse me, trashed Alan Dershowitz.

00:29:45.820 Schiff has trashed Alan Dershowitz by saying, well, he's just a criminal defense lawyer.

00:29:50.100 He's not really an expert in constitutional law.

00:29:53.460 Not only is it a lie, but it's a completely ridiculous ad hominem personal put down.

00:29:58.040 And I think it's just going to give Alan Dershowitz an appetite to come in and absolutely destroy the Democrats' argument.

00:30:04.360 Now, I share your point of view.

00:30:07.700 But then again, I would tend to because that's where I come from.

00:30:11.820 That's my worldview.

00:30:13.180 But let me give you a little report from up here in frozen Canada.

00:30:17.140 I was interested in Donald Trump going to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he gave quite a speech.

00:30:26.560 And we'll have that speech on tomorrow's show.

00:30:29.200 And all the Canadian media seem to be saying on Twitter, online is, how can Trump even be thinking about other things?

00:30:37.100 He's running away from the impeachment.

00:30:38.800 Why won't he talk about the impeachment?

00:30:40.020 Like, the Canadian media were riveted by this.

00:30:45.100 So even if it is constitutionally and legally improper, even if Adam Schiff is unlikable and another one of the impeachment managers is boring,

00:30:56.040 the Canadian media thinks that this is catnip.

00:31:00.140 They think Trump is guilty.

00:31:02.000 And I can only imagine how the media party in the United States are treating it.

00:31:06.760 So you say eight hours sounds like a lot.

00:31:08.600 Well, eight hours a day.

00:31:10.660 Well, that's enough to fill CNN's schedule.

00:31:12.840 So even if it's not great, it's 24 hours of election year anti-Trump innuendo and defamation.

00:31:22.800 So I don't know.

00:31:24.060 Yeah, but here's the problem.

00:31:27.360 Remember how many of the Democrats are running for president from the Senate.

00:31:33.480 Several of their leading candidates are Senate Democrats.

00:31:36.880 They have taken these Senate Democrats and they've forced them because they can't leave.

00:31:42.180 They've forced them to sit in the Senate chamber for days and days and days until 2 a.m., in fact, on the first day of the trial.

00:31:50.600 So Bernie Sanders is on the jury and...

00:31:53.980 He's in the Senate.

00:31:55.440 He cannot campaign in Iowa.

00:31:57.340 Elizabeth Warren cannot campaign in Iowa.

00:32:00.060 Michael Bennett cannot campaign in Iowa.

00:32:02.040 Who can campaign in Iowa?

00:32:04.160 Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, all the non-senators.

00:32:08.840 But, by the way, Biden is coming up constantly in this trial.

00:32:12.940 So he's not really escaping it.

00:32:15.320 He's in the crosshairs.

00:32:16.940 And he may be called as a witness if Democrats succeed in opening up new witnesses.

00:32:22.840 If they get John Bolton, who, by the way, will probably not be a very good witness for them.

00:32:27.320 But if they get John Bolton and whoever else they want, you can be damn sure the Senate Republicans are going to call Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the whistleblower, and anybody else they want to.

00:32:34.900 And Biden's going to be pulled off the trail.

00:32:37.320 And this is all happening with less than two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses.

00:32:43.020 So, yes, Democrats are getting airtime to talk about impeachment.

00:32:47.400 What they're not doing is talking about health care.

00:32:50.700 They're not talking about Green New Deal and climate change.

00:32:55.320 They're not talking about anything that is of interest to their own primary voters, most of whom, including those on the left, see this as a distraction.

00:33:04.980 There's no way the Senate's going to remove him from office.

00:33:07.000 You need a two-thirds vote to do that.

00:33:08.380 The Republicans are not going to split like that.

00:33:10.620 You're not even going to get more than one or two Republicans to vote for that.

00:33:14.360 And even that's a stretch.

00:33:15.420 I can see Mitt Romney, who doesn't like Trump, voting anyway to remove him from office.

00:33:19.160 But you're not going to get 20 Republican senators.

00:33:22.420 And that's what it would take, 20 out of the 53 to cross over.

00:33:25.640 Never going to happen.

00:33:26.800 So Democrats' own voters who put them in office in 2018 want them to do things on gun control.

00:33:32.020 And none of that's going to happen.

00:33:34.020 And they're not talking about it.

00:33:35.640 So Democrats, in short, have interfered with their own election.

00:33:41.300 Now, as to the point about Trump being in Switzerland, he's not running away from impeachment.

00:33:47.500 This is his case against impeachment.

00:33:49.900 And it was the same strategy used by Bill Clinton successfully in 1998, 1999, not because Trump is guilty as Clinton was.

00:33:58.080 And by the way, I didn't think Clinton should have been impeached either, even though I did think Clinton had committed crimes.

00:34:03.360 Trump is doing what Clinton did.

00:34:05.040 Trump is showing the American people that he's still at work.

00:34:08.500 Are you going to impeach and remove a president who is representing the country on the world stage, who is concluding trade deals, who is bombing bad guys, who is running and boasting about the world's strongest economy?

00:34:22.680 You're going to impeach that guy?

00:34:24.080 So Trump is basically saying, look, you can impeach me, but you're risking all of this.

00:34:29.140 You're also undermining the country's negotiating position if you take me out of the game.

00:34:34.300 And all these world leaders have to get to know somebody else.

00:34:37.260 So I think that this is actually Trump prosecuting or defending his own case in the impeachment trial by doing what he was elected to do so he can show the American people that he is staying focused while the Democrats are stuck in the Senate chamber.

00:34:53.780 Yeah.

00:34:54.420 Well, I mean, that's the thing is especially 10 months before an election, if people want to get rid of Trump, they can do it pretty cleanly in November of this year.

00:35:07.260 Are there districts where a Democrat won in Congress or Senate and Trump won the presidential vote that there's enough of an independent electorate that would say,

00:35:22.580 we really don't like what you're doing, it smacks of undoing an election, it smacks of trickery, and we're going to take it out on our congressman, our senator, any other, because of course there's a lot of different people up for election in November, not just the president, every congressman, and a third of the Senate.

00:35:43.920 Are there Democrats who must be saying, hey, please get us out of this mess?

00:35:50.400 Yes.

00:35:51.220 There are a couple of Democratic senators who are up for re-election, but the real action is going to be in the House.

00:35:59.260 There are 31 Democrats who represent districts that Trump won in 2016.

00:36:04.420 They're all up for re-election, and the polling in many of those districts is sharply against impeachment and removal.

00:36:13.020 That is a big problem for Democrats.

00:36:16.080 Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, these are unpopular figures in these districts, and remember, these are districts that voted for Trump.

00:36:24.200 So you see a lot of candidates coming out now in these districts on the Republican side who are running against impeachment and doing very well.

00:36:32.480 I'll give you a district I know well back in my old hometown of Chicago.

00:36:37.580 There's a suburban district on the west side, the 6th District, was once represented by Peter Roskam, who was a real great congressman, really one of the best.

00:36:45.240 Free market guy, pro-Israel, strong foreign policy, great congressman.

00:36:49.860 He was ousted in the blue wave, and they elected a guy named Sean Kastens, a businessman with a very sharp tongue and not much else behind him in terms of political experience.

00:37:01.800 He was elected on essentially a moderate platform, albeit with a very bare-knuckle style of politics.

00:37:09.040 He tried to imitate Trump in insulting his opponent.

00:37:12.300 But Kastens has voted for impeachment, and his opponent, a woman named Jeannie Ives, is now running on that.

00:37:18.660 The district leans more toward Democrats in terms of overall party preference, but she is beating Kastens in early opinion polls by something like 10%.

00:37:30.200 It's a very big margin, 9 or 10%.

00:37:33.480 So the Republican challenger is beating the incumbent.

00:37:39.380 Jeannie Ives is beating Sean Kastens in early opinion polls because of impeachment.

00:37:44.120 That's how unpopular impeachment is in these districts.

00:37:46.840 They want a Democrat in Congress, some of these districts, because a lot of suburban districts have moved against Trump.

00:37:52.640 They don't like his rhetoric, women don't like him, whatever it is.

00:37:55.700 But the impeachment thing is pushing a lot of those voters back into the Republican column.

00:38:01.160 Democrats have wasted their mandate on impeachment, and that's what's happening in those districts.

00:38:05.980 That's why Republicans are cautiously optimistic that they can win back the 18, 19 seats they're going to need to retake the House of Representatives.

00:38:13.160 Isn't that incredible?

00:38:15.220 I mean, 10 months is so long, anything could happen.

00:38:17.360 Let me ask you one last question.

00:38:18.320 I want to let you get back to things because you're really covering this closely.

00:38:21.540 I'm grateful for you shoehorning us into your day.

00:38:24.520 I look at the Democratic presidential roster of nominees, and it seems weak to me.

00:38:31.220 I think every one of them has a major flaw.

00:38:34.840 Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg.

00:38:38.280 I just, maybe I lack imagination, but I can't imagine any of them beating Trump, and I really have trouble imagining them being effective presidents.

00:38:46.640 Can you give me your latest thinking on that and on the possibility?

00:38:51.740 And it's almost too ridiculous to suggest, but I just want your thoughts.

00:38:54.720 Is there a chance that Hillary Clinton will jump back in? 1.00

00:38:59.340 I know that's absurd to ask, but I just want to ask it.

00:39:03.540 Well, to the first part of your question, no, there is no Democrat who yet poses an alternative to Trump.

00:39:10.020 There's no Democrat who really comes out as a leader, who comes across as someone who can rival Trump in their ability to achieve something, do something.

00:39:18.980 There is one person emerging, and I have to say, I have to give him credit because he's emerging as the new frontrunner in at least one poll, in the CNN poll, despite the fact that he's stuck in the Senate with this impeachment thing, and that's Bernie Sanders.

00:39:35.980 Bernie Sanders is coming out strong as Biden starts to fade a little bit.

00:39:41.240 Now, we don't know how Iowa is going to vote.

00:39:43.020 We don't know how New Hampshire is going to vote in the beginning of February, but Bernie Sanders is moving ahead.

00:39:49.020 And I think one of the reasons he's moving ahead is precisely that Democrats have lost faith in the field as a whole.

00:39:56.780 And Sanders, being the most authentically left-wing, he's the original Democratic Socialist, spent his honeymoon in the USSR, all that stuff, he, in a way, is a protest vote against the party establishment.

00:40:09.340 And so if Democrats can't get a candidate who they think can actually win, they're going to go for a candidate that makes them feel good when they cast their vote.

00:40:18.900 That is Bernie Sanders.

00:40:20.700 He's not unlikable.

00:40:23.500 He is liked even by Republicans.

00:40:26.100 He's amusing.

00:40:27.700 He is civil to his Democratic opponents, unlike many of his rivals who've been running attack ads all the time.

00:40:35.260 He often backs away from the best attacks.

00:40:37.320 He could really go for some of these corruption issues, but he backs away.

00:40:41.500 And that, ironically, is appealing to people.

00:40:45.280 The impeachment trial is about to start up again here, so I have to run back in.

00:40:48.020 But that's what I would say.

00:40:48.840 Watch Bernie Sanders in the next 10 days.

00:40:51.040 All right.

00:40:51.280 Joe Pollack, we'll let you get back to the impeachment.

00:40:53.060 Thanks for your time, my friend.

00:40:54.720 Thank you.

00:40:55.240 Okay.

00:40:55.620 There you have it, Joe Pollack.

00:40:56.540 We pulled him away.

00:40:57.840 He was literally watching the impeachment, so I'm glad we stole 15 minutes from him.

00:41:01.940 So very, very interesting, especially those thoughts about Bernie Sanders.

00:41:06.820 And I don't know if you noticed, but just the other day, Hillary Clinton came out with a broadside against Bernie Sanders, saying no one likes him.

00:41:15.480 You know, I know Hillary doesn't, and she put the knife in him. 0.99

00:41:18.640 But I don't like Bernie Sanders' ideology, but I agree with Joel.

00:41:23.500 He's got a likability, and maybe it's because he reminds me of that TV character, Larry David, from the show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

00:41:33.300 He's got that accent.

00:41:35.120 He's got that look.

00:41:38.180 I don't think people are sour about him the way Hillary Clinton was such a turnoff for so many.

00:41:44.260 So very interesting days, but 300 days to go until the election, approximately.

00:41:49.740 We'll see how it goes.

00:41:50.860 All right.

00:41:51.140 Stay with us for more.

00:42:00.860 Hey, folks.

00:42:01.520 On my monologue yesterday about Trudeau bringing in more than double the amount of people than his immigration targets, K. Rick writes,

00:42:08.440 2008, 234 new liberal voters.

00:42:12.260 Congratulations, Canada.

00:42:14.260 Yeah, 16% of those were natural births, but the other 83% are migrants.

00:42:19.100 It's twice as many as Trudeau said.

00:42:21.820 Do you think any media party person will comment on it?

00:42:24.520 Do you think any conservative party person will?

00:42:28.020 Robert writes,

00:42:29.320 perhaps it's time to state immigration numbers in terms of CO2 emissions increases,

00:42:33.380 200,000 new immigrants, and approximately 4 million tons of CO2 emissions to Canada's output. 0.85

00:42:38.040 At $50 a ton, that's $200 million in tax revenue plus GST.

00:42:42.680 Well, that's the thing.

00:42:44.160 I mean, it's not even a joke.

00:42:46.000 I mean, it is a joke.

00:42:46.640 But how can Canada reduce our carbon output if we're adding almost a million people a year?

00:42:54.100 Well, don't come at me with hate facts.

00:42:58.580 Hank writes, buy some real estate.

00:43:01.160 In 10 years, it will be worth a lot more.

00:43:02.680 Well, yeah, good point.

00:43:05.200 For those who have real estate, for landlords, people with construction companies, banks, cell phone companies, low-skill employers like Tim Hortons,

00:43:14.840 they love mass immigration.

00:43:17.700 It lowers wages and it increases property value.

00:43:21.580 So, yeah, just buy real estate, eh?

00:43:24.220 Well, as I said earlier in the show, that's a million-dollar proposition in Toronto or Vancouver.

00:43:29.220 So if you're in, sure, yeah, you want the boat to rise.

00:43:32.360 But what if you never got in the boat in the first place?

00:43:35.240 On my interview with AWR Hawkins about guns, Hogan writes,

00:43:39.320 an armed society is a polite society.

00:43:42.080 Yeah, AWR said that yesterday, and that's exactly right because everyone's on good behavior.

00:43:46.220 You don't try something, you don't get a moment of road rage, you don't have an impulse when you don't know if the guy two rows over in the church pew is packing.

00:43:59.320 All right, that's our show for today.

00:44:00.700 Thanks, everybody.

00:44:01.500 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:44:16.220 Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 23, 2020

C-list celebrity Meghan Markle wants Canadians to pony up for her security costs

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