The Iranian government is shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands. Why is the hue and cry among our college protesting class? Where is it? Why have they gone so silent? And what is President Trump going to do? Plus, a case hits the Supreme Court about whether boys should be able to compete against girls in sports, and controversy over ICE.
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00:01:14.000Well, 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.
00:01:24.000The 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.
00:01:38.000Hundreds of thousands of people, apparently overnight, were still in the streets in Iran, braving actual bullets.
00:01:44.000For 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.
00:01:58.000According 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.
00:02:09.000That's an astonishing number, obviously.
00:02:12.000There are apparently zero protests on college campuses in favor of the protesters.
00:02:16.000I have yet to see a major movement of congressional Democrats getting together in solidarity with the Iranian people.
00:02:24.000The 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.
00:02:32.000And again, the reason that all of this is happening is because the Iranian regime is, in economic terms, absolutely weak.
00:02:40.000The real is now trading at a fraction of a penny.
00:02:43.000The Iranian economy is running at low ebb.
00:02:45.000That is because of the maximum sanctions replaced on the regime by the Trump administration, placed on the regime by the Trump administration, number one.
00:02:53.000It 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.
00:03:09.000It 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.
00:03:40.000This is not the first protest movement in Iran, obviously.
00:03:42.000It's not even the first protest movement in the last 15 years.
00:03:44.000There 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.
00:04:03.000And 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.
00:04:11.000The Trump administration came in, reversed the polarity, put the pressure on the Iranian regime.
00:04:16.000Then 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.
00:04:25.000And 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.
00:04:39.000So now people are out in the streets by the millions, literally by the millions at this point.
00:04:44.000And Iran is doing what Iran does best.
00:04:46.000They've turned off the internet for the last several days.
00:04:49.000No information getting in, no information getting out.
00:04:52.000And they are just shooting people apparently willy-nilly in the streets.
00:04:54.000According 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.
00:05:06.000With 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.
00:05:16.000Now, again, there are varying sorts of representations of how many people have been killed at this point.
00:05:22.000Human rights groups are being more meticulous about the numbers.
00:06:04.000M-I-G-A, and that'd be make Iran great again.
00:06:07.000Again, 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.
00:06:16.000Again, 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.
00:06:26.000The Vice President's office has attempted to deny that.
00:06:29.000The president of the United States yesterday said clearly the same thing, that the protests should continue and that help is on its way.
00:06:36.000That help will have to come in a form other, presumably, than simply upping tariffs.
00:06:40.000He 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.
00:06:49.000That tariff is actually higher than 25% in some places already.
00:07:20.000But I hear much lower numbers and then I hear much higher numbers.
00:07:24.000But I say save their names because they'll pay a very big price.
00:07:29.000Then I've canceled all meetings with the Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.
00:07:36.000And all I say to them is help is on its way.
00:07:38.000You saw that I put tariffs on anybody doing business with Iran.
00:07:43.000The transformative effect on the region would be incredible.
00:07:46.000Obviously, the government of Qatar, which is just a cutout for the Iranian government, is protesting to the United States, complaining about all of this.
00:07:52.000The 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.
00:08:04.000If the Iranian regime were to change, that would be a sea change in geopolitics.
00:08:09.000Iran is a large-scale supplier of oil to China.
00:08:13.000Iran is a large-scale supplier of Shaheed drones to Russia.
00:08:17.000Iran 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.
00:08:29.000If the Iranian regime were to change, that would weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:08:33.000You might see an actual decent government there with the capacity to destroy Hezbollah.
00:08:38.000You might see the possibility of an actual broad Abraham Accord-like agreement between Iran and Israel.
00:08:46.000You might see the Islamist government of Turkey boxed in.
00:08:49.000I know there's been a lot of talk recently about the supposed moderation of the Turkish government, of which I see zero evidence.
00:08:55.000Certainly, getting rid of the most cancerous regime in the Middle East would be helpful to the interests of the United States.
00:09:02.000Now, it doesn't mean the United States, again, I'm going to say it for the 100th time.
00:09:06.000This 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.
00:09:14.000What 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.
00:09:27.000Imagine if the Houthis weren't harassing shipping in the Red Sea anymore because their sponsor state Iran was gone.
00:09:33.000Imagine 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.
00:09:44.000Imagine if the Russians did not have a gigantic supply of weaponry coming in from Iran.
00:09:52.000Things change radically when terrible regimes go.
00:09:57.000I've seen some talk about what replaces the Iranian regime.
00:10:00.000Well, I mean, there are a lot of possibilities as to what replaces the Iranian regime.
00:10:04.000The Iranian people will have to decide what replaces the Iranian regime.
00:10:07.000But any suggestion that what is likely to replace the Iranian regime is worse than the current Iranian regime.
00:10:13.000I'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.
00:10:39.000Again, it's very, there are arguments against regime change.
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00:11:53.000Well, President Trump was on CBS with Tony Ducapol and was asked about the Iranian regime's approach to all this.
00:12:01.000Here is what he said: Have they crossed your red line or has the line moved?
00:12:08.000If 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.
00:12:41.000Again, the president is not fond of making threats that he does not fulfill.
00:12:44.000This 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.
00:12:52.000They drew red lines and then they violated those red lines.
00:12:56.000They violated those red lines repeatedly, over and over and over again.
00:13:02.000Well, Donald Trump is not fond of setting lines that he does not then enforce.
00:13:07.000There's been an argument made that any sort of American intervention will create a rally-round the flag effect in Iran.
00:13:11.000Well, not while there are literally hundreds of thousands of people in the street protesting the regime and being shot to death.
00:13:17.000I 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.
00:13:28.000Trey Yingst, reporting from the Middle East, says, Well, actually, President Trump's pretty popular in Iran.
00:13:34.000He goes on to say, I have to emphasize that among Iranian people, Trump is the most popular person right now.
00:13:40.000He has so much popularity because of the steps that he took toward preventing the growth of terrorism in the Middle East.
00:13:51.000Iran is not just mowing people down in the streets, apparently.
00:13:55.000Now they are preparing to hang dissidents.
00:13:57.000They 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.
00:14:07.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran is also trying to jam Starlink so information can't get in or out of the country.
00:14:16.000Over 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.
00:14:29.000He said that disruptions are worst in the parts of Tehran where the protests are taking place and in the evening when the demonstrators gather.
00:14:37.000President Trump said that he is going to attempt to get the internet going again if that is possible.
00:14:42.000That might mean having to smuggle in some actual dishes to ensure reception inside Iran.
00:14:48.000It's a dangerous business, obviously, for everyone involved.
00:14:51.000Now, 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.
00:15:03.000I'm just going to point out, ain't been no neocons in the Republican Party since the end of the Iraq War.
00:15:07.000People 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.
00:15:16.000That does not exist inside the Republican Party and has not for at least a decade.
00:15:21.000Instead, 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.
00:15:31.000And many of them are simply dismissing a lot of the numbers coming out of Iran.
00:15:35.000You'll notice that these are the same people perfectly willing to trust Hamas's numbers in the Gaza Strip.
00:15:40.000The 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.
00:15:54.000Pretty incredible stuff from our human rights-loving friends.
00:16:00.000Well, bottom line is this: it seems that some sort of action is likely imminent.
00:16:04.000People 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.
00:16:20.000That split does not exist inside the Republican Party.
00:16:22.000It did not exist with regard to bombing the Florida nuclear facility, a measure that was approved of by well over 90% of MA voters.
00:16:29.000If 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.
00:16:38.000There'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.
00:16:57.000That is not just a minority voice inside the Republican Party.
00:16:59.000That is a fringe voice inside the actual Republican Party at this point.
00:17:06.000Well, 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.
00:17:21.000There is no blowback possible in the middle of the Gulf of Aden for the United States doing all that.
00:17:28.000As far as the Iranian numbers currently being reported, I don't know the answer as to how high those casualties are.
00:17:32.000I know that they are not coming from the regime that is interested in spreading terror around the globe.
00:17:39.000So as I've said, those numbers could be in the low thousands, meaning like 3,000, 4,000.
00:17:44.000Those are the reports coming, again, from sort of independent human rights agencies.
00:17:52.000But 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.
00:18:03.000And the people who are out there claim, oh, you know, this is just people who are stumping for war.
00:18:07.000Please 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.
00:18:21.000Am 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?
00:18:33.000At the very least, I'm not going to believe what the Iranian government tells me because the Iranian government and Hamas are aligned.
00:18:38.000And so there's been a lot of talk, again, about the unpopularity of President Trump's international policy.
00:18:43.000That is not true in the areas in which he has acted.
00:18:46.000So 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.
00:20:01.000Because 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.
00:20:16.000And yet, Democrats seem to have staked a lot of their political future on the idea that resisting ICE is a positive good.
00:20:22.000President Trump, for his part, put out a statement on Truth Social yesterday urging Minnesotans to cooperate with ICE.
00:20:27.000Quote, 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?
00:20:42.000All 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.
00:20:47.000Most in foreign countries who illegally entered the USAID through Sleepy Joe Biden's horrible open borders policy.
00:21:01.000Minnesota 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.
00:21:09.000If you're not great people of Minnesota, the day of reckoning and retribution is coming.
00:21:14.000Now, again, the big question for Democrats here is why don't you just cooperate with ICE?
00:21:18.000I've said many times that specificity, clarity is the best aid to good government.
00:21:25.000So if Democrats object to a particular arrest, then they should explain why.
00:21:29.000If they object to a particular operation, they should explain why.
00:21:32.000They should not simply go out there and label ICE state-sponsored terrorists.
00:21:37.000They should not simply go out there and claim that ICE is the gestapo.
00:21:41.000Doing 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.
00:21:51.000Meanwhile, the president announced yesterday that all payments, all federal payments to sanctuary cities would stop on February 1st.
00:21:57.000His 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?
00:22:06.000Additionally, 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.
00:22:23.000So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
00:22:29.000Again, that is the predictable result of not working with the federal government.
00:22:33.000It doesn't mean turning local police into federal agents.
00:22:35.000It 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?
00:22:48.000But really what's being generated here is, of course, more conflict with local people.
00:22:53.000People 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.
00:23:02.000This has resulted, of course, of course, in additional clashes between ICE and people on the ground who are not really targets of ICE.
00:23:11.000According 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.
00:23:21.000An 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.
00:23:32.000State Representative Michael Howard, Democrat, said it feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government.
00:23:38.000Now, again, you know where people don't feel under siege?
00:23:41.000Where law enforcement is cooperating in the capture and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, then they don't feel under siege.
00:23:49.000Federal officers are descending on streets, and what they say is an effort to find undocumented immigrants with criminal and dangerous backgrounds.
00:23:54.000They 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.
00:24:00.000But 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.
00:24:12.000Now, 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.
00:24:19.000They are already tasked with actually policing things like assault and burglaries.
00:24:26.000If they capture people and find out those people are not here legally, they should pass that information to the feds.
00:24:32.000That is the easiest way to ensure that criminal, illegal immigrants do not stay in the country.
00:24:36.000And it makes zero sense, zero sense, not to report that stuff to the federal government.
00:24:44.000Democrats, however, seem to believe that they have a winning hand here.
00:24:49.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, of course, is trying to run for president in 2028.
00:24:54.000And so she is taking the most extreme position.
00:24:57.000She 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.
00:25:12.000No, we didn't cut health care in order to fund ICE.
00:25:17.000I want everybody to understand the cuts to your healthcare are what's paying for this.
00:25:25.000All 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.
00:26:32.000And so today, I am glad to announce that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has adopted an official position to hold ICE accountable.
00:26:44.000Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.
00:28:04.000Eli Hoenig over at CNN says, no, there's no legal basis for this.
00:28:10.000I've read both the Minnesota and Illinois lawsuits.
00:28:13.000They're really political diatribes masquerading as lawsuits.
00:28:17.000If 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.
00:28:29.000That's the top thing both states asked to do, and they cite zero precedent for that.
00:28:36.000There 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.
00:28:46.000Okay, 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.
00:29:00.000She and Renee Good were apparently involved in several groups that are quote unquote monitoring and protesting the conduct of immigration agents in recent weeks.
00:29:07.000By this, we mean that very often they're actually violating federal law by impeding the performance of federal law.
00:29:13.000The Justice Department launched an investigation into all of this.
00:29:18.000Apparently, many of these prosecutors are upset with that investigation.
00:29:22.000They think this is a misallocation of resources.
00:29:25.000Now, I'm not sure how specific the investigation is into, for example, Becca Good.
00:29:31.000I'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.
00:29:40.000The latter, I think, would be completely legitimate.
00:29:42.000The former would be at the very least bad politics.
00:29:46.000But 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.
00:29:59.000Instead, now ICE agents have to go into hiding.
00:30:02.000Tom Homan, the Borders are said that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good is now having to be put into hiding.
00:30:41.000Again, you wonder why ICE agents have to wear masks.
00:30:44.000You're wondering why ICE agents are more visible and they're coming in larger numbers.
00:30:48.000The 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.
00:30:58.000Alrighty, 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.
00:31:07.000The fact that we reached this point in American life is pretty astonishing in the first place.
00:31:11.000The Supreme Court's conservative majority did not appear convinced by opponents of these laws that boys are girls or should compete with girls.
00:31:21.000Several justices, according to the Washington Post, focused on scientific debate about whether transgender girls and women have an advantage on such teams.
00:31:28.000Justice 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.
00:31:36.000Kavanaugh said, why would we get involved at this point?
00:31:39.000Now, 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.
00:32:05.000You could have a really weak boy who might not be as athletically able as some of the girls.
00:32:11.000He should not compete against the girls.
00:32:13.000Boys and girls are separate and legitimate categories of human life.
00:32:17.000This is not like race, where race is arbitrarily dividing people by color.
00:32:23.000There are differences, physical, hormonal, between boys and girls.
00:32:27.000And the fact that we can't just say that is really astonishing.
00:32:30.000I mean, we can say it, obviously, but the fact that that case has to be made at the Supreme Court is totally crazy.
00:32:37.000It also totally undercuts all law that is based on sex differences.
00:32:42.000So how do Title IX women's sports exist if there are no such things as women?
00:32:48.000Or if woman is just a category of, I assume, lesser performing men.
00:32:53.000And so a man who takes a bunch of estrogen should be allowed to perform with the women.
00:32:59.000These are all questions being asked by the conservative justices.
00:33:02.000Justice Samuel Alito asked a lawyer for the trans side, can you even define what it means to be a boy or a girl?
00:33:09.000And the lawyer did not have any good answer.
00:33:14.000Is 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?
00:33:37.000I 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.
00:33:49.000We do not have a definition for the court.
00:33:51.000Well, how can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?
00:34:03.000I 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.
00:34:26.000Justice Kavanaugh says this is a zero-sum problem, obviously.
00:34:29.000If a boy is playing against girls, then that is a girl slot that is going to a boy.
00:34:36.000Hate, hate that a kid who wants to play sports might not be able to play sports.
00:34:42.000Hate that um, but uh, we have it's kind of a zero-sum game for a lot of teams.
00:34:51.000Um, 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.
00:35:14.000Meanwhile 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.
00:35:24.000Yesterday she uh had to do some some bizarre contortions around sex at birth versus gender identity.
00:35:32.000Again, 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?
00:35:39.000You have the overarching classification.
00:35:42.000You 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.
00:36:11.000Okay uh correct, because a transgender girl, by your definition, is just a boy who thinks he is a girl.
00:36:19.000So 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.
00:36:28.000The 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.
00:36:42.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:36:56.000President Trump was speaking in Michigan.
00:36:58.000He 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.
00:37:06.000According to the WALL Street Journal, president Trump says we've achieved the exact opposite of stagflation, almost no inflation and super high growth.
00:37:14.000That'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.
00:37:27.000Again, those are extraordinarily good numbers very, very good numbers.
00:37:30.000The president put up a statement on Truth Social in which he bragged about all that he said.
00:37:34.000Under my stewardship, the economy is booming a manufacturing renaissance and soaring household incomes are powering gdp gains that have not been seen in decades.
00:37:41.000We are undergoing a disinflationary boom.
00:37:43.000The private sector is growing by over five percent thanks to the most business investments we've ever seen, maybe in History.
00:37:55.000Now, again, all of that seems to be true, except for the quote-unquote manufacturing renaissance.
00:37:59.000The reality is that we have actually not seen an increase in manufacturing jobs in the United States under President Trump's tariff regime.
00:38:07.000However, we are seeing extraordinary levels of investment, particularly at the upper end of the market, in AI.
00:38:13.000And 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.
00:38:20.000I 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.
00:38:58.000But 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.
00:39:09.000A lot of people see that as a problem of job loss.
00:39:12.000The real answer here is that your time will then be spent elsewhere.
00:39:16.000Every 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.
00:39:25.000If 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.
00:39:33.000They wouldn't know what any of those words meant.
00:40:06.000If you lower those interest rates and there's more liquidity, presumably prices are going to go up.
00:40:12.000Nonetheless, President Trump is focused with extraordinary precision on the Fed chair, Jerome Powell.
00:40:19.000And 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.
00:41:41.000Again, 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.
00:41:54.000Not a great look at the very, very least.
00:41:56.000Central bankers from around the world signed a statement of solidarity with Jerome Powell.
00:42:00.000Again, signing open letters doesn't seem to make a huge difference.
00:42:02.000But 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.
00:42:15.000It ought to be independent from the presidency, from the control of the executive branch.
00:42:23.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:42:35.000It means that your limits are going to get lower.
00:42:37.000It means you're not going to be able to obtain a credit card.
00:42:39.000Speaker 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.
00:42:47.000If Elizabeth Warren is praising your proposal, it's a bad proposal.
00:42:52.000One of the things that the president probably had not thought through and others at first glance, it sounds great.
00:42:59.000We should bring down interest rates to 10%.
00:43:01.000It would help everybody, all borrowers.
00:43:03.000There's a lot of Americans who have a lot of credit card debt.
00:43:06.000But 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.
00:43:23.000And then that would have a negative effect on a lot of people who work on revolving credit.
00:43:29.000And of course, he is right about all of that.
00:43:40.000We'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.
00:43:50.000Mainly the people who seem to want to keep alive the Jeffrey Epstein story are people who are trying to misattribute action to President Trump.
00:43:57.000Thomas Massey and Congress is doing this all the time, suggesting that Trump is trying to cover up the Epstein story.
00:44:03.000Well, this resulted yesterday in a federal worker calling President Trump a pedophile protector.
00:44:09.000This would have been over at his speech at Ford.
00:44:12.000The president responded in, I think, completely appropriate fashion, actually.
00:44:35.000And 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.
00:44:52.000Meanwhile, the Clintons have decided they are not going to appear in front of Congress to testify about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:44:58.000Representative James Comer came out yesterday and said that the Clintons are in contempt of Congress.
00:45:03.000We'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.
00:45:23.000As 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.
00:45:41.000Now, again, is this a top priority for Republicans?
00:45:45.000At 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.
00:45:54.000This is not the way out of America's ills.
00:45:58.000Indeed, 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.
00:46:07.000We've tried to give you the little information we have.
00:46:09.000We've done so because Mr. Epstein's crimes were horrible.
00:46:11.000If 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.
00:46:21.000So, well, we'll see whether Congress fulfills this sort of move.
00:46:25.000And 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.
00:46:44.000Well, Greenland is apparently still on the menu as well.
00:46:48.000The premier of Greenland said that they want to stay with Denmark.
00:46:51.000Now, again, I think all of this is probably just leverage in order to get some sort of better deal from Greenland.
00:46:57.000I'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.
00:47:03.000The president seems to want to simply integrate Greenland into America.
00:47:07.000He says for national security purposes, maybe it's because we need another state.
00:47:36.000But that's going to be a big problem for him.
00:47:42.000Well, I'm not sure it's going to be a big problem for him.
00:47:45.000He also said that Greenland is vital because we need to build Golden Dome, which, again, by the way, we can build it.
00:47:51.000We have defense contracts with Greenland.
00:47:53.000He said the United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security.
00:47:56.000It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building.
00:47:58.000Golden Dome is a program designed to shoot down incoming missiles and ordnance from other adversaries.
00:48:05.000NATO should be leading the way for us to get it.
00:48:06.000If we don't, Russia or China will, and that is not going to happen militarily.
00:48:09.000Without 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.