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00:00:22.000Alrighty, so the polling continues to show Donald Trump with a small but measurable lead.
00:00:26.000In most of the swing states at this point, the real politics polling average has him up by over a point in Michigan, has him up by almost a point in Pennsylvania, about 0.4 in Wisconsin, up by 1.6 in Arizona, by 0.5 in North Carolina, by 1.8 in Georgia.
00:00:41.000The polls are all within margin of error at this point.
00:00:43.000It's still a toss-up race, which means that it's going to come down to turnout, which, of course, is a truism.
00:00:48.000It's not just going to come down to turnout.
00:00:49.000It's going to be who has the better turnout operation.
00:00:52.000I'm hearing a lot of mixed reports from on the ground about the Trump turnout operation.
00:00:55.000From some, I'm hearing that it's excellent.
00:00:56.000From others, I'm hearing that it's not so excellent.
00:00:58.000The proof is going to be in the pudding.
00:01:00.000But there's no question that right now Donald Trump has the momentum.
00:01:03.000The topic of conversation is everything Trump wants it to be about.
00:01:06.000Does Kamala Harris care about normies?
00:01:09.000Is Kamala Harris trustable on anything like the issues?
00:01:13.000Will she be bad for the economy or good for the economy?
00:01:54.000He hadn't done a good job, but you can't vote for my opponent because there is a barrier to entry, and the barrier to entry is January 6th, and Donald Trump being a dictator, etc., etc.
00:02:03.000Well, Kamala Harris had sort of avoided that.
00:02:05.000She suggested that Donald Trump was weird.
00:02:11.000But the reality is that now she's having to fall back on the Joe Biden argument.
00:02:16.000He seems unserious, but deep down, in the cockles of his small heart, Donald Trump is Hitler!
00:02:23.000That actually, Donald Trump's facial hair is just hidden.
00:02:28.000But if you could see beneath the lip, you would see a very small mustache, perhaps too.
00:02:33.000That is the argument that Kamala Harris is now making.
00:02:36.000She's really ratcheting up the rhetoric.
00:02:38.000So, she said the other day, yesterday, she says that Donald Trump is fundamentally an unserious candidate, but the consequences of his presidency will be so serious.
00:02:47.000In many, many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man.
00:02:52.000But the consequences of him being President of the United States are brutally serious.
00:02:59.000There are things that he says that will be the subject of skits and laughter and jokes.
00:03:07.000But words have meaning coming from someone Who aspires to stand behind the seal of the President of the United States.
00:03:18.000So, in this way, Harris and Trump are most polar opposites.
00:03:48.000But his actual policy is quite serious.
00:03:50.000That has always been the gap for Donald Trump, is that his image is sort of buffoonish and goofballish, but his actual policy, his hard-nosed actual policy accomplishments are quite real, namely a functional economy, growing innovation, low inflation,
00:04:06.000a foreign policy record that is second to none in the annals of American history, no major foreign wars, new peace deals in the Middle East, intimidation of our enemies, So Donald Trump is a patina of unseriousness and underneath he's a very serious policy candidate.
00:04:37.000That is why he is running the way he's running in this election.
00:04:40.000Kamala Harris is precisely the opposite.
00:04:41.000She tries to pose as serious, but underneath it is a deep unseriousness.
00:04:47.000Underneath this facade of serious politician who's talking to you about the context of the world in which we consider the issues that affect our lives in ways that we cannot yet imagine.
00:05:01.000Beneath that facade is total emptiness.
00:05:04.000She's a shell of a politician and below it is just a vacuum.
00:05:09.000So I think that she actually has a problem on her hands here because every day she betrays that there ain't nothing there.
00:06:19.000An interview with NBC means you have to take time off the trail.
00:06:22.000You don't like take two days off the campaign trail in closing time to prep for an interview with NBC News, which has been overwhelmingly favorable to you.
00:06:31.000Because you blew it with Brett Baier on Fox News.
00:06:42.000The reason that the left is so all fired mad because Donald Trump went to a McDonald's is because when Donald Trump went to a McDonald's, he was very comfortable in his own skin.
00:06:53.000It's not that Donald Trump was masquerading as a worker at McDonald's.
00:06:56.000It's that he was showing respect to people who work at McDonald's and people who eat at McDonald's, and he likes those people.
00:07:01.000Kamala Harris is the kind of person who literally had to be prepped by her staff to do a small donor dinner.
00:07:41.000Can you point to a policy decision over the last four years that you and the vice president would have handled differently from President Biden?
00:07:49.000Well, I think this expansion on Medicare is something that I wish would have been proposed sooner.
00:07:53.000But look, they're tackling the issues that they needed to.
00:07:56.000They came out of a pandemic that Donald Trump had left a mess for.
00:07:59.000An economy with supply chains that were broken.
00:08:19.000So there is a big difference between Donald Trump and me on a number of issues, including this, where I absolutely believe we must raise minimum wage and that hardworking Americans, whether they're working at McDonald's or anywhere else, should have at least the ability to be able to take care of their family and take care of themselves in a way that allows them to actually be able to sustain their needs.
00:08:40.000I'm sorry, this is policy for dumb people.
00:08:43.000You know how many people in the United States are paid the actual federal minimum wage?
00:08:53.000Out of the hundreds of millions of people working in the United States, one million are working at or below the minimum wage in the United States.
00:09:00.000And by the way, those people are not 40-year-olds who've been working for 20 years at McDonald's.
00:09:05.000Those people are generally under the age of 25, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:09:11.000Although workers under age 25 represent one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they represent 45% of those paid the federal minimum wage or less.
00:09:20.000Among employed teenagers aged 16 to 19 paid by the hour, about 3% earned the minimum wage or less, compared with just under 1% of workers aged 25 and older.
00:09:29.000So in other words, it's a starter job.
00:09:30.000So her big proposal to change the economy of the United States is to raise the federal minimum wage.
00:09:34.000By the way, there are state minimum wages on the books in nearly every state that are larger than the federal minimum wage.
00:09:58.000Since the George Floyd race riots, many American cities have descended into public disorder.
00:10:02.000Surveillance videos routinely document flash mobs invading businesses, assaulting employees, and stealing whatever participants can carry, including cash registers.
00:10:10.000Customers bear the brunt of stores' defenses against runaway shoplifting, like toothpaste locked behind a plexiglass barrier.
00:10:15.000Drive-by shootings mow down innocent civilians.
00:10:18.000Urban violent crime has surged 40% between 2019 and 2023.
00:10:23.000In an interview last week on The Breakfast Club, Kamala Harris made clear she remains committed to her previously stated view that systemic racism, quote, seeps into every part of American life and racial injustice is rampant in policing.
00:10:38.000Harris suggested that police murders have been going on viciously.
00:10:41.000She accepted a questioner saying exactly that.
00:10:43.000She said as a U.S. senator, she tried to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that would have restricted the use of certain police tactics and eliminated qualified immunity for law enforcement officers, opening them to financial liability for contested enforcement actions.
00:10:57.000So, again, her actual policies are quite deleterious to the lifestyle of the American people.
00:11:33.000In the past four years, while the buying power of the U.S. dollar has been declining faster than CNN's ratings, the price of gold has increased 40%.
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00:14:05.000He is being charged for second-degree manslaughter and faces up to 15 years in prison.
00:14:12.000So Daniel Penney's defense lawyers, they say, well, you know, Neely was high as a kite.
00:14:17.000He had a huge amount of synthetic cannabinoid known as K2. Also, they're going to argue that Penney didn't actually apply enough pressure on Neely to make him unconscious, must less kill him.
00:14:50.000The fact that this man is being charged for subduing a violent, threatening homeless person on a subway train who's threatening others, And by the way, this was treated as a race issue, if you recall.
00:15:02.000Daniel Penney, because he is white, was treated as though he was a racist despite no evidence that race played a part in this particular case.
00:15:09.000It's Kamala Harris's law enforcement stylings that make this sort of stuff possible in New York City.
00:15:19.000And by the way, he's not the only one subduing him.
00:15:23.000There are two other New Yorkers attempting to subdue this homeless person to stop him from getting violent.
00:15:27.000This trial, by the way, could easily become a sort of microcosm of all crime issues in the United States.
00:15:38.000If that happens, Kamala Harris has a real problem on her hands because the vast majority of Americans are very sympathetic to good Samaritans who try to stop violent attacks on people on the New York City train, for example.
00:15:50.000But her problems don't just stop there.
00:15:53.000As the New York Times reports, shuttered factories and trade deals help turn working-class Midwesterners against Democrats, while the high cost of housing do the same in the Sun Belt.
00:16:03.000The New York Times, Jennifer Medina reporting, in the final weeks of a deadlocked presidential campaign, there's no better place to observe restlessness than the stuccoed neighborhood that snake into the desert around Las Vegas.
00:16:14.000The median home price is $445,000, an increase of more than 50% compared with five years ago.
00:16:21.000Many once reliable Democrats say the issue has eroded their trust in politicians, which means turning away from Kamala Harris.
00:16:28.000So in the Midwest, you have people who have bled jobs thanks to the policies of Joe Biden.
00:16:34.000In Nevada, you have inflated housing prices.
00:16:48.000So, yesterday, she has decided, apparently, that she's going to reach out to the Jewish vote by going on the air with Al Sharpton, the only American in modern times who has partially incited a pogrom.
00:17:48.000And so we've got to work at it, and we've got to work at it through diplomatic means, and that's what we intend to do.
00:17:53.000But listen, the reality of it is that the difficulty of it all is not new to any administration in recent history, and it cannot be the reason that we don't work at it around the clock and be vigilant.
00:19:32.000They found uniforms, vests, submachine guns, binoculars and a laptop.
00:19:36.000Sinwar messaged Hamas officials, urging them to refuse a hostage deal.
00:19:40.000Hamas had the upper hand in negotiations, Sinwar said, setting internal political divisions within Israel, cracks in Netanyahu's wartime coalition and mounting U.S. pressure to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.
00:20:43.000Okay, so the fact that she's wildly dishonest and shifts all of her positions, but only for the press, that's a good thing, according to Mark Cuban.
00:21:07.000But it's her image that they're trying to burnish.
00:21:09.000The problem for Kamala Harris is that her image is starting to fall apart.
00:21:13.000Because it turns out that once you get past the joy of Joe Biden not being the nominee, ain't nothing there.
00:21:18.000So Al Sharpton is trying to reinvigorate the joy for Kamala Harris by accusing men of being sexist for not backing Kamala Harris.
00:21:25.000Do you think some of the resistance of some men, black and white, is misogynist?
00:21:31.000And are you proud to see that most Americans, even being polled, have no problem supporting a woman at all?
00:21:40.000And I'm one that lived from Shirley to Kamala in terms of these campaigns.
00:21:45.000I have an emotional reaction to you raising the point of Shirley Chisholm because It is on her broad shoulders that I stand, and so many of us stand.
00:21:56.000And we have come a long way, to your point, and on your specific point about including the fact that I have the support of countless black men who are in elected positions, including just this afternoon in two church visits today with the mayor of Atlanta.
00:22:15.000That being said, I think that you are absolutely right.
00:22:21.000that there is this narrative about what kind of support we are receiving from black men that is just not panning out.
00:22:28.000Well, I guess the pitch is that you're sexist if you don't support Harris.
00:22:32.000That's the kind of argument that I think puts people to sleep.
00:24:35.000ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire.
00:24:37.000Okay, so again, the idea underneath there is that you're a sexist if you don't back Kamala Harris.
00:24:42.000That is something that's also being pushed by a columnist for the New York Times today named John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who conducts polls for PACs that support Harris and Biden.
00:24:54.000He's trying to figure out why young men are turning away from Kamala Harris, and his answer is...
00:24:59.000Because Donald Trump is a mean bad man and men are bad and mean.
00:25:03.000Trump has tapped male anxieties by weaving a hyper-masculine message of strength and defiance into his broader narrative that undermines confidence in democratic institutions.
00:25:15.000Trump zeroed in on campaigning on a larger shale of the young male vote.
00:25:18.000In four years, he cut what was once a 19 percentage point democratic margin among registered young male voters roughly in half in our poll.
00:25:25.000His playbook, a master class in bro whispering.
00:25:31.000Okay, well, I mean, there is another reason why Donald Trump is appealing to young men, and it's because he doesn't hate young men.
00:25:51.000That would be the really big reason here.
00:25:54.000Turns out that Kamala Harris is not a unifying image.
00:25:57.000She is one particular type of image, and that is female-centric.
00:26:01.000And bringing out Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, to claim that she has earned his vote as a black man should not make the Democratic Party particularly sanguine about their hopes with men generally.
00:26:14.000The Vice President Kamala Harris has earned my vote as a black man and she has earned the vote and support of black men across this country.
00:26:23.000One thing that I know for sure as a black man is that we always recognize our responsibility and role in this democracy, providing Preparing and protecting.
00:26:35.000And that's really what this moment is about.
00:26:37.000It's about providing real opportunities for black men, but all Americans, to have a right to health care, mental health care, good paying jobs, protecting our democracy, right?
00:26:48.000You know, we're talking about the former president who made it very clear if you vote for him, you don't ever have to vote ever again.
00:26:55.000As a black man, you don't have to dog whistle.
00:27:19.000He suggested Trump's rhetoric makes it more dangerous to be an American.
00:27:22.000Again, this guy is responsible for making race relations in the country significantly worse, including exacerbating already ongoing race riots.
00:27:30.000And here he is explaining Donald Trump's rhetoric makes things more dangerous in the United States.
00:27:34.000People that were in his cabinet and that was in his circle are saying, don't vote for him.
00:27:42.000This is how he acts, which is a real threat to all of us that have opposed him.
00:27:48.000You know, I was once stabbed leading a march, so I take that seriously.
00:27:53.000I've called Joe and said, you better watch security because you're dealing with a man who himself faced two assassination attempts.
00:28:01.000You would think he would be careful About trying to demonize and target people, public figures, that you may disagree with.
00:28:11.000Because when people hear that rhetoric, some people can say, he's right, they're the enemy, and they may do anything.
00:28:18.000So not only do you have to fear government, you have to fear people that will take things into their own hands, including the people that tried to assassinate him.
00:28:27.000It raises the likelihood of a dangerous environment, and we should not belittle that in any way on either side of these political debates.
00:28:37.000Yeah, I cannot believe we are listening to Al Sharpton lecture us about conflagrationist rhetoric.
00:28:42.000The Wall Street Journal points out that this is basically the last vestige of the Harris campaign.
00:28:47.000The fascist meme is all over the place, an upgrade from President Biden's description of the MAGA movement in 2022 as semi-fascist.
00:28:53.000MSNBC interviews earnest academics who draw a straight historical line between mid-20th century Europe and the 21st century GOP. A writer for The Atlantic takes the hyperbole prize with a headline that says Trump is talking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
00:29:23.000Yet despite all of those, he won the GOP nomination for the third time, was headed toward victory over Biden, and is essentially tied with Harris.
00:29:29.000Are tens of millions of Americans really falling for a fascist takeover?
00:29:34.000The answer is most Americans simply don't believe the fascist meme and for good reason.
00:29:37.000The first is that Trump was already president.
00:29:40.000Whatever his intention, the former president was hemmed in by American checks and balances.
00:29:44.000Democrats, the press, the federal bureaucracy were relentlessly opposed to all his works and they would be again.
00:29:52.000It also happens to be the case, as they point out, that many of the checks and balances that supposedly would be put in danger by Trump have now been changed.
00:30:00.000The Electoral Account Reform Act makes a replay of 2020 more difficult.
00:30:05.000Democrats don't believe that Trump's a fascist.
00:30:08.000I mean, look at the tape of Chuck Schumer sitting next to Donald Trump.
00:30:10.000If they thought he was a fascist, they wouldn't be sitting next to him.
00:30:12.000They wouldn't be making jokes about him.
00:31:29.000Newsweek's national correspondent, quote, So they're ripping down a local franchise because Donald Trump appeared in Bucks County at this franchise.
00:32:40.000So the left has decided that their final argument about Trump and McDonald's is that it's a publicity stunt because the McDonald's was closed so that Trump could do this.
00:32:51.000Well, what did you think was going to happen?
00:33:24.000One of my producers, Jake, huge fan of prize picks for Friday's baseball games, Jake picked Shohei Otani to have at least one walk and for pitcher Garrett Cole to allow less than five hits.
00:34:29.000So, that October 15th deadline, it's passed.
00:34:31.000Are you prepared for what's coming next?
00:34:33.000If you owe back taxes, if your tax returns are still on file, if you miss the deadline to file for an extension, well, now that October 15th is behind us, the IRS is going to begin ramping up enforcement, and they don't play around.
00:34:44.000You could face wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, even property seizures if you haven't taken the proper action.
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00:35:31.000Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. Now speaking of the state of play, when it comes to how long it's going to take to get these results, there is in fact some information on the early voting.
00:35:41.000So according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats do have a clear edge in the early voting so far, but the kind of going wisdom is the Democrats are going to have a super-duper heavy edge in early voting, and Republicans will really outperform day of.
00:35:53.000And it seems that Republicans are overperforming so far in some of the early voting.
00:35:57.000Apparently, Republicans are embracing the practice of casting their ballot before Election Day more than they have in past election cycles.
00:36:04.000And part of that is because Donald Trump has now revised his view on this.
00:36:07.000You'll recall the interview I did with President Trump last week.
00:36:09.000He explicitly called for people to vote early.
00:36:13.000Get to the polls, vote early, mail in your ballot.
00:36:16.000More than 15 million Americans have already voted in person or cast mail-in ballots.
00:36:20.000That includes 5.3 million in the seven swing states.
00:36:23.000In the states where voters register by party, about 47% of the early votes have been cast by Democrats.
00:36:31.000Battleground states like Michigan and Georgia aren't included in the breakdown by party registrations.
00:36:36.000Democrats account for about 49% of returned ballots, compared with 31% for GOP voters, but that is a much smaller gap than it was last time around, when Democrats were 52% of all returned mail-in ballots, compared with just 24% for Republicans.
00:36:53.000So, you know, reading the early voting is a game of tea leaves.
00:36:56.000You really don't know quite what you're reading because, again, it could be that you're cannibalizing your day of vote, or it could be that marginal voters are now voting early mail-in.
00:37:04.000But, bottom line is, Republicans are lagging less in the early voting than they were the last time around.
00:37:11.000Unclear exactly how this is all going to map out.
00:37:13.000It's also unclear what the polls mean.
00:37:16.000So, as the Wall Street Journal is reporting, The current polling data is an attempt to correct for the failures since 2020.
00:37:24.000But expert opinion is mixed on whether polling is in for a repeat of 2020, which the Professional Association of Pollsters called the most inaccurate performance in 40 years.
00:37:32.000New developments like the shift of Black and Latino voters toward Trump and the proliferation of online surveys are now creating potential sources of additional error.
00:37:40.000One Stanford University political scientist named John Krosnick says, quote, Courtney Kennedy of the Pew Research Center has tracked the changes pollsters made in recent years to address accuracy.
00:37:51.000She says she's hoping that they'll do a little bit better than they did.
00:37:57.000But of course, it is totally unclear whether these changes are going to be in the right direction toward accuracy or in the wrong direction away from it.
00:38:05.000Post-election analysis found that in 2020, polls understated the share of white voters and older families to ultimately cast ballots and overstated Joe Biden's support in urban areas compared with the actual results.
00:38:17.000Apparently, NBC's pollsters have taken steps to address those issues.
00:38:24.000So, bottom line is, you have to treat this election like it's a jump ball, like you have no idea what's going to happen because, realistically, ain't nobody got any idea of what's going to happen.
00:38:31.000This is all mysterious, and it's going to take a while to find out what actually did happen.
00:38:39.000But, in the moment, Kamala Harris seems to be lagging in the polls.
00:38:44.000She should be doing better, no question.
00:38:46.000Donald Trump seems to have the momentum.
00:38:49.000Well, while everybody is very worried about the election threat that is Donald Trump, there is one thing that is happening that is very clearly a threat to the credibility of America's elections.
00:38:59.000I'm not talking about foreign interference here.
00:39:01.000I mean, that's certainly quite possible in terms of informational dissemination by, say, Iran or even Russia or China.
00:39:09.000But the idea that that's going to swivel the entire election is probably quite unlikely.
00:39:14.000The big problem for undermining the trust Of the American people in this election cycle, how long it's going to take to get the results.
00:39:21.000And so I'm just warning everybody up front, this is going to be a disaster area, like a full-scale disaster area.
00:39:26.000Here, for example, is Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
00:39:30.000You'll remember her from such hits as, I want to keep RFK Jr.
00:39:33.000on the ballot even though he doesn't want to be on the ballot.
00:39:35.000She literally sued to keep a man who didn't want to be on the Michigan ballot, on the Michigan ballot, said he would draw votes away from Donald Trump.
00:39:40.000Now she is saying that we will only have unofficial results from Michigan The day after the election, by close of business on Wednesday.
00:40:06.000That is a great way to shore up the credibility of your state.
00:40:10.000Michigan is saying it's going to take them the entirety of the night and then all of the next day in order to even give you preliminary results in one of the key swing states.
00:40:18.000Here's the Michigan Secretary of State.
00:40:21.000Real quickly, the conversation has been, look, don't expect to know who won the election on Election Day, but you have said that your state will have everything certified, ready to go the day after November 6th.
00:40:32.000We are on track based on our hardworking election officials and machines and voters to make sure that Unofficial results in our state will be ready by the close of day on Wednesday.
00:40:44.000It's the same time they were available after the 2020 election, so we predict the same could unfold again.
00:40:49.000But we'll be there to make sure accuracy and security is prioritized over efficiency, and from the minute the polls close until we have those unofficial results, we'll make sure the public knows exactly where we are in the process and why.
00:41:39.000So it means Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
00:41:43.000He says the race seems very, very close.
00:41:45.000It is dependent on a number of states, like Pennsylvania, that we believe are going to be reporting in a pattern similar to the way they've reported in the past.
00:41:51.000So I'd say the over-under is Saturday, which is when the call was made last time.
00:41:55.000That's when Pennsylvania is likely to come in.
00:41:58.000He said, I think we have to accept the reality.
00:41:59.000We don't really know how close this election is going to be.
00:42:02.000I'm pretty sure it's going to be close.
00:42:03.000I see some polls that say, actually, it isn't going to be close.
00:42:06.000It's going to be one way or the other.
00:42:07.000There's some reporting that Trump is sort of gaining.
00:42:09.000Some of the polls have showed he's gaining.
00:42:10.000There's another sense I have that actually he may be declining.
00:42:13.000I think the real issue is what happens to Trump.
00:42:15.000I've always thought this about the election.
00:42:16.000It's less about who's running against him than it is about Trump.
00:42:20.000And then he points out that Trump's vote total in 2016 was 46.1%.
00:42:29.000So, you know, he's right about all of that.
00:42:31.000But, I mean, the fact that we are going to have to wait for days upon days to find out who won this election is going to be absolutely horrific for the country.
00:42:43.000And so, again, I think it's incumbent on people like me to inform you that it's going to take a while for there to be results so that you don't jump to conclusions just because it takes a long time to get those results.
00:42:53.000Also, states that are taking this long really need to look at the voting procedures because they really, really suck.
00:42:59.000And meanwhile, 60 Minutes, getting involved in some election manipulation of its own.
00:43:05.000So as you'll recall, Kamala Harris did an interview with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes.
00:43:12.000They chopped it into a shorter clip for 60 Minutes.
00:43:14.000They still have not released the full tape or transcript of her interview with Bill Whitaker, which is pretty wild because you know they would have for Trump.
00:43:20.000Here was Trump the other day saying that they will subpoena 60 Minutes' records.
00:45:06.000Quote, Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7th interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:46:05.000I was writing for the UCLA Daily Bruin.
00:46:07.000I was actually fired from my job there because they didn't want me to write a column about the extremism of the Muslim Student Association.
00:46:15.000And one of the things that I spoke about is the fact that on college campuses, you essentially have a coalition of losers who are all driven by the idea that they have no agency.
00:46:25.000That people who are failures in life, it's because they have no agency.
00:46:29.000And this Pathetic worldview is unfortunately really prevalent throughout the media.
00:46:34.000It's really prevalent throughout entertainment.
00:46:37.000It was even on SNL. So on weekend update on SNL over the weekend, there was an alleged comedian.
00:46:46.000And he was talking about the situation in the Gaza Strip.
00:46:50.000And he was trying to argue against the fact that there are a lot of people who make the argument, myself included, that it's ridiculous for LGBTQ plus people to say that they support Palestine when they would be murdered.
00:47:49.000Okay, that's some of the dumbest crap I ever heard in my entire life.
00:47:52.000So, first of all, it's not that all of the democracies are going to war to make places gay.
00:47:58.000It's that if you want to know the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of, perhaps you should look at the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of.
00:48:08.000I mean, that's just the reality of the situation.
00:48:10.000But underlying all of this is this idea that people in the region, things are just sort of randomly happening to them.
00:48:17.000That when it comes to the Gaza Strip, no one was involved in Hamas.
00:48:30.000The lack of agency is one of the most frustrating things about the characterization of nearly every conflict domestic and foreign these days.
00:48:37.000This idea that if somebody does something wrong, it's not because they did something wrong, it's because the system wronged them in some way.
00:48:43.000This came to I had a little bit last night during my speech at UCLA. There's a kid who got up, seemed like a nice enough kid from Biola University, and this kid started asking about The situation in Gaza and asked me if I would condone the activities of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip, to which I said, well, yes, I mean, it's a militarily defensive action to destroy a terrorist group.
00:49:05.000I want to ask you, as an American Jew, how can you continue to condone the actions of the Israeli government, condoned by the U.S. government, in the Gaza Strip, where over 40,000 people have died, including Palestinians and Israelis, and large numbers of children and civilians?
00:49:26.000How can you continue to condone those actions?
00:50:05.000Instead, they spend billions of dollars building terror tunnels below civilian areas.
00:50:08.000It is not incumbent on the Israeli government to surrender just because terrorists are evil enough to hide behind civilians.
00:50:15.000The Israeli government has gone through such extraordinary efforts not to kill civilians that it has managed the best civilian to terrorist kill ratio in the history of urban warfare, and it is not close.
00:50:28.000I personally know soldiers who have gone door to door in the Gaza Strip, who have risked their own lives to prevent civilian death.
00:50:34.000Israel has complete and utter air superiority over the Gaza Strip.
00:50:37.000Turns out that Hamas doesn't have an air force.
00:50:39.000They just had a series of tunnels where they hid all their leadership while their people suffered after their people voted for them.
00:50:44.000And then they effectively established a dictatorship over the course of the last 20 years.
00:50:48.000Israel, with their complete air superiority, certainly would have had the ability to commit full scale human atrocities had they wanted to.
00:51:01.000In fact, believe it or not, there have been more births in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this war than there have been deaths in the Gaza Strip from the war itself.
00:51:09.000That is a very poor way to conduct a genocide.
00:51:11.000Israel is being more meticulous in the conduct of this war than any army in human history and certainly than the United States Army in its vast role in the history of urban combat.
00:51:26.000Simply say that you get to play tag, you take Israeli citizens, you kill 1,200 people, you hide behind a baby, you hide behind a civilian, and now Israel has to preemptively surrender?
00:51:34.000That is a great way to make sure that terrorists always win.
00:51:37.000What Israel has done ought to be celebrated by the Western world, because they've demonstrated that if terrorists decide...
00:51:43.000They will be eviscerated from the face of the earth as they are today.
00:51:47.000Again, the central premise for the entire left, and this is true across so many different issues, is that people don't have agency so long as they are unsuccessful.
00:51:56.000The lack of success is due to lack of agency rather than to making poor decisions.