The case of Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalfe, a black college football player who was stabbed to death in front of a crowd at a football game, is a perfect example of how the media loves to use race as a proxy for discussions about the state of race in the United States.
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00:00:33.000It's always fascinating to determine which stories are national news stories, according to the legacy media, and which are local news stories, according to the legacy media.
00:00:41.000It's particularly true when it comes to national crime stories.
00:00:44.000Now, every crime story is, in its essence, a local story.
00:00:48.000Because every crime story involves the perpetrator and the victim.
00:00:53.000So unless you can identify a broad national trend springing therefrom, and basically that local news story is the hook for a discussion of the broad national trend, no local story on its own should be a national story.
00:01:05.000But it's fascinating what kind of crime stories particularly are the ones that spark national discussions about, for example, race in America.
00:01:12.000So according to Legacy Media, the only kinds of crime that ought to spark discussions of race in America are crimes where the alleged victim is black and the alleged suspect is white.
00:01:21.000Those are the only ones that you will ever hear about.
00:01:23.000Whether you're talking about George Floyd, whether you're talking about Daniel Penny, whether you're talking about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, whether you're talking about Michael Brown, anytime you have a racial conflagration, it is always...
00:01:36.000On one side of the racial ledger, according to the legacy media, because, again, the narrative that the legacy media would push is the idea that America is a systemically racist place against black people.
00:01:46.000And so the kind of crimes they like to cover are, of course, the ones where a white person, or in the case of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic person, kills a person who is black.
00:01:56.000However, the reality is that, unfortunately, on a proportionate level, it is far more common for young black men to kill people of other races than the other way around.
00:02:06.000Now, let's be real about this, just statistically speaking.
00:02:08.000The vast majority of murders are intraracial, meaning that most black men who are murdered are murdered by black men.
00:02:15.000Most white men who are murdered are murdered by white men.
00:02:17.000I believe the only race in the United States for which it is not true that the plurality or majority of killings inside the race are committed by other members of the same race are Asians.
00:02:26.000I believe that for Asian men, the preponderance of killers are outside the Asian race.
00:02:32.000However... When it comes to interracial crime, which, again, the media like to use as a proxy for discussions about the evils of the state of race in the United States, there's only one type of story they like to track, and that, of course, is white on black crime.
00:02:44.000The reality, as I say, is that, proportionately speaking, black on white crime is significantly more common.
00:02:49.000And that is why I think it is worth noting the case of Carmelo Anthony, not the basketball star that would be spelled with a C. This is Carmelo Anthony with a K. Austin Metcalf.
00:03:04.000So Austin Metcalf was a football player in Frisco, Texas, and he had a confrontation with the aforementioned Carmelo Anthony.
00:03:33.000And according to the police report, the white guy, Austin Metcalfe, went into the tent and said to Carmelo Anthony, you don't belong in here, at which point a confrontation ensued.
00:03:44.000Carmelo Anthony allegedly reached into his backpack, pulled out a knife, and stabbed Austin Metcalfe to death in front of everybody else, then tried to run away and threw away the knife.
00:03:51.000That is according to the police reports.
00:03:53.000Not only that, according to Officer Eduardo Cortez, he says that...
00:04:00.000He was the person who was assigned to bring the suspect, Carmelo Anthony, to the police vehicle and take him off to jail for his booking.
00:05:19.000He stated they were all sitting on the bleachers under a Memorial High School tent when another male, who he did not know, walked over and sat under the tent.
00:05:25.000Apparently, this person then said Austin, the victim, told this male that since he'd not go to Memorial, he had to leave the tent.
00:05:30.000Austin, the male, went back and forth.
00:05:32.000Then Austin stood up and pushed the male to get him out of the tent.
00:05:34.000At this point, during the time of arguing, the male was reaching around in the bag he had.
00:05:37.000This time, the male took out a knife and stabbed Austin and then left the scene.
00:05:41.000Now again, this sounds like a confrontation that escalated to the point where Carmelo Anthony pulled a knife out of his backpack and then stabbed Austin Metcalfe to death.
00:05:49.000Now the case presumably he's going to be making in court is that it was self-defense that he was in fear for his life.
00:05:54.000Because another student was pushing him.
00:05:56.000That's going to be a very difficult case to make.
00:06:03.000But the sort of more sympathetic case to Carmelo Anthony would be that he was sitting there and somebody told him to leave, pushed him, he turned around, he stabbed him, and it was because he felt that he had to in order to defend himself.
00:06:14.000Okay, here's where it starts to get very dicey.
00:06:16.000Not just in terms of the criminal case.
00:06:17.000It starts to get very dicey in terms of the GoFundMe that was then set up for Carmelo Anthony.
00:06:21.000So, a GoFundMe was set up for Carmelo Anthony.
00:06:24.000And it immediately raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:06:30.000Now, imagine a reverse scenario in which the races were reversed here and a GoFundMe was set up for the family.
00:06:37.000Would there be any doubt the media would be all over it talking about how terrible it would be for a white student who stabbed to death a black student after being pushed to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in GoFundMe money?
00:06:50.000Apparently, the money was then used, according to the New York Post.
00:06:55.000According to the New York Post, Carmelo Anthony is holed up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail Monday on a reduced $250,000 bond for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf earlier this month.
00:07:08.000The home had a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan in the driveway on Tuesday, according to the outlet.
00:07:14.000A neighbor said the family had just bought a new ride.
00:07:17.000He got a new car, the resident told the outlet.
00:07:19.000Residents in the gated community were allegedly unaware the family was living at the home until Anthony was released on Monday.
00:07:25.000Another neighbor told the outlet that Anthony's family is not poor if they live in a gated community.
00:07:30.000Again, this is all controversial stuff.
00:07:38.000We have to wait for all the facts to come out in the particular case.
00:07:41.000However, it is worthwhile noting that, again, the basic sort of Narrative that would be drawn if the races were reversed would be about systemic American races.
00:07:51.000You might even have a story about privileged white Americans beating up on black Americans if, in fact, this kid comes from a relatively well-off background.
00:07:58.000You're not going to get anything like the reverse.
00:09:29.000White Americans are significantly more likely to be victimized by black Americans than black Americans are to be victimized by white Americans when it comes to violent crime.
00:09:49.000White on white, black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic.
00:09:53.000The only group for which that is not true is Asian Americans.
00:09:56.000But... When it comes to black versus white crimes, or white versus black crimes, black Americans are far more likely to be perps than victims.
00:10:04.000According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics citing the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 2019, there were 562,550 interracial crimes concerning blacks and whites.
00:10:14.00089,980 of those crimes featured a white perp and a black victim.
00:10:19.000472,570 of those crimes featured a black perp and a white victim.
00:10:24.000In other words, 84% of violent interactions involving black and white people involved black people victimizing white people.
00:10:34.000A common argument that you hear all the time is that, well, maybe the problem is that when white people attack black people, or when black people attack white people, that maybe not all of it is getting reported.
00:12:26.000According to Alan Beck of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, quote, relative to their share of the U.S. population, 60%, white people were underrepresented among offenders in non-fatal violent crimes overall, 52%.
00:12:37.000They accounted for 45% of offenders involved in aggravated assault and 31% of offenders involved in robbery.
00:12:43.000Black people were overrepresented among offenders in non-fatal violent crimes overall, 29%, relative to their share of the U.S. population, 13%.
00:12:52.000Half of all offenders involved in robbery, 51%, a third involved in aggravated assault, 34%, more than a fifth involved in simple assault, 23%, and rape or sexual assault, 22%, were black.
00:13:04.000According to Pew Research Center, black men are the most likely to go to prison.
00:13:07.000There were 2,272 inmates per 100,000 black men in 2018.
00:13:11.000Compared with 392 inmates per 100,000 white men.
00:13:15.000In 2018, black Americans represented 33% of the sentenced prison population, nearly triple their 12-13% share of the U.S. adult population.
00:13:24.000Whites accounted for 30% of prisoners, about half their share of the adult population.
00:13:28.000According to another study printed in the journal Science Advances, Lifetime risk of imprisonment for black males rose from more than 1 in 5, about 20%, in 1986, to nearly 1 in 2, about 49.6%, in 2004.
00:13:41.000before falling to roughly 1 in 6, 16.2% in 2016.
00:13:45.000Even though the current number is way lower than the prior numbers, it's still way higher than ever recorded among white men.
00:13:53.000Why disproportionate crime in the black community?
00:13:55.000The single most obvious factor correlating with violent crime is lack of fathers in the home.
00:14:01.000According to the Institute for Family Studies, only 37% of black children are living in a home headed by their biological parents.
00:14:07.00072% of black fathers have had a child out of wedlock.
00:14:11.000Studies show the number of fathers in a neighborhood can actually help alleviate the problem of lack of fathers directly in the home.
00:14:16.000There's a network effect, a neighborhood effect, but it's rare to find a black neighborhood with a lot of present fathers.
00:14:22.000As a study from Harvard, Stanford, and the U.S. Census Bureau found, just 4.2% of black kids currently grow up in areas with a poverty rate below 10% and more than half of black fathers present.
00:14:35.000Now, there are those who will argue that it's white racism that's causing the absence of black fathers.
00:14:40.000That's a weird argument given the fact that in 1960, when white racism was really a serious American problem, less than a quarter of black children were born to unwed mothers.
00:15:08.000When you incentivize father absence, crime goes up.
00:15:11.000When you fail to police crime, crime goes up.
00:15:13.000When you make excuses for black on white violence or pretend that the real problem of violent crime in America is white on black, crime goes up, particularly among the populations who are being ignored, black Americans.
00:15:33.000The reason that all of that is relevant is because when you are talking about the sorts of narratives that the legacy media would proclaim as important, those are the kinds of narratives that they will never talk about.
00:15:42.000And they are important because again, if you actually wish to reduce, for example, interracial crime, then you want to look at where the interracial crime is actually occurring.
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00:19:01.000I would love for you to acknowledge what I'm actually saying, Sean, and we seem to be talking past each other.
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00:19:47.000And the running theme of today shows that depending on whom the violence is directed at and whom the violence, who perpetrates the violence, we can tell who the media will side with, whether they will ignore the story or whatever.
00:20:02.000Just this week, targeting a Democrat, by the way, not targeting a healthcare CEO.
00:20:07.000So it turns out that the person who set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence on Sunday indicated that he was motivated by his views on Israel and Gaza, according to the Washington Post, and believed that Josh Shapiro needed to stop the killing of Palestinians.
00:20:21.000Now, Josh Shapiro is the governor of Pennsylvania.
00:20:23.000He's not the president of the United States.
00:20:25.000He has zero plenary power over foreign policy of the United States, even if you were to agree with this guy.
00:20:29.000But the reason that the media aren't playing this up as an act of politically motivated attempted murder.
00:20:35.000is because much of the media agrees with this guy.
00:20:37.000Imagine if this were a right-wing or Trump supporter who had decided to try and kill Josh Shapiro.
00:20:42.000That would be a narrative for the rest of the year, minimum.
00:20:46.000It would be right-wing violence being bred by the podcast sphere in order to target people like Josh Shapiro.
00:20:53.000But because the person who decided to try and kill Josh Shapiro and his family is apparently a psychotic left-winger who hates Shapiro because Shapiro's a Jew and too pro-Israel for his like.
00:21:03.000The media are not going to talk about the problem of radical anti-Israel feeling leading to violence, despite the fact that it very often in the past year or so has led to violence.
00:21:14.000And certain types of violence are not to be discussed, to be ignored, or to be downplayed.
00:21:19.000That is also true with regard to illegal immigrant crime.
00:21:22.000So yesterday, the White House, in an attempt to push back on the narrative that is being pushed by the legacy media that the...
00:21:29.000The people who are being deported from the United States are all innocent and wonderful and all the rest, and the administration doesn't care about Americans.
00:21:42.000She's the mother of a woman brutally slain by an illegal immigrant named Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez as she was exercising on a Maryland trail.
00:21:49.000This is according to DailyWire.com, Mary Margaret Olihan reporting.
00:21:52.000The 23-year-old murderer was arrested in June in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape in Rachel Morin's death.
00:22:00.000And here is what the angel mom had to say.
00:22:03.000Again, this receives almost zero legacy media coverage because they treated it as an irrelevant story.
00:22:08.000To have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother.
00:22:29.000So that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen.
00:22:40.000Why does that person have more right than I do or my daughter or my grandchildren?
00:22:55.000Okay, for the Legacy Media, this was not worthy of coverage because again, An illegal immigrant murdering an American is not worthy of coverage.
00:23:02.000It is heavy coverage when an illegal immigrant with a pretty significant violent history, apparently, is deported.
00:23:09.000Even if the due process concerns are a real concern, the level of sympathy that is being put forward by the media and the attempt to sanctify Kilma Abrego Garcia stands in stark contrast to the way that they are treating people like Patty Morin, whose daughter was beat to death with rock.
00:24:20.000He said maybe if the American Embassy were to ask, maybe that could happen.
00:24:28.000So much sympathy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
00:24:30.000Now again, if you want to protest, lack of due process, you should be standing in front of the courts.
00:24:35.000You should be standing in front of the White House, flying down to El Salvador to show sympathy for a man who, according to the UK Daily Mail, is violently accused by his own wife of beating her up multiple times.
00:24:49.000But again, that's the sort of stuff that gets brushed under the rug in service of a larger narrative.
00:24:52.000Apparently, according to the Daily Mail, Abrego Garcia, 29. Was deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration over connections to MS-13.
00:25:00.000His wife accused her husband of violently beating her multiple times in a 2021 court filing exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail.
00:25:08.000In November 2020, he hit her with his work boots.
00:25:11.000In August 2020, he hit her in the eye, causing her to get a black eye, according to her petition.
00:25:15.000That same day, Abrego Garcia started driving quickly, scaring his wife, as their one-year-old was in the backseat.
00:25:21.000She said she was afraid to be close to him.
00:25:23.000In May 2021, after an argument at a gas station, the Salvadoran migrant punched and scratched his wife, leaving me bleeding.
00:25:29.000Remember, this is a person who was pitched by the media as Marilyn Father.
00:25:34.000Sounds like a wonderful, wonderful person.
00:25:36.000It turns out, by the way, that according to Robbie Starbuck, Tennessee Highway Patrol caught the same Abrego Garcia in 2022, driving without a license, and suspected him of trafficking the seven people inside.
00:25:48.000When they called Joe Biden's FBI because he was on the terror watch list, The FBI told them to photograph everybody and let them go.
00:26:09.000That because Democrats have picked some of the worst people in humanity to spend their empathy and sympathy on, Americans are likely to ignore some of the due process concerns about, for example, this person because it's a totally unsympathetic victim.
00:26:24.000So Chris Van Hollen, again, down in El Salvador, he says that according to the El Salvador vice president, the reason that this guy is being held there is because Trump is paying.
00:26:32.000The point that Van Hollen is making is that the Trump administration has claimed they no longer have control over whether Abrego Garcia comes back to the United States for one final hearing before he's deported permanently.
00:26:42.000And his answer was that The Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador, to keep him at sea cut.
00:27:00.000Again, multiple things can be true at once.
00:27:03.000One can be that the due process concerns that are being raised by the courts are legitimate concerns and the Trump administration should deal with them.
00:27:08.000The other is that Democrats have politically decided to spend their empathy and sympathy on some of the worst people in humanity, truly.
00:27:15.000And to ignore particular types of crime that don't fit the thing they are attempting to push.
00:27:19.000Now, speaking of the due process concerns, yesterday, Judge James Bosberg, you'll remember him, from the hearings where he suggested that planes of migrants from Venezuela needed to be turned around midair, and then they were not.
00:27:31.000And the Trump administration claimed, well, we did keep some planes on the ground.
00:27:37.000It wasn't a written order and all the rest.
00:27:38.000Now, Boesburg says he's going to launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration officials defied his order not to remove those Venezuelan migrants from the country.
00:27:46.000Now, this is kind of a weird filing by Boesburg in the sense that the Supreme Court has already decided that the Trump administration can use the Alien Enemies Act.
00:27:55.000We'll get to more of this in a moment.
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00:30:07.000Oracle. And second of all, the Supreme Court has also decided that this case was filed in the wrong place.
00:30:15.000It shouldn't have been filed in Washington, D.C. It should have been filed in the place closest to El Salvador, which is actually at a federal court on the southern border.
00:30:22.000Nonetheless, Bosberg is now trying to suggest that he is going to hold in contempt members of the Department of Justice for not listening to his judicial orders.
00:30:32.000Democrats, of course, are celebrating all of this because they are saying it just underscores.
00:30:36.000The unwillingness of the Trump administration to follow the law.
00:30:40.000Attorney General Pambandi fought back against Bosberg yesterday.
00:31:06.000And the question should be, why is a judge trying to protect terrorists who have invaded our country over American citizens?
00:31:16.000Okay, so again, that's going to be the angle from the Trump administration, and it isn't a terrible angle, specifically because Democrats picked the exact wrong people to defend.
00:31:26.000And meanwhile, the State Department continues to do good work in terms of deporting many of the worst people in the United States.
00:31:34.000The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, joined us online yesterday to discuss all of this, to talk about what the State Department has been doing.
00:31:41.000Not only has the State Department been deporting people who Come to the United States on things like student visas and lie about their actual belief systems and what they are here to do.
00:31:50.000But also, the State Department yesterday shut down a branch of the State Department that is specifically designed very often to target American information that the left doesn't particularly like.
00:32:00.000Here's my interview with Secretary Rubio.
00:32:02.000Joining us online, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:32:05.000Secretary Rubio, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:32:10.000So, let's talk about this major move that...
00:32:12.000You just made at the State Department getting rid of a big chunk of the censorship bureaucracy that had been created and pushed a while back, but then exacerbated over the course of the last few years, hidden.
00:32:24.000What's the story with what you are doing over at the State Department to get rid of the body formerly known as the Global Engagement Center?
00:32:31.000Yeah, I think you have to understand the history behind it.
00:32:59.000Who basically was going around saying Trump speaks just like these foreign terrorists.
00:33:04.000His supporters speak just like these foreign terrorists.
00:33:07.000So now you have an individual running a State Department entity that was labeling American speech by Americans as foreign interference.
00:33:15.000And then really the kicker was not only were they doing all that formally from the State Department.
00:33:20.000But they were taking State Department money and they were giving it to these third-party groups who were supposed to be like independent, you know, verified arbiters of what's true and what isn't, what's good and what's bad.
00:33:30.000And these groups were deliberately targeting.
00:33:32.000I believe you were one of the ones they targeted.
00:33:35.000I think the Federalists began putting labels on people.
00:33:38.000Now, you may say, okay, well, what's the importance of the label?
00:33:41.000The issue is not only did they put labels on people, that was then used to go to social media companies, it was used to go to outlets and say, you have to deplatform these people, or you have to cut back on how much views they're getting, you have to go after them, in essence, silence them.
00:33:54.000So, in essence, it metastasized the metamorphosis into a government-run entity that was targeting political speech in America, labeling it disinformation.
00:34:35.000I mean, it's not a small amount of money.
00:34:36.000And we're not going to be in the business of doing this anymore.
00:34:39.000In fact, we're going to be in the business of promoting free speech in America and around the world as a core American value.
00:34:47.000And that really is what we're going to be about right now.
00:34:50.000And we're also going to go back and look at, as an accountability project, all of the instances in which this was used as a weapon.
00:34:59.000And the reason why that's important is not just because of accountability, it's to make sure it never happens again.
00:35:03.000You document these things so that someone in the future, when they get some bright idea like this, realize, you know, why we shouldn't do it, because this is what it turns into.
00:35:13.000And Secretary Rubio, it's a really good object lesson in what happens with some of these government agencies, which start off decades ago with the right purposes and then gradually are infiltrated by people with a significant political partisan agenda.
00:35:47.000It was created for development and humanitarian aid.
00:35:49.000Where it really went off the rails is when humanitarian aid and development aid was turned into how do we infuse domestic political priorities into what we fund around the world.
00:36:00.000So when it became a domestic political priority to take on transgender rights, now all of a sudden you've got programs by Americans couched as humanitarian or development aid in other countries around the world.
00:36:12.000In essence, they injected domestic political considerations.
00:36:18.000We're going to continue to do humanitarian aid.
00:36:23.000What we're not going to do is use humanitarian aid to spread a domestic ideological movement globally.
00:36:43.000Get out of the United States people who are terror supporters, not just people who say bad things, but people who are actual terror supporters act in ways that are conducive to actual terror groups.
00:36:52.000I wanted to give you a moment to sort of explain the approach that the State Department is taking in taking a look at, for example, student visa holders.
00:37:00.000What are the standards that are being used to determine whether somebody should stay in the United States or should go?
00:37:05.000Because obviously opponents of the administration are arguing it's violations of free speech.
00:37:08.000People have the ability to say what they want.
00:37:10.000That's not an argument that the administration is actually arguing with.
00:37:14.000The administration is not trying to crack down on free speech.
00:37:16.000You're trying to actually stop something else.
00:37:18.000Yeah, well, let's start with the baseline.
00:37:20.000Okay, no one is entitled to a student visa to enter the United States.
00:37:44.000Because I hear some of this reporting out there, like if somehow you're allowed to have a visa unless we can come up with a reason why you shouldn't have one.
00:38:06.000But let's say we don't ask you that question.
00:38:08.000And you get into the U.S. on a student visa, and all of a sudden it becomes obvious, you think Hamas is a good group.
00:38:14.000Well, then we should revoke your visa.
00:38:16.000In essence, if we learned things about you once you're here that would have caused us to deny you a visa when you were overseas, that's grounds for revocation.
00:38:25.000It is not in the national interest of the United States.
00:38:27.000It's not in our foreign policy interest.
00:38:29.000It's not in our national security interest to invite people onto our university campuses who are not just going to go there to study physics or engineering, but who are also going to go there to foment movements that support and excuse foreign terrorist organizations who are committed to the destruction of the United States and the killing.
00:38:49.000And the raping and the kidnapping of innocent civilians, not just in Israel, but anywhere they can get their hands on them.
00:38:57.000So we have a right to deny visas before you get here, and we have a right to revoke them if we believe that your presence in our country undermines our national interest, our national security, and our foreign policy.
00:39:33.000I can't tell you the exact number because it's static and it's constantly moving.
00:39:36.000But when someone is presented to me and it's clear that this person is a supporter of a foreign terrorist organization, we're going to remove them from the country.
00:39:48.000What a ridiculous thing to invite people in your country so they can be part of these movements that are terrorizing fellow students, tearing up campuses, shutting down campuses.
00:39:57.000We have campuses in America that couldn't even operate for weeks.
00:40:09.000The controversy that's arisen over, for example, the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, who is one of these students at Columbia University, who has a green card, but who was also engaged in protest activities that violated the law, who obviously was sympathizing openly with terror attacks by Hamas and all the rest of this.
00:40:25.000The sort of controversy here, there's a common thread to the opposition to the Trump administration on this stuff, which is, as you mentioned, this bizarre idea that people are somehow owed entry to the United States.
00:40:35.000I think that ties in very strongly to the Democrats' new approach.
00:40:39.000To what's going on with this Salvadoran migrant who's now been deported to El Salvador.
00:40:44.000The administration has taken a legal position that basically now that he's in Salvadoran custody, that it's up to the Salvadorans whether to return this person to the United States or not for further due process concerns.
00:40:54.000But that's really not the case that's being made by opponents of the administration.
00:40:57.000Many of the opponents of the administration are making a more significant case, which is the idea that basically if you get into the United States, you are somehow owed.
00:41:04.000A permanent status in the United States.
00:41:07.000And you're seeing this across the board, ranging from the Trump administration's moves to get rid of temporary protected status for people who have entered en masse under the Biden administration, to the resistance to DHS or the State Department making moves with regard to the tens of millions, possibly, of illegal immigrants who've been brought into the country by the Biden administration.
00:41:23.000There's this bizarre supposition that everyone on Earth is somehow owed passage to the United States and permanent membership in our society.
00:41:31.000Yeah, and I think it explains to you why we have the immigration crisis that we had.
00:41:34.000And it was the belief, they would all say, we believe we should have immigration laws, of course, but if you get into the United States, you should be allowed to stay.
00:41:42.000If you make it here illegally, no matter how you got here, then you should be allowed to stay.
00:41:46.000I mean, I think that that mindset that's being revealed in these cases tell you how you get 12, 13, 14, 20 million people entering the country unlawfully and illegally over the last few years because of this mindset that, yeah, we have immigration laws, but we don't really mean it.
00:42:00.000Once you get in, you should be allowed to stay here indefinitely, and we have some sort of obligation to accommodate you here in the country.
00:42:06.000That's how you create this mindset that led to that crisis, and people know it.
00:42:45.000It's the most secure border we've had in my lifetime.
00:42:48.000I mean, if you just think about it, and it's not just because there are people there, it's because people aren't coming anymore because they know that the president is serious about enforcing our immigration laws.
00:42:58.000Well, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, really appreciate your time.
00:43:01.000Thanks for what you're doing inside the State Department to get rid of shadow organizations designed to crack down on free speech, as well as to move people out of the United States who actually don't like America very much.
00:43:09.000Secretary of State Rubio, thanks so much for stopping by.
00:43:14.000Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped pretty significantly yesterday.
00:43:18.000It was set to open significantly lower today, as well as a lot of dyspepsia in the markets over the Trump tariff war, obviously.
00:43:25.000This was also prompted not only by the Trump administration's announcement that it was going to bar the export of particular chips to China from NVIDIA, which has been sinking NVIDIA stock, but also Jerome Powell yesterday warned of challenging scenarios facing the Federal Reserve.
00:43:41.000He's saying essentially that the tariff war is likely to drive up inflation, so it makes it harder for him to drop the interest rates.
00:43:47.000And he said he saw a strong likelihood that consumers would see higher prices and higher unemployment as a result of President Trump's tariff wars.
00:43:54.000Here was Jerome Powell yesterday, the head of the Federal Reserve.
00:43:56.000Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation.
00:44:02.000The inflationary effects could also be more persistent.
00:44:06.000Avoiding that outcome will depend on the size of the effects, on how long it takes for them to pass through fully to prices,
00:44:14.000And ultimately, on keeping longer-term inflation expectations well anchored.
00:44:20.000Powell then added, you would worry the process will take some years and that the inflationary process might be extended.
00:44:25.000When you think about supply disruptions, that's the kind of thing that can take time to resolve.
00:44:28.000It can lead to what would have been a one-time inflation shock to be extended, perhaps more persistent.
00:44:32.000That means that it's unlikely that he's going to lower the interest rates.
00:44:36.000Powell also added that the federal debt right now isn't at an unsustainable level.
00:44:55.000And no one really knows how much further we can go.
00:44:58.000Other countries over time have gone much farther, but we're now, you know, we're running very large deficits at full employment.
00:45:06.000And this is a situation that we very much need to address.
00:45:10.000Sooner or later we'll have to, and sooner is better than later.
00:45:15.000President Trump decided that the best solution here would be to attack Jerome Powell.
00:45:19.000He's not going to change his economic policies.
00:45:21.000He says the European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates for the seventh time, and yet, quote, too late, Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always too late and wrong.
00:45:29.000Yesterday issued a report which was another and typical complete mess.
00:45:32.000Oil prices are down, groceries are down, the USA is getting rich on tariffs.
00:45:36.000Too late should have lowered interest rates, like the ECB long ago, but he certainly should lower them now.
00:45:40.000Powell's termination cannot come fast enough.
00:45:42.000Naturally, the stock market was like, dude.
00:45:44.000And so the stock market dropped on the news that President Trump was going to ignore the sort of warnings that Powell is giving out about the economy.
00:45:50.000The question is whether Powell learned his lesson or whether Trump is right and he's too late.
00:45:55.000I think the answer is Powell learned his lesson, right?
00:45:57.000It was Jerome Powell who spent a year saying that inflation was transitory, and then it turned out it was not transitory at all.
00:46:02.000And the lesson he learned from that is that when you screw up the supply chains, Inflation is likely to be a persistent feature of the economy.
00:46:08.000World trade wars are likely to lead to persistent inflation in the economy.
00:46:13.000That's exactly what he is saying right now.
00:46:15.000Meanwhile, the U.S.-China decoupling is arriving, according to the World Trade Organization.
00:46:20.000The WTO anticipates trade between the U.S. and China will screech to a halt this year.
00:46:24.000Trade of merchandise between the two countries will drop by 80%, a drop that would have topped 90% without the White House's recent exemption for smartphones and other tech goods.
00:46:33.000The total volume of goods traded around the world is expected to contract by 0.2% this year.
00:46:37.000That is an abrupt turnaround from a near 3% increase last year.
00:46:41.000And the WTO is anticipating that the trade slowdown is going to spill over into weaker global growth, about 0.6 percentage points below its initial forecast.
00:46:51.000So, what is President Trump trying to do here?
00:47:15.000And basically, he proposes what he calls the Mar-a-Lago Accords.
00:47:19.000He says the deep unhappiness with the prevailing economic order is rooted in persistent overvaluation of the dollar and asymmetric trade conditions.
00:47:26.000His basic idea is that everybody should show up at Mar-a-Lago, all these various heads, various countries, and rejigger the entire global trading system so as to please the United States.
00:47:34.000Marin wrote, President Trump views tariffs as generating negotiating leverage for making deals.
00:47:37.000It's easier to imagine that after a series of punitive tariffs, trading partners like Europe and China become more receptive to some manner of currency accord.
00:47:44.000To lower the value of the U.S. currency, Moran said U.S. partners could sell dollars in their possession.
00:47:50.000What's the goal of devaluing the U.S. currency?
00:47:52.000Presumably, the goal would be to more easily raise debt.
00:47:56.000So the U.S. would not have to repay our debt quite as regularly.
00:47:59.000It would limit the potential rise in interest rates caused by fear over inflation.
00:48:05.000And there are some who call this a de facto default.
00:48:08.000And the whole goal would be to reshore some manufacturing in the United States.
00:48:13.000The goal would be to devalue the American dollar.
00:48:16.000Basically pay people back in inflated dollars.
00:48:19.000That is sort of the economic goal here.
00:48:54.000It's much more sort of grab bag politics with President Trump, which definitely has its upsides and it also has its downsides.
00:49:00.000It means that there's not a ton of predictability.
00:49:01.000It also means he's unlikely to stick with plans that don't work.
00:49:05.000But some of the people who are attempting to sort of weave a Trumpian philosophy around President Trump, there you would see a debate inside the administration.
00:49:16.000That debate inside the administration is taking the form of, on one side, J.D. Vance, Steve Whitcoff, David Sachs.
00:49:24.000On the other side of that divide would be presumably Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz.
00:49:31.000And the question there is one that David Sachs, I think, expressed really, really well on the All In podcast the other day.
00:49:37.000So the case that Sachs makes, and again, David is a brilliant guy.
00:49:41.000I think he's wrong on a lot of this, but he's quite brilliant.
00:49:43.000He says, That the Trump agenda is basically to reverse the attitude of the United States toward everything from immigration to foreign policy, a consensus that he says was built in the 1990s.
00:49:55.000And I think that he's right on immigration.
00:50:11.000American troops all over the world to defend this consensus because they'd be greeted as liberators, not occupiers.
00:50:17.000I think all three pillars have been refuted.
00:50:21.000And the person who has represented the shift in this consensus to, I say, a new agenda of economic nationalism and geopolitical nationalism is Donald Trump.
00:50:38.000It included both Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats around these three pillars of globalism.
00:50:45.000And then I'd say the country turns against that.
00:50:48.000That's not going to be a smooth process.
00:50:50.000That is going to be potentially a violent process.
00:50:53.000It's going to be a disruptive process.
00:50:56.000Okay, so what are the three pillars of globalism that he is talking about?
00:51:16.000Well, actually, free trade is quite good.
00:51:18.000The question is why we let China into the club.
00:51:20.000And so the debate that's happening inside the administration is whether free trade itself is the bad or whether free trade with China is the bad.
00:51:29.000And it's totally unclear which side of that ledger President Trump comes down on at this point.
00:51:37.000There are people like David Sacks, presumably, who are very much in favor of curbing free trade capital and all the rest of it.
00:51:44.000That would be a really dire thing for the American economy.
00:51:47.000The American economy is the most powerful economy on planet Earth, specifically because we have been oriented toward freedom of commerce, free trade.
00:51:58.000In terms of freedom of commerce, it's been true for legitimately a century in the United States.
00:52:02.000And we are the dominant global power economically because of exactly this.
00:52:06.000The idea that free trade needs to be thrown out because it's quote-unquote been debunked, I think that's a just wrong statement on its face.
00:52:14.000So here the idea is that America puts troops all over the world in order to...
00:52:19.000Defend the consensus because they'd be greeted as liberators.
00:52:21.000Well, no, actually, the Pax Americana is not based on the idea that American troops will always be greeted as liberators.
00:52:26.000The Pax Americana is based on the idea that if we don't fill the gap, somebody we don't like will.
00:52:30.000It has nothing to do with the feelings of the people who are on the ground.
00:52:34.000That was the mistake that Bush made with his sort of Wilsonian foreign policy.
00:52:37.000The idea that we had to be greeted as liberators was all about the permission of the people who we were going in and dealing with, as opposed to America should pursue her own national interest.
00:52:45.000And that national interest is actually deeply entangled with America Remaining the global hegemon.
00:53:02.000What the world looks like is America retreating from the world.
00:53:04.000It looks like America basically saying screw it to policing the world's oceans, for example, in the Red Sea.
00:53:10.000Here you saw that represented by J.D. Vance in that open signal thread that got revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg where he was actively arguing who cares if the Red Sea gets shut down.
00:53:18.000There are members of the Department of Defense who have been stacked in by allies of the Vice President, who are very much in favor of the idea that it doesn't matter if Taiwan gets taken over by China, or if the Middle East is beleaguered by Iran, or whether Russia takes over not only Ukraine, but other parts of Eastern Europe.
00:53:34.000That really makes very little difference at all to the United States, that America ought to withdraw from its place as the leading power on planet Earth, and instead we should sort of speedrun the end of American empire.
00:53:42.000We should try to reshore as much as humanly possible.
00:53:45.000If prices go up, well, you weren't here for the cheap TVs anyway.
00:53:47.000And if you crater the global economy, it won't have any dire effects for American citizens.
00:53:55.000I actually don't think that's where President Trump is.
00:53:56.000I don't think President Trump wants to speedrun the end of American power on the globe.
00:54:01.000President Trump has said over and over and over again that he's a peace-through-strength guy.
00:54:04.000So if there are people who are attempting to sort of defeat the peace-through-strength idea with the idea of an American withdrawal, which sounds, frankly, just like Barack Obama, totally like Barack Obama.
00:54:28.000I'm struggling to see the difference between some of the foreign policies proposed by the new neo-isolationist sort of right and Barack Obama's foreign policy.
00:54:40.000I can't tell the difference between them.
00:54:42.000But just in terms of actual practical policy, you can see this.
00:54:46.000Coming to a head over the president's Iran policy.
00:54:48.000So the president has been oriented since 2015 in a very anti-Iran direction for good reason.
00:54:53.000Iran has spread terrorism all over the Middle East.
00:54:56.000Iran is threatening global oil supply.
00:54:58.000Iran obviously has attempted to assassinate President Trump himself.
00:55:02.000So one of the big debates is what should be done with the Iranian nuclear program.
00:55:05.000Now the reality is that right now basically a single sortie would take out the Iranian nuclear program and Iran does not have the capacity.
00:55:14.000To generate any sort of serious conflict that would affect the United States in the Middle East.
00:55:21.000The reality is that Iran's proxies have been devastated.
00:55:25.000Iran has never been more vulnerable than it is right now.
00:55:27.000If Iran gained a nuclear weapon, that immediately turns around.
00:55:31.000Suddenly, Iran is a threat to pretty much everybody, including the Saudis, including the UAE, including Israel, including Europe, by the way.
00:55:37.000That is why the Trump administration has expressed over and over and over that Iran shouldn't get a nuclear weapon.
00:55:42.000But the approach that they are now apparently taking is a very Obama-esque approach.
00:55:45.000We played you earlier this week, Steve Whitcoff, the absolutely befuddled negotiator on behalf of the United States, suggesting that Iran should be allowed to keep a certain level of enriched uranium, which is exactly what Barack Obama was arguing.
00:55:59.000And now apparently, according to Axios, there's an open debate inside the administration in which people are taking sides along the lines that have already suggested.
00:56:06.000One camp, according to Axios, unofficially led by Vice President Vance, Believes a diplomatic solution is both preferable and possible, and that the United States should be ready to make compromises in order to make it happen.
00:56:15.000Vance is highly involved in the Iran policy discussions.
00:56:19.000This camp also includes Steve Whitcoff, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
00:56:24.000Now again, it's unclear where Pete Hegseth actually falls along these lines.
00:56:28.000Certainly many of the people have been staffed under DOD, underneath Hegseth, are people who are sympathetic to sort of the Vance Whitcoff position.
00:56:45.000By the way, culminating today in a New York Times leak is something that used to happen all the time, where the Obama administration would get some sort of information on a potential Israeli military action, and then it would end up on the front page of the New York Times the next day.
00:56:58.000Now apparently that's happening in the Trump administration as well.
00:57:01.000There's a piece titled, Trump waved off Israeli strike after divisions merged.
00:57:05.000In his administration, Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month, but was waived off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program.
00:57:14.000Trump made his decision after months of internal debate over whether to pursue diplomacy or support Israel in seeking to set back Iran's ability to build a bomb at a time when Iran has been weakened militarily and economically.
00:57:25.000Almost all the plans would have required U.S. help not just to defend Israel from Iranian retaliation, but to ensure that an Israeli attack was successful.
00:57:32.000Making the United States a central part of the attack itself.
00:57:34.000Again, this is according to, I am sure, Department of Defense sources who are working aligned with the sort of advanced philosophy of the administration.
00:57:43.000This article, by the way, is devastating for intelligence.
00:57:46.000I mean, it lays out, like, actual details.
00:57:48.000The article talks about what exactly Israel was going to do.
00:57:52.000There's the possibility, apparently, of a commando raid, quote, initially at the behest of Mr. Netanyahu.
00:57:57.000Senior Israeli officials updated their American counterparts on a plan that would have combined an Israeli commando raid on underground nuclear sites with a bombing campaign, an effort the Israelis hoped would involve American aircraft.
00:58:07.000Israeli military officials said the commando operation would not be ready until October.
00:58:13.000Israeli officials began shifting to a proposal for an extended bombing campaign that would have required American assistance, according to officials briefed on the plan.
00:58:20.000Some American officials were potentially open to it.
00:58:22.000That would have included General Michael Carrillo, the head of U.S. CENTCOM, and Mike Walls, the national security advisor.
00:58:29.000And then, of course, I mean, it's pretty clear who's leaking this, honestly.
00:58:33.000And so the question for the Trump administration, and for President Trump, is whether he actually wants internal divisions being leaked to Barack Reveed at Axios, and whether he wants them being leaked to the New York Times.
00:58:44.000And so the question becomes, what exactly, again, is the philosophy of this administration if they're looking for an easy off-ramp with Iran that basically allows Iran a clear pathway to a nuclear bomb in the belief, as David Pak says, that the Pax Americana must end?
00:59:17.000It's about America's position in the world.
00:59:18.000It's about whether America wishes to remain a global leader or whether America wishes to recede into a sort of multinational hodgepodge, a sort of lobster pot of grasping for power.
00:59:45.000If there is an economic downturn, I can't say this enough, if there's an economic downturn, if the world situation gets more chaotic, not less, under President Trump, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez will be the next president of the United States.
00:59:58.000It will not be the extended run that Republicans are hoping for, that I am hoping for.
01:00:03.000It is not going to be a conservative century.
01:00:06.000If, in fact, the Trump agenda fails or if the Trump agenda just turns into the Obama agenda on foreign policy and trade, if that is what happens, if somehow President Trump's own campaign promises are thwarted by people inside his administration who do not actually agree with those campaign promises,
01:00:22.000who have a different view of foreign policy, a different view of global economics, if that is what ends up happening here, the result is not going to be a Republican century or even a Republican decade.
01:00:33.000The result is going to be a backlash that comes in the form of a populist left progressive who comes in and wipes away everything that conservatives actually like and want.
01:00:44.000And so I think it's worthwhile having a conversation over what exactly the world vision, the global policy of the administration is at this point.
01:00:53.000Because, frankly, there are too many mixed signals.
01:00:57.000And those mixed signals are leading to confusion not just in markets.
01:01:00.000But also in terms of foreign policy, and that confusion is likely to lead to violence.
01:01:04.000Confusion in foreign policy, predictability, in foreign policy as in markets, leads to more quiet, calm, peace, growth.
01:01:14.000Chaos, as in not like the madman theory of politics where you don't know if he's going to punch you or what, but a sort of chaotic view of foreign policy in which the default position is American withdrawal is not likely to lead to a more peaceful world.
01:01:28.000It's likely to lead to precisely The opposite.
01:01:31.000And by the way, I should point out here that when we talk about Department of Defense officials who are oriented against the peace through strength idea, the reality is the Pentagon has now been hit with a series of leaks.
01:01:42.000And those leaks are coming in large part from people who are very much aligned with the sort of isolationist wing of the Republican Party.
01:01:49.000Dan Caldwell, Senior Advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
01:01:53.000Darren Selvnick, Defense Department Deputy Chief of Staff, were escorted out of the Pentagon by security officers and had their building access suspended pending further investigation.
01:02:03.000You know, it'll be fascinating to see how all of this plays out.
01:02:07.000And the future of America rests on it.
01:02:09.000And meanwhile, the hottest story of the day is that Elon Musk has a messy personal life.
01:02:58.000And I can say that even though, again, I like many of the people involved on a personal level.
01:03:03.000The actions themselves are sinful and wrong.
01:03:06.000We ought to, at the very least, recognize sin for sin.
01:03:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Ashley Sinclair wanted to prove Elon Musk was the father of her newborn baby.
01:03:16.000But to ask the billionaire to take a paternity test, the right-wing social media influencer had to go through Musk's longtime fixer, Jared Birchall.
01:03:23.000Sinclair told Birchall, quote, I don't want my son to feel like he's a secret.
01:03:26.000Birchall offered Sinclair some advice.
01:03:28.000His boss was a very big-hearted, kind, and generous person, he said, but Musk had a different side.
01:03:31.000When a mother of his child goes the legal route, that always, always leads to a worse outcome for that woman than what it would have been otherwise.
01:03:39.000Birchall's job is running Musk's family office.
01:03:41.000But behind the scenes, he also manages the financial and privacy deals Musk wants for the women raising the world's richest man's babies.
01:03:47.000Musk has at least 14 children with four different women, including pop musician Grimes and Siobhan Zillis, an executive at his brain computer company Neuralink.
01:03:55.000Multiple sources say they believe the true number of Musk's children is much higher than publicly known, which, I mean, you would assume that that's the case, given the fact that he is basically swearing people to silence and giving them a lot of money to keep their mouth closed.
01:04:06.000Apparently... Elon Musk offered Ashley Sinclair $15 million and $100,000 a month in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus.
01:04:15.000Similar agreements have been negotiated with other mothers of Musk's children, Birchall told Sinclair.
01:04:19.000By the way, she could have kept silent.
01:04:20.000She could have and just taken the money.
01:04:22.000And, you know, that probably wouldn't be better for the kid, is the truth, because now the kid is going to be at the center of every controversy.
01:04:28.000Also, there was a clue that it was Elon Musk's kid.
01:04:32.000The fight with Sinclair over the terms of the deal for their baby has been going on as Musk has assumed one of the most influential roles in the United States government, of course.
01:04:41.000Musk's baby-making project is relevant to his ambitions for NASA.
01:04:44.000He said on X, making people multi-planetary is critical to ensuring the long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it.
01:04:51.000According to the Wall Street Journal, he is driven to correct the historic moment by helping seed the Earth with more human beings of high intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter.
01:05:13.000But you should be like that with all of your kids, not just some of your kids.
01:05:16.000And that also means you should be connected to the mother of your kids.
01:05:19.000Because how kids behave in their future relationships between man and woman is modeled on how their parents behave with one another.
01:05:27.000If you don't know who daddy is because mommy's taking a big check to have been impregnated with you, that is not exactly a great way to grow up.
01:05:36.000Again, all this stuff is a curiosity to most people, but it is part of a broader collapse in traditional morality that is terrible for the West.
01:05:43.000There are two questions when it comes to the collapse of the West with regard to birth rates.
01:06:18.000But number one, it's not good for the kids.
01:06:20.000Number two, it's not good for their moms.
01:06:21.000And number three, it's not good for the people who are going to model themselves on this sort of behavior.
01:06:25.000This sort of bizarrely pagan belief system that predates traditional religion.
01:06:31.000It's also mirrored by people like Andrew Tate, which has impregnated as many women as possible.
01:06:35.000It does not make the world a better place.
01:06:37.000It makes the world a much worse place.
01:06:40.000Young men who have no father figure in their life because daddy was off sleeping around with a bunch of women, impregnating them and leaving, those kids don't end up particularly well in the long run or even the mid-run or even the short run.
01:06:51.000That is not the way to build a civilization.
01:06:56.000We'll get into Democrats who are somehow finding ways to blow it, despite the fact that there is emerging a target-rich environment for them.