The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Bribes The Iranian Ayatollahs

00:00:00.000 So, Joe Biden has found a new group of people to bribe.

00:00:02.000 So this is now, I guess, how we do business.

00:00:05.000 If you have a WNBA player, who is not really famous because, you know, she's a WNBA player, who goes to Russia and brings with her drugs.

00:00:14.000 And then she gets arrested and she is stuck in jail.

00:00:17.000 Yes, unjustly.

00:00:18.000 We're like, what could we trade to get her back?

00:00:21.000 And the answer is the merchant of death, which again, bad trade.

00:00:25.000 Like White Sox GM level trading right there.

00:00:28.000 Like merchant to death for Britney Griner.

00:00:30.000 Well, now we have a similar type of trade.

00:00:33.000 Iran apparently has released from prison five Americans, but has placed them under house arrest and actually being fully released and not being sent back to the United States.

00:00:41.000 They're just under house arrest in Tehran, which sounds like a real party. 0.99

00:00:43.000 It's like being stuck in a house in Tehran.

00:00:46.000 What exactly do we have to do to get them out of jail and into house arrest, which again is like its own sort of prison, in Tehran?

00:00:53.000 All we had to do was give them access to six billion dollars in oil revenue for quote-unquote humanitarian purposes.

00:00:59.000 By humanitarian purposes, Iran means, you know, terrorism and nuclear development. 0.93

00:01:03.000 A statement from the National Security Council spokesperson Adrian Watson says, quote, We have received confirmation that Iran has released from prison five Americans who were unjustly detained and has placed them on house arrest.

00:01:14.000 While this is an encouraging step, these U.S.

00:01:16.000 citizens, Sayemak Namazi, Murad Tabaz, Ahmed Shargi, and two Americans who at this time wished to remain private, should never have been detained in the first place.

00:01:23.000 We will continue to monitor their condition as closely as possible.

00:01:25.000 Of course, we will not rest until they are all back home in the United States. 0.96

00:01:28.000 Until that time, negotiations for their eventual release remain ongoing and are delicate.

00:01:32.000 We will therefore have little in the way of details to provide about the state of their house arrest or about our efforts to secure their freedom.

00:01:38.000 So, just to do the math for you, for those who aren't that good at math, that is 1.2 billion dollars per hostage.

00:01:44.000 So, you think maybe Iran is going to think about taking some hostages in the future?

00:01:48.000 How about Russia?

00:01:49.000 So far, the trading strategy here appears to be like Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox level of trading strategy here.

00:01:59.000 This is egregious.

00:02:00.000 It's egregious. 0.99

00:02:01.000 Iran is a terror state. 0.99

00:02:03.000 We just gave them $6 billion.

00:02:05.000 Now, to be fair, at least it wasn't, you know, $150 billion on the upper end or $50 billion on the lower end of cash in pallets sent to Iran when Barack Obama was president basically to cut a crappy nuclear deal so that he could have a legacy in the Middle East.

00:02:19.000 And again, to be fair, he wasn't trading Taliban terrorists for Bo Bergdahl, a deserter.

00:02:25.000 That ain't good.

00:02:26.000 I mean, if you wish to incentivize terrorist states to take American hostages, very difficult to think of a better way to do that than by giving 1.2 billion with a B dollars to get these people released from jail to house arrest in Tehran. 0.78

00:02:38.000 What, is it going to take another billion and a half bucks to get them released from house arrest back to the United States?

00:02:43.000 Or is this the precursor to the long-awaited Biden move toward an Iran deal?

00:02:47.000 Is Joe Biden going to use this as the predicate to argue that now relations are actually warming, they are thawing with the Iranian Ayatollahs?

00:02:53.000 We should remember at this point that the Iranians are directly responsible for hundreds of American deaths in Iraq.

00:02:59.000 It was Iranian-backed force that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq.

00:03:02.000 Iran is the most nefarious force in the Middle East. 1.00

00:03:05.000 Whether we're talking about backing the Houthis in Yemen, whether we're talking about backing Hezbollah, a mass terrorist group in Lebanon, which could lead to a war between Israel and Lebanon in the very, very near future.

00:03:14.000 Whether we're talking about Iran backing Hamas and shipping them rockets.

00:03:19.000 Iran backing Syria.

00:03:21.000 Every bad thing happening in the Middle East right now can be laid basically at the doorstep of the Iranians. 1.00

00:03:26.000 So the thing you don't want to do is give them access to billions of dollars in capital.

00:03:30.000 So Joe Biden gave them access to billions of dollars in capital, which Again, that dude, not good at the presidenting.

00:03:38.000 Listen, trying to get American hostages out of terrible regimes is a great thing to do, but 1.2 billion dollars a person?

00:03:46.000 That is not the correct price.

00:03:47.000 It turns out that actually, sticks can be very effective as well.

00:03:51.000 Not just carrots, but the Biden administration has offered no such stick in the past.

00:03:55.000 I mean, the Reagan administration was able to free the Iranian hostages by basically being incredibly threatening toward the Iranian regime.

00:04:03.000 It turns out a fantastic way to incentivize people to take hostages is to pay them billions of dollars for hostages.

00:04:08.000 Is this going to be the predicate to an even warmer move by Joe Biden toward an Iran deal?

00:04:12.000 So we should remember at this point.

00:04:14.000 That Joe Biden, his chief negotiator with regard to Iran was a man named Robert Malley.

00:04:19.000 Robert Malley was recently removed in terms of his security clearance.

00:04:24.000 His security clearance was literally removed because he was suspected of trafficking in classified information.

00:04:30.000 Robert Malley has been a longtime critic of the state of Israel.

00:04:33.000 He's been a longtime peacenik with regard to the Iranian Ayatollahs.

00:04:37.000 It goes all the way back to the Obama administration.

00:04:39.000 Robert Malley is one of Obama's guys.

00:04:41.000 Malley, just last month, He had his security clearance removed, leading a group of Republican senators to urge the State Department's internal watchdog to investigate the suspension of Malley's security clearance, ratcheting up scrutiny of the administration's handling of the incident.

00:04:56.000 Malley was Joe Biden's top Iran envoy, and he was helming the administration's efforts to restore a nuclear deal with Iran when his security clearance was quietly suspended sometime this spring.

00:05:04.000 He was then put on unpaid leave in late June, following media reports that his clearance had been suspended.

00:05:10.000 This administration bends over so far backward to try and draw some sort of Iran deal up that now they are sending negotiators who can't even get security clearance, and they are clearing billions of dollars in cash to the Ayatollahs.

00:05:22.000 Simultaneously, they're attempting to force the state of Israel to make concessions to Iranian-backed terror groups like, for example, Hamas.

00:05:30.000 The latest attempt by Joe Biden to draw peace in the Middle East is a supposed Saudi-Israeli normalization deal.

00:05:36.000 Now, the Saudis are perfectly willing to normalize relations with Israel.

00:05:40.000 They've been wanting to do so since the Trump administration.

00:05:42.000 That's the reason why the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, all these countries that have very friendly relations with the Saudis have normalized relations with the Israelis already.

00:05:51.000 Saudi clearly wanted to do that.

00:05:53.000 I've seen public officials from Saudi Arabia directly talk about this.

00:05:56.000 What was the holdup?

00:05:56.000 The holdup is that Joe Biden basically pressures on the Saudis not to do it unless Israel made concessions to the Palestinians.

00:06:02.000 The Palestinians happen to be governed by terror groups.

00:06:06.000 The Palestinian Authority is a longtime terror group. 0.96

00:06:08.000 Islamic Jihad is an actual terror group. 0.89

00:06:10.000 Hamas is clearly a terror group backed by Iran. 0.71

00:06:13.000 Right now, Joe Biden's game with regard to the Saudis and the Israelis is to try to box Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, in by essentially offering the carrot of a Saudi peace deal and the stick that the Saudi peace deal will be removed unless Bibi Netanyahu makes overt concessions to a group of people who are likely to use all of those concessions as launching pads for terrorism.

00:06:32.000 According to Axios, Prime Minister Netanyahu is seeking a security agreement with the United States focused on deterring Iran in the context of that mega deal that the Biden administration is trying to reach with Saudi Arabia and Israel.

00:06:42.000 A formal agreement would give the U.S. 0.53

00:06:44.000 security guarantees to Israel at a time when Iran continues to advance its nuclear program.

00:06:49.000 But presumably, the thaw with Iran is just another way of attempting to pressure Bibi into taking some sort of deal with the Saudis that would amount to concessions to the Palestinians.

00:06:57.000 Now again, the Saudis don't care about that. 1.00

00:06:59.000 Realistically speaking, this idea that the Saudis are like desperately involved in Palestinian peace negotiations is nonsense.

00:07:04.000 They don't care.

00:07:05.000 The reality is that economics trumps everything right now in the Middle East because all of these kingdoms are dependent on prosperity for their people.

00:07:12.000 These are not democracies.

00:07:13.000 They do not have the democratic support of their people.

00:07:15.000 The reason that they get to stay in power is because they enrich their people through economic growth.

00:07:19.000 If the economic growth collapses, they also collapse.

00:07:21.000 They have a strong interest in creating economic ties with the strongest economic power in the region, which actually is Israel.

00:07:28.000 It's Biden that's standing in the way of all of that.

00:07:31.000 So we'll see how all of this develops and we'll keep an eye on it, obviously.

00:07:34.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest developments in the Hunter Biden case, where the House Oversight Committee is preparing to issue subpoenas to both Hunter and Joe first.

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00:08:44.000 Okay, so meanwhile, we have the House Oversight and Accountability Committee now announcing that they are going to subpoena the Biden family.

00:08:50.000 Here is James Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the head of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, who said this today.

00:08:57.000 Are you going to subpoena Hunter Biden?

00:08:59.000 They had Don Jr.

00:09:01.000 under oath during the Trump administration, and they asked him all sorts of questions about what we understood at the end of the day to be a lie about Russia collusion.

00:09:12.000 Yeah, this is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee.

00:09:17.000 We are going to subpoena the family.

00:09:19.000 I mean, we're putting the case together to win in court.

00:09:22.000 Obviously, with all the opposition and obstruction we're getting from the Biden attorneys now, we know that this is going to end up in court when we subpoena the Bidens.

00:09:31.000 So we're putting together a case, and I think we've done that very well.

00:09:35.000 Now, will they actually pay attention to the subpoena?

00:09:37.000 Probably not.

00:09:38.000 I mean, there are a bunch of people who have not in the past.

00:09:40.000 Obviously, Steve Bannon didn't pay attention to a subpoena.

00:09:42.000 He ended up in contempt.

00:09:43.000 Eric Holder, when he was Attorney General, didn't pay attention to a subpoena.

00:09:45.000 He ended up in contempt.

00:09:46.000 Now, being held in contempt by Congress at this point has very little consequence, but the fact that the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is now attempting to actually subpoena the Bidens means that this is getting more and more serious.

00:09:56.000 Comer says, we want to talk to three or four more associates first.

00:10:00.000 We've been communicating with a couple of them.

00:10:02.000 He says we're trying to bring them in like we did Devin Archer for Transcribed Interview.

00:10:04.000 If they don't come in voluntarily, they will, in fact, be subpoenaed.

00:10:07.000 He said it'll be very difficult to get information from Joe Biden through subpoenas because, of course, anytime you try to subpoena the President of the United States, the President tends to ignore all of that.

00:10:16.000 But Comer correctly points out, the thing that I've been pointing out for literally a couple of years at this point, Since the Hunter Biden laptop, the single most damning piece of information that we have with regard to how the money flowed in the Biden White House and with regard to Joe Biden as Vice President, Hunter Biden, all the rest of this, the single most damning piece of evidence is a text message sent from Hunter Biden to his daughter talking about how he paid half of his dad's bills.

00:10:40.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:10:42.000 Hunter and Joe could have commingled funds very easily.

00:10:45.000 Basically, Joe's defense here is that the money didn't formally enter my personal bank account, but if I pay for dinner with my father, Then he benefits.

00:10:52.000 And that happens, like, all the time.

00:10:53.000 I go out to dinner with my dad, and I'll pay for dinner.

00:10:56.000 So he benefits from my income.

00:10:57.000 Well, if Hunter is basically signing checks for all of Joe's expenses, obviously he benefited.

00:11:02.000 Here is James Comer saying that, um, the most damning piece of information is Hunter literally saying that he pays Joe's bills.

00:11:09.000 Why are they blocking us from more bank record, Rob?

00:11:12.000 If the president's done nothing wrong, then they should allow us to see their personal bank record.

00:11:17.000 I mean, you've seen the emails that showed that Hunter Biden was complaining to his daughter that he had to give half of his income to his father.

00:11:24.000 That's pretty damning evidence.

00:11:26.000 When his income, 100%, came from our adversaries around the world for influence peddling, for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

00:11:35.000 So, you know, he is right about all of that, obviously.

00:11:38.000 And the juxtaposition between the DOJ basically attempting to cut a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden and the DOJ simultaneously going after President Trump is going to have some pretty major ramifications for the 2024 race.

00:11:48.000 Representative Dan Musa, Republican of Pennsylvania, he points out the juxtaposition and how awkward it is for the Biden administration.

00:11:55.000 How do you see that in terms of this coincidence that something happens in terms of evidence coming out on Hunter Biden the next day, another attack on Donald Trump?

00:12:04.000 I think it's pretty obvious.

00:12:05.000 And the American people, I think, are waking up to it.

00:12:07.000 I mean, doing everything they can to suppress their own malfeance activities and hide their own accounts and to desperately try to keep the Biden family out of jail.

00:12:18.000 Meanwhile, they're completely focused on indicting that their number one opponent in a political Okay, well, he is right about that.

00:12:33.000 He also points out, of course, that Joe Biden has lied repeatedly during this entire debacle.

00:12:37.000 I mean, Joe Biden literally said that Hunter received no Chinese money.

00:12:40.000 He said that in an open debate in 2020, he said that he never benefited.

00:12:44.000 He said that Hunter really never benefited from even using his name.

00:12:47.000 He said he had nothing to do with Hunter's business.

00:12:49.000 All of these things were untrue. 0.89

00:12:50.000 Here is Representative Muser pointing out that Joe Biden is a liar.

00:12:54.000 But first, let's talk about these new findings from the House Oversight Committee. 0.71

00:12:57.000 How do you see all of this?

00:12:59.000 Well, it's pretty ugly.

00:13:00.000 It's pretty clear that Joe Biden lied.

00:13:04.000 And why did he lie?

00:13:05.000 Because he knew the business that was taking place.

00:13:08.000 He knew a lot about the business.

00:13:10.000 I mean, he informed his son that he was in the clear.

00:13:12.000 In the clear for what, Joe?

00:13:14.000 And why were you lying?

00:13:15.000 Because you, without pronouncing it, I mean, you must have known that there were some shady dealings taking place.

00:13:23.000 Okay, well, here is the thing.

00:13:25.000 The White House is immediately retreating to its final position in their Mott and Bailey argument.

00:13:30.000 Their Mott was, Joe Biden knows nothing about any of the businesses, and their Bailey is, you know, the thing they retreat to is, Joe Biden's just such a wonderful father, and they can't actually show that the money flowed directly to Joe.

00:13:39.000 Here is the White House spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, Ian Samskel.

00:13:42.000 Comer and his fellow extreme Republicans in Congress are now admitting they haven't uncovered any proof of involvement or wrongdoing by President Biden.

00:13:48.000 Well, I mean, they proved involvement.

00:13:50.000 Devin Archer literally testified to it.

00:13:52.000 They simply will continue to spread innuendo and lies as they pursue a baseless impeachment stunt to attack the president.

00:13:56.000 Well, I'm sorry to break it to you guys.

00:13:58.000 You opened this door.

00:13:59.000 It was you.

00:14:00.000 It was you.

00:14:01.000 You impeached President Trump, not once, but twice.

00:14:04.000 And you did so largely on the predicate that Donald Trump was a Russian agent, which was all innuendo and lies.

00:14:10.000 It was not true.

00:14:11.000 It was completely baseless.

00:14:13.000 You made his entire presidency about a giant lie pursued by the Mueller investigation.

00:14:17.000 And you trotted out congressperson after congressperson to say that the smoking gun was just behind the next door.

00:14:23.000 And it wasn't.

00:14:24.000 So congratulations. 1.00

00:14:25.000 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:14:27.000 I said it at the time, as soon as they impeached Trump the first time. 1.00

00:14:30.000 Every president from here on out is likely to be impeached.

00:14:32.000 As long as the House is of the opposing party, it is very likely that person is going to be impeached.

00:14:36.000 Now, in this case, it may well be deserved.

00:14:38.000 But even if it weren't, it doesn't matter because this is the way this is going to go.

00:14:41.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:14:42.000 If Joe Biden really starts to go down for this, if the evidence continues to mount, it's not too late for Democrats to get out.

00:14:48.000 That remains a very real possibility.

00:14:50.000 Elizabeth Warren is starting to show a little bit of a crack in the dam. 1.00

00:14:53.000 She's the senator from Massachusetts who used to have presidential aspirations of her own, and then it turned out she wasn't Native American. 1.00

00:15:00.000 Well, now Elizabeth Warren says she is worried about influence peddlers on all sides, which is an interesting answer.

00:15:07.000 People close to Joe Biden, or people close to Donald Trump, but I'm talking about Joe Biden, making tens of millions of dollars because of their closeness to him.

00:15:16.000 That can't be something that you like.

00:15:18.000 That can't be something that you're comfortable with as a phenomena.

00:15:24.000 Look, I always worry about the influence peddlers in Washington, regardless of party affiliation.

00:15:33.000 One of the things, as you know, I've spent a lot of my time in Congress working on is how we bring just more ethics and more oversight in general to everything that we do in government.

00:15:47.000 Look, we've got a United States Supreme Court.

00:15:51.000 Where people take gifts and don't even report them, even though the law requires them to report.

00:15:58.000 Yeah, we'll get to that in just a second, because the Democrats are now swiveling to Clark Clarence Thomas. 1.00

00:16:02.000 This is the way that this whole stupid game works. 0.98

00:16:05.000 So there she's starting to show a little bit of discomfort with defending Joe Biden. 1.00

00:16:08.000 As I say, if things start to get real bad for Joe, they could throw the old man overboard.

00:16:11.000 And unfortunately, he can't swim.

00:16:14.000 They don't care, but they're going to swivel over to Clarence Thomas.

00:16:16.000 That is their next predictable move.

00:16:18.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:17:09.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are attempting to swivel the corruption talk over to Clarence Thomas.

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00:17:21.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Democrats are attempting to swivel the corruption talk over to Clarence

00:17:26.000 Thomas. So ProPublica has basically been putting out ridiculous hit piece after ridiculous hit 0.89

00:17:30.000 piece about Clarence Thomas, the suggestion being that he is some sort of corrupt politician. 0.93

00:17:36.000 Clarence Thomas has a lot of friends who are very rich.

00:17:40.000 They take him on vacation.

00:17:41.000 Okay, now I've just got to point out here, this is not rare at all.

00:17:44.000 Like, it really is not rare.

00:17:45.000 People go on junkets all the time.

00:17:48.000 Unless there is some sort of connection that can be shown between the people who are basically taking Clarence Thomas on vacations with them, or letting him use their beach house, and an actual case of controversy in front of Clarence Thomas, this is not a corruption problem.

00:18:00.000 That's not the way this works.

00:18:01.000 See, here's the thing.

00:18:02.000 When Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, he was presiding over Ukraine policy.

00:18:06.000 Hunter Biden was put on the board of a Ukrainian company.

00:18:09.000 You can see the nexus.

00:18:11.000 Okay, when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, he had influence on China policy.

00:18:16.000 Certainly the Chinese thought so, which is presumably why they were wooing Hunter Biden.

00:18:19.000 You can see the nexus.

00:18:21.000 If, however, there is a Supreme Court justice And he has a rich friend, and his rich friend says, would you like to spend the night on my boat?

00:18:28.000 And the Supreme Court Justice goes and spends the night on the boat.

00:18:30.000 And the rich friend has no business before the court, never has had any business before the court, will not have any business before the court.

00:18:38.000 Where exactly is the corruption as opposed to, you know, somebody just going on vacation with a friend?

00:18:42.000 Well, ProPublica is not making that distinction.

00:18:43.000 They have an entire article today talking about how Clarence Thomas had 38 vacations Wow, 38.

00:18:51.000 Well, that sounds, you know, wild, except for we are talking over the course of 30 years.

00:18:55.000 Sounds like a vacation per year.

00:18:56.000 During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine.

00:19:01.000 Well, yeah, he's a Supreme Court Justice.

00:19:03.000 I mean, name a poor Supreme Court Justice.

00:19:06.000 Quick, go. 0.93

00:19:07.000 A cadre of industry titans and ultra-wealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into premium suites at sporting events, and sent their private jets to fetch him, including on more than one occasion in his hire, 737.

00:19:18.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out that as a person who traffics in economically elite circles, this sort of stuff is not uncommon.

00:19:26.000 Like, at all.

00:19:27.000 I've spent time in luxury sports suites, and I'm not a Supreme Court Justice.

00:19:32.000 I've traveled on private jets, and I'm not a Supreme Court Justice.

00:19:35.000 And unless they can prove some sort of actual corruption, even allege some actual corruption here, Clarence Thomas going to a sports game with a rich friend does not amount to corruption.

00:19:45.000 Like clockwork, Thomas's leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence.

00:19:51.000 Wait, you mean that his friends agree with him on politics?

00:19:53.000 That's crazy!

00:19:54.000 Hell, no.

00:19:56.000 Be still my beating heart, ProPublica.

00:19:59.000 But this, of course, is being used as an excuse to try and get rid of Clarence Thomas.

00:20:03.000 Because Clarence Thomas is the most influential justice of my lifetime.

00:20:08.000 He has been incredibly influential in a wide variety of ways.

00:20:10.000 It was Scalia, up until Scalia's untimely death, obviously.

00:20:14.000 But they're really just angry at Clarence Thomas because he's a conservative black man, and that you're not allowed to be.

00:20:18.000 An originalist black man on the Supreme Court, not allowed to do this. 0.95

00:20:22.000 The real animus here is about his politics, which is why a Supreme Court analyst for CNN, Joan Biskupic, is talking about Clarence Thomas controlling our lives, which is weird since he's one of nine justices.

00:20:32.000 Whose dime are they on?

00:20:34.000 Remember, they work for us.

00:20:35.000 The best part of being a Supreme Court Justice is they set the law of the land for all of us.

00:20:40.000 Clarence Thomas was one of only five votes that rolled back Roe v. Wade.

00:20:44.000 Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion expanding the Second Amendment and gun rights.

00:20:48.000 Clarence Thomas is controlling so much of our lives.

00:20:51.000 I think he should answer to the American public.

00:20:53.000 Okay, um, by answer to the American public, you can try impeaching him anytime you want.

00:20:57.000 You're just gonna have to find some actual criminal grounds, which you don't have at all.

00:21:00.000 But none of that matters.

00:21:00.000 Again, the way that this works is when Democrats go after a political opponent, you don't need an excuse.

00:21:04.000 You just do it.

00:21:05.000 When Republicans go after a political opponent, even if there is good evidence that the person is corrupt, we pretend it's not happening.

00:21:09.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:22:23.000 Okay, so.

00:22:25.000 Speaking of corruption that we're all going to ignore, apparently it's just okay now that the January 6th committee deleted all of its records.

00:22:32.000 Like, what the hell? 0.93

00:22:33.000 Is there any institution in America at this point that is not utterly incompetent and or corrupt? 0.95

00:22:37.000 According to Fox News, the House Select Committee that investigated the Capitol riot on January 6th failed to adequately preserve documents, data, and video depositions, including communications it had with the Biden White House that are still missing, according to the Republican lawmaker overseeing the GOP investigation into the committee's work.

00:22:51.000 This is nuts.

00:22:52.000 Okay, the J6 committee, the most highly touted congressional committee since the 9-11 commission.

00:22:58.000 This committee deleted all of its records.

00:23:01.000 Now, normally that wouldn't make a huge difference because presumably there are other records of, for example, the footage, right?

00:23:06.000 The police have...

00:23:07.000 That sort of footage.

00:23:08.000 The Senate has that sort of footage.

00:23:09.000 However, how about the communications with the White House?

00:23:12.000 What sort of coordination, political coordination, was going on between the J6 committee and the Biden White House?

00:23:18.000 What sort of political considerations were going into the questioning that was happening?

00:23:21.000 How much was the White House running the show?

00:23:23.000 The now disbanded J6 committee, which was run by Democrats and included only two GOP members, has also failed to provide any evidence.

00:23:29.000 It looked into Capitol Hill security failures the day of the riot, according to Representative Barry Loudermilk, Republican of Georgia.

00:23:33.000 He's chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration.

00:23:37.000 Loudermilk said his staff has had difficulty gathering all the information it needs to investigate Representative Bennie Thompson's handling of that J6 investigation.

00:23:44.000 He says, part of our task as this oversight subcommittee is to actually address the security failures.

00:23:49.000 Look into how did it happen?

00:23:50.000 How are these people able to get into the Capitol?

00:23:52.000 He said the documents they obtained came over in boxes, completely unorganized, no table of contents index, nothing of an index at all.

00:24:00.000 He says, and then we realized that there is really nothing there from the blue team at all.

00:24:03.000 That's the group within the J6 committee that was directed to investigate security failures at the Capitol.

00:24:07.000 So they ignored the actual part that would have mattered about J6 in terms of preventing a future J6.

00:24:11.000 Namely, why was there like zero cops at the Capitol building on a day where everyone knew that things were going to get ugly?

00:24:20.000 That's a real question.

00:24:21.000 Where were the security plans?

00:24:24.000 Why was it that a few hundred rioters could storm what should be one of the most secure buildings on the face of the earth on a day when the election for the president was being certified?

00:24:36.000 It still beggars the imagination.

00:24:38.000 I put aside whatever the evils of people breaking into the building were, and those were substantial if you're attacking cops, obviously.

00:24:43.000 But, like, why were there seven cops?

00:24:45.000 Where were Capitol Police?

00:24:47.000 Where was everyone?

00:24:48.000 Like, this is the thing Congress should be investigating, and apparently they didn't even bother.

00:24:52.000 According to Loudermilk.

00:24:54.000 He said the blue team was essentially shut down by the committee in order to focus on placing blame on Trump.

00:24:58.000 He said we've got lots of depositions, we've got lots of subpoenas, we've got video, other documents provided through subpoenas by individuals.

00:25:03.000 We're not seeing anything from the blue team as far as reports on the investigation they did looking into the actual breach itself.

00:25:09.000 We also didn't have any videos of all the depositions.

00:25:12.000 That's an amazing, amazing thing.

00:25:13.000 So they destroyed, presumably, whatever records they had or they're just not turning any of that stuff over there.

00:25:20.000 Loudermilk said he came across a letter that was not turned over to his committee from Thompson to White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber and the DHS discussing an agreement made between the J6 committee and the executive branch to interview personnel whose names were later redacted.

00:25:33.000 So, apparently the J6 committee knew certain staffers at the White House and those staffers testified and then they just refused to turn any of that stuff over.

00:25:42.000 So this is really dicey sort of stuff.

00:25:45.000 If you're a fan of transparency, you should be pretty upset about all of this.

00:25:50.000 President Trump, for his part, was upset about all this.

00:25:52.000 Here was President Trump today about it.

00:25:55.000 I totally dispute that election.

00:25:57.000 I think it's ridiculous what happened.

00:25:59.000 And that they allowed that to happen.

00:26:00.000 And that the media doesn't want anybody to talk about it.

00:26:03.000 But now we can.

00:26:04.000 And we did something yesterday.

00:26:06.000 You know, now that we have the subpoena power, because we now have subpoena power, all of a sudden the J6 committee, the unselects I call them, everything was deleted and destroyed.

00:26:15.000 The documents.

00:26:16.000 Everything was deleted and destroyed.

00:26:19.000 That's a criminal act.

00:26:20.000 It is insane.

00:26:21.000 It is a really, really crazy thing.

00:26:23.000 For sure.

00:26:24.000 For sure.

00:26:24.000 Okay, meanwhile, we are now learning that the prosecution, Jack Smith, going up against Donald Trump, actually sought and obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account.

00:26:36.000 What they wanted were drafts of his tweets, apparently.

00:26:39.000 According to Politico, Jack Smith did obtain a search warrant for Trump's Twitter account earlier this year.

00:26:44.000 Twitter's initial resistance to complying with the January 17th warrant resulted in a federal judge holding the company in contempt and levying a $350,000 fine.

00:26:51.000 A federal court of appeals upheld that fine last month in a sealed opinion.

00:26:54.000 On Wednesday, the court unsealed a redacted version of that opinion, revealing details of the secret court battle for the first time.

00:27:00.000 What exactly was Smith seeking from Trump's account?

00:27:02.000 Apparently, he was looking for drafts of the tweets.

00:27:06.000 Obtaining data from Twitter might have revealed patterns about Trump's use of the account, whether others had access to it, and whether there were any draft statements that were unsent.

00:27:11.000 Now, that's really weird, right?

00:27:14.000 I mean, like, what would be in the draft statements that would be of relevance to Jack Smith?

00:27:19.000 Like, Trump was going to send a draft saying, I know the election was lost by me, but riot anyway.

00:27:23.000 Like, that was going to be in the draft statements or something?

00:27:27.000 By the way, the fact that he didn't send it would be a pretty quick and obvious defense to anything that might be found in the drafts anyway.

00:27:34.000 Twitter complained that the order violated the First Amendment.

00:27:36.000 The U.S.

00:27:37.000 District Court judge said no and forced Twitter to turn over the records.

00:27:42.000 By the way, one of the things about this particular attempt to obtain Trump's Twitter records is that one of the federal judges who was overseeing the prosecution apparently suggested in a footnote that they had reason to believe that Trump would, quote, flee from prosecution So the same district court judge was saying they need to check his Twitter account was also saying that they thought that Trump might actually abscond, like leave, like free, he's one of, he is literally the most famous person on the planet.

00:28:16.000 Where would he flee to?

00:28:18.000 What evidence could you suggest that would suggest that Donald Trump is going to flee prosecution here?

00:28:23.000 I mean, again, more and more, this case looks like just a kangaroo court.

00:28:28.000 It's really absurd.

00:28:29.000 Meanwhile, you have members of the media who are very excited about the fact that Donald Trump's Twitter history is going to be searched, including his drafts.

00:28:35.000 Here is a reporter from Reuters, Jeff Mason, saying there's got to be tons there in Trump's Twitter drafts.

00:28:41.000 There are a lot more things that could be in those records that we wouldn't see publicly.

00:28:46.000 Drafts, and I know from my reporting covering him the entire time he was in the White House, they would draft tweets, he would say tweets, he would give tweet ideas to his staff and they would put them together.

00:28:57.000 So there's got to be a wealth of knowledge there alone.

00:28:59.000 There are direct messages, a bunch of stuff like that that could be useful.

00:29:05.000 Okay, well, just because you think a thing is useful, maybe.

00:29:08.000 That's called a fishing expedition, and it's pretty absurd that it's come this far.

00:29:11.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is not going to participate in the first debate, you would imagine.

00:29:15.000 He says he's not going to sign any sort of RNC loyalty pledge ahead of the first debate.

00:29:18.000 The RNC has said that everyone does have to sign a pledge that they will vote for whoever the Republican candidate is and support that Republican candidate.

00:29:24.000 Trump said, I'm not signing the pledge.

00:29:26.000 Why would I sign a pledge if there are people on there I wouldn't have?

00:29:29.000 He told Eric Bolling he could name three or four of the GOP challengers he would not support for president.

00:29:34.000 And he specifically criticized Chris Christie, which you can see, and Asa Hutchinson. 0.96

00:29:39.000 And then he added, of course, Ron DeSantis, because that's the way this dumb nonsense works. 0.95

00:29:43.000 But bottom line is that the idea that he was ever going to participate in the debate, I think, is foolhardy. 0.91

00:29:48.000 He's up a lot in the polls.

00:29:50.000 There's not a lot of logic suggesting that he needs to jump into the debate for any particular reason.

00:29:56.000 I will say that's going to be used against him by Joe Biden.

00:29:58.000 So all the people who are voting for Trump in the hopes that there will be a Biden-Trump debate, I'm predicting it right now.

00:30:03.000 There will be no Trump-Biden debate.

00:30:04.000 It's not going to happen.

00:30:05.000 Joe Biden will not debate President Trump.

00:30:07.000 He's not going to do it. 0.66

00:30:08.000 Joe Biden is simply going to say, I don't debate, I don't debate insurrectionism, convicted rapists.

00:30:15.000 And then the media will go, what a hero.

00:30:17.000 What a hero that Joe Biden.

00:30:19.000 And Joe Biden will say, and then they'll all cheer.

00:30:22.000 And the lights will slowly dim as the music rises. 0.99

00:30:26.000 That's the way this idiocy is going to go. 0.98

00:30:29.000 Now, what does that mean for the rest of the Republican field? 0.99

00:30:31.000 Well, basically, it means it's a grab pot.

00:30:34.000 It means they're all going to be in that pot together, clawing each other down in the middle of that debate.

00:30:37.000 Presumably, Ron DeSantis will be the chief target of all the other candidates on the stage.

00:30:41.000 And Trump's just going to sit out here enjoying himself, which, again, is, in fact, the smart strategy.

00:30:47.000 OK, in just one second, we are going to get to Rand Paul going after Anthony Fauci, referring him, actually, for prosecution.

00:30:53.000 We'll get to that in just one second first.

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00:31:57.000 Also, Candace Owens has now wrapped the 10-part series, Convicting a Murderer.

00:32:00.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:32:01.000 It's one of our most ambitious projects yet here at Daily Wire+.

00:32:04.000 You might think you're familiar with the Stephen Avery case and everything that happened in Manitoba County.

00:32:09.000 This is especially true if you watch Making a Murderer on Netflix, but it turns out the filmmaker is kind of fibbed.

00:32:13.000 Coming soon, Candace Owens will unveil the shocking parts of every story that were omitted in the Netflix series.

00:32:18.000 We are excited to present Convicting a Murderer, the trailer.

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00:32:21.000 This is a collect call from an inmate at the Calumet County Jail.

00:32:27.000 The man served 18 years in prison until DNA evidence cleared his name.

00:32:30.000 The Two Rivers man was convicted of sexual assault in 1985, but exonerated with DNA evidence in 2003.

00:32:38.000 So this is the infamous Avery lot.

00:32:42.000 Now, two years later, he again finds himself tied to a police investigation.

00:32:47.000 Accused of murdering Teresa Hallbuck on the Avery property.

00:32:50.000 Stephen Avery's 16-year-old nephew admitted his involvement in the rape and murder of Teresa Hallbuck.

00:32:56.000 The car is discovered just around the bend.

00:33:00.000 It was just this worldwide phenomenon.

00:33:02.000 I think they framed this guy.

00:33:03.000 I think he intended to crush the vehicle, but ran out of time.

00:33:07.000 Avery thinks the 36 million dollar lawsuit he filed is why he's being targeted in this investigation.

00:33:12.000 Netflix made millions of dollars from making a murderer.

00:33:23.000 But the filmmakers left out very important details.

00:33:26.000 Mountains of evidence that you have not yet seen.

00:33:28.000 The blood vial.

00:33:29.000 The most egregious manipulation from the movie.

00:33:32.000 Interrogations.

00:33:33.000 That's when he started beating me because I told him that he's sick.

00:33:37.000 Cell phones.

00:33:37.000 And I saw melted plastic parts of a cell phone.

00:33:40.000 Interviews.

00:33:40.000 Her arms were pinned behind her head.

00:33:42.000 They made Steven Avery look like a victim.

00:33:44.000 Do you believe your brother is guilty?

00:33:46.000 I don't know if I'm a suspect.

00:33:47.000 I'm getting sick and tired of media deception.

00:33:57.000 Evidence piling up.

00:33:59.000 Why would they omit so many different things?

00:34:01.000 Why are you editing my testimony?

00:34:05.000 I am not going to make the same mistake that the filmmakers did.

00:34:10.000 Rearranging the testimony.

00:34:12.000 They delete a portion of it at the end.

00:34:14.000 How could they claim to care about the truth?

00:34:16.000 They all know that Stephen Avery committed this crime.

00:34:19.000 911, what is your emergency?

00:34:25.000 The evidence forces me to conclude that you are the most dangerous individual ever

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00:34:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, Rand Paul is now referring Anthony Fauci to the DOJ.

00:34:53.000 He is suggesting that Anthony Fauci actually committed perjury before Congress when he suggested that he was not involved in gain-of-function research.

00:35:01.000 Here's Rand Paul going after it.

00:35:04.000 What would turn the tables for you?

00:35:06.000 What evidence do you have?

00:35:09.000 Well, you know, I don't think there's ever been a clearer case of perjury in the history of government testimony.

00:35:14.000 And I don't say that lightly.

00:35:15.000 He said adamantly that the government never funded this gain-of-function research.

00:35:20.000 We now have the Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has admitted that the funding came from the NIH.

00:35:27.000 We have the acting director, Tabak, of the NIH admitting it in writing that it came from the NIH.

00:35:32.000 But now we have really the smoking gun, and that is Fauci in private saying the opposite of what he was saying in public.

00:35:39.000 I mean, that is right.

00:35:41.000 So Anthony Fauci, as it turns out, was saying the opposite in private.

00:35:45.000 The Free Press has a fantastic piece by David Zweig about this.

00:35:48.000 On April 17, 2020, with much of the country still in some form of lockdown and news of overwhelmed hospitals dominating the headlines, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then a member of the President's Coronavirus Task Force, was asked a question toward the end of a White House press briefing.

00:35:59.000 Was there a possibility the novel virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China?

00:36:03.000 There was a study recently, Fauci said, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at sequences there, and sequences in bats as they evolve, and the mutations it took to get where it is now is totally consistent with jump of a species from an animal to a human, so it wasn't from a lab.

00:36:16.000 Fauci maintained this for a very, very long time.

00:36:19.000 But, Fauci had an incentive to arrive at that conclusion, because the Wuhan Institute of Virology was known for doing high-risk virology research, studying and manipulating coronaviruses, and Fauci had funded such research at the WIV.

00:36:31.000 Last month, a trove of explosive emails and other documents were released by the House Select Subcommittee on COVID.

00:36:37.000 These revealed evidence of Fauci's and other officials' behind-the-scenes involvement with scientists and journalists demonstrating their efforts to quash the lab leak theory entirely.

00:36:45.000 The recently disclosed private communications first reported by Public and Racket lay bare that the highly qualified authors of that paper actually had extensive uncertainty about the virus being the result of a natural event at all.

00:36:56.000 Apparently, a month just before that paper was published, Christian Anderson, one of the paper's authors,

00:37:01.000 wrote a Slack message to his colleagues saying, quote, the lab escape version of this

00:37:04.000 is so frigging likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work

00:37:07.000 and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.

00:37:11.000 And then another co-author wrote on Slack, quote, it's not crackpot to suggest this could have happened

00:37:15.000 given the gain of function research we know is happening.

00:37:18.000 So Fauci then intervened and he basically got them to write a paper saying that it was very unlikely.

00:37:23.000 And then he went and he lied and said he hadn't funded gain of function research in the first place.

00:37:26.000 And he tried to redefine gain of function research to mean gain of function within a species,

00:37:31.000 not cross species.

00:37:33.000 Thank you.

00:37:34.000 So, should he be tried for perjury on this one?

00:37:36.000 I mean, it's pretty obvious that he should.

00:37:40.000 Is Merrick Garland's DOJ going to take that one up?

00:37:42.000 Yeah, no, they're too busy going after everything that Donald Trump does, obviously.

00:37:46.000 Meanwhile, the left, which it turns out was wrong on so many aspects of COVID, they just keep doubling down and creating fantasy scenarios where control is justified.

00:37:55.000 So, Sam Harris, a person with whom I've been friendly, and I've had him on my show, he's had me on his show, it's been a little while since we talked.

00:38:03.000 Sam Harris did an interview that's gone viral, in which he talks about government control.

00:38:07.000 And in order for him to justify government control during the pandemic, he basically had to make the case that if COVID had been capable of killing everybody on Earth, we would have been okay with government force.

00:38:18.000 Well, I mean, maybe?

00:38:22.000 But also, that wasn't the case.

00:38:24.000 So I failed to... Yes, and if aliens were attacking Earth, then martial law might be necessary.

00:38:28.000 I don't understand what that has to do with the price of tea in China, as they say.

00:38:31.000 Here is Sam Harris.

00:38:33.000 You know, but dial up the deadliness of the pathogen, you know.

00:38:38.000 Give us something like, you know, airborne Ebola that incubates for a month.

00:38:44.000 You don't know you have it and you walk around spreading it and it's got, you know, a 75% fatality rate and it's mostly killing kids.

00:38:52.000 No one gets to make that choice anymore.

00:38:54.000 I mean, then literally the cops come in and vaccinate you and I would say that all of us would agree to that.

00:39:03.000 The moment, again, that you turn up the lethality on the pathogen, you turn up the effectiveness of the vaccine, you turn down the risk of the vaccine.

00:39:14.000 Give me a truly safe vaccine where there's not even one documented case of vaccine injury, right?

00:39:21.000 So then you just have to be completely crazy to be worried about being vaccinated in that kind of

00:39:28.000 environment, then it's just a no-brainer.

00:39:31.000 Then we just don't tolerate a diversity of opinion because the stakes are too high. It's

00:39:37.000 a full-on emergency. Bodies of kids are being stacked up in parks, right?

00:39:43.000 There's so many of them, we don't know what to do with them.

00:39:45.000 We've got these mobile morgues, and we have a vaccine that actually works, and then we've got RFK Jr.

00:39:50.000 saying, you know, maybe you don't want to get the jab on Rogan's podcast, right?

00:39:57.000 That's the world I've been worried about ever since COVID.

00:40:02.000 Well, I mean, so I assume the argument that he's actually making here, to sort of steel man his argument, is that he's worried that vaccine skepticism is going to mean that if we ever do get a virus like this, then the reaction is going to be a lot of skepticism.

00:40:16.000 But number one, that's the fault of the institutions.

00:40:18.000 And to be fair, it's the fault of people like Sam Harris, who were promoting a lot of government interventionism along these lines.

00:40:27.000 The reality is that if you looked at the stats, what you saw is that wherever the virus got incredibly prevalent, people actually voluntarily took the vaccine more during those time periods than when the virus was not prevalent, which is precisely what you would expect.

00:40:41.000 Same thing with masks.

00:40:42.000 People, in other words, take prophylactic measures as they see fit in order to prevent themselves from getting really severe versions of the virus.

00:40:49.000 This is why elderly people took the vaccine at a far higher rate than people who are 20.

00:40:54.000 And that should have been the case, by the way.

00:40:56.000 But, I mean, of course, if we're talking about airborne Ebola killing 75% of people that it touched, and mostly killing kids, I mean, I wouldn't hesitate to get a vax at that point, would you?

00:41:05.000 Like, why would anybody?

00:41:08.000 And yes, I mean, a full-blown emergency is different.

00:41:11.000 That is the whole point.

00:41:11.000 The point here is that the government treated this as a full-blown emergency for three long years in many places in the United States and across the world.

00:41:20.000 When it wasn't.

00:41:21.000 So I don't understand how the government's failures here are somehow justified by a completely speculative hypothetical scenario.

00:41:29.000 I mean, I can make those up too.

00:41:31.000 It's very easy to make those up.

00:41:32.000 What if the government lied that there was no COVID at all?

00:41:35.000 Wouldn't that justify no government interventionism and suggest that they were actually lying to you?

00:41:38.000 I mean, there are hypotheticals all across the board.

00:41:41.000 It's not hard to do a hypothetical.

00:41:42.000 I'm just confused as to why Sam Harris thinks that justifies what the government did here.

00:41:46.000 Okay, meanwhile, In what has been a bizarrely hilarious and yet controversial case.

00:41:53.000 Something happened the other day in Montgomery, Alabama that is now being called the Alabama Tea Party Brawl.

00:42:02.000 Or the Alabama Sweet Tea Party, I have seen.

00:42:05.000 So apparently what happened is that it was a Saturday evening on Montgomery's riverfront and a black riverboat co-captain was attacked by a group of white people as other black people rushed to his defense.

00:42:19.000 Here is a video of what exactly happened.

00:42:20.000 This is a riverboat captain trying to park his riverboat here.

00:42:25.000 Somebody comes to him and actually hits him. 0.98

00:42:27.000 A white guy is coming and hitting the black guy. 0.99

00:42:29.000 The black guy throws his hat. 0.99

00:42:31.000 Presumably saying that he wants to go.

00:42:33.000 And these other white people are walking alongside the white guy, and they're trying to pull the black guy off, and then other white people run in and tackle the black guy, at which point a bunch of nearby black people, they got the hat signal, and they run in to intervene.

00:42:49.000 One black guy jumps in the water and swims across the The reason this was treated with some humor is because everyone understood that the white guys here were actually doing the wrong thing.

00:43:11.000 They were the ones who arrested.

00:43:13.000 And nobody actually got, you know, seriously injured in all of this.

00:43:16.000 As of Tuesday, warrants were issued against three men who were on the pontoon boat.

00:43:21.000 Richard Roberts, 48, two counts of third-degree assault.

00:43:23.000 Alan Todd, 23, one count of third-degree assault.

00:43:25.000 And Zachary Chase Sims-Shipman, 25, one count of third-degree assault.

00:43:29.000 All are misdemeanors.

00:43:30.000 The three charged were white men on board a pontoon boat that prevented the riverboat from docking for nearly an hour. 0.99

00:43:34.000 So it sounds like they were being jerks. 0.98

00:43:36.000 Here was the Montgomery police chief announcing the prosecutions. 0.99

00:43:42.000 The police department didn't have the luxury of the videos that we all have seen now.

00:43:46.000 Now that we have more information, again, more charges are pending.

00:43:51.000 The videos certainly paint a vivid picture.

00:43:53.000 After the initial altercation, members of the crew and community jumping in to defend the riverboat's co-captain, Damien Pickett.

00:44:01.000 As you can see from this new footage, the fight quickly escalates.

00:44:04.000 At one point, a man even swinging a folding chair.

00:44:07.000 WWE got it.

00:44:08.000 In police custody this morning, Richard Roberts, two other men, Alan Todd and Zachary Shipman

00:44:13.000 are expected to turn themselves in.

00:44:15.000 All of them facing misdemeanor assault charges.

00:44:18.000 Okay, so this is a bizarre story with a happy ending.

00:44:23.000 It seems like the people who are engaging in assault are going to jail.

00:44:27.000 Now, the police say this is not racially motivated, so maybe it's just a bunch of drunk people being drunk and attacking other people.

00:44:33.000 But the media can quickly turn this into a racial story, so that's what Charles Blow is doing over at the New York Times.

00:44:38.000 He says, the Alabama Sweet Tea Party, that was one nickname people gave to a brawl this past Saturday on Montgomery, Alabama Riverfront Dock, captured in viral videos after a group of white people attacked Damien Pickett.

00:44:47.000 In some obvious ways, the whole episode is sad.

00:44:49.000 The situation should never have descended into violence.

00:44:51.000 The people who were asked to move their boat so the riverboat could dock should have simply complied.

00:44:54.000 But in other ways, many black people in particular saw it as an unfortunate but practically unavoidable response to what can feel like an unending stream of incidents in which black people are publicly victimized with no one willing or able to intervene or render aid.

00:45:06.000 Black people coming to the defense of that black man wasn't just a specific thing that happened at one time and place.

00:45:10.000 It was also a departure in some ways from the most memorable images in a history that centuries of black targeted brutality which traces the journey of black people in this land that became the United States. 0.99

00:45:18.000 So leave it to Charles Blow to turn this into a referendum on all of America's racial history as opposed to some drunk jackasses attacking a black guy and getting their asses kicked for the benefit and going to jail. 0.98

00:45:29.000 By the way, would Charles Blow be writing the reverse if this had been a group of black people attacking a white riverboat captain? 0.99

00:45:35.000 I have serious, serious doubts that there'd be anything like this level of societal analysis from Charles Blow. 0.99

00:45:40.000 Sometimes, dumb people and criminals and bad people do bad, dumb, criminal things. 0.96

00:45:45.000 And the race isn't actually the main issue in all this, which is why, again, white people and black people were mainly happy that the perpetrators were arrested regardless of race. 0.98

00:45:55.000 Okay, time for some quick things I like.

00:45:57.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:59.000 Again, there's something amusing about the immigration policy pursued by Democrats coming home to roost.

00:46:03.000 New York Mayor Eric Adams, you know, he's one of the people who's like, we need a sanctuary city here.

00:46:07.000 Haven't you ever seen the statute of liberty?

00:46:10.000 And the poem on the side about, you know, the huddled masses yearning to be free?

00:46:14.000 Well, now he's like, guys, can you please declare a state of emergency here in New York?

00:46:18.000 Like, please, please, please?

00:46:20.000 He doesn't say Joe Biden's name here, because he wouldn't want to do that, even though it's Joe Biden's fault.

00:46:23.000 Here was Eric Adams acknowledging the obvious, which is illegal immigration is overwhelming a lot of cities.

00:46:29.000 The immigration system in this nation is broken. 0.80

00:46:34.000 It has been broken for decades.

00:46:36.000 We're also asking the federal government to declare a state of emergency.

00:46:41.000 This will allow federal funds to be allocated quickly to help address the urgent challenges we face.

00:46:48.000 Even Chuck Todd over on MSNBC was like, oh, well, I guess that Greg Abbott was right when he said that the Democrats were going to turn on each other over illegal immigration.

00:46:56.000 New York City's growing humanitarian crisis, the shelter system slammed by an influx of migrants.

00:47:04.000 New calls for federal help.

00:47:05.000 I guess Greg Abbott was right.

00:47:08.000 He said once he got blue cities to deal with this, that they would be very upset at the federal government.

00:47:15.000 Oh, that's sad.

00:47:16.000 Oh, that's sad.

00:47:16.000 You mean the blue cities have to deal with the actual consequences of bad blue policy?

00:47:21.000 Oh, how tragic.

00:47:23.000 How sad.

00:47:24.000 Alrighty, guys.

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00:47:26.000 We'll be joined on the line by Riley Gaines.

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