Zoran Mombani is a 33-year-old socialist who can barely lift a half-pound. And yet, he's running for mayor of New York City, and he's doing it in front of a bunch of people.
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00:01:25.000Well, perhaps Democrats are learning that soy is actually not an amazing nutritional base for all things.
00:01:32.000They might be learning this from Zoran Mombani, who is of course the likely next mayor of New York City.
00:01:38.000Now, Democrats have been claiming that he's the hot new thing in the Democratic Party that Zoran Mombani is going to lead the way to a bright new socialist future for America, starting with the most powerful financial capital on planet Earth.
00:01:50.000But if we're talking about power, we're talking about socialist strong men.
00:01:55.000Zorin Mamdani, it's going to be, it's going to be hard pressed, no pun intended to actually be a strong man, pun intended.
00:02:02.000Zorin Mamdani yesterday showed up at the annual Men's Day Open Streets event in Brooklyn on Saturday where a bunch of dudes were lifting apparently and the 33-year-old socialist, again, he's 33, which is like young in the prime of life.
00:02:18.000Now, my dude, my dude, let me just say that if you're going to do something like this and you're a public figure, you have to know your limitations.
00:02:27.000Like Zorin Mamdani must have at some point been in a gym.
00:02:30.000I mean, I assume maybe not given how this video.
00:04:51.000Yeah, I think that for the vast majority of normal men, this is very, very embarrassing.
00:04:57.000But the left has decided that they are done with male normality, like really done with it, that the future of the Democratic Party is apparently going to be an extraordinarily feminized party, not just because.
00:05:08.000an outsized share of Democrats are now single women, but also because the kinds of men the Democratic Party wants to attract are not the kinds of men who lift heavyweights.
00:05:19.000This is why you've seen over the course of the last several years a spate of articles talking about how lifting going to the gym has become Republican coded.
00:05:27.000Well, there's no reason it should be Republican coded, except if you just mean that testosterone is Republican coded.
00:05:33.000That the idea that you should stay healthy and that you should lift is Republican coded.
00:05:38.000And that goes to why do you want a sort of weak and feminized America?
00:05:46.000There's a piece from Axios that is kind of fascinating about the supposed redefinition of identity under President Trump.
00:05:54.000And there's something very telling about it, how they see identity.
00:05:57.000Cite, through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.
00:06:05.000The MAGA movement's obsession with American identity and Western civilization is shaping federal policy far more than in Trump's first term, fueling a reckoning over who belongs and what history should be remembered.
00:06:16.000So first of all, why shouldn't we all be a little obsessed with American identity and Western civilization?
00:06:22.000I thought that's what America is about, like what it means to be American an American.
00:06:26.000And a huge part of that is being the apoteosis of Western civilization.
00:06:31.000And what are we supposed to represent?
00:06:33.000Non-Western civilizations, third world civilizations, other civilizations, like what?
00:06:40.000According to Axios, however, in MAGA's telling, America is the heir to ancient European civilizations built on a Judeo Christian foundation of white identity, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family.
00:06:51.000Notice how they just slide in white identity.
00:06:54.000Right now, the idea of a Judeo Christian foundation of white identity is a bizarre amalgam of two exclusive beliefs.
00:07:02.000A Judeo Christian identity is absolutely by definition not white identity.
00:07:27.000Like what, what, what are you, what are you talking about?
00:07:29.000How is a Judeo Christian foundation white identity?
00:07:34.000Monoteistic religion is by its very nature non racially based.
00:07:39.000It is bizarre to suggest that Judeo Christian religion is biblical values are somehow about racial identity, about whiteness or something like that is Axios fundamentally making a gigantic category error.
00:07:55.000But in order to throw the baby out with the bathwater, they basically have to call all this racist.
00:07:58.000Meritocracy also apparently is about racism.
00:08:01.000You cannot simultaneously hold two beliefs, a belief one in meritocracy and two a belief in white identitarism.
00:08:06.000Those two things are not compatible because if you are for a meritocracy that by definition means that the person who is most meritorious regardless of color is the person who should get the job, who should advance in society.
00:08:22.000These two things mutually exclusive, biblical values, white identitarianism, mutually exclusive.
00:08:30.000Now, traditional gender roles, that is a part of Judeo Christian foundations.
00:08:34.000That is a true part of biblical belief.
00:08:35.000It's also traditional gender roles, a foundational part of science, because it happens to be the case that men and women are different, which is why dudes this morning are making fun of Zoran Mamdani for not being able to lift as much as the pregnant lady would.
00:08:52.000There is something bizarrely effeminate about Mamdani's performance in.
00:08:56.000governments in the New York mayoral primaries.
00:08:59.000There just is and it's strange and it's weird and maybe democrats love it.
00:09:04.000Maybe they're very into the sort of androgyny of the Zorn Mom Dani candidacy, but okay, that is a violation of traditional gender norms in many different ways.
00:09:14.000And the nuclear family, I I was unaware that somehow this is bad.
00:09:17.000Why, why is, why are, why is the nuclear family somehow bad?
00:09:22.000American identity, you're telling me, has nothing to do with biblical values, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family.
00:09:28.000That comes as a shock to literally every one of the founders, all of them.
00:09:33.000These tenets, according to Axios, are cast as universal truths and mantras such as America is an idea or diversity is our strengths are dismissed as liberal fictions.
00:10:40.000So not that I was pressured, but like it's all in the book.
00:10:44.000But this does speak to the Democratic Party and the move to the left that is being fostered by, again, this sort of a feat set of liberals at places like Axios or apparently in the New York City primary.
00:10:58.000But by the way, the results of this are very clear.
00:11:01.000If you get rid of things like biblical values, traditional masculinity, the nuclear family, what do you end up with?
00:11:07.000You end up with a bunch of rootless and useless young adults already coming up.
00:11:11.000Young American adults apparently are not getting married, they're not having kids, things are not going amazing.
00:11:16.000Plus, Wes Moore, is he going to be the Democrats' 2028 nominee and President Trump is going to send troops into Chicago?
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00:13:31.000Axios, not apparently spoting the irony, same day has a piece titled America's Young People Are Delaying Adulthood Milestones.
00:13:38.000Why, I can't imagine why young adults are pushing back the big milestones Americans have historically associated with growing up, moving out of your parents' house, getting a job, getting married and having kids.
00:13:48.000Now, again, all of those things are associated with precisely the American values that Axios is condemning the Trump administration for promoting.
00:13:55.000Biblical values involve, like as in the book of Genesis, you will leave your mother and your father and you will cling to your wife.
00:14:03.000That is one of the fundamental hallmarks of becoming a man is you leave your parents and you leave their house.
00:14:09.000and then you get married and you cling to your wife and you form your own family unit.
00:14:14.000It is also a traditional stepping stone of the meritocracy because it turns out that moving out of the house, getting a job, getting married, these are the ways that you elevate yourself in any free society.
00:14:28.000Married people tend to make more money than single people.
00:14:30.000For example, having kids is the way that you mature.
00:14:33.000The nuclear family is the way that you build a next generation.
00:14:37.000So when you tear away at the fundamental values of all of your institutions, of all of your ideas and ideals, what you end up with is a bunch of young adults who are completely absent atomized and useless.
00:14:49.000You might say like Zoran Mumdani, who's a 33-year-old socialist who's never held a real job but soon will be the mayor of the financial capital of planet Earth.
00:14:57.000According to Axios in 1975, about half of America's 25 to 34-year-olds had done all of those things, moved out of their parents' house, gotten a job, got married, and had kids.
00:15:05.000Fifty years later, less than a quarter have, according to a census working paper out this month.
00:15:10.000The way young people think about marriage and family is changing.
00:15:13.000It used to be the first step of adulthood with financial security and an established career potentially coming after a wedding.
00:15:19.000Young people want to find work, pay off debt, and live alone before looking for a partner.
00:15:23.000And these goals are harder to hit than they were for previous generations.
00:15:26.000Findings suggest young adults today prioritize economic security over starting a family, reflecting the rising burden of housing, food, gas and other costs.
00:15:43.000Your grandparents were much poorer than you and they got married at twenty and then they had a bunch of kids and then they ended up paving the way for a better America.
00:15:51.000If you are twenty five years old and unmarried living in a five thousand dollar a month apartment in New York City, that is a you problem.
00:16:02.000The rent is the fault of New York, which refuses to build any more housing because of all their crazy regulations.
00:16:07.000But your life decisions are your fault.
00:16:10.000I mean, this should be just baseline, rudimentary morality.
00:16:14.000The decisions you make in your life are your problem.
00:16:19.000That's not mean there can't be systemic change in ways that make your decisions easier.
00:16:24.000But the vast majority of problems in your life in the freest country in the history of the world where you have the most wealth in the history of the world, stop blaming other people for that.
00:16:34.000But again, when you tear away things like Judeo Christian morality and expectations of traditional gender roles like get married., being a husband, being a father.
00:16:42.000What you end up with are useless young people.
00:16:45.000And then those useless young people vote for other useless young people.
00:16:48.000Again, like Zoran Momzani in 2024, 28% of young adults lived on their own with jobs.
00:16:54.000But the combination of moving out, marrying and having kids no longer ranks among the top five most common milestone patterns.
00:17:55.000And so it's fascinating to see as Democrats start looking for their legitimate 2028 candidate.
00:18:00.000Now I know that Gavin Newsom's been making a big splash, so I asked our sponsors over at Comet, Perplexity's new web browser.
00:18:06.000I asked what is the order of the Democratic primaries in 2028, because it makes a very big difference in terms of who the 2028 Democratic nominee is.
00:18:11.000So if you recall back in 2024, Joe Biden in an attempt to stack the primaries so he would have no real competition, he was afraid that if he allowed Iowa and New Hampshire to be first in the nation for the Democrats, he might get some sort of insurgent candidacy from Bernie Sanders again or some other left wing member of the Democratic Party.
00:18:32.000That of course was a call back to his 2020 race where he lost Iowa and New Hampshire, but then won South Carolina and basically swept the rest of the primaries.
00:18:39.000While the current order still retains South Carolina at the head of the primaries, however, the DNC is currently debating the calendar.
00:18:46.000Strong competition is emerging among states like South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Nevada to obtain or reclaim early voting status.
00:18:53.000The DNC's rules and by laws committee will determine the order.
00:18:56.000A decision is not expected until at least late 2025, possibly 2026.
00:19:02.000New Hampshire is fighting very hard to restore its long held first in the nation status.
00:19:08.000The most important state for the Democratic Party primaries is South Carolina.
00:19:11.000So if I ask, comment then, what percentage of the 2024 South Carolina Democratic Party primary electorate was black in 2024.
00:19:20.000The answer was 56 percent of 2024 South Carolina Democratic Party primary voters were black in 2016.
00:19:27.000By the way, that number was 61 percent.
00:19:30.000So how do you think Gavin Newsom is going to do with that crowd?
00:19:33.000I mean, maybe he will do somewhat better than Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg would do, but he's not going to blow it out of the park, which means the Democrats are looking to another face.
00:20:28.000And Democrats, you know, the thing is we say Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line, although I think Republicans have fallen in love a little bit.
00:21:45.000He was a White House Fellow in February 26 under Under Secretary of State Connolly to Rice, he worked at Deutsche Bank in Manhattan, Citibank from 2007 to 2012.
00:21:56.000And then he ended up, of course, running for office.
00:21:59.000He became sort of a TV producer for a while.
00:22:02.000He was CEO of a charitable organization that was designed to alleviate childhood poverty.
00:22:08.000So again, this is the guy who has sort of the classic political resume.
00:22:14.000And the big thing right now for Westmoore is that as he's watching Gavin Newsom garner all the attention, he wants to jump in.
00:22:20.000He understands the primaries now start earlier than ever and he's starting to jump in already coming up.
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00:24:36.000President Trump has said that he was interested in sending the National Guard into Baltimore to quickly clean up crime.
00:24:43.000This is a follow on to his use of the National Guard in order to quash crime in Washington, DC.
00:24:48.000Now, legally speaking, the President of the United States has awfully much more authority in Washington, DC, which of course is a federal district than he does in a city like Baltimore, which is just a city in the state of Maryland, right?
00:25:09.000Typically, legally, in order for the president of the United States to utilize the National Guard in these particular areas, he has to either cite the insurrection act, right?
00:25:17.000He has to say that there's some sort of riot that's taking place or he has to send in the National Guard to help federal forces effectuate federal laws.
00:25:26.000He said that the federal government was unable to effectuate immigration law and the National Guard was brought in in a support capacity for ICE.
00:25:34.000So it's not clear what legal authority President Trump would be citing in sending the National Guard to a place like Baltimore.
00:25:40.000Now, Baltimore has been a high crime area for a very, very long time, obviously.
00:25:44.000And the reason that The Wire took place, the HBO show, terrific show, took place in Baltimore is because Baltimore has been sort of the epicenter of American crime for decades and decades and decades, going all the way back to when David Simon was writing about it in his book Homicide.
00:25:58.000But President Trump threatened, he said, if Wes Moore needs help like Gavin Newscomb did in LA, I will send in the troops, which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the crime.
00:26:06.000Well, this is nothing excites a Democrat more than being attacked by President Trump at this point.
00:26:45.000So this is a great moment for West Moore to finally declare war on the president of the United States because, of course, if you wish to run for that 2028 Democratic nomination, you have to basically run against Trump first before you get to whoever the Republican nominee will be, whether it's JD Vance or Marco Rubio or, or someone else.
00:27:01.000So here was Westmore jumping on the opportunity talking about how President Trump needs to get the name of Baltimore out of his mouth.
00:27:27.000Well, I mean, again, that that sort of, you know, ridiculous notion that President Trump, if you're not, I mean, he is willing to be part of the solution.
00:27:34.000That's why he's talking about sending the National Guard there.
00:27:37.000But it's not about that the performative.
00:27:39.000The Democrats have to first pass the bar of the performative before they can get to the substantive.
00:27:44.000On CNN on Friday, he said it's because they haven't walked our streets.
00:27:48.000He said many of the comments that are being made from the White House come off as so, so toned off and so ignorant about fighting crime.
00:27:54.000They're more than happy just making these repeated tropes about us, but not actually working with us to be able to make sure that our streets are safe and that people can have a real opportunity to feel safe in their own neighborhoods.
00:28:03.000Now, to be fair, it is pretty clear that the democratic rule in Maryland has not been particularly beneficial for people wishing to avoid crime in Baltimore.
00:28:56.000But again, this does give Westmoore the opening to basically now run against Trump, which is the thing that he wants to do more than anything else.
00:29:03.000Westmoore then sent a letter to President Trump basically inviting him to walk the streets.
00:29:07.000And President Trump said, I'll walk the streets after I clean up the crime.
00:29:10.000But Westmoore said, Dear President Trump, last week you responded to my concerns about the deployment of National Guard personnel for municipal police in Washington, DC by insulting me personally from the Oval Office.
00:29:20.000So I wanted to write in order to clarify the root of my frustration and extend an invitation to you to visit Maryland where we can discuss strategies for effective public safety policy.
00:29:28.000There is no higher priority for me as the governor of my state than the safety of my people.
00:29:31.000This is an issue of both professional and personal significance.
00:29:34.000I grew up in and around communities left behind by people in power who sought to weaponize the pain of their constituents through hollow talking points that never changed the reality on the ground.
00:29:42.000From the day I became Maryland's chief executive, I've sought a different path.
00:29:46.000We've taken an all of the above approach to public safety that addresses the root causes of crime, mobilizing state resources, building strong partnerships with local jurisdictions, prosecutors, public defenders, police officers and advocates, and ensuring greater coordination and data sharing to deliver staggering drops in violent crime.
00:30:01.000His homicides in Maryland are down statewide by twenty percent since my inauguration two and a half years ago in the first six months of 2025.
00:30:07.000The Baltimore PD continued to see a double digit reduction in gun violence, including a 22% decrease in homicides and a 19% decrease in non-fatal shootings the year before.
00:30:15.000I mean, Westmoore sends President Trump a press release and he says, if there's anything Maryland has proven over the last two years, it's that we can achieve performance without being performative.
00:30:24.000I'd like to invite you formally to attend our next public safety walk in September at a date of your choice.
00:30:31.000So again, I think that this is all about Westmoore trying to wrest control of the microphone away from Gavin Newsom.
00:30:38.000And frankly, he does have an advantage.
00:31:30.000It's a direct violation of the Tenth Amendment.
00:31:32.000And for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.
00:31:42.000Again, it is not unconstitutional for the president to send troops to Washington, DC.
00:31:47.000That is fully in line with the Constitution of the United States.
00:31:49.000President Trump responded to Governor Wes Moore, who invited him to walk the city.
00:31:54.000In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized the Maryland Governor's record on crime.
00:31:58.000He said if Baltimore needs assistance, he will send in the National Guard, like he did to LA and Washington, DC.
00:32:03.000He also noted he had given Moore a lot of money to repair his demolished bridge, adding he might have to rethink the decision.
00:32:08.000Governor Westmore of Maryland, he said, has asked in a rather nasty and provocative tone that I walk the streets of Maryland with him.
00:32:14.000I assume he's talking about out of control crime in Baltimore.
00:32:17.000As president, I'd much prefer he clean up this crime disaster before I go there for a walk.
00:32:23.000He says Westmore's crime record is a very bad one unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other blue states are doing.
00:32:28.000But if Westmore needs help like Gavin Newscomb did in LA, I will send in the troops, which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the crime.
00:32:36.000Now, again, it seems to me that the reactionary nature of our politics is leading everybody into some box canyons politically.
00:32:43.000Hey, the reality is that the president of the United States does not have the unilateral authority.
00:32:47.000again, unless he somehow declares that an insurrection is taking place to simply send in the National Guard to local cities to clean up the crime.
00:33:03.000If you're on the right side of the aisle, that is a problem for you.
00:33:06.000Imagine Westmoore as president of the United States.
00:33:09.000Imagine Joe Biden just a couple of years ago as president of the United States sending in troops to enforce local law in places like Florida or Texas picking which laws to enforce.
00:33:25.000This is why I am less than enthused about the idea of now deploying troops to Chicago.
00:33:31.000Again, there is a difference between deploying troops to LA to enforce immigration law, federal immigration law, and deploying troops to Washington, DC, which is in fact a federal district.
00:33:40.000Now apparently the Pentagon is planning a military deployment in Chicago.
00:33:44.000According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Trump says he wants to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration in a model that could later be used in other major cities.
00:33:56.000Officials familiar with the planning said.
00:33:58.000The planning, which has not been previously disclosed, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September.
00:34:05.000It's what is the third most populous city in the United States.
00:34:09.000The mission, if approved, would have parallels to the polarizing and legally contested operation Trump ordered in LA in June.
00:34:15.000The Chicago effort would further expand Trump's use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted.
00:34:22.000Now, again, it is quite possible that a state or local authority can say they don't want to enforce federal immigration law and they obstruct federal immigration law.
00:34:29.000Then you have a good excuse to send in the National Guard to help actually enforce the law.
00:34:34.000But if what you're talking about is there are too many murders in the city of Chicago, so you're sending in the National Guard.
00:34:39.000Again, unless you have some sort of legal basis for it.
00:34:47.000You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent.
00:34:49.000We'll straighten that one out probably next.
00:34:51.000That'll be our next one after this and it won't even be tough.
00:34:54.000Now, as they say, they probably will use ICE as sort of a bootstrap for putting troops on the ground in Chicago.
00:35:00.000However, it seems to me that if Chicago wishes to keep voting for awful, awful people for their politicians, that they do in fact have the right to vote for terrible politicians and live with the consequences of those terrible politicians.
00:35:13.000The way that people learn not to elect bad people is by having twenty years, thirty years of crime like they did in New York City before they got the Rudy Giuliani treatment.
00:35:21.000And it seems like New Yorkers don't learn.
00:35:22.000And so they'll go right back to the well on that one.
00:35:25.000Mayor Brandon Johnson, in response to President Trump's threats to send National Guard into Chicago, he put out a statement.
00:35:34.000He says, quote, we take President Trump's statement seriously, but to be clear, the city has not received any formal communication from the Trump administration regarding additional federal law enforcement or military deployments to Chicago.
00:35:43.000Certainly, we have grave concerns about the impact of any unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Chicago.
00:35:48.000The problem with the President's approach is that it is uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound.
00:35:53.000Unlawfully deploying the National Guard to Chicago has the potential to inflame tensions between.
00:35:57.000residents and law enforcement when we know that trust between police and residents is foundational to building safer communities.
00:36:02.000Unlawful deployment would be unsustainable and would threaten to undermine the historic progress we have made in the past year alone.
00:36:07.000We have reduced homicides by more than thirty percent robberies by thirty five percent shootings by almost forty percent.
00:36:12.000We continue to invest in what is working.
00:36:14.000So I mean, first of all, this is the wrong tack for Brandon Johnson to take and for any of these blue state democrats to take.
00:36:20.000The answer is not we're doing an amazing job on crime.
00:36:23.000The answer is the president doesn't have the authority to do this, right?
00:36:26.000Sure, we can do a better job on crime.
00:36:28.000Everybody can do a better job on crime in a city in America that can't do a better job on crime.
00:36:32.000But the National Guard being deployed to the city is a violation of the constitutional order would actually be.
00:36:39.000the argument that should be made by Brandon Johnson, but he doesn't really care much about that, of course, because he is very much in favor of the crime on sort of a general level.
00:36:49.000Senator Tammy Duckworth, she also issued a statement condemning the president of the United States.
00:36:54.000She said it comes as no surprise Donald Trump is once again attacking Chicago, but that doesn't change the Trump's continuing pattern of politicizing and misusing our nation's military for his own partisan gain and to crush dissent is deeply disturbing as unamerican and has no place in any of our cities.
00:37:08.000We know this isn't about law and order because Trump is once again refusing to coordinate with state and local officials.
00:37:12.000Now again, President Trump would say, listen, if I coordinate with you, you're just going to thwart the actual.
00:37:21.000Again, the Democrats, the Democrats have a unique way, a truly unique way of taking the wrong side of any argument, even when they might be constitutionally correct.
00:37:31.000What they should be arguing is the president does not have legal authority under the constitution of the United States to enforce local law by the military.
00:37:39.000That is not, that is not what the military is for.
00:37:41.000Instead, they take the perspective that actually crime is okay and it's racist of Trump to offer this and it's misuse of our military and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
00:37:51.000And so it looks like they're pro crime, which is a really dumb way to do this.
00:37:55.000Well, here was governor, governor JB Pritzker.
00:37:58.000He also put out a tweet suggesting that Trump was trying to manufacture a crisis.
00:38:02.000Cite, Donald Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform and continue to abuse his power to distract from the pain he's causing families will continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state and protect Illinoisans.
00:38:14.000Okay, so the the last line there is closer to correct from from JB Pritzker.
00:38:19.000But again, this kind of notion that Trump is manufacturing a crime crisis when again crime in Chicago, there are shootings pretty much every weekend in Chicago that obviously is untrue.
00:38:31.000Here was Brandon Johnson trying to rebut claims that his city is basically run like trash.
00:39:22.000The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny, resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people.
00:39:46.000That we're not going to we're going to resist.
00:39:48.000What is that resistance like look like?
00:39:49.000Seriously, it is amazing how many of these people are playing directly into President Trump's hands on the radical left.
00:39:57.000With that said, President Trump moving federal troops into Chicago that is a very fraught constitutional move at the very best.
00:40:03.000Now, there are moves that President Trump can make on crime that are pretty fascinating.
00:40:06.000So one of the ones that he is making, according to an exclusive for the New York Post, is that he's going to sign an executive order today ending cashless bail across the country, essentially attaching strings to federal funding for jurisdictions that continue to do cashless bail, which is essentially the idea that we'll just release criminals on their own recognizance around the country.
00:40:23.000Attorney General Pambandi will provide Trump with a list of no cash bail jurisdictions that could end up targeting states like New York, cities like Washington, DC, or other localities with lax bail policies.
00:40:33.000A White House memo on the executive action says, Cit, cash bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced.
00:40:44.000Arresting repeat offenders for new crimes after they've already been freed without bail is a waste of public resources and an obvious threat to public safety.
00:41:05.000So again, I have no problem with the president fighting crime.
00:41:07.000I just want to make sure that he does it in the most legally bulletproof way so it doesn't get shot down by a court at the first available opportunity.
00:41:14.000Now speaking of matters legal, on Friday, the DOJ released the testimony of Ghislaine Maxwell, the transcript of her interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
00:41:42.000She was going to break this thing wide open where it turns out that suddenly the Trump administration was covering for a gigantic child sex trafficking ring on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies, specifically according to many of the Jews.
00:41:53.000In any case, all of that seems to not be true.
00:41:56.000So either she's lying, in which case there's no evidence that that allegation is true, or she's telling the truth, in which case there's no evidence that that allegation is true.
00:42:04.000As I've been saying from the beginning, suspicions without evidence, maybe they're true, but at some point you do need to show, you know, the evidence.
00:42:13.000Well, Ghislaine Maxwell did the six hour interview.
00:42:16.000She testified that President Trump had never engaged in any inappropriate conduct that she saw with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:42:23.000She added that she didn't believe that Epstein killed him.
00:42:24.000that she didn't believe that Epstein killed himself.
00:42:25.000And again, there is the best case here is probably Alan Dershowitz' case, who again was Maxwell's and was Epstein's lawyer.
00:42:34.000Dershowitz says that there's a good shot that Epstein did kill himself, but basically he paid the prison guards to allow him to kill himself.
00:42:39.000I mean, that is certainly a possibility.
00:42:42.000She said that Bill Clinton was very close with her, but not with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:42:46.000Todd Blanche had asked her repeatedly about her and Epstein's relationships with Bill Clinton.
00:42:50.000By the way, we know how close Epstein and Glaine Maxwell were to Clinton, particularly Glaine Maxwell, because as it turns out, according to CNN, Glaine Maxwell was actually given an honor at a prestigious Clinton event years after abuse allegations actually surfaced, which is definitely weird.
00:43:48.000However, the absence of evidence does not strengthen your case.
00:43:53.000One of the amazing things about large-scale conspiracy theories is when no evidence emerges to support the theory, the lack of evidence is in itself evidence that conspiracy theory is true.
00:44:03.000It's the magic of a conspiracy theory.
00:44:05.000And it is the difference between a actual conspiracy and a conspiracy theory.
00:44:08.000As I've said many times, a actual conspiracy involves evidence of conspiratorial activity to achieve a goal.
00:44:14.000A conspiracy theory is based on speculation that such a thing is going on without any evidence.
00:44:19.000And the beautiful thing about that is that you just keep getting to use the absence of evidence as evidence that your theory is true, which is always quite delicious.
00:44:28.000Jim Jordan, representative from Ohio, he rightly points out that the Maxwell interview, again, confirms what most people were saying, which is that Trump was not involved in any way in Epstein Island shenanigans with minors.
00:44:40.000What I know is they didn't release parts of the transcript.
00:45:30.000You should just acknowledge that there's no evidence to actually back the conspiracy theory at this point.
00:45:35.000And meanwhile, JD Vance did a sort of fascinating interview yesterday.
00:45:39.000with Kristen Walker over at NBC on the situation with regard to Russia Ukraine.
00:45:44.000Now the Trump administration, President Trump in particular, has been taking the correct line on this.
00:45:49.000He got Putin to go to Anchorage, then he went to the Europeans and he said, listen, I'm willing to do some form of security guarantee.
00:45:55.000Ukraine really has to be on board with making some territorial concessions.
00:45:59.000They're the ones who are going to have to negotiate all that.
00:46:01.000And then the president implied very late last week that offensive weaponry should actually be used by Ukraine against Russia.
00:46:08.000That if Russia won't come to the table, you really have only one other choice and that's to ratchet things up.
00:46:13.000Well, two things are happening that are sort of fat one russia has rejected everything russia continues to reject everything they're totally intransigent sergey laurow the foreign minister of russia the guy who again showed up in anchorage wearing a usr shirt just to demonstrate what his priorities were sergey laurow he also was on with kristen walker and he proceeded to say that there was in fact no meeting planned between vlodimir zelensky and vlodimir putin there is no meeting planned and
00:46:43.000i am not challenging this but you you cannot uh cannot i think understand what i am saying putin is ready to meet with zelensky when the agenda would be ready for a summit and this agenda is not ready at all.
00:47:06.000Okay, so again, he has no plans at this point.
00:47:09.000So despite all of the talk about how we were moving on to the next step, trilateral meetings and all the rest, in the end, it was always going to be about what the Russians want from the negotiation.
00:47:54.000So you're saying you don't see President Zelensky as the legitimate leader of Ukraine.
00:47:59.000President Putin doesn't recognize him as the legitimate leader of Ukraine.
00:48:03.000No, we recognize him as de facto head of the regime.
00:48:07.000And in this capacity, we are ready to meet with him.
00:48:12.000But when it comes to signing legal documents, now you want to have the entire picture, just part of it, which suits you.
00:48:20.000When we come to a stage when you have to sign documents, we would need a very clear understanding by everybody that the person who is signing is legitimate.
00:48:33.000And according to the Ukrainian constitution, Mr. Zelensky is not at the moment.
00:48:40.000Okay, so what he's saying is, sure, we'll meet with Zelensky, but we'll call him illegitimate the whole time.
00:48:44.000And then we won't allow him to actually sign the documents on the other side, which is a wild position to take given the fact that again if Russia wants a peace deal which they clearly do not at this point they feel they can continue to ratchet up the pressure if they wanted to do something they wouldn't be doing that okay meanwhile as I've said a thousand times the biggest barrier to an extra republican administration remains the economy so on Friday Jerome Powell signaled that he would in fact likely be lowering those interest rates come September that of course made investors pretty
00:49:14.000happy investors were excited that finally the monetary supply would be loosened at least somewhat that there would be an ability to get to get easier loans that mortgage rates would go down and all of the rest.
00:49:28.000However, the labour market continues to remain somewhat stagnant.
00:49:32.000And there is ballast to the tariff policies that President Trump has been pushing.
00:49:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the labour market has moved front and center for the Federal Reserve, highlighting its fragility and risks to the economy.
00:49:41.000The good news is that employment unemployment remains low.
00:49:44.000Employers have not been all that interested in laying people off.
00:49:46.000The bad news is that companies have not been all that interested in hiring either.
00:49:50.000This precarious situation means even a relatively small increase in layoffs could lead the economy to start shutting jobs, a process that can be difficult to reverse once it starts.
00:49:58.000Worries about that possibility have come to the fore at the Fed, especially after revisions included in that July employment report showed much weaker job growth in recent months than previously thought.
00:50:08.000So on Friday, Fed chair Jerome Powell signalled that they were going to cut rates because of the risk of a deteriorating jobs market.
00:50:15.000He said if those risks materialize, they can do so quickly in the form of sharply higher layoffs and rising unemployment.
00:50:21.000We've already seen the pace of hiring slowing markedly.
00:50:23.000In June, the hiring rate was just three point three percent according to the Labor Department, that was below three point nine percent in February 2020.
00:50:30.000And it was much less than the four point six percent registered in November 2021 when the job market was coming back from the pandemic.
00:50:38.000Companies were already adding new employees at a slower pace when President Trump came back into office.
00:50:43.000Then we were going to do deregulation and lower taxes and all the rest.
00:50:47.000It turns out the tariffs have thrown a wrench into all that.
00:50:50.000So the Federal Reserve is going to try to apparently jog the markets by lowering those interest rates.
00:50:56.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration has taken a $10 billion stake in Intel.
00:50:59.000And again, I'm deeply uncomfortable with this.
00:51:01.000This is not good laissez faire, free market policy.
00:51:18.000The United States of America now owns 10% of Intel, one of our great American technology companies.
00:51:23.000Intel posted details of the pl plan soon after, saying the administration would make an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock paid for with Chip's grant money.
00:51:31.000So basically the idea is that taxpayer money will be used to buy America a piece of Intel.
00:51:39.000I wouldn't be spending $9 billion to buy a piece of Intel, would you?
00:51:43.000Because they've been in secular decline for quite a while because they've been mishandled.
00:51:48.000The company said the stake would be funded with $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded but not yet paid and $3.2 billion from a separate Department of Defense program.
00:51:57.000The CEO said we are grateful for the confidence the president and the administration have placed in Intel.
00:52:01.000We look forward to working to advance US technology and manufacturing leadership.
00:52:06.000So some Republicans are upset about this, including Senator Rand Paul.
00:52:10.000He correctly points out that this is actually a violation of free market principles and that once you are a partner with the government, the government basically is in charge of your business and not only that, it's too big to fail.
00:52:24.000So as Mike Schmidt and Todd Fisher write in the Wall Street Journal, the company's products business, which designs chips for computers and servers, is large and profitable, but not a national security priority.
00:52:34.000That business underpins most of Intel's roughly $100 billion market cap.
00:52:38.000What matters for national security is Intel'ss foundry, the manufacturing arm that could in theory produce chips for other companies as well as Intel's internal products.
00:52:52.000But a government equity stake does not solve that problem.
00:52:54.000Intel can easily raise capital in public markets.
00:52:57.000There is no need for taxpayer dollars to replace what private capital is already willing to do.
00:53:02.000Unlike grants, equity comes at a steep cost to Intel.
00:53:05.000Transferring grants into equity risks putting Intel at a cost disadvantage relative to other chip makers, which are manufacturing predominantly in low cost Asian countries and receiving direct incentives in the US and around the world.
00:53:16.000And there are also practical risks because, of course, now it's polit politicized.
00:53:20.000The biggest problem is that Intel's 18A process has failed to secure any meaningful external customers.
00:53:24.000Intel CEO recently acknowledged that without external customers for its advanced 14A process technology, the company can't sustain leading edge manufacturing.
00:53:36.000And again, this sort of thing here, not great.
00:54:02.000Congress is an independent branch of government.
00:54:05.000The presidents of the United States should not unilaterally be making tariff policy.
00:54:09.000That is not what the system was designed to do.
00:54:12.000I don't like it happening, whether it is Democrat or Republican, and the grand centralization of nearly all power in the executive branch as a whole is a massive, massive institutional flaw in our Republic right now.
00:54:23.000It also means that whenever we have a presidential election, it is tooth and nail because I guess if you grab the executive branch, then you basically run everything.
00:54:32.000And that is a huge systemic problem that the founders never would have tolerated.