The Ben Shapiro Show - January 29, 2024


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3 U.S. service members were killed in a drone strike on a base in northeast Jordan, and many more were wounded. It was only a matter of time before this happened. Iran has been attacking Americans all over the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria and now to Jordan. And at every turn, Joe Biden made clear that he was not going to hit them hard enough to make them stop. And when you show your neck, they get more aggressive with you. Joe Biden has been showing America s neck largely since October 7th, when he decided to take the Houthis off the terrorist watch list. Since then, he has spent every day since then trying to make nice with Iran, demonstrating that his true interest in the Mideast has nothing to do with American interests, but rather, to advance his electoral interests. And as the doors began to close around Iran, Iran started to buck against that, and they started to use their terror proxies as a way of upending the burgeoning relationships in the region. Who do you think is more fearful of war with Iran than the United States? War with Iran or peace with Iran? And if it comes to it, who do you fear more, Iran from going to war with the U. S. or war with us? I don t think anyone wants to spend their blood in their right mind on it, and no one thinks that is a good idea. But if war is all they want to spend all their treasure on the Red Sea, and everybody is rooting for peace and prosperity, then they should be rooting up the Good Cape of Good Hope of the Red sea of their casked to go to war, right now, because that s all they can get a better chance of getting all of their oil and all of the good things they could get. by going to peace and a good port in peace and tranquility in the Red Seas, right there in the middle of the Persian Gulf, right by the Meddling Sea by the White House, right in front of them. by listening to this episode of The Good Morning America is a must-listen to this week's episode of Good Morning Folks. Thank you for listening to Good Morning Joe! Good morning, Good Morning, and Good Morning Africa! by . by Good Morning and Good Evening America by Good Morning Baltimore by , by , and Thank You, by .

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00:00:00.000 So, first of all, to start the show, for those people who are hip-hop fans and are just here, for the number one hip-hop artist in America, I'll get to it a little bit later in the show.
00:00:08.000 We have to do the news first.
00:00:09.000 So, Joe Biden's cowardly, appeasement-oriented strategy in the Middle East has now gotten Americans officially killed.
00:00:16.000 It was only a matter of time until this happened.
00:00:18.000 Iranian proxy forces have been attacking Americans all over the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria and now to Jordan.
00:00:24.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, three U.S.
00:00:26.000 service members were killed.
00:00:27.000 At least 34 were injured.
00:00:29.000 Iran-backed militias drone strike on a base in northeast Jordan, according to U.S.
00:00:33.000 officials.
00:00:34.000 Now, that is a bit of a difference in kind from attacks in Iraq or attacks in Syria.
00:00:38.000 Those are both countries.
00:00:39.000 They're not officially U.S. 0.85
00:00:40.000 allies.
00:00:40.000 Jordan is officially an American ally.
00:00:42.000 So this would be an attack by an Iranian proxy force into an American allied space on Americans.
00:00:48.000 The strike, carried out by one-way attack drone, signals an escalating in fighting in the region.
00:00:53.000 The President and Secretary of Defense did put out a statement suggesting retaliation.
00:00:57.000 President Biden's statement was this quote today America's heart is heavy last night three US
00:01:01.000 service members were killed and many wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on our
00:01:05.000 forces stationed in northeast Jordan near the Syria border while we are still gathering the
00:01:09.000 facts of the attack we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in
00:01:13.000 Syria and Iraq and then there is the language about grieving for the fallen service members
00:01:19.000 and how wonderful the soldiers are all of which I'm sure is true.
00:01:21.000 Also, if you had not spent every day since October 7th trying to make nice with Iran, demonstrating that your true interest in the Middle East has nothing to do with American interests, but to do with your electoral interests, this would not have happened.
00:01:36.000 Here's the very simple math in the Middle East. 0.69
00:01:37.000 If you do not punch terrorists directly in the mouth incredibly hard and incredibly often, they get more aggressive with you. 0.89
00:01:43.000 And when you show your neck, they attack.
00:01:45.000 Joe Biden has been showing his neck largely since October 7th.
00:01:49.000 In fact, long before that, Joe Biden has been showing America's neck in the Middle East since he decided that he was going to take the Houthis off the terrorist watch list.
00:01:58.000 Since he decided that he was going to start appeasing the Palestinian Authority.
00:02:02.000 Since he decided that he was going to reorient away from the alliance-driven model that President Trump had embraced, the Abraham Accords model, that really brought a lot of Sunni Arab countries into the fold, ranging from Saudi Arabia and UAE and Morocco to Egypt and Jordan.
00:02:18.000 He decided to move away from that, did Joe Biden. 0.86
00:02:20.000 And instead, he was going to seek the Barack Obama-esque idiocy of, what if we try to pursue a deal with Iran? 0.96
00:02:26.000 And when you do that, what you end up doing is appeasing the largest terror sponsor in the region. 0.95
00:02:32.000 And naturally, as the doors began to close around the Middle East to Iran, Iran started to buck against that.
00:02:38.000 And they started to use their terror proxies as a way of upending the burgeoning relationships in the Middle East, as a way of scuttling any possibility of the broadening of the Abraham Accords to directly include Saudi Arabia. 0.66
00:02:48.000 That is why October 7th happened.
00:02:50.000 Essentially, Hamas was given a green light to attack Israel by Iran. 0.71
00:02:54.000 And then Hezbollah, which is an Iranian terror group.
00:02:58.000 was given the green light to attack Israel in the north.
00:03:00.000 And then the Houthis were given the green light to attack shipping in the Red Sea.
00:03:03.000 And at every turn, Joe Biden made clear that he was not going to hit them hard enough to make them stop.
00:03:10.000 And the reason is because Joe Biden is much more fearful of war with Iran than Iran is fearful, apparently, of war with the United States.
00:03:17.000 Now, no one wants war with Iran.
00:03:19.000 No one is interested in war with Iran.
00:03:21.000 But if it comes down to it, who do you think has more to fear, Iran from going to war with the United States or the United States from going to war with Iran?
00:03:28.000 Again, that's not something that I'm calling for.
00:03:29.000 I don't think it's a good idea.
00:03:30.000 I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks that that is a good idea.
00:03:34.000 No one wants to spend blood, no one wants to spend treasure, and that is exactly correct.
00:03:37.000 But containment can and should be pursued.
00:03:40.000 Containment is a policy of deterrence that is Applied in various regions surrounding Iran.
00:03:46.000 You don't have to go to war directly with Iran to, for example, secure shipping in the Red Sea, which is deeply necessary considering that container shipments have now cost twice what they used to, and everybody is now rooting around the Cape of Good Hope instead of going up through the Red Sea.
00:04:01.000 Their oil is getting more expensive because of all of this.
00:04:04.000 Suggesting that Israel be supplied the munitions that it requires in order to take out the Iranian proxy Hamas and to deter the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in the north or take it out.
00:04:13.000 That has nothing to do with America going directly to war.
00:04:16.000 When Americans get killed, the proper response to that is to make sure the other side of the f-around find-out equation actually applies.
00:04:26.000 That does not mean that you have to directly attack Iran.
00:04:28.000 Doesn't mean that you're going to have F-22s flying over Tehran or anything like that.
00:04:33.000 There are ways the United States can apply force in the face of the death of Americans that actually establishes deterrence. 0.70
00:04:39.000 And if you're not going to do that, you shouldn't have troops there.
00:04:41.000 It's that simple.
00:04:42.000 It's that simple.
00:04:43.000 If you think that the United States should completely pull out of the region, which is a whole other argument, and also I think a specious argument considering the United States does have deep and abiding reasons to care about the Middle East, ranging from oil supply to shipping strategy to democracy.
00:05:00.000 There are many reasons to care about the Middle East.
00:05:02.000 But even if you were to argue that the U.S.
00:05:04.000 should not have troops there at all, if U.S.
00:05:06.000 troops are there, you have to protect them.
00:05:08.000 It is immoral and wrong not to protect them.
00:05:10.000 And Joe Biden has been in the business of trying to appease The people who have killed thousands of Americans since the day he took office.
00:05:18.000 He's been in a delusional state about Iran, the same delusional state embraced by Barack Obama, and that led to the rise of Iranian power throughout the Middle East. 0.91
00:05:26.000 And Donald Trump recontained it.
00:05:27.000 Donald Trump hampered the Iranians.
00:05:30.000 Donald Trump put in place some of the strictest sanctions in world history.
00:05:33.000 He impoverished the Iranian regime.
00:05:36.000 He boxed them in with the Abraham Accords, and they knew it. 1.00
00:05:40.000 And what they also knew is that if they screwed around, the United States under Donald Trump might punch them in the mouth. 0.97
00:05:46.000 That actually is a very good foreign policy. 0.99
00:05:47.000 It's a very effective foreign policy.
00:05:49.000 And Joe Biden, just as he did with the border, decided to destroy that foreign policy because it had a big gold Trump sign on it.
00:05:55.000 Anything associated with Trump had to be destroyed, no matter how good the policy was.
00:05:57.000 Again, Joe Biden inherited a working border policy.
00:06:01.000 Joe Biden inherited a working Middle East, which is insane.
00:06:04.000 And he promptly decided to blow both of them because of the border situation in a second.
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00:07:18.000 So right now, Joe Biden is trying to walk this tightrope to quote unquote, protect American troops
00:07:23.000 without creating the possibility of a broader conflict with Iran.
00:07:28.000 Now, again, the reality is that that is quite doable.
00:07:32.000 But Joe Biden is so scared, he's so all-fire scared of a continuing conflict in the Middle East that he's going to sleepwalk right into one.
00:07:37.000 Because there are two ways the conflict happens.
00:07:40.000 One is we retaliate, and then Iran retaliates, and then we retaliate, and then Iran retaliates, and then it escalates.
00:07:45.000 The other way is you do nothing.
00:07:46.000 And then Iran keeps pushing. 0.79
00:07:47.000 And what we've been watching for the last several months is Iran keeps pushing. 0.85
00:07:51.000 We've seen 160 plus attacks on American targets since October 7th.
00:07:56.000 And Joe Biden has effectively done nothing. 0.99
00:07:59.000 They shut down shipping in the Red Sea and Joe Biden hit a bunch of camels in the ass. 0.99
00:08:02.000 That is not an actual policy. 0.99
00:08:05.000 When Joe Biden puts out a statement saying, Does anyone believe that?
00:08:07.000 service members we lost were patriots in the highest sense.
00:08:09.000 Their ultimate sacrifice will never be forgotten by our nation. Together we will keep the
00:08:12.000 sacred obligation we bear to their families. We will strive to be worthy of their honor and
00:08:15.000 valor. We will carry on their commitments to fight terrorism and have no doubt we will hold all those
00:08:19.000 responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing. Does anyone believe that? Does
00:08:23.000 anyone believe that Joe Biden is going to hold those people to account? Because so far that has not
00:08:28.000 been his policy.
00:08:29.000 His policy has been to pressure our allies.
00:08:31.000 Literally, the moment he stepped onto the world stage as President of the United States, he decided that he was going to destroy relations with the Saudis. 0.62
00:08:38.000 Forget about what he's doing with Israel. 0.97
00:08:39.000 What he did with the Saudis at the very beginning of his administration is despicable.
00:08:44.000 He decided that as a virtue signal to all of his journalist friends, he was gonna cut off the Saudi regime.
00:08:49.000 And then right before the midterms, he had to go on bended knee to the Saudi king and basically ask, The de facto Saudi King Mohammed bin Salman to lower oil prices to which MBS was like, why would I do that?
00:09:01.000 You've been campaigning against me since the day you got into office. 0.94
00:09:05.000 Joe Biden's entire policy has been oriented against our allies in the Middle East and in favor of trying to bring Iran into the family of nations, which again is the most specious and idiotic goal of any goal in the Middle East period. 0.69
00:09:18.000 I mean, the number of attacks on Americans is going to continue to rise here.
00:09:21.000 Because again, Joe Biden has basically done nothing.
00:09:24.000 He's basically done nothing.
00:09:25.000 And it's not just me saying this.
00:09:26.000 It's Donald Trump saying this.
00:09:27.000 Which is correct.
00:09:29.000 Here are the statements that Donald Trump put out on Truth Social, quote,
00:09:31.000 The drone attack on a U.S. military installation in Jordan, killing three American service members and wounding many
00:09:36.000 more, marks a horrible day for America.
00:09:38.000 My most profound sympathies go to the families of the brave service members we have lost.
00:09:41.000 I ask all Americans to join me in praying for those who have been wounded.
00:09:44.000 This brazen attack on the United States is yet another horrific and tragic consequence
00:09:48.000 of Joe Biden's weakness and surrender.
00:09:50.000 This is correct.
00:09:51.000 It says three years ago, Iran was weak, broke, and totally under control.
00:09:55.000 Thanks to my maximum pressure policy, the Iranian regime could barely scrape two dollars together to fund their terrorist proxies. 0.52
00:10:00.000 Then Joe Biden came in and gave Iran billions of dollars, which the regime has used to spread bloodshed and carnage throughout the Middle East. 0.99
00:10:07.000 This attack would never have happened if I was president, not even a chance.
00:10:09.000 Just like the Iranian-backed Hamas attack on Israel would never have happened, the war in Ukraine would never have happened, and we would right now have peace throughout the world instead, we are on the brink of World War III.
00:10:18.000 This terrible day is yet more proof that we need an immediate return to peace through strength, so there will be no more chaos, no more destruction, no more loss of precious American lives.
00:10:25.000 Our country cannot survive with Joe Biden as Commander-in-Chief.
00:10:28.000 Now, peace through strength for all those isolationists in the Republican Party.
00:10:31.000 Peace through strength is not what many isolationists are talking about.
00:10:34.000 Many isolationists are just like, let's withdraw within our own borders.
00:10:37.000 Let's pretend that foreign threats don't actually exist. 0.77
00:10:39.000 Let's pretend that if Russia takes over Ukraine wholesale and takes over a huge supply of wheat to the world, for example, and then threatens NATO's borders, that has no impact on Americans.
00:10:47.000 Let's pretend that if we shut down the Red Sea and shipping can't come through there, then China won't take advantage and go after Taiwan and shut down the Straits of Taiwan and all the rest of it.
00:10:54.000 And I think that is a very short-sighted policy.
00:10:57.000 But most of all, what Donald Trump is calling out is the cowardice and vacillation of the Biden administration, which is totally correct.
00:11:04.000 Which is why Republicans today are really pushing hard for the President of the United States to do, you know, his job.
00:11:11.000 Joe Biden's job is not to assure equity in all public policy.
00:11:14.000 Joe Biden's job is to protect America's interests, particularly abroad, because the President is given outsized impact when it comes to foreign policy.
00:11:22.000 The President has the ability.
00:11:25.000 Under Article 2, the President has the ability to really shape America's foreign policies in ways that he does not American domestic policy.
00:11:33.000 And the fact that he has used that to make the world a significantly more chaotic place, where conflagration is on the horizon in nearly every direction you look.
00:11:42.000 That's on Joe Biden.
00:11:43.000 Senator Tom Cotton, excellent senator from Arkansas, he put out a statement saying,
00:11:46.000 Joe Biden emboldened Iran for years by tolerating attacks on our troops,
00:11:49.000 bribing the ayatollahs with billions of dollars and appeasing them to no end. 0.60
00:11:52.000 He left our troops as sitting ducks and now three are dead and dozens wounded,
00:11:54.000 sadly, as I've predicted, would happen for months.
00:11:56.000 On behalf of Arkansans, I deeply extend my condolences to the families of our brave and
00:12:03.000 May God comfort them as he welcomes their loved ones into his embrace, and may God quickly and completely heal their wounded comrades.
00:12:09.000 Senator Cruz of Texas also blasted Biden, he said that for making, quote, a day one decision, not just to appease the Iranian regime, but indeed to enable the Ayatollah to attack Americans and American interests across the Middle East.
00:12:21.000 This is correct, by the way.
00:12:24.000 Now, what exactly should America do, on like a practical level?
00:12:28.000 That's the real question.
00:12:28.000 Okay, because no one is interested in a full-scale war, as I say.
00:12:32.000 Now, Iran should be more scared than we should. 1.00
00:12:35.000 And the reason I say that is because that's how deterrence works, folks.
00:12:37.000 Not because I want to go to war with Iran.
00:12:39.000 Like I said, for the fifth time in the show, no one wants to go to war with Iran.
00:12:43.000 When it comes to deterrence, the whole idea of deterrence is you, the bad guy, you have to fear me more than I fear you.
00:12:50.000 Otherwise, deterrence is not established.
00:12:52.000 If I fear you more, then you know that you can attack me with impunity.
00:12:56.000 You have to believe that if you eff around, there will be a find out on the other end of that equation.
00:13:00.000 Now, what Biden's team is doing is basically the same thing that Barack Obama used to do.
00:13:06.000 Barack Obama, every time he used to talk about the Iranian nuclear deal, which was a sham and a way of presenting the Iranians with a pathway to a nuclear weapon with a bunch of money, it was one of the worst deals in American history.
00:13:17.000 Every time Barack Obama used to discuss this, he'd say, what do you want, war?
00:13:20.000 He'd say, you want war?
00:13:21.000 You want war with Iran?
00:13:21.000 Is that what it is?
00:13:22.000 Because either we appease them or there's war.
00:13:24.000 No, that's not right.
00:13:25.000 But that is what Joe Biden is trotting out his own officials to say right now.
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00:14:46.000 Here he was trying to explain the Biden-Iranian policy, which again, makes no sense.
00:14:51.000 When you walk this fine line of not wanting it to escalate, what would you say to those people who are critics, who would say, look, they're not being tough enough on these militants.
00:15:04.000 They're not being tough enough on Iran. 0.92
00:15:08.000 I would also ask, do they want a broader conflict?
00:15:10.000 Do you want us in a full-scale war?
00:15:13.000 And that's the goal is to deter them, and we don't want to go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict within the region.
00:15:22.000 Oh, because they might escalate?
00:15:24.000 Oh, they might escalate, guys.
00:15:25.000 Did you know that Iran might escalate?
00:15:27.000 Okay, now, I might note to you at this point that Iran has already had its proxy Hamas kill 1,200 Israelis and take 240 of them captive, and now they refuse to surrender. 0.61
00:15:37.000 I might note also that Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel on the northern border consistently for four months at this point.
00:15:43.000 I might note that, again, the Houthi pirates have been literally capturing shipping in the Red Sea and have shut down shipping through that strait.
00:15:49.000 I might note that Iranian proxies have now killed three Americans.
00:15:52.000 So, exactly what would it look like if they escalate?
00:15:55.000 What would escalation look like to you?
00:15:58.000 Seriously, what would escalation look like?
00:15:59.000 Are we talking about, like, full-scale Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps brigades going up against American military targets?
00:16:05.000 What are we talking about here?
00:16:07.000 And the answer is, they don't know.
00:16:08.000 Because this is all about Joe Biden's re-elect effort.
00:16:10.000 That's all it's about.
00:16:12.000 Joe Biden has basically said to the Iranians, guys, as long as you don't go to full-scale war, as long as you don't go to full-scale war, you can do whatever you want.
00:16:20.000 Whatever you want. 0.96
00:16:21.000 Just keep it relatively- You can kill Americans. 0.98
00:16:22.000 Keep it relatively low level. 0.92
00:16:24.000 And I'll keep it relatively low level.
00:16:26.000 And everything will be fine until I get my reelect.
00:16:28.000 And Iran is thinking, okay, this is a great time to push. 0.92
00:16:31.000 Because Joe Biden ain't gonna do- He ain't gonna do anything.
00:16:33.000 Joe Biden ain't gonna do anything.
00:16:34.000 He's gonna let us shut down the shipping in the Red Sea.
00:16:36.000 He's gonna let us attack American allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel and now Jordan with impunity.
00:16:42.000 And he's going to do all of that because he's afraid that if this thing goes hot in any way, shape or form, it'll hurt his reelect efforts.
00:16:48.000 So now's go time for the Iranians. 1.00
00:16:50.000 They're looking at Joe Biden and they see a mark, man, and they should see a mark because he's acting like a mark.
00:16:54.000 Now, what could the United States do in a situation like this?
00:16:57.000 Now, again, you don't have to attack Tehran.
00:16:59.000 You don't have to attack Iran directly.
00:17:01.000 There are a bunch of things you can do.
00:17:02.000 One of the things you could do, you could ship every piece of Iranian military Weaponry in the Red Sea.
00:17:08.000 You can destroy all of it.
00:17:10.000 Now when I say that, that sounds crazy.
00:17:12.000 Except for the fact that the United States actually did that in 1988.
00:17:15.000 In 1988, there was an operation called Operation Praying Mantis.
00:17:18.000 It happened after a US warship was mined.
00:17:24.000 And so the Americans retaliated.
00:17:26.000 This of course was under Ronald Reagan.
00:17:28.000 The Americans retaliated by taking down One frigate, one gunboat, three speedboats, another frigate crippled, two platforms destroyed, one fighter damaged.
00:17:38.000 The United States basically found every military asset that Iran had in the Persian Gulf, in Iranian territorial waters, and just sank all of them. 0.79
00:17:48.000 Said, okay, well, you can't bother American shipping anymore, it turns out.
00:17:51.000 It turns out that you can't bother American ships because all of you are underwater now.
00:17:55.000 It actually led to Iran basically ending the Iran-Iraq war.
00:17:59.000 It had a major impact on the end of the Iran-Iraq war because Iran was like, oh, I see. 1.00
00:18:03.000 We probably shouldn't F around and find out.
00:18:07.000 So the U.S.
00:18:07.000 could easily do that.
00:18:08.000 To pretend that Iranians' military capabilities in the waterways around the Persian Gulf are somehow a deep threat to America is absurd.
00:18:18.000 They are not.
00:18:20.000 America's military force could take all of them out tomorrow.
00:18:22.000 We did it before.
00:18:25.000 There are a bunch of other things that we could do.
00:18:26.000 The United States military facilitated the ouster of ISIS in under a month.
00:18:31.000 Are you telling me the United States couldn't use our aerial bombardment power, for example, without even putting troops on the ground and just wholesale destroy Iranian terror proxy positions in, say, Iraq or Syria?
00:18:45.000 Certainly the United States could do that.
00:18:47.000 What would be the purpose of that?
00:18:48.000 To get them to stop.
00:18:49.000 Because if they find out that next time they do that there's an F-35 on their doorstep, somehow things look a little bit different.
00:18:55.000 None of this requires going directly to war with Iran.
00:18:57.000 And guess what?
00:18:58.000 Iran is not going to war directly with the United States.
00:19:00.000 There is a reason they are using proxies.
00:19:02.000 If Iran wanted to go to war with the United States, they would not be using proxies.
00:19:04.000 They would be using the IRGC.
00:19:07.000 They would be directly attacking American forces.
00:19:09.000 They are not.
00:19:09.000 They're using all of their terror proxies because they understand that if they actually triggered a war with the United States, the mullahs would not have heads attached to their bodies tomorrow morning.
00:19:17.000 They would be in little bitty pieces all around Tehran if they actually declared war on the United States. 0.54
00:19:21.000 So they're not doing that.
00:19:22.000 Instead, they're using proxies.
00:19:23.000 Well, that's okay.
00:19:24.000 We don't have to dethrone the mullahs in Iran. 0.99
00:19:27.000 That's up to the Iranian people to do that. 1.00
00:19:30.000 But the United States certainly doesn't have to stand for American soldiers being killed.
00:19:34.000 And to pretend that deterrence cannot be re-established is to ignore the entirety of the Trump administration.
00:19:41.000 When that is exactly what the Trump administration established.
00:19:45.000 I mean, right now, things are getting much worse in the Middle East because of American cowardice. 0.99
00:19:48.000 Because Joe Biden is a coward when it comes to the Middle East. 0.83
00:19:51.000 And he believes that his left wing will abandon him if he actually defends the interests of the United States. 0.98
00:19:54.000 As I say, we'll get to the border in a second.
00:19:56.000 Because it's the same sort of thing.
00:19:58.000 But things are getting worse in Yemen, for example.
00:20:01.000 Why?
00:20:01.000 Well, one of the reasons is because one of the first things Joe Biden did when he took office is he said to the Saudis, you need to stop your operations against the Houthis in Yemen.
00:20:09.000 There's too much civilian casualties.
00:20:11.000 There's too much carnage.
00:20:12.000 It's too much of a problem.
00:20:13.000 So you have to leave the Houthis in control of about half of Yemen's territory.
00:20:16.000 Well, turns out things are getting worse there.
00:20:18.000 Quote is from the Washington Post.
00:20:20.000 Nearly a decade of civil war in the Arabian Peninsula country has driven millions of people from their homes deep in poverty and spread starvation.
00:20:25.000 Now a new conflict, Houthi fighters are firing missiles on American shipping and American and British forces are striking back is disrupting tentative efforts at peace.
00:20:33.000 Well, it turns out that you cannot make peace with people who are attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
00:20:38.000 What do they think is going to happen?
00:20:40.000 And if they think what's going to happen is good, what does that say about Western strength?
00:20:44.000 By the way, speaking of which, Iran-linked groups are vowing more attacks on U.S.
00:20:47.000 forces in Iraq, according to the Genre France press.
00:20:50.000 Iran-allied armed groups vowed on Friday to keep up attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq.
00:20:56.000 Washington has forces in Iraq as part of the international coalition against ISIS.
00:21:01.000 The volatile situation has pushed Iraq's prime minister to call for the coalition to leave.
00:21:05.000 Why?
00:21:05.000 Because the coalition in Iraq is reliant on Iran.
00:21:08.000 And the greatest sin of the Iraq war was not the actual Iraq war itself.
00:21:11.000 The greatest sin of the Iraq war is that it turned it into an Iranian proxy state. 0.96
00:21:16.000 The destruction of the Iraqi military and the handing of the state over to basically Shia militia groups sponsored by Iran was a terrible, terrible decision.
00:21:25.000 We're going to review the history here, but the bottom line is that Iran-linked groups are saying they're going to escalate their attacks.
00:21:31.000 They're not lowering their attacks, they're escalating.
00:21:33.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:22:33.000 By the way, Iran is escalating everywhere. 0.99
00:22:35.000 They're escalating with regard to Pakistan.
00:22:38.000 Yesterday, according to Reuters, unidentified gunmen killed nine Pakistani workers
00:22:41.000 in a restive Southeastern border area of Iran on Saturday.
00:22:44.000 They just went and murdered a bunch of Pakistanis. 0.99
00:22:49.000 Iran is upping the ante everywhere because they sense weakness. 1.00
00:22:52.000 They sense weakness because the United States is acting weak.
00:22:56.000 They put out a trial balloon over the weekend, for example, that they might consider slowing weapons to Israel to put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back the war in Gaza.
00:23:04.000 It's going to U.S.
00:23:05.000 officials talking to NBC News.
00:23:06.000 The White House later rejected the report.
00:23:09.000 The suggestion is that leverage had to be placed on Israel to stop them from what?
00:23:13.000 To stop them from what?
00:23:15.000 Destroying Hamas?
00:23:17.000 Going north and destroying Hezbollah? 0.95
00:23:19.000 So it's not only that the United States refuses to directly engage with these groups, which again, the United States should only engage with groups that have attacked the United States or United States troops.
00:23:28.000 But it's not just that they're telling American allies they can't engage from Saudi Arabia with the Houthis to Israel with Hamas.
00:23:34.000 You want to talk about why Iran sees weakness? 0.97
00:23:36.000 This is why.
00:23:37.000 This is why.
00:23:39.000 And it's because the left flank of Joe Biden's party does not like the West.
00:23:43.000 They do not like the West.
00:23:44.000 They believe that Western powers are evil.
00:23:47.000 They truly do.
00:23:48.000 They believe that the United States' influence in the Middle East is pernicious.
00:23:51.000 They believe that Israel is a pernicious force in the Middle East.
00:23:53.000 They believe that any alliance with America in the Middle East turns the allying country bad.
00:23:58.000 That's what they actually think.
00:23:59.000 So here, for example, is MSNBC over the weekend comparing support for Israel to supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine, which is totally insane.
00:24:07.000 Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:24:09.000 Hamas then took it over and used it as a staging ground for literally thousands of rocket attacks over the intervening 18 years, and then proceeded to murder 1,200 Israelis by rushing over the border and murdering children in the cribs where they slept. 0.95
00:24:22.000 And the morons at MSNBC are comparing Israel trying to protect its own population to Russia invading a sovereign country. 0.99
00:24:28.000 Just totally nuts. 0.99
00:24:31.000 So for people who have been alarmed by this and have felt, you talk to us about human rights, about the international rules-based order when it came to Ukraine, what about brown people in Palestine?
00:24:41.000 This is a huge moment.
00:24:42.000 I'd say the judgment is also really important in that it says Palestinians in Gaza are a protected group, which is really important because there's a lot of denialism over the idea that Palestinians are a group at all.
00:24:56.000 Again, the MSNBC is suggesting this is like Russia or it's just it's all insane.
00:25:00.000 But that wing of the party is who Joe Biden is trying to appease.
00:25:03.000 He's not just trying to appease the Iranians.
00:25:05.000 He's trying to appease that wing of the party who have common interests in many cases with the Iranians.
00:25:12.000 None of this should be surprising because Joe Biden's staffed up with people who are sympathetic to the wrong sides in the Middle East.
00:25:17.000 For example, one of the first people that Joe Biden actually appointed to his administration was a former Palestinian UNRWA official.
00:25:26.000 He appointed him Director of NSC Intelligence.
00:25:30.000 This guy's name is Maher Al-Bitar, and he was on President Barack Obama's National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, which is totally insane in the first place.
00:25:41.000 And in the intervening time, he worked with the UN Relief and Works Agency.
00:25:45.000 Well, what exactly does that tell you?
00:25:47.000 It should tell you something because it turns out that the UNRWA is a Hamas front group.
00:25:53.000 This guy now works at a high level inside the Biden administration.
00:25:56.000 How do we know that UNRWA is a Hamas front group?
00:26:00.000 According to a brand new Wall Street Journal report, around 10% of the UNRWA's 12,000 staff in Gaza have links to Hamas.
00:26:10.000 Fully 10% of the staff of the UNRWA have direct ties to Hamas.
00:26:15.000 By the way, the organization has way more ties than that.
00:26:17.000 Those are just people with direct links to Hamas.
00:26:19.000 If you're talking about tangential links to Hamas, or providing areas where Hamas could theoretically put weaponry, for example, you're talking about nearly all of the UNRWA.
00:26:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, at least 12 employees of the UN's Palestinian Refugee
00:26:32.000 Agency had connections to the October 7th attack directly.
00:26:36.000 Around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to
00:26:40.000 intelligence reports reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:26:44.000 Of the 12 UNRWA employees with links to the attacks, seven were primary or secondary school
00:26:49.000 As we've talked about before, the UNRWA, which is a relief and works agency directed for one population, one population only.
00:26:54.000 It is the only UN agency that is directed only at one population, the Palestinians.
00:27:00.000 It has been completely hijacked and taken over by Hamas.
00:27:02.000 Hamas runs the place. 1.00
00:27:03.000 Hamas runs the education of the UNRWA.
00:27:06.000 Which is why it shouldn't be shocking that primary- that you're talking about, like, third grade teachers, guys, who have actual ties to Hamas and direct links to the October 7th attacks, including two math teachers, two Arabic teachers, and one primary school teacher.
00:27:19.000 A bunch of other countries, including the United States, have now suspended aid to UNRWA.
00:27:23.000 They shouldn't just suspend it, they should kill it. 0.97
00:27:25.000 UNRWA is one of the most despicable organizations in the world. 1.00
00:27:28.000 It's like the most despicable part of the most despicable UN Mos Eisley garbage organization on the planet. 0.77
00:27:36.000 The UNRWA is now being defunded by a bunch of countries, which is amazing because five seconds ago, it was the Biden administration and the entire European world that was calling for Israel to ship aid to, wait, wait, wait for it, the UNRWA. 0.77
00:27:49.000 And it was Israel saying, if you ship aid to the UNRWA, Hamas is going to hijack it because the UNRWA is in fact an arm of Hamas.
00:27:57.000 And now Israel provided the proof and the rest of the world's like, oh, maybe we shouldn't give them money.
00:28:01.000 Yeah, you think?
00:28:03.000 Yeah, you think?
00:28:04.000 Bad foreign policy leads to horrific consequences, including dead Americans.
00:28:09.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:29:12.000 Meanwhile, speaking of Trump era policies that were done away with just because Joe Biden hated Donald Trump and because the Democratic Party decided that everything Trump touched had to be destroyed, whether it was good or whether it was bad.
00:29:24.000 The border continues to be an absolute bleep show.
00:29:27.000 And the chief policies at the border are entirely executive branch driven.
00:29:31.000 No additional legislation is needed to secure the American border.
00:29:34.000 It is in fact a duty of the federal government to arrest people who cross America's southern border and to send them home if they do not fulfill the requirements for asylum.
00:29:44.000 Joe Biden has changed the interpretation of the rules.
00:29:47.000 He changed two specific things.
00:29:48.000 One, he suggested that he would get rid of day one, remain in Mexico.
00:29:52.000 Remain in Mexico was the policy whereby Donald Trump had an agreement with the country of Mexico that if you came to the border and said that you wanted asylum, we would say, okay, you can have a court date.
00:30:01.000 Here is a stamp.
00:30:02.000 Come back in two months when it's your court date.
00:30:04.000 And in the meantime, we need you to wait in Juarez.
00:30:09.000 You need it.
00:30:09.000 You can't wait here.
00:30:10.000 You gotta wait down there.
00:30:12.000 And it turns out that a bunch of people didn't show up at the border anymore.
00:30:14.000 Why?
00:30:15.000 Because they knew that the entire game was to get into the United States and disappear into the interior.
00:30:20.000 And that if you actually had to wait in Juarez, you weren't getting into the United States.
00:30:22.000 You would show up for your asylum hearing, you'd have no proof that you needed asylum, and then you'd get kicked out anyway.
00:30:27.000 So why make the long walk all the way up to the American border, via drug smuggler, and then be let off at the border to be rejected, sent back to Mexico, come back for your court date, get rejected back home?
00:30:37.000 Why do that?
00:30:38.000 Just stay home.
00:30:39.000 That was a good policy.
00:30:41.000 Joe Biden did away with it, day one.
00:30:43.000 The other policy that Joe Biden changed that was huge is that Joe Biden decided that the way to adjudicate asylum was that if you claimed asylum, we would simply catch and release you.
00:30:53.000 We would not hold you in detention.
00:30:54.000 We would not even threaten to hold you in detention.
00:30:56.000 You would show up, we would detain you for 48, 72 hours, and then we would release you to the interior.
00:31:02.000 As I've said, you should check out the documentary that we just put out, this brand new, great piece of content over at DailyWirePlus.
00:31:09.000 First episode of Divided States of Biden.
00:31:11.000 We went down to America's southern border in Arizona.
00:31:14.000 We saw all of this in action.
00:31:15.000 The border is wide open because Joe Biden decided that he was going to staff nearly all of Border Patrol on busing and administrative duty.
00:31:22.000 Their job is to go to various areas of the border, pick up illegal immigrants, bring them to the detention center, maybe a couple miles away.
00:31:29.000 Process them, release them.
00:31:31.000 Meanwhile, the border is left wide open for drug smugglers and criminals to get through, which is why you're seeing the kind of numbers that you are seeing right now.
00:31:37.000 And this is also why the state of Texas is doubling down.
00:31:40.000 According to CBS News, the unprecedented standoff between the state of Texas and the federal government at the southern border continues.
00:31:46.000 On Monday, the Supreme Court said that the federal government had the authority to remove razor wire Texas had installed at the southern border.
00:31:52.000 And then Homeland Security said Texas had until Friday to give federal authorities access to Eagle Pass.
00:31:56.000 Governor Abbott, for his part, said that he would increase state patrol of the border.
00:32:00.000 And he added more barriers and more razor wire.
00:32:02.000 Here, in fact, is some tape of more razor wire going up at the border.
00:32:05.000 It is now an actual wall that is being ad hoc in Eagle Park over at the border.
00:32:10.000 This is happening at Eagle Pass.
00:32:17.000 So here they are putting up some razor wire.
00:32:18.000 They've got some shipping containers.
00:32:23.000 This is all because Joe Biden has decided to leave the border wide open.
00:32:26.000 It's that simple.
00:32:27.000 But Joe Biden is trying to shift this off.
00:32:30.000 Joe Biden is trying to shift this off.
00:32:32.000 What's he trying to do?
00:32:33.000 He's trying to suggest he needs more legislation.
00:32:34.000 He needs more power.
00:32:36.000 If you give him more power, then he'll enforce the border.
00:32:37.000 Now again, the laws are on the books.
00:32:40.000 It's not a question as to whether you need more laws.
00:32:42.000 You don't even need more resources.
00:32:43.000 When we spoke with Brandon Judd, who's the head of the Border Patrol Union, When we spoke with him, he said, this is not a question of resources.
00:32:49.000 This is a question of misallocation of resources.
00:32:52.000 We have enough Border Patrol agents already.
00:32:54.000 They're being told actively not to do their job.
00:32:56.000 I talked to some Border Patrol agents down at the border, on background, and they were telling me morale has never been lower, that they have been forced basically into this administrative duty job by the Biden administration.
00:33:07.000 They're not even allowed to do their job anymore.
00:33:09.000 That is because of Joe Biden.
00:33:10.000 Joe Biden could finish that tomorrow.
00:33:12.000 Literally tomorrow he could do it.
00:33:13.000 He could do it today, for that matter, if he doesn't call a lid by 1 p.m.
00:33:17.000 By now, Joe Biden is suggesting that we actually need more legislation.
00:33:20.000 We need it right now.
00:33:21.000 It needs to be soft legislation.
00:33:23.000 It needs to be the kind of legislation that increases the number of administrative law judges so that we can process more people and let them into the interior faster.
00:33:31.000 That's the real key.
00:33:31.000 The real key is to let people in faster.
00:33:34.000 Not to limit the flow, but to increase the flow.
00:33:37.000 According to the Associated Press, President Biden on Friday pressed Congress to embrace a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid.
00:33:44.000 House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested the compromise on border and immigration policy could be DOA in his chamber.
00:33:50.000 So Biden is trying to shift this off by pretending, effectively speaking, that what he is doing right now is giving, he's trying to come to a compromise.
00:33:57.000 He's trying to make a deal.
00:33:58.000 Now again, he doesn't need to make a deal to close the border.
00:34:00.000 He does not.
00:34:01.000 And right now that compromise, what we've seen, we've seen no actual material from what the compromise looks like.
00:34:06.000 The leaks suggest that the Democrats only want to have sort of an automatic border closing at 5,000 border encounters a day.
00:34:14.000 5,000 border encounters a day.
00:34:16.000 Now, last I checked, 5,000 is a lot of border encounters.
00:34:20.000 In fact, if you had 5,000 border encounters a day, on average, you'd be talking about almost 2 million people, 1.8 million people entering the country every year.
00:34:26.000 That's a lot of people.
00:34:28.000 It's a reduction from where we are now, but not by much.
00:34:30.000 We had 2.4 million minimum last year.
00:34:33.000 Republicans, being the, you know, hard-hearted people they are, They were apparently thinking about a 3,000 border limit, which would still be almost 1.1 million people a year, which is still too much.
00:34:47.000 How about zero?
00:34:49.000 How about zero?
00:34:50.000 How about you come and you show actual evidence you require asylum, and then we'll consider whether to let you in?
00:34:55.000 How about you show up with like an actual set of job skills that enriches the United States and makes America stronger, and then maybe we let you in?
00:35:02.000 How about you don't get to come here and then just throw up your hands, claim asylum, be released into the interior?
00:35:07.000 How about that?
00:35:09.000 But again, there's always a couple of Republicans who are willing to provide cover for this sort of stuff.
00:35:14.000 So Senator James Lankford, who I typically like.
00:35:16.000 Senator Lankford does a good job in Oklahoma.
00:35:18.000 But he's now accusing Republicans of tanking the deal.
00:35:21.000 Now, if he really wants Republicans to side with him on this, we need to see the deal.
00:35:25.000 I can't endorse a deal until I have seen it.
00:35:27.000 And from what I've heard leaked, this is not a good deal.
00:35:30.000 Not by any stretch of the imagination.
00:35:32.000 Here's Senator Lankford.
00:35:34.000 Yeah, well, it's definitely not going to let a bunch of people in.
00:35:36.000 It's focused on actually turning people around on it.
00:35:38.000 It is interesting.
00:35:39.000 Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy.
00:35:48.000 So we actually locked arms together and said, we're not going to give you money for this.
00:35:51.000 We want a change in law.
00:35:53.000 And now it's interesting, a few months later, Okay, I mean, let's see the deal, and if that's the case, then I'll stump for it.
00:35:57.000 We don't want to change the law because of the presidential election year.
00:36:00.000 We all have an oath to the Constitution and we have a commitment to say we're going to
00:36:04.000 do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.
00:36:06.000 OK, I mean, let's see the deal.
00:36:09.000 And if that's the case, then I'll stump for it.
00:36:11.000 But if that's not the case, then Joe Biden should just close the border now.
00:36:13.000 And again, this is the way Democrats are going to try and play it also.
00:36:16.000 So Lankford is helping out Democrats here.
00:36:18.000 Democrats are claiming that Joe Biden requires additional legal authority to do what he is doing.
00:36:24.000 And that's the reason why they're not compromising with regard to legislation.
00:36:28.000 That's the reason why they're not just caving to Republicans.
00:36:31.000 They need some sort of compromise.
00:36:33.000 And Republicans are standing in the way of the compromise.
00:36:35.000 Republicans, meanwhile, are like, dude, just surrender.
00:36:39.000 Just surrender.
00:36:40.000 You could do it tomorrow yourself with executive authority.
00:36:42.000 You don't need additional law to do this.
00:36:44.000 Or you could, you know, actually just pass H.R.
00:36:46.000 2.
00:36:47.000 He's not doing either of those things.
00:36:48.000 In just one second, we will get to Democrats trying to make this case.
00:36:51.000 First, America is currently experiencing an unprecedented invasion, as we've said, with millions of illegal immigrants flooding over our border.
00:36:57.000 The drug cartels are doing the invading.
00:36:59.000 They're doing it under the Biden administration's watch.
00:37:01.000 As Texans are shouldering the fight against the surge, Arizona's governor remains eerily silent because Joe Biden continues to pursue this nonsense.
00:37:07.000 I traveled to America's southern border to uncover the shocking truth and the real depths of this crisis.
00:37:12.000 It is shocking.
00:37:13.000 It is criminal.
00:37:14.000 It's our duty at the Daily Wire to share that truth.
00:37:16.000 Take a look at Invasion on the Southern Border.
00:37:19.000 America is currently experiencing an invasion.
00:37:21.000 A lot of people coming in from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.
00:37:26.000 Is there a fair bit of gang affiliation among them?
00:37:28.000 Always.
00:37:28.000 These people are just crossing the border illegally, waving their hands in the air at our cameras, saying, hey, here I am, come get me.
00:37:33.000 We're no longer the Border Patrol.
00:37:35.000 We're the Welcome Patrol.
00:37:36.000 The number one site in America for fentanyl trafficking across the border.
00:37:40.000 And if Joe Biden remains in office, it's only going to get worse.
00:37:43.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is the divided states of Biden.
00:37:45.000 Invasion on the southern border.
00:37:47.000 Watch now on Daily Wire Plus.
00:37:49.000 As I say, our southern border is wide open.
00:37:50.000 Joe Biden has crafted this policy.
00:37:52.000 He has created it.
00:37:53.000 Join me on the ground as I bring you the real-world consequences of one of the most destructive presidencies in American history.
00:37:58.000 Watch Invasion on the Southern Border streaming right now over at Daily Wire+.
00:38:02.000 Okay, meanwhile... So as we say, Democrats are trying to shift the border conversation into... Why aren't Republicans just compromised?
00:38:09.000 Why won't Republicans come to an agreement?
00:38:11.000 This is Gavin Newsom's shtick.
00:38:12.000 He's running a shadow presidential campaign.
00:38:15.000 He's basically sticking around just in case Joe Biden should fall off a bridge or something.
00:38:18.000 Or, you know, collapse, which he could do, theoretically.
00:38:20.000 Here's the governor of California, who's been a horrible governor.
00:38:23.000 Here's the governor talking about how this is really the Republicans' fault at the border.
00:38:27.000 You've had six million apprehensions at the border.
00:38:31.000 What ultimately should happen to all those people, and the people that don't qualify for asylum, who totally came in illegally? 0.76
00:38:37.000 I mean, should there be deportations?
00:38:39.000 This is what Republicans are calling for, these mass roundups and deportations.
00:38:41.000 But what happens?
00:38:42.000 Well, I think you have to deal with the cards that are dealt.
00:38:44.000 You've got to deal with the reality on the ground, and you have to have a comprehensive conversation around this across the spectrum, the push and the pull.
00:38:50.000 And that's around the fundamental issue of immigration reform.
00:38:53.000 It's not just border security.
00:38:55.000 The president put out a comprehensive strategy, a pathway to citizenship, along the lines
00:38:59.000 of their former hero, Ronald Reagan, to address the reality on the ground.
00:39:04.000 We have a plan, $14 billion plan right now, to get more judges, to process people more
00:39:10.000 efficiently, more quickly, provide security down at the border.
00:39:13.000 2,300 new border agents.
00:39:15.000 That's what the President of the United States has put up in front of Congress and they refuse to act.
00:39:18.000 They're just promoting an agenda to disrupt and find a crowbar to put in the spokes of the wheels of the Biden administration to disrupt any progress on this because they don't want progress.
00:39:29.000 No, actually what Democrats want is to open that spigot further to let in more illegal immigrants. 0.96
00:39:33.000 They just want to do so with faster administering of the law as opposed to, you know, keeping people in Mexico to wait for their asylum hearings, for example.
00:39:41.000 So Democrats, in order to actually pass this particular logical bar, they have to establish that Joe Biden can't just unilaterally close the border today, which he can.
00:39:49.000 So they trotted out Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut to make this particular case, suggesting that Joe Biden does not actually have the legal authority to close the border.
00:39:57.000 Spoiler alert, he absolutely does.
00:40:01.000 Senator, Republicans, including the House Speaker, argue, a lot of them, not the ones you're dealing with, but a lot of them argue that President Biden already has the authority that he needs to secure the border.
00:40:12.000 And they're criticizing this deal that you've been negotiating.
00:40:17.000 What do you make of that, of the notion that President Biden already has tools and he doesn't need more yet?
00:40:26.000 Well, it's just not true.
00:40:28.000 It's a political talking point.
00:40:30.000 Those same Republicans in the House of Representatives who say President Biden has the tools introduced H.R.
00:40:36.000 2, which is a massive border reform bill.
00:40:39.000 They said it was one of their most important priorities.
00:40:43.000 And so Republicans have said openly that they want to pass border and immigration reform.
00:40:48.000 All of a sudden, they are against border and immigration reform because they are worried it's actually going to pass.
00:40:55.000 Okay, wrong.
00:40:56.000 What they originally said was, Joe Biden has the authority to do the thing.
00:41:00.000 Then they said, you know what we would like?
00:41:02.000 We'd like to force him to do the thing.
00:41:04.000 So we could force him to do the thing by passing additional laws that force him to do the thing.
00:41:08.000 And then Joe Biden said, well, I'm not going to do the thing in legislation.
00:41:10.000 So they said, fine, we won't do the thing in legislation.
00:41:12.000 Just do the thing yourself.
00:41:13.000 Do it right now.
00:41:14.000 We can either force you in law, but if you won't do that, if Senate Democrats are holding it up, well then fine, we just won't do a deal.
00:41:19.000 There won't be a deal.
00:41:20.000 You have no leverage.
00:41:21.000 Republicans are saying to Biden, you have no leverage.
00:41:23.000 And you know what?
00:41:23.000 They're right.
00:41:23.000 They don't have leverage.
00:41:25.000 So again, the entire Democratic case here is they're going to try and blame the impasse on Donald Trump.
00:41:29.000 So here is Chris Murphy suggesting that this is all Donald Trump's scheme, that he doesn't want legislation passed because he wants chaos at the border.
00:41:37.000 We do have a bipartisan deal.
00:41:38.000 We're finishing the text right now, and the question is whether Republicans are going to listen to Donald Trump, who wants to preserve chaos at the border because he thinks that it's a winning political issue for him, or whether we are going to pass legislation which would be the biggest bipartisan reform of our border and immigration laws in 40 years, and would give Okay, so they're trying to blame Trump.
00:42:09.000 They're trying to blame Trump for the lack of legislation.
00:42:15.000 Now, Trump's response to this should be, Joe Biden doesn't need legislation.
00:42:18.000 When I was president, I just did it.
00:42:19.000 Why isn't he just doing the thing?
00:42:22.000 But Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so here is Donald Trump's response to all of this.
00:42:26.000 President Biden is backing a Senate deal to clamp down at the border, while Trump wants Republicans to oppose that deal and deny Biden any political win.
00:42:36.000 A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they're blaming it on me.
00:42:41.000 I said, that's OK.
00:42:41.000 Please blame it on me.
00:42:43.000 Please.
00:42:44.000 Because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill.
00:42:47.000 OK, please blame it on me is not exactly what you're looking for here politically.
00:42:52.000 Why please blame it on me?
00:42:53.000 Why?
00:42:53.000 This is the same sort of language he used when he was president about a government shutdown.
00:42:57.000 Blame it on me.
00:42:58.000 Well, no, no.
00:42:59.000 Blame it on Biden.
00:43:00.000 That's the whole point.
00:43:01.000 That's what a campaign is.
00:43:02.000 Blame it on Joe.
00:43:02.000 It's Joe Biden's fault.
00:43:03.000 He's the president.
00:43:04.000 What are you doing?
00:43:05.000 What are you doing?
00:43:05.000 Like, if you are a fan of Trump and you would like for Trump to be the president of the United States again, or if you just don't want Joe Biden to be president of the United States again, You need to blame Joe Biden.
00:43:13.000 Why?
00:43:14.000 Why would you say blame it on me?
00:43:16.000 Democrats are going to literally use that in every ad with regard to the border from now until the election.
00:43:21.000 Why would you say that?
00:43:23.000 It doesn't make any logical sense, especially because it's not true.
00:43:26.000 What's going on right now is not the fault of Senate Republicans.
00:43:28.000 It is not the fault of Donald Trump.
00:43:29.000 It is the fault of Democrats who want the border open and are presenting bad compromises in the Senate and then pretending that Joe Biden doesn't already have the legal authority to make sure that our border is safe and secure, which of course he absolutely does.
00:43:41.000 He already has all of the necessities in order to make sure the border is secure.
00:43:46.000 That's all. 0.96
00:43:47.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, again, the entire case the Democrats are going to make against President Trump is that he is unelectable, that he's crazy, and all of the rest. 0.95
00:43:55.000 They're also going to try and bankrupt him.
00:43:56.000 I mean, that is one of the big things that is happening right now is that legally they're just going after him in every way, shape, form that they can.
00:44:03.000 Letitia James over in New York is trying to go after him for hundreds of millions of dollars based on just an absolutely specious and ridiculous judgment based on him inflating real estate values with no actual damages, by the way, to the lender. 0.86
00:44:15.000 They're going after him for like hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:44:17.000 Meanwhile, another jury has now given Donald Trump an $83.3 million defamation penalty to E. Jean Carroll on top of a $5 million penalty he was already ordered to pay her.
00:44:28.000 So just to get this straight, she claims, at an unspecified time, in a department store, in the middle of the day, in an unspecified season, Donald Trump raped her.
00:44:39.000 She has no proof to back this up. 0.83
00:44:41.000 Like, none.
00:44:42.000 She has no substantiating proof that any of this is true.
00:44:46.000 But because this is in New York and everybody hates Donald Trump and all the rest, they decide that it's true.
00:44:51.000 And so Donald Trump saying that it's not true and that she's a liar and all the rest of this, that now amounts to defamation.
00:44:57.000 And so they've given him a judgment of 88 million dollars.
00:44:59.000 88 million dollars.
00:45:03.000 Meanwhile, in that other case that I was talking about with Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engron is going to issue his decision on financial penalties.
00:45:11.000 James wants Trump and his companies to be ordered to pay $370 million.
00:45:15.000 You're talking about, in total, $450 million removed from President Trump if this judgment were to go through.
00:45:24.000 So Trump is appealing all of this, obviously.
00:45:27.000 But the effort to bankrupt Donald, not just to criminally prosecute him, but to bankrupt him as well is truly an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:45:34.000 And the goal here is obviously to make him so toxic that it's not possible to vote for him.
00:45:38.000 This is the case that the estimable AOC is making, that Trump can't win a general election because his primary numbers are so low and all the rest of it.
00:45:47.000 But I do want to ask you about the president's re-election campaign.
00:45:52.000 As you know, in some of these key battleground states, he has some real vulnerabilities.
00:45:57.000 Why do you think he is struggling against former President Donald Trump, someone who's been indicted four times and who's now been slapped with this $83 million civil suit?
00:46:10.000 Well, you know, I think we can take a look at the overall landscape here.
00:46:13.000 It's not just what we're talking about with President Biden, but former President Trump also has extraordinary vulnerabilities.
00:46:21.000 We saw that in New Hampshire.
00:46:22.000 The fact that he is a former sitting president, head of his party, virtually everyone else has dropped out and endorsed him.
00:46:29.000 And still, as we just saw, Nikki Haley came, you know, she cleared about 43% in New Hampshire. 0.95
00:46:38.000 Very not well for Donald Trump and his ability to win a general election.
00:46:44.000 Now again, with all of Donald Trump's foibles, with all of his failures, with all of the rest of this sort of stuff, Donald Trump is still the leader right now.
00:46:49.000 If you look at the polling data, right now he is up in the RealClearPolitics polling average by more than four points.
00:46:55.000 Which really means five or six because the polls tend to underrepresent Donald Trump's base of support.
00:46:59.000 The latest Reuters Ipsos poll that came out the 24th had Donald Trump up five on Joe Biden.
00:47:05.000 In fact, there has not been a national poll in which Joe Biden leads it since the beginning of the year.
00:47:11.000 And when you look at the state polling data, things start to get a little more interesting.
00:47:14.000 If you look at, for example, Wisconsin, It hasn't been polled all that much.
00:47:18.000 Latest poll was in, like, beginning of December.
00:47:20.000 Donald Trump was up four.
00:47:21.000 Right now, RealClearPolitics has that stacked up as a tie.
00:47:24.000 The latest polling in Michigan is more recent, and Donald Trump's up very heavily in Michigan.
00:47:28.000 In fact, he's led in the last four polls in Michigan.
00:47:31.000 Meanwhile, last three polls in Pennsylvania, he's down.
00:47:34.000 So if the election were held today, Donald Trump would likely win the election by winning Wisconsin as well as Michigan.
00:47:40.000 But it's still a very close run thing.
00:47:42.000 Why is it such a close run thing?
00:47:43.000 Because again, go back to the beginning of the show, when it comes to policy, Joe Biden is a bleep show.
00:47:47.000 He's an absolute bleep show.
00:47:49.000 Plus, and combine that with the fact that he doesn't seem to be in control of his own faculties, it's a real problem for him.
00:47:53.000 Here is Joe Biden over the weekend, referring to Donald Trump as the sitting president of the United States.
00:47:59.000 Did you see what he recently said about that he wants to see the economy crash this year?
00:48:06.000 Sitting president.
00:48:09.000 Does he say in my face, bless me father for, I mean, come on man.
00:48:14.000 Um, that's um, that, he's the sitting, come on man.
00:48:18.000 Yep, he is, he is no longer with us.
00:48:20.000 Okay, now, the time has come to discuss what I think is truly the most important story on planet Earth.
00:48:27.000 Sup, sup, sup!
00:48:29.000 That's right, all you folks have been sticking around for my hip hop talk, because after all, I am America's number one hip hop artist.
00:48:38.000 Dr. Dreidel?
00:48:40.000 Ben and Em?
00:48:42.000 Jupac?
00:48:43.000 Ben with the Benjis?
00:48:45.000 That's right, FaShizzle. 1.00
00:48:48.000 We're here to talk about the number one song in America according to iTunes, and that is, fact, my boy Tom McDonald.
00:48:56.000 Now, I'll admit, my boy Tom did most of the heavy lifting on this song, but I was present, and indeed, I did rap.
00:49:05.000 And, um, I've contended before that if you can speak to a beat, you can rap.
00:49:10.000 And this is a meritocracy right here.
00:49:13.000 And so, I present to you, without any further ado, the number one song in America.
00:49:19.000 Facts.
00:49:24.000 It's boys and girls.
00:49:25.000 They can't cancel my message, cause I'm the biggest independent rapper 0.59
00:49:27.000 in the whole friggin' world. 0.77
00:49:28.000 Claim that I'm racist, yeah, right. 0.98
00:49:30.000 I'm not ashamed because I'm white. 0.99
00:49:32.000 If every Caucasian's a bigot, I guess every Muslim's a terrorist. 1.00
00:49:34.000 Every liberal is right. 0.98
00:49:35.000 I don't wanna talk to folks who don't get it. 1.00
00:49:37.000 Go woke, go broke, no hope, it's pathetic. 0.99
00:49:38.000 Pro-choice pronouns, poor love your progressives. 0.99
00:49:40.000 But you ain't pro-gun, no wonder, protect it.
00:49:42.000 Where the American flags at?
00:49:44.000 Remember when people would hang those?
00:49:45.000 They've been taken down, they all been replaced with BLM flags or a rainbow.
00:49:48.000 This ain't rap, this ain't money, cars and clothes.
00:49:51.000 We ain't selling drugs, we ain't gonna overdose.
00:49:54.000 We ain't pushing guns, ain't promoting stripper poles.
00:49:58.000 We won't turn your sons into thugs or your daughters into hoes. 1.00
00:50:02.000 I don't care if I offend you I was put here to upset you
00:50:08.000 You've been crying, you've been screaming You've been rioting the streets
00:50:12.000 You've been funding the police Now there's no one to protect you
00:50:16.000 I hope I offend you I ask myself what we've been through
00:50:22.000 Let's just keep it real facts Don't care how you feel man
00:50:26.000 If you want my pronouns, I'm the man.
00:50:28.000 I'm the man who don't respect you.
00:50:29.000 Let's look at the stats.
00:50:30.000 I've got the facts.
00:50:31.000 My money like Lizzo.
00:50:32.000 My pockets are fat.
00:50:33.000 Homie, I'm epic. 0.98
00:50:34.000 Don't be a wap. 1.00
00:50:35.000 Dawg, it's a yarmulke.
00:50:35.000 Homie, no cap.
00:50:36.000 Look at the graphs.
00:50:37.000 Look at my charts.
00:50:38.000 You're blowing money on strippers and cars. 1.00
00:50:39.000 You're going to prison.
00:50:40.000 I'm on television.
00:50:41.000 Dawgs, no one knows who you are. 0.89
00:50:43.000 Keep hating on me on the internet for my comments.
00:50:45.000 Comment section all woke Karen's And I make racks off compound interest
00:50:48.000 Y'all live with your parents Nikki take some notes
00:50:51.000 I just did this for fun All my people download this
00:50:54.000 Let's get a billboard number one This ain't rap, this ain't money, cars and clothes
00:50:59.000 We ain't selling drugs, we ain't gonna overdose We ain't pushing guns, ain't promoting stripper poles 0.79
00:51:06.000 We won't turn your sons into thugs Or your daughters into hoes 1.00
00:51:10.000 I don't care if I offend you I was brave to upset you
00:51:17.000 You've been crying, you've been screaming You've been rioting the streets
00:51:20.000 You've been funding the police Now there's no one to protect you
00:51:24.000 I hope I offend you I ask myself what would Ben do
00:51:30.000 Let's just keep it real facts Don't care how you feel, man
00:51:34.000 If you want my pronouns, I'm the man I'm the man who don't respect you. 0.88
00:51:38.000 You mad, you mad, you mad. 0.87
00:51:41.000 I guess it's cool to be the victim, well, I'ma be the man. 0.93
00:51:45.000 You sad, you sad, you sad.
00:51:47.000 You just try to get attention, being triggered's all you have.
00:51:55.000 Everybody else for every problem that you can You said you said you said I will never say I'm sorry. I
00:52:02.000 ain't taking nothing back. I don't care if I offend you I was put here to upset you
00:52:10.000 You've been crying you can scream you can riot in the street to the front of the police now there's no one to
00:52:17.000 protect you I hope I offend you
00:52:20.000 I ask myself what would Ben do Let's just keep it real facts don't care how you feel man
00:52:28.000 if you want my pronouns I'm the man I'm the man who don't respect you 0.85
00:52:32.000 That's right right here Bye.
00:52:37.000 Now, I'll admit, I'm living the life.
00:52:42.000 I'm out there, hitting the clubs, as the kids say.
00:52:48.000 I'm out there, enjoying my life.
00:52:50.000 Got my sweet ride, that's right, to Honda Odyssey.
00:52:54.000 All loaded up, with Childers in the back.
00:52:58.000 All sorts of bleep going on.
00:53:01.000 So while I'm out here living the sweet life, you know, as America's favorite hip-hop star, let me just remind you, America, it's where anyone can do anything, baby.
00:53:16.000 And that's a fact.
00:53:18.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
00:53:20.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:53:21.000 You'll be joined online by my fellow rap god and hip hop legend, Tom McDonald.
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