Sen. Cory Booker (D-Delaware) defeats Sen. Kamala Harris (D,D-CA) in the Democratic primary, but President Trump won the election with a solid majority of the vote. What does that mean for the future?
00:00:45.000That I'm always warning folks against in politics is the belief that anything that happens is eternal, that the change is eternal, that there will never be another loss in the future.
00:00:54.000I'm old enough to remember in 2004, after George W. Bush won re-election and secured the Congress of the United States, that there are Republicans who thought that Republicans would never lose again.
00:01:03.000This was the initiation of a brand new era.
00:01:06.000And then, of course, by 2006, Democrats had taken the Congress, and by 2008, they had taken the presidency.
00:01:11.000I'm also old enough to remember when the Democrats proclaimed in the aftermath of Barack Obama's 2012 victory that they would never lose again.
00:01:17.000They had a brand new coalition, an undefeatable coalition, that would just continue to grow and Republicans would be in the minority for literally ever.
00:01:26.000And within four years, Republicans had taken the presidency with Donald Trump.
00:01:30.000And so now when I hear Republicans who seem triumphalist about the idea that Democrats can never win again, that Democrats will never take power again, that all the trends are against them.
00:01:40.000It's true, the trends are against Democrats right now, and that's a wonderful thing.
00:01:44.000Population movement from north to south, from blue states to red states, electoral votes that will follow, Democratic failures to find any sort of leadership class in the aftermath of the Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders octogenarian triumvirate.
00:02:19.000Every politician has to build their own coalition.
00:02:22.000Every politician has to have their own group of people who follow them for their own personal reasons.
00:02:27.000And so this bizarre idea that everyone in politics seems to have on right and left, Smear that over the bread of the normie politicians or any other politicians and it will taste exactly the same.
00:02:42.000The reason I'm warning about this is because this is why President Trump's administration must be successful.
00:02:48.000President Trump is doing very important work.
00:02:50.000He's doing important work on everything from getting rid of DEI to completely restructuring education in the country to changing how we do spending and waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:02:58.000On foreign policy, he's restoring a sense of American military power and deterrence.
00:03:04.000He's actually doing peace through strength.
00:03:06.000He's looking with fresh eyes at situations like the Middle East or the far...
00:03:10.000These are very important things that President Trump is doing.
00:03:20.000Pretending they're not is simply whistling past the graveyard.
00:03:23.000I know that Republicans, listen, we're all very happy and want to tell ourselves that President Trump won an extraordinarily broad-ranging victory in his race against Kamala Harris.
00:04:08.000It is not by any stretch of the imagination a giant blowout, which is why I'm saying Republicans need to be careful.
00:04:13.000And you're starting to see some early indicators of the fact that a Democratic electorate could revive itself.
00:04:21.000One of those sort of warning signs came courtesy of this special election shocker in Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County.
00:04:34.000Democrats, of course, are suggesting that this is a reaction to President Trump.
00:04:43.000Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania said, Special election races, it's very hard to generalize from those races because they tend to have lower turnout.
00:05:04.000And so what you get is opposition turning out at a higher rate and the kind of home party turning out at a lower rate, believing that there's not going to be any sort of competitive election.
00:05:14.000But, as the Wall Street Journal points out, Republicans might want to take this surprise loss in MAGA country as a warning.
00:05:22.000That's also true because yesterday, Elise Stefanik, President Trump's excellent nominee, For the UN Ambassador Post, her nomination was withdrawn by President Trump, not because he doesn't like Elise Stefanik.
00:05:37.000The reason he is doing that is because the margin in the Congress of the United States is simply too narrow.
00:05:42.000President Trump had made a bunch of moves to take representatives from particular districts and put them in his cabinet.
00:05:48.000That includes the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz.
00:05:51.000That was going to include Elise Stefanik.
00:05:53.000There were three or four different Congress people who'd been pulled into the administration.
00:05:57.000Leaving their districts open for an election.
00:06:01.000And President Trump is basically signaling here that the House of Representatives is on a knife's edge and you can't pull good congresspeople from their districts to serve in other aspects of the executive branch for fear that you might lose the district.
00:06:15.000Speaker Johnson put out a statement saying he would immediately invite Elise Stefanik to return to the leadership table immediately.
00:06:20.000Quote, it's well-known Republicans have a razor-thin House majority.
00:06:23.000Elise's agreement to withdraw her nomination will allow us to keep one of the toughest, most resolute members of our conference in place to help drive forward President Trump's America First policies.
00:06:33.000And again, this is being openly acknowledged.
00:06:35.000Senate Majority Leader John Thune, he said that Stefanik's withdrawal was just a result of the political realities they're grappling with in the House right now.
00:06:44.000For this, you can thank some Congress people like Thomas Massey of Kentucky, whose reliable no vote on every contentious vote in the House of Representatives, meaning that the majority shrinks by one every single time.
00:06:53.000But you can also point out, That there is concern in other districts that there really should not be concern about.
00:06:59.000So, for example, Florida's 6th Congressional District, which is Mike Waltz's old seat, that is now a special election seat, and it's really competitive.
00:07:08.000Democrats are pouring money into that particular race.
00:07:33.000Josh Weil, who is Fein's Democratic opponent, has raised $10 million for his campaign.
00:07:40.000Meanwhile, a super PAC tied to Elon is getting involved by spending 20 grand to support both Fein and a guy named Jimmy Patronis, who is the Florida chief financial officer.
00:07:49.000The seat again is vacant because Mike Walls is now the national security advisor.
00:07:53.000One poll from St. Pete Poll suggests the race is within the margin of error despite the fact that Trump won that race by 30 points.
00:07:59.000Now again, I expect that Republicans will hold the seat.
00:08:02.000I do not think that Republicans are going to lose that seat.
00:08:05.000The fact that it's even competitive signals that any sort of sort of overweening confidence that Republicans have is misguided.
00:08:14.000You got to act like every possession matters.
00:08:19.000You can't act like you're up 30 points when you're up 2 and there's a couple minutes left in the ballgame.
00:08:26.000This is the reason that I think that what President Trump is doing with tariffs right now could be a massive mistake.
00:08:32.000Now again, I've said a thousand times, there are many good reasons to do tariffs.
00:08:36.000You can do tariffs because you want to protect a national security-laden industry.
00:08:40.000So there are certain parts that you need manufactured in the United States because in case of war, you don't want the supply chain broken and then you can't manufacture the parts in the United States.
00:08:47.000So you need to have A subsidized domestic industry for those parts, for example.
00:08:52.000That's a good reason to have a protective tariff around a particular industry.
00:08:55.000You can use a tariff as a punishment for another country.
00:08:58.000A country is doing something you don't like, so you use tariffs as a form of economic sanctions against that country.
00:09:51.000This is a very, very large and powerful tariff that President Trump is placing on the importation of automobiles.
00:09:56.000And that's going to affect American companies because an enormous number of American cars from American companies are actually finished in Mexico or Canada before they're shipped down into the United States.
00:10:07.000It's very difficult to tell what is even American-made anymore.
00:10:10.000I remember when I was growing up, there's a big focus.
00:10:36.000But it's difficult to tell what parts of what car are actually made in America, and it's also difficult to do things like trust your internet service provider.
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00:13:25.000When they say that these tariffs are going to result in new annual revenue to the United States government, they mean you are going to pay a higher price for your Hyundai, and the government is going to take a piece of that.
00:13:41.000President Trump said there will be very strong policing on which parts of a car are hit with tariffs.
00:13:46.000European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quickly criticized the new U.S. tariffs and vowed the EU will continue to seek negotiated solutions while safeguarding its own economic interests.
00:13:55.000Auto stocks fell in after-hours trading.
00:13:58.000By the way, this includes major American motor vehicle companies.
00:14:03.000On March 5th, President Trump gave three automakers, General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor, a one-month exemption from his 25% tariffs.
00:14:17.000The only company that really is unaffected by this is apparently Tesla, which is manufactured almost wholly in the United States at this point.
00:14:26.000The two companies, in fact, that are assembled most in the United States are Rivian, which is an electric car company that makes vehicles that are, in my opinion, too expensive, and Tesla, which, again, is a great car company.
00:14:37.000But Tesla and Rivian represent a very small segment of the American car market.
00:14:43.000Most people who are buying a car in the United States are not buying a Rivian or buying a Tesla.
00:14:47.000For Ford, only 78% of Fords are assembled in the United States.
00:14:51.000So that means that 22% of all Ford vehicles are going to hit with a 25% tax.
00:14:56.000Honda, 64% are assembled in the United States.
00:15:00.000As I said, foreign-owned car companies are still very often assembled in the United States or parts are manufactured in the United States, which is why this is also confusing.
00:15:08.000Honda is 64% assembled in the United States.
00:15:12.000Stellantis is an American company, 57%.
00:15:39.000That is what tariffs are designed to do.
00:15:41.000They are designed to make foreign imports more expensive, and that allows more room for domestic manufacturers to increase their own prices.
00:16:11.000Because this is an artificial subsidy to his union.
00:16:14.000We are ecstatic to see an administration finally address the unfair trade laws in this country.
00:16:21.000These laws have destroyed the American working class.
00:16:24.000They've destroyed communities in this country and virtually every state for decades.
00:16:30.000Okay, so this idea, by the way, that American car companies have suffered because of foreign competition, the real reason that American car companies have suffered, historically speaking, is because of...
00:16:40.000Extraordinarily overpaid union contracts.
00:16:59.000Caroline Lovett said this is a big deal for auto workers and the nation.
00:17:02.000Again, this is a subsidy for one segment of the economy at the expense of the rest of the American economy.
00:17:06.000I do not think that this is going to pay off well in the markets.
00:17:09.000The reason I'm critical of this is not just because I think it's bad policy, I do, but also because if the economy goes down, if President Trump experiences a significant market correction, it is going to impact the rest of his agenda.
00:17:21.000Here's the White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett celebrating the 25% tariffs.
00:17:26.000And I would just like to emphasize these auto tariffs yesterday are a big deal for auto workers in the industry.
00:17:32.000And you saw the United Auto Workers Union, Sean Fain, who wasn't the greatest fan of the president on the campaign trail, came out this morning and applauded the president for this move, saying it's a great thing for auto workers who have been sold out by unfair trade practices.
00:17:47.000So the president is determined to rebuild our manufacturing base.
00:17:52.000We want more jobs, more products made right here in the United States, which means...
00:17:56.000More money in the pockets of the American people at the end of the day.
00:17:59.000Okay, that last part, more products made in the United States, means more money in the pocket of the American people.
00:18:04.000Actually, autarky does not necessarily mean more money in the pocket of the American people.
00:18:08.000You can manufacture literally everything on Earth in the United States if you are willing to radically increase the price on consumers.
00:18:14.000So it's a thing that sounds good in theory and doesn't actually work particularly well in practice, and you're going to see the stock market react to this if President Trump continues to stick with it.
00:18:21.000One of the things that President Trump is doing with the tariffs is he's actually now doing a thing I remember from the Obama administration.
00:18:27.000He's calling business people on the carpet and he's telling them they can't do the thing that is the natural economic consequence of the thing that he is doing.
00:18:34.000So back during the Obama administration, when Obamacare first broke and he brought in all the health insurers and he said, you're not allowed to raise prices.
00:18:41.000And if you raise prices because you're bad and you're mean and you're terrible and all the health insurers went, well, hold up a second.
00:18:46.000You just increased our cost structure.
00:18:50.000And Democrats were screaming to the heavens because businesses were raising their price based on their increased health care costs, for example.
00:18:57.000And then they're saying, well, that's unpatriotic.
00:18:59.000Joe Biden, who was the vice president at the time, actually said that.
00:19:02.000When you force people to pay more money for things, they are going to raise their prices on the things that they produce.
00:19:08.000Well, President Trump is doing that now, apparently, with regard to some of these car companies.
00:19:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, when President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country's top automakers for a call earlier this month, he issued a warning.
00:19:18.000They better not raise car prices because of tariffs.
00:19:21.000He said that the White House would look unfavorably on such a move, leaving some of them rattled and worried they would face punishment if they increased prices.
00:19:28.000Well, I'm sorry, but that is how economics works.
00:19:34.000This bizarre notion that you can radically increase the cost structure for State Stellantis and they're not going to increase their prices.
00:19:47.000But the laws of the economy do not randomly shape themselves around the whim of any president.
00:19:54.000Meanwhile, this tariff program is actually propping up in Canada, which is a country that we are largely targeting, the worst person in Canadian politics right now, who's the current Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
00:20:05.000So Justin Trudeau, handsome Bernie Sanders, he is gone.
00:20:07.000He was replaced by Mark Carney, who is a Green New Deal type, a net zero type, and a person who's totally fine with reorienting trade away from the United States and toward China, which is the predictable result of tariff wars between the United States and Canada.
00:20:20.000Canada will start reorienting its economy toward China, which is precisely the opposite of the result, I think, that the Trump administration reorienting.
00:20:27.000When there was no trade war, when President Trump had just won, what we saw in the Canadian polling was that Pierre Polyev He was the head of the Canadian Conservative Party, was destroying the Liberal Party, just destroying it.
00:20:43.000This is why Justin Trudeau had to step out.
00:20:45.000He stepped out because he had basically become dead man walking, politically speaking.
00:20:48.000There was no shot that he was going to be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
00:21:02.000And the reason he started to slide is because Mark Carney and the Liberal Party accused the Conservative Party of being in cahoots.
00:21:07.000With President Trump on all of this, while President Trump was making jokes or perhaps half-serious remarks about Canada becoming the 51st state in territorial contiguity and all the rest of it, while that was happening, Mark Carney was gaining in the polls.
00:21:21.000Right now, Mark Carney has called a snap election that is set to take place in about one month.
00:21:25.000In that snap election, he is now running dead even with the Conservative Party and gaining momentum.
00:21:29.000So he is perfectly happy to increase the trade war.
00:21:33.000Number one, he's fine with a bigger relationship with China.
00:21:35.000Number two, he hates President Trump and is perfectly fine with using his opposition to Trump to jack his poll ratings up in Canada.
00:21:44.000None of this is salutary for the United States.
00:21:47.000We'd be much better off with Pierre Polyev as the Prime Minister of Canada, a significantly friendlier government, a government that will be tougher on immigration, tougher on fentanyl, better on economics, better on social policy.
00:21:59.000Mark Carney is the happiest man in the world that this trade war is happening right now.
00:22:04.000The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
00:22:15.000What exactly the United States does next is unclear.
00:22:46.000And meanwhile, again, right now, Americans are giving President Trump the benefit of the doubt, as they should.
00:22:51.000He's doing a lot of great things, which we'll get to in a moment, particularly with regard to Doge.
00:22:55.000However, this is having an impact on President Trump's approval ratings, particularly on the economy.
00:23:00.000And as I've said before, The way that people's relationship with politicians works in terms of public approval rating is sort of like a marriage.
00:23:08.000If the marriage is good, it's people doing little things for each other.
00:23:11.000It's people with a shared sense of values that carries out over time.
00:23:15.000If things go bad, typically there are a bunch of things that are small and that eat away at the back of your mind that are bad.
00:23:21.000And then suddenly the bottom goes out.
00:23:24.000And right now, if the bottom goes out on the economy, it will take the rest of President Trump's agenda with it.
00:23:30.000CNN's Harry Enten was analyzing the polls with regard to the economy, and they are not where they should be for President Trump.
00:24:19.000And it was particularly tremendous because the left is absolutely bewildered by the fact that they've created all these obstacles To efficacy, both in the governmental sphere and in the private sphere.
00:24:32.000On that note, yesterday, Ezra Klein, who has a brand new book out called Abundance with Derek Thompson of The Atlantic, he went on Jon Stewart's show.
00:24:41.000Here is Jon Stewart with Ezra Klein, Ezra Klein explaining all the steps that you need to go through in order to achieve a grant or a contract under Build Back Better.
00:24:49.000This clip is cut down because this isn't remotely the actual full process.
00:24:54.000We have to issue the notice of funding opportunity within 180 days.
00:26:31.000At step 12, after all this has been done.
00:26:35.000Step 13. States must submit a final proposal.
00:26:38.000All the proposals weren't enough to NTIA.
00:26:41.000So we've gone in the last couple steps from 56 had gone to this point to 3 of 56. Step 14. The NTIA must review and approve the state's final proposal.
00:26:53.000And that is three of the 56 jurisdictions and states are there.
00:26:58.000In summary, colon, states are nearly at the finish line.
00:27:03.000And it says to stop their progress now, or worse, to make them go backwards, would be a stick in the spokes of the most promising broadband deployment plans we have ever seen.
00:27:46.000The reason it's popular is because of all the things Ezra Klein just said.
00:27:49.000It's hilarious to watch some of these people discover conservatism in real time.
00:27:53.000Oh, you mean the giant bureaucratic snafu that you have created that spends $7 trillion a year is bad at things and takes too much money and time?
00:28:03.000By the way, this is the reason why Democrats are constantly attempting to declare wars on things because once they've declared a war on poverty or a war on housing shortages, then they can cut out all of the steps and simply ram down what they want to do, which is the thing they really wish they could do.
00:28:17.000But it turns out that in a democratic polity, there are a lot of people who have their piece of the game and they want to know what's going on.
00:28:24.000So when we are talking here about the wild growth in government that apparently Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein are lamenting, let's be real about this.
00:28:35.000I asked our friends at Perplexity, which of course is the sponsor of the show, how much of both the number and complexity of federal regulations increased from, say, 1950 to 2025.
00:28:59.000The number of restrictive words, meaning words that restrict action, in the Code of Federal Regulations grew from about 400,000 in 1970 to over 1 million by the late 2010s.
00:29:11.000As far as complexity, in 1970, it would have taken just under a year for a person to read all the federal regulations assuming that they read 250 words per minute, 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year.
00:29:21.000By 2016, It would have required three years, 177 days, and 10 hours to read through all the federal regulations.
00:29:27.000The total word count of the Code of Federal Regulations increased from 35.4 million words in 1970 to 104.6 million words in 2016.
00:29:39.000This means complexity, regulatory incomprehensibility, and all the sort of stuff that you're seeing Jon Stewart lament.
00:29:47.000Obviously, Jon Stewart, Ezra Klein, it's taking them a while to get with it, but here is the reality.
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00:32:07.000Had done this interview with Brett Baer that they did last night, a little bit earlier, but it was really good.
00:32:10.000So, last night, as I mentioned, Doge team sat with Brett Baer.
00:32:15.000Tyler Hassan, who's a member of the Doge team, he was talking about the Interior Department and the fact that there was basically zero oversight of spending initiatives at the Interior Department during Biden.
00:32:25.000Well, Elon and Steve kind of stole my thunder a little bit, but I actually found that customer service survey contract.
00:32:33.000I actually have an example of one right here.
00:32:35.000I could have done this in high school.
00:32:38.000I found it on the weekends because under the Biden administration, there was no departmental oversight within the Department of Interior whatsoever.
00:32:48.000None. We are now reviewing every single contract, every single grant, and when things come to my attention that don't make sense, I'm bringing them to Secretary Burgum, and he's been fantastic.
00:33:05.000And here is Elon Musk explaining that the federal government has spent a billion dollars on a survey that would cost 10 grand on SurveyMonkey.
00:33:14.000For you, what's the most astonishing thing you've found out in this process?
00:33:18.000The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government.
00:33:24.000We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more.
00:33:29.000Casually. You know, for example, the simple survey that was literally a 10-question survey that you could do with survey monkey, it cost you about $10,000, the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that.
00:33:47.000A billion dollars for a simple online survey.
00:33:50.000Okay, again, all of this is stuff that, when Americans see it, they resonate to it.
00:34:01.000Musk was joined by the Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who's working with Doge.
00:34:05.000To digitize the government's antiquated retirement process.
00:34:07.000You remember that crazy story a few weeks ago where it turns out that the government retirement process is run from like a salt mine.
00:34:13.000It's run from a cave with like actual physical files that have to go up and down an elevator.
00:34:18.000Here was Joe Gebbia talking about modernizing that.
00:34:21.000I bumped into Anthony and Elon probably back in February and they told me something about a mine that was dealt with retirement and they said they needed somebody to help out to fix retirement in the government.
00:34:33.000I love the challenge, so I jumped on board.
00:34:36.000And it turns out there is actually a mine in Pennsylvania that houses every paper document for the retirement process in the government.
00:35:13.000Absolutely. So, this will be an online digital process that will take just a few days at most.
00:35:17.000And I really think, you know, it's an injustice to civil servants who are subjected to these processes that are older than the age of half the people watching your show tonight.
00:35:29.000So, we really believe that the government can have an Apple Store-like experience.
00:35:34.000Beautifully designed, great user experience, modern systems.
00:35:37.000Okay, now, remember, these are the people you were told were going in with a chainsaw and it was a bunch of 18-year-old kids named Big Balls who are actually just willy-nilly chopping people out of the government.
00:35:55.000You know what I really don't want to be focused on?
00:35:56.000I really don't want to be focused on increases in car prices because we have to make a payoff to the UAW or because there is a misbegotten notion that tariffs themselves are enriching to the United States.
00:36:08.000Again, if you want to argue that tariffs were necessary in 1870 when, you know, we had no income tax, then sure, you can make that case.
00:36:16.000But if you think that the levels of international trade today are anything remotely like the levels of international trade in 1870, or that the world is remotely as competitive today as the world was in 1870, that there is an apples to oranges comparison, the tariff wars are unlikely to be easily won or to be wildly productive for the Trump administration.
00:36:37.000Now, the thing I know about President Trump more than anything else, I've said this before, is that President Trump knows what a bad headline looks like if the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanks I have faith he will do that.
00:36:51.000Uncertainty in markets is its own form of threat.
00:36:54.000Predictability in markets is what you're looking for.
00:36:57.000Again, as somebody who invests a lot of money, as somebody who knows many main investors, big investors, market makers, and all the rest, what they are looking for is a predictable understanding of what the economic environment looks like on a day-to-day level when they put their money in the markets.
00:37:11.000And if not, when they see uncertainty, they tend to withdraw their money and wait with their dry powder for the prices to go down.
00:37:20.000That I think President Trump needs to watch out for.
00:37:22.000Again, I think that if things do go the wrong way, I think he's going to shift and he's going to move.
00:37:26.000And I'm hoping that what these tariffs really are about are, again, prying some sort of serious concession out of Canada on immigration or on fentanyl.
00:37:37.000What this administration and what the country cannot afford is a serious economic downturn, not just because of the economic damage, but because the reaction to an economic downturn will be to swivel into hard left economic progressivism that truly will cripple the American economy for a generation.
00:37:52.000I mean, these are very serious things that we are talking about in both the short, mid, and long term.
00:37:58.000Meanwhile, the fallout supposedly continues from Signalgate, that of course is the gigantic scandal in which a bunch of members of the Trump national security team accidentally included a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, in their group chat.
00:38:12.000Democrats are seeking a head on a pike.
00:38:14.000They, of course, would love to be able to say that President Trump surrendered to them and they got ahead and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:38:20.000Trump is very unlikely to grant that to them, as well he should be.
00:38:23.000It's very silly of him to fire a well-regarded and smart national security official because of a screw-up on who was included in the Signal Chat, seriously.
00:38:34.000That's what we are talking about right here.
00:38:35.000And as we've mentioned before, if the standard is mishandling of classified information on sort of just a raw level, Pretty much every major official of the last 20 years would be out, ridden out of town on a rail.
00:39:02.000Well, we have never denied that this was a mistake, and the National Security Advisor took responsibility for that.
00:39:09.000And we have said we are making changes.
00:39:12.000We are looking into the matter to ensure it can never happen again.
00:39:15.000But, of course, the President has put together a team.
00:39:18.000Look at the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who was voted in by the United States Senate, putting our warfighters first, making the world a safer place for the American people and for all people, and we're going to stay focused on that.
00:39:30.000That, of course, I think is the right attitude.
00:39:32.000Democrats are trying to ride this thing to electoral victory.
00:39:36.000The House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, is suggesting that Pete Hegseth needs to be fired because Pete Hegseth shared all of these updates about what was going on in the strike on Yemen in the Signal chat and Jeffrey Goldberg was in the chat.
00:39:51.000So somehow this is Pete Hegseth's fault.
00:39:53.000We're in the middle of a fight right now as it relates to Pete Hegseth.
00:39:58.000He needs to resign or be fired by Donald Trump.
00:40:03.000We've made that clear across the caucus.
00:40:06.000And Democrats, I think, showed fight in the Senate hearing on Tuesday and in the House hearing on Wednesday.
00:40:20.000I don't think that Americans deeply care about this.
00:40:22.000And again, that's what the polling data tends to show.
00:40:24.000So Americans say that they think that it's a problem.
00:40:26.000But when asked if they believe that something criminal happened, then the answer actually is overall no.
00:40:32.000So, there's the YouGov poll that came out yesterday.
00:40:35.000Did Trump administration members break the law by sharing military plans with a journalist in an unclassified chat app?
00:40:40.000All U.S. adults, 48% say broke the law, which means 52% say not sure or did not break the law.
00:40:47.000So only a minority of Americans actually believe that somebody broke the law in this particular case.
00:40:54.000As far as whether Americans believe that this is a huge deal or not enough of a big deal, basically only 37% of Americans believe that the media are not making a big enough deal about it.
00:41:13.000So only a little over a third of Americans actually believe that the media need to be playing this up, that we need more about all of this.
00:41:20.000Bottom line, is any of this going to wear?
00:41:49.000And the grace of a higher power, are we not undertaking an after-action report on pilots downed and killed?
00:41:59.000Remember, the Houthis have highly sophisticated, lethal, Iran-supplied air defense missiles that can bring down the type of aircraft that were used.
00:42:10.000They had every reason to know when those planes would be over targets because they can calculate where they were coming from on aircraft carriers and how long it would take them to get there.
00:42:22.000So this information posed a clear and present danger to those pilots and other men and women in New York.
00:42:29.000Yeah, except that we eviscerated the Houthis, which is something that Joe Biden really never did.
00:42:35.000Meanwhile, Democrats continue to caterwaul over deportations of people who are sympathetic to terrorism, who are here on student visas.
00:42:45.000is going after people who violate their visa requirements basically by lawing to get in.
00:42:49.000They say that they're not going to be activists on behalf of terrorism and then they're activists on behalf of terrorism, for example.
00:42:55.000One of the people who has now been detained is a Tufts University PhD student whose name is Rumaysa Ozturk.
00:43:02.000According to CNN, which of course is biased against the Trump administration, they say that she was on her way to meet friends at an iftar dinner where they would break their Ramadan fast, but instead she was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment.
00:43:13.000She's one of several foreign nationals affiliated with American universities to be arrested for purported activities related to terrorist organizations amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
00:43:23.000A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that Ostrich engaged in activities in support of Hamas.
00:43:28.000Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained what the standards are for why your visa will be removed and you will be deported.
00:43:34.000If you go apply for a visa right now anywhere in the world, let me just send this message out.
00:43:39.000If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, We're not going to give you a visa.
00:43:58.000If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa.
00:44:08.000With that said, the Trump administration should be trotting out.
00:44:12.000The entire litany of things that these people do when their visas are removed.
00:44:16.000Because otherwise it is going to leave the impression that if you say the wrong thing, not if you're associated with terrorists or even if you stand for Hamas, but you just say the wrong thing in some way that you will be deported.
00:44:27.000Now again, I think that we don't have to take anybody in this country we don't want to take into this country.
00:44:30.000And so if you express support for a terrorist organization, you shouldn't have been granted a visa in the first place, which is the point that Rubio is making.
00:44:36.000But the administration should make very clear on what grounds they are doing this.
00:44:40.000Because the sort of countervailing argument is that anybody who comes in at any time could have their visa revoked if they violate the sort of taboos set by any administration, Democrat or Republican.
00:44:51.000And so I think that it would behoove the Trump administration to be very, very clear about why each person they are detaining and deporting is being detained and deport, what kind of activity they were engaged in in support of a terrorist group or a terrorist agenda and all the like.
00:45:05.000Because otherwise there is going to be a justified free speech backlash that says, well, you're only detaining people because of the things that they are saying that really have nothing to do.
00:45:12.000I don't think that's what the Trump administration is doing, by the way.
00:45:16.000I do think that they should be very clear about why they are doing what they are doing in each particular case.
00:45:21.000Otherwise, it just makes for easy headlines for people who oppose the Trump administration agenda.
00:45:26.000Okay, in the stupid news of the day, I do have to bring you the stupid news of the day.
00:45:30.000The UK is now finally cracking down on the thing that matters most, ninja swords.
00:45:37.000According to Sky News, a law banning ninja swords is set to come into force by summer after a relentless campaign by the family of a murdered teenager.
00:45:45.000So there was a 16-year-old who was stabbed to death tragically with ninja swords yards from his home in 2022.
00:45:52.000So there is a law, it is called Ronan's Law, not Ronan's Law, a series of anti-knife crime measures that make it illegal to possess, sell, make, or import ninja swords beginning August 1st.
00:46:03.000This led Keir Starmer The ridiculous Prime Minister of Great Britain to announce his magical ban, celebrating the magic of getting rid of ninja swords.
00:46:15.000So I assume this will just lead to a massive upsurge in nunchuck crime in Great Britain.
00:46:21.000Because it turns out that when people want to commit crimes, typically they are fully capable of committing crimes.
00:46:36.000This is one of the reasons why the revolution was a very, very good idea in 1776.
00:46:40.000Well, joining me on the line is Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:45.000And I will say that, obviously, for folks who have listened to my show for a long time, they know that I don't not enjoy making Michael Knowles suffer.
00:48:22.000It wasn't through a filter of Japanese anime.
00:48:23.000It was through a filter of liberalism.
00:48:25.000So from the casting to the class politics, the sexual politics, the regime politics, everything about it was liberal.
00:48:33.000The most obvious difference being, and I don't know if we're allowed, can we point out that Snow White is generally understood to be a very, very white person.
00:48:45.000And in this case, they decided, nope, no, that doesn't make any sense.
00:49:08.000And then from there, the sexual politics, the regime politics, the class politics, it all was just bad.
00:49:16.000No, I mean, I think to start with that first point.
00:49:19.000It is not racist to suggest that a character who is described in the original as skin white as snow, that is literally how the character is described in the original, that's a character description in the same way that, as you mentioned, in Moana, presumably the character is supposed to be Hawaiian in some way, and it would be bizarre to recast that.
00:49:35.000In Mulan, if you cast a white lady, this is very weird that Mulan is white considering that we are now in feudal China.
00:50:25.000So no prince or a different kind of prince?
00:50:27.000We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnham.
00:50:37.000It's one of those things that I think everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's actually going to be, but it's really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.
00:50:46.000And whether or not she finds love along the way is anybody's guess until 2024.
00:52:21.000Here, they've kept the minimum amount of kingliness that you possibly can to maintain the story, but they've replaced all of those elements with lowercase d democratic elements.
00:52:32.000So the way that she wins over the kingdom is not by taking her...
00:52:37.000It's by flattering the guards who are trying to kill her.
00:52:41.000It's basically by being a good retail politician.
00:52:43.000The fact that she can shake Kiss babies is how she does it.
00:52:47.000The way that she defeats the queen is not through some deus ex machina as in the original movie, and it's not through any kind of orderly politics.
00:52:55.000It's by effectively leading an insurrection of the mob of people to go in and push her out.
00:53:03.000I know that this is reading a little deeply into a kid's movie, but obviously these choices were made for a reason.
00:53:11.000Every deviation from the original story was done for a reason.
00:53:15.000I guess what's so tedious about this movie is that every single deviation was in favor of liberalism and a radical kind of liberalism at that.
00:53:24.000So it just takes a beloved movie and makes it much more boring and much less realistic.
00:55:36.000She does become a girl boss in as much as when the dwarves wake her up.
00:55:40.000She just bosses them around and tells them to clean the home.
00:55:43.000And so you wonder, okay, well, why are these dwarves tolerating her?
00:55:46.000I know she towers over them, but even at that stature, she's not going to go.
00:55:50.000Pick minerals out of the mines, as this random podcaster suggests.
00:55:56.000I mean, that is such an amazing point, because the reality is that if you watch the original Snow White, it is a story between her and the dwarves about her actually civilizing the men.
00:56:05.000She comes in and she cleans the house, but there's a whole number about how they haven't taken a bath in like a year, and she's going to force them to go and bathe so that they can then come in the house and eat while she makes the dinner.
00:56:15.000And this, by the way, is a trope in Hollywood films that stretches for a few decades, from the 30s to the 50s, where one of the ways that women affect men is by civilizing them, by requiring certain behavior of them.
00:56:25.000The movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers comes to mind here, but that is no longer something that we're allowed to talk about, which, of course, is ridiculous because men require civilization.
00:56:35.000And women have to sacrifice, and so do men, in order for there to be a relationship between women and men, and for both of them to become better.
00:56:42.000But the idea in feminism is that there's nothing wrong with anyone the way that they are, except for men who are naturally pigs, obviously.
00:56:48.000Of course, when this podcaster lady, or Rachel Zegler for that matter, when they scoff at the notion that Snow White would need a man, what they're missing is that also...
00:56:59.000Implicit in this story and in all of these great stories is that men need women.
00:57:03.000Men don't need women in the same way that women need men.
00:57:06.000Men and women do different things because men and women are different.
00:57:09.000But this is part of that leveling impulse of liberalism that you're seeing.
00:57:14.000On the sexual front, the racial front, the regime front, the class front, is this notion that we're all basically just indiscernible individuals.
00:57:22.000There's no difference in physical strength between this criminal, this outlaw, and a damsel, you know, who was raised in a castle.
00:57:29.000There's no difference, frankly, in stature between the dwarves and the tall people.
00:57:34.000You know, it's all just kind of the same.
00:57:36.000And so, this is why I say it makes it so tedious.
00:57:42.000So when we watch these scenes, we just don't believe them.
00:57:45.000But two, it just takes away the spice of life.
00:57:48.000There was a time when we said, vive la différence.
00:57:50.000There was a time when the left at least pretended to believe that diversity is our strength.
00:57:55.000But here you have just this bland homogeneity where I can't tell the difference between a prince and a criminal and a dwarf and a snow white princess.
00:58:04.000I mean, in the original, my grandmother saw the original in the theaters, obviously, and I remember she told us that...
00:58:11.000When people watched it originally in 1937 in the theaters, it was an amazing experience because for most people, it was the first color movie.
00:58:17.000And so, first of all, there was the visual of it.
00:58:19.000But second of all, people had so connected emotionally with the character of Snow White that when she eats from the apple and she dies, people were literally weeping in the theater because they liked the character of Snow White so much.
00:58:28.000It seems like it's difficult to imagine a situation in which anyone was weeping in the theater as Rachel Ziegler's character goes into a coma after eating an apple.
00:58:35.000There were actually raucous rounds of applause in the theater.
00:58:38.000Of course, I was the only person in the theater, so maybe that might explain it.
00:58:41.000Probably in other theaters around the country.
00:58:44.000Well, Michael Knowles, I appreciate you undertaking true sacrifice by going to the theater.
00:58:49.000It sounds like you were one of the only ones there, just like Rachel Ziegler, as it turns out.
00:58:53.000And we part with this video of Rachel Zegler alone in a theater watching herself.