00:00:16.000And who else has been promoting the ideas of Vladimir Putin and his government, a government that seeks the destruction of America's power in the world?
00:00:24.000Well, I like that one and maybe also like that one.
00:00:50.000So, we all know that Candace Owens hates a lot of things like the truth, basic scientific knowledge, proper pronunciation of words, Charlie Kirk's widow, and naturally the Jews.0.99
00:01:00.000But undergirding all of that is a conspiratorial anti American worldview.
00:01:05.000You see, as we'll get to, Candace really does not like America, and neither do her ideological allies.
00:01:11.000And that is why she is headed on over to Russia to visit her friends, her ideological handlers and sponsors over in Russia.
00:01:17.000It's not why she said she's headed to Russia, but here she was on her show explaining that she is headed on over to Russia.
00:01:34.000I've been wanting to go to St. Petersburg for a very, very long time, just as a Christian in general, just to see some of those cathedrals and churches.
00:01:42.000And we're finally making it happen in a family trip.
00:02:07.000Our current status with Russia, not great.
00:02:10.000Obviously, St. Petersburg itself has been under Ukrainian attack recently.
00:02:14.000And not just that, the United States government has a problem with the Russian government.
00:02:18.000The State Department currently says that Americans should not travel to Russia for literally any reason.
00:02:24.000Quote, U.S. citizens are at risk due to terrorism, unrest, wrongful detention, and other threats.
00:02:29.000U.S. citizens in Russia should leave immediately.
00:02:32.000One of the reasons, by the way, is because they say that the Russian embassy, the American embassy in Russia, will not be able to help you if you go over there and you get in trouble with the Russian government.
00:02:40.000In fact, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, pointed out that the United States has severe sanctions on Russia right now for a reason.
00:02:48.000The Biden administration put on very, what I would call mild sanctions because they were worried about gasoline prices going up into an election.
00:03:02.000Probably the worst national security advisor in the history of the country, Jake Sullivan, in an act of bravery on his way out the door in January, raised the sanction level on behalf of the Trump administration.
00:03:15.000We let those in situ when we took office.
00:03:20.000They have fast forward to October, and President Trump instructed me to sanction the two largest Russian oil companies, Luke Oil and Rosneft, which we did.
00:03:34.000So, no one has done more sanctions than the Trump administration on Russian oil.
00:03:42.000Now, listen, I get that there are a lot of people out there who think, okay, fine, famous rich person goes to any country they want, like Russia.
00:03:50.000My security team would not let me travel to Russia because there's a pretty high likelihood that I would be wrongly arrested or maybe some sort of polonium would be put in my tea or something.
00:04:00.000Candace Owens traipses in, as did, of course, Tucker Carlson.
00:04:26.000So, what actually is Candace doing in Russia?0.64
00:04:28.000She's not going there for the fishing.
00:04:30.000Reporter Ryan Morrow reported on X that Candace is actually attending and speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum alongside.
00:04:37.000Vladimir Putin, Alexander Dugin, who we'll get to in a moment, sort of known as Putin's brain, the great theorist of Russian supremacism, and other members of the Russian government and intel community.
00:04:48.000According to Morrow, he reports that the St. Petersburg Forum is, quote, a known hub for Russian intel.
00:04:53.000Leaked docs show its panels serve as recruitment pipelines for foreign collaborators.
00:04:57.000Top goals include state directed soft power programs.
00:05:01.000As Morrow reports, SPIEF is a hotspot for Russian intelligence.
00:05:08.000The moderator for Candace's panel, a person named Maria Sittel, is sanctioned by the EU for her involvement in Russia's hybrid warfare, which targets European audiences with information manipulation.
00:05:18.000Her co panelist, a person named Alexander Zharov, is sanctioned by the United States because he's one of the most powerful propagandists for the Russian government.
00:05:27.000Another co panelist is sanctioned by the United States and is the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament, the Duma.
00:05:32.000Others who are joining Candace, according to the reporter Ryan Morrow, at SPIEF in Russia are Andrei.
00:05:38.000Bezrikov, who was arrested as a deep cover Russian spy in the United States in 2010.
00:05:42.000He literally inspired the show The Americans.
00:05:44.000And also Scott Ritter, a former UN inspector and convicted pedophile who is currently under FBI investigation for acting as a foreign agent of Russia.
00:05:53.000And of course, none of this should be a shock.
00:05:55.000You'll recall that recently Candace Owens interviewed Hunter Biden.
00:06:02.000And after her interview, Laura Loomer correctly reports that Russia Today, which is the Russian state media, Posted 17 separate clips of Candace's interview with Hunter Biden, which, of course, is not a shock because she is an ideological ally.
00:06:15.000They do the same thing with Tucker Carlson.
00:06:18.000And Tucker is another one of these Russian allies, pretty obviously and pretty clearly.
00:06:22.000I mean, he's been spending years at this point just parroting whatever Russia's perspective on the world is, like over and over and over again.
00:06:32.000In 2022, it was actually widely reported that the Kremlin had issued a memo saying, It is essential to use as much as possible of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host.
00:07:43.000He just had people in seats above him at Fox.
00:07:46.000Preventing him from going fully off the rails.
00:07:48.000And so the Tucker you're seeing today is, in fact, the real Tucker.
00:07:52.000And Russia loves that real Tucker because he agrees with them, obviously, which is why Tucker in 2024 headed on over to Russia and praised the magic of their Russian operated shopping carts because the man's never been to an Aldi's.
00:08:05.000He is one of the most silver spoon people in America, astonished by the workings of basic grocery stores.
00:08:14.000So, a longstanding feature, maybe the longest.
00:08:17.000Feature of Cold War propaganda in the West was the Soviet grocery store.0.90
00:08:23.000No products, no choices, shoddily made things, and it wasn't actually propaganda, it was real.
00:08:31.000And you can look up the pictures on the internet if you want.
00:08:34.000So, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at a contemporary modern day 2024 Russian grocery store two years into sanctions.
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00:12:14.000And the answer is ideological kinship.
00:12:16.000So we understand that, and I'll get to that in a moment, but The really big question here is why is this important?
00:12:21.000Well, we've been watching over the past several years, really over the past decade, and it feels like everything in America is kind of falling apart, right?
00:12:45.000They didn't rig the 2016 election or some nonsense like that.
00:12:48.000And a lot of the institutional distrust that Americans have right now is earned by Russiagate or the government's response to COVID or the Black Lives Matter scam or the cover up of Joe Biden's mental incompetence.
00:12:59.000A lot of blame to go around for institutional distrust.
00:13:03.000Our enemies, Russia, China, Iran, they wait for vulnerability in the United States and then they exacerbate divides and they exploit them.0.85
00:13:13.000Here's how the world works through the lens of actual legitimate influence operations.0.76
00:13:21.000There's a guy named Yuri Bezmanov, who's a Soviet informant and KGB operative.
00:13:25.000He defected to the United States in the early 70s.
00:13:28.000In the 1984 interview that's become pretty famous online, titled Deception Was My Job, Bezmanov laid out, Before stages of what he called ideological subversion that were created by radical Soviet Marxists to indoctrinate and weaken nations from within and then destroy them.
00:13:43.000Listen to how he lays out the operation here.
00:13:47.000To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
00:14:07.000It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and it's divided in four basic stages.
00:14:24.000Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of The enemy.
00:14:38.000In other words, Marxism Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.
00:14:54.000Most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system.
00:15:18.000Even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.0.89
00:15:31.000Now, demoralization, as Bezanov spells it out, is followed by stage two, which is destabilization.0.90
00:15:37.000Destabilization is where basically you create the preconditions for stage three, which is a crisis.
00:16:10.000But right now, our enemies are, as they always have, and remember, Vladimir Putin was a KGB agent, our enemies are laser focused on demoralizing us.
00:16:17.000And Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, all the people that Russia has been openly using and allying with, these are demoralization agents.
00:16:28.000Russia needs them and is using them, and they're not shy about this.
00:16:31.000So, Alexander Dugan has been mentioned several times on the show.
00:16:35.000Reminder he's widely known as Vladimir Putin's brain, sort of an in house philosopher for Vladimir Putin.
00:16:41.000He's appeared himself on a wide variety of the woke right shows, ranging from Tucker to Alex Jones.
00:16:47.000He actually got his start as the co founder of something called the National Bolshevik Party, which was essentially a fascist party calling for restored Russian empire and centralized economics.
00:16:56.000Well, while he was working with that group in 1997, He wrote a book called Foundations of Geopolitics.
00:17:01.000That book was then apparently used as a textbook at the General Staff Academy in Russia.
00:17:06.000So this became part of their actual policy.
00:17:08.000I want to read you a quote from that book, Foundations of Geopolitics in 1997 by Alexander Dugan.
00:17:14.000And you see if you can't spot what's going on.
00:17:16.000Quote, It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the U.S. domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist, and sectarian groups.
00:17:31.000That destabilizes internal political processes in the United States.
00:17:35.000At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in U.S. politics, the theses of those often right wing Republican circles that believe the U.S. should confine itself to its domestic problems.
00:17:47.000This state of affairs is highly advantageous to Russia, even if isolationism is carried out within the original Monroe Doctrine wording, i.e., if the U.S. limits its influence to two Americas.
00:17:57.000This does not mean Eurasia, meaning Russia, should give up on destabilizing the Latin American world by seeking to remove certain regions from U.S. control.
00:18:05.000All levels of geopolitical pressure on the United States must be engaged simultaneously.
00:18:12.000Find allies who are stumping for America to be weaker in the world, actively generate tension, actively generate sectarianism in American politics, actively pit Americans against one another, and find friends on the right wing side of the aisle to help foment all of that.0.52
00:18:30.000And the good news for Russia is that in the era of the internet, when there really are No reliable fact checkers when the wave of information that Bezmenov talks about is unstoppable.
00:18:40.000There's just so much conflicting stuff out there.
00:18:42.000It's very difficult for anyone who is not deeply in this stuff to find the truth.
00:18:47.000It's a perfect environment for the spreading of this kind of demoralization and chaos.
00:18:56.000There was Alex Jones not all that long ago talking with Dugan and rediscovering what it meant to be American, how great it was to be America because of Russia.
00:19:08.000Russia, we need to be more like Russia, actually.
00:19:27.000It's not that we're adopting Russian propaganda, we're adopting who we already were and rediscovering who we are together.0.94
00:19:36.000And it's just a wonderful thing because they intended to have Western civilization and Christianity buried.0.71
00:19:43.000But by taking us to the edge of oblivion, it actually made us realize how precious it was because you don't know what you've lost until it's gone.0.94
00:20:10.000Russia, as leader of the Christian world, which, by the way, is an absurdity.0.84
00:20:13.000As we'll see, this is repeated constantly by the woke right influencer class who are totally aligned with the Russian government on all of this.
00:20:21.000I mean, here was Tucker Carlson, not all that long ago, doing an interview with Alexander Dugan and painting him as a victim of censorship and a non regime aligned philosopher and, you know, just a true sort of platonic figure.
00:20:36.000Alexander Dugan is a 62 year old Russian academic philosopher.
00:21:11.000Dugan, by the West, with Tucker, says that actually the reason the West hates Vladimir Putin is not because he's an aggressive dictator, a former KGB agent who has fostered chaos and evil all over the world and is currently involved in the invasion of a sovereign country that has resulted in the deaths.
00:21:28.000And meanwhile, he's threatening other Eastern European countries as well, spreading chaos down into Africa, spreading chaos into the Middle East.
00:21:34.000Now, the reason, according to Tucker and Dugan, that the West has a problem with Vladimir Putin is because actually, Vladimir Putin is a true traditionalist.
00:21:44.000He's somebody who truly stands up for, I mean, when he's not poisoning his enemies, that's what he's doing.
00:21:59.000I think, um, uh, I think that, um, first of all, Putin is traditional leader.
00:22:06.000So Putin, uh, when he came to power, from the very beginning, he started to, uh, to, to extract the, um, our country, the Russia from the global influence.
00:22:21.000So he started to contradict to global progressist agenda.
00:22:27.000And these people who supported, uh, Soviet Union, they were progressists and they are now progressists.0.65
00:22:34.000So they have felt that now they are dealing with someone who doesn't share this progressist agenda and who tried and with success to restore traditional values, sovereignty of the state, Christianity.
00:23:00.000Well, meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same exact routine.0.63
00:23:03.000She, of course, is an advocate for Russia as somehow a Christian bulwark.
00:23:08.000Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene, who could not spell Russia if spotted several of the letters.0.74
00:23:13.000She would likely put an H in it somehow.
00:23:15.000In any case, here's Marjorie Taylor Greene.1.00
00:23:29.000As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it.
00:23:32.000Vladimir Putin has not said he wants to go march across Europe and take Europe.
00:23:38.000Okay, first of all, Vladimir Putin has, in fact, talked about the Eurasian Empire that needs to arise, friendly governments all across Western Europe that would be more allied with Russia than with the United States.
00:23:49.000As far as Russia as the great protector of Christianity, we should point out at this point that Russia is one of the most secular countries in all of the world.
00:23:56.000Its church attendance rate is somewhere between 6% and 14%.
00:23:59.000The Russian Orthodox Church works for the Russian government.
00:24:02.000They have cracked down on a wide variety of religious institutions, including Protestant institutions.
00:24:07.000And as far as their supposed social conservatism, Russia has one of the worst abortion rates on planet Earth, 45 per 1,000 women every year.
00:24:17.000We have a horrible abortion problem in the United States, and Russia is almost triple that number.0.96
00:24:24.000Their total fertility rate, by the way, this supposedly great restorer of Western civilization, their total fertility rate, meaning how many babies women are having, 1.4, well below replacement rates, one of the lowest in the West.0.86
00:24:36.000So Russia is spreading lies, but they happen to be woke right lies that cross paths, that cross streams, Ghostbusters style, with the Candace's, with the Tuckers.0.76
00:24:44.000Their rhetoric is precisely the rhetoric of the so called woke right.0.51
00:24:49.000America's economy might be prosperous, but it's emptying out America of Christianity.0.87
00:24:53.000Again, this coming from a country that literally has the government embedding with its own form of religion to crack down on other forms of religion.0.92
00:25:03.000American capitalism is inferior to feudalism, right?
00:25:05.000All of this crosses strings with the Tucker and Candace.
00:25:07.000And I'm not saying that Tucker and Candace are working for Russia.
00:25:09.000I'm saying they agree with them, they agree with America's enemies.
00:25:13.000And here's Tucker saying capitalism is worse than feudalism.
00:25:17.000I mean, feudalism is so much better than what we have now because, at least in feudalism, the leader is vested in.
00:25:23.000The prosperity of the people he rules.
00:25:58.000And so you're watching the end of the global American empire, the unipolar world.
00:26:05.000And so the death of the unipolar moment and of the institutions within the evangelical movement, American Protestant Christianity, are going away, but they will be replaced.
00:26:27.000They're living in the crucial moment of this emergence of multipolarity, including Russia, China, Iran, and say it's time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship.
00:26:43.000I think that's the wisest possible advice and probably the only path that preserves civilization.
00:26:49.000Well, folks, when I talk about this being a demoralization operation, that's because it is.
00:26:53.000And if you can't spot the up, that's because you're the mark, you are the target.0.92
00:26:57.000What these folks wish for you to do is agree with them that America sucks and is bad, and that Russia and China and Iran ought to have more global power.0.89
00:27:07.000And I know a lot of people out there are shaking their heads no, no, this isn't foreign driven.
00:27:11.000Then you need to answer the question what exactly Tucker Carlson was doing in Russia, why he's constantly parroting Russian talking points.
00:27:17.000You have to answer the question if you're on the left why Hassan Piker and the Chinese government aren't exactly the same page.
00:27:23.000You have to answer the question as to why Candace Owens is, quote unquote, vacationing at a Russian government driven conference in St. Petersburg.
00:27:32.000In the middle of a war with Ukraine where drones are being fired at St. Petersburg.
00:27:35.000Like these are all questions that require answers.
00:27:36.000And the answer is quite easy and understandable.
00:27:39.000And the Russians themselves have laid it out there in this particular case.
00:27:43.000So, again, once you see what's going on, it's hard to unsee it.
00:27:47.000We just need people to actually, you know, open their eyes.
00:27:51.000The idea that America supports Nazis in Ukraine or supports quote unquote genocide in Israel, by the way, that propaganda point began with the Soviets in 1967.
00:27:59.000This idea that Zionism is a form of racism.0.54
00:28:02.000And anti Zionism is a form of anti colonialism.
00:28:05.000That was a Soviet propaganda point first put out in 1967 after the Six Day War in a Soviet attempt to win over Arab states.
00:28:13.000The idea that Iran isn't really our enemy, actually, while they shout death to America, really Iran could be our friend.1.00
00:28:19.000The idea that the war on terrorism was just American imperialism and that Russia actually is our friend, that America is bad, that America is empty, that America has been taken over by child molesting elites, the so called Epstein class, who all work for the Zionists, including Donald Trump.0.83
00:28:32.000Kenneth Owens tweeting just a month ago The Iranian president tweets he is willing to sacrifice his own life for the people.0.64
00:28:38.000Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice Charlie Kirk and is willing to sacrifice every American life.
00:28:48.000And all of this is a demoralization effort directed at undermining America.0.99
00:28:54.000I mean, there's no way to read this kind of stuff and listen to this kind of garbage, true garbage, baseless trash, without understanding the agenda.0.98
00:29:02.000The biggest thing, of course, is that America must retreat from the world.0.99
00:29:50.000Hassan Piker, who is now continuing his normalization campaign across American media.
00:29:57.000Just remember that Hassan Piker is in total solidarity with the Maoist government of China, the communist regime, the repressive, tyrannical communist regime that is responsible over its history for the killing of at least 40 million human beings, probably significantly more.
00:30:14.000He was literally in China declaring he has no patriotism for America, and somehow we're supposed to take his opinion seriously on America.
00:30:22.000I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart for any, yeah, for America, but just in general.
00:30:28.000I'm not like a very, you know, I care about people.
00:30:36.000And then, of course, he was at Yale University at the Yale Political Union quoting Chairman Mao, one of the great mass murderers of history.
00:30:44.000I am reminded, however, of some famous words spoken by a guy by the name of Mao Zedong.
00:30:58.000Speaking with an American journalist in 1946, Mao Zedong said these words All reactionaries are paper tigers.
00:31:09.000In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying.
00:31:13.000But in reality, they are not so powerful.
00:31:17.000Speaking of US imperialism, people seem to feel that it is terrifically strong.
00:31:24.000But it will be proved that the US reactionaries, like all reactionaries in history, do not have much strength.
00:31:31.000In the United States, there are others who are really strong.
00:32:12.000I'm a harm reduction believer, I guess, to a certain degree.0.95
00:32:16.000I recognize that class consciousness is the number one problem in this country.
00:32:20.000We do not have class consciousness and we do not have political education.
00:32:23.000And without class consciousness and political education, you can't have organizing on the basis of class.
00:32:30.000And the normalization effort continues at pace.0.97
00:32:32.000Trevor Noah, again, another foreigner who comes here to criticize America.1.00
00:32:38.000Trevor Noah is talking with Piker, and Piker just starts jabbering about how he had to overcome his fear after the murder of Charlie Kirk.0.99
00:32:45.000Hassan Piker, a normalizer of American violence, American political violence, literally interviewed with the New York Times and talked about basically why the CEO of a health insurance company had it coming when he was murdered.
00:32:57.000He's sitting there pretending to be a victim here.0.97
00:33:59.000For that reason, the reason that Hassan Piker is not worried is because he is the one who has been fomenting permission structures for violence.
00:34:06.000People who don't like Hassan Piker are typically not.
00:34:09.000All of this, again, whether it is people parroting Chinese propaganda or people who are actively doing the work of the Russian government.
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00:36:50.000So yesterday, a person named Colin Scott Campbell, Project Constitution on X, fired off a tweet attacking Erica Kirk, which of course has been one of Candace Owens' big things.
00:37:02.000And if you're wondering why Candace Owens did that, obviously she did it for attention because she needs attention like a fish needs water.
00:37:08.000But part of it is also because, again, if your goal is to tear America apart, then what do you do?
00:37:13.000You take a unifying moment for America, like the assassination of Charlie, and you immediately begin attempting to rip it to shreds.
00:37:21.000Well, now it has become just part of the normal political discourse to go after Erica Kirk, who committed the great sin of being married to a man who was shot in the neck and murdered.
00:38:11.000And the rise of political violence has been normalized as well.1.00
00:38:13.000There is a simultaneous arrest of a 26 year old.
00:38:19.000He was charged with a third degree felony count for making a terroristic threat involving public fear of serious bodily injury or public disruption because he said he was going to bomb a TPUSA event.
00:38:28.000Quote Death to Erica Kirk and every single speaker there.0.99
00:38:31.000America will live on without these scum on this earth.1.00
00:38:33.000Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single turning point rally and event.1.00
00:38:39.000And when it feels like things are falling apart, the conditions for falling apart.0.96
00:39:36.000He literally would refuse to say that it was good that Ayatollah Khamenei was dead because he was afraid he would alienate his base, fellow terrorist supporters, presumably.
00:39:46.000Abdul El Sayed is very likely to win specifically because he is so radical in this Democratic primary.
00:39:51.000There was a debate last night between Mallory, McMorrow, Haley Stevens, and Abdul El Sayed, all of them far left.
00:39:57.000Haley Stevens is the least far left of them, which is to say that she is slightly to the left of Mal.
00:40:04.000In any case, Abdul El Sayed says that billionaires don't make jobs.0.93
00:40:10.000This is where the Democratic Party is going as a party.
00:40:12.000They're just steering further and further to the left.
00:40:17.000Do we really think that excess money to billionaires makes jobs?
00:40:20.000Because if we really think that, Then we've been trying it for a very long time, and I don't see that many more jobs.
00:40:25.000To me, I'd like to tax them the wealth so we invest in the things that actually unlock human capital, like healthcare and good schools and functional infrastructure.
00:40:33.000If we think that billionaires make jobs with their money, I think we are going to continue to find ourselves in an economy where it's hard to make that first $100,000 and way easier to make that next billion.
00:40:42.000I would like to see us tax billionaires at 7% of their wealth.
00:40:45.000Because here's the thing you tax a billionaire 7%, 8%, you know what they still are, Nolan?
00:40:59.000The idea that billionaires do not make jobs neglects the fact that a huge percentage of Americans are employed because of companies that have made people billionaires.0.98
00:41:07.000That's how people become billionaires.
00:41:09.000They don't steal money, they make the money by participating in voluntary transactions in the United States.0.62
00:41:15.000But the real thing from El Sayyid is dinging the quote unquote establishment onto the right and left.
00:41:19.000Again, this horseshoe of people who hate the country is quite real.
00:41:23.000When he's ripping the establishment, I know the establishment has come to mean too many things.
00:41:26.000It's what we call a semantically overloaded term.
00:41:30.000Does establishment mean kind of go along to get along Republicans who cave too often to the left?
00:41:35.000Or does establishment mean just in the realm of the rational, people who don't agree with the Chinese government or the Russian government or the Iranian government?
00:41:44.000Well, here's Abdul Al Sayyid doing his routine.
00:41:50.000Just a couple steps away, you've got the porch where corporate lobbyists are cutting deals with corporate backed politicians to figure out how to pick as much meat off the bones of Michigan as possible.
00:42:00.000I want to tax billionaires their wealth.
00:42:04.000And you are absolutely right that I think we should be enforcing antitrust policy that allows big corporations to collude together to raise our prices.
00:42:13.000And the thing about it is this the conversation that needs to be had isn't just the one that we have with the 99 other senators or the folks in Congress or even a president.
00:42:20.000It's the conversation we have with the 350 million people who elect all of us.
00:42:24.000And I think we have an opportunity to actually find like minded opportunities with Republicans who understand that their people too are getting picked apart.
00:42:33.000I've been to 96 cities now, and no matter where I go, people say the same thing.
00:43:46.000He made $50 billion running a hedge fund.
00:43:49.000Susan Collins has voted to cut Ken Griffin's taxes at least four times.
00:43:55.000Under my tax plan, Ken Griffin would pay roughly $4 billion more in taxes per year.
00:44:01.000So it's not surprising that two hours ago we found out in a filing that Ken Griffin has given Susan Collins's super PAC $2.5 million.
00:44:11.000He has billions of dollars at stake here.
00:44:14.000If he succeeds in helping buy her this election, it would be one of the best investments of his life.
00:44:19.000So, if you're sick of the attack ads, the negativity, the bull, you know who to blame one of the richest men in the world and a campaign finance system that allows men like him to buy elections.
00:44:31.000I think it's obvious to almost everyone that this should be illegal.
00:44:35.000But as long as establishment politicians like Susan Collins stay in office, that's not going to happen.
00:44:43.000I'm just going to point out that if you're talking about BS artists, Graham Plattner is BS artist of all, but he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, you see.
00:44:51.000He was a victim when he volunteered for the military.
00:44:54.000So he's been claiming that it's Susan Collins' fault he was sent to Iraq, which is weird because he literally volunteered for the military and forewent college in order to do so because he wanted to go fight.
00:45:15.000Well, first of all, he not only enlisted twice after the war was started, but he also went to work for a security company, a controversial one named Blackwater, after his term in the service was over.
00:45:37.000So I respect anyone who steps forward to serve their country.
00:45:42.000But the fact is, that was Plattner's decision to serve.
00:46:10.000Now, all these years later, instead of acknowledging that she was wrong, she's decided that she's going to blame those of us who, in our late teens and early 20s, signed up to serve our country.
00:46:24.000And establishment politicians like her wanted to abuse our willingness to serve to go send us off to fight in stupid wars that did nothing but make some people very, very rich at the expense of American taxpayer dollars.0.98
00:46:39.000You volunteered after the war began, dude.1.00
00:46:49.000He is the John Kerry of 2026, coming back and pretending that he's pro military when, in effect, he just wants to become more famous off the back.0.99
00:46:59.000Speaking of which, there's a soldier who was slandered by Graham Platner.
00:47:03.000That's an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today.
00:47:05.000Quote, Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans, while his background screams the opposite, and his offensive comments about fellow veterans, including me, speak poorly of his character.
00:47:16.000The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private school education and a lifestyle of privilege.
00:47:27.000Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids, an entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders, a real man by the lights of the Democratic Party.
00:47:34.000He presents himself as relatable to working class Americans.1.00
00:47:37.000In reality, says this soldier, he's a typical elitist who believes blue collar, hardworking, salt of the earth rural Americans are stupid and racist.1.00
00:48:05.000After a 16 hour drive we made it to Corpus Christi, Texas and today we're going to spend some time with Halo Flight Team, non-profit, volunteer founded air ambulance.
00:48:19.000In translation, they fly cool helicopters and rescue people.
00:48:23.000Today they are going to give me some hands-on experience being a helicopter paramedic so that I can learn how a real man supports people in need.
00:48:31.000Colton, I know nobody loves you but do you want me to call someone?
00:50:11.000Now he is suddenly getting married, apparently.
00:50:14.000In any case, that speculation was not helped yesterday when it came out that he put out a mailer that reads The biggest divide in this country is not left versus right.
00:51:34.000At a certain point, I do think that Americans are going to get tired of all of this.
00:51:37.000I think that President Trump was, in large part, a backlash to the sort of insanity and demoralization that has been foisted upon the country.
00:51:45.000And then, of course, all of that has exacerbated in the wake of his victory, particularly because the right has decided to, at least a fraction, a splinter portion of the right has decided to fully come out of the woodwork as anti America.
00:51:56.000But I do think Americans are tiring of this, particularly in areas where they've been dominated and governed by people.
00:52:02.000Who do not like basic American principles like rule of law and equal justice before the law and private property?
00:52:09.000So, Spencer Pratt is running a hell of a campaign for LA mayor.
00:52:13.000Very media friendly, very good at this.
00:52:52.000There's no letter next to either of our names because the mayor is not supposed to represent a party.
00:52:57.000They're supposed to make sure your moms are safe, your houses don't burn down, and your tax money is going to your infrastructure, not to fund drug addicts.
00:53:05.000So thankfully, I have Republicans that love me.
00:53:43.000These are actually former Angelenos that got forced out of this city that Mayor Bass has destroyed.
00:53:50.000And that's why they're donating because they want me.
00:53:53.000To be mayor so they can move back because LA is incredible when you don't let drug addicts take over the street and make moms and kids scared to go to parks or the school.
00:54:05.000Again, this does tie into a baseline anti Americanism.0.99
00:54:07.000I mean, Karen Bass is a far left person, specifically because she does not like basic American principles.
00:54:13.000As he pointed out, it was reported in 1983.
00:54:16.000Plaintiff Karen Bass, according to a 1973 intelligence document provided to the LA Times, traveled to Cuba with six contingents of Vencer Ramos Brigade.
00:54:24.000The brigade trains revolutionary prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugarcane.
00:54:31.000Bass, who was characterized as a brigade leader, returned from Cuba to the United States, bringing back propaganda literature.
00:54:41.000Hilariously, liberals in LA admit that they agree with Pratt, but then they say they're going to vote for Karen Bass anyway because, you know, party over principle.
00:54:51.000So then you get a guy who was on a reality show, who's on a lot of reality shows.0.98
00:54:56.000His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows.0.99
00:55:00.000And even though he had no private insurance on his house and doesn't believe in climate change, he is understandably upset about his house burning down.
00:55:08.000And since he's a moderately famous person, he gets attention.
00:55:11.000He's on the news, he's on social media, and for the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say.
00:55:17.000It's hard not to agree with what he has to say.
00:55:20.000He's angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about.
00:55:24.000Does he have solutions to those problems?
00:55:26.000But at least he's acknowledging that they are problems.
00:55:30.000So then, this angry reality show star who grew up wealthy and popular and is not very wealthy or popular anymore really starts to enjoy the attention.
00:55:38.000He starts to think, you know, I should be mayor, which is a statement that should make everyone laugh.
00:56:34.000Ah, it's loading with the whole typewriter thing and everything.
00:56:37.000Like an episode of X Files, they walk among us.
00:56:40.000For 60 years, the US government has kept a closely guarded secret.
00:56:44.000Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives.
00:56:48.000They've shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences, with one exception.
00:56:56.000Millions arrived under the cover of darkness and embedded themselves directly into our society.
00:57:01.000Countless presidents, congressmen, and senior officials knew exactly what was happening.
00:57:07.000Instead of protecting American citizens, says the website, they chose to cover it up and even accelerate the invasion, until one man finally had the courage to tell the truth.
00:57:18.000President Trump was the first to call out the real danger aliens pose to every American family, every community, and the future of our nation.0.96
00:58:51.000The minute that you head on up to, Minnesota, for example, you see the circles start to get a lot smaller because the state is just not cooperating very much with ICE.
00:59:40.000And now her family is fighting to bring a promising gene therapy from the lab to kids like George via the biotech company that she has co-founded called Kylex Bio.
00:59:48.000By the way, you may remember her from Jordan Peterson's parenting show, where his advice transformed how Catherine and her husband, Greer, approach parenting and marriage in the middle of this struggle.
00:59:57.000So, just recently, RFK Jr. posted about his push to unleash American biotech, cutting red tape, accelerating cures.
01:00:02.000And as we'll discuss in a moment, that's exactly what the Illingworths need.
01:00:51.000Then we got started sending us to specialists, orthopedists, his bones were perfect, physical therapists, it just looked like low muscle tone.
01:00:57.000Finally, when he was four years old, so three years later, we finally got sent to a neurologist, and she took one look at the shape of his feet and instantly had a nurse swab his cheek for a genetic test.
01:02:18.000But as far as anything available currently on the marketplace, there was nothing.
01:02:21.000So when we got the diagnosis, our neurologist told us take heart, there's been a ton of innovation in this space in the past decade, but the drug that you need has likely already been invented, but is stuck in what she called the valley of death, which is where promising science just doesn't ever advance to first in human trials because nobody steps up to fund the phase one trial.
01:02:47.000What are the steps that you need in order to help provide a care for your son?
01:02:53.000So, when we got the diagnosis, there was actually already an entire trial program designed by the nonprofit patient advocacy group called the CMT Association.
01:03:02.000I mean, they already had had a pre IND meeting with the FDA, which is where they had proposed a notional trial design.
01:03:09.000The FDA said, Great, if you can fund this, it looks good to us.
01:03:12.000And then they turned back to the families, the parents of the kids with this condition, and said, All right, Your move, families.
01:03:18.000We need $6.7 million to fund this program.
01:03:21.000So, a handful of families got to work.
01:03:23.000So, there was a little traction when we got our diagnosis, but I knew that this needed our full effort because that's a huge amount of money.
01:03:31.000So, I was finishing a PhD at the time, left my PhD program to fundraise full time, and then started a TikTok campaign that went surprisingly successfully.
01:03:40.000So, we raised enough to pay our first bill, which was manufacturing a batch of the drugs for a toxicology study.
01:03:48.000But I knew that if after I had sort of wrung my network dry of all of the donations that they were going to make, and your followers, Ben, actually were really supportive of that.
01:03:56.000You retweeted our fundraiser once that created just an absolute influx of donations from your people, for which we were very grateful.
01:04:03.000But I knew that this strategy wasn't going to take us all the way.
01:04:07.000So I actually decided to create a parallel for profit pathway.
01:04:11.000So we still have the nonprofit path where people can donate.
01:04:14.000But now I actually founded Kylix Bio, our biotech company, and we got an exclusive global license to the drug and are able to also raise.
01:04:24.000So, creating the parallel for profit path, there were two motivations.
01:04:27.000The first of which was faster capital, the second of which was control over what happens to the program, and then also the ability to take ownership over all of the data so that we could package it for approval and make it a desirable acquisition for larger biotech and pharma to go commercialize it after we had good data from the phase one.
01:04:59.000So, right now we are manufacturing for that toxicology study.
01:05:02.000We'll start that study in the winter, which is the they basically create an identical version for the clinical materials and then they inject them into rats, see if the rats have any adverse safety reactions.
01:05:14.000Once we have all of that data, then we're in a position where we can actually propose, we can file the IND, the investigational new drug, which is full FDA permission to go ahead with the trial.
01:05:23.000So, we're targeting a trial start date in about early 2028, is about when we'll make it into the clinic.
01:05:30.000Now, as far as what is happening on the regulatory side, this has been just a transformative year in rare disease policy.
01:05:38.000So, RFK has and his team have said everything that the rare disease drug development world has been wanting to hear for decades.
01:05:47.000He's proposed new approval pathways, you know, flexibility around trial design, flexibility around the kind of data that's required to prove efficacy, especially because rare disease populations are so small, you know, they can't prove efficacy the way they can in a trial where they can recruit.
01:06:02.000Hundreds or thousands of participants over many years.
01:06:05.000So they've made a series of announcements that, you know, if they demonstrate consistency on applying those announcements and if those pathways become real, it will be transformative for rare disease.
01:06:17.000So we'll see in the coming months and years if everything that they're announcing actually does transform the regulatory path for rare disease.
01:06:27.000Obviously, you're still fundraising, your company is raising money as well.
01:06:31.000Well, what's the best way people can help you help George?
01:06:34.000So, the best way people can help is, of course, contributing to our fundraiser.
01:06:37.000As you said, every dollar just goes directly towards paying our drug development costs.
01:06:42.000So, it's paying the direct invoices for manufacturing, safety studies, and then eventually our trial.
01:06:47.000So, philanthropic gifts are so important.
01:06:49.000And I also would say, anytime you scroll past any fundraiser that has a child's name in it, it's very likely that someone else is fundraising for a clinical program as well.
01:06:59.000And the more I just don't scroll past them, you know, when I was fundraising on TikTok, Every time I opened the app, you know, the algorithm knew that I was posting about rare disease fundraising.
01:07:09.000So I don't see anything else when I open social media anymore.
01:07:12.000And this problem is so much bigger than people know.
01:07:15.000I mean, they say that rare disease impacts one in 10 Americans, but there are so many different rare diseases.
01:07:21.000There's almost 10,000 of them we know that they're all siloed into tiny little groups that can't really help each other very efficiently.
01:07:28.000So the more of these that are making it in front of the FDA, that are getting into the clinic, the more we'll be able to create a Consistent, cohesive plan that incentivizes investment in this space and just gets these existing treatments into children.
01:07:42.000If you want to go and help, go check it out right now at geneforgeorge.org.
01:07:46.000Every dollar is useful, every dollar is necessary.
01:07:49.000And you can help kids like George at geneforgeorge.org.
01:07:53.000Catherine, thanks so much for what you're doing.
01:08:23.000Anyway, my question is Do you think the Star Wars brand is repairable?
01:08:27.000We saw massive changes from companies like Bud Light and Target because of conservative backlash to their woke nonsense.
01:08:33.000So, do you ever see a post George Lucas Lucas film reverting back to, like, you know, good Star Wars?
01:08:40.000You know, they've taken loss after loss with, like, the feminist sequels, the Acolytes, Communist, Lesbian, Space Witches, etc.
01:08:46.000You know, I'm kind of blackpilled and I don't want to be because I'm a big fan of the franchise and I'm hoping you can share some optimism.
01:09:49.000I mean, Professor Jacob is significantly younger than I am and he has nostalgia for old style Star Wars.
01:09:54.000So what we actually need to do is go back, recast all of the original characters.
01:10:00.000And then just pick up the story after Return of the Jedi or shift on over to a different time in the sort of Star Wars universe and restart with some cool, interesting characters.
01:10:11.000And there have been some good attempts at it, right?
01:10:20.000They just have to either go back to what made the series great originally, which is good versus evil, actual moral stances, and also just classic adventure tropes.
01:10:32.000Or they need to move into, if they want to do heavier and more complex, then Andor does that.
01:10:37.000Andor is basically like a John LeCaray novel, except in space.