Rev. John MacArthur, who taught scripture to millions through tape sermons, radio broadcasts, Bible commentaries, and a best-selling study Bible, died Monday at the age of 86. Plus, the new CPI report, President Trump's shift on Ukraine, and more.
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00:00:51.000I want to start today by offering condolences to the family and all of the followers of John MacArthur, the Southern California preacher.
00:01:00.000And someone who I'd venture to say was a friend of mine.
00:01:03.000John MacArthur was on the show twice at length, an amazing human being.
00:01:08.000Of course, he had millions and millions of followers in the Christian community.
00:01:12.000Christianity Today has a lengthy obituary for John MacArthur, who passed away yesterday afternoon.
00:01:20.000They say expository preacher John MacArthur, who taught scripture to millions through tape sermons, radio broadcasts, Bible commentaries, and a best-selling study Bible, died Monday at the age of 86.
00:01:29.000MacArthur said the most important mark of his ministry was that he explained the Bible with the Bible, not cluttering up sermons with personal stories, commentary on current events, or appeals to emotion, but teaching timeless truth.
00:01:39.000The longtime pastor of Grace Community Church said a good sermon should still be good 50 years after it is preached.
00:01:44.000He said, it isn't time stamped by any kind of cultural events or personal events.
00:01:48.000It's not about me, and it transcends not only time, but it transcends culture.
00:01:52.000He published the MacArthur Study Bible in 1997.
00:01:54.000It has 20,000 notes on specific verses, as well as an index of important doctrines, introductions to each book of the Bible, and suggested Bible reading plans.
00:02:02.000It sold 2 million copies over the course of a couple of decades.
00:02:04.000He also has a New Testament commentary, which sold more than 1 million copies as well.
00:02:10.000MacArthur, of all the people that I know in this sphere, I know quite a few, was absolutely staunch in his defense of the Bible.
00:02:19.000He is somebody who certainly never shied away from the messages of the New Testament and somebody who made himself controversial because of that, which I think is quite a good thing.
00:02:29.000In the first interview that I did with him, a lengthy interview, he spent fully 30 minutes of the interview talking to me about why I ought to convert to Christianity.
00:02:37.000And as a Jew, I will say that not only do I not find that insulting, I find that absolutely useful.
00:02:44.000Because he is saying the thing that he believed.
00:02:48.000And I think that that is a good thing.
00:02:50.000And the reason I considered him a friend is because he's somebody who cared about my eternal soul.
00:02:54.000We could have disagreements on what would happen with regard to heaven or hell or whether the New Testament was truth or not truth, depending on whether you're a Christian or a Jew.
00:03:04.000But I was never upset by the fact that he believed that I ought to convert to Christianity, because of course many Christians believe that I ought to convert to Christianity.
00:03:12.000That's because somebody cares for my spiritual welfare and we disagree about how best to attain that spiritual welfare.
00:03:18.000But it's because he was able to say hard truths as he saw them to people like me that he was also able to say hard truths to everybody about biblical values.
00:03:28.000And that meant he was never shy about biblical values, which is absolutely useful in a time when moral relativism runs rampant.
00:03:36.000Last year, he was on the show, and here is what John MacArthur had to say about the Bible.
00:03:41.000I would just say this in a general sense.
00:04:23.000That is part of being created in God's image.
00:04:26.000And I think if your heart is open to the truth, you go to the word of God, and I've seen this now for all these years I've been in ministry.
00:04:36.000The ring of biblical truth is so powerful to a person who honestly reads the scripture.
00:04:47.000And again, I think that message is deeply necessary in a time when so many have fallen into moral relativism, have fallen down a bunch of rabbit holes looking to fill the God-shaped hole in their heart.
00:04:58.000And Megan Basham, who writes for us here at Daily Wire, she had a wonderful statement about the passing of John MacArthur, in which she spelled out exactly why it was that John MacArthur was such a special person to so many people.
00:05:14.000She said that John MacArthur has consistently refused to join the latest relevance chasing fads.
00:05:19.000It is this very refusal that has given his ministry enduring relevance for new generations.
00:05:26.000I think that his work is going to be read for generations.
00:05:29.000And the nice thing about the sort of Jewish view of the afterlife is that in Judaism, if you are not Jewish and you fulfill seven basic rules, the Noahide laws, which are things like no blasphemy, no adultery, no murder, and things like this, then you do indeed have a spot in heaven.
00:05:47.000So it doesn't conflict with my faith to say that John MacArthur is with God right now, and that is something that he always longed for.
00:05:55.000Again, his uncompromising fealty to biblical values as he saw them meant that he was also able to walk into political phrase without fear.
00:06:04.000Here he was, this is way back when, just show lacking a young Gavin Newsom over same-sex marriage on CNN, when Gavin Newsom was trying to play at being a pastor, essentially.
00:06:17.000I got married in the church two-plus years.
00:06:19.000I don't see what we're doing in terms of advancing the bond of love and monogamy and extending that to families, families of same-sex, in any way, shape, or form, takes away anything from the church Or the sanctity of the union that my wife and I have.
00:06:34.000I would just like to ask the mayor as a practicing Catholic, do you believe the Bible is the Word of God?
00:06:40.000Look, Pastor, I'm not going to get in a theological debate with you that.
00:07:05.000You can see Gavin Newsom smirking and trying to walk this back.
00:07:09.000There are a bunch of problems with Gavin Newsom is doing right there.
00:07:11.000First of all, it is funny when he says, I'm a practicing Catholic and I've been married for two years to lead off that particular clip.
00:07:18.000He was at that point married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who he would then cheat on.
00:07:24.000So, yeah, I mean, a few things, Gavin Newsom.
00:07:28.000We'll get to more of Gavin Newsom a little bit later on in the program.
00:07:31.000But again, I think that speaks to the fact that when you have a moral grounding in biblical values, the way John MacArthur did, it gave you the courage to walk in like a lion, which is something that John MacArthur did his entire life.
00:07:42.000All righty, coming up, President Trump, very upset with Democrats, but does he have anything valuable to say?
00:07:47.000First, if you are with one of the big wireless providers, you are overpaying for wireless, period.
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00:08:40.000Again, that's PureTalk.com slash Shapiro to switch on over to Pure Talk Get Started with my friends over there, puretalk.com slash Shapiro.
00:08:49.000Also, I always assumed that restless sleep was inevitable, right?
00:08:52.000No, I toss, I turn, I get heated up at night, my back would hurt.
00:10:03.000And the reason that Barack Obama is upset with the Democrats is he said that you're whining and you're navel-gazing and you're sitting around doing nothing.
00:10:10.000And the thing about Barack Obama is that he's always apart from the movement he supposedly leads.
00:10:14.000Barack Obama is always sort of a spectator to his own party, to his own country, right?
00:10:19.000He's somebody who gets to sit there on high and cast his judgment at the Democratic Party.
00:10:23.000Now, you'll remember it was Barack Obama who originally told Joe Biden that he might pick Kamala Harris for VP.
00:10:30.000And then it was Barack Obama who was trying to shovel Joe Biden through the primaries and literally guiding him physically on stage.
00:10:36.000And then it was Barack Obama who intervened to get rid of Joe Biden and put Kamala Harris in his place.
00:10:42.000So every move that Barack Obama has made, essentially since his second reelect, since his reelect in 2012, has been the wrong move.
00:10:51.000That's just been the reality of the situation.
00:10:53.000But he still feels like he can sit there and lecture everybody else, particularly in the Democratic Party, about what they are doing wrong.
00:10:58.000So apparently, the 44th president spoke Friday evening at a fundraising event hosted by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy Murphy, at their Red Bank, New Jersey home, according to a report from CNN's Arlette Sains.
00:11:10.000The fundraiser was described as an intimate dinner.
00:12:31.000Make sure that the DNC has what it needs to compete in what will be a more data-driven, more social media-driven cycle, which will cost some money and expertise and time.
00:12:40.000He said, the most important thing you can do right now is help the team, our candidate, to win.
00:12:43.000We've got to start building up our coffers at the DNC.
00:12:46.000And then he said, there's been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote unquote abundance agenda.
00:12:52.000Listen, those things are not contradictory.
00:12:54.000You want to deliver for people and make their lives better.
00:12:58.000I don't care how much you love working people.
00:13:00.000They can't afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build, and zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY, meaning not in my backyard.
00:13:07.000I don't want to know your ideology because you can't build anything.
00:13:11.000So, this is the part that's fascinating.
00:13:13.000So, in the end, Barack Obama, while he was a radical leftist for his time, there is never a left that is left enough for the Democratic Party.
00:13:21.000And so, if you talk about Barack Obama with young people today, they barely remember him.
00:13:27.000I mean, again, I'm now part of the middle age.
00:13:31.000So I remember all the way back to the beginnings of the Bush administration, really, in my political life.
00:13:35.000But most people who are young were not even born until George W. Bush was on his way out of office.
00:13:43.000Most people who are voting for their first or second time in the next election cycle are people who grew up with Barack Obama as kind of the grand old man.
00:13:51.000But think about how you think of the first president that you remember of your lifetime.
00:13:55.000I remember Bill Clinton because I was approximately 16 when Bill Clinton left office, but I don't remember Bill Clinton like super duper well because I was 16 when he left office.
00:14:06.000So think about you're a young person and Barack Obama left office when you were really young.
00:14:12.000Like the first real president that you might remember, actually, might be Donald Trump because Donald Trump has been on the political scene for the last decade or so.
00:14:22.000And the last Democrats you remember are all old people, right?
00:14:25.000It was Hillary Clinton running and she was old already.
00:14:29.000And so when you think back to Barack Obama, Barack Obama has been out of politics at a very top level since 2015, 2016, realistically speaking.
00:14:40.000And so what you're talking about here is a full decade of no Barack Obama.
00:14:43.000So when he says maybe you should embrace the abundance agenda, you know how people think of Barack Obama now and the Democratic Party?
00:14:48.000They think of him as a sort of technocratic figure, right?
00:14:54.000Somebody who was there for the cult of expertise.
00:14:57.000Well, we are now living in what Alana Newhouse at Tableau has called a brokenist era, meaning that everybody on both sides thinks all the institutions are broken.
00:15:05.000On the left, they think the institutions are fundamentally broken and need to be torn down.
00:15:08.000And so you need to move toward the radical left.
00:15:10.000On the right, Donald Trump was sort of a representative of the brokenists, believing that the institutions of the country were already fundamentally broken.
00:15:18.000He's trying to break down some of them more, and he's trying to recapitulate the strength of others.
00:15:24.000But we live in a society that basically has no trust in the institutions.
00:15:28.000Barack Obama was anti-institutionalist in some ways, but overall, Barack Obama was a believer that the institutions could be wielded for power by him.
00:15:37.000That was sort of the chief mechanism of his technocratic rule.
00:15:40.000And so when people of the Barack Obama era speak to young Democrats, I don't think there's a connect there.
00:15:45.000Rahm Emanuel, who is his chief of staff, he's lecturing Democrats on not being popular enough because he wants to run for president.
00:15:51.000Do you think Rahm Emanuel has a shot at the presidency?
00:15:56.000Just to give you a sense of how bad we are, Democratic Party is less popular than Elon Musk right now.
00:16:03.000That should be like a wake-up call, how bad.
00:16:05.000And the Republican parties stab you in the back.
00:16:10.000The Democratic Party, we disappoint you.
00:16:13.000So he says the Democratic Party disappoints people.
00:16:17.000If you're a Democrat and you're disappointed with the Democratic Party, that is the Democratic Party of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Barack Obama and the old guard.
00:16:25.000So the Democratic Party is abandoning the abundance agenda of people like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and they're moving instead toward the radicals because that's where the energy in the party is.
00:16:35.000The Mamdonification of the Democratic Party continues apace.
00:16:39.000So in that New York City mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo has now announced that he's going to run as an independent in New York City.
00:16:47.000He, of course, ran in a primary against Momdani.
00:16:51.000The polls right now show that Momdani is leading the field, but not by leaps and bounds.
00:16:56.000He's got about 35 to 40% of the vote in New York City.
00:16:59.000And then the other 60% is split 20 different ways.
00:17:03.000According to the latest poll from Data for Progress, Momdani is polling at 40%.
00:17:08.000Former Governor Andrew Cuomo is polling at 24%.
00:17:12.000Mayor Eric Adams, who's running as an independent, is polling at 15%.
00:17:16.000And Curtis Sleewa is polling at 14%, which means that if you add up Cuomo, Adams, and Sliwa, which makes sense because there are not a lot of Adams voters who are going to bleed over to Momdani.
00:17:30.000They're mostly going to bleed over to Cuomo if Cuomo were to stay in.
00:17:32.000And if Sliwa were to drop out, that would all bleed over to Cuomo as well.
00:17:36.000Then what you're really talking about at that point is 53% to 40% against Mom Dani.
00:17:43.000This is why, you know, Andrew Cuomo jumping in.
00:17:46.000I know a lot of people are ribbing on Andrew Cuomo today for jumping in after he got shellacked by Mom Dani in the primary.
00:17:51.000But I got to say, I don't blame Andrew Cuomo for jumping in.
00:17:54.000I think that Andrew Cuomo is a terrible candidate.
00:17:56.000I think that many of the constituents he needed to win the mayoralty are not living right now because of his COVID old age home policies.
00:18:04.000But given the demographics of the city of New York and the fact there are still Republicans and Independents in the city of New York, I think there's a good shot that Andrew Cuomo ends up as the mayor of New York if people drop out.
00:18:15.000There needs to be a sort of coming together around a candidate as terrible as Andrew Cuomo in order to stop the worst alternative of having a socialist with jihadist sympathies as the mayor of New York.
00:18:27.000Here's Andrew Cuomo announcing his independent run in New York City.
00:19:04.000The fight to save our city isn't over.
00:19:07.000Only 13% of New Yorkers voted in the June primary.
00:19:11.000The general election is in November, and I am in it to win it.
00:19:18.000So, again, I think that he's an awful candidate, but he may be the best alternative at this point because the other candidate is an open socialist.
00:19:26.000And the Democratic Party is rallying around the open socialist.
00:19:29.000You know, the guy who says that we ought to nationalize grocery stores and the guy who refuses, once again, to condemn globalize the intifada, which is a call for international violence on behalf of jihadist causes.
00:19:39.000I mean, that's what globalizing the intifada is.
00:19:41.000Here's Mom Donnie just a couple of days ago dodging on globalizing the intifada.
00:19:47.000Is there something that you regret about how you answered that question in the Bulwark podcast that kind of maybe left open this idea that this was a slogan, that not only that it wasn't so much that you defended it, but that you yourself would use it?
00:20:04.000I can't speak to the media coverage of it.
00:20:09.000I can tell you that I'm looking forward to that meeting with Congressman Jeffries.
00:20:14.000And in the conversations that I've had with him, they have come back to the very urgent issue of affordability.
00:20:25.000So just again, dodging and dodging and dodging and going back to affordability, but understand, there's so many people who are misreading Momdani's signal here.
00:20:33.000He is not avoiding the question because he doesn't want to answer whether globalized the intifada is bad.
00:20:38.000He's avoiding the question because he understands the signal is that globalized the intifada is good.
00:20:42.000And that is what the Democratic Party base wants from him right now in places like New York.
00:20:46.000It's sad and pathetic, but that is what it is.
00:20:48.000He's also blaming President Trump for a decline in tourism in New York City, which is pretty wild considering that the city has been governed by horrifically bad Democrats for a decade or so.
00:21:01.000We know that his policies, they are not just disappearing our neighbors, detaining our friends.
00:21:09.000They are also turning the world away from our city.
00:21:13.000The rapid decline of tourists coming to this city is an issue not simply for us living up to our word as a city that welcomes the world, but it's one that has very real economic impacts for artists that are with me here today and those beyond.
00:21:33.000So again, it's all about the Trump administration killing tourism.
00:21:37.000It's not about New York City being poorly run.
00:21:39.000Already coming up, the future of the Democratic Party is a battle between the Zorin Mamdani Democrats and the Gavin Newsom Democrats.
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00:24:05.000So Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, he says that despite the fact that Eric Adams was a Democrat, now an independent, Andrew Cuomo was a Democrat, now an independent, both of them running, he's only going to meet with Mamzani.
00:24:18.000I'm scheduled to meet with the Democratic nominee at the end of the week back home in Brooklyn.
00:24:25.000Haven't had a conversation with Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo since the primary and have no current plans to do so at this moment.
00:24:39.000Will he have any words for Zoran Mamdani and the fact that he is essentially an open communist?
00:24:43.000Of course, he will not, because this is the modern Democratic Party.
00:24:46.000It is a bunch of old garters who are making room for the actual radicals in their midst.
00:24:52.000And this is going to be the new formula for the Democratic Party, at least until they get shellacked at some point, which you would imagine is something that is going to happen.
00:25:01.000There is a Zara Mamdani type who's now running for the mayor of Minneapolis.
00:25:06.000Here he is announcing his run for Minneapolis mayor.
00:25:10.000Everyone keeps asking me, Omar, why aren't you doing more videos?
00:25:13.000As a state senator with a second full-time job and a kid on the way, I just haven't been able to find the time.
00:25:19.000I've also been fighting for you, passing things like tuition-free college for working-class families, rideshare protections for our Uber and Lyft drivers, and the legalization of fentanyl testing strips.
00:25:29.000To make an affordable Minneapolis that works for everyone, we need a mayor that works as hard as you do.
00:25:34.000I'm ready to work hard to, one, build a Minneapolis that working people can afford to call home.
00:25:40.000Two, protect our city from a hostile White House.
00:25:43.000And three, diversify our city's public safety response.
00:25:46.000By increasing the minimum wage to $20 by 2028 and passing rent stabilization to stop price gouging and incentivizing new construction, we can protect workers.
00:25:56.000Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump means not letting NPD interact with ICE, whether it's for an immigration raid or not.
00:26:03.000Our residents deserve a mayor that will stand up to Donald Trump and say, no, not in our community.
00:26:10.000The pattern here is take the most radical positions in the Democratic Party, put a diverse face on them, and then run that for a mayor of a major American city.
00:26:19.000Zoran Mamdani is just Democrat Socialist of America, but also he happens to have a diverse ethnic heritage.
00:26:26.000And so that makes him sort of coded as fun to vote for for white progressive ladies living in New York.
00:26:33.000And the same thing is happening here with Omar Fate, who's running for Minneapolis mayor.
00:26:38.000There's been a lot of focus put on the fact that he's Somali in origin, that that's his ethnicity anyway.
00:26:44.000And that actually is really only relevant insofar as he is a typical Democratic socialist of America type who is racially diverse, which is going to be the new model for Democratic candidates going forward.
00:27:04.000That's what they are looking for right now.
00:27:05.000And his positions are unbelievably radical.
00:27:08.000I mean, this is what the Democratic Party is looking for.
00:27:13.000What they are attempting to do is that they had a choice, the Democratic Party.
00:27:16.000They could take positions that are broadly popular with the American people, or what they could do is take positions that are popular with college-educated white single ladies.
00:27:26.000And then they could hope that racial solidarity would carry them across the finish line.
00:27:30.000And it appears as though they are doing the latter.
00:27:33.000It appears that they're basically taking, if you go back to the Barack Obama sort of analysis, the Barack Obama pitch in 2008, the reason he won a broad victory is because if you go back to his campaign, he campaigned as a moderate on virtually every issue.
00:27:48.000And also, because he was racially diverse, that meant that a lot of Americans felt very good about voting for him because by voting for him, you could show that America wanted to move past its terrible racial history.
00:27:58.000And then by 2012, he was running as a very far-left candidate and hoping to cobble together a majority-minority coalition with enough college-educated white ladies to get over the finish line.
00:28:09.000And the Democratic Party is still stuck in the Obama model.
00:28:12.000But what's weird about the Obama model is that it abandons the Obama technocracy.
00:28:15.000Instead, it's basically tear down all the systems and replace them, if at all, with a gigantically centralized government.
00:28:22.000So if you look at the actual positions being taken by Omar Fateh in Minneapolis, he says that with Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, the progress toward equity and justice that our communities have worked so hard to create is in jeopardy.
00:28:35.000Mayor Fry has said that our approach to fighting Trump is extreme.
00:28:39.000The only way to stand up to Trump and his posse of unelected billionaires is to create a city that is radically inclusive and stands up for those who are most at risk.
00:28:48.000It means that he wants the Minneapolis Police Department to be forced not to work with ICE, for example, as he says.
00:28:54.000Ensure that events like the Trans Equity Summit are fully funded and prioritized.
00:28:58.000Increase funding to services that support housing safety and economic justice, such as LGBTQ plus and BIPOC people are some of the highest at risk for losing their housing, being overcriminalized by MPD and being harassed by their employer.
00:29:12.000He also wants the city to build a bunch of housing, right?
00:29:16.000Because public housing has always been a massive boon.
00:30:20.000And the quality of life has gone down.
00:30:23.000But because Gavin Newsom is trying to pose as the sort of anti-Trump fighter, he thinks that's enough to get him across the finish line in a Democratic primary.
00:30:31.000I do not think that the model that Gavin Newsom is pursuing is likely to succeed in a presidential primary for the Democratic Party.
00:30:38.000But he's out there, you know, pushing his agenda.
00:30:42.000And that agenda, by the way, continues to be be all things to all people, which I do not think is going to work in the new era of radical Democratic Party politics.
00:30:50.000So for example, he's dancing around still the transing of the children.
00:30:55.000Here he was just yesterday doing that.
00:31:20.000As I, and as someone that's been so focused on equality, broadly, LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage, the trans issue for me is also novel.
00:31:54.000When he gets to a controversial issue within the Democratic Party base, and he understands it's unpopular with the general American public, he tries to dance around it, but he has no actual, he has no actual answers.
00:32:04.000He's doing the same thing, by the way, with regard to his California COVID policies.
00:32:07.000Now, California had some of the most insane COVID policies in America.
00:32:10.000I was living in California at the time.
00:32:44.000What's interesting about this process is none of us have really reviewed in an objective way.
00:32:50.000It's all through the lens of politics what we did right and what we did wrong.
00:32:55.000And so I'll answer that question by telling you what I've just tasked.
00:32:59.000I've asked our team to put together an objective review of everything we did right, everything we did wrong.
00:33:07.000We're interviewing people that vehemently disagree with us, that oppose the mask mandates, that oppose the stay-at-home orders, people that are international experts.
00:33:55.000Because again, there's too many issues on which he's been found to be dishonest.
00:33:58.000For example, he said yesterday on Sean Ryan that there was talk that when the president of China, Xi Jinping, the dictator of China, when he visited California, that they basically cleaned all the poop off the streets in San Francisco so it didn't look bad.
00:34:12.000Well, here he was explaining that that story is not true.
00:34:39.000The city, which, by the way, I'm no longer mayor, was organizing for dozens and dozens of foreign leaders, not just she, to arrive for APEC.
00:34:52.000And the city, over the course of last year, had finally started to step up its game to address what's happening on the streets and sidewalks.
00:35:00.000And there was no question when you have a major international conference that there was investments made to prepare the city as any convention and any city would.
00:36:50.000And more and more rich people are leaving California.
00:36:52.000Whenever you use a stat, like it's sort of like when people talk about the country's trade deficit.
00:36:57.000Okay, if I as an individual make a trade with a foreign country, that is not the United States making a trade with a foreign country.
00:37:04.000That is me as an individual making a trade with a foreign firm.
00:37:07.000That is not the United States collectively spending money in China or in Japan.
00:37:12.000In the same way, when he says that California is a donor state, California is not donating anything.
00:37:18.000Residents of California are paying higher federal income tax rates because they are making more money because California is an incredibly stratified society.
00:37:27.000But the statistic that actually matters is what percentage of American welfare dollars are spent in California?
00:38:37.000And he's relying on that false statistic in order to make the claim that his state is well governed.
00:38:42.000Okay, well, it also happens to be that when he says that blue counties are generating or blue cities are generating 71% of GDP, does he just mean cities?
00:38:51.000It turns out that across all of human history, cities generate an outsized percentage of commerce because there are lots of people living close Together.
00:39:01.000The real question, if you're talking about government policy, is not: do cities generate lots of commerce?
00:39:32.000I asked our sponsors over at Perplexity AI this question.
00:39:35.000Nearly 60% of all welfare cases are found in large urban counties, which are predominantly governed by Democratic blue administrations.
00:39:42.000Specifically, 89 large urban counties, home to about one-third of the U.S. population, account for almost 60% of the nation's welfare caseload.
00:39:50.000So again, it is predictable that when you have big cities where people congregate, there will be more commerce.
00:39:54.000The question is, why are there so many poor people in the areas governed by Democrats?
00:39:59.000In areas that are not poor because they're rural.
00:40:03.000In areas that are poor because of bad policymaking.
00:40:08.000What he really should be looking at is the raw number of people who are poor living below the poverty line in California, not making excuses based on the rich people he derides as the source of the problem.
00:40:19.000Alrighty, coming up, President Trump is moving toward the practical position on Russia and fast.
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00:41:25.000Meanwhile, in other news, the president of the United States is shifting his angle with regard to Vladimir Putin.
00:41:32.000This, of course, is because, as I've said one million times, he lives in the world of reality.
00:41:35.000The president yesterday announced that he would be increasing economic pressure on Moscow if there's no peace deal with Ukraine in 50 days.
00:41:41.000He says the United States will impose very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days.
00:41:46.000So either Trump could choose to impose tariffs and sanctions or sanctions on countries that actually do business with Russia.
00:41:52.000So it's not just direct trade with Russia, which of course the United States does not have a ton of direct trade with Russia, but we could theoretically attempt to impose secondary sanctions on countries that are looking at doing business with Russia.
00:42:02.000Again, that is not the tool in our arsenal that is likely to have the most effective outcome.
00:42:07.000We've been trying commerce-related tools against Putin for a while.
00:42:11.000Instead, what he has done is basically shipped oil to places like China and India in order to get around all of that.
00:42:16.000It doesn't mean his economy is booming.
00:42:18.000It's done economic damage to Russia, but it's enough for them to carry on the war.
00:42:22.000The bigger issue here is that President Trump has now said that the United States has reached a deal with NATO that will send weapons and air defenses to Ukraine within days.
00:42:32.000So President Trump announced this yesterday first.
00:42:34.000He ripped into Vladimir Putin saying, you know, you keep misleading me and you keep jabbering and nothing is coming of it.
00:42:41.000I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done.
00:42:45.000And I always hang up and say, well, that was a nice phone call.
00:42:48.000And then missiles are launched into Kiev or some other city.
00:43:29.000He was never an America small power guy.
00:43:32.000That was never who President Trump was.
00:43:34.000And he came to the proper conclusion here because he doesn't want Vladimir Putin winning the war in Ukraine, period.
00:43:39.000He said, listen, I am very unhappy with Russia.
00:43:43.000One of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that we are very unhappy, I am, with Russia.
00:43:51.000But we'll discuss that maybe a different day.
00:43:54.000But we're very, very unhappy with them, and we're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days.
00:44:05.000So, again, the tariffs are one thing, and President Trump thinks of that as a major blow against Russia because he loves tariffs and he loves the use of tariffs as a weapon of power.
00:44:13.000But the bigger thing that he's doing is he's saying we're sending weapons and NATO is paying for it, which is the proper solution.
00:44:18.000That, of course, is the proper solution.
00:44:19.000The biggest issue with regard to the military support for Ukraine is that if you cut off the weapons completely, well, Europe gets attacked together.
00:44:29.000Well, the weapons that Ukraine is currently using in the field are American-made.
00:44:33.000And so you don't have actual weaponry in the field.
00:45:07.000So, you know, again, he is right about this.
00:45:09.000The NATO chief, Mark Rudy, he says this is a totally responsible decision by President Trump.
00:45:14.000You called me on Thursday that you had taken a decision.
00:45:19.000And the decision is that you want Ukraine what it needs to have to maintain, to be able to defend itself against Russia, but you don't want Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.
00:45:32.000And this is building on the tremendous success of the NATO summit.
00:45:38.000That, of course, is exactly, exactly right.
00:45:41.000Admiral James Stavrides, who's certainly been a very outspoken critic of the president, even he is admitting that this is the right move by President Trump.
00:45:48.000What I would like to see is a provision for the United States to send more harpoon missiles to go after the Black Sea Fleet, more high Mars surface-to-surface weapons that can reach deep behind Russian lines, more offensive cyber capability, and Kate, maybe some more F-16 aircraft, all of which are very capable offensively.
00:46:12.000I think that is what could move Putin to the negotiating table, which is what we want on our side.
00:46:22.000So, again, President Trump living in the world of reality and responding to what is happening in the world.
00:46:27.000Okay, meanwhile, it seems that the tariffs, President Trump's tariffs, have started to have some actual impact on the inflation rate, which of course was predictable.
00:46:37.000Again, the laws of economics are not easily bucked.
00:46:40.000We were told for years that if Democrats just spent endlessly, that they could continue to do that and inflation would never catch up.
00:46:45.000This was modern monetary theory, which was promoted by Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, and it wasn't true.
00:46:53.000And then we got hit with 40-year highs in inflation.
00:46:55.000Well, we've also been told that because the inflation rate right now is not spiking because of the tariffs, that means that maybe tariffs don't actually increase inflation.
00:47:50.000Prices of new cars fell 0.3%, and that is because people are just buying fewer cars.
00:47:55.000When people buy fewer things, the price goes down.
00:47:58.000Month over month, consumer prices rose 0.3% in June compared with May, as economists had expected.
00:48:04.000So this would be the reason why Jay Powell over at the Federal Reserve has not been decreasing the interest rates, because he's been afraid that if he does, he is going to fuel another inflation-based cycle.
00:48:15.000Now, a lot of those costs are being passed on directly to consumers.
00:48:22.000Goldman Sachs economists estimate U.S. consumers will end up paying 70% of tariffs' direct costs.
00:48:27.000Walmart said in May that it would be forced to raise prices.
00:48:29.000Ralph Loren has said it was considering raising price increases as well.
00:48:34.000Chicago Fed President Austin Goolsby said on Friday, continued tariff threats make it harder to figure out where inflation is headed.
00:48:40.000He said the more we keep adding things to the mix, they make it harder to figure out, like, are prices going to be rising or not, the more it's just throwing more dirt back into the air.
00:48:47.000And this is why the Federal Reserve is being quite cautious at this point.
00:48:50.000And again, a lot of this stuff is in the air.
00:48:52.000The EU right now is threatening retaliatory tariffs if no deal is met with the United States.
00:48:58.000Now, again, I think that the administration, particularly Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, is going to be negotiating a bevy of deals over the course of coming weeks to avoid an August 1st actual snap into place of large-scale tariffs on many of our major trade partners.
00:49:13.000I don't think that's something that the Treasury Secretary wants.
00:49:15.000And I think that if the inflation rates increase and if the markets start to roil, President Trump will respond to that incentive structure as he historically has.
00:49:25.000The negative take on President Trump's trade policy is the supposed taco of it, right?
00:49:36.000That's called finding new data and then responding to it.
00:49:40.000However, the EU is threatening retaliation.
00:49:42.000According to Politico, the European Union is looking at targeting 72 billion euros in U.S. goods in a second round of trade countermeasures, including aircraft, cars, and car parts, according to a list seen by Politico on Monday.
00:49:53.000The bulk of those exports targeted are industrial goods, totaling 65.7 billion euros.
00:49:58.0006.4 billion euros in agricultural products would also be hit if EU countries back the new retaliatory tariffs.
00:50:04.000And that includes bourbon whiskey, despite intense lobbying from France and Ireland to shield the drinks sector from President Trump's reprisals.
00:50:11.000The biggest line item is aircraft and aircraft parts, with tariffs set to target almost 11 billion euros of U.S. exports, which, of course, would mostly strike Boeing.
00:50:21.000So, again, everybody is ready to go weapons up.
00:50:25.000And so it's not as though things couldn't go wrong here.
00:50:29.000I mean, this is why we need to come to some trade deals and write fast.
00:50:32.000The goal here should be freer trade with our allies, and it should be to box in places like China.
00:50:39.000And this is also why it's a mistake right now to target Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
00:50:43.000You can agree that he's always late, but the reality is that he should not be lowering the interest rates while the inflation rate ticked up this month.
00:50:51.000But according to Axios, President Trump's war on the Federal Reserve is taking a more concrete, legally actionable form, putting the central bank's independence in the crosshairs.
00:50:59.000For months, President Trump's exasperation with Fed Chair Jerome Powell over not cutting interest rates has taken the form of increasingly angry comments and social media posts.
00:51:07.000Now, Trump appointees are trying to lay out legal predicates to fire Powell for cause, specifically that the Fed's $2.5 billion headquarters renovation project has included changes not approved by a federal planning authority or that Powell lied to Congress about the project.
00:51:20.000That was the subtext of a memo from the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vogt.
00:51:25.000Powell denied to Congress last month the project contains several luxury features.
00:51:30.000Vogt's letter suggested the Fed had changed plans that had already been blessed by the National Capital Planning Commission in 2021.
00:51:38.000Some members of the NCPC, the National Capital Planning Commission, have been quick to toe the White House's line on the Fed project.
00:51:44.000The new NCPC chair, Will Scharf, said at an NCPC meeting last week, the Fed project includes serious deviations from plans the NCPC had approved.
00:51:53.000It looks like a Taj Mahal near the national wall, said fellow Trump-appointed commissioner Michael Blair.
00:51:57.000Now, again, I think that this is A gigantic mistake in the markets.
00:52:02.000This would be a big mistake in the markets.
00:52:04.000Firing Jerome Powell over a construction project at the Federal Reserve, as though what Jerome Powell's chief goal is, is to build Mar-a-Lago at the Federal Reserve.
00:52:39.000If the president were to fire Jerome Powell, that would be a mistake.
00:52:42.000Not because I think Jerome Powell's great at his job, I don't, but because that would send a signal to markets that President Trump is intervening in the interest rate discussion directly in order to facilitate certain numbers, certain things he wants to do that are not necessarily in consonance with the Federal Reserve's actual mission at this point.
00:53:05.000I've said for a long time, the biggest threat to the Trump administration is not his immigration policy or his foreign policy or his domestic policy other than these things called tariffs that could theoretically really, really harm his economic policy.
00:53:25.000And he's doing a lot of great things with regards to cutting the size and scope of government.
00:53:29.000So yesterday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Trump to shrink the Education Department.
00:53:33.000Of course, this is how they should have ruled.
00:53:35.000They ruled six to three that the Trump administration can start mass layoffs at the Education Department, halting a lower court ruling that had blocked the White House's plans.
00:53:42.000And again, the President of the United States is the head of the federal executive branch.
00:53:48.000The education department is underneath him.
00:53:49.000He, of course, should be able to fire who he wants inside the executive branch.
00:53:53.000The order, according to the Wall Street Journal, clears the way for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to weaken the department from within.
00:53:59.000She has said she is leading the agency's final mission while acknowledging that eliminating it altogether would require the approval of Congress, something that political observers say is unlikely.
00:54:08.000Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the court's decision, quote, hands the executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out.
00:54:19.000The Congress does not have the ability to run the executive branch in terms of how the law is actually implemented.
00:54:26.000That is a struggle between Congress and the executive branch.
00:54:28.000And the executive branch can fire whomever they please.
00:54:32.000The notion that Sonia Sotomayor gets to sit there and tell the executive branch that it must rehire X number of people in order to effectuate this law is like that.
00:54:50.000Again, the three liberal justices were the ones who dissented, not a shock.
00:54:55.000The lower court rulings had forced the education department to pause its plans to scale back.
00:55:00.000And so there's been a lot of back and forth with these particular employees, but this is the right decision by the Supreme Court.
00:55:06.000And by the way, when you talk about the brokenists, right, who I mentioned a little bit early, people who think the institutions are broken, our education system is completely broken, totally broken.
00:55:15.000It needs to be revamped on a dramatic scale.
00:55:19.000I mean, just an indicator of how broken our education system is.
00:55:21.000So the National Education Association is so far to the left.
00:55:27.000And they hold so many American students as hostages to their bizarre agenda.
00:55:34.000Believe it or not, the Anti-Defamation League, of which I am no fan, I think the ADL does a lot of terrible work.
00:55:40.000I think some of the things they do are good.
00:55:42.000And I think a lot of the things they do are politically motivated by leftist principles.
00:55:46.000However, the NEA is so far to the left, it will not even use the ADL, the left-wing ADL's material on anti-Semitism and Holocaust education.
00:55:54.000That's how far to the radical left the NEA is.
00:55:56.000The ADL isn't far enough to the radical left for the NEA.
00:56:00.000There's a member-backed measure to stop the NEA from using the ADL's Holocaust education.
00:56:05.000Now, listen, I can argue with the ADL's standards for Holocaust education and what they're actually teaching.
00:56:10.000I would do so from a right-wing perspective.
00:56:13.000The reason the NEA is trying to stop that is because they actually just don't like Jews in a general way.
00:56:19.000The NEA is so far to the radical left that they've signed on to the Zorin Mamdani radicalization of the Democratic Party.
00:56:25.000In a letter signed by 378 Jewish organizations, the group said the NEA measure would effectively boycott ADL's widely respected anti-bias and Holocaust education curricula.
00:56:34.000Again, this is not a defense of the ADL.
00:56:36.000It's pointing out how insane the NEA is.
00:56:39.000Well, because the NEA is saying that you can't have this sort of education because of Gaza.
00:56:44.000So when the Trump administration announces that it is going to break apart the education system that is essentially just federal and state subsidies to unions like the NEA, all I can do is cheer.
00:56:55.000And meanwhile, the administration continues to find new ways of effectuating its immigration agenda.
00:57:01.000According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court.
00:57:10.000In a July 8th memo, Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, told officers such immigrants should be detained for the duration of their removal proceedings, which could take months or years, which of course makes sense.
00:57:20.000Typically, illegal immigrants have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge.
00:57:25.000But Lyons said, no, because what we're going to do is there will be a bond hearing.
00:57:29.000If anybody's released, they just disappear, obviously.
00:57:33.000In rare exceptions, immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.
00:57:40.000The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants shall be detained after their arrest.
00:57:46.000Lyons wrote that the policy is expected to face legal challenges.
00:57:51.000The sweeping new detention policy comes days after Congress passed a spending package that will allocate $45 billion over the next four years to lock up illegal immigrants for civil deportation proceedings.
00:58:03.000Now, again, the goal here is to make it harder to be an illegal immigrant in the United States absconding from American law, right, to stop people from being arrested.
00:59:02.000If that's what you're like your number one go-to commitment, then you sure as hell should care about their workers.
00:59:09.00041% of our construction workers, Texas and California, have the highest percentage of their construction workers that would fill into that category.
00:59:17.000How the hell do we rebuild Altadena and Palisades?
00:59:39.000Again, if the basic idea here is that illegal immigration is good for the country because it undercuts the wage base, I'd love for Democrats to make that explicit.
00:59:48.000Bill Maher, who again has become maybe the last reasonable man on the left, he had to explain borders to actor John Leguizamo.
00:59:57.000Part of this is a backlash to how badly Biden handled the immigration situation.
01:00:03.000It can't just be like, come one, come all, which it was.
01:00:07.000There's plenty of room here, and we need room.
01:00:10.000Letit, there's plenty of room in America.
01:00:12.000Come on, there's no lack of room in America.
01:00:15.000It's about resources and about like having a countries have to have a border.
01:00:23.000Again, the fact that this is a commonsensical statement that somehow is being bucked by so many people on the left is one of the reasons why President Trump remains successful on this issue.
01:00:32.000Representative Kevin Kiley, Republican congressman from California, is pointing out that California is so radical that Karen Bass, mayor of California, is handing out cash cards to illegal immigrants.
01:00:42.000And now Bass is giving out these free cash cards.
01:00:45.000And apparently one of the ways you can get one is if you're too afraid to go into work.
01:00:50.000Well, number one, this fear, to the extent that it exists, is largely driven by Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome, who have purposely incited fear and driven these rioters into a state of frenzy.
01:01:00.000But number two, if we say that if you're too afraid to go to work, you get free cash payments, I think that all of a sudden we're going to find there are a lot more people who are suddenly too afraid to go into work.
01:01:10.000But the real kicker in all this is that Karen Bass has chosen, of all groups, Cherla, to distribute the cards.
01:01:16.000Now, remember, this is the group that got $34 million in funding and then played a central role in organizing the riot.
01:01:32.000There's a debate inside the Democratic Party.
01:01:34.000The debate is, are they unpopular because they are old school technocrats who didn't solve any of the problems?
01:01:40.000Or are they unpopular because actually they're way too radical?
01:01:44.000The radicals always have the better of that particular argument because it's easy to point to the thing that is as opposed to the thing that they think in their head might be.
01:01:53.000It is a much easier presentation to somebody to sell a vision of an alternative future where the rules don't apply than it is to defend a status quo.
01:02:02.000And so it's likely the Radicals will succeed.
01:02:04.000But if they succeed in the Democratic Party, it is hard to see how they succeed with the American people who remain a non-radical people.
01:02:11.000The success of President Trump, I've said this the entire campaign, the success of President Trump is that shockingly, Donald Trump is the most moderate voice in American politics at this point.
01:02:21.000Donald Trump has a commonsensical approach to the issues.
01:02:24.000I don't necessarily agree with everything that Donald Trump does, of course, because I don't agree with what every president does all the time.
01:02:31.000But President Trump, he responds to incentive structures and he has occupied the center on pretty much every issue.
01:02:38.000Americans, for example, just to take an issue where I disagree with them, Americans do not want major cuts to social services.
01:02:44.000President Trump does not want major cuts to social services.
01:03:00.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are abandoning every 80-20 issue in favor of the 20%, and then they don't understand why they're unpopular.
01:03:08.000And the way back for Democrats is not going to be in somehow lecturing from on high the way that Barack Obama is attempting to do.
01:03:16.000The only way back for Democrats is for them to abandon Obama 2012 and get back to Obama 2008, which is to say, embrace in policy the moderation that Barack Obama tried to promote in 2008 in rhetoric.
01:03:28.000All righty, folks, coming up, I have a couple of updates on the Epstein case.
01:03:31.000Dan Bongino is back at work, which is definitely a good development.
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