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00:00:00.000Well, folks, despite weeks and weeks of joy over Kamala Harris, so much joy, so many vibes, endless media coverage of her innate and unbreakable genius, it turns out that this race remains a dead heat.
00:00:12.000We have just reverted back to Joe Biden, pre-Joe Biden death status in this race.
00:00:17.000We get to the latest on the poll numbers and lead up to the big debate.
00:00:20.000First in just eight days, our first ever theatrical release, Am I Racist?
00:00:26.000Matt Walsh has infiltrated the left's DEI circus.
00:00:28.000It is more crazy and absurd than you can possibly imagine.
00:00:31.000A troll this size must be seen on the big screen.
00:00:33.000Go to MIRacist.com for tickets and showtimes right now.
00:00:36.000So, as I say, despite weeks and weeks and weeks of glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris avoiding literally all questions except for one 16-minute interval Well, despite all of that, she is still running a neck-and-neck race with Donald Trump.
00:00:55.000According to Politico, Vice President Kamala Harris is just barely pulling ahead of former President Donald Trump in the battleground states.
00:01:00.000That is according to a new CNN SSRS poll released On Wednesday, Harris is slightly above Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, but her slight lead is either within or just barely outside the margin of error.
00:01:12.000The candidates are tied at 47% in Pennsylvania.
00:01:15.000Trump leads Harris by 5 points in Arizona.
00:01:17.000When you look at that RealClearPolitics polling average, which again is not just one poll, it is an average of many polls, it shows momentum for Harris, no question.
00:01:24.000It shows that she is currently leading in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:01:27.000In Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, but all of those races are within margin of error.
00:01:32.000And similarly for President Trump, he is running a little bit ahead in North Carolina and Arizona, and they are tied in Pennsylvania.
00:01:39.000Literally every single one of those states is within the margin of error at this point in time.
00:01:44.000Not just that, if you look at Nate Silver's prediction for what's going to happen in this election right now, he has Donald Trump at the upper hand.
00:01:51.000And the reason for that is because Kamala Harris really got almost no bounce from that Democratic National Convention.
00:01:57.000She may have hit the high watermark of her campaign.
00:01:59.000And the big turning point could happen as early as next week, on Tuesday, when Donald Trump and Kamala Harris finally debate.
00:02:06.000The rules for that debate have now been set.
00:02:11.000Now, innately, I think a lot of people thought originally that that sort of rule would hurt Trump because he thrives off the crowd and he likes to throw a punch.
00:02:19.000But the reality is that it contains that Donald Trump is much better for Donald Trump.
00:02:24.000Because it turns out that Donald Trump not appearing to be erratic is the key to him winning at this point.
00:02:30.000Kamala Harris's entire campaign, Tim Walz's entire campaign, the entire thing is based on the idea that Donald Trump is a crazy man who can't be trusted with power.
00:02:37.000So if Donald Trump does not appear to be a crazy person in the debate, He is going to be on solid footing.
00:02:43.000And really, there are only a few things he has to do in that debate to successfully throw Kamala Harris off of her game.
00:02:49.000The number one thing he has to do is simply mention her record.
00:02:54.000She is a target-rich environment, politically speaking, and she has some real systemic problems in some of the key states.
00:03:00.000Nate Silver points out over at his website today that while Kamala Harris is up by three and a half points in the national poll tracker, she has fallen below 50% chance of winning the electoral college.
00:03:13.000And some of that is because of Pennsylvania.
00:03:16.000Pennsylvania was widely perceived as the state that matters the most in the presidential election.
00:03:23.000Very hard to imagine a scenario where Donald Trump, for example, wins Pennsylvania, but loses, say, Georgia and North Carolina.
00:03:29.000And similarly, very hard to see a scenario where Kamala Harris wins Pennsylvania but loses Michigan and Wisconsin.
00:03:35.000Pennsylvania is almost certainly the most important state in this election.
00:03:39.000And the problem, as Nate Silver points out, is that it's been a while since we've seen a poll showing Harris ahead in Pennsylvania, which is the tipping point state more than a third of the time in their model.
00:03:48.000In fact, they added one post-DNC model showing Pennsylvania as a tie and another showing either a tie or Trump up plus one.
00:03:54.000And as we know, the polls tend to undersample Trump voters because Trump has specific appeal for what are called low propensity voters, people who didn't necessarily vote in the last presidential or midterm election.
00:04:05.000It's very difficult to model what the electorate looks like when Donald Trump is on the ballot.
00:04:09.000This is one of the problems with the polling.
00:04:10.000It's not all purposeful skewing of polls.
00:04:13.000There's a lot of talk about how the pollsters skew the polls and how they are looking for a particular outcome before they even calculate the final number.
00:04:22.000Pollsters do have an interest in trying to be accurate, but they have a really tough time trying to measure the nuclear reactor that is Donald Trump in a campaign.
00:04:33.000Very, very difficult to measure who is part of the electorate, who is not.
00:04:37.000How do you actually construct a model of the electorate?
00:04:40.000Does it look more like 2016 or does it look more like 2020?
00:04:43.000For example, these are very difficult questions.
00:04:47.000Now, again, as Silver points out, all this could change quickly with one or two high-quality polls showing Harris ahead in the Keystone State.
00:04:53.000But, for now, they show a 17% chance Harris wins the popular vote, but not the Electoral College, which remains a very serious possibility.
00:05:03.000So, again, right now, Kamala Harris does not have this thing secure.
00:05:08.000Not only does she not have this secure, she did make one giant mistake, and I pointed it out at the time.
00:05:12.000That was selecting Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate.
00:06:08.000All your online activity is still 100% visible to a lot of third parties unless you use ExpressVPN.
00:06:14.000Even when you're in so-called incognito mode, there are a whole lineup of digital peeping toms who can still see every single website you visit.
00:06:19.000We're talking about your ISP, you know, the people you pay to give you internet.
00:06:22.000Then there's your mobile network provider.
00:06:23.000Yep, the ones behind that hefty phone bill.
00:06:25.000Don't forget the admins of whatever Wi-Fi network you're on.
00:06:28.000That could be your school, your boss, even your parents.
00:06:30.000It's like having big brother, his cousins, his entire extended family watching everything you do online.
00:07:50.000By the way, the data on Tim Walz being a bad pick is pretty much in.
00:07:55.000Right now, Tim Walz—remember, she could have picked Josh Shapiro, who's the popular governor of Pennsylvania, and that likely would have tipped over the state in favor of Kamala Harris, or at least provided a significant impetus for that happening.
00:08:06.000She decided not to pick Josh Shapiro because she was afraid that it would tick off all of the radical Muslims who hate Israel in states like Michigan.
00:08:12.000And so instead, she picked Tim Walz, who's very close with people like Ilhan Omar.
00:08:16.000The problem is, of course, she's not only not secured Pennsylvania, It turns out that Walls is not all that popular in the state of Minnesota.
00:08:22.000Now, she's going to win Minnesota, but there's a brand new KSTP SurveyUSA poll that shows that she has dropped about five points in Minnesota since picking Tim Walls.
00:08:33.000In fact, the better people know Tim Walls, the less they like him.
00:08:36.000And this is, I think, the nature of so many Democratic campaigns around the country.
00:08:39.000So yesterday, I spent the day campaigning with Captain Sam Brown.
00:08:43.000He is the Republican candidate for the Senate from Nevada.
00:09:04.000Obviously you can see the scars, his battle scars.
00:09:06.000He had to go through three years of intensive recovery.
00:09:11.000Not only is he an American hero for his service, also he is somebody who believes with a passion in constitutional principles in the United States.
00:09:21.000The Republicans, unlike the last go-around, unlike in 2022 when Republicans basically raided the loony bin for candidates, Republicans in many of these states, they are running some pretty good candidates.
00:09:31.000Mike Rogers is a good candidate in Michigan.
00:09:33.000Eric Hovde is a good candidate in Wisconsin.
00:09:35.000Dave McCormick is an excellent candidate In Pennsylvania, and Sam Brown is an excellent candidate in Nevada.
00:09:40.000Right now the polling is showing Sam Brown down to Jackie Rosen, who's kind of a nothing burger of a senator.
00:09:46.000But those polls are likely to tighten up very much as we near the final stretch of the campaign.
00:09:52.000One of the things the media have done is they've blacked out all of the excellent Republican candidates, ignored them, ripped them, They've also blacked out the Democratic candidates.
00:10:01.000The entire media apparatus is rooted in the idea that if you get to know many of the Republicans, you will like those Republicans more.
00:10:09.000And also, if you get to know many of the Democrats, you will like the Democrats less.
00:10:13.000So you're not seeing a lot of Jackie Rosen out there.
00:10:15.000You're also not seeing a lot of Sam Brown out there.
00:10:17.000Because the more you see people like Sam Brown, the more you like people like Sam Brown, the more he's likely to win a race.
00:10:21.000Here I was interviewing him yesterday.
00:10:23.000Here he was on the Biden administration.
00:10:26.000This administration has had failed foreign policy from day one.
00:10:30.000I mean, I think we've got to consider our border policy part of foreign policy at this point.
00:10:35.000And when Joe Biden went into the White House, literally after coming off the steps of the Capitol, and started signing executive orders attacking our border policy, that just started a domino of other things.
00:10:46.000And this Senate, led by Chuck Schumer, along with Jackie Rosen has had opportunities to step up and stop the normalization of relationships or the attempt of with Iran.
00:11:00.000You know, the literal sending of billions of dollars to Iran, the lifting of sanctions against Iran that has funded more terror than probably anything else over decades.
00:11:12.000And she wants to talk about how, you know, we need to do more again.
00:11:18.000Words alone are meaningless in the face of no action that allows for the massacre of so many people in Israel, the hostage that are still being held.
00:11:32.000And it goes beyond that to this new coalition that's forming between China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.
00:11:41.000They see a weaker United States of America and we need President Trump back in the White House and we need a strong Republican Senate to ensure that we regain our footing as the strongest nation in the world and we can lead again.
00:11:54.000And what makes Sam Brown a unique candidate, obviously, is his personal story.
00:11:57.000I mean, you want to talk about an amazing personal story.
00:11:59.000Democrats are constantly relying on the narrative of the character of the people they select.
00:12:03.000So they try and whip everybody into a lather about Kamala Harris once supposedly working at a McDonald's and then clawing her way up in politics with no help at all from people like Willie Brown, for example.
00:12:13.000But Sam Brown, actually, his story is quite amazing.
00:12:16.000I asked him at an event yesterday in front of boosters about how he met his wife.
00:12:21.000And it's a pretty, it's a pretty moving story.
00:12:24.000So as I was intubated, I was wrapped up.
00:12:27.000I mean, literally from head to toe and unconscious, she was part of the care team that was taking care of me.
00:12:33.000And so by the time I kind of came to and was able to sort of interact with people around, She was now working in the background, and I had no idea who she was for several months.
00:12:43.000And when I finally got a chance to meet her, I was just stunned with her smile.
00:12:53.000And Ben, I talked about the struggle of recovery.
00:13:00.000There was only one thing that really kind of broke my heart and made me sad, and I didn't know how I was going to deal with it.
00:13:08.000And it was the disfigurement of my face.
00:13:12.000I mean, I kind of joke, and I've had more surgery than a Kardashian, and I look a lot better now than I did then.
00:13:17.000But what that translated into was, I thought, as a 24-year-old man, now 25 by that point, someone who was watching my professional career go up in smoke, quite literally and figuratively, That I wanted to be a husband one day.
00:13:37.000And I could not reconcile to myself if I was being honest and I looked in the mirror, how would anyone see past these scars and love this man?
00:13:46.000And Amy Brown saw through the scars and she loved this man.
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00:15:14.000Meanwhile, President Trump seems to have regained some of his footing in this race.
00:15:18.000It felt for weeks and weeks as though he had lost that footing because obviously his head was in the Biden race.
00:15:23.000And then, of course, the Democrats pulled one of the great switcheroos of all time.
00:15:26.000They took their candidate for whom they had rigged all the primaries.
00:15:28.000They made sure that no Democrat could run a serious race against senile Joe in the primaries.
00:15:34.000And then, once he had won, and then they realized that he actually was not only senile, but that he was going to demonstrate to the public that he was full-scale senile.
00:15:41.000At that point, they decided to dump him over in favor of Kamala Harris.
00:15:45.000So you can imagine why Donald Trump was thrown by that for several weeks.
00:15:48.000And he's been sort of struggling to find his footing, struggling to figure out attack lines on Kamala Harris.
00:15:53.000But he gave a very good performance last night at a town hall event.
00:15:56.000With Sean Hannity on Fox News and the town hall event was actually pretty good Trump.
00:16:02.000He finally seems to be digging down into our policy positions because that's the thing he needs to attack.
00:16:06.000The thing is Kamala Harris was picked because she's an empty vessel.
00:16:10.000She was picked because she's a big nothing burger of a candidate.
00:16:14.000She looks good on TV and she says nice things off a teleprompter.
00:16:18.000And then when it comes to her actual politics, they are just as poisonous as anything the Democratic Party has ever put forward at the national level.
00:16:24.000And Trump seems to be finally, finally concentrating on that, as opposed to all the kind of spurious attacks that are not going to do any good attacks on.
00:16:33.000Her code switching, for example, is not going to do much or attacks on her intelligence.
00:16:38.000People can see that and they'll make their own decision about that.
00:16:40.000Attacking her policy is going to be the thing that Trump really can do and do with alacrity.
00:16:46.000Here was President Trump pointing out that if Kamala Harris is in fact elected president of the United States, you will see the biggest tax increases in American history.
00:16:54.000And he is correct about this because he passed the biggest tax cuts in modern American history.
00:17:00.000If you let the Trump tax cuts expire, which he wants to do, she wants to terminate them.
00:17:06.000If you do that, you will suffer the biggest tax increase in history.
00:17:11.000There's never been a tax increase like it.
00:18:42.000He is right about all of those things.
00:18:44.000And he concluded, listen, you don't have to like me, but you do have to understand that if you don't vote for me, what you're going to get is her.
00:19:32.000There's a bit of a story that came out yesterday when extended members of Tim Walz's family said that they were not going to vote for Tim Walz, they were instead going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:19:40.000Now normally I would say that sort of stuff really isn't fair game because who cares?
00:19:42.000Who cares what the relatives of presidential candidates have to say?
00:19:46.000But, turnabout is in fact fair play, and we've had years of people surfacing every obscure Donald Trump relative to write pieces for the Atlantic about what Uncle Donald was like way back when.
00:20:47.000That's the best that Trump has been in a while, and he showed it last night.
00:20:51.000Well, you know, it's probably a little bit insulting for Tim Walz that members of his family are not endorsing him.
00:20:57.000But he is running around the world talking about how he knows how to order a donut.
00:20:59.000It's an actual thing that he did for the Kamala Harris campaign.
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00:22:17.000So Liz Cheney, who you'll recall was the Republican who was on the impeachment committee for Donald Trump over January 6th and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:22:24.000And then who lost her seat to Harriet Hageman in Wyoming.
00:22:28.000Well, she has now come out and said that she's going to vote for Kamala Harris.
00:22:32.000She said, Now, again, I don't even understand the logic here.
00:22:33.000of writing in candidates' names, particularly in swing states.
00:22:36.000As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution,
00:23:11.000So she went from she's a radical liberal who's going to destroy the country to I need to vote for her because Donald Trump is such a grave threat.
00:23:17.000And I get that Liz Cheney doesn't like Donald Trump.
00:23:19.000Obviously, I get that Liz Cheney became sort of the point of the spear for Democrats coordinating with Democrats on the January 6th committee and all that.
00:23:26.000And then she was targeted and she lost her primary.
00:23:30.000Also, you can't turn over the country to a person who has pledged that if she gets a triumvirate, meaning a Democratic presidency, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic House, she's going to radically rewrite the Constitution of the United States.
00:23:41.000They're going to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate.
00:23:43.000So as to pack the Supreme Court, so as to add at least two states to the United States Senate, presumably both Democrat voting states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., thus rigging the Senate for the foreseeable future in favor of the Democrats.
00:23:56.000They're talking about changing all of the voting rules.
00:23:59.000Through the John Lewis Act, which would essentially make ballot harvesting a thing across the entire nation, while cracking down on voter ID.
00:24:08.000They'd radically revise how immigration is done in the United States to the benefit of open borders.
00:24:12.000I mean, all of these things are right on the table.
00:24:15.000How you vote for that just because you don't like Donald Trump is beyond me.
00:24:18.000And again, all this talk about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, a threat to democracy.
00:24:22.000The big question I have to all the threat to democracy folks is, please explain in detail the threat to democracy.
00:24:28.000Like, in detail, what is the thing he is going to do that is going to threaten the democracy itself more than all the things I just mentioned that Kamala Harris is absolutely going to attempt if she achieves a triumvirate, and if she doesn't, by executive order as much as humanly possible?
00:24:42.000Who abused executive power more, Donald Trump or Joe Biden?
00:24:47.000The answer there is perfectly obvious.
00:24:48.000Joe Biden used the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in order to try to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans.
00:24:55.000And only because people like us, we here at The Daily Wire, actually sued the Biden administration was that stopped.
00:25:01.000Joe Biden has repeatedly attempted to defy the Supreme Court by simply alleviating student loan debt, by simply waiving it.
00:25:08.000Joe Biden has used executive power in order to open up the southern border, and then he has attempted to sue states to prevent them from enforcing immigration law.
00:25:19.000Joe Biden's abuse of executive power, his DOJ going after his presidential rival, his chief opponent, For jaywalking.
00:25:29.000And yet we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump, because he said and did bad things between November and January of 2021, and then there was in fact a peaceful transition of power.
00:25:38.000See, it's called the peaceful transition of power when the transition of power is supposed to happen on January 20th, and then it happens, and the army doesn't intervene, and there's no actual coup.
00:25:46.000That's what a peaceful transition of power is.
00:25:48.000Whether or not the former president shows up at the inauguration, or whether he's happy with it, or not.
00:26:04.000That Donald Trump is going to run for a third term illegally in violation of the Constitution?
00:26:08.000You have to be high on your own supply.
00:26:10.000But all of this is just excuse-making for the fact that people don't like Trump, and excuse-making for the fact that Kamala Harris is actually underperforming.
00:26:18.000It turns out that many of the doubts about Kamala Harris as a candidate, they were not all for naught.
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00:28:16.000China has repeatedly attempted to interfere in American elections.
00:28:18.000We know that Iran is attempting to interfere in the American election.
00:28:22.000So it's not a surprise that Russia will try to interfere in the American election.
00:28:27.000The difference is that when China does it, it is not a national news story.
00:28:30.000When Iran does it, it's pretty much buried.
00:28:32.000When it's Russia, because the supposition is that the Russians support President Trump for the presidency because he is not a stalwart on Ukraine or something, despite the fact that, by the way, Donald Trump in practice was harsher on Russia than Joe Biden was prior to the invasion of Ukraine.
00:28:48.000Despite all of that, the basic idea is that Russia is going to intervene in the election in such deep and nefarious ways that you will be deceived.
00:29:00.000And again, this feels like them setting up the predicate for a crackdown on social media, for a crackdown on tech companies that allow free speech, for a crackdown on, say, X, or a crackdown on right-wing media.
00:29:11.000Now, as we will see, there's some right-wing media have opened the door to that.
00:29:14.000Which is really disgusting and terrible.
00:29:16.000We'll get to that in a moment, but the Biden administration is going to play this to the hilt.
00:29:21.000Yesterday, the Biden administration prepared to publicly accuse Russia of launching a sustained campaign to influence the 2024 presidential elections using Kremlin-controlled media and online platforms to spread disinformation, according to Mediaite.
00:29:34.000That accusation was to be part of a broader set of actions expected to be announced on Wednesday, including law enforcement efforts aimed at curbing the alleged Russian operation.
00:29:41.000Now, this only makes sense in the context of 2020, when you had the American defense and intelligence apparatus warning people like Mark Zuckerberg that they needed to shut down the Hunter Biden story because it might be Russian disinformation.
00:29:55.000They're setting the groundwork for that right now.
00:29:57.000If there are bad stories to break about Kamala Harris before the campaign, Ends, what you are going to see is the Biden administration claim that it's Russian disinformation again.
00:30:05.000It is a convenient excuse to siphon off any sort of viewership of that information.
00:30:11.000According to four sources who talked exclusively to CNN, Russian state media outlet RT is the central focus of the US response.
00:30:18.000With officials viewing it as a key tool in the Kremlin's propaganda machine, with disinformation being funneled through both American and foreign voices.
00:30:25.000And again, that would not be a particular shock.
00:30:27.000RT obviously has a vested interest in particular points of view being elevated.
00:30:32.000The question is, how much real impact is that going to have on the election?
00:30:35.000Well, the reason the media are covering this updoisoo is because they are basically saying the only way Donald Trump can win is if the Russians somehow manipulate Americans into voting for him.
00:30:47.000John Kirby, national security spokesperson, he says the Russians are now using AI to try and manipulate the election.
00:30:54.000It's much more sophisticated than what we've seen out of the Russians in the recent past, certainly than what we saw in 2016.
00:30:59.000Yes, they're using social media, but they're much more pervasive at it.
00:31:03.000They're creating false persona, using artificial intelligence to help drive content and distribute content.
00:31:11.000And they're much more resourced and organized.
00:31:13.000Using RT, what was formerly just a propaganda organ for the Kremlin, now has turned into a full covert influence activity with full funding to do this kind of work by funneling resources and organizing editorial content in actual media outlets.
00:31:32.000They're going to play this up and play this up and play this up.
00:31:34.000Now, of course, they're going to ignore the things like, you know, Kathy Hochul's top aide, the governor of New York, her top aide being an actual Chinese spy.
00:31:40.000They'll ignore that kind of stuff because it doesn't cut in their benefit.
00:31:43.000They are going to play up Russiagate 2.0 as hard as they can.
00:31:47.000Yesterday, the Attorney General Merrick Garland, he announced indictments and seizures of internet domains related to Russian interference in the election.
00:31:55.000The Justice Department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and the Russian-sponsored actors have used to engage in a covert campaign to interfere and influence the outcome of our country's elections.
00:32:13.000And meanwhile, NBC's Ryan Reilly, he reported that Russia, this is really the narrative they're pushing, Russia is going to be the deciding factor they are attempting to push Trump into office.
00:32:26.000The way this indictment sort of lays out some of the documents that they laid out here, they of course redact the names of the actual parties that they're speaking to here.
00:32:35.000So they're not saying explicitly that Russia is trying to help Republicans, but really that's what the documents allege here.
00:32:43.000They say, you know, they say party B or party A. They don't identify Republican or Democrat, but if you just read the context of it, it's extremely easy to figure out what we're talking about here and what the U.S.
00:32:53.000government The Justice Department is alleging that Russia was doing really to booster Donald Trump's efforts.
00:33:00.000The reality is that Russia and its ability to interfere through disinformation in the American election is extremely, extremely limited.
00:33:08.000In just one second, we'll get to the third part, which is what is actually happening?
00:33:59.000Now, it's not as though there is nothing there in terms of Russia's interference in America's informational environment.
00:34:04.000The big story of the day, on the right, was the fact that the DOJ has put out an indictment accusing a content company, a conservative content, pseudo-conservative content company, out of Tennessee, called Tenet Media, of taking a bunch of Russian money.
00:34:20.000The indictment doesn't identify the company by name, but it is clearly Tenet Media.
00:34:27.000The founders of Tenet Media are Lauren Chen and her husband, Lauren, who started off as sort of a mainstream conservative, has moved into some pretty fringy circles of late, hanging out with sort of the Nick Fuentes crowd of the world and mirroring a lot of those perverse worldviews.
00:34:41.000But people who work for Tenet Media, which of course is a larger media company, include people like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Tyler Hansen, Matt Christensen.
00:34:51.000Apparently, there are two Russian nationals named Konstantin Kalishnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, and they were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.
00:35:01.000They were employed by RT, according to the indictment.
00:35:05.000And apparently, the indictment alleges the defendants have deployed nearly $10 million laundered through a network of foreign shell entities to covertly fund and direct tenant media.
00:35:14.000Comments from top DOJ and FBI officials sharply denounced the alleged criminal scheme as, quote, And this, again, is something that happens on the regular.
00:35:19.000Americans into unwittingly consuming foreign propaganda and to illegally
00:35:23.000manipulating American public opinion by sowing discord and division by co-opting
00:35:27.000online commentators by funneling them nearly 10 million dollars to pump pro-Russia propaganda
00:35:31.000and disinformation across social media to U.S. audiences.
00:35:34.000And this again is something that happens on the regular. I mean TikTok is a Chinese-owned
00:35:37.000app and they absolutely rigged the algorithms in terms of what sort of stuff you see and
00:35:44.000So it's not a shock that Russia was doing this.
00:35:46.000The bigger shock is that pretty obviously, according to the indictment, Lauren Chen took the cash.
00:35:54.000And not only did she take the cash, it sounds like, it sounds like she then effectively lied to all of the people who were working for her company By never telling them that she was taking Russian cash.
00:36:06.000So Tim Pool, again, one of the people who was not named in the indictment, but pretty obviously
00:36:11.000referred to in the indictment, he said, should these allegations prove true, I, as well as the
00:36:14.000other personalities and commentators, were deceived. I can't speak for anyone else at
00:36:18.000the company as to what they do or what they are. Another statement was put out by Benny Johnson.
00:36:22.000He said, a year ago, a media startup pitched my company to provide content as an independent contractor.
00:36:26.000Our lawyers negotiated a standard arms length deal, which was later terminated.
00:36:29.000We were disturbed by the allegations in today's indictment, which made clear that me and other influencers
00:36:57.000Anybody who's pro-Israel, Loren Chen suggests is on the payroll of the Israeli government
00:36:57.000Anybody who's pro-Israel, Loren Chen suggests is on the payroll
00:37:00.000of the Israeli government or is doing something deeply corrupt
00:37:03.000because of Jewish money or because of AIPAC or AIPAC is a foreign front.
00:37:06.000So while accusing everybody else of actually being in the pay of foreign parties,
00:37:09.000it sounds like Loren allegedly was in the pay of foreign parties,
00:37:13.000which does speak to something that is in fact somewhat perverse that has risen on the right.
00:37:18.000And that is a generalized warmth toward Russia, toward Vladimir Putin.
00:37:25.000This obviously has been, I think, a fringe of the right.
00:37:28.000I do not think this is the mainstream of the right.
00:37:31.000I think there are a lot of good reasons to doubt the American strategy with regard to Ukraine.
00:37:35.000And since early on in the Ukraine war, I've been suggesting the sort of Henry Kissinger idea, which is you have to fund Ukraine sufficient to prevent them from being overrun by the Russians and then seek an off-ramp.
00:37:44.000That seems to be the reasonable solution that everybody has come to except for the Biden administration.
00:37:49.000With that said, the warmth toward Vladimir Putin that has been evidenced by people like, say, Warren Chen, is bizarre in the extreme.
00:38:00.000Vladimir Putin is not a friend to the United States.
00:38:02.000He does not share priorities with the United States, pretty obviously.
00:38:06.000Again, that's not a geopolitical argument about what exactly your position should be with regard to American involvement in the war in Ukraine.
00:38:18.000And he does not have America's best interests at heart or anything like overlapping interests with the United States.
00:38:22.000The fact that he has found fertile ground with a particular wing Of the right in the United States says something pretty negative about that segment of the right in the United States.
00:38:33.000But the generalized attempt by the Biden administration or by a media that is very, very hot on this story to suggest that Russian interference is going to decide the election or that a huge base of Trump support is coming from Russian election interference.
00:38:49.000Even the amount of money they're talking about here, $10 million being spent on YouTube videos, presumably, being put out or promoted by tenant media, that ain't gonna do it.
00:38:59.000In the same way that in 2016, it was not going to make a huge difference that there were a bunch of pretty badly put together Facebook pages that were telling grandma that voting day was the wrong day or something.
00:39:10.000The reality is that the opposition to Kamala Harris is driven by the fact that Joe Biden's an unpopular president and she's a terrible candidate.
00:39:16.000Support for President Trump is the same as it ever was.
00:39:18.000It is driven by personal like for Trump.
00:39:20.000And also a reality for people like me, which is that his first presidency had a lot of really good policy attached to it.
00:40:01.000I mean, today we were highlighting, you know, that she was going to raise capital gains taxes by slightly less than Joe Biden was going to raise capital gains taxes, as if that was some sort of a massive break in tax policy, right?
00:40:13.000I mean, good for Erin Burnett for pointing out the obvious here.
00:40:24.000Or is she still the candidate of higher taxes?
00:40:27.000Everyone knows she's the candidate of higher taxes.
00:40:29.000Everyone also understands she's doing that in the middle of a slowing economy.
00:40:32.000According to Axios, the labor market is cooling rapidly, increasing the odds of an aggressive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve in just two weeks.
00:40:39.000New data out Wednesday morning bolstered that case.
00:40:42.000Employers slashed the number of job openings in July and fired more workers, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey data from the Labor Department.
00:40:49.000The number of job openings fell by 237,000 in July.
00:40:52.000That brings the number of openings as a share of total employment down to 4.6% from 4.8%, that is the lowest rate since December 2020.
00:41:00.000That means that fewer open jobs, more people getting fired, so a seriously slowing labor market at this point.
00:41:06.000Presumably, it's going to be used again as the launching off point for the Federal Reserve lowering the interest rates again.
00:41:11.000But, you know, if they do that, they do run the risk of reinflating the currency, given the fact that we are not, in fact, at the 2% rate that everyone seeks year on year in terms of the inflation rate.
00:41:25.000So Kamala Harris, looking at raising taxes and regulations in the middle of a not particularly good economy.
00:41:31.000She's reversing herself on every position, but it's very hard for her to do that.
00:41:47.000Trust me, the film will make you laugh, cry, it will give an unprecedented look into the life and presidency of one of America's greatest leaders, Dennis Quaid.
00:41:55.000He turns in like an all-time awesome performance as President Ronald Reagan from basically the time he's 40 till the time that he leaves the presidency.
00:42:02.000The charm, wit, steely resolve of the Cold Warrior, it's all in there.
00:42:05.000Penelope Ann Miller is fantastic as Nancy Reagan.
00:42:08.000Their love story is beautifully portrayed, reminding everybody of a time when dignity and class actually resided in the White House.
00:42:14.000Here's what really struck me about the film.
00:42:16.000The eerie parallels to what's going on right now.
00:42:18.000Inflation spiraling out of control, skyrocketing gas prices, Russian aggression, and more.
00:42:22.000It's basically the 1980s, they called, and their foreign policy is here again.
00:42:26.000Seeing how Reagan navigated those challenges and led America to triumph is not just entertaining, it is inspiring.
00:42:31.000At a time when our country needs strong leadership and inspiration, this movie serves as a poignant reminder of what presidential material looks like.
00:42:38.000Every time you buy a movie ticket, you're casting a vote with your dollars.
00:42:40.000So use the opportunity to vote for Reagan one more time.
00:42:43.000Round up your family, your friends, maybe even that local young Republicans club.
00:42:46.000Go to ReaganMovie.com and grab your tickets today.
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00:42:51.000So yesterday, Kamala Harris put out an ad in which she is literally walking next to Donald Trump's border wall.
00:42:56.000Remember, she called that thing a medieval contraption.
00:44:25.000They try to make this about, you know, generalized immigration, but the truth is that lawful permanent resident numbers, green card holders, have actually been fairly stagnant since the George W. Bush era.
00:44:37.000That really has not changed in terms of numbers.
00:44:39.000In fact, it's a little lower under Joe Biden than it was under Barack Obama.
00:44:42.000Donald Trump lowered it, and then Joe Biden kept it at fairly low levels.
00:44:47.000When you look at the non-immigrant group, which are temporary workers and student visitors and officials of foreign governments, that non-immigrant group is actually quite small.
00:45:12.000Joe Biden's illegal immigration numbers dwarf the combined entirety of the last three administrations.
00:45:20.000And yet, we're somehow supposed to believe that she's tough on the border and she's going to walk alongside that border wall?
00:45:25.000By the way, she's not even good at walking back her own positions.
00:45:28.000So apparently, according to Axios, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign won't say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035.
00:45:36.000That was a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.
00:45:40.000Harris's campaign has been trying to walk that back, right?
00:45:46.000Well, the problem is Axios asked Harris to clarify her position because she said, I am no longer in favor of an EV mandate.
00:45:52.000So Axios asked a pretty obvious question.
00:45:54.000OK, let's say you have a Democratic Senate and they pass it.
00:45:55.000You going to veto it if you're president of the United States?
00:45:59.000On Tuesday afternoon, Harris's campaign ultimately declined to comment.
00:46:03.000So she keeps saying that she switched her position, but the real question is going to be, if they simply pass the stuff she wanted in 2019-2020, is she going to veto any of it?
00:46:12.000Who believes she's going to veto any of it?
00:46:14.000You'd have to be insane to believe she's going to veto any of it, because she's not going to veto any of it.
00:46:19.000And again, if she becomes the president and she has a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House, she's going to change the Supreme Court.
00:46:24.000In fact, even current members of the Supreme Court—remember, we're only supposed to worry about the politicization of the Supreme Court by the so-called right-wingers on the court—Katanji Brown-Jackson was on The View yesterday, and she literally suggested openly that democracy means that we need to change the Supreme Court.
00:46:39.000I guess I think about all of this as democracy at work, public engagement, these ideas of reforms are the kinds of things that have been around since the beginning of our republic.
00:46:52.000In the book, I mention Alexander Hamilton and debating with the anti-federalists over term limits for the Supreme Court.
00:47:01.000So this is something that has been around for a long time.
00:47:05.000As a justice, we try not to participate in those debates.
00:47:09.000You know, it's very interesting to note that this is what democracy calls for.
00:47:16.000Democracy calls for changes to the Supreme Court.
00:47:18.000Remember, Liz Cheney, it is only Donald Trump who's a threat to the institutions of the United States.
00:47:22.000Coming up, there was a major school shooting at a Georgia high school.
00:47:26.000And of course, this means calls for gun control.