Israel finally took control of the Al-Rantisi Hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, Israel claimed, had been used, like many of the major hospitals in Gaza, as a giant shield for Hamas's military operations. The IDF then presented all of the evidence that they had of tunnels under the hospital. We're going to play a lot of the clip. This is one of the reasons you should subscribe over at Dailywire.com slash subscribe so you can see everything we're showing you here. Because it really is astonishing. Now I want to show you an operational tunnel. The tunnel is built with electricity. We first saw the solar panels, then the electricity goes to the tunnel, and it goes to a door that is bulletproof. Now we can see the tunnel is let down more than 20 meters down, and the door is a door with a bulletproof door. So it looks like a hard evidence, a clear evidence, that the hospital direction is connected by a covered tunnel so nobody can find it. This is Rantissi Hospital, and this is the place where I wanted you to see the evidence to see. We are now in the area of the hospital where we have found the evidence. And in this basement, we found a motorcycle, and in this area, we are looking at an infrastructure that was done improvisedly to this area. And we are now looking at the area where I can see an area where hostages were being held. And this area is a closed area from the rest of the ventilation air that is done by the ventilation system. And I want you to understand who is Israel fighting against. Here is a list, in this room, a list that says in Arabic, this is a reason why every terrorist has his own name. And here is a place where they are putting curtains with nothing above a curtain unless you want to be guarding the people that were guarding the door here. And a baby bottle in a bottle And a list where he writes his own shift, so that he has a name that writes his name here So you can be a guardian . Yes, yes, a guardian so you do not want to see me here? I do not need to see this? And yes, Yes, I do want to want anyone to see him in the basement, I don t want anyone see him and a bottle in this a list A baby bottle And
00:00:00.000Yesterday, Israel finally took control of the Al-Rantisi Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:04.000The hospital, Israel claimed, had been used, like many of the major hospitals in Gaza, as a giant shield for Hamas's military operations.
00:00:10.000The IDF then presented all of the evidence that they had of tunnels under Al-Rantisi Hospital.
00:00:15.000We're going to play a lot of the clip.
00:00:16.000This is one of the reasons you should subscribe over at dailywire.com slash subscribe so you can see everything we're showing you here because it really is astonishing.
00:00:24.000Now I want to show you an operational tunnel.
00:05:24.000This list, in Arabic, this list says, we are in operation.
00:05:31.000The operation against Israel started on the 7th of October.
00:05:36.000This is a guardian list, where every terrorist writes his name, and every terrorist has his own shift, guarding the people that were here.
00:05:46.000Okay, so the IDF found, below a hospital, RPGs, grenades, suicide vests, and yes, bottles for the Israeli babies that Hamas has kidnapped, all atop a unit set up by the World Health Organization.
00:05:58.000This would be the same World Health Organization that, of course, lied about COVID-19, and also condemned Israel at the United Nations on Friday, led by Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who called for a ceasefire on behalf of Hamas, all the while claiming that Israel was targeting healthcare facilities.
00:06:14.000Somebody ought to ask, everybody guesses, just how the WHO resources ended up in the hands of Hamas.
00:06:20.000We were told that all of that aid was just going to, you know, the peaceful people of Gaza.
00:06:25.000All of it went to Hamas in violation of international law.
00:06:27.000Meanwhile, Israel also released footage yesterday of Hamas terrorists firing RPGs from another hospital, the Al-Quds Hospital.
00:07:12.000Yesterday, they released a statement, quote, condemning the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas.
00:07:18.000Yet this is a basic truth that members of the media wildly downplayed despite their own reporting on the subject dating back for over a decade.
00:07:24.000It is widely known and understood, for example, that the Al-Shifa Hospital lies directly atop Hamas's military headquarters.
00:07:30.000The Washington Post and New York Times reported as much in 2014.
00:07:34.000Nonetheless, the media have pooh-poohed Hamas' war crimes and human rights violations.
00:07:38.000Instead, they've focused on Hamas' constant claims that fuel is running out in these hospitals, even as Hamas steals the fuel.
00:07:44.000Every single day, we've been told al-Shifa has run out of electricity, and then, like Hanukkah oil, turns out not true.
00:07:50.000They've done their damnedest to show the horrifying situations really caused by Hamas in those hospitals, while the media have steadfastly refused to mention that it's Hamas that has refused to evacuate the hospitals.
00:07:59.000Here, for example, was MSNBC yesterday doing Hamas' bidding at al-Shifa hospital.
00:08:07.000There is the bare minimum of medical operations going on at this point.
00:08:12.000There are some 600 patients inside the hospital, Andrea, but no case is more urgent than the dozens of prematurely born babies who were being held in the neonatal unit there.
00:08:25.000Those newborns, some of them younger than this war itself, ...have been taken out of their incubators.
00:08:33.000They were, last we heard, being held in the surgery unit at Al-Shifa Hospital.
00:08:38.000Dozens of tiny, tiny gazans on two beds, being kept together, swaddled to try to keep them warm.
00:08:45.000In some cases, medical officials respirating them with their hands, trying to keep them breathing, basically doing everything they can to keep them alive.
00:08:54.000Hospital officials tell us at least three of these newborns have died so far.
00:09:00.000Okay, doing everything they can to keep him alive, except evacuating the hospital.
00:09:03.000Israel, by the way, has helped to offer to evacuate that hospital.
00:09:07.000By the way, it is also worthy of note that in the MSNBC framing of that actual report, if they had panned out just a little bit, you actually see the electricity operative in the background of the hospital.
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00:10:58.000Even if Israel's claim that Hamas command and control is under al-Shifa, as well as under other hospitals, other Hamas units, even if that were to prove true, and my understanding is that the U.S.
00:11:09.000has not independently confirmed that intel, does that justify striking a hospital?
00:11:15.000These questions have been raised by General Brown.
00:11:18.000CQ Brown and others that even getting a couple of terrorists or a terrorist cell doesn't justify targeting a hospital.
00:11:30.000This is the extra burden that we've been talking about for the Israeli Defense Forces as they try to go after Hamas leaders.
00:11:36.000You're right, I'm not going to speak about intelligence matters, but we know, it's open source reporting, that Hamas headquarters themselves in things like hospitals and schools and they have tunnels underneath residential complexes.
00:11:48.000They put the innocent people of Gaza at risk, in harm's way, just by how they headquarter themselves.
00:11:56.000Okay, well, according to Andrea Mitchell, though, warfare is like a game of tag, and safe, it's not a tree, it's a hospital, so long as you're a terrorist.
00:12:04.000If you hide underneath a hospital, then you are now immune from any sort of retaliation, which, by the way, totally undermines the rules of war, if the idea is.
00:12:12.000That your best security is to violate the rules of war, which is what Hamas is doing.
00:12:15.000Everyone will then hide among civilian populations.
00:12:17.000Meanwhile, Israel continues to go above and beyond any semblance of humanitarianism in its attempt to protect Gazan civilians.
00:12:23.000Yesterday, Israel actively sent incubators into Gaza for those same infants you're being shown on MSNBC, even while Hamas is holding Israeli infants hostage.
00:12:33.000Here are Israeli forces literally shipping medical equipment in to help Gazan civilians while Hamas attempts to get those civilians killed.
00:12:41.000To his credit, the State Department spokesperson yesterday slapped down members of the media who are doing propaganda work for Hamas.
00:12:49.000We would love to see Hamas vacate the hospitals that it's using command posts immediately.
00:12:54.000We would love to see all the people that are calling for Israel to take steps to protect hospitals, call for Hamas to vacate the hospitals and stop using civilians as human shields.
00:13:02.000We would love to see Hamas take some of the fuel reserves it's sitting on and use that to supply hospitals in Northern Gaza.
00:13:09.000We would love to see Hamas have taken the fuel that Israel offered it yesterday that they declined.
00:13:19.000Um, uh, and I would say as a principal, I'll just restate what I said at the top is we do not want to see civilians caught in the crossfire.
00:13:26.000Unfortunately, the Biden administration is beginning to cave, just as Israel reaches the central headquarters of Hamas, located beneath al-Shifa Hospital.
00:13:39.000official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the al-Shifa Hospital, uses fuel intended for it, and its fighters regularly cluster in and around Gaza's largest hospital.
00:13:49.000Well, Israel is now at the gates of Al Shifa.
00:13:51.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Israeli troops reached at least one of the gates of Gaza's largest hospital, where Israel says Hamas conceals a major center of operations, while medical staff reported deteriorating conditions inside because of a lack of supplies and electricity.
00:14:04.000The journal also reports that thousands of people in the hospital have been cut off for three days with gunfire around the building.
00:14:09.000That gunfire is being initiated by Hamas.
00:14:12.000Israel has been warning for weeks the hospital ought to be evacuated.
00:14:16.000Have you expressed any specific concerns to Israel on that, sir?
00:14:19.000Israel does not have a choice but to take the hospital.
00:14:21.000To do otherwise would be the equivalent of leaving Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan alone
00:14:26.000because there were in fact children in the compound.
00:14:28.000And yet now, President Biden has chosen to try to curb Israel's ability to take out Hamas.
00:14:32.000Here was Joe Biden speaking foolishly yesterday.
00:14:35.000Have you expressed any specific concerns to Israel on that, sir?
00:14:39.000Well, you know, I have not been reluctant in expressing my concerns what's going on.
00:14:46.000Oh And it's my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital.
00:14:58.000I remain somewhat hopeful, but the hospital must be protected.
00:15:04.000Well, there would be an easy way to do that, and that would be for Hamas to surrender.
00:15:07.000What exactly, by the way, does a less intrusive action look like?
00:15:10.000Israel has not bombed Al Shifa Hospital.
00:15:12.000Israel has known from the beginning of the conflict and for a decade before that Hamas commanders were located beneath Al Shifa Hospital, and they haven't bombed it.
00:15:19.000And now, presumably, they're going to have to send in special forces to clear the place.
00:15:22.000So what would less intrusive action look like?
00:15:25.000Well, that's been called a human rights abuse by the same exact people who say Israel should leave the hospital untouched.
00:15:30.000No, the only less intrusive alternative would be, presumably, a ceasefire, which Israel cannot and should not do, strategically or morally.
00:15:38.000It is cowardice, pure and simple, for the Biden administration to try to hamstring Israel in its pursuit of Hamas.
00:15:42.000And it's even more cowardly for the Biden administration to continue to play an idiotic game that they continue to play, whereby members of the administration claim they have to continuously hold Israel's leash to prevent the IDF from violating human rights.
00:16:30.000They're going well beyond what the laws of war require in such a situation.
00:16:33.000There's only one reason for such wavering, for such pusillanimity.
00:16:38.000The Biden administration is constantly attempting to throw signals to its left-wing base, even if that makes Israel's job harder in destroying Hamas and saving its own hostages.
00:16:46.000And you can see this in how the left, the hard left, is treated by this administration.
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00:19:17.000At the minute, Donald Trump is the nominee.
00:19:19.000Or anybody else on the right is the nominee.
00:19:21.000All these people fall back into place.
00:19:22.000None of them are going to not vote for Joe Biden because of Gaza.
00:19:25.000But here's Pramila Jayapal trying to put on the pressure.
00:19:28.000But as you know, Eamon, I also think that we can't take our base voters for granted and particularly young people and folks of color across the country who are reacting right now to the war in the Middle East are going to be very important to our electoral success in 2024.
00:19:48.000And I think that we have to keep our pedal to the metal.
00:19:50.000We can't get complacent and think that abortion is going to save us.
00:20:15.000The New York Times is just a propaganda page for Hamas at this point.
00:20:19.000The end of this article says the quiet part out loud, quote, Young voters and Arab and Muslim Americans, constituencies key to Mr. Biden's election victory in 2020, are aghast at his handling of the war.
00:20:28.000It may not turn out for him next November.
00:20:30.000Such a calling of Mr. Biden's coalition is just what Republicans, buoyed by polls showing Donald Trump leading in key states, need to put their unpopular candidate over the line.
00:20:39.000So again, the basic idea here is that Joe Biden should lead a surrender caucus to Hamas in order to preserve his electoral prospects in 2024, which, of course, is precisely the reverse of the truth.
00:20:49.000The truth is that Israel, by every polling metric in the United States, is wildly more popular than Hamas.
00:20:55.000And the idea of putting serious clamps on Israel in their efforts to destroy Hamas after the worst genocidal attack on Jews since the Holocaust would be pure political insanity.
00:21:03.000But if you can get enough very loud people in the Democratic Caucus to shout and scream, then presumably the idea is that somebody will cave.
00:21:11.000This is presumably why You have an entire article again in the New York Times just doing propaganda effort for Hamas.
00:21:18.000Hamas has the same strategy, as I've said before, as the Viet Cong.
00:21:20.000Get a bunch of wild left people on campuses and in the halls of power to yell at their bosses and hope that those people undermine Western war efforts.
00:21:48.000But according to the New York Times, there are many, many of such staffers.
00:21:52.000Quote, as a tense political debate rages across the country and on the Senate and House floors, there is a more personal and in many ways more emotionally fraught discussion taking place inside the offices of members of Congress.
00:22:02.000The vast majority of lawmakers in both political parties have rejected calls for a ceasefire, but many Democratic congressional staff members, most of them under the age of 35, have found themselves in stark disagreement with their bosses and the Biden administration on an issue that cuts to the heart Of their values.
00:22:14.000Yeah, their values do involve the oppressor-oppressed matrix whereby even the most evil human beings on the planet, Hamas and their supporters, all those people are actually the oppressed if they are poor and if they are disproportionately non-white.
00:22:26.000That's the way that this pathetic logic works.
00:22:30.000They say they have struggled to reconcile their personal convictions with their professional obligations, which by definition require they keep their opinions to themselves.
00:22:36.000They have voiced their dissenting opinions in internal meetings and grappled with what to say on calls with constituents.
00:22:40.000Well, if you can't take it, get the hell out.
00:22:43.000For a lot of people, this is a real red line, said Jeremy Slevin, senior advisor to Ilhan Omar.
00:22:49.000Yeah, we definitely need the Hamas caucus signing in on this one.
00:22:54.000Adam Jentleson, chief of staff for Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, recently wrote on X, Hamas just broke a ceasefire to slaughter innocents.
00:22:59.000Some think Hamas will now magically abide by a ceasefire.
00:23:02.000Some of us think this is unrealistic and offers up more innocents for slaughter.
00:23:06.000John Fetterman has been excellent on all of this actually, like shockingly good.
00:24:01.000And we should value the voices and listen to the voices.
00:24:05.000What I hope is that we can engage in conversation and discourse in a way that Understands this is not binary not to mention what it means in our own country in terms of long-standing issues with Antisemitism which has been on the rise and even before this happened Islamophobia and and other forms of hate against people just simply based on who they are or how they pray
00:24:33.000Again, this notion that we have to listen to their voices.
00:25:03.000According to the Washington Post, moving to address dissent within the ranks of the State Department over the Biden administration's policy on Israel and the war in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told department employees on Monday that, quote, we're listening to those who disagree with approaches we are taking.
00:25:15.000In an all-department message circulated after Blinken returned over the weekend from a trip to the Mideast in Asia, the top U.S.
00:25:20.000diplomat acknowledged that some diplomats have expressed reservations about the U.S.
00:25:23.000backing for Israel as it presses an assault on Hamas that has had a civilian death toll that is heavy.
00:25:29.000More than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza have died in the assault, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
00:25:33.000By the way, don't believe their numbers.
00:25:34.000The reason I say don't believe their numbers is because they lie about their numbers literally all the time.
00:25:38.000I'm sure many, many people have died in the assault against Hamas, but I've noticed how quick they are to tally all of this.
00:25:44.000So recently, Israel lowered the estimate of the number of dead in the October 7th attacks from 1,400 to 1,200.
00:25:52.000It took literally weeks because all the bodies were burned and charred.
00:25:55.000It took literally that long to determine how many people were dead.
00:25:59.000Like, five weeks it took to determine that it wasn't 1,400, it was 1,200, because some of the people who were dead were actually Hamas terrorists, and some of those people were in multiple pieces.
00:26:06.000And so, they weren't to be counted as separate human beings, because they were originally one human being, dismembered or burned beyond recognition.
00:26:13.000So, it took Israel, which is a highly sophisticated government, five weeks to come up with the actual numbers.
00:26:18.000Meanwhile, Hamas is just trotting out, like, we have 800,000 lesbian dance majors who were killed in the latest attack, and everybody in the media is like, well, Hamas's Ministry of Health does say it.
00:26:28.000But bottom line here is that Antony Blinken wrote a letter to the State Department in which he said, I know for many of you, the suffering caused by this crisis is taking a profound personal toll.
00:26:38.000I know some people in the department may disagree with approaches we are taking or have views on what we can do better.
00:26:42.000We've organized fora in Washington to hear from you and urge managers and teams to have candid discussions at posts around the world precisely so we can hear your feedback and ideas.
00:28:32.000Alrighty, so the shamelessness with which many of the pro-Hamas people on the left continue to speak is absolutely astounding.
00:28:39.000So last night, Piers Morgan had on Jeremy Corbyn.
00:28:41.000Now, you'll remember Jeremy Corbyn as the former head of the Labour Party in Britain, and you'll remember him as a shameless anti-Semite.
00:28:47.000I mean, so much so that many members of his inner team had to be ousted.
00:28:51.000He himself was basically unceremoniously dumped from his position because he couldn't help but stand with terrorists.
00:28:56.000So Piers Morgan asked him double-digit times last night, Whether Hamas was a terrorist group and Jeremy Corbyn couldn't bring himself to call Hamas a terrorist group because, of course, the far left doesn't believe the terrorist groups are terrorist groups.
00:29:06.000They are just people who are resisting the evil colonialist Western enterprise that is civilization.
00:30:11.000And he hates Jews not because he hates Jews as like a specific group of people, but because this fits into a broader anti-Western class of thought that is perfectly legitimate on the left.
00:30:22.000Again, these streams cross between anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and leftist conspiracy theories.
00:30:26.000The basic left-wing conspiracy theory is that there is a cadre of super powerful shadowy people Who are disproportionately white and emissaries of Western civilization.
00:30:35.000And it is their patterns of exploitation that have been spread all over the globe.
00:30:39.000Okay, if you just replace white with Jew, then you come up with just the normal anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which is why Jeremy Corbyn can't say the thing.
00:30:47.000Because in his view, it is just a normal rebellion against exploitation, what Hamas did on October 7th.
00:30:53.000And anything is justified in pursuit of that.
00:30:55.000That is why this sort of stuff is seen as legitimate.
00:30:58.000Everything is legitimate, by the way, for people who believe this.
00:31:01.000Lying, violence, all of it is legit because it is in pursuit of a higher goal, a utopian higher goal.
00:31:06.000The reestablishment of justice in the universe by the ripping down of civilization.
00:31:09.000That's what Jeremy Corbyn and people who are like him are all about.
00:31:13.000It's why Jeremy Corbyn and his crew, they have no problem hanging out with people like Linda Sarsour.
00:31:16.000Linda Sarsour, you'll remember, was one of the original founders of the Women's March.
00:31:20.000She was supposed to be an emissary on behalf of feminism, you know, being a radical Muslim and all, which definitely, you know, when you look at the priorities of feminism, women in the workplace, higher education, earning power, those definitely cross streams of the radical Islam nowhere.
00:31:37.000But in any case, Linda Sarsour is considered part of the alliance because Linda Sarsour is in fact a radical leftist who doesn't like the civilization very much.
00:31:44.000So, over the weekend, she was speaking in New York City at one of these pro-Hamas protests, and she said that the real problem with people putting up posters of kidnapped children by Hamas is that they are the provocateurs.
00:31:56.000Again, this is always the backwards logic.
00:31:57.000The backwards logic is that colonialized, exploited people, they are never responsible for their own actions at any point.
00:32:03.000If you put up a poster of a kidnapped child and they rip it down, it's your fault because you put up the poster.
00:33:03.000Now, the good news here is that Israel is making incredibly significant progress in the Gaza Strip.
00:33:09.000For all those people who are in a rush, this war is not going to last forever.
00:33:12.000It has been a grand total of five weeks since October 7th, and Israel has thoroughly destroyed Hamas's military capacity in the northern Gaza Strip.
00:33:20.000And presumably, they're now going to have to move into the southern areas of the Gaza Strip and do the same.
00:33:25.000So yesterday, a picture emerged of Israelis sitting in Hamas's parliament.
00:33:30.000They haven't had an election since 2006, but they still have a fake parliament.
00:33:34.000And Israeli soldiers were there flying the Israeli flag.
00:33:36.000This is pretty dispiriting for all of the members of Hamas and all of their acolytes who have watched all of their positions of power absolutely ravaged by the Israeli Defense Forces as they should be.
00:33:50.000The defense minister of Israel, Yoav Galant, he said on Monday that Hamas had lost control of the Gaza Strip.
00:33:55.000He said, there's no force of Hamas capable of stopping the IDF.
00:34:06.000It doesn't mean that this thing is close to the end, but it does mean that Israel is making incredible progress over there if the West can get over its faintheartedness at Hamas propaganda.
00:34:15.000In just one second, We will get to what's happening here on the domestic front with regard to the splits over Hamas.
00:34:21.000First, let's talk about the October 15th tax deadline.
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00:36:24.000Well, quote, Descendants of Holocaust survivors and a growing Muslim population live side-by-side in this diverse Chicago suburb that prides itself on safety and civility.
00:36:33.000That tolerance is being put to the test as war rages in the Middle East.
00:36:36.000Skokie has long been known as a welcoming village on Chicago's northern border with one- and two-story homes on modest lots and good schools.
00:36:42.000A major attraction there is the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
00:36:45.000In addition to its substantial Jewish and Muslim community, Skokie's population of 65,500 speaks more than 75 languages.
00:36:52.000Over the last several weeks, a bomb threat caused the evacuation of a synagogue, students staged a sit-in in support of Palestinians at a local high school, and someone pulled up yard signs expressing homeowners' support for Israel.
00:37:01.000So, you know what I noticed about all of that?
00:37:05.000So in other words, the Jews in Skokie, who have been there a lot longer, frankly, than the vast bulk of the Muslim population in Skokie.
00:37:10.000I mean, Skokie, again, is one of the older Jewish neighborhoods in the United States.
00:37:15.000Every incident cited by the Wall Street Journal is an incident in which, presumably, allies of Hamas, friends of Hamas, supporters of Hamas, were doing things to Jews.
00:37:31.000Suella Braverman, the former Home Secretary in the UK, was fired from her job because she was causing quote-unquote tensions to rise by noting that there were giant rallies filled with hundreds of thousands of Hamas supporters and that the police weren't doing their job in actually Prosecuting the law.
00:37:45.000She got fired for that because it was creating tensions.
00:37:48.000Tensions, cycle of violence, these are all the happy words the media love to use when it comes to conflict where they just don't wish to take a side between, you know, good and evil or decency and non-decency.
00:38:01.000So today, there's a march for Israel that's happening in Washington, D.C.
00:38:06.000Hundreds of thousands of Jews are gonna show up there.
00:38:08.000I promise you, there'll be no violent chants, there'll be no ripped down American flags, there'll be no burning of American flags, there'll be nothing about genocide against Muslims the same way there's been chants about genocide against Jews, there'll be no defacement of White House property, nothing like that.
00:38:21.000It'll be perfectly calm, it'll be perfectly peaceful, it'll receive one-tenth the attention that the media have given to these pro-Hamas marches.
00:38:27.000And they're not giving attention to the pro-Hamas marches because of the outrageous behavior.
00:38:30.000They're giving the attention to the pro-Hamas marches to suggest that the behavior is correct and justified.
00:38:34.000Again, the basic matrix for the media is that the angrier you are and the more left-wing you are, the more you are justified in your anger.
00:38:41.000And that means that giant protests, hundreds of thousands of people, those are being ignored largely in the media in favor of covering the dissent of people who are pro-Hamas.
00:38:50.000And that's really ugly and it's making life worse for a lot of people.
00:38:53.000Because again, when you incentivize behavior, you get more of it.
00:38:58.000Okay, meanwhile, with regard to domestic politics, so you remember that time that Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, was ousted for no reason that anyone could really discern by Matt Gaetz and company?
00:39:09.000And no one could really explain why he was really bad.
00:39:11.000Supposedly it was because he was cutting deals with Democrats and spending too much money and signing on to continuing resolutions and all the rest.
00:39:17.000Meanwhile, many of the people who had Rebelled against McCarthy, had voted against better versions of continuing resolutions that McCarthy was trying to negotiate.
00:39:32.000I'm just going to point out that Mike Johnson is preparing now to pass a continuing resolution that looks exactly the same as the continuing resolutions that Kevin McCarthy was passing.
00:39:52.000The political votes are not aligned in favor of a hardcore conservative agenda when you have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president and a slim majority of, what, eight seats in the United States Congress.
00:40:04.000And so this whole idiotic thing about let's get rid of McCarthy, we'll get somebody else, and that'll change the entire magical structure.
00:40:11.000According to Breitbart, the House is under new management, but is operating under business as usual, as it prepares to pass a continuing resolution that once again extends spending levels and policies pushed through by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi in last December's lame duck session.
00:40:23.000Speaker Mike Johnson is moving a laddered CR that extends current spending levels for agriculture, energy, and water, military, construction, VA, and transportation HUD spending bills through January 19th, with the remaining eight bills extended through February 2nd.
00:40:35.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Monday afternoon to say he's pleased with Speaker Johnson for choosing not to pursue spending cuts or policy riders in the spending package.
00:40:43.000He says House Republicans have pursued a responsible measure.
00:40:45.000And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also endorsed that particular plan.
00:40:49.000Now again, this is not me ripping on Johnson.
00:40:51.000This is me pointing out that the incentives are what the incentives are.
00:40:54.000And you have been lied to by an enormous number of politicians and commentators who tell you that if you just shout pure slogans from the rooftops, then magically you can manifest reality.
00:41:04.000And if you just shout, WE NEED LOWER SPENDING over and over, you don't have to look at the vote count, you don't have to look at the whip tally, you don't have to look at who controls the Senate or who controls the White House, magically things will change.
00:41:12.000And if somebody refuses to do that, if they don't shout loud enough, if they don't make loud noises, then we just oust them.
00:41:18.000Unless it's Mike Johnson, in which case I assume Matt Gaetz is going to sign on to this, because Matt Gaetz fired his bullet.
00:41:27.000And there's no market improvement in the actual legislation, because of course there is not going to be market improvement in the legislation.
00:41:32.000The constituency of the House is what the constituency of the House is.
00:41:38.000Representative Chip Roy, who's been absolutely consistent and good on this stuff, member of the Rules Committee, one of the most conservative members of the House, held a press conference Monday, and he said, we got nothing.
00:41:48.000He said, Speaker Johnson continues to perpetuate the very system my constituents sent me here to oppose.
00:41:52.000They don't want me to continue spending money we don't have at $1.6 trillion spending levels, Pelosi spending levels.
00:41:58.000Other conservatives joining Roy in the opposition included representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tim Burchett, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia.
00:42:06.000While continuing spending set by Democrats, Johnson's clean CR does not include supplemental spending requested by the Biden White House that included billions in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as a few billion for the border.
00:42:18.000It's unclear exactly how funding is going to get passed there because Joe Biden continues to insist that funding for Ukraine be connected with funding for Israel, which again is an idiotic proposal because these are two very different wars.
00:42:28.000By the way, I support continuing to fund Ukraine in its war against Russia if there's an actual endpoint, and because you gotta prevent Ukraine from falling to Russia.
00:42:37.000That does not mean the endpoint in that particular war is similar in any way, shape, or form to the endpoint in Israel's war.
00:42:47.000But the House continues... Again, the incentive structures just do not align.
00:42:50.000Thomas Sowell famously suggested, correctly, that when it comes to decision-making, the problem is generally not the decision-maker.
00:42:57.000The problem is generally the decision-making structure.
00:43:00.000And that decision-making structure means you can't expect that Mike Johnson is going to magically be able to ram through a budget-cutting device.
00:43:08.000By the way, you know what else is not happening?
00:43:10.000Apparently, a small number of House Republicans sided with Democrats in moving to punt an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:43:16.000If there is one member of the Biden administration who deserves impeachment most, aside from Biden himself, it would be Mayorkas, who has presided over a complete collapse at the American border.
00:43:24.000Millions and millions and millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the border under Mayorkas and been released into the interior.
00:43:30.000A total of eight Republicans voted with the Democrats to stop the resolution.
00:43:35.000That included Ken Buck of Colorado, who you remember is one of the people who voted out Kevin McCarthy.
00:43:39.000Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, General Issa of California, Tom McClintock of California, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.
00:43:45.000They voted with Democrats to refer the resolution to committee.
00:43:49.000So there will be no impeachment of the Homeland Security Chief at this point.
00:43:54.000Some of the Republicans who voted against sending the resolution haven't come out in support of impeaching Mayorkas.
00:43:59.000So there's even a larger pool of opposition within the GOP conference to getting rid of Mayorkas.
00:44:06.000They said that these are not high crimes or misdemeanors.
00:44:07.000But again, impeachment is now a completely political tool, as we know from the multiple impeachments of Donald Trump without an actual criminal charge attached to any of them.
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00:44:57.000Well, meanwhile, it's rare that you see proof of God at work in the universe, but apparently Megan Rapinoe has uncovered it.
00:45:03.000So I just had to note this clip because it really is astonishing.
00:45:05.000So Megan Rapinoe, who is one of the most obnoxious human beings on planet Earth, rich and famous for being a female soccer star, which again, only in America could you be wealthy and famous for being a female soccer star.
00:45:25.000She's mostly famous for yelling about how America is terrible and kneeling for the national anthem because she's a lesbian or some such nonsense.
00:45:31.000And she was injured in this latest championship that no one had heard about until she started jabbering about it.
00:45:38.000And she talked about her belief that atheism has been proved by the bad things happening to her.
00:46:27.000That is certainly, that is the big religious question.
00:46:30.000Why do bad things keep on happening to bad people like Megan Rapinoe?
00:46:34.000Perfectly solid disproof of God's existence right there from that class act.
00:46:39.000Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has now issued ethics rules.
00:46:42.000Now, the reason for this is absolutely silly, and that is because the media have decided in the aftermath of the overruling of Roe vs. Wade that the Supreme Court is just chock full of people who are corrupt and terrible.
00:46:52.000for violating literally no existing ethics rule.
00:46:55.000And so now, because Justice John Roberts, Chief Justice John Roberts, is constantly in this ridiculous Sisyphean battle to reestablish the credibility of the court or some such nonsense, he has decided to issue a code of conduct following reports of undisclosed trips and other favors that sparked criticism and put pressure on the justices to adopt a set of ethical rules.
00:47:28.000He was not implicated in their business in any case.
00:47:32.000The 15-page document said it largely compiled practices the justices informally followed.
00:47:36.000But, says the Wall Street Journal, the lack of a formal document has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the justices of this court regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics code.
00:47:44.000The code says justices can seek guidance from colleagues, judicial decisions, lower court judges, and the Supreme Court's in-house legal counsel, as well as from scholars, scholarly treatises, and articles.
00:47:52.000It creates no single ethics office or advisor.
00:47:54.000It does not provide penalties for violation of ethical standards.
00:47:57.000OnlineJustice has signed the document which suggests that it may not be binding on future appointees unless they affirmatively accept the code.
00:48:03.000Now, the reality is that a self-binding code is completely arbitrary and non-justiciable.
00:48:08.000The only way to get rid of a justice on the Supreme Court is to impeach him.
00:48:13.000So the court can assume whatever standard it wants, but there's no penalty that can actually be applied here.
00:48:19.000The court had been considering a code of ethics since at least 2019, when Justice Elena Kagan told a House committee that Chief Justice John Roberts was weighing the idea after the MeToo movement sparked a re-examination of workplace culture throughout society.
00:48:31.000But in recent weeks, Roberts has shoved this thing through.
00:48:35.000Again, one of the reasons this is stupid is because once you actually express a code of conduct, it will unavoidably be used by opponents of a particular justice to go after them.
00:48:43.000It's going to be true left, it's going to be true right, it's going to be true center, it's going to be true everywhere.
00:48:47.000Because, again, there is already a standard for a high crime or misdemeanor.
00:48:50.000A Supreme Court justice can be removed by Congress.
00:48:56.000It's just going to be used for further fodder to disable the court.
00:49:00.000So, as always, Chief Justice John Roberts doing the work of undermining the court every time he attempts to, you know, actually prop up the legitimacy of the court.
00:49:11.000Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show continues right now.