A shocking assassination on Wednesday in New York City. We re going to get into all the details and the left s bizarre response to this particular assassination. On Wednesday morning, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group's insurance arm was fatally shot outside a hotel in Manhattan.
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00:00:22.000So on Wednesday, the chief executive of UnitedHealth's insurance arm, according to the Wall Street Journal, was fatally shot outside a hotel in New York City.
00:00:31.000It was a targeted attack, according to the police.
00:00:34.000There is, in fact, video of the attack.
00:00:36.000We're not going to show it here on the show because it's fairly graphic.
00:00:38.000This obviously appears to be a professional hit.
00:00:41.000The person who was killed, again, his name was Brian Thompson, who's the CEO of UnitedHealth.
00:01:13.000Here is Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch explaining this was not, in fact, a random act of violence.
00:01:19.000This does not appear to be a random act of violence.
00:01:23.000The victim was in New York City to speak at an investor conference.
00:01:26.000It appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes.
00:01:30.000And as the victim was walking to the conference hotel, the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds, striking the victim at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf.
00:02:23.000I know that he said there were people that had been threatening him.
00:02:26.000The United Health Group is one of the biggest companies in America.
00:02:30.000It includes the biggest American health insurer as well as doctor groups and other assets as well.
00:02:35.000And Thompson was the CEO of the insurance unit, which is called United Healthcare.
00:02:39.000The company appeared to remove profiles of its executives from the website following the attack.
00:02:44.000The United Health CEO of the overall company, not just the insurance branch, said in a video message to employees, Brian was a truly extraordinary person who touched the lives of countless people throughout our organization and far beyond.
00:02:56.000Now, there are a number of things to be said about this.
00:02:58.000Obviously, number one, New York City is governed horribly.
00:03:00.000When you're having assassinations in public places in New York City, that goes to the way that law enforcement is deployed, what law enforcement is allowed to do.
00:03:08.000When you have violence that has become commonplace on New York streets, that goes to governance.
00:03:13.000And simultaneously, as this is happening, the jury is still out in the case of Daniel Penny.
00:03:18.000Daniel Penny, of course, is the Marine veteran who took down a crazed drug abuser named Jordan Neely on the New York subway as Jordan Neely was threatening other members of the public in this subway car.
00:03:33.000And you'll recall that Daniel Penny put Jordan Neely in a submission hold and Jordan Neely later died because of that.
00:03:42.000Supposedly it was because of the submission hold.
00:03:43.000It also could have been because of the drugs in his system or his reaction to the lack of error to the brain.
00:03:48.000The bottom line is that that is clearly not a manslaughter or murder charge.
00:03:52.000New York City is bringing that charge anyway because the city is governed horribly.
00:03:56.000Here, for example, is the lead Daniel Penny prosecutor, a person named Daphna Yoran, who is such a left winger that while she is prosecuting Daniel Penny for the great crime of standing up to potential violence on the subway system, She is bragging about a light sentence that she went to pursue for a thug who killed an 87 year old.
00:04:16.000I had a murder A case where the defendant did not intentionally kill the victim.
00:04:27.000He went into an ATM on the Upper West Side and tried to rob an individual.
00:04:33.000Unfortunately, it was an older individual.
00:04:36.000He was 86. And in the course of the robbery, he fell to the ground.
00:05:11.000It was that the more I learned about the defendant and his life and the circumstances, the kinds of things that Jarrell was talking about, that one should take into account the trauma of that individual, I really felt incredibly sorry for him that he had gotten to that point in his life where he felt like there was no other choice but to commit this robbery.
00:05:36.000So this, of course, is crazy, and it's precisely this kind of approach to law enforcement, in which a person who robs an 86-year-old, 87-year-old man, and the 86-year-old, 87-year-old man is knocked to the ground and dies.
00:05:45.000The person who does that is given a light sentence by a prosecutor, but a person who's defending the public from an actual criminal is charged with manslaughter in New York City.
00:05:54.000That's just another reason why violence is being propagated to an extraordinary extent in New York City these days.
00:06:00.000And not a shock, by the way, in terms of updates on the Daniel Penny case, jurors have been in deliberations for a couple of days.
00:06:05.000At this point, they've asked to rehear a couple of pieces of evidence in that case, including testimony given by the medical examiner who suggested that no matter how much fentanyl had been found in Jordan Neely's system, she still would have blamed Daniel Penny for the death of Jordan Neely.
00:06:23.000So, you know, we'll see how the jury comes down in that case.
00:06:25.000But this is just another reason why, again, violence has become relatively commonplace in New York City.
00:06:30.000But there's something else that's going on here, too.
00:06:32.000And that is the left-wing reaction to the murder of Brian Thompson.
00:06:36.000So, there's a person whose name is Anthony Zankas.
00:06:40.000Anthony Zankas is apparently a professor at Columbia.
00:07:07.000Today we mourn the death of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company executives like Brian Thompson can become multi-millionaires.
00:07:16.000So that would be, basically, he deserved to die because UnitedHealthcare is a mildly profitable company.
00:07:21.000When I say they're a mildly profitable company, I mean that when it comes to the health insurance industry, the profit margin is generally below 2%.
00:07:26.000You're not talking about industries where the profit margin is 10, 15, 20%.
00:07:32.000You can have a lot of problems with American health insurance and how that is run.
00:07:36.000That is because of the legal structure that has been set up for health insurance in America.
00:07:39.000And we can talk about all the fixes that need to happen, how the truth is that health insurance should not be tied to employment, about the fact that you should be able to opt into various levels of health insurance rather than basically being shoveled into one of a few categories.
00:07:52.000We could talk about the fact that an enormous amount of health care should actually be provided just on a pay for play basis as opposed to via insurance.
00:08:01.000It's bizarre that in order to, for example, just go get a normal checkup, that should be covered by insurance.
00:08:08.000That's typically not what insurance is for.
00:08:09.000Insurance is for an unexpected situation that you are betting might happen.
00:08:13.000And the insurance company is making the bet that it probably won't happen.
00:08:17.000Or at least not in the time frame that you're talking about.
00:08:18.000That is why you have, for example, fire insurance.
00:08:20.000It's not because you know tomorrow you're going to set your house on fire.
00:08:23.000That'd be arson and it would violate your insurance policy.
00:08:25.000It's bizarre that health insurance in the United States works such that it is called insurance when in reality it's just a kind of subsidized form of group coverage.
00:08:34.000But in any case, you can have whatever arguments you want with the system.
00:08:37.000The idea that because you don't like this system, the CEO of a private healthcare company deserves to die, or at least it is his fault if 68,000 Americans, quote-unquote, needlessly die each year so that he can become a multimillionaire.
00:08:50.000That shows a dramatic lack of understanding of not only markets, but of morality.
00:08:54.000Taylor Lorenz, whoāit is unbelievable this person was once considered a well-respected reporter at the Washington Post.
00:09:01.000I mean, there's something very, very wrong with Taylor Lorenz on a wide variety of levels.
00:09:07.000Taylor Lorenz recently suggested, for example, that there was a major problem in the United States with people, quote-unquote, raw-dogging the air.
00:09:18.000This person was a reporter for the Washington Post.
00:09:20.000Just a couple of days ago, quote, Planning a COVID-safe book launch took months and thousands of my own dollars, ensuring testing, outdoor space, far-UV lights, and a litany of other precautions.
00:09:29.000Meanwhile, you dumb Fs are out raw-dogging the air.
00:09:34.000I'm pretty sure that's not what raw-dogging means.
00:09:36.000And spewing your disease-laden breath all over your elderly neighbors.
00:09:41.000Okay, so this person, who again was a well-respected journalist, I'm just going to emphasize that again.
00:09:45.000You wonder why the legacy media are a flaming dumpster fire?
00:09:49.000This person was a well-respected journalist at the Washington Post who spent her days tracking down bad things on the internet and then going after people on the right.
00:09:58.000So, this week, she has talked about the evils of raw-dogging the air and also the apparent good of murdering people in public because they work for companies that you don't like.
00:10:18.000You might not agree with how the insurance companies run their business.
00:10:22.000You might think that the insurance companies go too far in attempting to restrict coverage or to find loopholes in their policies that prevent them from having to cover things.
00:10:34.000Again, what you're really criticizing is the system.
00:10:36.000Well, if you're a member of the far left, apparently you believe that somebody with the wrong political principles, maybe they should be murdered.
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00:12:50.000been the system of private health insurance in the united states is a bizarre amalgam of government subsidies nearly all health care coverage in the united states is in some form or fashion government involved even private health care systems are heavily government regulated very very strongly okay but that is not united health care's fault
00:13:08.000that is like suggesting that if ralph's prices bread at a particular level because the markets have determined that there's just that much bread available and then people can't afford that bread that That's somehow Ralph's fault.
00:13:22.000The system works, how the system works.
00:13:24.000And you can talk about changes to the system.
00:13:44.000Really, why is he the one who enables it?
00:13:47.000I wasn't aware that Brian Thompson was a public policy professional working in an arena in which consent was not actually the keystone.
00:13:55.000Meaning, if you don't want to buy healthcare insurance via United, don't do it or don't work for a company that does do it.
00:14:03.000But you have to understand that for people on the left, this says something deeper about the left.
00:14:08.000Okay, here's the deeper thing it says about the far left.
00:14:10.000And it's a reason why there's a Venn diagram that looks like a circle between people who are fine with Brian Thompson getting murdered on the street and people who are pro-Khamas.
00:14:20.000Because the baseline belief of the left's system these days, at least the far left, is that if you are working within a system that they have deemed morally inferior, you deserve to die.
00:14:33.000And if someone kills you, well, you probably had it coming.
00:14:36.000I can only imagine that's why Taylor Lorenz has spent the rest of the day putting out posts at Blue Sky, which is this dumb alternative to Twitter, in which she actually posts the pictures of other healthcare CEOs.
00:14:51.000So again, the premise of the left is if you work within a system that they do not like, you deserve to die.
00:14:55.000You're a Kulak and you deserve to die.
00:14:57.000If you work within a system that they deem morally praiseworthy or you're a member of a quote-unquote morally praiseworthy group, you can literally do anything.
00:15:04.000So if your grievance is, in the view of the left, in any way legitimate, then you can do anything.
00:15:10.000This is the same group of people who will suggest, for example, that if you don't like the situation in the Gaza Strip, that now justifies you in women and murdering babies.
00:15:19.000This is the left's full-scale belief system, at least on the far left.
00:15:22.000And this is a perfect example of it playing out.
00:15:25.000Now, what's amazing about this is that the way that the left adjudicates whether a system is morally praiseworthy or morally blameworthy is not, in fact, based on a utilitarian calculus.
00:15:37.000So that professor from Colombia who suggested that the private health care system in the United States is responsible for 68,000 deaths or whatever is the number that he is spewing.
00:15:47.000He doesn't actually believe that if you work for an alternative healthcare system that is government run and it kills more people that you then deserve to die.
00:16:03.000For the left, it is all about the central moral principle.
00:16:06.000It is not about a utilitarian calculus.
00:16:08.000They're not angry at private health insurance because private health insurance supposedly makes people worse off.
00:16:13.000If we had a nationalized healthcare system in the United States that had severe shortages, that had healthcare rationing, that had major problems with taking people with severe illness, which all that I just said is all true of the National Health Service in Great Britain, for example.
00:17:12.000And so that means that person ought to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
00:17:15.000Meanwhile, if a person actually commits a felony murder, if that person is a member of your team, well, then you do your best to let that person off the hook because it's all team sport.
00:17:26.000And the subjugation of basic liberal principle by left-wing principle is perfectly obvious here.
00:17:34.000It's the great untold story of the last several decades in American politics.
00:17:39.000It used to be that liberals in this country were people that you or I as a conservative might disagree with on tax policy, on health care policy.
00:17:46.000But as I've said literally my entire career, there's a difference between a liberal and a leftist.
00:17:51.000A liberal would never argue that because you work for UnitedHealthcare, you ought to die.
00:17:58.000That's not something a traditional liberal would ever suggest.
00:18:01.000They might say the system has problems.
00:18:02.000They might say that this company needs to be run better.
00:18:06.000They might object to that particular CEO. They would never argue that person ought to be morally dispensed with, just shot on the street, in the way that you're hearing from some of these members of the radical left.
00:18:20.000That takes a left-wing point of view, because for the left-wing, for people who are truly on the left, not just liberals who disagree about the various uses of the government or what government can or should do, but who actually believe that all dynamics are power dynamics, and the only thing that matters is that your allies control the government gun, for those people, murder is one of the things that is just part and parcel of the system.
00:18:44.000Sometimes, to cook the left-wing omelet, you have to break a few eggs.
00:18:49.000And you're seeing that more and more from the traditional liberal wing of the Democratic Party is this sort of power dynamics are central to everything.
00:18:59.000So Joe Biden and his team are now leaking that they are considering the possibility of preemptive pardons for pretty much everybody associated with the Biden administration.
00:19:08.000Now, the way that they are painting this is in a quote-unquote principled liberal way.
00:19:13.000What they're saying is they are afraid that the Trump administration is going to come in and politicize the Justice Department and go after Biden officials.
00:19:21.000Therefore, they have to preemptively strike and pardon everybody.
00:19:27.000I don't find that particularly plausible.
00:19:28.000The reason I don't find that plausible is because it was the left wing of the Democratic Party that decided that now that they had power, they were going to initiate prosecutions of pretty much everybody they didn't like, ranging from Donald Trump directly to pro-lifers who are protesting in unapproved places.
00:19:46.000To other members of conservative constituencies, like school board members, who they didn't particularly like, like parents.
00:19:52.000They were going to target all these people using the positions of power, not because they believed in principled ways that certain people were guilty of crimes, but because they believed that certain people had to be got, and the law was as good a method of any...
00:20:08.000I don't actually think this is a preemptive strike directed against the Trump administration coming in and politicizing law enforcement.
00:20:15.000I think this is precisely what it appears to be, which is the left wing of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden now creating a new standard where if you are a friend of Joe, you get a blanket pardon.
00:20:25.000That's what the Hunter Biden thing was.
00:20:26.000Remember, he did not pardon Hunter Biden of the crimes for which Hunter Biden was charged.
00:20:31.000He didn't commute the sentence, which he certainly could have done for Hunter Biden.
00:20:34.000Instead, he gave him a blanket pardon for a full scale 10 year period for anything and everything.
00:20:41.000He gave me a get out of jail free card that covered everything.
00:20:45.000That's not a preemptive strike, folks.
00:20:46.000That is just a you're my friend, you get special benefits thing.
00:20:52.000Apparently, now Joe Biden wants to consider doing that for pretty much all of the people allied with him.
00:20:57.000According to Politico, Joe Biden's senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.
00:21:09.000Biden's aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI.
00:21:21.000Those White House officials are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who've committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump's criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may in fact reject them.
00:21:34.000So who exactly are they worried about?
00:21:37.000They might give a preemptive blanket pardon for all possible crimes on the federal level to Senator-elect Adam Schiff from California as well as former GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
00:21:49.000Others mentioned include Anthony Fauci who almost certainly committed perjury with regard to gain-of-function research before the United States Senate.
00:21:59.000Apparently, the West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel, but include a range of other aides, including Chief of Staff Jeff Zients.
00:22:06.000The president himself has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions.
00:22:09.000I love that Joe Biden is so out of it.
00:22:11.000He is so not part of this conversation.
00:22:13.000He's not even a part of the conversation about what kind of pardons he should be issuing.
00:22:18.000But make no mistake, this is Democrats changing the rules of the game yet again.
00:22:21.000They changed the rules of the game to let Hunter Biden off the hook for everything and anything.
00:22:25.000And now, they want to change the rules of the game so as to issue preemptive blanket pardons to all of their friends and allies.
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00:25:12.000Everyone looks like they're full of sh**.
00:25:13.000And Republicans are going to use this to argue that it was politics as usual when Democrats warned about Trump's corruption or threat to the rule of law or, you know, the threat to democracy.
00:25:24.000And I think that's the piece of this I am most frustrated with, which is Joe Biden looking like a typical lying politician.
00:25:31.000And I think that leads to a cynical feeling that all politicians are bad and they're all the same and that this is just par for the course.
00:25:43.000So the right-wingers, I listened to Ben Shapiro this morning, they're all saying what this shows is that Joe Biden was in on the take the whole time.
00:25:52.000That he was getting money from Hunter's business dealings because he pardoned this decade's worth of money.
00:25:56.000And now I think Joe Biden damaged his own reputation in service of doing something understandable on a human level for his son.
00:26:04.000And he also, you know, damaged the Democratic Party's reputation.
00:26:08.000And the question I have is, is Hunter the only one getting saved here?
00:26:12.000Okay, well, that last part there is the part that's amazing.
00:26:16.000Is Hunter the only one getting saved here?
00:26:17.000Is the implication that everybody should get saved?
00:26:22.000Again, the Democratic argument is going to be we have to use this nuclear option because otherwise Trump is going to use his nuclear option.
00:26:28.000Or maybe there's something else going on here, which is if you've got the power and you're a Democrat, you wield it no matter what.
00:26:33.000And that seems to be the order of the day.
00:26:48.000For people who are normal in politics, normal liberals, normal conservatives, The powers of the government don't change based on who's in power.
00:26:55.000It is only for what purpose those powers are used.
00:26:59.000One of the ways that you can tell whether somebody is a postmodernist in their politics is whether they believe that the powers delegated to the federal government expand based on who is in control of the government.
00:27:09.000If it's us, I get to expand my power radically.
00:27:12.000If it's them, I restrict the power radically.
00:27:15.000It is a real problem in American politics.
00:27:18.000It's a real problem in global politics as well.
00:27:21.000It turns out there's still a standard of right and wrong when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:27:25.000But increasingly, when it comes to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, that is no longer the case.
00:27:29.000Liberals are being supplanted by the leftists.
00:27:31.000In fact, Sean Penn, who is, as we all know, a fool, he praised Hunter Biden.
00:27:37.000He called him one of the finest people I know.
00:27:38.000and he urged joe biden to squeeze in more pardons he says quote it ain't january yet i hope that it is also in president biden's intentions to offer an ongoing concerted focus on people who have been wrongfully charged overcharged where the extenuating circumstances have not been fairly considered and that there will be many more pardons that are better for the world than leaving people to toil in prison it's all power politics all the way down Which brings us to the Supreme Court.
00:28:02.000So, yesterday at the Supreme Court, there was a hearing in a case called U.S. v.
00:28:10.000This particular case is one the Daily Wire has a bit of a stake in because obviously Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire has done heavy lifting in what is a woman, particularly in the state of Tennessee, with regard to preventing the transing of the children in the state of Tennessee.
00:28:26.000So Tennessee passed a state law that banned the transing of the kids.
00:28:29.000And then a federal lawsuit was filed by the ACLU. In an attempt to suggest that there is, in fact, a 14th Amendment argument that small children must be given cross-sex hormones or this is sex discrimination.
00:28:41.000That is the argument that was being made yesterday in U.S. v.
00:28:47.000The U.S. Solicitor General under Joe Biden, who is trying to argue in favor of striking down the Tennessee law, they argued the Tennessee law discriminates by sex and transgender status, violating the equal protection of the laws.
00:28:58.000The feds argue, That is a wild argument.
00:29:11.000Again, that is sort of like suggesting that it is sex discrimination to suggest that if a male has cancer of the prostate, he can have his prostate removed, but a female who has anal cancer can't have her prostate removed because she doesn't have a prostate.
00:29:33.000Now again, a lot of this confusion was created by the terrible ruling in Bostock in 2020, which suggested that the Civil Rights Act, when it banned employment discrimination by sex, that also included discrimination based on the idea that if a boy walks in and says he's a girl, that you could fire him based on that.
00:29:49.000That somehow that's what the Civil Rights Act was meant to protect against.
00:30:36.000Chase Strangio, that is the name of the transgender man, meaning a woman, who works for the ACLU and was the attorney on behalf of the ACLU before the Supreme Court, is making this argument.
00:30:53.000This is what we have come to in America.
00:30:54.000We have to have Supreme Court arguments over whether the state should be able to prohibit the genital mutilation and hormonal destruction of children.
00:31:08.000Again, this person is a lawyer before the Supreme Court.
00:31:10.000Defending sex changes for two-year-olds Nobody has to provide this medication to adolescents.
00:31:18.000These are not doctors being forced to provide this medication.
00:31:21.000These are doctors who are wanting to treat their patients in the best way that they know how, based on the best available evidence to us.
00:31:28.000And these are young people who may have known since they were two years old exactly who they are, who suffered for six, seven years before they had any relief.
00:31:35.000And what's happening here, it's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment, it's the parents who are consenting to the treatment.
00:31:41.000And as a parent, I would say, when our children are suffering, we are suffering.
00:31:46.000And these are parents who love their children, who are listening to the advice of their doctors, of the mainstream medical community, and doing what's right for their kids, and the state of Tennessee has displaced their judgment.
00:31:56.000Some of the Supreme Court justices were having nothing to do with this yesterday.
00:31:59.000The audio is available from Supreme Court hearings, but the video is not.
00:32:02.000That's just the way that it works over there.
00:32:03.000Justice Samuel Alito asked some pretty basic questions that destroyed the government's case.
00:32:08.000He asked, for example, about whether sex changes reduce suicide because the data showed that they do not, actually, which is the chief argument that has been used by the state as well as by trans advocates to argue for why children should be given these sorts of horrific, barbaric treatments.
00:32:24.000He says, well, where's the data that shows that these treatments actually reduce suicidal ideation?
00:32:31.000On page 195 of the Cass report, it says, there is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce suicide.
00:32:42.000What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide.
00:32:50.000And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare, and we're talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don't necessarily have completed suicides within them.
00:33:02.000However, there are multiple studies, long-term longitudinal studies, that do show that there is a reduction in suicidality, which I don't I think is a positive outcome to this treatment.
00:33:16.000Okay, so that would be a distinction without much of a difference there from Chase Estrangio trying to split hairs.
00:33:22.000The reality is that the data don't exist on this point at all.
00:33:25.000Alito then went further and fully destroyed the entire logic.
00:33:28.000He pointed out that the 14th Amendment is meant to prevent discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristic.
00:33:34.000Immutable characteristic would be like race.
00:33:36.000If you're a black person, you can't become a white person.
00:33:38.000You're still going to be black no matter how many times you say you're white.
00:33:41.000He says, well, when it comes to gender, that's clearly not an immutable characteristic under the 14th Amendment.
00:33:48.000Are there individuals who are born male, assigned male at birth?
00:33:55.000Who at one point identify as female, but then later come to identify as male, and likewise for individuals who are assigned female at birth, at some point identify as female, I'm sorry, identify as male, but later come to identify as female?
00:34:32.000It's all about a power game in which the entire body politic and, in fact, all of humanity is forced to abide by a false construction of reality because that's what the left wants.
00:34:42.000The left wishes that humanity were all a bunch of interchangeable widgets that they could mold at will.
00:34:46.000And if that's not true, we'll just pretend that it's true.
00:34:49.000And we will mutilate kids in order to accomplish this.
00:34:52.000That is the logic of the left on these issues.
00:34:55.000I mean, Sonia Sotomayor, who is by far the dumbest person on the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:35:01.000There are some other candidates, but Sonia Sotomayor is unique in her level of stupidity on the Supreme Court.
00:35:07.000Yesterday, she compared the hormonal treatment of teenagers and pre-teenagers to them having aspirin.
00:35:16.000They cannot eliminate the risk of detransitioners, so it becomes a pure exercise of weighing benefits versus risk.
00:35:25.000And the question of how many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits is one that is best left.
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00:36:42.000Meanwhile, hot controversy over Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense.
00:36:47.000Now, he is defending himself as well as he should.
00:36:50.000An enormous amount of material that is now being submitted into the public spaces about Pete Hegseth, about alleged drunkenness or alleged improprieties with women, is being done anonymously.
00:36:59.000Virtually no one is willing to go on the record about Pete Hegseth.
00:38:02.000I mean, we've gone through the allegations.
00:38:04.000The allegations are either scanty or anonymous or both.
00:38:08.000Some of the allegations that have been trotted out are a letter that Pete Hegseth's mom sent him seven, eight years ago talking about how he needed to be better to the women in his life.
00:38:17.000Which, by the way, that's pretty rough stuff to be dumping out there in public view.
00:38:21.000You know, letters from mothers to sons and such?
00:41:07.000But from the reports that are being made publicly that are all anonymous in nature and that very often contradict some of the public record, I'm not seeing it, certainly as of yet.
00:41:20.000Obviously, the wide level of support that Pete has in the commentariat, I think, speaks to what many of us think of Pete, which is quite highly.
00:41:28.000GOP Senator Bill Hagerty, who's one of the people who's been considered as a possible replacement, supposedly, he says that House members gave Pete Hegseth a standing ovation when he visited the Hill.
00:41:38.000I was just with Pete meeting with a large group of House members, and he had an ovation that was resounding.
00:41:44.000I think that Pete, as people get to know him again, as people get to see his deliberation, his deliberate stance on trying to repair the Pentagon, trying to fix our recruiting crisis, our retention crisis, I think people are overwhelmingly supportive of him, and I think that's going to continue to move in the right direction.
00:42:06.000So again, we'll see how the math plays out.
00:42:08.000But the sort of strategy of dump the kitchen sink on whomever the nominee is and don't provide any specific credible evidence of accusations that would bring him down, I think that that is not a winning strategy for the media anymore.
00:42:22.000Now, with all of that said, one of the things that I think has been a mistake by President Trump in nominating a variety of these people is not the nominees themselves.
00:42:31.000It's the problem that he's actually wiped out several House members from the House Republican Caucus.
00:42:36.000And this is something that Republicans are going to have to keep in mind.
00:42:39.000President Trump right now might have a House majority of one, which would be the smallest House majority in decades.
00:42:46.000It's either going to be one or two seats.
00:42:58.000It wouldn't have been that small if not for the fact that there are now several vacancies.
00:43:02.000Those vacancies were created by President Trump picking a bunch of House members out of the House and trying to bring them into the administration.
00:43:12.000Practically speaking, the GOP majority could be as thin as 217 to 215. That would be the same as the smallest ever 1917 to 1919 Congress.
00:43:23.000And a lot of members of the House team were pretty upset at the reduction in the House majority.
00:43:30.000We'll see how that plays in terms of actually being able to negotiate the kinds of major legislation that President Trump needs to push forward.
00:43:36.000Meanwhile, chaos has broken out in France.
00:43:39.000Another French government has now fallen after the National Assembly approved a no-confidence vote.
00:44:25.000And so because of that, when the left turned against him in the National Assembly, he couldn't count on the right to back his play.
00:44:31.000And so now the government has fallen apart.
00:44:32.000Because it turns out that the quote-unquote moderate right in France, which the Macron regime was supposed to represent, would rather side with the socialists than side with the actual right in France.
00:44:46.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Michel Barnier had proposed 60 billion euros,
00:45:14.000equivalent to about $63.1 billion in spending cuts and tax increases.
00:45:18.000That budget was attempting to narrow the French deficit.
00:45:47.000UKIP, the independent party in the UK, is far-right.
00:45:50.000Far-right just means not a sort of moderately, squishily, slightly right-of-center European party.
00:45:57.000Anything to the right of that is now the far-right party.
00:46:01.000Barnier said, listen to me, this reality is here to stay and won't disappear by the magic of emotion of censure.
00:46:06.000Macron's options for resolving the deadlock are narrowing.
00:46:08.000The president can't dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections until July.
00:46:12.000Instead, he can allow Barnier to remain in office in a caretaker capacity to pass measures that would effectively extend this year's budget into the early months of 2025, which would avoid a government shutdown.
00:46:20.000He can also appoint a new prime minister who could either pass the extension or scramble to pass a full budget by the end of the year.
00:47:04.000he's trying to paper over the fact that the right in France is picking up steam.
00:47:09.000He desperately tried to avoid allying himself with Le Pen, which he certainly could have done.
00:47:13.000And instead, he allied himself with the far left.
00:47:15.000And it turns out the alligator always eats you, if not last, maybe first in this particular case.
00:47:21.000Le Pen has issued a number of red lines for the budget, including ditching plans to increase electricity taxes, lowering drug reimbursements, and delaying inflation-linked pension hikes.
00:47:29.000Now again, one of the things that is strange about European politics is that many of the so-called far-right parties are actually big government spending subsidy parties.
00:47:37.000They're not necessarily free marketeers.
00:47:41.000With that said, Macron has been unable to cobble together a coalition to support him.
00:49:01.000If Le Pen were to be found guilty, she could be barred from elected office for up to five years, which would thwart a 2027 election bid.
00:49:09.000So Le Pen might be trying to force an early presidential poll.
00:49:14.000But right now, the most likely scenario in France remains that Macron will limp along until 2027, possibly in a period of so-called cohabitation with the government, not of his political colors.
00:49:23.000But maybe he'll resign the same way that Charles de Gaulle did back in 1969. Bottom line is Macron does not represent the French people.
00:49:29.000That is being made clear each and every day in France.
00:49:33.000First, I want to remind you, I was actually in Argentina in Buenos Aires yesterday talking about free markets versus socialism.
00:49:39.000You can view the whole speech from CPAC Argentina.
00:49:41.000I think it's a pretty solid disquisition on why free markets matter, why socialism is evil.
00:49:46.000You can view that over at my Twitter account.
00:49:48.000All right, guys, coming up, we'll bring you the updates from South Korea, where after the South Korean president tried to declare martial law, it now appears he's likely to be impeached.
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