Andrew Tate is an online provocateur who is mostly famous for one time being a kickboxer and now he runs around with his shirt off with fancy cars and good-looking women and smokes cigars. And he has generated an enormous following, an enormous audience, and an enormous number of fans. And yet, the right has been quick to defend him.
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00:00:29.000I want to start today with a controversy that erupted online, but is sort of indicative of a broader problem that the right currently has with, say, the influencer class.
00:00:39.000This controversy erupted because Benny Johnson had on Andrew Tate.
00:00:44.000Andrew Tate, for those who don't know, is an online provocateur.
00:00:48.000He is mostly famous for one time being a kickboxer, and now he sort of runs around with his shirt off with fancy cars and good-looking women and smokes cigars.
00:00:56.000And says some things that are sort of useful critiques of the left, but mostly says crazy stuff online.
00:01:03.000And he has generated an enormous following, an enormous following.
00:01:06.000So Benny Johnson had on Andrew Tate, and he also had on, at the same time, Alina Habbo, who is a counsel for the Trump team.
00:01:15.000And Alina Habbo was really praising Tate, and so was Benny Johnson.
00:02:07.000That is not particularly true of Andrew Tate.
00:02:10.000And Russell Brand, of course, rushed to the defense of all of this.
00:02:14.000Russell Brand then suggested that anyone who objected to the treatment of Andrew Tate on the right, that they needed to sort of check their problems at the door.
00:02:40.000I suppose what's more significant and interesting to me is the way that figures like Andrew Tate or Tommy Robinson have always been maligned, I think, to place an impassable threshold around systems of influence and power.
00:02:54.000You can have your own views of Andrew Tate.
00:02:57.000You might think he's misogynistic or vulgar, but the fact is he appeals to a lot of people and he represents some things that a lot of people are very interested in.
00:03:06.000Okay, so I think that the way that some people are defending Andrew Tate today is a conflation of a couple of different ideas.
00:03:12.000So, I think there's a big difference between having people on, have whoever you want on.
00:03:33.000There are tons of excellent questions to ask Andrew Tate.
00:03:36.000But none of these people are asking Andrew Tate any of those questions.
00:03:40.000Instead, a lot of people are sort of glomming on to his very online popularity in order to get clicks.
00:03:46.000And some people are dishonestly conflating interviewing Andrew Tate with cheering for Andrew Tate or applauding him or talking about how brave and wonderful he is.
00:03:56.000And Andrew Tate is not brave and wonderful.
00:03:58.000He rips off thousands of people with his scam hustlers university.
00:04:01.000He preaches the virtue of treating women in a way you would never, ever allow anyone to treat your wife or your daughter.
00:04:06.000No one is saying you can't have Andrew Tate on your show.
00:04:13.000What I'm saying is that if you say you're conservative, and then you have someone who truly is disgusting on, and you proceed to tout them, praise them, Not along to everything they say.
00:04:23.000You're doing more than platforming, which, again, is fine.
00:04:26.000Platforming, the idea that you can never have a conversation.
00:04:28.000You can have a conversation with whomever you want.
00:04:30.000But there's a difference between having a conversation with a person and becoming a propagandist for that person.
00:04:36.000If you're a person, for example, who purports to stand for biblical values or American values or traditional values, you probably have a moral obligation.
00:04:43.000I probably certainly have a moral obligation to ask Andrew Tate, who is a self-stated bad man.
00:04:49.000Hard questions about his actions and his beliefs and his past.
00:04:52.000Not to, as so many on the right have, help him falsely rewrite his legal record or ignore all of the things he's actually said while nodding enthusiastically.
00:05:08.000Now he's trying to start some sort of party in the UK. But he's not a conservative politician, for example, trying to push conservative policies where part of the job of the interviewer is separating out his agenda.
00:05:49.000And for decades, the hatred of traditional masculinity in our society has been so strong, so thoroughgoing throughout the media, throughout politics, from our institutions, from our colleges, everywhere, that people, including people on the right, have run away from traditional masculinity altogether.
00:06:05.000And they've sort of feminized what masculinity is supposed to be.
00:06:09.000Young men for at least a generation, maybe two, have basically been told they were useless at best and toxic at worst.
00:06:17.000A vacuum for somebody who can sort of cosplay masculinity.
00:06:21.000And Tate fills that vacuum with his form of masculinity.
00:06:24.000But masculinity has good iterations and it also has really, really ugly iterations.
00:06:29.000And the iteration that Andrew Tate pushes is not a responsible masculinity.
00:06:33.000A traditional masculinity that is all about channeling the sort of testosterone-fueled side of man into protecting women and children and civilization and building good things.
00:06:43.000But the kind of masculinity that tears everything good down, sort of barbarian masculinity that is interested in destroying rather than building.
00:06:54.000I mean, he's not making any bones about this.
00:06:55.000He released a video yesterday, a very long 21-minute video, rambling video, sitting in a jacuzzi in cold weather, smoking a hookah, and basically saying that he wants to be the most hated man on Earth and that he makes money off of that.
00:07:06.000And he's telling the truth about that.
00:07:10.000Andrew Tate is, at best, a crap sandwich.
00:07:12.000He presents totally differently to different audiences.
00:07:15.000So, for people, sort of traditional people on the right, when he's in interviews with them, he will present as a sort of low-rent, anti-feminist talking head.
00:07:23.000Doesn't know much, but he's saying the things that need to be said, bashing left-wing wokeism.
00:07:27.000And then, to the crazier side of the internet, he'll present as an anti-Semitic radical who's willing to violate any taboo for the fringes.
00:07:36.000And then when he's sitting down with someone actually conservative, he'll pretend he's an upstanding person who cares about family values and that he's been out of the sort of scam business for a while.
00:07:45.000In the end, what he really is is a con artist.
00:07:48.000And he's actually kind of an evil con artist.
00:07:50.000Not kind of, if you believe the allegations against him, and there are lots of them, an actually evil con artist.
00:07:56.000Even if you just believe the stuff he said about himself, what he says is evil.
00:08:01.000He made his money off of cam girls, which is to say, He is a self-professed pimp.
00:08:13.000He made his money grooming women for the industry.
00:08:17.000Now, all the people on the right who are very upset, correctly, about the grooming gangs in Britain are going to have to explain why they're okay with his grooming gang.
00:08:25.000Here is Andrew Tate explicitly explaining his method.
00:08:27.000Now he claims it's all a joke, but it's not a joke.
00:08:29.000He literally made millions of dollars doing this thing.
00:08:33.000So yeah, on corporateate.com I have my PhD program and that is a PhD is a pimp and hoes degree.
00:08:42.000That teaches basically how I got girls, how I met girls, how I got girls to like me, how I got girls to fall in love with me to work on webcam for me.
00:09:02.000They took underage girls, they would convince these young girls that the girls were in love with them, and then they would pass them around their group of friends for money.
00:09:09.000That's exactly what happened in the grooming gang's trials in the UK, which is a massive scandal internationally as it should be.
00:09:16.000But I guess for Andrew Tate, then if you confess to doing things like this on tape, like he just said.
00:09:24.000Then morally, it's somehow okay because you're anti-woke or something?
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00:11:35.000Hey, the latest in terms of his legal situation is according to the BBC. He's been placed under house arrest by a Romanian judge as prosecutors investigate new and serious allegations, including with a minor and underage persons.
00:11:47.000The allegation, by the way, is that he did exactly the same thing that the grooming gangs did.
00:11:51.000With a 15-year-old girl, prosecutors had asked the judge to remand the brothers in custody for 30 days.
00:11:56.000That would be him and his brother Tristan.
00:11:58.000While they continued a new investigation involving a total of 35 alleged victims, including a woman who was 15 at the time.
00:12:04.000In a statement, Romania's Agency Against Organized Crime, Dicot, said six people had been detained in total, both Romanians and foreigners.
00:12:12.000He, of course, says that 30 of these girls say we've done nothing wrong, which, again, that's not actually super rare in sort of grooming cases.
00:12:18.000That's actually the original perspective of many of the girls who actually were groomed in Great Britain by the grooming gangs.
00:12:25.000Two have never even been here to Romania.
00:12:27.000Asked repeatedly by the BBC about the allegations of the 15-year-old girl and underage persons, he walked away and refused to reply.
00:12:36.000Now, these are new and separate allegations from the old allegations.
00:12:40.000The anti-organized crime agency in Romania says the accused were grooming vulnerable people who were then housed in different locations and forced to produce material for online broadcast.
00:12:48.000One of the foreign men is accused of forcing a 17-year-old foreign citizen to perform acts in order to make online video content.
00:12:54.000He's said to have kept all the $1.5 million in profit.
00:12:59.000That same man is accused of repeatedly having relations with a girl who was 15 years old when they met.
00:13:04.000And actually, there's a fair bit of tape of the girl talking about when she met Andrew Tate allegedly.
00:13:10.000And if that tape is in any way correct, and if his own statements on tape are in any way correct, she was underage at the time.
00:13:17.000Some of the other allegations from the new allegations that are being brought include, according to the actual case that's being brought, quote, he was hitting the victim on the head with one of his hands, right on the temple, not on the face, and with the other at the same time he was choking the victim.
00:13:33.000Thus, an eye injury was not caused by blows to the head inflicted by the defendant, Andrew Tate, but was the result of immense pressure felt by the victim as a result of the strangulation.
00:13:42.000According to the victim, during the allegedly violent intercourse, she felt she was on the verge of death.
00:13:47.000This person provided the judicial authorities with photographs and messages relating to these injuries.
00:13:53.000These are pretty significant accusations.
00:14:06.000And again, it's not just trials in Romania that are happening.
00:14:08.000There is also legal considerations in the UK. In March.
00:14:13.000Both of the Tates were taken into custody in Romania on a new European arrest warrant issued by the British authorities.
00:14:18.000Those charges related to the arrest were made between 2012 and 2015 and include allegations of aggression.
00:14:25.000The Bedford Child Police in England said at the time they were working with the authorities in Romania on investigation into allegations of violence and human violence as well.
00:15:43.000When you're pimping people like me, it's a full-time job.
00:15:47.000And Nathan Livingstone, who's kept tabs on this, has put together a lot of these videos that we're using right here.
00:15:53.000Now, Tate has then claimed in interviews with conservatives that he stopped his webcam business long ago, like super long.
00:15:58.000He stopped his webcam business technically in about 2022. And it's not that long ago, as you may know.
00:16:04.000And apparently he stopped his webcam business when he found a new grift, the thing he calls Tate University or Hustlers University, which is effectively a multi-level marketing scheme that is designed to spread social media awareness of Andrew Tate.
00:16:22.000So Coffeezilla, who does investigations into sort of these MLMs and pyramid schemes, he did an entire investigation into Tate and what Tate does with his operation.
00:16:34.000Most people know the dates from clips talking about the matrix, politics, and feminism.
00:16:39.000But the two brothers have made almost all their money from something else.
00:16:43.000According to Tate, the way they got rich was webcams.
00:16:47.000Taking advantage of lonely men, they bragged about it.
00:16:50.000And me and my brother, eventually some staff I trained, would do all the talking.
00:16:54.000The girls were just pure, just famoosers.
00:16:56.000We were taking their money, all of it!
00:16:59.000And then they broke into male empowerment, which is ironic.
00:17:03.000Teaching, dating, manliness, and of course, money.
00:17:06.000You could join Hustler's University for $49 a month, where the best hustle was students reselling the course to their friends, which actually got the Tates quite popular because they encouraged the students to post their videos everywhere.
00:17:19.000And he continues explaining exactly what Hustler University is.
00:17:22.000Again, he's making a lot of money off Hustler, not as much as he says he's making.
00:17:25.000Andrew Tate at one point said that he was going to be the world's first trillionaire and suggested that he was making something like $110 million per year.
00:17:33.000When you actually dig into how much money he is worth, he had suggested, for example, that he owned a chain of 15 casinos.
00:17:40.000The UK Guardian found that apparently not.
00:17:42.000It's tough to find out how much Taste Romanian companies are actually worth.
00:19:17.000Okay, so Tate's new plan is that you buy a Get Rich Quick course, gain PowerPoints.
00:19:22.000You have to stay subscribed to keep your PowerPoints.
00:19:24.000And then they say they will pay you a percentage that their school makes.
00:19:29.000The goal is that you can buy the token and own a percentage of the school.
00:19:32.000So imagine you sign up for the real world, you start to make money, you focus on your tasks, then you can invest that money in the real world token and get paid every single month a monthly dividend from the profits of the school.
00:19:58.000It's just kind of this nice little pyramid scheme.
00:20:04.000Okay, so there is a person who is actually quite wonderful online named Zach Bonfilio, who goes by Misfit Patriot over on X. A post saying MAGA has an Andrew Tate problem and it's a big effing problem.
00:20:18.000Y'all better wake the F up and see what he's doing before he ruins everything we've worked for.
00:20:21.000Stop acting like a dog who finally caught the car.
00:20:22.000We still have work to do and you're effing up.
00:20:53.000In order to defeat that, you have to do things that are not going to be virtuous.
00:20:57.000Then, the right actually linked strength with transgressive behavior, because the idea was that it took bad men to stop bad people, which sometimes is true.
00:21:07.000Some on the right have now fallen into the trap of believing that so long as someone is purportedly anti-left, no matter what insanely non-conservative thing that person believes, from the wonders of promiscuity and mistreating women to standing for Islamic jihadis, all of which Andra Tate has done, you can commit literally any sin, up to and including being a and be treated to applause.
00:21:28.000Well, this has to stop because it's stupid and it's counterproductive and it is morally wrong.
00:21:33.000It turns out that in a reactionary world, the pendulum, Swings back and forth from wild, disgusting, terrible, radical feminism to sometimes wild and disgusting anti-woman trash.
00:21:44.000But there has always been in human life one constant.
00:21:52.000If you're covering for a self-described bad guy like Andrew Tate, you're doing it wrong.
00:21:57.000If you're traveling to Romania to let him lie about his grift and pretend away his legal cases and act as though he's a paragon of masculine decency, you are participating in the lie.
00:22:07.000If you spend your days shouting correctly about the evils of but not about Andrew Tate, you are full stop a fraud.
00:22:16.000And worse, if you're cheerleading Andrew Tate, that makes you an accomplice to what he's doing, not an open minded person just seeking truth or asking questions.
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00:24:39.000The wildfire threat in Los Angeles remains very high.
00:24:42.000The death count has now risen to 24 from 16. That's what officials said on Sunday evening.
00:24:47.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Santana winds aren't done provoking the historic LA fires that have so far claimed at least two dozen lives.
00:24:53.000A wind advisory and red flag warning, which indicates extreme fire conditions, were in effect Sunday night, with Santa Ana winds expected to move in by Monday and remain all the way until Wednesday.
00:25:02.000Apparently, the gust could reach 45 to 70 miles an hour in certain parts of L.A. between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.
00:25:08.000And that could make it harder to drop aerial retardant.
00:25:10.000It could accelerate the spread of the fires.
00:25:12.000There's a big problem in Altadena, which has largely been burned, which is in the Pasadena area.
00:25:17.000Also, the Palisades blaze continues to be extremely large.
00:25:21.000The containment of these blazes is not even remotely full.
00:25:26.000The Palisades blaze is only 14% contained.
00:25:29.000It's already burned almost 24,000 acres.
00:25:31.000That Palisades blaze, which is the one that you're seeing so much on the news, or you're not seeing as much about the Eaton blaze, which is the one around Pasadena, it really is amazing.
00:25:39.000If you know these areas, and again, I grew up in Los Angeles, and I know all these areas really, really well.
00:25:43.000If you look at the map, the astonishing extent of the Palisades fire, it's truly crazy.
00:25:49.000It's approaching Santa Monica in the south, and it's moving along the coast all the way through Malibu.
00:25:56.000And in some cases, all the way up towards Santa Barbara.
00:26:00.000That's how far the fire map is moving.
00:26:02.000And again, a lot of that is sort of a preliminary attempt to prevent people from being caught by surprise.
00:26:08.000Because the idea is, if the wind catches correctly, it's going to burn an enormous amount of the dead wood and barren trees that are out there in these areas.
00:26:18.000But if you look at the actual populated areas of Los Angeles, The evacuation warning zone is now including areas of Bel Air.
00:26:25.000It's moving all the way toward Beverly Glen.
00:26:28.000In the north of that particular fire, they've moved the evacuation warning area all the way up to Ventura Boulevard in Encino.
00:27:03.000That confluence of events is horrible wildfires, really, really high winds, enormous seasonal dryness, and, of course, incredibly bad policy.
00:27:13.000Bad policy very often is only exposed when the cover sort of gets ripped off.
00:27:19.000It's sort of like a termite-infested area.
00:27:21.000Until you actually break through the drywall and see the termite infestation, you don't realize how bad it is.
00:27:26.000The fire broke through the drywall, and now you've seen the termite infestation, and it is awful.
00:27:31.000Basically, the foundations of the entire governmental system in Los Angeles and California more generally have been eaten away at over the course of decades.
00:27:40.000So it's easy to find sort of excuses for why this particular reservoir was dry, for example.
00:27:44.000They had to let it out in order to fix it.
00:27:56.000The transformers in the Los Angeles area date back in some cases to the 1920s.
00:28:01.000Los Angeles and California have been wildly underserved by a far-left progressive administration that has been in place for the past several decades being ruled by environmentalists and redistributionist progressives.
00:28:15.000Well, the LA Fire Department chief got herself in trouble, Kristen Crowley did, because she did an interview where she pointed out that the budget cuts had made it difficult to actually fight the fires.
00:29:33.000Because it turns out that in pursuit of these well-intentioned policies, many, many bad things can be done.
00:29:38.000So the Washington Free Beacon, which does some of the best reporting in America, Reports today, quote, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristen Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed.
00:29:49.000When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass's administration pulled Crowley's memo from their website.
00:29:55.000Crowley wrote to the city's fire commissioners, a five-person board appointed by Bass on November 18th, and asked them to transmit the message to Bass and the city council.
00:30:02.000The fire department's size, she said, had not increased in decades despite significant population growth.
00:30:07.000Crowley said in many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s.
00:30:14.000In 2022, Crowley said 61% of the department's firefighters failed to meet the four-minute first response time, which is a national firefighting standard.
00:30:22.000The National Fire Protection Association recommends cities like LA employ between 1.51 and 1.81 firefighters per thousand residents.
00:30:40.000I can't believe that they would make all of that disappear.
00:30:43.000Well, meanwhile, it turns out that pretty much every area of California law has been screwed up.
00:30:49.000Many people today are in desperate need of fulfillment from their fire insurance because their house got burned down.
00:30:53.000The problem is that California has spent decades attempting to destroy the entire fire insurance market by placing artificial regulations on pricing.
00:31:00.000And what that does is it drives out alternative pricing.
00:31:04.000It drives out programs that you can buy.
00:31:06.000It limits your availability of choice.
00:31:11.000According to the Cato Institute, in recent years, state price control regulations have driven private home insurance providers like State Farm and Allstate out of offering new products in the state and led to the non-renual of thousands of existing home insurance policies.
00:31:23.000This has left many homeowners exposed to catastrophic financial losses from the recent wildfires and created a huge strain on the state-run Fair Access to Insurance Requirements plan, the insurer of last resort.
00:31:34.000California's price controls, where regulators must approve proposed premium increases, require insurers to submit detailed justifications for rate increases to the California Department of Insurance.
00:31:43.000Those companies had until recently to demonstrate that proposed premiums are based on historic losses, not analysis based on forward-looking risk assessments, which is insane, by the way.
00:31:51.000So apparently the insurance companies, in order to justify future price increases, had to say, here's what the fires have been like in the past.
00:31:57.000So you can't assess future risk, which is literally what insurance is there to do.
00:32:02.000This, by the way, is true across how Americans think of insurance.
00:32:12.000This is true from health insurance to fire insurance to flood insurance.
00:32:15.000And the thing about insurance is if it's specking out future risk, that means differential prices if you have a house in the middle of a forest in Malibu than if you're living in downtown L.A.
00:32:24.000Designed to keep insurance premiums affordable through rates that are, quote, never excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory, these regulations led to rules preventing companies from recalibrating prices to fully reflect what they believed were higher future wildfire risks after 2017.
00:32:38.000The CDI rejected or laid approval for substantial rate increases in many cases, creating a de facto price cap.
00:32:45.000Previous research showed average delay was now 293 days between 2020 and 2022, which is significantly worse than 157 days.
00:32:55.000In fact, California was the worst state in the country for rate suppression.
00:32:59.000Having the biggest gap between actuarially indicated rate and the rate approved by regulators.
00:33:04.000And so what ended up happening there is that people just stopped buying their insurance and insurance stopped offering options because they knew they were going to have to pay out more than they were taking in.
00:33:14.000So what ended up, they all get thrown onto the tax paradigm.
00:33:30.000So, like, a huge percentage of the housing stock in SoCal has now been burned down, which means more demand and less supply, which means the price naturally goes up.
00:33:41.000And instead, Karen Bass is like, report price gouging to me.
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00:34:38.000So in the face of his radical incompetence and his state burning down, California Governor Gavin Newsom is now attempting to reverse field on pretty much everything and pretend that he's a moderate Republican.
00:34:47.000Now he's running as Rick Caruso, the L.A. mayoral candidate who lost to Karen Bass.
00:34:52.000So, first, he put out a statement that he's going to cut through red tape.
00:34:55.000Just issued an executive order that will allow victims of the SoCal fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and quickly rebuild their homes.
00:35:01.000We're also extending key price-gouging protections to help make rebuilding more affordable.
00:35:45.000And I'm very grateful for them, particularly for these critical checkpoints that allow law enforcement to move more globally and do interior work.
00:35:53.000Well, I only have one question for you.
00:35:57.000Why did the state of California effectively decriminalize shoplifting in 2020-2021?
00:36:03.000State law says stealing merchandise worth $950 or less...
00:36:07.000is a misdemeanor, according to Leo Hanyan at Hoover, which means law enforcement won't bother to investigate, and if they do, prosecutors will simply let it go.
00:36:13.000So they're totally fine with mass looting during BLM, totally fine with looting just on a regular basis, just walk through a Rite Aid and steal everything in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
00:36:22.000Now, of course, it makes for bad headlines, so Gavin Newsom has to cover his ass.
00:36:26.000Gavin Newsom also says that they're going to reimagine how the state of California works.
00:36:30.000They're going to do the Marshall Plan 2.0.
00:37:12.000We're starting to organize how we can put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region, how we can make sure that we are seeking federal assistance for the Olympics more broadly, but also federal assistance for the recovery efforts, and how we can galvanize the community with folks that love this community to really develop a mindset.
00:37:37.000So that at scale, we're dealing with the scope of this tragedy and responding to it at scale with efficiency like the executive order I talked about, time value of delivering projects, addressing building codes, addressing permitting issues, and moving forward to rebuilding and being more resilient.
00:37:55.000He just did like a minute and a half without saying a single damn thing.
00:37:58.000He's asked, what is that Marshall Plan 2.0?
00:38:00.000And he proceeds to babble about synergy.
00:38:02.000We're talking to local leaders and civic leaders and philanthropic leaders about spending in the giant scale, but also on the particularly small scale.
00:38:12.000And then he starts doing like mime in a box.
00:38:14.000The hand motions are not a substitute for policy, my dude.
00:38:19.000Now, as a guy who talks with his hands a little bit, let me just tell you, that is some wild hand motioning.
00:38:24.000I mean, if you just scrub through that tape once again and watch the number of hand motions, when he panics, that dude goes right back to jazz hands training in middle school theater.
00:39:07.000He did it to California back before I was even governor in 2018, until he found out folks in Orange County voted for him, and then he decided to give the money.
00:39:14.000So he's been at this for years and years and years.
00:39:17.000It transcends states, including, by the way, Georgia.
00:39:24.000And, you know, we take it seriously to the extent that in the past it's taken a little bit more time.
00:39:32.000I've been pretty expressive about that in the context of someone threatening our first responders in terms of supporting the immediacy of their needs.
00:39:44.000That's what you take it as, that President-elect Trump is threatening the first responders here.
00:39:48.000He said, I'm not going to support the firefighting efforts.
00:39:50.000I'm not going to support the state of California as it relates to its emergency management.
00:39:55.000He made this pretty clear during the election, unless they do my bidding.
00:39:59.000Well, actually, what Senator John Barrasso said, Republican from Wyoming, correctly, is actually what we're going to do is we're going to attach some strings.
00:40:07.000Like, you actually have to clean up your forests if you want us to spend money on you, which makes some sense.
00:40:12.000Do you expect, though, that Congress and Republicans will still help these Americans in need, even if they don't like their local politics in the party?
00:40:22.000I expect that there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved, and it has to do with being ready the next time, because this was a gross failure this time.
00:40:33.000It is amazing that Gavin Newsom continues to try to pretend that he is somehow the responsible player in all of this.
00:40:52.000You guys have done yourselves proud with the people that you've elected.
00:40:55.000Well, meanwhile, President Trump's administration is preparing for its unveiling.
00:40:59.000That, of course, is going to begin next week.
00:41:01.000But we are going to get nominee hearings that begin this week because Congress has already been sworn in.
00:41:06.000That means it's time to have hearings for SecDef.
00:41:09.000Prospective Pete Hegseth or Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
00:41:13.000And one of the things that you're starting to see is that many of the Trump cabinet members are now starting to say things that are in the realm of the more reasonable.
00:41:21.000Because it turns out that the advice and consent process and the various constraints of American government tend to wash out most of the radicalism present from the right.
00:41:29.000Doesn't tend to work on the left because the left then staffs up in the administrative bureaucracy.
00:41:33.000But when it comes to some of the kind of wackier opinions held...
00:41:36.000By a wide variety of members of sort of the Team Trump.
00:41:39.000Those things are being moderated, which makes perfect political sense.
00:41:44.000So, for example, Tulsi Gabbard, who's been tapped to lead the U.S. intelligence community as Director of National Intelligence, had opposed originally Section 702 foreign surveillance authorities as a member of Congress that allows for metadata gathering and data gathering about foreign parties.
00:41:58.000And now she's reversed herself and she's going to support that.
00:42:03.000Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He says he'll give advisory opinions rather than issuing outright bans.
00:42:11.000Pete Hegseth has been avoiding some of the more controversial statements that he's made in the past, for example.
00:42:17.000And so it's not particularly shocking to watch all this happening.
00:42:23.000So, for example, again, Gabber told Punchbowl News on Friday she now supports Section 702 surveillance programs thanks to updated whistleblower and civil liberty protections.
00:42:32.000Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma had said that if she reverses that, there's a good shot she gets confirmed.
00:42:36.000RFK Jr. told reporters on Capitol Hill last month, I'm all for the polio vaccine.
00:42:40.000And he said that he actually will pursue anti-abortion policies at HHS despite being pro-choice himself.
00:42:47.000Hegseth has said that he supports all women serving in our military today, including in combat roles.
00:42:53.000Again, this is because so many of the Trump cabinet members want to work with President Trump.
00:43:01.000is going to be the thing that actually rules the rooster.
00:43:03.000There's something Susie Wiles has made absolutely clear, and that's good.
00:43:05.000The same thing holds true, by the way, of Tom Homan, the out-of-central casting bloodhound who's going to track down illegal immigrants and deport them.
00:43:15.000So he is now the realist in the room, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:43:19.000Homan has spent the weeks following the election right-sizing Trump's sweeping campaign promise to arrest and deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, in private transition meetings, and occasionally in public.
00:43:28.000He has emphasized that immigrants with criminal records should be the primary targets for arrest, a narrower set of people than the 15 to 20 million Trump pledged to go after.
00:43:36.000Homan also said the administration would not carry out intimidating sweeps of immigrant neighborhoods and that he's unsure how extensive the actual deportation campaign will be.
00:43:44.000He said, I keep getting asked the question, how many people are we going to remove in the first 100 days?
00:44:00.000Now, all the people who are set to be disappointed by the fact that the Trump administration actually has to operate in the real world, get ready.
00:44:07.000The Trump administration actually has to operate in the real world.
00:44:09.000And there's no reason to be disappointed about that.
00:44:13.000When you win, it turns out that many of the sort of outlandish things that you say are not applicable in real life.
00:44:20.000So there's bound to be some disappointments.
00:44:22.000And I, for one, am pleased with the realism because I would prefer that things get done even if it's 70% of the pie that I want.
00:44:29.000This happens to hold true with regard to, for example, the January 6th arrestees.
00:44:34.000So J.D. Vance, the vice president-elect of the United States, he was asked on Fox News Sunday about who President Trump would pardon day one with regard to January 6th.
00:44:45.000And he said the reasonable thing, which is people who are guilty of non-violent offenses will be pardoned.
00:44:50.000People who did violent things against cops should not be pardoned.
00:44:53.000I know that a lot of people online were very angry about J.D. Vance saying that.
00:45:12.000Look, if you protested peacefully on January 6th and you've had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned.
00:45:21.000If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.
00:45:25.000And there's a little bit of a gray area there, but we're very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law.
00:45:30.000And there are a lot of people, we think, in the wake of January 6th who were prosecuted unfairly.
00:46:26.000The people of Greenland want to be empowered to develop the resources there.
00:46:29.000We also need to make sure that Greenland is properly cared for from an American security perspective.
00:46:34.000And frankly, the current leadership, the Danish government has not done a good enough job of securing Greenland.
00:46:42.000I think there actually is a real opportunity here for us to take leadership to protect America's security, to ensure that those incredible natural resources are developed.
00:46:51.000And that's what Donald Trump is good at.
00:46:54.000He's good at making deals, and I think there's a deal to be made in Greenland.
00:46:56.000So again, all of this is perfectly rational and perfectly reasonable.
00:47:00.000And that's true across the board in terms of how Donald Trump is approaching policy.
00:47:03.000So, for example, last week, the incoming Trump team said, you know, Donald Trump may not get a deal done in Ukraine day one, but it's going to get done in the first few months.
00:47:56.000The Biden administration acknowledges as much.
00:47:57.000It's just they refuse to actually create policy around reality.
00:48:02.000Everybody knows that this has to end somehow diplomatically.
00:48:07.000I just don't think it's realistic to say we're going to expel every Russian from every inch of Ukrainian soil.
00:48:14.000Even Crimea, President Trump has acknowledged that reality, and I think it's been a huge step forward that the entire world is acknowledging that reality.
00:48:23.000Alrighty, so, again, all of this is rational and reasonable, and that's what Trump 2.0 is going to be.
00:48:29.000There are going to be a lot of moments where members of the Trump base are unhappy with the kind of deal Trump is cutting.
00:48:39.000Involving yourself in negotiations where you don't get 100% of everything, but you get most of what you want.
00:48:44.000There's going to be a lot of that in Trump 2.0 with an incredibly slim House majority and an incredibly slim Senate majority as well.
00:48:51.000Okay, meanwhile, we here at The Daily Wire, we have now announced and brought out a brand new documentary called Identity Crisis, all about the transgender movement particularly directed at children.
00:49:03.000Well, joining us online is one of the people featured in the film Identity Crisis, Adam Veena.
00:49:08.000He lost custody of his son after he refused to affirm the child's quote-unquote transgender identity.
00:49:13.000Adam, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:50:51.000So I wanted to sit in on the gender assessment at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and they denied me that.
00:50:58.000I hired my own therapist to sit in on the assessment, and they denied me that.
00:51:03.000And I wanted to have a phone call with the doctor, and they denied me a phone call.
00:51:08.000so the doctor has never called the father to ask his side of what he thinks is going on with his son so let's talk about what was going on with your son i mean obviously you're spending a lot of time with your son but by the same token you know did you ever see any signs that your son absolutely thought he was a girl or anything like that No, sir.
00:51:27.000I asked Aiden's grandparents every single day, did I miss something in Aiden?
00:51:31.000Was there an inkling that he wanted to be a girl?
00:51:36.000And there was never any inkling that my son Aiden wanted to be a girl.
00:51:40.000He was just your normal, typical little boy.
00:51:43.000Wanted to play with trucks, play in the dirt, your normal little boy thing.
00:51:55.000I think she started wanting to get back at me because we were no longer together at this point.
00:52:02.000But I truly believe that the judges, her attorney, the therapists, the children's hospitals, doctors, I really truly believe that they brainwashed my son's mother to be 100% on board with this whole transition.
00:52:18.000It wasn't just up until recently in court where she actually started referring to Aiden as a her, referring to him as Luna.
00:53:50.000Folks, if you want to see the rest of that story, you want to hear more about that, you should go check out this brand new documentary, Identity Crisis.
00:53:57.000It's a project of The Daily Wire as well as TPUSA, and that is available over at Daily Wire Plus right now.
00:54:04.000Already coming up, there are some on the right who bizarrely are now trying to defend TikTok, even though it's obviously a Chinese op.
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