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. Plus, we ll get to the latest on the Epstein files, the breakdown in the Republican Party, and all the rest.
00:00:00.000The 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.
00:00:10.000Plus, we'll get to the latest on the Epstein files, the breakdown in the Republican Party, and all the rest.
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00:00:23.000So, for decades in the United States, there's been a group called the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:00:28.000Very often, it has been called the single most important Islamic outreach organization toward the federal and state governments in the United States.
00:00:43.000And 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.
00:00:50.000But 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.
00:01:00.000The 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.
00:01:12.000Now, 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.
00:01:30.000The 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.
00:01:44.000In 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.
00:01:52.000The main group solicited $64,000 in donations.
00:01:56.000The 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.
00:02:04.000Now, 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.
00:02:14.000Breaking glass, attacking other students, assaulting other students, and all the rest.
00:02:19.000In October 2024, CARE California awarded $20,000 in loans and scholarships to 20 student protesters from the Champions of Justice Fund.
00:02:27.000The 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.
00:02:56.000One testimonial published by CARE in literature about their fund read, quote, the consequences of my pro-Palestine advocacy have been swift and severe.
00:03:02.000As 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.
00:03:11.000I have endured relentless death threats, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:03:13.000But 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.
00:03:27.000And again, Al-Shifa Hospital, it was actually the parking lot of Al-Shifa Hospital that was bombed.
00:03:32.000He was volunteering as a safety marshal, and he violated the rules of the university.
00:03:37.000And later, he ended up sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
00:03:39.000And apparently, he was then paid by the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:03:46.000Now, again, none of this should be a surprise.
00:03:48.000On 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.
00:04:03.000And they laid out the reason in a proclamation by the governor.
00:04:07.000Whereas the Society of the Muslim Brothers, known also as Jamaat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, Muslim Brotherhood, is a transnational Islamist organization.
00:04:16.000And 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.
00:04:25.000And 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.
00:04:36.000And 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.
00:04:58.000And 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.
00:05:14.000Whereas 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.
00:05:24.000And 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.
00:05:43.000And 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.
00:05:56.000Many of these people will run for public office.
00:05:57.000They will become lawmakers to advance Sharia law in America.
00:06:01.000And 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.
00:06:16.000Greg Abbott has therefore declared that CARE should be labeled a transnational terrorist organization, a foreign terrorist organization.
00:06:28.000Me here is the CARE executive director.
00:06:30.000There's a flashback to 2023 saying that he was happy about October 7th.
00:06:36.000The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp on October 7th.
00:06:47.000And 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.
00:07:04.000That is the head of CARE, and Yihadawad.
00:07:08.000He said also in November of 2023 that Hamas was fighting on behalf of Palestinians.
00:07:16.000And 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.
00:07:43.000So the growing number of Jewish Americans identify that the state of Israel is an apartheid system and they will not support it.
00:07:52.000None of us speak for Gaza and those who are fighting on behalf of the Palestinians.
00:08:19.000Okay, so again, CARE has always been a Hamas-linked group.
00:08:24.000Prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who writes for National Review now, he wrote in a book called The Grand Jihad about the beginnings of CARE.
00:08:30.000Hamas supporters gathered at a Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia in 1993 with the intent of creating a new public relations organization in the United States.
00:08:38.000And those Hamas supporters included one Omar Ahmad, the president of the Islamic Association for Palestine.
00:08:43.000He was concerned about being recorded at the time.
00:08:46.000So Ahmad instead referred to himself as Omar Yahya and referred to Sama instead of Hamas because Sama is Hamas backwards.
00:08:53.000And 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.
00:09:04.000Nihadawad was at the time the PR director for IAP.
00:09:20.000And less than a year later, CARE was born.
00:09:23.000Again, it was linked with the Holy Land Foundation.
00:09:26.000I asked our sponsors over at Comet, what were the specific allegations regarding CARE's association with the Holy Land Foundation?
00:09:34.000Because they were named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.
00:09:39.000The Holy Land Foundation was funneling enormous quantities of money from Americans to Hamas.
00:09:46.000So 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.
00:09:55.000The 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.
00:10:03.000Evidence 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.
00:10:16.000The 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.
00:10:28.000So, 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.
00:10:38.000Coming 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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00:12:48.000Well, 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.
00:13:02.000Second, the Democratic Party has an unusual susceptibility to this sort of stuff.
00:13:07.000Zorhan Mamdani isn't just a Muslim running for office in New York.
00:13:17.000He is a radical with Islamist leanings at the very, very least.
00:13:22.000As it turns out, for example, Zorin Mamnani is now backing a care-linked New York Assembly candidate.
00:13:28.000This is according to the New York Post.
00:13:31.000He'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.
00:13:37.000He is backing a person named Abhir Kawas, a longtime Palestinian American activist.
00:13:43.000That 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.
00:13:50.000Because 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.
00:14:02.000That is the philosophy, the foreign policy and yes, domestic policy philosophy of Zorhan Mamdani and his fellow travelers.
00:14:08.000Top 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.
00:14:32.000And 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.
00:14:48.000And so this is like a long trajectory.
00:14:50.000And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right?
00:14:56.000Okay, 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.
00:15:07.000And 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.
00:15:17.000First 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.
00:15:26.000Islamic slave trading was more populous than the Atlantic slave trade over the course of history.
00:15:34.000But beyond that, the links between Zorhan Mamdani and the DSA and radical Islam, those are quite real.
00:15:47.000People are treating all of this in sort of the legacy media and the mainstream media.
00:15:50.000They'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.
00:16:00.000They're treating the Islamist part as the throwaway and the Marxist part is the stuff that people are actually voting for.
00:16:05.000People are actually voting for the DSA communism.
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00:18:03.000So 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.
00:18:13.000If 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.
00:18:23.000By the way, it's in violation of American federal law.
00:18:26.000So if Zorhan Mamdani were to actually do that, he would be in violation of law.
00:18:30.000But here, again, this is the actual pitch.
00:18:33.000The actual pitch has nothing to do with policy.
00:18:35.000It has to do with the anti-Americanism that Mamdani represents, which is tied into, again, the anti-Americanism of groups like CARE.
00:18:42.000The radical Islam, that aspect is a selling point.
00:18:46.000It is not, in fact, a drawback for people like Zorhan Mamdani.
00:18:50.000You said you would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu based on the 2024 international court arrest warrant.
00:18:57.000Next UN General Assembly, as mayor, would you do that?
00:19:01.000So I've said time and again that I believe this is a city of international law.
00:19:05.000And being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.
00:19:09.000And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they're for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.
00:19:14.000I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.
00:19:17.000And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of the laws that we have.
00:19:21.000So I will look to exhaust every legal possibility not to create my own laws to do so.
00:19:27.000Okay, 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.
00:19:48.000Okay, 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.
00:20:01.000They 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.
00:20:11.000There's no question that Jamal Khashoggi was linked with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:20:14.000And 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.
00:20:27.000Okay, 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.
00:20:38.000Saudis and the Iranians are enemies because the Iranians wish to destroy the Saudis, and this has been true for a very long time.
00:20:44.000The Biden administration, trying to draw closer to Iran, cut a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi murder.
00:20:50.000Now, no one is making the case that Khashoggi should have been murdered by the Saudis.
00:21:18.000And 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.
00:21:28.000So he started off yelling at the Saudis about Jamal Khashoggi, and he ended by essentially bending the knee to the Saudis.
00:21:35.000Well, the media have decided that they're going to put tremendous focus on the Khashoggi murder.
00:21:41.000For 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.
00:21:52.000Iran is, of course, responsible for the death and wounding of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq War.
00:21:58.000They seem to have no such complaints whenever Erdogan visits from Turkey.
00:22:02.000Erdogan has participated in an extraordinary variety of human rights abuses.
00:22:06.000But when MBS shows up, then it's time to ask him endlessly about Jamal Khashoggi.
00:22:10.000Now, again, he can answer those questions.
00:22:14.000But 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.
00:22:37.000That's why the focus on Jamal Khashoggi.
00:22:40.000Because 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.
00:22:54.000As the Jerusalem Post reported in a piece by Yeshaya Rosman back in 2024, Jamal Khashoggi was deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:23:04.000In the months leading up to his death, he was in the process of launching an organization known as Dawn.
00:23:11.000Democracy for the Arab World Now, working in close collaboration with Niharawad, executive director and co-founder of CARE and a board member of Dawn.
00:23:21.000Now, again, CARE is deeply associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:23:24.000They have close personal ties in the form of some of their leadership with people who are associated with Hamas for sure.
00:23:33.000So Khashoggi had a lot of those connections.
00:24:23.000You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.
00:24:28.000Now, 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.
00:24:37.000However, 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.
00:24:44.000We don't get to choose the leadership glass in all of these countries.
00:24:49.000And again, the media attention with regard to all of this, I think, is quite purposeful.
00:24:55.000I do not think that it is a coincidence.
00:24:57.000They'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.
00:25:07.000Alrighty, coming up, Democrats are now claiming that members of the military should disobey their orders.
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00:27:31.000Okay, meanwhile, Democrats are becoming increasingly unhinged with regard to the president's foreign policy.
00:27:37.000So, 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.
00:27:54.000Senator 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.
00:28:10.000We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.
00:28:16.000We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.
00:29:16.000The claim that they're going to make is that this isn't about forcing members of the military to violate the law.
00:29:20.000They're just telling them not to violate the Constitution.
00:29:23.000Okay, but let's be real about what they're doing.
00:29:25.000The obvious implication is that they are receiving illegal orders each and every day.
00:29:29.000And we should just point out that if somebody improperly attempts to resist a proper order, that person could end up with actual legal consequences.
00:29:38.000Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, he put out a statement on all of this saying stage four TDS.
00:29:44.000That was the entirety of the statement.
00:29:45.000Stage four Trump derangement syndrome.
00:29:48.000Now, speaking of Trump derangement syndrome, all of the controversy swirling around Jeffrey Epstein continues.
00:29:53.000The Senate yesterday approved the Epstein files bill sending it to President Trump's desk.
00:29:57.000Now, as we discussed, the bill doesn't actually do anything.
00:29:59.000The 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.
00:30:08.000I mean, the Trump administration has already filed lawsuits in order to get courts to release information.
00:30:13.000The courts say, we can't release that information.
00:30:14.000We 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.
00:30:24.000However, this whole thing was political.
00:30:28.000The people who are leading the charge on this, as we mentioned yesterday, many of them are people who are directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:30:34.000That includes people like Steve Bannon on the right, people like Stacey Plaskett on the left.
00:30:40.000I 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.
00:30:50.000That 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.
00:31:09.000So Hakeem Jeffries' campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein.
00:31:16.000So again, the Epstein scandal is a real scandal and they remain open questions.
00:31:21.000And I will continue to maintain that those questions are open.
00:31:24.000However, 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.
00:31:36.000I mean, again, this is something Democrats keep maintaining.
00:31:39.000They had control of all of these files for four years under Joe Biden.
00:32:57.000By the way, you know who's having a career-ending moment right now is Larry Summers.
00:33:01.000The 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.
00:33:21.000So 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.
00:33:27.000Speaker Johnson pointed out that all of this is about trying to weaponize Epstein against Trump.
00:33:31.000That's true, by the way, again, for people both left and right who are attempting to undermine Trump presidency.
00:33:36.000On the left, they're trying to undermine Trump's presidency for obvious reasons.
00:33:39.000On 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.
00:33:58.000Here's Speaker Johnson on this yesterday.
00:34:01.000But 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.
00:34:41.000Well, for the left, the agenda is to damage Trump's presidency and thereby damage the Republican Party.
00:34:46.000For 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.
00:34:58.000One, the people who are attempting to do this represent legitimately the worst part of the MAGA coalition.
00:35:05.000So if you check out the Calci markets today, okay, Calci, one of our sponsors, which party will win the 2028 presidential election?
00:35:14.000If you go back to March, basically 50-50, today, the markets suggest by a 54 to 46 split, the Democrats.
00:35:22.000I think that all of the Republicans whistling past the political graveyard here, suggesting that there's an inherent advantage for Republicans in 2028.
00:35:33.000And 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.
00:35:41.000Forget about the morality of the thing for just a second.
00:35:43.000Does anyone think that's a victorious electoral coalition?
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00:37:38.000Now, you can have various manifestations of MAGA.
00:37:41.000There are people who can claim in the name of MAGA to be hawkish on foreign policy.
00:37:44.000There are people who can claim to be paleo-gun isolationists on behalf of MAGA.
00:37:48.000President 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.
00:38:02.000If 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.
00:38:34.000Here's Marjorie Taylor Green doing her shtick.
00:38:37.000And 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,
00:38:52.000for 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.
00:39:08.000Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.
00:39:14.000No, 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.
00:39:25.000Again, I don't claim to be speaking in the name of President Trump or MAGA.
00:39:36.000But 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.
00:39:43.000And 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.
00:39:53.000It is stupid politics, truly idiotic politics.
00:39:58.000And you can see it happening, unfortunately, inside the Republican Party on a wide variety of scores.
00:40:03.000So, for example, there's a report from ProPublica, a publication I do not particularly like, but apparently this is accurate.
00:40:10.000They 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.
00:40:28.000He had to withdraw because he was under so much fire for the fact that he believed so many nutty and awful things.
00:40:33.000Apparently, 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.
00:40:58.000Do 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?
00:41:13.000In 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.
00:41:23.000The request to return the electronics to the Tates was coming from the White House.
00:41:27.000This seems like a great way politically to win women, to broaden your tent.
00:41:32.000Probably this is just genius-level stuff, genius-level stuff.
00:41:36.000Meanwhile, Nick Fuentes, who of course was glazed by Tucker Carlson rather famously.
00:41:43.000So, Nick Fuentes has now announced that he is going to be launching an actual PAC, the America First Foundation.
00:41:52.000And apparently, it is going to be supported by a variety of supposedly quote-unquote America first figures.
00:41:59.000I say America First figures because, again, that phrase is semantically overloaded.
00:42:03.000Every American should believe that America comes first when it comes to our policy because duh.
00:42:08.000But what they mean by America first is not that.
00:42:10.000What 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.
00:42:24.000And instead, it ought to be whatever Fuentes' peculiar definition of heritage represents.
00:42:30.000Apparently, according to the free press, the America First Foundation's latest tax filing lists Fuentes as its president, along with two board members.
00:42:37.000One is Jonathan Miller, a former White House correspondent for Blaze TV, who posted the day after last July's assassination attempt on President Trump.
00:42:45.000I'm not uniting with anyone except Christ and my brothers.
00:42:47.000I know stand with Trump, F the left, F the GOP, F the Secret Service, F the Jews, F democracy.
00:43:18.000Legitimately, 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.
00:43:28.000And on social policy, by the way, he really is not.
00:43:31.000But 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.
00:43:47.000Gabe Kaminsky reports: veteran Democratic strategist James Carville says, quote, once they get their views on Adolf Hitler straightened out, then can we talk?
00:43:54.000You understand this is too much effing fun for a Democrat, right?
00:44:04.000And 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.
00:44:28.000Well, 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.
00:44:39.000Now, again, there are, of course, going to be elements of tradition and heritage.
00:44:47.000But 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.
00:44:59.000Again, I think that it's wrong on its merits, but I also think that politically it is suicide.
00:45:25.000You think he's praising MTG because he's a good Republican who actively wants to save MAGA?
00:45:29.000Is that what you think of Jimmy Kimmel?
00:45:30.000Or 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?
00:45:40.000When the Democrats are cheering you, like full scale, cheering you for your heel turn, perhaps there's something going on.
00:47:09.000For those who have never had to read a bedtime story, allow me to explain.
00:47:12.000An 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.
00:47:21.000With every page, the pitch grows more elaborate.
00:47:24.000By the time Sam prevails, his hapless victim inhabits a scene of chaos.
00:47:29.000He says, when you come to think of it, there's often someone called Sam trying to sell you something you don't initially want.
00:48:19.000The insiders discern that expected profits cannot possibly justify the now exorbitant price of the shares and begin to take profits by selling.
00:48:27.000As share prices fall, the outsiders stampede for the exits, causing the bubble to burst altogether.
00:48:31.000He says we are currently at stage three.
00:48:35.000He 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.
00:48:43.00010 years later, AI will be as important to this century as electricity or the car were to the previous one.
00:48:48.000Indeed, 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.
00:48:54.000Even if AI falls short of that, Reuters reported last week, 97% of listeners cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and human-composed songs.
00:49:02.000The song currently topping the country charts called Walk My Walk was generated by AI.
00:49:07.000AI is now the principal driver of both the U.S. economy and the stock market.
00:49:11.000Between 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.
00:49:22.000Apparently, AI companies account for 80% of the gains in U.S. stocks this year.