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00:00:00.000Democrats panic as the polls shift dramatically in favor of Republicans, Joe Biden prepares his re-election bid as he continues to fall apart in public, and Bibi is back.
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00:02:50.000So, Cook Political Report has now shifted 10 more blue districts in the GOP's direction.
00:02:55.000This includes a bunch of districts that are really, really blue, actually.
00:03:01.000And it's important to note that all of the districts that were shifted into sort of lean D or toss-up in the last election cycle in 2020 actually went in the Republican direction.
00:03:09.000So, it is very likely that a lot of these seats are about to shift in the Republican direction.
00:03:14.000A bunch of money is being spent by Democrats in what should be non-competitive districts.
00:03:18.000There are a bunch of Democrats who right now are up for re-election and are considered sort of iconic In terms of the Democratic Party, who are now going to face down the possibility of losing their seats.
00:03:31.000Those Cook Political house ratings are very, very ugly for the Democrats.
00:03:35.000And of course, Cook Political is just following the trend lines.
00:03:37.000Because if you look at 538, you remember I said a couple of weeks ago, 538 had about a 70-30 shot the Democrats were about to take the Senate.
00:03:44.000And now, That is down to a 51% shot that Republicans are going to take the Senate.
00:03:48.000I had said a couple of weeks ago that was going to narrow dramatically, and it would not shock me if by election time Republicans actually had the upper hand in the Senate polling.
00:03:56.000Some of the candidates who are apparently actually now toss-ups, according to Cook Political, these are names that you recognize.
00:04:02.000That includes, by the way, Katie Porter.
00:04:05.000She's the one who always likes to show up with whiteboards and charts in the House, and everybody online is like, she'll run for Her president, it turns out, she might actually lose her seat in California.
00:04:15.000The 10 districts that were moved by Cook Political were three in California, two in Illinois, one in New Jersey, three in New York, and one in Oregon.
00:04:21.000Those are bad news for the Democratic Party.
00:04:25.000These are solid blue states, and a bunch of these seats have now been moved from solidly D to lean D, from likely D to lean D, or from lean D to toss-up.
00:04:33.000Three of those seats moved to toss-up.
00:04:35.000One of those seats, the Oregon 5th District, moved from a toss-up to a lean Republican seat.
00:04:40.000All the momentum is now moving in one direction.
00:04:42.000Joe Rogan said that the red wave is going to look like the elevator doors opening and the blood pouring out of the elevator and the shining.
00:04:49.000That is correct, except it's not going to be an elevator.
00:04:51.000It's going to look more like deep impact, the tsunami at the end, but colored red.
00:04:55.000This is going to be a huge year for Republicans by all available data.
00:05:00.000And the reason they're freaking out is because they know what is coming.
00:05:02.000And so the precriminations have begun, as they say, the precriminations, because they're recriminations, but prospectively.
00:05:09.000The big precrimination is that the Democrats don't have a cohesive message.
00:05:12.000Well, the reason they don't have a cohesive message is because they've done a terrible job.
00:05:15.000And you can see this when you go through the Democratic candidates.
00:05:18.000The assumption by Democrats in this election cycle is that Republicans had run so many bad candidates that the referendum was effectively going to be on the Republican candidates.
00:05:25.000The referendum was not going to be on Raphael Warnock in Georgia, it was going to be on Herschel Walker.
00:05:28.000The referendum was going to be on Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, it was not going to be on John Fetterman.
00:05:33.000The referendum was not going to be on...
00:05:34.000Kathy Hochul in New York is going to be on Lee Zeldin, the Republican.
00:06:46.000Two, you have to assume that everybody who wants an abortion is deeply worried about their own state's policy.
00:06:52.000Which again, now you've got to cut that number significantly.
00:06:55.000Because a lot of people having abortions are in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, California.
00:06:59.000The abortion law in those states is not changing.
00:07:01.000And three, you then have to make the weird assumption that if you elect a federal candidate for federal office, this will change abortion policy in your state.
00:07:10.000And that's not how any of this works, because abortion was just kicked back to the states by the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:07:15.000So running on abortion was likely to peter out very early.
00:07:19.000And then, as my friend John Podhoretz over at Commentary Magazine has pointed out, there's another factor, too, which is that about halfway through this election cycle, there's an actual referendum on preserving abortion in the state of Kansas, and it went the way the pro-choicers wanted, which seemed to sort of alleviate some of their large-scale worries that the pro-lifers were about to run roughshod over everything in every single state.
00:07:42.000And so what you've gotten is an incredibly fragmentary race from the Democrats, who normally If you had a successful president, what you could do is grab his coattails and hope to ride that to victory.
00:07:51.000You could theoretically, it doesn't always work, but you could theoretically hope to clutch that president, clutch him close, and hope that his popularity would carry you to some level of victory.
00:08:01.000The only trends that have ever been bucked in terms of midterm elections, where victory was won by the in-party, the in-power party, are elections like 2002, where the president was, at that time, extremely popular, George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9-11.
00:08:15.000And at that time, Republicans were able to sort of clutch on to George W. Bush and carry that on to victory.
00:08:20.000But typically, how the president does is a pretty good indicator of how the party is going to do, because the midterm election is referendum on the party in power.
00:08:30.000It's even worse when you can't clutch to that president.
00:08:32.000When the president himself seems like he is on the verge of physically falling down, when he's run bad policy through the ringer and come up with whatever his agenda is and it's failed on nearly every front.
00:08:42.000And so what you end up with is basically a bunch of Lilliputians who are running around screaming about random topics and nobody knows why they're running or what they're running for or why they should be in power.
00:08:50.000So we're going to go through some of the Democratic candidates who are in real trouble.
00:08:53.000And you will see, there's no cohesive message.
00:08:58.000And this is why they're about to get their butts handed to them in about a week here.
00:09:02.000So let's start with Kathy Hochul over in New York.
00:09:04.000My sleeper pick for the Democrat who definitely should win, who is not going to win.
00:09:08.000So Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York.
00:09:10.000There's no way a Republican should be able to be elected governor of New York.
00:09:13.000The last Republican who was governor of New York was George Pataki.
00:09:16.000That was a long time ago when George Pataki was governor of New York.
00:09:20.000Lee Zeldin, who is a fairly mainstream conservative Republican, is running against Kathy Hochul in New York.
00:09:27.000And by the polling, he has now pulled ahead of Kathy Hochul in New York, which is amazing, except for the fact that Kathy Hochul has no built-in base.
00:09:34.000Remember, she inherited the job from Andrew Cuomo, who came to kill all the old people and grab ass, and he ran out of old people.
00:10:03.000Even if you know the governor, lots of people don't know who the lieutenant governor is.
00:10:06.000Okay, in any case, Kathy Hochul is now the governor, and she is confused, she doesn't know what to say, and so she is now relying on some of the weakest rhetoric I have ever seen.
00:10:14.000Not only in debate did she complain that Lee Zeldin kept talking about crime.
00:10:25.000But Kathy Hochul is now saying, well, the reason I'm losing is because Republicans are scaring people.
00:10:29.000See, here's the thing about the argument that the opposing party is capable of scaring people.
00:10:33.000This implies either that people are complete dullards or that perhaps people have reason to be scared.
00:10:39.000If I told you today that you need to be scared of a dinosaur invasion, You would not be scared, no matter how many times I repeated it, because that's not a thing that's going to happen.
00:10:48.000If, however, I am running for governor of New York, and I'm warning you that there is going to be a serious crime upsurge if Democrats maintain power, because there has been in the past, and you're scared, that's probably because you're already scared of crime and I'm just mentioning it.
00:11:01.000Here's Kathy Hochul trying to ignore the obvious.
00:11:04.000Once people realize what we've done, and all he's done is talk about how we can talk about crime, he has no plan.
00:11:10.000The New York Times just called him out and says he has no plan.
00:11:14.000And so we're just getting the attention of the voters now.
00:11:35.000And a lot of it has to do with this insatiable effort by the Republicans to scare people when I'm out there actually doing something to literally keep them safer.
00:11:46.000You're not doing anything to keep them safer.
00:11:53.000That's super weak tea there from Kathy Hochul.
00:11:56.000So, for the first time since 2006, there's a decent shot that a Republican could be governor of New York.
00:12:00.000And again, for the exact same reasons, by the way, that Republicans took over New York in the first place.
00:12:03.000The reason Rudy Giuliani became the mayor of New York, the reason George Pataki became governor of New York, is because New York was a criminal-ridden hellhole until the early 90s.
00:12:11.000And Republicans were able to take over because of that.
00:12:13.000By the way, the same exact thing is happening in Los Angeles.
00:12:16.000You'll recall that Los Angeles, which is a heavily Democrat-governed city, Richard Reardon became mayor of Los Angeles in the 90s because of the crime problem in LA.
00:12:25.000I've been saying this for so many years, I can't even tell you.
00:12:27.000I remember going all the way back to about 2010, perhaps?
00:12:32.000I remember there was a race between Jerry Brown and Neil Kashkari, and Kashkari was running against Jerry Brown for governor of California, and I said to Neil, why aren't you running on crime?
00:12:39.000He's like, I'm gonna run on education.
00:12:42.000If you're a Republican in a deep blue state, you have to run on crime because crime is the issue that matters most to human beings who feel like they might be robbed at any moment.
00:12:50.000And those are the ones who are going to be voting for you.
00:12:53.000They're the ones who are going to be passionate.
00:12:55.000In any case, Zeldin is doing the right thing.
00:12:57.000How desperate is Kathy Hochul at this point?
00:13:40.000So much trouble, by the way, that now Democrats are relying on a narrative that Republicans are racist for mentioning crime.
00:13:46.000So New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who almost got his butt kicked out of office just a couple of years ago, despite the fact that he was running against a person whose name nobody knows, he was like, well, you know, when the GOP talks about crime, what they're really talking about is black people.
00:13:58.000Except what they're actually talking about is crime.
00:14:00.000So here is Murphy trying to pull Hochul's chestnuts out of the fire by suggesting that it's all about race.
00:14:06.000Listen, the other guys play the crime card relentlessly and shamelessly, it seems, every election.
00:14:15.000And the facts and their portrayal of the facts are in entirely different places.
00:14:21.000That doesn't mean that crime is not an issue.
00:14:23.000It doesn't mean that we're not focused on it.
00:14:26.000But I will just say in New Jersey this year, violent crimes, shootings, homicides are all down meaningfully between something like 15 and 30 percent.
00:14:36.000We invest deeply, not just here, but as a party in the relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
00:15:27.000He'll be like, gas prices, gas prices are down 30 percent.
00:15:30.000You know, and say, well, not from when you're president.
00:15:34.000They might be down from the summer when they are at the highest prices they have ever been in the history of humanity, but they are Up rather largely from when you took office, but this is the game.
00:15:45.000So it's not just the New Jersey, the New York governor who's in serious trouble right here.
00:15:49.000It's also John Fetterman over in Pennsylvania.
00:15:51.000This race quickly turned into a referendum on whether you think John Fetterman is capable of actually performing a job due to the fact that he had a debilitating stroke he's not fully recovered from.
00:15:59.000So John Fetterman is out there trying to blame Trump's tax cuts for inflation, which is hilarious on its face because the Trump tax cuts were passed in, I believe, 2017.
00:16:08.000Just as a matter of policy, this is incredibly dumb.
00:16:11.000But the bigger problem, of course, is that John Fetterman is not capable of actually explaining his positions, not just philosophically, but I mean physically.
00:16:19.000So here is John Fetterman, the candidate for Pennsylvania Senate, who has now dropped behind Dr. Ross in the polls.
00:16:24.000What do you think the biggest cause of inflation is?
00:16:27.000And should the Biden administration be doing more?
00:16:32.000I think that simply is also, Leah, this talk about the trillions in massive tax I like Don Lemon sitting there pretending he understands what in the hell John Fetterman is saying right there.
00:16:44.000of dollars that have added to the deficit and now they still want to support those as well.
00:17:00.000Meanwhile, you have other Democrats, like North Carolina Senate Democrat candidate Sherry Beasley, who refuses to acknowledge any limits on late-term abortion at all, running in a very red-to-purple state, North Carolina.
00:17:12.000Democrats are apparently fighting mad that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Senatorial Campaign Committee, aren't spending more money on Sherry Beasley, and they are suggesting it's because she's black.
00:17:21.000No, it's because she's a bad candidate and she's about to lose.
00:17:24.000Here is Sherry Beasley being as radical as she wants to be.
00:17:26.000At what point in a pregnancy do you view that abortion should be illegal?
00:17:32.000I think the foundational question really has to be, who makes the decision?
00:17:37.000Is it a woman and her physician, or is it the government?
00:17:42.000Roe v. Wade told us that it's a constitutional right for reproductive freedom for women to make this decision without government interference.
00:17:52.000Beesley would not commit to a specific point in a pregnancy where abortion should be illegal, but said the standard of Roe v. Wade should be followed.
00:18:00.000Okay, so she is running in a red state with no abortion limits as her actual policy position.
00:20:16.000We're also running, of course, on Donald Trump.
00:20:17.000Joe Biden came and rallied for Charlie Crist, which again, that rivals that hokal Kamala Harris rally as maybe the worst rally ever.
00:20:25.000And apparently, he said that Ron DeSantis was Donald Trump incarnate, which No.
00:20:32.000I mean, the answer there would be no, and everybody knows the answer is no, which is why, first of all, Donald Trump won the state of Florida twice, so that's not going to be a winning campaign in Florida anyway.
00:20:43.000But also, Ron DeSantis is not Donald Trump, so they got nothing.
00:20:45.000They got nothing in the tank, and this is why the precriminations have begun.
00:20:48.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment first.
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00:23:02.000According to a brand new CNN poll, an enthusiastic Republican base and persistent concerns about the state of the economy placed the GOP in a strong position with about a week to go in the race for control of the House of Representatives.
00:23:12.000A new survey out Wednesday shows Democratic enthusiasm about voting is significantly lower than it was in 2018 when the Democratic Party took control of the House.
00:23:19.000Republican voters in the new poll expressed greater engagement with this year's midterm election than Democrats across multiple questions gauging likelihood of vote.
00:23:25.000Overall, 27% of registered voters say they are extremely enthusiastic about voting this year.
00:23:30.000That's down from 37% just ahead of the 2018 midterms.
00:23:33.000Four years ago, 44% of Democratic registered voters said they were extremely enthusiastic about voting.
00:23:42.000Among Republicans, the number dipped from 43% to 38%.
00:23:47.000The Republican enthusiasm gaffe right now is basically the same as it was in October 2010 when Republicans picked up a bevy of seats, like 60 seats.
00:23:58.000So Republicans are about to just trash the Democrats.
00:24:00.000In the polling, Republicans top Democrats on the generic ballot question, 51 to 47.
00:24:05.000That is outside the polls margin of sampling error.
00:24:09.000Among registered voters, it's 47-46 in favor of the Republicans, but the likely voter poll is the one that actually matters.
00:24:15.000On the issues, half of likely voters say that the key issues are going to be the economy and inflation, which means Democrats are about to get absolutely destroyed.
00:24:22.000Abortion is the second ranking issue, and it lands as a concern for 15%.
00:24:32.000So, as I say, the precriminations have begun.
00:24:35.000According to the New York Times, top Democratic officials, lawmakers, and strategists are openly second-guessing their party's campaign pitch and tactics, reflecting a growing sense Democrats have failed to coalesce around one effective message with enough time to stave off major losses in the House and possibly decisive defeats in the tightly contested Senate.
00:24:50.000By the way, the Senate races have gotten so tight that it now looks like New Hampshire may shift into the Republican column.
00:24:54.000There is a serious possibility the Republicans walk away from the midterms with 54 seats in the Senate.
00:24:59.000That's how bad things are getting for the Democrats.
00:25:01.000That would amount to Republicans winning Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire.
00:25:06.000According to the New York Times, the criticisms by Democrats in the final days of the midterm elections signal mounting anxiety as Republicans hammer away with attacks over the economy and public safety.
00:25:14.000For weeks, Democrats have offered a scattershot case of their own, accusing their opponents of wanting to gut abortion rights, shred the social safety net, shake the foundations of American democracy.
00:25:22.000But as the country struggles with high gas prices, record inflation, and economic uncertainty, some Democrats now acknowledge their kitchen sink approach may be lacking.
00:25:32.000The truth is, Democrats have done a poor job of communicating our approach to the economy, says Representative Alyssa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan who's in one of this year's most competitive races.
00:25:40.000I have no idea if I'm going to win my election.
00:25:50.000Former President Barack Obama is worried.
00:25:53.000He urged Democrats not to be a buzzkill by making people feel as if they were walking on eggshells when it came to issues like race and gender.
00:25:59.000Several prominent Democrats have worried that their party has not fully acknowledged the pain of rising prices.
00:26:04.000And that mess speaks to the vacuum that is at the top of the Democratic Party in the form of Joe Biden.
00:26:09.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden apparently, according to the Washington Post, is quietly but clearly preparing a potential re-election bid.
00:26:15.000And here is what the fallout actually is going to be for Joe Biden if the midterms do not go the way Democrats want them to go.
00:26:20.000Joe Biden is going to find himself tied to the train track like Nell in a Dudley Do-Right cartoon.
00:26:25.000The Democrats are going to snidely whiplash style, toss a rope around that guy, throw him in front of a train and wait for the train to come down, barreling down those tracks.
00:26:32.000That's what's going to happen to Joe Biden.
00:26:33.000Because the only reason he was up in the first place is we need somebody to beat Trump.
00:26:37.000The only person here we think can beat Trump is this person who is not fully alive.
00:26:40.000And then Joe Biden has presided and will preside over a devastating loss in the midterms, which basically castrates him for the rest of his presidency in terms of policy.
00:26:50.000And he's going to run for re-election?
00:26:51.000What, on the basis of his wild charisma and magnetic popularity?
00:26:55.000There aren't enough 14-year-old girls whose hair he can sniff to get him re-elected in 2024, and Democrats are beginning to realize that.
00:27:03.000The Washington Post is already seeding the fields here by reporting that Biden is prepping a re-election bid.
00:27:08.000Quote, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have been meeting since September with senior advisors at the White House residence to prepare a potential 2024 re-election campaign, according to multiple people familiar with the planning.
00:27:18.000The meetings of what advisors describe as a very small group come as the DNC has been making plans to respond on Biden's behalf to former President Donald Trump or other potential presidential contenders who could announce campaigns in the coming months.
00:27:29.000The National Party is also drafting plans to re-engage with grassroots supporters from 2020 who aren't involved in the Democratic midterm effort.
00:27:36.000Biden would turn 86 before the end of a second term.
00:27:43.000Wait another six years and see if that dude is even viable mentally.
00:27:49.000He has not yet made a final decision on another presidential campaign, his advisers say, but he has indicated publicly and privately he intends to run, barring an unforeseen event.
00:27:56.000Top White House advisers Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Jen O'Malley-Dillon, who played senior roles in Biden's 2020 campaign, have been involved in the planning discussions with Biden, as has Chief of Staff Ron Klain.
00:28:05.000While Biden's advisors have been focused on the midterms, Dunn and O'Malley Dillon have spoken with veterans of the past two Democratic presidential re-election campaigns, including Barack Obama's campaign managers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, as well as a couple of vets of the Bill Clinton administration, Bruce Reid and Steve Ruscetti, who now work in the White House.
00:28:22.000So the reason the Washington Post is running this piece a week before the midterms is so that everybody will step in and say no.
00:28:28.000That is why they are running that piece.
00:28:31.000And they're correct, Joe Biden is not capable of running for re-election.
00:28:34.000Yesterday, he did a rally in Florida, and it was a mess.
00:28:38.000I mean, this president is no longer with us.
00:28:42.000He implied during, he actually said during the rally, that he spoke to the man who invented insulin.
00:28:47.000The man who invented insulin died the year before Joe Biden was born.
00:29:41.000And so she was one of my biggest, biggest supporters in helping me not only pass, but draft and move some of the legislation we're going to talk about today, a couple pieces of it.
00:29:54.000And I don't have a greater friend in the United States Senate, and I don't have a greater friend when I was vice president, nor as president.
00:30:07.000Well, at least Debbie Wasserman Schultz is an alive person.
00:30:10.000He has literally called out people in the audience who are not alive before, as well as he has called on people in the audience to stand up who are in a wheelchair.
00:30:18.000So at least he's actually labeling a person who is alive and You know, that's good, I guess, an improvement.
00:30:25.000Joe Biden also continued to say that Beau Biden died in Iraq.
00:30:53.000You know, we're dealing with it for a couple of seconds.
00:30:56.000Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia's doing.
00:31:03.000I mean, excuse me, the war in Ukraine.
00:31:07.000And I think of Iraq because that's where my son died.
00:31:11.000Uh, okay, so that is like seven gaffs in one right there.
00:31:14.000He's talking about the war in Ukraine, but he mentions Iraq, and then he says he's thinking of Iraq because that's where his son died, except his son didn't die there.
00:31:56.000During this autumn's avalanche of political news, an enormous boulder bounced by barely noticed to demonstrate why Joe Biden should not seek another term.
00:32:01.000Democrats should promptly paste that fact, and this one.
00:32:04.000An Everest of evidence shows Vice President Harris is starkly unqualified to be considered as his successor.
00:32:09.000I think there's only one proper democratic response to this.
00:32:18.000That is the only reason why people would overlook the vastly qualified, intensely magnetic Kamala Harris, who loves Venn diagrams and also yellow school buses.
00:32:29.000Meeting recently with some progressive activists, writes George Will, Biden said his $426 billion student loan forgiveness was accomplished by a law he had just signed.
00:32:49.000After repeated unilateral extensions of the moratorium on loan repayments until election season, Biden unilaterally implemented the windfall for millions of voters.
00:32:56.000Congress was not involved in this cataract of money from the Treasury in violation of the Constitution's Appropriations Clause.
00:33:01.000It is frightening Biden does not know or remember what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy.
00:33:06.000He must be presumed susceptible to future episodes of similar bewilderment.
00:33:09.000He should leave the public stage on January 20th, 2025.
00:33:32.000Meanwhile, here are her Proustian thoughts about broadband in Louisiana.
00:33:35.000The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?
00:33:41.000The significance of the passage of time.
00:33:42.000So when you think about it, there's great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.
00:33:48.000And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
00:33:53.000What most excited her about the Inflation Reduction Act?
00:33:55.000I have a particular fondness, I must tell you, for electric school buses.
00:33:58.000I love electric school buses. I really do.
00:34:00.000I've been on these electric school buses.
00:34:01.00025 million children in our country every day go to school on those diesel-fueled school buses.
00:34:05.000And hundreds, thousands of school bus drivers are driving those buses, which are then, these people, these children, these adults, are inhaling what is toxic air.
00:34:49.000Yeah man, so things are going to go real poor for the Democrats going forward after the midterm elections and we can look forward to all of that I think with with bated breath because things are going to get pretty amusing and funny.
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00:35:36.000Okay, so, meanwhile, heading into the midterm elections, the economy looks like it is slowing even further.
00:35:42.000According to the New York Times, corporate America is still raising those prices.
00:35:45.000The Federal Reserve is trying to bring down inflation.
00:35:47.000In order to do that, they're raising the interest rates again.
00:35:50.000But corporations are still raising the prices because, again, they sort of have to to keep up with the prices of the products that they are buying to pass on to the consumers.
00:35:59.000According to the New York Times, Federal Reserve officials are battling the fastest inflation in four decades.
00:36:03.000As they do, they are parsing a wide variety of data sources to see what might happen next.
00:36:06.000If they check in on how executives are describing their company's latest financial results, they might have reasons to worry.
00:36:11.000It's not because corporate chiefs are overly gloomy about their prospects.
00:36:14.000Many executives across a range of industries over the last few weeks have said they expect to see sustained demand in many cases.
00:36:20.000They plan to continue raising prices in the months ahead.
00:36:22.000That's good for investors, but not necessarily welcome news for the Fed, which has been trying hard to slow consumer spending.
00:36:27.000The central bank has already raised rates five times this year and is expected to do so again on Wednesday as part of its campaign to cool off the economy.
00:36:33.000Jane Frazier, chief executive of Citigroup, said, quote, while we are seeing signs of economic slowing, consumers and corporates remain healthy.
00:36:39.000So it's all a question of what it takes to truly tame persistently high core inflation.
00:36:42.000I'll tell you what The Washington Post thinks is necessary.
00:36:44.000They have an editorial today saying the Fed might have to trigger a recession to beat inflation, quote.
00:36:49.000A recession would be unwelcome, but high inflation is a greater threat and it is already here.
00:36:53.000This is the Washington Post, a very left-wing newspaper that is now pushing an actual recession in order to defeat inflation created by the vast spending by the Federal Reserve as well as by the federal government under the last year of Donald Trump because of the pandemic and then the completely unnecessary spending of 2021-2022 under Joe Biden.
00:37:32.000One effect of rate hikes is to raise consumer borrowing costs for car loans, credit cards, mortgages.
00:37:36.00030-year fixed mortgage rates hit 7% last week and promised to rise even higher.
00:37:40.000Moreover, it's hard for the Fed to know exactly when to stop slamming on the brakes because it takes time for the effect of interest rate increases to be felt across the economy.
00:37:47.000There's not going to be a soft landing here, folks.
00:37:49.000We are going to see a real down economy for the next couple of years, in all likelihood.
00:37:54.000And so, with all this bad news, this means that Democrats are, of course, doubling down on the idea that Republicans are evil and violent.
00:38:01.000This is not a pitch that is going to work.
00:38:03.000Whoopi Goldberg trying to rally the troops by suggesting that Fox News is to blame in the wake of a crazy person hitting Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
00:38:11.000Here is Whoopi Goldberg from The View, the repository of all intelligence on planet Earth.
00:38:15.000But, I mean, our thoughts and prayers are with Pelosi.
00:38:36.000Whoopi is the only per— Wow, she is—she is the most civil, wonderful person is Whoopi Goldberg, except for her treatment of Meghan McCain for years while she was on The View.
00:38:44.000Whoopi Goldberg is just a delightful human.
00:38:46.000She's never said anything that is remotely inflammatory about the other side.
00:38:50.000She's a moderate of the highest order.
00:38:52.000I love the stupid game that we play when a person who expresses Crazy right-wing conspiracy theories, goes and hits Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer, but also is a career nudist, drug addict, and nut.
00:39:03.000That obviously is the result of ads that were run by the Republican Party in 2006 about Nancy Pelosi.
00:39:10.000If a Bernie Sanders fan goes and shoots, almost to death, a member of Congress, then obviously that has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.
00:39:47.000And I haven't even raised the subject of some of these political ads where people are pulling out shotguns.
00:39:52.000You know, Kennedy's the Republican head of the Republican campaign, the Congressional Campaign Committee.
00:40:00.000You mean they cut an ad with a gun in it?
00:40:02.000Well, probably what happened is that guy was totally fine and normal until he watched the ad with a gun in it, in which the person did not actually shoot Nancy Pelosi.
00:40:10.000And probably then he was like, I'm gonna go attack Paul Pelosi with a hammer.
00:40:13.000I love that we are just supposed to connect the dot all by ourself.
00:40:16.000The dot from political ad, broad spectrum political ad about Nancy Pelosi to somebody goes to her house and hits her husband in the head with a hammer.
00:40:23.000By the way, I have a question just on logistics.
00:40:26.000What exactly would you say they do for a living?
00:40:28.000The Capitol Police apparently had cameras in the place.
00:40:31.000They just weren't monitoring any of the cameras in the place.
00:40:34.000You'd imagine that if the Capitol Police were going to defend anyone, because it's their job apparently to defend the Speaker of the House, that they would be defending the House.
00:40:42.000So either it's local PD's inability to crack down on crime thanks to local regulations, or the Capitol Police continue their apparently unabated pattern of being unable to protect Congress people.
00:40:51.000I'm gonna blame the leadership of the Capitol Police for that one.
00:40:54.000The Washington Post had an entire piece about how Capitol Police theoretically could have stopped this thing.
00:41:27.000And it does not mean that people saying a nasty thing about me, saying whatever they want about me, as long as they're not calling for violence, it does not mean they're responsible for violence.
00:41:35.000But again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
00:41:37.000Here is Representative Zoe Lofgren doing this routine.
00:41:40.000There was never a campaign of ads to put Mr. Scalise's picture in a target for target practice in political ads.
00:41:51.000Millions of dollars have been spent to demonize Nancy Pelosi and others, and that is the part of the problem.
00:42:15.000They're trying to say that Republicans are racist for mentioning crime.
00:42:18.000They're trying to suggest evil corporate greed is responsible for increase in prices, and now their final last gasp attempt is to pin their entire election hopes on people believing that a nutjob who was a nudist went into Nancy Pelosi's house looking to harm her because he saw a random ad from Kevin McCarthy in 2009 or something.
00:42:38.000If that is your closing electoral pitch, guys, you are about to see a red wave that makes day after tomorrow look like nothing.
00:42:44.000It's gonna be a brutal week for the Democrats beginning on Tuesday.
00:42:49.000Okay, so, big election in Israel yesterday.
00:42:52.000The entire left had basically written off Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:42:54.000I remember when he was cast out of power by a bizarre coalition between Naftali Bennett, who is a religious Zionist, and between Yair Lapid, who is sort of a center-left figure in Israel, a former television anchor.
00:43:09.000That coalition included a weird agglomeration of parties, ranging from the very heavily Russian Jewish Home Party to Ra'am, which is an actual Arab party that's sat in the coalition.
00:43:19.000First Arab party to ever sit in an Israeli governing coalition.
00:43:22.000And I said at the time that Bibi would be back.
00:43:24.000The entire left-wing media in the United States celebrated because they hate Bibi, because Bibi didn't like Barack Obama, and he didn't like Barack Obama because Barack Obama hated Israel with a passion that could only be matched by the fiery fury of a thousand suns.
00:43:34.000So, Bibi and Obama were at odds the entirety of Obama's presidency, because Obama wanted to reorient the United States away from its alliance with Israel entirely.
00:43:43.000So the media despised Netanyahu, and they decided that they were going to cast their vote as much as they could, the international media, against Netanyahu.
00:43:50.000So Netanyahu was basically thrust out of power.
00:43:52.000And at the time, they were like, ah, this will be the end of Bibi.
00:43:55.000This will be the end of Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:43:56.000And I said, at the time, that is wrong.
00:43:58.000There is no way this coalition can hold.
00:44:00.000Bibi is still in control of the largest faction in the Knesset, the Likud party, and he will be back.
00:44:06.000Well, he came back with a vengeance in yesterday's elections.
00:44:09.000The votes are still being tallied in Israel, but the latest vote count has a massive win for Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:44:17.000The current coalition for Benjamin Netanyahu has Bibi's party, Likud, at 32 mandates, the Religious Zionist Party, which is a very right-wing party led by two extremely right-wing figures, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gavir, at 14 seats, Shas at 11 seats.
00:44:50.000You require a majority of 61 in the Knesset, the parliament, of 120 in order to govern in Israel.
00:44:55.000The last coalition that was formed had 61 seats and then it had 60 and it sort of fell apart.
00:45:02.000Because it just didn't have a broad enough coalition, and the coalition was completely unwieldy.
00:45:04.000It only existed in opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:45:07.000This time, the Israeli public, they decided, you know what?
00:45:10.000Many of us may not be huge fans of Netanyahu, but you know what we like even less?
00:45:13.000This coalition that is completely unworkable, that seems to be making wild concessions to the Ra'am party, the Arab party, to try to keep that in the coalition.
00:45:21.000A coalition that seems almost entirely oriented against Benjamin Netanyahu personally, and also doesn't seem to like the religious in the country enough to actually protect their prerogatives, for example.
00:45:32.000The Israeli politics is very weird because there are basically two wings of Israeli politics that support heavy welfare spending.
00:45:39.000One is the religious wing, that would be Shas and UTJ, and the other is the Arab wing, which would be Ra'am and Hadash Tal.
00:45:46.000Those parties support heavy social spending for welfare.
00:45:50.000The religious wing, because the Haredim don't work as much as the normal Israelis do, they also don't serve in the army, the Arabs don't serve in the army, and also, they have very high levels of unemployment, so they're also in favor of wild social spending.
00:46:00.000It's one of the problems with Israel, very difficult for them to restructure their economy in capitalistic ways because there's so many people who require the welfare payments.
00:46:07.000With that said, this new coalition is likely to be significantly more free market than the old coalition.
00:46:12.000It's also likely to be significantly more right-wing in how it prosecutes terror.
00:46:16.000So, the religious Zionist party, which is the third biggest party in Knesset now, That party has pledged to basically free the hands of the Israel Defense Forces.
00:46:25.000So if there are terrorists who are throwing, for example, molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers, the rules heretofore have been that Israel is supposed to shoot them with rubber bullets or supposed to mitigate its use of force.
00:46:34.000The Religious Zionist Party is saying no.
00:46:36.000If you throw a molotov cocktail at somebody and you get shot, that would be a you problem.
00:46:39.000The Religious Zionist Party is also attempting to re-enshrine sort of traditional morality in terms of, for example, marriage.
00:46:45.000There's been a big push on the left in Israel for same-sex adoption.
00:46:49.000The Religious Zionist Party is not in favor of that.
00:46:52.000Meanwhile, the Likud Party is promising the building of more settlements, maybe the annexation of some of the Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:47:12.000Hatred of one political figure is not enough to, for long, stave off your own incompetence.
00:47:18.000What happened with this coalition is it was not workable.
00:47:20.000I honestly feel bad for both Naftali Bennett and for Yair Lapid, who were leading that coalition, because the coalition was doomed to failure.
00:47:26.000There was no way it was going to last.
00:47:27.000The fact it lasted as long as it did is a testament, I suppose, to their leadership capacity.
00:47:34.000The following part of that coalition was written on the wall the moment that coalition was formed.
00:47:37.000It was formed simply out of hatred for Benjamin Netanyahu, and it was never going to hold.
00:47:41.000And it turns out the Israeli public doesn't like going to elections every five minutes and just saying over and over again, we don't like Bibi Netanyahu, so instead we'll put in place this coalition that seems to be making absurd concessions to not only the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria in the midst of a terror war, but also to welfarism and illegal building in the Arab sector, making outsized moves toward the hard left in Israel.
00:48:05.000Yair Lapid spent the weeks leading up to the election going to the UN and trying to reinvigorate the two-state solution, which right now is a dead letter considering the Palestinian Authority is a wild anti-Israel force that cannot be allowed to have a state.
00:48:18.000So the two-state solution has been effectively dead since Oslo, but he was trying to blow some air into that.
00:48:23.000He was also trying to say that he was going to redo the nation-state law, which suggests that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, a very unpopular position in Israel.
00:48:29.000He was appealing to his left and it did not work.
00:48:31.000Not only did it not work, The hard left in Israel does not exist, and that's the true story of what's happened in Israel.
00:48:36.000In Israel, there are two hardcore left parties.
00:48:39.000All the other parties, not counting the Arab parties, are either center or center-right.
00:48:44.000You might call Yesh Atid, which is Yair Lapid's party, a center-left party, but the truth is it's kind of center party.
00:48:49.000The two parties that represent the hard left in Israel are the Labor Party and the Merits Party.
00:48:53.000The Labor Party, for the first three decades of Israel's existence, in unbroken fashion, held power.
00:48:59.000The Labor Party, every Prime Minister, from 1948 all the way up until Menachem Begin was elected in 1977-1978, up until that point, every single Prime Minister had been of the Labor Party.
00:49:10.000Even after that, basically all of Israeli politics revolved around the conflict between the Likud Party, which is a center-right party in Israel, and the Labor Party, which is a hard left party in Israel.
00:49:19.000The last Labor Prime Minister, I believe, was Ehud Barak.
00:49:23.000And it's been a while since there was a full-on Labor Prime Minister.
00:49:26.000So Labor has now declined to the point where it represents four seats in Knesset.
00:50:05.000And any American attempts to force that are going to fail.
00:50:07.000Because the Israeli public is not willing to sacrifice thousands of more lives on the altar of a false peace that does not exist.
00:50:12.000So, labor and merits are getting clocked over that.
00:50:15.000The second thing is that there actually is a fairly large free market consensus in Israel.
00:50:19.000The notion of re-socialization or re-nationalization of industry, the notion that the unions need to be made stronger in Israel, which is what labor really pushes, That has fallen by the wayside because there are strikes every five minutes in Israel.
00:50:32.000Regulations are too tight and everyone knows it.
00:50:34.000Center-left, center, center-right, and right.
00:50:38.000So what's happening in Israel, I think, is a precursor to what's happening around the globe.
00:50:42.000One of the reasons that you are seeing a rise in center-right and right-wing politics around the globe is because as the world becomes a more dangerous place, all of the sort of bizarre Dreamlike utopian notions of left liberalism are falling apart.
00:50:58.000The notion that free immigration is going to lead to a more peaceful world.
00:51:01.000The notion that borders are really just non-existent and don't matter.
00:51:05.000The belief system that suggests that multiculturalism is a solution to social cohesion.
00:51:12.000All of that has fallen by the wayside, and that's why you're seeing the rise of the right in France, the rise of the right in Germany, the rise of the right in Hungary, in Poland, the rise of the right in Latin America.
00:51:22.000In another foreign policy news, Brazilian President Eir Bolsonaro pledged to respect the Constitution after he lost the election.
00:51:29.000He didn't acknowledge the result, but he did say that he would leave office when he was supposed to leave office.
00:51:34.000The reason that Bolsonaro is doing that is because he will be back.
00:51:37.000So again, the left-wing media in the United States and internationally likes to declare political figures of the right dead the minute that they are out of office.
00:51:45.000That is not what's going to happen in Brazil.
00:51:47.000What's going to happen in Brazil is that Bolsonaro's party, which represents the largest faction in the Brazilian legislature, That party is going to be back.
00:51:55.000All of his presuppositions about how he's going to be able to fix everything in there through hard left governance, that is not going to work.
00:52:02.000The same thing is likely to happen in a lot of other Latin American countries.
00:52:06.000Whoever was in power during COVID is getting blamed and feeling the blowback right now, which means that if there are right-wing parties that were in power in Colombia or in Chile, that they felt the brunt, but left-wing governance is likely to fail.
00:52:17.000And when it fails, the right-wing is there to pick up the pieces.
00:52:19.000That's what's happening in the United States as well.
00:52:27.000How long do you think they will be in power before people quickly see how unfeasible and unworkable Labor Party policy is?
00:52:34.000The failures of the right lead to the rise of the left, but the inevitable failures of the left also lead to the rise of the right.
00:52:39.000The big failures of the right, typically speaking in the United States and elsewhere, have been failures of party cohesion.
00:52:46.000Failures to implement a conservative vision in consistent fashion without sort of fragmentary foolishness.
00:52:53.000That's what's happening in Great Britain.
00:52:54.000The Conservative Party has no actual governing agenda and so they're falling apart.
00:52:57.000The problem is that the alternative to the Conservative Party in Britain, the Labour Party in Britain, is a complete disaster area and if they actually gain power it will be made obvious.
00:53:05.000The problem there is not group cohesion, the problem is their policies suck.
00:53:09.000And that's what you're seeing in the Democratic Party in the United States right now.
00:53:12.000The factions inside the Republican Party are very real.
00:53:15.000There are a lot of divisions inside the Republican Party.
00:53:17.000The Democratic Party is very cohesive.
00:53:20.000There's not a lot of friction inside the Democratic Party.
00:53:22.000Whatever friction is there is pretty quiet, is pretty quickly quelled, right?
00:53:25.000When the progressives write a letter to Joe Biden telling him that they wish to see him draw back on Ukrainian aid, he writes an angry letter back to them, they withdraw the letter.
00:53:32.000The group cohesion on the left is not the problem.