Stormy Daniels testifies against Donald Trump in his trial in New York on charges that he paid her off before the 2016 election for political purposes, not for personal gain. Stormy Daniels is a woman who claims she had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump and that she was paid off by him to keep her quiet about it. Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, says that the payment was for legal fees and legal fees, and not a campaign finance violation. But that doesn't stop Democrats from dragging her into court, and a judge from allowing her to be in the courtroom to give evidence against Trump in a case that should never have been brought at all, and should have been dismissed immediately. Trump calls her a "hero" and "heroine" and asks the judge to allow her to continue her testimony in the case, even though she had no reason to be there in the first place, and no evidence of her involvement in the alleged affair with Trump to be allowed to be heard in court. Trump calls the charges brought against him a "political smear campaign" and accuses Democrats of "electoral interference" in order to hurt his chances of being re-elected in 2020 and accuses him of colluding with crooked Joe Biden and the White House to defeat him in the 2020 election. Trump also says that this is a "stupid case" and suggests that the charges are the work of a "cunning smear campaign against him by the crooked Biden White House and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The President is right in the middle of an election campaign. This is a disgraceful smear campaign, and it's time to wake up and wake up the American voters. If you don't like it, then you're not only one of us, but all of us! - John McCain. - John McCain, John McCain - John Kerry, Joe Biden - Michael Cohen - Bill Clinton - . John Sargent - Hillary Clinton, - Joe Biden, -- John Sook - Robert Downey Jr., Bill -- Robert Cummings - Elizabeth Hathaway, Jr. - Joe Scarborough - Steve Kamb And much more! - And so much more Thank you for listening to this episode of Morning Joe? and much more. Thank you so much for listening, John? and your support, John ? Thanks for listening & Good Morning America? .
00:00:00.000So, the court in New York that is currently trying Donald Trump on charges that are completely specious.
00:00:05.000Charges that, effectively speaking, he paid off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election for electoral purposes as opposed to personal purposes.
00:00:14.000Charges that have not been sustained by any sort of I don't know why Democrats seem to think this is going to affect Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form.
00:00:21.000prosecution against Trump, they've been dragged into court by Alvin Bragg, an attention-seeking
00:00:44.000I mean, there's a reason that he was in a tape for Playboy.
00:00:47.000There is a reason that he was seen as a sort of Studio 54 guy for years and years and years.
00:00:54.000It's not as though Donald Trump has led the most pristine sexual life.
00:00:58.000And no one at this point is surprised by any of the allegations that were made in court yesterday.
00:01:03.000But that did not stop Democrats from dragging into court Stormy Daniels, heroine of the Republic.
00:01:09.000Because as it turns out, all it takes to be a heroine in American life now, is to be a star who has sex with a married man, and then effectively blackmails that married man for money, and then when the deal falls through, decides to go public with all of that to harm him.
00:01:24.000That is what heroism truly is, so long as that married man is a Republican.
00:01:28.000If that married man is a Democrat, then as we all know, it's time to wreck that person.
00:01:34.000If that married man is a Democrat, say Bill Clinton, then it's time to completely wreck Monica Lewinsky's life.
00:01:42.000So, all this came to a head yesterday.
00:01:44.000Donald Trump, prior to going into court yesterday, he suggested that all of this was coming out of the crooked Biden White House.
00:01:51.000The orders may not have come directly from the White House, but it is very clear that Democrats in the city of New York have decided that they are going to engage in electoral interference.
00:02:02.000Every single legal scholar that I see, I mean, maybe there's somebody out there, some whack job, But for virtually everyone that I've seen, I said there's absolutely no case.
00:02:13.000It's a case that shouldn't have been brought.
00:02:48.000Okay, so he then went into the courtroom where Judge Juan Merchan, who is absolutely oriented against Donald Trump at this particular trial, he decided to allow the testimony of Stormy Daniels.
00:03:01.000There is no legal reason that Stormy Daniels had to testify.
00:03:05.000She literally brought nothing useful to the court.
00:03:08.000There is no reason whatsoever that she had to be in the courtroom.
00:03:11.000And whether or not she had sex with Donald Trump actually is completely irrelevant to the charges that are being brought.
00:03:18.000Because, again, the charges that are being brought are about whether he, via his lawyer Michael Cohen, paid her off prior to the election, via Michael Cohen, and then reimbursed Michael Cohen after the election, and whether it was a campaign finance expense, as opposed to a personal payoff designed to quash the rumors so as not to bother his wife Melania.
00:03:36.000The case the defense is making is that this is the kind of payment that is constantly made in American life.
00:03:41.000You can't just pin it on the election.
00:03:43.000And the case the prosecution is trying to make is that this was all about stealing the 2016 election by silencing Stormy Daniels, as though, by the way, any of the Stormy Daniels material coming out prior to the 2016 election would have saved Hillary Clinton.
00:03:54.000You know how we know that isn't the truth?
00:03:56.000Because there was a literal tape of the President of the United States talking about grabbing women by their genitals, and then he still won.
00:04:04.000So do you think that a tryst with a star would have changed the outcome in 2016?
00:04:10.000But again, there's no legal reason to allow this in the courtroom.
00:04:35.000What the hell are we talking about Donald Trump's 2006 sex life for?
00:04:39.000Yes, that's because you're a rational human being, but we're talking about Donald Trump's 2006 sex life.
00:04:43.000Because they need some hook to hang their hat on to claim that he's a convicted felon.
00:04:50.000And so they're going to try and charge him.
00:04:52.000They literally charged him with 34 counts of felony campaign finance violation.
00:04:58.000A felony fraud in the city of New York.
00:05:00.000That is what they're attempting to do.
00:05:02.000And all it really was was somehow just a lever to get Stormy Daniels in the room saying shameful things about Donald Trump.
00:05:09.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
00:05:10.000First, the threat to freedom of speech continues with major censorship from the Russian government.
00:05:14.000As of March 1st, Russia has officially banned all VPNs that aren't state-approved.
00:05:18.000Well, that's because Russian citizens like to use VPNs to see what's really going on in the news.
00:05:23.000After all, Russia has always controlled the information their citizens are allowed to access.
00:05:26.000Banning VPNs lets them continue to control that public information.
00:05:29.000The sad truth is, this type of censorship and blatant war against free speech can happen anywhere, which is exactly why I use ExpressVPN.
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00:06:16.000So according to the New York Times, her fast-paced testimony lasted nearly five hours, during which she described an encounter with Mr. Trump, now 77, that he has long denied.
00:06:24.000Tension gripped the courtroom, her garrulous testimony filling a heavy silence.
00:06:30.000After about a half hour on the stand, she began to unspool intimate details about Mr. Trump, so much so that the judge balked at some of the testimony.
00:06:37.000He implied it was gratuitously vulgar, and the defense sought a mistrial.
00:06:43.000If he didn't like what she was testifying to, he shouldn't have allowed her to testify since she had literally nothing of legal merit to say.
00:06:51.000This whole thing was a put-up job, in other words.
00:06:54.000It was all designed so that Daniels could unspool this bizarre story about that one time that she slept with the future president.
00:07:01.000She said the future president had invited her to dinner inside his palatial Lake Tahoe's hotel suite.
00:07:06.000He answered the door wearing silk pajamas.
00:07:09.000She made a Hugh Hefner joke at this point, as one would.
00:07:13.000When he was rude, she playfully spanked him with a rolled up magazine.
00:07:21.000When she asked about his wife, he told her not to worry that they didn't even sleep in the same room.
00:07:26.000At this point, by the way, Trump shook his head in disgust and muttered boldly to his lawyers, She then got into graphic details about the sexual encounter.
00:07:34.000She said it happened after she returned from the bathroom and found Trump in his boxer shorts and t-shirt.
00:07:39.000Then, she's changing her story now because her original story was that they had this awkward encounter that she didn't really enjoy, but she didn't say no.
00:07:47.000Now, she treats it as though it's a quasi-rape.
00:07:50.000She tried to leave and he blocked her path, she said, though not, she said, in a threatening manner.
00:07:54.000The sex was brief, she said, and although she never said no, there was a power imbalance.
00:08:00.000I was staring up at the ceiling wondering how I got there, she told the jury.
00:08:04.000Were you wondering how you got there, though?
00:08:06.000I mean, you literally went up to his room and then you didn't say no as he had sex with you in any way, shape, or form that would have been discernible to the human eye.
00:08:18.000Plus, you literally have sex with people on camera for a living.
00:08:22.000I feel like this is not your first rodeo, so to speak.
00:08:25.000But according to the New York Times, the testimony was an astonishing moment in American political history.
00:09:39.000Then, apparently, this is really funny, she said that money was not her motivation.
00:09:46.000That she just wanted to get her story out, which is weird, because it seems like when you take a $130,000 check, money might have been your motivation.
00:10:15.000During some cross-examination, she parried effectively, performing even better than she did with her answers to prosecutors, according to the New York Times.
00:10:21.000Now, again, the attempt to turn Stormy Daniels into a resistance hero, which last time around culminated in the prosecution and jailing of her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who for a time was also treated as a resistance hero.
00:10:33.000It is quite pathetic, obviously, but it's not designed to be anything other than a laugh line for the left wing.
00:10:39.000That's all this is, which is why journalists spent the day guffawing at Donald Trump.
00:10:44.000Now, I mean, I'm just gonna put it out there.
00:10:45.000Warning to people on the left laughing at Donald Trump.
00:10:48.000Last time you laughed at Donald Trump, he then ran for president and won.
00:10:52.000Barack Obama made a joke about him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and he literally got mad, ran for president, and became president.
00:11:27.000So, yes, meanwhile, on CNN, there were stifled guffaws as, as all of the journalists read about what was going on.
00:11:39.000I was looking at Trump some and he had a general kind of impassiveness.
00:11:46.000Not, not glowering exactly, but obviously not happy.
00:11:50.000But the basic dynamic was jury to Stormy.
00:11:54.000And then again, I haven't seen Mayor Chun.
00:11:57.000Okay, but the judge was displeased with the witness, which of course raises the question as to why he allowed the witness in the first place.
00:12:05.000level of detail. That's something if you're the DA you're worried about because you don't
00:12:10.000want them to think that he, the judge, is actually displeased in any way with the witness.
00:12:16.000Okay, but the judge was displeased with the witness, which of course raises the question
00:12:20.000as to why he allowed the witness in the first place.
00:12:24.000Because he should not have. Is this going to hurt Trump in any serious way?
00:12:30.000In fact, it will probably help Trump because it's all so ridiculous and so stupid.
00:12:34.000And dragging Trump into court to talk about how he had sex with some chick in 2006 who had sex with people on camera for a living and then got paid a bunch of money not to talk about it and then talked about it?
00:12:44.000Like, I'm sorry, is this supposed to damage Donald Trump in any real way?
00:12:49.000If this is the best Democrats have, they ain't got nothing.
00:12:53.000What's more, it turns out that now the case in Florida may not see the light of day.
00:13:01.000It turns out that that particular case is going to be delayed in a fairly serious way.
00:13:07.000Judge Eileen Cannon, in that particular case, has indefinitely postponed Trump's classified documents trial, which is the case that has the most well-predicated charges against Donald Trump.
00:13:17.000She cites significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury, according to CNN.
00:13:23.000So she has now canceled the May trial date.
00:13:28.000So that pushes it probably after the election of 2024.
00:13:31.000So all the attempts to convict Donald Trump of something, if they're going to convict Donald Trump of something, it's going to have to be a January 6th charge.
00:13:39.000And those January 6th charges are very hard to make stick.
00:15:26.000But there are major shifts away from Joe Biden among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters.
00:15:32.000Surprisingly, Trump appears to have gained ground among college-educated Black and Hispanic voters more than with less educated members of those groups.
00:15:43.000So all the talk has been how Donald Trump is appealing to blue-collar black and Hispanic.
00:15:46.000It turns out he's actually in larger ways appealing to college-educated black and Hispanic voters who maybe aren't being taken in by all the woke insanity.
00:15:56.000Equally surprising, up to now Trump has increased his support more among women than men.
00:16:02.000All of this is really bad news for Joe Biden.
00:16:06.000Well, it's coming from the fact that people are really concerned about inflation.
00:16:10.00057% of Americans in a new Economist YouGov poll say that the number one economic factor they worry about most is the price of goods and services they buy.
00:16:20.000When it comes to the swing states, Joe Biden's margin of change is dramatically worse.
00:16:26.000He is down 2.4 points from where he was in 2020 in Wisconsin, 4 points in Michigan from where he was, 3.5 in Pennsylvania, 5.5 in Arizona, 7 in Nevada, 4 in Georgia, 4.1 in North Carolina.
00:16:42.000So again, the president is losing serious ground in all of these areas.
00:16:47.000The way he thinks he is going to make this up, of course, is through simple Mail-in voting and also, presumably, through catering to the far-left base.
00:16:58.000Now, when it comes to the mail-in voting, one of the great benefits that Joe Biden had in 2020 is, of course, the changes in the rules for mail-in voting because of COVID.
00:17:07.000The fact that, again, the voting base in 2020 increased by some 20 million voters over the 2016 election.
00:17:17.000The total presidential vote in 2016 was 137.5 million.
00:17:30.000Is that going to repeat itself this time?
00:17:33.000Probably not, which is why Joe Biden is now apparently engaging in some pretty shady dealings with regard to voter registration.
00:17:39.000According to Fox News, the House Committee on Small Business is now subpoenaing the Small Business Administration on Tuesday over what it says is a lack of transparency on alleged efforts by the Biden administration to funnel resources to Michigan to register voters.
00:17:52.000On Tuesday, the committee subpoenaed the Small Business Administration Chief of Staff, a guy named Arthur Plews, and his special advisor.
00:17:59.000There are said to have been no-shows at scheduled transcribed interviews with the committee.
00:18:04.000Apparently, there is a program being funded by the federal government, your taxpayer dollars, quote, diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democrat voters in Michigan.
00:18:14.000In March, Biden's Small Business Administration announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the Michigan Department of State to quote, promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan.
00:18:25.000In a press release, the SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman said the partnership, quote, will help connect Michiganders to vital voter registration information from the state of Michigan so more small business owners can exercise the right to vote.
00:18:36.000Okay, that is obviously, obviously a ridiculous con.
00:18:40.000Funneling money to small business administration sources they can register Democratic voters obviously is a violation of the law.
00:18:47.000But that's what Joe Biden is relegated to at this point because he is running so weak.
00:18:53.000And again, the biggest weakness for Joe Biden is just the fact he ran as a moderate, he has governed as a far leftist, and he, for some odd reason, can't bring it back to reality.
00:19:02.000He cannot bring it back to the center.
00:19:04.000Maybe it's because Barack Obama was such a far left president that he feels the necessity to follow in those footsteps.
00:19:10.000Maybe it's because all the people who surround him are radical left nut jobs or holdovers from the Obama administration.
00:19:15.000Whatever it is, Joe Biden is totally incapable of dragging his party or his campaign back toward moderation in the middle.
00:19:24.000So yesterday, Joe Biden gave a speech on antisemitism in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Shoah, in Israel.
00:19:31.000And he talked about antisemitism breaking out all over the world and the problems with antisemitism.
00:19:37.000He started off by talking about how there has been a giant upsurge of antisemitism all across the world.
00:22:53.000Okay, well, for a person who hasn't forgotten, it's pretty weird that he is attempting to now pressure Israel into leaving Hamas in power in Rafia.
00:23:14.000If Hamas is left intact in Rafa, that means that Hamas will walk out, declare victory, and then be a governing party in the future in the very region where they created a massive terror hideaway.
00:23:27.000What exactly, how does that benefit the United States?
00:23:33.000But that's the game that Joe Biden is currently playing.
00:23:37.000So Joe Biden is denouncing antisemitism.
00:23:39.000He won't do it within his own party, obviously.
00:23:42.000And he certainly won't do it with regard to actual policy.
00:23:45.000He is currently, apparently, denying Israel access to targeting weaponry.
00:23:51.000You know, the kind of weaponry that would actually minimize civilian casualties.
00:23:54.000That's precisely the kind of ammo he's denying Israel.
00:23:59.000Meanwhile, Israel has taken operational control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, which is designed to prevent the escape of members of Hamas.
00:24:09.000The United States, however, is protesting.
00:24:12.000White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday that Israel had told the Biden administration it would reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday and the Rafah crossing shortly after.
00:24:20.000She said, we are insisting there should be no disruptions of humanitarian assistance flows.
00:24:24.000The only reason there was any disruption in the first place is because all of these areas were shot at by Hamas.
00:24:33.000Meanwhile, Hamas is saying that the ball is in Israel's court.
00:24:36.000At a news conference in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, Hamas official Osama Hamdan said the group had made enough concessions in Qatari-Egyptian broker talks and warned there would be no ceasefire if Israel continued its incursion into Rafah.
00:24:47.000Hamdan said, quote, the Hamas movement and the Palestinian resistance will not respond to any
00:24:51.000initiative to stop the aggression or an exchange deal under military pressure and escalation of
00:24:55.000aggression. Hamdan said that Hamas had shown flexibility.
00:25:00.000The demands included an end to all hostilities, the return of everyone to the northern Gaza Strip,
00:25:06.000including terrorists, the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Gaza, billions of
00:25:11.000dollars in reconstruction and relief, and hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinian murderers
00:25:16.000and terrorists let out of Israeli jails.
00:25:20.000And then he said the ball's in Israel's court.
00:25:21.000Now, what exactly is the rationale for that?
00:25:24.000The answer is that the United States is pressuring Israel into accepting Hamas's continued existence.
00:25:33.000National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said yesterday, quote, A hostage release deal should be able to close the remaining gaps.
00:25:43.000He said everybody is coming to the table.
00:25:46.000We believe that where we see the text right now, we see no reason why they can't overcome those remaining gaps.
00:25:51.000Asked how Hamas's insistence that Israel end the war could be reconciled with Israel's determination to end Hamas, Kirby said, I don't want to get into talking about the specific parameters.
00:26:00.000I think it's best to let the negotiators hammer out those existing gaps.
00:26:04.000Okay, can we just explain where these existing gaps are?
00:26:07.000Right now, Israel says, we would like all of our hostages released.
00:26:21.000Israel says, how about a temporary ceasefire to allow everybody to breathe, get some humanitarian aid, but we're not going to end the war against you.
00:26:31.000And the answer from Hamas is, what if we just say that the war is over and it is over?
00:26:46.000That is the effect of what he is doing.
00:26:49.000And he's providing cover to actual anti-Semites over at the United Nations.
00:26:53.000Which again, the United Nations is replete with nations that are radically anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.
00:26:59.000Joe Biden is providing cover for those people at the same time that he's saying that he's fighting anti-Semitism.
00:27:03.000We'll get to more on this in one moment.
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00:28:20.000But the only harsh words that they've said about the viewpoint of any protester, they found a protester, one guy, apparently, at like the University of Missouri, like one dude, who they say, or is it Ole Miss?
00:28:36.000They found one dude at Ole Miss, who they're accusing of being a racist, based on a second and a half of footage, in which a person seems to make Ape-like noises at a black woman, but it's not clear whether that's actually what's going on there.
00:28:53.000Could be a Covington Catholic kind of thing.
00:29:00.000And yet when it comes to tens of thousands of protesters chanting for the extermination of Israel every single day, the Biden administration is like, well, they do have passionate perspectives, many passionate perspectives.
00:29:12.000So the head of the education department Cardona.
00:29:32.000But, Title VI says that colleges that receive federal funding cannot allow discriminatory environments on the basis of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and the like.
00:29:43.000That's what Title VI is designed to do, and that includes anti-Semitism.
00:29:49.000The Biden-Harris administration, including the Department of Education, is taking action each and every day to help ensure that schools and colleges are free from discrimination and safe for Jewish students and all students, and will continue to do so.
00:30:07.000Make no mistake, antisemitism is discrimination and is prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:30:14.000Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the right of others so students can finish their semester and their college education.
00:30:27.000Okay, and then he immediately backed that up with, he was asked about campus encampments.
00:30:34.000I condemn behaviors that are unsafe and I leave it to the university leaders and their board of governors to address how they handle encampments or other issues that are happening on campus.
00:30:51.000What I will say, but if I can finish please, what I will say is I appreciate that, and that's an important message.
00:30:59.000But the encampments themselves, when they violate university policies and the law, do you condemn them?
00:31:40.000Because Joe Biden is happy to mouth platitudes about anti-Semitism when it comes to fighting the actual Nazis of today, the members of Hamas and their allies.
00:31:49.000Then all of a sudden, they're kind of sketch on it.
00:32:19.000Because again, Joe Biden believes that he has to cater to the most radical people in order to win reelection.
00:32:24.000That is precisely, by the way, how he's going to lose reelection.
00:32:27.000It is truly amazing to me that people believe that the reason that Donald Trump won in 2016 is simply because they're a bunch of benighted fools in the hinterlands who are economically dispossessed.
00:32:39.000The reason that Donald Trump won in 2016 is because there is an elite group of people at the top of nearly all of America's major institutions who hate traditional American values, truly despise them, think they're bad.
00:32:50.000We're watching it in practice right now.
00:34:25.000Remember Mr. Bircham's series premiere this Sunday, 9 o'clock, 8 central.
00:34:31.000Stream it free only on Daily Wire Plus.
00:34:34.000Now speaking of institutions that have been completely hollowed out and destroyed,
00:34:40.000the Boy Scouts have now decided they're going to rename themselves to be more inclusive.
00:34:44.000And this is just the final step in the hollowing out of the Boy Scouts as an organization, which is truly, really sad because the Boy Scouts used to be, again, one of those social institutions outside of government.
00:34:54.000One of those social fabric building institutions that allowed people to know their neighbors, make friends, develop actual values.
00:35:00.000The values of the Boy Scouts were good religious values.
00:35:04.000The founder of the Boy Scouts was a religious Christian.
00:35:06.000And one of the actual things that Boy Scouts had to abide by was duty to God.
00:35:11.000That was actually in the original kind of oath that you would take as a Boy Scout.
00:35:15.000Well, over time they've gotten rid of a lot of that, they've secularized it, they've gotten rid of all of the original values, and now they're getting rid of the name Boy Scouts, because after all, they wouldn't want to feel non-inclusive for girls who think they're boys and stuff like that.
00:35:31.000By the way, if you're the kind of person who thinks Boy Scouts is non-inclusive, may I recommend that you get your head examined?
00:36:01.000God sends this really strong message to everyone in America that they can come to this program, they can bring their authentic self, they can be who they are, and they will be welcomed here.
00:36:16.000The argument that I make with the people that say, well, I always like Boy Scouts of America or BSA, why do we have to change?
00:36:23.000You know, membership is at historic lows, right?
00:36:28.000Part of my job is to reduce all the barriers I possibly can for people to accept us as an organization and to join.
00:36:37.000Okay, this is exactly what's wrong with institutional America.
00:36:40.000That last line right there is the problem.
00:36:43.000This is true for churches, it's true for the Boy Scouts, it's true for synagogues, it's true for everyone.
00:36:47.000Every traditionalist institution, when they say our job is to lower the barriers of entry so you can enter, so everyone can bring their authentic selves, you want to know why no one wants to join your organization?
00:37:36.000People who will say things like, You know, the reason I put this gay pride flag on the outside of my church is because I want to say that you should come as your authentic self because we welcome everyone.
00:37:44.000We want to get rid of the barriers to entry.
00:37:47.000If a gay couple has the choice between going to a really nice restaurant with some nice guitar music, with a gay pride flag out front, or to your church on a Sunday morning, which one do you think they're going to do?
00:38:02.000The reason people engage with institutions is because the institutions have value to them.
00:38:06.000And that means that their values cannot shift and change in order to get more butts in the pews or more seats around the campfire.
00:38:16.000The reason the Boy Scouts has been withering away over the course of the last several decades has nothing to do with the Boy Scouts' conservatism.
00:38:23.000It has everything to do with the fact that the Boy Scouts have been destroyed by progressivism.
00:38:27.000It has to do with the fact that courts decided that Boy Scouts couldn't even have standards for their own Scoutmasters.
00:38:33.000It's because the Boy Scouts decided there could be girls in the Boy Scouts.
00:38:38.000If you want a successful institution, you gotta stick to your guns, and you gotta hold to those guns no matter what.
00:38:43.000But again, the middle management of American life has decided that it's very important to cater to the new tolerant and diverse worldview of the United States.
00:38:51.000Which, by the way, does not give a... You think a bunch of lib kids are gonna start coming to Scouts of America or whatever the hell they're calling themselves now?
00:38:58.000You think all of a sudden this place is gonna be filled by San Francisco trans kids?
00:39:14.000And then you wonder why there's a backlash in the form of things like Trump?
00:39:17.000Because when people feel so panicked about institutions being destroyed, they go to the great destroyer himself, who threatens to just break every piece of China in the China shop.
00:39:28.000That's how you end up with all of this stuff.
00:39:31.000By the way, the great purveyors of diversity, equity, inclusion, very often it is they who are the most racist, of course, because wokeness itself is racist.
00:39:38.000Wokeness itself is the argument that race ought to be predominant over the individual.
00:39:43.000And so many of its purveyors happen to think in incredibly racist ways.
00:39:48.000That famous meme from comedian Ryan Long of the woke and the racist guy sharing spaces and ideas.
00:39:56.000So here is Cathy Hogle, a devotee of the woke cult, explaining that the big problem for black people in America is they don't know the word computer.
00:40:17.000And I want the world to open up to all of them.
00:40:19.000Because when you have their diverse voices innovating solutions through technology, then you're really addressing society's broader challenges.
00:40:29.000I'm pretty sure that black kids know what a computer is.
00:41:22.000He was heading back to the United States when he made a side trip to Vladivostok, Russia, to visit a woman with whom he was romantically involved, according to officials.
00:41:31.000Apparently, he traveled there without permission from his superiors.
00:41:34.000The soldier is accused of stealing from a woman, the official said, and they just arrested him.
00:41:39.000He has been apprehended on charges of criminal misconduct.
00:41:42.000The army notified his family, and the U.S.
00:41:44.000Department of State is providing consular support to this soldier.
00:41:50.000So, totally unclear what exactly the crime was.
00:41:53.000This could just be Russia seizing yet another American citizen to hold hostage, because as it turns out, This administration is very fond of groups that hold people hostage.
00:42:03.000They're perfectly willing to provide cover for those people, whether it's Hamas holding Americans hostage or Russia holding Americans hostage.
00:42:10.000Here's Corrine Jean-Pierre suggesting that American citizens who are currently in Russia
00:43:11.000Steven Seagal, ushering in the new era of Putinism.
00:43:16.000Well, at least our media are focused on the real issues.
00:43:18.000Joy Reid, who in her own skull is the repository of at least 27% of all human stupidity.
00:43:27.000She had some words about Vladimir Putin and his habit of taking hostages.
00:43:30.000She was particularly upset that Vladimir Putin had grabbed Britney Greiner for bringing marijuana seed oil or something into Russia.
00:43:39.000She says that Putin grabbed a black queer woman in order to cause trauma, particular trauma in America.
00:43:44.000I didn't realize that that, like, I feel like seizing the journalist from the Wall Street Journal is a little more traumatic than seizing the WNBA player, but apparently Joy Reid feels differently.
00:43:54.000It's to me sort of shocking to think about spending nearly a year far from home wondering if you'll ever get out because she was sentenced to nine years, nine and a half years incarceration for what in this country would amount to nothing and for something that wasn't even deliberate.
00:44:12.000I think the Putin regime understood that they had not just a black celebrity, a black queer celebrity, somebody who could be used internally as a pawn, somebody who they could sort of internally mock and hold hostage from the United States, knowing the trauma that it would cause back home.
00:45:37.000And by the way, get the tax write off on what you're giving, cars4kids.org slash ben.
00:45:41.000Okay, meanwhile, the Republicans, you know, all they really have to do is stay out of their own way, which means that Donald Trump certainly should stay away from Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota.
00:45:51.000So, I don't... First rule of holes, man.
00:46:56.000Well, first rule of shooting a dog, don't talk about it in your book.
00:46:59.000Second rule of shooting a dog, don't then go on a national media tour after you write about it in your book.
00:47:05.000Let's say, yeah, she's not going to be Donald Trump's vice presidential.
00:47:08.000By the way, Trump is running a significantly more disciplined campaign than he did in 2020.
00:47:12.000Just as an example, Trump is trying to quell this idiotic attempt by Marjorie Taylor Greene and the clown squad in Congress to overthrow the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
00:47:24.000According to Politico, he's going further than just public statements supporting Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:47:28.000He's trying to mediate between Johnson and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:47:33.000Trump and the Georgia firebrand who speak often had a lengthy phone call over the weekend, according to three Republicans familiar with the matter.
00:47:39.000Trump's message to her, stand down from the so-called motion to vacate.
00:47:43.000Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, he said, I have it under very good sources that President Trump engaged.
00:47:48.000I'm hoping that perhaps one would come to the conclusion you made your point.