AOC goes to Munich, Marco Rubio delivers a speech for the ages, AOC is back trying to guide her party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are back, and we re not supposed to pick favorites. First, we re talking about Marco Rubio's speech to the Munich Security Conference.
00:00:23.000You can only watch it on Daily Wire Plus.
00:00:25.000Do yourself a favor, get the app on your biggest screen, Roku, Vizio, Samsung, Apple TV, wherever you watch, make it epic because this deserves it.
00:00:33.000Episodes one through five of the Pendragon cycle, Rise of the Merlin, are available right now.
00:00:37.000Episode six premieres Thursday only on Daily Wire Plus.
00:00:41.000On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to the Munich Security Conference over in Germany.
00:00:46.000It was attended by a wide variety of politicos, both from the Trump administration and, as we'll see, from the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:00:54.000Marco Rubio is the best-spoken member of the Trump administration.
00:00:58.000It doesn't happen to be particularly close when it comes to foreign policy.
00:01:01.000And he gave a truly bang-up speech about the relationship between America and Europe.
00:01:05.000So you'll recall that last year, JD Vance, vice president, he also went to Europe.
00:01:10.000And at Davos, he proceeded to give a speech blistering the Europeans.
00:01:14.000Some for good reasons, some for not such great reasons, but it appeared to draw the hackles of a bunch of Europeans because it was basically saying, guys, you seem to be kind of on your own.
00:01:25.000What Rubio said is we have strong bonds, centuries-long bonds with the continent of Europe and many of the countries thereupon.
00:01:33.000And we also are going to have common interests with those countries, but we need strong allies to stand up for themselves.
00:01:39.000And he actually attempted to draw a definition of what it meant to be in consonant with Europe that I think Vice President Vance in some ways failed to advance.
00:01:49.000Secretary of State Rubio receives a standing ovation for this, which, of course, is a good thing because his defense of the Trump administration policy was quite muscular over at the Munich Security Conference.
00:02:06.000Again, one of the things that people tend to forget is that, for example, Latinos and Hispanics in the United States are of Spanish, at least in part, descent.
00:02:14.000Spain is a country that is on the continent of Europe, which is why people from South and Latin America generally speak Spanish.
00:02:21.000It is why, as we will also see from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, there are horses on this continent.
00:02:27.000In any case, here was Secretary of State Rubio talking about his own family history.
00:02:33.000The year that my country was founded, Lorenzo and Catalina Giraldi lived in Casa Monferrato in the kingdom of Piedmont, Sardinia.
00:02:42.000And Jose and Manuel Arena lived in Sevilla, Spain.
00:02:46.000I don't know what, if anything, they knew about the 13 colonies which had gained their independence from the British Empire.
00:02:54.000But here's what I'm certain of: they could have never imagined that 250 years later, one of their direct descendants would be back here today on this continent as the chief diplomat of that infant nation.
00:03:09.000And yet here I am, reminded by my own story that both our histories and our faiths will always be linked.
00:03:20.000Secretary of State Rubio also suggested that the U.S. and Europe have a great history of cooperation.
00:03:27.000And a bit, I want to explain sort of the history of European identification because one of the things that the Secretary of State says is that people don't fight for ideas.
00:03:36.000People definitely fight for ideas, but those ideas do have to be rooted in a time and a place and in a loyalty to family and kinship and nation.
00:03:45.000Anyway, here was Secretary of State Rubio talking about the history of U.S.-European cooperation.
00:03:51.000Together, we rebuilt a shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars.
00:03:57.000When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the Free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism.
00:04:08.000We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again.
00:04:14.000And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar.
00:04:24.000The Secretary of State went on to explain that a U.S.-European alliance should be growing and building and burgeoning and ruling the new century.
00:04:34.000Together, we can reindustrialize our economies and rebuild our capacity to defend our people.
00:04:40.000But the work of this new alliance should not be focused just on military cooperation and reclaiming the industries of the past.
00:04:47.000It should also be focused on together advancing our mutual interests and new frontiers, unshackling our ingenuity, our creativity, and the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century.
00:05:02.000Now, what Rubio said there is that we definitely need strong allies, that it can't just be the United States picking up the check for everybody else.
00:05:09.000You can't build gigantic welfare states on the back of American taxpayers.
00:05:12.000You need to be strong because strong alliances require strong allies.
00:05:16.000And those strong allies are capable of providing deterrence against, for example, a wayward Russia.
00:05:24.000We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.
00:05:31.000This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.
00:05:35.000We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization and who together with us are willing and able to defend it.
00:05:50.000Rubio called out a bunch of problems that the continent has brought upon itself, ranging from its subjugation of itself to the green revolution, the green new deal sort of thinking, to the mass migration that it brought in upon itself largely through a bizarre sort of blood guilt, the idea that Europe, because it had destroyed so much of the world during World War II, somehow owed it to the rest of the world to open its borders and bring everyone in.
00:06:15.000Here is Rubio speaking up against that.
00:06:18.000Mass migration is not, was not, isn't some fringe concern of little consequence.
00:06:24.000It was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.
00:06:34.000And then he talked about the sort of values that are supposed to unite the United States and Europe.
00:06:39.000This, I think, was the key section of his speech.
00:06:43.000The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending?
00:06:49.000Because armies do not fight for abstractions.
00:07:26.000Now, you can freeze up because life insurance sounds complicated and bureaucratic and frankly unpleasant, but our sponsor, Policy Genius, can help with all of that.
00:07:33.000Policy Genius is an online marketplace that lets you compare life insurance quotes from top companies side by side for free.
00:07:39.000No bouncing between websites, no awkward sales calls, no nonsense.
00:07:46.000Policy Genius helps you figure out how much coverage actually makes sense for your life, your family, your goals, not what some company wants to sell you.
00:07:53.000They walk you through pricing, coverage, terms, options, and then they handle the paperwork from start to finish.
00:07:57.000In other words, Policy Genius removes the friction.
00:08:00.000Policy Genius has thousands of five-star reviews from people who finally stopped procrastinating and got the right policy in place.
00:08:05.000Plan the year knowing you've protected what you've built.
00:08:07.000With Policy Genius, you can see if you can find a 20-year life insurance policy starting at just $276 a year for a million dollars in coverage, head on over to policygenius.com/slash Shapiro to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save.
00:08:23.000Also, starting a new business like Daily Wire, it can be very challenging.
00:08:26.000There's a lot going on, but obviously, we're glad we took the risk.
00:08:29.000You can launch a business too with our sponsor, Shopify.
00:08:32.000Shopify is the commerce platform powering millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e-commerce in the United States, including our very own Daily Wire shop.
00:08:43.000With hundreds of ready-to-use templates, you can build a beautiful online store that matches your brand's style.
00:08:47.000Shopify is packed with helpful AI tools that write product descriptions, page headlines, and even enhance your product photography so you can accelerate your efficiency, whether you're uploading new products or improving existing ones.
00:08:57.000Shopify helps you find your customers with easy-to-run email and social media campaigns, making it feel like you have a marketing team behind you.
00:09:03.000You can tackle all those important tasks in one place, from inventory to payments to analytics, without juggling multiple websites or platforms.
00:09:10.000We use Shopify for our DW shop, which makes sure that you are getting the stuff that you need on time.
00:09:50.000Obviously, armies do fight for abstractions.
00:09:52.000There are armies that have fought for communism, there are armies that fight for Islamic fundamentalism.
00:09:57.000There are armies that have fought for Catholicism and for Protestantism.
00:10:01.000There are armies all over the world that fight for ideas.
00:10:03.000The question is: what are the ideas of Western civilization that are worth upholding and preserving?
00:10:08.000Because if you don't know what it is you are defending, it is very difficult to fight for it.
00:10:11.000So, here is how he characterized civilization: he said, For the United States in Europe, we belong together.
00:10:17.000America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before.
00:10:21.000The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores, carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
00:10:31.000We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
00:10:34.000We're bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
00:10:48.000And a little bit later on in the speech, he again describes Western civilization: quote: It was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born.
00:10:56.000It was here in Europe where the world, which gave the world the rule of law, the universities, and the scientific revolution, it was this continent that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and DaVinci, of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
00:11:09.000The Beatles and the Rolling Stones apart.
00:11:11.000And this is the place where the vaulted ceilings, said the Secretary of State, of the Sistine Chapel and the towering spires of the Great Cathedral in Cologne, they testify not just to the greatness of our past or to a faith in God that inspired these marvels.
00:11:23.000They foreshadow the wonders that await us in our future.
00:11:25.000But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance, can we work together to begin the envisioning and shaping of our economic and political future?
00:11:35.000And this is some interesting stuff here.
00:11:37.000And it requires a little bit of a breakdown because the truth is that Europe itself is a bit of an idea.
00:11:42.000And there are times when members of the European continent have been fighting each other tooth and nail in bloody centuries-long war.
00:11:49.000It is true that Europe itself was divided in the middle of the 20th century.
00:11:55.000So what exactly is the concept of Europe?
00:11:57.000What is the American-European common heritage, ideological heritage that actually counts?
00:12:03.000Because if you're talking about heritage heritage, then let's just be real about this.
00:12:07.000The Germans and the French were fighting each other for several centuries.
00:12:10.000The French and the English were fighting each other for several centuries.
00:12:14.000The Italians and the French and the Spanish and everybody else were fighting each other for several centuries there.
00:12:21.000And so if you're going to talk about Europe as a holistic concept, you have to sort of define your terms.
00:12:26.000If you were going through the history of Europe, going all the way back to the Roman Empire, what you'd see is that the Roman Empire was its own civilization.
00:12:34.000It considered outlying areas to be barbarians, which means people who are sort of speaking gibberish.
00:12:41.000It at that time applied to the Germans, right?
00:12:46.000And the Germans now, of course, are considered part of European civilization.
00:12:49.000After the fall of the Roman Empire, what rose in its wake was Christendom, which was basically the idea of Catholic dominance of the European continent.
00:13:00.000And that grew over the course of the Carolingian Empire and then grew over the course of the subsequent centuries up until the Protestant Reformation.
00:13:08.000The Protestant Reformation ushered in an era of religious warfare that lasted well over 100 years and then with the Peace of Westphalia that basically ended Christendom.
00:13:19.000There's sort of a new concept of Europe that was formed in the aftermath.
00:13:23.000And the question is always in opposition to what?
00:13:26.000So whenever you are defining a civilization, civilizations have an internal definition and then they have a definition with regard to others.
00:13:34.000So the reality is the Roman Empire was not only defined as that which was under the sway of Rome, but also in opposition to other empires, in opposition to other armies, German armies, or Assyrian armies or Persian armies or whatever the case may be.
00:13:51.000Christendom was largely forged in opposition to Mohammedanism and to Islam in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire because Islam was actually a dire threat to Europe and spread all the way in deep into Europe, all the way into France, actually.
00:14:07.000After the Peace of Westphalia, then about a century later, you started to get the rise of the Enlightenment.
00:14:15.000And then the West became identified with these Enlightenment ideas, a history of Christianity that bled over into a sort of secularized version of many of the key values of Christianity, but with a critical eye toward the idea that religion could answer all questions and therefore a sort of Aristotelian approach towards science that looked to evidence first.
00:14:36.000And you get the separation of church and state in many of these countries.
00:14:40.000You get the rise of the scientific revolution, the rise of the industrial revolution, the rise of free economies and all the rest.
00:14:46.000And then, of course, the West tears itself apart.
00:14:49.000Europe, with the rise of nationalism, falls into war, world war, many times, actually, but two big ones, right?
00:15:00.000And then you have a West redefined in opposition to Soviet communism.
00:15:04.000And in the aftermath of Soviet communism, what is the West?
00:15:07.000What are these values that we hold dear?
00:15:10.000So it is not just a matter of quote-unquote common heritage.
00:15:13.000It is not just a matter of common language, because the truth is that for virtually all of this history, there wasn't really a common language.
00:15:21.000It is not really just a matter of sort of cultural inheritance because there are similarities in cultures and pretty significant differences in these cultures.
00:15:30.000So much so that, again, people were fighting bloody wars that killed off significant portions of the continent for centuries on end.
00:15:36.000But to pretend that Europe doesn't exist as a concept or as a civilization is, of course, silly.
00:15:48.000But also, it has an enlightenment history and it has shared values.
00:15:52.000And if those values wane, so too will the alliance between the old world and the new.
00:15:59.000And those values include things like the rule of law and freedom of speech and yes, freedom of religion and property rights and yes, democracy and small art republicanism.
00:16:10.000This is one reason, among many, that Russia has never quite ever entered the world of Europe.
00:16:17.000It has always sort of existed on the fringes of Europe, but as Vladimir Putin's brain, Alexander Dugan, has explained, European ideas, or what he calls Atlanticist ideas, are not, in fact, Russian ideas.
00:16:38.000Well, it means, number one, that Europe needs to uphold its own values.
00:16:41.000It means the United States needs to uphold its own values.
00:16:43.000And it needs to understand, we all need to understand, that a shared history and a shared experience and a shared set of values are all necessary in order to have an increasingly powerful alliance.
00:16:58.000The Secretary of State Rubio, again, for laying this out, received a standing ovation in Munich, which is a very different response than the vice president received.
00:17:04.000Again, the vice president came in with a two by four and started clocking people.
00:17:07.000Secretary of State Rubio came in and he said, listen, here's all the things that we share.
00:17:11.000And also, you need to actually strengthen yourselves.
00:17:14.000You need to not empty yourselves out because of dumb environmental regulations or through mass migration or through bad trade deals.
00:17:22.000Here is the secretary of state receiving a standing ovation.
00:17:38.000Again, for all those who seem to believe that the Trump administration has offended all of our European allies beyond recognition that there's no future there, that obviously is not true.
00:17:48.000You need a well-spoken advocate of that relationship and a realist advocate of that relationship, not some sort of pie-in-the-sky Wilsonian dreamer who believes that America ought to foot the bills for our allies such that, again, they can slip into quietude and senescence.
00:18:03.000They can slip into old age, into the welfare state decay into which they have slipped endlessly, and we'll continue to foot the bill.
00:18:28.000He said, quote, I'm here today to leave it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity.
00:18:33.000And that once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.
00:18:39.000We want to do it together with you, with a Europe that is proud of its heritage and of its history, with a Europe that has the spirit of creation of liberty that sent ships out into uncharted seas and birthed our civilization, with a Europe that has the means to defend itself and the will to survive.
00:18:52.000And that is the proper conclusion, of course.
00:18:57.000So again, this is the right approach for the Trump administration to take.
00:19:03.000It is a big difference between there are differences inside the Trump administration.
00:19:08.000Trying to pretend there are not is, I think, foolhardy.
00:19:10.000Elbridge Colby, who is depending on Under Secretary for Policy and more aligned with the advance wing of the Republican Party, told attendees in Munich that he is not sure that the one-time quote, hosanna's and shibboleths about shared values between Europe and the U.S. are true.
00:19:26.000Like that, that is, that is some dicey stuff right there.
00:19:31.000If you wish to build alliance with people with whom you have historically had alliance, then you ought to look to shared values.
00:19:36.000On the other hand, you don't want it to be that the sort of nostrum of shared values substitutes for actual real shared values because then you end up with people who are living high off the hog while you foot the bills.
00:19:51.000On the other hand, you don't want to break the chain of shared values with Europe because if you do that, then you end up in an isolationist position without any allies.
00:20:03.000It's a fascinating gap inside the Trump administration.
00:20:05.000I think that there's no question from my perspective that the Secretary of State has the best of it.
00:20:13.000And I think that is why you saw him get such a warm reception there.
00:20:18.000Now, that is a very different vision for the world than the world presented by the left.
00:20:24.000The American left showed up en masse in Munich.
00:20:26.000And there they presented a different vision of quote-unquote world order.
00:20:28.000And that world order is a West that is apologetic for its own existence, that believes that it has committed grave evils, unrectifiable evils, and that all the evils of the rest of the world are somehow to be laid at the foot of the West.
00:20:44.000That actually what the West ought to do is become sort of a repository for anyone who wants to come in and subsume its own values under the rubric of multiculturalism.
00:20:55.000The New York Times took this position: quote, there's an Afghan grocery store on the blocks outside the main train station in Munich, how all food counters are sprinkled amid the cathedral spires and beer halls.
00:21:05.000Nearly one of every three residents you meet in town is not German.
00:21:09.000It's a decent approximation of what many European cities and European people look like today, and a different Europe from the one the Trump administration says it wants to be friends with.
00:21:18.000Now, again, notice the loaded language there.
00:21:21.000European people look like Afghan grocery stores in the train station in Munich.
00:21:30.000Can there be assimilation to European values?
00:21:32.000In this view, there is no Western civilization.
00:21:35.000There's just a group of people who exist inside a certain geographical area.
00:21:41.000The New York Times admits the United States and Europe are indeed pillars of what historians refer to as Western civilization, which has roots typically traced to ancient Greece.
00:21:49.000Now, to be fair, I wrote an entire book about Western civilization, the right side of history.
00:21:55.000Because if you're going to look to Christian civilization, you can't just look to Greece, because Greece is not where Christianity arose.
00:22:02.000You also have to look to its Judaic roots in Jerusalem.
00:22:05.000Their modern relationship and the bonds that Rubio said it held together, according to the New York Times, has been changed by demographic trends, including new arrivals and rising secularization.
00:22:15.000After a decade-long influx of migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere, the share of Muslims across Europe has ticked up to about 6% in 2020, according to Pew.
00:22:24.000Countries across Europe have struggled with questions of migration, culture, and heritage in recent years.
00:22:32.000And of course, the idea here is that Europe should basically wither away into nothingness.
00:22:39.000Well, apparently bankrolling the rest of the world.
00:22:41.000This is the perspective of the American left.
00:22:43.000So AOC again took that 2028 bicycle out for a ride and she proceeded to smash that directly into an embankment.
00:22:50.000They go head over heels down a mountain.
00:22:51.000It was not a good showing for Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who, of course, is the heir to the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
00:23:00.000According to the New York Times, however, she did an amazing job.
00:23:02.000Quote, Representative Alexander Ocasio-Cortez had anticipated a potentially frosty reception to her anti-establishment arguments at the Munich Security Conference, a venue she called, quote, an elite place of decision makers that, frankly, are not responsive to a class-based message.
00:23:17.000Her stick was that workers of the world unite.
00:23:20.000There's nothing that she is saying that the wobblies weren't saying prior to World War I, or that Marxists haven't been saying for a century and a half at this point that the workers of the world are going to unite and rise up and that all of the problems on planet Earth are caused by a class basis.
00:23:37.000It has been eminently defeated by history itself over and over and over again, but bad ideas never die.
00:23:42.000They just sort of fade and then come back even stronger.
00:23:46.000But according to the New York Times, the visit to Germany felt high stakes.
00:23:49.000It was the most prominent foreign trip to date by the progressive New York Congresswoman, who had mostly focused on domestic priorities until now.
00:23:55.000Her remarks last week about addressing working class concerns around the globe and the reception from world leaders were both eagerly awaited and highly scrutinized.
00:24:02.000But rather than the substance of her arguments, it was her on-camera stumbles when answering questions about specific world affairs that rocketed around conservative social media and drove plenty of the discussion about her visit as potential observers speculated whether they would make a dent in a potential presidential run in 2028.
00:24:18.000Okay, so the problem here, apparently, is Republicans pounce.
00:24:21.000Of course, according to it's not that she screwed it up.
00:24:24.000Now, she had been preparing for this, according to Politico, for literally months, quote, to prepare for her Munich debut.
00:24:31.000AOC has been advised by Matt Duss, the former foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders, an EVP at the Progressive Think Tank Center for International Policy.
00:24:39.000The two have met roughly half a dozen times over Zoom and in person since she received her invitation.
00:24:45.000Now, I'm just going to point out at this point, Matt Duss is a horrifyingly bad peck as your advisor.
00:24:50.000Bernie Sanders is the stupidest person on foreign policy in modern American history, truly a dullard.
00:24:58.000His foreign policy has the United States basically siding with every terrible regime on planet Earth and also blaming America simultaneously for every bad thing that happens on planet Earth.
00:25:10.000He's a low IQ Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders.
00:25:15.000AOC tried to run interference with the New York Times.
00:25:17.000She did an interview with the Times in which she tried to backtrack all of her failures.
00:25:21.000Quote, the story is less about the opponents being some hypothetical primary.
00:25:26.000To me, my opponents are the networks that link Orban, Trump, Millay, Bolsonaro, all these folks.
00:25:30.000We need to be able to be very angry at each other and also know what the real enemy is.
00:25:34.000We have to grow our ranks and we have to persuade.
00:25:36.000If we go separately, we'll lose it all.
00:25:38.000Okay, I'm just going to point out again.
00:25:41.000Javier Millay is not an authoritarian leader.
00:25:52.000He has been repeatedly elected in Hungary.
00:25:53.000And if you want to learn more about Victor Orban, go watch the interview that I did with him in Hungary or the interview that I did with Millay.
00:26:00.000Now, linking together every leader you don't like and then just saying all bad is simpleton stuff.
00:26:06.000But of course, she is not particularly bright.
00:26:16.000That doesn't mean that she can't speak cogently for 37 seconds in the middle of a congressional hearing when all her material has been pre-written.
00:26:24.000She can, but on her feet, she is a tortoise.
00:26:30.000Gravity has inordinate effect on her mind, apparently, when she is asked to stick and move.
00:26:37.000So, for example, here she was asked about whether the United States should defend Taiwan if China seeks to make a move on Taiwan and brain freeze.
00:26:46.000Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
00:26:54.000You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a very long-standing policy of the United States.
00:27:14.000And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
00:27:21.000And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.
00:27:51.000But of course, she's done this before.
00:27:54.000You can recall that one time when she interviewed with Margaret Hoover and she was asked about Israel and the Palestinians, and she did the exact same thing.
00:30:01.000Hey, by the way, if we're going to do that, then there is no such thing as Latino-ness, because it turns out that there are a bunch of different variations there.
00:30:08.000It turns out that people from Cuba, not exactly the same as people from Puerto Rico, not exactly the same as people from Argentina or from Venezuela or from Peru.
00:30:19.000Why is it only whiteness is not a thing?
00:30:21.000Blackness is a thing, even though, again, great variation in the so-called black community.
00:30:27.000I say so-called because a Nigerian American who got here 20 years ago is not exactly from the same group of people as American descendants of slaves, which is why we have a term, ADAS, American descendants of slaves.
00:30:41.000Trying to delve into the depths of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's thought is like trying to jump from a diving board into a kiddie pool headfirst.
00:30:56.000But in the end, AOC only wants a world order without hypocrisies.
00:31:03.000In a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability.
00:31:09.000And so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West, we look the other way for inconvenient populations To act out these paradoxes, whether it is, you know, kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland,
00:31:38.000whether it is looking the other way in a genocide.
00:31:45.000Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities and they threaten democracies globally.
00:31:49.000And so I think many of us are here to say we are here and we are ready for the next chapter, not to have the world turn to isolation, but to deepen our partnership on greater and increased commitment to integrity to our values.
00:32:06.000Okay, so apparently non-hypocrisy would be allowing Venezuela to continue to be a communist dictatorship, allowing Hamas to rule the Gaza Strip with an iron hand and invade Israel.
00:32:16.000Those would be the non-hypocrisies, according to AOC.
00:32:34.000So let's talk about the shocking contrast between the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in Munich and AOC and other Democrats in Munich.
00:32:42.000Secretary of State Rubio laid out a common vision for the United States and Europe in Munich, which was very warm.
00:32:48.000It was also demanding on the Europeans.
00:32:50.000What did you think of the Secretary of State speech?
00:32:55.000I thought it was incredibly statesmanlike.
00:32:57.000He did a fantastic job talking very much about the shared value system that created the greatest Western alliance.
00:33:05.000And it was based upon this Judeo-Christian ethos that permeates in the soil, led by America.
00:33:10.000And it's when we stand strong on our foundation, we succeed as an alliance.
00:33:15.000When we deter from that, when we take a detour from that, everything seems to fall apart.
00:33:20.000I thought he did a fabulous job of foreshadowing the future of America if we get immigration wrong and or foreshadowing the future of Europe if they come back to this Western alliance, this ethos that permeates.
00:33:34.000By doing so, what you do, and Ben, is you start focusing on what we have in common.
00:34:15.000That mission comes from our shared values.
00:34:18.000And anytime you allow immigration to confuse, to distort, and to try to have multiple missions, you always destroy the underlying country or alliance.
00:34:30.000And that's what I thought he did really well, speaking about our shared values and talking about how we can succeed together if we stand on those shared values.
00:34:43.000And Senator Scott, one of the things that was pretty astonishing is the reception.
00:34:46.000So obviously, he's a European audience, and the European audience was extraordinarily warm towards Secretary Rubio.
00:34:51.000He spoke many of the same sort of harsh truths to the Europeans, actually, that the vice president did a few months back.
00:34:57.000But this time, they seem to be willing to hear them because, again, he began with the realization and the reality that the United States and Europe ought to be on the same side.
00:35:06.000He wasn't starting sort of from the point of taking a two by four to them.
00:35:08.000It was, listen, we want you to do better if you are strong allies.
00:35:12.000If you join us in this mission, then we'll be able to walk into the future together.
00:35:16.000I thought it was a very encouraging, optimistic message.
00:35:18.000And I think that the Europeans responded to that, even though, again, he was saying some pretty harsh things to them.
00:35:34.000Because when you are talking, if you're going to be critical of someone and you start with the conversation, we need to do these things better, looking at what we've done well, contrasting where they've departed from what we're doing really well.
00:35:46.000That is a place where you can lean into the conversation.
00:35:50.000If you're going to critique your friends, you got to do so with love in your heart.
00:35:54.000You've got to do so with this shared concept at the top of your mind.
00:35:58.000He did a really good job of articulating the necessary change in direction that we need to see from our European allies.
00:36:06.000And at the same time, reinforcing the fact that it has been a Western coalition that has transformed everything we know in modern history since World War II.
00:36:17.000If we're going to have the kind of success we need to defend true, strong universal values, it is better done as a team.
00:36:27.000But if you're not going to play by the same rules, the same values with the same objectives, the team will not abide.
00:36:34.000And I thought he did a really good job of articulating that with the concept of we, which is very important.
00:36:41.000You know, by contrast, the Democrats in Munich, I thought, did a pretty shockingly bad job.
00:36:47.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, as I said earlier on the show, was taking her 2028 car out for a spin.
00:37:33.000She seemed to be completely without facts.
00:37:36.000And frankly, when she was talking about Taiwan, she was talking about a genocide.
00:37:40.000And she was sympathetic to Hamas when answering questions about Taiwan and China.
00:37:43.000It was really strong, clear that she had no clue what she was talking about.
00:37:47.000But imagine being the split screen between AOC on one side and Marco Rubio on the other side.
00:37:55.000It gave America a great contrast on what we could have for a future and what we would be afraid of for a future.
00:38:03.000I think President Trump made a fantastic decision choosing Marco Rubio as our Secretary of State and seeing him on one part of the split screen and AOC talking about everything that seemed to be un-American while he was talking about everything that makes America great.
00:38:17.000She was talking about things that were confusing and he was very clear.
00:38:23.000She was talking about sympathetic, having sympathy for Hamas and for people who caused nearly a genocide while he was talking about defending the values pure that are clear.
00:38:38.000We almost breathe a sigh of relief that President Trump in his infinite wisdom has chosen well for our nation and for our future.
00:38:50.000And at the exact same time, Democrats say AOC.
00:38:54.000That's why as a party, the Republican Party, we need to remember that the road to socialism runs right through a divided Republican Party.
00:39:04.000And it is incredibly important that we keep America's future as paramount and winning elections as the next major step in the right direction of having the kind of future that Marco Rubio articulated and laid out for this Western alliance.
00:39:29.000Obviously, some of the people who helped her craft it are on the Bernie Sanders team, including one Matt Dust, who is a former foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders.
00:39:37.000The Bernie Sanders view of the world is essentially a class-based view of the world in which any country that is rich is exploitative, that the people who have made that country rich are the exploiters, and that there must be some sort of gigantic class uprising.
00:39:52.000If that sort of philosophy is mirrored on the right, that is a gigantic category error.
00:39:56.000The right in the United States and in Europe has to be based on, again, that shared fundamental value system that includes things like rule of law and equal protection of the laws.
00:40:04.000And yes, private property and the possibility of upward mobility and economic progress.
00:40:13.000Well, without any question, if you look back at the 250 years of American history, the one thing we have to conclude is that starting with the right foundation is a necessary component for all the success that we've seen.
00:40:24.000Going back to our Declaration of Independence and having a conversation about how our creator gave us inalienable rights, that is the value proposition that the world needs to take a strong look at.
00:40:35.000And from that, you can create an objective standard that has the rule of law applied fairly across the board, makes America the envy of the world.
00:40:43.000It is that value system that allows for me, a poor kid born in 1965 in the deep south, to believe that the American dream is coming not only to the South, but to my zip code.
00:40:55.000And as a result of that, I sit in front of you as a United States Senator.
00:40:59.000Because America's values, we had to fight for them.
00:41:03.000We had to fight, frankly, in our own country for them, but we did that.
00:41:07.000And the last 30 to 40 years of American history has been the fastest in the history of progress for all people.
00:41:15.000Something the world looks back and says, how did that happen?
00:41:18.000It happened because we stood on the right foundation and we were willing to fight for the future that our Declaration of Independence said should be ours.
00:41:28.000And AOC and the Democrats fight against our value proposition, against a singular focus of purpose for our nation.
00:41:38.000They fight for something we as Americans would call un-American.
00:41:43.000And that is the contrast that we'll see in 28 and beyond.
00:41:47.000When I say the road to socialism, Ben, I mean it sincerely.
00:41:51.000The thought of meritocracy is something the Democrats and the liberals are allergic to.
00:41:59.000I am so thankful that we have rules of the road, that we have an objective standard that allows for the poorest kid like me to literally start a business and change my financial future.
00:42:12.000I am so thankful that we have a contrast between strong education systems around the country and the weakest in the nation in places like Chicago, 13 school districts in Maryland where the average, well, frankly, only 1% of the kids can read at grade level.
00:42:31.000We have an opportunity to see what works in America versus what doesn't work in America.
00:42:36.000And what you'll find very consistently, what works in America comes from conservative values and what doesn't work comes from a socialist paradigm spreading throughout parts of the country by AOC Mamdani and others.
00:42:51.000Well, that's Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.
00:42:53.000Senator, thanks so much for your time and thanks for your hard work in the Senate.
00:42:57.000Gretchen Whitmer, who now apparently has the same look as Catherine Hahn, like she's, she looks like she's going to turn to camera and wink.
00:43:06.000I don't know what she's going for here, but in any case, it was not a great moment for her either.
00:43:10.000She was asked about Ukraine and she didn't know where the Ukraine, what is a Ukraine?
00:43:37.000The two that I am on the panel with are much more steeped in foreign policy than a governor is.
00:43:42.000But, you know, I do think that Ukraine's independence, keeping their land mass and having the support of all the allies, I think, is the goal.
00:43:57.000Man, this month's wattage on what, on one panel?
00:44:01.000This kind of wattage could toast a piece of bread lightly if properly channeled into a toaster.
00:46:04.000Had a chance just a moment ago to be on a panel talking about climate policy.
00:46:08.000We saw what Trump just did with the endangerment finding, completely rolling back progress the last half century, wants to recreate the 19th century.
00:46:37.000Hillary Clinton is back from the grave to speak in Munich as well.
00:46:42.000And there, she explained that President Trump had betrayed the West and human rights as well, which is a hell of a statement coming from a woman who served as Secretary of State under the Obama administration, which repeatedly abandoned our allies to the predations of our enemies.
00:47:02.000He's betrayed the NATO Charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
00:47:08.000A lot of what has been done before to try to make sense of how difficult it is to restrain people who want unaccountable power.
00:47:18.000And none of us in this room, including all of us on this panel, would choose to live under a regime that was so unaccountable that it could act with impunity the way that Putin does, except that's who Trump is modeling himself.
00:47:35.000Trump is modeling himself after Putin, according to Hillary Clinton, who once held a reset button that didn't say reset with Vladimir Putin.
00:47:42.000The Czech foreign minister actually challenged Hillary at one point.
00:49:11.000The same Hillary Clinton, who is saying that Donald Trump has betrayed the West, says that America was designed for white male capitalists.
00:49:21.000Very often, the ideological impulse to try to protect the status quo or return making America great again in some nostalgic past that existed for white men and capitalist enterprise was not exactly open and welcoming to people who look like me and a lot of other people who are part of our national fabric.
00:49:47.000I have no argument with the necessity of trying to figure out how do we form families.
00:51:13.000Speaking of retreads, the Democrats also over the weekend brought forth Barack Obama, who is back better than ever.
00:51:20.000He has decided, by the way, that he is going to use his presidential library, which is a gigantic monstrosity that looks like it's directly created by the Harkinen family in Dune.
00:51:28.000I mean, it really is horrifying looking.
00:51:29.000It looks like a gigantic monolith rising out of the Chicago skyline.
00:51:35.000He says his presidential library will now be used to create activists, a social change university.
00:51:40.000Yay, we're going back to community organizing for the former president.
00:51:45.000Young people will be exposed to world leaders who are coming through and can talk about their own journey.
00:51:52.000And what that does is it builds a community of activists and it reminds people you're not alone.
00:52:02.000You're not alone in your sorrow when you see some of the stuff that's been happening in this country over the last year.
00:52:11.000But you're also not alone in being able to figure out how do we push back and come up with new solutions and how do we remake these institutions so that they work for this generation.
00:52:26.000And that kind of spirit is what we hope this presidential center will constantly refresh and renew.
00:52:41.000This is kind of a social change university.
00:52:44.000You want to know the reason why Barack Obama was a successful politician?
00:52:47.000The reason is because he spoke in platitudes nonstop all the time.
00:52:51.000Please identify the content in what he was just saying.
00:53:24.000There was a virtue signaling that made it seem as if ordinary folks, if they did not say things exactly the right way or meet this litmus test, that they were being chastised, pushed away.
00:53:47.000And the truth is, most of us, all of us, are complicated and we have blind spots.
00:53:56.000And if you want to create an environment that is welcoming and makes people feel, okay, there's room for me here, then the message and the story we tell has to be: all right, none of us are perfect.
00:54:18.000Okay, I mean, again, platitude after platitude after platitude.
00:54:21.000But then, of course, he will say that it's Republicans who are divisive after the Super Bowl if they're a little miffed that the entire Super Bowl show was in Spanish and had twerking butts.
00:54:32.000The other side does the mean, angry, demagoguery, you know, exclusive, us-them, you know, divisive politics.
00:54:46.000That's their, that's their home court.
00:55:22.000Again, this is the best Democrats are going to do.
00:55:24.000The best they're going to do is have somebody who is high IQ, Barack Obama is a high IQ guy, who glosses right over the top of all the politics and avoids all answers.
00:55:32.000That is the best version because if they ever get dragged down into the depths of having to define their policy, their policy makes no sense and very often is directly opposed to the interests of the United States.
00:55:43.000All they can really do is be an anti-Trump coalition.
00:55:46.000And in the end, that's all they want to do at this moment.
00:55:48.000James Carville, he's out there suggesting that Democrats are going to win come November.
00:55:52.000They may well do that, but if they do, it will not be because they have somehow come together around a set of values Americans like.
00:56:00.000And never forget that if we don't develop a sense of like, I don't know, you call it gallows humor, then the bastards have won.
00:56:10.000But they're not going to beat us because we're going to laugh at these motherfuckers and we're going to do it a lot.
00:56:15.000And we're going to laugh heartily and we're going to laugh out loud.
00:56:19.000And then we're going to beat their fists come November and the November after that.
00:56:25.000Well, standing for nothing will presumably be the thing that they go for.
00:56:29.000Okay, well, we'll see how it works out for them.
00:56:31.000All righty, coming up, we'll get into yet another horrifying shooting committed by a person who identifies as transgender and the entire media decide this is not worth covering.
00:56:40.000Again, as per our usual arrangement, remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member.
00:56:44.000If you're not a member, become a member.
00:56:45.000Use code Shapiro at check out for two months free on all annual plans.
00:56:47.000Click that link in the description and join us.