A man who has a fetish in which he wears fake breasts in order to communicate with online models. We'll talk about it and more on today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. (Ben Shapiro's Take)
00:00:38.000All righty, so there's a Supreme Court ruling that came down yesterday called Childs versus Salazar.
00:00:47.000And the basic concept of the Supreme Court ruling is that the state of Colorado had put forward a law that banned what they called conversion therapy.
00:00:56.000Now, when you think of conversion therapy, what you are thinking of is some psychologist in a room somewhere who is zapping a gay kid.
00:01:05.000With electricity, like hooking electrodes to him and then zapping him until he is no longer attracted to members of the same sex.
00:01:12.000That's what you're thinking of when you think of conversion therapy.
00:01:14.000That is not what the state of Colorado is thinking of.
00:01:16.000What they are thinking of when they describe conversion therapy is something different.
00:01:21.000According to the Colorado law, 2019, that law prohibited licensed counselors from engaging in conversion therapy with minors, defining the term to include any practice or treatment that attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
00:01:37.000As well as any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions toward individuals of the same sex.
00:01:46.000That same law allows counselors to provide, quote, acceptance, support, and understanding for identity exploration and development and to assist persons, quote, undergoing gender transition.
00:01:55.000So, in other words, the Colorado law said that if a kid comes to you with gender confusion, you are not allowed to say, boys are boys and girls are girls.
00:02:02.000Let's help you be more comfortable in your body.
00:02:04.000If a kid comes, a boy, and he says, I'm a girl, you have to affirm him.
00:02:08.000And if you don't affirm him, You're engaged in conversion therapy and you can be prosecuted under the law in the state of Colorado.
00:02:15.000If a kid comes to you and says, Listen, I'm confused about my feelings of sexual attraction, you're not allowed to talk that through and say, Well, you know what?
00:02:35.000That might be conversion therapy because that could be construed as an attempt to change behavior or eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction.
00:02:46.000Instead, you're supposed to just give that kid a pride flag and tell them to get out there and march.
00:02:50.000That is what the Colorado law essentially said.
00:02:52.000Well, the plaintiff in this case is a person named Kaylee Childs, who holds a master's degree in clinical mental health and a state counseling license in Colorado.
00:03:00.000And Childs doesn't start counseling with any predetermined goals, according to the Supreme Court.
00:03:05.000Instead, she sits down with clients, discusses their goals, and then formulates methods of counseling that will most benefit them, seeking throughout to respect her client's fundamental right of self determination.
00:03:16.000On some matters of sexuality and gender, the clients sometimes have different agendas, according to the Supreme Court.
00:03:22.000Some are perfectly happy being gay or lesbian or trans gender identifying, and others want to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions or change sexual behaviors or grow in the experience of harmony with their bodies.
00:03:36.000And under Colorado law, those last people are just plumb out of luck.
00:03:40.000There's nothing they can do because if you, for example, are a person who has a fetish, presumably, And you don't want to have that fetish anymore.
00:03:48.000According to Colorado law, you are not allowed as a therapist, as a talk therapist, to try to change an individual's behaviors regarding sexual or romantic attractions.
00:03:59.000Well, Justice Gorsuch, who again, Justice Gorsuch is not a strict textualist when it comes to these matters, is a typical rule.
00:04:07.000His opinion in Bostock, which was a case surrounding transgenderism as a facet of the Civil Rights Act, you'll remember this case was kind of crazy.
00:04:16.000That was a case in which Justice Gorsuch suggested that it was discrimination under the Civil Rights Act to say that men are men and women are women in some circumstances.
00:04:25.000So he is not a wild conservative on these matters.
00:04:28.000He wrote the opinion, and his basic opinion is pretty simple.
00:04:32.000The First Amendment allows therapists to say what they want to say during therapy.
00:04:38.000According to the Supreme Court, and there's an 8 1 ruling, the only person who voted in dissent is, of course, Wade Fritz Katanji Brown Jackson, the dumbest person on the Supreme Court.
00:04:46.000That's saying a lot because Sonia Sotomayor is also on the Supreme Court.
00:04:49.000But here's what Justice Gorsuch wrote consistent with the First Amendment's jealous protections for the individual's right to think and speak freely, this court has long held that laws regulating speech based on subject matter or communicative content are presumptively unconstitutional.
00:05:05.000We have recognized, says the Supreme Court, the even greater dangers associated with regulations that discriminate based on the speaker's point of view.
00:05:12.000So, in other words, the big problem here is that it's not just that they are putting regulations on speech.
00:05:18.000Those regulations on speech are content dependent.
00:05:21.000They're saying you can say these things that we agree with, but you cannot say these things with which we disagree.
00:05:27.000As a talk therapist, says the Supreme Court, all Ms. Childs does is speak with clients.
00:05:31.000She does not prescribe medication, use medical devices, or employ any physical methods.
00:05:36.000And they point out consider where the state and dissent logic leads.
00:05:40.000Not long ago, many medical experts and organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, considered homosexuality a mental disorder.
00:05:47.000On the view of Colorado and the dissent, a law adopted during that era prohibiting counselors from engaging in the substandard care of affirming their clients' homosexuality would have been subject to only rational basis or intermediate scrutiny review and likely upheld.
00:06:01.000So, in other words, they're saying if you are suggesting that a state can determine what is the best course of care with regard to opinions on open matters, Of gender and sexuality, and then mandate that sort of stuff on subject matter basis.
00:06:22.000And then the court goes out of its way to really slap Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:06:27.000They say today, tomorrow, and forever, any professional speech that deviates from current beliefs about the safety and efficacy of various medical treatments could be silenced with relative ease.
00:06:37.000It is a consequence Colorado freely acknowledges and one that dissent embraces.
00:06:41.000So what if that kind of reflexive deference to currently prevailing professional views may not always end well?
00:06:48.000Okay, the reason that that is a really scathing rebuttal to Jackson is because Buck versus Bell is the case that suggested that you actually had the ability under law to sexually sterilize inmates of institutions because that was the prevailing science of the time.
00:07:09.000Okay, well, Katanji Brown Jackson then responded, and her basic opinion is I like this law.
00:07:15.000Now, again, she is in the minority, eight to one.
00:07:18.000Even Kagan and Sotomayor ruled against her in this particular case.
00:07:23.000She says that Colorado was simply, quote, restricting a dangerous therapy modality.
00:07:30.000She says that the court's opinion is unprincipled and unworkable.
00:07:36.000And of course, then she has a long statement about how wonderful gender orientation of left wing philosophy is.
00:07:44.000Quote, ultimately, scientific evidence supports the conclusion that anticipated harms from conversion therapy are twofold.
00:07:51.000First, conversion therapy stigmatizes the patient, telling them that their gender identity or sexual orientation is something to be fixed rather than accepted.
00:07:58.000This rejection can lead to shame and guilt.
00:08:00.000Which in turn can cause long term emotional distress.
00:08:04.000The reason that this is important is because, number one, it is the court's recognition that the science is open on this, which it clearly is.
00:08:13.000That is the most important thing here.
00:08:15.000But Katanji Brown Jackson's dissent is a reminder that if the left had complete control over the mechanisms of government, they would simply regulate into law all of their most specious and idiotic views about science.
00:08:29.000Jackson's opinion is basically the science says.
00:08:32.000She's basically saying that Colorado has the right to regulate therapist treatment because mitochlorians might make you trans or something.
00:08:39.000And if Tyan says that, then we have to just go along with the science.
00:08:43.000And the state is allowed to regulate you and prevent you from telling a kid who's experiencing gender confusion that there's a way through this that doesn't involve you taking on the aspects of the other sex physically and emotionally.
00:08:58.000And we are this close to that world, by the way.
00:09:00.000Without President Trump as president, we were this close to that world.
00:09:03.000I really mean that because President Trump is responsible for several selections on the Supreme Court.
00:09:08.000And right now, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are ruling with the majority.
00:09:12.000But if there were a bunch of Democrat appointees on the court, is that the way this would have gone?
00:09:38.000That lawsuit was basically over a State Department under Joe Biden methodology.
00:09:45.000They were using a federally funded thing called the Global Engagement Center to fund and promote companies that worked to bankrupt conservative news companies like ours.
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00:10:01.000And those NewsGuard like companies would then essentially tell advertisers that they should never advertise with groups like the Daily Wire because we were somehow.
00:10:11.000Not compliant with their news standards.
00:10:14.000So we sued them because the State Department should not have the ability to shut down speech it doesn't like simply by rooting money to outside outlets.
00:10:25.000So a federal judge today entered a consent decree that put the Daily Wire and the Federalist, one of our co plaintiffs, in charge of ensuring that future State Departments do not fund efforts to deem news outlets disinformation.
00:10:38.000This is huge because, again, in the absence of this, anytime a Democrat assumes office, that Democrat could simply take the money.
00:10:44.000From the State Department and create outside groups, outside pressure groups determined to treat conservative news as disinformation.
00:10:54.000It is a major free speech win for Americans.
00:10:56.000It's a major free speech win for the media.
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00:14:26.000You can basically do what you want, but you cannot demand that everybody act out of accordance with reality.
00:14:32.000Meanwhile, Mera Zaran Mamdani, again, the very weird red green alliance, meaning the alliance between radical Islam and radical leftism, it's a very strange thing.
00:14:46.000Dinner with at the mayoral mansion to close out Ramadan.
00:14:53.000I doubt many of them are in favor of Trans Day of Visibility, except insofar as they are fans of anything that sort of tears away at the stanchions of Western civilization.
00:15:02.000Mamdani put out a statement Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
00:15:06.000Trans non binary and gender non conforming people have always been here.
00:15:10.000From the Hijra of India to the Dini Nadlihi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign movement here in New York, your existence is not up for debate.
00:15:28.000First of all, the entire lie that trans people in the United States are at danger of extermination is, in fact, a lie.
00:15:34.000City Journal has a great piece today going through the actual statistics with regard to an epidemic, a supposed epidemic of transgender murders.
00:15:44.000According to City Journal, a project of the excellent Manhattan Institute, for more than a decade, the human rights campaign has pushed the narrative.
00:15:51.000That trans people are facing an epidemic of deadly violence, publishing annual epidemic of violence reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States.
00:16:00.000Well, the reality is that trans people are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population.
00:16:06.000Most transgender people are murdered by members of their own race, and intimate partner violence, not hate, is the leading identified motive for such murders.
00:16:16.000The general population murder rate is 25.8 per 100,000, this is between 2010 and 2014.
00:16:23.000The transgender rate, meaning the murder rate against transgender people, is 3.66 per 100,000, that is one seventh of the general population rate.
00:16:33.000According to Manhattan Institute, homicide risk is concentrated in one group, one group only young black men who identify as women.
00:16:40.000These male victims are usually compared with black non transgender women, females, which makes their homicide rate look unusually high for women.
00:16:46.000Well, yes, because they are in fact men, and men tend to murder other men at rates that far exceed the murder by women.
00:16:56.000HRC's own data debunks the claim that white supremacy is the cause of any violence.
00:17:00.000Among identified suspects, black suspects account for 65.1% of perpetrators.
00:17:08.000Well, one more judicial decision, and then we'll get to the spiciest and most bizarre news of the day.
00:17:15.000The Supreme Court went Trump's direction on conversion therapy, or at least went the direction of conservatives.
00:17:21.000Another decision went the other way yesterday.
00:17:22.000There's a federal decision that temporarily halted the construction of President Trump's new East Wing ballroom.
00:17:27.000So, the judge, Judge Leon, who was appointed by George W. Bush, the court basically found that the president, Does not have the unilateral ability to simply build buildings at the White House, that he can make small changes, but he can't just tear things down and then rebuild them.
00:17:42.000The judge says the President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of first families.
00:17:51.000The President Trump claims that Congress gave him the authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing Ballroom project and to do it with private funds.
00:17:58.000I have concluded the National Trust, which is the plaintiff against President Trump, is likely to succeed on the merits.
00:18:03.000And he says, listen, Congress can simply authorize the continued construction of the ballroom project.
00:18:08.000The president can go to Congress to obtain express authority to construct a ballroom.
00:18:13.000And actually, it's a little bit different than prior remits.
00:18:17.000Congress actually was involved in the funding of prior buildings on the White House grounds or on national parks.
00:18:25.000President Trump is upset about all of this.
00:18:29.000So, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social.
00:18:33.000Well, the National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a ballroom that is under budget.
00:18:38.000Ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the taxpayer, and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world.
00:18:43.000I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center, now the Trump Kennedy Center, where all I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and sprucing up a terribly maintained, for many years, building, but a building of potentially great importance.
00:18:57.000Yet the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for a building which has been decimated and destroyed inside and out by an incompetent and possibly corrupt Fed chairman.
00:19:10.000That once magnificent building is billions over budget, may never be completed, and may never open.
00:19:15.000All of the beautiful walls inside have been ripped down, never to be built again, but the National Trust for Historic Preservation never did anything about it.
00:19:23.000And he basically says, Why is it that you're picking on me?
00:19:26.000Now, there are mock ups of the new East Wing Ballroom.
00:20:14.000Okay, quick correction, by the way, with regard to the NewsGuard story.
00:20:18.000So, the fund that was created by the State Department, they didn't directly fund NewsGuard, they contracted with NewsGuard, who worked with the GEC.
00:20:27.000Okay, now to the spicy story of the day.
00:20:31.000So, according to the New York Post, quoting a report from the UK Daily Mail, Christy Gnome's husband has some issues.
00:20:37.000Two really large, inflated issues, to be precise.
00:20:42.000So, according to the New York Post, Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbofication fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance.
00:20:56.000Citing hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from the scene, Gnome's husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented appearances and proclaimed he coveted.
00:21:04.000Huge, huge, ridiculous boobs, according to the mail.
00:21:08.000One photo from the mail shows Brian Gnome, apparently.
00:21:13.000He shared it with these women, and it featured him wearing pink hot pants and a flesh colored skin tight suit.
00:21:19.000And apparently, he inflated some actual balloons and then stuffed them in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts and directed the area of the balloon that you tie toward the front to kind of create fake, misaligned nipples.
00:21:34.000Apparently, He sent these women some $25,000 via Cash App and PayPal.
00:21:53.000So there is Brian Nome looking very seriously into the camera as though he is, you know, about to take an insurance exam, but also wearing a flesh colored shirt with gigantic balloons beneath it and also pink hot pants.
00:22:39.000People are drawn toward the taboo, apparently, even taboo as strange as all of this.
00:22:44.000Obviously, there is some sort of strange link to autogynephilia of being turned on by the idea that he was himself playing a girl and all that.
00:22:52.000I mean, basically, we're now doing clips from White Lotus here.
00:22:55.000But with that said, I do have one question, and this is a question for members of the media who are on the left.
00:23:02.000If he just came out as trans, or if he just said, This is my fetish, I love my fetish, my fetish is me.
00:23:26.000Now, first of all, I honestly, the guy has some sort of pathology, and you got to feel bad for him.
00:23:32.000And also, he has a screwed up personal life because Christy Nome, it is widely known in Washington, D.C., has a thing going with Corey Lewandowski.
00:23:40.000It is why there was a very awkward moment when Christy Noam was called before Congress and Christy Noam was literally questioned about all of this.
00:23:48.000It was literally questioned about all of this.
00:24:04.000So there's some strange stuff going on in their personal and family life, for sure, for sure.
00:24:10.000But here's my question again for people on the left who are very excited about this story, like bizarrely excited about this story, like excited in some of the same ways that Brian Noam appears to have been excited by fetish models about this story.
00:24:24.000If you're on the left, What language do you have to condemn all of this?
00:24:27.000I understand that you're claiming that he's a hypocrite and that right wingers are hypocrites.
00:24:32.000Well, I mean, I don't feel like conservatives are hypocrites since conservatives don't like this and they say that it is bad.
00:24:38.000And also, hypocrisy is, as my friend Andrew Clavin likes to say, the tribute that vice pays to virtue, meaning that yes, we all have moral standards and we don't always uphold all of those moral standards, but it doesn't mean the moral standard is wrong.
00:24:56.000That is directed at the virtue itself, not at the person violating the virtue.
00:25:00.000In other words, the reason the left loves stories like this is because they believe there actually is nothing wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
00:25:08.000They believe there's nothing wrong with that.
00:25:09.000They're actually angry at the people who say there is something wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
00:25:14.000That is the point that I'm making about Rachel Levine, the former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:25:19.000If Brian Gnome came out today and said, listen, this is my core identity a man who loves gigantic boobs and wears fake balloons in my shirt.
00:25:29.000The left would be like, they would elevate him in American public life for violating the virtue, for violating the standard.
00:25:38.000It's that he has the gall, and members of his family have the gall, to say that traditional virtue is good, even if they violate it, that the left is really, really on top of this story.
00:25:49.000See, the right has language to condemn behavior like this.
00:26:05.000As long as these are consensual adults, everything is fine.
00:26:08.000The right believes that lots of people consent to lots of things that are terrible for them.
00:26:13.000And that actually you can do things that are sinful.
00:26:15.000Like the language of sin exists on the right, the language of taboo continues to exist on the right, the language of unnaturalness continues to exist on the right.
00:26:24.000And so we can all look at that and go, yeah, that's unnatural, and that's sinful what he's doing there, and it's bad, and it's wrong, and it's strange.
00:27:08.000We hope that he gets past this sort of stuff.
00:27:10.000We feel bad for the family and for Christy Noam.
00:27:13.000And honestly, I think that that is the proper approach to things like this.
00:27:18.000I think that sympathy for people who sin, not in their sin, but as human beings, because everybody sins, is the proper response to all of this.
00:27:25.000And also recognizing that the standard of sin still ought to apply, that the standard of bad behavior still ought to apply.
00:27:32.000Now, that is the proper response to all of this.
00:27:36.000And so, again, is it inherently kind of funny?
00:27:39.000It's inherently kind of funny a little, just because when people do weird things, it's funny in the same way that Bugs Bunny dressing up in a dress is funny.
00:27:46.000And there's no way to look at those pictures and not kind of laugh at it.
00:27:49.000But by the same token, comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin.
00:27:55.000Tragedy in the criticism of Walter Cruz, a theater critic from the 1950s and 60s, he said that tragedy is the notion that human beings have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot toward the stars, and then also we die, right?
00:28:12.000And comedy is the fact that we have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot for the stars, and also we fart.
00:28:18.000And so they're basically two sides of the same coin.
00:28:21.000And so you look at this and you say, yeah, I mean, it's comic, obviously, but it's also kind of tragic because human nature is to violate taboo, to sin.
00:28:29.000And again, my bigger call here would be for people not to.
00:28:32.000It doesn't matter to me very much about your personal feelings of sympathy for the person who engages in bad behavior.
00:28:37.000But don't fall for the trap of believing that virtue itself, that virtuous standards themselves are wrong because people are hypocritical.
00:28:50.000And better that the values continue to exist and be upheld as the standard and people fall short than that we do what the left has done and totally destroy all values and standards utterly.
00:29:00.000In order to avoid charges of hypocrisy.
00:29:03.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Iran and the latest there and gas prices.
00:29:08.000The president is supposed to make a big speech tonight to the nation.
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00:31:05.000And the circumstances of victory are going to determine how robust the recovery is.
00:31:10.000If people in the markets figure that the Straits of Hormuz can be shut anytime by the Iranians, well, that's going to get priced into the market as well.
00:31:17.000Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan gets it right.
00:31:19.000He says, listen, the markets are down, they're having some problems, but the outcome of the war is significantly more important than how the market performs today or tomorrow.
00:31:29.000I mean, I hear some people say, you know, they weren't an imminent threat.
00:31:32.000You know, a threat means I'm threatening you, I might do something bad.
00:31:35.000These people have been doing something bad for 47 years.
00:31:59.000It turns out that actually, if you want long term economic growth, having fewer enemies on planet Earth, we're capable of shutting down major waterways.
00:32:06.000Well, President Trump's team announced late last night that the president will be giving a primetime address to the nation tonight.
00:32:12.000It's unclear what exactly the president will say.
00:32:15.000Brent Crude already dropped on the announcement.
00:32:17.000So the markets believe that President Trump is moving closer to the end of the war, which of course is likely true.
00:32:23.000Now, some good news is that our Gulf allies would like the fight continued until Iran is no longer a threat.
00:32:28.000And finally, it looks like they're willing to put their money.
00:32:31.000Where their mouth is, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning, quote, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, according to Arab officials, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant after being hit by Iranian attacks.
00:32:46.000The UAE has been lobbying the United Nations Security Council for a resolution that would authorize such action.
00:32:51.000Now, of course, they're not going to get it.
00:32:53.000I mean, the Russians and Chinese will block it.
00:32:55.000Emirati diplomats have urged the U.S. and military powers in Europe and Asia to form a coalition to open the Strait by force.
00:33:02.000A UAE official said the Iranian regime thinks it's fighting for its existence and is willing to bring the global economy down with it in a chokehold on the strait.
00:33:10.000And the Gulf state also said the U.S. should occupy islands in the strategic waterway, including Abu Musa, which has been held by Iran for a half century, and UAE claims it.
00:33:19.000The basic idea here would be you know what would be better for global commerce is if a friendly country controlled the islands that overwatch the strait.
00:33:29.000The Saudis, too, by the way, are very into the idea that Iran's regime needs to be brought low.
00:33:35.000One Trump advisor, no doubt part of the isolationist splinter faction within the administration, it is very loud and it is very leaky, told Axios, The Saudis sound like Mark Levin.
00:33:45.000Again, you can always tell who's talking by who is saying what.
00:33:48.000They want the U.S. to finish the job by wiping Iran off the globe.
00:34:19.000Three, cessation of attacks on non military targets.
00:34:22.000Now, I mean, presumably, non military targets they believe would include things like steel factories, which are the inputs for their economy, or oil facilities.
00:35:06.000Truly, all Iran would have to do is not support global terrorism, not build ballistic missiles directed at its neighbors and at Neighbors beyond in Europe and Africa and all the rest, and our base in Diego Garcia, all they would have to do is stop policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to toll the Strait of Hormuz.
00:35:24.000If they just stopped doing that, you know, it's funny.
00:35:26.000There are legitimately almost 200 countries on planet Earth, and the vast majority of them are not treated like Iran.
00:35:33.000Maybe it's because Iran is acting crazy, and they've been acting crazy for almost 50 years.
00:35:38.000Well, here was Marco Rubio talking about the nuclear threat of Iran.
00:35:44.000So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down.
00:35:57.000Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones, that no one could attack them, and they were well on their way.
00:36:06.000We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones, that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future.
00:36:16.000Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons.
00:36:23.000And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program, And their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about.
00:36:34.000This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.
00:36:40.000And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.
00:36:44.000That is the goal of this operation to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never ever having nuclear weapons.
00:37:39.000Their military has been absolutely wrecked.
00:37:42.000So they have been essentially relegated to firing desultory missiles at America's allies in the region and at American bases and a few drones and harassing shipping.
00:37:57.000Iranian forces, also, again, these are desperation plays by Iran, truly desperation plays.
00:38:02.000They're now activating terrorist groups to kidnap Americans.
00:38:05.000So an Iranian linked Terrorist group in Iraq kidnapped an American journalist in Baghdad yesterday, according to the Associated Press.
00:38:12.000An American journalist was kidnapped on Tuesday in Baghdad, and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, according to Iraqi officials.
00:38:18.000The journalist was identified as a freelancer named Shelly Kittleson by one of the outlets she worked for.
00:38:23.000And again, it was an Iran backed Iraqi militia named Qatayib Hezbollah, which again, Hezbollah is an Iranian backed terror group that spans the region.
00:38:33.000Here is some CCTV footage of Shelly Kittleson being kidnapped.
00:38:40.000So you can see there she is, you know, all the way down the street near the cars, and she's essentially grabbed and then forced into a vehicle.
00:38:48.000Presumably, the idea here would be to pressure President Trump, obviously.
00:38:52.000Well, Dylan Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs, then put out a statement The U.S. State Department is aware of the reported kidnapping of an American journalist in Baghdad.
00:39:03.000The State Department previously fulfilled our duty to warn this individual of threats against them.
00:39:07.000We'll continue to coordinate with the FBI to ensure their release as quickly as possible.
00:39:12.000And the State Department strongly advises all Americans, including members of the press, to adhere to all travel advisories.
00:39:17.000Okay, so back to the Strait of Hormuz for a second.
00:39:20.000Pete Hegseth points out yesterday, the Secretary of War, that this is an international waterway.
00:39:29.000The President was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well.
00:40:47.000And what he's simply saying, and it's exactly true, and I've said from this podium too, we're not going to foreclose any option.
00:40:53.000You can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do, to include boots on the ground.
00:41:09.000So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the President of the United States and this department.
00:41:15.000Or maybe we don't have to use them at all.
00:41:17.000Maybe negotiations work, or maybe there's a different approach.
00:41:20.000The point is to be unpredictable in that.
00:41:22.000Certainly not let anybody know what you're willing to do or not do.
00:41:27.000The President put out a statement earlier this morning saying, quote, Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire.
00:41:37.000We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free and clear.
00:41:40.000Until then, we are blasting around into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages, President Trump.
00:41:46.000And we'll see what the president has to say tonight.
00:41:49.000We will be covering that live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern.
00:41:53.000Meanwhile, it is worth noting once again that there is a difference between people who are asking legitimate questions, which we should always ask about any foreign intervention or any military conflict, and the people who openly root for America's enemies.
00:42:04.000You know, people who are saying we ought to cede global power to China, Russia, and Iran.
00:42:09.000The people who pretend to be America first.
00:42:11.000And the way they mean America first is what if we are just fans of the mullahs?
00:42:15.000Well, here's Nick Fuentes doing that routine, literally saying that he is praying for the mullahs yesterday.
00:42:48.000Because if Iran falls, it means Israel controls the entire Middle East.
00:42:55.000Well, again, if you are so brain poisoned, if you are so brain poisoned that you are now in the position of arguing in favor of the Iranian regime, which is responsible for the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans, the spread of terror all over the globe, threatening Europe with ballistic missiles, and development of nuclear weapons because you hate Jews that much.
00:43:15.000Let me just suggest that your problem isn't really the Jews.
00:43:18.000Your problem is something well beyond that, which is hatred of the civilization that grants you your rights.
00:43:22.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the glories of Western civilization, NASA is launching its Artemis II mission today.
00:43:48.000You know, there's a lot that brings you down in the news constantly.
00:43:51.000We cover it, but this is a very, very cool thing.
00:43:53.000So, for those who have not been following what NASA is doing with Artemis 2, why don't you explain the mission and what we're about to see?
00:44:00.000So Artemis 2 is out at the pad right now.
00:44:02.000We're already beginning to load propellant on it.
00:44:05.000And this mission is the opening chapter in America's return to the moon.
00:44:09.000So these four astronauts, in a matter of hours, are going to get accelerated to nearly 25,000 miles per hour under 8.8 million pounds of thrust.
00:44:20.000We are going to send them out past the moon, about 250,000 miles away from Earth.
00:44:25.000These astronauts will travel farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone before.
00:44:29.000Traveling faster than any humans have ever gone before.
00:44:33.000They're going to check out the spacecraft, put it through its paces.
00:44:36.000They'll do some manual piloting of it.
00:44:38.000And then 10 days later, they will splash down off the west coast of the United States.
00:46:01.000That's where they're going to be able to interact with the lunar regolith.
00:46:04.000They're going to be able to test out mobility, power, navigation.
00:46:08.000And most importantly, in situ resource manufacturing, working with the water ice that's on the south pole of the moon to make propellant.
00:46:15.000And it's going to essentially become the proving ground for future missions to Mars.
00:46:20.000Because in the not too distant future, we are going to have the capability to send astronauts to Mars.
00:46:25.000The hard part is how do you bring them back home safely to tell us about it?
00:46:29.000They're going to actually have to be able to make their propellant on the surface of Mars.
00:46:32.000Better to test that three days away on the moon than it is nine months away on Mars.
00:46:38.000So, you know, one of the questions I think people have about the space program is why has it taken us so long to do this?
00:46:43.000It's been a long time, obviously, since we've put anyone, as you say, even close to the moon.
00:46:48.000And sort of until Elon Musk sort of revivified the dream for Americans, it was basically the dream had essentially died.
00:46:54.000It was a cool thing that we did a long time ago.
00:46:55.000And then a lot of people started positing conspiracy theories that we'd never done it, which of course is total trash.
00:47:00.000But why did it take so long for anybody to make this sort of ambitious move again?
00:47:04.000Yeah, so we can certainly talk about this all day.
00:47:08.000I personally believe the number one point is a lack of competition.
00:47:12.000Look, it worked really well for us in the 1960s, right?
00:47:16.000I mean, we were able to mobilize the resources of the nation, the best and brightest from across the country, and concentrating on achieving something that many people thought was impossible and sending astronauts July 20th, 1969, to the surface of the moon and bringing them back.
00:47:31.000But after that, in hindsight, it turns out we had all the schedule margin in the world.
00:47:35.000No humans have set foot on the moon since 1972, and it was only America.
00:49:09.000Well, there's no doubt there is a big difference between the missions that send astronauts to the International Space Station.
00:49:15.000That's again 1.8 million pounds of thrust, about 17,500 miles an hour in orbital velocity, to going to 8.8 million pounds of thrust on a vehicle as complicated as SLS that has never, Artemis II crew are the first crew to ever fly this spacecraft before.
00:49:32.000So this is very much a test mission, and we are going to put so much energy in this vehicle. that it can go nearly to Earth escape velocity, 25,000 miles an hour out and around the moon in an incredibly harsh environment, right?
00:49:45.000I mean, there is micrometeorite orbital debris out there.
00:49:47.000There's radiation as you go through the Van Allen belt.
00:49:50.000Um, you know, but the, I, I think the trick here is to understand the risk, right?
00:49:56.000This is, this is why we do testing at every level, the subcomponent level, the component level, integrated level.
00:50:02.000We do pre-flight readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, because we want to make sure We understand the risk and that we have done everything we can to bring it down close to zero.
00:50:11.000But at some point, you accept the risk because you are not going to be able to explore the worlds beyond ours without taking some risk in the process.
00:50:20.000Well, it's an amazing thing, and we will all get to watch it happen.
00:50:23.000That's Jared Isaacman, the 15th administrator of NASA.
00:50:25.000Jared, thanks so much for the time, and it's really inspirational stuff.
00:50:31.000Well, Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire is there in person.
00:50:35.000Unfortunately, he will not be aboard a rocket being fired into the sun, but he is there to cover everything that is going on again.
00:50:41.000Very cool stuff because America is a cool place.
00:50:43.000Okay, back to the Middle East and the economy.
00:50:45.000So, the only way that the Iranians are capable of preserving themselves at this point is basically they're trying to scare the Americans into pressuring Trump to save them.
00:50:55.000This is why Mohammed Khalibov, who is the parliament speaker, is basically Jim Cramer now.
00:51:00.000He's putting out tweets talking about how your 401k is going down because of the Israelis.
00:51:08.000Quote, I just read about Sarah and others in the U.S. skipping meals because gas prices keep climbing.
00:51:12.000Sad, but this is what happens when your leaders put others ahead of hardworking and ordinary Americans.
00:51:16.000It's not America first anymore, it's Israel first.
00:51:18.000Again, you can tell who they're using as their tools, and you can tell who exactly is repeating their propaganda.
00:51:23.000Guys, gas prices are bad right now, right?
00:51:35.000We're all paying more at the pump, and that's bad.
00:51:37.000But the whole point is that gas prices are going to dive after this war is over because you're not going to have to worry about the Iranians being in charge of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:51:48.000According to the Wall Street Journal, in some respects, $4 a gallon gasoline should not put much of a dent in the consumer spending in the economy.
00:51:55.000When adjusting for inflation, consumers are paying less for gasoline now than they were in the past.
00:52:00.000Energy Department data show regular gasoline touched $5 in June 2022.
00:52:04.000Adjusted for inflation in today's dollars, that would be $5.56.
00:52:07.000Even that is low in comparison with the inflation adjusted $6.17 hit in June 2008.
00:52:13.000Also, our vehicles are generally more efficient, and we spend less of our income as a percentage on gasoline than we did in the past.
00:52:21.000The Europeans are still freaking out because that's what they do, because they don't have any production of their own.
00:52:27.000And of course, Americans ought to be concerned about gas prices.
00:52:31.000Going forward, but that's the whole point.
00:52:38.000Again, I'm just going to point out that everyone who is now saying forever war, we are now in a couple of days, we are on day 32, day 32 of this war, day 32.
00:52:52.000Okay, we're not talking about a six month war or a year war or a 10 year war or a 20 year war like Afghanistan.
00:53:15.000I know, a rare piece of good news from the UK.
00:53:18.000The UK government has announced that police will be told to stop recording everyday rows and online spats as non crime hate incidents are set to be scrapped by the government.
00:53:27.000Over recent years, unclear guidance has led to officers being called out to people's homes over insults and routine arguments.
00:53:33.000The UK Home Office says that police will no longer investigate social media posts.
00:53:38.000Which is a step in the right direction, obviously.
00:53:40.000And I think that happened largely because of pressure from Elon Musk and from the Americans.
00:53:44.000It certainly didn't happen because of internal pressures inside the UK.
00:53:48.000And then the UK Home Office actually did something magical yesterday.
00:53:52.000They announced that the grooming gang scandal is, in fact, real.
00:53:55.000So they kept pretending that it was really not a thing.
00:53:57.000The grooming gang scandal is, of course, Muslim gangs, largely of taxi drivers in Britain, who were essentially preying on young white girls.
00:54:08.000And this was covered up by the police because the police thought that it would generate outsized Islamophobia.
00:54:16.000Well, now the UK Home Office has put out a statement The grooming gang scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country's history, where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists.
00:54:25.000The independent national inquiry will now begin its work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred.
00:54:32.000This was a massive pedophilia controversy.
00:54:34.000It was ignored and covered up by the police because, again, they did not want to give credence to the quote unquote anti immigrant groups inside the UK.
00:54:46.000But again, a reminder that when you let political correctness dictate how you do policy, this is what you end up with actual human suffering.
00:54:54.000Well, joining me on the line now is the host of a brand new show over at Daily Wire Plus Be a Man with Me.
00:55:03.000You may know Pavel Widowski from being referred to constantly on the show because Pavel, of course, is one of the more amusing people here at Daily Wire.
00:55:10.000But his brand new series is about joining the real men of America, like cops and firefighters and farmers and MMA fighters.
00:55:17.000In order to learn what it means to be a man, what toughness really looks like, and also how many ice packs it takes to survive it.
00:57:40.000So, yeah, so spend a day with police officers, spend a day with farmers, spend a day with electrical linemen, spend a day with helicopter rescue, which is essentially air ambulance.
00:57:53.000You know, those are the guys that see the worst of the worst of the worst.
00:57:58.000There's a few more that we're doing that I don't want to reveal just yet.
00:58:02.000But it's an adventure and it's a lot of pain.
00:58:05.000Even this thing on my forehead, we shot an episode yesterday.
00:58:08.000If you want to know what happened, just watch the episode.
00:58:10.000It's going to come out in a few weeks.
00:58:17.000Well, we do have a farmer sneak peek, like a clip, a sneak peek of Powell's episode with going farming, which again might be my worst nightmare.
01:00:40.000Plus, and you can hang out with Pavel Widowski and watch him torture himself and be tortured by others, as well as learning what it's like to be a man in various walks of life.