King Charles XI of Great Britain visits Canada and makes a bizarre land acknowledgement. Is it a land acknowledgement or a land grab? And what does it mean for the future of the United States of America? Plus, President Trump's big plan to actually keep the House in 2026, and what's going on in the stock markets? Tons going on!
00:00:50.000And this philosophy appears to be really, really funny at first blush.
00:00:54.000Because it's just kind of silly and ridiculous.
00:00:56.000And then it turns out that the deeper roots of this philosophy, well, they bear a deadly fruit.
00:01:01.000So we begin today with a bizarre and hilarious spectacle.
00:01:05.000King Charles was visiting the Canadian Parliament, and he decided that it would be worthwhile to offer a land acknowledgement.
00:01:11.000I'm just going to point out at this point how hilarious this is.
00:01:14.000King Charles is the King of Great Britain.
00:01:19.000The only reason the Canadian Parliament exists is because of Great Britain's intervention in Canada.
00:01:25.000Because of the settlement of Canada by British citizens.
00:01:29.000That would be the reason he is there in the first place.
00:01:31.000Him doing a land acknowledgement and taking that seriously would amount to essentially disestablishing Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa, and a bunch of other countries, because it turns out that all of those countries were...
00:02:04.000especially coming from King Charles, who is the greatest beneficiary on planet Earth of the imperialism of the British Empire.
00:02:11.000And the reason I bring this up is because, once again, There is this philosophy that is afoot on the left and in parts of the center, which says that a human universal, which is migration, settlement, annexation, conflict, that is a human universal.
00:02:56.000I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin and the Shinabeg people.
00:03:06.000This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation.
00:03:13.000While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation in both word and deed.
00:03:30.000Okay, well, I mean, theoretically, since you are the head of the British crown, you could cede a bunch of territory back to the quote unquote unceded territory.
00:03:42.000You could do that, but you're not going to do that because the whole thing is ridiculous on its face.
00:03:46.000Of course, it's unseated because the nature of human conflict is that when people migrate from one part of the earth to another part of the earth, conflict tends to arise, and then someone wins and someone loses.
00:03:57.000And it is a very good thing that the British Empire won in Canada.
00:04:04.000But if it's not going to be part of America, the basic idea, which is that the world is better off because of the British Empire, The world is better off because of, for example, American power, the spread of European ideals.
00:04:17.000The spread of things like property rights, due process of law, capitalism, freedom of religion, these things which are not a human universal.
00:04:26.000That is the legacy of the West overall.
00:04:28.000There's always an attempt to take human universals and then project them as West-specific problems.
00:04:35.000The problems of murder and rapine and looting and slavery, these are human universals.
00:04:40.000The thing that is unique about the West is all the other stuff.
00:04:42.000And reversing that polarity, reversing that, and suggesting that the West is somehow uniquely sinful because it was better at war than other places.
00:04:50.000Or because Westerns were better at settlement than the Algonquins who lived on the land where Canada's parliament now sits.
00:05:06.000But overall, in the broad scope of history, is it a very good thing that Europeans ended up on the North American continent?
00:05:12.000It's an absolutely wonderful thing that Europeans ended up on the North American continent.
00:05:16.000Anyone who doesn't believe so should probably leave.
00:05:19.000Truthfully, if you don't believe that, you probably should go and you should cede your apartment right now, your dingy apartment in Brooklyn.
00:05:26.000You should cede it back to the natives from whom your ancestors took it.
00:05:32.000But again, it's ridiculous and silly, but it ties into a deeper and more deadly philosophy.
00:05:37.000And you can see that philosophy springing up in a few different places.
00:05:41.000So the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the United States recently, visited the White House, and he was asked about the kill the boar chants.
00:05:49.000So in South Africa, among groups like the EFF, it has become common at rallies to sing a song called Kill the Boar, which is about the Afrikaners, farmers, Who originally settled in the area of South Africa as early as the 17th century.
00:06:07.000Have been there for hundreds of years.
00:06:09.000And obviously were responsible at one point for tremendous racism against black people.
00:06:14.000That of course is true in South Africa.
00:06:16.000But the solution to that is not genocidal chants.
00:06:20.000But the idea is that so long as the people who are shouting the genocidal chants are not white, European, and Western.
00:06:32.000Here's Cyril Ramaphosa trying to make that case.
00:06:35.000And we take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that, you know, that slogan, kill the boar, kill the farmer, is a liberation chant and slogan.
00:06:49.000And it's not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed.
00:07:01.000Okay, so the rule for the left is apparently that if you talk about crime statistics in minority neighborhoods, that is a form of genocidal racism.
00:07:11.000If, however, you literally shout, kill the boar, kill the farmer, that is not in any way a genocidal chant with genocidal intent.
00:07:31.000What that means is that the West has to be destroyed.
00:07:33.000And again, this goes back to a sort of Franz Fanon philosophy.
00:07:36.000Franz Fanon was an Algerian rebel who wrote a very famous book called The Wretched of the Earth, in which he essentially suggested that colonized people had every right to, quote-unquote, kill the colonizers, and that they could do whatever they wanted in retaliation.
00:07:49.000It didn't matter what they set up next.
00:07:50.000It didn't matter what regime they then implemented.
00:07:52.000The important thing was the West was uniquely sinful, and the West therefore had to be destroyed from without.
00:08:13.000When you separate the world into victims and victimizers and what you suggest is that anyone successful, anyone who's been uniquely successful is a victimizer and anyone who is not is a victim.
00:08:22.000And because those people are victims, they therefore have the moral impetus.
00:08:26.000And the moral weight to go out and kill people, what you end up with is actual terrorism, actual violence, actual overthrow of the institutions that make the West great in the first place.
00:08:37.000I bring this up in the context today of the shooter of the two Jews in Washington, D.C. last week.
00:08:43.000So Ken Klippenstein, who's a left-wing journalist actually, he's gotten access to this shooter's leaked chat.
00:08:51.000And he's surprised to find that the shooter isn't explicitly anti-Jew.
00:08:56.000Okay, but that's been my point for a very long time, is the anti-Semitism of the left, the anti-Jewishness of the left, is not really about Jews.
00:09:04.000It really is more about the idea that any group that is disproportionately successful anywhere on Earth is a victimizer and therefore must be laid low.
00:09:12.000And that is what you see from the philosophy of the shooter.
00:09:16.000The philosophy of the shooter, which is that the West is uniquely bad, America is uniquely bad, white people are uniquely bad, Jews presumably are uniquely bad.
00:09:33.000So the point that Klippenstein, because he's of the left, is making is that this guy isn't explicitly anti-Semitic, meaning he doesn't say, I want to kill Jews.
00:09:40.000He says he wants to kill Israelis, which apparently is much better.
00:09:44.000He's just anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic.
00:09:47.000Well, what difference does it make when the Jews are the ones who die?
00:09:50.000And also, when the broader philosophy is not really even about Israel or about Zionism, it really is just about hatred of the West.
00:09:57.000According to Klippenstein, a woman who knew the shooter, said that he was unequivocally not anti-Semitic.
00:10:04.000Everything I know about the shooter leads me to believe he acted in protest of the Israeli state and Zionist ideology, not Judaism.
00:10:09.000He never ever said anything remotely racist about Jews or anyone, not even in a joking way.
00:10:14.000This is according to a friend of the shooter.
00:10:27.000Why exactly does it matter if the hatred in his heart was derived from an ethnic hatred of Jews or whether it was derived from a much more dangerous, bizarrely perverse philosophy about, again, how the successful in the world are evil and everyone else is a victim of those people and therefore murder is justified.
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00:13:18.000So, for example, the chats to which Klippenstein was made privy, those chats go back a decade.
00:13:28.000And what the chats actually show is, Not exactly a shock.
00:13:38.000And he hated, it appears, the Republican and Democratic parties, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the right and the left, the bourgeois, the United States, the West, and of course, Israel.
00:13:48.000His hatred of Israel was made evident on October 7th.
00:13:52.000So this was not about a quote-unquote genocide.
00:13:54.000As I've suggested, I suggested this last week.
00:13:57.000Why does the left like the genocide lie with regard to Israel?
00:14:01.000They like it because it gives some sort of imprimatur of legitimacy to their true hatred, which is just of Israel existing in the first place.
00:14:09.000On October 7th, this shooter was posting, quote, just saw an incredibly gory video of the aftermath of Israeli troops trying to get dressed for the ambush, absolutely massacred by Hamas fighters, LMAO.
00:14:23.000This person openly talked about hating America.
00:14:28.000He called Israel the little Satan, which, of course, suggests that America is the great Satan, which is language that is the language of Hezbollah, the language of Iran as well.
00:14:39.000When it came to President Trump, obviously he hated President Trump as well.
00:15:15.000And that has real consequences in the world.
00:15:18.000And so we can laugh and we should laugh at King Charles being forced to say the words.
00:15:34.000There was an interview with one of the people who was present at the D.C. shooting, and this interview was about the person's experience.
00:15:43.000This person happened to have been a graduate of Columbia University, and the person said, I totally recognized what kind of person this was because I've seen that exact same hatred in the eyes of fellow students at Columbia University.
00:15:53.000It's a thoroughgoing Left-wing philosophy that is being promoted by our nation's top universities.
00:15:59.000That is the real underlying reason why President Trump right now is going after Harvard University, by the way.
00:16:04.000So the Trump administration is now seeking to fully end Harvard's federal contracts.
00:16:08.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the General Services Administration has called for review of federal contracts in a letter viewed by the Wall Street Journal saying that Harvard engaged in anti-Semitism as well as race discrimination in its admissions processes.
00:16:23.000They do not have to send grant money to Harvard.
00:16:26.000If Harvard violates the Civil Rights Act, then they are not owed the money.
00:16:30.000The Trump team is also weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting, which we should.
00:16:39.000If you're entering the United States on a student visa, you shouldn't come here and hate the West and hate America.
00:16:53.000We shouldn't be subsidizing the philosophy of NPR.
00:16:57.000Hilariously, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are now filing suit against the Trump White House over the president's executive order that bars congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS, which of course is again totally appropriate because why should American taxpayers be subsidizing the far-left insanity of NPR and PBS and the self-righteousness of a media?
00:17:19.000That has repeated all of the insane nostrums of the left on these issues.
00:17:23.000People like Scott Pelley over at CBS News.
00:17:29.000Understand that there is, in fact, a wall-like tsunami of left-wing agitprop that comes from our media, from our universities, and it bleeds down into people like the DC shooter and bleeds up to the monarch of Great Britain.
00:17:43.000That is a deeply evil philosophy and wrong philosophy covered up for by the self-righteousness.
00:17:49.000Scott Pelley, who I'm name-checking right now because he did a much-celebrated commencement speech at Wake Forest University, where he talked about how wonderful he is.
00:18:01.000He said, And then he compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and such.
00:18:19.000These are the people who have propagated this nasty philosophy in the name of journalism and then celebrated themselves.
00:18:26.000Here's Scott Pelley enjoying the crowd's applause for this sort of garbage.
00:18:31.000To move forward, we debate, not demonize.
00:18:37.000Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause I like this crowd.
00:18:57.000Because they're all part of the same think group.
00:19:01.000My favorite thing about the Scott Pelley speech at Wake Forest University is him citing Orwell to the effect that it is newspeak to get rid of buzzwords like diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:19:11.000No, the newspeak was diversity, equity, and inclusion, which just meant racial preferences.
00:19:16.000DEI was just a soft form of what Cyril Ramaphosa was saying.
00:19:20.000Which is that if you are the right race and you can't kill the Boer, it's totally fine.
00:19:26.000You want to know why it is that President Trump has picked up ground in nearly every metro of the United States, with the exception of some of the highly college-educated metros?
00:19:36.000Because President Trump rejects this philosophy.
00:19:39.000One of the amazing things about the Trump administration is that if you look at the polls right now, the Trump administration's policies on a wide variety of topics aside from immigration, not wildly popular.
00:19:48.000But it doesn't matter because the Democratic Party is running at 27% in the opinion polls.
00:19:52.000And the reason for that is because they cannot divide themselves from this radical left philosophy that has deadly consequences.
00:20:01.000And meanwhile, President Trump is trying to come up with a plan so that he can maintain the House of Representatives.
00:20:31.000The pen and the phone probably won't suffice at that point.
00:20:33.000He won't have a Congress to work with.
00:20:35.000Impeachment will almost certainly be on the table in the House of Representatives literally day one.
00:20:39.000So President Trump has laid out a five-step plan to retain Republican control.
00:20:44.000The GOP right now has an eight-seat majority.
00:20:48.000That includes vacancies created this year by the death of three Democrats.
00:20:51.000But, you know, those are Democrat seats.
00:20:53.000So really, it's like a five-seat majority.
00:20:57.000And there are some retirements that have already taken place.
00:20:59.000So it's going to be a rough ride in 2026 for Republicans if history is any guide.
00:21:04.000So what exactly is the Republican Party trying to do?
00:21:07.000According to Axios, the White House is targeting several Republicans in politically divided swing districts.
00:21:11.000And urging them not to ditch their seats or run for higher office.
00:21:15.000So, President Trump, for example, is trying to get New York Representative Mike Lawler, who is one of the holdups in the House Big Beautiful Bill because he wanted salt deductions.
00:21:24.000Trump wants him to stay in Congress rather than running for governor because he's afraid that that seat will then turn to a Democrat.
00:21:31.000They're also hoping that some of these incumbents retain their seats rather than running for governor.
00:21:38.000So, for example, Michigan Representative John James is running for governor in Michigan.
00:21:42.000President Trump is apparently worried about the GOP's chances of keeping that seat.
00:21:46.000They're also worried about the central Kentucky seat held by Representative Andy Barr.
00:21:51.000Meanwhile, President Trump is going to unleash giant gobs of money in these House races.
00:21:57.000Apparently, according to Axios, he's built a $500 million plus political apparatus.
00:22:02.000There are already commercials airing in 13 districts where Trump won in November, but the House GOP candidates lost.
00:22:08.000President Trump is also going to oppose a lot of primary challenges because the idea is that burns up a lot of money and divides the population in those districts.
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00:22:19.000They're going to raise a lot more money, presumably.
00:22:21.000And they're going to ramp up recruiting in some of these swing districts.
00:22:24.000So that is the actual path to try and retain a House majority at this point.
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00:24:52.000There's still a lot of money awash in the economy thanks to the inflation of the last several years.
00:24:57.000But Americans are still somewhat disquieted about the path forward here.
00:25:00.000There is, in fact, a toll on the economy because uncertainty is its own form of risk when it comes to investment.
00:25:06.000So, for example, right now, as I say, people seem pretty sanguine about the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500 because, if you look at the numbers, the S&P 500 for the year is off maybe 2%.
00:25:17.000From where President Trump was when he took office.
00:25:20.000The Dow Jones Industrial Average is off, I think, 3.8% from January 21st, 2025, somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:25:25.000And so people are like, well, he's doing all this tariff stuff.
00:25:28.000It's reshifting manufacturing, which we will see if it's actually doing that or not.
00:25:32.000I'm doubtful that tremendous amounts of manufacturing are going to reshore because of the tariffs that he's placing right now.
00:25:37.000But okay, let's assume that some of that is happening.
00:25:41.000But if the idea is that the markets have only sunk 2% or 4%, Depending on the market.
00:25:48.000Based on President Trump's tariff vacillation and inconsistency.
00:25:54.000That's actually looking at the wrong stat.
00:25:56.000If you actually want to look at what this sort of vacillation and inconsistency costs the markets, what you should be looking at is what would have happened if Trump didn't do any of this stuff.
00:26:05.000So the real question here should be what should the markets have been right now versus what are they right now?
00:26:11.000Not what were they in January versus what are they right now?
00:26:17.000And what is the delta to where they are right now?
00:26:19.000So I asked my friends and sponsors over at Perplexity this question, assuming the same rate of growth as the period November 5th, 2024, that is the day before Election Day, to January 21st, 2025, that of course is Inauguration Day.
00:26:30.000What should the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 be today?
00:26:35.000And what is the percentage difference between where they are today and what they should have been?
00:26:39.000And the answer is that using daily growth rates during that period, And projecting values, basically, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, according to Perplexity, should be at close to 48,000.
00:27:17.000They want some level of understanding of where the policy is going to be tomorrow.
00:27:22.000Beyond that, the fact that President Trump did all of this tariff action under the auspices of a law that probably doesn't actually carry the weight.
00:27:33.000It's all done under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
00:27:39.000That's very likely to be overthrown by the courts.
00:27:43.000It's very difficult to understand what is the national emergency invoked by the President of the United States on trade that would justify the gigantic tariff regime that he has put in place, this 10% blanket tariff plus 30% on China.
00:27:55.000What exactly allows the President to unilaterally set tariffs this way?
00:27:59.000That should be the purview of Congress.
00:28:00.000All this stuff should have to be going through Congress.
00:28:03.000And by the way, one of the beauties of having to go through Congress is actually less inconsistency.
00:28:07.000When you have an executive branch that can willy-nilly do what it wants, You end up with wildly vacillating policy.
00:28:12.000When you have a legislature you have to deal with, the checks and balances create a level of gridlock which leads to consistency in policy as opposed to this sort of wild vacillation in the markets.
00:28:24.000And the reason I'm pointing this out is because if you want Trump to succeed, if you want Republicans to retain the House, the economy cannot dump between now and November 2026.
00:28:58.000And we are replete with bubbles in the American economy thanks to the inflationary policy of the Federal Reserve over the course of the last several years.
00:29:05.000Too much money, not enough places to put it, and uncertainty about where exactly to put it.
00:29:10.000And uncertainty about where to put it, even in terms of bonds.
00:29:13.000This is why the bond yields are way, way up.
00:29:16.000Because, again, people aren't even rushing to safe haven in bonds.
00:29:19.000People literally don't know where to put their money at this point.
00:29:22.000If the economy should downturn, you got a problem.
00:29:25.000The Trump administration, again, used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to actually impose those tariffs.
00:29:31.000But the reality is that it's difficult to explain why the executive branch, He made the case in a filing on Friday that a ruling that narrows the IEEPA would have ripple effects across every domain in which economic instruments are used for strategic effect.
00:29:50.000The difference is, of course, that the IEEPA was designed for emergency situations.
00:29:54.000So he says, for example, we couldn't have used economic measures to help calm everybody down over India and Pakistan.
00:30:00.000But actually we could have because that's an actual national emergency.
00:30:03.000That was an incipient conflict between two nuclear powers.
00:30:05.000That is not the same thing as Madagascar sells us too much coffee.
00:30:45.000We've been covering them over the past several weeks because they are worthy of note.
00:30:48.000In which people who are close to President Trump, members of his family, his children for the Trump Organization, or for World Liberty Financial.
00:30:57.000Have been going around and essentially picking up sacks of cash for a variety of business deals all over the world, particularly in the crypto space.
00:31:04.000And again, the crypto space, because it is largely unregulated at this point, and because the Trump team is trying to be pro-crypto, which I think is good.
00:31:20.000But if you wish for crypto to actually become a solid part of the financial framework, And what you can't have is the appearance of people selling snake oil out there on the basis of fame and fortune.
00:31:31.000You can't do that, especially if those people are connected to the Trump administration who's drawing all the regulations.
00:31:36.000That is a problem because if there is an economic downturn, I promise you, promise you, if there's an economic downturn, Democrats are going to run successfully on the proposition that a bunch of people got rich who are close to the Trump family and that everybody else got stuck holding the bag.
00:31:50.000This is why the economy can't collapse under President Trump.
00:31:52.000It's also why the Trump family Should stop openly engaging or engaging at all in many of the sort of activities in which they are currently engaged.
00:32:01.000And I mean that ranging from social clubs in Washington, D.C. designed to essentially provide access to members of the administration to crypto events in Qatar.
00:32:15.000Today, according to the New York Times, Trump Media and Technology Group, that is the parent company of Truth Social, said it would raise $2.5 billion from institutional investors to invest.
00:32:25.000So they're moving away from their social media play originally.
00:32:27.000And they're moving into a financial services and crypto play.
00:32:31.000Now, Trump Media's largest shareholder is President Trump.
00:32:35.000They're going to raise $1.5 billion from about 50 institutional investors by selling 58 million shares.
00:32:41.000They're going to raise an additional $1 billion from the sale of bonds that can also be converted into shares at a later date.
00:32:47.000That's going to dilute the value of the Trump Media stock right now.
00:32:51.000It is also going to radically increase the holdings of the company, of course.
00:32:56.000And by buying Bitcoin while the Trump administration is simultaneously attempting to set up a national treasury in Bitcoin, increasing the price, because again, higher demand means higher price when the supply remains stable, which it is in Bitcoin.
00:33:12.000When you do that, what you are doing looks a little skeezy.
00:33:16.000Again, all this sort of skeeziness we talked about with the Qatar jet.
00:33:19.000This sort of skeeziness is likely to have really bad political effects.
00:33:25.000Right now, again, if everybody is sort of fat and happy, none of it matters.
00:33:27.000But if the economy downturns, the sort of oligarchy play that AOC and Bernie Sanders are making is going to sound a lot more plausible.
00:33:33.000And if Democrats take Congress in November 2026, thanks to some sort of economic downturn, I promise you all the people who are pro-crypto are going to get it right in the teeth because Democrats are going to see the entire crypto industry as working closely with the Trump administration.
00:33:46.000They will see it as an enemy and they will attack it with alacrity.
00:33:50.000The appearance of impropriety can have the exact same effect as impropriety, even if nothing is technically being done wrong.
00:33:56.000And I don't know whether something is technically being done wrong here.
00:34:00.000And I'm not a legal analyst when it comes to SEC filings.
00:34:04.000What I will say is that World Liberty Financial, which is the large crypto instrument that is co-run by the Wyckoff boys and the Trump boys and some of the other members of Team Trump, World Liberty Financial is currently selling tokens.
00:34:18.000Like millions and millions, like tens of millions of dollars of tokens.
00:34:31.000Maybe it means something, but I'm not sure why you would expend perfectly good money for a token that is not resellable and has no inherent value so you can vote on the direction of a company in which you do not have even remotely a majority because World Liberty Financial is 75% owned.
00:34:46.000By the Trump organization, from my understanding.
00:34:50.000That sort of stuff, does that look great?
00:34:53.000Is that the sort of stuff that is going to redound to the benefit, non-financial benefit, political benefit of President Trump's agenda?
00:35:00.000I'm putting these warnings out there because if those warnings are not out there, then if the thing happens, people are going to get taken by surprise.
00:35:08.000But they shouldn't be taken by surprise because Democrats are already planning this playbook.
00:35:12.000They're already, you wonder why all these pieces are coming out.
00:35:15.000Number one, because these things are in fact happening.
00:35:17.000It is not just relegated to left-wing coverage in the New York Times.
00:35:52.000Anything that gets in the way of that stuff is stuff I don't want.
00:35:55.000And this is why vacillation on trade policy.
00:35:58.000This is why the appearance of impropriety among members of the Trump team.
00:36:04.000And again, here I'm going with Trump team in sort of its broadest iteration, including members of the Wyckoff family, members of the Trump family.
00:36:11.000People who are surrounding the Trump family, the 1789 Capitals and the Omid Maliks and the rest of these cast of characters who are obviously doing very, very well while President Trump is president.
00:36:25.000That sort of stuff, it's going to come home to roost.
00:36:28.000And again, I'm not making allegations of criminal activity here.
00:36:30.000I'm just making an allegation that when you do stuff that appears dirty to the American public, whether or not it actually is.
00:36:37.000It is very unlikely that political gravity will not at some point apply, and it would behoove the Trump administration to recognize that, and it would behoove the Trump administration to be above reproach on this sort of stuff if they wish a proper agenda to get done, because the blowback, if things go wrong here, is going to be absolutely exorbitant.
00:36:55.000We'll get some more on that in a moment.
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00:38:47.000Because Russia Today, which is an official outlet of the Russian government, put out a tweet saying, quote, Putin doesn't realize he's playing with fire.
00:38:55.000Trump's message leaves little room for misinterpretation until he posts the opposite tomorrow morning.
00:39:03.000I mean, the question is, are they wrong?
00:39:05.000Okay, first of all, they're insulting and ridiculous, but are they wrong would be the key question here.
00:39:17.000So right now, President Trump is apparently weighing some sanctions of his own.
00:39:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump is eyeing sanctions against Moscow this week as he grows frustrated by Vladimir Putin's continued attacks on Ukraine.
00:39:29.000The restrictions likely wouldn't include new banking sanctions, one of the people said, but other options are under discussion to pressure the Russian leader into concessions at the negotiating table.
00:39:39.000Trump is tiring of peace negotiations and is considering abandoning them altogether if a final push does not work.
00:39:45.000But what does that mean in terms of Further commitment to Ukraine?
00:39:48.000I mean, if he backs off and then says we're not backing Ukraine, that's exactly what Russia wants.
00:39:51.000That's literally what they've wanted the entire time.
00:39:55.000So are those sanctions going to happen?
00:39:57.000And this, again, is an area where it would be great to have the Senate.
00:40:00.000You know, you remember there's this whole vestigial organ of government called the legislature.
00:40:04.000It'd be awesome to have them sign in to chat at this point.
00:40:06.000So just as with trade, where it'd be great to have Congress sign in to chat and, you know, take back its traditional prerogative on what the trade rules should be here in the United States.
00:40:14.000It'd be great to have Congress sign in to chat on new sanctions.
00:40:17.000Like, does Congress have anything to say about sanctions?
00:40:22.000This is a point the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is making.
00:40:26.000Mr. Trump may be the only person in the world still surprised by how Mr. Putin is behaving.
00:40:30.000Mr. Trump and his advisors fancy themselves steely-eyed realists on foreign policy, no neocon idealism for them.
00:40:36.000But on Mr. Putin, they're starry-eyed idealists, mouthing peace as if they can make it happen by wishing it were so.
00:40:41.000The good news is the United States Senate still has some genuine realists when it comes to Russia.
00:40:45.000As GOP Senator Lindsey Graham writes in a letter nearby, he has 82 co-sponsors on a bill that would hit countries that buy Russian oil and gas with tariff sanctions.
00:40:53.000If Mr. Trump signals he supports the Graham, Tom Cotton, Richard Blumenthal sanctions bill, it would sail through the Senate.
00:40:58.000Why shouldn't it sail through the Senate anyway?
00:41:00.000If you have 82 co-sponsors, they should just do it.
00:41:02.000Why doesn't Congress take back its traditional foreign policy prerogative here?
00:41:05.000That is the thing that actually should happen, because if you wish to remove the sort of static in the line with regard to Russian policy, it would be great to have the Senate sign in.
00:41:21.000So a kind of shocking story from Axios yesterday emerged that suggested that President Trump had cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call last week not to take any action that could jeopardize negotiations between the United States and Iran on a new nuclear deal.
00:41:34.000Okay, so first of all, I have a question.
00:41:35.000Israel is not involved in those negotiations.
00:41:43.000Israel is the country most under threat from Iran, not the United States.
00:41:47.000Okay, so if we were going to take the full-scale J.D. Vann's isolationist realist position, shouldn't the United States just sort of wash its hands and walk away and say whatever happens, happens?
00:41:56.000But I noticed that's not what's happening.
00:41:58.000Instead, these so-called restrainers inside the administration, they're not attempting to restrain the United States, which is already restrained.
00:42:04.000I promise you, my 100% certitude is that President Trump is not going to authorize.
00:42:10.000A bombing raid on the Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:42:12.000Whether or not we should, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:43:41.000I will trust that President Trump will cut a good deal if he continues to maintain the Trump 1.0 stance, which is no nuclear enrichment at all.
00:44:21.000Instead of calling the Prime Minister of Israel and telling him he needs to restrain himself on Iran, if you actually wanted to negotiate this thing out, shouldn't the Trump administration be going to the Iranians and being, listen, we can't hold these guys back.
00:44:33.000If you actually want to negotiate a good Iran nuclear deal, What you would do is you would say to the Iranians, these Israelis, they're champing at the bit.
00:44:50.000But the reason, I would assume, that there is such lack of comfort from the Israeli government toward the U.S. government right now is because of all the signals that are coming out from the U.S. government, ranging from, maybe we'll give them like a pause.
00:45:03.000Nuclear enrichment, and then later they can enrich.
00:45:06.000Or maybe they can enrich to 3%, but not 60%.
00:45:09.000Or maybe we can basically do the Obama JCPOA 2.0 and ram it through.
00:45:15.000And meanwhile, by the way, the NSC, the National Security Council, is apparently being cleansed of many of the more hawkish members, deliberately.
00:45:24.000According to the Daily Scroll, which is a daily newsletter over at Tablet, The NSC, which again, there are lots of reasons that you want to cleanse the NSC.
00:45:34.000There are a lot of bad people who have been over at the NSC.
00:45:36.000Most obvious example being Alexander Vindman, who let off the first impeachment of President Trump by leaking documents from the NSC calls between President Trump and Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine.
00:45:47.000But many of the people who are being fired right now are people who were hired about five minutes ago.
00:45:54.000Tablet says shortly after Dan Caldwell, a Koch world restrainer was fired from the DOD.
00:45:58.000Mayrav Sarin was targeted in a messaging op falsely claiming she was a member of the Israeli defense ministry.
00:46:04.000The story, which was sourced to restrainers in and around the administration, was published by the far left outlet DropSite News and amplified on social media by the Qataris, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the National Iranian American Council and organs of the Koch network, including the Quincy Institute, co-helmed by NIAC founder and Iranian asset Trita Parsi.
00:46:23.000Now, again, the goal here apparently is to sort of cleanse the NSE of people.
00:46:29.000Who are not the quote-unquote restrainers, meaning the people who are more isolationist in their foreign policy orientation.
00:46:34.000So you wonder why the Russians are feeling their oats right now, why they believe that Trump isn't going to stick by his guns, or why the Chinese are ramping up activities around Taiwan, or why the Iranians are pushing harder in the negotiations now.
00:46:46.000Again, the Iranians should be back-footed.
00:46:53.000They no longer even have a route to Lebanon because Syria has been cut off from them.
00:46:58.000Why aren't they coming on bended knee?
00:46:59.000The answer is because they see daylight and they see weakness.
00:47:04.000As Park McDougald reports, Caldwell's allies see J.D. Vance as their protector.
00:47:10.000They ran to Vance rather than to the president with their concerns.
00:47:13.000Vance's office appears to be taking a leading role in purging the NSC of its Iran hawks, i.e.
00:47:17.000the people who would oppose a bad nuclear deal with Iran and also have the knowledge and experience to tell a bad deal from a good one.
00:47:25.000And some of the suggestions from Tablet suggest that the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an attempt to sort of maintain good relations with the Vance wing, has now aligned himself with Vance and Wyckoff.
00:48:31.000It is going through sources that are not going to simply hand the aid to Hamas.
00:48:36.000You can see, it's kind of fascinating to watch the coverage of this new aid system.
00:48:42.000Basically, some Hamas people showed up and tried to shoot people in an attempt to disturb the aid system.
00:48:47.000Hamas was literally warning Gazans, don't get food from the American aid system that's being set up right there.
00:48:52.000Because Hamas wants to control the distribution.
00:48:55.000The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is running it.
00:48:59.000There are now two separate sites that have been set up, distributing food to hundreds of thousands of people.
00:49:04.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the distribution of aid began normally on Tuesday with Palestinians lining up to receive boxes of food early in the day at a distribution center in Rafa in southern Gaza.
00:49:14.000Around 4.30 p.m. local time, a poorly constructed gate collapsed as large crowds tried to push through the narrow entrance.
00:49:20.000They said they heard shots fired in an effort to disperse the crowds.
00:49:23.000Apparently, some of the people who were doing that might have been connected with Hamas, or it could have just been too much demand for the aid, and then they fixed it.
00:49:32.000But here's some actual video of the Gazans thanking the United States for not letting Hamas distribute the aid.
00:49:37.000This is from Cassie Akiva at Daily Wire.
00:49:54.000It is kind of hilarious that the United Nations is ripping into the system, despite the fact that the UN itself was used as essentially a proxy vehicle by Hamas for literally decades.
00:50:05.000UNRWA employees were involved in October 7th.
00:50:08.000UN sites were used as the launching base for rockets and missiles.
00:50:12.000So once again, leave it to the media to completely miscover the situation.
00:50:25.000So, again, the big question in the Sean Puffy Combs Diddy McFace trial is whether he engaged in trafficking or whether he's just a generalized piece of crap.
00:50:39.000The defense admits that he's a generalized piece of crap.
00:50:41.000The question is whether he is also a trafficker violating federal law.
00:50:46.000According to the Washington Post, the third week of testimony in the Diddy Trafficking and racketeering case brings more prosecution witnesses to the stand, including Combs' former assistant, Capricorn Clark.
00:51:03.000That's better than Taurus Clark or something.
00:51:05.000In testimony last week, Scott Cuddy Muscuti alleged that Clark called him to say that her boss had broken into Muscuti's home.
00:51:13.000Other former assistants have testified saying they procured drugs and other supplies for Combs.
00:51:22.000Again, he's pleading not guilty, and they're suggesting that these two had a volatile relationship and that he was, in fact, abusive, but that's not the same thing as trafficking.
00:51:37.000Capricorn Clark described her tumultuous life working on and off for Diddy, a job she still misses intensely.
00:51:46.000Apparently, After his homes were raided by federal agents, she tried to get a job with him anyway.
00:51:51.000Clark told the jury her job was to keep Combs and his operation professional, but she then described a profoundly unethical web of operations at Bad Boy Records and other Combs companies.
00:52:01.000Clark testified she saw Combs viciously kick Ventura in 2011 as a punishment for her secret side relationship with Kid Cudi.
00:52:10.000Also, apparently, last question to Capricorn Clark from the defense attorney.
00:52:15.000It was about a comment she made in an April 2024 meeting at which the lawyer was present.
00:52:21.000Clark recounted a conversation she had with Cassie Ventura years ago in which Clark allegedly told Ventura she should end her romantic relationship with Combs.
00:52:29.000Ventura's response, Clark paraphrased to Combs' lawyers, Jay-Z was taken.
00:52:33.000And apparently Clark said that that was true.
00:52:36.000So yes, these are all wonderful people who surround themselves with other wonderful people.
00:52:42.000So believe it or not, Usher and Barack Obama's names have been dropped in the Diddy trial at this point.
00:52:50.000Apparently, his one-time personal assistant David James also says that Diddy took drugs every day, including sometimes downing Obama-shaped ecstasy pills.
00:53:17.000Again, this is the big question in all of this is whether Combs is just engaging in routine rapper horrifying behavior or worse than normal for a rapper, which is saying an awful lot, or whether he was actually engaged in trafficking.
00:53:29.000Again, the indictment revolves around two females that Combs is alleged to have engaged in commercial acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion.
00:53:39.000And then there was a superseding indictment that added a second count.
00:53:43.000Combs is saying, these both were my girlfriends.
00:53:46.000So, I guess one of the females is Cassie Ventura.
00:53:50.000I will say, I do not have tremendous sympathy for the idea that she was a trafficking victim.
00:53:54.000She does appear to have been there voluntarily, and yes, the fact that he was abusing the living hell out of her speaks to him being evil, but it doesn't mean that he was engaged in trafficking if she is, in fact, the person at issue in the trafficking charge.
00:54:10.000We'll have Megan Kelly on to discuss all this because, frankly, Megan watches this stuff a lot more closely than I do and has a greater level of expertise.
00:54:16.000Meanwhile, in other entertainment news, it is kind of amazing to watch elderly people who are now desperately attempting to maintain attention.
00:54:28.000Now, granted, she's an amazing-looking 55-year-old person, but the desperate need for attention by our celebrity class, like Jennifer Lopez, is worth a lot of money.
00:56:17.000You see a bunch of people who are sort of in the podcast space, who are cosplaying at being 17-year-old Beavis and Butthead types.
00:56:24.000I enjoy Theo Vaughn as much as the next guy, although I think that his political takes are insanely stupid much of the time, because I just don't think that he focuses on that sort of stuff.
00:56:33.000And if you don't focus on it, he's not claiming to be an expert.
00:57:35.000I was a grumpy old man when I was a teenager.
00:57:38.000That said, there is something strange about a country that is rapidly aging in which, because we are rapidly aging and we don't have enough kids, we have decided that adults are going to be the new kids.
00:57:49.000We're going to treat 40-year-olds as though they are 20 and 60-year-olds as though they are 30. It's a strange look.