Donald Trump continues to dominate in the polls and is on track to win re-election in 2020. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continues to trail Donald Trump in polls by double digits. Is it time to hit the panic button, or is it time for Democrats to focus on infrastructure and other long-term priorities? Today's episode is all about why Donald Trump is winning and why Joe Biden is not. What's going on with the Democratic presidential field and why it's time for the White House to start focusing on infrastructure, infrastructure, jobs, and infrastructure projects, rather than on the 2020 Democratic primary and 2020 general election? What are the real reasons why Trump is so far ahead in polls and what it means for the chances of a Trump win in 2020 and a Biden win in the midterms in 2020? And what s going to change the landscape of the 2020 presidential race in the coming weeks and months? If you have the stones to register Republican at this point in time, it's because you are voting for Donald Trump. If you don't vote for Democrats, you're voting for Trump. And if you vote for Trump, it is because you're not voting for someone else, you just do it because you like him not because he's a better candidate than you would have voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 or a Republican in 2016, you voted for her or a Democratic candidate in 2016 and you don t vote for him in 2016 because you think he's better than Hillary Clinton it's not because she's running for President in 2020, it s better than she is running for president in 2020 or she's a third party candidate in 2020 or she s running for re-party or something like that s more likely to win a primary you're just not running for office in 2020 because she s a better person than she s voting for him or something other than a Democrat . And that's not even close to being in a close race? and it s not a race between two presidential candidate? But it s a race against Joe Biden and Trump s doing better than he s doing well in polls, and he s running against Hillary Clinton? or he s not running against someone else? Why not running better than Trump in 2020 than he did in 2016? Is that a good thing, and why is that not a good deal better than 2016 is not a bad thing, right?
00:01:59.000According to the New York Times, in the run-up to the 2020 election, more voters across the country identified as Democrats than Republicans.
00:02:05.000But four years into Joseph R. Biden Jr.' 's presidency, the gap has shrunk.
00:02:09.000The United States now sits almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
00:02:13.000Republicans have made significant gains among voters without a college degree, rural voters, and white evangelical voters, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
00:02:20.000Remember, that is a group that Donald Trump overperformed with in 2016 and then actually underperformed with in 2020.
00:02:25.000The great lie of the 2020 election, with regard to demographics, is that Donald Trump did really, really well with rural voters, and he didn't do as well with minorities.
00:02:33.000He actually did better with minorities than he did in 2016, and not quite as well with rural voters as he did in 2016.
00:02:38.000At the same time, Democrats have held on to key constituencies like Black voters and younger voters.
00:02:43.000They've also gained ground with college-educated voters.
00:02:46.000So according to the New York Times report, right now, about 49% of voters are registered Democrat.
00:02:53.000About 48% of Republicans are registered Democrat.
00:03:00.000The implications of the trend remain uncertain because party affiliation doesn't always predict exactly how you're going to vote, but suffice it to say that if you have the stones to register Republican at this point in time, it is because you are voting for Donald Trump.
00:03:12.000If you vote Democrat, that used to be sort of just the de facto thing you did.
00:03:16.000You just do it, even if you're voting Republican.
00:03:20.000So the fact that you have seen this uptick in voter registration among Republicans is really alarming to Democrats, and it should be.
00:03:29.000Latino voters also are registering as more Republican than Democrat in terms of their historical performance.
00:03:37.000Hispanics in virtually every poll are well out polling for Trump at this point where they were in 2016 or 2020.
00:03:45.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are starting to hit the panic button.
00:03:48.000According to Politico, former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain openly questioned President Joe Biden's political strategy on Tuesday night, arguing he was focused on long-term infrastructure projects and not enough on immediate economic needs as he runs for re-election.
00:03:59.000Klain said, I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges.
00:04:02.000He does two or three events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge.
00:04:05.000Like I tell you, if you go into a grocery store, you go to the grocery store, you know, eggs and milk are expensive.
00:04:10.000The fact that there's an effing bridge is not blank.
00:04:13.000Speaking at an event hosted by the publication Democracy, a journal of ideas, the longtime Biden advisor went on to say that while the infrastructure being built under the Biden administration was positive, the president was thinking too narrowly and focusing on it.
00:04:33.000In other words, a very frustrated former Chief of Staff to the President of the United States.
00:04:38.000Once again, this means that Democrats are going to have to run against Donald Trump, not in favor of Joe Biden.
00:04:43.000Again, Joe Biden's record when it comes to foreign policy is a full-scale disaster area, and not just a full-scale disaster area, a deeply immoral full-scale disaster area, as we'll get to a little bit later on.
00:04:53.000We'll get some more on this in just a moment.
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00:06:04.000On the economy, everybody is still holding their breath.
00:06:06.000The reality is that the tremendous wage erosion that resulted from the inflationary spiral that Joe Biden created, that has not even come close to being made up by the wage increases that we are now seeing relative to inflation.
00:06:19.000If you inflate, everybody's price is 20%.
00:06:22.000And then you get like a 4 or 5% wage increase for like a quarter.
00:06:25.000That ain't gonna make up for that giant gap that still exists in the market.
00:06:30.000So this means the Democrats have to run on the thing that they think won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020, which is the idea that Donald Trump is an incipient tyrant.
00:06:39.000The problem with this is that this has been played out.
00:06:43.000They're trying to run on January 6th to say it's a news story, but the reality is that it isn't really.
00:06:48.000I mean, all of us remember January 6th.
00:06:51.000The Democrats who perceive it to be an insurrection that put the very fabric of the country in danger are overstating the case.
00:06:58.000Most people look at January 6th and what they see is an ugly riot that was then brought under control and then Joe Biden became president of the United States.
00:07:04.000And so when Democrats say the country was this close to tyranny, most people are like, no, it really, really was not.
00:07:16.000It was about a week ago, six to eight days ago, actually.
00:07:18.000And he did this interview with I believe Unificion, which is, of course, a left-wing Hispanic station.
00:07:26.000And here he was suggesting that the greatest threat to American democracy is Donald Trump, which is kind of an amazing thing to say when you're the President of the United States who vows continually to overthrow the Supreme Court with regard to, say, student loans.
00:07:39.000He tries to use your Occupational Safety and Health Administration to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans.
00:07:46.000That doesn't seem like the kind of person who I trust when it comes to adjudicating whether tyranny is occurring or not.
00:08:01.000Donald Trump uses phrases like he's going to eviscerate the Constitution, he's going to be a dictator on day one.
00:08:09.000I mean, it's just... And think of the things he says.
00:08:12.000Look at the way he talks about Minority populations, Hispanics, you know, we're talking about them being... Anyway, it's just... I can't think of any other time in my lifetime, in history that's occurred, that you've had somebody who's had this kind of attitude.
00:08:31.000He says he's going to be a dictator on day one.
00:08:36.000Uh, no, actually, what he says is, I'll be a dictator on day one to close the border, meaning he will use executive action to close the border, and then he says I won't be a dictator anymore.
00:09:26.000You've been saying this for legitimately eight years at this point, and if you still believe that Vladimir Putin is using Donald Trump as an op, I don't even know what to say to you.
00:09:38.000First of all, you militarized the entire deep state to promote this lie that was rooted in Hillary Clinton and her campaign, and you've used eight years and laundered it through the media in order to obtain that story, and you're still pushing it, and then you say to me that I'm supposed to worry about Donald Trump's tyranny?
00:09:54.000In the last election cycle, you literally used the federal government in order to pressure social media to take down a true story about Hunter Biden's laptop, saying that it was Russian disinformation.
00:10:03.000And you militarized former intelligence associates to go out there and make public statements about how the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.
00:10:10.000So no, I don't believe you when it comes to your tyranny pitch.
00:10:14.000Meanwhile, you have Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, who's out there saying that, you know, the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, we shouldn't do that because that's too political.
00:10:20.000Impeachment shouldn't be used politically.
00:10:22.000Again, do these people even own mirrors?
00:10:24.000Are mirrors illegal in Democratic offices?
00:10:27.000Your colleagues say you're going to offer a motion to dismiss the impeachment charges on Thursday.
00:10:32.000Are you at all concerned that some Democrats have tough races over that and you'll come back to block them on
00:10:37.000Look, we're going to try and resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
00:10:42.000Impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements.
00:10:48.000Then why did they impeach Donald Trump twice without any criminal charges in the impeaching documents?
00:10:54.000The people who are promoting the Trump is going to be a tyrant argument It makes it very rough to make that argument when you guys have attempted to impose tyranny on a wide variety of topics yourselves.
00:11:06.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:12:05.000And meanwhile, Democrats are going to try to shift the entire election to be about abortion.
00:12:09.000This is why Donald Trump made what I've said.
00:12:11.000It's a very savvy political move in dissociating himself from the issue entirely.
00:12:15.000He says that the federal government should not be involved in the abortion issue.
00:12:18.000Now, I've made the moral case that the federal government should in fact be involved in the moral issue.
00:12:23.000With that said, the reality is the most criminal law occurs at the state level.
00:12:26.000Virtually all criminal law occurs at the state level.
00:12:28.000The most the President of the United States can do unilaterally without congressional approval is things like end the Mexico City policy, which is funding for abortion overseas, for example, or spending it Planned Parenthood domestically.
00:12:39.000The reality is that there used to be a fairly wide consensus that the federal government should not involve itself in abortion by funding abortion.
00:12:46.000Joe Biden is the one who broke that pact by saying that you and I should fund abortions across the country.
00:12:51.000He's the one who said the Hyde Amendment should go.
00:12:54.000So Donald Trump has made the move of trying to take the abortion issue off the table, at least for federal elections, by saying, I'm not going to do anything on it.
00:13:00.000Again, as I say, as a pro-lifer, I wish that he would have said a 15-week position, but that's not what he said.
00:13:06.000He's making what, again, is a politically moderate move by any stretch of the imagination by saying, let the states take care of it.
00:13:12.000Well, yesterday, Democrats got a gift in the form of an Arizona State Supreme Court decision that reinstates a 160-year-old abortion ban in the state of Arizona.
00:13:22.000According to the New York Times, Arizona's highest court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for women's health care and election-year politics in a critical battleground state.
00:13:33.000The court said in a 4-2 decision, physicians are now on notice that all abortions except those necessary to save a woman's life are illegal.
00:13:39.000By the way, this gives the lie to the frequently used Democratic narrative that there were no abortion laws and no one cared about it until Roe vs. Wade.
00:13:45.000There were abortion laws on virtually every state book Dating back centuries in this country.
00:13:51.000The court, whose justices are all Republican appointees, also put the ruling on hold for the moment and sent the matter back to a lower court for additional arguments about the law's constitutionality.
00:13:59.000Abortion providers said they expected to continue performing abortions through May as their lawyers and Democratic lawmakers search for new legal arguments and additional tactics to delay the ruling.
00:14:08.000Okay, so the Arizona legislature, at this point, the governor, as you know, is not, in fact, Carrie Lake.
00:14:28.000Just now, the Arizona Supreme Court issued its opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Mays, upholding one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country.
00:14:39.000The Republican majority in the legislature has time and again refused to act to protect our freedoms.
00:14:45.000They have refused to repeal this civil war, extreme civil war, near-total abortion ban.
00:14:51.000In fact, the Senate President and House Speaker fought in this very case to keep this extreme ban in place.
00:14:58.000and as it stands, they might have their way. They have refused to act to protect IVF and
00:15:03.000contraception. Instead, they tell women to put aspirin between their knees.
00:15:08.000No one says that. I'm proud to be a backstop to their extremism.
00:15:12.000Arizona women should never have to fear the next court decision.
00:15:16.000Yeah, first of all, you shouldn't have to fear a court decision because you shouldn't go get
00:15:35.000The politics here are very good for Democrats because what Democrats want is for pro-lifers to move really fast and really hard in a wide variety of battleground states, hoping that they will then get the Michigan-Kansas response.
00:15:46.000So as you recall, Kansas put a ballot measure on the ballot calling essentially for the ability to change the state constitution to allow for abortion legislation.
00:15:56.000And opponents said they were going to ban all abortions in the state.
00:15:58.000So instead, Kansas ended up enshrining abortion in the state constitution.
00:16:04.000So, this is an argument that I've had with many of my pro-life colleagues.
00:16:08.000We all have the same exact position when it comes to life.
00:16:11.000That life should be protected, ideally, from point of inception.
00:16:16.000How you reach that in a durable manner, such that the law does not end up being reversed and allowing millions of abortions over the course of time, that is a pragmatic question.
00:16:25.000And not every state is going to approach it the same.
00:16:27.000Mississippi, Alabama, deep red states can pass very, very strict abortion bans, and things will be fine because the vast majority of the population supports that sort of thing.
00:16:38.000When you go to Arizona, that is a very split state.
00:16:40.000Right now, it has a Democratic governor, it has two Democratic senators, thanks to the stupidity of the Arizona Republican Party, and it has an extremely evenly split legislature in Arizona.
00:16:50.000The legislature in Arizona is bicameral.
00:16:54.000The Senate is split 16-14 in favor of Republicans, and the House is split 31-29 in favor of Republicans.
00:17:03.000Presumably, there are some quote-unquote moderate Republicans in the state who would vote with Democrats in order to get rid of the 1864 law.
00:17:09.000If they got rid of the 1864 law, then a 2022 law that was passed when a Republican governor, Doug Ducey, was in office, provided for a 15-week ban.
00:17:18.000My guess is that that is what Katie Hobbs is going to be able to get away with unless she were to veto a repeal of the law, which makes no sense.
00:17:25.000So I wouldn't be surprised if she actually gets her repeal in the state of Arizona with a few dodgy Republicans signing off on that.
00:17:32.000Politically speaking, Democrats are hoping to elevate this to the federal level.
00:17:35.000Now, that would be very silly because the reality is the President of the United States, if he were Donald Trump, would have nothing to say about abortion law in Arizona.
00:17:43.000The reason the Democrats are elevating this, not just on the state level, but on the national level, is because they are hoping that they're going to be able to pin the full pro-life position on Donald Trump federally, even though this is happening in the state of Arizona.
00:17:54.000So Margaret Hoover, for example, she's out there, sort of moderate left-wing Republican, out there saying that Donald Trump is going to lose Arizona now because of all of this.
00:18:03.000I have spoken to state electeds in the last hour.
00:18:29.000It's not going to go so well for him in Arizona.
00:18:32.000Well, I mean, but it may if people see that he actually has no impact.
00:18:36.000In other words, even if some people vote for, say, Democrats in the state legislature because they really like abortion, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is going to provide for Arizona to do kind of what it wants to do.
00:18:50.000That is why Trump did what he did, politically speaking.
00:18:52.000He actually preempted the Arizona Supreme Court decision by taking it off the federal table.
00:18:57.000Democrats are insistent on putting it back on the table.
00:18:59.000That's why Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat from Arizona, He suggests that Donald Trump is now going to go after contraception.
00:19:05.000Can you explain why the Arizona Supreme Court would rule this way?
00:19:09.000Well, Jake, let me start by saying this is a disaster for women in Arizona.
00:19:14.000Arizona women deserve the right to make their own decision about abortion, and now they can't because of Donald Trump.
00:19:21.000I think what I'm more worried about is what's next.
00:19:24.000I mean, if Donald Trump, I don't believe he's going to be re-elected, but is his next thing on his agenda to take away other rights?
00:19:32.000I mean, is it to take away the right to contraception from women?
00:19:39.000Donald Trump appointed justices who kicked it back to the states.
00:19:42.000His current position on all of these issues, I would assume, is they belong in the states.
00:19:46.000I love how federalism is now being conflated with tyranny.
00:19:49.000Remember, Donald Trump is a threat to you.
00:19:51.000Donald Trump is a tyrant, according to Democrats.
00:19:53.000He is such a tyrant that he's going to let you vote in your states on what you want to do, which is what all tyrants do.
00:19:57.000They delegate power back to the states.
00:19:59.000Incredible tyranny there from Donald Trump.
00:20:01.000Meanwhile, Democrats are like, we need full-scale abortion legislation at the top level that enshrines abortion to point to birth, basically.
00:20:08.000We'll do that at the federal level, but we're not the tyrants.
00:20:18.000She's the presumptive Republican nominee in the state, quote, In addition to covering the state of Arizona as a fair and honest journalist for 27 years, I've traveled to every corner of the state on the campaign trail.
00:20:26.000I speak to more Arizonans than anyone.
00:20:27.000It is abundantly clear the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans.
00:20:30.000I'm the only woman and mother in this race.
00:20:32.000I understand the fear, anxiety, and joy of pregnancy and motherhood.
00:20:34.000I wholeheartedly agree with President Trump.
00:20:36.000This is a very personal issue that should be determined by each individual state.
00:20:39.000And for people, I oppose today's ruling.
00:20:41.000I'm calling on Katie Hobbs and the state legislature to come up with an immediate common-sense solution that Arizonans can support.
00:20:46.000So, Carrie Lay, because she's a candidate for federal Senate, not for the state legislature in Arizona, has the capacity to basically say, okay, we're just going to avoid this issue altogether.
00:20:58.000So Republicans are clearly on the federal level trying to avoid the issue altogether, which by the way, is kind of the way the federalist system works, right?
00:21:05.000The reality is that on a state-by-state level, Criminal law gets decided.
00:21:18.000According to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court would even let them do something that goes beyond, say, a 15-week ban on the federal level.
00:21:25.000Right now, the only abortion legislation that is on the books on the federal level is partial birth abortion, which is extraordinarily late abortion bans on the federal level.
00:21:36.000And again, even when it comes to those federal abortion laws, how they apply in the states is always sort of a matter of weirdness.
00:21:43.000Because the reality is, again, that intrastate crime is prosecuted intrastate.
00:21:46.000So whenever you have a piece of federal legislation that criminalizes an activity, the question is whether it has any nexus with intrastate activity.
00:21:54.000It actually has to have some sort of activity that crosses state borders or impacts the federal government in some way.
00:21:59.000So, the Democrats, Have a bit of a conundrum.
00:22:02.000The conundrum is that Donald Trump is more moderate than they are on this issue by every available metric.
00:22:07.000Joe Biden is abortion to point of birth.
00:22:09.000Donald Trump is I'm not going to touch this thing.
00:24:54.000One particularly egregiously false headline even said Trump quote opposes a national abortion ban and will leave it and will leave it up to the quote the will of the people.
00:25:05.000Trump didn't decline anything all he did was take credit again for the nightmare he created.
00:25:10.000That's the news that's important here.
00:25:28.000The Biden campaign gets on and they lie.
00:25:31.000They say that all of these perfectly accurate headlines, the headline that Trump decided to punt the politically fraught issue to the states, they say that those are false.
00:26:59.000Well, maybe, but he hasn't made that clear.
00:27:01.000If you go over to the Washington Post and you go over to their news pages, the news reporting angles, the news pages are less balanced than the editorial side.
00:27:09.000The editorial side at least has Hugh Hewitt and Mark Thiessen who sometimes write for them.
00:28:11.000Make sure you can filter them the most easy possible way.
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00:28:18.000So, fascinating piece by Uri Berliner, who's a veteran at NPR.
00:28:22.000And he, over at the Free Press, Barry Weiss' outlet.
00:28:25.000He says, you know the stereotype of an NPR listener, an EV-driving, whirl-playing, tote-bag-carrying coastal elite.
00:28:31.000It doesn't precisely describe me, but it's not far off.
00:28:33.000I'm Sarah Lawrence, educator, was raised by a lesbian, peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.
00:28:42.000So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back.
00:28:45.000As a senior editor on the business desk, where news is always breaking, we've covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.
00:28:51.000It's true, NPR has always had a liberal bent.
00:28:53.000But during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed.
00:28:56.000We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk activists or scolding.
00:28:58.000In recent years, however, that has changed.
00:29:00.000Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different.
00:29:04.000The distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S.
00:29:08.000If you're a conservative, you'll read this and say, duh, it's always been this way, but it hasn't.
00:29:11.000For decades, since its founding in 1970, a wide swath of America tuned into NPR for reliable journalism and gorgeous audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon.
00:29:19.000Millions came to us for conversations that exposed us to voices around the country and the world radically different from our own.
00:29:25.000Back in 2011, although NPR's audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore resemblance to America at large.
00:29:30.00026% of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23% as moderate, 37% as liberal.
00:29:45.000As Ari Berliner says, like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.
00:29:51.000As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair.
00:29:57.000But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump's presidency.
00:30:04.000At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
00:30:10.000It's one thing to swing and miss on a major story.
00:30:40.000That's all the editors at USA Today are doing.
00:30:42.000That's all the editors of the Washington Post are doing, or the New York Times.
00:30:44.000They are just creating an echo chamber in which their columnists speak directly to Joe Biden in the same way that people accused Donald Trump of taking his cues from Fox and Friends.
00:30:54.000Joe Biden takes his cues from the New York Times editorial board.
00:30:56.000He gets his foreign policy from Thomas Friedman.
00:30:58.000He gets his domestic policy from, like, Nikole Hannah-Jones on race.
00:31:02.000And he gets his economic policy from Thomas Edsel.
00:31:10.000And this little echo chamber acts as a propagator of falsehood on behalf of Democrats, which is why they were perfectly happy to switch all of their headlines in a false way with regard to Trump's abortion position.
00:31:22.000So once again, you're gonna see Arizona magnified.
00:31:24.000Now, here's the reality of how things are gonna go in Arizona, as I said earlier.
00:31:28.000They have an incredibly closely split House and Senate in Arizona.
00:31:32.000There's a very good shot that Democrats will be able to peel off a couple of Republicans to vote for the repeal of an 1864 law on abortion, whether or not I like it, whether or not I think it's morally right.
00:31:42.000And then, the 15-week abortion ban that was passed by Doug Ducey will be the law of the land in Arizona, and everybody will go about their merry way.
00:31:48.000That is the likelihood of what's going to happen here.
00:31:50.000In the same way that in Alabama, a huge deal was made out of an Alabama state Supreme Court case with regard to the discarding of embryos against the will of one of the parents, suggesting that they had some rights to embryos.
00:32:02.000And this was supposed to cause all sorts of issues for IVF.
00:32:04.000And the Alabama state legislature immediately gathered and passed a law that protected IVF.
00:32:09.000It turns out that the states are in fact good laboratories for this sort of stuff.
00:32:14.000And it also turns out that the predominant power in criminal law, once again, lies with the state.
00:32:19.000That's why Donald Trump is doing what Donald Trump is doing.
00:32:21.000But the media have to somehow launder Arizona into a federal story when it is a state story.
00:32:25.000They have to launder Alabama into a federal story when it is a state story.
00:32:29.000Meanwhile, we are supposed to pretend that crime problems in Portland are a state story and not a federal story, so we can't impute any of the crime problems in the country to Joe Biden.
00:32:38.000In the same way that the media decide what's a local news story and what's a national news story based on the narrative.
00:32:43.000White guy shoots black man, national news story.
00:32:45.000Black guy shoots white man, local crime story.
00:32:47.000The same thing happens with regard to pretty much every political lens.
00:32:51.000The state Supreme Court in Arizona goes back to an 1864 pro-life law, national news story, everyone worry, you gotta freak out if you're in California.
00:33:00.000Meanwhile, if the state of Kansas passes a law that basically enshrines abortion to point of birth, State news story just about how the people of Kansas have found moderation.
00:33:09.000Not a national news story that implicates Joe Biden in abortion radicalism in any way, shape, or form.
00:34:10.000Now, all of what's happening in Arizona underscores something that is fundamentally wrong with American politics, and that is what Americans most want.
00:34:22.000They want something that is stable and predictable and non-radical.
00:34:25.000And so it is in the interest of both parties to Interpret the other party's action as radical while attempting to position themselves as moderate.
00:34:34.000Instead, what has happened is that both parties are successfully calling the other radical.
00:34:39.000Also, both parties are falling hostage to their actual radical base because there is this move that's been happening inside both parties to suggest that you need the passionate, the most passionate.
00:34:48.000Those are the people who are going to drive the bus.
00:34:49.000Let's put the passionate people in charge of the bus.
00:34:51.000Now, in no other industry do you actually want the most passionate people in charge of the bus.
00:34:57.000In most other industries, what you want is passionate people who are going to do the difficult work, the difficult on-the-ground work that needs to be done, and they have the passion to actually do it.
00:35:07.000You don't actually want the doctor who is emotionally unhinged performing the surgery.
00:35:13.000What you want is people who are very passionate about the thing to do a lot of the sort of on-the-ground door-knocking, if you're in a political campaign, for example.
00:35:20.000What you don't want them to do is define policy.
00:35:22.000Well, both parties have decided that they are basically going to surrender to their fringes.
00:35:29.000This problem is cropping up, as I've talked about all this week, with regard to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:35:33.000Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a responsible legislator.
00:35:36.000She has attempted to position herself as more of one since she, a couple of years ago, sort of burst onto the scene by saying incredibly silly things.
00:35:43.000Well now, Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying that she is going to follow through on her threat to force a vote to unseat Mike Johnson, who is a significantly more conservative legislator than Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever been.
00:35:54.000Marjorie Taylor Greene's positions are heterodox on a wide variety of issues.
00:35:59.000She also happens to say things that really make it difficult for Republicans to retain power, which does raise the question as to whether these fringe Republicans actually want to retain power, or be in power, or do anything, or what they really want is to be in the opposition.
00:36:13.000Because when you're in the opposition, you can yell at the moon, and you can get on TV yelling at the moon.
00:36:17.000When you're in the majority, just act like you're in the opposition.
00:36:20.000So Marjorie Taylor Greene did an event the other day in Rome, Georgia, where she said that the House Republicans had quote-unquote failed completely Which is weird, because they've actually done more to restrict the spending habits of Joe Biden than the Democrats did.
00:36:36.000There's not much you can do when the Senate is dominated by Democrats and the President's a Democrat.
00:36:41.000And then, she calls Mike Johnson a Democrat, which is an insane proposition.
00:36:45.000By every possible permutation, that's crazy.
00:36:47.000Mike Johnson is a down-the-line conservative.
00:36:51.000He's hawkish on foreign policy, he's fiscally conservative, and he's socially conservative.
00:36:56.000He's much more consistently conservative than anybody like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:36:59.000And then she adds that she regrets that January 6th was not successful.
00:37:02.000The big failing is that Donald Trump didn't retain the presidency after January 6th.
00:37:06.000If you think this is the pathway back to the majority, oust the Speaker and follow Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to minority permanently.
00:37:13.000Because that's the kind of tactics she is aiming for.
00:37:15.000It has nothing to do with the benefit of the Republic and everything to do with the magnification of Marjorie Taylor Greene as a famous person.
00:37:22.000Here she was yesterday saying a pretty solid combination of things that will wind the Republicans up with a minority in the House, and then you get to watch and see what a Joe Biden presidency dominated by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer looks like.
00:38:25.000Do you think this is not going to be a national issue for Republicans?
00:38:28.000Democrats make it the focus of their campaign to find the most radical Republican and then smear every Republican with that person.
00:38:33.000And you know what helps in that effort?
00:38:35.000A dumbass rule negotiated by Kevin McCarthy to allow for one person to challenge the Speaker.
00:38:42.000So Marjorie Taylor Greene has done that.
00:38:44.000And she's setting up the math such that if she challenges him that he will have to rely on the votes of Democrats in order to get him over the hump.
00:38:54.000To which I say, he should do it anyway.
00:38:56.000Because either Mike Johnson is going to run the house, or Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to run the house.
00:39:00.000And then, if Marjorie Taylor Greene runs the house, then Hakeem Jeffries is going to run the house.
00:39:07.000If the Chaos Caucus decides that they are the ones in charge, if they are the captain now, then this ship is sinking, and it's sinking right quick.
00:39:14.000She says that he's the Democrat Speaker of the House.
00:39:17.000We're going to find out if she has her way, because Akeem Jeffries will be Speaker of the House if she has her way, which is why I've been encouraging all week long the Speaker of the House to simply nuke this rule.
00:39:27.000You cannot allow yourself to be held hostage by a group of people who have no interest in governing, who do not know what the role of the legislature actually is, who seem to think that they are up for a slot On R-S-B-N?
00:39:42.000Like a nighttime guest slot every night?
00:40:28.000This interview was done immediately in the aftermath of the World Central Kitchen tragedy in which Israel accidentally struck a World Central Kitchen convoy and killed seven people.
00:40:40.000And Joe Biden, in this interview, says that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is quote-unquote, making a mistake on Gaza, and then he says he wants a six- to eight-week ceasefire without any hostage release.
00:40:50.000There are five American hostages still being held.
00:40:52.000I know that we're supposed to not give a crap about that for some odd reason.
00:40:55.000I know we're supposed to care deeply about Evan Gerskowitz, the journalist from the Wall Street Journal, being held in captivity by the Russians.
00:41:02.000I know that we're gonna spend... We're gonna let actual...
00:41:06.000Terror masters go free in order to regain the possession of Brittany Griner, a WNBA player.
00:41:14.000But these are five American hostages who happen to be Jewish, so apparently Joe Biden didn't care about that, and he's not going to mention it in any way, shape, or form.
00:41:20.000Or at the very least, Gershkowitz is Jewish, but he's being held by Russia.
00:41:23.000So he hates Russia because he thinks Russia is linked to Donald Trump or some such.
00:41:28.000In any case, here is Joe Biden basically just taking Hamas's position.
00:41:32.000The wingnuts have captured the Democratic Party.
00:41:40.000I think it's outrageous that those three vehicles were hit by drones and taken out on a highway where it wasn't like it was along the shore, it wasn't like there was a convoy moving here, etc.
00:41:55.000So what I'm calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire Allow for the next six, eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country.
00:42:12.000I've spoken with everyone from the Saudis to the Jordanians to the Egyptians.
00:42:34.000Okay, so in other words, he wants Israel to simply cease fire and not kill any more Hamas terrorists, not go into Rafah, not do anything for six to eight weeks.
00:42:41.000And in return, Israel would get nothing.
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00:43:54.000The White House had to clean this up yesterday.
00:43:56.000They flatly denied a shift in policy after Biden called on Israel to agree to a six to eight week ceasefire.
00:44:01.000According to a White House official, quote, there is no change in our position.
00:44:04.000The president was reiterating our longstanding position.
00:44:06.000We are calling for an immediate ceasefire that would last for at least six weeks as part of a hostage deal.
00:44:10.000And now, of course, he didn't say anything about the hostages there because they're lying.
00:44:13.000He's been captured by his radical left, and they don't want to admit that he's been captured by his radical left, so they're trying to walk that back to suggest that actually the White House wants this as part of a hostage deal.
00:44:23.000When you say this sort of stuff, Hamas knows it has you by the short hairs, which is why they are refusing every ceasefire deal offered to them right now.
00:44:31.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel and Hamas on Tuesday were considering a new U.S.
00:44:34.000proposal for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and the freeing of some hostages still held by the militant group.
00:44:39.000But mediators cautioned the two sides remain far from a deal.
00:44:41.000And in fact, every time the media report that they're close to a deal, Hamas then kills the deal.
00:44:45.000Because they know that if they just retain pressure on Joe Biden, Joe Biden will cave.
00:44:49.000His entire party continues to clamor for him to cave to Hamas and leave them in place.
00:44:54.000Here is Senator Tim Kaine, former forgotten vice presidential candidate under Hillary Clinton, saying that the United States should cease all offensive aid to Israel.
00:45:02.000They should just give them defensive weaponry like Iron Dome or something.
00:45:05.000But they shouldn't give them enough ammunition to, you know, kill members of Hamas.
00:45:10.000I have also urged the president in delivery of aid to Israel to restrict it to defensive weapons.
00:45:16.000Israel has to defend itself against Hamas, against Iran, against Hezbollah, against the Houthis, against militias.
00:46:01.000There is no clean way to wage war, particularly when you are granting an incentive to the enemy to hide among women and children, because the minute they do, they are calling safety.
00:46:39.000Israel has the best record of terrorist to civilian kill ratio, because they don't want to kill civilians, they're trying to minimize it, of any modern army in the history of warfare.
00:46:51.000Nancy Pelosi is still calling for this.
00:46:52.000And Joe Biden is captured by the swing of his party.
00:46:54.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration has to straddle this peculiar line, because as it turns out, it actually is not in America's interest to watch Hamas win.
00:47:01.000So Lloyd Austin, our rather dull Secretary of Defense, He even said yesterday there's no evidence Israel is committing a genocide because Israel is of course not committing a genocide contrary to idiots on all sides of the aisle who seem to not understand the meaning of words.
00:47:18.000I swear every time we talk about people who say that Israel is committing a genocide I feel like Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride.
00:47:25.000I do not think that word means what you think it means.
00:48:01.000The fact that he has to kind of struggle for the words is pretty incredible.
00:48:04.000Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, he points out that Joe Biden has indulged his radical base.
00:48:11.000America cannot afford to lose moral clarity about the conflict.
00:48:16.000But I'm afraid that too many of our leaders are.
00:48:21.000President Biden expressed outrage at last week's deadly accident, an event his own administration acknowledged was a tragic accident, which begs the question of whether he's also outraged at the way Israel's terrorist aggressors violate international law by turning hospitals and schools into fighting positions.
00:48:46.000Instead of welcoming Israel's swift Investigation and efforts to hold personnel accountable for their mistakes, accountability that has been sorely lacking during President Biden's own administration, the President caved further to domestic political pressure.
00:49:07.000He indulged his radical base and called for an immediate ceasefire.
00:49:13.000That, of course, is exactly correct, which is why Iran is just holding steady at this point.
00:49:19.000We've got Biden exactly where we want him.
00:49:22.000I mean, well, again, I have a hard time knowing whether to attribute Democrats' moral blindness to true moral corruption or just stupidity.
00:49:29.000It makes it harder when many of the morally blind are also just plain stupid.
00:49:32.000Sheila Jackson Lee had the quote of the day yesterday and probably for the month.
00:49:38.000This is the quality of person that we elect to Congress now.
00:49:42.000Sometimes you've heard the word full moon.
00:49:43.000over the place. This is the quality of person representative Sheila Jackson Lee.
00:49:45.000She's been in Congress by the way for a very long time, Sheila Jackson Lee.
00:49:50.000She is from Texas, the 18th district over there. Here she was explaining the moon.
00:49:56.000Sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the
00:50:00.000opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded
00:50:04.000circle which is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the question the question
00:50:11.000is why or how could we as humans live on the moon.
00:50:16.000Are the gases such that we could do that?
00:50:19.000The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun.
00:50:28.000The moon is more manageable and you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you'll see in a couple of years that NASA is going back to the moon.