The Ben Shapiro Show - December 12, 2023


Trump Is WAY Ahead

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Trump is gaining ground in Iowa, Biden is not, and the economy continues to grind along, and Warren Buffett is buying shares in Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, which could spell trouble for the Biden campaign in 2020. Today's episode is a special bonus episode from the Wall Street Journal/WSJ Poll, which was taken over the weekend. It's a must-listen if you want to know what's going on in the world of politics, economics, and economics in general, and why you should be worried about the future of the economy and jobs. It's not going to get any better than this, and it's not likely to get much worse than this. The real problem is that we're in a recession, and we're not getting any closer to getting out of it than we are now, and that's bad news for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. If the election were held today, Donald Trump would likely win in a landslide, and Joe Biden would become the next president of the United States. In fact, there's a reason that Warren Buffett thinks Joe Biden is going to lose the 2020 election, and a reason why he thinks it's going to be a good year for his stock market flop, not a bad year. Why Biden's stock might die in 2020, and what it could do to his chances of being re-elected in 2020 and beyond. Subscribe to our new podcast, The Weekly Standard, where we break down everything you need to know about what s going on with the economy, the stock market, and financial markets, and everything else going on right now. Subscribe to get the latest news and everything you could possibly need to get a head start on your best chance of a good 2020 election day. Learn more about your chance to win a better 2020 election year! Subscribe today using the promo code: CRUISING2020. CRUID=CRUISEDIALS and get 20% off your first month of the year! CRUEDICTION DAY! CRUCIALS! Subscribe and save $10,000 in the offer ends on November 15th, 2020! FREE PRICING! Use promo code CRUICY2020! to receive $50 and get 10% off the entire year-long VIP membership offer when you sign up for VIP access to our VIP membership trial, and receive 5% off of $50 or more in the VIP box!

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00:00:00.000 So, according to the legacy media, disaster is about to befall America.
00:00:03.000 Donald Trump is now the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.
00:00:08.000 The latest Des Moines Register NBC News poll shows Trump at 51% in Iowa, up 8% since October.
00:00:15.000 He is gaining momentum.
00:00:17.000 Ron DeSantis is in second place at 19%.
00:00:18.000 Nikki Haley at 16%.
00:00:22.000 According to analyst Steve Kornacki, who's really good on this sort of stuff, there is an enthusiasm gap in favor of Trump.
00:00:28.000 70% of Trump supporters say their minds are already made up in favor of Trump.
00:00:32.000 He's currently at 72% favorability with Iowa caucus goers.
00:00:36.000 And here's the thing.
00:00:37.000 In the general election, Trump is also up.
00:00:40.000 And he's not up by a small margin.
00:00:42.000 He is up significantly.
00:00:44.000 Donald Trump, if the election were held today, would become President of the United States again.
00:00:49.000 According to a Wall Street Journal poll over the weekend, Trump leads Biden 47% to 43% in the national polls.
00:00:55.000 If third party and independent candidates enter that mix, that lead actually jumps to six points, 37% to 31%.
00:01:02.000 What's more, according to the latest CNN poll, Trump leads Joe Biden by 10 points in Michigan.
00:01:08.000 He leads by 5 in Georgia.
00:01:09.000 According to the latest Minneapolis Post poll, Trump is down only 3 points to Biden in Minnesota.
00:01:15.000 In other words, Trump would likely win in a landslide were the election held today.
00:01:19.000 He would win Wisconsin.
00:01:19.000 He would win Georgia.
00:01:21.000 He would win Pennsylvania.
00:01:22.000 He would win Michigan.
00:01:23.000 There are two reasons for this.
00:01:25.000 First, Joe Biden is terribly, terribly unpopular.
00:01:28.000 That 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.
00:01:40.000 That's a terrible stat for him.
00:01:42.000 Those 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.
00:01:50.000 Biden's job performance is at 37% approval and 61% disapproval.
00:01:56.000 Only 3 in 10 voters.
00:01:57.000 Like, quote-unquote, Bidenomics.
00:01:59.000 Literally the only issues where Joe Biden leads Trump are on abortion.
00:02:03.000 And there, he only leads 44% to 33%, not a huge lead.
00:02:04.000 And tone in politics, 37% to 31%, which means everyone hates both of their tone.
00:02:12.000 That condition is unlikely to alleviate for Joe Biden before the election.
00:02:15.000 It is, according to the Wall Street Journal, quote, less affordable than any time in recent history to buy a home.
00:02:20.000 The math isn't changing anytime soon.
00:02:22.000 How bad is it?
00:02:23.000 According 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.
00:02:31.000 Today, that same buyer would need to find a home valued at $295,000 or less.
00:02:37.000 In 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.
00:02:46.000 That is a 90% increase in average new home payments since Joe Biden took office.
00:02:52.000 What's more, Biden's supposed soft landing.
00:02:55.000 You know, this thing where we bring down inflation, the economy continues to sail along.
00:02:58.000 It doesn't look particularly likely to happen, despite the happy talk from the media.
00:03:01.000 November job growth was weak, which was expected.
00:03:04.000 It's what the Fed was actually looking for when they raised those interest rates in order to tamp down inflation.
00:03:09.000 But here's the thing.
00:03:10.000 That job growth was only even in weak territory because of three sectors.
00:03:14.000 Healthcare, leisure and hospitality, because we're going into the vacation days, and government employment.
00:03:20.000 In fact, those three sectors, plus private education employment, are responsible for 81% of all jobs created in 2023.
00:03:28.000 That means that just those three sectors, plus private education employment, that's like all the jobs created in 2023.
00:03:34.000 So when people say they are feeling it's a weak economy, they are right.
00:03:37.000 Business starts are weak.
00:03:39.000 Gross 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.
00:03:49.000 In the first two quarters of the year, business spending dropped 9%.
00:03:53.000 There's a reason that Warren Buffett is pulling his winnings off the table.
00:03:55.000 Berkshire Hathaway sold $28.7 billion in stock in the first three quarters of this year.
00:04:01.000 Buffett has a very simple strategy.
00:04:03.000 Sell when he thinks the prices are too high.
00:04:05.000 He thinks stock prices right now are inflated and too high because they are.
00:04:10.000 Now Biden's team keeps trying to whistle their way past the graveyard on his candidacy.
00:04:14.000 The literal graveyard.
00:04:15.000 Like he might die.
00:04:16.000 According 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.
00:04:29.000 Instead, 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.
00:04:38.000 His 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.
00:04:45.000 Again, that's a really easy job at a holiday party.
00:04:47.000 I've been to White House holiday parties.
00:04:48.000 Let me tell you, it's not a hard job.
00:04:51.000 But 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. 0.83
00:04:59.000 That holiday speech is super easy.
00:05:01.000 So unenthusiastic Democrats are now being forced to defend this ailing octogenarian.
00:05:05.000 Here is, for example, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
00:05:09.000 I'll take Joe Biden at a hundred over any of these guys of whatever age they're at, because he's delivering.
00:05:15.000 Well, 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.
00:05:25.000 Which leaves, in the background, dun, dun, dun!
00:05:30.000 Kamala Harris.
00:05:31.000 Yes!
00:05:32.000 That horror music that you hear, that's the Undertaker's music!
00:05:35.000 Kamala Harris, the worst candidate in American history. 0.79
00:05:38.000 Last night, she and Doug Emhoff, she's finding new ways to screw up this job, it's truly amazing.
00:05:42.000 Last night, she and Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, issued yet another hilarious Hanukkah missive.
00:05:48.000 It's really funny.
00:05:49.000 Every single year, Doug Emhoff, being the Jew, you know, he's the person they tried out to be the Jew at Hanukkah time. 0.83
00:05:56.000 Every year, he puts out some sort of missive about Hanukkah along with Kamala Harris that makes no sense.
00:06:01.000 We'll get to the one that he put out this year because it truly is a classic of the genre.
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00:07:11.000 Okay, so back to Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.
00:07:12.000 Every single year, they put out a Hanukkah message that makes no sense.
00:07:15.000 Last 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.
00:07:23.000 The actual story of Hanukkah is about religious Jews throwing Hellenists, Greek Hellenists, out of the temple and reconsecrating the nation to the biblical God. 0.93
00:07:30.000 It's a very fundamentalist holiday.
00:07:31.000 But last night, they really topped themselves.
00:07:34.000 They confirmed they know nothing about Hanukkah with this insane post.
00:07:37.000 So 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.
00:07:45.000 In the Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding.
00:07:47.000 No one thought they would survive or that the few drops of oil they had would last.
00:07:51.000 But they survived and the oil kept burning.
00:07:53.000 During those eight days in hiding, they recited their prayers and continued their traditions.
00:07:57.000 That's why Hanukkah means dedication.
00:07:59.000 It was during those dark nights that the Maccabees dedicated themselves to maintaining hope and faith in the oil, each other, and their Judaism.
00:08:04.000 In these dark times, I think of that story.
00:08:08.000 That is not even remotely the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:10.000 I mean, that's not even like halfway to the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:13.000 It's not in the same Venn diagram that Kamala Harris loves as the story of Hanukkah.
00:08:18.000 I mean, if you're going to talk about the oil story, that is the rededication of the temple.
00:08:21.000 They find a canister of oil.
00:08:23.000 They have to relight the Hanukkah menorah. 0.73
00:08:24.000 It's actually, the menorah actually only has, in the temple, it has fewer branches.
00:08:29.000 They relight the menorah.
00:08:30.000 It lasts for eight days as opposed to lasting for one day.
00:08:33.000 But that was about the rededication of the temple.
00:08:35.000 It wasn't them, like, in hiding in a cave somewhere.
00:08:38.000 Wait, what?
00:08:38.000 What the hell?
00:08:39.000 What in the- What? 0.98
00:08:40.000 In the- In the- What?
00:08:42.000 These are the people who back up Joe Biden.
00:08:44.000 Kamala Harris is his backup.
00:08:46.000 She's even less popular than he is.
00:08:48.000 So that's reason number one.
00:08:49.000 Why Joe Biden is losing to Donald Trump is because he's terrible and his backup is terrible.
00:08:53.000 But here's the thing.
00:08:53.000 The election isn't held today.
00:08:55.000 And this brings us to the second reason that Trump is leading Joe Biden in the polls right now.
00:09:00.000 He is not in the news.
00:09:01.000 That's also the reason that Trump is up in Iowa, head and shoulders above the rest of the candidates.
00:09:05.000 Because he is not in the news, he is beating Biden.
00:09:08.000 Ironically, he's actually using Biden's own 2020 strategy against Joe Biden.
00:09:12.000 It's Donald Trump who's in the basement.
00:09:13.000 He's not running around campaigning.
00:09:15.000 He's literally either in court or back at Mar-a-Lago on Truth Social.
00:09:19.000 And that means everyone's focused on Biden.
00:09:20.000 And that means he's ahead in the polls.
00:09:22.000 And 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. 0.78
00:09:30.000 Because Trump is not in the news, everyone has been able to look away from Trump's crazy, which has always been his Achilles heel.
00:09:36.000 Ironically, one of the best things ever to happen to Donald Trump politically was his social media ban because it made him nearly invisible online.
00:09:44.000 The 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.
00:09:52.000 Well, that means that we're not treated to a small media wildfire every time he tweets.
00:09:56.000 Because he's on Truth Social, where he has like 7 people watching him.
00:09:59.000 As opposed to, you know, on Twitter, where he has 70 million people watching him.
00:10:03.000 Mostly, for Donald Trump, Truth Social now acts as a sort of venting mechanism, and everyone pretty much ignores it.
00:10:09.000 And by the way, that is the best thing for Donald Trump overall.
00:10:13.000 So, here is the question.
00:10:14.000 Will things stay this way?
00:10:16.000 Maybe they will.
00:10:17.000 Not because Trump doesn't love being at the center of attention.
00:10:19.000 There's literally no one who loves being the center of attention more than Donald Trump.
00:10:23.000 Donald Trump is Kanye West versus Taylor Swift at the Grammys.
00:10:28.000 I'm gonna let you finish losing this election, but first!
00:10:31.000 But here's the thing.
00:10:32.000 There's literally nothing he can do to change anyone's opinion of Donald Trump.
00:10:35.000 Everyone has an opinion of Donald Trump.
00:10:37.000 And they already know what they think about Donald Trump.
00:10:38.000 What exactly could happen if he gets convicted?
00:10:40.000 Did anyone's opinion about him change?
00:10:42.000 But here's the other thing.
00:10:43.000 Elections are about enthusiasm.
00:10:45.000 This is what Democrats are counting on.
00:10:46.000 Trump could theoretically reinvigorate enthusiasm against him if he busts through walls like a big orange Kool-Aid man.
00:10:53.000 Oh yeah!
00:10:55.000 Trump is already giving hints that he might want to do this.
00:10:58.000 So during his recent interview with Sean Hannity, for example, Sean asked him if he would be a dictator.
00:11:02.000 It was a setup.
00:11:02.000 It was a softball question, because the entire left has been saying he's going to be a tyrannical dictator.
00:11:07.000 And Sean was asking him, are you going to do that? 0.98
00:11:10.000 And instead of just giving the obvious answer, which would have been ridiculous, ridiculous, they all want Donald Trump to say yes. 0.81
00:11:16.000 I'm not a dictator. 0.83
00:11:17.000 I was president already.
00:11:19.000 They call me a dictator.
00:11:20.000 Not a dictator.
00:11:21.000 Real dictator.
00:11:21.000 Joe Biden.
00:11:23.000 Very easy answer.
00:11:23.000 Instead, Donald Trump, because he is a performer and a comedian, he played to the crowd.
00:11:28.000 And then he trolled the media by saying he wouldn't be a dictator except on day one.
00:11:32.000 And what he meant is that like Obama and like Biden, he would use a pen and a phone.
00:11:37.000 And he said that he would be a dictator on day one by closing the border, for example, using the pen and the phone.
00:11:42.000 It was a joke, but it also gave his enemies oxygen, which is why yesterday Trump had to actually explain that it was a joke.
00:11:48.000 He 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.
00:12:12.000 Now, Trump is right about all of that.
00:12:14.000 But Trump also has a nasty habit of just pouring gasoline on fires.
00:12:20.000 So Trump's enemies do have one playbook.
00:12:22.000 He will be a dictator, right?
00:12:23.000 Trump doesn't have to play into that.
00:12:25.000 He might, but that is their playbook.
00:12:27.000 This is what all the brilliant minds in the Democratic Party and the media have come up with.
00:12:31.000 Small mustache!
00:12:31.000 Trump Hitler!
00:12:32.000 Funny hair!
00:12:33.000 Orange man Mussolini!
00:12:34.000 Here was Matthew Dowd yesterday on MSNBC doing this routine.
00:12:38.000 Donald Trump wins all the key states because he lost nationally by four or five points in 2020 and barely lost the key states.
00:12:47.000 And so that's what I think the Biden campaign needs to understand in the course of this.
00:12:51.000 At some point, the Biden campaign.
00:12:54.000 Has 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.
00:13:04.000 It's democracy versus dictatorship, and it's your freedoms versus your loss of freedoms in the course of this, including economic freedom in this.
00:13:14.000 Okay, so that is the magic they've come up with, is that Donald Trump is going to take away all of your freedoms.
00:13:18.000 Now, that's probably not going to work because he was president already, but this is going to be their playbook.
00:13:22.000 Here was NYU professor Ruth Benjiat, who's a scholar on fascism, comparing Trump to Benito Mussolini and Pinochet.
00:13:31.000 But we know from, I know from my studies of authoritarianism, successful leaders always have to have powerful partners.
00:13:41.000 And 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. 1.00
00:13:54.000 In 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. 0.65
00:14:08.000 This is an old playbook.
00:14:11.000 Well, actually, a really old playbook is claiming that your political opponent is going to be an evil dictator.
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00:15:29.000 OK, so again, the narrative for Democrats is going to be Donald Trump cannot be president because if he is, he will be a fascist. 0.78
00:15:34.000 Mitt Romney is jumping on that bandwagon.
00:15:36.000 He has taken zero break from posturing on behalf of his own legacy.
00:15:40.000 By 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.
00:15:51.000 So 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.
00:15:59.000 We 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.
00:16:08.000 He went on to question the results, tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
00:16:14.000 Why don't you take him exactly at his word?
00:16:16.000 Oh, 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.
00:16:28.000 I mean, when he called people to come to Washington, D.C.
00:16:31.000 on January 6th, that was not a random date.
00:16:34.000 That was the date when peaceful transfer of power was to occur.
00:16:38.000 He called that on purpose.
00:16:39.000 I mean, there's no question he has authoritarian rulings and interests and notions which he will try and impose.
00:16:47.000 Okay, so again, that Trump fascist argument is not particularly likely to work.
00:16:51.000 But there is one argument that theoretically could work.
00:16:53.000 Nikki Haley is articulating that argument.
00:16:55.000 That argument is that Trump is unelectable because people perceive him as a chaos agent.
00:16:59.000 Not that he's unelectable because he's a fascist or something like that, but because he's just too chaotic, we don't want him.
00:17:04.000 Here is Nikki Haley articulating that argument.
00:17:07.000 Chris Christie said he's unfit.
00:17:09.000 I want to just put that directly to you in a yes or no.
00:17:11.000 Do you think Donald Trump today in 2023 is fit to be president?
00:17:16.000 It's not about fitness.
00:17:17.000 I think he's fit to be president.
00:17:19.000 It's should he be president.
00:17:21.000 I don't think he should be president.
00:17:22.000 You know, I thought he was the right president at the right time.
00:17:25.000 I agreed with a lot of his policies.
00:17:28.000 The problem is, you see, our country is in disarray.
00:17:31.000 Our world is on fire.
00:17:33.000 And you can't defeat Democrat chaos with Republican chaos.
00:17:37.000 And Donald Trump brings us chaos.
00:17:39.000 So it's not about being fit, it's just I don't think he's the right person to be president.
00:17:44.000 Well, that argument that Trump is a chaos agent only works under two conditions.
00:17:47.000 One is very likely to be fulfilled.
00:17:49.000 The feeling that Trump is, in fact, chaotic.
00:17:51.000 Certainly, that's what the Democrats and the Biden DOJ are doing. 0.97
00:17:54.000 This is why they're indicting Trump over and over and over again on every crime from jaywalking to classified documents, mishandling to murder.
00:18:01.000 There's a reason that Jack Smith, that January 6th prosecutor, wants his case accelerated.
00:18:05.000 So 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.
00:18:12.000 Trump 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.
00:18:25.000 It's been appealed to the D.C.
00:18:26.000 Circuit, and now Smith is going direct to the Supreme Court because he wants an answer.
00:18:29.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Smith wants the court to take up the case before that lower appeals court even considers it.
00:18:35.000 allowing the justices to squarely weigh in on when, if at all, Trump's trial should move forward.
00:18:39.000 The 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.
00:18:49.000 Smith is asking the justices to cut out the lower appeals court and rule directly on the matter.
00:18:53.000 His team wrote, quote, to further the imperative public interest in a timely trial, the government
00:18:57.000 seeks a full and final resolution of the defendant's claims that he is absolutely immune from federal
00:19:01.000 prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal
00:19:06.000 prosecution where he was impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings began
00:19:10.000 before the March 4th 2024 trial date. That's according to Smith's team and the Supreme Court
00:19:14.000 is likely to do that. Smith's team wants Trump on trial and they want him on trial right now.
00:19:19.000 They 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.
00:19:27.000 But 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.
00:19:35.000 And by the way, it's very likely he will be convicted sometime in the midst of this election cycle.
00:19:39.000 It's also likely That that will not make Biden's case that Trump is a chaos agent.
00:19:43.000 In order for that to work, Biden has to appear solid and non-chaotic, and that is not happening.
00:19:49.000 Which brings us back to the polls.
00:19:50.000 In every election, as I've said over and over and over again, every election is a referendum on one of the two candidates.
00:19:55.000 The referendum right now is on Biden.
00:19:57.000 Barring 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.
00:20:08.000 It might just be 2024 reality.
00:20:10.000 And that is why the media and Democrats are panicking.
00:20:12.000 They really, really should be.
00:20:14.000 Alrighty, 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. 1.00
00:20:25.000 She's going to survive all of that because she's a black lady. 1.00
00:20:26.000 I mean, let's be real about this.
00:20:28.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:21:36.000 Meanwhile, over at Harvard, so Cloudingay looks as though she is about to survive a challenge to her leadership. 0.91
00:21:43.000 Apparently, the Harvard board has now announced that they unanimously stand in support of Cloudingay. 0.72
00:21:47.000 This 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.
00:21:57.000 According 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.
00:22:08.000 In 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.
00:22:23.000 Other 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.
00:22:30.000 The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism.
00:22:35.000 Most 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.
00:22:44.000 Rather, scholars are expected to cite the sources of their work, including when paraphrasing, and to use quotation marks when quoting directly from others.
00:22:50.000 In at least 10 instances, Gay lifted full sentences or even entire paragraphs with just a word or two tweaked.
00:22:57.000 This 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.
00:23:07.000 They actually gave her a prize for that dissertation for quote-unquote exceptional merit.
00:23:11.000 He says the longer passages are the most egregious.
00:23:14.000 Hey, 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. 1.00
00:23:22.000 That it all depends on quote-unquote, the context.
00:23:24.000 Now, again, Harvard University has one of the most restrictive speech codes in America.
00:23:29.000 They 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.
00:23:39.000 All of this despite the fact that the National Association of Scholars yesterday called on Harvard to remove Claudine Gay as president of the university.
00:23:45.000 They noted Gay's shoddy professional work, record of plagiarism, and promotion of racist policies.
00:23:50.000 That was as of yesterday.
00:23:53.000 And again, when it comes to Claudine Gay's own upset over anti-Semitism, it's just absent.
00:23:58.000 It's not there.
00:23:59.000 One 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.
00:24:10.000 It's ugly and it's wrong.
00:24:11.000 Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, and we hate all of this, but we're trying to draw a balance. 0.84
00:24:16.000 If they'd even said that, that would have been one thing, but they didn't.
00:24:19.000 And here's the thing, they say that kind of stuff all the time.
00:24:21.000 So, 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.
00:24:33.000 We as a community must stand against racism.
00:24:35.000 We must commit ourselves to the unfinished work of building a just society.
00:24:38.000 One in which everyone's rights and safety are protected and everyone's dignity is honored.
00:24:43.000 In 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.
00:24:52.000 Again, when she's talking apparently about American racism, then that's one thing.
00:24:58.000 She's very passionate about that.
00:24:59.000 When it comes to accusations of antisemitism on her own campus, then it's all by the wayside.
00:25:04.000 Now Harvard tried to rely on academic freedom as the basis for why she should basically get off the hook scot-free. 1.00
00:25:10.000 There 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.
00:25:21.000 But let's be real about this.
00:25:22.000 They don't care about academic freedom at Harvard.
00:25:23.000 There's like two registered Republicans on the entire staff at Harvard University.
00:25:27.000 I mean, I went to Harvard Law.
00:25:28.000 I'm just telling you, there are no Republicans on staff.
00:25:31.000 In 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.
00:25:39.000 I could name them.
00:25:40.000 And the fact is that Harvard is not a place of academic freedom.
00:25:43.000 It never has been a place of academic freedom in any serious measure.
00:25:46.000 But they're relying on all of that in order to protect anti-Semites.
00:25:51.000 So now, naturally, the Harvard board stands in support of Cloudy, and they have to.
00:25:55.000 They have to.
00:25:56.000 She's a black lady, and she was selected for this position specifically based on her diverse bona fides, meaning that she is a black lady. 0.99
00:26:03.000 And let's be real about this.
00:26:04.000 The 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.
00:26:13.000 If you are an intersectional person, meaning a racially diverse person, Who ranks high in the victimhood coalition. 0.80
00:26:20.000 Then you can get away with just about anything on a college campus.
00:26:24.000 That's the way this works.
00:26:25.000 If Cloudian Gay were a white lady and she'd been hit with these charges of plagiarism, as a student, she would have been out. 0.99
00:26:31.000 She's being hit with these charges of plagiarism, let alone what she's doing as the actual president.
00:26:36.000 But now, apparently, they're going to defend the quality of her work.
00:26:39.000 That's the way this works.
00:26:40.000 So Harvard University's board has now put out a statement, quote, What were their extensive deliberations?
00:26:43.000 They met last night.
00:26:44.000 As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay's
00:26:47.000 continued leadership of Harvard University.
00:26:49.000 Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to 0.91
00:26:53.000 help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.
00:26:56.000 What were their extensive deliberations?
00:26:57.000 They met last night.
00:26:58.000 Those were their extensive deliberations.
00:27:02.000 So many people have suffered tremendous damage and pain because of Hamas's brutal terrorist 0.95
00:27:05.000 attack.
00:27:07.000 And the university's initial statement should have been an immediate, direct, and unequivocal condemnation.
00:27:11.000 Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values.
00:27:14.000 President Gay has apologized for how she handles her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the university's fight against anti-Semitism.
00:27:21.000 So they just rejected everything that she's done since October 7th, and then they're like, but she apologized.
00:27:21.000 That's so amazing.
00:27:26.000 Why?
00:27:26.000 Because the edifice of DEI must be upheld.
00:27:29.000 As 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.
00:27:41.000 This is why you need diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:27:43.000 It's why you give people extra points on their application based on their race.
00:27:48.000 That is why you do those things.
00:27:49.000 It'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.
00:27:58.000 And 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.
00:28:06.000 With regard to President Gay's academic writings, the university became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles.
00:28:11.000 At President Gay's request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by Distinguished Political Science and conducted a review of her published work.
00:28:18.000 On December 9th, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.
00:28:22.000 While 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.
00:28:32.000 In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.
00:28:37.000 At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom.
00:28:41.000 Sure, sure you do.
00:28:43.000 And we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated.
00:28:49.000 Harvard's mission is advancing knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse.
00:28:54.000 And that's the key word.
00:28:56.000 Help address deep societal issues.
00:28:58.000 You have to keep her in place because America is bad.
00:29:01.000 American meritocracy is bad.
00:29:03.000 And because those things are bad, she's unqualified and she's probably a plagiarist. 0.92
00:29:06.000 Doesn't matter.
00:29:07.000 We're going to keep her in place to rectify those grave injustices of the past.
00:29:12.000 That is the reason that Harvard's sticking with her.
00:29:13.000 Now, I'll be honest with you.
00:29:14.000 I'm fine with them sticking with her.
00:29:16.000 The reason I'm fine with them sticking with her is because I think that when these universities fire their president, that's a fig leaf. 0.63
00:29:21.000 I think when McGill went at University of Pennsylvania, I think that's a fig leaf.
00:29:24.000 I think now the idea is going to be they go back to the donors and they say, oh, look what we did.
00:29:29.000 They keep the entire system in place.
00:29:29.000 We got rid of it.
00:29:31.000 All the foundational DEI principles that lead to antisemitism. 0.94
00:29:34.000 Inevitably, because again, DEI is a conspiracy theory and it crosses streams with antisemitism.
00:29:40.000 Again, 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.
00:29:49.000 Jews 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.
00:29:59.000 They're targeted for hate crimes generally much higher than other groups in the United States.
00:30:03.000 They're targeted on campuses, but they are also disproportionately successful.
00:30:06.000 And this means they don't fit into that matrix.
00:30:08.000 They keep breaking the matrix.
00:30:09.000 If you keep breaking the matrix, it turns out that people are going to have to shove you back in the box.
00:30:13.000 So they cannot get rid of the anti-Semitism without also getting rid of DEI. 0.92
00:30:19.000 And getting rid of these presidents is a fig leaf.
00:30:20.000 It's a way for them to say, oh, we fixed the problem.
00:30:23.000 Please bring back your hundred million dollar donation.
00:30:25.000 No one should be fooled.
00:30:26.000 So I'm actually kind of pleased that Harvard is just saying the quiet part out loud.
00:30:29.000 Fine.
00:30:29.000 Keep her there.
00:30:30.000 And Harvard donors.
00:30:32.000 And 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.
00:30:45.000 That is the reason she is the president. 0.99
00:30:47.000 They are backing her because they support her ideology.
00:30:50.000 And she is the president because she supports their ideology. 0.92
00:30:52.000 It is all of a piece.
00:30:54.000 And if they had fired her, it would have changed nothing.
00:30:55.000 Because again, DEI is honeycombed all the way through these administrations.
00:31:01.000 The number of DEI bureaucrats on any given campus is huge.
00:31:05.000 We may outweigh the actual number of faculty on many campuses.
00:31:09.000 Billions of dollars every year are spent on DEI nonsense.
00:31:12.000 That's the actual ideology being promulgated at these universities.
00:31:15.000 And 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.
00:31:22.000 Where the White House now has to deal with interns yelling at them over not supporting Hamas enough.
00:31:28.000 Understand where all of this comes from.
00:31:29.000 It comes from a cohesive ideology about an internal revolution that has to happen in the United States.
00:31:35.000 It's why Claudine Gay is protected. 0.78
00:31:37.000 They cannot allow her to fall.
00:31:38.000 If they allow her to fall, it is a rejection of the entire ideology upon which they predicate the university system.
00:31:44.000 If they oust the black lady for not sufficiently fighting antisemitism, that defeats the entire hierarchy of victimhood. 0.95
00:31:52.000 Because 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.
00:32:03.000 So you can't do it.
00:32:04.000 There's no way. 0.71
00:32:05.000 You can get rid of Liz McGill because Liz McGill's a white lady. 1.00
00:32:07.000 You can't get rid of Clouding Gay. 1.00
00:32:08.000 There's no way to do it without, again, defeating the entire purpose of your ideology.
00:32:14.000 And that intersectional coalition, it's shockingly strong and bizarrely constituted.
00:32:19.000 So yesterday, the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down once again, this time by Queers for Palestine. 1.00
00:32:26.000 And here is some footage of this.
00:32:28.000 NYPD KKK, IDF, you're all the same. 0.82
00:32:38.000 Manhattan Bridge, look at me.
00:32:40.000 All the same.
00:32:43.000 Okay, 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.
00:32:49.000 N-Y-P-D-K-K-K, I-D-F, you're all the same. 1.00
00:32:53.000 First of all, it doesn't rhyme.
00:32:54.000 But, putting aside the lack of lyrical interpretation, That says it all.
00:33:00.000 Understand that the people who hate Israel on college campuses, at the left, that hates Israel, they hate America for the exact same reasons.
00:33:07.000 There is not a single rationale they use for the hatred of Israel that does not apply in greater detail to America.
00:33:13.000 When 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?
00:33:22.000 Which again, was colonized.
00:33:23.000 It was a European colonial mission.
00:33:26.000 What do they think about America?
00:33:27.000 When they say that the IDF is brutal and terrible.
00:33:29.000 And then they're saying that it's like the KKK.
00:33:31.000 And then they're saying it's like the NYPD.
00:33:33.000 They're saying all of it right to you.
00:33:35.000 They don't hate Israel.
00:33:37.000 They don't hate America because they hate Israel.
00:33:39.000 They hate Israel because they hate America.
00:33:41.000 And they hate America because they hate the West.
00:33:43.000 And they want the entire Western system overturned.
00:33:45.000 That is what you are seeing on college campuses.
00:33:48.000 And that's why you see queers for Palestine. 1.00
00:33:49.000 Again, it makes no sense on any logical level.
00:33:51.000 It's like penguins for polar bears.
00:33:54.000 Queers for Palestine. 0.91
00:33:55.000 That's why we all laugh at them.
00:33:56.000 Chickens for KFC. 1.00
00:34:00.000 The minute that the Sharia law Muslims take over, they kill all of these people. 1.00
00:34:03.000 But that doesn't matter. 0.98
00:34:05.000 These people believe that the Sharia law Muslims won't take over in America.
00:34:08.000 They will take over in America. 0.98
00:34:09.000 And they will take over as part of this broader intersectional coalition dedicated to fighting the white power structure.
00:34:15.000 And anybody who's successful immediately gets put into the white power structure. 0.89
00:34:18.000 Now white.
00:34:18.000 Jews?
00:34:19.000 They're in the white power structure. 0.90
00:34:20.000 Now white.
00:34:20.000 Asians?
00:34:21.000 They're in the white power structure. 0.90
00:34:22.000 Nigerian-Americans? 0.69
00:34:23.000 Disproportionately successful. 0.70
00:34:25.000 Kind of white.
00:34:25.000 Yes, they're in the white power structure.
00:34:27.000 That's the way all of this nonsense works.
00:34:29.000 It'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. 0.97
00:34:37.000 Stop giving money to universities with billion-dollar endowments so they can educate your kids in anti-American garbage.
00:34:44.000 In just one second. 0.95
00:34:45.000 We'll get to the latest from Israel and Ukraine.
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00:37:05.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration is playing a very weird game right now.
00:37:09.000 They could get all the Ukraine aid that they are seeking.
00:37:11.000 All they would have to do is, you know, solidify the border, and they won't do it.
00:37:14.000 It's absolutely insane.
00:37:16.000 So right now, the situation in Ukraine is, in fact, pretty dire.
00:37:20.000 Joe Biden is hosting Vladimir Zelensky at the White House again today.
00:37:24.000 Discussions on a Ukraine aid deal remain stalled in Congress, according to CNN.
00:37:28.000 The visit, which the White House announced Sunday, is Zelensky's third visit to Washington since the war in Ukraine began.
00:37:33.000 He last visited in September.
00:37:35.000 Zelensky's visit comes at a critical moment in congressional negotiations for emergency aid to Ukraine.
00:37:40.000 All of this is coming amid the fact that Ukraine, their offensive has basically stalled out. 0.79
00:37:44.000 According 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.
00:37:55.000 and Ukrainian officials.
00:37:56.000 The 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.
00:38:08.000 President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Washington on Monday for those meetings with President Biden and Congress.
00:38:14.000 Now again, Republicans are hesitant to send good money after bad at this point, or good money after good, depending on the situation.
00:38:21.000 Right now, one of the problems that's facing the West is that a bunch of stockpiles have now been depleted.
00:38:25.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the British military has only around 150 deployable tanks, perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces.
00:38:31.000 So bare was the cupboard last year, the British military considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine.
00:38:38.000 That's how bad the shortcoming is.
00:38:40.000 And 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.
00:38:50.000 And so after the Cold War was over, basically all the Western countries cut their military spending pretty dramatically.
00:38:56.000 In the United States, every Democrat cut the military dramatically.
00:38:58.000 Every Republican tried to rebuild the military.
00:39:00.000 Every Democrat then came back in and cut the military again.
00:39:03.000 We've seen this over and over and over again.
00:39:05.000 And then it turns out that when you need it, the cupboard is kind of bare.
00:39:08.000 The Ukraine war is just exposing that.
00:39:10.000 So it's not as though Ukraine is the reason that the cupboard is bare.
00:39:14.000 Ukraine is just the reason that you know the cupboard is bare because before the cupboard was closed. 0.98
00:39:17.000 Now the cupboard is open.
00:39:18.000 We're looking around.
00:39:19.000 There's not even a fork over there.
00:39:20.000 France has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield.
00:39:25.000 Denmark has no heavy artillery, some marines or air defense systems.
00:39:28.000 Germany's army has enough ammo for two days of battle.
00:39:32.000 In 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.
00:39:42.000 accounted for nearly 70% of NATO's defense spending last year.
00:39:42.000 The U.S.
00:39:46.000 But as America moves more isolationist, everyone is realizing that they completely defenestrated, de-armed themselves.
00:39:52.000 They defanged themselves.
00:39:55.000 Anthony King, professor of war studies at University of Warwick says, Europe has systematically demilitarized itself because it didn't need to spend the money.
00:40:02.000 Meanwhile, the United States is, of course, ponying up the bulk of support to Ukraine.
00:40:07.000 Everybody should realize that the world is a very dangerous place and they should start building up those stockpiles pretty much immediately.
00:40:13.000 Antony Blinken, for his part, he's playing... I don't understand what game the Democrats are playing here.
00:40:18.000 They want the aid for Ukraine.
00:40:19.000 They can get the aid for Ukraine.
00:40:20.000 All they have to do is sign on to some strengthened border provisions and they won't do it.
00:40:24.000 Instead, 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.
00:40:36.000 Which is really kind of insane.
00:40:38.000 First of all, it's bad political calculus.
00:40:40.000 If 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.
00:40:46.000 That is not going to work.
00:40:47.000 The 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.
00:41:00.000 So I don't know what game they think they're playing.
00:41:01.000 Here's Tony Blinken yesterday saying that he's worried Ukraine aid will run out.
00:41:05.000 Aid was held up to Ukraine.
00:41:07.000 How concerned are you about that with winter coming on?
00:41:11.000 Very concerned.
00:41:12.000 We need to see this supplemental budget request go through as quickly as possible.
00:41:17.000 Ukraine has done an extraordinary job in defending against this Russian aggression.
00:41:22.000 Over the past year, it's taken back more than 50 percent of its territory.
00:41:26.000 It's engaged in a ferocious battle right now along the eastern and southern fronts.
00:41:31.000 We are running out of resources already in the bank to continue to assist them, and we need them.
00:41:38.000 I 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.
00:41:47.000 I mean, I just have a question.
00:41:48.000 So then why don't you sign on to the border provisions? 1.00
00:41:50.000 Unless you're playing some sort of stupid game here, which Democrats are. 1.00
00:41:53.000 Here's Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, playing the stupid game yesterday. 1.00
00:41:57.000 The onus is on Republicans to show they're willing to moderate. 1.00
00:42:01.000 Let me say that again.
00:42:03.000 If 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.
00:42:22.000 Democrats are serious about reaching reasonable bipartisan compromise to pass this package.
00:42:28.000 The question is if Republicans are now willing to do the same.
00:42:34.000 Well, I mean, the real question is, why won't you compromise on the border?
00:42:37.000 Even Democrats on the border are like, why won't you guys compromise on the border?
00:42:39.000 According 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.
00:42:51.000 Over 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.
00:43:01.000 Many expect to be released into the U.S.
00:43:03.000 after being vetted by local border patrol agents who lack the resources and manpower to screen everyone in a timely manner.
00:43:10.000 Migrants are setting up fires at night and in the early morning hours to keep warm amid dropping temperatures.
00:43:13.000 Many brought blankets to sleep next to the border wall.
00:43:17.000 Without 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.
00:43:23.000 city.
00:43:25.000 The 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.
00:43:37.000 And yet the Biden administration does nothing.
00:43:41.000 They're saying that if anything is done on the border, that they will basically sink it.
00:43:45.000 Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, he's like, guys, you're not going to get your Ukraine funding unless you do something about the border.
00:43:50.000 The border is chaotic, and he's obviously correct. 0.53
00:43:53.000 We've got to be able to have a change in policy on this.
00:43:56.000 Right now, the push and pull is really a political push and pull rather than anything else.
00:44:00.000 If I talked to just about anyone in the country outside of Washington, D.C., they would say the border is chaotic right now.
00:44:07.000 We 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.
00:44:16.000 It is literally spiraling out of control.
00:44:21.000 He is right, of course.
00:44:21.000 And everyone knows this.
00:44:22.000 Democrats know this.
00:44:23.000 Republicans know this.
00:44:24.000 Everyone knows this.
00:44:25.000 But 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.
00:44:33.000 It's unbelievable.
00:44:35.000 It's such political malpractice. 1.00
00:44:36.000 I mean, forget about the policy stupidity of it, which is unbelievably stupid on both counts. 1.00
00:44:41.000 It 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. 1.00
00:44:48.000 Of course Biden is going to be the one who suffers.
00:44:50.000 This is insane. 1.00
00:44:50.000 It's ridiculous and stupid. 1.00
00:44:52.000 In just one second, we're going to get to Israel and the latest over there first. 1.00
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00:46:00.000 And 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.
00:46:10.000 I don't even see how that applies. 0.64
00:46:12.000 It's ridiculous to me.
00:46:13.000 Is the idea that he is suddenly going to uptick in Michigan by like 10 points if suddenly he sides with Hamas? 0.73
00:46:21.000 It's not going to happen.
00:46:22.000 He is down 10 points in Michigan.
00:46:24.000 Why?
00:46:24.000 Because he is deeply unpopular.
00:46:26.000 You know what actually is kind of popular in the United States as it turns out?
00:46:29.000 Israel.
00:46:30.000 According 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.
00:46:39.000 Only 25% of respondents say Israel's military action is disproportionate and going too far.
00:46:44.000 42% of voters say they sympathize more with Israelis compared with just 12% who said the same of Palestinians.
00:46:52.000 Joe Biden's marks for his response to the war remain at 37%.
00:46:55.000 Why?
00:46:56.000 Because his approval rating is at 37%.
00:46:58.000 You could literally say, do you approve of Joe Biden's policy on toilet paper?
00:47:03.000 Everyone's just gonna go, 37% yes.
00:47:07.000 It's as simple as that.
00:47:08.000 When you have a 37% approval rating, it is very difficult to exceed that rating on any particular issue.
00:47:13.000 Very, very difficult to do that.
00:47:15.000 But 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.
00:47:22.000 Actually, it's the opposite.
00:47:23.000 If 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.
00:47:30.000 He's going to look like somebody who allowed Israel to destroy Hamas and re-establish deterrence in the region. 0.89
00:47:36.000 That's going to be the actual outcome.
00:47:37.000 But 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.
00:47:48.000 Israel cannot allow those people to go back to their homes until Hezbollah is pushed off the border. 0.96
00:47:51.000 There'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.
00:48:02.000 The 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.
00:48:13.000 But again, one of the things that is amazing is the, is the breakdown, the partisan breakdown here.
00:48:18.000 So do you sympathize more with the Israeli or Palestinians?
00:48:21.000 Democrats, 17% Israeli, 24% Palestinian.
00:48:25.000 That's an amazing statistic.
00:48:27.000 How 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?
00:48:38.000 That has human rights involved with it?
00:48:40.000 That's an amazing thing.
00:48:41.000 48% say both sides equally, which is a way of saying I don't want to answer the question.
00:48:45.000 For Republicans, the answer is 69% Israel, 2% Palestinians, 17% both equally.
00:48:47.000 For independents, 35% say Israel, 11% say the Palestinians.
00:48:49.000 17% both equally. For independents, 35% say Israel, 11% say the Palestinians. Even among young people,
00:48:56.000 a plurality, 31% say they support Israel over 23% for the Palestinians. Undecided voters are the
00:49:04.000 are most likely to say that the US is.
00:49:05.000 is doing too much for the Israeli government and too little for Palestinians. 0.53
00:49:08.000 But again, this notion that somehow Joe Biden is going to win additional votes if he suddenly flips and sides with Hamas is ridiculous.
00:49:14.000 I think Biden knows that.
00:49:16.000 Weirdly enough, maybe it's because Biden is out of it, but he actually is not too online.
00:49:21.000 When he allows his team to be too online, it's very bad for him. He's actually not been too
00:49:24.000 online on this particular issue. So yesterday at the holiday party, he suggested openly that he
00:49:28.000 was a Zionist, which there are a lot. It turns out, I know that Zionist is code for Jew, for a 0.94
00:49:33.000 lot of people who hate Jews. Turns out that a lot of people are Zionist or not Jewish. Namely, anyone
00:49:37.000 who believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state is a Zionist. That would include Joe 0.94
00:49:42.000 Biden. That's the warmth and kinship I feel so deeply with the Jewish community. I got in trouble,
00:49:49.000 got criticized very badly by the Southern part of my state and some of the Southern parts of the
00:49:53.000 country when 35 years ago I said, you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist and I'm a Zionist.
00:50:05.000 You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
00:50:09.000 Okay, he is correct about all of that.
00:50:10.000 Now what's amazing is, again, the amount of propaganda that's being put forth by the legacy media about this conflict is truly astonishing.
00:50:17.000 And people are buying into it.
00:50:19.000 So, 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.
00:50:27.000 You're right, guys.
00:50:28.000 Until Israel went into Gaza, there was no hatred, which is why on October 7th, The most Jews were slaughtered since the Holocaust.
00:50:34.000 Other than that, nailed it.
00:50:36.000 Also, 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.
00:50:44.000 Just to retrace Jordanian history, Jordan is a creation of the British Mandate.
00:50:49.000 They have no relationship with the people they govern, the Kingdom of Jordan.
00:50:54.000 Not 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.
00:51:13.000 Weird that.
00:51:14.000 Why?
00:51:14.000 Because they knew that if they did that, it might topple their own dynasty.
00:51:18.000 They also have refused multiple times overtures from Israel to hand over control of some of these areas to the Jordanian government.
00:51:25.000 Why?
00:51:26.000 Because they understand that the Palestinian population in these areas is incredibly radicalized and hates them as much as it hates the Jews. 0.80
00:51:33.000 But meanwhile, you got the Jordanian government sitting aside lecturing everybody. 0.89
00:51:37.000 It's just like the hypocrisy in the Middle East is truly an amazing thing. 1.00
00:51:40.000 Here we go.
00:51:42.000 Israel 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. 0.97
00:51:53.000 This is a war that cannot be won.
00:51:55.000 This is a war that cannot be won?
00:51:57.000 It's going to be won.
00:51:58.000 By Israel. 0.75
00:51:59.000 And by the way, again, this idea that they're creating hatred?
00:52:01.000 Let me show you some tape of a Hamas leader in Gaza.
00:52:05.000 Here is a Hamas leader in Gaza explaining his agenda.
00:52:08.000 I will translate.
00:52:13.000 There are Jews everywhere. 1.00
00:52:14.000 We must attack every Jew on the face of the planet. 1.00
00:52:19.000 We must slaughter and kill them, God willing. 1.00
00:52:21.000 Enough of being angry. 1.00
00:52:23.000 We're fed up already.
00:52:24.000 We're ready to explode.
00:52:26.000 And you, the people of the West Bank, how long will you keep silent?
00:52:28.000 They're trying to initiate terrorism there.
00:52:29.000 We want to see knives.
00:52:31.000 They cost five shekels. 0.87
00:52:32.000 How much is a Jew's throat worth? 1.00
00:52:33.000 Five shekels, or even less, God willing. 0.98
00:52:37.000 All of our people are ready to blow up.
00:52:40.000 We've built a new factory for explosive belts.
00:52:43.000 The off-on switch is ready for the moment we enter prison.
00:52:47.000 Which, by the way, is why Israel is stripping them down. 0.90
00:52:50.000 Sorry, the fence area.
00:52:52.000 Our sisters are ready.
00:52:53.000 The off-on switch.
00:52:54.000 All our sisters are ready to carry an explosive belt. 1.00
00:52:58.000 We'll open up a gateway or two in every camp along the border.
00:53:02.000 And we'll continue to harass Israel until we reach you. 0.98
00:53:05.000 This is why lifting the siege is better for you, Israel. 0.99
00:53:07.000 Otherwise, you will be killed. 1.00
00:53:10.000 By Allah, you will be killed with our explosive belts. 0.99
00:53:13.000 We have built new factories for our explosive belts. 0.99
00:53:15.000 Operating factories.
00:53:15.000 We'll hand them out to everyone and send them on their way.
00:53:18.000 No water.
00:53:19.000 Explosive belts.
00:53:19.000 No to negotiations.
00:53:20.000 No to recognizing Israel. 0.90
00:53:21.000 We will never recognize Israel. 0.98
00:53:23.000 Man, it's... I wonder what the context is.
00:53:25.000 For the university presidents, there must be some context that makes this acceptable.
00:53:29.000 After all, the media again continued to do the work of Hamas.
00:53:32.000 This is their favorite thing to do.
00:53:34.000 Their 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.
00:53:44.000 He has a piece today titled, quote, My Gaza house felt like a castle.
00:53:47.000 Now it is rubble.
00:53:48.000 The house where I grew up, where I was born, was destroyed a little over a week ago.
00:53:51.000 No one was inside at the time the Israeli missiles hit, flattening it into a perfect pile of rubble.
00:53:55.000 In losing my family home, I've lost a little part of me.
00:53:57.000 Well, maybe the reason that nobody was in the home is because Israel warned everyone to get out before they hit it.
00:54:02.000 And 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. 0.68
00:54:09.000 But this entire piece is about the sadness of the family home being lost.
00:54:13.000 Now, 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.
00:54:25.000 Because when you think of a governmental entity that promotes culture, do you think of the Palestinian Authority?
00:54:34.000 I'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.
00:54:44.000 We are letting Israel off lightly. 0.95
00:54:46.000 That is what he said in 2014, comparing Israel to the Nazis, not today, in 2014.
00:54:51.000 These are the moderates being quoted by the Washington Post.
00:54:55.000 So, yeah, you wonder why Americans sympathize with Israel?
00:54:58.000 Maybe it's because those are the people on the other side of this particular issue.
00:55:03.000 Okay, in just one second, we are going to get to this controversial Texas abortion case. 0.90
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