Joe Biden is in serious trouble, and it's not just because Jimmy Kimmel is making fun of him. And Chris Matthews is back from exile, and he has a theory about why Joe Biden should run against Donald Trump in the 2020 Democratic primary. Also, Rudy Giuliani is back in the fold, and the question is, who's ready to replace Donald Trump on the ticket? Is it Rudy Giuliani? Or is there anyone else who's better than Trump at this point in the primary race? And who's more likely to win in 2020 than Joe Biden? And what s going to happen if Joe Biden doesn't run for president in 2020? And why is Chris Matthews the only one who can explain why he thinks Donald Trump should be the next president of the United States, and why it's a good thing he's not running against Joe Biden in 2020. And what would happen if Donald Trump were the Democratic candidate in 2020, and Joe Biden was the Republican candidate in 2016, and Chris Matthews was the only guy who could beat Donald Trump? And is it possible that someone else is ready to run against Trump? or is it not ready to do it? . . . well, guess what, it s not even close to being ready to be president? ? at least he s not a bad presidential candidate. and he s running against someone who s better than Donald Trump, and that s good enough to beat him . right? or in 2020 maybe not good enough to beat Trump in 2020 and better than anyone else but not good enough for the 2020 election, right so what s the answer to Donald Trump is who s ready to win the 2020 presidential election , right? I lllllllll I ll tell you what I think about that, and I ll let you know who I think is the answer, and you ll llll ll ll be the one that s gonna be the best candidate to replace him. I mean, I ll give you the answer you need to vote for him in 2020! on this episode of the 2020 primary, right here the one who s got it of course that s ready for it, right? And I ll talk about it, and we ll talk it in this episode, and much more with my thoughts on that (and much more!
00:00:05.000According to the Washington Post, Joe Biden is currently holding private meetings at the White House to reassure his supporters because his poll numbers look so bad.
00:00:13.000Says the Washington Post, President Biden has been holding private lunches at the White House with top donors and other supporters as part of an effort to reassure them about his re-election campaign, including concerns about his age and his energy.
00:00:23.000According to three people familiar with those meetings, he's held a half dozen meetings in groups ranging from four to eight people since he launched his campaign in April.
00:00:31.000But a bunch happened right before the holidays.
00:00:33.000There are a lot of people who are very much worried about Joe Biden's reelect efforts.
00:00:37.000A lot of these meetings are being organized by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Movie Mogul, again, Hollywood and the Democratic Party, one and the same.
00:00:44.000The meetings, of course, are coming because a lot of people are worried that Joe Biden is going to lose.
00:00:48.000That includes Barack Obama, that includes Michelle Obama, that includes pretty much everyone.
00:00:53.000And you know things are going poorly when even Jimmy Kimmel is mocking you.
00:00:57.000So there was a hands-off policy with regard to Barack Obama in the comedy world for literally years.
00:01:02.000You could not make jokes about Barack Obama because he was the holy one, blessed be he.
00:01:06.000But when it comes to actually Joe Biden, even Democrats are looking at Joe Biden and realizing this is A man with encroaching senility problems, a person not in control of his own administration.
00:01:18.000When Jimmy Kimmel is making fun of you in a reelect year, that's a problem.
00:01:21.000If you're a Democrat, here was Jimmy Kimmel doing just that last night.
00:01:24.000Age is definitely an issue for Joe Biden.
00:01:26.000He is in desperate need of support from young voters.
00:01:29.000And Grant POTUS is now pulling out all the bells and whistles to try to win them back.
00:01:34.000My fellow Americans, we're facing an inflection point in history.
00:01:38.000Now, more than ever, we need young hustlers like you.
00:02:37.000He's explaining why Donald Trump can't be president of the United States.
00:02:41.000The only thing he can say if you're a Democrat at this point is, Chris Matthews, go!
00:02:45.000You know, I think it's really important that the conservatives out there, when you defend Donald Trump, you're defending what happened on January 6th.
00:02:53.000You're defending why he sat there in that little office next to his Oval Office.
00:02:56.000He sat there doing nothing, according to Cassidy Hutchinson and the rest.
00:03:00.000They're all talking now, and more are going to talk in court.
00:03:09.000The entire Democratic campaign relies on Trump.
00:03:12.000And so we have this sort of weird situation in which if the Democrats swapped out Joe Biden for anyone else, they would be in much better shape.
00:03:20.000Meanwhile, if the Republicans, by polling data, swapped out Donald Trump for anyone else, they too would be in much better polling shape.
00:03:27.000That is the weird irony of the situation in which we find ourselves.
00:03:30.000Both parties are fully convinced That there is no way they can lose to that guy.
00:03:34.000Democrats are like, there is no way we can lose to Donald Trump.
00:05:12.000He announced he was suspending his campaign, which again Credit to Chris Christie.
00:05:16.000I was under the assumption he wouldn't because there is no bigger egomaniac in American politics than Chris Christie, who continues to run for president despite the fact he's not been popular for a full decade.
00:05:25.000But here was Chris Christie last night dropping out of the race, suspending his campaign.
00:05:33.000My goal has never been to be just a voice against the hate and the division and the selfishness of what our party has become under Donald Trump.
00:05:45.000It's also been to win the nomination and defeat Joe Biden and restore our party and our country to a new place of hope and optimism in this country.
00:05:56.000I've always said that if there came a point in time in this race where I couldn't see a path to accomplishing that goal, that I would get out.
00:06:08.000And it's clear to me tonight that there isn't a path for me to win the nomination.
00:06:16.000Which is why I'm suspending my campaign tonight for President of the United States.
00:06:22.000Okay, so, that is the right move, because that allows the field to consolidate in New Hampshire.
00:06:26.000Now, what would have allowed it to consolidate more in New Hampshire, obviously, is if Christie had done what everybody expected and just endorsed Nikki Haley.
00:06:32.000But Christie's still too much of an egomaniac for that, so he got caught on a hot mic at the same event, ripping the only other people who could stop Donald Trump.
00:06:39.000So he says that, like, his top priority is stopping Donald Trump, does Chris Christie, and then he gets caught on a hot mic ripping the only other two people in the race with any credible shot of stopping Donald Trump.
00:07:30.000So, of course, Trump immediately jumping on the person to whom most of Chris Christie's support is presumably going to go.
00:07:37.000But the field is, in fact, consolidating.
00:07:39.000And that led to a debate last night between DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
00:07:43.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:08:45.000Now again, the dynamics of the race are very weird because Nikki Haley actually needs DeSantis to stay in the race.
00:08:51.000That's what's strange about this dynamic.
00:08:53.000There's this wild theory that somehow if the field consolidates down to Nikki Haley versus Donald Trump, that makes Nikki Haley more competitive.
00:09:01.000That's actually not right because that's assuming that DeSantis' support flows to Nikki Haley rather than to Trump.
00:09:44.000Most of her attacks were against DeSantis, which again is strategically weird because if Haley's entire appeal is that she is more politic, more polished, and all of the rest, then I'm not sure why knocking DeSantis is going to get her anywhere.
00:09:58.000And again, if DeSantis were to drop out, say, after Iowa, that actually hurts Nikki Haley pretty badly.
00:10:04.000She needs him there to soak up 10, 12, 15 percent of the vote in various states going forward.
00:10:10.000So here is Ron DeSantis going after Donald Trump over the Constitution.
00:10:13.000Now again, let's just be clear about this.
00:10:15.000If the primaries were held today, I would vote for Ron DeSantis.
00:11:41.000She wouldn't have had a lot to say about that.
00:11:43.000Anyway, with that said, he is right that the person who led the battle to reopen schools was him.
00:11:49.000You know, Governor Haley mentioned, I think correctly, the devastating mental health consequences for the school closures, a lot of things that happened during COVID.
00:11:57.000I never recalled seeing her out there fighting the fight.
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00:16:00.000But here is Haley going after him on this.
00:16:02.000But it's really rich that Ron is going to act like he suddenly cares for Israel when he brought the person to Iowa that's the most anti-Israel Republican in the state, the person that went and voted against Israel's right to exist in Congress, the person that voted with the squad against anti-Semitism on college campuses.
00:16:33.000When the attack happened against Israel, I knew it was gonna be a big deal for Florida.
00:16:38.000We have one of the largest Israeli-American populations in the country, and we've been a haven for Orthodox Jews in particular since I've been governor.
00:16:51.000So I did an executive order, we scrambled planes, and we rescued over 700 Americans from Israel and brought them back safely to the state of Florida.
00:16:59.000You've got to step up and you've got to lead when things like this are happening.
00:17:28.000He tells lies about his opponents on a regular basis.
00:17:30.000That is something that Donald Trump does.
00:17:31.000And to be frank, that is part of the charm that a lot of Trump supporters feel about Trump.
00:17:36.000Because they are so cynical about politics, Trump supporters, for a lot of good reasons, that they believe that so long as the person they are backing is willing to throw everything up to and including rubber hammers, kitchen sinks, chainsaws, alligators at an opponent, doesn't matter if it's justified or unjustified, they want the person who is simply unpredictable, willing to do anything, and that's what they see in Trump.
00:17:58.000So, the rest of the field is like, well, that attack is untrue, and truth is a standard.
00:18:02.000But a lot of Trump supporters are like, truth is not the standard, winning is the standard.
00:18:07.000And if winning takes being mean and saying things that are not true, well, I guess that I'm happy that Trump is doing that sort of stuff.
00:18:13.000That's the actual logic that applies as part of this campaign.
00:18:17.000So, for example, Donald Trump yesterday suggested that Ron DeSantis shut down the state of Florida.
00:18:23.000Everyone knows that Ron DeSantis, after the very early weeks of the pandemic, worked extremely hard to open up the state of Florida.
00:18:30.000Meanwhile, he and Brian Kemp and many other governors were being chided by Donald Trump, who was then president of the United States, for reopening too soon.
00:18:37.000So Trump is just rewriting history here.
00:19:05.000I let the governors make their decisions.
00:19:07.000And some of them, like from South Carolina, you know, Henry McMaster and frankly, North Dakota, a few of them, Tennessee, they didn't shut down at all.
00:19:18.000Run to Sanctus shut down or, as he's known, run to sanctimonious.
00:19:24.000He shut his state down very violently, actually, and shut the highways down, the roads down.
00:19:29.000But we had... I'm a Federalist, in a sense, because that's the Federalist way.
00:19:34.000No, I didn't actually have a shutdown, despite the fact that some people wanted to, and some people didn't want to.
00:19:39.000But we had some great governors, and the governors that did the best job were Republican governors, and they were the ones that didn't shut down.
00:19:48.000By the way, he was ripping many of those Republican governors at the time.
00:19:50.000He sort of sideswipes at DeSantis, obviously.
00:19:54.000Poorly motivated, he still thinks that DeSantis could do him some damage in Iowa.
00:19:59.000But is he deeply worried about either DeSantis or Haley at this point?
00:20:03.000I mean, by the polling numbers, the answer is no.
00:20:07.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:21:10.000Okay, so, he's on with Brett Baier last night.
00:21:14.000And again, Donald Trump has shifted to the general election.
00:21:16.000He's already talking general election talk.
00:21:17.000So, it was kind of fascinating to watch him work because, again, this campaign is very likely at this point, statistically speaking, to come down to Donald Trump versus Joe Biden.
00:21:25.000So, Donald Trump was asked by Brett Baier about political violence.
00:21:29.000Donald Trump had suggested that if, for example, he ends up being jailed after being prosecuted, that that will lead to political violence, to bedlam, is the word that he used.
00:21:37.000Brett Baier asks him about that, and Trump cleans it up.
00:21:41.000Can you say tonight that political violence is never acceptable?
00:23:06.000After that, I'm not going to be a dictator.
00:23:08.000After that, I'm not going to be a dictator.
00:23:12.000Okay, so what he's saying there, he's using the dictator language and he's flipping the dictator language into, I'm going to do some executive orders, which by the way is not being a dictator.
00:23:20.000And of course the media ran with that and Joe Biden ran with that.
00:23:23.000Do most people think that Donald Trump is going to be like a Hitlerian Mussolini-esque dictator in the United States?
00:23:28.000Very hard to see how that line plays for Joe Biden.
00:23:32.000Donald Trump was also asked about these stories, these late-breaking stories that have been put out by the left-wing press about how a lot of foreign dignitaries stayed at Trump hotels.
00:23:41.000And they were considering this a form of indirect bribery.
00:23:44.000Here was Trump answering that question.
00:23:46.000Documents that say that nearly $8 million in payments to your businesses from foreign governments, China included, Saudi Arabia, while you were in office.
00:23:54.000They say Article 1 of the Constitution says you can't accept money from foreign governments while president.
00:23:59.000Would you pledge to divest from your business in a second term as other presidents have done?
00:24:17.000In his essentially White House, which wasn't built, but they had an office, he had a business desk and he had a country desk right next to each other.
00:25:07.000Like all these attacks on Trump, I don't think that they are going to hunt.
00:25:10.000Meanwhile, in terms of the actual policy, Trump, as I say, he's pivoted toward the general.
00:25:15.000So on abortion, he understands that the abortion issue has not been a winner for Republicans on the federal level.
00:25:22.000The abortion issue, I mean, listen, I'm as pro-life as it gets.
00:25:24.000The reality is that by pulling data, the American people, broad read, And again, it's a state-by-state issue now, thanks to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which is correct and good.
00:25:34.000In certain states, like the state of Florida, you're getting a heartbeat bill.
00:25:37.000In certain states, like New York, you're gonna get abortion until you're 83 years old.
00:25:41.000And that's just the way that it is going to work in the United States under Roe vs. Wade, to my great consternation.
00:25:50.000He understands, innately, that if he says anything that is too pro-life, it's going to be used against him in a presidential election.
00:25:57.000And because he's so popular with the Republican base, he understands he can get away with saying things that are not fully pro-life.
00:26:02.000A primary is usually where you're able to push the candidate to the right.
00:26:06.000Trump, because he's so far out in front, has the ability to not be pushed to the right on issues where he doesn't want to be pushed to the right.
00:26:12.000Again, to my consternation as a pro-lifer, but that is the politics of the situation.
00:26:30.000You wouldn't be asking that question, even talking about the issue, because for 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it.
00:27:42.000Also, again, the good thing that Trump has going for him, and having consolidated so much of the Republican base at this point, is the fact that, politically speaking, he can already moderate.
00:27:54.000And Joe Biden is abandoning the moderates in his own party.
00:27:56.000Joe Biden has swiveled all the way to his left, and he's opening up this giant space in the center of American politics for Trump to simply walk into, which is kind of amazing.
00:28:04.000That's particularly true on the immigration issue.
00:28:07.000So, again, Trump's record on immigration is much better than Joe Biden's because Joe Biden has the worst record on illegal immigration in American history.
00:28:13.000That doesn't mean Trump's record is perfect.
00:29:33.000Then they said there were 22 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:29:36.000If there were 22 million in 2018, over the subsequent 6 years, you would imagine that you're talking another 5, 6, 7 million illegal immigrants.
00:29:45.000You're talking about close to 30 million illegal immigrants in the country at this point.
00:29:50.000All of that is a weakness of Joe Biden's.
00:29:51.000There are a lot of drags on Joe Biden.
00:29:53.000One of the big drags on Joe Biden is, again, that when it comes to many of the personal qualities that Joe Biden is attacking in Donald Trump, he holds many of those same personal qualities, from the overuse of executive orders to his accusations that Donald Trump is corrupt.
00:30:07.000But the reality is that a lot of people in the United States perceive Joe Biden as corrupt because the Biden family has used Joe Biden's name to traffic for literally 30 years in dirty money.
00:30:16.000So yesterday, that all broke into the open.
00:30:19.000Now, again, I think what's going on in Congress right now, I think Congress is a clown show.
00:30:23.000I think our legislative branch has become an absolute clown show that gets almost nothing done.
00:30:26.000What they do get done is generally bad.
00:30:28.000There are a bunch of reasons for that.
00:30:30.000There's an excellent book out called Why Congress.
00:30:32.000And that book sort of explains the transition of Congress from a place where deals got done behind closed doors to a place where no deals got done at all.
00:30:40.000And instead what you end up with is a lot of posturing.
00:30:42.000That posturing broke out yesterday on the Hill.
00:30:46.000I know there are a lot of Republicans who are very excited about people yelling at Hunter Biden.
00:30:48.000I know there are a lot of Democrats who are very excited about Hunter Biden showing up on Capitol Hill.
00:30:51.000Can I just point out that we have a country that has serious crises to face and this is all a waste of time and garbage?
00:30:57.000Not the focus in on Hunter Biden and his relationship with Joe, but all these kind of fireworks where people then send off fundraising emails.
00:31:05.000Let's just acknowledge that our legislative branch is filled with people who do not want to legislate, have no interest in getting anything done, and are there to eventually get a podcast or some sort of cable news show.
00:31:14.000That's what's happening on Capitol Hill right now.
00:31:16.000Like, there's serious things that should be happening, say, negotiation over the budget for this year.
00:31:22.000But nobody's paying attention to that.
00:31:23.000Instead, they're paying attention to the stupidity of Hunter Biden showing up on Capitol Hill as the House GOP was voting for contempt charges.
00:31:31.000Yesterday, two House committees, according to the New York Times, voted along party lines to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress because he refused to testify behind closed doors.
00:31:40.000There was a 23 to 14 vote by the Judiciary Committee and a 25 to 21 vote by the Oversight Committee.
00:31:44.000Hunter Biden showed up there to make the point that he wanted to testify in open
00:32:05.000Looks like he's surrounded with his Secret Service team there and other members of his entourage.
00:32:10.000But he is officially at the Capitol as these hearings get underway.
00:32:14.000We're looking at live images right now as he goes through, it appears, the metal detector or nearby the metal detectors.
00:32:24.000And we presumably expect him to enter.
00:32:28.000At least one of these committee rooms, because again, this is before the Oversight Committee, also action happening in the Judiciary Committee.
00:32:36.000We're just going to follow these cameras and Hunter Biden and see where he's going to head, what's going to happen next.
00:32:45.000Again, he wasn't expected to show up for these hearings from the sense of he wasn't called by the people holding these hearings.
00:33:17.000That is not an excuse for executive orders, by the way.
00:33:20.000That is to say that Congress should be clawing back its own authority from the executive branch and, you know, be doing things from time to time.
00:33:26.000But they're not focused on the things that matter.
00:33:28.000Instead, they are focused on the camera time.
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00:34:34.000No testimony and grandstanding yesterday.
00:34:37.000We got it from both sides of the aisle.
00:34:38.000So Nancy Mace, who when she's not wearing a scarlet A for some odd reason to Congress, is a grandstanding on other topics.
00:34:45.000Like she's one of the people who voted Kevin McCarthy out so that we could have Mike Johnson.
00:34:49.000I like Mike Johnson, but he's about to pass a budget bill that's significantly worse than anything that McCarthy was going to pass last year.
00:34:55.000Nancy Mace spent her time ripping Hunter Biden yesterday.
00:34:59.000Again, this is the kind of stuff that gets sent out in fundraising emails and achieves absolutely nothing.
00:35:05.000First of all, my first question is, who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today?
00:35:11.000Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed.
00:36:05.000Quickly, that moment about privilege and all of this that we're seeing here.
00:36:11.000It was a very beautiful speech by the gentlelady who, as she mentioned, helped lead on the now-majority side of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee.
00:36:22.000But I think it's so exemplary of the point that she also oversaw the elimination of the Civil Rights Subcommittee.
00:36:28.000on this committee, which really kind of gives the whole game away.
00:36:32.000We show up, we give speeches, we give flowery words, but at the end of the day, participate
00:36:37.000in the structural erosion of the rights and representation of people that are marginalized,
00:36:43.000women, people of color, people that just need to see their due process and civil liberties
00:37:34.000I think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong, conservative Republican women because he can't even face my words as I was about to speak to him.
00:38:37.000The gentle lady from Georgia, I know he's such an advocate for women's rights, as she mentioned, and is so concerned about grooming, and apparently we don't have any standards here anymore.
00:38:51.000Again, I just want to remind my colleagues, because, you know, I don't want them to forget about hypocrisy, okay?
00:39:02.000I don't want them to forget about hypocrisy.
00:39:26.000I've said the word clown so many times that it's basically turned into a circus here, but not remotely the circus that Congress actually is.
00:39:33.000Now, again, all this demonstrates that we have an irresponsible political class, a deeply irresponsible political class, and a broken congressional system.
00:39:41.000And again, it is largely broken because the polarization of the parties makes it so no conversation actually takes place between the parties.
00:39:47.000The end of politics is to eventually get out of politics and then go make money elsewhere.
00:39:52.000So many members of Congress are getting rich after they leave Congress.
00:39:56.000Something needs to be done about the political system of the legislature, because it is full-scale, full-stop disaster area.
00:40:04.000Takeaway number two is Hunter Biden's really bad for Joe Biden.
00:40:06.000When it comes to the 2024 race, Hunter is a nightmare for Joe Biden, because the more we're talking about Hunter, you know who we haven't mentioned for quite a while here is Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
00:40:15.000Hunter went out to the press afterward, and the press asked him, like, why was it that your father was being called in the middle of your business meetings?
00:40:49.000I don't know about you, if you're in the middle of like a big multi-million dollar business meetings, you just be like, you know, let me get my dad on the phone for no reason, just to say hi and see how the weather is.
00:40:56.000Is that like a thing you do regularly?
00:40:59.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are forced to defend Hunter in order to defend Joe.
00:41:03.000So James Clyburn, who of course is a big Biden backer in 2020, he is now saying that Hunter showing up to Congress shows just what a great father Joe is.
00:41:11.000This is really the angle they're going to take.
00:41:55.000So one of the things, by the way, that has made our presidential elections so important is the fact that Congress is a bleep show.
00:42:01.000If Congress were not a bleep show, most of policy would be getting done in Congress, and the president would be there with the veto pen, and that's how the process was originally supposed to work.
00:42:09.000That's not the way anything works anymore, because Congress is basically devolved into an absolute goat rodeo.
00:42:54.000It's Republicans in the Senate who have been a little more wishy-washy on that particular issue.
00:42:59.000Suffice it to say, one of the things that happened because of the Hunter Biden hearing is that the Mayorkas stuff got blown off the front pages.
00:43:04.000If one of the purposes of hearings is to put public focus on an issue, you actually do want the public focused more on Mayorkas and the border than you do on Nancy Mays and MTG and AOC and Jared Moskowitz grandstanding about Hunter Biden.
00:43:17.000Frankly, I think that may be one of the reasons why Hunter Biden showed up yesterday is because politically speaking, if you're a Democrat, you would actually rather have people talking about Hunter Biden than talking about the disaster area at the border.
00:43:28.000And according to Representative Mark Green, the DHS Chief Mayorkas has imported five million illegal immigrants.
00:43:37.000By the way, I think that's an underestimate.
00:43:38.000I think it's actually higher than that at this point.
00:43:40.000Because it seems like, by the stats that we saw yesterday, just in the last year alone, in 2023, 3 million illegal immigrants entered the country.
00:44:36.000Secretary Mayorkas was made aware of testimony given by President Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, where the AG admitted the current policies are being exploited by the cartels.
00:44:47.000Yet Secretary Mayorkas turns around and implements additional policies to expand the catch and release measures, empowering the cartels and killing Americans.
00:44:59.000He is totally right about all of this.
00:45:00.000Meanwhile, Democrats are like, you can't get rid of Mayorkas.
00:45:08.000Everyone who's involved in this overall policy should be fired.
00:45:11.000Here is Democratic Representative Benny Thompson trying to make the case that you can't get rid of Mayorkas just for putting in place Joe Biden's preferred policy.
00:45:19.000The truth is, securing the border isn't really the Republicans' top concern.
00:45:26.000If it was, they'd provide the people with boots on the ground at the border what they need to get the job done.
00:45:34.000Republicans would rather explore the challenging policy issue for their own perceived political gain.
00:45:41.000Republicans disagree with the Biden administration's border and immigration policies.
00:45:47.000They're angry that this administration won't take babies from their moms or put kids in cages like the last administration.
00:45:56.000You cannot impeach a cabinet secretary because you don't like the president's policies.
00:46:25.000Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut He actually says that they do not want to scale back Joe Biden's ability to simply parole illegal immigrants into the general population.
00:46:37.000I think we are interested as Democrats in providing the administration with tools that will help better manage the border.
00:46:48.000We are not interested in taking away from the administration tools that they use today to help better manage the border.
00:46:58.000And so when we talk about this topic of parole, it is very important to understand that it is used today as a way that the administration is able to better manage the flow in a planful way of individuals to the border.
00:47:19.000Better manage the flow means let everybody in.
00:47:21.000That's the actual Biden administration policy.
00:47:24.000But again, all of this got obscured yesterday because of the Hunter Biden shenanigans.
00:47:30.000And meanwhile, the controversy continues to swirl around the Biden administration's failure to fire the defense secretary for going completely AWOL for a week.
00:47:38.000Elise Stefanik, representative from New York, she says that it's about time for Lloyd Austin to resign.
00:47:44.000I'm honored to serve as the House Republican Conference Chair, and most importantly, I represent my district every single day.
00:47:50.000And look at the scandal right now with the Secretary of Defense.
00:47:53.000I represent thousands of troops from Fort Drum, the 10th Mountain Division, who are deployed in the Middle East right now.
00:47:58.000It is unacceptable that you have a Secretary of Defense who is not transparent with the White House, so I'm looking forward to being active on that issue to deliver accountability and transparency, and I call for his resignation.
00:48:12.000It has an impact on, first of all, adversaries are watching.
00:48:15.000If you look at the national security challenges around the world today, whether the Middle East on fire, whether you think about China continuing to be on the rise, continuing to watch for American weakness, this asserts American weakness.
00:48:28.000Now again, this is now becoming a bipartisan issue.
00:48:32.000Getting rid of Lloyd Austin, the top House Armed Services Democrat, Representative Adam Smith of Washington, he says Biden should think about firing Lloyd Austin.
00:48:41.000I don't know that there's much of an inquiry or much digging that needs to be done.
00:48:45.000We just need Secretary Austin to answer the question, why did he think that it was appropriate for him not to tell the President that all of this was going on?
00:48:55.000I think we do need to hear an answer from that and I think the President needs to evaluate his relationship with the Secretary of Defense based on what happened and based on that answer.
00:49:06.000Does that mean that you think that he should potentially consider firing him?
00:49:13.000Like I said, at the moment, I can't think of a plausible explanation.
00:49:16.000That, of course, again, is a Democrat.
00:49:20.000So Joe Biden's administration is chaos.
00:49:23.000The more focus on that and the less focus on the chaos on the other side of the aisle, the better for the Republicans.
00:49:28.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to sow chaos in the Middle East with its uncertainty and unwillingness to actually just say the thing.
00:49:36.000And the thing is, Hamas must be destroyed.
00:49:39.000Iran is the actual sponsoring power here.
00:49:40.000Doesn't mean you have to go to war directly with Iran, but certainly the United States and its allies have the capacity to cut the arms off the octopus that is the Iranian terror network.
00:50:29.000And yet, according to the New York Times, the United States and Italians are weighing how to stop attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea after American and British officials said Wednesday their navies had intercepted one of the largest barrages yet of drones and missiles fired from an area controlled by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group in Yemen.
00:50:43.000The attacks, which the Houthis say will go on until Israel ends its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, are threatening maritime traffic in one of the world's most crucial shipping lanes.
00:50:51.000Antony Blinken said, what I can tell you is, as we made clear, many other countries made clear, there will be consequences for the Houthis' actions.
00:50:57.000Okay, well, you know, at some point, you might want to actually materialize those consequences.
00:51:00.000Otherwise, it sounds like you are a weakling and the shipping costs are piling up.
00:51:04.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Western importers are reporting a steep rise in ocean shipping rates and weeks-long delays as carriers divert ships from the Red Sea to avoid Houthi rebel attacks.
00:51:14.000Some companies shipping goods on the crucial trade lane are starting to chafe at the rising prices and extra fees ocean carriers are imposing for the higher cost of routing container ships on longer voyages all the way around the Horn of Africa.
00:51:25.000Average worldwide cost to ship 40-foot-long containers have nearly doubled since late November.
00:51:29.000That is the fault of the Biden administration, which again, continues to send mixed signals in what is the most morally clear conflict in modern history.
00:51:37.000I'm sorry, when a genocidal terrorist group crosses the border of another country, murders 1,200 of its citizens, takes another 240 hostages, there's still 100 hostages there, and then the power it provoked goes in and wrecks them, while attempting to maintain civilian life, by the way, at a rate that the enemy certainly would not.
00:51:54.000Not only would they not, they're literally hiding in civilian areas.
00:51:57.000This is a particularly clear case of the West should be unified in support of Israel getting rid of Hamas, and if there are ancillary terror groups that are threatening Israel or threatening shipping, which, by the way, forget about what you think about Israel.
00:52:10.000Threatening shipping actually has an impact on your daily life and my daily life.
00:52:14.000If you can't stand up again, at what point would you stand up, precisely?
00:52:18.000But the wild left continues to run this administration, or at least have heavy impact on this administration.
00:52:24.000Now what's amazing about all of this is that Hamas just keeps saying the quiet part out loud.
00:52:28.000So yesterday, for example, Hamas's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, he's the political leader of Hamas, operating out of Qatar.
00:52:35.000I guess he may be in Turkey at this point.
00:52:37.000They keep moving him around because he's afraid that he's going to get killed by the Israelis.
00:52:40.000Yesterday, he literally said that when you give money to Gaza, it's going to fund Hamas.
00:52:45.000And meanwhile, the Americans are like, maybe we should give more money to Gaza.
00:54:08.000So here are a bunch of people who would be murdered immediately by Hamas if Hamas came into contact with them, cheering as they called for a ceasefire in San Francisco.
00:54:16.000By the way, the same city council hearing saw a person who had five relatives murdered on October 7th testify, and people were making oinking noises in the background as he testified.
00:54:24.000So these people are just- By the way, they're still wearing masks.
00:54:26.000The year is 2024, I noticed, on the calendar.
00:54:53.000Breaking news from Cassie Dillon over at Daily Wire.
00:54:56.000Harvard is hosting a summer program at a Palestinian university dominated by Hamas.
00:55:01.000According to Cassie, Harvard University will host a summer program where students will be briefed on settler colonialism at a Palestinian university that called for glory to the martyrs after the October 7th terrorist massacre.
00:55:11.000The Embattled Ivy League Institution's Palestine Social Medicine course will send Harvard students to Berzit University in the West Bank, according to the program's website.
00:55:19.000It explains, the three-week intensive summer course is designed to introduce students to the social, structural, political, and historical aspects that determine Palestinian health beyond the biological basis of disease.
00:55:29.000The curriculum content will include hearing from health practitioners, academics, and activists about various topics, including settler colonialism and its manifestations in Palestine.
00:55:38.000A spokeswoman for Harvard defended the program, saying that Birzeit is a public institution governed by an autonomous board of trustees with no political, religious, or sectarian affiliation.
00:55:48.000Well, the student population literally voted for a Hamas-affiliated bloc in the student government.
00:55:54.000So, basically, this place is run by Hamas, and Harvard is still affiliated, because these radical universities are, in fact, still affiliated with the far-left ideology.
00:56:04.000And the Biden administration wants to win their votes, and so they continue to cater to them.
00:56:08.000Meanwhile, over at The Hague at the International Court of Justice, which is just a waste of space and a waste of time.
00:56:12.000It's like the United Nations on steroids, the ICJ.
00:56:16.000South Africa is trying to prosecute Israel for genocide.
00:56:21.000While Israel is attacked by a genocidal group, literally targeting Jews for murder, and while 100 hostages are being held in terror, or maybe they're already dead, in Gaza.
00:56:31.000South Africa, a country famous for its racial tolerance, is now suggesting that Israel ought to be persecuted or prosecuted for genocide.
00:56:42.000By the way, like four days ago, Four days ago, the leader of the Sudanese rebel group, the Rapid Support Force, a person named Mohammed Hamdan Hamediti Degalo, met President Cyril Ramphosa in Pretoria.
00:56:56.000Hamediti is a person who recently led an incredible massacre in Sudan.
00:57:02.000I mean, that, by the way, is according to Reuters.
00:57:06.000The burials at Al-Khabat Cemetery continued for more than seven weeks from late April until mid-June in Sudan, turning a rectangular plot into a sprawling mass grave for at least 1,000 residents of a Sudanese city in West Darfur.
00:57:17.000The carnage was the result of more than 50 days of attacks on the city's majority ethnic African tribe by Sudan's rapid support forces.
00:57:24.000So South Africa says Israel's engaged in a genocide while they defend themselves.
00:57:27.000Meanwhile, literally hosting genocidal murderers in South Africa, because that's how international law works.
00:57:33.000And the Biden administration is still incredibly trying to cater to the bad guys.
00:57:39.000This presumably is why Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, an actual Holocaust denier and the head of the Palestinian Authority.
00:57:49.000I mean, it is amazing that the Biden administration is continuing to try to prop up Mahmoud Abbas as a solution in the Gaza Strip.
00:57:55.000He's not even a solution in the West Bank.
00:57:57.000Mahmoud Abbas does not run the West Bank.
00:57:59.000The West Bank is in a state of turmoil because the Palestinian Authority is deeply unpopular.
00:58:03.000Hamas is way more popular in the West Bank than Abbas.
00:58:06.000Abbas does not have the authority to even keep a lid on things in the West Bank, which is why you are seeing Israeli operations in the West Bank on a continuous basis against members and affiliates of Hamas.
00:58:16.000But the United States, being completely delusional under Joe Biden, has decided the Mahmoud Abbas is somehow the magic solution, the magic bullet, with regard to the Gaza Strip.
00:58:25.000And the United States is saying that the only path forward for the Gaza Strip is if Israel creates a Palestinian state.