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00:00:00.000Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York took to the floor of the Senate to decry anti-Semitism.
00:00:06.000Schumer 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.
00:00:14.000Nonetheless, 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.
00:00:27.000Because I'm the highest ranking Jewish elected official in America.
00:00:32.000In fact, the highest ranking Jewish elected official ever in American history.
00:00:39.000And 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.
00:00:50.000Anti-Semites are taking advantage of the pro-Palestinian movement to espouse hatred and bigotry towards
00:01:19.000The young people, they're so good-hearted, they just don't know what they do.
00:01:23.000Schumer actually explained that the phrase, from the river to the sea, a genocidal call to destroy all Jews, was actually just ignorance.
00:01:31.000Plenty of people, Schumer actually said, chant that phrase, quote, not because they hate Jewish people, but because they support a better future for Palestinians.
00:01:38.000And 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.
00:01:46.000For 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.
00:01:54.000Do these look like good-hearted but slightly misinformed people to you?
00:02:02.000There are people attacking police officers right outside Rockefeller Center.
00:02:25.000Liberals, they're never the bad guys, according to Chuck Schumer.
00:02:29.000What we're watching is precisely the mentality created by the world of leftist ideology, and Schumer knows that.
00:02:35.000But he has to lie about it, because to recognize the roots of left-wing antisemitism would be to destroy the progressive ideology wholesale.
00:02:42.000That leftist ideology is based on a matrix of oppressor versus oppressed.
00:02:46.000That in any given situation, the powerless are oppressed, and the powerful are the oppressors.
00:02:57.000Jews are pseudo-white because Jews are financially well-off and Israel is disproportionately successful in a really unsuccessful region of the world.
00:03:05.000The 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.
00:03:16.000That'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.
00:03:26.000Diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, is the rubric under which the left pushes the idea that unequal group outcomes are the result of systemic discrimination.
00:03:35.000So, by that math, Jews are the beneficiaries of systemic discrimination because, of course, they're disproportionately successful.
00:03:41.000DEI simply cannot include Jews because DEI's basic logic forbids it.
00:06:28.000Hey Bob is a reference to Bob Iger who's in the audience, the head of Disney.
00:06:32.000All 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.
00:06:41.000The Venn diagram of that group is a circle.
00:06:43.000That circle is the true threat to Jews in Israel and in the West.
00:06:47.000In 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.
00:08:02.000Okay, 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.
00:08:12.000Here he was yesterday explaining that he'd like to see the pause that has been created by negotiations between Israel and Hamas via Qatar.
00:08:19.000They want to see that extended so more hostages are released.
00:08:22.000The 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.
00:08:54.000And 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.
00:09:04.000And what Hamas is doing right now is so unbelievably evil.
00:09:08.000It's as evil as what they did on October 7th.
00:09:11.000So on October 7th, they murdered 1,200 people and they kidnapped another 240.
00:09:14.000And now they're separating families out.
00:09:16.000They're saying that some people are dead who are still alive.
00:09:18.000They're saying some people who are alive are actually dead.
00:09:23.000And meanwhile, they are pursuing terror attacks.
00:09:25.000So 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.
00:09:35.000And you can see, these are two brothers from East Jerusalem who identify with Hamas.
00:10:13.000And yet Israel is supposed to keep going with some sort of pause to get the hostages out.
00:10:17.000I gotta say, there is a moral question as to whether Israel should or can continue to do this sort of routine.
00:10:22.000Because again, What's happened to the hostages is horrible and evil and continues to be horrible and evil.
00:10:28.000At 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?
00:10:40.000Speaking 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.
00:10:49.000Elon Levy, who's the spokesperson for the Israeli government, he says, no, the hostages were not in fact held in reasonable conditions.
00:10:57.000As the survivors of Hamas captivity return home over the last week, we're beginning to discover new chilling details about life as Hamas hostages.
00:11:05.000I'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.
00:11:13.000The hostages were not held in reasonable conditions.
00:11:17.000As some have cynically claimed, our children were serially abused.
00:11:23.000Just 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.
00:11:36.000Those 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.
00:11:44.000Of course the hostages were not held in reasonable condition.
00:11:46.000What else do you expect from, you know, a terrorist group?
00:11:50.000The simple fact of the matter is that the hostages were treated precisely as you would expect Hamas to treat the hostages.
00:13:10.000And so there are a bunch of people, predominantly on the left, who are attempting to make the claim that Israel should stop.
00:13:15.000They are complaining that after Hamas, no one knows what comes next.
00:13:18.000That's a weird accusation, because pretty much everybody knows what comes next.
00:13:21.000An 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.
00:13:37.000But the media pretend they don't understand.
00:13:39.000I gotta say, the faux ignorance of members of the media is truly an amazing thing to watch.
00:13:44.000These are people who pretend that they know everything, but suddenly they turn into simple-minded
00:13:47.000village idiots when confronted with bare facts.
00:13:49.000So here's Chris Hayes of MSNBC picking up Rachel Maddow's glasses, putting them on,
00:14:24.000Okay, so what we want to do first is to eliminate Hamas.
00:14:28.000And then to have a buffer zone, you know, in order to keep our villages safe.
00:14:34.000And 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.
00:14:49.000We need to do, you know, denatification, In order to... What does that mean?
00:14:58.000Because 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.
00:15:09.000They are being educated to slaughtered Jews.
00:15:32.000I 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.
00:15:40.000What 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.
00:15:55.000Okay, and you'll have to deal with it.
00:15:56.000Chris Hayes then goes on to suggest, well, you're denying self-determination to these people.
00:16:00.000It 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.
00:16:17.000But 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.
00:16:28.000I know this is a very flattering myth that the West, particularly, we love to tell ourselves this myth, right?
00:16:32.000This is the, we will be greeted as liberators in Iraq myth.
00:16:35.000It's the same thing from the Bush administration.
00:16:36.000Here is the Pentagon spokesperson saying just that.
00:16:40.000Of course, the Israelis are taking into account innocent civilians.
00:16:44.000That'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.
00:16:56.000And again, we have to remember, Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, and they shouldn't.
00:17:01.000The Palestinian people deserve true leadership, and again, Hamas really should be rooted out from within Gaza.
00:17:09.000Okay, so the idea that they don't represent the Palestinian people is a lie.
00:17:13.000There's precisely zero evidence that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians.
00:17:35.000Trust the poll results in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority is the governing entity.
00:17:40.000Then there's the complaint that the left is lodging that Israel must stop its campaign against Hamas in order to minimize civilian casualties.
00:17:46.000As 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.
00:17:54.000Like, they care zero about that topic.
00:17:56.000Finally, The left complains that international institutions are being hampered in their efforts to help.
00:18:01.000Well, let's talk a little bit about these so-called international institutions.
00:18:07.000They are broken because there is no such thing as an international community.
00:18:12.000There can be no community with tyrannical hellholes and people who support terrorism.
00:18:16.000And 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.
00:18:59.000In Rwanda, in Yugoslavia, in the Sinai Desert, in Lebanon, literally everywhere.
00:19:04.000Whenever UN peacekeepers are put in a place and then a tyrannical regime demands they be removed, they just leave.
00:19:09.000UN agencies have sometimes been helpful in distributing aid, but just as often, they've stolen that aid or worked on behalf of nefarious powers.
00:19:17.000Nowhere has all of this been truer than in the Gaza Strip.
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00:20:27.000Okay, 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.
00:20:37.000These international agencies are by and large garbage and or tools of Hamas.
00:20:41.000The 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.
00:20:56.000has funneled billions of dollars to Palestinians, including terror groups.
00:20:59.000In fact, since 1994, the United States has sent over $10 billion to the Palestinians.
00:21:05.000The United States supplies nearly 30% of the UNRWA budget historically.
00:21:10.000The 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.
00:21:18.000When the Trump administration cut aid to the UNRWA, the State Department said,
00:21:21.000quote, The fundamental business model and fiscal practices that
00:21:24.000have marked UNRWA for years, tied to UNRWA's endlessly and exponentially expanding
00:21:30.000community of entitled beneficiaries, is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for
00:21:35.000The Biden administration quickly restored aid to the UNRWA, but now the UNRWA is giving Western powers heartburn again.
00:21:42.000That'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.
00:21:52.000By the way, that would be the kind of person teaching at the schools that Chris Hayes denies are actually teaching at the schools.
00:21:57.000When I yell at Shaquade in that clip, it tells Chris Hayes that people are being indoctrinated by teachers from the UNRWA.
00:22:03.000And he says, well, even if that's true, literally one of those teachers was holding a hostage, a child hostage in his attic.
00:22:11.000No wonder the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee's Frank Müller-Rosenstritt in Germany actually called on the German government to cut aid to the UNRWA.
00:22:18.000And it's not just the UNRWA that's the problem.
00:22:20.000Here is Sarah Hendricks, Deputy Executive Director for UN Women.
00:22:23.000That's a Western organization that has not bothered to condemn Hamas's mass rape of Israeli women on October 7th.
00:22:30.000Here she was being questioned by Biana Galadraiga of CNN.
00:22:34.000Is 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?
00:22:50.000Because I think that's the crux of the issue here.
00:22:53.000It's not just condemning sexual violence against women and in any war in general.
00:22:58.000It's specifically what occurred on October 7th, perpetrated by Hamas.
00:23:03.000Indeed, UN Women always supports impartial, independent investigations into any serious allegations of gender-based or sexual violence.
00:23:13.000And within the UN family, these investigations are led by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.
00:23:19.000And 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.
00:23:35.000So it's going to be a no on condemning Hamas.
00:23:38.000That is an awful lot of word salad to avoid condemning Hamas.
00:23:41.000But what else would you expect from our humanitarian organizations?
00:23:44.000Take as another example the International Red Cross.
00:23:46.000Because 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.
00:23:53.000The ICRC has spent little or no time condemning Hamas for its October 7th atrocities.
00:23:57.000Instead, they've focused on Israel's action in Gaza.
00:24:00.000The 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.
00:24:10.000Meanwhile, the ICRC has not fulfilled one of the key components of Israel's original hostage deal with Hamas.
00:24:16.000Verification of life and health of the hostages being held by Hamas.
00:24:20.000That failure has had particularly tragic consequences in the case of the Bebas family.
00:24:24.000They were kidnapped from a village called Nir Oz.
00:24:27.000The father, Yarden, mother, Shiri, 4-year-old Ariel, and 10-month-old Kfir were taken to Gaza.
00:24:32.000Here's the footage of them being abducted.
00:24:35.000You can see there's the mom carrying these two red-headed kids as Hamas kidnaps them.
00:24:42.000They were obviously healthy when taken, but nobody knows if they are alive.
00:24:46.000Earlier this week, it was reported that the family was traded to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another terrorist group, by Hamas.
00:24:52.000And then yesterday, Hamas claimed the family had been killed by Israeli bombs.
00:24:56.000So where is the ICRC to testify to any of this?
00:25:32.000These are wonderful moderates who deserve self-determination, obviously.
00:25:34.000The world would be a better place if they had a state.
00:25:36.000The international humanitarian institutions have beclowned themselves in the current Israel-Hamas war, but they were a suspect long before that.
00:25:42.000It'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.
00:25:54.000In 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.
00:26:26.000A 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.
00:26:47.000By the same token, how you view Kissinger is very much a reflection of how you view international politics as a whole.
00:26:53.000And 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.
00:27:00.000So, for example, the right doesn't like the fact that Kissinger quote-unquote opened China.
00:27:04.000It was Kissinger who really led to the opening of China.
00:27:06.000At 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?
00:27:16.000The 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.
00:27:30.000So in retrospect, we can say, and I would say, that's a bad mistake.
00:27:33.000At the time, it's a choice between two bad decisions.
00:27:36.000And this was the sort of guiding light of Kissinger's foreign policy.
00:27:40.000So Henry Kissinger, for those who don't know much about Kissinger himself, he was a massive celebrity in the 1970s.
00:27:46.000He was a Secretary of State during the Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations.
00:27:51.000According to the Wall Street Journal, no U.S.
00:27:53.000Secretary of State ever achieved such celebrity while in office as Henry Kissinger.
00:27:56.000A 1974 Newsweek cover depicted him as Super K, a comic book hero.
00:28:00.000Time called him the world's most indispensable man.
00:28:02.000Gallup ranked him America's most admired man.
00:28:04.000A 1972 Life magazine spread pictured him with a bevy of actresses, including Jill St.
00:28:09.000Yet no former Secretary of State has been more vehemently criticized.
00:28:11.000Of 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.
00:28:24.000Although the book mentioned only one other supposed crime scene, Bangladesh, and mentioned the Soviet Union only three times.
00:28:29.000This is Neil Ferguson, who wrote a biography of Henry Kissinger, talking about Henry Kissinger.
00:28:34.000He said those accusations stuck like mud.
00:28:36.000Late in life, Kissinger regularly faced protests at his public appearances, yet they are at odds with the historical record.
00:28:41.000And Ferguson points out that Kissinger was both the White House National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State.
00:28:49.000His 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.
00:28:59.000involvement in the Vietnam War for which both he and North Vietnamese counterpart Ly Duc Tho were awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
00:29:09.000If 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.
00:29:21.000Because the easiest thing is just wash your hands of everything.
00:29:24.000If the United States just goes hands off, why were we even involved in these places?
00:29:28.000From 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.
00:29:40.000And 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.
00:29:50.000And the reality is somewhere in between.
00:29:53.000The 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.
00:30:00.000I think a Marxist regime in Latin America, or many Marxist regimes in Latin America, what's the big deal?
00:30:14.000First of all, that demonstrates a complete misreading of how foreign policy works.
00:30:17.000Foreign policy is a dirty, terrible business in which, as I say, Kissinger had one central foreign policy message.
00:30:24.000His overriding message was, avoid the worst outcome.
00:30:28.000Which means sometimes embracing the second worst outcome.
00:30:31.000If you read any of his books, this was Kissinger's main thing was avoid the worst outcome.
00:30:35.000This, by the way, was his recommendation in Ukraine.
00:30:37.000So 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.
00:30:47.000In 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.
00:30:58.000And 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.
00:31:07.000That's what he was attempting to avoid, and he knew there weren't the stones for it in the West.
00:31:11.000And so, realize what is happening on the ground, and adjust to it.
00:31:16.000So when people rip on Kissinger, there are two rips.
00:31:18.000One is that he misread particular situations.
00:31:20.000He should have done things differently.
00:31:22.000The 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.
00:31:29.000That American foreign policy is either the most sinful foreign policy on planet Earth.
00:31:35.000You see this in the critique of Kissinger with regard to Cambodia and Laos, for example.
00:31:39.000The 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.
00:31:54.000And he authorized mass huge bombing raids into Cambodia without the approval of Congress.
00:32:00.000Now you can talk about whether it needed congressional approval and all the rest, that's fine.
00:32:03.000But 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.
00:32:12.000That Khmer Rouge would never have happened if we had not bombed Cambodia.
00:32:15.000That assumes that there's no such thing as agency in the world.
00:32:18.000The minute the United States got out of Vietnam, Cambodia fell to Pol Pot.
00:32:22.000So, again, it's a bunch of considerations.
00:32:25.000This 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.
00:32:33.000Foreign policy is a dangerous and dirty business.
00:32:35.000It is not possible to engage in foreign policy and keep your hands totally clean.
00:32:39.000That 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.
00:33:01.000You 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.
00:33:14.000And that really is the story of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy.
00:33:17.000Again, 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.
00:33:27.000What 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.
00:33:34.000That 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.
00:33:45.000There's this weird notion that has taken root on the right and the left.
00:33:48.000It's this horseshoe theory thing, which is that everybody who acts badly in the world was somehow driven to it by the United States.
00:33:55.000This is why you're seeing the left embrace TikToks of Osama bin Laden circa 2002.
00:34:00.000Because, oh, he would never have done that if we hadn't been so mean in Saudi Arabia.
00:34:04.000You see, the right do the same thing with regard to Russia.
00:34:06.000Russia 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.
00:34:15.000Or maybe Russia has a long history under Vladimir Putin of territorial invasions of neighboring countries.
00:34:20.000Maybe it turns out that other people except for the West have agency.
00:34:23.000And once you realize other people except for the West have agency, it changes your decision-making dramatically.
00:34:28.000The fundamental foreign policy mistake is the assumption that only the West has agency.
00:34:32.000This 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.
00:34:48.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the 2024 campaign, which...
00:34:53.000Again, this is going to be the weirdest campaign in American history.
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00:37:55.000He 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.
00:38:05.000Dubai 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.
00:39:10.000Again, 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.
00:39:18.000It 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.
00:39:28.000Trump put out a giant statement on Truth Social yesterday.
00:39:32.000He said, I'm 12 points up on crooked Joe Biden.
00:39:34.000I don't know what poll he's looking at where he's 12 points up on.
00:40:04.000to work if they file these and then he just goes on along these lines. Again, I don't think he's
00:40:09.000wrong about any of this. I just don't see why that should be the centerpiece of the campaign.
00:40:12.000It can certainly be a part of the campaign. Him saying, listen, Joe Biden's a very bad president.
00:40:16.000He's going to lose. That's the reason he's targeting me.
00:40:18.000But back to why Joe Biden is a bad president. That is totally worthwhile. But if his
00:40:23.000campaign is in fact about his sort of personal venge taking, I think that's going to be a problem for him.
00:40:30.000That'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.
00:41:17.000McCarthy is right about that, which is why Trump needs to be careful.
00:41:19.000Now, 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.
00:41:40.000So what happened is that there's a person named Mark Fisher who billed himself as a co-founder of BLM in Rhode Island.
00:41:48.000He said he was very honored to have his and BLM's support.
00:42:08.000Not 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.
00:42:14.000So, 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.
00:42:24.000But, 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.
00:43:35.000Well, there is a rule in presidential politics, particularly campaign politics, that when something goes wrong, sort of everything goes wrong.
00:43:41.000My 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.
00:43:51.000And one of his basic theses was that when a campaign is failing, everything starts to go wrong all at once.
00:43:57.000And 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.
00:44:11.000So the Biden Christmas tree just fell over.
00:44:14.000They're trying to put it up and it fell over.
00:44:15.000Again, these sorts of images, they don't mean anything on their own, but they do.
00:44:18.000And there's a generalized sort of feeling of instability.
00:44:22.000And when the Christmas tree represents the actual President of the United States, and it falls over, again, is he in charge of the weather?
00:44:28.000No, the Jews are in charge of the weather, as we all know.
00:44:30.000But, when it falls over, everybody is immediately flashing to Joe Biden falling up the stairs.
00:44:36.000I mean, here's what it looked like last night.
00:44:38.000And 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.
00:44:47.000Sadly, no one listened to me yesterday.
00:46:03.000Except 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.
00:46:13.000According 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.
00:46:20.000The share that simply doesn't know how long their savings will carry them has grown from about 15.5% in July 2022 to 21%.
00:46:28.000The 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.
00:46:43.000And Joe Biden has not been able to tame inflation in such a way that people feel secure in the economy.
00:46:47.000Now, all the financial experts are expecting that the Federal Reserve is going to actually decrease the interest rates in the near future.
00:46:53.000Which, of course, there are a lot of people like, wait, isn't inflation still running hot right now?
00:46:57.000And the answer is yes, it is still running hot right now.
00:47:00.000And 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.
00:47:09.000The bond markets jumped at this, obviously, because your bond is worth more now than it was yesterday if the interest rates start to drop.
00:47:17.000With that said, is any of this good news for Joe Biden's economy?
00:47:20.000Again, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place on the actual policy.
00:47:24.000Meanwhile, the Republicans are starting to go after Joe Biden again on the impeachment inquiry.
00:47:28.000Republicans are apparently considering holding an official House vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Biden.
00:47:34.000McCarthy initiated it when he was Speaker of the House without an actual vote because he didn't think he had the votes.
00:47:38.000Now GOP leaders are talking about the possibility of the vote during a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers.
00:47:44.000Republican leaders have long said a vote on the impeachment investigation was unnecessary.
00:47:48.000They're now reconsidering because White House lawyers are using the lack of a formal House authorization to argue that the investigation lacks constitutional legitimacy.
00:47:56.000The problem, of course, is that it's not clear they've got the votes for that.
00:48:00.000I've yet to see the evidence that Mike Johnson is significantly better at whipping votes than Kevin McCarthy was.
00:49:09.000James 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.
00:49:16.000We expect full cooperation with our subpoena for a deposition.
00:49:18.000We also agree Hunter Biden should have the opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date.
00:49:23.000Typically, House panels insist on a private deposition before allowing a public appearance.
00:49:27.000The January 6th Select Committee denied several requests to testify publicly, including one from Rudy Giuliani.
00:49:32.000Jim Jordan, for his part, said, sure, we'd love to have Hunter in for an open hearing.
00:49:35.000First, we need to have him testify behind closed doors so we can ask him all the questions we want to ask him.
00:49:40.000And those facts are confirmed by some of the evidence we've uncovered already, this 1023
00:49:46.000form where the confidential human source told the FBI and it was recorded in this form.