The United Arab Emirates and Israel have established diplomatic relations, which could pave the way to peace in the Middle East. President Trump praises the move as a step toward peace and stability in the region, and calls it a "tremendous step forward" for the United States.
00:00:20.920The biggest news in the world is the decision for the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish diplomatic relations.
00:00:29.100This will allow for enhanced cooperation on security, on economic initiatives, and areas where we have interests aligned against the radicalization of the region and the violence and destruction.
00:00:44.720And really the failed state ingredients that we've seen too often come to bear in other countries perhaps will be able to limit the expansion of failed states.
00:00:55.560You know what I mean? Right now, the number of failed states in the world is growing, not shrinking.
00:00:59.980Having traditional historic adversaries like the United Arab Emirates and Israel come together certainly reduces the likelihood that we will have destabilization.
00:01:11.120Here's Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner describing the deal and its significance.
00:01:16.560And I would like to say that I want to thank the President for his leadership on this historic peace effort.
00:01:23.200The President, like with all things, urged us to take an untraditional approach.
00:01:27.920You can't solve problems that have gone unsolved by doing it the same way that people before you have tried and failed.
00:01:34.860The President takes untraditional approaches.
00:01:37.100He does things in different ways, but he uses common sense, and he tries to unite people by focusing on common interests as opposed to allowing them to focus on their common grievances.
00:01:47.860And what happened was here is we were able to achieve results that others were not able to achieve, and this will advance the region, and this will advance the whole world.
00:01:55.780I would like to say to the people of the region, Muslims, Jews, Christians, that this does give hope that the problems of the past do not condemn you to a future with conflict.
00:02:07.180There is a lot of hope and a lot of potential, and this will benefit you, and this will also benefit people here in America, because in America we used to have a big dependency on the Middle East for gas and for oil.
00:02:18.540Thanks to your leadership, America is now energy independent.
00:02:21.500We no longer have that, but a lot of American soldiers have fought for securing our allies in that region and making more peace there.
00:02:30.840Lessons are need as a country to have as many soldiers in that region and lessons are need to have as many conflicts in that region.
00:02:38.540And obviously radical extremism, which we see as a cancer that has infected so many areas in the world.
00:02:45.120A lot of the extremists have used these conflicts to recruit people and to say that the mosque is under attack and that Muslims don't have access to the mosque.
00:02:55.320And now this will enable people to take flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi directly to Tel Aviv.
00:03:00.140Muslims will be welcome in Israel, and this will create a better interfaith exchange.
00:03:04.780So this is a tremendous step forward for peace in the world, for America, for Israel, for Abu Dhabi, and all would not have been possible without your leadership.
00:03:15.780Thank you very much. Thank you, Jared. What a great job.
00:03:17.340I also had the chance to speak yesterday with the president about this deal, and the president is extremely optimistic that this is just the beginning, that there will be a cascading effect and that other countries that aspire to be modern Muslim countries will follow suit, that they will also work to establish stronger diplomatic ties to Israel that will create broader possibility for peace in the Middle East.
00:03:41.720The president gave updates regarding our nation's response to coronavirus. Here's the president.
00:03:48.740The vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials. They're doing really well.
00:03:53.800We're producing the most promising vaccine candidates in advance.
00:03:58.660As you know, part of the largest industrialization ever.
00:04:03.900It's incredible when I meet with heads of companies that are doing this, that are the best companies anywhere in the world.
00:04:11.720It's incredible where they are, how they're doing, and the speed with which they're doing it, and also the speed with which the FDA is approving things.
00:04:21.200Because by any other standard, you would have been two or three years away from being at the point that we're at.
00:04:27.800By the end of this week, we will have shipped 1,846 rapid point-of-care testing devices to nursing homes,
00:04:35.460which are a very important source, as you know, for people that are not handling the plague from China very well.
00:04:47.340This week alone, we're sending 992 testing devices and 450,000 tests to more than 950 nursing homes across the country.
00:05:36.280Do they discriminate against people based on the color of their skin who would otherwise be admitted?
00:05:42.560The answer is yes, according to a Department of Justice investigation being reported by the Associated Press's Michael Balsamo.
00:05:51.600And in this story, a Justice Department letter that is the result of an investigation details circumstances where Yale discriminated against Asian American and white applicants in violation of federal civil rights laws.
00:06:08.460They ultimately rejected the scores of white and Asian American students that they would otherwise admit.
00:06:16.540Yale has denied the allegation, calling it meritless and hasty, but it is the result of a decision by the Trump administration to look into higher education institutions that are treating people differently as a consequence of their race.
00:06:34.380It may not be politically correct to raise the issue of discrimination against Asian Americans or white Americans, but that discrimination exists.
00:06:45.200And where it does, it needs to be pointed out.
00:06:49.720And people and institutions who engage in racist behavior against Asian Americans, against anyone, should be held to account.
00:06:58.300And it is no surprise to me, following what we saw with Harvard and their treatment of Asian Americans, that throughout the Ivy Leagues, there is a desire to elevate their wokeness over merit.
00:07:14.960If Asian American students, if white students are earning admission to these top colleges and universities, they should have the opportunity to matriculate.
00:07:25.840They should not see their scores just tossed out because they happen to be Asian or because they happen to be white.
00:07:33.080In America, the color of your skin should not dictate your circumstances.
00:07:38.440It should not dictate your opportunity to get a job, to live where you want to live, or to go to the college where you have earned admission.
00:07:47.100So this racist behavior needs to stop.
00:07:49.980I'm glad the Department of Justice is investigating.
00:07:53.440And if Yale has a defense, let's hear it.
00:07:59.320But given what we've seen, given the propensity in this country right now to diminish certain groups for the virtue signaling that it seems to draw from the left-wing circles of Hollywood and celebrity and academia,
00:08:18.220Racism in any form should not be tolerated in the United States of America.
00:08:24.260It should certainly not be tolerated at Yale University, at Harvard, or at any of the higher education institutions in our country.
00:08:31.780Rose Wong of the Tampa Bay Times has our bizarre Florida man story of the day.
00:08:39.900That's right, a homeless man in St. Petersburg, Florida, broke into Al Lang Stadium, found his way to a luxury suite, and lived there for like two weeks, according to police and surveillance footage.
00:08:56.740I guess if you think about it, in a time when athletics is not operating at the same degree that it was before, if you're homeless and there's food and a luxury suite and clothing, why not take a shot?
00:09:10.400So, turns out he ends up stealing about $1,000 worth of clothing, eats about $250 in food and drinks.
00:09:19.000It's all on tape, it's all on tape, and maybe a little embarrassing for stadium security.
00:10:29.180You realize that when you steal stuff and insurance has to pay out, then insurance prices go up for small businesses.
00:10:36.500You know, people who, to get clothing and eat, don't steal and take from others, but actually create value and earn things and provide a service to the local economy.
00:10:47.520This Black Lives Matter movement is not a movement now about politics.
00:10:55.440It is a movement to justify criminal behavior in far too many circumstances.
00:11:00.700And here, one of the organizers, literally, like, not in an off-camera, unguarded moment, but literally speaking at a rally,
00:11:08.420saying that what really Black Lives Matter stands for now is the ability to go and rob a Nike store or a Gucci store,
00:11:15.900because that's what's going to allow you to eat.
00:11:17.980Now, I've never seen a whole lot of food getting served at the Gucci store.
00:11:22.760So I guess what they're saying is that because someone is Black, they have a right to steal.
00:11:29.660Then they have a right to sell what they've stolen, thus undercutting, I guess, the legitimate merchants that are engaged in that commerce.
00:11:37.720And then that is justified because of a reparations theory that African Americans, Black people in this country are owed something and that that doesn't have to go through any formal process.
00:11:50.940That is just something that people can self-execute.
00:11:55.000They can self-execute the reparations that they believe they are owed by stealing from someone else.
00:12:27.120I mean, for Democrats, what the hell happened to, you know, JFK's not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?
00:12:34.900I guess now it's don't ask what your Gucci store, you know, can do for economic success.
00:12:40.320Just ask whether or not you can rob it and take from it and justify your own illegal criminal behavior with some tortured theory of reparations.
00:12:49.640We can do better than this as a country, and we need to reject the notion that you're owed the right to commit a crime against someone else based on what happened to your ancestors hundreds of years ago.
00:13:01.340That is not America, and we cannot tolerate it.
00:13:04.360So since looting can now be deemed reparations, what will the looters wear?
00:13:13.040I mean, Ms. Atkins in this speech suggests that looting a Gucci store is reparations.
00:13:18.860And so I'm wondering, can you loot the Gucci store and then wear the Gucci, or is it sort of like a concert where you don't wear the t-shirt of the band you're going to see?
00:13:29.720Maybe you don't wear the gear of the particular store you're going to loot.
00:13:35.420So maybe you loot Gucci first for your reparations and then wear your Gucci when you go to loot Nike for your reparations.
00:13:43.320Or maybe you wouldn't wear the designer when you loot athletic gear.
00:13:49.560You'd want to be sort of on trend for your looting garb.
00:13:56.400How about just buy the stuff you want?
00:13:57.980How about, you know, like get a job that pays you money and then use that money as consideration for the things you want to own rather than just taking stuff, breaking stuff, and then justifying it with some BS reparations excuse.
00:14:18.320President Trump recently asked, if a school is closed, why do we give the money to the school?
00:14:24.260Why shouldn't the money follow the student?
00:14:26.040And by the way, this ought to be our mentality regarding education funding, even outside of the pandemic.
00:14:34.600You know, I believe that in health care, dollars ought to follow the patient.
00:14:38.480I believe in education, dollars ought to follow the student.
00:14:42.580And that's not just to say if a student chooses to be homeschooled, if a student goes to a charter school, if a student goes to a parochial school.
00:14:50.140We ought to empower parents by letting them vote with their feet.
00:14:55.020Too often in public education, the parents and students are treated like chattel, like they're just sort of moving through the system in a supply chain, in an assembly line.
00:15:06.460But if you give parents and families the empowerment of directing education dollars, then they really will be treated like the customer.
00:15:14.520And you'll have different schools and different options develop different specialties and capabilities and competencies that can appeal to different talents and various students.
00:15:25.200And I think that'll ultimately lead to better preparation.
00:15:28.100That'll also lead to better specialization in the skills of our students.
00:15:32.180So I'm all about learning the lesson from this pandemic that education should not be a government run monopoly and that empowered parents, empowered students, more choice will ultimately lead to a better education system for the United States of America.
00:15:48.420A Huey helicopter assigned to President Trump's support detail was shot over Virginia during training exercises yesterday.
00:15:59.280There was an incident where an individual was injured with non-life-threatening ailments and has subsequently been released from the hospital.
00:16:10.060If you know who's shooting at military helicopters flying over the D.C., Virginia, Maryland area,
00:16:16.320call the FBI, Washington field office, 202-278-2000.
00:16:24.280The Woketopia in Portland, Oregon continues to adopt some of the stupidest policies one could imagine in dealing with the civil unrest in their community.
00:16:35.480And one starts to wonder, with leaders like those in Portland, Oregon, no wonder this is the place that was so weak and so vulnerable to an overrun by the criminal element.
00:16:47.180The news today comes to us from Portland Mercury dot com District Attorney Mike Schmidt to limit criminal charges against protesters.
00:16:56.160And he has apparently adopted the policy that if someone was engaged in interference with a police officer, disorderly conduct, rioting, that they will not be charged.
00:17:07.880He will still press charges for assault, theft, or property damage.
00:17:11.980But I guess if people were just engaged in the disruption of police and rioting, he doesn't view that as a crime.
00:17:19.720It is problematic when, for the sake of wokeness, we are choosing what crimes to enforce against what people and what lawlessness we're going to allow.
00:17:30.620Appeasement is always a failing strategy.
00:17:34.320And in Portland and throughout the country, our response to riots and action of violence or disruption against our police should not be accommodated or appeased or understood.
00:17:49.940People who harm our law enforcement, people who interfere with their duties, are putting people's lives in danger.
00:17:56.820I mean, come on, if a police officer, if a fire truck, if an ambulance can't get to someone in need, they can die.
00:18:03.980And no one should be dying as a consequence of Portland's inability or, in this case, just unwillingness to enforce the law.
00:18:12.100No wonder this is happening in Portland.
00:18:15.020But let's hope that throughout America, we see the failures over there on the left coast and we decide not to put their politicians, their leaders, I would even suggest their senators like Kamala Harris, in an enhanced position to do greater harm to our country.
00:18:34.060The people in America deserve to be safe and free.
00:18:37.100They need to know that they can go to the store or get their hair nails done or take their children to school without the fear that there's going to be some riot, some bloodshed, some violence that's going to dislodge our ability to live free and safe lives.
00:18:54.380So I'm hopeful that in Portland, the people will demand better.
00:18:58.560There are good Americans who live in Portland and Seattle and San Francisco, and they have been let down by their failed leadership.
00:19:07.960Thanks so much for listening to Hot Takes.