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00:00:14.000So Matt Gaetz was President Trump's original pick for attorney general.
00:00:18.000He ran into severe headwinds in the Senate for a bunch of good reasons, including open ethics investigations over his activities in Florida.
00:00:25.000He was also widely disliked inside the House for his attempt to unseat his successful attempt to unseat the then Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, which many people in the House felt was not driven specifically by political necessity, but was more driven by personal animus.
00:00:39.000And of course, Matt Gaetz had practiced law for approximately two years, which, again, is not usually the sort of record of somebody who you then select for attorney general.
00:00:47.000So Gaetz has now stepped out of the race, presumably at the behest of President Trump.
00:00:51.000It became very clear to both Trump and to J.D. Vance, who is sort of the Senate handler for Matt Gaetz, who's going around meeting with a variety of senators in the Senate, that the votes just weren't there for Matt Gaetz.
00:01:02.000And President Trump, I think, wisely decided he was not going to use his political capital to ram through somebody like Matt Gaetz when there was no need to do so.
00:01:10.000He could simply appoint somebody who is not going to be nearly as controversial as Gaetz and get exactly the upside without much of the downside.
00:01:17.000And that's precisely what has happened at this point.
00:01:20.000President Trump has now selected Instead, Pam Bondi, who is the Attorney General of the state of Florida.
00:01:26.000Bondi is a longtime Trump ally, as the Washington Post points out again and again.
00:01:30.000When Donald Trump has faced scandal and scrutiny, Pam Bondi was there to defend him.
00:01:34.000Bondi said the Justice Department's special counsel investigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with Russian interference in the 2016 election needed to be dissolved.
00:01:42.000She was, of course, correct about that.
00:01:43.000She declared the 45th president's first impeachment in 2019 was a sham.
00:01:47.000And she said that when Trump was indicted a multiplicity of times, that was BS as well.
00:01:59.000Now, if you look at her sort of record, her record is very conservative.
00:02:04.000She's also endorsed by wide swaths of the Republican Party.
00:02:06.000Everybody from Jeb Bush to obviously Team Trump has endorsed Pam Bondi.
00:02:10.000Alex Pfeiffer, Trump transition spokesman, said, quote, Attorney General nominee Bondi is looking forward to this confirmation process and answering any questions these senators might have.
00:02:19.000And of course, you know, again, she goes back really far with Trump.
00:02:24.000In 2016, she endorsed Trump in the Republican primaries.
00:02:44.000Well, apparently he's going to obviously she is obviously going to fire people like Jack Smith.
00:02:49.000She's also going to look into cleansing the DOJ of the so-called deep state.
00:02:56.000And we'll get much more into the deep state in a bit, because at the beginning, when people were saying deep state, they were using it to apply to pretty much everybody.
00:03:01.000Anything you didn't like, anytime you didn't like something, it was the deep state.
00:03:05.000Well, it turns out that the deep state is actually quite real.
00:03:07.000And what it means is career appointees inside various executive agencies who have been shielded from the hiring and firing process and thus have been able to substitute their own intuitions as to what the American people require, as opposed to what the president of the United States requires of them.
00:03:27.000Well, in Project 2025, which of course is not the guide to the Trump administration, but has some good ideas in it, they talk about a top-to-bottom overhaul that would involve more closely aligning the DOJ with the President's agenda.
00:03:38.000And this sort of stuff is really necessary because as we saw during Trump Team No.
00:03:42.0001, if you have career appointees at the DOJ, those people can make an awful lot of trouble for the President-elect.
00:03:49.000They can actually force him to spend reams of money, reams of time defending himself from completely spurious allegations because they decide to initiate a prosecution against the person they are supposed to be working for.
00:04:04.000What this shows, the substitution of Bondi for Gates, what that really shows more than anything else is that this is in fact a serious team.
00:04:11.000Trump could have gone to the mattresses for Matt Gates.
00:04:13.000And maybe, maybe he would be able to sneak him through, although I think that's quite doubtful given the fact that only 53 Republican senators and three right off the top weren't going to vote for him.
00:04:33.000So if the personnel get in the way of the policy, the personnel have to go.
00:04:38.000So as Kimberly Strassel points out, there are a bunch of lessons from all of this.
00:04:43.000Lesson number one is that not all allegations against Republicans are partisan shams.
00:04:47.000And it may be that there were allegations against Gates that were not partisan shams.
00:04:52.000But not only that, there's a big lesson here.
00:04:55.000And the lesson is that you want to shake up the system.
00:04:58.000You need people who are willing to effectively shake up the system and not be a magnet for attention to You can find people who are going to do the thing without creating all of the controversy.
00:05:09.000And that's why I think it's very smart what President Trump has done here in telling Matt Gaetz to step aside.
00:05:14.000And again, Pam Bondi is going to do precisely what Donald Trump requires of her.
00:05:18.000Here's the New York Times' Peter Baker, who of course is no friend of Trump, suggesting that Pam Bondi is going to perform admirably in the role that Trump has suggested for her.
00:05:59.000She's going to look at the Justice Department very askance, very much from a Trumpian point of view, viewing it as a department that needs to be deconstructed in a lot of ways and reformulated to be an arm of Trump's White House.
00:06:13.000And Kim Strassel, of course, is the author of that Wall Street Journal piece.
00:06:17.000She says there's a sigh of relief over Pam Bondi because this is a transition team that is on the rails.
00:06:22.000It's a transition team that obviously has a forward-looking vision that is disconnected from whatever the personal political ambitions are of the members of the team.
00:06:31.000She's a much more conventional pick, Paul, than Matt Gaetz was.
00:06:35.000She was the Attorney General of Florida.
00:06:37.000Generally got pretty good reviews for doing that down there.
00:06:42.000The Senators so far have been very excited by this pick.
00:06:46.000I think you can feel a I think she's going to be an interesting combination of someone who will come in and do some of those things.
00:06:55.000Donald Trump says he wants done some reform, getting the department out of political engagement and politicized lawsuits.
00:07:03.000But also someone that doesn't have all the baggage that Matt Gaetz has had and had going into the office.
00:07:12.000And again, this is all part and parcel of President Trump's plan to shake up the executive ranch, which requires deep cuts.
00:07:18.000That's the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
00:07:19.000They'll be led from the outside by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:07:23.000And it's also his plan for inside the government.
00:07:25.000So when it comes to the FBI, for example, which was deeply involved in the whole Russiagate scandal, which turned out to be more of a scandal about the corruption within the FBI than it turned out to be a scandal about President Trump.
00:07:37.000President Trump is going to shake up the leadership at the FBI apparently and fire both the director and install an experienced former agent and MAGA loyalist in the top two roles, which again makes a lot of sense.
00:07:48.000You want people who are going to perform the functions the FBI is supposed to perform, namely actually monitoring criminal activity inside the United States.
00:07:55.000But also you want somebody who is not going to be militarizing the FBI against the people at the top of government.
00:08:00.000By the way, this has become an international tactic that is used by the left is the integration into a variety of government agencies inside all sorts of Western powers and then use of those government agencies as weapons against the top guy if those people tend to be on the right.
00:08:18.000It's a major problem that pretty much everybody on the right is facing in international politics because it turns out the administrative state is a tool for people who like bigger government.
00:08:26.000It is a tool for people who like to administer.
00:08:48.000He was a protege of George Soros, and he gave money to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama.
00:08:53.000He also was a strong advocate for gay rights and marriage equality, according to the New York Times.
00:08:58.000He's certainly not a man of the right.
00:08:59.000However, he has worked substantially with Wall Street.
00:09:03.000He is going to work to steer tax cuts through Congress.
00:09:06.000And he has sort of a heterodox view with regard to trade.
00:09:10.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, as a hedge fund manager, first at Soros' firm and later at his own, Besson specialized in macro investing or analyzing geopolitical situations and economic data to wager on big picture market moves.
00:09:21.000He generated billions of dollars in profits, betting on and against currencies, interest rates, stocks, and other asset classes around the world.
00:09:28.000He was motivated to step out from behind the desk and get involved with Trump, in part because of a view that time is running out for the United States economy to grow its way out of excessive budget deficits and indebtedness.
00:09:38.000He says in his first interview following this election with the Wall Street Journal that his policy priority will be to deliver on Trump's various tax cut pledges.
00:09:45.000He also said that he's going to be focused on enacting tariffs and cutting spending, as will be maintaining the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
00:09:54.000So it's sort of, again, a sort of heterodox viewpoint.
00:09:57.000Besant taught economic history at Yale University, so obviously his credentials are very strong.
00:10:02.000His association with George Soros sounds less political than investment involved.
00:10:07.000Soros, of course, is one of the most in his sort of prime era before he became the world's most notorious evil leftist who was funding every bad cause he could think of.
00:10:17.000George Soros was mostly known for being an extraordinarily aggressive currency trader who made a lot of money in the markets.
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00:12:35.000From 2011 to 2015, Besant was Soros' chief investment officer.
00:12:40.000He earned more than a billion dollars in profits for successful bets in Japan, including wagering against the Chinese yen.
00:12:47.000So again, he is looking pretty seriously at tariffs.
00:12:50.000He is pursuing a policy he calls 333. That would include cutting the budget deficit to 3% of GDP by 2028, spurring GDP growth of 3% through deregulation, and producing an additional 3 million barrels of oil, or its equivalent, every single day.
00:13:05.000And he says that he thinks of tariffs as a negotiating tool.
00:13:08.000He says that, quote, the tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table, but rarely discharged.
00:13:13.000And he says that maybe you use them as a source of tax revenue if that means lowering taxes.
00:13:16.000So again, that is a much more cohesive economic agenda.
00:13:21.000President Trump's talk about tariffs overall has been in glowing terms.
00:13:27.000When President Trump talks about tariffs, he sees tariffs as leverage.
00:13:30.000If you look at his history, this is what he has used tariffs for.
00:13:33.000He is not going to slap a 20% tariff on everything across the board because that creates inflation.
00:13:37.000And Trump, most of all, does not want to be an inflation president.
00:13:41.000What he will do is he will threaten to use tariffs in productive ways that force other nations to back down, which, again, is not a bad policy.
00:13:49.000This is a massive tool in the American arsenal.
00:13:51.000We are, in fact, the world's most productive market.
00:13:54.000Steve Moore, who is certainly no big state interventionist with regard to the economy, he's praised the pick of Scott Bessent.
00:14:02.000I've got a big smile on my face because I think this is an excellent pick.
00:14:06.000I've known Scott now for about 10 years.
00:14:34.000All Trump wants in life is to be a successful economic president and a successful foreign policy president, which is, of course, exactly what we should want.
00:14:41.000By the way, his approval ratings for his transition thus far, 60%.
00:14:44.000Those are very, very high approval ratings for President Trump.
00:14:47.000And if his team does what they are supposed to do...
00:14:50.000President Trump could be one of the most transformative presidents of our lifetime, probably the most transformative presidents of our lifetime, if he is able to do all of the things that he's attempting to do at this point.
00:15:41.000Gorka is incredibly, as we say, harsh with regard to radical Islam, which is going to be a necessity in a time when radical Islam is on the uptick thanks to the predations of Iran.
00:15:51.000In an interview last year, he watched some of the videos of October 7th.
00:15:56.000He said, kill every single one of them, referring to Hamas.
00:17:07.000And he's going to do an excellent job over at FDA. President Trump said in a statement late on Friday, quote, FDA has lost the trust of Americans and has lost sight of its primary goal as regulator.
00:17:15.000He will work under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, among other things, properly evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning our nation's food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our nation's youth so that he can finally address the childhood chronic disease epidemic.
00:17:27.000But it's not just that McCary is going to be a critic of the way the FDA was run before.
00:17:34.000So, for example, he criticized the agency and the way that they reviewed data leading up to the approval of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and some of the claims that were being made by the FDA, including the claim that this thing would cut down on transmission of COVID, which turned out not to be true.
00:17:48.000And he also was pointing out, was Professor McCary, Dr. McCary, he kept pointing out throughout the COVID pandemic that their recommendations that everyone take the vaccine, including for children, were ridiculous.
00:17:59.000He's not just going to be about shutting down the distribution of material in the United States.
00:18:03.000He's going to be about streamlining the process at the FDA to make sure that new treatments actually get into the system faster.
00:18:09.000One of the big problems in terms of investment in R&D is that the FDA's system is extremely haphazard.
00:18:15.000It takes for freaking ever for people to get a drug to market.
00:18:19.000And that means that people die in the meantime.
00:18:22.000In 2021, he said, I'm pro-vaccine, but the issue of the appropriate clinical indication of the COVID vaccine is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon, as we frequently see in American culture and politics.
00:18:32.000So, again, McCary is an excellent pick right here, and he's going to do an excellent job at the FDA. Other picks that President Trump has now made, Dr. Jeanette Nashaiwatt-Fox, news medical contributor, picked as U.S. Surgeon General.
00:18:43.000So I'll admit, I was sort of taken in by a lot of the early clips that were put out of her on X.com by critics of Nashaiwatt.
00:18:51.000The suggestion that she was in favor of, for example, COVID mandates with regard to vaccines, that is not true.
00:18:57.000She was following the data that was available at the time in 2021, and then she quickly became an advocate for using COVID vaccines only on the elderly or the severely obese.
00:19:07.000So again, the sort of notion that's being promulgated on x.com that she is some sort of COVID lockdown fanatic is not actually true.
00:19:14.000So that's a fine pick as well by President Trump, Jeanette Nashaiwatt, for Surgeon General.
00:19:19.000He also has picked a person named Scott Turner for housing and urban development.
00:19:24.000And this has prompted some nice racism from the left because they're very upset.
00:19:32.000Trump's cabinet is both too white and also if he picks a black person, it's because Donald Trump is a racist.
00:19:37.000Here's the MSNBC panel laughing at Trump's HUD pick, Scott Turner.
00:19:43.000Scott Turner, he is a motivational speaker, and he's going to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
00:19:51.000Ooh, black man leading HUD. I mean, first of all, why does everybody, I mean, every single president, has there ever been a white person who has been the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
00:20:21.000They don't always want that job You don't have black folks lining up to be at HUD. Okay, so, I mean, the reality is that probably the reason for that is because it was set up as part of the civil rights initiatives under Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. And a lot of those initiatives were specifically developed as almost affirmative action picks.
00:20:41.000The answer, by the way, is that there have been quite a number of white heads of HUD, including people like Jack Kemp, who was the HUD director under George H.W. Bush.
00:20:50.000You've had a Hispanic head of HUD, who was Julian Castro under Barack Obama.
00:20:54.000There's an acting head of HUD named Matt Ammon, who is the acting head of HUD very shortly.
00:20:59.000Between the transition period between Trump and Biden, Sean Donovan was the head of HUD. Yeah, again, the idea here presumably is that Republicans are racist for picking a black guy for HUD. He'll be fine.
00:21:11.000Okay, so now we get to the one bad pick in the cabinet, like truly not a good pick inside the cabinet, and that would be Representative Lori Chavez-Dremer for Labor.
00:21:22.000So again, I've praised virtually all of President Trump's picks.
00:21:25.000I even understood why he picked Matt Gaetz, though I thought that Matt Gaetz was not a good pick, and I thought that he would probably be defeated by the Senate.
00:21:31.000When it comes to Lori Chavez de Remmer, this is not a good pick by President Trump.
00:21:35.000She is not a good pick, and the way you can tell she's not a good pick is that she is endorsed by both Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, as well as Randy Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers.
00:21:45.000If you are endorsed by Randy Weingarten, maybe the most pernicious actor in all of American politics, that is a good indicator you are a terrible pick.
00:21:52.000She tweeted out, quote, The Department of Labor oversees all sorts of union activities.
00:22:21.000It oversees business activities with regard to unions.
00:22:24.000And the Department of Labor can do awful damage to a capitalist economy.
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00:23:45.000Between all that travel, I somehow need to maintain my health.
00:23:47.000That means hitting the gym, spending time with the family, and, you know, eating healthier.
00:23:50.000I thought I used to be able to power through on just the conservative willpower and the coffee, but I learned pretty quickly that performance requires peak nutrition and that means eating enough veggies.
00:23:58.000And I hate veggies, so I'm grateful that I have balance of nature, which fits right into even the busiest of days.
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00:24:37.000Here's Senator Patty Murray, who is one of the most left-wing members of the Senate caucus for the Democrats, saying, quote, Americans deserve a labor secretary who understands that building a stronger economy means standing up for workers, not billionaires and giant corporations.
00:24:49.000We need a labor secretary who will protect workers' rights, help ensure everyone can have a secure retirement, make sure every worker gets paid the full paycheck they've earned, and that all workers are treated with dignity and respect.
00:24:59.000As an original author of the PRO Act, I'm glad to see Representative Chavez-Dremmer is a co-sponsor of the bill I wrote with Representative Scott.
00:25:07.000Okay, again, the PRO Act is one of the most radical pieces of pro-union legislation in American history.
00:25:14.000It's called the Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
00:25:18.000It would amend the National Labor Relations Act to essentially force through labor unions.
00:25:28.000The fact that she was a chief sponsor of the PRO Act is a huge red flag, and there is no reason why she should be proposing and joining onto the PRO Act.
00:25:38.000And one of the sort of core elements of a free market economy is the ability of people to negotiate freely with their employers without being forced into a union, without being forced to pay union dues, to be able to freely vote on whether or not to join a union.
00:25:56.000There's a reason why private sector unions are really pushing hard for the PRO Act.
00:26:03.000Those right-to-work laws allow people to work in particular sectors of the economy, whether they are members of unions or not.
00:26:09.000According to the Heritage Foundation, the PRO Act would invalidate 27 states' right-to-work laws and allow unions to take a portion of workers' wages directly from their paychecks without their consent and without regard to their stated opposition.
00:26:20.000It would also undermine state lawmakers' ability to enact laws leading to more employment opportunities, stronger income growth, and faster growing economies.
00:26:26.000So again, I think this pick was probably a reflection of President Trump's attempt to reach out to the labor sector.
00:26:37.000He'd won an outsized share of members of labor unions in this particular election cycle.
00:26:43.000Sean O'Brien, who, of course, spoke at the Republican National Convention.
00:26:47.000It was one of the most bizarre sights I've ever seen because he spoke and he basically laid out a Bernie Sanders economic plan at the RNC. And Trump, in an attempt to broaden the Big Ten, which, of course, is smart politically, allowed that.
00:26:58.000That doesn't mean that you have to shape the Department of Labor around the desires of Sean O'Brien.
00:27:04.000He said, North America's strongest union is ready to work with you every step of the way to expand good jobs.
00:27:10.000She lost her reelect battle this year.
00:27:14.000And so now she will be joining the administration if she makes it through a Senate confirmation hearing.
00:27:18.000My suggestion is that she probably should not.
00:27:20.000Bottom line is that we are now reaching the sort of full fruition of the Trump cabinet.
00:27:25.000There are only a few open slots at this point in the Trump cabinet.
00:27:29.000But when you take a look at the overall quality of these picks, this is a very strong cabinet.
00:27:33.000This is a cabinet with a serious MAGA agenda.
00:27:35.000It's a cabinet that is ready to go day one.
00:27:37.000It's a cabinet with a full commitment to breaking apart many of the ugly parts of these institutions and remolding them in the interests of the American people.
00:27:47.000So we are set for a transformative presidency, particularly in the first couple of years.
00:27:52.000The media are not sure what to do about it.
00:27:54.000They're declaring that the cabinet is dangerous, of course.
00:27:56.000But the problem for them is its cabinet is eminently not dangerous.
00:27:59.000Again, if you go down the list of Trump's cabinet picks at this point, you're looking really at heavy hitters.
00:28:06.000The Trump cabinet, just to go through it really briefly, is Besant at the Department of Treasury.
00:28:46.000And many members of the AFPI have joined the administration, including Linda McMahon, who's going to be filling the Secretary of Education post.
00:28:52.000Again, it's amazing how dismissive people on the left are of people who've been picked here.
00:28:56.000Linda McMahon is treated as just the wife of Vince McMahon, as opposed to, you know, the head of the Small Business Administration for several years under Donald Trump.
00:29:06.000The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has many years of experience.
00:29:08.000Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, is the governor of North Dakota.
00:29:12.000Howard Letnick is a major investor at the Department of Commerce.
00:29:16.000Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of course, is probably the most controversial pick in this cabinet right now at Health and Human Services because on the right, there are people who object to his abortion stances.
00:29:25.000And on the left, there are people who object to his sort of heterodoxy on vaccination, particularly COVID vaccination.
00:29:32.000But the reality is that he is going to be hemmed in by the strictures of the position.
00:29:47.000Now, not all those people might make it through.
00:29:49.000Maybe a couple of those people fall by the wayside.
00:29:51.000Again, the most controversial members who have been named right there presumably are going to be RFK Jr. and Hegseth.
00:29:57.000The Hegseth accusations, by the way, the sort of attempt to get Pete Hegseth on the notion that Pete Hegseth is an alleged The allegations against Pete Hegseth are skimpy at best.
00:30:11.000Doesn't mean that Pete has been a model citizen in his personal life.
00:30:14.000What it does mean is that if you look at the actual police allegations that were brought to the police, the ones they did not prosecute over the supposed...
00:30:21.000That Pete Hegseth allegedly committed.
00:30:23.000The reason they didn't bring charges is because the testimony of everyone surrounding the woman contradicted her own testimony.
00:30:30.000Basically, the woman suggested over and over and over that she was drunk as a skunk.
00:30:33.000And then Pete Hegseth took advantage of her in his hotel room.
00:30:37.000And there are a wide variety of sources who testified that she was absolutely not drunk, that she was actually sober.
00:30:42.000And she brought him back to his room and he was totally drunk as a skunk.
00:30:47.000If you want a very, very detailed and graphic exposition of those particular allegations, Megyn Kelly did a show last Friday in which she goes through those accusations in graphic detail.
00:31:32.000So if you are a Democrat and you're hoping to knock down a couple of the picks, the people you're going to be aiming at presumably are RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth.
00:31:39.000Hegseth, I think, is going to get through.
00:31:41.000Tulsi Gabbard, I think, will probably get through.
00:31:43.000Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a heavier lift.
00:31:45.000It'll be interesting to see how they approach the abortion aspect of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sort of policy.
00:31:50.000I think President Trump is going to have to commit right now to reinstating the Mexico City policy, which is a government policy blocking U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations that push abortion abroad.
00:32:01.000He's going to have to do that probably on his own if he wants to preserve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Basically, he'll say, listen, RFK Jr. is a pro-choice guy, but that doesn't mean that's going to be the policy of my administration.
00:32:38.000Because this guy's been a lame duck since they ousted him from the presidential race.
00:32:42.000I mean, it truly is quite an amazing thing.
00:32:44.000That the Democrats basically declared the sitting president of the United States non-compos mentis and then left him in place.
00:32:50.000They said he's too crazy and he's too addled to run for president, but he's certainly fine where he is, you know, running the world as the president of the United States.
00:32:59.000It is not a shock that in the last six months the world has continued to become worse, that it has continued to become more fiery, there have been more conflagrations.
00:33:09.000That is not a shock because President Biden is an empty chair.
00:33:12.000And yet here was President Biden stumbling and bumbling his way through a speech suggesting that he's leaving the world better off than they found it, which no, the answer there is no, absolutely not.
00:33:54.000We passed historic legislation, often with some bipartisan support, laws that are literally going to change America, not just now, but for decades and decades to come.
00:34:06.000Again, nobody believes he has left the world a better place.
00:34:09.000And then he says, who would lead the world if we did not step up?
00:34:12.000I mean, the answer is that he did not step up.
00:34:14.000And right now, that means that America's enemies are making hay while the sun shines.
00:34:19.000I know I've only been around a few days, a few years.
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00:36:28.000Speaking of lack of leadership, obviously things are escalating between Russia and Ukraine.
00:36:33.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a half dozen U.S. ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine slammed into an ammunition depot some 75 miles across the Russian border early on Tuesday, setting off further detonations that turned the sky red.
00:36:44.000The following morning, 10 British provided cruise missiles pounded the vicinity of a Kremlin run sanatorium that was apparently used as a military headquarters, smashing one after another in the town of Merino, located in Russia's Kursk region, about 20 miles from the front line there.
00:36:58.000Ukraine is now taking advantage of longer-range U.S. munitions in order to attack inside Russia.
00:37:03.000Meanwhile, Russia, the other day, used an intercontinental ballistic missile to fire conventional weaponry.
00:37:09.000The goal there, obviously, was to sort of threaten the possibility of using nuclear weapons at some point using an ICBM because you don't have to use an ICBM in order to fire conventional weapons.
00:37:21.000Right now, the Biden administration presumably is trying to up the ante in Russia in an attempt to force Putin to the table.
00:37:28.000Now, again, do I think that's necessarily a bad thing?
00:37:30.000No, I just think it's delayed and it's belated.
00:37:32.000And right now, Putin is incentivized to hold out because he believes that the Trump team coming in might cut him a better deal than the Biden team would.
00:37:40.000But that's only because the Biden team was never looking for a deal.
00:37:42.000The Biden team had no actual end goal here.
00:37:44.000And that absence of leadership, the worst possible policy, by the way, a vacuum of leadership, No goal and no means aimed at the actual goal that Zelensky wanted, which, again, if you want to free the Donbass or you want to free Crimea, you need to give them more weapons.
00:37:59.000Biden wasn't giving them more weapons and then maintaining the goal of freeing those territories.
00:38:03.000And the result has been just a stagnating war with hundreds of thousands of people dead.
00:38:07.000The lack of leadership by the United States is obvious and clear.
00:38:10.000The same thing, by the way, holds true over the weekend.
00:38:13.000Late last week, there was an announcement by the disgusting, corrupt, and anti-Semitic International Criminal Court.
00:38:19.000They issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Galant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
00:38:29.000They also, in order to suggest a moral equivalent, issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Dayif, who is dead.
00:38:35.000He was the military chief of Hamas, and he was killed in an airstrike months ago.
00:38:41.000The ICC arrest warrant is ridiculous and disgusting.
00:38:43.000The claim is that Israel was deliberately attempting to starve the Palestinians.
00:38:48.000And let me explain how insane that is.
00:38:51.000Israel has shipped in, I kid you not, a million tons of food aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:39:00.000Okay, we're talking about a billion pounds of food aid shipped into the Gaza Strip in the middle of a war in which Hamas, with the help, yes, of some civilians, is currently holding Israelis and Americans hostage.
00:39:11.000And the ICC decided that it was going to move forward with this arrest warrant.
00:39:16.000Now, part of this was an attempt by the prosecutor in this case to avoid the fact that he's now been hit with a sexual harassment allegation.
00:39:24.000Apparently members of both sexes, by the way.
00:39:26.000And so he was attempting to misdirect away from that by issuing an arrest warrant.
00:39:31.000The ICC arrest warrant doesn't apply in a bunch of places that don't abide by the ICC. So, for example, the United States is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court.
00:39:39.000Because we are aware that it is, in fact, a repository of evil dictatorial states and their European dupes.
00:39:45.000And so what we were concerned about as Americans is that they would then attempt to arrest, for example, members of the American military who served in Afghanistan or who served in Iraq.
00:39:54.000And by the way, this is something the Trump administration should in fact be worried about because if you are a signatory to the ICC and the ICC issues an arrest warrant, then you now have a legal duty under the ICC. They have no enforcement mechanism.
00:40:05.000How does someone actually get arrested?
00:40:06.000The answer is if you're a signatory to the ICC and let's say that Vladimir Putin, who also has been condemned by the ICC, he's also an arrest warrant.
00:40:17.000If he lands in an ICC signatory state, that state now has the legal obligation as a signatory to the ICC to arrest that person.
00:40:26.000So, if you think that that won't be attempted on Donald Trump, you're out of your mind.
00:40:31.000This is why the United States is not a signatory to the ICC. This used to be a sort of bipartisan understanding that the ICC was a trash organization that manipulates the very idea of international law, which doesn't exist in the first place, in order to militarize and weaponize against the opponents of some of the world's worst regimes.
00:40:51.000They're not just doing it against Netanyahu.
00:40:52.000They're doing it also against Joao Gallant, his defense secretary, his former defense secretary, who was basically fired by Netanyahu and became sort of an opposition figure for a while.
00:41:04.000The ICC attempt is now, it's becoming very clear what they're doing.
00:41:08.000So yesterday, the International Criminal Court, after issuing these arrest warrants, and a bunch of states said, we're not going to abide by this.
00:41:13.000Argentina said they're not going to abide by it.
00:41:15.000Hungary said they're not going to abide by it.
00:41:17.000Because that happened, the ICC is now signaling that it may revoke the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant if there is what they call a credible investigation into charges of genocide and famine in the Gaza Strip by figures inside Israel.
00:41:36.000And the answer is that there are figures inside Israel who are, in fact, allied with things like the ICC. Remember when I said earlier in the show the deep state is present in an enormous number of jurisdictions across the globe?
00:41:45.000whether you're talking about a deep state in Brazil that is currently targeting Jair Bolsonaro or a deep state in Israel that is, in fact, targeting Netanyahu.
00:41:52.000There are, in fact, career appointees in a wide variety of administrative agencies across the world who are directly opposed to the elected governments of these particular places and will use their power in order to stifle the agenda of those particular elected governments.
00:42:06.000Now, the United States has said already that the Trump, the incoming Trump administration has already said that they're going to take severe measures against the ICC.
00:42:15.000Hamas is celebrating the ICC, by the way.
00:42:16.000This tells you exactly what you need to know about the International Criminal Court.
00:42:23.000Again, in the International Court of Justice, which is another UN agency, the International Court of Justice, South Africa brought a case against Israel for genocide.
00:42:31.000South Africa did, which is a place of tremendous human rights violations.
00:42:35.000They did so almost certainly because Iran was paying them.
00:42:39.000And so all these international institutions have been completely weaponized.
00:42:41.000And that will happen to President Trump.
00:42:43.000I promise you that as soon as President Trump is not, maybe while he is in office, the ICC at the behest of some corrupt state will bring some sort of prosecution against Donald Trump.
00:42:52.000And then they will try to get the Europeans on the hook to arrest Trump if he were to arrive down.
00:42:58.000Now, frankly, that would be the best thing that ever happened because no European country is going to arrest the sitting president of the United States.
00:43:04.000It just shows why this institution should be dismantled wholesale.
00:43:09.000It's vile and it's disgusting and it's obviously directed as part of a broader anti-Semitic We're good to go.
00:43:37.000They just picked him up off the street.
00:43:38.000They took him 150 kilometers away from where he was kidnapped, and they clearly murdered him.
00:43:42.000By the way, he must have been mutilated in some way because they had to use methodologies in order to identify the body.
00:43:50.000The Israeli Prime Minister's office said, quote, The murder of Zvi Kogan, of blessed memory, is an abhorrent act of anti-Semitic terrorism.
00:43:55.000The State of Israel will use all means and will deal with the criminals responsible for his death to the fullest extent of the law.
00:44:02.000Israel suspects Uzbek citizens with ties to Iran were involved in Kogan's abduction and killing.
00:44:07.000According to a person familiar with the investigation, authorities in the Emirates have arrested three people in connection with the killing.
00:44:16.000Iranian agents all around the world have been attempting to kill Israelis for quite a long time.
00:44:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian intelligence agents tried to kill Israeli tourists in Turkey in 2022. They've tried to kill Israeli diplomats, and of course, they've attacked people who are not Israeli either, including the author Salman Rushdie.
00:44:33.000The targeting of Chabad is particularly egregious, and again, not rare.
00:44:37.000Islamic terrorists, unfortunately, do tend to target Chabad.
00:44:39.000Chabad is a Jewish organization that does outreach, Jewish outreach, particularly for tourists.
00:44:46.000Chabad has emissaries, they're called shluchim, they're all over the world.
00:44:50.000You'll recall that back during the Mumbai terror attack, maybe a decade ago, they actually went to a Chabad house and murdered everybody at the Chabad house.
00:44:57.000This is not a giant shock, and it comes amid a growing wave of radical pro-Hamas anti-Semitism that has extended not just into places like UAE, of course, but also into the West.
00:45:06.000So over the weekend, there were large-scale riots in the city of Montreal by pro-Hamasniks.
00:45:12.000People burning stores, people smashing up store windows, Wearing face masks, chanting Prochama slogans, setting parked cars ablaze in downtown Montreal.
00:45:26.000The protests were designed to coincide with the NATO summit in Montreal.
00:45:31.000And of course, according to the UK Daily Mail, it came on the heels of heightened tensions in the city following a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including a significant protest at Concordia University on Thursday that involves confrontations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators.
00:45:44.000So where was Justin Trudeau, the pathetic Prime Minister of Canada, handsome Bernie Sanders?
00:45:51.000Well, after he had already said that he would actually enforce, there are members of the ICC, that he would actually enforce the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, that it's Netanyahu, the head of state of a democratic country that is allied with the West, that if he visited Canada, Justin Trudeau would have him arrested.
00:46:06.000Right after that, Justin Trudeau, while the city of Montreal was being burned by Prokhamasniks, he was partying at a Taylor Swift concert like a little girl.
00:46:16.000So here was Justin Trudeau, making the most of his time in the Taylor Swift crowd, looking for all the world like a man who is, shall we say, comfortable with his sexuality.
00:46:43.000It's no wonder that Pierre Polievre is going to knock the living out of him in the next election.
00:46:49.000I mean, this guy has an approval rating in the toilet, and he ought to.
00:46:53.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spotted shaking it off at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto as Montreal descended into chaos with anti-Israel protests sweeping the streets.
00:47:04.000So meanwhile, over in Toronto, Ezra Levant, who's a right-wing political pundit, was arrested.
00:48:27.000People carrying around posters with the upside-down red triangle, which is used by Hamas to identify targets.
00:48:33.000Somebody dressed up as Yahya Sinwar to cosplay Yahya Sinwar.
00:48:37.000He's sitting on a chair holding a stick because the last image of Yahya Sinwar is that he was sitting on an armchair holding a stick, which he threw at a drone before he got blown to kingdom come, where he had an unfortunate, I would assume, afterlife that did not meet with his prior expectations.
00:48:54.000All of that is totally fine in the city of Toronto.
00:48:56.000It's taping the stuff that's really a problem.
00:48:59.000This is the world that Joe Biden has helped create.
00:49:01.000This is the world the international left has helped create.
00:49:03.000And Donald Trump is going to come in, and he's going to clean it up.
00:49:06.000And we are watching it happen in real time, and it can't come too soon.
00:49:10.000All right, guys, coming up, we'll be getting into Democrats handling their time in the wilderness.