On Saturday morning, the Israeli Defense Forces carried out one of the most ingenious, daring, and heroic operations in the history of modern warfare when they were able to extricate four Israeli hostages who had been held for well over 240 days by Hamas. The operation is stunning for a variety of reasons, not only because of the operation itself and the reaction to the operation, but also because of who was actually holding the hostages and how they were being held. This is a terrible strategy, and a terrible way to do it, and it has serious ramifications for the future of the Western civilization that we all should cherish. To listen to the full uncut show, go to Dailywire.co/Dailywire and use the promo code: CRUCIAL21 for 20% off your first month with discount code: DAYLYWEDNESDAY at checkout. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, visit gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use coupon code: "CRUCIAL20" at checkout to receive 10% off the entire month of your choice of a new ad-free version of the Daily Wire newsletter. Subscribe to Daily Wire.co.nz/OurStory to receive 5% off of your first purchase of $99 or more than $99, and get 10% discount when you enter the offer ends July 31st, 2019. and receive 5 days free when you sign up for VIP access to our VIP membership trial. To learn more about our sponsor discount code CRUCUTIVE, use coupon Code: CRUDEALSENITEER at CRUELAND at CRUCUPC at checkout at checkout, use the discount code "CRAFFECTORY at checkout and get 5% OFF the deal of $5,000, and receive a discount of up to $25,000 or more, use promo code CRUISING at $50,000! and get 20% OFF your first week of CRUICORREPCARRELLER at CUTTERPROMO at CUCERTER at checkout! to get 10 DAYS OFF THE FASTEST PROMOTIONAL? FREE PRICING AND VIP PROMOBSERTER? CRUIRING? to use the offer code: CHECK OUT THE CRUICKET AND FREE PRODCAST to WIN 5 DAYS OF VIP PACKAGE AND VIP TRAINING AND PRODUCER?
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00:00:09.000So, on Saturday morning, the Israeli Defense Forces carried out one of the most ingenious, daring, and heroic operations in the history of modern warfare when they were able to extricate four Israeli hostages who had been held for well over 240 days by Hamas.
00:00:25.000Those hostages were being held By civilians, by civilians in Gaza, in a place called Nusayrat, which is in the center of the Gaza Strip, not in Rafah, which is supposedly the place the Biden administration will never let the Israelis go.
00:00:37.000Nusayrat has been a hotbed of Hamas activity for a very long time.
00:00:42.000The operation is stunning for a variety of reasons.
00:00:45.000The biggest reason the operation is stunning is not only because of the operation, but because of the reaction to the operation.
00:00:50.000So I want to go through in detail what exactly happened, then I want to explain why this is actually important, not just with regard to Israel, but with regard to the future of the West.
00:00:58.000The reaction to Israel rescuing its own citizens from the clutches of an evil terror group that is enmeshed In a civilian population.
00:01:05.000I do not mean they're just in bed with the civilian population.
00:01:08.000I mean the civilian population in Gaza is deeply sympathetic to and is often working with Hamas.
00:01:13.000The reaction to that reality is quite dark and has real ramifications for the future of the Western civilization that we all actually should cherish.
00:01:22.000So, here's what happened on Saturday according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:01:27.000local time on Saturday, the Israeli military's chief of staff, Herziya Halevi, was watching the situation from a command center of the Shin Bet Security Agency and gave the order to go.
00:01:35.000They had, obviously, information that four Israeli hostages were being held in two separate locations in New Zealand.
00:01:41.000Israeli teams overwhelmed the captors who were hunkered down in two apartment blocks in New Zealand.
00:01:45.000These were located about 200 meters apart, 600 feet apart or so, in two separate locations.
00:01:49.000According to the Wall Street Journal, in May, Israel located the female hostage, Noah Argamani, in a low-rise apartment block in Nuseirat, central Gaza, and three male hostages in another building about 200 yards away.
00:02:00.000The hostages were Olmog Meir Yan, Andrei Kozlov, and Shlomi Zev.
00:02:06.000Noah Argomany happens to be one of the more famous hostages who has taken the footage of her being kidnapped on October 7th.
00:02:13.000She was at the Nova Music Festival, was incredibly famous because, of course, she's a young woman who's attractive and that meant that it went viral on social media.
00:02:20.000And then, of course, video footage shared by the military showed a CH-53C stallion helicopter loading soldiers and hostages before whisking them off the beach.
00:02:28.000Here's what some of that footage looked like.
00:02:30.000You can see here this is the interior of the helicopter in Noa Argamani being loaded onto the helicopter.
00:02:43.000There's also some pretty dramatic footage of these soldiers rushing Noah Argomany, among the other hostages, to the helicopter as well.
00:02:53.000Now, it is worth noting here who was actually holding the hostages.
00:02:57.000So as it turns out, Noah Argomany was being held by a photojournalist, a photojournalist, you say, a photojournalist, and his doctor father, the greatest kinds of civilians, journalists and doctors and artists and painters.
00:03:26.000For those of you who wish not to have anyone in your family shot, it turns out a horrible strategy for that is to work with a terrorist group to hold hostages in your home.
00:03:35.000I repeat, Do not put your family in the way of opposing military forces by holding hostage... I don't know why I have to say this.
00:03:53.000So this photojournalist had worked with, wait for it, Al Jazeera, the most vaunted of all journalistic institutions.
00:04:01.000A journalistic institution, of course, that is run out of Qatar, which is in fact an Iranian front state in many ways.
00:04:08.000Qatar has been the place where Hamas' leadership is holed up.
00:04:11.000Al Jazeera is a propaganda outlet on behalf of Hamas.
00:04:14.000It is why the Israeli military barred Al Jazeera from broadcasting inside of Israel because they were trying to station cameras in areas that could catch Israeli troop movements.
00:04:23.000And then there was widespread international condemnation.
00:04:25.000Now it turns out that a photojournalist who had worked with Al Jazeera in the past was one of the people holding Israelis hostage.
00:04:31.000Remember, the line between civilian and terrorist in Gaza is incredibly blurry.
00:04:41.000We'll get some more on this in just one moment.
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00:05:44.000This same photojournalist wrote an essay for the so-called Palestine Chronicle, which is a 501c3 organization in the United States, which has apparent terrorists working for it.
00:05:52.000He wrote a piece back in April while the hostages were being held in his home about the suffering in Gaza, quote, homes are gone.
00:06:03.000And with that, the memories, hopes and aspirations of Palestinians and their ability to realize other rights.
00:06:07.000He was writing about the rights of the Palestinians while literally holding hostages in his home.
00:06:14.000His entire piece was called, So this entire article was just about how terrible the Israelis are, while this person was holding hostage- I can't say this enough times.
00:06:29.000When people ask that the allegations made by the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is Hamas, or by quote-unquote civilian journalists on the ground in Gaza, most of whom are working with Hamas because otherwise you can't work in Gaza, it turns out that even people who are working with the Associated Press, the Associated Press was literally for years located in the same building as the Hamas headquarters.
00:07:12.000Their entire strategy was to, in fact, get their ass kicked so they could then whine to the international community that the Israelis were being too mean for them.
00:07:20.000And then the international left would rush to their defense.
00:07:22.000Because again, the international left has one rule and one rule only.
00:07:25.000If you are a loser in life, that is because you are victimized by some sort of extraneous circumstance.
00:07:31.000And the worse you are, the more it must be the Western powers that are somehow victimizing you.
00:07:37.000I don't even know what you're talking about when you suggest that we were supposed to call off this operation because there were civilians in the area.
00:07:45.000By the way, I wish America felt the same obligation to bring home five Americans who are still being held hostage.
00:07:52.000Here is the Israeli spokesperson suggesting the reality, which is that countries have, you know, an obligation to their citizens to rescue them from terrorists.
00:08:00.000Is this, is this, honestly, is this rule unique to the Jews, or is this something the entire West is supposed to hold by now?
00:08:05.000That if terrorists take Westerners hostage, that Westerners are supposed to throw up their hands so long as the terrorists hide amongst civilians, and in fact, side with civilians, and enmesh with civilians, and the civilians work with them.
00:08:16.000Here is the Israeli spokesperson saying the obvious.
00:08:19.000We need to keep in mind that all of our war efforts is crafted and designed about bringing back the hostages.
00:08:28.000So for the success of this operation at this time, I believe that it was a huge feat from a professional perspective, but also on the level of morale in here in Israel.
00:08:38.000And it was a very, very jubilant day yesterday.
00:08:41.000So the operational side absolutely reflects and spills over into societal issues.
00:08:48.000And there is a hope that we can continue to bring home the hostages Either through negotiations or in special force operations like we did yesterday.
00:08:58.000Obviously, tragedy was attached to that feat on the Israeli side.
00:09:02.000I'm not going to suggest that it's a tragedy when Hamas fighters die.
00:09:05.000When Hamas terrorists die, that is a good to the world.
00:09:08.000And when people who hide hostages in their home are killed, I'm not going to call that a tragedy either because they are hiding hostages in their home.
00:09:15.000It is a tragedy when civilians are caught in the crossfire, but that tragedy is all on Hamas.
00:09:20.000Anybody who can't make these moral distinctions is not worthy of your time.
00:09:23.000As it turns out, a huge percentage of the world cannot make these moral distinctions.
00:09:48.000He was in a serious health condition, and he died shortly, but literally the day of.
00:09:51.000They went to notify him, and they found him dead, which is, of course, a secondary tragedy.
00:09:55.000Okay, so, the reason why the left is really mad about this, and the left is mad about this, as we'll get to in a moment, the media coverage is insane.
00:10:06.000We made an entire movie in the United States called Saving Private Ryan about a battalion that was unleashed, about a crew that was unleashed to go save one American soldier who was in harm's way because he had brothers who had died in combat.
00:10:16.000And the entire movie is about how many Nazis do you have to kill to go save an American?
00:10:20.000And how many people have to sacrifice their lives?
00:10:23.000But the entire media has decided that Israel, using Whatever method necessary in order to free its own hostages is somehow morally questionable.
00:10:33.000But the real reason the left is angry is not because of any of this.
00:10:36.000The real reason that the left is angry today is because there are four premises that Israel exploded this weekend.
00:10:42.000Premise number one, Israeli military action cannot free hostages.
00:10:46.000This has been the favorite thing of the left since the beginning of the war.
00:10:49.000The idea from the left was somehow that if Hamas seized hostages.
00:10:53.000Israel had a moral duty to then surrender in the war in order to get back its hostages.
00:10:57.000Now, Hamas should be left in control of the Gaza Strip, and the only way the hostages would come home is if Israel exerted no military pressure, which is, of course, ridiculous.
00:11:06.000If no military pressure is exerted on a terror group, they are not going to free anyone because there's no pressure exerted on them, and they know that they're winning.
00:11:13.000That gives them every incentive to hold hostage.
00:11:15.000In fact, that's why they took the hostages in the first place.
00:11:18.000This operation, in which four Israeli hostages were freed, is a reminder that Israeli military action can, in fact, free hostages.
00:11:24.000In fact, this is one of the things Israel is historically unbelievably good at.
00:11:27.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:12:40.000Two, the idea that Hamas is willing to make a deal to release the hostages.
00:12:44.000This is the Biden administration's favorite lie of the moment, is that Hamas is right on the verge of making a deal to release these hostages.
00:12:51.000No, they're not, because any deal Hamas takes leaves them in power.
00:12:55.000And any deal that leaves Hamas in power is no deal for Israel, because Hamas will take more hostages.
00:13:00.000They have in the past, and they will again.
00:13:03.000Not only that, when Hamas runs full neighborhoods, it turns out that they radicalize entire neighborhoods filled with quasi-civilians.
00:13:10.000Which brings us to premise number three.
00:13:12.000The Palestinian civilian population is absolutely 100% separate from the terrorist population.
00:13:53.000And the entire West has blinded ourselves to this.
00:13:56.000For purposes I'll describe in just a second.
00:13:59.000That also means that when there is a higher civilian casualty than Westerners think is necessary, they are simply wrong.
00:14:07.000Israel has the single best terrorist to civilian Death ratio of any army in modern history in a heavily urban environment.
00:14:17.000You're talking about by the latest stats, almost two to one.
00:14:20.000It's like 1.6 terrorists killed for every civilian killed.
00:14:22.000And when you talk about civilians killed, you have to recognize not only is Hamas hiding among women and children, many of the people it's hiding among are in fact siding with Hamas, just like the civilians who were literally holding hostages.
00:14:34.000We know from other hostages who have been freed in hostage deals earlier on for temporary ceasefires, We know for a fact that they were being held among Gazan civilians, in Gazan civilian households.
00:14:45.000Which brings us to premise number four.
00:14:47.000This premise is that the Israeli military presence in Gaza has to come to an end.
00:14:51.000This again is a premise not only of the Biden administration, but the international left.
00:14:56.000Is that Israel somehow has to turn the Gaza Strip over to somebody else.
00:15:32.000If Israel does not have a significant military presence in the Gaza Strip going forward, how, in fact, are they going to be able to find the terrorists and kill them?
00:15:40.000How, in fact, are they going to be able to keep an eye on the terrorist activity taking place in Gaza?
00:15:44.000Let's say that Israel had not been in New Zealand.
00:15:47.000How would they have known where these hostages were hiding?
00:15:49.000How would they have carried out this operation?
00:15:52.000The reason that Gaza is different than, for example, the West Bank is because Israel never gave up military presence in the West Bank.
00:15:59.000Israel still has the ability to go into places like Nablus and Jenin, uncover incipient terror plots, and kill or capture or arrest terrorists.
00:16:09.000So, those are four premises that the left holds that were all exploded over the weekend.
00:16:12.000Again, the premises are, Israeli military action cannot free hostages.
00:16:16.000Hamas is willing to make a deal to release the hostages.
00:16:49.000If you have any moral problems, moral equivalencies here, Hamas is not the moral equivalent of Israel and never was.
00:16:55.000The Palestinian population is wildly more radical than anything that you can find in Israel by leaps and bounds, which is why zero, count them, zero Jews live in Gaza.
00:17:05.000In order for Israel to turn over any sort of rule in Gaza to the Palestinians, they had to remove physically 8,000 Jews from their homes by force using the Israeli military.
00:17:16.000Israel has used more Israeli force to actually remove, not just move around, remove people from the Gaza Strip who are Jewish than it has done so to remove people who are Palestinian from the Gaza Strip.
00:17:27.000They're still in the Gaza Strip right now.
00:17:29.000They're moving around from area to area so that Israel doesn't accidentally bomb them and Israel's giving them warnings.
00:17:34.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:18:11.000Hey, so, why am I so exercised about this?
00:18:13.000Because the left reacted to this operation as though Israel had done something morally blameworthy in saving its own hostages.
00:18:20.000There are a couple of premises that it is used here.
00:18:22.000One is that, once again, the lie that Israel has not been meticulous in its use of military force, which is just stupid and insane and obviously factually wrong.
00:18:30.000Then, there is the weird premise that it is up to Israel to somehow leave the hostages in the hands of terrorists if too many people on the other side are going to die.
00:18:43.000No country is going to treat its own citizens the same way that it treats citizens of another country, particularly a hostile enemy country holding hostages.
00:18:55.000People who are suggesting that Israel somehow should have foregone rescuing its hostages because too many Palestinian civilians might be caught in the crossfire because of Hamas are out of their minds or lying to you.
00:19:08.000Many of them are the same people who full-on make excuses for Hamas breaking into Israel, and for no reason at all, slaughtering 1,200 Israelis, including a vast majority of those being civilians in civilian areas, grandmothers and babies.
00:19:29.000I'm using the word trash a lot today, but it's because there's a lot of trash today.
00:19:33.000So, the New York Times headline, quote, Israel's euphoria over hostage rescue may be fleeting.
00:19:38.000The operation conducted by Israel's military to free four hostages resulted in a high death toll among Palestinians and has not resolved the challenges facing the Israeli government.
00:19:47.000Okay, and a hammer isn't a screwdriver.
00:19:49.000Like, I didn't realize that rescuing hostages was supposed to solve every internal division in the state of Israel.
00:19:55.000Divisions that long predated any of this, which is why you had mass movements in the streets with regard to judicial reform, if you recall, it's a while ago, before October 7th.
00:20:04.000Also, Israel's euphoria is supposed to be fleeting for saving its hostages because too many Palestinians died in the operation?
00:20:24.000Oh, you know the real victims, when you kidnap people and then people come to rescue those people, is you.
00:20:30.000If you're the kidnapper and the people surrounding the kidnappers who know that the people who are kidnapped are there, and let's be real about this, the idea that people in the surrounding area had no clue that these hostages were being held there is a lie.
00:20:50.000And then you have this from the Washington Post.
00:20:51.000The Washington Post has basically just become a love letter to Hamas at this point.
00:20:57.000Quote, inside Israel's hostage rescue, secret plans and a deadly wall of fire.
00:21:02.000This account is based on more than a dozen interviews with former and current Israeli military officials, family members of hostages, and Palestinian eyewitnesses.
00:21:09.000A deadly wall, secret plans and a deadly wall of fire.
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00:23:36.000When was the last time Israel just started randomly kidnapping 250 Palestinians, including women, children, and the elderly, and shoving them in a prison for no reason, or putting them among their civilians in Tel Aviv?
00:23:48.000But Palestinian lives are considered so worthless by U.S.
00:23:50.000officials, they believe this bloodbath is not only acceptable, but worthy of celebration.
00:23:54.000Now, the only thing worthy of celebration to the international left would be Israel surrendering to Hamas.
00:24:00.000Which is why there were giant protests outside the White House over the weekend.
00:24:05.000The protesters surrounded the White House and they held a giant red line because the idea was that the red line has been violated, not by Hamas being a terrorist group that is holding Americans, but by the Israelis for, you know, actually attempting to free their own citizens and kill the terrorists.
00:24:21.000So they surrounded the White House holding a giant red line and shouting at Joe Biden, of course.
00:24:29.000You can see it's a fairly large crowd.
00:24:31.000And then meanwhile, they really showed their cards.
00:24:35.000They decided to shout at Secret Service that those members of Secret Service should kill themselves.
00:24:39.000These are a group of wonderful people.
00:24:40.000Again, the relevance of this to the West, the reason I said at the top of the show this has to do with the West and this is not just sort of a faraway conflict, is because a West that accepts the premise that evil terrorists are on par with Western democracies is a West that does not deserve to remain.
00:24:59.000And it won't remain because it's undermining itself from within.
00:25:02.000A West that marches with Hamas, which is what the left has become, that screams at Secret Service agents on behalf of Hamas, and carries around flags in solidarity with Hamas, and wears terrorist keffiyehs, and all the rest of it?
00:25:41.000Actually, they're probably Ivy League undergrads majoring in the theater arts, who would immediately be thrown off the top of a building in Gaza.
00:25:50.000Meanwhile, protesters were holding signs that said delightful things, like jihad or martyrdom.
00:25:56.000They literally were outside the White House carrying a... They're carrying a sign that says an Al-Qassam, which is a terrorist group.
00:26:04.000And a sign that says, Jihad of Victory or Martyrdom.
00:26:08.000That's a full-on terror sign outside the White House.
00:27:28.000The international left, which has become a terror front group in many ways, is now running wild.
00:27:33.000And they've taken over the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party is so afraid of pissing these people off.
00:27:37.000They're afraid that if they do, then they are going to somehow lose the upcoming election.
00:27:43.000This led Kamala Harris, the dullest knife in the drawer, To suggest that she mourned the Palestinians who died in the heroic Israeli hostage rescue.
00:27:53.000Here was the Vice President of the United States at an event and hecklers showed up and then she said she wanted to hear from them while kicking them out of the room.
00:28:00.000Because obviously you have to demonstrate that you have solidarity with the people who really hate Israel so much so that they're very upset when hostages get rescued.
00:28:09.000For the past eight months, President Biden and I have been working every day to bring this conflict.
00:28:18.000I'm speaking right now, and I value and respect your voice, but I'm speaking right now.
00:28:33.000You know how different this war would be if President Trump... First of all, it wouldn't be going on.
00:28:36.000President Trump already would have said to the Israelis, go and finish what you need to do and then get... Finish what you do, provide the security apparatus, and then stop.
00:28:44.000That's what Trump would have... He said that openly.
00:28:47.000It turns out that when you provide moral cover for terrorists, they take advantage of every element of it.
00:28:53.000We'll get some more on this in a moment.
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00:29:58.000The statement praised the IDF rescue, but also called for a ceasefire anyway.
00:30:02.000He's still calling for Israel to somehow declare some sort of ceasefire against Hamas, despite the fact its military action just freed hostages.
00:30:09.000Before I begin my remarks, I want to echo President Macron's comments welcoming the safe rescue of four hostages that were returned to their families in Israel.
00:30:20.000We won't stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached.
00:30:35.000Again, the delusion of these people is so strong.
00:30:38.000Here was Jake Sullivan suggesting that Hamas might walk away from the negotiating table after the hostage rescue.
00:30:43.000Well, then I guess Israel should have left its hostages with the terrorists, obviously.
00:30:48.000Are you concerned at all, given what you just said, that the ball is in Hamas's court right now, that the rescue that happened on Saturday will make it so that Hamas might walk away from the negotiating table?
00:32:03.000Which, by the way, is why I am encouraged.
00:32:05.000And I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that the EU is now turning hard to the right.
00:32:10.000It turns out the European population has had enough of this.
00:32:13.000The European population, the only good news here is that as the international left becomes effectively a front group for Hamas, One of the good pieces of news here is that more and more members of the West are like, we don't want any part of this.
00:32:33.000The Europeans, I think, are getting a little tired of an international left that seems to love Hamas and also riots.
00:32:40.000And so, last night, the European Parliament election went very, very poorly for the left.
00:32:45.000According to the Associated Press, far-right parties and far-right, according to the Associated Press, just means anyone to the right of Emmanuel Macron.
00:32:52.000If you're Emmanuel Macron, you're a centrist.
00:32:57.000far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the EU and made major gains in parliamentary
00:33:01.000elections on Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel
00:33:04.000Macron. On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime
00:33:09.000Minister Giorgio Maloney more than doubled her seats in the EU Parliament. So the EU Parliament
00:33:13.000is of course across the continent, it's continent-wide.
00:33:18.000It has the most votes for any parliament in the world except for India.
00:33:23.000And the seats are allocated based on the number of votes they receive, and then all of these parties get together in sort of broader coalitions.
00:33:31.000Even if the alternative for Germany extreme party was hounded by scandal involving candidates, it rallied enough seats to sweep past the Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Germany.
00:33:40.000Meanwhile, sensing a threat from the far right, the Christian Democrats and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had already shifted further to the right on migration and climate ahead of the elections, so they remained the largest group in the 720-seat European Parliament, and they remain the people in charge.
00:33:56.000The big star of the night was the party of Marine Le Pen, that would be the National Rally Party, which dominated the French polls.
00:34:02.000Now, one of the things that is truly hilarious about European politics is that the so-called far right on issues regarding terrorism in Israel, each of these right-wing parties tends to be wildly more pro-Israel than its left-wing counterpart.
00:34:14.000So the National Rally of Marine Le Pen, whose father was not particularly friendly to the Jews, That national rally party is very pro-Israel.
00:34:27.000So the right-wing parties have a lot of solidarity with Israel.
00:34:30.000And so it turns out when they look on the streets of London and they see 300,000 people who are marching in favor of Hamas, they all say, well, maybe we shouldn't have that in our country.
00:34:40.000Emmanuel Macron immediately called snap elections because he was afraid that he was going to suffer more losses.
00:34:46.000Le Pen was delighted to accept the challenge.
00:34:49.000She said we're ready to turn the country around, ready to defend the interests of the French, ready to put an end to mass immigration.
00:34:53.000Her national rally won about 30 percent.
00:34:57.000That's twice as much as Macron's pro-European centrist Renew Party that is projected to reach less than 15 percent.
00:35:04.000In Germany, projections indicated that the AFD overcame a string of scandals involving top candidates to rise to 16.5%, that is up from 11%.
00:35:12.000Meanwhile, the combined result for all three parties in the current German governing coalition barely topped 30%.
00:35:20.000So again, the Europeans are not liking what they are seeing from the center, and they're not liking what they're seeing from the left.
00:35:27.000And I would have to think a lot of that has to do not only with the fallout from COVID, but the fallout from an entire wing of pro-terror leftists who have emerged all over Europe.
00:35:39.000In fact, in the hilarious move of the night, the Belgian Prime Minister of the Left, Alexandre Ducroix, had to announce his resignation after the defeat of his Flemish Liberals and Democrats party in the European elections.
00:35:51.000He said that he would resign as Prime Minister today.
00:35:56.000Again, they suffered a huge decline in the European Parliament, which is seen as sort of a bellwether for how things are going to go domestically as well.
00:36:05.000It turns out maybe the Europeans aren't wedded to the idea of national suicide quite yet.
00:36:11.000Maybe they still would like to go down swinging, you know, being European.
00:36:15.000And maybe the same thing is happening here in the United States as well.
00:36:17.000Maybe it turns out that in the United States, we are not liking the party of pro-Hamas.
00:36:23.000It turns out that Joe Biden's unwillingness to stand up to that party is a problem.
00:36:28.000It's why John Fetterman, who has been standing up to the Hamasniks, has been doing really well in Pennsylvania.
00:36:32.000Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, has been doing really well.
00:36:36.000But the Democratic Party, they can't separate off from its most radical, anti-American base, the people who spray-paint statues of George Washington in the name of Hamas.
00:36:44.000Turns out that party might have a bit of a backlash attached.
00:36:48.000And when that party is led by a doddering old man who has serious corruption problems, that's not great either.
00:36:54.000The media are now turning on Joe Biden in a fairly serious way.
00:36:56.000We saw the Wall Street Journal run an entire piece about how he was basically senile last week.
00:37:00.000Well, now Politico has run a piece about the corruption in the Biden family.
00:37:03.000It's titled, Biden insists he's not involved in his family's business dealings, but his aides are a different story.
00:37:09.000Well, that's an interesting way of saying that he obviously is involved in his family's corruption.
00:37:14.000Just all of his aides, like all of them, are involved.
00:37:17.000For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter.
00:37:19.000He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim.
00:37:21.000When Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden's associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden's Secret Service detail to investigate.
00:37:27.000Since 2019, Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family's business dealings, saying he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or anyone else.
00:37:34.000But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records, and emails reviewed by Politico show members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings.
00:37:42.000Many of the president's closest staffers and advisors have doubled as his relatives' business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.
00:37:51.000Of course he knew everything that was going on with his family.
00:37:57.000Eric Schwerin, for example, was Joe Biden's personal bookkeeper during his vice presidency, while Schwerin was also Hunter Biden's business partner and personal bookkeeper.
00:38:06.000In recent years, a person named Mel Montzak was personal attorney for both Joe and Jim Biden.
00:38:12.000Then, after going into work with a Chinese real estate developer, sought to do business with Hunter Biden and offered him the developer's personal largesse.
00:38:20.000Dale Pupilo oversaw Joe Biden's secret service detail while he was VP, then worked as a private investigator for Jim.
00:38:26.000So basically, there's just complete crossover, and Politico's noting it.
00:38:29.000Again, it's not really noteworthy that Joe Biden's corrupt.
00:38:31.000We've known he's corrupt for a long time.
00:38:33.000What's really fascinating is that now Politico's reporting on it.
00:38:35.000So, in the last week, we have a report from the Wall Street Journal about how he's senile, a report from Politico about how he's corrupt, and now we have a report from the New York Times about how he's a liar.
00:38:42.000Now, the New York Times can't actually just say he's a liar, so they heavily imply it.
00:38:47.000Their title is, quote, Biden loves to tell tall tales.
00:38:56.000He's kind of like your old uncle out there on the porch smoking his corncob pipe and telling you about the time cannibals ate his uncle.
00:39:03.000Except for the fact none of it's true.
00:39:05.000They could just say he's a pathological liar, because he is, but the New York Times won't just say that.
00:39:10.000Yeah, it's charming when Joe Biden lies.
00:39:13.000According to the New York Times, and President Biden's telling, he was a teenage civil rights
00:39:16.000activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go to college, and the nephew of
00:39:19.000a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false.
00:39:23.000But Mr. Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty when he works a room or regales an audience.
00:39:29.000They are a way to connect with voters, emphasize his middle-class Joe persona, and charm his audience.
00:39:34.000Despite Mr. Biden's penchant for exaggerating details when recounting episodes from his life, these autobiographical embellishments differ in scale and significance from the stream of lies about a stolen election peddled by his opponent, former President Donald Trump.
00:39:48.000When he's lying about all this stuff, when he just fibs... By the way, it is not true that the stuff that he says about elections is magnificently different from Donald Trump.
00:39:57.000Donald Trump, I think, says things that are untrue about the 2020 election.
00:40:01.000That election fraud was responsible for his loss, for example.
00:40:05.000Joe Biden says, whenever his party loses, votes have been suppressed.
00:40:10.000I'm having a hard time seeing a massive difference there.
00:40:13.000He continues to go out to black audiences and say voter suppression is a thing in Georgia.