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00:00:40.000Well, folks, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC is in dire straits.
00:00:45.000This is a state-funded enterprise in much the same way that NPR is a state-funded enterprise.
00:00:50.000And the BBC has been the dominant broadcast platform in the United Kingdom for legitimately decades, going all the way back to World War II.
00:00:59.000And for the last several decades, they have just been a left-wing agitprop organization.
00:01:04.000Well, now they are absolutely falling apart.
00:01:06.000And they are falling apart thanks to their extraordinary, dishonest attacks on President Trump.
00:01:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump has now threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC over the way the UK state broadcaster edited one of his speeches in a documentary last year.
00:01:21.000The BBC chairman, a person named Samir Shah, had to apologize on Monday for the controversy, which has plunged the broadcaster into crisis.
00:01:27.000That apology came one day after BBC Director General Tim Davey and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turnitz said they were leaving the organization following criticism from the White House.
00:01:56.000Well, one week before the election, they ran a piece in which they spliced together things that President Trump said on January 6th, 2021, to make it look as though he himself personally was leading an armed insurrection at the Capitol building.
00:02:12.000In order to achieve this effect, they had to cut out full-on 24 pages of material.
00:02:19.000They cut from one part of the speech and then they fast-forwarded 50 minutes, five zero minutes, and cut together the last part of the speech and clipped those together and then basically put an ellipses in order to make it seem as though President Trump himself was personally calling on people to follow him to the Capitol building and then to assault the Capitol building.
00:02:37.000Here is the BBC panorama edit compared with the original clip.
00:02:42.000We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you.
00:03:23.000And if you watch that original clip, as you can see, they did it in edit.
00:03:26.000It looks as though Trump said those things directly, one after another, and they had a music bed underneath, which connects the first part of the statement to the last part of the statement.
00:03:34.000It is not as though they had some sort of interpolation from a narrator explaining that much later in the speech, President Trump said this.
00:03:43.000Well, in a letter from Trump's lawyers, they are asking for $1 billion unless the documentary is retracted, an apology published, and compensation paid to the president.
00:03:53.000The broadcaster said in a statement, it would respond in due course.
00:03:56.000This followed hard on a 19-page memo that was put out by a top staffer at the BBC.
00:04:08.000He was an independent advisor to the BBC's editorial guidelines and standards board.
00:04:12.000And he wrote a 19-page memo pushing the idea that the BBC had become a biased and ridiculous organization.
00:04:20.000And here's what he wrote: Dear board members, you may know that I have been one of the two independent external advisors working alongside the EGSC.
00:04:28.000I held this role for three years and stood down in the summer.
00:04:31.000I departed with profound and unresolved concerns about the BBC since leaving.
00:04:34.000I thought long and hard about what, if anything, to do about this.
00:04:37.000My conclusion is that these concerns are serious enough for me to draw them to your attention in your oversight role of the BBC.
00:04:43.000What follows is a summary of what were, in my view, some of the most troubling matters to come before the EGSC during my term.
00:04:50.000My view is that the executive repeatedly failed to implement measures to resolve highlighted problems and, in many cases, simply refused to acknowledge there was an issue at all.
00:05:00.000So he points out that there has been tremendous bias with regard to the U.S. election.
00:05:04.000He specifically points out that edit in the Panorama program.
00:05:09.000He said, quote, this was one of the most shocking sets of issues uncovered during my time with the EGSC.
00:05:14.000If BBC journalists are allowed to edit video in order to make people say things they never actually said, then what value are the corporation's guidelines?
00:05:25.000And yet, top members of the staff said, quote, there was no attempt to mislead the audience about the content or nature of Mr. Trump's speech before the riot at the Capitol.
00:05:33.000It is a normal practice to add speeches into short-form clips.
00:05:38.000Now, again, this was a repeated thing.
00:05:41.000So they did this with comments that President Trump made about Liz Cheney.
00:05:47.000There are reports in which the BBC routinely ignored its own guidelines, giving excessive coverage, for example, to that rogue Iowa poll.
00:05:55.000You remember right before the election, Anne Seltzer suggested that Kamala Harris was going to win the state by 97 points.
00:06:00.000And of course, President Trump won the state pretty easily.
00:06:07.000This whistleblower said, quote, during my time as an advisor to the EGSC, it became clear the BBC fell too easily for putting out ill-research material that suggested issues of racism when there were none.
00:06:16.000And then he just lists chapter and verse across the BBC in which they basically manufactured a bunch of racial issues where no racial issue existed.
00:06:29.000They went out of their way to promote idiocies about biological sex and gender, for example.
00:06:36.000Quote, the desk had been captured by a small group of people promoting the stonewall view of the debate and keeping other perspectives off the air.
00:06:45.000Individual programs had come to lack their own reporters as a counterweight.
00:06:50.000There was a constant drip feed of one-sided stories, usually news features, celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity.
00:06:57.000One example of this, by the way, might be a report that happened in 2024 from the BBC, in which the BBC reported that actually male breast milk was just as nutritious for babies as female breast milk.
00:07:09.000Now, you may be asking yourself, what is male breast milk?
00:07:11.000And the answer is that if you pump men full of estrogen, then you will get some secretions from the nipples.
00:07:18.000That is not actually like female breast milk.
00:07:21.000But the BBC had an interest in pretending that males can become females.
00:07:27.000Now, a transgender woman's milk is just as good for babies as breast milk.
00:07:32.000That's according to a letter from the medical director at University Hospital Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
00:07:39.000The claim was made as part of a response against campaign groups.
00:07:42.000The trust referred to studies and the World Health Organization guidance, including one case which found what it called no observable effects in babies fed by induced lactation.
00:07:54.000Well, to discuss this in a bit more detail, I'm joined now by Kate Loxian, who is a research fellow in creative global health at the University College London and a lactation consultant trainee.
00:08:06.000I wanted to begin by getting your reaction to what we've heard from the hospital about this.
00:08:12.000Of course, and it's actually not very new in terms of a concept or an idea.
00:08:16.000It's something as someone who works in LGBT pregnancy and reproduction that we've known for quite a while.
00:08:22.000There's studies back in the 90s that talk about the sameness of milk from the birth mother and then the co-lactating mother in terms of 10 days after birth.
00:08:37.000Now, again, this was then passed around all over the media: the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail.
00:08:44.000Hey, the evidence, shall we say, that male quote-unquote milk, which are just secretions produced by pumping men filled with estrogen, that this is somehow comparable to female milk, is based on one study of one man who pumped himself full of hormones.
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00:11:28.000According to the UK Telegraph, the BBC was forced to correct two stories every single week about the Gaza conflict since the October 7th attacks on Israel.
00:11:39.000Two stories a week, okay, which is insane.
00:11:43.000It's like, how many stories can you retract before you finally lose all credibility?
00:11:48.000BBC Arabic had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate, or misleading.
00:11:56.000According to the UK Telegraph, the figures follow a week of revelations by the Telegraph of one-sided reporting at the BBC disclosing in an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that BBC Arabic was choosing to minimize Israeli suffering in the war in Gaza to paint Israel as the aggressor.
00:14:15.000And this latest brouhaha is just more evidence that actually, actually, the government should not be subsidizing media organizations like an NPR or like a PBS or in Britain, like the BBC, because you just end up with left-wing media sponsored by taxpayers.
00:14:30.000Okay, meanwhile, closer to home, it appears that the shutdown is basically done.
00:14:36.000According to the Washington Post, the Senate passed a bill to reopen the federal government on Monday evening, taking the next step toward ending the longest shutdown in American history.
00:14:43.000The chamber had already agreed to speed up the process to pass a bipartisan agreement struck over the weekend.
00:14:48.000Senate Majority Leader Thune said, I could spend an hour talking about all the problems we've seen, which have snowballed the longer the shutdown has gone on.
00:14:54.000But all of us, Democrat and Republican who voted for last night's bill are well aware of the facts.
00:15:00.000The bill passed 60-40, with seven Democrats plus Angus King, who's an independent, who caucuses with the Democrats from Maine, joining Republicans to pass it.
00:15:07.000Senator Rand Paul, who votes no on literally everything, also voted no.
00:15:11.000President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.
00:15:14.000It will not extend the ACA subsidies, the Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year.
00:15:18.000And let's be clear: the Obamacare subsidies are the only thing, basically, that keeps Obamacare solvent.
00:15:23.000Obamacare relies on these subsidies because Obamacare itself is kind of a bleep show.
00:15:29.000Very few people are ever going to reach their full deductible under Obamacare.
00:15:34.000They're just going to pay in tens of thousands of dollars to these Obamacare systems.
00:15:39.000Many doctors don't even take Obamacare, so you don't get the doctor that you want.
00:15:43.000You're paying too much money unless you have the federal government subsidizing you.
00:15:46.000It was always a backdoor nationalization of the health care system scheme, Obamacare.
00:15:50.000And when Republicans say no, Democrats complain.
00:15:53.000They created the system, but somehow it's Republicans who are to blame.
00:15:56.000Well, President Trump celebrated the end of the shutdown yesterday.
00:16:02.000Do you personally approve of the deal that's happening right now, Capitol Mill, to end the Republican?
00:16:06.000Well, it depends what deal we're talking about.
00:16:07.000But if it's a deal I heard about, that's certainly, you know, they want to change the deal a little bit, but I would say so.
00:16:13.000I think based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything.
00:16:17.000And we have support from enough Democrats, and we're going to be opening up our country.
00:16:22.000It's too bad it was closed, but we'll be opening up our country very quickly.
00:16:27.000Yesterday, the president put out a statement about air traffic controllers who are not showing up to work because presumably they're not being paid.
00:16:33.000Maybe they're afraid they won't get paid.
00:16:34.000He said all air traffic controllers must get back to work now.
00:16:37.000Anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked.
00:16:39.000He said that he would recommend air traffic controllers who didn't take off time during the shutdown receive a $10,000 per person bonus, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:16:47.000When he was asked where the money would come from by Fox News's Laura Ingram, he said, I don't know.
00:16:51.000I'll get it someplace, which, you know, not my favorite answer when it comes to funding of government-based programs.
00:16:57.000By the way, just another case that we actually should privatize our airports.
00:17:01.000I see no reason why the taxpayer should be on the dime for airports, which are eminently privatizable.
00:17:07.000You could absolutely privatize the airports, could have airlines chip in for their own security and work with a system together to ensure the planes don't hit each other in the sky.
00:17:37.000We applaud the seven Senate Democrats and one independent senator who did the right thing.
00:17:43.000They decided to put principle over their personal politics.
00:17:48.000And my urgent plea of all my colleagues in the House, and that means every Democrat in the House, is to think carefully, pray, and finally do the right thing and help us to bring an end to the pain of the American people.
00:18:05.000So, yeah, again, he's right about all of that.
00:18:08.000Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place because basically the only concession they got from Republicans was a commitment to do a vote on Obamacare subsidies.
00:19:05.000Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who voted also to end the shutdown, he's trying to claim that now they'll really be able to put the screws to the Republicans on more Obamacare subsidies.
00:19:14.000So now we're going to pay federal workers.
00:19:16.000We're going to untangle the chaos in air traffic.
00:19:19.000We're going to make sure SNAP beneficiaries get what they desperately need every day.
00:19:25.000And then we'll have a fight, Katie, about health care on the main stage in the spotlight without the background noise of all the shutdown effects and consequences drowning out the high stakes of the health care fight.
00:19:53.000The shutdown deal didn't extend health care subsidies, of course.
00:19:57.000The Senate ultimately settled for nothing more than a promise of a vote.
00:20:01.000They got an extension of government funding through January 30th, funding for food stamps through fiscal year 2026, and the reversal of those federal worker layoffs that President Trump had done during the shutdown.
00:20:15.000House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey is against the deal.
00:20:18.000Many are calling for Schumer to step down.
00:20:21.000Here's Bernie Sanders, who, again, has the luxury of being able to be wrong about everything because he's never been in power to implement his garbage policies.
00:20:28.000And basically, his popularity rests on his policies never being dried.
00:20:32.000Here's Bernie Sanders yelling at the shutdown being ended.
00:20:36.000Look, I think it was a terrible, terrible vote at a time when we have a broken healthcare system.
00:20:42.000This is going to make our health care system even worse.
00:20:45.000And that vote last night paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off Medicaid.
00:20:52.000So that was a really bad vote that took place last night.
00:20:57.000Speaking of Medicaid and healthcare outcomes, I asked our sponsors at Comet, a new web browser by Perplexity, aren't there studies suggesting Medicaid has not actually improved healthcare outcomes?
00:21:07.000And what Comet says is mixed findings from research.
00:21:11.000The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment found Medicaid improved self-reported health and reduced depression, but did not show statistically significant improvements in key clinical outcomes like blood pressure, blood sugar control, or cholesterol levels.
00:21:22.000Some long-term analyses suggest Medicaid expansion produced temporary gains in self-reported and mental health, but these improvements diminished over several years, leading to little durable difference in direct health metrics between recipients and non-recipients.
00:21:36.000So, again, the question of whether Medicaid has actually translated into sustained improvement in physical health, that is a very hot topic.
00:21:44.000There is no clear evidence that it does.
00:21:47.000Yeah, this is not an argument Medicaid shouldn't exist, but the idea that Medicaid as a general proposition has been wildly beneficial to the health of Americans is unsubstantiated by the actual data.
00:21:57.000When Bernie Sanders keeps saying things like tens of thousands will die, that is precisely the sort of catastrophic language that leads to people, you know, chanting Bernie Sanders slogan while they shoot up congressional baseball games in Virginia.
00:22:11.000Bernie hasn't stopped one moment to think about that.
00:22:14.000Meanwhile, Pete Buttigej, who continues to try to make himself a thing, he failed Secretary of Transportation, who's mostly famous for, you know, doing nothing about a train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as, you know, planes having their wings fall off and such.
00:22:28.000Well, now he's back because he wants to run for president.
00:22:32.000Everyday life, making it better and more affordable must always be our bottom line.
00:22:35.000For months, I've been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket so much that some will lose coverage altogether.
00:22:41.000Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news.
00:22:44.000Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.
00:22:46.000Now, again, this was Democrats holding up the government, not running on this basis.
00:22:51.000By the way, this would be probably a solid political line for them to run on.
00:22:56.000They decided to hold up the government and make people suffer in order to achieve absolutely nothing to elevate a talking point.
00:23:02.000That's what actually just happened over the course of the last six weeks or so.
00:23:06.000All righty, coming up, Chuck Schumer under fire for caving to the Republicans.
00:23:10.000What does that mean for the future of the Democratic Party?
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00:25:34.000Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer under Sirius Fire Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona was asked directly about Chuck Schumer's handling of all of this, and he bobbed and weaved like Ali in his prime.
00:25:45.000I wonder if, as a result, you believe Chuck Schumer's leadership is in jeopardy and should it be?
00:25:54.000Well, as I've said, Chris, we are dealing with an irrational president.
00:26:14.000Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries, who opposes the deal, still says that Chuck Schumer is effective.
00:26:19.000And again, here is the problem: Democrats are in the unenviable position of having to pander to their extremely radical base, while at the same time, trying to fend off that radical base from taking control of the party.
00:26:48.000Meanwhile, Congressman Seth Moulton, who's attempting to outflank Senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts, he's been moving pretty steadily to the left, Seth, in order to presumably garner the love of progressive base.
00:27:00.000He says it's time for Chuck Schumer to move on.
00:27:04.000I'm not going to run for it on a new generation of leadership platform here in Massachusetts and then go down to Washington and vote for the status quo.
00:27:11.000And so I've been very public about that.
00:27:14.000Again, you know, respect his service, but time to move on.
00:27:38.000She's not a person who's reliant on food stamps.
00:27:41.000She's not a person who's reliant on being paid as a member of the TSA.
00:27:45.000She has really generous health care, I would assume, from ABC's The View.
00:27:49.000And of course, she has millions and millions of dollars in the bank.
00:27:51.000Here's Whoopi Goldberg doing the virtue signaling thing.
00:27:55.00050-50 chance of negotiating health care subsidies.
00:27:58.000I just remember all of the people who are coming in and hoping that people would vote them in and say, Yes, you can be this person or you can be a judge or you can be this.
00:28:09.000And they all said, No, we're not going to mess with anything.
00:28:12.000No, we're going to leave everything as it was.
00:28:14.000I have no faith that they're going to negotiate and come back to the table.
00:28:19.000And, you know, I'm glad that folks may be because, again, we have seen you say this is going to happen and then it doesn't happen.
00:28:28.000And, you know, people will get rehired, supposedly, federal workers and reinstate snap benefits, but a 50-50 chance of extending the subsidies.
00:28:40.000So, you know, again, we will see whether the Democratic Party decides to cave to all of this.
00:28:44.000You're seeing this battle break out into the open in New York, of course, where Kathy Hochul has been slamming the brakes on Zorhan Mamdani's insane proposals.
00:28:51.000So, again, she is in a neck and neck battle with Elise Stefanic for governorship of New York.
00:28:56.000And she is very much afraid that if she does what Zorhan Mamdani wants, it'll absolutely crater her gubernatorial chances in her re-elect effort.
00:29:03.000So, yesterday, she tried to slam the brakes on Zorhan Mamdani's nonsense.
00:29:08.000According to the New York Post, Hochul, speaking during a press conference at the Somos political retreat in Puerto Rico on Saturday, argued she's already put vast sums of money into the perpetually cash-strapped MTA for major projects.
00:29:19.000She said, We're spending a lot of money, so I can't set forth a plan right now that takes money out of the busing system that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways.
00:29:26.000Can we find a path to make it more affordable for people who need help?
00:29:31.000Meanwhile, Zorhan Mamdani tried to avoid direct conflict with Hochul because he's going to lose.
00:29:35.000He said, I continue to be excited at the work of making the slowest buses in America fast and free, and I appreciate the governor's continued partnership in delivering on that agenda of affordability.
00:29:43.000Again, one of my bugaboos here is that in our politics, if you just say the problem over and over and over, people then give you credibility, which is ridiculous.
00:29:51.000If you have bad solutions, you labeling the problem does not help in any way, shape, or form.
00:29:57.000Meanwhile, by the way, the downstream effects of the Mamdani election are being felt, according to the Daily Wire.
00:30:02.000Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now recruiting NYPD officers disgruntled by the election of Zorhan Mamdani.
00:30:09.000With a flood of cash from President Trump's one big beautiful bill, the agency has set a goal to recruit 10,000 new officers to turbocharge the historic deportation campaign.
00:30:17.000New York City officers, already hamstrung by local sanctuary policies, are expected to face new hurdles with Mamdani in charge.
00:30:23.000So ICE put out a tweet yesterday, and it said, NYPD officers, defend your family, defend your city, defend the homeland, join ICE.
00:30:31.000ICE is already offering retired law enforcement officers up to $50,000 in recruitment bonuses, and they've received, apparently, at the DHS more than 200,000 applications already.
00:30:42.000It'll be interesting to see what happens as the New York City Police Department empties out in favor of greener pastures.
00:30:48.000Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, again, there is no too radical for the Democratic Party.
00:30:54.000One of the hilarious internacine wars that is currently happening inside the Democratic Party is a war that happened in Minneapolis between Jacob Frey, who is the insanely left-wing mayor of Minneapolis.
00:31:07.000You remember him from kneeling in front of the George Floyd casket.
00:31:10.000You remember the masking and the riots and all that from 2020.
00:31:16.000Omar Fateh, of course, is Somali in origin and came very close to beating Jacob Frey.
00:31:22.000Apparently, one of the reasons that Jacob Frey won is that he actually identified inside the Somali community Klans that didn't like other Kansas and then proceeded to target them for voting, which led Ilhan Omar, another person elected by the Somali community, to suggest that Somalis who didn't support her or Fateh should be expelled.
00:31:45.000I mean, you want to talk about tribal politics happening inside the Democratic Party?
00:32:27.000Man, politics here in the United States is going so well.
00:32:32.000I'm glad that we imported vast populations of people who are so tribal that Ilhan Omar is able on the basis of tribal identity alone, not even some sort of broader religious or ideological rubric, to sort of separate them out.
00:32:48.000Pretty impressive stuff right there happening in Minnesota.
00:32:52.000Meanwhile, it's not as though the infighting is not happening on the right as well.
00:32:55.000Marjorie Taylor Greene is attempting to lead an insurgency to take away control of MAGA from President Trump.
00:33:00.000Good luck with that to the congresswoman from Georgia, who would be a complete unknown were it not for President Trump and some media figures who have touted her beyond all intellectual capacity.
00:33:11.000President Trump yesterday went after MTG, who has spent the last several weeks on a slam Trump tour with mainstream media voices.
00:33:19.000So when somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's now catering to the other side, I don't know what, you know, I guess she's, you know, got some kind of vernacular, but I'm surprised at her.
00:33:28.000But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn't know.
00:33:58.000She's been doing it for literally months.
00:34:01.000There's already a game that is being played by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene to try and seize control of the MAGA movement away from President Trump and redefine it in a direction that she chooses.
00:34:10.000It is a thing that is clearly going on.
00:34:13.000And the president should know that because that is what is happening here.
00:34:17.000Marjorie Taylor Greene then responded by telling Caitlin Collins of CNN, I haven't lost my way.
00:34:33.000Meanwhile, the president continues to be battered around on issues of affordability because affordability, of course, is the word of the day.
00:34:41.000And yes, Americans are deeply concerned about affordability.
00:34:44.000As the New York Times points out, President Trump has mentioned the word affordability as much in the last week as he has in the past nine months.
00:34:49.000His renewed attention to the issue comes after weeks in which he faced mounting criticism for appearing out of touch with everyday Americans.
00:34:57.000So Democrats have been trying to make the case that President Trump is not paying attention to affordability.
00:35:03.000President Trump has fought back by claiming that inflation is way down under his presidency, which of course is true, is way up under Joe Biden.
00:35:10.000It is reduced, but it is not ended by any stretch of the imagination.
00:35:16.000A Washington Post ABC News Ipsos poll recently found that a majority of Americans say they are currently spending more on groceries and utilities than they were a year ago.
00:35:24.000Only 30% of voters believe President Trump has lived up to their expectations for tackling inflation and the cost of living.
00:35:31.000And of course, it is Marjorie Taylor Greene who's leading the charge, not because she cares about affordability, but because she wishes, again, to attack the president.
00:35:38.000She said, I go to the grocery store myself.
00:35:42.000My electricity bills are higher here at Washington, D.C., at my apartment.
00:35:45.000They're also higher at my house in Rome, Georgia, higher than they were a year ago.
00:35:51.000Now, again, the ways that you actually bring affordability into view for your trade, less regulation, lower taxes, that makes things more affordable.
00:36:01.000But the president, again, seems very wedded to his tariff regimen.
00:36:05.000And the tariffs are not particularly hitting tech.
00:36:08.000Tech, because tech is transnational and it is less wedded to location than many other businesses in the United States.
00:36:15.000The tariffs just don't hit NVIDIA in the same way.
00:36:18.000They don't hit Tesla in the same way because Tesla's valuation is not as much predicated on the number of cars that it sells as it is on the expectation that Elon Musk is using all the data that he's gathering to build new types of robotics and new types of AI.
00:36:33.000It means all the gains are going to the tech companies at the top of the market and all these sort of mainstream American companies that actually rely on inputs and then being able to export.
00:37:13.000It would be a national security disaster if we lost the case in the Supreme Court.
00:37:18.000Okay, now I think the markets would react a very different way than President Trump suggests.
00:37:22.000If the Supreme Court were to strike down the tariffs, yeah, there would be another round of uncertainty, but at least the president wouldn't be able to sort of just blanket tariff the entire world.
00:37:30.000So my guess is the economy would actually rebound in the face of such a decision by the Supreme Court.
00:38:02.000Even in the Dobbs case, which overthrew Roe versus Wade, there was a footnote from Justice Kavanaugh in which he explicitly said, basically, we're not going to take up Oberjfeld.
00:38:10.000The reason those two cases were supposedly linked is because the right to abortion that theoretically existed under Roe versus Wade was predicated on a broader right to privacy and that same right to privacy, which was, again, based in a notion known as substantive due process, which, again, is a nonsensical notion.
00:38:30.000That entire concept is also the basis for the idea that there is a right to same-sex marriage implicit in the Constitution of the United States, which is totally insane.
00:38:37.000There is no such right implicit in the Constitution of the United States.
00:38:40.000Now, that does not mean that on a public policy level, that there should be laws against gay people living together or people doing what they want in the privacy of their own homes.
00:38:50.000That is a pragmatic and moral consideration that each state should go through at its own behest.
00:38:55.000But the idea that there's a federal right, a federal right for a man to marry a man is, of course, ridiculous and violates the Constitution.
00:39:01.000The Supreme Court, however, does not want to touch it.
00:39:03.000That is not a particular shock since same-sex marriage has been embedded into the fabric of the society for 10 years and probably 20 if you go back to Massachusetts starting to perform these sorts of marriages.
00:39:16.000Her lawyers, the lawyers for Kim Davis, are the ones who sued.
00:39:20.000She, of course, was the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after that 2015 ruling in Obergefell.
00:39:28.000She'd been trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorneys fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
00:39:36.000Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling on the basis of, you know, the thing called the Constitution.
00:39:47.000So, again, there's probably some support on the court for overthrowing Oberzfeldt, but certainly not enough.
00:39:54.000For example, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has said that same-sex marriage might not be in the same sort of category with regard to right to privacy as abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and then had kids.
00:40:06.000And the bottom line here is that, again, the chances the Supreme Court was going to touch this were always extremely, extremely low.
00:40:14.000Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is poised to hear a major challenge to mail-in ballot laws, according to the New York Times.
00:40:20.000They will hear a challenge to Mississippi's counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
00:40:24.000So, first of all, if you mail in your ballot and it is received after Election Day, tough luck.
00:40:32.000This notion, first of all, that we should be doing vast mail-in balloting in the United States weeks in advance of an election is totally crazy.
00:40:41.000And if you waited until Election Day to mail your ballot because you were too lazy to go to a polling place and then it's received three days later, tough luck.
00:40:49.000There are lots of reasons we invalidate ballots in this country.
00:41:07.000Because otherwise, you are opening the door to widespread voter intimidation and voter fraud.
00:41:12.000The case is a potential blockbuster, according to the New York Times, that asks the justices to determine the meaning of Election Day.
00:41:19.000The challenge to the Mississippi law reflects political fights over the increased use of mail-in ballots, which exploded during the COVID pandemic.
00:41:26.000In 2024, the RNC, along with the Mississippi Republican Party and individual voters, challenged Mississippi's mail-in ballot rules.
00:41:33.000The challengers argued Congress had intended voting take place on a single election day and allowing ballots to arrive days later and still be counted undermined election integrity and the public's trust in the vote.
00:42:01.000And meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, we have now been treated to the bizarre spectacle of a terrorist who put on a suit.
00:42:09.000And now we're supposed to pretend that he's no longer a terrorist in any way.
00:42:12.000I understand that relations with Syria are complex.
00:42:15.000After the fall of Bashar Assad, which again, I said at the time was going to open a huge number of problems, as well as the possibility of future opportunities.
00:42:25.000Well, both those things have been true.
00:42:26.000The person who ended up taking over was a former al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist.
00:42:32.000That person, whose name is Ahmed Al-Shara, he decided to visit the White House yesterday.
00:42:41.000Syria, the United States is trying to broker some sort of deal between Syria and Israel.
00:42:46.000The Turks basically run Syria at this point.
00:42:49.000It's a great unmentioned elephant in the room in the Middle East right now is not Iran.
00:42:55.000Turkey has been spreading its wings, attempting to extend the range of its neo-Ottoman empire through Syria.
00:43:01.000There's no question that's what Turkey has been doing.
00:43:02.000Erdogan is, in fact, a radical Islamist who supports terrorism throughout the region.
00:43:07.000The fact that Turkey is a member of NATO is insane, totally insane.
00:43:12.000And so the matter in Syria has become complicated because militias, largely backed by the Syrian government, or at least with the Syrian government looking the other way, those militias have been going in and slaughtering Druze in the south of Syria.
00:43:24.000The state of Israel, which of course has a large Druze population, has been attempting to defend the Druze because the Druze, again, being quite tribal, are willing to literally walk over the border to Syria and just start fighting on behalf of their brothers.
00:43:38.000And so things are pretty complicated over in Syria.
00:43:40.000With that said, there are possible openings in Syria if the United States is willing to tell the Turks to back down.
00:43:47.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Syria has now joined the U.S.-led mission to defeat ISIS.
00:43:52.000They move marks a significant turnaround in the U.S. relationship with Syria.
00:43:57.000The decision is a sign of Syria's transition from a driver of Middle East instability as a result of former President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown on his own people, which allowed ISIS to flourish into an ally aiding an American-led military operation to keep ISIS at bay.
00:44:10.000There's talk about opening embassies in the capital of Damascus or Syria reopening its embassy in Washington, D.C.
00:44:19.000The president met with this person who, again, was a terrorist and has terrorist sympathies.
00:44:49.000Well, I mean, again, that is treating Turkey, I think, with a little more respect than Turkey deserves at this point, given its support for, again, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its openly Islamist attempts to turn its regime from a secularist regime into a Sharia regime under Erdogan.
00:45:10.000I do not envy the president attempting to work things out in Syria.
00:45:15.000We'll have to see, again, whether Syria turns into yet another failed terrorist state or whether they're held to account by the West.
00:45:23.000And meanwhile, in a piece of salutary news, the IOC has now decided to ban transgender women, meaning men, from all female Olympic events.
00:45:31.000That would be the International Olympic Committee.
00:45:33.000This has become, of course, a very hot issue given the fact that last time at the Olympics, men were fighting women in boxing.
00:45:39.000According to the New York Post, the International Olympic Committee is reportedly set to ban trans women from competing in all female categories.
00:45:45.000The change is set to be officially announced early next year.
00:45:48.000The decision to overhaul the current policy was made after the sporting committee carried out a science-based review of a biologically born male's physical advantages.
00:45:56.000The report claimed there were clear advantages with the athletes who had disorders of sexual development, which is essentially people who have intersex conditions, for example.
00:46:06.000So now the idea is that women will be competing with women, which, of course, is a good thing.
00:46:11.000It is unbelievable that it took an entire cultural revolution in the United States in order to say what is perfectly obvious.
00:46:19.000Again, that's sort of the way that things work here in the United States these days, is that saying the perfectly obvious has now become a matter of serious controversy.
00:46:27.000Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is out there and she is complaining about life.
00:46:33.000Again, the number of people in this country who complain about the United States, like Kwa United States, lives the most privileged lives imaginable, is really an amazing, amazing thing.
00:46:41.000Whether it is Zara Mamdani, who has lived a life of tremendous privilege here in the United States, or whether it is Michelle Obama, the capacity of the left to be utterly ungrateful about the virtues of America is pretty incredible.
00:46:55.000So, Michelle Obama, she has been complaining about a couple of things.
00:46:59.000One, she's complaining about the tearing down of the East Wing, which, again, like the fact that Democrats keep trying to make this an issue is beyond me.
00:47:07.000There were a whole standard of norms and rules that we followed to a T that we painstakingly tried to uphold because it was bigger than us.
00:47:18.000That East Wing, that's not my feelings about that.
00:48:15.000So as you mentioned, to save time, you know, I know having a glam team, a trifecta, it feels like a luxury, but it was a time necessity.
00:48:28.000There was absolutely no way that I would be able to do my hair and makeup and have clothes ready that fit, you know, because rare is the woman that can live off the rack.
00:48:42.000Well, probably we need socialism then.
00:48:44.000I mean, I guess that's simultaneously socialism good.
00:48:57.000Apparently, the Kimmel family is now going around complaining about their life as well.
00:49:01.000Jimmy Kimmel's wife, Molly McNearney, she appeared on a podcast recently with Jimmy Kimmel talking about how hard it was to be temporarily fired.
00:49:11.000And he was temporarily fired again, as you recall, because he made a really stupid and terrible reference about Charlie Kirk suggesting, of course, that the right had been responsible for Charlie's murder.
00:49:21.000And then places like Sinclair Broadcasting said that they didn't want any part of it.
00:49:25.000And then eventually he came back after a quasi apology.
00:49:28.000Well, apparently they had to talk a lot to this podcaster about how rough it was.
00:49:34.000There's helicopters over our house and madness outside.
00:49:38.000And Jimmy said, well, we're going to have to tell them because our daughter's in fifth grade and kids talk.
00:49:46.000And so we sat them down on the couch and we told them.
00:49:49.000We said, I believe Jimmy started the conversation.
00:49:52.000And we realized in that moment that any other time we've sat them down to talk about something, I guess it's been good because Jimmy said, we want to talk to you guys about something.
00:50:03.000And Jane, our 11-year-old, went, oh, oh my gosh, Julie, they have to talk to us about something.
00:50:07.000And she's like, get in here, get in here.
00:50:08.000And I think the last time we had done that, we surprised them with Disneyland or something.
00:50:13.000So they seemed like it was going to be good.
00:50:16.000And it occurred to me, oh boy, this is not going to be good.
00:51:07.000As someone with 24-7 security all the time, with an enormous amount of this kind of stuff going on in my life, just don't, your kids don't need to know this is for you and your spouse.
00:51:18.000Again, because the reality is we all have vicissitudes in our life, but people in my place, people in Jimmy's place, you know, we're some of the most privileged people on the planet in history of humanity.
00:51:31.000And so, trying to, you know, create angst with your kids is a mistake, shall we say, or giving the ability for your kid, creating angst in your kids this way, I would say, I would suggest that that's not the proper way of handling this sort of stuff.
00:51:47.000Okay, I do want to take a moment to note, of course, that it is Veterans Day.
00:51:52.000We are so grateful to everyone who is serving and who has served in the United States Armed Forces.
00:51:58.000An unbelievable sacrifice made by so many and continuing to be made by so many people.
00:52:04.000And in honor of Veterans Day, I want to make a cultural recommendation.
00:52:06.000It is my favorite series of all time, probably the best thing that has ever aired on television or on movie screen for that matter.
00:52:14.000If you've never seen Band of Brothers, which is the story of the 101st Airborne, it's available on HBO, starring Damian Lewis and a bunch of other character actors who you will recognize when you see their faces.
00:52:23.000It is the best thing that's ever been on TV.
00:52:25.000It follows the 101st Airborne all the way from training through the liberation of Germany.
00:52:48.000And it is an amazing window into what it was like to serve in World War II.
00:52:54.000Again, probably the best thing in the history of television and a good way to remember our veterans on Veterans Day.
00:53:02.000And speaking of Veterans Day, one of our sponsors here at the Bench Ferris show, of course, you've heard us talk about them before, is Legacy Box.
00:53:10.000They have been giving out for free their resources to veterans that veterans can actually preserve their legacies, preserve their memories.
00:53:17.000We had the opportunity to sit down with a few veterans yesterday and talk about it.
00:55:03.000And I think probably one that sticks is really very early.
00:55:09.000When I, right after my officer basic course, I was assigned to a unit in Germany.
00:55:15.000And this it was sort of a U.S. Army customs unit.
00:55:21.000And they're the folks that pack people out when they're going and when they're going anywhere, you know, whether they're going back to stateside or through combat missions or whatever.
00:55:32.000And when it's one of the things that made this unit unique, this company unique, a company of about 200 soldiers, was there were actually only two officers.
00:55:44.000And when I arrived in country at my unit, it turned out that my company commander, the other officer, was actually on emergency leave because his dad had just passed away.
00:55:57.000So as a brand new second lieutenant, literally right off the bus, I was made a company commander.
00:56:04.000So in this unit, the company commander was an 04 position, an officer of the fourth.
00:56:52.000You know, I think one of the things that I learned, you know, in Germany, and I got to go to England and Spain in my service as well, plus throughout the U.S.
00:57:05.000And we operate differently, I think, than every other country throughout history.
00:57:12.000And we take great care of not only taking care of our soldiers, but of fighting and winning wars in a way that we can be proud of ourselves for.
00:57:25.000And so on the global level, that's probably the first thing.
00:57:31.000And then, you know, just on an individual level, the idea of discipline, I think my girls, I think, would definitely affirm that I ran a much more disciplined house than I grew up in.
00:57:45.000And I think that learning to work together, learning to be an individual as well as working together as a team.
00:57:55.000I think those are probably the three top things for me that I take away.
00:58:01.000Well, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your story.
00:58:04.000Thank you so much for your service as well.
00:59:15.000Can you describe what you think of as maybe some of your defining moments while you were in uniform that really changed your life, changed you?
00:59:22.000Yeah, so I think the biggest thing that changed me and had an effect not just only on me, but on our family, was assignment into special operations.
00:59:30.000I was assigned to 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, assessed and was selected for that unit.
00:59:37.000And that was an organization that just holistically took care of not only the soldier, but the family.
00:59:44.000And it truly every day demonstrated what servant leadership is, which is what I thought I'd had.
00:59:51.000But this was the first time I'd seen it embraced wholly as a unit.
00:59:55.000And that changed the way I looked at leadership, the way it took care of our family.
01:00:01.000And even now, though we've been out of the regiment for quite some time and retired, we still have great ties back to that organization and great friends there and still have family members who serve in that organization.
01:00:12.000So when you tell your story to your kids, your family, what do you hope your legacy is?
01:00:21.000I think when a lot of people look at legacy, they look at kind of tangibles, what you leave behind, businesses and money and things like that.
01:00:28.000When I think of legacy, I think of how we impacted others, particularly my military career.
01:00:33.000How did we help those around us, the organization do its mission, but those around us lift them up so that they can reach their goals?
01:00:42.000I can look at a picture and see soldiers I served with and then the opportunities we got them, the help that we did with them and where they're at in their careers today and seeing that type of servitude leadership continue.
01:01:35.000I was just out of high school and looking for a job and actually went to go look into the Air Force first, walked into the recruiter's office.
01:01:44.000This was in September of 82 and they said, yeah, I want you to come back in May.
01:01:50.000So I walked out of the Air Force recruiter, straight in the Navy recruiter, and actually went in that night.
01:01:57.000And when you served in the military, and obviously you were there for a very long time.
01:02:00.000What were some of your defining moments, things that changed you as a human being?
01:02:04.000Gosh, just the training, the, you know, just the discipline, the job discipline, camaraderie, the travel.
01:02:15.000Had the opportunity just to live in all parts of the United States and as well as overseas in Japan.
01:02:22.000Just all-around, just awesome experience to experience different cultures.
01:02:29.000Were there any experiences that specifically stood out to you?
01:02:32.000Like when you think back on your service, anything that sort of jumps out at you?
01:02:37.000The Japanese people were very welcoming and just couldn't wait to get off work and just get on our mountain bikes and travel around town in Ilakuni, Japan.
01:02:51.000What do you think that your legacy should be?
01:02:53.000What do you hope that your legacy is, you know, for your kids, for your grandkids?
01:02:57.000You know, just raising the kids in the military with the good work discipline, living in different parts of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico as kids were growing up, getting them exposed to different parts of the country, different things going on.
01:03:13.000Just give them an opportunity just to, you know, know themselves better.
01:03:18.000And of course, I know that you have all those home videos, which are still on VHS tape.
01:03:21.000So Legacy Box is going to help you get those transferred over so that we can make sure that those stories and that legacy can be preserved forever.
01:06:46.000Yeah, veterans always have unique needs at the end of life.
01:06:49.000I don't think that the public knows the kinds of things that the VA offers to veterans that Medicare does not, even veterans who are not Medicare age.
01:07:02.000So my last 14 years was primarily spent helping facilitate benefits for veterans and their families.
01:07:11.000But also, I listened to a lot of veterans who have a lot of stories at end of life.
01:07:16.000Andrew, you've done an amazing amount for veterans.
01:07:19.000What do you think makes this country so special?
01:07:53.000So I was a big part of facilitating that.
01:07:55.000And it's been something that they've done every year since.
01:07:59.000And I think that Constitution Day should be just as significant as Independence Day.
01:08:04.000Well, Andrew, what would you want your legacy to be, you know, with your family, with your grandkids?
01:08:11.000Well, legacy means leaving something for the future, sort of like planting a fruit tree and the people that come after you get to bear the fruit.
01:08:21.000And you see that in industry, I was in food manufacturing for almost 20 years.
01:08:25.000You want to put processes in place that live beyond you.
01:08:29.000And so in the Army, you'd be like mentoring somebody and them being a good leader forever.
01:08:34.000Me personally, I hope I'm remembered as a good father, a good husband.
01:09:08.000I had a fight with my girlfriend, who's currently my wife, and had a few extra drinks that night, and the next morning jumped up and went and joined the Navy.
01:09:19.000And what were your experiences in the military?
01:09:22.000How did that shape you as a human being?
01:09:25.000It took me a long time to realize that the Navy did for me something that I never thought about.
01:09:32.000It taught me how to treat people properly and to apply myself in a way that allowed me to end up with a good career.
01:09:41.000Are there any experiences that you specifically recall that really kind of stick out in your memory?
01:09:49.000I don't have a lot of just single experiences.
01:09:54.000What the Navy did for me was to tell me or show me that if I wanted to do anything with my life, I was going to have to get an education.
01:10:01.000So after my four years in the Navy, I got out in July, went back to school starting in September and graduated three years later and went on to have a reasonably good career.
01:10:12.000So when you look back and you figure you define your legacy as a human being, what does your legacy mean to you?