The energy in the Kamala Harris campaign is being drained away, and she s making desperation moves in the campaign. She s trying to win over black voters, but it s not working. So now she s trying a desperate move: she s going to be interviewed by Brett Baer on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, and that s a risky move because she s being interviewed by someone outside of her ideological comfort zone, and the question is, will she be asked unfriendly questions about her campaign, or will she get a chance to ask tough questions about what s going on in her campaign? And what s the real problem with her campaign is that she s running into a lot of problems with black voters and women, and it s becoming increasingly clear that she is not going to win the 2020 election unless she can change the dynamics of the race in order to win black voters. Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Alex Blumberg, Senior Political Commentator, Senior Editor, Senior Producer, Senior Media Strategist, Senior Communications Specialist, Senior Staffer, Senior Fundraising Manager, Senior Campaign Strategist and Senior Media Liaison, Patrick Downey, Senior Data Analyst, Senior Strategy Consultant, Senior Research Analyst, and Senior Campaign Manager, Chris Raffensperger, Senior Press Secretary, David Axelrod, Sr., Senior Media Analyst, Sr. Senior Political Strategist. Subscribe to Daily Wire Plus to Stay up to date with the latest breaking news and analysis on politics, culture, entertainment, and politics! Subscribe and discuss all things politics, business, sports, social media, and culture! Subscribe today using our new and social media platforms! Learn more about your ad choices? Become a supporter of the 2020 Democratic Nominee? Subscribe for exclusive access to our newest podcast, access and access to all things 2020 Democratic primary and primary campaigns, including our upcoming presidential primary debates, breaking all things coming up in 2020 and beyond. Learn how to find out who s getting it all, coming up next year's most powerful in 2020, including the most powerful candidates, our best bets, our predictions, predictions, and much more! Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to our new podcast, coming soon, coming out in 2020? Subscribe and more! Subscribe and leave us your thoughts on what s happening in 2020! and more coming out next year! ? Subscribe & leave us a review on what else will be featured on the next episode of The Daily Wire?
00:01:48.000If Trump is winning suburban voters outright, disaster area for Kamala Harris in the swing states.
00:01:53.000And that is why you are seeing, again, all of those swing state polls seem to be trending in Donald Trump's favor.
00:01:59.000According to that RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump currently has a minor but real lead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia, as well as, by the way, Nevada, which has now moved back into his column in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:02:15.000So, and something has shifted in this race.
00:02:18.000And the thing that has shifted in this race is that people are finally realizing exactly who Kamala Harris is.
00:02:22.000And she certainly is feeling it, which is why she is now starting to greenlight interviews with actual unfriendlies.
00:02:39.000Nothing there. And as we'll explain in a moment, that is underscored by the fact that there has never been anything there.
00:02:44.000There's a big story that broke yesterday, thanks to our friend Chris Ruffo, who does amazing investigative work, that basically breaks wide open the reality that she is an empty vessel and always was an empty vessel.
00:02:55.000So now she is trying a desperation move.
00:02:57.000That desperation move is to be interviewed by Brett Baer on Wednesday in Pennsylvania.
00:03:02.000Now, that is a risky move for her because Brett Baer presumably will ask her some actual questions.
00:03:07.000Presumably, Fox News will not slice and dice her interview the way 60 Minutes did for her to try and save her from herself in that interview with Bill Whitaker.
00:03:15.000According to the Associated Press, it will be her first sit-down with Fox News and her first interview with a news outlet outside of her ideological comfort zone since becoming the Democrat nominee.
00:03:24.000Again, the only interviews that she has done that even allowed the possibility of unfriendly questions so far were CNN and CBS, and both of those were cut to her specifications.
00:03:34.000That Fox News interview is slated to air 6 p.m.
00:03:40.000If that interview goes poorly for her, it may finish off her campaign, but she's not done there.
00:03:45.000Apparently, the Harris team, in a desperation play to try to win over men, and they are having a major problem winning over men.
00:03:51.000This is one of the biggest problems with the Harris campaign.
00:03:54.000Joe Biden was running weak among black voters, but he was running stronger among male voters than Kamala Harris is.
00:03:59.000It turns out that males really, really don't like We're good to go.
00:04:25.000Folks, a lot of people are not liking the anti-male tone of the Kamala Harris campaign, but let's be real, there's a lot not to like about Kamala Harris if she were to get into office.
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00:05:29.000Now, again, that's not to say there aren't going to be men who vote for Kamala Harris because they hate Donald Trump, but the idea that she's a uniquely charismatic or magnetic figure for men, not even slightly.
00:05:39.000She's wildly off-putting, and so is her campaign.
00:06:00.000Who does she think she's going to win over?
00:06:02.000Perhaps she has a couple of normie moments, but in a three-hour format with Joe Rogan, this lady can't get through 20 minutes without being chopped up by 60 minutes.
00:06:15.000Just let her talk. Ask her a couple of difficult questions about Deborah and then just let her jab her.
00:06:20.000And she'll get in her slaps against Donald Trump, but we've already heard all those things.
00:06:23.000So Brett Baer and Joe Rogan, this is them realizing that this race is running away from them and there is no way to stop it.
00:06:30.000We'll get back to that problem with men in a moment.
00:06:33.000But as far as the empty vessel of it, Chris Ruffo broke a big story yesterday that's completely being downplayed by the legacy media.
00:06:39.000And there are a number of big stories that have been completely downplayed or ignored by legacy media.
00:06:44.000Among them, the fact that her supposedly new male energy exemplar, Doug Emhoff, likely beat up his ex-girlfriend.
00:06:53.000I mean, these are like real stories that certainly would break on the front page of the newspapers if it were about, say, the spouse of a Republican.
00:07:00.000But it's the spouse of the Democratic candidates who have to pretend that Doug Emhoff is actually an example of good male energy.
00:07:05.000But the latest story that the media are trying to bury is from Chris Rufo.
00:07:08.000And what he found is that Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation.
00:07:18.000She even lifted material directly from Wikipedia.
00:07:22.000First rule of being smart on crime, by the way, do not plagiarize from Wikipedia.
00:07:26.000So you can see in these graphics, side by side, how much she stole from, for example, the Associated Press here, without a footnote.
00:07:34.000Here is the problem. When you write these books, and you know, I've written, I don't know, 11 books under my own name, and I used to ghostwrite for a living, so a bunch of books under other people's names.
00:07:43.000When you are writing factual books, very often you're relying on media reports.
00:07:48.000You have to change the wording and you have to footnote it.
00:07:50.000Those are a few of the things that you have to do.
00:07:51.000You have to actually go through and paraphrase, and then you have to footnote the thing.
00:07:54.000If you don't do that, it's plagiarism and stealing.
00:07:57.000But Kamala Harris apparently just, without dropping footnotes, just lifted entire paragraphs of text from, for example, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
00:08:10.000By the way, lifting passages directly from Wikipedia, Wikipedia is not a good source.
00:08:14.000Wikipedia is a compendium of what other people have written about a topic and they are just randos.
00:08:19.000It's not like somebody has written a peer-reviewed book or something.
00:08:22.000Here she is ripping off the Bureau of Justice Assistance in that same book.
00:08:28.000According to Chris Rufo, the investigation was conducted by Dr.
00:08:31.000Stephen Weber, a famed Austrian plagiarism hunter, who has taken out politicians in the German-speaking world.
00:08:36.000We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard President Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.
00:10:28.000He said on Monday, Hey, there's only one problem, which is the plagiarism expert then responded, quote, For those coming here from the New York Times article, I want to make clear I have not performed a full analysis of the book.
00:10:47.000My quotes were based on information provided to me by the reporters and spoke only about those passages.
00:10:52.000I've been out of the office today for the holiday and have not been able to follow the coverage.
00:10:55.000When I've had more time, I'll likely have more thoughts.
00:10:57.000I'd expect something tomorrow or Wednesday on the site, depending on client work.
00:11:01.000Of course, Ruffo immediately responded to him and said, CNN, by the way, did acknowledge in his article that this was likely plagiarism.
00:11:20.000CNN reviewed several of the passages highlighted by Ruffo and found that Harris and O.C. Hamilton failed to properly attribute language to sources.
00:11:28.000So, yeah, it just shows, why does this matter?
00:11:31.000Okay, plagiarism back in a book that she wrote years ago or had ghostwritten years ago.
00:11:35.000Why does that matter? Because, again, that is who Kamala Harris is.
00:11:48.000Joe Biden was reluctant to get out of the race because he knew that Kamala Harris, well, she digs holes and then she doesn't stop digging holes.
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00:14:41.000I'm just doing the weird smiling laughing thing.
00:14:43.000Turn the page, turn the page. Because America is ready to chart a new way forward!
00:14:51.000Nothing says new way forward like the current vice president of the United States, who has said that she has no policy distinctions from the current president of the United States.
00:15:02.000Now, she has a bunch of problems, obviously, in the polls.
00:15:04.000We've mentioned a couple of them. One is her problem with black voters.
00:15:07.000One is her problem with male voters. Her problem with male voters is incredibly serious.
00:15:11.000This has been a serious, percolating problem with the Harris campaign basically since day one.
00:15:16.000Blue-collar, white male voters do not like her.
00:15:20.000And I thought a bleeding agendicator of this was that internal Teamsters Union poll that showed that when Joe Biden was in the race, he was beating Donald Trump among the Teamsters Union members, something like 47 to 37.
00:15:30.000And the minute that he dropped out and Kamala got in, suddenly the Teamsters, almost entirely male, shifted 60-40 in favor of Trump.
00:15:40.000The current numbers on the gender gap right now from virtually every poll show a larger gender gap for men than for women, which is a serious problem.
00:15:49.000Listen, women vote in larger numbers than men.
00:15:51.000Higher percentages of women vote in the elections than men.
00:15:53.000However, if that gender gap is really large and if Trump does what he typically does, which is he brings out all of those low proclivity voters, all the people who are less likely to show up, Then he's got the lead right now.
00:16:08.000And you know it certainly doesn't help.
00:16:10.000There's a new ad that has come out from a group of people, a grassroots collective of ad execs, TV writers, and comedians called Creatives for Harris.
00:16:20.000And they are trying to counteract the image that men don't like Kamala Harris with an ad.
00:16:25.000This ad was then watermarked by Vote Save America, which is a project of Crooked Media or associated with Crooked Media, which is the Pod Save America Bros.
00:16:31.000This ad apparently has now been removed by Vote Save America.
00:19:16.000Here's where the real message kicks in.
00:19:18.000That the established stratifications of gender roles in society is a thing of the past, and clinging to it is ridiculous.
00:19:24.000The video then goes a step further, pitching a new model for masculinity, where supporting women is the status quo.
00:19:31.000Sounds amazing. Apparently this is born when Jacob Reed, a comedic director who has worked with Funny or Die and Jimmy Kimmel Live, no wonder this thing sucks, was watching the DNC. He felt inspired by the way Barack Obama spoke of Michelle when introducing her and the way second gentleman Doug Emhoff gazed up proudly at Kamala Harris during her speech.
00:19:48.000He also admired the way Tim Walz talked about his wife Gwen.
00:19:51.000All of this struck him as a form of masculinity that hasn't been talked about enough in the election cycle.
00:19:55.000It was to him the polar opposite of the alternative.
00:19:59.000So apparently, Reed then told the creatives for Harris Team, which meets regularly on Slack to brainstorm ideas.
00:20:07.000The message quickly met with a robust gallery of upward-thumb smiley faces and double exclamation points.
00:20:14.000Buoyed by the encouragement, Reed tapped into his network of talented filmmakers, actors, and casting directors and put together the video on a shoestring budget.
00:20:22.000The original version was a bit more scolding.
00:20:24.000It included lines like, quote, I'm not afraid of a woman having rights, because what kind of a creep would I be then?
00:20:29.000After marinating on the concept a bit further, Reid realized the last thing he wanted to do was condescend to his potential audience, whom he saw as both people already on board the Harris train and people on the fence.
00:20:39.000He says this is exactly the kind of consideration missing from recent conversations on the left aimed at young men.
00:20:46.000Rather than despair over young men drifting into the mag zone, Reid wants to see a party-wide effort to weigh in on the masculinity conversation without preaching or demonizing.
00:20:54.000If there's anything in that video that appeals to men, I have yet to find it.
00:20:58.000The entire thing, which is the implication that the reason you oppose Kamala Harris is because you're scared of women or you hate women, and that real masculinity is basically submissiveness to Kamala Harris, is pathetic.
00:21:10.000I can't imagine why so many people are off-put by this.
00:21:12.000I mean, this ad is awful, but there are a lot of bad ads this election season.
00:21:15.000Election season is on. The future is on everybody's mind.
00:21:18.000You know what else should be on your mind? The future of your family.
00:21:20.000No matter what happens over the next four years, one thing remains constant.
00:21:26.000Let's talk about reality for a moment.
00:21:28.000God forbid something were to happen to you, would your family be able to cover expenses, mortgage payments, college tuition, daily living costs?
00:21:33.000Those don't just disappear if something happens to you.
00:21:35.000Life insurance can ensure your family has the financial support they need, even if you're not there to provide it.
00:21:40.000Did you know that 41% of Americans don't have the life insurance coverage they need?
00:22:22.000By the way, a lot of minority men very off put by this.
00:22:25.000It turns out that traditional notions of masculinity may have gone by the wayside among some white college-educated liberal men, but they certainly have not among all the other men in the land.
00:22:35.000Which is one of the reasons why the Harris campaign is really lagging with black men.
00:22:41.000Just like everybody else, they do not like being lectured.
00:22:43.000And so now, Kamala Harris has to do something she did not want to do.
00:22:47.000She has to somehow shore up support from black men.
00:22:50.000According to Politico, Kamala Harris looking at daunting polling that shows she could draw some of the softest support for a Democratic nominee among black men is rolling out new efforts to shore up support with this key voting bloc.
00:23:40.000Not allowed. So she's promising to bribe black men with money that will be forgiven.
00:23:45.000Can't imagine how that will lead to fraud, by the way.
00:23:47.000People are definitely going to take out a loan that is forgivable by the federal government.
00:23:51.000And then they're going to pay it back, probably.
00:23:53.000Also, training and mentorship programs that would help give black men a leg up in jumping into high-demand industries and launching an initiative focused on health issues that disproportionately impact black men.
00:24:50.000Quentin Folks, the campaign's principal deputy campaign manager, said the campaign is trying to answer, quote, What is holding black men back in this country in regards to being able to achieve economic well-being?
00:24:59.000There has to be a reprioritization of speaking to both black men and black women in America when it comes to a lot of the challenges that they face.
00:25:05.000Now, again, they trotted out Barack Obama to basically yell at black men and said they should stop being mean to Kamala Harris.
00:25:13.000That they need to be real men and start supporting women.
00:25:19.000Meanwhile, again, Charlemagne the God, he came out and he said, I think it's whack, the scolding that Barack Obama was laying on black men.
00:25:29.000Others said they weren't surprised by Obama's comments at all, according to Politico.
00:25:32.000The lecturing thing he did, that's crazy.
00:25:34.000That's the absolute wrong thing to do, said a veteran Democratic strategist and former Obama White House official.
00:25:38.000He always had a blind spot for black men.
00:25:40.000He doesn't quite understand the way we see the world.
00:25:44.000And these are problems for Kamala Harris and for the entire Democratic Party, which has always taken black men for granted, figuring that if you just yell about how Republicans are Nazi-esque racists enough, that they will just re-enter the fold.
00:25:59.000CNN's Harry Hinton, he points out that right now, Donald Trump is slated to perform the best with blacks since any Republican since Nixon in 1960.
00:26:10.000At this particular hour, if you believe the polling, Donald Trump's going to put up the best performance with black voters since Richard Nixon back in 1960.
00:26:21.000Among Hispanic voters, Donald Trump's going to put up the best performance for Republicans since 2004 and George W. Bush.
00:26:28.000So Kamala Harris' answer to this is to yell at people about how Donald Trump hates black people, which no one believes.
00:26:33.000No one really believes that Donald Trump is a vicious, black-hating racist.
00:26:37.000That is what Kamala Harris, though, is saying on Roland Martin's show.
00:26:43.000Look at it in the context of how he actually thinks and talks about black folks in America.
00:26:48.000And you and I have talked about this before.
00:26:51.000He is not looking out for folks when he was a landlord and would not rent to black families, sued for it.
00:27:03.000When he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times against those five teenagers, black and Latino, who were innocent, saying they should be executed in Central Park Five?
00:27:16.000When you look at the first black president of the United States, and he had birthed their lives, and now you look at black immigrants, legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and he gets on a debate stage and says they're eating their pets?
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00:29:12.000Also, by the way, linking all of those things as though they are all of the same piece, you know, what he said about Haitian migrants is the same thing as the Central Park Five, is the same thing that he says when he's on the campaign trail about welfare programs or some such nonsense.
00:29:24.000No one believes this. We're good to go.
00:29:48.000Unfortunately, many of them are wildly anti-Israel, have decided via the Arab-American pact that they're not going to endorse Kamala Harris, which particularly hurts her in Michigan, is going to drive down turnout for her in Michigan.
00:30:01.000And I got to say, the surrogate game ain't strong either.
00:30:04.000And desperation is setting in in this campaign.
00:30:06.000Amy Klobuchar, most famous for throwing binders at her staff, The senator from Minnesota, she's bragging about what's going to happen in this campaign.
00:30:16.000She said, can you imagine Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney campaigning together?
00:30:19.000That's the kind of surrogates that Kamala Harris...
00:30:21.000Yes. You want to talk about bringing in a wide variety of voters?
00:30:24.000Dick Cheney and Bernie Sanders campaigning together.
00:30:27.000First of all, that's the buddy comedy we didn't know we needed.
00:30:31.000That's your big appeal? To whom precisely?
00:30:34.000Who exactly is the swing voter who's like, man, I love Bernie Sanders.
00:30:37.000I love Dick Cheney. Those two guys together, that's magic for me.
00:30:40.000You know, and it's only a matter of time where we're going to see, like, a bus going through western Wisconsin with, I want you to picture this, Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney together holding a sign that says Brat Fall.
00:31:00.000Wow. Good luck to you if that is your surrogate team.
00:31:03.000Part of the surrogate team is Bill Clinton, who's been unleashed from the grave to go out on the campaign trail and immediately starts making boo-boos.
00:31:11.000So he's talking about the supposed failure of the Republicans to pass Joe Biden's beloved immigration reform bill that would have legalized millions of illegal immigrants.
00:31:19.000And by the way, that bill was not good.
00:31:21.000That bill included a baseline 3,000 to 4,000 illegal immigrants entering the country every single day before the federal government, before the executive branch, had the capacity to single-handedly invoke the enforcement of immigration law.
00:31:36.000But Bill Clinton, unfortunately, said the quiet part out loud here, which is that if Joe Biden had done his job, people like Lake and Riley would still be alive.
00:31:44.000They were like, get out there on the stump, Bill, and help us out.
00:31:47.000He's like, well, you know, well, Kamala did get that lady killed.
00:31:54.000You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you?
00:31:56.000They made an ad about a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant.
00:32:00.000Yeah. Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened.
00:32:08.000He's trying to pretend that that's an effect of not passing the illegal immigration bill.
00:32:13.000That is an impact of Joe Biden's border policy and Kamala Harris's border policy.
00:32:17.000So whoopsie doodle. Well, that leaves them with their final desperation play, which is to try to convince you once again.
00:32:22.000They tried not to do this. Again, they're pulling out all the stops.
00:32:25.000So this campaign from Joe Biden began with him at Independence Hall in Philadelphia claiming that his political opponents were fascists who were going to destroy our republic.
00:32:33.000Remember that. And then when Kamala Harris jumped in, she didn't do any of that.
00:32:37.000She wasn't talking about racial division.
00:32:39.000Now she's talking about racial division.
00:32:40.000She wasn't talking about how Donald Trump was a threat to the republic so grave that no one could possibly consider voting for him.
00:32:48.000They're dragging out all of the old failed arguments here in a desperation attempt to stop what they think is coming, a Donald Trump victory.
00:32:56.000You have James Carville saying, I don't know what else to do here, man.
00:34:13.000I know people who are targeted under Kamala Harris.
00:34:15.000When she was Attorney General of California, she targeted David DeLayden, the journalist who had the temerity to expose Planned Parenthood.
00:34:22.000Her administration has been unleashed on a wide variety of political opponents, ranging from pro-lifers to suburban moms and dads.
00:34:30.000But she's claiming that Donald Trump is going to unleash them on whom?
00:34:34.000The only people that Donald Trump has ever truly threatened to unleash the military on are rioters.
00:34:39.000Here she is. He is saying that he would use the military to go after them.
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00:37:34.000Axios has an entire piece about the magic of Kamala Harris's humor.
00:37:38.000Why don't we analyze some of this and see, you know, Here is a TikTok video that apparently the Harris campaign has been promoting, pushing the fact that Donald Trump wears bronzer.
00:37:49.000So for those who can't see it, that's just a series of pictures of President Trump wearing bronzer.
00:38:10.000And it's over Sabrina Carpenter, I believe.
00:38:12.000Sabrina Carpenter is the lady who, for some reason, is famous.
00:38:15.000And she sings songs. And it's about makeup.
00:38:46.000It says underneath, Trump is so DeLulu, what is he even saying?
00:38:50.000I mean, what he's actually talking about is the Green New Deal, where the proposal was that people should eat less meat and that windows allow in too much heat, so you should have fewer windows because then you might use the air conditioner.
00:39:00.000How about this one where they call him a chicken?
00:40:18.000Apparently, a Biden-Harris administration staffer.
00:40:22.000The Biden Wins account was launched in January 2022 by Ethan Wolf, a recent college graduate, who is working as Deputy Political Director for Illinois Democrat Brad Schneider's re-election campaign.
00:40:32.000Wolf's account became a favorite of White House staffers, such as Ron Klain.
00:40:35.000By September 2022, he was invited to the White House for a private briefing with the President, Vice President Ron, the Vice President and Ron Klain.
00:40:43.000A month later, Wolf was back at the White House for another content creator briefing, posing for photos with top White House officials and doof Doug Emhoff.
00:40:51.000Just over a year after launching that account praising Biden, Wolf had earned himself a job in the administration.
00:40:55.000In June 2023, he was hired as a communications specialist in the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration where he makes $94,000 a year.
00:41:06.000The timing of the event, as the Daily Wire points out, raises questions about the Biden-Harris administration's relationship with Wolf.
00:41:13.000The Harris campaign, responding to one of many viral lies that originated with his account, told Politifact it is not associated with Kamala's wind.
00:41:20.000Though it seems Harris and the administration have worked closely with Wolf from the beginning of his career when he was fresh out of Ohio State University.
00:41:27.000So he's engaged in overtly political activity.
00:41:30.000He is subject to the Hatch Act, but what it looks like is that he was an ally of the administration.
00:41:34.000They gave him a cush job over there, pushing propaganda on behalf of Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris.
00:41:41.000So, really strong stuff here from Team Kamala.
00:41:44.000I can't imagine why they're falling down on their face.
00:41:46.000Meanwhile, in preparation for a Donald Trump presidency, the world is getting significantly more dangerous.
00:41:51.000See, if you're China, you know now's your moment.
00:41:55.000Maybe they wait until after the election in order to see if Kamala Harris wins.
00:41:58.000If Kamala Harris wins, they've got a little bit of time.
00:42:00.000They can play around the edges. If Donald Trump wins, they know that Trump is going to be a way harsher president on them than Joe Biden is.
00:42:07.000Maybe they go between November and January.
00:42:10.000Maybe during that lame duck period, they decided to make a move on Taiwan.
00:42:13.000They certainly are upping their aggressiveness in the Taiwan Straits.
00:42:17.000According to the Wall Street Journal, China said it concluded a day of around-the-clock drills around Taiwan, sending a record number of military aircraft, and saying for the first time it had deployed its Coast Guard to encircle the self-ruled democracy's main island.
00:42:29.000Beijing's military response came days after Taiwan's new president, Lai Qingtai, delivered a speech on October 10th in which he reaffirmed Taiwan's sovereignty and dismissed Beijing's claims to represent the island, though his message to China also called for calm.
00:42:41.000Taiwanese officials had warned that Chinese maneuvers were likely following Lai's remarks.
00:42:45.000Beijing is considered Lai, who was inaugurated in May, a straunch supporter of Taiwanese independence, a red line for leaders of China's Communist Party, which claims the island is part of its territory despite never having ruled it.
00:42:55.000On Monday morning, China's People's Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command said it had launched joint sea and air drills around Taiwan's main and outlying islands involving the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force effectively simulating a blockade, which is the most likely thing, right?
00:43:08.000They wouldn't try a full-scale amphibious invasion.
00:43:09.000They'd simply blockade Taiwan until TSMC, which is the microchip producer on the island, superconductor producer, decides to allow the production of sophisticated microchips for Chinese military use.
00:43:21.000That's what the blockade would be for, and then they would dare Joe Biden to try and break the blockade.
00:43:25.000Some 14 hours later, the Chinese military said it had fully tested the integrated joint operation capabilities of its troops and wrapped up the exercises.
00:43:34.000So, is it possible that they'd make a move in the last waning days of the Biden administration?
00:43:40.000Why the hell not? Why wouldn't Iran go for broke on a nuclear program between the election and the inauguration of Donald Trump if Donald Trump wins?
00:43:50.000So they're waiting. They're waiting until after the election to see what happens, which means that allies of the United States better get ready now because things are going to get quite dicey in the very near future in both the Far East and also in the Middle East, where it looks like Iran is readying its own nuclear breakout potential.
00:44:08.000Meanwhile, what is the Biden administration doing?
00:44:10.000They're trying to stop Israel from launching strikes against those Iranian nuclear facilities, which is insane, by the way.
00:44:16.000That is perfectly insane foreign policy.
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00:45:28.000Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. If you actually want to facilitate conflict in the Middle East, wait until Iran has a nuclear weapon.
00:45:35.000Iran having a nuclear weapon, everyone knows this, is sort of the be-all and end-all of Middle Eastern conflict.
00:45:40.000If they gain a nuclear weapon, they will use that as the deterrent to Israeli action against terrorist groups.
00:45:45.000If they have a nuclear weapon, they will use that as a way of forcing Saudi Arabia into making concessions to, say, the Houthis in Yemen.
00:45:53.000A nuclear weapon changes the balance of power in the region pretty dramatically, which is why Israel has steadfastly for the last 20 years been killing every Iranian nuclear scientist it can get its hands on, and also implanting viruses like Stuxnet to completely destroy Iran's nuclear programs.
00:46:07.000Well, right now, Iran has fired 181 ballistic missiles into Israel, and Israel has not yet responded.
00:46:14.000And so the question was going to be what Israel's response would be.
00:46:17.000Now the only appropriate response, truly, would be Israel blowing up the nuclear facilities if they could.
00:46:22.000And frankly, it would be very, very good for the United States and for the Western world if Israel did that.
00:46:27.000In the same way that it was very good in 1981 when Israel blew up the Iraqi Osirak reactor.
00:46:33.000Condemned by the United States, by the way.
00:46:36.000Why in the mid-2000s Israel blew up a nascent nuclear reactor in Syria.
00:46:41.000It'd be very good for the Western world if Israel did that right now, with or without American help.
00:46:45.000There's a point that Pierre Polivier has made over in Canada.
00:46:49.000He says, like, that'd be great if Israel did that.
00:46:51.000It would push off the possibility of large-scale Middle Eastern conflict for another generation if Israel blew up the nuclear weapons facilities.
00:46:57.000So what is the Biden administration doing?
00:46:59.000Naturally, because they're conciliatory toward Iran, they're trying to ratchet down Israel's response.
00:47:04.000They're trying to tell Israel not to go particularly hard against Iran.
00:47:08.000Now listen, Israel doesn't want to go to full-scale war with Iran.
00:47:12.000Israel actually cares about its citizens.
00:47:13.000The Iranian government really does not.
00:47:15.000They shoot their citizens if they rebel in any way, shape or form.
00:47:18.000With that said, does Israel have a large scale interest in preventing the nuclearization of the Islamic theocracy that is Iran?
00:47:30.000And every time the Biden administration, again, tries to yank on the chain of the Israelis, all that happens is the terror increases.
00:47:35.000So there's a report four or five days ago that the Biden administration was telling the Israelis not to strike inside Beirut, which is where all of the Hezbollah top leaders are, and that Israel may have complied.
00:47:46.000And a few days later, Hezbollah then sent a drone into the middle of Israel, into a place called Binyamina, which is about, I don't know, a third of the way down into Israeli territory, and hit a military base and wounded almost 70 people.
00:48:01.000The Biden administration's policy here is just feckless beyond all recognition.
00:48:06.000But according to the Washington Post, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Biden administration he's willing to strike military rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran, according to two officials familiar with the matter, suggesting a more limited counter-strike aimed at preventing a full-scale war.
00:48:19.000When Biden and Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, their first call in more than seven weeks, the Prime Minister said he was planning to target military infrastructure in Iran.
00:48:26.000The White House had no immediate comment.
00:48:28.000The Israeli Prime Minister's office said, quote, We listen to the opinions of the United States, but we'll make our final decisions based on our national interest.
00:48:35.000The retaliatory action would be calibrated to avoid the perception of political interference in the U.S. elections.
00:48:40.000So basically, Joe Biden is now calling up Israel and threatening them.
00:48:43.000You want to talk about impeachable kind of stuff?
00:48:46.000Do you remember this? When Donald Trump was impeached from office for calling up Ukraine, calling up Vladimir Zelensky and saying, We might withhold your military aid unless Burisma is investigated.
00:48:58.000He was impeached for that. Joe Biden is currently calling up our ally, Israel, and telling them, don't strike at the people who just shot 181 missiles into your country.
00:49:07.000Don't strike too hard before the election because it might hurt my electoral prospects.
00:49:15.000I'm waiting. This is where you insert the crickets or the Jeopardy music.
00:49:20.000He is basically blackmailing Israel into not doing what it needs to do to preserve its own security because he wants Kamala Harris to win or something.
00:49:30.000An Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities could send energy prices soaring, analysts say, while an attack on the country's nuclear research program could erase any remaining red lines governing Israel's conflict with Tehran.
00:49:41.000What red lines are there precisely when you're firing almost 200 missiles directly into a sovereign nation?
00:49:46.000Please explain. Netanyahu's stated plans go after military sites instead, as Israel did after Iran's attack in April, was met with relief in Washington.
00:49:55.000Netanyahu is in a more moderated place in that discussion than he had previously been, according to US officials.
00:50:00.000By the way, one of the reasons Israel doesn't tell America its plans is because they immediately run to the Washington Post.
00:50:09.000I want to give a shout out to Bill Maher.
00:50:11.000Bill Maher did an excellent monologue the other night on his show in which he ripped into the ridiculous singer Chapel Roan, who we are supposed to believe is some sort of insane talent, rather than just another example of transgressive pop art.
00:50:24.000Chapel Roan has come out in favor of the state of Palestine that does not exist, and Bill Maher informed her of some things.
00:50:33.000Chappell, if you think it was repressive growing up queer in the Midwest, try the Mideast.
00:50:39.000You're a female drag queen, and you sing, I f*** you in the bathroom when we went to dinner, your parents at the table.
00:50:47.000Yeah, that wouldn't fly in Gaza, although you would straight off a roof.
00:50:52.000You know when you sing that LA is where boys and girls can all be queens every single day?
00:50:57.000You're welcome, but offer not good in the West Bank.
00:51:00.000Chappell, you're not wrong that oppression is bad, or that Palestinian and many other Muslim populations are oppressed.
00:51:37.000The Iranian regime has killed 600 protesters after a 22-year-old woman died in police custody following her arrest for the crime of wearing her head covering incorrectly.