00:00:11.000Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, other woke right influencers have now landed in Moscow.
00:00:16.000And they're basically Jane Fonda on the Viet Cong anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War.
00:00:20.000They're propagandists for our enemies.0.83
00:00:22.000You're not going to believe the footage from Moscow.1.00
00:00:25.000And if you somehow believe that these people are just good-hearted folks who are invested in Christianity and the West and traditional conservative values in Russia, I hate to break it to you, but you are the sucker.0.99
00:00:37.000If your head is attached to your shoulders, the op has never been more obvious.0.99
00:00:40.000We're going to debunk all the lies one by one.
00:00:42.000We'll also get into more commie momdani craziness in New York City, whether or not sports are fascist.
00:00:47.000Plus, we're joined by the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergam, and the Daily Wire's own investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak, in just a few moments.
00:01:13.000Folks, the dictator who currently runs Russia, Vladimir Putin, he was literally a member of the KGB.
00:01:19.000His task intelligence and counterintelligence.
00:01:22.000He worked under a man named Yuri Andropov, who was leading the KGB at the time.
00:01:26.000Later, Andropov became, you know, the premier of the Soviet Union, like the dictator of the Soviet Union.
00:01:32.000And here's what Andropov said about psyops directed at Soviet enemies Disinformation is like cocaine.
00:01:38.000Sniff once or twice, it may not change your life.
00:01:40.000If you use it every day, though, it will make you an addict, a different man.
00:01:43.000Well, it seems like a lot of people in the West are now all coked up.
00:01:48.000So, as mentioned, Candace Owens is in Russia talking about the Romanovs murdered by communists, but according to Candace, Satanists.
00:01:56.000She's sitting on Russian propaganda panels.
00:01:57.000She is praising what she describes as Russia's approach to family.
00:02:00.000Spoiler alert, statistically, the Russian approach to family is to not get married and never have children, and also suggesting that Russian history is a beautiful melange of philo-Semitism.
00:02:11.000Meanwhile, Archer Taylor Greene doing the same sort of stuff, signaling her support for Candace's big Russian adventure, and Buckley Carlson, aka Tucker Carlson, minus the skincare regimen, openly saying that Russia's leader looks out for his people's interests, and he wishes we had that here.0.55
00:02:25.000Tucker, of course, says exactly the same thing.
00:02:27.000None of them are just making critiques of America.
00:02:30.000They are all saying that Russia is somehow better, that Russia's leadership is somehow better.
00:02:58.000All of this geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.
00:03:07.000This is all part of what we called last week a demoralization op.
00:03:11.000As we discussed last week, demoralization.
00:03:13.000Is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies.
00:03:19.000It is step one in trying to collapse your enemies.
00:03:23.000Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it.0.96
00:03:26.000And good news for them there's lots of resources, an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them, and lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.0.92
00:03:38.000The exact same people who built their brands around don't trust the regime and don't trust the media and don't trust the propaganda. are suddenly very much in favor of trusting the regime when it's Russia, the media when it's Russia today, and the propaganda when they are controlled by the Russian government.0.95
00:03:55.000Now tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition and suddenly they are on board all the way.
00:04:03.000They're not investigating or questioning.
00:04:54.000The goal is to convince you that America is irredeemably crappy morally and that the people we've always seen as our geopolitical opponents are actually not that bad.
00:05:12.000And it's working on a large number of people who spend too much time online watching Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Sean Ryan or Andrew Tate or Megyn Kelly or any of the increasingly anti American grifters and click cores willing to crap on America, either because they believe it or for fame and money.
00:05:25.000So, again, all of this is coming up because Candace Owens went to Russia to just do propaganda work on behalf of the Russian regime.
00:05:33.000She wasn't in St. Petersburg because she wanted to see the churches or anything like that.
00:05:37.000She was there because she was attending and speaking.
00:05:39.000At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, alongside Vladimir Putin and Alexander Dugin and other members of the Russian government and the Intel community.
00:05:49.000And again, Ryan Morrow has reported that the St. Petersburg Forum is a known hub for Russian Intel and that its panels serve as recruitment pipelines for foreign collaborators and top goals include state directed soft power programs.
00:06:01.000It's a hotspot for Russian intelligence.
00:06:07.000And so again, we have seen a wide variety of these woke right influencers who now are pretty much openly allied with the left.
00:06:14.000Going over to Russia and paying tribute to it from Tucker Carlson sniffing the bread and marveling at the shopping carts because, again, he is a silver spoon.
00:06:25.000There's a word here that is inappropriate for public use.
00:06:28.000He is as silver spoon as it's possible to get.
00:06:30.000That dude has never been in an Aldi's and so he's astonished by basic movements of shopping carts.
00:06:34.000But don't worry, he's a man of the people because he wears flannel up in his multi million dollar mansion in Maine.
00:06:39.000Anyway, they head on over to Russia and they talk about how great Russia is.
00:08:08.000Also, she really likes the architecture.
00:08:13.000My main conclusion would be that we are grappling with the same issues, West and East.
00:08:20.000I think something that we hit upon today was just the media messaging and constantly trying to make this division between what's going on in Russia, what's going on in America, that there are no similarities.
00:08:32.000My entire trip has revealed to me just how similar we are and our motivation, both as a faithful society, putting God first, but family, understanding that family encourages us in a positive way.
00:08:47.000It has just been a tremendously encouraging trip, and I can't wait to go back.
00:08:51.000Onto my podcast and to be able to share that with the American people as well.
00:09:09.000All right, coming up more from Candace Owens' propaganda tour of Russia.
00:09:14.000And, you know, Candace has gone to sleep on America, but the thing is, you actually do need more sleep because sleep is the beginning of health.
00:10:11.000Don't go to a big box mattress store and just lie down on a mattress for five seconds, get up and think that you're good for the next 20 years.
00:10:21.000She, of course, also talked about how much of a blessing it was to hear about Russia's big family policies, big family policies that are so efficient that Russia has one of the lowest fertility rates in any semi developed country.
00:10:37.000I think at times there has been some conflict.
00:10:40.000Between governments and thinking that maybe you don't want that messaging to come out.
00:10:46.000Maybe they think, oh, we don't want people at home with big families.
00:10:50.000And I couldn't disagree with that perspective more.
00:10:54.000Governments and institutions should encourage big families because it encourages better people, people that build with purpose, and people that nurture with purpose.
00:11:03.000And so it really has been a blessing to hear about, I guess, to hear more intimately about what's going on in Russia in terms of those policies that are being put into place.
00:11:19.000You know, Candace is, of course, a huge fan of civilizations that have high birth rates, like Israel, which has the highest birth rate in the developed world.
00:11:31.000Candace was asked on Russia Today, which, of course, Russia Today was just pumping out these clips all day long.
00:11:35.000All these clips of Russia Today, an actual Russian propaganda outlet, just pumping out these clips of Candace talking about the wonders of Russia.
00:11:41.000Here she was denying that the Soviet Union.
00:11:45.000Was ever involved in promoting anti-Semitism.
00:11:47.000In fact, Russia has never been involved in promoting anti-Semitism.
00:11:49.000Things I learned today from people who have never read a book.
00:11:54.000I think you posted something this morning.
00:11:56.000I didn't get a chance to look at it all, but I think you'd mentioned something about that there's some tie between charges from Israel, that they're somehow trying to tie anti-Semitism to Russia.
00:12:16.000Farah filing from a company called Clock Tower LLC, Clock Tower X LLC.
00:12:23.000And they are, you know, they filed for Farah.
00:12:25.000They're not pretending that they're not foreign agents.
00:12:26.000It's directly from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel that is controlling this organization.
00:12:31.000And they are explicit in their filings that this is about propaganda targeting American Christians and how we're going to go around and create the October 7th experience.
00:12:41.000Here are people that we deem problematic and I had missed in this document.
00:12:45.000They explicitly stated, mind you, this was filed before I had.
00:12:48.000Any plans to come to Russia that they were going to conquer their focus on anti Semitism by basically alleging that anti Semitism comes from Russia.0.51
00:12:59.000Which, by the way, I will appreciate the irony.0.54
00:13:01.000I'm pretty sure that the first country to recognize Israel as a nation was Russia.
00:13:13.000We're not allowed to know that because it's not true.
00:13:15.000The Soviet Union went in alphabetical order at the UN when they voted for the establishment of the state of Israel.
00:13:20.000Also, I love that her comeback to there's been anti Semitism historically in Russia is the USSR backed the establishment of the state of Israel, as did a majority of countries in the UN at the time.
00:13:34.000I don't mean to drop some very, very baseline knowledge about the source of anti Semitism, but the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a Tsarist forgery.0.84
00:13:47.000Many of the origins of the Zionist movement were from Russia because of, for example, the slaughter in Kishinev.
00:13:55.000The reason that Russian Jews largely became Zionistic is because of anti Semitism in what was called the Pale of Settlement, which was an entire area where Jews were allowed to live.
00:14:02.000You see, Jews were not allowed to live in all of Russia in the pre communist era.
00:14:07.000And under the communists, of course, there was also tremendous anti-Semitism, particularly later on in the doctor's plot when Stalin's, when Stalin was attempting and his heirs were attempting to target Jews.
00:14:18.000So there's an entire Soviet dissident movement led by Natan Sharansky, people being jailed for supporting Israel.
00:14:25.000Again, speaking knowledge to people who legitimately don't care about knowledge, have no interest in information, they have no interest at all in basic information.
00:15:02.000I was unaware that the people who killed the Romanovs were worshippers of Satan, per se.0.90
00:15:07.000It seems to me like communists are bad enough.
00:15:11.000Because communism is bad, but see, she's not going to rip the communists because the current dictator of the Soviet Union was a member of the KGB.
00:15:19.000And the entire regime there is run by former members of the Soviet Union.
00:15:28.000Well, because when you have an overwhelming op that's directed at the idea that Russia is wonderful and that America's actual allies are not allies but enemies and that America itself has been spiritually emptied, this is part of the op.
00:15:41.000And if you are a willing participant in the op, this makes you the bad guy.
00:15:45.000Buckley Carlson, again, he and his brother Tucker are in lockstep.
00:16:53.000Yes, never has a nation, a government valued life like the country that sent unarmed men into battle at Stalingrad and Leningrad and threatened to shoot them in the back if they turned back.0.78
00:17:05.000And there is a reason that mass casualty events in war are sort of a Russian way of war.
00:17:11.000And there are a lot of great people from Russia.
00:17:15.000And I'm a huge fan of Russian literature, actually.
00:17:39.000And the problem is, of course, that this bleeds into real life.0.93
00:17:44.000So, for example, Representative Anna Paulina Luna was talking with Marco Rubio, and the representative was asking him about can we just talk more with the Russians?
00:17:54.000We need to talk more with the Russians.
00:17:57.000That talking with the Russians will get Vladimir Putin to stop being one of the world's most aggressive dictators is absolute sheer nonsense.0.76
00:18:04.000The problem has not historically been that we talk too little with Russia.
00:18:07.000Every single president of my lifetime has tried to hit the so called reset button with Russia.
00:18:30.000Ukraine, which we would like to see end through a negotiated settlement, and separate from that is a bilateral relationship with a country that possesses, if not the largest, the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
00:18:39.000At a minimum, we have to have relations and conversations with Russians.
00:18:42.000We just do, whether we like what they're doing or not, because given those factors that I just pointed to, I've had multiple conversations with the Foreign Minister Lavrov, and we have to, because that's mature diplomacy and it's important.
00:18:54.000We have to have communication with them, and there are issues in our bilateral relations that have nothing to do with Ukraine.
00:19:00.000So now, I think our Relations with them will be friendlier and easier to pursue once the war in Ukraine is wrapped up.
00:19:06.000And we've made that point in this engagement.0.55
00:19:08.000But I think what we've learned, and certainly I think has been affirmed to us in the last year and a half, is you're much better off having someone to talk to on the other side than not.
00:19:36.000But what we are seeing right now is obviously a concerted effort to drive down American belief in our own country in favor of a multipolar world that benefits our enemies.
00:20:14.000People spend a lot of time talking about bringing manufacturing back to America, which, don't get me wrong, it's great.
00:20:19.000But it's also worth noticing that a lot of industries never actually left in the first place.
00:20:23.000One example America's beverage companies.
00:20:25.000The drinks people have grown up with for generations, sodas, sparkling waters, teas, sports drinks, the companies behind them have continued making those products here in the United States the entire time.
00:20:33.000And behind all of that are 275,000 men and women across all 50 states showing up every day doing the real work.
00:20:40.000These are great paying jobs, distribution, manufacturing, trucking, production, the kind of jobs that support families and local communities.
00:20:46.000For more than a century, America's beverage companies have continued investing here and building here and employing American workers in American hometowns.
00:20:52.000In an economy where so many industries actually move their operations overseas, that actually does matter.
00:20:57.000Learn more about how they're keeping America strong at WeDeliverForAmerica.org.
00:21:03.000America's beverage industry has done a great job of investing and building and employing American workers, and you can find out all the information about it when you head on over to WeDeliverForAmerica.org.
00:21:12.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of threats significantly closer to home, at least at this moment, New York, Zoran Momdani, Brad Lander, the pick by Zoran Momdani for DSA in Congress, a person named Chevalier and Valdez.
00:21:41.000I know I have a lot of fans and friends, or our next fans, but for the good of the United States, New York must lose because otherwise you're going to have these people celebrating.
00:23:47.000You leave him in the paint to discourage the drive and you let Carl Anthony Towns take the threes.
00:23:52.000I understand he's a great three point shooter.
00:23:54.000I also understand that Carl Anthony Towns inside the paint shoots about 56%, which means that in order for him to justify taking a three, he needs to shoot at least 37% from three.
00:24:03.000Put a hand in his face and challenge him to do exactly that.
00:24:06.000Make him stay out there shooting threes because those rebounds, those long rebounds, will go to the Spurs.
00:24:49.000So CNN had on Dana White, who is the head of the UFC, and asked about President Trump being a fascist because America 250 will feature an MMA fight on the lawn of the White House.
00:25:03.000You see, sports has in times been used by authoritarian governments like Mussolini to.
00:25:11.000Show power, to show strength, to show control.
00:25:15.000Do you worry about the confluence of this sport in particular and the Trump administration sort of being intertwined?
00:25:50.000It's been like that since the beginning of time, and it will be till the end of time.
00:25:54.000It's not just one guy or one administration, it's everybody.
00:25:58.000And yes, sports has been used politically forever.
00:26:04.000Man, that's some serious journalism right there.
00:26:07.000By the way, Teddy Roosevelt literally erected a boxing ring at the White House and would box people there because he liked boxing so much.0.83
00:26:15.000Abraham Lincoln, believe it or not, was famous in his hometown in Illinois for wrestling people, apparently, who's a really, really good wrestler.
00:26:21.000Also, who's gigantic for the time, six for four.0.98
00:26:24.000So, but that, man, our media, could they be dumber?0.95
00:26:28.000I mean, probably, but back to New York for a second.0.95
00:26:30.000Okay, so, you have Mamdani running this ad for all of his Democratic Socialist friends.
00:26:35.000And as we discussed yesterday, the radicals in the Democratic Party have the upper hand.
00:27:31.000Paternity proceedings to determine a child's biological father would meanwhile become parentage cases under the bill, which is weird a little bit because what are we afraid?0.78
00:27:43.000Like, can you file a paternity case against your lesbian partner?
00:28:57.000They had the meeting actually in a room, like a normal room.
00:29:01.000And apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders asked Platner if any additional allegations would emerge against the embattled Democratic candidate.
00:29:10.000Plattner said, nope, there wouldn't be, which is, I don't believe him, since he also said that a few days ago.
00:29:14.000And then it turns out that there was much more, including sexting every woman in a 300 mile radius in Maine and also some elk.
00:29:24.000Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren followed up and said, there's a big difference between marital issues and allegations of sexual assault.
00:29:31.000And he said, don't worry, there are no allegations of, he said, there were no credible allegations of assault forthcoming.
00:29:37.000I guess we'll have to decide on credible possibly in the near future.
00:29:39.000I noticed that she didn't say, There's a difference between marital issues and being a Nazi.0.51
00:29:45.000Because that would have been awkward, because he's kind of a Nazi.
00:29:48.000So it turns out that he's very enthused about Nazi memorabilia.0.65
00:29:53.000Remember, he said that that Tuttlenkopf tattoo, you know, the death's head tattoo, that he had no idea it was a death's head tattoo.
00:29:58.000It was just a cool tattoo that he got tattooed giant on his chest, as one would.
00:30:02.000You know, when you're about to have a giant tattoo done on you, typically you don't know what it is, you just have a vague idea.
00:30:11.000Apparently, of a Swedish volunteer battalion in the trenches during the Continuation War.
00:30:19.000This is when Finland was fighting the USSR in 1941.
00:30:24.000And the story of Finland during World War II is a really dicey one because obviously Finland originally fought an action against the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union tried to take it over during the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact.
00:30:37.000And then the Germans conquered Finland.
00:30:41.000And then during the Soviet drive back across Europe, A lot of the Finns had to decide whether they wanted to side with the Nazis or whether they wanted to side with the Soviets, which is just a Hobson's choice.
00:31:10.000Well, the president, for his part, is railing against the communists, which I'm in favor of.0.59
00:31:15.000Where those communists are, communist nouveau in Russia, or whether those are communists who are mayors of New York, the president put out a tweet, quote, Has anyone ever seen a happy communist?0.97
00:31:57.000And it leads to death, destruction, and squalor 100% of the time.
00:32:04.000When I watch New York, and you know, I liked him very much.
00:32:06.000He stood right here and he's been in the office a couple of times.
00:32:10.000The mayor of New York, I think he's a very nice person, but, and I don't know, he's a smart guy.
00:32:15.000I don't understand why he thinks it's okay for all these companies That pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes a year to leave because you're not going to have any tax base and you're going to end up in hunger and squalor and death and destruction.
00:32:32.000No, again, historically, that is not incorrect.
00:32:35.000And just another reason why Mamdani's Knicks must lose.0.77
00:32:40.000Also, I want to see the era of Wemby actually arrive.
00:32:42.000In any case, the Democrats are also pushing back against allegations that waste, fraud, and abuse plague public systems.0.99
00:32:50.000Dr. Oz over at CMS is out there saying that we are no longer allowing illegal immigrants to benefit from taxpayer health care programs, which would be a good thing for sure.0.99
00:33:02.000And when one third of all the hospices in the entire country are in Los Angeles, not even California and Los Angeles.1.00
00:33:20.000So our agency has now suspended payments to 850, almost half of all the hospices in California now have been suspended, but they're no longer being paid.
00:33:30.000And we're going to keep aggressively going at this problem.
00:33:34.000Well, speaking of waste, fraud, and abuse, our investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has been all over.
00:34:15.000Like you look at this guy's social media, he's literally living like a rapper, and it all comes from our money.
00:34:22.000His dad has this Medicaid company that was paid $17 million, even though the dad has another full time job, apparently.
00:34:30.000He hasn't paid taxes in five years.0.61
00:34:33.000But basically, 81% of Bhutanese people are on welfare, and they use that to incur tax payments to the other 19% who have these companies that just make them mega millionaires.0.55
00:34:46.000And what I found is that all the major Bhutanese advocacy organizations in the United States are directly tied to home healthcare firms.0.78
00:34:54.000They oftentimes share addresses with them.
00:34:57.000And so the money goes from, you know, to the company and then overseas.
00:35:02.000And so the guy I just mentioned, his name is Raushan Adkihari.
00:35:07.000He's the one who says he has a private plane.
00:35:12.000The Adkihari family alone has been paid $350 million from Ohio.0.73
00:35:18.000That's just one family from Bhutan in just one state.0.96
00:36:11.000And she sat down at the dais and started screaming during the opening statement so that people couldn't hear what I was saying.
00:36:18.000And I was just going through some specific facts and figures that come directly from HHS Medicaid data.
00:36:25.000The hearing was just beginning, so I don't think anybody could have said anything objectionable at that point.
00:36:31.000And so it really did seem like Democrats don't want people to hear about Medicaid fraud, which I was really disheartened by because it's one of the government's biggest.
00:36:41.000If you look at a pie chart of the government spending, Medicaid is a huge one.
00:36:45.000And if we're not going to look at ways to find savings there, then I don't know how we're going to get rid of the federal debt.
00:36:53.000So, Luke, obviously, you've been working with members of the government, Republicans in Ohio.
00:36:59.000Vivek Ramaswamy is a person who you actually went on the trail with a little bit to talk about what's going on.
00:37:03.000He, of course, is running for governor of Ohio.
00:37:05.000What sort of feedback have you been receiving from Republicans in positions of power about investigating all of this?
00:37:10.000How thoroughly do you think they're invested in doing that?
00:37:14.000Well, you know, JD Vance is from Ohio and he's leading that fraud task force.
00:37:19.000I think there's undoubtedly going to be prosecutions.
00:37:22.000You know, I've testified to the House and to Senate and to the Ohio legislature.
00:37:27.000A lot of people are interested in this.
00:37:29.000At the same time, a lot of the fraud happened under the administration of Mike DeWine, who's a Republican governor.
00:37:36.000Who got rid of the requirement to use GPS to stop fraud?
00:37:41.000And so it's a mixed bag, but obviously what happened in Congress speaks for itself.
00:37:46.000The Democrats don't want to even look at Medicaid fraud.
00:37:50.000They had the minority leader of the state Senate show up as their witness.
00:37:55.000And Brandon Gill asked her a very important question at the end, which was a simple one Has Somali immigration been good for your district?
00:38:03.000And at first, she didn't know how to answer.
00:38:05.000It seemed like she didn't want to say yes.
00:38:08.000But then she went on this huge rant that said that she wanted to cry because of what I was saying, which was just the truth that anybody who goes to Ohio, even looks at the data, can see this.
00:38:18.000There are essentially no Americans who are getting paid on this government program.
00:38:25.000I mean, you got a tenth of the GDP going to Bhutan just from Ohio Medicaid.
00:38:31.000They're sipping champagne on private jets.
00:38:33.000They're not paying taxes, which, if I was a Democrat, I thought we were supposed to be mad at the fat cat CEOs who don't pay their taxes.1.00
00:38:40.000That's one of the things that really concerns me about these foreigners unmedicated.1.00
00:38:45.000It almost seems like they are trying to bankrupt our country because if somebody paid me $10 million from the taxpayer, I don't think I would find it that hard to pay, you know, $500,000 or whatever back in taxes.1.00
00:38:55.000We do, in fact, have that clip of an Ohio State Senator very, very offended by Representative Brandon Gill's line of questioning along these lines.
00:40:03.000Luke, you've been doing an amazing job in investigating all of this.
00:40:06.000I know that there's much more to come.
00:40:08.000This is just one reason, people, that you need to go subscribe over at Daily Wire Plus because we can't do this kind of investigative reporting and change the nature of how things like Medicaid work in the country and root out waste, fraud, and abuse without your help.
00:40:19.000Please go to Daily Wire Plus right now and become a member and help us out.
00:40:26.000Well, when they're not excusing waste, fraud, and abuse, apparently, top progressive Democrats are out there stumping for full scale theft of private property.
00:41:04.000Because the goal of democratic policy is not to foster some sort of greater prosperity.0.55
00:41:09.000The number of quote unquote abundance Democrats like Ezra Klein is vanishingly small.
00:41:13.000The goal of people like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or the rest of this crew is to actively degrade the actual tax base of the country by seizing the means of production.
00:42:04.000Again, the goal here is amazing to me when people who are reliant on a private property system of free markets go out and try to appease socialists like Bernie Sanders because they ain't going to be appeased.
00:43:21.000She had sort of heterodox ideas about public policy.
00:43:24.000She wrote a book called The Two Income Trap, which had some interesting ideas, including why she was against, for example, the government subsidizing childcare.
00:43:33.000And then she became just sort of a rote progressive Democrat by frontally lobotomizing herself.
00:43:38.000And now she is saying things like she doesn't really care how much a wealth tax would raise.
00:43:42.000It's just fair, which at least is, you know, points for honesty.
00:43:46.000Here she was being asked about a wealth tax.
00:43:48.000She's proposing a wealth tax, which is basically seizing people's wealth that has not yet been realized.
00:43:53.000So you own stock in a company, you haven't sold the stock in a company, we are just going to tax you on the unearned gains of the company.
00:44:01.000And she's asked, how much money would that raise?
00:45:09.000And it's about opposition to new technology because that is just another way that they can seize property.
00:45:13.000The bizarre rising opposition to AI is a massive problem, it is a massive national security problem, it is a massive economic problem for the United States.
00:45:23.000The Ludditism of the Democratic Party and increasingly of a splinter faction of the right.
00:45:30.000It tends to cross streams with our enemies who would all love to see us lose the AI race.
00:45:35.000Joining us online to discuss all of this is the Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum.
00:45:38.000Secretary Burgum, I want to start by asking about Democratic opposition to the building of AI data centers.0.62
00:45:44.000This has become a big talking point for a lot of the sort of Momdani communists in the Democratic Party.
00:45:49.000A huge percentage of the left wing now believes the data centers are somehow inherently bad.
00:45:59.000Why is it important that, for example, in Pennsylvania, the United States actually ramp up the capacity to build data centers and energy facilities capable of supplying them?
00:46:11.000Well, it's not just Democrats that don't want us to build AI dentist centers, our global state competitors don't want to.
00:46:19.000And then there's growing evidence that some of these local opposition that's being presented as organized, I mean, or as organic, is actually organized and perhaps funded by.0.72
00:46:29.000Foreign sources, and we just have to be very careful because we are in an AI arms race with China.
00:46:36.000This is about national security, this is a super critical thing, and it's just being conflated.0.93
00:46:43.000I can go 10 different directions on this, but let me start with one.
00:46:46.000I mean, last year Iran shot 500 projectiles at Israel in one day, you know, 400 of them, as you know, coming at low elevation and lower speeds, about 100 that were coming at higher speeds than a few hypersonics thrown in that were going to get there in 12 minutes.
00:47:03.000All timed to arrive at the same time of day.
00:47:07.000And Israel and its allies shot down like 497 of those.0.67
00:47:10.000That doesn't happen because, you know, some World War II gunner is a good shot.
00:47:24.000I mean, it's the first time in history where you can take a kilowatt of electricity and turn it into intelligence, not just light and heat.
00:47:34.000The entire left pursuit of, quote, energy transition was a complete false statement because it was never about transition.
00:47:42.000If you shut down reliable, affordable American energy and replaced it with intermittent, weather dependent, highly taxpayer subsidized, often equipment that's foreign sourced, it wasn't energy transition, it was energy subtraction.
00:47:56.000The people that were selling energy, Iran, Russia.
00:48:00.000So, you know, the whole point of President Trump's energy dominance agenda ties back into your AI question because We have to have enough energy for America to have affordability and prosperity.
00:48:10.000We have to be able to sell energy to our friends and allies so they don't have to buy it from our adversaries that are funding war and terrorism.
00:48:17.000And we need even more, particularly on the electricity front, to be able to win the AI arms race because, again, this is the key component for it's not about a data center, it's about manufacturing intelligence.
00:48:30.000A data center might be, you know, I've got a health claim, so I've got a provider, a payer, and a patient.
00:48:49.000And so when we have When we have the left, and now even on the far right, we have candidates running in red states saying that they're going to save their state by banning the manufacture of intelligence in their state.
00:49:03.000This is absurd, and it doesn't make any economic sense for those states.
00:49:09.000But we're going to see a huge amount of capital that's deployed.
00:49:12.000The five hyperscalers in America right now, $400 billion was their capital expenditures for this year to build power and build AI manufacturing.
00:49:25.000Auto manufacturing, other manufacturing, mining, all those other industries combined just in this one thing.
00:49:31.000And so the private sector is driving this, and both our regulated utilities, our policymakers, the Democrats for sure, and then the far right are all trying to stop it.
00:49:43.000We're going to see that $800 billion is not going to be spread evenly across the 50 states.
00:49:47.000It's going to go to the states that have pro energy, common sense, they understand the stuff.
00:49:52.000And so you're going to see some red states, some rural red states, That just have more capital investment than they've ever seen in their lives, particularly if they've got stranded energy that's been blocked by ENGOs blocking pipelines, blocking transmission lines.
00:50:08.000You can take and build AI manufacturing next to that source of energy and then export the finished product on a fiber optic cable.
00:50:15.000And they haven't figured out how to protest.
00:50:17.000They can protest pipelines, they've made that into an art form, but they haven't figured out how to protest a fiber optic cable yet.
00:50:24.000So the way that the U.S. is going to get through this is we're going to have some pockets of sanity.
00:50:29.000That embrace this and understand the benefits it's going to mean to the education of their kids.
00:50:35.000I mean, if you don't want to, in my state in North Dakota, when I was governor, last thing before I left office, we brought a $1.2 billion data center to an 800 person community.
00:50:47.000And they not only lowered their electric rates, the property tax revenue going into the school district from that one data center was more than the entire rest of the county.
00:50:59.000And so you could lower everybody else's property taxes, lower their electric rates.
00:51:15.000But if somebody's coming into your town and saying, be afraid, be afraid of AI, and they're telling you it's about water, it's about power, it's about your electric rates, this is the be afraid, send me a check crowd that was hyping up the climate fantasy for the last, you know, 20 years.
00:51:34.000People hyped up about one degree of climate change in 2100, especially when it's not true and the computer models don't support that.
00:51:41.000But they have been able to get people hyped up about, hey, your power bill is going to go up if there's an AI manufacturing in your state.
00:51:51.000But of course, that's also not true because the places where electricity rates have gone up have been the states that were chasing energy transition and having aggressive energy transition policies.
00:52:02.000Their electric rates have already gone up.
00:52:04.000They don't need to pass laws banning AI data centers because no.
00:52:08.000No hyperscaler is going to go to a state and build a $10 billion data center where their electricity is already three times higher than it is across a state line in a more common sense, pro Trump energy focused state.
00:52:21.000So there's a lot to unpack there, but you are spot on to ask that question.
00:52:27.000I mean, it is really astonishing how many people you see, the entire left, as you say, a fraction, splinter fashion of the right, and of course, all of America's foreign enemies are very eager to see us fail with regard to AI development, especially because.
00:52:38.000If you are concerned about things like inflation, one of the things that will allow for deflation, that will allow for prices to actually come down, is the increased productivity that is a result of innovation via AI.
00:52:47.000I mean, the manufacturing innovation that is going to be created by AI is astonishing.
00:52:53.000The new products and services that will bring prices down and make old products obsolete, it's going to be incredible.
00:52:58.000And this is exactly the stuff that is going to be foreclosed if this sort of Luddite anti AI side gets its way.
00:53:04.000And trying to blame that on energy development, as you say, is completely nonsensical.
00:53:10.000Is as vindicated publicly as the sort of drill baby drill approach that President Trump has brought over the course of his two terms, not only in terms of AI data center development, but also in terms of global geopolitics.
00:53:21.000Because the reality right now, obviously, is that as the Strait of Hormuz has been closed, as the blockade has been on Iran, as Iran has been harassing shipping in the Strait, it's the American energy industry that is holding up the American economy that continues to produce at exorbitant rates.
00:53:35.000And the rest of the world is becoming more dependent on America, not less dependent on America, actually because of things like the Strait of Hormuz and because we actually have the capacity to drill.
00:53:44.000Well, Ben, so insightful of you to, and of course, you'd be the one that understands this and can articulate it so well.
00:53:49.000But President Trump, with his energy abundance strategy, energy dominance strategy, you know, simplified down to drill, baby, drill, which means more supply, tapping into that American abundance, has changed, shifted this.
00:54:03.000I mean, this is a historic generational shift from the Middle East to the Western hemisphere.
00:54:08.000And you throw in the fact that the U.S. now number one oil producer in the world, number one natural gas producer in the world.
00:55:29.000Our allies in the Pacific, including our own territories, our own citizens on Guam, American Samoa, Marianas Islands, all of those, including Hawaii, where we have a massive military presence, they are all also dependent on oil coming from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:55:44.000It can be supplied from American supplies, like coming out of Alaska.
00:55:48.000And lastly, you know, of course, California, the most egregious Self inflictor of energy dependence at a time.
00:55:55.000They're the exception to everything I just said.
00:55:57.000They import 60% of the oil in California from foreign sources.
00:56:01.000Number one at the time of the latest conflict with Iran, beginning of February, was Iraq.
00:56:38.000And I'm really failing dramatically to do so.
00:56:41.000So, for those who have missed a controversy over the color of the bottom of a reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., can you explain to people what the administration is actually doing and why people are somehow agitated about this thing?
00:56:55.000I can't explain why they're agitated, but I can tell you President Trump did put out an executive order last year about making D.C. safe and beautiful.
00:57:03.000So, apparently, people are concerned that we're going to have a safe and beautiful capital because when you take a look at the work that's been done.
00:57:10.000By the amazing people of the National Park Service, the U.S. Park Police, which is a separate police force as part of Interior, formed by George Washington in 1791, the work they've done to drive safety in this city.
00:57:24.000But President Trump re empowering law enforcement.
00:57:27.000But again, we have over 48 monuments, 22 fountains, dozens and dozens of parks that have all been restored, 1,700 light fixtures replaced.
00:57:37.000I mean, I guess there was a conditioning under the Biden administration that we should have dark, dangerous, and desolate.
00:57:44.000Parks in the city, and those parks are run by the federal government across the metro area.
00:57:49.000And then things like the reflecting pool, which was a leftover artifact from an Obama disaster.
00:57:57.000Obama had it closed the last two years of his time in office.
00:58:01.000They spent more money and they spent two years of time.
00:58:05.000President Trump, in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost, like one tenth the time, a fraction of the cost is going to have the reflecting fuel better than ever.
00:58:13.000And the reflecting pool, of course, is this pool between.
00:58:16.000The Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument is the largest pool of its kind in the world.
00:58:21.000It's as long as the Empire State Building plus the Washington Monument, eight acres.
00:58:26.000It was leaking 45,000 gallons a day of water, and it was algae filled swamp, is basically what it was.
00:58:34.000And an international visitor of some import walked on the mall one morning, walked into the office, the Oval Office later that day, mentioned it to President Trump.
00:58:44.000President Trump gave me a call and said, We've got to fix this before.
00:58:49.000Our celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
00:58:52.000So, again, it is going to be big and beautiful, better than ever before.
00:58:57.000But how lucky are we to have a president who actually understands construction?
00:59:01.000He grew up with construction, he spent his life in construction.
00:59:44.000Uh, refilling is, uh, and the flushing is beginning today, but it's going to be all ready to go.
00:59:48.000And it's going to be, uh, magnificent.
00:59:50.000Reflecting pools are designed for one thing, to reflect.
00:59:54.000And so that's an American flag blue, the color that President Trump picked, is the perfect color to be able to do that because you want a pool to be dark if it's meant to reflect.
01:00:05.000If you want to swim in it, make the pool bottom as light as you want so you can see straight to the bottom.
01:00:14.000Secretary Bergam, I really appreciate the time and thank you for explaining what's going on at the reflecting pool, which is, of course, the most pressing issue in America, according to our legacy media.
01:00:29.000Obviously, I think their economic plans are based on confiscatory policies and procedures.
01:00:35.000I think their goal is seizure of the means of production in many cases.
01:00:38.000I think they're determined to drive down America's international advantage and all the rest.
01:00:42.000And so that means that it's pretty important that Republicans not nominate bad candidates, which is why what is going on in Iowa right now is pretty dangerous.
01:00:49.000So this week, Republicans nominated for governor a person named Zach Lan.0.95
01:00:55.000Zach Lan is sort of a maha candidate, which is to say, That he is not conservative on a wide variety of issues.
01:01:05.000And he is somewhat conspiratorial in his approach to politics.0.86
01:01:08.000Here he was with Tucker Carlson recently, talking about how the government is run by unelected people.
01:01:13.000He's very much against everything from AI development to large business.
01:01:20.000So here he was recently on Tucker Carlson.
01:01:22.000This is the new nominee for governor in Iowa who beat Randy Feenstra, who is sort of a more typical establishmentarian Trump endorsed Republican in the primary race.
01:01:33.000Somebody asked me the other day, what do you think the most pressing issue facing America is?
01:01:39.000And I like taking out the spiritual because spirituality is intertwined, but taking that out, I said, I think it's that our government is run by unelected people and we don't know who they are.
01:02:35.000But bottom line is that Lon's a weak candidate.
01:02:38.000Right now, the Calchee Marcus, Calchee's a sponsor, suggests that Democrats are now favored to win the governor's seat in Iowa, which is pretty astonishing.
01:02:45.000According to Politico, this could have some pretty significant bleed over effect.
01:02:48.000Both the Senate and governor's seats are open in Iowa at the same time for the first time since 1968.
01:02:54.000So Democrats are running a candidate who's a fairly well accepted candidate named Sand, who's going to be taking on Zach Lon.
01:03:02.000He won 38% of the vote in the primary.
01:03:05.000Sand is an avid hunter who's the only statewide elected Democratic official.
01:03:10.000And he's campaigning as a sort of moderate in Iowa.
01:03:15.000Meanwhile, in the Senate race, the Republicans have nominated a guy named Turek who's going to face.
01:03:24.000Meanwhile, in the Senate race, Democrats have nominated a candidate named Turek who will face off against GOP Representative Ashley Hinson.
01:03:32.000The early numbers there show a statistical deadlock.
01:03:36.000If Republicans lose the Iowa Senate race because the top of the ticket is weak, which could happen, Because there is the national ticket, people go to vote for the president, but they also go to vote for the governor.
01:03:46.000So, if the Republicans run a weak gubernatorial candidate who loses in a place like Iowa, it makes it more difficult for the Senate candidate to win on the GOP side in Iowa.
01:03:54.000If Republicans lose Iowa, if Republicans lose Ohio, and there's some polling suggesting that John Husted is down to Sherrod Brown in Ohio, if Republicans lose North Carolina, then they are one Senate seat away from losing control of the Senate.
01:04:09.000That's really not a great look for Republicans.
01:04:17.000They're lucky out that the Democrats picked Graham Platner.
01:04:19.000If Democrats pulled their heads out of their butts for five seconds and put Janet Mills up, they would have a very serious shot of stealing the Senate away from the Republicans.
01:04:30.000Again, this is some big, smooth brain stuff happening at state party levels on the Republican side.0.57
01:04:36.000Again, picking the riskier candidate every single time is typically not a great way to win Senate seats.
01:04:43.000Meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, yesterday, a meaningless War Powers Resolution was passed by the House of Representatives, 215 to 208.
01:04:52.000Now, you'll recognize that 215 is not, in fact, a majority of 435, which is the number of members of Congress.
01:04:57.000There are a bunch of Republicans who didn't show up for the vote, but four Republicans did switch over and vote with the Democrats to basically demand that America pull troops from Iran, which is weird because we don't actually have troops in Iran.
01:05:11.000It doesn't mean much, but it does, again, generate this feeling among people that, that, The war is unpopular and losing.
01:05:19.000It also undercuts the president in a time of war, which is a pretty bad look.
01:05:24.000The president's policy continues to be, in my opinion, discombobulated with regard to Iran.
01:05:30.000The president seems to want a deal really, really badly.
01:05:32.000And the best way to not get a deal in Iran is to want a deal really, really badly because they're just going to continue to force Trump to the ground if they believe that they can continue to drag this out.
01:05:43.000Over the course of the last 48 hours, Iran launched a series of strikes against Kuwait.
01:05:49.000They hit Kuwait, according to the Wall Street Journal, with a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones, shutting down its international airport, killing one person, injuring dozens more.
01:05:59.000Here is some CCTV of an Iranian drone striking the Kuwait International Airport.
01:06:03.000You can see it coming in, blowing a gigantic hole into the airport's roof.
01:06:08.000There is serious damage inside the Kuwait airport as well.
01:06:12.000Here's what it looks like inside Kuwait's airport.
01:06:57.000You know, I'd say in that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.
01:07:04.000No, that is not what a ceasefire is, typically speaking.
01:07:07.000And if you sign on to such a ceasefire, that is a very bad idea.
01:07:10.000The reality, again, we've talked about this at length on the show.
01:07:12.000I'm sure we'll talk about it more.0.91
01:07:14.000The worst case scenario here is that the president signs a bad deal that frees up a bunch of cash to the Iranians without getting rid of their nuclear program, their ballistic missile program, and their support for terrorism.0.92
01:07:23.000If we free up their economy and we allow them to rebuild all of those capacities and rebuild their terror networks, that would be the worst case scenario.0.87
01:07:30.000And so, what that means is that the president should either commit to a path of action in which we indefinitely shut down their economy indefinitely, which I'm not sure he wants to do, or we strike their oil facilities on Kharga Island and South Pars gas field and we destroy their future capacity to rebuild, which is what that would do.0.76
01:07:48.000That comes with the danger that Iran will fire more stuff at Kuwait and Qatar and UAE and Saudi.
01:07:54.000But some of our allies, like UAE, are willing to undergo that threat if it means that the Iranian government is basically on its last legs.
01:08:03.000The worst thing that could happen here would be a linkage, for example, of Iran's demands in the Strait of Hormuz with Lebanon.
01:08:11.000So if the president doesn't want to do any of that, then what he should do at this point is he should say, We degraded tremendously their ballistic missile program.
01:08:20.000We degraded tremendously their nuclear program.
01:08:22.000We degraded tremendously their Navy and their Air Force, which no longer exist.0.99
01:08:25.000Their economy continues to be trash.0.96
01:08:29.000To be able to export their oil, it would not make up for the economic disaster, the slow rolling economic disaster that's overtaken the country and that materialized before the US invasion, before the US action.
01:08:43.000And we should leave it to our Gulf allies and Israel to do Overwatch.0.94
01:08:49.000That seems to me a fine solution to the problem at this point.0.95
01:08:53.000We should arm them up and we should let them do the work they need to do.
01:08:57.000They've been happy to do the work, by the way.
01:08:59.000The truth is, the UAE was flying sorties during this war.
01:09:02.000Israel has been flying a large majority of the sorties during this war.
01:09:05.000And so it seems like fairly decent policy for the United States to basically work with our Gulf allies to free up the Strait of Hormuz and then say, okay, we've done what we were supposed to do.0.73
01:09:16.000We've significantly degraded their capacity and their economy.
01:09:23.000That seems like a fairly good solution, not just my solution, also Condy Rice's solution.
01:09:28.000The former Secretary of State has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal.
01:09:30.000She says, in sum, Iran is far weaker today than it was in February.
01:09:34.000No amount of Iranian propaganda can mask this reality.
01:09:37.000America's near term goals should be to keep it in that weakened state, to strengthen the region's political realignment, and to make certain that President Trump's promise that Iran will never possess a nuclear weapon is fulfilled.
01:09:47.000The United States does not need a nuclear agreement with Iran to achieve these goals.
01:09:51.000Once the Strait of Hormuz is opened, if the administration engages in nuclear negotiations, it's critical the following conditions are maintained.
01:09:57.000Not a single penny of frozen assets or sanctions relief should go to Tehran.
01:10:03.000She, of course, is exactly right about all of that.
01:10:06.000Meanwhile, Secretary of State Rubio was testifying in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and things got bizarre, shall we say.
01:10:16.000Mr. Secretary, it seems like you have an issue admitting facts.
01:10:19.000You can't say that the president lost the 2020 election, just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice, and just like you couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big.
01:10:30.000You clearly don't know what winning means, and not because the facts are unclear to you, it's because telling the truth would cost you your job, and the American people are entitled to a Secretary of State who tells them the truth even when the president doesn't want to hear it, and my constituents, our service members, deserve better.
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