Harvard University President Claudine Gay humiliated herself before Congress with anti-Semitic remarks she made about Jews. Harvard defends her right to free speech, even as evidence emerges that she plagiarized her dissertation and other papers, but no one has been disciplined for it. Meanwhile, Harvard s own president has been accused of plagiarism, but the university refuses to discipline her, even though the evidence points to her being a plagiarist, and the plagiarist is a member of the academic elite, not a black, female, non-white student. Why did Harvard allow this to happen, and why should it not fire her for it? And why does it matter that she's a white, male, white, Jewish, Jewish academic, who supports affirmative action and other leftist policies that promote anti-Semitism and racism? Why should she be allowed to stay on the job, even if she plagiarizes her own work? And what is the difference between her and other Harvard presidents who have plagiarized their own work, and those who have done so in the past, and are fired for doing so? Is she being fired because of her plagiarism or because she's part of the "progressive elite?" Or is she a victim of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and homophobia, or is she part of a system that perpetuated by the radical left-wing academic elite? Or something else? The answer may surprise you, and it's not what you think it is? This is a question you have been waiting for? to find out in today's show on the answer to that question and more on this episode of "The Real Rachel Maddow's new book, "Rabbi, the Real Rachel Goodman's Real Rachel." The Real Rachel . by Rachel Goodman. by David Rothkopf, the New York Times, the writer and host of the show Good Morning America's new podcast, Good Morning Rachel. and the host of "Rachel Goodman's New York Magazine's Rachel Goodman, the host and host, Rachel Goodman s new book . and much more! by the author of "R.E. Rachael Goodman's new novel, "The Devil Next Door" and more. in the new book "Rights and R.S. is out now! and "Racism in America s Real Rachel's Real Life Story." by Jonathan Goldstein.
00:00:19.000Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.
00:00:34.000So, the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct, correct?
00:00:48.000The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
00:00:52.000Okay, so that was Harvard's esteemed president, again, failing to simply state that calling for genocide of Jews was in violation of Harvard's speech policies.
00:00:59.000Instead, Cloudy and Gay supposedly clung to free speech, violation of which is constant and ever-present at Harvard.
00:01:05.000Here, for example, is an excerpt from Harvard's mandatory Title IX training session for undergraduate students.
00:01:11.000It contains a quote, power and control wheel that helps students identify harmful conduct.
00:01:17.000It says, quote, around the edge of the power and control wheel, you'll notice attitudes, beliefs, and systems like racism, sexism, misogyny, ableism, transphobia, and xenophobia.
00:01:24.000These apparently, quote, contribute to an environment that perpetuates violence.
00:01:29.000You don't even recognize some of these terms.
00:01:30.000Cisheterosexism, which is the idea that being cisgender, meaning a boy who knows he is a boy, and heterosexual, and believing that's the norm, is somehow a form of discrimination.
00:01:42.000According to one of the presented scenarios in the Title IX training, quote, Andres repeated using the wrong pronouns, commenting about Logan's appearance, making remarks about Logan's gender identity, contribute to a climate of disrespect, and may also violate Harvard's policies.
00:01:55.000So, if you say a man is a man, you may be violating Harvard's policies.
00:01:59.000If you say death to the Jews, well, context-dependent.
00:02:02.000This is the same university, you'll recall, that banned a prospective admitee, Kyle Cashew, of Parkland High School, for sending texts that included the N-word in them when he was 16 years old.
00:02:12.000But Clouding Gay is all about free speech.
00:02:17.000Again, the only way to explain all of this is that it is part and parcel of the equity hierarchy established by the academic left over the course of at least two generations.
00:02:25.000Some groups under this rubric are more equal than other groups.
00:02:29.000And Clouding Gay is part of the privileged elite.
00:02:38.000That means Clouding Gay cannot be fired.
00:02:40.000This week, Chris Rufo and Aaron Siberian and other journalists uncovered vast evidence of Gay's alleged plagiarism, from her PhD dissertation to other multiple published papers.
00:02:50.000Multiple professors who were plagiarized have now come forward to condemn Gay's plagiarism.
00:02:54.000that includes Miami University professor Anne Williamson, who said, quote,
00:03:22.000I don't believe her record warranted tenure.
00:03:24.000I believe I had to meet a much higher standard than she did.
00:03:26.000It's clear to me standards were lowered in the mid-1990s, and the elites came together and decided they were going to defend affirmative action.
00:03:32.000It's clear to me she was a beneficiary of that.
00:03:34.000I blame her committee, and I blame white progressives equally.
00:03:37.000Swain, who is black, concluded, quote, white progressives have always rewarded the blacks who
00:03:42.000A white male would probably already be gone.
00:03:44.000That, of course, is exactly right, but not at Harvard, where the board has full scale defended Cloudian Gay,
00:03:50.000saying they did a full investigation into the plagiarism allegations
00:03:53.000as soon as they received wind of them back in October.
00:03:56.000But here's the thing, even that was apparently a lie.
00:04:00.000Equity has to be upheld at all costs, particularly at the cost of the truth.
00:04:02.000Truth is just not a value to the radical left.
00:04:05.000It turns out that the university, once hit with plagiarism allegations against gay back in October, didn't investigate.
00:04:10.000Instead, they went into full defense mode.
00:04:13.000According to the New York Post, quote, Harvard University covered up a high level investigation into whether its controversial president was a plagiarist and used an expensive law firm to threaten the post over our own probe.
00:04:24.000The Post contacted the university on October 24th, asking for comments on more than two dozen instances in which gay's words appeared to closely parallel words, phrases, or sentences in published works by other academics.
00:04:35.000When the Post brought the allegations to Harvard, Jonathan Swain, its senior executive director of media relations and communications, asked for more time to review gay's work.
00:04:43.000A day later, Swain, who is part of the Biden-Harris transition team and a one-time Hillary Clinton aide, said he would, quote, get back in touch over the next couple of days.
00:04:52.000Two days later, on October 27th, the Post was instead sent a 15-page letter by Thomas Clare, a high-powered Virginia-based attorney with the firm Clare Law, who identified himself as defamation counsel for Harvard University and Gay.
00:05:05.000So, there is a tacit threat issued to the New York Post not to print a story about Gay's alleged plagiarism because of defamation concerns.
00:05:18.000An underqualified black woman who has been elevated particularly because of that status to the presidency of the nation's most storied university.
00:07:40.000This is why, according to the Harvard Crimson, in an analysis of the period 1995 to 2013, that is an 18-year period, Asian Americans admitted to Harvard earned an average SAT score of 767 across all sections.
00:08:34.000Remember, that is not the top SAT score.
00:08:38.000That is not the bottom SAT score, that is the average SAT score.
00:08:41.000In other words, the average Harvard Asian American had to outperform the average Black admitee at Harvard by 126 points to get in.
00:08:50.000I promise you, by the way, that the spread on Asian American admitees does not go all the way down to 1,300.
00:08:54.000It's not as though there are a bunch of Asian Americans who got in with a 1,300.
00:08:59.000But, if you have a 1,408 Black average, that means there are a lot of Black students who got in with a 1,300 and some that got in with a 1,500.
00:09:06.000For context, a 1408 is below the average SAT score for admitees at every top university in the United States.
00:09:15.000At every top university, like pick university rank number 20, it is below the average admitee at that university.
00:09:21.000The only way to justify this sort of racism is to suggest that there are other benefits that come to Harvard from admitting people who are black other than difference of perspective and And SAT score, because lower SAT scores and also not a different perspective.
00:09:49.000Because meritocracy itself is supposedly unjust and wrong and racist.
00:09:53.000You are doing something good merely by putting people of various skin colors in a room together because if you were to adjudicate based on merit, that would be inherently bad.
00:10:04.000It's not that the room that is more diverse is inherently good.
00:10:30.000This is why people are freaking out that Harvard, again, supposed to be about the meritocracy, is now promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of merit.
00:10:38.000And in fact, making clear that if you are part of a higher achieving group, this makes you an oppressor who can be and should be discriminated against.
00:10:45.000But of course, that's what universities have been promoting for decades.
00:10:48.000Claudine Gay is the natural consequence of that perversity.
00:10:51.000This is why Derek Johnson of the NAACP has now tweeted, quote, Enough is enough.
00:10:56.000Harvard President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education.
00:11:00.000The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.
00:11:07.000Black America isn't buying into your game, and we sure won't stand for your perpetuation of misogynoir.
00:11:12.000Misogynoir, by the way, is a fake term that was coined in the 90s to refer to discrimination against black women.
00:11:19.000According to the president of the NAACP pointing out that Gay participated in precisely the same activity that got Liz McGill fired.
00:11:37.000Plagiarism is just now another front for racism according to the DEI left.
00:11:43.000Any meritocratic system, any colorblind system, is now a front for racism if it has disproportionate effects, according to the equity crowd.
00:11:50.000Whether it's SAT scores, or grades, or criminal law, or drug law, or free speech, or property rights.
00:11:57.000Rig the game in favor of those who underachieve, pretending that underachievement is the fault of the meritocracy itself, and therefore giving benefits to those who underachieve is an attempt to break the racist system.
00:12:08.000And then when you're challenged, you claim that those who are pointing out shortcomings and failures, those people are racist and representatives of the corrupt and exploitative pseudo-meritocratic hierarchy.
00:12:30.000That is the game that Derek Johnson is playing when he attacks Bill Ackman, the private equity guru and Harvard alum who's been trying to fight anti-Semitism on campus.
00:12:38.000Ackman has been attacking anti-Semitism on campus at Harvard, at MIT, at UPenn.
00:12:43.000Well, Johnson is now accusing Ackman, who is a Democrat, by the way, of being a racist.
00:12:47.000Here's Johnson, quote, Ackman's statement on President Gay and equating diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to modern-day McCarthyism have nothing to do with combating anti-Semitism.
00:12:58.000Rather, says Johnson, Ackman is choosing to inflame anti-woke culture wars against the most visible black woman he could target.
00:13:05.000Yes, according to the DEI-friendly, to bow to Bill Ackman, again, a major Democratic donor, would be to bow to racism.
00:13:13.000Johnson is now even calling for a boycott against the businesses in which Ackman invests.
00:13:17.000Businesses, by the way, with a bevy of black employees.
00:13:19.000Quote, Ackman can be held accountable for his actions.
00:13:22.000His hedge fund, Pershing Square, is a major investor in Chipotle, Lowe's, Popeyes, and Burger King, among other major consumer brands.
00:13:29.000Black women have the power to decide whether these brands should continue to earn their patronage, and the boards and employees of these companies can speak up as well.
00:13:38.000The DEI lie has to be upheld at all costs.
00:13:41.000If it falls, so too does the theory that American meritocracy is itself evil.
00:14:26.000In just one second, we'll get to the latest on the war in Ukraine, where the Biden administration again is playing this weird political game they don't need to play first.
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00:16:00.000So, Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, visited the White House on Tuesday.
00:16:05.000He was attempting to garner support for more funding for the Ukraine war.
00:16:10.000Of course, Zelensky has been over-promising.
00:16:13.000He and the rest of NATO allies, they've been promising that an offensive against Russia would end up winning back the Donbass region as well as Crimea.
00:16:23.000And none of that has happened because basically you now have World War I trench warfare accompanied by a lot of drones.
00:16:29.000And so nothing is going to change along those borders.
00:16:33.000And so people had an outsized perception of what was possible in this area.
00:16:37.000Which means that on the pushback, Vladimir Putin now has a bit of an advantage.
00:16:41.000Now, that doesn't mean that Vladimir Putin hasn't been absolutely crippled by this war.
00:16:45.000According to a new report from CNN national security correspondent Katie Bolilas, who is herself reporting on a newly declassified US intelligence report, quote, some pretty staggering numbers.
00:16:56.000360,000 troops Russia sent into Ukraine initially and then made up their entire standing ground force prior to the invasion.
00:17:02.000Of that 360,000 troops, 315,000 were lost on the battlefield.
00:17:07.000That is an 87% loss of Russia's standing ground forces before the invasion.
00:17:12.000Now, Russia has been relying on, for example, the Wagner Group and a bunch of other sort of private militias in order to fill that gap.
00:17:20.000They've been conscripting people in large numbers.
00:17:24.000The basic Putin theory here is outlast the West and it's possible that he can outlast the West because the West, number one, has not made clear an off-ramp.
00:17:34.000Every war where the West does not make clear an off-ramp is a war that they end up losing.
00:17:40.000It is possible he can outlast the West because the Democrats are apparently more interested in political game
00:17:45.000than even in providing the funding that is necessary to Ukraine.
00:17:48.000They would rather blame Republicans for not getting the funding than actually get the funding.
00:18:41.000Okay, first of all, as always, the United States has interests distinct from those of any other country.
00:18:46.000Israel's interests are not always the United States' interests.
00:18:49.000Ukraine's interests are not always the United States' interests.
00:18:51.000We are a nation with our own national interest, obviously.
00:18:53.000Well, when it comes to the Ukraine war, the American national interest was in crippling the Russian military to prevent it from fighting future wars against NATO allies and breaking the NATO alliance.
00:19:02.000And for those who are sort of, there's this weird pattern that happens now that I've seen in foreign policy, which is when a nefarious power does a bad thing, we then immediately blame the institution that was standing in the way.
00:19:13.000When the drunk driver hits The old lady crossing the street would then blame the old lady for having been there.
00:20:27.000And yet the Democrats seem more interested in the virtue signaling than the actual funding for the thing they say they want, the Ukraine funding.
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00:22:06.000If what you mean is as long as it takes to free Donbass and Crimea, I don't agree with that because that's the thing that's not going to happen in the absence of simply handing Ukraine tremendous air power.
00:22:16.000It's not going to happen to change the situation on the ground.
00:22:19.000Here's John Kirby not articulating the endpoint.
00:22:47.000He's now attacking energy infrastructure with missiles and drones, trying to weaponize winter, and we know that his forces on the ground are trying to go on an offensive in the east.
00:22:55.000So there's no indication that he's slowing down.
00:22:58.000If Ukraine stops fighting, that's the end of Ukraine.
00:23:02.000Well, it's not about Ukraine stopping the fighting.
00:23:04.000It's about what exactly they're fighting over.
00:23:06.000Is it more territory in the Donbass or Crimea?
00:23:09.000If so, don't see exactly what you're offering up here.
00:23:11.000But again, I think a lot of this is now about posturing.
00:23:14.000So Joe Biden yesterday, he was speaking about Ukraine and he was like, well done, Republicans, the Russians love you.
00:23:20.000You know, we need to fully appreciate, fully appreciate how it's wrong, how this is being viewed around the world and being used by Russia.
00:23:30.000Russian loyalists to Moscow Celebrated when Republicans voted to block Ukraine's aid last week.
00:23:37.000The host of a Kremlin-run show literally said, and I quote, well done, Republicans.
00:23:58.000If you're being celebrated by Russian propagandists, It might be time to rethink what you're doing.
00:24:05.000Okay, or you could, you know, make a deal with the Republicans who do control the House and are hafties with you on the Senate.
00:24:13.000You could do that thing, but you're not doing that thing.
00:24:15.000And so instead, we now have an impasse.
00:24:17.000Again, this makes no political sense to me.
00:24:19.000Joe Biden won in 2020, at least the Democratic primaries and probably the presidency, because his appearance was that of a moderate, not because he ran to his hard left.
00:24:31.000That was his entire pitch was, I'm an old person and I'm not going to do anything transformational.
00:24:36.000Then, of course, he went into office and he started putting equity all over the federal government.
00:24:39.000He started spending unprecedented amounts of money and he undermined our national security by withdrawing in Afghanistan and all the rest that you know.
00:24:46.000But the thing that won him election last time was his supposed moderation.
00:24:50.000And now he's running directly away from that.
00:24:51.000And Republicans are offering him an off-ramp right here.
00:24:54.000Republicans, by basically saying to him, hey, you know what?
00:24:56.000Why don't you change border law, and then we'll give you the Ukraine aid?
00:25:01.000He can now go back to his leftist base and say, listen, I didn't want to do anything about the border, but Republicans forced me to it.
00:25:05.000And then he can go to middle America and say, hey, I did something about the border.
00:25:08.000Right, that is something he could do, but he's not doing it, which means that he's held hostage by his left-wing base, which is a weird thing to be held hostage by.
00:25:15.000Again, one of the issues where Donald Trump is going to hammer the living crap out of him if Trump is the nominee, which we presume he will be given the polls at this point.
00:25:23.000If Trump is the nominee, it doesn't even matter if it's if it's this answers Haley, they will hammer him over the border.
00:25:28.000Him being able to say, I changed border policy to try to stop the flood at the border would be a smart thing.
00:25:40.000So Mitch McConnell, who again, is pro-funding for Ukraine, he said, look, a deal is practically impossible if you're not going to budge on the border.
00:25:47.000All I have said is practically impossible, even though we reach an agreement to craft it, get it through the Senate, get it through the House before Christmas.
00:26:23.000But I don't think it is a radical proposition to say that if we're going to have a national security supplemental package, it ought to begin with our own national security first.
00:26:33.000And so I'll explain to him that while we understand that, I've made my position very clear, literally since the day I was handed the gavel, that we have to take care of our border first.
00:26:45.000Well, I mean, again, this is a very consensus position in the United States.
00:26:54.000And saying, sure, we'll give Ukraine more funding to prevent Russia from overrunning it, but also we're going to need to solidify our own border.
00:27:00.000Why is it the fact that this is even remotely controversial for Democrats?
00:28:11.000According to CBS News, the Biden administration on Tuesday indicated to congressional lawmakers who'd be willing to support a new border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as a dramatic expansion of immigration detention and deportations.
00:28:21.000to convince Republicans to back AIDS Ukraine, for people familiar with the matter, told CBS News.
00:28:25.000The White House informed Senate Democrats it could back those sweeping
00:28:28.000and hardline immigration policy changes as part of the negotiations
00:28:31.000over Biden's emergency funding request, a roughly $100 billion package
00:28:35.000that includes military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
00:28:39.000During a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, Biden said that his team is working with Senate Democrats
00:28:43.000and Republicans to try to find a bipartisan compromise, both in terms of changes in policy
00:28:48.000and to provide resources we need to secure the border.
00:28:51.000Apparently, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been deployed to engage with negotiators
00:29:15.000It would allow officials to pause U.S.
00:29:16.000asylum law without a public health justification.
00:29:19.000The administration would also back a nationwide expansion of a process known as expedited removal that allows immigration officials to deport migrants without court hearings if they don't ask for asylum or if they fail their initial asylum interviews.
00:29:30.000That program is currently limited to the border region.
00:29:32.000Moreover, the White House would be willing to mandate the detention of certain migrants who are allowed into the country pending the adjudication of their claims.
00:29:39.000Which, by the way, would amount to, wait for it, wait for it, kids in cages.
00:29:42.000Because it would amount to having families who are held in detention, but kids are not allowed to be held in detention, and so they would be exited.
00:29:51.000And so you would end up with either kids in cages with their families, or you would end up with kids separated from their parents who are in the cages, right?
00:29:57.000There is no easy way to do this without just closing the border, which is the thing that the Biden administration is not willing to do.
00:30:04.000With that said, these are actual concessions.
00:30:06.000Republicans should obviously ratchet those concessions the way that they want.
00:30:11.000And if the White House is willing to sign on to it, it'll actually be a good political move for them.
00:30:14.000I would not count on them making a good political move, however, because they're politically incompetent.
00:30:18.000Which brings us to the latest from the Israel-Hamas war.
00:30:22.000So yesterday, Joe Biden stepped in the doo-doo and then had to have his night nurse clean it up.
00:30:27.000So yesterday, he was speaking At AIPAC, apparently, or at the home of AIPAC president, former AIPAC president, Les Rosenberg.
00:30:36.000And he said that Israel was losing international support in its war against Hamas.
00:30:41.000So, first of all, who gives a flying international support?
00:30:46.000Abba Ibn, who is the former UN ambassador from Israel, he said that if there were a UN resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass 163 to 13 with 20 abstentions.
00:31:00.000I mean, that's basically what happened.
00:31:01.000Like yesterday, the UN General Assembly had a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:31:05.000It was supported, like 163, there were 10 votes against, and like 13 abstentions.
00:31:25.000By the way, Sudan's not even upset with them.
00:31:26.000Because they picked a country that didn't vote in favor of the non-ceasefire.
00:31:32.000Why would Israel be like, super, oh my gosh, oh no, what are we going to do if China doesn't support us killing terrorists in the Gaza Strip?
00:32:24.000It has what most of the world supporting them. But they're starting to lose that support by
00:32:27.000indiscriminate bombing that takes place. He's such he's such a dullard. Israel is not indiscriminately
00:32:33.000bombing Gaza. If Israel were indiscriminately bombing Gaza, you would not be talking about
00:32:37.00017,000, 18,000 people dead in Gaza, a huge percentage of them terrorists.
00:32:42.000You'd be talking about hundreds of thousands of people dead if Israel were indiscriminately bombing in Gaza.
00:32:46.000Israel has so far dropped approximately 22,000 bombs.
00:32:49.000Approximately 17,000 people have been killed according to Hamas statistics, which means that for every bomb drop, 0.77 people are being killed.
00:33:04.000It's ridiculous language from Biden and his team had to walk it back yesterday.
00:33:07.000The other thing that's ridiculous is Biden and the left continuing to play this game as though policy would be wildly different if the government were made up of somebody that didn't include Bitzalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gavir.
00:33:17.000This is a holdover from the judicial From the judicial reform nonsense in Israel.
00:33:23.000Is that, oh my gosh, if it were just a different government, will that government be so much more conciliatory toward the terrorist Palestinian Authority?
00:33:38.000You have to not know anything about Israeli politics to suggest that right now the drivers of the bus when it comes to the war cabinet in Israel are Itamar Ben-Gavir and Bezalel Smotrich.
00:33:50.000It's the equivalent of saying that right now, the people who have the most weight inside the Biden administration are Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell.
00:33:58.000It turns out that in this unity wartime cabinet, the people who have the most say right now are people like Benny Gantz, who's the leader of the opposition party.
00:34:07.000So what Biden here is saying is ridiculous, obviously.
00:34:11.000And again, he keeps saying these stupid things in the belief that if he sort of First, what do green eggs and your holiday family dinner have in common?
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00:35:39.000Also, you've heard me talk about how the elites think making Western society adopt multiculturalism is the only solution, when in fact it is the root cause of its breakdown.
00:35:47.000Our society is actively in a self-flagellating identity crisis.
00:35:50.000It is no wonder we are seeing so much civil unrest and authoritarianism on the left.
00:35:54.000Basic notions of right and wrong, justice, truth, reality thrown out the window.
00:35:57.000Some would say the world is coming to an end.
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00:36:42.000Meanwhile, again, the mixed signals being sent by the Biden administration on the Israel-Hamas war are very obvious and ridiculous.
00:36:48.000So, yesterday, Joe Biden was talking about the Israel-Hamas war, and he said, well, Israel has a duty to innocent Palestinians.
00:36:54.000Just going after Hamas, well, you know, that doesn't mean that they get to kill civilians.
00:36:59.000It is not Israel killing the civilians.
00:37:01.000Israel is the only party in this conflict that gives any dams at all about the civilian, which makes it so much harder for Israel to win.
00:37:07.000You know how insulting it is, what Biden is saying?
00:37:09.000So, yesterday, Israel lost 10 soldiers.
00:37:17.000I have friends in Israel who are going to Shiva calls, which are the morning calls, literally every day for soldiers who are being killed in Israel.
00:37:24.000Who are being killed right now in the Gaza Strip.
00:37:26.000The only reason those soldiers are dying is because Israel is not using its own unbridled power in order to finish off Hamas.
00:37:32.000Israel is instead putting its own sons and daughters in harm's way.
00:37:36.000They're putting them in urban, street-to-street fighting and warfare in a... in a...
00:37:41.000Really rough and difficult attempt to distinguish Hamasniks from actual civilians.
00:37:47.000Because one of the things Hamasniks love to do is shield themselves with actual civilians, which is why there's plenty of video available of Hamas literally shooting civilians as they attempt to escape war zones.
00:37:56.000It's why Hamas is firing rockets from civilian designated sites.
00:38:00.000It's why they use UN depots in order to fire rockets.
00:38:04.000While Joe Biden is doing this ridiculous routine about how Israel is being indiscriminate, and Israel, meanwhile, is putting its own soldiers in harm's way, I'd like to show you a video.
00:38:42.000This is what actual urban combat looks like.
00:38:44.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden's like, oh, they're being indiscriminate.
00:38:47.000It is so insulting to what the Israeli soldiers are doing right now.
00:38:50.000It would be similarly insulting if we said that, by the way, it was insulting when Barack Obama, back in 2008, you'll recall, actually suggested That America was indiscriminately bombing civilians in Afghanistan.
00:39:03.000It was deeply insulting to American soldiers who were instead going house to house risking their own lives not to kill civilians, many of whom were being used as human shields by terrorists.
00:39:14.000This sort of stuff is, it's war talk for people who literally know nothing about war.
00:39:19.000That is what Joe Biden is doing right here.
00:39:22.000When Joe Biden says Israel is being indiscriminate, He is, honestly, he's doing humiliation to the dead Israeli soldiers who are going house to house right now in the Gaza Strip, many of them coming out wounded for life or dead.
00:39:34.000Anyway, here's Joe Biden doing this ridiculous routine.
00:39:37.000It doesn't lessen the responsibility going after Hamas to innocent Palestinians and Hamas.
00:39:48.000There's this entire notion that Israel is not attempting to minimize civilian casualties while its own people are being killed is insane.
00:39:56.000Israel's been doing this for 30 years since Oslo, and it is the roughest job.
00:40:01.000Counterinsurgency is the roughest job in the military, any military, and Israel's been doing it for 30 years and getting, again, its own 18, 19, 20-year-old son and daughters killed by going into these areas specifically in an attempt to avoid civilian casualties.
00:40:13.000And then you have this old doddering fool.
00:40:18.000Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, he said that he would carry Joe Biden's concerns about the duration of the conflict when he travels to Israel later this week.
00:40:26.000Quote, I will certainly be talking to Prime Minister Netanyahu and the War Cabinet and the senior national security leadership about timetables, about how they're thinking about that.
00:40:33.000The subject of how they're seeing the timetable of this war will certainly be on the agenda for all of my meetings.
00:40:37.000So I would just like to point out right here that the White House position when it comes to Ukraine Has been as long as it takes with as much as it takes without any endpoint knowing that the border is not going to move in Donbass and Crimea.
00:40:50.000They've been doing this in Ukraine since February of 2022.
00:41:25.000The difference is the left-wing pressure when it comes to Israel is significantly larger than the left-wing pressure when it comes to Ukraine.
00:41:32.000By the way, I just should point out at this point that literally the only reason why the left is supportive of Ukraine as opposed to Russia is because of Russiagate in 2016.
00:41:40.000It is the only reason when Barack Obama was president, the left was supportive of Russia.
00:41:46.000When Barack Obama was president, he was making concessions to Russia, in Syria, in Crimea, in the Donbass.
00:41:53.000And the entire left was like, is Putin a bad guy?
00:42:43.000But what's amazing about this, to get back to the Israel situation, is that the same people who are saying no timetable on Ukraine ever, no timetable, keep it going forever.
00:42:51.000Those same people are like, it's been two months in Israel.
00:43:08.000Meanwhile, the media doing the work of Hamas.
00:43:12.000It is truly incredible how the media's dedication to the fundamental principle, which is that if you are an unsuccessful nation, if you are a nation that is rife with terror, if you are a nation that is rife with anti-Americanism, somehow there must be something good about you.
00:43:27.000And somehow, if you are a more powerful nation that has built up its military and has guaranteed rights for its own citizens, that somehow you're the victimizer.
00:43:35.000I mean, here is a CNN anchor Now again, no one has ever done this in a war before.
00:43:47.000This was not done during the ISIS war.
00:43:48.000Nobody's like, oh my God, how many people are getting killed in the ISIS war?
00:43:52.000This wasn't even talked about really during the Afghan or the Iraq war.
00:43:56.000But suddenly when Israel has to take an action in order to maintain its own security for the future after the worst terror attack in its history, then all of a sudden it's like, oh my God, this is too many people getting killed.
00:44:05.000It doesn't matter, by the way, how many of them are terrorists, according to CNN.
00:44:10.000On the question of Biden suggesting that Israel is losing global support, does that influence the thinking of the Israeli government in any way?
00:44:21.000I think it's become clear, given what the UN Security Council tried to push forward this weekend that the U.S.
00:44:27.000blocked, That the world is not okay with the 18,000 plus people that have been reported killed, many of them women and children in Gaza.
00:44:37.000Does this in any way alter what Israel is trying to accomplish or at least the way that it approaches its war with Hamas?
00:44:46.000Well, first of all, the UN is a strange place and there's an automatic, as you know, Boris, there's an automatic anti-Israel majority there at the United Nations.
00:45:13.000In doing so, in parallel, we have to do everything we can to safeguard Gazan civilians, and we have to do everything we can to make sure they get the aid that they need.
00:45:25.000By the way, worth noting right here, that again, zero people would be dying if Hamas just surrendered.
00:45:31.000Hamas will not surrender and so people will continue to die.
00:45:35.000Meanwhile, while the West continues to vacillate and the West continues to pretend that terrorists are not terrorists and that evil people are not evil, the Houthis continue to ratchet up all of the problems with shipping throughout the Middle East.
00:45:45.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Yemen's Houthi forces have attacked several commercial ships crossing through the Bab el-Mandab Strait in recent days, creating a new front in the battle between Israel and Hamas, complicating efforts by the United States and its allies to secure that critical shipping lane.
00:45:58.000Houthi rebels claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a strike on the Norwegian tanker Strinda a day earlier off Yemen's coast, as the Iranian ally escalates attacks to disrupt the flow of cargoes in response to fighting in Gaza.
00:46:08.000Now, can I just point out here that Western military power compared to Houthi pirates or a bunch of ill-armed dolts?
00:46:38.000And the answer is because he wouldn't want to convey to the Iranians that we are militant.
00:46:42.000Meanwhile, Iran is at war with the United States.
00:46:45.000It doesn't mean that we have to go in and do regime change.
00:46:48.000It doesn't mean that we need to go bomb Tehran.
00:46:51.000It doesn't mean that we have allies inside the regime that would be capable of handling the place if we were to bomb Tehran.
00:46:55.000What it does mean is its proxy groups are pinpricks compared to the power of Western military might, and we're letting them hold up shipping.
00:47:03.000And that will cost people money, by the way.
00:47:05.000We can pretend that none of this has any real-world effect, but the reality is that that Bob Elmond abstract, the place that the Houthis are running around hijacking ships and firing things at them, that is the route by which 10% of literally all global trade passes.
00:47:16.000The United States, other Western powers, they have to be blowing the Houthis out of the water when they do that.
00:47:20.000Instead, they're all fussing around, oh, is it really a problem?
00:48:11.000Apparently a senior member of Hamas Also left his usual residence in Beirut for Turkey.
00:48:17.000So Hamas is so much on the run from Assad that they're now leaving countries that they feel are vulnerable in favor of presumably Iran and Turkey.
00:48:24.000Speaking of which, a Turkish lawmaker yesterday, he was preaching against Israel and he started screaming about how Israel will not be able to escape the wrath of God and then things went wrong for him.
00:48:36.000He's saying the truth will not be silent if only you could be saved from the torment of history.
00:48:47.000You cannot be saved from the wrath of Allah.
00:49:01.000Just to point out that the Turkish government is one of the leading terror sponsors in the Middle East, while being a NATO member.
00:49:07.000You want to talk about the uselessness of NATO?
00:49:10.000Stop talking about Ukraine, start talking about Turkey, which is indeed a disaster area of a country.
00:49:16.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is continuing to have all sorts of trouble on the economy.
00:49:20.000The new inflation report is out, and it is not particularly good.
00:49:24.000According to Breitbart, the inflation report released Tuesday is unlikely to do much to support the idea that Bidenomics has been a boon for the American economy.
00:49:30.000The Consumer Price Index climbed 0.1% on a monthly basis, an acceleration from being flat in October.
00:49:38.000Now, remember, we are supposed to be seeking a 2% rate of increase.
00:49:42.000So 3 looks good when compared to, you know, what it was, 10.
00:49:43.000But it still looks really bad when compared to 2.
00:49:46.000It is fully 50% off the number that you're looking for.
00:49:51.000Biden supporters and many in the establishment financial media are saying that this is well below 9%, but let's just point out that inflation fell to 3.1% annualized in June, and then spent the next four months rising again, and now is back at 3.1%, and it is all baked into the cake.
00:50:07.000It is not as though when inflation, the rate of inflation goes to 3%, that means that the prices are going back down.
00:50:16.000This is why Joe Biden remains an unpopular president.
00:50:18.000Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, I love that he continues to promote the idea that inflation is a result of corporate evil or something, as opposed to, you know, shooting money into the American economy like you're a strip club.
00:50:33.000Here is Sherrod Brown doing his routine.
00:50:35.000John stands up to the meatpacking interest.
00:50:37.000He knows what that does to food prices, and he knows what it does to farmers' wages.
00:50:41.000And the same that I stand up to Wall Street and stand up to drug companies.
00:50:45.000And voters don't carry your party if you're standing up for an interest group that's screwing over people.
00:50:51.000And when people go to the grocery store, frankly, their grocery prices go up because they're paying for executive bonuses and stock buybacks.
00:51:02.000Well, I mean, actually voters are not going to blame inflation on corporate buybacks.
00:51:11.000That is a dog that is not going to hunt by any stretch of the imagination.
00:51:15.000As Axios notes, Overall CPI rose 0.1% in November as dropping gasoline prices dragged the overall index down.
00:51:22.000But while the headline drifts steadily lower, the core measure is stuck beneath the surface.
00:51:26.000By some measures, it's pushing higher.
00:51:28.000The index rose at a 3.4% annualized pace over the past three months.
00:51:32.000As recently as August, it was 2.4% by that measure.
00:51:36.000So, again, the idea that the Fed is about ready to lower the interest rates again, that obviously is untrue.
00:51:42.000And Democrats are looking for somebody to blame for their own failures.
00:51:44.000Here's Janet Yellen, who has been a terrible Treasury Secretary, blaming COVID for the continuing inflation and the stagnating economy.
00:51:52.000Why do you think there is this disconnect?
00:51:54.000And are you concerned about the fact that the administration's message around Bidenomics isn't landing?