Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has been re-elected to a second term, and President Trump has endorsed him. What does this mean for the future of the Republican leadership in Congress? And what does it mean for President Trump and the country?
00:00:02.000I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful New Year's, and now it all begins.
00:00:07.000So, this is going to be a very big year.
00:00:08.000President Trump is slated to be certified as the President of the United States today.
00:00:14.000The normal certification process will go through as planned in the Congress of the United States, and he will also have his Speaker of the House.
00:00:22.000So, President Trump had endorsed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for re-election.
00:00:26.000There were, as usual, a coterie of people who were very concerned about Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House.
00:00:31.000As I have been saying for, I don't know, years at this point, it turns out the Speaker of the House has a very hard job.
00:00:37.000You have to cobble together a coalition of people across various party lines, and then you have to somehow materialize a majority to do things.
00:00:45.000So the job of the Speaker of the House is not, in fact, to be quote-unquote an ideological thought leader.
00:00:50.000There are plenty of people whose job that is.
00:00:52.000It is the job of the Speaker of the House to actually get done what can be done.
00:00:58.000And the problem with many of the ideologues, particularly in Congress, but also in the commentariat, is that when they suggest that the Speaker of the House has the magical Nietzschean ability to simply impose his will on Congress and get everything that you could possibly want, they are lying.
00:01:15.000So this all came to fruition over the break.
00:01:18.000So on Friday, despite the attempts of people like Thomas Massey, the representative from Kentucky, to prevent Speaker Johnson from being reelected.
00:01:29.000Here was Massey looking rather disillusioned, actually, in this particular clip, trying to make the case against Speaker Johnson in the most colorful possible terms.
00:01:51.000Well, he didn't, but everybody else did because President Trump signaled his support for Mike Johnson.
00:01:56.000And the reason that he did that is because Johnson is as good as it's going to get.
00:02:00.000Johnson is, in fact, a very conservative Speaker of the House.
00:02:03.000He is faced with an extraordinarily slim majority.
00:02:06.000And there are always going to be people in Congress who have decided that the best thing that they can do is go on television and spout rather than actually, you know, doing the job of being in Congress.
00:02:16.000But the job of being in Congress is very different from the job of saying what it is that you think about politics.
00:02:22.000The job of being in Congress, again, is to get as much of the pie as possible.
00:02:26.000And that changes pretty radically depending on whether you are in the minority or whether you are in the majority, whether there's a Democrat in the White House or whether there is a Republican in the White House.
00:02:34.000So somebody like a Thomas Massey, for example, might be a true asset to conservatives when the Republicans are in the minority, meaning that they're not in the White House or if they're in the minority in Congress.
00:02:45.000You want to obstruct Joe Biden's plans after all.
00:02:48.000And then there's the question of what you do when you have a president of the United States who's an elected Republican, Donald Trump, when you have an elected majority in the Senate, when you have an elected majority in the House.
00:02:58.000Then the question becomes, how much can you get?
00:03:01.000And obviously, you want conservatives who are going to push back against the excesses, but you also want people who are going to make pragmatic and practical decisions rather than just standing there and shouting no at everything in order to get, presumably, the love of the clickbaiters online.
00:03:17.000Over the break, President Trump endorsed Speaker Johnson.
00:03:19.000Johnson was indeed re-elected on the very first vote out the gate.
00:03:23.000According to the New York Times, Speaker Johnson on Friday won re-election to the top post in the House, salvaging his job in a dramatic last-minute turnabout by putting down a revolt from conservatives who initially voted to block his assent.
00:03:34.000Johnson won 218 to 215. He mustered the majority with help from President-elect Donald Trump, who again, Trump is going to be...
00:03:42.000Absolutely utilitarian in his second term.
00:04:11.000In favor of Johnson, Johnson and Trump had both urged Republican lawmakers to elect him speaker so the House could start work on the president-elect's legislative priorities.
00:04:27.000None of them had somebody better in mind who was going to get the Republican caucus unified rather than Johnson, which means it was all a sort of bizarre attention-seeking move.
00:04:38.000On the part of these particular congresspeople, if you don't have a better alternative, then you are being obstructionist and useless within your own party.
00:04:45.000Well, here is Speaker Johnson taking the gavel.
00:04:50.000This is a powerful new coalition of our country.
00:04:53.000It's a coalition that insists that we purge the policies of America last and we bury them in the graveyard of history's mistakes because it was a big mistake.
00:05:02.000To that end, this Congress will renounce the status quo and we will listen to the voices of the people.
00:05:06.000We will act quickly and we will start by defending our nation's borders.
00:05:15.000And again, the thing that Republicans want more than anything is get the priorities that Trump wants done.
00:05:21.000Well, this has betokened some interesting conversations about the strategy going forward for House Republicans.
00:05:28.000So there are basically two strategies on the table.
00:05:30.000There are two big issues that are going to come up this year in the Congress of the United States.
00:05:34.000Basically, because Republicans do not actually have a supermajority in the Senate, that means they have to use a process that is called reconciliation.
00:05:41.000Reconciliation can only be used on budgetary bills, on budgetary matters.
00:05:45.000Which means typically it can only be used once or possibly at the most twice inside of a year.
00:05:50.000The big question for Republicans in the House and in the Senate was whether they were going to separate out two separate bills and vote on them separately over the course of the year.
00:05:58.000One was going to be a border bill that was going to attempt to maintain border security, increase border security, complete the building of the wall, for example, change the law where necessary in order to make it easier to deport illegal immigrants.
00:06:10.000That was possibility of bill number one.
00:06:27.000The other strategy was to wrap them up into one giant bill.
00:06:30.000The problem with wrapping them up into one giant bill is more compromises are going to get cut in that giant bill than might be cut if you separated them out into two separate bills.
00:06:38.000Well, because if you pile everything into one bill, And you give that giant one bill on border matters and tax matters an up or down vote, there will be more crap in the crap sandwich.
00:06:48.000It's like an omnibus package that includes tax matters and border matters.
00:06:51.000And this is something that many conservatives are concerned about.
00:06:54.000For example, the House Freedom Caucus is upset about all of that because it will take additional spending on the border in order to secure the border.
00:07:01.000The Trump tax cuts may have short-term lowering of federal revenue into the tax coffers.
00:07:08.000So how are you going to offset that in terms of the spending?
00:07:12.000And meanwhile, Republicans also would like to increase the defense budget in the face of a vastly aggressive China.
00:07:18.000So all of those things getting wrapped into one bill, it means that if it all gets wrapped in one bill and Trump says to the American body politic and to the constituents of all these Republicans, listen, the bill has a lot of stuff I don't like, but it has a lot of stuff I do like.
00:07:30.000Everybody else should be yes on the bill.
00:07:32.000There's going to be heavy pressure on Republicans to go yes on the bill, even if there's more crap included in the crap sandwich.
00:07:38.000The alternative, which is to separate the two bills, the border bill and the tax bill, is that you may get neither.
00:07:43.000It may be an opportunity for people to signal their discontent on matters regarding Donald Trump's approach to the border if you're on the sort of left wing of the Republican Party.
00:07:54.000On tax matters, there's going to be some pretty serious battles inside the Republican Party with regard to the so-called SALT deductions, state and local tax deductions.
00:08:02.000So the 2017 tax cuts, one of the things that they did.
00:08:05.000They said that if you pay taxes in California or New York, that doesn't mean that you can deduct the taxes you paid on the state level against your federal taxable income.
00:08:14.000Because it's effectively a sort of affirmative action program on taxes for blue states.
00:08:29.000So strategically speaking, the question is, do you go for two purer and smaller bills or do you go for one less pure, bigger, beautiful bill?
00:08:37.000So for Johnson, because he's working with such a slim majority, he would love one big, beautiful bill.
00:08:55.000He prefers more of what Trump wants and Probably a little bit more bad stuff.
00:09:00.000That's the nature of the bargain here.
00:09:02.000And there really is no third choice where you just get all the great things that you want and none of the bad things that you don't want.
00:09:07.000That is not how it works with a majority this slim in the House and a pretty slim majority in the Senate as well.
00:09:14.000Here was Speaker Johnson explaining Trump is apparently on board with this particular strategy.
00:09:19.000I respect Lindsey Graham and all my friends who kind of preferred a two-step strategy.
00:09:24.000The idea would be get something done on the border and maybe defend spending right out of the blocks very quickly in what we would call a skinny reconciliation bill and then do the rest of it in a larger chunk later.
00:09:35.000But I think at the end of the day, President Trump is going to prefer, as he likes to say, one big beautiful bill.
00:09:40.000And there's a lot of merit to that because we can put it all together, one big up or down vote which can save the country, quite literally, because there are Again, this is a matter of strategy.
00:09:57.000It's not really a matter of principle.
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00:12:37.000So Jason Smith, for example, he wants one bill instead of two.
00:12:41.000He and his allies, according to Politico, are warning that separating the tax package into its own reconciliation bill risks them not passing a measure at all to extend the 2017 tax cuts set to expire at year's end.
00:12:51.000Now, what he's basically saying is, let's get this bill out the gate, because the closer you get to the deadline, the more leverage a few holdouts are going to have.
00:12:59.000Instead, wrap it all up in one big bow.
00:13:01.000Yes, there'll be more trash in there, but at least you will get all the things that Trump wants, along with some stuff that probably nobody likes all that much.
00:13:09.000As Smith says, my only focus is to deliver on all these priorities that the American people ask for.
00:13:15.000I've always thought the best process of doing that is through one.
00:13:18.000And he pointed out that literally zero parties have succeeded in passing two reconciliation bills in the same year, in decades.
00:13:24.000Most recently, congressional Democrats fought amongst themselves for much of 2021 and 2022 to enact a second reconciliation package and then abandoned many of the policies that they envisioned under their Build Back Better plan that eventually became the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:13:39.000So, it'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
00:13:41.000The bottom line is, Johnson is in fact a very good strategist.
00:13:58.000That we don't have a $4 trillion tax increase on the American people by December 31 of this year.
00:14:04.000And in order to do that, we've got to act collectively, House, Senate, and White House, to extend the 2017 tax cuts.
00:14:13.000Again, I think all of this is going to get done, and there should be an expectation of your Congress people and your senators that it should get done.
00:14:20.000And all these sort of little niggling...
00:14:24.000Small issues that people are upset about or issues that are totally insoluble.
00:14:28.000When you hear Republican Congress, people talk about, we're not solving our national debt with these bills.
00:14:32.000You're damn right we're not solving our national debt with these bills.
00:14:34.000And you better stop pretending that anything you're proposing is going to solve the national debt.
00:14:38.000The reality is the national debt ain't going to get solved until you touch precisely the entitlement programs that no one is going to touch ever.
00:14:45.000Until you touch Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, you are not going to be able to tackle the national debt.
00:14:52.000You better get those tax cuts made permanent because otherwise Democrats are going to reverse those at the first available opportunity, thus destroying the possibility of economic growth that could help grow you out of things like the national debt.
00:15:02.000You better get that border bill done now because Democrats sure as hell ain't going to pass a good border bill if they were in charge or if they gain control of the House of Representatives, which is already very tightly split in 2026. Meanwhile, other top priorities for the brand new Congress?
00:15:19.000Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina.
00:15:21.000He says, listen, we have some major national security threats on the horizon and making themselves present right now, give him his nominees.
00:15:55.000The good news is it looks like the votes are in fact there for Pete Hegseth, for Secretary of Defense.
00:15:59.000Again, if you're talking about the most controversial Trump nominees, in order, they are probably, at this point, Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, who, again, I think is very likely to be confirmed.
00:16:09.000Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services.
00:16:12.000A little more dicey, but I think he probably will be confirmed.
00:16:15.000Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.
00:16:19.000He is confirmed in Kash Patel as head of the FBI. Again, I think there's a very good shot that all these people are confirmed.
00:16:24.000If there's one who's most on the chopping block, it is probably Tulsi Gabbard because there are some people in the Republican caucus.
00:16:29.000Who have some doubts about her foreign policy ideas from several years ago.
00:16:35.000She's going to have to explain those ideas, presumably, to the senators.
00:16:37.000But the vast majority of Trump's nominees at this point are going to go through as well they should.
00:16:42.000And they should specifically because we have some real threats that are currently materializing.
00:16:48.000One of those threats is obviously the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.
00:16:52.000That threat was made clear on New Year's Day in a terror attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people.
00:16:59.000It was carried out by a radical Islamist, a recent convert to radical Islam.
00:17:07.000According to the New York Times, months before the man behind the New Orleans terror attack plowed a truck into a New Year's Day crowd, he rode through the area on a bicycle, recording videos of his target using eyeglasses with a built-in camera, investigators said on Sunday.
00:17:18.000He was back again a few weeks later, they said, probably to continue his plotting.
00:17:21.000Those details emerged as investigators revealed more about the driver and the extensive planning behind the attack, which killed 14 people, injured many others, and left New Orleans starting 2025, grappling with a cascade of anguish and alarm.
00:17:34.000This person was apparently radicalized by ISIS, claimed alignment with the Islamic State terrorist group.
00:17:42.000He's a 42-year-old army veteran with a fairly lucrative job, apparently, but his life started to collapse, and it appears that by the time of his terror attack, he was living in a rather impoverished Heavily Islamic area nearby.
00:17:55.000Apparently, the attacker made trips to Egypt and Canada in 2023. Which, again, traveling to Egypt in 2023?
00:18:04.000Unless you're going there as a tourist just to see the pyramids.
00:18:07.000They're probably not an amazing reason to visit Egypt at this time.
00:18:11.000Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, who he met with, how those trips may or may not tie into his actions here in our city, according to Lionel Murthal, the special agent in charge for the FBI in New Orleans.
00:18:19.000Now, remember, the FBI immediately made the jump.
00:18:21.000This is why Cash Patel needs to be the head of the FBI. The FBI immediately, after the New Orleans attack, tried to deny that it was, in fact, being investigated as a terrorist attack, only to reverse themselves just a few hours later.
00:18:32.000The attack, of course, ended when the attacker was killed in a shootout with the police that left two of the members of the police wounded.
00:18:41.000The terrorist expressed allegiance to ISIS after a transformation that perplexed and troubled those who knew him.
00:18:46.000He had the group's flag on a rented Ford F-150 pickup truck he used in the attack.
00:18:50.000In a video recorded for his family, he said, quote, I wanted you to know I joined ISIS earlier this year.
00:18:55.000He was living in a heavily impoverished Islamic area that was apparently in Houston.
00:19:01.000Okay, well, this area was also near a mosque.
00:19:04.000The police have been reaching out, the FBI have been reaching out to members of the mosque.
00:19:09.000And other nearby Islamic organizations.
00:19:11.000And the mosque immediately put out a statement urging members of the congregation not to actually respond to media inquiries and, if contacted by the FBI, not to talk to the FBI, but instead to call up the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
00:19:24.000And herein lies the Trump 2.0 question.
00:19:28.000Will the Trump administration, part two, take seriously the threat of radical Islamist terror to the extent that they will actually investigate groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations?
00:19:41.000The Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed back into the White House by the Biden administration and the Obama administration, but which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trials of the 2000s and was founded by very deeply connected friends of Hamas, associates of Hamas.
00:19:58.000CARE has been treated as a sort of civil rights organization, civil liberties organization for a long time, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the mosque put out a statement suggesting, That its brothers and sisters, instead of working with the FBI, refer to CARE and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
00:20:18.000They're very serious problems with radical Islamic organizations inside the United States.
00:20:22.000By the way, that's not just according to the U.S. government.
00:20:24.000That is also according to the United Arab Emirates, which listed CARE as a terrorist group in 2014 over its alleged affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:20:46.000What you can do is keep track of the organizations that seem to be at least somewhat friendly toward radical Islamic terror groups.
00:20:54.000Representative Mike Turner of Ohio, he was on with Margaret Brendan on Sunday.
00:20:59.000He says, listen, there are definitely people who are friendly to radical Islamic terror living in the United States.
00:21:05.000Are there individuals that are affiliated with ISIS and terrorist groups and organizations that have crossed the border that are inside the United States?
00:21:12.000Director Ray, FBI Director, has said so.
00:21:15.000We certainly have intelligence that says so.
00:21:33.000They are known to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement.
00:21:36.000And we are working diligently to try to take them down, to prevent them from doing so.
00:21:40.000And that's why the director is publicly saying such.
00:21:43.000And that's what the new administration is going to be handed.
00:21:45.000The fact that these individuals are here, that we need to locate them, we need to remove them, we need to bring them to justice and prevent them from doing harm to Americans.
00:21:55.000Okay, this also means no more political correctness when it comes to counterintelligence, when it comes to things like investigating the possibility of terror connections inside the United States.
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00:24:42.000The fact of the matter is that under Democrats, there has been an attempt to whitewash the problem of radical Islamic terror in the United States to focus instead on, quote, homegrown violent extremism.
00:24:54.000Yes, of course, you're going to have to worry about white supremacists shooting up churches.
00:24:58.000That's a thing that has happened in the United States.
00:25:00.000But if you are talking about ways to monitor preventable terrorism, it seems like a pretty easy way to monitor preventable terrorism would be to trace the funding mechanism for radical Islamic mosques inside the United States, which, by the way, broadcast pretty clearly their intentions on a fairly regular basis.
00:25:17.000When Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Categorizes this as, quote, an increase in homegrown violent extremism.
00:25:28.000They're not all equally easy to trace either, by the way.
00:25:31.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas, thank God the outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:25:36.000We have a heightened threat environment as Director Wray and the Attorney General both articulated and we've been saying this for quite a number of months.
00:25:46.000We have not only the persistent threat of foreign terrorism that of course created The Department of Homeland Security, but we have adverse nation states, and for the past 10 years we've seen a significant increase in what we term homegrown violent extremism.
00:26:04.000It is a very difficult threat landscape, and it is why that we as a as a community, not just the federal government, but state and local officials and residents need to be alert to it and take the precautions necessary to avoid violence from occurring. but state and local officials and residents need to be Again, these sort of broad categories are not helpful.
00:26:29.000You know what would be really helpful?
00:26:30.000Keeping track of organizations that historically have had ties to terror groups.
00:26:34.000That would be a really good way of doing this sort of stuff.
00:26:37.000And it's exactly this sort of politically correct approach that is leading to the current breakdown in politics across the water over in the UK. So over the course of the break, Elon Musk...
00:26:46.000Went hard on Keir Starmer, who is the new Prime Minister of Great Britain.
00:26:50.000Starmer, of course, is the leader of the Labour Party.
00:26:52.000He was also a member of law enforcement during the time where law enforcement was largely ignoring these massive grooming gang cases about radical Muslims in Britain who were legitimately on mass white girls.
00:27:07.000It has been very well covered by the media now.
00:27:12.000And the reason it was not covered well at the time, it's been going on for decades, the reason it was not covered at the time was very obvious.
00:27:18.000And it openly stated was because for years, for literally decades, there were these groups of Muslim men who had been imported into the UK under the guise of multiculturalism, who had then begun to groom and 13, 14, 15-year-old girls.
00:27:33.000They had set up these gangs to just pass these girls around.
00:27:37.000And the authorities full-on knew about it.
00:27:41.000They weren't going to report on any of this.
00:27:43.000The reason they weren't going to report on any of this is because there were far-right extremists who might take advantage of the messaging.
00:27:49.000This is the way that the politically correct left has decided to approach the problems with its own ideology, ignore them, pretend they don't exist, or pretend that the real problem is the people doing the noticing.
00:27:59.000That if you notice that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of girls who are being...
00:28:05.000By Muslim men in the UK. If you notice that, that this is somehow a brand of your extremism and we mustn't help.
00:28:13.000We mustn't help the extremists to gain political power in Great Britain.
00:28:17.000This is the journalist who covered the story.
00:28:19.000So, for example, the BBC did a documentary in 2017 called The Betrayed Girls.
00:28:25.000And they interviewed one of the journalists who really covered this thing in full in 2010. But he knew about this as early as 2002, 2003. His name is Andrew Norfolk, and here he is, admitting full-scale that the reason he did not cover what was called the Rochdale scandal is because he was afraid that it would lend credence to the British National Party or the English Defense League.
00:28:49.000Both consider, quote-unquote, far-right extremist organizations for the great crime of saying, perhaps we shouldn't be importing into the West members of radical Islamic civilization.
00:28:59.000The key point of the press release was that the men who were doing this to these girls were...
00:29:04.000I think the word used was from the Asian community.
00:29:27.000Being befriended by lads who weren't much older than them initially and then introduced to a wider and wider circle of friends, the idea that this was in some way a collective activity, that girls were being passed around men, I'd not encountered anything like that before.
00:29:47.000I remember so clearly the feeling of how on earth do you report a story that is...
00:29:56.000It's everything you could wish for if you're pushing a particular agenda.
00:30:02.000It's innocent white girls and it's evil dark-skinned men.
00:30:07.000The government's failure to control asylum and immigration was a force for bad.
00:30:12.000Norfolk's fears were not without foundation.
00:30:16.000The BNP's vote in recent local elections had increased 300-fold in only three years.
00:30:22.000Winning them seats on councils across northern towns.
00:30:26.000With a general election looming, immigration, race and asylum were key topics of the day.
00:30:32.000Yes, it is true that we need to control immigration.
00:30:36.000Yes, it is important we discuss it, but it's an issue that should be dealt with, not exploited.
00:30:42.000For my shame, I allowed my liberal fear about giving succour and credence to the British National Party.
00:30:52.000To act as a breaker on actually doing my job.
00:30:56.000Okay, that's an amazing admission by one of the journalists who actually ended up breaking the story.
00:31:00.000But it wasn't just the journalistic institutions in the UK that decided to ignore this because it might lend credence to quote-unquote right-wing narratives about mass migration from radical Muslim countries.
00:31:45.000In 2013, 2014, that the authorities really started to take this very seriously.
00:31:50.000In 2014, there was a state commission report by a senior social worker named Alexis Jay, this is according to Politico, who found that some 1,400 vulnerable children were targeted and abused in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2013. That's not even in Rochdale, which is the story that was being covered in this particular BBC documentary.
00:32:08.000There are tons of towns all over Britain where this was happening.
00:32:23.000In fact, even certain rare labor MPs who actually attempted to cover this were shut down.
00:32:30.000So Elon Musk, over the weekend, he went after Keir Starmer.
00:32:33.000And the reason he went after Keir Starmer is because there was a request that there be a federal investigation in Britain into a national investigation into these grooming gangs, a national inquiry.
00:32:47.000And Starmer's labor government rejected that, instead pointing to a series of existing inquiries on the issue and a 2022 report whose findings are still being implemented.
00:32:56.000And Musk immediately went after Starmer and he suggested that Starmer was complicit because Starmer, of course, was involved in the Crown Prosecution Service at the time that a lot of this was going on.
00:33:19.000This is in fact a party, the Labour Party, that has been complicit in the attempts, if not actually guilty of the attempts, to cover up crimes related to the failures of multiculturalism in Britain.
00:33:34.000Remember, I mean, it's Sadiq Khan, who's the mayor of London, who's openly calling for the criminalization of quote-unquote Islamophobic speech.
00:33:40.000He's a member of the Labour government.
00:34:12.000And we have to continue with a zero-tolerance approach.
00:34:16.000And I think there's more we can do in government.
00:34:18.000There's certainly stuff online, which I think needs tackling much more robustly than it is at the moment.
00:34:23.000What I'm hoping, Keir, is your experience as a prosecutor means you'll be thinking about the strategy we can use to make sure we take action against those who break the law.
00:34:33.000Okay, that is the most Orwellian crap I have ever heard.
00:34:36.000I mean, truly Orwellian in Great Britain.
00:34:38.000That's Keir Starmer, who is the current prime minister, talking to the mayor of London about criminalizing Islamophobia.
00:34:44.000What are the things you can do as a former prosecutor, says Siddi Khan, the mayor of London, to criminalize Islamophobia, which Keir Starmer says has risen dramatically in the aftermath of October 7th, which, as you will recall, was a mass Islamic terror attack on Jews.
00:34:58.000Hey, this is where the Labour Party is.
00:35:00.000You want to know why there's this massive right-wing backlash happening all over the globe, particularly with regard...
00:35:05.000This would be the reason, because mass migration has not been a boon to the West, not in the modern era.
00:35:13.000Mass migration is a massive problem because it has been combined not with assimilation, not with economic growth, but with economic stagnation and non-assimilation.
00:35:25.000And it has been biased toward countries that are exporting people who have no interest in assimilating to Western values, and in fact, many of whom despise Western values.
00:35:34.000And if you say that sort of stuff out loud in the UK, apparently you get arrested.
00:35:37.000There's a better shot you'll get arrested in the UK for saying something quote-unquote Islamophobic than apparently for white girls if you're a radical Muslim.
00:35:44.000That seems to be the logic over in the UK and has been for quite a while.
00:35:48.000Markir Starmer has yelled at Elon Musk.
00:35:50.000Now he's very angry because Elon Musk attacked him.
00:35:52.000And so he says that Elon Musk is now a member of the far right.
00:36:03.000In the UK, where are the people who are willing to stand up and say the truth?
00:36:08.000There's been a lot of talk about Tommy Robinson, who's in jail, and he has said some very true things on this.
00:36:13.000And Tommy Robinson has his own sort of checkered history as to saying certain things that are not true, but he is right on this, and he has been right on this particular issue as a general matter, and that's the reason that he has been targeted by law enforcement.
00:36:27.000In any case, here is Keir Starmer responding to Elon Musk.
00:36:34.000If politicians, and I mean politicians, who sat in government for many years, are casual about honesty, decency, truth and the rule of law, calling for inquiries because they want to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, then that affects politics because a robust debate can only be based on the true facts.
00:37:01.000Ah, it's only based on the true facts, says Keir Starmer.
00:37:04.000The facts that you're not allowed to acknowledge in Great Britain.
00:37:07.000In just one second, we'll get to the further consequences of the immigration debate.
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00:38:03.000Elon Musk has now endorsed the so-called Alternative for Germany party, the Alternative for Deutschland, AFD. The AFD has been condemned as a quote-unquote neo-Nazi party, but the things that it's arguing for, the AFD today is not a neo-Nazi party.
00:38:17.000The AFD is arguing in favor of immigration restriction in Germany.
00:38:23.000In a way that the so-called Conservative Party in Germany has not been, which is why AFD is gaining so much ground.
00:38:28.000Again, if you won't say the truth, there will be people who will say it, and those people will reap the political benefit of having said the truth.
00:38:34.000Heather MacDonald writes for City Journal today, The alternative for Germany is a leopard in German political life due to the party's opposition to Germany's lax immigration policies.
00:38:41.000Germany's Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, a domestic intelligence agency, has granted itself authority to surveil the party, which it deems a threat to democracy.
00:38:49.000Germany's other political parties have pledged not to cooperate with the AFD.
00:38:53.000The AFD is denied committee chairmanships in the national parliament in Berlin.
00:38:56.000Its numbers would otherwise entitle it to.
00:38:59.000German courts have almost uniformly rejected the party's efforts to remove these legal and extra legal barriers to normal participation in political life.
00:39:07.000It's because of the mass migration into Germany, starting in 2015, when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel famously announced, we can handle this in response to thousands of Syrians crossing into the country.
00:39:18.00023% of the German population in 2021 were first or second generation immigrants, and that was before the Ukrainian migration.
00:39:25.000Over 17% of the German population are first generation immigrants, a higher percentage than in the United States, or less than 14% of the population were foreign-born in 2022. And they have a higher crime rate, and they have serious draws on social benefits, and all the rest of it.
00:39:42.000So Elon Musk has already endorsed the AFD, mainly because the conservative party in Germany has decided that they are not going to actually take any of this on.
00:39:50.000CDU, which is the Christian Democratic Union, is a centrist party.
00:39:53.000The leader of that party, Frederick Murs, has pledged not to cooperate with what he calls a right-wing extremist party because that would, quote, require selling his party's soul.
00:40:01.000But the reality is that people are responding to this.
00:40:07.000People are responding to the lack of support for domestic political institutions on behalf of a multicultural view of the world.
00:40:15.000So Elon Musk is going to have a sit-down with the leader of the AFD party, a woman named Alice Vidal, possibly on January 10th.
00:40:23.000There's a lot of consternation about Elon Musk's involvement in foreign politics right now because, of course, he's been speaking out against Keir Starmer in the UK.
00:40:30.000He's been speaking out against the current administration in Germany in favor of AFD.
00:40:35.000But he's simply voicing the reality for literally hundreds of millions of people in Europe who have been silenced by the political processes there and also in the United States.
00:40:45.000Opens another question about immigration in the United States.
00:40:48.000So, Musk, Trump, the entire right in the United States, totally united on mass migration from countries that do not like the United States.
00:40:56.000Totally united on these particular issues.
00:40:58.000Totally united on illegal immigration.
00:40:59.000By the way, nonetheless, over the break, a vast controversy broke out about H-1B visas.
00:41:04.000H-1B visas are usually designed for technology companies to import labor from people with college degrees who want to work in tech.
00:41:15.000People who come and they work in the tech industry, usually it is a pathway toward a green card in the United States, these H-1B visas.
00:41:22.000And there is some controversy over H-1B visas and the over-application of them, and a lot of that is good-faith political discussion.
00:41:28.000How can H-1B visas be changed so that they're not being exploited by tech companies simply to bring in lower-wage workers who aren't going to assimilate, for example?
00:41:37.000However, this broke into the open in, I think, the dumbest possible way.
00:41:42.000Person who I personally know, actually, his name is Sriram Krishnan, who has worked in the past for everybody from Elon to Marc Andreessen to a bunch of tech bros on the right, was named the AI senior advisor to David Sachs in the new Trump administration.
00:42:05.000It was about AI and the sort of lines that have to be drawn around AI. Well, this launched a thousand think pieces.
00:42:11.000Because there were certain members of the right, some of them of the fringe right, who decided that he was going to be deciding immigration policy.
00:42:17.000And not only that, they decided that he was an open borders guy.
00:42:22.000He's not, in fact, an open borders guy.
00:42:23.000He has argued in favor of H-1B visas and for importing foreign talent in the United States so we can brain drain other countries.
00:42:31.000And so this kind of notion that he's in favor of open borders is really silly.
00:42:35.000Well, the opposition to Sriram, this notion that this was a foreigner who was going to be, Causing the importation of vast swaths of foreign labor.
00:42:43.000First of all, again, there are about 85,000 H-1B visas issued every year.
00:42:47.000You can argue maybe you want it lower.
00:43:23.000And that rests on a couple of suppositions.
00:43:26.000That rests on a couple of suppositions.
00:43:28.000One, that there is such a thing as an American job as opposed to a job that is located in America.
00:43:33.000And two, that no one can actually become a good American.
00:43:37.000That if you come in from abroad, If you're from, quote unquote, the wrong country, it's not possible for you to become a good American.
00:43:41.000Now, as I say, we should be pretty careful about who we admit to this country.
00:43:45.000It's in the interest of the American people to admit people who want to assimilate to Western values or who already hold Western values.
00:43:52.000Things like free speech and freedom of religion.
00:43:54.000People who actually want to work for a living and not be dependent on welfare.
00:43:58.000Who want to form families, join churches, become part of the social fabric.
00:44:02.000I think we should all be able to agree on that sort of stuff.
00:44:09.000Close all the borders, even sort of the most qualified immigrants coming in.
00:44:13.000One is, again, this idea that people can't culturally assimilate, which I think is not true.
00:44:19.000I mean, again, there are some people who cannot, but there are many who can.
00:44:22.000And two, that there are these things called American jobs, and that these American jobs must be reserved for Americans.
00:44:29.000Now, I think that not only is this economically ignorant, it's counterproductive.
00:44:33.000So Steve Bannon has articulated this position.
00:44:35.000I think the best of anybody who's articulating it right now.
00:44:38.000He did an interview with the Free Press in which he sort of expressed his desire to close all immigration.
00:44:45.000I'm also for big restrictions on legal immigration.
00:44:47.000Until Silicon Valley, until these places have, I don't know, 20% African American and 20% Hispanic and kids that can go to college and every college you go to, every engineering school you go to is flooded with foreign students taking American jobs.
00:45:04.000American jobs should be for American citizens.
00:45:08.000Okay, again, so again, there's the notion of American jobs, and you can see he's using this very bizarre formula where all these quote-unquote American jobs also have to be representative of the American demographic, which actually is a DEI left-wing argument.
00:45:19.000It's the argument that's made by people like Ibram X. Kendi.
00:45:22.000If 20% of the population is black and 20% of the jobs aren't black, that means some sort of racism is occurring.
00:45:29.000Okay, so there are a few problems with this.
00:45:31.000Number one, there is no such thing as an American job.
00:45:33.000There's just a job that is in America.
00:45:39.000And two, how do you keep that job in America?
00:45:41.000Because it turns out that there is no job being a baseline-level programmer for a million dollars a year in America.
00:45:47.000Because that job doesn't exist anywhere.
00:45:48.000And if you try to make that job exist in America, that job is going to disappear and it's going to go elsewhere where you can pay somebody $100,000 a year to be a programmer.
00:45:55.000This is particularly true in the mobile age of the internet, where location is not necessarily where you have to be located for the job anymore.
00:46:05.000Then there's the stupid counterargument that's being made.
00:46:07.000So there are some people who made a dumb counterargument.
00:46:40.000So if you want to make the case that we shouldn't be importing labor to marginally lower the labor costs for Silicon Valley, and instead we should be recruiting Americans, I agree with that.
00:46:59.000Where immigrants who are coming to the United States, brain-draining other countries, they're coming in, and they can fill those jobs, and they're maybe the best qualified person to fill those jobs.
00:47:12.000Now, again, if you want to increase the level of pay necessary for an H-1B visa, right now it's $100,000, you want to increase that higher, that's fine.
00:47:31.000You have to recognize there are downstream effects to this, economically speaking.
00:47:35.000That that is, in fact, like all tariffs, a subsidy to certain groups of the population at the cost of the rest of the population, where prices go up and outsourcing takes place, and all the rest.
00:47:46.000This is why, for example, Elon has defended H-1B visas.
00:47:50.000Elon says that he would like to brain drain other countries.
00:47:53.000He would like to bring in the best labor.
00:47:55.000He wants Americans to get as many American jobs, jobs in America, as possible.
00:48:00.000But you can't just magically determine what the pay level is for a job.
00:48:05.000And if you try to do that, that's going to have significant externalities that are quite bad for the American economy and for American competitiveness more broadly.
00:48:12.000Now, there was a really stupid counterargument that started to be made by some.
00:48:15.000And that was that the reason we need to import labor is because American culture is somehow insufficient.
00:48:20.000Now, there are some Americans who are lazy.
00:48:24.000There are some Americans who grow up in broken homes.
00:48:27.000There are some Americans who have poor educations.
00:48:29.000And we should fix all those things, obviously.
00:48:32.000And there are plenty of qualified Americans for a lot of these jobs.
00:48:34.000And we should go out of our way to try and recruit those Americans before we rely on foreign labor.
00:48:52.000Two, Mass migration is particularly problematic today.
00:48:57.000Now, the United States has historically always had a sort of fraught relationship with mass migration.
00:49:01.000That goes back to waves of people coming in from Ireland and from Italy and from Germany and from Sweden and from China and from Eastern Europe and Russia.
00:49:09.000All throughout American history, there's been great trepidation about mass migration.
00:49:15.000Also, it happens to be that in a system like the United States used to be, Where you're expected to assimilate, one, and two, there were no substantial welfare systems.
00:49:23.000What you ended up doing is acting like a magnet to the iron filings of the people who are the most risk-taking, most entrepreneurial from other countries.
00:49:33.000It wasn't just they were coming to the United States because they were poor, although many of them were.
00:49:36.000It was because they were willing to give up what they had in their homeland to come to a place where if they failed, there was no backup system.
00:49:43.000This is one of the things about American immigration historically.
00:49:46.000And then the immigration bargain changed in the United States.
00:49:49.000That immigration bargain started to change with massive welfare systems that now immigrants could take advantage of, and now you had to balance who should get in and who should not get in.
00:49:57.000It used to be if somebody got in and they failed economically, it wasn't like the state and the taxpayer had to pick them up.
00:50:03.000Now once you establish welfare systems, that all changes.
00:50:06.000And then it massively changes again in 1965, when Democrats pass an Immigration Act that fundamentally shifts where immigrants are coming from.
00:50:14.000It used to be they mostly came from Europe.
00:50:15.000After 1965, they started to come mostly from Latin and South America.
00:50:19.000And that was an actual stated goal of people who sponsored it, like, for example, Senator Ted Kennedy.
00:50:24.000And this has changed the nature of mass migration.
00:51:54.000And I think that there's going to be a lot of Nixon going to China in this administration for a lot of people who seem to believe that Donald Trump mirrors their more sort of nationalist predilections.
00:52:25.000So he has decided that he's basically going to find every despicable person in the United States and then give those people a presidential medal of freedom.
00:52:37.000So Joe Biden has decided, among others, That recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom ought to be Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Bill Nye the Science Guy, among others.
00:52:50.000George Soros has single-handedly helped destroy the law enforcement mechanisms of the United States.
00:52:55.000He has funded left-wing prosecutors who have destroyed the ability to prosecute criminals across the urban areas of the United States.
00:53:02.000He has funded every far-left cause he can find in the United States, undermining Basic American principles, George Soros is a disaster area.
00:53:10.000So, of course, Joe Biden is giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which, of course, is also designed to bribe his son, Alex Soros, who is actually the person who showed up to pick it up.
00:53:19.000Alex Soros is also kind of famous for tweeting out photos with prominent Democratic politicians standing high above the city of New York, where all of these politicians come to kiss his ring.
00:53:29.000Hillary Clinton also showed up to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
00:53:33.000Presumably for lying about Benghazi, shredding all of her documents and all of the rest, as well as initiating Russiagate.
00:53:42.000Other people included humanitarian and chef Jose Andres, who has lied repeatedly about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and allowed his World Central Kitchen to unfortunately be used as a prop by members of Hamas.
00:53:59.000Bill Nye, the science guy, Who's mostly famous for now becoming a left-wing kook.
00:54:10.000He awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 recipients, including members of the House January 6th Committee, as a final slap at President Trump.
00:54:18.000Also over the break, by the way, he decided to commute the sentences of a bunch of death row prisoners.
00:54:24.000Apparently, certain victims just don't count, according to President Biden.
00:54:28.000So President Biden granted clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences.
00:54:33.000The only three inmates who did not receive clemency are the convicted murderer in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the gunman in the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, that was the white supremacist shooting, and the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, the terrorist.
00:54:47.000But apparently everybody else who committed murder, all those people are basically going to stay alive on death row now.
00:54:55.000Now, if Biden were truly principled about the death penalty, he'd commute it for everybody.
00:55:02.000He just thinks that some crimes are worse than others, and apparently murdering little girls is not on the same level as up a synagogue in Pittsburgh, which is kind of an amazing statement.
00:55:10.000As a final slap, of course, Joe Biden is also going to be putting in place a ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in vast areas ahead of the Trump term.
00:55:18.000Remember, Kamala Harris ran as somebody who is not going to fight fracking.
00:55:26.000According to Reuters, Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines, a decision President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to boost domestic energy production, may find it difficult to reverse.
00:55:37.000So Biden's going to use his authority under the 70-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect all federal waters off the east and west coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and portions of the northern Bering Sea.
00:55:47.000In Alaska, the ban affects 625 Absolutely ridiculous.
00:55:56.000The problem is the Lands Act, which allows presidents to withdraw areas from mineral leasing and drilling, does not grant them legal authority to overturn prior bans.
00:56:04.000That order from a court came in 2019 as a response to Trump trying to reverse a Barack Obama ban on drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean.
00:56:14.000Another disgraceful move by a horrible president.
00:56:18.000Joe Biden is going to go down in history.
00:56:19.000As probably our second worst president.
00:56:22.000I say probably because there is one other person on the list and that person died over the break.