The deal will see 50 Israeli citizens released, mostly women and children, in batches of 12 or 13 per day. Israel will also release some 150 Palestinian terrorists, or women and minors, in return for the release of the hostages. The deal is supported by the Israeli Defense Forces, the Shin Bet, and Mossad, which led many of the members of the Israeli Cabinet to flip from opposing the deal to supporting it, according to the Times of Israel. This deal is, in fact, highly controversial inside of Israel, and there are two separate strains of logic being applied. On one side, there are those who believe that as the cordon tightens around Hamas, they ll start killing hostages. On the other side, those who worry that hostage deals have always been a terrible policy, and remember the 2011 release of Gilad Shalit, which Israel obtained in which it obtained from a deal with Hamas. In fact, when the current leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, who was released in October 7th, told them that the deal was a good one, when they were told they d be at risk of being killed by the security services if they didn t make good on their promise to release the prisoners. 1,027 prisoners, including 280 serving life sentences, were in fact responsible for nearly 600 Israeli deaths at the time of the deal. In other words, a democratic government is trading terrorists for innocent women, and children being held by a terrorist group. Go to Daily Wire Plus to get 50% off your new Daily Wire plus annual memberships. Just the best deal of the year is now here! 50% OFF your new daily memberships, now here. Subscribe to Dailywire. Subscribe right now to DailyWire.co/Dailywire Plus to receive 50% of the best deals of the past year, plus a discount of $50, plus $50 off your newest Dailywire Plus annual membership, plus an additional $5 off your first month, and a discount on your next month's ad discount when you sign up for the Daily Wire + annual membership starts next week! go to dailywire.co Subscribe now to get $50% off the new Dailywire + Annual memberships! Subscribe today, only $99.99 gets you an ad-free version of the DailyWire + FREE VIP membership when you become a supporter of the Wire + gets you 5% OFF the Wireline Pro membership? Subscribe only $50 OFF your first year!
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00:00:08.000Last night, the Israeli War Cabinet approved a hostage deal with the terrorist group Hamas.
00:00:13.000According to the Israeli government, the deal will see 50 Israeli citizens released, mostly women and children, in batches of 12 or 13 per day.
00:00:21.000The Prime Minister's office has released a full list, and that list shows many, many young people, but their parents still in captivity, or dad still in captivity, and mom released, families destroyed, families split, and all the rest.
00:00:33.000For each day of such releases, Israel will pause its current offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:39.000Israel said it would pause its air operations for six hours daily in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
00:00:44.000That provision was apparently sought directly by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, who wants Israeli UAVs down for that time period to limit Israeli surveillance, presumably to save his own skin as he tries to escape whatever rat hole he is currently trapped in.
00:00:56.000For its part, Israel insists it will still have surveillance capacity without the UAVs.
00:01:00.000Hamas will also supposedly allow the International Red Cross access to the hostages, despite the IRC's publicly obvious disinterest in such a mission.
00:01:08.000Israel will also release some 150 Palestinian terrorists, or women and minors.
00:01:12.000In other words, a democratic government is trading terrorists for innocent women and children being held by a terrorist group.
00:01:18.000Israel will also allow additional fuel into Gaza, presumably to be stolen by Hamas.
00:01:23.000The deal is supported by the Israeli Defense Forces, the Shin Bet, and Mossad.
00:01:27.000That support led many of the members of the War Cabinet to flip from opposing the deal to supporting it.
00:01:33.000According to the Times of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu further insisted on the potential release of more hostages, a refusal to release terrorists convicted of murder, and a commitment by Hamas to locate the other hostages held by other terror groups in the Gaza Strip.
00:02:44.000So I would like to clarify, we are at war, and we will continue to fight until we reach all our goals.
00:02:58.000He says in war there are stages, and also in the returning of hostages there are stages.
00:03:03.000But we will not let go until we reach the absolute victory, and until we bring them all back.
00:03:11.000This deal is, in fact, highly controversial inside of Israel.
00:03:14.000There are two separate strains of logic being applied.
00:03:17.000On the one side, there are those who believe that as the cordon tightens around Hamas, they'll start killing hostages, that Israel must do what it can right now to free as many hostages as possible before that happens.
00:03:27.000They believe that Israel will be able to continue to successfully pursue its long-term goal of eradicating Hamas, even if that goal is made more difficult by Hamas's activities during the pause in fighting.
00:03:37.000There is some evidence to support this idea.
00:03:39.000Yesterday, for example, Palestinian Islamic Jihad released news of the death of one of the hostages, which they then promptly blamed on Israel procrastinating, which is weird because the hostages wouldn't even be in Gaza if terrorist groups had not taken them there.
00:03:52.000Bring the hostages home as fast as possible at the lowest possible cost and then destroy Hamas.
00:03:56.000That is the logic of those who support the deal.
00:03:59.000On the other side, there are those who worry that hostage deals have always been terrible policy.
00:04:04.000They remember the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal, in which Israel obtained the release of one kidnapped Israeli soldier from Hamas in return for, and I'm not reading the statistic wrong, 1,027 prisoners, including 280 serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terrorism.
00:04:21.000Those prisoners were at the time responsible for nearly 600 Israeli deaths.
00:04:26.000In fact, one of the prisoners who was in fact released in that deal was Yahya Sinwar, the current leader of Hamas, who planned October 7th.
00:04:33.000Opponents of the deal remember when the authorities told them security in Gaza was good enough to withstand the risk.
00:04:39.000Those authorities were obviously wrong.
00:04:41.000Opponents of the deal worry most of all that the current pause will be used as an excuse by the global community to pressure Israel for further quote-unquote de-escalation with a terrorist group that just slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped another 240 and pledges to do the same and pledges Israel's destruction.
00:04:56.000They worry that as the focus shifts from Hamas's evil to hostage deals, there will be a broader effort to leave Hamas in place.
00:05:05.000For its part, Hamas is already claiming to have achieved such an end.
00:05:08.000Last night, Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas living at five-star hotels in Qatar, released a statement saying a truce was going to happen.
00:05:16.000The term for truce that Haniyeh used is the same as the term for ceasefire.
00:05:20.000Haniyeh hopes this will serve as a propaganda victory, telling the radical Muslim world that Hamas has somehow fought Israel to a standstill.
00:05:29.000Already, the media are using the pause set to go into effect on Thursday as an excuse to talk about leaving Hamas in place.
00:05:35.000Politico Today has an article from one Colin Clark of the SUFAN group and Michael Kenney of the University of Pittsburgh, stating that Hamas is actually a kind of nice terrorist group, that they're not ISIS.
00:05:46.000They have merely territorial goals they can be negotiated with.
00:05:49.000According to Clark and Kenney, quote, unlike ISIS, some of Hamas's goals are actually political.
00:05:54.000And so there will be no effective solution to the crisis unless it also includes a political resolution.
00:05:59.000That is an absurd contention given the events of October 7th and Hamas's stated goal of repeating as many October 7th as possible and their stated goal of completely destroying the state of Israel.
00:06:11.000Hamas released a statement that at the very end suggested that what they're really looking for is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
00:06:19.000Never mind that what they mean by that is the complete destruction of the state of Israel.
00:06:22.000They are not looking for a two-state solution.
00:06:25.000But that contention that Hamas can be left in place is being issued by a wide variety of sources as the pause begins.
00:06:30.000David Ignatius of the Washington Post hopes that the hostage deal will provide a, quote, surprisingly pragmatic formula for easing the conflict, expanding into a de-escalation of the nightmare.
00:06:40.000Presumably, some in the Biden administration hope the same, that the Israelis will simply forget about what Hamas wants, what Hamas has done, what Hamas pledges to do, even before the bodies of October 7th have all been buried.
00:06:51.000The White House is obviously conflicted.
00:06:53.000Certain members are standing stalwartly by Israel.
00:06:55.000Others are fretting over the possibility of Iranian aggression.
00:06:58.000In reality, if Israel leaves Hamas in place, the possibility of regional conflict grows exponentially.
00:07:05.000It is only the impression of Israeli strength that has prevented a wider regional conflict thus far.
00:07:11.000Hamas would rearm and declare victory.
00:07:13.000Hezbollah would be emboldened in Israel's north.
00:07:15.000Terrorist groups in the West Bank would grow more violent.
00:07:18.000The Houthis in Yemen would up the ante.
00:07:20.000The Sunni countries would shy away from Israel and seek their own methods of defense against the Shia incursion, creating more opportunities for nuclear proliferation.
00:07:28.000Iran would grow more aggressive until they have fully developed a nuclear weapon, at which point pretty much all hell would break loose.
00:07:34.000Israel must re-establish deterrence and security.
00:08:38.000This means that Israel simply cannot allow pseudo-governmental bodies with control over money and weaponry staffed and governed by such people.
00:09:01.000Israel is making that clear and the world should remember it.
00:09:04.000In just one second, we'll get to the latest updates on the ground over there first.
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00:10:10.000How the world community is so eager to save Hamas.
00:10:13.000There are so many members of the world community who are eager to save Hamas, believing that when you appease terrorist groups, somehow, magically, this makes the world safer.
00:10:33.000Hamas is lying to the world when they suggest that there is anything on the table other than Hamas continuing its mission of destroying Israel.
00:10:41.000This is made clear every single day as Israel releases new footage from the Gaza Strip.
00:10:45.000So, for example, yesterday, the IDF released footage showing how Hamas uses masks to protect weapons.
00:10:51.000When you're talking about negotiations and diplomacy, negotiations and diplomacy obviously have to occur in a situation in which you can trust and also verify.
00:11:01.000That was the old Reagan saw, is that in any negotiation, especially with somebody who really opposes you, you have to trust, but you have to verify.
00:11:08.000Okay, well, trust is not possible with people whose entire mode of existence on this earth, namely Hamas terrorists and their ilk, is lying, is untruth.
00:11:18.000These are people who deliberately hide weapons beneath mosques in order so that when Israel has to hit the mosque, they can then claim that Israel is attacking holy sites.
00:11:26.000These are people who deliberately hide weapons in hospitals so that when Israel has to attack a hospital, they can hide inside and pretend that Israel is attacking a civilian site.
00:11:59.000One side is perfectly willing to lie as much as humanly possible in order to achieve its ends.
00:12:03.000And the other side keeps screaming into the void.
00:12:06.000Negotiations cannot be pursued successfully under such conditions.
00:12:12.000This, by the way, is what Israel found out under the Oslo Accords, when they trusted the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority promptly started multiple rounds of violence, when the Palestinian Authority used every dollar that came into the Palestinian Authority, not to build up civil society, but to siphon it off into the pockets of the Palestinian leadership, to build up weaponry, to pay terrorists, Dishonesty is the name of the game in this particular region.
00:12:38.000The only thing that both sides understand, because Israel understands honesty, and its opponents do not.
00:12:44.000They don't even play in that kiddie pool.
00:12:47.000The only thing, the only currency in the Middle East, unfortunately, I wish it were not so, the only currency is actual deterrent power.
00:12:54.000That is the only currency that actually exists.
00:12:56.000I'll show you some of this footage in just a second, because again, it continues to be stunning and astonishing to me that people in the West seem to believe that Hamas is just, you know, they're just another political group that David Ignatius is of the world.
00:13:12.000This is something that the West also seems to have forgotten.
00:13:16.000The West seems to have forgotten that when you make policy, you have a policy goal and then you have certain tactics in order to achieve the policy goal.
00:13:22.000If you wish, for example, for a two-state solution, that is a policy goal.
00:13:27.000Now, the only way to achieve that policy goal may be to replace a regime like Hamas in the Gaza Strip and hope that at some point in the future, another regime arises that is not a genocidal terrorist group.
00:13:38.000But there's so many people in the West who believe that diplomacy is like an actual policy.
00:13:42.000And so when asked in presidential debate, you'll see candidates say things like, well, I would pursue diplomacy.
00:14:20.000But the reality is that when you're in the Prime Minister's seat in Israel, or by the way, when you're in the President of the United States' seat in the United States, all the talk about not negotiating with terrorists seems to go by the wayside because immediate interest in obtaining the release of innocent people tends to trump all of the tough talk.
00:14:37.000I think that's unfortunate, by the way.
00:14:39.000Again, we'll get to some of the tape showing what Hamas actually is in just one second.
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00:17:19.000It's not as though that is a core part of their policy.
00:17:22.000Meanwhile, Israel has released yet more tape of Hamas using al-Shifa to build a tunnel network.
00:17:26.000Again, it is amazing how many credulous members of the press were willing to humor the lie that everyone knew was a lie, that Al Shifa was a civilian site predominantly, as opposed to a Hamas headquarters, even after Israel released horrifying footage of Hamas literally dragging hostages into the hospital as doctors sat around and watched.
00:17:48.000To understand how disgusting the international community is, what you really have to understand is how many international organizations knew exactly what al-Shifa was and continued to propagandize on behalf of Hamas.
00:18:34.000I don't know about you, but maybe that's because I'm not a piece of human debris like the members of Hamas.
00:18:40.000Nonetheless, the typical sort of good-hearted American notion that everyone thinks the same way, and everyone has the same general mode of thought, and we're all seeking the same thing, and we're all brotherhood, all this stuff, it's crap.
00:18:55.000The world is filled with real politique, a struggle between people who very often believe horrible things and people who do not believe horrible things.
00:19:04.000This is why, for example, South Africa has now shifted dramatically on Israel.
00:19:08.000They're now accusing South Africa is Israel of a quote unquote genocide.
00:19:20.000Justifiably, in some measure, during apartheid, in the post-apartheid era, the promise of Mandela has been almost completely forgotten in South Africa, as there has been a move to tremendously racialize the politics again in South Africa, and Israel has been seen as an extension of that.
00:19:37.000According to the Times of Israel, one of Israel's most significant partners on the continent, one time, South Africa has gradually come out as one of its most vituperative critics, accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and now of genocide.
00:19:48.000The genocide allegation has traveled up the ranks of the government, beginning on November 2nd with Khumbudzo Neshav Henni, a relatively junior cabinet minister, and then was expressed by the president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
00:20:00.000Who called Gaza a, quote, concentration camp where genocide is taking place, which is just the vilest, most disgusting language, especially about, again, the Jews who actually suffer in a concentration camp where genocide was taking place.
00:20:11.000Many concentration camps where genocide was taking place, which is not Gaza.
00:20:16.000South Africa is going to move in very dangerous directions against its Jewish population.
00:20:21.000And this is true of a huge number of countries, ranging from Africa, I would say to the Middle East, but there are no Jews in the Middle East other than in Israel because they've all been expelled already, which no one seems to care about.
00:20:29.000But from Africa to Europe, this is going to be a continuing problem.
00:20:33.000Meanwhile, Turkey is seeking to up the ante because, again, Turkey can do so at low cost and then make promises to its Islamist population first.
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00:21:43.000OK, so Turkey is also seeking to up the ante because Erdogan is an Islamist dictator.
00:21:51.000According to the Times of Israel, approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas.
00:22:01.000Now, a decade ago, they tried the same thing.
00:22:03.000They tried to ship in a bunch of weaponry.
00:22:04.000Israel had to board one of those ships, and there were terrorists on board that Israel had to kill.
00:22:10.000And that ended up being an international incident, because this is the way that it works.
00:22:14.000Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists and 104 with Spanish activists.
00:22:21.000Only 12 Turkish vessels would join the flotilla.
00:22:24.000Apparently, later, they expected the number of Turkish vessels to increase to 1,000.
00:22:27.000They then suggested that the initiative was not associated with the Turkish government, which, of course, is a lie.
00:22:34.000The operation would be designed to cause disruption in international waters off the Israeli coast to the maritime trade heading for the port of Ashtod in order to interrupt the supply of goods to Israel for a week or even up to 10 days.
00:22:44.000So it wouldn't even be to try to ship stuff into the Gaza Strip, which is not going to work.
00:22:48.000Instead, it would be to obstruct other boats from getting into Israel to bring goods into Israel.
00:22:54.000The world is filled with delightful people and delightful countries, and it is worthy remembering that the United States does not exist in a vacuum.
00:23:16.000But that does not mean that the world is not a fairly small place.
00:23:20.000And that the more horrifying countries gain more power, the more horrifying countries feel emboldened, the more that affects your life here at home.
00:23:28.000I'm not just talking about in terms of security.
00:23:30.000Sure, it means that there will be an uptick in terror attacks because, again, when terror groups feel that they have a weak horse, they attack.
00:23:36.000I mean, Osama bin Laden said that much.
00:23:39.000I'm talking about in terms of your economic livelihood.
00:23:41.000There are choke points all over the globe.
00:23:44.000Most of trade does not happen via airplane.
00:23:50.000There are dozens of choke points all over the world.
00:23:54.000And as the United States' power wanes in those particular areas, that's going to get a lot worse.
00:23:59.000If the United States and its allies, for example, cannot guarantee the freedom of the waterways, which has been sort of the guarantee the United States has assumed since the end of World War II, I promise you, the price of goods, services, everything is going to increase dramatically.
00:24:12.000If you're worried about inflation now, get ready.
00:24:14.000If you're worried about price spikes now, get ready.
00:24:16.000What happens when, for example, China decides that it's going to take more control over the South China Sea and then impose tariffs on anybody moving through?
00:24:24.000What happens when the Straits of Hormuz are shut off by Iran?
00:24:27.000This is the sort of thing that happens in a multipolar world.
00:24:29.000We have all been living in the aftermath and in the current of a dominant American hegemony, and that is a very, very good thing.
00:24:37.000America and its allies rule the globe.
00:24:39.000That is good, because in that absence, the opposite is really bad.
00:24:44.000We can pretend that none of this matters, but it matters an awful lot.
00:24:48.000If, for example, the Strait of Malacca, which is the primary choke point for traded goods in Asia, If that, for example, is grabbed by China or controlled by China, that is a serious problem.
00:25:00.000Not only because it gives China an enormous amount of leverage over the United States, but also because it means the prices are going to go up.
00:25:07.000If the Straits of Hormuz are closed, I mentioned that earlier, that's 30% of all oil traded on the world's oceans, which is the majority of oil traded.
00:25:32.000I understand that's the stuff that emotionally moves people, but there's a whole group of people out there who are isolationist because they are quote-unquote realpolitik, who are thinking about the hard power aspects of what it means to exist in the world.
00:25:44.000And they are forgetting that those hard power aspects don't just exist inside the United States of America.
00:25:49.000America, again, is uniquely blessed by geography.
00:25:52.000That does not mean that America is autarkic.
00:26:28.000Again, forget about the fact that Taiwan is a democratic state that shares many of our values, and China is a communist hellhole that shares virtually none of them.
00:26:36.000The real question for the real politik crowd, because that is what they say they are, they say they are hard-headed.
00:26:42.000I mean, I noticed that the hard-headedness, the hard-headed isolationism doesn't extend to when people are traveling to Spain, or when they are traveling to Hungary to talk with various foreign leaders.
00:26:51.000Then the hard-headed realpolitik seems to go away, and it's moral suasion again.
00:26:54.000But even assuming hard-headed realpolitik papucanonesque isolationism, all right, well, let's pretend for a second that you got your way.
00:27:02.000There would be real massive costs associated with that to the American taxpayer, to the American consumer, to American families.
00:27:09.000And lest we forget, the American economy matters an awful lot to the American family and to American consumers.
00:27:18.000Everything seems very distant until the impacts are felt very, very immediately.
00:27:21.000And that's the problem with foreign policy.
00:27:23.000It's hard to explain foreign policy, generally speaking, in real politic terms because it requires a certain baseline level of understanding and knowledge, which is why typically There has been a semi-bipartisan consensus on foreign policy.
00:27:34.000Because once you get in the seat and you see how certain decisions that are made in places very far away from the United States manifest as real impacts inside the United States, it seems that that clarifies the mind a lot.
00:27:47.000And that's true for members of both parties, largely.
00:27:50.000I mean, Donald Trump came into office pledging a certain level of isolationism.
00:27:54.000And he was able to carry that out to the extent that we didn't involve ourselves heavily in foreign conflicts.
00:27:58.000But to pretend that Donald Trump was an isolationist on foreign policy is absurd.
00:28:01.000He personally helped broker the Abraham Accords in the Middle East.
00:28:16.000It is a thing the United States will have to do.
00:28:18.000Because again, second-order thinking requires that you not just look at the problem that is immediately in front of you and say, that's very far away, it's happening in a different place.
00:28:26.000Foreign policy requires you think two steps down the road because America's enemies are.
00:28:29.000And that's particularly true for dictatorships.
00:28:31.000When it comes to foreign policy, dictatorships have a first-mover advantage.
00:28:35.000Democracies are generally very slow to mobilize and they tend to get bored very easily.
00:28:40.000Dictatorships don't have to worry about that.
00:28:42.000This has always been the case that China has made with regard to foreign policy, for example.
00:28:45.000China has always said, we'll just outlast you, we'll outweigh you, we'll outlast you, we'll still be here, you'll just elect another president four years from now, and then that guy will do some stuff, and if we don't like that, we'll wait another four years, and that guy will go away.
00:28:57.000Having a long-lasting, hard-headed foreign policy is a very difficult thing to do in a democracy, and dictatorships know that.
00:29:04.000That is why the American people and people of the West, generally speaking, have to be a little bit more long-sighted in the way that they view foreign policy.
00:29:14.000Because again, dictatorships have the ability to simply hold the line for literally ever, and if their people don't like it, they just kill them.
00:29:20.000That's not the case in the West, which requires more of the people of the West.
00:29:22.000It requires people in the West to actually think about the impacts of the things that they are saying and doing, because those things actually have an impact on how their leaders act.
00:29:31.000Which brings us to the latest in Ukraine.
00:29:33.000Now, the issue in Ukraine is really not whether Russia is going to win there now.
00:29:38.000Russia is not going to defeat Ukraine.
00:29:40.000The issue is, what does an off-ramp look like?
00:29:43.000The issue is, can Ukraine maintain its own security inside the borders that it currently has?
00:29:49.000Because it was in America's interest to continue to bleed the Russian army.
00:29:54.000This notion that it's in America's interest not to bleed the Russian army is bizarre to me.
00:29:58.000Russia's military has been quite aggressive.
00:30:01.000From Georgia, to Crimea, to the Donbass, to Kazakhstan, the Russian military, used as an arm of imperialism by the Russian state, has been adverse to American interests across the world, including in the Middle East, where they've been very active in places like Syria, because Barack Obama basically surrendered Syria to Russia, which was a bad move, and has heightened the possibility of conflict in the Middle East.
00:30:22.000When you hand over Syria to the Russians, it turns out that the Russians are coordinating with the Iranians.
00:30:27.000That has impact on Ukraine, because Iran is using Because Iran is working with the Russians to ship technology over.
00:30:34.000It has impact on the Middle East because Russia is helping Iran with its resource problems so it can distribute terror all over the Middle East.
00:30:39.000And that has impact on the world economy as we've seen from the shocking extent of the economic impact on the world economy of the war in Ukraine.
00:30:46.000There are a lot of interconnections in foreign policy.
00:30:48.000So what was America's interest in Ukraine?
00:30:50.000America's interest in Ukraine was number one, preserving the independence of Ukraine against Russia.
00:30:54.000Number two, degrading the Russian military.
00:30:56.000And America has largely achieved both of those goals.
00:30:59.000And then it was in America's interest to continue to support Ukrainian action in the field until the point at which it was clear that a stalemate had been obtained.
00:31:08.000That is basically what has happened here.
00:31:09.000I'd be perfectly happy to continue funding the Ukrainians if they were actually capable of pushing the Russians out of Donbass or Crimea.
00:31:17.000Then the question becomes, are we just throwing bad money after good, beyond a certain point?
00:31:22.000That's the real question we should be asking in Ukraine.
00:31:25.000That, by the way, is a very different story from, for example, foreign aid to Israel in defeating Hamas, which is a very, very achievable goal.
00:31:31.000Hamas is a fairly small, moderately sized terrorist group.
00:31:36.000Compared to the Israeli military, the Israeli military certainly has the capacity to regain control of the security situation in the Gaza Strip.
00:31:43.000Which is why all talk of a ceasefire now, from a military realpolitik perspective, is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:31:49.000Talk of some sort of solution in Ukraine right now makes sense, since we've been doing this for a year and a half.
00:31:53.000The lines on the battlefield have basically been stagnant for at least six months.
00:31:58.000And we all knew where they were going to end up anyway.
00:32:01.000With that said, the Pentagon Chief, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, has now made a surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital, trying to rally support for Ukraine, even suggesting Ukrainian forces would be even more aggressive in their fight against invading Russian forces throughout the winter.
00:32:14.000Austin's buoyant prediction about the next phase of fighting comes after Ukrainian forces failed to achieve any decisive breakthrough during a six-month counteroffensive, which came at a heavy cost for Ukrainian troops.
00:32:23.000The average age of members of the Ukrainian military is now 43.
00:32:27.000There's also serious concern in Ukraine about the longer-term future of U.S.
00:32:30.000military aid, with some Republicans wanting to halt support.
00:32:34.000Ukraine's ability to quote-unquote take the fight to the enemy, as Austin put it, will depend in large part on the continuation of U.S.
00:32:41.000But it is unclear whether the Ukrainians actually have the capacity to push the Russians back at this point, and they've shown no real ability to do so beyond the first few months of the war, when they had widespread success.
00:32:53.000They keep promising there will be a breakthrough, but there hasn't really been a breakthrough along those lines.
00:32:59.000As former diplomat Richard Haass suggested, he said, maybe the solution in Ukraine is security guarantees to Ukraine.
00:33:05.000We make sure that such an invasion never happens again.
00:33:07.000Ukraine has the ability to withstand such an invasion.
00:33:25.000And even if we give everything we need to give or want to give to Ukraine, it still won't lead to success.
00:33:31.000What I argue, therefore, is the United States needs to have some very direct conversations with Ukraine, with President Zelensky.
00:33:39.000Talk about reducing their emphasis on liberating land, increasingly put all their emphasis on holding on to what they've got.
00:33:47.000In the long run, diplomatically, through sanctions, yes, we can try to see the rest of their territory returned.
00:33:52.000But for right now, let's have 80% of this country safe, 80% of this country rebuilt.
00:33:59.000Okay, that happens to be a good real politic perspective.
00:34:01.000Again, American interests should be secured all over the globe, and we do have an interest in things that happen outside of our borders.
00:34:07.000In just one second, we'll get to the continuing unpopularity of Joe Biden.
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00:36:37.000This is the highest degree of courage that I've seen.
00:36:40.000But like Ben, I've seen about a hundred different cases of courage that even I, Prime Minister of Israel, and you know, I fought, I was a commander in special forces.
00:36:53.000I've never seen this degree of courage.
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00:38:05.000President Biden should continue to do what he's been doing, connecting personally with people and making jokes about the coverage of his age.
00:38:37.000Okay, so there is a Stephen Colbert legitimately joking about the death of the President of the United States because he is too old.
00:38:43.000That is not a joke that Stephen Colbert would be making if Joe Biden were riding at 55% in the polls.
00:38:48.000And the reason they're making these jokes is because Joe Biden cannot get through a single appearance at this point without crashing and burning.
00:38:53.000Here he was yesterday attempting to tell a story about fentanyl and it does not go well.
00:38:58.000As families all across the country gather this week with their loved ones for Thanksgiving, too many are going to face looking at an empty chair for the first time at Thanksgiving.
00:39:34.000What's kind of funny is to watch all the members of his administration who desperately want to run for president to replace him, but are stuck in place because he won't go anywhere.
00:39:41.000Watching them defend him is really quite humorous.
00:39:44.000Here's Pete Buttigieg, who desperately wants to run for president despite the fact that he is a terrible secretary of transportation and a running joke, whose only actual accomplishment was apparently being mayor of a small town in Indiana and also being gay.
00:39:59.000I would add to that, airfare is becoming much more reasonable lately, and unemployment that I don't think has stayed this low for this long in my lifetime.
00:40:08.000But that doesn't mean you can go around saying, you know, everything's perfect.
00:40:13.000Americans have had a rough few years, especially when you think about COVID and what that did to our society and effects that we are still working through.
00:40:22.000You think about some of the political polarization that's going on.
00:40:25.000We're not out there saying that all of the work is done.
00:40:28.000We're out there pointing to the good work that we're doing.
00:40:40.000Now again, I'm wondering increasingly these days whether that strategy is going to be successful or not, because it may all be baked into the cake.
00:40:46.000I think that their strategy, as of next year, is trials, trials, trials, Trump in front of courts, and all the rest.
00:40:52.000But the problem is that because they launched all the indictments so early, it's possible that they already got their bang for their buck on that one.
00:40:58.000It's possible that as Trump appears in court, it doesn't have all that much impact because we're like, oh, look, he's in court again in the same way that they kept trying to impeach him.
00:41:06.000And we're like, well, is it a day ending and why?
00:41:08.000I guess they're trying to impeach him.
00:41:09.000They're going to do the same thing with these court cases.
00:41:11.000So they're going back to the playbook.
00:41:13.000The playbook is, as we said yesterday, he's Hitler.
00:41:16.000The New York Times now admitting the quiet part out loud, quote, ignore Trump.
00:41:18.000Democrats now want him plastered all over the news.
00:41:21.000Democrats are hoping that more attention on him can help turn around President Biden's fortunes.
00:41:26.000Reid Epstein reporting, when Donald Trump left the White House, Democrats didn't want to hear another word from him.
00:41:30.000President Biden dismissed him as the former guy.
00:41:32.000A party-wide consensus held that he was best left ignored.
00:41:34.000Three years later, Mr. Biden's re-election campaign and Democratic officials across the party spectrum have landed on a new solution to his political slump.
00:41:43.000Criticizing the news media for giving Trump a platform is out.
00:41:45.000Quietly pining for major networks to again broadcast live coverage of Trump campaign rallies is in.
00:41:50.000Behind the improbable longing for the former president to gobble up political oxygen is Democrats' years-long dependence on the Trump outrage machine.
00:41:57.000Since his ascent, Trump has been a one-man Democratic turnout operation, uniting an otherwise fractured opposition and fueling victories in three straight election cycles.
00:42:04.000Now, Democrats worry the fever of Trump fatigue has passed, and some voters are softening toward a man they once loathed.
00:42:09.000Many others may simply be paying little attention, as Trump's share of the daily national conversation has diminished.
00:42:14.000As I've said before, Trump's best strategy in this is to basically go to the basement and then just point at Joe Biden.
00:42:18.000If he does that, he could very easily be president again, and they keep upping the ante.
00:42:22.000So Joe Scarborough, I mean, my goodness, this is unhinged.
00:42:25.000So here is Joe Scarborough making a doomsday prediction for Donald Trump's second term trying to scare you into voting for the old man.
00:42:35.000Doesn't mean he won't do it when he gets a chance to do it.
00:42:40.000And if he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal or figurative or whatever the hell they're saying, you're gonna look like idiots.
00:42:51.000Because he will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison Execute a drive from the country.
00:43:44.000Or wasn't Donald Trump actually so weak-kneed with regard to the DOJ that he let Hillary Clinton off the hook in the mistaken, but I think sort of justifiable belief that it would be better for the country if we didn't prosecute our political opponents, a rule that was then broken, eviscerated actually, by the Biden administration.
00:44:00.000All this talk about how scary Trump is, it's Joe Biden who's activated the DOJ against his political opponents.
00:44:05.000It's Joe Biden who has called his political opponents traitors.
00:44:10.000And again, I don't think it even washes for Joe Scarborough.
00:44:13.000I mean, if he really believes that this is Donald Trump's past, I'm just wondering why five years ago, seven years ago, when Donald Trump was campaigning, why precisely is it that Joe Scarborough was like sitting right next to him, joking with him?
00:44:26.000When's the last time you joked with Hitler?
00:44:28.000Is that something you've routinely done?
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00:46:42.000Well, meanwhile, the White House is focused in on the things that truly, truly matter.
00:46:46.000Like, of course, Transgender Victims of Violence Day, or Transgender Day of Remembrance, or whatever the going day for trans people is this week.
00:46:54.000Because there's, like, an entire calendar for the LGBTQ community.
00:46:59.000It is amazing how many days there are.
00:47:00.000I mean, like, just an insane number of days.
00:47:02.000Let me give you a little taste of the calendar.
00:47:05.000February 2023, in the United States, Well, let's see, there is Aromatic Spectrum Awareness Week 2023, that was February.
00:47:13.000In March, there is Zero Discrimination Day, Omnisexual Awareness Day, International Transgender Day of Visibility.
00:47:18.000In April, there's International Asexuality Day, a Day of Silence, International Lesbian Visibility Day, and Lesbian Visibility Week.
00:47:26.000In May, there was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia, Agender Pride Day, and Pansexual Visibility Day.
00:47:33.000In June, there was Pride Month, of course.
00:47:35.000July was Omnisexual Visibility Day, Nonbinary Awareness Week, Nonbinary People's Day, and International Drag Day.
00:47:40.000In August, there was Wear It Purple Day.
00:47:43.000In September 2023, there was Bisexual Awareness Week and Bisexual Visibility Day.
00:47:49.000October, last month, LGBT History Month.
00:47:53.000Which included International Lesbians Day, National Coming Out Day, International Pronouns Day, Asexual Awareness Week, and Intersex Awareness Day.
00:48:20.000They also had Transgender Parent Day 2023, which begs the question as to which parent actually birthed the child, Intersex Day of Remembrance, and Transgender Awareness Week, which of course featured Transgender Day of Remembrance, as though there is a giant genocide going on of transgender people in the United States.
00:48:36.000And just to make sure you remember, in December coming up, just to mark your calendar, World AIDS Day is December 1st, Pansexual Pride Day is December 8th, and Human Rights Day is 2023, December 10th.
00:49:38.000Last year, there were apparently 26, quote-unquote, trans women who were murdered, as opposed to, you know, like, 5,000 dead women in the United States murdered every year.
00:50:55.000Why don't they just list Islamophobia there too?
00:50:56.000I mean, it's just... The number of phantom social ills that apparently is rife in the United States, according to this White House, While they ignore actual social ills, it's truly an astonishing thing.
00:51:09.000This is still a White House that is pretending that the Nashville trans shooter who murdered a bunch of kids, that had nothing to do with transness or politics at all.
00:52:00.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive of Binance, the largest global cryptocurrency exchange, stepped down and pled guilty to violating U.S.
00:52:06.000anti-money laundering requirements in a deal that might preserve the company's ability to continue operating according to court documents.
00:52:13.000Changpeng Zhao appeared in Seattle federal court on Tuesday and entered his plea according to court records.
00:52:16.000Prosecutors accused Binance, which Zhao owns, of facilitating transactions with sanctioned groups.
00:52:24.000This seems like a perfectly valid prosecution, by the way.
00:52:28.000I'm just wondering why it is that the American federal government also facilitates transactions with sanctioned groups, namely the government of Iran.
00:52:34.000But here is Secretary Yellen, very excited about this.
00:52:38.000Binance processed these transactions, but it never filed a single suspicious activity report, and it also allowed over 1.5 million virtual currency trades that violated U.S.
00:53:18.000I just want to ask the question, why is it the United States government is directly facilitating the movement of money to the Iranian regime?
00:53:25.000One of the things they're going after Binance for is the facilitation of $899 million in process trades between Americans and users believed to be in Iran.
00:53:34.000The United States just freed up billions, tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues to the Iranian government, which is spreading terror around the region and ending with attacks on American troops.
00:53:44.000So maybe they should take a look at that as well, so long as they're looking at violations of law.
00:53:48.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.