The Ben Shapiro Show - March 17, 2025


Trump SOARS in Polling, UNLEASHES On Houthis!


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A tornado touched down in the United States on Saturday, killing at least 32 people. President Trump responded by unleashing the U.S. military on the Yemeni Houthis and Iranian front group that s been attacking shipping in the Red Sea.

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00:00:00.000 Folks, tons going on in the news.
00:00:01.000 President Trump has some excellent poll numbers.
00:00:03.000 He is also unleashing the American military on the Yemeni Houthis and Iranian front group that's been attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
00:00:10.000 So the American military going to town over the weekend first.
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00:00:44.000 Over the weekend, 32 Americans were killed in a massive American storm after fatalities reported, apparently, in both Kansas and Mississippi.
00:00:52.000 Violent tornadoes, according to the Associated Press, ripped through parts of the United States, wiping out schools, toppling semi-tractor trailers in several states.
00:00:59.000 It was a huge monster storm that has killed at least 32 more people.
00:01:03.000 More severe weather was expected late on Saturday.
00:01:07.000 Lots of vehicles involved, truly a terrible accident.
00:01:10.000 You've already seen the attempt by some in the media to try and paint the Trump administration as responsible for all of this.
00:01:15.000 That, of course, is incredibly silly.
00:01:17.000 Natural disasters strike on everybody's watch.
00:01:20.000 The question is what the fallout looks like and what the federal government can do and should do in response that has yet to be seen.
00:01:25.000 So all this sort of preliminary blame on the Trump administration for what happened with these tornadoes across the country, that's silly.
00:01:33.000 And it is not Joe Biden's fault that a tornado hit North Carolina.
00:01:36.000 It's his fault if the federal government doesn't do what it's supposed to do afterwards.
00:01:40.000 We're going to find out in very short order whether the Trump administration rises to the occasion.
00:01:44.000 I have a feeling that they absolutely will.
00:01:46.000 Meanwhile, the big news of the weekend was that President Trump announced attacks by the United States military on the Houthis.
00:01:54.000 So the Houthis are a group of America-hating, Jew-hating, anti-Israel, anti-American, near-satanic terrorists in Yemen.
00:02:04.000 And they've been at war with the Saudi government for a very long time.
00:02:07.000 And one of the things that the Biden administration did was basically push the Saudis to give up that war with the Yemeni Houthis on quote-unquote humanitarian grounds.
00:02:15.000 And the result was that the Houthis, after October 7th, decided that they were going to not only target Israel with some missile strikes, but they were also going to target shipping in the Red Sea.
00:02:25.000 The Houthis are almost entirely funded and staffed by the Iranian military.
00:02:30.000 The Iranian military has propped up the Houthis for literally years.
00:02:33.000 What's been going on in Yemen has been a proxy war.
00:02:35.000 The only reason that that had to involve the United States at all is because the Houthis began to attack shipping in the Red Sea, which is a major artery for international shipping and trade.
00:02:45.000 So I asked my friends and sponsors at Perplexity to actually explain how Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have affected pricing.
00:02:52.000 So I said, how much have prices risen thanks to Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea?
00:02:55.000 How much has international shipping been affected by Houthi attacks on that shipping?
00:02:59.000 And the answer is, the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have had significant impacts on both prices and international shipping.
00:03:05.000 Global consumer goods inflation increased by approximately 0.6 to 0.7% in 2024 alone due to higher shipping rates caused by Houthi attacks.
00:03:13.000 By the way, that's a lot.
00:03:14.000 Okay, that is a lot.
00:03:15.000 Understand that right now, the inflation rate in the United States is hovering somewhere around 2.8 to 3%.
00:03:21.000 Imagine taking 0.6 or 0.7 off of that.
00:03:24.000 Now you're closer to normality.
00:03:26.000 And a huge chunk of that...
00:03:27.000 Could theoretically be attributed to just the attacks that the Houthis are launching on international shipping.
00:03:32.000 The average cost for shipping a 40-foot container has risen to around $3,000, up from less than $1,500 before the attacks.
00:03:39.000 Why?
00:03:39.000 Well, because instead of going through the Red Sea, shipping, which used to take that shortcut through the Red Sea and then through the Mediterranean, instead, now they're going all the way around the Horn of Africa, which takes much, much longer, is much more costly.
00:03:51.000 Additional fuel costs for rerouting ships around Africa are roughly a million dollars more per voyage.
00:03:56.000 About 90% of ships are now avoiding the Red Sea route due to those Houthi attacks.
00:04:01.000 Container shipping through the Red Sea has declined by approximately 90%.
00:04:04.000 The number of merchant ships passing through the Red Sea annually has dropped from 25,000 to 10,000.
00:04:10.000 And again, that adds an average of 10 to 14 days to voyage times.
00:04:13.000 If you're wondering why it takes you longer to get things than it did a couple of years ago, that would be one reason.
00:04:18.000 75% of all U.S. and U.K. affiliated vessels, 60% of EU affiliated vessels are now rerouting around Africa instead of transiting.
00:04:26.000 The Red Sea.
00:04:27.000 At least 30 ships have been damaged by the Houthi attacks.
00:04:30.000 And again, normally the Suez Canal handles about 12% of all global trade.
00:04:34.000 That's $1 trillion of goods per year.
00:04:36.000 And that is being shrunk close to zero because of these Houthi attacks.
00:04:39.000 So yeah, it's about time we obliterated them.
00:04:41.000 Well, President Trump announced over the weekend that the United States military was now targeting the Houthis.
00:04:48.000 This is on Saturday.
00:04:49.000 Quote, today.
00:04:49.000 I've ordered the United States military to launch decisive and powerful military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
00:04:54.000 They've waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American and other ships, aircraft, and drones.
00:04:59.000 Joe Biden's response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going. 1.00
00:05:03.000 It's been over a year since a U.S. flag commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden.
00:05:09.000 The last American warship to go through the Red Sea four months ago was attacked by the Houthis over a dozen times.
00:05:13.000 Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at US aircraft and targeted our troops and allies.
00:05:18.000 These relentless assaults have cost the US and world economy many billions of dollars while at the same time putting innocent lives at risk.
00:05:24.000 This is President Trump on Truth Social.
00:05:25.000 The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated.
00:05:27.000 We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.
00:05:30.000 The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important waterways of the world, grinding vast swaths of global commerce to a halt, attacking the core principle of freedom of navigation upon which international trade and commerce depends. 0.98
00:05:40.000 Our brave warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorist bases, leaders and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air and naval assets, and to restore navigational freedom.
00:05:50.000 No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the waterways of the world.
00:05:55.000 To all Houthi terrorists, your time is up. 0.99
00:05:57.000 Your attacks must stop starting today.
00:05:58.000 If they don't...
00:05:59.000 Hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before.
00:06:02.000 To Iran, support for the Houthi terrorists must end immediately.
00:06:05.000 Do not threaten the American people, their president, who has received one of the largest mandates in presidential history, or worldwide shipping lanes.
00:06:11.000 If you do, beware, because America will hold you fully accountable and we won't be nice about it.
00:06:15.000 This is what I signed up for, ladies and gentlemen, this right here.
00:06:18.000 Because it turns out that freedom of the seas is unbelievably important and the United States, as the global hegemon, is the guarantor of those freedom of the seas.
00:06:27.000 The use of the U.S. military...
00:06:28.000 Americans, by the way, have died in this battle with the Houthis.
00:06:32.000 I mean, there's a thing that has happened where American Marines, I believe it was a couple of American Marines, have drowned in attempting to aid shipping through this area.
00:06:41.000 The Houthis, for a year, they are a ragtag group of people who are radical Islamic fundamentalists.
00:06:47.000 The actual slogan of the Houthis is, I kid you not, it's called The Scream, and it is, God is the greatest.
00:06:56.000 Death to America.
00:06:57.000 Death to Israel. 0.89
00:06:58.000 Curse be upon the Jews. 1.00
00:07:00.000 Victory to Islam. 1.00
00:07:01.000 Which, I mean, is a little long and doesn't rhyme, but you kind of get the idea of what these folks are about.
00:07:06.000 And they've been holding up international shipping for a year at great cost, as we've discussed.
00:07:12.000 The United States launching attacks on pirates is a tradition that goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson fighting the Barbary pirates who are attacking American shipping.
00:07:21.000 So, this right here.
00:07:23.000 Is what President Trump should be doing.
00:07:25.000 This is an excellent use of the United States military.
00:07:28.000 I see some caterwauling from people.
00:07:29.000 The basis for which seems to be that if the United States fights the Houthis because they're shutting off global shipping supply, that it must be done on behalf of Israel or the Jews.
00:07:40.000 I'm confused because it turns out that pretty much all the shipping that's going through the Red Sea has nothing to do with the Jews.
00:07:46.000 And yet it is that shipping that is being attacked by the Houthis, actually.
00:07:53.000 This is the peace through strength model that President Trump has always applied.
00:07:58.000 Him guaranteeing freedom of the seas, by the way, is also a very good international signal because one of the things that's been happening in, for example, the South China Sea, which is a massive shipping artery as well, is that the Chinese government has been exploring further and further away from land masses that it controls into these waterways, holding up boating and shipping from places like the Philippines.
00:08:18.000 And so as a signal to countries like China, That the United States is not going to allow the shutdown of international waterways.
00:08:24.000 That is a very powerful signal as well.
00:08:27.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Houthis had paid little price for more than a year of piracy that forced the U.S. Navy into a combat pace not seen since World War II. The White House tallies 174 Houthi attacks on U.S. warships and 145 on commercial vessels since 2023. One think tank analyst estimated recently the U.S. Navy fired more air defense missiles in those 15 months than it had in the previous 30 years.
00:08:50.000 That means expensive missiles shooting down cheap drones.
00:08:52.000 This is one of the things that terrorist groups have discovered, ranging from Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houthis, is that you can fire off cheap drones at very little cost, attach some explosives to them and do tremendous damage.
00:09:02.000 And the only way to defend against those things right now is very, very expensive response anti-missile systems, for example.
00:09:11.000 So it'll cost you $50,000 to shoot down a $50 drone or whatever it is.
00:09:16.000 Well, the other way to do that is you just kill everybody who's firing the drones, and that seems to be the United States military's policy.
00:09:22.000 President Trump, by the way, including Iranian responsibility in here is really important because the Houthis could not do this without Iran. 0.95
00:09:31.000 And once again, I hear people who are caterwauling that this is just President Trump wanting war with Iran.
00:09:35.000 Let's be very clear.
00:09:36.000 There will be no war with Iran, even if the United States were to facilitate an Israeli strike.
00:09:41.000 On Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran does not go to war with the United States because if they did, we would obliterate them in half a second flat. 0.96
00:09:47.000 That is not a thing.
00:09:48.000 All the people who are telling you that there's a false choice between complete passivity in the face of Iranian aggression and total war boots on the ground in Iran is lying to you.
00:09:57.000 Full stop.
00:09:57.000 Lying.
00:09:58.000 All caps.
00:09:59.000 L-Y-I-N-G lying to you. 1.00
00:10:01.000 The United States is not putting boots on the ground in Iran.
00:10:04.000 That is not a thing.
00:10:04.000 No one wants it.
00:10:05.000 No one.
00:10:07.000 The other...
00:10:09.000 Plausible motion is that targeted strikes could do an enormous amount of damage to the Iranian regime, so they ought to stop while they are behind.
00:10:17.000 They should stop funding the Houthis. 0.97
00:10:19.000 They should stop their nuclear program.
00:10:21.000 The Trump administration is taking precisely the correct angle on all of this.
00:10:25.000 And again, the liars who are telling you that this is designed to lead to war with Iran, please name me the person who wants full-scale, boots-on-the-ground, hundreds of thousands of troops in the Middle East war with Iran.
00:10:36.000 Please name the human.
00:10:37.000 I would love to see you point out the human.
00:10:39.000 Seriously.
00:10:41.000 Well, the White House shared some pictures of President Trump overseeing the strikes on the Houthis.
00:10:45.000 And I love it.
00:10:48.000 President Trump came in from golf.
00:10:50.000 He's wearing his MAGA hat.
00:10:51.000 And he's got the headphones on so he can hear, presumably, some of the commands that are happening.
00:10:57.000 And I love the casual, the sort of casual nature of President Trump coming off the golf course so that he can watch the Houthis getting obliterated on live TV. I do love that. 0.95
00:11:07.000 I think that's wonderful.
00:11:07.000 And I think it's with that level of casualness that we should treat America's enemies.
00:11:12.000 If you screw with us, we should stomp you into the ground. 0.54
00:11:15.000 We should smash you like a giant boot on a worm. 0.79
00:11:21.000 And we should do it while we're playing golf.
00:11:23.000 I love that.
00:11:24.000 I love that so much.
00:11:25.000 It is wonderful.
00:11:26.000 Mike Waltz, who is the National Security Advisor, over the weekend, he points out that we took out a lot of who the leaders.
00:11:32.000 Here he was on ABC News.
00:11:34.000 These were not kind of pinprick, back and forth, what ultimately proved to be feckless attacks.
00:11:41.000 This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out.
00:11:49.000 Well, the U.S. military is right on top of the Houthis. 0.75
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00:14:04.000 He also pointed out that all options are on the table when it comes to Iran.
00:14:09.000 Meaning we're not going to let Iran simply set the pace in the Middle East. 0.82
00:14:13.000 That is not a thing.
00:14:15.000 Well, all options are always on the table with the president.
00:14:19.000 But Iran needs to hear him loud and clear.
00:14:23.000 It is completely unacceptable and it will be stopped.
00:14:27.000 The level of support that they've been providing the Houthis.
00:14:32.000 And again, that carries over to the idea that the Iranians should not be developing their nuclear weapons.
00:14:37.000 This notion that the Iranians are trying to develop peaceful nuclear power, one of the most oil-rich nations on Earth, is absolutely asinine.
00:14:43.000 Everybody knows.
00:14:44.000 It's ridiculous on its face.
00:14:45.000 The skies over Iran are completely open right now.
00:14:47.000 So they either come to the table and they avoid getting hit, or they will be hit.
00:14:51.000 I mean, that is the reality of the situation.
00:14:53.000 And again, that does not mean a war.
00:14:55.000 How do I know that?
00:14:56.000 Well, because I remember, I'm old enough to remember, when President Trump...
00:15:00.000 They leveled the order to kill Qasem Soleimani, who is the head of the Iranian terror regime.
00:15:06.000 That was back January 3rd, 2020. Did a war with Iran ensue?
00:15:10.000 I noticed not.
00:15:12.000 So here was, again, Mike Waltz saying, listen, the Ayatollahs are not going to have their fingers on the button.
00:15:17.000 button.
00:15:18.000 That is not something this administration is going to allow.
00:15:20.000 They can either hand it over and give it up in a way that is verifiable, or they can face a whole series of other consequences.
00:15:32.000 But either way, we cannot have a world with the Ayatollahs with their finger on the nuclear button. 0.99
00:15:37.000 We cannot have a situation that would result in an arms race across the Middle East in terms of nuclear proliferation.
00:15:46.000 And President Trump is determined one way or another.
00:15:50.000 Iran has been offered a way out of this.
00:15:54.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been tremendously strong throughout the Trump administration, he said the airstrikes will continue until morale improves.
00:16:03.000 So we basically have a band of pirates, you know, with guided precision anti-ship weaponry.
00:16:11.000 And exacting a toll system in one of the most important shipping lanes in the world, that's just not sustainable.
00:16:15.000 We are not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot.
00:16:20.000 And so your question is, how long will this go on?
00:16:22.000 It will go on until they no longer have the capability to do that.
00:16:27.000 Now, notice what Rubio also says.
00:16:29.000 He says, we're not talking about putting boots on the ground.
00:16:31.000 This is not something we want.
00:16:32.000 Again, this is what I'm saying.
00:16:34.000 The Trump administration is not interested in hundreds of thousands.
00:16:38.000 People who are telling you differently are lying to you and they're lying to you for a reason.
00:16:42.000 Here is Secretary of State Rubio.
00:16:45.000 Well, those are military decisions to be made, but I've heard no talk of ground raids.
00:16:49.000 I don't think there's a necessity for it right now.
00:16:51.000 I can tell you that as of last night, some of the key people involved in those missile launches are no longer with us.
00:16:56.000 And I can tell you that some of the facilities that they use are no longer existing.
00:17:02.000 Secretary of State Rubio pointed out that this is also a warning to Iran.
00:17:06.000 We will hit your proxies, and if you continue with this, we will hit you.
00:17:11.000 What we can't ignore, and the reason why the president mentioned Iran is because the Iranians have supported the Houthis.
00:17:16.000 They've provided them intelligence.
00:17:18.000 They've provided them guidance.
00:17:19.000 They've provided them weaponry.
00:17:21.000 I mean, there's no way the Houthis, okay, the Houthis would have the ability to do this kind of thing unless they had support from Iran.
00:17:28.000 And so this was a message to Iran. 0.75
00:17:29.000 Don't keep supporting them because then you will also be responsible for what they are doing in attacking Navy ships, in attacking global shipping.
00:17:38.000 It turns out a little prevention goes a long way.
00:17:40.000 If the Houthis had never been delisted as a terrorist group, which was a thing that the Biden administration did, if the Biden administration had never put pressure on the Saudis to leave the Houthis alone, if the Biden administration not created daylight between Israel and the United States with regard to Iranian terror proxies, none of this would have happened in the first place.
00:17:56.000 And President Trump's team is working hard to shore all of that up so that Iran is not, in fact, a threat to global shipping lanes or global oil supplies or a terror threat to the region and beyond.
00:18:06.000 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
00:18:07.000 Put out a statement.
00:18:08.000 Godspeed to our warriors.
00:18:09.000 Houthi attacks on American ships and aircraft and our troops will not be tolerated. 0.98
00:18:13.000 Iran, their benefactor, is on notice. 1.00
00:18:14.000 Freedom of navigation will be restored.
00:18:16.000 America under President Donald Trump will never back down.
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00:18:24.000 And it's great.
00:18:26.000 Speaking of strong Trump, President Trump and the White House took some moves over the weekend with regard to deportations that are sending Democrats into an absolute tizzy.
00:18:35.000 So, obviously, they are still freaking out over the fact that Mahmoud Khalil, a terrorist supporter who somehow got a student visa and then apparently a green card, is now going to be deported.
00:18:47.000 So, Marco Rubio was appearing on the Sunday shows.
00:18:51.000 He's on CBS News' Face the Nation.
00:18:53.000 And he was asked about visa revocation.
00:18:56.000 He says, listen, we revoke visas every single day, and we'll continue to do that.
00:18:58.000 If you support terrorist groups, you don't belong in the country.
00:19:02.000 Well, not just the student, we're going to do more.
00:19:04.000 In fact, every day now we're approving visa revocations, and if that visa led to a green card, the green card process as well.
00:19:10.000 And here's why.
00:19:11.000 It's very simple.
00:19:12.000 When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest. 0.55
00:19:15.000 And you're coming as a student, you're coming as a tourist, or what have you.
00:19:18.000 And in it, you have to make certain assertions.
00:19:20.000 And if you tell us, when you apply for a visa, I'm coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events, that runs counter to the foreign policy interests of the United States of America.
00:19:29.000 It's that simple.
00:19:31.000 That seems pretty simple, right?
00:19:33.000 And that's right.
00:19:34.000 Democrats keep taking the 20% side of every single 80-20 issue.
00:19:37.000 It's unbelievable to watch.
00:19:38.000 Truly, they are awful at this.
00:19:40.000 Rubio was asked also about Mahmoud Khalil specifically.
00:19:43.000 Khalil, of course, basically came to the United States in order to pursue pro-terror rabble-rousing. 0.58
00:19:48.000 He worked for the UNRWA. He was brought in a student visa and apparently did nothing except for lead student protests that took over buildings illegally.
00:19:56.000 I hear a Secretary of State Rubio being asked about this.
00:19:59.000 Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or is it just his point of view?
00:20:06.000 Yeah, they take over.
00:20:07.000 I mean, do you not?
00:20:08.000 I mean, you should watch the news.
00:20:09.000 These guys take over entire buildings.
00:20:11.000 They vandalize colleges.
00:20:12.000 They shut down colleges.
00:20:14.000 Well, then you should know.
00:20:17.000 Okay, so she watches the news intensely.
00:20:19.000 Okay, so the reality is that Mahmoud Khalil is being deported.
00:20:23.000 Because Mahmoud Khalil expressed, via the group that he led, support for actual, honest-to-God, anti-Western violent terrorism.
00:20:31.000 That is the link.
00:20:32.000 You do not require him to be a funder of Hamas.
00:20:35.000 That is not a thing you require.
00:20:36.000 The question is not the same as if you were an American citizen.
00:20:40.000 The question is, if you have a green card, do we owe you a duty as a country to allow you to stay in the country when you express support for terrorist groups?
00:20:48.000 Like, full-on terrorism.
00:20:50.000 And the answer is no.
00:20:51.000 We do not.
00:20:53.000 Under the law, under the INA, we do not.
00:20:56.000 Well, speaking of Democrats taking the wrong side of every single issue, over the weekend, the Trump administration got into hot water with a local district judge.
00:21:05.000 Why?
00:21:05.000 Well, because the Trump administration deported alleged Venezuelan gang members under a centuries-old wartime law.
00:21:12.000 U.S. District Court Judge James Bosberg early on Saturday evening blocked President Trump from using a law known as the Alien Enemies Act to deport non-citizens held in U.S. custody.
00:21:21.000 Government lawyers said Trump was using the law to target members of Tren d'Aragua, which is a deeply violent and evil Venezuelan gang whose members have reached the United States in recent years.
00:21:29.000 So these are people who are drug dealers.
00:21:31.000 These are violent criminals.
00:21:33.000 We're not even talking about mass deportations here.
00:21:35.000 We are not talking about President Trump is rounding up illegal immigrants in...
00:21:38.000 Broken down suburbs and he's taking them to the border and letting them go or forcing them.
00:21:43.000 That's not what he's talking about.
00:21:44.000 Trenveragua is a deeply evil, violent gang.
00:21:47.000 And President Trump is taking people who are alleged to be members of these gangs, violent criminals, and he is deporting them to El Salvador.
00:21:54.000 And a U.S. district judge is saying he can't do that.
00:21:57.000 During Saturday's hearing, the ACLU told Bosberg that two aircraft believed to be carrying Venezuelan deportees took off from U.S. territory on Saturday.
00:22:05.000 The ACLU had sued the administration earlier that day on behalf of migrants at risk of deportation.
00:22:10.000 Bosberg said Justice Department lawyers hadn't disputed the claim.
00:22:12.000 They told them that, quote, any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in air needs to be returned to the United States.
00:22:18.000 The judge subsequently issued a written order that didn't explicitly mention planes that were already in the air.
00:22:23.000 So the White House said, okay, well, you didn't say already in the air except verbally.
00:22:26.000 You wrote down just planes that had yet to take off.
00:22:29.000 It was in the air.
00:22:30.000 It was in international airspace.
00:22:31.000 No.
00:22:33.000 Levitt said, quote, Now, one of the reasons this is important is because the left is now claiming that President Trump is defying the judges, defying...
00:22:50.000 First of all, what you have here is a judicial activist who does not have the authority to issue injunctions on behalf of the entire United States against activities taken by the administration to deport...
00:23:01.000 Illegal immigrants who are members of violent gangs to El Salvador.
00:23:05.000 That's ridiculous.
00:23:06.000 If you can just find a U.S. District Court judge somewhere in San Francisco to strike down everything Trump is doing, well then that guy becomes the president, effectively speaking, and that is not how our system of government was meant to work.
00:23:15.000 This stuff will get elevated to the Supreme Court.
00:23:17.000 It will be ruled upon.
00:23:19.000 Senior White House officials huddled on Saturday evening to make a decision about what to do with the judge's order.
00:23:24.000 They decided to go ahead with the plans.
00:23:26.000 During the emergency court hearing, Boasberg said he had not reached any final conclusions.
00:23:30.000 On even whether the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was lawful.
00:23:33.000 Okay, so he didn't even come to the claim that Trump had invoked the act illegally.
00:23:37.000 He said, I'm not sure, so you have to turn around the plane that has the gang members on it.
00:23:40.000 And the White House is like, well, it's in international waters, and you're just saying so.
00:23:43.000 We didn't write it down, so no.
00:23:45.000 He said his temporary restraining order will preserve the status quo until he can hear arguments more fully.
00:23:50.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Exxon Sunday, the administration had sent two leaders of the MS-13 gang and 21 of its most wanted, as well as over 250 members of Trenda Aragua, to El Salvador.
00:24:01.000 He also reposted a comment from El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, that said, oopsie, too late.
00:24:06.000 Bukele then shared a video with three planes on a dark tarmac that showed gang members being escorted off the planes by security services and sent to jail in El Salvador, where the United States is paying for their room and board.
00:24:17.000 Here's some of that video.
00:24:27.000 And as you can see, they're taking these gang members who are in handcuffs off the plane and to jail in El Salvador.
00:24:36.000 And supposedly a district court judge was going to hold all of this up on the basis that he wasn't sure about whether the Alien Enemies Act could be invoked at this point.
00:24:46.000 So...
00:24:47.000 Trump administration paid attention.
00:24:48.000 They have not actually deported people who are sitting in American jails right now.
00:24:52.000 The plane was already in the air on the way to El Salvador, and they said, we're not turning it around.
00:24:57.000 Trump's proclamation that he was invoking the Alien Enemies Act, released by the White House on Saturday, stated that Tren d'Aragua is, quote, undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States, both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
00:25:12.000 And so this, of course, has driven enormous, enormous heartburn among Democrats.
00:25:16.000 Oh, he's violating the law.
00:25:18.000 Oh, it's like tyranny now.
00:25:20.000 Okay, if tyranny amounts to the presidents of the United States to invoke the law to deport enemy illegal aliens who are members of violent criminal gangs, gotta tell you, that is not a winning issue for Democrats.
00:25:29.000 It is not a winner.
00:25:30.000 It is not a winner.
00:25:31.000 And again, the Trump administration, if they receive a binding order from a Supreme Court, is not going to ignore it.
00:25:39.000 The whole idea that...
00:25:41.000 Local courts have the ability, like single district court judges, have the ability to issue nationwide temporary restraining orders on anything the President of the United States is doing at any time is insane, ridiculous, insufferable.
00:25:53.000 It wasn't even tried until the 1960s in American law.
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00:28:11.000 Well, there's a reason that more Americans now believe that America's on the right track than at any time since 2004, according to a brand new poll.
00:28:19.000 That's the NBC News poll released on Sunday.
00:28:22.000 President Trump's approval ratings are not where he would wish them to be at this point.
00:28:25.000 54% say they disapprove of his handling of the economy, and that is largely because of the tariff war.
00:28:30.000 But the survey found that voters generally feel Trump is bringing the right kind of change on the key issues.
00:28:37.000 On a lot of other issues, the border particularly, Trump is incredibly strong.
00:28:41.000 56% say positive change on the border.
00:28:43.000 In fact, the best way you can tell that Trump is doing an amazing job on the border is that on the list of issues that Americans take seriously, immigration has now dropped.
00:28:50.000 From number one to number four.
00:28:51.000 Why?
00:28:52.000 Because it's no longer a problem.
00:28:53.000 President Trump has done such an amazing job on the border that no one is crossing, and so people don't even think about it anymore.
00:29:00.000 On government cuts, 47% say his changes are good compared to just 29% who oppose.
00:29:05.000 On his handling of the Ukraine war and NATO, some of the most controversial stuff he's done, more respondents say his actions were good, 41% then opposed it.
00:29:12.000 So pretty evenly split on all of that.
00:29:15.000 As far as inflation, 40% say his policies are having a positive effect.
00:29:19.000 30% say negative.
00:29:21.000 28% say not changing things at all.
00:29:24.000 As far as the sort of partisan gap, his approval rating among Republicans, unsurprisingly, 90%.
00:29:30.000 His approval rating among Democrats, 4%.
00:29:33.000 Okay, but among independents, the answer is that his approval rating is much closer to sort of the Republican approval rating than it is to the Democrat approval rating.
00:29:46.000 Democrats right now are tearing themselves apart over all of this.
00:29:49.000 They legitimately don't know what precisely to do next.
00:29:53.000 Here is CNN announcing the terrible Democrats.
00:29:55.000 I mean, the Democratic polling numbers, they have favorability numbers worse than cancer at this point.
00:30:00.000 Really bad numbers, according to CNN. Americans' favorable views of the Democratic Party's brand are at a record low.
00:30:09.000 Just 29%.
00:30:10.000 That's compared to 36% for Republicans.
00:30:13.000 It is the lowest ever recorded for Democrats in CNN polling going back more than 30 years.
00:30:19.000 As you can see, the party's numbers dropping a staggering 20 points in just four years.
00:30:25.000 Just a full scale disaster area for the Democrats.
00:30:30.000 And they continue to drop.
00:30:31.000 The NBC News polling has them at a similarly low level.
00:30:35.000 Here's what's happening.
00:30:36.000 Republicans already know the Democrats suck. 0.96
00:30:37.000 Independents think the Democrats are completely off the rails.
00:30:39.000 And Democrats are disappointed with their own party for not being crazier.
00:30:42.000 That is an absolute...
00:30:44.000 Box Canyon for Democrats.
00:30:45.000 How do they escape that?
00:30:47.000 Seriously, how do you escape from Republicans think that you're crazy, independents kind of think you're crazy, and your own party thinks you're not crazy enough.
00:30:54.000 That is the biggest problem for Democrats.
00:30:56.000 How do we know they think that they're not crazy enough?
00:30:58.000 Because a recent CNN poll shows that the most popular Democrat as, quote-unquote, the leader of the Democratic Party right now, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:31:07.000 She is considered by 10% to be the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:31:13.000 That's not so good.
00:31:14.000 The Democratic leader, they feel, best reflects the core values of the party.
00:31:18.000 10% said AOC. 9% said Kamala Harris.
00:31:22.000 8% said Bernie.
00:31:24.000 6% said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
00:31:27.000 Brutal.
00:31:28.000 Brutal numbers right there.
00:31:29.000 Why is that so brutal?
00:31:30.000 Because guess what?
00:31:31.000 She is totally out of touch with most Americans. 0.78
00:31:33.000 If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were to run for president, she would lose 60-40. 1.00
00:31:38.000 Because she is insane. 0.93
00:31:40.000 Her policies are crazy. 0.72
00:31:42.000 But look at the top of that list.
00:31:44.000 Basically, if you are a Democrat, the people that you like are the nutjobs, and the people you don't like are the ones who are more sane.
00:31:51.000 So John Fetterman doesn't even clock in.
00:31:52.000 John Fetterman is on the list.
00:31:54.000 He didn't clock in.
00:31:55.000 The top names, again, AOC, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, Barack Obama, who ain't coming back, Jasmine Crockett is at 2%, then Gavin Newsom at 2%, Nancy Pelosi at 2%.
00:32:09.000 Tim Walls at one, by the way, that shows you how much Democrats hate Tim Walls, right?
00:32:12.000 Tim Walls was the VP candidate half a second ago, and now he's at 1% in the polling.
00:32:17.000 He has the same percentage as Al Green.
00:32:19.000 By the way, Pete Buttigieg at 1%.
00:32:21.000 What does this mean?
00:32:23.000 It means the Democrats are addicted.
00:32:25.000 They are absolutely addicted to the crazy, and they can't let go of the crazy, and it's a major, major problem for them.
00:32:32.000 So last week, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, made the correct political decision not to engage in a government shutdown.
00:32:37.000 Why?
00:32:38.000 Well, as I said last week, it was a giant unforced error.
00:32:40.000 I wish he had.
00:32:41.000 You know, sort of a political matter, I wish that Chuck Schumer had engaged in a continuing resolution shutdown.
00:32:46.000 Why?
00:32:46.000 Because then he would have had to own it.
00:32:48.000 Whatever happened next would be on him.
00:32:50.000 First of all, President Trump would have had the ability to designate which employees in the federal government were mandatory employees.
00:32:58.000 Because the spending in the federal government...
00:33:01.000 There's some spending in the federal government that's considered essential spending that goes forward even during government shutdown, and stuff that's considered non-essential, the non-essential shutdown, essential goes forward.
00:33:10.000 That's true for employees as well.
00:33:12.000 Trump would have had more power if the government shutdown had happened along those lines.
00:33:16.000 But number two, anything negative that happened economically over the following few weeks was going to be in Chuck Schumer's lap.
00:33:22.000 So Chuck Schumer, flirting with the left, which wanted him to resist, resist, resist, thought very seriously about shutting down the government, and then at the last minute he pulled back.
00:33:30.000 And he pulled back because he didn't want to be a complete nutjob who destroyed his party.
00:33:33.000 And the Democrats are fighting mad at him, enraged at him.
00:33:37.000 Here are MSNBC hosts over the weekend bashing Chuck Schumer over it.
00:33:41.000 The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin.
00:33:52.000 Well, and that's why you have members of the Democratic caucus privately.
00:33:57.000 Encouraging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to primary Schumer.
00:34:01.000 Anyone can primary him.
00:34:03.000 Okay, so there's a lot of talk in the Democratic Party about AOC primarying him.
00:34:08.000 And all I can say is good luck and Godspeed.
00:34:10.000 Seriously, please keep steering in the direction of AOC if you wish to keep losing.
00:34:15.000 And this has been the way that the Democratic Party continues to approach the issue.
00:34:19.000 They are not taking the advice of James Carville, which is sit back and wait for your opponent to make a mistake.
00:34:23.000 They're not doing it.
00:34:24.000 Instead, they're jumping both feet on every rake in sight.
00:34:28.000 Congresswoman Debbie Dingell from Michigan.
00:34:30.000 She says, listen, we need to fight back.
00:34:32.000 I can't believe we did the CR. We should have fought back.
00:34:36.000 My town halls look like a Republican town hall.
00:34:38.000 I'm not taking it personally.
00:34:40.000 People are scared.
00:34:42.000 They want to see us do something.
00:34:44.000 You mean people are shouting, people are angry, people are upset.
00:34:46.000 They want to see Democrats fighting back, and they're really scared about what's going to happen to them.
00:34:53.000 Okay, so then you have Senator Adam Schiff, who was the greatest promulgator of the Russia, Russia, Russia lie.
00:35:01.000 And he's saying that passing the CR was a terrible policy.
00:35:05.000 Please, guys, keep following Adam Schiff.
00:35:07.000 It's doing you wonders.
00:35:08.000 We in the Congress gave up our authority, gave up our power to allow him to continue to do this because we feared something worse if we refused.
00:35:21.000 Now, I made it clear I think that was the wrong judgment.
00:35:24.000 I strongly oppose this CR, but nevertheless, it passed.
00:35:30.000 He strongly opposes the CR. It was the wrong judgment.
00:35:33.000 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse doing the same thing.
00:35:35.000 He says, listen, we need to stop fighting internally.
00:35:37.000 We need to unify against Trump.
00:35:38.000 The problem is you can't.
00:35:39.000 You can't.
00:35:40.000 Because half of you are crazy.
00:35:43.000 So they were both extremely, extremely dangerous options.
00:35:47.000 And my view is that as Democrats, we need to stop.
00:35:51.000 The intramural quarreling about who voted what way and get back to work saving our democracy.
00:36:00.000 Hey, well, let's see you get it back to it.
00:36:02.000 Here's the thing.
00:36:03.000 The other problem for the Democrats is that because the leadership is up for grabs, there's a battle among the nuts for the leadership.
00:36:10.000 If AOC is at 10%, Jasmine Crockett is looking at this and she's going, hey, hey, we've talked about Jasmine Crockett, the very voluble congresswoman from Texas. 0.99
00:36:18.000 Who's trying to become the new AOC and trying to steal some of her thunder. 0.99
00:36:21.000 Here she was, trying to go after AOC. You're close with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. 0.95
00:36:29.000 Some of your fellow House Democrats say, and not just progressives, by the way, we've heard that moderates have said this too, that they're ready to support her, to challenge Chuck Schumer in a Democratic primary.
00:36:41.000 Would you get behind that?
00:36:45.000 That's four years from now.
00:36:47.000 If you were asking me at least in two years, then I would have an absolute answer.
00:36:51.000 But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment.
00:36:57.000 This is the moment.
00:36:58.000 We don't even know what elections will look like in four years if we will have elections.
00:37:02.000 And so I definitely think that younger, fresher leadership.
00:37:07.000 May be something that many of us, not just depending on what part of the spectrum you're on, but many Americans may be looking for it, especially in the state of New York.
00:37:19.000 You notice how she kind of slides in right there, that there might not be elections in four years later. 0.60
00:37:22.000 There are going to be elections in four years.
00:37:23.000 The real reason that she's not endorsing AOC at this point is because she's afraid that she's going to get banged on by the moderate wing of her party.
00:37:29.000 And she is currently riding in that same SSRS poll, which shows AOC at 10%.
00:37:34.000 At 4% out of nowhere, the same as Barack Obama.
00:37:37.000 So why precisely would she hand over leadership of the party to a person while she herself might make that climb?
00:37:43.000 The Democrats are in such trouble.
00:37:44.000 They're in such trouble and they don't even understand they're in trouble.
00:37:47.000 They're boxed in.
00:37:48.000 Gavin Newsom, by the way, he's been attempting through his Gavin Newsom podcast to move to the center by interviewing people who are on the right.
00:37:56.000 This, of course, is a play for the 2028 nomination among Democrats.
00:38:00.000 He's going to run as a quasi-moderate.
00:38:02.000 The problem for him is in that same SSRS poll, it's like 2% of Democrats think that he's the leader of the party.
00:38:08.000 And his approval rating has absolutely plummeted throughout all of this.
00:38:12.000 So they have no leadership.
00:38:13.000 They're completely broken.
00:38:15.000 They got a massive problem on their hands.
00:38:17.000 And they're not doing the thing they should be doing, which is waiting for Republicans to make a mistake.
00:38:20.000 So as I say, all Democrats have to do at this point is wait for President Trump to make a mistake.
00:38:25.000 Not because President Trump is going to.
00:38:27.000 Be terrible at being president.
00:38:29.000 But just because every president is faced with crises, bad things happen in every presidency, and they should wait until he makes a mistake to jump on him.
00:38:35.000 But they just can't do it.
00:38:36.000 They just can't do it.
00:38:38.000 Over the weekend, Scott Besant, the Secretary of the Treasury, who is excellent at his job, he was talking about President Trump's economy.
00:38:45.000 He said, look, the economy is going to be fine.
00:38:47.000 Again, Besant is doing heavy work on behalf of the administration to quiet the markets, given all the sort of tariff chaos that has been taking place over the course of the last several weeks.
00:38:56.000 I've been in the investment business for 35 years, and I can tell you that corrections are healthy.
00:39:03.000 They're normal.
00:39:04.000 What's not healthy is straight up that you get these euphoric markets.
00:39:09.000 That's how you get a financial crisis.
00:39:11.000 It would have been much healthier if someone had put the brakes on in 06, 07.
00:39:16.000 We wouldn't have had the problems in 08.
00:39:19.000 So I'm not worried about the markets.
00:39:22.000 Over the long term, if we put good tax policy in place, deregulation and energy security, the markets will do great.
00:39:31.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:39:34.000 So one of the things that's happening right now Is something that happened during the first Trump administration.
00:39:38.000 Trump would throw out an economic policy.
00:39:40.000 Everybody would freak out.
00:39:40.000 And then the economic policy would get sanded down by all the people around him into something that was more palatable to markets.
00:39:46.000 That is one of the things that Scott Besant is doing here.
00:39:48.000 By the way, J.D. Vance was doing the same thing over the weekend with regard to Doge.
00:39:51.000 So there have been tons of questions about Doge and about the fact that Doge is moving fast and breaking things.
00:39:56.000 And that means that some people are getting fired who probably need to be rehired, for example, over the weekend.
00:40:01.000 Vance said in an interview with NBC News, the vice president, quote, Elon himself has said, sometimes you do something and you make a mistake and then you undo the mistake.
00:40:07.000 I'm accepting of mistakes.
00:40:08.000 I also think you have to act quickly to correct those mistakes.
00:40:11.000 But I'm also very aware of the fact there are a lot of good people who work in the government, a lot of people who are doing a very good job.
00:40:16.000 We want to try to preserve as much of what works in government as possible while eliminating what doesn't work.
00:40:20.000 Again, that is a smart way to approach all this.
00:40:22.000 If you explain to the American people that...
00:40:24.000 When you are performing a surgery on a catastrophic cancer inside the federal government, you might have to cut out some stuff that you don't want to cut out, but then you have to allow it to grow back.
00:40:34.000 That's what Vance is essentially saying right now.
00:40:37.000 He said many people are clearly collecting a check and not doing a job.
00:40:41.000 He said, I don't know how many people that is in a three million strong federal workforce.
00:40:44.000 Maybe it's a few thousand.
00:40:45.000 Maybe it's much larger than that.
00:40:47.000 But he said we have a lot of great civil servants who are doing great work.
00:40:50.000 So again, the administration is moving into a more comfortable arena.
00:40:53.000 Where it's not just moving fast and breaking things.
00:40:56.000 It is moving fast, breaking things, and then rebuilding the things that shouldn't have been broken or broken in the process of getting to the root of the issue.
00:41:04.000 They're going to get better at things as things go on.
00:41:06.000 This is actually the roughest point in the Trump administration in terms of actually being able to make major change.
00:41:11.000 Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine is in some ways getting worse.
00:41:16.000 Vladimir Putin is obviously using...
00:41:19.000 The sort of moment in order to consolidate land grabs as much as humanly possible over the weekend.
00:41:24.000 Ukraine's audacious military gambit inside Russia drew toward a close this week as much as it started last summer quickly, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:41:30.000 A rapid Russian advance in recent days left remaining Ukrainian forces increasingly isolated under withering assault.
00:41:36.000 They all but pulled out from a sliver of Kursk province by the weekend.
00:41:40.000 How is this happening?
00:41:41.000 Well, Putin went out and he got a bunch of North Korean soldiers who were basically conscripted into service and then forced into fighting in Kursk.
00:41:48.000 The Russians used familiar tactics, relentless assaults with overwhelming numbers of troops, including elite units and North Korean soldiers, that ground Ukrainian forces down over months.
00:41:56.000 Glide bombs smashed buildings and bunkers where Ukrainian troops sheltered.
00:41:59.000 Then, in the past month, Russia deployed large numbers of drones controlled via fiber-optic cables to strike armored vehicles on the main routes for supplying Ukrainian soldiers on a shrinking patch of land.
00:42:10.000 The Ukrainian military's seven-month foray had surprised allies with its vigor and embarrassed Putin, but now Putin has turned the tables.
00:42:16.000 And he has become the first Kremlin leader since Stalin.
00:42:19.000 He was faced trying to oust a foreign army from his own territory, but it appears that now he has actually done that.
00:42:24.000 Ukraine was hoping to cling on to that territory as sort of a bargaining chip.
00:42:27.000 That bargaining chip is gone.
00:42:28.000 So the question now is whether Putin is going to come to the table at all.
00:42:32.000 On Tuesday, President Trump is supposed to speak with Vladimir Putin, according to Axios.
00:42:37.000 Ukraine, of course, has already agreed to Trump's ceasefire proposal.
00:42:41.000 Putin has refused to accept it unconditionally.
00:42:43.000 Trump said, I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday.
00:42:46.000 A lot of work's been done over the weekend.
00:42:47.000 We want to see if we can bring that war to an end.
00:42:49.000 Maybe we can, maybe we can't.
00:42:50.000 I think we have a very good chance.
00:42:52.000 When asked what sort of concessions he'd be looking for, Trump replied, we'll be talking about land.
00:42:55.000 We'll be talking about power plants.
00:42:57.000 He said they were already discussing dividing up certain assets.
00:43:00.000 Steve Witkoff, the president's negotiator in Russia, described his four-hour meeting with Putin as positive and said the discussions was solutions-based.
00:43:08.000 Witkoff said that Putin accepts Trump's philosophy of ending the war with Ukraine.
00:43:11.000 He says the two sides are a lot closer today than they were a few weeks ago.
00:43:15.000 We'll have to see whether that materializes or not because Putin has sort of a history of holding out the football and then removing the football at the very moment at which a consummation becomes possible.
00:43:26.000 Holman Jenkins, writing for the Wall Street Journal, is doubtful.
00:43:29.000 He says, there won't be a deal anytime soon.
00:43:31.000 Vladimir Putin has received no reason to stop pushing for more concessions to see where the limit, if any, exists.
00:43:35.000 Neither has he received any message from the administration that now is the time to cut a deal because President Trump will open the floodgate to make the situation more painful and costly than Putin would find it useful.
00:43:45.000 So it's possible that there is another possibility, he says.
00:43:50.000 He says, You know, these are all open questions, obviously.
00:44:16.000 We'll see what ends up materializing.
00:44:18.000 I am doubtful that Vladimir Putin is going to come to the table with anything that looks like a real peace deal here, because again, he has to feel the pressure in order for him to have an impetus to actually sign on to something.
00:44:28.000 Meanwhile, there was some talk that Keith Kellogg had sort of been sidelined in the negotiations.
00:44:32.000 Keith Kellogg is sort of a more hawkish member of the foreign policy team.
00:44:36.000 President Trump put out a statement, quote, I am pleased to inform you that General Keith Kellogg has been appointed special envoy to Ukraine.
00:44:41.000 General Kellogg, a highly respected military expert, will deal directly with President Zelensky and Ukrainian leadership.
00:44:45.000 He knows them well.
00:44:46.000 They have a very good working relationship together.
00:44:48.000 Congratulations to General Kellogg.
00:44:50.000 And this is the right move by President Trump.
00:44:51.000 So I'm hoping that this is the precursor to the Trump administration understanding that if Putin says no, the pressure has to be reversed.
00:44:57.000 And now, instead of being on Ukraine, the pressure really, really, really has to be on the Russians.
00:45:02.000 Well, as you all know, I'm not big into the culture stories, and so I have to have experts on to help walk me through them.
00:45:08.000 Today, it's Emily Austin stopping by.
00:45:10.000 All right, folks, we are here with Emily Austin.
00:45:12.000 She is a news personality.
00:45:14.000 She's also on Instagram, at Emily Austin.
00:45:15.000 She has almost 3 million followers.
00:45:17.000 So first of all, I want to ask you, Emily, how you went from sports personality to kind of news personality?
00:45:21.000 How'd that happen?
00:45:23.000 So I went to Hofstra University in Long Island, and you could hear the accent slip out here and there.
00:45:28.000 And they initially say, when you want to do...
00:45:31.000 Journalism, you have to choose politics or sports.
00:45:33.000 And at the time, I was like, well, of course I'm going to choose sports because I hate politics.
00:45:36.000 And it's funny because all of my professors ended up being so politically involved on the woke left and always proselytizing the students with their ideologies and especially the gender ideologies.
00:45:48.000 And it became so nauseating that the focus was never about sports.
00:45:52.000 Prime example was sports journalism, which I did not do well in because my professor failed me for going to the Super Bowl and missing four classes.
00:46:00.000 Being 19 and covering the Super Bowl is pretty impressive in my book.
00:46:03.000 I mentioned I'd be voting for Trump, and the entire class transitioned into a why, if you vote for Trump, you support Hitler, even though he's not a Jew, and he's lecturing me about supporting Hitler, and just completely had this bias towards me the rest of the semester.
00:46:20.000 So backtrack a little bit.
00:46:21.000 In the same sports journalism class, it was Women's History Month, and I grew up a star tennis player in New York, all over the country.
00:46:28.000 I played in Miss Everett Academy.
00:46:30.000 And I just found out Chris Everett was battling cancer.
00:46:32.000 So I wanted to write a piece about how she inspired me to, you know, become the tennis player I was.
00:46:37.000 And he was like, I prefer you write about Leah Thomas.
00:46:39.000 And I was like, who's Leah Thomas?
00:46:41.000 And I found out that he was the swimmer that, you know, took the medal at Kentucky.
00:46:46.000 Then I found out who Riley Gaines was.
00:46:48.000 And I was like, I'd rather write about Riley.
00:46:50.000 So I did, and I failed.
00:46:52.000 And I was like, this is, like, abhorrent.
00:46:54.000 I actually have no words.
00:46:55.000 So I tried to leave his class.
00:46:56.000 It was too deep in the semester, and it really affected my GPA. My next professor was they-them, which was really new to me at the time, because you look like a man. 0.99
00:47:06.000 You have chest hair that you love to flaunt.
00:47:08.000 You have naked pictures on Instagram with your genitals out.
00:47:12.000 And I was like, don't tell me you're a woman, because that's insulting to me. 1.00
00:47:16.000 But he wasn't a woman.
00:47:17.000 He was nothing.
00:47:19.000 This was new at the time.
00:47:20.000 This was like COVID, kind of.
00:47:23.000 And he said, I would really prefer if you call me they-them. 1.00
00:47:25.000 And I said, but that's plural.
00:47:26.000 This is a journalism class.
00:47:28.000 That doesn't make sense.
00:47:30.000 And they proceeded to tell me how transphobic I was for not referring to they as them.
00:47:36.000 I said, professor.
00:47:37.000 He said, that has a male connotation.
00:47:39.000 I'd prefer not to be professor.
00:47:41.000 I said, sir, by accident.
00:47:42.000 He said, I'll penalize you if you do it again.
00:47:44.000 And I was like, I need to leave this school completely.
00:47:46.000 So I left the school.
00:47:47.000 I went to Turo University.
00:47:48.000 But I found out it's not just the school.
00:47:50.000 It's the new world we're living in under Biden.
00:47:53.000 And it was a bigger problem than just my university.
00:47:55.000 So I just became very...
00:47:58.000 I was definitely more politically active in my own opinions, and a lot of people resonated with common sense, but there was a loud opposition of just like this lunacy that took over the media during Biden's presidency.
00:48:19.000 So I want to go through some of the stories of the day with you.
00:48:22.000 There is a sports story that is on the radar.
00:48:24.000 Apparently, West Virginia's Rich Rodriguez has now put out a rule that his players are not allowed to dance on TikTok.
00:48:30.000 I mean, I generally agree.
00:48:31.000 I don't know why TikTok exists.
00:48:33.000 I mean, I do.
00:48:34.000 It's a Chinese op.
00:48:35.000 But what's the story here?
00:48:37.000 I can tell you from a sports reporter perspective that when we had a...
00:48:41.000 Hofstra had a Division I basketball team and a lot of the star athletes on the team would just be dancing in the locker room on TikTok.
00:48:48.000 So I would go on my algorithm and I see them hitting the woe and doing really zesty kind of dances.
00:48:56.000 And I was like, if I'm your opponent and I see you in the locker room dancing and I don't see you on the court doing drills, I'm going to come into this game with more of...
00:49:08.000 Less of an opinion on you, but more confidence in myself.
00:49:10.000 And I feel like it actually took a toll on the players because we were looked so down upon from dancing in the locker room.
00:49:16.000 So that's a good coach right there.
00:49:18.000 I fully support that.
00:49:19.000 Okay, so meanwhile, in other news, Dylan Mulvaney apparently has a book coming out, which is really exciting.
00:49:25.000 He was honored on International Women's Day by the ladies of The View, which makes perfect sense since he is, in fact, a dude.
00:49:32.000 And I just wanted to read you.
00:49:33.000 We apparently have excerpts from his new book.
00:49:36.000 Quote, My healthy long brunette locks constantly reminded me of the images I would see of myself in conservative media, the Audrey Hepburn persona I had leaned into for most of my transition.
00:49:45.000 I was the good girl, Jackie O, but I wanted to be the other woman for once. 1.00
00:49:49.000 I wanted to be Marilyn.
00:49:52.000 Thoughts?
00:49:55.000 Dylan Mulvaney seems to have almost like a fetish of cosplaying women.
00:50:01.000 Because when I saw her as a man, or he as a man, I can't even keep up anymore.
00:50:06.000 When he was a man, his personality was almost the same.
00:50:09.000 Not that I think he's a woman.
00:50:10.000 I think he likes the attention.
00:50:12.000 And because it became so normalized, he just was like, let me hop on the wave while I can.
00:50:17.000 But he doesn't understand.
00:50:18.000 He does understand.
00:50:19.000 He's just mocking women.
00:50:21.000 So his TikTok transition, he vlogged every day.
00:50:24.000 And on day one, he said, it's day one of me taking estrogen.
00:50:27.000 And I cried three times.
00:50:28.000 And I didn't send an email because I was overly hormonal.
00:50:31.000 He talks about how he carries tampons in his purse when we know very well you're not getting your period ever, no matter how much you wish and pray.
00:50:38.000 And he's insulting real women that go through womenly problems that he will never relate to.
00:50:43.000 He doesn't know what a hormonal mood swing is like.
00:50:45.000 He doesn't know what going through puberty is like as a kid.
00:50:48.000 He'll never understand these things.
00:50:50.000 Same issue I had with Miss Universe. 0.94
00:50:52.000 As a judge, I said, I really hope there's no trans people in my years contest because I don't care how bright they are. 1.00
00:50:57.000 They're not moving forward under my jurisdiction.
00:51:01.000 And they asked me why, and I said, because I don't care if you physically, you know, identify as a woman.
00:51:05.000 I don't care if you try.
00:51:06.000 First of all, biologically, you never will be.
00:51:08.000 Mentally, you never will be, and no amount of hormones will change that.
00:51:11.000 But what you are doing is you're hurting the real women who deal with these, who have a chance to take this platform, and you're robbing them of their platform.
00:51:18.000 In sports, I'm not even going to go there.
00:51:20.000 It's an abomination that ever was allowed to happen, but it's in every industry.
00:51:23.000 They're making a mockery out of hard working women that fight for their place to be there. 1.00
00:51:27.000 And then for them, for Dylan to be featured on Women's Day, for Leah Thomas to be ESPN's athlete of the month, they should be so ashamed of themselves.
00:51:35.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats seem to be unable to actually separate off from this issue.
00:51:40.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:51:41.000 Gavin Newsom tried to.
00:51:42.000 Tried.
00:51:42.000 And the rest of the Democratic Party came down on him like a ton of bricks.
00:51:46.000 But it seems to me that Democrats are not really going to have a choice.
00:51:48.000 This issue is a giant loser for them.
00:51:50.000 They do have an opportunity to win back the presidency in 2028.
00:51:53.000 You think so?
00:51:54.000 Listen, the 2024 election is a lot closer than I think people want to admit that it was.
00:51:58.000 And you shipped a couple hundred thousand votes in particular jurisdictions, and suddenly this looks like a much more competitive election.
00:52:03.000 If the economy tanks, obviously Democrats could come back.
00:52:06.000 You never want to rule it out.
00:52:07.000 I think Republicans have a lot of systemic advantages.
00:52:09.000 I think that the population movement to the South is obviously helping Republicans an awful lot right now.
00:52:14.000 But things change really rapidly in American politics.
00:52:17.000 If Democrats actually jettison some of the insane culture war issues that they've been running on, and if the economy turns south, then yeah, they have a decent shot, but they can't jettison those issues.
00:52:25.000 What do you make of the Democratic field right now?
00:52:27.000 You know, they need to...
00:52:29.000 Get off of TikTok, for example, and start focusing on their policy issues.
00:52:33.000 And that's obviously amongst the many things that hurt Kamala Harris.
00:52:35.000 That was her biggest flaw, is that they played too much into the identity politics and the race and the gender ideology. 0.99
00:52:41.000 It was such a big distraction as to the real issues that we're facing, which is the economy.
00:52:45.000 It is the border.
00:52:45.000 It's safety.
00:52:46.000 It's immigration.
00:52:47.000 These are the problems that even people my age want to hear about.
00:52:50.000 We have a future ahead of us.
00:52:51.000 We don't want to worry about being murdered on the streets of Manhattan or if we could afford a mortgage and a house one day.
00:52:58.000 The Democrats would rather play into the, you know, identity politics and not focus on any policies that actually influence real people.
00:53:07.000 So they play out to this, like, small percentage of people, and you don't win an election that way.
00:53:12.000 But, in fact, them switching over, I think, hurts them more.
00:53:15.000 Like, Gavin Newsom's podcast, I think, backfired because he said, well, I never went by pronouns.
00:53:20.000 I never said Latinx.
00:53:22.000 I never did this.
00:53:23.000 I never said men should be in women's sports.
00:53:25.000 But the facts show otherwise.
00:53:26.000 You did in fact say you believe men should dominate women in sports.
00:53:29.000 You did say Latinx.
00:53:31.000 You did use pronouns.
00:53:32.000 So now you're showing the people I never cared about you.
00:53:34.000 This was about politics.
00:53:35.000 And because I want to win, I'm going to turn my back on all you wokeys, even though this is what I've been claiming I care about, just to win whatever it is, let's say, presidency that he's running for. 0.95
00:53:45.000 However, and I don't think Republicans should head into 28 with a hothead, I don't know if the Democrats could.
00:53:54.000 Manage the disarray that they're in because they're so conflicted within that I feel like they need to focus on their own issues before competing with Republicans.
00:54:02.000 And like the men in women's sports, like John Fetterman voted against it.
00:54:04.000 You have a daughter.
00:54:06.000 You have a daughter.
00:54:07.000 Imagine a man.
00:54:09.000 First of all, imagine a naked man in the locker room with your daughter.
00:54:12.000 Would you not feel violated by that?
00:54:14.000 Secondly, imagine your daughter spends her whole life.
00:54:16.000 Let's say someone like me, for example.
00:54:18.000 Five days a week, tennis, sacrificing my weekends, not being able to keep Shabbat over something like that.
00:54:22.000 Full ride to school, and then a man takes her spot. 1.00
00:54:25.000 How could you possibly sleep at night knowing that you voted for something like that?
00:54:30.000 I'll never understand it.
00:54:32.000 So as long as they have these crazy, manic beliefs, I don't think they'll get far.
00:54:38.000 So I hope they keep them.
00:54:39.000 Well, Emily Austin, thank you so much for stopping by.
00:54:42.000 Folks, check out her stuff over her Instagram page at emily.austin.
00:54:46.000 She's terrific.
00:54:47.000 Thanks so much for your time.
00:54:48.000 Thank you.
00:54:49.000 Already coming up, we'll jump into...
00:54:51.000 The latest episode of Bill Maher.
00:54:53.000 Don Lemon stopped by and had some things to say about black Americans voting for President Trump.
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