A 15-year-old girl opened fire at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, and killed 3 people, including a teacher and a student, and injured 5 more. The shooter has not been identified, but there has been a lot of speculation online as to her identity.
00:00:00.000Well, folks, there's been another school shooting, this time in Madison, Wisconsin.
00:00:03.000The motive on the shooting is still unclear at this point.
00:00:06.000The alleged shooter was a 15-year-old girl.
00:00:09.000This 15-year-old girl has been a lot of speculation online as to why she committed this particular shooting.
00:00:15.000There are several people dead, including the shooter.
00:00:18.000According to the New York Post, the teen girl who fatally shot a student and teacher and left two more pupils clinging to life at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, has now been identified.
00:00:26.000Apparently, this girl brought a handgun to campus and opened fire around 11 a.m.
00:00:31.000The teenage student and teacher were pronounced dead at the scene.
00:00:33.000Another teacher and five more students were wounded.
00:00:36.000Two of the students are in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, according to the Madison police chief, Sean Barnes.
00:00:41.000Here he was announcing the impact of the shooting.
00:00:45.000What we know is that a total of about seven persons were transported from this scene to area hospitals for treatment.
00:00:53.000We know that at least three people have lost their lives, including a juvenile person.
00:00:59.000I don't have any other information about those persons who have lost their lives, and I'm not going to release that until we have, of course, spoken with family members and ensuring that they are fully aware of this tragic, tragic scene that occurred today.
00:01:17.000The shooter apparently had a manifesto.
00:01:19.000We're not sure whether that manifesto has been locked down at this point.
00:01:21.000The police say the motive is still unknown at this point.
00:01:24.000Again, there's a lot of speculation online about the shooter possibly being trans.
00:01:28.000Again, that is all speculation at this point.
00:01:30.000We don't know anything about whether that is true or not.
00:01:32.000The Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes addressed that idea yesterday.
00:01:37.000Chief, there's been a lot of misinformation online, including from the Moms for Liberty activists in Wisconsin claiming that the shooter was transgender, which is a reaction that we see across the country in the wake of mass shootings, to claim that trans people are dangerous.
00:01:56.000Yeah, I don't know whether Natalie was transgender or not.
00:02:00.000And quite frankly, I don't think that's even important.
00:02:03.000I don't think that's important at all.
00:02:05.000I don't think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify and I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this.
00:02:19.000We have people who showed up to work today to help kids be better who are not going home and we have lost members of our community who are children including the shooter.
00:02:38.000It's something that may come out later, but for what we're doing right now, today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time.
00:02:51.000You know, it is that last part that is kind of amazing.
00:02:54.000Not that the information is unavailable as to the quote-unquote gender identity of the female shooter.
00:03:01.000And it is very rare, obviously, to have female shooters in pretty much any school shooting-related scenario.
00:03:07.000There have been a spate of transgender shooters in recent years.
00:03:16.000There's a Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who self-declared as transgender.
00:03:20.000And the Covenant school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:03:23.000All those people were either transgender or non-binary self-declared.
00:03:26.000But the part about this that's amazing, again, I'm not suggesting that the shooter was trans.
00:03:30.000We have no idea at this point how the shooter identified.
00:03:33.000The point that's kind of amazing is the police chief's statement that it makes no difference at all.
00:03:36.000Because that is not how these shootings typically go.
00:03:39.000We know for a fact, for example, that if this shooter had been a 15-year-old white boy who went into, say, a historically black church and shot a bunch of people, the motive would be the number one thing the media were talking about that day.
00:03:51.000There is a steady application of narrative force to so many of these stories, particularly when it comes to school shootings.
00:04:00.000If the school shooting is committed by somebody who can be linked with a sort of right-wing narrative or alleged right-wing narrative, then immediately the problem becomes quote-unquote right-wing ideas.
00:04:11.000Even if it's white supremacy, which is not a right-wing idea, even if you want to make that case, that is how it goes.
00:04:17.000So if you have a school shooting that is racist in nature, then we have to have a nationwide conversation about racism in America, which of course is linked to Donald Trump, according to the left.
00:04:25.000If, however, there is a school shooting that is committed on behalf of a left-wing cause, then the conversation is either about why the left-wing cause is justified or about gun control.
00:04:35.000That is the way the narrative logic works.
00:04:38.000We talked about this with regard to the United Healthcare CEO shooter, where the entire media decided it was a perfect time in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the United Healthcare CEO. That was a perfect time to discuss healthcare.
00:04:49.000However, when there are shootings that do not mesh with what the left would like, When, in fact, somebody does violence to children on behalf of an evil cause, then there's no discussion as to how the evil cause might be connected to the shooting.
00:05:04.000Then we are relegated to discussing gun control again.
00:05:07.000And that's precisely what is happening here.
00:05:09.000Immediately, because this was dismissible as a not right-wing narrative-connected shooting, you saw everybody in the media immediately rush to gun control, like right away rush to gun control.
00:05:19.000So Frank Figluzzi on MSNBC, he says the guns are the issue.
00:05:22.000Again, it's very predictable how this logic goes.
00:05:26.000I don't see significant enough progress.
00:05:29.000You know, you'll have certain sides saying it's all mental health and we need to get better at that.
00:05:53.000Guns continue to be the issue, and particularly access to guns from people who should not have them, including criminal actors and young people who should not have access.
00:06:03.000So until we address all of these issues together and acknowledge the role of guns, we're not going to see significant change.
00:06:11.000Again, that is always the logic that is used by the left wing media.
00:06:14.000If a shooting happens and it is possible that it's connected to a left wing narrative, we never make that connection unless we wish to justify the left wing narrative.
00:06:22.000If there's a shooting that's connected to a purported right wing narrative, then immediately the conversation is about right wing rhetoric or Donald Trump or racism in America or anything else.
00:06:39.000There's a school shooting at a Christian school in Palermo, California.
00:06:45.000This school shooting, apparently, two kindergarten-age boys, according to the Jerusalem Post, were shot at a Seventh-day Adventist Christian school in California.
00:07:14.000What drove this person, apparently, was hatred of Israel.
00:07:17.000So that means that there will be no conversation about how the left-wing pro-Hamas cause is connected to actual physical violence.
00:07:25.000Because the shooter in that particular case claimed to be taking revenge for American involvement with a supposed Gaza genocide, as well as attacks on Yemen.
00:07:34.000The 56-year-old assailant, who was found at the school by first responders with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound, had left a statement justifying the shooting as revenge for the ongoing Israeli military operation against Hamas in Gaza and operations to counter Ansar Alas maritime terrorism and missile attacks in Yemen.
00:07:49.000That was what was left in the manifesto.
00:07:51.000You didn't even hear about this shooting.
00:07:53.000Now I promise you that if this had been a pro-Israel person who shot up a mosque, for example, God forbid, God forbid, because that would be an act of tremendous evil, you'd have a lot of talk about the pro-Israel position.
00:08:05.000The reason I point this out is just to point out how deeply corrupt the media are.
00:08:11.000The way they generate narratives out of whole cloth and then press those narratives forward is truly an astonishing thing.
00:08:16.000As another example of this, the Washington Post, after years, is now finally admitting that trans medicine is a giant fail.
00:08:24.000According to the Washington Post editorial board, they're now pointing out that transgender medicine is largely based on faulty data.
00:08:35.000Quote, Multiple European health authorities have reviewed the available evidence and concluded it was very low certainty, lacking, and limited by methodological weaknesses.
00:08:49.000Last week, Britain banned the use of puberty blockers indefinitely due to safety concerns.
00:08:54.000The uncertainty is the result of scientists' failure to study these treatments slowly and systematically as they develop them.
00:09:00.000Early studies from a Dutch clinic seem to show promising results, but the research started with only 70 patients and no control group.
00:09:05.000Treatment results that look impressive in small groups often vanish when larger groups are studied.
00:09:12.000This is the Washington Post editorial board, after years of suggesting that it is sheer bigotry to suggest that boys cannot become girls, now acknowledging that trans medicine is based on nothingness.
00:09:22.000As the Washington Post editorial board, the lies that will be propagated by the media on behalf of a particular political narrative are almost endless.
00:09:37.000The media narrative fight is the fight that defines our politics.
00:09:41.000And that media narrative fight has been dominated for legitimately decades by a left-wing media that only propagates left-wing narratives.
00:09:48.000Now, the media are constantly telling lies and passing those off as truths.
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00:12:07.000Now the good news is that there are mechanisms for debunking a lot of that stuff now.
00:12:11.000A perfect example today comes courtesy of CNN. So CNN, actually Clarissa Ward, a reporter at CNN, she's in Syria, she's going around with her camera crew, and there's a viral clip of Clarissa Ward entering a Syrian prison where she discovers, shock and horror, a man who's been in the prison.
00:12:33.000And then she frees the man along with her crew.
00:12:37.000And this man is apparently a supposed victim of the Assad regime, demonstrating full scale how the Assad regime, it's evil, it's horror.
00:12:48.000And the fact that there are so many members of the Syrian uprising who are heroes and all this, that the media are trying to generate a narrative in Syria that people who are taking over Syria are kind, generous moderates.
00:12:57.000That is the narrative being pushed by the Biden administration.
00:12:59.000It's also being pushed, of course, by the other end of the Democratic media human centipede.
00:13:03.000So here's Clarissa Ward in what was one of the stagiest clips that I've seen on television.
00:14:34.000That the people who are being freed are all wonderful people, and that the rebels who have taken over Syria are all wonderful people, and all the rest of this.
00:14:41.000When in reality, everyone who's involved, the Assad regime evil, also HTS, which is an offshoot of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, also not moderate.
00:14:55.000Okay, so why am I laughing at this clip?
00:14:57.000Because the person she just freed, along with her CNN crew, was a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad's forces, known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check, according to the New York Post.
00:15:09.000So basically, this is Kaiser Soze leaving the office immediately.
00:15:13.000Of the inspectors and the usual suspects.
00:15:16.000He walks out and he's like, oh well, it turns out that he's actually the problem, right?
00:15:19.000The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it, quote, one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed in her 20 years of reporting.
00:15:28.000However, independent and unbiased fact-checkers Verify Sai published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually a person named Salama Mohammed Salama, a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.
00:15:44.000He gave his name as Adal Khurbal and claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months earlier and said he had no idea the Assad regime had collapsed.
00:15:51.000However, Verify Sy noted that he appeared, quote, well-groomed, physically healthy, no visible injuries or signs of torture, an incongruous portrayal of someone allegedly held in solitary confinement in the dark for 90 days.
00:16:01.000He didn't even flinch or blink when looking up at the sky after saying that he had not actually seen sunlight for three months.
00:16:07.000And then they started investigating his identity, and it turns out he killed civilians during the Syrian Civil War in 2014. Why do I bring this up?
00:16:14.000Because our media are both stupid and gullible, and, of course, politically motivated.
00:16:18.000The author, Michael Crichton, most famous for books like Jurassic Park, In the Andromeda strain, Michael Crichton had something that he called the Gelman amnesia effect.
00:16:27.000Here's what he said, quote, Often, the article is so wrong, it actually presents the story backward, reversing cause and effect.
00:16:46.000I call these the wet streets cause rain stories.
00:16:50.000In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story.
00:16:54.000And then you turn the page to national or international affairs and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read.
00:17:02.000You turn the page and forget what you know.
00:17:05.000I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life.
00:17:08.000In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say.
00:17:13.000In court, there is a legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part and truthful in all.
00:17:19.000But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence, it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper, when, in fact, it almost certainly isn't.
00:17:26.000The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
00:17:50.000Some of it is a result of President Trump.
00:17:52.000Some of it is just part of a wave that includes President Trump.
00:17:55.000Justin Trudeau is now likely to resign.
00:17:58.000His liberal government has now crumbled, largely because of a tweet storm from President Trump on Truth Social, mocking Justin Trudeau as the governor of the 51st state and also suggesting that he's going to tear up the living hell out of Justin Trudeau and Canada if Trudeau does not give in on some trade deals.
00:18:14.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau is on the brink of resigning as his liberal government crumbles around him, according to CTV News.
00:18:20.000Trudeau is considering his options as leaders, sources have told the broadcaster, while his finance minister, a person named Chrystia Freeland, who is a far leftist, revealed that she will quit.
00:18:29.000She quit on Monday after clashing with Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs, dealing a huge blow to an already unpopular government.
00:18:36.000In a stinging resignation letter, Freeland dismissed Trudeau's push for increased spending as a political gimmick that could hurt Ottawa's ability to deal with the 25% import tariffs President-elect Trump says he will impose.
00:18:47.000The resignation by Freeland, who also serves as Deputy Prime Minister, is one of the biggest crises Trudeau has faced since taking power in November 2015 and leaves him without a key ally when he is on track to lose the next election to the official opposition Conservatives.
00:19:00.000Trudeau quickly came under pressure to go from the New Democrats, the smaller opposition party, which earlier this year pulled its unconditional support of the minority liberal government, but has continued to back the prime minister on some legislation through parliament.
00:19:11.000The party leader, a person named Jagmeet Singh, said, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.
00:19:31.000He called on Trudeau to resign, and also he's calling for new elections.
00:19:34.000Which, of course, he should be, because the left-wing agenda of Justin Trudeau has become unbelievably unpopular in Canada, as well it should.
00:19:43.000Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man, Jangmeet Singh.
00:19:49.000A fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign.
00:19:53.000His Deputy Prime Minister has walked out on him.
00:19:59.000That on top of numerous other female ministers who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them.
00:20:10.000Eighty percent of Canadians have lost And the real reason that these other parties aren't voting for a snap election right now is because they're afraid that all of the losses to Trudeau are going to accrue to Polyev, who, by the way, would be an amazing Prime Minister of Canada.
00:20:40.000The best in Stephen Harper, maybe better than Stephen Harper, and I'm a big Stephen Harper fan.
00:20:44.000So right now, the Canadian government is basically on the brink.
00:20:47.000The only thing that is holding them up, because Canada is a coalitional system, they require a majority of the Canadian Parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence in order to bring down the government.
00:20:56.000Right now, the Canadian Parliament is split between a wide variety of parties.
00:21:01.000The largest party is still the Liberal Party, only for the moment, because they haven't had an election in a while.
00:21:19.000Those are parties that sit in the parliament.
00:21:21.000You need a majority of the people in parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence.
00:21:25.000The left-wing parties have been hesitant to call a new election because they are not going to do better in the new election than they already have.
00:21:30.000And Poliev will become prime minister with probably a sheer majority of votes in the parliament at this point.
00:21:35.000So that is the only thing that is holding Justin Trudeau in office at this point.
00:21:39.000Again, the reason that he is unpopular is because he has pursued every bad policy it is possible to pursue.
00:21:43.000In fact, this little rebellion inside his own party is being led by the fact that he wants to spend and spend and spend and spend.
00:21:50.000He wants to create a massive budget deficit in order to address the fact that he's about to be hit with Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:21:58.000Christia Freeland wrote a letter to Trudeau.
00:22:00.000It said, quote, This means pushing back against America first economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring.
00:22:27.000This means working in good faith and humility with the premiers of the provinces and territories of our great and diverse country and building a true Team Canada response.
00:22:34.000Freeland, of course, would love to challenge Trudeau for leadership of the Liberal Party, oust him and then take his place.
00:22:39.000That is probably not going to be the outcome of what happens in Canada.
00:22:42.000Well, folks, Justin Trudeau's political career may not be long for this world, but let's be real about life.
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00:24:57.000So Germany is headed to an early election after the embattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:25:04.000That is the first step in a sequence of events that will lead to early elections next year.
00:25:07.000It is the latest symptom of mounting political instability in Europe.
00:25:11.000Monday's vote came after the dramatic collapse of Scholz's strife-ridden coalition government last month, which added a political crisis to the economic slump that has gripped the country for the past two years.
00:25:20.000Scholz did not have a majority in parliament.
00:25:22.000He called a confidence vote in order to clear the way for a dissolution of parliament and a new vote now expected in February.
00:25:29.000Germany's post-World War II constitution has a multi-step process for early elections in an attempt to prevent endemic political instability.
00:25:36.000However, the person who is most likely to take over if there were to be a new election is a person named Friedrich Merz.
00:25:44.000Friedrich Merz is a center-right politician who is very pro-America.
00:25:53.000MERS is a representative of the same party as Angela Merkel.
00:25:56.000The difference is that he really hated Angela Merkel's immigration policy, which condemned the center-right in Germany to a decade of wilderness.
00:26:05.000MERS said, quote, Mr. Chancellor, you've had your chance.
00:26:09.000Opinion polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by MERS as the likely winner of the ballot on February 23rd, The party's unlikely to command a big enough majority to govern alone or with the FDP, which is the other center-right party in parliament.
00:26:23.000It would likely need to form an alliance with one or several center-left parties.
00:26:26.000The bottom line, however, is that the winds have shifted across the world.
00:26:41.000You're watching the West finally stand up on its hind legs.
00:26:45.000Some of the leaders of this new movement include people like George Maloney in Italy, who apparently is going to be attending the inauguration of President Trump.
00:26:51.000It includes in the United States, obviously, President Trump.
00:26:53.000It includes in places like the Netherlands, Gerd Weilders.
00:27:21.000When things are going really well, you can afford dumb ideas.
00:27:24.000When things are going poorly, it turns out that you can't.
00:27:28.000And so it is very heartening to see Western countries turn away from the foolish, redistributionist, self-hating left-wing policies of people like Justin Trudeau and towards something better.
00:27:40.000And again, it's part of the new Trump world order that is being reshaped, not just by President Trump, but by a population across the world that is starting to realize how dumb left-wing policy has been.
00:27:52.000And President Trump coming into office is already reshaping the world.
00:27:54.000No one believes that Joe Biden is President of the United States at this point.
00:27:57.000This, for example, is why NATO Chief Mark Rudy is now pushing Europe to increase aid to Ukraine.
00:28:02.000This, by the way, is something that Trump wants.
00:28:04.000Contrary to popular opinion, Trump does not want Ukraine to lose to Russia.
00:28:08.000What Trump would like is for America not to pay for an interminable war with no off-ramp.
00:28:29.000On average, European countries easily spend up to a quarter of their national income on pensions, health and social security systems.
00:28:43.000I mean, these are criticisms that Donald Trump could be making of NATO countries.
00:28:47.000You guys are spending all of your money on welfare systems while we pay for your military.
00:28:51.000The answer is no, we are done with that.
00:28:53.000So the entire world is reshaping itself to the priorities of Western population that it appears does not want to go down to the grave in silence.
00:29:04.000Of course, President Trump is leading the way on that.
00:29:05.000Yesterday, he gave a bang-up press conference, a really excellent press conference, in which he talked about the sort of new energy in the system, the new hope that is broken out across the country in the aftermath of his election.
00:29:16.000As he says, the golden age of America has now begun.
00:29:20.000But this will be the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history, maybe of global history.
00:29:59.000He points out as well that small business optimism has skyrocketed, which, of course, is true.
00:30:04.000As the co-owner of what used to be a small business and actually now is quite a large business, I can tell you the optimism in the system is quite real.
00:30:13.000Small business optimism took a 41-point jump.
00:30:40.000Javier Mille in Argentina is showing this right now.
00:30:42.000When he came into office, there was all this talk about how Argentina was going to have an economic meltdown.
00:30:46.000Instead, economic resurgence has been the result of Javier Miele's tenure.
00:30:51.000He instituted incredibly harsh measures, cutting pretty much everywhere, restructuring many of the welfare programs, getting rid of an enormous amount of bureaucracy.
00:30:59.000And the answer is that Argentina has avoided recession.
00:31:02.000Well, Donald Trump is going to do the same thing with regards to the American economy.
00:31:05.000Here he was talking about his rapid prosperity agenda. - Starting on day one, we'll implement a rapid series of bold reforms to restore our nation to full prosperity.
00:31:16.000We're going to go full prosperity and to build the greatest economy the world has ever seen, just as we had just a short time ago.
00:31:40.000He also did get, at this press conference, a verbal commitment to spend $100 billion in investment from the SoftBank CEO, a person named Masayoshi Son.
00:31:49.000And then Trump did the most Trumpy thing imaginable.
00:31:52.000On the spot, he said, why don't you make it $200 billion?
00:31:55.000It's just pretty, it's pretty fabulous.
00:31:59.000I'm going to ask him right now, would you make it $200 billion on SoftBank?
00:33:35.000If the result is good for the country, he likes it.
00:33:38.000If the result is bad for the country and bad for his presidency, he doesn't like it.
00:33:42.000Which is why, in spite of all of the crazy tweet storms during his first term, he actually had a lot of success in the country because in the end, Donald Trump's metric of success is, wait for it, success.
00:33:59.000We'll get to what that means in terms of policy, because the rest of this press conference, again, it was sort of a masterclass in just pragmatic centrism.
00:34:06.000It's stuff that I think 70 percent of the American population agrees with, which is why he's experiencing a polling honeymoon right now.
00:34:12.000And this, as I said, throughout the election cycle was the dirty secret of the election.
00:34:16.000Donald Trump was the moderate in the election.
00:34:22.000Donald Trump occupied the center on literally every position it was possible to occupy the center from economics to foreign policy to abortion.
00:34:29.000And the same thing remains true right now.
00:34:51.000They're building on this hard-fought momentum and educating millions about America's founding principles and Judeo-Christian values, especially young people like no one else can.
00:36:34.000So, for example, yesterday, Trump addressed the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. And he said the thing that the vast majority of Americans actually agree with.
00:36:41.000Shooting people in the back on the streets of New York because you don't like how they run their business is bad.
00:36:47.000I know that in the online world, this is somehow considered justifiable.
00:36:51.000Or it's supposed to spur a larger conversation about the healthcare system.
00:36:53.000Again, we can have those conversations literally anytime.
00:36:55.000It seems to me the worst time to have those conversations is after a terrorist attack, the purpose of which is to generate left-wing conversations about these issues in this case.
00:37:04.000Here is Donald Trump saying the obvious.
00:37:44.000And very bad, very, a thing like that, you just, you can't believe that some people, and maybe it's fake news, I don't know, it's hard to believe that that can even be thought of.
00:37:56.000Again, he's saying a perfectly obvious thing.
00:38:00.000Trump is actually not all that online, right?
00:38:03.000He actually doesn't spend a lot of time online, like everybody else in the media industry.
00:38:08.000Donald Trump goes on Truth Social every once in a while in order to put out a piece of news, but it's not like he's monitoring X all day.
00:38:15.000So he's not caught up in the fever swamps nearly as much as many of the people who either surround him or who are on the left.
00:38:23.000Which means that actually Donald Trump tends to touch grass a lot more often than a lot of the people who are both in his orbit and outside his orbit.
00:38:42.000This is a proposition with which most Americans agree.
00:38:43.000The same thing is true when it comes to foreign policy.
00:38:45.000So yesterday, members of the media idiotically asked Trump if he is going to engage in a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:38:52.000Now, just today, the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced that Iran is basically lying and defying any sort of attempts to box them in on their nuclear program.
00:39:02.000So it is unclear what's going to happen next.
00:39:04.000One thing is for certain, Israel is not going to sit still while Iran goes nuclear.
00:39:08.000So Trump is asked about a preemptive attack, and Trump gives the perfectly obvious answer.
00:39:12.000You morons, I'm not going to tell you if I'm going to do it.
00:39:15.000Like, that's not how foreign policy gets done, you idiots.
00:39:21.000Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities?
00:39:53.000Now, the media would have gotten an answer from Joe Biden in which he said, He would have immediately caved to the narrative.
00:40:03.000Trump's like, no, I'm not telling you what I'm going to do, which is a perfectly obvious response to this stuff, and it is refreshingly obvious at this point.
00:40:11.000Meanwhile, President Trump continues to stand behind his Secretary of Defense pick, Pete Hegseth, who I think is going to cruise to nomination.
00:40:40.000I said, you know, if it doesn't work out, you'll never have the opportunity that you have right now in terms of The world of entertainment or business, whatever you want to call it.
00:40:51.000You'll never have that opportunity again.
00:40:53.000In fact, it could be just the opposite.
00:42:52.000Again, what he is saying here is perfectly legitimate and perfectly pragmatic.
00:42:57.000And that is what you should expect from a Trump presidency.
00:42:59.000I know contrary to popular opinion, Donald Trump is not going to come in like a bull in a china shop and simply start breaking every single thing, including the good things.
00:43:06.000He's going to break a lot of bad things and he's going to maintain and expand the good things.
00:43:10.000Because he is not an ideological creature in general.
00:43:13.000Now, to me, listen, I have a very clear ideology.
00:43:17.000I think that that ideology bears significant fruit.
00:43:19.000I think that the free market ideology of Javier Mille in Argentina, for example, is a purist ideology that has borne significant and great fruit.
00:43:30.000If he is utilitarian, many of the things he does are going to be things that conservatives like because conservative solutions actually work.
00:43:38.000Meanwhile, speaking of pragmatism, Donald Trump is now reaching across to the other side of the aisle.
00:43:42.000He is possibly going to select Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
00:43:55.000Again, it's sort of a fascinating pick.
00:43:57.000Moskowitz has been relatively moderate because, again, he is from Florida and Democrats from Florida tend not to be Democrats from New York, for example.
00:44:05.000However, Since Trump won in November, Moskowitz has taken a notably friendlier approach to the incoming administration than some of his Democratic colleagues, according to CNN. He was quick to offer praise on social media when Trump tapped another Florida native, Susie Wiles, as chief of staff.
00:44:18.000And of course, Moskowitz knows her because he worked with her when she was in Florida politics.
00:44:23.000He's also the first Democrat to join the recently created Department of Governmental Efficiency Caucus in Congress.
00:44:31.000And this would not be the first time that he served in a Republican administration.
00:44:35.000Under Florida Governor DeSantis, Moscow had spent two years as the director of emergency management, so he'd be a perfect pick for this sort of thing.
00:44:41.000Also, on a practical level, it would probably be a good thing for President Trump to do this, considering that he has plucked a bunch of representatives from the Republican side of the aisle to serve in the administration.
00:44:50.000One way to sort of even the voting score is to pluck a couple of Democrats and put them inside the administration as well.
00:44:57.000So, whatever you expect from President Trump, do not expect extremism.
00:45:00.000Because that is not what you are going to get.
00:45:02.000And that's what's going to shock so many people in the media.
00:45:05.000It's why their narrative on that one, too, is going to end up being false.
00:45:08.000Meanwhile, if you were thinking the left wasn't weird enough, well, I've got a weird one for you.
00:45:12.000So, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who should not be on the Supreme Court.
00:45:20.000And apparently, she is the ultimate theater kid.
00:45:22.000According to the New York Post, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson briefly ditched the black robes and drama of the Supreme Court and made history with her Saturday night debut on Broadway in the musical Anne Juliet, a queer reimagining of William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet.
00:45:36.000Jackson, who once told members of the Senate that she couldn't define what a woman is because she's not a biologist, portrayed Queen Mab, described as a she-her character on a production poster during her brief Broadway stint on Saturday.
00:45:48.000She took the one-time walk-on role in the sold-out musical that had first premiered in 2019, which had two scenes crafted for her specifically to fulfill a lifelong dream of making it to Broadway.
00:45:58.000She went on CBS Mornings and explained, quote, I just also think it's very important to remind people that justices are human beings, that we have dreams, and that we are public servants.
00:46:06.000I guess this moment reinforces for me that anything is possible.
00:46:09.000Here is her magnificent performance as She, Her, Queen Mab in queer Romeo and Juliet Broadway show and Juliet.
00:47:12.000By the way, what exactly is that musical about?
00:47:15.000It explores the world of Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet didn't kill herself after discovering her star-crossed lover, Romeo, dead from suicide at the end of the tragic play.
00:47:23.000Instead, Juliet seeks love again, and heads to Paris with a non-binary character, only to later get tangled up in a love triangle.
00:47:35.000And I'm just going to tell you that we were told by the left that J.D. Vance is weird.
00:47:40.000Or that Amy Coney Barrett, because she has lots of kids, is weird.
00:47:43.000We've been told that Clarence Thomas is weird by the left.
00:47:46.000Okay, by the way, Clarence Thomas is so not weird that he and his wife go on like road trips across the country in an RV. And they go to just like classic Americana sites.
00:47:55.000That's how typically all-American Clarence Thomas is.
00:47:58.000Meanwhile, Ketanji Brown Jackson, her idea of a good time is, what if I go and debut for three lines on Broadway in a queer musical?
00:48:05.000And what in the actual, what in the world?
00:48:10.000In her memoir, Lovely One, Jackson reflected on how she applied to the Ivy League school in part to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming the first black female justice to take the Broadway stage.
00:48:20.000She went to Harvard University alongside actor Matt Damon.