Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ US midterm elections： How bad is Biden going to blow it？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, less than two weeks to the U.S. midterm elections.

00:00:04.040 How bad is Biden going to blow it?

00:00:07.080 It's October 27th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:09.780 You're fighting for freedom!

00:00:12.660 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:24.480 Well, it is less than two weeks from now

00:00:27.420 that the United States will have its midterm elections.

00:00:30.000 You know what those are.

00:00:30.980 The entire House of Representatives, that's the Congress,

00:00:33.860 is up for re-election as they are every two years.

00:00:36.200 A third of the important Senate are up for grabs.

00:00:39.700 And, of course, the whole thing is a form of proxy vote

00:00:43.140 on the President of the United States.

00:00:45.180 He is not at the ballot box until two years from now,

00:00:48.460 if he does indeed run.

00:00:50.660 Of course, there are other races at the state level.

00:00:54.000 A lot of the governors are up for grabs.

00:00:56.120 Our favorite guy, Ron DeSantis, is in a battle.

00:01:00.560 Let's talk about this because I think there is a lot of momentum these days

00:01:05.580 that suggests the Republicans might do very well.

00:01:08.920 I've never seen polling that looks so bad for the Democrats.

00:01:13.520 I took you through that New York Times poll before,

00:01:15.980 showing you the shocking numbers of Americans

00:01:18.120 who feel the country is on the wrong track

00:01:20.660 and who incredibly think the media is the threat to democracy.

00:01:24.260 Joining us now to help us talk about this

00:01:26.020 is our dear friend Joel Pollack,

00:01:28.440 the editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:01:31.380 Well, what a pleasure to see you, Joel.

00:01:33.160 There's so much going on, and you're the right guy to talk to you.

00:01:35.520 You have a bit of a specialty following the Democrats,

00:01:38.820 even though you're a more Republican-leaning guy.

00:01:41.280 What's the state of play less than two weeks to go?

00:01:44.800 We are witnessing a surge in Republican support

00:01:48.420 as we get closer to Election Day

00:01:50.640 and a corresponding collapse in the Democratic Party's support

00:01:55.700 and chaos in its messaging.

00:01:59.180 The turning point seems to have been around late August, early September,

00:02:02.840 and I would suggest that Joe Biden's primetime address on September 1st,

00:02:08.560 in which he declared that quote-unquote MAGA Republicans

00:02:12.040 were a threat to the country, was a key moment, 0.73

00:02:15.920 not because it frightened many Americans

00:02:18.680 into thinking that their civil liberties were in danger,

00:02:21.400 although it certainly did feel that way to those of us on the right,

00:02:24.880 but it told Americans that the president of the country

00:02:27.940 was not that interested in the things they care about.

00:02:31.640 He was more interested in politics.

00:02:33.620 He was more interested in things going on in Washington,

00:02:36.080 and he was not talking about inflation.

00:02:39.660 He wasn't talking about gas prices.

00:02:41.440 He wasn't talking about crime.

00:02:43.460 He did mention a couple of his accomplishments in that speech,

00:02:46.540 but that wasn't the purpose of the speech.

00:02:48.340 The purpose of the speech was to demonize opposition,

00:02:50.560 and he left an open space, a vacuum, really,

00:02:56.340 in which Republicans were the only ones talking about

00:02:59.240 bread-and-butter kitchen table issues.

00:03:01.060 So Democrats started losing momentum,

00:03:03.680 and what's happened in the last couple of weeks or so

00:03:07.040 is that as Republicans have started to feel

00:03:11.640 that victory is within their grasp,

00:03:13.680 they have surged even more.

00:03:15.680 It's almost as if voters are choosing to side with the winner

00:03:18.980 because it feels good not just to be on the winning team,

00:03:22.000 but also to send a very clear message,

00:03:24.520 and independent voters, as well as Republicans,

00:03:27.040 know exactly what that message is,

00:03:28.580 which is that wokeness has failed as a governing policy

00:03:32.860 and that Americans want a return to common sense,

00:03:36.500 whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge.

00:03:39.360 You know, it's funny you say that wokeness has failed.

00:03:41.520 Just over the last couple of weeks in Canada,

00:03:43.840 we've seen the same thing.

00:03:45.260 And I know Canada and the United States are very,

00:03:46.920 very different,

00:03:47.340 but there is sort of a continental consciousness.

00:03:50.320 We follow American news media.

00:03:52.600 We're subject to the same cultural tides.

00:03:54.960 In Vancouver, left-wing city analogous to San Francisco or Seattle,

00:03:59.960 the woke incumbent was thrown out for a pro-police successor.

00:04:05.180 Just this week in Ottawa,

00:04:07.420 a non-binary woke candidate was trounced by a moderate.

00:04:13.080 I think that wokeness has gone so far. 0.96

00:04:16.100 And take a look at this.

00:04:16.720 This is a video just the other day.

00:04:19.300 Here we are, two weeks to go.

00:04:22.180 Oil prices, inflation, all sorts of crises.

00:04:25.500 And Joe Biden's sitting down with a transgender activist

00:04:29.760 talking about how he feels to be a girl

00:04:32.240 and how he would,

00:04:34.780 how he thinks that it's a human right for children

00:04:37.440 to have surgery or puberty blockers.

00:04:40.360 Just a quick clip of that.

00:04:41.620 Take a look.

00:04:42.320 Thank you.

00:04:42.720 And it feels like Republicans have turned trans and non-binary people

00:04:47.240 into this thing to blame society's downfall on in some ways.

00:04:51.980 And this narrative is not only dangerous to our mental health,

00:04:55.280 but also our physical safety

00:04:56.640 and particularly trans women of color

00:04:59.000 are being murdered at an alarming rate.

00:05:01.200 More than any other group of people.

00:05:03.060 Thank you.

00:05:03.880 How can democratic leaders be more effective

00:05:06.620 in advocating for us trans people

00:05:09.120 in our families, in our lives, in our opportunities?

00:05:12.580 I'm not being facetious when I say this,

00:05:14.380 being seen with people like you.

00:05:16.520 No, I mean it.

00:05:17.780 I genuinely mean it.

00:05:19.460 People fear what they don't know.

00:05:22.080 They fear what they don't know.

00:05:23.320 And when people realize, individuals realize,

00:05:27.740 oh, this is what they're telling me to be frightened of?

00:05:32.040 This is the problem?

00:05:33.400 This is, I mean, people change their minds.

00:05:36.420 People are just, don't know enough to know.

00:05:40.260 And it's not because of intellectual incapability,

00:05:43.780 it's just lack of exposure.

00:05:45.060 And I think that it's really important

00:05:48.720 that we continue to speak out

00:05:51.720 about the basic fundamental rights of all human beings.

00:05:55.460 And the idea, the idea that what's going on,

00:05:59.000 you know, in some states,

00:06:01.620 I won't get into the politics of it,

00:06:03.440 but in some states, it's just, it's outrageous.

00:06:06.400 And I think it's immoral.

00:06:09.400 The trans part's not immoral.

00:06:12.060 What they're trying to do to trans persons is immoral.

00:06:16.480 Thank you.

00:06:17.520 And do you have any messages

00:06:19.040 to the families of trans folks

00:06:21.520 that are seeking, you know, options for their children,

00:06:26.020 but are struggling to find resources?

00:06:28.200 Do you have a message to those parents?

00:06:29.420 Yeah, I do.

00:06:32.860 This is blood of your blood, bone of your bone.

00:06:36.800 And it is, again, speaking to my son,

00:06:43.560 when he was, he was, spent a year in Iraq

00:06:46.760 and he was a decorated soldier.

00:06:49.480 He volunteered to go.

00:06:50.880 He had to give up the attorney general's job

00:06:52.700 and then came back to it.

00:06:54.380 And he started a foundation.

00:06:58.320 I'm not allowed to talk about now

00:06:59.800 because I can't raise money for it any longer.

00:07:02.080 But it was for abused children.

00:07:04.840 And one of the things he did,

00:07:06.640 he's raised millions of dollars, this organization,

00:07:09.360 to basically educate parents

00:07:11.960 as to what they should not be afraid of

00:07:15.180 and to educate the community

00:07:18.240 as to what is just pure hyperbole.

00:07:25.080 And so I just think it's a matter of leaders speaking out

00:07:31.740 and saying, as I told you,

00:07:34.940 I mentioned a young woman who used to be in his staff,

00:07:37.920 used to be in my staff,

00:07:39.600 who is now a state senator.

00:07:42.560 A number, and she's trans, 0.90

00:07:44.820 and she's, you know, a state senator in the state of Delaware

00:07:48.160 in an area that was historically very conservative,

00:07:51.580 the part of Delaware.

00:07:52.980 And she's running unopposed this time. 0.98

00:07:56.480 So things are changing.

00:07:58.620 Things are changing.

00:07:59.580 But it's a matter of us acknowledging

00:08:01.860 that there's nothing to be,

00:08:04.360 just because it's different,

00:08:05.600 there's nothing to be fearful about.

00:08:07.380 Substance of that.

00:08:08.300 The fact that he's choosing to go woke

00:08:11.380 in the dozen days before the election,

00:08:14.000 is that on purpose?

00:08:15.880 Was that an accident?

00:08:17.060 Is he trying to stir up his base?

00:08:19.120 Why would he do that?

00:08:21.080 The entire Democratic Party midterm campaign strategy

00:08:24.180 is aimed at the progressive base of the party.

00:08:27.960 That means they're emphasizing issues

00:08:30.100 like abortion and race,

00:08:32.920 and they're emphasizing issues like transgenderism.

00:08:37.160 The percentage of Americans

00:08:38.640 who identify as transgender is very, very small. 1.00

00:08:41.900 Probably a broader percentage,

00:08:44.660 primarily among Democrats,

00:08:46.660 identifies generally with the sense

00:08:48.940 that transgender rights are a form of civil rights.

00:08:51.840 But there are also many people

00:08:53.960 on the conservative side,

00:08:55.560 probably more people as a percentage of the population,

00:08:58.560 who feel that the crusade for transgender rights

00:09:02.140 has gone too far.

00:09:03.560 It's begun to trample women's rights, 1.00

00:09:05.220 and it's begun to harm children.

00:09:08.000 You saw this come up in the debate earlier this week

00:09:11.540 between Governor Ron DeSantis

00:09:13.040 and former Governor Charlie Crist.

00:09:14.920 Charlie Crist used to be a Republican,

00:09:16.740 became a Democrat,

00:09:18.100 and is now challenging Ron DeSantis

00:09:19.760 for his old job back,

00:09:21.520 not so much as a serious candidate, 0.75

00:09:23.080 but as a kind of professional troll 0.69

00:09:24.680 to rough DeSantis up

00:09:25.880 before he decides to run for president someday.

00:09:28.740 But Charlie Crist accused Ron DeSantis

00:09:31.180 of abusing LGBTQ people,

00:09:33.860 and Ron DeSantis pointed out in rebuttal

00:09:36.340 that it's illegal in Florida

00:09:38.160 for 15-year-olds to get tattoos,

00:09:40.400 but Charlie Crist wants to encourage them

00:09:42.640 to be able to get double mastectomies.

00:09:45.100 And that's the absurdity

00:09:46.660 that is striking many Americans,

00:09:48.320 particularly parents,

00:09:49.480 who feel that the schools

00:09:51.020 are indoctrinating their kids,

00:09:52.500 not just with transgender ideology,

00:09:54.420 but in general.

00:09:55.620 There's a sense that the Democratic Party

00:09:57.600 doesn't understand

00:09:59.460 what the needs of American families are today,

00:10:01.840 and that nevertheless,

00:10:03.500 when they're in government,

00:10:04.300 the Democrats don't want to let parents

00:10:06.360 control anything.

00:10:07.220 They don't want to let communities 0.95

00:10:08.220 control anything.

00:10:09.420 They want to control things

00:10:10.840 according to the ideological dictates

00:10:12.800 of their own party.

00:10:14.500 And so Americans are pushing back

00:10:17.160 in a very big way.

00:10:18.540 It's not just in a national way.

00:10:21.660 It's also, as you pointed out

00:10:23.200 in Canadian examples,

00:10:24.140 it's at the municipal level.

00:10:25.400 There are contests

00:10:26.780 such as right here in Los Angeles,

00:10:28.440 where a woke Democratic favorite,

00:10:31.720 Karen Bass,

00:10:32.480 who was leading by double digits

00:10:34.460 in early October,

00:10:35.760 is now behind in the latest poll

00:10:37.540 to moderate Democrat Rick Caruso,

00:10:40.640 who's a billionaire developer.

00:10:41.980 He's carpet bombing the airwaves

00:10:44.300 with advertisements,

00:10:45.360 and so he's outspending his rival.

00:10:47.820 But he's also bringing a message

00:10:49.720 that the city has to get back

00:10:51.300 to fighting crime,

00:10:52.680 getting homeless people off the streets,

00:10:54.860 and making L.A. the nice place

00:10:56.880 it has been until recently,

00:10:59.040 whereas Karen Bass is promising

00:11:00.540 business as usual more of the same.

00:11:02.520 She herself was a victim of crime.

00:11:04.100 A few weeks ago,

00:11:05.120 her home was burglarized,

00:11:06.920 and the thieves stole her guns.

00:11:09.480 Imagine that,

00:11:10.180 a left-wing progressive

00:11:11.200 Democratic Party candidate

00:11:12.640 with guns in her home. 0.84

00:11:14.160 We don't really know very much

00:11:15.340 about why she had those guns 0.99

00:11:16.680 or what the guns were,

00:11:17.700 but in any event,

00:11:19.280 she went from proclaiming

00:11:21.160 in the spring

00:11:21.660 that she felt perfectly safe

00:11:23.080 in Los Angeles

00:11:23.840 to explaining to voters

00:11:25.740 that she now finally understood

00:11:27.240 why they feel unsafe

00:11:28.900 in the city of Los Angeles.

00:11:30.620 Wokeness,

00:11:31.280 Black Lives Matter,

00:11:32.220 transgenderism, 0.93

00:11:33.300 these are all tremendous problems 0.68

00:11:36.180 for the Democratic Party,

00:11:37.260 but they are unable

00:11:38.240 to extricate themselves

00:11:39.320 from these ideological anvils.

00:11:42.080 And so Republicans

00:11:42.980 are gaining in places

00:11:44.760 where Republicans

00:11:45.820 weren't even competitive

00:11:46.900 until a very short time ago.

00:11:48.700 We're even seeing Senate races

00:11:50.380 like the race against incumbent

00:11:52.000 Dick Blumenthal in Connecticut

00:11:53.580 start to look like

00:11:54.740 a competitive race

00:11:55.660 where the Republican,

00:11:57.000 who's a Cuban-Jewish immigrant

00:11:58.700 named Leora Levy,

00:12:00.140 is gaining on him.

00:12:01.720 And I think the race 0.90

00:12:02.380 is now in the low single digits

00:12:04.340 in terms of the gap

00:12:05.260 between Blumenthal and Levy.

00:12:06.920 This momentum is continuing.

00:12:09.080 Joe Biden said a few days

00:12:10.760 before the two-week deadline

00:12:13.700 that he expected polls

00:12:16.260 to swing back

00:12:17.020 in the Democrats' direction

00:12:18.200 before Election Day.

00:12:19.440 That could happen

00:12:20.380 to some extent

00:12:21.060 as voters start to feel

00:12:23.040 a little bit of premature

00:12:24.060 buyer's remorse, let's say.

00:12:25.660 I mean, you always feel

00:12:26.460 a little bit worse

00:12:27.140 about the party you've elected

00:12:28.240 once they have responsibility.

00:12:29.620 So maybe people will start

00:12:30.480 to look at these Republican candidates

00:12:32.380 now that they look like

00:12:33.580 they're going to win

00:12:34.560 in many places.

00:12:35.700 And they might start to say,

00:12:36.520 well, wait a minute,

00:12:36.980 what do these people stand for?

00:12:38.440 But the problem for Joe Biden

00:12:39.680 is that his party

00:12:41.040 has imposed vote-by-mail

00:12:43.040 across the nation,

00:12:44.280 which means that millions of ballots

00:12:46.160 have already been cast.

00:12:47.800 And so if you have second thoughts

00:12:49.000 about the Republican you voted for,

00:12:50.820 it's too late.

00:12:51.680 So Democrats are hoist

00:12:53.340 by their own petard now.

00:12:54.480 Vote-by-mail could work against them

00:12:56.300 if there is something like a return

00:12:58.180 back toward the Democrats.

00:12:59.640 But I don't think there will be.

00:13:01.060 Republicans are experiencing

00:13:02.100 a surge of confidence

00:13:03.140 unlike anything we've seen.

00:13:04.980 I have to say

00:13:06.060 it's actually more confident

00:13:08.960 in the Republican camp

00:13:10.220 than it was even in 2010

00:13:11.880 when there was that Tea Party

00:13:13.100 wave election.

00:13:14.500 And I want to explain why

00:13:15.720 very briefly if I could

00:13:16.760 as I finish my answer here.

00:13:17.820 In 2010, there were a number

00:13:20.260 of very weak

00:13:21.380 Republican Senate candidates.

00:13:23.240 Maybe the candidates

00:13:23.880 themselves weren't so bad,

00:13:25.520 but they were brought down

00:13:26.800 by controversies

00:13:27.900 that the media

00:13:28.500 were able to amplify.

00:13:30.340 In 2022, up until August,

00:13:32.300 we were told

00:13:33.020 that the same thing

00:13:33.700 was happening.

00:13:34.320 The Republicans had nominated

00:13:35.480 a bunch of losery candidates

00:13:36.980 in a lot of these Senate races.

00:13:39.340 And Democrats were actually

00:13:40.260 spending millions of dollars

00:13:42.000 on Republican primaries

00:13:43.820 to make sure that

00:13:44.740 the pro-Trump candidate,

00:13:46.400 the MAGA Republican candidate,

00:13:48.260 emerged as the victor

00:13:49.300 because they thought

00:13:50.000 these right-wing candidates, 0.97

00:13:52.220 these crazies, 1.00

00:13:53.380 these deplorables, 1.00

00:13:54.240 would be easier

00:13:54.920 for Democrats to beat.

00:13:56.600 But what has happened

00:13:57.900 as voters have started

00:13:59.540 to tune into these races

00:14:00.620 is that they've looked

00:14:01.980 at the Democratic candidates

00:14:03.200 and the Democrats

00:14:03.980 aren't so good.

00:14:05.100 And worse,

00:14:05.960 they are tied to Joe Biden

00:14:07.700 and his agenda.

00:14:08.600 There are no Democrats

00:14:09.600 who've made any sort of

00:14:10.880 real independent stance,

00:14:12.460 aside from Kyrsten Sinema

00:14:13.580 in Arizona,

00:14:14.180 who's not up for re-election

00:14:15.140 this year.

00:14:15.500 Nobody has really

00:14:16.800 tried to make a career

00:14:18.120 out of objecting to

00:14:19.360 or dissenting from

00:14:20.120 the Biden agenda.

00:14:21.020 And so all of these Democrats,

00:14:22.860 whether they're good

00:14:23.440 or bad candidates,

00:14:24.240 are tied to Joe Biden.

00:14:25.600 So the Republican candidates

00:14:27.580 who were once thought

00:14:28.340 to be weak or too extreme

00:14:29.600 and so forth

00:14:30.160 are now being looked at

00:14:31.800 by voters

00:14:32.300 as a better alternative

00:14:33.820 than the woke,

00:14:35.960 left-wing, 0.94

00:14:36.720 incompetent, 0.81

00:14:37.720 and Joe Biden-associated 0.72

00:14:39.440 candidates

00:14:40.060 that the Democratic Party

00:14:41.360 has put up.

00:14:42.000 So the candidates'

00:14:44.260 weaknesses

00:14:44.700 are not the same

00:14:46.940 potent argument

00:14:47.800 for Democrats

00:14:48.380 that they were in 2010.

00:14:49.820 That's also because

00:14:50.420 of conservative media.

00:14:52.000 There's now a much

00:14:52.680 greater ability

00:14:54.100 to push back

00:14:54.920 against some of these

00:14:55.520 media narratives.

00:14:57.080 Carrie Lake,

00:14:57.700 who's running for

00:14:58.420 governor of Arizona,

00:14:59.840 gave a masterclass

00:15:00.820 in how to respond

00:15:01.620 to some of this stuff.

00:15:02.840 She was being pestered

00:15:03.780 by journalists

00:15:04.520 about whether she believed

00:15:05.480 Trump had actually won

00:15:06.600 the 2020 election.

00:15:08.220 She then read out

00:15:09.200 to these journalists

00:15:10.020 a list of Democrats

00:15:11.380 who had denied

00:15:12.340 previous election results,

00:15:14.320 including Hillary Clinton, 1.00

00:15:15.220 who claimed that

00:15:15.740 the 2016 election

00:15:16.720 had been stolen.

00:15:18.020 So she put the journalists

00:15:19.440 in their place, really,

00:15:21.540 and showed the double standard

00:15:22.880 they were using.

00:15:23.660 That's a new weapon

00:15:25.000 that conservatives

00:15:26.640 and Republicans have had

00:15:27.840 thanks to the growth

00:15:28.740 of conservative media

00:15:29.600 like my own website,

00:15:30.720 Breitbart News,

00:15:31.380 and others.

00:15:32.440 Let me just stop you there, Joel,

00:15:33.580 because I...

00:15:34.000 The last stretch here,

00:15:35.060 with absolute confidence,

00:15:36.560 I think that Republicans

00:15:37.380 are going to have

00:15:37.800 a very good night

00:15:38.640 on November 8th.

00:15:39.640 Wow.

00:15:40.080 You know what?

00:15:40.460 I know that Carrie Lake

00:15:41.620 interaction you're referring to.

00:15:42.960 She's actually amazing.

00:15:44.720 She's so tough.

00:15:45.840 I just want to play

00:15:46.720 for the viewers

00:15:47.400 that interaction,

00:15:48.520 and she was ready for it,

00:15:50.180 and she's got a style.

00:15:51.360 Take a look at Carrie Lake

00:15:52.260 in Arizona,

00:15:53.380 just clapping back

00:15:54.520 at the media.

00:15:55.260 Take a look.

00:15:55.880 If you're going to start

00:15:56.640 throwing around terms

00:15:57.680 like election denier,

00:15:59.400 let's remember who

00:16:00.160 the other election deniers were,

00:16:02.140 Hillary Clinton

00:16:02.800 and all the Democrats.

00:16:04.860 Next question.

00:16:05.560 The question is,

00:16:07.780 you, over the weekend,

00:16:09.060 everybody,

00:16:09.600 you took the Google

00:16:11.360 all over the world.

00:16:12.400 Your name was ringing

00:16:13.200 everywhere,

00:16:14.300 and one of them,

00:16:14.900 yes, ma'am,

00:16:15.480 because I have the scale,

00:16:16.720 and one of them has,

00:16:17.800 most of them were asking,

00:16:19.240 is she an election denier,

00:16:22.600 Carrie Lake?

00:16:23.360 And that was like going around

00:16:24.940 on all different cable news.

00:16:27.480 What do you elaborate on this?

00:16:29.900 I'm actually shocked

00:16:30.960 you asked that question, George.

00:16:32.840 Actually, Anthony,

00:16:33.900 where's Anthony?

00:16:34.540 One once in a while.

00:16:36.260 Come here, Anthony.

00:16:38.020 You know,

00:16:38.640 I did a little,

00:16:39.620 actually, Anthony,

00:16:40.600 Anthony, how old are you?

00:16:41.760 20.

00:16:42.700 Are you a journalist?

00:16:43.800 No.

00:16:44.700 Well, you did better research

00:16:46.060 than half these people.

00:16:48.300 Let's talk about

00:16:49.140 election deniers.

00:16:50.700 Here's 150 examples

00:16:52.100 of Democrats

00:16:53.020 denying election results.

00:16:56.360 Oh, wow, look at this.

00:16:57.400 This is from,

00:16:58.120 this is from

00:16:59.620 Joe Biden's press secretary.

00:17:01.620 Reminder,

00:17:02.880 Brian Kemp stole

00:17:03.800 the gubernatorial election

00:17:05.060 from Georgians

00:17:05.920 and Stacey Abrams.

00:17:07.580 Democrats saying that.

00:17:08.840 Is that an election denier?

00:17:10.720 Oh, look at this.

00:17:12.780 Just heard Republican

00:17:13.900 Ryan Costello

00:17:15.080 said it would be difficult

00:17:16.540 for Stacey Abrams

00:17:17.940 to win

00:17:18.340 because she lost

00:17:19.020 her state bid,

00:17:19.600 but yet she's still

00:17:20.520 claiming she never lost.

00:17:23.040 This is Hillary Clinton. 0.66

00:17:24.540 Trump is an illegitimate president.

00:17:26.620 Is she an election denier?

00:17:29.000 This one says,

00:17:30.320 was the 2016 election legitimate?

00:17:33.860 It now definitely

00:17:34.840 is a question worth asking.

00:17:36.980 That's the Los Angeles Times.

00:17:39.320 So it's okay for Democrats

00:17:40.860 to question elections,

00:17:42.180 but it's not okay

00:17:43.400 for Republicans.

00:17:44.520 It's a crock of BS.

00:17:46.300 Every one of you knows it.

00:17:47.540 We have our freedom of speech

00:17:49.080 and we're not going to relinquish it

00:17:50.380 to a bunch of fake news propagandists.

00:17:52.720 If you want a copy of these,

00:17:54.980 I'm sure that Anthony

00:17:56.640 would help you get a copy

00:17:57.640 and help you learn

00:17:58.340 how to be journalists,

00:17:59.320 but look it up.

00:18:00.460 It's been happening

00:18:01.020 for a long time.

00:18:02.380 Since 2000,

00:18:03.920 people have questioned

00:18:04.880 the legitimacy of our elections

00:18:06.500 and all we're asking

00:18:08.540 is that in the future,

00:18:10.100 we don't have that

00:18:10.700 have to happen anymore.

00:18:11.860 When I'm governor,

00:18:13.400 excuse me,

00:18:14.640 when I'm governor,

00:18:15.340 we're going to make sure

00:18:15.980 we have honest elections.

00:18:17.200 We want the Democrats,

00:18:18.740 the Independents,

00:18:19.520 and the Republicans

00:18:20.160 to all know

00:18:21.040 that their vote counted.

00:18:21.900 We want fair,

00:18:23.760 honest,

00:18:24.240 and transparent elections

00:18:25.480 and we're going to deliver

00:18:26.860 that for the people.

00:18:28.140 But just remember, guys,

00:18:29.760 this is one page

00:18:30.800 after Hillary Clinton

00:18:31.900 says George W. Bush

00:18:33.180 was selected president,

00:18:34.640 not elected.

00:18:35.740 So let's start,

00:18:36.900 if you're going to start

00:18:37.600 throwing around terms

00:18:38.620 like election denier,

00:18:40.340 let's remember

00:18:40.920 who the other election deniers were,

00:18:43.080 Hillary Clinton

00:18:43.760 and all the Democrats.

00:18:45.380 It's not the first time

00:18:46.520 she's done that.

00:18:47.100 I can't help myself.

00:18:47.940 I want to show you

00:18:48.760 that time when a CNN reporter

00:18:51.340 asked her for an interview

00:18:52.880 and she referred to CNN Plus,

00:18:54.960 which our Canadian viewers

00:18:55.880 might not know.

00:18:56.800 That was a pay-per-view,

00:18:58.540 paywalled site of CNN.

00:19:00.300 People thought

00:19:00.840 they loved CNN so much

00:19:02.560 they would pay

00:19:03.620 to get special,

00:19:04.820 anyhow,

00:19:05.120 it was shut down.

00:19:06.160 You have to know that

00:19:06.820 to understand the joke.

00:19:07.820 Here's Carrie Lake 1.00

00:19:08.660 being very tough.

00:19:10.140 In fact,

00:19:10.440 I felt bad

00:19:11.200 for the CNN reporter

00:19:12.480 who dared to ask her

00:19:13.920 this question.

00:19:14.460 Take a look.

00:19:15.200 That's Carrie Lake. 1.00

00:19:36.780 Do you think Carrie Lake

00:19:37.520 has a shot?

00:19:38.660 And Blake Masters,

00:19:39.580 I think he's also

00:19:40.360 running in the same state

00:19:41.900 but for Senate.

00:19:43.600 How's Arizona looking?

00:19:46.400 Does that state

00:19:47.420 look like it might go Republican?

00:19:49.820 I think Carrie Lake

00:19:50.980 will win.

00:19:51.680 She's running against

00:19:52.360 Secretary of State

00:19:53.160 Katie Hobbs

00:19:54.100 and Katie Hobbs 0.52

00:19:55.460 has two big problems.

00:19:57.520 One is that

00:19:58.400 there have already been

00:19:59.760 some issues

00:20:00.780 with the ballots

00:20:01.580 in this year's election.

00:20:03.120 Your job as Secretary of State

00:20:04.620 at the state level

00:20:05.540 is different from the job

00:20:06.900 of Secretary of State

00:20:07.860 at the national level.

00:20:08.940 Our Secretary of State

00:20:10.060 runs the State Department,

00:20:11.500 is responsible

00:20:12.020 for American foreign policy,

00:20:13.500 but at the state level

00:20:15.080 the Secretary of State

00:20:16.020 is responsible

00:20:16.740 for among other things

00:20:18.000 registering voters

00:20:19.360 and administering elections.

00:20:21.760 So for Katie Hobbs

00:20:22.920 to admit

00:20:23.340 that there were

00:20:23.960 thousands of ballots

00:20:24.920 that were incorrectly printed

00:20:26.460 while she's trying

00:20:27.800 to convince

00:20:28.560 those same voters

00:20:29.440 who are getting

00:20:29.960 those ballots

00:20:30.540 that she ought

00:20:31.540 to be their governor,

00:20:32.340 that's a big problem.

00:20:33.580 The other problem

00:20:34.140 is she's simply

00:20:34.960 a far left-wing radical.

00:20:37.340 When Donald Trump

00:20:37.900 was president

00:20:38.600 she referred to

00:20:39.940 Trump supporters

00:20:40.680 as neo-Nazis.

00:20:41.780 Not exactly a good look.

00:20:43.500 And then I guess

00:20:44.180 there's a third problem

00:20:44.900 she created for herself

00:20:46.120 which is that

00:20:46.600 she's refusing 0.97

00:20:47.300 to debate Carrie Lake.

00:20:48.900 She says that Carrie Lake 0.71

00:20:49.840 is an election denier

00:20:50.860 and blah, blah, blah.

00:20:52.240 So she doesn't deserve 0.99

00:20:53.680 to be on a platform.

00:20:55.260 She doesn't deserve 1.00

00:20:56.000 to be in a debate with her.

00:20:58.160 That does not go over well

00:20:59.960 with voters in any state.

00:21:01.880 Now, as for the Senate race,

00:21:03.580 you've got incumbent

00:21:04.260 Democrat Mark Kelly,

00:21:05.480 the former astronaut,

00:21:06.780 defending his seat

00:21:07.800 against Blake Masters.

00:21:08.960 Blake Masters is surging

00:21:10.240 and Mark Kelly

00:21:11.600 has an outstanding resume

00:21:13.720 but since he's been

00:21:14.820 in the Senate,

00:21:15.600 he got there two years ago

00:21:16.700 in the election

00:21:18.500 to replace

00:21:19.680 one of the outgoing senators.

00:21:21.840 I believe it was

00:21:22.280 John McCain,

00:21:22.900 the remainder of his term.

00:21:24.880 He's done nothing.

00:21:25.840 He's basically just been

00:21:26.720 a party hack,

00:21:27.540 go along to get along.

00:21:29.140 He suffers in contrast

00:21:31.140 or by contrast

00:21:32.080 to his Democratic colleague,

00:21:34.060 Kyrsten Sinema,

00:21:34.920 who also represents Arizona

00:21:36.520 in the Senate

00:21:37.080 and who has used

00:21:38.020 her position 0.87

00:21:38.940 as a moderate

00:21:39.840 as leverage

00:21:41.260 to get concessions

00:21:42.520 out of her party

00:21:43.640 and to be the key vote

00:21:44.880 in a number of Senate battles.

00:21:46.780 So she has actually

00:21:48.240 been a moderate.

00:21:49.000 She's bucked her party 1.00

00:21:49.900 and she has won goodies

00:21:50.980 for the folks back home,

00:21:52.560 whereas Mark Kelly

00:21:53.440 has not done anything of note.

00:21:55.740 And his big problem,

00:21:56.980 again, is Biden.

00:21:58.320 Arizona's a border state

00:21:59.400 and Blake Masters

00:22:00.160 scored points

00:22:01.040 in their recent debate

00:22:02.160 when he pointed out

00:22:03.160 that Mark Kelly

00:22:04.120 had done nothing

00:22:04.880 on the border

00:22:05.500 and that Biden

00:22:06.220 has allowed

00:22:07.480 record numbers

00:22:08.380 of migrants 0.99

00:22:08.860 to come across

00:22:09.440 the southern border.

00:22:10.240 We just saw

00:22:10.760 the numbers released

00:22:11.880 last week,

00:22:13.680 well over 2 million migrants,

00:22:15.300 a new record

00:22:15.840 for the last fiscal year.

00:22:18.380 So Arizona

00:22:19.060 is still a toss-up

00:22:20.020 in the Senate.

00:22:20.600 I do think

00:22:20.960 Carrie Lake's

00:22:21.460 going to win for governor.

00:22:22.520 There are a number

00:22:23.020 of other Republicans

00:22:23.700 who will do very well

00:22:25.380 in Arizona as well.

00:22:26.840 There's another point here

00:22:28.660 that I want to illustrate.

00:22:30.540 There's been a fight

00:22:31.420 within the Republican Party

00:22:32.560 over the funding

00:22:33.400 of Blake Masters

00:22:34.260 and Mitch McConnell

00:22:35.200 who leads the Republicans

00:22:36.740 in the Senate

00:22:37.260 and has done so

00:22:38.180 since 2006.

00:22:39.600 He pulled out funding

00:22:40.880 at one stage.

00:22:42.420 He's playing a lot of games

00:22:43.860 in a lot of these races

00:22:44.980 with his funding

00:22:45.940 and he's backing his favorites

00:22:48.920 but he's abandoning

00:22:50.660 those he doesn't like.

00:22:51.980 The most notable case

00:22:53.420 is in Alaska

00:22:54.600 where the Republican nominee,

00:22:56.340 a woman named Kelly Chewbacca,

00:22:58.220 is officially endorsed

00:22:59.260 by the Republican Party.

00:23:00.360 She's running against

00:23:01.080 incumbent Lisa Murkowski

00:23:02.480 who is nominally

00:23:03.880 a Republican

00:23:04.480 but ran on a write-in vote

00:23:07.220 last time

00:23:07.880 to save her seat 1.00

00:23:08.780 or actually in 2010.

00:23:10.600 But Murkowski

00:23:11.180 has since been expelled

00:23:13.000 by the Republican Party

00:23:14.080 for all of the left-wing votes

00:23:16.300 she has taken

00:23:16.920 and locals are angry.

00:23:19.320 In fact,

00:23:19.620 the Alaska Republican Party

00:23:20.800 voted to censure Murkowski

00:23:22.860 and Mitch McConnell

00:23:26.960 for backing Murkowski.

00:23:28.720 So McConnell is spending heavily

00:23:30.060 on Murkowski

00:23:30.900 against Chewbacca.

00:23:32.080 Chewbacca, again,

00:23:32.760 the official Republican candidate.

00:23:35.600 And I think there may be

00:23:36.720 a reckoning

00:23:37.220 when all this is over

00:23:38.060 because McConnell has tried

00:23:40.840 to back these

00:23:41.580 establishment-friendly candidates

00:23:43.360 but a number of the insurgent

00:23:44.820 candidates are winning.

00:23:45.940 Take New Hampshire, for example.

00:23:47.280 There's a Republican

00:23:49.320 running there,

00:23:50.320 General Baldock.

00:23:51.080 He is a retired military officer

00:23:54.180 and he was endorsed by Trump.

00:23:56.920 And Democrats spent

00:23:58.480 upwards of $40 million

00:23:59.800 in his Republican primary

00:24:02.200 to make sure

00:24:02.760 that he was the one

00:24:04.000 who emerged the victor

00:24:05.820 from that primary

00:24:06.480 because they thought

00:24:07.140 that the Trump-MAGA Republican

00:24:08.740 would be easier to defeat

00:24:10.060 in the general election.

00:24:12.220 Well, Baldock has been

00:24:13.140 rising in the polls

00:24:13.980 but Mitch McConnell

00:24:14.780 pulled all of the funding

00:24:16.680 he controls

00:24:17.360 for the National Republican

00:24:18.500 Senate campaign

00:24:19.260 out of New Hampshire.

00:24:21.220 Now, Baldock has tied

00:24:22.060 the polls anyway.

00:24:23.160 He's now in a statistical

00:24:24.060 dead heat

00:24:25.080 with incumbent Democrat

00:24:26.080 Maggie Hassan.

00:24:27.300 But Mitch McConnell

00:24:28.200 has abandoned the state

00:24:29.260 so it's no thanks to McConnell.

00:24:31.340 If and when Baldock wins

00:24:32.440 and he gets to Congress

00:24:33.400 he's not going to be

00:24:34.460 beholden to McConnell.

00:24:35.640 We could see

00:24:36.440 something of a revolt

00:24:38.020 against McConnell

00:24:38.880 with this new Senate class

00:24:41.140 whether or not

00:24:41.840 Republicans are in control

00:24:42.800 because McConnell

00:24:43.460 has made such a mess

00:24:44.600 of these endorsements

00:24:46.020 and this spending.

00:24:47.000 Plus he's been there so long.

00:24:48.320 I mean, he's been

00:24:48.860 in charge of his caucus

00:24:50.140 for 16 years

00:24:51.100 as long as Nancy Pelosi

00:24:52.340 by the way

00:24:52.800 has been in charge

00:24:53.420 of the Democrats.

00:24:53.980 I think you're going

00:24:55.220 to see some rallying

00:24:57.300 around alternative candidates

00:24:58.540 to lead the Republican Party

00:25:00.220 in the Senate

00:25:00.600 maybe even Senator Rick Scott

00:25:02.120 of Florida

00:25:02.700 who's been outstanding

00:25:03.960 in backing these candidates

00:25:05.100 even when McConnell

00:25:06.300 abandoned them.

00:25:07.740 So that's another dimension

00:25:09.140 to what's happening

00:25:09.780 in Arizona

00:25:10.220 and around the country.

00:25:11.940 I want to be very conscious

00:25:13.260 of your time.

00:25:15.200 Do you have time

00:25:15.820 for a couple more questions

00:25:16.820 or do you have to run?

00:25:18.040 I want to get back

00:25:19.080 to issues

00:25:19.860 because these individual races

00:25:21.640 are fascinating

00:25:22.520 and even though

00:25:24.340 we're in Canada

00:25:24.900 we like to follow

00:25:25.800 American political leaders

00:25:26.980 but let me talk to you

00:25:27.680 more about some themes.

00:25:29.660 I thought this was a fascinating

00:25:30.860 you mentioned

00:25:31.420 Ron DeSantis

00:25:32.420 versus Charlie Crist.

00:25:33.700 They had a debate

00:25:34.540 earlier this week

00:25:35.560 and unbelievably

00:25:37.640 Crist

00:25:38.380 who has been

00:25:39.480 for lockdowns

00:25:40.820 tried to flip it around

00:25:42.300 and claim that DeSantis

00:25:43.480 was for lockdowns

00:25:45.060 and the one thing

00:25:45.680 Canadians know

00:25:46.320 about Ron DeSantis

00:25:47.060 is he was not

00:25:47.760 for lockdowns.

00:25:48.440 He kept the schools open

00:25:49.800 and he was not

00:25:50.860 for forced vaccines.

00:25:52.500 I couldn't believe my eyes

00:25:53.900 but this tells me

00:25:54.680 maybe lockdowns

00:25:56.260 and lockdownism

00:25:57.100 are polling so badly

00:25:58.380 Democrats are trying

00:25:59.720 to gaslight us.

00:26:00.580 Here, take a quick look

00:26:01.540 at this exchange

00:26:02.260 in a Florida

00:26:03.280 gubernatorial debate.

00:26:04.820 And I would also say this

00:26:06.420 you mentioned Liz

00:26:07.320 that people are flocking

00:26:08.340 to Florida

00:26:08.860 that would not have happened

00:26:10.380 if Charlie Crist

00:26:11.540 had his way.

00:26:12.260 He wrote me a letter

00:26:13.100 in July of 2020

00:26:14.820 saying you need to shut down

00:26:16.900 the state of Florida.

00:26:18.180 He said you need to force people

00:26:19.620 to shelter

00:26:20.300 in their own homes.

00:26:21.880 That would have destroyed 0.63

00:26:23.140 the state of Florida.

00:26:24.420 That would have caused 0.95

00:26:25.840 that would have caused 0.95

00:26:27.220 our tourism industry

00:26:28.580 to go into the toilet.

00:26:30.060 It would have locked out

00:26:30.960 millions of kids

00:26:31.980 from school.

00:26:32.880 I rejected Charlie Crist's

00:26:34.860 lockdown letter.

00:26:36.040 I kept this state open

00:26:37.280 and I kept this state free.

00:26:39.900 And we now have

00:26:41.040 the biggest budget surplus

00:26:42.300 in the history of Florida.

00:26:43.960 We have a 2.5% unemployment,

00:26:46.380 second lowest on record.

00:26:48.020 And we just did

00:26:48.580 the biggest tax cut

00:26:49.640 in Florida history.

00:26:50.320 Thank you, Governor.

00:26:50.800 That's time.

00:26:52.920 Congressman,

00:26:53.660 you have 30 seconds

00:26:54.920 for rebuttal.

00:26:56.160 Thank you very much.

00:26:57.240 Well, Ron, that's rich.

00:26:58.540 You're the only governor

00:26:59.520 in the history of Florida

00:27:00.660 that's ever shut down

00:27:01.600 our schools.

00:27:02.680 You're the only governor

00:27:03.700 in the history of Florida

00:27:04.820 that shut down our businesses.

00:27:06.620 I never did that as governor.

00:27:08.600 You're the one

00:27:09.140 who's the shutdown guy.

00:27:10.600 We need to have somebody

00:27:11.920 who is at the helm

00:27:12.920 that understands

00:27:13.920 it's important

00:27:14.500 to listen to science,

00:27:16.180 to do what's right,

00:27:17.160 utilize common sense.

00:27:18.920 You don't just shut down

00:27:19.840 at the outset

00:27:20.460 and then when it's,

00:27:22.040 you know,

00:27:22.300 politically convenient for you,

00:27:23.700 you want to open back up

00:27:24.900 to store political points

00:27:26.300 for your district president.

00:27:28.760 That's not right.

00:27:29.480 Governor, you have 30 seconds.

00:27:32.640 Well, so he opposed

00:27:34.580 having kids in school.

00:27:36.200 His supporters sued me

00:27:37.780 to keep the kids

00:27:38.940 out of school in 2020.

00:27:40.680 And how critical

00:27:41.660 was that decision?

00:27:43.040 We just got

00:27:43.700 the nation's report card,

00:27:45.160 the results

00:27:45.640 from all 50 states.

00:27:47.440 Florida, number three

00:27:48.700 in fourth grade reading

00:27:49.920 and number four

00:27:50.740 in the country

00:27:51.320 in fourth grade math.

00:27:52.640 And if you adjust

00:27:53.440 that for demographics,

00:27:54.520 we are number one

00:27:56.060 in the country in both.

00:27:57.680 That would not have happened

00:27:58.800 if we let Charlie Chris

00:28:00.180 and his friends

00:28:00.900 lock our kids out of school

00:28:02.420 like they did in California

00:28:03.880 and like they did in New York.

00:28:05.660 We did it right in Florida.

00:28:07.160 Well, Joel,

00:28:07.800 does that,

00:28:08.260 is that just Chris

00:28:08.960 trying to blunt

00:28:09.820 DeSantis' strength?

00:28:11.180 Is that just trolling

00:28:12.020 as you said earlier?

00:28:13.180 Or are the Democrats

00:28:14.220 really trying to pretend

00:28:15.160 they were never

00:28:15.680 for this lockdown

00:28:16.420 to begin with?

00:28:18.520 You have to give credit

00:28:19.680 to Charlie Chris.

00:28:20.400 He's not a very good

00:28:22.420 member of Congress

00:28:23.880 or governor.

00:28:24.980 He loses a lot.

00:28:26.820 But he is an expert

00:28:28.660 at this kind of

00:28:30.180 political rhetoric.

00:28:32.820 And even though

00:28:33.660 I think on substance,

00:28:35.340 Ron DeSantis won the debate,

00:28:37.060 Charlie Chris

00:28:37.620 outperformed expectations.

00:28:39.180 He is very, very good

00:28:40.400 at delivering these attack lines.

00:28:42.300 And you're absolutely right.

00:28:43.840 Lockdowns are so unpopular

00:28:45.320 that if you associate

00:28:47.420 any candidate with lockdowns,

00:28:49.380 it hurts them.

00:28:51.000 What Charlie Chris

00:28:51.640 was saying was true,

00:28:54.160 which is that Ron DeSantis

00:28:55.360 did lock down the state.

00:28:57.020 What he left out

00:28:58.000 was that DeSantis

00:28:58.720 locked it down

00:28:59.520 for the 15 days

00:29:01.000 that Donald Trump

00:29:01.720 asked the entire country

00:29:02.980 to lock down.

00:29:03.800 Remember, 15 days

00:29:04.740 to slow the spread.

00:29:06.360 And then DeSantis

00:29:06.920 promptly reopened the state

00:29:08.640 and he defended his decision

00:29:09.880 to do so in that debate

00:29:10.800 by saying he had to save jobs,

00:29:12.660 he had to save businesses.

00:29:13.980 And that's why people

00:29:14.720 are flocking to Florida

00:29:15.680 because he did so.

00:29:16.780 But Charlie Chris

00:29:17.580 points out correctly,

00:29:18.860 although partially,

00:29:21.240 that it was Ron DeSantis

00:29:23.120 who locked down the state.

00:29:24.460 Well, yes,

00:29:24.920 it was also Ron DeSantis

00:29:26.620 who had to deal

00:29:27.240 with a pandemic.

00:29:28.220 I mean, it's not like

00:29:29.000 he just locked down

00:29:30.040 the state for no reason.

00:29:31.840 This was a pandemic

00:29:32.780 that policymakers,

00:29:34.400 whether Republican

00:29:34.980 or Democrat,

00:29:35.580 were struggling to understand.

00:29:37.420 But once those 15 days

00:29:39.160 were over

00:29:39.680 and the spring breakers

00:29:40.800 had been sent home,

00:29:41.880 you remember those scenes

00:29:43.100 of college kids

00:29:43.860 partying on the beach

00:29:44.760 when people thought

00:29:45.460 that coronavirus,

00:29:46.600 COVID-19 was an absolutely

00:29:48.960 deadly disease like Ebola.

00:29:51.360 That shocked people

00:29:52.260 to see kids

00:29:52.860 pouring beer down

00:29:54.920 each other's backsides

00:29:55.920 and drinking.

00:29:56.540 You know, people just thought

00:29:57.440 this is crazy.

00:29:58.160 Why are these kids partying?

00:29:59.280 DeSantis kept the beaches open.

00:30:00.560 This is terrible.

00:30:01.940 But yes,

00:30:02.760 it was effective

00:30:03.420 for Charlie Chris

00:30:04.160 to do that

00:30:04.780 because if you associate

00:30:05.860 anybody with lockdowns,

00:30:07.140 even though they're anti-lockdown,

00:30:09.140 it does hurt them.

00:30:10.560 I don't think it's going

00:30:11.300 to be enough for Chris

00:30:12.200 because Florida

00:30:13.300 is full of voters now

00:30:14.660 who understand

00:30:15.320 that Ron DeSantis

00:30:16.200 is the difference

00:30:17.060 between prosperity

00:30:18.480 and failure.

00:30:19.560 They look at California,

00:30:20.640 they look at Texas,

00:30:21.880 they hear from all the people

00:30:23.060 arriving from New York

00:30:24.120 and Illinois

00:30:24.600 abandoning these blue states

00:30:26.300 for Florida.

00:30:27.640 Florida feels like 0.61

00:30:28.340 a free country.

00:30:29.180 When you go there,

00:30:29.880 it does feel,

00:30:31.020 certainly during the height

00:30:31.660 of the pandemic,

00:30:32.260 it did feel like

00:30:33.240 the only part of America

00:30:34.220 that was still America.

00:30:35.880 Everybody knows that.

00:30:36.840 Nobody's going to forget it.

00:30:37.860 Ron DeSantis is going

00:30:38.680 to walk to an easy victory.

00:30:40.300 But what Charlie Chris

00:30:41.100 is doing there

00:30:41.940 is he's denting

00:30:43.120 Ron DeSantis.

00:30:43.720 He's trying to give him

00:30:44.740 some cuts and bruises

00:30:45.900 so that if Ron DeSantis

00:30:47.400 does decide to run

00:30:48.420 for president,

00:30:49.040 whether in 2024 or 2028,

00:30:51.240 he has damaged goods.

00:30:53.220 And that was a theme

00:30:54.240 that Chris kept coming back

00:30:56.660 to in that gubernatorial debate.

00:30:58.280 He kept reminding voters

00:30:59.420 that DeSantis is thinking

00:31:01.560 about running for president.

00:31:02.620 And actually,

00:31:03.280 one of the best points

00:31:04.260 Chris made

00:31:04.920 was when he asked DeSantis

00:31:07.280 to say whether or not

00:31:09.440 he would serve

00:31:10.020 another full four years

00:31:11.180 or whether he would

00:31:11.820 run for president.

00:31:12.480 DeSantis didn't answer

00:31:13.960 partly because it was

00:31:14.800 against the rules

00:31:15.500 for Chris to ask him

00:31:16.500 the question.

00:31:17.940 But Chris commented

00:31:19.480 again and again,

00:31:20.340 even though he was breaking

00:31:21.080 the rules of the debate,

00:31:22.500 Chris commented again

00:31:23.640 and again on Ron DeSantis'

00:31:25.300 failure to answer

00:31:26.660 that question.

00:31:28.000 Now, that might be

00:31:28.580 fine for Republicans.

00:31:29.600 There are many Republicans

00:31:30.340 who would like to see

00:31:31.080 Ron DeSantis run for president.

00:31:32.660 But Chris is basically

00:31:33.700 trying to make Ron DeSantis

00:31:35.100 out to be a

00:31:35.860 self-interested politician.

00:31:37.060 And they want people

00:31:39.060 to see him that way

00:31:40.700 nationwide rather than

00:31:42.240 what he has also been,

00:31:44.200 which is the most effective

00:31:46.300 governor in the entire country.

00:31:48.060 There's no one even close.

00:31:49.740 Maybe Greg Abbott of Texas.

00:31:51.360 There have been a couple

00:31:51.900 of other good Republican governors.

00:31:53.400 But there is nobody

00:31:54.580 who has been as bold

00:31:56.520 and as successful

00:31:57.340 as Ron DeSantis has been

00:31:58.760 in running his state

00:32:00.720 and managing it through

00:32:01.760 various crises

00:32:02.600 over the last few years.

00:32:03.600 Last question for you.

00:32:05.360 Foreign affairs.

00:32:06.240 And this is what scares me.

00:32:07.800 We see Russia's invasion 0.99

00:32:09.840 of Ukraine

00:32:10.500 using conventional weapons.

00:32:12.360 It's not going as well

00:32:13.220 for the Russians

00:32:13.820 as perhaps they thought

00:32:15.120 it might.

00:32:15.860 An enormous amount

00:32:17.100 of American weapons.

00:32:18.620 And according to

00:32:19.120 the New York Times,

00:32:20.260 CIA men in Kiev

00:32:22.260 directing a lot

00:32:24.080 of the Ukrainian military,

00:32:25.340 a lot of intelligence.

00:32:27.380 And I think that Americans

00:32:28.840 are I think it really

00:32:29.820 is a proxy war,

00:32:30.980 which might be

00:32:32.480 to America's advantage

00:32:33.360 to grind down

00:32:34.680 Russia's military.

00:32:36.160 Although I don't know

00:32:37.760 what Ukrainians think 0.56

00:32:39.380 about being the battleground.

00:32:40.960 But here's what scares

00:32:41.880 the heck out of me, Joel,

00:32:43.220 is that Vladimir Putin,

00:32:45.620 former KGB agent, 0.98

00:32:47.240 probably a murderer, 0.87

00:32:48.320 certainly an authoritarian 1.00

00:32:49.400 imperialist, a bully. 0.99

00:32:51.460 He's got nukes. 1.00

00:32:53.780 And he's been talking

00:32:54.800 vaguely about using them.

00:32:56.920 And Zelensky on the Ukrainian side

00:32:58.600 is telling NATO

00:33:00.020 to strike first.

00:33:01.100 And there's talk

00:33:02.300 of retaking Crimea.

00:33:03.720 I am genuinely worried.

00:33:05.700 And then we see this video

00:33:07.660 by, I think it was NBC.

00:33:10.360 The 101st Airborne

00:33:12.040 has been dispatched

00:33:13.040 to the Ukrainian border.

00:33:14.480 And they're embedding journalists.

00:33:16.100 And there's a real drumbeat of war.

00:33:18.780 Here, take a quick look

00:33:19.620 at this NBC patriotic homage

00:33:22.960 to the first deployment

00:33:24.140 of the 101st Airborne

00:33:25.240 since the Second World War.

00:33:26.360 At a forward operating site,

00:33:30.300 we watched as U.S. soldiers

00:33:31.740 and Romanian troops

00:33:33.160 pounded targets

00:33:34.300 in a joint ground-in-air assault.

00:33:37.020 The tank rounds

00:33:38.380 and artillery fire are real.

00:33:41.560 So is the enemy,

00:33:43.460 meant to recreate the fight

00:33:44.940 against Russian forces in Ukraine.

00:33:47.500 A message to Russia 0.99

00:33:48.760 and NATO allies alike,

00:33:50.560 we're here.

00:33:51.360 The real meaning for me

00:33:54.200 to have the American troops here

00:33:55.740 is like if you were to have

00:33:58.260 allies in Normandy

00:34:00.040 before any enemy was there.

00:34:03.080 In all, roughly 4,700 soldiers

00:34:05.820 of the 101st Screaming Eagles

00:34:07.720 from Fort Campbell, Kentucky

00:34:09.240 have been deployed

00:34:10.360 to reinforce NATO's eastern flank.

00:34:13.740 You've had an opportunity

00:34:15.160 to watch, observe,

00:34:17.000 and possibly study the Russians.

00:34:21.360 What do you think of them so far?

00:34:23.600 So we're closely watching them.

00:34:25.780 So we're building objectives

00:34:27.740 to practice against

00:34:28.960 that replicate exactly

00:34:30.320 what's going on in Ukraine.

00:34:31.700 We're the closest American unit

00:34:33.800 to the fighting in Ukraine.

00:34:35.780 And what does that feel like?

00:34:37.100 What does that mean?

00:34:38.380 It keeps us on our toes, right?

00:34:42.040 Ready to fight tonight

00:34:43.600 is a message

00:34:44.540 that we've heard repeatedly.

00:34:46.060 It's not just about

00:34:47.540 defending NATO territory,

00:34:49.520 but if the fight escalates

00:34:50.660 and NATO partners

00:34:51.780 are under threat,

00:34:52.940 they're fully prepared

00:34:54.020 to cross over

00:34:54.780 into Ukrainian territory

00:34:56.380 if ordered to do so.

00:34:58.300 Joel, I'm worried

00:34:59.320 that this may be

00:35:00.940 the October or November surprise.

00:35:04.160 I'm worried that

00:35:05.260 in a desperation

00:35:07.160 to change the channel

00:35:08.420 from the bad economy

00:35:09.560 and woke-ism,

00:35:11.340 that there's going to be

00:35:12.500 some general

00:35:13.220 or someone in the White House

00:35:14.440 who says we need some incident

00:35:15.920 we're, you know,

00:35:17.080 I'm not engaging

00:35:18.120 in a conspiracy theory,

00:35:19.280 but why would you move

00:35:20.260 the 101st Airborne

00:35:21.440 to Ukraine now?

00:35:23.640 Why would you do that now?

00:35:25.460 I'm nervous about that

00:35:27.060 because I'm against nuclear war

00:35:29.420 and I think that Joe Biden

00:35:31.540 is in a desperate

00:35:32.420 political strait.

00:35:33.560 Am I too nervous

00:35:35.000 about these things?

00:35:36.520 No, I think you're right

00:35:37.620 to be nervous.

00:35:38.640 I do think, however,

00:35:39.600 that if Biden tries to start

00:35:43.440 or provoke a direct conflict

00:35:45.160 with Russia

00:35:45.760 or some kind of Russian use

00:35:48.840 of chemical or nuclear weapons

00:35:50.920 or anything like that,

00:35:51.700 I think it will hurt Biden.

00:35:53.140 So I don't think it helps

00:35:55.200 the Democrats

00:35:55.880 to have Ukraine flare up

00:35:58.040 beyond what it is right now.

00:35:59.940 I do think that you're going

00:36:02.500 to see peace talks start

00:36:04.220 finally after the midterm elections

00:36:07.440 if Republicans win the House.

00:36:10.340 And the reason for that

00:36:11.300 is that minority leader

00:36:13.160 Kevin McCarthy,

00:36:14.080 who would become

00:36:14.540 the new speaker

00:36:15.280 if Republicans win the House,

00:36:16.940 and almost everybody

00:36:17.580 thinks they're going to,

00:36:18.480 except for Nancy Pelosi.

00:36:19.960 By the way,

00:36:20.420 Nancy Pelosi predicted

00:36:21.540 Democrats would win the House

00:36:22.820 and she said,

00:36:24.100 you can take it to the bank.

00:36:25.460 That's exactly what she said

00:36:26.760 about the 2016 presidential election

00:36:29.780 when she swore

00:36:30.860 that Donald Trump

00:36:32.120 would never be president.

00:36:33.140 You can take it to the bank.

00:36:34.660 So she has a very good record

00:36:36.800 of being 100% wrong

00:36:37.960 whenever she uses that phrase.

00:36:39.860 Republicans are going

00:36:40.820 to win the House.

00:36:41.860 And Kevin McCarthy has said

00:36:43.040 that when Republicans take over,

00:36:44.760 the blank check for Ukraine ends.

00:36:47.380 That doesn't mean

00:36:48.160 we're not going to support Ukraine.

00:36:49.860 It doesn't mean we're going

00:36:50.580 to back away from Russia.

00:36:52.020 But it does mean that finally,

00:36:54.560 and I'm a very hawkish person, okay?

00:36:56.220 I was very much in favor

00:36:57.940 of the Bush administration,

00:36:59.500 the Obama administration,

00:37:00.740 the Trump administration,

00:37:01.700 doing whatever they could

00:37:02.860 and Obama often didn't,

00:37:04.280 but doing whatever they could

00:37:05.240 to help these former Soviet satellites

00:37:07.540 because I do think

00:37:08.540 and did think,

00:37:09.360 and I was warning since 2008

00:37:10.920 that Russia was a very serious threat.

00:37:13.580 Many of us were ignored

00:37:14.440 during the six years

00:37:15.540 in which Obama tried

00:37:16.520 to appease Russia.

00:37:17.820 But nevertheless,

00:37:19.720 the problem is

00:37:22.320 we have not been demanding

00:37:24.260 anything in return

00:37:25.460 for our money.

00:37:27.140 We ought to have learned

00:37:28.580 from Afghanistan

00:37:29.240 where billions were stolen

00:37:30.560 through corruption

00:37:31.320 that you have to have monitors

00:37:33.180 to make sure the money

00:37:34.020 is being properly spent.

00:37:35.980 You also have to have

00:37:36.920 some commitment

00:37:37.560 from the Ukrainians

00:37:38.680 that there are going

00:37:40.340 to be peace talks,

00:37:41.420 that they are committed

00:37:42.160 to negotiating.

00:37:43.040 Now, I understand

00:37:43.480 they don't want to negotiate

00:37:44.440 with enemy soldiers

00:37:46.320 on their territory,

00:37:47.180 but on the other hand,

00:37:48.500 they're asking the world

00:37:49.460 to intervene

00:37:50.440 in a way that could trigger

00:37:51.480 a nuclear war.

00:37:53.500 Vladimir Zelensky,

00:37:54.240 who I happen to admire

00:37:55.360 in many ways,

00:37:56.480 made crazy statements

00:37:58.040 at the United Nations opening

00:38:00.260 and has said things

00:38:02.320 about punishing Russia,

00:38:04.340 launching some kind

00:38:04.920 of punitive military effort.

00:38:06.840 Nobody has an interest in that.

00:38:08.980 There are going to have

00:38:10.100 to be conditions

00:38:10.860 attached to this aid

00:38:11.860 that require Ukraine 0.95

00:38:13.020 to sit down at the table

00:38:14.400 or at least show a willingness

00:38:15.460 to reach a diplomatic solution

00:38:17.260 because the military approach

00:38:19.100 right now,

00:38:19.900 while it may be necessary

00:38:21.040 when Russia's 0.88

00:38:21.660 on the outskirts of Kiev,

00:38:23.380 is now threatening,

00:38:24.620 as you say, nuclear war.

00:38:25.840 It's also threatening

00:38:26.560 the energy supply to Europe.

00:38:28.620 It's threatening

00:38:28.960 the global economy.

00:38:30.120 It's threatening the supply

00:38:31.040 of wheat and grain

00:38:32.700 to the developing world.

00:38:33.800 There's been some agreement

00:38:34.760 around shipments

00:38:36.080 from Russia and Ukraine

00:38:37.020 of grain and fertilizer,

00:38:38.640 but who knows

00:38:39.320 how long that'll last.

00:38:40.620 So this war could join 0.92

00:38:42.400 the entire world,

00:38:43.520 whether militarily

00:38:44.200 or economically,

00:38:45.240 and the Ukrainians

00:38:45.940 are completely intransigent,

00:38:47.520 and they are that way

00:38:48.420 because the Biden administration

00:38:50.140 is completely intransigent,

00:38:52.120 and the reason they're doing that

00:38:53.760 is not just because

00:38:54.580 of some kind of

00:38:55.100 foreign policy calculation,

00:38:56.560 but because of domestic politics.

00:38:58.660 Democrats decided suddenly,

00:39:00.440 when Donald Trump

00:39:01.060 won the presidency,

00:39:02.380 that Russia was 0.63

00:39:03.380 a major geopolitical rival.

00:39:05.540 I mean, remember in 2012,

00:39:06.740 Obama was mocking Mitt Romney

00:39:08.260 for talking about Russia

00:39:09.420 as the number one

00:39:10.040 geopolitical foe.

00:39:11.480 He said,

00:39:11.900 the 1980s called,

00:39:12.940 they want their

00:39:13.300 foreign policy back.

00:39:14.760 Well, just a couple years later,

00:39:16.240 Russia seized Crimea,

00:39:18.220 and it was really

00:39:19.360 this domestic political event

00:39:20.800 that Democrats blamed

00:39:21.800 on Russia

00:39:22.340 that caused them

00:39:23.640 to hate Russia

00:39:24.760 with a blinding passion,

00:39:26.360 and I think they're actually

00:39:27.440 after domestic political revenge

00:39:29.780 rather than any kind

00:39:30.760 of real-world calculation

00:39:32.620 about how the world

00:39:33.320 ought to work.

00:39:33.940 I don't think

00:39:34.200 they've thought this through

00:39:35.060 because even if they get

00:39:36.700 everything they say they want,

00:39:38.020 let's say Vladimir Putin

00:39:39.080 is ousted,

00:39:39.900 let's say Russia's 0.97

00:39:40.600 military collapses,

00:39:41.840 well, what does that do?

00:39:42.900 It just leaves China

00:39:43.840 as the last player standing.

00:39:45.720 China then turns Russia 0.91

00:39:46.760 into its northern colony,

00:39:48.120 and now is much stronger

00:39:49.680 than ever.

00:39:50.320 It's sort of like the mistake

00:39:51.380 George W. Bush made in Iraq.

00:39:53.600 If you destabilize Iraq, 0.83

00:39:56.020 Iran becomes the dominant power 1.00

00:39:57.420 in the region,

00:39:58.180 and the failure

00:39:59.220 of the post-war occupation

00:40:00.520 led that to happen.

00:40:01.720 So I don't think Democrats

00:40:03.340 have thought this through.

00:40:04.960 When Republicans take the House,

00:40:06.900 there is not going to be

00:40:08.060 any more of this

00:40:08.900 freewheeling spending

00:40:10.020 on Ukraine.

00:40:10.780 They're not going to cut off funds.

00:40:12.560 They're not going to pull

00:40:13.560 the plug out

00:40:14.420 from this war effort.

00:40:15.240 They're not going to pull

00:40:15.680 the rug out from under Zelensky,

00:40:16.840 but they are going to demand

00:40:18.700 that Americans get value 0.72

00:40:20.040 for money,

00:40:20.600 and they're going to

00:40:21.400 prevent Ukraine 0.98

00:40:22.580 from dragging America

00:40:23.960 and the rest of the world

00:40:24.780 into this war.

00:40:25.600 I do think that that's what

00:40:27.240 Vladimir Putin is waiting for.

00:40:28.780 I think he's likely

00:40:29.500 to wait for it.

00:40:30.280 He knows he's going to get

00:40:31.280 a better agreement

00:40:32.140 by waiting for power

00:40:33.600 to change hands.

00:40:34.480 Again, not because Republicans

00:40:35.620 are pro-Russia,

00:40:36.960 but because they are not

00:40:38.520 doing what Democrats

00:40:39.660 are doing,

00:40:40.180 which is spending wildly,

00:40:42.160 giving Ukraine

00:40:42.720 whatever Ukraine asks for,

00:40:44.120 not checking what the money

00:40:45.660 is being spent on,

00:40:46.500 and allowing Zelensky

00:40:47.680 to make these crazy statements

00:40:49.040 on the world stage,

00:40:49.840 and some of them 0.90

00:40:50.200 really are crazy, 0.92

00:40:51.720 without any thought 0.89

00:40:53.720 to the consequences.

00:40:54.720 I think things are going

00:40:55.640 to settle down.

00:40:56.700 I think they're going

00:40:57.100 to calm down a little bit.

00:40:58.700 It's not going to be

00:40:59.420 to anybody's liking.

00:41:00.460 Russia will probably end up 1.00

00:41:01.760 with some of that

00:41:02.260 Ukrainian territory,

00:41:03.420 unfortunately,

00:41:04.640 and the world will have

00:41:05.420 to reckon with

00:41:06.680 the problem of allowing

00:41:09.300 a dictator

00:41:10.260 to take land

00:41:11.820 through force,

00:41:12.440 but Putin's only going

00:41:13.620 to get a fraction

00:41:14.260 of what he wanted,

00:41:15.400 and Ukraine will have 0.88

00:41:16.400 defended its sovereignty,

00:41:17.800 NATO will have expanded

00:41:18.900 its boundaries,

00:41:19.580 it already has done so.

00:41:21.160 So I think that's where

00:41:22.460 the war is basically

00:41:23.420 going to end.

00:41:25.000 So a vote for the Republican Party

00:41:26.940 is, in many ways,

00:41:28.500 a vote to avoid nuclear war,

00:41:30.820 and that's not because

00:41:31.560 Republicans are making

00:41:32.480 better promises

00:41:33.320 than Democrats

00:41:34.140 on the subject of war

00:41:35.640 and so forth.

00:41:36.600 It's just that they're not

00:41:37.460 going to spend the money,

00:41:38.360 and when the money

00:41:40.140 starts moving

00:41:41.160 or stops moving,

00:41:42.060 as Donald Trump

00:41:42.780 would often say,

00:41:43.840 that's when the real

00:41:44.520 decisions get made.

00:41:45.460 So I think that,

00:41:46.880 oddly enough,

00:41:48.000 and strange as it may seem,

00:41:48.920 maybe counterintuitive

00:41:49.780 in some ways,

00:41:51.240 I think that the chances

00:41:52.340 of nuclear war

00:41:53.260 are lower after November 8th

00:41:55.040 than they are today.

00:41:56.940 Well, fascinating

00:41:57.980 and terrifying

00:41:58.700 at the same time.

00:42:00.000 I hope,

00:42:00.820 you mentioned

00:42:01.380 ballot problems

00:42:03.020 in Arizona.

00:42:04.040 That New York Times poll

00:42:05.380 I went through

00:42:05.840 the other day

00:42:06.360 showed that

00:42:07.000 a significant number

00:42:08.460 of Americans

00:42:08.960 are still very worried

00:42:10.260 about the integrity

00:42:11.760 of elections,

00:42:12.820 including the one

00:42:14.100 in less than two weeks.

00:42:15.180 So hopefully

00:42:15.600 there won't be shenanigans

00:42:16.580 there.

00:42:16.840 Joel Pollack,

00:42:17.740 Senior Editor-at-Large

00:42:18.640 at Breitbart.com.

00:42:19.580 Great to spend

00:42:20.260 some time with you.

00:42:20.980 Thanks for taking us

00:42:22.220 through the interesting

00:42:23.060 landscape.

00:42:24.620 Thank you.

00:42:25.200 Always good to be with you.

00:42:26.240 Yeah, Ryan Gaughan.

00:42:26.980 It's a pleasure to have you.

00:42:28.120 Stay with us.

00:42:29.060 My final thoughts are next.

00:42:36.360 Boy, it's great

00:42:40.160 to talk with Joel.

00:42:40.940 He knows so much

00:42:42.060 about so many

00:42:42.780 different districts.

00:42:43.560 I knew about some

00:42:44.160 of the cases

00:42:44.580 he was talking about,

00:42:45.560 but not all of them.

00:42:46.760 I wish I had more time

00:42:48.140 with him.

00:42:48.400 I think I would ask

00:42:49.060 a hundred more questions

00:42:50.080 about oil

00:42:50.940 and why Joe Biden

00:42:52.380 just won't buy

00:42:53.300 Canadian oil

00:42:53.940 through the Keystone

00:42:54.560 Excel pipeline,

00:42:56.100 but went begging

00:42:57.080 cap and hand

00:42:57.820 to the Saudis

00:42:58.620 and the Venezuelans.

00:43:00.800 I think this clip

00:43:02.020 here should probably

00:43:03.740 be shown by

00:43:04.760 every Republican candidate

00:43:06.300 until Election Day.

00:43:07.980 The economy,

00:43:09.020 strong as hell?

00:43:10.300 Just one more

00:43:11.580 economic one.

00:43:12.400 Are you concerned

00:43:12.900 about the strength

00:43:13.700 of the dollar right now?

00:43:18.400 I'm not concerned

00:43:19.540 about the strength

00:43:20.140 of the dollar.

00:43:21.420 I'm concerned

00:43:22.300 about the rest

00:43:22.940 of the world.

00:43:24.500 Does that make sense?

00:43:26.740 Yes.

00:43:27.620 Our economy

00:43:28.260 is strong as hell

00:43:29.160 in the internals.

00:43:32.080 Inflation is worldwide.

00:43:33.420 Yeah, I don't know

00:43:52.160 if anybody believes

00:43:53.080 that.

00:43:54.140 There's another trend

00:43:56.000 that I think

00:43:56.860 is evident

00:43:57.700 in Florida

00:43:58.680 and elsewhere,

00:43:59.280 that of Republican

00:44:01.200 Latinos.

00:44:02.880 None of this 0.70

00:44:03.400 woke Latinx stuff.

00:44:05.980 But I saw a new poll.

00:44:07.240 I don't know

00:44:07.500 if you saw this.

00:44:08.300 Myra Flores,

00:44:09.220 the Republican

00:44:10.060 Hispanic candidate

00:44:11.900 in Texas,

00:44:12.800 is actually more popular

00:44:14.720 amongst Latinos 0.61

00:44:15.540 than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:44:18.120 the Queen of Woke. 0.75

00:44:19.720 So many interesting

00:44:20.800 things going on.

00:44:21.860 We'll find out

00:44:22.400 soon enough.

00:44:23.200 And you bet

00:44:24.020 it absolutely does

00:44:25.800 impact us

00:44:26.740 here in Canada.

00:44:28.320 until next time,

00:44:30.400 on behalf of all of us

00:44:31.340 here at Rebel World

00:44:32.160 Headquarters,

00:44:32.720 to you at home,

00:44:33.440 good night,

00:44:34.400 and keep fighting

00:44:35.240 for freedom.

00:44:36.040 The most heinous things

00:44:37.580 done to the truck convoy

00:44:39.860 by the police

00:44:40.480 in Ottawa

00:44:40.880 was threatening

00:44:41.680 to take their children

00:44:43.240 from them.

00:44:44.560 And today I can tell you

00:44:45.380 that based on documents

00:44:46.680 submitted to the

00:44:47.580 Public Order

00:44:48.420 Emergency Commission,

00:44:50.840 the directive

00:44:51.580 to do this

00:44:52.220 came directly out

00:44:53.300 of the Prime Minister's

00:44:54.460 office.

00:44:55.460 Now for those of you

00:44:56.320 who don't know

00:44:57.120 and I don't know

00:44:57.540 how you couldn't,

00:44:58.540 the convoy to Ottawa

00:44:59.280 took place

00:44:59.880 during the end

00:45:00.560 of January

00:45:01.320 and all the way

00:45:02.820 through to the

00:45:03.580 middle of February

00:45:04.520 this year.

00:45:05.620 Thousands of truckers

00:45:06.720 and their supporters

00:45:07.420 converged on our

00:45:08.600 nation's capital

00:45:09.360 in Ottawa

00:45:10.000 to protest

00:45:11.100 for the end

00:45:11.980 of remaining

00:45:12.620 COVID restrictions,

00:45:14.300 including

00:45:14.760 what ignited it all,

00:45:16.480 a cross-border

00:45:17.180 vaccine mandate

00:45:18.220 for long-haul truckers.

00:45:20.260 The largely

00:45:20.880 peaceful protest,

00:45:22.540 and police data

00:45:23.340 supports this,

00:45:24.480 was extinguished

00:45:25.460 by the invocation

00:45:26.480 of the War Measures

00:45:27.480 Act 2.0

00:45:28.460 at the hands

00:45:28.960 of Prime Minister

00:45:29.540 Justin Trudeau.

00:45:30.780 Truckers and their

00:45:31.420 supporters were treated

00:45:32.260 like common terrorists

00:45:33.380 when their own government

00:45:34.460 invoked a counter-terrorism law

00:45:36.800 called the Emergencies Act

00:45:38.340 to seize their bank accounts,

00:45:40.660 to take their trucks,

00:45:42.160 to seize their assets,

00:45:43.420 their businesses,

00:45:44.240 their insurance policies,

00:45:45.520 their gasoline,

00:45:46.280 their diesel,

00:45:46.800 their firewood,

00:45:47.840 their food,

00:45:48.820 and their liberties.

00:45:49.960 Because the Emergencies Act

00:45:51.340 gave the police

00:45:52.140 extraordinary powers

00:45:53.200 of search,

00:45:54.320 seizure,

00:45:55.240 and arrest.

00:45:56.400 And it was all

00:45:57.060 for the crime

00:45:57.660 of inconveniencing

00:45:59.160 a few thousand people

00:46:00.580 who live in downtown Ottawa,

00:46:03.080 and of course,

00:46:04.280 most importantly,

00:46:05.620 embarrassing the Prime Minister.

00:46:07.480 Right now,

00:46:08.180 in Ottawa,

00:46:08.860 a fail-safe built

00:46:09.960 into the Emergencies Act

00:46:11.300 is unfolding

00:46:11.940 for the world to see.

00:46:13.800 The government

00:46:14.340 must hold an inquiry

00:46:15.660 within one year

00:46:16.660 of invoking the Act

00:46:17.600 to prove the necessity

00:46:18.660 of it.

00:46:19.660 And being loud,

00:46:20.600 inconvenient,

00:46:22.020 or over saying

00:46:22.800 you're welcome

00:46:23.340 in the nation's capital,

00:46:24.780 well, those,

00:46:25.540 they don't qualify.

00:46:26.760 You can see all

00:46:27.520 of our coverage

00:46:28.040 and support

00:46:28.580 our independent journalism

00:46:29.840 at truckercommission.com.

00:46:33.260 Now, let's get back

00:46:34.900 to the kids.

00:46:36.060 According to

00:46:36.700 the Ottawa Police,

00:46:38.540 being a blue-collar

00:46:39.620 freedom lover

00:46:40.300 who didn't want

00:46:41.340 to be away

00:46:41.920 from their kids

00:46:43.000 for several weeks

00:46:44.680 at a time,

00:46:45.260 well, I guess

00:46:45.820 that makes you

00:46:46.360 a bad parent.

00:46:48.020 Ottawa Interim

00:46:48.980 Police Chief

00:46:49.680 Steve Bell,

00:46:51.040 as you saw

00:46:51.640 off the top

00:46:52.300 of this video,

00:46:53.700 made that subtle

00:46:54.660 threat to parents

00:46:55.580 in a press conference,

00:46:57.260 hinting that

00:46:58.240 their children

00:46:58.800 would be seized

00:46:59.840 from them,

00:47:01.140 from loving parents,

00:47:02.760 good parents,

00:47:04.180 for taking

00:47:05.520 that journey

00:47:06.060 to Ottawa

00:47:06.620 to fight

00:47:07.260 for their children's

00:47:08.140 futures.

00:47:09.580 Now, on Monday

00:47:10.400 at the Public Order

00:47:11.440 Emergency Inquiry,

00:47:12.740 the aforementioned

00:47:13.640 Trucker Commission,

00:47:14.920 it came out

00:47:15.700 that former Chief Bell

00:47:17.040 made the announcement

00:47:18.120 to seize kids

00:47:19.380 after taking

00:47:20.880 the advice

00:47:21.460 of Crisis

00:47:22.080 Communications

00:47:22.820 Greaseball's

00:47:23.700 navigator,

00:47:24.540 he didn't consult

00:47:25.400 with the Children's

00:47:26.120 Aid Society

00:47:26.760 before planning

00:47:27.980 to use them

00:47:28.760 as enforcement

00:47:29.620 tools of the state.

00:47:31.100 Just take a listen.

00:47:32.340 Police service gave

00:47:33.500 where it was said

00:47:35.040 to the media

00:47:35.620 and in the public

00:47:36.720 that OPS

00:47:37.620 had concerns

00:47:38.380 for the children

00:47:39.160 of the protesters

00:47:39.980 in Ottawa

00:47:40.480 and OPS

00:47:41.720 wanted to discuss

00:47:43.060 enforcement

00:47:43.840 with the Child

00:47:45.260 Aid Society

00:47:45.880 of Ontario.

00:47:46.400 You're aware

00:47:46.820 that happened?

00:47:47.960 So, you said

00:47:49.200 the Ontario Police

00:47:50.120 Service,

00:47:50.540 I believe you mean

00:47:51.620 the Ottawa Police

00:47:52.460 Service?

00:47:55.260 Do you have

00:47:56.160 a document

00:47:56.640 we can reference

00:47:57.320 with that media

00:47:57.800 release or is that

00:47:58.480 a clip?

00:47:59.520 It's a clip.

00:48:00.760 So, I do recall,

00:48:02.220 I don't specifically

00:48:03.160 recall references

00:48:05.320 to enforcement

00:48:06.060 but I do

00:48:07.000 specifically recall

00:48:08.180 the discussion

00:48:08.900 around our

00:48:10.160 concerns with

00:48:11.140 children in the

00:48:12.060 footprint,

00:48:12.420 particularly as

00:48:13.740 the situation

00:48:15.580 there was

00:48:15.980 becoming more

00:48:16.540 volatile.

00:48:17.800 So, I was

00:48:18.540 the one who was

00:48:19.100 liaising with

00:48:19.660 the Children's

00:48:20.180 Aid Society

00:48:20.900 and they were,

00:48:23.060 that was something

00:48:24.080 in gaps we

00:48:25.220 identified,

00:48:25.780 that was a gap

00:48:26.480 that we identified.

00:48:27.440 I should have had

00:48:28.120 conversations with

00:48:29.180 them prior to that

00:48:30.260 announcement being

00:48:31.120 made but as a

00:48:32.480 result of the

00:48:33.280 announcement we

00:48:34.000 were able to

00:48:35.020 work together to

00:48:36.220 identify the

00:48:37.080 proper mechanisms

00:48:38.000 that we would use

00:48:38.940 in the event

00:48:39.680 that we did

00:48:41.140 identify children

00:48:43.660 who needed,

00:48:44.720 do needed support

00:48:45.720 within the red

00:48:46.520 zone.

00:48:47.180 But the idea to

00:48:48.380 start seizing kids

00:48:49.380 actually came from

00:48:50.820 the Prime Minister's

00:48:51.720 office.

00:48:53.160 Navigator just

00:48:53.880 bundled it up into

00:48:55.060 a nice communication

00:48:55.960 strategy.

00:48:57.180 Let me show you

00:48:57.900 these documents.

00:48:59.480 It's on page 7 of

00:49:00.960 a summary of a

00:49:01.960 call made on

00:49:02.840 February 6th

00:49:04.120 between the City

00:49:05.020 of Ottawa,

00:49:05.900 the Federal

00:49:06.300 Government and

00:49:07.460 the Provincial

00:49:08.060 Government of

00:49:08.620 Ontario.

00:49:09.060 The call

00:49:09.500 includes senior

00:49:10.180 managers at the

00:49:10.960 City of Ottawa,

00:49:12.180 Chief of Police

00:49:12.920 at the time,

00:49:13.460 Peter Slowly,

00:49:14.560 representatives from

00:49:15.360 Public Safety

00:49:15.920 Canada,

00:49:16.480 Brenda Luckey,

00:49:17.220 the RCMP

00:49:17.720 Commissioner,

00:49:18.660 and other

00:49:19.240 public safety

00:49:20.140 and emergency

00:49:21.100 officials.

00:49:22.280 And finally,

00:49:23.400 Jody Thomas,

00:49:24.700 Justin Trudeau's

00:49:25.440 National Security

00:49:26.260 Advisor, and I

00:49:27.000 think it's important

00:49:27.540 to note that

00:49:28.540 she's a woman

00:49:29.140 despite her

00:49:30.120 gender-neutral

00:49:30.980 name because as

00:49:31.920 a woman, I

00:49:33.040 find the

00:49:33.820 suggestion she

00:49:34.780 makes here

00:49:35.440 absolutely

00:49:36.560 despicable.

00:49:37.860 Again, I say

00:49:38.540 it's on page

00:49:39.040 7 of these

00:49:39.660 notes, I'll

00:49:40.100 publish them

00:49:41.160 for you so

00:49:41.800 you can read

00:49:42.280 them for

00:49:42.640 yourself, don't

00:49:43.240 take my word

00:49:43.780 for it.

00:49:44.620 She says,

00:49:45.600 as a parent,

00:49:46.260 how is enforcement

00:49:47.020 officials addressing

00:49:47.920 the children in

00:49:48.940 the trucks?

00:49:49.780 Looking at it

00:49:50.320 from a child

00:49:50.960 welfare perspective,

00:49:52.600 exposure to

00:49:53.360 no's, I think

00:49:54.040 they mean noise

00:49:54.780 here, and diesel

00:49:56.020 fuel can be a

00:49:57.400 major issue.

00:49:58.540 Can action be

00:49:59.520 taken from the

00:50:00.980 initial perspective?

00:50:01.920 this woman

00:50:04.380 wanted the

00:50:04.900 kids taken.

00:50:06.420 You see, the

00:50:07.100 government had

00:50:07.620 taken the

00:50:08.040 fuel, they

00:50:08.880 were going to

00:50:09.740 take bank

00:50:10.220 accounts, they

00:50:11.400 were towing

00:50:11.940 trucks, and

00:50:13.220 this is all

00:50:13.980 after the

00:50:14.540 government over

00:50:15.340 the last two

00:50:16.000 years had taken

00:50:16.780 their jobs, their

00:50:18.140 freedom of

00:50:18.700 movement, their

00:50:20.160 ability to go to

00:50:21.960 school or go

00:50:22.600 about with their

00:50:23.800 faces unobscured,

00:50:25.100 their ability to

00:50:25.700 go to church and

00:50:26.420 the numbers they

00:50:26.960 wanted, their

00:50:27.460 ability to visit

00:50:28.700 their elderly and

00:50:29.640 have whomever

00:50:30.300 they wanted, over

00:50:31.820 into their homes

00:50:32.700 during the

00:50:33.820 holidays, and

00:50:34.880 then the

00:50:35.160 government was

00:50:36.000 going to take

00:50:36.500 their kids when

00:50:37.400 they finally stood

00:50:38.120 up.

00:50:38.620 This trucker

00:50:39.200 commission is

00:50:39.720 exposing just how

00:50:40.560 evil our

00:50:41.220 government has

00:50:41.800 been to its

00:50:42.220 own citizens.

00:50:43.520 What did the

00:50:43.980 convoy really do

00:50:44.960 except want to

00:50:46.700 be free from a

00:50:47.960 tyrant?

00:50:48.800 For Rebel News,

00:50:49.820 I'm Sheila

00:50:50.240 Gunn-Reed.

Rebel News Podcast - October 27, 2022

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