The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump Jumps To Massive Poll Lead Over Biden

00:00:00.000 Well, the big argument against Donald Trump as the Republican nominee has historically been that he is unelectable.

00:00:04.000 That's been the argument against him because, obviously, he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.

00:00:09.000 He didn't win the popular vote against Hillary Clinton in 2016 and squeaked out a win against her in that election cycle.

00:00:14.000 And thus, going up against Joe Biden again, he is going to hit the same ceiling that he hit in 2016 and 2020, which was about 46% of the vote.

00:00:22.000 But if the polls start to show that Donald Trump actually does not have a ceiling at 46%, instead his ceiling is 50 or 51, The electability argument against Donald Trump goes completely away.

00:00:32.000 Well, now we have, for the first time, a poll showing Donald Trump breaking that glass ceiling.

00:00:37.000 According to the Washington Post, over the weekend, this poll shows Donald Trump over Joe Biden by 10 points.

00:00:44.000 That is an amazing poll.

00:00:45.000 In fact, it's such an amazing poll that the Washington Post has already labeled its own poll an outlier, saying that you can take a poll, this is true, you can take a poll, and sometimes the selection of the people who are in the poll is a little bit weird, and so you get an outlier poll.

00:00:57.000 But the problem is this, even if the poll is off by margin of error, five, six, seven points, that would demonstrate that Trump is still running dead even with Joe Biden, which again, undercuts the unelectability argument against Donald Trump.

00:01:09.000 According to the Washington Post, Biden and former president Trump appear headed for a rematch of their 2020 contest, although more than three in five Democrats and Democratic leading independents say they would prefer a nominee other than the president.

00:01:19.000 But Biden's advisors have argued he's still the strongest Democrat for 2024.

00:01:24.000 It seems to me that there is the possibility that all this bad polling for Biden is leading up to an attempt to defenestrate Biden, to get rid of him, to toss him out a window, to find somebody else who can replace him.

00:01:34.000 Presumably, that would not be one of the candidates we're currently talking about.

00:01:37.000 You could see a situation in which Michelle Obama parachutes in from the rafters in order to sweep up the nomination by a claim.

00:01:44.000 One thing is for certain, Joe Biden running this week against Donald Trump is horrible for the prospect of Joe Biden as the actual 2024 nominee.

00:01:51.000 According to the Post ABC poll, it shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points.

00:01:56.000 But then the Washington Post qualifies to say the sizable margin of Trump's lead in the survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat.

00:02:04.000 The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump and Biden's coalitions in this survey, suggests it is probably an outlier.

00:02:10.000 Again, this is the Washington Post undermining its own poll.

00:02:12.000 Now, I'm not going to do the poll unskewing.

00:02:14.000 What I will point out is that this is the second presidential poll in the last three that shows Donald Trump with an actual sizable lead against Joe Biden.

00:02:23.000 The last poll before this was an NBC News poll that showed them tied at 46%.

00:02:27.000 The poll before that was a poll from The Messenger-HarrisX, which showed Trump up 5%.

00:02:31.000 In fact, there is no poll with Joe Biden up more than 1% in the last month and a half.

00:02:39.000 Every poll has either Trump up 1% or Biden up 1% or they're tied.

00:02:43.000 The Messenger-HarrisX poll has Trump up 5%.

00:02:45.000 Now this would suggest there's still a sizable undivided, undecided population that is out there.

00:02:50.000 I'm just going to read you the latest polls in this particular matchup.

00:02:55.000 ABC News, Wash Post, Trump plus 10.

00:02:57.000 NBC News, tie.

00:02:58.000 The Messenger, Harris X, Trump plus 5.

00:03:00.000 Emerson, Yahoo News, Morning Consult, tie, tie, tie.

00:03:03.000 Harvard-Harris, Trump up one.

00:03:06.000 Rasmussen Reports, Trump up four.

00:03:08.000 Rasmussen Reports, Biden plus one.

00:03:10.000 Economist YouGov, Biden up one.

00:03:12.000 Fox News, Trump up two.

00:03:13.000 So in other words, it's either margin of error or Trump up.

00:03:16.000 That seems to be the polling trend.

00:03:18.000 And that is different than it was just a few months ago.

00:03:22.000 A few months ago, there was a suggestion that actually Biden had a pretty sizable lead.

00:03:27.000 If you go all the way back to July, Quinnipiac had Biden up five.

00:03:30.000 You had Yahoo News with Biden up four.

00:03:33.000 If you go back a little further than that, Yahoo News had Biden up 7.

00:03:36.000 But, bottom line is, this is a very competitive race.

00:03:38.000 And the reason this is a competitive race is because Joe Biden is a terrible president.

00:03:42.000 What you are seeing in this poll is horrific numbers for Joe Biden.

00:03:46.000 Joe Biden's job approval rating right now, according to this post-ABC News poll, is 37%.

00:03:49.000 56% disapprove.

00:03:50.000 That's an amazing number.

00:03:51.000 57% 56% disapprove.

00:03:56.000 That is that's an amazing 37% approval rating for the sitting president of the United States.

00:04:02.000 As far as the state of the nation's economy, 25% believe that it is excellent or good compared

00:04:06.000 to 74% who believe that it is not so good or poor.

00:04:09.000 35% believe that the unemployment rate is excellent or good compared to 57% who believe it is not so good or poor.

00:04:16.000 On food prices, 91% of people believe it is not so good or poor.

00:04:21.000 Biden has terrible ratings on the economy and immigration as well.

00:04:25.000 On the economy, 30% approval rating.

00:04:27.000 On immigration, 23% approval rating.

00:04:31.000 Now again, there's some aspects of this poll that are, I would say, very dubious in terms of will they hold up for a general election just because they would be unprecedented.

00:04:40.000 Now again, maybe they're real, but if they are not real, that would not be a shock either, because again, a lot of these numbers are quite shocking.

00:04:48.000 For example, this poll suggests that Donald Trump only loses minority voters by nine points.

00:04:54.000 Now to be fair, Biden won the non-white vote in 2020 by 45 points.

00:05:00.000 So you'd have to assume a 36 point change in minority votes between 2020 and 2024.

00:05:06.000 Three years ago, Biden won voters between 18 and 29 by 15 points.

00:05:12.000 In this poll, Trump wins those voters by 16 points.

00:05:14.000 That is a 31 point swing.

00:05:16.000 I mean, these are massive, huge, enormous swings.

00:05:20.000 That poll shows unbelievable swings toward Trump, as pointed out by Isaac Shore writing for Mediaite.

00:05:27.000 It shows unbelievable swings toward Trump among independents, plus 26.

00:05:30.000 Rural voters, plus 26.

00:05:31.000 Moderates, plus 22.

00:05:32.000 Urban voters, plus 14.

00:05:35.000 But here's the thing, even if this poll is a really bad outlier, the polling for Joe Biden right now is just terrible across the board.

00:05:40.000 It's terrible.

00:05:41.000 Remember, Donald Trump is one of the single most unpopular politicians in modern American history, and he's running dead even with a guy the media chose and have touted as the next coming of FDR.

00:05:51.000 That says something about how bad Joe Biden is as a president of the United States.

00:05:55.000 And Democrats are getting ready to hit the panic button.

00:05:58.000 Now, they can't say they're hitting the panic button.

00:06:00.000 This is the weird part.

00:06:01.000 The Democratic Party base does not want Joe Biden.

00:06:03.000 Three in five Democratic voters do not want Joe Biden.

00:06:06.000 But the Democratic elite understand that what comes next is an all-out war.

00:06:09.000 Which is why you have the useless Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, who, again, went on paternity leave for two months and nobody noticed.

00:06:16.000 Pete Buttigieg is now attempting to avoid the implications of the poll, which is that Joe Biden probably should step aside if he's competitive with Donald Trump.

00:06:24.000 The poll, the vast majority of American people are not happy with President Biden's leadership on a range of topics and issues.

00:06:33.000 So what do you say to the 44% of Americans who say they are worse off now than they were before Biden took office?

00:06:42.000 Look, we all know the economic pressure that Americans have felt when the president took office.

00:06:47.000 The economy was flat on its back.

00:06:50.000 But we're also getting extraordinary results.

00:06:52.000 More than 13 million jobs created.

00:06:54.000 That's more than any presidential term in American history.

00:06:57.000 And yes, it takes a while for people to feel the full benefits of those results.

00:07:02.000 Just like it's going to take a while to build all of the infrastructure that we're now underway on with the president's generational infrastructure bill.

00:07:10.000 But he got the bill done. 0.99

00:07:11.000 Keep happy talking that crap, dude. 1.00

00:07:13.000 It is not going to work. 1.00

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00:08:17.000 Well, one person is hitting the panic button on behalf of Joe Biden.

00:08:20.000 That, of course, is Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:08:22.000 So Hillary Clinton, according to the UK Daily Mail, actually warned Joe Biden in a private meeting

00:08:25.000 he needed to take the threat of a third-party challenger seriously

00:08:28.000 as he faces all-time high disapproval ratings and sits behind former President Donald Trump in some

00:08:33.000 surveys.

00:08:34.000 NBC News reported Monday that Clinton gave the president the warning while she was at the White House for a ceremony alongside First Lady Jill Biden earlier this month.

00:08:42.000 Clinton, of course, feels that she lost because Jill Stein was the spoiler. 0.94

00:08:46.000 Well now, Biden is facing not just Cornel West, or the no-labels candidate, but he's facing down Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's not going to go away and probably runs as a third-party candidate.

00:08:57.000 R.F.K.

00:08:57.000 Jr.

00:08:57.000 could easily win 7-8% of the vote, and that could mean the difference for Joe Biden, for sure.

00:09:02.000 And this is all because Joe Biden is terrible at the job.

00:09:06.000 You know, we've been assuming all along that 2024, if it's between Trump and Biden, it's going to be a referendum on one of the two.

00:09:11.000 And the safe assumption is that it was going to be a referendum on Trump because Trump obviously sucks up the headlines.

00:09:15.000 But maybe it's not.

00:09:17.000 Maybe it's not.

00:09:17.000 That's possible too.

00:09:18.000 In 2016, it was a referendum on Hillary Clinton because people hated Hillary just that much.

00:09:22.000 My assumption, I think the assumption of a lot of other people, is that the referendum in 2024 would be on Trump, not on Biden because Biden is dead.

00:09:28.000 Now again, I may still be right on that.

00:09:31.000 It may be that as the indictments come in, as the focus shifts back to Trump, as Trump becomes the formal nominee, that all the Democrats come home.

00:09:36.000 Right now, what these polls are showing is marked unenthusiasm for Joe Biden.

00:09:40.000 It may be that once Trump is the actual nominee, everybody snaps back into place and they say we have to stop Trump.

00:09:46.000 That, of course, is what Joe Biden is betting on.

00:09:48.000 What's amazing to me, though, is that the Democratic Party is willing to bet on Joe Biden in this race against Donald Trump.

00:09:55.000 And there are a bunch of other candidates who are sitting on the sidelines.

00:09:57.000 The problem is that that same Washington Post poll shows that there is no consensus backup to Joe Biden.

00:10:04.000 If Joe Biden steps out, you got Kamala Harris at like 8%, you got Pete Buttigieg at like 7%.

00:10:09.000 There's no one out there who consolidates the base.

00:10:11.000 This is why I suggest that the kind of wild, wild card theory is Michelle Obama.

00:10:17.000 Coming in from the wings riding a unicorn or something like that.

00:10:20.000 That is what Democrats probably are hoping for at this point.

00:10:23.000 But again, Joe Biden, he's a desperate candidate and he should be a desperate candidate because he's got problems.

00:10:30.000 This is why he's now pulling out all the stops at this point on things like the economy.

00:10:36.000 So Joe Biden is trying to shore up his union support.

00:10:38.000 He's going to go to the picket lines apparently in Wayne County, Michigan.

00:10:43.000 According to CNN, UAW Union President Sean Fain will join President Joe Biden on the picket line Tuesday in Wayne County, Michigan.

00:10:49.000 According to a source familiar with the situation, the source provided no specifics about the exact location.

00:10:53.000 The UAW, however, is not involved in former President Trump's planned visit on Wednesday, nor have they been in contact with his team.

00:10:58.000 So Trump apparently is going to skip that second presidential primary debate in California, which is supposed to happen on Wednesday.

00:11:05.000 And he's expected to also head to Michigan to address those union workers.

00:11:09.000 Now, this is something that the Trump team worked hard on in 2016.

00:11:13.000 They tried to make reach-outs to a lot of the Rust Belt workers, and that meant going and making overtures to many of the private sector unions.

00:11:20.000 Not public sector unions, but private sector unions like the UAW.

00:11:23.000 Now, to be completely fair to the automakers, what the UAW is asking for in these negotiations is totally wild.

00:11:29.000 I mean, asking for a 32-hour work week and defined benefit plans, which is what basically bankrupted the car companies in the first place, is a non-starter.

00:11:36.000 But in terms of the pure politics of the situation, Donald Trump, again, this is what makes Donald Trump a formidable candidate, is that Donald Trump is willing to take advantage of any opening, right?

00:11:45.000 It does not matter from which direction.

00:11:46.000 He will take you from the left, he will take you from the right.

00:11:49.000 Because he does not actually have a set of core principles, Donald Trump, this means that President Trump will come at the Joe Biden from the left.

00:11:57.000 He will try to edge him out of his union support with the UAW.

00:12:00.000 This now has forced Joe Biden to go to the picket lines in Michigan to try and shore up that UAW support.

00:12:06.000 That's what's happening right here.

00:12:08.000 According to CNN, negotiations between the striking UAW and Ford remain very active over the weekend and on Monday, but there's still some distance on key issues.

00:12:15.000 Meanwhile, the UAW says it's expanding its strike against GM and Stellantis, but said progress in negotiation with Ford means it won't expand the number of Ford workers on the picket lines.

00:12:24.000 Now, again, the fact that Biden is headed to the picket lines is pretty shocking for the sitting president of the United States to actively take sides in a labor dispute that he himself has effectively created through his electric vehicle mandates, which is what all these car companies are looking at and freaking out about because they make all the money off gas powered engines.

00:12:41.000 And now they're being told they need to go to significantly less economically efficient EVs.

00:12:47.000 I mean, these companies are selling 3% of their total gross is EVs right now.

00:12:50.000 They're being told they need to shift completely over to EVs in the next few years.

00:12:53.000 And meanwhile, they've got the UAW that's pressuring them for a bigger share of the profits, which they're going to need in order to make that EV shift.

00:13:00.000 They're stuck between a rock and a hard place created by Joe Biden.

00:13:03.000 And now Joe Biden is taking sides with the UAW.

00:13:07.000 The man is really a bad president. 0.92

00:13:09.000 He's a truly terrible president.

00:13:11.000 And the fact that he left the door open to Donald Trump to swoop in and try and grab some UAW support is pretty amazing.

00:13:17.000 Now, what's even more amazing is how Joe Biden's economic policies have exacerbated already present serious problems in the American economy.

00:13:25.000 The inflationary policy of Joe Biden has already exacerbated a labor shortage that has been generated by the demographic collapse of the West in general.

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00:14:38.000 The Joe Biden economic policy is creating serious problems that are already exacerbated by a demographic problem that undergirds the entire West's economic stagnation and has for the last several years.

00:14:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.

00:14:52.000 economy has been running improbably with an unemployment rate under 4% for nearly two years.

00:14:56.000 This isn't just a holdover from pandemic bottlenecks when employers let millions of people go and then struggle to find workers to come back.

00:15:02.000 It's a storm that has been brewing for decades, flaring up most recently in the form of worker strikes at automakers and airlines.

00:15:07.000 Labor shortages are turning into a long-term labor crisis that could push wages and turnover higher.

00:15:11.000 It turns out that when you inflate the currency in the middle of a situation demographically, we're running out of young workers?

00:15:17.000 Well, you know what that's going to do?

00:15:18.000 It's going to create labor shortages. 0.99

00:15:20.000 Work experts have warned for years the combination of baby boomer retirements, low birth rates, shifting immigration policies, and changing worker preferences is leaving U.S.

00:15:27.000 employers with too few workers to fill job openings.

00:15:29.000 While the labor market is softening, none of those factors are expected to change dramatically in the coming years.

00:15:34.000 Total employment is going to grow about 0.3% a year until 2032, according to the Labor Department.

00:15:38.000 That is much slower than the 1.2% rate over the past decade.

00:15:42.000 That is largely because of population constraints, and that's going to lead to slower growth in GDP.

00:15:47.000 So productivity is probably going to drop because, again, you don't have enough young workers who are coming into the workforce because baby boomers didn't have enough babies. 0.99

00:15:54.000 The U.S.

00:15:54.000 birth rate has been falling for decades, declining by about half since the 1960s.

00:15:58.000 So, when you inflate the currency in the middle of a worker shortage, what you end up with is wage spirals, which means price spirals, which means wage spirals, which means economic stagnation. 0.70

00:16:09.000 All of this has been exacerbated by, again, the garbage policies of the Biden administration. 0.62

00:16:13.000 Everybody knows it. 0.98

00:16:14.000 Everybody can feel the stagnation.

00:16:16.000 As I've been saying for a while, I don't think that inflation is actually the long-term threat to the American economy.

00:16:20.000 Stagnation is the long-term threat to the American economy.

00:16:23.000 This, by the way, is one of the reasons you would imagine why Joe Biden is actually very Laissez-faire about our borders.

00:16:29.000 Because when you realize America has a demographic problem, that we don't have enough young workers, and when you realize that the solution to that demographic problem would be to, for example, raise the retirement age, that the solution to that demographic problem would be to stop inflating the currency, that the actual solution to all these demographic problems is to increase productivity by allowing the innovative people in the United States to actually innovate and make money off of it, as opposed to regulating them out of existence on behalf of government redistributionism, When you realize that you wouldn't have to have an open border, but if you are going to keep all those bad policies in place, you need a fresh supply of workers.

00:17:01.000 Where are you going to get that fresh supply of workers? 1.00

00:17:02.000 Well, Joe Biden and company, they know where, and the answer is south of the border, which presumably is why the Customs and Border Patrol has told Fox News that there were approximately 11,000 migrant encounters at the southwestern border in the last 24 hours, marking the single highest day in recent memory.

00:17:20.000 They're now pictures emerging from the southern border of small children crawling through barbed wire to get into the United States.

00:17:27.000 I don't see Alexander Ocasio-Cortez down at the border protesting the border policies.

00:17:31.000 Meanwhile, Jay Johnson, the former Homeland Security Secretary, no right winger, he's out there saying the numbers are going to get higher and higher.

00:17:38.000 The administration got a break in May.

00:17:40.000 Everyone was expecting large numbers after the end of Title 42, but they emphasized there was a right way and a wrong way to come to this country, have Venezuelans apply in a proper way, use the app, go to regional processing centers, and the migrants and the smugglers have now figured out that those things do not are not able to handle these numbers. And so they're

00:18:07.000 working around this system again.

00:18:09.000 And so I'm worried that these numbers are going to get higher and higher.

00:18:13.000 March, April tend to be the peak months. If we're seeing these kinds of numbers in September,

00:18:18.000 October, I think we're in for a real mess. There's a reason why Joe Biden's

00:18:23.000 approval rating on the border is in the 20s.

00:18:25.000 In the 20s.

00:18:26.000 Which means a huge number of Democrats don't like how he's acting about the border either.

00:18:29.000 And the media, Praetorian Guard, are not going to be able to protect him on this.

00:18:32.000 Jim Acosta had on a Republican congressperson talking about the border.

00:18:36.000 And this is Ralph Norman, Republican.

00:18:38.000 And here is Jim Acosta trying to somehow defend Joe Biden's open border policies.

00:18:46.000 And whether you agree with it or not, they're doing it for power.

00:18:48.000 Why are they giving Social Security numbers?

00:18:51.000 What do you mean by that?

00:18:52.000 What is this saying?

00:18:53.000 They're intentionally doing what?

00:18:55.000 Where's your evidence of this?

00:18:56.000 Where's your proof of this?

00:18:59.000 It just sounds like you're throwing rhetoric around with no basis in fact.

00:19:07.000 Have you been to the border?

00:19:08.000 Of course I have.

00:19:11.000 Have you seen what's going on?

00:19:12.000 The rapes?

00:19:14.000 It's open.

00:19:14.000 I mean, nobody can deny that.

00:19:16.000 It's a crisis.

00:19:19.000 Where?

00:19:20.000 I'll ask the question, sir.

00:19:21.000 And the border is not open.

00:19:22.000 That is something that is peddled as a talking point, but it's not true.

00:19:27.000 There are fences, there are walls.

00:19:30.000 There are border patrol agents who work on the border.

00:19:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, we're having tens of thousands of encounters, like, pretty much every week.

00:19:38.000 And when he says the border is not open, he doesn't mean there's no one actually patrolling the border.

00:19:42.000 He means that even people at ports of entry are being given numbers and then released into the interior of the United States as fast as humanly possible.

00:19:48.000 Why?

00:19:49.000 Well, when Ralph Norman says it's for power, that's kind of true.

00:19:52.000 It is also because, again, the economic policies of the Democratic Party require cheap labor.

00:19:56.000 That cheap labor has to come from somewhere because it isn't going to come from American labor because they keep driving up the inflation.

00:20:01.000 They keep driving up the wage price.

00:20:04.000 And then they fill in the gap in terms of the labor shortage with, wait for it, illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:20:09.000 By the way, this is how the entire state of California runs.

00:20:11.000 If you've ever spent any time in California, what you know is that it's very rich people hiring illegal immigrants to raise their children. 1.00

00:20:17.000 That is half of Los Angeles do their cleaning.

00:20:19.000 That literally is what is happening.

00:20:21.000 We were one of the few people when we were in LA who insisted on actually hiring people who had legal status in the United States.

00:20:27.000 But Hollywood is entirely peopled by extraordinarily wealthy people who hire illegal immigrant nannies to watch their kids. 0.98

00:20:35.000 Because that is the model society that the left is seeking to create.

00:20:38.000 It's not redistributionist in the slightest.

00:20:39.000 In the end, what it actually is, is finding a new labor base to support their way of life.

00:20:45.000 To support the declining population of the United States, the idea is that you bring in cheap labor, and that's the deal.

00:20:51.000 You leave the border open, and that's how you support your policies.

00:20:54.000 So it's not that they're bringing all these people because they want them to vote.

00:20:57.000 Eventually, they hope that they will vote, but they've not been amnestied yet. 0.71

00:20:59.000 It's that in order to support their crap economic policies, they have to have a cheap labor base here in the United States. 0.82

00:21:04.000 The easiest way to do that is to import cheap labor. 0.97

00:21:07.000 That's it.

00:21:07.000 And people know it, which is why, presumably, Joe Biden's economic policies and his immigration policies are wildly unpopular.

00:21:14.000 In just a second, we're gonna get to the question of, if Joe Biden is so unpopular, why isn't Donald Trump beating him in all the polls?

00:21:19.000 You know, we have this one outlier poll that shows Trump up 10.

00:21:22.000 He really should be beating him by a lot in like all the polls because Joe Biden is super unpopular.

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00:22:29.000 Okay, meanwhile, the question for Donald Trump is going to be, how do you keep the focus on Biden?

00:22:33.000 That really should be the question.

00:22:34.000 This is what I've been asking for a while.

00:22:36.000 The two big questions for Trump are, you say the last election was stolen.

00:22:39.000 So what exact measures are you going to take to prevent that from happening again?

00:22:43.000 That's question number one.

00:22:44.000 And yelling on Truth Social ain't gonna do it.

00:22:46.000 And question number two is, how do you keep the focus on Biden?

00:22:49.000 Because Donald Trump likes the focus to be on Donald Trump.

00:22:51.000 Biden likes the focus to be on Donald Trump.

00:22:53.000 Right now, all the focus is on Biden because, frankly, it's been a few weeks since an indictment came down for Trump.

00:22:57.000 Let's be real about this.

00:22:58.000 Every time Trump is in the news, and the indictment is in the news, he tends to drop in the polls.

00:23:03.000 And then every time the indictment is not in the news, people focus in on Joe Biden.

00:23:07.000 So, in an election cycle in which he's going to be in court no less than four times on criminal charges, how does he keep the focus on Biden?

00:23:14.000 This is the big doubt for Trump going forward, because again, he doesn't have a strong opponent, he has an incredibly weak opponent.

00:23:20.000 In Joe Biden?

00:23:21.000 Well, the answer to that question is going to be that he's going to have to get off Truth Social.

00:23:25.000 I mean, that is one of the answers.

00:23:27.000 I remember I visited the White House sometime in, I think it was early 2018, and I was being shown around the White House by a top official there.

00:23:35.000 And this top official called me into his office and he said, how do you think we're doing?

00:23:38.000 And I said, here's my honest answer.

00:23:40.000 I think that on executive policy, you guys get an A minus.

00:23:42.000 On legislative policy, because you haven't passed very much stuff, and what you have passed is big budget ticket items, C plus.

00:23:48.000 And on rhetoric, F.

00:23:49.000 And he said, what should I do?

00:23:50.000 I said, you should go into the president's office right now. 0.99

00:23:52.000 You should grab his cell phone and smash it with a bleeping hammer. 0.99

00:23:54.000 That's what you should actually do. 0.99

00:23:55.000 And he laughed because everybody knows this is true. 0.64

00:23:57.000 Donald Trump policy without the crazy is still president of the United States.

00:24:02.000 And Donald Trump policy without the crazy could be president of the United States

00:24:06.000 again, because if you just look at how the country was running when Donald Trump

00:24:10.000 was president versus how it is now running or not running under Joe Biden, that is a

00:24:13.000 pretty clear and convincing case for reelecting Donald Trump.

00:24:16.000 Again, Donald Trump's best election play is look at how things were 2017 to 2019.

00:24:23.000 Then we got hit with a pandemic.

00:24:25.000 But even with the pandemic, the economy was already skyrocketing out of the pandemic by the time I left office.

00:24:29.000 That is his best case.

00:24:29.000 His best case is things ran great until he got hit by an extraneous event.

00:24:35.000 And Joe Biden hasn't had any of those.

00:24:37.000 Joe Biden has had the benefit of basically global peace except for Ukraine, which we'll get to in a second.

00:24:42.000 He's had the benefit of a vaccine plan and rollout that I created.

00:24:46.000 He had the benefit of a recovering economy.

00:24:48.000 He had the benefit of all these things and somehow he's run the economy directly into the ground and made us less safe globally.

00:24:54.000 So vote for 2017 to 2019.

00:24:56.000 That would be Donald Trump's case.

00:24:59.000 That's a pretty good case.

00:25:02.000 The problem for Trump, again, is going to be himself.

00:25:05.000 The only person who can really defeat Trump is Trump, not Biden.

00:25:07.000 It was true in 2020, it's true in 2024 as well.

00:25:11.000 So, the left is going to try to find reasons to focus on Trump.

00:25:14.000 Now, I will say that there is one other benefit that Trump has here, and it's the same benefit he's had since 2016.

00:25:19.000 I said that in 2016, there was no way for Hillary Clinton to sully Donald Trump's skirt because he was made of mud. 1.00

00:25:27.000 So, one of the things about politics is that what you try to do is you try to make your opponent look worse.

00:25:32.000 Well, the problem is that That works if you're Hillary Clinton and you're trying to portray yourself as clean as the driven snow, and Donald Trump is throwing mud at you.

00:25:39.000 It's all gonna stick and it's gonna show up really, really strongly against the all-white background that you've painted for yourself. 0.83

00:25:45.000 But Donald Trump never had an all-white background. 1.00

00:25:47.000 Donald Trump is a mud monster. 1.00

00:25:48.000 He's made of mud. 1.00

00:25:49.000 And so when you hit him with mud, it's just more mud on the mud monster, and he's just thicker.

00:25:52.000 He's just more mud. 0.61

00:25:53.000 And so it's possible that all this stuff is baked into the cake.

00:25:56.000 It's also possible that it's not.

00:25:57.000 And that as much as Republicans are not bothered by Donald Trump's outsized rhetoric, then moderate independent voters, they may well be.

00:26:05.000 So over the weekend, Donald Trump went on Truth Social and he posted this quote.

00:26:08.000 They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-sided and vicious coverage by NBC News, and in particular MSNBC, often incorrectly referred to as MSDNC, should be investigated for its country-threatening treason.

00:26:20.000 Their endless coverage of the now fully debunked scam known as Russia, Russia, Russia, and much else is one big campaign contribution to the radical left Democrat Party.

00:26:26.000 I say up front, openly and proudly, that when I win the presidency of the United States, they and others of the lamestream media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events.

00:26:36.000 Now, this is one of those aspects where I think this is baked into the cake.

00:26:37.000 corrupt and dishonest media companies be entitled to use the very valuable airwaves of the USA Free.

00:26:42.000 They're a true threat to democracy and are in fact the enemy of the people. The fake news media

00:26:45.000 should pay a big price for what they've done to our once great country. Now this is one of those

00:26:49.000 aspects where I think this is baked into the cake. I don't think that this sort of rhetoric

00:26:51.000 changes things for Trump at all. There are certain things he can say that I think make it worse for

00:26:55.000 I don't think this is one of them.

00:26:56.000 I think that everybody understands courts in the United States are not going to allow Donald Trump to put Comcast out of business or anything remotely like that.

00:27:02.000 I also think the vast majority of Americans don't trust the so-called legacy media further than they can throw them.

00:27:09.000 They don't trust them at all.

00:27:10.000 So when the White House tries to is sort of schoolmarm Trump on this.

00:27:15.000 It doesn't work.

00:27:16.000 So over the weekend, the White House put out a statement suggesting that Donald Trump was threatening democracy again.

00:27:21.000 Quote, on the record from me, President Biden swore an oath to uphold our Constitution and protect American democracy.

00:27:26.000 Freedom of the press is a fundamental constitutional right.

00:27:28.000 To abuse presidential power and violate the constitutional rights of reporters would be an outrageous attack on our democracy and the rule of law.

00:27:34.000 Presidents must always defend Americans' freedoms.

00:27:36.000 Never trample on them for selfish, small, and dangerous political purposes.

00:27:39.000 Now again, this school-murmuring approach to Trump ain't gonna work.

00:27:41.000 This is not going to work.

00:27:43.000 The reason this is not going to work is because there has been no president of my lifetime who's been less friendly to the press than Joe Biden.

00:27:49.000 You know what else I'll tell you that?

00:27:50.000 Members of the press.

00:27:50.000 Dude doesn't do press conferences, he doesn't answer questions, Crenshaw and Pierre lies routinely.

00:27:56.000 The notion that Donald Trump is somehow less friendly to the press than Joe Biden is just not true.

00:28:00.000 He's had this enemy of the people stuff over and over and over while he was president.

00:28:03.000 And then he treated the press, in terms of comment and content, much better than Joe Biden ever did.

00:28:08.000 So that is simply not going to work.

00:28:10.000 It's also not going to work, this particular attack on Trump, because again, when you look at how Americans feel about the First Amendment, The reality is that Democrats have a major problem with free speech.

00:28:22.000 If you're talking about freedom of the press and free speech, it's Democrats who are consistently attempting censorship.

00:28:26.000 It's Democrats who are trying to get shows like this one shut down.

00:28:28.000 It's people like Dan Pfeiffer, who, again, was an Obama staffer, going on MSNBC suggesting that shows like this one should not get any listenership.

00:28:37.000 They are the ones who do that sort of stuff.

00:28:39.000 So the people who are truly threatening the press really aren't on the right, they're on the left.

00:28:42.000 If you look at this poll from RealClearPolitics, brand new poll, it shows that nearly one-third of Democratic voters, 34%, more than one-third, say Americans have, quote, too much freedom, compared to only 15% of Republicans.

00:28:54.000 Meanwhile, When read the statement, I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it, only 31% of Democratic voters strongly agreed, compared to 51% of Republicans.

00:29:05.000 Fully three quarters of Democrats believe government has a responsibility to limit hateful social media posts.

00:29:10.000 Only 50% of Republicans feel the same.

00:29:14.000 Democrats are significantly more likely than Republicans to favor stifling free speech rights of political extremists.

00:29:20.000 Yeah, this is not a shock.

00:29:21.000 So again, when they try to schoolmarm Trump on, oh my gosh, he's a threat to the press and democracy and free speech and all of this, the truth is that it's the left that is constantly a threat to this sort of stuff.

00:29:30.000 That dog just ain't gonna hunt. 0.67

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00:30:40.000 Again, I don't think that this... Maybe the strength of Donald Trump in all of this is that it's not really possible, in the end, to sully him more than he has sullied himself.

00:30:49.000 Which, again, is why only the criminal indictments, I think, can maybe knock him down in general.

00:30:54.000 What polling data that I've seen, internal polls have shown, is that independents start to swivel away from Trump.

00:30:58.000 If Trump gets actually convicted of anything, independents are going to swivel away from him en masse.

00:31:03.000 That is the big danger for Trump.

00:31:05.000 Now, as far as sort of, you know, other attacks on Trump, I don't think they're going to work inside the Republican Party either.

00:31:10.000 So, for example, I think that Trump's language with regard to heartbeat bills lately has just been awful.

00:31:15.000 He went on national TV and he suggested that Ron DeSantis did something terrible, horrible, by signing a heartbeat bill in Florida to protect the lives of the unborn. 0.95

00:31:24.000 Now, that's ridiculous.

00:31:26.000 On a state level, signing a heartbeat bill, if you can do it and you can protect the unborn, you do it.

00:31:32.000 Well, what Trump could have said is that on a federal level, we don't have the necessary consensus to actually make that happen.

00:31:38.000 And so I'll push for life as much as I can.

00:31:39.000 That probably ends up the 15 week mark on the federal level.

00:31:42.000 That's what Mike Pence has said.

00:31:43.000 Instead, Trump, because again, he will attack from any angle because he has no core principles.

00:31:47.000 He says, pro-lifers had absolutely zero status on the subject of abortion until I came along.

00:31:52.000 Which is not correct.

00:31:54.000 For 52 years, everyone talked but got nothing done.

00:31:56.000 I got it done.

00:31:57.000 There'd be no talk of a six-week ban or anything else without me.

00:31:59.000 Roe vs Wade allowed the killing of a baby at any time, including the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th month, even after birth.

00:32:04.000 They therefore are the radicals, not us.

00:32:06.000 And now, because of our Supreme Court victory, the power has shifted.

00:32:08.000 For the first time, those fighting for the pro-life movement have been given tremendous power on this issue.

00:32:12.000 Before our victory, they had nothing.

00:32:14.000 They will have nothing again if we don't win elections.

00:32:16.000 Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the three exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.

00:32:19.000 You have to follow your heart, but without the exceptions, it will be very hard to win elections.

00:32:22.000 The six-week ban on abortion, among other things, like his fight against Social Security and Medicare, killed the De Sanctis campaign.

00:32:28.000 Well, I noticed that even his exceptions, rape, incest, and life of the mother, does not foreclose banning abortion at the sixth week.

00:32:36.000 That's number one.

00:32:37.000 Number two, I understand that he's already pivoting to the general.

00:32:40.000 There are other Republican candidates who are attacking him over this position that he's taking.

00:32:45.000 I think he's articulating it horribly.

00:32:47.000 I think the idea that a six-week ban on abortion is morally wrong in some way is absurd. 0.99

00:32:51.000 It's ridiculous.

00:32:53.000 But the attacks by the right on him over the abortion issue are likely to fall on deaf ears because of what he does say at the beginning of this post, right? 0.64

00:32:59.000 He says at the beginning, listen, I appointed three judges to the Supreme Court.

00:33:02.000 If I hadn't won, they wouldn't have been conservatives.

00:33:05.000 And then Roe versus Wade would not have been overturned.

00:33:07.000 So, Mike Pence has been trying to make the principled, conservative argument against Trump on some of these policy matters.

00:33:13.000 Here was Mike Pence over the weekend.

00:33:15.000 When Donald Trump ran in 2016, he promised to govern as a conservative, and he tapped me to be his running mate, and together we did govern as conservatives.

00:33:27.000 We cut taxes, we rebuilt our military, we provided American leadership in the world, and of course we appointed three of the conservatives to the court.

00:33:35.000 That overturned Roe vs. Wade and gave America a new beginning for life. 0.89

00:33:40.000 What I want people to know is that while we governed as conservatives during our years in the White House, Donald Trump makes no such promise today.

00:33:48.000 And he and many of his imitators in this race are actually walking away from America's commitment to fiscal responsibility and reform. 0.72

00:33:58.000 Okay, the problem is that very well may be true.

00:34:00.000 He also was completely confusing about abortion before the 2016 election, and then he ended up governing in Mike Pence fashion.

00:34:05.000 So I don't think that dog is going to hunt in the Republican primaries either.

00:34:08.000 And, you know, on a tactical level, you understand what Trump is doing on abortion.

00:34:12.000 He's trying to take it off the table for a general election.

00:34:15.000 It's an interestingly pragmatic tactic from Trump, even if I think he's articulating it in immoral fashion.

00:34:21.000 In just a second, we'll get to General Mark Milley, who is finally stepping down first.

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00:35:52.000 Meanwhile, General Mark Milley, the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, I say former, he is leaving.

00:35:59.000 According to the Washington Post, as the warning crane approached its first anniversary, the Pentagon's top officer, General Mark Milley, assessed the carnage that had followed Russia's full-scale invasion.

00:36:07.000 With more than 100,000 soldiers likely killed or wounded on each side, he said there was a window of opportunity for the combatants to hammer out a deal.

00:36:13.000 Milley told an audience in New York that both parties must recognize victory may not be achievable through military means and compare it to World War I. The declaration was classic Milley, according to colleagues and observers who have worked with him.

00:36:23.000 The general, immersed in military history, alarmed by the potential of escalation with Russia, the largest nuclear power in the world, was publicly advocating a position the Biden administration had eschewed as the president and other top advisors sought to project unqualified support for Ukraine's defense.

00:36:37.000 So now they're gonna pretend that Milley did a great job.

00:36:47.000 Milley did not do a great job.

00:36:48.000 He presided over a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:36:51.000 He openly suggested that after January 6th, he actually called the Chinese to inform them that we weren't going to fire nuclear weapons at them or some such nonsense. 0.83

00:37:01.000 He suggested that we were in the midst of a fascist takeover on January 6th, which of course is incredibly silly.

00:37:07.000 He waded over and over into sort of hot button issues.

00:37:09.000 You'll remember that that Milley is the guy who talked about how we needed to look into white rage in the military.

00:37:15.000 So good riddance to bad rubbish in terms of General Mark Milley's tenure at the at the Pentagon.

00:37:22.000 Donald Trump put out a statement saying Mark Milley, who led perhaps the most embarrassing moments in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens handing over billions of dollars of the finest military equipment ever made, will be leaving the military next week.

00:37:36.000 There will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate.

00:37:39.000 This guy turned out to be a woke train wreck who, if the fake news reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China.

00:37:43.000 To give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States, this is an act so egregious that in times gone by the punishment would have been death.

00:37:49.000 A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act to be continued.

00:37:54.000 So everybody, of course, went totally nuts on Donald Trump's suggestion.

00:37:57.000 How dare he suggest that death penalty... Donald Trump says a lot of stuff, as I've been saying for literally almost a decade at this point.

00:38:04.000 Donald Trump is a man who says a lot of bleep.

00:38:07.000 And that is a lot of stuff that he says.

00:38:10.000 And, um, and so does anyone take seriously his threat to, you know, put Millie up on charges of treason?

00:38:15.000 No.

00:38:15.000 He literally gave him a presidential medal right before he left office.

00:38:19.000 He gave it.

00:38:20.000 So along with Anthony Fauci, by the way, like same day, January 19, 2021.

00:38:25.000 You'll recall.

00:38:27.000 With that said, is it good that Millie is out?

00:38:29.000 Absolutely.

00:38:31.000 He was constantly straying into political territory.

00:38:34.000 Millie is an excellent example of something a lot of my soldier friends talk about, which is that the top levels of the Pentagon brass are political actors.

00:38:41.000 The American public sees them as predominantly soldiers, but that's not true.

00:38:44.000 You become a political general very often by being a good politician.

00:38:47.000 That is how you rise through the ranks in pretty much any army.

00:38:50.000 Because again, any bureaucracy incentivizes particular behavior to get to the top of the bureaucracy.

00:38:55.000 And that is particularly true with regard to Milley, who very often did shift with whichever way the winds were blowing.

00:39:02.000 And meanwhile, The United States Senate just continues to be Mos Eisley.

00:39:07.000 I said before the United Nations is Mos Eisley, but apparently the U.S.

00:39:10.000 Senate also is Mos Eisley.

00:39:12.000 I mean, we really have just a stellar group of people over in the U.S.

00:39:15.000 Senate.

00:39:16.000 We have John Fetterman, who is not functional.

00:39:19.000 We have Dianne Feinstein, who is dead at this point.

00:39:23.000 We have Bob Menendez, who apparently was taking bribery in the form of gold bars.

00:39:29.000 That is actually beyond parody at this point.

00:39:31.000 According to the Associated Press, Bob Menendez of New Jersey was charged on Friday with secretly aiding the authoritarian government of Egypt and trying to thwart the criminal prosecution of a friend in exchange for gold bars and cash under a corruption indictment that accuses him of using his foreign affairs influence for personal gain.

00:39:46.000 Menendez was forced to relinquish his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:39:50.000 He said he is not going to resign from Congress.

00:39:53.000 The indictment is the second in eight years against the 69-year-old senator, and it alleges an illegal commingling of Menendez's obligations to advance U.S.

00:40:00.000 priorities and his private interest in cultivating relationships with wealthy businessmen.

00:40:03.000 It also includes his charges against his wife and three New Jersey businessmen, who authorities say showered the couple with money, gold, and a luxury car in exchange for official favors.

00:40:11.000 Wow, I mean, like, imagine if the President of the United States had a son who was trafficking with Ukraine, China, Romania, and other countries, picking up sacks of cash, and his father was Vice President of the United States presiding over policy in many of these... that would be truly bad.

00:40:26.000 I'm glad it's just a senator.

00:40:27.000 A previous indictment of Menendez stemming from different allegations ended in 2017 with a deadlock jury.

00:40:32.000 Now again, this is the second attempt to get Bob Menendez on similar charges.

00:40:37.000 According to this indictment, from at least 2018 to about 2022, Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes ranging from gold bars to a Mercedes-Benz from three businessmen to protect and enrich them and benefit the government of Egypt.

00:40:49.000 The last time Menendez was indicted in 2015, he was charged with receiving gifts and $660,000 in campaign contributions from a Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, that helped him get re-elected to the Senate in 2012.

00:40:59.000 Menendez was accused of using his office to promote Melgen's business and personal interests with officials of President Barack Obama's administration.

00:41:07.000 Menendez said that the money and the gifts, like luxury travel, stem from their friendship rather than a criminal relationship.

00:41:12.000 That ended in a mistrial.

00:41:15.000 So, jurors are going to have to decide whether Menendez, according to USA Today, can separate the gifts and payments from any actions he took, according to legal experts.

00:41:23.000 So, the argument is going to be that he was just taking gifts from friends and had nothing to do with his actual policy.

00:41:30.000 However, the timing of the gifts are pretty conspicuous in this case, apparently.

00:41:34.000 They're going to have to prove that all these payments basically were in return for things or promises to do things.

00:41:41.000 Menendez, for his part, is saying he is not going to go.

00:41:43.000 And by the way, why would he?

00:41:44.000 I mean, what is the point of him resigning?

00:41:47.000 He's saying he's not going to resign.

00:41:48.000 I'm just wondering why anyone would think he's going to resign.

00:41:51.000 In past times, in better times, American politicians would resign when faced with scandal.

00:41:55.000 That's not how it goes now.

00:41:56.000 Nobody leaves office at this point.

00:41:59.000 Why should they?

00:42:00.000 If you live long enough, then everybody just forgets about all this.

00:42:03.000 So here's Menendez claiming the prosecutors get it wrong and this is one of those cases.

00:42:07.000 The court of public opinion is no substitute for our revered justice system.

00:42:13.000 We cannot set aside the presumption of innocence for political expediency when the harm is irrevocable.

00:42:22.000 To those who have rushed to judgment, you have done so based on a limited set of facts framed by the prosecution to be as salacious as possible.

00:42:32.000 Remember, prosecutors get it wrong sometimes.

00:42:36.000 Sadly, I know that.

00:42:39.000 Well, I mean, it's not clear that they actually got it wrong in 2017.

00:42:42.000 I will point out that in 2017, the prosecution that came down on Menendez started in 2015.

00:42:46.000 That was largely because of pressure brought by the Obama administration against Menendez to try to get him to sign on to the Iran deal.

00:42:51.000 There was obvious political maneuvering with regard to Menendez in 2015, hanging that threat over his head.

00:42:57.000 He ended up caving on the Iran deal, by the way.

00:43:00.000 Now, many Democratic senators are calling for him to step down.

00:43:02.000 that includes Fetterman, includes Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Senator Peter Welch of Vermont,

00:43:07.000 who nobody's ever heard of.

00:43:08.000 Nancy Pelosi actually said that she thought that Menendez should probably step aside at this point.

00:43:13.000 Menendez's excuse, by the way, for having gold bars like stashed under his bed is pretty amazing.

00:43:17.000 I will admit that this is kind of hilariously awesome.

00:43:21.000 For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account,

00:43:30.000 which I have kept for emergencies.

00:43:32.000 and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.

00:43:37.000 Now, this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.

00:43:49.000 Oh, so, by the way, that doesn't speak as highly of governance in New Jersey as you would think it would.

00:43:54.000 He's literally saying that he hid bars of gold in his house because he was afraid that the authorities were going to come bursting into his room in the middle of the night to take away his money like they would in Cuba.

00:44:05.000 You sound, honestly, a lot like Cuban Republicans, actually, at this point.

00:44:10.000 That's why you would vote for a smaller and less intrusive government.

00:44:12.000 It's not why you would be a New Jersey Democrat who allegedly took bribes.

00:44:17.000 This sort of stuff, by the way, has pretty significant ramifications for 2024.

00:44:20.000 Because I remember 2006, and I remember there was a Republican named Mark Foley, and Mark Foley was messing around with some of the mail pages, and it ended up having significant ramifications.

00:44:29.000 For Democrats' electoral victory in the 2006 congressional elections, a generalized perception of corruption inside the Democratic Party ranging from the Hunter Biden scandal to Bob Menendez is going to have severe ramifications for Democrats across the scale, which is probably why Democrats are starting to say that Menendez has to go.

00:44:45.000 Also, it's a safe place.

00:44:46.000 Phil Murphy is the governor of New Jersey.

00:44:48.000 He's a Democrat.

00:44:49.000 If that were a Republican governor, which it almost was, I assume many fewer of them would be calling for him to go.

00:44:54.000 Meanwhile, a humiliating visit to Canada by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.

00:45:01.000 Zelensky has been stepping on a lot of toes.

00:45:03.000 And because he thinks that he has the moral high ground with regard to Russia, and I think that he does, but because of that he thinks he apparently has unlimited ability to say pretty much anything about anybody.

00:45:12.000 Remember, A year ago, he was ripping on the Israelis and suggesting they were not doing their moral duty by not shipping Iron Dome to Ukraine as though it was Israel's duty to defend Ukraine.

00:45:22.000 And he was ripping on America for not providing enough support in the Republican Party because, obviously, it's America's duty to defend Ukraine.

00:45:29.000 Well, here's the deal.

00:45:30.000 I agree that the world should mobilize on behalf of Ukraine in the initial term in order to protect the territory that they already had.

00:45:36.000 I don't understand why it is the duty of the world to continue to fund a World War I stalemate that does not seem to have any solution and then to basically suggest that Zelensky can negotiate his own ticket here.

00:45:47.000 I don't understand that logic at all.

00:45:48.000 I've been saying the same thing for a year on this war.

00:45:50.000 The thing that I've been saying for well over a year on this war, like a year and a half at this point on this war, is that there is no reason Why exactly Zelensky should be the one making the negotiation here?

00:46:00.000 We're the ones signing the check.

00:46:02.000 There should be a back channel that's happening between the United States and Russia.

00:46:05.000 And basically what it should be saying is you guys get part of the Donbass, you get to keep Crimea.

00:46:10.000 The Ukrainians are not going to enter NATO, but they are going to have security guarantees from the West in case of a future invasion.

00:46:16.000 And that's the deal.

00:46:18.000 And then cram it down on Zelensky.

00:46:19.000 Tell Zelensky that that's the deal.

00:46:20.000 And then he can go back to his own people and he can say what he has to say, which is, I didn't want that deal.

00:46:24.000 They made me take that deal.

00:46:25.000 So it wasn't my responsibility.

00:46:26.000 I wanted to go all the way.

00:46:27.000 They wouldn't let me go all the way.

00:46:28.000 He gets to retain his popularity with his own people.

00:46:31.000 The war ends and everybody goes home. 0.56

00:46:34.000 That's the only way this is going to end anyway.

00:46:36.000 And yet Zelensky is, you know, again, my sympathy for Zelensky on a personal level is starting to wane as he becomes more and more brazen about his willingness to simply randomly call out countries as though they owe him something.

00:46:50.000 So he got himself in all sorts of hot water in Poland recently.

00:46:53.000 Zelensky had offered a veiled criticism of Poland at the UN General Assembly saying that the dispute was political theater between Poland and Ukraine and some of our friends in Europe have made a thriller from the grain.

00:47:03.000 Well, why was this?

00:47:05.000 Apparently, it's because there was a ban on Ukrainian grain that was put in place by several EU nations to protect the livelihood of local farmers.

00:47:11.000 They were worried about being undercut on the economy by the low price of Ukrainian grain.

00:47:15.000 The EU announced plans to suspend the ban last week, but Poland, alongside Hungary and Slovakia, said it would stick with the ban, sparking protests from Ukraine.

00:47:21.000 They filed lawsuits against the three countries, and then Zelensky spoke about it at the UN.

00:47:25.000 Poland immediately condemned Zelensky's comments at the UN, and its foreign ministry summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to convey its strong protest.

00:47:32.000 Hours later, the Polish Prime Minister said in a blunt social media statement, the country, quote, would no longer transfer weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland.

00:47:39.000 Then he sort of walked that back.

00:47:40.000 He said, we just mean we're not going to give like the brand new weapons to Ukraine.

00:47:42.000 We'll still give them our old weapons.

00:47:44.000 Meanwhile, Hungary is warning that new sanctions against Russia are not needed.

00:47:48.000 He's saying they're causing more harm to Europe than Russia at this point.

00:47:51.000 So there are a bunch of Eastern European countries who are deeply worried about the continuation of this war.

00:47:55.000 There's been a pretty disastrous trip, honestly, West for Vladimir Zelensky.

00:48:01.000 He went to Ottawa, Ontario, and during a speech at the House of Commons in Canada, apparently the Speaker of the House of Commons stood up, his name is Anthony Rota, and he introduced a person named Yaroslav Hanka.

00:48:20.000 He's from the public gallery.

00:48:22.000 He introduced him as a Canadian-Ukrainian war hero from his political district.

00:48:25.000 And he said, quote, we have here in the chamber today a Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today.

00:48:33.000 Even at his age of 98, he's a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero.

00:48:36.000 We thank him for his service.

00:48:37.000 Thank you.

00:48:38.000 Here's some video of that happening.

00:48:40.000 We have here in the chamber today Ukrainian-Canadians, Ukrainian-Canadian world veteran from the Second World War who fought the Ukrainian independence against the Russians.

00:48:53.000 And continues to support the troops today, even at his age of 98.

00:48:57.000 He's a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.

00:49:12.000 Thank you.

00:49:15.000 So, uh, there's only one problem.

00:49:17.000 This guy was a member of the Waffen-SS.

00:49:20.000 If you know your history, you know the people who were fighting against the Soviet invasion of Ukraine in World War II?

00:49:25.000 Those would have been the Nazis. 0.84

00:49:28.000 Because the Nazis had occupied Ukraine.

00:49:30.000 So, that's awkward.

00:49:32.000 Again, apparently, he was served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, which served under the command of the Nazis.

00:49:40.000 So, oops!

00:49:42.000 Oops! 0.78

00:49:43.000 That's not ideal.

00:49:45.000 So that's an embarrassing gaffe at the very, very least here.

00:49:48.000 And of course ties into a lot of the Russian talk about how the Ukrainians are dominated by Nazis.

00:49:52.000 That of course ties into a lot of Russian propaganda about how it was the Russians who are responsible for the end of World War II because they are the ones who truly defeated Hitler, ignoring the fact that it was the Russians who actually allowed Hitler to begin his invasion of Poland in the first place by essentially guaranteeing his eastern flank.

00:50:07.000 In any case, the support for the war in Ukraine is fading and that is Not a shock.

00:50:11.000 Again, I've been saying for a long time, the war in Ukraine, you weren't going to keep up this level of interest or this level of funding indefinitely.

00:50:17.000 It wasn't going to happen because people get tired of it.

00:50:20.000 That's going to be exacerbated by a new report from 60 Minutes showing that it's not just military support going to Ukraine.

00:50:24.000 We're funding pretty much everything else as well.

00:50:27.000 American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons.

00:50:31.000 We discovered the U.S. 0.93

00:50:33.000 government's buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers.

00:50:38.000 And covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders, all 57,000 of them.

00:50:45.000 That includes the team that trains this rescue dog, named Joy, to comb through the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors.

00:50:56.000 And the US also funds the divers, who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country's rivers to make them safe again for swimming and fishing.

00:51:07.000 Russia's invasion shrank Ukraine's economy by about a third.

00:51:12.000 We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat, the U.S.

00:51:15.000 government is subsidizing small businesses.

00:51:18.000 Okay, so again, there's a case to be made that in the middle of an invasion you have to keep the economy running, you don't want it to go completely defunct.

00:51:24.000 I get all of that.

00:51:25.000 But the American public should be made aware of that sort of stuff by its own politicians.

00:51:29.000 If the case for Ukraine is we need to keep this war going indefinitely, even though we have no prospect of actual long-term battlefield victory in Donbass or Crimea, Then you have to wonder, like, why are we paying all their bills?

00:51:39.000 It's one thing to say we have to pay for the reconstruction because we want to help prop them up against further Russian invasion or all the rest, but in the absence of an endgame here, what exactly is the endgame?

00:51:49.000 Joe Biden has never spelled out the endgame.

00:51:50.000 In fact, he has studiously avoided spelling out the endgame.

00:51:52.000 He never talks about the endgame.

00:51:54.000 Instead, he says we're going to do it as long as it takes with as much as it takes.

00:51:57.000 That's not an endgame.

00:51:58.000 What exactly is your goal?

00:51:59.000 Is your goal to actually push Russia out of Crimea and Donbass? 0.82

00:52:02.000 If so, then say that that's your goal, and then provide the level of support necessary to do that, including the F-16s.

00:52:07.000 But that's not your goal.

00:52:08.000 Your goal is presumably to just drag this thing out.

00:52:10.000 No wonder even independents are turning against the American funding, because when you don't have an end goal, Americans get real tired of it real fast.

00:52:17.000 Alright, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:52:20.000 So, things that I like today.

00:52:21.000 I'll talk a little bit about Yom Kippur.

00:52:23.000 So, Yom Kippur... Moment for Jewish break. 0.98

00:52:26.000 Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

00:52:29.000 We celebrated it on Monday.

00:52:31.000 I'm over here in Israel, as you can see from my backdrop, for the high holidays.

00:52:35.000 And it's amazing here.

00:52:37.000 I will say that there is something to the idea of a religious backdrop to any country that I think is good.

00:52:44.000 This is why I've suggested for a long time that everybody in America should go back to church, synagogue, mosque. 0.98

00:52:48.000 America ought to re-root itself in Judeo-Christian values, particularly Christian values in America. 0.99

00:52:55.000 Because there can be no country without a social fabric.

00:52:58.000 And the social fabric in Israel and Yom Kippur is obvious.

00:53:02.000 The synagogue that I went to, actually the president of the country, Isaac Herzog, was at that particular synagogue, showed up with his security, and then he stayed literally all day praying.

00:53:11.000 Not like a grip and grin that you normally see by politicians in the United States where they show up to church for like 7 minutes and then they say a couple prayers and then they leave.

00:53:19.000 He was there literally from 8.30 in the morning until 12.30 in the afternoon and then he came back for Mincha Ne'ilah Marev, which is like the late afternoon services, evening service.

00:53:28.000 He was there from like 4.30 in the afternoon until 7.00.

00:53:31.000 And the entire country basically shuts down, including many of the secular areas in Israel.

00:53:36.000 If you go to Tel Aviv, which is a very secular area in Israel, everybody is still riding bicycles.

00:53:40.000 Social fabric is really, really important.

00:53:43.000 That's one thing to note.

00:53:44.000 It's something we ought to rebuild in the United States.

00:53:46.000 Thing number two is that Yom Kippur is a reminder that repentance is a core value.

00:53:52.000 So, Yom Kippur is the day in which you repent of your sins before God.

00:53:55.000 God knows that you're going to sin again, but you rededicate yourself to Him and His values.

00:53:59.000 And the idea is that you are saying to God that you are not going to do this thing anymore.

00:54:05.000 Left-wing theology relies on the idea that you are not wrong, God is wrong.

00:54:10.000 That you will not only sin, God will forgive you your sins even if you have no intent of stopping the sin. 0.97

00:54:16.000 And not only that, if you ever repent of your sin and move away from your sin, this makes you a hypocrite. 0.75

00:54:21.000 Because we can always cite something you did 10 years ago to suggest that you held something different 10 years ago. 0.98

00:54:26.000 Hypocrisy is the worst argument in politics.

00:54:29.000 Perhaps you have just repented.

00:54:31.000 Repentance is a good thing.

00:54:33.000 It is a valuable thing.

00:54:34.000 It is a necessary thing.

00:54:35.000 In fact, repentance, as the word suggests, even in English, repent, right?

00:54:40.000 You're going back to a thing.

00:54:41.000 Repent.

00:54:41.000 In Hebrew, it is tishuvah, which means to return.

00:54:45.000 So what are you returning to?

00:54:45.000 You're returning to virtue.

00:54:47.000 The natural inclination of man is bad, but man also has good aspects to him.

00:54:52.000 And the thing that man is seeking is what the state should be with regard to God, which is allegiance to God.

00:54:57.000 And so when you return to that, it is not that you're embracing something fully new, it's that you're embracing something fully old.

00:55:03.000 And when you make that repentance, then you merit life.

00:55:06.000 That is essentially the argument of Yom Kippur. 0.53

00:55:08.000 It's quite a beautiful day.

00:55:10.000 It's hard.

00:55:10.000 I mean, it's a fast day.

00:55:12.000 In Judaism, the way we fast is a 25 hour fast.

00:55:15.000 And fasting in Judaism is no food, no water. 0.81

00:55:18.000 So it can get, you know, relatively difficult in terms of, you know, sort of what for particularly older people and very very young

00:55:25.000 people like if you're a boy you're supposed to start fasting when you're 13 if you're a girl at 12 and

00:55:28.000 so it can be pretty hard on people but it is an amazing experience and a reminder that it's never

00:55:34.000 too late to to do repentance.

00:55:37.000 Okay time for a quick thing I hate.

00:55:38.000 Now speaking of a culture that is completely unrepentant of its sin, 0.82

00:55:46.000 so good news HBO Max now called Max has a full frontal nude dating show.

00:55:53.000 well.

00:55:54.000 Is gonna be a thing now.

00:55:56.000 So according to the Hollywood Reporter, it's like being on Tinder, but so much worse.

00:55:59.000 One of the UK's most infamous dating shows was quietly added to the max streaming service last week.

00:56:04.000 It's already causing quite a stir.

00:56:06.000 The streamer has imported six seasons of Naked Attraction, a game show that promises you start where a good date often ends, naked.

00:56:12.000 In each episode, a single chooser critiques and eliminates six potential dates standing on stage by scrutinizing their fully nude bodies, which are gradually revealed one part at a time, faces revealed last.

00:56:21.000 When only two potential dates remain, the chooser strips out of their own clothes too, giving the remaining two contestants the opportunity to critique them.

00:56:27.000 The final couple then go out on a date with their clothes on.

00:56:30.000 So it includes full frontal nudity.

00:56:33.000 It can come across as jaw-droppingly brutal in the contestant's graphic analysis, I don't like her feet, this member is too small. 0.95

00:56:39.000 At the same time, each episode contains interstitials of informative sex education.

00:56:43.000 The show clearly tries to promote body confidence and positivity.

00:56:46.000 Amid all the hot or not judgments.

00:56:48.000 The show also includes contestants of diverse sexual orientations.

00:56:52.000 How delightful.

00:56:54.000 How delightful.

00:56:56.000 So, we are now supposed to judge people not as fully fledged human beings?

00:57:02.000 We are not supposed to judge each other?

00:57:03.000 I mean, this is the natural outcome of a hedonistic society in which the only thing that matters is sex.

00:57:10.000 The sex instinct is the only thing that matters.

00:57:13.000 It turns out that the way we used to date, it honestly is an amazing thing.

00:57:17.000 The way that we used to date is that you didn't take your clothes off until you were married.

00:57:20.000 That's the way we used to date in society.

00:57:22.000 Some of us still still date that way.

00:57:25.000 When that was the case, you had to fully appreciate the person sitting across the table from you as a fully-fledged human being with thoughts and values and ideas.

00:57:33.000 And then later, you got to the sex.

00:57:35.000 Now, you get to the sex first, and everything else is kind of by the wayside.

00:57:39.000 There's been this big argument going on online, this really weird argument that's been going on, including some sort of anti-feminist on the right, suggesting marriage is bad because no-fault divorce has led to most divorces being initiated by women, which means it's risky for men to get into a marriage.

00:57:52.000 My answer to that is, not if you marry the right woman.

00:57:55.000 And the way that you know that you're marrying the right woman, or at least have pretty good security, is if you date in the right way.

00:58:01.000 Not all marriages are created equal in terms of their quality.

00:58:04.000 And not all partners are created equal in terms of their quality.

00:58:07.000 This is why it's very important when you are dating to not do the naked attraction version.

00:58:12.000 The first date, get in the sack, see how it goes from there.

00:58:16.000 That is not how dating should go.

00:58:17.000 It should be precisely as it was in terms of actually appreciating the other human being as a potential life partner.

00:58:23.000 Because guess what?

00:58:23.000 Everything's going to droop and bag as you get older anyway.

00:58:25.000 So you may as well marry somebody who shares your values.

00:58:28.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:58:29.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:58:30.000 We'll be getting into a fascinating article from the New York Times talking about a woman who knows how to fix modern masculinity. 1.00

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