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00:00:51.000The No Kings rallies apparently happened over the course of Saturday with 7 million protesters, nearly all of them, members of the AARP, gathering around the nation in order to protest kings.
00:01:02.000Now, you may have noticed we don't actually have kings here in the United States.
00:01:07.000And no matter what you think of Donald Trump, Donald Trump has actually been subject to the dictates of Congress.
00:01:12.000He has been subject to the dictates of courts.
00:01:14.000There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the president of the United States from simply instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country.
00:01:22.000And one of the most amusing things about these quote-unquote no kings rallies is the supposition by the left that somehow they are opposed to grand expansions of executive power.
00:01:35.000I'm old enough to remember Barack Obama.
00:01:37.000I'm old enough to remember Joe Biden, who literally tried to use the occupational safety and health organization, that agency, in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans, and we had to sue to stop him.
00:01:50.000I'm old enough to remember the Biden administration because I'm more than two years old.
00:01:54.000And I remember President Biden literally telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from simply getting rid of student loans, he would just go around them and find another way to do it.
00:02:06.000The idea that somehow people who are opposed to Donald Trump are not opposed to him because of specific policies, but based on a sort of broader rubric of anti-executive power is just ridiculous.
00:02:17.000It is the Democratic Party in the United States, which writ large has expanded the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century since the progressive era.
00:02:27.000Going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson, the expansion of the executive branch of government has been nonstop.
00:02:33.000It has sort of paused sometimes under some Republicans.
00:02:39.000And when it comes to the modern Democratic Party, the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states, or that they want to delegate power back to Congress, it's a lie.
00:02:46.000As soon as a Democrat is in power, they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States.
00:02:51.000The very premise of these No Kings rallies, just silly.
00:02:57.000And it is worth noting that again, disproportionately old white people, very, very old, very, very white people.
00:03:04.000According to Axios, according to a statement from the No Kings protest organizers, Saturday's turnout was one of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history, with over two million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year.
00:03:17.000And you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June.
00:03:20.000Oh, wait, you don't, you forgot already.
00:03:22.000You forgot already because it didn't matter at all.
00:03:30.000More than 2,700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday, as well as several internationally, including in London, Paris, Rome, and Lisbon and Portugal.
00:03:39.000I do get a kick, I will admit, out of places that actually have kings saying that they're going to have no kings rallies.
00:03:47.000Like they had a no kings rally in London.
00:03:50.000There is like right this very instant, a king of the UK.
00:03:55.000Like that, that is a thing that exists.
00:03:58.000Organizing groups included the ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, which of course relies heavily on the expansion of federal power, human rights campaign, indivisible, and move on.
00:04:09.000Move on's executive director said in a Saturday statement, quote, across cities and towns, large and small, rural and suburban, in red areas and in blue areas, millions of us are peacefully coming together for the no kings to send a clear and unmistakable message that power belongs to the people.
00:04:24.000So, you know, does this make any sort of real difference?
00:04:27.000I mean, not really, because frankly, these rallies are kind of faintly ridiculous.
00:04:32.000I mean, if you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts, or dressed up as Superman in New York City, or dressed up as inflatable chickens in New York as well, you think to yourself, I don't think these are the folks who are who are going to change America in any real way.
00:04:52.000And that's putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the president of the United States or against people on the right wing.
00:05:01.000Those people were in a plentiful supply.
00:05:05.000They spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers.
00:05:09.000And we're all supposed to pretend, of course, that that never happened.
00:05:13.000That speaking alongside terror supporters, for example, people who despise the country.
00:05:18.000If you're a politician, like say Bernie Sanders, or if you're a politician, like say Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece, Medi Hassan, or you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism, that's not a big deal.
00:06:20.000I said it's hard to hear you, but tell me what brings you out and and to be inside this high unicorn costume today.
00:06:27.000Well, we're here to represent the loving, hardworking community of Los Angeles.
00:06:33.000We're here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power, and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.
00:06:49.000I've never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn.
00:06:55.000Well, I mean, first of all, I don't think that's true because I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns, to be fair.
00:07:03.000But it is really an impressive, it was an impressive showing, a truly impressive showing with great intellect arriving.
00:07:09.000People like, for example, John Cusack, who took some time off from his wild anti-Semitism, to rip into President Trump.
00:07:17.000Uh I I need to hear from the guy who was last relevant when he was standing outside an apartment complex holding a boom box in a movie from the 1990s.
00:07:35.000Uh what's interesting is that he he doesn't understand that all the labor rights around the world came from this town, this place.
00:07:44.000So if he thinks this place is going to be a fascist hub, no chance.
00:07:48.000I definitely needed advice from that guy, who again was last relevant in Say Anything And I'm wrong.
00:07:56.000It wasn't the 1990s, I'm getting old, it was 1989.
00:07:59.000But if you thought that that was the only old actor who showed up to pay tribute to the No Kings rally, I present to you, Robert De Niro, who seems to have chosen poorly when he drank from his choice of holy grails.
00:08:12.000He is now aging extraordinarily rapidly and also apparently turning into a hobbit.
00:08:19.000Robert De Niro appeared also on MSNBC.
00:08:22.000Again, MSNBC's wall-to-wall coverage with this blanket coverage of this, earned them, I assume zero viewers, which would probably be a slight improvement from their normal viewership.
00:08:31.000And uh he praised Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, for saying F you to Trump, which she may be saying from jail soon, depending on how her mortgage falsification case goes.
00:09:24.000Are you really, really, really inspired?
00:09:27.000I do have to just say, as a matter of Hollywood career choices, Robert De Niro went from the star of Godfather to a person who was most recently starring in, and I need to actually get his IMDB to look up his latest films, Robert De Niro, because he has had a massive falling off, shall we say.
00:09:47.000He is he's going to be starring, I believe, in a his last movie that he was in was apparently a movie called Tin Soldier.
00:09:56.000It has a 3.3 star rating on IMDB, which I did not even know was possible.
00:10:05.000Things are going well for in Robert De Nero.
00:10:07.000But he also had comments about Steven Miller because there's nothing quite like Robert De Niro calling Stephen Miller, who happens to be Jewish a Nazi.
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00:14:05.000Really, nothing says, honestly, hating fascism and hating journey, quite like attending rallies sponsored in New York City by the Communist Party USA, which was apparently one of the sponsoring organizations for the No Kings rally in New York City.
00:14:18.000Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, who may remain so, by the way.
00:14:22.000The math seems to be moving pretty quickly against the Democrats, even in the House, which is quite astonishing.
00:14:54.000Well, the so-called White House press secretary is an unhinged disgrace.
00:14:59.000Uh if she's open in her mouth, it means that she's lying.
00:15:02.000And clearly uh we've seen that in this context.
00:15:05.000The protests that are going to take place today, the peaceful expression of dissent is entirely consistent with the American way.
00:15:14.000In fact, it's as American as motherhood, baseball, and apple pie.
00:15:18.000It's what the framers of this constitution envision.
00:15:24.000I mean, first of all, I think that he's gonna need a waiver from his own party to talk about motherhood.
00:15:28.000Because motherhood is not exactly in fine fettle with the Democratic Party, the party of abortion, and also sometimes there are pregnant men.
00:15:35.000But in any case, the top-level Democrats showed up to really enjoy themselves.
00:15:41.000Elizabeth Warren, yeah, she's still kicking around.
00:15:44.000And so uh she apparently left her teepee for a brief moment in time to talk about persisting.
00:15:51.000She she says that she is persisting, which technically she is.
00:16:38.000I can't believe she's still trying to make fetch happen.
00:16:40.000Remember the still she persisted thing?
00:16:42.000Yeah, that's back when she was running for president.
00:16:44.000Yeah, she tried that still we persisted routine in 2020, and it failed so badly that she was defeated by a dead man.
00:16:50.000Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries and had to drop out early on in the race.
00:16:54.000But wait, I have more old white people talking to you about resisting kings.
00:16:58.000I have for you, for example, a man who has never met a tyrant he does not love, Bernie Sanders, saying that he is he's at these rallies because he loves America.
00:17:07.000Now, when I hear people like Bernie Sanders say they love America, what about America is it that Bernie Sanders would say that he loves precisely?
00:18:39.000We're here because we're going to do everything we can to honor the sacrifices of millions of men and women who over the last two hundred and fifty years fought and sometimes died.
00:19:07.000And nothing you do can make me take him seriously because he's not a serious person.
00:19:10.000And the fact the Democratic Party has elevated him as an ideological thought leader after spending his entire life being a useless pushule on the ass of American society, it's it's absolutely beyond me.
00:19:27.000She's from Minnesota, and here she was talking about resolute joy on Wait for Wait, on MSNBC, yes.
00:19:33.000Yes, the only network that seemed to care about this.
00:19:37.000Downtown Minneapolis was filled uh with people, all different kinds of people from all different um all different ages and backgrounds.
00:19:45.000And I would say that there was a feeling of like resoluteness and also real joy and and real sense of solidarity as as we came together.
00:19:55.000And I honestly think the way that uh President Trump and some of his friends were uh basically trash talking, the folks that were gonna show up at these um uh at these rallies really encouraged more people to show up.
00:20:09.000There was nothing, um it was it was a very patriotic feeling, lots of flags, and it it gave me a real boost.
00:20:16.000Just incredible levels of joy, just tremendous, tremendous joy, I think.
00:20:20.000Like really, really lots of like sure.
00:20:24.000I mean, it was a bunch of people who kept clapping on one and three instead of two and four, because it's really, really white, but lots of joy happening out there.
00:20:31.000By the way, you heard Bernie Sanders there talk about how much these people loved America.
00:20:36.000Well, that there were a lot of flags, actually, at these No Kings rallies.
00:20:40.000I I would say there there were a shocking number of non-American flags.
00:20:44.000Over the Washington DC rally, there was a giant Palestinian flag in solidarity with Hamas, of course.
00:20:49.000And then, of course, over in Los Angeles, there were tons of Mexican flags.
00:20:52.000There were some American flags, but lots and lots of Mexican flags in LA.
00:20:55.000So many, actually, that the CNN reporter noted it.
00:21:00.000A lot of what I'm seeing that I find interesting, aside from the funny costumes from the blow of costumes, a la what we've seen uh around in Portland uh over the past few weeks.
00:21:12.000We're seeing a lot of Mexican and Mexican American flags like this one right here.
00:21:16.000I'm sorry, I'm just gonna show your flag for a second.
00:21:22.000Um Ecuadorian flags, half Ecuadorian, half American flags.
00:21:27.000A lot of people here are saying that they are so proud of their heritage, whatever it is from whatever country from Latin America they are, but that they're also very much proud Americans, and that this is an exercise in patriotism.
00:21:43.000And there's the right behind her is the giant Palestinian flag in in LA.
00:21:46.000So lots of flags that are not particularly American at these Love America rallies.
00:21:50.000Uh, Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, who again, old white people, man.
00:21:55.000He decided that he was gonna give a speech while donning a trans flag.
00:22:01.000The abolitionist movement right here, the suffragette movement right here, the same-sex marriage movement right here, the universal health care movement right here.
00:22:30.000Well, JP Pritzgard in Chicago joined the protesters as well.
00:22:33.000This is the would-be presidential candidate from Illinois, who typically has to be lowered into these things by Crane.
00:22:39.000He is trying to lose a little bit of weight.
00:22:40.000This is what people do when they want to run for president of the United States.
00:22:42.000So he showed up to uh to stand in front of a bunch of signs, including an F ice sign, which is really, really nice, right behind him, like literally right behind him, which is really nice.
00:24:02.000Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative as a slot, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.
00:24:09.000No plan for Palestinian statehood, no plan for justice for the Palestinians who have been massacred and starved and genocided and ethnically cleansed for the past two years, including the past nine months of his presidency.
00:24:24.000Meanwhile, Israel for the past week has violated the ceasefire again and again, killing Palestinians with impunity.
00:24:30.000Yesterday they killed seven Palestinian children during the ceasefire.
00:24:37.000There is no peace in the Middle East because Dr. King said peace is not just the absence of violence.
00:24:44.000I need to hear about this from a British born citizen who was on the Qatari payroll as a member of the Al Jazeera staff for legitimately about a decade.
00:24:57.000He also appeared, Medi Hassan, alongside people like Bernie Sanders, alongside Chris Murphy, and alongside a person named Affenny Evans, a Washington-based DC activist who embraces causes, including, for example, support for Hamas and Marxism.
00:25:15.000According to the Washington Freebeacon, Evans, who No King's organizers listed as an impacted activist over her arrest in August for evading subway fare, has condoned her downplayed various acts of political violence.
00:25:25.000She mocked calls for sympathy for Charlie Kirk.
00:25:28.000She said at the time, if you want me to feel bad for that bleep, I can't, I won't, I can't.
00:25:34.000She said, We live in the most fascistic country in the effing world.
00:25:37.000She probably loves America also, if any Evans.
00:25:40.000She also refers to Israel as the imaginary state.
00:25:42.000And on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, said, quote, occupied people have a right to self-defense.
00:25:48.000And mocks President Trump's injury when he was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt as a quote, little ear piercing.
00:25:58.000I mean, I'm glad that we had all these mainstream Democrats appearing alongside all of these crazy people and radical people.
00:26:06.000And that was fitting because some of the elected Democrats are in fact crazy and radical people, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, one of the only non-white people to speak at one of these rallies.
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00:28:22.000Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who has an approval rating lower than cancer.
00:28:27.000He says that President Trump is somehow a king shifting money to the wealthy, as opposed to the mayor of Chicago, making sure that as many people can be shot in the streets as humanly possible.
00:28:40.000Donald Trump just shifted the largest concentration of upward wealth into the hands of the ultra-rich and large corporations in the history of this country.
00:28:58.000This is a fight for working people across this country and across this globe to stand up to do your name in the entrance of corporate.
00:29:11.000And uh he has a sign next to him that has ice crossed out.
00:29:15.000Because if nothing says I love America, like going after the immigration and customs enforcement agency that ensures that people can't willy-nilly simply cross our borders.
00:29:26.000Now, were these protests just a bunch of moderates who are upset at the excesses of the Trump administration?
00:29:32.000Or were a lot of people who shut up kind of nutty?
00:29:33.000Well, we do have some nuts in the crowd, at the very least here, for example, is one no kings protester saying, sure, I'd kill Steven Miller.
00:30:14.000Over in Portland, things got rather feisty as well.
00:30:18.000Here's what it looked like over in Portland.
00:30:34.000See, there are people on the roof apparently having to fire rubber bullets or paintballs at people to get them to back off from the police.
00:30:43.000Just to like put Portland filled with delightful people.
00:30:46.000The president has no reason possibly to send in federal forces to ensure the enforcement of the law.
00:30:52.000Meanwhile, one no kings protester, who it turns out is actually a teacher, because this is the kind of person you want teaching your kids at a public school, apparently.
00:31:00.000Uh here she is making a motion that is a direct reference to the murder of Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck.
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00:37:06.000If Slivo stays in the race, Mamdani takes 43.2% of the vote.
00:37:11.000Cuomo takes 28.9% and 19.4% for Sliwa.
00:37:16.000If he drops out, then apparently Mamdani is at 44.6% and 41% are with Cuomo, which is within the margin of error.
00:37:28.000Apparently, the findings show 78% of undecided city voters are 50 or older.
00:37:33.000Because older New Yorkers back Cuomo, that actually cuts in favor of Andrew Cuomo.
00:37:39.000So Curtis should get out as the spoiler.
00:37:42.000I appreciate him trying to the best he can.
00:37:43.000He's not going to be the mayor, so now it's time to get out because Zoran Mamdani is a full-scale disaster area.
00:37:49.000And while I, as a Floridian, I won't say I'm rooting for disaster in New York, but let's just say that I've purchased a little more real estate down here in the expectation of the prices rising as we get people fleeing who still pay taxes.
00:38:01.000But I still actually like the country and would like to see New York not governed by a terrorist supporting Marxist.
00:38:09.000When I say he's a terrorist supporting Marxist, I mean that absolutely literally.
00:38:13.000According to the New York Post editorial board, Zoran Mamdani visited on Friday Mastied At Takwa, the Bedvoy Stuyvesant Mosque of Imam Siraj Wahaj.
00:38:25.000Prosecutors list Wahaj as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
00:38:30.000Many members of the plot were members of his mosque.
00:38:33.000He even publicly defended the conspirators and insisted the FBI and CIA were somehow the real terrorists.
00:38:38.000He testified in open support of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, that is the blind sheikh who was linked to multiple terror attacks and convicted in the 1993 plot to bomb multiple New York City landmarks.
00:38:50.000Apparently, Mamdani showed up to deliver a smiling selfie, and that that's after I guess that what?
00:38:56.000If Andrew Cuomo had gone there and delivered a smiling selfie with a terrorist supporter, that somehow that'd been better because Mamdani, you remember, chided Cuomo on stage for not being able to name the mosques he had visited, which I didn't actually realize is a prereq to becoming mayor of New York, was naming the mosques you have visited.
00:39:11.000By the way, I don't think that you should have to name the synagogues you visited either as a prereq to becoming the mayor of New York.
00:39:17.000It seems like not being pro-terrorism or pro-communism would be good starters, not being pro-crime and pro-prostitution, that might be a good starter.
00:39:25.000Daniela Greenbaum Davis, who's written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, among others.
00:39:31.000She points out everyone knows Mamdani as a DSA socialist from Queens.
00:39:35.000What's less well known is that his entire political network traces back to Linda Sarsour, who of course is a longtime terror supporter, and her mentor, Imam Saraj Wahaj.
00:39:44.000In 2018, Sarsur placed Mamdani on the board of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, her own vehicle to elect ideologically aligned Muslim candidates.
00:39:52.000That board also included a bunch of people who had passed rules in care or ICNA.
00:39:58.000Both groups that have been linked by various sources to support for Hamas.
00:40:03.000Sarsur called Wahaj, her mentor and Mamdani, her Habibti beloved in Arabic.
00:40:09.000And we just mentioned Wahaj a moment ago.
00:40:13.000So, yes, it turns out that all the accusations about Mamdani being warm toward the jihadis.
00:40:19.000Well, I mean, we could tell that from the things he was saying about globalizing the intifada and his unwillingness to say that Hamas should disarm.
00:40:24.000Turns out all of that is true, and the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this sort of stuff.
00:40:29.000Now again, we have had a bunch of conversations over the course of the past few days about people who you should and should not associate with in politics.
00:40:37.000You're a free human being, you get to make those choices.
00:40:39.000The fact the Democratic Party continues to massage Laur Mamdani as the future mayor of New York demonstrates a full-scale lack of capacity to think morally in any way.
00:40:51.000Hakeem Jeffries has not endorsed Mamdani, but he says, listen, I look forward to continuing the conversations.
00:41:09.000Well, as I've indicated, I expect uh to have a conversation with him at some point this week in advance of early voting, which begins next weekend in New York City.
00:41:19.000Uh and we'll certainly have more to say about the mayor's race uh and about our democratic nominee prior to early voting beginning.
00:41:33.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of Hamas and its supporters, Hamas has been violating the ceasefire that the presidents of the United States negotiated with a bunch of Arab countries, European countries, and Israel.
00:42:01.000All the calls for Israel to stop the carnage in Gaza and all the rest of this.
00:42:06.000The only force that was attempting to extirpate Hamas with any sort of efficacy in the Gaza Strip was the IDF.
00:42:13.000And when Israel pulls back to borders that are not inside some places like Gaza City, what happens?
00:42:19.000Hamas immediately starts to flex its muscle and literally pull people out into the streets and then shoot them to death.
00:42:23.000Hundreds of people over the course of the last week or so to complete deafening the silence from all the same people who are complaining about the human rights of Palestinians five seconds ago.
00:42:33.000When Hamas is putting bullets through skulls deliberately of its political opponents, everyone just goes quiet.
00:43:00.000So if you think of the Gaza Strip, for those who are not watching but listening, if you think of the Gaza Strip as sort of an off-kilter long rectangle, then there's a smaller, long rectangle that is inside that rectangle.
00:43:13.000That is the area that Israel is no longer operating within.
00:43:16.000And then there is sort of an edge border that ranges anywhere from a couple of miles to 0.9 miles wide, a sort of a sort of buffer zone all around that narrower area.
00:43:29.000Most of the population is in, of course, that narrower area.
00:43:34.000That by the way is not good for law-abiding Palestinians who actually wish to live in peace because Hamas is simply pulling people again out of houses and then murdering them.
00:43:45.000They've been sending their Hamas terrorists to the border areas, what's now called the Yellow Line.
00:43:53.000They're sending their soldiers there, and they killed two Israeli soldiers the other day.
00:43:57.000And Israel immediately responded because the only way that you ensure that a ceasefire holds up is if somebody violates the ceasefire, they have to be punished for it.
00:44:06.000And of course, this had all been pre-staged by the State Department, which on Saturday announced, according to the Daily Wire, that Hamas could soon violate the ceasefire agreement by attacking Gazans, not just Israelis.
00:44:16.000The State Department said in a statement, quote, the United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.
00:44:25.000This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through the mediation efforts.
00:44:34.000The guarantors demand Hamas uphold its obligations under the ceasefire terms.
00:44:38.000And the message says that if the attack does occur, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire.
00:44:44.000So it's not just a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
00:44:46.000The ceasefire is meant to guarantee the safety of Palestinians in the areas that Hamas is still active.
00:44:52.000One widely publicized video shows Hamas members dragging eight men into a public space and then just shooting them to death in front of everybody.
00:44:58.000Well, the president of the United States, he says, listen, if the place continues to be violent, we need to let people out.
00:45:06.000Here's the president of the United States the other day.
00:45:54.000Okay, well, again, the president of the United States is not wrong about that.
00:45:58.000Meanwhile, the vice president of the United States was asked about all of this, and he said, listen, there's no there's no security infrastructure in that interior envelope.
00:46:09.000Again, the president brokered this deal in order to provide for the possibility of safety, not just in that border zone, but the entirety of the Gaza Strip.
00:46:26.000And Palestinians who are living there will be safe because the Israelis are there.
00:46:30.000And presumably you will end up with other forces from UAE, from Indonesia, from Egypt, from Saudi coming in, and also helping to create a coalitional force in that area that prevents Hamas from taking over.
00:46:40.000The question is what happens in that internal envelope.
00:46:43.000And as the vice president says, that's going to take some time.
00:46:46.000And if there are violations of the ceasefire, somebody's gonna have to do something about it because otherwise Hamas is just going to reconstitute.
00:46:52.000Apparently, there reports that Hamas has been trying to find unexploded ordnance in the areas where it is still active and then unload those explosives into new forms in order to reuse them against Israelis and anyone else who is in that border area.
00:47:09.000Well, the president is actually making a very important point here, which is that we don't actually know even what the reality on the ground is there.
00:47:17.000I mean, we talk about Hamas, you're talking about 40 different cells.
00:47:21.000Some of those cells will probably honor the ceasefire.
00:47:24.000Many of those cells, as we saw some evidence of today, will not.
00:47:28.000Uh, we before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that's going to require, as we know, some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some some law and order and some security keeping on the ground.
00:47:43.000So it I think it would be kind of absurd for the president to say, well, Hamas is going to be disarmed three or four days from now.
00:47:49.000We don't even have the security infrastructure in place.
00:47:52.000We need the Gulf Arab states, our allies don't have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed until you actually go a little bit down the fur the path of this peace mission of this 20-point peace plan.
00:48:05.000We're not going to be able to say with confidence that everybody is doing everything that we want them to do.
00:48:11.000And again, that is the big thing that what J.D. Vince is saying right there, the vice president.
00:48:15.000What he's saying there is totally correct.
00:48:16.000In order for the interior envelope to be made safe, other countries are going to have to step up.
00:48:21.000If you don't want the Israelis in there doing the policing, then you need the Indonesians or the Saudis or the UAE or Qatar.
00:48:27.000Qatar, who spoke in such big things about their impact on peace.
00:48:30.000Qatar could any time help effectuate a peace by sending forces into the area it doesn't want the Israelis to operate in.
00:48:39.000In any case, what happened is the Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers.
00:48:42.000They killed two of them with an RPG, apparently.
00:48:44.000And Israel immediately responded by bombing Hamas terror tunnels that it still knows are in those particular areas.
00:48:50.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel conducted dozens of airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday and halted humanitarian aid into that enclave after it accused Hamas of killing troops inside the Israeli-controlled areas and what is shaping up to be the biggest test yet of the fragile ceasefire.
00:49:03.000Well, again, the question about the ceasefire is going to be who disarms Hamas.
00:49:06.000That was always going to be the question.
00:49:07.000But there is, in fact, a ceasefire that has been effectuated in that 58% that Israel controls.
00:49:13.000That area, aid is being shipped into that area.
00:49:16.000Palestinians who wish to actually live in peace and security are being able to move into that area so long as they are not associated with Hamas.
00:49:26.000But Israel said we're not shipping in humanitarian aid to those other areas that Hamas is shooting people in.
00:49:33.000As soon as they retaliated, then they stopped.
00:49:36.000Israel's military said Sunday evening it had begun reinforcing the ceasefire after the air strikes.
00:49:41.000Hamas is trying to pretend that they're not violating the ceasefire.
00:49:45.000But it is Hamas violating the ceasefire, because again, the onus is on Hamas to disarm, and Hamas has no intention of disarming at this point.
00:49:51.000Somebody's going to have to make them do it.
00:49:52.000And the question is whether anyone will.
00:49:56.000As we say, the vice president is expected to visit Israel this week as part of a push by the Trump administration for the implementation of that agreement.
00:50:03.000Also, Steve Whitkoff, the White House envoy, is expected to travel to the Middle East on Sunday to follow up on the implementation for the deal to end the war.
00:50:11.000Dan is apparently leading the U.S. delegation.
00:50:13.000He will be arriving on Tuesday and staying until Thursday.
00:50:15.000He'll be meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel.
00:50:18.000He'll also be meeting with the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, who doesn't have a lot of technical power inside the Israeli government.
00:50:25.000It's sort of a more ceremonial post, but he, of course, is an important figure in Israel.
00:50:29.000And then Whitkoff and Kushner are expected to travel to Israel as well.
00:50:32.000Now, again, a lot of this is predicated on the idea that there will be a rebuilding in the Gaza Strip.
00:50:37.000The reason why I remain optimistic about the ceasefire here is because the administration, the Trump administration, is very invested on like a monetary level in ensuring that the lives of Gazans get better and that people be able to invest in this area.
00:50:55.000The reason that Trump has broken so many of the gridlocks in the Middle East is because he thinks in terms of real estate.
00:51:02.000And what he thinks is okay, that yellow area of the Gaza Strip, the so-called green zone now that Israel controls and that will eventually become part of the interim security force.
00:51:11.000That area, if it's safe, can be a good place for people to work and for people to build and for people to live and for people to be educated, not in Hamas textbooks or run by the UNRWA, which is a Hamas front group, but instead can actually become the seedbed for something significantly better.
00:51:29.000And if there is some sort of security force that is non-Israeli that can go into the Hamas occupied areas of the Gaza Strip, given the fact that Hamas will not disarm, and that was one of the main points of the peace plan, then that will have to happen.
00:51:43.000And President Trump is saying to these Arab countries and to the Europeans as well listen, you don't want the Israelis in there.
00:51:51.000Because otherwise, ain't no investment going to get done.
00:51:54.000You cannot invest in building a hotel in the Gaza Strip, even in that yellow area controlled by Israel right now, but hopefully in the future by interim security forces.
00:52:02.000You can't build a hotel there with any sense of real complacency or security unless you know that 500 feet away, Hamas isn't rebuilding to attack you.
00:52:13.000So that is the current state of play in the Gaza Strip.
00:52:16.000People, I think are significantly too pessimistic about what's happening over there.
00:52:19.000Of course, Hamas was going to violate the ceasefire.
00:52:21.000Of course, Hamas is going to try to hang on to power.
00:52:23.000The president has made clear that he and America's allies, including Saudi Arabia and UAE, and yes, if Qatar wishes to be useful, Qatar are going to have to actually get active because either them or it's the Israelis.
00:52:37.000There's no third choice where Hamas simply continues to rule in that area of the Gaza Strip.
00:52:42.000Meanwhile, in less salutary news, the President of the United States is apparently attempting to browbeat Vladimir Zelensky into taking some sort of deal in the Ukraine war.
00:52:54.000According to the Financial Times, President Trump apparently urged Vladimir Zelensky to accept Vladimir Putin's terms or be destroyed by Russia.
00:53:06.000Apparently, the meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a shouting match, according to people familiar with the matter, we'll have to see if the Trump administration denies this or Zelensky denies this.
00:53:17.000They added the U.S. president tossed aside maps of the front line in Ukraine and insisted Zelensky surrendered the entire Donbass region to Putin and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
00:53:32.000However, Trump apparently later endorsed a freeze of the current front lines, which is the same position that the United States has been taking for nearly the entirety of the war.
00:53:43.000Zelensky and his team went to the White House hoping to persuade Trump to supply them a long-range Tomhawk cruise missiles.
00:53:48.000Apparently, the president ultimately declined to do so.
00:53:51.000During Friday's meeting, according to European officials briefed on the meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin's talking points verbatim.
00:53:58.000Even when they contradicted his own recent Statements about Russia's weakness.
00:54:02.000The official said Trump told Zelensky he was losing the war warning, quote, if Putin wants it, he will destroy you.
00:54:08.000He also said that Russia's economy is doing great.
00:54:11.000Now again, we don't know here what is true or who is leaking.
00:54:16.000Trump told Fox News on Sunday he was confident about securing an end to the conflict.
00:54:19.000He added that Putin was, quote, going to take something.
00:54:23.000Putin made a new offer to Trump on Thursday, under which Ukraine would surrender the parts of eastern Donbass region under its control in exchange for some small areas of two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizh.
00:54:35.000Zelensky said he wasn't even understanding what the Russians were willing to give up in those regions.
00:54:40.000Now, again, over eagerness for a deal is a sin in diplomacy.
00:54:45.000Obviously, Vladimir Putin has been upping the ante consistently since President Trump met with him in Alaska.
00:54:51.000As we know from the Middle East, and is just true generally in foreign policy, there is no substitute for strength.
00:54:57.000So I hope the president readdresses these rumors.
00:55:02.000And frankly, I hope he gives the Ukrainians Tom Hawk Cruise missiles, because there needs to be an elevated level of pressure on the Russians if they are going to come to the table.
00:55:10.000Meanwhile, the president is taking a very strong position against the drug cartels.
00:55:16.000On Sunday morning, he lambasted Colombia president, Gustavo Petro, as a freshmouth, unpopular politician who's an illegal drug leader.
00:55:25.000He said the U.S. would be ending all subsidies to Colombia, effective immediately.
00:55:29.000And he threatened Petro, he better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him and it won't be done nicely.
00:55:35.000And here he was talking about gigantic fields that grow the precursors to heroin or cocaine.
00:55:43.000He said, as of today, these payments or any other form of payment or subsidies will no longer be made to Colombia.
00:55:51.000Petro then said his country has never been rude to the United States, but Trump was being rude and ignorant toward Colombia.
00:55:57.000Now the reality is that Colombia was, until recently, a country that was significantly more conservative.
00:56:12.000And if you go all the way back, he was actually a member of a Marxist guerrilla movement.
00:56:17.000So not a particular shock that he is coming up against the president.
00:56:20.000Latin America is, in fact, a rich field for the United States to ensure its influence.
00:56:25.000There's a reason the Monroe Doctrine suggests that the United States has to have essentially plenary power over the Western Hemisphere.
00:56:32.000We've felt the after effects of Venezuelan out-migration.
00:56:37.000Drugs being shipped into the United States, economic migrants leaving from Venezuela to the United States because of the rule of Nicolas Maduro.
00:56:45.000We've seen problems, obviously, in the Northern Triangle countries.
00:56:48.000And so addressing those problems at the route would definitely be good.
00:56:51.000Another reason why I think that the United States is working closely with Javier Millet in Argentina in order to reshape the map of Latin America.
00:57:01.000Now there are a lot of rumors right now there might be an attempt to even oust Nicolas Maduro.
00:57:06.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, however, the strong man remains virtually coup-proof.
00:57:10.000That's because he's purged officers accused of conspiring against him.
00:57:15.000The vaunted intelligence service of close ally Cuba has worked to identify plots and renegades with intelligence officers placed in every single unit.
00:57:24.000Any attempts from inside the military, in other words, to come against Maduro is likely to be unsuccessful.
00:57:29.000So the question is how this gets done.
00:57:33.000Yeah, it's a similar question to Cuba or Iran or North Korea or any other place where the strongman leader has taken total control over the military.
00:57:42.000It'll be interesting to see what measures the CIA takes in Venezuela.
00:57:46.000The president has already said that that is something that is going to happen.
00:57:49.000Okay, meanwhile, in the odd news of the day, apparently thieves robbed the Louvre yesterday.
00:57:55.000So this is now the plot of the Italian job or something.
00:57:59.000According to the New York Times, the doors of the world's grandest museum had been opened to the public for just 30 minutes when two burglars were lifted up onto a second floor balcony on the building's south side.
00:58:08.000Their faces concealed, they rode a montemubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it's used to ferry bulky furniture through the windows of apartments.
00:58:18.000Once they were there, they used grinders to break a window, setting off security alarms, and they burst inside the Galerie d'Apoyon of the Louvre Museum.
00:58:28.000I will maintain as an American That there are far more printed consonants in French than there are pronounced consonants.
00:58:35.000In any case, they smashed two cases, sounding more alarms, and snatched eight precious objects, including a royal sapphire necklace, a royal emerald necklace, and its matching earrings, and a diadem worn by Empress Eugenie, that is the wife of Napoleon III, France's 19th century ruler.
00:58:49.000And then they went back down the ladder to a rolled shouldering the sign and made their getaway with two waiting members of their team on motor scooters.
00:58:56.000So this is the most brazen theft ever staged at the Louvre.
00:59:18.000Apparently, in their haste, the robbers did drop a crown made for the Empress Eugenie to wear during the Universal Exposition in Paris, featuring eight gold eagles, 1,354 diamonds, 1,136 rose-cut diamonds, and 56 emeralds.
00:59:31.000I assume they're going to melt this stuff down and then sell these pieces individually, but only one person can solve this crime.
00:59:37.000Inspector Clouseau needs to be back on the job.
00:59:41.000And at least we know that there are a bunch of novelists and movie makers who will have fun with this.
00:59:47.000Coming up, we're going to get into the first days of our friend Barry Weiss over at CBS News.
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