The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left Says Opposing Illegal Immigration Is WHITE SUPREMACY

00:00:00.000 The left is now claiming that policing illegal immigration, well, that is basically like white supremacy.

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00:01:11.000 Well, yesterday, of course, was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day celebrating the legacy of a man who is famous in the United States for saying that we ought to judge people based on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

00:01:23.000 Because so many Democrats were deeply involved in the civil rights movement here, I speak mostly about LBJ and some Northern Democrats, because, of course, the story of the Civil Rights Act is one of Southern Democrats largely opposing the civil rights movement.

00:01:37.000 All of the main actors opposing the civil rights movement were, in fact, Southern Democrats.

00:01:43.000 Despite that, Democrats have been searching ever since the Civil Rights Movement for the next civil rights movement.

00:01:48.000 And we've seen many iterations of this over the course of the subsequent decades.

00:01:53.000 We saw a quasi-civil rights movement, for example, pushed by the left with regard to gender and sexuality, the idea that women had to be freed from the predations of the patriarchy the same way that black people required freeing from the predations of Jim Crow.

00:02:08.000 That, of course, was a bad analogy.

00:02:10.000 And then we heard the same thing with regard to LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, that this was the new civil rights movement.

00:02:16.000 Well, now Democrats seem to have hit upon the idea that the new civil rights movement is, in fact, illegal immigration, that illegal immigrants must be allowed to stay in the United States, and that enforcement of the law with regard to illegal immigration is itself a form of white supremacy.

00:02:32.000 The reason that Democrats are stretching on this one is because in other areas, they're sort of running out of examples of widespread American racism, like true policy-driven American racism.

00:02:44.000 They're running out of those examples.

00:02:45.000 The demand is higher than the supply.

00:02:47.000 So, just to take a quick example, Eric Holder, the former Attorney General of the United States on Martin Luther King Day, suggested that the Voting Rights Act is under deep and abiding threat.

00:02:59.000 And not only that, that there is the threat that America was about to be re-segregated by the Trump administration.

00:03:05.000 We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering attempts to design to disproportionately disenfranchise black and brown voters as the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator.

00:03:23.000 There is a concerted effort to re-segregate America.

00:03:29.000 Okay, there is not, in fact, a concerted effort to resegregate America, and no one who is sentient in America believes that there is.

00:03:35.000 No one is worried that black Americans are now going to be forced to drink out of different water fountains or be forced to go to different schools or that we are going to re-segregate restaurants or anything like that.

00:03:46.000 This is a wild overstatement.

00:03:48.000 The reality is that the story of the post-Jim Crow racial situation in America was one of increasing good relations between the races.

00:03:59.000 And this was true all the way up to 2013 by the polling data.

00:04:02.000 A vast majority of both black Americans and white Americans up until about 2013 thought that American race relations were improving steadily and that they had improved markedly since the 1960s.

00:04:13.000 And then, of course, we slipped into the BLM era and the late stages of the Obama presidency. 0.69

00:04:18.000 And that sort of sunk Americans' perceptions of race relations.

00:04:22.000 But that does not suggest in reality that black Americans are being held underfoot by white Americans, that white supremacy is really what rules the roost these days.

00:04:32.000 So Democrats are looking for their new civil rights movement because if, in fact, you want to make a moral case for heavy government involvement in something, well, you can make a very good moral case for heavy government involvement to prevent unjustifiable discrimination.

00:04:47.000 Right?

00:04:47.000 You can.

00:04:48.000 That case exists.

00:04:49.000 Now, if you go back to the 1960s and you want to relitigate the effects of the Civil Rights Act and talk about the fact that the Civil Rights Act in certain areas stepped on constitutional norms, that's a case made by Christopher Caldwell.

00:05:01.000 I think that case can be made.

00:05:02.000 But if you want to make the case that today black Americans are victims of a white supremacist system, that is a very difficult case to make.

00:05:09.000 And so Democrats need another excuse for why they ought to be in charge, why they have the moral high ground.

00:05:17.000 And that's a hard case to make.

00:05:18.000 Again, the Democratic Party has lost the moral high ground on a wide variety of issues.

00:05:22.000 The Democratic Party has become not only the abortion on demand party, but the celebrate your abortion party. 0.84

00:05:27.000 The Democratic Party has become a party that cannot exactly explain to you why a woman isn't a man and a man isn't a woman.

00:05:34.000 The Democratic Party has become the party of full-scale open borders.

00:05:37.000 And so now they are going to attempt to cram the illegal immigration issue into the missized hole that is the civil rights discussion.

00:05:50.000 You could see this all throughout yesterday.

00:05:53.000 Just tons of discussion about the idea that ICE was actually a new white supremacist force in America, cracking down on illegal immigrants on the basis of race.

00:06:02.000 So, for example, Jennifer Welch, who for some odd reason has now become the podcast pro.

00:06:07.000 So, it was very funny.

00:06:08.000 You remember that time that Democrats were looking for their own Joe Rogan?

00:06:11.000 You remember this?

00:06:12.000 They said that they somehow they couldn't speak to young males.

00:06:14.000 And so they needed their own version of Joe Rogan.

00:06:17.000 Well, what they came up with was a middle-aged white liberal lady who tends to screech at you in terms of her rhetorical radicalism. 1.00

00:06:27.000 And here she was over MLK Day suggesting that the administration is filled with white supremacists because they wish to enforce the law into poor people who are in the country illegally.

00:06:39.000 So that is one of those white evangelical churches that turn out to vote for Donald Trump 80 plus percent of that sect of Christianity.

00:06:50.000 These are the don't tread on me, folks.

00:06:52.000 These are the people who feel like America is for Americans and Americans only. 0.97

00:06:58.000 These are white nationalists. 0.99

00:07:00.000 And the DOJ got their panties in a wad because these protesters went straight to them and addressed their hypocrisy. 1.00

00:07:10.000 You, a gay black journalist, are, I mean, prime bait for them to drum up these charges. 0.99

00:07:19.000 But so that's one issue. 0.97

00:07:20.000 You went right into the most entitled white nationalists there are, and they feel that ICE is 100% justified. 0.79

00:07:29.000 Okay, so I'm just going to point out this is insane.

00:07:30.000 What she is talking about here is, as we played on the show a couple of days ago, a situation in which anti-ICE protesters descended upon a church where they were claiming that the pastor was some sort of ICE agent, and they proceeded to disrupt the services, which is in all likelihood a violation of federal law, a violation of the so-called FACE Act.

00:07:51.000 On Sunday, Don Lemon, this is the person she's talking to in that clip, entered the city's church during a service along with anti-ICE agitators, according to Fox News, and began filming, telling viewers the freedom to protest is what the First Amendment is all about.

00:08:03.000 Now, the reality is that you do not actually have the First Amendment right to walk into private property and just start protesting.

00:08:08.000 That's not a real thing.

00:08:09.000 You can't just walk into a church and start disrupting its services.

00:08:13.000 Not a federal right by any stretch of the imagination.

00:08:16.000 And so her excuse for this is that it's the new civil rights movement. 0.91

00:08:20.000 That the real reason why people are angry at Don Lemon for having done that is because he's black. 0.94

00:08:25.000 And the real reason that this church deserved it is because they're a white supremacist church. 0.77

00:08:29.000 Now, does she have any proof that the church is a white supremacist church?

00:08:34.000 Is there any proof of that whatsoever?

00:08:36.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:08:38.000 She has no proof of that whatsoever.

00:08:41.000 But it's enough to say that they are apparently right-tinged, and this makes them white supremacists.

00:08:49.000 Now, again, when you watch that film, it looks as though there are a bunch of people there, not all of whom are white.

00:08:54.000 City's church lists eight pastors of varying roles, including David Easterwood, who shares the same name as the acting director of ICE St. Paul office. 0.91

00:09:03.000 The fact that this is now considered, according to Jennifer Welch, a form of white supremacy, to say you can't disrupt services or to support deporting criminal illegal immigrants is insane. 0.89

00:09:15.000 But it's part and parcel, again, of a broader, self-referential, self-righteous program on the part of Democrats to claim that whatever they are doing is the political corollary of what was happening in the 1960s in Selma, which is really quite pathetic. 0.68

00:09:29.000 Jennifer Welch went on, by the way, to attack what she called MAGA men like Jesse Waters, which, again, this is the way you're going to win over dudes in the next election cycle is somebody like Jennifer Welch. 0.99

00:09:40.000 Good luck to you, Democrats.

00:09:42.000 We have to go after these MAGA men.

00:09:46.000 One example would be Jesse Waters.

00:09:48.000 This man talks incessantly about masculinity. 1.00

00:09:52.000 Joe Biden is not masculine because he sucks on soup. 1.00

00:09:56.000 What kind of man sucks on a straw? 1.00

00:09:58.000 He goes on and on and on so much about the idealized man. 0.99

00:10:02.000 And that's a part of fascism, this, you know, propelling this form of toxic masculinity.

00:10:08.000 Why are you so obsessed with men, Jesse Waters?

00:10:11.000 What's all that about? 0.95

00:10:13.000 Okay, so he is a fascist, apparently. 1.00

00:10:15.000 Jesse Waters is a fascist, and this church is filled with white supremacists. 0.99

00:10:19.000 And the casual way that Democrats throw this kind of language around is pretty astonishing. 0.99

00:10:25.000 It really is. 0.62

00:10:26.000 Jesse Waters is a fascist because he made fun of Joe Biden for not being masculine enough. 0.98

00:10:30.000 So he's now a fascist. 0.98

00:10:32.000 And if you, again, are a church-going person who believes that illegal immigrants ought to generally be deported and that criminal, illegal immigrants in particular ought to be deported, this makes you a white supremacist. 0.96

00:10:43.000 Don Lemon was doing the same routine. 0.92

00:10:44.000 Don Lemon called the parishioners white supremacists himself.

00:10:47.000 Here was Don Lemon after having, again, it's hard to believe he wasn't part of this actual protest itself, that he wasn't part of the organizing of the protest.

00:10:55.000 I mean, there's supplementary footage showing him kissing some of the organizers and all the rest of this.

00:10:59.000 Here was Don Lemon talking with Jennifer Welch.

00:11:02.000 And I think people who are, you know, in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy.

00:11:14.000 And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom.

00:11:20.000 It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male, pretty much. 0.63

00:11:24.000 And so, yeah, absolutely 100%.

00:11:27.000 But it's an intimidation tactic.

00:11:29.000 And, you know, I said, I don't understand how I become the face of it when I was a journalist.

00:11:33.000 I do understand that I'm the biggest name there.

00:11:35.000 And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the time.

00:11:40.000 My producers were saying, I said, how did I become the face of this? 0.82

00:11:42.000 And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America. 0.95

00:11:45.000 Oh, give me a break. 0.99

00:11:47.000 Give me a break. 0.99

00:11:48.000 He's a gay black man in America, and that's why he's the face of this. 0.88

00:11:51.000 He's the face of it because he literally showed up in the middle of a protest that people really didn't know much about prior. 0.87

00:11:56.000 And he just happened to be there.

00:11:57.000 And then he ended up grilling the pastor, suggesting he was a bad Christian for doing what it is that he was doing, apparently.

00:12:04.000 And now he's out there suggesting the congregation is filled with white supremacists for no reason.

00:12:09.000 I mean, that would be the reason that you're the center of the story, Don Lemon.

00:12:13.000 By the way, Nicki Minaj came out and suggested that Don Lemon had done something wrong.

00:12:17.000 Maybe he might ought to be arrested.

00:12:19.000 And Tom Lemon then came back at Nikki Minaj. 0.99

00:12:21.000 I guess she's a white supremacist too, the black lady. 1.00

00:12:23.000 And he said that she needs to sit the F down. 1.00

00:12:26.000 Why are you supporting this homophobic, bigot, bigoted, ignorant woman? 1.00

00:12:32.000 You should not be supporting her. 1.00

00:12:33.000 Nikki Minaj, this is clearly out of her depth.

00:12:36.000 She doesn't understand politics.

00:12:38.000 She doesn't understand journalism.

00:12:40.000 And I'm not surprised that she is weighing in on something that is beyond her capacity.

00:12:44.000 What I will say to her is because she put a doll, I think she put the Chucky doll in there. 0.97

00:12:50.000 A better symbol that should have been represented in that picture is a pick-me doll because Nikki Minaj is a pick-me. 1.00

00:12:57.000 She will do anything that is expedient for her politically. 1.00

00:13:02.000 And again, she's ignorant. 1.00

00:13:03.000 She doesn't know what she's talking about. 1.00

00:13:04.000 She's always weighing in on things that she doesn't know about.

00:13:06.000 Nikki Minaj should just sit the down. 1.00

00:13:09.000 Okay, so again, he's apparently allowed to say that about a black woman, but if somebody says that about Don Lemon, it's because he's gay and black. 0.99

00:13:16.000 This is the game. 0.99

00:13:17.000 This is the game. 1.00

00:13:18.000 And it's a really stupid game. 1.00

00:13:20.000 And the prize that is won is more demonstrations, more chaos. 1.00

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00:15:15.000 I said yesterday on the show that the Trump administration with some of these ICE operations risks the ire of Americans if the images get ugly.

00:15:24.000 But I also said that if Democrats really continue to up the ante, if they continue to get more and more chaotic, the backlash to Democrats will be stronger than the backlash to ICE.

00:15:32.000 If they end up in abolish ICE territory, that is terrible territory to be in.

00:15:37.000 And it seems like Democrats are courting this sort of electoral disaster and political disaster.

00:15:42.000 Yesterday, anti-ICE demonstrators occupied the local target.

00:15:46.000 What the hell does the target have to do with illegal immigration and ice?

00:15:51.000 They're just trying to sell t-shirts, man.

00:15:53.000 Like, what are you doing at the Target? 0.75

00:15:55.000 What the hell? 0.68

00:15:59.000 We are one. 0.97

00:16:02.000 We won't stop fighting.

00:16:05.000 Love is why we are one.

00:16:17.000 We won't stop fighting.

00:16:19.000 We won't stop.

00:16:20.000 You're sitting in a target, my dude.

00:16:20.000 You're not fighting.

00:16:29.000 That's beautiful.

00:16:30.000 I mean, that's talent right there.

00:16:32.000 They won't stop fighting till ICE is gone.

00:16:34.000 They're literally sitting in a target, like in the makeup section of a Target.

00:16:39.000 And this is apparently going to get ICE removed from the streets of Minneapolis, sitting in a Target.

00:16:45.000 Was Target about to be raided by ICE?

00:16:48.000 Did I miss something here?

00:16:50.000 And also, it seems like all you're doing is really obstructing mothers from being able to buy the orange juice that they require for their children.

00:16:57.000 You're in a target, people.

00:17:00.000 Like, this is a Wendy's, Madam.

00:17:02.000 What are you doing?

00:17:03.000 What are you like, this is the way you think that you're going to win on an immajestic level, truly? 0.74

00:17:07.000 Joining us on the line to discuss what's going on in Minneapolis is, of course, Mary Margaret Olahan.

00:17:12.000 She's our Daily Wire White House correspondent.

00:17:13.000 Mary Margaret, thanks so much for the time.

00:17:15.000 Thanks, Ben.

00:17:16.000 Great to be here.

00:17:18.000 So you recently penned a piece talking about a Minnesota prosecutor's aide who ended up as part of this church service that was disrupted.

00:17:26.000 Can you give us some more details on that?

00:17:28.000 Yeah.

00:17:29.000 So Luke Roziak with Daily Wire has done a really good job finding a lot of the details on this.

00:17:34.000 Basically, we keep hearing all these stories that, you know, these protesters are grassroots and they're very organically funded.

00:17:41.000 Well, no, in this case, we found out that this prosecutor has ties to the protests and is literally going a family member, send a family member to these protests and is engaged with all of these activities in the church itself.

00:17:55.000 And so, Ben, something that I always think of is, you know, we recently saw this attack at the church where a trans-identifying shooter went into this church in Minneapolis, actually, and shot children as they were worshiping.

00:18:07.000 And it is not a thing to be taken lightly to be going into a church and disrupting, let alone over a political protest like this.

00:18:17.000 So incredibly disturbing, incredibly damaging for all these people who are there.

00:18:21.000 It's something that I think about and I'm sure you think about every time we're in a house of worship as we're worshiping God and hoping that everyone stays safe in this place that is supposed to be peaceful and safe.

00:18:33.000 And so in this story that Luke wrote, I thought it was really fascinating how these protesters are literally being exposed for not being organic and they're being accompanied by lawmakers, people affiliated with lawmakers, people affiliated with the prosecutors, unlike what the media is trying to say about them.

00:18:51.000 I mean, it really is Astroturf and it really is astonishing.

00:18:53.000 Well, I would also be remiss, Mary Margaret, if I did not ask you about a conversation that you had with the president of the United States on another topic, actually, on Friday night.

00:19:01.000 So the president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and again, I still maintain that the single best tweet that Donald Trump ever wrote, and there's a long list of them, is the tweet where he suggested if you ever need a great lawyer, may I recommend not hiring Michael Cohen?

00:19:15.000 That apparently Michael Cohen recently came out and suggested that he was pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build cases to secure a judgment and conviction against President Trump.

00:19:29.000 That's something that he put up on his Substack post.

00:19:31.000 And you ended up on the phone talking with the president about all of this.

00:19:35.000 What did he have to say?

00:19:36.000 Yeah, so we got a tip ahead of time that that Substack post was coming. 1.00

00:19:40.000 So, you know, we wrote that story quickly.

00:19:41.000 We were ready to go.

00:19:42.000 I wanted to make sure I understood it.

00:19:44.000 And then I circled up with Brent Sherrow, our editor-in-chief, and we thought we should call the president about this and see what he has to say.

00:19:51.000 So I did call him, and he told me that it was an incredibly corrupt investigation.

00:19:56.000 He said the story was a really big story, and I thought it was kind of funny.

00:19:59.000 He was like, Is that good, darling?

00:20:01.000 You got everything you need?

00:20:02.000 I was like, Yes, Mr. President, thank you.

00:20:03.000 And I'm going to have to check in with him the next time we have another story because he's so savvy with the media.

00:20:10.000 He loves to hop on the phone with them.

00:20:12.000 And, you know, he's always said that Michael Cohen was a corrupt lawyer.

00:20:16.000 He's always had plenty of critical things to say about him.

00:20:19.000 And that story in particular really took off that night because this is something the president and his team have been saying for a long time.

00:20:27.000 And Michael Cohen finally admitting that he was pressured and coerced after not admitting to that after all this time was just too much for the president to resist.

00:20:36.000 This is just one of his favorite stories to talk about.

00:20:39.000 And now Michael Cohen's out here admitting it.

00:20:42.000 Mary Margaret, it is kind of an astonishing thing that you can just pick up the phone and call the president.

00:20:46.000 He picks up and just gives you a comment on things.

00:20:50.000 Pretty wild times out there.

00:20:51.000 Well, that is our White House correspondent over at Daily Wire, Mary Margaret Olihan.

00:20:55.000 Mary Margaret, thanks so much for the time.

00:20:56.000 Appreciate it.

00:20:57.000 Thank you, Ben.

00:20:59.000 Now, obviously, this is bleeding up into the politics of the Democratic Party.

00:21:03.000 We've mentioned the fact that pretty much every Democratic leader now feels the necessity to pretend that something horrifying is happening when ICE goes and does its baseline job.

00:21:11.000 Well, that translates over to lack of actual law enforcement capacity to do what it needs to do.

00:21:16.000 The DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, she said, you know, there are like hundreds and hundreds, over a thousand arrest detainers not being honored at this point.

00:21:26.000 But if you look at who is in those jails, currently sitting in those jails, Bill, 1,370 criminal illegal aliens in Minneapolis' custody.

00:21:36.000 Murders.

00:21:38.000 Those people should serve their time and then they should be turned over to ICE.

00:21:42.000 We have not seen that.

00:21:43.000 We've seen no cooperation.

00:21:45.000 We have not been allowed or have those detainers be honored.

00:21:48.000 That is exactly what we're asking for today.

00:21:51.000 Mayor Walls and excuse me, Governor Walls and Mayor Fry should come out today and agree to that.

00:21:58.000 They should also agree to allowing their local law enforcement officers to give our law enforcement officers backup.

00:22:05.000 Now, again, what are Democrats doing here?

00:22:07.000 Like this is their winning strategy.

00:22:09.000 There is a winning strategy here for Democrats on this issue, and that is, you know, we agree that the law must be enforced, but not this way.

00:22:15.000 But that's not what they're doing.

00:22:16.000 Instead, they're sitting around at the local target or they're invading churches.

00:22:21.000 And then they are calling churches places of white supremacy for no reason at all.

00:22:26.000 Like none of this makes any sense.

00:22:28.000 We do have a reporter on the ground in Minneapolis who has been actually traveling with ICE, did a ride along with ICE.

00:22:36.000 Here is some of the trailer for Jenny's mini doc where she rode along with ICE agents in Minneapolis.

00:22:42.000 We are running a tail to Silver Volvo.

00:22:47.000 These numbers keep increasing, right?

00:22:48.000 Like over 1,000% increases in assaults against us.

00:22:52.000 Like death threats have increased like 8,000%.

00:22:54.000 I really can't even fathom those numbers.

00:22:58.000 Okay.

00:23:04.000 How many hours?

00:23:06.000 Okay.

00:23:07.000 Oscar?

00:23:10.000 We're forever back here.

00:23:11.000 Hey, someone hit the moment.

00:23:13.000 We're still getting followed in that Volkswagen.

00:23:15.000 Who do you think ICE is arresting?

00:23:19.000 Innocent citizens.

00:23:23.000 Joining me on the line to discuss is Jenny Terror.

00:23:25.000 She's our Daily Wire immigration reporter.

00:23:27.000 Jenny, thanks so much for the time.

00:23:28.000 Really appreciate it.

00:23:29.000 Thank you for having me.

00:23:31.000 So let's just begin with the obvious.

00:23:33.000 What was your experience like during this ICE ride along?

00:23:35.000 It's obviously a contentious time.

00:23:38.000 Absolutely.

00:23:39.000 I mean, like you said, it's a contentious time.

00:23:41.000 And we really wanted to go into the belly of the beast into Minneapolis and show things from the ICE officers' perspective.

00:23:48.000 They're really facing the brunt of this.

00:23:51.000 These rioters, these agitators who are trying to get into their way and obstruct their arrests.

00:23:57.000 So they're going out there.

00:23:58.000 And from what we saw, they're facing hurdles every step of the way as they're trying to make an arrest.

00:24:04.000 So the second we rolled out of the ICE office there, there was someone that they tagged as a spotter watching the car, talking to other people.

00:24:13.000 I mean, it seems very coordinated because once we rolled up to any apartment house, anywhere where the target was known to be, the illegal immigrant target, there was already dozens of rioters there with whistles, honking their horns, yelling at the agents, saying really nasty things, and then trying to really get in their way.

00:24:34.000 Those ICE officers are there to arrest illegal immigrants.

00:24:37.000 The ones who we were going after that day had rap sheets.

00:24:41.000 I mean, one of them was even let go by sanctuary authorities there.

00:24:45.000 They had asked them to let them hand them over to ICE from the local jails, and they just flouted the ICE detainer in that case.

00:24:54.000 That guy ended up back on the streets, and now ICE has gone multiple times to try to arrest these people because those agitators are getting in the way.

00:25:02.000 At the same time, they're not really stopping.

00:25:04.000 They want to continue to go after these people, but they're definitely up against some really organized chaos.

00:25:11.000 And Jenny, you mentioned the people they're going after and their rap sheets.

00:25:16.000 The broad-scale perception by a lot of Americans, the polling data shows, is that ICE is not focusing on criminal illegal immigrants.

00:25:21.000 What are you seeing on the ground when you're talking with ICE agents?

00:25:25.000 What kind of targets is ICE focusing in on here?

00:25:29.000 Right.

00:25:29.000 So the ones that we were focused on that day had drug charges, had pretty violent crimes that they'd committed, assaults.

00:25:37.000 These were people that normally, and your listeners, I'm sure, would want to get off the streets, wouldn't want in their neighborhoods.

00:25:46.000 There's this narrative going around right now is that ICE is going after targeting U.S. citizens.

00:25:52.000 They don't want to be arresting U.S. citizens, but they do have authority to go after them if they're trying to impede their arrests that they're trying to make of these people.

00:26:01.000 And what we saw on our ride along was exactly that: someone actually got hit in our vehicle convoy because we went with multiple cars with multiple officers because they need added protection from each other now because of what they're up against.

00:26:16.000 So agitators were blocking the roads.

00:26:18.000 This was after that fatal shooting.

00:26:20.000 So these agitators haven't learned their lesson.

00:26:22.000 They're just doubling down.

00:26:24.000 They're trying to get in the way, even more so now.

00:26:27.000 We had to pull over at one point because we thought some of our vehicles had had their tires slashed because that's a very normal occurrence now.

00:26:35.000 So they're not only having to calculate the risks of going out and catching someone maybe in their element who's a violent, hardened criminal, but they're also up against these organized agitators who are communicating with each other somewhere on radios, following us in their cars, talking to other people in their groups.

00:26:54.000 We know that these ICE watch groups are extremely savvy and communicate really well online and have trainings that they've held.

00:27:02.000 So it's a really scary time for ICE right now.

00:27:08.000 So Jenny, obviously you're sitting with ICE agents while they're attempting to do their job.

00:27:12.000 What is the sentiment among the ICE agents right now who really are under assault by both the media and by, in some cases, literally people on the streets?

00:27:22.000 It's interesting because obviously they know what they're signing up for.

00:27:25.000 This is a law enforcement job.

00:27:27.000 They know that they're going to face hurdles.

00:27:29.000 They're going to face threats.

00:27:31.000 But right now, these threats and these assaults up against them are up exponentially.

00:27:37.000 We've never seen anything like this before.

00:27:38.000 I mean, death threats are up like 8,000%.

00:27:41.000 That's just unheard of.

00:27:43.000 So they're still doing the job.

00:27:45.000 It's pretty amazing because they're keeping their heads down.

00:27:47.000 They're trying to really de-escalate these situations so that they don't end up becoming part of these statistics.

00:27:53.000 They don't want more assaults.

00:27:54.000 They don't want to be using lethal force.

00:27:57.000 They want to give orders verbally first, which is what we saw, for people that were blocking them in traffic, saying, please move out of the way, telling them multiple times before they needed to escalate, which thankfully they didn't need to, but they did, you know, look to pursue an arrest against the person who had hit them that day.

00:28:17.000 But they are really, you know, trying to just continue to do the jobs because they're dedicated to that goal of getting these millions of illegal immigrants that were led into the country, many who have committed crimes out. 0.92

00:28:28.000 And they want to clean up the mess also of the sanctuary cities.

00:28:32.000 You know, you mentioned the kinds of resistance people are facing on the streets and enforcing the law.

00:28:36.000 Obviously, the president has considered the possibility of using the Insurrection Act to deal with this sort of activity on the streets.

00:28:44.000 Given what you've seen, do you think that it would rise to the level of the president calling in further federal forces here?

00:28:50.000 Well, it certainly seems like a ticking time bomb there.

00:28:52.000 And we saw just after the first fatal shooting, just a couple weeks ago, that another one did happen because the illegal immigrant targets in that case were so brazen and so emboldened by what's going on that they wanted to attack law enforcement, that they wanted to go after them and assault them. 0.85

00:29:10.000 They felt like they could operate with impunity there.

00:29:14.000 And the environment is very much like that because you have people around you during these arrests who are supporting those illegal immigrants. 0.97

00:29:22.000 So it's almost like they have cheering squads for them.

00:29:26.000 And this is only getting more and more organized, larger in numbers.

00:29:30.000 I mean, we saw what happened in that church.

00:29:33.000 That wasn't even involving an arrest.

00:29:35.000 That was just involving allegations that a pastor was part of ICE.

00:29:39.000 So these people are very motivated and are doing everything they can to get out there.

00:29:45.000 Well, again, amazing reporting.

00:29:47.000 You can see it all in the mini doc that we are releasing over at Daily Wire Plus from Jenny Taylor.

00:29:51.000 She is, of course, our Daily Wire immigration reporter.

00:29:53.000 Jenny, thanks so much for the time and stay safe out there.

00:29:56.000 Thank you.

00:29:57.000 Well, if you're wondering what's going on with this sort of immigration snafu for the United States, one factor here, one major factor when it comes to immigration is the fact that there are foreign countries taking advantage of our systems.

00:30:10.000 It's one of the reasons why it's quite important that the Trump administration is doing what it's doing.

00:30:14.000 There is a book that is out right now, big bestseller from Peter Schweitzer, all about this.

00:30:19.000 Peter joins us on the line.

00:30:20.000 His new book is titled The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

00:30:26.000 Peter, thanks so much for the time.

00:30:27.000 Really appreciate it.

00:30:27.000 Oh, glad to be with you, Ben, as always.

00:30:29.000 Thanks for having me.

00:30:31.000 So, obviously, immigration is the number one issue in the country right now.

00:30:34.000 The president of the United States has directed ICE to go after criminally legal immigrants and to broad scale go after a wide swath of illegal immigrants and deport them.

00:30:43.000 But a huge number of Americans probably don't understand how foreign powers have actually activated our immigration programs against us.

00:30:51.000 So your book is really about this, about how our immigration systems have been turned against us.

00:30:55.000 We think of ourselves as the shining city on the hill, as the country of the Statue of Liberty.

00:30:59.000 Bring us your tired and your poor and your huddled masses. 1.00

00:31:02.000 You're going to be free.

00:31:03.000 And people take advantage of that.

00:31:04.000 So explain exactly how that's happening.

00:31:07.000 Yeah, you know, I'm the son of immigrants.

00:31:09.000 I think immigration is great.

00:31:11.000 The problem is it's not the immigration of 100 years ago or even 50 years ago.

00:31:15.000 It's been weaponized by foreign governments.

00:31:17.000 So what do I mean?

00:31:19.000 I talk in the book about China.

00:31:21.000 I talk about Mexico.

00:31:22.000 I talk about what the Muslim Brotherhood, what they're doing. 0.99

00:31:25.000 Let's just take a look at Mexico.

00:31:27.000 I quote extensively in the book from Mexican leaders, including President Scheinbaum, that they view mass migration to the United States as a reconquista, which sounds like a crazy theory, but they talk about it repeatedly, and they also back it up.

00:31:43.000 They create an infrastructure in the United States that allows them to activate Mexican and Mexican Americans for political benefits.

00:31:52.000 So what does that mean?

00:31:53.000 Look at the consulate infrastructure.

00:31:55.000 The UK and China have six and seven, respectively, consulates in the United States.

00:32:00.000 Mexico has 53.

00:32:02.000 And as I lay out in the book, consular officials, these are Mexican diplomats in the United States, Ben, are engaged in not only organizing violent anti-ICE protests and other political activity, they're also actively trying to elect Democrats and defeat Republicans.

00:32:20.000 You have Mexican diplomats involved in political activity inside the United States.

00:32:26.000 That's a clear example, and I have lots of details.

00:32:29.000 China has a different methodology.

00:32:31.000 So does the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:32:32.000 But they see this as an opportunity to effectively wage war on the United States by changing us through mass migration and by political direct action within our borders. 0.56

00:32:44.000 So I want to go through each one of those sources in a moment, Mexico and China and the Muslim Brotherhood, the ones that you just mentioned.

00:32:50.000 Let's start with Mexico.

00:32:51.000 You talk about Reconquista.

00:32:53.000 I mean, is the actual goal that they are going to be able to take back American territory, or is this really about flooding America's borders and ensuring, for example, that jobs move to Mexico, the remittances move back to Mexico? 0.63

00:33:04.000 What is their actual hard-nosed goal here?

00:33:06.000 Well, what they say, Ben, explicitly, and I have dozens of quotes in the book, is that they want to exert sovereignty over portions of the United States that they say were stolen from them in the 19th century at the U.S.-Mexican war.

00:33:18.000 So you have prominent, powerful senators that sit on the National Defense Committee that says we are taking it back and mass migration is the way of doing it. 0.54

00:33:26.000 One of Scheinbaum's top aides in December of 2024 said, and I quote, there are 39.9 million Mexicans in the United States.

00:33:36.000 We are quietly reconquering the territory that was taken from us, end quote.

00:33:41.000 Now, does that mean they think California and Texas are actually going to become Mexican states?

00:33:46.000 Maybe, but I think what they really mean and what there's plenty of evidence for is they start exerting sovereign control on territories inside the United States.

00:33:56.000 And I'll give you a very clear, direct answer, Ben.

00:33:58.000 A lot of people don't realize this.

00:34:00.000 There are Mexican senators and members of their chambers of deputy, their parliament, who sit in the United States, live in the United States, and their job is to represent Mexicans living inside the United States inside the Mexican government.

00:34:18.000 That's literally what they do, which is a massive violation of our sovereignty.

00:34:22.000 One of those, Senator Ruiz, she sits in the Mexican Senate. 0.80

00:34:26.000 She lives in Arizona, has actually introduced legislation to turn California into the 33rd state of Mexico.

00:34:33.000 But more importantly, these elected officials, Ben, are not only representing Mexico's interests in the United States, I have numerous examples of them organizing violent protests in this country.

00:34:45.000 And they say, for example, that Los Angeles is, in their term, occupied territory.

00:34:51.000 That Los Angeles is, in their terminology, like the West Bank.

00:34:57.000 They're obviously pro-PLO and Palestinian movement as well.

00:35:01.000 But the point is, they see the United States exerting sovereign control over portions of the American Southwest as illegitimate.

00:35:10.000 And they have various ways in which they want to see that change.

00:35:13.000 And in fact, I would argue that they are seeing some of that change already.

00:35:17.000 So let's turn to China for a second, because obviously, in terms of geopolitical opponents, China is top of the list.

00:35:22.000 You've written extensively about the threat that China represents in your past books. 1.00

00:35:26.000 China is utilizing immigration against the United States as well.

00:35:29.000 What is their goal?

00:35:29.000 What mechanisms are they mostly utilizing?

00:35:32.000 Well, they see mass migration as subversion.

00:35:34.000 And when people think of China, they don't think of mass migration the same way we think of Mexico and Latin America.

00:35:40.000 But they have created an industrial scale use of birthright citizenship.

00:35:46.000 So birthright citizenship is obviously being heard by the Supreme Court.

00:35:49.000 It's the idea if you happen to be in the United States and you're foreign national and your child is born here, that child automatically is granted citizenship.

00:35:58.000 The federal government, by the way, our government has no idea, no idea how many people are born this way in the country because when you get a birth certificate, they don't list the nationality of the parents.

00:36:09.000 So the federal government is completely clueless.

00:36:12.000 The Chinese government has done assessments and their determination is mind-boggling.

00:36:18.000 The Chinese government believes that over the last 13 years, every year, roughly 100,000 Chinese nationals have done this in the United States, meaning we're looking at roughly 1 million U.S. citizens, I'm going to put that in air quotes, U.S. citizens that were born here, but they're Chinese parents and they're mostly part of the Chinese elite, go back to China and raise them in China.

00:36:43.000 So they are U.S. citizens.

00:36:45.000 When they turn 18, they're going to be able to vote in elections.

00:36:48.000 They're going to be able to make political campaign donations.

00:36:50.000 They're going to be able to get U.S. government jobs.

00:36:52.000 But they've never lived here.

00:36:54.000 They've never been educated here.

00:36:55.000 They've had very little exposure to the United States.

00:36:58.000 And that wave is going to start to crest in the late 2020s because this started in 2011 and 2012.

00:37:05.000 That is a massive threat, I would argue, because you've got one million, again, quote-unquote, American citizens who are being raised in China. 0.99

00:37:14.000 They're going to be entering the American mainstream here shortly.

00:37:19.000 And then meanwhile, you have the Muslim Brotherhood as well.

00:37:21.000 Obviously, the thing that comes to mind there is the Muslim Brotherhood possibly exporting terrorists to American soil using America's lax border policies. 0.84

00:37:29.000 I mean, this happened during the Biden administration.

00:37:30.000 There were a number of people who are on the terror watch list who just escaped into the interior of the United States.

00:37:34.000 But if you flood America's borders with people who cannot be vetted from countries that have exorbitant anti-American belief systems, you shouldn't be particularly surprised if you're increasing the risk of terrorism.

00:37:46.000 What is the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood here?

00:37:48.000 Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood views this as a civilizational warfare, and they view immigration as a key component of it. 0.99

00:37:54.000 They look back at the experience of Muhammad and how he preached the use of migration as a form of colonization and taking over territories. 0.98

00:38:05.000 And they speak openly about the fact they don't need to reach sort of critical mass in certain numbers.

00:38:11.000 They're quite confident by controlling certain areas, even if they are a minority, but because they are politically active and they intimidate people around them, that they can gain relative examples of political power.

00:38:23.000 And one of the examples I cite in the book, of course, is Mamdani in New York.

00:38:28.000 Hezbollah, the newspapers of Hezbollah in Lebanon, were cheering him on.

00:38:33.000 These overseas networks involving the Muslim Brotherhood and their ancillary groups in the United States were funding his campaign.

00:38:40.000 And the Iranian government even ran an article speculating that Mamdani has a political future.

00:38:46.000 He could even become, he's not American born, so he can't be president, but he could become the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:38:55.000 Now, why would they want that?

00:38:56.000 I think we know the obvious answer.

00:38:58.000 But the other thing I think we have to recognize, Ben, is that a lot of the fraud that we're seeing in Minnesota and elsewhere involving the Somali community, for example, is not just, in my mind, random fraud.

00:39:11.000 There are actually a lot of these Islamist leaders that preach how this kind of fraud on public assistance is something that's good and righteous because it's effectively a tax on non-Muslims that are paid to Muslims. 0.61

00:39:25.000 So they're actually encouraging Muslims in the United States to engage in this kind of behavior. 0.99

00:39:31.000 So I think we have to stop using our experience and our view of what's going on and understand what our adversaries are, what they're saying and what they believe.

00:39:43.000 And if we listen to what they say, and I quote them extensively in the book, I think it's pretty shocking what their plans are on these fronts.

00:39:50.000 And it's no way consistent with sort of our traditional view of what immigration should be, assimilation and embracing the American dream.

00:39:58.000 None of these groups want any of that.

00:40:01.000 Well, the book, again, is The Invisible Coup, How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. 0.77

00:40:06.000 And the author is Peter Schweitzer of the Government Accountability Institute.

00:40:09.000 Peter, thanks so much for your time and your insight.

00:40:11.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:40:12.000 In other news, the Davos summit is kicking off, and President Trump is planning to head to Davos this year with an entourage of U.S. officials, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:40:22.000 Last year, he video conferenced into the World Economic Forum this time.

00:40:25.000 He's there presumably to knock some heads together.

00:40:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, he is expected to address the confab in person for the first time in six years.

00:40:32.000 Secretary of State Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are also going to show up as well.

00:40:41.000 Now, again, big elephant in the room is going to be what's going on with regard to Greenland.

00:40:47.000 This has now jumped to sort of the top of the issue list because of the sort of pressure that President Trump is exerting on the Europeans and on NATO in particular.

00:40:54.000 Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, is already at Davos.

00:40:57.000 He says that the message is going to be that America first doesn't mean America alone.

00:41:01.000 I think that the U.S.-Swiss relationship, after a rocky period over the past few months, is back on a very good track.

00:41:12.000 What do we want to achieve?

00:41:14.000 I think the message is America First does not mean America alone.

00:41:19.000 And I think President Trump will be talking about this is what American leadership in the world looks like.

00:41:27.000 Okay, well, I mean, obviously, this is music to my ears.

00:41:30.000 America First should not mean America alone because America alone is weak, at least a lot weaker than it would be with its network of allies.

00:41:37.000 An America that withdraws from the world is an America that is incapable of projecting power in ways that benefit the American people.

00:41:44.000 On the other hand, I have to say that I do not fully understand what President Trump is doing with regard to Greenland right now, because again, there are externalities to just threatening NATO.

00:41:54.000 Apparently, according to widespread reports, the president sent messages to the Europeans, basically telling them that they needed to allow him to take Greenland because they did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:42:08.000 According to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gallstor, he sent Trump a text message expressing opposition to the planned tariffs because President Trump threatened a bunch of countries in the EU with tariffs if they didn't allow him to basically just take Greenland.

00:42:23.000 Trump replied that the world would not be secure unless the United States had, quote, complete and total control of Greenland.

00:42:29.000 And he wrote in the message, quote, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

00:42:43.000 What now?

00:42:46.000 Color me slightly confused.

00:42:49.000 I don't think that the president ever thought only of peace.

00:42:52.000 I always thought that his program was to think about what was good and proper for the United States of America.

00:42:57.000 And while I know the president covets the Nobel Peace Prize, and frankly, well, I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for what he did in the Middle East with regard to bombing the Iranian nuclear reactor and helping try to bring the Gaza conflict to an end while freeing the life hostages.

00:43:10.000 Again, I'm very sympathetic to that case for the president.

00:43:13.000 I'm not sure what that has to do with Greenland per se.

00:43:17.000 And again, the idea that you're rejected for a Nobel Peace Prize, therefore you are owed Greenland.

00:43:22.000 I mean, that seems like a strange trade.

00:43:24.000 By the way, it seems to me that the Europeans might consider a trade, and that trade would be help facilitate the United States taking Greenland in return for mass support by the United States of the Ukrainian government in the face of the Russians.

00:43:37.000 That seems like a fairer trade because what NATO really requires is protection on its eastern borders, not on its western borders from the United States.

00:43:45.000 And so if the case that the Europeans want to make is, we need you guys to actually fight the Russians, and the Americans are making the case we need Greenland to stave off the Russians.

00:43:53.000 Well, it seems like there's a gigantic war that has been currently happening in Eastern Europe for several years at this point in which the Russians are sending hundreds of thousands of troops into the field.

00:44:02.000 And it would be good for the United States to up the ante there, perhaps in exchange for more of a say in Greenland.

00:44:08.000 Apparently, EU officials and diplomats, according to the Wall Street Journal, are taking the U.S. threats to use trade to extract concessions on Greenland extremely seriously.

00:44:16.000 And they see them as the latest evidence of a fundamental reshaping of transatlantic ties.

00:44:20.000 Again, it is unclear whether this is sort of a just kind of annoyance for President Trump.

00:44:25.000 This is just something that sticks in his craw, or whether it is part of a larger shift in terms of foreign policy away from American leadership in the world and more toward a sort of block-level leadership.

00:44:37.000 Like America will lead the Western hemisphere, and then they'll kind of take, will go hands off with regard to the Russians in Eastern Europe and go hands off with the Chinese in the Far East. 0.67

00:44:46.000 That is the big outstanding question.

00:44:49.000 Now, the reality is that I'm not sure that Americans feel like paying more in tariffs in order to assure that the president can grab Greenland.

00:44:59.000 New studies show, shock of shocks, that American citizens are the ones who basically end up paying the price for tariffs.

00:45:04.000 That, of course, is not a surprise at all.

00:45:06.000 The new research published Monday by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank, suggests the impact of tariffs is likely to show up over the time in the form of higher U.S. consumer prices.

00:45:17.000 That doesn't mean that the tariffs are a win for Europe, but it does mean that American consumers are the ones who are really paying for it.

00:45:22.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, by analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of the tariff increases by lowering their prices.

00:45:37.000 American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

00:45:41.000 That, of course, makes sense since it is consumers who are the ones who are going to absorb any of the price changes at all.

00:45:47.000 All of which does raise questions as to how Americans perceive the economy.

00:45:51.000 Representative Mike Turner of Ohio, he says, people might prefer to focus on the economy, not on Greenland at this point.

00:45:58.000 I think people would prefer a focus on the economy instead of a focus on Greenland itself.

00:46:03.000 I think certainly in Congress, we're looking at trying to make certain we get the budget deal through and we don't have a shutdown.

00:46:10.000 And, you know, as we look to the president's proposal on national security, we look at his proposal on increasing our defense budget.

00:46:19.000 Now, again, I think there is some histrionic quality to people in Europe getting freaked out about tariffs, considering all of the non-trade tariff trade barriers that the Europeans have placed on American products for years.

00:46:29.000 So, for example, when the French finance minister, Amanda Roland Leskier, says that he doesn't like when tariffs are used as a geopolitical weapon, it's like, well, I mean, guys, you do kind of do it yourself a fair bit.

00:46:42.000 We're living through uncharted territories.

00:46:44.000 We've never seen this before.

00:46:46.000 An ally, a friend of 250 years, is considering using tariffs.

00:46:51.000 We don't like tariffs, but suddenly we don't like using tariffs as a geopolitical weapon.

00:46:58.000 And you get this from the UK's Kirstarmer as well, suggesting that use of tariffs against allies is wrong.

00:47:04.000 Again, the Europeans have been very happy to use regulatory methods in order to discriminate against American product in their continent for a very long time.

00:47:14.000 Alliances endure because they're built on respect and partnership, not pressure.

00:47:23.000 That is why I said the use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong.

00:47:30.000 It is not the right way to resolve differences within an alliance.

00:47:35.000 Now, the Europeans could cause some economic turmoil in the United States based on how they respond to President Trump's threats.

00:47:41.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, there are several different options on the table.

00:47:45.000 One would be to hold off on cutting tariffs to zero for many U.S. goods.

00:47:48.000 Remember, the president already cut a bit of a lopsided deal with the EU, wherein there would be a 15% duty on most EU goods shipped into the United States, and the tariffs on American goods going into European countries would be radically cut.

00:48:04.000 The European Parliament has not approved that deal yet.

00:48:05.000 That could theoretically go sideways.

00:48:07.000 There could also be new retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. products.

00:48:11.000 And there's also something called the bazooka.

00:48:13.000 This is an anti-coercion trade tool, apparently.

00:48:15.000 Apparently, it would give the bloc significant leeway to implement export controls, place tariffs on services, restrict intellectual property rights, and curb American companies' ability to bid on public contracts in Europe, among other measures.

00:48:27.000 That would be sort of the biggest thing that they could do.

00:48:30.000 They could also, of course, beef up on defense, close American bases, which would lead to the sort of multipolar world that may be something that some members of the Trump administration actually want.

00:48:42.000 The biggest thing that is a problem is the possibility that the EU and other countries start to look elsewhere for partnerships, namely toward Russia and toward China.

00:48:52.000 Russia, for its part, seems pretty excited about all of this.

00:48:55.000 The Russian economic negotiator was trolling the Europeans, a man named Kirill Dmitriev.

00:49:02.000 He said, you now miss Nordstream, don't you?

00:49:04.000 Because obviously they were using the Europeans an enormous amount of Russian oil.

00:49:08.000 And so the idea is: well, you know, you relied on the Americans.

00:49:12.000 Now the Americans are using their economic pressure in order to get you to give up territory.

00:49:16.000 So you miss Nordstream, don't you?

00:49:18.000 Meanwhile, the Chinese are saying, listen, this is just an aggressive American play. 0.92

00:49:22.000 It has nothing to do with China threatening Greenland.

00:49:25.000 This is China making overtures to the EU.

00:49:27.000 That's really what this is.

00:49:29.000 Clarified our positions on Greenland multiple times.

00:49:33.000 The international law based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter is the foundation of the existing international order.

00:49:40.000 It must be safeguarded.

00:49:41.000 We urge the US side to stop using the so-called China threat to use as a pretext to gain selfish gains.

00:49:51.000 Now, here's the thing: China and Russia are both on the ropes.

00:49:54.000 I do not see the rationale for why the United States should be targeting, for example, the Europeans as opposed to Russia and China.

00:50:00.000 Russia is in serious trouble.

00:50:02.000 Russia is upside down demographically.

00:50:04.000 They're a very old country.

00:50:05.000 They have a financially insecure country.

00:50:07.000 The entire GDP of Russia is lower than the GDP of the state of Florida, for example.

00:50:12.000 They are a giant petro-state with nuclear weapons.

00:50:15.000 That is all Russia is, and they've been bleeding manpower.

00:50:19.000 They're in serious financial trouble.

00:50:22.000 They're in serious demographic trouble, serious military trouble.

00:50:26.000 The same thing is true, by the way, for China.

00:50:28.000 China has advantages in certain areas like energy production, but in demographic terms, China's got a massive problem on its hands.

00:50:36.000 According to the New York Times, the government on Monday said 7.92 million babies were born last year.

00:50:41.000 That is down from 9.54 million in 2024.

00:50:46.000 The number of people who died in 2025, 11.31 million, continued to climb.

00:50:51.000 So again, if you do that math, way more people are dying in China than are being born.

00:50:55.000 The latest population figures were reported alongside economic data that show China's economy grew 5% in 2025.

00:51:02.000 The number of births per 1,000 people fell to 5.63.

00:51:06.000 That is the lowest level on record, according to certain data.

00:51:09.000 This means that China is facing the worst birth rate that it has had in literally hundreds of years.

00:51:15.000 That they were having more babies 250 years ago, like more just base increase in the population.

00:51:20.000 Forget about more babies per capita.

00:51:22.000 Like they had bigger increase in the population a couple hundred years ago than they currently have.

00:51:28.000 China is upside down.

00:51:30.000 They're heavily reliant, by the way, on AI because of this, because they need increases in productivity.

00:51:35.000 That means that there are fewer people necessary in order to pay off the bills.

00:51:42.000 But China also is upside down in terms of its financial status.

00:51:48.000 China has a low retirement age.

00:51:50.000 The government raised it for the first time since the 1950s last year.

00:51:54.000 They plan to gradually increase the official age by 2040 to 63 for men and 58 for women in office jobs, 55 for women in factories.

00:52:02.000 It remains among the lowest in the world.

00:52:04.000 They basically hide their debt problems in local and regional debt.

00:52:09.000 All of this is a gigantic mess.

00:52:11.000 It is a huge mess for the Chinese. 1.00

00:52:13.000 So why exactly would we be taking the pedal off the metal in order to pressure NATO on Greenland?

00:52:18.000 It just seems like a misallocation of resources, a fairly major misallocation of resources.

00:52:24.000 And if this is a lifeline to our geopolitical opponents, because they're now going to go to the EU or go to Canada and cut trade deals with those countries, countries that are moving away from the United States, why would we revivify a bipolar world by giving up our hegemon status for no reason that I can really see?

00:52:44.000 It doesn't make a lot of sense.

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00:53:03.000 What was it like, Marlon, to be alone with God?

00:53:12.000 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:53:18.000 Marathon, I knew your father.

00:53:21.000 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:53:26.000 All men know of the great Talies.

00:53:29.000 You are my father.

00:53:30.000 Are the gods of war for my soul?

00:53:34.000 Princess Garris, savior of our people.

00:53:39.000 I know what the bull got offered you.

00:53:42.000 I was offered the same.

00:53:44.000 And there is a new pirate work in the world.

00:53:47.000 I've seen it.

00:53:49.000 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:53:52.000 We are each given only one lifestinger.

00:53:55.000 No.

00:53:56.000 We're given another.

00:54:00.000 I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.

00:54:04.000 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:54:05.000 And I think you can give him one.

00:54:07.000 Trust in Yezu. 0.87

00:54:09.000 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:54:12.000 Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life.

00:54:15.000 Great light, great darkness.

00:54:17.000 Such things mattered to me then.

00:54:20.000 What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?

00:54:24.000 You, nephew.

00:54:29.000 The sword of a high king.

00:54:33.000 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:54:40.000 Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:54:43.000 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:54:46.000 You know what you must do.

00:54:50.000 Great light, forgive me.

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