On today's show: President Trump is threatening Iran. They must, he says, unconditionally surrender. Tucker Carlson continues to go nuts on Trump. Plus, we get to the latest from the left and their bizarre desire to crap on the military parade.
00:01:31.000Over the course of the last 24 hours, apparently they also took down, via a hacktivist group, a group called Predatory Sparrow, they took down Bank Seppa, which is one of Iran's oldest financial institutions with ties to the IRGC as well as the army, according to iraninternational.com, which is sort of a dissident website.
00:01:50.000That operates, I believe, from outside Iran.
00:01:52.000Several bank sepa branches were closed on Tuesdays.
00:01:54.000Customers told Iran International they were unable to access their accounts.
00:01:58.000They have 1,800 branches in Iran and others in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
00:02:02.000The United States imposed sanctions on bank sepa in 2019.
00:02:05.000President Trump did that after it withdrew from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal.
00:02:09.000So, the banking system collapsing in Iran.
00:02:14.000The propaganda system collapsing in Iran and the military system collapsing in Iran as well.
00:02:19.000According to Israel Hayom, Israeli Air Force jets struck a manned command center at the heart of Tehran, killing Ali Shadmani.
00:02:28.000He was the most senior operational military commander in the country and the closest advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
00:02:34.000He had served as the chief of war staff and commander of the emergency command center of Iran's armed forces, overseeing both the IRGC and the regular Iranian army.
00:02:47.000He actually was appointed to command Iran's armed forces about five days ago because his predecessor, Alam Ali Rashid, was eliminated on day one.
00:02:56.000So congratulations for the promotion and also condolences for his death.
00:03:02.000And these are all people working for one of the most evil regimes on the planet, a regime that not only spreads terror throughout the region, is responsible for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops across the region, but also happens to repress its own people to an extraordinary degree.
00:03:15.000So, Israel took out a top general, they took the banks offline, they took down the Iranian media, they also were blowing up from the air the F-14 Tomcats.
00:03:24.000That Iran had left over from the pre-revolutionary period.
00:03:28.000So the United States had sold F-14s to Iran back when the Shah was running Iran.
00:03:32.000If you ever watch Top Gun Maverick, there's a country in it with F-14s.
00:03:36.000There's only one country on planet Earth that still operates F-14s.
00:04:16.000They announced they're going to fire missiles into Israel.
00:04:17.000The problem for them, as I talked about on the show yesterday, is that if they fire hundreds of missiles at one time, Which ballistic missile launchers are lighting up?
00:04:26.000And then can destroy the ballistic missile launchers?
00:04:28.000So instead, what they've been relegated to doing is firing ten at a time.
00:05:25.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the big news in oil markets since Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear program is the price spike that wasn't.
00:05:30.000Brent crude popped from $66 a barrel or so to a high of $78 last week.
00:05:35.000By Monday, it was back down below $73.
00:05:36.000That non-panic owes to the ample global supply.
00:05:39.000It's a lesson for Congress and the Trump administration as they contemplate putting new sanctions on Russian oil exports.
00:05:45.000So global oil production is in pretty good shape to cope with.
00:05:53.000So, meanwhile, the question becomes, what exactly is the next step here?
00:05:57.000So, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he says, listen, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran, he's still on the table here.
00:06:05.000He might not make it out in one piece.
00:06:09.000But U.S. officials tell us that the president flatly rejected a plan, an opportunity that you, the Israelis, had to take out the supreme leader.
00:06:33.000We've had The forever war is what Iran wants.
00:06:48.000And they're bringing us to the brink of nuclear war.
00:06:51.000In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression.
00:06:56.000And we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.
00:07:01.000Prime Minister Netanyahu also, because the Iranian media were taken completely offline yesterday, he actually gave a message to the Iranian people.
00:07:10.000This message he gave via an alternative network that was broadcasting into Iran.
00:07:16.000So the only TV that Iran was able to see was essentially Israeli TV in Iran.
00:08:19.000Okay, so, again, it's not an explicit goal of the Israelis to topple the regime.
00:08:23.000They want to get rid of the possibility of nuclear development by the regime.
00:08:26.000But if the regime happens to fall, well, no one is going to be crying about that.
00:08:30.000Already coming up much, much more on what the Israelis are doing in Iran.
00:08:33.000Plus, President Trump is dropping a lot of hints about what may be ahead.
00:08:38.000And he's in a fight with Tucker Carlson.
00:08:40.000Tucker somehow thinks that he is like the leader of MAGA, and President Trump slapped him down yesterday.
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00:11:16.000Those are really the only things that Iran has.
00:11:18.000Israel has refrained from hitting the oil fields, specifically because it does not wish to create any sort of serious oil spike.
00:11:23.000It has refrained from hitting Khamenei, because it would like to see Khamenei either surrender or flee, presumably, because if Israel were to kill Khamenei, then there's always the possibility that there's some sort of red button somewhere that does let off the rest of the missiles all at once.
00:11:37.000And then there's the Fordo nuclear facility.
00:11:39.000Now, if Fordo goes down, the problem for Khamenei is that that ends.
00:11:43.000All nuclear future for the Ayatollahs.
00:11:45.000And at that point, the regime is extraordinarily vulnerable.
00:11:48.000Obviously, militarily, they're very vulnerable right now.
00:11:51.000On the ground, they're vulnerable as well because Israel can hit them pretty much anywhere.
00:11:56.000And when it comes to its nuclear future, the nuclear future was supposed to be the guarantee that the Ayatollahs could stay in power despite the fact that they are quite unpopular at home.
00:12:05.000And this is why the Ayatollahs built Fordo below a mountain.
00:12:25.000So, the only people on planet Earth who have the planes capable of carrying the bunker busters that would make the process easy are the Americans.
00:12:32.000Now, Israel, I'm sure, has come up with some clever ways to take out Fordow or to wreck the inside of the facility.
00:12:40.000Israel would not have entered this war without some endpoint, including the destruction of Florida.
00:12:45.000It might be risky, it might be costly, but there's no way the Israelis went into this believing that there was no way they could take out Florida.
00:12:51.000With that said, everything becomes a lot easier for the world if, given the fact that Iran now has no offensive capabilities to speak of.
00:12:58.000Again, they are firing one missile a night at the Israelis, and the Israelis are wrecking them militarily.
00:13:02.000The thing that would end this war pretty quickly, and when I say pretty quickly, I mean within 24 hours, is...
00:13:14.000That's really the whole thing, because at that point, the Iranians have nothing to negotiate with.
00:13:18.000At that point, Khamenei has nothing to hold out for.
00:13:20.000He may as well just say, listen, you guys got what you want.
00:13:47.000This is much more similar to President Trump taking out Qasem Soleimani.
00:13:50.000A move celebrated, by the way, by many of the same people who are now freaking out about the possibility of President Trump taking out Fordo.
00:13:57.000That is the reason why the latest polling shows, according to Greyhouse, poll taken just a couple of days ago, do you support the United States attacking Iran if necessary?
00:14:20.000Actually, that is not particularly divisive inside the Republican Party.
00:14:24.000Which is why, yesterday, or late yesterday evening, President Trump announced that he would be leaving the G7 summit early to return to Washington, D.C. And there was talk that he was going to be meeting with the National Security Council inside the Situation Room.
00:14:38.000There's a lot of speculation that there may have been a military move that was happening as of last night.
00:14:42.000According to Associated Press, world leaders had gathered in Canada with the specific goal of helping to defuse a series of global pressure points only to be disrupted by a showdown over Iran's nuclear program that could escalate in dangerous and uncontrollable ways.
00:14:54.000Again, I'm waiting to see an explanation for what the escalation looks like.
00:15:12.000If Iran had significant offensive capabilities, they should have flexed them already, considering that Israel is completely wiping the Iranian military and nuclear facilities off the map with extraordinary impunity right now.
00:15:24.000So President Trump left to head back to Washington, and President Trump was asked on Air Force One about negotiating, because, of course, there are some in his administration who have been leaking to the press.
00:15:36.000We can speculate who those people are.
00:15:38.000There are some who have been leaking to the press that President Trump is trying negotiations.
00:15:41.000And Trump's like, uh, no, I don't know.
00:17:31.000And so he's playing all of those cards.
00:17:33.000He was asked about the fact that Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, who put out that bizarre video last week that we analyzed, the one where she talked about the evils of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and seemed to imply that any action against Iran would somehow end a nuclear conflagration, None of it made any sense.
00:17:51.000Tulsi Gabbard, a few months ago, had testified that there was no ongoing nuclear threat from Iran.
00:17:56.000Of course, this is contradicted by literally all intelligence services and the IAEA.
00:18:00.000President Trump was asked about Tulsi Gabbard's comments.
00:18:02.000He's like, no, that's a big no from me.
00:18:04.000Mr. Batiba always said that you don't believe Iran should be able to have a nuclear weapon.
00:18:09.000But how close do you personally think that they were to getting one?
00:18:12.000Because Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.
00:19:57.000And that's why, as we'll get to, all of the people in the supposed MAGA coalition who are yelling at him about a position that he has been taking consistently for 10 years without a gap, maybe you misinterpreted.
00:20:09.000Maybe you think you're the leaders of MAGA.
00:21:15.000Well, in case you were wondering, he actually tried to do it even more.
00:21:19.000Emmanuel Macron started trying to speak in President Trump's name, which is absurd, suggesting that he was working on a ceasefire.
00:21:26.000So first of all, President Trump cannot stand Emmanuel Macron.
00:21:28.000As we'll see a little bit later on in the show, neither can...
00:21:33.000Maybe there's a reason that he had to marry a woman twice his age.
00:21:35.000In any case, he is not a popular man with people who know him personally, apparently.
00:21:40.000Georgia Maloney rolled her eyes so hard, the Prime Minister of Italy, at having to deal with Emmanuel Macron that her eyes rolled directly out of her head.
00:21:47.000Anyway, President Trump was upset with Emmanuel Macron.
00:21:50.000He tweeted, quote, publicity-seeking President Emmanuel Macron of France mistakenly said, I left the G7 summit in Canada to go back to D.C. to work on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
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00:24:38.000Then, there are a bunch of people inside his administration who went leaking to people like Barack Ravid at Axios, the quite terrible reporter who relies on So there are a bunch of people in the administration.
00:24:52.000Again, I have suspicion as to which people who are leaking to Axios as per usual.
00:25:18.000Okay, later in the day, the President of the United States tweeted out a message from Mike Huckabee, a text message from the ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
00:25:28.000And here's what it says, quote, Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever.
00:25:42.000I am your appointed servant in this land, and I'm available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts.
00:25:47.000No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 1945.
00:25:51.000I don't reach out to persuade you, only to encourage you.
00:25:53.000I believe you will hear from heaven, and that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's.
00:25:57.000You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice, and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy.
00:26:00.000My job is to be the last one to leave.
00:26:08.000He said, for Mike Huckabee, a pastor, politician, ambassador, and a great person.
00:26:12.000And then, later in the morning, he tweeted out, quote, We now have complete and total control over the skies over Iran.
00:26:21.000Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American-made, conceived, and manufactured stuff.
00:26:27.000Nobody does it better than the good old USA.
00:26:29.000Now, notice the use of the first-person plural.
00:26:32.000We now have complete and total control over the skies of Iran.
00:26:36.000So all of this seems to imply that President Trump may be ready to simply put an end to this conflict by dropping a couple of bunker busters on Fordo.
00:26:44.000That would be the easiest way to end the conflict.
00:26:49.000That seems like a pretty easy lift for the presidents of the United States.
00:26:52.000He also started removing troops and personnel from American bases in eastern Syria, presumably to avoid any sort of blowback should he decide to make that call.
00:27:01.000Now again, it's not clear that he is going to make that call or which way he's going to go.
00:27:06.000The president has the Iranians right where he wants them.
00:27:08.000At this point, they have no hand to play, as the president likes to say.
00:27:12.000This becomes clear from another Wall Street Journal piece that was reported this morning.
00:27:16.000Ayatollah Khamenei and his top advisors never expected Israel to launch airstrikes on the scale they've seen in recent days while they were negotiating with the Americans.
00:27:23.000The foreign minister told diplomats they'd been played by Trump.
00:27:26.000And the U.S.-Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff into thinking negotiations would prevent a strike, according to European and Arab officials.
00:27:32.000The Iranians have said privately they could be open to resume negotiations as long as Trump publicly says he doesn't support the Israeli strike.
00:27:51.000With what leverage would they compel the President of the United States, the most powerful person on planet Earth, with the unfettered capacity to fly over Iran with anything he pleases, up to and including a paraglider?
00:28:03.000What leverage do they think they have?
00:28:08.000Apparently, the foreign minister said a private message is not enough.
00:28:11.000The U.S. government needs to condemn the attack on nuclear facilities and explicitly withdraw from this conflict to prove its good intentions.
00:28:16.000And then he said that Iran would only accept a deal that allows it to enrich uranium.
00:28:41.000There are some voices that you hear that are very big on X. Some people who are in the media space who have And let's just be clear, by the polling data, that is not true.
00:28:59.000This has been and remains a fringe opinion.
00:29:01.000The president is a peace-through-strength advocate.
00:29:04.000You think that the guy who blew Qasem Soleimani into little tiny pieces, pieces so small that they could not put them back together again, you think that that guy is a pacifist?
00:29:14.000You think that the same Donald Trump, Tomahawk missiles into Syria, that one's the pacifist?
00:29:20.000You think the president who on Saturday had a gigantic military parade to show off our hardware and praise the U.S. Army's history, that guy's the pacifist?
00:29:28.000He doesn't sound like the kind of guy who, for example, thinks that Churchill was the bad guy of World War II.
00:29:33.000Doesn't sound like the president of the United States.
00:29:35.000The president of the United States, he doesn't sound like the kind of guy who thinks that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II was some sort of great moral blight.
00:29:46.000That doesn't sound like President Trump.
00:29:47.000It sounds like other people in the supposed MAGA movement, people who wish to grab control of that MAGA movement, pretend that they are the substitute leaders of that MAGA movement, that actually it's their movement, independent of President Trump.
00:29:58.000But that doesn't sound very much like President Trump to me.
00:30:01.000Well, obviously, one of those people is Tucker Carlson.
00:30:05.000So, over the course of the last 48 hours, he has continued to up the ante.
00:30:09.000So, last week, he put out, of course, a newsletter in which he suggested that the president had betrayed MAGA in America first, and President Trump responded by saying he made MAGA in America first, which, of course, is true.
00:30:20.000And then yesterday, Tucker spun off while doing an interview with Steve Bannon, who seems to be taking a similar position, talking about how this could end Trump's presidency.
00:31:18.000He doesn't like America's role in the world.
00:31:20.000Also, you know, I'm going to take it with a grain of salt when he says that he loves the president of the United States, since in 2020, it was uncovered in that lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against Fox News.
00:31:32.000That he was texting people saying that he quote-unquote passionately hated Donald Trump in 2020.
00:31:37.000So I'm not sure whether he passionately loves Donald Trump or whether he passionately hates Donald Trump, whether he believes that Donald Trump has betrayed the MAGA movement or what he believes President Trump has betrayed about the MAGA movement.
00:31:46.000Suffice it to say, President Trump was unhappy with this.
00:31:49.000And President Trump labeled Tucker Carlson kooky yesterday.
00:31:55.000He put out a statement on Truth Social.
00:31:59.000In which he said, someone please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
00:32:06.000So President Trump calls Tucker Carlson kooky Tucker, which again, I think is a very, very good descriptor of Tucker Carlson.
00:32:14.000At this point, let's just say that he has pushed a bunch of theories that are specious in the extreme, unbased in evidence or reason.
00:32:22.000And you can enjoy Tucker Carlson to your heart's content.
00:32:57.000He unapologetically believes the same things I do, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, that if we don't fight for our own country and our own people, then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren.
00:33:06.000Okay, we thank you for that meaningless statement.
00:33:08.000And foreign wars intervention, regime change, put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction.
00:33:14.000Well, I mean, those aren't all the same thing.
00:33:17.000Foreign wars intervention and regime change?
00:33:47.000And the people who are siding with this?
00:33:49.000Trying to wrest control of a movement they did not build and they are not responsible for from the President of the United States is insulting in the extreme.
00:33:56.000All right, still a lot coming up on the show.
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00:35:07.000He came out and suggested yesterday that Trump should be impeached, full-on impeached, for the crime of defenestrating one of the worst regimes on the planet without firing a shot.
00:36:11.000At the time, it seemed like the right one.
00:36:13.000But he should be impeached and removed for this one.
00:36:16.000Okay, and then just to follow that up, Dave Smith went on Twitter, and then he called the President of the United States, quote, the most impotent of a leader imaginable.
00:36:25.000He's allowing one side of a war who clearly wants to drag us into lie about our involvement while not correcting the record.
00:36:30.000Trump has betrayed MAGA and every principle of America first.
00:36:33.000He is no longer worthy of any of our support.
00:36:34.000He probably never was, has Dave Smith.
00:36:36.000So, just going to point out once again, these are the people who believe they should be in control of MAGA.
00:37:11.000Or it wasn't America first when America asked for the unconditional surrender of Japan.
00:37:15.000It wasn't America first when America sought to end the Gulf War by pushing Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
00:37:23.000It wasn't America first when President Trump hit Qasem Soleimani because these self-appointed MAGA priests get to decide not the President of the United States.
00:37:33.000Well, Donald Trump had one more comment about Tucker Carlson who's asked specifically about Tucker's take.
00:37:52.000Meanwhile, it is worthwhile noting who does agree with Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dave Smith and Candace Owens and all the other very loud voices who are claiming that President Trump has betrayed the movement and so on and so forth.
00:38:05.000Those people would include Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who President Trump has won at the primary, It includes Bernie Sanders, who has also come out against the President of the United States.
00:38:17.000The horseshoe theory is real and working.
00:38:21.000Thomas Massey says, quote, this is not our war.
00:38:23.000I'm introducing a bipartisan War Powers resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement.
00:38:27.000So first of all, that is not how the War Powers Resolution...
00:38:30.000I mean, you can provide the resolution, but then the president has 60 days within which to continue to conduct activities before he has to go back to Congress for the possibility of a permission or shutdown of funds.
00:38:39.000So good luck with that, because this thing...
00:38:43.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez signed on as well.
00:38:53.000If the people at Pod Save America are agreeing with you on a major foreign policy issue, the designers of the JCPOA, you are doing it wrong.
00:39:01.000Here is Tommy Vieter, former van driver for Barack Obama.
00:39:05.000The folks they're fighting against are like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I think on the merits- Our best friends.
00:39:11.000I mean, on the merits and on the politics, like I'm team Tucker, Steve, MTG here, fellas.
00:39:19.000So on the merits, I think they have correctly identified, and they did so before this week, that this wasn't really just about weapons of mass destruction.
00:39:36.000And on the politics, I just think that Tucker and Bannon and MTG are way more in tune with the MAGA base than the gang at National Review.
00:39:44.000And no one wants another war in the Middle East.
00:39:47.000And no one is going to believe another intelligence-based, trust me, worthy experts pitch about why we need to go decapitate the leaders of another Middle East.
00:39:59.000So, first of all, Israel has not asked the United States to decapitate the leadership of another country.
00:40:04.000Second of all, Tommy Veeder is the biggest idiot in foreign policy.
00:40:08.000That dude worked with Ben Rhodes on the JCPOA to set up an Iranian-dominant Middle East that ended with October 7th and wild expansion of terror groups all over the region.
00:40:40.000Again, I think only one person kind of speaks for what MAGA as a general rule wants.
00:40:44.000And I may disagree with it, you may disagree with it, but only one guy speaks for that movement, and that is the president of the United States.
00:40:50.000Which brings us to the subject of today's takedown.
00:41:47.000Jon Stewart, if you asked him to simply fill in the names of the countries in the Middle East, you gave him a map and it just had borders and it didn't have names, and you asked him to fill in any of those countries, there is no chance in hell he knows what he's talking about.
00:43:58.000But according to Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart knows better because after all, By the way, did Iran happen to get that bomb from a company called Acme?
00:44:11.000So now we're just bringing back jokes from 2012.
00:47:50.000That is not the way the system even worked in 1953.
00:47:53.000There's this whole alternative history of Iran that has now been written based on a bunch of sort of self-congratulatory books by figures who were tangentially involved.
00:48:04.000But Peter Thoreau has a great piece of tablet from March 2023 talking about what actually happened in Iran.
00:48:09.000And the answer to what happened in Iran is that Mohamed Mossadegh was the appointed prime minister, appointed by, wait for it, wait for it, the Shah, and then approved by the parliament.
00:48:16.000And then parliament wanted to get rid of him.
00:48:18.000And the Shah finally decided to get rid of him.
00:48:20.000And in a democratic procedure, they decided to get rid of him and he resisted.
00:48:23.000And then there was a quote-unquote coup.
00:48:26.000Yes, the United States and Great Britain wanted that to happen because Mossadegh had also attempted to nationalize all of the oil fields and all of the oil drilling in Iran.
00:48:34.000But this bizarre idea that we must never, ever, ever be involved in Iran in any way.
00:48:40.000Forget about deposing Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:49:05.000Every intervention is the deposition of a democratically elected foreign leader, even if that's not even what happened in the first place.
00:49:13.000I will note, by the way, that the Shah was a significantly better ally to us than Mossadegh would have been.
00:49:17.000He would have allied with the Communist Soviet Union at the time.
00:49:19.000But, again, bad history is the ally of people who don't like reality.
00:49:24.000Okay, meanwhile, the G7 is continuing apace.
00:49:28.000The President of the United States stopped by, and then he left.
00:49:33.000So he was there to negotiate some trade agreements.
00:49:36.000He talked to Keir Starmer, the ridiculous leftist leader of the UK, and he said, you know what, I like Keir, so we'll figure something out.
00:49:44.000Mr. President, can you guarantee the UK will be protected from any future tariffs?
00:50:17.000So, you know, again, President Trump operates very much off the basis of personal relationships.
00:50:22.000And so you'd assume that something will get done with the tariffs with the UK.
00:50:26.000Perhaps the funniest moment of the sort of abbreviated G7, again, President Trump left because of what's going on in the Middle East, was George Maloney, who is the Prime Minister of Italy, who obviously just cannot stand Emmanuel Macron, just cannot stand him.
00:50:40.000You can see in this video, she is like falling over.
00:50:58.000Scandal has now broken out across the UK after the Secretary of State for the Home Department of the UK.
00:51:07.000Acknowledged the gigantic scandal of a cover-up of the grooming gangs case in the UK.
00:51:13.000She condemned, according to the Guardian, damning failures by the authorities to protect children from grooming gangs.
00:51:18.000She announced there will now be a formal requirement on police for the first time to collect ethnicity and nationality data for all cases of child exploitation.
00:51:25.000For those who don't remember this case, this is a case in which literally hundreds, if not thousands, of young white girls were trafficked by British Pakistani men, meaning they were groomed into sexual assault.
00:51:39.000They would drive the girls around to various locations.
00:51:42.000And the authorities knew about it and they virtually did nothing.
00:51:46.000They really ignored an enormous amount of it.
00:51:49.000Well now, finally, years later, they're acknowledging this is a problem.
00:51:52.000There's a report by a person named Louise Casey assessing what was known about the grooming gangs.
00:51:58.000And Casey said the failure of the authorities until now to collect good data on the ethnicities of the offender did a disservice to the British-Pakistani community and could leave them at risk.
00:52:36.000And the government's like, you know, the real victims in all this could be other Muslim men.
00:52:43.000Asked if she was worried that recording the data could lead to civil unrest.
00:52:46.000The crossbench peer responded, let's put it the other way.
00:52:48.000If for a minute you had another report that ducked the issue, what do you think is going to happen?
00:52:51.000Do you think they're not going to use that as well?
00:52:53.000So, Mr. Speaker, I warned in January that the data collection we had inherited from the previous government on ethnicity was completely inadequate.
00:53:15.000It was only collected on 37% of suspects.
00:53:20.000Baroness Casey's audit confirms that ethnicity data is not recorded for two-thirds of grooming gang perpetrators, and she says it is not good enough to support any statements about the ethnicity of group-based child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level.
00:53:39.000And frankly, it is ridiculous and helps no one that this basic information is not collected, especially when there have been warnings and recommendations stretching back 13 years about the woefully inadequate data on perpetrators which prevents patterns of crime being understood and tackled.
00:53:59.000Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.
00:54:12.000The vast majority of people in our British, Asian and Pakistani heritage communities continue to be appalled by these terrible crimes and agree that the criminal minority of sick predators and perpetrators in every community must be dealt with robustly by the criminal law.
00:54:34.000Maggie Oliver was the constable in the Greater Manchester Police, who was a whistleblower when the government was simply ignoring the Rochdale child's ring.
00:54:42.000And here she was, slamming Yvette Cooper, saying, like, what the hell?
00:54:45.000Why is this about somehow defending against Islamophobia as opposed to, you know, defending the actual victims?
00:54:52.000So to hear Yvette Cooper speaking today as though this is all a complete surprise for her is complete and utter nonsense.
00:55:01.000They have been pushed into a corner, and I don't care if it's Conservative or Labour.
00:55:05.000They are equally negligent, in my opinion.
00:55:08.000As our chief constables, as our senior social workers, all those who turned away should be in prison.
00:55:15.000They should not be allowed to just say it's an apology as though they care.
00:55:51.000Quote, our nation's ice officers have shown incredible strength, determination and courage as they facilitate a very important mission.
00:55:57.000The largest mass deportation operation of illegal aliens in history.
00:56:00.000And then he points out, The problem in major American cities, largely blue.
00:56:25.000And he says, I want our brave ICE officials to know that real Americans are cheering you on every day.
00:56:29.000The American people want our city, schools, and communities to be safe and free from illegal, alien, crime, conflict, and chaos.
00:56:34.000That's why I've directed my entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort and reverse the tide of mass destruction migration that has turned once idyllic towns into scenes of third world dystopia.
00:56:43.000Our federal government will continue to be focused on the re-migration of aliens to the places from where they came, preventing the admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.
00:56:53.000Tom Homan, the border czar, reiterated this.
00:56:56.000He said, listen, we are focusing first and foremost on criminals.
00:56:59.000Look, like everything else, President's prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats.
00:57:04.000When it comes to worksites, we prioritize those operations, too.
00:57:08.000Many places we do, where we target the worksite enforcement operations, it has to do with forced labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and criminal investigations where they're funding, they're not paying taxes, there's tax evasion, or they're funding cartel activity.
00:57:24.000So we prioritize worksite investigation, too.
00:57:32.000So, the administration isn't going to give a green light to everyone who's illegally immigrated to the country, but obviously, you are going to have to tranche your priorities.
00:57:39.000Not every illegal immigrant is an equivalent priority.
00:57:41.000You're going to have to focus in on the people who are the grave or criminal threats, for example.
00:57:47.000Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, continues to pretend nothing is wrong while she literally scrubs graffiti off the streets.
00:58:13.000Meanwhile, Chicago, which does have the worst mayor in the country, Mayor Brandon Johnson, he says, no matter what, we will continue to resist.
00:58:19.000I assume that's the point of actually going to jail, which would be somewhat delicious.
00:58:25.000Yeah, let me just first acknowledge the level of anxiety and fear and trepidation that this administration has caused.
00:58:32.000You've never seen a society improve or expand under this type of fear.
00:58:37.000And we're going to continue to resist and we're going to do it in many different ways, whether it's taken to the streets or to the courts or policy.
00:58:44.000One of the things that I am very proud of is that we are a welcoming city, which means our local law enforcement do not dub or behave as federal ICE agents.
00:58:54.000So, again, this is what Democrats are.
00:59:00.000Now, again, it is amazing how the Democratic Party is falling apart.
00:59:03.000I think maybe the most hilarious story of the last 48 hours is that two major union leaders just quit the DNC.
00:59:10.000The DNC is so completely dysfunctional and unworkable that Randy Weingarten, who's head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Sounders, the president of a large union of public workers, each quit the DNC.
00:59:26.000In their resignation messages, they suggested that under Martin's leadership, the DNC was failing to expand its coalition.
00:59:32.000They originally had supported Martin's rival in the chairmanship race, a guy named Ben Wickler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
00:59:39.000But the basic idea here is that the party is too fragmented, it's too fractured, and they can't find a way forward.
00:59:45.000Well, yeah, because it turns out that just yelling at President Trump ain't gonna do it.
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