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00:00:40.000Well, folks, unfortunately, the spate of left wing violence continues.
00:00:43.000While I was off Fort Rosh Hashanah, apparently there was a sniper who killed two migrants and wounded several others in a shooting at Dallas.
00:00:50.000Immigration and customs enforcement, the shooter has now been identified.
00:00:54.000The bloodbath unfolded at the facility in the Texas City shortly after 7 a.m. Central Time on Wednesday morning, according to the UK Daily Mail.
00:01:02.000That is when the gunman targeted migrants on an unmarked transport van before killing himself.
00:01:07.000Multiple law enforcement sources said that the shooter who opened fire from the rooftop of a building adjacent to the ICE detention center also happened to leave some pretty obvious clues as to what his ideology was.
00:01:21.000Apparently, the victims were ICE detainees.
00:01:23.000No law enforcement was injured in the shooting.
00:01:25.000Officials said at a press conference on Wednesday morning, bullets found by the shooter's body were engraved with anti-ICE messages, including a bullet that literally just said on it, anti-ICE.
00:01:34.000So obviously, this has now become a meme among assassins, would-be assassins, killers, has been to brand the ammunition that they are using to put writing on the gun.
00:01:45.000We have now seen this at multiple shootings, multiple terror attacks.
00:01:48.000The gunman apparently opened fire from an elevated position as migrants were inside the transport van.
00:01:53.000He was believed to have been found on the roof of a nearby immigration attorney's office, according to WFAA, which is a local outlet.
00:02:00.000Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, said in an ex post, while the investigation is ongoing, the initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack.
00:02:07.000These despicable politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one off.
00:02:11.000And they did release pictures of the shells, the casings of some of the bullets.
00:02:22.000The messages on the ammo are quite clear.
00:02:24.000The social media for the shooter also seems to lean very much to the left, if what can be seen online can be trusted at all.
00:02:32.000I mean, the number one clue, of course, that this was a left-wing shooter is that the shooting happened at an ICE facility, and this, of course, is not the first act of violence at an ICE facility in recent months.
00:02:42.000You'll recall that just a little while ago, back in August 2025, there was an ICE facility that was attacked in Yakima, Washington.
00:02:51.000You'll also remember that in July 2025, there were 10 suspects who were charged for their July 4th attack on a Texas ICE detention facility, in which, according to ICE, nearly a dozen violent assailants equipped with tactical gear and weapons attacked U.S. immigration and customs enforcement's Puriland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4th.
00:03:10.000They shot a local law enforcement officer in the neck.
00:03:13.000The officer was expected to recover at the time.
00:03:16.000The attack occurred just days before an armed activist shot a U.S. Border Patrol office in McCallan, Texas.
00:03:21.000The FBI arrested ten of the eleven suspects at the time.
00:03:26.000You'll recall that, in fact, there was a there was an attack on ICE officers in Los Angeles that prompted federal intervention by the Trump administration, in which rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building.
00:03:43.000And pretending that it is something new is ridiculous.
00:03:46.000As ICE Director Todd Lyon said, the assaults on ICE agents have been up about a thousand percent.
00:03:53.000I've never seen anything like this in my law enforcement career.
00:03:55.000I've never seen threats on law enforcement, specifically ICE increase the way it is.
00:03:59.000You know, we're up over a thousand percent assaults on officers right now.
00:04:03.000And really, just a lot of the the talk that's out there, a lot of the rhetoric is just the violence directed towards law enforcement officers just trying to do their job.
00:04:11.000And it would just keep just keeping seeing an increase step by step.
00:04:16.000Texas Governor Greg Abbott went out there and said that this was in fact an attempted assassination on ICE officers.
00:04:22.000It's his belief that the ICE detainees were hit essentially accidentally, that the sniper was not trying to hit the detainees, was trying to fire at law enforcement.
00:04:32.000Obviously it's a tragedy, it's horrific, it's a, I view it as an attempted assassination on our ICE officers.
00:04:40.000and as you know, this is not the first time this has happened in the state of Texas.
00:04:44.000It's not the first time it's happened across the United States.
00:04:46.000And so we have a serious problem across this country.
00:04:48.000Uh, where this violence uh against our ICE agents, our law enforcement agent, uh, is being inside it, and it needs to stop right now.
00:04:58.000Okay, now again, it seems pretty obvious what the motivation here was because this is part of a spate of attacks on ICE offices and ICE officers and border patrol officers that has happened over recent months.
00:05:10.000J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States went after Gavin Newsom, who we'll get to in a moment, the governor of California, whose rhetoric has been unhinged, as well as other Democrats over the rhetoric they've been using with regard to ICE.
00:05:21.000Here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.
00:05:29.000When the left wing media lies about what they're doing when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.
00:05:41.000You don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
00:05:44.000You don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policies.
00:05:48.000But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.
00:06:01.000And of course, unfortunately, there have been an enormous number of people who've been demonizing ICE over the course of the past year at minimum.
00:06:08.000I mean, talking about ICE as though they are Nazis.
00:06:10.000In fact, just this week, NPR host Maria Hinojosa compared ICE to the Nazis.
00:06:18.000Black and Latino unity in the city of Chicago will only grow thanks to Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
00:06:25.000So that is something that he and his Republican Party has feared.
00:06:29.000That unity of black and brown people coming together.
00:06:34.000Chicago is a si uh a city of neighborhoods, and we do not like outsiders coming to tell us how to run our city.
00:06:43.000So this is going to have right now the trauma.
00:06:46.000I I I posted actually right after that first day on the ground in Chicago.
00:06:50.000I posted about the fact that there are little Anne Franks, right?
00:06:57.000Her name is Anita Franco, and she is terrified.
00:07:00.000And Senator Villa knows that because those are her constituents.
00:07:04.000Little girls and boys who are afraid to come out of their homes.
00:07:10.000Well, you know, again, this sort of rhetoric is very likely to lead to violence.
00:07:14.000Because when you say that Anne Frank is hiding from the Nazis who are coming for them, well, you know, that is likely to lead to some pretty bad stuff.
00:07:22.000Just last week, Representative Jasmine Crockett, you'll recall it, played it on the show, compared ICE to slave patrols.
00:07:28.000When you keep saying that ICE are Nazis, that ICE are slave patrols, people might get the idea that maybe you should do violence to members of ICE.
00:07:33.000I mean, this is not like a giant jump.
00:07:39.000It's hard to say that, you know, this is a dictatorship.
00:07:44.000Even though we're looking at him sending troops to go in and attack Americans, like even though we're seeing that they are unleashing this rogue, um this rogue policing force that, you know, if they taught black history, they would know about slave patrols because when I look at what they are doing with ICE, it looks like slave patrols.
00:08:08.000And then you've got a Supreme Court that's like, yeah, you can pick them up because of how they look, a how they sound.
00:08:15.000Like that is what that is what policing was born of.
00:08:20.000Okay, policing, first of all, was not born of slave patrols.
00:08:23.000But policing has been a thing in Western civilized countries for legitimately centuries.
00:08:27.000Constables in Britain were not constables because they were on slave patrol.
00:08:31.000But this sort of rhetoric does have an impact.
00:08:33.000Again, I'm not saying Jasmine Crockett is responsible for somebody shooting an ICE agent.
00:08:36.000Any more than I'm saying that Barack Obama's anti-police rhetoric led to the shooting of Dallas police officers.
00:08:41.000But if you keep ratcheting up the temperature, if you keep treating people in law enforcement as though they are enemies of the people, as though they are doing the bidding of dark Nazi gods or something.
00:08:53.000If you do that, people are eventually at the at the fringes going to do acts of violence.
00:08:58.000Joining me on the line is Jenny Tayer, she is the Daily Wire's immigration reporter.
00:09:02.000She has new details on what we know about the ICE shooter.
00:09:05.000Jenny, thanks so much for taking time.
00:09:23.000He's from Texas, so he's a native to Texas where the shooting occurred.
00:09:28.000Not much is known other than what he left at the scene of the shooting, which I think revealed a lot.
00:09:33.000And what FBI director Cash Patel said revealed a real really huge ideological motive here, which were these shell casings that said the words anti-ICE on them that were engraved in those shell casings.
00:09:47.000Those were left at the scene and recovered by the FBI after he shot into that ICE facility and tragically killed one of the migrant detainees that was being walked into the facility after just being arrested and injured two others.
00:10:01.000We know this, you know, his targets were actually ICE agents, but he just didn't have good aim, apparently.
00:10:08.000He was shooting indiscriminately into that facility, uh, and those ICE agents were his targets.
00:10:13.000Um they were uh loading those individuals into the facility in a sally port.
00:10:19.000Uh and he also did shoot into the building.
00:10:22.000He shot into some ICE offices that were thankfully not occupied at the time.
00:10:26.000There were bullet holes all over the building.
00:10:29.000Uh we also know that he was uh employed earlier.
00:10:34.000He was unemployed at the time of the shooting, but he was employed as a uh he was picking marijuana for a living at a time, and he was also uh installing solar panels.
00:10:44.000His mother also espoused some left-wing ideology online.
00:10:48.000She had posted some uh anti-Second Amendment posts on Facebook against Texas lawmakers calling them out for supporting gun laws.
00:10:58.000And uh we know what her son did that day, and apparently he had practice with uh his parents' gun.
00:11:06.000Now, we also know obviously this is not the first attempt to attack an ICE facility.
00:11:10.000There have been a multiplicity of attempts to attack ICE facilities, ranging from California to Texas to Yakima, Washington.
00:11:18.000And at this point, have there been any more details about the shooter that have been sort of put out there?
00:11:23.000We know obviously that the law enforcement, including the head of the FBI as well as the governor of of Texas, have made mention of his politics.
00:11:31.000Do we know about his personal politics, aside from what exactly was on the bullets?
00:11:37.000Obviously, the bullets have been the biggest piece of evidence.
00:11:40.000His brother, Noah, did speak with reporters yesterday, and he said that he didn't believe that his brother had any strong political ideology and didn't believe that he really had any strong feelings towards ice.
00:11:52.000Uh so that's really all we know at this point.
00:11:55.000But like you mentioned, there has just been a string of attacks by left-wing agitators against ICE and not only against ICE right now, but against conservative voices.
00:12:05.000Two weeks ago, we had the tragic political assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:12:10.000Now here we are, another ICE facility attack.
00:12:12.000This is amid an uptick, a thousand percent uptick in assaults on ICE agents.
00:12:17.000There have been similar attacks at ICE facilities in Texas very recently.
00:12:22.000Over the summer on July 4th, you had left-wing agitators who lured ICE agents out of a facility in Alvarado, Texas, uh, using fireworks.
00:12:30.000They came out of the facility, and that's when these agitators, these attackers started shooting at them, spraying bullets in their direction, and actually shot a local police officer in the neck.
00:12:41.000Uh, some of those individuals actually got away for days before uh law enforcement was able to find them.
00:12:48.000This is just one instance in a pattern that we're seeing across the country, like you mentioned Yakima, Washington, Los Angeles, what we saw over the summer, where the Trump administration have had to send in soldiers not only to secure the city, not only to protect locals, but also they were there to ride along with ICE as they were continuing to make arrests across the country.
00:13:09.000So ICE is still going out there as well amid all of this.
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00:16:55.000I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me.
00:17:00.000I mean, by definition, you're going to push back.
00:17:03.000And so this these are not just authoritarian tendencies, these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.
00:17:12.000Again, if you keep saying these sorts of things over and over and over, it should not be a gigantic shock when people go do acts of violence.
00:17:19.000And the left has increasingly been doing acts of violence because the rhetoric is so unhinged.
00:17:24.000One of the big problems in the country right now, perhaps the biggest problem in the country, is that by the polling data, Americans believe that their neighbors are their enemies and the biggest problem facing America is internal.
00:17:34.000And a lot of that is self-reinforcing.
00:18:02.000For my entire lifetime, the political left in this country has basically treated the right as though the right is some form of Nazi offshoot.
00:18:09.000And if you look at the polling data, actually, what you will see is that things didn't shift for Republicans starting to react to that until around 2013-2014.
00:18:17.000So for a solid decade and a half, from the time George W. Bush became president in the year 2000, there was a move by the left to demonize Republicans as somehow politically other, as though there was something wrong with them.
00:18:28.000The Democrats actually didn't just think that their neighbors were wrong, they thought they were morally bad.
00:18:33.000While Republicans tended to think that their neighbors were more were wrong, but not morally bad.
00:18:37.000And then all of that started to shift around the second term of Barack Obama.
00:18:41.000And now both sides think the other side is morally bad.
00:18:44.000And what that's doing is it's pushing both parties out to fringe rhetoric, but the left is beating the right there.
00:18:52.000The left has been there for a long time.
00:18:54.000It's systemically integrated into entire world views.
00:18:57.000This is why when I've been talking about the permission structures for violence that are generating violence, that are generating things like the assassination, my friend Charlie Kirk.
00:19:04.000That then when you're creating permission structures, when you create a mental model whereby speech is violence, that people who oppose you are actually actors of deep malicious evil who must be destroyed at any cost, then once you believe that, you're of course going to get higher levels of violence, and that's going to generate a reaction on the other side.
00:19:28.000I use Gavin Newsom as a model here because Gavin Newsom is playing a two-faced game.
00:19:32.000Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he will do a podcast with Charlie and then acknowledge that Charlie was a nice human being and all the rest.
00:19:38.000But then he will just spew absolute nonsense in public about how the end of the Republic is nigh.
00:19:44.000So literally yesterday, Gavin Newsom was attacking Trump as an SOB.
00:19:57.000But this a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress, a lot of folks that honestly just don't know we're gonna have to get our country back.
00:20:04.000And I get it, people this guy is flooding the zone.
00:20:07.000He's dominating the narratives, facts don't seem to matter.
00:20:10.000And Democrats, frankly, have had a difficult time pushing back.
00:20:14.000And Democrats feel that you know, times there's sort of this weakness that dominates our brand and our party.
00:20:20.000And I think what people appreciate is that we're willing to fight, and not only fight symbolically by having a little bit of fun, but uh fight substantively.
00:20:30.000Uh we're pushing back and we're leading it.
00:20:34.000Now that's kind of normal political rhetoric, I suppose.
00:20:36.000But the stuff that is not normal is when Gavin Newsom says that if Donald Trump has his way, we'll have Putin-style fake elections.
00:20:43.000Okay, when you start talking about your like, I don't believe that if Kamala Harris had been elected, that would have been the last election in American history.
00:20:49.000I didn't believe when Barack Obama was elected in 2012.
00:20:52.000We were looking at the last election in American history.
00:20:54.000If you believe that your political opponents will literally end elections in the United States, what are you supposed to do?
00:21:00.000Especially if you're already somewhat unhinged, you might start to believe that it's time to do some violence.
00:21:06.000Well, here's Gavin Newsom saying a thing he clearly doesn't believe.
00:21:32.000I wanted to ask you about uh Prop 50, but before I do that, you you raise a bigger question about like who will win in the midterms, to the idea that perhaps we won't have free and fair and open election.
00:21:59.000And now we're in a position where we are struggling to communicate.
00:22:03.000We're struggling uh to win back now, the majority uh in the House of Representatives, and that's a big part of what I'm doing, uh, not just today in terms of the work out here uh raising money, but also raising awareness around how Donald Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections and how I fear that we will not have an election in 2028.
00:22:25.000And the core of my soul, unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly uh to how serious this moment is.
00:23:08.000And again, because Donald Trump has been the great bugaboo in the minds of the left for the last decade minimum, the violence on the left is increasing at a faster pace than it is on the right.
00:23:19.000But once you enter this cycle, to pretend that it's not going to turn into a cycle is a little bit silly.
00:23:25.000It would be kind of shocking if it doesn't.
00:23:28.000And by the way, everyone believes this, apparently, in the country.
00:23:31.000This is maybe the only place where Americans agree is that things are falling apart.
00:23:34.000According to a brand new Quinipiac university poll, in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 79% of voters say the United States is in political crisis.
00:23:52.000And the reason Republicans believe that is because they are looking around and seeing political activists who are conservative being shot to death on college campuses.
00:24:00.000They're looking at attacks on ice facilities.
00:24:01.000They're looking at riots in Los Angeles.
00:24:04.000They are looking at entire permission structures created by the left.
00:24:07.000Nearly six in ten voters, 58%, think it will not be possible to lower the temperature on political rhetoric and speech in the United States.
00:24:30.000Voters believe that the system of democracy is not working.
00:24:33.000Republicans think it's working overwhelmingly, because of course Republicans have been winning elections recently.
00:24:38.000But once you start believing this is such a problem, once you start believing that when you lose elections, the entire system doesn't work.
00:24:45.000Well, then you're going to resort to violence.
00:24:47.000Again, this is why the left is so overwhelmingly disproportionately violent at this point in political terms.
00:24:54.000Okay, well, the other thing that's going to happen when this happens is that there is likely to be blowback.
00:26:18.000You know, this sort of stuff is not just a problem.
00:26:21.000It is a deep problem for the United States.
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00:28:33.000And so the response has been an attempt to preemptively stop the other side.
00:28:40.000So that started really with the Biden administration.
00:28:44.000So it has now been made clear that Google censored political speech under pressure from the Biden administration.
00:28:50.000They've now pledged to reinstate thousands of banned YouTube accounts.
00:28:52.000In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, according to Yahoo News, the company stated the administration had pressured it to remove content, despite that content not having violated YouTube's policies.
00:29:01.000That disclosure followed years of investigation, led by Chairman Jim Jordan.
00:29:05.000The committee subpoenaed Google earlier this year as part of its inquiry into big tech censorship practices.
00:29:10.000According to that letter, Google will now allow creators banned for political speech on COVID-19 elections and related issues an opportunity to return to the platform.
00:29:17.000And the company emphasized, quote, public debate should never come at the expense of relying on authorities.
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00:29:26.000Instead, the company commits to transparency and its own enforcement policies.
00:29:30.000Well, again, what that has led to, the fact that the Biden administration did that sort of stuff, that they pressured big tech into shutting down informational dissemination.
00:29:38.000Is it's led to a feeling on the right, okay, well, it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
00:29:42.000That if the left used the auspices of government power to push forward its own propagandistic beliefs, well, then we should do the same.
00:29:50.000And this was the question with regard to Jimmy Kimmel.
00:29:53.000So, Jimmy Kimmel has now returned to the air.
00:29:56.000I'm going to point out here that Jimmy Kimmel's a schmuck.
00:29:59.000I thought Jimmy Kimmel's a schmuck for ten odd years.
00:30:02.000Go back, I have many monologues on this show about the silliness and foolishness and wrongheadedness of Jimmy Kimmel.
00:30:10.000With that said, the FCC should not be pressuring because of political content, various outlets to stop the dissemination of speech.
00:30:21.000So Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel suspended after a couple of major affiliate networks.
00:30:25.000Next star and Sinclair decided they didn't want to air his show anymore.
00:30:28.000And it was totally unclear at the time whether they were doing that because they were offended that Jimmy Kimmel had attacked MAGA and suggested that MAGA was responsible for Charlie Kirk, or whether because they were they were pressured by the FCC.
00:30:40.000I said, listen, if it was about the ratings, if it was about them being upset and the viewers, totally good.
00:30:46.000If it was because of the FCC, that is a different sort of thing.
00:30:50.000Well, Jimmy Kimmel returned last night.
00:30:53.000This is after caterwalling and screams of outrage from the left, who treated the suspension, the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel for like six days, as significantly worse for the country than the actual assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:31:05.000Jimmy Kimmel began by issuing a quasi-apology, kind of sort of.
00:31:16.000I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind.
00:31:19.000But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is uh you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.
00:31:30.000Uh I don't think there's anything funny about it.
00:31:37.000I I posted a message on Instagram of the Dave's killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it.
00:31:45.000Uh nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.
00:31:53.000That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both.
00:32:00.000And for those who think I did uh point a finger, I get why you're upset.
00:32:05.000If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way.
00:32:11.000Okay, so it's sort of a quasi-apology.
00:32:13.000So give it you get half credit for the for the quasi-apology.
00:32:15.000I mean, the reason people thought that he was blaming MAGA is because he fairly clearly blamed MAGA in the actual segment.
00:32:22.000He said MAGA was trying to blame anyone but themselves, anyone but MAGA for the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
00:32:28.000So I mean it was pretty clear what he was doing there.
00:33:15.000And if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that.
00:33:22.000Okay, well, again, yeah, credit for giving credit to Erica Kirk, who again gave one of the great speeches I've ever seen, given the circumstances surrounding it.
00:33:28.000Kimmel then went on to thank pretty much everybody on the right who wasn't a fan of the FCC going after political speech.
00:33:36.000Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don't support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway.
00:33:49.000Well, I never would have imagined like Ben Shapiro, Clay, Travis, Candace Owens, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, even my old pal Ted Cruz.
00:34:01.000Okay, so I mean, not your welcome, really?
00:34:05.000I mean, like again, I I'm still unclear as to whether he was suspended in the first place because of the FCC or because it turns out that affiliates were justly outraged.
00:34:15.000I am a fan of affiliates getting mad when they don't like exactly what they are seeing, and then there being some results.
00:34:21.000The big problem here, of course, has been the perception, and this is a problem.
00:34:25.000If you're worried about the partisan breakdown of the United States or the feeling democracy isn't working, if you start believing, as the writers believed for a long time, if you believe that all the auspices of government are raided against you for political reasons and that the law is being skewed in order to achieve political results, you're not going to trust the system.
00:34:45.000This is why I didn't think that Brandon Carr's commentary was useful here, because if the affiliates just made the call, everybody's celebrating Jimmy Kimmel going away today.
00:34:54.000But instead, Jimmy Kimmel is back specifically because of the muddying of the waters with regards to the system.
00:34:59.000President Trump put out a statement, quote, I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.
00:35:03.000The White House was told by ABC that his show was canceled.
00:35:05.000Something happened between then and now because his audience is gone and his talent was never there.
00:35:09.000Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's not funny, who puts the network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat garbage?
00:35:15.000He's yet another arm of the DNC, and to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major illegal campaign contribution.
00:35:20.000I think we're gonna test ABC out on this.
00:36:21.000We believe in free speech in the Trump administration.
00:36:23.000We are fighting every single day to protect it.
00:36:28.000Okay, so if it was a joke, it was it was not a particularly good one since the FCC commissioner then went on a bunch of other shows and said that he was interested in using the public interest provision of FCC law to go after things like The View.
00:36:47.000The Democrats did a lot of this stuff when they were in office, and the idea is also not just the Democrats did this stuff, and so we will do a mutually assured destruction thing where they do X and we also do X, so everyone will stop doing X. Something else is happening here.
00:36:59.000What is happening here, and Democrats have been doing it for a while, and now Republicans are picking it up as well, is Democrats do a bad thing.
00:37:04.000Republicans then say if they had the power, they would do an even worse thing.
00:37:08.000And so we are going to now break the next thing because if we don't, they're gonna get in power and they're gonna do the same thing to us.
00:37:14.000Once you have that level of mutual distrust in our politics, it is impossible for that spiral to stop.
00:37:21.000Because otherwise, if you forego the tools of power, you're just a fool.
00:37:24.000And the problem is Democrats keep doubling down on the rhetoric.
00:37:26.000They keep making it clear that if they do get the power, they are going to do the worst thing.
00:37:45.000So apparently, according to MSNBC, former FBI director James Comey will be indicted soon in a Virginia federal court.
00:37:52.000Apparently, he's going to be indicted based on testimony that he gave in September of 2020.
00:37:59.000According to an MSNBC reporter named Ken Delanian, he said the full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but sources believe at least one element of the indictment, if it goes forward, will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30th, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information.
00:38:17.000Okay, so what that goes back to is a story in which James Comey basically gave a bunch of his special super duper secret notes about Donald Trump to a friend, and that friend somehow gave them to the New York Times, and then he claimed that he had no idea they were going to be leaked to the New York Times, which is totally, totally implausible.
00:38:36.000According to the New York Post, the five-year statute of limitations on bringing perjury charges would be next Tuesday, but prosecutors are expected to seek the grand jury indictment before then, according to people who are familiar.
00:38:47.000Now, again, I don't have a problem with any of that.
00:38:48.000If James Comey committed perjury, then they should prosecute him.
00:38:54.000And clearly, the big problem is that President Trump literally last week put out something on Truth Social saying that he wants Comey, Adam Schiff and Letitia James all prosecuted.
00:39:05.000That if Pam Bonney didn't do that, she was somehow betraying the trust of the people.
00:39:10.000If the president is just naming political enemies and saying he wants them prosecuted, of course, that's going to undercut the public perception of the legitimacy of the investigation, even if the investigation is totally legit.
00:39:29.000And we shouldn't be using the DOJ in that way.
00:39:32.000And the levels of mistrust in our politics are so unbelievably high right now that it's justifying activity that is only going to lead to the next deeper layer of mistrust on a systemic level.
00:39:42.000And that remains a gigantic problem in our politics.
00:39:46.000Already in just a moment, we'll get to President Trump talking Tylenol and autism.
00:39:50.000Plus, he went to the U.N. and blew things up over there.
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00:41:23.000My parents were able to send in like old film reels, and suddenly I was seeing my grandparents again for the first time in ages, like when they were young.
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00:41:54.000Alrighty, meanwhile, the Trump administration has now made an announcement with regard to autism.
00:41:58.000So RFK Jr. made it as Secretary of Health and Human Services, one of his big priorities to try to discover the cause of autism.
00:42:06.000Apparently, there's something like 800 different genetic markers for autism.
00:42:10.000So it's a very complex disorder at the very least.
00:42:12.000Well, President Trump made an announcement suggesting that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy could be associated with a very increased risk of autism.
00:42:21.000So here is what President Trump had to say.
00:43:31.000There are wide variety of damages that emerge from high fever during pregnancy.
00:43:34.000The problem is there is literally no treatment for women with high fever.
00:43:38.000That is pregnancy safe, other than Tylenol if recommended by a doctor.
00:43:44.000This is why women who are pregnant don't use Advil, for example, to bring down their fever, it's a risk to the fetus.
00:43:49.000So the problem becomes if you tell everybody you're not allowed to use Tylenol when you have a fever, you end up actually spiking a fever, and that fever does damage to the baby.
00:43:56.000So the question becomes this is why you ought to ask your doctor, when is a low-grade fever not dangerous to the baby?
00:44:03.000When is a high grade fever so dangerous you should take Tylenol?
00:44:05.000And also, what is the term where using acetamenophen becomes actually dangerous?
00:44:10.000Because what you will notice that even the FDA guidance, even the FDA guidance suggests chronic and prolonged use of Tylenol is a problem.
00:44:20.000That might mean a week, it might be two weeks, three weeks.
00:44:22.000So taking one dose of Tylenol isn't going to do it, but President Trump is out there saying that you shouldn't take Tylenol at all, which is of course beyond what even members of his own administration are saying.
00:44:31.000So Dr. Oz actually softened the warning.
00:44:37.000If you have a high fever, as you point out, if you've got significant issues of that nature, you ought to be talking to a doctor anyway because the cause of the high fever is worrisome.
00:44:45.000The doctor's almost certainly going to prescribe you something.
00:44:47.000Tylenol might be one of the things they give.
00:45:04.000And we want to warn you, we don't know that's true.
00:45:06.000It might be true, but we don't know that's true, and there's lots of literature that would cast doubt on the assumption that you should be taking acetaminophen willy-nilly.
00:45:16.000Okay, so I'm not sure who is taking acetomenophon willy-nilly.
00:45:19.000You really shouldn't be doing that, obviously.
00:45:21.000People in trafficking around a 2017 post in which Tylenol said it's not recommended for pregnant women.
00:45:27.000That's a little out of context in the sense that it's not like you shouldn't just take it willy-nilly over the counter.
00:45:31.000They said we actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant.
00:45:34.000Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.
00:45:49.000The largest and high-quality studies, those especially those using rigorous methods like comparing siblings have not found convincing evidence that acetomenophine used during pregnancy causes autism in children.
00:45:59.000Large-scale studies from Sweden and Japan using sibling controls, which account for genetics and family environment, found no association between Tylenol exposure during pregnancy and autism risk.
00:46:08.000Meta-analyses and systematic reviews show that studies indicating an association generally report very small risk increases.
00:46:15.000Many have been criticized for failing to fully account for confounding factors like the underlying illnesses, like for example, a fever that you're going to get without that in place.
00:46:24.000For example, without any use of Tylenol.
00:46:26.000Bottom line, says comment, there's currently no definitive evidence that taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism in children.
00:46:32.000Pregnant individuals should not avoid acetamenophil when needed for painter fever, but should use it as recommended by healthcare providers.
00:46:38.000And of course, that is the ask your doctor that you got from Dr. Oz.
00:46:40.000Here's Fox News' Dr. Mark Siegel pouring cold water all over this.
00:46:44.000Does acetominophen during pregnancy cause autism?
00:46:48.000People out there need to know there's absolutely no proof whatsoever that that's the case.
00:46:53.000We distinguish between something called an association and something called proof or a cause and effect.
00:47:00.000It's possible, due to some studies, that excess use of acetominophen could lead to neurodevelopmental problems like autism, because the fetus, if you think about it, doesn't have a fully developed liver, and that's where the Tylenol goes.
00:47:16.000It goes to the liver to be metabolized.
00:47:18.000Again, a reason why I'm saying take less of it.
00:47:21.000But we're far away from any proof here, and women who are pregnant need to get that fever down.
00:47:26.000That's why I think the reaction has been excessive on the side of caution here.
00:47:31.000Senate GOP leader John Thune, he said the same thing.
00:47:35.000He says he's very concerned about the RFK Jr. claims on Tylenol and autism.
00:47:41.000I'm I'm obviously very concerned about that.
00:47:43.000I am a father and a grandfather, and uh just have as of about seven months ago, uh, a newborn uh grandson.
00:48:00.000I think that science ought to guide these discussions, these conversations, and our decision making around uh our health.
00:48:07.000There are studies out there that they reference, but again, I think there are an awful lot of people in the medical community who come to a different conclusion about the use of Tylenol.
00:48:44.000I thought that his speech at the UN was terrific.
00:48:47.000There's a bit of controversy because he got on an escalator and it didn't work.
00:48:51.000And then apparently his teleprompter froze up while he was speaking on Tuesday.
00:48:58.000Here he was at the at the escalator, going up the escalator.
00:49:01.000Apparently, people are now claiming a member of his own staff accidentally hit the stop button on the escalator.
00:49:06.000President Trump is trying to initiate an investigation into what happened here, whether this was an attempt to sort of humiliate him and make him look bad.
00:49:15.000What's your message to countries recognizing Kalispell?
00:49:20.000He gets on the elevator and the elevator just kind of stops.
00:49:22.000President Trump, why did you cancel the media to charge you?
00:49:25.000Okay, well, he says he's going to initiate an investigation into that.
00:49:32.000He also was speaking at the U.N. His teleprompter just stopped working.
00:49:35.000And it's a little weird when all of this is happening at once.
00:49:37.000I certainly understand the suspicion from President Trump, who isn't exactly welcome at the United Nations, the most highly of international politics, a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
00:49:48.000And I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working.
00:49:59.000I feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless.
00:50:03.000And that way you speak more from the heart.
00:50:06.000I can only say that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
00:50:12.000Well, By the way, the right approach there from President Trump.
00:50:18.000Now, I will say his speech with the UN was great.
00:50:41.000The UN Security Council is a complete useless bag of nonsense, given the fact that you have China and Russia on there, both of whom are going to veto anything useful.
00:50:53.000Now I wish you'd go all the way and just defund the damn thing.
00:50:58.000It's too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them.
00:51:05.000And sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them.
00:51:13.000I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.
00:51:28.000President Trump also said the UN has never lived up to its potential.
00:52:58.000The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders.
00:53:03.000Yeah, well, he's not wrong about that.
00:53:08.000The president also saved some of hisire for the Europeans.
00:53:10.000He said, you guys are destroying your own continent, that you're invaded by people who hate your continent, and then you basically treat it as nothing.
00:53:17.000And also, you guys keep pushing green energy scams that are destroying your energy independence.
00:53:22.000He's right about both of these things, obviously.
00:53:24.000Here he was talking about Europe your European immigration problems.
00:53:31.000They've been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before.
00:53:37.000Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe.
00:53:39.000Nobody is ever, and nobody's doing anything to change it to get them out.
00:54:29.000He is also right that when you destroy your own economy on behalf of a specious threat of global warming that you're not going to be able to control anyway, all you're doing is handing power to the wrong people.
00:54:39.000Here he was slamming the left for their green energy scam.
00:54:44.000It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.
00:54:49.000Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that.
00:54:53.000No more global warming, no more global cooling.
00:54:56.000All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.
00:55:04.000They were made by stupid people that have cost their country's fortunes, and given those same countries no chance for success.
00:55:12.000If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.
00:55:20.000I mean, President Trump is the best foreign policy president of my lifetime at Barnon.
00:55:24.000By the way, he is also now making comments with regards to Ukraine that I think are totally well founded.
00:55:31.000He's saying, listen, if Russia won't come to the table, then we're going to fund Ukraine sufficient, not only so they can defend themselves, but they can take back territory.
00:55:38.000Apparently there have been some intelligence reports suggesting that Russia is not only weak economically, but militarily, they're rather hollow at this point.
00:55:44.000Here is President Trump saying that the Russian economy is falling apart and Ukraine is actually doing a great job defending itself.
00:55:49.000Well, the biggest progress is that the Russian economy is terrible right now.
00:56:22.000President Trump also added that NATO countries, there have been a bunch of NATO countries, Poland, they're even talking about drones in Denmark, that Estonia, that NATO countries are seeing Russian aircraft invade their space.
00:56:35.000President Trump said, Listen, if if n NATO airspace is invaded by Russian aircraft, they should be shot down.
00:56:43.000Do you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?
00:57:28.000So obviously this week you broke an enormous story about the identity of the attempted Kavanaugh shooter.
00:57:34.000Obviously, we have now seen a spate in trans-identified or trans-adjacent crime, and it turns out that the Kavanaugh story may be one of those stories.
00:57:45.000We broke this story that the man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who is arrested in Kavanaugh's neighborhood, right outside his house.
00:57:54.000Thankfully, because federal authorities were stationed there to protect him.
00:57:57.000That man now we know identifies as transgender, and we know this because we reported last Friday that his defense attorneys are calling him Sophie and referring to him as she her.
00:58:10.000We had a little bit of a hint a few years ago that this, this attempted killer might identify in this manner.
00:58:16.000Uh, we saw that online he was referring to himself as a woman in some of these game reforms, but we didn't have concrete proof until we got these filings from the defense attorney and we learned it for the first time.
00:58:27.000Now the department of justice is seeking 30 years for this man who did attempt to kill a Supreme court justice.
00:58:36.000And thankfully he didn't kill Kavanaugh because his sister called him and intervened.
00:58:40.000Uh, and he ultimately turned himself into authorities, but he did travel from California to California.
00:58:45.000to Maryland, got off at Dulles International Airport, which many of us know very well, and drove in a cab with all kinds of tools intended to sneak into Kavanaugh's house to restrain him, to kill him, and potentially kill his family as well.
00:58:58.000So this story, I mean, we followed it so closely.
00:59:01.000Ben, uh, you know, I know Daily Wire has cared so much about all of these proceedings from the overturn of Roe, the protesting outside the homes of the justices, and now three years later to find this out in the midst of this absolute epidemic of leftist violence and specifically transgender violence is just incredibly scary and concerning.
00:59:19.000And I know it's something that I've been asking the president about a lot.
00:59:22.000I've been asking Caroline Levitt about it.
00:59:24.000I know that you have been vocal and Matt Walsh has been vocal, and it's really something on all of our minds right now.
00:59:30.000Yeah, obviously the permission structures for violence that the left has been creating are bearing some pretty hideous fruit and the willingness to overlook people who are severely mentally ill and pretend that actually it's just society's fault.
00:59:41.000Uh that's having some pretty severe consequences.
00:59:43.000Mary Margaret, you also attended the memorial for Charlie Kirk.
00:59:47.000Actually, flew on Air Force One to that memorial uh for for Charlie.
00:59:50.000What was that experience like well, Ben, it was an honor to be there.
00:59:55.000I was uh it was a privilege to be there.
00:59:57.000I uh was was blessed to be able to travel in the pool with the president, so we got to fly on Air Force One with him up to the event to the memorial, and then on the way down as well, back here same day on Sunday.
01:00:09.000Uh the then the memorial itself was incredibly moving.
01:00:13.000I was down there on the floor and you know, just walking in.
01:00:16.000We we came in the back uh as kind of the president and the some of the speakers did.
01:00:20.000Um we're able to avoid a lot of these long lines.
01:00:23.000And as we came in, the press and the photographers um we burst through this curtain and just everyone around us was singing and uh, you know, remembering and honoring Charlie.
01:00:33.000And you know, I didn't know him incredibly well.
01:00:35.000I did interview him a few times, and I just the whole day was incredibly emotional for me to just see how all these people, even if they didn't know Charlie, they loved him so much and they want to honor his memory.
01:00:45.000Uh and of course, the the memorial had so many amazing speakers.
01:00:49.000We had the president of the United States, we had JD Vance, but I think of course the highlight and the most moving part to everyone, and I know I think you talked about this on your show earlier this week, was Erica and her act of forgiveness to her husband's killer.
01:01:01.000So uh it was it was like I said, an honor to be there.
01:01:04.000And we were able to ask the president some questions about the memorial on the way back.
01:01:08.000He gaggled on Air Force One, and uh, you know, I asked him about reuniting with Elon and whether Charlie had an impact on bringing them back together.
01:01:16.000Uh and he talked about Elon and their relationship and some of the upcoming events that he thinks that they'll participate in together.
01:01:22.000I also asked him about our story about Kavanaugh on this attempted assassin.
01:01:27.000And he said that he does believe that transgender violence should be looked into, but he was cautious in saying that we can't say anything definitive on it yet, uh, which I think is, you know, um smart on the part of the president.
01:01:37.000He doesn't want to jump the gun, he wants to make sure that he has all the facts before he jumps to any conclusions.
01:01:42.000But I did also ask Caroline Levitt about this this story and about these incidents of violence during the press briefing earlier this week.
01:01:50.000And she said that anyone that's denying this pattern uh is willfully ignorant or willfully blind.
01:01:55.000And she said that the White House is looking into it, federal authorities are looking into it, and I think we'll have more answers on that soon.
01:02:03.000Well, Mary Margaret and Breder News, you also had the opportunity to go to an air base and actually visit the stealth B-2 bomber that were actually used in the in the Trump administration's destruction of the Iranian nuclear facilities, which is a very cool thing.
01:02:15.000Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
01:02:18.000Yeah, Ben, this was so much fun, and and it it was a really cool project in the midst of so much sadness.
01:02:40.000We were running around like two little kids in a candy store, looking at these B-2s, getting to go in a simulator and fly it and try and uh, you know, refuel midair, which to spoiler alert, we were not able to do.
01:02:51.000Um, we also tried to land, we were not able to do that.
01:02:54.000But just to speak with some of these military commanders, Colonel Kennish, Colonel Whittelah, to hear about how they they really assisted with this mission, uh, to hear about how the pilots flew back and their families were all waiting for them on the base after they had successfully completed Operation Midnight Hammer and struck the Iranian nuclear plants.
01:03:13.000Uh It's just so amazing, fills us with so much respect for these pilots, but for also all the other people involved in this mission.
01:03:19.000You know, the crew that loads the bombs, the people that plan out the mission, the commanders, the colonels, all these people.
01:03:25.000And to see the actual planes, you know, these are some of the most secretive and some of the most uh brilliant planes that we have in the world.
01:03:40.000I know you aired it on your show earlier this week, and we thought that was pretty cool.
01:03:44.000So we hope everyone gets the chance to see it and to also uh understand just what our military did uh in June of this year and why this was such an important mission.