The Ben Shapiro Show - May 13, 2024


Revenge Of The Normies

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normies abandoning Biden
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Joe Biden Donald Trump Rafah Tony Blinken Rafa Nancy Pelosi Michael Cohen Chris Murphy Osama Bin Laden Bernie Sanders Policy Genius Barack Obama Good Ranchers Adam Carolla Yahya Sinwar Mike Pompeo Invita Envita JD Vance Benjamin Netanyahu and 32 more
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The Democratic Party is totally disconnected from reality, and that s why Joe Biden is in serious trouble. The problem with the country is that it s filled with bitter clingers, people who are still relying on God and guns and all these terrible things, religion. And the cultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest. That s why people are not voting Democrat as much as they should be, because they are blocked by cultural factors like guns, God, and gays. That would be a woman s right to choose. And the Democratic Party has decided to cave to the most radical members of its base, who apparently think God is very bad, and guns are very bad. And gays are bad because they hate gay people. That is not a winning formula. The vast majority of people in the United States just want to be left alone, and to be part of solid family structures, and the social fabric building that is things like religion. But she s supposed to understand all that, but she doesn t. And that s not a problem, because there is a radical wing of the party that has now taken over the center of the Democratic party, and they are catering to right now of the losers. That s not an army of losers, and I ve mentioned this this weekend at the weekend, which is something that happened over the weekend because Jerry Seinfeld was speaking at Duke University because they re being guided by the 6-600 people who were cheering on the 6. people are being guided out by the virtue of being a 6-6. by the meritocracy. And they are not every Democratic voters are not a rebel because they're not a Democratic voter, they re not a member of the they re a rebel because they ve got it wrong, they are a . and they ve been guided by a meritocracy by a party that s got it all wrong, and are a party led by a group of people who believe that traditional values are inherently wrong and bad and bad, they wish to rebel against traditional values and are bad and bad are against the 7- bad . and so they re bad, so they bad? so they want to rebel, right now, and so bad, they don t have a right to be bad and so on and so forth, so why are they bad ? and so bad?

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00:01:13.000 So, the Democratic Party is totally disconnected from reality.
00:01:17.000 I mean, totally disconnected from the normies, and that is why Joe Biden is in serious, serious trouble.
00:01:22.000 I give you as exhibit A today, not Joe Biden, but Nancy Pelosi.
00:01:26.000 So Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, and still, of course, a very influential voice inside the Democratic Party, she was at Oxford Union Society doing a debate over populism with Winston Marshall, the former musician from Mumford and Sons.
00:01:40.000 And at that debate, she started tearing into populism in language that sounds very much like Barack Obama circa 2008.
00:01:46.000 You remember that in 2008, Barack Obama was running for president of the United States, and he suggested that the problem with the country is that it was filled with bitter clingers, people who are still relying on God and guns and all these terrible things, religion.
00:01:59.000 Well, Nancy Pelosi is still doing that routine. 1.00
00:02:01.000 Here she was ripping into the normies.
00:02:04.000 ...of these poor souls who are looking for some answers.
00:02:09.000 We've given them to them, but they're blocked by some of their views on guns.
00:02:14.000 They have the three Gs. 0.64
00:02:15.000 Guns, gays, God. 1.00
00:02:17.000 That would be a woman's right to choose. 1.00
00:02:19.000 And the cultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest.
00:02:27.000 Okay, so according to Nancy Pelosi, the reason people are not voting Democrat as much as they should be is because they are blocked by cultural factors like guns and God and gays.
00:02:38.000 Now that's an absurdly reductive view of people on the other side of the aisle.
00:02:41.000 It turns out that the vast majority of people in the United States just want to be left alone.
00:02:45.000 They want to be part of solid family structures.
00:02:47.000 They want to be involved in their local church or local synagogue.
00:02:51.000 They want to be involved in the social fabric building.
00:02:54.000 That is things like religion.
00:02:56.000 Nancy Pelosi herself is supposedly a religious Catholic, although again, I will question just how religious you are when you support transgenderism, same-sex marriage, and abortion as a point of course in your politics.
00:03:06.000 But she's supposed to understand all of that, but she doesn't.
00:03:09.000 Because there is a radical wing of the Democratic Party that has now taken the helm.
00:03:15.000 In the center of the Democratic Party, remember, Nancy Pelosi used to be more moderate than she is. 1.00
00:03:19.000 Barack Obama shifted the party to the left, and then Bernie Sanders shifted the party even more to the left.
00:03:24.000 And all Joe Biden is is a stand-in for a weathervane.
00:03:28.000 He is just a human weathervane.
00:03:29.000 He is no longer sentient, if he ever was.
00:03:32.000 Even when he was sentient, he was a weathervane.
00:03:34.000 Now, he is an inanimate object at the center of the Democratic Party.
00:03:37.000 He is a cork bobbing on the waves of the Democratic Party. 0.98
00:03:40.000 And the Democratic Party has decided to cave to its most radical members, people who apparently think that God is very bad, and the guns are very bad, and that the vast majority of Americans are only voting Republican because they hate gay people or some such nonsense. 0.98
00:03:53.000 That is not a winning formula. 1.00
00:03:55.000 The people that the Democratic Party are catering to right now are an army of losers. 0.99
00:04:00.000 I've mentioned this. 0.98
00:04:01.000 That's not every Democratic voter. 0.86
00:04:03.000 The vast majority of Democratic voters are not members of the Army of Losers.
00:04:06.000 I'm talking here about people who wish to rebel against the meritocracy, who believe that traditional values are inherently wrong and bad.
00:04:13.000 The kinds of people who let a student walk out at Duke University because Jerry Seinfeld was speaking, which is something that happened over the weekend.
00:04:21.000 weekend.
00:04:33.000 People are cheering because they're being guided out by the cops.
00:04:37.000 There are about 6,600 students here.
00:04:39.000 So it is a very small minority.
00:04:41.000 And you can hear the students booing the walkout.
00:04:46.000 Okay, there's a very small minority, but these are the people that the Democratic Party is catering to.
00:04:51.000 They're catering to the people like the graduate of Columbia University, they had the graduation over the weekend, and one graduate of Columbia University decided, because she was wearing a keffiyeh, and because she hates Israel, that she was going to rip up her worthless diploma, which is fine. 0.55
00:05:06.000 I mean, honestly, she had a Master's of Social Work, so she may as well burn the diploma anyway, since that's a useless degree. 0.93
00:05:11.000 Here she was.
00:05:14.000 This is being celebrated.
00:05:15.000 She walked up wearing handcuffs and a keffiyeh, and then she starts tearing that up. 1.00
00:05:21.000 Tearing up her diploma.
00:05:24.000 And then holding up her cap to the applause of pretty much no one. 0.96
00:05:30.000 Of course, this was all to be expected because again, she had her flag membership in the army of losers emblazoned right on her graduation outfit.
00:05:38.000 She had the ribbon around her neck and it had the Trans Pride Progress flag and Palestinian flag and all the rest of that sort of stuff. 0.79
00:05:44.000 These are the people to whom the Democratic Party has decided to appeal.
00:05:49.000 This is the clear logic of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:05:51.000 Internationally, by the way, the left has done the same thing.
00:05:54.000 A good example of this was over at Eurovision.
00:05:55.000 So Eurovision is this huge event in Europe.
00:05:59.000 Every year, they have a competitor from each European and Western country compete. 0.87
00:06:03.000 And the people who win are typically members of the Army of Losers, far leftists who hate traditional values.
00:06:11.000 The winner this year was a non-binary Swiss rapper.
00:06:15.000 If this is good music to you, then I challenge whether you have eardrums or not.
00:06:22.000 This is the person who won.
00:06:29.000 Non-binary rapper, which means a dude who dresses in ladies' clothing sometimes. 0.98
00:06:35.000 And that was not the only competitor in the army of losers. 0.90
00:06:38.000 There is a competitor from Ireland who calls itself Bambi Thug, protesting Israel. 0.96
00:06:47.000 This person is apparently a Satanist.
00:06:50.000 Which, I mean, honestly, would Satan even want this person?
00:06:53.000 This is a bad look.
00:06:55.000 Because it has been so hard.
00:06:56.000 It has been so hard.
00:06:59.000 And I'm so, I'm so thankful.
00:07:03.000 And I just want to say, we are what the Eurovision is.
00:07:07.000 The EBU is not what the Eurovision is. 0.99
00:07:09.000 F*** the EBU. 0.98
00:07:10.000 I'm, I don't even care anymore. 1.00
00:07:12.000 F*** them. 1.00
00:07:13.000 This human is a, they're this Satan-looking person. 1.00
00:07:15.000 The queers are coming. 1.00
00:07:17.000 The queers are coming. 1.00
00:07:20.000 Wow, the queers are coming. 1.00
00:07:21.000 Now, I'm, of course, very upset that Israel is there. 1.00
00:07:23.000 Why?
00:07:24.000 Israel is the only tolerant country when it comes to alternative sexualities in the Middle East.
00:07:28.000 Doesn't matter.
00:07:29.000 The whole point is army of losers, which is why, of course, Eden Golan, who's a normal-looking woman, who sang for Israel, ended up competing at Eurovision, was protested by literally tens of thousands of people, including Greta Thunberg, as we mentioned last week.
00:07:45.000 And as it turns out, the normies are now having their revenge.
00:07:49.000 Because when it came to the popular vote, the jury, there's two aspects of Eurovision.
00:07:53.000 One is the jury vote, which is all of the elites who decide who was the best performer.
00:07:57.000 And apparently they thought that Swiss non-binary rapper was just incredible and had to win.
00:08:02.000 But when it came to the actual vote of, you know, human beings living in Europe who voted, Israel ended up placing second in the popular vote.
00:08:12.000 In fact, Israel topped the popular vote in Britain, Spain, Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, and Italy. 0.97
00:08:18.000 Because, as it turns out, people don't like the army of losers. 0.96
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00:09:39.000 Again, there's a reason Hamas is emblematic of the Army of Losers. 1.00
00:09:42.000 They are people who have created a victimhood status for themselves by engagement in terrorism and evil, and then claim that that's all the result of evil Western civilization. 0.94
00:09:50.000 And so the Army of Losers likes to rush to their defense. 0.99
00:09:53.000 This is who the Democratic Party has decided to fall in line with, is the Army of Losers.
00:09:58.000 And it is not paying off for them, because here is the latest polling data for Joe Biden. 0.70
00:10:02.000 The latest polling data for Joe Biden, who has spent the last month basically undermining the state of Israel in its attempts to extirpate a terrorist group currently holding American hostages.
00:10:12.000 Here is the polling data.
00:10:13.000 Nevada is in a five-way race that includes as well as Jill Stein and RFK Jr. 1.00
00:10:20.000 This is a battleground poll from New York Times Sienna Research.
00:10:22.000 Trump up in Nevada, 14 points, 44 to 30.
00:10:26.000 Trump up in Arizona, 44, 35.
00:10:28.000 That is a nine point lead.
00:10:30.000 In Georgia, Trump up eight points, 42, 34.
00:10:33.000 Pennsylvania, Trump up four points, 41, 37.
00:10:36.000 Wisconsin, Trump up one point, 40 to 39.
00:10:39.000 Michigan, Trump up three points, 42 to 39.
00:10:43.000 These are awful statistics for Joe Biden.
00:10:45.000 Truly terrible statistics for Joe Biden.
00:10:48.000 And those are races, including RFK.
00:10:49.000 Even when you take RFK out, Trump is currently leading in every single battleground state, according to the New York Times.
00:10:55.000 What is going on there?
00:10:56.000 Well, as it turns out, Joe Biden is losing at the moderates.
00:10:59.000 The normies don't like him. 0.99
00:11:01.000 The people who don't like the army of losers don't like him. 0.98
00:11:03.000 And again, that is a large part of the Democratic base. 0.67
00:11:06.000 That is all the moderates in the Democratic Party base who do not wish to overthrow the American meritocracy in the name of people who declare themselves victims.
00:11:14.000 Who don't have a lot of sympathy for Hamas.
00:11:17.000 Who don't believe that the queers are coming is the future of the West. 1.00
00:11:22.000 These are just normal, everyday Americans who want to be left alone.
00:11:25.000 They want to be able to earn a living.
00:11:26.000 They want to be able to put food on the table.
00:11:28.000 And they want their kids to have more opportunity than they had.
00:11:30.000 That's it.
00:11:31.000 That's all they want.
00:11:32.000 And Joe Biden is not giving that to them.
00:11:35.000 According to The New York Times, quote, The findings reveal widespread dissatisfaction
00:11:38.000 with the state of the country and serious doubts about Mr.
00:11:40.000 Biden's ability to deliver major improvements to American life. A majority of voters
00:11:44.000 still desire the return to normalcy promised by Mr. Biden in the last campaign, but voters in
00:11:48.000 battleground states remain particularly anxious, unsettled and itching for change. Nearly 70
00:11:52.000 percent of voters say the country's political and economic systems need major changes or even
00:11:57.000 to be torn down entirely.
00:11:59.000 Only a sliver of Mr. Biden supporters, just 13 percent, believe the president would bring major
00:12:04.000 changes in his second term, while even many of those who dislike Trump grudgingly acknowledge
00:12:08.000 he would shake up an unsatisfying status quo.
00:12:10.000 below.
00:12:11.000 you The sense that Biden would do little to improve the nation's fortunes has helped erode his standing among young Black and Hispanic voters, who usually represent the foundation of any democratic path to the presidency.
00:12:22.000 Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are essentially tied among 18 to 29 year olds and Hispanic voters, even though each group gave Biden more than 60% of their vote in 2020.
00:12:32.000 Trump also wins more than 20% of black voters.
00:12:35.000 Why is that happening?
00:12:36.000 Now, what the left would say is that the reason that's happening is because Biden hasn't tacked far enough to the left.
00:12:41.000 But that is a lie.
00:12:42.000 It is not true at all.
00:12:44.000 The reason that Joe Biden is falling apart is because he is losing the moderate middle.
00:12:50.000 According to the New York Times, quote, Mr. Biden's losses are concentrated among moderate and conservative Democratic-leaning voters who think the system needs a major change or to be torn down altogether.
00:13:00.000 Mr. Trump wins just 2% of Biden's very liberal 2020 voters who think the system at least need major changes, compared with 16% of those who are moderate or conservative.
00:13:10.000 So what is Joe Biden aiming at?
00:13:11.000 He's aiming at the 13% of voters who voted for him last time and are planning on voting for him this time.
00:13:18.000 Out of 100%, there are 87% of Biden's voters who don't care about Gaza, who are shifting over to Trump.
00:13:26.000 And then there are 13% who say they voted for Biden last time and that they say that the war in Gaza is important.
00:13:33.000 But just 17% of those voters reported sympathizing with Israel over the Palestinians.
00:13:39.000 So in other words, he's aiming at a fraction of a fraction of his voting base to try and jog him over the line here, and it's not going to work. 1.00
00:13:46.000 It is unbelievably stupid. 0.99
00:13:47.000 It turns out that the normies don't like Hamas, and they don't like Joe Biden's focus on trying to draw a distinction between Israel and Hamas. 1.00
00:13:56.000 Now, this polling data does show, for example, that the Democratic Party disproportionately likes the Palestinians.
00:14:04.000 And when you look, for example, Here's the question.
00:14:08.000 In a dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which sides do you sympathize with more, Israel or the Palestinians?
00:14:14.000 In the 2024 vote, for Republicans, 65 to 8.
00:14:18.000 They like Israel.
00:14:20.000 For Biden voters, 34 to 25, they like the Palestinians, which, by the way, is totally delusional.
00:14:26.000 That's totally delusional.
00:14:27.000 I mean, that is crazy talk, considering the Palestinian population overtly supports terrorism in October 7th by every available polling metric.
00:14:33.000 But they've been told a lot of lies by the media.
00:14:34.000 Whatever it is, that is a low priority issue for the vast majority of Democrats, including Democrats who are leaving Joe Biden behind.
00:14:42.000 It is 13% of voters who are leaving Joe Biden behind.
00:14:46.000 Who care deeply about Gaza, and that is the portion that Joe Biden is focusing on, which is nutso. 0.51
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00:15:53.000 This is what Mark Penn writes over at the New York Times today.
00:15:55.000 He points out that Joe Biden is aiming at the wrong percentage of the electorate.
00:16:02.000 He says, scared candidates are, in my experience, easily sold the idea that the Democratic base or Republican base is going to stay home in November unless they're constantly fed what they want to hear.
00:16:12.000 One call from the head of a religious group, a civil rights group, a labor group, and others, and fear runs through the campaign.
00:16:17.000 A New York Times article this winter about black pastors warning the Biden White House that his Gaza war policy could imperil reelection is a good example. 0.97
00:16:24.000 Maybe if Biden were running against a well-liked centrist opponent, concern could be justified.
00:16:27.000 But during a fall election against Trump, the final month of this campaign is going to see a frenzy of get-out-the-vote efforts.
00:16:32.000 I doubt the Democratic base is going to sit idly by at the thought of Trump cruising up to Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:16:38.000 He says that it's insane for Joe Biden to be aiming at the Gaza contingent.
00:16:44.000 He says, Mr. Biden's campaign has fundamentally miscalculated on Israel.
00:16:47.000 Nikki Haley voters are strong defense voters who would back ally Israel unreservedly, and I believe want to see a president who would be putting maximum pressure on Hamas to release hostages.
00:16:56.000 By pandering to base voters with no choice, Biden is pushing the Haley vote to Trump.
00:17:00.000 And so his first instincts on Israel were both good policy and good politics.
00:17:04.000 84% of independents support Israel more than Hamas in the conflict.
00:17:07.000 63% believe a ceasefire should only occur after hostages have been released.
00:17:11.000 The more Biden has pandered to the left by softening his support of Israel, the weaker he looks, the more his foreign policy ratings have declined.
00:17:18.000 Rather than pull decisively away from Israel, Biden should instead find a plan that enables Israel to go into Rafah and has enough precautions for Rafah's civilians so the American president can back it.
00:17:27.000 He says that his energy policies are geared toward the left.
00:17:30.000 Wrong move.
00:17:30.000 He says that his policies on crime and immigration are geared toward the left.
00:17:34.000 Wrong move.
00:17:36.000 He says, Mr. Biden is seen as older.
00:17:39.000 The assessment of the job he has done is in the negatives.
00:17:41.000 While he won't get any younger, he could still move more to the center, hoover up swing voters who desperately want to reject Trump, and strengthen his image as a leader by destroying Hamas and rally his base at the end.
00:17:50.000 But that first means pushing back against the base rather than pandering to it.
00:17:53.000 But Joe Biden isn't doing that.
00:17:54.000 James Carville is saying the same thing.
00:17:56.000 He says, you know, Democrats are whistling past the graveyard and pretending that the appeal to the radicals as opposed to the normies is magically going to save Joe Biden.
00:18:03.000 Those people are delusional.
00:18:04.000 Here's Carville.
00:18:06.000 Trump's more ahead than he's ever been.
00:18:12.000 Fewer people think January 6th was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, the Constitution. 0.97
00:18:21.000 I don't know what the f*** you want to say.
00:18:23.000 It's going the wrong way. 0.91
00:18:25.000 It's not working.
00:18:28.000 Everything that we're throwing is spaghetti at a wall and none of it is sticking.
00:18:34.000 Me included.
00:18:36.000 Correct.
00:18:37.000 Correct.
00:18:37.000 You know why?
00:18:38.000 Because Joe Biden is not appealing to anyone even remotely near the center of the political spectrum.
00:18:42.000 Independents are turning away from him en masse.
00:18:45.000 I can't tell you, on the Israel issue, how many Jewish liberals I've talked to over the course of the last week since Joe Biden made his major reversal on Israel who have said, even if they can't bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump, they'll vote for RFK. 0.78
00:18:56.000 They just won't vote.
00:18:58.000 Tons of them.
00:19:00.000 Joe Biden has made clear his disdain for the moderate middle of the country, for the normies.
00:19:05.000 He's made his disdain absolutely clear for them.
00:19:08.000 And they are rejecting him wholesale.
00:19:11.000 And the Gaza situation is just the latest indicator of that. 0.63
00:19:14.000 Joe Biden is held captive by his own base.
00:19:16.000 And by the way, lying to the American people. 0.99
00:19:18.000 So we heard from the Biden administration that only very recently did they decide that they were basically going to hamstring Israel in their attempts to finish the war in the Gaza Strip, which again, is pragmatically idiotic. 0.98
00:19:29.000 It's really stupid because it means that this war is going to continue to be at the top of the headlines all the way through the Democratic Convention, which is precisely what he wishes to avoid since he wants to appease his left-wing base. 0.95
00:19:40.000 There are two ways to appease the left-wing base. 0.99
00:19:42.000 One way is to continue to undermine Israel and hope that these people will come around, which they won't. 0.83
00:19:46.000 They're radicals by nature.
00:19:48.000 The second is to let Israel finish the job and then turn around and appease the left-wing base with something else, which is a lot easier. 0.97
00:19:55.000 But Biden, because he's a fool and because the people around him are committed ideologically to the idea that an Israeli victory is bad for the Middle East for some reason. 0.75
00:20:05.000 Because of that, Joe Biden is doing the wrong things politically. 0.99
00:20:07.000 And in fact, the Biden administration over the weekend, a couple of pieces of news that are just absolutely shocking in terms of Joe Biden's cave to Hamas.
00:20:15.000 Piece number one, Joe Biden was rethinking his support for Israel by February.
00:20:20.000 By February.
00:20:22.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before the public knew.
00:20:27.000 In a conversation bristling with tension on February 11th, the President warned the Prime Minister against a major assault on the Gaza City of Rafah and suggested that continued U.S.
00:20:35.000 support would depend on how Israel proceeded.
00:20:38.000 It was an extraordinary moment.
00:20:39.000 For the first time, the President, who had so strongly backed Israel's war against Hamas, was essentially threatening to change course.
00:20:44.000 The White House, however, kept the threat secret, making no mention of it in the official statement it released about the call.
00:20:50.000 Six days later, on February 17th, Mr. Biden heard from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
00:20:54.000 The president's chief diplomat was calling from his blue and white government plane as he was heading home from a security conference in Munich.
00:21:00.000 During the president's warning, despite the president's warning, Blinken reported the momentum for an invasion of Rafah was building.
00:21:05.000 It could result in a humanitarian catastrophe, he peered.
00:21:08.000 They had to draw a line.
00:21:10.000 So this was going since February, and he just lied to the American public about all of this.
00:21:13.000 Why?
00:21:14.000 Because in February, there was widespread support for Israel finishing the war.
00:21:17.000 So Biden slow played it, and behind the scenes, he threatened Israel.
00:21:20.000 Which, by the way, plays exactly into the hands of Hamas. 0.84
00:21:24.000 The New York Times, same day, says that Yahya Sinwar, what is his plan here?
00:21:29.000 This is a direct quote from the New York Times.
00:21:31.000 What is the leader of Hamas' plan in this war, where he started a war with a militarily superior power who's wiped out probably half his troop strength?
00:21:38.000 Quote, Israeli and U.S.
00:21:40.000 intelligence officers say, Sinwar's strategy is to keep the war going for as long as it takes to shred Israel's international reputation and to damage its relationship with its primary ally, the United States.
00:21:51.000 As Israel faced intense pressure to avoid launching an operation in Rafah, Hamas fired rockets last Sunday from Rafah toward a nearby border crossing, killing four Israeli soldiers.
00:22:01.000 So in other words, the basic idea here is that Hamas is counting on Joe Biden and the international left, the army of losers, to save it.
00:22:11.000 It wants to maintain the war for as long as possible. 0.66
00:22:12.000 And who is caving into that?
00:22:13.000 Joe Biden.
00:22:15.000 Joe Biden is caving into that.
00:22:16.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:23:22.000 This is an insane story.
00:23:24.000 Okay, here's the most insane story of the day.
00:23:25.000 You ready for this?
00:23:27.000 Apparently, the United States, Joe Biden, is threatening Israel on the one hand with a stick, which is that if they go into Rafah and finish off the four battalions of Hamas fighters who are in the city, that America will cut off certain supply of bombs.
00:23:41.000 On the other hand, they're offering a carrot.
00:23:43.000 What's the carrot that the Biden administration is offering the Israeli government?
00:23:45.000 There's a report from the Washington Post, quote, the Biden administration has reportedly offered
00:23:49.000 to give Israel sensitive intelligence on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders
00:23:53.000 if it agrees to hold off on a long promised major military operation
00:23:56.000 in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafa.
00:23:59.000 The Washington Post quoted four unnamed sources as saying the United States, quote,
00:24:02.000 is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence
00:24:07.000 to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group's hidden tunnels.
00:24:12.000 you Do you understand how insane that is?
00:24:16.000 Let me explain in very short words for members of the Biden administration.
00:24:21.000 What they are saying right there is that they know where Hamas's leaders are, presumably including Sinwar, and they have been holding that back from Israel.
00:24:30.000 Well, Sinwar holds American hostages. 0.56
00:24:33.000 They have apparently intelligence on where Hamas's leadership is, and they are not telling Israel.
00:24:38.000 But if Israel does not go into Rafah and does not finish off Hamas in Rafah, then maybe they'll give them intelligence on where the leader of the October 7th massacre is.
00:24:48.000 Which makes the United States and the Biden administration an ally of Hamas.
00:24:53.000 There's no other way to put that.
00:24:55.000 They're literally bargaining on behalf of Hamas. 0.97
00:24:57.000 They're saying, do not go into this area where the Hamas fighters are and kill them all.
00:25:01.000 And if you don't, maybe we'll give you some intel on where the leadership is. 0.96
00:25:06.000 That's insane.
00:25:07.000 Can you imagine if an ally did that to America?
00:25:10.000 Can you imagine if the situation was reversed for a second?
00:25:12.000 America was at war in, say, Afghanistan.
00:25:14.000 And Israel knew exactly where Osama bin Laden was.
00:25:17.000 And they said, you know what?
00:25:18.000 We're not going to give you the location of Osama bin Laden.
00:25:20.000 We're not going to tell you.
00:25:21.000 If you give us more aid, then we'll tell you exactly where bin Laden is.
00:25:24.000 Can you imagine if Israel said something like that?
00:25:27.000 The outrage would be insane, as it should be, because it would make Israel effectively an ally of Bin Laden. 0.89
00:25:32.000 The United States right now is doing that with Yahya Sinwar, according to the Washington Post.
00:25:37.000 They know precisely where Hamas' leadership is.
00:25:39.000 And by the way, Hamas is holding five Americans hostage that we know about.
00:25:45.000 And Joe Biden has abandoned those people.
00:25:48.000 He is literally attempting to trade on behalf, he's horse swapping on behalf of Hamas right here. 0.69
00:25:54.000 Which is nuts.
00:25:55.000 And meanwhile, ratcheting up the pressure on Israel.
00:25:58.000 So Hamas is firing at the Rafah crossing, which is where humanitarian aid goes in.
00:26:03.000 They're stopping humanitarian aid from going in.
00:26:05.000 There's film over the weekend emerging of members of Hamas literally shooting civilians trying to get humanitarian aid.
00:26:11.000 So where's the Biden administration putting its pressure?
00:26:13.000 On Israel, of course. 0.81
00:26:14.000 So they're doing so through a variety of different methods.
00:26:18.000 One of those is a State Department report. 0.97
00:26:19.000 So first of all, the State Department has been an Arabist trash heap for as long as I've been alive. 1.00
00:26:23.000 The State Department needs to be cleaned out forthwith. 0.94
00:26:26.000 If Donald Trump wins, I hope he puts back in charge somebody like Mike Pompeo, and I hope that Mike Pompeo fires everyone.
00:26:31.000 You want to talk about a deep state?
00:26:33.000 The State Department has been its own deep state for generations in American foreign policy. 0.87
00:26:37.000 It is a garbage heap of echo chamber left-wingers who emerged from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Policy. 0.96
00:26:45.000 They don't know anything. 0.99
00:26:47.000 They don't have any centralizing set of American values.
00:26:51.000 They're a joke, in other words.
00:26:52.000 So, the State Department put out a report on whether Israel is obeying international law obligations.
00:26:59.000 Now, I should point out at this point that Israel's ratio of terrorists killed to civilians killed in urban warfare here is the best ratio in the history of urban warfare.
00:27:07.000 In its history of all urban warfare anywhere on Earth.
00:27:11.000 In fact, the United Nations very quietly over the weekend, the most icily of foreign policy, a wretched hive of scum and villainy, as I've said, according to the Jerusalem Post, the United States seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to data published May 6th and 8th.
00:27:31.000 The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.
00:27:35.000 The government media office in Gaza and Israeli authorities provided a disclaimer below the data.
00:27:39.000 On May 6th, the UN published data showing 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
00:27:43.000 reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
00:27:48.000 On May 8th, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed,
00:27:54.000 including 4,959 women and 707 children.
00:27:58.000 So in other words, they cut the number of supposed innocents by half, by literally half,
00:28:03.000 and no one noticed.
00:28:05.000 These are the same people whose numbers are being trusted by the Biden administration.
00:28:09.000 Which is totally insane.
00:28:12.000 By the way, if you believe the Hamas numbers, you're out of your mind.
00:28:16.000 You know how long it takes to actually come up with casualty numbers?
00:28:19.000 It took Israel months to figure out how many people were actually dead on October 7th.
00:28:23.000 Hamas is coming out with statistics but no names every single day.
00:28:27.000 Which is crazy.
00:28:28.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:29:30.000 Okay, so the State Department put out a report.
00:29:33.000 What was their report? 0.96
00:29:34.000 Their report is that Israel did not violate international law, but it's reasonable to think they might have, which is like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I understand that you're trying to provide cover to the Biden administration's disgusting foreign policy objective of undermining Israel's safety and security in the name of the army of losers.
00:29:51.000 I understand that's what you're trying to do, but that's not what you were asked.
00:29:54.000 The question is, do you have evidence that Israel violated international law?
00:29:58.000 The answer to that question, according to the State Department, is no.
00:30:01.000 But then they add a caveat.
00:30:02.000 It's reasonable to assess that perhaps they might have, under certain circumstances, This is the New York Times.
00:30:08.000 The Biden administration believes that Israel has most likely violated international standards in failing to protect civilians in Gaza, but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid.
00:30:19.000 The State Department said in a written report, Israel, quote, has the knowledge, experience and tools to implement best practices for mitigating civilian harm in its military operations.
00:30:26.000 But it added that, quote, the results on the ground, including high levels of civilian casualties, raise substantial questions.
00:30:33.000 Even so, the report, which seemed at odds with itself in places, said the United States had no hard proof of Israeli violations.
00:30:40.000 So, the report, which is mandated by President Biden, makes a distinction between the possibility that Israel has violated the law and any conclusions about specific incidents that would prove it.
00:30:50.000 So in other words, they have no specific evidence at all that Israel violated international law, but, but maybe they did.
00:30:59.000 Which is the State Department weaseling its way into withdrawing aid for Israel on the basis of literally no evidence as they freely admit.
00:31:05.000 You want to talk about a set of perverse incentives for Hamas?
00:31:10.000 So, the United States is currently acting as sword and shield for Hamas, protecting Hamas' leadership from Israel, offering that maybe in exchange for Israel not going into Rafah, and simultaneously undermining Israel's international credibility by saying that even though they have no evidence of international law violations, maybe, maybe they violated international law.
00:31:29.000 Well, I have no evidence that Joe Biden murders puppies.
00:31:33.000 But maybe it's reasonable to assume that under certain circumstances he might have murdered a puppy.
00:31:40.000 That's an absurd contention. 0.99
00:31:41.000 It's ridiculous. 0.71
00:31:42.000 If you have evidence, present your evidence. 0.71
00:31:45.000 And when you say that the number of civilian casualties is such as to suggest that they probably, or likely, or maybe violated international law, that in and of itself is a lie.
00:31:53.000 The United States has never fought a war in an urban environment with as low a ratio between terrorist deaths and civilian deaths as Israel is currently fighting. 0.95
00:32:02.000 And yet the State Department, because again, they are oriented toward an outcome, and that outcome is backing Joe Biden's propaganda efforts on behalf of Hamas, because again, he wants to win that army of losers.
00:32:11.000 That's what this is all about. 0.70
00:32:13.000 That's what they're doing.
00:32:15.000 So Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he spent the weekend defending Joe Biden's reversal on Israel.
00:32:20.000 He said, for example, that Israel should get out of Gaza.
00:32:24.000 Here he was delivering his strongest rebuke of Israel yet.
00:32:27.000 We believe two things.
00:32:28.000 One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we haven't seen.
00:32:34.000 Second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in Gaza is over.
00:32:39.000 And we still haven't seen that, because what are we seeing right now?
00:32:43.000 We're seeing parts of Gaza that Israel has cleared of Hamas, where Hamas is coming back, including in the north, including in Khan Yunis.
00:32:53.000 As we look at Rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians, but one that is not durable, one that's not sustainable.
00:33:05.000 And they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency, because a lot of armed Hamas will be left, no matter what they do in Rafah. 0.50
00:33:12.000 Or, if they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do, then you're going to have a vacuum, and a vacuum that's likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again. 0.94
00:33:23.000 So, we've been working for many weeks on developing credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding.
00:33:31.000 We haven't seen that come from Israel.
00:33:32.000 We've been working with Arab countries and others on that plan.
00:33:36.000 We need to see that too.
00:33:37.000 They want Israel to get out of Gaza.
00:33:38.000 So the last time Israel got out of Gaza, for 20 years, they got October 7th.
00:33:43.000 Right now, Hamas is holding Americans, Americans, and the United States Secretary of State is saying that their top goal is getting Israel out of Gaza.
00:33:50.000 And then he offers a catch-22.
00:33:51.000 If Israel stays in and provides counter-insurgency operations, which is what is going to happen here, then, well, you know, that shows it's bad because it shows that there's an insurgency, because if there's an insurgency, you need a counter-insurgency.
00:34:02.000 On the other hand, if Israel gets out, there will be a complete vacuum that will be filled by Hamas. 0.97
00:34:06.000 And so he's created a plan.
00:34:07.000 Okay, so what's the plan?
00:34:10.000 Really, what's the plan?
00:34:10.000 I'd love to hear it.
00:34:12.000 So yesterday, the Emiratis, the UAE, it was implied that maybe they would be part of the rebuild.
00:34:16.000 They're like, nope, not interested.
00:34:18.000 Egypt's like, nope, not interested. 1.00
00:34:20.000 Jordan, nope, not interested.
00:34:21.000 The Palestinian Authority can't even control the West Bank.
00:34:25.000 The Palestinian Authority yesterday said they don't want control of the Rafah crossing.
00:34:29.000 No one wants the Gaza Strip. 0.96
00:34:31.000 Why?
00:34:31.000 Because it is filled with terrorist supporters who love Hamas.
00:34:33.000 Everyone knows this.
00:34:34.000 This is why there was a problem there to begin with.
00:34:38.000 When Tony Blinken says Israel should get out of Gaza, Israel tried to get out of Gaza.
00:34:42.000 You think Israel wants its own soldiers in harm's way in Gaza?
00:34:45.000 Over the weekend, five Israeli soldiers were killed.
00:34:48.000 You think that Israel is desperate to have its men and women in harm's way in Gaza?
00:34:52.000 Of course not.
00:34:54.000 But Tony Blinken is trying to create pressure on Israel to do what?
00:34:57.000 To do what?
00:34:58.000 The answer is to end in a stalemated war like Ukraine-Russia that somehow results in what?
00:35:04.000 A calm?
00:35:05.000 There will be no calm.
00:35:06.000 It'll just be a continuing counterinsurgency operation no matter what.
00:35:09.000 We'll get to more Tony Blinken in just one second because I gotta say, the Biden administration, you want to instill non-confidence in Americans, this is the way to do it.
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00:36:30.000 Okay, meanwhile.
00:36:32.000 Now again, our Secretary of State has been deployed on national television to undermine Israel in the middle of a war with a terrorist group holding American hostages.
00:36:38.000 It's totally crazy.
00:36:39.000 And as I said before, this is only about winning that radical base.
00:36:43.000 That is what this is about for Joe Biden.
00:36:44.000 He believes that his Democratic Party base is demanding that he undercut Israel.
00:36:49.000 In reality, the vast majority of the Democratic Party base don't care about this issue at all.
00:36:53.000 Not just that, the moderates actively do not like the approach that Joe Biden is taking right now.
00:36:57.000 Independents do not like the approach Joe Biden is taking.
00:37:00.000 Doesn't matter.
00:37:00.000 Tony Blinken is going to be deployed to undermine the Democratic ally while standing for the terrorist group.
00:37:06.000 Here is Tony Blinken suggesting that Israel is engaged in certain acts which may be inconsistent with international law.
00:37:11.000 He has no actual evidence of this, but he's going to say it anyway.
00:37:15.000 I think the report makes clear that while Israel has processes, procedures, rules, regulations to try to minimize civilian harm, given the impact that this operation, this war in Gaza has had on the civilian population.
00:37:30.000 And yet you're still surging weapons sales.
00:37:32.000 Those have not been applied consistently and effectively.
00:37:36.000 There's a gap between the stated intent and some of the results we've seen.
00:37:40.000 But because it's so complicated, In the midst of a war, and particularly in the midst of a war where you have an enemy that hides in civilian infrastructure, hides behind civilians, to make final determinations on these individual incidents.
00:37:54.000 We're looking at the totality of what's happened.
00:37:56.000 We think it's reasonable to assess, based on what's happened, that there have been acts that have been inconsistent with Israel's obligations under international humanitarian law, but we haven't drawn definitive conclusions.
00:38:06.000 We need to pursue these investigations, just as Israel is doing itself. 0.99
00:38:10.000 Okay, literally the reason he is doing this is to provide cover for Hamas.
00:38:13.000 That is what that is.
00:38:14.000 It is flying cover for Hamas. 0.95
00:38:15.000 What he is saying there, in short, is we do not have evidence that Israel has violated international law.
00:38:20.000 But there are dead civilians because Hamas is hiding beneath civilians.
00:38:24.000 Therefore, it might be Israel's fault. 1.00
00:38:26.000 That's literally what he's saying.
00:38:27.000 And the only reason to do that is to create pressure on Israel to do what?
00:38:30.000 Let's say that Israel doesn't go under AFA.
00:38:32.000 Let's say that Israel just sits outside Rafa and they create a cordon around Rafa. 0.75
00:38:36.000 Do you think at that point that Biden is going to suddenly let up on his pressure?
00:38:40.000 He won't.
00:38:40.000 And you know why?
00:38:41.000 Because the left-wing base will never let him do it. 0.99
00:38:44.000 If Israel pulled out of Gaza tomorrow and said, guys, have at it, all of you, we're just going to come in every so often, kill some terrorists in Khan Yunus. 0.94
00:38:51.000 Well, for the rest of it, you're, you're ballgame. 0.98
00:38:54.000 You're ballgame.
00:38:55.000 Do whatever you want.
00:38:56.000 You can't get weapons in, you can't get weapons out, but it's all your problem.
00:38:59.000 Do you think the Biden administration would be okay with that?
00:39:01.000 The answer, of course, is no, because nothing that Israel does is sufficient for the left-wing base that is screaming at the Biden administration and to which Biden has decided to make himself subject, which is insane.
00:39:14.000 The reason, again, he is split.
00:39:16.000 The problem for him is that this is actually splitting the Democratic Party. 0.72
00:39:18.000 So on the one side of the Democratic Party, you have dolts like Bernie Sanders, who, again, as Jewish as a ham sandwich, Bernie Sanders. 0.79
00:39:25.000 Here he was over the weekend suggesting there should not be another nickel in military aid, says the old communist.
00:39:32.000 Chris and I have a lot of respect for Tony Blinken.
00:39:34.000 He has an impossibly difficult job.
00:39:38.000 But the reality is, as I think any objective observer knows, Israel has broken international law. 0.76
00:39:49.000 It has broken American law.
00:39:52.000 And in my view, Israel should not be receiving Another nickel in U.S.
00:39:57.000 military aid.
00:39:58.000 He literally has no evidence for any of the propositions that he just stated.
00:40:01.000 You know who else does?
00:40:02.000 Senator Chris Murphy.
00:40:03.000 So Chris Murphy also spent the weekend on the TVs.
00:40:06.000 And Senator Murphy from Connecticut, he said that while he supports Biden's decision to withhold military aid, he was then asked, OK, so what would you do differently?
00:40:13.000 If you were Israel, what would you do differently?
00:40:15.000 He has no answers because there are no answers.
00:40:17.000 Hamas is literally hiding in tunnels beneath the civilian population.
00:40:20.000 And Israel has now sacrificed nearly 300 Israeli soldiers If you were president, or if you were completely directing the war, even in Israel, how would you eliminate Hamas in a way that's different and more effective than what you're describing?
00:40:31.000 here because there is no answer. It's not about practical policy, it's about politics. That's all.
00:40:36.000 If you were president or if you were completely directing the war, even in Israel, how would you eliminate Hamas in a 0.97
00:40:45.000 way that's different and more effective than what you're describing? Because the understatement of the year is it
00:40:54.000 ain't easy.
00:40:56.000 Well, let's just make sure that we understand there is a limit to American influence on Israeli politics.
00:41:03.000 Well, what do you think Israel should be doing?
00:41:05.000 So I think Israel should be open to bringing in the Palestinian Authority to be a transition governance structure inside Gaza.
00:41:14.000 But how does that eliminate Hamas? 0.88
00:41:15.000 That is something that, well listen, I think every intelligence expert has already come to the conclusion you are not going to be able to eliminate Hamas, right? 0.86
00:41:25.000 There is going to continue to be a resistance movement to the state of Israel and the question is, is it going to be weaker or stronger after 13 to 15,000 kids are killed inside Gaza.
00:41:37.000 My argument is that right now the prospects are that it is going to be stronger.
00:41:41.000 Okay, so the answer is he literally has no answer.
00:41:44.000 His answer as far as extirpating Hamas is don't. 0.86
00:41:46.000 Leave them there.
00:41:47.000 They're fine.
00:41:48.000 And bring in the Palestinian Authority, who is literally in alliance with Hamas in its desire to destroy the state of Israel. 0.51
00:41:53.000 They hate each other, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
00:41:56.000 They teach their kids the exact same thing, which is the destruction of the state of Israel. 0.93
00:42:00.000 The Palestinian Authority somehow becoming a legitimate peace partner while being led by a Holocaust denier and being founded by Yasser Arafat is totally insane.
00:42:07.000 But that is the answer for the Democrats, because again, it's not about principle at all, at all, at all.
00:42:13.000 As Representative Michael McCaul of Texas was saying over the weekend, the Republican side of the aisle, he says, basically, the Biden administration's position is that during World War II, the allies should get right up to the edges of Berlin and then stop.
00:42:24.000 Here's what I object to, Martha, is to say, just point blank, that we are not going to
00:42:29.000 give weapons to Israel if they invade Rafa.
00:42:33.000 Now, of course, you want the conditions with humanitarian to be in place.
00:42:36.000 Of course, you want the tents in place.
00:42:39.000 But to say you cannot invade Rafa, we're telling the Israelis, dictating their military strategy.
00:42:45.000 This is the last point, the last step in the completion of their military objective.
00:42:52.000 And for us to step in and say, no, you can't go into Rafa and finish the job, I think it's
00:42:56.000 tantamount to an arms embargo.
00:42:59.000 It's also very similar for us to say in World War II, hey, like my dad's generation, you can invade all the way up to Berlin, but you can't go into Berlin.
00:43:10.000 To finish the job.
00:43:11.000 This is splitting the Democratic Party.
00:43:12.000 So this is not just splitting America, it's splitting the Democratic Party.
00:43:15.000 Because again, only a fairly small percentage of Americans are sympathetic to the claims of Hamas.
00:43:20.000 The Democratic Party is split, which is why you're seeing the Biden administration now try to play both sides.
00:43:24.000 So U.S. 0.81
00:43:24.000 Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew insisted on Sunday evening that quote, fundamentally nothing has changed in the basic relationship between Israel and the United States. 0.81
00:43:32.000 He said it's only about one set of munitions that's been held back.
00:43:35.000 He said everything else keeps flowing.
00:43:37.000 He said the two sides need to keep talking through issues relating to the use of large diameter bombs.
00:43:41.000 But I think it's a mistake to think anything has fundamentally changed.
00:43:43.000 So they're trying to buy it back now.
00:43:44.000 Even Jake Sullivan, the architect of this garbage policy, the national security advisor, he tried to walk back this whole thing over the weekend.
00:43:52.000 First, because there's a million people there in very close quarters who've been pushed there because of the military operations in other parts of Gaza, you would have really significant civilian casualties. 0.98
00:44:04.000 And while Israel would also be able to kill some Hamas folks, many Hamas folks would melt away because they're terrorists. 0.88
00:44:11.000 They're not really organized fighters in the way that we think about a typical military.
00:44:15.000 In that context, He doesn't want to see American weapons used in that kind of operation.
00:44:20.000 That's not to say that he is going to abandon Israel or cut them off from weapons.
00:44:24.000 He was focused on a particular operation that he doesn't believe will succeed in defeating Hamas and that will cause grievous harm.
00:44:31.000 Okay, so now he's trying to minimize it to it's just about Rafa.
00:44:33.000 It's not about a broader arms conflict.
00:44:35.000 It's not about a broader problem with Israel's government after he literally deployed the Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, to call for the ouster of Israel's current government.
00:44:45.000 Yeah, good luck with this particular cell.
00:44:47.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump, absolute moral clarity on this.
00:44:49.000 Here he was over the weekend in front of a hundred thousand people over the weekend.
00:44:54.000 Here he was talking about Israel's right to win.
00:44:58.000 This week he announced that he will withhold shipping weapons to Israel as they fight to eradicate Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
00:45:08.000 No, it was shocking to hear it.
00:45:10.000 Even while there are still American hostages being held by Hamas.
00:45:14.000 And they're saying, oh, October 7th never happened.
00:45:18.000 You know, they say that.
00:45:20.000 And Biden has fallen for it.
00:45:21.000 Crooked Joe's action is one of the worst betrayals of an American ally in the history of our country.
00:45:27.000 I support Israel's right to win its war on terror. 0.71
00:45:30.000 Is that OK?
00:45:32.000 I don't know.
00:45:33.000 I don't know if that's good or bad politically.
00:45:35.000 I don't care.
00:45:35.000 You got to do what's right.
00:45:38.000 Correct.
00:45:39.000 Correct.
00:45:39.000 By the way, this is the widespread view inside the Republican Party, except for a very small fringe of kooks.
00:45:44.000 J.D.
00:45:45.000 Vance, senator from Ohio, who's widely considered to be one of the more isolationist senators, here's what he had to say over the weekend about letting Israel finish the job.
00:45:54.000 The final point here, Dana, is very important.
00:45:56.000 Our goal in the Middle East should be to allow the Israelis to get to some good place with the Saudi Arabians and other Gulf Arab states.
00:46:05.000 There is no way that we can do that unless the Israelis finish the job with Hamas. 0.99
00:46:10.000 If they can't even do that, the attitude in the Middle East will be, you can't trust these guys.
00:46:15.000 They're not pursuing their own national security.
00:46:18.000 So we've got to let them finish this job.
00:46:20.000 And I think, hopefully, on the other end of it, get to a new era in the Middle East.
00:46:24.000 This is correct.
00:46:24.000 This is correct.
00:46:25.000 And it is that sort of clarity on the Republican side of the aisle and that sort of lack of clarity on the Democratic side of the aisle which is why Joe Biden is losing.
00:46:32.000 He's abandoned the normies.
00:46:33.000 Now the normies are abandoning him. 1.00
00:46:36.000 Okay, meanwhile, it is clear that the Stormy Daniels idiotic trial that's happening in New York is having no impact on Donald Trump. 0.98
00:46:43.000 I mean, by the polls, it's having no impact on Donald Trump. 0.98
00:46:46.000 Supposedly, now Michael Cohen's testimony is going to hurt Donald Trump.
00:46:50.000 Good luck. 1.00
00:46:51.000 It's not going to do a damned thing because no one cares about this stupid case in the first place. 1.00
00:46:55.000 This idea that Donald Trump had a payoff to a star and that this is supposed to somehow land him in Jail after not being prosecuted federally is absurd on its face. 0.98
00:47:05.000 But according to the Associated Press, the star prosecution witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial is set to take the stand Monday with testimony that could help shape the outcome of the first criminal case against an American president.
00:47:14.000 Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, is by far the Manhattan District Attorney's most important witness in the case.
00:47:20.000 There's only one problem.
00:47:20.000 He's already been convicted of perjury.
00:47:22.000 So the The defense, presumably, will rip him up on all of that.
00:47:25.000 And no one cares about this.
00:47:26.000 Even if Donald Trump is convicted in this particular case, unless he gets sent to jail, it will have no impact on the election.
00:47:32.000 None.
00:47:33.000 Because everybody who believes that this is a trumped-up charge is gonna still believe that afterward.
00:47:37.000 And everybody who believes that this is a legit charge is still gonna believe that afterward.
00:47:41.000 And nothing is going to change. 0.99
00:47:44.000 Because there's been a seamy and stupid attempt to get the former president of the United States. 0.99
00:47:48.000 It is, in fact, election interference by Alvin Bragg. 0.99
00:47:50.000 Everybody knows that at this point. 0.92
00:47:54.000 Even Fareed Zachariah, over on CNN, who certainly is not a friend of Donald Trump, was like, yeah, this is ridiculous. 0.76
00:48:03.000 Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be uniting behind Trump.
00:48:06.000 Whatever opposition he faced in the primaries has largely melted away.
00:48:11.000 And the trials against him keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base, who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believe that his prosecutors are politically motivated.
00:48:27.000 This happens to be true, in my opinion.
00:48:29.000 I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.
00:48:34.000 Correct.
00:48:35.000 By the way, I should mention here one of Trump's single greatest tweets.
00:48:38.000 I mean, Trump has a history of wonderful tweets.
00:48:40.000 His single greatest tweet was about Michael Cohen and it went like this, quote,
00:48:43.000 if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't
00:48:46.000 retain the services of Michael Cohen, who's today's witness.
00:48:50.000 So, yeah, again, this idea that Donald Trump is going to be brought low by Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, that was a resistance fantasy when Trump was president, let alone in his post-presidency.
00:49:00.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been sort of giving some hints about who he might pick for VP.
00:49:04.000 He's ruling out Nikki Haley.
00:49:05.000 That is largely because Nikki Haley ran a very strong and anti-Trump campaign against Trump during the primaries.
00:49:12.000 He says he wishes her well because, of course, she's now lost, so there's no reason for him to continue to stomp on her.
00:49:19.000 But he said Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the VP slot.
00:49:24.000 So Donald Trump right now, you know, top of the list is probably somebody like JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott, that's probably the top of the list.
00:49:38.000 Kristi Noem, obviously.
00:49:40.000 Her chances are not looking good in the aftermath of killing a puppy.
00:49:44.000 As it turns out, that is not a strong electoral strategy.
00:49:47.000 But as long as Trump picks somebody reasonable for a VP, it's going to strengthen his ticket.
00:49:51.000 All he has to do is pick somebody even half reasonable for a VP, and he's running against Joe Biden and the least likable vice presidential candidate in human history, Kamala Harris.
00:50:01.000 So it'll be fascinating to see who he picks.
00:50:02.000 Again, Donald Trump is running a much more coherent and cohesive campaign this time around.
00:50:06.000 Oddly enough, helped by the fact that he has to spend all this time in court.
00:50:09.000 It means he can only do one of these big events a weekend.
00:50:12.000 It means that he's not spending all of his time on Twitter.
00:50:14.000 The Twitter ban has helped him remarkably.
00:50:16.000 The fact that he is on Truth Social and not on Twitter means that whenever he feels like voiding his bowels on the internet, that he does so on a site that very few people actually look at, as opposed to Twitter, where every new Trump tweet set the world ablaze.
00:50:31.000 Trump is in a very handy position right now in the election.
00:50:34.000 The election is clearly about Joe Biden and not about Donald Trump.
00:50:36.000 And if that's the case, Donald Trump is going to win.
00:50:39.000 That is the current situation.
00:50:41.000 And again, Biden is giving Trump something new to bang him with every single day.