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00:00:00.000 There's a very easy political win for President Joe Biden on the table right now.

00:00:05.000 It really is a very easy political win and it has two facets.

00:00:08.000 Political facet number one would be rejecting these insane anti-American protesters on America's college campuses.

00:00:15.000 And facet number two would be supporting America's democratic ally Israel in extirpating an actual terrorist group currently holding five Americans hostage as well as approximately 128 others After committing the worst terrorist atrocity since 9-11.

00:00:29.000 That would be a dual win for the Biden administration.

00:00:31.000 But Joe Biden appears unable to take the win.

00:00:34.000 And today we're going to discuss just why he appears unable to take the win.

00:00:38.000 First, let's bring you the latest from America's college campuses, which continue to be overrun by people who despise the West.

00:00:44.000 Truly despise the West.

00:00:45.000 Understand, they don't hate America because they hate Israel.

00:00:48.000 They hate Israel because they hate America.

00:00:50.000 These are the same exact people who would be burning American flags and are the same exact people who would divest from the United States if they could and are attempting to do so.

00:00:58.000 Nothing has changed.

00:00:59.000 This is just the latest iteration of a radical movement that began in the 1960s and has continued unabated until today.

00:01:06.000 The only difference that now, they're all in the administration as well, so what you end up with is faculty and administrators taking the side of the nutjob protesters who are currently occupying the centers of campus and shutting down commencements. 0.88

00:01:18.000 So, for example, over at the University of Pennsylvania, again, a very prestigious school, Penn students were harassing other Penn students as they crossed the campus.

00:01:26.000 Obviously, it's Jewish students who are being harassed over at University of Pennsylvania.

00:01:30.000 How are your eyes feeling?

00:01:31.000 Well, you have been shining a showman flashlight in them.

00:01:34.000 For a long time.

00:01:35.000 That's correct.

00:01:35.000 I'm doing it for a reason.

00:01:38.000 Yeah.

00:01:39.000 Alright.

00:01:40.000 You getting the message?

00:01:44.000 Maybe.

00:01:44.000 I don't know.

00:01:45.000 I walk this way.

00:01:46.000 These are pro-Israel students who are being hit with a strobe flashlight as they walk across the campus in order to be harassed. 0.94

00:01:52.000 And in the background you see the giant Palestinian flag and of course all of these jackasses are covering their faces with the keffiyeh. 1.00

00:02:00.000 This person has committed the grave sin of being a Jew at the University of Pennsylvania. 0.99

00:02:03.000 Or take UCLA, where a bunch of atheist lesbians decided to join in the Islamic prayer on the lawn at UCLA. 1.00

00:02:10.000 This is the first religious conversion for these atheistic dolts that I've ever seen. 1.00

00:02:18.000 So en masse, they are joining now with intolerability with people who legitimately believe in Sharia law and believe that women should be subjugated and not go to school. 0.82

00:02:29.000 And should be whipped if they do not obey particular aspects of Islamic law.

00:02:34.000 But you've got the atheistic blue hair contingent who are now bowing in Islamic prayer with these people. 0.93

00:02:40.000 Again, the red-green alliance is riding together here.

00:02:43.000 These are not all Muslims.

00:02:50.000 Many of these people are left-wing protesters who are not Muslim.

00:02:59.000 In some ways, quite reminiscent of the left-wing white protesters who decided to kneel for BLM.

00:03:04.000 It turns out that if you're on the left, you're willing to kneel for anything.

00:03:07.000 Anything that is anti-American and anti-Western enough.

00:03:11.000 That is what you're willing to kneel for.

00:03:12.000 Again, those are not Muslims. 0.98

00:03:13.000 They're not engaging in Muslim prayer activity.

00:03:15.000 If they were, that'd be no problem.

00:03:16.000 What you have here is a bunch of blue-haired gender studies college students who are kneeling in obeisance to radical Islam in solidarity with Hamas. 0.55

00:03:26.000 Meanwhile, over at MIT, protesters were chanting, Well, they've got rhythm.

00:03:29.000 Zionists and Palestine will be Arab in Arabic. 0.58

00:03:31.000 They've got rhythm, they've got music.

00:03:42.000 Meanwhile, over at NYU, students were leading teach-ins on the glories of North Korea.

00:03:50.000 Why?

00:03:50.000 Well, because North Korea backs Hamas, which means North Korea is good now, despite being a repressive slave state.

00:03:58.000 So which side do you all think North Korea supports, Palestine or Israel?

00:04:02.000 Just guess.

00:04:03.000 Palestine.

00:04:05.000 It is Palestine.

00:04:06.000 The DPRK has actually never recognized the state of Israel.

00:04:10.000 They have always upheld the right of Palestinian people to self-determination.

00:04:14.000 Yeah, sure, the Norks.

00:04:16.000 And this is beyond moral and rhetorical support.

00:04:19.000 The DPRK has actively armed and trained Palestinian resistance for decades.

00:04:23.000 That includes the PLO, the PFLP, and the DFLP have trained troops by the DPRK.

00:04:31.000 Isn't that wonderful?

00:04:33.000 How exciting!

00:04:34.000 So now, NYU students are propping up talk for the DPRK, which again, would be Kim Jong-un and the North Korean regime that keeps its people in a state of penury, poverty, and absolute tyranny. 0.86

00:04:47.000 These are the people who are rallying on America's college campuses.

00:04:50.000 At George Washington University, students decided to take over the main square at the campus and rename it Martyrs Square. 0.85

00:04:56.000 The martyrs they're referring to here are Palestinian terrorists.

00:05:00.000 We reject the terms that our imperialist, colonialist overlords have chosen for us. 0.99

00:05:07.000 We name s*** for ourselves.

00:05:10.000 And we do it to honor our martyrs. 0.92

00:05:13.000 They're martyrs.

00:05:14.000 Their martyrs are terrorists, by the way.

00:05:20.000 From today on, this is Shahadat Square.

00:05:27.000 From today on, at George Washington University, a university named for George Washington, it's Shahada Square. 0.98

00:05:35.000 Shaheed is a terrorist.

00:05:40.000 They do it for resistance. 0.99

00:05:42.000 They do it for Palestine. 0.94

00:05:43.000 Again, this is all at America's college campuses.

00:05:45.000 Meanwhile, the administrations and the faculty at these universities continue to cave to these students, to these radical students.

00:05:52.000 And as we'll discuss in just one second, this is not happening in a vacuum.

00:05:54.000 These are very well-organized protests and very well-funded protests.

00:05:58.000 And it's that last part that is going to make a big difference when we get to Joe Biden, who is happy to wink and nod at these people, pat them on the head.

00:06:05.000 Why?

00:06:05.000 Because the same people who are signing checks to the Resistance groups on campus, so to speak, are also signing texts to Joe Biden's campaign.

00:06:13.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.

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00:07:16.000 Columbia University announced on Monday morning that they would cancel their two main commencement ceremonies after the school began suspending protesters who refused to leave their encampment in protest of the war in Gaza and really in protest at Israel.

00:07:27.000 Do you understand the insane lack of moral clarity that it takes in order to be on the side of Hamas in this conflict?

00:07:34.000 The insane lack of moral clarity.

00:07:36.000 Israel was attacked on October 7th after 20 years of withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

00:07:42.000 Hamas proceeded to murder 1,200 people and take 250 hostages.

00:07:46.000 They are currently holding 133 hostages.

00:07:50.000 Probably only a few dozen of those people are alive.

00:07:53.000 Five Americans are being held hostage.

00:07:55.000 And these people are like, maybe Israel shouldn't exist.

00:07:59.000 We need a Palestinian state governed by, say, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority, which supports October 7th. 0.90

00:08:05.000 According to Axios now, of course, all the administrators and the faculty at these universities are backers of all of this.

00:08:10.000 Again, the only reason to do this is because you hate the West, and this is just the most pure iteration of hating the West.

00:08:15.000 If you can side with actual honest-to-God terrorists who attack Western allies, I don't know what else to say about that other than you hate the West, because clearly you do.

00:08:23.000 Again, the great danger at a college and university these days is not in carrying a Palestinian flag or wearing a Hamas headdress. 0.94

00:08:30.000 The great danger at a university these days is walking through an area occupied by these people carrying an American flag. 1.00

00:08:36.000 But all the administrators are caving.

00:08:37.000 So at Columbia, they are now canceling commencements.

00:08:40.000 Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, more university professors are joining the demonstrations, roiling college campuses, both to voice support for Gazans and to defend their students' right to protest.

00:08:48.000 Faculty, many of whom are in their 60s and 70s and came of age during the era of the Vietnam War protests.

00:08:53.000 Again, these are the early iteration of the blue hairs.

00:08:55.000 They just didn't have the ability to dye their hair back in 1968 in as easy a way as they can today.

00:09:01.000 So now they're just aging hippies. 0.81

00:09:04.000 And they're close to death, but they're still the college administrators and faculty.

00:09:09.000 They're pushing back against university presidents, accusing the leaders of heavy-handed, inconsistent crackdowns on free speech, warning against a wave of authoritarianism.

00:09:16.000 Some have said it has been creeping onto the campuses for years.

00:09:18.000 Again, these are the chief proponents of authoritarianism on campus.

00:09:22.000 They're literally violating the law right now in order to take over public areas.

00:09:27.000 These are the same exact people who had organized In order to try to bar me from speaking at college campuses, and now they're like it's authoritarian in order to clear unlicensed protests at college campuses that have not gone through the proper channels.

00:09:41.000 In recent days, police have arrested professors during demonstrations at schools including Washington U in St.

00:09:46.000 Louis, Emory University, and UCLA.

00:09:49.000 At Indiana, more than 3,000 faculty, grad workers, students, staff, and alumni have called for the resignation of President Pamela Witton, saying she escalated confrontations between demonstrators and police by changing the rules of engagement for protesters at an encampment without adequately informing the campus.

00:10:04.000 Witton said, quote, Now, here is the part of all of this that people ought to pay attention to.

00:10:07.000 campaigns and become magnets for those making threats of violence.

00:10:10.000 Okay, now here is the part of all of this that people ought to pay attention to.

00:10:16.000 This is incredibly well organized.

00:10:19.000 And it is the organization here and the funding here that really matter, because

00:10:24.000 there's an obvious question in all of this. 0.86

00:10:26.000 If you poll Americans as to whether they're sympathetic to the moron privileged college students who are going to America's top colleges and universities, subsidized by the taxpayer dime, are they sympathetic to these people cheering for Hamas? 0.85

00:10:37.000 The overwhelming majority of Americans say no. 0.95

00:10:40.000 The overwhelming majority of Americans say if you're a foreign student, And you are protesting in favor of Hamas.

00:10:45.000 You should be deported because Hamas is a terrorist group.

00:10:48.000 The majority of Americans are not interested in subsidizing queer studies majors who are out protesting in favor of people who commit terrorist attacks. 0.84

00:10:56.000 They're not in favor of any of that.

00:10:57.000 And all Joe Biden would have to do is say these protesters are wrongheaded, that things they are saying are untrue.

00:11:02.000 They're making accusations that are false.

00:11:04.000 And by the way, also, when they violate the law, they should be, in fact, prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

00:11:10.000 It's not all that hard.

00:11:11.000 And again, that is a two-pronged message that needs to come from the White House.

00:11:15.000 So far, they've done the second, which is if they violate the law, something has to happen to them.

00:11:18.000 But I promise you that if these protesters were protesting for quote-unquote, white supremacy, Joe Biden would have no problem whatsoever condemning the message of the protest, but he won't.

00:11:26.000 And he's even having trouble condemning the actual protesters themselves, even though again, they are incredibly well-organized.

00:11:33.000 Not just in spite of their organization, by the way, because they are well-organized.

00:11:37.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation.

00:11:44.000 But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning, and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.

00:11:54.000 And this is the typical way that the left works.

00:11:55.000 They've been into community organizing since the 1960s in Salt-O-Linsky.

00:11:59.000 There's a reason Barack Obama was a community organizer.

00:12:01.000 There's a reason that in the 1960s, large-scale college organizations were able to push the Democratic Party way to the left.

00:12:08.000 There's a reason they had extremely well-organized protesters, well-funded protesters during BLM.

00:12:14.000 The left knows how to do this.

00:12:16.000 Agitation is an actual business to them.

00:12:18.000 It is not like the Republicans, when they get together for a tea party, or even conservatives or Republicans, Who believe the election was stolen in 2020 when they sort of randomly get together on January 6th and in a disorganized, ridiculous way attempt to move into the Capitol building.

00:12:32.000 These are well organized.

00:12:34.000 These people are drilled.

00:12:36.000 They are on message.

00:12:38.000 This is, in fact, an army of activists that has been generated by actual funding and actual staffing.

00:12:44.000 Sueda Polat, a graduate student and organizer in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia, said,

00:12:48.000 quote, we took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them, analyzed how the university

00:12:52.000 responded to previous protests. The National Students for Justice in Palestine, or NSJP,

00:12:57.000 which is currently under lawsuit for having links to Hamas, has been around some two decades and

00:13:01.000 has more than 300 chapters across the United States, many of which have helped organize

00:13:05.000 the college encampments and building occupations.

00:13:07.000 NSJP has for months called on students to stand strong against colleges until they divest themselves of investments in entities doing business with Israel.

00:13:15.000 As early as October, NSJP was promoting a day of resistance with demonstrations at colleges.

00:13:21.000 On April 25th, they said the student movement for Palestine liberation will not be silenced, will escalate until our demands are met.

00:13:28.000 That same day on X, the group posted drawings with friendly advice to protesting students.

00:13:32.000 One suggested they wear comfortable clothes and running shoes and bring water, an energy bar, and a bandana in case of surveillance. 0.83

00:13:37.000 Another referred to police as pigs and offered this advice, quote, if someone is arrested, don't linger too long or pigs will kettle the march. 0.87

00:13:44.000 Referring to a crowd control tactic. 0.96

00:13:46.000 Free the comrade or else get their name and birthdate for jail support and keep it moving.

00:13:50.000 On April 29th, the group announced a new chant, no divestment, no commencement.

00:13:54.000 University administrators have been concerned that coming graduations could be interrupted, and so they've just been canceling the commencements, as opposed to, you know, arresting the people who are disrupting the commencements.

00:14:03.000 In March, there was a resistance 101 training scheduled at Columbia with guest speakers, including longtime activists with Samidun, Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

00:14:13.000 It turns out that that group has links, again, with terror groups.

00:14:18.000 One of the speakers, a Charlotte Cates, said quote, there is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas.

00:14:24.000 These are people that are on the front lines defending Hamas.

00:14:29.000 These are well-organized, well-drilled, well-schooled activists.

00:14:34.000 And they are really well-funded.

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00:15:40.000 According to Politico, President Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him Genocide Joe.

00:15:46.000 But some of the groups behind the demonstration received financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his re-elect.

00:15:53.000 And herein lies the rub.

00:15:55.000 Joe Biden is not going to cut off his funders.

00:15:58.000 Joe Biden is being paid by the same people who are paying for these protests.

00:16:02.000 This is why Jonathan Shaid, who's on the left, He has a piece over at New York Magazine talking about how Joe Biden is running for the wrong voters, that in Michigan, he is not losing Michigan because of the Gaza issue.

00:16:14.000 He is losing Michigan because of inflation.

00:16:18.000 As Jonathan Chait points out, earlier this year, national pundits began connecting Joe Biden's poor standing in the presidential election with the revolt on his left over his policy in Gaza.

00:16:26.000 Michigan was the epicenter of the crisis.

00:16:28.000 Polls seem to indicate Biden's unpopularity was especially acute there.

00:16:31.000 There is no longer any evidence this is true.

00:16:34.000 The polling average shows that far from having a Michigan problem, Michigan is Biden's best swing state, or at least his least bad one.

00:16:40.000 At the moment, he's trailing by 0.3 points in Michigan, a smaller deficit than Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or the Sunbelt states.

00:16:48.000 Yet even though Biden turns out not to have a specific Michigan problem, the broader narrative has calcified.

00:16:54.000 It's true that Biden is disproportionately shunning non-white Democrats to Trump, but that is totally consistent with the fact that black and Latino Democrats are more moderate than white Democrats.

00:17:03.000 What about the angry youth?

00:17:04.000 A Harvard youth poll asked voters aged 18 to 29 to rank 16 issues in terms of importance.

00:17:09.000 The Israel-Palestine conflict ranked 15th.

00:17:13.000 So why is Joe Biden doing this?

00:17:15.000 Again, the polling data does not support what he is doing. 0.98

00:17:17.000 As a matter of politics, it is incredibly stupid to steer away from the center where Joe Biden needs votes. 0.98

00:17:22.000 The answer is he wants the cash. 0.99

00:17:24.000 He is being paid by the same exact people.

00:17:26.000 His campaign is being funded by the same exact people who are funding all of these protests.

00:17:30.000 As Politico points out, the donors include some of the biggest names in democratic circles, George Soros, Rockefeller, Pritzker, according to a political analysis.

00:17:38.000 Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now.

00:17:44.000 These are both radical groups and they're both supported by the Tides Foundation, seeded by George Soros, and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

00:17:53.000 Soros declined to comment.

00:17:55.000 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it no longer has active grants to Tides and does not support JVP, or if not now, David Rockefeller Jr.

00:18:02.000 sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2022.

00:18:05.000 The fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation.

00:18:08.000 Tides has given $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.

00:18:14.000 Jewish Voice for Peace is a front group that is directly aimed at destroying the State of Israel.

00:18:19.000 with a few nutters in the reconstructionist Jewish movement or unaffiliated who bring out their as a Jew card every so often so that they can say terribly anti-semitic things and then people will ignore that they're saying terribly anti-semitic things.

00:18:33.000 Several other groups are involved in the pro-Palestinian protests and are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire.

00:18:41.000 and supporters of the Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns,

00:18:43.000 including 6,600 bucks to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than 300 grand

00:18:48.000 during the 2020 campaign. So why exactly are all of these funds giving money to JVP?

00:18:56.000 Why are they doing all of that?

00:18:59.000 The answer is because the left believes that these are the leaders of the future, just as the old crazies took over the campuses in the 60s and then became the powerhouses and the administrators and the faculty.

00:19:10.000 Well, now they are hoping to build a new Democratic Party on the back of the radicals.

00:19:16.000 And Joe Biden is too weak to actually do anything about it, which is, again, political malpractice, because you can see that nobody likes these people.

00:19:23.000 At University of Michigan, for example, they held a graduation over the weekend.

00:19:27.000 And pro-Hamas protesters showed up to try and disrupt.

00:19:30.000 And here was the crowd's response when those protesters were moved.

00:19:33.000 The police take these people away.

00:19:50.000 And everybody's very excited. 0.97

00:19:53.000 Because it turns out no one likes these jack****. 1.00

00:19:56.000 No one likes them. 0.98

00:19:57.000 They think they're bad people because they are bad people and they believe bad things.

00:20:02.000 But Joe Biden refuses to dissociate.

00:20:05.000 As proof of this, Mitch Landrieu, who is the Biden National Co-Chair, was asked specifically on national TV over the weekend about distancing himself from protesters.

00:20:14.000 Joe Biden distancing himself from the protesters and he wouldn't do it.

00:20:18.000 You see different campuses handling this in a different way, and finally you see some campuses doing this better than others.

00:20:24.000 The president has been very strong about this from the beginning.

00:20:27.000 And the president came out the other day, and as he said, as he has always said, he understands that people have a right to protest, but they have to do so peacefully.

00:20:35.000 But when it turns violent, that's when things have to end.

00:20:37.000 You're going to have a university president on after you have me on.

00:20:41.000 Um, and they're going to continue to work through this.

00:20:43.000 But the President's been very clear about this.

00:20:44.000 He's also been very strong about the need to stamp out anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

00:20:49.000 It's a very difficult time, very passionate opinions on both sides of this issue.

00:20:54.000 The President has been handling it, I think, very, very well, and he's going to continue to do so.

00:20:59.000 Okay, so he won't distance himself from the protesters.

00:21:01.000 By handling this very well, it's hard to imagine Joe Biden handling this worse.

00:21:05.000 And by polling data, everyone is unsatisfied with Joe Biden.

00:21:08.000 In fact, one of the funniest clips from these college campuses at UCLA, a bunch of people who are pro-Hamas and a bunch of people who are pro-Israel were standing across a lot shouting at each other.

00:21:17.000 And then somebody on the pro-Israel side started shouting, F Joe Biden.

00:21:22.000 And then everybody on the pro-Hamas side started shouting, F Joe Biden.

00:21:25.000 And so everyone on both sides are shouting F Joe Biden.

00:21:28.000 Because it turns out when you don't take a clear moral stance, no one likes you. 0.99

00:21:31.000 They think that you're a coward, because you are. 0.66

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00:22:36.000 So, this weekend.

00:22:38.000 The IDF made clear, the Israeli Defense Forces made clear, that they are going into Rafa.

00:22:43.000 This happened after four Israeli soldiers were killed and ten were hurt inside Israel by a Hamas rocket attack from Rafa.

00:22:51.000 So while the rest of the world is trying to protect Hamas in Rafa, claiming that Israel will cause a humanitarian crisis, Hamas literally attacked a staging ground for humanitarian aid.

00:23:01.000 So Israel set up at Kerim Shalom Crossing, Which is on the border of Rafah.

00:23:06.000 They set up a gateway to get humanitarian aid into Rafah.

00:23:10.000 Hamas attacked it with rockets.

00:23:12.000 Because they don't care about the people of Gaza. 1.00

00:23:16.000 They don't care about Palestinians. 0.96

00:23:18.000 They do not. 0.99

00:23:19.000 Those are all human shields to them.

00:23:20.000 The more of them that die, the better. 0.99

00:23:21.000 Because it means they can show to the cameras how bad the Jews are. 1.00

00:23:24.000 Hamas wants Palestinians to die. 1.00

00:23:26.000 It is their goal in life for both Palestinians and Jews to die. 1.00

00:23:31.000 Jews to die, ideally, but if it turns out they're militarily inferior, then get Palestinians killed in order so you can blame the Jews and turn world opinion against the Jews in Israel. 1.00

00:23:40.000 That is Hamas's entire goal and the West is idiotic and so many people on the West, particularly on the left, are falling for it because they are stupid people. 1.00

00:23:48.000 You have to be a moron to believe that Hamas is seeking some sort of peaceful off-ramp while holding Israeli hostages, while firing rockets at humanitarian aid convoys, which is what Hamas does. 1.00

00:24:01.000 Hamas literally fired mortars at the pier that the United States is building in the Mediterranean last week. 0.99

00:24:08.000 They are literally stealing all of the humanitarian aid coming in.

00:24:12.000 You know how you know that?

00:24:13.000 Because there's a lot of talk about how there's not enough currency inside Gaza for people to get the humanitarian aid.

00:24:19.000 Wait, you ask, isn't humanitarian aid supposed to be free?

00:24:21.000 Yes, it is.

00:24:22.000 So why do you need money for it?

00:24:23.000 Because Hamas stole all of it. 0.95

00:24:25.000 And they're selling back the surplus to the Palestinians who need the food.

00:24:31.000 So over the weekend, Hamas, in a demonstration of just how peaceful they are and how they really want to ceasefire now, they killed four Israeli soldiers with a rocket attack again on a gateway for humanitarian aid.

00:24:42.000 They wounded another 10 soldiers.

00:24:46.000 Most of the rockets struck an area where troops were gathered on the border not far from the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which again, has been used according to the Times of Israel to deliver thousands of truckloads of humanitarian aid to Gaza amid the war.

00:24:56.000 And the United States, again, because when you make diplomacy a goal rather than a means, you end up doing PR work for the bad guys.

00:25:05.000 This is the outcome of the Iran deal under Obama.

00:25:07.000 Once the deal was made and diplomacy was the highest goal, then it became the United States' job to pretend that Iran was complying with a deal that was clearly violating.

00:25:15.000 And now America's doing the same thing with regard to Hamas.

00:25:18.000 So Israel keeps going back to Hamas and giving more and more and more concessions. 0.84

00:25:22.000 And Hamas keeps refusing because what they really want is for Israel to just leave the Gaza Strip and give it back to Hamas so they can declare victory, which of course Israel can never do.

00:25:30.000 So the United States continues to try to push Israel. 0.67

00:25:34.000 So the question is why?

00:25:35.000 Again, it's political malpractice.

00:25:37.000 If you're Joe Biden, what you need is for Israel to finish off Rafa and do it quickly.

00:25:41.000 So by the time you get to the convention, this is not on the front pages anymore.

00:25:43.000 That would be your goal if you were a smart person. 1.00

00:25:45.000 But Joe Biden is both a corrupt person and a dullard. 0.99

00:25:48.000 And so what he is attempting to do now is take the money and also take a middle position on this conflict. 0.98

00:25:55.000 So the IDF has now told 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate Eastern Rafah ahead of a planned offensive.

00:26:00.000 They use flyers, texts, phone calls to call on Gazans to leave specific areas.

00:26:05.000 There are four battalions of Hamas that are left out of the original 23 battalions of Hamas.

00:26:10.000 They are left in Rafah right now.

00:26:13.000 The international community again playing defense for Hamas as always. 0.88

00:26:18.000 They are talking about how it's unacceptable for Israel to go into Rafah.

00:26:20.000 Apparently it's acceptable for Hamas to continue to hold Rafah.

00:26:26.000 Meanwhile, Netanyahu and Joe Biden are expected to speak as Israel prepares the offensive.

00:26:32.000 The CIA chief, William Burns, is in Jerusalem to meet with Netanyahu and war leadership.

00:26:36.000 So simultaneously, the Biden administration is saying that Israel has made very generous offers.

00:26:39.000 Also, Israel should give away all leverage by never going into Rafah is, I guess, the idea.

00:26:45.000 So Israel has been prepping the invasion in the middle of Israel prepping this final step in the war. 0.75

00:26:51.000 The United States, according to Barak Ravid, who's the stenographer for Jake Sullivan and the national security apparatus of the Biden administration, over at Axios.

00:26:59.000 They literally just call him and he writes whatever they want him to write.

00:27:02.000 He says that apparently the Biden administration put a hold on a shipment of US-made ammunition to Israel in the middle of this.

00:27:08.000 Despite the fact that the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed foreign aid to both Ukraine and Israel, as well as Taiwan, as well as banning foreign ownership of TikTok, Joe Biden is now attempting to slow walk the aid to Israel in the middle of an attempt to finish the war.

00:27:24.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:27:58.000 Behind the scenes, according to Axios, last Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel and had a tough conversation with Netanyahu regarding a possible Israeli operation in Rafah.

00:28:08.000 Blinken told Netanyahu during their meeting a major military operation in Rafah would lead to the U.S.

00:28:12.000 publicly opposing it and would negatively impact U.S.-Israel relations.

00:28:17.000 Now, of course, that's been true for a long time.

00:28:20.000 Once the Biden administration idiotically started suggesting that they had conditions for Israel going into RAFA, that Israel would have to hit particular goals in order to present a military plan that would be acceptable to the United States, they were never going to greenlight the operation, ever.

00:28:32.000 Because the minute they greenlight it, the Biden administration owns it.

00:28:35.000 So, of course, they're going to claim they oppose the RAFA move.

00:28:39.000 But if Israel has no leverage to go into RAFA, they ain't getting back their hostages. 0.55

00:28:43.000 Because they have no leverage.

00:28:44.000 If the United States says you have nothing to trade, then Israel has nothing to trade, if Israel took that seriously.

00:28:51.000 So Israel's saying, no, you know, we're going in anyway.

00:28:54.000 Israel Minister of Defense, Yav Galant, visited Israeli military forces in Gaza on Saturday, said Israel sees, quote, worrying signals.

00:29:01.000 Hamas is not going to move toward an agreement on releasing the hostages.

00:29:05.000 So the Biden administration is now delaying ammunition shipments.

00:29:10.000 A White House national security spokesperson declined to confirm the report.

00:29:13.000 Now, at this point, I'd like to point out that when there was a president named Donald Trump, and he was slow-walking aid to Ukraine in 2019-2020, the Democrats decided that this was an impeachable offense.

00:29:25.000 This violated the so-called Impound Control Act.

00:29:31.000 The Impound Control Act of 1974 suggests that when Congress allocates money for a particular funding apparatus, the executive branch is duty-bound to actually go spend the money.

00:29:41.000 And there are only certain conditions under which you can hold back the money.

00:29:44.000 Those conditions include informing Congress.

00:29:48.000 The Biden administration did not do that.

00:29:50.000 Now, when the Trump administration didn't do that with regard to Ukraine, at that point, a watchdog suggested that federal law had been violated.

00:30:02.000 According to the OMB, they had said that the money was designated by Congress pending a policy decision.

00:30:11.000 The 1974 law does not permit the OMB to withhold funds for policy reasons, which meant, according to Chris Van Hollen, Democrat from Maryland, that this was impeachable.

00:30:22.000 He said we now have a GAO, General Accounting Office, decision stating conclusively the Trump administration violated the law.

00:30:27.000 We know the president ordered the violation of that law.

00:30:30.000 But when Joe Biden slow walks aid to Israel in the middle of all of this, in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 74, then apparently it's totally fine, according to the Democrats.

00:30:41.000 That's the way that all of this works.

00:30:43.000 And there's only one reason that Joe Biden is doing that.

00:30:46.000 And this is because he wants the money from the same donors who are supporting the protesters.

00:30:51.000 And because he believes that those protesters are somehow going to spur him to victory.

00:30:55.000 They're not.

00:30:56.000 They're going to vote for Cornel West and Jill Stein. 0.98

00:30:58.000 And Joe Biden is a fool to believe that he's going to convince them back into voting for him, rather than voting for these third-party candidates. 0.92

00:31:05.000 Do you think any of these protests are going to be door-knocking for Joe Biden? 0.99

00:31:09.000 All these protesters are going to be the ones at the DNC in Chicago who are screaming and shouting outside the convention hall.

00:31:15.000 And unlike in 68, when the mayor of Chicago, Daley, decided to clear the street, this time you're going to have Mayor Brandon Johnson probably joining the protesters outside.

00:31:26.000 Now all of this has been in the works for a very long time in the Democratic Party.

00:31:29.000 The slow shift in the Democratic Party away from a pro-Israel and frankly pro-America position.

00:31:34.000 Has been a long time in coming.

00:31:36.000 It really gained steam during the Obama administration.

00:31:39.000 At the 2012 convention, very famously, there was a proposal to remove from the democratic platform a provision saying that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel.

00:31:50.000 That proposal to remove that plank from the platform was, in fact, approved by a voice vote on the floor.

00:31:56.000 Antonio Villaraigosa, who was running the DNC at the time in 2012, literally overruled the voice vote.

00:32:01.000 He just kind of just said, the eyes have it in terms of retaining the platform.

00:32:05.000 I was there.

00:32:05.000 I remember I was on the floor.

00:32:07.000 So this has been happening for a long time inside the Democratic halls of power.

00:32:10.000 And Joe Biden is now just giving way.

00:32:13.000 So what is the goal here?

00:32:15.000 Well, for Joe Biden, apparently, the goal would be to keep Hamas intact.

00:32:18.000 Because that is the predictable result of Israel not going into Rafah.

00:32:21.000 If Israel is not going to Rafah, Hamas remains intact. 0.96

00:32:25.000 He is saving Hamas. 0.98

00:32:26.000 There is no other way to put it.

00:32:29.000 No plan has been formulated whereby Hamas gives up power and Israel declares a ceasefire.

00:32:35.000 Hamas is not giving up power.

00:32:36.000 They made this very, very clear.

00:32:37.000 In fact, there were reports last week that Sinwar, who's the military head of Hamas, the designer of October 7th, Has literally been hiding behind hostages.

00:32:46.000 Apparently something like 15 of the hostages have been directly placed around Sinwar, so that if Israel goes in, he will kill the hostages.

00:32:54.000 Those are the people the Biden administration is currently negotiating with.

00:32:57.000 All this is part and parcel of a wild left-wing agenda the Democratic Party is beginning to embrace wholesale.

00:33:03.000 We'll get to more on that in just one second.

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00:34:59.000 Okay, so Democrats keep moving on and on to the left, but here's the thing.

00:35:03.000 This stuff is unpopular.

00:35:05.000 So what that means is that they're just going to keep rebranding it.

00:35:08.000 So, for example, DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

00:35:13.000 Our friend Chris Rufo has done an amazing job exposing DEI, among others.

00:35:17.000 Obviously, we've been talking about DEI for a very long time on the show.

00:35:20.000 DEI is a terrible ideology that suggests that any sense of victimization, so long as you're unsuccessful, is justified.

00:35:28.000 And that it is the system that has, in fact, victimized you.

00:35:31.000 That if a group is disproportionately unsuccessful in a particular field, and that group is not white Christian males, then that group must have been victimized by the system.

00:35:41.000 And the more successful you are as a group, by the way, that means you've now joined the victimizers.

00:35:45.000 So if you're Asian-American on a college campus, you're now a white Christian male.

00:35:48.000 If you're a Jew, you're now a white Christian male as well, so long as you are successful in the system. 0.89

00:35:53.000 You've now joined the superstructure of white supremacy, according to the left. 0.61

00:35:57.000 It's a pretty ugly ideology, and now DI has come under proper fire.

00:36:02.000 Well now, DEI, it's undergoing a rebrand.

00:36:05.000 It's not going to go away.

00:36:06.000 It's too deeply embedded in all the substructures of American government, as well as in corporate America.

00:36:11.000 Why?

00:36:12.000 As Christopher Caldwell wrote in The Age of Entitlement, the complete second constitution that was written in the 1960s with regard to the Civil Rights Act, which completely rejiggered the relationship between the federal government and the individual for some good reasons and some very bad reasons.

00:36:31.000 That constitutional overturning ended with DEI being embedded in every aspect of American life.

00:36:37.000 Anti-discrimination laws across the country that are designed to hamper private contract and private viewpoints.

00:36:45.000 The kind of stuff that we are seeing from Title VI on college campuses.

00:36:48.000 There are some people who I think are misguidedly trying to broaden that out or grant greater powers to the Department of Education on Title VI grounds, as opposed to just defunding these colleges entirely, which is really what should happen.

00:37:01.000 So, what are all these corporations doing?

00:37:03.000 Well, they're still afraid of the legal liability.

00:37:04.000 They're still afraid they're going to get sued under the Civil Rights Act, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

00:37:08.000 So they're not going to make DEI go away.

00:37:10.000 They're just going to call it something different.

00:37:11.000 According to the Washington Post, amid growing legal, social, and political backlash, American businesses, industry groups, and employment professionals are quietly scrubbing DEI from public view.

00:37:20.000 They're not necessarily abandoning its practice.

00:37:23.000 As they rebrand programs and hot-button acronyms, they're reassessing decades-old anti-discrimination strategies and rewriting policies that once emphasized race and gender to prioritize inclusion for all.

00:37:33.000 So instead of getting rid of DEI, they're going to say it applies to everybody.

00:37:36.000 But wink-wink, it's not going to.

00:37:38.000 It will apply to exactly the same groups it always applied to.

00:37:40.000 It's all in the application.

00:37:43.000 According to the Washington Post, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., chief executive of the Society for Human Resource Management, said practitioners of DEI and its antecedents traditionally have focused on improving representation for a historically marginalized group, believing the magic bullet was diversity.

00:37:57.000 We underestimated that inclusion was the real challenge, Taylor said.

00:38:00.000 Now people are saying, not only should we probably call it something different, we should probably evolve it.

00:38:05.000 So what exactly does that evolution look like?

00:38:09.000 I mean, it looks like exactly the same thing.

00:38:12.000 He said some practitioners and executives dismissed the rebrand as superficial.

00:38:17.000 A growing number of companies are either listing DEI as a risk factor in shareholder reports or removing mentions of diversity goals outright.

00:38:23.000 But that doesn't mean they're going to stop doing what they are doing.

00:38:27.000 Eric Ellis, CEO of Integrity Development, which is a DEI consultancy, he says he expects the language to keep changing in response to public attacks.

00:38:37.000 So instead, they're just going to keep doing the same things, but they're going to call it something else.

00:38:41.000 The only answer, of course, is to dismantle the DEI infrastructure completely.

00:38:45.000 Don't allow the rebrand.

00:38:47.000 Because it turns out the consequences of DEI, on a national and international level, are quite terrible.

00:38:52.000 DEI is just a name for cultural Marxism.

00:38:54.000 That's all it is.

00:38:56.000 All it is is a race-based Marxism.

00:38:58.000 In which, instead of looking at class divisions, class divisions are cross-referenced with racial divisions.

00:39:04.000 That's all DEI is.

00:39:06.000 And you know what that ends with?

00:39:07.000 It ends with a view that, again, the superstructure of the West needs to be torn down, which is precisely why in the UK, for example, you now have candidates who are winning, who are openly in favor of Sharia law and Hamas. 0.66

00:39:21.000 British Green Party candidate Motheen Ali, according to Israel Hayom, he won the Gipton and Hare Hells seat in Leeds with about 3,000 votes, proclaimed his election was a win for the people of Gaza.

00:39:31.000 After the results were announced, he shouted, "'Allahu Akbar!' Supporters unfurled a Palestinian flag behind him.

00:39:37.000 He said, "'We will not be silenced.

00:39:38.000 We will raise the voice of Gaza.

00:39:39.000 We will raise the voice of Palestine.

00:39:40.000 Allahu Akbar!' He was not alone in tying his success to the Palestinian struggle.

00:39:44.000 Numerous other candidates running on a pro-Palestinian platform also defeated their rivals across Britain.

00:39:49.000 In Walsall, Nahid Zohra, Gul Tasibhas celebrated by saying, "'This is for Gaza.

00:39:54.000 This is for Palestine.' Ahmed Yacoub of West Midland secured approximately 20% of votes in his constituency on a pro-Palestinian platform as well.

00:40:03.000 The oppositional Labour Party lost over 10% of its support in some areas to the pro-Palestinian candidates.

00:40:10.000 Chris Hopkins, political research director, said, Labor's vote is falling away in some Muslim areas.

00:40:14.000 It shows the party has plenty of work to do among some communities

00:40:17.000 over its response to the conflict in Gaza.

00:40:19.000 Again, it's all part of the same broad rubric.

00:40:22.000 Groups that are disproportionately successful must be victims of the West. 0.97

00:40:27.000 Now, I will say, all of this is going to breed backlash, and the backlash is going to be very strong.

00:40:32.000 You're seeing it on college campuses right now, with the bros.

00:40:36.000 Clapping for the- applause for the bros, who are standing up with American flags at these pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protests, and singing the Star Spangled Banner, and then being ripped by the media for their trouble.

00:40:46.000 But this is going to have some pretty widespread consequences, not just electorally in places like the United States, but also in Europe.

00:40:51.000 The media in the United States, they're beside themselves because what they are seeing is that it turns out that allowing tens of millions over the last couple of decades of predominantly Muslim immigrants into European countries and creating areas that are effectively radical hotbeds for pro-Hamas viewpoints.

00:41:15.000 It turns out that that's not very good for Europe and a lot of people don't like it very much.

00:41:19.000 And it's resulting in an anti-immigration backlash in a bunch of countries across Europe.

00:41:24.000 And that anti-immigration backlash is causing serious pressure on the EU.

00:41:28.000 Because, of course, it is the EU that has allowed free border crossing in particular areas.

00:41:33.000 And then, if you're a member of the EU, then there's free transit between all these countries.

00:41:38.000 So, the New York Times has a piece titled, Now, I gotta say, I do love that the left has now decided that the word democracy does not mean rule by popular vote.

00:41:46.000 to democracy are now mainstream. Now, I gotta say, I do love that the left has now decided

00:41:51.000 that the word democracy does not mean rule by popular vote.

00:41:54.000 Democracy now means stuff the left likes. This is how, for example, you have people on the

00:42:00.000 left in the United States, for example, just to talk about the misuse of the word democracy,

00:42:05.000 suggesting that the overturning of Roe versus Wade is somehow a defeat for democracy.

00:42:08.000 So Hakeem Jeffries, for example, he said this over the weekend.

00:42:11.000 He said that when Roe fell, it was a defeat for democracy, which is using democracy in a unique way.

00:42:16.000 If the idea is kicking back a policy to the voters, that is somehow anti-democracy.

00:42:21.000 He doesn't know what the word democracy means.

00:42:25.000 How big of an issue will abortion rights be this election year? 1.00

00:42:30.000 It's going to be an incredibly significant issue, because on its own, it's about freedom.

00:42:38.000 And the extreme right Republicans have set in motion the erosion of reproductive freedom.

00:42:45.000 We're going to fight for it with everything that we've got at our disposal.

00:42:52.000 If Roe v. Wade can fall, Anything can fall.

00:42:58.000 Social Security can fall.

00:43:00.000 Medicare can fall.

00:43:03.000 Voting rights can fall.

00:43:05.000 And God help us all, but democracy itself can fall.

00:43:10.000 You may notice that none of the things that he just talked about, with the exception of voting rights, have anything to do with democracy.

00:43:15.000 So again, for the left, the word democracy just means stuff I like.

00:43:18.000 So the New York Times has an entire piece about Europe talking about how populist parties on the right, which are anti-immigration, they're a threat to democracy.

00:43:24.000 As opposed to, you know, importing millions of people from areas of the world that generally despise the West.

00:43:30.000 That's not a threat to democracy.

00:43:32.000 It's more of a threat to democracy to have people voting to, you know, maintain their own cultures.

00:43:36.000 That's a real threat to democracy, according to the New York Times.

00:43:39.000 Quote, Across Europe, the far-right is becoming the right, absent

00:43:42.000 any compelling message from traditional conservative parties.

00:43:45.000 Not only have the parties of an anti-immigration right surged, they have seen the barriers

00:43:48.000 that once kept them out crumble as they are absorbed into the arc of Western democracies.

00:43:52.000 And they named Giorgio Malone to the Prime Minister of Italy, who supposedly was going

00:43:57.000 to impose fascist rule in Italy and didn't do it.

00:43:59.000 And then there's Sweden, where the center-right government depends on the fast-growing Sweden Democrats.

00:44:03.000 Or the Netherlands, where Gert Wilders, who has been very anti-Islamic immigration for literally decades, won the national elections in November.

00:44:12.000 Or France.

00:44:14.000 Where Jordan Bardell, president of National Rally, is leading his party's campaign for the elections in June to the European Parliament.

00:44:19.000 Again, it turns out that even the Europeans, as weak as they are, they also don't like the sort of multicultural DEI principles being applied in their countries. 0.51

00:44:30.000 If the left wishes to embrace full-scale the mentality, We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:45:44.000 Again, all of this might be justifiable politically, except that Joe Biden is running

00:45:48.000 a terrible campaign right now.

00:45:50.000 And as I mentioned over and over and over again, Donald Trump continues to lead him in the national polling average.

00:45:54.000 Donald Trump continues to lead him in all the swing state polling averages.

00:45:58.000 And part of that is because you know what he is?

00:46:00.000 He's a deer in the headlights.

00:46:01.000 And at this point, almost literally a deer in the headlights.

00:46:03.000 Here was Joe Biden the other day, literally being a deer in the headlights.

00:46:07.000 He actually stops and just randomly stares at the cameras.

00:46:11.000 It's so weird.

00:46:12.000 He's such a weird old man.

00:46:17.000 What is he doing?

00:46:18.000 He's crouching and randomly staring around with the Easter Island egg face planted on.

00:46:25.000 And Jill is like, I can't even take this.

00:46:27.000 Jill starts to walk away.

00:46:29.000 He stops and he's like, what is wrong with him?

00:46:31.000 What is wrong with you?

00:46:32.000 I mean, the answer is that Joe Biden is no longer mentally with us, if ever he was.

00:46:35.000 The good news, the White House is trying to plaster this over by somehow relying on celebrity. So May

00:46:43.000 the 4th was on Saturday. So it was Star Wars Day, right? Because May the 4th be with you. So Joe

00:46:51.000 Biden hosted Mark Hamill to the White House, just reminding you how long ago Star Wars was because Mark

00:46:56.000 Hamill is also now an aged human.

00:46:59.000 Mark Hamill is now 72 years old, and he looks old. He's eight years younger than the current

00:47:03.000 president of the United States. May the 4th be with you.

00:47:07.000 Always.

00:47:09.000 Oh, dude.

00:47:12.000 And then Mark Hamill went to the White House press room where he proceeded to take questions.

00:47:17.000 I mean, the first question he should take is, why The Last Jedi?

00:47:20.000 Why?

00:47:23.000 Apparently he's joined the dark side by this outfit.

00:47:27.000 I'm not sure who told him this was a good combo, but here we go.

00:47:31.000 I just wanted to say I was honored to be asked to come to the White House to meet The president?

00:47:40.000 The most legislative, successful president in my lifetime.

00:47:45.000 And, you know, I don't have to go through the list of bipartisan infrastructure, law, the PACT Act, the Chips Act, all that, inflation, 15 million jobs.

00:47:54.000 Look, it's all good.

00:47:55.000 I mean, I was really thrilled to meet the entire staff because, you know, it's not just one person.

00:48:01.000 It's like a composite endeavor.

00:48:03.000 And all these people, my goodness, you know, I mean, I have no idea I had no idea just what went into what is on his plate on a daily basis. 0.99

00:48:18.000 Who's more of a fool? 1.00

00:48:19.000 The fool or the fool who follows him? 1.00

00:48:22.000 My goodness. 1.00

00:48:24.000 That's what the White House got for you.

00:48:25.000 Well, good news is that on the Republican side of the aisle, at least it appears that Kristi Noem might be done, so that's good. 0.96

00:48:32.000 We need fewer clowns on the right. 0.98

00:48:34.000 Lots of clowns on the right. 0.99

00:48:35.000 Clowns everywhere. 0.99

00:48:36.000 Well, Christy Noem, who was at one point considered a vice-presidential candidate, it turns out that she spent the last two weeks claiming that it was good to shoot a puppy, like a 14-month-old dog. 1.00

00:48:45.000 It was good to shoot the dog. 0.93

00:48:47.000 And also claiming that she met Kim Jong-un. 0.71

00:48:49.000 So she had an awkward weekend. 0.98

00:48:50.000 Here's Christy Noem talking about how she was right to shoot her dog, and also maybe we should shoot Joe Biden's dogs. 0.97

00:48:56.000 So it's a unique approach to American electoral success, shooting dogs. 0.95

00:49:03.000 You talk multiple times about it.

00:49:05.000 In fact, at the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to the White House that was different from Joe Biden is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was nowhere on the grounds.

00:49:15.000 Commander, say hello to cricket.

00:49:18.000 Are you doing this to try to look tough?

00:49:20.000 Do you still think that you have a shot at being a VP?

00:49:24.000 Well, number one, Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people.

00:49:29.000 So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog and what to do with it?

00:49:36.000 Well, he's not living at the White House anymore.

00:49:37.000 That's the question that the president should be held accountable to. 0.77

00:49:40.000 You're saying he should be shot?

00:49:41.000 That's what the president should be accountable to, is what is the number?

00:49:44.000 And I would say about Republicans criticizing me, these are the same Republicans that criticized me during COVID.

00:49:51.000 Um, no, actually.

00:49:53.000 Those are not no.

00:49:54.000 That's not, that's not true at all.

00:49:57.000 I was pretty pro-Christy Noem during COVID, but it's when you start shooting the dogs that apparently there's another chapter of her book that is titled, Bad Day to Be a Goat, where she kills a goat. 0.51

00:50:10.000 So, I mean, I, listen, I would watch a nature show with Christy Noem, just like hunting, I guess.

00:50:16.000 But I don't know when this became like a, is the pathway to political power?

00:50:20.000 I remember when Sarah Palin was running for VP and she's like, yeah, I was shooting moose from a helicopter.

00:50:24.000 Like, you know, I feel like being good at being governor, like, is that, when did that go out of style for the Republican Party?

00:50:30.000 Just being good at being a governor.

00:50:32.000 And we're like, you know what we need?

00:50:33.000 We need people who can signal about what kind of animals they kill at close range.

00:50:38.000 Apparently in her book, she also claims that she met with Kim Jong-un, which is funny because I also met with Kim Jong-un. 0.52

00:50:44.000 Never.

00:50:44.000 Here is Christine Ohm trying to explain how she met with Kim Jong-un in her imagination.

00:50:49.000 You talk about meeting some world leaders and one specific one.

00:50:54.000 Quote, I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

00:50:58.000 I'm sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. 0.51

00:51:04.000 I've been a children's pastor after all.

00:51:07.000 Did you meet Kim Jong-un?

00:51:11.000 Well, you know, as soon as this was brought to my attention, I certainly made some changes and looked at this passage.

00:51:19.000 And I've met with many, many world leaders.

00:51:21.000 I've traveled around the world.

00:51:23.000 As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits.

00:51:28.000 So I'm glad that this book is being released in a couple of days and that those edits will be in place and that people will have the updated version.

00:51:36.000 So you did not meet with Kim Jong-un?

00:51:38.000 That's what you're saying?

00:51:41.000 I've met with many, many world leaders.

00:51:43.000 I've traveled around the world.

00:51:44.000 I think I've talked extensively in this book about my time serving in Congress, my time as governor, before governor, some of the travels that I've had.

00:51:53.000 I'm not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders.

00:51:56.000 I'm just not going to do that.

00:51:58.000 This anecdote shouldn't have been in the book, and as soon as it was brought to my attention, I made sure that that was adjusted.

00:52:05.000 Well, the book is not released until Tuesday, and so we're doing all that we can to make sure that those changes are made.

00:52:11.000 OK, so that's a no.

00:52:15.000 She I don't think she's going to be the vice presidential candidate. 1.00

00:52:18.000 I hate to break it to her.

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