Sen. Kamala Harris has become the de facto Democratic presidential nominee after defenestrating her former boss, former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile. But why is that happening? Why is she gaining ground in the polls? And what role does the media have to play in this dynamic? What role do they play in helping to propel her to victory? Is it possible that the media is just as bad for her as they are for Donald Trump? Or is there something else going on in her campaign that is preventing her from winning the nomination? In this episode, I discuss the role the media plays in creating an impenetrable bubble around her, and how the media are only interested in protecting the bubble, not the bubble itself. I also discuss the dangers of the media's continued silence, and why she needs to get honest and do her job, not just to protect the bubble but also to protect her bubble itself, which is the bubble that keeps her stuck in the echo chamber that is so strong that no one else can get her message out there and get a chance to speak to the American people no matter how hard she tries. The bubble is not just a bubble, it is a relationship with reality and if she comes out of it, she will begin to meet reality, the bubble will melt around her It can only happen in a couple ways: 1. They have built her bubble 2. She will become the next president 3. She can emerge from it or she will be the next President 5. She has to emerge if she has to meet the reality that she meets reality 6. She meets the reality 7. She becomes the reality she has been waiting for it 8. She begins to emerge from the bubble. 9. She s pulling into a swing state lead in Pennsylvania, and begins to take the nomination And finally, she begins to begin to emerge as the front-runner What s going to happen if she does her job it s not just the bubble? 10. She starts to get her footing 11. She gets her moment the bubble starts to melt 12. 13. She wins she s finally gets her chance She s running for president 15. 14. She is running for President 15 16. She does her first primary
00:00:00.000According to our legacy media, Kamala Harris has all the momentum.
00:00:03.000And that momentum is showing up in the polling.
00:00:06.000So, for example, there's a brand new poll that shows that Kamala Harris, for the very first time, is actually leading Donald Trump on the economy.
00:01:40.000And it's the reintroduction of Kamala Harris.
00:01:43.000And it's a picture of her, in grayscale, looking wistfully, but hopefully, off into the future.
00:01:49.000And it says, her moment, on the cover.
00:01:52.000Now, this is not just an echo chamber.
00:01:54.000It's an extraordinarily powerful echo chamber because it turns out that according to Time itself, Kamala refused to engage in an interview with Time Magazine.
00:02:03.000So Time Magazine puts out that cover of Kamala Harris for a subject who will not deign to speak with them.
00:02:14.000Well, let's say that Donald Trump makes a policy proposal months ago.
00:02:18.000And then let's say Kamala Harris steals that policy proposal and just brings it out as her own.
00:02:23.000Here are two headlines from CBS News about the exact same policy proposal.
00:02:27.000First, as presented by President Trump.
00:02:29.000Second, as presented by Kamala Harris.
00:02:31.000Here's the headline from CBS News from June 14th, quote, Former President Donald Trump's vow to stop taxing tips would cost the federal government up to $250 billion over 10 years, according to a nonpartisan watchdog group.
00:02:43.000Fast forward to August 12th, she makes the exact same policy prescription, no taxes on tips.
00:02:48.000Quote, Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out a new policy position saying she will fight to end taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
00:02:59.000Again, Time Magazine will put out a cover of Donald Trump as an orange ball melting and Kamala Harris as a hopeful face looking into the future without ever speaking with Kamala Harris and in fact making excuses for Kamala Harris.
00:03:12.000All of this, of course, does generate some real momentum because the media does have a relationship with reality.
00:03:17.000They generate a fake reality that many people then buy into.
00:03:22.000So it's not a huge shock that you are seeing Kamala Harris pulling into a swing state lead.
00:03:28.000And she's pulled into a swing state lead in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin, in Michigan, according to multiple polls at this point.
00:03:34.000And all of this is reliant on the continued spin of the media and her continued silence.
00:03:38.000Because if she ever has to emerge from the bubble that has been created around her, she will immediately meet with reality and begin to melt.
00:03:46.000That's what's going to happen right here.
00:03:48.000That can only happen in a couple ways, however.
00:03:50.000It can only happen, one, if the media decides to get honest and do their job.
00:04:16.000Well, the biggest threat to the bubble is the possibility of a competitor arising who might, in fact, penetrate human minds to the same extent they do by going around them.
00:05:35.000Elon bought it, he opened it up, he made clear to everyone what Twitter was doing, and that's what the media could not stand.
00:05:39.000And ever since that day, they've been scared of Elon, and they've been scared of anybody who's willing to provide a counter to that bubble.
00:05:47.000Well, yesterday that broke all out into the open because Donald Trump came back on Twitter, he started tweeting again, to his own financial non-benefit, by the way, because he runs a rival service called Truth Social, which has pretty much no users except for Donald Trump.
00:05:59.000It's sort of a meme stock at this point.
00:06:02.000But regardless, he comes back on Twitter and he does so in advance of a big meet with Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces, on X Spaces.
00:06:12.000Donald Trump back on Twitter in expectation of a big Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk last night.
00:07:43.000So it's not like Trump was walking into a super unfriendly space.
00:07:46.000Kamala Harris won't even walk into a friendly space because that's how incompetent she is.
00:07:50.000Donald Trump can speak for two hours on the subject.
00:07:53.000You may not like him, you may not agree with him, but he can speak to these subjects without doing serious damage to himself.
00:07:58.000Everyone understands that if Kamala Harris gets off the teleprompter for 37 seconds at a time, she's screwed.
00:08:04.000And so the entire bubble, the entire media Democrat apparatus, the human centipede that is Democratic politicians and their press offices and the media, That entire apparatus is threatened by things like what happened last night between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which is the only way to explain why they went off their rocker.
00:08:22.000Now, in a normal scenario, they might say, okay, well, fine, so he didn't interview, who cares?
00:08:35.000It threatened the informational monopoly that they have created over the course of decades.
00:08:42.000That can't be threatened by Elon, and they're going to come after him.
00:08:45.000So in advance of the interview yesterday, Thierry Breton, who is a European commissioner for the European Commission, a member of the commission, he wrote a letter to Musk in advance of the interview saying, quote, Dear Mr. Musk, I'm writing to you in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and in relation to the planned broadcast on your platform X of a live conversation between a US presidential candidate and yourself, which will also be accessible to users in the EU.
00:09:10.000I understand that you are currently doing a stress test of the platform.
00:09:13.000In this context, I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act, as outlined in my prior letter.
00:09:21.000As the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users worldwide, of which one-third are in the EU, that has been designated as a very large online platform, you have a legal obligation to ensure access compliance with EU law and, in particular, the Digital Services Act in the EU.
00:09:36.000This notably means ensuring, on one hand, that freedom of expression and of information, including media freedom and pluralism, are effectively protected.
00:09:43.000And on the other hand, and this is the hand that they're all really concerned with, that all proportionate and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events, including live streaming, which, if unaddressed, might increase the risk profile of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security.
00:10:01.000This is important against the background of recent events of public unrest brought about by the amplification of content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation.
00:10:10.000It also implies informing EU judicial and administrative authorities without undue delay on the measures taken to address their orders against content considered illegal according to national and or EU law, taking timely, diligent, non-arbitrary, and objective action upon receipt of notices by users considering certain content illegal, informing users concerning the measures taken upon receipt of the relevant notice, and publicly reporting about content moderation measures.
00:10:33.000In this respect, I note the DSA obligations apply without exceptions or discrimination to the moderation of the whole user community and content of X, which is accessible to EU users and should be fulfilled in line with the risk-based approach of the DSA.
00:10:47.000As you know, formal proceedings are already ongoing against X under the DSA.
00:10:52.000We cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU, so we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate, and racism in conjunction with major political or societal events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.
00:11:08.000And he concludes, my services and I will be extremely vigilant to any evidence that points to breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures should it be warranted to protect you citizens from serious harm.
00:11:19.000Okay, so that is a lot of talk for a pretty short message, which is shut the hell up or we are going to come after a company and destroy you.
00:11:44.000So, President Trump's campaign put out a statement in response to all of this.
00:11:50.000Yaccarino, Linda Yaccarino, who runs the Ad Services Act, she replied in a tweet, quote, denouncing Britain's unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the United States, because that's what he's doing.
00:12:01.000This person is not just saying that you can't have an interview with, say, Nigel Farage in the UK, which would be bad enough.
00:12:06.000I mean, talk about violations of free speech principles.
00:12:08.000But the EU is saying Elon Musk, an American citizen, cannot have a conversation with President Trump, a former president of the United States, on X for fear that it might trigger EU laws.
00:12:45.000The Trump campaign issued the following statement, quote, the European Union should mind their own business
00:12:49.000instead of trying to meddle in the US presidential election.
00:12:52.000Only in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' America can an undemocratic foreign organization feel emboldened enough to tell this country what to do.
00:12:58.000They know a President Trump victory means America will no longer be ripped off because he will smartly utilize tariffs and renegotiated trade deals that put America first.
00:13:04.000Let's be very clear, the EU is an enemy of free speech and has no authority of any kind to dictate how we campaign.
00:14:28.000And one of the great astonishing things about the American media is that no one clamors more loudly about the importance of the First Amendment.
00:15:05.000President Trump doesn't, because you are not members of the press.
00:15:08.000You have not been stamped from above with the journalism label.
00:15:12.000And thus, free speech does not really apply to you.
00:15:15.000That is the only way to explain the massive double-think that they apply when it comes to the free speech rights of others.
00:15:21.000So, for example, the Washington Post ran a news piece yesterday titled, quote, Elon Musk's ex-feed becomes megaphone for his far-right politics.
00:15:31.000And the entire article is just about how Elon Musk is right-wing, and that's bad, and he's far-right, and misinformation, and disinformation, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:41.000Obviously, Elon is an important person in American public life, but I've never seen them suggest that anyone on the left is a font of misinformation and disinformation.
00:15:51.000Quote, if you follow Elon Musk on Twitter in November 2021, you would have been bombarded with posts about Tesla and SpaceX, his two most valuable companies.
00:15:58.000Nearly three years later, with Musk at the helm of the site he renamed X, the billionaire's feed often reads more like right-wing activist account, with alarmist posts about immigration and missives against woke ideology.
00:16:08.000Musk's openly partisan participation on the site he bought in October 2022 reflects a broader evolution in his public persona, from business-minded tech prodigy to right-wing firebrand.
00:16:17.000It has also raised questions about Musk's intentions for the social networking site, which he said he purchased to promote free speech and a more open exchange of ideas.
00:16:24.000In some ways, the site has become a personal megaphone for his provocative political views.
00:16:28.000OK, first of all, that is a lie, given the fact that Joe Biden announced that he wouldn't be running for president again on X via a PDF letter.
00:16:38.000Second of all, The Washington Post is owned by, wait for it, wait for it, Jeff Bezos.
00:16:42.000So if the idea here is that billionaires don't get to play in the journalistic sandbox, or in the free speech sandbox, I have some bad news for the Washington Post.
00:16:51.000But, honestly, these journalists take this to the ultimate extreme.
00:16:54.000So here, for example, is a Washington Post pseudo-journalist.
00:17:02.000And he literally asks the White House about why Elon Musk is allowed to interview Donald Trump and about misinformation and disinformation.
00:19:05.000And here you have a supposed First Amendment enjoying advocate like Cleve Woodson, who no one's ever heard of until this moment, from the Washington Post, declaring that the White House should maybe do something about it.
00:19:22.000Because it's not just that they have to protect Kamala Harris.
00:19:25.000It's about something much bigger than Kamala Harris.
00:19:26.000The entire apparatus of informational dissemination that they have built, that human centipede, it must be maintained at all costs.
00:19:33.000It provides a bubble in which left-wing messages can always be protected, in which the American people will never hear the downsides, in which you can have a candidate who does not speak to anyone for 24 days and no one seems to give a bleep.
00:19:46.000That can only be maintained with informational monopoly.
00:20:30.000Because Elon Musk has come out and endorsed Donald Trump, I expect this to be like a bromance type of an interview where they're supporting each other.
00:20:37.000I think that Elon Musk will let Donald Trump speak all the falsehoods and misinformation that he wants.
00:21:41.000Here's CNN's Casey Hunt doing the same routine.
00:21:45.000Musk's rise as a Trump backer comes as X has turned into a haven for the spread of misinformation.
00:21:52.000Since buying the site almost two years ago, Musk's site has struggled to control it on topics ranging from the election to the assassination attempt against Trump.
00:22:01.000Sometimes that information has been boosted by Musk himself, who posted a conspiracy regarding the attack on Paul Pelosi in October of 2022 before deleting it.
00:22:14.000How's that Covington Catholic lawsuit coming over there, CNN?
00:22:16.000How about that whole Russiagate thing that you did for like four years for ratings?
00:22:22.000How about the Joe Biden is perfectly healthy routine that you guys were running for several years over there?
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00:23:51.000And they're all, I mean, the mask is off for the media.
00:23:53.000Anybody who has trust in the legacy media at this point, I don't know how to even diagnose you if you have trust in the legacy media's veracity and objectivity at this point.
00:24:15.000I want to know their own political bona fides because they're hiding behind the quote-unquote mask of objectivity while simply doing Kamala Harris's bidding like a bunch of lapdogs.
00:24:26.000If they're going to say that Musk is a threat because he's being honest about his own politics, what if they were honest about their own politics for five seconds flat?
00:24:34.000And all of this is designed simply to hide who Kamala Harris is, to hide the fact that she has flipped every single one of her positions, to hide her radicalism and all the rest.
00:24:43.000Okay, so the Musk-Trump ex-space begins about 40 minutes late.
00:24:48.000Now, I don't know what's going on technically over there.
00:24:50.000Obviously, they've had these sorts of problems before.
00:24:52.000They had this with Ron DeSantis' campaign launch when Elon Musk interviewed Ron DeSantis on an X-Base and it just fritzed out for the first 20 minutes or so.
00:25:03.000It fritzed out for like 40 minutes last night.
00:25:05.000Probably that was because there were over a million people who were simultaneously trying to listen to this very, very long conversation.
00:25:12.000And it was Musk freewheeling and Trump freewheeling and it was pretty enjoyable.
00:25:17.000Now for people who love Trump, I'm sure that it Sort of reinforced why you love Trump.
00:25:22.000But beyond that, it also exposed the fact that Donald Trump is willing to talk with anyone at length for two hours, which Kamala Harris will not do.
00:25:31.000Kamala Harris won't sit down with Casey Hunt for two hours.
00:25:34.000Kamala Harris will not sit down with even her own donors for two hours and explain her positions because she'll break into the awkward laughter By the way, recommendation, when Donald Trump actually debates Kamala Harris, he can't just say that she laughs awkwardly.
00:25:46.000What he should say when he debates Kamala Harris is the truth, which is every time she's caught in a question she doesn't like, her tell is that she laughs awkwardly.
00:25:53.000And then when she does it, he should say, because she just got caught not knowing what the hell she's talking about.
00:25:57.000That's what he should, in any case, I digress.
00:26:00.000Here was Donald Trump with Elon Musk last night talking about Kamala Harris on immigration.
00:26:06.000Now she's trying to say she had nothing to do with it, and she's such a liar, because she was called the Bordezar the first day, and it was on the headlines of every newspaper.
00:26:14.000She's the Bordezar, and she never even went there.
00:26:17.000She went to one location, which had nothing to do with where the problem is.
00:26:21.000You know, she went in and out, I guess, because she was getting a lot of press, but had nothing to do with the problem.
00:26:26.000But she was the Bordezar, and people can't allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign.
00:26:33.000Now she's trying to say that Uh, she wasn't, uh, she wasn't really involved.
00:26:52.000He then points out that Kamala Harris is more incompetent than Joe Biden.
00:26:54.000Again, as I've been saying, and it's pretty much everybody's been saying, Donald Trump's sole responsibility for the rest of this campaign is making the American people get to know Kamala Harris.
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00:28:41.000President Trump also went off on the inflationary record of Kamala Harris.
00:28:45.000Here he was on her handling of the economy.
00:28:49.000The election's coming up and the people want to hear about the economy and the fact that they can't buy groceries because they don't have enough money to buy groceries.
00:29:12.000By the way, now the inflationary stats, apparently the new PPI came in, and what it shows is a year-over-year 2.2% increase in the inflation, which is going to be just in time for the Fed to come in and try and rescue the Biden-Harris economy.
00:29:25.000They're going to come in in the next few weeks, and they are presumably going to lower the interest rates, boost spending, and make everybody feel better just in time for the election.
00:31:04.000And President Trump also went off on the energy record of Biden-Harris, pointing out that they have been radically anti-fracking.
00:31:10.000By the way, the fracking transformation of the energy industry of the United States has not only transformed the economy of the United States, it's transformed the entire geopolitics of the planet.
00:31:19.000Because it meant that OPEC was no longer ruling the roost economically.
00:31:23.000Here's President Trump talking about it.
00:31:26.000The gasoline, Elon, is the cost of energy.
00:31:30.000Not only gasoline, it's the cost of heating your house and cooling your house.
00:31:55.000Finally, the one headline, media were looking for some sort of policy headline to take away, and so the policy headline they took away was that President Trump said that we should do away with the Department of Education and we should move education back to the state, which is obviously true.
00:32:07.000The Department of Education is a large-scale waste of money.
00:32:09.000It is basically there to please Randy Weingarten and her friends over at the American Federation of Teachers.
00:32:16.000What I'm gonna do, one of the first acts, and this is where I need an Elon Musk, I need somebody that has a lot of Strength and courage and smarts.
00:32:24.000I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states where states like Iowa, where states like Idaho, you know, not every state will do great because states that basically aren't doing good now.
00:32:39.000You look at Gavin Newsom, the governor of California.
00:33:10.000And so I just want to say that I think a lot of people admire your courage under fire there.
00:33:16.000Elon also lent his weight to the campaign, suggesting that he would join President Trump in doing a government efficiency commission to look into the efficiency of government.
00:33:26.000I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers hard-earned money, is spent in a good way.
00:33:38.000And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission.
00:36:20.000Well, the Harris campaign sent a crazy email out, fundraising after the Musk-Trump interview, quote, Because see what rebels they are?
00:36:33.000They're not calling it X. It's not enough that Musk has pledged to donate millions of dollars to help re-elect Trump.
00:36:38.000He's using his purchased platform, one of the largest social media sites in the world, to spread Trump's unhinged and hateful agenda to millions of users.
00:36:45.000How dare Donald Trump's wor- He's the most famous person maybe in the history of Earth at this point.
00:36:50.000How dare Donald Trump be given a platform to say things, says Kamala Harris.
00:36:57.000If that's all you need to hear, chip in 25 bucks now to help Kamala and Tim have the resources to respond to their lies.
00:37:02.000Otherwise, let me remind you why this is a big deal.
00:37:04.000The richest person in the world is a lackey for Team MAGA.
00:37:10.000Well, I noticed that many of the other richest people in the world are lackeys for Team Kamala and actively intervened in the presidential race by forcing Joe Biden out of the race.
00:37:18.000I mean, that was clearly stated that the donor class forced Biden out of the race by drying up all of his money.
00:37:42.000You see, free democracy, true democracy, is when we shut down all dissenting points of view, kick them off the platform, and then elevate the legacy media to holy writ.
00:38:14.000So, as we mentioned earlier, Kamala Harris trotted out the Donald Trump campaign position, there should be no tax on tips.
00:38:20.000A smart position for Trump to take, particularly in Nevada, where there's a lot of people who make a living off of tips.
00:38:26.000So, Karine Jean-Pierre over at the White House was asked about whether Joe Biden supports no tax on tips, considering that Kamala Harris has now said that she supports that policy.
00:38:34.000And if so, why haven't they tried to effectuate anything like that?
00:38:36.000And so now they're going to flip in real time and pretend that Joe Biden was always in favor of no tax on tips.
00:38:43.000He's been president for three and a half years.
00:38:45.000He's never mentioned the thing at any point.
00:38:47.000His IRS has been staffed up to go after low-level waiters to grab their taxes on tips.
00:39:07.000Following up on eliminating taxes on tips, is that an idea that the Biden administration considered at any point in the past three and a half years?
00:39:15.000What I can say is the President supports it.
00:39:18.000And what I can say is obviously the President and the Vice President very much what I just how I answered the earlier question is that we have always put at front and center making it easier, giving American families a little bit more breathing room, something the President says very often.
00:39:36.000We've shown that in the policies that we've laid out.
00:39:39.000And, you know, not going to go into what the former president said, but, you know, if, if Republicans truly cared about that, truly cared about hardworking Americans, they would have joined us on a lot of these proposals that we put forward.
00:40:03.000The only way you can get away with this is when you know the media will defend you no matter what.
00:40:06.000Okay, then, apparently, Kareem Jean-Pierre went a step further.
00:40:11.000And this is going to be a problem for Kamala Harris, because this should be every campaign ad that Donald Trump runs from here to the election.
00:40:17.000She says that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are always in sync, that they think the same things, they breathe the same air, they feel the same feelings.
00:40:32.000Is it safe to say that anything that she would put forward along these lines that also would have the backing of the president?
00:40:42.000You can certainly say, or I can say, that they are partners in this.
00:40:46.000So they believe, and certainly on the same page, when we think about the economy, when we think about health care, They have to work through what their policies ideas are but the last three and a half years they've been in sync.
00:41:00.000They have been certainly on the same page and I presume that that will continue from here.
00:41:08.000So they are fully in sync and they have been and they will be.
00:41:11.000Okay, so that means Harris owns everything that Biden did and Biden owns everything Harris does.
00:41:24.000She's a tough on-crime prosecutor and the astonishing attempt to swivel Kamala Harris into something she manifestly is not can only be effectuated by a monopolistic media.
00:43:12.000Bernie Sanders at least points for honesty.
00:43:14.000The nice thing about Bernie is that Bernie is not a very bright egg.
00:43:17.000And so Bernie will just say the quiet part out loud.
00:43:20.000So here is Bernie Sanders who is quickly morphing into a Muppet of Bernie Sanders in real time.
00:43:26.000Not sure what's going on with Bernie, but I guess he gets older.
00:43:29.000He just turns into like a Muppet of himself.
00:43:31.000In any case, he says that, he's asked on CNN, she keeps reversing her positions.
00:43:35.000And he's like, well, you know, reversals are normal when you are lying so you can become president.
00:43:40.000Talking about some of the policies that you care most about, she has reversed herself, rather, on some, like Medicare for All, on some parts of immigration policy, fracking.
00:43:56.000Well, look, she has to run her campaign, and I'm sure she is, you know, talking to all kinds of people to come up with an agenda that will lead to victory in November.
00:44:08.000Oh, she's running her campaign, and she has to win, and so she's allowed to lie.
00:44:11.000Okay, it's all out there, right in the open.
00:44:19.000They will pretend that she's a moderate.
00:44:20.000They'll pretend she didn't hold positions that she clearly held five seconds ago.
00:44:23.000They will pretend that she is a border hawk now, or that she fought inflation, or that she's in favor of a stable Middle East, that she's a moderate all across the spectrum.
00:44:33.000They will do all of that because they assume you're stupid and they assume that the echo chamber they have created is absolutely impenetrable.
00:44:39.000And if you ever attempt to penetrate the echo chamber, if you ever attempt to crack the seal on the cone of silence they've created around the American people, they react with the rage of the mad.
00:44:50.000That is what we are seeing over the course of the last 24 hours.
00:44:52.000It's what we're going to see from here all the way up until the election.
00:44:55.000Meanwhile, things continue to heat up in the Middle East.
00:44:57.000Presumably there's supposed to be some sort of ceasefire summit that happens in Egypt on Thursday.
00:45:02.000The Biden White House is really trying to broker this thing because they are hoping to forestall some sort of Iranian attack.
00:45:08.000What the ceasefire negotiation really is about at this point is not the ceasefire.
00:45:11.000It's really about providing some sort of face-saving measure so that Iran doesn't have to launch an attack large enough that Israel destroys its oil fields and nuclear facilities.
00:45:19.000Or so that Hezbollah can climb down from the tree upon which it's been sitting so that they don't have to launch a major attack in retaliation for the death of their number two in Lebanon.
00:45:27.000So basically, the Biden administration is trying to force the Israelis into some sort of ceasefire deal that allows all of these parties to climb down from the tree and pretend that everything is hunky-dory again, and that they got some sort of victory out of Israel conceding something.
00:45:42.000Meanwhile, Israel's like, listen, we'll make concessions if it's in our interest to make the concessions.
00:45:49.000So there was widespread suggestion that today was going to be the big day for an Iranian or Hezbollah attack on Israel that apparently has not materialized.
00:45:57.000Today is Tisha B'Av, which is a big fast day in the Jewish calendar.
00:46:00.000Pretty much everybody, including me, is fasting right now.
00:46:04.000It's a commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, as well as the second temple in Jerusalem.
00:46:10.000And it's sort of become a catch-all date for Human tragedy among the Jewish people.
00:46:14.000So a lot of mourning of October 7th is happening on Tisha B'Av.
00:46:17.000There is an expectation that because the holiday is about the exile of the Jewish people from their historic homeland, that because of that, Iran would take advantage of that and attack because the way that the logic of radical Muslims works, no one can touch them during Ramadan.
00:46:32.000It's like putting your hand on the tree while you're playing tag.
00:46:37.000However, if it's a Jewish holiday or a Christian holiday, that's actually the best time to attack because obviously those are not the true religions, according to Radical Islam.
00:46:44.000In any case, that was supposed to materialize.
00:46:47.000One of the reasons it didn't is because Iran is deeply fearful of what comes next if they actually go hard.
00:46:52.000Israel, for its part, according to the Wall Street Journal, put its military on high alert.
00:46:55.000The Pentagon said it is sending a guided missile submarine to the region and speeding up the arrival of the second aircraft carrier amid heightened concerns about a possible Iranian and Hezbollah response to the killing of militant leaders in Tehran and Beirut.
00:47:07.000Israel set the high alert level for its military for the first time this month after observing preparations by Iran and Hezbollah.
00:47:12.000Now, there's some good satellite data showing that Iran is gearing up some sort of rocket fire.
00:47:17.000One of the big questions is why Israel doesn't preemptively hit it.
00:47:20.000And the answer is because the Biden administration is telling them not to.
00:47:22.000As always, Joe Biden and his team at the State Department and Kamala Harris and this entire team are holding the chain because the only thing they care about is the fake Peace that prevails in the absence of the victory of our allies.
00:47:36.000They prefer slow moving disaster to outright victory by our allies.
00:47:40.000Even the White House is admitting at this point that U.S.
00:47:42.000intelligence indicates it's increasingly likely Iran will attack Israel this week.
00:47:46.000Now again, what they're hoping is that they can broker some sort of deal that will allow Hezbollah and Iran to claim victory and Hamas to claim victory.
00:47:53.000Israel, of course, is not going to allow that, especially because Israel now has the military upper hand not only in the Gaza Strip, but with regard to Iran itself.
00:48:01.000Hamas, for its part, has been sending some mixed signals.
00:48:04.000A couple of days ago, they rejected all compromise, despite the fact that the Biden administration has been putting heavy pressure on Israel and announced a negotiating summit scheduled for Thursday.
00:48:16.000Hamas came out and said that they weren't going to engage.
00:48:20.000So now they're trying to put extra pressure on Hamas to engage, which again, is incredible.
00:48:23.000Hamas is basically down to Yahya Sinwar, a few of his buddies holding Israeli women in captivity.
00:48:30.000That's what the Hamas leadership is down to.
00:48:33.000And the United States is trying to save them under Joe Biden in order to forestall some sort of flare up that might require allied intervention to prevent missiles from hitting Israel and starting a more general regional war.
00:48:45.000Meanwhile, you want to know something about Kamala Harris' campaign?
00:48:48.000You wonder how anti-Israel they're going to be?
00:49:09.000Well, after 9-11, she was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the war on terror reported by her friends.
00:49:15.000After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Nasreena Bargzi was raised in Concord, California, one of the state's hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism.
00:49:26.000In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she'd made to her friends.
00:49:33.000Then she received a law school scholarship intended for women who had suffered persecution under the Taliban, even though she had left long before they came to power.
00:49:40.000She became a legal fellow at the ACLU and joined its lawfare machine to dismantle national security defenses against Islamic terrorism.
00:49:46.000In 2008, she posted about wearing orange at the Today Show in solidarity with Al Qaeda, Taliban, and other terrorists being held at Gitmo.
00:49:55.000She has ridiculed the idea that calling for the destruction of Israel was threatening and co-signed a petition claiming that a lawsuit by Jewish students was threatening the speech of Berkeley Muslim Student Association.
00:50:05.000So in other words, this radical, and her record is incredibly radical, is now Deputy Counsel to Vice President Harris.
00:50:12.000But don't worry, she's also appointing liaisons to the Jewish community.
00:50:16.000For example, she has now appointed a person named Elon Goldberg, her liaison, to the Jewish community.
00:50:43.000A former staffer for Ron DeSantis and David Friedman, as well as Ted Cruz.
00:50:50.000Elon Goldberg opposed the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
00:50:55.000and moving the embassy to Jerusalem is consistent with U.S.
00:50:58.000law, and said that if these actions were taken, the U.S.
00:51:01.000should also unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, opposed the U.S.
00:51:06.000recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, supported the disastrous Iran deal, opposed the Taylor Force Act, which is simply an act saying that no party can be paid, that has facilitated terrorism and the murder of American citizens.
00:51:20.000Supported restoring funding to the UNRWA.
00:51:24.000Supported reopening the PLO mission in DC that was closed because the PA has been supporting the ICC.
00:51:32.000Worked in the Biden-Harris administration to implement some of the most anti-Israel policies in American history, including some of the sanctions on various groups in Israel.
00:51:40.000So that is the new liaison from Kamala Harris to the Jewish community.
00:51:44.000And yet she's going to pose as some sort of moderate.
00:51:47.000Obviously, the Democrats need the media.
00:51:51.000And to be fair, without the Democrats, the media are probably nothing, since it is the Democrats who give them special access.
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