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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, there's been another school shooting, this time in Madison, Wisconsin.

00:00:03.000 The motive on the shooting is still unclear at this point.

00:00:06.000 The alleged shooter was a 15-year-old girl.

00:00:09.000 This 15-year-old girl has been a lot of speculation online as to why she committed this particular shooting.

00:00:15.000 There are several people dead, including the shooter.

00:00:18.000 According 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.

00:00:26.000 Apparently, this girl brought a handgun to campus and opened fire around 11 a.m. 0.96

00:00:30.000 inside a classroom during study hall.

00:00:31.000 The teenage student and teacher were pronounced dead at the scene.

00:00:33.000 Another teacher and five more students were wounded.

00:00:36.000 Two of the students are in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, according to the Madison police chief, Sean Barnes.

00:00:41.000 Here he was announcing the impact of the shooting.

00:00:45.000 What we know is that a total of about seven persons were transported from this scene to area hospitals for treatment.

00:00:53.000 We know that at least three people have lost their lives, including a juvenile person.

00:00:59.000 I 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.

00:01:17.000 The shooter apparently had a manifesto.

00:01:19.000 We're not sure whether that manifesto has been locked down at this point.

00:01:21.000 The police say the motive is still unknown at this point.

00:01:24.000 Again, there's a lot of speculation online about the shooter possibly being trans.

00:01:28.000 Again, that is all speculation at this point.

00:01:30.000 We don't know anything about whether that is true or not.

00:01:32.000 The Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes addressed that idea yesterday.

00:01:37.000 Chief, 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.

00:01:54.000 Can you respond to that directly?

00:01:56.000 Yeah, I don't know whether Natalie was transgender or not.

00:02:00.000 And quite frankly, I don't think that's even important.

00:02:03.000 I don't think that's important at all.

00:02:05.000 I 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.

00:02:19.000 We 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.

00:02:32.000 So whether or not she was He was.

00:02:36.000 They were transgender.

00:02:38.000 It'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.

00:02:51.000 You know, it is that last part that is kind of amazing.

00:02:54.000 Not that the information is unavailable as to the quote-unquote gender identity of the female shooter.

00:03:01.000 And it is very rare, obviously, to have female shooters in pretty much any school shooting-related scenario. 0.96

00:03:07.000 There have been a spate of transgender shooters in recent years.

00:03:11.000 There was one in Maryland. 0.87

00:03:12.000 There was...

00:03:14.000 A STEM school shooter in Denver.

00:03:16.000 There's a Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who self-declared as transgender.

00:03:20.000 And the Covenant school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:03:23.000 All those people were either transgender or non-binary self-declared.

00:03:26.000 But the part about this that's amazing, again, I'm not suggesting that the shooter was trans.

00:03:30.000 We have no idea at this point how the shooter identified.

00:03:33.000 The point that's kind of amazing is the police chief's statement that it makes no difference at all.

00:03:36.000 Because that is not how these shootings typically go.

00:03:39.000 We 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.

00:03:51.000 There is a steady application of narrative force to so many of these stories, particularly when it comes to school shootings.

00:03:58.000 And the rule is this.

00:04:00.000 If 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.

00:04:11.000 Even 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. 0.91

00:04:17.000 So 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.

00:04:25.000 If, 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.

00:04:35.000 That is the way the narrative logic works.

00:04:38.000 We 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.

00:04:49.000 However, 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.

00:05:04.000 Then we are relegated to discussing gun control again.

00:05:07.000 And that's precisely what is happening here.

00:05:09.000 Immediately, 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.

00:05:19.000 So Frank Figluzzi on MSNBC, he says the guns are the issue.

00:05:22.000 Again, it's very predictable how this logic goes.

00:05:26.000 I don't see significant enough progress.

00:05:29.000 You know, you'll have certain sides saying it's all mental health and we need to get better at that.

00:05:36.000 You know what?

00:05:36.000 That's true, but it's not all mental health.

00:05:38.000 We'll have people say we need to lock down schools more and have many armed officers all over a school. 0.81

00:05:45.000 There have been numerous cases where there have been armed officers and they didn't get there fast enough.

00:05:50.000 And so that's not the issue.

00:05:53.000 Guns 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.

00:06:03.000 So until we address all of these issues together and acknowledge the role of guns, we're not going to see significant change.

00:06:11.000 Again, that is always the logic that is used by the left wing media.

00:06:14.000 If 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.

00:06:22.000 If 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.

00:06:31.000 I'll give you a perfect example.

00:06:32.000 There was a school shooting that happened.

00:06:35.000 About two weeks ago.

00:06:36.000 You haven't heard about it.

00:06:37.000 No one's heard about it.

00:06:38.000 It got zero national coverage.

00:06:39.000 There's a school shooting at a Christian school in Palermo, California.

00:06:45.000 This school shooting, apparently, two kindergarten-age boys, according to the Jerusalem Post, were shot at a Seventh-day Adventist Christian school in California.

00:06:54.000 Why didn't you hear about this story?

00:06:56.000 A man walks into a Christian school and shoots a five- and a six-year-old and puts them in critical condition.

00:07:04.000 The gunman was known to have a lengthy criminal record in mental health history.

00:07:07.000 So this would be a perfect time to talk about, you know, what drove this person, presumably.

00:07:13.000 But there's only one problem.

00:07:14.000 What drove this person, apparently, was hatred of Israel.

00:07:17.000 So that means that there will be no conversation about how the left-wing pro-Hamas cause is connected to actual physical violence.

00:07:25.000 Because 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.

00:07:34.000 The 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.

00:07:49.000 That was what was left in the manifesto.

00:07:51.000 You didn't even hear about this shooting.

00:07:53.000 Now 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.

00:08:05.000 The reason I point this out is just to point out how deeply corrupt the media are.

00:08:09.000 And they really are corrupt.

00:08:11.000 The way they generate narratives out of whole cloth and then press those narratives forward is truly an astonishing thing.

00:08:16.000 As another example of this, the Washington Post, after years, is now finally admitting that trans medicine is a giant fail. 0.99

00:08:24.000 According to the Washington Post editorial board, they're now pointing out that transgender medicine is largely based on faulty data.

00:08:35.000 Quote, Multiple European health authorities have reviewed the available evidence and concluded it was very low certainty, lacking, and limited by methodological weaknesses.

00:08:49.000 Last week, Britain banned the use of puberty blockers indefinitely due to safety concerns.

00:08:54.000 The uncertainty is the result of scientists' failure to study these treatments slowly and systematically as they develop them.

00:09:00.000 Early studies from a Dutch clinic seem to show promising results, but the research started with only 70 patients and no control group.

00:09:05.000 Treatment results that look impressive in small groups often vanish when larger groups are studied.

00:09:12.000 This 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.

00:09:22.000 As the Washington Post editorial board, the lies that will be propagated by the media on behalf of a particular political narrative are almost endless.

00:09:30.000 Truly amazing stuff.

00:09:32.000 And it spans everything.

00:09:34.000 It spans every topic under the sun.

00:09:37.000 The media narrative fight is the fight that defines our politics.

00:09:41.000 And that media narrative fight has been dominated for legitimately decades by a left-wing media that only propagates left-wing narratives.

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00:12:07.000 Now the good news is that there are mechanisms for debunking a lot of that stuff now.

00:12:11.000 A 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.

00:12:33.000 And then she frees the man along with her crew.

00:12:37.000 And this man is apparently a supposed victim of the Assad regime, demonstrating full scale how the Assad regime, it's evil, it's horror. 0.89

00:12:48.000 And 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.

00:12:57.000 That is the narrative being pushed by the Biden administration.

00:12:59.000 It's also being pushed, of course, by the other end of the Democratic media human centipede.

00:13:03.000 So here's Clarissa Ward in what was one of the stagiest clips that I've seen on television. 0.93

00:13:10.000 We go in to get a closer look.

00:13:13.000 It's still not clear if there is something under the blanket.

00:13:17.000 It moved.

00:13:19.000 Is there someone there?

00:13:23.000 Is someone there?

00:13:28.000 Or is it just a blanket?

00:13:29.000 I don't know.

00:13:30.000 - Hello? - Hello? - Okay, if you can't see, the blue is going into the cell of people, and there's a man under a blanket.

00:13:30.000 I don't know.

00:13:48.000 And there he is.

00:13:49.000 He emerges from under the blanket.

00:13:50.000 The cell, by the way, is shockingly clean for a place that's supposed to have been occupied by a victim for years.

00:13:57.000 After three months in a windowless cell, he can finally see the sky.

00:14:01.000 My God, the light, he says.

00:14:10.000 Oh God, there is light.

00:14:12.000 My God, there is light.

00:14:14.000 Okay.

00:14:16.000 Okay.

00:14:18.000 Sit, sit, sit, sit.

00:14:21.000 She's holding his hand.

00:14:23.000 He's sitting down on a chair to talk about his horrifying experiences.

00:14:28.000 And this is all part of the narrative buildup in Syria.

00:14:32.000 Okay.

00:14:34.000 That 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.

00:14:41.000 When in reality, everyone who's involved, the Assad regime evil, also HTS, which is an offshoot of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, also not moderate.

00:14:52.000 Backed by Turkey.

00:14:52.000 Radical.

00:14:54.000 Hamasniks. 1.00

00:14:55.000 Okay, so why am I laughing at this clip?

00:14:57.000 Because 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.

00:15:09.000 So basically, this is Kaiser Soze leaving the office immediately.

00:15:13.000 Of the inspectors and the usual suspects.

00:15:16.000 He walks out and he's like, oh well, it turns out that he's actually the problem, right?

00:15:19.000 The 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.

00:15:28.000 However, 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.

00:15:43.000 Oopsies! 1.00

00:15:44.000 He 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.

00:15:51.000 However, 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.

00:16:01.000 He didn't even flinch or blink when looking up at the sky after saying that he had not actually seen sunlight for three months.

00:16:07.000 And 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?

00:16:14.000 Because our media are both stupid and gullible, and, of course, politically motivated. 0.99

00:16:18.000 The 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. 0.99

00:16:27.000 Here's what he said, quote, Often, the article is so wrong, it actually presents the story backward, reversing cause and effect.

00:16:46.000 I call these the wet streets cause rain stories.

00:16:49.000 The newspaper is full of them.

00:16:50.000 In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story.

00:16:54.000 And 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.

00:17:02.000 You turn the page and forget what you know.

00:17:04.000 This is the Gelman amnesia effect. 0.90

00:17:05.000 I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life.

00:17:08.000 In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say.

00:17:13.000 In court, there is a legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part and truthful in all.

00:17:19.000 But 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.

00:17:26.000 The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

00:17:29.000 Yep, that is absolutely correct.

00:17:32.000 And this is why I think so many narratives that are promoted by the left are totally falling apart at this point.

00:17:38.000 Why the media narratives are falling apart.

00:17:39.000 And it's happening globally, by the way.

00:17:42.000 So one of the things that we are watching internationally right now is a wave of conservative victory.

00:17:47.000 It's happening across the world.

00:17:50.000 Some of it is a result of President Trump.

00:17:52.000 Some of it is just part of a wave that includes President Trump.

00:17:55.000 Justin Trudeau is now likely to resign.

00:17:58.000 His 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.

00:18:14.000 According 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.

00:18:20.000 Trudeau 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.

00:18:29.000 She 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.

00:18:36.000 In 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.

00:18:47.000 The 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.

00:19:00.000 Trudeau 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.

00:19:11.000 The party leader, a person named Jagmeet Singh, said, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.

00:19:14.000 He has to go.

00:19:15.000 Now, this does not mean that there will immediately be a new election.

00:19:20.000 So, Pierre Poliv, who's the leader of the Conservative Party, and who right now would skunk the entire Liberal Party in the next election.

00:19:27.000 I mean, just blow them out of the water by every available polling statistics.

00:19:30.000 So he's looking for a new election.

00:19:31.000 He called on Trudeau to resign, and also he's calling for new elections.

00:19:34.000 Which, of course, he should be, because the left-wing agenda of Justin Trudeau has become unbelievably unpopular in Canada, as well it should.

00:19:43.000 Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man, Jangmeet Singh.

00:19:49.000 A fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign.

00:19:53.000 His Deputy Prime Minister has walked out on him.

00:19:57.000 His Housing Minister has quit.

00:19:59.000 That on top of numerous other female ministers who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them. 0.84

00:20:10.000 Eighty 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.

00:20:40.000 The best in Stephen Harper, maybe better than Stephen Harper, and I'm a big Stephen Harper fan.

00:20:44.000 So right now, the Canadian government is basically on the brink.

00:20:47.000 The 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.

00:20:56.000 Right now, the Canadian Parliament is split between a wide variety of parties.

00:21:01.000 The largest party is still the Liberal Party, only for the moment, because they haven't had an election in a while.

00:21:06.000 It is also split between that party.

00:21:09.000 It's split between the Conservative Party.

00:21:11.000 And then there are a couple of other parties as well.

00:21:13.000 There's a Quebecois party.

00:21:15.000 And there is the Green Party as well.

00:21:17.000 The New Democratic Party.

00:21:19.000 Those are parties that sit in the parliament.

00:21:21.000 You need a majority of the people in parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence.

00:21:25.000 The 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.

00:21:30.000 And Poliev will become prime minister with probably a sheer majority of votes in the parliament at this point.

00:21:35.000 So that is the only thing that is holding Justin Trudeau in office at this point.

00:21:39.000 Again, the reason that he is unpopular is because he has pursued every bad policy it is possible to pursue.

00:21:43.000 In 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.

00:21:50.000 He 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.

00:21:58.000 Christia Freeland wrote a letter to Trudeau.

00:22:00.000 It 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.

00:22:27.000 This 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.

00:22:34.000 Freeland, of course, would love to challenge Trudeau for leadership of the Liberal Party, oust him and then take his place.

00:22:39.000 That is probably not going to be the outcome of what happens in Canada.

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00:24:52.000 By the way, it's not just happening in Canada.

00:24:55.000 It's also happening in Germany.

00:24:57.000 So 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.

00:25:04.000 That is the first step in a sequence of events that will lead to early elections next year.

00:25:07.000 It is the latest symptom of mounting political instability in Europe.

00:25:11.000 Monday'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.

00:25:20.000 Scholz did not have a majority in parliament.

00:25:22.000 He called a confidence vote in order to clear the way for a dissolution of parliament and a new vote now expected in February.

00:25:29.000 Germany's post-World War II constitution has a multi-step process for early elections in an attempt to prevent endemic political instability.

00:25:36.000 However, the person who is most likely to take over if there were to be a new election is a person named Friedrich Merz.

00:25:44.000 Friedrich Merz is a center-right politician who is very pro-America.

00:25:51.000 Scholz is a center-left politician.

00:25:53.000 MERS is a representative of the same party as Angela Merkel.

00:25:56.000 The difference is that he really hated Angela Merkel's immigration policy, which condemned the center-right in Germany to a decade of wilderness.

00:26:05.000 MERS said, quote, Mr. Chancellor, you've had your chance.

00:26:07.000 You didn't use that chance.

00:26:09.000 Opinion 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.

00:26:23.000 It would likely need to form an alliance with one or several center-left parties.

00:26:26.000 The bottom line, however, is that the winds have shifted across the world.

00:26:30.000 The West is tired of stagnation.

00:26:33.000 The West is tired of conciliation with left-wing forces that themselves are conciliatory with radical Islamists.

00:26:40.000 They're tired of this.

00:26:41.000 You're watching the West finally stand up on its hind legs.

00:26:45.000 Some 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.

00:26:51.000 It includes in the United States, obviously, President Trump.

00:26:53.000 It includes in places like the Netherlands, Gerd Weilders. 0.56

00:26:56.000 It includes Viktor Orban.

00:26:57.000 You're seeing a real move by members of the center-right to libertarian, Javier Miele in Argentina.

00:27:05.000 The leader of Uruguay, Ukele in Chile, in El Salvador, rather.

00:27:09.000 Ukele in El Salvador.

00:27:11.000 There's an entire list of leaders who are moving in a similar direction.

00:27:15.000 Because chaos and instability, those things are pleasures of the luxurious wealthy.

00:27:15.000 Why?

00:27:21.000 When things are going really well, you can afford dumb ideas. 0.95

00:27:24.000 When things are going poorly, it turns out that you can't. 0.97

00:27:28.000 And 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. 0.85

00:27:39.000 That is a very good thing. 0.97

00:27:40.000 And 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.

00:27:52.000 And President Trump coming into office is already reshaping the world.

00:27:54.000 No one believes that Joe Biden is President of the United States at this point.

00:27:57.000 This, for example, is why NATO Chief Mark Rudy is now pushing Europe to increase aid to Ukraine.

00:28:02.000 This, by the way, is something that Trump wants.

00:28:04.000 Contrary to popular opinion, Trump does not want Ukraine to lose to Russia.

00:28:08.000 What Trump would like is for America not to pay for an interminable war with no off-ramp.

00:28:13.000 Ukraine is in Europe. 0.89

00:28:14.000 Europe is a wealthy continent.

00:28:16.000 And now NATO is finally saying, hey, maybe Europe should pay up.

00:28:21.000 I know spending more on defence means spending less on other priorities.

00:28:27.000 But it is only a little less.

00:28:29.000 On average, European countries easily spend up to a quarter of their national income on pensions, health and social security systems.

00:28:43.000 I mean, these are criticisms that Donald Trump could be making of NATO countries.

00:28:47.000 You guys are spending all of your money on welfare systems while we pay for your military.

00:28:51.000 The answer is no, we are done with that.

00:28:53.000 So 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.

00:29:02.000 And that is a very, very good thing.

00:29:04.000 Of course, President Trump is leading the way on that.

00:29:05.000 Yesterday, 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.

00:29:16.000 As he says, the golden age of America has now begun.

00:29:20.000 But this will be the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history, maybe of global history.

00:29:28.000 The Golden Age of America, I call it.

00:29:30.000 It's begun.

00:29:32.000 So it's the Golden Age of America, and that's what it's going to be. 0.53

00:29:35.000 And we hope we don't have any intervening problems because things happen like out of nowhere came the China virus.

00:29:43.000 Out of nowhere came other things we don't want to have.

00:29:47.000 You know, when I left, we had no wars.

00:29:48.000 We had no problems.

00:29:49.000 The Middle East was good.

00:29:50.000 We did the Abraham Accords. 0.99

00:29:52.000 We did things that nobody thought were even possible.

00:29:57.000 He is right about all that.

00:29:59.000 He points out as well that small business optimism has skyrocketed, which, of course, is true.

00:30:04.000 As 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.

00:30:13.000 Small business optimism took a 41-point jump.

00:30:18.000 41 points.

00:30:19.000 It went up 41 points.

00:30:20.000 That's unheard of.

00:30:21.000 And that's the biggest they think in recorded history, but they know at least a minimum of 39 years.

00:30:27.000 So that's great.

00:30:31.000 Meanwhile, Trump says that they're going to implement a rapid prosperity agenda.

00:30:35.000 And the notion, by the way, that it is very difficult to unleash the economy is just a lie.

00:30:38.000 It's not true at all.

00:30:40.000 Javier Mille in Argentina is showing this right now.

00:30:42.000 When he came into office, there was all this talk about how Argentina was going to have an economic meltdown.

00:30:46.000 Instead, economic resurgence has been the result of Javier Miele's tenure.

00:30:51.000 He instituted incredibly harsh measures, cutting pretty much everywhere, restructuring many of the welfare programs, getting rid of an enormous amount of bureaucracy.

00:30:59.000 And the answer is that Argentina has avoided recession.

00:31:02.000 Well, Donald Trump is going to do the same thing with regards to the American economy.

00:31:05.000 Here 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.

00:31:16.000 We'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.

00:31:24.000 We had it in my turn.

00:31:26.000 We had the greatest economy that the world had seen.

00:31:29.000 We were blowing away everybody.

00:31:31.000 Our country was doubling up on China, doubling up on everybody, and everybody knows it. 0.97

00:31:39.000 He is right about all of this.

00:31:40.000 He 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.

00:31:49.000 And then Trump did the most Trumpy thing imaginable.

00:31:52.000 On the spot, he said, why don't you make it $200 billion?

00:31:55.000 It's just pretty, it's pretty fabulous.

00:31:59.000 I'm going to ask him right now, would you make it $200 billion on SoftBank?

00:32:09.000 Would you do that?

00:32:11.000 Well, my promise is 100, but you know, he's now asking to do more.

00:32:18.000 I think, you know, with your leadership, my partnership with you, with your support, I will try to make it happen.

00:32:28.000 That's great.

00:32:29.000 All right.

00:32:30.000 200. He'll make it happen.

00:32:32.000 200 million investments.

00:32:34.000 He is a great negotiator.

00:32:40.000 He's a brilliant guy.

00:32:41.000 An unbelievable job.

00:32:43.000 And the people of Japan and all over the world are very proud of him.

00:32:46.000 They have tremendous respect for him.

00:32:48.000 So what he does, what he just did, and I would be surprised if it didn't go to do it.

00:32:55.000 When you say you'll try, I know you'll do it.

00:32:58.000 I will really try.

00:33:00.000 And I need your support, though.

00:33:02.000 You'll have my support.

00:33:03.000 You'll have our country's support.

00:33:03.000 All right.

00:33:05.000 Oh, fantastic.

00:33:06.000 Thank you, Master.

00:33:07.000 Fantastic.

00:33:07.000 Thank you.

00:33:08.000 President Trump is never somebody who's going to leave any scrap on the table in the middle of a negotiation.

00:33:15.000 He is going to have a very successful presidency.

00:33:17.000 And the reason he's going to have a very successful presidency is because now that President Trump has won, he has nothing left to prove.

00:33:22.000 The only thing that he wants to prove is that he is a winner.

00:33:26.000 As I've said before, Donald Trump's agenda is winning.

00:33:28.000 That's his agenda.

00:33:29.000 Everybody tries to spin a philosophy around Trump.

00:33:31.000 He is an absolute pragmatist.

00:33:33.000 All he cares about is the result.

00:33:35.000 If the result is good for the country, he likes it.

00:33:38.000 If the result is bad for the country and bad for his presidency, he doesn't like it.

00:33:42.000 Which 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.

00:33:51.000 It is not ideological consistency.

00:33:53.000 It is not the love of the New York Times.

00:33:55.000 It is simply winning, right?

00:33:58.000 He's big on the winning.

00:33:59.000 We'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.

00:34:06.000 It's stuff that I think 70 percent of the American population agrees with, which is why he's experiencing a polling honeymoon right now.

00:34:12.000 And this, as I said, throughout the election cycle was the dirty secret of the election.

00:34:16.000 Donald Trump was the moderate in the election.

00:34:18.000 Joe Biden is an extreme leftist.

00:34:20.000 Kamala Harris was an extreme leftist.

00:34:22.000 Donald Trump occupied the center on literally every position it was possible to occupy the center from economics to foreign policy to abortion.

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00:36:21.000 So President Trump obviously is pursuing a policy of pragmatic centrism.

00:36:25.000 That means that he says obvious things.

00:36:27.000 And because the left has lost its mind, those obvious things sound really obvious to people.

00:36:32.000 Like even more obvious than usual.

00:36:34.000 So, 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.

00:36:41.000 Shooting people in the back on the streets of New York because you don't like how they run their business is bad.

00:36:47.000 I know that in the online world, this is somehow considered justifiable.

00:36:51.000 Or it's supposed to spur a larger conversation about the healthcare system.

00:36:53.000 Again, we can have those conversations literally anytime.

00:36:55.000 It 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.

00:37:04.000 Here is Donald Trump saying the obvious.

00:37:07.000 I think it's a terrible thing.

00:37:09.000 I think it's really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him.

00:37:15.000 And I was happy to see that it wasn't specific to this gentleman that was killed.

00:37:20.000 It's just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness.

00:37:26.000 That was a terrible thing.

00:37:27.000 It was cold-blooded.

00:37:28.000 Just a cold-blooded, horrible killing.

00:37:32.000 And how people can like this guy is...

00:37:35.000 That's a sickness, actually.

00:37:37.000 That's really very bad.

00:37:39.000 Especially the way it was done.

00:37:40.000 It was so bad.

00:37:41.000 Right in the back.

00:37:44.000 And 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.

00:37:56.000 Again, he's saying a perfectly obvious thing.

00:37:59.000 Here's the thing about Trump.

00:38:00.000 Trump is actually not all that online, right?

00:38:03.000 He actually doesn't spend a lot of time online, like everybody else in the media industry.

00:38:08.000 Donald 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.

00:38:15.000 So 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.

00:38:23.000 Which 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.

00:38:30.000 Basically anyone in politics.

00:38:31.000 So he has good gut instincts on this stuff.

00:38:34.000 Like, for example, it is bad to celebrate people who shoot people on the streets for political purposes.

00:38:40.000 This should be obvious.

00:38:42.000 This is a proposition with which most Americans agree.

00:38:43.000 The same thing is true when it comes to foreign policy. 0.57

00:38:45.000 So yesterday, members of the media idiotically asked Trump if he is going to engage in a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

00:38:52.000 Now, 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.

00:39:02.000 So it is unclear what's going to happen next.

00:39:04.000 One thing is for certain, Israel is not going to sit still while Iran goes nuclear. 0.82

00:39:08.000 So Trump is asked about a preemptive attack, and Trump gives the perfectly obvious answer. 1.00

00:39:12.000 You morons, I'm not going to tell you if I'm going to do it. 1.00

00:39:15.000 Like, that's not how foreign policy gets done, you idiots. 1.00

00:39:21.000 Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities? 1.00

00:39:25.000 Against Iran's nuclear facilities.

00:39:25.000 Against who?

00:39:27.000 Well, I can't tell you that.

00:39:29.000 I mean, it's a wonderful question, but how can I, am I going to do preemptive strikes?

00:39:34.000 Why would I say that?

00:39:35.000 Can you imagine if I said yes or no?

00:39:39.000 You'd say, that was strange that he answered that question.

00:39:42.000 Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran? 0.94

00:39:46.000 Is that a serious question?

00:39:47.000 How could I answer a question like that?

00:39:51.000 He's saying perfectly obvious things.

00:39:53.000 Now, the media would have gotten an answer from Joe Biden in which he said, He would have immediately caved to the narrative.

00:40:03.000 Trump'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.

00:40:11.000 Meanwhile, President Trump continues to stand behind his Secretary of Defense pick, Pete Hegseth, who I think is going to cruise to nomination.

00:40:16.000 I think that Hegseth gets through.

00:40:18.000 I think he should.

00:40:19.000 I think Pete is a good pick for Secretary of Defense.

00:40:21.000 He's out of the box and interesting, which is precisely why a lot of people hate him.

00:40:25.000 Here was President Trump pushing Pete Hegseth.

00:40:28.000 And you know, Pete Hegseth gave up a lot because he was going big places in Fox.

00:40:33.000 Big, big places.

00:40:34.000 A lot of money.

00:40:35.000 And he didn't even hesitate when I said, do you want to do this?

00:40:38.000 He said, absolutely.

00:40:40.000 I 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.

00:40:51.000 You'll never have that opportunity again.

00:40:53.000 In fact, it could be just the opposite.

00:40:55.000 Because it's nasty out there.

00:40:57.000 He said, I don't care.

00:40:58.000 I have to do it for my country.

00:40:59.000 He gave up a tremendous amount.

00:41:01.000 If this didn't work, it would be a tragedy.

00:41:05.000 But that's what he loves.

00:41:07.000 He loves the military.

00:41:08.000 I never talked to him about anything else.

00:41:09.000 He'd talk about the military.

00:41:10.000 He'd come to see me about a soldier that was unfairly treated.

00:41:15.000 And could I help?

00:41:17.000 That's the only thing I virtually ever talk to him about.

00:41:23.000 Good for Trump for not dumping Hegseth despite whatever controversy is attendant on Pete's nomination.

00:41:28.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, again, he's pursuing a course of pragmatic moderation on a wide variety of issues.

00:41:33.000 So he has nominated RFK Jr., of course, very controversially, to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:41:38.000 And he's asked by the media, you know, RFK Jr. has been very anti-vaccine.

00:41:42.000 So what about things like the polio vaccine? 0.93

00:41:44.000 Are you crazy?

00:41:45.000 I'm not getting rid of the polio vaccine. 0.94

00:41:46.000 Like, that's been a good one.

00:41:49.000 On vaccines, do you want RFK Jr. to revoke any vaccines?

00:41:54.000 No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks.

00:41:57.000 We're going to find out a lot.

00:41:59.000 We're doing two things.

00:42:01.000 We're going to have tremendous cost savings that will come out of this.

00:42:03.000 That's a minimum.

00:42:04.000 And we're also going to have, and I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it's pesticides.

00:42:11.000 You know, Europe doesn't use pesticides.

00:42:14.000 And yet they have a better mortality rate than we do.

00:42:17.000 They don't use pesticides.

00:42:19.000 In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm product.

00:42:22.000 We spend billions and billions of dollars on pesticides.

00:42:27.000 And something bad's happening.

00:42:29.000 Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20, 25 years ago.

00:42:34.000 It's like not even believable.

00:42:36.000 So we're going to have reports.

00:42:38.000 No, nothing's going to happen very quickly.

00:42:39.000 I think you're going to find Bobby is a very rational guy.

00:42:44.000 I found him to be very rational.

00:42:46.000 You're not going to lose the polio vaccine.

00:42:49.000 That's not going to happen.

00:42:52.000 Again, what he is saying here is perfectly legitimate and perfectly pragmatic.

00:42:57.000 And that is what you should expect from a Trump presidency.

00:42:59.000 I 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.

00:43:06.000 He's going to break a lot of bad things and he's going to maintain and expand the good things.

00:43:10.000 Because he is not an ideological creature in general.

00:43:13.000 Now, to me, listen, I have a very clear ideology.

00:43:17.000 I think that that ideology bears significant fruit.

00:43:19.000 I think that the free market ideology of Javier Mille in Argentina, for example, is a purist ideology that has borne significant and great fruit.

00:43:27.000 Donald Trump is not an ideologue.

00:43:28.000 But here is the thing.

00:43:30.000 If he is utilitarian, many of the things he does are going to be things that conservatives like because conservative solutions actually work.

00:43:38.000 Meanwhile, speaking of pragmatism, Donald Trump is now reaching across to the other side of the aisle.

00:43:42.000 He is possibly going to select Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

00:43:47.000 Which, again, makes sense.

00:43:48.000 Typically, administrations try to have somebody across the aisle to join the administration. 0.57

00:43:53.000 Moskowitz is in the mix.

00:43:55.000 Again, it's sort of a fascinating pick.

00:43:57.000 Moskowitz has been relatively moderate because, again, he is from Florida and Democrats from Florida tend not to be Democrats from New York, for example.

00:44:05.000 However, 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.

00:44:18.000 And of course, Moskowitz knows her because he worked with her when she was in Florida politics.

00:44:23.000 He's also the first Democrat to join the recently created Department of Governmental Efficiency Caucus in Congress.

00:44:29.000 He represents Broward County.

00:44:31.000 And this would not be the first time that he served in a Republican administration.

00:44:35.000 Under 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.

00:44:41.000 Also, 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.

00:44:50.000 One way to sort of even the voting score is to pluck a couple of Democrats and put them inside the administration as well. 0.98

00:44:57.000 So, whatever you expect from President Trump, do not expect extremism.

00:45:00.000 Because that is not what you are going to get.

00:45:02.000 And that's what's going to shock so many people in the media.

00:45:05.000 It's why their narrative on that one, too, is going to end up being false.

00:45:08.000 Meanwhile, if you were thinking the left wasn't weird enough, well, I've got a weird one for you.

00:45:12.000 So, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who should not be on the Supreme Court.

00:45:17.000 She is a terrible justice. 1.00

00:45:20.000 And apparently, she is the ultimate theater kid. 0.99

00:45:22.000 According 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.

00:45:36.000 Jackson, 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. 0.83

00:45:48.000 She 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.

00:45:58.000 She 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.

00:46:06.000 I guess this moment reinforces for me that anything is possible.

00:46:09.000 Here is her magnificent performance as She, Her, Queen Mab in queer Romeo and Juliet Broadway show and Juliet.

00:46:18.000 Female empowerment. 0.97

00:46:19.000 Sick. 0.99

00:46:26.000 We have a very special guest, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson! 0.53

00:46:36.000 I like it too.

00:46:37.000 I think what I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it.

00:46:43.000 Like I hate it.

00:46:45.000 Which makes me think it must be brilliant.

00:46:49.000 Got this feeling in my body.

00:46:52.000 Can't stop the feeling.

00:46:54.000 Got this feeling in my body.

00:46:57.000 I can't stop the feeling.

00:47:02.000 I did it.

00:47:03.000 I made it to Broadway.

00:47:08.000 Not based on your talent, you didn't.

00:47:11.000 My goodness.

00:47:12.000 By the way, what exactly is that musical about?

00:47:15.000 It 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.

00:47:23.000 Instead, Juliet seeks love again, and heads to Paris with a non-binary character, only to later get tangled up in a love triangle. 0.97

00:47:30.000 Wow.

00:47:31.000 Wow.

00:47:32.000 That is weird.

00:47:33.000 That is super weird.

00:47:35.000 And I'm just going to tell you that we were told by the left that J.D. Vance is weird.

00:47:40.000 Or that Amy Coney Barrett, because she has lots of kids, is weird.

00:47:43.000 We've been told that Clarence Thomas is weird by the left.

00:47:46.000 Okay, 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.

00:47:55.000 That's how typically all-American Clarence Thomas is.

00:47:58.000 Meanwhile, 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? 0.81

00:48:05.000 And what in the actual, what in the world?

00:48:08.000 What in the world?

00:48:10.000 In 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.

00:48:20.000 She went to Harvard University alongside actor Matt Damon.

00:48:24.000 She wrote in the book, quote, Um...

00:48:44.000 I don't think that she should be deciding what the Constitution means.

00:48:46.000 I'm just going to put it out there.

00:48:47.000 She can't define what a lady is, and she's a theater kid. 1.00

00:48:51.000 So, enough of this.

00:48:52.000 It is bad.

00:48:53.000 Alrighty, folks.

00:48:54.000 Coming up, we're going to get into a controversial strike by Ukraine against a senior Russian general in Moscow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 17, 2024

TRUMP’S WORLD: Trudeau to RESIGN?! Germany Moves RIGHT?!

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