The Ben Shapiro Show - May 07, 2026


Obama’s Back And He’s Taking Control


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What if the Obama Empire Strikes Back? What if Donald Trump's defeat of Barack Obama in 2016 was not a return of the Jedi, but the beginning of a new, larger, more powerful Death Star? What if

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00:00:00.000 Barack Obama was a horrible president, a terrible radical and the best liar in modern American history, bar none. 0.99
00:00:07.000 Because while Barack Obama promoted the most radical policies, racial polarization, socialization of the healthcare system, surrender abroad, abortion, trans radicalism here at home, then he was defeated by Donald Trump. 0.98
00:00:20.000 There would be no Donald Trump era without the far left insanity of the Obama era.
00:00:24.000 So we tend to think of Trump as the defeat of Barack Obama.
00:00:28.000 But what if the Obama era Is just beginning again.
00:00:33.000 What if Donald Trump defeating Obama ism was not a return of the Jedi?
00:00:37.000 It was a new hope. 0.76
00:00:38.000 Sure, President Trump blew up the Obama Death Star in 2016.
00:00:42.000 But what if Barack Obama is back and building a newer, larger, more powerful Death Star?
00:00:47.000 What if what comes next in this story is the Obama Empire striking back?
00:00:51.000 Well, that's not a what if.
00:00:52.000 That is the reality.
00:00:54.000 Barack Obama and his radical boys are taking over the Democratic Party.
00:00:57.000 They are radical, they are vicious, and yes, they are incredibly talented, and yes, They can win.
00:01:03.000 That's what comes next in this story if we don't stop it.
00:01:06.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:01:15.000 So, Barack Obama has been back in the headlines a lot recently.
00:01:18.000 You'll remember that he went and read books to children with Zoran, Mamdani, and then he sat down with The Late Show, with CBS, with Stephen Colbert.
00:01:26.000 And, you know, they were jokey, jokey because this is what you do.
00:01:29.000 The thing about Obama is that he is wildly talented, so unbelievably talented that every Democratic politician since the Obama era has lived under Obama's shadow.
00:01:39.000 He is charming and he is kind of avuncular in his approach.
00:01:44.000 Here he was with Stephen Colbert.
00:01:47.000 I'm looking for a new gig soon.
00:01:49.000 Uh huh.
00:01:50.000 And a lot of people tell me I should run for president.
00:01:53.000 Well, you certainly have the look.
00:01:55.000 Thank you very much.
00:01:56.000 You have the hair. 0.99
00:01:56.000 Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea. 0.99
00:02:00.000 How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? 1.00
00:02:04.000 Well, you know, the bar has changed. 0.99
00:02:07.000 That is true.
00:02:09.000 That is true.
00:02:10.000 At times, subterranean.
00:02:13.000 I don't have to limbo so low.
00:02:14.000 They put it this way.
00:02:15.000 I think that you could.
00:02:18.000 Perform significantly better than some folks that we've seen.
00:02:23.000 All right.
00:02:24.000 I have great confidence in that.
00:02:24.000 Yeah.
00:02:27.000 Thank you very much.
00:02:28.000 Yeah.
00:02:28.000 Is that an endorsement?
00:02:29.000 It was not.
00:02:32.000 So, again, Obama's really, really good at this.
00:02:32.000 Okay.
00:02:35.000 Even I, who think that Obama was the death of modern American politics, acknowledge how talented Barack Obama is.
00:02:41.000 And you can see it in clips like this.
00:02:43.000 But here is the thing people perceive Barack Obama as a moderate because he is charming and because he is unthreatening to people in his affect.
00:02:51.000 But Barack Obama is, was, and continues to be a radical leftist, a radical leftist.
00:02:58.000 The most important clip from this interview with Stephen Colbert is the one where he says, there is no divide.
00:03:03.000 He is not wrong about this.
00:03:04.000 There is no divide between liberals and leftists.
00:03:07.000 Many of us have been pointing out that there seems to be a conflict inside the Democratic Party between kind of old school liberals and the hardcore left.
00:03:15.000 Zorhan Mamdani is not reflective of the entire Democratic Party.
00:03:18.000 There's a John Fetterman wing of the Democratic Party.
00:03:20.000 Barack Obama says no.
00:03:22.000 Tsar Mandani is the leadership class of the Democratic Party.
00:03:26.000 There is no conflict between the leftists and the liberals.
00:03:29.000 Here he was explaining to Stephen Colbert.
00:03:33.000 You look at somebody like Mandami, who I think is an extraordinary talent, he wants people to be able to afford housing in New York.
00:03:41.000 Well, you know, I would assume liberals in New York want the same thing.
00:03:48.000 And so I don't worry as much about some of these issues.
00:03:57.000 Within the Democratic Party, what I'm more interested in for Democrats is do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar, right?
00:04:09.000 Can you talk plain English to folks about it?
00:04:12.000 I think that's one of the powers that Mamdani has.
00:04:15.000 Is that he also, not only does he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he also names what is obviously wrong. 0.92
00:04:15.000 That's correct. 0.92
00:04:22.000 Yes.
00:04:23.000 And he goes, we should change that thing.
00:04:25.000 That doesn't make any sense.
00:04:27.000 And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it.
00:04:32.000 Now, again, look at what Obama is doing here.
00:04:34.000 Look at what he's doing here.
00:04:35.000 He says Zorhan Mamdani is just a normal politician who wants to, you know, like just fight for affordable housing.
00:04:42.000 That is not true.
00:04:43.000 Zorhan Mamdani is an open socialist, an open socialist who openly sympathizes with terror groups.
00:04:50.000 That's who Zorhan Mamdani is.
00:04:51.000 And Barack Obama is hugging him and saying that he's just normal Democratic.
00:04:55.000 He's not worried about the gap between the liberals and the left.
00:04:58.000 Why?
00:04:59.000 Because Zorhan Mamdani, Barack Obama, they are the same.
00:05:03.000 They are the same.
00:05:04.000 Barack Obama is just more talented at hiding who he is and who he was.
00:05:09.000 Barack Obama and Momdani, very, very similar characters.
00:05:12.000 Obama was like Momdani, a person caught between two worlds.
00:05:16.000 He thought of himself simultaneously as from America and also from outside America.
00:05:21.000 If you read his original memoir, he's written about 20 of them at this point, but if you read his original memoir, Dreams from My Father, he talks about his identity conflict between being an American growing up in Hawaii and his father's past in Kenya, his African identity, his identity as a black man, but also as a person raised by white parents, white grandparents.
00:05:43.000 And what this amounts to in the end is a sort of third worldist philosophy.
00:05:48.000 He best summarizes this in Dreams for My Father.
00:05:51.000 Here's what he wrote in Dreams for My Father.
00:05:52.000 I still think this is the most revealing paragraph that Barack Obama ever wrote I know I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side.
00:06:08.000 How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair.
00:06:13.000 I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder.
00:06:16.000 Alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences, and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task.
00:06:29.000 Okay, now, I know that's a little fancy.
00:06:31.000 What he is saying there is just that every poor person on planet Earth, in America and outside America, lays at the foot of American capitalism and imperialism.
00:06:43.000 That is what he is saying.
00:06:45.000 That the desperation and disorder of the powerless should be laid at the feet of the powerful.
00:06:51.000 This has been the guiding philosophy of Barack Obama for his entire career.
00:06:56.000 That somehow America is guilty of all of these crimes, and it is indistinguishable from the radical leftism of AZorhan Mamdani.
00:07:04.000 And Obama has always been radical.
00:07:05.000 He's always been.
00:07:06.000 The reason I'm saying all of this, by the way, is not because I wish to just rip on Barack Obama.
00:07:10.000 The reason is because Barack Obama is reclaiming the leadership position of the Democratic Party.
00:07:16.000 He is the glue that holds that party together.
00:07:18.000 He is trying to build back his coalition better.
00:07:21.000 That is his idea.
00:07:23.000 He looks at the period since he was president and he sees a Hillary Clinton who did not reflect the capacity to hold this coalition together.
00:07:30.000 He sees a Joe Biden who lucked into the presidency and a Kamala Harris who's wildly untalented.
00:07:36.000 And he says, listen, I can do this myself.
00:07:38.000 I will put it back together, except more radical this time because the Democratic Party has moved in the direction that Barack Obama set it in. 0.99
00:07:46.000 He was always a radical, but he's an incredibly talented liar.
00:07:49.000 Listen, a lot of people seem to remember Barack Obama as some sort of moderate. 0.82
00:07:53.000 He was not moderate at all.
00:07:54.000 I'm going to remind you how not moderate he was because, again, He's trying to grab the Democratic Party and control it moving forward.
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00:09:04.000 Here he was in 2008.
00:09:05.000 Saying exactly what he thinks of working class voters in America.
00:09:10.000 People have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government.
00:09:17.000 It's not surprising then that they get bitter and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.
00:09:26.000 A way to explain their frustrations.
00:09:32.000 Again, that was Barack Obama disowning more than half of the American population, suggesting back in 2008 that the reason people opposed his radicalism politically is because they were bitterly clinging to God and guns.
00:09:43.000 And all of the conservative things.
00:09:45.000 But somehow Barack Obama has been retconned into some sort of moderate.
00:09:50.000 In 2008, he ran as a fake centrist.
00:09:52.000 By 2009, he was pushing some of the most radical policy changes in American history.
00:09:56.000 In 2008, he ran as a racial unifier.
00:09:59.000 By 2012, he was running as a polarizing, race centric candidate, a left wing wrecking ball.
00:10:04.000 I just want to remember some of the stuff that he did.
00:10:06.000 I know it's all been washed away.
00:10:08.000 Barack Obama as president sued nuns to promote abortion. 0.95
00:10:12.000 Barack Obama as president Forced public schools to allow boys to use girls' bathrooms.
00:10:18.000 Barack Obama used his IRS to target political opposition.
00:10:22.000 Barack Obama lied in 2008 about his position on same sex marriage and then bathed the White House in a rainbow flag.
00:10:28.000 Barack Obama promoted racially polarizing lies in order to weave DEI into every area of American life.
00:10:36.000 Barack Obama is singularly responsible, by the way, for the decline in race relations in America.
00:10:40.000 This is the single most telling chart in modern American history.
00:10:43.000 Look at this chart.
00:10:44.000 Okay.
00:10:45.000 This is a chart of how people would rate relations between the various groups in the United States from Gallup.
00:10:51.000 Would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?
00:10:57.000 In 2007, okay, before Barack Obama was president, almost 80% of white adults and almost 60% to black adults said that race relations were good. 0.55
00:11:11.000 By the time Barack Obama was in the middle of his second term, In 2013, still just above 70% of whites thought race relations were good.
00:11:20.000 And increasingly, black people thought race relations were good as well 65%.
00:11:25.000 Then, by 2015, off a cliff, by 2015, white adults rated race relations as good only 45%.
00:11:33.000 Black adults, that dropped to 50%.
00:11:37.000 And that just continued its decline to a low in 2021 for black adults of 32%, 33%.
00:11:44.000 Okay, that was under Barack Obama.
00:11:46.000 That is when the drop happened.
00:11:48.000 In the first place.
00:11:49.000 That's when it happened.
00:11:51.000 That happened for a reason.
00:11:52.000 He was racially polarizing.
00:11:54.000 Barack Obama attacked businesses.
00:11:55.000 He threatened them with the power of the populist pitchfork.
00:11:58.000 He literally said to bank CEOs in 2009 that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks and the torches.
00:12:05.000 On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama revitalized the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in cash and a clear pathway to a nuke.
00:12:11.000 Barack Obama let Russia have its way in Ukraine and, yes, in Syria.
00:12:15.000 He let China expand its power base throughout the world.
00:12:17.000 He, quote unquote, led from behind.
00:12:20.000 And then, through the power of the mainstream media, Barack Obama made you forget all of that because the media decided Barack Obama was a messianic figure and they would never criticize him.
00:12:29.000 The way you probably remember Barack Obama right now is the guy who was, you know, not that bad.
00:12:33.000 I mean, not compared to like Zoran Mandani or Ilhan Omar or AOC.
00:12:38.000 The media are still pretending his administration was scandal free.
00:12:41.000 They cover for his failures, they explain away his lies, they pretend that he is some sort of philosopher king instead of the architect of the modern radical left.
00:12:48.000 But here is the thing.
00:12:50.000 There is no Zoran without Obama.
00:12:53.000 There is no Ilhan Omar without Obama.
00:12:55.000 There is no AOC without Obama.
00:12:58.000 They are all Barack Obama's ideological children.
00:13:01.000 He is proud of them.
00:13:02.000 He wants the Democratic Party to be more radical because he always wanted the Democratic Party to be more radical.
00:13:10.000 This is Barack Obama with his ideological child right here, preaching to the kiddies. 0.68
00:13:16.000 Barack Obama with Mom Dhani.
00:13:18.000 And now Barack Obama is going to make all that happen because this is not just tracing the history of how he got here.
00:13:24.000 This is what happens next.
00:13:26.000 This is what happens next. 0.72
00:13:30.000 Obama, Mom Dhani, they're the same. 0.69
00:13:31.000 And now Obama is going to Mom Dhani, the entire Democratic Party, top down. 0.79
00:13:36.000 He architected the Democratic Party between 2008 and 2016, and now he's taking control again.
00:13:42.000 The Democratic Party, I know, it feels like they're in disarray.
00:13:44.000 It feels like they have no leadership.
00:13:45.000 They are not, in fact, rudderless.
00:13:47.000 Obama is and has been the single most radical active driver in his party.
00:13:54.000 He did not go away.
00:13:55.000 He's not like George W. Bush, where he was president and then he went away.
00:13:58.000 He has been active and he's going to get more active.
00:14:00.000 He is a master at shifting ideological goalposts without being noticed, cloaking his radicalism as some form of moderation. 0.80
00:14:08.000 And again, the key to all of this, the reason that Obama is particularly threatening is because one, he's an excellent organizer, and two, he is the single most creative and convincing liar in modern American history. 0.63
00:14:17.000 Now, I know there are a lot of people who are Democrats listening to this show and say, ah, Donald Trump lies all the time.
00:14:22.000 Donald Trump does say things that are not true, he does lie, but he is not nearly as good at it as Barack Obama because Barack Obama has magiced many, many Americans into believing that somehow he was a Clintonian figure as opposed to what he actually is Jimmy Carter on policy.
00:14:42.000 Barack Obama has always lied, and he continues to lie about what he believes and who he is.
00:14:48.000 So, back to his interview with Stephen Colbert.
00:14:51.000 He says stuff like this about the criminal justice system, right?
00:14:53.000 It sounds moderate, it sounds kind.
00:14:56.000 Here we go.
00:14:58.000 The White House shouldn't be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants to prosecute.
00:15:06.000 That's right, because technically it's under the executive branch, but the norm is that it's independent.
00:15:10.000 The idea is that.
00:15:13.000 The Attorney General is the people's lawyer.
00:15:15.000 It's not the president's consigliere.
00:15:18.000 Right, even when it's Bobby Kennedy.
00:15:20.000 Even when it's Bobby Kennedy.
00:15:22.000 And so, two of the core principles of a democracy we can survive a lot bad policy, funky elections.
00:15:35.000 There's a bunch of stuff that we can overcome.
00:15:40.000 We can't overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system.
00:15:45.000 The awesome power of the state.
00:15:48.000 You can't have a situation in which whoever's in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies.
00:15:57.000 The IRS under Barack Obama literally targeted Tea Party groups and pro Israel groups.
00:16:02.000 In 2013, Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States, called himself Barack Obama's wingman.
00:16:08.000 Obama's sitting there saying that the AG can't be the consigliere for the president.
00:16:14.000 Here was Eric Holder, his AG, literally calling himself Obama's consigliere.
00:16:21.000 I'm still enjoying what I'm doing.
00:16:21.000 Well, I'm happy.
00:16:23.000 There's still work to be done.
00:16:25.000 I'm still a president's wingman, so I'm there with my boy.
00:16:30.000 I mean, come on.
00:16:32.000 Come on.
00:16:33.000 And as you will remember, when Barack Obama says you cannot use the DOJ to target your political opposition, I seem to recall Barack Obama's Democratic Party under Joe Biden, his vice president.
00:16:46.000 After Biden became president, he then used the DOJ to go after Donald Trump one million times.
00:16:50.000 Here's acting AG Todd Blanch explaining.
00:16:54.000 There's something extraordinarily rich about a Democrat suggesting that this administration is charging our political adversaries.
00:17:03.000 I mean, first of all, we're not.
00:17:05.000 Second of all, how about we think about what happened the past four years?
00:17:08.000 It wasn't just President Trump that got indicted repeatedly in multiple district courts, in multiple jurisdictions, but it was also his entire administration, what was called into the grand jury.
00:17:19.000 Members of his Secret Service detail had to testify in the grand jury.
00:17:22.000 So I welcome criticism.
00:17:25.000 Let's go.
00:17:26.000 But let's say if you're sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones.
00:17:32.000 Okay.
00:17:32.000 Barack Obama, in that same interview with Colbert, he then goes ahead and he talks about how he is worried for the Republican Party and the Democrats.
00:17:39.000 Again, he masquerades as a moderate.
00:17:41.000 That masquerade is the whole game for Democrats.
00:17:45.000 It's the whole game.
00:17:47.000 Here he says that he's worried for the Republican Party.
00:17:49.000 They're just not moderate enough, the Republican Party.
00:17:51.000 Here is Barack Obama.
00:17:54.000 I'm worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party.
00:17:59.000 When I was president, people would ask me, well, what change would you like to see in Washington?
00:18:04.000 I'd say, I'd love a loyal opposition.
00:18:09.000 I'd love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, that didn't agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff, but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and empirical evidence and science and wasn't.
00:18:30.000 Constantly tapping into our worst impulses.
00:18:34.000 And there has been a Republican Party like that in the past.
00:18:37.000 And I want to see that return because I think you have to have two healthy parties.
00:18:43.000 He wrecked that Republican Party.
00:18:45.000 He wrecked that Republican Party.
00:18:47.000 Coming up, we will remind you of Barack Obama destroying Mitt Romney.
00:18:52.000 Now he's pining for a better GOP. 1.00
00:18:53.000 He's such a liar. 1.00
00:18:54.000 He's such a liar. 0.99
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00:20:12.000 You know that kinder, gentler Republican Party, the one that was the loyal opposition?
00:20:15.000 You know, the one that ran Mitt Romney for president in 2012 against Barack Obama, the cleanest candidate in the history of American politics, Mitt Romney.
00:20:24.000 The most classically normie candidate in American history.
00:20:29.000 And Barack Obama wrecked that guy.
00:20:32.000 He wrecked him. 1.00
00:20:33.000 Again, the faux moderation is galling, it is gaslighting, it's pathetic. 0.99
00:20:39.000 I mean, his allies literally put out an ad in 2012 saying that Mitt Romney fired a man so that his wife would die of cancer. 0.94
00:20:48.000 This was the kind of stuff that Barack Obama's team did back in 2012.
00:20:53.000 I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant.
00:20:58.000 I don't think he realizes that people's lives completely changed.
00:21:03.000 When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care, and my family lost their health care.
00:21:09.000 And a short time after that, my wife became ill.
00:21:15.000 I don't know how long she was sick.
00:21:18.000 And I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we couldn't afford the insurance.
00:21:23.000 And then one day she became ill, and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia, and that's when they found the cancer.
00:21:32.000 And by then it was stage four.
00:21:34.000 There was nothing they could do for her.
00:21:38.000 And she passed away in 22 days.
00:21:41.000 I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone.
00:21:45.000 And furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.
00:21:49.000 This is what Team Obama did.
00:21:51.000 To Mitt Romney.
00:21:52.000 Remember, they're out there saying, oh, we want a kinder, gentler Republican Party. 0.97
00:21:58.000 You took Mitt Romney and you called him a man who wanted to enslave black people. 0.68
00:22:02.000 Joe Biden said that when he was vice president, back when his hair plugs had not all fallen out and his brain was still semi functional.
00:22:10.000 Romney wants to let the, he said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.
00:22:17.000 Unchain Wall Street.
00:22:22.000 They're going to put you all back in chains.
00:22:27.000 I mean, that is what they did to Mitt Romney.
00:22:29.000 Again, this is the masquerade.
00:22:30.000 This is the masquerade.
00:22:32.000 Obama did an interview with the New Yorker in which, again, he pretends moderation.
00:22:38.000 And that's the whole game.
00:22:40.000 He is going to be as radical as humanly possible.
00:22:42.000 We'll get to the system he's setting up in a second because it is being built in real time to push whatever candidate he chooses.
00:22:42.000 He's setting up the system.
00:22:49.000 Okay, but Obama's whole game is to pretend moderation.
00:22:52.000 Quote I do think that repairing the damage that's been done to the international war is going to be even harder than some of the domestic repairs. 0.85
00:23:01.000 I think one way to think about it is the post World War II order is one of America's better moments.
00:23:07.000 Okay, let's be clear. 0.96
00:23:08.000 Barack Obama broke the post World War II order by saying that America ought to lead from behind, that we ought to retreat from the world, cede power to Russia.
00:23:17.000 Remember, in 2012, he literally told Dmitry Medvedev, who was the stand in for Vladimir Putin, that if Putin backed off before the 2012 election, there would be benefits on the other side of the election.
00:23:30.000 He was caught on a hot mic saying that.
00:23:33.000 And he says that he was in favor of the post World War II alliances.
00:23:38.000 He said, We're not just going to go ahead and demand tribute and bully people.
00:23:43.000 We're going to be part of some larger consensus about how something should work.
00:23:48.000 And then he blames Trump for pulling out of Paris and by imposing tariffs and getting out of the Iran nuclear deal. 0.53
00:23:54.000 This is Obama shtick.
00:23:57.000 So here is the thing here's the thing the past is not the past, it is the future.
00:24:02.000 Again, we think of the Trump era as itself.
00:24:05.000 The sort of Star Wars original trilogy, right?
00:24:07.000 Term one was A New Hope.
00:24:10.000 And then the Joe Biden presidency was The Empire Strikes Back.
00:24:13.000 And now Trump is back in Return of the Jedi.
00:24:15.000 But what if we are not thinking along a long enough timeline?
00:24:19.000 What if the entire Trump era was A New Hope?
00:24:22.000 What if what comes next is Empire Strikes Back?
00:24:25.000 See, Barack Obama has the capacity to frame the Trump era as a sort of interregnum in American history, a short detour on the road to left wing devastation.
00:24:35.000 We tend to think on the right, Of this story as ending with President Trump victorious over all of his woke enemies.
00:24:40.000 But what if the Democratic Party is preparing to come back into power, sweep back into power, and do all the most radical things?
00:24:50.000 Led by Barack Obama, who was always radical, but was great at hiding it.
00:24:54.000 And Obama's team is rebuilding.
00:24:56.000 He already has his comms team out there.
00:24:58.000 They never went away.
00:24:59.000 The entire PodSafe America bro network, right?
00:25:04.000 They are all out there.
00:25:05.000 They're very powerful in terms of the public communications apparatus.
00:25:09.000 They have allies all over the media, obviously.
00:25:12.000 And they are normalizing every bit, every single bit of the far left agenda.
00:25:18.000 Again, John Favreau at PodSave America is hugging Hassan Piker. 0.58
00:25:25.000 When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you actually mean that? 0.52
00:25:29.000 Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?
00:25:33.000 Like, what?
00:25:34.000 I mean, it's all of the above.
00:25:35.000 I do mean it.
00:25:37.000 I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.
00:25:39.000 I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter, I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time. 0.84
00:25:47.000 Again, these are the Pods of America. 0.92
00:25:49.000 Those guys are still out there.
00:25:50.000 They're the communications apparatus for Team Obama, and they are uniting with the most radical Democrats, with the most radical Democrats.
00:25:58.000 And the notion that it's sort of Barack Obama in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and Bernie in the radical, they're the same.
00:26:05.000 They're the same thing.
00:26:07.000 These pictures are the same.
00:26:08.000 It's Spider Man pointing at himself.
00:26:11.000 And John Lovett, another Pods of America, bro, with Bernie Sanders on why we need an AI moratorium.
00:26:18.000 If scientists who are Nobel Prize winners, guys who've gotten the Turing Award, which is the major award given to people in computer science, if they say to you that humanity is in danger, do you think you might want to do something about it?
00:26:33.000 Or am I missing something?
00:26:35.000 You tell me.
00:26:36.000 So, no, the percentages are also someone's, oh, there's only a 10% chance humanity is destroyed.
00:26:42.000 I was like, well, I don't like those odds.
00:26:44.000 Only a 10% chance.
00:26:46.000 John, I know.
00:26:50.000 Okay, so again.
00:26:51.000 We should note, Bernie is doing full scale events with the Chinese about an AI moratorium.
00:26:57.000 Barack Obama's foreign policy team is reactivating.
00:27:00.000 The worst foreign policy team in modern history, by far, not close, not a close second, even.
00:27:06.000 No one's within sight.
00:27:08.000 According to Axios, there is a new influential foreign policy group to help potential 2028 presidential candidates and bring together national security specialists who could staff the next Democratic administration.
00:27:22.000 It's called National Security Action.
00:27:24.000 It was founded by Ben Rhodes, who was the chief foreign policy advisor.
00:27:29.000 After writing unpublished novels in his crappy Brooklyn apartment for years, he was selected by Barack Obama to be his sort of anti Israel advocate in the White House.
00:27:37.000 Ben Rhodes' literal nickname in the White House was Hamas.
00:27:40.000 I'm not even kidding.
00:27:42.000 And Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor under Joe Biden, and of course, a high ranking national security advisor under Barack Obama, they've now picked a person named Mahar Bitar, who has worked for Democrats and on Capitol Hill and in the White House, to lead the group going into the 2028 primary season.
00:28:00.000 Ben Rhodes says that the group's two most interesting projects are the pipeline of people who might work on campaigns and populate a Democratic administration, and then the ideas that can form a progressive or democratic foreign policy going forward.
00:28:13.000 And Ben Rhodes says it's time to pass the baton.
00:28:15.000 So, this is a really great opportunity to try to talent spot and help elevate some different voices.
00:28:21.000 Jake Sullivan says that this should center in on a revision of the Democratic Party's relationship with Israel.
00:28:26.000 Of course, that was first promoted by Barack Obama, the most anti Israel president in modern history by far.
00:28:33.000 Batar, it should be noted, legitimately has the same resume as Zorhan Mamdani.
00:28:38.000 He was a leader of the insanely anti Semitic group Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:28:43.000 He worked at the Hamas linked UN Relief and Works Agency.
00:28:46.000 He wrote papers at the University of Oxford on the Nakba, which is the Arabic term for the establishment of Israel. 0.59
00:28:53.000 It means the catastrophe.
00:28:56.000 Ben Rhodes, by the way, going out of his way in the New York Times to hug Graham Platner. 0.59
00:29:00.000 That's the dude with the Nazi tattoo. 0.63
00:29:04.000 He wrote a piece for the New York Times quoting Graham Platner If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future, it needs to be an anti war party.
00:29:13.000 Why don't more Democrats talk about war the way Mr. Plattner does?
00:29:17.000 We must re engage the world, says Ben Rhodes, as something other than a hegemon.
00:29:21.000 Rebuild diplomatic and developmental capabilities hollowed out under Mr. Trump.
00:29:26.000 Negotiate the outlines of a new international order with other major powers.
00:29:30.000 Ah, multipolarity.
00:29:33.000 Again, this is Barack Obama's team.
00:29:35.000 That is Obama's team in the foreign policy sphere.
00:29:38.000 It is Obama's team in the comms sphere.
00:29:40.000 Hell, it's Obama's team in the funding sphere.
00:29:44.000 Back in 2025, in September, there is a report that millions of dollars sent to Obama's foundation has ended up being donated to a progressive fund supporting anti Israel groups.
00:29:55.000 Donations to the Obama Foundation that were originally supposed to fund his museum, two million bucks were instead sent to the Tides Foundation, a radical left wing group that funnels money to the most radical leftist groups.
00:30:08.000 This is the apparatus that the Democratic Party is building.
00:30:11.000 They'll use Obama as their head.
00:30:12.000 If he can find a politician half as talented as he is, then that's a threat.
00:30:17.000 That is a threat.
00:30:18.000 The modern Democratic Party, the conflict is over.
00:30:22.000 Obama won.
00:30:23.000 And I know for some people thinking, oh, okay, well, Obama won.
00:30:26.000 That means the moderates.
00:30:27.000 No, he was never moderate.
00:30:29.000 He was never moderate.
00:30:33.000 And this is why you ended up with Donald Trump, because Obama was not moderate.
00:30:38.000 And now he's sweeping back in.
00:30:39.000 That's what comes next.
00:30:41.000 The modern Democratic Party is fully in line with this sort of stuff.
00:30:45.000 So, as we pointed out yesterday, there were quasi riots outside a New York City synagogue. 0.75
00:30:52.000 The New York City government decided that was totally fine to hold a quasi riot outside the synagogue because, after all, what they were protesting was Jews buying land in Israel.
00:31:02.000 And these rioters don't particularly like some of the places that Jews are buying land, namely Jewish cities like Efrat and Neve Daniel.
00:31:10.000 Here's what that looked like in New York.
00:31:24.000 Right. 0.99
00:31:24.000 People confronting the cops, people wearing the kafias. 0.99
00:31:29.000 Hey, Zorhan Mamdani was asked about this, and he defended the sacrosanct right to protest.
00:31:34.000 I do not think he would feel the same way if people started protesting outside mosques.
00:31:38.000 Actually, I'm old enough to remember because I'm more than a couple of months old when Zorhan Mamdani condemned people protesting against radical Islam at a rally outside the mayoral mansion where a radical Islamic terrorist tried to throw a Molotov cocktail, like an IED, into the crowd. 0.54
00:31:55.000 Here's Mamdani.
00:31:57.000 We in this city believe in the sacrosanct nature of the right to protest and also are committed to ensuring that any New Yorker can safely enter or exit from a house of worship and that access never be in question while we also protect the First Amendment. 0.60
00:32:14.000 I do not believe you.
00:32:16.000 I do not believe you.
00:32:17.000 John Fetterman, the only sane Democrat left, apparently, put out a tweet.
00:32:20.000 Mob of pro Hezbollah Hamas, bleep heads, raging against law enforcement and terrorizing the New York City Jewish community near a synagogue and daycare.
00:32:27.000 Where's my party's condemnation?
00:32:30.000 I mean, I assume in the same place as the Democratic Party's willingness to moderate. 0.63
00:32:36.000 Meanwhile, New York State Senate candidate, Abar Khawass, she said that she was protesting with a Hamas headband.
00:32:44.000 Apparently, she was not, but she had to debunk it.
00:32:50.000 One that the right is already obsessed with an absurd claim that I held the Hamas flag at a protest a decade ago.
00:32:55.000 It's BS.
00:32:57.000 It was actually a scarf printed with the Shahada.
00:33:00.000 A common religious symbol like the cross or Star of David.
00:33:03.000 And it's everywhere.
00:33:04.000 It's a statement of faith, and standing up for justice has always been part of my faith.
00:33:11.000 Okay, so in any case, it looks like a headband, not a scarf.
00:33:14.000 But this also happens to be a person, again, she is a New York Democratic State Senate candidate.
00:33:19.000 She is a person who says that 9 11 was a manifestation of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.
00:33:29.000 And finding that, like, you know, The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people.
00:33:45.000 And so this is a long trajectory.
00:33:47.000 And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9-11. 0.62
00:33:53.000 9-11 was a manifestation of the evils of Western civilization.
00:33:56.000 And this is all a part of the same left-wing radical philosophy.
00:34:01.000 That is part and parcel of the anti colonialism of Barack Obama, dating all the way back to dreams from my father.
00:34:06.000 It's all the same thing. 0.97
00:34:07.000 And they have the fellow travelers who are typically white liberal ladies. 1.00
00:34:11.000 Gwyneth Paltrow is spending her days fellow traveling with all this crap and complaining about super rich white dudes with Kara Swisher. 0.98
00:34:19.000 I mean, listening to Gwyneth Paltrow complain about super rich white people is pretty, pretty amazing. 0.97
00:34:28.000 How do you think we got to this place in culture where sort of nothing matters?
00:34:32.000 And now all that matters is these kind of super rich white dudes who are breaking rules, setting rules, you know, seemingly like not caring so much about the downstream impact on everything in our culture.
00:34:46.000 They don't think they're responsible for the dead.
00:34:48.000 I think we have an idolatry of innovators, an idolatry of wealth.
00:34:53.000 And if you're wealthy, you must be smarter.
00:34:54.000 When they got all manner of shortcuts, and the innovations that they took advantage of were paid by the American public, by the way.
00:35:01.000 The internet was invented by.
00:35:03.000 The United States government, not them.
00:35:05.000 And it's great to be innovative and make these things and this rocket stuff.
00:35:09.000 I'm so impressed by what SpaceX is doing.
00:35:12.000 We can argue about the valuation of it, but it's still astonishing.
00:35:16.000 And at the same time, why do they get why does a small homogeneous group of people get to decide for the rest of us?
00:35:25.000 Well, I mean, why do they get to keep the products that they have built and then the innovations that have made everyone richer in the United States? 0.97
00:35:31.000 Jennifer Welch, again, astonishing to me that Jennifer Welch is somehow considered a voice of white ladies, but I guess, you know, you choose your fighter in this version of moral combat. 0.50
00:35:43.000 Here's Jennifer Welch saying Republicans lie about being patriotic and loving America with Wajahat Ali.
00:35:48.000 Okay, okay, man.
00:35:51.000 The Republicans lie about being loving America and being patriotic.
00:35:57.000 They lie that they're good with the economy, that wealth will trickle down.
00:36:00.000 That has been a decades long propagandistic lie.
00:36:04.000 They lie that they support the troops and they're about national security.
00:36:07.000 They don't.
00:36:07.000 They lie to get people into war.
00:36:09.000 They never support the soldier.
00:36:10.000 They never support the health care of these soldiers.
00:36:14.000 35% of all homeless people are vets.
00:36:17.000 They served.
00:36:18.000 These people are broken because of that service.
00:36:20.000 And then you have all of these rich.
00:36:22.000 Fat cat Republicans like Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, deferment, deferment, deferment, deferment. 0.57
00:36:29.000 These guys would never serve.
00:36:30.000 Do you think Barron's going to go serve?
00:36:32.000 Do you think Dumb and Dumber, Don and Eric, are going to go serve?
00:36:36.000 No, they're never going to serve over there.
00:36:38.000 And so the biggest thing that got us here is the Republican Party's lies that they love America.
00:36:44.000 When every time in my lifetime, I was born in 1974, every Republican president of my lifetime has wrecked the economy, taken us into war.
00:36:55.000 Added to the national deficit and resided over a recession.
00:37:02.000 Again, this is the Democratic Party.
00:37:05.000 Now, you might say to yourself, okay, fine.
00:37:06.000 So Barack Obama's radical.
00:37:08.000 So the Democratic Party's moving in a radical direction.
00:37:10.000 So they're organizing for their revenge.
00:37:12.000 They won't be able to get there.
00:37:14.000 The American people are too moderate for it.
00:37:14.000 They won't be able to get there.
00:37:16.000 So, first of all, we didn't see through it in 2008.
00:37:16.000 They'll see through it.
00:37:18.000 But second of all, they're going to have some help.
00:37:20.000 They're going to have some help.
00:37:23.000 They'll have some help, for example, from the new left, who we have been talking about.
00:37:26.000 The splinter faction of pseudo Republicans.
00:37:30.000 Who fellow traveled with Donald Trump and now are abandoning Trump in favor of a new coalition with the Democrats.
00:37:37.000 These folks have the same philosophy.
00:37:39.000 These people have the same philosophy as Ben Rhodes.
00:37:43.000 They have the same philosophy as Zoran Momdani on a wide variety of topics, including on radical Islam.
00:37:49.000 I mean, here was it's pretty astonishing what's happened to Tucker Carlson.
00:37:54.000 Just as an example of this, our friends on the new left or the woke right, as James Lindsay likes to call them.
00:38:02.000 Here's Tucker in 2017 versus Tucker now on Islam.
00:38:06.000 Things have changed just a little.
00:38:08.000 Things have changed.
00:38:10.000 I get that decent Muslim Americans feel under attack.
00:38:12.000 They feel like they're being unfairly portrayed as terrorists.
00:38:14.000 I understand all that.
00:38:15.000 But at some point, you have to say this really is a real problem, and it's discrediting all of us.
00:38:19.000 And until we take it seriously, it's going to continue.
00:38:21.000 No? 0.98
00:38:21.000 We can debate the details here, but I think it's important to acknowledge a baseline, and that is that there have been an awful lot of attacks where actual people died in the United States and in Europe, committed by people saying really clearly we're acting in the name of Islam. 0.98
00:38:34.000 For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here in the seat of Islam.
00:38:42.000 If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that. 0.91
00:38:51.000 I should bow down before God five times a day.
00:38:55.000 And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.
00:38:59.000 That was Tucker Carlson in 2016, 2017 versus Tucker Carlson.
00:39:03.000 Now, I mean, now Tucker is going so far that because he thinks that The entire world is controlled by the Zio Jews. 0.63
00:39:09.000 He's saying that Iran should actually have nukes in order to counter the ambitions of the Zio Jews. 0.97
00:39:16.000 The mutually assured destruction principle, which, as ugly as it sounds, is real. 1.00
00:39:22.000 It's absolutely real.
00:39:24.000 What you don't want is a nation that feels no constraints whatsoever, that feels it can do whatever it wants, it feels it can roll into its neighbor's sovereign territory and expel the population and kill people. 0.54
00:39:36.000 This is exactly what we thought the lesson of World War II.
00:39:38.000 That's bad.
00:39:41.000 But that's kind of what you get when you have a country that feels it has unconstrained power.
00:39:46.000 It can do whatever it wants.
00:39:47.000 What does it tend to do?
00:39:48.000 Well, whatever it wants.
00:39:51.000 And so you could at least make the case academically, even if you disagreed with the whole idea of nuclear weapons and thought they were probably inherently evil, even if you wondered where they came from in the first place, even if you had dark suspicions about the genesis of nuclear weapons, and some of us do, you could still make the case on a pragmatic basis that look at the effects.
00:40:13.000 Look at the effects.
00:40:14.000 They are less bad than this. 0.66
00:40:15.000 Okay, so that was Tucker Carlson making the case the Iranian mullahs should actually have nuclear weapons that would somehow be better. 0.69
00:40:24.000 That would somehow be better.
00:40:25.000 By the way, backing all of this has been, of course, Megyn Kelly, who has never seen a click that she will not chase.
00:40:31.000 Notice the contrast between Megyn Kelly on Islam in January of this year versus Megyn Kelly on Islam in, you know, May. 0.65
00:40:41.000 Islam is not consistent with the values of America, of the West. 1.00
00:40:45.000 They should stay in countries that don't care about. 1.00
00:40:48.000 Keeping church and state separated. 0.99
00:40:50.000 They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech. 1.00
00:40:53.000 They should stay in countries that don't care about women's rights. 1.00
00:40:56.000 It's been something I've noticed just since I've gotten a sort of more clear-eyed on Israel that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel who kind of need us to demonize them. 1.00
00:41:12.000 And I've taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, have I been manipulated?
00:41:16.000 I want to make sure I'm not getting manipulated.
00:41:21.000 So she was hoodwinked. 0.91
00:41:22.000 She was hoodwinked by those terrible pro Israel people, Megyn Kelly, between January and May, or she's chasing the Klicks. 0.96
00:41:29.000 Candace Owens, of course, has been doing the same thing for a while, running interference for radical Islam. 0.90
00:41:35.000 Americans don't know anything.
00:41:37.000 We know very well, after 9 11, I think about it now, the propaganda to make me afraid of Muslims.
00:41:42.000 I can't even imagine being a Muslim growing up after 9 11 in America because I know how I felt about them.
00:41:47.000 I was young, I was 11 years old, but that beating every day in our heads that every Muslim was a terrorist was the idea that you got.
00:41:54.000 To all Muslims growing up during that time in America, I am sorry on behalf of America for the way that you were treated.
00:42:01.000 It is so unacceptable.
00:42:01.000 When I go back and I re examine that propaganda, that brainwashing that took place in the classroom to make me scared of something I didn't even know what a Muslim was.
00:42:09.000 And these Muslim terrorists only want to terrorize to benefit Israel. 0.97
00:42:13.000 It's so strange. 1.00
00:42:13.000 I cannot work it out. 1.00
00:42:15.000 If you're a Muslim terrorist, we want to hear from you. 1.00
00:42:21.000 All right. 1.00
00:42:21.000 Well, again, how can the radicals win? 1.00
00:42:24.000 How can the radicals win?
00:42:25.000 I mean, the radicals can win on the left if they get some help.
00:42:28.000 From the new left.
00:42:29.000 That's all it takes.
00:42:30.000 So, again, there's a coalition that is forming.
00:42:33.000 That coalition is the Barack Obama Coalition.
00:42:36.000 And there will be a bunch of people who join back up with it moderates who are hoodwinked by Barack Obama's moderate affect, people who are radical in their inclinations anyway. 0.63
00:42:48.000 And of course, some alienated members of the new leftslash woke right, the people who have decided that they must fellow travel with the third worldists because they have their own version of third worldism that they are indeed promoting. 0.61
00:43:01.000 And meanwhile, speaking of radical Islam, Iran continues in its intransigence.
00:43:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, they say based on conversations with senior U.S. officials, here's what a good deal would look like to end the Iran war.
00:43:15.000 First, dismantlement.
00:43:16.000 Iran can't enrich now, but a good deal would name all deeply buried nuclear facilities as illicit enrichment sites and would enable supervised dismantlement of all centrifuges and ban producing or importing materials and components for plutonium processing.
00:43:30.000 Uranium.
00:43:32.000 Iran would love to focus solely on its 440 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium. 0.63
00:43:36.000 The regime's 20% stockpile may sound less dangerous, but reaching that level is 90% of the weight's weapons grade, so it has to go as well. 0.76
00:43:43.000 IAE inspections anywhere. 0.82
00:43:46.000 Iran has to make a full declaration of its past nuclear work.
00:43:49.000 A final deal on Hormuz should prescribe all tolls, mines, and forced routes and dismantlement of the sanctions on a short, specific timetable once all of that is done.
00:43:58.000 Now we'll see what kind of deal the Trump administration is trying to cut.
00:44:03.000 The foreign minister of Iran, Abbasaraki, he says that Iran is going to continue to stave off elimination as a regime by standing up to the United States.
00:44:17.000 He says our Chinese friends also believe that Iran after the war is different from Iran before the war.
00:44:25.000 It has proven its capabilities and strength.
00:44:32.000 Therefore, a new phase of cooperation between Iran.
00:44:38.000 And other countries' lies ahead.
00:44:39.000 Well, certainly not in the Middle East. 0.86
00:44:40.000 I assume he just means a closer relationship between Iran and China, which demonstrates once again why Iran is a threat, because China is a threat.
00:44:48.000 And meanwhile, Democrats are trying to claim that we are losing the war.
00:44:51.000 Democratic Representative Seth Moulton, who should know better from Massachusetts, he says that we're losing the war in Iran.
00:44:59.000 Iran has way more leverage than they had at the beginning when we were just trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with them.
00:45:05.000 Now Trump's trying to reopen the strait as well.
00:45:08.000 And I don't think that either is going to come on great terms for the United States.
00:45:11.000 This is a loss for us.
00:45:13.000 And that's how dangerous this war has been.
00:45:16.000 This is, as in, we have lost this war?
00:45:20.000 We're certainly losing it right now on almost every measure.
00:45:23.000 You know, regime change has gotten us a more hard line regime.
00:45:26.000 We destroyed some of their ballistic missiles, but given them billions and billions of dollars by lifting oil sanctions so they can buy more. 0.70
00:45:32.000 We clearly have not obliterated their nuclear program.
00:45:34.000 And we're in a far worse position than Obama was with the Iran nuclear deal.
00:45:38.000 I mean, that is not true in the slightest.
00:45:42.000 We have significantly degraded their ballistic missile capacity and their manufacturing capacity.
00:45:46.000 We have destroyed their economic power.
00:45:48.000 We still have a blockade on their oil. 0.99
00:45:51.000 The best they can do is try to hold shipping up in the Strait of Hormuz that is gradually being opened by the United States anyway, which is why a new Harvard Harris poll suggests that 74% of respondents say that the United States is winning the war, which happens to be the truth. 1.00
00:46:04.000 That is correct. 0.80
00:46:07.000 So, again, by the way, that includes 40% of Democrats believe that only 40% of Democrats believe that Iran is winning the war.
00:46:14.000 60% believe the United States is winning the war.
00:46:16.000 Of Democrats.
00:46:19.000 So, again, the attempt to undermine the United States is ongoing.
00:46:25.000 Meanwhile, California continues along its radical path.
00:46:28.000 You want to look at what a Barack Obama ruled state would look like?
00:46:31.000 California is a pretty good indicator.
00:46:34.000 According to a brand new report from Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo over at City Journal, in the last five years, the California Department of Social Services has rubber stamped at least $41 million in funding to the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:46:47.000 Those federal dollars are flowing into CARE California's coffers, even after it was the target of a recent DOJ investigation.
00:46:55.000 And for those who don't follow CARE, CARE is an incredibly radical group that was effectively founded by people with significant links to Hamas.
00:47:05.000 And they've been receiving huge amounts of money from grants in California.
00:47:10.000 In 2022, the California Department of Social Services awarded CARE $7.2 million in federal funds via a state program to provide immigration related legal assistance.
00:47:20.000 And then in September 2025, they rubber stamped an additional $23 million in federal funds for CARE California.
00:47:27.000 Here, by the way, is the CARE California leader, Zahra Bilou, advising people to be strategic with their hate. 0.97
00:47:34.000 Now imagine your LinkedIn profile says, I hate all Zionists. 0.84
00:47:40.000 Replace hate with whatever inappropriate, like something I can't say here. 0.98
00:47:45.000 Not strategic, right?
00:47:48.000 Like, not strategic.
00:47:49.000 Now, you may say that sitting around Kahwa House on a Friday night, but you're not going to say it on your LinkedIn.
00:47:55.000 And so, one, we have to do the basics, we have to remember that Allah protects us.
00:48:03.000 Ah, good stuff there from the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:48:07.000 Glad that federal taxpayers can subsidize that thanks to the government of California.
00:48:12.000 Meanwhile, the government in California continues to do an extraordinary job.
00:48:15.000 The feds just raided a huge drug ring in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park.
00:48:21.000 According to the DOJ, 18 defendants, including two people law enforcement believes are the main sources of fentanyl and meth in LA's gang and drug infested MacArthur Park, have now been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging them with a federal drug trafficking offense.
00:48:35.000 You may remember LA Mayor Karen Bass suggesting in July 2025 that ICE was wrong for being in MacArthur Park and trying to police crime.
00:48:46.000 Yes, my comment is they need to leave and they need to leave right now.
00:48:51.000 They need to leave because this is unacceptable.
00:48:57.000 Well, maybe, maybe at a certain point, even the people of LA will decide to buck this sort of insanity.
00:49:03.000 So last night was the LA mayoral debate.
00:49:07.000 That debate pitted Spencer Pratt, who's essentially a reality TV star, against a city council woman named Nithya Rahman, as well as Mayor Bass.
00:49:18.000 Mayor Bass continues to be the frontrunner.
00:49:19.000 She continues to be the frontrunner in that mayoral race, which is nuts.
00:49:24.000 Spencer Pratt did a good job in this debate.
00:49:26.000 He pointed out that the LA City Council and the mayor's office have allowed homelessness to run rampant throughout the city.
00:49:34.000 And he made a pretty colorful remark to Nithya Rahman about Her policy, which would suggest a $10.7 million infusion to renovate a 26 room motel into interim housing for the homeless, it's $411,000 per apartment.
00:49:51.000 Karen Bass signed it.
00:49:52.000 Here is Spencer Pratt calling out that policy in pretty colorful language.
00:49:56.000 Councilman Robbins' plan for treatment first.
00:49:58.000 I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for. 0.99
00:50:04.000 She's going to get stabbed in the neck. 0.94
00:50:06.000 These people do not want a bed, they want fentanyl or super meth. 0.99
00:50:11.000 These ideas.
00:50:12.000 Cost us over $400 million to house 70,000, what did he say?
00:50:16.000 3,000 people for $400 million.
00:50:18.000 This is an absolute failure for both of them.
00:50:21.000 They're a team.
00:50:24.000 Spencer Pratt also called out Karen Bass for lying about the Palisades fires and how it was handled.
00:50:32.000 We had two other reservoirs totaling $8 billion gallons that were available, but could not fly.
00:50:40.000 Yes, she mentioned me. 0.97
00:50:42.000 So she's an incredible liar. 0.96
00:50:45.000 Everyone on their phones. 0.98
00:50:47.000 Google it.
00:50:47.000 40 weather stations in the Pacific Palisades.
00:50:50.000 It never went above 40 miles per hour.
00:50:52.000 Spencer Pratt.
00:50:53.000 She is referencing the altitude of the election.
00:50:56.000 I have to interrupt you.
00:50:59.000 No name calling.
00:51:00.000 Yeah, but no name calling.
00:51:00.000 She just lied, though.
00:51:02.000 We should call me a liar.
00:51:06.000 Okay, so Spencer Pratt, by the way, did a pretty good job in this debate.
00:51:10.000 Perhaps the most astonishing moment again, this is how Democrats are now governing, this is how they are governing in major cities.
00:51:16.000 The LMAR candidates were asked whether non citizens should be allowed to vote in Los Angeles.
00:51:22.000 Spencer Pratt, of course, says no.
00:51:23.000 Watch the other two. 1.00
00:51:26.000 Non citizens, should they be allowed to vote in local elections? 0.98
00:51:30.000 Is this a yes or no, Mr. Pratt? 0.99
00:51:32.000 No.
00:51:33.000 Mayor Bass?
00:51:34.000 It depends.
00:51:35.000 It's not a yes or no.
00:51:36.000 Depends on what?
00:51:37.000 Well, first of all, when you say non citizens, it doesn't mean they're here illegal.
00:51:41.000 It doesn't mean they're undocumented.
00:51:43.000 They could have green cards, they could be here perfectly legal, and there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections.
00:51:51.000 We have to see what the councilman is proposing.
00:51:53.000 Councilmember Bremen.
00:51:54.000 Yeah, I would say, again, it does depend.
00:51:56.000 In other places, school boards have non citizens who vote for residents who vote for the news.
00:52:07.000 Insane.
00:52:08.000 Insane.
00:52:09.000 But that's the kind of governance that Democrats increasingly want.
00:52:12.000 Well, Democratic governance, you know, is not the only problem in America.
00:52:16.000 Waste, fraud, and abuse in gigantic federal programs remains an enormous problem, no matter which state you are in.
00:52:22.000 Luke Rosiak has been doing a tremendous job of investigating wastes.
00:52:29.000 Fraud in Ohio.
00:52:32.000 He has done a full length 20 minute walking tour through the Ohio healthcare system showing how billions of taxpayer dollars have been abused.
00:52:42.000 You can find that over at dailywire.com right now.
00:52:45.000 Here is a little bit of that video.
00:52:49.000 Let's pick the door that says Crew Home Healthcare LLC out for a quick break.
00:52:55.000 The company's owner is listed in Medicaid records as Mamusu Kanu. 0.99
00:52:59.000 According to public records, she has a slew of criminal infractions.
00:53:02.000 including theft, assault, and malicious wounded, as well as civil judgments and tax liens.
00:53:07.000 True Home Healthcare received $100,000 in December 2023 alone, despite having only 15 patients, according to newly released federal data.
00:53:18.000 Kanu was charged with felony-aggravated assault in Virginia and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
00:53:28.000 In a phone interview, Mamusu Sue Kanu denied that she had Criminal record.
00:53:33.000 Even if I do, it doesn't have anything to do with nobody.
00:53:37.000 They certify you before you do anything.
00:53:42.000 So, again, it's a great investigation.
00:53:43.000 Go check out Daily Wire right now for all of the information.
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00:53:52.000 So, go do that right now so we can continue to expose this sort of malfeasance in American government.
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