Two Idaho firefighters were killed and a third is fighting for his life after being ambushed by a gunman on Sunday afternoon. The identity of the shooter has not been publicly released, but it is believed to be a white male in his 20 s.
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00:00:51.000Well, folks, obviously we are keeping tabs on this horrifying situation out of Idaho during which at least two Idaho firefighters were murdered during an ambush on Sunday.
00:01:00.000The man suspected of killing those Idaho firefighters, of course, was found dead on Sunday with a gunshot wound, according to Daily Wire.
00:01:08.000The man was believed to have deliberately set a grass fire at Canfield Mountain in northern Idaho and then started shooting at firefighters when they responded.
00:01:30.000This information is very preliminary and is subject to change.
00:01:35.000We want to give you and the public as much information as quickly as possible.
00:01:39.000So at approximately 1.21 p.m. this afternoon, we received reports of a fire on the east side of Canfield Mountain.
00:01:48.000Fire assets responded to the scene and at approximately 2 p.m. this afternoon, it was reported that firefighters were receiving shots fired at them.
00:02:32.000So again, apparently what happened here is that there was a report of a fire.
00:02:37.000Once that fire was set, firefighters began arriving, and then this shooter started murdering the fire department officials and shooting at the rest of law enforcement as they were arriving.
00:02:49.000These firefighters did not have a chance.
00:02:51.000At one point, there were more than 300 law enforcement officers on the scene Sunday afternoon, including FBI agents.
00:02:57.000Law enforcement exchanged gunfire with the suspect.
00:02:59.000It was not known at that point whether he was killed by law enforcement or if he shot himself.
00:03:03.000The New York Post now has more information on the identity of the shooter.
00:03:08.000We don't mention the names of mass shooters on the program because people who engage in mass shootings love nothing better than the publicity.
00:03:15.000However, what we do know is we have an eerie photo.
00:03:18.000It's a white guy, eerie photo showing him aiming a sinister stare into the camera.
00:03:24.000And again, unclear at this point if he was killed by the cops or whether he shot himself.
00:03:30.000Obviously, the tragedy for the state of Idaho, for the country, is quite real and quite shocking.
00:03:39.000Here's footage of a procession of law enforcement vehicles for the slain firefighters.
00:03:49.000you you Apparently, firefighters were calling 911.
00:03:57.000One firefighter said in a frantic call, I'm pinned down.
00:03:59.000It's clear to me this fire was set intentionally to draw us in.
00:04:02.000We need law enforcement up here immediately.
00:04:03.000We have another Corps de Lene firefighter down.
00:04:06.000We've got two unresponsive battalion shoots down, multiple gunshot wounds.
00:04:11.000And then the fire was eventually left to burn as reinforcements battled to root out the unseen gunmen.
00:04:16.000And then the body was tracked down using cell phone information.
00:04:20.000Again, unclear what the motive is here.
00:04:23.000There is some coincidence suggesting, at the very least, that there may be an association between this particular shooting, and it's a terrorist attack, and a decades-old incident, according to the New York Post, involving the fire department and neo-Nazis.
00:04:37.000Sunday's incident happened 24 years to the day after the 2001 burning of an Aryan nations compound in Hayden Lake, just seven miles north of Cordeline during a fire training operation.
00:04:47.000That's because the cabin and the compound had been sold to the department after the Aryan Nations national leader, Richard Butler, filed for bankruptcy over a settlement involving the shooting of a Native American woman and her son.
00:04:57.000And then the site was torched by the fire department during a training exercise.
00:05:00.000So could these two things be associated?
00:05:21.000We know that if the fire department officials were murdered because someone had a complaint about systemic racism in America, there'd be a cadre of Americans who would rise behind that.
00:05:32.000We know that because Luigi Manchion is now a household name.
00:05:35.000If they're a complaint about capitalism, if, however, this was a person who is either psychotic or a white supremacist, you're not going to find anybody coming out in their defense.
00:05:46.000Now, the rule should be no one comes out in defense of this sort of activity, no matter the supposed justification or excuse making by the shooter and or any sympathizers.
00:05:56.000Meanwhile, we need to talk about the fact that the scavengers are on the move.
00:06:01.000So I've talked to you about this fact.
00:06:03.000I have this book, Lines and Scavengers.
00:06:05.000You can pre-order that over at the Daily Wire shop right now and get a signed copy.
00:06:10.000Scavengers are people who wish to simply tear down the society in which they live.
00:06:13.000And they have very little in common with one another other than that simple fact.
00:06:16.000They just want to tear down everything.
00:06:18.000And it explains the bizarre agglomeration of radicals from across the political spectrum who seem to gather together to rally against our civilization.
00:06:29.000And we saw a lot Of that this weekend, so for example, here is a march that took place to end Pride Month in Ireland.
00:06:37.000A drag queen with flags of Arab countries and children marching in Ireland.
00:06:47.000That is a Palestinian flag being waved by a drag queen in Ireland.
00:06:53.000And now, again, how do you put all that together?
00:06:55.000And there are children in the crowd and all the rest.
00:07:07.000So Toronto Pride had a parade in which they were flying Iranian flags.
00:07:11.000Remember, Iran is a place that hangs gay people from cranes.
00:07:16.000And yet here were people running around with flags reading Free Iran, presumably from American and Israeli intervention against their nuclear program.
00:07:58.000And then there is the Pride Progress flag, in which you had sort of from the side, arrows coming in in the form of the trans flag, the white, pink, and blue.
00:08:07.000And then added to that were black and brown, because of course there are trans people who are black and brown.
00:08:14.000And then you had intersex people who were added as a yellow.
00:08:17.000And now they've added on top of that a heart containing the Palestinian flag because all the causes are one.
00:08:27.000And that omni-cause is just the scavenger mentality.
00:08:29.000It's all the people from the Jean-Paul Sartre hate for Western civilization left to the queer pride left who have decided that they are going to band together to destroy the civilization that we all share.
00:08:45.000And you can see it in action a little bit earlier over the weekend during the so-called Glastonbury Festival when a member of the British rap punk duo Bob Villen got up and started chanting, as we talked about on yesterday's show, deaf, deaf to the IDF and suggesting you want your country back.
00:09:06.000You don't get to get your country back.
00:09:09.000So the State Department of the United States has now taken a measure with regard to this.
00:09:15.000And the measure is that visas for Bob Villen have been revoked in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants.
00:09:26.000U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.
00:09:42.000So for all of those who keep pretending that Zorin Mamdani is sort of a normie Democrat who just has some progressive leanings, no, he is not.
00:09:49.000He is the apex predator of the intersectional scavenger coalition.
00:09:54.000He is a person who's perfectly comfortable talking about spending $65 million in New York City to trans the kids, but also talking about free, free Palestine and globalize the intifada, but also talking about how it is deeply important and deeply necessary to seize the means of production.
00:10:14.000He is a representative of a left that has lost touch with reality and is now running specifically and solely in order to denigrate and destroy the civilization in which it lives.
00:10:30.000Here is Zoram Mamdani marching in New York City Pride with Letitia James.
00:10:33.000Again, Letitia James is the extraordinarily corrupt attorney general of the state of New York who decided before even investigating Donald Trump that he needed to be prosecuted.
00:10:49.000There he is, walking the Pride Parade, your next mayor of New York, a person who also says that quote unquote Palestine must be free, by which he means ruled presumably by Hamas, for whom he has sympathy.
00:11:02.000And none of these pieces fit together unless you understand that they are all directed toward destroying a thing, not actually building a thing.
00:11:10.000We'll get to Zoran Mamdani and the radicalization of the Democratic Party in a moment.
00:11:14.000First, you know how we've all heard that you catch a cold from being out in the cold or that we only use 10% of our brains?
00:11:18.000Well, here's another myth that's been fooling shoppers for years, that higher thread count automatically means better sheets.
00:11:24.000This is one of those marketing tricks that sounds logical, but it makes no sense at all, actually.
00:12:46.000These attacks were only the start of something that could be much, much worse.
00:12:50.000The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews was on the ground throughout that crisis to help provide wide-scale food distribution along with critical first aid and emergency supplies, especially to Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly, children, and families.
00:13:02.000There's still a need to help place new bomb shelters across Israel along with first responder flak jackets and armored emergency vehicles.
00:13:29.000So over the weekend, he was on NBC with Kristen Walker, and he was asked about the phrase globalize the intifada, which he continues to seize upon and use.
00:13:36.000Now, understand, the term intifada means violent uprising.
00:13:56.000And this sort of retconning that you're seeing now where intifada just means, you know, some sort of nice, gentle struggle in the same way that jihad.
00:14:03.000You remember this, if you're old enough, that in the early 2000s, when jihadis were calling for jihad, there are a whole group of moron Westerners who are suggesting that jihad just meant internal struggle.
00:14:14.000There are some people who are trying to recast globalizing the intifada as a nonviolent event as well.
00:14:19.000Mamdani was asked, why don't you stop saying globalize the intifada?
00:14:23.000And he said he's not going to because free speech.
00:14:25.000Now, by the way, I'm just going to point out, no one is saying he can't say globalize the intifada.
00:14:40.000The question is not whether he ought to be allowed to say globalize the intifada as an American citizen.
00:14:45.000He is allowed to say globalize the intifada as an American citizen.
00:14:48.000The question is, is it a good or moral thing to say?
00:14:51.000And one of the last refuges of cowards these days is to pretend that your free speech is being violated when you are criticized for saying something bad.
00:14:59.000And anyway, here's Mamdani trying to defend himself again and again, three separate times in this interview.
00:15:03.000He says that he's not going to walk away from globalizing the intifada, a call for violent uprising against Western civilization.
00:15:10.000So I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now.
00:15:14.000Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
00:15:19.000The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.
00:15:30.000Do you condemn that phase, globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews?
00:15:35.000I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city.
00:15:52.000My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting.
00:16:13.000Ultimately, it's not language that I use.
00:16:14.000It's language I understand there are concerns about.
00:16:17.000And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.
00:16:24.000It's not language that he uses, but he won't condemn that language because then he would be in the same, he'd be in the same universe as, God forbid, Donald Trump, who says that actually it's bad to use that kind of language.
00:16:34.000By the way, his own father has suggested 2021, quote, the resistance this time began in Jerusalem and spread to Gaza.
00:16:41.000Now the West Bank and Palestinian communities beyond.
00:16:43.000This is not a conflict between Israel and Hamas.
00:16:45.000We are witnessing something far more meaningful, the birth of the third intifada against settler colonialism.
00:16:50.000And this guy's a professor at Columbia University, so you can see exactly where Zoran Mamdani came from.
00:16:57.000He is a merger of pro-jihadi leftism, a sort of cultural Maoism, a communist vision of economics, and an anti-traditional virtue version of social politics.
00:17:12.000All of those things combine together in a sort of witch's brew of nastiness designed, again, against the civilization that has made him now a famous person and made his parents very wealthy, famous left-wingers.
00:17:27.000Zora Mamzani believes, for example, that the third world is essentially our God.
00:17:32.000He grew up in the third world, so he has a different vision of what things like free Palestine mean.
00:17:39.000So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine.
00:17:46.000And you are really going for the trifecta.
00:17:50.000Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?
00:17:53.000When you grow up as someone especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.
00:18:01.000Okay, first of all, he moved to the United States when he was either seven or eight years old.
00:18:05.000Second of all, the kind of pathetic attempt to reach out to fellow third worlders, as he puts it, by eating rice with his hands, as though this is a necessity in American politics, because he is from a, I mean, he is claiming, essentially, membership in a foreign vision.
00:19:08.000And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
00:19:13.000There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
00:19:27.000And what I want to say is that it is critical that in the way that we organize, the way that we set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other.
00:19:43.000BDS, meaning boycott divesting and sanctioning Israel, seizing the means of production, full-scale communism, socialism, all those things have to be advanced together, according to Zoran Mamtani.
00:19:56.000He appeared again on MBC with Christian Welker, and he said, I don't think that New York City should have billionaires.
00:20:03.000Well, that's weird because I think that New York City shouldn't have socialists.
00:20:06.000In fact, I think America shouldn't have socialists.
00:20:08.000I think that socialism is an evil philosophy, a philosophy that is rooted in jealousy, envy, hatred for people who earn, a bizarre belief that the good things in life naturally occur in the world and are not made by human hands and human innovation.
00:20:22.000But Zora Mamzani believes that you have sinned by dint of being too successful in your business, and therefore you need to be punished.
00:20:31.000Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?
00:20:35.000I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.
00:20:41.000And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.
00:20:47.000And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
00:20:55.000And I got to say, the kind of smarmy smile that he pastes on his face when he is saying some of the most evil things in human history, when you say there shouldn't be billionaires, what you are saying is that you have the right, Zora Mamdani, to steal the money of people who have worked hard for that money and built businesses that have helped presumably millions of other people.
00:21:16.000And you get to steal it and take it for yourself so that you can then distribute it as you see fit.
00:21:23.000You know, there are lots of places on earth that have no billionaires because everyone's poor.
00:21:27.000If you're not talking about an oligarchy like Russia, where actual resources were physically distributed from the government to specific friends of the government, if you're very much just a free market system where certain people earn more than other people, yeah, you're going to have some billionaires.
00:21:43.000And those billionaires are going to create jobs for millions of other people and products and services that lots of other people want to buy.
00:21:49.000They're going to create new innovations.
00:21:56.000But according to Zorn Mamdani, he needs to personally seize the means of production and destroy the billionaires, destroy them.
00:22:03.000And that sits very comfortably along the same kinds of people who wish to destroy traditional morality, destroy churches, because again, it's all about the destruction.
00:22:11.000The same kinds of people who wish to destroy successful countries because those countries are doing too well in other parts of the world.
00:22:18.000And that's why Israel has to be stopped because it's too successful.
00:22:22.000It's all part of that same ugly mosaic of anti-Westernism.
00:22:30.000And I'm not sure what's more pathetic, frankly.
00:22:32.000Zorin Mamdani winning a New York City primary by winning a bunch of college-educated white dolts or the very highly educated and intelligent Democrats, moderate Democrats, who are being cucked by Zorin Mamdani.
00:22:48.000And I mean that in the most colloquial sense, that are being cuckolded by him because they're watching their party stolen from them by Zoran Mamdani and they are cheering it.
00:22:58.000They are sitting there and they are watching it and they are cheering it because God forbid they should have to stand up against Zoran Mamdani and his vicious agenda for even a smidgen of a moment and lose the support of the passionate advocates for social justice like the Zoran Mamdanis.
00:23:18.000So Ezra Klein's been a guest on this program.
00:23:20.000He was recently a guest for his book Abundance.
00:23:22.000His book Abundance is all about the idea that if Democrats wish to win, what they should be talking about is getting rid of things like over-regulation.
00:23:31.000They should be ensuring that people can develop more freely and easily to bring down housing costs, for example.
00:23:37.000They should get rid of the bureaucracy.
00:23:39.000He's sounding very much like a Republican.
00:23:41.000But Ezra Klein is declining to criticize Zoran Mamdani.
00:23:45.000Well, because Zoran Mamdani, after all, has stood up against the powers that be.
00:23:51.000Ezra Klein was very upset because Andrew Cuomo in the primary debate called out the fact that Zoran Mamdani is anti-Israel.
00:23:58.000And Ezra Klein says, how dare you polarize the Democratic Party on this issue?
00:24:02.000Okay, Andrew Cuomo would not have any ground to stand on, quote unquote, polarizing the party if there were not a gigantic anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic Party that has now emerged and is seeking to take control.
00:24:13.000And Ezra Klein is angry that Andrew Cuomo even brought that up.
00:24:16.000What absolute moral cowardice, truly, true moral cowardice.
00:24:20.000And I'm disappointed to say that because again, I think Ezra's a smart guy, but this is really quite, it's not only vacuous, it's morally imbecilic.
00:24:32.000But the other thing that like actually closed it, that made for me that I would not rank him, was the way he used Israel in the campaign.
00:24:42.000I have very, very deep feelings about what is happening in Israel and Gaza.
00:24:45.000And I found it so cynical, so repulsive, just such a vicious way to weaponize, I thought, both sort of Mamdani's ethnicity, but also, I don't know, what's happening in Gaza is a horror.
00:25:15.000Ezra Klein does not get to play the as a Jew card for the first time only when he is talking about defending a person who's wildly anti-Israel and uses phrases that talk about the destruction of the state of Israel, which is to say the murder of millions of Jews.
00:25:29.000That's not when Ezra Klein gets to bring out the as a Jew card.
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00:29:19.000I need them to think I'm one of the cool kids.
00:29:21.000I don't want to be one of these institutional Democrats who looks down their nose at the hot new socialist thing.
00:29:28.000I don't want to be one of those people who says no to the cool kids.
00:29:32.000I want to be, you know, kind of like the cool older brother figure who massages them and says, no, you know, sure, he's got a little excessive from time to time, but, you know, what's wrong with that?
00:29:41.000He's young and he's full of pep and vinegar.
00:29:44.000And what I'm really offended by is people like Andrew Cuomo using these tropes, saying things like, why are you so anti-Israel to Zoran Mamdani, knowing he's a Muslim?
00:29:56.000I mean, New York City happens to be one of the more Jewish cities in the country, just by demographics, obviously.
00:30:02.000Is that of no consequence when you're talking about the person who's going to run the city, which has a huge problem with hate crimes against Jews in it right now?
00:30:10.000Absolutely pathetic, but he's not the only one.
00:30:12.000Molly Jongfast is doing the same thing.
00:30:15.000She's out there claiming that Mom Dani's messaging on economic populism is just great.
00:30:26.000And what I've been really surprised by is how Democrats have had so much trouble messaging on economic populism when in fact, most of their proposals are actual economic populism.
00:30:38.000And we're watching this Votorama right now, which will give, I mean, by the way, the numbers in this bill, $150 billion boost to military spending, okay?
00:30:49.000Cutting food stamps and Medicaid, closing rural hospitals.
00:30:53.000I mean, so like Republicans are not doing economic populism at all.
00:30:58.000Well, I mean, she writes for the bull, so we should take her seriously as a sort of moderate voice for Democrats.
00:31:05.000The moderate voice for Democrats are running for the hills.
00:31:09.000Instead, the hot new thing on MSNBC and CNN is people openly embracing the radicalism of Zoran Mamtani, because if you don't embrace the scavenger movement, then that means you have to oppose it.
00:31:22.000You have to actually oppose the scavengers.
00:31:23.000And opposing the scavengers means defending your civilization.
00:31:26.000And too many on the left are unwilling to do this.
00:31:28.000Pablo Torre, who I have no idea, again, why Pablo Torre is now being asked about his politics.
00:31:32.000Pablo Torre, last I checked, is some sort of sports commentator.
00:31:38.000But here he was on MSNBC praising the incredibly savvy Momdani for refusing to condemn globalized the intivada.
00:31:47.000I found him to be incredibly savvy, actually, in how he answered that, Caddy, both for the reasons you said, but also because of clearly who he's talking to.
00:31:55.000He's trying to build a coalition, to use that word, a cohesiveness on the left.
00:32:00.000And he knows that the people he's trying to persuade that, look, I'm not your typical candidate, is in fact a population of people that do not see the ideological, or in this case, the verbal, the rhetorical purity test in the same way that I think people who understandably, by the way, just wanted to condemn it, right?
00:32:20.000I understand that completely, but Molly, he is playing a bit of chess here.
00:32:31.000Over at the New Yorker, John Cassidy has a piece about the magic of the economics of Zoronomics.
00:32:37.000Do you mean like the Cuban-style socialism that he is now proposing?
00:32:42.000Well, apparently, according to the New Yorker, again, this is the voice of mainstream Democrats.
00:32:46.000The answer is that he's doing an amazing job.
00:32:50.000Isabella Weber is quoted, a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, who signed a public letter endorsing Momdani's campaign proposals, said that Momdani is right.
00:33:03.000In an open letter, which the nation published a few days before the primary, more than two dozen progressive economists from the United States and other countries described Momdani's policy platform as a, quote, bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City's most urgent challenges.
00:33:44.000So MSNBC's Katie Kaye notes that Democrat after Democrat is giving a sort of generic dodge when asked about Zora Mamdani.
00:33:54.000Okay, similar to what we just heard from Congresswoman Stevens, we spoke with a pair of Democrats last week, both of whom gave a strikingly similar answer when asked about Zora Mamdani.
00:34:17.000And by the way, the Republicans are going to continue to gain ground if you guys decide to follow Zora Mamdani and AOC down this rabbit hole.
00:34:25.000President Trump says, listen, if Zora Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, and if he decides, for example, that he's going to obstruct ICE agents in their pursuing the enforcement of the law, well, then I'll just withhold federal funds from New York City.
00:35:54.000And by the way, it is worthwhile noting, this is just another reason why the Trump administration is cracking down on the world of education, because the left has taken over the institutions of both higher education as well as public education.
00:36:06.000And this is how you end up with Zarin Mamdanis all over the political landscape.
00:36:10.000It's how you end up with young people who don't understand how capitalism works, who believe that somehow free Palestine is a slogan that is morally worthwhile as it calls for the rule of an entire group of people by terrorists who believe that somehow it's better for the American people for drag queens to read to children.
00:36:31.000It takes a group of very highly educated idiots, as my friend Dennis Prager used to say, in order to believe this sort of stuff.
00:36:37.000It's also why these teachers unions, which promote this sort of stuff, are deeply ensconced in the belief that they own your children.
00:36:43.000Here, for example, is teachers' union president in Chicago, Stacey Davis Gates, saying that teachers own your kids.
00:36:51.000Baldwin says the children are always ours.
00:37:19.000They think that your children are their children and they're going to indoctrinate your children in the same kind of crap that Zora Mamzani has been educated by, by both his parents and by his educational institutions.
00:37:29.000That is why I'm so very much on board with the Trump administration using the tools of the Civil Rights Act to slap down these institutions of higher education that have become propaganda factories on behalf of the radical left.
00:37:41.000So yesterday, the Trump administration DOJ notified Harvard that they were still in violation of the Civil Rights Act in a letter sent by the DOJ, particularly Harmee Dillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who's terrific.
00:37:56.000Of course, full disclosure, Harmit has acted as our lawyer in the past here at Daily Wire, particularly in the case in which we actually sued the Biden administration for violation of the law by using OSHA to try to cram down a vax mandate on 80 million people.
00:38:08.000In that letter, Harmit wrote, Harvard holds the regrettable distinction of being among the most prominent and visible breeding grounds for race discrimination.
00:38:15.000That legacy of discrimination persists with Harvard's continued anti-Semitism.
00:38:19.000Any institution that refuses to meet its duties under federal law may not receive a wide range of federal privileges.
00:38:25.000Today, the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is notifying you that the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has concluded its Title VI investigation regarding anti-Semitism at Harvard University.
00:38:36.000After a thorough investigation, HHS OCR finds that Harvard University is in violent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin.
00:38:48.000The enclosed notice of violation details the findings of facts supporting that conclusion.
00:38:53.000For example, the majority of Jewish students reported experiencing negative bias or discrimination on campus.
00:38:59.000Jewish and Israeli students were assaulted and spit on.
00:39:02.000They hid their keepahs for fear of being harassed and concealed their Jewish identity from classmates for fear of ostracization.
00:39:07.000Images were widely circulated among the Harvard community trafficking in obvious various anti-Semitic tropes, including one showing a dollar sign inside a Star of David and all the rest.
00:39:16.000Harvard did not dispute our findings in fact, by the way, says the DOJ, nor could it.
00:39:20.000Harvard's inaction in the face of these civil rights violations is a clear example of the demographic hierarchy that has taken hold of the university, and this is exactly right.
00:39:29.000Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights Army Dylan also said that University of Virginia is acting in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
00:39:51.000They've asked for extensions and extensions and extensions.
00:39:54.000And so that's one of the troubling aspects here.
00:39:57.000And I think the concern, and we began to hear from people we're negotiating with, that UVA was unable to certify that it was in compliance with these laws.
00:40:05.000And so, but to your point, they actually did, I would call it using a series of euphemisms to simply rebrand and repackage the exact same discriminatory programs that are illegal under federal law.
00:40:17.000And my job as the top federal civil rights law enforcer in the country is to make sure that every school that receives federal funding is compliant with federal law.
00:40:27.000All of this, of course, has international connotations.
00:40:30.000We mentioned that punk duob villain and the Glastonbury Festival, in which, again, they were chanting death to the IDF and yelling at people saying, so you say you want to keep your country?
00:40:43.000Ayan Hirsi Ali, who grew up with Islamists, has a fabulous piece over at the Free Press pointing out what is happening worldwide.
00:40:52.000She says, what happened at Glastonbury over the weekend is part of a coordinated ideological insurgency against the Jewish people, not just against the Israeli military, not just against Israel, not just against Zionism, against Jews.
00:41:03.000Jews are no strangers to accusations of secret plots, banking plots, media plots, world domination.
00:41:08.000They're always scheming according to the people who can't stop obsessing over them.
00:41:11.000What's unfolding now is a real plot, not being orchestrated by Jews, but against them, and it's happening in broad daylight.
00:41:17.000Ayan Hersi Ali writes, she says, what makes this moment uniquely dangerous is the merging of two ideologies that historically have operated in very different arenas, Islamism and Maoism.
00:41:26.000The former is fueled by absolutist theocracy and tribal vengeance, the latter by class war and ideological conformity.
00:41:32.000One invokes the divine, the other pretends to be secular.
00:41:54.000Crush the infidel, purge the impure, seize control of the narrative.
00:41:59.000Islamism brings the fire, holy rage of fixation on martyrdom, a visceral hatred for Jews that predates the state of Israel by centuries.
00:42:05.000Maoism brings the strategy, the long march through institutions, the cultural struggle sessions, the rewriting of history, the reframing of reality through social media and soundbites.
00:42:18.000She says Maoist frameworks like decolonization and privilege provide the ideological cover, abstract enough to sound academic, blunt enough to justify destruction.
00:42:27.000And again, this is why the sort of free Palestine movement is the tip of the spear here.
00:42:32.000It is the consolidation point for all of these things.
00:42:36.000Because in the hatred of Israel, in that hatred is hatred of what so many people on the left see as the point of the spear of Western civilization in a non-Western part of the world.
00:42:49.000That's what Israel is to the so-called anti-colonialists.
00:42:53.000That is why you are seeing the scavengers marching together.
00:42:57.000It's why Zorin Mamzani is their candidate of choice.
00:43:00.000And it's why a Democratic left that can't stand up to it has no business retaining power, even inside its own party.
00:43:08.000And the scavengers will take complete control of the Democratic Party because there are no lions left inside the Democratic Party to stand up against them.
00:43:16.000Alrighty, coming up, you can see that all of these nuts are being generated somewhere.
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00:47:08.000The reality is there is not support inside the United States Senate sufficient to radically reduce spending in terms of reshaping Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, which is where the real spending is going on in the American budget.
00:47:21.000National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is also, of course, touting the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
00:47:29.000What America gets for the Big Beautiful Bill is border security, national security, an extra $10,000 in the pocket of the typical American family, no tax on overtime, no tax on tips.
00:47:42.000We've got 90 million American workers that are hourly workers that are going to see that extra overtime that they're getting paid go straight into their pockets.
00:47:51.000And all of this is going to happen if we pass the bill.
00:47:54.000If we don't pass the bill, the Council of Economic Advisors here at the White House has said that it's going to cause GDP to drop 4%, one of the biggest recessions in history because of a massive tax hike.
00:48:04.000And honestly, that's why this bill is going to pass.
00:48:10.000The threat of the bill going under, meaning a radical increase in taxes on Americans and American business, that enough is going to scare Republicans into compliance.
00:48:18.000Senator Ron Johnson, who, of course, is a longtime holdout on this bill.
00:48:24.000Here he was explaining that to Fox News.
00:48:27.000My biggest problem is that we really weren't returning spending to a reasonable pre-pandemic level.
00:48:33.000But through multiple meetings with the president, his economic advisors, I'm convinced that they are committed to returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending.
00:48:41.000And I'll be highly involved in a process to achieve and maintain it.
00:48:45.000But specifically on Saturday night, Rick Scott, who is an expert at healthcare, I don't think anybody knows more about it than he, has an amendment that wasn't included in the base bill.
00:48:55.000And we're fighting to get it in there to remove the most damaging part of Obamacare on a Medicaid.
00:49:01.000Nobody in the Republican Party is trying to impact Medicaid for the disabled children.
00:49:05.000We're concerned about the Obamacare addition to it.
00:49:09.000Okay, so again, there are plenty of good reasons for him to switch his vote.
00:49:12.000I'll just point out that Senator Johnson has not radically restructured the spending.
00:49:21.000That is not the direction in which this is going to move.
00:49:23.000There were not the votes sufficient for that.
00:49:25.000Now, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina has announced that he will be stepping down, which means he's no longer interested in being leveraged by President Trump or by the Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:49:35.000So he's out against the so-called Big Beautiful bill.
00:49:41.000It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room when I was there with finance where he said we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any programs.
00:50:01.000Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I'm talking about White House health care experts, refuse to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax.
00:50:23.000We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused and should be eliminated into waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:50:33.000Okay, so he went on a long tirade to Tom Tillis against the so-called big beautiful bill.
00:50:48.000Now the question is Murkowski, McConnell, a couple of the senators who are on the fence.
00:50:53.000Now, Tillis stepping down, he stepped out largely because of pressure from President Trump.
00:50:58.000That could have some long-term effects.
00:51:01.000North Carolina is, of course, a purple state.
00:51:03.000It has a Democratic governor in Josh Stein.
00:51:05.000And recently, a North Carolina Senate seat was lost because Republicans decided to run somebody with a really, really checkered pass in Mark Robinson.
00:51:15.000Tom Tillis, stepping down means that is a very competitive seat suddenly.
00:51:21.000So if we ask our friends and sponsors at Perplexity, which are the most competitive seats in the 2026 race for the Senate, and what are the likely outcomes going to be?
00:51:33.000So as Perplexity answers, the most competitive Senate races for 2026 are in Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maine, and North Carolina.
00:51:42.000Now, those battlegrounds, again, favor Republicans because the Senate races in Georgia, for example, that's a Democrat-held seat.
00:51:50.000The race in Michigan was a Democrat-held seat.
00:51:55.000New Hampshire was a Democrat-held seat.
00:51:58.000However, Maine is a Republican-held seat.
00:52:06.000Collins has been holding onto her seat relatively narrowly for the past couple of election cycles in which he was involved.
00:52:11.000So that is one seat that could switch over to the Democrats.
00:52:13.000And North Carolina is now a rare open seat in a purple seat.
00:52:19.000There's some other states that are up, Ohio, Alaska, Texas, Iowa, South Carolina, but those are states that President Trump won by double digits, as Perplexity points out.
00:52:30.000So let's assume for a second the Democrats maintain Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota.
00:52:36.000Let's say they win Maine and North Carolina.
00:52:39.000Republicans still retain control of the Senate because, again, they need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats.
00:52:47.000It's possible in a sort of wild world that Democrats could challenge in maybe Ohio or Alaska or Texas or something, but that would be a pretty wild world.
00:52:56.000However, it does leave the Senate in a lot dicier situation because, again, every vote counts.
00:53:02.000And so if that vote margin comes down to 52, now you're looking, for example, at a cadre of three Republicans who can kill any bill.
00:53:10.000If Republicans lose a couple of seats and now they're down to 51, well, now they're in real trouble because you lose two seats and you can't pass anything.
00:53:18.000And that's assuming Republicans hold the House, which they may very well not.
00:53:23.000So again, herein lies one of the big problems.
00:53:26.000However, as far as the big beautiful bill is concerned, again, if it does not pass, it is going to be a serious, serious problem for President Trump, for sure, for sure.
00:53:37.000Speaking of which, again, it looks like the economy is still holding up because most investors seem to be betting that President Trump's tariff regime is coming to an end, that it's moving in the right direction.
00:53:47.000According to Axios, the S ⁇ P 500 was on track to hit a new record on Friday.
00:53:51.000It sank when President Trump announced the termination of trade talks with Canada over a controversial digital services tax.
00:53:57.000But within an hour, investors decided not to care and stocks closed at an all-time high for the first time since February.
00:54:03.000Well, because the market is looking at President Trump's tariff record and saying it's probably likely that he's going to move away from those sorts of tariffs anyway.
00:54:12.000According to Axios, headline-driven volatility is a given under this administration, so don't let it impact your portfolio, advisors say.
00:54:19.000And on Sunday night, Canada did indeed scrap the tax that caused President Trump to withdraw from the negotiations.
00:54:26.000Jay Pulaski of TPW Advisors says he pays no attention to tariff policy anymore.
00:54:31.000Torsten Slock, the chief economist at Apollo, indicated President Trump might even be outsmarting everyone in a recent note, arguing any extension of the 90-day tariff pause, which Trump has signaled, would decrease uncertainty.
00:54:43.000So again, there was a lot of uncertainty that set in when President Trump announced Liberation Day, but it appears that the direction is all toward free trade and away from tariffs at this point, from those gigantic announced tariffs.
00:54:55.000And so the markets seem a lot more sanguine, all of which is leading the White House to press Jerome Powell over at the Federal Reserve to lower the interest rates again.
00:55:03.000So Caroline Lovitt went after Jay Powell again today.
00:55:07.000And if you look at this chart, this is a chart of all of the interest rates of many countries throughout the world.
00:55:15.000They're only paying a quarter for interest rates.
00:55:17.000Cambodia, Japan, Denmark, Thailand, Botswana, Barbados, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Sweden, Morocco, Cabo Verde, South Korea, Algeria, Canada, Albania, Libya, Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago,
00:55:34.000Czechia, Bolivia, Australia, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia, United Kingdom, and the UAE are all paying lower interest rates than the United States of America, which has one of the hottest and strongest economies in the world.
00:55:50.000The President sent this note to the Fed chair.
00:55:52.000It says, Jerome, you are, as usual, too late.
00:55:55.000You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so.
00:56:05.000There is historically low inflation thanks to his policies.
00:56:09.000Okay, now, again, the president of the United States, he's calling for those lower interest rates.
00:56:15.000Powell is saying, listen, those may come, but I want to be a little cautious because I don't want to actually open the monetary floodgates here while tariffs may in fact kick in.
00:56:25.000All the president has to do to end all of this and get the lower interest rates is actually just negotiate those offer amps.
00:56:30.000And I assume that Scott Besant is hard at work doing that right now.
00:56:33.000That plus the Big Beautiful bill, meaning the maintenance of current tax rates, means solidity in the economy, a belief by investors that they're not going to be regulated out of existence, taxed out of existence or inflated out of existence, and you will, in fact, see serious economic growth as a result.
00:56:49.000And meanwhile, the President of the United States continues to push forward with his immigration agenda.
00:56:55.000He is heading down to so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida to tour this controversial new detention facility in the Everglades.
00:57:04.000So according to Axios, the $450 million 1,000 bed facility of trailers and tents is the largest of its kind and solidifies Florida's position as the top state, cooperating with President Trump's immigration crackdown.
00:57:14.000Of course, Governor DeSantis has been wanting to do that.
00:57:18.000The name and idea for Alligator Alcatraz is the brainchild of the Florida AG, James Uthmeier, who was appointed by DeSantis after serving as his chief of staff.
00:57:26.000He hashed the plan for Alligator Alcatraz in near-secret and worked with DeSantis' office and DHS to avoid any opposition before it was too late for significant opposition to actually materialize.
00:57:36.000It's surrounded by the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve next to Everglades at National Park.
00:57:41.000It's basically dead center between the east and west coasts of Florida.
00:57:44.000It's a one-runway airplane facility called the Dave Collier Training and Transition Airport.
00:57:48.000It's not actually just like in the middle of the wetlands, for example.
00:57:52.000Environmentalists are upset because they say that it's going to affect the Florida Panther or whatever.
00:57:58.000But the federal and state governments say the environmental impacts will be minimal and somewhere has to be the place for these folks.
00:58:04.000So President Trump is going to head down and visit, again, campaigning strong on the idea that he closed the border and now he's going to be deporting criminal, illegal immigrants.
00:58:14.000Meanwhile, the president of the United States continues to stand strong with regard to Iran and what happens next in the Middle East.
00:58:21.000So yesterday, the president reiterated, you guys keep saying over and over and over that we didn't really destroy those Iranian nuclear facilities over at Fordo.
00:59:35.000He then adds that the new Middle East, wherein Iran's nuclear program has been defenestrated, means that there are a lot of countries that want to join the Abraham Accords.
00:59:43.000Actually, the country that is being mentioned most often at this point is Syria.
00:59:46.000Syria is now negotiating, apparently, with the Israelis and the Americans to join the Abraham Accords, the provisos being that Israel will give up some of the territory that it's currently holding in southern Syria as a bulwark against HTS and other terrorist groups in Syria, and that the United States will essentially guarantee any deal.
01:00:14.000So we have some really great countries in there right now, and I think we're going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem.
01:00:23.000I actually thought Iran would, I actually thought we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else.
01:00:29.000And frankly, they would have been better off than where they are right now.
01:01:33.000And as the IAE chief Rafael Mariano-Grossi pointed out, Iran's capabilities have been destroyed to an important degree.
01:01:39.000It is clear that what happened, in particular in Fordo, Natans, Isfahan, where Iran used to have and still has to some degree capabilities in terms of treatment, conversion and enrichment of uranium have been destroyed to an important degree.
01:02:07.000So there is, of course, an important setback in terms of those capabilities.
01:02:14.000So again, the president of the United States has transformed the Middle East.
01:02:18.000Next on the list, he's going to have to find a way for an off-ramp to be found between Russia and Ukraine.
01:02:22.000Of course, that was a pledge of the president.
01:02:24.000In order for that to happen, Europe is going to have to step up in terms of its funding of Ukraine.
01:02:28.000The United States is going to have to make clear that Ukraine will be funded sufficient to deter further Russian aggression, or Russia will continue to be aggressive.
01:02:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian forces are now 12 miles from Sumy, Ukraine, a northern Ukrainian regional capital and a new target for Moscow, as the Kremlin presses its manpower advantage at a growing number of places along the front.
01:02:48.000Having almost entirely ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian Kursk region earlier this year, Russian forces have now poured over the border in the opposite direction towards Sumy.
01:02:56.000With 50,000 troops in the area, they now outnumbered the Ukrainians roughly three to one, according to the soldiers fighting there.
01:03:02.000Their main strategy, says General Oleksandr Sirsky, Ukraine's top military commander, is to wear us down with their numbers.
01:03:10.000The Russian advance towards Sumy comes as President Trump has begun voicing growing frustration with the Kremlin's unwillingness to broker a ceasefire.
01:03:17.000Through meetings between Ukrainian and Russian officials have continued in Turkey throughout recent weeks, Moscow is stepping up its missile and drone attacks.
01:03:23.000Overnight on Sunday, Ukraine actually lost an F-16 jet fighter and its pilot during an aerial bombardment, the largest since the start of the war in terms of the number of munitions launched.
01:03:33.000So the front line has now grown by more than 100 miles.
01:03:35.000It now stretches more than 750 miles in an arc from the northeast all the way down to the south.
01:03:43.000And so again, the Russians have sort of been stopped for the moment in Sumy, but now they're pouring in tens of thousands of more troops.
01:03:51.000And this is going to continue up until the point where Russia figures that they're not going to be able to dissuade the West from fighting back against Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
01:04:01.000President Trump has been moving in that direction.
01:04:03.000More movement would be absolutely salutary for the United States.
01:04:10.000All righty, folks, so July 4th is coming up.
01:04:11.000And so one of the things that we've been doing is analyzing some of the myths about July 4th, about the early state of America.
01:04:18.000Today's myth we're going to debunk is the so-called separation of church and state.
01:04:21.000So first of all, you hear this all the time from people who are big advocates of radical left-wing secularism.
01:04:27.000America was designed with separation of church and state.
01:04:31.000Okay, so first of all, we should point out that the separation of church and state is not a phrase that appears anywhere in the United States Constitution or in the Declaration of Independence.
01:04:40.000It appears in a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802.
01:04:46.000The First Amendment bars the establishment of a national religion.
01:04:49.000So the Constitution of the United States says that essentially you can't be a Catholic doctrinal country.
01:04:59.000That is not What the Constitution of the United States stands for.
01:05:04.000At the same time, you are supposed to be able to rely on your religious faith to inform your values, which then informs your vote.
01:05:13.000And this is the thing the left has said.
01:05:14.000They've said, well, you know, if you believe, for example, in the Ten Commandments, then the Ten Commandments being a part of schooling is bad in and of itself.
01:05:22.000It's a violation of the separation of church and state.
01:05:25.000Not unless I'm telling you that you have to keep Jewish Sabbath or Christian Sabbath.
01:05:30.000Otherwise, that is not a violation of church and state.
01:05:33.000Okay, when it comes to church and state, the First Amendment governs.
01:05:37.000Here's the language of the First Amendment.
01:05:38.000Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
01:05:44.000Okay, now, there are people who have tried to separate those two clauses.
01:05:48.000Clause number one, Congress shouldn't make a law that establishes religion.
01:05:52.000And two, Congress shouldn't prohibit people from performing their religion.
01:05:56.000But they're actually part of the same overall clause.
01:05:59.000The idea is the reason you are not establishing a religion, like say Catholicism or Protestantism or whatever, the reason you don't have a state church at the national level is because if you did, it would prohibit the free exercise of religion by people who are not members of that religion.
01:06:16.000That is why, but it was not meant to disestablish religion in general under American law.
01:06:24.000In fact, a huge number of states at the time of the founding had official religions.
01:06:31.000Remember, the federal government didn't have an official religion because the First Amendment was only supposed to apply to the federal government.
01:06:42.000There were many state governments at the time of the founding that actually did have official religions.
01:06:46.000So as Perplexity points out, nine out of 13 had some form of religious test for officeholders in their constitutions during the revolutionary period.
01:06:54.000Typically, that meant that office holders had to affirm belief in Christianity, in many cases, specifically Protestant Christianity.
01:07:00.000So in Delaware, for example, office holders had to profess faith in the Trinity and the divine inspiration of both the Old and the New Testament.
01:07:07.000Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont all limited office holding to Protestants.
01:07:14.000Virginia and New York did not require religious oaths in their new constitution, but New York maintained a Protestant test oath by statute until the early 1800s.
01:07:23.000And there were several states that had officially established churches or provided government support directly to particular denominations, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, in which the Congregational Church was established.
01:07:34.000Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York, where the Church of England or Protestantism was established in general.
01:07:44.000South Carolina explicitly declared the Christian Protestant religion as the state's established religion and required Christian confessions of faith for church incorporation.
01:07:53.000So again, the idea of disestablishment entirely at the state level, the idea that none of this could be part of American law, it's not true.
01:08:02.000Because it turns out that the founding fathers knew quite well that while they didn't want the federal government to establish a gigantic federal state religion, because there were states that actually disagreed with each other on these matters, they did not want to disestablish religion generally speaking.
01:08:17.000They understood the importance of religion.
01:08:20.000John Adams, 1798, our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
01:08:25.000It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
01:08:28.000George Washington Farewell's address in 1796, quote, of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable support.
01:08:39.000So this idea the founders were just wildly anti-religion, that the early America was wildly anti-religion, obviously untrue on the basis of all verifiable fact.
01:08:48.000Already coming up, we're going to jump into that vaunted Ben Shapiro show mailbag.