Today, President Trump appears to be backing off of his trade war with China, and there's a potential deal between the United States and Ukraine on a ceasefire between the Ukraine and Russian forces. Meanwhile, the EU and the U.S. are still trying to hammer out a deal on Ukraine.
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00:00:35.000So the big international news of the day is that the talks that were supposed to be held in London beginning today between Ukraine, the EU, and the United States Have basically been downgraded.
00:00:46.000The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was supposed to attend, so was Steve Witkoff.
00:00:50.000They were all gonna talk together about a proposal they were then going to go to the Russians with to finally bring a ceasefire to the Russia-Ukraine war that's been ongoing since February of 2022.
00:01:00.000At the last minute, Secretary of State Rubio canceled his trip.
00:01:04.000That prompted other leaders, secretaries of state from Britain, France, Germany, to then pull out as well.
00:01:10.000Those would be the foreign ministers of those particular states.
00:01:13.000All of this is coming amidst heavy pressure from the Trump administration to come to some sort of deal.
00:01:18.000President Trump had warned last week that Washington, D.C. could walk away from the talks completely if there was no progress on a deal that was also reiterated by Vice President Vance yesterday.
00:01:28.000He said, quote, it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.
00:01:33.000Well, for the Russians, that's actually fairly good news because obviously if the United States were to walk away from the process entirely, a crucial base of support.
00:01:44.000So Vladimir Putin does not have tons of incentive to come to the table at this point.
00:01:48.000The offer that President Trump's team is putting forth right now is an offer that is very rich for Vladimir Putin.
00:01:54.000It's an offer that does not put a lot of restrictions on the Russians.
00:01:57.000It frees them of legitimately all economic sanctions.
00:02:00.000And in return, they basically stop the war where it currently stands, which means that they are able to de facto claim the entire eastern flank of Ukraine.
00:02:11.000They're able to, in law, like de jure, recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
00:02:18.000There'd be a ban on Ukraine from seeking membership of NATO, which is very difficult for Ukraine to accept because it's actually literally a part of their constitution.
00:02:26.000They're supposed to seek membership in NATO.
00:02:28.000It's also part of their constitution that they're not supposed to just give away land, even if that land is currently being occupied by the Russians.
00:02:35.000Part four of the plan would see America offer recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
00:02:42.000There are no serious security guarantees in the plan that's been put forth at this point.
00:02:53.000It's a possible European security guarantee.
00:02:56.000But the Europeans have not made clear what exactly that looks like at this point in time.
00:03:01.000Nonetheless, the Ukrainians, in anticipation of the possibility of a deal, have for a couple of weeks now already accepted, in principle, a 30-day zero-condition ceasefire.
00:03:12.000And Vladimir Putin has not taken them up on that.
00:03:14.000He has continued to fire drones into Ukraine.
00:03:17.000Yesterday, about 134 drones were fired over the border from Russia into Ukraine.
00:03:23.000Obviously, we're at a very, very fraught point in the negotiations.
00:03:26.000After two long years of a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, at least 50,000 dead on the Ukrainian side, possibly upward to 200,000 dead on the Russian side.
00:03:35.000Tremendous human cost, significant violations of basic rules of war, particularly by the Russians.
00:03:42.000This is a crucial week in the negotiations to try to find an end to this war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
00:03:49.000That's why my team and I actually went to Ukraine, to Kiev.
00:03:52.000We flew in, took the 10-hour ride into Kiev to get a look for ourselves and then sit down with the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, and get the answers the American people deserve.
00:04:25.000Wouldn't it be possible by the United States of where those dollars are going?
00:04:28.000We are kind of the living shield against Russia's invasion to the civilized world.
00:04:33.000I want to get to Russia's intentions and the possibilities of the ceasefire.
00:04:36.000Americans have questions about things that are happening here.
00:04:39.000Our hour-long interview with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will be released on this show tomorrow and Friday in two parts with extra material to come only at Daily Wire Plus.
00:05:00.000The reason for that is because it seems that the Trump administration is finally swiveling away
00:05:04.000From the large-scale trade war they declared on the world.
00:05:06.000At least that's the signal that the markets are taking away.
00:05:10.000And it was necessitated by the fact that the markets really were tanking.
00:05:13.000They were in serious, serious trouble.
00:05:15.000The International Monetary Fund, for example, had suggested that a global economic slowdown was in the cards, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:05:23.000The sharp rise in tariffs since the start of the year marks the onset of a new era that will see the most economies grow more slowly than previously expected, with the United States suffering one of the largest hits to its own prospects, according to the IMF.
00:05:36.000Pierre Olivier Laurentiis, who's the Funds Economic
00:05:39.000We're entering a new era as the global economic system that has operated for the last 80 years is being reset.
00:05:45.000And the IMF said that the immediate impact would be to slow economies around the world.
00:05:49.000It lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year a full half percent, from 3.3% to 2.8%.
00:05:55.000That is actually a larger downgrade than the downgrade in the Forecast that happened after Russia invaded Ukraine, which shook up global markets tremendously.
00:06:04.000For 2026, it has also revised down global growth by about a third of a point.
00:06:09.000The United States economy, according to the IMF, was expected to suffer damage with growth in 2025 down from a forecasted 2.7% to 1.8% and another 1.7%.
00:06:23.000So, to mention the IMF forecast, the obvious question, which I asked our sponsors over at Perplexity, is how accurate have prior IMF predictions of annual economic growth been?
00:06:33.000And Perplexity tells us that the IMF is a prominent source of global and country-level economic growth forecasts, with its World Economic Outlook published twice a year.
00:06:41.000The accuracy of these forecasts has been subject to extensive evaluation.
00:07:30.000However, those sorts of projections are a major problem for the future of President Trump's presidency.
00:07:36.000If you want a successful presidency, you must have a thriving economy.
00:07:39.000This is like the number one rule of all politics, forever and always.
00:07:44.000Global economic leaders, meanwhile, according to the New York Times, are gathering in Washington this week for the IMF and World Bank meetings.
00:07:51.000Recent debates over industrial policy and whether the world economy could achieve a soft landing have been replaced by anxiety over the trade war.
00:07:57.000Well, all of this reversed itself yesterday.
00:07:59.000The markets actually started to climb.
00:08:01.000So there are a couple of reasons for this.
00:08:03.000One, President Trump yesterday reversed a thing that he had been saying about Jerome Powell.
00:08:10.000So over the weekend, the presidents of the United States He was really, really pushing hard for Jerome Powell to lower the interest rates.
00:08:19.000This was supposed to compensate for the inflationary effect of the tariffs, but it would actually exacerbate the inflationary effect of the tariffs.
00:08:26.000The idea was if there was going to be an economic slowdown brought about by lower levels of trade, a market slowdown, maybe injection of more fuel into the economy would suddenly fix that problem.
00:08:35.000However, the tariff regime was likely to strain supply chains, creating consumer-based inflation.
00:08:41.000And if you cut the interest rates, that actually exacerbates that inflation.
00:08:44.000So President Trump was putting heavy pressure on Jerome Powell to cut interest rates again.
00:08:53.000They were saying the problem here is not Jerome Powell and the interest rates.
00:08:55.000The problem here is the tariff policy.
00:08:57.000Well, yesterday, President Trump openly said that he has no intention of firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell, which is a good way to make the market sanguine.
00:09:06.000If you want the markets to go up, fire Peter Navarro, let Scott Besson talk, And the president should provide a level of stability in how he discusses the economy.
00:09:14.000He did that yesterday, and so the markets have been jumping.
00:09:16.000You have no intention of firing Jerome Powell, because here, I think on the rise of Kevin Hassett a few days ago, said that you and people in the lives were studying this idea of possibly going to force a term at hand.
00:09:54.000But no, I have no intention to fire him.
00:09:56.000Okay, so that made the markets feel a lot better.
00:09:59.000And then the thing that really made the markets feel better is there was a story that broke from CNBC about Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.
00:10:06.000Apparently, he had a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, and he told investors there will be a de-escalation.
00:10:12.000There will be a de-escalation in the Trump trade war with China in the, quote, very near future.
00:10:16.000Besson said, no one's going to be a de-escalation.
00:10:19.000This is a private investor summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by JPMorgan Chase.
00:10:27.000And then he said that he believed that the prospect of de-escalation between the economic superpowers, quote, should give the world the markets a sigh of relief.
00:10:36.000Pesant insisted that despite the U.S. ratcheting up tariffs on Chinese imports to 145% and then China retaliating with 125% duties, the goal of Trump's policy is not, in fact, to decouple.
00:10:47.000He said that negotiating with China will be a slog, but the goal is not to sort of separate off to the markets because They do not believe that the tariff policy laid out by the president and the administration are actually well thought out or well calibrated, responded really aggressively.
00:11:04.000The markets jumped at 1,000 points yesterday.
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00:13:51.000Okay, so there will still be tariffs, but it'll be lower.
00:13:56.000And again, this approximates a better policy.
00:13:58.000As I've said before, fighting a trade war with China could theoretically be a good thing, but you actually have to fulfill certain preconditions in order to make that trade war successful, including drawing very close to your other trade allies, giving businesses time to reshore.
00:14:12.000So that we don't have broken supply chains.
00:14:14.000Finding new places to get crucial materials like rare earth minerals.
00:14:17.000Building up our military so that if China decides to take a stab at grabbing Taiwan, we actually can deter them.
00:14:22.000All those are things you need to do before you ratch up a massive trade war with China that would likely cause them to get more aggressive.
00:14:29.000And certainly, if you're going to do that, you cannot then alienate all of your allies who are then going to triangulate between China and the United States.
00:14:36.000Which is, by the way, what Europe was actually doing.
00:14:39.000They weren't caving to the United States and cutting off China.
00:14:41.000They were actually trying to flirt with both sides.
00:14:43.000Caroline Lovett yesterday at the White House, White House Press Secretary, she was grilled over the Trump trade war with China.
00:14:48.000What does it mean that President Trump wants to cut a deal with China?
00:14:52.000I actually do have something to share on that.
00:14:55.000I asked the president about this before coming out here, and he wanted me to share with all of you that we're doing very well in respect to a potential trade deal with China.
00:15:03.000As I mentioned, there have now been 18 proposals in more than 100 countries around the world who are wanting to make a deal with the United States of America, and the president and the administration are setting the stage for a deal with China.
00:15:15.000So we feel everyone involved wants to see a trade deal happen, and the ball is moving in the right direction.
00:15:21.000The Press: Setting the stage for a deal with China, what does that mean?
00:15:24.000Has the President spoken directly with Xi yet?
00:15:27.000I don't have anything to read out on a direct talk between the president and President Xi, but we will continue to keep you updated.
00:15:34.000And Secretary Besant reportedly today told investors that the trade standoff with China, he expects, will be de-escalating soon because, as he described it, reportedly the situation is unsustainable.
00:15:45.000Is the president considering taking steps to de-escalate the situation?
00:15:48.000Again, I just read you words directly from the president of the United States.
00:15:52.000That's where his head is at right now.
00:15:57.000The underlying fundamentals of the economy are not in bad shape here.
00:16:00.000It's that President Trump took a stick and put it right in the spokes of the bicycle, of the economic bicycle, and now he's trying to withdraw that, which is in fact a good thing.
00:16:09.000Well, meanwhile, Tesla is getting just banged in the public market.
00:16:13.000I mean, just absolutely knocked around in the public markets, not in terms of share price.
00:16:18.000But in terms of their earnings reports.
00:16:20.000So according to the Wall Street Journal, their net income slid 71% in the first quarter as the company struggled to overcome competitive pressure overseas and a reputational hit from CEO Elon Musk's polarizing role in the Trump administration.
00:16:32.000Musk did say that he will be spending less time, significantly less time, in his federal cost-cutting work at Doge starting next month.
00:16:39.000He said, I believe the right thing to do is to fight the waste and fraud and try to get the country back on the right track, which is good.
00:16:44.000It is also good for him to actually go back and run the company the way that it needs to be run.
00:16:50.000Musk actually was asked about the trade war, and apparently he sighed deeply before addressing the Trump administration's policy.
00:16:56.000He said that he was advocating for lower tariffs.
00:16:58.000He said, I just want to emphasize that the tariff decision is entirely up to the presidents of the United States.
00:17:02.000Whether he will listen to my advice is up to him.
00:17:06.000Investors are presumably still sanguine about Tesla sales.
00:17:10.000The media are making a bigger deal out of this than it probably is.
00:17:13.000Again, the lower sales are based on the fact that Tesla is likely this year to bring out some less expensive models with better supply lines.
00:17:24.000With all that said, the media has been celebrating the downfall of Elon, even though there is no such downfall.
00:17:31.000That is what the members of the media do.
00:17:33.000Speaking of people celebrating downfalls that are not yet occurring.
00:17:35.000So the media continue to call for the ouster of Pete Hegseth.
00:17:38.000And let's be very clear why they're doing this.
00:17:39.000The reason they're calling for the ouster of Pete Hegseth is because Pete Hegseth...
00:17:46.000The dirty little secret of the sort of horseshoe theory of foreign policy on the right right now is that there are right-wingers who sound exactly like Barack Obama.
00:17:54.000If you attributed quotes from many of the isolationist right-wingers to Barack Obama, they would be absolutely indistinguishable.
00:18:02.000Pete Hegseth has always been a peace-through-strength advocate who believes that America needs to flex military might when absolutely necessary, should have a robust military capacity.
00:18:15.000This is one of the chief conflicts that led, presumably, to the ouster of Dan Caldwell, who was one of his top aides at the Pentagon.
00:18:26.000The suspicion is, and again, this is just suspicion, that Caldwell was leaking to some of his media buddies, presumably people like Tucker Carlson, about things that were going on inside the Department of Defense, and then that he was fired.
00:19:23.000Do you know what you've been accused of?
00:19:31.000And Darren Selnick and Colin Carroll, the other two individuals that were escorted out of the Pentagon, initially placed on leave and then fired on Friday, we have not been told as of this recording.
00:19:43.000One, is there what we were being investigated for?
00:20:11.000When you dismiss people who you believe are leaking classified information, and again, the investigation is ongoing and that will take time, and when the evidence produced it will go to DOJ, why would it surprise anybody, Brian, if those very same people keep leaking?
00:20:42.000And if those people are exonerated, fantastic.
00:20:45.000We don't think, based on what we understand, that it's going to be a good day for a number of those individuals because of what was found in the investigation.
00:20:54.000And pushing and peddling things to try to sabotage the president's agenda, that's unfortunate.
00:20:59.000But that's how leaking works in this town.
00:21:01.000We're focused on recruiting, on rooting out DEI, on securing our southwest border, on the president's agenda, and it's going very well at the Pentagon, and I'm proud of it.
00:21:10.000So he's right about all of those things.
00:21:12.000By the way, it is worth noting that in that interview between Caldwell and Carlson, Carlson kept asking, did you leak classified material?
00:21:25.000It doesn't have to be classified material in order for you to be fired over it.
00:21:28.000So it's sort of an interesting distinction that was made even in the middle of that interview.
00:21:34.000Again, one of the things that I think is an open battle inside the Trump administration that is yet to be sort of made clear is the battle between the sort of peace through strength crowd in the defense apparatus and the isolationist crowd in the defense apparatus.
00:21:48.000Sometimes speaks like an isolationist, but in reality, Trump 1.0 foreign policy, the most successful aspect of his administration, by the way, ranging from the Abraham Accords to the deterrence of Russia to the attempts to box in China, all of those were rooted in peace through strength ideas.
00:22:03.000And there are a lot of very frustrated people who don't seem to actually want President Trump to follow the peace through strength ideas that got him elected in the first place and that he pursued with alacrity and success in his first administration.
00:22:16.000Speaking of the State Department, Marco Rubio is going through the State Department properly, and I think in excellent fashion, with a hatchet.
00:22:25.000According to the Free Press, the Trump administration has become an aggressive shakeup at the State Department that will close 132 agency offices, including those launched to further human rights, advance democracy overseas, counter-extremism, and prevent war crimes.
00:22:37.000What this really is, there are a lot of people who work at the State Department who are very much associated with sort of the John Kerry foreign policy.
00:22:44.000And Marco Rubio is going through there with a chainsaw.
00:22:47.000The plans to reorganize the leading foreign policy agency in the United States are outlined in internal documents obtained by the Free Press.
00:22:52.000They show how the State Department will eliminate or restructure hundreds of offices in Washington, D.C. The State Department is bringing its number of offices down from 734 to 602.
00:23:02.000Separately, undersecretaries at the State Department are also being instructed within 30 days to present plans to reduce their U.S. personnel in individual departments by 15%, according to a senior State Department official.
00:23:12.000These include six top offices employing thousands of people.
00:23:15.000The reorganization comes as the Trump administration seeks to drastically reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
00:23:21.000Secretary of State Rubio said, quote, in its current form, the department is bloated, bureaucratic, unable to perform essential diplomatic mission in the new era of great power competition.
00:23:28.000That is why I'm announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan that will bring the department into the 21st century.
00:23:35.000And again, all of this is very much in line with traditional Republican thinking on foreign policy.
00:23:42.000Who, for some unspecified reason, became persona non grata inside the Trump administration 2.0, despite the fact that he was a highly successful Secretary of State in Trump administration 1.0.
00:23:52.000He said the State Department is desperately in need of significant reorganization.
00:23:54.000There's much efficiency that can be gained there.
00:23:58.000So these planning documents are mostly about cutting jobs in Washington, D.C., not cutting jobs sort of all over the world in places that the State Department is particularly necessary.
00:24:10.000The rest of the Trump administration is following suit.
00:24:15.000According to the Washington Post, the Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:24:23.000They will also be fired or reassigned, according to an agency spokesperson.
00:24:27.000So the EPA led by Administrator Lee Zeldin making very similar moves to what's happening over its state, what's happening over its defense, what's been happening in the rest of the Trump administration, finding the employees who do not belong and then getting rid of them, which is what should have happened long ago inside the federal government.
00:25:07.000What does that have to do with keeping the air clean and the water fresh, precisely?
00:25:11.000The agency said this is the first step in a broader effort to ensure the EPA is best positioned to meet its core mission of protecting human health and the environment, empowering the great American comeback.
00:25:21.000There are important things being done by the administration.
00:25:23.000That's why I'm glad to see the administration swiveling when it comes to some of the economic measures that were put in place on April 9th.
00:25:30.000I'm glad to see the State Department making cuts, the EPA making cuts as well.
00:25:34.000The Trump administration is also poised for another win at the Supreme Court.
00:25:38.000On Tuesday, there was a hearing in a case regarding the question of whether local school board members, parents, could ban LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign propaganda from the classroom, particularly for elementary schools.
00:25:51.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:28:04.000NBC News reports that members of the 6-3 conservative majority seem sympathetic during a lively two-and-a-half-hour oral argument toward the parents' claims the Montgomery County Board of Education violated their religious rights by failing to provide an opt-out for their kids.
00:28:18.000Some justices indicated the board's refusal to provide an opt-out might have been motivated by hostility toward religion, which, by the way, it certainly is.
00:28:26.000One of the funnier aspects of this particular hearing was that the justices were quite familiar with the books that were being referenced by the defendants in this case who wanted to stack a bunch of far-left sexual agitprop in elementary schools.
00:28:42.000Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch was one of several justices who raised comments made by a former member of the school board who had suggested that a student who objected to the books as parroting dogma passed on by her parents and compared their complaints to those white supremacists who opposed civil rights law.
00:28:56.000Again, that is very typical of the left.
00:28:59.000The basic idea on the left is that you cannot have a truly held religious belief.
00:29:03.000All truly held religious beliefs are just a guise for bigotry.
00:29:06.000They're really secretly just a bigot and are using the Bible as a cover for your bigotry.
00:29:11.000This is just another reason why the Trump administration has now launched a task force.
00:29:17.000Investigating anti-Christian bias was hosted by Attorney General Pamela Bondi yesterday.
00:29:25.000The inaugural meeting of the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the federal government was joined by peaceful Christian Americans who are unfairly targeted by the Biden administration for their religious beliefs.
00:29:35.000Attorney General Bondi said, quote, as shown by our victim's stories today, Biden's Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent anti-Christian offenses.
00:29:43.000Thanks to President Trump, we've ended those abuses and will continue to work closely with every member of this task force to protect every American's right to speak and worship freely.
00:29:51.000And that, of course, is a very, very good thing.
00:29:54.000FBI Director Kash Patel stopped by to talk about the fact that the FBI under Joe Biden had targeted Catholics.
00:30:00.000Secretary of State Rubio raised concerning allegations of bias, including some against Christian Foreign Service officers who wanted to homeschool their kids.
00:30:09.000There's no question, by the way, that the sort of DEI and everything agenda of the Biden administration was, in essence, directed at white Christians.
00:30:17.000Because the basic idea of DEI is that white Christians represent the majority of the country, and therefore they are the sort of evil overlords of the American system and must be brought to heel.
00:30:27.000The only way that you could possibly reverse that is to actually start ferreting out anti-Christian bias inside the federal government.
00:30:33.000It was, by the way, a meeting that included pretty much all of the secretaries.
00:30:40.000So this is something the administration is taking absolutely seriously, as it certainly should.
00:30:45.000Meanwhile, in the big media news of the day, 60 Minutes looks like it might be on its deathbed.
00:30:51.000This comes after Paramount owner Sherry Redstone has been policing 60 Minutes stories to find out about their bias.
00:30:59.000According to Semaphore, Ben Smith's organization, Paramount owner Sherry Redstone in recent days sought to know which upcoming 60-minute stories were about President Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation that triggered a series of events that ended with the Tuesday resignation of the show's longtime producer, Bill Owens.
00:31:13.000He resigned, complaining he no longer had the editorial independence to run the iconic Sunday evening news show.
00:31:18.000He said over the past two months, it's become clear I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 minutes and right for
00:31:25.000I'm stepping aside so the show can move forward.
00:31:28.000Now. He provides no evidence that Sherry Redstone or any of the management were actually telling him to change the stories.
00:31:35.000They were just asking to see which stories were actually being pursued, which, given the fact they are the owners of 60 Minutes, is well within their remit.
00:31:42.000The claim they're making is that she's only doing that because of Trumpian pressure.
00:31:48.000If the Obama administration were bringing pressure on media outlets, which they routinely did, to do their bidding, or the Biden administration was bringing pressure to, for example, ignore the fact that the man was brain dead for several years, And the media did that work.
00:32:00.000There would be no coverage from the media about this sort of scandalous behavior and pressure.
00:32:05.000A spokesperson for Sherry Redstone, according to Semaphore, has denied that she saw or sought to see 60 Minutes pieces and emphasized to Semaphore Redstone and Paramount were not seeking to kill stories.
00:32:14.000One person familiar with the situation noted Redstone had both publicly and privately criticized 60 Minutes in recent months.
00:32:19.000Oh no, you're not allowed to criticize a show that you're paying for?
00:32:21.000That'll come as a shock to Michael Knowles.
00:32:24.000And if I can't criticize shows that we pay for here at Daily Wire, what am I going to do with my life?
00:32:29.000Owens' resignation comes as Paramount is hoping to close a merger with the entertainment company Skydance.
00:32:34.000Again, the media are speculating that the reason that Cherry Redstone is putting an eye on all of this is not because she's ticked off by the bias of 60 Minutes, which, by the way, she should be.
00:32:41.00060 Minutes is a wildly leftist-oriented show.
00:32:44.000The real reason, they think, is because she's trying to essentially curtail the freedom of 60 Minutes in order to broker some sort of better deal with the FCC to allow the merger between Paramount and Skydance.
00:32:58.000Now, if that were the case, by the way, then CBS already would have settled with the Trump campaign.
00:33:04.000So Trump has sued CBS News and 60 Minutes, and they have not settled that out yet.
00:33:10.000So theoretically, they already would have settled that.
00:33:12.000They are not, in fact, doing that, which, again, I think this is an overread by the media, an attempt to basically suggest, as always, that anytime the owner of a major media outlet says that a newspaper or a television show or a station is too far to the left, that is a form of censorship.
00:33:27.000You remember that the media did the same exact thing when Jeff Bezos said that he was going to redo the sort of editorial structure at the Washington Post.
00:33:35.000The idea was that he had somehow violated the compact, whereby, what, if you buy a media outlet, it has to be run according to the people who were running it before or according to the low-level staffers?
00:33:45.000That is not the way to run any sort of business in actuality.
00:33:47.000Meanwhile, in the midst of all this, you may have noticed that pretty much all headlines right now revolve around, you know, President Trump and the Republicans.
00:33:54.000It's almost as though the Democrats don't exist because they kind of don't at this point.
00:33:58.000They have lost almost the will to resist.
00:34:01.000Obviously, you have Bernie Sanders and AOC taking private jets to large venues.
00:34:17.000Just a few years ago, at a NASCAR race, people started chanting F Joe Biden.
00:34:22.000And the anchor who was covering that NASCAR race then suggested the crowd was actually chanting, let's go Brandon.
00:34:28.000So conservatives, Republicans, we started using the slogan, let's go Brandon, to refer to F Joe Biden.
00:34:33.000And then the Biden administration, trying to seize back the language, put out memes of old Joe Biden with laser eyes, calling him Dark Brandon.
00:34:43.000Or they put out memes of him with his sunglasses, grinning.
00:34:46.000It didn't go well because then he physically died in the middle of the race and then dropped out of the race.
00:35:49.000Nobody ever saw Tim Walz as a bro unless the bros were hanging out at a high school musical production with jazz hands.
00:35:56.000But now, apparently, Democrats are in search of a new memery.
00:36:01.000So, says the New York Times, as liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump's no-hold-bars version of politics.
00:36:17.000According to Bavak Laffia, a communications consultant and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Republicans have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison.
00:36:26.000There's an extreme imbalance in strategy that allows Republicans to stay stuff that really grabs voters attention.
00:36:40.000Well, during a meeting of the House Oversight Committee last May, Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, you'll recall her from such hits as suggesting that Marjorie Taylor Greene had a bad butch body before shouting about her fake eyelashes.
00:37:01.000And that's because she's very meme-friendly.
00:37:03.000Got her an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, by the way, when she said that Marjorie Taylor Greene had a, quote, bleach blonde, bad-built butch body.
00:37:23.000Believe it or not, the Democrats are still...
00:37:26.000He's apparently going to trot out the line that Donald Trump is a Nazi.
00:37:30.000The latest iteration of this comes courtesy of Larry David, who used to be funny, but apparently lost his sense of humor.
00:37:36.000I don't remember sitting Shiva for his sense of humor, but somebody should have because he's been dead for a while.
00:37:40.000In any case, he has a piece in the New York Times titled Larry David, My Dinner with Adolf.
00:37:46.000And it's supposed to be making fun of the fact that Bill Maher actually went to the White House to meet the president of the United States, which is verboten.
00:37:51.000You're not supposed to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a human.
00:39:32.000Well, on Monday, he came back to declare that President Trump's administration was like Nazi Germany.
00:39:38.000Speaking at an event at the start of San Francisco's Climate Week, according to Politico, Gore said the Trump administration was, quote, trying to create their own preferred version of reality to achieve sweeping objectives.
00:39:49.000Just like, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, Hitler!
00:39:52.000Quote, I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to any other movement.
00:39:57.000It was uniquely evil, full stop, I get it.
00:39:59.000But, but, there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil.
00:40:15.000I mean, man, the parallels are just eerie.
00:40:18.000Well, one of the problems for Democrats is, of course, that they ain't got nothing.
00:40:22.000And so if you are stuck, if you are down to dark, woke, and Trump is a Nazi, you're in trouble.
00:40:27.000Even their thought leaders can't answer basic questions.
00:40:29.000Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, former Harvard Law School professor, well, she was asked over the course of the last Do you regret saying that President Biden had a