The Ben Shapiro Show - January 12, 2024


America Bombs The Houthis: F*** Around, Find Out

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Houthis attacks and coalition strikes child soldiers in Yemen and Gaza
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U.S. forces strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Babel Mandeb Strait, a key supply route for much of the world's oil supply routes through the Red Sea, and a place where the Houthis have been trying to exert pressure on the Saudi-led coalition involved in the fight against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. This is a story about a group of terrorists who have taken over a large swath of Yemen and are trying to act as an Iranian proxy arm, and generate support for Iran by attacking Israel, and then by more largely attacking ships in the Red sea. And it's not hard to see how this could all come about. The Iranians have been funding the rebels for years and years, and they've been planning attacks on Israel for years. And now they're doing it in Yemen, and the result is a coordinated attack by the United States, the Saudis, and other allies on a ragtag group of rebels known as the "Houthis" a group that is trying to overthrow the Saudi Arabia-backed government in Yemen and take control of the country. This is the latest installment in a war that started with a few rockets and missiles fired at Israel by the rebels, and escalated into a full-on attack on the Saudis and their allies in Yemen . the latest episode of The War Room is on the latest in our new series on the war on Yemen and its impact on the Middle East, The Middle East and North Africa, hosted by Alex Blumberg and the Arab press. Subscribe to our new podcast, War Room, wherever you get your news and updates on events happening in the region. Subscribe to War Room. and listen to our newest episodes on the breaking news, including the latest breaking news and our most listened to by your favorite podcast, Anecd of the Middle Eastern and Latin American podcast, The Diplomatic Commentaries. , The Diplomat and The Middle Eastern Report Subscribe on social media platforms! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of our new show, The Arab Echoes Subscribe and subscribe to our podcast, wherever else you get the latest episodes are listening to us on the pod? Subscribe on your favourite podcast? We'll be listening to our latest episode on this podcast, we'll be giving you the latest updates on all things Middle Eastern & Western news and more!

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00:00:00.000 So, last night, CENTCOM, as well as a bunch of other foreign countries, part of an American alliance, struck at targets in Yemen.
00:00:07.000 They struck the Houthis.
00:00:08.000 The Houthis are a ragtag group of terrorists who have taken over a large swath of Yemen after a massive civil war between the Houthis and the Saudis over control of the country.
00:00:19.000 The Iranians have been funding the Houthis for years and years and years. 0.52
00:00:22.000 And we'll get into the history of what exactly happened with the Houthis.
00:00:24.000 Suffice it to say, the reason That all of this is happening right now is because the Houthis decided that they were going to try to act as an Iranian proxy arm and generate support for Iran by attacking Israel and then by more largely attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
00:00:39.000 Now shooting off a few rockets or missiles at Israel to get down by American ships or by the Saudis, that really didn't have much of an impact on world opinion or on the world at large.
00:00:48.000 But attacking ships in the Red Sea absolutely does.
00:00:52.000 According to CENTCOM, the Houthis have carried out at least 27 attacks on commercial ships since mid-November.
00:00:58.000 Between December 16th and January 4th, according to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.
00:01:01.000 Navy said it had shot down 61 missiles and drones.
00:01:04.000 1,500 commercial vessels had safely crossed the Red Sea.
00:01:07.000 But the biggest problem with the hubbub in the Red Sea and in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait,
00:01:11.000 which is where a huge percentage of the world's oil supplies travel through
00:01:15.000 and a huge percentage of shipping generally travels through that strait,
00:01:18.000 shipping is down dramatically.
00:01:19.000 According to CNBC, just a couple of days ago, rates for freight traveling from Asia to Northern Europe
00:01:24.000 more than doubled to about $4,000 per 40-foot equivalent unit, it's a container.
00:01:30.000 Asia-Mediterranean prices climbed to over $5,100 Some carriers had announced rates above $6,000 per 40-foot container.
00:01:38.000 You're talking about, in some cases, a doubling of cost.
00:01:41.000 Rates from Asia to North America's East Coast have risen by 55%.
00:01:45.000 West Coast prices climbed 63%.
00:01:48.000 So if you like the supply chain bottlenecks created by COVID, basically, this group of pirates, in an attempt to generate support for Iran among the Arab street in the Middle East, They have basically created massive cost for American and Western consumers, and they've shut down large swaths of world trade. 0.78
00:02:05.000 Now you have a 90% reduction year over year in traffic through the Red Sea from the prior year.
00:02:12.000 Well, all of this drove last night an allied attack on certain resources in Yemen controlled by the Houthis.
00:02:19.000 It was a telegraphed punch, meaning this entire exercise was designed to deter the Houthis, not designed to actually kill or destabilize the Houthis, who in fact, as we say, are a terrorist group that governs a large swath part of Yemen.
00:02:32.000 The reason to telegraph the attack is to allow Iranians to get their military forces out of the way so as not to provoke some sort of escalation with Iran more directly.
00:02:42.000 Because, of course, Iran has lots of forces on the ground helping out the Houthis in Yemen.
00:02:46.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, that U.S.-led coalition launched more than a dozen strikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen two days after the Yemeni rebel force defied an ultimatum to halt its attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea with a barrage of missiles and drones.
00:02:57.000 Those strikes were conducted by the United States and British forces.
00:02:59.000 They were supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands.
00:03:03.000 Now the Saudis, they said that they were concerned about the escalation, but let's be real about this.
00:03:07.000 Bahrain works very closely with the Saudis.
00:03:10.000 Bahrain would not have joined this coalition or allowed its airspace to be used for an attack like this without the go-ahead of the Saudis.
00:03:16.000 The coalition strikes early Friday morning local time, targeted radar systems, air defense systems, storage and launch sites for one-way attack, unmanned aerial systems, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, said U.S.
00:03:26.000 Central Command.
00:03:27.000 A U.S. 0.66
00:03:27.000 submarine, several destroyers and jet fighters, part of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Strike Group took part, according to a U.S. 0.66
00:03:34.000 defense official.
00:03:35.000 Who the officials reported explosions in the capital of Yemen, which is called Sana'a, and the provinces of Hodeidah, Sa'dah, Damar, and elsewhere.
00:03:41.000 They blame this on the American-Zionist-British aggression against Yemen.
00:03:45.000 Israel did not take part in these attacks, though.
00:03:47.000 Obviously, Israel does have aircraft that are capable of taking part in attacks like this.
00:03:51.000 Sena hosts the Houthis missile inventories attack on vessels were launched from the port of Hodeidah according to shipping executives.
00:03:57.000 President Biden immediately issued a statement he said these targeted strikes are a clear message the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world's most critical commercial routes and will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.
00:04:14.000 Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Royal Air Force participated in the strikes also because, quote, the United Kingdom will always stand up for freedom of navigation and the free flow of trade.
00:04:23.000 Four British Typhoon jet fighters targeted a Houthi drone base in northwestern Yemen and an airfield used to launch cruise missiles over the Red Sea.
00:04:29.000 Quote, early indications are that the Houthis' ability to threaten merchant shipping has taken a blow.
00:04:34.000 The Houthis, of course, say they're not going to be deterred because the way this works in the Middle East is that you have basically terrorist groups that provoke a response from an overwhelming power, they get their asses absolutely kicked, and then they claim that just because they survived, they won.
00:04:46.000 That's what's currently going on in the Gaza Strip.
00:04:47.000 Hamas provokes a gigantic Israeli military response, the largest Israeli military response to any attack since 1973. 0.98
00:04:53.000 And they get their asses absolutely handed to them, and most of their fighters killed, and most of their leadership killed, and then, if they are breathing at the end of it, they claim victory. 0.99
00:05:02.000 The Houthis are playing the same game. 0.99
00:05:04.000 It's really, honestly, cowardly sort of stuff.
00:05:08.000 Nasser al-Din Amir, a Houthi official, told the Wall Street Journal, this is a brutal aggression.
00:05:11.000 I love this.
00:05:12.000 It's a brutal aggression.
00:05:14.000 Honest to God.
00:05:15.000 If America and its allies wanted to commit, quote-unquote, brutal aggression against the Houthis, this guy would not be alive to talk about it.
00:05:20.000 He said, we will undoubtedly pay its price.
00:05:22.000 We will not waver in our stance to support the Palestinian people, regardless of the cost.
00:05:27.000 After the coalition strikes, the U.S.
00:05:28.000 had not seen any direct retaliatory action directed toward U.S.
00:05:31.000 or other coalition members in the Red Sea.
00:05:33.000 And again, the strikes came with a lot of warning.
00:05:35.000 One week ago, the U.S.-Britain key allies issued an ultimatum saying, stop it.
00:05:40.000 And then they didn't stop it.
00:05:41.000 And then on New Year's Day, Biden convened his national security team to discuss the options.
00:05:45.000 And then despite the coalition warning, the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile that fell into the water within sight of a commercial vessel.
00:05:52.000 Now, the Houthis knew that the United States and its allies were going to strike all of these targets, and so they had relocated some of their weapons and equipment and fortified others.
00:05:59.000 The question is whether this is going to deter further action from the Houthis.
00:06:02.000 The answer is probably not.
00:06:04.000 When you telegraph punches like this, it is very unlikely that that is going to convince the Houthis to stop what they are doing.
00:06:10.000 The allies, for their part, they put forward a statement explaining what they were doing.
00:06:14.000 This is a joint statement from the governments of the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium,
00:06:17.000 Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Republic of Korea,
00:06:21.000 Singapore and the United Kingdom. They're recognizing the broad consensus as expressed
00:06:25.000 by 44 countries around the world on December 19th, 2023, as well as the statement by the
00:06:29.000 UN Security Council on December 1st, 2023, condemning Houthi attacks against commercial
00:06:33.000 vessels transiting the Red Sea. In light of ongoing attacks, including a significant escalation over
00:06:37.000 the past week, targeting commercial vessels with missiles, small boats and attempted hijackings,
00:06:41.000 we hereby reiterate the following and warn the Houthis against further attacks.
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00:08:00.000 Ongoing Houthi attacks, say the allies, in the Red Sea are illegal, unacceptable, profoundly destabilizing.
00:08:06.000 There is no lawful justification for intentionally targeting civilian shipping and naval vessels.
00:08:10.000 Attacks on vessels, including commercial vessels, using unmanned aerial vehicles, small boats and missiles, including the first use of anti-ship ballistic missiles against such vessels, are a direct threat to the freedom of navigation that serves as the bedrock of global trade in one of the world's most critical waterways.
00:08:23.000 These attacks threaten innocent lives from all over the world and constitute a significant international problem that demands collective action.
00:08:29.000 Nearly 15% of all global seaborne trade passes through the Red Sea, including 8% of global grain trade, 12% of seaborne traded oil, 8% of the world's liquefied natural gas trade.
00:08:38.000 International shipping companies continue to reroute their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding significant cost and weeks of delay to the delivery of goods.
00:08:45.000 And ultimately jeopardizing the movement of critical food, fuel, and humanitarian assistance throughout the world.
00:08:50.000 Let our message now be clear, say the Allies, we call for the immediate end of these illegal attacks and release of unlawfully detained vessels and crews.
00:08:56.000 The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and the free flow of commerce in the regions of critical waterways. 0.99
00:09:03.000 We remain committed to the international rules-based order and are determined to hold malign actors accountable for unlawful seizures and attacks.
00:09:09.000 Now, Part of this is directed at the Houthis.
00:09:11.000 Part of it is directed at Iran, because Iran actually did seize another ship just yesterday.
00:09:17.000 And part of this is directed at China, because China obviously has a very large interest in a Taiwanese election that is about to happen over there.
00:09:25.000 The Taiwanese election?
00:09:27.000 All the parties involved are not interested in reunifying with China.
00:09:30.000 But there are some parties that are a little bit more appeasement oriented toward China.
00:09:33.000 The reason the United States cares about this is because TSMC is the largest sophisticated microchip producer on planet Earth.
00:09:40.000 They're sophisticated at microchips.
00:09:42.000 are in all of America's military tech.
00:09:44.000 92% of all sophisticated microchips on planet Earth, the superconductors, those are created in Taiwan. 1.00
00:09:50.000 Right now, there is a military refusal by Taiwan to give that sort of technology to the Chinese.
00:09:56.000 It's one of the reasons the Chinese military is significantly less sophisticated and developed 1.00
00:10:00.000 than the United States military.
00:10:02.000 Were those microchips to be made available to the Chinese, not only would it facilitate an invasion of Taiwan, 0.99
00:10:07.000 it would also directly threaten the United States because suddenly the military capacity of the Chinese 1.00
00:10:11.000 would be radically increased.
00:10:14.000 So what's happening right here is if the Chinese look and they see that global shipping could be threatened by, again, a group of poverty stricken pirates, In Yemen, then they would say to themselves, OK, what sort of damage can we do with a weak West in the Taiwan Strait, where a huge percentage of the world's trade is located in the South China Sea?
00:10:36.000 And what exactly could we do?
00:10:38.000 They could project theoretically to the Straits of Malacca, where nearly 100 percent of global trade has to pass through.
00:10:43.000 So China is looking on and they are seeing whether Western weakness would allow, again, for a bunch of not insanely well-equipped pirates, terrorists, to hold up all of global trade and double supply chain prices.
00:10:57.000 And so it's very important that the West did something about this, just on a practical level.
00:11:02.000 Now on the moral level, the Houthis are some of the worst people on planet Earth. 1.00
00:11:05.000 In a legitimately evil, awful group. 0.70
00:11:08.000 So the Houthis are an Iranian proxy group.
00:11:10.000 Iran, as we've explained, is a terror sponsor. 0.75
00:11:12.000 It has its tentacles all over the Middle East.
00:11:14.000 It has its tentacles in Iraq, obviously, where they've had significant impact on the government of Iraq.
00:11:19.000 They have their tentacles in Syria, where they're allied with Bashar Assad.
00:11:22.000 They have their tentacles in Lebanon, where they effectively control the government via Hezbollah.
00:11:27.000 They have their tentacles in Hamas.
00:11:29.000 They have their tentacles in Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 0.51
00:11:31.000 And they have their tentacles with the Houthis.
00:11:33.000 Those tentacles are all over the Middle East.
00:11:36.000 Now, one of the big problems that Iran historically has had is that Iran is Shia, and a huge percentage of the Middle East is Sunni. 0.92
00:11:43.000 And because of that, there is not a lot of solidarity between the Shia and the Sunni.
00:11:48.000 I mean, the reality is that whatever the hatred is for the Jewish state in the Middle East, the hatred for Israel, that's mostly a sideshow between the ongoing wars that have been happening between Shia and Sunni over the course of the past several decades.
00:12:00.000 A multiple more Arabs and Persians have been killed in a variety of wars since the 1980s than anything that's happened with regard to the Jews.
00:12:09.000 And all the hatred of the Jews does is it allows for the possibility of some sort of cross-cultural communication between Shia and Sunni in the Middle East.
00:12:16.000 And that's what the Houthis are trying to do right now.
00:12:17.000 They're trying to rally support to the Iranian side in any sort of Shia-Sunni conflict by siding with the Palestinians.
00:12:23.000 Because one of the things that's happened is that the Palestinians, being an incredibly radicalized population that literally no Arab state will take in, not only will no Arab state take in the Palestinians, Arab states have expelled the Palestinians before. 0.72
00:12:33.000 In the aftermath of the Gulf War, 200,000 to 300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait because they sided with Saddam Hussein in his war against Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
00:12:43.000 So none of the Arab states are interested in taking in the Palestinian population.
00:12:47.000 And so the Hamasniks went over to Iran and they Worked a deal where Ron became one of their chief suppliers. 0.99
00:12:55.000 And it turns out that the Sunni states, they have no interest in working with the Palestinians.
00:12:58.000 Again, very radicalized population, destabilized virtually every regime they've come into contact with.
00:13:03.000 By the way, this is why you're seeing Jordan right now issuing these very loud statements because they are deeply afraid of their own population.
00:13:09.000 70% of Jordan is Palestinian, and they are afraid that their kingdom will be overthrown.
00:13:14.000 This would not be the first time they had feared this.
00:13:15.000 Obviously, in the early 1970s, Jordan expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians because of threats of overthrowing the regime in what was called Black September.
00:13:23.000 So, The basic idea here is that if you are Iran, and you are seeking to buy legitimacy with the Arab street, you polarize the region around the Palestinians. 0.85
00:13:33.000 Because what you say is, look at all these Arab states, they want to make peace with Israel so they can side against us. 0.59
00:13:37.000 But the real enemy is the Juden! 0.97
00:13:40.000 The real enemy is the Jews! 1.00
00:13:43.000 And if we all remember that, then maybe we won't have any Abraham Accords. 0.73
00:13:46.000 And Iran, of course, hates the Abraham Accords because it makes them a more minor player in the Middle East. 0.91
00:13:52.000 It creates an overwhelming coalition of force that exists around its borders.
00:13:57.000 That's the whole purpose of the Hamas attack. 0.97
00:13:58.000 It's why the Yemeni Houthis are now involved in a fight that really has nothing to do with them.
00:14:03.000 Because again, this is all being directed from above by Iran. 0.98
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00:15:12.000 Now, the Houthis themselves, as I say, just that group, the worst people in the world. 1.00
00:15:16.000 Their literal slogan, I kid you not, it's like on their bumper stickers or something. 0.89
00:15:20.000 If they had bumper stickers on their goats. 0.92
00:15:21.000 Their literal slogan is, quote, Allahu Akbar, death to America, death to Israel, 0.99
00:15:26.000 cursed be the Jews, victory to Islam. 1.00
00:15:29.000 It's a little long and it doesn't rhyme, but it pretty much says it all. 0.77
00:15:33.000 That's a pretty strong slogan.
00:15:34.000 They're not really hiding the ball there.
00:15:37.000 But it turns out that their hatred is not just against America and Israel and the Juden. 0.73
00:15:42.000 Their hatred also is for their own children.
00:15:45.000 Because apparently about one third of the entire Houthi military force is underage.
00:15:52.000 They use child soldiers regularly.
00:15:53.000 By the way, not a rarity.
00:15:54.000 Iran used to use child soldiers.
00:15:56.000 In the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian regime famously gave golden keys to kids and sent them out to the battlefield.
00:16:02.000 The keys were supposed to unlock the gates of heaven.
00:16:05.000 This is a real thing that happened during the Iran-Iraq war.
00:16:07.000 By the way, Hamas uses child soldiers all the time.
00:16:11.000 Westerners don't understand how people who are non-Western fight.
00:16:14.000 They don't understand this, but this is a reality in the Middle East.
00:16:16.000 It was a reality in Afghanistan, by the way.
00:16:19.000 Remember, recently we talked with Tim Kennedy.
00:16:21.000 He's a Green Beret. 0.94
00:16:22.000 There's nothing more dangerous than an 11-year-old with an AK.
00:16:24.000 And if you're a Westerner, you're like, what are you even talking about?
00:16:27.000 An 11-year-old with an AK?
00:16:28.000 But when you actually recruit children into your army, that's what you get.
00:16:32.000 The Houthis have been doing this for years. 0.93
00:16:34.000 According to VOA News, Yemen's Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country's grinding civil war.
00:16:40.000 By the way, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the civil war.
00:16:43.000 Once again, demonstrating the world does not give any bleeps at all. 0.99
00:16:47.000 About dead Muslims, so long as other Muslims are killing them. 1.00
00:16:50.000 Zero bleeps. 1.00
00:16:51.000 None.
00:16:52.000 Zip.
00:16:53.000 Zilch.
00:16:54.000 Two Houthi officials told the AP the rebels recruited several hundred children, including those as young as 10, over the past two months.
00:17:00.000 They've been deployed to front lines as part of a buildup of forces taking place during a UN broker truce.
00:17:04.000 The UN doing monumental work.
00:17:06.000 This is back in June of 2022.
00:17:07.000 The Houthis have used what they call summer camps to disseminate their religious ideology and to recruit boys to fight.
00:17:12.000 By the way, Hamas does exactly the same thing in the Gaza Strip.
00:17:15.000 Exactly the same thing.
00:17:16.000 So when you see, by the way, statistics from the Gaza Strip put out by Hamas, where it says how many women and children are killed, The designation of children, meaning in the West, would be anyone under the age of 18.
00:17:26.000 That includes a bunch of people who are, in fact, Hamas operatives.
00:17:30.000 Because they start them real young in the Gaza Strip. 0.98
00:17:32.000 It doesn't mean everyone who's being killed, obviously, is a member of Hamas or a Hamas operative.
00:17:36.000 But Israel is being very, very meticulous about who they are killing.
00:17:40.000 And a lot of the people that they are killing, unfortunately, are, in fact, minors who have been recruited into the ranks of terrorist groups by terrorists.
00:17:46.000 Because terrorists don't have your moral standards. 1.00
00:17:48.000 They think that your morality is stupid and they take advantage of it. 1.00
00:17:52.000 The Yemeni conflict, of course, erupted in 2014. 0.99
00:17:55.000 That is when the Houthis descended from their northern enclave and they took Sana'a.
00:17:59.000 And a Saudi-led coalition entered the war in early 2015.
00:18:02.000 And this brings up exactly what Joe Biden did.
00:18:05.000 Okay, so, what is happening right now?
00:18:08.000 The only question as to Western strikes on the Houthis is whether those are sufficient to deter the Houthis from continuing their paradical activity in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandib Strait.
00:18:18.000 All the talk about Iran getting directly involved in the war or escalating into a larger war with the United States, that'd be the dumbest thing Iran ever did.
00:18:25.000 The way that the Iranian mullahs are thinking right now is, we're about five minutes from developing a nuclear weapon, at which point we're untouchable.
00:18:31.000 Why would we get in a shooting war with the most powerful military force in the history of the world? 0.96
00:18:35.000 That'd be like the dumbest thing they ever did.
00:18:36.000 So right now, a lot of what's going on is trying to uphold the credibility of their supposed commitment to Hamas. 0.93
00:18:42.000 And they made a commitment to Hamas that they were going to back Hamas. 0.68
00:18:44.000 Hamas, again, succeeded beyond its wildest dreams on October 7th. 0.99
00:18:48.000 They're getting their asses absolutely handed to them in the Gaza Strip. 0.96
00:18:51.000 And so what you see is Iran's other proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis, you're seeing them do these sort of low-level attacks against Israel and its allies in the region in an attempt to establish credibility with the Arab street or the Muslim street. 0.98
00:19:05.000 And that's what that is.
00:19:06.000 But they don't want to provoke a general war.
00:19:08.000 I mean, again, if Iran provoked a general war, it would be the worst thing they ever did.
00:19:12.000 By the way, unlike Iraq, during the Iraq War, there were certainly people who wanted to rise up against Saddam Hussein's regime.
00:19:18.000 The biggest problem with Iran is the IRGC, which is a generalized terrorist group.
00:19:22.000 That is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, their giant army.
00:19:25.000 But, the actual population of Iran is significantly more moderate and significantly more modernized than the population of Iraq, for example.
00:19:31.000 Again, none of this is a case that we should get into a war with Iran.
00:19:33.000 The point here is that Iran doesn't want us to get into a war with Iran.
00:19:36.000 Which is why we're going to back them down.
00:19:38.000 The only question is whether the actions of Joe Biden by effectively hitting empty buildings is going to be enough to back the Houthis off or whether the United States and its allies are going to have to escalate this thing far enough that the Houthis actually back down.
00:19:50.000 Are they going to have to threaten to destroy the Houthis in order to back them down?
00:19:54.000 All of this, by the way, could have been prevented.
00:19:56.000 All this could have been prevented.
00:19:58.000 And in fact, none of this happened.
00:19:59.000 Well, for example, Donald Trump was president.
00:20:01.000 Why?
00:20:01.000 Well, maybe it's because Joe Biden is a weakling on foreign policy.
00:20:04.000 Weakness on foreign policy breeds aggression.
00:20:07.000 Aggression breeds response.
00:20:09.000 This is the typical pattern in Western foreign policy.
00:20:12.000 The West says, we'll go hands off.
00:20:13.000 We don't want anything to do with this.
00:20:14.000 We're just going to move out.
00:20:15.000 And then something aggressive happens that hurts American interests.
00:20:18.000 And then America has to respond.
00:20:20.000 If America responds harshly enough, suddenly enough, Sometimes the water's cool.
00:20:25.000 But if America doesn't respond harshly enough, that breeds a response by the other side.
00:20:30.000 America has to escalate.
00:20:32.000 That is the problem.
00:20:33.000 So the question here is whether this particular response will be enough to back the hoothies down.
00:20:38.000 I somehow doubt it.
00:20:39.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:22:08.000 Again, all of this was created by Joe Biden's idiotic foreign policy. 0.98
00:22:13.000 When Robert Gates said that Joe Biden had never made a good foreign policy decision, that's about right. 0.99
00:22:18.000 That's about right.
00:22:18.000 I'll do a couple flashbacks here.
00:22:20.000 So back in 2020, you'll recall that Donald Trump authorized the killing of an Iranian terror official named Qasem Soleimani.
00:22:27.000 He was one of the masterminds of pretty much all of Iran's terror wings all around the globe. 1.00
00:22:32.000 And he traveled to Iraq, so he wasn't inside Iran, and he was killed in Iraq.
00:22:37.000 And Joe Biden, who was running for president at the time, gave this response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani, which again, was a way for the Trump administration to tell the Iranians, stop facilitating terror.
00:22:47.000 If you keep facilitating terror, you never know, your head might be in a different place from your body tomorrow morning.
00:22:53.000 When it comes to Joe, but here was Joe Biden's response at the time.
00:22:57.000 Donald Trump does not have, let me make it clear, does not have the authority to go to war with Iran without congressional authorization.
00:23:05.000 Without working with Congress, it is not optional.
00:23:10.000 It is not an optional part of his job.
00:23:12.000 Presidential notification of Congress about the need to exercise war powers cannot be satisfied in 280 characters or less.
00:23:23.000 And no president should ever take the United States to war without securing the informed consent of the American people. 0.99
00:23:31.000 So first of all, this is idiotic when he said it. 0.99
00:23:33.000 The killing of Qasem Soleimani was not taking America to war in Iran. 0.98
00:23:36.000 And as we'll see, this is now a common talking point against the United States and its allies ensuring freedom of shipping in the Red Sea.
00:23:44.000 But this was Biden's angle on Iran from the very beginning.
00:23:46.000 And in fact, one of the very first things that the Biden administration did when they entered office, like one of the very first things in the first month of his administration is they delisted the Houthis as a global terrorist organization.
00:23:58.000 According to PBS.org, this is February 16th, 2021, the Biden administration officially lifted the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen as a global terrorist organization.
00:24:08.000 That announcement came within a large review of the U.S.
00:24:09.000 relationship with Saudi Arabia.
00:24:10.000 You'll remember that Joe Biden came into office ripping the Saudis and praising the Iranians.
00:24:14.000 That worked out amazing in the Middle East. 0.99
00:24:17.000 Slow clap for this dolt. 1.00
00:24:19.000 On January 11th, 2021, the Trump administration opposed terrorism sanctions on the Houthis as a group, as Omri Sarin reporting. 0.95
00:24:26.000 To limit any humanitarian fallout, they broadly exempted aid groups, agriculture, medicine, etc.
00:24:29.000 But the Washington, D.C.
00:24:30.000 expert class, think tankers, journalists, the Hill, Democratic operatives, always considered anything Trump did illegitimate.
00:24:37.000 So, they said they were going to reverse course.
00:24:39.000 Robert Malley, who had hired operatives who literally answered to the Iranian regime, was put in charge of America's Iran policy.
00:24:47.000 So, Tony Blinken, at his first press availability, the Secretary of State, on January 28th, 2021, he was asked which Trump administration policies from the last several months he was going to prioritize reversing.
00:24:57.000 He said that getting rid of sanctions on the Houthis was, quote, the priority.
00:25:03.000 He said, quote, the Houthis control territory, I believe contains about 80% of Yemen's population.
00:25:07.000 We want to make sure that any of these steps, including the designation, don't make what is already an incredibly difficult task even more difficult.
00:25:12.000 That is the provision of humanitarian aid to the people of Yemen.
00:25:16.000 Okay, then Biden officials suspended terrorism sanctions on the Houthis, January 25th.
00:25:21.000 They announced revoking them February 5th.
00:25:24.000 Within days, the Houthis started launching mass murders of Yemeni civilians and attacking Saudi Arabia.
00:25:31.000 So then they tried to futz their way out of it, but eventually they just released the terrorism designation on February 16th.
00:25:39.000 So that was a move that was made overtly by the Biden administration.
00:25:43.000 It was a thing they wanted to do.
00:25:46.000 Meanwhile, you recall, Joe Biden took a very anti-Saudi position with regard to Yemen.
00:25:50.000 Because pushed by his left, the idea was that backing the Saudis in their war against the Houthis was more trouble than it was worth and the way to create a humanitarian We're also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in Yemen.
00:26:01.000 A war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.
00:26:03.000 The Houthis, by the way, literally enslave people.
00:26:06.000 They brought back slavery. 0.98
00:26:07.000 I'm not kidding you.
00:26:08.000 That's a real thing they did.
00:26:10.000 And Joe Biden at this time, he was too busy worrying about how mean Mohammed bin Salman was,
00:26:14.000 the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
00:26:16.000 This is back on February 4th, 2021.
00:26:17.000 We're also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in Yemen.
00:26:23.000 A war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.
00:26:27.000 This war has to end.
00:26:29.000 And to underscore our commitment, we're ending all American support
00:26:35.000 for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.
00:26:40.000 you And that worked out amazing.
00:26:43.000 It turns out that defanging the Saudis in the face of the Houthis, that worked out great. 1.00
00:26:47.000 You mean appeasement of terrorism doesn't work?
00:26:50.000 There's a shock.
00:26:51.000 Meanwhile, same Biden administration trying to force Israel to appease terrorists in the Palestinian Authority. 1.00
00:26:55.000 I mean, it's unbelievably stupid. 1.00
00:26:56.000 All this is unbelievably stupid and entirely preventable. 1.00
00:26:59.000 The math in the Middle East is very simple. 1.00
00:27:01.000 Power is the operative concept.
00:27:03.000 If you don't have it, you lose.
00:27:05.000 Weakness, appeasement is showing your neck.
00:27:10.000 And that's what Joe Biden did.
00:27:11.000 The White House showed its neck to the Houthis and the Houthis decided to take a bite. 0.67
00:27:16.000 Meanwhile, Iran continues to escalate. 0.78
00:27:18.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iranian Navy said it had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Oman that has been at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Washington, raising the stakes as a U.S.-led coalition launched strikes on rebel targets in Yemen.
00:27:29.000 Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen have repeatedly targeted the waterways, of course.
00:27:34.000 Apparently, Iran's Navy identified the boarded tanker as a Greek-managed ship called St.
00:27:38.000 Nicholas.
00:27:39.000 The tanker was impounded in retaliation for the theft of oil by the American regime, according to the Iranian Army.
00:27:45.000 Iranian state media showed Iranian commandos landing on the ship's deck from a military helicopter.
00:27:50.000 Now, it's a little bit more complex because that particular vessel, which used to be known as the Suez Rajan, its charters pled guilty to charges filed in U.S.
00:27:57.000 court that it actually carried sanctioned Iranian oil.
00:28:00.000 The company was fined.
00:28:01.000 Its Iranian oil cargo was seized.
00:28:04.000 The vessel sat idle off the coast of Texas for months because federal prosecutors were trying to figure out who exactly would be willing to offload the oil.
00:28:10.000 Eventually, the Justice Department eventually contracted help to fulfill its forfeiture action.
00:28:14.000 But security analysts and former U.S.
00:28:16.000 officials said the case suggested U.S.
00:28:18.000 efforts to deter Iranian aggression were failing.
00:28:21.000 A spokesperson for the Iranian mission at the U.N.
00:28:23.000 said quote, the Iranian army seizure of the oil tanker does not constitute a hijacking,
00:28:26.000 rather it is a lawful undertaking sanctioned by a court order and is in response to the
00:28:30.000 theft of Iran's very own oil. So again, what's going to be enough to push Iran off the ball 0.99
00:28:37.000 is the big question.
00:28:38.000 Meanwhile, the left is just mad about this because the left is fully on the side of the worst people on earth.
00:28:44.000 Literally the worst people on earth.
00:28:45.000 There are no worse people than the Houthis. 0.99
00:28:47.000 They are truly evil. 0.99
00:28:49.000 Hamas and the Houthis, the same. 0.98
00:28:50.000 Hamas, ISIS, and the Houthis, effectively the same. 0.52
00:28:53.000 They have some different agenda items, but in terms of the level of evil, no distinction whatsoever.
00:29:00.000 The New York Times says that this leads to the possibility of a broader conflict.
00:29:03.000 The broader conflict was already there.
00:29:05.000 I noticed when all the prices started to go up because they had shut down an actual shipping hub.
00:29:11.000 I love the New York Times.
00:29:12.000 So, it's not a broader conflict when the hoothies are shutting down global shipping and everybody has to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope.
00:29:19.000 That's not a problem.
00:29:21.000 The problem is when you try to stop them from doing that.
00:29:24.000 Again, so much of anti-Israel sentiment is actually just anti-Western, anti-American sentiment.
00:29:30.000 So much of it is, if America defends itself, that's the offensive that's going to lead to escalation.
00:29:34.000 If Israel defends itself, that's the big problem here. 0.96
00:29:38.000 So everybody is worried about the escalation.
00:29:40.000 Meanwhile, Democrats, the more radical Democrats, they of course are jumping in and saying, it's illegal.
00:29:45.000 We can't, we can't have this.
00:29:47.000 We have to let the Houthis do this thing. 1.00
00:29:48.000 So Ro Khanna, who again, I know Ro, nice enough guy, but this is ridiculous.
00:29:52.000 He says, the president needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another Middle East conflict.
00:29:58.000 That is article one of the constitution.
00:30:01.000 No, it isn't.
00:30:02.000 No, it is not.
00:30:04.000 Okay, the president does have the power to respond in attack scenarios and in wartime scenarios.
00:30:10.000 And under the War Powers Act, he then has to inform Congress within 60 days of what he is doing.
00:30:15.000 And then Congress has the ability to stop what he is doing within 60 days.
00:30:19.000 That's the actual legal regime that applies here.
00:30:21.000 The president does have inherent power to take immediate military action without informing Congress.
00:30:27.000 This is not a declaration of war on the Houthis.
00:30:30.000 Fired a few missiles at a few empty factories is what exactly happened.
00:30:34.000 Representative Val Hoyle of Oregon tweeted the same thing, quote, These airstrikes have not been authorized by Congress.
00:30:40.000 The Constitution is clear.
00:30:41.000 Congress has the sole authority to authorize military involvement in overseas conflicts.
00:30:47.000 But no, again, that's wrong.
00:30:49.000 The War Powers Act governs here.
00:30:50.000 The president has 40 hours to inform Congress and Congress has been duly informed.
00:30:54.000 Meanwhile, Pramila Jayapal says this is an unacceptable violation of the Constitution.
00:30:58.000 Article 1 requires military action be authorized by Congress.
00:31:00.000 I love that all of the exact same members of Congress who said that Joe Biden had the inherent authority to cancel a trillion dollars in student loan debt.
00:31:11.000 That Joe Biden had the inherent ability to mandate that 80 million Americans take a vaccine.
00:31:18.000 That Barack Obama had the inherent power to simply pardon millions of illegal immigrants through prosecutorial discretion under DACA. 0.97
00:31:26.000 These same people are like, if the president fires a missile and hits a camel in the ass, he better inform us it's a violation of Article 1. 0.96
00:31:32.000 That's like, that's the most important thing. 0.99
00:31:33.000 Oh, gosh, these people.
00:31:37.000 Like, this is... That is not what the Constitution says.
00:31:39.000 It isn't.
00:31:40.000 I'm sorry, it isn't.
00:31:41.000 The President does have some inherent war-making power.
00:31:43.000 The extent of that war-making power is defined by the War Powers Act, as the Supreme Court has already ruled multiple times.
00:31:50.000 Now, again, so much of this is not about even what's going on with Iran.
00:31:53.000 There's an axis that has formed.
00:31:54.000 It is Iran and China and Russia. 0.98
00:31:58.000 And North Korea is sort of part of it, but nobody cares about North Korea.
00:32:01.000 But that's the axis.
00:32:03.000 And when I say axis, I mean they actively work with one another.
00:32:06.000 Like Iran gets nuclear technology from Russia.
00:32:09.000 Iran ships drones to Russia.
00:32:11.000 China is getting oil from Iran and Russia.
00:32:14.000 That is the axis that has formed.
00:32:15.000 What's more important is that, again, displays of weakness tend to lead to more aggression in global politics.
00:32:22.000 That's just the way this works.
00:32:23.000 So right now, there's an election going on in Taiwan.
00:32:27.000 And one of the questions is going to be just how appeasement-oriented is the new government of Taiwan going to be?
00:32:33.000 Because if Taiwan started shipping military tech to China, China would probably be like, okay, we got what we wanted.
00:32:37.000 We don't need to invade or anything.
00:32:39.000 There's an entire article in Politico called, If they really want to take Taiwan back, what can we do?
00:32:43.000 On the eve of elections, Taiwanese voters face a choice between appeasement and resistance.
00:32:48.000 So why exactly would they appease China?
00:32:49.000 Because they're afraid the West is not going to come to their defense, is the real answer.
00:32:52.000 And honestly, under Joe Biden, why would they believe the West is going to come to their defense?
00:32:56.000 I know that Joe Biden has tried to restore some level of credibility completely lost during Afghanistan.
00:33:00.000 The United States made a 20-year commitment to tens of thousands of American allies in Afghanistan, people who actively worked with the American government, made a commitment to tens of millions of people that the Taliban would not remain in control of the government.
00:33:14.000 And then they left all of those people to be ruled by the worst people on earth.
00:33:17.000 Again, the Taliban, the Houthis of a piece. 1.00
00:33:20.000 This is not that they work together, but they have the same general view of the world.
00:33:25.000 despite religious differences. The Biden administration tried to restore deterrence
00:33:32.000 by providing aid in Ukraine. And to a certain extent they did. The question is whether it was
00:33:39.000 enough.
00:33:40.000 Is that enough to stop China from doing what it must? 0.79
00:33:42.000 Now, again, here's my out-of-the-box prediction for how the rest of this year goes.
00:33:46.000 If Joe Biden continues to trail Donald Trump in the polls, if we get to June, July, again, assuming Trump is the nominee, if we get to June, July, and Donald Trump is up in the polls by four or five points nationally and leading in the swing states, I think China will make a move on Taiwan.
00:34:01.000 And the Taiwanese, I think, know this.
00:34:03.000 Because the Taiwanese are thinking to themselves, okay, if the U.S. 0.99
00:34:06.000 isn't going to come to our defense, then what exactly are we supposed to do?
00:34:11.000 Congress recently rejected, of course, a Biden administration proposal, according to Politico, to send more than $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
00:34:18.000 That legislation failed a procedural vote, according to Angela Ong, a Taiwanese-American clean energy advocate, she used to say that if China stepped in and tried to shut down the Taiwan Strait, the United States would step in.
00:34:33.000 And she says that she is unsure now.
00:34:35.000 She says, when a Taiwanese person comes to me and says, you see what they did to Ukraine? 1.00
00:34:38.000 They encouraged them to stand up and fight Russia.
00:34:39.000 And then when things don't go well, they're abandoned.
00:34:41.000 I find it very difficult to have a good comeback to that.
00:34:43.000 But it's not really about Ukraine only.
00:34:44.000 It's about Afghanistan.
00:34:46.000 It's about the US's commitments in Iraq.
00:34:47.000 It's about the fact that the United States population Generally does not have the will for long occupations or wars, which is fine, but you can't get involved in those things in the first place.
00:35:00.000 If you're not going to get involved in those things, you have to involve yourself in preventative measures so that you don't actually have to engage in the long standing sort of occupations and wars that the United States engaged in for the first 20 years of the new millennium.
00:35:12.000 In just one second.
00:35:14.000 We'll get to more on foreign policy because, again, the U.S.
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00:36:07.000 Meanwhile, in the midst of all of this chaos, the Army's recruitment efforts continue to be a complete disaster area.
00:36:13.000 According to Breitbart.com, the Army's recruiting of white soldiers in 2023 had dropped by almost half in the last five years, according to a report.
00:36:20.000 A dramatic decline has coincided with a push by the service to increase recruitment of a more diverse population.
00:36:25.000 According to that report, that decline of white recruits has also coincided with the Army missing its target of 65,000 recruits in 2023 by 10,000.
00:36:33.000 Again, the kind of Army strategy, which seems to be promotion of diversity above Actual military capacity is kind of an amazing thing.
00:36:44.000 And the fact is that disproportionately, the military draws from conservative areas of the United States.
00:36:49.000 Promoting the individual sexual exploration of your recruits is probably not the thing that is going to draw people to the American military.
00:36:57.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, of course, has taken a rather weak position on foreign policy, and it's led to all of these conflicts.
00:37:04.000 When it comes to the economy, by the way, the economy continues not to be Joe Biden's friend.
00:37:10.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, inflation edged up in December, a reminder of the pressure still facing consumers.
00:37:16.000 Inflation's cool down from the historic highs of the last three years keeps the Federal Reserve on track to hold rates steady later this month.
00:37:22.000 But it's not clear they're going to end up cutting all of those interest rates.
00:37:25.000 And Joe Biden really needs the interest rates cut if he wants to see some sort of Artificial economic boom before the election.
00:37:30.000 Economic stagnation, by the way, is the recipe for the next few years in the United States.
00:37:34.000 The consumer price index increased 3.4% from a year earlier in December.
00:37:39.000 That acceleration from November's 3.1% advance shows inflation is not fully beaten.
00:37:43.000 By the way, when you say not fully beaten, I understand that we all got used to like crazy numbers like 9% inflation year on year.
00:37:48.000 And a large part of that was because of supply chain shocks.
00:37:51.000 But normally, the inflation rate is supposed to be 2%.
00:37:54.000 They are missing that 2% by a large margin when it's coming in hot at 3.4%.
00:38:01.000 And when core inflation is at 3.9%.
00:38:03.000 And by the way, you know what's going to exacerbate all that?
00:38:06.000 Supply chain shocks.
00:38:08.000 It's going to exacerbate all of that.
00:38:10.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden trying to happy talk his way through this here is Joe Biden's top economic advisor, Lil Brainard. 0.99
00:38:15.000 She says, don't worry, Joe Biden is fighting for consumers, which is weird.
00:38:18.000 Consumers are just getting shellacked.
00:38:22.000 If you run down inflation from since President Biden came into office, overall CPI inflation is up 17.6 percent.
00:38:29.000 Food, we're talking about is up about 34 percent.
00:38:32.000 Electricity is up 27 percent.
00:38:34.000 So what's your message to Americans who are feeling this every day when they buy and use things?
00:38:39.000 Yeah, so the president's message is very much he's fighting for American consumers.
00:38:46.000 He is fighting to lower costs.
00:38:49.000 By spending more money?
00:38:51.000 By facilitating massive disruptions in the supply chain?
00:38:54.000 Would that be it?
00:38:55.000 Meanwhile, speaking of other massive disruptions to the American way of life, and one of the biggest problems for Joe Biden is that he could have run as a moderate and governed as a moderate.
00:39:02.000 He could have done those things.
00:39:03.000 He did not do those things.
00:39:04.000 He ran for the primaries as a moderate, then he shifted to his left for the general, figuring he'd beat Donald Trump.
00:39:09.000 And then he governed as somebody of the left wing of his party.
00:39:12.000 And now he's held hostage by the left wing of his party.
00:39:14.000 It's particularly Trump border policy.
00:39:16.000 Again, what's amazing right now is that Joe Biden could fix so many problems with his administration if he would just acknowledge that the border needs to be closed.
00:39:24.000 Remember, there is a bill waiting to be passed that involves massive funding for Ukraine that would get Ukraine through probably another year of fighting off Russian aggression.
00:39:32.000 There's a bill that would provide $14 billion in aid to Israel so Israel could finish the job with Hamas and also push off Hezbollah in their north.
00:39:40.000 That same bill provides defense aid to Taiwan to prevent the possibility and deter the possibility of a Chinese blockade or invasion of the island.
00:39:48.000 All Joe Biden has to do to get that is solidify the border.
00:39:51.000 That's all he has to do.
00:39:52.000 And he is saying no.
00:39:54.000 He is saying no.
00:39:55.000 And so all of those problems continue to metastasize.
00:39:58.000 All of them.
00:39:59.000 Ukraine.
00:40:00.000 Hamas, Taiwan, and the border all continue to metastasize. 0.62
00:40:04.000 Why?
00:40:05.000 Because Joe Biden actually wants to stop the first three.
00:40:07.000 He knows that foreign chaos is not good for his re-elect efforts, but he will not give up on the open border.
00:40:12.000 It's an amazing thing.
00:40:12.000 Why?
00:40:13.000 Because his own base, large swathes of his own base have taken the ideological position that people have a right to come to the United States.
00:40:21.000 That is literally the position that's being taken by so many members of his own caucus. 0.73
00:40:24.000 So Representative Pramila Jayapal, a wild left progressive, Crazy, kooky person.
00:40:29.000 She says that Joe Biden has been too heavy-handed on the southern border.
00:40:32.000 I mean, I don't even know what to say to that.
00:40:35.000 I've been to the southern border.
00:40:37.000 That is just a lie.
00:40:38.000 He's been too heavy-handed on the southern border?
00:40:39.000 I mean, the Border Patrol has already been turned into bellmen for illegal immigrants. 0.99
00:40:44.000 That's exactly what's happened on the southern border.
00:40:47.000 We'll have all sorts of content coming out about this in the near future, all the film and what's going on, a deep dive into the border.
00:40:52.000 It is a disaster area down there.
00:40:55.000 But the only, I guess Pramila Jayapal is just mad that the Border Patrol agents aren't bringing like fizzy drinks for the illegal immigrants. 0.88
00:41:02.000 Like that's the only thing I can think of that she's talking about here.
00:41:06.000 There is so much fear mongering going on that it is difficult to know exactly where to start.
00:41:12.000 But let me say this first.
00:41:14.000 The Biden administration is enforcing immigration laws.
00:41:18.000 In fact, the administration has been so heavy-handed in recent months that I have serious concerns about how they are conducting border enforcement.
00:41:28.000 Out of their mind. 1.00
00:41:29.000 Out of their damned minds. 1.00
00:41:31.000 Heavy-handed? 1.00
00:41:32.000 By what metric?
00:41:33.000 By what metric?
00:41:34.000 We went through the stats a little bit earlier this week.
00:41:37.000 By the stats, at least 2.4 million people have entered the country illegally.
00:41:43.000 At least across the southern border.
00:41:46.000 In the last year.
00:41:48.000 In fiscal year 2023, that's insane.
00:41:50.000 But it's too heavy handed.
00:41:51.000 Again, if Joe Biden chooses to allow his campaign to be held hostage by these people, he's going to lose and he deserves to lose.
00:41:56.000 Which is why Republicans should probably get out of his way.
00:42:01.000 First rule of politics, don't get in the way of your opponent when he's making a mistake.
00:42:05.000 It's why All the fights that are happening right now about budgeting and all the rest of this, let's be real about this.
00:42:10.000 The serious drivers of federal debt are not all the discretionary programs that are currently being greenlit in whatever budget deal Mike Johnson cuts with the Democrats.
00:42:19.000 I don't love it.
00:42:19.000 I think it's a bad deal.
00:42:20.000 Also, you have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president.
00:42:23.000 Let's be real about this.
00:42:25.000 What Republicans need, what the country needs more than anything else, is Joe Biden out of office and Democrats not in control in the Senate.
00:42:31.000 If you get in the way of that, you're going to end up with more Democratic governance.
00:42:35.000 In order to actually effectuate your agenda, you have to hold power.
00:42:38.000 You can't just hold some of the power, you have to hold enough power to be able to do what you want to do.
00:42:42.000 This is why, you know, I have nothing but sympathy for people who are very upset with the deal that Mike Johnson is about to cut with regard to the continuing funding of the government.
00:42:53.000 But this notion that you're going to oust him because you're mad at him now.
00:42:55.000 Yeah, Sid McCarthy because you're mad at him.
00:42:57.000 Maybe the incentive structure is that he's going to have to cut that deal.
00:42:59.000 Because what is the alternative?
00:43:00.000 Going into permanent government shutdown?
00:43:02.000 I know there are some people in the base who might want that.
00:43:05.000 Let me just explain.
00:43:05.000 If that happens, Joe Biden is the president for another four years.
00:43:08.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is obviously ailing, and this also has an impact on how foreign policy is conducted.
00:43:14.000 It has a feeling.
00:43:16.000 It is.
00:43:16.000 There's a pervasive feeling this administration is not in control.
00:43:19.000 It's completely out of control.
00:43:20.000 Now, what was always funny about the Trump administration is Trump himself felt like he was not in control, but it felt like the administration was in control.
00:43:27.000 Why?
00:43:28.000 Because Donald Trump was the rhetorical face of his own administration.
00:43:32.000 But his rhetoric very often did not match his policy.
00:43:34.000 It's why, by the way, you are seeing emerging gaps inside the Republican coalition on a wide variety of ideological issues.
00:43:39.000 Because Trump talked in one way, then his administration did something different.
00:43:43.000 Donald Trump talked like an isolationist, but then his administration was pretty hawkish.
00:43:47.000 Donald Trump, for example, was big into the idea of, say, American subsidies and tariffs.
00:43:53.000 But his administration actually facilitated, for the most part, free trade deals and non-subsidies.
00:43:58.000 And so a lot of what his administration did is not the stuff that Donald Trump talked about.
00:44:03.000 And so there was always a feeling with Trump that, OK, fine.
00:44:06.000 So he's tweeting something now.
00:44:07.000 But at least I know at least I know that the economy is good and peace is breaking out in the Middle East and we don't have an ongoing supply chain crisis in the Red Sea.
00:44:14.000 And we're not super worried about China invading Taiwan.
00:44:17.000 And that's how it feels with Joe Biden.
00:44:20.000 Number one, he can't actually speak anymore.
00:44:22.000 Every time he speaks, as I've said before, it's like watching Nick Wallenda cross a volcano on a tightrope.
00:44:27.000 You're just waiting for him to fall down.
00:44:29.000 That's the real reason you're watching is because you want to know where you were the moment that Joe Biden collapsed.
00:44:33.000 I mean, it really is sad.
00:44:34.000 It's not good for the country.
00:44:35.000 It's not good for Joe Biden.
00:44:36.000 It's really sad.
00:44:38.000 And beyond that, he can't speak, and his administration is out of control.
00:44:41.000 So he's got a Secretary of Defense who goes completely AWOL for a week, no problem.
00:44:44.000 He's got a Secretary of Transportation who goes completely AWOL for two months, no problem.
00:44:49.000 Who the hell is in control over there?
00:44:50.000 It certainly is Nacho Biden.
00:44:52.000 How much is it Nacho Biden?
00:44:53.000 They're now trotting out Jill to basically say, you should have sympathy for my aged husband.
00:44:59.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden did the rounds talking about how Joe Biden's age was an asset.
00:45:03.000 If his age were an asset, don't you think it would be Joe Biden in this interview and not Dr. Joe, the greatest doctor of all who can heal your heart attack with an education paper?
00:45:12.000 Here we go.
00:45:14.000 Your husband is 81.
00:45:16.000 At the end of a second term, he'd be 86.
00:45:19.000 As his life partner of 46 years, is there a part of you that is worried about his age and health?
00:45:26.000 Can he do it?
00:45:28.000 He can do it.
00:45:29.000 And I see Joe every day.
00:45:30.000 I see him out, you know, traveling around this country.
00:45:35.000 I see his vigor.
00:45:36.000 I see his energy.
00:45:38.000 I see his passion every single day.
00:45:42.000 So to those who say, I can't vote for Joe Biden, he's too old.
00:45:45.000 What do you say?
00:45:46.000 I say his age is an asset.
00:45:49.000 Aha! 0.94
00:45:49.000 He's wise. 0.94
00:45:50.000 Yes, he's wise.
00:45:51.000 He has wisdom.
00:45:52.000 He has experience.
00:45:53.000 He knows every leader on the world stage.
00:45:56.000 He's lived history.
00:45:58.000 He knows history.
00:46:00.000 He's thoughtful in his decisions.
00:46:02.000 He is the right man or the right person for the job at this moment in history.
00:46:14.000 I mean, just because he lived through the Peloponnesian War doesn't mean that he is sentient anymore.
00:46:18.000 He says he knows every world leader.
00:46:21.000 He doesn't even know who's in the room.
00:46:22.000 He thinks dead people are alive in rooms that he goes into.
00:46:25.000 He doesn't know the names of the members of his own cabinet.
00:46:28.000 He doesn't know where he is half the time, which is why, again, that video last week of Joe Biden giving what was essentially his kickoff campaign speech over at Valley Forge and Jill Biden charging up there like a night nurse trying to drag him back to bed because he's wandering the halls and may pee in a corner somewhere.
00:46:46.000 I mean, it's an amazing video.
00:46:47.000 She literally charges up. 1.00
00:46:49.000 I mean, she's, she's faster than, she's like Usain Bolt off that line. 1.00
00:46:52.000 He finishes that speech and she is up there like, bam, like a shot. 0.85
00:46:55.000 And she grabs him and she tries to trot him back, but not before he whispers back in the microphone, I know about power.
00:47:00.000 And then she like drags him off the stage. 1.00
00:47:03.000 And I think what people don't see is how hard Joe works every single day.
00:47:06.000 just zips him off the stage.
00:47:07.000 And we're supposed to believe that things are going well.
00:47:10.000 And then Jill has to assure us that we don't know how hard Joe works.
00:47:12.000 Well, maybe we don't know how hard Joe works because he calls a lid every
00:47:15.000 afternoon at 2 p.m.
00:47:16.000 So you can go down to the local Denny's for the early bird special.
00:47:18.000 And I think what people don't see is how hard Joe works every single day
00:47:26.000 that he gets up thinking what he can do for the American people.
00:47:31.000 Oh, is that is that what he gets up doing?
00:47:35.000 Again, I've said before, and it's true, Joe Biden must be the happiest person in the world because every morning he wakes up and somebody tells him he's president.
00:47:42.000 It must be just incredible.
00:47:44.000 So in any case, all of this means that he's in an awful lot of trouble.
00:47:47.000 By the way, one of the ways you know that he's in an awful lot of trouble, an astonishing column today from Bret Stephens.
00:47:52.000 So Bret Stephens is about as large a Trump critic as is possible to be.
00:47:56.000 Bret Stephens is not a Trump fan.
00:47:58.000 I believe he voted against him in both 2016 and 2020.
00:48:01.000 He's a conservative in terms of foreign policy, but not in terms of social policy.
00:48:06.000 He writes a column for the New York Times today, and here is what it says, quote, the case for Trump by someone who wants him to lose.
00:48:15.000 The entire column is about how things were better when Trump was president.
00:48:18.000 It's true.
00:48:19.000 It's a true thing. 0.83
00:48:20.000 Just barring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party's nominee for president.
00:48:27.000 Lord help us, what should those of us who have consistently opposed him do?
00:48:31.000 You can't defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable.
00:48:34.000 Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal.
00:48:38.000 Since I will spend the coming years strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can.
00:48:43.000 He says, begin with fundamentals.
00:48:45.000 Trump got three big things right.
00:48:47.000 Arguably, the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from South to North and East to West, causing tectonic, demographic, cultural, economic, and ultimately political shifts.
00:48:56.000 Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015.
00:49:01.000 Many of Trump's opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all.
00:49:06.000 Only now, as the consequences of Joe Biden's lackadaisical approach to mass migration have become depressingly obvious on the sidewalks and in shelters and public schools of liberal cities like New York and Chicago, are Trump's opponents on this issue beginning to see the point.
00:49:18.000 The second big thing Trump got right was about the broad direction of the country.
00:49:22.000 Trump rode a wave of pessimism to the White House.
00:49:24.000 Pessimism his detractors did not share because he was speaking about and to an America they either didn't see or understood only as caricature.
00:49:31.000 But just as with this year, when liberal elites insist things are going well, while overwhelming majorities of Americans said they are not, Trump's unflattering view captured the mood of the country.
00:49:40.000 Finally, there's the question of institutions that are supposed to represent impartial expertise from elite universities and media to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.
00:49:47.000 Trump's detractors, including me, often argued his demagoguery and mendacity did a lot to needlessly diminish trust in these vital institutions.
00:49:54.000 But we should be more honest with ourselves and admit, those institutions did their own work in squandering, through partisanship or incompetence, the esteem in which they had once been widely held.
00:50:03.000 Absolutely right.
00:50:05.000 And then he says, you know, there are a lot of readers, and this is the New York Times, who are saying, yes, but what about January 6th?
00:50:10.000 What about election denialism and the threat to democracy?
00:50:14.000 But it's important to stretch one's mind a little, says Bret Stephens, and try to understand why so many voters are unimpressed about the end of democracy argument.
00:50:19.000 For one thing, haven't they heard it before and with the same apocalyptic intensity?
00:50:23.000 In 2016, Trump was frequently compared to Benito Mussolini and other dictators, including by me, says Bret Stephens.
00:50:29.000 The comparison might have been more persuasive if Trump's presidency had been replete with jailed and assassinated political opponents, rigged or canceled elections, a muzzled or captured press, and Trump still holding office today.
00:50:38.000 But none of that is true.
00:50:41.000 Many rank-and-file Republicans regard the January 6th assault on the Capitol as a disgrace and the lowest point of Trump's presidency, but they also believe it wasn't so much an insurrection as it was an ugly temper tantrum by Trump and his most rabid supporters, which never had a chance of succeeding.
00:50:54.000 An American version of Vladimir Putin, he simply is not.
00:50:57.000 As it is, the 2024 election will not hinge on questions of democracy, but of delivery.
00:51:01.000 Which candidate will do more for voters?
00:51:04.000 And herein you got a problem.
00:51:05.000 This is why Bret Stephens, he's right.
00:51:07.000 He's right.
00:51:08.000 The systemic problem with Joe Biden's presidency is that he is a bad president.
00:51:12.000 He is bad at the president thing.
00:51:15.000 And so all of these legal attacks on Trump, I don't think they're going to damage him.
00:51:19.000 They're already baked into the cake. 1.00
00:51:21.000 Every outsized, idiotic statement by the left about how Donald Trump is going to disappear the gays helps. 1.00
00:51:27.000 Like when Whoopi Goldberg says this, you think this really hurts Trump? 1.00
00:51:30.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg saying that when Donald Trump becomes president, he's going to disappear the gays. 0.94
00:51:33.000 Which like, are you kidding me? 0.94
00:51:36.000 Are you kidding me?
00:51:37.000 In 2016, he held a gay pride flag while he was campaigning. 1.00
00:51:40.000 Donald Trump as social con warrior, theocrat, killing the gay, like what in the world? 1.00
00:51:45.000 These people are out of their mind. 1.00
00:51:48.000 I'm going to be, on day one, I'm going to be a dictator who says it to you, tells you. 0.96
00:51:54.000 I'm going to put you people away.
00:51:55.000 I'm going to take all the journalists. 1.00
00:51:56.000 I'm going to take all the gay folks. 1.00
00:51:58.000 I'm going to move you all around and disappear you. 1.00
00:52:00.000 If that's the country you want, you know who to vote for.
00:52:04.000 If that's not, if that's not the country you want, you have to make a decision.
00:52:10.000 Or maybe the decision is between somebody who says wild and crazy things, and I disagree with a lot of the things, but actually did the president thing kind of well, and somebody who sucks at the president thing.
00:52:21.000 Maybe it's that.
00:52:23.000 Again, I don't know that three, four, that four years out from January 6th, 2021, you can continue to run on this.
00:52:29.000 I just don't know.
00:52:30.000 Like Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker of the House, in waiting, right?
00:52:35.000 The minorities, minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
00:52:38.000 He says that House Republicans are the party of insurrection and impeachment.
00:52:41.000 Aren't people getting bored with this?
00:52:43.000 Isn't this tired and old?
00:52:45.000 This week has once again revealed that extreme MAGA Republicans have zero interest in doing anything productive that is designed to benefit the American people.
00:53:03.000 House Republicans are the party of insurrection, impeachment, and illegitimate investigations.
00:53:12.000 Nothing more, nothing less.
00:53:15.000 Insurrection, Impeachment and illegitimate investigations.
00:53:21.000 These extremists have made clear once again this week that they have no ideas, no agenda, no vision, and have made no progress on solving problems for everyday Americans.
00:53:42.000 Okay, I have a question.
00:53:43.000 What problems for everyday Americans have you guys solved?
00:53:47.000 Can we get a list?
00:53:49.000 Do they outweigh the problems that you've created for everyday Americans?