The Ben Shapiro Show - Radical Islam’s Front Group EXPOSED By Texas!

00:00:00.000 The Council on American Islamic Relations comes under fire from the state of Texas, and it turns out that one of their branches was, in fact, paying some of the protesters/slash lawbreakers during the campus protests.

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00:00:23.000 So, for decades in the United States, there's been a group called the Council on American Islamic Relations.

00:00:28.000 Very often, it has been called the single most important Islamic outreach organization toward the federal and state governments in the United States.

00:00:35.000 There's only one problem.

00:00:36.000 The Council on American Islamic Relations is, in fact, a radical Islamist group.

00:00:41.000 It has been for its entire existence.

00:00:43.000 And that's not saying that it's a terrorist group, although it was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:00:50.000 But there is no question that it is spreading the messages of radical Islam throughout the American body politic with deep connections to the American federal government. 0.57

00:01:00.000 The New York Post reports today, quote, anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at U.S. colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, according to the New York Post.

00:01:12.000 Now, again, what that means is that CARE, which is linked to a group called Champions of Justice Fund, was funneling money to people who actively participated in those protests and crimes during that Hamas summer of love and spring and fall of love.

00:01:30.000 The money apparently was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

00:01:44.000 In California, the largest arm of the CARE web of nonprofits, affiliates in San Francisco and LA, raised more than $100,000 in donations for campus radicals.

00:01:52.000 The main group solicited $64,000 in donations.

00:01:56.000 The money was then offered as interest-free loans in grants of $1,000 to students who lost, quote, scholarships, housing, or other support because of their advocacy.

00:02:04.000 Now, remember, the vast majority of people who were banned were banned because they participated in activities that either violated the law or campus rules or both.

00:02:14.000 Breaking glass, attacking other students, assaulting other students, and all the rest.

00:02:19.000 In October 2024, CARE California awarded $20,000 in loans and scholarships to 20 student protesters from the Champions of Justice Fund.

00:02:27.000 The identities of the student recipients have never been revealed, but the institutions they attend include Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard as well, which means that students suspended or expelled from Columbia University for storming and occupying Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves inside the building with furniture and padlocks, an incident which resulted in the police actually having to storm the building, could have potentially qualified for those $1,000 checks.

00:02:52.000 Again, this is not a surprise.

00:02:54.000 It is not a surprise.

00:02:56.000 One testimonial published by CARE in literature about their fund read, quote, the consequences of my pro-Palestine advocacy have been swift and severe.

00:03:02.000 As a safety marshal at a protest against the bombing of the Al-Shifa hospital, I was doxxed by Zionist students, leading to my information being spread to the far-right media.

00:03:11.000 I have endured relentless death threats, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:13.000 But the details here match one Ibrahim Barmal, who was arrested at Harvard Business School after participating in what was called a die-ins where you lie in the ground, pretend you're dead, the night after Al-Shifa Hospital was bombed.

00:03:27.000 And again, Al-Shifa Hospital, it was actually the parking lot of Al-Shifa Hospital that was bombed.

00:03:32.000 He was volunteering as a safety marshal, and he violated the rules of the university.

00:03:37.000 And later, he ended up sentenced to 80 hours of community service.

00:03:39.000 And apparently, he was then paid by the Council on American Islamic Relations.

00:03:46.000 Now, again, none of this should be a surprise.

00:03:48.000 On the same day that that story broke in the New York Post, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced that the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE would be designated as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations under Texas penal and Texas property codes.

00:04:03.000 And they laid out the reason in a proclamation by the governor.

00:04:07.000 Whereas the Society of the Muslim Brothers, known also as Jamaat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, Muslim Brotherhood, is a transnational Islamist organization.

00:04:16.000 And whereas Hassan Obana, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood almost 100 years ago, professed that jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.

00:04:25.000 And that jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols. 0.98

00:04:36.000 And whereas, even in the present day, Muhammad Beady, the eighth supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, who is currently serving a life sentence for plotting an armed insurrection in Egypt, has stated the organization's primary goal is to establish Islam's mastership of the world and a total reform of all domains of life by resurrecting an Islamic state or caliphate empowered to forcibly impose Sharia law worldwide.

00:04:58.000 And whereas specific branches of the Muslim Brotherhood have been designated by the U.S. State Department as specifically designated global terrorist entities and Muslim Brotherhood branches have been prohibited by Austria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

00:05:14.000 Whereas the Council on American Islamic Relations is an Islamist organization that, according to the FBI, was founded as a front group for Hamas and its support network in the United States.

00:05:24.000 And whereas the program on extremism at George Washington University, America's leading academic research center on extremism, reports that CARE is an example of conscious efforts by, quote, the U.S.-based Hamas network to regenerate itself and continue acting under new guises in the U.S. based on Hamas's need to camouflage the identity of the new organization.

00:05:43.000 And Yihadawad, the executive director of CARE, has boasted that American Muslims are, quote, ready to move to the next phase and that within 15 years, the Muslim community will have 50,000, an army of these people who will design Islam's image, protect the truth, and the news.

00:05:56.000 Many of these people will run for public office.

00:05:57.000 They will become lawmakers to advance Sharia law in America. 0.95

00:06:01.000 And CARE was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in that Holy Land Foundation trial, resulting eventually in the FBI suspending formal contacts with CARE in 2008 and the Biden administration removing CARE from official government documents.

00:06:16.000 Greg Abbott has therefore declared that CARE should be labeled a transnational terrorist organization, a foreign terrorist organization.

00:06:26.000 And of course, that is exactly right.

00:06:28.000 Me here is the CARE executive director.

00:06:30.000 There's a flashback to 2023 saying that he was happy about October 7th.

00:06:36.000 The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp on October 7th.

00:06:47.000 And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their lands that they were not allowed to walk in.

00:07:04.000 That is the head of CARE, and Yihadawad.

00:07:08.000 He said also in November of 2023 that Hamas was fighting on behalf of Palestinians.

00:07:12.000 Hey, here he was.

00:07:13.000 Again, this is on MSNBC.

00:07:16.000 And what's happening today in Gaza is a continuation of the Israeli bombardment of captive civilians, 2.3 million, in a small area which has been known, identified by so many people around the world and leaders and human rights activists and politicians that it is the largest open-air prison on earth.

00:07:43.000 So the growing number of Jewish Americans identify that the state of Israel is an apartheid system and they will not support it.

00:07:52.000 None of us speak for Gaza and those who are fighting on behalf of the Palestinians. 0.99

00:07:59.000 But let me say this.

00:08:00.000 Israel holds 8,000 hostages.

00:08:03.000 They have taken 1,000 hostage in the past weeks from Gaza and from the West Bank.

00:08:11.000 There is no Hamas in Gaza.

00:08:14.000 There's no Hamas in Gaza, according to Niharawa.

00:08:16.000 This is in November of 2023.

00:08:19.000 Okay, so again, CARE has always been a Hamas-linked group.

00:08:24.000 Prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who writes for National Review now, he wrote in a book called The Grand Jihad about the beginnings of CARE.

00:08:30.000 Hamas supporters gathered at a Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia in 1993 with the intent of creating a new public relations organization in the United States.

00:08:38.000 And those Hamas supporters included one Omar Ahmad, the president of the Islamic Association for Palestine.

00:08:43.000 He was concerned about being recorded at the time.

00:08:46.000 So Ahmad instead referred to himself as Omar Yahya and referred to Sama instead of Hamas because Sama is Hamas backwards. 0.91

00:08:53.000 And then Ahmad said that it would be worthwhile to lie about the agenda, that the new organization could not admit, quote, we represent Sama or Amach Yassin, the head of Hamas, represents me.

00:09:04.000 Nihadawad was at the time the PR director for IAP.

00:09:07.000 He was at the conference too.

00:09:09.000 And he agreed with Ahmad about adopting lying to Americans. 0.63

00:09:12.000 Quote, when I speak with the Americans, I speak with someone who doesn't know anything. 0.83

00:09:16.000 As for the Palestinian who has a martyr brother or something, I know how to address him. 0.99

00:09:20.000 You see?

00:09:20.000 And less than a year later, CARE was born.

00:09:23.000 Again, it was linked with the Holy Land Foundation.

00:09:26.000 I asked our sponsors over at Comet, what were the specific allegations regarding CARE's association with the Holy Land Foundation?

00:09:34.000 Because they were named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.

00:09:39.000 The Holy Land Foundation was funneling enormous quantities of money from Americans to Hamas.

00:09:46.000 So according to Perplexity, federal court documents and legislative findings stated CARE received a grant from the Holy Land Foundation after opening its first office in Washington, D.C.

00:09:55.000 The U.S. government asserted that CARE was identified as an associate of the Muslim Brotherhood and alleged to have links to Hamas via both organizational activities and individual connections.

00:10:03.000 Evidence presented during the Holy Land Foundation trial included financial links from HLF to CARE and an internal memorandum acknowledging CARE as part of a Palestine committee, which prosecutors asserted was affiliated with Hamas.

00:10:16.000 The core prosecution argument was that HLF funneled more than $12 million to Hamas-controlled entities, and CARE by association was named in legal documents and received funding from HLF as well.

00:10:28.000 So, CARE being labeled a foreign terrorist organization by Governor Abbott is well within boundaries and seems to be supported by the actual facts of CARE's relationships.

00:10:38.000 Coming up more on CARE, its relationship with Zorhan Mamdani and the Islamicization of the Democratic Party in terms of radical Islam.

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00:12:48.000 Why is this important?

00:12:48.000 Well, number one, it demonstrates that there are operating in broad daylight organizations that seek to undermine the American way of life without a doubt and say as much pretty clearly and pretty openly.

00:13:02.000 Second, the Democratic Party has an unusual susceptibility to this sort of stuff.

00:13:07.000 Zorhan Mamdani isn't just a Muslim running for office in New York.

00:13:12.000 That's not who he is or who he was. 0.56

00:13:14.000 Zorhan Mamdani is a radical.

00:13:17.000 He is a radical with Islamist leanings at the very, very least.

00:13:22.000 As it turns out, for example, Zorin Mamnani is now backing a care-linked New York Assembly candidate.

00:13:28.000 This is according to the New York Post.

00:13:31.000 He's supporting a candidate for state assembly linked to care who once described 9-11 as a terror attack that a couple of people did.

00:13:37.000 He is backing a person named Abhir Kawas, a longtime Palestinian American activist.

00:13:43.000 That support was relayed by a member of his mayoral transition team during a closed-door DSA Democratic Socialist of America meeting in Manhattan last week.

00:13:50.000 Because remember, third worldism is the thing that unites all of this: a hatred for America, a belief that America is the great rapacious power on planet Earth, and that basically all the sufferings on earth can be attributed to Western civilization.

00:14:02.000 That is the philosophy, the foreign policy and yes, domestic policy philosophy of Zorhan Mamdani and his fellow travelers.

00:14:08.000 Top political advisor to the Mamdani transition team, Sam McCann, said, Mamdani told me, while he has tremendous respect for everyone in the race, he said that he will support Aber in whatever she pursues.

00:14:18.000 So, who exactly is Kawas?

00:14:20.000 She's an organizer in New York City's Arab and Muslim communities since 2010.

00:14:25.000 She's trying to get the DSA endorsement. 1.00

00:14:27.000 And here she was speaking about 9-11.

00:14:32.000 And finding that, like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, have all and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people.

00:14:48.000 And so this is like a long trajectory.

00:14:50.000 And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right?

00:14:53.000 With 9-11.

00:14:56.000 Okay, so as you can hear right there, she is just saying that 9-11 was a result of America's capitalism, racism, and white supremacy, and Islamophobia.

00:15:04.000 Basically, America had a coming.

00:15:07.000 And then she added, the idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did, and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something I find reprehensible.

00:15:17.000 First of all, we should point out that Islamic slavery has been a thing for legitimately well over a thousand years and continues into the modern day. 0.98

00:15:26.000 Islamic slave trading was more populous than the Atlantic slave trade over the course of history.

00:15:34.000 But beyond that, the links between Zorhan Mamdani and the DSA and radical Islam, those are quite real.

00:15:41.000 They are very real.

00:15:42.000 And in fact, this has become not a bug.

00:15:44.000 This is a feature.

00:15:45.000 This is a feature.

00:15:47.000 People are treating all of this in sort of the legacy media and the mainstream media.

00:15:50.000 They're treating the radical Islam part of the sort of green-red coalition that has formed inside the Democratic Party, this Islamist Marxist coalition that has formed.

00:16:00.000 They're treating the Islamist part as the throwaway and the Marxist part is the stuff that people are actually voting for.

00:16:05.000 People are actually voting for the DSA communism.

00:16:09.000 That's what they actually want.

00:16:10.000 I don't think that's right.

00:16:11.000 I think that what they are actually voting for on the progressive left is not that.

00:16:15.000 They are voting for the virtue signaling, not about affordability, but specifically about the anti-Americanism and the anti-Westernism.

00:16:23.000 And by the way, that is what Mamdani's mayoralty will look like.

00:16:26.000 Mamdani will be an unsuccessful mayor if he is able to carry out any of his socialistic intent for New York City.

00:16:32.000 I mean, here is Zora Mamdani's new economic pitch.

00:16:35.000 Give me more money.

00:16:36.000 Well, hold up.

00:16:37.000 I thought everything was going to be free.

00:16:39.000 Why do you need more money, my dude?

00:16:42.000 Here we go.

00:16:44.000 It's been two weeks since we won the election.

00:16:46.000 We've been pretty busy.

00:16:47.000 Jackson, Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani.

00:16:50.000 Too often, this is a time of just celebration as opposed to preparation.

00:16:52.000 We want to make it both.

00:16:54.000 A lot of these things are new, but one of them is pretty old.

00:16:56.000 Fundraising.

00:16:57.000 But why are we fundraising?

00:16:59.000 Well, we have less than 50 days until we take office.

00:17:01.000 We have a lot to do.

00:17:02.000 We have to vet the 50,000 resumes we've received.

00:17:05.000 Thank you.

00:17:06.000 We have to keep paying our incredible team.

00:17:08.000 Thank you.

00:17:09.000 And we have to plan not just our inauguration, but our policy implementation.

00:17:12.000 Now, unlike the campaign, transitions do not get public matching funds from the city.

00:17:16.000 So that eight to one match, gone.

00:17:18.000 It's up to us to raise the money.

00:17:20.000 Usually campaigns take that as an opportunity to rely on wealthy donors, but that's not us.

00:17:24.000 You've already been incredible.

00:17:26.000 We've raised more than a million dollars in just two weeks.

00:17:29.000 Our average donation is around $77, and more than 12,000 of you have donated so far, which is much lower than the last administration's transition.

00:17:37.000 But we're still asking for your help because we need to raise $4 million in total.

00:17:40.000 So January 1st can be the day we start to deliver, not start to prepare.

00:17:46.000 He needs your money.

00:17:47.000 He needs your money.

00:17:48.000 I mean, soon he won't need your money anymore, but he'll still need your money.

00:17:51.000 So does that sound like a sexy pitch?

00:17:53.000 Or is the sexy pitch that he's going to be a radical college protester on the side of the care Islamic elite? 0.90

00:18:00.000 Like, what exactly is the pitch?

00:18:03.000 So people were going a little crazy yesterday because he maintained once again, publicly, Mamdani, that he's going to arrest the sitting prime minister of Israel were he to come to New York City.

00:18:11.000 First of all, good luck with that.

00:18:13.000 If you think the NYPD is going to just show up and arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, the sitting prime minister of the state of Israel at the behest of Zora Mamdani, got another thing coming. 0.95

00:18:22.000 That is not how the process works.

00:18:23.000 By the way, it's in violation of American federal law.

00:18:26.000 So if Zorhan Mamdani were to actually do that, he would be in violation of law.

00:18:30.000 But here, again, this is the actual pitch.

00:18:33.000 The actual pitch has nothing to do with policy.

00:18:35.000 It has to do with the anti-Americanism that Mamdani represents, which is tied into, again, the anti-Americanism of groups like CARE.

00:18:42.000 The radical Islam, that aspect is a selling point.

00:18:46.000 It is not, in fact, a drawback for people like Zorhan Mamdani.

00:18:50.000 You said you would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu based on the 2024 international court arrest warrant.

00:18:57.000 Next UN General Assembly, as mayor, would you do that?

00:19:01.000 So I've said time and again that I believe this is a city of international law.

00:19:05.000 And being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.

00:19:09.000 And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they're for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.

00:19:14.000 I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.

00:19:17.000 And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of the laws that we have.

00:19:21.000 So I will look to exhaust every legal possibility not to create my own laws to do so.

00:19:27.000 Okay, so what he is actually saying at the very end there is that he's not actually going to do it, but he's going to virtue signal to all of his friends that he's going to do it.

00:19:34.000 This is the pitch of the left.

00:19:35.000 The left does not have solutions.

00:19:36.000 The left has anti-American radicalism, which is why the ties with places like CARE.

00:19:41.000 It is why the ties with the DSA.

00:19:43.000 It's not about the solutions.

00:19:44.000 It's about tearing away at the system.

00:19:46.000 That's the entire thing.

00:19:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the Muslim Brotherhood, big controversy yesterday because the president of the United States hosted the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House.

00:20:00.000 And the media went nuts.

00:20:01.000 They went nuts because back in 2018, there was a Washington Post journalist, and we say journalist, but he really was sort of an op-ed writer named Jamal Khashoggi, who was absolutely Muslim Brotherhood-linked.

00:20:11.000 There's no question that Jamal Khashoggi was linked with the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:20:14.000 And he was murdered in grisly fashion at the Saudi embassy in Turkey, apparently, at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, according to intelligence estimates on the orders of Mohammed bin Salman.

00:20:27.000 Okay, so the Biden administration decided to make this front and center in their campaign against Saudi because the Biden administration attempted to draw distance with the Saudi government in order to try and make overtures to the Iranian government.

00:20:38.000 Saudis and the Iranians are enemies because the Iranians wish to destroy the Saudis, and this has been true for a very long time. 1.00

00:20:44.000 The Biden administration, trying to draw closer to Iran, cut a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi murder.

00:20:50.000 Now, no one is making the case that Khashoggi should have been murdered by the Saudis.

00:20:54.000 No one is making that case.

00:20:56.000 It also happens to be the case that the United States has relations with a wide variety of various despotic regimes around the globe.

00:21:03.000 Some are better for the American people, some are worse for the American people.

00:21:08.000 And that's just the way the globe works.

00:21:09.000 The vast majority of places on planet Earth are not nice places, and terrible things happen there.

00:21:14.000 And the leaders there do terrible things.

00:21:16.000 That is a reality.

00:21:18.000 And in fact, the real politique of the situation forced Joe Biden to basically go on bended knee to the Saudis to try and lower oil prices before the midterm elections in 2022.

00:21:28.000 So he started off yelling at the Saudis about Jamal Khashoggi, and he ended by essentially bending the knee to the Saudis.

00:21:35.000 Well, the media have decided that they're going to put tremendous focus on the Khashoggi murder.

00:21:41.000 For some reason, they seem to have no such objections to Qatari ties to Hamas, for example, or Qatari ties to Iran, which is responsible for the death and wounding.

00:21:52.000 Iran is, of course, responsible for the death and wounding of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq War. 0.63

00:21:58.000 They seem to have no such complaints whenever Erdogan visits from Turkey.

00:22:02.000 Erdogan has participated in an extraordinary variety of human rights abuses.

00:22:06.000 But when MBS shows up, then it's time to ask him endlessly about Jamal Khashoggi.

00:22:10.000 Now, again, he can answer those questions.

00:22:12.000 That's his problem.

00:22:14.000 But I will note the outsized interest in Jamal Khashoggi, as opposed to all the other various human rights violations that are happening around the region, has more to do with the legacy media's geopolitics, in which they don't like Saudi because they believe that there ought to be some sort of Obama-esque balance of power benefiting maybe the Turks and Iran at the expense of the Saudis and the Israelis, presumably.

00:22:37.000 That's why the focus on Jamal Khashoggi.

00:22:40.000 Because again, if you look at the history of Jamal Khashoggi, the attempt to paint him as some sort of liberal reformer, again, no one's making the case he should have been murdered, but we should at least be accurate about who Jamal Khashoggi was.

00:22:54.000 As the Jerusalem Post reported in a piece by Yeshaya Rosman back in 2024, Jamal Khashoggi was deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:23:04.000 In the months leading up to his death, he was in the process of launching an organization known as Dawn.

00:23:11.000 Democracy for the Arab World Now, working in close collaboration with Niharawad, executive director and co-founder of CARE and a board member of Dawn.

00:23:21.000 Now, again, CARE is deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:23:24.000 They have close personal ties in the form of some of their leadership with people who are associated with Hamas for sure.

00:23:33.000 So Khashoggi had a lot of those connections.

00:23:36.000 You can say two things at once.

00:23:37.000 One, he shouldn't have been murdered.

00:23:38.000 Two, Jamal Khashoggi was not a liberal reformer in the Arab world.

00:23:41.000 That is not what he was.

00:23:42.000 In any case, the media decided that they were going to ask the president about MBS and Khashoggi.

00:23:47.000 The proper answer from the president here probably was something like: the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was a tragic problem.

00:23:56.000 It obviously is something we don't like here.

00:23:59.000 Also, we are in the business of geopolitics and pursuing America's interests.

00:24:02.000 That's the actual answer here.

00:24:04.000 The president tries to do something like that, ends up defending MBS from the charges.

00:24:09.000 He's done a phenomenal job.

00:24:11.000 You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.

00:24:15.000 A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about.

00:24:18.000 Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it.

00:24:22.000 And we can leave it at that.

00:24:23.000 You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.

00:24:28.000 Now, again, I think that's a more aggressive response than is warranted because it is true that the Saudi royal government has engaged in some pretty extraordinary brutalities.

00:24:37.000 However, what he is saying, which is that MBS is a transformative leader in the region and that the United States needs to work with the people who are there.

00:24:44.000 We don't get to choose the leadership glass in all of these countries.

00:24:48.000 That is accurate.

00:24:49.000 And again, the media attention with regard to all of this, I think, is quite purposeful.

00:24:55.000 I do not think that it is a coincidence.

00:24:57.000 They'd rather the virtue signaling about Jamal Khashoggi than the reality of actual geopolitics, which involves having to deal on a pretty regular basis with some of the worst people on planet Earth.

00:25:07.000 Alrighty, coming up, Democrats are now claiming that members of the military should disobey their orders.

00:25:12.000 We'll get into what that means in a second.

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00:27:31.000 Okay, meanwhile, Democrats are becoming increasingly unhinged with regard to the president's foreign policy.

00:27:37.000 So, yesterday, a series of Democrats released a video asking members of the military to openly defy the administration, which is a violation of the law.

00:27:46.000 I mean, this can get you arrested.

00:27:48.000 Here's Senator Slotkin, among others, pushing this.

00:27:52.000 I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin.

00:27:54.000 Senator Mark Kelly, Representative Chris DeLuzio, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, Representative Chrissy Houlihan, Congressman Jason Crowe, that was a captain in the United States Navy, former CIA officer, former Navy, former paratrooper and Army Ranger, former intelligence officer, former Air Force.

00:28:10.000 We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.

00:28:16.000 We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.

00:28:19.000 Americans trust their military.

00:28:21.000 But that trust is at risk.

00:28:23.000 This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.

00:28:29.000 Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution.

00:28:34.000 Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.

00:28:38.000 Our laws are clear.

00:28:40.000 You can refuse illegal orders.

00:28:42.000 You can refuse illegal orders.

00:28:44.000 You must refuse illegal orders.

00:28:47.000 No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.

00:28:51.000 We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.

00:28:55.000 But whether you're serving in the CIA, in the Army, our Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical.

00:29:00.000 And know that we have your back.

00:29:02.000 Because now, more than ever, the American people need you.

00:29:06.000 We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution, and who we are as Americans.

00:29:11.000 Don't give up.

00:29:14.000 Don't give up the ship.

00:29:16.000 The claim that they're going to make is that this isn't about forcing members of the military to violate the law.

00:29:20.000 They're just telling them not to violate the Constitution.

00:29:23.000 Okay, but let's be real about what they're doing.

00:29:25.000 The obvious implication is that they are receiving illegal orders each and every day.

00:29:29.000 And we should just point out that if somebody improperly attempts to resist a proper order, that person could end up with actual legal consequences.

00:29:38.000 Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, he put out a statement on all of this saying stage four TDS.

00:29:44.000 That was the entirety of the statement.

00:29:45.000 Stage four Trump derangement syndrome.

00:29:47.000 That is not wrong.

00:29:48.000 Now, speaking of Trump derangement syndrome, all of the controversy swirling around Jeffrey Epstein continues.

00:29:53.000 The Senate yesterday approved the Epstein files bill sending it to President Trump's desk.

00:29:57.000 Now, as we discussed, the bill doesn't actually do anything.

00:29:59.000 The bill has a provision that allows the DOJ and actually suggests that the DOJ must redact anything that would violate the law in releasing, which is already the case.

00:30:08.000 I mean, the Trump administration has already filed lawsuits in order to get courts to release information.

00:30:13.000 The courts say, we can't release that information.

00:30:14.000 We can't let you release grand jury information, for example, because that violates actual law and implicates people who are not even alleged to have committed a crime.

00:30:24.000 However, this whole thing was political.

00:30:26.000 It was always political.

00:30:28.000 The people who are leading the charge on this, as we mentioned yesterday, many of them are people who are directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:30:34.000 That includes people like Steve Bannon on the right, people like Stacey Plaskett on the left.

00:30:40.000 I mean, yesterday, for example, James Comer exposed the fact that Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, had solicited a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013.

00:30:50.000 That was five years after his plea arrangement with regard to child email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority.

00:31:09.000 So Hakeem Jeffries' campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein.

00:31:16.000 So again, the Epstein scandal is a real scandal and they remain open questions.

00:31:21.000 And I will continue to maintain that those questions are open.

00:31:24.000 However, there is no evidence that President Trump is engaging in some sort of widespread, deep cover-up of documents that, if just released, will solve all the mysteries, that he's hiding all of this.

00:31:36.000 I mean, again, this is something Democrats keep maintaining.

00:31:39.000 They had control of all of these files for four years under Joe Biden.

00:31:44.000 They did.

00:31:45.000 So some of this is politicking.

00:31:47.000 Some of it's wishcasting.

00:31:48.000 On the politicking side, you have people like Jamie Raskin, who says that the cover-up must end.

00:31:53.000 What is being covered up?

00:31:54.000 Does he have any idea what's being covered up?

00:31:56.000 Like, really, what is the big cover-up?

00:31:59.000 We want the whole truth to come out.

00:32:02.000 This is the United States of America.

00:32:05.000 Even the British monarchy wouldn't put up with this.

00:32:08.000 How about the American democracy?

00:32:10.000 How about we say no way?

00:32:12.000 We're not going to allow this cover-up to go on for one day more.

00:32:18.000 So, again, this is the Democrats attempting to make hey while the sun shines.

00:32:22.000 Some of them are wishcasting.

00:32:23.000 Kara Swisher, the left-wing podcaster, she says that the Epstein files are going to end Trump's presidency.

00:32:28.000 No, they certainly will not. 0.96

00:32:30.000 That is very silly. 0.92

00:32:33.000 I don't know.

00:32:33.000 I feel like we're going to have President JD Vance by the end of 2026.

00:32:38.000 I get it, but he is.

00:32:40.000 You think this ends his presidency prematurely?

00:32:43.000 Yes.

00:32:43.000 He'll be sick.

00:32:44.000 He'll be that a bit of a bad.

00:32:47.000 I do.

00:32:47.000 I think he's not going to make it to the end.

00:32:49.000 Be careful what you wish for.

00:32:50.000 I think JD Vance is.

00:32:51.000 I agree.

00:32:54.000 So, again, it's not going to end his presidency.

00:32:54.000 Okay.

00:32:56.000 That's wish casting.

00:32:57.000 By the way, you know who's having a career-ending moment right now is Larry Summers.

00:33:01.000 The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president has now had to step back from public commitments after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, in which he was asking for dating advice from Jeffrey Epstein, which is weird because Jeffrey Epstein's dating advice apparently was hire a bunch of underage girls to have with you, which seems like not amazing dating advice.

00:33:21.000 So Larry Summers has been on the chopping block, but if you think that President Trump is in any way endangered here, that's quite silly.

00:33:27.000 Speaker Johnson pointed out that all of this is about trying to weaponize Epstein against Trump.

00:33:31.000 That's true, by the way, again, for people both left and right who are attempting to undermine Trump presidency.

00:33:36.000 On the left, they're trying to undermine Trump's presidency for obvious reasons.

00:33:39.000 On the right, there's a splinter faction led by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who are attempting to destroy the Trump administration on behalf of an all-against all political Hobbesian war in which she attempts to grab control of some portion of Trump's base in the name of MAGA or America First or whatever slogan she wants to hijack from somebody else today.

00:33:58.000 Here's Speaker Johnson on this yesterday.

00:34:01.000 But the truth is, the biggest proponents of this discharge petition were never actually interested in transparency or ensuring justice or protecting victims of this unspeakable tragedy, the Epstein evils. 0.88

00:34:16.000 And how do we know that?

00:34:18.000 Because the Democrats had every one of the Epstein files in their possession for the four long years of the Biden administration.

00:34:26.000 The Biden Department of Justice had the files the entire time.

00:34:29.000 And not a single one of the people who are so loud and animated right now, they never said anything about it for all those four years.

00:34:38.000 Yeah, he is, of course, right about all of this.

00:34:39.000 But what's the actual agenda here?

00:34:41.000 Well, for the left, the agenda is to damage Trump's presidency and thereby damage the Republican Party.

00:34:46.000 For the right, again, there's a group of people who believe they're going to hijack Trump's movement out from under him and then take control of that rump movement and somehow parlay that into political power, which would be bad for two reasons.

00:34:58.000 One, the people who are attempting to do this represent legitimately the worst part of the MAGA coalition.

00:35:03.000 And two, they will lose.

00:35:05.000 So if you check out the Calci markets today, okay, Calci, one of our sponsors, which party will win the 2028 presidential election?

00:35:14.000 If you go back to March, basically 50-50, today, the markets suggest by a 54 to 46 split, the Democrats.

00:35:22.000 I think that all of the Republicans whistling past the political graveyard here, suggesting that there's an inherent advantage for Republicans in 2028.

00:35:30.000 That is not true.

00:35:32.000 It is not true. 1.00

00:35:33.000 And when you turn your coalition into a group of idiot grifters and Nazi fellow travelers, it turns out that's not going to be popular in America. 1.00

00:35:41.000 Forget about the morality of the thing for just a second. 1.00

00:35:43.000 Does anyone think that's a victorious electoral coalition?

00:35:46.000 And if so, please explain why.

00:35:49.000 All righty, coming up, is MAGA falling apart?

00:35:51.000 If so, who is the one who is wielding the pickaxe?

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00:37:28.000 So let's talk about this attempt to hijack MAGA and turn it into something it's not.

00:37:33.000 As I said yesterday, MAGA is Trump.

00:37:35.000 Trump is MAGA.

00:37:36.000 That's all.

00:37:38.000 Now, you can have various manifestations of MAGA.

00:37:41.000 There are people who can claim in the name of MAGA to be hawkish on foreign policy.

00:37:44.000 There are people who can claim to be paleo-gun isolationists on behalf of MAGA.

00:37:48.000 President Trump contains multitudes, but the idea that the MAGA movement in its heart is about Marjorie Taylor Green's ideology as opposed to President Trump is nuts. 0.98

00:37:58.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:37:59.000 And not only that, it is politically stupid. 1.00

00:38:01.000 It is politically stupid. 1.00

00:38:02.000 If Republicans follow this path toward a rump MAGA, a portion of MAGA that is like the least popular portion of MAGA, by the way, with the American public, then we'll see how it works out for them. 0.99

00:38:13.000 Cotton, it's a bold strategy.

00:38:16.000 Yesterday, here is Marjorie Taylor Green claiming that Trump is ripping MAGA apart.

00:38:20.000 Not the lady who goes on the view or on CNN and apologizes to CNN for her rhetoric.

00:38:20.000 Not her.

00:38:26.000 Not the lady who once went to an America first policy conference with Nick Fuentes and then had to walk it back.

00:38:32.000 No, it's Trump.

00:38:33.000 It's probably Trump.

00:38:34.000 Here's Marjorie Taylor Green doing her shtick. 1.00

00:38:37.000 And I'll tell you right now, this has been one of the most destructive things to MAGA is watching the man that we supported early on, three elections,

00:38:52.000 for people that stood hours, slept in their cars to go to rallies, have fought for truth and transparency and to hold what we consider a corrupt government accountable.

00:39:08.000 Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.

00:39:14.000 No, what's ripped MAGA apart is a group of very motivated people who are determined to rip MAGA apart in order to degrade President Trump's policy and try to take control of a movement that they did not build, that he built.

00:39:25.000 Again, I don't claim to be speaking in the name of President Trump or MAGA.

00:39:28.000 I don't.

00:39:29.000 Because again, the president of the United States, it turns out he can speak for himself.

00:39:33.000 And I frequently disagree with him.

00:39:34.000 And I'll tell you when I do.

00:39:36.000 But the idea that MAGA is anything other than Trump or that she is the great definer of MAGA apart from President Trump is an absurdity. 0.97

00:39:43.000 And I'll point out to conservatives that siding with the most idiotic portion of your movement, the most unpopular portion of your movement, again, forget about the morality, which I think is pretty clear. 1.00

00:39:53.000 It is stupid politics, truly idiotic politics. 1.00

00:39:57.000 Really, really dumb. 1.00

00:39:58.000 And you can see it happening, unfortunately, inside the Republican Party on a wide variety of scores. 0.99

00:40:03.000 So, for example, there's a report from ProPublica, a publication I do not particularly like, but apparently this is accurate.

00:40:10.000 They are arguing, reporting that Andrew Tate, who is a scumbag grifter, that he basically was let off the hook in part thanks to the intervention of Paul Ingracia, a person who apparently tried to join the White House.

00:40:27.000 Remember, he was up for a nomination. 0.96

00:40:28.000 He had to withdraw because he was under so much fire for the fact that he believed so many nutty and awful things.

00:40:33.000 Apparently, behind the scenes, when the Tate brothers arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement because CBP seized their electronic devices, the White House, through Paul Ingracia, apparently, intervened on their behalf. 1.00

00:40:46.000 This is dumb crap. 1.00

00:40:46.000 This is dumb. 1.00

00:40:48.000 It is wrong to do it morally, and it is dumb crap. 1.00

00:40:52.000 How do you think that that plays? 1.00

00:40:54.000 Seriously, again, put aside the morality for a second.

00:40:56.000 Let's just go base politics here.

00:40:58.000 Do you think it plays well with the American people when you are calling to intervene to tell CBP to return the electronic devices of people who are literally under investigation in multiple countries for crimes related to sex?

00:41:13.000 In his written request, a copy of which was reviewed by ProPublica, Ingracia chided authorities for taking the action, saying the seizure of the Tates' devices was not a good use of time or resources.

00:41:23.000 The request to return the electronics to the Tates was coming from the White House.

00:41:27.000 This seems like a great way politically to win women, to broaden your tent. 1.00

00:41:32.000 Probably this is just genius-level stuff, genius-level stuff.

00:41:36.000 Meanwhile, Nick Fuentes, who of course was glazed by Tucker Carlson rather famously.

00:41:43.000 So, Nick Fuentes has now announced that he is going to be launching an actual PAC, the America First Foundation.

00:41:52.000 And apparently, it is going to be supported by a variety of supposedly quote-unquote America first figures.

00:41:59.000 I say America First figures because, again, that phrase is semantically overloaded.

00:42:03.000 Every American should believe that America comes first when it comes to our policy because duh.

00:42:08.000 But what they mean by America first is not that.

00:42:10.000 What they mean by America first is essentially a totally isolationist foreign policy, a complete overthrow of the idea of creedal Americanism, the idea that the Declaration of Independence actually defines what it means to be an American or the Constitution.

00:42:24.000 And instead, it ought to be whatever Fuentes' peculiar definition of heritage represents.

00:42:30.000 Apparently, according to the free press, the America First Foundation's latest tax filing lists Fuentes as its president, along with two board members.

00:42:37.000 One is Jonathan Miller, a former White House correspondent for Blaze TV, who posted the day after last July's assassination attempt on President Trump.

00:42:45.000 I'm not uniting with anyone except Christ and my brothers.

00:42:47.000 I know stand with Trump, F the left, F the GOP, F the Secret Service, F the Jews, F democracy. 0.81

00:42:52.000 God is with us.

00:42:53.000 And also a white nationalist named Vincent James Fox, who has said he is part of the Christian Taliban.

00:42:59.000 Now, why do I point this out? 1.00

00:43:01.000 Because the left is cheering the stupidity of Republicans for doing this stuff. 1.00

00:43:05.000 They are desperately, they are loving every moment of this, every single moment of this. 1.00

00:43:11.000 Now, Fuentes wishes to bill, by the way, cleans out the actual principles of conservatism.

00:43:16.000 Like, cleans it out.

00:43:18.000 Legitimately, the only thing that you can say that Fuentes is conservative on in any sort of traditional sense is that he is anti-mass migration.

00:43:26.000 That's pretty much it.

00:43:27.000 On economics, he is not.

00:43:28.000 And on social policy, by the way, he really is not. 1.00

00:43:31.000 But to side with this or to glaze it or to side with those who glaze it, because, oh no, you might alienate the nuttier and idiotic parts of your coalition. 0.99

00:43:40.000 Like that's your politics. 1.00

00:43:43.000 Really?

00:43:43.000 The Democrats are saying it out loud.

00:43:46.000 The Democrats are loving this.

00:43:47.000 Gabe Kaminsky reports: veteran Democratic strategist James Carville says, quote, once they get their views on Adolf Hitler straightened out, then can we talk?

00:43:54.000 You understand this is too much effing fun for a Democrat, right?

00:43:57.000 He ain't wrong.

00:43:59.000 He ain't wrong. 1.00

00:44:02.000 Again, this is just stupid. 0.98

00:44:04.000 And we should point out at this point, it is worth noting that the right has decided to now have a gigantic debate that seems pretty online, frankly, about whether America is defined by the Declaration of Independence and by fundamental principles and the Constitution of the United States, or whether America is mostly defined by bloodlines or the place you live. 0.98

00:44:28.000 Well, the American public, when polled about this topic, at a minimum of two to one and more like four to one, support the idea that Americanism is defined by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.

00:44:39.000 Now, again, there are, of course, going to be elements of tradition and heritage.

00:44:43.000 It's the Berkeyan argument.

00:44:46.000 It isn't just creedal.

00:44:47.000 But if you are attempting to define an Americanism simply by heritage, as opposed to, in the main, by the creed of what America is, that is not a popular position with the American people.

00:44:59.000 Again, I think that it's wrong on its merits, but I also think that politically it is suicide. 0.99

00:45:04.000 Politically, it is idiocy. 1.00

00:45:06.000 It is stupidity. 1.00

00:45:07.000 So if Republicans want to go down this path, I suppose they can. 1.00

00:45:10.000 If the idea is that you have to wink and nod at this nonsense in order to win a primary, maybe you'll win a primary.

00:45:15.000 I highly doubt that this is going to pay off in terms of 2028 victory.

00:45:21.000 And again, the Democrats are loving it.

00:45:22.000 They're loving it.

00:45:23.000 Here was Jimmy Kimmel praising MTG.

00:45:25.000 You think he's praising MTG because he's a good Republican who actively wants to save MAGA?

00:45:29.000 Is that what you think of Jimmy Kimmel?

00:45:30.000 Or do you think he's praising MTG because he knows full well that she is pulling apart the strands of Republicanism for her own benefit and that that benefits Democrats?

00:45:40.000 When the Democrats are cheering you, like full scale, cheering you for your heel turn, perhaps there's something going on.

00:45:48.000 Marjorie's really green.

00:45:50.000 I don't know what's going on.

00:45:52.000 She was on CNN over the weekend.

00:45:53.000 She apologized for taking part in toxic politics and said we need to be kind to one another.

00:46:00.000 Are we sure this new Marjorie is real and not some kind of AI alter ego?

00:46:05.000 It's like she was visited by three ghosts in the middle of the night.

00:46:08.000 Strange new respect.

00:46:10.000 So much strange new respect.

00:46:12.000 Or it is politically useful for Democrats for this to be happening right now.

00:46:17.000 Okay, meanwhile, a lot of nervousness about the markets right now.

00:46:20.000 And that nervousness seems to be largely justified.

00:46:23.000 The Dow Jones industrial average has dropped pretty significantly over the course of the last week or so.

00:46:30.000 It had reached a high last Wednesday of 48,254.

00:46:34.000 It closed yesterday at 46,000, which was down pretty significantly.

00:46:40.000 Not from the beginning of the month.

00:46:41.000 The beginning of the month, it was down a little bit.

00:46:44.000 But is this the beginning of an actual tumble in the stock market?

00:46:47.000 What exactly is happening?

00:46:49.000 Neil Ferguson has a good piece over at the free press pointing out that there is, in fact, a problem here.

00:46:59.000 He says, quote, fans of Dr. Seuss will know by heart the key standas, key stanzas of green eggs and ham.

00:47:06.000 Do you like green eggs and ham?

00:47:07.000 I do not like them, Sam I. M. 1.00

00:47:08.000 I do not like green eggs and ham.

00:47:09.000 For those who have never had to read a bedtime story, allow me to explain.

00:47:12.000 An irrepressible little creature, Sam I. M., spends the entirety of the book pitching green eggs and ham, on the face of it, an unappetizing dish to a skeptical and increasingly irascible, larger creature.

00:47:21.000 With every page, the pitch grows more elaborate.

00:47:24.000 By the time Sam prevails, his hapless victim inhabits a scene of chaos.

00:47:29.000 He says, when you come to think of it, there's often someone called Sam trying to sell you something you don't initially want.

00:47:34.000 And he mentions Sam Bankman Freed.

00:47:36.000 He says a lot of the applications of generative AI remind you of green eggs and ham.

00:47:40.000 Take OpenAI's Sora 2.0.

00:47:42.000 With a few prompts, you can generate soft porn videos of scantily clad girl manga elves.

00:47:47.000 This is also one of the ways Elon Musk tries to sell XAI's Grok.

00:47:50.000 But why would I want to watch any such videos?

00:47:53.000 Financial history can help us.

00:47:55.000 If you're unsure if there's an AI bubble, refer to the historian Charles Kindleberger's five-stage model.

00:47:59.000 One, displacement.

00:48:00.000 Some change in economic circumstances creates new and profitable opportunities for certain companies.

00:48:05.000 Two, euphoria or overtrading.

00:48:07.000 A feedback process sets in whereby rising expected profits lead to rapid growth in share prices.

00:48:12.000 Three, mania or bubble.

00:48:13.000 The prospect of easy capital gains attracts first-time investors and swindlers eager to defraud them.

00:48:18.000 Four, distress.

00:48:19.000 The insiders discern that expected profits cannot possibly justify the now exorbitant price of the shares and begin to take profits by selling.

00:48:25.000 Five, revulsion or discredit.

00:48:27.000 As share prices fall, the outsiders stampede for the exits, causing the bubble to burst altogether.

00:48:31.000 He says we are currently at stage three.

00:48:35.000 He says, according to a project from economist Ezra Carger, aiming to predict the progress of AI, more than 18% of American work hours will be AI-assisted by 2030.

00:48:43.000 10 years later, AI will be as important to this century as electricity or the car were to the previous one.

00:48:48.000 Indeed, there's a one in three chance AI is going to rank alongside the printing press as a technology that changed the course of human history.

00:48:54.000 Even if AI falls short of that, Reuters reported last week, 97% of listeners cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and human-composed songs.

00:49:02.000 The song currently topping the country charts called Walk My Walk was generated by AI.

00:49:07.000 AI is now the principal driver of both the U.S. economy and the stock market.

00:49:11.000 Between one-sixth and two-fifths of the entire rise in GDP over the past year is attributable to investments in computer and communications equipment, including chips, data centers, grid upgrades, and AI software.

00:49:22.000 Apparently, AI companies account for 80% of the gains in U.S. stocks this year.

00:49:30.000 So, is this a bubble?

00:49:33.000 Well, says Neil Ferguson, 19th century railroads may be a better analogy to AI than 1990s telecoms.

00:49:39.000 Think of today's capital expenditures on data centers being like capital expenditures on railroads 150 years ago.

00:49:44.000 So two things can be true at the same time.

00:49:46.000 One, that data centers to power AI could be as economically worthwhile as an investment as railroads.

00:49:51.000 And B, we could experience at least one stock market crash along the way to general adoption.

00:49:56.000 That seems about right to me.

00:49:58.000 It feels as though we are in a bubble.

00:50:02.000 I think most investors are assuming that we are in some sort of a bubble.

00:50:05.000 And we are seeing that all the gains are being accrued at the top end of the stock market.

00:50:09.000 So for example, according to the Daily Mail, Home Depot is a bellwether for the U.S. economy and housing market.

00:50:15.000 On Tuesday morning, the home improvement chain said it served fewer customers in the past three months than expected.

00:50:21.000 Traders told the Daily Mail they're looking to consumer brands to see if there is weakness in spending.

00:50:26.000 The company lowered its earnings forecast on Tuesday.

00:50:28.000 They raised their expectations for sales growth.

00:50:31.000 So again, unclear what the sales trajectory looks like here.

00:50:36.000 A lot of churning in the water.

00:50:38.000 A lot of churning in the water.

00:50:39.000 How big the tsunami is going to be, nobody knows when it's going to come.

00:50:42.000 Nobody knows that either.

00:50:43.000 But uneasiness seems to be the order of the day.

00:50:47.000 Alrighty, coming up, a federal court has now blocked that Texas congressional redistricting map that sparked nationwide unrest.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 19, 2025

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