The Ben Shapiro Show - Mamdani’s 9-11 INSANITY

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it turns out that we now know the real victim of 9-11, the real victims.

00:00:04.000 It was Zorin Mamdani's family members because people gave them mean looks.

00:00:08.000 We'll get into what is the appeal of Zorin Mamdani.

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00:00:53.000 Well, folks, at the end of last week, Zarin Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo were embroiled in a battle.

00:00:59.000 That battle was over whether Andrew Cuomo was a big meanie for going on Sid Rosenberg's show in New York City.

00:01:05.000 And Sid Rosenberg made some sort of joke about how Zorin Mamdani would have cheered 9-11, and Cuomo kind of awkwardly chuckled.

00:01:12.000 And this turned into an entire news cycle.

00:01:14.000 How dare Sid Rosenberg and how dare Andrew Como be so mean to Zoran Mamdani?

00:01:20.000 And 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?

00:01:31.000 This 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.

00:01:41.000 So, Zarin Mamdani was delivering some sort of press conference in the Bronx.

00:01:48.000 And 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. 0.52

00:02:00.000 No, 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.

00:02:10.000 I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City. 0.97

00:02:20.000 God, he's a fraud.

00:02:21.000 I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab. 0.95

00:02:37.000 Um, so that that he is such a fraud. 1.00

00:02:44.000 If you buy into this fraudulent human, you are a fool. 1.00

00:02:49.000 You are a fool. 1.00

00:02:50.000 The fake tears, the he's so broken up over his aunt apparently not taking the subway after 9-11. 1.00

00:03:01.000 Now, there have been some questions raised about which aunt he's talking about.

00:03:04.000 At least one of his aunts was actually in Tanzania at the time, apparently.

00:03:09.000 But put aside whether or not that aunt exists or whether or not she stopped taking the subway.

00:03:16.000 Zar 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. 0.84

00:03:28.000 And do you understand?

00:03:29.000 Do you understand what he's doing?

00:03:30.000 The 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.

00:03:38.000 That the problem is not his pro-jihadist leanings, which we have detailed multiple times on the show.

00:03:43.000 The 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.

00:03:56.000 That's not the problem.

00:03:57.000 The problem is all you people who are mean to him about those things, because you are Islamophobic. 0.87

00:04:03.000 He'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.

00:04:18.000 This is what Mamdani is doing now.

00:04:19.000 And it doesn't stop there.

00:04:21.000 He's making this like a central plank of his campaign.

00:04:23.000 Again, many of the things that people think of as bugs in the Mamdani campaign are features of the Mamdani campaign.

00:04:30.000 They are features.

00:04:31.000 Everybody who looks at Mamdani, they say, what a weird campaign.

00:04:34.000 Why is he running on Islamophobia?

00:04:36.000 Like, why does he just run?

00:04:38.000 Like a normal progressive Democrat.

00:04:40.000 They don't understand.

00:04:41.000 This is the reason a bunch of left-wing progressive Democrats are going to vote for him and do so enthusiastically.

00:04:47.000 Without the victimhood, he would be a nothing burger, a nothing burger stacked atop a nothing sandwich stapped atop a gigantic junkyard of nothing.

00:04:56.000 It is the victimhood alone that has elevated Zar Mamdani. 0.98

00:04:59.000 Now you say to yourself, wait, he's not a victim.

00:05:01.000 I mean, didn't his family immigrate from Uganda, not exactly a nice place to live?

00:05:06.000 And he still holds double citizenship with Uganda?

00:05:10.000 I mean, aren't his parents super wealthy?

00:05:12.000 Didn't his dad teach at Columbia and his mom was a film producer? 1.00

00:05:15.000 How is this a complete, utter, useless human being, a leech on the fat rump of the United States? 0.99

00:05:24.000 How is this person a victim? 1.00

00:05:27.000 How?

00:05:28.000 And the answer is that sometime, somewhere, someone gave him a mean look because of Islamophobia.

00:05:36.000 Now, again, the term Islamophobia is very often just a cover for don't criticize radical Islam.

00:05:42.000 If you criticize radical Islam, that's a form of Islamophobia.

00:05:45.000 Islamophobia 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.

00:05:53.000 Again, you don't even know that they're Muslim. 0.99

00:05:54.000 Islam is a religion.

00:05:55.000 Islam is not, in fact, a race.

00:05:59.000 If you saw Zorin Mamdani on the street, you'd have a hard time pegging his ethnicity, let alone his religion.

00:06:05.000 But according to Zorin Mamdani, the real problem here is an unreasoning, irrational fear of Muslims.

00:06:12.000 That's the reason why he's having trouble right now, not his routine support of the worst people on planet Earth.

00:06:18.000 Here is Zorin Mamdani doing, once again, the same routine over the weekend.

00:06:24.000 I mean, this is all the Republican Party has to offer.

00:06:27.000 Cheap jokes about Islamophobia so as to not have to recognize what people are living through.

00:06:32.000 Attempts to pit people's humanity against each other.

00:06:34.000 And I think whether it's J.D. Vance or it's Andrew Cuomo, it is the same kind of politics.

00:06:39.000 It's a politics of division.

00:06:41.000 The reason that I've called Andrew Cuomo Donald Trump's puppet is not just because they share the same billionaire donors.

00:06:47.000 It's not just because they see themselves in each other.

00:06:49.000 It'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.

00:06:58.000 And that's what we're seeing in this moment.

00:07:00.000 And let's just talk about the moment we have at hand.

00:07:02.000 We have a shutdown of the federal government.

00:07:05.000 We 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.

00:07:14.000 We have active duty military families in line for food pantries.

00:07:18.000 And amidst all of this, the focus of so many is just how much bigotry they can engage in.

00:07:27.000 That every accusation from Zoran Mamdani is an admission.

00:07:30.000 No one has engaged in more bigotry in this campaign than Zoran Mamdani.

00:07:34.000 No one.

00:07:36.000 Remember, it is in fact a form of bigotry to endorse globalized the intifada and Hamas should not disarm. 0.91

00:07:42.000 It's bigotry against non-terrorists, number one.

00:07:45.000 But the insanity of Zora Mamdani walking around as a pseudo-victim in New York City, by the way, I'm old enough to remember 2001.

00:07:52.000 Hey, Zahr Mamdani is 33 years old.

00:07:55.000 Okay, that means that Zor Mamdani, because 9-11 now happened 24 years ago, Zoran Mamdani was nine when 9-11 happened.

00:08:04.000 I'm about eight years older than Zora Mamdani.

00:08:06.000 So I remember 9-11 pretty well because I was a late teen already.

00:08:09.000 And 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.

00:08:18.000 George 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.

00:08:29.000 The city of New York did the same thing.

00:08:31.000 The state of New York did the same thing. 0.98

00:08:33.000 Zora Mamdani whining about the treatment of Muslims in a country that is wildly, wildly Muslim friendly is totally insane.

00:08:43.000 It's totally, the city of New York, by the way, is now 11% Muslim, which is the same percentage as the Jewish population.

00:08:49.000 We always hear about the big Jewish population in New York, and that's true. 0.97

00:08:53.000 The same exact population is Muslim in New York now.

00:08:56.000 Is there radical discrimination against Muslims in New York?

00:08:59.000 By what metric?

00:09:01.000 And by the way, what in the, like, how is it that you're talking about 9-11?

00:09:06.000 And you don't even spare one sentence for the actual victims of 9-11.

00:09:11.000 The people who are leaping to their deaths from the 90th story of the World Trade Center.

00:09:15.000 The people who are crushed beneath millions of pounds of molten steel.

00:09:20.000 The people who died.

00:09:22.000 The firefighters.

00:09:24.000 The people who got cancer years later from all the dust and debris.

00:09:28.000 Nothing for them, but his auntie did ride the subway. 1.00

00:09:31.000 And, you know, somebody probably gave her a mean look.

00:09:34.000 Somebody probably said a mean thing to her. 0.99

00:09:36.000 Well, we don't know, but maybe, but maybe.

00:09:36.000 Maybe.

00:09:40.000 According 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. 0.96

00:09:47.000 What utter drech. 0.92

00:09:48.000 Of course, ordinary Muslims bear no blame for the extremists who carried out those terror attacks, killing some 3,000 innocents.

00:09:54.000 No wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes followed 9-11, not in New York nor anywhere else.

00:09:59.000 Before 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. 0.93

00:10:06.000 By the way, in Europe, largely by radical Muslims.

00:10:10.000 So what are the supposed experiences of Zorin Mamdani that makes him a victim?

00:10:14.000 And again, victimhood is the coin of the realm in Democratic Party politics.

00:10:18.000 The 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.

00:10:27.000 Zora Mamdani is doing the same thing.

00:10:29.000 Bernie couldn't claim that because he's an old Jew from Brooklyn.

00:10:33.000 But what were his experiences?

00:10:34.000 According to the New York Post, he recalled how a teacher warned him he might face bullying.

00:10:39.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:10:40.000 He might fit, whoa, whoa, dude.

00:10:44.000 Whoa.

00:10:45.000 Since he attended the ultra-liberal, pricey Bank Street School for Children, his progressive educators expected the worst of their fellow New Yorkers.

00:10:52.000 He did not recall actually being bullied.

00:10:54.000 Instead, he could only cite his aunt's supposed decision to quit riding the subways because she did not feel safe in her hijab.

00:11:02.000 Like, again, without the victimhood, he's got nothing, nothing. 1.00

00:11:06.000 His program is trash. 1.00

00:11:08.000 His candidacy is smugness and ugliness masquerading as kindness. 1.00

00:11:15.000 He hates the things that make America go.

00:11:17.000 He hates capitalism.

00:11:19.000 He hates traditional Judeo-Christian religion.

00:11:24.000 He hates traditional values.

00:11:25.000 He hates America's role in the world.

00:11:28.000 That's who this guy is.

00:11:31.000 And 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.

00:11:40.000 He grew up rich as an immigrant to this country as a child.

00:11:44.000 Both of his parents are very successful.

00:11:46.000 He lived his young adult life being a pseudo-rapper and having no actual job.

00:11:52.000 And yet somehow he's a victim.

00:11:54.000 Somehow he's a victim in America.

00:11:57.000 All righty, coming up, Zorin Mamdani.

00:11:59.000 That guy is wild, but that's, I think, the feature, not the bug.

00:12:02.000 What are Democrats trying to do here?

00:12:03.000 And why does it mean that AOC is likely the 2028 front runner?

00:12:06.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:14:17.000 And by the way, this is nothing new for him.

00:14:19.000 This is how he became who he has become, is trading on pseudo-victimhood.

00:14:24.000 Here he was in 2020 complaining about Islamophobia.

00:14:30.000 I think of on 9-11 when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class rather.

00:14:35.000 A classmate of mine, myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what had just happened.

00:14:41.000 We didn't understand what had happened.

00:14:42.000 And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as that because most Muslim students did not have that. 0.94

00:14:48.000 And yet, what I really remember from that interaction was the understanding that now I was distinct.

00:14:54.000 There was something about me that was different from my classmates.

00:14:57.000 And it's a lesson that I was made to learn again and again.

00:15:00.000 Because 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.

00:15:18.000 And I was 15 years old and I was terrified.

00:15:20.000 You were coming from Uganda.

00:15:22.000 You were coming from Uganda.

00:15:24.000 Like, 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. 1.00

00:15:32.000 By the way, on 9-11, you know where I was? 0.61

00:15:34.000 I 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. 0.75

00:15:47.000 My sisters weren't the victims of 9-11.

00:15:49.000 I wasn't the victim of 9-11.

00:15:50.000 The victims were the victims of 9-11.

00:15:52.000 Americans were the victims of 9-11, like all Americans.

00:15:56.000 But the primary victims were the actual victims.

00:15:58.000 You know, the people who died, the people who were injured, the people who lost family members.

00:16:03.000 If you start off your memory of 9-11 with, you know, one time somebody took me out of school and they said a thing to me, shut up. 0.99

00:16:10.000 Truly pathetic. 0.95

00:16:12.000 But understand, without the, there's been a lot of talk on the right about the death of wokeness, how wokeness is dying. 0.97

00:16:19.000 No, wokeness is in remission.

00:16:21.000 It is not, in fact, dying.

00:16:24.000 Wokeness is in remission.

00:16:25.000 The cancer is not yet dead.

00:16:27.000 Okay, wokeness is in remission because wokeness is rooted in the idea that there's an eternal American victimhood system.

00:16:34.000 And this class of victims cannot be identified by their level of success in American society or prosperity or notoriety.

00:16:40.000 It can be identified specifically by levels of racial diversity and by non-traditional background in terms of religion.

00:16:50.000 This is how you can tell who, in fact, is a victim in the United States according to the woke.

00:16:54.000 And as long as that matrix is undergirding everything that is happening, wokeness is not dead.

00:16:58.000 It's just waiting.

00:16:59.000 It's just waiting for a sunnier season to burst through the icy frost that has crossed the woke landscape.

00:17:07.000 But don't worry, there will be a thaw.

00:17:09.000 And Mamdani is the thaw.

00:17:11.000 He is a green shoot of wokeness springing up beneath that permafrost.

00:17:16.000 That is what he is.

00:17:18.000 Without the victimhood, Mamdani is nothing. 0.86

00:17:21.000 He is no different than Bill de Blasio.

00:17:23.000 He is no different than half a dozen other terrible New York candidates who ran this time.

00:17:27.000 It 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.

00:17:35.000 Without the victimhood, he is zip zilch. 0.98

00:17:38.000 Now, what does this mean?

00:17:40.000 I promise you what this means is not just in New York.

00:17:42.000 It means that the Democrats are going to move in this direction going forward.

00:17:46.000 In 2028, the Democrats are not going to run Gavin Newsom.

00:17:49.000 They're not going to run Andy Bashir.

00:17:51.000 They do not have the capacity to do this.

00:17:54.000 The 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.

00:18:03.000 How America is a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad place.

00:18:07.000 He's going to be Andy Bashir.

00:18:08.000 Andy Bashir can't credibly claim victimhood on any score.

00:18:11.000 He is a straight white man.

00:18:13.000 And it doesn't matter how much he virtue signals to the far left base about LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign issues.

00:18:19.000 He's not one of them.

00:18:20.000 He's not claiming to be a transsexual furry. 0.93

00:18:22.000 And so that means that he has no coin of the realm in Democratic Party progressive circles, which is where candidate notoriety is made.

00:18:31.000 Which 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.

00:18:38.000 And here was Andy Bashir, for example.

00:18:40.000 If you think this is going to play in a Democratic Party primary, got another thing for you.

00:18:45.000 You have this very high approval rating in your state, and yet it's a conservative state.

00:18:49.000 And you still, you vetoed two gender bills that the legislature overrode, which will do you well in the Democratic primary.

00:18:57.000 Just briefly describe what those bills were and what your reasoning is on this.

00:19:02.000 Yeah, those were both bills that mainly addressed our LGBTQ population.

00:19:08.000 They were mean.

00:19:09.000 They were unnecessary.

00:19:11.000 Most of the time, they were meant to score political points and or hurt me in a 2023 election.

00:19:15.000 What did they say?

00:19:17.000 They were trying to eliminate different types of therapies, both for adults and for kids.

00:19:22.000 And I think that there can be certain about sex change.

00:19:25.000 Oh, no, certain limitations, certainly for kids, I think, are.

00:19:29.000 What about girls in sports? 0.91

00:19:31.000 There was a bill on that, but here's the thing.

00:19:34.000 I care too much about sports to want to let government run them.

00:19:38.000 You look at where we were in Kentucky, and we didn't have a single issue that you saw in the rest of the country.

00:19:43.000 We had a high school athletic association that had these really great policies that prevented any unfair advantage.

00:19:50.000 They were really specific.

00:19:52.000 The 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.

00:20:01.000 Certainly, 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.

00:20:10.000 No, but he ain't got nothing.

00:20:11.000 He ain't got nothing.

00:20:12.000 It ain't going to be this guy.

00:20:13.000 How about Gavin Newsom?

00:20:13.000 So 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.

00:20:21.000 If you think that this lizard human is going to, he's a white lizard human. 1.00

00:20:26.000 It ain't going nowhere. 0.80

00:20:27.000 This guy ain't going nowhere.

00:20:28.000 Here's Gavin Newsom basically announcing he wants to run for president.

00:20:31.000 Well, duh.

00:20:34.000 The 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.

00:20:48.000 Who the hell knows?

00:20:49.000 I'm looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment.

00:20:55.000 And that's the question for the American people.

00:20:57.000 Is it fair to say?

00:20:58.000 After the 2026 midterms, you're going to give it serious thought.

00:21:02.000 Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise.

00:21:04.000 I'd just be lying.

00:21:05.000 And I'm not sure.

00:21:07.000 He ain't got nothing either.

00:21:08.000 Governor, you have a long stand.

00:21:09.000 If you've ever run for the White House, you need a compelling why, a reason.

00:21:14.000 Are you moving closer to figuring out your own why and your own decision?

00:21:19.000 Yeah, Nisha said, if you have a compelling why, you can endure anyhow.

00:21:22.000 And 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.

00:21:30.000 Yes.

00:21:31.000 Yes, yes, they do.

00:21:33.000 Yes, they do.

00:21:35.000 And Gavin Newsom is so white, he's transparent.

00:21:38.000 It won't be him either.

00:21:39.000 So that means Democrats have to look to the next level.

00:21:42.000 They need somebody who can credibly claim victimhood.

00:21:44.000 Well, they already tried Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:21:46.000 That failed.

00:21:47.000 Kamala wants to do it again. 0.84

00:21:48.000 She ain't going nowhere, by the way.

00:21:50.000 Again, I'm just giving you all the candidates who are not going anywhere.

00:21:52.000 Here is Kamala Harris over the weekend implying that she wants to run again. 0.88

00:21:57.000 When are they going to see a woman in charge in the White House? 1.00

00:22:00.000 In their lifetime, for sure.

00:22:03.000 Could it be you?

00:22:04.000 Possibly.

00:22:06.000 Have you made a decision yet?

00:22:07.000 No, I have not.

00:22:08.000 But you say in your book, I'm not done.

00:22:12.000 I am not done.

00:22:12.000 That is correct.

00:22:14.000 I have lived my entire career a life of service, and it's in my bones.

00:22:21.000 And there are many ways to serve.

00:22:22.000 I've not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I'm doing right now.

00:22:29.000 Narrator, she was done.

00:22:31.000 It's not her either.

00:22:31.000 She's done.

00:22:32.000 Okay, so it ain't Newsome.

00:22:33.000 It ain't Bashir.

00:22:34.000 It ain't Kamala Harris.

00:22:36.000 So who is it?

00:22:37.000 Well, let's see.

00:22:38.000 What 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. 1.00

00:22:57.000 What if that person existed and that person were called AOC?

00:23:00.000 I'm just telling you, everybody on the right and the left who is short-selling AOC, wrong move.

00:23:06.000 Yes, she's awful. 1.00

00:23:07.000 Yes, she's terrible. 0.98

00:23:08.000 She has the backing of Bernie Sanders and she has pseudo-victimhood.

00:23:11.000 And those two things are very, very useful in a Democratic Party primary.

00:23:16.000 All righty, coming up, AOC 2028 front runner.

00:23:19.000 And yeah, we have tape of her yelling. 0.68

00:23:20.000 It is very, very shrill.

00:23:22.000 Again, that is not because she's a woman. 1.00

00:23:23.000 It's because her voice is really high and, you know, shrill.

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00:26:00.000 It's good to be right.

00:26:02.000 Here she was, woke ranting at a Zoran Mamdani rally.

00:26:08.000 This city was built by the Irish escaping famine.

00:26:12.000 Italians fleeing fascism.

00:26:15.000 Jews escaping Holocaust.

00:26:17.000 Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow.

00:26:21.000 Latinos seeking a better life.

00:26:25.000 Native people standing for themselves. 0.54

00:26:27.000 Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan.

00:26:34.000 It's Staten Island in this country.

00:26:40.000 Okay, so I just want to note what she's doing there.

00:26:42.000 Understand what she's doing there, right?

00:26:44.000 First 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.

00:26:53.000 But notice what she's doing there. 0.85

00:26:55.000 What she is doing there is she is putting together the coalition of victimhood.

00:26:59.000 The coalition of victimhood.

00:27:00.000 Now, it doesn't matter, by the way, that she opposes half those groups.

00:27:03.000 That 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. 0.60

00:27:20.000 That doesn't matter.

00:27:20.000 It 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.

00:27:35.000 That in fact, their agenda is not her.

00:27:37.000 It doesn't matter.

00:27:37.000 Now, again, many people are victims and many people contributed to the building of America.

00:27:41.000 She is not one of them.

00:27:43.000 But she has to grab onto that mantle.

00:27:46.000 Woke is in remission.

00:27:47.000 It is not yet dead.

00:27:49.000 It is not. 0.97

00:27:50.000 AOC 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.

00:27:58.000 But we must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City.

00:28:08.000 We are not the outlandish ones, New York City.

00:28:13.000 They want us to think we are crazy.

00:28:16.000 We are sane.

00:28:19.000 Nope.

00:28:20.000 Nope.

00:28:21.000 But it's an awful risk that the country is running, Vader.

00:28:25.000 It had better work.

00:28:26.000 And running the risk where the Democratic Party goes way out to the left in order to humor the wokes. 1.00

00:28:35.000 Anytime a major party nominates a candidate, that person has at least a 40% shot of being president of the United States.

00:28:41.000 And 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.

00:28:59.000 So what are Democrats counting on?

00:29:00.000 If they've got this sort of woke move that is still under the surface, roiling, what are they counting on?

00:29:06.000 Because President Trump obviously has been winning a larger and larger share of Latinos and a larger share of black voters.

00:29:12.000 So what are they counting on?

00:29:13.000 And the answer is they're waiting for there to be some sort of regression to the mean.

00:29:17.000 And maybe that's happening, according to Axios.

00:29:20.000 Black and Latino Americans are reporting record levels of alienation and pessimism about the nation's direction.

00:29:25.000 More Latinos and black voters supported Trump in 2024, but early into his second term, the sense of exclusion has deepened among communities of color.

00:29:32.000 Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction right now.

00:29:36.000 This is a PRRI and Brookings Institution poll, so it is left-leaning.

00:29:40.000 Of all racial groups, Black Americans, 84%, and Latinos, 70%, are the most dissatisfied with the country's direction.

00:29:48.000 Over 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.

00:29:56.000 Only 16% of black Americans and 30% of Latinos view Trump favorably.

00:30:00.000 That's actually not a terrible number among black Americans because typically Democrats will win 92, 93% of the black vote in a presidential election.

00:30:07.000 That 30% number for President Trump is pretty bad, given the fact that President Trump scored in the mid-40s with the Latino vote.

00:30:15.000 And so Democrats are presumably hoping that the Trump administration's harsh perspective on immigration is going to drive Latinos back into their arms.

00:30:23.000 This, by the way, also explains why the Democrats keep saying over and over and over that ICE are Nazis.

00:30:29.000 If 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. 0.89

00:30:40.000 This is the reason why Trump ICE Chief Todd Lyons has been pointing out correctly that Democrats are demonizing ICE agents as Nazis and Gestapo.

00:30:49.000 You know, we need to have common sense conversations, right?

00:30:52.000 We need to stop all the rhetoric.

00:30:53.000 You know, ICE is doing a law enforcement mission.

00:30:56.000 That's what we are sworn to do, and that's what we are signed up to do.

00:30:59.000 We don't want to be doxxed.

00:31:00.000 We don't want our families threatened.

00:31:01.000 We don't want assassination tips like Brett pointed out.

00:31:03.000 We'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.

00:31:14.000 Yet they want to go ahead and demonize us, call us Nazis, call us Gestapos.

00:31:18.000 But yet all across the country, we are arresting public safety threats, foreign terrorist organizations, yet they still want to demonize us every turn.

00:31:26.000 I can't believe it because it was unequivocal that Sniper's motive.

00:31:30.000 He was attacking ICE.

00:31:31.000 He made that very clear.

00:31:32.000 And 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.

00:31:41.000 I mean, it sounds like a hit list.

00:31:42.000 She says that's not her intent.

00:31:43.000 She doesn't want you guys doxxed. 0.99

00:31:46.000 Now, again, the question becomes for Democrats, why are you doing this?

00:31:49.000 And the answer is they are doing this because it is not about the broad spectrum of American voters.

00:31:54.000 The 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.

00:32:09.000 This also explains why Democrats are still holding on to this government shutdown.

00:32:14.000 So the reality is the government shutdown is nonsensical.

00:32:17.000 There's no reason for it at this point.

00:32:19.000 Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, points out that moderate Democrats should move together to end this.

00:32:24.000 We'll explain in a moment why they're not.

00:32:28.000 The 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.

00:32:42.000 Both of the two guys from Brooklyn, like I call them, are worried about being primary from the left.

00:32:47.000 52 Republican senators have voted 11 times to reopen the government.

00:32:53.000 Three brave, moderate Democrats have come across the aisle.

00:32:57.000 So, you know, I call on moderate Democratic senators to end this craziness. 0.94

00:33:02.000 You'll be heroes.

00:33:03.000 Because Martha, what I can tell you is we managed to find the money in the middle of October to pay our brave service members.

00:33:12.000 And I think we'll be able to do it on November 1st, but we're going to be out of money on November 15th.

00:33:19.000 And for a military not to get paid is a disgrace.

00:33:23.000 Now, there's no actual reason why Democrats are doing this.

00:33:25.000 As 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.

00:33:34.000 Above all else, Democrats claim they're looking to protect healthcare, that expiring Obamacare subsidies will send premiums soaring and cost many their coverage.

00:33:42.000 The truth, premiums are expected to rise by 20% on average, but the expiring subsidies only account for four of those percentage points.

00:33:49.000 The fact is most Obamacare subsidies are not expiring.

00:33:52.000 What's set to vanish is the added cash that Democrats in Congress awarded to insurers during COVID.

00:33:58.000 That is it.

00:33:59.000 That's the whole thing.

00:34:01.000 So what exactly are they doing?

00:34:03.000 The answer is that they are posing as anti-Trump extremists in order to create the feeling that there's an anti-Trump coalition.

00:34:13.000 It's about gestalt.

00:34:13.000 That's all this is.

00:34:14.000 It is not about policy.

00:34:15.000 It's about gestalt, like an overall feeling that you're supposed to have about Democrats that they are opposing Trump and his tyrannies.

00:34:23.000 And this is why Democrats seem confused because the shutdown is a peculiar hill to die on on this one.

00:34:28.000 Hakeem Jeffries, he's out there, the House minority leader saying the GOP has shown no interest in reopening the government.

00:34:33.000 Dude, they put up a bill every single day, every day that the Senate is in session.

00:34:38.000 They've put up a bill to just fund the government at continuing levels.

00:34:42.000 It's you guys who are voting it down.

00:34:46.000 Well, 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.

00:34:55.000 Our 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.

00:35:11.000 But 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.

00:35:22.000 The only reason they're doing this, it is all posturing.

00:35:25.000 It's all remember, the Democratic coalition is supposedly aggrieved people and liberal white women. 1.00

00:35:30.000 That is the Democratic coalition.

00:35:32.000 So they've already catered to the supposedly aggrieved.

00:35:36.000 It's Zarmam Dani, AOC, and the rest of the party.

00:35:36.000 That's what they do every day.

00:35:39.000 And 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. 1.00

00:35:47.000 That's the coalition in the end.

00:35:49.000 And it does explain why Democrats are not trying to cash in on the actual vulnerabilities of the Trump administration.

00:35:55.000 Things like, for example, tariff policy or crypto policy, because those are things that neither side of their coalition really cares about.

00:36:02.000 Their coalition doesn't care about tariff policy.

00:36:04.000 Their coalition doesn't care about economic health.

00:36:07.000 They care about grievance politics.

00:36:10.000 That's all.

00:36:10.000 Grievance politics and personal hatred for Trump.

00:36:12.000 That's the entire Democratic Party at this point.

00:36:14.000 Okay, we'll get to foreign policy in just a second.

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00:37:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, the president of the United States is pursuing two very different trade policies with regard to China and Canada.

00:37:28.000 And were it I, I would be reversing these trade policies.

00:37:31.000 When it comes to Canada, the president seems to just want to slam Canada over and over with a mallet.

00:37:37.000 And I will admit confusion.

00:37:39.000 I think Mark Harney is terrible.

00:37:40.000 But 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.

00:37:51.000 And 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.

00:37:59.000 But President Trump over the weekend decided that he was going to raise tariffs on Canada by 10%.

00:38:05.000 According 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.

00:38:20.000 What did they do?

00:38:20.000 Well, according to his Truth Social, Canada was caught red-handed putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan's speech on tariffs.

00:38:26.000 The Reagan Foundation said they created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan.

00:38:31.000 The ad misrepresents the presidential radio address and did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks.

00:38:36.000 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.

00:38:41.000 The 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.

00:38:49.000 Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian tariffs.

00:38:53.000 Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for purposes of national security and the economy, but Canada said he didn't.

00:38:58.000 Their advertisement was to be taken down immediately.

00:39:00.000 They let it run last night during the World Series, knowing it was a fraud.

00:39:03.000 And so he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10%.

00:39:05.000 Okay, so a few things here.

00:39:07.000 One, Ronald Reagan was not in favor of tariffs.

00:39:09.000 Ronald Reagan had specific tariff policies with regard to particularly steel and Japanese semiconductors.

00:39:15.000 The same thing was true of George W. Bush.

00:39:16.000 Very hard to argue that George W. Bush was a tariffs guy because he did some very specific steel tariffs.

00:39:21.000 It happens not to be the case that Ronald Reagan was an anti-free trade president of the United States.

00:39:28.000 Second, it was not the entire Canadian government that took out the ad.

00:39:31.000 It was the government of the province of Ontario. 0.67

00:39:34.000 Third, if you think that an ad on the World Series is convincing the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's tariffs, that's silly.

00:39:41.000 The 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.

00:39:53.000 I do not think any president of any party has the ability to do that legally.

00:39:57.000 I'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.

00:40:08.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Gipper was a free trader.

00:40:10.000 In 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.

00:40:21.000 They 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.

00:40:34.000 And as the Wall Street Journal points out, even Reagan's semiconductor tariffs proved to be a mistake.

00:40:38.000 Intel, which lobbied for the tariffs, innovated with its 386 and 486 chips that surpassed the commodity memory chips made by Japan.

00:40:45.000 The U.S. attempt at computer chip industrial policy at the time, focused around the Semitech consortium, was a bust.

00:40:52.000 And Japan, who obviously we were very afraid of economically in the 1980s, is no longer an economic threat to the United States.

00:40:58.000 They've been in a state of complete stagnation for two and a half decades at this point, economically speaking.

00:41:04.000 Well, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was grilled over President Trump's claims on tariffs by Kristen Welker over in NBC News.

00:41:13.000 Why is the president setting trade policy based on a television ad he doesn't like?

00:41:21.000 Well, Kristen, let's think about this.

00:41:23.000 This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens.

00:41:28.000 It's psyops.

00:41:30.000 Why 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.

00:41:41.000 So what was the purpose of that other than to sway public opinion?

00:41:47.000 And, you know, it's some kind of propaganda that the premier of Ontario unilaterally launched.

00:41:55.000 Will the 10% tariffs apply to all Canadian goods, Mr. Secretary?

00:42:01.000 Kristen, I've been traveling since this unfortunate event happened.

00:42:06.000 I know that the ad's been taken down.

00:42:08.000 So, you know, we'll have to see.

00:42:10.000 But I just think it was terrible, terrible judgment by this premier, you know, who has a bit of a reputation for being a hothead.

00:42:21.000 Does the president know if the tariffs will apply to 10% tariffs will apply to all Canadian goods?

00:42:26.000 Has he made a determination about that?

00:42:31.000 Well, I'm sure he knows.

00:42:37.000 Okay.

00:42:38.000 I mean, I do not find this wildly convincing.

00:42:40.000 I am bewildered by our constant smacks against.

00:42:43.000 Again, if you want rare earth minerals, you know there are a bunch of them in Alberta.

00:42:46.000 Honestly, we should be looking to Canada as a potential bulwark against China, not the weird opposite that seems to be happening.

00:42:53.000 The U.S. and China are now sounding a confident note after their trade talks.

00:42:57.000 Again, the markets are very happy about this because all the markets really want from life is some sort of stability.

00:43:02.000 That's all.

00:43:02.000 The markets just want to know that policy ain't going to change on a dime.

00:43:06.000 They can price in anything, but they need to know that that policy is not going to simply swivel moment to moment.

00:43:12.000 According 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.

00:43:24.000 Treasury Secretary Besson said that they believe they have a successful framework for the leaders to discuss.

00:43:29.000 Here he was talking about this on ABC News.

00:43:33.000 So 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.

00:43:42.000 And I think we've reached a substantial framework for the two leaders who will meet in Korea next Thursday.

00:43:48.000 So, 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. 0.89

00:44:02.000 So I think we have averted that so that the tariffs will be averted.

00:44:08.000 And we have a regular meeting, regular quarterly meeting with the Chinese.

00:44:14.000 It was scheduled for November 10th or before November 10th.

00:44:19.000 I don't think we will have to have that.

00:44:21.000 So we have been rolling the tariffs quarterly.

00:44:26.000 Now, 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.

00:44:38.000 This is one of the reasons why we should be, you know, diversifying away from China. 0.84

00:44:42.000 And we should have actually inked a bunch of great trade deals with countries surrounding China before turning to China.

00:44:48.000 You get all your ducks in a row, and then finally, you're going to go for the big fish.

00:44:51.000 It seems like we did the opposite, and now China actually has been sort of jiu-jitsuing us in these negotiations.

00:44:57.000 Apparently, President Trump is likely to visit Xi in China in early 2026.

00:45:01.000 Xi might visit the U.S. later next year, Besson told the NBC News in a separate appearance.

00:45:07.000 The 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.

00:45:17.000 You know, again, I think that the I am uneasy, shall we say, about the state of these deals.

00:45:25.000 Secretary Besant also said that a final TikTok deal has been reached.

00:45:29.000 Now, 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. 0.73

00:45:39.000 But here's what the Treasury Secretary had to say.

00:45:43.000 Margaret, we reached a final deal on TikTok.

00:45:47.000 We'd reached one in Madrid.

00:45:50.000 And I believe that as of today, all the details are ironed out.

00:45:55.000 And that will be for the two leaders to consummate that transaction on Thursday in Korea.

00:46:04.000 Now, Margaret Brennan on CBS News asked him, has China agreed to give up control of the algorithm that determines what users see?

00:46:11.000 And Besson didn't explain.

00:46:13.000 I find this disquieting.

00:46:15.000 The entire purpose of the congressional bill that was signed into law, supported by President Trump, was to divest TikTok's control from China.

00:46:25.000 If that does not happen, then that is, in fact, a fail.

00:46:28.000 Meanwhile, some good news from South America.

00:46:31.000 Javier Millay's party has now won a mandate for a free market revolution in Argentina.

00:46:36.000 There'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.

00:46:53.000 When you use shock therapy on an economy, it can absolutely get down your debt levels.

00:46:58.000 It can absolutely increase the price of your currency.

00:47:00.000 It also is going to have some downstream effects in terms of how people live.

00:47:04.000 Because 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.

00:47:11.000 And 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.

00:47:32.000 And 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.

00:47:45.000 Full disclosure, as you know, I'm a huge Millay fan.

00:47:48.000 I think what Millay is doing is one of the most important things in the world right now.

00:47:52.000 I 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.

00:48:01.000 I 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.

00:48:09.000 Allies are better than enemies in these places.

00:48:11.000 Millay is an extraordinarily pro-American ally.

00:48:14.000 With more than 99% of the votes counted, Millay's Freedom Advances Party won almost 41% of the national vote.

00:48:20.000 It more than doubled its representation in Congress.

00:48:23.000 That 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.

00:48:31.000 So that gives him fresh political momentum, and it also shores up his standing with both Washington, D.C. and the IMF.

00:48:37.000 Because again, what they said is we're not going to pour more money down a rat hole is what President Trump said. 0.89

00:48:40.000 He said, we're not pouring more money down an Argentinian rat hole. 1.00

00:48:43.000 If it turns out that Argentina is ready to govern like a responsible country, then yeah, investment is going to come in.

00:48:48.000 And this, by the way, is true for investors.

00:48:50.000 I'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.

00:48:57.000 Five minutes later, Millay will be out and you'll end up with another Kirchner type.

00:49:01.000 And if that happens, then your money's gone.

00:49:04.000 And 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.

00:49:15.000 Millay told a cheering throng in downtown Buenos Aires, today marks the beginning of building a great Argentina.

00:49:21.000 This result is nothing more and nothing less than the confirmation of the mandate we assumed in 2023.

00:49:27.000 The 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.

00:49:36.000 Now, again, some of this is a play for time because the reality is the peso is way, way overvalued in Argentina.

00:49:44.000 And that if Mile were to dollarize, then everything I said before about the devaluation of the peso would happen really, really rapidly.

00:49:52.000 And Mile was concerned that if that happens too fast, you end up burning out the electorate and then they swivel back toward the left.

00:49:58.000 President Trump wrote on his truth social platform Monday, again, this is an excellent move by President Trump.

00:50:02.000 Big win in Argentina for Javier Mile, a wonderful Trump-endorsed candidate.

00:50:06.000 He's making us all look good.

00:50:07.000 Our confidence in him was justified by the people of Argentina.

00:50:11.000 Mile 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.

00:50:18.000 He reduced energy subsidies and fired tens of thousands of public sector employees.

00:50:21.000 The policies briefly stabilized Argentina's finances, producing the first balanced budget in more than a decade.

00:50:27.000 The inflation rate has fallen to 32%, which is still unbelievably high, but it was 200% two years ago.

00:50:36.000 There 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. 1.00

00:50:45.000 And the idea is if you want to have a future, you're going to have to let Mille cook. 0.74

00:50:49.000 So that is definitely a very, very good thing happening in South America.

00:50:54.000 Scott Besant was asked, the Treasury Secretary, about the loans to Argentina.

00:50:58.000 He says that is America first.

00:50:59.000 And this is right.

00:51:00.000 This 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?

00:51:05.000 First of all, we spend tons of money here at home.

00:51:07.000 It's why we have a $37 trillion debt.

00:51:09.000 That's why.

00:51:09.000 It's not because of foreign aid.

00:51:11.000 Okay.

00:51:12.000 But the point that Besant is making here and that President Trump has made is that America First has never meant America alone.

00:51:18.000 We need allies.

00:51:19.000 And 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.

00:51:27.000 That is better than the alternative.

00:51:29.000 Here is Scott Besant.

00:51:31.000 Kristen, it is America First because we are supporting a U.S. ally.

00:51:38.000 There will be no taxpayer losses.

00:51:41.000 This is a swap line.

00:51:43.000 This is not a bailout.

00:51:45.000 And it is from the Exchange Stabilization Fund, which Treasury I control at Treasury.

00:51:52.000 It has never registered a loss.

00:51:54.000 It is not going to register a loss this time.

00:51:56.000 We are supporting a U.S. ally in Latin America, and we want to set the tone in Latin America.

00:52:06.000 Again, this is a good thing.

00:52:07.000 By the way, the president is being very, very aggressive in Latin America.

00:52:11.000 The president's view on Venezuela is that they need to stop shipping drugs over to the United States.

00:52:16.000 Their drug cartels are a danger to American citizens.

00:52:18.000 According 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.

00:52:31.000 The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford and its associated warships are heading to the region, according to the Pentagon.

00:52:37.000 The United States already has warships, an expeditionary marine unit, drones, fighter planes, and surveillance aircraft in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

00:52:46.000 Now, there are a lot of people who are worried about regime change in Venezuela.

00:52:49.000 Now, nobody is talking about a full-scale ground invasion of Venezuela.

00:52:53.000 No one that I'm aware of is talking about this, nor would that be a good policy for the United States.

00:52:58.000 If some sort of covert CIA action were to topple the regime in Venezuela, that would be a good thing.

00:53:04.000 It would be good.

00:53:05.000 This bizarre idea that the best available scenario is always to leave the worst dictator in power because Saddam Hussein is benighted.

00:53:15.000 Sometimes the analogies work and sometimes they just don't.

00:53:20.000 And until Nicolas Maduro and Ugo Chavez came on the scene, Venezuela was a fairly wealthy country.

00:53:25.000 And it turns out there's an opposition ready to step in and do something about it.

00:53:30.000 Now, 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.

00:53:40.000 However, it is very clear that Maduro is increasingly uncomfortable with the amounts of pressure being levied against him by the United States.

00:53:47.000 Here he was begging for what he called no crazy war.

00:53:52.000 Not war, not war, not warm.

00:53:56.000 Just peace, just peace, just peace forever, forever, forever, peace forever.

00:54:04.000 No crazy warm.

00:54:07.000 No a la guerra loca. 0.97

00:54:10.000 No crazy, no crazy war, no crazy worm. 0.93

00:54:15.000 Please, please, please.

00:54:17.000 Just peace, peace forever, peace forever.

00:54:23.000 Ooh, Given.

00:54:25.000 Well, maybe you should, you know, stop tyrannizing your own population and shipping drugs up to the United States. 0.57

00:54:31.000 That'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.

00:54:41.000 Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that he believes there will be some land strikes in Venezuela because of the drug cartels.

00:54:49.000 Here was Lindsey Graham on Face the Nation on CBS News.

00:54:52.000 Our land strikes planned.

00:54:54.000 Yeah.

00:54:56.000 Yeah, I think that's a real possibility.

00:54:59.000 I 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.

00:55:15.000 And 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.

00:55:29.000 So there will be a congressional briefing about a potential expanding from the sea to the land.

00:55:35.000 I support that idea.

00:55:39.000 Well, you know, we will see what happens next.

00:55:42.000 Suffice 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.

00:55:52.000 Have you seen President Trump?

00:55:54.000 These 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.

00:56:02.000 That is not how President Trump operates.

00:56:04.000 That is a different thing from saying that he is going to do a strike on narco-terrorists inside Venezuela.

00:56:10.000 Well, this week, Daily Wire Plus is premiering a brand new documentary called Hiding in Plain Sight, America's Trafficking Epidemic.

00:56:17.000 It's one of the most important things we've done here at Daily Wire Plus.

00:56:19.000 Joining us on the line to discuss is Derek Banner.

00:56:22.000 He's CEO of Our Rescue the Nonprofit Organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking and child exploitation.

00:56:27.000 Derek, thanks so much for the time.

00:56:28.000 Really appreciate it.

00:56:30.000 Hi, Ben.

00:56:30.000 It's great to be with you and great to meet your audience.

00:56:33.000 Thank you.

00:56:35.000 So 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.

00:56:48.000 Yeah, so, you know, technology is a double-edged sword.

00:56:54.000 It'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.

00:57:09.000 But the predators and the sex traffickers are leveraging technology at an equal, if not greater level than law enforcement.

00:57:19.000 So what are some of the chief apps that predators are using in order to gain access to children?

00:57:23.000 How do they use those apps that parents think are innocuous in order to do so?

00:57:28.000 The short answer, Ben, is all of them.

00:57:30.000 So they are leveraging technology at scale.

00:57:33.000 So they're leveraging the internet.

00:57:35.000 They're leveraging social media platforms, even seemingly innocent gaming platforms, online gaming platforms.

00:57:44.000 Any 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.

00:57:58.000 So you've talked a fair bit about the gap in support for law enforcement efforts to fight to protect children.

00:58:03.000 People don't really understand what it is that law enforcement can and should be doing.

00:58:06.000 What should law enforcement be doing?

00:58:08.000 What capabilities do they have and where do they fall short?

00:58:11.000 So 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.

00:58:23.000 It's one of the hardest jobs in law enforcement.

00:58:26.000 The content and the material itself is something that you just can't unsee and unhear.

00:58:33.000 And of course, the sense of urgency around the backlog and the issue itself creates another level of complexity.

00:58:43.000 I can set the stage for you a little bit in terms of what the law enforcement faces in terms of just pure numbers.

00:58:53.000 In 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 20.5 million suspected reports of child exploitation.

00:59:06.000 Within that 20.5 million, Ben, is another 63 million files, videos, images of child sexual abuse material or CSAM as it's referred to.

00:59:23.000 So let's talk about some examples of this so people get sort of a fuller picture of how this happens.

00:59:28.000 Can you give me an example of how a child would be sucked into this more specifically?

00:59:34.000 So 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.

00:59:58.000 Once that happens, these explicit images are then shared within the predator community.

01:00:06.000 It'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.

01:00:23.000 Well, you can check out Derek's work over at OurRescue.

01:00:27.000 Also, you can check out the brand new documentary that's going to enlighten you about the dangers facing your kids over at Dailywire Plus.

01:00:33.000 It's available for free thanks to the support of our members at Dailywire Plus.

01:00:36.000 The film is Hiding in Plain Sight, America's Trafficking Epidemic.

01:00:39.000 Derek, thanks so much for the time.

01:00:40.000 Appreciate it.

01:00:41.000 Thank you, Ben.

01:00:43.000 Alrighty, coming up.

01:00:44.000 Speaking of foreign policy, the president of the United States has brokered yet another end to yet another conflict.

01:00:49.000 Captain Moore over here, actually just doing lots of peace.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 27, 2025

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