The Ben Shapiro Show - Mentally Ill Repeat Criminal K*LLS Ukrainian Woman…Media Silent. Guess Why!

00:00:00.000 Today on the Ben Shapiro show, a black man kills a white woman, and of course the media are totally uninterested. 0.85

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00:01:00.000 Well, folks, it's become perfectly predictable at this point.

00:01:02.000 Let's say that there's a violent incident.

00:01:04.000 An incident in which a black person and a white person get into conflict.

00:01:08.000 Let's say it's the white person who ends up killing the black person, even in a situation where the black person was actually performing an aggressive act and the white person was acting in defense of self or others. 0.68

00:01:18.000 Say the Daniel Penny situation, we get months of talk about white on black violence. 0.95

00:01:23.000 If it's Michael Brown, months, years of talk about white on black policing crime.

00:01:30.000 Derek Chauvin, George Floyd.

00:01:32.000 This is just the way it goes.

00:01:34.000 If, however, the crime is in reverse, if it is a black perpetrator and a white victim, then of course it just disappears into the ether, and we never hear about it again.

00:01:42.000 The latest case of this happens to be this horrifying video out of North Carolina.

00:01:47.000 According to the New York Post, haunting new video revealed the terrifying moment a homeless ex-con fate allegedly fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee in what police said was a random attack on a Charlotte light rail train.

00:01:59.000 And the video is available, it's horrifying.

00:02:01.000 So that is your warning.

00:02:03.000 If this sort of thing really disturbs you, which it probably should, you can fast forward about 30 seconds.

00:02:08.000 Please stand clear.

00:02:13.000 Doors are closed at the door.

00:02:14.000 See, there's just a woman and she's looking at her phone. 1.00

00:02:17.000 This is Ukrainian refugee. 0.95

00:02:19.000 And behind her, sitting on this light rail train is a violent black man. 1.00

00:02:24.000 He proceeds to take a knife out of his pocket, and then he gets up and he just stabs her directly in the neck and kills her. 0.79

00:02:32.000 We can actually show that part, and he's covered in blood, walking around the train.

00:02:36.000 Everybody else is just trying to not get killed.

00:02:40.000 Some of them don't even notice what happened, it looks like.

00:02:42.000 And then he walks off the train.

00:02:45.000 Her name was Arina Zarutska.

00:02:47.000 She fled Ukraine for a safer life in America.

00:02:49.000 She was on the Link's blue line just before 10 p.m.

00:02:51.000 August 22nd when she was ambushed, according to the Charlotte Mecklenburg police department.

00:02:55.000 The surveillance footage shows Zarutska boarding the train in her pizzeria uniform at 9.46 p.m. and sitting looking at her phone, unaware of the danger behind her.

00:03:04.000 Just four minutes later, 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr. allegedly whipped out a folding knife and lunged forward, stabbing her three times, at least once in the neck, according to the police.

00:03:13.000 Apparently, he then walks through the rail car, stripping off his sweatshirt and waiting by the doors, and then the passengers begin to notice the blood that is dripping from him.

00:03:21.000 Sarutzka, who grabs her neck as blood spilled onto the train floor, collapsed in her seat, was pronounced dead on the light rail.

00:03:28.000 He apparently got off at the next stop.

00:03:29.000 A folding knife was later recovered near the platform.

00:03:32.000 Now, there are a bunch of issues here.

00:03:35.000 The first issue has nothing to do with race.

00:03:37.000 It has to do with the fact that our criminal justice system does not keep criminals in prison for long enough.

00:03:42.000 I know this cuts very much against the left-wing view that we are an over-incarcerated society.

00:03:47.000 Wrong.

00:03:48.000 We are a radically under-incarcerated society.

00:03:51.000 By this I do not need mean that we need more random misdemeanor offendants in jail.

00:03:56.000 I mean that if you are arrested for armed robbery, you should be in jail for the rest of your life.

00:04:02.000 You should not be let back out on the streets.

00:04:04.000 This idea that you stick somebody in jail for three, four years, especially if they are a homeless mentally ill person, which is what this person was, and there's no involuntary incarceration available with regard to mental illness, no involuntary commitment available. 0.98

00:04:20.000 Well, what you end up with is crime on the streets, this idiocy where we arrest career criminals, we take them off the streets for five minutes and we put them back onto the streets is insane. 0.99

00:04:30.000 It's totally ridiculous and insane at every possible level, and it gets human beings murdered. 1.00

00:04:34.000 It gets them murdered. 0.97

00:04:36.000 And the judges who do this sort of stuff, who give light sentences, the systems that allow for this sort of stuff, this catch and release nonsense, they need to be ended and they need to be ended immediately because they are horrifying.

00:04:49.000 Horrifying.

00:04:50.000 So that is issue number one, because as it turns out, totally unsurprisingly, this particular perpetrator has multiple arrests dating back to 2011.

00:04:59.000 His record includes larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats, according to court records obtained by the New York Post.

00:05:05.000 He is homeless.

00:05:06.000 He won served five years in prison for robbery with a deadly weapon charge.

00:05:11.000 In January, he was arrested and charged with misusing 911 after a police welfare check.

00:05:16.000 During that incident, officer said he bizarrely claimed a man-made material inside his body was controlling him as he ate, walked, and talked, according to an affidavit cited by the outlet.

00:05:26.000 So no involuntary commitment.

00:05:28.000 He was not put in a mental health facility, no jail, nothing to keep this person away from innocent civilians just walking around and trying to take the train.

00:05:38.000 Okay, so issue number one.

00:05:40.000 Evil people need to go to jail forever. 0.83

00:05:43.000 Forever.

00:05:44.000 They should not be out.

00:05:46.000 There's a very, very high recidivism rate with regard to violent crime.

00:05:50.000 And this notion that you are simply going to let people out of prison again out of some sort of what, misplaced sympathy is insane.

00:05:57.000 And it does have externalities.

00:05:58.000 It gets people killed.

00:06:00.000 And we see cases like this, by the way, on a frequent basis.

00:06:05.000 There's another case that was reported by the New York Post just recently pointing out that a Georgia daycare worker who allegedly beat a one-year-old boy black and blue was released on bail.

00:06:20.000 According to the New York Post, a daycare worker in Georgia who was charged last month for allegedly beating a one-year-old until his face was black and blue, was released after posting bail.

00:06:29.000 The offender, 54, was let go on a 44,000 dollar bond on August 16th after she was charged with three counts of first degree child abuse and one of first degree aggravated battery.

00:06:40.000 Totally insane, obviously.

00:06:43.000 The pictures of the child, and he's a one-year-old child.

00:06:47.000 The kid is basically mutilated.

00:06:48.000 I mean, the kid, they she beat the living hell out of this kid. 1.00

00:06:50.000 You're looking at cuts on his face, black eyes, and everything.

00:06:54.000 The offender was arrested August 11th after a family at the Little Blessings Childcare in Bainbridge, close to the Florida border reported their one-year-old's grisly injury suffered at daycare one day.

00:07:04.000 The type looked into the camera lens the best he could, as one black and eye was nearly swollen shot.

00:07:09.000 He had a litany of bloodied scrapes along his cheeks and around his mouth as well.

00:07:12.000 I mean, it looks like she beat the living hell out of him.

00:07:15.000 The offender said that he was that originally this kid had been beaten by another kid with a plastic toy, but then surveillance video showed an adult, a 54-year-old adult walloping the sun, let out on bail.

00:07:28.000 No problem.

00:07:29.000 This system is broken and needs to be fixed.

00:07:31.000 That is first off.

00:07:33.000 Then you get to the racial angle.

00:07:34.000 The racial angle is less about race and more about media coverage of race.

00:07:38.000 When I say it's less about race, the reason I say that is because there are some people who attempt to turn this into some sort of salient point about the difference between races.

00:07:48.000 And let's be very clear.

00:07:49.000 Crime is a result of individual evil human action.

00:07:54.000 It is not inborn into any race. 1.00

00:07:56.000 Those who make this claim are silly.

00:08:00.000 What you have in a lot of areas are different cultural orientations toward crime, this is just a reality. 0.98

00:08:07.000 If you don't have fathers in the home, you end up with high crime areas.

00:08:10.000 If you have people who see other criminals around them acting like criminals, they act like criminals.

00:08:16.000 This is true regardless of race.

00:08:19.000 And what is a racial angle here.

00:08:22.000 And by the way, I should point out here that virtually all crime is intra-racial rather than interracial, meaning that, yes, there's far more by proportion black on white crime than white on black crime, but the vast majority of crime is white on white and black on black.

00:08:35.000 Okay, with that said, the media coverage is always radically disparate.

00:08:40.000 If a white person commits a crime against a black person, it is a national news story. 0.95

00:08:43.000 If a black person murders a white Ukrainian girl on the train in Charlotte, it gets zero mainstream media coverage. 0.99

00:08:51.000 Zero. 0.58

00:08:51.000 The New York Times has not covered it at all as of today. 0.58

00:08:55.000 At all.

00:08:57.000 Liz Wheeler points out that the New York Times dedicated Some 6,000 articles to George Floyd, some 1,200 articles to Trayvon Martin, some 56 to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, some 100 to Daniel Penny, and zero to Arena Zarutska.

00:09:13.000 And it is not out of line to point out the radical disparity in attention that is paid with regard to these headlines.

00:09:19.000 I mean, you can tell this with the legacy media all the time.

00:09:22.000 Whenever there's a white on black crime, the race of both the suspect and the perpetrator is mentioned.

00:09:26.000 Whenever it is a black on white crime, neither race is mentioned.

00:09:30.000 That's extraordinarily typical in the legacy media.

00:09:32.000 And the reason, if you ask people who work in legacy media, is they say they don't want to quote unquote reinforced stereotypes.

00:09:38.000 Well, actually, the only stereotype that's being reinforced when you don't report the news is that the legacy media are trash and they are not giving you the full information. 0.87

00:09:48.000 Donald Trump Jr. points out, quote, strangely, all the clowns with Ukraine flags in their bio are also all silent on this one. 0.54

00:09:55.000 And what he means by that is that many of the people who have the Ukraine flags in their bio are people who are very liberal.

00:10:01.000 People who are very much oriented against the Trump administration.

00:10:04.000 But when a Ukrainian woman gets killed on a subway by a black man, well, then it turns out that the intersectional hierarchy has been upended, and so they have to ignore.

00:10:12.000 And he's not wrong about that.

00:10:14.000 Okay, bottom line here is this.

00:10:16.000 As always, legacy media are perfectly willing to overlook stories that do not match their narrative.

00:10:21.000 It is narrative uber alice, it is the narrative above all.

00:10:24.000 And the death of this young woman will not become a national issue.

00:10:27.000 It will not spur a national conversation about crime rates or about policing, or about people getting out too early on bail.

00:10:38.000 It won't do any of those things because it doesn't match up with too many in the legacy media and what they wish the world were really all about.

00:10:45.000 Already coming up, the president of the United States authorizes blowing up a Venezuelan drug cartel boat, and a bunch of people, including Rand Paul, are very upset about it.

00:10:52.000 Plus, we introduce you to Isabel Brown.

00:10:55.000 She has a brand new show here at Daily Wire.

00:10:56.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:10:57.000 It's our first big show launch in a couple of years.

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00:13:02.000 All right, meanwhile, the other controversy that broke out over the weekend concerned the United States destroying this speedboat filled with drugs that was coming from Venezuela.

00:13:14.000 So, as we talked about last week on the show, the United States military blew out of the water.

00:13:22.000 A Venezuelan drug boat.

00:13:26.000 And a lot of people are upset about this, apparently.

00:13:28.000 And by a lot of people, I mean every Democrat in Rand Paul, which again, not super shocking.

00:13:33.000 The subject of this dispute, of course, was the Navy sinking a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean September 2nd.

00:13:38.000 The military said it carried 11 members of the crime gang Trendaraguas, smuggling drugs.

00:13:43.000 President Trump said on social media, he ordered the strike to prevent drugs from reaching the United States.

00:13:48.000 The vice president J.D. Vance, he tweeted out, killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

00:13:56.000 I feel like it's a pretty good use of our military.

00:13:58.000 I think the vice president is right on that.

00:14:00.000 The question a lot of people are asking is whether we should have simply sent the Coast Guard to board them, as we very frequently do with drug traffickers, as opposed to simply blowing up the boat.

00:14:09.000 And the administration, all they really have to do at this point is provide some defense suggesting these folks were armed or they suspected they were armed, they didn't want to risk the lives of American Coast Guard members.

00:14:19.000 And thus, they use deadly force.

00:14:21.000 Rand Paul, who, again, is quite isolationist on foreign policy, And you'll recall from making a gigantic speech during the Obama administration about the droning of terrorist Anwar al-Aliki, because Alaki happened to be an American citizen who is an actual terrorist abroad and Obama droned him.

00:14:39.000 So Rand Paul says, JD, I don't give a bleep, Vance, says killing people he accuses of a crime is the highest and best use of the military.

00:14:46.000 Well, well, no.

00:14:49.000 He says killing people abroad who are drug traffickers and members of Trendaragu abroad.

00:14:55.000 These are not American citizens, even.

00:14:56.000 This is like a step even down from what Rand Paul was saying about Anwar al-Alachi, is the highest and best use of the military.

00:15:02.000 And then he says, Did he ever read to kill a mockingbird?

00:15:04.000 Okay, this is just beyond parody.

00:15:05.000 I'm sorry.

00:15:06.000 Now Rand Paul has brought himself into the world of pair of the paradigm.

00:15:09.000 Again, when it comes to domestic spending, I like Rand Paul.

00:15:11.000 When it comes to foreign policy, I think that he uh is is misguided to say the least.

00:15:16.000 Did he ever read to kill a mockingbird? 0.94

00:15:17.000 Well, to kill a mockingbird is the story of the criminal defense of a black man wrongly accused of in the Jim Crow South.

00:15:24.000 I'm not sure how that's the same thing as Trendaragua members aboard a speed boat carrying cocaine. 0.77

00:15:30.000 Pretty sure that's not the same in international waters.

00:15:33.000 Like that doesn't match up particularly closely.

00:15:35.000 Said, did you ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?

00:15:39.000 And these are not American accused.

00:15:41.000 In America, you couldn't just like blow them up.

00:15:43.000 That wouldn't be a thing. 0.98

00:15:45.000 What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.

00:15:49.000 Well, no.

00:15:51.000 No. 0.99

00:15:52.000 If they're posing a threat to the homeland, if they're members of a terrorist gang, and we kill them, I think that's probably okay. 0.97

00:16:00.000 I think it's probably okay.

00:16:02.000 Certainly we have the international law authority to do so, by the way.

00:16:04.000 In international waters, the United States does not have some sort of burden to board the ship.

00:16:10.000 And you may not like the decision that was made.

00:16:12.000 You may ask for some sort of justification for why they didn't attempt to board the ship.

00:16:16.000 But the idea that you have to bring these people in and give them an American trial, that's not true.

00:16:20.000 Just by even international law, even maritime law, that's not true.

00:16:24.000 J.D. Vance was responded to by Brian Krasenstein, of course, a left-wing commentator over at Axe.

00:16:30.000 Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.

00:16:34.000 And J.D. Vance wrote back, I don't give a bleep what you call it.

00:16:37.000 Which um, okay.

00:16:41.000 I mean, honestly, point to JD.

00:16:43.000 Seriously.

00:16:44.000 I kind of agree with this. 0.87

00:16:45.000 Like this idea that if you just label things a war crime, that that makes them a war crime is quite silly.

00:16:50.000 You know, war crimes typically have a long and storied history with actual definitions.

00:16:55.000 No, it is not a war crime to blow a drug boat out of international waters steaming toward your shores.

00:16:59.000 That is not actually a war crime.

00:17:02.000 Well, it wasn't just Rand Paul who was upset about this.

00:17:05.000 It was Democrats. 0.99

00:17:05.000 Now, I gotta say, Democrats are just, they're so damned incompetent politically. 0.99

00:17:09.000 It really is incredible. 0.99

00:17:11.000 Like Democrats believe they're going to somehow make hay out of this.

00:17:16.000 They always go too far.

00:17:17.000 Instead of just saying, listen, is it legally questionable the president blowing up this boat?

00:17:22.000 It seems legally questionable.

00:17:23.000 Probably we should find out from the administration whether they actually thought that there was a threat to the national security sufficient to justify violent action as opposed to an attempt to stop and board the boat.

00:17:34.000 Right?

00:17:35.000 That would be a well-calibrated response.

00:17:37.000 You know it's not a well-calibrated response.

00:17:40.000 Jerry Nadler suggesting criminal charges for Americans.

00:17:44.000 Like, um, what?

00:17:46.000 What Jerry Jerry Nadler, straight from Elf on a shelf.

00:17:51.000 This newest outrage where uh they just bombed a uh uh sh uh uh uh uh a speed boat, which they asserted was carrying uh uh uh terrorists.

00:18:03.000 So you're the judge, jury, and executioner when you're not in a time of war.

00:18:07.000 For that, uh, the president would have face criminal charges.

00:18:11.000 Criminal charges.

00:18:13.000 Okay, so we blow up a drug boat filled with Trendaraguas members, and the Democrats are like the president should face criminal charges. 0.98

00:18:19.000 Keep going with this, guys.

00:18:20.000 Like, really.

00:18:20.000 You want to campaign on defending Trendaraguas?

00:18:23.000 Have fun with that.

00:18:24.000 Cory Booker, who still misguidedly thinks that he is going to be president of the United States, which is astonishing.

00:18:30.000 And he is the most phony person in the entire world, Cory Booker. 0.58

00:18:34.000 That dude is more inauthentic than Cheetos. 0.96

00:18:37.000 It is insane how inauthentic Cory Booker is.

00:18:40.000 Did you see his engagement pictures, Cory Booker's engagement pictures? 0.98

00:18:44.000 Everybody is making fun of these engagement pictures because they are ridiculous. 0.56

00:18:47.000 Uh he looks as though he was hired to do some sort of Sea Alice commercial. 0.75

00:18:53.000 That's what it looks like in his engagement photos.

00:18:57.000 There is not a straight man on earth who has ever looked like that in an engagement photo.

00:19:02.000 Like just not.

00:19:05.000 Not saying anything about Cory Booker there.

00:19:08.000 Or am I?

00:19:09.000 But it's um, but yeah, it's uh it's a look.

00:19:12.000 Anyway, so Corey Booker is very upset, also because if he pops in his angry eyes, he thinks, then the more he pops I call him Mr. Potato Head, because he kind of goes from normal to then his eyes pop out of his head and uh and then he puts on his angry eyes and uh and starts ranting about so he's ranting about the president blowing up a cartel boat.

00:19:34.000 Do you think that the president has the authority to unilaterally strike uh a boat carrying alleged drug smugglers?

00:19:44.000 No, he doesn't.

00:19:45.000 It is a massive expansion of presidential authority against uh the rules uh that uh abide by the use of military force, and it's another example of Donald Trump breaking laws within the United States, giving no justification for his action.

00:20:04.000 All that we've heard so far is that he might be relying on the 9-11 authorization for the use of military force, and that is outrageous.

00:20:16.000 Totally outrageous.

00:20:17.000 Totally outrageous.

00:20:18.000 Oh my gosh, this is where the Senate is gonna sign into Chad and demand its authority back.

00:20:22.000 Okay, sure.

00:20:24.000 All right.

00:20:25.000 Um, I I do not believe you.

00:20:27.000 I don't believe you.

00:20:29.000 Senator Mark Warner of Virginia doing the same routine.

00:20:31.000 He says the Senate should have been briefed about this strike on a drug vessel.

00:20:34.000 Again, Trump has a unique gift for drawing the worst out of his opponents.

00:20:37.000 It's truly amazing.

00:20:38.000 We have not been briefed on this.

00:20:40.000 This was a DOD.

00:20:42.000 Uh, it was not an Intel uh project, it was a DOD project.

00:20:46.000 But I my fear is there are still international laws of the sea about how the process of interdicting um these kind of boats.

00:20:56.000 There's supposed to be a firing of a warning shot.

00:20:58.000 You're supposed to try to take it peacefully.

00:21:00.000 My understanding of this boat, uh none of those procedures are followed.

00:21:06.000 Oh no.

00:21:06.000 None of the procedures were followed to help the Trendaragua members.

00:21:10.000 Again, you want to make the case that, you know, they should have followed those procedures and they could have followed.

00:21:15.000 Okay, but is this like a national emergency?

00:21:18.000 Oh no, the president blew up a bunch of drug traffickers.

00:21:20.000 I I don't think so.

00:21:21.000 Now, with that said, one of the questions that I have about the blowing up of the Trendaragua boat, which I am totally fine with in every possible way that it is possible to be fine with this, I'm fine with this, is whether it is actually a sort of kinetic action designed in the absence of a national strategy.

00:21:40.000 One of the things I've been watching with the foreign policy of the Trump administration so far, which in some areas has been really good.

00:21:46.000 I think in the Middle East, obviously Trump has been the best president in the Middle East in my lifetime, bar none, easy to see, from his Saudi forays to his attempts to draw common cause with Bahrain and UAE to his attempts to broker peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, to obviously his support for Israel and its war against its terrorist neighbors.

00:22:05.000 I think he's been fantastic there.

00:22:06.000 When it comes to Ukraine and Russia, I think the president has come around more and more to the correct position on that.

00:22:12.000 When it comes to global orientation, however, it seems that the Trump administration is ceding more and more ground because of these tariff wars to China and Russia.

00:22:20.000 And that is a real problem.

00:22:22.000 I was looking at a global map recently, and what you see is that China and Russia actually are spreading their influence Operations all the way from China in the East, all the way across to Turkey in the West.

00:22:35.000 Their ally Russia has been attempting to make moves on its own borders, obviously not just in Ukraine, but also in Georgia, in Kazakhstan, they're trying to make some moves now in Moldova.

00:22:44.000 You are seeing that Russia, China are trying to make inroads with India.

00:22:48.000 They're trying to make common cause with many, many countries in Africa.

00:22:51.000 And of course, they have solid ties with regimes like Brazil, like Lula in Brazil.

00:22:56.000 And so, whether the United States likes it or not, we are involved in a geopolitical competition with China and Russia.

00:23:03.000 And if we decide to withdraw from the world and simply blow up cartel boats as sort of our defense mechanism, that is not going to be enough.

00:23:11.000 It is not going to be enough because it turns out that geopolitics is about the entire geo.

00:23:15.000 It's about like the entire world, is not just about the Caribbean Sea and small drug boats that are traveling.

00:23:20.000 And so if blowing up a drug boat is sort of the muscular look at us, we're tough response to greater and greater Chinese encroachments against Taiwan, greater and greater Chinese encroachments in the Philippines. 0.66

00:23:35.000 If that's our response, that is not sufficient.

00:23:37.000 It's a point that's been being made by the Wall Street Journal that I think is correct.

00:23:41.000 On Friday, pointing out that actually the United States is not spending nearly enough on our military.

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00:26:02.000 The United States spent 16.9% of its economy on defense in 1952 during the Korean War, north of 8% during Vietnam.

00:26:09.000 After the explosion of government domestic spending on healthcare retirement, education, and much more, the Pentagon gets 3% of GDP.

00:26:16.000 The bipartisan commission on national defense strategy said last year, the United States last fought a global conflict during World War II, which ended nearly 80 years ago.

00:26:24.000 The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago today.

00:26:28.000 It is not prepared.

00:26:30.000 The Commission said the U.S. needs a military that's capable of fighting in more than one theater at once, not because we want to fight, but because if you want to drive other people off the ball and ensure that they don't start a fight, you have to make sure that they understand they will lose.

00:26:43.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, leaks to the press suggest that President Trump's not so new war department, because they're renaming the Department of Defense, the Department of War, which by the way I like, is about to roll out a strategy that won't come close to that standard.

00:26:54.000 It might put controlling the southern border ahead of deterring China, which again, we should close the southern border. 0.98

00:27:00.000 But that is a domestic law enforcement priority in many ways, as opposed to, for example, the Department of Defense, right?

00:27:08.000 The Department of Homeland Security is where much of our border control resides.

00:27:14.000 Whether President Trump truly believes in a broad American retreat from the world isn't clear, but his Pentagon is presiding over one.

00:27:21.000 And again, that seems correct to me.

00:27:24.000 It seems like the Elbridge Colby wing of the Defense Department and some allies in the White House are pushing an American withdrawal from the globe.

00:27:33.000 And what that means is a stronger Russia and a stronger China.

00:27:35.000 It means giving up territory.

00:27:37.000 It means giving up shipping lanes.

00:27:39.000 And that has real ramifications.

00:27:40.000 And so again, I'm very much fine with the president of the United States blowing drug boats out of the water.

00:27:46.000 But what really needs to happen is a much more aggressive defense of American interests.

00:27:50.000 That doesn't mean war.

00:27:51.000 Again, that means making sure that everyone knows that we will use methods at our disposal ranging from technological dissemination to economic power to the threat, the credible threat of military force to prevent our adversaries from gaining global control.

00:28:09.000 Russia certainly has not been deterred at this point.

00:28:11.000 Over the weekend, Russia struck Ukraine with the largest aerial bombardment of the three and a half year war, hitting a government building in the heart of the Capitol for the first time.

00:28:19.000 Russia fired 13 missiles and launched more than 800 attack drones, according to the Wall Street Journal, according to Ukraine's Air Force.

00:28:24.000 A record for the number of drones it has directed at Ukraine in a single night.

00:28:28.000 Air defense has intercepted four of the missiles and nearly 500 of the drones.

00:28:32.000 The attack, targeting cities and towns across the country, killed a young woman and her two-month-old child in the Capitol, according to Kiev's mayor.

00:28:38.000 It also struck the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, a government building located in an area of the Capitol that is one of the most protected by air defenses.

00:28:46.000 So apparently, photos posted by the Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Triodenko showed a damaged roof and the top two floors of the Hulking half crescent build building located not far from the presidential offices.

00:28:58.000 Vladimir Zelensky keeps pointing out that survival is basically the goal for Ukraine at this point.

00:29:03.000 Here was Zelensky over the weekend.

00:29:06.000 Did he occupy it?

00:29:07.000 No.

00:29:08.000 It's mean, it's meant that he didn't win.

00:29:14.000 It's meant that we have Ukraine. 0.87

00:29:16.000 But he still wants to win.

00:29:18.000 Yes.

00:29:19.000 But till he didn't occupy us, we win.

00:29:24.000 And I think so, because we have our country.

00:29:27.000 And of course, he understands it very clearly.

00:29:31.000 He wants, of course, to occupy us totally.

00:29:35.000 For him, this victory.

00:29:39.000 Okay, so obviously, Zelensky is correct about this.

00:29:42.000 This is Putin's goal.

00:29:43.000 And this is why the United States should in fact be facilitating the shipment of armaments to Ukrainians, capable of allowing them to make sufficient pushback to get Putin to the table.

00:29:52.000 Putin obviously believes that if he pushes hard enough, he is going to be able to get the kind of settlement that he wants that leaves Ukraine vulnerable to further invasions or to the possibility of a sort of Russian pushover election in Ukraine that ends with a Russia-friendly Ukraine, as opposed to a Western-friendly Ukraine.

00:30:09.000 This is the priority.

00:30:10.000 And the West should know that, just as the West should understand that China's goal in its entire geopolitical strategy is to gain more power at the expense of the United States, very clearly.

00:30:20.000 Now, what that means, first and foremost, is that President Trump should be focusing on the economy.

00:30:26.000 Because if the economy goes south, then forget about everything else, the economic power of the United States, which backs the military wherewithal of the United States and also prevents Democrats who would love to surrender the globe to the Chinese and the Russians from taking over. 0.54

00:30:40.000 The economy must remain strong.

00:30:42.000 Well, at the end of last week, there was a jobs report that was quite weak.

00:30:48.000 That jobs report suggested that there had been essentially a small increase in the unemployment rate, but basically no job growth for the last several months because there was a revision downward.

00:31:00.000 That job report, again, underscores the idea that there should be interest rate drops, but it does not mean the economy is booming for sure, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:31:10.000 And remember, this is Trump's new Bureau of Labor statistics.

00:31:13.000 He fired the head of the BLS.

00:31:14.000 The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August.

00:31:17.000 The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.3%.

00:31:20.000 The revised data showed employment actually fell by 13,000 in June.

00:31:23.000 That is the first net loss of jobs since the end of 2020 when the pandemic was raging.

00:31:29.000 Some of that is undoubtedly the terraforce.

00:31:31.000 Some of that is just generalized uncertainty about the direction of the economy.

00:31:36.000 And certainly the idea the economy is booming right now is not true.

00:31:40.000 The PE ratios in the stock market are incredibly high, meaning the price to earnings ratios.

00:31:44.000 That means that people are essentially overpaying for stocks.

00:31:47.000 That is particularly true at the top end of the tech market.

00:31:50.000 I speak with many of the tech leaders in this space.

00:31:53.000 Even they believe that a lot of these stock prices are inflated.

00:31:57.000 Well, Kristen Walker had on Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, who may be the man standing between America and economic downturn, and confronted him over the poor jobs report.

00:32:06.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:32:08.000 Let me drill down a little bit more on these numbers, Mr. Secretary.

00:32:12.000 The President said that these tariffs are going to spark a manufacturing renaissance, he called it.

00:32:17.000 But since he announced them in April, the U.S. has actually lost 42,000 manufacturing jobs.

00:32:23.000 Are these numbers proof that the tariffs are failing to produce the manufacturing jobs that President Trump promised?

00:32:32.000 Again, Kristen, it it's been a couple of months, and with the manufacturing sector, as you know, you know, we we can't snap our fingers and have factories built.

00:32:41.000 So what we are seeing is a record amount of investment intentions.

00:32:47.000 We've seen a CapEx boom in the first half of the year, and I think that was actually held back.

00:32:52.000 The one big beautiful bill, which has full expensing for factories and equipment was passed on July 4th.

00:32:59.000 Many companies were holding back then.

00:33:03.000 So we are going to see construction jobs and we're going to see manufacturing jobs.

00:33:09.000 Okay, so he says there's going to be a manufacturing uptick.

00:33:11.000 There has not been a manufacturing uptick, largely because many of the manufacturing centers in the United States, guess what they use to make their products?

00:33:19.000 Imports.

00:33:19.000 A good case in point of this, by the way, is what just happened over at Hyundai.

00:33:23.000 So the United States had made a deal with South Korea on trade, and Hyundai had announced that they were going to be building new factories in the United States.

00:33:31.000 And this was touted by the administration as a giant win.

00:33:33.000 What actually happened?

00:33:34.000 Well, it turns out that Hyundai went to a subcontractor, that subcontractor found illegal South Korean labor and was using illegal South Korean labor to lower the labor costs.

00:33:42.000 Because when you artificially boost the prices in one area, i.e.

00:33:46.000 labor, then either the company has to raise prices, making it less competitive, or they are going to seek another way out.

00:33:51.000 That is not trying to get Hyundai off the hook.

00:33:53.000 If they violated the law, then they should pay for it.

00:33:55.000 And people who are here illegally should in fact be deported. 1.00

00:33:57.000 It is to point out there are downstream ramifications of economic policies like trade restrictionism.

00:34:04.000 This has also created a bit of a political crisis between the United States and South Korea.

00:34:09.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea and the U.S. have reached a deal to release Korean citizens who were detained last week in a large-scale immigration raid at a Hyundai motor plant in Georgia, according to the Office of the South Korean president.

00:34:21.000 Apparently, it's unclear whether the detained South Koreans are allowed to leave voluntarily or if they're going to be deported.

00:34:27.000 If you're deported, then that means that you're banned from re-entering the United States for many years.

00:34:32.000 No criminal charges have been filed at this point.

00:34:35.000 Apparently, most of these people were visa holders who overstayed their visas.

00:34:39.000 That makes you an illegal immigrant, obviously. 0.51

00:34:41.000 None of the detainees were directly employed by Hyundai, according to the company.

00:34:44.000 LG Energy, which is the subcontractor, said 47 of its employees had been arrested, as well as 250 workers at subcontracted companies.

00:34:52.000 It also said it was halting most business trips to the United States and directing employees on assignment to the U.S. to return home immediately or remain in their accommodations because they're afraid that the their employees presumably are going to get caught up in some sort of drag net here.

00:35:04.000 But these are the unintended consequences of tariff policies and immigration policies, what you end up with.

00:35:09.000 I mean, the goal of them is to artificially increase the price of labor above what it normally would be in a free-flowing market.

00:35:17.000 And when that happens, people might try to escape the rules, which is what happened with Hyundai.

00:35:22.000 Again, they violated the law.

00:35:23.000 They should face whatever punishment they're supposed to face.

00:35:25.000 But just be aware, there's going to be a an inefficiency in the market, which means higher prices for your cars.

00:35:31.000 And then, because it costs more, there'll be a slump in demand.

00:35:34.000 That is typically what happens with the tariffs, is there is an adjustment up in price followed by a slump in demand because the prices are too high.

00:35:41.000 Scott Bessens is maintaining that companies are saying the tariffs are helping their business.

00:35:45.000 This is not actually.

00:35:47.000 I think by the data true.

00:35:48.000 By the data, most companies, particularly the manufacturing sector, have been saying actually it's it's harming their business.

00:35:56.000 At Treasury, we have about two management teams come through a day, And overwhelmingly, we are hearing from companies they plan to increase CapEx, they plan to increase employment.

00:36:08.000 We are seeing a record amount, what's going to be a record amount of foreign direct investment.

00:36:13.000 And for every John Deere, we have companies who are telling us the tariffs have helped our business.

00:36:19.000 We're increasing CapEx and we're going to increase employment.

00:36:24.000 Okay, so uh again, it may be helping particularly this is what happens.

00:36:28.000 Tariffs have specific benefits at the expense of broad costs.

00:36:32.000 There may be a couple of companies that benefit.

00:36:34.000 There can be a lot of companies that do not, and consumers broadly are going to have to pay the price for that.

00:36:38.000 In fact, there is a survey done just a couple of weeks ago by Industry Week that was pointing out that nearly 70% of business leaders who responded to Endeavor Business Intelligence early this month said the trade measures imposed by the Trump administration, as well as some retaliatory actions by trading partners are significantly affecting their operations.

00:36:57.000 Another eight percent say the impact is starting to be felt now.

00:37:00.000 Only 19% of executives say they don't expect any sort of significant impact here.

00:37:04.000 And again, manufacturing has not increased because of this.

00:37:06.000 The truth is, once again, manufacturing has declined in the United States as a result of labor costs being too high and technology replacing many of these jobs.

00:37:16.000 The reality is that it's not that we shipped all the jobs to China, it's the technology took a huge swath of manufacturing jobs, which is why manufacturing output in the United States is basically increased.

00:37:25.000 It's been on the increase for the last 20 years.

00:37:27.000 Manufacturing employment has been going down because machines are doing more than human beings used to do.

00:37:33.000 Well, Scott Besson is very worried, apparently, about the idea that the Supreme Court may strike down the tariffs.

00:37:38.000 Remember, a federal appellate court has held that Trump's tariffs are actually unconstitutional, which, by the way, they are.

00:37:44.000 OK, I'm just going to say it.

00:37:46.000 Article one gives tariff power to the Congress.

00:37:49.000 It does not give unilateral, broad-scale national emergency tariff power to the president of the United States based on trade deficits.

00:37:56.000 This was always poorly predicated.

00:37:59.000 In terms of its legality, my guess that the Supreme Court will strike down the tariffs on the basis of a violation of the Article One powers granted to Congress and not to the President.

00:38:09.000 Scott Besson points out that this would have some pretty negative ramifications for the economy because many of the billions of dollars that have been taken in through tariffs would then have to be refunded to the companies that were paying the tariffs.

00:38:20.000 Okay, but you know what else it would do?

00:38:22.000 It would ensure that manufacturers aren't paying inflated prices, that consumers aren't paying inflated prices, that efficiencies go back on the table, and maybe Congress should get back involved.

00:38:30.000 Again, if Congress wants to tariff the living hell out of China, or if the President wants to do so, using national security rationales, that's fine. 0.88

00:38:37.000 Tariffing India and Vietnam for the same rationales makes no sense at all. 0.55

00:38:41.000 I am confident that we will win at the Supreme Court, but there are numerous other avenues that we can take.

00:38:48.000 They diminish President Trump's negotiating uh position, but there are numerous in terms of and remember this isn't about the dollars.

00:38:58.000 This is about balance.

00:39:00.000 The dollars are an after amount.

00:39:03.000 Would you offer rebates, though?

00:39:04.000 Are you prepared to offer rebates?

00:39:05.000 So uh we would have to give a refund on about half the uh the tariffs, which which would be terrible for the Treasury.

00:39:12.000 And you're prepared to give those refunds.

00:39:14.000 Well, I mean, there's no be prepared if the court says it, we'd have to do it.

00:39:20.000 Okay, so you know it'll be interesting to see what happens.

00:39:22.000 Honestly, the best thing that could happen for the Trump economy right now is a lower interest rate by the Federal Reserve and the tariffs going away.

00:39:29.000 That'd be the best thing for the economy.

00:39:31.000 If both those things happen, then what you'll end up with is actually a consumer and investment boom.

00:39:36.000 So maybe that's gonna happen in quarter four.

00:39:38.000 It definitely could.

00:39:41.000 I mean, Scott Besson has been saying the stock market is is doing great.

00:39:44.000 That is his evidence that things are going well.

00:39:45.000 Here he was.

00:39:48.000 You're taking these from earnings calls, and on earnings calls, they have to give the Braconian scenario.

00:39:55.000 There aren't companies coming out and saying, oh, because of the tariffs, we're doing this, but I can tell you that whether it's Micron or Apple, they are upping their investments in the United States.

00:40:07.000 And you know, Kristen, if things are so bad, why was the GDP 3.3%?

00:40:12.000 Why is the stock market at a new high?

00:40:14.000 Because you know, with President Trump, we care both about big companies and small companies, and you're you're quoting big companies, but the big company index, the SP is at a new high.

00:40:26.000 So the real question to be asked here is whether President Trump is sort of outperforming What otherwise would have been.

00:40:31.000 And the answer is not really at this point.

00:40:33.000 And that's largely again because of the tariffs and the roiling in the economy.

00:40:37.000 So I asked our friends and sponsors over a comment.

00:40:39.000 What was the SP 500 on January 21st, 2025?

00:40:42.000 And what is it today?

00:40:43.000 If we use the rate of increase in the SP 500 between January 21st, 2021, when Joe Biden took office, and January 21st, 2025, how high would the SP 500 have been if it had continued growing at that rate?

00:40:56.000 So in other words, is President Trump's rate of growth in the S P 500 higher or less high, or the same as it was when Joe Biden was president of the United States?

00:41:06.000 And the answer is on January 21st, 2025, the SP 500 closed at 6,049.24.

00:41:12.000 As of today, the SP 500 is 6,481.50.

00:41:17.000 If the index had continued growing at the same annual rate observed from January 21st, 2021 to January 21st, 2025, it would now be approximately 6,495.41.

00:41:28.000 So basically the same.

00:41:29.000 The answer is essentially the same.

00:41:32.000 And that's what comments says.

00:41:33.000 If the SP 500 had continued at this compound annual growth rate, the expected value for September 8th, 2025 would be, again, that's 6,495 as opposed to 6,481.

00:41:47.000 So the actual index is very close to the projected value, indicating similar growth behavior over the analyzed period.

00:41:52.000 Here's the thing.

00:41:53.000 Trump is better for the economy than Joe Biden.

00:41:55.000 So the only thing that's been holding this back is the roiling economic turmoil because of things like tariffs.

00:42:00.000 All right, coming up, Democrats are still trying to figure out what to do about Trump and they're looking forward to 2028 Is that why Bernie Sanders is campaigning with AOC and Zoran Mamdani?

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00:43:22.000 Well, meanwhile, the situation in Chicago continues to percolate.

00:43:26.000 The president of the United States sent a meme over the weekend that got people very upset.

00:43:30.000 If you keep falling for his memes, I'm sorry, but like I don't know what to tell you.

00:43:34.000 The guy loves memes.

00:43:35.000 Okay, the president of the United States loves the memes.

00:43:38.000 He doesn't mean he's gonna napalm Chicago.

00:43:40.000 Somebody put up a meme of Trump as Robert DeVault in apocalypse now.

00:43:44.000 You know, like the helicopters in the background and the napalm explosions and everything.

00:43:48.000 And said, Chipalypse now, meaning like Chicago apocalypse.

00:43:52.000 And President Trump said, I love the smell of deportations in the morning.

00:43:55.000 Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.

00:43:58.000 Okay, this is total trolling, obviously.

00:44:00.000 He's not gonna declare war on Chicago.

00:44:02.000 He's not escape from New York.

00:44:03.000 He's not gonna start nuking parts of Chicago.

00:44:05.000 Napalm is not going to fall into the center of the of the lube.

00:44:08.000 It's that this is not a thing.

00:44:10.000 But of course, this at Democrats off.

00:44:12.000 Of course, of course.

00:44:13.000 Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, who, by the way, over the weekend announced he's not going to run for president in 2028.

00:44:17.000 We'll get to that in a minute because it's kind of fascinating.

00:44:19.000 Here he was, not running for president, but still being on the national news show, saying it's embarrassing that Trump would send such a thing.

00:44:27.000 I call it embarrassing.

00:44:29.000 Um, I would call it performative.

00:44:31.000 And and and I do want to be clear about some of the stats when people talk about how you know we've watched a decrease because of the National Guard.

00:44:38.000 Let's be clear about some of the stats that the National Guard are responsible during this occupation for 744 cubic yards of mulch spread, eight hundred and eighty-six bags of trash collected, two hundred and seventy feet of fence painted.

00:44:52.000 You know what we don't have stats on?

00:44:54.000 How many illegal guns has the National Guard seized?

00:44:57.000 How many drug busts has the National Guard done?

00:45:02.000 Okay, well, what we do know is that the crime rates have declined markedly in Washington, D.C. because the National Guard is on the street.

00:45:09.000 President Trump was asked about whether he's going to actually go to war with Chicago.

00:45:12.000 This is like red meat to President Trump.

00:45:13.000 It's just catnip.

00:45:14.000 He throws out Chum in the water, and the sharks have come, and then he just goes fishing.

00:45:18.000 So here we go.

00:45:19.000 The press pretending they think that Trump is going to declare war on the city of Chicago.

00:45:23.000 Are you trying to go to war with Chicago?

00:45:26.000 When you say that, darling, that's fake news.

00:45:29.000 I don't think Trump will defend.

00:45:30.000 Listen, be quiet.

00:45:31.000 Listen.

00:45:32.000 You don't listen.

00:45:33.000 You're never listening.

00:45:34.000 That's why you're second grade.

00:45:36.000 We're not going to war.

00:45:38.000 We're going to clean up our city.

00:45:39.000 We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend.

00:45:43.000 That's not war.

00:45:44.000 That's common sense.

00:45:47.000 Okay.

00:45:47.000 Again, they're just playing right into his hands with this sort of stuff.

00:45:49.000 Tom Homan, the borders are.

00:45:51.000 He says what we actually are going to be doing is we're going to be going into sanctuary cities with ice and you know, actually policing the law.

00:45:57.000 Here was Tom Homan on with Jake Tapper at CNN explaining ICE agents will be flooding the zone.

00:46:03.000 Governor Priscrew's been notified from day one.

00:46:05.000 Again, I went there and started an operation right after uh the inauguration.

00:46:10.000 Uh ICE agents have been uh flooding the zone in Chicago for a while now.

00:46:14.000 So he's aware of what's going on.

00:46:16.000 I mean, he knows we've been there.

00:46:17.000 We're that we were there last week.

00:46:19.000 We're there the week before.

00:46:20.000 Now we're, you know, again, we're going to send additional resources to all sanctuary cities, but this isn't new to him.

00:46:25.000 He knows we've been there.

00:46:26.000 He's failed to work with us.

00:46:29.000 Okay, so he is right about this, obviously.

00:46:33.000 And if Democrats wish to take the other side of this, they're going to lose.

00:46:36.000 So what are Democrats going to do? 0.72

00:46:37.000 Well, some of them are just going to pray that President Trump dies.

00:46:40.000 Elon Mistall over at MSNBC literally said that over the weekend. 0.91

00:46:43.000 He said that he's praying for Trump to die, which is a hell of a dig.

00:46:47.000 I'm not a praying man, but I pray for the last cheeseburger, right? 0.60

00:46:51.000 The big cheeseburger in the sky to come and rid us of this problem. 0.88

00:46:57.000 Literally praying for the death of the president.

00:46:59.000 So that's that's solid stuff there on the Dean Obadiah show on Sirius XM.

00:47:03.000 Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom is trying to set himself up for a run, obviously, against whoever the Republican nominee is in 2028.

00:47:11.000 He says our economy is in a downward spiral, but don't worry, the GOP are spending their time cheer cheers, diet cokes, cheersing?

00:47:18.000 I don't know what that means.

00:47:19.000 At a new exclusive club.

00:47:21.000 So he calls it the Rose Garden Club, is I guess what it is now called over there.

00:47:25.000 He says it's turning into a mar a wago over at the White House, and the economy is going down. 0.88

00:47:30.000 Wes Moore, again, I think that Westmore is one of the better candidates in the Democratic pantheon.

00:47:35.000 As I mean he's like an amazing, amazing candidate.

00:47:37.000 But if you take a look at the Democratic primaries and the black population in South Carolina, which is extraordinarily important in a Democratic primary, Wes Moore had an upper hand there, and he says he's not running in 2028.

00:47:49.000 Now, maybe all that stalk.

00:47:50.000 Maybe he's lying because he's running for reelected in governor uh as governor of Maryland.

00:47:54.000 He doesn't want to leave the door open to the possibility he's defeated because he is actually putting his eyes on the top prize.

00:48:02.000 But he did say over and over and over here he's not running for president in 2028.

00:48:06.000 Do you rule out a run for president, Governor?

00:48:09.000 Yeah, I'm not running for president.

00:48:10.000 You rule it out?

00:48:11.000 Yes, I'm not going to be able to do that.

00:48:12.000 You completely rule it out?

00:48:13.000 I'm so excited about what we're doing.

00:48:15.000 That we've gone from 43rd in the country in unemployment to now one of the lowest unemployment rates.

00:48:19.000 We've had amongst the fastest drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States of America.

00:48:23.000 Our population is growing.

00:48:24.000 Maryland is moving.

00:48:26.000 And so I'm really excited about going back in front of the people of my state and asking for another term.

00:48:32.000 Okay, so you know it'll be fascinating to see if that's true.

00:48:35.000 If he's not running, who's left?

00:48:36.000 So Newsom, obviously.

00:48:38.000 But then you have the Sanders Momdani AOC wing.

00:48:40.000 And they were all campaigning together over the weekend.

00:48:42.000 This is why I say the economy must maintain.

00:48:45.000 Because if the economy does not maintain, what happens next is really, really ugly.

00:48:48.000 What happens next is the rise of the Sanders movement on the left.

00:48:52.000 So the fighting oligarchy chant, it doesn't make a lot of sense to people right now. 0.87

00:48:55.000 It just sounds silly.

00:48:56.000 But if the economy starts to go into serious recession, and if the only people who have made money over the course of the past couple of years are people in the tech bubble, that's gonna be a real problem for Republicans, like a serious problem.

00:49:09.000 So, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Zaran Mamdanni, and Bernie Sanders all went to a story on Saturday, and then they took a picture in a cafe.

00:49:19.000 I have no idea who paid for lunch.

00:49:21.000 I can assume no one.

00:49:23.000 It will build the taxpayer, I assume.

00:49:24.000 Bernie Sanders then said he would not allow Elon Musk to become the world's first trillionaire. 0.98

00:49:28.000 First of all, why is that up to Bernie, the useless piece of Bernie's the worst guy? 1.00

00:49:34.000 Bernie is just a leech on the ass of society. 1.00

00:49:36.000 That's all he is. 1.00

00:49:37.000 He has been this for 80 long years. 1.00

00:49:39.000 A leech sucking the blood out of the ass of society. 1.00

00:49:42.000 It's just amazing that this person is considered a useful person when he is legitimately one of the most counterproductive Americans ever born. 1.00

00:49:49.000 Truly.

00:49:50.000 Here he is explaining he's not going to allow Musk to become the first trillionaire as though he has some sort of magical ability to downgrade the stock value of Tesla.

00:49:59.000 We are living in crazy worlds.

00:50:05.000 Millions of people struggling to put food on the table and making one guy a trillionaire is insane.

00:50:13.000 not about it this country is supposed to be about and we are not going to allow that to happen we're not going to allow anybody to be so rich because we need more poor people we're talking That's what we need.

00:50:28.000 Zero sum thinking at its finest.

00:50:30.000 He says people should be jumping up and down in support of Zoran Mamdani.

00:50:33.000 This is why when people say personal irritation.

00:50:37.000 When people trot Bernie Sanders out, like, well, you know, he is Jewish. 0.97

00:50:41.000 So what he says about the Middle East, Bernie Sanders is as Jewish as a ham sandwich.

00:50:46.000 He has nothing to do with Judaism.

00:50:47.000 Nothing.

00:50:48.000 He was born into a Jewish family, and that's it.

00:50:50.000 That's the whole thing.

00:50:51.000 Otherwise, Zip Zilch Zero.

00:50:54.000 Him speaking on behalf of Judaism is the same as me speaking on behalf of Islam. 0.87

00:50:57.000 We have pretty much the same relationship with those respective religions.

00:51:00.000 Well, here is Bernie Sanders.

00:51:04.000 I find it hard to understand how the major Democratic leaders in New York State are not supporting the Democratic candidate.

00:51:15.000 One might think, one might think that if a candidate starting at 2% in the polls gets 50,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, gets young people involved in the political process, gets non-traditional voters to vote.

00:51:35.000 Democratic leaders will be jumping up and down.

00:51:38.000 This is our guy.

00:51:39.000 Well, so what does Zorma and Donnie have to say that is so valuable?

00:51:47.000 Well, I mean, he says that he's still in favor of government run grocery stores because while they've never worked anywhere this time, they definitely will.

00:51:52.000 You know, I say to that example, as well as the examples of our own failures of city government right here in New York City, that we have to prove not only the efficacy, but the excellence of this idea.

00:52:04.000 Because for every one example that you can point to, there's another of another municipality today considering opening a city-run grocery store.

00:52:11.000 But to me, the most important thing is the outcome.

00:52:13.000 This is something I believe will work.

00:52:15.000 We will bring the best and the brightest to deliver it, and it will be five stores at the cost of 60 million dollars, which is less than half the city is already spending on subsidizing corporate supermarkets.

00:52:26.000 Oh, that's just uh yeah.

00:52:28.000 It'll work this time.

00:52:29.000 Socialism has never been tried.

00:52:31.000 Also, he says, well, how are you gonna get he's asked, how are you gonna get you know rich people on board so that they don't leave the city?

00:52:36.000 And he's like, because they will recognize that when we seize all their wealth and execute them, their lives too have become better.

00:52:43.000 We have a number of New Yorkers who are doing quite well.

00:52:47.000 The top one percent of New York City earns a million dollars or more a year.

00:52:51.000 And my vision is not one where they leave, it is one where they stay.

00:52:54.000 It is one of those.

00:52:56.000 In part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase even their quality of life.

00:53:02.000 Because when you ask New Yorkers, what is it that is making them feel uneasy in this city?

00:53:07.000 You often hear from them about the cleanliness of our city, the safety of our city, the affordability of our city.

00:53:12.000 We are not asking to raise these taxes for the sake of it.

00:53:15.000 We're asking so that we can actually make the slowest buses in the country fast and free, so that we can actually create a department of community safety that would deploy dedicated teams of mental health outreach workers to the top hundred stations of the highest levels of mental health crises and homelessness.

00:53:31.000 That relationship proving that that tax dollar leads to that investment.

00:53:37.000 Yes, I'm sure that's going to prevent people from leaving your city as you completely destroy their businesses.

00:53:42.000 I'm sure that that will do it.

00:53:43.000 Your magical capacity to run the largest city on planet Earth in terms of commerce is going to be so great that all the rich people are going to just allow you to suck money out of their bank account, destroy their incomes, and also rent control everything inside.

00:53:57.000 Yes, I'm sure it'll all work out great.

00:53:59.000 Maybe this time when you try socialism, it will it will totally work.

00:54:02.000 Well, as you know, we here at Daily Wire, we are celebrating our 10th anniversary, and we figured there is no better way for us to celebrate our 10th anniversary than bringing aboard somebody who is already a star but is gonna be a gigantic star in the media landscape.

00:54:15.000 And that person, of course, is Isabel Brown.

00:54:17.000 Her Isabel Brown show launches today.

00:54:19.000 We could not be more pumped about this.

00:54:20.000 You are going to love it.

00:54:21.000 She's not just doing politics, she's doing culture and everything in between. 0.99

00:54:24.000 Isabel, thanks so much for taking the time and congratulations.

00:54:28.000 Thank you so much for having me, Ben.

00:54:30.000 We've been incredibly hard at work with all the bells and whistles, and we're so excited for the day to finally be here.

00:54:38.000 So why don't we start by introducing you to the audience?

00:54:40.000 Like, who are you and why should people listen to the show?

00:54:45.000 I'm so excited to get to know the Daily Wire community a little bit better over the next few months and to bring my existing following as well to our amazing family across the network.

00:54:54.000 I've been working in political commentary and social media and the heart of the culture movement, really by happenstance, since I was a college student on my campus at Colorado State University.

00:55:05.000 I set out to do my career as a surgeon hopeful, studying biomedical sciences, and found very quickly that even my classes like human gross anatomy and physiology and organic chemistry really weren't about what I thought science had a foundation in, that pursuit of objective truth, but instead was a lot more political propaganda than anything else.

00:55:26.000 I became a student activist on my college campus, hosting speaking events with conservative speakers and handing out socialism sucks buttons as a turning point USA chapter president from 2015 to 2019.

00:55:38.000 And just as COVID started to hit and thrust our entire generation into the digital space, started experimentally posting as a social media content creator, and a few years later, God has just totally transformed my life.

00:55:50.000 I obviously didn't end up going to medical school.

00:55:52.000 I have the chance to do media every day as a career.

00:55:55.000 But I like to think that it's still based in that pursuit of objective truth and sharing it with others the same way I loved as a scientist.

00:56:04.000 Well, again, we are we are so excited to be launching this show with you, especially because again, we're bringing new things in the second decade of Daily Wire.

00:56:11.000 Why don't you introduce people to what the first episode is going to be?

00:56:14.000 What kind of stuff are people going to be getting from the show?

00:56:17.000 Great question.

00:56:17.000 And it's something that's been sitting with me for a long time.

00:56:20.000 How do we want to launch this show appropriately?

00:56:22.000 I don't know about you, Ben, but as a creator and as a commentator myself, I have felt incredibly burnt out over the last few years of the constant cycle we often see in the conservative movement's media of just picking from obscurity the most random, insane left-wing video we see on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter and reacting to it and saying, hey, this thing over here is really, really bad and just continuing to manufacture outrage.

00:56:46.000 I don't like looking at those views anymore.

00:56:49.000 I don't like enjoying that part of the commentary anymore.

00:56:51.000 And I'm just finding that even in the wake of the 2024 election last November, and we have a small victory in front of us, we still haven't won the culture war, but we're acting like the battle is over.

00:57:03.000 So what we really need more than anything else is an optimistic view forward.

00:57:07.000 Now that we have this chance right in front of us to transform society for the better forever, to embrace what is good and true and beautiful.

00:57:14.000 What does that actually look like?

00:57:16.000 What is a new blueprint for the next generation?

00:57:19.000 And how can we build a new American dream?

00:57:21.000 So we cover how the heck did we get here with the very strategic playbook of the left that's been operational, largely driven by the communist party for the last 60 plus years.

00:57:31.000 And now what the heck do we do with it and take that first step forward together in our first episode today.

00:57:38.000 So Isabel, unlike me, you are a big advocate for Generation Z. You say that Generation Z could be the most conservative generation that we've seen.

00:57:45.000 Uh as you know, I've become a crotchie old as a crotchy old man when I was 20, and I'm a crotchy old man when I'm 40.

00:57:50.000 And I hate to think what it'll be like when I'm 80 when I'm actually old.

00:57:53.000 But, you know, let's talk about your view of Generation Z because it is different, and you're seeing changes in the culture for young people that are hopeful, actually.

00:58:03.000 I am.

00:58:03.000 I see it every single day, Ben, starting when I was just a college student as a Gen Zier on my own campus and now interacting with millions of Gen Z eers, not just in America, but across Western civilization in the digital space today.

00:58:15.000 Uh, I didn't get a lot of love for being the Gen Z apologist over the last few years that in fact have been laughed offset at Fox News and Newsmax and just about everywhere else with this rose-colored glasses idea that this next generation really is going to save our country. 0.96

00:58:29.000 But I fundamentally do believe it.

00:58:31.000 You're watching Gen Z not just become overwhelmingly culturally conservative, uh, but also politically conservative, as we know from this last election cycle.

00:58:39.000 It was Gen Z decisively that delivered the victory for President Donald Trump thanks to mostly TikTok trends and Instagram videos. 0.83

00:58:46.000 Uh, but I think that cultural piece is really the most fascinating concept of all of this.

00:58:51.000 93%, according to Newsweek of Gen Zers want to get married.

00:58:55.000 We're having children younger.

00:58:56.000 We're embracing religion when no one expected us ever to, in a very traditional sense, uh rooted in traditional Christianity and other religious traditions across our country.

00:59:06.000 There's a resurgence of free speech, as we even talk about on the show today.

00:59:10.000 Look at what's happening in Temecula Valley School District in California when grown adults are trying to say that you are mentally unstable as a child.

00:59:18.000 Girl, if you don't want boys in your locker room, middle school girls are walking out of their classroom this week with big giant signs that say no boys in girls' spaces. 1.00

00:59:28.000 There really does seem to be a sense of moral clarity and a hunger, not just for conservative ideas, but objective truth in this next generation and wanting to build a future that we can be proud to call home again and share with every generation that comes after us.

00:59:44.000 Now, folks, you can see why Isabel Brown is going to be the newest star with Daily Wire Plus.

00:59:49.000 Go check out Daily Wire Plus right now.

00:59:51.000 You can also get her show anywhere you download podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Apple.

00:59:55.000 Go check her out right now. 0.98

00:59:56.000 Today is day one.

00:59:58.000 So be on board from the very beginning.

00:59:59.000 Isabel, again, congratulations and welcome to the big time.

01:00:02.000 Thank you.

01:00:03.000 Thank you so much, Ben.

01:00:04.000 Excited to be here.

01:00:06.000 The reason that Daily Wire Plus is launching this show is because we believe in Isabel and all of the principles she stands for.

01:00:12.000 She's a fresh perspective, fearless commentary on the toughest political and cultural topics.

01:00:16.000 Awesome insights you're not going to hear anywhere else.

01:00:18.000 Isabel is determined to go on offense to save the West and help build a new American dream for her generation. 0.99

01:00:24.000 The youths.

01:00:25.000 That forward-looking vision is exactly what we actually all need right now.

01:00:28.000 It's a rallying call for young conservatives to not just defend our values, but to actively shape the future.

01:00:32.000 So don't miss her debut episode.

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