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00:01:25.000First, Joe Biden is terribly, terribly unpopular.
00:01:28.000That same Wall Street Journal poll shows just 23% of voters say that Biden's policies have helped them personally, compared with 53% who say that Joe Biden's policies have hurt them personally.
00:01:42.000Those exact same data show half of voters say Trump's policies when he was president helped them personally versus only 37% who say they hurt them personally.
00:01:50.000Biden's job performance is at 37% approval and 61% disapproval.
00:02:23.000According to the Wall Street Journal, quote, before the Fed started raising rates, a person with a monthly housing budget of $2,000 could have bought a home valued at more than $400,000.
00:02:31.000Today, that same buyer would need to find a home valued at $295,000 or less.
00:02:37.000In a time of rising prices, by the way, average new home payments are up to $3,322 from $1,746 at the end of 2020.
00:02:41.000$3,322 from $1,746 at the end of 2020.
00:02:46.000That is a 90% increase in average new home payments since Joe Biden took office.
00:03:39.000Gross output, which is a measure of the entire economy, not merely the spending side that we see in gross domestic product, and which can be jogged by government spending, gross output has been flatlined.
00:03:49.000In the first two quarters of the year, business spending dropped 9%.
00:03:53.000There's a reason that Warren Buffett is pulling his winnings off the table.
00:03:55.000Berkshire Hathaway sold $28.7 billion in stock in the first three quarters of this year.
00:04:16.000According to semaphore's Ben Smith, at the White House holiday party, where Biden has a very easy job, all you have to do is just say a couple of nice things about how, you know, you have a contentious relationship with the press, but the First Amendment really matters, and then you say some nice things about Christmas or something.
00:04:29.000Instead, according to Ben Smith, quote, Biden strayed into a couple of hazy monologues, which ended only when his wife interrupted him to remind him it was a party.
00:04:38.000His speech wasn't terrible or even noteworthy, says Ben Smith, but everyone in the room realized Biden had a simple rhetorical job and hadn't quite pulled it off.
00:04:45.000Again, that's a really easy job at a holiday party.
00:04:47.000I've been to White House holiday parties.
00:04:51.000But Joe Biden literally could not get through a holiday speech at the White House without Dr. Jill grabbing one of those old vaudeville canes and yanking him off the stage.
00:05:01.000So unenthusiastic Democrats are now being forced to defend this ailing octogenarian.
00:05:05.000Here is, for example, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
00:05:09.000I'll take Joe Biden at a hundred over any of these guys of whatever age they're at, because he's delivering.
00:05:15.000Well, that might be okay for him to say, except that everyone knows that Joe Biden is very unlikely to serve a full second term, not giving the state of degradation in which he currently is standing.
00:05:25.000Which leaves, in the background, dun, dun, dun!
00:05:49.000Every single year, Doug Emhoff, being the Jew, you know, he's the person they tried out to be the Jew at Hanukkah time.
00:05:56.000Every year, he puts out some sort of missive about Hanukkah along with Kamala Harris that makes no sense.
00:06:01.000We'll get to the one that he put out this year because it truly is a classic of the genre.
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00:07:11.000Okay, so back to Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.
00:07:12.000Every single year, they put out a Hanukkah message that makes no sense.
00:07:15.000Last year, they put out a video about how Hanukkah was about love and light, clearly demonstrating that they actually knew nothing about the holiday or its origins.
00:07:23.000The actual story of Hanukkah is about religious Jews throwing Hellenists, Greek Hellenists, out of the temple and reconsecrating the nation to the biblical God.
00:07:31.000But last night, they really topped themselves.
00:07:34.000They confirmed they know nothing about Hanukkah with this insane post.
00:07:37.000So Doug Emhoff put this up on Twitter, quote, The story of Hanukkah and the story of the Jewish people has always been one of hope and resilience.
00:07:45.000In the Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding.
00:07:47.000No one thought they would survive or that the few drops of oil they had would last.
00:07:51.000But they survived and the oil kept burning.
00:07:53.000During those eight days in hiding, they recited their prayers and continued their traditions.
00:07:59.000It was during those dark nights that the Maccabees dedicated themselves to maintaining hope and faith in the oil, each other, and their Judaism.
00:08:04.000In these dark times, I think of that story.
00:08:08.000That is not even remotely the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:10.000I mean, that's not even like halfway to the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:13.000It's not in the same Venn diagram that Kamala Harris loves as the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:18.000I mean, if you're going to talk about the oil story, that is the rededication of the temple.
00:09:15.000He's literally either in court or back at Mar-a-Lago on Truth Social.
00:09:19.000And that means everyone's focused on Biden.
00:09:20.000And that means he's ahead in the polls.
00:09:22.000And that, in turn, takes the electability argument away from both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, which was their number one argument, was that Trump couldn't win Nominate us instead.
00:09:30.000Because Trump is not in the news, everyone has been able to look away from Trump's crazy, which has always been his Achilles heel.
00:09:36.000Ironically, one of the best things ever to happen to Donald Trump politically was his social media ban because it made him nearly invisible online.
00:09:44.000The fact that Trump actually put his own money into Truth Social and he doesn't want to lose that money, which is the reason he hasn't gone back to X, even though he's been unbanned on X.
00:09:52.000Well, that means that we're not treated to a small media wildfire every time he tweets.
00:09:56.000Because he's on Truth Social, where he has like 7 people watching him.
00:09:59.000As opposed to, you know, on Twitter, where he has 70 million people watching him.
00:10:03.000Mostly, for Donald Trump, Truth Social now acts as a sort of venting mechanism, and everyone pretty much ignores it.
00:10:09.000And by the way, that is the best thing for Donald Trump overall.
00:11:23.000Instead, Donald Trump, because he is a performer and a comedian, he played to the crowd.
00:11:28.000And then he trolled the media by saying he wouldn't be a dictator except on day one.
00:11:32.000And what he meant is that like Obama and like Biden, he would use a pen and a phone.
00:11:37.000And he said that he would be a dictator on day one by closing the border, for example, using the pen and the phone.
00:11:42.000It was a joke, but it also gave his enemies oxygen, which is why yesterday Trump had to actually explain that it was a joke.
00:11:48.000He put out a truth social saying, quote, fake news writer Peter Obama Baker of the failing New York Times, readership and subscriptions way down from the good old Trump years, whose claim to fame is that he will never write anything good about the great job President Trump did, end quote, just wrote in a major front page story that I want to be a dictator, but doesn't mention it was said in a joking manner and completed with, but only for a day because I'm going to close the border and drill, drill, drill, a much different attitude and meaning.
00:12:12.000Now, Trump is right about all of that.
00:12:14.000But Trump also has a nasty habit of just pouring gasoline on fires.
00:12:20.000So Trump's enemies do have one playbook.
00:12:54.000Has to let go of the idea of running this a referendum on Joe Biden, or running it as a referendum on Bidenomics, and turn this race to, here's the choice to present it before America.
00:13:04.000It's democracy versus dictatorship, and it's your freedoms versus your loss of freedoms in the course of this, including economic freedom in this.
00:13:14.000Okay, so that is the magic they've come up with, is that Donald Trump is going to take away all of your freedoms.
00:13:18.000Now, that's probably not going to work because he was president already, but this is going to be their playbook.
00:13:22.000Here was NYU professor Ruth Benjiat, who's a scholar on fascism, comparing Trump to Benito Mussolini and Pinochet.
00:13:31.000But we know from, I know from my studies of authoritarianism, successful leaders always have to have powerful partners.
00:13:41.000And those would be the people in the fossil fuel industry, which he privileged in his first administration, and all those who are eager to have an enemy, and that's always immigrants.
00:13:54.000In fact, keeping immigrants out and talking about you need national security measures and repression because immigrants are flooding across the border has been used by everyone from Mussolini to Pinochet in Chile up to Trump.
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00:15:29.000OK, so again, the narrative for Democrats is going to be Donald Trump cannot be president because if he is, he will be a fascist.
00:15:34.000Mitt Romney is jumping on that bandwagon.
00:15:36.000He has taken zero break from posturing on behalf of his own legacy.
00:15:40.000By the way, Mitt Romney's legacy now amounts to failed in 2012 against Barack Obama, paved the way for Trump, tried to serve in Trump's administration, was rejected, and then joined with Democrats on key measures in order to shore up his failing legacy.
00:15:51.000So now part of his legacy is going to be apparently going on like Meet the Press and jabbering about how Trump is a threat to the Republic or some such.
00:15:59.000We have actually seen him do what he says he's going to do when he said that he believed the election was going to be rigged before people actually went to the polls.
00:16:08.000He went on to question the results, tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
00:16:14.000Why don't you take him exactly at his word?
00:16:16.000Oh, I think we agree that we have looked at his behavior, and his behavior suggests that this is a person who will impose his will, if he can, on the judicial system, on the legislative branch, and on the entire nation.
00:16:28.000I mean, when he called people to come to Washington, D.C.
00:16:31.000on January 6th, that was not a random date.
00:16:34.000That was the date when peaceful transfer of power was to occur.
00:17:49.000The feeling that Trump is, in fact, chaotic.
00:17:51.000Certainly, that's what the Democrats and the Biden DOJ are doing.
00:17:54.000This is why they're indicting Trump over and over and over again on every crime from jaywalking to classified documents, mishandling to murder.
00:18:01.000There's a reason that Jack Smith, that January 6th prosecutor, wants his case accelerated.
00:18:05.000So yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Smith's request To hear quickly on Trump's own claims of immunity against federal trial over January 6th.
00:18:12.000Trump is saying because he was president during that entire period, November to January of 2021, because of all of that, he's immune against some sort of conviction or even a trial that was ruled against by an Obama-appointed judge.
00:18:26.000Circuit, and now Smith is going direct to the Supreme Court because he wants an answer.
00:18:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Smith wants the court to take up the case before that lower appeals court even considers it.
00:18:35.000allowing the justices to squarely weigh in on when, if at all, Trump's trial should move forward.
00:18:39.000The special counsel's move came 10 days after the trial judge presiding over Trump's case declined his bid to toss the criminal election interference charges, rejecting arguments that he's immune from prosecution.
00:18:49.000Smith is asking the justices to cut out the lower appeals court and rule directly on the matter.
00:18:53.000His team wrote, quote, to further the imperative public interest in a timely trial, the government
00:18:57.000seeks a full and final resolution of the defendant's claims that he is absolutely immune from federal
00:19:01.000prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal
00:19:06.000prosecution where he was impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings began
00:19:10.000before the March 4th 2024 trial date. That's according to Smith's team and the Supreme Court
00:19:14.000is likely to do that. Smith's team wants Trump on trial and they want him on trial right now.
00:19:19.000They are hoping, against hope, that Trump is going to eat all the headlines, that Joe Biden's bad performance becomes a secondary concern because Trump is so chaotic.
00:19:27.000But even that eventuality, and again, it is very likely that Trump will be on trial after losing this immunity appeal during the actual election cycle.
00:19:35.000And by the way, it's very likely he will be convicted sometime in the midst of this election cycle.
00:19:39.000It's also likely That that will not make Biden's case that Trump is a chaos agent.
00:19:43.000In order for that to work, Biden has to appear solid and non-chaotic, and that is not happening.
00:19:57.000Barring some cataclysmic collapse by Trump or magical recovery by Biden, the underlying fundamentals of this race are likely to remain stable all the way up to Election Day, which means That polling advantage for Trump is not a mere chimera.
00:20:14.000Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to get to the latest insanity from Harvard University where Claudine Gay is going to survive being a horrible president, plagiarism apparently, being soft on antisemitism.
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00:21:36.000Meanwhile, over at Harvard, so Cloudingay looks as though she is about to survive a challenge to her leadership.
00:21:43.000Apparently, the Harvard board has now announced that they unanimously stand in support of Cloudingay.
00:21:47.000This despite the fact that over the past 48 hours, there have been heavy accusations that she actually engaged in plagiarism, not just in her PhD dissertation, but also all over the damned place.
00:21:57.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, Harvard University President Claudine Gay plagiarized numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars.
00:22:08.000In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors, including two of her colleagues, in Harvard University's Department of Government, without proper attribution, according to the Washington Free Beacon analysis.
00:22:23.000Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay's dissertation, were publicized on Sunday by the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Ruffo and Carl Stack's Chris Brunette.
00:22:30.000The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism.
00:22:35.000Most of them said that Gay had violated a core principle of academic integrity, as well as Harvard's own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that it's not enough to change a few words here and there.
00:22:44.000Rather, scholars are expected to cite the sources of their work, including when paraphrasing, and to use quotation marks when quoting directly from others.
00:22:50.000In at least 10 instances, Gay lifted full sentences or even entire paragraphs with just a word or two tweaked.
00:22:57.000This is definitely plagiarism, said Lee Jessome, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, who reviewed 10 side-by-side comparisons provided by the Washington Free Beacon, including paragraphs from Gay's dissertation.
00:23:07.000They actually gave her a prize for that dissertation for quote-unquote exceptional merit.
00:23:11.000He says the longer passages are the most egregious.
00:23:14.000Hey, but again, none of that would have broken except for the fact that Claudine Gay went in front of Congress and made clear that she doesn't care about anti-Semitism.
00:23:22.000That it all depends on quote-unquote, the context.
00:23:24.000Now, again, Harvard University has one of the most restrictive speech codes in America.
00:23:29.000They will come after you for fat phobia at Harvard University, but if you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, while waving around a Hamas flag, everybody will apparently look the other way.
00:23:39.000All of this despite the fact that the National Association of Scholars yesterday called on Harvard to remove Claudine Gay as president of the university.
00:23:45.000They noted Gay's shoddy professional work, record of plagiarism, and promotion of racist policies.
00:23:59.000One of the things that was amazing about watching these university presidents testify in front of Congress is even if they had said something like, listen, We can't do anything about speech that we don't like, but we really don't like the speech.
00:24:11.000Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, and we hate all of this, but we're trying to draw a balance.
00:24:16.000If they'd even said that, that would have been one thing, but they didn't.
00:24:19.000And here's the thing, they say that kind of stuff all the time.
00:24:21.000So, for example, in April of 2021, Claudine Gay signed a letter to the Harvard community accusing America of racism and decrying the shooting death of Adam Toledo, who flashed a gun at the police.
00:24:33.000We as a community must stand against racism.
00:24:35.000We must commit ourselves to the unfinished work of building a just society.
00:24:38.000One in which everyone's rights and safety are protected and everyone's dignity is honored.
00:24:43.000In a system in which police have vast discretion to stop people on suspicion of minor offenses, so many people in this country of color live with an ever present sense of vulnerability.
00:24:52.000Again, when she's talking apparently about American racism, then that's one thing.
00:24:59.000When it comes to accusations of antisemitism on her own campus, then it's all by the wayside.
00:25:04.000Now Harvard tried to rely on academic freedom as the basis for why she should basically get off the hook scot-free.
00:25:10.000There was a petition that emerged on Sunday From various members of the professoriate, urging the university to quote, resist political pressures that are at odds with Harvard's commitments to academic freedom.
00:25:28.000I'm just telling you, there are no Republicans on staff.
00:25:31.000In the law school, when I was there, I think the number of registered Republicans on staff at Harvard Law School, which had well over a hundred professors, it was like three.
00:26:04.000The reason that she was allowed to get away with this sort of shoddy work for years on end is because she had the shield of intersectionality.
00:26:13.000If you are an intersectional person, meaning a racially diverse person, Who ranks high in the victimhood coalition.
00:26:20.000Then you can get away with just about anything on a college campus.
00:27:07.000And the university's initial statement should have been an immediate, direct, and unequivocal condemnation.
00:27:11.000Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values.
00:27:14.000President Gay has apologized for how she handles her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the university's fight against anti-Semitism.
00:27:21.000So they just rejected everything that she's done since October 7th, and then they're like, but she apologized.
00:27:26.000Because the edifice of DEI must be upheld.
00:27:29.000As we discussed at length yesterday, the entire reason for being of major American university liberal arts programs used to defend the idea that America is fundamentally unjust, that the American meritocracy is fundamentally unjust.
00:27:41.000This is why you need diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:27:43.000It's why you give people extra points on their application based on their race.
00:27:49.000It's because the basic idea is that if you succeed in American society, unless you are a member of an intersectionally oppressed group, if you succeed, it's because the system itself is broken and exploitative.
00:27:58.000And so we have to rejigger the system by providing benefits, like say the presidency of Harvard University, to people who are not qualified for that position.
00:28:06.000With regard to President Gay's academic writings, the university became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles.
00:28:11.000At President Gay's request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by Distinguished Political Science and conducted a review of her published work.
00:28:18.000On December 9th, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.
00:28:22.000While the analysis found no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.
00:28:32.000In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.
00:28:37.000At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom.
00:28:43.000And we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated.
00:28:49.000Harvard's mission is advancing knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse.
00:29:31.000All the foundational DEI principles that lead to antisemitism.
00:29:34.000Inevitably, because again, DEI is a conspiracy theory and it crosses streams with antisemitism.
00:29:40.000Again, if the entire DEI theory is predicated on an oppressor, oppressed narrative, in which people who are successful are the oppressors and people who are unsuccessful are the oppressed.
00:29:49.000Jews cannot fit into that narrative because they are both oppressed, generally speaking, in terms of the number of times, for example, that they are targeted by anti-Semitic hate crime in the United States, way higher than any other group.
00:29:59.000They're targeted for hate crimes generally much higher than other groups in the United States.
00:30:03.000They're targeted on campuses, but they are also disproportionately successful.
00:30:06.000And this means they don't fit into that matrix.
00:30:32.000And all of my fellow Harvard alum, if you're unhappy with the way that President Gay has handled this, perhaps you should look to the fact that the entire university is reflective of a system of values that made Claudine Gay the president.
00:30:45.000That is the reason she is the president.
00:30:47.000They are backing her because they support her ideology.
00:30:50.000And she is the president because she supports their ideology.
00:30:54.000And if they had fired her, it would have changed nothing.
00:30:55.000Because again, DEI is honeycombed all the way through these administrations.
00:31:01.000The number of DEI bureaucrats on any given campus is huge.
00:31:05.000We may outweigh the actual number of faculty on many campuses.
00:31:09.000Billions of dollars every year are spent on DEI nonsense.
00:31:12.000That's the actual ideology being promulgated at these universities.
00:31:15.000And it is poisonous, and it bleeds up into things like the White House, where the White House now demands that equity be a part of every piece of policy that they make.
00:31:22.000Where the White House now has to deal with interns yelling at them over not supporting Hamas enough.
00:31:28.000Understand where all of this comes from.
00:31:29.000It comes from a cohesive ideology about an internal revolution that has to happen in the United States.
00:31:38.000If they allow her to fall, it is a rejection of the entire ideology upon which they predicate the university system.
00:31:44.000If they oust the black lady for not sufficiently fighting antisemitism, that defeats the entire hierarchy of victimhood.
00:31:52.000Because that hierarchy of victimhood has to suggest that disproportionately unsuccessful groups in the United States are disproportionately victims, and disproportionately successful groups are disproportionately oppressors.
00:32:43.000Okay, now listen to that chant there for a second, because it actually means something, and this is the same ideology promulgated on America's college campuses.
00:32:49.000N-Y-P-D-K-K-K, I-D-F, you're all the same.
00:32:54.000But, putting aside the lack of lyrical interpretation, That says it all.
00:33:00.000Understand that the people who hate Israel on college campuses, at the left, that hates Israel, they hate America for the exact same reasons.
00:33:07.000There is not a single rationale they use for the hatred of Israel that does not apply in greater detail to America.
00:33:13.000When they say, for example, that Israel is a colonialist oppressor, when they say that it's a foreign imposition on native soil, what do you think they think about America?
00:34:25.000Yes, they're in the white power structure.
00:34:27.000That's the way all of this nonsense works.
00:34:29.000It's extraordinarily dangerous, and it's the reason why, even if they had fired a clouding day at Harvard, everyone, pull your money from these universities.
00:34:37.000Stop giving money to universities with billion-dollar endowments so they can educate your kids in anti-American garbage.
00:34:45.000We'll get to the latest from Israel and Ukraine.
00:34:48.000So Joe Biden is now attempting to make the case that if you want border security, somehow you're in favor of Vladimir Putin or something first.
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00:37:35.000Zelensky's visit comes at a critical moment in congressional negotiations for emergency aid to Ukraine.
00:37:40.000All of this is coming amid the fact that Ukraine, their offensive has basically stalled out.
00:37:44.000According to the New York Times, American and Ukrainian military leaders are searching for a new strategy that they can begin executing early next year to revive Kiev's fortunes and flagging support for the country's war against Russia, according to U.S.
00:37:56.000The push for a fresh approach comes after Ukraine's months-long counteroffensive failed in its goal of retaking territory lost to the invading Russian army, and after weeks of often tense encounters between top American officials and their Ukrainian counterparts.
00:38:08.000President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Washington on Monday for those meetings with President Biden and Congress.
00:38:14.000Now again, Republicans are hesitant to send good money after bad at this point, or good money after good, depending on the situation.
00:38:21.000Right now, one of the problems that's facing the West is that a bunch of stockpiles have now been depleted.
00:38:25.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the British military has only around 150 deployable tanks, perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces.
00:38:31.000So bare was the cupboard last year, the British military considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine.
00:38:40.000And all of this is based on the odd Western fixation with the idea that the Cold War was won purely through moral suasion as opposed to, you know, a giant military buildup that the West participated in for 50 years.
00:38:50.000And so after the Cold War was over, basically all the Western countries cut their military spending pretty dramatically.
00:38:56.000In the United States, every Democrat cut the military dramatically.
00:38:58.000Every Republican tried to rebuild the military.
00:39:00.000Every Democrat then came back in and cut the military again.
00:39:03.000We've seen this over and over and over again.
00:39:05.000And then it turns out that when you need it, the cupboard is kind of bare.
00:39:08.000The Ukraine war is just exposing that.
00:39:10.000So it's not as though Ukraine is the reason that the cupboard is bare.
00:39:14.000Ukraine is just the reason that you know the cupboard is bare because before the cupboard was closed.
00:39:20.000France has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield.
00:39:25.000Denmark has no heavy artillery, some marines or air defense systems.
00:39:28.000Germany's army has enough ammo for two days of battle.
00:39:32.000In the decades since the end of the Cold War, weakened European armies were tolerated by governments across the West because of an engaged America, with its vast military muscle underpinning the NATO and defense policy in Europe.
00:39:42.000accounted for nearly 70% of NATO's defense spending last year.
00:39:55.000Anthony King, professor of war studies at University of Warwick says, Europe has systematically demilitarized itself because it didn't need to spend the money.
00:40:02.000Meanwhile, the United States is, of course, ponying up the bulk of support to Ukraine.
00:40:07.000Everybody should realize that the world is a very dangerous place and they should start building up those stockpiles pretty much immediately.
00:40:13.000Antony Blinken, for his part, he's playing... I don't understand what game the Democrats are playing here.
00:40:20.000All they have to do is sign on to some strengthened border provisions and they won't do it.
00:40:24.000Instead, they seem to be involved in this idea that they'll let Ukraine wither on the vine and maybe make them subject to another Push from Russia into Ukrainian territory, so long as it means blaming the Republicans for it.
00:40:38.000First of all, it's bad political calculus.
00:40:40.000If Biden thinks that losing the war in Ukraine is going to not redound to him, that it will redound to the Republicans, good luck with that argument.
00:40:47.000The Americans are going to attribute foreign policy failures to the president, especially a president who is already engaged in the single worst act of foreign policy to an election of my lifetime, the botched pullout from Afghanistan.
00:41:00.000So I don't know what game they think they're playing.
00:41:01.000Here's Tony Blinken yesterday saying that he's worried Ukraine aid will run out.
00:41:12.000We need to see this supplemental budget request go through as quickly as possible.
00:41:17.000Ukraine has done an extraordinary job in defending against this Russian aggression.
00:41:22.000Over the past year, it's taken back more than 50 percent of its territory.
00:41:26.000It's engaged in a ferocious battle right now along the eastern and southern fronts.
00:41:31.000We are running out of resources already in the bank to continue to assist them, and we need them.
00:41:38.000I would point out as well that about 90% of the security assistance that we provided to Ukraine actually is invested right here in the United States.
00:42:03.000If Republicans keep insisting on Donald Trump's border policies, then they will be at fault When a deal for Ukraine, Israel, and humanitarian aid to Gaza all fall apart, Republicans would be giving Vladimir Putin the best gift he could ask for.
00:42:22.000Democrats are serious about reaching reasonable bipartisan compromise to pass this package.
00:42:28.000The question is if Republicans are now willing to do the same.
00:42:34.000Well, I mean, the real question is, why won't you compromise on the border?
00:42:37.000Even Democrats on the border are like, why won't you guys compromise on the border?
00:42:39.000According to CBS News, a remote desert region along the southern border has become a makeshift international arrivals area for thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, hoping to work and reunite with family members in the United States.
00:42:51.000Over the past few days, large groups of migrant men, women, and some families with children have spent the night in a makeshift staging ground in this rugged section of the U.S.-Mexico border, waiting for overtaxed border officials to process them.
00:43:01.000Many expect to be released into the U.S.
00:43:03.000after being vetted by local border patrol agents who lack the resources and manpower to screen everyone in a timely manner.
00:43:10.000Migrants are setting up fires at night and in the early morning hours to keep warm amid dropping temperatures.
00:43:13.000Many brought blankets to sleep next to the border wall.
00:43:17.000Without toilets, they relieve themselves near the cacti that adorn the picturesque landscape of this national monument located two hours away from the closest U.S.
00:43:25.000The wait to be processed was so long in recent days that Mexican families and merchants travel regularly to the staging grounds to sell drinks and food, hoping to convince desperate newcomers to buy their burritos, tamales, and cups of coffee from the other side of the border wall.
00:43:37.000And yet the Biden administration does nothing.
00:43:41.000They're saying that if anything is done on the border, that they will basically sink it.
00:43:45.000Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, he's like, guys, you're not going to get your Ukraine funding unless you do something about the border.
00:43:50.000The border is chaotic, and he's obviously correct.
00:43:53.000We've got to be able to have a change in policy on this.
00:43:56.000Right now, the push and pull is really a political push and pull rather than anything else.
00:44:00.000If I talked to just about anyone in the country outside of Washington, D.C., they would say the border is chaotic right now.
00:44:07.000We had the highest number of crossings of any September ever last September, the highest October ever, the highest November ever, and we had the highest single day just this last week.
00:44:16.000It is literally spiraling out of control.
00:44:25.000But apparently the Biden administration would rather leave the border open and let Ukraine fall to Russia rather than just giving Republicans what they want on the border.
00:44:36.000I mean, forget about the policy stupidity of it, which is unbelievably stupid on both counts.
00:44:41.000It is political malpractice to believe that Republicans are going to be the ones who suffer at the ballot box if the border remains open and Ukraine falls to Russia.
00:44:48.000Of course Biden is going to be the one who suffers.
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00:46:00.000And meanwhile, contrary to public opinion, and I mean like public opinion in the media, because public opinion is very pro-Israel, the media seem to believe that the best move for Joe Biden on Israel, politically speaking, would be to side with Hamas.
00:46:30.000According to a brand new Wall Street Journal poll it finds that 55% of those polled Say, they believe Israel is taking the military action needed to defend itself and prevent another attack by Hamas.
00:46:39.000Only 25% of respondents say Israel's military action is disproportionate and going too far.
00:46:44.00042% of voters say they sympathize more with Israelis compared with just 12% who said the same of Palestinians.
00:46:52.000Joe Biden's marks for his response to the war remain at 37%.
00:47:15.000But the media have been attempting to push this idea that if Joe Biden suddenly flipped on the Israel versus Hamas war, suddenly his numbers would uptick.
00:47:23.000If security is restored in the Middle East and it is not a headline by the time we hit election season, that's going to redound to Biden's benefit.
00:47:30.000He's going to look like somebody who allowed Israel to destroy Hamas and re-establish deterrence in the region.
00:47:36.000That's going to be the actual outcome.
00:47:37.000But if he allows Israel to be victimized again by Hamas or by Hezbollah up in the north, which, by the way, is going to be the next step, Israel cannot... It's got 30,000 citizens, Israel, in the north of its country who are not living in their homes right now.
00:47:48.000Israel cannot allow those people to go back to their homes until Hezbollah is pushed off the border.
00:47:51.000There's now a large-scale push by Israel, and by the way, France, other members of the international community, to push Hezbollah, an active terrorist group, out of southern Lebanon, about 30 miles up toward Beirut.
00:48:02.000The Lebanese government, some members of the Lebanese government, which is dominated by Hezbollah, even they are saying, uh, maybe Hezbollah should pull back or the IDF might be marching through Beirut in the next couple of months.
00:48:13.000But again, one of the things that is amazing is the, is the breakdown, the partisan breakdown here.
00:48:18.000So do you sympathize more with the Israeli or Palestinians?
00:48:27.000How you sympathize more with the group of people who have elected Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and who by polling data support October 7th by leaps and bounds over, you know, the democratic country?
00:48:38.000That has human rights involved with it?
00:49:16.000Weirdly enough, maybe it's because Biden is out of it, but he actually is not too online.
00:49:21.000When he allows his team to be too online, it's very bad for him. He's actually not been too
00:49:24.000online on this particular issue. So yesterday at the holiday party, he suggested openly that he
00:49:28.000was a Zionist, which there are a lot. It turns out, I know that Zionist is code for Jew, for a
00:49:33.000lot of people who hate Jews. Turns out that a lot of people are Zionist or not Jewish. Namely, anyone
00:49:37.000who believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state is a Zionist. That would include Joe
00:49:42.000Biden. That's the warmth and kinship I feel so deeply with the Jewish community. I got in trouble,
00:49:49.000got criticized very badly by the Southern part of my state and some of the Southern parts of the
00:49:53.000country when 35 years ago I said, you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist and I'm a Zionist.
00:50:05.000You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
00:50:09.000Okay, he is correct about all of that.
00:50:10.000Now what's amazing is, again, the amount of propaganda that's being put forth by the legacy media about this conflict is truly astonishing.
00:50:19.000So, for example, the Jordanian foreign minister, a person named Ayman al-Safidi, yesterday he gave a speech in which he suggested that Israel was creating hatred around the region.
00:50:36.000Also, I gotta say, being lectured, the West being lectured about treatment of Israel by the Jordanians is astonishing, especially with regard to treatment of the Palestinians.
00:50:44.000Just to retrace Jordanian history, Jordan is a creation of the British Mandate.
00:50:49.000They have no relationship with the people they govern, the Kingdom of Jordan.
00:50:54.000Not only that, not only are they also a colonial, a colonial outpost of Israel is, The Jordanian kingdom had sovereignty over the entirety of Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, and they never once considered the possibility of creating a separate Palestinian state.
00:51:26.000Because they understand that the Palestinian population in these areas is incredibly radicalized and hates them as much as it hates the Jews.
00:51:33.000But meanwhile, you got the Jordanian government sitting aside lecturing everybody.
00:51:37.000It's just like the hypocrisy in the Middle East is truly an amazing thing.
00:51:42.000Israel has created an amount of hatred that will haunt this region, that will define generations to come, and therefore it's hurting its own people as much as it is hurting everybody else in the region.
00:53:34.000Their latest attempt is they have a piece in the Washington Post by a person named Atef Abu Saif, the author of six novels and the Minister of Culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
00:53:44.000He has a piece today titled, quote, My Gaza house felt like a castle.
00:53:48.000The house where I grew up, where I was born, was destroyed a little over a week ago.
00:53:51.000No one was inside at the time the Israeli missiles hit, flattening it into a perfect pile of rubble.
00:53:55.000In losing my family home, I've lost a little part of me.
00:53:57.000Well, maybe the reason that nobody was in the home is because Israel warned everyone to get out before they hit it.
00:54:02.000And maybe the reason Israel hit it, and it was standing five minutes ago, is because Israel was hit with the worst terror attack since the Holocaust.
00:54:09.000But this entire piece is about the sadness of the family home being lost.
00:54:13.000Now, at no point does anyone Note that this Atef Abu Saif character, who again, is the Minister of Culture for the Palestinian Authority, which is hilarious that the Palestinian Authority has a Minister of Culture.
00:54:25.000Because when you think of a governmental entity that promotes culture, do you think of the Palestinian Authority?
00:54:34.000I'm just going to point out in 2014, Saif said, quote, Israel surpassed Hitler's massacres by calling Israel Nazi, sadist and fascist for its military response to rocketing from Gaza.