The Ben Shapiro Show - Kamala’s Most INSANE Plan

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, despite the media's best attempts to turn Kamala Harris into a massive frontrunner, it is not working.

00:00:06.000 We'll bring you the latest on that momentarily.

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00:00:22.000 Okay, so despite the media's best attempts to push Kamala Harris to a broad lead in the presidential race, she cannot do it. 0.99

00:00:27.000 It's not happening.

00:00:28.000 Okay, so despite the media's best attempts to push Kamala Harris to a broad lead in the 0.98

00:00:36.000 presidential race, she cannot do it. 1.00

00:00:39.000 It's not happening.

00:00:40.000 A brand new CNN poll shows 48 Harris, 47 Trump.

00:00:45.000 That is a terrible poll for Kamala Harris.

00:00:47.000 It is within the margin of error.

00:00:49.000 A 48-47 lead in these polls means like 20 people.

00:00:53.000 So, what does that mean?

00:00:54.000 It means, effectively speaking, again, again, again, this race is a dead heat.

00:00:59.000 Not only that, the poll numbers in this CNN poll are really dangerous for Kamala Harris.

00:01:05.000 It finds right now that Harris and Trump are running about even with independent voters.

00:01:10.000 Independent women are breaking heavily for Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:01:13.000 Independent men are splitting only 47-40 for Trump.

00:01:16.000 Again, I don't think that stat is right.

00:01:18.000 I think that independent men are going to break broader for Trump than that.

00:01:21.000 But it's not just that.

00:01:23.000 She is not running strong among some of her core constituencies, for example.

00:01:28.000 If you take a look among Black voters, when it comes to Black voters, she is only winning 79-16.

00:01:36.000 If Donald Trump wins 16% of the Black vote, she's cooked. 0.79

00:01:39.000 She's done.

00:01:41.000 According to this poll, 59% of Latinos voting for Harris, 40% for Trump.

00:01:46.000 Again, if those numbers stick, she loses the election.

00:01:51.000 She's winning among voters younger than 30, 55 to 38, but these are not good numbers for Kamala Harris.

00:01:57.000 And it appears that the Trump campaign has basically settled into stasis.

00:02:01.000 I believe that the Trump campaign basically believes at this point that everything is baked into the cake, nothing is going to change from now until the election, unless it's a sort of exogenous circumstance, a world event, that harms her campaign.

00:02:12.000 So better just sit back on your laurels and ride it out.

00:02:15.000 Now, I actually don't think it's a bad strategy.

00:02:16.000 I think that Trump, at this point, his entire goal has to be just pouring money into ads that attack Kamala Harris' record and point out that she is just Joe Biden with a fresh coat of paint.

00:02:27.000 And that's all that Kamala Harris' candidacy is. 0.97

00:02:29.000 They literally swapped out one face for another face on the same exact machine.

00:02:34.000 That is Vivek Ramaswamy's point.

00:02:35.000 He is correct.

00:02:37.000 Okay, so, if Trump does that, then she's got a real problem, which is why she's been running ads in the swing states trying to define herself. 0.98

00:02:44.000 She realizes that she's not vulnerable in attacking Donald Trump.

00:02:47.000 She can attack Trump all day long.

00:02:49.000 But here's the thing, that's already been heard.

00:02:51.000 We already get it.

00:02:52.000 Everybody in the world has an opinion about Donald Trump, and no one's changing that opinion about Donald Trump.

00:02:56.000 The problem is, she herself is not well established in the public mind, and the more Americans find out about it, the worse it is. 0.53

00:03:02.000 So she's got to catch 22. 0.95

00:03:04.000 The more she goes out and talks, the less people like her.

00:03:08.000 That is one prong.

00:03:09.000 The other is, if she doesn't talk, then it's going to be up to the Trump campaign to define her. 1.00

00:03:14.000 And all you have to go on is her record as Vice President of the United States and all the things that she said in 2018, 2019, 2020.

00:03:23.000 She's trying to split that baby, presumably by doing only friendly interviews with very friendly sources. 1.00

00:03:29.000 So it was announced today that tonight she will do a sit-down interview with Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC.

00:03:36.000 Now, why is she doing that? 1.00

00:03:37.000 She's doing that because she realizes she has to reintroduce herself to the public, but she's picking the worst available opportunity to do that. 0.99

00:03:43.000 The MSNBC crowd is already gonna vote for Kamala Harris.

00:03:46.000 Ain't an MSNBC voter who is voting for Donald Trump.

00:03:49.000 Ain't gonna happen.

00:03:50.000 Plus, Stephanie Ruhle is not going to ask her a single difficult question.

00:03:54.000 How do we know?

00:03:55.000 Well, because she said so.

00:03:57.000 She was on Realtime on Friday, and she basically said there is no reason to even ask Kamala Harris questions. 1.00

00:04:03.000 She has no obligation to give answers.

00:04:05.000 And the Harris campaign saw that and said, we'd love her to interview us.

00:04:08.000 I love that.

00:04:09.000 Stephanie Ruhle saying right now, she doesn't need to answer questions. 0.99

00:04:14.000 And Kamala Harris' response is, I would love for you to be the one who asks me.

00:04:17.000 I wonder why.

00:04:18.000 Here's Stephanie Ruhle just a couple nights ago.

00:04:21.000 Kamala Harris is not running for perfect.

00:04:24.000 She's running against Trump.

00:04:26.000 We have two choices.

00:04:28.000 And so there are some things you might not know her answer to.

00:04:33.000 And in 2024, unlike 2016 for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy.

00:04:44.000 Okay, and that is the person that they're choosing to interview Kamala, and you can see why.

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00:05:59.000 But meanwhile, Kamala Harris is in fact saying some of the most dangerous things

00:06:03.000 in modern American politics.

00:06:05.000 I'm not just talking about the stuff she said back in 2019.

00:06:07.000 We'll get to that in a moment, because every single day, there's a new revelation of something nuts she said in 2019, and then she'll be asked about it, and she'll run screaming to the hills with her hair on fire.

00:06:16.000 I'm talking about the stuff she's saying right now.

00:06:18.000 So yesterday, Kamala Harris made clear her most radical proposition. 0.97

00:06:23.000 She was asked about killing the filibuster, and here's what she had to say.

00:06:28.000 I've been very clear.

00:06:30.000 I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.

00:06:51.000 First of all, it's not even clear whether the federal Congress has the authority to do that.

00:06:58.000 If you're talking about, like, an interstate crime, then perhaps.

00:07:02.000 If you're talking about, like, an intrastate crime, which is what criminalizing late-term abortion, for example, in many states does, not clear that the federal government has the authority to simply reinstate Roe by fiat of Congress.

00:07:13.000 But that's not the point.

00:07:14.000 The point is that she wants to kill the filibuster. 1.00

00:07:16.000 And the filibuster, for those who are unfamiliar with the legal jargon, the filibuster is effectively a 60-vote threshold to pass controversial legislation in Congress.

00:07:27.000 And there's some workarounds.

00:07:29.000 There's some financial workarounds.

00:07:30.000 If there's a budget bill, for example, there's a process called budget sequestration in which you can use 51 votes to basically trump the filibuster.

00:07:37.000 But the filibuster tries to guarantee that there is widespread agreement about a policy before it passes.

00:07:43.000 So, for example, it made a big difference with Obamacare that Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate, thanks to a rigged race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in Minnesota that achieved a 60th vote for them that allowed Obamacare to pass with 60 votes.

00:07:55.000 They overcame the filibuster.

00:07:57.000 The filibuster usually has been applied to a wide variety of circumstances, and Democrats have played around with it.

00:08:02.000 So, the Democrats, for a while, used the filibuster against judicial nominees.

00:08:07.000 And it turns out that that was not a good idea.

00:08:10.000 And then they killed the filibuster for judicial nominees when it was on their side.

00:08:13.000 And that allowed Mitch McConnell to put in place a bunch of federal justices and federal judges who are of the right side of the aisle in terms of originalism.

00:08:23.000 And bottom line is this.

00:08:24.000 The filibuster is the slowdown process available in Congress to maintain the constitutional idea that there ought to be broad-scale agreement on major shifts in American policy.

00:08:36.000 It requires 60 votes in order to go forward.

00:08:37.000 Now, that filibuster can be changed.

00:08:40.000 It's a rule.

00:08:40.000 It is not a constitutional provision.

00:08:43.000 But it has become sort of the last resort of bipartisanship in the Congress as the administrative state has grown, and as we've changed the constitutional rules, and as the scope of the federal government has grown.

00:08:55.000 There used to be all sorts of checks and balances in the original constitutional structure against Congress moving really fast in really broad ways.

00:09:02.000 Namely, it was a Congress of delegated powers, and if you actually weren't acting within the delegated powers, well then, the states wouldn't pay attention to you, or the Supreme Court would strike it down.

00:09:11.000 And then over the course of the 20th century, the executive branch started to assume extraordinary functions that really belonged to the legislature.

00:09:18.000 They would, just through regulation, do massive things.

00:09:21.000 Congress expanded its purview to include pretty much everything that quote-unquote affected interstate commerce.

00:09:28.000 And the Supreme Court, which had been packed by the left, effectively decided that it was going to allow Congress to usurp all of that authority.

00:09:35.000 So as the authority of the federal Congress increased, the filibuster became the brake on that process.

00:09:41.000 And it wasn't an interminable break.

00:09:43.000 You could overcome it.

00:09:44.000 There was an attempt to filibuster, for example, the Civil Rights Act, and that failed.

00:09:48.000 There have been many attempts to filibuster particular acts of Congress, and those filibusters have failed.

00:09:53.000 However, the general standard, which is that for a big change in American public life, you have to at least overcome a filibuster.

00:09:59.000 You have to show that the American people, writ large, have elected people who, broadly speaking, agree with one another.

00:10:05.000 That has been a provision that has kept the United States in a state of semi-solidity With regard to its politics for a long time, incrementalism is one of the effects of the filibuster.

00:10:17.000 You have to move more slowly than you otherwise would.

00:10:19.000 Otherwise, this government would look very much like the parliamentary governments that you see in Europe.

00:10:25.000 For example, when one side takes the majority, they simply put into place everything they want.

00:10:30.000 The other side comes back in, they put in place everything they want, and policy swivels wildly from side to side.

00:10:36.000 The United States was not built for that.

00:10:37.000 It was built for gridlock.

00:10:38.000 The filibuster is an element of that gridlock.

00:10:40.000 Kamala Harris wanting to kill the filibuster with regard to Roe basically means she wants to kill the filibuster with regard to everything. 1.00

00:10:46.000 If you kill the filibuster, understand that it's not just with regard to Roe vs. Wade.

00:10:53.000 She's saying she wants to kill the filibuster with regard to Roe vs. Wade.

00:10:56.000 And because she wants to put back in place federal legislation that forces legal abortion 1.00

00:11:02.000 on the states.

00:11:03.000 But it's not just for that.

00:11:05.000 The real goal here is much broader. 0.62

00:11:07.000 Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, he says that they will consider killing the

00:11:11.000 filibuster.

00:11:12.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:11:13.000 President Harris enforced a filibuster carve out of the qualifying vote.

00:11:19.000 What is your reaction to that?

00:11:21.000 It's something our caucus will discuss in the next session of Congress.

00:11:24.000 Okay, so they're going to discuss it.

00:11:28.000 What they really mean is they would love to do it.

00:11:30.000 If Democrats take the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, and they kill the filibuster, what you will end up with is a permanent rigging of the American government on behalf of Democrats.

00:11:41.000 That is the goal.

00:11:42.000 That is why this is so radical.

00:11:43.000 Understand, I'm interested about abortion.

00:11:45.000 I promise you, with 51 votes, Democrats will kill the filibuster, and then they will attempt to create two new states through congressional fiat.

00:11:54.000 They'll create a state of Washington, D.C., which will have two permanent Democratic senators, thus permanently shifting the balance of power in the Senate on behalf of Democrats.

00:12:02.000 They'll also presumably add Puerto Rico as a state represented in the United States Senate.

00:12:07.000 Now, historically speaking, when states were added to the federal government, to the federal Senate, when those states were added, typically you would have a state that was added that was a Democrat state and a Republican state.

00:12:18.000 This is why Alaska and Hawaii actually entered the union at about the same time.

00:12:23.000 The reason is, believe it or not, at the time, Alaska was a Democrat state and Hawaii was a Republican state.

00:12:27.000 Now, of course, they've switched places.

00:12:29.000 But what Democrats want to do is add four seats to the Senate and thereby guarantee themselves a permanent working majority.

00:12:35.000 And having killed the filibuster, they can then do whatever they want.

00:12:37.000 They can pack the Supreme Court.

00:12:38.000 They can limit jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

00:12:40.000 They can run roughshod over all the checks and balances.

00:12:43.000 And this has been a progressive Democratic goal since the beginning of the 20th century.

00:12:47.000 If you go back to Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson was openly talking about how the Constitution was basically a document written by befuddled, dead white men in order to stop the march of progress. 0.81

00:12:58.000 And what you really needed was a powerful, centralized government he thought located in the presidency in order to ram through the change that you needed.

00:13:06.000 The administrative state really gets its start under Woodrow Wilson for precisely this reason.

00:13:10.000 He famously suggested the president should be as big a man as the law allows.

00:13:15.000 And he wanted the law to allow the presidency to be really, really big.

00:13:17.000 That's what Democrats want.

00:13:18.000 Democrats want to get rid of the checks and balances. 0.62

00:13:22.000 That is their goal.

00:13:23.000 Now, of course, the sword can swing both ways.

00:13:25.000 When Democrats originally got rid of the filibuster for judicial nominees on behalf of their own judicial nominees, they then allowed Mitch McConnell to do the same with regard to his judicial nominees on the Republican side of the aisle.

00:13:38.000 However, Democrats are not thinking about that.

00:13:41.000 What they are thinking about is how do we permanently rig the rules of the game so that Republicans can never again control the branches of government.

00:13:50.000 That is their goal.

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00:14:58.000 One of their first moves would be to kill the filibuster, presumably, for things like the John Lewis Act.

00:15:03.000 Which is an act designed to enshrine ballot harvesting as federal law, allowing Democratic front groups to go out and effectively just go house-to-house to all of their friends, pick up their ballots, and shovel those in the mailbox, whether or not those people were really interested in voting or not.

00:15:20.000 Basically, the more you pay your get-out-the-vote effort, the more votes you get.

00:15:23.000 Not because you're convincing anybody, but because you geotarget all of the people you want, and then you go to the homeless guy, and you give him a ballot, and you say, I want you to punch these things, and then you bring it back in.

00:15:34.000 The Democrats, presumably, would then force through the so-called Equality Act, which is a complete violation of religious freedom in the United States.

00:15:40.000 And when you say, okay, well, if you were to push that through, then the Supreme Court would fight back.

00:15:45.000 Yes, and then that will be used as the predicate by a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House in order to pack the Supreme Court, in order to forcibly retire Republican-appointed justices.

00:15:56.000 So, when people say that this election really, really matters, it wouldn't matter so much if people weren't screwing around with the mechanisms of government itself.

00:16:05.000 I've said this to Democrats throughout this race.

00:16:07.000 Democrats are constantly saying, Donald Trump, he's a threat to democracy.

00:16:10.000 Look at him, a threat to democracy with all of his January 6th and all of his election talk and denialism and all.

00:16:16.000 And what I've said to them is this.

00:16:18.000 I didn't like a lot of what Donald Trump said between election 2020 and January 6th.

00:16:22.000 I thought that he was saying things that were legally untrue.

00:16:25.000 And when he was talking about how the vice president had the unilateral ability to simply negate state certified votes, I thought that that was not true.

00:16:33.000 However, Donald Trump's various blasphemies with regard to the constitutional system were not, in fact, a threat to the constitutional system.

00:16:42.000 Joe Biden has threatened the constitutional system, not only by activating elements of the executive branch to ram down things like vaccine mandates that are well outside their purview.

00:16:55.000 We literally had to sue the federal government to stop that, by the way.

00:16:58.000 Not only that, but by opening the door to fundamentally rewriting the actual structures of how the government works in order to enshrine a permanent majority, that is actual screwing around with the Republic.

00:17:11.000 And if that becomes the case, if it becomes, anytime you have an electoral democracy, a republic, anytime you have that, there's a bargain that takes place between the citizens and their government.

00:17:21.000 That bargain is, we will all abide by the rules because we understand that in the next election, we might be the ones in control.

00:17:28.000 That has always been the bargain of any democratic or republican form of government, has been the idea that when you vote, you might lose this time, but you might win next time.

00:17:36.000 If the rules of the game are permanently rigged in favor of one side, That is not a republic that will last.

00:17:44.000 Because what it means is that you now have a dictatorship of the supposed majority.

00:17:49.000 And a dictatorship of the majority is not likely to be abided by by the disaffected minority.

00:17:56.000 It's exactly why the founding fathers put in place all these checks and balances.

00:18:02.000 So it sounds dull and dry.

00:18:03.000 When she says, I'll ditch the filibuster, it sounds dull and dry.

00:18:05.000 It is not dull and dry.

00:18:07.000 Getting rid of the Senate filibuster, if Democrats have a majority in the House and the Senate, and Kamala Harris is the President, it does, in fact, mean the end of the current functioning of the United States government and the entry into an imperial period of complete democratic dominance.

00:18:22.000 It is, in fact, rigging the rules.

00:18:24.000 It is, in fact, changing the structure of American government.

00:18:26.000 It is wildly dangerous.

00:18:28.000 And then, the only locus of resistance becomes the states.

00:18:32.000 Then you have governors who simply say, we don't think this is legitimate and we're not going to do it, come and take it.

00:18:37.000 It ratchets up the temperature.

00:18:38.000 It doesn't ratchet down the temperature in the country.

00:18:40.000 It ratchets it wildly up.

00:18:42.000 Because the common agreement, which is that we at least have to, if we're going to play a game, then there has to be a shot that either of us can win.

00:18:48.000 That goes away.

00:18:49.000 Democrats want to rig this thing permanently and that's what Kamala Harris is saying. 0.95

00:18:52.000 This is one of the reasons why Joe Manchin, who's not going to be sitting in the Senate anymore, he's leaving.

00:18:58.000 Would you endorse her for president then?

00:18:59.000 I'm not endorsing her.

00:19:00.000 Joe Manchin said he's not going to endorse Kamala Harris, specifically because of her

00:19:04.000 desire to kill the filibuster, because Manchin has worked across the aisle.

00:19:07.000 Now, Manchin's a Democrat, but he's worked across the aisle.

00:19:10.000 Manchin understands that what she's talking about threatens the very fabric of the republic.

00:19:15.000 Would you endorse her for president, then?

00:19:19.000 I'm not endorsing her.

00:19:23.000 No.

00:19:24.000 Okay.

00:19:25.000 Okay, so that is an amazing statement by Joe Manchin.

00:19:26.000 And Americans should understand just how dangerous Kamala Harris is. 0.99

00:19:29.000 She is not brat.

00:19:30.000 She is not cool. 0.99

00:19:32.000 She is, like Barack Obama and Joe Biden before her, somebody who wants to fundamentally change the way that government works in the United States.

00:19:40.000 Now there are some Democrats who are attempting to make a pragmatic case for why Democrats shouldn't end the filibuster.

00:19:45.000 They say, you know, you should act with caution.

00:19:47.000 But the reality is that as the AOC wing of the party takes over, there's going to be more and more pressure, obviously, for Democrats to change the actual functioning rules.

00:19:56.000 And they're going to do so on behalf of some of the most insane policy ever.

00:19:58.000 This is the reason, by the way, why Kamala Harris will not commit to rejecting her old policies.

00:20:04.000 Remember, she has said that you shouldn't take any of the things she said in 2019 all that seriously.

00:20:09.000 You know, she was running for president at the time.

00:20:11.000 It was a much more left-wing Democratic Party. 1.00

00:20:13.000 The American public was much more open to radical, stupid ideas. 0.99

00:20:18.000 But she refuses to walk away from any of the policies in terms of whether she would implement them. 1.00

00:20:24.000 So flashback to 2019.

00:20:24.000 Here's Kamala Harris saying that she would, quote-unquote, decriminalize sex work, which means make prostitution legal across the country.

00:20:34.000 Do you think that sex work ought to be decriminalized?

00:20:38.000 I think so.

00:20:39.000 I do.

00:20:40.000 I think that we have to understand, though, that it is not as simple as that.

00:20:45.000 It is also about... There is an ecosystem around that that includes crimes that harm people.

00:20:54.000 Okay, so that was her wanting to decriminalize it. 1.00

00:20:59.000 Now, would she sign a bill on that?

00:21:01.000 She won't say.

00:21:02.000 How do you know she won't say?

00:21:03.000 Because she literally won't say about anything.

00:21:05.000 So, for example, Kamala Harris has spent two decades opposing the death penalty. 0.73

00:21:10.000 She opposed the death penalty so strongly that she refused to apply it while she was Attorney General.

00:21:13.000 She would just not go for it while she was Attorney General of the state of California.

00:21:18.000 Well, in a shift, the Democratic Party changed its official platform this summer to remove opposition to the death penalty.

00:21:24.000 That, of course, the opposition to the death penalty is a very unpopular view among Americans who see child molesters who murder children as people who probably should not be breathing the same air.

00:21:33.000 A proposition with which I heartily agree.

00:21:36.000 However, Kamala Harris was asked whether she would support legislation or sign an executive order to end the death penalty, and her campaign, once again, would not respond.

00:21:45.000 And this is the way that she has been acting throughout the campaign.

00:21:49.000 She'll send out surrogates to shift a position, and then when asked if she will still sign the bill with her original position, she'll go AWOL. 1.00

00:21:57.000 This is the reason why she won't answer questions. 0.95

00:21:59.000 Because she still believes all the things she used to believe.

00:22:03.000 And she will change the rules in order to achieve those things. 0.99

00:22:06.000 Kamala Harris constantly runs away from questions.

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00:23:09.000 I'm not sure that it's going to work in this campaign.

00:23:11.000 She's playing this double game where you are supposed to pretend that she is a well-established figure with a set of principles, but if you ask her about the principles, it's really bad.

00:23:19.000 So she's simultaneously avoiding the cameras, but then showing up for the cameras to shake hands and give the goofy grin and make weird hand motions. 1.00

00:23:27.000 One of the things that she has been doing, by the way, is avoiding these so-called Al Smith dinners.

00:23:31.000 There's a big dinner that happens every year.

00:23:34.000 It's sort of this source of much revelry in New York.

00:23:38.000 Goes back decades at this point.

00:23:41.000 The Al Smith dinner is where a bunch of candidates show up and then they make jokes.

00:23:44.000 So there's all sorts of video, for example, of Donald Trump showing up to the Al Smith dinner and making some self-referential jokes.

00:23:51.000 Everyone that I'm aware of, every candidate, Democrat, Republican, has showed up to the Al Smith dinner and read some jokes written by professional comedians.

00:23:58.000 Kamala Harris has bowed out.

00:24:00.000 The question is why?

00:24:01.000 And the answer is because Kamala Harris cannot be seen making jokes. 0.98

00:24:06.000 She cannot.

00:24:07.000 She's not capable of doing humor. 0.99

00:24:09.000 She's not capable of being a regular, normal human.

00:24:12.000 I understand there's, again, this attempt to turn her into a regular person.

00:24:16.000 Kamala Harris is not a regular person.

00:24:18.000 Kamala Harris literally had to have her campaign staff in 2019-2020 Do a mock dinner party in order so she could prep for a real dinner party. 1.00

00:24:27.000 I don't know how many times you've had to do that.

00:24:29.000 Like actually set out silverware in China in order to mock up a dinner party because it's so important you do well at this donor dinner.

00:24:36.000 That's not something normies do.

00:24:39.000 But she's not quite normal.

00:24:40.000 So here is Cardinal Dolan of New York saying he was disappointed she won't attend the Al Smith dinner.

00:24:44.000 I think there's another reason, which is she is so wildly pro-abortion.

00:24:48.000 And her administration would in fact be wildly anti-Catholic.

00:24:52.000 Because Catholic social teachings are directly opposed to the Kamala Harris individual authenticity, live your truth, pro-abortion platform.

00:25:00.000 I think that would have been a problem for her. 0.93

00:25:02.000 Here's Cardinal Dolan lamenting.

00:25:05.000 You know, she speaks very much about the high ideals and how it's good to get away from division and come together in unity and all.

00:25:12.000 That's what the Al Smith dinner is all about.

00:25:14.000 We haven't given up yet.

00:25:15.000 We're not used to this.

00:25:16.000 We don't know how to handle it.

00:25:17.000 This hasn't happened in 40 years since Walter Mondale turned down the invitation.

00:25:22.000 And remember, he lost 49 out of 50 states.

00:25:25.000 I don't want to say there's a direct connection there, but so we're not used to this.

00:25:30.000 And we're not giving up.

00:25:32.000 You know who's been a help to us, Lauren, is Senator Schumer and Governor Hochul.

00:25:36.000 They both are working hard to see that they convince her to come.

00:25:40.000 So there's still a chance?

00:25:41.000 Yeah, and Senator Schumer said to me, he said, I don't think she made the decision.

00:25:46.000 I think her schedulers are saying she can't make it.

00:25:48.000 So we're not giving up.

00:25:52.000 She definitely made the decision.

00:25:53.000 This is a very high-profile dinner.

00:25:55.000 That decision does not get made without her input.

00:25:57.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump, he is getting more disciplined, as I suggested that he has to.

00:26:01.000 And I think everyone, it's not unique to me, has suggested he must.

00:26:05.000 On the campaign trail, he's attacking her with alacrity on the two top issues for Americans, the economy and immigration.

00:26:10.000 Here he was yesterday on the campaign trail, speaking in Georgia about Kamala's plan with regard to illegal immigration.

00:26:19.000 Kamala's illegals are also crushing your wages and stealing your jobs. 0.99

00:26:23.000 Last month alone, think of this, American-born workers lost 1.3 million jobs and migrants gained 635,000 jobs.

00:26:34.000 So we're putting our migrants to work at a much higher level than our own people, our own citizens. 0.98

00:26:41.000 Trump also went off on her yesterday with regard to her tax policies.

00:26:45.000 This is in Pennsylvania.

00:26:46.000 Trump is hitting the campaign trail harder in these later weeks, as he should be.

00:26:51.000 Kamala Harris is the tax queen.

00:26:54.000 And she's coming for your money. 1.00

00:26:55.000 She's coming for your pensions. 1.00

00:26:57.000 And she's coming for your savings.

00:26:58.000 Unless you defeat her in November and want to take away your guns.

00:27:02.000 Remember that.

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00:27:07.000 He is right about all of that.

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00:28:14.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, again, on the economy, she's lagging. 1.00

00:28:18.000 And there are some indicators that the economy is not quite as sanguine as the Federal Reserve would make it out to be.

00:28:24.000 Yesterday, CNBC's Rick Santelli pointed out there was a huge miss on consumer confidence, that Americans are feeling a little squirrelly about the economy, that actually the injection of new money into the system by lowering the interest rates by the Federal Reserve, that actually is not quieting a lot of concerns.

00:28:41.000 We are looking at some big misses here on Consumer Confidence.

00:28:44.000 We're expecting a headline number to be around 104.

00:28:46.000 98.7.

00:28:46.000 That is the weakest going back to February of 21.

00:28:48.000 February of 21.

00:28:49.000 Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry.

00:28:50.000 July of 22.

00:28:50.000 July of 22, when it was 95.3.

00:28:51.000 That is the weakest going back to February of 21, February of 21, oh excuse me, I'm sorry,

00:28:58.000 July of 22, July of 22 when it was 95.3.

00:29:04.000 So these are definitely weaker than expected numbers.

00:29:08.000 And not just that, as investor John Paulson pointed out yesterday, real wages grew almost

00:29:13.000 8% under Donald Trump.

00:29:14.000 They've been down about 2% under Joe Biden.

00:29:17.000 That is a big delta.

00:29:20.000 Under Trump, real wages grew 7.7%.

00:29:22.000 Under Biden, they've declined 2.1%.

00:29:27.000 So the American worker is the most vulnerable.

00:29:30.000 So the tax policies he articulated, no tax on tip, No tax on overtime.

00:29:37.000 No tax on Social Security.

00:29:40.000 They benefit the people that need the help the most to restore their income so they can meet the higher cost of living today.

00:29:51.000 Meanwhile, the Harris co-chair is out there suggesting, this is Chris Coons, that the real problem is that the American people just don't understand their own feelings about the economy.

00:29:59.000 By the way, whenever you're arguing this, you're losing.

00:30:02.000 This is a rule in American politics.

00:30:04.000 If the American people have a perception about a thing, whether they are right or whether they are wrong, if you argue that they just are misunderstanding, that they just don't get it, If you're arguing that, you're losing because all of those people's feelings matter in the sense that they are going to vote.

00:30:18.000 Again, they might be wrong, but they ain't gonna vote based on you telling them that they are misfeeling or something.

00:30:24.000 Here's Senator Chris Coons.

00:30:26.000 Many Americans misremember just how bad the economy was four years ago and how strong our economic recovery from the pandemic has been.

00:30:36.000 They're misremembering.

00:30:37.000 That's it.

00:30:38.000 That's really the issue.

00:30:39.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris pushing out every inflationary policy she can think of.

00:30:43.000 As Edward Pinto points out at the Wall Street Journal, her housing plan is going to inflate 0.99

00:30:47.000 the prices on housing and create shortages.

00:30:50.000 A signature feature of Kamala Harris's housing plan is providing first-time homebuyers with

00:30:54.000 $25,000,000 in down payment support at a total cost of $100 billion over four years.

00:30:59.000 Absent a severe recession, this policy is all but certain to lead to higher home prices.

00:31:03.000 That's because the 4 million program recipients would become price setters for all buyers in their neighborhood.

00:31:08.000 According to the American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center, 77% of all home purchases would be subject to this home buyer tax, causing the price of those homes to increase by 3.6%.

00:31:19.000 Over four years, the increase in home prices would total $175 billion, more than the $100 billion cost of the program.

00:31:25.000 The price increase would show up in higher revenue for sellers, thus acting as a wealth transfer to people who are trying to sell.

00:31:32.000 However, the problem is that if you don't actually increase the supply, then the prices will just continue to go up.

00:31:38.000 And right now, the supply is not going to increase because of all the regulations.

00:31:44.000 Also, because Kamala Harris and her team all over the country keep pushing idiocies like rent control. 1.00

00:31:49.000 Now, the truth is that there is a really easy way to bring down the price of rent and the price of mortgages, and that's make it easier to build.

00:31:56.000 Get rid of rent control.

00:31:57.000 How do we know this?

00:31:58.000 Because over in Argentina, where Javier Mille has been wielding the chainsaw that he promised he would wield, he has just completely scrapped rent controls, and now the real estate market is doing amazing.

00:32:10.000 It's actually not all that hard.

00:32:12.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, For years, Argentina imposed one of the world's strictest rent control laws.

00:32:18.000 Now the country's new president, Javier Mille, has scrapped the rental law, along with most government price controls, in a fiscal experiment that he is conducting to revive South America's second biggest economy.

00:32:26.000 The result?

00:32:27.000 The Argentine capital is undergoing a rental market boom.

00:32:30.000 Landlords are rushing to put their properties back on the market, with Buenos Aires rental supplies increasing by over 170%.

00:32:38.000 While rents are still up in nominal terms, many renters are getting better deals than ever, with a 40% decline in the real price of rental properties when adjusted for inflation since last October.

00:32:48.000 In other words, his economic shock therapy is working.

00:32:50.000 It turns out deregulation of the economy leads to lower prices and better products.

00:32:55.000 Precisely the opposite of what is promised by Kamala Harris and her economic team. 0.99

00:33:00.000 This is why Americans don't trust Kamala Harris on the economy or on anything else. 1.00

00:33:05.000 And this is an insuperable problem for her.

00:33:07.000 Again, she has gotten the best eight weeks of media coverage in human history.

00:33:12.000 And she is currently leading in the national polling average by maybe 2%.

00:33:17.000 And in the States, she's not leading at all.

00:33:21.000 In fact, it appears that the gap that emerged between Harris and Trump after she jumped in is starting to close again.

00:33:28.000 It's never been very big and it's starting to close again.

00:33:30.000 And if you look at the swing state polls, what you see is that every single, I'll repeat this until the cows come home, every single swing state is within the margin of error.

00:33:41.000 And they seem to be moving just a little bit back toward Trump at this point.

00:33:45.000 And it's only going to get worse for her.

00:33:46.000 Because what can she do to make Fetch happen?

00:33:49.000 What can she do to recapture the magic?

00:33:52.000 Not much.

00:33:53.000 And then there are the exogenous events.

00:33:55.000 One of those big exogenous events is happening right now in the Middle East.

00:33:58.000 A ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon is going to come. 0.97

00:34:01.000 It is going to happen because it has to happen because Hezbollah's rocket capabilities must be dismantled by the Israelis before they reestablish any level of command and control. 0.86

00:34:10.000 The Israelis are currently conducting one of the most sophisticated and successful military operations in all of human history.

00:34:16.000 And Kamala Harris is probably going to oppose it. 1.00

00:34:19.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:35:01.000 Meanwhile, there is a major exogenous world event and it is going to negatively impact the Harris campaign.

00:35:06.000 Why?

00:35:06.000 Because the Harris-Biden White House has been a disaster area on the Middle East throughout this entire October 7th conflict.

00:35:14.000 And before, the Biden-Harris campaign set, that White House set the Middle East on fire.

00:35:19.000 They actively dissociated from the Saudis.

00:35:21.000 They actively dissociated from the Israelis.

00:35:23.000 They decided to side with the Palestinians.

00:35:25.000 They decided to side with the Iranians.

00:35:27.000 They decided they were going to quote-unquote reopen negotiations with some of the world's worst people.

00:35:32.000 And then it turns out the Iranians activated their proxies on every front against Israel in an attempt to forestall any sort of deal between the Israelis and the Saudis.

00:35:40.000 Well, now Israel is fighting back and they're flexing their muscle. 0.68

00:35:43.000 They are currently involved in the most sophisticated and successful military operation, probably in modern history, in what they have been doing in Lebanon.

00:35:50.000 From the beeper operation, to operation blowing up the walkie talkies, to taking out 50% of all long-range munitions of Hezbollah inside of 24 hours. 0.69

00:35:59.000 They are currently targeting Hezbollah so thoroughly that Hezbollah has been left with significant shortages of ability to actually fire on Israel.

00:36:07.000 So last night they fired a cruise missile at Tel Aviv.

00:36:10.000 It was shot down by David's Sling, which is sort of a longer range version of the famed Iron Dome.

00:36:15.000 They've been shooting down rockets pretty much daily now that are flying toward Haifa.

00:36:21.000 Israel, its population has suffered I believe one fatal casualty at this point compared to the hundreds of people who have died who are Hezbollah members or associated with Hezbollah or hanging out in the apartments above Hezbollah in targeted strikes.

00:36:34.000 Some half million Lebanese have fled areas where they were directly next to Hezbollah emplacements and now Israel is presumably going to have to conduct some sort of ground operation in southern Lebanon to re-insure their own security.

00:36:47.000 There's been talk about them moving to the Latani River which is A few dozen miles into Lebanon and then re-establishing a security cordon there.

00:36:54.000 They might actually have to move north of that.

00:36:56.000 There are a bunch of rivers in Lebanon that sort of cut horizontally across the country.

00:37:01.000 Israel may have to move further north than the Latani River in order to ensure the security of the state of Israel.

00:37:07.000 And for those who are complaining, why isn't the UN doing it?

00:37:09.000 The answer is Israel tried to have the UN do it and the UN immediately gave it over to Hezbollah in 2000.

00:37:15.000 Israel completely withdrew from Lebanon in the year 2000.

00:37:17.000 This is not a territorial dispute. 0.99

00:37:19.000 This is one country attacking another country and then getting its ass kicked. 0.99

00:37:24.000 The problem, of course, is that this creates a problem for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:37:27.000 When Israel wins, many people on Kamala Harris's side of the aisle do not like it, which is why, presumably, the Biden-Harris administration continues to slow-walk aid to Israel in a fight with an adversarial terror group.

00:37:38.000 Today, Senators Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell sent a letter to Joe Biden pointing out that the administration is delaying three critical types of military weapons or equipment.

00:37:47.000 MK-84 bombs, which are bombs required to hit Hamas's deeply buried tunnels and military infrastructure in Gaza, as well as Hezbollah tunnels.

00:37:54.000 Apache attack helicopters.

00:37:57.000 They're not fast-tracked nor approving the sale of Apache attack helicopters, especially given the war in Gaza.

00:38:03.000 And Caterpillar D9 tractors.

00:38:06.000 Which is what the IDF uses to clear IEDs from in front of its troops.

00:38:11.000 So, again, this administration trying to have it both ways.

00:38:13.000 And the reason they're doing that, of course, is specifically because of their radical left.

00:38:18.000 It's because they themselves hold a brief for the idea that weakness equals virtue in the world.

00:38:24.000 And that if you are an evil terrorist group, that just means that you are really, really oppressed.

00:38:27.000 That's why you're evil and that's why you're a terrorist.

00:38:29.000 It's because you were super duper oppressed. 0.99

00:38:31.000 And thus we must have sympathy for you. 0.98

00:38:33.000 I saw the foolish singer Joan Baez suggesting as much. 0.99

00:38:36.000 Well, you know, the terrorists don't even have a chance against the Israelis. 0.99

00:38:38.000 Yes, and that's good.

00:38:40.000 That's a good thing.

00:38:42.000 Because one side is really, really evil. 0.99

00:38:45.000 And that would be the Islamist terrorists. 0.93

00:38:48.000 But, again, the left does hold a brief for terrorism.

00:38:52.000 That ranges, you know, among all the left's greatest stars.

00:38:56.000 Greta Thunberg, who I can now make fun of as much as I want, because Greta is no longer under the age of 18, so she can't chide the adult.

00:39:02.000 She's now one of us.

00:39:03.000 Well, as an adult, Greta, you might at some point want to read a book. 0.99

00:39:10.000 The fact that Greta Thunberg was ever put out there as some sort of moral exemplar is absolutely beyond me, and she demonstrates her absolute intellectual inferiority every time she opens her dumb mouth. 1.00

00:39:19.000 Here she was calling for a Palestinian boycott against Chevron. 0.97

00:39:23.000 Uh-huh, this is gonna work.

00:39:27.000 Genocide in Palestine. 0.77

00:39:29.000 And she's wearing the terrorist keffiyeh, of course. 0.99

00:39:32.000 Israeli-claimed?

00:39:33.000 Israel fracked them! 0.99

00:39:35.000 And she's wearing the terrorist skiffia of course. 0.99

00:39:37.000 ...supplies them with energy from two Israeli-claimed gas fields in the Mediterranean, making millions

00:39:43.000 in the process.

00:39:44.000 Israeli-claimed?

00:39:45.000 Israel fracked them! 0.99

00:39:46.000 Israel drilled those fields! 0.85

00:39:47.000 ...Israel's genocide in Gaza and its radio-apartheid is a climate justice issue.

00:39:51.000 Israel is destroying Palestinian lives, but also destroying Palestinian lands and resources 0.54

00:39:56.000 through its warfare and industries that pollute and destroy the environment.

00:40:01.000 We cannot stand by and do nothing. 1.00

00:40:03.000 Okay, we don't need to listen to more of this idiot. 1.00

00:40:07.000 And it's incredible that anyone ever pretended that this person Had any level of moral authority whatsoever. 0.99

00:40:13.000 That is a, it remains an astonishing thing. 0.99

00:40:16.000 Meanwhile, other morons who have been treated as voices that matter. 0.99

00:40:20.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates. 0.98

00:40:21.000 Okay, I'm just confused as to why anyone ever pretended that Ta-Nehisi Coates either is a good writer or a good thinker. 0.93

00:40:26.000 He is a simpleton. 0.70

00:40:27.000 His writing is terrible. 1.00

00:40:29.000 It's purple and it's garbage. 1.00

00:40:30.000 And he uses ridiculous adjectives where simple sentences would do. 0.99

00:40:38.000 He is deliberately obfuscatory. 0.76

00:40:41.000 He's oblique. 0.97

00:40:43.000 He just fills pages and pages with pseudo-poetic garbage. 1.00

00:40:49.000 Trash. 1.00

00:40:50.000 He's the person who made the phrase of black bodies the most ubiquitous, as though black people don't have bodies until he said black bodies. 1.00

00:40:58.000 He's always been a fool. 0.99

00:41:00.000 And in the Black Lives Matter moment, he was treated as some sort of great public intellectual. 1.00

00:41:05.000 What he really is, is a dumb knockoff version of James Baldwin, without any of the intellectual savoir-faire. 0.99

00:41:11.000 He's always been a joke. 0.97

00:41:13.000 His first book, Between the World and Me, is a piece of tripe, in which he explicitly talks about sitting on a rooftop, watching the towers go down on 9-11, and feeling nothing because one time a cop was mean to him.

00:41:26.000 The fact that anyone takes him seriously is beyond me, but the New Yorker put him on the cover of New Yorker magazine to talk about, of all things, Israel and the Palestinians.

00:41:33.000 Because again, the Omni cause.

00:41:35.000 Why?

00:41:35.000 They sent him there for two weeks.

00:41:37.000 He doesn't speak Arabic, he doesn't speak Hebrew.

00:41:39.000 Does he know anything about the geography of the region?

00:41:41.000 He literally knows nothing.

00:41:42.000 He goes over there, he sees people who are living in poverty, he immediately assumes they're like black Americans, and because in his own mind, black Americans are an oppressed class, this means that the Palestinians who support terrorism are an oppressed class, and thus it is just a simple debate between good and evil, victim and victimizer, always for Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:42:00.000 The fact that anyone treated this guy as worthy of winning things like the Pulitzer Prize is absolutely insane.

00:42:10.000 But, they did try him out on the cover of a magazine.

00:42:12.000 We all have to pretend that he knows things, even though he doesn't know anything.

00:42:16.000 These are the kinds of people that Kamala Harris is pandering to. 1.00

00:42:18.000 Or maybe she's pandering to University of Michigan students who were protesting yesterday in favor of Hamas. 0.67

00:42:23.000 When I say in favor of Hamas, I mean literally in favor of Hamas. 0.99

00:42:26.000 They are walking with a sign in this march that says, Gaza to Beirut, one struggle, and it has the upside down red triangles.

00:42:36.000 Those upside down red triangles, by the way, the reason those are important, that is the marking that Hamas puts on potential targets for bombings. 0.57

00:42:44.000 So you have terrorist supporters marching through University of Michigan.

00:42:47.000 These are the people that Kamala Harris is seeking to win over.

00:42:49.000 From the valley of the beast!

00:42:55.000 Hands off the Middle East! 1.00

00:42:59.000 From the valley of the beast!

00:43:04.000 Hands off the Middle East! 1.00

00:43:08.000 Hands off the Middle East. 1.00

00:43:12.000 Except for Islamist terrorist groups who should be able to run the place. 0.99

00:43:14.000 Those are the people Kamala Harris is attempting to pander to. 1.00

00:43:17.000 Meanwhile, by the way, Iran is literally attempting to kill Donald Trump. 0.76

00:43:21.000 Like, right now.

00:43:22.000 The Trump campaign even put out a statement about it, quote, President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of

00:43:27.000 the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate

00:43:32.000 him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States. Intelligence officials have

00:43:36.000 identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few

00:43:40.000 months, and law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump

00:43:44.000 is protected and the election is free from interference. Make no mistake, the terror

00:43:47.000 regime in Iran loves the weakness of Kamala Harris and is terrified of the strength and 0.95

00:43:51.000 resolve of President Trump.

00:43:52.000 He'll let nothing stop him or get in his way to fight for the American people and to make America great again.

00:43:57.000 And of course, that is correct.

00:43:59.000 Iran is actively waiting for President Harris.

00:44:01.000 This is why what's going on in the Middle East has some ramifications for the election.

00:44:05.000 Americans look at the conflict in the Middle East.

00:44:06.000 They don't like it.

00:44:07.000 We don't like conflict.

00:44:08.000 We don't like war.

00:44:10.000 In fact, we prefer that wars be won by the correct side fast.

00:44:14.000 And you know who's standing in the way of that?

00:44:15.000 The administration that attempted to kowtow to the Iranians.

00:44:19.000 Today, the United States offered visa waivers to Qatar.

00:44:23.000 Qatar, of course, is an Iranian ally.

00:44:27.000 So, that's what Kamala Harris is going to have to fend off. 1.00

00:44:31.000 As this war continues, which it will, Because Hezbollah's not gonna surrender any time? 0.99

00:44:35.000 That would be too humiliating for them.

00:44:37.000 Hilariously, I think they're the best tweet of the day.

00:44:39.000 Full credit to the Iranian dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei.

00:44:44.000 Full credit to that guy.

00:44:46.000 He actually tweeted out in the middle of Hezbollah getting just absolutely wrecked, Hezbollah is the victor. 1.00

00:44:52.000 Okay then.

00:44:53.000 Okay, but this is gonna be a problem for Kamala Harris because on the one hand, Americans really don't like surrender to terrorist groups. 0.99

00:45:00.000 In fact, Israel is kind of a popular proposition in the United States.

00:45:04.000 On the other side, she's got a bunch of terror supporters in her own caucus. 1.00

00:45:08.000 So she will get caught between a rock and a hard place, which is why I think you are seeing the Trump campaign doing a good job by just standing there and pointing the finger at Kamala Harris and defining her.

00:45:17.000 That's the whole race. 0.99

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00:46:22.000 Joining us online is Trey Yingst.

00:46:23.000 He's chief foreign correspondent for Fox News.

00:46:25.000 He's been reporting in enormous respects from the Middle East, obviously, over the course of the last year.

00:46:30.000 He has a brand new book releasing October 1st, titled Black Saturday, an unfiltered account of the October 7th attack on Israel and the war in Gaza.

00:46:37.000 Trey, thanks for the work you're doing and welcome to the show.

00:46:41.000 Yeah, thanks for having me, Ben.

00:46:44.000 So first of all, I assume you're in the Middle East right now, given all of the events that are happening on the ground over there.

00:46:50.000 What is your latest update on the situation on the ground?

00:46:53.000 The Israeli military is performing what appears to be one of the most successful military operations in the early stages that has happened in modern military history.

00:47:03.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:47:03.000 Right now I'm reporting on the ground in Israel's third largest city of Haifa.

00:47:08.000 And as I'm overlooking the port here in Haifa, we have seen a number of rockets incoming even today.

00:47:14.000 Israel's missile defense system, the Iron Dome, is intercepting much of the fire that is targeting these communities across northern Israel.

00:47:21.000 But today, Hezbollah escalated their attacks, firing a ballistic missile toward Israel's second largest city of Tel Aviv.

00:47:27.000 There's a real understanding on the ground that while Israel is doing what they can to reduce Hezbollah's capabilities with the Israeli Air Force, they are preparing for the possibility of a ground operation into southern Lebanon.

00:47:39.000 And even just a few moments ago, the Israelis announced they will be calling up two reserve brigades to ensure that the ground forces are in place if that decision is made.

00:47:50.000 And we've been told by sources and by the Israeli government that their estimate is that they've taken out about 50% of the long-range weaponry that Hezbollah had stored in places ranging from southern Lebanon to the Beqaa Valley, which is sort of to the northeast of Lebanon.

00:48:05.000 That still leaves an enormous number of short-range rockets obviously intact, and Hezbollah is heavily manned up along that southern border, although it appears they've lost much of their command and control structure.

00:48:15.000 The leadership of Hezbollah appears to be meeting In a room alone, the only person being alive at the top of the structure appears to be Hassan Nasrallah at this point.

00:48:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:24.000 And the Israelis launched this campaign to target Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and even their positions in the north to try and reduce those rocket and missile capabilities.

00:48:33.000 And Israeli officials, as recently as last year, before October 7th, when this all began, were briefing that they believed if Hezbollah launched an attack against Israel, the early days of that war would see thousands of rockets and missiles raining down on Israeli cities.

00:48:47.000 It would see blackouts and really challenging situations, not just for the northern part of Israel, but also the central part.

00:48:53.000 That hasn't happened to that degree.

00:48:56.000 And this is in part to the proactive stance that Israel has taken to try and target these launching positions.

00:49:02.000 It was also just a few weeks ago that we saw Hezbollah was preparing a massive barrage. 0.90

00:49:07.000 Israeli intelligence picked that up and they were able to conduct preemptive strikes.

00:49:10.000 So we are seeing the Israeli intelligence and military capabilities operating together.

00:49:16.000 They are trying to target as many of these positions as possible, understanding that, as you said, they still have the capability to launch things like ballistic missiles toward major population centers like Tel Aviv.

00:49:26.000 And this is a significant threat, and it could be coupled with intense and increased fighting with the ground operation.

00:49:35.000 You know, Trey, one of the things I think that when I talk to Israelis has been striking about the current operation is how efficient, how thorough it has been in comparison with what happened on October 7th, which of course is the subject of your book, Black Saturday.

00:49:47.000 One of the things that I think was so shocking to the Israeli psyche, and frankly to the Western psyche generally, is there was this idea that the Israeli intelligence apparatus was extremely effective. 0.96

00:49:55.000 Very, very good.

00:49:56.000 And we've seen them flex that muscle over the course of the last couple of months.

00:49:59.000 From the killing of Ismail Chania in Tehran to the beeper operation in Lebanon and yet October 7th took the Israelis completely by surprise.

00:50:07.000 I remember waking up on the morning of Simchat Torah over here in the United States and obviously I'm Orthodox and we're picking up the phone.

00:50:12.000 We started getting updates from security, you know, friends and family who are under assault in cities in the southern area of Israel in the so-called Gaza envelope.

00:50:22.000 So why don't you tell me about the situation, you know, on October 7th from your perspective because that's what the book is about.

00:50:29.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:50:29.000 And I write about this throughout Black Saturday, my experience going to the Gaza border on that morning, not knowing that this was an infiltration of Israel.

00:50:37.000 At the time, my team and I thought this was a rocket attack, as we'd seen many times in the past.

00:50:41.000 And so there was a clear intelligence failure in the Israeli military and government about What the preparations were in the days before October 7th, I mean, to have thousands of these gunmen cross into Israel, into these communities that were largely unprotected along the border and slaughter people in their homes.

00:50:59.000 And the Israeli army simply didn't get there in time to take the battle back to Hamas.

00:51:04.000 And that is why so many people were killed and why so many were dragged into Gaza as hostages of Hamas.

00:51:11.000 And so on Black Saturday, my team and I went to the border.

00:51:14.000 We were aiming to go to a town called Sderot that has about 30,000 people.

00:51:19.000 Many people who have visited Israel have been to this community because you can look right into Gaza.

00:51:23.000 It's a community that's filled with bomb shelters.

00:51:26.000 But as we drove there and we got closer, we stopped at one intersection and got out of the car because we saw an ambulance pulled over.

00:51:32.000 And that's when we heard the gunfire.

00:51:34.000 And this was the first indication that this attack was different than anything we'd seen before covering the region for the past 10 years.

00:51:41.000 And the book takes the reader not just through my perspective on that morning, also from the perspective of Israeli soldiers, of civilians, of hostages who were taken into Gaza and then later released as part of the November ceasefire deal.

00:51:55.000 I interviewed people who were held in the tunnels beneath Gaza.

00:51:58.000 I also speak with Palestinian civilians and Hamas officials, pressing them on the questions that I had about the massacre that took place on October 7th, and then some of the things that unfolded as the war was developing inside Gaza.

00:52:12.000 So I mean let's talk about that latter part because obviously that's that's a part that the media have focused heavily on is the cost of the war in Gaza itself.

00:52:20.000 Hamas launched this war presumably without thinking about the civilians or actively knowing actually that many many civilians were going to be killed.

00:52:27.000 their entire tunnel apparatus was built under civilian areas

00:52:29.000 with the explicit goal of forcing the Israelis to kill civilians in order to get to them,

00:52:34.000 in order to generate presumably Western support for some sort of ceasefire,

00:52:38.000 which is actually what many people in the West have been seeking.

00:52:41.000 When you spoke to Hamas officials, when you spoke to terrorist leaders,

00:52:44.000 what was their perspective on what they were trying to accomplish on October 7th

00:52:47.000 and what their long-term goal was?

00:52:49.000 Well, I'll tell you, in many of the questions and conversations

00:52:52.000 that I posed to this Hamas leadership, some of whom I've actually met in person inside Gaza

00:52:57.000 before October 7th, during the course of my reporting there,

00:53:00.000 they lied very frequently.

00:53:02.000 And whenever I would pose questions about what happened in the kibbutzim, in these communities along the border, my team and I went into Kafr Aza, we went into Bari, we went to the Nova Festival site, in many cases before they were cleared.

00:53:14.000 From Hamas gunmen.

00:53:16.000 And we saw the bodies that were spread throughout these communities, the massacre that took place against a civilian population.

00:53:22.000 And when I posed these questions about why this took place and why these people who actually, in Israeli society, are considered on the left wing, many of them peace activists to try and help Gazan civilians, were slaughtered, they lied.

00:53:35.000 And they said only soldiers were targeted, only military bases were targeted along the border.

00:53:39.000 And I told them that simply is not true.

00:53:42.000 And as the war developed, some of the sources that I had for years would send me messages and they would send video clips of my reporting when I embedded with the Israeli military inside Gaza, saying that it was fake and it was made up, even though it was real reporting happening in real time.

00:53:57.000 And I was giving them an opportunity as a journalist on the ground in the Middle East to comment on the reporting.

00:54:03.000 Comment on the tunnel that I entered underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

00:54:07.000 And they simply didn't want to in many cases, and when they did want to comment, they were trying to spin me.

00:54:12.000 And so I thought it was important in Black Saturday, in this new upcoming book, to talk with Israeli leadership and Hamas leadership, because I think it gives the reader a real perspective about what these officials believe about October 7th, but also about the war that is still unfolding inside Gaza as we speak.

00:54:29.000 You know, Trey, what you're saying here is so amazingly important, and it does raise the question of why so many members of the media, people who have not been on the ground, seem to very often just buy the Hamas line.

00:54:40.000 Because Hamas does lie on a routine basis.

00:54:42.000 Every war is dirty.

00:54:43.000 Every war is going to have enormous casualties.

00:54:46.000 Israel has really attempted to ship in enormous amounts of food supplies, for example, to

00:54:51.000 the civilian population.

00:54:52.000 They've obviously had to move enormous numbers of civilians from area to area across the

00:54:55.000 Gaza Strip.

00:54:56.000 And that, of course, is going to take a major humanitarian toll.

00:54:59.000 And yet the story in the West seems to have been, for most of the media, that Israel was

00:55:03.000 pursuing some sort of deeply non-humanitarian mission in the Gaza Strip with indiscriminate

00:55:08.000 fire being a regular feature of how the Israelis are going about their business, which is, 0.87

00:55:13.000 number one, ignorant of how an urban war is fought.

00:55:15.000 Number two, it's ignorant of how the political system in Israel even works.

00:55:18.000 I mean, the reality is that before October 7th, Israel has been a very deeply divided political society in which many of the different parties are working, really, at odds with one another.

00:55:29.000 And yet, when it came to the military operations in the Gaza Strip, that's being run by the IDF.

00:55:35.000 That's being run by probably the most bipartisan institution that exists in the state of Israel.

00:55:40.000 The Israeli society is absolutely divided and even more so today as the war continues and there are still more than a hundred hostages, some of them dead, some of them alive, being held by Hamas inside Gaza.

00:55:51.000 And this has put pressure on the Israeli government and military and raised questions about how the war is being conducted, how the negotiations are being conducted.

00:55:59.000 And that's part of our role covering all of this.

00:56:01.000 But I can tell you, I entered Gaza five separate times on military embeds.

00:56:05.000 And it is a challenging environment to operate in as a journalist, but also I feel it's my role as a journalist to talk to everyone involved.

00:56:12.000 And so if you go back and you watch our pieces from Shifa Hospital, for example, a place that I once entered at night with the Israeli military as they raided the facility, and then a week later during the daytime, and I write about this in Black Saturday, sort of the disconnect between day and night inside Gaza, but during the daytime in bed, I spoke with Israeli officials on the ground, people like Daniel Hagari, the top spokesman for the Israeli military, and also with Palestinian civilians who were taking a UN bus that had been coordinated with the Israeli military to the south of Gaza, where they were evacuating to.

00:56:45.000 And I always tell people, It's critical to put everything in this story into context because as journalists, no one is asking us to not report on what's happening inside Gaza.

00:56:55.000 But we also have to talk about October 7th.

00:56:57.000 We have to talk about Black Saturday and how all of this began.

00:57:01.000 Part of my role on the ground here is to speak with everyone involved.

00:57:04.000 It's to talk with the Israelis.

00:57:06.000 It's to talk with the civilians who survived the massacre, to get their stories, to make sure that people don't forget about the first day of this war, this massacre that took place unexpectedly, on a holiday, as people were at home on Shabbat.

00:57:19.000 But also to speak with Palestinian civilians about what the war has been like for them, what they hope for the future of Gaza, if they want Hamas in control of Gaza, after what happened and this that took place.

00:57:29.000 And I explain to people that the answers that I get in gathering all this information, they often exist on a spectrum.

00:57:35.000 Sometimes, and this was true even before the war, before October 7th, You'd find people in Gaza from like the Al-Qassam Brigades, for example, and their whole life's mission is to slaughter Israelis and Jews and to take over the state of Israel. 0.94

00:57:49.000 You'd also meet Palestinian civilians that were frustrated with Hamas leadership that wanted to run their businesses in Gaza City.

00:57:55.000 They wanted to run an ice cream shop or sell paper at a store in the heart of Gaza.

00:57:59.000 And so I try to gather all of these stories, get the information to our viewers, and then let them decide based on the facts that they see and the information that they receive from the ground, from our reporting on the front lines.

00:58:11.000 So, when you're talking with Gazan civilians, this has become a major issue because when you're talking about the future of what's going to happen next in Gaza, this obviously has major ramifications.

00:58:18.000 When you're talking with Gazan civilians, you spoke obviously with many of them before October 7th, you've spoken with many since October 7th.

00:58:24.000 So, what is the perception of Hamas?

00:58:27.000 What is the perception of what they wish would happen next?

00:58:29.000 What was their perception of October 7th, both in the immediate aftermath and then as the war progressed, when obviously things got a lot worse for Gazan civilians on the ground?

00:58:38.000 It's a really interesting question, and I found in the course of my reporting for this new book, Black Saturday, that some civilians, even ones who live in the United States, there's a woman that I interview and I was in touch with her as the war was developing in Gaza, someone connected me with her, and I was trying to get a better idea of what was happening on the ground there, and she actually lives in Utah.

00:58:56.000 And I found her views to be very extreme from the point of Palestinian civilians, even.

00:59:01.000 And she lives in the United States.

00:59:04.000 And she talked about the resistance fighters in Hamas.

00:59:06.000 And she talked about October 7th in almost a positive light.

00:59:10.000 And then I also spoke with Palestinian civilians, like a doctor named Raed Mosa, who worked for UNRWA, but he was educated in Israel.

00:59:18.000 And he had friends in Tel Aviv, Israeli doctors that he studied with.

00:59:22.000 And these were two examples of two people who spoke English who were able to speak to me about the situation inside Gaza.

00:59:28.000 Both civilians, not fighting on behalf of Hamas, but that had drastically different views.

00:59:33.000 And interestingly, one lived in the United States.

00:59:35.000 And actually, both of them now are living in the United States because this doctor was able to go to America on an O-1 visa.

00:59:41.000 But his reaction when I asked him about October 7th and what he did was, Reaching out to his friends in Tel Aviv to make sure they were okay.

00:59:48.000 Now, there were other people that I asked and they really didn't care.

00:59:51.000 They could care less about the situation.

00:59:53.000 So, in terms of the future though of Gaza and who will be in control and what the people of Gaza want, I think the focus now is on survival for many Gazans.

01:00:01.000 Living through a war for a year is challenging for civilians.

01:00:04.000 Many have been displaced inside Gaza and are living in tents.

01:00:08.000 And so, a lot of people are curious about what comes next, what the leadership will look like.

01:00:13.000 We just did a story recently along the border at the Karim Shalom crossing and I felt this was actually the best opportunity I've had throughout the war to speak with Palestinian civilians about their experience.

01:00:24.000 The Israelis and the Emiratis worked to evacuate injured Palestinian children from Gaza.

01:00:29.000 And I spoke with these Palestinians on the border as they were evacuating, as part of an evacuation that was coordinated by the Israelis.

01:00:36.000 And even these people had a variety of different views.

01:00:38.000 Some people I spoke to were just so thankful to get out of Gaza and get the much-needed medical treatment that they needed.

01:00:44.000 Others were quite frustrated, and they said, look, the injuries that I have were caused by the Israeli air campaign against Gaza.

01:00:50.000 And so I think the future of Gaza, it's an open-ended question.

01:00:53.000 But I always, as in the course of the reporting, you'll notice from the book, have insisted that two things can be true at once.

01:01:00.000 That October 7th was the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

01:01:05.000 And we shouldn't stop talking about that.

01:01:06.000 We shouldn't stop talking about the hostages that are still being held inside Gaza.

01:01:10.000 Also, the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza led to the highest death toll among Palestinians in the history of their people.

01:01:18.000 And we can talk about those two things at the same time.

01:01:20.000 And we can talk about the protection of civilians amid war, but we can't forget about how this all started.

01:01:25.000 And that's been sort of the course of my reporting as we speak with Palestinians, as we speak with Israelis and officials here on the ground.

01:01:33.000 Well, the book again is Black Saturday, an unfiltered account of the October 7th attack on Israel and the war in Gaza by Trey Gings.

01:01:38.000 Trey, really appreciate what you're doing and thanks for your reporting.

01:01:41.000 Thank you, Ben.

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