The Ben Shapiro Show - July 31, 2024


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Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

195.55055

Word Count

10,123

Sentence Count

757

Misogynist Sentences

65

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary

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00:00:00.000 Well, there's no question about it.
00:00:01.000 In the polls, Kamala Harris now has momentum.
00:00:04.000 She has momentum that's being media generated.
00:00:06.000 It is being generated by the celebrity class.
00:00:09.000 No serious questions have been asked of Kamala Harris.
00:00:11.000 We're going to bring you the latest on that.
00:00:12.000 Plus, an unbelievable, shocking Mossad operation in Tehran that just took out one of the leaders of Hamas.
00:00:20.000 Right after taking out a leader of Hezbollah in Beirut.
00:00:23.000 Pretty amazing stuff.
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00:00:34.000 Okay, so here is where the race currently stands.
00:00:36.000 So it's shifting pretty much every day.
00:00:38.000 We should recognize that this is Kamala Harris' moment.
00:00:40.000 And this happens in politics a lot.
00:00:42.000 Somebody has sort of a hot moment.
00:00:43.000 And in that hot moment, they are the next thing.
00:00:46.000 They are God's gift to politics.
00:00:47.000 In fact, This has happened to Kamala Harris before.
00:00:50.000 If you remember all the way back to 2019, when she was running for President of the United States in the Democratic primaries, she did a debate.
00:00:56.000 And in that debate, she suggested that Joe Biden was a racist.
00:01:00.000 And she suggested that if it had not been for the rejection of Joe Biden's positions, then she would have been forced to go to a segregated school or something like that.
00:01:09.000 And then she ended up reneging on all those positions, as it turns out she very frequently does.
00:01:13.000 But in that hot moment, in that hot moment, Kamala Harris zoomed to the top of the Democratic polls.
00:01:19.000 She was the frontrunner.
00:01:20.000 And suddenly it seemed as though the race was changed.
00:01:23.000 And then she came back to earth because it turns out that political campaigns, relatively lengthy, a week is an incredibly long time in modern American politics.
00:01:31.000 Remember, about three weeks ago, there had been no assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
00:01:38.000 Joe Biden was still the Democratic nominee for president.
00:01:40.000 Donald Trump had not selected a vice presidential candidate.
00:01:43.000 Kamala Harris had not emerged from anywhere.
00:01:46.000 That was three weeks ago.
00:01:48.000 So it's been like a week, a week and a half since Kamala Harris emerged as the new star in the Democratic firmament.
00:01:55.000 And we got the entire media flip, the rebrand of Kamala Harris, the 1027th look at Kamala Harris.
00:02:02.000 And I understand that it's all head-spinning.
00:02:03.000 It's very difficult to watch.
00:02:04.000 I mean, it is a full-scale gaslighting.
00:02:06.000 We went, in the last three months, from, Joe Biden is totally well, how dare you mention he is senile, how dare you, from the media, to, oh my god, Joe Biden is totally senile, that guy's a selfish old man, he needs to get out of the race, to, Joe Biden is like, amazing, George Washington, willing to give up power for the sake of the country.
00:02:24.000 Two, Kamala Harris, I don't know, maybe Joe Biden shouldn't step down because maybe if he steps down, they get Kamala Harris.
00:02:29.000 Maybe there should be an open convention.
00:02:30.000 Kamala Harris is the greatest candidate in the history of American politics.
00:02:33.000 That all happened in like the last two months.
00:02:36.000 So remember, work a week deep into Kamala Harris's candidacy.
00:02:40.000 With that said, she does have some immediate balance and momentum out the gate, which you would also expect given the fact that when you replace an actual house plant, The President of the United States, with a not-houseplant, a living human, you're bound to get some sort of bump.
00:02:55.000 And when that person is intersectional, boy, the Democratic elites are gonna be so excited about that.
00:02:59.000 So, there's a new set of swing state polls out from Bloomberg Morning Consult.
00:03:04.000 I'm gonna take this poll with a grain of salt.
00:03:06.000 I'll explain why in a moment.
00:03:07.000 According to this poll, in the swing states, Harris is now slightly ahead of Donald Trump, 48 to 47.
00:03:13.000 They are tied in Georgia.
00:03:14.000 She's ahead in Nevada by two.
00:03:17.000 She's ahead in Arizona by 2.
00:03:19.000 She's ahead in Michigan by 11.
00:03:21.000 Donald Trump is only winning North Carolina by 2.
00:03:24.000 She's winning Wisconsin by 2.
00:03:25.000 And Donald Trump is winning Pennsylvania by 4.
00:03:27.000 Now, if those results actually held, and let's say that Donald Trump won Georgia, then Donald Trump, presumably if he lost Arizona, would still lose the election if those results were to hold.
00:03:39.000 Now, here is the big grain of salt.
00:03:41.000 How do you have a swing state poll in which Donald Trump is winning Pennsylvania by four, but losing Michigan by 11?
00:03:47.000 Like a 15 point gap between Michigan and Pennsylvania?
00:03:50.000 I find this one a little hard to believe.
00:03:52.000 And morning consult polls are either genius or they're total crap.
00:03:56.000 Those are the only two plausible explanations here.
00:03:59.000 With that said, the levels of enthusiasm for Kamala Harris among Democrats are obviously jumping.
00:04:05.000 That is not a shock, because again, when you replace a dead person with a live person, that makes a little bit of a difference.
00:04:11.000 According to a new APNORCP poll, About 8 in 10 Democrats are now satisfied with Kamala Harris.
00:04:18.000 That was like 4 in 10 Democrats who were satisfied when it was Joe Biden.
00:04:22.000 So all the Democrats are coming home, which basically means that we are at where we were before the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that effectively ended both Joe Biden's candidacy and his presidency.
00:04:33.000 Because let's be real about this, that dude is no longer president, he's no longer sentient, he's completely irrelevant to the public square.
00:04:39.000 The only reason he is sticking around is as a sop to him, as like an elder statesman.
00:04:44.000 And we're now finding out that when they do the Democratic National Convention in a couple of weeks, that the first night is going to be all about the magic of Joe Biden.
00:04:50.000 He's going to give the opening speech.
00:04:52.000 It's going to be about the incredible performance of the Joe Biden administration.
00:04:55.000 And then it will turn into the celebrity star-studded celebration of Kamala Harris.
00:05:01.000 With that said, where does the race currently stand?
00:05:03.000 According to Nate Silver, who again, I think is the best poll analyst in the country, he says that right now, Kamala Harris has a better than average chance of winning the popular vote, but a worse than average chance of winning the Electoral College.
00:05:13.000 According to his model, right now, Harris has about a 54% shot at winning the popular vote, because she's going to drive up the vote in big cities, particularly in blue areas.
00:05:23.000 She's going to win about 47.7% of the vote.
00:05:25.000 Trump would win about 47.1%.
00:05:26.000 But in the Electoral College, Trump currently has about a 60-40 advantage over Kamala Harris, according to Nate Silver.
00:05:33.000 So this is very much a competitive race.
00:05:37.000 Harris does have some momentum, although Again, there's a new Harvard-Harris poll that came out yesterday showing Trump up four against Kamala Harris.
00:05:45.000 So the polls are a little bit all over the place, still very volatile.
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00:06:57.000 So right now, she's just doing big, glitzy, glamorous kind of events.
00:07:01.000 And she's bringing out her celebrity friends.
00:07:03.000 And it's the first week, guys.
00:07:04.000 I mean, it's week one.
00:07:05.000 Everybody's treating this as though we're six months into the campaign cycle.
00:07:08.000 For Kamala, we're not.
00:07:09.000 For Kamala, this is literally week one.
00:07:11.000 And so she's bringing out the big guns.
00:07:13.000 She had a big rally in Atlanta last night.
00:07:16.000 And she brought forth Megan Thee Stallion, our great wordsmith.
00:07:20.000 Megan Thee Stallion.
00:07:22.000 Who went on stage and rapped and presumably did her usual routine of twerking and possibly being shot in the foot.
00:07:29.000 And she introduced what she called hotties for Harris.
00:07:34.000 Which I guess is different than white dudes for Kamala or white women for Kamala.
00:07:38.000 Now it's hotties for Harris.
00:07:41.000 Don't worry folks, it's the Republicans who are weird.
00:07:42.000 weird here we go I'm so happy to be here Atlanta
00:07:51.000 We're about to make history with the first female president
00:07:58.000 the first black female president Let's get this done hottie
00:08:06.000 Hottie Smith Hottie's for Harris.
00:08:13.000 Hottie's for Harris.
00:08:14.000 Okay, and there she is in the bear midriff and all the rest.
00:08:18.000 Are we allowed to mention that Kamala Harris is only the candidate because she's a black woman?
00:08:21.000 I mean, that's effectively what Megan Thee Stallion just said.
00:08:25.000 That's the reason to vote for Kamala Harris, because it sure as hell ain't her record.
00:08:28.000 Kamala Harris then did the awkward auntie routine with Megan Thee Stallion on her social media.
00:08:34.000 That was a little awkward, a little weird.
00:08:35.000 Here it was.
00:08:36.000 What's up everybody, this is your girl Megan Thee Stallion, aka the hot girl coach, reporting
00:08:40.000 live with the future president of the United States!
00:08:43.000 Hey everybody.
00:08:44.000 What do you have to say to the American people?
00:08:46.000 We are not going back.
00:08:49.000 Ah.
00:08:50.000 Oh.
00:08:51.000 If you find this sort of thing attractive, then I, you know, I present you with the possibility
00:08:56.000 of eight years.
00:08:57.000 Eight long years of this.
00:09:00.000 So then Kamala goes out there, and again, arena full of screaming people, very enthusiastic, obviously Democrats feeling the momentum, and she says she wants to debate Trump, she wants Donald Trump.
00:09:11.000 Now, listen, the last time a Democrat tried this, it was Joe Biden, and he dared Donald Trump to debate him, and then he proceeded to physically die on the stage.
00:09:19.000 So she might want to be careful what she asks for here.
00:09:23.000 Democrats are playing this game where they're suggesting that Trump is running away from debate because he's not going to accept the same conditions of debate that he had with Joe Biden as he would with Kamala Harris because they are different candidates.
00:09:33.000 But here is Kamala Harris trying to play this game.
00:09:36.000 Well, Donald.
00:09:37.000 She's so smart.
00:09:45.000 I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage.
00:09:50.000 Because as the saying goes, if you've got something to say.
00:10:00.000 Say it to my face.
00:10:11.000 Get ready for that laugh, gang.
00:10:13.000 Gonna be a lot of that going on.
00:10:15.000 One of the things that I've noticed about the Kamala Harris rallies, they're very scripted.
00:10:18.000 I mean, very, very scripted.
00:10:19.000 Not just in terms of her speech, but in terms of the crowd reaction.
00:10:22.000 I don't know if the crowd is being prompted, or whether she's just using so many old bumper stickers that they know how to respond, but it's basically a call and response sermon that Kamala Harris is now doing on the campaign trail.
00:10:37.000 She also decided to try out the Hillary Clinton urban accent.
00:10:42.000 And Barack Obama used to do this too.
00:10:43.000 And when he was speaking to white audiences, he would have G's at the end of his words.
00:10:47.000 Hillary Clinton would do this as well.
00:10:48.000 It was really awkward with Hillary because of course she's white.
00:10:51.000 Kamala Harris in Atlanta decided that it was time to start dropping a different, let's put it, a different style of speaking than she uses when she's speaking with white audiences.
00:11:03.000 And you all helped us win in 2020, and we're gonna do it again in 2024!
00:11:11.000 We gon' do it again in 2024.
00:11:13.000 Okay, I find this, if people find this genuine and authentic, I'm just wondering why.
00:11:22.000 That lady grew up the daughter of two Berkeley professors, and then she moved to Canada for high school.
00:11:29.000 Alright, sure, she's authentically She's authentically saying this sort of stuff.
00:11:35.000 She's down here in these streets, as she said in another video.
00:11:38.000 But listen, all of her mannerisms are secondary to a simple question, and this is my question for the media.
00:11:43.000 The media, we understand.
00:11:44.000 We get your priority list.
00:11:46.000 Your priority list is self-preservation, one, and two, preservation of the democratic agenda.
00:11:51.000 And so that explains your behavior over the past few weeks.
00:11:54.000 Self-preservation required that you go hard against Joe Biden because the minute that Joe Biden humiliated you on stage and made you feel exposed because you've been complicit in his senility, and then he exposed his senility for everyone.
00:12:06.000 So either you were complicit or you had to act super duper outraged, too outraged.
00:12:11.000 Then you had to get rid of him.
00:12:13.000 And now you're once again basking in the warm glow of friendship and camaraderie with the new Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
00:12:20.000 I understand where you're coming from.
00:12:21.000 At some point, you might want to stop talking about how Kamala Harris is, she's so Brad, she's so Brad.
00:12:26.000 You might want to stop talking about weird, weird and Brad.
00:12:29.000 And you might want to start asking a question about like, what is she going to do when she's president?
00:12:34.000 Now, we have some indicators of what she would do as president of the United States.
00:12:39.000 These indicators come from the time that she ran for president of the United States.
00:12:42.000 That was five minutes ago.
00:12:44.000 I understand we're supposed to play this game where she can magically take the Etch-a-Sketch, shake it up, and have brand new positions, but that seems kind of bull bleepy.
00:12:53.000 That seems like a bunch of bull crap.
00:12:56.000 So here are just some questions.
00:12:58.000 Why has she reversed every single major position that she has held over the course of the last five years in the last week?
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00:14:11.000 At some point, she should have to explain the flip.
00:14:13.000 Like, what was her change of mind?
00:14:15.000 What was the change of heart that made her flip on every position?
00:14:17.000 So for just a moment, I want to go through what her actual positions were five years ago.
00:14:22.000 And we're not talking about 20 years ago.
00:14:25.000 By the way, the way that this works in the media is that J.D.
00:14:27.000 Vance said something on Tucker Carlson in 2021, and he will be stapled, super glued to that position for the rest of his life.
00:14:35.000 Donald Trump will be super glued to Project 25, 2025, a thing he never even read.
00:14:41.000 And has nothing to do with.
00:14:42.000 But Kamala Harris is not even responsible for her own positions five years ago.
00:14:48.000 That is the way that the media are treating this thing.
00:14:51.000 So, flashback 2019.
00:14:52.000 Here's Kamala Harris saying that there need to be slavery reparations.
00:14:55.000 Is she gonna be asked about this at any point?
00:14:56.000 I feel like the media should ask her, like maybe it's their job.
00:14:59.000 And let's be real.
00:15:00.000 If I were able to ask her, I would.
00:15:01.000 The chances that she's gonna grant me an interview are zero.
00:15:04.000 But she might give an interview to, you know, a journalism-er, a professional journalism-er.
00:15:09.000 Here is Kamala Harris, circa 2019.
00:15:11.000 Again, we're not talking about 2005.
00:15:13.000 This is 2019.
00:15:14.000 It's not that long ago.
00:15:17.000 Here she was.
00:15:19.000 Should black people get reparations?
00:15:21.000 I think there has to be some form of reparations and we can discuss what that is.
00:15:26.000 Some form of reparation.
00:15:27.000 Well, maybe we should discuss what that is.
00:15:29.000 What does she think the reparations are for black people?
00:15:32.000 How would she carry those out?
00:15:34.000 Will any questions be asked about this?
00:15:35.000 Or are they too busy pointing out that she's hanging out with Bigfoot over there?
00:15:40.000 Meanwhile, 2019, she wanted less funding for the cops.
00:15:47.000 It is wrong-headed thinking to think that the only way you're going to get communities to be safe is to put more police officers on the street.
00:15:54.000 Chicago gang members now outnumber the city's police officers by 10 to 1.
00:15:59.000 We have a shrinking workforce.
00:16:01.000 I have a definitive amount of resources.
00:16:03.000 200 and some officers less this year than what I had last year.
00:16:07.000 About 115 officers either resign or retire since July of last year.
00:16:13.000 Here in Austin, police vacancies are nearing 200.
00:16:16.000 911 response calls are taking nearly three minutes longer.
00:16:20.000 We're looking at the most catastrophic staffing levels we've ever seen before.
00:16:23.000 We're looking at budget cuts to defund us like we've never seen before.
00:16:26.000 Crimes surging in Democrat-led cities that slashed police funding last year.
00:16:34.000 And that was five years ago, when she was saying that we don't need more funding for the cops.
00:16:38.000 It was 2018, six years ago, when she compared ICE to the KKK.
00:16:43.000 Here she was doing that.
00:16:45.000 Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws?
00:16:57.000 And do you see any parallels?
00:16:58.000 I do not see any parallels between sworn officers and agents.
00:17:02.000 I'm talking about perception.
00:17:04.000 I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law.
00:17:09.000 Are you aware that there's a perception?
00:17:11.000 I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK.
00:17:19.000 Again, it's 2018.
00:17:22.000 She looks the same because she is the same.
00:17:25.000 It is incredible to me that the ads that she's putting out right now are about how she was a tough-on-crime prosecutor in San Francisco as DA.
00:17:33.000 She left that job in the 2000s and she was a senator five minutes ago and she was a presidential candidate five minutes ago and the media are allowing her to run as a tough-on-crime prosecutor who apparently went straight from being San Francisco DA to a presidential candidate with nothing in between.
00:17:51.000 It's unbelievable.
00:17:53.000 Here is that supposedly tough-on-crime prosecutor in 2019 raising her hand when asked whether illegal immigration should be treated as a non-crime.
00:18:00.000 She's saying yes, it should be treated as a non-crime to illegally immigrate.
00:18:05.000 We had a very spirited debate on this stage last night on the topic of decriminalization of the border.
00:18:11.000 If you'd be so kind, raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense rather than a crime to cross a border without documentation.
00:18:20.000 Can we keep our hands up so we can see them?
00:18:25.000 Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris raising their hands there.
00:18:28.000 Not a crime to cross the border without documentation.
00:18:31.000 It's just 2019 when she suggested that private health insurance needed to be banned.
00:18:34.000 Again, this is not that long ago.
00:18:36.000 And here's the thing, once you're president, you can do whatever you want.
00:18:39.000 You can.
00:18:40.000 So all of her fake moderate positions, they're gonna just go away the minute that they are no longer useful to her in getting elected.
00:18:47.000 Here she was in 2019 suggesting that private health insurance might need to be done away with in order to achieve single-payer healthcare.
00:18:54.000 So just to follow up on that, and correct me if I'm wrong, to reiterate, you support the Medicare for All bill, I think initially co-sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders, you're also a co-sponsor onto it.
00:19:05.000 I believe it will totally eliminate private insurance.
00:19:09.000 So for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it.
00:19:13.000 Well, listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care.
00:19:17.000 And you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require.
00:19:25.000 Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?
00:19:33.000 Let's eliminate all of that.
00:19:34.000 Let's move on.
00:19:37.000 Let's move on.
00:19:37.000 Just move on.
00:19:38.000 Wave of a hand.
00:19:38.000 Just move on with the entire private health insurance business, which would turn America into a Canadian-style socialized healthcare system.
00:19:45.000 Just move on!
00:19:47.000 How about 2019, when she said she was gonna ban fracking entirely?
00:19:50.000 Ban fracking, which is gonna be great for winning Pennsylvania.
00:19:53.000 There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
00:19:57.000 And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands.
00:20:03.000 On day one?
00:20:05.000 Yes.
00:20:06.000 And this is something I've taken on in California.
00:20:08.000 I have a history of working on this issue.
00:20:09.000 And to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.
00:20:19.000 And how about 2019 when she said she wanted to ban plastic straws?
00:20:23.000 And people are treating this as parodic.
00:20:24.000 She's the one who said it.
00:20:25.000 I didn't say she wanted to ban plastic straws.
00:20:27.000 She said she wanted to ban plastic straws, which by the way, I mean, it's not like top of my voter issue list, but paper straws are the worst thing ever created by mankind.
00:20:36.000 So Kamala wants to ban plastic straws.
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00:21:42.000 Here's Kamala Harris saying we need to ban plastic straws in favor of those crappy things that you get at Starbucks
00:21:47.000 that immediately collapse the minute that you attempt to drink from them.
00:21:51.000 you Do you ban plastic straws?
00:21:55.000 I think we should.
00:21:56.000 Yes.
00:21:56.000 I mean, look, I'm going to be honest.
00:21:58.000 It's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw when you had if you're just like if you don't gulp it down
00:22:02.000 immediately It starts to bend
00:22:05.000 So she acknowledges she's still She still wants to get rid of the plastic straws because
00:22:12.000 she is a totalitarian That's what she is.
00:22:16.000 And it turns out that it's not just what she was during the campaign.
00:22:20.000 It's also what she was when she was VP.
00:22:22.000 She bragged in 2021 about being the last person in the room making decisions with Joe Biden on Afghanistan.
00:22:28.000 Afghanistan is the single worst foreign policy failure of the United States in my lifetime.
00:22:34.000 Because I'm not old enough for Vietnam.
00:22:36.000 And here is Kamala Harris bragging in 2021 about how she was the last person in the room with Joe Biden making those decisions, which means it's on her.
00:22:43.000 It's on her.
00:22:43.000 Those dead service people?
00:22:45.000 On her.
00:22:45.000 The tens of thousands of people who were allied with the United States left behind to be slaughtered by the Taliban?
00:22:49.000 On her.
00:22:50.000 All those women who have now been forced back into burqas and into basements?
00:22:53.000 On her.
00:22:54.000 She's the one who said it.
00:22:55.000 I didn't say it, she said it.
00:22:56.000 When is she going to be asked a question about this?
00:22:57.000 When?
00:23:00.000 President Biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room, particularly for big decisions, just as he was for President Obama.
00:23:08.000 He just made a really big decision.
00:23:09.000 Afghanistan.
00:23:10.000 Yes.
00:23:11.000 Were you the last person in the room?
00:23:13.000 Yes.
00:23:14.000 And you feel comfortable?
00:23:15.000 I do.
00:23:19.000 Why is she not being asked about that?
00:23:21.000 Why?
00:23:23.000 Hey, how about in 2021 when she was put in charge of the border?
00:23:26.000 Yes, she was.
00:23:27.000 Joe Biden said so.
00:23:28.000 He said he was going to send her to the Northern Triangle to try and stymie the illegal immigration happening across the border.
00:23:34.000 And then she was asked by Lester Holt famously about whether she'd ever been to the border.
00:23:37.000 And she gave this bizarre answer.
00:23:41.000 Do you have any plans to visit the border?
00:23:43.000 At some point?
00:23:47.000 We are going to the border.
00:23:48.000 We've been to the border.
00:23:49.000 So this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border.
00:23:54.000 We've been to the border.
00:23:55.000 You haven't been to the border.
00:23:57.000 And I haven't been to Europe.
00:24:01.000 Unbelievable.
00:24:02.000 Unbelievable.
00:24:04.000 You'll also remember that back in 2021, Joe Biden, he put her in charge of a few things and she failed so badly at them, he decided to never put her in charge of anything ever again.
00:24:10.000 In 2021, Joe Biden, In his address to a joint session of Congress, suggested that he was going to put Kamala Harris in charge of achieving high-speed internet for the American people.
00:24:22.000 Here is what he said, quote, in the process, it will create thousands and thousands of good-paying jobs.
00:24:27.000 It creates jobs connecting every American with high-speed internet, including 35% of the rural America that still doesn't have it.
00:24:33.000 And I'm asking the vice president to lead this effort, if she would, because I know it will get done.
00:24:38.000 So, question, she was put in charge of the high-speed internet dissemination, was she not?
00:24:41.000 By the president.
00:24:42.000 Did it get done?
00:24:43.000 No, absolutely not, it did not.
00:24:45.000 It turns out that in 2024, according to Breitbart, the Biden-Harris administration has made zero progress getting Americans connected to high-speed internet.
00:24:53.000 FCC Commission Chairman Brendan Carr noted in June that Biden and Harris did not connect one American to high-speed internet.
00:25:02.000 One.
00:25:02.000 They had access to $42.5 billion in funding from the infrastructure bill, and zero Americans got connected to the internet.
00:25:11.000 So she did an amazing stellar job there.
00:25:13.000 Obviously, she put her in charge of the country.
00:25:14.000 She's so good at connecting Americans to the internet that it took her $43 billion to connect zero people to the internet.
00:25:20.000 Or you could have just gotten Starlink for everyone.
00:25:22.000 That's the other thing you could have done.
00:25:24.000 How about in 2023?
00:25:25.000 When she was out there bragging about her electric school buses, how awesome the electric school buses are.
00:25:30.000 Here she was in 2023.
00:25:32.000 You know what also excites me?
00:25:35.000 Among the many things, I'm excited about electric school buses.
00:25:39.000 I love electric school buses.
00:25:43.000 I just love them for so many reasons.
00:25:47.000 Maybe because I went to school on a school bus.
00:25:50.000 Raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus, right?
00:25:55.000 Now, again, that was right after Joe Biden put her in charge of the government's billion dollar investment in electric school buses.
00:26:03.000 So how many electric school buses were actually created?
00:26:05.000 Well, according to the Washington Free Beacon, Kamala Harris and EPA Administrator Michael Regan, through the Clean School Bus Program, used a billion dollars in federal rebates for 389 school districts across all 50 states to help deliver about 2,400 school buses.
00:26:20.000 But here's the problem.
00:26:21.000 According to an analysis of federal data by the Washington Free Beacon, only 27 of those districts actually proved to the EPA that the buses were delivered.
00:26:29.000 They deployed 60 buses.
00:26:32.000 60.
00:26:32.000 A billion dollars for 60 buses.
00:26:35.000 One billion dollars for 60.
00:26:38.000 Okay, that is, that comes at, I feel like that's, you know, probably a good price.
00:26:41.000 It's only about $16.7 million per school bus.
00:26:46.000 I feel like I could probably find a cheaper school bus somewhere than $16.7 million, but I don't know, I'm not the federal government.
00:26:52.000 She's amazing at her job, in other words.
00:26:54.000 So where are the media?
00:26:56.000 Where are they?
00:26:56.000 And the answer is they are too busy massaging her.
00:26:59.000 They're too busy talking about how she's brat, and she's suddenly cool, and she's anti-cool, and she does TikTok dances, and all this same crap.
00:27:07.000 And they did this with Obama in 2005, and they did it with Obama in 2012, and now they're trying to make Fetch happen with Kamala Harris.
00:27:14.000 And the media are going to continue to try to do this.
00:27:15.000 They will at some point start asking her these questions in a mild way.
00:27:18.000 They wouldn't want to offend, of course.
00:27:20.000 They want to be kind to the candidate they want to see win.
00:27:23.000 Which brings us to the Trump campaign.
00:27:25.000 What's the Trump campaign doing?
00:27:27.000 Why aren't they defining Kamala Harris?
00:27:28.000 They need to be on the ball right now.
00:27:31.000 I'm a donor to the Trump campaign.
00:27:33.000 I want the Trump campaign to win.
00:27:35.000 Rather badly, as it turns out, because I think that the world will be set even more on fire than it already is by Kamala Harris, who is far to the left of Joe Biden and is awful on policy.
00:27:44.000 So, that means it's up to the Trump campaign to start moving.
00:27:47.000 They need to define her right now.
00:27:49.000 She's spending like $12 million on some swing state ads right now.
00:27:53.000 The Trump campaign has hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank.
00:27:55.000 The most important time to drop that, this is something Trump innately knows, by the way.
00:27:59.000 President Trump knows this.
00:28:00.000 He defines his opponents better than anyone in American politics.
00:28:04.000 He defines them early, he does it often, he does it aggressively.
00:28:08.000 The campaign needs to do it, however, on the basis of positions and issues.
00:28:12.000 And Trump himself needs to do that, not just in the campaigns.
00:28:14.000 He's been doing that in the campaign speeches, but in terms of advertising, in terms of blanketing the airwaves.
00:28:19.000 If you go to YouTube right now, Kamala Harris is probably dropping $50 million on various ad campaigns to define her to the American people as a moderate prosecutor.
00:28:29.000 The Trump campaign needs to redefine her as what she actually is, which is a radical who lies about everything.
00:28:34.000 She is a liar.
00:28:35.000 Every single position she has held, she has lied about.
00:28:38.000 She is currently lying right now.
00:28:39.000 She lied about Joe Biden's health for months on end, years on end.
00:28:44.000 She's a liar.
00:28:45.000 She's comma liar.
00:28:47.000 Well, most Americans don't even know who the VP is, and it turns out she's a wildly irresponsible person.
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00:29:26.000 If the media won't do it, which you can't assume they will, you can't assume they'll do their jobs, then it is the job of the Trump campaign to do this.
00:29:33.000 And they need to get aggressive and they need to do it right now.
00:29:35.000 Because you have one opportunity to define your opponent and it's right at the outset.
00:29:38.000 This is the outset.
00:29:39.000 They got like another two weeks to define Kamala Harris.
00:29:42.000 And then, whatever the perception is of her, it is likely going to be baked into the cake.
00:29:46.000 The new perception of her.
00:29:47.000 Because let's face it, most Americans don't follow politics closely enough to have watched the Democratic primaries in 2019.
00:29:53.000 And they certainly don't watch politics closely enough to have followed what Kamala Harris has done or not done over the course of her vice presidency.
00:29:58.000 Most Americans don't even know who the vice president is.
00:30:02.000 And Kamala Harris is aggressively trying to redefine herself as a middle-of-the-road candidate.
00:30:06.000 So she's already planning to start her swing state tour next week in Philadelphia, which of course suggests that she's going to pick the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro.
00:30:15.000 That's a smart pick by her.
00:30:16.000 Josh Shapiro is a talented politician.
00:30:17.000 He has kind of a low-rent Barack Obama impersonation on the campaign trail.
00:30:21.000 He's not as good as Obama is at it because, again, he's imitating Obama.
00:30:25.000 In the same way, so many candidates on the right side of the aisle have picked up Donald Trump's mannerisms with the hands and the phraseology.
00:30:31.000 Josh Shapiro sort of does that with Barack Obama.
00:30:32.000 He tries to channel him.
00:30:34.000 Here's Josh Shapiro doing that the other day.
00:30:38.000 And so, so I got a message to Donald Trump.
00:30:43.000 Stop talking America.
00:30:48.000 This is the greatest country on the face of the earth!
00:30:52.000 Let's start acting like it!
00:30:57.000 It is amazing, by the way, how Democrats shift from this place is just a racist bleephole to this is the greatest country on the face of the earth the minute that they have to run a campaign.
00:31:05.000 They go from America is systemically rooted in racism.
00:31:09.000 It is a place of deep inequality and corporate evil.
00:31:12.000 And they go right from that to this is the greatest country on earth.
00:31:15.000 How dare you insult America?
00:31:17.000 It really is pretty impressive.
00:31:18.000 So Josh Shapiro is the front runner in the clubhouse right now for the nomination.
00:31:22.000 That's also an attempt to win back some of the Jewish vote that is leaving the Democratic Party in droves because of their association, as it turns out, with pro-Hamasniks in their own party.
00:31:32.000 So Josh Shapiro would be an attempt to moderate on that position.
00:31:36.000 Also, he is perceived, though he is not, as a political moderate.
00:31:40.000 He in the past, for example, has backed school vouchers in Pennsylvania, which will bring up some issues with, say, the American Federation of Teachers.
00:31:47.000 At the same time, he's also spoken out very forcibly about the transing of the kids, like in favor of.
00:31:52.000 So he is not a particularly moderate guy, but he is perceived as moderate in Pennsylvania.
00:31:55.000 He has about a 60% approval rating in Pennsylvania.
00:31:57.000 Pennsylvania is in fact a very crucial swing state that will be decided by a very thin margin.
00:32:01.000 So Josh Shapiro is the likely front runner for this.
00:32:04.000 And again, the fact that they are initiating this in Philadelphia, Suggests that Josh Shapiro will probably be the pick.
00:32:13.000 Only about five people are apparently in serious contention.
00:32:16.000 Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz.
00:32:17.000 Tim Walz, I would be shocked if she picks Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.
00:32:21.000 He doesn't bring anything.
00:32:22.000 Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, who I think is being bandied about more as sort of a stalking horse for Josh Shapiro.
00:32:30.000 Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who I think took himself out of contention with a series of not particularly wonderful interviews.
00:32:35.000 Also, he's not from a swing state.
00:32:36.000 And Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, who definitely will not be the guy because even the Democrats are not stupid enough To run an all-intersectionality ticket.
00:32:44.000 That'd be a very foolish move of them if they want to win, say, blue-collar white voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
00:32:51.000 And Democrats do need a breakthrough in Pennsylvania given the fact that Kamala Harris did say she wanted to ban fracking, which is a pretty major issue in Pennsylvania.
00:33:01.000 According to Politico, VP Harris' decision to reverse her support for a fracking ban is doing little to ease concerns among fossil fuel industries and its workers, and cheerleaders for Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro now see an opening.
00:33:12.000 What Harris needs now, according to Democratic Party boosters, is someone like Shapiro, who has carved a middle ground in the country's number two natural gas-producing state in the VP slot.
00:33:23.000 So far, she's running a clever campaign.
00:33:25.000 She's trying to redefine herself.
00:33:27.000 She's making the moves that you would need to make in order to win if you're a radical like Kamala Harris who's wildly unlikable.
00:33:33.000 She's pretending that all of her old positions no longer apply.
00:33:36.000 She's picking a VP candidate, you would assume, from a swing state who is popular.
00:33:41.000 Which, again, is typically the way that you would do this thing if you were in a hotly fought contest.
00:33:49.000 Which means that it is now up to the Trump campaign to respond.
00:33:53.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:34:21.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:34:22.000 Now, there is blowback in the Democratic Party about Josh Shapiro because he's a Jew.
00:34:26.000 And there's a significant percentage of the Democratic base that will see a pick of Josh Shapiro as a sop to Jews and as a sop to Israel.
00:34:34.000 And they'll be angry about that because there are too many Hamas squad supporters inside the Democratic Party.
00:34:38.000 Maybe Kamala thinks that she can outweigh that by ripping on Israel publicly, as she's been doing for the past couple of weeks.
00:34:44.000 So, the question for Donald Trump is what he should do.
00:34:47.000 Now, he is attempting to occupy the middle ground.
00:34:51.000 And that is a smart move.
00:34:54.000 So I know there are a lot of people on the right who are very upset because yesterday, the Project 2025 director, Paul Danz, stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump administration per internal email, which suggests that Project 2025 could theoretically shut down.
00:35:11.000 Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts confirmed the news.
00:35:14.000 And now, there are a lot of people on the right who are mad about this because they like a lot of what's in Project 2025.
00:35:19.000 And again, I read Project 2025.
00:35:20.000 I don't see all that much in there that I find personally objectionable.
00:35:25.000 However, it was being used by the Biden-Harris campaign in order to smear Trump with, he's read every aspect of this, he's gonna do all of these things, here's his entire campaign program.
00:35:34.000 And Trump is heterodox on a number of these things.
00:35:36.000 He didn't want to be tied to Project 2025.
00:35:39.000 And so one easy way of killing that narrative is killing Project 2025.
00:35:43.000 So just as a political move, and again, politics is about the art of the possible.
00:35:48.000 Politics is pragmatism and principle.
00:35:51.000 It is not just principle.
00:35:53.000 If it was just about principle, then I would require that every Republican politician, out loud, make clear their pro-life bona fides.
00:36:00.000 Make clear, for example, that they would like to restructure entitlement programs, which everyone knows, everyone knows, those have to be restructured.
00:36:07.000 But, that is not actually how politics works.
00:36:10.000 Politics is the art of the possible, and there's only so much that's gonna get done.
00:36:13.000 And so, Donald Trump saying, I'm not gonna get a lot of this stuff done, and this does not reflect my viewpoint, I think that's probably a politically savvy move by the president, You can see that despite all of the sort of ersatz enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, there is some desperation that is setting in among the Democrats because the reality is that they haven't really been able to peg Trump either.
00:36:34.000 So we've talked a lot about them redefining Kamala in an enthusiastic way, but they haven't really been able to take down Trump.
00:36:39.000 His approval ratings are actually the highest they have ever been at this point in time.
00:36:43.000 And so they are focusing all of their fire on J.D.
00:36:45.000 Vance, who again is an undefined commodity.
00:36:48.000 At this point.
00:36:49.000 And they're focusing in particular on his pronatalist views.
00:36:52.000 His belief that a society rests on people having babies.
00:36:54.000 Which again, seems fairly inarguable to me.
00:36:57.000 They're also picking the dumbest ways possible to attack J.D.
00:36:59.000 Vance.
00:37:00.000 So yesterday, Molly Jongfast, who I have no idea why people think that she's an incisive political commentator in any way, shape, or form.
00:37:05.000 And I have no idea why she would choose the hairstyle that she has.
00:37:08.000 She, yesterday, made the obscene comment that J.D.
00:37:11.000 Vance is pronatalist, meaning he wants people to have babies, because he only wants white kids.
00:37:16.000 Which is weird, since he has two brown kids.
00:37:19.000 His wife is Indian-American.
00:37:22.000 More and more Americans choosing not to have kids, which again emphasizes why J.D.
00:37:26.000 Vance's comments about childless Americans, childless cat ladies, could be so politically damaging.
00:37:30.000 Well, so what's interesting is this is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook, right?
00:37:35.000 That there need to be more white children, right?
00:37:38.000 That's the idea.
00:37:39.000 That there's, you know, this is about Great Replacement Theory racism, right?
00:37:43.000 This is what this is.
00:37:44.000 So don't misunderstand it for him wanting more children.
00:37:48.000 He wants a certain kind of, you know, racist thing.
00:37:55.000 Unbelievable.
00:37:55.000 Unbelievable stuff.
00:37:56.000 So that's their attack line.
00:37:57.000 I think they can go too far.
00:37:58.000 And I think that the Harris campaign is in danger of going too far.
00:38:01.000 They're searing into the very online meme.
00:38:04.000 All the brat, all the weird, all this stuff.
00:38:06.000 Does that have like a major impact on the American voting population?
00:38:09.000 It won't.
00:38:10.000 If the Trump campaign can redefine some of the issues, they need to find their footing.
00:38:14.000 So far, they seem to be scrambling around a little bit.
00:38:16.000 They're not really sure what to do, but the path forward is very clear.
00:38:19.000 Just play clips of Kamala Harris talking.
00:38:23.000 That's it.
00:38:23.000 That's the entire campaign.
00:38:25.000 Play clips of her in Pennsylvania, on a loop.
00:38:28.000 Dropped $30 million in Pennsylvania, on a loop, to show that she wanted to ban fracking and that she cannot be trusted.
00:38:36.000 Drop $30 million on a loop in Michigan saying that she is all for electric cars and effectively wants to end the car industry in the United States.
00:38:45.000 All of these things are true.
00:38:47.000 Go to Wisconsin and point out that she wants a mandatory gun buyback and her switch in time very late in the campaign is not honest.
00:38:57.000 That's what needs to be pointed out.
00:38:59.000 It's the only response, truly, to the Kamala Harris pseudo-phenomenon the media are trying to craft out of pretty much nothing.
00:39:07.000 It's pretty incredible.
00:39:09.000 Well, speaking of the campaign, it is amazing how quickly the media memory hold that time that somebody tried to Donald Trump in the head.
00:39:16.000 That happened like two and a half weeks ago, and already it's disappearing.
00:39:19.000 So, it turns out that the algorithms at Google had actually been shifted and changed, that if you tried to search for information about the assassination attempt on Trump, that that appeared to have been being hidden.
00:39:29.000 The Secret Service still has not answered any questions as to how it was that a person was on a roof for like 15-20 minutes with a gun before they sent Donald Trump out there to speak, and the Secret Service did nothing about it.
00:39:41.000 Here's the acting Secret Service director yesterday who was called to testify, his name is Ronald Rowe, about the Secret Service's failure of imagination.
00:39:48.000 Here's the thing, I don't think it's a failure of imagination.
00:39:50.000 When a person does the most imaginable thing in human history, they go to a roof and try to shoot the most controversial person alive.
00:40:01.000 I think this was a failure of imagination.
00:40:06.000 A failure to imagine that we actually do live in a very dangerous world, where people do actually want to do harm to our protectees.
00:40:16.000 I think it was a failure to challenge our own assumptions.
00:40:21.000 The assumptions that we know our partners are going to do everything they can.
00:40:25.000 And they do this every day.
00:40:27.000 But we didn't challenge our own assumptions of We assume that someone's going to cover that.
00:40:33.000 We assume that there's going to be uniform presence.
00:40:37.000 We didn't challenge that internally during that advance.
00:40:41.000 Oh, is that what happens?
00:40:43.000 So Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri, he asked the acting Secret Service director, so why didn't you fire anyone?
00:40:48.000 It seems like if you have literally one job and you fail at it, somebody should lose their job.
00:40:54.000 Okay, so who did make the decision then?
00:40:56.000 If it wasn't the lead site agent who made the decision, not to put that in the security perimeter.
00:40:59.000 Senator, you're zeroing in on one particular agent.
00:41:02.000 I want to find out exactly what was the entire decision process.
00:41:06.000 So I think I want to be neutral and make sure that we get to the bottom of it and interview everybody in order to determine if there was more than one person who perhaps exercised bad judgment.
00:41:16.000 Well, sure.
00:41:16.000 My question is, why don't you relieve everybody of duty who made bad judgment?
00:41:20.000 So yeah, you're right, I am zeroing in on somebody.
00:41:22.000 I'm trying to find somebody who's accountable here.
00:41:24.000 Well, they didn't find anybody accountable.
00:41:30.000 Kim Scheedle had to resign, but that's about it.
00:41:32.000 Nobody lower down on the chain.
00:41:35.000 It is an amazing fact that that's a memory hold.
00:41:37.000 If Joe Biden, if somebody tried to get Joe Biden in the head, that would be a national news story for legitimately years, because January 6th has been a national news story for legitimately four years at this point.
00:41:46.000 It's an amazing thing.
00:41:48.000 Meanwhile, the other big news of the day yesterday.
00:41:50.000 It truly is, it's great news, wonderful news for the world.
00:41:54.000 Two arch-terrorists are dead.
00:41:56.000 So, we told you yesterday about how Hezbollah had fired a rocket into Northern Israel, into the Golan Heights, and they killed 12 Druze children.
00:42:06.000 Druze are not quite Muslims.
00:42:07.000 They're sort of an offshoot of Islam, about a thousand years ago.
00:42:11.000 And they have their own form of religion, really interesting community.
00:42:15.000 They are strong allies of Israel.
00:42:18.000 They are Israeli citizens.
00:42:19.000 And so Israel was called upon to respond.
00:42:21.000 The Biden administration, because Joe Biden is a weakling and a pathetic human being, and Kamala Harris is also a weakling and a pathetic human being, they basically threatened Israel that Israel should not respond too strongly.
00:42:31.000 Because when you have 12 of your own citizens killed by a rocket attack from a terrorist group, what we've learned from the Biden-Harris administration is that the pressure is on you to find a way to diplomacy your way out of this thing.
00:42:41.000 So, this put serious restraints on what Israel could do.
00:42:44.000 If Israel went whole hog against Hezbollah, as any legitimate country would, if the Mexican drug cartels fired a rocket across the border into San Diego and killed 12 kids on a soccer field, I promise you, U.S.
00:42:55.000 Marines would be in Mexico City the next morning.
00:42:59.000 But, in Israel, it's not the way that it works because the United States, led by buffoons like the president, who is no longer with us, and the vice president, who actually is probably running the country, That administration basically put the damper on Israel.
00:43:12.000 You can't do anything big.
00:43:14.000 If you do anything big, we're going to be big mad, super mad.
00:43:17.000 And of course, we know the Biden administration has been slow walking military aid to the Israelis to prevent them from being able to take Hezbollah off their northern border.
00:43:25.000 I should be reminded at this point, if you know nothing about the history of the region, Hezbollah is in Lebanon.
00:43:31.000 Israel has no territorial aspirations in Lebanon.
00:43:34.000 There is no occupation of Southern Lebanon.
00:43:36.000 In fact, Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2005.
00:43:40.000 When they withdrew from Southern Lebanon, the UN was supposed to put a peacekeeping force there.
00:43:44.000 They immediately left the peacekeeping force and Hezbollah promptly took up that entire area and built about 125,000 rockets, 25,000 of them with targeting capacity.
00:43:52.000 Which means that the north of Israel since October 7th has been a ghost town, completely empty.
00:43:57.000 Again, that'd be the equivalent of the United States made a deal with Mexico to demilitarize the Mexican border or something.
00:44:04.000 Assume that the cartels were negotiating presence.
00:44:07.000 And then the cartels filled it back up and the United States had to evacuate the entire border area along the Mexican border.
00:44:13.000 That's effectively what's happened in Israel.
00:44:15.000 And the United States said to Israel, don't do anything, like don't do anything.
00:44:17.000 Like really, please don't escalate.
00:44:19.000 Because whenever Israel does something to protect itself, according to the Biden-Harris administration, that amounts to escalation.
00:44:24.000 So what did Israel do?
00:44:26.000 They decided on a couple of targeting tactics.
00:44:28.000 Now, normally, targeting tactics are fairly weak.
00:44:31.000 Normally, targeting tactics, you know, so you kill one guy, big deal, they replace the one guy.
00:44:37.000 That's not what happened over the course of the last 24 hours.
00:44:40.000 So, over the course of the last 24 hours, Israel killed one of Hezbollah's top military leaders in an airstrike in Beirut.
00:44:47.000 There's a strike on a guy named Fuad Shukr, who's the highest-ranking leader of the group to be killed in years.
00:44:53.000 He was supposedly the number two to the actual leader of Hezbollah, a guy named Hassan Nasrallah.
00:44:57.000 Hassan Nasrallah is a genocidal maniac who also wishes to destroy the United States.
00:45:01.000 You'll realize that Hezbollah, of course, was responsible for the Marine Barracks Bombing of 1983 that killed 241 American Marines.
00:45:08.000 That was Hezbollah, which also turned Lebanon from a nice Christian-run country into an Islamist hellhole.
00:45:15.000 That is what has happened in any case.
00:45:18.000 Israel killed this guy with an aerial attack, a targeted aerial attack in the middle of Beirut, which is the capital city of Lebanon.
00:45:26.000 It was a very targeted strike.
00:45:29.000 It was an incredible feat of military intelligence by the Israelis.
00:45:33.000 Shuker himself is not actually the number two.
00:45:35.000 He's the actual acting director of Hezbollah.
00:45:37.000 Nasrallah is more the face of it.
00:45:39.000 Shuker is the person who's sort of the military guy in charge.
00:45:42.000 Israel killed him.
00:45:43.000 That was yesterday, early morning East Coast time.
00:45:48.000 And then the same exact day, it turns out that Ismail Khania, Ismail Khania, you might know a little bit better than Shukr.
00:45:57.000 If you're an insider, you know Hezbollah's hierarchy, but Khania has been on TV a lot.
00:46:02.000 And Khania is the political head of Hamas.
00:46:05.000 He's been residing in a five-star hotel in Qatar after embezzling something like $4 billion from Palestinians in foreign aid.
00:46:12.000 Just to remember who he is, here was his reaction.
00:46:15.000 They actually filmed him upon learning the news of October 7th and its success in the eyes of Hamas, which of course meant the death of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of 250 others.
00:46:24.000 Here was Khania's immediate reaction at the time.
00:46:26.000 They're watching it on TV.
00:46:36.000 And they're praising Allah.
00:46:40.000 They're all doing allahu akbar.
00:46:43.000 I'm praising Allah for the death of Jews.
00:46:46.000 Taking off the shoes.
00:46:48.000 The full deal.
00:46:50.000 That is Ismail Khania.
00:46:52.000 That's who he is.
00:46:54.000 There's the prayer.
00:46:55.000 Okay, so.
00:46:56.000 Khania showed up at the Iranian inauguration.
00:46:59.000 So, the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, he died in a helicopter accident.
00:47:05.000 And we can all pray that the Ayatollah Khamenei, that he takes a Just as effective a helicopter in the very near future.
00:47:12.000 Here was Khania at the Iranian inauguration of the new fake president.
00:47:15.000 Because what Iran does, like most dictatorships, is they prop up somebody, pretend that he won an election, and that the change of face is somehow a change in policy, which it is not.
00:47:22.000 So they invited, of course, as a VIP, Ismail Khania, to this particular event.
00:47:27.000 And here he was.
00:47:28.000 Very, very nice stuff.
00:47:45.000 Just delightful people.
00:47:46.000 Delightful people.
00:47:47.000 And the thing that they are chanting right there is death to Israel and death to America.
00:47:53.000 That's what they're actually chanting there.
00:47:54.000 So super nice guy.
00:47:55.000 Super nice.
00:47:56.000 In fact, such a nice guy that after Israel killed him, Reuters ran the following headline, quote, tough talking Hania was seen as the more moderate face of Hamas.
00:48:05.000 Oh, the more moderate face of Hamas.
00:48:08.000 I didn't know Hamas had a moderate face, but apparently they do.
00:48:11.000 Meanwhile, the BBC described him thusly, despite his tough rhetoric.
00:48:15.000 He was generally seen by analysts as a moderate and pragmatic.
00:48:18.000 Oh, was he?
00:48:19.000 You know, the guy who was doing all that.
00:48:21.000 Moderate and pragmatic.
00:48:22.000 So, Israel... Yesterday in Tehran.
00:48:25.000 Totally unclear exactly how he was... So, Lebanese sources are suggesting that Israel fired some sort of surface-to-surface missile.
00:48:33.000 So, good riddance to bad rubbish, Ismail Haniyeh.
00:48:38.000 The hue and cry by people like Rashida Tlaib is insane because, of course, all of her friends are getting it now.
00:48:43.000 It's very upsetting for her.
00:48:44.000 A woman named Zahra Bilou, who is the head of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:48:50.000 Remember, that is a group that the Biden administration considers a moderate Muslim group that simply wants better relations in the United States, not a radical Islamist front group.
00:48:59.000 She tweeted, quote, Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead.
00:49:02.000 In fact, they are alive, but you do not perceive it.
00:49:04.000 Tonight we mourn Ismail himself, but know his martyrdom is not in vain.
00:49:07.000 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:49:10.000 Remember, CARE was a select partner in the Biden administration's strategy to combat anti-Semitism.
00:49:16.000 So what was Israel doing here?
00:49:17.000 So what Israel was doing here is very clear.
00:49:19.000 They are reestablishing deterrence.
00:49:22.000 What they're doing here, is they are suggesting.
00:49:26.000 We know we can't go full scale against Hezbollah right now, not without the United States rearming us in some way.
00:49:32.000 What we also know is that we cannot allow Hezbollah, Hamas, all of the Iranian proxies to empty out our north and kill our citizens willy-nilly.
00:49:40.000 So, if you're Israel, what are we gonna do?
00:49:42.000 What we're gonna do is we're gonna kill off your leaders one by one in the places where they're supposed to be most protected.
00:49:47.000 Tehran, literally the capital of Iran, and Beirut, literally the capital of Lebanon.
00:49:52.000 That is a message to the Ayatollahs.
00:49:53.000 Like, if you get a little too feisty, we also know where you live, and we'll kill you as well.
00:49:58.000 It is a badass move by the Israeli government, for sure.
00:50:02.000 There are people who say that's escalatory.
00:50:03.000 You're seeing this from... No, it turns out October 7th was escalatory.
00:50:06.000 You know what else was escalatory?
00:50:07.000 Firing thousands of rockets into Israel since October 7th by Hezbollah, the last one of which, again, 12 Druze kids.
00:50:15.000 Turns out that's kind of escalatory.
00:50:17.000 You know what's de-escalatory?
00:50:19.000 Terrorists.
00:50:20.000 Because when you kill enough of them, then they stop doing the thing.
00:50:23.000 That is the history of terrorism.
00:50:24.000 When you show an iron wall to terrorists, then they are a little more dissuaded from doing the thing that they are sort of famous for doing.
00:50:32.000 Now Kamala Harris did put out a quick response on the death of the Hezbollah leader.
00:50:37.000 She's not put one out yet on the death of Ismail Khaniya.
00:50:40.000 Presumably there will be an in-memoriam for him at the DNC.
00:50:43.000 Vice President Harris put out a statement, quote, "'Israel has a right to defend itself against a terrorist organization like Hezbollah.
00:50:48.000 That being said, we must still work on a diplomatic solution to end the fighting.'"
00:50:54.000 Ah, she's so tiresome.
00:50:56.000 So tiresome, so silly.
00:50:59.000 Diplomatic solution how?
00:51:01.000 You want a diplomacy your way into Hezbollah abandoning the territory south of Latania River anytime, lady?
00:51:05.000 Go for it.
00:51:06.000 Amos Hoxhine's been doing a fabulous job so far.
00:51:10.000 You wanna know why the Israelis didn't inform the Americans what they were doing?
00:51:13.000 They would have if Trump were in office.
00:51:14.000 They didn't because they figured that Joe Biden would either leak the information to Hezbollah and Hamas, or that he would attempt to put the screws to Israel to stop them from doing things to protect their own citizenry.
00:51:24.000 That's what you're gonna get in a Kamala Harris administration, for sure.
00:51:28.000 All righty, coming up.
00:51:29.000 Yesterday, we had the chance to sit down with Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, one of the world's largest religious charitable organizations.
00:51:36.000 We've been discussing the situation in Northern Israel.
00:51:38.000 IFCJ is doing incredible work in Northern Israel, which we were just discussing a moment ago.
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