Joe Biden has deadly cancer. How long did he have it and who knew? Plus, a tape has emerged of him being senile in 2023. Plus, we ll get to the economy and all of the controversy around it.
00:00:53.000Obviously, our hearts go out to the former president.
00:00:55.000Of the United States, Joe Biden has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.
00:01:00.000The diagnosis, of course, has now been revealed just months after he left office.
00:01:05.000And everybody has been expressing their good wishes for the Biden family and for Joe Biden personally.
00:01:11.000Obviously, the announcement of stage four cancer, which is what Joe Biden apparently has, it's metastatic prostate cancer that moved apparently from the prostate all the way into his bones.
00:01:20.000It's an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
00:01:27.000Apparently, having been seen by medical professionals earlier last week for a finding of a prostate nodule, he was diagnosed Friday with stage 4 prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone, an aggressive form of the disease.
00:01:38.000There's a 10-point scale, the so-called Gleason score.
00:02:31.000Who knew this, and when did they know this?
00:02:34.000Prostate cancer is not a fast-moving cancer.
00:02:36.000Prostate cancer usually takes years to develop to the point of metastasis.
00:02:40.000It is a very slow-moving cancer, actually.
00:02:43.000Which is why, usually, I ask my doctor wife about this, when it comes to sort of standard of care, there's a little bit more wiggle room on when prostate exams are done or when PSA tests are done, which is effectively a form of blood test in which they can see certain elevated counts that lead to a suspicion that you may have cancer or not.
00:03:05.000But when I asked my wife about this yesterday, She said, when was his last physical, his last recorded physical?
00:03:11.000The answer was February 2024 was his last recorded physical.
00:03:13.000His last recorded physical did not include a PSA test.
00:03:19.000I mean, he's the president of the United States, so you would do as much of a workup panel as you possibly could.
00:03:23.000This is not like your average 82-year-old guy or 81-year-old guy, where, okay, maybe you check for PSA, maybe you don't.
00:03:29.000In fact, as people get older, sometimes people don't check the PSA because it's such a slow-moving cancer that the suggestion is.
00:03:36.000That by the time the cancer actually would kill you, you'd be dead anyway of old age.
00:03:41.000With that said, as people are living older and older, if you're in your 80s, there's a pretty good shot that they're going to do a PSA.
00:03:47.000So I didn't want to rely on just my own medical expertise or my wife's medical expertise.
00:03:52.000I also asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity, given the fact that President Biden was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer with metastasis to his bones, how long was he likely suffering from cancer before his May 2025?
00:04:04.000Also, what is the standard for PSA testing for men above the age of 50 in the United States?
00:04:11.000Former President Biden was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer with bone metastasis in May 2025, characterized by a Gleason score of 9, indicating a highly aggressive cancer.
00:04:20.000While the exact timeline of his cancer progression is unclear, metastatic prostate cancer typically develops over several years.
00:04:26.000High-grade cancers often progress faster, with studies suggesting metastasis can occur within 2 to 5 years if untreated.
00:04:35.000This didn't develop over the course of the last year.
00:04:38.000Biden's diagnosis followed increasing urinary symptoms and the discovery of a prostate nodule, which underscores the importance of early detection.
00:04:45.000Well, it turns out that the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force says there are individualized decisions for age 55 to 69 and no routine screening after 70, but Medicare covers annual PSA tests for anyone over 50. Medicare.
00:05:01.000And as my wife, I did ask her, you know, PSA testing.
00:05:07.000She said, literally every physical that I did for anybody over the age of 50, I recommended that they may as well get a PSA test.
00:05:13.000So it beggars the imagination that Joe Biden did not have one.
00:05:17.000The notion that there was no knowledge whatsoever of developing cancer in Joe Biden for years on end, and we only found out about this, is only diagnosed at stage four.
00:05:26.000Typically, when you have a stage four cancer diagnosis, and it's sudden, it is not a prostate cancer diagnosis.
00:05:33.000Much faster form of cancer that has developed.
00:05:36.000And again, this is not just me saying this because I am not a doctor, but you know who is a doctor?
00:05:41.000Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the left's favorite doctor.
00:05:44.000He's one of the designers of Obamacare.
00:05:45.000And he appeared on Morning Joe this morning.
00:05:48.000And here is what he had to say about when Joe Biden and family and people around him would have known about a deadly cancer forming inside the president.
00:05:56.000And this raises all sorts of questions about number one.
00:06:00.000Number two, if they didn't know, were they deliberately avoiding tests that theoretically could have led to a better standard of care for the president of the United States in order to get him through the election?
00:06:11.000This all ties into the broader scandal about the fact that he's obviously in the mid-stages of senility.
00:06:19.000There was open talk of him having to use a wheelchair after he was elected.
00:06:22.000And so, again, this announcement actually raises more questions than it answers.
00:06:26.000If the idea here was that they were going to drop this cancer announcement, As a way of sort of distracting from the questions about his senility.
00:06:35.000And that theory is not totally crazy, considering the fact that you have people like David Axelrod openly suggesting that now would be an amazing time to stop talking about all of this.
00:06:44.000Because obviously you have a president who's ailing, and that's really bad.
00:06:49.000And so you have people literally saying, like David Axelrod, the former Obama advisor, that we should stop talking about his senility because he has cancer.
00:08:11.000I look back at the records and there's no evidence that when he got his health status and the medical records were released that he had a prostate-specific antigen.
00:08:23.000Now, it is true that a lot of people recommend not doing a prostate-specific antigen after 70. That is crazy.
00:08:45.000Okay, he's saying what I was saying a moment ago, which is he was the vice president of the United States.
00:08:50.000Then he was the president of the United States.
00:08:51.000The notion that you would not do a PSA test, which is a very easy test to do.
00:08:55.000You wouldn't do a PSA test on the sitting president of the United States.
00:08:59.000A person who, by the way, Apparently, he had a history of cancer.
00:10:51.000But now, maybe on the basis of the fact that he apparently has a deadly cancer.
00:10:55.000The overall chance that a person diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer is alive after five years around 37%, according to the American Cancer Society.
00:11:25.000So delusional that some people still have the delusion.
00:11:28.000James Clyburn, who is the congressman from South Carolina, who more than any other person made sure that Joe Biden was the nominee in 2020 as opposed to Bernie Sanders.
00:11:37.000Yesterday, he said that Joe Biden was fit for four more years.
00:11:41.000By what standard was Joe Biden fit for four more days?
00:13:03.000Jordan Schachtel reporting that President Biden began his campaign trip in Las Vegas.
00:13:08.000But the day before he abruptly left town, he delivered a keynote address in front of a packed crowd of 5,000 people at the NAACP National Convention at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
00:13:16.000He was scheduled to deliver the keynote at another annual convention at the MGM Grand, but he didn't appear at the convention or any of his scheduled events later that afternoon.
00:13:24.000Instead, he left town, departing Las Vegas on Air Force One for a Hobo Beach, Delaware, where he remained.
00:13:30.000Since that trip, he had announced over social media he would not seek a second term as president.
00:13:35.000So they suggested it was because of COVID-19.
00:13:38.000But actually, as Charlie Kirk at the time had reported, he said he got a call from a source close to Las Vegas Metro.
00:13:46.000The official story was that Biden's trip was cut short because of COVID.
00:13:49.000But according to the source, U.S. Secret Service informed Las Vegas Metro there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and that they had to close necessary streets so the president could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest.
00:14:03.000And then there was a stand-down order.
00:14:05.000And Secret Service informed local Vegas PD they were going to fly the president to Johns Hopkins back east.
00:14:11.000Apparently, the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead.
00:14:16.000Laura Loomer, of course, also tweeted at the time, suggesting that the president had a terminal illness.
00:14:25.000I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe, like bordering on the impossible, to believe that no one knew about Joe Biden and his cancer.
00:15:37.000And again, that does not stand in the way of sympathy for a man who has cancer.
00:15:40.000The question I have is, why didn't anyone seem to have sympathy for him over the course of the last two years when he was obviously ailing in the middle of public life?
00:15:57.000I don't believe that you only found out that he had cancer last week.
00:16:00.000Stage four metastatic prostate cancer that takes years to develop.
00:16:06.000I do not believe that one of the most highly scrutinized people on planet Earth did not know that he had what is a fairly common cancer for people of his age.
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00:18:33.000Okay, and this, again, ties into a broader cover-up, and that is the cover-up of his health condition, generally speaking.
00:18:39.000So, to talk about that for a moment, Audio of former President Biden, his interview with Special Counsel Robert Herr, got a public airing on Friday afternoon.
00:18:48.000So Axios originally posted some segments of this audio, and then they posted the full audio.
00:18:53.000This, of course, is an interview that Joe Biden did with the Special Prosecutor Robert Herr.
00:18:58.000You'll recall that the left went insane about this particular interview.
00:19:05.000Well, because it turns out that Robert Herr, early on in 2024, put out...
00:19:10.000An explanation for why Joe Biden was not being prosecuted for mishandling classified documents.
00:19:14.000And in that document, where he explained why he wasn't going to prosecute Biden, he said, basically, people will see him in the jury as a well-meaning older man with memory issues, which is a very nice way of saying he's senile.
00:19:29.000Robert Herr must be some sort of Republican operative saying that the President of the United States has memory problems, that he's senile.
00:19:35.000You might recall Tommy Vieter, Obama van driver and advisor, saying, quote, hers claim that Biden couldn't remember the day his son died was an outrageous lie.
00:19:45.000Anyone who has experienced loss like that can remember images, smells, bits, Okay, and he was just one of the people who was leading the attack on Robert Herr for saying the perfectly obvious, which is that the President of the United States did not have a functioning brain.
00:20:26.000Can you imagine the absolute and immoral corruption that it would take to have an ailing member of your family In the most visible position in the world, and you keep him out there because, what, you still need to clear some cash if you're a hunter, or you still need to get a part in, or you just really, really like the power and you really want to be the person who's signing the auto pen?
00:20:46.000By the way, who the hell was signing the auto pen?
00:20:49.000This is not a president who knew what he was doing.
00:20:51.000Who was the actual president of the United States for the last two years of his administration?
00:21:33.000He couldn't remember the year that his son died.
00:21:36.000I mean, now anybody, again, with sort of a functioning brain, can put that together.
00:21:41.000Even if you forget for a moment, you can put that together pretty quickly.
00:21:43.000If you ask me, for example, the year that my children were born, I can give you the years that my children were born and also the dates because I know my kids.
00:21:51.000Okay, but that is not a matter of him struggling.
00:23:00.000They were so desperate to ensure that Kamala Harris was never president that they propped this person up as the president of the United States and tried to make him run for another term.
00:24:59.000They saw the same thing we were saying, but they didn't just say what we were saying, which is this person appears to be ailing.
00:25:04.000They said you were absolutely a Republican operative, vicious and mean if you pointed out what was perfectly obvious to the naked eye.
00:25:12.000And they did so little investigation and so little investigative reporting that they tried to prop this person up until he himself had to drop out of the race because it became perfectly obvious to every sentient human being.
00:25:22.000Exactly what was happening with Joe Biden during that debate with Donald Trump.
00:25:29.000I mean, here's Joe Biden not being able to remember why he kept classified information.
00:25:34.000Remember, this entire interview is why he had a bunch of classified information about Afghanistan in his library, like filed, and with top secret stamped on it.
00:26:02.000To give you some context for this, Mr. President, it was found in the front of this notebook that's on the first page, and the notebook was found in the library at the Lake House in one of the drawers.
00:28:10.000The notion that none of this ever came up around Joe Biden.
00:28:13.000The most powerful person on planet Earth.
00:28:15.000Honest to God, we are lucky the world didn't explode even worse than it did under Joe Biden.
00:28:19.000When you listen to this, when you realize this health condition, we are honest to God lucky that China didn't go for Taiwan while Joe Biden was president.
00:28:29.000We are lucky that Russia didn't actually try to break NATO outright, not just attack Ukraine, break NATO outright.
00:28:35.000Because, my goodness, this is insane, totally insane.
00:28:40.000President Trump asks a relevant question.
00:28:41.000Whoever had control of the auto pen is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment.
00:28:46.000It is a major real part of the crime that the presidential election of 2020 was rigged and stolen.
00:28:50.000Millions and millions of people knew that Okay, so.
00:29:11.000Again, the 2020 election stuff, about it being rigged and all that, again, you can say that it was rigged in the sort of informal sense, that you had the media covering things up that were relevant about Joe Biden, and that part's true.
00:29:20.000If what he means is that votes were changed, again, that's not the issue here.
00:29:24.000The real question is, who was the president of the United States?
00:29:50.000There are people who knew and said nothing.
00:29:53.000And that is a crime against this republic.
00:29:57.000And I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.
00:30:06.000Okay, and Van Jones, again, he's being honest about that.
00:30:09.000I've never had a conversation with Van.
00:30:10.000In the middle of the campaign, he was saying the same things.
00:30:13.000So Van has been honest about this for a very, very long time.
00:30:15.000Speaking of people who are not honest about this, Senator Chris Murphy, who's attempting a quixotic 2028 candidacy, he was saying that the reason that Donald Trump is in the White House is because the Democrats didn't have the balls to oust Biden.
00:30:28.000Imagine for a second that Joe Biden had actually been ousted from the presidency, not in the middle of 2024, but like in the middle of 2023, when everybody knew that he was gone.
00:30:39.000It turns out it was earlier than that.
00:30:40.000Imagine that Joe Biden, two years into his presidency, had stepped out.
00:30:51.000The Democrats tried to push this horse over the finish line.
00:30:55.000They propped El Cid, like almost literally a dead body, on the horse.
00:30:59.000And it turns out that it didn't work because then Kamala Harris actually got her shot and she lost anyway in the most humiliating electoral defeat maybe of all time.
00:31:08.000But ultimately, in retrospect, you can't defend what the Democratic Party did because we are stuck with a madman, with a corrupt president in the Oval Office, and we should have given ourselves a better chance to win.
00:31:21.000Okay, I mean, the fact that he's admitting it is kind of the whole thing.
00:31:27.000Everyone, everyone knew on a sort of colloquial, casual level what was going on.
00:31:31.000But now, what we are learning about the president's mental state...
00:31:35.000What we are learning about the fact that he had, in fact, a slow-developing, now-deadly cancer.
00:32:21.000I mean, you wonder why the media's trust numbers have collapsed.
00:32:23.000This is the reason the media's trust numbers have collapsed.
00:32:26.000Because for several years, anytime anyone said, hey, why don't you look into that?
00:32:29.000Like, no, no, it's Republicans pouncing.
00:32:32.000Again, it was never Republicans pouncing.
00:32:34.000And the saddest question, the one that honestly you have to ask, but it's really sad you even have to ask this, is if Joe Biden now has stage four deadly cancer, two-thirds of people who have it die within five years, according to the stats.
00:32:48.000And if this was slow developing, one of two things is true.
00:32:51.000Either they knew, and then how did they treat him if they knew?
00:32:56.000Was he getting treatment all the time he was in the White House?
00:33:03.000The best possible scenario here, just on a moral level, is that they knew and that they got him the treatment that he needed and the cancer just is winning.
00:33:11.000And then there's the worst possible moral outcome, which is they knew he was ailing, they knew he was old, and they either specifically did not test him or they did test him and didn't get him the treatment he needed because they needed him to remain in the presidency.
00:33:22.000And that one is like the darkest possible moral scenario here.
00:33:25.000And all these questions are on the table and they should be on the table and pretending that it's some sort.
00:33:30.000Of grave evil to even ask the question is nonsense.
00:33:34.000As you know, I'm not in the business of just asking questions here on the show.
00:33:37.000I don't like just asking questions, meaning like throwing out speculation without any proper proof.
00:33:41.000Okay, the medical evidence suggests, not according to me, according to every doctor that I've talked to, this thing was slow developing, which means there was ample time to diagnose many people who could have known.
00:33:53.000So either they did not do the PSA test because for whatever reason they decided they didn't want to know the answer.
00:33:59.000Or they did the PSA test and they probably knew the answer and then things get even darker from there.
00:34:05.000This is an evidence-based question, not a question of just total speculation.
00:34:10.000And it implicates everyone around him.
00:34:13.000Between the cancer story and the senility story, this is a nuclear bomb at the heart of the Democratic Party and the heart of the media.
00:34:20.000And it absolutely should be treated as such.
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00:37:05.000Moody's is constantly moving its ratings up and down in response to sort of Political politics that you can best describe as a sort of center-left take on the world.
00:37:14.000This notion that the debt was great, and now that the Republicans are going to pass a tax bill that basically continues the trajectory of debt along the lines it already was, that really sinks the credit rating, that, of course, is really silly.
00:37:24.000Now, do we have a massive debt problem right now?
00:37:28.000The 30-year yield on bonds right now is really high, like around 5%, meaning that that is the rate that investors are basically charging the government to take a 30-year bond.
00:37:39.000which means significant uncertainty as to whether they're going to get paid back in inflated dollars or whether it's even worthwhile to buy a 30-year bond.
00:37:45.000That means that there's not a lot of faith in the markets that 30 years from now the United States is going to have paid off its debt in fiscally responsible fashion.
00:37:53.000Now the Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, he says that Moody's is a lagging First of all, I think that Moody's is a lagging indicator.
00:38:04.000I think that's what everyone thinks of.
00:38:07.000Okay, it may be a lagging indicator, but it is also true the United States has a massive debt problem that will be solved by neither party.
00:38:26.000Basically, the Republicans and Democrats have decided that when it comes to the debt, they're just going to shift around the chairs on the deck of the Titanic and fight over who gets to do the shifting.
00:38:34.000To be perfectly frank about all of this, The death of the Tea Party, the much derided Paul Ryan.
00:38:40.000Paul Ryan actually cared about this stuff.
00:38:41.000He might be the last Republican leader who truly cared about this stuff in a serious way.
00:38:45.000And that was considered insufficient to the day.
00:38:49.000Meanwhile, Walmart has been warning that prices are likely going to rise because of the tariffs, which is, of course, true.
00:38:56.000When you artificially increase the price of your inputs, then the price of goods tends to rise as well.
00:39:03.000So President Trump put out a statement.
00:39:05.000Again, we may have to bring back good Trump, bad Trump here because, again, he's doing so many things every single day that there's a solid mix of good and bad from President Trump.
00:39:14.000This one definitely falls into the bad Trump category.
00:39:17.000President Trump put out a statement that says, quote, Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs as the reason for rising prices throughout the chain.
00:39:23.000Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than expected.
00:39:26.000Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said, eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything.
00:39:31.000I'll be watching, and so will your customers.
00:39:34.000Okay, Bernie Sanders, calm down there.
00:39:37.000I'm sorry that price mechanisms work according to market principles and that if you artificially boost the prices people have to pay for things, when they then use those things to sell to someone else, the prices go up.
00:39:47.000That, of course, is the predictable result of artificially increasing the price of anything.
00:39:51.000It's that further down in the chain, prices are going to rise.
00:39:54.000And yelling at people for prices rising is not good economic policy.
00:40:21.000When you stack a new cost on goods and services, the prices go up.
00:40:25.000And yelling at Walmart to eat the tariffs is really quite foolish.
00:40:30.000You want to say to the American people, the prices need to go up to absorb temporary pain so we can rejigger our trade relationship with China?
00:41:32.000I was on the phone with Doug McMillan, the CEO of Walmart, yesterday.
00:41:36.000And Walmart is, in fact, going to, as you described it, eat some of the tariffs, just as they did in 18, 19, and 20. Okay, so, again, that...
00:41:56.000That is fine, but try and pretend that there are no trade-offs in economic policy is, of course, very, very silly.
00:42:02.000And the notion that we're out of the woods on the trade war, that obviously is untrue as well.
00:42:05.000So, yes, we are negotiating some bilateral trade deals.
00:42:08.000It will take a while for all that to come out in the wash.
00:42:09.000The current average tariff rate in the United States for incoming goods is the highest it has been since 1932.
00:42:17.000Those are additional costs on American consumers.
00:42:20.000You can make the policy case that we need to do that.
00:42:22.000For whatever reason, reassuring certain levels of manufacturing or boxing in China or whatever.
00:42:26.000But at least be honest with the American people about it.
00:42:29.000Scott Bessant, he says that countries are going to have to come to the table even more.
00:42:33.000I think one of the problems here is that there are a lot of countries who are coming saying, like, let's give you a 0% tariff rate.
00:42:38.000And the Trump administration is like, nope, still 10%.
00:42:40.000Well, I mean, I don't know what you want people to offer at that point.
00:42:45.000This means that they're not negotiating in good faith.
00:42:48.000They are going to get a letter saying, Here is the rate.
00:42:54.000So I would expect that everyone would come and negotiate in good faith.
00:42:59.000You expect that rate, though, that you would slap on any country that you think is not negotiating in good faith to be above 10%?
00:43:05.000Well, I think that it would be the April 2nd level.
00:43:09.000Some countries were at 10%, some were substantially higher.
00:43:12.000And the negotiating leverage that President Trump is talking about here is if you don't want to negotiate, then it will spring back to the April 2nd level.
00:43:23.000Okay, so if that's still on the table, if the April 2nd levels are like 46% tariffs on Vietnam are still on the level, again, I think that's an empty threat.
00:43:30.000I don't think that Treasury Secretary Besant wants any of that.
00:43:33.000However, to pretend that we are better off today in terms of our tariff rates, our trade policy than we were on April 1st before Liberation Day would be to maintain ignorance of the current economic plans of the administration.
00:43:46.000Meanwhile, the question of whether the big beautiful bill gets done before Memorial Day is still on the table.
00:43:53.000So, yesterday, the House Budget Panel finally did approve the Trump Big Beautiful bill following some hardliner resistance.
00:43:59.000According to Politico, House Republicans finally launched their party-line tax and spending package from the Budget Committee late on Sunday night.
00:44:05.000That was after GOP leaders promised some final changes to appease fiscal hawks after a setback on Friday.
00:44:12.000Just before the late-night markup, the Speaker huddled privately in a room adjacent to the meeting room with the Budget Committee of Republicans, who previously blocked the mega-bill from advancing.
00:44:19.000That'd be Representatives Chip Roy of Texas, Jasper Sheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Ralph Norman of South Carolina.
00:44:25.000Once the markup reconvened, House Budget Chair Jody Arrington of Texas, who's been tasked with shepherding this thing through, said negotiations over changes to the more than 1,100-page bill are ongoing.
00:44:36.000Apparently, the promises include speeding up enforcement of several policies in the bill, including Medicaid work requirements, All four of those Republicans did not end up voting at all in the committee.
00:44:52.000They just ended up voting present, which shows that they don't love the bill, but they're not going to hold up the bill at this point.
00:44:59.000Whether this still passes without any of those changes actually being enshrined remains a questionable thing.
00:45:06.000Basically, as I said right at the beginning with the big, beautiful bill.
00:45:09.000The choices were going to be between maintenance of the Trump tax cuts and a bunch of crap, or non-maintenance of the Trump tax cuts and slightly less crap.
00:45:40.000This is why President Trump is pushing very hard for Republicans to get it done.
00:45:44.000He's starting to weigh in significantly more vocally.
00:45:47.000He put out a statement on Truth Social, quote, Republicans must unite behind the one big beautiful bill.
00:45:53.000Not only does it cut taxes for all Americans, it will kick millions of illegal immigrants off of Medicaid to protect it for those who are the ones in real need.
00:45:59.000The country will suffer greatly without this legislation, with their taxes going up 65% and will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn't help our voters.
00:46:05.000We don't need grandstanders in the Republican Party.
00:46:40.000There's a bunch of junk in this bill, like true junk in this bill.
00:46:44.000It is true that our debt problems are out of control.
00:46:46.000It is also true that nothing that's currently being proposed would solve our debt problems.
00:46:51.000Russ Vought over at Office of Management and Budget, he makes the case that this bill is better than what Democrats would have, which of course is true.
00:46:58.000I mean, again, that is like saying that you are a better singer.
00:47:03.000Then William Young or whatever his name was, the guy from American Idol who could barely warble.
00:47:08.000Like, yes, this is better than what Democrats would provide.
00:47:11.000Also, the current status of my health is better than a man dying of gangrene.
00:47:15.000Like, yes, Democrats are very, very bad at these particular things.
00:47:19.000But that doesn't mean that the one big beautiful bill is going to really bend the cost curve in a significant way.
00:47:24.000Russ Vought says the current House bill includes $1.6 trillion in savings.
00:47:27.000These are not gimmicks, but real reforms that lower spending and improve the program.
00:47:30.000The bill satisfies the very redline test that House fiscal hawks laid out a few weeks ago that stated that the cost of any tax cut could be paid for with $2.5 trillion in assumed economic growth, but the rest had to be covered with savings from reform.
00:47:42.000This bill exceeds that test by nearly $100 billion.
00:47:46.000$36 trillion in debt is not solved overnight.
00:47:49.000It's solved by advancing and securing victories at a scale that over time gives a fighting shot to addressing the problem.
00:47:53.000Okay, but what are the actual problems with the bill?
00:49:04.000By the way, this is one of the ways that you hide the cost of bills.
00:49:07.000You say that something's going to sunset that never will sunset.
00:49:10.000You say, well, it's only going to cost a certain amount of money over the next three years, knowing it will absolutely be greenlit for the next 30 years.
00:49:20.000The bill also includes An increase, I believe, in the child tax credit.
00:49:27.000They're going to make the $2,000 child tax credit permanent at another $500 through 2028.
00:49:32.000Again, those are not child tax credits.
00:49:34.000A lot of people who are getting those credits do not actually pay taxes.
00:49:39.000There's an increased $30,000 deduction for SALT.
00:49:49.000Welcome to the world of politics where neither party and basically the American people...
00:49:52.000Are not willing to do the actual hard work of having serious conversations about our debt crisis, which means eventually we are going to have to go into austerity measures or inflation or raise taxes or all three.
00:50:04.000Those are the actual options that we're going to hit probably sometime in the next five to ten years.
00:50:09.000Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has now extended its block on President Trump's deportation bid under the Alien Enemies Act.
00:50:15.000So they are not ruling that President Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Tren d 'Aragua.
00:50:22.000The court did put a block on the use of that for the moment because they say that the Trump administration has not given them their due process.
00:50:29.000Again, this is why I say that I agree with much of what President Trump is trying to do, but you have to do it in a way that is most likely to be successful.
00:50:37.000It turns out that grabbing people and deporting them and then insisting that they remain deported without just bringing them back for a quick hearing before deporting them again, that is counterproductive.
00:50:46.000It may look strong on the page, but it actually plays weak in the Supreme Court.
00:50:50.000So the unsigned opinion, according to the justices, say this means advance notice of deportation and a meaningful opportunity to challenge the deportations in court.
00:51:02.000That'd be Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, saying that this is plenary power of the executive branch.
00:51:07.000The ruling does not say, again, that President Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act.
00:51:11.000It just says that if you're going to use it, then you actually do have to pay attention to the due process clause of the Constitution.
00:51:18.000So it is not the big victory that the Democrats are playing it as.
00:51:21.000It's also not the giant loss that President Trump has been suggesting that it is.
00:51:25.000Meanwhile, in foreign policy news, a pretty amazing story out of the Washington Examiner about the influence of Qatar.
00:51:33.000So we've been talking about this for several weeks at this point.
00:51:36.000Actually, going back further in that, we've been talking about Qatar and its relationship with Hamas and its relationship with Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood and all the rest.
00:51:44.000Well, the Qatari embassy spends a fortune doing outreach.
00:51:48.000That outreach has shifted dramatically from the left side of the aisle to the right side of the aisle, particularly in the aftermath of President Trump's election.
00:51:54.000Well, now a piece from the Washington Examiner finds that the Qatari Embassy paid a PR firm $180,000 per month.
00:52:02.000It's called Luminate Advisors, a registered foreign agent.
00:52:06.000They paid them $180,000 a month, nearly $2 million a year.
00:52:10.000And the only thing listed on their new FARA form is acquiring...
00:52:15.000The interview with Tucker Carlson and the Prime Minister of Qatar.
00:52:19.000According to the official Farah filing, the date that this particular PR agency and Tucker Carlson agreed to conduct that interview was February 26th, one week before the interview aired.
00:52:30.000The stated purpose of the interview in the Farah document was that Qatar was going to get pretty rich massage treatment in that interview.
00:52:40.000So, again, the PR agency was paid a fortune to acquire this interview with Tucker, and they did their job.
00:52:46.000They got the interview with Tucker, and Tucker gave a very, very, very, very glowing interview with the Emir of Qatar.
00:52:51.000Again, this is just indicative of how much Qatar tries to intervene in American politics.
00:52:57.000And prior to Election Day, about 10% of communications from Qatari foreign agents to people in politics in the United States were directed at conservatives, either outlets or commentators.
00:53:07.000After President Trump won, That shifted to over 50% of total correspondents.
00:53:13.000They tried to do outreach to Fox News Digital, Just the News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, the Washington Examiner.
00:53:20.000Qatar obviously is spreading its money around.
00:53:22.000This is why we should all be quite suspicious of the kinds of business deals that Qatar is trying to cut with people in the Trump camp.
00:53:28.000Qatar does not do things without strings attached.
00:53:40.000For President Trump to be going after media outlets that are pointing out that Qatar is spreading its influence this way.
00:53:49.000So President Trump went on Truth Social and attacked ABC News.
00:53:53.000Now, normally, I'm totally up for the attacks on ABC News.
00:53:55.000This one happens not to be particularly accurate.
00:53:57.000He says, why doesn't Chairman Bob Iger do something about the ABC fake news, especially since I just won $16 million based on the fake and defamatory reporting of little George Slopidopoulos?
00:54:06.000He was given warnings, but just couldn't be restrained by management.
00:54:10.000I again give these sleazebags for a warning.
00:54:12.000The wonderful country of Qatar, wonderful country of Qatar, is a country of 2.6 million people, 300,000 of which are actual citizens.
00:54:20.000Some 2.3 million are either foreign workers or possible slaves.
00:54:24.000Qatar, again, one of the bigger funders of terrorism on planet Earth and a gigantic funder of propaganda operations in America and elsewhere.
00:54:32.000The wonderful country of Qatar, says President Trump, after agreeing to invest more than $1.4 trillion in the United States of America, deserves much better than the misleading fake news.
00:54:40.000Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say Qatar is giving me a free Boeing 747 airplane because they are not.
00:54:47.000Instead, and as fake news, ABC fully knows and understands this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force Defense Department not to me.
00:55:24.000It's perfectly clear, for example, that Hamas, the Israeli defense forces, are now going into Gaza full bore.
00:55:31.000Hamas has been unwilling to sign on to a deal that would free some nine or ten hostages in return for a couple of months of ceasefire.
00:55:38.000What they want is for Israel to simply withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip and hand them a victory based on them holding a few hostages, which is not going to happen.
00:55:44.000It turns out, shock of shocks, Hamas' actual goal in the October 7th war was to destroy the possibility of an Abraham Accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
00:55:54.000Days before the assault that left nearly 1,200 dead, according to the Wall Street Journal, Yahya Senwar, Hamas' Gaza chief, told fellow militants that an extraordinary act was required to derail the normalization talks he said risk marginalizing the Palestinian cause, according to the document reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:56:10.000So, they were openly saying that they wanted to sink the Middle East peace process.
00:56:14.000Again, these are the wonderful people so much of the left are backing, and a few on the right.
00:56:20.000Meanwhile, Erdogan, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, who is the dictatorial leader of Turkey, is flexing his power in the Middle East.
00:56:29.000He obviously has been taking over large swaths of Syria in cahoots with HTS, the terrorist group that we are now relieving sanctions on.
00:56:37.000Again, you make the case for relieving sanctions based on some actual normalization procedures, getting rid of terrorism, moderation, all the rest.
00:56:44.000There had better be some strings attached to the revocation of Syrian sanctions.
00:56:48.000Erdogan believes he's now in control of foreign policy.
00:56:52.000Here he was, basically, I mean, I do have to find this hilarious.
00:59:03.000Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arrahi told Sky News Arabia, quote, Washington demands are far removed from the reality of the nuclear negotiations and we will continue uranium enrichment.
00:59:12.000So what exactly are they negotiating over?
00:59:19.000Is it the United States trying to forestall the possibility of either an American or an Israeli attack on the nuclear facilities?
00:59:26.000All of this remains unclear at this point.
00:59:28.000I'm still struggling to see what the actual end goal is that seems to be achievable in any way, shape, or form.
00:59:34.000And if the proposal ends up being something like a delayed JCPOA, three years of no development, and then three years from now you can do what you want, that is a fail.
00:59:42.000The United States Senate has already said they will not sign off on anything remotely like that.
00:59:46.000Meanwhile, negotiations sort of continue over Ukraine.
00:59:49.000I say sort of because President Trump had conversations today with both the Ukrainians and the Russians.
00:59:58.000Vice President J.D. Vance explained there's a deadlock in talks to end the war.
01:00:02.000Putin does not know how to get out of the war.
01:00:05.000He said if Russia doesn't cooperate, we will eventually announce this is not our war.
01:00:09.000Well, I mean, I don't know what exactly that means.
01:00:28.000If what J.D. Vance means is something else, namely that we'll walk away from the negotiating table and then we'll continue to support Ukraine sufficient so they are not overrun by the Russians, agree.
01:00:39.000If what he means is we're going to walk away and basically just abandon Ukraine in the face of the Russians, that would be a bad policy.
01:00:45.000Totally unclear at this point what any of this means.
01:00:48.000Vice President Vance did meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Rome on Sunday.
01:00:52.000The meeting at the U.S. Ambassador's residence, it was also attended by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the Washington Post, came as world leaders attended the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV.
01:01:01.000Zelensky described the session as a good meeting.
01:01:03.000Zelensky said pressure on Russia must continue until it is ready to stop the war.
01:01:07.000He reaffirmed Ukraine's readiness for real diplomacy and stressed the importance of a full and unconditional ceasefire as soon as possible.
01:01:12.000Again, as I've said, Zelensky is doing the stuff that Trump wants him to do.
01:01:16.000Vladimir Putin is not doing the stuff that Trump wants him to do.
01:01:19.000Now, how successful exactly is the call between President Trump and Vladimir Putin?
01:01:24.000Trump had expressed some optimism about this, suggesting that he was going to get a ceasefire done, that Vladimir Putin respects him enough, that he will do something along those lines.
01:01:48.000The president is determined to get something done here.
01:01:53.000And hopefully, if he can't do it, then nobody can.
01:01:57.000So I leave it to the two leaders to have that call.
01:02:01.000So again, it's going to be very unclear as to what happens from here.
01:02:05.000But it should be made clear at this point that Vladimir Putin does not actually want anything like a negotiated peace that sets the lines where they are.
01:02:15.000Vladimir Putin believes the United States will eventually walk away.
01:02:18.000And hell, if you were Vladimir Putin, you'd probably believe that too.
01:02:20.000The United States has, over the course of the last 20 years, walked away from the Kurds, the Afghans, the people of Hong Kong, and now maybe the people of Ukraine.
01:02:34.000The United States is going to have to play a similarly long game if we actually wish for Vladimir Putin not to take over the entirety of Ukraine.
01:02:42.000Meanwhile, my friend Dan Bongino, who is now the deputy director of the FBI, did a sit-down interview over the weekend.
01:02:59.000They were talking about how they were quite properly going to go into a deeper investigation of Russiagate.
01:03:03.000That, of course, has been Dan's kind of main focus since 2017, when the media started covering Donald Trump as though he was a Russian cat's paw.
01:03:14.000But one of the other big sort of revelations was Dan Bongino said, listen, despite all the speculation, Jeffrey Epstein did in fact kill himself.
01:03:42.000I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was.
01:04:21.000Again, transparency is, in fact, the best medicine.
01:04:24.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration, in other good things, continues to go after major universities that are absolutely promoting anti-American trash.
01:04:40.000Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, she's talking openly about raising taxes on endowments for universities.
01:04:50.000I mean, the reality is that these universities have become propaganda outlets for a far-left viewpoint, very often in violation of the Civil Rights Act, and treating them with kid gloves is not the way.
01:04:59.000Here is Linda McMahon expressing this.
01:05:02.000Let's go back to Harvard for a minute when they have almost a $53 billion endowment.
01:05:07.000Now, there's a small endowment tax that's on endowments that's currently in place.
01:05:12.000It's about 1.4 percent, and that's on universities that have at least 500 students that are on tuition.
01:05:20.000So that's at about, I think, 500,000 per student is kind of the barometer they look at before the taxes start.
01:05:29.000So this is really going to increase that.
01:05:32.000But it's about $2 million per pupil that gets, you know, sort of waived before the taxes start.
01:05:40.000But it's a ton of money, if you look at it, that is going non-taxed.
01:05:47.000Even though universities will say we use most of our endowment for student aid and for research, well, don't you think that's what they should be using those endowment dollars for?
01:06:00.000She also says, you know, if Harvard actually wants to make a deal with us and we don't tax their endowment, probably they should just let us in.
01:06:05.000That would actually be the proper solution.
01:06:08.000Well, we'd like to see them do the things we've asked them to do in the letter.
01:06:14.000We would like for them to let us come in and sit with them and see exactly what they're doing.
01:06:20.000They're doing a lot of talk about the things they're doing.
01:06:23.000But, you know, if they really are doing these things, then they should not object to allowing the task force or other members that have been assigned to come in and take a look at exactly what they are doing.
01:06:41.000Harvard should absolutely try to cut a deal with the Trump administration and actually abide by, you know, the Civil Rights Act, as they are supposed to do.
01:06:50.000It is truly amazing to me to watch people suggest that violation of the Civil Rights Act is perfectly okay so long as it is done.
01:07:28.000We really only do Diddy Watch when it comes to Ben Afterdark, but the reality is it is kind of a fascinating case.
01:07:33.000It's mostly a fascinating case because this is what happens when you have a culture that is so willing to look the other way on evil, promiscuous, disgusting behavior that by the time it reaches the level of criminal, there are serious questions about the criminality.
01:07:49.000That's the part of this that really is astonishing because there is an open legal question when it comes to The trial of Sean Diddy Combs as to whether he committed the crimes that are alleged.
01:07:59.000Because the crimes that are alleged are trafficking, not him being a complete piece of bleep, which he clearly, clearly is.
01:08:08.000The defense that Diddy's team is currently running is that Diddy is a piece of crap, but he's not a piece of crap who's trafficked.
01:08:15.000And one of the problems that the prosecution is going to have in this case is that he is fully admitting to, for example, beating up his girlfriend.
01:08:23.000But there's a difference between that and cross-state lines trafficking.
01:08:29.000And if all these people consented to this terrible treatment and kept coming back for more of this terrible treatment for the money, how criminal is it?
01:08:37.000That is the question that the defense is leaving on the table.
01:08:39.000Again, none of that is a go-ahead for his activity.
01:08:41.000But we have lost in our society the capacity at all to distinguish between the consensual and the moral.
01:08:47.000We have decided that if something is consensual, it is therefore moral.
01:08:50.000Again, there's sort of three categories here, consensual, moral, and legal.
01:08:54.000Okay, very often, something that is consensual is immoral, but also legal.
01:08:58.000But we have decided, basically, because as a country, we are more secular now, and because as a country, we no longer believe in morality and legality being separate in any serious way.
01:09:09.000Kind of on both sides, it's very strange.
01:09:11.000We now determine that if we don't like what somebody did, it must be illegal.
01:09:25.000Again, this is not a legal defense of Sean Diddy Combs.
01:09:27.000Again, we're still getting all the evidence.
01:09:29.000But that's the defense that he is making.
01:09:31.000According to the Wall Street Journal, faced with a mountain of video and photographic evidence of their client's violence toward women, the defense strategy is to own the bad behavior rather than make excuses.
01:09:39.000At the same time, his lawyers are trying to make clear domestic violence isn't the same as trafficking.
01:09:44.000Candidly acknowledging Combs'flaws might bear fruit in winning credibility with the jury, according to defense lawyers who aren't involved in the case.
01:09:49.000If you defend the indefensible, the jury isn't going to believe anything you say, said Moira Penza, a former federal prosecutor and partner at the law firm Wilkinson Steckloff.
01:09:57.000So, again, Diddy's already taken the reputational hit.
01:10:01.000So why wouldn't he actually just say, yeah, I engage in all this gross and terrible behavior, but it's not criminal.
01:10:07.000Sarah Kristoff, a former federal prosecutor, said lawyers for comes know they can't get around the video or cast of interest, detailed testimony of a toxic relationship with.
01:10:17.000The legal argument, she said, Combs did bad things, but not these bad things.
01:10:21.000This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
01:10:23.000Prosecutors told the jury in their opening statement that as proof of the racketeering conspiracy, they would show that Combs committed kidnapping, arson, and bribery.
01:10:30.000As one example, Combs bribed intercontinental security staff with $100,000 in an attempt to keep video surveillance footage of his hotel hallway attack on Ventura under wraps, they allege.
01:10:41.000Tuventura's testimony is proof of the conspiracy charge, which involves showing Combs and those in his inner circle agreed to commit crimes as part of the group.
01:10:48.000She told jurors he had his security team take her to a plastic surgeon after she suffered a gash to her head during one of the attacks.
01:10:55.000But Combs' lawyers are going to try to argue both instances were consistent with their defense, saying he didn't do those independently.
01:11:03.000So yes, he was abusive, and yes, he did those things, but he wasn't doing bribery for the sake of doing bribery.
01:11:07.000He was basically doing this stuff because he wanted to cover up.
01:11:10.000What exactly the underlying crime was, which was, you know, actual domestic violence.
01:11:16.000It's sort of a fascinating case, again, because what we actually should have just said years and years and years ago is that people in Hollywood are disgusting, vile and disgusting.
01:11:26.000But we've fallen into this trap now of if a woman stays with a man for long periods of time, after he demands she does these degrading, degrading things, that somehow all of that would be okay except for the criminality.
01:11:42.000What she did in staying with him was not okay.
01:11:45.000And we would be much better off in a society that did not suggest that the consensual and the moral were the exact same thing because they absolutely are not.
01:11:52.000Meanwhile, apparently, Diddy is actively working for a Donald Trump pardon.
01:12:17.000Now, Combs has praised President Trump in the past.
01:12:19.000In 2015, he said Donald Trump is a friend of mine and he works very hard.
01:12:23.000But their relationship turned sour because in June 2017, Diddy admitted, according to the Mirror, I think that, to be honest, we really don't give an F about Trump because black people are in the same F'd up position.