The Ben Shapiro Show - November 30, 2023


Musk Is Right: Kill DEI To Fight Anti-Semitism

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Sen. Chuck Schumer decries anti-Semitism in the face of the pro-Palestinian "From the River to the Sea" chant, but it's actually just ignorance. Jews are not the bad guys, according to Chuck Schumer. They're just not educated enough to know what they're doing. And yet, that's exactly what the left is saying, and that's why they don't want to include Jews in the leftist matrix of oppressor-oppressed, victim-vs. oppressed, and the powerful are the oppressors. And if Jews are included on the side of the oppressed, how are they so successful? How can they be included in the victim class? And why should they even be included at all, given that they're not even a part of the oppressor class at all? And what would it mean if Jews were included in that Matrix of Oppression, which is based on the idea that Jews are the victims of oppression and the Palestinians are the winners? What does that even mean? And how can Jews be in the matrix of oppression if they are actually the victims? and not the winners and yet they are not even included in it at all when they are so far ahead of everyone else in the Marxist Matrix of oppression, and yet are so much better than the rest of the Jewish people in the Matrix of oppressors and victims who are the only ones who have it figured out? in the progressive ideology that actually counts as a victim in a Matrix of victimhood is a scam that is not a victimhood, it s a scam it s not a scam, but a a . It s a , not a ? that s , an . . . a ! what s , and or which is not but so as ? And to be a victim is ; not , but , right? , or , which can be if because something & are ? ? What s ? Is right the :) does that then meaning do = should (and c + - what means we have

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00:00:00.000 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York took to the floor of the Senate to decry anti-Semitism.
00:00:06.000 Schumer is not an amazing source on this particular topic, given his consistent support of the Middle East policies of the most anti-Semitic president in modern American history, Barack Obama.
00:00:14.000 Nonetheless, he spoke about the threat of anti-Semitism and, in a rare moment of quasi-honesty, he actually mentioned the problem of anti-Semitism among liberals.
00:00:22.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:00:25.000 I feel compelled to speak.
00:00:27.000 Because I'm the highest ranking Jewish elected official in America.
00:00:32.000 In fact, the highest ranking Jewish elected official ever in American history.
00:00:39.000 And I have noticed a significant disparity between how Jewish people regard the rise of anti-Semitism and how many of my non-Jewish friends regard it.
00:00:50.000 Anti-Semites are taking advantage of the pro-Palestinian movement to espouse hatred and bigotry towards
00:00:59.000 Jewish people.
00:01:00.000 But rather than call out this dangerous behavior for what it is, we see so many of our friends
00:01:06.000 and fellow citizens, particularly young people who yearn for justice, unknowingly aiding
00:01:11.000 and abetting their cause.
00:01:15.000 There are people hijacking the pro-Palestinian movement.
00:01:17.000 They're hijacking it.
00:01:19.000 The young people, they're so good-hearted, they just don't know what they do. 0.98
00:01:23.000 Schumer actually explained that the phrase, from the river to the sea, a genocidal call to destroy all Jews, was actually just ignorance.
00:01:31.000 Plenty of people, Schumer actually said, chant that phrase, quote, not because they hate Jewish people, but because they support a better future for Palestinians. 0.95
00:01:37.000 Of course, that is a lie.
00:01:38.000 And it's a particularly egregious lie when Schumer himself has had zero to say about anti-Semis Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar inside his own caucus.
00:01:46.000 For example, there were some people last night chanting from the river to the sea in New York City while they attempted to stop the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center last night.
00:01:54.000 Do these look like good-hearted but slightly misinformed people to you?
00:02:02.000 There are people attacking police officers right outside Rockefeller Center.
00:02:15.000 Don't worry.
00:02:16.000 According to Chuck Schumer, they're just too passionate about the pro-Palestinian cause.
00:02:19.000 They're not anti-Semitic.
00:02:20.000 They're not radical in any way. 0.99
00:02:22.000 They're just ignorant, you know? 0.99
00:02:25.000 Liberals, they're never the bad guys, according to Chuck Schumer. 1.00
00:02:29.000 What we're watching is precisely the mentality created by the world of leftist ideology, and Schumer knows that.
00:02:35.000 But he has to lie about it, because to recognize the roots of left-wing antisemitism would be to destroy the progressive ideology wholesale.
00:02:42.000 That leftist ideology is based on a matrix of oppressor versus oppressed.
00:02:46.000 That in any given situation, the powerless are oppressed, and the powerful are the oppressors.
00:02:51.000 That oppressor-oppressed matrix maps directly onto anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power.
00:02:57.000 Jews are pseudo-white because Jews are financially well-off and Israel is disproportionately successful in a really unsuccessful region of the world. 0.96
00:03:05.000 The oppressor-oppressed matrix simply doesn't fit the Jews, who are actually being victimized by widespread Jew-hatred in the Middle East and abroad, but who also are very successful.
00:03:14.000 So the left keeps pushing the lie.
00:03:16.000 That's also true of the Anti-Defamation League, which put out a poll yesterday with Hillel International, which is a college group, asking college students if diversity, equity, and inclusion should cover anti-Jewish prejudice.
00:03:26.000 Diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, is the rubric under which the left pushes the idea that unequal group outcomes are the result of systemic discrimination.
00:03:35.000 So, by that math, Jews are the beneficiaries of systemic discrimination because, of course, they're disproportionately successful.
00:03:41.000 DEI simply cannot include Jews because DEI's basic logic forbids it.
00:03:45.000 DEI opposes meritocracy.
00:03:47.000 It opposes performance.
00:03:48.000 It opposes success.
00:03:50.000 Nonetheless, the 84% of Jewish students and 75% of non-Jewish college students said Jews should be included in DEI training.
00:03:57.000 That Jews should be somehow included in the oppressor-oppressed matrix on the side of the oppressed. 0.95
00:04:02.000 Of course these students say that.
00:04:03.000 What else exactly would they say?
00:04:05.000 The premise of the question is so deeply flawed, only one answer is possible.
00:04:09.000 To say that Jews shouldn't be included in DEI would be to discriminate against Jews, which violates the supposed basis of DEI itself.
00:04:15.000 But to include Jews explodes the entire DEI superstructure. 1.00
00:04:20.000 Because again, DEI is based on the idea of oppressor versus oppressed.
00:04:23.000 And if Jews are included on the side of the oppressed, how are they so successful? 0.99
00:04:26.000 So these students are saying what they're expected to say.
00:04:28.000 Sure, the Jews can be included in the victim class without recognizing the central truth of DEI. 0.61
00:04:33.000 It is a scam.
00:04:34.000 Victimhood is not inherently connected to level of success.
00:04:38.000 Sometimes the powerless are evil.
00:04:40.000 Sometimes the powerful are good.
00:04:42.000 Sometimes the powerless are actually victimizers.
00:04:44.000 Sometimes the powerful are the victims.
00:04:47.000 You can't fight antisemitism with DEI.
00:04:49.000 You can only increase antisemitism with DEI because the entire framework is a conspiracy theory.
00:04:54.000 The only way to truly fight anti-Semitism is to recognize what the Bible says in Deuteronomy.
00:04:59.000 Quote, You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great,
00:05:02.000 but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
00:05:04.000 But that's the one thing Chuck Schumer and the ADL will never say, because again, it would violate their ideology.
00:05:09.000 Instead, people on the left will pretend the true anti-Semitism doesn't lie in oppressor-oppressed matrices, but in people like Elon Musk.
00:05:17.000 And they'll target him specifically because he doesn't like DEI.
00:05:19.000 They will claim that DEI is the way to fight anti-Semitism, so if Elon Musk fights DEI, that means he's bad.
00:05:25.000 They'll slander him as an anti-Semite, even as he goes to Israel to express solidarity with the families of murdered Jews.
00:05:30.000 They'll try to activate advertisers to pull their money from Twitter, supposedly because Elon Musk is the root of all anti-Semitic evil.
00:05:37.000 Elon Musk, to his credit, is fighting back against this.
00:05:40.000 Here's a clip yesterday of Elon Musk.
00:05:41.000 It's an absolute classic.
00:05:43.000 He's being asked about advertisers canceling because they don't like his politics.
00:05:46.000 Here is what he had to say to Andrew Ross Sorkin over a deal book at the New York Times.
00:05:53.000 Apology tour, if you will.
00:05:55.000 This had been said online.
00:05:57.000 There was all of the criticism.
00:05:58.000 There was advertisers leaving.
00:06:00.000 We talked to Bob Iger today.
00:06:00.000 I hope they stop.
00:06:02.000 You hope?
00:06:03.000 Don't advertise.
00:06:05.000 You don't want them to advertise?
00:06:06.000 No.
00:06:06.000 What do you mean?
00:06:07.000 If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising?
00:06:12.000 Blackmail me with money? 1.00
00:06:14.000 Go f*** yourself. 1.00
00:06:18.000 But... Go f*** yourself. 1.00
00:06:23.000 Is that clear? 1.00
00:06:24.000 I hope it is.
00:06:27.000 Hey, Bob.
00:06:28.000 Hey Bob is a reference to Bob Iger who's in the audience, the head of Disney.
00:06:32.000 All the people pushing DEI are the exact same people seeking to boycott Musk are the exact same people who are seeking to pussyfoot around Hamas's feelings like right now.
00:06:41.000 The Venn diagram of that group is a circle.
00:06:43.000 That circle is the true threat to Jews in Israel and in the West. 0.95
00:06:47.000 In just one second we'll get to the latest from Israel where the tenuous Ceasefire, the break, seems to be on the rocks, specifically because Hamas is, you know, murdering Jews again. 0.74
00:06:57.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:08:02.000 Okay, now speaking of the latest in Israel, so, Anthony Blinken, who's the Secretary of State, has traveled over to Israel in an attempt to extend this ceasefire.
00:08:12.000 Here he was yesterday explaining that he'd like to see the pause that has been created by negotiations between Israel and Hamas via Qatar.
00:08:19.000 They want to see that extended so more hostages are released.
00:08:22.000 The big question here is whether this is a prelude to Western pressure for Israel to end its offensive against Hamas completely, which is insane, as we'll talk about momentarily.
00:08:30.000 Here was Blinken yesterday.
00:08:32.000 We'd like to see the pause extended because what it has enabled, first and foremost, is hostages being released.
00:08:40.000 It's also enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance into the people of Gaza who so desperately need it.
00:08:46.000 Okay, so again, the idea here is, is that just a pause?
00:08:50.000 Does the United States suddenly expect that Israel is going to stop what it's doing? 0.92
00:08:53.000 Israel cannot stop what it's doing. 0.98
00:08:54.000 And in fact, they came very close to ending the ceasefire last night because Hamas literally waited until five minutes before the deadline to come up with new hostages.
00:09:04.000 And what Hamas is doing right now is so unbelievably evil.
00:09:08.000 It's as evil as what they did on October 7th.
00:09:10.000 It's just in slow motion.
00:09:11.000 So on October 7th, they murdered 1,200 people and they kidnapped another 240.
00:09:14.000 And now they're separating families out.
00:09:16.000 They're saying that some people are dead who are still alive.
00:09:18.000 They're saying some people who are alive are actually dead.
00:09:23.000 And meanwhile, they are pursuing terror attacks.
00:09:25.000 So literally this morning in Israel, Israel time, There was a terror attack in a major, highly-trafficked street corner in Jerusalem at a bus stop.
00:09:35.000 And you can see, these are two brothers from East Jerusalem who identify with Hamas.
00:09:40.000 Hamas took credit for this attack.
00:09:42.000 They get out of their car and they just start mowing down a bunch of people who are at a bus stop.
00:09:47.000 They ended up killing three people, including a pregnant 24-year-old woman.
00:09:54.000 They were shot by people who are on the scene.
00:09:57.000 Reserves who showed up with their guns.
00:10:00.000 A civilian who was off duty and who ended up shooting them.
00:10:04.000 Three dead, six injured.
00:10:07.000 Supposedly, this is in the middle of a ceasefire.
00:10:09.000 Hamas took full credit for this. 0.98
00:10:11.000 Hamas says this is a good thing. 0.85
00:10:13.000 And yet Israel is supposed to keep going with some sort of pause to get the hostages out.
00:10:17.000 I gotta say, there is a moral question as to whether Israel should or can continue to do this sort of routine. 0.71
00:10:22.000 Because again, What's happened to the hostages is horrible and evil and continues to be horrible and evil.
00:10:28.000 At the same time, is the life of a hostage any more valuable than the life of that 24-year-old pregnant woman who was just murdered on a street corner in Jerusalem, which presumably would not have happened if Israel were continuing its military operations to defenestrate Hamas?
00:10:40.000 Speaking of the treatment of the hostages, it's amazing to watch as world and international organizations pretend that the hostages were treated well in some way.
00:10:49.000 Elon Levy, who's the spokesperson for the Israeli government, he says, no, the hostages were not in fact held in reasonable conditions.
00:10:57.000 As the survivors of Hamas captivity return home over the last week, we're beginning to discover new chilling details about life as Hamas hostages.
00:11:05.000 I'm of course not at liberty to share information from the official investigations, but the Evidence that the families have been sharing with the media is chilling.
00:11:13.000 The hostages were not held in reasonable conditions.
00:11:17.000 As some have cynically claimed, our children were serially abused.
00:11:23.000 Just like Hamas recorded its own crimes against humanity on October 7th, it continues to document its own atrocities ...releasing footage of crowds terrorizing the hostages in their final moments of captivity.
00:11:36.000 Those scenes bringing to mind that scene from Game of Thrones and fans of the series will of course know which scene I'm talking about.
00:11:44.000 Of course the hostages were not held in reasonable condition.
00:11:46.000 What else do you expect from, you know, a terrorist group?
00:11:50.000 The simple fact of the matter is that the hostages were treated precisely as you would expect Hamas to treat the hostages. 0.74
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00:12:59.000 So meanwhile, as we're discussing, Those who oppose Israel destroying Hamas, they continue to make a variety of arguments.
00:13:06.000 Again, Israel's considering going back in.
00:13:07.000 They're going to have to.
00:13:09.000 The only question is when.
00:13:10.000 And so there are a bunch of people, predominantly on the left, who are attempting to make the claim that Israel should stop.
00:13:15.000 They are complaining that after Hamas, no one knows what comes next.
00:13:18.000 That's a weird accusation, because pretty much everybody knows what comes next.
00:13:21.000 An Israeli-led reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, hopefully with some input from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE to help fund this, and to establish a peaceful regime that will eventually break the back of the PA and Hamas notification efforts over the past four generations to indoctrinate literally two million people in the idea that the Jews must be destroyed. 0.69
00:13:37.000 But the media pretend they don't understand.
00:13:39.000 I gotta say, the faux ignorance of members of the media is truly an amazing thing to watch.
00:13:44.000 These are people who pretend that they know everything, but suddenly they turn into simple-minded 1.00
00:13:47.000 village idiots when confronted with bare facts. 0.99
00:13:49.000 So here's Chris Hayes of MSNBC picking up Rachel Maddow's glasses, putting them on, 1.00
00:13:53.000 and then playing the village idiot. 0.99
00:13:55.000 There's a question of what comes after. 1.00
00:13:57.000 People say Hamas must be destroyed.
00:13:59.000 Yes, it must.
00:14:01.000 But then, okay, well then what?
00:14:03.000 There's some who said maybe the Palestinian Authority can be the governing entity.
00:14:08.000 No, they can't.
00:14:10.000 Okay, so I know that you repulse them.
00:14:12.000 They can't because they're educated for hate, you know?
00:14:16.000 But they're not Hamas, right?
00:14:17.000 They are not Hamas, but they are educated for hate. 1.00
00:14:20.000 But then who?
00:14:20.000 And they are paid for slave, so they can't.
00:14:24.000 Who? 0.98
00:14:24.000 Okay, so what we want to do first is to eliminate Hamas. 0.98
00:14:28.000 And then to have a buffer zone, you know, in order to keep our villages safe.
00:14:34.000 And then there should be, like, maybe international allies from, you know, countries like Egypt, like the UAE, that will come and manage their lives there for a few years.
00:14:49.000 We need to do, you know, denatification, In order to... What does that mean?
00:14:55.000 Denazification?
00:14:56.000 Yeah, denazification, yeah.
00:14:58.000 Because right now, the children from the age... Since they're born, from the age of 2 or 3, we saw it in the kindergartens, we saw it in the school.
00:15:09.000 They are being educated to slaughtered Jews. 0.99
00:15:13.000 This is how they are being educated. 0.72
00:15:14.000 With all due respect, let me just say this.
00:15:17.000 Whether that is true or not.
00:15:19.000 It is true.
00:15:19.000 You can't argue on the facts.
00:15:22.000 We saw it in their schools.
00:15:24.000 We saw rockets in their schools.
00:15:27.000 10,000 or 15,000 people have died.
00:15:29.000 There have been children who have died.
00:15:30.000 We didn't start this war.
00:15:32.000 I know you didn't, but my question to you is, what I hear from you Is not Joe Biden says we have to restart the two-state solution.
00:15:40.000 What I hear from you and what I hear from most of Israeli political leaders in the center right in the coalition government is no Hamas, no PA, maybe an international coalition and we will manage the occupation in perpetuity and we will sell the West Bank and that's it and you will have to deal with that. 0.67
00:15:55.000 Okay, and you'll have to deal with it.
00:15:56.000 Chris Hayes then goes on to suggest, well, you're denying self-determination to these people.
00:16:00.000 It is worth pointing out at this point that Chris Hayes' ridiculous assumption that self-determination is somehow owed to every single group, regardless of the evils of their belief system, is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:16:09.000 Did ISIS deserve self-determination?
00:16:12.000 How about Hezbollah?
00:16:13.000 How about the white supremacists Hayes sees around every corner? 0.62
00:16:15.000 Do they deserve self-determination?
00:16:17.000 But in order to back Hayes' point, the left continues to push the idea that the Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are somehow, magically, a moderate group, simply dominated by a few terror masters.
00:16:28.000 I know this is a very flattering myth that the West, particularly, we love to tell ourselves this myth, right?
00:16:32.000 This is the, we will be greeted as liberators in Iraq myth. 0.75
00:16:35.000 It's the same thing from the Bush administration.
00:16:36.000 Here is the Pentagon spokesperson saying just that.
00:16:40.000 Of course, the Israelis are taking into account innocent civilians. 0.81
00:16:44.000 That's why, again, in all of our calls that the Secretary has with his counterpart, Minister Galant, we continue to urge, of course, for the protection of innocent civilians wherever they are in Gaza.
00:16:56.000 And again, we have to remember, Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, and they shouldn't.
00:17:01.000 The Palestinian people deserve true leadership, and again, Hamas really should be rooted out from within Gaza.
00:17:09.000 Okay, so the idea that they don't represent the Palestinian people is a lie.
00:17:13.000 There's precisely zero evidence that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians.
00:17:18.000 Like, zero.
00:17:19.000 No evidence of that fact.
00:17:20.000 Doesn't mean they're all terrorists.
00:17:21.000 It means they do support a terrorist group.
00:17:23.000 Period.
00:17:24.000 They elected Hamas. 0.87
00:17:26.000 And then by every available poll since then, they support Hamas, including in the West Bank where Hamas is not governed.
00:17:30.000 So for all the people who are saying you can't trust the poll results in Gaza, fine.
00:17:34.000 Don't trust those poll results.
00:17:35.000 Trust the poll results in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority is the governing entity.
00:17:40.000 Then there's the complaint that the left is lodging that Israel must stop its campaign against Hamas in order to minimize civilian casualties.
00:17:46.000 As we've repeatedly discussed, Israel tries to do that, but to focus on this question gives total leverage to Hamas because Hamas doesn't care at all. 0.56
00:17:54.000 Like, they care zero about that topic.
00:17:56.000 Finally, The left complains that international institutions are being hampered in their efforts to help.
00:18:01.000 Well, let's talk a little bit about these so-called international institutions.
00:18:05.000 They are a sick joke. 0.82
00:18:06.000 They are broken. 0.72
00:18:07.000 They are broken because there is no such thing as an international community.
00:18:12.000 There can be no community with tyrannical hellholes and people who support terrorism.
00:18:16.000 And yet, apparently, so long as you say the magic words, international humanitarian institution, everybody is supposed to bow and scrape before you, as though you are, in fact, a good-hearted saint doing wondrous healing work.
00:18:27.000 More often than that.
00:18:29.000 More often than not.
00:18:31.000 The term international humanitarian organization is a tremendous lie.
00:18:35.000 Take, for example, the United Nations.
00:18:36.000 The utter disgrace that is the UN is nothing new, of course.
00:18:39.000 The UN came into being in the aftermath of World War II, when the West was seeking to end all conflict via international diplomacy.
00:18:45.000 As literally all of history since that has shown, that plan was a giant failure.
00:18:48.000 It turns out the best guarantor of international safety and security is a strong hegemonic Western power, namely the United States.
00:18:56.000 Whenever the UN has been entrusted to guarantee safety and security, it has failed.
00:18:59.000 In Korea.
00:18:59.000 In Rwanda, in Yugoslavia, in the Sinai Desert, in Lebanon, literally everywhere.
00:19:04.000 Whenever UN peacekeepers are put in a place and then a tyrannical regime demands they be removed, they just leave.
00:19:09.000 UN agencies have sometimes been helpful in distributing aid, but just as often, they've stolen that aid or worked on behalf of nefarious powers.
00:19:17.000 Nowhere has all of this been truer than in the Gaza Strip.
00:19:20.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:20:27.000 Okay, so as the world clamors for Israel to stop its operations in the Gaza Strip, even as Israel prepares to go back in, they're again claiming that international agencies must be allowed to do their work. 0.93
00:20:37.000 These international agencies are by and large garbage and or tools of Hamas. 0.84
00:20:41.000 The UN Relief and Works Agency, for example, the only agency in the UN dedicated to one specific group of people, Palestinian Arab refugees, and I put refugees in quotes there because we are now talking about the great-grandchildren of people who moved like three miles down the road into the Gaza Strip. 0.95
00:20:56.000 has funneled billions of dollars to Palestinians, including terror groups.
00:20:59.000 In fact, since 1994, the United States has sent over $10 billion to the Palestinians.
00:21:05.000 The United States supplies nearly 30% of the UNRWA budget historically.
00:21:10.000 The UNRWA workforce, it consists of tens of thousands of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, including many terrorists and terror supporters, as we've talked about on the show.
00:21:18.000 When the Trump administration cut aid to the UNRWA, the State Department said,
00:21:21.000 quote, The fundamental business model and fiscal practices that
00:21:24.000 have marked UNRWA for years, tied to UNRWA's endlessly and exponentially expanding
00:21:30.000 community of entitled beneficiaries, is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for
00:21:34.000 many years.
00:21:35.000 The Biden administration quickly restored aid to the UNRWA, but now the UNRWA is giving Western powers heartburn again.
00:21:42.000 That's because of reports that one of the child hostages held by Hamas was actually being held by a UNRWA teacher, barely given any food and no medicine.
00:21:52.000 By the way, that would be the kind of person teaching at the schools that Chris Hayes denies are actually teaching at the schools.
00:21:57.000 When I yell at Shaquade in that clip, it tells Chris Hayes that people are being indoctrinated by teachers from the UNRWA.
00:22:03.000 And he says, well, even if that's true, literally one of those teachers was holding a hostage, a child hostage in his attic.
00:22:11.000 No wonder the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee's Frank Müller-Rosenstritt in Germany actually called on the German government to cut aid to the UNRWA.
00:22:18.000 And it's not just the UNRWA that's the problem.
00:22:20.000 Here is Sarah Hendricks, Deputy Executive Director for UN Women.
00:22:23.000 That's a Western organization that has not bothered to condemn Hamas's mass rape of Israeli women on October 7th.
00:22:30.000 Here she was being questioned by Biana Galadraiga of CNN.
00:22:34.000 Is there a reason though, Sarah, that you can't specifically call out Hamas and the mounting evidence now over seven weeks that Israeli investigators have collected that we've shown our viewers about the atrocities they committed specifically on October 7th?
00:22:50.000 Because I think that's the crux of the issue here.
00:22:53.000 It's not just condemning sexual violence against women and in any war in general.
00:22:58.000 It's specifically what occurred on October 7th, perpetrated by Hamas.
00:23:03.000 Indeed, UN Women always supports impartial, independent investigations into any serious allegations of gender-based or sexual violence.
00:23:13.000 And within the UN family, these investigations are led by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.
00:23:19.000 And just to provide a little bit of context in terms of UN Women's role, UN Women specifically provides and has extensive knowledge on gender-based violence and provides and supports investigations as we do with all UN investigations.
00:23:35.000 So it's going to be a no on condemning Hamas.
00:23:38.000 That is an awful lot of word salad to avoid condemning Hamas.
00:23:41.000 But what else would you expect from our humanitarian organizations?
00:23:44.000 Take as another example the International Red Cross.
00:23:46.000 Because the International Committee of the Red Cross requires the help of groups like Hamas to even work in the Gaza Strip, they end up as tools of Hamas.
00:23:53.000 The ICRC has spent little or no time condemning Hamas for its October 7th atrocities.
00:23:57.000 Instead, they've focused on Israel's action in Gaza.
00:24:00.000 The ICRC also failed to report the facts which they knew about Israeli hostages being held at Gazan hospitals, even as the international media lied that those hospitals were civilian sites.
00:24:10.000 Meanwhile, the ICRC has not fulfilled one of the key components of Israel's original hostage deal with Hamas.
00:24:16.000 Verification of life and health of the hostages being held by Hamas.
00:24:20.000 That failure has had particularly tragic consequences in the case of the Bebas family.
00:24:24.000 They were kidnapped from a village called Nir Oz.
00:24:27.000 The father, Yarden, mother, Shiri, 4-year-old Ariel, and 10-month-old Kfir were taken to Gaza.
00:24:32.000 Here's the footage of them being abducted.
00:24:35.000 You can see there's the mom carrying these two red-headed kids as Hamas kidnaps them.
00:24:41.000 They are physically healthy.
00:24:42.000 They were obviously healthy when taken, but nobody knows if they are alive.
00:24:46.000 Earlier this week, it was reported that the family was traded to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another terrorist group, by Hamas.
00:24:52.000 And then yesterday, Hamas claimed the family had been killed by Israeli bombs.
00:24:56.000 So where is the ICRC to testify to any of this?
00:25:00.000 Deny it.
00:25:00.000 Verify it.
00:25:01.000 They're absolutely missing.
00:25:02.000 Instead, the ICRC, the wonderful humanitarian organization, has become a shuttle service For Israeli hostages.
00:25:09.000 Helping Hamas release the hostages as Gazan crowds cheer in bloodthirsty fashion. 0.88
00:25:13.000 There was more of that last night.
00:25:19.000 Don't worry folks, the Palestinian Arab population, they hate Hamas.
00:25:22.000 Which is why they are literally jeering, mocking, cheering, filming the release of Israeli hostages.
00:25:28.000 Mostly women and children.
00:25:32.000 These are wonderful moderates who deserve self-determination, obviously.
00:25:34.000 The world would be a better place if they had a state.
00:25:36.000 The international humanitarian institutions have beclowned themselves in the current Israel-Hamas war, but they were a suspect long before that.
00:25:42.000 It's just that radical Muslims and the left-wing press have laundered lies into public view by adding the imprimatur of the magical international community to corrupt institutions riddled with political radicals and corrupt functionaries. 0.93
00:25:54.000 In just one second, I'm going to talk about international institutions and international politics because A lot of what you are seeing today in the obits about Henry Kissinger is predicated on people's views about, particularly, this subject.
00:26:06.000 So, last night, Henry Kissinger died.
00:26:09.000 He was 100 years old.
00:26:11.000 I'd met him very briefly once, and I had interviewed him once.
00:26:15.000 It didn't end up being taped.
00:26:17.000 He is a fascinating character, obviously.
00:26:20.000 Very checkered character.
00:26:21.000 A lot of the decisions he made were extremely cold-eyed.
00:26:24.000 Extremely cold-eyed.
00:26:26.000 A lot of people, ranging from Anthony Bourdain to Christopher Hitchens, condemned him as a war criminal for his decision-making during the Nixon administration with regards to, for example, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor or the American intervention on behalf of Pinochet in Chile in 1973.
00:26:44.000 Or the bombing of Cambodia?
00:26:47.000 By the same token, how you view Kissinger is very much a reflection of how you view international politics as a whole.
00:26:53.000 And the reason that this is broken down into sort of a left-right divide, despite the fact that Kissinger's history was very checkered in terms of left-right decision-making.
00:27:00.000 So, for example, the right doesn't like the fact that Kissinger quote-unquote opened China.
00:27:04.000 It was Kissinger who really led to the opening of China.
00:27:06.000 At the time, it was a real politic decision because he saw a gap emerging between China and Russia, and he was attempting to exploit that gap by wooing China away from Russia, right?
00:27:15.000 That was the goal.
00:27:16.000 The goal was woo China away from Russia, remove them as a source of trade and resources for Russia, and you will end up weakening the Russian regime, which is why the trip to China was initiated with Nixon speaking with Mao.
00:27:30.000 So in retrospect, we can say, and I would say, that's a bad mistake.
00:27:33.000 At the time, it's a choice between two bad decisions.
00:27:36.000 And this was the sort of guiding light of Kissinger's foreign policy.
00:27:40.000 So Henry Kissinger, for those who don't know much about Kissinger himself, he was a massive celebrity in the 1970s.
00:27:46.000 He was a Secretary of State during the Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations.
00:27:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, no U.S.
00:27:53.000 Secretary of State ever achieved such celebrity while in office as Henry Kissinger.
00:27:56.000 A 1974 Newsweek cover depicted him as Super K, a comic book hero.
00:28:00.000 Time called him the world's most indispensable man.
00:28:02.000 Gallup ranked him America's most admired man.
00:28:04.000 A 1972 Life magazine spread pictured him with a bevy of actresses, including Jill St.
00:28:08.000 John.
00:28:09.000 Yet no former Secretary of State has been more vehemently criticized.
00:28:11.000 Of the many anti-Kissinger books, the most influential was Christopher Hitchens' The Trial of Henry Kissinger, which explicitly accused Kissinger of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Indochina, Chile, Argentina, Cyprus, East Timor, and several other places.
00:28:24.000 Although the book mentioned only one other supposed crime scene, Bangladesh, and mentioned the Soviet Union only three times.
00:28:29.000 This is Neil Ferguson, who wrote a biography of Henry Kissinger, talking about Henry Kissinger.
00:28:34.000 He said those accusations stuck like mud.
00:28:36.000 Late in life, Kissinger regularly faced protests at his public appearances, yet they are at odds with the historical record.
00:28:41.000 And Ferguson points out that Kissinger was both the White House National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State.
00:28:49.000 His accomplishments included the negotiation of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, the ABM Treaty with the Soviet Union, the opening to China, the ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the end of U.S.
00:28:59.000 involvement in the Vietnam War for which both he and North Vietnamese counterpart Ly Duc Tho were awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
00:29:07.000 But here is the problem.
00:29:09.000 If you see foreign policy as a family of nations, a lot of good-hearted people out there, they all just want the same thing, but they're having different ways of achieving that, then hardcore foreign policy looks nasty to you.
00:29:21.000 Because the easiest thing is just wash your hands of everything.
00:29:24.000 If the United States just goes hands off, why were we even involved in these places?
00:29:28.000 From the right, what you hear, and I think this critique is correct of Henry Kissinger, is that Henry Kissinger was so focused on the sort of Metternichian balance of power that he forgot that the United States is a global hegemon.
00:29:40.000 And from the left, what you hear of Henry Kissinger is he was engaged in the dirty game of politics and that meant that the United States was constantly engaged in dirty little wars all around the world we shouldn't have been engaged in.
00:29:50.000 And the reality is somewhere in between.
00:29:53.000 The reason that the left thinks that is because the left believes that if a communist regime were to arise in Latin America with the help of the Soviet Union, that's not a bad thing.
00:30:00.000 I think a Marxist regime in Latin America, or many Marxist regimes in Latin America, what's the big deal?
00:30:05.000 Why is that a problem?
00:30:06.000 Why does it matter if Vietnam turns communist?
00:30:08.000 Why does it matter if Cambodia and Laos turn communist?
00:30:10.000 Why does it matter if East Timor turns communist?
00:30:12.000 Why does any of that matter?
00:30:14.000 First of all, that demonstrates a complete misreading of how foreign policy works.
00:30:17.000 Foreign policy is a dirty, terrible business in which, as I say, Kissinger had one central foreign policy message.
00:30:24.000 His overriding message was, avoid the worst outcome.
00:30:28.000 Which means sometimes embracing the second worst outcome.
00:30:31.000 If you read any of his books, this was Kissinger's main thing was avoid the worst outcome.
00:30:35.000 This, by the way, was his recommendation in Ukraine.
00:30:37.000 So when it came to Ukraine during this war that is currently ongoing, very early on, he suggested that there should be an off-ramp in Ukraine because everybody knew that Ukraine was not going to take the Donbass or Crimea.
00:30:47.000 In which, Ukraine was given security guarantees, did not formally enter NATO, but was given enough armaments to defend itself against a predatory Russian invasion, and Russia was basically given dominion over the territories it was very likely to hold anyway.
00:30:58.000 And this pleased no one in the early days of the war, and it turns out it was rather prescient, because what he was attempting to avoid was a straight-up face-to-face confrontation between NATO and Russia.
00:31:07.000 That's what he was attempting to avoid, and he knew there weren't the stones for it in the West.
00:31:11.000 And so, realize what is happening on the ground, and adjust to it.
00:31:16.000 So when people rip on Kissinger, there are two rips.
00:31:18.000 One is that he misread particular situations.
00:31:20.000 He should have done things differently.
00:31:21.000 All of that's legitimate.
00:31:22.000 The second rip, which is just wrong, is the rip that you don't have to make these sort of considerations when you make American foreign policy.
00:31:29.000 That American foreign policy is either the most sinful foreign policy on planet Earth.
00:31:34.000 Every ill can be ascribed to it.
00:31:35.000 You see this in the critique of Kissinger with regard to Cambodia and Laos, for example.
00:31:39.000 The basic idea that is promoted by the left with Cambodia is that Kissinger, when he took over as Secretary of State in the aftermath of the LBJ completely botching the Vietnam War, When he came in, he said, we need to start bombing the communist supply lines in Cambodia.
00:31:54.000 And he authorized mass huge bombing raids into Cambodia without the approval of Congress.
00:32:00.000 Now you can talk about whether it needed congressional approval and all the rest, that's fine.
00:32:03.000 But as a foreign policy matter, did bombing Cambodia cause, for example, the left now claims that that caused the rise of Pol Pot in Cambodia.
00:32:12.000 That Khmer Rouge would never have happened if we had not bombed Cambodia. 1.00
00:32:15.000 That assumes that there's no such thing as agency in the world.
00:32:17.000 It's a lie.
00:32:18.000 It's not true.
00:32:18.000 The minute the United States got out of Vietnam, Cambodia fell to Pol Pot.
00:32:22.000 So, again, it's a bunch of considerations.
00:32:25.000 This is the overriding message of Kissinger's life, and it's the thing we should take away from it, while still quibbling, or arguing, or strenuously hating many of his foreign policy decisions.
00:32:33.000 Foreign policy is a dangerous and dirty business.
00:32:35.000 It is not possible to engage in foreign policy and keep your hands totally clean.
00:32:39.000 That is not something that you can do, because there are, in fact, nefarious powers who hate you, and who wish the worst for you, and who will have an impact on your life, whether you're talking about them controlling Choke points in international trade, as we've talked about on the show, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Straits of Taiwan, or whether you're talking about active military operations against the United States in far-flung places, and yes, indeed, at home.
00:33:01.000 You have to recognize that the world is a complex place that requires complex choices, and very often those choices are the choices of the least bad scenario, And having to actually engage with the second worst scenario.
00:33:14.000 And that really is the story of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy.
00:33:17.000 Again, I agree with many of the critiques from the right that sometimes who's engaging in the second worst scenario when say like a better scenario is available.
00:33:25.000 And again, that's a good critique.
00:33:27.000 What I don't agree with is the total isolationist or libertarian position which is that America should go hands-off in the world and somehow the world will be a better place for it.
00:33:34.000 That is a very difficult position to maintain in face of the fact that, again, there are countries all over the world that hate us, that do not agree with our values, that seek to maximize their own power at the expense of the American people.
00:33:45.000 There's this weird notion that has taken root on the right and the left.
00:33:48.000 It's this horseshoe theory thing, which is that everybody who acts badly in the world was somehow driven to it by the United States.
00:33:55.000 This is why you're seeing the left embrace TikToks of Osama bin Laden circa 2002.
00:34:00.000 Because, oh, he would never have done that if we hadn't been so mean in Saudi Arabia. 0.85
00:34:03.000 Yeah, sure.
00:34:04.000 You see, the right do the same thing with regard to Russia.
00:34:06.000 Russia never would have invaded Ukraine if it had not been for our attempts to extend a helping hand to Ukraine and make overtures toward NATO.
00:34:15.000 Or maybe Russia has a long history under Vladimir Putin of territorial invasions of neighboring countries.
00:34:20.000 Maybe it turns out that other people except for the West have agency.
00:34:23.000 And once you realize other people except for the West have agency, it changes your decision-making dramatically.
00:34:27.000 This is true all over the world.
00:34:28.000 The fundamental foreign policy mistake is the assumption that only the West has agency.
00:34:32.000 This sort of ethnocentricity This political arrogance leads to, ironically, more death than a humility that acknowledges that other people have interests adverse to our own, and that you have to respect those interests, even if that means fighting those interests.
00:34:48.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the 2024 campaign, which...
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00:35:53.000 I saw it last night.
00:35:54.000 I mean, yes, people are going to be triggered.
00:35:56.000 It is streaming exclusively on DailyWirePlus tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
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00:36:00.000 You've heard us talking about the movie all week, and now I get to tell you even more because I actually saw the movie.
00:36:04.000 Believe it or not, as an executive producer on the film, I had not seen the movie until last night.
00:36:08.000 And, um, it is hilarious.
00:36:10.000 I gotta say, special props to Tyler, special props to the Crane Boys, David Cohn.
00:36:16.000 I mean, there is so much that is very funny in this movie, and most of all, it is the movie that Hollywood should have been making, but they couldn't, and so we did.
00:36:25.000 We are making jokes about a thing that needs to be mocked, and that is the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. 0.98
00:36:30.000 It's a stupid idea, requires jokes, and that's what we're doing. 0.97
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00:36:38.000 Well, meanwhile, the 2024 election continues apace right now in the RealClearPolitics average.
00:36:44.000 Donald Trump is up about two points.
00:36:46.000 There are two recent polls that have Biden back up a couple of points, but he is never above 44, 43% in these polls.
00:36:53.000 And in fact, in the polls where he's at 49 or 47 or 46, Trump is up on him in those polls.
00:36:59.000 So in other words, Joe Biden is stuck.
00:37:01.000 His ceiling is like 44, 45 percent.
00:37:04.000 And when people are forced to the decision, Matt, right now they're breaking in favor of Trump.
00:37:08.000 In fact, what the polls are showing is not right now actually increase or decrease support for Biden.
00:37:14.000 Actually, over the course of the last couple of months, his support is slightly up Biden in these polls.
00:37:19.000 The problem for him is that all the independents are breaking in favor of Trump.
00:37:23.000 Why is that happening?
00:37:23.000 It's because, again, all the focus is on Joe Biden.
00:37:26.000 And so the question is going to be, can Donald Trump keep the focus on Joe Biden as this election moves forward?
00:37:32.000 In order for that to happen, Trump cannot run a revenge campaign.
00:37:35.000 He cannot.
00:37:36.000 His campaign can be a political, a policy revenge campaign.
00:37:40.000 He can say, listen, Here are my policies.
00:37:42.000 Joe Biden got rid of all of them, and the world is now on fire.
00:37:44.000 I closed the border.
00:37:44.000 Joe Biden opened the border.
00:37:46.000 I was a negotiating piece in the Middle East.
00:37:47.000 Joe Biden has blown up all of that by legitimizing the Houthis in Yemen, by funding Iran, by restoring aid to the Palestinians.
00:37:55.000 He can say all of that.
00:37:55.000 He can say that the economy was going great guns before COVID, and then even in the middle of COVID, the economy was recovering at a steeper pace than it did subsequently under Joe Biden.
00:38:05.000 Dubai has broken all of the economic levers, which is why right now the economy is running extremely hot, but also we are in danger of continued baked-in inflation.
00:38:14.000 He can say all those things.
00:38:15.000 That would be a great campaign.
00:38:17.000 Making that campaign about, were you better off in 2019 or are you better off in 2024?
00:38:22.000 That is a good winning campaign for Donald Trump.
00:38:25.000 You know what's not a great winning campaign for Donald Trump?
00:38:28.000 I'm coming in, I'm going to break all the people who came after me.
00:38:31.000 That is not something I think the American people are up for.
00:38:34.000 Again, because the best of Donald Trump Always and forever was the version of Donald Trump who said, I am your tool.
00:38:41.000 You wield me in order to achieve certain objectives.
00:38:44.000 I am the shield for you.
00:38:46.000 But when he starts to make it about the voters being a shield for him, people tend to object to that.
00:38:49.000 They don't want to buy into his personal issues.
00:38:52.000 Even if they think, like I do, that many of those issues are being created by the left and are false.
00:38:57.000 If the answer to Donald Trump is being unjustly persecuted is election, I don't buy that.
00:39:03.000 I think the answer to Donald Trump being unjustly persecuted is fund his legal defense fund.
00:39:08.000 But!
00:39:10.000 Again, he has an independent case to make that is way better than that, which is why, again, he's been soaring in the polls the less you see of him.
00:39:15.000 You have not seen him.
00:39:16.000 He's been gone.
00:39:17.000 All the focus has been on Joe Biden. 0.59
00:39:18.000 It needs to stay that way, which is why I think it's particularly foolish for Donald Trump to go out there and start warning people about the weaponization of the DOJ.
00:39:28.000 Trump put out a giant statement on Truth Social yesterday.
00:39:32.000 He said, I'm 12 points up on crooked Joe Biden.
00:39:34.000 I don't know what poll he's looking at where he's 12 points up on.
00:39:37.000 I wish, I wish he's not.
00:39:40.000 There are no polls where he's up 12 points on Biden.
00:39:42.000 But he's got the Justice Department and others suing me wherever and whenever possible.
00:39:45.000 Weaponization, it's called, and maybe that can make a difference.
00:39:47.000 This has never been done on this scale before, not in our country.
00:39:50.000 It opens up a very big and dangerous Pandora's box.
00:39:52.000 Joe Biden should stop his election interfering thugs before it is too late for him and the rest of the country.
00:39:56.000 Again, I don't think he's wrong about any of this.
00:39:57.000 I just don't see why that should be the centerpiece of the campaign.
00:39:59.000 It can certainly be a part of the campaign.
00:40:01.000 Him saying, listen, Joe Biden's a very bad president.
00:40:02.000 He's going to lose.
00:40:03.000 That's the reason he's targeting me.
00:40:04.000 to work if they file these and then he just goes on along these lines. Again, I don't think he's
00:40:09.000 wrong about any of this. I just don't see why that should be the centerpiece of the campaign.
00:40:12.000 It can certainly be a part of the campaign. Him saying, listen, Joe Biden's a very bad president.
00:40:16.000 He's going to lose. That's the reason he's targeting me.
00:40:18.000 But back to why Joe Biden is a bad president. That is totally worthwhile. But if his
00:40:23.000 campaign is in fact about his sort of personal venge taking, I think that's going to be a problem for him.
00:40:30.000 That's a thought expressed by his, by the way, erstwhile ally, Kevin McCarthy, former Speaker of the House, he said this yesterday, he said, if Trump's campaign is about revenge, he'll lose.
00:40:38.000 I don't think that's wrong.
00:40:40.000 And like or hate McCarthy, this is not bad political analysis.
00:40:44.000 I'm trying to square in my brain how you have those feelings about him at that time and say, I think he would be a great president today.
00:40:54.000 I didn't say a great president.
00:40:55.000 I said he'd be a better president than what we're having.
00:40:58.000 I said the country would be in a better place.
00:41:00.000 If his campaign is about renew, rebuild and restore, he'll win.
00:41:06.000 If it's about revenge, he'll lose.
00:41:09.000 That's the only person that's going to determine that is not his campaign ad is him.
00:41:15.000 And he's right about that.
00:41:17.000 McCarthy is right about that, which is why Trump needs to be careful.
00:41:19.000 Now, I will say Trump did something absolutely kind of ridiculous that is worth noting yesterday, because frankly, if any other candidate did this, Trump, I understand that Trump has a hall pass from the entire Republican Party for pretty much anything he does at this point, because it's all baked into the cake at this point, but Donald Trump did, in fact, endorse BLM yesterday, which is like an insane thing to do.
00:41:40.000 So what happened is that there's a person named Mark Fisher who billed himself as a co-founder of BLM in Rhode Island.
00:41:48.000 He said he was very honored to have his and BLM's support. 1.00
00:41:51.000 BLM is a garbage organization. 1.00
00:41:53.000 You don't want BLM support. 1.00
00:41:55.000 I mean, I understand, again, that everything Trump says has to be taken not just with a grain of salt, but like a giant iceberg of salt.
00:42:01.000 Like a giant salt block from the Dead Sea.
00:42:03.000 I get it.
00:42:04.000 But, can we just point out that BLM is a horrifying organization?
00:42:07.000 It's a giant grift. 0.97
00:42:08.000 Not only is it a giant grift, it's a giant anti-Semitic grift, and a giant anti-white grift, and it's really, really bad.
00:42:14.000 So, you know, this is... In terms of his record, by the way, this is the part of his record I think that's the worst, is the criminal justice reform kind of stuff, the idea that he's gonna jailbreak a bunch of people who are criminals.
00:42:24.000 But, in any case, if Donald Trump wants to win, he is going to have to focus in on the failures of Joe Biden, of which there are many.
00:42:32.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:43:35.000 Well, there is a rule in presidential politics, particularly campaign politics, that when something goes wrong, sort of everything goes wrong.
00:43:41.000 My friend Jon Podhoretz over at the Commentary Magazine podcast is the editor of Commentary Magazine, who wrote a book in the early 1990s about the Bush doomed reelect effort in 1991-1992.
00:43:51.000 And one of his basic theses was that when a campaign is failing, everything starts to go wrong all at once.
00:43:57.000 And that seems to be happening to Joe Biden right now, whether it is him just wandering around on stage as a comedian, Shane Gillis puts it like a Roomba when he's sort of confused at the end of his speeches, just bumping into things, or whether it's what happened last night.
00:44:11.000 So the Biden Christmas tree just fell over.
00:44:14.000 They're trying to put it up and it fell over.
00:44:15.000 Again, these sorts of images, they don't mean anything on their own, but they do.
00:44:18.000 And there's a generalized sort of feeling of instability.
00:44:22.000 And when the Christmas tree represents the actual President of the United States, and it falls over, again, is he in charge of the weather?
00:44:28.000 No, the Jews are in charge of the weather, as we all know. 1.00
00:44:30.000 But, when it falls over, everybody is immediately flashing to Joe Biden falling up the stairs.
00:44:36.000 I mean, here's what it looked like last night.
00:44:38.000 And you put the screws like Uncle Fester on his head, and you make sure it's equal, and you stand that tree up, and you should be able to walk out of that room and know it won't fall down.
00:44:47.000 Sadly, no one listened to me yesterday.
00:44:49.000 Down goes the Frasier fur.
00:44:51.000 Well, he's... Okay, Brian.
00:44:54.000 I don't know that you've read all the details about the National Christmas Tree which blew over in a... We'll make excuses for him.
00:45:01.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:45:02.000 They didn't put it in a stand.
00:45:04.000 They planted it.
00:45:05.000 That's a big problem.
00:45:05.000 Well, that's the problem, right?
00:45:06.000 They don't listen to me.
00:45:08.000 They don't listen to Brian.
00:45:09.000 There they are trying to pull it back up again.
00:45:11.000 Again, are these major things?
00:45:13.000 They're not major things, obviously. 0.96
00:45:15.000 They're silly things. 0.55
00:45:16.000 But when all the silly things seem to fall in one direction, that is a bad sign for the incumbent president of the United States. 0.53
00:45:22.000 Like Jimmy Carter being attacked while he was on a boat in 1979 by a rabbit.
00:45:26.000 Like a rabid rabbit.
00:45:27.000 It was an actual thing that happened, apparently.
00:45:29.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:45:31.000 It's not just that Joe Biden, things are going wrong for him.
00:45:33.000 It's that of course things are going wrong for him because he's not good at the president thing.
00:45:37.000 According to Axios, evidence is stacking up showing Americans are saving less and drawing down their existing savings cushions.
00:45:42.000 Of course they are, because the more you save in an inflationary economy, the less your money is worth.
00:45:45.000 I put a hundred bucks in the bank today, and then my dollar is worth 50% of what it was worth six months from now.
00:45:52.000 I've lost money by keeping my money parked.
00:45:54.000 Instead, you're better off buying things.
00:45:55.000 This is why you're seeing an accelerating rate of growth.
00:45:57.000 So Q3 showed a 5.2% increase in GDP.
00:46:01.000 That sounds amazing, right?
00:46:02.000 That's great.
00:46:03.000 Except that what's actually happening is everybody is pre-buying all the materials for Q4 in anticipation of the fact that prices are probably going to continue to rise as we hit the holidays.
00:46:13.000 According to Axios, the share of adults who say they can cover six months of expenses using their savings is considerably lower than it was last year, according to polling from Morning Consult.
00:46:20.000 The share that simply doesn't know how long their savings will carry them has grown from about 15.5% in July 2022 to 21%.
00:46:28.000 The spending right now is booing the economy, but it's likely to crash on the other end, and nobody's going to have savings because they already spent their savings because of the inflation.
00:46:35.000 So that is really bad news.
00:46:36.000 Again, the economic news here is so mixed.
00:46:39.000 This is why people are feeling on tenterhooks.
00:46:41.000 Inflation eats everything.
00:46:43.000 And Joe Biden has not been able to tame inflation in such a way that people feel secure in the economy.
00:46:47.000 Now, all the financial experts are expecting that the Federal Reserve is going to actually decrease the interest rates in the near future.
00:46:53.000 Which, of course, there are a lot of people like, wait, isn't inflation still running hot right now?
00:46:57.000 And the answer is yes, it is still running hot right now.
00:47:00.000 And if you decrease those inflation, those interest rates, then presumably you're going to get new spending, new investment, and all of the rest of it.
00:47:09.000 The bond markets jumped at this, obviously, because your bond is worth more now than it was yesterday if the interest rates start to drop.
00:47:17.000 With that said, is any of this good news for Joe Biden's economy?
00:47:20.000 Again, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place on the actual policy.
00:47:24.000 Meanwhile, the Republicans are starting to go after Joe Biden again on the impeachment inquiry.
00:47:28.000 Republicans are apparently considering holding an official House vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Biden.
00:47:34.000 McCarthy initiated it when he was Speaker of the House without an actual vote because he didn't think he had the votes.
00:47:38.000 Now GOP leaders are talking about the possibility of the vote during a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers.
00:47:44.000 Republican leaders have long said a vote on the impeachment investigation was unnecessary.
00:47:48.000 They're now reconsidering because White House lawyers are using the lack of a formal House authorization to argue that the investigation lacks constitutional legitimacy.
00:47:56.000 The problem, of course, is that it's not clear they've got the votes for that.
00:48:00.000 I've yet to see the evidence that Mike Johnson is significantly better at whipping votes than Kevin McCarthy was.
00:48:05.000 McCarthy was pretty good at that.
00:48:07.000 He was pretty good at counting the heads.
00:48:09.000 Johnson may be good at it.
00:48:10.000 We just don't know as of yet.
00:48:14.000 No matter.
00:48:15.000 The impeachment inquiry on top of Joe Biden's failing presidency is not going to help him.
00:48:20.000 It isn't.
00:48:22.000 And the White House doesn't have a great rebuttal to it.
00:48:24.000 Here is Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday trying to go after Republicans for pursuing the impeachment inquiry.
00:48:29.000 House Republicans should really focus on American families instead of the president's family.
00:48:36.000 That's what Americans want to see.
00:48:40.000 That's not gonna cut it.
00:48:42.000 Nobody buys the focus on American families, not on Joe Biden's family.
00:48:44.000 First of all, Joe Biden's family is an American family and a rather key American family.
00:48:49.000 I will say again, I think that Hunter Biden's new tactic is actually somewhat intelligent.
00:48:55.000 Calling on the House GOP to open up the meetings, I think is actually pretty smart because it's basically calling their bluff.
00:49:01.000 He's saying, listen, whatever you have to come after me about, let's do this all in front of everybody.
00:49:08.000 The House has denied that request.
00:49:09.000 James Comer, the head of the House Oversight Committee, he said our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to appear for a deposition on December 13th.
00:49:16.000 We expect full cooperation with our subpoena for a deposition.
00:49:18.000 We also agree Hunter Biden should have the opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date.
00:49:23.000 Typically, House panels insist on a private deposition before allowing a public appearance.
00:49:27.000 The January 6th Select Committee denied several requests to testify publicly, including one from Rudy Giuliani.
00:49:32.000 Jim Jordan, for his part, said, sure, we'd love to have Hunter in for an open hearing.
00:49:35.000 First, we need to have him testify behind closed doors so we can ask him all the questions we want to ask him.
00:49:40.000 And those facts are confirmed by some of the evidence we've uncovered already, this 1023
00:49:46.000 form where the confidential human source told the FBI and it was recorded in this form.
00:49:51.000 Those are the key facts.
00:49:52.000 And now it's important, we got a lot of those key facts when we interviewed one of Hunter
00:49:56.000 Biden's business partners, Mr. Archer.
00:49:58.000 It's important we talk to the others.
00:50:00.000 We need to talk to Eric Schwerin.
00:50:01.000 We need to talk to Rob Walker.
00:50:02.000 We need to talk to Tony Bobulinski.
00:50:04.000 And we're in conversations with their lawyers and we think those are going to happen.
00:50:07.000 And we need to talk to Jim Biden, who was also in business with Hunter Biden.
00:50:12.000 Those things need to happen.
00:50:13.000 And then, as the chairman just said, as Chairman Comer just said, we will have Hunter Biden
00:50:18.000 in a deposition.
00:50:19.000 And frankly, I think in an open hearing, I think that would be great.
00:50:23.000 That's what needs to happen so the American people get the facts, get the truth.
00:50:28.000 Okay, so again, Republicans are going to keep pushing here.
00:50:30.000 None of it is going to be particularly good for Joe Biden. 0.70
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