00:00:13.000Plus, why Zarn Mamdani is cosplaying as a Knicks fan, what happened at the TPUSA Women's Conference over the weekend, what the hell is going on in the Middle East, and a short trip to the movies and things I like and things I hate.
00:00:32.000So, over the weekend, one of these sort of hot news items is that President Trump did a long interview with Kristen Welker, and eventually he got annoyed and left.
00:00:39.000And one of the reasons that he left, apparently, it was sort of an uncomfortable situation physically.
00:00:43.000They were interviewing in a tent just outside in the rain, and he'd been there for about an hour.
00:00:49.000And she later revealed that he said he would do another interview with her, not in the rain.
00:00:52.000In any case, this was the hot talk over the weekend because the president got up in the middle of the interview because he was annoyed with Welker and took off.
00:00:59.000He was talking about election integrity at the time.
00:01:29.000On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time.
00:01:32.000You ought to straighten out your press because you know what?
00:01:35.000A country can never be great with a dishonest press.
00:01:38.000Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.
00:01:44.000So, obviously, the president was very, very annoyed with Kristen Welker, and he'd sat there for about an hour.
00:01:48.000But the thing that ticked him off is that he was pushing on the election integrity stuff, and she was pushing back, which brings us to California.
00:01:55.000So, there was a mayoral election June 2nd in LA.
00:02:00.000That mayoral election, the initial results showed that the top two finishers were going to be Karen Bass, the current mayor of LA, who is A crazy leftist and Spencer Pratt, who's running as an independent slash Republican, the former reality TV star who'd been running this extremely viral online campaign.
00:02:17.000And the other person who was in the running was a person named Nithya Raman, who's on the LA city council and is a complete psychotic leftist.
00:02:24.000So you have Karen Bass, a person who literally trained in Cuba as a revolutionary, and she is the moderate Democrat in that particular race.
00:02:30.000Well, the initial results came in on June 2nd, the evening of June 2nd, and it looked as though Spencer Pratt and Karen Bass were going to be the people who were going to win.
00:02:42.000The very early results on election night showed that Pratt was up some 25,000 votes on Rahman.
00:02:48.000And meanwhile, Karen Bass was up another 30,000 votes on Spencer Pratt.
00:02:54.000And then, as the election results came in, by June 4th and 5th, basically the voting results for Spencer Pratt had flatlined.
00:03:01.000And you started to see this fairly significant incremental increase in votes for Nithya Rahman.
00:03:07.000So, by June 6th, the mayoral counts started to shift radically in favor of Nithya Rahman.
00:03:12.000Now, one of the things that's fascinating here.
00:03:14.000Is that you can see that basically the lines for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman start elevating at the same rate between June 4th and 5th and June 6th.
00:03:25.000And they flatline completely for Spencer Pratt, which means that virtually all of the early votes that were cast on the sort of Raman versus Pratt side were cast in favor of Pratt, or at least heavily biased toward Pratt.
00:03:38.000And all the late breaking votes, meaning the mail in ballots, were heavily biased toward Nithya Raman.
00:03:45.000This is not a glitch, it is the blueprint.
00:03:46.000Now, I know a lot of people right now.
00:03:48.000Are very upset about the fact that the initial results look more Republican, more conservative.
00:03:54.000And then, as more results come in, the graphs tend to shift toward Democrats.
00:03:58.000And we saw this obviously in 2020, most obviously, when the early results seemed to show President Trump in the lead.
00:04:04.000And everybody had been talking about the fact that mail in ballots, which in many cases were counted after the actual day of election, those would shift toward blue because Democrats were voting significantly by mail.
00:04:16.000Well, according to state regulations, In California.
00:04:20.000So when I say that the election was stolen months ago, what I mean is that the state regulations benefit ballot harvesting.
00:04:28.000I think the way that people think of stolen elections is generally wrong.
00:04:30.000I don't think that you have a bunch of people who are sitting there falsifying ballots, or you have a ballot tabulator who is sitting there picking up an empty ballot, filling in a fake name or fake ID number, and then writing in the ballot.
00:04:44.000What's actually happening is widespread voter registration and then ballot harvesting.
00:04:49.000According to state regulations in California, first time voters can register using, I'm not even making this up, a commercial credit card or a health club ID.
00:04:57.000So that LA Fitness ID that somebody got five years ago and never used because they're fatty, they can use that to register to vote.
00:05:04.000The law in California explicitly says any doubt must be liberally construed to let a person cast a regular ballot with zero real verification, by the way.
00:05:15.000Now, when you combine legal ballot harvesting with a total collapse of voter ID, you end up with some pretty shady election practices.
00:05:23.000And this is why I think people were sort of shocked here.
00:05:25.000Nithya Raman, the night of the election, gave a speech crying.
00:05:28.000It looked as though she would basically concede the race.
00:05:30.000And then it turns out now that she probably will be in the runoff against Karen Bass, decision desk.
00:05:34.000Called that race last night for Nithya Rahman and Karen Bass and cut Spencer Pratt completely out of the final two.
00:05:41.000This is a flashback to election night when Rahman thought she was going to lose.
00:05:45.000I hope you know that everything every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that's worthy of you and every child in this city.
00:06:03.000Okay, so it looked as though she was going to lose.
00:06:16.000Well, that 43,000 is a reference to the fact that the city of LA currently has approximately 43,695 homeless people, including people in temporary shelters.
00:06:28.000Well, it means that ballot harvesters will go to homeless shelters and then they will ask people if they wish to vote and then they will help them mark the ballot in some cases.
00:06:38.000Or they'll stand over them while they mark the ballot, and then they will take those ballots to a drop box and drop them off.
00:06:43.000According to California's Vote 411, you can cast a valid vote by mail as long as your ballot is postmarked or dropped off in a drop box on Election Day.
00:06:51.000And in 2021, California law mandated that every active voter in the state receive a mail in ballot.
00:06:57.000And so what you've seen since 2016 is a radical increase in not only voter turnout in California, but a radical increase in mail in balloting in California.
00:07:10.000In the 2024 election cycle, 80% of all Californians voted by mail.
00:07:52.000If you wonder, one of the reasons why President Trump has talked so much about the stolen 2020 election, and again, I think the evidence is scanty that there was voter fraud sufficient to overcome the burden of proof.
00:08:03.000It is worth saying, however, that 24 states and Washington, D.C. allowed a voter to designate any person to drop off their completed ballot.
00:08:09.000So, what ballot harvesters do is they go to the houses of the people who they know are registered Democrats, they knock on the door, they say, give me your ballot.
00:08:16.000I want to make sure that it gets in on time.
00:08:20.000Some states allowed a designated person to return an unlimited number of ballots, like California.
00:08:24.000Other states put a cap on the quantity to prevent large scale operations.
00:08:28.000So, Colorado, for example, caps at 10 ballots per person.
00:08:31.000But in California, you can go pick up 100 ballots.
00:08:33.000Like you're a Democratic state representative, a party worker.
00:08:37.000You go out and you pick up 500 ballots from addresses that you know are registered Democrats, boosting your voter turnout.
00:08:45.000That's the reason why President Trump is very sketchy on the 2020 election.
00:08:51.000Because again, the combination of mail in voting and ballot harvesting meant that two thirds of Americans turned out to vote in 2020.
00:09:00.000If you wonder why people are suspicious about our elections, this would be the reason.
00:09:04.000Again, the question is not whether or not the ballots that are coming in are quote unquote legit or not.
00:09:09.000The question is who's doing the voting?
00:09:10.000Are these people who would normally show up to vote?
00:09:13.000Are these people who are basically the equivalent of 19th century drunk voters?
00:09:17.000So, back in the 19th century, balloting, shall we say, was a little bit loose.
00:09:22.000And so, what you would do is you would have people to an election party, you'd get them unbelievably drunk, you'd give them a keg, and then you'd have them vote once, sometimes twice, because there was no way to actually police it.
00:09:34.000Well, if you're going to a homeless shelter for voting, I understand there are a lot of people who believe that drug addicts and paranoid schizophrenics have a right to vote.
00:09:46.000I will say it's a little strange if all those votes turn out to be Democrat.
00:09:51.000And so if you're wondering why people in LA are frustrated, this would be the reason why.
00:09:55.000And it doesn't help that you have the results that tend to change over time.
00:10:00.000And California is almost built for this because by law, you are supposed to count the mail in ballots because you can mail in your ballot until the day of the election.
00:10:08.000Because of that, the ballots, the mail in ballots, aren't counted until the day of election votes have been counted.
00:10:13.000And so you see a major change in election results.
00:10:16.000In Florida, by contrast, your mail in ballot has to be sent in advance, and it's all tabulated before Election Day.
00:10:22.000And that means that Election Day results are available basically the minute the polls close.
00:10:28.000But the bottom line is this it is hard to think of a better case for the Republican Save Act than what has been going on in states like California for years.
00:10:37.000Ballot harvesting is the enemy of good voter policy.
00:10:48.000And I'd be fascinated to find out what is the voter turnout percentage for people living in homeless shelters in LA who can't be bothered to find a place to live and aren't helped by the state in terms of finding a place to dry out or get treatment, but somehow find the time to vote, I would imagine, in kind of shockingly high percentage.
00:11:08.000All right, coming up, Zar Mamdani is cosplaying as a Knicks fan.
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00:14:21.000I will say that my son was so upset by all of the Knicks fans down here who are nasty and they taunt people and they're just the worst.0.98
00:14:57.000He famously showed up wearing like a brand new Knicks jersey in the middle of the mayoral election, and he showed up in the nosebleed seats because Eric Adams was mayor of New York.
00:15:36.000I have an advantage in that we are both from New York City and we share a love of this city amidst many disagreements that we have, whether about the country or about the city.
00:15:44.000And one thing that the president said to me, as well as to the public, is the better the city does, the happier he is.
00:15:51.000And in that, I ensure that our conversations are focused on how we can do better for this city.
00:15:56.000And that doesn't mean shying away from disagreement.
00:15:58.000You know, I've sat directly with the president and I've spoken to him about the fact that I believe that ICE raids are cruel and inhumane.
00:16:04.000I believe they do nothing to serve the interests of public safety.
00:16:07.000It just means being honest and ensuring that.
00:16:10.000It isn't a conversation around personality or the two people who are there, but rather around the people of New York City and how we can deliver for them.
00:16:18.000Now, the Shah of Smarm apparently is also going to attend the game, but he says he's going to be in a very different section because, of course, the president will be sitting near the floor.
00:16:26.000Those tickets are going for something insane, like $150,000 a ticket to be on the floor.
00:16:31.000Mom Dhani says that he's going to pay for it himself, which, again, is a rich people problem because the tickets up in the rafters are going for $7,000, $8,000.
00:16:38.000Mom Dhani's spokesperson says the mayor is paying his own way, which, again, is not a poor person thing.
00:16:42.000Just going to point out if you're a true blue collar person in New York, you are watching this game at home.
00:16:48.000Because those tickets are going for a lot of money.
00:16:51.000He is not the only politician cosplaying as a diehard Knicks fan.
00:16:54.000AOC got a henna tattoo for the Knicks.
00:16:57.000Just going to point out that I believe the first documented showing that AOC is a Knicks fan, like really a Knicks fan, was like 2022, four years after she was elected to Congress.
00:17:29.000The Knicks have also enacted a no bag policy, TSA style security.
00:17:33.000So apparently, it's only bad for us to have this in our, you know, actually having law enforcement check security, only appropriate in Knicks games.
00:18:24.000You know, Zar Mamdani is conflating poverty and being black in New York, you know, as one would do if one were a tacit racist.
00:18:32.000And when we talk about a focus on the cost of living crisis, we know that for black New Yorkers, that's not an intellectual concern.
00:18:40.000The city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers over the last few decades alone.
00:18:44.000From 2010 to 2019, we saw a 19% drop in the population of black children and teenagers.
00:18:50.000So, in focusing on the affordability crisis, in delivering on that crisis, we are finally bringing the struggles.
00:18:57.000Of black New Yorkers and New Yorkers across the five boroughs to the heart of our politics and not just to the footnotes of it.
00:19:05.000So, again, apparently being poor and being black, same thing.0.73
00:19:09.000Also, Mamdani says it's time to develop a new vision for the Democratic Party.0.98
00:19:12.000That new vision, presumably, will be being psychotic socialists.
00:19:17.000What do you say to people who say language, and there's Democrats in DC who say language like abolish ICE are unhelpful for the political health of the Democratic Party?
00:19:28.000I think if we've listened to them before and look where we are, I think it's time to develop a new vision for this party, one that is unflinching in its beliefs and also uncompromising in its principles.
00:19:41.000Well, by the way, the new vision for the Democratic Party looks like Zoram Amdani, meaning unapologetically anti Semitic and socialist, which brings us back to Graham Platner, who, let's hope for everyone's sake, there were no home invaders at Graham Platner's house last night or anytime, actually, because once again, it was reported last week in his campaign to not deny it.
00:20:01.000That Graham Plattner, the Democratic senator candidate for Maine, has said that if someone tried to invade his home, he would rape them out of a desire for dominance, not because he's gay.0.95
00:20:17.000I'm not going to get over that one.0.80
00:20:18.000But Graham Plattner, another part of the Zorn Momdani wing of the Democratic Party.
00:20:24.000Here he was preaching his socialist nonsense from his perch atop an oyster farm that feeds his mommy's restaurant, saying, Hard work isn't enough anymore.
00:20:38.000When I was a kid growing up in Sullivan, I remember guys who you could stern in the summer, plow in the winter, do some carpentry, do some wreaths, and that was enough.
00:20:50.000That was enough to live a small but decent life.
00:21:18.000Because instead of being able to go out and make a living on the sea, You've got to take some shoreside jobs just so you can get health insurance for your family.
00:21:27.000That clam digger, that guy's kids now taking on a lifetime of debt just to go to school.
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00:22:17.000Every search, every click, every article you read can be tracked, recorded, compiled into a behavioral profile connected to you.
00:22:23.000Data brokers can package that information and sell it.
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00:23:14.000Great video emerged from Maine of a Graham Plattner supporter suggesting, as I said last week, as not really a joke, but kind of a joke, that a tattoo of the flag of Israel would get him removed from the Senate race.
00:23:25.000Whereas if you have a tattoo, you know, of the Nazis, then apparently not.
00:23:30.000Graham Plattner has his defenders, including Ro Khanna.
00:23:32.000Who's out there saying that all the allegations from last week, including him grabbing Lindsay Fifield and throwing her in a bathroom and locking the door, or him sharpening into acts while watching TV, or him saying that he wanted to rape home invaders, actually, that's not evidence of violence, actually.
00:23:51.000There's nothing credible at this point.
00:23:54.000My view is that even according to the New York Times piece, they said there was no harm, no injury, there was toxicity, and there was verbal intimidation, which I condemn.
00:24:07.000Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence.
00:24:12.000Oh, the red line would be like if he's, if what he admitted to it, that would be the red line.
00:24:17.000So he doesn't admit to it because alleged.
00:24:19.000But if he admitted to it, that would apparently be the red line.
00:24:23.000John Fetterman, the last honest Democrat in the Senate, he points out that there are all of these sex from Graham Plattner to various women.
00:24:31.000And also that he was on the grooming site Kik, that he had a profile there.
00:24:35.000And Fetterman says to Plattner, listen, I wear a hoodie, but I will put on a suit every single day if you can prove that none of your sex were to underage people.
00:24:43.000Yeah, well, no, of course, I never heard from P. Hustle.
00:24:46.000But what's strange with P. Hustle is back in April, he was doing an interview on that pro Hamas Zedio network or whatever that thing is.
00:24:55.000And he said that I am the bane of his existence and really was angry how I dressed too.
00:25:02.000And now I said, now P. Hustle, here's a great chance.0.98
00:25:05.000You know, you can just prove that all these people that you're dropping those dick pics and saying these things to were over 18.0.97
00:25:13.000And now I will wear a suit every day in the Senate.0.88
00:25:17.000And now you can set the record clear and provide all those texts and all those conversations that you were having as a newlywed just before you were going to run for the Senate.
00:25:28.000Well, Fetterman's honesty has not endeared him to Platner.0.76
00:25:30.000And Platner, as a Nazi would, immediately goes to it's the Jews.0.79
00:25:35.000So Fetterman, who is not Jewish, the idea is that Fetterman is going after Platner because of, wait for it, the Jews.0.98
00:25:42.000Of course, of course, because this is where every dumb online conversation ends.0.88
00:26:16.000Susan Collins' latest financial report just came out.
00:26:18.000A staggering one third of her money raised this quarter came directly from AIPAC.
00:26:21.000Susan Collins is bought and paid for by Benjamin Netanyahu, and she votes accordingly.
00:26:24.000I will point out at this point that AIPAC is not run by Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC is a bunch of Jewish and Christian Americans who like Israel.
00:26:33.000And then, naturally, Abdul El Sayed, who himself is a terror supporter, put out a statement AIPAC is going to spend $30 million to try and buy a U.S. Senate seat from the people of Michigan.
00:26:59.000Just ask the guy with the Nazi tattoo, or maybe our terrorist supporting mayor in New York, or maybe our terrorist supporting candidate in Michigan, or maybe the actual guy who testified on behalf of a terrorist running for Congress in New Jersey.
00:27:09.000We don't have an anti Semitism problem at all.
00:27:13.000Blaming the Jews seems like a risky defense for a guy with a Nazi tattoo who's trying to convince people that it was just an innocent mistake and it doesn't mean anything.
00:27:24.000Are you concerned that your party has an anti Semitism problem?
00:27:30.000He's going to have to speak for himself, and that's what any candidate, particularly in a high profile race, is going to be called upon to do.
00:27:38.000Listen, the effort to crush anti Semitism in America shouldn't be a partisan issue.
00:27:50.000It's an American issue, and we should all be committed to crushing anti Semitism and all other forms of hatred into the ground, bury it, and make sure it can never rise again.0.61
00:28:02.000Unless you need to beat the nefarious, horrible, right wing zealot Susan Collins, in which case the guy with the Nazi tattoo, maybe he's okay.
00:28:09.000And maybe so is the terrorist supporter in Michigan and the terrorist supporter in New York and the terrorist supporter in New Jersey and various other terrorist supporters around the country who are running as Democrats.
00:28:17.000Yeah, it's going well for the left and the Democratic Party when it comes to anti Semitism.0.82
00:28:22.000All right, over to the Middle East.0.88
00:28:23.000So things got hot again over in the Middle East over the weekend.
00:28:27.000So the quick update in terms of timing is that over the weekend, Israel had made clear that if Hezbollah, which is a terrorist group, an Iranian backed terror group located in Lebanon, that if they fired into northern Israel, that Israel would strike at leadership of Hezbollah in Beirut.
00:28:43.000Now, remember, the Lebanese government is not Hezbollah.
00:28:45.000The Lebanese government is actually on the side of disarming Hezbollah.
00:28:49.000So Israel and the Lebanese government are on the same side of this particular thing.
00:28:55.000In fact, the Lebanese president, Joseph Ayoun, said to the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which again is Hezbollah, it is not your country.
00:29:05.000And he's going to point out that when Israel is doing stuff in Lebanon, they are not targeting the Lebanese government, they are targeting Hezbollah.
00:29:11.000According to the Lebanese president, Joseph Ayoun, It's not your country.
00:29:39.000And here also, Hezbollah must understand that.0.96
00:29:42.000Hezbollah must understand that no other way but To sit and talk.0.60
00:29:48.000No other way to solve this problem and to save what's left except through negotiation and diplomacy.0.51
00:29:57.000Okay, so Hezbollah, the Iranian terror group located in Lebanon, has been panicking.
00:30:01.000And so they've been firing into Israel in an attempt to get Iran to defend them.
00:30:05.000So Abbas Araki, who's the foreign minister of Iran, is similarly attempting to reconstruct the Iranian axis of terror.
00:30:14.000So Iran has a bunch of terror groups that it supports all over the region, ranging from Hamas.
00:30:18.000To the Houthis in Yemen, to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:30:20.000So Abbasarrahi put up a tweet, this demonstrates, showing that they are trying to tie together Iran and Lebanon.
00:30:26.000So his entire tweet is just the Iranian flag and the Lebanese flag.
00:30:29.000And so Iran and Lebanon are basically the same thing.
00:30:32.000Okay, so Netanyahu had said if Hezbollah fires on Israeli citizens in Israel, then we are going to attack in Tahiyah, which is a segment of Beirut that everyone knows is run by Hezbollah.
00:30:45.000And Iran said, if you do that, then we are going to strike Israel.0.61
00:30:48.000So Iran, again, Has been trying to tie together Hezbollah and Iran.
00:30:52.000They've been trying to tie together Lebanon and Iran for a while because they're afraid of losing their allies over in Lebanon.
00:30:58.000They're afraid that their most powerful ally, Hezbollah, is going to be defenestrated by the Israeli military and now by the Lebanese as well.
00:31:04.000And so they say, if you do this, then we're going to fire missiles at Israel.0.75
00:31:46.000They have to because otherwise, they have now given Iran the ability to basically veto any self defense action Israel takes.0.59
00:31:52.000At any point, Hezbollah has been taking, again, offensive action that has killed dozens of Israelis over the course of the last couple of months because Israel had to move into southern Lebanon, and they moved into southern Lebanon because Hezbollah was firing over the border into northern Israel.0.50
00:32:07.000And the reason Iran is doing this right now is that Iran is basically in its death row.
00:32:10.000The Iranian regime is on very, very thin ice.
00:32:16.000And so now they are lashing out and they're going to attempt to use any piece of leverage they possibly can.
00:32:21.000That is the goal to use any piece of leverage that they possibly can.0.80
00:32:25.000And the biggest piece of leverage that the Iranians think they have right now is the American and Western desire to open the Strait of Hormuz.0.88
00:32:55.000For example, the Vietnam War, the United States on a raw level inflicted far more pain on the Viet Cong than the Viet Cong inflicted on the United States.
00:33:02.000In economic terms, in military terms, in military terms, the United States had a kill ratio far higher than the Viet Cong had against the United States.0.52
00:33:10.000But the United States was unwilling to suffer a certain amount of pain, and so the United States gave up the ghost.0.95
00:33:35.000That is the goal of every single war, which is why I have been saying since March, since the war was actually active, that we should seize Karg Island or blow it up.0.96
00:33:44.000That is the Iranian refinery center responsible for the distribution of 90% of their oil and natural gas, because that is an infliction of tremendous pain on the Iranian regime that probably they could not stand.0.95
00:34:05.000On the other hand, the United States also has to show invulnerability because it doesn't matter if we break their legs, if they're willing to have their legs broken, and if we are unwilling, To deal with the pain of a hangnail, they can still seize some form of diplomatic victory out of the jaws of defeat.0.66
00:34:23.000So, Iran has been trying for a while to find America's pain point.
00:34:31.000Now, what the president has done that is really brave, and I've given him tremendous political credit for it, is he says, listen, we'll stay there forever, right?
00:34:38.000We will just put our aircraft carriers right there.
00:34:41.000We will just put our shipping right there, and we will stop.1.00
00:34:43.000We'll put our boats there, and we'll stop any Iranian oil from coming out.0.96
00:34:46.000And if the price of oil sticks around $100 a barrel, Then we'll just stay there until you guys collapse pretty much forever.0.99
00:34:53.000We have shown a willingness to absorb that economic pain.0.89
00:34:58.000So, what Iran is now trying to do is to up the pain.0.86
00:35:02.000Iran is trying to increase the amount of pain.0.93
00:35:04.000It's why they closed the strait and now why they are threatening.1.00
00:35:12.000But what they are trying to do right now is increase the pain of the hangnail.0.99
00:35:16.000They're trying to threaten that they're going to radically increase the price of oil.
00:35:20.000Now, the president's behavior since the ceasefire.
00:35:23.000In April, has been to talk down the oil markets, right?
00:35:26.000We're now in the middle of June, and the president has been talking down oil prices for two months at this point.
00:35:31.000He's been keeping it hovering somewhere between $95 a barrel and $110 a barrel.
00:35:36.000That's why he keeps talking openly about the negotiations.
00:35:38.000Well, what the regime is doing, the regime is trying to increase the pain.
00:35:42.000They believe that they have found the pain point.
00:35:44.000They believe that if they threaten further economic pain on the oil front, that they can win back concessions from the United States, that they can get, for example, the president to pressure Israel not to respond to missile attacks on it.
00:35:57.000Or can pressure Israel to somehow stop action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:36:00.000Israel, of course, will not do that, nor should they.
00:36:03.000And the president, to his credit, apparently did not tell Israel not to hit Iran last night.
00:36:10.000He suggested the shooting should stop, but, and maybe, I would assume, he told the Israelis not to hit the people he is negotiating with.
00:36:18.000But the reality is that either, if you want to end this, if you want to get to the end of this, there are basically three options.
00:36:25.000There are basically three options.1.00
00:36:27.000You let the Iranians sit there and threaten, they threaten and threaten and threaten, and you just stay there.1.00
00:36:44.000If that is a pain point the United States does not want to actually undergo, then the United States has a couple of choices.
00:36:52.000The United States could blow up the oil fields in Iran, destroy the South Pars oil field, blow up Kharga Island.0.95
00:36:58.000They could do that, and we'd inflict tremendous pain on the Iranians.0.94
00:37:02.000The Iranians are threatening that if we do that, which would basically be taking them out completely, I mean, it would do tremendous damage to them, they would then blow up the oil fields.1.00
00:37:09.000And that is the thing that is preventing us from getting to the end of this.0.98
00:37:12.000The Iranians are assuming that our pain point is not $100 a barrel oil, it is $200 a barrel oil.0.74
00:37:17.000And so if they pressure us by threatening to blow up oil fields in Saudi, Qatar, UAE, and Iraq, then we'll cut some sort of crappy deal.0.92
00:37:29.000That is the game that they are playing right now.
00:37:32.000Now, If the president does cut that crappy deal, that would be a huge, huge historic error of massive proportions.
00:37:39.000I don't think the president's going to do that.
00:37:40.000He keeps saying he's not going to do that, so I have faith that he won't.
00:37:43.000But if he does cut that crappy deal, let's just be clear.
00:37:45.000He is listening to all the people who hate him.
00:37:47.000He's listening to all the people who have been yelling at him this entire time.
00:37:50.000He'd be listening to the Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens's and the Megyn Kelly's and all those people if he cuts a crappy deal that allows Iran to rebuild its nuclear weaponry, allows Iran to rebuild its ballistic missiles, allows Iran to rebuild its terror axis.
00:38:04.000And so the question here is really one of time.
00:38:06.000How long can the United States take the pain of elevated oil prices, and how high can those oil prices go before the United States does something?
00:38:14.000Now, if we wanted to get to the end of a negotiation quickly, what we should be doing is we should not be talking about.
00:38:19.000If I were advising the president, I'd tell him, Mr. President, do not talk about the negotiations publicly.0.91
00:38:23.000Every time you talk about the negotiations publicly, the Iranians take that as a sign of weakness.0.96
00:38:28.000They take it as a sign that they have found leverage.0.95
00:38:30.000And they're unlikely to actually give you more things.
00:38:32.000They are likely to figure that you want the deal more than they want the deal.
00:38:36.000And therefore, they are going to continue to press and up the ante and put pressure on Israel to make military strikes on Iran or in Zakhia.
00:38:46.000They're going to attempt to divide you off from your allies and force you to cut a bad deal.
00:38:52.000So, talking about negotiations openly, I advise the president to stop doing that.0.57
00:38:57.000And if the president does want to get to a deal, if it's not just a matter of stringing out the negotiations so that the blockade continues and Iran is weak, If he actually does want to get to an end deal, you have to up the pain on Iran and you have to show that you are willing to undergo pain on your side.0.77
00:39:11.000Again, that is the formula for victory in war.
00:39:13.000The formula is up the pain on the other side, demonstrate your invulnerability on your own side.
00:39:20.000Okay, so the president over the weekend did an interview in which he suggested that Iran has already conceded they would not have nuclear weapons.
00:39:39.000They've conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons.
00:39:43.000We had a clause in there that we will not develop nuclear weapons, and everybody was very happy with it except me.
00:39:49.000And said, well, what happens if they not develop, but they go out and purchase, they acquire?
00:39:58.000I want to put the word if they buy or purchase or acquire, you know, you've got to have that in there too, because that's not developing.
00:40:06.000So they don't have the right to develop or purchase, acquire, or buy.
00:40:12.000Okay, and the president said in this interview that he would not lift any sanctions up front, that he would have to actually get the concession.
00:42:09.000I think the Iranians are trying to play Trump.0.98
00:42:11.000I think they're trying to play Jared Kushner and Steve Witkopf, who are the ones who are negotiating this deal.0.74
00:42:16.000The fact you have Steve Witkopf trying to analyze what a nuclear negotiation looks like, he would not be my pick for a person to negotiate a nuclear deal, given his, shall we say, lack of historic acumen in doing such things.
00:42:30.000So, again, over the weekend, Iran fired these missiles.
00:42:32.000Israel went after some targets in Tehran, mainly drone and missile factories, and a petrochemical complex in Mashar, which is in southwestern Iran.
00:42:41.000And the president immediately came out and he said, Trump and Iran must immediately stop shooting.
00:44:15.000Anything short of that would be what we call a bad deal.
00:44:18.000And at that point, we're advising the president, I would tell him, Mr. President, You need to up their pain and you need to demonstrate durability against their threats.
00:44:29.000Because if you demonstrate any sort of vulnerability to them, if you show that you want to deal more than they want to deal, they'll continue to play you.0.71
00:44:38.000Iran is out there making the case that they have a new strategic doctrine that basically anytime Israel does anything, they're going to fire missiles at Israel.0.54
00:44:46.000The only reason they believe they can get away with that is if they believe that the president is going to put pressure on Israel not to respond.0.52
00:44:53.000Which, of course, would be insane and would actually put Iran in a stronger position than they were prior to this war.
00:44:59.000I don't believe the president is going to do that.
00:45:01.000We'll have to see how all of this plays out.
00:45:04.000You were taught that the Civil Rights Act was about equality.
00:45:07.000But what if the full story is a lot more complicated than your textbook ever let on?
00:45:11.000Today, on Daily Wire, Matt Walsh is back with episode five of The Real History of the Civil Rights Movement, part two The Looting of America.
00:45:18.000He's laying out exactly how a law sold as liberation became the blueprint for the modern nanny state government mandated outcomes, affirmative action, DEI.
00:45:26.000It all traces back to that same playbook.
00:45:28.000This is the series a lot of folks on the left do not want you to take seriously.
00:46:20.000In the post journalistic life of every one of these pseudo objective journalists, they demonstrate exactly what they are five seconds later.
00:46:26.000So years and years and years ago, it was like 2012 at the RNC.
00:46:31.000I remember walking around and Sam Donaldson was there.
00:46:33.000Sam Donaldson had, of course, been one of these pseudo objective news journalists for one of the major networks.
00:46:39.000And Sam Donaldson, at this point, was doing a show for ABC Radio.
00:46:43.000And I walked over to him and I asked him, you know, Mr. Donaldson, I noticed that your show is extremely political and extremely left wing.
00:46:49.000Did you hold those same views while you were pretending to be an objective reporter for ABC all those years?
00:46:57.000And he got very upset and he said, Do you think you're better than I am?
00:47:00.000And I said, Well, I mean, at this I do because I'm honest about my own politics.
00:47:04.000I'm pretty honest about exactly where I come from on every issue, but you guys are not.
00:47:08.000Well, the same thing is true of Scott Pelly.
00:47:09.000So, Scott Pelly, apparently doing a reboot of Lonely Islands, I'm on a boat, went on a boat, showed himself gazing off into the distance with an American flag on the back of his boat.
00:47:25.000The self aggrandizing nature of the people in journalism is truly an astonishing thing.
00:47:30.000Well, he did an interview over the weekend, of course, with the New York Times, in which This humble journalist explained that he has never seen political bias before.
00:47:42.000Only Barry Weiss is politically biased.
00:47:47.000There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.
00:48:10.000Well, it's weird because it turns out that Americans do not trust mass media and it's been sinking consistently for decades.
00:48:15.000This is a Gallup poll taken from 1972 on.
00:48:21.000And it shows confidence in media at an all time high, basically after Watergate in the low 70s, dives by the year 2000 all the way down to the mid 50s, and then just continues to plummet down to 28% today.
00:48:35.000A great deal or a fair amount of faith in the news media.
00:48:39.000That is not because the news media has been traditionally objective.
00:48:43.000Well, Scott Pelly says, by the way, that the That these people need adult supervision.
00:48:50.000Apparently, he's going to be the adult supervision because he has glasses that he sometimes chews.
00:51:10.000And it turns out later there was only one camera in the room, which means that he actually had to flip the camera around and later splice in himself crying.
00:51:28.000I feel like if you walk into an all company meeting and rip into your bosses as tools of the president and talk about how they're totally unqualified, you may be figuring you're going to get fired.
00:51:37.000I mean, how else is he going to get some sort of interview with the New York Times interview podcast?
00:51:43.000But it really didn't occur to you that you could be fired after so many of your colleagues had been let go, after you'd had this very contentious interaction with your new boss?
00:51:55.000You know, some reporter I turned out to be.
00:52:47.000If we have an all company meeting at our company and somebody gets up and rips into the executives and says they're stooges and all this kind of stuff, you can pretty fairly expect that you're not going to have a job the next day.0.92
00:53:02.000Well, the actual award for ideological heroism of the day goes to my friend Dana Lash.
00:53:10.000So, Dana Lash was speaking at the TPUSA Women's Leadership Conference over the weekend.
00:53:17.000And she was pointing out that it turns out that there are a lot of people who have been ripping into Erica Kirk for, you know, what, almost a year at this point?
00:53:27.000Here is Dana Lash going after people like Candace Owens and, yes, Tucker Carlson for spewing conspiratorial nonsense about Erica Kirk and the death of Charlie.
00:53:37.000Our Lord God defines himself as a, quote, father to the fatherless and a defender of widows.
00:53:50.000God has ordered his church to care for widows, that widows be included so they are not isolated, to protect widows, to care for widows, to not persecute a widow in the most ungodly of ways because you're jealous that you are not the one controlling an organization that that widow's husband built.
00:54:15.000Well, it turns out that people who are supposed allies of TPUSA, Charlie's organization, they spent the weekend.
00:54:22.000Humor and conspiracy theories about Erica Kirk and Charlie Kirk.
00:54:26.000So the pseudo comedian Jimmy Doar, who's basically just turned into an online conspiracy theorist, he, of course, was on Tucker Carlson's show because as long as you hate Israel and spew anti Semitic conspiracy theories, you are always welcome to Tucker's fake cabin in Maine.
00:54:41.000And Jimmy Doar then just jumped into a nine and a half minute monologue about how Charlie was killed by a wide variety of people.
00:54:53.000Of conspiratorial forces, this comedian Jimmy Doar.
00:54:58.000Here he was, and you can hear Tucker Carlson laugh at the end, loving every second of it.
00:55:03.000Takes the gun apart, leaves the screwdriver there, puts it under a towel.
00:55:08.000Spider Man's his way off the top of a building, runs across campus with the gun apparently under a towel.
00:57:20.000And then she talks about how Russia is amazing.
00:57:22.000Quote If by you mean everything in their society is exactly the same, but somehow cheaper, cleaner, and more inspiring than we can import some of that Russian to America, gas is cheaper, food is cheaper, and they have less debt.
00:57:36.000Our media lies day in and day out and pretends Russia's on the brink of collapse to justify our own citizens struggling to afford basic necessities.0.77
00:57:42.000Keep playing up to the Western delusion that Russia is failing because we punish them with sanctions for their moral sins while they roll out the red carpet for the genocidal state of Israel.0.84
00:57:50.000Keep applauding the same dumb foreign policy initiatives which brought us.0.89
00:57:52.000We can overtake Persia in two weeks, Mr. President.1.00
00:57:55.000Everything we are doing and have done is stupid, and we owe it to a bunch of geriatric ball worshippers, which means Jews, who think that if they kill enough Palestinian children, they'll prove themselves chosen for Satan.0.99
00:58:04.000Reality the Eastern Hemisphere is now on the rise, and you can't gatekeep that reality forever.1.00
00:58:09.000Okay, so, I mean, when she goes, she goes.0.53
00:58:12.000I will say that if you're going to go full fifth columnist, like Russian stooge, points for honesty there.
00:58:19.000Should point out that outside of Moscow, indoor plumbing is uncommon.
00:59:22.000Like, he has such a sweet heart and he wants to make sure everybody's looked after.
00:59:28.000And I think in this climate, you know, sometimes I'm like, can you, I'm like, can you just listen to this?
00:59:34.000Like, can you, what, you know, can, you know, it is very triggering for people.
00:59:38.000Like, they've become, it's become so binary, I think.
00:59:42.000And, and, and I, I am trying to, in my journey through being an American right now, trying to, I don't know, I guess sort of weave together lots of different points of view and also to get out of that place of like righteousness and, and anger and fear.
01:00:00.000And I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm pretty centrist and my husband thinks I'm a Republican.
01:00:08.000Um, But I think it's, which I'm not a Republican.
01:00:12.000I mean, I don't feel anything right now, to be totally honest with you.
01:00:15.000I feel like I'm completely an independent.
01:00:24.000And now I've been told by producer Justin that this new Masters of the Universe movie, I know that the right is somehow putting out the idea that it's a left wing movie.
01:00:34.000So I'm going to take producer Justin's word for it because, you know, producer Justin is very conservative.
01:00:38.000He says, That essentially, the movie is actually pretty right wing.
01:00:42.000He says that the movie actively makes fun of human resources culture.
01:00:45.000It mocks the Blue Hair Brigade and it goes after the empathy and feelings crowd.
01:00:52.000He says that the film is actually a massive, thinly veiled mockery of the modern corporate grievance complex.
01:00:58.000Apparently, in the final battle, Skeletor refuses to negotiate and refuses to stop and keeps coming for He Man's home and family because he says he's a villain and he loves it.
01:01:28.000On the other hand, we have some things that I hate.
01:01:30.000So Lewis Hamilton, who is dating a woman worth $2 billion and is himself worth a fortune, he was on the Jay Shetty podcast and he says that there is a limit to how much wealth you can have.
01:01:47.000I'm always amused when people who are extraordinarily wealthy suddenly try to buy their way back into the good graces of people who hate their wealth by claiming that we need a redistributionist.
01:01:55.000Okay, you've got, there's a thing called charity.
01:01:58.000You can do it right this very instant, actually.0.98
01:01:59.000But here's Lewis Hamilton doing this dumb routine.
01:02:03.000The one of the things that I'm like, I struggle with every day is, and it's just how life is, and it's been the way for thousands of years, that there is such a disparity between wealthy and the poor.
01:02:14.000You know, you still, when you drive around LA, there's still so many people living on the streets.
01:02:19.000There should, you shouldn't be able to have billions, right?
01:02:23.000I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there's enough to go around to everyone.
01:02:26.000So somehow creating a law that creates more equality.
01:05:37.000I think the government created a ridiculous incentive structure whereby banks made risky bets on subprime mortgages at the behest of the federal government, and then the federal government bailed them out with our money.0.54
01:05:46.000And I think it sucked all the way around.
01:05:48.000But the idea that this somehow is now making robbery morally righteous, the next wave in American politics is clearly economically left unless people get their heads right.
01:06:02.000And the reality is, I think that given the propagandistic nature of our news media and our entertainment culture, that is very, very.
01:06:07.000When's the last time you saw a robust defense of free markets?