Whoopi Goldberg says that black people in America have the same rights as gay people in Iran. What does that say about a particular mindset? Plus, the Supreme Court rules that transing the kids can be banned in the US, and the Democrats go completely insane. Plus, The latest on Iran and President Trump s perspective on it.
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00:01:05.000Well, folks, there's a perspective that has broken out into the open on both the horseshoe theory left and the horseshoe theory right that America sucks.
00:01:13.000There's always been something wrong with the United States and that wrongness continues today.
00:01:19.000There's a lot of crossover in these sort of two wings of American politics, but perhaps the most clear exemplar of this philosophy comes in the form of Whoopi Goldberg, sort of a pixelated version of this philosophy, a dumbed-down version of this philosophy.
00:01:33.000Yesterday, on The View, which of course is a repository of nearly all human stupidity, she decided she was going to sound off about the Israel-Iran war.
00:01:54.000Yesterday, she decided to talk about how, you know, the women in Iran who can be beaten for not wearing the proper head covering, who used to be able to hold particular jobs and no longer can hold those jobs in Iran, who've been repressed since 1979 by the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Tehran.
00:02:12.000She said, well, basically, that's the same as being black in America in 2025.
00:02:23.000Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does.
00:02:30.000It's not good So that's why I said You weren't saying What I heard was not what you meant I think it's very different To live in the United States in 2025 Than it is to live in Iran Not if you're black Not for everybody Guys, don't go to Iran Whoopi Goldberg is sitting there on the set of a nationally televised show being paid millions of dollars after having been once an actress a long time ago.
00:02:58.000And she is saying that being black in America is akin to being a woman in Iran or a gay person in Iran.
00:03:06.000That is what happens to gay people in Iran.
00:03:08.000Whoopi Goldberg is fetid for saying unbelievably low IQ stupid things on a nationally televised show every single day.
00:03:14.000But apparently, that lack of perspective has become indicative of a broader trend in American life, which is to just whine about America, to crap on America.
00:03:25.000And it's not relegated to Whoopi Goldberg.
00:03:26.000Barack Obama did this a large part of his career as well, suggesting in 2008 that America...
00:03:40.000And now it turns out, according to Barack Obama, America sucks even more than usual.
00:03:44.000He did an interview with the New York Times, in which he suggested that we are drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy.
00:03:53.000It's consistent with Hungary under Orban.
00:03:56.000I mean, first of all, we should point out that there are, in fact, elections in Viktor Orban's Hungary.
00:04:00.000But beyond that, Barack Obama complaining about the twisting of the institutions of the United States against democracy.
00:04:08.000Barack Obama doesn't really get to talk about this, considering the fact that he used the federal government to threaten private industry very early on in his administration, that he used every aspect of his government in order to crack down on political opposition up to and including the IRS.
00:04:23.000But anyway, he says, we're not there yet completely, but I think we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that.
00:04:28.000And we need people both outside government and inside government saying, let's not go over that cliff because it's hard to recover.
00:04:35.000Now again, President Obama, during his tenure, ran down America fairly routinely.
00:04:41.000He understood that Americans didn't like that very much, so he sort of prevented that from being spoken about publicly, or he himself tried not to say it all the time.
00:04:50.000In Dreams for My Father, his first autobiography, there's a man who's written multiple autobiographies because, of course, he is so humble, he wrote in that first book, quote, I know I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi, in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's south side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair.
00:05:12.000I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a study Now notice the tacit endorsement of the idea that black people living on the south side of Chicago, that's the same thing as impoverished children living on the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia, or Nairobi.
00:05:39.000That is an absurd contention, but that sort of moral relativism runs.
00:05:44.000Throughout, again, a large part of the left that suggests that America is historically bad remains bad today.
00:05:50.000And this was a hallmark of the left throughout the Cold War era.
00:05:52.000There's really no difference between the United States and the Soviet Union.
00:05:55.000In fact, at least the Soviet Union, at least they are shooting for some form of equality.
00:05:59.000The United States is an unequal, terrible society.
00:06:03.000This is an argument that was made by the left.
00:06:05.000It is also an argument increasingly made by a sort of horseshoe theory right, which suggests that America is bad today.
00:06:12.000And it's bad for a wide variety of reasons, but it was bad historically in the past as well.
00:06:17.000And when Donald Trump says make America great again, the reason that that resonates for so many Americans, there are really two reasons.
00:06:23.000One is that when Americans here make America great again, what they believe is that there are American principles that are fundamentally great and we ought to do a better job living up to them and implementing them.
00:06:34.000That what makes America great, for example, is, say, the Constitution of the United States and its ideals.
00:06:38.000That what makes America great That combination, that stew of Anglo-American ideals that applied uniquely in the United States, that that's what made America great.
00:07:00.000The other way of hearing it is we think of great moments in American history and we say we want to be great like we were at that moment.
00:07:05.000Not that America was quote-unquote greater in 1960 when segregation was still on the books in the South, or that America was greater in the 1850s when slavery was still practiced across half the country, but that there are moments in American history in which we have lived up to our great ideals and we should make America great again like that.
00:07:23.000We should have, for example, a unity of purpose like we did during World War II.
00:07:29.000That we should, for example, have an industrialized economy.
00:07:35.000That is forward-thinking and forward-looking the way that we did in, say, the 1950s.
00:07:40.000There's an idea that we have in our head when we say make America great again, and that's what President Trump is calling upon and appealing to.
00:07:46.000But there's a part of the right that really believes that America was never great, in the same way that the left agrees that America was never great.
00:07:52.000They believe, for example, that the expansion across the West in the early days of America was imperialist and colonialist, in the same way that the left claims that America is imperialist and colonialist.
00:08:03.000There's a part of the right that believes, like a part of the left, that the Civil War was wrongly fought.
00:08:08.000That it would have been better if the South had been allowed to keep slaves because, after all, an overweening federal government means broader federal power.
00:08:16.000There's a part of the right that believes, like a part of the left, that the gilded era in which American industry began to really grow and America became a world power economically was bad and exploitative.
00:08:28.000And that believes that the United States was bad in World War I, or that the United States was evil in World War II for dropping the A-bomb at the end of World War II, or that the United States was terrible during the Cold War because we opposed the communists too strenuously, and we'd been corrupted from the inside by globalists.
00:08:43.000There is this part of the right that believes, like the left, that there is something fundamentally wrong with America, and it's been wrong for generations.
00:08:49.000That the post-Cold War era was characterized by American evil, that America is a bad force in the world, for example.
00:08:55.000Well, there are many problems with this perspective, the first and foremost of which is that it is historically wrong.
00:09:00.000America is the greatest force for human freedom in the history of the world.
00:09:14.000Because if you cannot define what makes America great or what made America great, if you're in the moral relativist category of suggesting, for example, That America is akin to Russia.
00:09:26.000The sort of Michael Corleone cynical perspective in Godfather 1 when he says to Kay, well, senators have people killed too, which is a really puerile perspective.
00:09:34.000I know people like to cite the Michael Corleone speech to Kay in Godfather as though this is sort of a world-weary explanation of American politics.
00:09:41.000You know, American senators have people killed just like dictators.
00:10:21.000It's one of the reasons why some people want open borders.
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00:13:11.000But there is no reason why we should import groups of people who believe that America is bad.
00:13:17.000That seems weird to me that there's anyone who argues that the quote-unquote free speech rights of non-citizens ought to trump Americans' interest in not importing people who hate the country.
00:13:28.000And what's funny about this is there are, in fact, some people on the anti-immigration right who get very upset at Secretary Rubio for saying this because, of course, many of them agree with the principle that America is not so fundamentally great.
00:13:40.000In any case, Politico is reporting that U.S. diplomats have officially been directed to screen the social media and online presence of all foreign nationals applying for student and other educational visas.
00:14:00.000The cable also instructs embassies to flag, quote, any advocacy for aid or support for foreign terrorists and other threats to U.S. national security, and support for unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence.
00:14:12.000Support for Hamas is listed as a specific example.
00:14:15.000Now, this is the part where it gets kind of weird, is that, like, what is controversial about any of that?
00:14:20.000Why would it be good for the United States, for example, to import people who believe that black people are inferior?
00:14:25.000Would that be a good thing for us to do?
00:14:28.000Would it be a good thing for us to import supporters of terrorist groups in Africa or Asia?
00:14:35.000But if you mention that we probably shouldn't import people who support Hamas, then all of a sudden there are some people on the right who say this is a violation of free speech principles.
00:14:54.000And yet you see people on left and right who are very upset with the State Department for saying this sort of stuff.
00:15:00.000The State Department, of course, is simply making the point that there are differences in culture and ideology.
00:15:06.000And again, that moral relativism that exists on both left and right that says America is inherently bad, what it leads to on the left is a call for mass migration.
00:15:12.000What it leads to on the right is the suggestion that we should never, ever stand up.
00:15:19.000Against people who hate the country if they hate the country in the right kind of way.
00:15:31.000This is a fringe movement on the right.
00:15:32.000When I say horseshoe theory, you're talking about a fringe of the right and a vast bulk of the left.
00:15:38.000The left has been very forceful in its advocacy for mass migration.
00:15:42.000For example, Democratic Representative Maxwell Frost.
00:15:46.000He's calling for the mass amnesty of illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:15:50.000And to my Republican colleagues who say, I don't want any undocumented people in this country, I actually agree with you.
00:15:55.000So let's document every single one of them with a speedy path to citizenship.
00:16:01.000I mean, that is definitely one way of ending the illegal immigration problem is by pretending that they don't exist by handing them documents.
00:16:06.000We can also get rid of murder as a crime in the country by considering murder, not murder.
00:16:11.000We can just hand them documents saying, hey.
00:16:13.000Murder isn't murder anymore, and then they're not murderers.
00:16:16.000You just get rid of crimes by reclassifying the crimes.
00:16:19.000The only way to support this sort of thing, of course, this sort of mass amnesty proposition, is to suggest there's nothing unique about America that needs to be protected.
00:16:28.000And again, you see this across the mainstream left.
00:16:31.000Tim Walz was almost vice president of the United States.
00:16:34.000He was most recently spotted suggesting that China, the communist Chinese, ought to broker peace in the Middle East because America can't be trusted.
00:16:42.000Which is about the greatest form of America whining I've seen recently.
00:16:48.000And he was asked about his anti-ICE rhetoric, the fact that he's been going after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
00:16:52.000And he won't say that he regrets that.
00:16:56.000Governor, do you regret calling ICE agents to Gestapo?
00:17:18.000Because in the end, they believe that there is nothing that must be protected about America, that the great American principle on the left is that America ought not exist as a separate polity from the rest of the world, or America bears some sort of blood guilt for what it is, and thus must have an open border.
00:17:34.000And that lies behind much of the opposition to what the Trump administration is doing with ICE.
00:17:40.000so They're trying to suggest that actually what's happening when the Trump administration enforces the law on immigration is some form of fascism.
00:17:51.000Which, again, is an amazing statement.
00:17:53.000So, Karen Bass, the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, she said that L.A. is being used as a test case for federal fascism because President Trump has sent in the National Guard in order to protect ICE agents who are trying to enforce the law.
00:18:06.000I think it's no secret that there was tension between the governor and the president.
00:18:11.000And I just think it's so unfortunate that we were the test case for this, considering that we are a city of immigrants, considering that there are sectors of our economy that are completely dependent on immigrant labor.
00:18:24.000And this was just not a problem before the raids took place.
00:18:29.000There were problems in L.A. once the raids happened, but they were problems that were completely manageable by local law enforcement.
00:18:37.000So there was no reason for this drama.
00:18:40.000So, I mean, let's just point out here a few contradictions.
00:18:43.000One, she says there are entire swaths of L.A. that are reliant on immigrant labor.
00:18:48.000Wait, doesn't that undercut your minimum wage arguments?
00:18:51.000When you flood the labor market with cheap labor that is not regulated by law.
00:18:56.000Doesn't that undercut your whole argument that the wages are too low?
00:18:58.000In any case, the notion that enforcing federal law is actually a violation of American principles, what would those principles be precisely?
00:19:07.000Meanwhile, MSNBC's Lorne Leder is calling ICE agents the goon squad now.
00:19:11.000I think what is disturbing to so many Americans, as Rev said, you know, it's not the deportation of people that may be criminals.
00:19:19.000It is the sense of lawlessness from this kind of goon squad that seems to be emerging from ICE and these sort of unnamed masked enforcers who are, you know, at rallies, who are showing up and arresting people without warrants.
00:19:42.000But this has bled up to the highest levels of the Democratic Party.
00:19:45.000Elizabeth Warren was questioning Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and asking, would he send the Marines?
00:19:51.000Again, the idea being that America is uniquely evil if we send Marines to protect ICE agents in the pursuit of law enforcement.
00:20:00.000Secretary Hegseth, if the President wanted to deploy Marines to Chicago and New York City like he did in Los Angeles, would you carry out that order even if The local governors and mayors objected.
00:20:17.000Well, Senator, because Governor Newsom was unwilling to address protecting federal law enforcement agents in Los Angeles, President Trump had all the authorities and the Defense Department happily supported defending our ICE agents in the conduct of their job.
00:20:31.000They have the right, as Americans, to be able to do their job without being attacked by mobs.
00:20:35.000And we will protect them in that process.
00:20:38.000And if other states needed it, we would provide that.
00:20:50.000Well, thankfully, New York City, unlike California, unlike Gavin Newsom, is willing to step up and address the issue with their local law enforcement.
00:20:57.000Again, what she's asking there, I mean, Hegseth should just say yes.
00:21:07.000There are legal circumstances under which the president could do that.
00:21:15.000But again, the basic notion here is that people should be willy-nilly allowed to violate the law.
00:21:19.000And there's a philosophy that undergirds that, which is the law itself is bad.
00:21:23.000And if you enforce the law, this makes you bad.
00:21:25.000You're a representative of this terrible American government that, according to Whoopi Goldberg, treats black Americans like Iran treats gay people.
00:21:32.000Or an American government that treats illegal immigrants in the most horrific possible fashion?
00:21:39.000Again, this sort of perverse perspective on America has real consequences because you can't defend America if you don't like America at all.
00:21:45.000If you don't like America at all, what are you defending America from?
00:21:48.000This has been one of the signal features of the West for generations, is this sort of self-loathing that has taken root in large parts of the left and certain corners of the right.
00:21:59.000This self-loathing that says, That the West ought not defend itself in any way, shape, or form.
00:22:05.000And we can't defend ourselves because, again, there's something deeply spiritually wrong with us.
00:22:10.000And whether you're claiming that spiritual ill stems from the use of atomic bombs at the end of World War II, as some have, or whether you're suggesting that the deep spiritual ill stems from America's lack of care and wonder at the transing of the children.
00:22:27.000You can't defend America unless you actually believe in America, and unless you can name what it is that you believe about America that is worth defending.
00:22:41.000The Supreme Court has decided that states can, in fact, ban the transing of the children, and the left is super angry about all of it first.
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00:24:59.000As we mentioned yesterday, big victory for Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire, the state of Tennessee, over at the Supreme Court.
00:25:06.000As we reported yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee can indeed ban transing of the children.
00:25:14.000One of the things that I think is most astonishing about this case is not actually the decision.
00:25:18.000The thing that may be the most astonishing about the case is the dissent in this particular case.
00:25:24.000The dissent is totally wild because what the dissent suggests is that If it had not been for President Trump, the Democrats would have been able to appoint a Supreme Court majority that says that it is illegal for a state to actually prevent the genital and hormonal mutilation of children.
00:25:46.000That is the position of Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent.
00:25:51.000She suggests, Today, the court considers a Tennessee law that categorically prohibits doctors from prescribing certain medications to adolescents if and only if they will help a patient identify with or live as a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex.
00:26:06.000Tennessee's law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status.
00:26:11.000So the Constitution and settled precedent require the court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny.
00:26:15.000The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee's categorical ban on life-saving medical treatment, so long as any reasonably conceivable state of facts might justify it.
00:26:26.000Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to rational basis review.
00:26:32.000In sadness, I dissent, says Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
00:26:57.000SB1 allows the physician to prescribe hormones to reduce the buildup of such tissue, but a child identified as female at birth, experiencing the same or more distress, Must be denied the same prescription.
00:27:07.000That's, she says, that's discrimination.
00:27:09.000That if you're a girl and you want hormones to suppress your actual sex development, that that is in some way the same as a boy who wants to suppress the development of breast tissue.
00:27:25.000That those need to be treated in the same exact way.
00:27:29.000And the majority in this case was 6-3.
00:28:42.000force them to own this insane position.
00:28:44.000Democrats are so out of touch on these particular positions and forcing them to actually own it would be Okay, meanwhile, the situation continues to percolate with regard to Israel and Iran.
00:29:03.000Yesterday, the Israeli military continued to strike a variety of Iranian positions, including the Iranian heavy water reactor in Iraq, as well as what it describes as a site used for the development of nuclear weapons in the city of Natanz, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:29:18.000Military told people to evacuate the central Iranian cities of Iraq and Khondab ahead of the strike.
00:29:24.000One of the things that's been undernoticed about this war is that Israel has completely devastated the Iranian military positions, air defense positions, nuclear reactors, military positions.
00:29:33.000They've killed a minimum number of people, like truly a minimum number of people, like a couple hundred of people have died and they're virtually all military targets.
00:29:40.000Because Israel has, once again, been warning its enemies, except for when it's hitting a missile launcher right after or right before it fires.
00:29:48.000So, for all the people claiming that Israel is a genocidal state, intent on the mutilation and murder of hundreds of thousands of people, I would like to see one shred of evidence of that would be incredible.
00:29:58.000As opposed to what they actually are, one of the most targeted militaries in world history.
00:30:03.000What Israel is doing is historically successful.
00:30:06.000Now, meanwhile, the Iranians continue to simply fire missiles into heavily populated areas.
00:30:14.000Yesterday, The Iranians fired a missile at a hospital in the south of Israel.
00:30:22.000Miraculously, they happened to hit an abandoned building.
00:30:26.000So Israel had actually evacuated this old surgical center the day before.
00:30:29.000So there was no one in the surgical center when it took a direct hit from an Iranian missile.
00:30:34.000It was the Beersheba Soroka Medical Center.
00:30:38.000Gidon Sar, the foreign minister, said the Iranian regime deliberately targets civilians.
00:30:41.000It's committing war crimes and has no red lines.
00:30:45.000There was also a kindergarten yard that was hit in the last Iranian barrage.
00:30:50.000And Israel's been shooting down the vast majority of these counter-strikes from Iran, along with its allies.
00:30:58.000Iran continues to pursue a war end that really does not seem tethered to reality in any way, shape, or form.
00:31:07.000President Trump has said to Iran, listen, you want this to stop?
00:31:23.000In 2011, he was tweeting out that Barack Obama should get out of the way and let Israel do what it needed to do against the Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:31:31.000Well, again, President Trump continues to play this masterfully.
00:31:34.000Yesterday, he did yet another press conference in which he said, listen, there's not going to be a nuclear weapon in Iran.
00:32:10.000Okay, well, again, that happens to be a perspective shared by some 80% of Americans, that the Iranians should not have a nuclear weapon, and that if they had a nuclear weapon, they would try to use it against Israel.
00:32:26.000When people say they want to kill you, you probably should at the very least believe them.
00:32:30.000Okay, President Trump was asked what exactly he's looking for.
00:33:18.000That can happen with the Ayatollahs in power.
00:33:19.000It can happen with the Ayatollahs out of power.
00:33:21.000None of this, by the way, implies a heavy nation-building effort.
00:33:25.000And all the people who are being intellectually dishonest suggesting that anyone mainstream has been calling for the full-scale occupation of Iran of thousands of American troops is lying to you and has been lying to you.
00:33:38.000That was never a war goal of either...
00:34:07.000You're setting up a straw man in order to somehow make a couple of bunker busters dropped on Fordow akin in some bizarre way to the full-scale occupation for 20 years of Iraq.
00:34:19.000You're going to need to do better than that.
00:34:20.000That is a particularly crappy argument because it is not an argument that has anything to do with reality.
00:34:25.000The only people backing off their positions these days, as I see it, are the people who five minutes ago were suggesting World War III was going to break out if Israel struck the Iranian nuclear reactors, and who have now backed into the position of saying, well, you know, if President Trump allows Israel to do what they're doing or does a strike, really, we didn't back off our positions.
00:34:41.000You did, because you wanted full-scale regime change with occupation on the ground.
00:35:43.000And maybe it'll end, and maybe it'll end very quickly.
00:35:46.000But there's no way that you can allow, whether you have to fight or not, you can allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon because the entire world will blow up.
00:35:56.000So, I mean, again, that seems like a very simple answer to what is a very stupid question.
00:36:02.000When President Trump says, is the world better off with an Iranian nuclear weapon or not, that is a proposition that 80% of Americans agree with, that Iran should not go nuclear.
00:36:48.000He called and apologized the other day.
00:36:50.000Okay, well, again, if President Trump is telling the truth there, which I assume he is, kind of an astonishing move for Tucker Carlson to call and apologize.
00:36:59.000And good for Tucker for calling and apologizing.
00:37:02.000Alrighty, coming up, the Democrats are in serious, serious trouble.
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00:38:36.000President Trump is not calling for the regime to fall.
00:38:38.000He's not suggesting that he even wants to topple the regime.
00:38:41.000He's saying if the bombing continues, the regime could fall, which obviously is true.
00:38:46.000The Israelis actually hacked Iranian TV and they put in footage of Iranian women being able to cut their hair and all of the rest.
00:38:55.000They've been killing many of the chiefs of police in major cities around Iran in order to get rid of the Iranians.
00:39:08.000But any sort of movement to get rid of the Ayatollahs is going to have to be domestically led.
00:39:11.000It's going to have to be led by the population of Iran.
00:39:14.000Again, the sole goal here for both Israel and the United States is the denuclearization of Iran.
00:39:19.000Meanwhile, Ayatollah Khamenei, he keeps saying over and over and over that Iran is not going to surrender.
00:39:25.000He said, quote, First of all, we should point out the Iranian nation is not represented by the Iranian government.
00:39:31.000The Iranian government is, in fact, a dictatorship that does not give a crap about its people and shoots them in the streets if they oppose it.
00:39:39.000He says, The Iranian nation stands firm against an imposed war, just as it will stand firm against an imposed peace, and this nation will not surrender to anyone in the face of imposition.
00:39:47.000Intelligent people who know Iran, the Iranian nation and its history will never speak to this nation in threatening language, because the Iranian nation will not surrender, and the Americans should know that any U.S. military intervention will undoubtedly cause irreparable harm to them.
00:39:59.000Okay, so here we should deal with the possibility of what Iran could do in response, right?
00:40:03.000Because you can certainly have a calibrated discussion about risks and rewards when it comes to military action.
00:40:09.000Israel has done an extraordinary job of taking out the missile launchers in Iran.
00:40:13.000Iran has terror groups in places like Iraq.
00:40:16.000Theoretically, they could fire on U.S. military bases in Iraq.
00:40:20.000President Trump has been evacuating military personnel from places like Iraq and places like Syria in the expectation that if he should decide to drop a couple of Moabs, On Fordow, that possibly Iran would activate some of those terrorist groups to fire on American bases.
00:40:35.000Now, that would be the stupidest move Ayatollah Khamenei ever made.
00:40:39.000If the Ayatollah decided that in response to the bombing of his nuclear facility, he was going to launch full-scale assaults on American troops, he would be dead by morning.
00:40:49.000And there is no leadership structure to pick up the pieces afterward.
00:40:52.000So if he wants his regime to actually end, that would be an amazing way of making sure that his regime actually ends.
00:40:58.000That would be effectively a suicide pact if he legitimately attempted a full-scale attack on American installations or American military personnel.
00:41:07.000He, of course, wants to protect American lives, as is his duty.
00:41:10.000And so he has been, for example, shifting around troops, apparently, at Al-Udayd Air Base in Qatar.
00:41:16.000He's been moving American personnel out of Syria.
00:41:19.000He's essentially clearing the ground so that if America decides to use a B-2 and take out Fordo, that there won't be anything coming the other way.
00:41:27.000Which, again, is smart of the President of the United States.
00:41:31.000And I think enough of a deterrent exists that even if President Trump decided not to do it, it would still make sense because the reality is that it would certainly not be in the Ayatollah's interest to go further in this war once Fordow is gone.
00:41:43.000He then has nothing to bargain with at that point.
00:41:45.000What's amazing about all of this is that if Iran came to the table and just gave up its nuclear program, the regime likely survives, at least in some form, for a couple of more years.
00:41:55.000Instead, he seems to be accelerating his own demise.
00:41:57.000By taking these sort of intransigent stands, President Trump offered him every way out for months.
00:42:03.000For literally two months, he offered him a way out.
00:42:08.000Okay, what's the possibility of other Iranian response?
00:42:10.000As we talked about yesterday on the show, theoretically, Iran could activate its terrorist friends around the world to attack Americans or Jews or Europeans or whomever.
00:42:26.000Does that mean that the United States, for example, should have left ISIS in place because there were ISIS-associated people who engaged in terror attacks?
00:42:34.000When we say, broadly speaking in the West, that we should not negotiate with terrorists, what we mean is that if you can be deterred from taking out full-scale terrorist groups by the possibility that terrorist groups are going to do bad things, you've lost already.
00:42:47.000There's no purpose to having an American military, for example, if the basic idea is that Iran can at any time activate a terrorist cell.
00:42:55.000And therefore, we should allow them to go nuclear.
00:42:57.000And this is why President Trump is so clear.
00:43:14.000And the reality is that if you are at the head of the world's most powerful military, and if you don't even have the ability to stop the Iranian nuclear program, Once the Israelis have already taken out all of the advanced weaponry, taken out all of the air defense systems, destroyed on the ground the top layers of the Iranian military, ripped apart 90% of the Iranian nuclear facilities, if the United States does not have the capacity, if this is a capacity or courage question, how the hell do you hope to deter China from taking over Taiwan?
00:43:41.000Seriously, that's an actual military challenge.
00:43:43.000You want to stop China from taking over Taiwan in credible ways?
00:43:47.000Well, at some point, you might have to actually sign into chat and demonstrate that our threats are credible.
00:43:52.000Can you imagine a world in which the United States can be put off of ending the Iranian nuclear program by Iran saying things while they are lying defenseless at the feet of the Israeli government and the Israeli military?
00:44:04.000You know, what would our enemies take away from that?
00:44:06.000That is a real concern, if you believe, as I do, that Joe Biden's cowardly, ridiculous pullout from Afghanistan led full scale to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:44:14.000And the reason Russia never invaded Ukraine under Donald Trump is because they were afraid of Donald Trump, which is, I think, true.
00:44:48.000But the United States has had as a central goal, both Democrat and Republican, for decades, the non-nuclear Iran.
00:44:56.000That has been a goal of foreign policy in the United States for decades.
00:44:59.000If, after Israel clears all the ground, you can't take a B2 and hit with a couple of Moabs, if you're deterred, how in the world do you expect to deter China?
00:45:11.000That is a serious credibility question.
00:45:15.000Now, one of the other sort of concerns that's been raised is, What happens if Ayatollah Khamenei falls?
00:45:21.000The Wall Street Journal points out that Iran's embattled leaders have found themselves in an existential struggle domestically to protect nearly a half-century of rule as Israel pounds the military, government, and population.
00:45:32.000The U.S. and Israel have made it clear that even Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could be a target.
00:45:37.000President Trump himself posted on social media, quote, we know exactly where the so-called Supreme Leader is hiding.
00:45:42.000He's an easy target, but is safe there.
00:45:43.000We're not going to take him out, kill, at least not for now.
00:45:54.000I mean, first of all, it is amazing what Israel has been able to accomplish here.
00:45:56.000If you look at, like, a chart of the people at the top of the Iranian structure who have been killed, it includes the chief of staff of the armed forces, the commander of Khattam al-Anbiya at central headquarters, the IRGC commander-in-chief,
00:46:12.000The IRGC Aerospace Force Commander, the IRGC Surface-to-Surface Missile Array Commander, the IRGC Aerospace Force Aerial Unit Commander, the IRGC Aerospace Force UAV Force Commander, the IRGC Intelligence Chief, the IRGC Deputy Intelligence Chief, the IRGC Quds Force Intelligence Chief, and the IRGC Quds Force Deputy Intelligence Chief.
00:46:28.000That's who Israel has killed over the course of the last week.
00:46:32.000The only living members left of the entire regime, essentially, are the Supreme Leader, as well as the IRGC Quds Force Commander.
00:46:59.000Angelo Cotevilla was a professor at Claremont, and he used to say one of the big mistakes about Afghanistan and Iraq was not deposing Saddam Hussein.
00:47:06.000The problem in Iraq is that we disbanded the Iraqi military.
00:47:09.000And then got in the way of whatever rebuilding was supposed to happen.
00:47:13.000He said with regard to Afghanistan, the problem was not deposing the Taliban.
00:47:17.000The problem was, we then decided to involve ourselves in nation building as opposed to just knocking over the Taliban.
00:47:24.000And then if we don't like the next leader, we knock him out too.
00:47:26.000And if it requires that every so often we go in and we kill their leadership, okay, you can do that too.
00:47:31.000Okay, to protect America, this is what you do.
00:47:33.000And it doesn't require long-term occupations.
00:47:35.000I think that that is actually a fairly realist point of view.
00:47:38.000When it comes to American foreign policy, you do what you have to do to protect American interests for the foreseeable future, and that does not mean long-term nation-building prospects.
00:47:46.000But there is this bizarre idea that is set in in the aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan that all regime change is inherently bad.
00:48:16.000Because if the idea is that whatever chaos follows in the wake of a regime change is always worse than a regime change, you're now making a case for the status quo for every evil dictatorship on the planet.
00:48:26.000This is a point made by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
00:48:30.000Chris, we're not in the business of regime change.
00:48:33.000I said that if, as a result, Of our self-defense, the people rise up, which they've done repeatedly.
00:48:39.000The problem is that this regime of tyrants has shot them in the back.
00:48:44.000You know, there's 15,000 political prisoners imprisoned by the Ayatollahs in Tehran.
00:48:50.000So we're very, very clear with our objective, and that's to prevent a nuclear Iran.
00:48:56.000If as a result of our activities, the Iranian people find the opportunity to race towards freedom instead of a nuclear bomb,
00:49:17.000The bringing down of Assad has led to the rise of an HTS government, which is still questionable in a lot of serious ways, but a government that is significantly friendlier to President Trump and the United States.
00:49:32.000Not every regime change is bad, and nation-building is not required.
00:49:37.000There is no clue that if you break it, you bought it.
00:49:41.000Is the idea that you can never go to war with any country at all because you have some sort of vested interest in that country remaining as it is?
00:49:48.000Was regime change bad in Nazi Germany or Japan?
00:49:52.000Was regime preservation in South Korea a bad thing?
00:50:11.000Avoiding that outcome is the key here.
00:50:13.000If the Ayatollahs fall and there's no bomb, that is still a better outcome than Ayatollahs with a bomb.
00:50:19.000That, I think, is the foreign policy of the United States and should be the foreign policy of the West more broadly.
00:50:26.000Now, meanwhile, Democrats, of course, Are siding with that horseshoe theory right in suggesting that this is just terrible.
00:50:31.000That everything that's happening in the Middle East is terrible right now.
00:50:34.000The denuclearization of Iran by force is terrible.
00:50:37.000Democratic Senator Welch, he is from Vermont.
00:50:42.000Again, if you find yourself in solidarity with Bernie Sanders on foreign policy, let me suggest that you're doing it wrong.
00:50:48.000Senator Peter Welch of Vermont, who is again a Bernie Sanders type Democrat from Vermont.
00:50:53.000He says we should be taking care of America first sounding very much like some of the voices on the Horseshoe Theory right.
00:50:59.000Do we want to get engaged in Netanyahu's policy when there's no restraining what he ultimately will do?
00:51:08.000We should be taking care of America first.
00:51:11.000Now again, I don't know what that means in this particular context.
00:51:14.000I also agree that we should be taking care of America first.
00:51:18.000We are doing that with like trillions of dollars a year.
00:51:22.000I'm confused as to how taking out the Iranian nuclear program with one bombing run is somehow equivalent to not paying attention to America's problems.
00:51:30.000Should we disband the American military, generally speaking?
00:51:32.000I mean, this is a really ideological question.
00:51:34.000Should we disband the—what is the military for?
00:52:36.000Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, he's now suggesting that Netanyahu's decision to launch a war against Iran is threatening Americans' safety.
00:52:45.000So I guess his suggestion is that America is safer with the Ayatollahs of the bomb.
00:52:50.000Mr. Secretary, as the Chairman has said, this is a dangerous moment.
00:52:55.000As we speak, missiles are striking cities across Israel and Iran, threatening to ignite a regional war.
00:53:03.000There should be no doubt that for the safety of the United States and the rest of the world, Iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon.
00:53:11.000However, Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to preemptively launch a war with Iran against the urging of the President So, again, the idea here from this doltish, clottish Democrat is that somehow taking out the nuclear facilities is bad.
00:53:37.000President Trump has made clear his perspective, and trying to cite things in the name of President Trump that he has not said and is not saying is a hell of a move.
00:53:44.000Again, listen, there are times when I disagree with President Trump on this program.
00:53:49.000But I'm not trying to speak in his name.
00:53:51.000What does President Trump really mean?
00:53:53.000What is President Trump really trying to say?
00:53:54.000He's saying exactly what he wants to say.
00:53:57.000He's doing exactly what he wants to do.
00:53:59.000He's not being manipulated from the outside.
00:54:02.000That sort of perverse perspective is very, very silly in the extreme.
00:54:06.000Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, called for an immediate de-escalation leading to a ceasefire because of course he did.
00:54:28.000One of the many reasons why I hope that before President Trump leaves office during his second term, I hope that President Trump Just cuts it dead.
00:54:55.000Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the DNC has grown so bleak, top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.
00:55:04.000Fundraising from major donors, some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with, has slowed sharply.
00:55:09.000At the same time, he's expanded the party's financial commitments to every state, even to Guam.
00:55:13.000Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles.
00:55:21.000So far, they say he's been unable to help unite his party against Republicans who control the federal government.
00:55:25.000So, they have a really, really big problem over at the DNC.
00:55:31.000So given the fact that there was a bare-knuckles fight for the chairmanship, Martin has been pushing allies, his enemies are mad, they're walking out because of a giant grab bag of cash, but not anymore.
00:55:43.000Six people briefed on the party's fundraising, according to the New York Times, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its finances, frankly, said big donors had been very slow to give to the party this year as Martin solicits contributions.
00:55:54.000His commitment to state parties, which amounts to a million bucks in monthly spending, has further strained the finances.
00:55:59.000So it appears the Democrats may now be in the position of having to borrow money in order to pay their bills, very much like their fiscal policy, which is exciting, exciting stuff.
00:56:08.000Meanwhile, I'm going to keep an eye on this New York City mayoral race, because if New York turns to this psychotic, socialistic, spoiled brat man-child, Zoran Mamdani, the New York State representative, who held a real job for about 2.7 seconds,
00:56:25.000As the privileged scion of a Columbia University professor and a Hollywood director, before his theatrical run for mayor of New York, if they elect this guy, I'm going to enjoy watching New York City meltdown, truly.
00:56:40.000I'm very much on board, again, with the H.L. Mencken idea that democracy is the theory, that the people get what they vote for, good and hard.
00:56:49.000If you vote for Zoran, Mom's Antiman, and your entire tax base flees, then good luck to you, New York, truly.
00:56:55.000We will welcome all of your rich people down to Florida, increasing our tax base.
00:57:10.000Meanwhile, Zarn Mamdani, who, again, has engaged with every anti-Semitic group he can find, tweeted in 2020 that queer liberation means free Palestine, which is a very weird statement.
00:57:21.000This person, who has chanted, globalized the Intifada.
00:57:25.000And then suggested that Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state.
00:58:42.000And the thing that's made me proudest in this campaign Yeah.
00:58:46.000Is that the strength of our movement is built on our ability to have built something across Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers, across New Yorkers of all faiths and all backgrounds and all boroughs.
00:58:58.000And antisemitism is such a real issue in the city, and it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it, rather than using it as a pretext to make political points.
01:01:04.000The hearing was titled, Unfit to Serve.
01:01:06.000How the Biden cover-up endangered America and undermined the Constitution.
01:01:09.000It began with the Democratic ranking member, Dick Durbin, launching a counterattack on President Trump's off-kilter comments before walking out of the chamber.
01:01:20.000Durbin said, if we're going to make a question of cognitive ability, I think we should consider what happened in Alberta, Canada, just this week.
01:01:27.000And then he tried to claim that President Trump, is mentally unfit.
01:01:31.000Okay, this is not going to work for you guys.
01:01:33.000Really, it's not going to work for you.
01:01:35.000Marsha Blackburn, senator from Tennessee, she's like, you know, good try, guys, but you trying to avoid culpability for covering up the fact that the president of the United States was brain dead for a couple of years there?
01:01:47.000I'm on my way down to Judiciary Committee.
01:01:50.000We have a hearing on who was really in charge at the White House while Joe Biden was president, who had that auto pin, what was happening with his help.
01:02:00.000You know, I think the Democrats are already throwing the towel in on this one.
01:02:27.000We had a president who was legitimately non-functional for two full years.
01:02:31.000We have no idea who the actual president of the United States was, and it may have been his formerly co-caddled son and his wife.
01:02:39.000I have descriptors for her, but I'll leave them out.
01:02:42.000And somehow that is not, like, we move beyond it.
01:02:46.000Goodness gracious, the timeline is too fast at this point.
01:02:50.000And meanwhile, on the economy, Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve, as expected yesterday, said that he would not be lowering the interest rates.
01:02:56.000He says we have to hold off and see what's going to happen with the tariffs.
01:03:00.000And what we're waiting for to reduce rates is to understand what will happen with really the tariff inflation.
01:03:07.000And there's a lot of uncertainty about that.
01:03:11.000Every forecaster you can name who is a professional forecaster with adequate resources and forecasts for a living is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs because someone has to pay for the tariffs.
01:03:31.000Well, I mean, he's right about that, but we'll have to see what happens with the tariffs.
01:03:35.000President Trump, of course, wants the inflation to come down.
01:03:41.000President Trump seems to be now negotiating off-ramps with regard to these tariffs.
01:03:45.000I very much, of course, hope that he does, because I think that if he does, and if we leave a significant tariff on China and reshape the world economy, and if he continues to credibly pursue the kinds of policies he's currently pursuing on foreign policy, meaning boxing in China, credible threats of military force when necessary, and all the rest.
01:04:02.000If he does all of that, then we are looking at a very solid economy going forward.
01:04:07.000Foreign policy and domestic policy intertwine here.
01:04:11.000If you want to ensure that nefarious foreign powers can't undermine the global economy and global currencies, you do have to flex at some point.
01:04:19.000And by the way, one of the things that is happening with regard to Iran here that's actually quite important is the breaking of a couple of bizarre complexes that the United States has engaged in for a while.
01:04:29.000One is the Iraq War Complex, which is the idea that anytime America involves itself anywhere militarily, it turns into Iraq, which is not true.
01:04:37.000Sort of the equivalent of the Vietnam War complex that dominated America from the end of the Vietnam War to the Gulf War for about 16 years.
01:04:44.000And then secondly, if President Trump does in fact take out Fordow, or if the Israelis finish taking out Fordow, whatever it is, the idea that nuclear negotiations are the way to end a nuclear threat, that obviously goes by the wayside as well.
01:05:00.000Incredible military threats are reassured, which is a very, very good thing.
01:05:05.000Now, speaking, by the way, of the economy, it is worth noting that according to a new report released on Wednesday, Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in less than a decade.
01:05:17.000If Congress does not overhaul the program's financing, automatic cuts will slash Social Security benefits by 23%, Medicare hospital benefits by 11% in 2033.
01:05:26.000Now, realistically, is any of that going to happen?