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00:00:00.000Well, folks, it turns out that we now know the real victim of 9-11, the real victims.
00:00:04.000It was Zorin Mamdani's family members because people gave them mean looks.
00:00:08.000We'll get into what is the appeal of Zorin Mamdani.
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00:00:53.000Well, folks, at the end of last week, Zarin Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo were embroiled in a battle.
00:00:59.000That battle was over whether Andrew Cuomo was a big meanie for going on Sid Rosenberg's show in New York City.
00:01:05.000And Sid Rosenberg made some sort of joke about how Zorin Mamdani would have cheered 9-11, and Cuomo kind of awkwardly chuckled.
00:01:12.000And this turned into an entire news cycle.
00:01:14.000How dare Sid Rosenberg and how dare Andrew Como be so mean to Zoran Mamdani?
00:01:20.000And this has now turned into the theme of Zarin Mamdani's campaign, which is: why are people so mean to the pro-jihadist, pro-Marxist candidate who is likely to be the next mayor of New York?
00:01:31.000This is blown into full view because over the course of the weekend, Zar Mamdani decided to talk extensively about 9-11 and his feelings about 9-11.
00:01:41.000So, Zarin Mamdani was delivering some sort of press conference in the Bronx.
00:01:48.000And here he decided that the real victim of 9-11, the real true victim of 9-11, was not the 3,000 people who died on 9-11, murdered in the worst Islamist terrorist attack ever.
00:02:00.000No, actually, that the real victim was his auntie, his auntie, who, according to Zar Mamdani, rode the subway and may or may not have received a mean look.
00:02:10.000I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
00:02:50.000The fake tears, the he's so broken up over his aunt apparently not taking the subway after 9-11.
00:03:01.000Now, there have been some questions raised about which aunt he's talking about.
00:03:04.000At least one of his aunts was actually in Tanzania at the time, apparently.
00:03:09.000But put aside whether or not that aunt exists or whether or not she stopped taking the subway.
00:03:16.000Zar Mamdani has somehow transformed 9-11, the worst terror event on American soil ever, and probably the worst event in the history of New York City, into a sad story about American Islamophobia.
00:03:30.000The idea is that if he is not elected, it's that same Islamophobia that will be responsible for him not being mayor of New York.
00:03:38.000That the problem is not his pro-jihadist leanings, which we have detailed multiple times on the show.
00:03:43.000The problem is not that he has stood for globalize the Intifada, the Holy Land Five, that he posed alongside an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, that he refuses to say Hamas should be disarmed.
00:03:57.000The problem is all you people who are mean to him about those things, because you are Islamophobic.
00:04:03.000He's just doing the Norm McDonald joke, the old Norm McDonald joke that if there were nuclear war, that there was a nuclear bomb set off by Islamic terrorists in the middle of New York City, he's afraid for the real victims, the Muslims in New York City.
00:04:41.000This is the reason a bunch of left-wing progressive Democrats are going to vote for him and do so enthusiastically.
00:04:47.000Without the victimhood, he would be a nothing burger, a nothing burger stacked atop a nothing sandwich stapped atop a gigantic junkyard of nothing.
00:04:56.000It is the victimhood alone that has elevated Zar Mamdani.
00:04:59.000Now you say to yourself, wait, he's not a victim.
00:05:01.000I mean, didn't his family immigrate from Uganda, not exactly a nice place to live?
00:05:06.000And he still holds double citizenship with Uganda?
00:05:10.000I mean, aren't his parents super wealthy?
00:05:12.000Didn't his dad teach at Columbia and his mom was a film producer?
00:05:15.000How is this a complete, utter, useless human being, a leech on the fat rump of the United States?
00:05:28.000And the answer is that sometime, somewhere, someone gave him a mean look because of Islamophobia.
00:05:36.000Now, again, the term Islamophobia is very often just a cover for don't criticize radical Islam.
00:05:42.000If you criticize radical Islam, that's a form of Islamophobia.
00:05:45.000Islamophobia is kind of a weird charge because again, when you look at someone, unless they are wearing religious garb, it is very difficult to be Islamophobic.
00:05:53.000Again, you don't even know that they're Muslim.
00:06:41.000The reason that I've called Andrew Cuomo Donald Trump's puppet is not just because they share the same billionaire donors.
00:06:47.000It's not just because they see themselves in each other.
00:06:49.000It's also because their vision of leading a city or a country is one where you are only able to build a constituency by pitting it against another one.
00:06:58.000And that's what we're seeing in this moment.
00:07:00.000And let's just talk about the moment we have at hand.
00:07:02.000We have a shutdown of the federal government.
00:07:05.000We have Americans across this country living in fear about rising health care costs, about the fact that we're going to see decimating cuts to snap.
00:07:14.000We have active duty military families in line for food pantries.
00:07:18.000And amidst all of this, the focus of so many is just how much bigotry they can engage in.
00:07:27.000That every accusation from Zoran Mamdani is an admission.
00:07:30.000No one has engaged in more bigotry in this campaign than Zoran Mamdani.
00:07:55.000Okay, that means that Zor Mamdani, because 9-11 now happened 24 years ago, Zoran Mamdani was nine when 9-11 happened.
00:08:04.000I'm about eight years older than Zora Mamdani.
00:08:06.000So I remember 9-11 pretty well because I was a late teen already.
00:08:09.000And I remember the extraordinary efforts that the federal government and state government and city government of New York went through in order to tamp down on quote-unquote Islamophobia.
00:08:18.000George W. Bush did full speeches about how radical Islam was not the same as normal mainstream Islam, how this is a perversion of Islam, how there shouldn't be any sort of backlash against Muslims.
00:08:29.000The city of New York did the same thing.
00:08:31.000The state of New York did the same thing.
00:08:33.000Zora Mamdani whining about the treatment of Muslims in a country that is wildly, wildly Muslim friendly is totally insane.
00:08:43.000It's totally, the city of New York, by the way, is now 11% Muslim, which is the same percentage as the Jewish population.
00:08:49.000We always hear about the big Jewish population in New York, and that's true.
00:08:53.000The same exact population is Muslim in New York now.
00:08:56.000Is there radical discrimination against Muslims in New York?
00:09:40.000According to the New York Post, how self-damning is Zora Mamdani's chief takeaway from 9-11 is that it supposedly triggered a horrible wave of Islamophobia.
00:09:48.000Of course, ordinary Muslims bear no blame for the extremists who carried out those terror attacks, killing some 3,000 innocents.
00:09:54.000No wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes followed 9-11, not in New York nor anywhere else.
00:09:59.000Before and after 9-11, the minority most singled out for hate in America and across the world has always been Jews in vastest proportion to their numbers.
00:10:06.000By the way, in Europe, largely by radical Muslims.
00:10:10.000So what are the supposed experiences of Zorin Mamdani that makes him a victim?
00:10:14.000And again, victimhood is the coin of the realm in Democratic Party politics.
00:10:18.000The reason that Bernie Sanders had a tougher time in the primaries than AOC will is because AOC will claim that because she is a minority in America, that means she was victim.
00:10:45.000Since he attended the ultra-liberal, pricey Bank Street School for Children, his progressive educators expected the worst of their fellow New Yorkers.
00:10:52.000He did not recall actually being bullied.
00:10:54.000Instead, he could only cite his aunt's supposed decision to quit riding the subways because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
00:11:02.000Like, again, without the victimhood, he's got nothing, nothing.
00:11:31.000And yet, somehow, because he is apparently rich in the coin of victimhood, despite the fact, again, he is one of the least victimized people I have ever even conceived of.
00:11:40.000He grew up rich as an immigrant to this country as a child.
00:11:44.000Both of his parents are very successful.
00:11:46.000He lived his young adult life being a pseudo-rapper and having no actual job.
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00:13:05.000Also, between those breaking news alerts, late night editing sessions, chasing stories around the clock, sometimes family time can feel pretty scarce.
00:13:11.000And that's why my wife and I have committed to the Good Ranchers Back to the Table challenge.
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00:13:33.000Producer savvy, she's been using this like nobody's, she has the biggest, chunkiest toddler in the world because that kid is basically fed only on good ranchers.
00:13:41.000I'm telling you, this kid could play like middle linebacker for the Bears today and improve the team because of Good Ranchers.
00:14:17.000And by the way, this is nothing new for him.
00:14:19.000This is how he became who he has become, is trading on pseudo-victimhood.
00:14:24.000Here he was in 2020 complaining about Islamophobia.
00:14:30.000I think of on 9-11 when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class rather.
00:14:35.000A classmate of mine, myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what had just happened.
00:14:41.000We didn't understand what had happened.
00:14:42.000And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as that because most Muslim students did not have that.
00:14:48.000And yet, what I really remember from that interaction was the understanding that now I was distinct.
00:14:54.000There was something about me that was different from my classmates.
00:14:57.000And it's a lesson that I was made to learn again and again.
00:15:00.000Because a few years later, when I returned to New York City after a trip with my family abroad, I was taken aside at JFK and put in a double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I had just come from attending a terrorist training camp and if I had intentions on attacking this country and what my thoughts were on the government.
00:15:18.000And I was 15 years old and I was terrified.
00:15:24.000Like, I'm sorry, you were a Muslim coming from a third world country abroad and you were pulled aside for five minutes by TSA and this is your great story of victimhood.
00:15:32.000By the way, on 9-11, you know where I was?
00:15:34.000I was helping lock down my sister's Jewish day school because just like every other terrorist attack in the United States, Jewish day schools go on high alert, especially terrorist attacks that come from Wait for it, radical Muslims, which is what happened on 9-11.
00:15:47.000My sisters weren't the victims of 9-11.
00:17:18.000Without the victimhood, Mamdani is nothing.
00:17:21.000He is no different than Bill de Blasio.
00:17:23.000He is no different than half a dozen other terrible New York candidates who ran this time.
00:17:27.000It is that racial diversity and the ethnic diversity and the religious diversity, all of which in the left-wing mind are tied into inherent victimhood.
00:17:35.000Without the victimhood, he is zip zilch.
00:17:51.000They do not have the capacity to do this.
00:17:54.000The reason that they do not have the capacity to do this is because the Democratic Party's jet fuel is a sense of aggrievement and victimhood at America itself.
00:18:03.000How America is a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad place.
00:18:20.000He's not claiming to be a transsexual furry.
00:18:22.000And so that means that he has no coin of the realm in Democratic Party progressive circles, which is where candidate notoriety is made.
00:18:31.000Which makes it somewhat vaguely pathetic that Andy Bashir, the governor of Kentucky, he was peering with Bill Maher and Bill Maher started complaining about gender bills.
00:18:38.000And here was Andy Bashir, for example.
00:18:40.000If you think this is going to play in a Democratic Party primary, got another thing for you.
00:18:45.000You have this very high approval rating in your state, and yet it's a conservative state.
00:18:49.000And you still, you vetoed two gender bills that the legislature overrode, which will do you well in the Democratic primary.
00:18:57.000Just briefly describe what those bills were and what your reasoning is on this.
00:19:02.000Yeah, those were both bills that mainly addressed our LGBTQ population.
00:19:52.000The only athlete that we had that was trans in the state was a seventh grader, and she had started a high school field hockey team to make friends.
00:20:01.000Certainly, we ought to be able to prevent unfair advantages in the high school and the college level without making life harder for a seventh grader.
00:20:13.000So I know there's been a lot of talk about Gavin Newsom because he spends all of his days running around jabbering about Trump and tweeting random Trumpian things.
00:20:21.000If you think that this lizard human is going to, he's a white lizard human.
00:20:34.000The idea that a guy who got a 960 on his SAT that still struggles to read scripts that was always in the back of the classroom, the idea that you even throw that out is in and of itself extraordinary.
00:21:09.000If you've ever run for the White House, you need a compelling why, a reason.
00:21:14.000Are you moving closer to figuring out your own why and your own decision?
00:21:19.000Yeah, Nisha said, if you have a compelling why, you can endure anyhow.
00:21:22.000And so I don't think, I think the biggest challenge for anyone who runs for any office is people see right through you if you don't have that why.
00:22:38.000What if there were like a female Zora Mom Donnie who also did not suffer growing up, but can try to claim some sort of victimhood status based off of her diverse ethnicity and the fact that she is in fact virulently popular with progressives and so has driven an enormous amount of conservative ire because she is actually quite horrible.
00:22:57.000What if that person existed and that person were called AOC?
00:23:00.000I'm just telling you, everybody on the right and the left who is short-selling AOC, wrong move.
00:23:22.000Again, that is not because she's a woman.
00:23:23.000It's because her voice is really high and, you know, shrill.
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00:26:40.000Okay, so I just want to note what she's doing there.
00:26:42.000Understand what she's doing there, right?
00:26:44.000First of all, she's lumping in like all those groups as though they are equal in terms of their contribution or that their stories are equivalent.
00:27:00.000Now, it doesn't matter, by the way, that she opposes half those groups.
00:27:03.000That the same lady who is talking about how Jews escaping the Holocaust built New York is standing with Zoran Mamdani, who's totally fine with globalizing the Intifada and who wept, literally wept when she abstained from a vote on the floor of the House to provide funding for Iron Dome, which shoots down terrorist rockets coming from Gaza.
00:27:20.000It doesn't matter that there is nothing about AOC and her agenda that mesh with the experiences of Italian immigrants coming to the United States in the late 19th century, early 20th century.
00:27:35.000That in fact, their agenda is not her.
00:27:50.000AOC concluded that speech, by the way, by shouting that she's not the crazy one, which, by the way, if you have to tell everybody you're not the crazy one, you're the crazy one.
00:27:58.000But we must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City.
00:28:08.000We are not the outlandish ones, New York City.
00:28:26.000And running the risk where the Democratic Party goes way out to the left in order to humor the wokes.
00:28:35.000Anytime a major party nominates a candidate, that person has at least a 40% shot of being president of the United States.
00:28:41.000And as the Democratic Party moves in the direction of pseudo-victimhood of AOC and Zarin Mamdani, if the Democratic Party decides to smear that woke victimhood mentality over a Marxist, pro-jihadist philosophy, bad things ahead for the United States of America, that is for sure.
00:29:13.000And the answer is they're waiting for there to be some sort of regression to the mean.
00:29:17.000And maybe that's happening, according to Axios.
00:29:20.000Black and Latino Americans are reporting record levels of alienation and pessimism about the nation's direction.
00:29:25.000More Latinos and black voters supported Trump in 2024, but early into his second term, the sense of exclusion has deepened among communities of color.
00:29:32.000Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction right now.
00:29:36.000This is a PRRI and Brookings Institution poll, so it is left-leaning.
00:29:40.000Of all racial groups, Black Americans, 84%, and Latinos, 70%, are the most dissatisfied with the country's direction.
00:29:48.000Over half of black, 53%, and Latino, 56% respondents, say they feel like strangers in their own country, a record high in the poll's 16-year history.
00:29:56.000Only 16% of black Americans and 30% of Latinos view Trump favorably.
00:30:00.000That's actually not a terrible number among black Americans because typically Democrats will win 92, 93% of the black vote in a presidential election.
00:30:07.000That 30% number for President Trump is pretty bad, given the fact that President Trump scored in the mid-40s with the Latino vote.
00:30:15.000And so Democrats are presumably hoping that the Trump administration's harsh perspective on immigration is going to drive Latinos back into their arms.
00:30:23.000This, by the way, also explains why the Democrats keep saying over and over and over that ICE are Nazis.
00:30:29.000If they can continue to drive down the numbers for ICE, drive down the numbers on President Trump's immigration programs with Latino voters, they're hoping that those voters will then turn to an AOC in 2028.
00:30:40.000This is the reason why Trump ICE Chief Todd Lyons has been pointing out correctly that Democrats are demonizing ICE agents as Nazis and Gestapo.
00:30:49.000You know, we need to have common sense conversations, right?
00:31:01.000We don't want assassination tips like Brett pointed out.
00:31:03.000We're coming off a sniper attack in a major U.S. city where that lone sniper, that domestic terrorist, had an app that showed the location of ICE agents and officers that could be tracked.
00:31:14.000Yet they want to go ahead and demonize us, call us Nazis, call us Gestapos.
00:31:18.000But yet all across the country, we are arresting public safety threats, foreign terrorist organizations, yet they still want to demonize us every turn.
00:31:26.000I can't believe it because it was unequivocal that Sniper's motive.
00:31:32.000And then you have Lori Lightfoot saying that she wants the weight, hair color, vest, insignia, mask, shoes, and cars that you are all driving documented.
00:31:46.000Now, again, the question becomes for Democrats, why are you doing this?
00:31:49.000And the answer is they are doing this because it is not about the broad spectrum of American voters.
00:31:54.000The goal for Democrats is to create fear among Latino and Hispanic populations in the United States in the hope that it will drive them back into the rising coalition that Democrats have been attempting basically to forge since 2012.
00:32:09.000This also explains why Democrats are still holding on to this government shutdown.
00:32:14.000So the reality is the government shutdown is nonsensical.
00:32:17.000There's no reason for it at this point.
00:32:19.000Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, points out that moderate Democrats should move together to end this.
00:32:24.000We'll explain in a moment why they're not.
00:32:28.000The American people are hostage to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries' poll numbers because what's changed between now and the last time there was a clean continuing resolution is Chuck Schumer has tanked in the polls.
00:32:42.000Both of the two guys from Brooklyn, like I call them, are worried about being primary from the left.
00:32:47.00052 Republican senators have voted 11 times to reopen the government.
00:32:53.000Three brave, moderate Democrats have come across the aisle.
00:32:57.000So, you know, I call on moderate Democratic senators to end this craziness.
00:33:03.000Because Martha, what I can tell you is we managed to find the money in the middle of October to pay our brave service members.
00:33:12.000And I think we'll be able to do it on November 1st, but we're going to be out of money on November 15th.
00:33:19.000And for a military not to get paid is a disgrace.
00:33:23.000Now, there's no actual reason why Democrats are doing this.
00:33:25.000As the New York Post points out, if you strip away the lives of that Obamacare subsidy set to expire this year, Democrats' main excuse for shutting the government goes up in smoke.
00:33:34.000Above all else, Democrats claim they're looking to protect healthcare, that expiring Obamacare subsidies will send premiums soaring and cost many their coverage.
00:33:42.000The truth, premiums are expected to rise by 20% on average, but the expiring subsidies only account for four of those percentage points.
00:33:49.000The fact is most Obamacare subsidies are not expiring.
00:33:52.000What's set to vanish is the added cash that Democrats in Congress awarded to insurers during COVID.
00:34:46.000Well, unfortunately, in day 25, what we've seen is that Donald Trump has shown zero interest and Republicans have shown zero interest in reopening the government.
00:34:55.000Our view from the beginning, leader Schumer, Senate Democrats, House Democrats, we've all made clear that we will sit down with anyone, anytime, any place, either at the Capitol or back at the White House to negotiate a bipartisan agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people.
00:35:11.000But at the same time, we have to decisively address the Republican health care crisis because it is crushing everyday Americans, working class Americans, and middle-class Americans.
00:35:22.000The only reason they're doing this, it is all posturing.
00:35:25.000It's all remember, the Democratic coalition is supposedly aggrieved people and liberal white women.
00:35:39.000And now they're attempting to cater to the liberal white women who simply want opposition to Trump and will go out and march at No Kings Rally.
00:35:49.000And it does explain why Democrats are not trying to cash in on the actual vulnerabilities of the Trump administration.
00:35:55.000Things like, for example, tariff policy or crypto policy, because those are things that neither side of their coalition really cares about.
00:36:02.000Their coalition doesn't care about tariff policy.
00:36:04.000Their coalition doesn't care about economic health.
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00:37:40.000But also, if the president of the United States, when he had come into office earlier this year, had not smacked Canada across the face, then probably Pierre Polyev would be the prime minister of Canada right now.
00:37:51.000And that would be much better because it turns out it's better to have people who generally agree with you about the world in positions of leadership globally.
00:37:59.000But President Trump over the weekend decided that he was going to raise tariffs on Canada by 10%.
00:38:05.000According to the Wall Street Journal, he said on Saturday that he would be doing this, quote, because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts and hostile act, I am now increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.
00:38:20.000Well, according to his Truth Social, Canada was caught red-handed putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan's speech on tariffs.
00:38:26.000The Reagan Foundation said they created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan.
00:38:31.000The ad misrepresents the presidential radio address and did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks.
00:38:36.000The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.
00:38:41.000The sole purpose of this fraud, says President Trump, was Canada's hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will come to their rescue on tariffs they've used for years to hurt the United States.
00:38:49.000Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian tariffs.
00:38:53.000Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for purposes of national security and the economy, but Canada said he didn't.
00:38:58.000Their advertisement was to be taken down immediately.
00:39:00.000They let it run last night during the World Series, knowing it was a fraud.
00:39:03.000And so he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10%.
00:39:07.000One, Ronald Reagan was not in favor of tariffs.
00:39:09.000Ronald Reagan had specific tariff policies with regard to particularly steel and Japanese semiconductors.
00:39:15.000The same thing was true of George W. Bush.
00:39:16.000Very hard to argue that George W. Bush was a tariffs guy because he did some very specific steel tariffs.
00:39:21.000It happens not to be the case that Ronald Reagan was an anti-free trade president of the United States.
00:39:28.000Second, it was not the entire Canadian government that took out the ad.
00:39:31.000It was the government of the province of Ontario.
00:39:34.000Third, if you think that an ad on the World Series is convincing the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's tariffs, that's silly.
00:39:41.000The Supreme Court will likely strike down Trump's tariffs, in my opinion, because he has wildly exceeded the boundaries of executive authority in unilaterally saying that he can just negotiate tariff arrangements based on emergency authority.
00:39:53.000I do not think any president of any party has the ability to do that legally.
00:39:57.000I'd be kind of shocked, frankly, if the Supreme Court does not strike down his ability to levy the kinds of tariffs that he has under the authorities that he is citing.
00:40:08.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Gipper was a free trader.
00:40:10.000In the 1987 speech that was cited here, Reagan was trying to explain why he was making an exception to his free trade policies on semiconductor imports from Japan.
00:40:21.000They point out that Democrats in Congress were threatening new tariffs, and Reagan wanted to instruct the country about the damage from protectionism in the past, especially from the Smooth-Hawley tariff of 1930 and how it contributed to the Great Depression.
00:40:34.000And as the Wall Street Journal points out, even Reagan's semiconductor tariffs proved to be a mistake.
00:40:38.000Intel, which lobbied for the tariffs, innovated with its 386 and 486 chips that surpassed the commodity memory chips made by Japan.
00:40:45.000The U.S. attempt at computer chip industrial policy at the time, focused around the Semitech consortium, was a bust.
00:40:52.000And Japan, who obviously we were very afraid of economically in the 1980s, is no longer an economic threat to the United States.
00:40:58.000They've been in a state of complete stagnation for two and a half decades at this point, economically speaking.
00:41:04.000Well, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was grilled over President Trump's claims on tariffs by Kristen Welker over in NBC News.
00:41:13.000Why is the president setting trade policy based on a television ad he doesn't like?
00:41:21.000Well, Kristen, let's think about this.
00:41:23.000This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens.
00:41:30.000Why would the government of Ontario, I'm told that they've spent, they have spent or were planning to spend up to $75 million on these ads to come across the U.S. border.
00:41:41.000So what was the purpose of that other than to sway public opinion?
00:41:47.000And, you know, it's some kind of propaganda that the premier of Ontario unilaterally launched.
00:41:55.000Will the 10% tariffs apply to all Canadian goods, Mr. Secretary?
00:42:01.000Kristen, I've been traveling since this unfortunate event happened.
00:43:02.000The markets just want to know that policy ain't going to change on a dime.
00:43:06.000They can price in anything, but they need to know that that policy is not going to simply swivel moment to moment.
00:43:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, top U.S. and Chinese negotiators sounded a positive note on weekend trade talks, hailing what they called constructive discussions ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned for this week.
00:43:24.000Treasury Secretary Besson said that they believe they have a successful framework for the leaders to discuss.
00:43:29.000Here he was talking about this on ABC News.
00:43:33.000So this was the fifth meeting that I've had with my Chinese counterpart, the Vice Premier, Hu Li Feng, and we covered a wide range of issues.
00:43:42.000And I think we've reached a substantial framework for the two leaders who will meet in Korea next Thursday.
00:43:48.000So, you know, on the table, the president had given me maximum leverage when he threatened 100% tariffs if the Chinese impose their rare earth global export controls.
00:44:02.000So I think we have averted that so that the tariffs will be averted.
00:44:08.000And we have a regular meeting, regular quarterly meeting with the Chinese.
00:44:14.000It was scheduled for November 10th or before November 10th.
00:44:19.000I don't think we will have to have that.
00:44:21.000So we have been rolling the tariffs quarterly.
00:44:26.000Now, one of the things that's happening here is that China has really upped its pressure on its export of rare earth minerals, which, of course, the United States requires as inputs for an enormous amount of its manufacturing and for many of the most important things that you use in daily life.
00:44:38.000This is one of the reasons why we should be, you know, diversifying away from China.
00:44:42.000And we should have actually inked a bunch of great trade deals with countries surrounding China before turning to China.
00:44:48.000You get all your ducks in a row, and then finally, you're going to go for the big fish.
00:44:51.000It seems like we did the opposite, and now China actually has been sort of jiu-jitsuing us in these negotiations.
00:44:57.000Apparently, President Trump is likely to visit Xi in China in early 2026.
00:45:01.000Xi might visit the U.S. later next year, Besson told the NBC News in a separate appearance.
00:45:07.000The president says that he's going to press China to resume purchases of U.S. soybeans, crack down on Chinese companies exporting chemicals used to make fentanyl, and ease control on rare earths.
00:45:17.000You know, again, I think that the I am uneasy, shall we say, about the state of these deals.
00:45:25.000Secretary Besant also said that a final TikTok deal has been reached.
00:45:29.000Now, I can only hope this means a transfer of control away from the Chinese Communist Party and towards some American party that can rejigger the anti-American algorithm TikTok uses in order to propagandize to Americans.
00:45:39.000But here's what the Treasury Secretary had to say.
00:45:43.000Margaret, we reached a final deal on TikTok.
00:46:15.000The entire purpose of the congressional bill that was signed into law, supported by President Trump, was to divest TikTok's control from China.
00:46:25.000If that does not happen, then that is, in fact, a fail.
00:46:28.000Meanwhile, some good news from South America.
00:46:31.000Javier Millay's party has now won a mandate for a free market revolution in Argentina.
00:46:36.000There's a lot of dyspepsia, a lot of concern that Javier Millay, who has basically had to use economic chemotherapy on the Kirchnerist economy over in Argentina, the big state, horribly regulated, nationalized economy of Argentina.
00:46:53.000When you use shock therapy on an economy, it can absolutely get down your debt levels.
00:46:58.000It can absolutely increase the price of your currency.
00:47:00.000It also is going to have some downstream effects in terms of how people live.
00:47:04.000Because if you revalue your currency and it turns out the peso is worth a lot less than you were saying that it's worth, for example, people's money doesn't go nearly as far.
00:47:11.000And so that's why the United States stepped in and basically gave a loan to the Argentinian government to back Millay's play, because the idea is that if you want a pro-capitalism, pro-America ally in Argentina, then you give them a loan, sort of like the Marshall Plan, in order to ensure they don't fall into the Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro Cuban category.
00:47:32.000And it worked because yesterday, according to the Wall Street Journal, Millay scored a decisive political win on Sunday, strengthening his position in Argentina's Congress and securing a lifeline for his audacious free market revolution backed by President Trump.
00:47:45.000Full disclosure, as you know, I'm a huge Millay fan.
00:47:48.000I think what Millay is doing is one of the most important things in the world right now.
00:47:52.000I think that the move away from socialism and dependency theory in South America and toward embrace of free markets is an excellent thing for the United States.
00:48:01.000I think if you don't want gigantic waves of migrants coming up from South and Latin America, then what you actually need is functional states in these places.
00:48:09.000Allies are better than enemies in these places.
00:48:11.000Millay is an extraordinarily pro-American ally.
00:48:14.000With more than 99% of the votes counted, Millay's Freedom Advances Party won almost 41% of the national vote.
00:48:20.000It more than doubled its representation in Congress.
00:48:23.000That means that his party and allies secured at least one-third of the seats in both chambers, and that allows Millay to preserve his veto power and defend his sweeping decrees.
00:48:31.000So that gives him fresh political momentum, and it also shores up his standing with both Washington, D.C. and the IMF.
00:48:37.000Because again, what they said is we're not going to pour more money down a rat hole is what President Trump said.
00:48:40.000He said, we're not pouring more money down an Argentinian rat hole.
00:48:43.000If it turns out that Argentina is ready to govern like a responsible country, then yeah, investment is going to come in.
00:48:48.000And this, by the way, is true for investors.
00:48:50.000I've been talking with a lot of investors looking at Argentina's economy, and they look and they see opportunity, but they were worried, okay, we're going to put our money in.
00:48:57.000Five minutes later, Millay will be out and you'll end up with another Kirchner type.
00:49:01.000And if that happens, then your money's gone.
00:49:04.000And so some form of solidity in the Argentinian economy, a trajectory toward normality is going to be a huge thing for Argentina and for people who wish to invest in Argentina, which will be a good thing.
00:49:15.000Millay told a cheering throng in downtown Buenos Aires, today marks the beginning of building a great Argentina.
00:49:21.000This result is nothing more and nothing less than the confirmation of the mandate we assumed in 2023.
00:49:27.000The U.S. had announced a $20 billion currency swap this month to prop up Argentina's currency, promising to raise another $20 billion from private banks and sovereign wealth funds.
00:49:36.000Now, again, some of this is a play for time because the reality is the peso is way, way overvalued in Argentina.
00:49:44.000And that if Mile were to dollarize, then everything I said before about the devaluation of the peso would happen really, really rapidly.
00:49:52.000And Mile was concerned that if that happens too fast, you end up burning out the electorate and then they swivel back toward the left.
00:49:58.000President Trump wrote on his truth social platform Monday, again, this is an excellent move by President Trump.
00:50:02.000Big win in Argentina for Javier Mile, a wonderful Trump-endorsed candidate.
00:50:07.000Our confidence in him was justified by the people of Argentina.
00:50:11.000Mile has already sharply devalued the peso to unify an array of exchange rates and curb a chronic budget gap that was funded by printing money.
00:50:18.000He reduced energy subsidies and fired tens of thousands of public sector employees.
00:50:21.000The policies briefly stabilized Argentina's finances, producing the first balanced budget in more than a decade.
00:50:27.000The inflation rate has fallen to 32%, which is still unbelievably high, but it was 200% two years ago.
00:50:36.000There are a lot of voters ready to criticize the president, but they said handing back power to the leftist Peronist opposition was unthinkable, which is exactly, exactly right.
00:50:45.000And the idea is if you want to have a future, you're going to have to let Mille cook.
00:50:49.000So that is definitely a very, very good thing happening in South America.
00:50:54.000Scott Besant was asked, the Treasury Secretary, about the loans to Argentina.
00:51:00.000This is right for all of the isolationists out there who are like, why are we spending money in Argentina as opposed to spending money here?
00:51:05.000First of all, we spend tons of money here at home.
00:51:19.000And it is better to have an ally in Argentina who is not destroying the economy and shipping hundreds of thousands of people up to the United States by proxy.
00:52:07.000By the way, the president is being very, very aggressive in Latin America.
00:52:11.000The president's view on Venezuela is that they need to stop shipping drugs over to the United States.
00:52:16.000Their drug cartels are a danger to American citizens.
00:52:18.000According to the Washington Post, the United States is massing an unusual buildup of warships, fighter jets, and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Venezuela as the Trump administration expands its military campaign against what it says are transnational criminal organizations.
00:52:31.000The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford and its associated warships are heading to the region, according to the Pentagon.
00:52:37.000The United States already has warships, an expeditionary marine unit, drones, fighter planes, and surveillance aircraft in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
00:52:46.000Now, there are a lot of people who are worried about regime change in Venezuela.
00:52:49.000Now, nobody is talking about a full-scale ground invasion of Venezuela.
00:52:53.000No one that I'm aware of is talking about this, nor would that be a good policy for the United States.
00:52:58.000If some sort of covert CIA action were to topple the regime in Venezuela, that would be a good thing.
00:53:05.000This bizarre idea that the best available scenario is always to leave the worst dictator in power because Saddam Hussein is benighted.
00:53:15.000Sometimes the analogies work and sometimes they just don't.
00:53:20.000And until Nicolas Maduro and Ugo Chavez came on the scene, Venezuela was a fairly wealthy country.
00:53:25.000And it turns out there's an opposition ready to step in and do something about it.
00:53:30.000Now, the big question in Venezuela, of course, is the military, because Maduro, like all dictators, has purged all the top levels of the military of potential rivals.
00:53:40.000However, it is very clear that Maduro is increasingly uncomfortable with the amounts of pressure being levied against him by the United States.
00:53:47.000Here he was begging for what he called no crazy war.
00:54:25.000Well, maybe you should, you know, stop tyrannizing your own population and shipping drugs up to the United States.
00:54:31.000That'd be a better than just shouting peace forever while you, you know, don't let anybody vote and destroy your own country economically and nationalize all the resources and make yourself wealthy.
00:54:41.000Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that he believes there will be some land strikes in Venezuela because of the drug cartels.
00:54:49.000Here was Lindsey Graham on Face the Nation on CBS News.
00:54:56.000Yeah, I think that's a real possibility.
00:54:59.000I think President Trump's made a decision that Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, is an indicted drug trafficker, that it's time for him to go, that Venezuela and Colombia have been safe havens for narco-terrorists for too long.
00:55:15.000And President Trump told me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress when he gets back from Asia about future potential military operations against Venezuela and Colombia.
00:55:29.000So there will be a congressional briefing about a potential expanding from the sea to the land.
00:55:39.000Well, you know, we will see what happens next.
00:55:42.000Suffice it to say that the presidents of the United States, again, there are all these people who keep putting out this idea that Trump is going to engage in some sort of gigantic hundreds of thousands of troops ground invasion.
00:55:54.000These are the same people who warned you World War III was going to happen when President Trump launched literally one B2 sortie destroying the Ford O facility in Iran.
00:56:02.000That is not how President Trump operates.
00:56:04.000That is a different thing from saying that he is going to do a strike on narco-terrorists inside Venezuela.
00:56:10.000Well, this week, Daily Wire Plus is premiering a brand new documentary called Hiding in Plain Sight, America's Trafficking Epidemic.
00:56:17.000It's one of the most important things we've done here at Daily Wire Plus.
00:56:19.000Joining us on the line to discuss is Derek Banner.
00:56:22.000He's CEO of Our Rescue the Nonprofit Organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking and child exploitation.
00:56:35.000So let's talk about what parents don't know about how kids get involved in things like sex trafficking and how they are getting dragged into this via the tools that parents are very often giving them, their cell phones, their iPads.
00:56:48.000Yeah, so, you know, technology is a double-edged sword.
00:56:54.000It's definite an aspect that law enforcement uses and leverages in these investigations and to keep children safe and to prevent traffickers from operating in our neighborhoods and our towns.
00:57:09.000But the predators and the sex traffickers are leveraging technology at an equal, if not greater level than law enforcement.
00:57:19.000So what are some of the chief apps that predators are using in order to gain access to children?
00:57:23.000How do they use those apps that parents think are innocuous in order to do so?
00:57:28.000The short answer, Ben, is all of them.
00:57:30.000So they are leveraging technology at scale.
00:57:35.000They're leveraging social media platforms, even seemingly innocent gaming platforms, online gaming platforms.
00:57:44.000Any and all of those are opportunities for offenders and predators to attempt to try to engage with children at a scale that we've never seen before.
00:57:58.000So you've talked a fair bit about the gap in support for law enforcement efforts to fight to protect children.
00:58:03.000People don't really understand what it is that law enforcement can and should be doing.
00:58:08.000What capabilities do they have and where do they fall short?
00:58:11.000So law enforcement is the men and women that investigate crimes against children are, I think, some of the greatest heroes in our country in law enforcement.
00:58:23.000It's one of the hardest jobs in law enforcement.
00:58:26.000The content and the material itself is something that you just can't unsee and unhear.
00:58:33.000And of course, the sense of urgency around the backlog and the issue itself creates another level of complexity.
00:58:43.000I can set the stage for you a little bit in terms of what the law enforcement faces in terms of just pure numbers.
00:58:53.000In 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 20.5 million suspected reports of child exploitation.
00:59:06.000Within that 20.5 million, Ben, is another 63 million files, videos, images of child sexual abuse material or CSAM as it's referred to.
00:59:23.000So let's talk about some examples of this so people get sort of a fuller picture of how this happens.
00:59:28.000Can you give me an example of how a child would be sucked into this more specifically?
00:59:34.000So predators are, as we said earlier, they are engaged in actively trying to entice minor children into providing explicit material over the internet or through encrypted chats or through grooming techniques on these platforms.
00:59:58.000Once that happens, these explicit images are then shared within the predator community.
01:00:06.000It's essentially their goal is to create these images, and then they're traded over the internet, on the dark web, and around the world.
01:00:23.000Well, you can check out Derek's work over at OurRescue.
01:00:27.000Also, you can check out the brand new documentary that's going to enlighten you about the dangers facing your kids over at Dailywire Plus.
01:00:33.000It's available for free thanks to the support of our members at Dailywire Plus.
01:00:36.000The film is Hiding in Plain Sight, America's Trafficking Epidemic.