Zoran Mamdani is the new face of the Democratic Party. That means that Bernie Sanders has now fully taken over the DNC. We ll get into what that means. Plus, President Trump s triumphant trip to the NATO summit, big wins for President Trump, and all the fallout from the end of the Iran-Israel war and what comes next.
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00:01:29.000And I think that Zoran Mamdani, this former know-name 33-year-old trust fund kid who has worked all of three combined years, I believe, in his entire adult life, and that includes him rapping.
00:01:42.000This person is now on the verge of becoming the mayor of the most important city in the West.
00:01:49.000And somehow that is happening because of all of this, because he's a trust fund kid, because he's a socialist, because he's an anti-Semite, because of all of those things.
00:01:58.000He's on the verge of becoming New York mayor.
00:02:01.000You know, I think reasonable people look at this person who is awful on pretty much every available issue and they say, well, he must be winning in spite of those things.
00:02:11.000What is he doing to win in spite of those things?
00:02:23.000This cause which is to tear down all the systems, just inchoate rage at the system channeled into socialist economics and Howard Zinn foreign policy and destructive hatred of traditional institutions.
00:02:37.000And that scavenger philosophy has gained an awful lot of credence on a dissatisfied left, a left that achieved many of its victories and now has plunged itself directly into nihilism.
00:02:50.000See, the problem with the left over the course of the last several decades has been that they caught the car.
00:02:54.000In the 1960s, the left in the United States began to catch the car on everything from the sexual revolution to the overturning of the constitutional order.
00:03:02.000And in doing so, they then had to construct a system.
00:03:06.000And the problem is that when you construct a system and then the system fails and fails and fails again, and the backlash happens in the form of a Donald Trump, you start to lose your mind.
00:03:16.000And so instead of you wanting to capture the commanding heights of the system and change the system from within incrementally, quote unquote, make it better, which used to be the democratic way.
00:03:26.000Now you just want to burn everything down.
00:03:30.000Now, that in and of itself is not a particularly attractive message to the broader American public that generally does not want to burn everything down.
00:03:37.000The dirty secret about President Trump is that when President Trump ran in 2016, pledging that he was going to burn everything down, the reality is that people realistically believed that he was going to burn some things down, but he was certainly not going to burn other things down.
00:03:49.000They thought that actually he would be a lot more moderate than he was saying he would be.
00:03:54.000And it turns out that in many ways, he was significantly more institutionalist in his approach from 2016 to 2020 than people expected him to be.
00:04:05.000And even today, all the people who are yelling about him challenging democracy, democracy is not under threat.
00:04:12.000This idea that Donald Trump is simply running roughshod over our most cherished institutions is a lie.
00:04:18.000So Democrats have always used revolutionary language in order to push forward evolutionary ends.
00:04:23.000And Donald Trump sort of did the same thing inside the Republican Party.
00:04:27.000He used revolutionary language to achieve evolutionary ends.
00:04:31.000And all of that is sort of normal politics in the United States.
00:04:33.000That is not what's happening to the left now.
00:04:35.000Now the left, Bernie Sanders in particular and his entire wing of the party, are using revolutionary language because they want an actual revolution.
00:04:43.000This is why you have seen the left nodding at riots over the course of the last decade.
00:04:49.000It's why so much of the left was fine with Luigi Mangion shooting the United Healthcare CEO, because revolution requires a few broken eggs.
00:04:58.000And it is why Bernie Sanders now has the whip hand in the Democratic Party.
00:05:02.000So Zara Mamzani is simply channeling Bernie Sanders at this point.
00:05:06.000And he has a few sort of added features.
00:05:09.000Obviously, the fact that he's ethnically diverse, the fact that he's not originally born in America, the fact that his father is a post-colonial studies professor at Columbia University of Shia Muslim descent, and his mother is an Indian-American filmmaker of Punjabi Hindu descent.
00:05:27.000All these things add a smattering of exoticism to Zoran Mamdani.
00:05:32.000The fact that he is a rabid anti-Semite obviously sprinkles a lot of pizzazz atop the sort of Omni-cause stew.
00:05:41.000He's basically Greta Thunberg with a beard, with a more ethnically exotic background, and with a lot more charisma.
00:06:04.000In these dark times, I know that it is harder than ever to keep faith in our democracy.
00:06:12.000It has been attacked by billionaires and their big spending, by elected officials who care more about self-enrichment than the public trust, and by authoritarian leaders who rule through fear.
00:06:27.000But above all, our democracy has been attacked from within.
00:06:34.000For too long, New Yorkers have strained to find a leader who represents us, who puts us first.
00:06:42.000And we have been betrayed time and again.
00:06:46.000After so many disappointments, the heart hardens.
00:06:54.000And when we no longer believe in our democracy, it only becomes easier for people like Donald Trump to convince us of his worth.
00:07:05.000For billionaires to convince us that they must always lead.
00:07:09.000And I pledge to you that we will remake this great city, not in my image, but in the image of every New Yorker who has only known struggle.
00:07:20.000Well, I mean, he certainly has not only known struggle.
00:07:22.000In fact, Zorn Mamdani has experienced a shocking lack of struggle in his young and non-achievement-oriented life.
00:07:30.000In fact, New York State Assembly member Zorn Mamdani, according to Forbes.com, at a panel in Harlem in February, discussed a piece of proposed legislation that would strip Columbia University of various tax breaks and redirect the revenue to fund the city's university system.
00:07:45.000His father is a Harvard-educated, renowned professor there.
00:07:48.000He grew up in university-owned housing.
00:07:50.000Today, Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, proudly rejects the elite circles.
00:07:54.000His mother, also Harvard-educated, is an award-winning director where he got his start.
00:07:58.000He lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, owns no car, and lists just one major asset in his financial disclosure, several acres of land in his native Uganda that he acquired at least a decade ago.
00:08:07.000And his social media savvy outsider campaign to become New York's next mayor has carried him to polling neck and neck with the other frontrunners.
00:08:14.000All righty, in just a moment, we're going to get into Democrats falling in line behind the radicals like Zoran Mamdani.
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00:10:31.000So, Mom Dani is worth a couple hundred grand.
00:10:35.000He was born in Kampala, the capital of Uganda in 1991, the same year that his Indian-American filmmaker mother released her second movie starring Denzel Washington.
00:10:46.000That was three years after her debut feature, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
00:10:54.000His dad had a job teaching at Columbia University.
00:10:56.000He attended Bank Street, a prestigious Manhattan private school that now costs as much as $66,000 a year for elementary school students before graduating from Bronx High School of Science, one of the city's best public schools.
00:11:08.000Then he studied Africana studies, again, a nonsense study at Bowdoin College, a private liberal arts school in Maine that is also the alma mater of Netflix's Reed Hastings.
00:11:20.000After graduating, he worked on his mom's sets.
00:11:23.000He tried his hand at a rap career using the monikers Young Cardamom and Mr. Cardamom and took jobs working on several political campaigns and community organizing efforts.
00:11:35.000That is legitimately his entire work history.
00:11:38.000And this is a person who is campaigning for those who quote unquote have only known struggle.
00:11:45.000What he is saying is that if you are unsuccessful in life, like say Zoran Mamdani, what is required is a revolution, revolution led by someone like Zoran Mamdani.
00:12:20.000And so he is taking Bernie Sanders economics and he's slapping on top of that all of the spicy pepper that makes so many liberals go absolutely gaga, particularly white, highly educated, rich, elite liberals.
00:12:34.000Again, all the things that people see as bugs in Mom Dani are actually draws for Mom Dani.
00:12:48.000It's the day after the October 7th attacks.
00:12:50.000Quote, I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours.
00:12:56.000Netanyahu's declaration of war, the Israeli government's decision to cut electricity to Gaza, And Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come.
00:13:05.000The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.
00:13:10.000Again, he tweeted that the day after October 7th, before Israel had even responded, and while people were still being shot in Israel by Hamas terrorists, that's the guy who's probably the next mayor of New York.
00:13:24.000The guy who is probably the next mayor of New York has been characterized by his mother as non-American, quote, he is a total Desi, completely.
00:13:47.000He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.
00:13:50.000That is according to the Hindustan Times from 2013.
00:13:55.000Okay, so a person whose own mother characterized him as not American in his essence could be the next mayor of New York.
00:14:02.000And by the way, his campaign videos drew on all of this.
00:14:06.000Because when you are talking again about the scavenger cause and the idea is you have to tear down all the things, it is good to talk about ethnic separatism, like true ethnic separatism, in which you make the appeal to be mayor of New York based solely on your ethnicity.
00:14:21.000Here is Zoran Mamdani cutting an ad in Hindi in the middle of the campaign.
00:14:28.000Seeing the selection, it has just 20 days left.
00:14:30.000And the choice is between me and Andrew Cuomo.
00:14:33.000If you're just tuning in, this is all Andrew Cuomo has to offer, and it's a clip from an old movie.
00:14:39.000By the movie, property, bank balance, bungalow, car, what do you have?
00:14:43.000And he says, you, thanks to you, we've raised $8 million, knocked on more than 800,000 doors, and are on the brink of electing the first South Asian mayor in New York City history.
00:14:53.000But it's not who I'll be, but what I will do for our communities and for every New Yorker.
00:15:00.000I'm going to make this city affordable.
00:15:02.000New Yorkers are struggling to afford food, clothing, and shelter.
00:15:25.000Because if this is the up-and-coming Democratic Party, a Democratic Party in which upper-class white liberals particularly feel really good because they have non-white faces to tell them things that are essentially luxury beliefs that no one actually wants, who's supporting him?
00:15:40.000Just so you'd expect, upper-class white liberals.
00:15:42.000So, according to the closing polls, in the New York Democratic mayoral primary, the neighborhoods with the highest non-white percentages, Cambria Heights, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens, Canarsey, voted between 60 and 64% for Andrew Cuomo.
00:15:59.000Mom Dani was stuck between 17 and 23%.
00:16:03.000In the neighborhoods with the highest Hispanic percentages, Corona, University Heights, Fordham Heights, Longwood, Kingsbridge Heights, Cuomo won somewhere between 48 and 59% of the vote.
00:16:16.000Mom Dani was stuck between 31 and 41% of the vote.
00:16:20.000In Asian neighborhoods, Mom Dani won, walking away, because again, of the attempted ethnic solidarity there.
00:16:28.000And then there are the white neighborhoods.
00:16:30.000Then there are the white neighborhoods.
00:16:32.000So take a look at the white neighborhoods.
00:16:35.000White voters precincts by racial majority.
00:17:08.000And by the way, if you don't believe me, all you have to do is take a look at this tape of Zorn Mamdani's election evening party when it was announced that Cuomo had conceded the primary.
00:17:16.000Can you see a single person of color in this crowd?
00:17:55.000So, when I say that Bernie Sanders has taken over the party, that's what I mean.
00:17:59.000AOC is Bernie Sanders just wearing AOC's face.
00:18:02.000Zorin Mamdani is Bernie Sanders just wearing Zorin Mamdani's face.
00:18:06.000And he's pledging all of Bernie Sanders' nihilistic trash solutions to life.
00:18:13.000Bernie Sanders, there's a reason he was celebrated by Politico magazine.
00:18:17.000Quote, Democratic leadership is way out of touch.
00:18:19.000Bernie Sanders on Zorin Mamdani's win.
00:18:22.000And he says that Mamdani ran a brilliant campaign, but not just that.
00:18:28.000He says that the way forward for the Democratic Party is fairly obvious.
00:18:33.000He says we're going to have to support progressive candidates.
00:18:35.000Whether they have to primary incumbent Democrats does or does not matter.
00:18:39.000Obviously, that's what fighting oligarchy is about.
00:18:42.000The Democratic leadership, he says, has got to make a choice.
00:18:44.000They're probably not going to make the right choice.
00:18:46.000And therefore, we just have to go forward and bring new energy into the party in terms of working class people, young people, people of color, etc.
00:18:53.000And again, that sprinkling of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel hatred, hatred for America's foreign policy, hatred for traditional values, the queers for Palestine aspect of the OmniCause, Bernie's all in on that sort of stuff.
00:19:08.000I mean, Bernie said to Politico, quote, one thing I want to say also is that if Democrats keep running in fear of APAC, they will continue to do badly.
00:19:16.000First of all, the idea that Democrats run in fear of APAC is an absurdity.
00:19:38.000He goes after Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, saying Larry was the guy who helped bail out Wall Street, as I recall.
00:19:46.000I'm alarmed there's any Democrat who'd be sympathetic to a Netanyahu government.
00:19:54.000The reason that all of these people are marching with a queer flag and a Palestinian flag and now an Iran flag and also voting for Zoran Mamdani is because they are about destroying the things that work in the name of nothing.
00:20:07.000It is not as though they want to build a better system.
00:20:08.000They do not have the capacity to build a better system.
00:20:10.000You think that Zoran Mamdani, through rent freezing all the apartments in New York that he can, is going to lower the price of housing in New York City?
00:20:20.000They tried this in the 70s and landowners, developers began burning down their own developments for the insurance money.
00:20:28.000They stopped actually cleaning up their own apartment complexes because it was too expensive to clean them for the rent that was being received.
00:20:37.000You really think that Zora Mamdani's rewarmed Cuban-style socialism where the government runs grocery stores is going to bring down the price of food?
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00:23:22.000tnusa.com slash shapiro or give them a call at 800-958-1000 to visit with our friends over at tax network usa so Eric Adams is still running as an independent Andrew Cuomo might still want to run as an independent he should drop out he should get out of the way if he can't pick up enough of the Democratic vote to win the primary he's just going to split votes with Adams and probably leads Momdani winning but who else was showing up at the Momdani election party how about Lena Khan the former head
00:23:54.000of the Federal Trade Commission a person so wildly to the left that every major business person in America despises Lena Khan shockingly there are parts of the Republican Party that like Lena Khan because they again horseshoe theory right around this sort of nihilistic economics and foreign policy the horseshoe theory right and the horseshoe theory left they're now just doing the predator meme with the gripped arms at this point there's a picture
00:24:24.000of Lena Khan with Zoran Mamdani at his at his party meanwhile Chuck Schumer is now caving as you would expect because Chuck Schumer is a pathetic human being the man who tried to write a book about anti-Semitism after ushering anti-Semitism into his party wholesale he now put out a tweet saying quote I've known Zoran Mamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers and fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria he ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability fairness and
00:24:53.000opportunity I spoke with Zoran Mamdani this morning and am looking forward to getting together soon what a disgrace he is what an absolute disgrace he is Chuck Schumer who wrote a book again about anti-Semitism is eager to meet with the guy who says globalize the intifada and chants it meanwhile wall street is of course panicking over all of this but other democrats are similarly jazzed hakeem jeffries the house minority leader he's out there praising mamzani's economic focus along with morning joe
00:25:25.000does he have an ideology that you would want your candidates in 2026 to have well from the standpoint of house democrats and what our focus has been clearly uh we have an affordability crisis in the united states of america and our focus will continue to be on driving down the high cost of living in this country well i'm so glad that he's found some common threads with zarin mandani again the democratic party they
00:25:55.000always make the mistake of thinking the revolutionaries are on their side the revolutionaries want nancy pelosi's head the same way they want Donald Trump's head.
00:26:30.000He's going to have to tap somebody on the shoulder.
00:26:31.000Now, he is out there campaigning day in and day out with AOC.
00:26:36.000That means that she, basically a female Zarn Mamdani, is a likely candidate for president.
00:26:42.000And if you look at those primaries and you look at the demographic breakdown of the Democratic primaries, she's not in horrible shape.
00:26:51.000Democrats may be forced to rely on black voters in South Carolina again to promote, say, a Wes Moore, governor of Maryland, or something like that, just to stop the Democratic Socialists from taking over.
00:27:02.000But if there's any sort of economic downturn, the wind in her sails is going to be extreme.
00:27:07.000Do you really think that J.B. Pritzker is going to stop AOC or Gavin Newsom is going to stop AOC?
00:28:20.000Corporate leaders, according to the Wall Street Journal, held a flurry of private phone calls to plot how to fight back against Momdani's primary victory and discussed backing an outside group with the goal of raising around 20 million bucks to oppose him, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:28:32.000The calls also discussed efforts to coalesce behind Adams and work to keep Cuomo out of the race.
00:28:37.000They're also trying to get Republican candidate Chris Schliwa to drop out by getting the White House to offer him a job in the Trump administration.
00:28:45.000So, a lot of people on Wall Street are freaking out, concerned about the future of the city of New York as well they should be.
00:28:53.000Wednesday, bankers and traders were trying to figure out the repercussions of a Mamdani mayoralty should he win the general election.
00:29:00.000According to the Wall Street Journal, some voiced concern about Mamdani's plan to freeze the rent of millions of New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized apartments, saying it would deter new investment in housing, reduced supply, and push up prices for everyone else.
00:29:13.000Anthony Pompliano, CEO of Professional Capital Management, a Bitcoin-focused financial services company, said, I cannot believe I even need to say this, but socialism doesn't work.
00:29:22.000There are renewed questions about whether Wall Street executives would stay in New York at all.
00:29:27.000Sandra Gerber, chief executive of investment firm Hudson Bay Capital, said he fielded texts from some of his 170 employees who said they were thinking of leaving.
00:29:35.000I'm getting texts from a lot of my friends in New York City saying that this is the last straw, to which I say, why is this the last straw?
00:29:39.000You should have picked up and left years ago.
00:29:41.000President Trump has responded to Zorin Mamdani's win at this point.
00:30:20.000And then he adds, quote, I have an idea for the Democrats to bring them back into play.
00:30:24.000After years of being left out in the cold, including suffering one of the greatest losses in history, the 2024 presidential election, the Democrats should nominate low IQ candidate Jasmine Crockett for president.
00:30:33.000AOC plus 3 should be respectively vice president and three high-level members of the cabinet, added together with our future communist mayor of New York City, Zar Mamdani, and our country is really screwed.
00:30:44.000Well, I mean, listen, in the near term, that looks like a successful campaign for Republicans.
00:30:48.000All I keep saying over and over and over is people should be very careful who they hope wins a primary on the other side, because at one point, Democrats wanted Donald Trump to win a primary in the 2016 presidential election.
00:31:06.000The Democratic Party does not have the capacity to stand up to the radicalism within its own party.
00:31:12.000They believe, as always, that the radicals are the future.
00:31:15.000And once they say that is so, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy because if you don't stand up to the crazies on your own side, they will eat you eventually.
00:31:23.000And the eventually isn't going to be so eventual.
00:31:24.000It's just going to happen sooner rather than later.
00:31:28.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump spoke out a lot yesterday about the report that he has labeled false.
00:31:36.000Now labeled false by the Israeli government as well from the New York Times and CNN that the strike that President Trump authorized on the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran was somehow unsuccessful.
00:31:46.000That was a report the New York Times put out based on essentially a low-confidence intelligence assessment from one of the 18 reports filed for the DNI.
00:31:56.000Worth noting at this point that Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, came out and said that President Trump is right.
00:32:03.000Quote, new intelligence confirms what the president has stated numerous times.
00:32:06.000Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed.
00:32:08.000If the Iranians choose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three facilities, Natanza, Fordo, Esfahan, entirely, which would likely take years to do.
00:32:15.000The propaganda media has deployed their usual tactic, selectively releasing portions of illegally leaked classified intelligence assessments, intentionally leaving out the fact the assessment was written with low confidence to try to undermine President Trump's decisive leadership and the brave servicemen and women who flawlessly Executed a truly historic mission to keep the American people safe and secure.
00:33:54.000Okay, so again, President Trump very confident on this.
00:33:56.000He also added that he doesn't believe an Iran nuclear deal is actually necessary, given the fact that, again, the strikes on the Iranian nuclear sites were successful.
00:34:05.000He also added, by the way, that it is possible that if Iran continues with this nuclear program, then the conflict might be renewed because he is, again, not going to give up on the idea that Iran must remain non-nuclear.
00:34:19.000They fought very, very hard and very viciously, very violently, and they were both satisfied to go home and get out.
00:34:33.000Okay, so again, I think that's a realistic take by President Trump.
00:34:36.000He added, by the way, that all of those rumors about Iran moving their nuclear materials, he says, they didn't move their nuclear materials.
00:34:50.000We think we hit them so hard and so fast they didn't get to move.
00:34:53.000And if you knew about that material, it's very hard and very dangerous to move.
00:34:59.000So again, President Trump is operating off the best available intel.
00:35:02.000That is not true for CNN or the New York Times.
00:35:04.000Israeli intel, by the way, assesses the exact same thing.
00:35:07.000According to Barack Ravid over at Axios, who usually is being leaked to by the restrainers in the Trump administration, Israeli intelligence services believe U.S. and Israeli strikes caused very significant damage to Iran's nuclear facilities, with some officials perplexed by leaked U.S. intelligence reports suggesting otherwise.
00:35:25.000The emerging Israeli assessment presents a far more optimistic view of the operation than that preliminary report from the DIA, which assessed the strikes may have set Iran back only a few months.
00:35:34.000Israel, which initiated the war and faces a far more direct threat from Iran than the United States, is largely satisfied with the early results.
00:35:40.000So if they're satisfied with the results, we should probably take their word for it since they're the ones who are on the front lines here.
00:35:45.000A professional battle damage assessment takes time, said an Israeli official.
00:35:49.000However, the official said, the Israeli intelligence services haven't arrived at any bottom lines for now, but we don't think there was any bug in the operation.
00:35:56.000We have no indications the bunker buster bombs didn't work.
00:36:01.000Now, again, Israeli officials say that the Iranian government has been engaged in its own battle assessment to determine the state of its nuclear program and that intercepted communications suggest that Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership.
00:36:18.000A second Israeli official said the Iranians themselves still don't even have a clear idea what happened to some of their nuclear facilities.
00:36:25.000Again, they say that these facilities have been either significantly hampered or destroyed entirely.
00:36:32.000Natanz is destroyed, the above-ground enrichment facility.
00:36:35.000Fordo inflicted major damage on the facility.
00:36:39.000Isfahan, the uranium reprocessing facility, was destroyed.
00:36:42.000Its underground tunnels were also damaged.
00:36:44.000We doubt these facilities can be activated anytime in the near future, said one Israeli official.
00:36:50.000And two Israeli officials claim intelligence shows Iran's stockpile of both 60% and 20% enriched uranium is now buried beneath rubble at both Isfahan and Fordo.
00:36:58.000And that'll be very difficult for them to recover that anytime in the near future.
00:37:02.000Bottom line, this is a serious cumulative effect when you put all that together, said the Israeli official.
00:37:07.000All righty, coming up, prosecutors have dropped some charges against Diddy.
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00:39:18.000Meanwhile, President Trump's success in the Middle East means that Iran does not have any major serious outside supporters.
00:39:26.000China, Russia, North Korea all have gone basically silent.
00:39:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, as Iran reels from its gravest threat in decades, its alliance with China, Russia, and North Korea is facing a vital test.
00:39:39.000Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang could offer Iran crucial assistance to recover from the damage inflicted by U.S. and Israeli strikes on its nuclear program and arsenal of conventional weapons.
00:39:48.000That could deepen the alliance, sending a powerful signal for potential conflicts in Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and Eastern Europe.
00:39:54.000Indeed, the three powers helped Iran build the nuclear program the U.S. and Israel have tried to destroy.
00:40:00.000But China, Russia, and North Korea don't appear eager to rush to Iran's side.
00:40:04.000President Trump's decision to insert the U.S. into Israel's assault on Iran by striking the country's nuclear facilities has made helping Tehran recover far riskier and more geopolitically fraught.
00:40:18.000As I said, America isn't just deterring Iran from building a nuclear weapon because America might just hit him with another bunker buster.
00:40:26.000America is deterring China, deterring Russia, making strong moves on the foreign front.
00:40:31.000And apparently, by the way, the Trump organization is about to affix its brand to a tower in Tel Aviv.
00:40:38.000A well-deserved victory lap for the Trump family, for sure, for sure.
00:40:43.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump is going after the leakers who put out this ridiculous story suggesting the Iran nuclear facilities had not been damaged.
00:40:52.000President Trump is rightly beyond angry about this.
00:40:56.000So Kelly O'Donnell from NBC News asked him about it, and he smacked her around.
00:41:44.000Now, if you take a look at the pictures, if you take a look how it's all blackened, you know, the fire in brimstone is all underground because it's granite and it's all underground.
00:41:53.000But even there, with all of that being said, the whole area for 75 yards around, the hole where it hit is black with fire.
00:42:04.000Okay, he is right about that, by the way.
00:42:06.000And again, Israeli intelligence says the same thing.
00:42:10.000Why would Israel stop the war if they have complete air dominance, if they believed that Fortal were still operational, and if they believed that the nuclear material had already been smuggled out somewhere and they could figure out where it was?
00:42:22.000Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, he says that this Iran nuclear obliteration is correct and that these leakers are professional stabbers, professional backstabs.
00:42:33.000There should be a full-scale investigation into that leak.
00:42:36.000There should be a full-scale investigation into a wide variety of leaks about who was doing what at the White House.
00:42:42.000I would love to know, for one, who leaked to Tucker Carlson, that Mark Levin was at the White House and what he was saying at the White House.
00:43:02.000They go out and they read this stuff and then they tell you what it says against the law, but they characterize it for you in a way that's absolutely false.
00:43:15.000Pete Hagset, the Secretary of Defense, said the same thing.
00:43:18.000The instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump or our country.
00:43:30.000They don't care what the troops think.
00:43:32.000They don't care what the world thinks.
00:43:34.000They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak.
00:43:37.000Of course, we've all seen plenty of leakers.
00:44:19.000And the big question remains, who were the leakers?
00:44:22.000And I hope that the Defense Department and the DNI, they deserve to do a full investigation into who is leaking this sort of material to the New York Times that puts American national security at risk.
00:45:06.000Here she was talking about how the West is arrogant to drop bombs on Iran.
00:45:10.000What does that make Iran, which was shooting missiles into Israeli civilian areas for the entirety of this 12-day war?
00:45:18.000And why is it that there is this arrogance in the West and in the United States to say that we get to decide who can have nuclear energy?
00:45:27.000We get to decide that and not just decide It.
00:45:30.000We get to act on it and drop bombs on a country that didn't attack us.
00:45:34.000We had no business dropping bombs on Iran.
00:45:38.000And so the question of whether the tactic worked or not to me ignores the fundamental moral question at hand.
00:45:44.000And I think that I'm not alone, probably, among Americans who are saying that this was something that we had absolutely no right to do.
00:45:52.000No right to do, because why should we judge?
00:45:54.000Why should we judge if Iran has a nuclear weapon?
00:45:56.000You know, an Islamic theocracy that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map and then to turn its sights to the rest of the West, including Europe and the United States, that has spread its terror tentacles throughout the world.
00:46:32.000When you attack a nation like Iran, the quickest lesson one learns is to make sure you now have a nuclear weapon so you're never attacked again.
00:46:44.000That's the only reason why Israel got its weapon in 1966.
00:46:48.000That's why North Korea got its weapon.
00:46:53.000That's why the United States and Russia got their weapon.
00:46:56.000And for those of us who go all the way back to the United States to kill 250 million people in two days in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that's not a high moral moment for the Americans.
00:47:08.000Again, this sort of desire by that horseshoe theory right and horseshoe theory left to denigrate the United States in order to prevent us from taking action against seriously nefarious players on the world stage.
00:47:21.000It is quite disturbing and it is quite disgusting.
00:47:24.000And many of those same people are trying to now downplay the size and scope of the United States' win.
00:47:30.000Because if it is clear to everyone that the United States did the right thing here by ending the Iranian nuclear program, if it is clear to everyone that it did not start World War III, if it is clear that President Trump made the right move, well, then their entire philosophy is on the ropes.
00:47:41.000Maybe America is actually, in foreign policy terms, generally good, not bad.
00:47:46.000Maybe the United States is actually not acting like a bull in a China shop, but is acting in targeted fashion.
00:47:51.000Maybe not every aspect of evil countries doing evil things is blowback designed at American overreach.
00:48:00.000But this is why you have Senator Rand Paul out there trying to laugh off President Trump's big win.
00:48:05.000Do you think that now the president's at the NATO meeting in Europe?
00:48:48.000Even people who have talked about regime change are talking about the possibility of essentially knocking off the Ayatollah and then letting the Iranian people have at it.
00:48:55.000No one is talking about a mass ground invasion.
00:48:58.000But that horseshoe theory right and horseshoe theory left have a perverse view of America in the world.
00:49:04.000Here she was on the Breakfast Club pod saying that Iran with nukes would actually make the Middle East calmer, which is in those are the remarks of an ambulatory psychotic.
00:49:13.000I mean, I don't know how else to put it.
00:49:15.000And the reason you won't see nuclear war in our lifetime is that everyone who would deem to threaten global annihilation has nukes.
00:49:39.000You know, maybe the Middle East would be calmer.
00:49:42.000Now, again, a realistic assessment of the world suggests that nefariously unstable countries that pursue terrorism across the region and the world should not have nuclear weapons.
00:49:53.000But I guess that's too much for people who don't like the United States very much in the first place.
00:49:58.000Meanwhile, President Trump went to the NATO summit yesterday, and he got an immediate big victory, a commitment to a NATO spending boost.
00:50:06.000According to Breitbart, President Trump hailed a historic monumental win for the United States, Europe, and Western civilization as the NATO alliance agreed to his demand to equalize the burden of common defense with a 5% of GDP floor on military spending for its members.
00:50:20.000Speaking at a press conference before he departed The Hague in the Netherlands, President Trump saluted a highly productive NATO summit and particularly noted he came away with a changed perspective on European defense.
00:50:30.000The centerpiece for that Hague summit, the first major NATO meeting in years, is the adoption of a new floor for spending by member states on their own and collective defense.
00:50:38.000While members had been expected to spend 2% or more of their own GDP on defense, that figure has now more than doubled to 5%, even if that does include infrastructure spending not previously considered to count as defense spending.
00:50:52.000So NATO Secretary General Mark Rudy, who of course is very much in favor of countries spending more money on NATO, praised President Trump to the skies, as well he should.
00:51:13.000President Trump, dear Donald, you made this change possible.
00:51:18.000Your leadership on this has already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from European allies since 2016.
00:51:26.000And the decisions today will produce trillions more for our common defense to make us stronger and fairer by equalizing spending between America and America's allies.
00:51:39.000So, I'd just like to point out that that's the NATO Secretary General talking about Donald Trump.
00:51:44.000Remember that time Donald Trump was supposed to be a Russian tool who hated NATO and is going to destroy it?
00:51:49.000And now it just turns out that Donald Trump has gotten NATO countries to increase the amount they are spending on common defense in a commitment to NATO.
00:51:58.000I remember that because I'm older in about five minutes.
00:52:01.000President Trump said that when NATO allies meet the Hague defense commitment, it will add more than $1 trillion per year to our common defense.
00:52:10.000He said, I came because it's something I'm supposed to do, but I leave here a little bit different.
00:52:14.000I watched the heads of these countries get up, and the love and passion they showed for their countries is unbelievable.
00:52:18.000I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:52:30.000We're here to help them protect their country.
00:52:32.000And earlier in the day, President Trump also affirmed his commitment to Article 5.
00:52:36.000That, of course, is the article that allows a NATO country under attack by an outside force to call on all the other members of NATO to come to its defense.
00:52:46.000Now, President Trump, again, endorsed that.
00:52:52.000If I didn't stand with it, I wouldn't be here.
00:52:54.000Responding to a journalist cutting in tasks so you would defend countries, even if they don't pay their fair share, Trump said, well, what did I just say?
00:54:50.000So again, President Trump getting things done.
00:54:54.000And for all those who believe that the president of the United States is fully turned against Ukraine, again, I see this sentiment a lot, again, on some of that horseshoe theory, right?
00:55:03.000I'm still waiting for the evidence that President Trump has fully turned against Ukraine.
00:55:07.000President Trump had a rather fascinating exchange with a Ukrainian reporter.
00:55:56.000And President Trump then said that he would be providing Patriot missiles to the Ukrainians.
00:56:03.000He said, according to ABC News, that he might be sending those Patriot missiles to Ukraine, that he's going to see if he can find systems for Ukraine.
00:56:12.000That was after he met with Zelensky, who again, Vladimir Zelensky has now done everything Trump wanted him to do, up to and including putting on a suit.
00:56:18.000Remember that time he went to the White House and he was wearing that jumpsuit that he wears because it's wartime in Ukraine still?
00:56:23.000And everybody went nuts because he should be wearing a suit, including the president and the vice president?
00:56:28.000And now he showed up to NATO wearing a suit because he knew that President Trump likes when he wears a suit.
00:56:58.000When you're getting praise from NATO, when you are ending wars in the Middle East with a single military strike, when you are throwing China off their game, deterring them possibly from going after Taiwan, these are all good moves.
00:57:14.000He said to that Ukrainian reporter, quote, we're going to see if we can make some available.
00:57:37.000It was one of the major problems that Vladimir Zelensky had.
00:57:41.000One of the major problems that Zelensky had is that he and Trump got off on the wrong foot for a long time.
00:57:48.000And that put him behind the eight ball.
00:57:50.000Well, that seems to be passing now, particularly because President Trump, his relationship with Putin has been fractured because Putin is acting against President Trump's interests and frankly dunking on President Trump whenever he gets the chance.
00:58:02.000I think President Trump is tiring of that really, really quickly.
00:58:06.000Now, meanwhile, we do have an update from Diddy Land.
00:58:12.000I'm not super into this case, but I know lots of you are into the Sean Diddy Combs case.
00:58:18.000Apparently, the Diddy prosecutors are now about to drop some of the charges.
00:58:22.000And this makes some sense, frankly, because as I've suggested, him being a complete walking piece of human debris does Not necessarily mean that he's guilty of some of the crimes with which he is charged.
00:58:33.000That's the problem with the criminal law.
00:58:34.000You actually have to fulfill the elements of the criminal law in order to be charged.
00:58:38.000Now, not all the charges are going away.
00:58:41.000Federal prosecutors, according to thefader.com, in the Diddy racketeering trial, are no longer planning to proceed with theories of attempted kidnapping, attempted arson, and aiding and abetting.
00:58:51.000The racketeering case is still going to proceed against the rap mogul.
00:58:54.000He faces charges and transportation to engage in related to both an anonymous accuser and Cassie Ventura, his former girlfriend of 10 years.
00:59:06.000In a letter filed on Tuesday, June 24th, prosecutors told Judge Aaron Subromanian that they had removed instructions from the charge pertaining to the theories.
00:59:13.000Quote, the government is no longer planning to proceed on these theories of liability, so instructions are no longer necessary.
00:59:20.000So there are meetings that happened yesterday between prosecution and defense to discuss jury instructions.
00:59:28.000Closing arguments for the trial begin June 26th.
00:59:30.000Some of these charges are being taken off the table in order to simplify what is being presented for the jury.
00:59:36.000But it's kind of interesting to see what got taken off the table.
00:59:39.000So, for example, the attempted kidnapping charge got taken off the table.
00:59:42.000The fact pattern in that particular case, I'll be honest with you, I had to ask my friend Perplexity, our sponsors at Perplexity, to fill me in on this because Perplexity has been watching this more closely than I have.
00:59:52.000On attempted kidnapping, Combs' former assistant, Capricorn Clark, testified that in 2011, upon discovering Combs' former partner, Cassie Ventura, was dating musician Kid Cuddy, Combs forcibly took Clark, well-armed, to Kid Cuddy's residence.
01:00:05.000Clark claimed Combs threatened to kill her, Kid Cuddy, and Ventura if Kid Cuddy informed police about Combs' presence in the home.
01:00:11.000This incident was presented as an attempted kidnapping tied to Combs' efforts to control and intimidate those involved.
01:00:20.000Kid Cuddy, again, I guess that is another rapper.
01:00:24.000I know, I know, testified that after ending his relationship with Ventura, his home was broken into and his Porsche 9-11 was set on fire using a Molotov cocktail, which an arson investigator confirmed was a makeshift firebomb containing gasoline.
01:00:36.000The prosecution suggested that Combs was behind this targeted arson attack, setting a Cadillac escalade registered to Combs' label parked outside during the break-in.
01:00:45.000Apparently, that's supposed to be retaliation because of Kid Cuddy's relationship with Cassie Ventura.
01:00:51.000And then there's the aiding and abetting.
01:00:55.000So he was accused of using his businesses to facilitate transporting women across state lines for distributing drugs, using violence and intimidation to control victims, recording those events for personal gratification.
01:01:07.000So some of those charges were dropped, but not with regard to Cassie Ventura and also one other anonymous accuser, apparently.
01:01:17.000So as for the remaining charges, he could still go to jail for life really, really easily.
01:01:24.000The maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
01:01:26.000The mandatory minimum is 15 years per count.
01:01:29.000On racketeering conspiracy, RICO case, 20 years imprisonment is the maximum penalty.
01:01:36.000So while prosecutors have dropped the specific Predicate Act, in order to have a conspiracy, you have to have an underlying crime.
01:01:45.000It's about a conspiracy organized to commit a type of crime.
01:01:49.000But the crimes they're alleging for purposes of RICO are bribery, witness tampering, forced labor, and narcotics distribution, transportation for 10 years imprisonment per count.
01:02:00.000There could also be aggravating factors, consecutive sentences, and all the like.
01:02:07.000So why did they drop all these charges?
01:02:08.000Apparently, to simplify jury instructions, to focus on the stronger charges, and to prevent defense about overreach in the racketeering and conspiracy charges.
01:02:17.000So the likelihood that Diddy is still going to jail for the rest of his life, that likelihood is still quite high.
01:02:23.000Don't be misled by some of the sort of coverage that is coming out of the mainstream media today that the case is collapsing or something like that.
01:02:32.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of criminal charges, you remember Representative LaMonica McIver?
01:02:37.000That was that New Jersey Democrat who tried to break into an ICE facility and assaulted federal agents in the process.
01:02:43.000She pled not guilty on Wednesday during a brief court appearance, according to the New York Times.
01:02:47.000The Justice Department charged McIver after a clash between lawmakers and immigration officers during the arrest of the city's mayor outside the privately run detention center, which has become a flashpoint in President Trump's deportation crackdown.
01:02:58.000McIver is one of a handful of politicians across the United States who's been arrested in recent weeks.
01:03:05.000So she, as we say, is again pleading not guilty.
01:03:09.000She pretty clearly is guilty, but it's quite possible that there will be jury nullification or that some arrangement will be reached with the prosecutors in this particular case.
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