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00:01:42.000Okay, so if you go all the way back to 2016, when President Trump beat Hillary Clinton and then had to go to the White House and meet Barack Obama, and Barack Obama was clearly deeply perturbed by meeting with Donald Trump, the opposite is now true.
00:03:15.000According to the Washington Post, the two met just after 11 a.m., their first extended meeting since the fumbling debate performance that drove Biden out of the race.
00:03:22.000For Trump, it marked a triumphant return to an office where he sat for four years, a week after decisively winning an election by relentlessly attacking Joe Biden's mental capacity and then by casting the Biden administration as a disaster.
00:03:32.000Congratulations, Biden said at the start of the meeting.
00:03:34.000During the brief time reporters were in the room, he added he hoped it would be a smooth transition.
00:03:38.000Trump said, politics is tough, and in many cases, it is not a nice world.
00:04:30.000So there have been a lot of rumors floating out of Mar-a-Lago that perhaps the Marco Rubio nomination for Secretary of State It was being held up for some reason.
00:04:39.000Those rumors were put to bed today when President Trump released a statement picking Marco Rubio formally.
00:04:44.000He said, quote, It is my great honor to announce that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is hereby nominated to be the United States Secretary of State.
00:04:50.000Marco is a highly respected leader and a very powerful voice for freedom.
00:04:52.000He'll be a strong advocate for our nation, a true friend to our allies, and a fearless warrior who will never back down to our adversaries.
00:04:57.000I look forward to working with Marco to make America and the world safe and great again.
00:05:02.000And it's funny, there are a lot of people who are, you I'm a little upset about Marco Rubio, which I frankly don't understand because Marco Rubio is just a simple advocate of peace through strength.
00:05:10.000See, there is such a thing as a Trump doctrine.
00:05:13.000There was a Bush doctrine that emerged after 9-11, which was about spreading freedom in the world.
00:05:44.000Now, America first doesn't mean that we ignore the rest of the world.
00:05:47.000It turns out that a lot of American interests are bound up in what's going on in the rest of the world.
00:05:51.000So, for example, if the sea lanes are threatened, that is a big problem for America.
00:05:55.000We rely on the freedom of the seas in order to ensure a free and open market economy so we can sell our goods, so we can receive the inputs, and so that we can trade with our friends and business partners.
00:06:43.000The Trump doctrine says, well, you calibrate the amount that you invest in that issue to the importance of the issue to the American voter and to the American citizen.
00:06:51.000If we have a very weak interest in whether there's a democracy in a far-flung place that doesn't affect America, well, then we probably are not going to devote serious resources to that place because that is not a core American interest.
00:07:03.000And Wilsonian bromides about democracy and freedom don't make up for a lack of American interests in these places, right?
00:07:09.000This is one of the things that separates the Trump doctrine from the sort of freedom everywhere Bush doctrine that neoconservatives, so-called neoconservatives, pushed during the Bush administration.
00:07:19.000The Trump doctrine says that all resources are scarce resources.
00:07:44.000Principle number one was America's interests come first.
00:07:47.000Principle number two is carefully calibrate what kind of resources you wish to expend to meet the strength of the American interest in these places.
00:07:57.000Third, once you've decided, you gotta go.
00:08:00.000Third, all measures and means necessary to achieve America's interests are on the table.
00:08:05.000So that means if we have to strangle the Iranian economy with sanctions, that's what we do.
00:08:09.000If it means that Donald Trump has to threaten Kim Jong-un with his little red button, that's what we do.
00:08:14.000If it means that President Trump has to fire a missile and kill Qasem Soleimani, that's what we do.
00:08:20.000The ancient Latin adage, which goes something like, civis passam parabellum.
00:08:26.000That's a basic principle of the Trump Doctrine, meaning you build up, you threaten, you have credible threat of the use of force, and you don't make nice.
00:08:52.000And fourth, we ought to say all these things out loud.
00:08:54.000We ought to say what America's interests are.
00:08:56.000We ought to say what sort of means we are willing to use to actually achieve those interests.
00:09:02.000And we should say out loud that if we go, we are going to go.
00:09:05.000We're going to punch you so hard in the face, you will never recover.
00:09:08.000If we say all those things out loud, then it reduces the risk that somebody is going to misinterpret what it is that we are doing in the world.
00:09:14.000Now, I don't see any of those things that Marco Rubio disagrees with.
00:09:17.000In fact, I don't see any of those things that Mike Walls, the NSA, disagrees with, or John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA. Or as we'll get to, even Tulsi Gabbard over at DNI. In fact, I don't see very much disagree with there, broadly speaking.
00:09:30.000Donald Trump's foreign policy team is a peace-through-strength foreign policy team.
00:09:44.000He also announced that he was going to be picking Tulsi Gabbard.
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00:12:10.000So Tulsi Gabbard, of course, is a more controversial pick because she's a former Democrat.
00:12:15.000Because there is a lot of kind of ill will back in 2019.
00:12:19.000She made some statements about the Assad regime, suggesting they weren't really America's enemy because we weren't fighting them at the time.
00:12:25.000And what she meant by that, if you go back and you actually read her comments, was not that Assad was not violating human rights.
00:12:30.000What she actually said at the time was, yes, Assad is violating human rights, but we don't have a significant American interest in what's going on over there.
00:12:37.000She's also taken a more dovish perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war, for example.
00:12:41.000She believes that it was Western encroachments in Ukraine via the attempt to enter Ukraine into the EU and into NATO that led to Russia making its move to invade.
00:12:52.000So she's got more controversial foreign policy views as opposed to some of the more traditionalist.
00:12:56.000But the reason that Donald Trump is picking her for DNI is not really because of those foreign policy views.
00:13:01.000The director of national intelligence, that position coordinates between the CIA and the FBI. That's what that position is.
00:13:08.000So he's putting her as part of the intel community.
00:13:10.000Well, because Tulsi Gabbard knows really, really well how many people have been targeted falsely by the intel community, including President Trump during his first term.
00:13:18.000In fact, she herself was apparently, according to her, put on a terror watch list just a couple of months ago.
00:13:24.000Well, now she's in charge of the DNI, so I would assume she's coming right off that terror watch list.
00:13:29.000Here is Tulsi Gabbard speaking with Chris Williamson over a Modern Wisdom about the reality of a functioning democracy.
00:13:34.000And the most troubling part about, there's so many things wrong with this, of course, but really at the most fundamental level, you look at, you know, our country is the oldest democracy in the world.
00:13:48.000But the reality of a truly functioning and thriving democracy that has brought to life the vision that our founders had for us, that we really have a government of, by, and for the people, and that we have the ability and responsibility for that matter to ensure that the government we have only exists and that we have the ability and responsibility for that matter to ensure that the government
00:14:09.000That becomes very hard to do, to hold people accountable, when the person that you voted for is certainly not the one making the decisions.
00:14:19.000Okay, she's pointing out the predations of the bureaucratic state, right?
00:14:22.000If you vote for a politician and then it ends up being the bureaucracy that rules everything, that's a problem.
00:14:26.000She had this to say, Tulsi Gabbard, with regard to the intelligence community and the manipulation of the intelligence community.
00:14:35.000I'll never forget when Chuck Schumer on television warned Trump is an idiot to mess with the intelligence community because they can screw you six ways from Sunday.
00:14:52.000The highest ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate...
00:14:58.000Warning the American people, essentially, against messing with the intelligence community because of how badly they can screw you.
00:15:09.000As though they are some autonomous body of government that is accountable to no one.
00:15:35.000Why are they working so hard to squash any discussion, squash any debate, squash any questions about whatever war they happen to be wanting to wage at any given time?
00:15:50.000So, again, the reason that she's being brought in is presumably to cleanse the intelligence agencies of, again, a lot of the dead wood, a lot of the procedures that presumably are allowing for the spying on American citizens.
00:16:01.000Presumably the FISA courts are going to come under a lot of scrutiny given the fact that the Trump campaign was in fact spied upon by the FISA courts in the 2016 election illegally.
00:16:30.000There is no reason he shouldn't be able to get his appointments through so long as they perform decently at their hearings, for example.
00:16:38.000Tulsi Gabbard, you would imagine that some of the more hawkish senators will have questions about her foreign policy, what it means for how she approaches intelligence policy, for example.
00:16:46.000But, again, Tulsi Gabbard, a perfectly expected pick from President Trump.
00:16:50.000She is, of course, a Democrat who came across the aisle to support him.
00:16:53.000The most controversial pick of the day was not Tulsi Gabbard.
00:16:56.000The most controversial pick of the day...
00:16:58.000Matt Gaetz, Representative Matt Gaetz from Florida.
00:17:00.000Now, of course, Matt Gaetz is famous for a variety of reasons.
00:17:03.000He's incredibly colorful, shall we say.
00:17:06.000Matt Gaetz says a lot of inflammatory things.
00:17:08.000There's a lot of things for the online crowd.
00:17:11.000Matt Gaetz, of course, is the one who led a rebellion against then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and basically forced his ouster, not because he thought that McCarthy was doing a horrible job running the House, but But McCarthy suggests, because Gates didn't want him self-investigated, there's all sorts of accusations flying back and forth between McCarthy and Matt Gaetz.
00:17:29.000It is true that Matt Gaetz is not particularly well-loved by a lot of other members of the House.
00:17:35.000They think sometimes that he grandstands.
00:17:36.000There are some things that are true about Matt Gaetz, however.
00:17:39.000One of those things is that when Matt Gaetz goes, he goes.
00:17:41.000I think the reason that President Trump wants him as AG is because Matt Gaetz is a passionate advocate against the predations of the DOJ against Donald Trump specifically.
00:18:23.000Taxpayer funding for political campaigns to ban members of Congress for life from becoming lobbyists and for the same reason you don't let the referee bet on the game ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks.
00:18:40.000We are on a mission to rescue and save this country and we ride or die with Donald John Trump to the end.
00:18:52.000Again, President Trump is looking for loyalty in his picks.
00:18:55.000He can expect that, I think, from anybody that he appoints, given the fact that there is a unitary executive branch.
00:19:00.000Here's Matt Gaetz going after the Department of Justice for targeting President Trump.
00:19:04.000Again, this is just a few months back.
00:19:07.000You can clear it all up for us right now.
00:19:09.000Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg's office and Fannie Willis' office and Letitia James' office?
00:19:21.000The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state.
00:19:48.000You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against Trump.
00:19:55.000And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it's a conspiracy theory, that will be evident.
00:20:02.000But when you say, well, we'll take your request, and then we'll sort of work it through the DOJ's accommodation process, then you're actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you're concerned about.
00:20:29.000Whether he gets through a confirmation battle is another question.
00:20:32.000There are already several senators who have come out expressing serious doubts about Matt Gaetz, it's very questionable just on a raw level whether he is going to get through that confirmation process.
00:20:41.000Again, I do not think that it is likely that the Senate is going to go to recess in order to allow President Trump to make recess appointments when, again, the Republicans have a majority.
00:20:51.000Right now, for example, Matt Gaetz remains under continued investigation by the House Committee on Ethics over allegations of sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, and other allegations.
00:21:02.000Suffice to say, a lot of senators, a lot of congresspeople are discomfited by Gates as the pick.
00:21:07.000President Trump's announcement says, quote, Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan weaponization of our justice system.
00:21:26.000Matt will end weaponized government, protect our borders, dismantle criminal organizations, and restore America's badly shattered faith and confidence in the Justice Department.
00:21:33.000On the House Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight of DOJ, Matt played a key role in defeating the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax and exposing alarming and systemic government corruption and weaponization.
00:21:42.000He's a champion for Constitution and the rule of law.
00:21:46.000Now again, you can see exactly why Trump picked him.
00:21:48.000With that said, it's going to be a rough road for him in the confirmation battle because there are a lot of Republicans who look at the allegations surrounding him or they look at the sort of fractious way that he approached his fellow members of Congress.
00:21:59.000This sort of stuff does matter in confirmation hearings.
00:22:02.000That is an uphill battle for President Trump.
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00:24:18.000Now, that may have some sort of unintended good consequences, by the way.
00:24:22.000If it turns out that the entire Senate expends all of its ire, On Matt Gaetz, it means that some of the other supposedly controversial nominees, like, for example, Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, who's a terrific pick, would probably get through relatively unscathed.
00:24:35.000Because if you're a Republican and you're going to reject one of Trump's picks and you have to prioritize, there are some Republicans in the Senate who are going to prioritize Gaetz over Hegseth.
00:24:45.000So there may be some unintended side effects of Gates's nomination, even if he doesn't pass through the confirmation process.
00:24:51.000However, that is definitely going to be Trump's hardest pick in terms of getting that nominee through a Senate that is fairly closely divided.
00:24:58.000Remember, the Republicans in the Senate only hold 53 seats.
00:25:00.000So all it takes is four Republican senators dropping off and Gates is toast.
00:25:04.000Already you have a multiplicity of senators who have signaled their discomfort with the idea of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.
00:25:10.000By the way, if it doesn't end up being Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump has a wide plethora of different attorneys on the Republican side of the aisle who will be just as aggressive as Matt Gaetz in that position.
00:25:22.000All I'm saying is that even if he's not, it's not like a mispick by Trump.
00:25:25.000It's not like Trump did something terribly wrong here.
00:25:27.000It just means that Gates would not be the guy.
00:25:29.000It would be someone else who would give you most of the benefits and maybe not some of the drawbacks that Matt Gates apparently presents to some of his colleagues.
00:25:37.000Matt Gates, by the way, has already resigned his seat effective immediately.
00:25:40.000There's a lot of speculation about why that is.
00:25:42.000Is he trying to still avoid this House investigation?
00:25:47.000The one that he gave to Mike Johnson is that he's trying to resign early so that Governor DeSantis in Florida can declare an early election as fast as possible because there's about an eight-week period to select and fill in a vacancy.
00:25:59.000And so the idea would be that if he resigns now, then his seat gets filled by another Republican.
00:26:03.000He's in a solid our district before this begins to be a problem for the Republican majority in Congress.
00:26:08.000That would be the justification Gates is giving.
00:26:19.000And I think there's a bit of confusion about what the Senate majority leader does.
00:26:23.000The Senate majority leader, as I've been saying, is not a Newt Gingrich figure.
00:26:26.000It's not a matter of just presenting a Republican vision.
00:26:28.000It's a matter of trying to cobble together majorities out of very, very slim majorities, and then getting 80% of what you want.
00:26:36.000So, in other words, the harder you charge as a Senate majority leader, Sometimes it backfires.
00:26:41.000The reason Mitch McConnell has been, whether you like him or not, a deeply effective legislator over the course of his career, the most effective Senate majority leader the Republicans have had in 100 years.
00:26:49.000The reason for that is because Mitch McConnell is really Machiavellian.
00:26:53.000It's because he actually knows how to wheel and deal.
00:26:55.000It's because he knows how to do all the things in politics nobody likes to see.
00:26:58.000The stuff that doesn't play amazing on talk radio, for example.
00:27:04.000The stuff that always is sort of the seamy side of politics, the bargaining, the to and fro, all that stuff McConnell is good at.
00:27:12.000So that means that the qualities you're seeking in a Senate majority leader, somebody who actually is not going to be extremely loud, extremely brash, somebody very often who's able to get the thing done.
00:27:22.000Presumably, I would imagine that is why there is a secret ballot for Senate majority leaders, specifically because all these senators have to decide who is best positioned to actually help cobble together the majority.
00:27:34.000And you don't necessarily, I mean, it's sort of a different process than you voting for a bill.
00:27:40.000A bill is an up or down thing that the American public obviously has an interest in seeing.
00:27:45.000How you do your internal work is a little bit different.
00:27:48.000I mean, I see the case both ways, but that would be the logic in any case.
00:27:51.000In any case, Rick Scott, who is backed by a number of people who are in sort of conservative media, he was knocked out in the first round.
00:27:58.000Thune then ended up defeating Senator John Cornyn from Texas.
00:28:02.000Thun has been serving as the number two to Mitch McConnell for six years and staked out a middle ground during the campaign.
00:28:06.000He agreed to listen closely to GOP colleagues, according to The Wall Street Journal, on the direction of the chamber and openly embraced the Trump agenda.
00:28:12.000He did so without explicitly repudiating the Senate's current operation under McConnell.
00:28:16.000He said, I promise to be a leader who serves the entire Republican conference.
00:28:20.000We'll have an ambitious agenda and we'll take each and every Republican working together to be successful.
00:28:26.000The first test flared up immediately because Trump had suggested that candidates for Senate leader commit to allow at least some of the nominees to take office through recess appointment.
00:28:37.000Thune reacted, saying he was open to ideas on how to confirm nominees more quickly.
00:28:41.000He said, what we're going to do is make sure that we are processing his nominees in a way that gets them into those positions so we can implement his agenda.
00:28:47.000He said on nominees, the Republicans would, quote, explore all options to make sure they get moved and that they get moved quickly.
00:28:53.000Now, with that said, obviously, John Thune, he is committed to making sure that Republicans' voices are heard, meaning that if Republicans want to shoot down a nominee, it's doubtful whether he is going to allow a recess appointment to overrule the Republican caucus as a whole.
00:29:12.000Senator Joni Ur said he's got his work cut out for him.
00:29:14.000Yeah, you know, that is definitely true.
00:29:17.000So, you know, we'll see how all this plays out, but that's how the system of government is supposed to work.
00:29:21.000It's how the system of government is supposed to work.
00:29:23.000There should be this back and forth, this to and fro.
00:29:26.000You end up with better policy that way.
00:29:29.000President Trump knows that, which is why he sent congratulations to Senator Thune.
00:29:32.000He said he moves quickly and will do an outstanding job.
00:29:34.000I look forward to working with him as well as Senators John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip, Tom Cotton, Senate Republican Conference Chairman, Shelley Moore Capito, Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman, James Langford, Republican Conference Vice Chairman, and Tim Scott, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman, to make America great again.
00:29:49.000Meanwhile, President Trump endorsed Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, hours ahead of any potential Speaker vote.
00:30:07.000No more of the shooting inside the tent when it comes to policymaking.
00:30:11.000And I think Trump knows that, which is why, of course, he is moving along with Mike Johnson.
00:30:17.000And meanwhile, the Democrats are struggling to figure out what exactly to do.
00:30:23.000One of the dirty little secrets, of course, is that in many of the circles of power, they're kind of happy Trump won.
00:30:28.000If you are in business, you are very, very happy that Donald Trump won.
00:30:33.000If you're a global leader, if you're a member of another country and you're looking at Trump, you are probably happy that Trump won.
00:30:41.000When I say that, I mean, I've spoken with leaders of other countries, people who have publicly denounced Donald Trump.
00:30:47.000And they are relieved at the idea that the Biden era is coming to an end.
00:30:51.000It's been fraught with chaos and insanity.
00:30:53.000They liked Donald Trump's foreign policy much better than what they are seeing right now.
00:30:57.000Even Politico is noting that, quote, the Trump resistance goes flaccid.
00:31:02.000Donald Trump's 2016 election stunner sparked a global revolt.
00:31:05.000His 2024 triumph has been met with a weary shrug.
00:31:08.000The Republicans' first win saw millions of political opponents protesting on the streets soon after the vote, organizing themselves with hashtags like resist.
00:31:16.000But since Trump's crushing victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in last Tuesday's election, the reaction from both Democratic voters and officials in European capitals has been less one of fiery outrage and more muted resignation.
00:31:28.000A European diplomat based in Washington, D.C. said, Well, yes, it is also true that Trump is part of a broader populist right movement that is emerging throughout the civilized world.
00:31:43.000A right movement that is tired of the scavenger philosophy promoted by the left that says that open immigration, largely from places that do not like Western civilization, is a good idea.
00:31:53.000Or that the best the West can hope for is cultural stagnation and economic decline.
00:31:57.000Turns out people don't like that very much.
00:31:59.000And they're rebelling against that all across Europe.
00:32:04.000And they're rebelling in the United States as well.
00:32:08.000There's been a profound mood shift in 2024 compared to eight years ago, said Eileen Severs, associate professor in political science at the Free University of Brussels.
00:32:15.000It's not unsurprising to witness a certain level of political burnout, of exhaustion, after the massive campaign, Severs said.
00:32:20.000I think a lot of activists are very tired.
00:32:22.000It's deflation after all these weeks of campaigning.
00:32:26.000Not just that, it turns out that Trump did a pretty good job the first time.
00:32:31.000A second European diplomat based in DC said, quote, people have reasonably fresh memories of what works and what doesn't work and how you get on the right side of him and how important, disproportionately important that is.
00:32:41.000So again, the levels of anxiety for Trump are not high.
00:32:45.000And it turns out that if you like your pocketbook, you're happy as well.
00:32:48.000Because consumer sentiment is bouncing around and now it is up.
00:32:53.000Again, it's not that difficult to get consumer sentiment up.
00:32:56.000All you have to do is tell people you're not going to take all of their money, regulate them out of existence, or inflate all their savings away.
00:33:15.000It's had a massive run from about 70,000 to 90,000 since election day alone.
00:33:21.000The election of a pro-crypto president, according to the Wall Street Journal, has sent Bitcoin prices up 30% since election days.
00:33:27.000Traders are wagering Bitcoin will reach $100,000 before the end of the year with $850 million worth of options contracts betting on the milestone by the December 27th expiration.
00:33:38.000The crypto industry is now betting on a wave of deregulation and industry-friendly policies.
00:33:42.000Yes, it turns out that when you're friendly to industry, industry is friendly right back to you.
00:33:47.000Meanwhile, Democrats are struggling to come up with answers.
00:33:51.000It seems as though they're starting to realize they need to snap back into moderation.
00:33:55.000So, for example, over in San Francisco, a person named Daniel Lurie was elected mayor.
00:34:00.000And he sounds like kind of an Eric Adams moderate now.
00:34:03.000He says, I'm a lifelong Democrat, but it's time for some common sense over here.
00:34:07.000I am a lifelong Democrat, but we don't think of ourselves as progressives or moderates or conservatives here in San Francisco.
00:34:14.000We just want to get back to common sense.
00:34:17.000We have to deliver the basics, and that's my plan.
00:34:20.000That's the mandate that I was elected to fulfill.
00:34:25.000Again, moderation from the San Francisco mayor.
00:34:28.000He also added, you know what people actually want?
00:34:30.000They're not that concerned about all the crazy social policies.
00:34:32.000They just want to feel safe in their cities.
00:34:36.000They want a mayor that is focused on delivering results.
00:34:39.000That's the mandate I was voted in with.
00:34:58.000In fact, Democrats are starting to argue about all of this.
00:35:01.000There's a piece in Politico that charts out a new memo that is making the rounds, like a three-and-a-half-page memo, pointing out how badly Democrats botched this.
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00:37:01.000So now the Democrats are trying to figure out what their pathway forward looks like.
00:37:04.000The obvious pathway forward for them is to jettison the identity politics.
00:37:08.000Politically speculating that they might actually have to do just that.
00:37:12.000Peace and Politico by Jonathan Martin, their senior political columnist, quote, Democrats wonder, are we too correct?
00:37:17.000The depth of the 2024 defeat brings tough questions about a base built around identity groups.
00:37:22.000He says that the party might need an opening to rethink their orientation around affinity group politics.
00:37:29.000The question is whether they'll be emboldened or cower when one of those groups, as identity-based organizations are invariably called, speak up.
00:37:37.000Whoever can retain the party's traditional commitments to the most vulnerable and also appeal to voters who just rejected Harris will emerge as the Democrats' strongest 2028 nominee and perhaps the next president.
00:37:47.000But again, the question is going to be whether they are actually able to wake up to that so long as people, for example, like Joy Reid are out there.
00:38:04.000Furthermore, I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination and schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowments taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.
00:38:33.000A portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies that hurt our country so badly.
00:38:43.000Colleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers, and now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all.
00:38:55.000We are going to have real education in America.
00:40:18.000We know exactly why that pick was made.
00:40:20.000In fact, it turns out that the threats that we face are going to be amply facedown by Pete Hegseth.
00:40:26.000Mikey Gallagher, former representative from Wisconsin, who I very much hope will be in consideration for Secretary of the Navy because he's tremendously knowledgeable and he's a real hawk on China, like a super China hawk, super bright guy.
00:40:36.000He has a piece in the Wall Street Journal titled, Pentagon has two years to prevent World War III. He says, We're good
00:41:07.000The first task is to fix the U.S. Navy.
00:41:10.000America needs a maritime industrial base that can counter China's.
00:41:13.000Pentagon requirements for building maritime assets involve too many uncoordinated stakeholders.
00:41:17.000The Pentagon establishes warfighting requirements, such as the number of missiles on a ship, without regard to interdependent technical specifications, such as that ship's center of gravity.
00:41:25.000When those technical specs aren't tightly linked to warfighting requirements, the mismatch can cause underperformance or unplanned costs in time.
00:41:31.000The DOD should return to a board model that served the Navy well until the 1960s.
00:41:36.000The Navy should also create an office focused on expediting the development and deployment of certain warfighting technologies similar to the Rapid Capabilities Office at the Air Force or Space Force.
00:41:45.000Again, he has all sorts of suggestions like this, and I think that Pete Hegseth is going to not only take those suggestions, he will do more than that.
00:41:53.000He's going to be fighting the wokeness in the military.
00:41:56.000He's not concerned with a military that is focused on the sexual diversity of its membership.
00:42:02.000He's more concerned about whether they are good at, you know, killing bad people.
00:42:05.000That is the thing that he is mostly concerned about, the efficacy of the American military.
00:42:11.000Hegseth has said, China is building an army to defeat America.
00:42:14.000We need to build an army to defeat them.
00:42:16.000China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America.
00:42:24.000So if our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe, and yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all of that, but a big part of it, and if, you know, 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, What does that look like?
00:42:43.000I mean, if they've already got us by the balls economically, which you pointed out very well, with our grid, culturally there's plenty of elite capture going on around the globe.
00:42:56.000I mean, and then microchips and everything.
00:43:20.000Again, this is the person who's apparently too ignorant to be the Secretary of Defense.
00:43:24.000He's also getting hit over the course of the last 24 hours because someone surfaced a clip of him saying that women shouldn't be fighting in combat roles.
00:43:30.000Again, like, um, why is that controversial?
00:43:39.000There are plenty of able-bodied men to do that.
00:43:42.000Straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.
00:43:45.000It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.
00:43:50.000We've all served with women and they're great.
00:43:52.000It's just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally, not traditionally, over human history, men in those positions are more capable.
00:44:05.000And so he is not wrong about any of that.
00:44:07.000Like, again, if this is the controversial stuff about him, I'm not really seeing it.
00:44:11.000And the other nominee who's getting a lot of flack, Mike Huckabee, as possible U.S. ambassador to Israel.
00:44:17.000That is because Huckabee is wildly pro-Israel.
00:44:46.000This, of course, has Democrats with their panties all in a twist because they're very upset about the fact that he's saying true things about the situation over there.
00:44:54.000That there is no peace partner and that Israel does, in fact, have a legal claim to the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria, the biblical homeland of the Jewish people.
00:45:01.000Here's Chris Van Hollen, senator, saying this is very, very bad.
00:45:06.000He supports this concept of a greater Israel, Israel controlling the entire territory, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
00:45:17.000It's a vision that has been embraced by the far right in Israel, including members of the Netanyahu government, like Smotrich and Ben Gavir.
00:45:29.000If he continues to pursue these views, Okay, that is precisely wrong.
00:45:40.000The reason that is precisely wrong is that even if you wanted a two-state solution, Israel should be seen to have a claim to the thing that it is claiming.
00:45:47.000If I want to make a deal with you, any deal, let's say we're going to make a deal over this Tumblr.
00:45:52.000Okay, and I say, listen, I own this Tumblr.
00:46:05.000The purpose of a negotiation is to settle mutually exclusive claims.
00:46:08.000The point Huckabee is making, correctly, is that Israel does have its own exclusive claim to sovereignty over a particular territory.
00:46:14.000And then, Palestinians are making similar claims about the sovereignty of that territory.
00:46:18.000If it's a territorial dispute, that can be solved in a variety of ways.
00:46:22.000What cannot be solved is an exterminationist, eliminationist viewpoint that says the entire state of Israel has to go.
00:46:30.000Okay, recognizing the quote-unquote legitimate claims on both sides would be a proper way to start.
00:46:36.000What would not be a proper way to start is by saying that one side, for example, the Israelis, have no legitimate claim at all to Judea and Samaria, which is not true.
00:46:43.000That is the position of people like Chris Van Hollen.
00:46:46.000Meanwhile, Turkey continues to be a thorn in the side of NATO. Turkey was originally admitted to NATO as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, because of course they're in a very territorially important area.
00:46:57.000However, Turkey has now turned into an Islamist dictatorship under Erdogan.
00:47:02.000They have now announced that they are severing all relationships with Israel.
00:47:06.000The Turkish president said he will not continue or develop relations with Israel in the future.
00:47:09.000This does beg the question as to why exactly Turkey is a member of NATO at this point.
00:47:14.000Why precisely should Turkey continue to receive NATO protection under, for example, Article 5, if they are pretty much explicitly in a Cold War with an ally of the United States and still most of Europe?
00:47:30.000I'm looking forward to President Trump making some corrections over at NATO. NATO's military chief, Admiral Rob Bauer, for example, he was caught on tape yesterday asking why people are so against being spied upon.
00:47:40.000I mean, I have some answers to that one, actually.
00:47:43.000And again, it's the me and the we discussion.
00:47:49.000Now, everybody has given away everything to the tech companies in the U.S., By saying yes, yes, yes, when you wanted the app of Google and everything.
00:47:58.000If the government says, can I see your phone for ten seconds, there's a revolution.
00:48:03.000But we've given away everything already.
00:48:06.000So it's a ridiculous discussion on privacy.
00:48:13.000I think we have gone too far in many of these things.
00:48:16.000We should look a little bit less to the individual and a little bit more to what does it mean for the group, for society.
00:48:23.000Yeah, I'm a little bit discomforted by the head of NATO saying that.
00:48:27.000He also specifically criticized Elon Musk, which is becoming sort of stock in trade for a globalist elite.
00:48:33.000In terms of disinformation and cyber attacks and all the things that are happening, influencing elections, I think it's a serious problem.
00:48:43.000And I think the use of social media is basically amplifying everything that is being done by bot factories.
00:48:55.000And I'm very much in favor of freedom of speech, but I'm not necessarily convinced that what Mr.
00:49:03.000Musk is doing on X is the right approach.
00:49:06.000I'm very much in favor of freedom of speech.
00:49:11.000But there is a lot of things on Twitter that is not helping our societies at all.
00:49:17.000Well, you know, I think that if you're worried about freedom of speech and if you actually pretend that you care about these things, you just have some quibbles with Elon Musk, you might want to talk to some members of NATO like Turkey, which again is an Islamist dictatorship.
00:49:28.000I'm also enjoying the revisionist history that you're getting from this military chief saying that Afghanistan was never of strategic importance.
00:49:34.000That's weird since NATO was involved there for nigh on 20 years.
00:49:40.000For me, there is a big difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine.
00:49:44.000Actually, Afghanistan was never of strategic importance.
00:49:49.000If we're really honest, Afghanistan was not of strategic importance.
00:49:56.000We spent 20 years there, and we did a lot of things, and people lost their lives, but if you ask the question, was it of strategic importance in Afghanistan, the answer is no.
00:50:07.000Okay, we're going to find out in really short order whether that's true, since Joe Biden pulled out of there ignominiously, left them billions of dollars in military equipment, and al-Qaeda's reconstituting.
00:50:15.000So we'll find out whether, in fact, that is the case.
00:50:17.000And if that was the case, why wasn't anybody at NATO saying that earlier?