When it comes to getting things done, the image of the thing matters an awful lot. And this is something Democrats have understood for a very long time. The image that any particular department gives off has a cultural impact, and if you give off an image of government from the government, you create an unofficial sanction against people who disagree. Sometimes you have actual formal strictures against those who disagree, and sometimes you have a government that does a lot to shape culture in this country.
00:00:00.000Well, folks, it turns out that when it comes to getting things done, the image of the thing matters an awful, awful lot.
00:00:06.000And this is something Democrats have understood for a very long time, that the image that any particular department gives off has a cultural impact.
00:00:13.000There are people like me who learned from Andrew Breitbart who said that politics is downstream from culture.
00:00:19.000But the truth is, it's more of a cycle.
00:00:22.000It's more that politics is downstream of culture, which is downstream of politics, which is downstream of culture.
00:00:57.000Should have a set of delegated powers, and the government performs those delegated powers, and we elect that government.
00:01:03.000So really, culture should shape, our politics should shape our governance.
00:01:06.000But the truth is, it works the other way too.
00:01:08.000And this is a point that many people on the MAGA right have been making for a long time, is that when you have, for example, a defense department that decides that it's going to put out ads that feature lesbian families finding themselves, that this actually has an impact on the kind of people who are recruited into the military.
00:01:23.000And that, in turn, has an impact on how people think.
00:01:26.000And that, in turn, has an impact on how people around the world think of the United States.
00:02:01.000But it is also true that now that the cycle has begun, now that culture has shaped politics, politics is shaping culture again, perhaps the tip of the spear in this battle is the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
00:02:12.000So, again, remember, the Defense Department, when we were growing up, when I was a mere child, the Defense Department was all about the idea that America was Winning wars.
00:02:22.000A battle machine made up of strong, particularly men, who are going to go into difficult places and do things that no one wanted to see them do in order to keep America safe.
00:02:32.000That was always the image of the military.
00:02:34.000And the movies and TV shows that many of us grew up on were rooted in that image of the United States military.
00:02:40.000And the other day, I was looking for a movie to watch with my eight-year-old son, and I brought up one of my favorites from when I was a kid.
00:02:46.000I tended to watch old movies when I was a kid, meaning movies from the 50s and 60s.
00:02:49.000And so I brought up a favorite to show him.
00:02:51.000The old Gregory Peck, David Niven film, The Guns of Navarro, which is a classic.
00:02:56.000Terrific, terrific film if you have kids, teenagers.
00:03:19.000Somehow the American military became a tool of social engineering.
00:03:23.000And the glorious points of America's history were not America's military-winning wars, but how the military was to be used as a sort of microcosmic stand-in for the diversity, equity, and inclusion regime.
00:03:35.000So instead of the glorious moments of diversity in the military being linked with victory, so for example, the Tuskegee Airmen.
00:03:42.000Being helpful in winning World War II because we needed more people and we needed to get rid of the evils of segregation in order to have a better fighting machine.
00:03:49.000Instead, that was seen itself, whether it was useful or not useful, as the high point of the military.
00:03:56.000And thus was born the idea that what the military really needs to do is draw from every segment of society.
00:04:03.000The military is not supposed to be a battle-hardened machine designed toward winning and breaking things and killing bad guys.
00:04:08.000Instead, the military was supposed to be a commercial for United Colors of Benetton.
00:04:13.000That was the basic idea of the military.
00:04:15.000And that's why we needed Admiral Rachel.
00:04:17.000That's why we needed members of the military who were carrying pride progress flags.
00:04:23.000That is why every recruitment video needed to be about finding yourself as opposed to what the military has always been about, which is defending the country and defending the guy next to you.
00:04:33.000Secretary of Defense Hegseth, who we on the show pushed very hard for, specifically for this reason, is changing the culture and the nature of the American military and how it is perceived almost single-handedly.
00:04:44.000Not because he's the only one in the military who is saying this stuff, but because the leadership of the military absolutely matters.
00:04:50.000Politically correct generals atop a structure filled with wonderful men and women who are fighting for the country is not good enough.
00:04:56.000You need people at the top of the military who actually reflect.
00:05:00.000The priorities and the image of the grunts on the ground, the guys who are actually doing the fighting and wounding and dying on behalf of the country.
00:05:09.000So Pete Hegseth did a couple of things yesterday that re-enshrined again this notion that America's military is back.
00:05:15.000And by the way, you can see it in the numbers, as we talked about on the show a couple of days ago.
00:05:19.000Pete Hegseth announced that recruitment hit record highs, like 12-year highs in December, and hit 15-year highs in January.
00:05:25.000And recruitment is going to keep going up.
00:05:31.000If young men wanted to join the world's most diverse workforce, and that was like the top priority, they'd be going to Wellesley or they'd be looking for a job at Starbucks.
00:05:40.000But if what they actually wish to do is join a fighting machine, which is what the American war machine is supposed to be, then they're going to want to go into Donald Trump's military, but not, for example, Barack Obama or Joe Biden's military.
00:05:54.000You know how many questions I fielded over the course of the Obama and Biden administrations from young men?
00:05:59.00017, 18-year-old men who said, listen, I have a long family history of going into the military.
00:06:03.000I'm not sure I want to go into the military if the commander-in-chief is Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
00:06:09.000Because, number one, I don't trust their foreign policy instincts, and I'm not sure I want to fight in a place that is far-flung, having no impact on American interests.
00:06:17.000But more importantly, I'm not sure I want to go into a military where people like me are scorned and looked down upon, historic military families.
00:06:24.000We're not members of the sort of diversity coalition that's going to be on the brochure cover for the Biden or Obama military.
00:07:34.000So he made a couple of announcements yesterday that go to this.
00:07:36.000So, number one, Hegseth issued an immediate pause on gender affirming medical care procedures for all active duty service members in a memo addressed to senior Pentagon leadership and military command, according to ABC News.
00:07:46.000It also ordered an immediate pause on all new promotions in the military for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria.
00:07:53.000In other words, this is not a diversity machine.
00:08:08.000That is supposed to inhibit your function as a member of the military is supposed to bar you from entering the military.
00:08:13.000There's a wide variety of mental health conditions that bar you from joining the military.
00:08:18.000If it doesn't bar you from joining the military that you're a man who wants to cut off your junk and have hormone treatment, I'm not sure exactly what should precisely.
00:08:26.000And again, that's not a question of the patriotism of people who want to join the military in this condition.
00:08:30.000It's a matter of what the military wants and what the military needs.
00:08:34.000The memo says, quote, Again, the executive order that President Trump signed,
00:09:02.000Not long ago, directed the DOD to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender service members and stated that expressing a false gender identity divergent from individual sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.
00:09:14.000And this would appear to be perfectly obvious.
00:09:16.000This would appear to be perfectly obvious.
00:09:17.000If you are body dysmorphic, if you have anorexia, if you think that actually you're a fat person and you're a deathly skinny person, you shouldn't be in the military.
00:09:24.000If you're a person who believes that you're a one armed person in a two armed person's body, you shouldn't be in the military.
00:09:31.000The order continues, quote, consistent with the military mission and longstanding DOD policy, expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.
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00:12:08.000Well, of course, the left immediately sued because the idea here is not that the military must be strong.
00:12:13.000The military must, in fact, be a diversity organization.
00:12:18.000Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal then filed a federal lawsuit.
00:12:21.000The lawsuit says, quote, by categorically excluding transgender people, the 2025 military ban and related federal policy and directives violate the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Fifth Amendment and the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment.
00:12:33.000They lack any legitimate or rational justification.
00:12:36.000Well, actually, there's a pretty easy legitimate or rational justification.
00:12:40.000If you join the military and demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in services to cut off your...
00:12:44.000It seems that that might be an inhibiting factor in your military service.
00:12:49.000And first of all, terming a transgender category, suggesting that transgender people are their own category, as opposed to human beings who have gender dysphoria and who are categorizing themselves wrongly.
00:13:07.000I'm wondering exactly what the limiting principle there is.
00:13:09.000If you're somebody, for example, with a criminal history, you can't join the military.
00:13:13.000Is that a ban on categories of people?
00:13:17.000Because they've acted in a particular way?
00:13:20.000Or they believe certain things about themselves?
00:13:25.000And again, the image of the American military is going to be stronger because of all this.
00:13:29.000That was only one of two things that Hegseth did yesterday.
00:13:32.000He also renamed Fort Liberty to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
00:13:36.000So he is renaming Fort Bragg back from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg.
00:13:41.000There's a twist, and this is really smart.
00:13:43.000Okay, so what Hegseth is doing, what the Trump administration is doing.
00:13:46.000So originally, Fort Bragg was named Camp Bragg, and it was named after a person named Braxton Bragg, who was a former U.S. Army artillery commander and a West Point graduate who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
00:13:57.000And by the way, one of the reasons that many of the forts in the United States were named for Confederate generals, Fort Hood, for example, one of the reasons for that was not because...
00:14:07.000There was a great love for the Confederacy in the United States.
00:14:09.000It was because the way that you bring a country back together after the most bloody civil war in American history and possibly world history is that you actually express conciliation by recognizing that the Confederacy existed and now they have been subsumed into the broader Union.
00:14:26.000But the Biden administration decided to rename Fort Bragg because the idea was that presumably Black soldiers would go to Fort Bragg, and suddenly they would think of Braxton Bragg, and they would think of the racism of America.
00:14:38.000Now, again, I'm wondering what the evidence was to that effect, that black soldiers who were at Fort Bragg spent every waking moment thinking about the name of Fort Bragg.
00:14:47.000I've heard Fort Bragg thousands of times.
00:14:49.000It had never occurred to me to even look up who Fort Bragg was named after, let alone to look into the deep history of Braxton Bragg.
00:14:59.000They found another American hero named Bragg so they could go back to Fort Bragg.
00:15:03.000That way, when veterans say, I served at Fort Bragg, everybody knows what they're talking about because there's still a fort named Fort Bragg, a U.S. base named Fort Bragg.
00:15:11.000So according to the Defense Department, while flying aboard a C-17 from Joint Base Andrews to Stuttgart on February 10, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
00:15:24.000The new name pays tribute to private first class Roland Elbreg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.
00:15:32.000This change underscores the installation's legacy of recognizing those who have demonstrated extraordinary service and sacrifice for the nation.
00:15:38.000So apparently Roland Elbreg was, again, another American hero, but he was an American hero circa World War II.
00:15:47.000And he had effectively, apparently hijacked during World War II, a German ambulance to get a wounded soldier to an allied hospital in Belgium.
00:16:07.000And all the people who would normally be protesting against the renaming of Fort Bragg are going to have trouble protesting the naming of Fort Bragg for a World War II Battle of the Bulge hero.
00:16:45.000Because for a very, very long time, the right never understood the power of imagery.
00:16:48.000The power never understood the power of culture in general.
00:16:51.000And when you say that, again, there's that cycle, culture being upstream of politics, and then culture also being downstream of politics, it's the cycle that one pushes the other.
00:16:59.000Remember, Donald Trump was a cultural figure in Home Alone 2 and in every rap song from about 1988 to 1997, long before he was president of the United States twice.
00:17:08.000And now he's using the power of culture in order to push his particular brand of politics.
00:18:21.000So again, this is very smart strategically.
00:18:23.000And targeting these sort of waste, fraud, and abuse that Musk is targeting is also very smart PR. Now, as I've discussed before, the only way to solve the systemic debt problems of the United States, it's not going to happen through kind of cutting around the edges at the Department of the Treasury.
00:18:37.000It's only going to happen when you restructure the major entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
00:18:42.000None of that's going to happen anytime in the near future because both parties are deathly afraid of touching those third rails of American politics.
00:18:49.000And so what Trump is doing right now is he's allowing Musk imagistically to carve away at the image of an efficient government that has never been true.
00:18:59.000Musk tweeted this morning that the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in America's governmental systems put to shame any private waste, fraud, and abuse in the history of the American Republic.
00:19:09.000And that, of course, is wildly true because the size of the American government, is so huge, so exorbitant, that it is not hard to throw a dart and you will hit waste, fraud, and abuse almost anywhere in the federal government.
00:19:21.000In the private sector, you see, you're responsive to things like return on investment.
00:19:25.000You're responsive to the profit motive.
00:19:27.000You're responsive to your shareholders.
00:19:29.000In the government, if you waste money, well, there's always more money where that came from.
00:19:33.000You can either print it or you can steal it from the American taxpayer.
00:19:37.000So that is what Musk is doing, and he is putting Democrats on the wrong side of the issue, because who exactly is in favor of waste, fraud, and abuse?
00:19:45.000What exactly is the objection to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse?
00:19:49.000So, what Democrats are doing instead is they are pretending that this is an assault on, quote-unquote, the system.
00:19:58.000Democrats, over the course of the last century and a half, have hollowed out the Constitution and worn around its face, like Hannibal Lecter.
00:20:06.000They created an entire administrative bureaucratic executive branch filled with 2 million people to make all the rules that govern your life.
00:20:14.000They've turned the legislature into a vestigial organ of American government.
00:20:18.000And now Trump is coming in and he's the head of the executive branch and he's deploying people in the executive branch to make cuts within the executive branch.
00:20:24.000And they say this is a constitutional threat to the country.
00:20:27.000They want some separation of powers now.
00:20:32.000You created these rules and now you are going to have to live by them.
00:20:36.000F-A-F-O. Well, five former Treasury secretaries, all Democrats, of course, have now written an op-ed for the New York Times saying, quote, our democracy is under siege.
00:20:47.000Now, what they can't say is our bureaucracy is under siege, which is the reality.
00:20:50.000Our bureaucracy is under siege, and it should be.
00:20:53.000The thing that they cannot say is that our waste, fraud, and abuse-ridden system is under siege.
00:21:02.000Now, you may have gotten used to during the Biden administration or the Obama administration.
00:21:06.000Hearing the word democracy thrown around a lot.
00:21:09.000All Democrats mean when they say democracy is stuff they like.
00:21:12.000If they do something totally undemocratic and you say no, they say you're a threat to the democracy.
00:21:16.000If they say that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law even though it totally isn't and you say no, they say you're a threat to American democracy.
00:21:24.000If you cut the bureaucracy, they call you a fascist.
00:21:27.000I mean, if what we are watching right now is fascism, which is severing the bond between government sponsorship and blue constituencies.
00:21:35.000If that's fascism, I feel like your definitions are wrong.
00:21:39.000Folks, what we are watching at work here is not fascism.
00:21:42.000I've never seen a fascist cut the government before.
00:21:45.000However, Democrats are banking on future uncertainty.
00:21:47.000In fact, they're trying to foster future uncertainty.
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00:23:52.000So anyway, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, and Janet Yellen, all again, former Democrat Treasury secretaries, have this piece in The New York Times, freaking out about all of this.
00:24:04.000Quote, when we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th, and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
00:24:15.000We sought to develop sound policy to advance the president's agenda and represent the economic interests of the United States on the world stage.
00:24:21.000But in doing that, we recognize that our most fundamental responsibility was a faithful execution of the laws and the Constitution of the United States.
00:24:28.000We are fortunate that during our 10 years in office, no effort was made to unlawfully undermine the nation's financial commitments.
00:24:34.000Regrettably, recent reporting gives substantial cause for concern that such efforts are underway today.
00:24:38.000The nation's payment system has historically been operated by a very small group of nonpartisan career civil servants.
00:24:43.000Okay, now the first time you hear that phrase, nonpartisan career civil servants, it sounds kind of nice.
00:25:12.000But, again, you have to wear around the face of objectivity while enacting highly partisan agendas.
00:25:21.000These five former secretaries of the Treasury write, in recent days, that norm has been upended.
00:25:25.000The roles of these non-partisan officials have been compromised by political actors from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
00:25:31.000One has been appointed fiscal assistant secretary, a post that for the prior eight decades had been reserved exclusively for civil servants to ensure impartiality and public confidence in the handling and payment of federal funds.
00:26:18.000I'm sure that the federal government run by career bureaucrats and lackeys has been so secure in its handling of our private information, which is how Donald Trump's IRS tax returns ended up leaked to The New York Times just a few years ago.
00:26:30.000Their power subjects America's payment systems and the highly sensitive data within it to the risk of exposure potentially to our adversaries.
00:26:37.000Man, wait until you hear about a secretary of state named Hillary Clinton, who literally stored classified information on a private server and then was found by the FBI to have probably exposed it to foreign sources.
00:26:47.000Wow, that I mean, that would be terrible if that happened.
00:26:51.000A key component of the rule of law, say these secretaries of the Treasury, is the executive branch's commitment to respect Congress's power of the purse.
00:26:58.000The legislative branch has the sole authority to pass laws that determine where and how federal dollars should be spent.
00:27:03.000The role of the Treasury Department is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep and which it will not.
00:27:11.000Because the reality is that withholding payment actually was something that the federal executive branch did since the time of Thomas Jefferson.
00:27:20.000Democrats, some have to make this a threat to the system, as opposed to the reality, which is it is a threat to the bureaucracy.
00:27:26.000They have to turn it into a threat to democracy.
00:27:29.000And again, in the words of the Democrats, everything turns into a threat to democracy.
00:27:32.000I think the most ironic instance of this is Democrats screeching and crying to the heavens, sackcloth and ashes, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
00:27:42.000For those who don't recall, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is one of the most ridiculous institutions of American government.
00:27:49.000It was created by Elizabeth Warren before she was a senator.
00:27:52.000It was pushed by the Obama administration, and it was directly made unaccountable to the American people, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
00:28:00.000As the Wall Street Journal reports, before Ms. Warren became a senator, she persuaded Congress and then President Barack Obama to create a strange creature called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.
00:28:12.000The Bureau would duplicate, replace, or expand on the efforts of existing financial regulators, but with a few dangerous twists.
00:28:17.000It would have no mandate to protect the safety and soundness of the financial institutions it regulates.
00:28:21.000It would not rely on Congress for funding.
00:28:23.000Instead, the Bureau would have the ability to draw funding directly from the Federal Reserve, ensuring it wouldn't have to pay much attention to legislators.
00:28:30.000Then Representative Randy Neugebauer of Texas wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2012, quote, My House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has tried unsuccessfully to gain greater visibility into the Bureau's budgetary planning process.
00:28:43.000Once the director has decided a money draw is necessary, there's nobody with authority to prevent those funds from being paid out.
00:28:48.000Not congressional appropriators, not the Fed, not even the President's Office of Management and Budget.
00:28:54.000Well, the problem is that this totally unaccountable bureaucracy has now been taken over by Russ Vaught, who is Trump's Office of Management and Budget Director.
00:29:02.000Vought posted on X, quote, Pursuant to the Consumer Financial Protection Act, I have notified the Federal Reserve that CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not reasonably necessary to carry out its duties.
00:29:13.000The Bureau's current balance of $711.6 million is in fact excessive in the current fiscal environment.
00:29:19.000This spigot, long contributing to CFPB's unaccountability, is now being turned off.
00:29:25.000So, effectively, Vought shut down the funding.
00:29:29.000He could transfer the amount back to the Federal Reserve.
00:29:54.000Instead, the CFPB is a left-wing tool created by Elizabeth Warren, independent of the legislative branch.
00:30:00.000And when Trump takes it over and puts Russ Vaught in charge, and Russ Vaught immediately shuts down the funding, she screams and cries that somehow the legislature is being ignored.
00:30:09.000Here she was yesterday, freaking out over the death.
00:30:13.000If you have a bank account or a credit card or a mortgage or a student loan, this is code red.
00:30:21.000Elon Musk and the guy who wrote Project 2025, Russ Vogt, are trying to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
00:30:30.000If they succeed, CEOs and Wall Street will once again be free to trick, trap, and cheat you.
00:30:38.000So why are these two guys trying to gut the CFPB? Not rocket science.
00:30:43.000Trump campaigned on helping working people.
00:30:45.000But now that he's in charge, this is the payoff to the rich guys who invested in his campaign and who want to cheat families and not have anybody around to stop them.
00:31:01.000Okay, so the CFPB was put in place by Democrats in order to regulate the living hell out of businesses, unless those businesses did the bidding of the federal government.
00:31:17.000It was never a democratic institution.
00:31:19.000It was an explicitly anti-democratic institution.
00:31:21.000If you want to pass a regulation against business, do it through the legislature.
00:31:24.000But I noticed you didn't want to do that.
00:31:26.000I noticed that instead, you wanted to set up an agency that passes thousands of pages of regulations and goes after banks without any sort of reference to the underlying issue of how banks operate.
00:31:37.000And Democrats are so ridiculous on this stuff.
00:31:40.000Who has routinely been considered one of the most corrupt members, if not the most corrupt member of Congress.
00:31:45.000This is a person who, according to the LA Times in 2014, had shuffled a million bucks in the last eight years by doing business with companies, candidates, and causes that Maxine Waters helped.
00:31:57.000And she literally oversaw the banking committee and her husband was being regulated by the banking committee at the time.
00:32:04.000Like, Maxine Waters is super duper, here she is outside the CFPB saying, This is an assault on democracy to, you know, have an executive branch agency run by the executive branch.
00:33:22.000Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad.
00:33:25.000She's kind of been forgotten because there were some new hot squad members and then they ended up being defeated in primaries, the Jamal Bowmans or the Cori Bushes.
00:33:32.000But Ayanna Pressley is out there too, shouting about the evils of Elon Musk.
00:33:37.000Last week I saw a sign in the crowd that said DOGE stands for Dangerous Oligarchs Grab at Everything.
00:33:47.000And I said then, and I'll say it again, that Elon Musk needs to keep his grubby hands, his greedy grubby hands off of our government.
00:33:59.000Okay, I do love the idea that it is greedy and grubby to go into government and cut it.
00:34:10.000I'm going to need an explanation for how him cutting the federal spending initiatives, cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, is somehow an element of greed.
00:35:00.000They're literally cutting the government.
00:35:02.000It seems to me the Department of Government Evil is very often just called the government.
00:35:07.000In just a moment, we'll get to Democrats and their continued attempt to foster a constitutional crisis, largely through judges.
00:35:15.000I mean, they're actually doing some pretty incredible things via the judiciary that are totally unconstitutional.
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00:35:58.000So the Democrats, again, they're declaring that a constitutional crisis is taking place.
00:36:25.000I can just as easily have an article that says, Trump's constitutional expertise dominates America.
00:36:31.000Experts say, and you just go find some people who agree with Donald Trump.
00:36:33.000Like, this is the easiest game in the reporting world.
00:36:36.000And so the New York Times is trying to now gin up the idea that a constitutional crisis is upon us.
00:36:40.000It's not a constitutional crisis when the entire government shuts down people who refuse to get the facts.
00:36:46.000That's not a constitutional crisis, apparently.
00:36:48.000It is not a constitutional crisis when Joe Biden literally attempts to add constitutional amendments by tweet.
00:36:54.000It's a constitutional crisis when members of the executive branch go in and root out Corruption, waste, fraud, abuse inside the executive branch.
00:37:03.000According to the New York Times, there is no universally accepted definition of a constitutional crisis.
00:37:07.000But legal scholars agree about some of its characteristics.
00:37:10.000It is generally the product of presidential defiance of laws and judicial rulings.
00:37:16.000And once it starts, it can get much worse.
00:37:19.000Erwin Chemerinsky, who's a very left-wing dean of the law school at Berkeley, says, quote, we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now.
00:37:25.000There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency.
00:37:30.000We have never seen anything like this.
00:37:31.000He ticked off examples of what he called President Trump's lawless conduct.
00:38:20.000Some of the people who are creating a constitutional crisis are in the judiciary.
00:38:24.000So, for example, a federal judge has now determined that the Trump administration violated his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.
00:38:32.000He's ordering the administration to unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. They put together a TRO, a temporary restraining order nationally.
00:39:02.000Why should one judge in, say, the Ninth Circuit be able to simply put a nationwide stay for the whole country on an action by the White House?
00:39:14.000There's a professor named Sam Bray over at Notre Dame Law School.
00:39:16.000Back in 2017, he wrote a piece called Multiple Chancellors Reforming the National Injunction.
00:39:20.000And what he points out is that the national injunction is a recent development in the history of equity.
00:39:26.000There was a structural shift at the founding from a single chancellor model to a multiple chancellor model, but the vulnerabilities in the latter did not become visible until the mid to late 20th century, when there were changes in how judges thought about legal challenges and invalid laws.
00:39:37.000Only with those changes in the second half of the 20th century did the national injunction emerge.
00:39:42.000And Sam Bray points out that national injunctions, again, are new.
00:39:46.000That what it leads to is a sort of tyrannical rule by one federal judge somewhere.
00:39:51.000So Bray said history can be read in different ways.
00:39:53.000In my view, national injunctions go back to 1963. They don't exist before then.
00:39:58.000In fact, nobody even asks for a national injunction before 1963. Despite the thousands of lawsuits attacking New Deal legislation, there was never an attempt to get a federal judge in, say, California, to strike down New Deal legislation.
00:40:11.000Such that a national injunction went into place.
00:40:15.000He identifies, Bray does, the second term of Barack Obama as the opening of the floodgates.
00:40:21.000He says, since then, almost every major presidential initiative by President Obama or Trump or Biden has been stopped with a nationwide injunction.
00:40:32.000According to another professor named Mila Sahony, who is the University of San Diego School of Law.
00:40:41.000So Honey acknowledged that this type of relief has now been requested all the time.
00:40:44.000Quote, what's being asserted is that those sources of law impose this crisp rule on federal courts under which federal courts can never grant relief to anybody that's not a plaintiff or a member of a certified class.
00:40:52.000Okay, but what she is saying is the opposite of what Bray is saying.
00:40:55.000What Bray is saying is the way that a federal court should take up a case is to put an injunction with regard to a specific plaintiff.
00:41:04.000So if, let's say, you are a child of an illegal immigrant and you sue, Based on the birthright citizenship executive order put forward by the Trump administration, if the federal court is going to rule at the district level, they should put a stay on the injunction, they should put an injunction on the enforcement of that law with regard to just you, not to everyone similarly situated, because that is a question that belongs at the Supreme Court level.
00:41:30.000Bray said, remedies need to be based in equity.
00:41:34.000They need to have a traditional equitable basis unless they're authorized by statute.
00:41:38.000So again, These universal injunctions are a problem because what you end up with is basically single judges now determining for the entire nation what policies should be.
00:42:45.000It would be that judge and people who are interpreting the law that way.
00:42:48.000Meanwhile, the American Bar Association, which is just a left-wing interest group, released a statement slamming Trump and Elon Musk.
00:42:56.000William Arbae, president of the ABA. Remember, the ABA is such a corrupt institution, they actually signed on to Joe Biden by fiat declaring a constitutional amendment.
00:43:05.000Bay said, quote, it's been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
00:43:08.000Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change.
00:43:11.000But most Americans also expect changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they've been asked to perform.
00:43:19.000We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law.
00:43:26.000There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit.
00:43:29.000Social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis.
00:43:41.000Okay, listening to the ABA about what's contrary to the rule of law at this point is like listening to the American Psychological Association talk about what's contrary to common sense when it comes to transgender care.
00:43:50.000Like, you are an institution that has been thoroughly corrupted in the name of left-wing politics, and we can all see it.
00:44:00.000In reality, Democrats are just upset because they do not like the fact that they are losing.
00:44:06.000Donald Trump picked an 80% issue when he said, let's cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:44:09.000Democrats are taking the 20% and then trying to swivel it into another argument about democracy and the Constitution that, again, avails you little when you guys are seen as a threat to democracy and the Constitution yourselves.
00:44:20.000And the desperation is clear and obvious.
00:44:22.000is Eddie Glaude is a commentator over at MSNBC.
00:44:25.000Again, he is suggesting that it's all unconstitutional.
00:44:28.000Again, it's funny how Democrats suddenly like the Constitution the minute that Republicans are in power and they invoke it all the time.
00:44:34.000You know, when they're not declaring that the Constitution is itself racist.
00:44:38.000Here's Eddie Glaude saying that the actual quiet part out loud, that Democrats actually believe the Constitution itself is bad.
00:44:43.000The same Constitution they are currently invoking to try and yell at Trump.
00:44:47.000There is this sense in which Donald Trump is harkening back to a period Where the United States imagined itself as an imperial kind of force kind of informed by its democratic principles.
00:45:02.000An ironic and contradictory sort of position.
00:45:05.000And it's also the case, I want to say this, that there's always been this tension between America as an idea and America as blood and soil.
00:45:14.000This is the distinction between good nationalisms and bad nationalisms, right?
00:45:18.000We think we're driven by the Constitution, but there's been an idea underneath it that this country must be and must always be a white nation.
00:45:27.000And that ideology has driven policy decisions.
00:45:32.000So, Democrats are going to have to make up their mind.
00:45:45.000If the Constitution is their enemy, the Constitution is a tool of white supremacy.
00:45:48.000If the Constitution is their friend, then violating the Constitution creates a constitutional crisis.
00:45:54.000Meanwhile, Ben Rhodes, he of the bad unpublished novels from Brooklyn, who was suddenly made into a national security advisor based on the fact that his brother was in charge of CBS News at the time, under Barack Obama.
00:46:05.000Now he is complaining about Donald Trump.
00:46:09.000He's very, very—he says Donald Trump is just like Vladimir Putin.
00:46:12.000And the histrionics from these folks, man, there's not enough room in this Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:46:18.000We need a bigger Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:46:20.000We need like a gallon-sized Leftist Tears Tumblr for all the tears from people like Ben Rhodes.
00:46:24.000If you look at other autocrats around the world throughout all of human history, including in recent years, when you look at, say, Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, or how Xi Jinping is eyeing Taiwan ever more closely as he ages a bit, you know, there's this idea that a real legacy comes with more territory.
00:46:49.000And it also is something that, you know, you can associate yourself with going forward.
00:46:54.000And when I listen to Ben Rose talk about America's national interest, all I can think is that he was actually nicknamed in the White House, in the Obama White House.
00:47:02.000His nickname was, I'm not even kidding, Hamas.
00:47:05.000That was his nickname in the White House because he was so anti-American.
00:47:58.000Not only were these hostages emaciated, starved, turns out the true starvation in Gaza, the true starvation crisis was applied basically only to the hostages in Gaza.
00:48:08.000Not only that, this particular hostage, who'd been held in a tunnel for some 440 days, had not been told that his wife and children had been murdered.
00:48:15.000So in a speech that they forced him to do before being released, He said he was looking forward to seeing his wife and children, who are dead.
00:48:23.000So this, of course, made Hamas look even more evil than they already looked, which is hard to do, considering they're a mass murder-genocidal organization.
00:48:35.000And Hamas then basically said, we're not going to release any more hostages.
00:48:40.000Now, the reason for that is probably because all the other hostages are either dead or in this kind of condition.
00:48:44.000And so the more hostages they release in this kind of condition, the worse it gets for them, imagistically, across the world.
00:48:49.000By the way, it is, in my opinion, almost certain that the Bibas family, who many people have been praying for, I would be shocked if the Bibas family is not dead.
00:48:57.000The father, I believe, has been released.
00:48:59.000But the mother and two babies, you know, those redheaded kids, almost certainly dead.
00:49:04.000The fact that Hamas committed those acts is the reason why they're not releasing the bodies.
00:49:11.000Because if they do that, then the ceasefire is basically over.
00:49:14.000So they announced they're not going to release any more.
00:49:19.000Now, realistically, it's not about that.
00:49:25.000It's just an outright violation of the ceasefire.
00:49:30.000President Trump then made a public comment about all this.
00:49:34.000And he said, listen, if these folks are not back, all of them, not some of them, all of them, by noon on Saturday, Israel has the green light to do whatever the hell it wants.
00:49:43.000Well, I would say this, and I'm going to let that because that's Israel's decision, but as far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.
00:49:56.000I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out.
00:50:03.000I'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on Saturday.
00:50:06.000And if they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two.
00:50:29.000Imagine this has been the world's reaction October 8th, 2023. And President Trump, this is what strong American leadership looks like, is F around, find out.
00:50:37.000This has always been the way of President Trump, and he is right, obviously, about all of this.
00:50:43.000And the image of America and the world is changing.
00:50:45.000President Trump understands the Middle East better than any of his moronic predecessors.
00:50:48.000By far, it is not close, which is the reason he's actually achieved things in the Middle East that none of his idiot predecessors have been able to do.
00:50:55.000All righty, meanwhile, fallout from the Super Bowl.
00:50:59.000So apparently people are very upset that Taylor Swift, Well, I mean, I'm sure it's more chilling than I think because I didn't find it chilling.
00:51:15.000Taylor Swift is one of the more obnoxious members of the celebrity culture.
00:51:18.000Whether it is Taylor Swift sitting in on Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively bullying Justin Baldoni, or whether it is Taylor Swift recording the warbling three-note songs of 15-year-old girls while being...
00:51:30.000The same age as my wife, who is a doctor and has four children, in which she talks about her horrific breakups and how she's a victim of the patriarchy and all of this while being a billionaire.
00:51:40.000She's a very annoying human, and that is why people booed her.
00:51:45.000According to Glamour, quote, Since Donald Trump took office, there have been several times I felt chilled by the rapid increase in misogyny seeping in our culture.
00:51:52.000But watching Taylor Swift at Super Bowl, booed by a crowd of thousands on Sunday night, was a new low.
00:51:58.000It was just a football game, people might say.
00:52:44.000Because we believe that she got into football approximately seven seconds ago when it became convenient for her to celebrity date Travis Kelsey.
00:52:52.000And people who like sports are kind of annoyed that they're watching a sporting event and then the celebrity girlfriend gets cut to every seven seconds by the NFL. And also, they think that she is one of the most manipulative public figures in recent history.
00:53:05.000I mean, even that sentence, Swift alongside her friend Ice Spice.
00:53:08.000Yes, I'm sure they are deep and abiding friends who hang out daily.
00:53:14.000Perhaps the moment would have felt less visceral if not for the fact that less than an hour earlier, the crowd had exploded this time with applause to see Trump on that same screen.
00:53:21.000As an image of the president stone-faced and standing in a salute was shown to the crowd during John Batiste's national anthem performance, the roar of approval and cheers was deafening.
00:53:28.000Well, Yeah, because it turns out that Trump got elected.
00:53:31.000And not only did Trump get elected, he is, again, putting forward a face of America that is simultaneously old and new, in which patriotism is glorified once again.
00:53:43.000Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is doing anthems to the matriarchy and her supposed victim status.
00:53:52.000To me, that disparate reaction felt like a message, says the Glamour columnist, that the Super Bowl, one of the biggest cultural events in the country, has been reclaimed by Trump.
00:54:02.000Again, if it were really just toxic masculinity, then literally every woman would have been booed.