00:00:06.000This is happening at the highest levels of the American government.
00:00:09.000Elon Musk and Nick Shirley opened the door, but Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak is now busting through that wall like the Kool Aid man.
00:00:17.000The Daily Wire is serving up the receipts for widespread fraud, which the president and vice president can wipe out entirely.
00:00:23.000Billions of dollars of Medicaid stolen from you, the taxpayer.
00:00:26.000We've seen the quality leering centers and the suspect behavior of thousands taking advantage of state level programs.
00:00:33.000This is massive fraud that we're uncovering on the federal scale.
00:00:36.000Conservatives have always stood by the notion that government screws things up.
00:00:39.000Democrats build systems where waste, fraud, and abuse, that's the feature, not the bug.
00:00:44.000They love stealing money from some and giving it to others, all to make people more dependent on the government more broadly while blaming the free markets.
00:00:52.000We'll get into all the receipts in a moment.
00:00:54.000And speaking of disgusting, Tucker Carlson just did a crazy interview with the New York Times that proves once and for all he is not remotely on the right.
00:01:01.000And in fact, he now stands with the worst enemies of American ideals.
00:01:05.000Apparently, there's no daylight between these would be revolutionaries, Tucker Carlson, Bernie Sanders, and Hassan Piker.
00:01:19.000Well, Daily Wire exists to bring you the truth.
00:01:21.000We do that in a lot of ways our commentary, our documentaries, our films, and not least with our investigative reporting.
00:01:28.000So, this week, we have a series of bombshell reports after our reporters spent two months investigating the extent of welfare fraud in Ohio, where billions of dollars have now gone missing down the rat hole of government entitlement programs under the guise of home health care.
00:01:43.000Our goal at the Daily Wire is to smash the supposedly untouchable pillars of the welfare state.
00:01:47.000It's time to return to true conservatism.
00:01:52.000So, fraud isn't just happening in the blue cities where you might expect.
00:01:54.000It's happening right under the nose of Republican governors, too, in Ohio, for example.
00:02:00.000Think one address 93 companies, no windows, totally empty, billed to you, the American taxpayer, $66 million over the last several years.
00:02:10.000Shell companies, fake billing, fake services, covered tracks until this very instant.
00:02:16.000So, Daily Wire has now uncovered, via Luke Rosiak and our investigative team, Medicaid millionaires in a piece titled, Medicaid millionaires, how the feds pay immigrants billions to hang out with their own families.
00:02:28.000Luke points out Under the guise of healthcare, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid recipients' homes to perform homemaking and chores like cooking and cleaning.
00:02:36.000The people performing these personal services tasks don't have to be healthcare workers.
00:02:40.000In 2024, Ohio spent a billion dollars on home healthcare.
00:02:45.000So they literally pay people Medicaid money to go to other people's houses to perform homemaking and chores.0.99
00:02:53.000And as Luke writes, the new welfare queens aren't the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs.0.99
00:02:58.000They're the companies getting rich off of them.
00:03:01.000His overall impression that 99% of the facilities I visited had the hallmarks of waste, fraud, or abuse.
00:03:06.000We are talking about alleged criminality at a breathtaking scale.
00:03:11.000So, for example, this here is a picture of 93 offices in Columbus, Ohio.
00:03:35.000According to Luke, what's inside is 93 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office, often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in Home Health LLC, and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
00:03:49.000And again, this building, this address, billed taxpayers over $66 million over the last several years.
00:03:57.000And as Luke points out, if you try to track down what exactly is happening at any one of these home healthcare companies, what you will find is an endless rabbit hole.
00:04:06.000He says you'll find years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they are making from Medicaid are just a side gig.
00:04:18.000The government is not and cannot be monitoring the people to whom they write million dollar checks.
00:04:23.000They all share combinations of just a few names like Ahmed Mohammed and Mohammed Ahmed.
00:04:28.000And the population of Columbus, Ohio, it's the second biggest Somali population outside of Minnesota.
00:04:34.000They spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document.
00:04:37.000Many of them have their birthdays listed as January 1 because we don't know when they were born.
00:04:43.000Pretty much all of them, according to Luke, are registered voters.
00:06:21.000Well, there was a quiet Doge document drop in February of this year.
00:06:25.000So, again, people were ripping on Elon Musk over Doge, the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
00:06:30.000Well, they had a lot of After Effects, Doge.
00:06:33.000And one of the things they did is they revealed information into the public that allows journalists like Luke and our team, our investigative journalists here at Daily Wire, which we've been building for a couple of years, to go out and actually dig in.
00:06:45.000Luke was able to dive in thanks to those Doge documents.
00:06:48.000For decades, Medicaid billing data was a black box.
00:06:50.000It's one of the biggest government programs in human history.
00:06:53.000The public could not see a dime of it.
00:06:55.000And Doge changed all of that in February with a quiet data release that a lot of people missed.
00:06:59.000Well, again, this week, we're going to reveal a lot more about what's going on in Ohio.
00:07:03.000We'll talk about one landlord who owned buildings with 300 different Medicaid companies that billed the federal government $250 million.
00:07:14.000I mean, this kind of fraud has consequences.
00:07:17.000And again, it is a feature, not a bug.
00:07:19.000That there'd be Democrats out there who are upset with this kind of fraud.
00:07:22.000After all, if you're an advocate for a government program, you should want every dollar of that taxpayer money to go to someone who deserves the taxpayer money.
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00:10:01.000Meanwhile, on the economic front, one of the most astonishing features of the way that the left views economics is they block the free markets from working and then they blame the free markets.
00:10:13.000So, over the weekend, Spirit Airlines finally gave up the ghost.
00:10:20.000Spirit had entered bankruptcy in August of last year for the second time in a year.
00:10:25.000And its executives, according to the Wall Street Journal, developed a game plan dubbed Plan Charlie in case the company's fortunes could not be turned around.
00:10:33.000So, they tried to negotiate with the federal government.
00:10:35.000They were hoping for a $500 million government bailout to the tune of 90% government ownership in Spirit Airlines.
00:10:48.000That is not the way that failing companies should be bailed out.
00:10:51.000In fact, when companies fail, when they are falling down, what should happen is that they find another private buyer.
00:10:56.000They either go bankrupt, they run it into the ground, or they merge, or they seek outside funding.
00:11:01.000Because again, when it comes to the risk taking that is necessary in private industry, the next step of failure is you have to go out and you have to demonstrate a turnaround plan.
00:11:12.000You have to show somebody else that you are willing to make serious changes.
00:11:16.000And then you can bring in new capital, or maybe you can merge.
00:11:18.000The problem, of course, is that Democrats are responsible for the death of Spirit Airlines because Spirit Airlines tried to merge with JetBlue last year, and Democrats stopped it.
00:11:30.000Now, Spirit is trying to blame the jet fuel prices for its bankruptcy.
00:11:36.000They're trying to declare that the war in Iran is what the real problem was.
00:11:39.000But that wasn't the real problem because, again, the other airline companies are not going bankrupt right now.
00:11:44.000Spirit was running on non solid footing.
00:11:47.000Again, Spirit was famous for very, very cheap.
00:12:07.000But one thing that's happened, for example, is JetBlue provides free internet.
00:12:11.000So it used to be, and it still is on some of the airlines, that they make you pay for the internet.
00:12:16.000And now it seems that more and more airliners are going to move toward the free model.
00:12:20.000Competition and more competition in this area leads to better results.
00:12:23.000Well, JetBlue was trying to buy spirit.
00:12:25.000They were trying to merge with spirit.
00:12:27.000That was blocked by Democrats because Democrats have a theory.
00:12:30.000And that theory is if business gets bigger, that is inherently bad.
00:12:35.000So there are two theories of antitrust.
00:12:36.000Antitrust is the idea that you can't have a monopoly dominating a market because then it can set prices wherever it wants.
00:12:42.000So if you had a grocery store monopoly in your neighborhood, theoretically, they could set the price twice what it normally would be because you don't have any other choices.
00:12:50.000Now, true monopoly is incredibly rare in the market because if the prices tend to skyrocket, somebody else wants to get in on that action.
00:12:57.000They open up a grocery store across the street.
00:13:00.000Typically, true monopoly requires government intervention on behalf of the monopoly.
00:13:05.000But there's a second theory of antitrust that is not about the consumer at all.
00:13:09.000The first theory of antitrust says you should only police for monopoly when the consumer is harmed.
00:13:16.000And then there's a second theory of antitrust, the Democrat theory, which is if something is big, it is bad.
00:13:21.000That is the theory pursued by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
00:13:23.000So Elizabeth Warren is now blaming President Trump for Spirit's bankruptcy.
00:13:28.000She put out a tweet saying spiking fuel prices from Trump's war was the nail in the coffin for twice bankrupted Spirit Airline.
00:13:34.000For what it's worth, JetBlue merger failed because a judge appointed by Ronald Reagan said the deal was illegal.
00:13:39.000Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher cost hitting families, but that's not true.
00:13:44.000The reality is there was a block by the Biden administration on the merger between JetBlue and Spirit.
00:13:51.000In fact, here she was tweeting back in March of 2024, triumphantly, that the JetBlue Spirit merger had been ended I've warned for months that a JetBlue Spirit Airlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.
00:14:05.000The Justice Department and the Department of Transportation were right to stand up for consumers and fight against.
00:14:18.000By the way, the ex secretary of transportation, a man who really, really loves choo choo trains, Pete Buttigieg, who for some reason is considered an elite Democratic contender for the presidency after legitimately running the trains off the rails during his tenure at the Department of Transportation.
00:14:34.000Here is Pete Buttigieg in March 2024 talking about why they blocked the merger that would have saved spirit.
00:14:41.000Our department, the Department of Transportation, has generally not gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today.
00:14:50.000It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices, that they have access to low fares, that they have access to competition, and yet we've seen less and less and less of that competition over the years.
00:15:05.000Okay, again, the lack of competition is not going to be alleviated by things going bankrupt.
00:15:14.000Now, again, this is the Democrat stick.0.96
00:15:16.000The Democrat stick always and forever is government gets involved in a thing, government makes the thing worse, blame capitalism.
00:15:23.000And for people who don't understand free markets and don't understand capitalism, that's always an easy pitch because we live in a very, very prosperous time.
00:15:31.000We are richer than any human beings in the history of mankind.
00:15:35.000And so we tend to think that the natural state of things is being rich.
00:15:39.000Again, if you took a person from 1800 and dropped them into modern American society, They would not know what is going on.
00:15:45.000They would think that they dropped into materialist heaven because you can get anything you want at the press of a button delivered to your door with a magic device you hold in your hand.
00:15:55.000And that thing was sourced from 70 different countries.
00:15:59.000I know people talk about affordability.
00:16:01.000And again, affordability is a malleable term because no one ever considers anything truly affordable.
00:16:06.000But let's just put it this way back in 1800, an hour of candlelight might have cost you several hours of work during the day because you had to go get.
00:17:09.000Also, because capitalism is in fact moral.
00:17:12.000And one of the things that I've been railing against in the conservative movement for a long time is this idea that capitalism and free markets can only be defended on a utilitarian basis.
00:17:23.000That free markets and capitalism are only good because of their products.
00:17:28.000And the problem with that argument is true.
00:17:30.000It's true that capitalism does make things better and it does make things cheaper and people innovate and they invent.
00:17:36.000But if you don't defend capitalism and free markets on a moral basis, you leave room for true grifters and demagogues, ranging from Tucker Carlson to Bernie Sanders, to suggest that true morality would be ditching the free markets in favor of a centralized governmental system that is fairer in some way.
00:17:57.000See, the true Marxist appeal, the appeal of Marxism, was never that Marxism was going to make life better for people, it was that it was going to change men's souls.
00:18:04.000That was always the religious appeal of the Marxist philosophy.
00:18:07.000It is not that you're going to have better stuff cheaper, that you're going to be more prosperous.
00:18:12.000That may have been Marx's original theory, but it was abjectly wrong and clearly wrong.
00:18:18.000But undergirding that theory was a different theory that true justice for man springs from the idea that a centralized government can provide cosmic justice, that free markets are somehow inherently unfair, that they are immoral.
00:18:32.000Not that they're not productive, that they are immoral.
00:18:34.000So you have to make a moral defense of free markets.
00:18:37.000So here's the moral defense of free markets that conservatives should be making.
00:18:40.000First, man is made in the image of God.
00:19:13.000I understand there are a lot of people who believe that free markets are unjust because some people prosper and some people don't in the same measure.
00:19:20.000But that is a misinterpretation of the concept of justice.
00:19:23.000Justice does not mean that we all have the same result.
00:19:25.000Justice is the proposition, as Aristotle suggested, that equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.
00:19:32.000You might be mad at God or at nature for not making the world the way that you would want it.
00:19:54.000We are all provided equal rights by God, but that doesn't mean we all have equal qualities.
00:19:59.000And there is no way for a centralized government to rectify that absent some sort of Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron burden the people who actually achieve in order to achieve justice.
00:20:11.000Thomas Sowell points out that justice is usually considered a process, not an outcome.
00:20:15.000That's why the justice system, for example.
00:20:18.000We're not God that we should just declare there should be equality or there should be justice.
00:20:23.000There is a universe, there's a world of real facts, and we have to determine whether we are making things worse or better when we make a specific change in that system.
00:20:33.000And by the way, free markets actually do promote true freedom because I get to value my labor however I choose.
00:20:40.000The pricing system is an aggregation of what I think something is worth and what you think something is worth and what we all collectively think things are worth.
00:20:48.000Free markets prize diversity in a very, very serious sense.
00:20:51.000They take account of every individual's needs and wants and desires, and then they allow for that diversity of opinion to emerge on the value of products, goods, and services.
00:21:00.000Because what we are watching right now, and Spirit Airlines is a great example of this.
00:21:03.000What we are watching right now is an anti capitalist revolution.
00:21:08.000Artie, coming up, Tucker Carlson does an entire interview with the New York Times in which it becomes clear that he and Hassan Piker, they're basically the same thing, except that Tucker, you know, does his show out of a cabin and Hassan Piker does his show from Cartier.
00:21:19.000But other than that, they say kind of the same thing.
00:21:21.000First, there's been a lot of talk lately about how AI is going to make the world a better place.
00:21:25.000The answer is that's true, probably, but the real question is better for whom?
00:21:29.000Well, it's better for your insurance company.
00:21:31.000Which now has the ability to scrape your data and figure out exactly how to raise your premiums based on what you've been searching for on WebMD.
00:21:37.000Might be better for the HR department that can quietly filter candidates based on browsing history.
00:21:41.000Probably better for political campaigns that can target you based on your personality profile, what you do online.
00:21:47.000Not necessarily better all the way around for you.
00:21:50.000Now, the reality is that your online activity, that's your business.
00:21:54.000And you don't want people scraping that data, which is why you need ExpressVPN.
00:23:02.000So Tucker Carlson, he, um, I will say that Tucker Carlson's dislike of capitalism was the first clue.
00:23:11.000The reason I'm bringing this up is because Tucker did a very, very long interview with the New York Times over the weekend that has struck a lot of conservatives as odd.
00:23:19.000Didn't strike me as odd because, of course, I've been watching what Tucker has been doing for a while.
00:23:23.000And what he's representative of is a demagogic right that despises free markets and meritocracy and believes there need to be special carve out rights for particular groups.
00:23:33.000It is the mirror of the grievance party left.
00:23:35.000It's why I have suggested that the horseshoe right and the left are basically on the same page.
00:23:39.000They just have different groups they're trying to benefit.
00:23:42.000That essentially their argument is the same.
00:25:47.000But the truth would be, I don't want to put 10 million men out of work because you're going to have 10 million dead families, and the cascading effect from that will wreck your country.
00:25:56.000And now, you'll notice that Tucker, even then, was doing this game where he would say, I love capitalism.
00:26:40.000The current system, and I don't know what you would call our economic system.
00:26:45.000I mean, I'm often told it's free market capitalism.
00:26:48.000It doesn't bear any resemblance to what I thought free market capitalism was.
00:26:53.000I'm not sure the name is important, except as a way to mislead and bully people into being quiet about it.
00:27:00.000But any economic system in which the overwhelming majority of the rewards go to an ever shrinking number of people or Or, the proportion of people is a doomed system because it makes people revolutionary.
00:27:16.000I saw this in Venezuela, which I visited as a child.
00:27:18.000It was a prosperous kind of first world country, beautiful country, actually.0.93
00:27:24.000Okay, so the idea, first of all, that Venezuela was a model of capitalism until Hugo Chavez came around is ridiculous.
00:27:30.000They had serious corruption problems in Venezuela well before Hugo Chavez.
00:27:34.000But again, he's not defending capitalism, he is ripping capitalism in precisely the same terms that leftists rip capitalism.
00:27:41.000Tucker Carlson is not in any way on the right at this point.
00:27:45.000I mean, here is Hassan Piker with the folks at Trigonometry basically saying the same thing that capitalism will inevitably lead to authoritarianism.
00:27:54.000My fear is that that is where capitalism inevitably leads.
00:28:13.000But there will come a point where it outlives its usefulness, and those who own the capital, the owners of capital, will have to make a decision.
00:28:30.000Okay, so again, Tucker Carlson, Hassan Piker saying the exact same thing.
00:28:34.000Here was Tucker Carlson, again, in this interview with the New York Times, saying that what we are watching right now is a total destruction of economic opportunity.
00:28:41.000Again, this is demagoguery at the highest level.
00:29:11.000And one of them said, Oh, yeah, his best friend just graduated with a degree in computer science last year, has not been able to find a job.
00:29:17.000Stanford computer science can't find a job.
00:29:19.000So that's like a window into the total destruction of the economic opportunity for young people.0.80
00:29:26.000And what looks to me as a non economist like the true.
00:29:29.000Hoarding of capital by a tiny group of people, it looks like a very lopsided and unfair economic system that is guaranteed to radicalize young people, not just young people, but especially young people.
00:29:45.000So, again, this idea that he cites one Stanford student to say that there's a hoarding of capital at the top levels, it's just Marxist claptrap.
00:29:54.000Okay, yes, AI means that there are obviously transitions in the job market, but this idea that this is therefore somehow.
00:30:01.000To be laid at the feet of free market capitalism itself.
00:30:04.000What you really need is government interventionism.
00:31:36.000Lose money typically during wars because it turns out that the government gets very, very into the business of how banks run and then tries to seize their capital.
00:32:24.000Again, the left and the right here are on the same page because in the end, what they hate, what they cannot stand, is the idea of a free market system that rests on individual freedom.
00:32:32.000They want to restructure it in line with their own preferences.
00:32:37.000Bernie Sanders' view on AI is basically the same as Tucker Carlson's view on AI, which is the same thing, by the way, as the Chinese view on AI, because China is trying to destroy us on the AI front.0.52
00:32:48.000Bernie Sanders, over the past couple of weeks, hosted a panel with literal members of Chinese universities on AI safety and governance.
00:32:57.000And at that panel, he said, The richest, most powerful people in the world are now building a runaway train with no brakes.
00:33:03.000They acknowledge they don't understand how it works, they don't know where it's headed.
00:33:08.000We need to cooperate, we need dialogue.
00:33:10.000Again, the reason that Bernie and all the rest of these characters are ripping on AI is not because they have some sort of principled stand against AI excesses.
00:33:37.000If scientists who are Nobel Prize winners, guys who've gotten the Turing Award, which is the major award given to Beatle in computer science, if they say to you that humanity is in danger, do you think you might want to do something about it?
00:35:31.000We are no longer going to vote for do nothing Democrats either.
00:35:34.000We're voting for Democrats with a purpose.
00:35:42.000Now, again, all of this is rooted in a broader conspiracy theory because here's the thing most Americans understand, because they are not ungrateful, that America is a unique and incredible place, that our free markets make us awesome, that our Constitution means we have freedoms no one else on earth has, that the greatest privilege in life is to be born an American.
00:36:07.000Actually, you are a victim of false consciousness.
00:36:09.000Actually, the institutions have been brainwashing you and are routinely betraying you.
00:36:14.000And Tucker and Hassan Piker, they're on the same team here.
00:36:18.000This is why during this New York Times interview, it's insane, by the way, Tucker Carlson, who apparently pretends that he's a friend to TPUSA and Erica Kirk, is literally out there sowing doubts about the FBI's investigation into Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:37:32.000I'm not going to go into the tremendous evil of undermining an ongoing prosecution into the murder of Charlie Kirk, which actually is an evil thing to do.
00:37:39.000I'm just going to point out the point of what Tucker is doing, which of course is to sow doubt in American institutions, even the ones that are currently run by Tucker's supposed erstwhile allies.
00:37:47.000It's all part of a broader conspiracy theory.
00:37:49.000That the institutions of America are lying to you.
00:37:59.000America's systems are inherently evil.1.00
00:38:01.000America's systems need to be torn to the ground.
00:38:04.000Here's Hassan Piker saying the same thing from a different angle.0.95
00:38:08.000America is, in its foundation, a white supremacist country.
00:38:12.000This is very frustrating for Republicans to hear.
00:38:14.000This is even frustrating for liberals to hear sometimes, but it's just the truth.
00:38:19.000Okay, and then you get to where it's very clear everybody's holding hands.
00:38:24.000So, if you have a conspiracy theory about the free markets, that truly they're the invention of a corrupt group of people, if your belief is that America's systems are inherently evil, they lie to you on behalf of somebody else, and then you look around and say, who's successful?
00:38:39.000Who are the beneficiaries of this system?
00:38:42.000This is how you end up with Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker and all the rest of the people trafficking in anti Israel, bizarre anti Jewish conspiracy theories in the same group.
00:38:53.000That is always the outcome of this conspiratorial worldview.
00:39:15.000Would that be because Tucker Carlson is upholding the virtue of Sharia law in cities around the world?
00:39:20.000Or would it be because he's doing propaganda on behalf of Islam's view of Jesus?
00:39:24.000Or is it because he is doing propaganda against Israel every single day of the week?
00:39:29.000Or is it because he is spreading propaganda?
00:39:30.000Conspiracy theories about how nefarious Zionists are in control of the American government.
00:39:35.000Here's Mehdi Hassan, again, one of the more despicable people in American public commentary.1.00
00:39:39.000I'm going to talk about people who are immigrants to the United States taking advantage of the system.0.99
00:39:44.000Here he is praising Tucker Carlson.1.00
00:39:47.000For the people watching at home, these days Tucker Carlson has a big fan base amongst the anti war left who see him as saying the right stuff, trying to stop Trump from illegal wars in Iran, and amongst a lot of Muslims and Arab Americans who see him now as this great champion of Palestine.
00:40:03.000Wherever I go, Literally, wherever I go in this country, I do a lot of live events.
00:40:30.000If you hadn't noticed, Israel lit our house on fire.0.98
00:40:33.000And the alliance is very strong and it is based again on this idea.1.00
00:40:36.000That somehow a nefarious coterie of outside people, Jews, are running the country.0.88
00:40:42.000Here is Tucker Carlson claiming that President Trump is being held hostage by Netanyahu and his advocates in the United States, who presumably would be pro Israel Jews and Christian Zionists, the people he says he despises most.0.95
00:40:52.000Here he was talking to the New York Times in terms that are quite familiar to every anti Semite in the right wing and on the left.
00:41:00.000This was not a normal decision making process, and my strong impression was that Trump was more a hostage than a sovereign decision maker in this.
00:41:10.000Well, so tell me what you're getting at when you say the President of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, had no choice.
00:41:18.000He seemed, and that's kind of the question.
00:41:21.000And I'm, what I'm really fascinated by is the lack of curiosity on display into how exactly this happened.
00:41:27.000What are the mechanisms by which a guy who's supposedly sovereign, in charge, granted this authority by voters, tens of millions of them, can't make a decision in the country's interest or even in his own interest?
00:41:40.000He knew, and I know he knew because I talked to him about it directly, that.
00:41:44.000The consequences, potential consequences, were profound and profoundly bad.
00:41:48.000The end of his presidency to start, which I think it has proven to be, he knew that.
00:41:57.000I don't even know what I'm questioning.
00:41:59.000I'm just asking why people aren't asking the same questions I'm asking when there's no evidence of the questions.
00:42:04.000Okay, this again is a right left uniting issue, at least on the fringes.
00:42:10.000Now, the mainstream of the Democratic Party has been doing the same thing.0.73
00:42:12.000They've also been claiming that Trump was somehow argued into the war by the nefarious Jews.
00:42:17.000Now, President Trump, I've noticed, he's kind of a headstrong character.
00:42:19.000I've noticed he makes a lot of his own decisions.
00:42:21.000But according to Tucker Carlson and the left, the only way this could have happened is if somebody argued Trump into it, and those people probably had suspiciously evil motives.0.72
00:42:31.000He entered a war, got pulled into it by BB Netanyahu.
00:43:16.000And by the way, Tucker goes further than that.
00:43:18.000He says that Israel decides the future of the American economy and American service members in this interview at the New York Times.
00:43:25.000Israel has that power in our Congress, not because we have so many Jews.
00:43:30.000I don't know how many Jews live in the United States, fewer than 10 million, I think, but because we have tens of millions of evangelical Christians who unquestioningly support Israel because they believe it's their theological duty to do so.
00:43:43.000So on this question hangs the future of the American economy and the lives of American service members.
00:43:51.000The idea that the American economy hinges on the future of Israel is bizarre.0.74
00:44:25.000Hamas and Hezbollah, while they're not getting my endorsement, are not relevant to the experience of most Americans.
00:44:34.000Citibank is a bigger threat to Americans than Hamas or Hezbollah.
00:44:38.000I mean, first of all, we should start with the question of whether Citibank is actually a threat to Americans, because it turns out tens of millions of Americans actually bank at Citibank, and they could not take out a credit card from Citibank if they so chose.
00:44:51.000That doesn't seem, again, what Tucker is doing here is suggesting that you are being distracted from the evils of American capitalism by foreign threats that don't actually exist on behalf, presumably, of a nefarious coterie of people who are somehow gaming the system.
00:46:02.000There is an entire anti Semitic worldview that has been based on the protocols of the elders of Zion, you know, that there is like this cabal of powerful Jews that. controls the world and, you know, that book was written in the early 20th century, but it, you know, helped the Nazis and it really has informed a lot of the views of many people today that there is, you know,
00:46:29.000this very powerful sect of Jewish people who want global war and global conflict.0.74
00:46:36.000People are genuinely concerned that it opens the door to this idea that has been debunked and has been used in, you know, absolutely vicious ways to annihilate an entire people.0.95
00:47:23.000The question is whether his concerns are justified, whether they are based in evidence, or whether they are part of a broader conspiracy theory about the evils of the United States.
00:47:31.000By the way, he was asked about Nick Fuentes, of course, and he said that Senator Ted Cruz is more morally repulsive than the Nazi standing Nick Fuentes.
00:47:40.000This guy is supposedly a leader on the right.
00:48:27.000I mean, if there's tape of Nick Fuentes saying we should kill people because we hate their parents, or it's okay to kill children, I would love to see the tape.0.99
00:49:18.000On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing in ceremony as president.
00:49:24.000You said, and I'm quoting, maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what's inside that book.
00:49:30.000And then on a recent show, you went further saying, here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them.
00:49:57.000I don't know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I'm not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is.
00:50:04.000If there's just one, I actually tried to understand it.
00:50:07.000Another thing he doesn't understand.0.72
00:50:15.000But the bigger lie is the lie that he is propagating.
00:50:17.000It's a lie that the left is also propagating.
00:50:19.000It is a lie that America is a terrible place that is filled with nefarious forces beyond your control that are actually in control of your life and wrecking America.
00:50:27.000And if that view of America prevails, then we are in serious, serious, serious trouble.0.99
00:50:32.000Now, meanwhile, the president of the United States continues to be a bulwark against stupidity, particularly when it comes to the war in Iran, the one that Tucker is decrying as the end of America.0.98
00:50:55.000Okay, the CENTCOM, United States Central Command, put out a notice this morning that the United States is now forcibly attempting to open the Strait of Hormuz.
00:51:06.000U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom.
00:51:12.000American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping.
00:51:16.000As a first step, two U.S. flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey.
00:51:21.000Okay, so if the United States opens the Strait of Hormuz and the only thing that remains closed is Iran's capacity to ship oil out, they've got a massive problem.0.81
00:51:30.000Because again, their leverage point is the idea they could blackmail the United States into basically ending our conflict with them without them giving up anything by shutting off the Strait of Hormuz.
00:51:42.000President Trump is not having any of it.
00:51:43.000Here he was saying, listen, if we have to, we'll strike again.
00:51:48.000What circumstances would you restart military strikes on Turkey?
00:52:21.000When people look at one number in isolation without looking at the other numbers, they think that, for example, the president's approval ratings are low because of the war.
00:52:29.000The reality is the president's approval ratings are low across the board right now, and that is because of people's dyspepsia with the economy.
00:52:36.000Right now, he's got a 34% approval rating on the economy.
00:52:38.000He's got a 33% approval rating on the war.
00:52:40.000He's got a 45% approval rating on the border.
00:52:42.000What happens is if a politician starts to hit an unpopular period, everything that he does gets unpopular.
00:52:48.000But that doesn't mean that what he's doing isn't brave.
00:52:54.000His point is that we can blast the hell out of Ron or we can make a deal.
00:52:58.000He would prefer a deal, but he's not going to walk away with an American L. Which is, again, very different from pretty much all the presidents we've had in recent history.
00:53:24.000On a human basis, I prefer not, but that's the option.
00:53:29.000Okay, meanwhile, the Secretary of the Treasury, who has been operating with Extraordinary precision with regard to the Iranian economy.
00:53:36.000He points out that they are basically running out of money.
00:53:39.000They are having to shut down oil refineries because they don't have a way of shipping their oil out of the country.
00:53:44.000They're running out of money to pay their guys, the IRGC, which means the regime has a serious problem on its hands.
00:53:49.000And remember, grabbing the Strait of Hormuz was not an exercise of power, it was an exercise of desperation.
00:53:55.000Shutting off the Strait of Hormuz alienated every country in the region and most of the countries of Asia as well.
00:54:00.000And if they somehow lose control of the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranians, if they can no longer control the flow in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, Except that their oil is being stopped, then what leverage do they have left, especially if the United States goes after the remainder of their ballistic missile facility, something that, for example, the UAE and Saudi Arabia would love to see happen?
00:54:19.000Here's Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant.0.52
00:54:24.000And I can tell you that we are suffocating the regime, and they are not able to pay their soldiers.
00:54:32.000This is a real economic blockade, and it is in all parts of government.
00:55:02.000We will continue to track that down, and we're going to preserve those assets for the Iranian people on the other side of this conflict.
00:55:11.000Again, what the president is doing right now is likely to be successful.0.73
00:55:15.000Okay, so time for a thing I like and a thing that I hate.
00:55:17.000So I know that people like Tucker Carlson have suggested that the great villain of World War II was not Adolf Hitler, you know, the person who started World War II and was responsible for the death of legitimately tens of millions of human beings.
00:55:28.000That actually the great villain of World War II is Winston Churchill, the leader of Great Britain during World War II.0.97
00:55:34.000This, of course, is historically ignorant and ridiculous on its face.0.85
00:55:37.000So I've been going through and rereading Churchill's six volume history of the Second World War, and there's some good reminders for our time.0.93
00:55:44.000Mainly because they are eternal lessons.
00:55:46.000Quote, delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, genuine love of peace, and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation.
00:55:54.000The utter devotion of the liberals to sentiment apart from reality, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries.
00:56:04.000As Churchill pointed out, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
00:56:17.000You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
00:56:21.000And the point being that starry eyed anti Americanism, anti Westernism is not a solve for people who want to destroy you, ranging from China to Russia to Iran to the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany.
00:56:37.000And one more thing that I like we'll end on an upbeat note before we get to the subscriber member block.
00:56:48.000As we who like Star Wars are fond of saying, there is a brand new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is one of the successful spinoff properties under sort of the Kathleen Kennedy universe.
00:56:59.000This is the Pedro Pascal series that is now being made into a movie about Baby Yoda and The Mandalorian.