Trump announces a huge tariff deal with the UK, and markets are responding, as fans of Hamas took over Columbia University again, and Jerome Powell makes a decision about interest rates first. Welcome to Daily Wire Plus, where you get ad-free, uncensored access to our daily shows from the most trusted names in media, and in-depth investigative journalism.
00:00:00.000All righty, folks, tons to get to on today's show.
00:00:02.000President Trump announces a huge tariff deal with the UK, and markets are responding.
00:00:08.000Fans of Hamas took over Columbia University again, and Jerome Powell makes a decision about interest rates first.
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00:00:21.000Members get ad-free, uncensored access to our daily shows from the most trusted names in media, in-depth investigative journalism, Okay, so in a moment, I'm going to get to President Trump's economic policy.
00:00:39.000And the markets are responding, of course, quite positively to a vast shift in the direction of the Trump economic policy, a directional change that I've been calling for since well before Liberation Day.
00:00:51.000The reason that's very important is because right now, the right...
00:00:54.000Republicans have a lot of running room.
00:00:56.000And one of the reasons they have a lot of running room is because the Democrats continue to be insane.
00:01:00.000I don't just mean they're insane in terms of their policy preferences, although many of those policy preferences are quite crazy.
00:01:07.000I mean, culturally speaking, the Democrats seem determined to do ridiculous things.
00:01:12.000People on the left in big cities continue to push ridiculous policies, imagery that is going to make them more unpopular, which gives Republicans a lot of running room.
00:01:34.000It is titled Grounded in the Stars by an artist named Thomas J. Price.
00:01:38.000What is this 12-foot tall statue that is grounded in the stars?
00:01:42.000Well, it appears to be a slightly to moderately overweight black woman wearing jeans that are too tight for her, a t-shirt that she got at Walmart, And staring angrily at the cashier at CVS.
00:02:03.000We have no idea what makes her a hero or heroine.
00:02:05.000Apparently, just being kind of grumpy in front of a TSA agent is enough to make you one of the heroes of American society.
00:02:12.000The statue was meant to be a stark contrast to two other statues in Duffy Square.
00:02:18.000Of Father Francis Duffy and George M. Cohen.
00:02:21.000George M. Cohen's statue, of course, is a tribute to the founder of the Great White Way, Broadway, George M. Cohen.
00:02:28.000And Father Duffy was a Canadian-American soldier, a Catholic priest, and a military chaplain who served in the 69th Infantry Regiment.
00:02:37.000And he served in the Western Front in France during World War I. So Duffy Square is named for him.
00:02:43.000So these are actual kind of heroic and world-changing figures.
00:02:47.000And this is meant to be a contrast because this person is just a person who might need a dose of Ozempic and apparently is kind of frumpy and mad and uninspiring.
00:03:00.000According to the website for this particular work, the work was created with the idea of disrupting traditional ideas.
00:03:14.000Like, you should have to do something heroic for us to build you a statue.
00:03:17.000It shouldn't just be a random black lady.
00:03:19.000Although, I do understand that for the left, the basic idea is that every hero of the past is actually a villain, and the only person who you could put up a statue to is a person who's completely anonymous, has no background, no bad social media posts, and never did anything.
00:03:34.000Those are the people to whom we should build statues.
00:03:39.000That makes this person in any way important to anyone else.
00:03:44.000And yet, I guess this sort of self-centered statue is supposed to represent the future of America and the future of Western civilization.
00:03:52.000Again, the work was created with the idea of disrupting traditional ideas of what a triumphant figure and challenges should be defined as.
00:04:00.000According to the website, Price's work offers viewers a unique opportunity to experience Times Square in a new light and share in a moment of personal reflection and empathy.
00:04:08.000Amidst the hyperactivity of the district.
00:06:06.000So that would be yes on the private travel.
00:06:08.000You think he's going to wait in line with you peons at the United counter?
00:06:12.000You think he's really going to do that?
00:06:13.000Now, as somebody who travels a lot, especially in the past few weeks, I've taken an awful lot of commercial airliner travel, like a lot of it.
00:06:34.000Again, this sort of stuff is why the normie American turned toward the Trump administration.
00:06:39.000Another reason the normie Americans turned toward the Trump administration was given, again, pictorial status by what happened at Columbia yesterday.
00:06:47.000So yesterday, over at Columbia University, the students decided they were going to take over The library, again, and the administration really didn't do much about it.
00:06:58.000According to the New York Times, dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, they're pro-Khamasnax, were taken into police custody on Wednesday evening after occupying part of the main library on Columbia University's campus in an attempt to rekindle the protest movement that swept the campus last spring.
00:07:11.000The protesters were wearing masks and kafiyas.
00:07:14.000They burst through the security gate shortly after 3 p.m.
00:07:16.000They hung banners in the soaring main room of Butler Library's second floor.
00:07:20.000They renamed the space the Basel al-Araj.
00:08:49.000For its violation of the Civil Rights Act.
00:08:51.000They wrote slogans like, Columbia will burn for the martyrs, and free Palestine, all over library walls and shelves.
00:08:58.000So they committed all sorts of acts of vandalism as well.
00:09:02.000Here are some of the protesters vandalizing the library shelves.
00:09:13.000So just spray painting, nobody in sight, where's security, no one knows.
00:09:17.000Okay, so eventually, some of these people were arrested, and then the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio put out a statement saying, we're reviewing the visa status of the trespassers and vandals who took over Columbia University's library.
00:09:28.000Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation.
00:09:31.000And what he means by that is, if you came here on a student visa to support Hamas, you shouldn't be here, which seems pretty intuitively correct.
00:09:37.000The reason I bring all this up before we get to trade policy is because the Trump administration, as I've been saying over and over and over since the inauguration, has enormous amounts of work to do.
00:09:47.000Everything from DEI to the trans issue.
00:09:49.000Everything from deregulation to building up our military defense.
00:09:53.000And the biggest thing that they have to do is make sure the economy keeps humming.
00:09:57.000Because Democrats have provided them with unique opportunity in my lifetime for Republicans to actually do things.
00:10:03.000Because guess what Americans don't like?
00:10:04.000They don't like images of kafia-swathed terror supporters vandalizing some of the most prestigious American universities.
00:10:13.000They don't like Bernie Sanders jabbering about how he gets to take a private jet while you're stuck in the third row at Southwest.
00:10:20.000Americans don't like dumb statues in the middle of Times Square.
00:10:23.000They're sort of degrading to the human spirit.
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00:12:35.000So, well before Liberation Day, I suggested that President Trump's giant tariff policies that he was proposing would be bad for the economy.
00:12:43.000That they would create supply chain problems.
00:12:45.000That they would not, in fact, achieve the goals they were seeking to achieve in terms of re-industrialization.
00:12:50.000But that if tariffs were being used as a way to lower tariffs, if they were being used as a cudgel in order to get other countries to come back to the table and do better trade deals, they were acceptable and good.
00:13:00.000Well, it's unclear exactly what the plan of the Trump administration was.
00:13:03.000I think the most accurate take is that President Trump really did want to do full-scale Liberation Day tariffs, and then the stock market plummeted.
00:13:10.000And President Trump, as I've said before, is a man who lives in the world of reality.
00:13:16.000This is what the stock market has been betting on pretty much all along.
00:13:19.000It's why, as soon as he put out a tweet, basically revoking a large swath of the tariffs, the stock market started to jump again.
00:13:26.000It's the reason why, when Secretary Scott Besant, Secretary of the Treasury, goes on TV, the stock markets feel a lot better.
00:13:33.000And when Peter Navarro, Dullard, or Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, go on TV and talk about tariffs, the markets start to get a little bit worried.
00:13:40.000Well, President Trump has now announced...
00:13:47.000Because again, if we were to leave the current trade barriers in place, according to Yale's Budget Lab, consumers would face an overall effective tariff rate of 28%.
00:15:45.000The framework is not as extensive as I would like it to be in terms of actual policy.
00:15:49.000It doesn't immediately lower all the tariff rates down to zero, which I think would be the best policy.
00:15:53.000It lowers tariff rates on certain automotive goods, some steel products.
00:15:59.000It appears to leave a baseline 10% tariff.
00:16:01.000Again, I don't think this is the best possible trade policy, but...
00:16:04.000And the reason the markets are responding is because what they are seeing is that President Trump, if the economy looks to be sinking, is going to adjust and reverse himself.
00:16:13.000And you're seeing this across a wide variety of Trumpian policy.
00:16:17.000So, for example, there are a bunch of articles that came out over the course of the last 72 hours all about how tariffs on Chinese goods were really harming young families because a lot of the products that are coming in and being tariffed are oriented toward kids and babies.
00:16:32.000As the Washington Post pointed out, virtually every car seat, stroller, bassinet, and changing table sold in the United States is made in China, making children's products industry among the most vulnerable to fast-rising costs and shortages.
00:16:44.000Well, again, if you look at the actual statistics, 98% of all car seats are made in China, 97% of all strollers are made in China, beds, bassinets, play yards, changing tables, 94%, high chairs, 92%.
00:16:56.000So that's a problem for young families.
00:17:11.000He said he doesn't want so many exemptions that it creates confusion, but he said that he would look into it.
00:17:17.000And Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary, was testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, and he was asked about it, and he said it's under consideration.
00:17:25.000So, again, the markets are looking for President Holt to punch holes through his own tariff.
00:17:32.000And President Trump is doing this repeatedly.
00:17:35.000So to take another example, there's been a lot of debate over export controls on things like NVIDIA chips.
00:17:43.000So the idea is NVIDIA chips are the most sophisticated chips that are out there.
00:17:46.000We have to prevent China from getting them because otherwise China will use them.
00:17:49.000But NVIDIA is arguing that it doesn't matter, that China is going to find a way to get those chips anyway.
00:17:56.000That China is developing other ways of sort of brute forcing the chips.
00:18:00.000And that actually the best thing you can do is make China dependent on NVIDIA chips because NVIDIA is a unique company.
00:18:06.000Jensen Huang, who is the head of the company, has oriented NVIDIA.
00:18:09.000So they are redesigning their chips every six months or so.
00:18:12.000Like they come up with a new chip really, really, really fast.
00:18:14.000So the minute that a chip hits the market, it gets consumed by the market.
00:18:17.000But the market can't just be gamed by China because NVIDIA is already ahead of the market.
00:18:23.000So his argument is we'll dominate the Chinese.
00:18:24.000We'll just keep pumping out new chips.
00:18:27.000And they'll be reliant on American know-how.
00:18:30.000And that will mean that they can't sort of develop alternative pathways in the same way that the United States has become reliant in some crucial ways and bad ways on supply lines from China.
00:18:40.000We should make China reliant on crucial supply lines from the United States is the argument that NVIDIA is making.
00:18:46.000There's an article by Aaron Ginn in the Wall Street Journal all about this, talking about what he calls the self-defeating AI export controls.
00:18:54.000He says, in efforts to maintain America's head start.
00:18:57.000U.S. policymakers are targeting graphics processing unit access and semiconductor tooling with a regime of ever-expanding export controls with an emphasis on restricting Chinese GPU acquisition.
00:19:09.000Exporting hardware is not the same as exporting capability.
00:19:13.000Cutting off China's access to American chips might have slowed model development, but it also sharpened Beijing's skill at diffusion in another way.
00:19:19.000China now leads the world in open-source AI.
00:19:21.000That lead has emerged under the constraints imposed by U.S. policymakers.
00:19:24.000What America blocks temporarily in outputs, like models, it enables permanently in inputs, like chips.
00:19:31.000If AI is eating the world, says Arrington, we must ensure it eats on American hardware and resources.
00:19:36.000The U.S. should be flooding the world with American GPUs in a concerted way.
00:19:42.000They do punish allies and accelerate technical independence from American frameworks.
00:19:46.000The American strategy should be simple.
00:19:48.000Let every aligned country run on NVIDIA, Silicon, and American standards.
00:19:52.000Biden-Era restrictions are targeting an enormous number of countries.
00:19:56.000Allies, like Switzerland, India, Portugal, Israel, and Argentina.
00:20:01.000Mexico, which assembles our GPU servers, requires U.S. approval to transfer or re-export those services.
00:20:07.000So, the Trump administration heard the message.
00:20:10.000And now, apparently, President Trump is openly considering a plan to overhaul regulations that would limit AI chips and their distribution in foreign countries.
00:20:21.000The Commerce Department plans to replace the rule, which imposed caps on how many chips could go to countries like India, Switzerland, Mexico, and Israel.
00:20:29.000Because again, the idea is that if you're a third-party country, you should be basically using American AI chips.
00:20:34.000You shouldn't be using Chinese-made AI chips.
00:20:37.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision is at least temporarily a boon for tech titans who have fought the rules and been buffeted by a wave of export restrictions in recent years.
00:20:46.000So, again, the Trump administration is constantly sort of experimenting.
00:21:11.000The tax bill seems to be moving forward in the Congress, which is a must.
00:21:15.000And of course, with the UK trade deal, there's a reorientation of the American economy.
00:21:20.000We are moving back in that direction, which is why markets rose.
00:21:25.000But again, because it's a non-ideological administration, President Trump is also playing with some rather bad ideas.
00:21:31.000So, for example, according to Politico, President Trump now plans to revive an effort to dramatically slash drug costs by tying the amount the government pays for medicines to lower prices abroad.
00:21:42.000So, next week, he's expected to sign an executive order directing aides to pursue an initiative called Most Favored Nation for a selection of drugs within the Medicare program.
00:21:50.000The goal would be to force prices down.
00:21:53.000So, the basic idea would be that if Canada is buying certain drugs in the American market at a lower price than American insurance companies are paying for it, then American insurance companies or Medicaid should basically be paying the same price as the Canadians.
00:22:06.000The problem for this, of course, is that we should be doing the opposite.
00:22:08.000If we were actually going to make a gain, From a tariff war with, say, Canada.
00:22:12.000What we should be doing is saying that you guys are artificially lowering the actual amount that you are paying for these drugs.
00:22:22.000The United States is footing the bill for all of the R&D on these drugs.
00:22:26.000American consumers are footing the bill for that with higher prices.
00:22:29.000And they're subsidizing places like Canada and the UK and every place else that is actually buying American drugs.
00:22:34.000They are getting a below market price, and we in the United States are paying an above market price.
00:22:38.000We should force those countries to actually pay the market price.
00:22:41.000We should not allow them to collectively bargain using their state status against the drug companies in the United States if they wish to have lower trade barriers with the United States.
00:22:52.000Instead, the Trump administration is messing around with what is effectively a Bernie Sanders proposal.
00:22:57.000This, again, is not a particularly good proposal with regards to drug pricing policy.
00:23:04.000I would hope that that one also is met with market disquiet so that President Trump moves off of it.
00:23:12.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, Medicaid already receives hefty discounts for drugs under statutory formulas that require manufacturers to kick back a share of a medicine's price to states in a rebate.
00:23:21.000Medicaid rebates in 2023 amounted to 52% of the program's drug spending.
00:23:26.000Drugs accounted for less than 4% of Medicaid spending in 2023.
00:23:29.000The Fed spent 10 times more on hospital payments.
00:23:33.000Even if Republicans required drug makers to give away medicines to Medicaid, savings would not come close to the kind of savings that Republicans are looking for in the tax bill.
00:23:41.000And what this would actually lead to, if Medicaid crams down these prices, is fewer companies actually just selling to Medicaid.
00:23:47.000They just move into the private markets.
00:23:49.000And so it undermines the efficacy of Medicaid, whatever efficacy there is.
00:23:53.000So again, I think President Trump sticks and moves based on the success of a policy.
00:23:58.000That sometimes means he proposed some not particularly useful policies.
00:24:02.000Meanwhile, Iyer is rising again inside the Trump administration because the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, announced yesterday that he would not, in fact, be lowering the interest rates.
00:24:19.000Frameworks for negotiations are not, in fact, long-form trade deals.
00:24:22.000And so one of the things you do have to worry about if you're President Trump is an inflationary economy.
00:24:27.000Inflation killed the Biden presidency.
00:24:29.000It could easily kill the Trump presidency.
00:24:31.000If we were to, for example, lower the interest rates in the middle of a supply chain crisis brought on by much higher tariffs.
00:24:37.000Here was Jerome Powell explaining his decision yesterday.
00:24:41.000In support of our goals, today the Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged.
00:24:48.000The risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation appear to have risen, and we believe that the current stance of monetary policy Well, again, what he's doing here is he's saying, listen, we want to keep that bullet in the chamber, right?
00:25:06.000If the economy takes a serious downturn, we want to be able to lower the interest rates.
00:25:09.000We don't want to preemptively lower the interest rates into an inflationary economy before we have to do any of that.
00:25:18.000He said, we don't feel like we need to be in a hurry.
00:25:21.000We feel like it's appropriate to be patient.
00:25:23.000When things develop, we have a record.
00:25:25.000We can move quickly when that is appropriate.
00:25:27.000He points out that uncertainty about the economy is elevated.
00:25:31.000Again, I think that the markets are correctly assessing that President Trump is moving away from his gigantic trade war against the rest of the world.
00:25:39.000However, that doesn't mean uncertainty has gone away by any stretch of the imagination.
00:25:45.000My gut tells me that uncertainty about the path of the economy is extremely elevated, and that the downside risks have increased.
00:25:55.000The risk is, as we pointed out in our statement, the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen, but they haven't materialized yet.
00:26:47.000COVID created supply line problems, supply chain problems, and then Jerome Powell and company continued to lower those interest rates.
00:26:54.000And that helped create the super bubble in terms of pricing in the United States.
00:26:59.000So that's the thing that they are attempting to avoid right now.
00:27:02.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:29:21.000Doge continues to uncover serious waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:29:26.000The Daily Wire has a fascinating piece.
00:29:29.000Luke Roziak, our intrepid investigative reporter, has a pretty amazing piece, Where Our Money Was Going via USAID.
00:29:37.000According to Luke, when Department of Government Efficiency aides showed up at a small USAID-linked federal agency called the African Development Foundation in March, its management locked the doors and refused to let them in.
00:29:47.000A fired board member sued to stop Doge.
00:29:50.000The group was lauded for resisting Doge's demands for access to US ADF systems, including financial records, payments, and human resources systems.
00:29:58.000But according to several former employees, it may have been that the actual objection was something else entirely.
00:30:04.000That the actual objection was that there was a bit of impropriety going on, shall we say.
00:30:12.000According to Luke, The African Development Foundation has an annual budget of just $45 million, but operating out of sight and out of mind, it might have been the most corrupt agency in Washington, D.C., as employees have been sounding the alarm for years about a culture of self-dealing, abuse, anti-white discrimination.
00:30:28.000By law, the agency is only allowed to give grants to Africa-based groups, but to move money through African entities and then back into the United States to pad the salaries of D.C. bureaucrats and pay friends and former employers, according to employees.
00:30:40.000Until the Doge takeover, which culminated in U.S. Marshals ordering building security to let Trump administration officials in, the agency was led by CEO Travis Adkins, who arrived in 2021 after working at USAID.
00:30:50.000An assistant to Adkins said, after she asked why her paycheck was lower than agreed upon, Adkins informed her the remainder would be coming from an overseas account.
00:30:59.000According to this woman, Adkins sent me an email connecting me with a guy in Africa who asked for my banking information, and then that guy wired me $17,000.
00:31:07.000Okay, all of this is really, really sketchy and has led to accusations of international money laundering.
00:31:15.000And there is indeed an enormous amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.
00:31:20.000Are those the kind of numbers that are going to be sufficient to cure the national deficit or the national debt?
00:31:25.000No, but it's a step in the right direction.
00:31:27.000Meanwhile, information continues to emerge about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the hero of the left who is visited by an actual sitting United States senator.
00:31:35.000Supposed victim of the Trump administration.
00:31:38.000Now, according to Breitbart News, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being investigated by the DOJ after a convicted human smuggler told the FBI that he hired Abrego Garcia to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States, according to a new report.
00:31:51.000So you guys picked the wrong victim, man.
00:31:53.000Again, the Democrats are apparently utterly incapable of saying two things at once.
00:31:59.000Kilmar Abrego Garcia should not be in the country and seems to be a quite bad person.
00:32:02.000And also, everybody is entitled to some level of due process.
00:32:06.000Now, to be fair, Republicans are also having a difficult time holding those two thoughts in place at the same time.
00:32:12.000So the Democrats are like, no, he's probably wonderful.
00:32:15.000And then it turns out that he has been for years accused of being an MS-13 gang member.
00:32:20.000And his wife made repeated police reports about him beating her and sought orders of protection against him.
00:32:26.000And the DHS released a piece of body cam footage from 2022.
00:32:32.000Where troopers pull over Abrego Garcia, and there were nine people inside the car, none of whom had luggage, which looks a lot like a smuggling operation.
00:32:42.000But, again, because everything is stupid, we can't hold two ideas at once.
00:32:47.000So, Senator Lankford from Oklahoma, he has come under fire, James Lankford, for saying the obvious here, which is that Kilma Abrego Garcia should not be in the country, and also, even illegal immigrants, What's been confusing on this is some people see due process like as an American citizen.
00:33:39.000So it's a very different process for it.
00:33:41.000But yes, there is a need to be able to give an opportunity for someone to be able to make an argument before they're removed in the country.
00:33:47.000you Okay, so apparently this is too much.
00:33:51.000This very, very moderate statement that Lankford is making here, which is saying...
00:33:54.000That there are actual procedures for deporting people and you're supposed to follow those procedures and a court will hold that.
00:33:59.000This was apparently too much for some people on the right who were angry and fuming.
00:34:05.000Cat's Herd, who again, amazing to me that a person who calls himself Cat's Herd has wide, apparently, appeal and also impact inside the MAGA movement.
00:34:13.000But, you know, we live in a brand new world where all voices are considered equally.
00:34:19.000He said, I'm so sick of these fake ass weak cowards in the Republican Party running to fake news CNN to undermine the voters and the president.
00:34:25.000How is that undermining the voters and the president?
00:34:27.000Lankford is in favor of the deportations.
00:34:29.000He's just saying that if you actually want to accomplish this, you have to follow the process because otherwise courts will stop you, which is true.
00:34:37.000I'm sorry, but the idea that Lankford is some sort of traitor for saying the obvious, which is that pursue a good policy in the most precise possible way in order to achieve success.
00:34:46.000If you want President Trump to succeed, then you can totally agree with his ends and also believe that the means that he is applying to achieve those ends need to be well calibrated.
00:34:56.000I can totally agree with what he's attempting to do with China while believing that the way he's approaching it is the wrong way and probably destined to backfire.
00:35:03.000When it comes to illegal immigration, I can praise the means and the ends when it comes to the southern border.
00:35:15.000I can praise what Kristi Noem is doing, generally speaking.
00:35:17.000I can also say, I think we should say, that actually, due process rights under the Constitution, as the courts have already ruled, requires some form of process before people are removed.
00:35:28.000And the Trump administration is best served by expediting all those processes to remove people faster.
00:35:32.000Because otherwise, you're going to end up in court interminably, fighting these battles for no apparent reason.
00:35:38.000There's plenty of stuff the administration can do to facilitate deportation.
00:35:43.000Including, by the way, cracking down on sanctuary cities.
00:35:45.000The acting ICE director yesterday mentioned that the Trump administration is going to start going after sanctuary cities.
00:35:53.000Here's the acting ICE director, a man named Todd Lyons.
00:35:57.000So we're going to support men and women in law enforcement.
00:36:00.000We're going to go out and take these public safety threats out of the communities.
00:36:03.000Well, when people like the government of Illinois bar law enforcement from working with another law enforcement agency...
00:36:41.000To me, when you look at your politicians, that stuff should be basically irrelevant at this point in time.
00:36:46.000We are well beyond the point in American history, since the Clinton era, where a character was the deciding factor in presidential elections.
00:37:09.000All I care about is whether the toilet is fixed.
00:37:11.000So, President Trump wants to fix the toilet.
00:37:13.000In many areas, he is fixing the toilet that is Washington, D.C. But in places where I think he's going about it the wrong way, I'd prefer that he do it better so the toilet gets fixed.
00:37:21.000And I don't think that pointing that out is a critique of Trump as a president or as a human.
00:37:27.000I think it is an attempt to call for the right direction to be taken to achieve the actual goals.
00:37:34.000If you want Trump to succeed, the only thing that succeeds is actual success.
00:37:38.000And meanwhile, on the foreign front, India versus Pakistan continues to heat up.
00:37:43.000According to Sadhaned Dume, writing for the Wall Street Journal, the drumbeat to impending war in the Indian subcontinent just got a lot louder.
00:37:50.000India said early on Wednesday it has conducted military strikes on nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan, and Pakistan administered Kashmir in retaliation for a terrorist attack that killed more than two dozen civilians, mostly Indian tourists, in Kashmir on April 22nd.
00:38:04.000Pakistan then called the Indian moves acts of war and vowed to retaliate.
00:38:07.000Again, they've been effectively at war, India and Pakistan, since their partition, which took place in 1947, by the way.
00:38:16.000It's always amazing that you hear people say, well, Israel's a fake state.
00:38:19.000India and Pakistan literally were created out of the British mandate the same exact time, and nobody ever says that.
00:38:27.000Dealing with Pakistan, as this columnist says, an unstable nation brimming with armed jihadists is a serious challenge for India.
00:38:33.000New Delhi has to find a way to deter Pakistan army-backed jihadist groups that shelter under Pakistan's nuclear umbrella while factoring in Islamabad's support from China, which Pakistan calls its iron brother.
00:38:43.000The West also has a Pakistan problem because it's unclear whether Pakistan is a sort of anti-terror ally, not really, but sometimes they help out, or whether they're an actual enemy of the United States.
00:38:55.000It's a very complicated situation, obviously.
00:39:45.000But as I said yesterday, this is just a great object lesson in why nuclear proliferation among really sketched countries is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea, which brings us to the latest with regard to Iran.
00:39:56.000So the administration continues to send wildly mixed signals about what a good Iran deal would look like.
00:40:01.000President Trump has been pretty consistent that the Iranian government cannot have nuclear capacity.
00:40:07.000But it's unclear whether they mean to allow some sort of civilian nuclear capacity.
00:40:12.000Just to be clear, if you're building nuclear capacity under a mountain, I don't believe that you are doing so because you need nuclear energy in oil-rich Iran.
00:40:20.000The only reason you're attempting to build nuclear facilities in Iran is because you want to nuke.
00:40:38.000Because under the crazy man theory, the idea is that if ever there was an attempt at regime change, both internal or external, in North Korea, which is the worst place on planet Earth, that if that happened, then a nuclear weapon might get fired.
00:40:49.000There's a reason why the worst people are pursuing nuclear weapons right now.
00:40:53.000So if the Trump administration is moving toward some sort of Obama 2.0 deal with Iran, that is a full-scale disaster area.
00:41:03.000The phrase in the Middle East that's often used about Iran is that they never win a war or lose a peace, which is a pretty good description.
00:41:10.000The attempt the other day by Iran to tell the Houthis to stop hitting American shipping in the Red Sea so as to get the United States to stop hitting the Houthis and also to create some sort of warm feeling between the Iranians and the United States.
00:41:23.000Before upcoming nuclear negotiations, the region sought for what it really was, which was an attempt to separate off the United States from its allies in Israel with the hope that that would extend, that logic would then extend to an Iranian nuclear deal where basically the United States said, well, you know, if you develop ballistic missile technology or if you develop terror connections or even if you develop nuclear weapons but you're aiming it mostly at like Israel, then whatever, we don't really care.
00:41:48.000The problem with that philosophy is that a nuclear-armed Iran means a nuclear-armed Saudi.
00:41:53.000It means a bristling nuclear-armed Israel.
00:41:56.000Israel, of course, already has nuclear weapons, which is one of the reasons it has survived so long in a region surrounded by hundreds of millions of people who wish to exterminate it.
00:42:06.000But proliferation among non-allied countries with the United States is generally a very bad thing.
00:42:10.000It's the only reason you care about the border between India and Pakistan today.
00:42:14.000So the sort of mixed signals that are being sent by the administration with regard to an Iran deal.
00:42:19.000Here's what a good Iran deal would look like.
00:42:21.000Seriously, what a good Iran deal would look like.
00:42:22.000The kind of deal that would allow for an off-ramp from any sort of strike on Iran.
00:42:28.000This is the only form of a good Iran deal.
00:42:30.000Iran completely dismantles all nuclear capacity inside its country.
00:42:45.000Any sort of Obama deal where they still have civilian nuclear enrichment they can just ramp into high gear the minute that the United States is not looking.
00:42:51.000Foreign inspectors from Russia, for example, or the IAEA, that is not going to be sufficient.
00:42:57.000And whether the United States takes part in a strike or not, it's certainly not going to be sufficient for Israel, which sees, correctly, an Iranian nuclear weapon as an existential threat.
00:43:06.000Well, we should always remember in all of this that when it comes to Middle Eastern policy, whatever the questions are about the Trump administration's approach, they will never be as bad as the Biden administration was.
00:43:14.000A brand new investigation has found that the, you remember that?
00:43:27.000It turns out it left 62 U.S. personnel injured, one service member dead, and caused $31 million in damage to military equipment, and basically ended up distributing very, very low amounts of aid.
00:43:40.000And that aid ended up being hijacked by Hamas anyway.
00:43:42.000So slow clap once again for the Biden administration, the worst foreign policy administration of my lifetime.
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