Sean Diddy Combs was acquitted on most of the major charges in his trial. What exactly is going on? Is he going to jail? And for how long? And why? Plus, we ll get to the latest on foreign policy, the latest immigration, and the Democratic Party falling apart.
00:01:54.000This was him trafficking prostitutes across state lines, paying for them to be brought across the state lines in violation of the Man Act, for example.
00:02:00.000Count four, sex trafficking by force, coercion, or fraud.
00:02:06.000This had to do with an anonymous alleged victim named Jane.
00:02:09.000And count five, transportation to engage in prostitution, guilty.
00:02:12.000So basically, the charges upon which he was found guilty all had to do with transportation to engage in prostitution.
00:02:18.000And those he was pretty much dead to rights because the reality is that there were people who were stated prostitutes who were transported to him for pay for use in his so-called freak offs.
00:02:31.000And this was one of my questions that I had for a while on this trial.
00:02:34.000I've talked to Megan Kelly about it, of course, was how exactly do you prove racketeering conspiracy, which requires a criminal conspiracy, meaning a conspiracy to do criminal act, when the alleged victim is a girlfriend who continued to come back and send you messages about how excited she was to participate in activities like this one?
00:02:56.000How can you claim sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion with regard to Cassie Ventura when, again, she was his 10-year girlfriend?
00:03:02.000It makes it extremely difficult for a jury to come to the conclusion that beyond a reasonable doubt, he was guilty of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion with regard to Cassie Ventura or this other anonymous woman, Jane.
00:03:14.000Again, they had apparently some communications suggesting that all of it was consensual, or at least part of it was consensual.
00:03:21.000And video of him beating up Cassie Ventura in a hallway.
00:03:24.000Well, that may be a case for state assault and battery, but that isn't necessarily a case for sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.
00:03:32.000So bottom line is that all the charges originally against Sean Ziddey Combs would have added up to life in prison.
00:03:39.000So again, when it comes to the sentencing, transportation to engage in prostitution carries up to 10 years.
00:03:44.000However, however, the likelihood is that he will serve certainly less than two years in prison.
00:03:51.000The jury's liberated 13 hours across three days.
00:03:54.000There were eight men and four women on the jury.
00:03:56.000The age range was 30 to 74, racially diverse, many jurors of color, as they say.
00:04:02.000On July 2nd, the jury returned for less than an hour before reaching a verdict on the RICO count.
00:04:07.000So again, when it comes to RICO, RICO, of course, the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organization Act, which was designed to go after the mafia, in order to actually establish that RICO has been violated, you don't just have to show that people are combining to do a thing.
00:04:20.000You have to show that they have a criminal conspiracy, meaning a conspiracy that is deliberately organized in order to do criminal acts.
00:04:28.000And so the evidence on this particular charge that was brought by the prosecution is that his business empire, Sean Diddy Combs, security, personal assistants, supervisors functioned as a sort of criminal enterprise, not a business enterprise in which certain people may have engaged in criminal acts.
00:04:43.000The whole thing was set up in order to do crime.
00:04:46.000The Predicate Act, the criminal acts supporting RICO, include allegations that the Combs Enterprise carried out, facilitated, and covered up sex trafficking, forced labor, transportation for prostitution, narcotics distribution, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
00:05:01.000Now, the case against that is that there was no actual criminal enterprise, that Combs acted independently, that all his expenses were personal, that the Combs enterprise was in fact a business enterprise, and that on a one-off basis, he would go to various people around him and ask them to do a criminal thing.
00:05:17.000And they may not have fully known what those criminal things were, or he may have known, and they may not have known, or whatever.
00:05:22.000But bottom line is the jury found there wasn't enough evidence there.
00:05:25.000As far as sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, Cassie Ventura testified.
00:05:32.000His anonymous woman Jane also testified.
00:05:34.000And they had text messages with Combs about participation in freak offs.
00:05:38.000And they suggested they had done all of this due to fear of violent retaliation, shared opiate dependency, and financial retaliation.
00:05:45.000And there are 30 witnesses who testified to Combs' abuse of his business empire to facilitate and conceal coercive sexual acts and testified to seeing Combs physically abuse Cassie Ventura.
00:05:55.000The defense says, well, hold up a second.
00:05:58.000They say that the witnesses and victims may have been motivated by money because Cassie Ventura receives a $20 million settlement here.
00:06:06.000So maybe she stayed in because she wanted the settlement money, for example.
00:06:11.000They also claim that one of the more spectacular claims is that Kid Cuddy's vehicle was blown up by allies of Sean Ziddee Combs or by Combs himself.
00:06:19.000And the defense claimed that those arson kidnapping charges cannot be linked to Combs.
00:06:26.000And that the reason that he paid off hotel staff to get rid of a variety of tapes Was to avoid bad publicity, not to obstruct justice.
00:06:34.000And one of the claims the defense made was: if Combs have criminal co-conspirators, if this is in fact a racketeering conspiracy, where is the rest of the conspiracy?
00:06:47.000And this is why the jury came to the conclusion that it did.
00:06:51.000Now, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clinton, and the special agent in charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations, Ricky Patel, put out a statement, quote, sex crimes deeply scar victims, and the disturbing reality is that sex crimes are all too present in many aspects of our society.
00:07:05.000Victims endure gut-wrenching physical and mental abuse, leading to lasting trauma.
00:07:08.000New Yorkers and all Americans want the scourge stopped and perpetrators brought to justice.
00:07:12.000Prosecuting sex crimes requires brave victims to come forward and tell their harrowing stories.
00:07:16.000We and our law enforcement partners recognize the hardships victims endure and have prioritized a victim-centered approach to investigating and prosecuting these cases.
00:07:24.000And then they say thank you to everybody at NYPD, as well as to the witnesses and everybody else.
00:07:28.000Cassie Vincenter's attorney Doug Wigdore also spoke to the press.
00:07:32.000He said, we're happy he's been held responsible.
00:07:34.000Obviously, they're not that happy considering that, again, he may do no jail time at all when all is said and done.
00:07:39.000We would have liked to have seen a conviction on the sex crimes in Rico counts.
00:07:45.000But we're pleased that he's been held responsible for something, which is something that hasn't happened in his lifetime.
00:07:51.000And, you know, we're hopeful that ultimately he receives a substantial sentence for what he's done.
00:07:57.000We're pleased that Cassie's brought to light everything that has happened in this trial.
00:08:03.000I just spoke with her and with the U.S. Attorney's Office team.
00:08:11.000She's pleased that, again, that the jury has found him liable, or guilty of two federal crimes.
00:08:18.000Now, again, the case that was made by Diddy, as well as his team, his legal team, is that the women consented to these encounters and that the feds criminalized his lifestyle and he was guilty of domestic abuse, right?
00:08:30.000He admits that, but not the sex crimes with which he was charged.
00:08:33.000Combs' lead attorney, Mark Agnafilo, said in his closing statement, he did what he did, but he's going to fight to the death to defend himself from what he didn't do.
00:08:42.000CNN's Eli Hoenig, he came out, he said, listen, Cassie Ventura, basically this came down to the jury did not see Cassie Ventura as a victim.
00:08:48.000They saw her as a person who was willfully involved with Sean Diddy Combs for a decade.
00:08:54.000Sex trafficking of Cassie Ventura, not guilty.
00:08:56.000Not guilty sex trafficking of Cassidy Ventura.
00:08:58.000So that is obviously an enormous win for the defense.
00:09:02.000It means the jury did not credit Cassie Ventura's testimony.
00:09:06.000That's a huge blow to the prosecution.
00:09:09.000And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:09:12.000Meanwhile, ABC News analyst Bernarda Villalona, she similarly pointed out this is a slap in the face to the alleged victims.
00:09:21.000For the victims, I think this is a slap in the face for the victims.
00:09:24.000I think this is going to deter victims from coming forward and telling their story and being the voice for the voiceless in the sense of representing other victims that are not willing to come forward.
00:09:36.000I'm sure that the prosecution right now is very upset with this verdict because they definitely put a lot of time into this prosecution, into this investigation.
00:09:45.000And they also did a lot of comforting of try to give strength to these women, to Jane and to Cassie, to come forward, to show their face, to share their story.
00:09:55.000Now, again, this is the way it's going to be interpreted by some in the press.
00:09:59.000He said this is a slap in the face to all women and all victims.
00:10:02.000But one of the major issues in the case is whether if you are in a relationship for 10 years with somebody, it is going to be easy to establish that that person was an abuser.
00:10:11.000Even if they abused you, if you stayed in, it makes it very difficult legally to make claims against that person.
00:10:18.000It's just the reality of the world, particularly in the post-MeToo era.
00:10:21.000During the MeToo era, you could claim that you just had a bad feeling after having an encounter with a man and everybody would rush to your defense.
00:10:27.000In the post-MeToo era, people want to know that if you get the bleep kicked out of you in a hallway, for example, that you go to the cops because otherwise they're going to assume that you are consenting not to that act, but to the relationship in general.
00:10:42.000And that's particularly true if there are texts suggesting that you're eager to engage in some of the activities in which you have engaged.
00:10:49.000And beyond a reasonable doubt is a criminal standard.
00:10:51.000I'm not sure that the jury got it wrong here.
00:10:52.000I know there are a lot of people out here who are suggesting that the jury got this totally wrong.
00:10:55.000It seemed to me, you know, in my sort of familiarity with the case, as it grew over time through Diddy Watch and other sort of coverage of the case, that the prosecution was overreaching, that the prosecution was trying to make a case against Diddy that the evidence didn't quite sustain.
00:11:11.000Now, there are some people who are trying to make this into a racial issue.
00:11:13.000That includes MSNBC legal commentator Lisa Rubin.
00:11:16.000She says, well, one of the problems is that the prosecutors here were white women, and there were a bunch of people on the jury who were not white.
00:11:22.000Well, and also there are some racial dynamics here, Ana, that were at play.
00:11:25.000And I think both the gender and the racial dynamics are worth talking about.
00:11:29.000Earlier this spring, I went to cover an unrelated event down near the federal courthouses, and I was there on May 1st when I saw all six of the prosecutors on this team walk from their office, which is now at the Court of International Trade, to the courtroom itself.
00:11:46.000And they filed in a single file line, and they are all white women to a person, six of them, and they almost look like lawyer Barbies proceeding as they were walking to the court.
00:11:57.000It's not lost on me that particularly given who the defendant was and in a jury that not only was mixed by gender, but had from my count, at least seven people of color on it, that that dynamic may not have gone over particularly well with them.
00:12:15.000Okay, but you know, the alleged victims in this case, I mean, Cassie Ventura is not a white person.
00:12:21.000Cassie Ventura's mom is of African descent and her dad is Filipino.
00:12:25.000So again, it shouldn't have to do with the prosecutors in this particular case.
00:12:28.000Trying to turn this into a sort of weird jury nullification on the basis of race case is definitely strange.
00:12:34.000What this does go to is that we now live in a time where people are very skeptical of claims being made about sexual abuse in which some of the claimed victims, again, are engaged in long-term relationships with the alleged perpetrators in these particular cases.
00:12:52.000So again, a bit of a shocking result here.
00:12:55.000But just to sum up, I'm not sure the jury got this one wrong.
00:13:00.000I think that by all available evidence, Sean C. D. Combs is an absolute piece of human trash.
00:13:05.000But that was true when he was just engaging in consensual freak offs.
00:13:08.000And one of the big problems that we have in our country and in our civilization as a whole is that when you use consent as the only standard for morality or even legality, when that is the only standard, you are going to end up with some of the most disreputable people being quote unquote innocent.
00:13:23.000You will end up with the biggest people in Hollywood hobnobbing with Diddy at these freak offs and everybody looking the other way.
00:13:29.000And it's going to be hard to sort of backfill the rage that society feels at these sorts of activities through the criminal law.
00:13:37.000The criminal law probably was not the solution here.
00:13:39.000Societal ostracization was the solution long ago.
00:13:43.000The criminal law is the solution when he's beating the hell out of Cass Ventur in a hallway.
00:13:46.000The criminal law may be a solution when he is trafficking in prostitutes.
00:13:49.000Although increasingly, the left is very much in favor of sex workers.
00:13:52.000So I'm not sure even what the left would say about all of this.
00:13:56.000But bottom line is that a society in which the only value is consent is going to end up in some pretty dark places.
00:14:03.000And the criminal law cannot fill in for a society that lacks all morality.
00:14:07.000Okay, we'll get to the latest on the big beautiful bill in a moment.
00:14:10.000First, it's pretty ironic when you think about it.
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00:16:13.000Okay, meanwhile, negotiations continue over the so-called big, beautiful bill.
00:16:16.000The Senate bill is very different from the House bill.
00:16:20.000According to Axios, Majority Leader John Thune pressed Senate Republicans over the last 48 hours to go big or go home on that big, beautiful bill.
00:16:27.000But over the next 24 hours, he'll learn if he broke the House's spirit in the process.
00:16:31.000The Senate's spending cuts are deeper.
00:16:35.000Thune lost three of his own members on the way to that 51-50 win.
00:16:38.000That, of course, was a tie that had to be broken by the Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:16:43.000And according to Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina, he left House Speaker Mike Johnson with a non-starter.
00:16:48.000Now, again, there will be negotiations between the House and the Senate.
00:16:51.000The version that will be eventually passed in the House, and I believe it will be passed, is not going to be the same as the version that was passed by the Senate.
00:16:57.000There will be further negotiations that take place.
00:17:00.000And again, reconciliation bills always turn into, as Axios points out, a power struggle between the House and the Senate.
00:17:07.000But if the current Senate bill prevails, Thune will end up winning on three much more consequential issues, baseline policy, permanence for business tax cuts, and the scope of entitlement reform.
00:17:18.000According to Axios, for months, Thune and Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo of Idaho insisted the Senate parliamentarians should use baseline policy to determine how much tax proposals will cost.
00:17:28.000That would have implications for future Congresses.
00:17:31.000Now, again, that would be a good thing because using baseline policies means, for example, that instead of assuming that a policy is going to sunset and then if a tax cut remains, right, nothing changes, then we count that as a deficit increaser.
00:17:47.000Instead, we basically just look at the rate of taxes now and we say, okay, if that's continued out into the future, then that doesn't increase the deficit.
00:17:57.000Senate Republicans are convinced this will spur the kind of investment the economy will need to achieve 3% growth.
00:18:04.000The trickiest part of the Senate debate was lowering the threshold for the Medicare provider tax.
00:18:08.000He said, this is the first time we've done anything meaningful on entitlement reform.
00:18:12.000Democrats, of course, are freaking out about all of this.
00:18:15.000President Trump, for his part, is intervening.
00:18:19.000He is urging House Republicans to get behind the bill.
00:18:21.000He put out a statement earlier yesterday saying, quote, almost all of our great Republicans in the United States Senate have passed our one big, beautiful bill.
00:18:28.000It is no longer a House bill or a Senate bill.
00:18:30.000There is so much to be proud of, and everyone got a major policy win.
00:18:33.000But the biggest winner of them all will be the American people who have permanently lower taxes, higher wages, take-home pay, secure borders, and a stronger and more powerful military.
00:18:41.000Additionally, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security benefits are not being cut.
00:18:44.000They are being strengthened and protected from radical and destructive Democrats by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse from those programs.
00:18:50.000So the president of the United States spent all of yesterday basically lobbying various members of the House to get on board.
00:18:57.000Trump said in this statement on Truth Social, we can have all of this right now, but only if the House GOP Unites ignores its occasional grand standards, you know who you are, and does the right thing, which is sending the bill to my desk.
00:19:16.000And then he says the country is going to explode with massive growth, even more than it already has since I was reelected.
00:19:21.000And of course, he is not wrong that the country does need a shot in the arm.
00:19:26.000According to a new report out of payroll processing from ADP as Of Wednesday, private payrolls actually lost 33,000 jobs in June.
00:19:35.000Economists had expected an increase of 100,000 private payroll jobs for the month.
00:19:39.000And the May job growth figure was revised to 29,000 from 37,000.
00:19:45.000So, again, there are concerns about the rate of hiring.
00:19:50.000People are sort of holding their money back, waiting to see what's going to happen.
00:19:53.000And of course, there's still a weight on with regard to Jerome Powell and whether he's going to lower those interest rates and provide some liquidity in the economy.
00:20:00.000The question is whether House Republicans are somehow going to sink the mega bill.
00:20:05.000According to the Wall Street Journal, some House Republicans are already lining up to oppose President Trump's big, beautiful bill.
00:20:10.000The number of House Republicans vowing to oppose the Senate version is enough to block the bill's passage, but past standoffs have been resolved after successful pressure campaigns by the president and party leaders.
00:20:19.000Given the Republicans 220 to 212 majority, the bill would fail if more than three House Republicans joined House Democrats in opposing it.
00:20:34.000Because then every single person who falls off the bill is on the firing line and they know it.
00:20:38.000If Republicans had a 15-vote majority, then it might be easier to get together a block to vote against the bill.
00:20:44.000And then there's sort of safety in numbers.
00:20:45.000But if there's only three or four people who drop off, every one of those people is going to be on the chopping block for President Trump and for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
00:20:55.000Representative Ralph Norman, member of the House Freedom Caucus, voted early Wednesday morning against moving the president's tax bill out of the House Rules Committee.
00:21:01.000He was joined by Representative Chip Roy of Texas.
00:21:04.000The panel debated and then narrowly advanced the bill to the House floor.
00:21:08.000Norman said, our bill has been completely changed from IRA credits to the deficit.
00:21:50.000Multiple groups of House Republicans were ushered to the White House to speak with President Trump.
00:21:55.000Some of the supposed holdouts, like Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, who announced his retirement already, said, in the end, it's hard to vote against making tax cuts permanent and fixing defense.
00:22:04.000Then some members of the House Freedom Caucus.
00:22:07.000Then you have a few like the perennial no, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who basically exists just to say no to things and hate Israel.
00:22:22.000Because as the Wall Street Journal points out in a piece titled The ME tax bill that has to pass, the bill's best news is the economic certainty it will provide to businesses.
00:22:32.000Although largely extending the tax cut status quo, the bill could boost growth at the margin by giving businesses confidence they need to make long-term investments.
00:22:39.000The bill also ends the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits for wind and solar projects that begin construction later than a year from now and eliminates EV credits.
00:22:48.000In return, Republicans from windy Great Plains states extracted a two-year extension of the IRA's biofuels tax credit.
00:22:54.000That's the Hawkeye heist, as they call it.
00:22:56.000They're saying basically there are a few groups of people who are getting giveaways here.
00:23:46.000And again, it appears to me that the bill will, in fact, pass.
00:23:49.000Some of the holdouts, like Representative Chip Roy, listen, I really like Chip.
00:23:52.000I think Chip is an excellent Congressperson.
00:23:54.000My guess is that he is using what leverage he has to make the bill better on the margins.
00:23:57.000I mean, that's what this is going to come down to.
00:23:59.000Here's Representative Chip Roy talking about Republican credits of the big, beautiful bill in the House.
00:24:07.000This is where the crux of the problem is.
00:24:10.000There are those of us in the House that are reviewing the bill after it came through the Senate, and we believe it falls short.
00:24:16.000We believe that it will create too much spending, and that is too much in the way of deficits over the next four or five years in particular, with backloaded savings and more deficits up front.
00:24:28.000We believe that it gutted our changes to the Green New Scam subsidies such that there won't be an effective termination of the Green New Scam.
00:24:38.000We believe that it continues to allow, for example, illegals to be able to get Medicaid.
00:24:44.000Now, again, he's right about all of those things.
00:24:47.000The question is going to be how many Republicans oppose and for how long and what they get in return.
00:24:52.000Because remember, this thing has to go back to the Senate and then it has to earn for a second time the vote of Lisa Murkowski from Alaska.
00:24:58.000Meanwhile, Democrats are going nuts over this thing, particularly Elizabeth Warren.
00:25:03.000Well, because the bill does a few things that she doesn't like.
00:25:06.000One, it puts work requirements on Medicaid and food stamps.
00:25:09.000And two, it actually shifts some of the costs from the federal government back to the state level.
00:25:13.000And she doesn't like any of those things.
00:25:14.000She wants the federal government to pay for everything.
00:25:17.000That's because she believes in modern monetary theory and the basic idea that essentially the federal government should just endlessly deficit spend forever and it will have no consequences.
00:25:25.000Here's the senator from Massachusetts.
00:25:28.000Leaving the Senate now, at the end of the vote, when the Republicans won, they cheered.
00:25:35.000They cheered over taking away health care from around 17 million people.
00:25:42.000They cheered over giving huge tax breaks to a handful of billionaires.
00:25:48.000They cheered over running up the national debt by another $3.5 trillion.
00:26:26.000And all you have to do is take a look across the pond over at Great Britain.
00:26:30.000So there's a shocking and fraught moment that happened in Great Britain yesterday when investors, according to the Wall Street Journal, sold off British government bonds and the pound fell sharply on Wednesday after the Labor government abandoned plans to cut ballooning welfare costs and the country's chancellor of the exchequer was seen crying in parliament.
00:26:46.000The sell-off came hours after the government of Prime Minister Kier Starmer shelved a plan to cut disability payments following a rebellion by Labor's own lawmakers.
00:26:54.000The U-turn raised the prospect of the government hiking taxes or issuing even more debt to fund its welfare system.
00:26:59.000It also cast doubt over the future of Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor, who took the job just over a year ago, promising a return to economic stability by sticking to strict spending rules.
00:27:09.000It lost more than 1% trading at $1.36.
00:27:11.000UK government bonds also tumbled in price.
00:27:14.000Markets have latched on to the idea that Reeves' departure might be much more imminent, said Mark Dowding, chief investment officer for fixed income at RBC, Blue Bay Asset Management.
00:27:22.000That is unsettling to investors in terms of what that means of the Labor government's commitment to the fiscal framework.
00:27:27.000And of course, Labor didn't have any commitment to the fiscal framework.
00:27:32.000They were never going to be fiscally responsible.
00:27:35.000And this is just demonstrative of a crisis that is going to face every Western government, including the government of the United States, eventually.
00:27:42.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, the government's climb down points to a broader truth for governments across Western Europe, but it's also for the United States, where weak economic growth means countries are struggling to raise enough revenue to pay for rising costs from an aging population.
00:27:53.000With voters largely wary of spending cuts, that leaves higher taxes, which could hurt growth further as the most likely outcome.
00:28:00.000Britain is already on course to register the highest tax burden since World War II, thanks to big spending during the pandemic and paying out for energy subsidies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:28:29.000The United States is not replacing its own population.
00:28:31.000The only way we're able to do that is through large-scale immigration, which we have stopped, which means that we have a shrinking tax base, an aging population, just like Western Europe, slower, but similar.
00:28:42.000And we also have the possibility of serious economic stagnation absent a massive breakthrough in AI that suddenly translates into higher productivity.
00:28:51.000If all that materializes and we don't cut any of the massive welfare state that we have built, we are going to end up inflating our way out of this.
00:29:46.000It also happens to be an economically sane view that very few people are willing to take in politics because, again, most people don't want to hear it.
00:29:53.000Coming up, President Trump, it looks like the tariff war may be slowing down in certain places, but heating up with regard to Japan.
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00:31:08.000Now, meanwhile, speaking of the state of the economy and economic growth, there are some nice spring signs that perhaps the tariff war is coming to a bit of an end here.
00:31:20.000One of those is that President Trump has apparently now come to an agreement with Vietnam.
00:31:25.000In return for the U.S. and Vietnam striking a tariff deal that sees American goods enter the country completely duty-free, the U.S. will charge 20% tariffs on Vietnamese goods instead of the 46% tariffs he had announced in April before putting the duties on pause to allow foreign negotiations.
00:31:40.000Additionally, goods from other countries that pass through Vietnam on their way to the United States will be charged a higher 40% tariff, according to President Trump.
00:31:48.000Those would presumably be Chinese goods that get shipped through Vietnam.
00:31:52.000Those sorts of trans shipments will still be taxed at 40%.
00:31:56.000Now, again, you'll notice that those tariff rates are not reciprocal.
00:31:59.000And that is still increasing prices on the American consumer.
00:32:02.000This is the reason why Jerome Powell is holding off on lowering those interest rates is because if you have a 20% tariff on Vietnamese goods, and if you have a 10% tariff on UK goods, and a 30% tariff on Canadian goods, and all the rest, eventually that is going to make its way into the markets.
00:32:22.000The agreements do mark the second trade pact that Trump has struck under the threat of his so-called reciprocal tariffs.
00:32:27.000Now, again, they were put on pause in early April for 90 Days.
00:32:30.000We are reaching the end of that time period.
00:32:32.000I would assume that President Trump is going to delay that still further.
00:32:35.000There are some countries that are slow to come to the table, including Japan.
00:32:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, after failing to cut a trade deal with Japan following weeks of talks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer decided to turn up the pressure.
00:32:48.000When Japanese officials arrived in Washington in late May, Luttnick and Greer warned them if the two sides couldn't work out an agreement soon, the conversations might start shifting from easing the tariffs Trump had recently imposed toward additional punitive measures.
00:34:21.000We can hope for more trade agreements because, again, if you want a robust American economy, you do need export markets.
00:34:26.000And again, when people buy American goods or when we buy Japanese goods, American dollars go to Japan and then they use those dollars to invest in American products, including on our stock market.
00:34:37.000Trade deficits usually mean capital surpluses.
00:34:41.000So again, the trade war is not going to be particularly good for the American economy.
00:34:46.000Sure, we're picking up some tariff income from American consumers because, of course, we're the ones who end up paying the bill for that.
00:34:52.000But with that said, hopefully we come to the end, something like a reasonable trade policy.
00:34:58.000That is presumably what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has been pursuing, as I've said from the beginning.
00:35:02.000Listen to the Treasury Secretary on this stuff.
00:35:05.000He's the one who knows what he's doing.
00:35:06.000Now, meanwhile, a couple more victories for President Trump.
00:35:09.000So Paramount has now agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump.
00:35:14.000That lawsuit was based on Trump suing 60 Minutes for basically cutting apart a Kamala Harris interview during the last election cycle in order to make her look better.
00:35:23.000The settlement does not include an apology from 60 Minutes, but it comprises payments made to the president's future presidential library and legal fees.
00:35:30.000Paramount also agreed that 60 Minutes would release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates in the future after they had aired.
00:35:38.000Again, the goal of this particular settlement was to get more transparency from CBS and Paramount.
00:35:46.000CBS said the broadcast was not doctored or deceitful.
00:35:50.000Now, there are a bunch of members of CBS News who have left in the interim during all of this because many Paramount leaders were concerned that that might expose directors and officers to liability and potential future shareholder litigation or even to criminal charges for bribing a public official.
00:36:05.000But there was also concern that if the Trump administration didn't get what it wanted here, there might be an attempt by the FCC to block some sort of merger between Paramount and Skydance.
00:36:14.000Again, I don't like the government being used this way, frankly.
00:36:17.000With that said, was the 60-minute attempt to make Connell Harris look better absolutely corrupt?
00:36:27.000But CBS News settling is, just as a descriptive matter, a victory for President Trump.
00:36:33.000Meanwhile, another victory for President Trump.
00:36:36.000Apparently, University of Pennsylvania has now stripped swimmer Leah Thomas of his titles.
00:36:43.000So you'll recall that Leah Thomas was a man who raced against a bunch of women and set a bunch of records.
00:36:50.000Well, now the University of Pennsylvania is going to strip Leah Thomas of his swimming titles because they're pointing out, along with the Trump administration, that dudes racing against ladies don't win titles.
00:37:02.000The university will issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor, according to the New York Post, following an investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
00:37:12.000That probe found that UPenn violated Title IX by allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only intimate facilities.
00:37:19.000And of course, we've talked with Riley Gaines on the program before.
00:37:23.000We've also talked about UPenn swimmer Paula Scanlon.
00:37:26.000She, of course, first appeared anonymously in What is a Woman to discuss what it was like having to be in a locker room with a full-grown male with full twig and berries, Leah Thomas.
00:37:39.000And then we actually talked about who Paula Scanlon was, right?
00:37:46.000Daily Wire allowed her to publicly come out as the person who was talking in the video.
00:37:51.000She became a very public advocate for female sports.
00:37:55.000This is a big win for Paula Scanlon, big win for Riley.
00:38:01.000You know, this announcement has actually come at a really interesting time for me because it was July two years ago that I quit my full-time corporate America job to enter the political world, to focus on lobbying for legislation to keep men out of women's sports, to posting on X that many people have probably seen me do.
00:38:17.000And it really shows how far we've come.
00:38:19.000I think we forget what the climate was actually like back in 2021 when I was going through it.
00:38:23.000What the climate was like when I was anonymous in the What is a Woman documentary because I feared the University of Pennsylvania was going to revoke my diploma if they figured out that it was me in that film.
00:38:32.000I mean, it shows how much we've really won on the culture here.
00:38:35.000And I'm so grateful to be part of that, but I'm really grateful for all the wonderful people that have been part of this process.
00:38:40.000And I think for me, this entire outcome is really just reflecting on that and reflecting on all the friendships I've made along the way and all the wonderful creators that have worked on bringing awareness to this.
00:38:50.000And really, I'm so appreciative for you guys at the Daily Wire for being part of this and for highlighting my story back then two years ago when I came public for the first time or even making the What is a Woman documentary all together back when it was in Joe Biden's America and no one wanted to talk about this issue.
00:39:07.000And I think more than anything else, this is just the beginning.
00:39:10.000I want to see more wins and I'm grateful to the Trump administration for really taking leadership on this and getting this done.
00:39:15.000And I can't wait to see more of these Ivy League institutions bend the knee to this administration because that is exactly what I'm looking for.
00:39:23.000And it really makes me so happy as a female athlete.
00:39:27.000And the last thing I'll end with is I really want no female athlete to go through what I did.
00:39:31.000And that's exactly why we fought so hard for this.
00:39:33.000Again, good for Paulo Scanling, good for Riley Gaines.
00:39:35.000And of course, Daly Ware was very involved in this particular victory.
00:39:38.000Meanwhile, the university has completely exposed themselves, the university system, they've completely exposed themselves.
00:39:43.000A shocking story from the Washington Free Beacon about Columbia president Claire Shipman.
00:39:49.000Apparently, before she became acting president of Columbia University, Shipman argued that Columbia needed to get, quote, an Arab on our board and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
00:40:04.000She wrote on January 17, 2024, we need to get somebody from the Middle East or who is Arab on our board quickly, I think, somehow.
00:40:12.000Then she told a colleague that Shoshana Schendelman, who is one of the board members who doesn't like campus anti-Semitism, which was rife at Columbia University, had been, quote, extraordinarily unhelpful, adding, I just don't think she should be on the board.
00:40:29.000Well, those messages were included in a letter sent to Columbia on Tuesday by committee chair Representative Tim Wahlberg of Michigan, as well as Representative Elise Stefanik.
00:40:37.000Addressing Shipman by name, the committee requested clarifications on the attached correspondence.
00:40:43.000The remark about needing an Arab board member, quote, raises troubling questions regarding Columbia's priorities just months after the October 7th attack, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
00:40:51.000Were Columbia to appoint someone to the board specifically because of their national origin, it would implicate Title VI concerns.
00:40:58.000The exchanges about gendelmen, they say, quote, raised the question of why you appear to be in favor of removing one of the board's most outspoken Jewish advocates at a time when Columbia students were facing a shocking level of fear and hostility.
00:41:09.000Well, the answer, of course, is because the left is always going to side with the scavengers in any battle between lions and scavengers, always and forever.
00:41:17.000And the Democratic Party is now the party of the scavengers.
00:41:19.000CNN's Harry Enton did a report just yesterday about the shift in the Democratic Party on the question of Israel versus the Palestinians.
00:41:26.000Now, remember, Israel is a multi-ethnic, multiracial, and yes, multi-religious democracy.
00:41:33.000The Palestinians are governed by a terrorist group, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, another terrorist group, the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.
00:41:42.000By every polling statistic, they supported October 7th.
00:41:46.000They support high levels of terrorism.
00:41:47.000They hate America by all available polling.
00:41:49.000And yet somehow Democrats are more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, according to Harry Enton.
00:41:55.000In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party.
00:42:04.000Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points.
00:42:09.000Oh my God, that is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years.
00:42:16.000So all of a sudden, it's the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position.
00:42:23.000And that is part of the reason why Mandani was able to do so well in this primary because those attacks over Israel simply put did not ring true for Democrats.
00:42:31.000They're now on the side of the Palestinians, not the Israelis.
00:42:34.000Well, again, I do not think that that is a coincidence.
00:42:36.000I do not find that shocking in the slightest, like at all.
00:42:39.000The same party, only 36% of whom say they are proud to be Americans, is the party that likes the Palestinians because it's all the same thing.
00:42:48.000It is all a hatred of a generalized Western civilization they feel victimizes them and all the marginalized people who comprise their coalition.
00:42:57.000Again, people who are analyzing Zoran Mamdani's win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary and saying that they can't understand how he overcame his hatred for Israel and his obvious dislike for Jews.
00:43:07.000Those same people, those same exact people are getting it totally wrong.
00:43:24.000I mean, here's Zoran Mamdani saying that his plan is to buy up private housing in New York and convert it into communes.
00:43:32.000Further toward the Vienna model, we'll have to go beyond the market.
00:43:35.000We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.
00:43:41.000We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale.
00:43:46.000And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high-quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone.
00:43:59.000We won't decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us.
00:44:06.000I'm just going to point out that we do have history to guide us.
00:44:08.000Public housing is one of the worst boondoggles in the history of the American Republic.
00:44:13.000Public housing has been a full-scale disaster.
00:44:15.000Public housing developments in places like, for example, St. Louis turned into absolute hellholes because publicly funded areas like this end up being mistreated very often by their tenants.
00:44:26.000They do not have a profit motive, which means that there is no rationale for keeping them in good shape.
00:44:33.000That is very often what happens in a lot of these areas.
00:44:36.000And that's exactly what he wants to replicate.
00:44:38.000And yet, at the same exact time, Hakeem Jeffries, again, this is the Democratic minority leader who will take over the House if Republicans somehow lose in 2026, put out a tweet, quote, stop lying about Assemblyman at Mom Donnie.
00:44:51.000He is neither a communist nor a lunatic.
00:44:53.000And New York City doesn't need to be saved by a wannabe king.
00:45:18.000It's why he's got this pasted on, overwrought grin that he just brings out at every available opportunity in the most obnoxious and cloying way, because it's all thought out.
00:45:31.000Because as CNN's Audi Cornish says, calling him a Muslim socialist isn't going to hurt him with his base because they know he is one.
00:45:39.000It's one of those things where it's one thing to call someone a Muslim socialist who is not.
00:45:44.000It's another thing when someone is basically like, you can't hurt me with those words, right?
00:45:49.000Like these are the things that he stands for.
00:45:52.000And it's a new sort of position in the Democratic Party of strength, Democratic socialist.
00:45:59.000Now, the reality is you can call him Muslim socialist all you want.
00:46:02.000He openly embraces that label, by the way.
00:46:04.000Like so many other Muslim socialists, he's very much in favor of trans pride progress stuff that he wouldn't be if he were, you know, in the third world that he purports to love so much.
00:46:12.000But the coalition of scavengers must come together under all circumstances.
00:46:17.000And this, by the way, is a point that President Trump is making.
00:46:20.000President Trump has pledged to stop Zoran Mamdani, calling him a communist lunatic, as we've already mentioned, and suggesting that he wants to save New York, quote, as president of the United States, I'm not going to let this communist lunatic destroy New York.
00:46:32.000Rest assured, I hold all the levers and of all the cards.
00:46:35.000I'll save New York City and make it hot and great again, just like I did with the good old USA.
00:46:40.000Now, the reality is that that actually helps Mamdani in his race for mayor, because New Yorkers, bipolar data, are not hugely fond of the president of the United States.
00:46:48.000Probably Eric Adams would prefer if the president stayed out of this particular race, but it doesn't matter.
00:46:52.000Meanwhile, Representative Brandon Gill says he's fetishizing the third world, and that's a weird thing to do, considering the third world is specifically what it is, because it is not a great place to be, live, grow up, or emulate.
00:47:04.000This is a guy who wants to defund the police, who wants to get rid of billionaires, doesn't believe they should exist, who said that his end goal is to seize the means of production.
00:47:13.000I mean, that makes Bernie Sanders sound like a moderate.
00:47:16.000And then turns around and defends the phrase, globalize into fata.
00:47:20.000And he puts these videos out online of him eating rice with his hands, which by the way is not something that Americans do.
00:47:30.000And that is connected to his policies.
00:47:32.000You know, the goal here is to undermine Western civilization, to fetishize the third world, which is what he's doing, that video, to look other, to look unique, to look interesting, so that he can then push in these policies.
00:47:46.000You know, the next step after that is he's going to make another video in a couple of years, but instead of having a bowl of rice, it's going to be an empty bowl because that's where his policies are going to get us.
00:47:58.000And everyone's going to call him racist for pointing this out, but he happens to be correct about it.
00:48:02.000Meanwhile, the NYPD chief of the department office, John Chell, points out that it's insane what Mamdani's proposing.
00:48:11.000He's actually seeking to destroy the strategic response group, which actually prevents violence in the city of New York.
00:48:19.000So look, since October 7th, we have over 6,000 protests.
00:48:22.000We had our No Kings protests a couple of weeks ago with 75,000 protesters.
00:48:27.000Our strategic response group, as known as SRG, are highly trained, highly professional men and women who hold the line.
00:48:35.000In the last two years of protests, we've had no major incidents in this city.
00:48:39.000The No Kings protests, about 500 out of 50,000 thought they were going to tear our city apart, and our SRG stopped them.
00:48:47.000So for anyone to say they're going to disband that kind of success and unit, quite frankly, is foolish and doesn't know what they're doing.
00:49:34.000And so now, hostage negotiations, end of war negotiations have been taking place between Egypt, Qatar, Hamas, and Israel.
00:49:44.000The Saudis are also putting a ward in.
00:49:46.000Now, the question here is what Qatar is going to do, because Qatar could end this today.
00:49:50.000All Qatar would have to say is to Hamas, free all the hostages, all you guys go into exile, and then there will be an Arab administration of the Gaza Strip that would include presumably the Egyptians, the Saudis, UAE, Qatar, and all the rest.
00:50:03.000The question is whether Qatar is actually willing to do that.
00:50:05.000So far, the only offer on the table has been freeing 10 hostages now for a 60-day ceasefire.
00:50:11.000And there would still be 10 hostages held for another two months.
00:50:15.000There'd be some bodies that were released as well.
00:50:19.000Hamas appeared to have sort of accepted the deal a couple of days ago, and then they reversed themselves and suggested that actually they still want to run the Gaza Strip, which, of course, is a total non-starter for the Israelis.
00:50:28.000They're not going to allow the terrorist group that perpetrated October 7th and that has left its own population as victims of its disgusting, horrifying evils in charge of the Gaza Strip.
00:50:40.000President Trump said on his truth social media that Israel and American representatives had discussed his conditions.
00:50:46.000Quote, Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60-day ceasefire, during which time we will work with all parties to end the war.
00:50:53.000He said the mediators and Qatar in Egypt were set to deliver a final proposal to Hamas.
00:50:57.000He said, I hope for the good of the Middle East, Hamas takes the deal because it's not getting better.
00:51:03.000Meanwhile, according to I-24, an Israeli news outlet, apparently the Saudis are saying that the only way that normalization is back on the table is if Israel ends Hamas' rule.
00:51:14.000So this is like a precondition for everyone, is that Hamas can no longer be involved in ruling the Gaza Strip.
00:51:19.000Saudi wants Israel to involve the Palestinian Authority instead.
00:51:23.000Now, again, the Palestinian Authority does not even have the capacity to rule the Judea and Samaria areas it currently controls.
00:51:29.000However, the basic idea here from the Saudis presumably would be, as long as Israel doesn't administer and run the Gaza Strip, like formally, and as long as they don't annex it, and as long as Hamas doesn't run it, they'll probably settle for anything else that's on the table.
00:51:43.000The source stressed that as long as Hamas is involved in managing Gaza, quote, the job isn't done.
00:51:47.000Without removing Hamas, there will be no peace.
00:52:17.000Everyone wants this, except for presumably Hamas.
00:52:20.000Israel has accepted all the preconditions at this point.
00:52:22.000Meanwhile, the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araki, is now admitting that Fordo, which of course is that nuclear facility that so many people on the left and on that horseshoe theory right were interested in pretending was fine, that actually it was seriously and heavily damaged.
00:52:42.000No one exactly knows what has transpired in Fordo.
00:52:46.000That being said, what we know so far is that the facilities have been seriously and heavily damaged.
00:52:56.000The Atomic Energy Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran is currently undertaking evaluation and assessment, the report of which will be submitted to the government.
00:53:07.000Okay, so in other words, yeah, Fordo is not in great shape.
00:53:10.000Shocker, that's what happens when you drop bunker busters of 30,000 pounds apiece from a B-2 on top of those nuclear facilities, and you probably hit an airshaft at the same time.
00:53:20.000Like that, that's probably what ends up happening.
00:53:22.000Meanwhile, it is worth noting that there is a report from Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism reported in Israel, Hayom earlier this week showing at least 100 fabricated accounts on X systematically promoted Tehran's strategic messaging during the recent war.
00:53:36.000Researchers examined approximately 100 X accounts exhibiting clear signs of automated rather than human operation.
00:53:42.000Those accounts maintained continuous activity across all hours without typical human patterns of rest.
00:53:47.000That network ultimately distributed 241,000 posts reaching millions of users worldwide.
00:53:54.000Now, that doesn't mean that those Iranian bots directly coordinated with actual American opposition voices.
00:53:59.000But what it does mean is that if you are looking for traffic, if you are looking for bot-driven upvotes, a good way of doing that is to program directly into the center of sort of the bot storm that is created by America's enemies.
00:54:12.000This is why you will see people who cover X believing there was a serious split in the Republican Party over President Trump's action against Iran when the polls suggest precisely the opposite.
00:54:20.000Now, in a piece of news that I don't particularly like, the Trump administration is apparently halting certain U.S. weapons supplies for Ukraine.
00:54:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is withholding critical Patriot interceptor missiles and other weapons from Ukraine.
00:54:35.000The Wall Street Journal calls this a body blow to the embattled country's efforts to withstand Russia's mounting and increasingly deadly aerial assaults.
00:54:42.000Even before that decision, Kyiv was struggling to counter Russian technology tactics and troop numbers.
00:54:46.000Russia is already deploying maneuverable ballistic missiles, able to avoid the vaunted Patriot air defense systems radar and launching record numbers of drones to bombard Ukraine every two or three nights.
00:54:56.000A halt in the interceptors will keep further pressure on Ukraine.
00:54:59.000Now, again, Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, have done what President Trump has asked.
00:55:04.000They've said they will do a ceasefire today.
00:55:06.000No preconditions except for it just being a ceasefire.
00:55:09.000They have said that they want an end to the war.
00:55:12.000I mean, Vladimir Zelensky even wore a suit to the last meeting he had with President Trump.
00:55:16.000They clearly know where the power lies.
00:55:19.000For Ukraine, there are not a lot of alternatives because European allies do not have the capacity to increase their own missile production at this point.
00:55:27.000Now, is this because the United States is really cutting off Ukraine?
00:55:31.000Well, according to Douglas Berry, a specialist in military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he said that the U.S. reducing that supply of interceptors was inevitable given their scarcity.
00:55:41.000He said Western defense ministries and governments are having to talk about resilience, and part of that is manufacturing depth in terms of what they can produce.
00:55:49.000On Tuesday, U.S. shipments that were already in Poland were halted, including more than two dozen of the Patriots' PAC-3 missiles, more than two dozen Stinger air defense system, Hellfire air-to-ground missiles, and more than 90 AIM air-to-air missiles, among other systems.
00:56:03.000Right now, Russia has been trying to overwhelm the Ukrainian air defenses.
00:56:07.000There was just that kind of bombardment last weekend involving 477 drones, 46 crews, and 11 ballistic missiles in a barrage targeting Ukraine's western region.
00:56:15.000Actually, when I visited Ukraine and interviewed President Zelensky, the night after I left was, at that time, the biggest barrage of the war.
00:56:21.000Now, there have been several barrages that are larger.
00:56:23.000So far, Russia has launched over 20,000 drones this year, trying to overcome the Patriot missile defense system.
00:56:37.000Ukrainian interceptions of Russian ballistic missiles aren't markedly down yet, but they do have a lack of missiles the other way.
00:56:44.000Those Patriot interceptors, again, the United States, we have to ramp up our military capacity.
00:56:49.000The Big Beautiful Bill will help us do those sorts of things.
00:56:52.000The hope from the United States is that our allies are going to pick up the slack.
00:56:57.000The U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, he says, listen, NATO's job is to pick up that slack.
00:57:03.000You know, the great thing that came out of the NATO summit with President Trump's leadership and the 5% commitment is that now our allies are going to be equally capable.
00:57:11.000They're going to live up to their targets and what they should deliver if somehow peace is broken by an adversary, but they're going to be strong.
00:57:20.000And that strength is what's going to secure the peace, Maria.
00:57:49.000Well, now the liberal majority has struck down a 176-year-old abortion ban in the state.
00:57:54.000When Roe versus Wade was overturned, the abortion ban that had been on the books in Wisconsin went back into place.
00:57:59.000Well, now the Liberal Supreme Court has decided to strike it down, according to the Associated Press.
00:58:03.000The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down that abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3.
00:58:08.000It was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including statutes that criminalize abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
00:58:17.000There was a ban in effect until 1973, and legislators never officially repealed it.
00:58:22.000Conservatives argued that the Supreme Court's 2022 decision reactivated it.
00:58:27.000Then, Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Call filed a lawsuit, arguing abortion restrictions Republican legislators enacted during the nearly half century rose in effect, trumped the ban, which is a weird argument.
00:58:40.000Again, because the Supreme Court changed the law.
00:58:43.000And so there are responses to that to try to restrict abortion within Roe versus Wade.
00:58:47.000When Roe versus Wade went away, if he didn't explicitly overrule the legislation from before, that's still in place.
00:59:17.000This is what happens when Republicans lose elections, radical left-wingers take over.
00:59:21.000Meanwhile, another judge has now ruled that the Trump administration cannot cut short TPS temporary protected status for migrants from Haiti, which has been under a state of emergency since March 2024.
00:59:32.000The New York Eastern District Judge, Brian Kogan, a Bush appointee, ruled that Christy Noam's decision was unlawful, ordered the designation must remain in place until its scheduled end date of February 3rd.
00:59:42.000Noam had moved to shorten the designation period in February.
00:59:45.000Right now, there are over half a million people from Haiti living in the United States eligible for TPS.
00:59:50.000About 350,000 have been granted it according to the DHS.
00:59:56.000So, again, the DHS sought to end this designation during Trump's first term.
01:00:00.000It was most recently granted for Haiti in July of last year for an 18-month period by the Biden administration.
01:00:07.000The government has to comply with the timelines dictated by legislation governing the designation according to the judge.
01:00:13.000He said when the government confers a benefit over a fixed period of time, a beneficiary can reasonably expect to receive that benefit at least until the end of that fixed period.
01:00:20.000But that's a weird statement considering that, again, it was put in place by the Biden administration.
01:00:26.000It was not really put in place by a piece of legislation.
01:00:29.000Presumably that will be elevated to the Supreme Court as well.
01:00:32.000Meanwhile, Democrats are freaking out over so-called Alligator Alcatraz, and the Trump administration is sort of marketing it, strangely.
01:00:39.000Like they're selling hats to Alligator Alcatraz and all the rest.
01:00:43.000Democrats, of course, are treating this as though this is Auschwitz, literally.
01:00:46.000Joy Reid, who used to be on MSNBC and now haunts the cable news airwaves late at night when no one is watching, the ghost of cable news past.
01:00:55.000She says that President Trump is building a concentration camp for brown people.
01:00:59.000Oh, good Lord, learn some history, lady.
01:01:02.000And I will note that, you know, we tried to forget about him, but Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida.
01:01:08.000He took the comfy couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he's building in Florida in order to round up people, brown people, and throw them in a camp because he doesn't want them in Florida.
01:01:22.000Surprise, surprise, the economy of Florida is going to be severely harmed by rounding up brown people who, by the way, all over this country, Latinos are afraid to go to work.
01:01:35.000It's a concentration camp for brown people.
01:01:37.000Learn something about actual concentration camps before you declare that people who are not in the country legally being put in air-conditioned trailers in Florida.
01:01:50.000That is not the same thing as concentration camps like Nazi concentration camps or something.
01:01:56.000Meanwhile, again, newfound Democrats are even more crazy than the old Democrats.
01:02:01.000Bill Kristol, who of course flipped from Republican to Democrat because of President Trump, he now says he just wants to defund the DHS completely.
01:02:09.000I sort of come around to defunding ICE about a month or two ago, but now I'm just on the defund DHS thing.
01:02:14.000Would this country ultimately be safer if there were no DHS?
01:02:20.000I'm going to, it's weird that you would say that only once the DHS actually starts enforcing the law, but you didn't care at all when it was Alejandro Mayorcas allowing the border to remain totally open.
01:02:30.000Alrighty, folks, the show continues for our members right now.
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