The Ben Shapiro Show - THE PEACE PRESIDENT: Trump Brokers Israel-Hamas HOSTAGE RELEASE, Ceasefire

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00:00:51.000 Well, President Donald J. Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:00:53.000 I mean, this was true during his first term when he brokered the Abraham Accords. 0.99

00:00:56.000 It's even more true today.

00:00:58.000 The President of the United States has brokered a phase one deal between Israel and Hamas with the support of legitimately everybody in the region and all the countries all over Europe as well in favor of the full-scale release of 20 living hostages who have been kept in solitude, in tunnels, starved for two years at this point, since October 7th, 2023.

00:01:21.000 And the president deserves full marks for this.

00:01:23.000 So too does the Prime Minister of Israel, B.B. Netanyahu, who has steadfastly said that Israel would get back its hostages and also would win the war.

00:01:32.000 There's a lot of talk about Netanyahu caving, doing partial hostage deals.

00:01:37.000 There's a lot of pressure for him to do so.

00:01:39.000 Instead, he said everybody comes out.

00:01:41.000 The President of the United States not only backed that play, he brokered the deal itself.

00:01:45.000 And we have yet to see what the rest of the deal would look like.

00:01:48.000 So just to understand where we are, there is a phase one deal.

00:01:52.000 In that phase one deal, the hostages are supposed to be released.

00:01:56.000 The living hostages are supposed to be released, probably by Monday.

00:02:00.000 That's what the President of the United States said.

00:02:02.000 It could be earlier.

00:02:03.000 Hamas is claiming that they don't have the bodies of the 28 deceased hostages, the remaining hostages who are supposed to be handed over, those corpses apparently are dispersed across the Gaza Strip.

00:02:13.000 Hamas wants more time to go look for those dead bodies.

00:02:16.000 We know they've played games about this sort of stuff before.

00:02:19.000 In return, Israel is going to release some 250 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons, as well as 1,700 Palestinian terrorists who have been detained in Gaza for fighting Israel during the war.

00:02:33.000 It's unclear who is on the list at this point.

00:02:35.000 Israel will also withdraw to a preset line inside the Gaza Strip, not to what would be a sort of final settlement line, which would involve a buffer zone around the edge of the Gaza Strip with a provisional government in place and all the rest.

00:02:48.000 But some percentage of the enclave will be pulled back to by the IDF.

00:02:54.000 And the Rafah crossing with Egypt apparently is supposed to open to facilitate aid delivery in.

00:03:00.000 Now, of course, that is dangerous for Israel because facilitated aid by Egypt into the Gaza Strip, presumably could be used by Hamas to rearm.

00:03:08.000 And so what happens in phase two is going to be very important here.

00:03:12.000 Just in terms of fully ending the war, in terms of this not just being a ceasefire, but achieving the release of the hostages is a massive step forward, particularly for Israel, because if Hamas no longer holds hostages, then at that point, Hamas's leverage on Israel to stop Israel from killing their terror leaders and destroying terror enclaves. 0.53

00:03:31.000 That leverage goes away.

00:03:32.000 Hamas is counting on pressure from the United States and the Arab world to prevent Israel from doing that in the future and allowing Hamas to reconstitute.

00:03:39.000 I highly doubt that President Trump is going to be warm toward allowing Hamas to reconstitute.

00:03:44.000 In fact, even the Arab world is not warm toward that anymore.

00:03:46.000 Al Jazeera over the weekend, Al Jazeera, which is a Qatari-backed propagandist group, on behalf of terrorism all across the region.

00:03:54.000 Al Jazeera put out an editorial calling on Hamas to disarm.

00:03:57.000 So even Qatar understands at this point that Hamas cannot be a part of the Gazan future.

00:04:04.000 President Trump announced this on truth social.

00:04:07.000 He said, I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan. 0.81

00:04:13.000 This means that all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line as the first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace.

00:04:20.000 All parties will be treated fairly.

00:04:22.000 This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America.

00:04:26.000 And we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey who worked with us to make this historic and unprecedented event happen.

00:04:31.000 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:04:33.000 And again, President Trump deserves full marks because it was President Trump who not only brokered this deal, but completely changed the math around on this deal.

00:04:42.000 In terms of public relations, obviously, Israel has been subjected to two years of full-scale legacy media lies, TikTok lies, social media lies.

00:04:51.000 There were claims that Israel was committing a genocide within literally the first week of the war, and those claims only escalated thanks to the virality of the claims and the repetition in the legacy media of those claims, which were never true the entire war.

00:05:03.000 But there's no question that Israel suffered a lot in terms of public relations to the point where there were nations moving to isolate Israel, up to and including trying to preliminarily declare a Palestinian state with no government, no borders, and no responsibility for their own citizens.

00:05:17.000 President Trump shifted that around.

00:05:18.000 President Trump took a look at the situation and he said, listen, we're going to get to a deal now.

00:05:23.000 And then he put pressure in the right places.

00:05:25.000 He offered carrots and he offered sticks.

00:05:28.000 And in a moment, I'm going to get to what changed here.

00:05:30.000 Because that's really the question.

00:05:31.000 What changed between October 7th, 2023 and October 8th, 2025?

00:05:37.000 What changed to allow for the full-scale release of the hostages and the possible end of the war?

00:05:42.000 We'll get to that in in just a second.

00:05:44.000 The Prime Minister of Israel put out a statement.

00:05:46.000 He said, with the approval of the first phase of the plan, all our hostages will be brought home.

00:05:49.000 This is a diplomatic success and a national and moral victory for the state of Israel.

00:05:53.000 From the beginning, I made it clear, we will not rest until all our hostages return and all our goals are achieved.

00:05:57.000 Through steadfast resolve, powerful military action, and the great efforts of our great friend and ally President Trump, we have reached this critical turning point.

00:06:04.000 I thank President Trump for his leadership, his partnership, and his unwavering commitment to the safety of Israel and the freedom of our hostages.

00:06:09.000 God bless Israel.

00:06:10.000 God bless America.

00:06:11.000 God bless our great alliance.

00:06:12.000 And of course, I spoke with the Prime Minister just a couple of days ago.

00:06:15.000 You can go view that interview over on YouTube or listen to it on any of us our RSS feeds to understand the Prime Minister's view of the war, how far Israel has come and where Israel stands in the region at this time.

00:06:27.000 The President of the United States is scheduled to go to Egypt to presumably sign the agreement and then travel on to Israel, where he is now scheduled to address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Sunday.

00:06:39.000 The level of excitement, not only for the deal, but for President Trump to visit, so that they can celebrate President Trump is extraordinary.

00:06:47.000 I don't think there will be anything remotely like it, frankly, in Israeli history with regard to a welcome for a leader from the United States.

00:06:56.000 President Trump has like a 95% approval rating in the state of Israel, and that is for a reason because President Trump inherently understands the Middle East in a way that Westerners typically do not understand the Middle East.

00:07:07.000 He understands that in the Middle East, power rules. 0.97

00:07:10.000 He understands that in the Middle East, there is no solution but moving through. 1.00

00:07:14.000 He understands that in the Middle East, concessions are seen generally as a sign of weakness.

00:07:19.000 And what he understands most of all is that the United States' role very often is to provide the carrot while Israel provides the stick. 0.85

00:07:26.000 All of the lies that conflict can't be solved through military power, that is untrue.

00:07:31.000 Because fundamentally, what changed between October 7, 2023 and October 8th, 2025, is that the state of Israel destroyed its enemies on a wide variety of fronts.

00:07:44.000 That is the thing fundamentally that changed.

00:07:46.000 And then the United States has come in at the end and offered the assurances necessary to America's Arab allies and regional allies, and Israel provided the stick to many of those same people to compel them to get Hamas to give up the ghost and release the hostages. 0.58

00:08:02.000 Hamas has put out a statement as well after responsible and serious negotiations between the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President Trump's proposal in Sharm al-Shikh, which is in Egypt, with the aim of ending the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.

00:08:19.000 The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announces the signing of an agreement stipulating the end of the war in Gaza, the withdrawal of the occupation from it, the entry of aid and a prisoner exchange.

00:08:27.000 Okay, so let's just be clear.

00:08:30.000 It does not actually formally end the war in Gaza.

00:08:33.000 That is yet to happen in stage two or stage three.

00:08:35.000 The quote unquote withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza, Israel will be withdrawing from certain areas in exchange for the hostages, but certainly not a total military withdrawal.

00:08:44.000 That would be foolhardy and idiotic.

00:08:46.000 Israel cannot withdraw from an area that is still occupied by terrorists.

00:08:50.000 That was precisely the problem in 2005, when Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip to the tender mercies of Hamas. 0.89

00:08:56.000 Hamas continues, we greatly appreciate the efforts of our brothers mediating in Qatar Egypt and Turkey. 0.96

00:09:01.000 We also appreciate the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, who seeks to bring about a final end to the war and the complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.

00:09:08.000 Again, this is Hamas projecting. 0.87

00:09:10.000 We call on President Trump, the countries guaranteeing the agreement, and various Arab Islamic and international parties to compel the occupation government to fully implement the terms of the agreement and not allow it to evade or delay the implementation of what was agreed upon.

00:09:21.000 So now Hamas is going to try to claim more was in the agreement than was in the agreement in order to put pressure on Israel because they do not have the military capacity to withstand Israel, and thanks to the pressure, largely of its erstwhile allies, Qatar and Turkey.

00:09:33.000 Understand the funding mechanisms for Hamas were Qatar and Turkey.

00:09:37.000 When those went away, then Hamas was isolated.

00:09:41.000 And at that point, all they basically have left is verbiage.

00:09:45.000 And then Hamas continues. 0.53

00:09:46.000 We salute our great people in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem and in the West Bank, both inside the homeland and abroad, have demonstrated unprecedented pride, heroism, and honor in confronting the fascist occupations plans directed against them and their national rights again.

00:09:57.000 Hilarious to her Hamas, an actual fascist genocidal invading force talking about Israel, a democracy as a fascist occupation. 0.89

00:10:05.000 The sacrifices of our people were not in vain.

00:10:08.000 Um yes, they most certainly not only were they in vain, the quote unquote sacrifices of Hamas, it was the worst own goal in the history of the Middle East. 0.87

00:10:18.000 What Hamas did is the worst owned goal in the history of the Middle East. 0.83

00:10:22.000 In a moment we'll get into what changed here.

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00:12:47.000 President Trump did an interview with Sean Hannity last night, in which he explained that it's been an amazing period of time that he's mobilized the entire world.

00:12:55.000 He said it's been great for everyone.

00:12:57.000 It's a great honor to be involved in it.

00:12:59.000 We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from uh Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner and Marco and we had everybody, JD, the whole group was just amazing.

00:13:12.000 And the military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.

00:13:17.000 We have a great military with great leadership.

00:13:20.000 Uh the whole world came together, to be honest.

00:13:22.000 Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of they they came together.

00:13:26.000 The world has come together around this deal.

00:13:29.000 And that's something I would say that without that, uh it wouldn't happen.

00:13:34.000 Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have wired their uh best wishes and and their commitment to do whatever is necessary.

00:13:42.000 The the countries surrounding have all signed.

00:13:45.000 I mean, they're all signed up and uh it's it's been it's been really an amazing period of time, and so great for Israel, so great for Muslims for the Arab countries, uh, and so great for this country, for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in you know, making a deal like this happen because it was you know, many years they talked about peace in the Middle East.

00:14:08.000 This is more than Gaza, this is peace in the Middle East, and it's uh an incredible thing.

00:14:14.000 Well, again, President Trump sees this as the opening to a broader peace in the Middle East.

00:14:19.000 This is just the beginning.

00:14:20.000 Because once this war is over, then there is seriously the possibility of a bunch of Abraham Accords happening, including Saudi Arabia, including places like Indonesia, places that are not necessarily even in the region. 0.75

00:14:31.000 There's no question the President of the United States deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:14:34.000 I mean, who else is gonna get it?

00:14:35.000 Grena Thunberg.

00:14:36.000 If anyone but President Trump receives the Nobel Peace Prize this year, then it just demonstrates I mean it's already been demonstrated over and over what a complete bleep show the Nobel Committee is.

00:14:46.000 But if they don't give them the peace prize, then it just demonstrates full scale how ridiculous they're Barack Obama received one for being alive and breathing and being elected president of the United States.

00:14:54.000 Yes or Arafat received a Nobel Peace Prize, the arch terror master.

00:14:58.000 Donald Trump, if you can't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, honest to God, I disband the committee at this point.

00:15:04.000 President Trump announced that the hostages will be released soon.

00:15:08.000 He said at the very latest by Monday.

00:15:10.000 My understanding is that the live hostages will be released before then.

00:15:13.000 The only question is about the corpses of the hostages who were murdered by Hamas.

00:15:17.000 The big thing is uh hostages are going to be released.

00:15:21.000 It's probably uh our time would be probably Monday.

00:15:25.000 And you know, it's it's they're terribly a terrible situation.

00:15:30.000 They're they're deep, they're deep in in the earth, and they're being gotten and a lot of things are happening right now.

00:15:37.000 As we speak, so much is happening to get the hostages freed, and uh we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.

00:15:46.000 So it looks like that's uh the thing, and that that'll include uh the bodies of the dead.

00:15:52.000 Okay, so again, that is obviously huge news.

00:15:55.000 Everybody here in Israel right now, and again, I came to Israel for the Jewish holidays.

00:15:59.000 Everybody here in Israel is at the very least relieved, and I would say the overwhelming feeling is ecstatic to get the hostages home.

00:16:07.000 This has been the main issue that has been driving internal dissent and debate inside of Israel.

00:16:12.000 There's unity against Hamas, and there has been since October seventh.

00:16:15.000 But there has been a lot of roiling inside of Israel about the status of the hostages, what can be done to free them.

00:16:21.000 President Trump said it's not just gonna end with the hostage release, Gaza will end up a safer place.

00:16:25.000 And this is where what happens in stage two, stage three, that's where that matters.

00:16:29.000 Hamas cannot remain in charge, obviously, of the Gaza Strip.

00:16:32.000 Hamas does have to be disarmed, some sort of provisional authority.

00:16:36.000 We would hope under Tony Blair or someone like that would have to take place.

00:16:40.000 The place needs to be made safe, and then investment dollars that go in will be used to actually build things as opposed to terror tunnels and rockets, which is what Hamas spent all the money on for the last twenty years or so.

00:16:49.000 Here's President Trump talking about the future of Gaza.

00:16:51.000 Well, Gaza is gonna be a uh peaceful, much safer place.

00:16:55.000 Obviously, it's been blown to pieces, and this is just not by Israel. 0.83

00:16:59.000 This is over years and years and years.

00:17:01.000 It's been heartache for many years.

00:17:03.000 A lot of people say this is a deal for three thousand years.

00:17:06.000 So whether you say five hundred, because some people say five hundred based on events, but other people say this is something historic for three thousand years is nothing ever going to be bigger than this.

00:17:17.000 And so Gaza, we believe is gonna be a much safer place, and it's gonna be a place that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct, because they have tremendous amounts of wealth, and they want to see that happen, and we'll be involved in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful, but I think it's going to be peaceful.

00:17:38.000 I think uh again the Iran situation was very important doing what we had to do, which was again twenty-two years uh it was planned to be done, and nobody, no other president wanted to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they didn't do it.

00:17:54.000 And having that was very important.

00:17:56.000 But you know, I'm very uh I'm very confident there'll be peace in the Middle East.

00:18:00.000 I mean, the words peace in the Middle East are something people have been striving for for hundreds of years for for centuries, for many centuries, and uh we really have every country has come together.

00:18:14.000 So again, what happens next in Gaza is gonna matter an awful lot, and that will require some oversight because Gazans apparently were in the streets celebrating the deal.

00:18:22.000 Anytime there's a ceasefire, there's a celebration in Gaza because it means that Gaza stops getting walloped, obviously, but it also means a false claim of victory.

00:18:30.000 Apparently, many Gazans were in the street chanting their usual anti-Semitic chant of Chaibar Chaibar Ya Yehud, which is a celebration of a passage in the Quran in which Muhammad wipes out a Jewish city, essentially.

00:18:43.000 So, you know, again, the idea that the Palestinians have suddenly become moderate, it was not true in the first place.

00:18:48.000 It is still not true.

00:18:49.000 What happens next is what has to happen in every area that is that is rife with crime and violence and genocidal thought, which is it has to be made quiet.

00:18:59.000 But the first step toward that is the release of the Israeli hostages.

00:19:03.000 And again, it seems as though there is unity in the region on the idea that Hamas not only needs to be ousted, but that the Gaza Strip needs to become a quiescent place. 0.60

00:19:12.000 President Trump talked about the fact that he was able to form a coalition with the Arab nations in order to achieve this.

00:19:17.000 A lot of the Arab nations that have formed coalitions with you were reluctant and resistant for decades to ever be a part of the solution.

00:19:26.000 That was a big part of what happened here today.

00:19:28.000 Explain, can you explain that part of it?

00:19:31.000 Well, I develop relationships with people, and sometimes those relationships lead to great things.

00:19:36.000 And in the case of many of the Arab nations, uh the wealthiest nations in the world, if you look.

00:19:43.000 Although with what we've done in the United States, I think we top everybody.

00:19:48.000 So he is he is right about this, obviously.

00:19:51.000 Coming up more on this amazing deal that President Trump has cut.

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00:22:09.000 And again, the future of the Middle East is happening right now.

00:22:12.000 The reshaping of the Middle East. 0.83

00:22:14.000 Now, President Trump made the point in this interview with Sean Hannity.

00:22:16.000 It's a great point that one of the preconditions to this deal happening was the elimination of the Iranian nuclear capacity. 0.76

00:22:23.000 It was absolutely crucial.

00:22:26.000 Because, again, we'll go through the timeline in a moment.

00:22:28.000 When you look at this war, essentially what happened is that you had a seven-front war on Israel from a variety of enemies, and one by one, the threats were removed in each of those areas, and finally Hamas had no support upon which to stand.

00:22:41.000 And when that happened, then you finally get a ceasefire and a possible move toward peace.

00:22:47.000 That's what has to happen.

00:22:48.000 Remove all of the support structures beneath the terror masters, and they collapse.

00:22:52.000 Here is President Trump talking about the necessity of the United States single B2 Sortie that took out the Natan's nuclear facility in Iran.

00:23:00.000 Well, Iran was about uh one month, maybe two months away from having a nuclear weapon.

00:23:07.000 And if I allowed that to happen, this deal would not have been possible, or if it was, it would have a tremendous cloud over it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon that was not obviously very friendly.

00:23:20.000 And the power of nuclear weapons is something that we shouldn't even be talking about.

00:23:24.000 It's so massive.

00:23:25.000 And so uh by doing that, we now have something where actually Iran and I and Iran and a number of people have been talking about a deal, but it's a very much different Iran.

00:23:37.000 And frankly, uh we've had a we've had some very good conversations, and as you saw, they blessed the deal.

00:23:43.000 They put out a few hours ago a statement that they agree with the deal and they blessed the deal.

00:23:49.000 That's a tremendous thing.

00:23:50.000 I believe if they had a nuclear weapon, there would be a whole different even if we made the deal, it would be it would have literally it would have a very dark cloud over it because of what could potentially happen.

00:24:01.000 So now there is there are no dark clouds.

00:24:03.000 We're gonna have uh peace.

00:24:05.000 And by the way, I I believe Iran's gonna be actually a part of the whole peace situation.

00:24:10.000 But countries that frankly didn't get along, they're they're all involved, and uh it's brought the whole world together.

00:24:17.000 It's amazing.

00:24:19.000 So, what changed?

00:24:20.000 Right?

00:24:21.000 And this is the big question.

00:24:22.000 What changed between October 7th, 2023 and October 8th, 2025, which is when the deal effectively was made.

00:24:27.000 It was announced in the early morning hours of October 9th.

00:24:31.000 And again, the the anniversary means something here.

00:24:34.000 I mean, we are coming up on Simchat Torah, which is the Hebrew date upon which this attack was launched. 0.83

00:24:40.000 We're in the middle of Sukkot right now, which is a Jewish holiday that lasts in Israel seven days, it lasts eight days outside of Israel.

00:24:47.000 That is slated for the beginning of next week.

00:24:50.000 And so it is quite possible the hostages will be released essentially on the eve of the day that the war started two years ago.

00:24:58.000 What changed?

00:24:59.000 Because something changed.

00:25:00.000 Because Hamas could have given up all the hostages right away, and they could have surrendered right away, and then all of this could have been avoided, or they could have never done October 7th. 0.78

00:25:07.000 But something changed.

00:25:08.000 To understand, you actually have to look at the timeline.

00:25:10.000 Again, here is the point.

00:25:12.000 When people say that war doesn't work or force doesn't work, well, when you have an intransigent enemy that attacks you, it turns out that actually force and war are the only way to remove their capacity to harm you and undermine them.

00:25:25.000 Hamas invaded Israel October 7th, 2023.

00:25:28.000 They killed 1200 people, mainly Jews, and they took 250 hostages.

00:25:33.000 Hezbollah, which was a Lebanese terror group backed by Iran, essentially an Iranian proxy in the north of Israel in Lebanon, they began launching small strikes in the north, and that gradually escalated into major rocket assaults that emptied the north of Israel of hundreds of thousands of citizens, hundreds of thousands of people in Israel left their homes and moved south in Israel.

00:25:53.000 So when the war began, essentially Israel was on retreat in Gaza, and they had started already on retreat in the north of Israel.

00:26:01.000 Before Israel even struck back, the propaganda war began, massive protests in the streets in favor of Hamas.

00:26:06.000 Within days, those protests started promoting the lie of an Israeli genocide, which of course escalated over the course of two years, two long years.

00:26:15.000 Now, there were some very short ceasefires that were reached in order to exchange prisoners.

00:26:20.000 So Israel responded overwhelmingly in mid to late October, and by early November, a short ceasefire was reached, including a prisoner exchange with a hundred and five hostages released at the time.

00:26:32.000 Presumably in an attempt by Hamas to forestall what was to come next.

00:26:35.000 But that ceasefire ended because Hamas was still in place, and Israel was not going to leave the body of terrorists who'd been running the place for 20 years in place. 0.79

00:26:43.000 In January 2024, there was another small ceasefire, some 16 hostages were released.

00:26:47.000 There was another small hostage release in January 2025.

00:26:51.000 There was a special release of Idan Alexander, the sole American who was being held at that point in custody in hostage situations by by Hamas.

00:27:01.000 In order for Hamas to try to pay some sort of tribute to President Trump massive terrorist release in exchange on Israel's side for Idan Alexander in February 2025, there were another six.

00:27:10.000 In February, there are another three.

00:27:12.000 so for all of those hostages, Israel released literally thousands of terrorists, people who had received the death penalty for terrorism.

00:27:19.000 There is no death penalty in Israel.

00:27:20.000 They'd receive life sentences.

00:27:21.000 We're talking about thousands of terrorists, hundreds of whom had received life sentences for terrorism and for murder and for attempted murder.

00:27:29.000 And these were released by Israel in exchange in the middle of a war, knowing that a huge percentage of these people were probably going to go back to the war.

00:27:38.000 So it wasn't there were these sort of temporary hostage releases.

00:27:41.000 These sort of happened.

00:27:45.000 What actually happened?

00:27:46.000 If you look at a map of the Middle East, Israel won on every single front, on every single front.

00:27:52.000 On April 1st, Israel decided it would no longer be allowing Iran to essentially spread its terror tentacles throughout the region.

00:28:00.000 Because all the various forces throughout the region that were fighting Israel were backed by Iran.

00:28:04.000 Hamas was backed by Iran.

00:28:06.000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria backed by Iran.

00:28:12.000 Syria, the Assad regime was being backed by Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon was backed by Iran.

00:28:20.000 There were forces in Iraq to work by Iran.

00:28:22.000 Iran itself had been attacking Israel, and the Houthis in Yemen had been attacking the they, of course, are supported by Iran. 0.79

00:28:29.000 So Israel began defenestrating every single one of these pillars. 0.75

00:28:33.000 So on April 1st, 2024, Israel killed two top Iranian generals in Damascus, making clear to the Iranians that they would not be allowing Iran to up the ante in places like Syria, that they wouldn't allow another front to open in Syria.

00:28:46.000 In response, Iran fired a few missiles into Israel.

00:28:49.000 Israel then killed Ismail Khania, who is the political leader of Hamas on July 31st, 2024, in an assassination in Iran.

00:28:58.000 Khania had been living in Qatar.

00:29:00.000 He went to Iran for some sort of big festival on behalf of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment, and he was killed in Iran.

00:29:09.000 On September 17th, 2024, Israel opened the front against Hezbollah.

00:29:13.000 So Hezbollah again had cleared the entire north of Israel. 0.93

00:29:16.000 There was no one living in these areas because of the constant rocket attacks.

00:29:20.000 And Israel launched the single most targeted and brilliant anti-terror campaign in the history of the world, that beeper attack on Hezbollah, where they literally had Hezbollah distributed pagers blow up on the members of Hezbollah with minimal cost to civilians.

00:29:37.000 There will never be no cost to civilians when you're attacking terrorists, but minimal cost, like the single most targeted attack in human history.

00:29:44.000 Days later, Israel entered Lebanon to clear the south of Hezbollah and slammed Hezbollah targets throughout the country.

00:29:50.000 On September 27th, 2024, they killed the charismatic leader of Hezbollah Hassan at Nasralah.

00:29:56.000 They bombed him into the ground, literally into the ground.

00:29:59.000 He was in a bunker underneath a building, and they hit the building with a bunch of 10,000 pound bombs and killed Nasralah.

00:30:06.000 That prompted Iran, who again had supported Nasra and Hezbollah to fire a few more missiles into Israel.

00:30:11.000 Just a couple of weeks after that, Israel killed Yachya Sinwar, who was the mastermind of October 7th and the military leader of Hamas.

00:30:18.000 They had also killed Mohammed Dayf, who was the military leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

00:30:24.000 Thanks to the defenestration of Hezbollah, Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria because he did not have the support of Hezbollah.

00:30:32.000 He was not in fact toppled by the Israelis.

00:30:33.000 He was in fact toppled by the Turks.

00:30:35.000 The Turks backed a terrorist group called HTS, which ran down from the north of Syria and basically just took Damascus.

00:30:43.000 So Assad fell as a result of him lacking the support base of Hezbollah.

00:30:48.000 And then, of course, June 12th, 2025, Israel began attacking Iran's nuclear infrastructure launching the famed 12-day war that ended with President Trump giving the order to destroy the Iranian nuclear facility at Natans.

00:30:59.000 On September 9th, 2025, Israel attacked Hamas in Qatar.

00:31:03.000 So what changed here?

00:31:05.000 What changed?

00:31:06.000 As I give you that, that very sort of truncated timeline.

00:31:08.000 One, Israel dominated its opponents.

00:31:11.000 Israel did not cut peace deals in which it gave concessions to a bunch of terrorists.

00:31:16.000 Instead, Israel dominated its opponents. 0.67

00:31:18.000 It dominated them in the south in the Gaza Strip.

00:31:21.000 It dominated them in the north with Hezbollah.

00:31:23.000 It dominated them in Iran.

00:31:24.000 It dominated its opponent.

00:31:27.000 Second, President Donald J. Trump happened.

00:31:30.000 So in 2024, Israel did extraordinarily heavy work. 0.76

00:31:33.000 Again, go back to that timeline.

00:31:34.000 They killed Khania in Iran in 2024 while Joe Biden was president.

00:31:38.000 They killed Hassan Azrallah while Joe Biden was president.

00:31:41.000 They killed Yachya Sinwar while Joe Biden was president.

00:31:45.000 But the pressure from Joe Biden gave life to Hamas in the same way that Emmanuel Macron, the moron president of France, gave life to Hamas by saying he would give them a state.

00:31:55.000 Joe Biden, by slow walking aid to the Israelis by telling Israelis, don't go into Rafa.

00:31:59.000 You remember all eyes on Rafah?

00:32:01.000 And then Israel took Rafah in three weeks with minimal loss of civilian life.

00:32:05.000 All of that pressure on Israel gave the public relations lift to Hamas that it was looking for in order for them to prolong the war. 0.71

00:32:12.000 Public relations matters and Hamas knew it.

00:32:15.000 There's a great book by Elisharabi, who was being held as a hostage by Hamas for almost 600 days.

00:32:20.000 And Elishrabi talks about Hamas members would come to him and show him videos of protesters in Israel against the government and say, look, your country is collapsing.

00:32:30.000 And show him headlines from abroad and say, look, we have support from abroad.

00:32:34.000 PR matter to Hamas because Hamas couldn't win on the battlefield, so they felt that they would win in the court of public opinion and put so much pressure on Israel that Israel would be forced to concede.

00:32:43.000 And credit to Prime Minister Netanyahu and to obviously the IDF and the people of Israel, that didn't happen.

00:32:49.000 And then Donald Trump was elected, and everything changed.

00:32:52.000 It changed because Donald Trump made clear that he would not be providing any level of support, either rhetorical or material to Hamas, that in fact, Hamas was on its last legs.

00:33:03.000 He promised there would be hell to pay, and there was, in fact, hell to pay.

00:33:07.000 He said, I will back the stick.

00:33:09.000 If Israel is the stick, I will back the stick. 0.99

00:33:11.000 And suddenly the support started to evaporate for Hamas from abroad.

00:33:16.000 Because remember, it wasn't just that Hamas had support from Iran.

00:33:20.000 They also had support from Qatar.

00:33:21.000 They had support from Turkey.

00:33:22.000 They had support from erstwhile American allies, who we've been told are our greatest allies in the region by some.

00:33:28.000 And those greatest allies in the region were supporting Hamas. 0.98

00:33:31.000 They were hosting their top people.

00:33:33.000 They were sending material support to these places.

00:33:35.000 When Hamas members get injured and get shipped out, they go to Turkey. 0.88

00:33:40.000 Okay, so all of the setup was here.

00:33:42.000 And then something happened in the last few weeks.

00:33:45.000 And the thing that happened in the last few weeks, there are really two things.

00:33:48.000 One, Israel struck at the Hamas leadership in Qatar.

00:33:51.000 Now, on the one hand, it was a failed strike.

00:33:54.000 They didn't kill the Hamas leadership in Qatar.

00:33:57.000 But the message of the Qatar strike was very clear that Israel, if not held back by the United States, would in fact strike Hamas anywhere, including in Qatar.

00:34:07.000 And President Trump, being actually truly good at this, like really, really good at this, then came in and offered the carrot.

00:34:14.000 So Israel made clear that there was a stick.

00:34:15.000 The stick was that they would strike anywhere, that if pressed to the mat, Israel would strike Hamas anywhere. 0.66

00:34:20.000 They would strike terrorists anywhere.

00:34:21.000 That was the stick.

00:34:22.000 President Trump then came in and he offered security assurances to Qatar and F-35s to Turkey, and that was the carrot.

00:34:29.000 But the care came along with a string.

00:34:30.000 And the string was if you want those security assurances, you need to force Hamas to give up the hostages. 0.53

00:34:35.000 Now, I should point out at this point that if that's true, then the single biggest blunder of this entire war was Joe Biden not saying to Qatar on October 8th, you guys, your support structure from the United States goes away unless you force the release.

00:34:50.000 If in fact Qatar and Turkey had the power to make Hamas give up the ghost, the fact that they have not done so for two years tells you something.

00:34:56.000 Okay, so that is one big thing that happened.

00:34:58.000 That strike against Hamas in Qatar that acted as a stick toward Qatar and toward Turkey.

00:35:04.000 And then the president of the United States coming in the back door and saying, no more strikes in Qatar, security assurances to Qatar, maybe F-35s to Turkey.

00:35:12.000 That's the carrot, but only if we all get on the same page that Hamas cannot rule the Gaza Strip.

00:35:17.000 And finally, the IDF doing, again, just unbelievable, extraordinary work, truly, sweeping through Gaza City.

00:35:25.000 So again, there is this talk that Israel would never be able to take Gaza City was impossible.

00:35:29.000 It would be impossible for them to take Gaza City.

00:35:32.000 What prompted the end of the war was that every single layer of support that Hamas had evaporated.

00:35:38.000 It went away.

00:35:39.000 Their PR support went away the minute that President Trump swiveled on Hamas and forced Qatar and Turkey to do the same.

00:35:45.000 Their support from Qatar and Turkey went away because President Trump forced Qatar and Turkey to the mat.

00:35:50.000 Their military support had already gone away because Israel had destroyed it.

00:35:54.000 Their support from Iran went away because Iran can't even get water to its own citizens in Tehran.

00:35:59.000 And its nuclear program Is in ruins.

00:36:02.000 Their support went away from Hezbollah.

00:36:04.000 It's gone.

00:36:05.000 The only ones left standing at this point are the Houthis, and the Houthis basically have some long-range missiles that mostly get shot down by Israel's aero system.

00:36:13.000 And then finally, Israel made clear that they were probably two weeks away from complete military dominance over Gaza City, which was the only area of the Gaza Strip that was not under full Israeli military control.

00:36:26.000 And became clear and clear that the cordon was closing.

00:36:29.000 And then Hamas gave up the ghost.

00:36:31.000 That's what changed here.

00:36:32.000 That's what changed here.

00:36:34.000 And so obviously, President Trump deserves all the credit in the world for holding line for understanding the incentive structures in the Middle East, for understanding that yes, the only way to defeat terrorism is to destroy the terrorists and then remove all of their support structures in terms of finance, in terms of materiel, in terms of PR.

00:36:51.000 President Trump understood that.

00:36:52.000 Huge credit to the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu, who stood up to Joe Biden as Joe Biden pressed him and pressed him and pressed him to lose the war in order to gain some sort of kind words from a feeble old man incapable of actually making the strong moves necessary to end the war.

00:37:11.000 And full credit most of all to the IDF and the IAF and everybody in Israel who has done unbelievable work for two years, sacrificing sons and brothers and daughters and mothers, sacrificing not only lives but livelihoods for two long years in order to defeat their opposition.

00:37:31.000 Huge credit to them.

00:37:32.000 And of course, credit to the United States Air Force for the bombing of Natans.

00:37:37.000 So, good things only happen when strong men do the right thing.

00:37:42.000 President Donald J. Trump is a strong man who did the right thing.

00:37:45.000 He is a peacemaker because, again, he said this during that campaign to me, he said it over and over.

00:37:51.000 Peace through strength, not peace through weakness, not peace through concession, not peace through resolutions at the UN, peace through strength.

00:38:00.000 Peace through strength works.

00:38:02.000 And again, we're not at the end of this thing.

00:38:04.000 It's unclear what happens next.

00:38:07.000 But if those principles are held to, if everybody holds the line, then maybe Gaza becomes a better place. 0.99

00:38:12.000 Maybe Gaza actually becomes a place where people want to live, where funding can go safely, where people can build things and have good lives, where people who don't want to have those good lives are swept away.

00:38:22.000 Maybe that's what Gaza becomes. 0.98

00:38:24.000 If not, then essentially Gaza will become like Janine or Nablus, those are areas of the so-called West Bank in Judea and Samaria, in which Israel has military overwatch in order to prevent terrorist attacks against itself.

00:38:35.000 But one thing is absolutely clear.

00:38:38.000 In the face of genocidal terror, the answer is not concession.

00:38:41.000 The answer is not legitimization, the answer is not rationalization.

00:38:45.000 The answer is destruction and removal of the support bases that these evil people rely upon to continue a war that not only killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7th and took 250 hostage and resulted in the death of another thousand Israelis and the wounding of thousands more Israelis over the course of this war, but subjected the people of Gaza to ruin. 0.79

00:39:08.000 That was all on Hamas. 0.83

00:39:10.000 All of it.

00:39:11.000 Hamas could have done what it did today. 0.63

00:39:13.000 Hamas could have done all of it by never starting this war in the first place. 0.88

00:39:17.000 And they could have done it the day after starting the war.

00:39:21.000 But instead, they decided they would put the entire world and Palestinians and Israelis through misery and through hell. 1.00

00:39:28.000 And the result is precisely the opposite of what they sought to achieve.

00:39:32.000 A stronger Israel, a militarily powerful Israel, a far more united Israel, an Israel that looks like it's about to make peace with a bunch of its neighbors, a more powerful United States, because Hamas states the United States as well. 0.63

00:39:44.000 A United States with Donald J. Trump in charge.

00:39:46.000 Make no mistake.

00:39:47.000 The Hamas assault on Israel played a major, not a minor, a major role in the last election cycle because it was all of the radicals on campus deciding that they were going to go make asses of themselves.

00:39:59.000 That drove many Americans to say any left that is okay with this cannot be given power.

00:40:05.000 So again, historic own goal by the people of Hamas. 0.81

00:40:09.000 And again, congratulations to Israel and the United States.

00:40:13.000 Congratulations to the people of Gaza who wish for peace.

00:40:16.000 Congratulations to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

00:40:21.000 Congratulations to the world and credit again to the great peacemaker, Donald J. Trump.

00:40:26.000 Congratulations to the Prime Minister of Israel.

00:40:29.000 It is a very, very good day, as The president said a very historic day.

00:40:32.000 I know everybody in Israel is eager to welcome the president of the United States to Israel.

00:40:37.000 They're very excited about seeing the president of the United States as well as other members of the cabinet.

00:40:42.000 And everyone prays for a speedy and healthy conclusion to what has been a horrifying period of violence that ends in triumph for the right side.

00:40:54.000 Meanwhile, what does all of this say about the state of the West?

00:40:56.000 It means in the West, there's a huge block of people who are luxury belief terrorists who have been supporting terrorism for two years and more, out of a luxurious belief that it will never affect them, and that they somehow gain the moral high ground by supporting terrorism.

00:41:11.000 On the anniversary of October 7th, which was a grave day in Israel, and and again, for many people all around the world, actually.

00:41:18.000 There are a bunch of protests that took place all over the world in favor of Hamas.

00:41:21.000 As the president was trying to negotiate a ceasefire.

00:41:24.000 Now, by the way, you've seen no Palestinians or advocates for the Palestinians abroad celebrating President Trump's ceasefire.

00:41:32.000 None.

00:41:33.000 Zero.

00:41:33.000 They don't exist.

00:41:34.000 They all disappeared.

00:41:36.000 Now, I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a genocide in world history in which the supposed victims of the genocide don't celebrate when it ends.

00:41:44.000 Right?

00:41:45.000 That's kind of telling, is it not?

00:41:46.000 Shouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of these people in the streets celebrating Donald Trump for ending the war for getting to a ceasefire?

00:41:53.000 For stopping the carnage?

00:41:55.000 Shouldn't they be celebrating?

00:41:56.000 But they're not.

00:41:57.000 Where are they?

00:41:57.000 Why do they disappear?

00:41:58.000 Because they didn't give a s the entire time about the Palestinians. 0.88

00:42:02.000 They didn't care about them at all.

00:42:04.000 It was all just a weapon against Israel. 0.91

00:42:06.000 Because if they were truly concerned about the cost of war, they would be happy when it ends.

00:42:11.000 Instead, they were protesting for the war to effectively continue on October 7th.

00:42:16.000 Here was ABC News admitting that there was violence at pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of October 7th.

00:42:22.000 This is ABC's Good Morning America.

00:42:24.000 Demonstrators marked two years of war since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.

00:42:29.000 And in Boston, there were clashes with police.

00:42:31.000 Boston police said 13 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested, several officers were injured.

00:42:36.000 A march from Boston Common called students for justice in Palestine spilled into the street there, blocking traffic, the crowd waving Palestinian flags, throwing red colored powder into the air.

00:42:47.000 Police said protesters turned on them, kicking a marked cruiser, setting off smoke flares and assaulting officers, two of them taken to the hospital with broken bones.

00:42:55.000 Police use bikes to block the crowd, and we're seen arresting demonstrators on the ground.

00:42:59.000 Here in New York, two protesters were arrested outside the Israeli consulate, elsewhere in the city, dueling protests, one accusing Israel of loving war, another calling to release the hostages, chanted back and forth.

00:43:11.000 Okay, so again, notice those two contrasting messages at the very end.

00:43:15.000 One says, Israel loves war, and one is release our hostages. 0.54

00:43:20.000 The moral imbalance there is pretty amazing.

00:43:22.000 And all who are these people?

00:43:23.000 They're a bunch of left-wing scavengers, college students with sociology degrees who have decided they are going to stand with terrorism and stand with evil because their civilization is to blame for all the problems on earth.

00:43:36.000 This is why he had protesters on October 7th shouting globalize the intifada.

00:43:39.000 And let's not make any mistake, Zaran Mamdani, the mayoral candidate in New York, put out a statement on October 7th.

00:43:46.000 And it is perfect.

00:43:47.000 It's it's it's letter perfect for what he is, which is a pro-terror radical.

00:43:52.000 Quote, two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.

00:43:58.000 I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

00:44:05.000 One thing you'll notice in the middle of the statement there is not a word about Jews ever.

00:44:09.000 In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war, a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000, with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble.

00:44:19.000 Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.

00:44:22.000 I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered.

00:44:25.000 Our government has been complicit through it all.

00:44:28.000 This must end.

00:44:28.000 The occupation and apartheid must end.

00:44:30.000 Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes.

00:44:33.000 And our government must act to end those atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

00:44:37.000 Notice the full moral equivalence between Hamas and the IDF trying to avoid civilian casualties.

00:44:43.000 And his call is for what?

00:44:47.000 The destruction of the State of Israel?

00:44:49.000 Because negotiations have been had before.

00:44:51.000 They haven't ended particularly well.

00:44:53.000 These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity.

00:44:56.000 We must answer it by modeling the very best, a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals, an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

00:45:02.000 This dude doesn't give a damn about universal human rights.

00:45:04.000 All the areas that he's standing for are filled with some of the worst violations of human rights on planet Earth.

00:45:09.000 But that's what Zorin Mamdani is.

00:45:11.000 He is the result of a luxury belief America.

00:45:15.000 A luxury belief West that celebrates morons like Greta Thunberg, who put up a protest picture on October 7th. 0.64

00:45:24.000 A protest picture that said, quote, the suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion.

00:45:29.000 It is a fact of systematic cruelty and dehumanization.

00:45:32.000 Humanity cannot be selective.

00:45:33.000 Justice cannot have borders.

00:45:35.000 She is an idiot, so she included in this graphic a picture of Eviatar David, who is an Israeli held by Hamas, looking like a Holocaust skeleton.

00:45:48.000 Like she couldn't, she couldn't even get that right.

00:45:50.000 Because the truth doesn't matter.

00:45:52.000 All that matters is the signaling.

00:45:53.000 All that matters is the signaling.

00:45:55.000 And you know what the reality is?

00:45:57.000 The reality is the same people who murdered 1,200 Israelis on October 7th would be happy to enter Western civilization than murder people in the West as well, which is why we are now finding out that the knife wielding Islamist terrorist who attacked a UK synagogue on Yom Kippur, according to the New York Post, called the cops mid-carnage to brag, quote, I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State. 0.74

00:46:20.000 Notice the language.

00:46:20.000 Not I've killed two Israelis, not I've killed two Zionists, I've killed two Jews.

00:46:26.000 So civilizations that welcome this crap in.

00:46:30.000 You can't say that they are not reaping what they sow.

00:46:34.000 Meanwhile, President Trump for his part, he's he's just the best.

00:46:39.000 He's the best.

00:46:39.000 Here, here he was ripping into Greta Thunberg when asked about it.

00:46:41.000 I love this.

00:46:42.000 This is like insult comedy Trump when properly directed is like the best Trump.

00:46:47.000 Trump.

00:46:48.000 Well, she's just a troublemaker. 1.00

00:46:50.000 You know, I mean, she's you mean she's no longer into the environment.

00:46:53.000 Now she's into this.

00:46:54.000 She's a troublemaker. 1.00

00:46:55.000 She has an anger management problem.

00:46:57.000 I think she should see a doctor. 0.99

00:46:59.000 She needs anger if you ever watch her. 1.00

00:47:01.000 She's a young person.

00:47:03.000 She's so angry.

00:47:04.000 She's so crazy. 0.97

00:47:05.000 No, you can have her.

00:47:06.000 You can have her.

00:47:07.000 She's just a troublemaker. 1.00

00:47:10.000 Hmm.

00:47:11.000 Hmm.

00:47:12.000 Well, he is right.

00:47:14.000 That is correct.

00:47:15.000 Speaking of luxury beliefs, there are certain people on the left who are just like the apex predators of luxury beliefs.

00:47:21.000 One of these people is Hassan Piker.

00:47:23.000 Hassan Piker, we've commented on him before because the New York Times has tried to make him fetch.

00:47:27.000 They keep putting him in their newspapers on their on their podcasts, pretending that he is apparently some sort of deep thinker, you know, the kind of deep thinker who has to write obituaries about Charlie Kirk from a man who has openly called for violence and supported pretty much every terror group on the planet, so long as it's oriented against the West.

00:47:42.000 Well, it turns out that he apparently is not super nice to his dog.

00:47:47.000 So this was a big controversy over the Jewish holiday.

00:47:52.000 Apparently, he has a dog named Kaya.

00:47:55.000 And during a recent stream, he was complaining about his internet connection.

00:47:58.000 He equated this with violence, because everything is violence.

00:48:01.000 Violence is violence, but so is a bad internet connection, according to fabled genius Hassan Piker.

00:48:06.000 And then he yelled that he hates the country, hates America because his Wi-Fi connection was not good enough in a studio that he pays for.

00:48:14.000 And by the way, this socialist has a three million dollar mansion.

00:48:17.000 And then his dog stands up, and then he yells at the dog, and then he appears to be reaching for something, and the dog yelps.

00:48:27.000 And then he yells at the dog again and then blames his mom for spoiling her.

00:48:33.000 So this led to the um, this led to the supposition that he had remote shocked his dog to get the dog to go back in place.

00:48:40.000 If you can't see this, the dog is doing nothing.

00:48:43.000 Now, listen, I have a dog.

00:48:44.000 Okay, our dog's name is Happy, he's a very cute dog.

00:48:47.000 My kids love the dog more than I do, my wife loves the dog more than I do.

00:48:50.000 I'm not like a huge dog person.

00:48:51.000 You cannot treat an animal this way.

00:48:53.000 That's ridiculous.

00:48:54.000 That's just ridiculous.

00:48:57.000 Like I'm not a warm and fuzzy guy with the dog.

00:49:00.000 I would never treat our dog this way.

00:49:01.000 Not in a million years would I treat our dog this way.

00:49:04.000 Like the dog isn't peeing on him, the dog isn't crapping on the carpet.

00:49:08.000 The dog, the dog literally gets up and moves a foot, and he starts yelling at the dog and then reaches for something, and the dog yelps.

00:49:14.000 Now, I know my dog.

00:49:16.000 My dog does not yelp for no reason.

00:49:19.000 Dogs don't just generally like yelp.

00:49:22.000 Especially a calm dog like this dog.

00:49:23.000 This dog appears to be generally a pretty calm dog.

00:49:25.000 Apparently he's on the stream a lot.

00:49:26.000 So it's not like he's getting up and yelping all the time.

00:49:28.000 He's not like a yappy dog.

00:49:30.000 Now, as I say, I have a dog, but I'm not an expert on dogs, and thus I have asked an actual expert, our sponsors over at Comet, which is a project of perplexity.

00:49:38.000 Do house dogs normally yelp if they are yelled at, but not zapped with an electronic collar, or do they generally yelp when hit with a jolt?

00:49:45.000 And here is what comment tells me quote, House dogs do not usually yelp simply from being yelled at.

00:49:50.000 Their yelping response primarily occurs in situations where they experience sudden pain, significant surprise, or intense fear.

00:49:56.000 Most dogs yelp when they are hit with a jolt from an electronic shock collar, as shocks can be painful or highly startling, especially if the collar intensity is high, or the dog is sensitive.

00:50:05.000 Dogs may cower show submissive body language or appear frightened when yelled at, but outright yelping is uncommon and typically only occurs if the yell deeply startles or scares them.

00:50:14.000 Electronic collars often cause dogs to yelp due to the physical discomfort or pain of the electrical stimulus.

00:50:20.000 So I'm not kind of believing Hassan's defense here.

00:50:24.000 So here is it.

00:50:25.000 Here's the footage.

00:50:27.000 Okay.

00:50:27.000 It's the same reason as to why America, Kaya, please just go just stop.

00:50:35.000 Okay, the dog yelps and like jumps.

00:50:38.000 Jesus Christ, what are you doing?

00:50:41.000 You're being such a baby.

00:50:44.000 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:50:45.000 It's just this is like.

00:50:48.000 You're making her stressed.

00:50:49.000 I uh I she just literally is so incredibly spoiled from my mom. 0.77

00:50:58.000 No, she doesn't want to come over here to see what's up.

00:51:01.000 She just wants to roam the house because she got to roam the house when I was gone, and she needs to literally have the same structured, regimented. 1.00

00:51:11.000 What a bad person.

00:51:13.000 Truly a bad person.

00:51:14.000 Speaking of whiners, spoiled brats, Hassan Piker, like number one on the list.

00:51:19.000 My goodness.

00:51:20.000 By the way, I mean, this is not the first time he's had some problems with the dog collar, apparently, and not all that long ago.

00:51:25.000 He had to be chided by uh by somebody on his own show because he kept a collar too tight on his dog.

00:51:31.000 And now it's mainstream.

00:51:32.000 I love her.

00:51:33.000 I think her collar's too tight. 0.99

00:51:35.000 You well, it's uh we can you have to be able to get two fingers, and I couldn't even get one.

00:51:42.000 I think you're choking.

00:51:43.000 She's like it's it's she has a lot of neck meat. 1.00

00:51:51.000 Uh so Piker has responded, and then he says, No, no, no, no, no.

00:51:55.000 It's just a buzz collar, it's not it's not a shot collar, it wasn't set too high.

00:51:58.000 So the dog apparently yelped for no reason.

00:51:59.000 Can I just point out that even if he didn't zap the dog, him yelling at the dog for the great sin of moving while shouting about the violence of the internet makes him one of the most spoiled people in the history of all of humanity?

00:52:10.000 First of all, why is the dog even in the room?

00:52:12.000 Seriously, quest serious quote, I've never done a show with an animal in the room because I'm doing a show.

00:52:18.000 And it's not the dog's responsibility not to disturb my show, it's a dog.

00:52:22.000 It's my responsibility to put the dog in a position where the dog can live a normal life.

00:52:27.000 Why is the dog supposed to like perch itself on this one foot square desk near Hassan Piker and and just sit there for hours while the schmuck utters garbage into a microphone while playing video games?

00:52:43.000 Here he was explaining, he's the victim here, of course.

00:52:47.000 This is the one that people are talking about.

00:52:51.000 Okay, this is the one.

00:52:52.000 This is the this is the one that they saw.

00:52:56.000 It has the capacity to vibrate, and that's it.

00:53:02.000 Are you happy?

00:53:04.000 That's it.

00:53:07.000 Good.

00:53:08.000 There's the air tag.

00:53:09.000 There's the fucking vibrator.

00:53:12.000 It also uses it also has a flashlight component to it at nighttime.

00:53:18.000 And it also has a tracker on it when she gets lost.

00:53:22.000 If she were to actually get fucking lost.

00:53:29.000 You are able to um it emits a sound.

00:53:34.000 Okay.

00:53:36.000 What a what a, you know, what a victim he is.

00:53:38.000 Now he has to walk away out of outrage that somebody has pointed out that he's not nice to his dog.

00:53:42.000 I'm sorry, that it's your fault.

00:53:43.000 You're a schmuck to your dog, dude.

00:53:45.000 Not my fault, not anybody else's fault.

00:53:47.000 That's it.

00:53:47.000 That's that's your fault.

00:53:49.000 Again, these luxury, these luxury communists, luxury communism from these people.

00:53:54.000 Just unbelievable stuff.

00:53:56.000 And and again, that they will just continue to humor the worst among them.

00:53:58.000 Tim Kane, the senator who was almost vice president.

00:54:00.000 Remember that time that he ran for vice president?

00:54:02.000 You didn't, did you?

00:54:03.000 He was the guy who was on Hillary Clinton's ticket.

00:54:04.000 I know you've forgotten about him already.

00:54:06.000 Well, he's out there defending the Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones.

00:54:10.000 You know, the one who said that he wanted to shoot his political opponents and called his opponent's kids little fascists.

00:54:17.000 Here's Tim Kane defending him.

00:54:19.000 Do you think Jay Jones should drop out of the race in Virginia?

00:54:22.000 Um, you know, Jay has apologized.

00:54:24.000 The statements that he made were indefensible.

00:54:27.000 But I've known Jay Jones for 25 years.

00:54:29.000 I think those statements were not in character.

00:54:31.000 And he has apologized.

00:54:33.000 I wish other people in public life would sincerely apologize for stuff.

00:54:36.000 So no, I still am a supporter.

00:54:40.000 Unreal.

00:54:41.000 Well done.

00:54:43.000 Well done.

00:54:45.000 Huh.

00:54:45.000 You know, it it's easy to be a Democrat these days.

00:54:48.000 It truly is, because there are there are really no moral barriers you you are not willing to cross on behalf of your ideology.

00:54:54.000 And what that does lead to at a certain point is just being spoiled.

00:54:57.000 Katie Porter, speaking of spoiled people. 0.95

00:54:59.000 Now, listen, I've walked out of interviews.

00:55:01.000 It was a bad idea.

00:55:02.000 I famously walked out of an interview on the BBC where I'd been basically harangued by Andrew Neal for 20 minutes about bad old tweets.

00:55:08.000 I got tired of it.

00:55:08.000 I walked out.

00:55:09.000 It was a bad move.

00:55:09.000 It was stupid.

00:55:10.000 But Kenny Porter walked out of an interview.

00:55:12.000 This is the Congresswoman from California running for governor.

00:55:14.000 She walked out of an interview because someone asked her how she was going to win Republicans in a gubernatorial race.

00:55:20.000 She was not being harassed in any way.

00:55:22.000 She just doesn't like answering basic questions. 0.99

00:55:24.000 Pretty incredible stuff.

00:55:26.000 What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?

00:55:33.000 How would I need them in order to win, man?

00:55:36.000 Well, unless you think you're gonna get 60% of the vote.

00:55:39.000 You think you'll get 60% all everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you.

00:55:43.000 That's what you're saying.

00:55:44.000 In a general election?

00:55:45.000 Yes.

00:55:46.000 If it is me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.

00:55:51.000 What if it's you versus another Democrat?

00:55:52.000 I don't intend that to be the case.

00:55:54.000 Well, to those voters.

00:55:55.000 Okay, so so you I don't want to keep doing this.

00:55:57.000 I'm gonna call it.

00:55:58.000 Thank you.

00:56:01.000 You're not gonna do the interview with us.

00:56:03.000 Nope, not like this, I'm not.

00:56:04.000 Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.

00:56:07.000 Every other candidate has answered.

00:56:08.000 I don't care.

00:56:09.000 I don't care.

00:56:10.000 I I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which you ask me about every issue on this list.

00:56:15.000 And if every question you're gonna make up a follow-up question, then we're never gonna get there.

00:56:21.000 And we're just gonna circle around.

00:56:22.000 I am in the never had to do this before, ever.

00:56:25.000 Okay, why don't we go through?

00:56:27.000 I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that's my job as a journalist, but I will go through and ask these.

00:56:32.000 And if you don't want to answer, you don't want to answer.

00:56:34.000 So nearly every legislative I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you.

00:56:40.000 And I don't want this all on camera.

00:56:41.000 I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.

00:56:44.000 I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about.

00:56:53.000 Wow, wow, wow.

00:56:54.000 And then she gets up and she leaves.

00:56:55.000 Like just continues along.

00:56:57.000 And then it turns into a fist fight.

00:56:58.000 Katie Porter, this is what happens when you're not used to being asked difficult questions ever.

00:57:02.000 Well done.

00:57:06.000 Speaking of spoiled brats, spoiled brats with luxury beliefs, the slogan of the Democratic Party at this point.

00:57:11.000 Alrighty, folks, the show continues for our members right now.

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