00:00:02.000The tea and the crumpets and the fanfare, they were all good and fine.
00:00:05.000But then the King of England, King Charles, decided to use his royal prerogative and lecture us on how to run our country, on how America ought to lead the world.0.98
00:01:32.000You could say that's a friendly welcome, but I would kind of think that's actually a bit of an unfriendly welcome if you're the Brits, because the last time they had to face down soldiers who looked like that, they lost an empire, actually.
00:01:42.000But President Trump had some very nice words for King Charles talking about America's cultural inheritance from England.0.74
00:01:48.000And of course, as a student of American history and as a devotee of British philosophers ranging from John Locke to Edmund Burke, I love the fact that the United States is rooted in Anglican history and English history and British history.
00:02:04.000Here's the president talking about it.
00:02:07.000Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king, might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence, but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate.
00:02:27.000Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed.
00:02:35.000Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us The rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea.
00:02:51.000All of the founders originally thought of themselves as Englishmen and thought of themselves as defending the rights of Englishmen.0.54
00:02:56.000Those rights of Englishmen were passed down generation to generation across the Magna Carta, through the Glorious Revolution, and all the rest.
00:03:04.000The president also said that his mom had a crush on Charles, which must have made Charles feel pretty old, actually.
00:03:25.000And anytime the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything, my mother would be glued to the television and she'd say, Look, Donald, look how beautiful that is.
00:04:16.000That the Democrats five seconds ago were all chanting no kings, and then they literally stood and cheered for an actual, honest to God king.
00:04:24.000Now, a lot of King Charles' speech was delightful, truly.
00:04:28.000For example, he spoke about the bond between the United States and the UK as priceless and eternal.
00:04:33.000Here's what he had to say The special ingredient in our relationship.
00:04:39.000As President Trump himself observed during his state visit to Britain last autumn, the bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom. Is priceless and eternal.
00:04:56.000And the best part of King Charles' speech is when he gave the sort of long history of rights springing from Great Britain that made their way across the sea.
00:05:07.000These roots run deep and they are still vital.
00:05:12.000Our Declaration of Rights of 1689 was not only the foundation of our constitutional monarchy, but also provided the source of so many.
00:05:23.000Of the principles reiterated, often verbatim, in the American Bill of Rights of 1791.
00:05:32.000And those roots go even further back in history.
00:05:35.000The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle.
00:05:53.000That executive power is subject to checks and balances.
00:05:57.000This is the reason why there stands a stone by the River Thames at Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in the year 1215.
00:06:08.000And of course, all of that's wonderful and all of that is true.
00:06:11.000And listen, he made some lighthearted jokes as well.
00:06:13.000This was not before Congress, this was a little bit later on.
00:06:16.000He joked about the idea that if it were not for Great Britain, we would be speaking French.
00:06:20.000That was a response to President Trump saying that if it were not for us, the British would be speaking German.
00:06:24.000I assume this is a reference to the French and Indian War.
00:06:27.000I have to say, historically, it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense because, let's be real, if the French had won the French and Indian War, it is very likely that the settlers, many of them, would have returned to England.
00:06:36.000In any case, here he was making the joke.
00:06:40.000Indeed, you recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German.
00:06:48.000Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French?
00:06:51.000All righty, so all of that's very nice.
00:06:58.000And then King Charles had some words on Christianity and interfaith relationships and climate change and a lot of other stuff.
00:07:06.000First, let's just be honest for a second.
00:07:07.000Paying 70, 80, 90 bucks a month for wireless, that's absurd.
00:08:21.000So here was King Charles talking about Christianity as a firm anchor and a daily inspiration, but then he continues.
00:08:31.000And, Mr. Speaker, for many here, and for myself, the Christian faith is a firm anchor and daily inspiration that guides us not only personally.
00:08:59.000I'm not sure our Democrats are clapping since they've not been super in favor.
00:09:02.000Guides us not only personally but together as members of our community.
00:09:07.000Having devoted a large part of my life to interfaith relationships and greater understanding, it is that faith in the triumph of light over darkness, which I have found confirmed countless times.
00:09:28.000Through it, I am inspired by the profound respect.
00:09:32.000That develops as people of different faiths grow in their understanding of each other.
00:10:11.000And so when you hear the Brits lecturing the United States, a much more religious country, on Christianity and interfaith relations, this is where I start to go a little bit wonky.
00:10:21.000Because let's be real about this Britain has taken religion and trod it through the mud.
00:11:45.000You know where interfaith is going in Britain?0.83
00:11:47.000Interfaith is going to tolerance for radical Islam, which is why today, the day after King Charles visited the United States, there was an attack in Golders Green, which is a very heavily Jewish part of London, in which a radical Muslim took out a kitchen knife and just started stabbing people who were wearing Jewish garb.0.56
00:12:06.000Here is some of the horrendous video.0.82
00:12:13.000He's walking down the street, takes out a knife, and literally just attacks a man wearing a yarmulke on the street.
00:12:19.000He ended up stabbing two people on the street before he was taken down by guards in Golders Green.
00:12:24.000According to UK government data, there were 15,859 total reported incidents of knife crime in London in 2025 alone.0.89
00:12:33.000And of course, we know that Great Britain's interfaith tolerance allowed for gigantic grooming gangs to basically run the place.0.75
00:12:42.000For years on end, out of fear that there might be a backlash to open immigration.0.89
00:12:47.000King Charles also took the opportunity, while he was in the United States, to lecture us on climate change.
00:12:54.000We should mention that the UK has destroyed its own economy on the basis of this nonsense.
00:13:00.000Our generation must decide how to address the collapse of critical natural systems, which threatens far more than the harmony and essential diversity of nature.
00:13:13.000We ignore at our peril the fact that these natural systems, in other words, nature's own economy, provide the foundation for our prosperity and our national security.
00:13:29.000Again, listening to the Brits lecture us on energy production is ridiculous.
00:13:33.000Roughly 78% of UK's energy still comes from hydrocarbons.
00:13:37.000That would be like oil and natural gas.
00:13:40.000And the UK is constantly on the economic edge because of their extraordinary regulations and low domestic gas storage capacity.
00:13:48.000According to an article in the American Spectator, there is a 78% tax rate on North Sea gas production and a nuclear program that's not going to deliver energy for a decade.
00:13:59.000The energy programs in the UK have driven them into the dirt, economically speaking.
00:14:04.000All of this culminated in King Charles lecturing the United States on how to beat plowshares into swords rather than plowshares into swords.
00:14:13.000He wants to be a moderating influence on our global hegemony.
00:14:19.000Working together and with our international partners, we can stem the beating of plowshares into swords.
00:14:30.000In the season of Easter, the season that most strengthens my hope, it is why I believe with all my heart that the essence of our two nations is a generosity of spirit and a duty to foster compassion, to promote peace, to deepen mutual understanding, and to value all people of all faiths and of none.
00:14:53.000Okay, now again, listening to this from the same government, I understand King Charles is the monarchy.
00:14:59.000Curist Armour's government is an appeasement oriented.
00:15:06.000And so, in order to understand my ire here, I think you have to understand having the British crown come to the United States and tell us all about the old style civilization that Britain basically surrendered in favor of welfare statism is highly irritating.
00:15:20.000Listen to this person lecture the United States, the world's great hegemon, on what we ought to do from a country that decided to defenestrate itself over the course of the last century is pretty galling.
00:15:35.000And we know what went wrong for Great Britain.
00:15:39.000Even after World War I, where they had suffered extraordinary losses and where financial leadership had largely been ceded to the United States because the United States was the borrowing center for the British.
00:15:53.000Even after that, the global empire really was not America's yet.
00:15:57.000The global empire was still Great Britain's.
00:15:59.000And then they decided between World Wars I and II that they were going to become pacifists.
00:16:05.000That they were going to move away from defending themselves, their civilization.
00:16:11.000Famously, in 1933, there was a resolution at Oxford University, at their debate club, the so called King and Country Resolution, in which the students voted, quote, that this house will under no circumstances fight for its king and country.
00:16:25.000And this was reflective of British sentiments.
00:16:27.000There's an attempt in the aftermath of the cost of World War I to recede from global leadership.
00:16:34.000I was recently rereading Winston Churchill's Gathering Storm, which has Of course, a classic.
00:16:40.000It is the first volume of his Second World War series.
00:16:43.000And one of the things that Churchill writes, right near the top of the book, he says that his purpose in writing this book, which he was writing again right after World War II, as the rise of the Soviet Union was creating the conditions for the Cold War, he said that he was writing to demonstrate, quote, how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous, how the structure and habits of democratic states, unless they are welded into larger organisms, lack those elements of persistence and conviction which can alone give security to humble masses.
00:17:12.000How, even in matters of self preservation, no policy is pursued for even 10 or 15 years at a time.
00:17:18.000We shall see how the councils of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of moral danger, how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bullseye of disaster.
00:17:29.000And he says, We shall see how absolute is the need of a broad path of international action pursued by many states in common across the years, irrespective of the ebb and flow of national politics.
00:17:39.000Meanwhile, Britain is telling the United States that we ought not do what we are doing in Iran.
00:17:44.000They're doing absolutely nothing to help us in the Strait of Hormuz.0.76
00:17:47.000They're perfectly willing to allow China to maximize its global influence.0.53
00:17:52.000Only in the case of Ukraine has Britain taken a leading role in any sort of way.
00:17:57.000And even there, it's basically to beg us for money and armaments.
00:18:02.000Britain's recession, receding from its world leading position between World Wars I and II in the 1930s, actually ended with that catastrophic World War II, which basically decided that Britain was no longer a global power.
00:18:14.000And then after the war, Britain decided that they were going to give up global leadership.
00:18:19.000In favor of irrelevance and socialism.
00:18:21.000In 1942, there was something called the Beverage Report in the middle of World War II.
00:18:25.000And it was a report arguing essentially for large scale socialism in Great Britain.
00:18:31.000This is where the phrase cradle to grave welfare state comes from.
00:19:28.000So, having the king come here and lecture us on climate change or lecture us on foreign policy or lecture us on what we ought to do for global leadership, no country has done such damage to itself as Great Britain through pacifism and socialism and redistributionism and open borders.
00:19:47.000And one of my favorite poems is a poem by the poet Philip Larkin, a British poet who's writing in around 1960.
00:19:56.000And he wrote a poem called Homage to a Government.
00:20:01.000Next year, we shall be living in a country that brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
00:20:05.000The statues will still be standing in the same tree muffled squares and look nearly the same.
00:20:09.000Our children will not know it's a different country.
00:20:11.000All we can hope to leave them now is money.
00:20:13.000And he was lamenting the demise of the British Empire in favor of, again, domestic redistributionism.
00:20:18.000And as it turns out, the Brits can't even leave their kids money.0.95
00:20:21.000Because when you give up global leadership, and when you give up the free markets, and when you give up private property, and when you skew in favor of socialist idiocy, And global weakness, you become irrelevant.0.71
00:20:34.000So you don't get to come here and lecture us about that.0.88
00:21:05.000By the way, it is not just Great Britain, of course.
00:21:07.000All righty, coming up, we will get to the Europeans lecturing us on foreign policy.
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00:22:50.000Maybe you guys shouldn't have completely destroyed your own energy supplies via Green Revolution nonsense.0.81
00:22:59.000Maybe it turns out that your facilitation of the Russian bear led to the invasion of Ukraine because you made yourself dependent on Russian oil for years.0.85
00:23:10.000Being lectured because you're having a rough economic time in Germany.0.69
00:23:19.000Often the Americans clearly have no strategy, and the problem is conflicts like This is always that you don't have just to go in, you also have to get out again.
00:23:29.000We saw that all too painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years.
00:23:55.000Afghanistan, where he had literally tens of thousands of boots on the ground, and Iraq, where he had hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground, to Iran, where he had zero boots on the ground.
00:24:04.000And basically, we are just stopping shipping coming out of Iran at this point.
00:24:54.000The thing that's weird that's happening is that the assassination mindset is not relegated at this point to the far left.
00:25:02.000It turns out that there is such a thing apparently as a moderate liberal assassin.
00:25:06.000So NPR went and interviewed a person named Aliza Turlinden, who went to Caltech with Allen when they were in a Christian fellowship group a couple of years ago.
00:25:15.000And NPR asked, did he seem to have a sort of grip on reality in the sense that this notion that I'm the only one who can do this?
00:25:23.000And Turlendon answered, I never saw evidence of mental instability.
00:25:28.000Even reading this manifesto, it struck me that it was relatively analytical and organized, the things that he was doing to try to minimize any harm to innocent people.
00:25:35.000I got the impression that he was looking at it like an engineering problem he was solving under constraints.
00:25:40.000He saw this most likely as his duty as a Christian and as an American.
00:25:43.000Any rhetoric that he was being anti Christian is simply inaccurate.
00:25:46.000I'm sad he took this step, but I believe in his mind.1.00
00:25:48.000He felt he didn't have any other choice.
00:25:51.000Again, and if you read his manifesto, his manifesto is the same kind of stuff that people in mainstream Democratic circles say.
00:26:02.000If you stripped out the assassination part of it, it reads like any other Facebook post from your slightly crazed white liberal aunt.0.71
00:26:08.000I mean, here's James Carville saying the same kind of stuff yesterday.0.87
00:26:14.000Many times people have criticized me because I've called Trump.1.00
00:26:18.000The MF word, and I've called him worse than that, and I've called him a sack of shit.0.99
00:26:24.000Rod, who is Vance's spiritual mentor, and Tucker Carlson, who is a person of some substance in the Republican Party, have both called Trump the Antichrist.0.99
00:26:40.000So please, all of the people that faint in the street about my name calling, understand this.
00:26:48.000I have not yet referred to Donald John Trump as the Antichrist.
00:26:54.000All right, because I think the Antichrist would be smarter than him.
00:27:00.000Okay, wonderful stuff there from James Carville.
00:27:02.000And by the way, as I pointed out, there are people like Tucker Carlson who have been saying some pretty awful things about the president.
00:27:06.000Representative Rokhana, the fact that this guy is considered a mainstream liberal is insane to me.
00:27:12.000The California congressman who wants to run for president, he was asked on Fox about his relationship with Hassan Piker, who we've talked extensively about this streamer who is openly violent in his rhetoric.
00:27:22.000Openly, I mean, associates with terrorism.
00:27:25.000Promotes terrorism, promotes actual honest to God violence, spilling of blood and guts, and all the rest of it.0.80
00:27:30.000And Kana's answer was simple Hassan Piker is popular.
00:27:34.000And that means, you know, of course he's not going to dissociate in any real way.
00:27:39.000Millions of people follow Hassan Piker.
00:27:55.000But we have to understand the anger in this country of people who feel they can't buy a house, they can't afford gas, they can't have health care.
00:28:04.000What does that have to do with supporting a person and standing in solidarity with a person who legitimately supports murder, terrorism, violence, theft?
00:28:16.000The number of people on the rational left is radically decreasing.
00:28:29.000Here is Van Jones saying a thing that many Democrats won't, which is that Hamas is quite terrible.0.57
00:28:33.000Remember, Hassan Piker literally told Pod Save America last week that Hamas is wonderful, that they're a thousand times better than Israel.
00:28:42.000And so, even in armed struggle, there are rules.
00:28:45.000Even in armed struggle, there are principles.
00:28:48.000And the principles of no women, no children, no rapes, no kidnapping, these are moral principles that any liberation struggle has to uphold.
00:28:59.000There is a way to judge an organization and decide is it worthy of my support?
00:29:06.000You ask the question what are the ends of the organization?
00:29:57.000So, I think there are a few answers: there is social ostracism of people like the Hassan Pikers, and then there is prosecution of people who actually make threats.
00:30:07.000He finds himself in the legal crosshairs again.
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00:31:39.000There's no question that specious charges were routinely filed and investigations that had no basis were routinely done against President Trump.
00:31:47.000Initiated by people like James Comey, the former FBI director.
00:31:53.000And by the way, when people say that because James Comey did that now, you know, the Republicans should do the same, how do we ever win if we?
00:32:01.000The answer is the way you win is by winning elections.
00:33:05.000And we can answer at the ballot box and we can answer in terms of social ostracization.
00:33:09.000When it comes to prosecution, we should quite carefully tailor that, the power of the federal government, to cases you're going to win.
00:33:15.000Otherwise, you end up with a backlash.
00:33:17.000I mention this because yesterday it was announced that a federal grand jury had indicted former FBI director and giant weirdo James Comey again.
00:33:24.000James Comey being harassed by law enforcement on a sort of Scheudenfreude level, I ain't losing sleep.
00:33:29.000James Comey helped initiate the Russiagate investigation that spun up a bajillion conspiracy theories and ruined people's lives, destroyed their finances, and all the rest.0.98
00:33:37.000And he did it based on absolute trash that he knew at the time was trash.
00:33:42.000However, are these counts that are being filed against Comey likely to succeed in court?0.94
00:33:50.000I would hope that there is more to this case than he put out a dumb Instagram post.0.89
00:33:55.000And maybe they came up with some supporting information that suggested that he actually wanted to inflict bodily harm on the president.
00:34:01.000But there are two counts that an Eastern North Carolina grand jury indicted on.
00:34:05.000Count one is that James Comey, the former FBI director, quote, knowingly and willfully made a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States.
00:34:14.000You will remember that back on May 15th of last year, he put up an image on his Instagram of seashells that said 8647, 8647.
00:34:26.000Now, the prosecutors say a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret this as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States.
00:34:35.000And count two is basically the same thing.
00:34:37.000They say that Comey consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communication would be viewed as threatening violence and knowingly transmitted a communication in interstate commerce that contained a threat to injure the person of another.
00:34:49.000So, Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, said that a year of resources were.
00:35:02.00086 can mean kill, like 86, or it can mean just get rid of.
00:35:05.000Meaning, like, if you want an 86 a customer, kick the customer out.
00:35:08.000Or if you want an 86 a dish, you can just take the dish off the menu, for example.
00:35:13.000But if all we've got here, if all the evidence that they end up with after a year is basically what we see right now, that case ain't going nowhere and it's going to backfire because it'll look as though the mechanisms of law enforcement are being used for political gain, which is never a good look.
00:35:26.000And again, it's not a good look on the left either.
00:35:49.000They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters.
00:35:53.000They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit, pursuant to the facts of the case and the law.
00:35:58.000They took that information and made a presentment to a grand jury, a jury of peers in the district in which the alleged crime took place.
00:36:05.000And that grand jury spoke, and that grand jury returned a two count indictment against James Comey.
00:36:12.000James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States.
00:36:18.000Now, here was James Comey telling this story with Stephen Colbert last year, because you'll remember that there was another attempted prosecution of James Comey on this particular matter.
00:39:03.000Because, again, giving this guy what he wants, which is attention, is just a bad strategy.
00:39:08.000Meanwhile, the FCC is going after ABC over Jimmy Kimmel again.
00:39:14.000Apparently, according to the FCC's filing, eight Disney owned ABC affiliates will now have to prove to the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, they've been operating in the public interest.
00:39:22.000The licenses are not up for renewal for several years.
00:39:24.000The FCC accelerated their renewal process on the heels of Kimmel's expectant widow joke, which we talked about yesterday on the show.
00:39:31.000Using the government in this manner seems to me ill advised.
00:39:36.000And listen, I get the turnabout is fair play of all of this, but I will just say that there is such a thing as political backlash to governmental overreach.
00:39:45.000And if it looks as though you are utilizing the mechanisms of government to go after Jimmy Kimmel, not because he committed a crime, but because you don't like what he is saying, that is not going to redound to the benefit of Republicans electorally.
00:39:55.000And there are solutions to what's going on.
00:39:57.000Social ostracization is right, the use of government is wrong here.
00:40:01.000This is not the proper use of government.
00:40:03.000If you want to go after the ABC affiliates on a market level and say, listen, we're going to drive your ratings into the ground because Jimmy Kimmel's terrible, all for it.
00:40:12.000If advertisers want to pull, all for that.
00:40:15.000But if the idea here is that the government should be kind of the point of the spear here, I think that is a strategy that is likely to be unsuccessful.
00:41:22.000We've got ships that are stopping other ships and turning them back.
00:41:25.000And we are also going after their shadow banking facilitators.
00:41:29.000According to the Treasury Department, as part of economic theory, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated 35 entities and individuals that oversee Iran's shadow banking architecture, facilitating the movement of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars tied to sanctions, evasion, and Iran's sponsorship of terrorism.
00:41:49.000And those networks allow the IRGC to access the international financial system.
00:41:54.000This is a picture, a chart of Iran's shadow banking network.
00:41:57.000As you can see, they use a bunch of cutouts.
00:41:59.000And so now we are sanctioning those as well.
00:42:02.000Meanwhile, U.S. Marines are boarding and searching vessels to enforce the blockade.
00:42:14.000You can see here is the United States launching helicopters to go and blockade vessels, dropping Marines down onto the shore, onto the ships themselves.
00:42:25.000And the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the president has told his aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran.
00:42:33.000He has continued to squeeze Iran's economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports.
00:42:39.000He says that his other options right now, like resume bombing or walk away from the conflict, carry more risk than maintaining the blockade.
00:43:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, war has imposed a heavy cost on Iran's economy, more than a million people out of work, soaring food prices, a prolonged internet shutdown that has slammed online business.
00:43:22.000The question is how much more pain Iran's leaders are willing to tolerate as they try to negotiate a favorable end. to the war.
00:43:28.000American officials are betting Iran will soon crack because of the deepening economic crisis.
00:43:32.000Iran is betting the U.S. will crack first.
00:44:42.000This is a point being made by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:44:45.000I think if you ask the Israelis, they would tell you the perfect outcome is a strong Lebanese government with a strong Lebanese armed forces who is able to dismantle Hezbollah to prevent them from these attacks and ultimately to make sure that they don't exist anymore as a military unit.0.73
00:44:58.000That's the ideal outcome that the Israelis want.0.73
00:45:02.000That is the negotiation that's currently taking place as well.
00:45:04.000And Israel continues to take action against Hezbollah.
00:45:07.000Here is some footage of them blowing up a gigantic Hezbollah tunnel.
00:45:11.000This tunnel was two kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide in terms of the coverage area.0.92
00:45:43.000By the way, in oil news, this is actually major oil news that is being underplayed, I think.
00:45:47.000The United Arab Emirates, which is the third biggest country in OPEC, is now going to exit OPEC.
00:45:53.000CNBC calls this a major blow to the cartel that coordinates production among the world's largest oil producers, particularly those in the Middle East.
00:46:02.000Because UAE and Saudi have been in a bit of a scuffle internationally because Saudi doesn't really like that UAE is forming its own future.
00:46:13.000That it has joined the Abraham Accords, that it is strengthening its own economy, its own connections with the United States.
00:46:19.000They see their leadership role being ceded in some cases by UAE.
00:46:22.000And UAE is saying, listen, we're not going to coordinate production with you anymore.
00:46:47.000The UAE apparently has the ambition to achieve 5 million barrels per day of capacity by 2027, and they want more freedom of action to pursue that goal.
00:46:54.000This is very good for the United States.
00:47:23.000Great to be with you, Ben, on this important subject and this best selling book, the number one best selling nonfiction hardcover book in America.
00:47:32.000So, there's a reason that the book is selling so well.
00:47:34.000Obviously, a huge number of Americans are fully aware at this point of the rot at the Ivies and how deep it goes.
00:47:39.000But there are a bunch of points in the book that I think people don't know about.
00:47:42.000And one of those is the nature of foreign funding of America's top universities.
00:47:47.000Maybe you can talk a little bit about how that has changed the orientation of those universities.
00:47:54.000So the book poisoned IVs, my book does a deep dive on what went wrong at so many of our most elite universities that were once considered elite and prestigious.
00:48:04.000If you look at the billions of dollars of foreign funding that's flowing into institutions like Harvard, like Penn, like MIT, it is deeply concerning.
00:48:13.000And we've been working in Congress to make sure that there is full transparency.
00:48:17.000And frankly, we need to do more to block foreign funding that is sowing anti-Americanism on these campuses.
00:48:23.000For example, Ben, The billions of dollars coming from Qatar flowing into many of these universities is propping up Middle Eastern studies departments, which is inherently pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic.
00:48:37.000In addition, Communist China is the second largest foreign funder into our higher education system.
00:48:42.000We've taken action from Congress to block what are called Confucius Institutes, which essentially is a front for the Chinese Communist Party, but China is still circumventing that.
00:48:52.000And it begs the question, these American universities, which in many cases were founded prior to the founding of our country, They have multi billion dollar endowments.
00:49:00.000Why are we allowing foreign dollars to sow discord on these campuses?
00:49:05.000That's one of the many reasons why we've seen this academic and moral route at these institutions.
00:49:11.000Now, Congresswoman, it also begs the question as to why these universities are taking that sort of money.
00:49:16.000I understand that they want to enrich themselves and they want to increase their bottom line.
00:49:20.000But as you say, they have multi billion dollar endowments.
00:49:22.000It is not as though Harvard is short on cash.
00:49:24.000They don't need to be taking money from Qatar or China.
00:49:27.000What do you think is the rationale for them going along with this?
00:49:31.000You know, I talk about the shift in these universities.
00:49:33.000These universities were founded as American institutions.
00:49:37.000And the leadership, which is rotten at many of these universities, they now view themselves as global institutions, really pulling away from those America first values.
00:49:47.000And my book, Poisoned Ivies, it goes into the founding missions, which were incredible, of these universities.
00:49:53.000If you take Harvard, it was founded in 1636, it was part of the principles and fervor that led to the Revolutionary War.
00:50:00.000You take Penn, one of the visionaries that.
00:50:33.000It creates strings attached to the curricula that's taught and the type of professors who are hired.
00:50:39.000That's deeply concerning, and it goes hand in hand with the moral rot that we saw in the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas attacks against Israel and this skyrocketing of anti Semitism and anti American at these universities.
00:50:51.000You know, Congresswoman, obviously, you had this very famous tete a tete with a bunch of Ivy League presidents who refused to condemn anti Semitic slogans that were being chanted, genocidal anti Semitic slogans that were being chanted at their universities.
00:51:04.000What is the sort of fundamental guiding philosophy at these universities now?
00:51:08.000As you say, they used to be rooted in at Harvard, it was Veritas, right?
00:51:12.000That was my alma mater for law school.
00:51:13.000But it certainly has not been that way for many decades at this point.
00:51:17.000What is the guiding philosophy that really is sort of infusing their action here?
00:51:23.000Well, it's political indoctrination rather than academic excellence.
00:51:27.000And in the case of Harvard, we are both alumni, you of the Harvard Law School, I went to Harvard undergrad, and the motto is Veritas, which means truth.
00:51:35.000But the original founding motto in the 1600s was, Veritas e Cristo et Ecclesiae, truth in Christ and the Church.
00:51:45.000And Harvard shifted so far away from that founding mission.
00:51:49.000Right now, their prioritization, unfortunately, has been monoculture and a radical lurch to the left.
00:51:56.000When I was an undergraduate 20 years ago, we had a handful of conservative professors.
00:52:00.000But if you look at how much that has shifted in the past decade, it is now a self-selection process of increasingly further and further to the left to the point where some of these departments, if they even have a conservative leading professor, The ratios are 88 to 1 in some of the humanities departments.
00:52:17.000That's not reflective of the American people.
00:52:20.000That's not reflective of the founding missions of these institutions.
00:52:23.000So the book does a deep dive of Harvard, of Penn, of some of the poisoned ivies.
00:52:28.000But importantly, it points out the schools that are getting it right.
00:52:31.000Places like where you just spoke and I will be at soon.
00:52:37.000I also point out University of Florida under the leadership of Ben Sass when he was head of that university system.
00:52:42.000Vanderbilt, which is continuing to grow and lead And frankly, its admissions and matriculation have skyrocketed because of what's been happening, the poisoning of these Ivy League schools.
00:52:53.000And they still don't get it, Ben, as they dig deeper and deeper and try to push back on any effort to reform.
00:53:02.000Yeah, Congressman, I want to ask about that.
00:53:03.000So the Trump administration has been very publicly active in going after a lot of these Ivy League schools.
00:53:08.000They've reached settlements with some of them.
00:53:09.000They've been using the Civil Rights Act and the violation thereof to push policy changes.
00:53:14.000And my expectation, being cynical, is that the minute that a Democrat takes office as president, The Ivy Leagues will revert back to what they were, that they already are finding workarounds to try and avoid the consequences of the settlements that they've reached with the federal government.
00:53:27.000Are these places poisoned beyond the possibility of repair?
00:53:30.000Should we basically just surrender the Ivy, say, listen, they're done, send our kids elsewhere, and just let them rot?
00:53:35.000Or do you think that there's the possibility of recovery?
00:53:39.000Well, number one, we know they're not going to reform themselves.
00:53:41.000So what's interesting to me is that hearing heard around the world with the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT.
00:53:46.000Two of those presidents were forced to resign as a result of that hearing.
00:53:50.000They had a year of the Biden administration where they could have fixed themselves and the Biden administration could have taken any action.
00:53:58.000The leaders of these schools put their heads in the sand and they dug deeper and deeper.
00:54:03.000It was only on day one of the Trump administration and my office worked directly to craft these executive orders that President Trump signed in on his first day in office to hold these schools accountable.
00:54:13.000We also know that the only way these schools are going to listen is when you withhold taxpayer funds.
00:54:18.000They're not entitled to U.S. taxpayer dollars if they are not complying with the law.
00:54:23.000And it's not reflective of our American principles.
00:54:26.000So that withholding has been an important tool.
00:54:29.000My fear long term, as you said, is as administrations shift back and forth, these schools are going to try to wait it out.
00:54:36.000We need to, as policymakers, ensure that doesn't happen.
00:54:40.000We have to codify all these executive orders.
00:54:43.000We have to reform aspects of the Higher Education Act.
00:54:47.000Um, and we have to piecemeal address these issues.
00:54:50.000The reason why I argue it's important not to completely give up on these Ivy League schools is We know they're not going to fix themselves.
00:55:00.000One bright spotlight, and we'll have to see what action they take, is the Yale report that just came out.
00:55:05.000And I'm very skeptical because while it's, you know, a statement and a report that was put out in the last two weeks, basically, with this institution understanding that they have created this fundamental lack of faith in our higher ed institutions, and many of the decisions they've made have caused this, let's see if they take action as a result.
00:55:26.000The other aspect of many of these settlements is holding the school's feet to the fire to make sure they don't try to circumvent the settlements, like we've seen, unfortunately, in the case of Columbia.
00:55:35.000The other piece of this that's important as well is these DOJ lawsuits are incredibly important because in my book, I give example after example where the universities were not protecting the civil rights of American Jewish students on these campuses who were facing unbelievable acts of anti Semitism, physical assault, drawing of swastikas on the door, and Making sure that the DOJ holds these schools accountable, that's been incredibly important for the Trump administration.
00:56:03.000So I'm of the argument that we have to do both.
00:56:07.000We have to continue to support those institutions that are getting it right the Vandies of the world, University of Florida, UTX, as an example.
00:56:15.000We have to focus on some of these centers like the Hoover Institution to provide that ideological balance.
00:56:20.000But we need to continue to hold the Ivy Leagues accountable to force change.1.00
00:58:40.000One is the fault of sort of how Israel has addressed the world, and one is the fault of underlying trends.0.70
00:58:47.000The first is that Israel spent years and years and years and years saying that its geopolitical opponents were reasonable and rational and they could make a deal with them.
00:58:55.000If you keep saying over and over that actual terrorist groups are reasonable and rational and you can make a deal with them, which is the predicate for Oslo, then it makes it very difficult to tell the truth later, which is that they are terrorist groups who want to kill you.
00:59:15.000As far as the sort of overarching trends, the grievance culture that has now spread throughout the West, one symptom of that is anti Israel belief.
00:59:25.000It is basically a mapping of domestic economic concerns onto foreign policy.
00:59:31.000So the idea is anyone who is successful is an exploiter, any country that is powerful is an exploiter.0.62
00:59:38.000The West is innately guilty for the failure of non Western cultures.0.66
00:59:44.000And when you extend that to the Middle East, then you look.0.94
00:59:46.000There and there's only one westernized country, there's only one truly successful country, and it's Israel.
00:59:52.000And so, this is why you will see people like Tanahasi Coates claiming that Israel is the white oppressor in the Middle East.0.84
00:59:57.000Never mind the fact that half of Israel is brown, meaning Mizrahi Jews, right?
01:00:06.000In the same way that people are angry at the successful in their societies because they feel the successful have set up the system for their own benefit, for that same reason, They have now decided in conspiratorial fashion that at the top of that apex predator heap are the Jews who must be defenestrated from the top of that pile.0.83
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