The Ben Shapiro Show - April 05, 2024


Biden Brings Us To The Brink Of World War III…TWICE

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Learn English with Joe Biden. Former Vice President Joe Biden has been an imbecile on foreign policy his entire career. And now he s in charge of the United States government, and he s putting us on the brink of World War III in not one area, but TWO areas, in one day. That s how smart this guy is. And it s amazing that the left in this country has decided that it s worth it to go nuclear war over Ukraine, in order to know, like, for what? What is it worth it, you ask? And the answer to that question might surprise you: it s a nuclear war. Joe Biden is a smart guy, but he has absolutely no idea what he s talking about, and no clue what he's talking about. And that's what makes him such a dumbass, and it s no surprise that he doesn t have a clue about anything important, like what s going on in Ukraine, or about the Ukraine crisis, or what s happening in the Donbass, or how to deal with the situation in Ukraine. and why it s so important that we should all be prepared for nuclear war, and why we should be prepared to go to nuclear war if it s really that bad, and how to get ready for it in this episode of the Daily Show with John McCain. Subscribe to his new podcast, The Daily Show With John McCain, wherever you get your tickets to his next show. Learn more about John McCain's new book, "The Dark Side of the Hill: How to Think Like John McCain: What's Yours Truly, Not His Most Influential Book, by John McCain? by clicking here. or listen to his podcast on Audible.co/John McCain's New York Times bestselling book, The Dark Side Of It? Subscribe and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts by clicking the RSS feed Subscribe to John s newest book review and review it on iTunes or wherever else you re listening to his book recommendations are available. Subscribe and review John s new book recommendations? or become a friend on Podchronicity by John s Book Recommendations? by searching for John s New Book Review? and more! Subscribe on Podcoin? if you re looking for a copy of his new novel, John s Wordsworth's newest novel, "Noah's New Book is Good at It's Good, Good at it's Good by Goodbyes?

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00:00:00.000 Deep stupidity has consequences in the real world. 1.00
00:00:03.000 That is particularly true in the realm of foreign policy. 1.00
00:00:07.000 In domestic policy, you can be pretty stupid, but we have some pretty solid checks and balances constitutionally from the local and state levels all the way on up to the federal government. 1.00
00:00:14.000 Stupidity very often can be somewhat mitigated. 1.00
00:00:18.000 by these structures. But when it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States 1.00
00:00:21.000 has effectively plenary power. He has extraordinary powers over foreign policy.
00:00:25.000 And that means that the stupidity of a president of the United States can put people in the United 1.00
00:00:29.000 States and our allies in danger of being killed because the president is a dullard. The president 1.00
00:00:34.000 is an imbecile. Well, when you have a senile imbecile in charge of the United States government, 1.00
00:00:39.000 Joe Biden is not just senile. 1.00
00:00:41.000 He is, in fact, an imbecile. 1.00
00:00:42.000 He's been an imbecile on foreign policy literally his entire career. 1.00
00:00:45.000 Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama, said that Joe Biden had not been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career. 0.99
00:00:52.000 That pattern maintained yesterday.
00:00:54.000 First of all, Joe Biden is no longer with us.
00:00:56.000 But even if he were with us, that would not be much of a comfort.
00:00:59.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday.
00:01:01.000 Getting confused about teleprompters, again, this is the person who is in charge of America's national security, and he has put us on the brink of World War III, in not one area, but two, in one day.
00:01:11.000 That's how smart this guy is.
00:01:13.000 Here we go.
00:01:15.000 I got into Wilmington, and one of the... Please move all that back, by the way.
00:01:22.000 One of the things that I learned early on... All that back is the teleprompter.
00:01:27.000 Okay, so this person is no longer... Forget about the senility, though.
00:01:30.000 This is a deeply unprincipled human being. 0.98
00:01:33.000 Joe Biden, when it comes to foreign policy, does not have a damned clue. 0.97
00:01:37.000 He blows with the wind. 0.90
00:01:38.000 Wherever is the center of the Democratic Party or the center of gravity in the Democratic Party at any given time, that is where he is.
00:01:45.000 And it turns out that the center of the Democratic Party is the editorial board at the New York Times and all of their followers.
00:01:51.000 The center of the Democratic Party is the absolute dullards over on MSNBC. 1.00
00:01:56.000 The center of the Democratic Party is all the TikTok generation kids with the purple hair. 1.00
00:02:00.000 Those are the people that Joe Biden is following.
00:02:03.000 And so that means that he has now put us, as I say, in danger of World War III in two separate arenas on the planet Earth at the same time.
00:02:11.000 So we begin with Ukraine.
00:02:14.000 So thanks to the bizarre and peculiar and insane theory that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 because Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump elected and therefore manipulated all of the voting and paid people off and all this.
00:02:26.000 Because of that, Democrats have decided that Russia is the worst threat on the planet.
00:02:32.000 Not just a threat to Ukraine, with which I agree, but a deep and abiding threat sufficient that the entire left is unified against Russia, which is weird because back in 2012, which was not all that long before 2016, Mitt Romney was saying that.
00:02:43.000 And Democrats like Barack Obama were suggesting that Mitt Romney needed to call the 1980s and tell them that he had their foreign policy or some such nonsense.
00:02:53.000 By 2017, Democrats had decided that Russia was indeed the greatest threat to America.
00:02:58.000 But not just a great threat, that required an actual counter.
00:03:02.000 A point with which I agree.
00:03:03.000 Russia is a powerful geopolitical enemy of the United States.
00:03:07.000 Vladimir Putin is a canny chess player.
00:03:09.000 He also happens to be at the head of a country that is willing to undergo significant physical and military sacrifice on behalf of territorial gain that's been true for centuries in Russia. 0.63
00:03:17.000 All of that is true.
00:03:19.000 But what's amazing is that the left in this country has decided that it is worth going to possible nuclear war over Ukraine.
00:03:27.000 Not to maintain the current borders of Ukraine, but it is worth it to go nuclear war in order to, you know, like, for what? 0.98
00:03:35.000 So yesterday, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State for the President of the United States, He maintained two positions.
00:03:43.000 One is understandable.
00:03:45.000 That is increased aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression in the Donbass and Crimea.
00:03:48.000 The other is totally crazy.
00:03:51.000 So here he was calling for more aid to Ukraine in the face of the West's slow-walking aid to Ukraine in the first place.
00:03:59.000 So more than ever, we have genuine burden sharing among the allies, and in the 30 or so years that I've been engaged in these issues, this is probably the best example of burden sharing that I've seen.
00:04:12.000 The United States has made tremendous contributions ourselves, but It is imperative that Congress pass the supplementary budget request that President Biden has made.
00:04:24.000 I know that Speaker Johnson committed to bring the supplemental to a vote swiftly.
00:04:28.000 The message from Brussels is clear.
00:04:30.000 That vote cannot happen soon enough.
00:04:35.000 Okay, so that's sustainable.
00:04:37.000 That's understandable.
00:04:38.000 Here's the part where you go crazy.
00:04:40.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:05:42.000 So Tony Blinken yesterday said Ukraine needs to join NATO.
00:05:47.000 Now what is the timeline for that?
00:05:48.000 How does that timeline look?
00:05:49.000 It's been the position of the United States and many of the NATO allies that eventually at some point Ukraine would join NATO.
00:05:55.000 But the way that Antony Blinken articulated this yesterday, he's making it sound like he wants NATO to accept Ukraine today.
00:06:02.000 Here was the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday.
00:06:04.000 Because again, Ukraine isn't just a country that the United States has an interest in not seeing fall to the Russians.
00:06:09.000 Again, a proposition with which I agree.
00:06:12.000 Apparently, it is worth going to nuclear war or threatening nuclear war to stop the current stalemate that has now engulfed the borders of Ukraine.
00:06:24.000 The determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid.
00:06:32.000 We will do everything that we can.
00:06:36.000 Allies will do everything that they can to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine.
00:06:44.000 An aggression that's worse.
00:06:47.000 Okay, so Ukraine will become a member of NATO.
00:06:52.000 of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership
00:06:59.000 and to create a clear pathway for for Ukraine moving forward.
00:07:05.000 OK, so Ukraine will become a member of NATO. If he means like today or any time
00:07:12.000 while this conflict is ongoing, understand if Ukraine became a member of NATO,
00:07:17.000 literally that day, the United States would be in a shooting war with Russia.
00:07:21.000 Because if you allow Ukraine to join NATO in the middle of the war, then this is no longer a proxy war in which you are funding the Ukrainians.
00:07:28.000 At that point, Ukraine declares that Article 5 has been invoked and all the NATO allies join in the war on Russia.
00:07:36.000 And now you are a direct war with a nuclear armed power.
00:07:39.000 Does this sound like intelligent policy to you?
00:07:41.000 It's absolutely nonsensical.
00:07:44.000 Again, the policy of the United States with regard to Ukraine, a policy that I support, is fund Ukraine necessary to preserve its independent existence from Russia, while understanding that the chances that they are going to defeat Russia in Crimea or the Donbass region are extremely low, and then look for an off-ramp.
00:08:00.000 This has been my position since very early on in the war.
00:08:04.000 Vladimir Putin may not be looking for an off-ramp.
00:08:06.000 That means you have to continue to fund Ukraine sufficient to push Putin to look for an off-ramp. 0.60
00:08:10.000 But when you say Ukraine will join NATO, understand that if that were to be effectuated today, you would be in a shooting war with a nuclear-armed superpower.
00:08:19.000 So, does that seem like intelligent policy?
00:08:21.000 Doesn't seem like intelligent policy to me.
00:08:23.000 But if you thought that that was the worst threat of World War III that the Biden administration would create yesterday, you are wrong.
00:08:30.000 The worst threat of World War III that the Biden administration created yesterday is the threat that they created in the Middle East.
00:08:36.000 So, the Biden administration has decided to completely outsource its foreign policy in the Middle East to Dearborn, Michigan, pro-Hamas activists on college campuses, and the editorial board of the New York Times.
00:08:46.000 Those are the people who are currently running the foreign policy of the Biden administration in the Middle East.
00:08:51.000 So, lest we forget, on October 6th, there was no war between Israel and Hamas.
00:08:56.000 On October 7th, Hamas crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and murdered everybody in a several-mile radius.
00:09:05.000 1,200 civilians dead, 250 people taken back into Gaza and held as hostage.
00:09:10.000 And today, there are over 100 people who are being held as hostages by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:09:16.000 Including five American citizens.
00:09:18.000 That is happening right now, as we speak.
00:09:21.000 And the Biden administration initially took the position that Israel had a right not only to defend itself, but to destroy and defeat Hamas.
00:09:28.000 This was their original position.
00:09:31.000 In fact, if you go all the way back to October 24th of 2023, the White House was openly stating that a ceasefire would be in Hamas' interest.
00:09:40.000 that Hamas wanted a ceasefire.
00:09:42.000 Here is the White House.
00:09:44.000 This is again, October 24th, 2023, saying a ceasefire only helps Hamas.
00:09:48.000 All I can tell you is we're going to continue to make sure Israel has the tools 1.00
00:09:55.000 and the capabilities that they need to defend themselves.
00:09:57.000 We're going to continue to try to get that humanitarian assistance in.
00:09:59.000 We're going to continue to try to get hostages and people out of Gaza appropriately. 0.99
00:10:04.000 And as I think you've heard us say, a ceasefire right now really only benefits Hamas. 0.52
00:10:11.000 That's where we are right now.
00:10:14.000 Okay, so what has changed?
00:10:16.000 The answer is nothing.
00:10:17.000 Hamas still controls Rafa.
00:10:19.000 Hamas still controls large parts of the Gaza Strip in terms of can humanitarian aid get in.
00:10:26.000 Hamas has not been completely defeated in the Gaza Strip. 0.81
00:10:30.000 A ceasefire now still only helps Hamas. 0.51
00:10:32.000 Nothing has changed.
00:10:34.000 Something has changed.
00:10:34.000 That thing is the Biden administration.
00:10:36.000 You can see the evolution was happening.
00:10:38.000 If you fast forward to just last week, here was John Kirby explaining why the United States was abstaining from a UN resolution that separated off the demand for a ceasefire from the demand for a hostage release.
00:10:51.000 So, the United States had been pushing at the UN for a UN Security Council resolution that called, combined, for a ceasefire with the release of hostages.
00:10:59.000 The United States then decided to change its position and abstain from a resolution that separated these two demands.
00:11:05.000 Ceasefire and hostages.
00:11:07.000 In other words, there should be a ceasefire even if hostages are still being held by Hamas.
00:11:10.000 The United States abstained from that.
00:11:12.000 The White House tried to spin it.
00:11:14.000 The president makes decisions based on the national security interests of the United States.
00:11:19.000 And this decision to abstain on this resolution is in keeping with the national security interests of the United States.
00:11:25.000 And quite frankly, it's in keeping with the national security concerns of the Israeli people.
00:11:30.000 Okay.
00:11:31.000 Now, what's really happened here is that the internal pressure inside the Biden administration from the far left, the lies that are being told to Joe Biden about his electoral prospects should he abandon Israel, those have earwormed him at this point.
00:11:43.000 He's got his similarly dullard wife, Dr. Jill Biden, whispering into his ear that he needs to, quote unquote, stop the war in Gaza.
00:11:51.000 And so, now Joe Biden has made the full turn. 0.82
00:11:54.000 The full turn is to take the complete pro-Hamas position. 0.81
00:11:56.000 The complete pro-Hamas position, what Hamas wants more than anything else right now, is an immediate ceasefire, leaving Hamas in place while holding the hostages.
00:12:03.000 Yesterday, the Biden administration literally just did that.
00:12:07.000 They literally just did that.
00:12:09.000 So here was Antony Blinken saying not only that there should be an immediate ceasefire, but also that if Israel does not change its policy, then America would change its policy, presumably conditioning its aid to Israel on a change of policy.
00:12:23.000 Now, what exactly would that change in policy be?
00:12:25.000 Israel has been allowing in hundreds of trucks every single day.
00:12:29.000 The reason the World Central Kitchen trucks were even in the Gaza Strip is because they had been working with Israel for six months to facilitate aid into the Gaza Strip, at the behest of the Americans, by the way.
00:12:40.000 And now Tony Blinken is saying that if Israel doesn't change its policy, then they will condition A. He then also suggested that Israel, if it didn't care enough about civilians, becomes indistinguishable from Hamas, which is an insane contention.
00:12:54.000 It's the kind of stupid crap you see in a bad left-wing Hollywood movie. 1.00
00:12:58.000 Where he's like, well, if we kill the bad guys, we'll become the same as the bad guys. 1.00
00:13:02.000 That kind of garbage. 0.99
00:13:04.000 Well, this is, I mean, it is almost impossible to overstate how much the Biden administration has now flipped to the side of Hamas. 0.99
00:13:11.000 All Hamas wants in life is to be preserved by the pathetic weakness of the West in the face of Hamas's evil. 0.86
00:13:18.000 Understand, the reason that this is happening is because Hamas uses human shields.
00:13:22.000 That's why this is happening.
00:13:24.000 If Hamas were a legitimate army out in the field, like say, the Russian army is a legitimate army out in the field, If that were the case, the United States would not end support.
00:13:32.000 They would increase support to Israel because Hamas is acting more evilly than the Russian army because they are hiding behind their own women and behind their own children. 0.88
00:13:39.000 And because they're holding hostages, the United States is saying that Israel has to cave to them.
00:13:43.000 So the more evil you are, the more the United States will force you to cave to the evil.
00:13:49.000 That is the logic right now.
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00:14:55.000 The Biden administration, why does that threaten World War III?
00:14:57.000 Because if you're Iran and you're watching this, you are just licking your lips. 1.00
00:15:00.000 If you are Iran, which is the singular spreader of terror around the globe, and you're watching this, here's what you're seeing. 1.00
00:15:07.000 You are seeing that Hamas cannot militarily defeat Israel, which is why they've avoided open battle.
00:15:12.000 What you are seeing is that the United States is now preserving Hamas. 0.93
00:15:16.000 The United States wants Hamas to be preserved.
00:15:19.000 Apparently, that's the goal.
00:15:21.000 They're claiming that it's about humanitarian aid.
00:15:23.000 The true humanitarian measure here would be to allow Israel to finish off Hamas, and then to transition to some sort of shared coalitional government structure, United States, Israel, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, preferably without the United States even involved. 0.61
00:15:37.000 Let the Arabs take care of it, for example. 1.00
00:15:39.000 They don't want to, but let them do it.
00:15:41.000 As an American, I don't want America involved, like, at all with anything having to do with the Gaza Strip.
00:15:47.000 But the fact is that Tony Blinken is doing the work of... So if you're Iran, you're looking, you're saying, the United States is perfectly fine with, apparently, keeping Hamas in place. 0.90
00:15:55.000 The United States is currently paying, I'm not kidding you, they're giving money to Lebanon to help relocate people in southern Lebanon.
00:16:02.000 Those towns are dominated by Hezbollah.
00:16:05.000 The United States is clearing $10 billion a year in money flowing to Iran.
00:16:11.000 While this is all happening, the radical Palestinian population in Jordan is now threatening the Hashemite Kingdom, which is an American ally.
00:16:21.000 The Houthis in Yemen have not only survived, they've continued to shut down trafficking in the Red Sea.
00:16:27.000 And this administration is putting pressure on Israel.
00:16:32.000 That's...
00:16:33.000 If you're Iran, why not just go hog wild? 1.00
00:16:36.000 Seriously, why not?
00:16:37.000 Or maybe you just slow play it.
00:16:38.000 I mean, all the options are at your disposal.
00:16:40.000 There's a lot of talk right now about whether Iran is going to launch some sort of severe attack against Israel over the course of the next 72 hours or not.
00:16:46.000 The CIA has suggested yes.
00:16:48.000 The intelligence in Israel has suggested yes.
00:16:51.000 I don't think Iran does much of anything because why would they? 1.00
00:16:53.000 They've already got their man in the White House apparently.
00:16:55.000 Here's Tony Blinken playing full propaganda fullback for Hamas.
00:17:01.000 Israel is a democracy. 0.94
00:17:03.000 Hamas, a terrorist organization.
00:17:06.000 And democracies place the highest value on human life.
00:17:09.000 Every human life.
00:17:12.000 It's what distinguishes us from terrorists, like Hamas. 0.91
00:17:17.000 If we lose that reverence for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable.
00:17:24.000 I'm positive that for a second.
00:17:28.000 That is so disgusting. 0.95
00:17:29.000 That is so disgusting what he is saying there. 0.97
00:17:31.000 Of course Israel places a premium on civilian life. 0.76
00:17:33.000 They've gotten their own soldiers killed in order to preserve human life in the Gaza Strip where Hamas is attempting to murder its own citizens.
00:17:41.000 To liken Israel's behavior to Hamas?
00:17:43.000 To suggest that Israel does not place a premium on human life?
00:17:45.000 By the way, even when it comes to this world aid, this world Central Kitchen situation.
00:17:51.000 Israel literally just did a full investigation then fired members of its own military over this.
00:17:57.000 Which is something the United States never did when it came to droning an entire family in Afghanistan on our way out.
00:18:02.000 Joe Biden still hasn't apologized for that.
00:18:06.000 Here is Tony, again, trying to draw a moral equivalence between a democracy that was attacked by a terrorist group and the terrorist group itself.
00:18:11.000 Like, is there one word of pressure on Hamas anywhere in here?
00:18:15.000 The answer is no.
00:18:16.000 Literally nothing that is happening in the Gaza Strip would be happening if Hamas had not done what it did on October 7th and if they surrendered today with the hostages.
00:18:23.000 But they're not doing any of that.
00:18:24.000 And so the United States is now under Joe Biden because he wants to win pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan and blue-haired lesbians at the Wesleyan campus.
00:18:32.000 Because of that, they've decided that it's imperative U.S.
00:18:36.000 that the that the coalitional approach, the queers for Palestine members of the of the 0.53
00:18:42.000 Biden administration run foreign policy.
00:18:44.000 That's what this is.
00:18:45.000 U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel's immediate action
00:18:52.000 on these steps.
00:18:54.000 He underscored as well that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the
00:18:59.000 humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians.
00:19:02.000 And he urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home.
00:19:08.000 Hey, all of that is insane, like patently insane.
00:19:13.000 So he is now taking the position the United States abstained from at the UN like a week and a half ago.
00:19:19.000 The United States abstained from a UN Security Council resolution that separated off the ceasefire from the release of hostages.
00:19:25.000 Now he's endorsing that resolution.
00:19:26.000 He's calling for Israel to declare an immediate ceasefire with the hostages still being held by Hamas.
00:19:32.000 And then he says Israel needs to empower its negotiators to come to some sort of deal with Hamas.
00:19:38.000 Why in the world would Hamas come to a deal?
00:19:40.000 They have every single card.
00:19:42.000 Every single one.
00:19:42.000 They've got the pressure of the United States on America's own ally.
00:19:47.000 That in favor of Hamas, which is why Hamas continues to reject every single deal.
00:19:53.000 Hamas knows that if they just hold the hostages long enough, and if they get enough civilians killed, that the United States will eventually declare that Israel must lose the war and preserve Hamas in place while Hamas still holds the hostages, including five Americans.
00:20:08.000 And we spent $6 billion and gave it to Iran to get out five Americans from Iran. 0.73
00:20:14.000 When it comes to Hamas, the United States is perfectly willing to let Hamas apparently hold Americans hostage in terror tunnels because Joe Biden wants to please Chef Jose Andres or something.
00:20:28.000 And again, all of this ups the prospects of World War III because an aggressive Iran in the Middle East is going to get more and more aggressive. 0.99
00:20:34.000 And there will come a point where the existence of the State of Israel is at risk.
00:20:37.000 And if that happens, then the bleep really hits the fan.
00:20:40.000 Because if you think that Israel has unleashed its military power thus far, you are wrong.
00:20:44.000 Israel has used a significant portion of its military power in the Gaza Strip.
00:20:48.000 But if there is an existential, like a full-on existential danger to the State of Israel, things are going to get extremely hot, extremely fast.
00:21:01.000 The Biden administration's willingness to completely flip on this thing in favor of Hamas is totally crazy.
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00:22:10.000 Again, according to the Times of Israel, a senior Hamas leader says Egypt has put forward a ceasefire and hostage release proposal, but it does not include anything new.
00:22:18.000 The terror group will not back down from any of its previous demands.
00:22:22.000 The unnamed official charges the U.S.
00:22:23.000 and Egyptian mediators wanted to keep the ceasefire process alive.
00:22:26.000 Despite their conviction, there was a wide gap between Israel and Hamas.
00:22:30.000 So what exactly was offered to Hamas?
00:22:33.000 A six-week ceasefire and a 40-for-one ratio of terrorist murderers released for every hostage release, and Hamas turned it down. 0.90
00:22:39.000 The only reason you turn that down is because you got all the leverage.
00:22:42.000 And they do have all the leverage.
00:22:43.000 Because they believe that they can mobilize the editorial board of the New York Times, and the voters in Dearborn, Michigan, and the marchers in New York In order to pressure Joe Biden.
00:22:54.000 They think they've got their man.
00:22:55.000 And by the way, it appears they're right.
00:22:58.000 So here is John Kirby forced into the very Unwelcome position of having to defend this insane policy.
00:23:05.000 He's asked by Peter Doocy, it seems like you are wavering.
00:23:09.000 They want it both ways, which is true.
00:23:11.000 They want to say that they're still pro-Israel and they support Israel while totally taking the knees out from under Israel. 0.64
00:23:16.000 By the way, there's been a lot of talk about Rafah.
00:23:18.000 Rafah is the southern city in the Gaza Strip where virtually all the civilians have been shuttled to in order so that Israel can facilitate the killing of terrorists without killing too many civilians.
00:23:27.000 That is something, again, that no army in history really has done.
00:23:30.000 So, Israel did all of that. 0.97
00:23:32.000 They've presented plans to the Americans to get the civilians out of Rafah and somewhere else so they can go in and destroy the terror tunnels in Rafah, see if they can rescue hostages, and destroy the last vestiges of Hamas in Rafah.
00:23:43.000 The United States has said they want to approve the plan.
00:23:45.000 Let's be very clear about this.
00:23:46.000 The United States under Joe Biden will never approve any plan in Rafah.
00:23:49.000 Joe Biden has made that perfectly clear.
00:23:51.000 The reason is because the minute Joe Biden approves a plan in RAFA and Israel goes and implements the plan in RAFA, Joe Biden owns the plan in RAFA.
00:23:58.000 He can't afford to own the plan in RAFA because, again, he is too concerned about making sure that the blue-haired lesbians at Wesleyan and the pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan vote for him.
00:24:07.000 And if he approves any plan in RAFA and one civilian dies, forget about that. 0.95
00:24:12.000 If they kill a member of Hamas, the blue-haired lesbians will be angry. 1.00
00:24:16.000 The pro-Hamas members will be angry. 0.99
00:24:19.000 Joe Biden fed the crocodile piece by piece his foreign policy, and now the crocodile has eaten him whole.
00:24:25.000 Here is John Kirby trying to wriggle around like a worm at the end of a hook on this one.
00:24:31.000 As I said, and as it says in that readout, we made clear, and he made it clear to the Prime Minister in his call, that our support for Israel's self-defense remains ironclad.
00:24:42.000 It's not going to stop, it's not going to waver, but Will there perhaps be some policy changes we might have to make if we don't see policy changes out of Israel?
00:24:52.000 Yes.
00:24:53.000 The President made it clear that our policies with respect to Gaza will be dependent upon our assessment of how well the Israelis make changes and implement changes to make the situation in Gaza better for the Palestinian people.
00:25:09.000 And how much time are you giving them to make these changes, to implement these concrete steps?
00:25:14.000 Again, we would hope to see some announcements of changes here in coming hours and days, and I'll leave it at that.
00:25:21.000 Okay, so Israel did announce immediately that they were increasing the number of food trucks that were being allowed in from 350, which is already extremely high, to 500.
00:25:29.000 That's not going to buy off Joe Biden, because Joe Biden is now captured.
00:25:32.000 He is now ideologically captured by his left flank.
00:25:36.000 That is what is happening here. 0.99
00:25:38.000 And it is pathetic. 0.99
00:25:39.000 It's even more pathetic from just a realpolitik point of view. 0.99
00:25:42.000 Like, take off, take away all of the moral questions here. 0.94
00:25:46.000 Just look at this in terms of pure, realpolitik.
00:25:49.000 In terms of realpolitik, look at Ukraine and Russia.
00:25:53.000 The United States has an interest in preserving an independent Ukraine, but the United States does not have any interest in getting into a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power.
00:26:00.000 So what does Joe Biden do?
00:26:01.000 He is facilitating the entry of the United States into a NATO pact, including Ukraine, that would facilitate a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power. 0.98
00:26:10.000 From a realpolitik point of view, this is asinine. 0.97
00:26:12.000 It makes no sense. 0.84
00:26:14.000 We can continue to fund Ukraine and make sure that Ukraine doesn't collapse to Russian predations without putting ourselves in harm's way.
00:26:22.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is out there announcing that Ukraine should join NATO, which of course would immediately invoke Article 5.
00:26:28.000 And then the United States would be in a direct shooting war with Russia.
00:26:30.000 That's what Joe Biden is doing. 0.99
00:26:31.000 So from a real policy point of view, absolutely asinine. 0.72
00:26:34.000 From a real policy point of view on Israel and Hamas, the United States is not involved in this conflict.
00:26:39.000 There's an ally of the United States that is attempting to destroy a terror group Meanwhile, by the way, you know who else is in favor of destroying that terror group?
00:26:48.000 Despite all of the protestations for the street?
00:26:50.000 The Saudi government, the Egyptian government, even the Jordanian government.
00:26:54.000 They have to mouth off because they have to demonstrate to all of their radical civilians, their citizens, that they are not in favor of the Jews, but That doesn't mean that Saudi isn't in the corner rooting for Israel to destroy Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy, or that Egypt isn't in the corner hoping that Israel destroys Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy and threatens Egypt, or that Jordan isn't in the corner hoping that Israel destroys Hamas, which again is an Iranian proxy threatening the Hashemite dynasty in Jordan.
00:27:22.000 From a real politic point of view, the stupidest thing you could do is hand Iran a victory in the face Of what is an extremely effective military operation in Gaza. 0.98
00:27:31.000 And that's exactly what Joe Biden is doing. 0.99
00:27:33.000 Why?
00:27:34.000 Again, to garner sympathy from his far left.
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00:28:32.000 So who are they catering to here?
00:28:34.000 They're catering to celebrities because Chef Jose Andres,
00:28:37.000 who cooks at restaurants and has restaurants.
00:28:39.000 That means that he now is a, that means that he now gets to make war policy
00:28:43.000 for the administration.
00:28:44.000 you I have nothing but sympathy for Chef Jose Andres in the fact that he knew the people who were killed.
00:28:50.000 That's horrifying.
00:28:51.000 It was a horrifying incident.
00:28:52.000 Israel has literally fired commanders over it.
00:28:56.000 Israel has apologized publicly for it, which is more than the United States or any other Western country does during friendly fire incidents, typically.
00:29:02.000 But now, Jose Andres is putting pressure on the Biden administration, and Biden is listening.
00:29:08.000 Which is insane.
00:29:09.000 You don't make foreign policy on the basis of a celebrity chef's opinions on world peace.
00:29:15.000 But here is Corine Jean-Pierre saying that that's kind of what they're doing.
00:29:19.000 Look, you saw the president.
00:29:22.000 We put that in his statement.
00:29:24.000 Obviously, we made sure that it was in his statement, how he felt about his relationship, his friendship with Chef Andres.
00:29:34.000 He considers him a friend.
00:29:37.000 He sees him as a hero in everything that he has done, not just in Gaza, but across the globe in feeding people who are in need, the humanitarian assistance that he provides.
00:29:48.000 We have said the op-ed that he wrote is incredibly powerful.
00:29:52.000 And he, you know, the first couple of words out of his statement yesterday was outrage and heartbroken.
00:30:00.000 He also happens to be a member of the political far left.
00:30:03.000 And so he was pushing for a ceasefire literally within about a week and a half of the original attack on Israel, October 7th.
00:30:09.000 Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders' wing of the Democratic Party is in the ascendancy.
00:30:13.000 Here is Bernie Sanders being absolutely despicable as he always is on matters morally inclined.
00:30:19.000 He is... He's just trash. 1.00
00:30:21.000 He's a trash human being, Bernie Sanders. 1.00
00:30:23.000 Here he was. 1.00
00:30:25.000 The bottom line is, we are looking at one of the worst humanitarian disasters that we have seen in a very, very long time.
00:30:31.000 We're literally, at this moment, looking at hundreds of thousands of children starving to death because Israel is not allowing the humanitarian trucks into Gaza, and especially into the areas where people are in most desperate condition.
00:30:48.000 To my mind, Israel should not be getting another nickel in military aid until these policies are fundamentally changed.
00:30:57.000 So if, you know, my view is no more military aid to Israel when children in Gaza are starving.
00:31:06.000 Okay, let's just be clear about this.
00:31:07.000 The reason children in Gaza are hungry is because Hamas will not surrender.
00:31:10.000 Bernie has not put one iota of pressure on Hamas. 0.52
00:31:13.000 Because his base likes Hamas. 0.89
00:31:15.000 Because they hate Israel. 0.57
00:31:16.000 And Israel's an outpost of generalized Western civilization. 0.89
00:31:19.000 And Bernie hates that too.
00:31:22.000 By the way, all this is a lie.
00:31:23.000 Israel, again, has been facilitating hundreds of trucks into the Gaza Strip every single day.
00:31:29.000 How do you think WCK got there in the first place?
00:31:33.000 Elizabeth Warren is suggesting openly now that Israel is trying to starve out Gaza, which is a vile, despicable thing to say.
00:31:43.000 If Israel were trying to starve out Gaza, you know what they wouldn't be doing since the beginning of the war?
00:31:47.000 Allowing food trucks in.
00:31:49.000 They've been allowing hundreds of food trucks in.
00:31:53.000 Here she is lying, because again, the progressive left is completely disconnected from reality, but they're very much connected to a narrative that suggests that Israel must lose and Hamas must win.
00:32:04.000 I think the best we can do here is that we need to all be working together.
00:32:09.000 And that's the President, that's people in Congress, and I am hopeful that when the President talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu, he will be making it clear that support for the actions of the Prime Minister are not, he's not helping Israel, he is not keeping Israel safe.
00:32:29.000 And that he cannot, cannot continue to follow a policy of trying to starve out the people of Gaza.
00:32:37.000 That he loses support all around the world.
00:32:42.000 A policy of trying to starve out the people of Gaza as Israel facilitates the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip. 0.99
00:32:48.000 It's Orwellian kind of crap. 0.97
00:32:50.000 But again, Joe Biden's been convinced by his interior team and by Joe Biden that somehow, if Hamas wins, that will be good for his administration. 0.99
00:32:57.000 I suppose we'll find out.
00:32:59.000 I suppose we'll find out if that's true.
00:33:01.000 If, in fact, the American people are very much in favor of Hamas winning at the behest of the Biden administration.
00:33:07.000 A point here to John Fetterman, who continues to be the great surprise of American politics over the course of the last, frankly, last decade.
00:33:15.000 Here was John Fetterman yesterday saying on CBS that you should stand with Israel when they are fighting, you know, terrorists.
00:33:21.000 Again, not one word, not one word from the Biden administration about pressure on Hamas.
00:33:25.000 Not one word.
00:33:27.000 But here's John Fetterman saying the obvious.
00:33:30.000 You don't have to agree with every leader's views, but we have an opportunity to stand with Israel in this situation, and that's what I've decided to do.
00:33:45.000 Good for John Fetterman.
00:33:46.000 If the Biden administration had taken this morally clear position, this war would be over already.
00:33:50.000 If the Biden administration had said from the beginning, Israel has to defeat Hamas, we will support Israel, Up to the point where it defeats Hamas.
00:33:58.000 In the same way that the United States has done for, say, Ukraine.
00:34:03.000 In a situation where victory is not only undefined but achievable by Joe Biden's definition.
00:34:09.000 Then this war would have already been over.
00:34:11.000 But instead, the United States decided that it was very, very, very important to signal, to virtue signal, to those pro-Hamas necks in Michigan.
00:34:18.000 That was the most important thing.
00:34:19.000 In just one second, we'll get to the administration's China policy, which continues to be a complete muddle.
00:34:24.000 First, The Daily Wire has decided to give Matt Walsh a robe of gavel and an all-new series, introducing Judged by Matt Walsh on DailyWire+.
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00:35:13.000 A dog bit my finger. 0.98
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00:35:21.000 Has anyone told you you're the worst negotiator that's ever lived?
00:35:23.000 I've never been more annoyed than I am in this moment. 0.91
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00:36:19.000 You know, I think this is a great country and I love America.
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00:37:23.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to be absolutely discombobulated and confused when it comes to, say, China policy.
00:37:30.000 So at the same exact time that the United States will say that we want Ukraine to enter NATO, which again would immediately lead to a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power, The United States is signaling once again to China that we will be conciliatory. 0.66
00:37:46.000 Now, it has been the policy of the United States for decades that we quote-unquote do not support an independent Taiwan.
00:37:52.000 George W. Bush said that.
00:37:53.000 Barack Obama said that.
00:37:55.000 We've had this bizarre strategic incoherence with regard to Taiwan for a very long time.
00:38:02.000 Specifically because we believe that if we provoke the Chinese into invading Taiwan, if we say we support Taiwanese independence, that China will invade basically the next day.
00:38:10.000 With that said...
00:38:12.000 Does the United States de facto support Taiwanese independence?
00:38:15.000 The answer, of course, is yes.
00:38:17.000 De facto, the United States does not want Taiwan to be governed by mainland China.
00:38:22.000 The question is, what resources are we willing to put behind all of that?
00:38:25.000 So that strategic incoherence continues to be on complete display here.
00:38:27.000 Here is John Kirby yesterday suggesting, once again, we do not support independence for Taiwan.
00:38:34.000 I won't characterize President Xi's comments, but I can tell you that President Biden was very, very clear that nothing's changed about our one-China policy.
00:38:43.000 We don't support independence for Taiwan, but we also don't want to see the status quo changed in a unilateral way and certainly not by force.
00:38:53.000 Okay, so preserve the status quo, but we don't support independence for Taiwan.
00:38:58.000 Again, that has been the historic position of the United States.
00:39:00.000 The problem is that Joe Biden's weak policies have led China to believe that they can do pretty much whatever they want.
00:39:06.000 And again, there will come a point here where if China can't get what it wants by soft power, it will in fact blockade the island of Taiwan.
00:39:13.000 That is their goal.
00:39:14.000 They believe that if they can show enough daylight between Taiwan and the United States that Taiwan feels truly threatened, Taiwan will preemptively, effectively elect a pro-China government.
00:39:24.000 Taiwan has not done this.
00:39:26.000 The last election was a little bit closer than has been the usual over there.
00:39:30.000 But with that said, The United States is not demonstrating the naval power necessary to actually break a blockade of Taiwan were that to happen.
00:39:39.000 And the real reason that China would like to blockade Taiwan is to get Taiwan to then supply via TSMC sophisticated microchips to the Chinese military sufficient to allow China to actually challenge America's military predominance.
00:39:51.000 So what is the Biden administration doing?
00:39:52.000 They're activating 40-year-old ships.
00:39:55.000 So the Biden administration has taken incredibly soft on defense policy.
00:39:59.000 They have cut The military budget effectively?
00:40:03.000 They have not built up our military in the face of increasing global threat?
00:40:07.000 The Wall Street Journal says, standing on the bridge of a 270-foot U.S.
00:40:10.000 Coast Guard cutter, Lieutenant Channing Meyer listed the recent upgrades to the 40-year-old ship, a new deck gun, reliable power connections, an improved electronic navigation system, and better internet connectivity.
00:40:20.000 This thing runs like it was built yesterday, he said, a short time later inside a hallway on the Harriet Lane.
00:40:25.000 The Coast Guard transferred the Harriet Lane to the Pacific from the U.S.
00:40:28.000 East Coast a few months ago, part of the Biden administration's latest move to compete with China for influence in the region.
00:40:32.000 U.S.
00:40:33.000 officials view the Coast Guard as a potent soft power tool in the Pacific, which is home to U.S.
00:40:36.000 military assets and strategic waterways that could be crucial in a military confrontation over Taiwan.
00:40:41.000 But the Coast Guard is deploying retrofitted vessels like the Harriet Lane because they plan to build a new class of more modern ships will take years and has been bogged down by delays and cost increases.
00:40:51.000 At the same time, the Coast Guard's enlisted workforce is 10% below its authorized strength, one of the largest shortages in its 233-year history, and is expected to worsen this year, according to officials.
00:41:00.000 Meanwhile, China has reinforced its Coast Guard with more than 20 former Navy Corvettes, and is increasingly asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Chinese fishing vessels double as a maritime militia.
00:41:11.000 Beijing is also actively seeking influence in the Pacific.
00:41:14.000 Certain Chinese Coast Guard vessels may have longer-range guns compared with the Harriet Lane, some analysts said.
00:41:19.000 So again, the goal here for China is create enough naval power to be able to blockade Taiwan, sufficient to pressure them to elect a friendly government, get the microchips, and then upgrade your military capacity.
00:41:31.000 And then China really has the ability to harm the United States in some pretty severe ways, including the closing off of the Taiwan Straits, which is, again, one of the world's chief choke points for trade.
00:41:41.000 Now, foreign policy is actually fairly simple.
00:41:44.000 It is a fifth-grade playground.
00:41:46.000 In a fifth-grade playground, the biggest bully typically wins.
00:41:51.000 The United States, since World War II, has been the biggest bully.
00:41:54.000 When the biggest bully decides that it is, in fact, bad and terrible, and that it needs to recede from the world scene, and that it needs to, you know, show the world that it's a kinder, gentler bully, Stops working out.
00:42:06.000 Starts sitting in the corner.
00:42:08.000 Turns out there are other bullies on the playground.
00:42:09.000 There's not only one bully in any fifth grade class.
00:42:12.000 There are usually multiple.
00:42:14.000 And it turns out that what you want is that the bully happens to be the most moral player on the block. 0.98
00:42:19.000 Well, and it turns out that China's a bully and Russia's a bully. 1.00
00:42:22.000 Iran is a bully. 1.00
00:42:23.000 It turns out when the United States recedes from its position of world leadership, out of some sort of peculiar sense of self-doubt, all of our enemies are not sitting still. 0.95
00:42:32.000 There's this weird take on foreign policy that has become incredibly predominant, which is that the United States is the only country with agency on Earth.
00:42:38.000 That basically everything that everyone else does is a reaction to us.
00:42:41.000 Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if it had not been for the United States doing X. China would not be concerned about Taiwan if it were not for the United States being so provocative.
00:42:48.000 Or, alternatively, everybody is playing the same game, and everybody has their own geostrategic interests, and they are going to pursue those geostrategic interests.
00:42:56.000 And where they meet mush, they will push.
00:42:59.000 Which one of those sounds more likely to you?
00:43:02.000 There's a certain arrogance and self-centeredness about isolationist or left-wing foreign policy.
00:43:08.000 Sort of Noam Chomsky-esque, the rest of the world just reacts to the United States foreign policy.
00:43:12.000 Turns out people all over the world are adults and have agency.
00:43:16.000 It would be nice if the United States treated its enemies as though they had agency sometimes and are not mere children who are the playthings of more powerful Western powers.
00:43:25.000 Because that's not true. 0.98
00:43:27.000 Meanwhile, the biggest problem for the Biden administration remains that Kamala Harris is the backup to this dullard, senile president. 0.97
00:43:34.000 It is hard to find a knife duller than Joe Biden. 0.95
00:43:38.000 Somehow they found a spoon and made her vice president. 1.00
00:43:40.000 Here was Kamala Harris yesterday saying something or other about NCAA women's brackets. 0.97
00:43:45.000 She is just terrible at this. 0.55
00:43:48.000 Do you know, okay, a bit of a history lesson, do you know that women were not, the women's teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022?
00:43:59.000 Think about that and what, that talk about progress, you know, better late than never, but progress, and what that has done, because of course when, you know, I had a bracket, it's not broken completely, but I won't talk about my bracket.
00:44:12.000 But you know what, just how we love, we love March Madness, and even just now allowing the women to have brackets and what that does to encourage people to talk more about the women's teams, to watch them, now they're being covered, you know, and this is the reality.
00:44:29.000 People used to say, oh, women's sports, who's interested? 1.00
00:44:32.000 Well, if you can't see it, you won't be.
00:44:35.000 But when you see it, you realize, oh, She's so terrible.
00:44:41.000 By the way, Barack Obama has been filling out the women's NCAA bracket since 2009. 1.00
00:44:47.000 Kamala Harris pretending that women are victims in the United States in order to garner political power. 0.75
00:44:50.000 She's so awkward and so terrible.
00:44:52.000 No one knew that Veep was actually a documentary.
00:44:54.000 Apparently, it really, really, really is.
00:44:57.000 Meanwhile, we will get to one piece of good news today, since all the news appears to be pretty bad.
00:45:02.000 Now, one piece of good news is that even the left is realizing they need to dissociate from DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion programs.
00:45:08.000 Last night on The Daily Show, Charlamagne Than God was hosting, and he actually went after DEI, which was kind of a shock. 0.96
00:45:16.000 The truth about DEI is that although it's well-intentioned, it's mostly garbage. 0.97
00:45:21.000 Okay? 0.99
00:45:21.000 It's kind of like the Black Little Mermaid. 0.99
00:45:23.000 Just because racists hate it, doesn't mean it's good.
00:45:28.000 And you know I'm right, because every one of you has sat through one of those diversity training sessions and thought, And it's not just you.
00:45:37.000 Over 900 studies have shown that DEI programs don't make the workplace better for minorities.
00:45:43.000 In fact, it can actually make things worse because of the backlash effect.
00:45:47.000 And honestly, I'm not surprised these programs didn't work.
00:45:50.000 And here's why.
00:45:51.000 It's just corporate PR.
00:45:54.000 They want good vibes. 0.65
00:45:55.000 And also they want to cover their a**. 0.84
00:45:57.000 Okay?
00:45:58.000 Did you know that if a company gets sued for civil rights violations, just having a DEI
00:46:04.000 program will be counted as evidence in their favor, even if the program doesn't do s***?
00:46:08.000 Okay?
00:46:09.000 It's the I Have a Black Friend of the legal system.
00:46:12.000 Right?
00:46:13.000 We don't need corporate DEI.
00:46:15.000 Well, I mean, I'm glad that people are finally getting wise to this.
00:46:21.000 Pretty amazing stuff there from Charlemagne the God.
00:46:24.000 Good to see at least a little bit of rationality in this insane political time.
00:46:27.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:47:29.000 Meanwhile, the media recognizing that Joe Biden's foreign policy is a complete disaster area, they are now attempting to suggest that Donald Trump is mirroring Joe Biden's foreign policy, particularly with regard to Israel.
00:47:38.000 So there was an interview that Donald Trump did recently with an Israeli newspaper called Israel Hayom, in which he was talking about the state of Israel and its foreign policy with regard to Gaza.
00:47:50.000 And he basically said Israel needs to hurry up and end the war because the PR disaster is bad for Israel.
00:47:54.000 Okay, that happens to be true.
00:47:55.000 Israel should have moved much faster. 1.00
00:47:56.000 Israel made a crucial mistake in the opening hours of this war.
00:48:00.000 They took the West too seriously.
00:48:02.000 What I mean by that is that we in the West, we like to talk a lot about human rights and humanitarianism.
00:48:06.000 The reality is, what the population cannot bear is not bad pictures on RTV, we can bear that, but only for a very short time.
00:48:12.000 If it lasts for a very long time, then we start to get upset.
00:48:15.000 So, for example, if it's the war in Iraq in 1991 and we see a highway of death, We can do that for like a few days. 0.99
00:48:22.000 If it lasts a few months, we start to get antsy.
00:48:26.000 So if you are an American ally, short and dirty is better than long and less dirty.
00:48:33.000 Israel listened to the United States on the humanitarian measures, which is why they were shuttling civilians all around the Gaza Strip.
00:48:38.000 It's why they've been allowing in literally tons of food aid every single day.
00:48:42.000 The reason that they've been doing that is out of deference to the Americans and also because Israel is a democracy and would like to see civilians not killed.
00:48:49.000 But it turns out that when you do that, the press still hates you, and then they seek your defeat anyway.
00:48:55.000 And Donald Trump knows that.
00:48:55.000 So that's what Donald Trump is saying.
00:48:56.000 So the other day, he was on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and Trump was talking about the situation in Israel.
00:49:02.000 He said Israel is losing the PR war.
00:49:05.000 He said they put out tapes all the time.
00:49:06.000 Every night they're releasing tapes of a building falling down.
00:49:08.000 They shouldn't be releasing tapes like that.
00:49:09.000 That's why they're losing the PR war.
00:49:11.000 Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.
00:49:14.000 He is correct about that.
00:49:15.000 Israel is losing the PR war because they fundamentally, again, believe that the American people are willing to look at ugly pictures on their TV if they understand that those ugly pictures are necessary in order to achieve victory. 0.55
00:49:26.000 But the truth is, the American people don't like ugly pictures on our TV.
00:49:29.000 Like, under any circumstances.
00:49:31.000 And if those ugly pictures last for, like, two weeks, then we're okay.
00:49:35.000 And if those ugly pictures last for, like, six months, then we become slightly less okay.
00:49:39.000 And Trump knows that because he's a TV guy.
00:49:42.000 He says, I think that's one of the reasons there's been a lot of kickback.
00:49:44.000 If people didn't see that every single night, I'd watch and single every one of those.
00:49:47.000 I think Israel wanted to show it's tough.
00:49:48.000 Sometimes you shouldn't be doing that.
00:49:51.000 He said Israel was releasing tapes of buildings falling down.
00:49:54.000 People are imagining there's lots of people in those buildings and they don't like it.
00:49:59.000 Again, he said that Israel should hurry up.
00:50:03.000 That he's right about that.
00:50:06.000 He is correct about that.
00:50:07.000 But the media are treating that as though he's anti-Israel.
00:50:09.000 No, no, no.
00:50:09.000 Joe Biden literally just told Israel to stop fighting Hamas because Chef Jose Andres told him that he was mad about the World Central Kitchen disaster.
00:50:19.000 That's anti-Israel. 0.89
00:50:21.000 Joe Biden is putting every ounce of pressure he can muster on the Israeli government right now to oust the sitting government that was elected and also to force them to preemptively declare a ceasefire while hostages are still being held by Hamas.
00:50:33.000 That's anti-Israel. 0.89
00:50:34.000 Donald Trump is saying Israel should do what it has to do and do it fast and get it over with.
00:50:38.000 That's not anti-Israel.
00:50:38.000 That's good advice.
00:50:39.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:50:42.000 Donald Trump out on the campaign trail continues to rip into Joe Biden.
00:50:47.000 President Trump is a funny person.
00:50:49.000 Here he was on Hugh Hewitt the other day talking about Joe Biden being drugged up for various debates and speeches.
00:50:56.000 You said you'll debate him anywhere, anytime.
00:50:59.000 Do you think he'll agree to any debate?
00:51:02.000 Do you think he'll agree?
00:51:04.000 I don't think so, but I hope he does.
00:51:08.000 I think what happened is, you know, that White stuff that they happen to find which happen to be cocaine in the White House?
00:51:14.000 I don't know.
00:51:14.000 I think something's going on there.
00:51:17.000 Because I watched his State of the Union and he was all jacked up at the beginning.
00:51:20.000 By the end, he was fading fast.
00:51:23.000 There's something going on there.
00:51:24.000 I want a debate.
00:51:25.000 And I think debates, with him at least, should be drug tested.
00:51:30.000 I want a drug test.
00:51:31.000 Mr. President, are you suggesting President Biden's using cocaine?
00:51:35.000 I don't know what he's using, but that was not... Hey, he was higher than a kite.
00:51:40.000 I mean, fact check, true.
00:51:42.000 But again, the problem with Joe Biden really isn't that he's senile, it's that he's wrong on nearly everything.
00:51:46.000 Alrighty folks, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
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