The Ben Shapiro Show - Iran SLAUGHTER In The Streets?!

00:00:00.000 The Iranian government is shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands.

00:00:04.000 Why is the hue and cry among our college protesting class?

00:00:07.000 Where is it?

00:00:08.000 Why have they gone so silent?

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00:01:14.000 Well, apparently, according to reports coming out of Iran, thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of Iranians are being killed in the streets by the Iranian regime.

00:01:24.000 The Iranian people have now risen up against the Ayatollah-led regime, their mullah rulers, who have been leading them down a primrose path to both economic and security hell for the past 47 years.

00:01:38.000 Hundreds of thousands of people, apparently overnight, were still in the streets in Iran, braving actual bullets.

00:01:44.000 For all the people who pat themselves on the back for their bravery online, what actual bravery looks like is walking into the streets, arm in arm, to stand up against people with machine guns who are firing live ammunition at you in order to achieve freedom for your people.

00:01:58.000 According to MediaIte, a bombshell new report from CBS News suggests the Iranian government has murdered somewhere between 12 and 20,000 protesters since the ongoing national revolt began.

00:02:09.000 That's an astonishing number, obviously.

00:02:12.000 There are apparently zero protests on college campuses in favor of the protesters.

00:02:16.000 I have yet to see a major movement of congressional Democrats getting together in solidarity with the Iranian people.

00:02:24.000 The media coverage until the last couple of days has been pretty scant, actually, of what is now a weeks-long ongoing protest revolt against the regime.

00:02:32.000 And again, the reason that all of this is happening is because the Iranian regime is, in economic terms, absolutely weak.

00:02:40.000 The real is now trading at a fraction of a penny.

00:02:43.000 The Iranian economy is running at low ebb.

00:02:45.000 That is because of the maximum sanctions replaced on the regime by the Trump administration, placed on the regime by the Trump administration, number one.

00:02:53.000 It is because of the overwhelming military successes that Israel has experienced since October 7th in cutting off the arms, the terror arms of the Iranian regime and of the IRGC in places ranging from Iran to Syria to Yemen to Iran itself.

00:03:09.000 It obviously includes the 12-day war that happened last year, in which Iran was proved to be a military paper tiger, unable to prevent the Israelis from flying sorties in broad daylight over Tehran and culminating in the American single strike against Fordo, the nuclear facility in Iran.

00:03:27.000 There's a lack of water.

00:03:28.000 There's a lack of power in Iran.

00:03:30.000 It turns out that the Mullahs, who promised an Islamic utopia, simply delivered an Islamist hell. 1.00

00:03:36.000 And the people of Iran are sick of it. 1.00

00:03:39.000 They are tired of it.

00:03:40.000 This is not the first protest movement in Iran, obviously.

00:03:42.000 It's not even the first protest movement in the last 15 years.

00:03:44.000 There was a major protest movement in 2009 that Barack Obama decided that he was going to not only ignore but undercut by negotiating with the Iranian regime, calling them moderates, and then trying to bring them into the fold of nations, which it turns out was a horrifyingly bad idea that allowed them to strengthen themselves at the expense of America's actual allies in the region.

00:04:03.000 And of course, he signed the JCPOA, which was designed to allow Iran and the Mullahs a pathway to a nuclear bomb that was signed in 2015. 0.65

00:04:11.000 The Trump administration came in, reversed the polarity, put the pressure on the Iranian regime.

00:04:16.000 Then Joe Biden came in and let his foot off the pedal, clearly let his foot off the pedal, started talking again about a revived JCPOA.

00:04:25.000 And by October of 2023, the Iranians were helping to spur the October 7th terror attacks and seven-front terror war against Israel that ended, ironically, with Iran's forces being absolutely devastated.

00:04:39.000 So now people are out in the streets by the millions, literally by the millions at this point.

00:04:44.000 And Iran is doing what Iran does best. 0.98

00:04:46.000 They've turned off the internet for the last several days.

00:04:49.000 No information getting in, no information getting out.

00:04:52.000 And they are just shooting people apparently willy-nilly in the streets.

00:04:54.000 According to the CBS story, information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.

00:05:06.000 With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday, at least 12,000, possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed.

00:05:16.000 Now, again, there are varying sorts of representations of how many people have been killed at this point.

00:05:22.000 Human rights groups are being more meticulous about the numbers.

00:05:25.000 They're slower to report the numbers.

00:05:27.000 Those numbers are still in the thousands.

00:05:29.000 We are talking about a minimum at this point of at least 3,000 people who have been murdered on the streets of Iran.

00:05:35.000 The number is probably significantly, significantly higher.

00:05:38.000 We have seen pictures emerging, stacks of body bags.

00:05:41.000 We've seen videos emerging of Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, members of Iranian militias, mowing people down.

00:05:49.000 President Trump is taking a strong position.

00:05:52.000 Quote, Iranian patriots, keep protesting, take over your institutions, save the names of the killers and abusers. 0.95

00:05:58.000 I've canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.

00:05:58.000 They'll pay a big price.

00:06:02.000 Help is on its way.

00:06:04.000 M-I-G-A, and that'd be make Iran great again. 1.00

00:06:07.000 Again, that last line there when he says that he has canceled all meetings, that is a very loud rebuke of reports from inside the administration that there were members of the administration.

00:06:16.000 Again, there was a Wall Street Journal report that the Vice President JD Vance was urging the president of the United States to negotiate with the Iranians over their nuclear facilities, which is just the Obama foreign policy.

00:06:26.000 The Vice President's office has attempted to deny that.

00:06:29.000 The president of the United States yesterday said clearly the same thing, that the protests should continue and that help is on its way.

00:06:36.000 That help will have to come in a form other, presumably, than simply upping tariffs.

00:06:40.000 He had announced on Truth Social that he was going to increase tariffs on countries that were doing business with Iran to 25%, which is an incremental increase on some places.

00:06:49.000 That tariff is actually higher than 25% in some places already.

00:06:52.000 So it ain't just going to be tariffs.

00:06:54.000 The president of the United States will have to do something more.

00:06:57.000 And I believe that he knows that.

00:06:58.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:06:59.000 To all Iranian patriots, keep protesting. 1.00

00:07:04.000 Take over your institutions if possible.

00:07:08.000 And save the name of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you.

00:07:12.000 You're being very badly abused.

00:07:14.000 If the numbers are right, now I hear five different sets of numbers.

00:07:17.000 I hear numbers.

00:07:18.000 Look, one death is too much.

00:07:20.000 But I hear much lower numbers and then I hear much higher numbers.

00:07:24.000 But I say save their names because they'll pay a very big price.

00:07:29.000 Then I've canceled all meetings with the Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.

00:07:36.000 And all I say to them is help is on its way.

00:07:38.000 You saw that I put tariffs on anybody doing business with Iran.

00:07:43.000 The transformative effect on the region would be incredible.

00:07:46.000 Obviously, the government of Qatar, which is just a cutout for the Iranian government, is protesting to the United States, complaining about all of this.

00:07:52.000 The government of Qatar, despite spreading literally billions of dollars in public relations around the globe, is meeting with little success with the Trump administration, who's watching all of this unfold, obviously.

00:08:04.000 If the Iranian regime were to change, that would be a sea change in geopolitics.

00:08:09.000 Iran is a large-scale supplier of oil to China.

00:08:13.000 Iran is a large-scale supplier of Shaheed drones to Russia.

00:08:17.000 Iran is, of course, the chief sponsor of global terrorism on planet Earth, having spread its terror tentacles not only throughout the Middle East, but also into Europe and into Latin America. 0.96

00:08:29.000 If the Iranian regime were to change, that would weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:08:33.000 You might see an actual decent government there with the capacity to destroy Hezbollah. 0.96

00:08:38.000 You might see the possibility of an actual broad Abraham Accord-like agreement between Iran and Israel.

00:08:46.000 You might see the Islamist government of Turkey boxed in.

00:08:49.000 I know there's been a lot of talk recently about the supposed moderation of the Turkish government, of which I see zero evidence.

00:08:55.000 Certainly, getting rid of the most cancerous regime in the Middle East would be helpful to the interests of the United States. 1.00

00:09:02.000 Now, it doesn't mean the United States, again, I'm going to say it for the 100th time.

00:09:06.000 This does not mean that the United States ought to put hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of troops on the ground in Iran to topple the regime.

00:09:13.000 No one is talking about that.

00:09:14.000 What we are talking about is a risk-reward calculation whereby American action, targeted American action, could have disproportionate effect on the future, not only of the Middle East, but on geopolitics as a whole.

00:09:27.000 Imagine if the Houthis weren't harassing shipping in the Red Sea anymore because their sponsor state Iran was gone. 0.94

00:09:33.000 Imagine if the Chinese had to be a little bit more careful about their playing around with anti-American forces in the Middle East because, again, the Mullahs weren't there to help them out. 0.91

00:09:44.000 Imagine if the Russians did not have a gigantic supply of weaponry coming in from Iran.

00:09:52.000 Things change radically when terrible regimes go.

00:09:57.000 I've seen some talk about what replaces the Iranian regime.

00:10:00.000 Well, I mean, there are a lot of possibilities as to what replaces the Iranian regime.

00:10:04.000 The Iranian people will have to decide what replaces the Iranian regime.

00:10:07.000 But any suggestion that what is likely to replace the Iranian regime is worse than the current Iranian regime.

00:10:13.000 I'm going to have to see a chart on what you think is worse than the current Iranian regime, which, again, the largest state sponsor of terror on the planet, a regime responsible for at least 1,000 deaths in Iraq of American troops, a regime that has threatened Saudi Arabia, that has threatened the UAE, that has threatened Israel, that has spread its terror tentacles through Syria into Lebanon, that has been involved with terror attacks in Europe.

00:10:39.000 Again, it's very, there are arguments against regime change.

00:10:43.000 That is not a particularly good one.

00:10:45.000 Are you coming up?

00:10:45.000 President Trump speaks to CBS News about what's going on in Iran first.

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00:11:53.000 Well, President Trump was on CBS with Tony Ducapol and was asked about the Iranian regime's approach to all this.

00:12:01.000 Here is what he said: Have they crossed your red line or has the line moved?

00:12:07.000 I haven't heard about the hanging.

00:12:08.000 If they hang them, you're going to see some things that I don't know where you come from and what your thought process is, but you'll perhaps be very happy.

00:12:20.000 What do you mean by that?

00:12:21.000 We will take very strong action if they do such a thing.

00:12:24.000 We will take very strong action.

00:12:26.000 We don't want to see what's happening in Iran happen. 0.73

00:12:29.000 And, you know, if they want to have protests, that's one thing.

00:12:32.000 When they start killing thousands of people, and now you're telling me about hanging, we'll see how that works out for them.

00:12:38.000 It's not going to work out good.

00:12:41.000 Again, the president is not fond of making threats that he does not fulfill.

00:12:44.000 This is what makes him totally different, totally different from every other president of my lifetime, particularly Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who made empty threats all the time.

00:12:52.000 They drew red lines and then they violated those red lines.

00:12:56.000 They violated those red lines repeatedly, over and over and over again.

00:13:02.000 Well, Donald Trump is not fond of setting lines that he does not then enforce.

00:13:07.000 There's been an argument made that any sort of American intervention will create a rally-round the flag effect in Iran.

00:13:11.000 Well, not while there are literally hundreds of thousands of people in the street protesting the regime and being shot to death.

00:13:17.000 I don't think that all those people in the streets protesting the regime and watching their family and friends get shot in the face or in the chest are going to be upset if an F-35 hits an IRGC base.

00:13:28.000 Trey Yingst, reporting from the Middle East, says, Well, actually, President Trump's pretty popular in Iran.

00:13:34.000 He goes on to say, I have to emphasize that among Iranian people, Trump is the most popular person right now.

00:13:40.000 He has so much popularity because of the steps that he took toward preventing the growth of terrorism in the Middle East.

00:13:46.000 They respect him.

00:13:49.000 Okay, that is exactly right.

00:13:50.000 Meanwhile, what is Iran doing?

00:13:51.000 Iran is not just mowing people down in the streets, apparently.

00:13:55.000 Now they are preparing to hang dissidents.

00:13:57.000 They have apparently arrested tens of thousands of people, and they have said they're going to execute anyone who has participated in this quote-unquote revolt.

00:14:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran is also trying to jam Starlink so information can't get in or out of the country.

00:14:14.000 Users are now being hunted.

00:14:16.000 Over the weekend, authorities began searching for and confiscating Starlink dishes in Western Tehran, according to Amir Rashidi, director of digital rights and security at Myan Group, a U.S. nonprofit opposed to internet censorship.

00:14:27.000 Rashidi said it's electronic warfare.

00:14:29.000 He said that disruptions are worst in the parts of Tehran where the protests are taking place and in the evening when the demonstrators gather.

00:14:37.000 President Trump said that he is going to attempt to get the internet going again if that is possible.

00:14:42.000 That might mean having to smuggle in some actual dishes to ensure reception inside Iran.

00:14:48.000 It's a dangerous business, obviously, for everyone involved.

00:14:51.000 Now, we'll point out there are a number of people in the online right space who have been kind of dismissing all of this as it's been going on, suggesting that it's the quote-unquote work of the neocons.

00:15:03.000 I'm just going to point out, ain't been no neocons in the Republican Party since the end of the Iraq War.

00:15:07.000 People who are for full-scale nation-building war on behalf of populations only to have to place hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in transformative fashion.

00:15:16.000 That does not exist inside the Republican Party and has not for at least a decade.

00:15:21.000 Instead, what's actually happening is that a lot of people on the horseshoe theory right are mirroring Ben Rhodes' foreign policy on the left, the Barack Obama foreign policy, indistinguishable.

00:15:31.000 And many of them are simply dismissing a lot of the numbers coming out of Iran.

00:15:34.000 How can we trust these numbers?

00:15:35.000 You'll notice that these are the same people perfectly willing to trust Hamas's numbers in the Gaza Strip.

00:15:40.000 The same people who in specious fashion were labeling Israel's targeted action in the Gaza Strip a genocide have gone extraordinarily silent when it comes to Iran literally just mowing down protesters in the streets.

00:15:54.000 Pretty incredible stuff from our human rights-loving friends.

00:16:00.000 Well, bottom line is this: it seems that some sort of action is likely imminent.

00:16:04.000 People who are claiming that this will somehow split the Republican Party, there was a report in the Washington Post suggesting that Iran is actually relying on that split in the Republican Party to do its work, which is, I assume, why there were clips of Tucker Carlson appearing on Iranian TV during the blackout.

00:16:20.000 That split does not exist inside the Republican Party.

00:16:22.000 It did not exist with regard to bombing the Florida nuclear facility, a measure that was approved of by well over 90% of MA voters.

00:16:29.000 If President Trump chooses to take targeted military action against particular IRGC assets inside Iran, I guarantee you MAGA is not going to be split on that issue.

00:16:38.000 There'll be some very loud online influencers, boosted algorithmically, who are going to claim that Trump has somehow sold out the United States of America by hitting a regime responsible for the death of legitimately thousands of Americans over time and threats to our allies around the region and the globe.

00:16:57.000 That is not just a minority voice inside the Republican Party.

00:16:59.000 That is a fringe voice inside the actual Republican Party at this point.

00:17:04.000 How about internationally?

00:17:06.000 Well, if the president were to authorize military action at this point, targeted strikes, again, against Iranian facilities inside Iran, or let's say that we were to sink the Iranian Navy the way that the Reagan administration did in the 1980s, which I think we should do, frankly. 0.86

00:17:21.000 There is no blowback possible in the middle of the Gulf of Aden for the United States doing all that.

00:17:28.000 As far as the Iranian numbers currently being reported, I don't know the answer as to how high those casualties are.

00:17:32.000 I know that they are not coming from the regime that is interested in spreading terror around the globe.

00:17:39.000 So as I've said, those numbers could be in the low thousands, meaning like 3,000, 4,000.

00:17:44.000 Those are the reports coming, again, from sort of independent human rights agencies.

00:17:47.000 It could be as high as 12 or 20,000.

00:17:49.000 We don't know the answer to that.

00:17:50.000 That is a large range.

00:17:52.000 But mowing down protesters at the pace of presumably hundreds, if not thousands a day, because most of these killings started on Saturday, that is certainly happening.

00:18:03.000 And the people who are out there claim, oh, you know, this is just people who are stumping for war.

00:18:07.000 Please explain to me why the mowing down of 3,000 or 4,000 protesters is somehow significantly better than the mowing down of 10,000 protesters in Iran under internet blackout.

00:18:18.000 We cannot have the information.

00:18:19.000 We don't even know what's going on.

00:18:21.000 Am I more likely to trust Iran International, a publication associated with sources in Iran, than I am Hamas, an actual terrorist group that makes it its job to lie? 0.52

00:18:31.000 I'm more likely to trust that.

00:18:33.000 At the very least, I'm not going to believe what the Iranian government tells me because the Iranian government and Hamas are aligned. 0.90

00:18:38.000 And so there's been a lot of talk, again, about the unpopularity of President Trump's international policy.

00:18:43.000 That is not true in the areas in which he has acted.

00:18:46.000 So to take a recent example, there's a poll done by Atlas Intel in Latin America of approval for the U.S. military operation to arrest Nicolas Maduro.

00:18:56.000 Here are the numbers.

00:18:58.000 In the Caribbean, plus 67, 82% approve.

00:19:02.000 Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, 77% approve.

00:19:04.000 Paraguay, Uruguay, 72% approve.

00:19:06.000 Colombia, that's Gustavo Petros country, 64% approve, 11% undecided.

00:19:12.000 Argentina, 62% approve.

00:19:16.000 In Venezuela, where they're not allowed to talk about it, obviously, 47% approve.

00:19:20.000 28% say don't know, but they approve, obviously.

00:19:24.000 In Mexico, 55% approval rating.

00:19:28.000 So President Trump is pursuing what is pretty obviously the most popular foreign policy globally of all time.

00:19:34.000 And he's doing so in America's interest, not because they love it in Mexico, but because it's good for the United States.

00:19:42.000 Meanwhile, a lot of media attention at home continues to focus in on ICE.

00:19:47.000 Now, as I've said repeatedly, the best thing for states to do would be to cooperate with ICE.

00:19:51.000 There have been an enormous number of arrests made by ICE across the country in red states.

00:19:56.000 In fact, many more in some red states than in some blue states, with far less controversy.

00:20:01.000 Why?

00:20:01.000 Because when states cooperate with the federal authorities, when they arrest somebody for a crime and then they report to ICE that the person is an illegal immigrant eligible for deportation, it means that ICE can simply go to the jail and pick up the illegal immigrant as opposed to having to do a raid.

00:20:16.000 And yet, Democrats seem to have staked a lot of their political future on the idea that resisting ICE is a positive good.

00:20:22.000 President Trump, for his part, put out a statement on Truth Social yesterday urging Minnesotans to cooperate with ICE.

00:20:27.000 Quote, do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers, and violent release and escape prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention?

00:20:42.000 All the Patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came.

00:20:47.000 Most in foreign countries who illegally entered the USAID through Sleepy Joe Biden's horrible open borders policy.

00:20:53.000 Every place we go, crime comes down.

00:20:54.000 In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent governor and mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made.

00:20:59.000 Thousands of criminals were removed.

00:21:01.000 Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets the spotlight off of the $19 billion stolen by really bad and deranged people.

00:21:09.000 If you're not great people of Minnesota, the day of reckoning and retribution is coming.

00:21:14.000 Now, again, the big question for Democrats here is why don't you just cooperate with ICE?

00:21:18.000 I've said many times that specificity, clarity is the best aid to good government.

00:21:25.000 So if Democrats object to a particular arrest, then they should explain why.

00:21:29.000 If they object to a particular operation, they should explain why.

00:21:32.000 They should not simply go out there and label ICE state-sponsored terrorists.

00:21:37.000 They should not simply go out there and claim that ICE is the gestapo.

00:21:41.000 Doing that is likely to result in, number one, more action against ICE agents on the ground, necessitating way for even more ICE agents on the ground.

00:21:51.000 Meanwhile, the president announced yesterday that all payments, all federal payments to sanctuary cities would stop on February 1st.

00:21:57.000 His idea is, listen, if you're not going to work with us to facilitate deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, then why should we send you money? 0.66

00:22:06.000 Additionally, starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens, and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come.

00:22:23.000 So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.

00:22:29.000 Again, that is the predictable result of not working with the federal government.

00:22:33.000 It doesn't mean turning local police into federal agents.

00:22:35.000 It means that if you know as a local police force that somebody has violated federal law, why would you not, in the name of the local taxpayer, pass that on to the feds?

00:22:45.000 It's always been a wild policy.

00:22:48.000 But really what's being generated here is, of course, more conflict with local people.

00:22:53.000 People who, in somewhat delusional fashion, think that they are performing an act of heroism when they perform federal crimes by obstructing ICE in the pursuit of its duties.

00:23:02.000 This has resulted, of course, of course, in additional clashes between ICE and people on the ground who are not really targets of ICE.

00:23:11.000 According to the New York Times, in and around Minneapolis in recent days, in quiet residential neighborhoods and busy shopping districts at gas stations and big box parking lots, chaotic scenes are unfolding.

00:23:21.000 An escalation of tensions between residents and federal agents as the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown in Minnesota after the killing of Renee Good by an immigration officer last week.

00:23:32.000 State Representative Michael Howard, Democrat, said it feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government.

00:23:38.000 Now, again, you know where people don't feel under siege?

00:23:41.000 Where law enforcement is cooperating in the capture and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, then they don't feel under siege.

00:23:49.000 Federal officers are descending on streets, and what they say is an effort to find undocumented immigrants with criminal and dangerous backgrounds.

00:23:54.000 They are displaying a show of force they argue is necessary in cities and states where local governments and law enforcement agencies have refused to help them.

00:24:00.000 But many residents, business owners, and immigrant workers have denounced the tactics, saying the agents are indiscriminately sweeping up hardworking friends and neighbors based on racial and ethnic profiling and are increasingly organizing to push back.

00:24:12.000 Now, again, the best way to do this, I will say it again and again, the best way to do this is you have local police forces on the ground.

00:24:19.000 They are already tasked with actually policing things like assault and burglaries.

00:24:26.000 If they capture people and find out those people are not here legally, they should pass that information to the feds.

00:24:32.000 That is the easiest way to ensure that criminal, illegal immigrants do not stay in the country. 1.00

00:24:36.000 And it makes zero sense, zero sense, not to report that stuff to the federal government.

00:24:44.000 Democrats, however, seem to believe that they have a winning hand here.

00:24:49.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, of course, is trying to run for president in 2028. 1.00

00:24:54.000 And so she is taking the most extreme position.

00:24:57.000 She is suggesting that immigration enforcement is being paid for by cuts to healthcare, which this kind of argumentation is quite stupid because it turns out that money is fungible and the government is funded to the tune of $4 to $5 trillion in terms of budget every single year.

00:25:12.000 No, we didn't cut health care in order to fund ICE.

00:25:15.000 That's silly.

00:25:17.000 I want everybody to understand the cuts to your healthcare are what's paying for this.

00:25:25.000 All that extra money that everybody's paying right now in their premiums, all that extra money that you're paying, it is paid for with, it is all of that extra money that the government and the ACA subsidies that was given to nearly a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE.

00:25:45.000 So understand how these dots connect.

00:25:48.000 You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

00:25:56.000 No.

00:25:57.000 And by the way, thugs that are shooting mothers in the face, a hell of a description of ICE officers, broadly speaking.

00:26:03.000 I've said this before.

00:26:04.000 I will say it again.

00:26:05.000 What happened to Renee Good is both a tragedy and in all likelihood, a justifiable action on a legal level by the officer in question.

00:26:14.000 Both of those things can be true.

00:26:17.000 And the fact that we can't have that rational conversation is kind of shocking to me, at least in the political sphere.

00:26:22.000 Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar announced that the Congressional Progressive Caucus had adopted a new policy of fully abolishing ICE.

00:26:29.000 I hope Democrats run on this.

00:26:30.000 Let's see how it works for them.

00:26:32.000 And so today, I am glad to announce that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has adopted an official position to hold ICE accountable.

00:26:44.000 Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.

00:26:58.000 So, abolishing ICE, go for it.

00:27:00.000 Sounds great.

00:27:01.000 Now, there's a poll out from YouGov showing a plurality of people actually supporting abolishing ICE.

00:27:06.000 That is driven primarily by young people who apparently don't know anything, 54% of whom say they would support abolishing ICE.

00:27:14.000 Okay, this is like the polls that were taken in 2020 about abolishing the police or the all-cap, the all-cops are bastards movement.

00:27:22.000 For a hot second, the left seemed to be in the ascendancy, and then reality set in.

00:27:26.000 That's likely to happen to Democrats as well.

00:27:29.000 Chuck Schumer is in the unenviable position of having to live in reality as the Senate minority leader.

00:27:34.000 He was asked about whether the Department of Homeland Security should be defunded by the Senate.

00:27:37.000 He understands that DHS actually does require funding to police the laws.

00:27:43.000 Do you think that Congress should withhold funding for DHS until there are reforms in place for ICE?

00:27:49.000 As I said, that's one of the major issues that the appropriators are confronting right now before the bill comes up.

00:27:57.000 And meanwhile, Minnesota and Illinois have been trying to file lawsuits to ban ICE.

00:28:02.000 That's really silly.

00:28:04.000 Eli Hoenig over at CNN says, no, there's no legal basis for this.

00:28:10.000 I've read both the Minnesota and Illinois lawsuits.

00:28:13.000 They're really political diatribes masquerading as lawsuits.

00:28:17.000 If you look at what both states are asking the courts to do, it's to kick ICE out of those states and cities and to bar ICE from carrying on federal law enforcement in Illinois and Minnesota.

00:28:29.000 That's the top thing both states asked to do, and they cite zero precedent for that.

00:28:34.000 There is zero precedent for that.

00:28:36.000 There is no way a judge can say, you federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.

00:28:46.000 Okay, meanwhile, six federal prosecutors have resigned over a push to investigate the ICE shooting victim's widow, according to the New York Times W, Renee Good's wife.

00:28:58.000 Renee Good's wife, Becca, right?

00:29:00.000 She and Renee Good were apparently involved in several groups that are quote unquote monitoring and protesting the conduct of immigration agents in recent weeks.

00:29:07.000 By this, we mean that very often they're actually violating federal law by impeding the performance of federal law.

00:29:13.000 The Justice Department launched an investigation into all of this.

00:29:18.000 Apparently, many of these prosecutors are upset with that investigation.

00:29:22.000 They think this is a misallocation of resources.

00:29:25.000 Now, I'm not sure how specific the investigation is into, for example, Becca Good.

00:29:31.000 I'm not sure that that particular investigation specifically targets Becca Good or whether it's looking into the networks of funding that exist for things like ICE Watch.

00:29:40.000 The latter, I think, would be completely legitimate.

00:29:42.000 The former would be at the very least bad politics.

00:29:46.000 But the polarization around this issue is kind of insane, considering that Americans should be able to agree that criminal illegal immigrants should be deported and also that local law enforcement should work to ensure that that actually happens.

00:29:59.000 Instead, now ICE agents have to go into hiding.

00:30:02.000 Tom Homan, the Borders are said that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good is now having to be put into hiding.

00:30:07.000 He told this to Will Cain.

00:30:10.000 I've talked to a few people, and I think you're going to see it happening for this agent that was involved in the shooting.

00:30:15.000 I think he's going to wait for this investigation to paint itself out and wait for them to come out with actual facts, what happened.

00:30:24.000 But I think you may see him take action because I know for a fact, now he has to be in hiding.

00:30:30.000 I seen a post this morning on the way to the studio here with his picture, wanted for murder.

00:30:37.000 It's beyond the pale.

00:30:41.000 Again, you wonder why ICE agents have to wear masks.

00:30:44.000 You're wondering why ICE agents are more visible and they're coming in larger numbers.

00:30:48.000 The answer is when you don't let law enforcement do its job, not only do crime rates go up, but law enforcement is then forced to do more overt things in order to actually enforce the law.

00:30:58.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, over at the Supreme Court of the United States, a big case yesterday on whether it is legal for a state to ban boys from playing in girls' sports.

00:31:07.000 The fact that we reached this point in American life is pretty astonishing in the first place.

00:31:11.000 The Supreme Court's conservative majority did not appear convinced by opponents of these laws that boys are girls or should compete with girls.

00:31:21.000 Several justices, according to the Washington Post, focused on scientific debate about whether transgender girls and women have an advantage on such teams.

00:31:28.000 Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked why the court should constitutionalize a right for trans women in sports, meaning boys who think they're girls, when the science is still debated.

00:31:36.000 Kavanaugh said, why would we get involved at this point?

00:31:39.000 Now, first of all, we should point out here that, yes, boys on average are far better than girls are on average in the vast majority of sports.

00:31:48.000 They are on average much stronger.

00:31:50.000 They throw the ball much harder.

00:31:51.000 They are much faster.

00:31:52.000 They jump higher, all of that.

00:31:54.000 However, the real reason there should be boys, sports, and girls' sports is because boys and girls are separate categories.

00:32:00.000 So you may have an outstanding girl who could theoretically compete with the boys.

00:32:03.000 She is still a girl.

00:32:05.000 You could have a really weak boy who might not be as athletically able as some of the girls.

00:32:11.000 He should not compete against the girls. 0.95

00:32:13.000 Boys and girls are separate and legitimate categories of human life. 1.00

00:32:17.000 This is not like race, where race is arbitrarily dividing people by color.

00:32:23.000 There are differences, physical, hormonal, between boys and girls.

00:32:27.000 And the fact that we can't just say that is really astonishing.

00:32:30.000 I mean, we can say it, obviously, but the fact that that case has to be made at the Supreme Court is totally crazy.

00:32:37.000 It also totally undercuts all law that is based on sex differences.

00:32:42.000 So how do Title IX women's sports exist if there are no such things as women? 1.00

00:32:48.000 Or if woman is just a category of, I assume, lesser performing men.

00:32:53.000 And so a man who takes a bunch of estrogen should be allowed to perform with the women. 0.94

00:32:59.000 These are all questions being asked by the conservative justices.

00:33:02.000 Justice Samuel Alito asked a lawyer for the trans side, can you even define what it means to be a boy or a girl?

00:33:09.000 And the lawyer did not have any good answer.

00:33:14.000 Is it not necessary for there to be, for equal protection purposes, if that is challenged under the Equal Protection Clause, an understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?

00:33:27.000 Yes, Your Honor.

00:33:28.000 And what is that definition for equal protection purposes?

00:33:32.000 What does it mean to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?

00:33:36.000 Sorry, I misunderstood your question.

00:33:37.000 I think that the underlying enactment, whatever it was, the policy, the law, we'd have to have an understanding of how the state or the government was understanding that term to figure out whether or not someone was excluded.

00:33:49.000 We do not have a definition for the court.

00:33:51.000 Well, how can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?

00:34:03.000 I think here we just know that we basically know that they've identified pursuant to their own statute, Lindsay qualifies as a birth sex male.

00:34:14.000 What now?

00:34:16.000 Samuel Alito asks a very basic question.

00:34:18.000 We have laws written on the basis, like no discrimination on the basis of sex.

00:34:21.000 You can't define sex.

00:34:22.000 How are we supposed to actually enforce that law or define it?

00:34:25.000 No good answer there.

00:34:26.000 Justice Kavanaugh says this is a zero-sum problem, obviously.

00:34:29.000 If a boy is playing against girls, then that is a girl slot that is going to a boy. 0.93

00:34:36.000 Hate, hate that a kid who wants to play sports might not be able to play sports.

00:34:42.000 Hate that um, but uh, we have it's kind of a zero-sum game for a lot of teams.

00:34:51.000 Um, and uh, someone who tries out and makes it uh, who is a transgender girl, uh will bump from the starting lineup, from playing time, from the team, from the all-league and those things matter to people big time.

00:35:09.000 Uh will bump someone else.

00:35:14.000 Meanwhile justice, Katanji Brown Jackson, who again has somehow stolen the crown of of least coherent justice away from Sonia Sotomiero, which is a hell of an achievement for Katanji Brown Jackson.

00:35:23.000 Good for her.

00:35:24.000 Yesterday she uh had to do some some bizarre contortions around sex at birth versus gender identity. 0.97

00:35:32.000 Again, the problem is that how can you define discrimination on the basis of sex when you say that sex at birth doesn't matter anymore?

00:35:39.000 You have the overarching classification.

00:35:42.000 You know everybody has to be um uh uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that, meaning a distinction, meaning that um for uh, cisgender girls they can play consistent with their gender identity.

00:36:06.000 For transgender girls they can't. 1.00

00:36:11.000 Okay uh correct, because a transgender girl, by your definition, is just a boy who thinks he is a girl.

00:36:19.000 So yes again, the fact that we have to do all these contortions at this point, that that people are twisting themselves into pretzels over very basic biological realities, says something about the.

00:36:28.000 The moral lack and the intelligence of the American people rotted over the course of decades by the left-wing sexual revolution, when you invented up with a distinction that literally makes no sense at all.

00:36:42.000 Meanwhile, president Trump was out on the road stumping for his economic plans, making the quite proper observation that economic growth has been quite robust, particularly in the last couple of quarters under his economic programs.

00:36:56.000 President Trump was speaking in Michigan.

00:36:58.000 He sought to showcase his manufacturing and trade agenda with an address to the Detroit Economic CLUB, as well as a visit to a FORD Motor plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

00:37:06.000 According to the WALL Street Journal, president Trump says we've achieved the exact opposite of stagflation, almost no inflation and super high growth.

00:37:14.000 That's after the Federal government said the economy had expanded at a 4.3 annual rate in the third quarter of 2025 and again, there are early reports that the economic growth in q4 is going to come in somewhere between four and five percent.

00:37:27.000 Again, those are extraordinarily good numbers very, very good numbers.

00:37:30.000 The president put up a statement on Truth Social in which he bragged about all that he said.

00:37:34.000 Under my stewardship, the economy is booming a manufacturing renaissance and soaring household incomes are powering gdp gains that have not been seen in decades.

00:37:41.000 We are undergoing a disinflationary boom.

00:37:43.000 The private sector is growing by over five percent thanks to the most business investments we've ever seen, maybe in History.

00:37:48.000 Inflation trends are looking good.

00:37:49.000 All the smart money knows the hottest economy in the world is the USA.

00:37:53.000 Time to invest.

00:37:55.000 Now, again, all of that seems to be true, except for the quote-unquote manufacturing renaissance.

00:37:59.000 The reality is that we have actually not seen an increase in manufacturing jobs in the United States under President Trump's tariff regime.

00:38:07.000 However, we are seeing extraordinary levels of investment, particularly at the upper end of the market, in AI.

00:38:13.000 And that is due to the fact that we are looking at a transformational moment in tech history where productivity gains are going to start to explode.

00:38:20.000 I have to say, I use a wide variety at this point of AI tools pretty much every day to look up everything from basic facts to sort of advice-related questions.

00:38:32.000 And the AI is extraordinary.

00:38:34.000 It is truly great and it is getting better every single day.

00:38:36.000 You can see why people are investing so much money in the AI.

00:38:40.000 It's going to be transformative for our world.

00:38:42.000 The robotics that are going to be built on the back of AI are going to be, again, incredible.

00:38:47.000 It may not materialize quite as fast as Elon Musk thinks it will.

00:38:50.000 He's been saying that the practice of medicine, for example, surgery is going to be revolutionized within the next five years.

00:38:56.000 That seems pretty fast to me.

00:38:58.000 But even if you're talking 10 years, the cost of care is going to go down dramatically as automation, as robotics take over a lot of the tasks that human beings used to do.

00:39:09.000 A lot of people see that as a problem of job loss.

00:39:12.000 The real answer here is that your time will then be spent elsewhere.

00:39:16.000 Every time there's a major technological shift, people who are in the prior industry lose their jobs, and then those jobs go to a different thing that you didn't even know was going to exist.

00:39:25.000 If you had told people during the Industrial Revolution that in a couple of hundred years, most people would be in service industry sitting there and typing on a keyboard, working computers.

00:39:33.000 They wouldn't know what any of those words meant.

00:39:35.000 It would be a shock to them.

00:39:38.000 Okay, so that's the good side of what President Trump is doing.

00:39:41.000 And the bad side is President Trump seems to keep putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower those interest rates.

00:39:46.000 I do not, for the life of me, understand why this is of such great importance to the president.

00:39:50.000 If the president wants more affordability, he needs the prices to drop.

00:39:53.000 We've seen wage increases, but inflation is still outpacing 2% by a fairly significant margin.

00:39:59.000 It's still riding at 2.6, 2.7% on an annualized basis.

00:40:04.000 That can be driven down to 2%.

00:40:06.000 If you lower those interest rates and there's more liquidity, presumably prices are going to go up.

00:40:12.000 Nonetheless, President Trump is focused with extraordinary precision on the Fed chair, Jerome Powell.

00:40:19.000 And he's kind of making the case kind of openly now that the DOJ is going after Jerome Powell about the rebuild of the Federal Reserve building for political reasons.

00:40:29.000 And this kind of stuff is not good.

00:40:31.000 It is bad for the economy.

00:40:32.000 It's bad for the president.

00:40:33.000 I'm not sure why he's doing it.

00:40:34.000 He can believe that Jerome Powell has done a bad job.

00:40:36.000 There's a solid case to be made that Powell, particularly during the Biden administration, did a pretty bad job.

00:40:41.000 That's not the same thing as the constant bragging that Powell will soon be gone.

00:40:44.000 Here's President Trump saying that Powell has done a bad job.

00:40:48.000 Yeah, I think it's fine what I'm doing.

00:40:50.000 We have a bad Fed first, and he was extended by Biden.

00:40:55.000 And yeah, I think he's wrong.

00:40:57.000 I think it's wrong.

00:40:59.000 He's done a bad job.

00:41:00.000 We should have lower rates.

00:41:01.000 Jamie Diamond probably wants higher rates.

00:41:03.000 Maybe he makes more money that way.

00:41:06.000 Maybe he makes more money that way.

00:41:08.000 How would he make more money from he personally?

00:41:10.000 And then he said that jerk will soon be gone about Jerome Powell.

00:41:15.000 The U.S. government is purchasing $200 billion of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates, and it's had a huge impact.

00:41:21.000 It's already started.

00:41:22.000 And just last week, the average 30-year mortgage dropped below 6% for the first time in many years.

00:41:28.000 It's coming down very rapidly, and that's not with the help of the Fed.

00:41:32.000 If I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier.

00:41:35.000 But that jerk will be gone soon.

00:41:41.000 Again, saying that sort of stuff, while there are reports coming out that President Trump was going after federal prosecutors at a White House event and calling them weak, one day before the Federal Reserve subpoenas dropped.

00:41:53.000 Not a great look.

00:41:54.000 Not a great look at the very, very least.

00:41:56.000 Central bankers from around the world signed a statement of solidarity with Jerome Powell.

00:42:00.000 Again, signing open letters doesn't seem to make a huge difference.

00:42:02.000 But when every central banker comes out and says they stand in solidarity with Jerome Powell, and what that does is it underscores the idea that Federal Reserve policy ought to be independent if it's going to exist at all.

00:42:15.000 It ought to be independent from the presidency, from the control of the executive branch.

00:42:23.000 Meanwhile, when it comes to some of the other policies being pressed by President Trump, for example, capping credit card rates at 10%, which all that does is, again, puts downward pressure on people with bad credit scores.

00:42:35.000 It means that your limits are going to get lower.

00:42:37.000 It means you're not going to be able to obtain a credit card.

00:42:39.000 Speaker of the House Johnson said, yeah, you know, there's some dyspepsia among Republicans about such proposals, which, by the way, Elizabeth Warren was praising them.

00:42:46.000 I have a basic rule of thumb.

00:42:47.000 If Elizabeth Warren is praising your proposal, it's a bad proposal.

00:42:52.000 One of the things that the president probably had not thought through and others at first glance, it sounds great.

00:42:59.000 We should bring down interest rates to 10%.

00:43:01.000 It would help everybody, all borrowers.

00:43:03.000 There's a lot of Americans who have a lot of credit card debt.

00:43:06.000 But then, you know, what some of the experts have said is, well, but the problem is if you do that, then the credit card companies, the negative secondary effect is that is that they would just stop lending money and maybe they cap what people are able to borrow at a very low amount.

00:43:23.000 And then that would have a negative effect on a lot of people who work on revolving credit.

00:43:29.000 And of course, he is right about all of that.

00:43:31.000 No question.

00:43:33.000 At the same time, there's still some group of people who are focused on Jeffrey Epstein.

00:43:39.000 I find this bewildering.

00:43:40.000 We've had no information that has transformed our knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last several months, despite more and more and more unveiling of information.

00:43:50.000 Mainly the people who seem to want to keep alive the Jeffrey Epstein story are people who are trying to misattribute action to President Trump.

00:43:57.000 Thomas Massey and Congress is doing this all the time, suggesting that Trump is trying to cover up the Epstein story.

00:44:03.000 Well, this resulted yesterday in a federal worker calling President Trump a pedophile protector.

00:44:09.000 This would have been over at his speech at Ford.

00:44:12.000 The president responded in, I think, completely appropriate fashion, actually.

00:44:27.000 The president flipped him off twice.

00:44:35.000 And if you can read his lips, he is saying something that rhymes with truck you to the person, which, again, I think an appropriate response from the president to people who continue to make specious claims that somehow he is involved in covering up for a pedophile without any evidence whatsoever.

00:44:52.000 Meanwhile, the Clintons have decided they are not going to appear in front of Congress to testify about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:44:58.000 Representative James Comer came out yesterday and said that the Clintons are in contempt of Congress.

00:45:03.000 We've communicated with President Clinton's legal team for months now, giving them opportunity after opportunity to come in, to give us a date, and they continue to delay, delay, delay to the point where we had no idea whether they're going to show up today or not.

00:45:21.000 I think it's very disappointing.

00:45:23.000 As a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted on unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner, we will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress.

00:45:41.000 Now, again, is this a top priority for Republicans?

00:45:43.000 I think that it is probably not.

00:45:45.000 At this point, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton put out a letter saying, despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment.

00:45:54.000 This is not the way out of America's ills.

00:45:56.000 We will forcefully defend ourselves.

00:45:58.000 Indeed, bringing the Republicans' cruel agenda to a standstill while you work harder to pass a contempt charge against us than you have done on your investigation this past year would be our contribution to fighting the madness.

00:46:07.000 We've tried to give you the little information we have.

00:46:09.000 We've done so because Mr. Epstein's crimes were horrible.

00:46:11.000 If the government didn't do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work to learn why and to prevent that from happening ever again.

00:46:21.000 So, well, we'll see whether Congress fulfills this sort of move.

00:46:25.000 And as a general rule, given the fact that I very much oppose the federal government under the auspices of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, actually targeting Trump, his campaign, his family, I think you need something a little stronger than this to go after the Clintons, at least better evidence to go after the Clintons at this point.

00:46:44.000 Well, Greenland is apparently still on the menu as well.

00:46:48.000 The premier of Greenland said that they want to stay with Denmark.

00:46:51.000 Not a shock.

00:46:51.000 Now, again, I think all of this is probably just leverage in order to get some sort of better deal from Greenland.

00:46:57.000 I'm not sure what that deal looks like, considering we already have a defense agreement in place where we can basically build what we want in Greenland.

00:47:03.000 The president seems to want to simply integrate Greenland into America.

00:47:07.000 He says for national security purposes, maybe it's because we need another state.

00:47:11.000 I'm not really sure.

00:47:13.000 Anyway, the president reacted to Greenland's premier.

00:47:18.000 The premier of Greenland said today, we prefer to stay with Denmark.

00:47:23.000 Do you see that as the pressure?

00:47:24.000 Who said that?

00:47:25.000 The premier of Greenland.

00:47:28.000 Well, that's their problem.

00:47:31.000 That's their problem.

00:47:32.000 I disagree with him.

00:47:33.000 I don't know who he is.

00:47:34.000 Don't know anything about him.

00:47:36.000 But that's going to be a big problem for him.

00:47:42.000 Well, I'm not sure it's going to be a big problem for him.

00:47:45.000 He also said that Greenland is vital because we need to build Golden Dome, which, again, by the way, we can build it.

00:47:51.000 We have defense contracts with Greenland.

00:47:53.000 He said the United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security.

00:47:56.000 It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building.

00:47:58.000 Golden Dome is a program designed to shoot down incoming missiles and ordnance from other adversaries.

00:48:05.000 NATO should be leading the way for us to get it. 0.95

00:48:06.000 If we don't, Russia or China will, and that is not going to happen militarily.

00:48:09.000 Without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and I'm now bringing to a new and even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent, not even close.

00:48:17.000 They know that.

00:48:17.000 So do I?

00:48:18.000 NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the United States. 0.85

00:48:21.000 Anything less than that is unacceptable.

00:48:23.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.

00:48:25.000 I do not think that the Marines are going to be invading Greenland anytime soon.

00:48:29.000 I assume, again, this is a piece of leverage by the President of the United States.

00:48:34.000 All righty, folks, the show is continuing for our members right now.

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00:48:52.000 What was it like, Myland, to be alone with God?

00:49:00.000 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:49:06.000 Marathin, I knew your father.

00:49:09.000 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:49:14.000 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:49:17.000 You are my father.

00:49:18.000 So the gods shoot war for my soul.

00:49:22.000 Princess Garris, savior of our people.

00:49:27.000 I know what the Bull God offered you.

00:49:30.000 I was offered the same.

00:49:32.000 And there is a new pirate work in the world.

00:49:35.000 I've seen it.

00:49:38.000 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:49:40.000 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:49:43.000 No.

00:49:44.000 We're given another.

00:49:48.000 I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.

00:49:52.000 He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.

00:49:56.000 Trust in Yezu. 0.87

00:49:57.000 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:50:00.000 Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light.

00:50:03.000 Great Light, Great Darkness.

00:50:05.000 Such things mattered to me then.

00:50:08.000 What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?

00:50:12.000 You.

00:50:13.000 Nephew.

00:50:16.000 The sword of the High King.

00:50:21.000 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:50:28.000 Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:50:31.000 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:50:34.000 You know what you must do.

00:50:38.000 Great Light, forgive me.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 14, 2026

Iran SLAUGHTER In The Streets?!

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