The Ben Shapiro Show - April 18, 2024


Will America’s Cowardly Streak Continue?

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In this episode, I talk about the problem with foreign aid and why it's a waste of money, and why we should be focusing on domestic priorities, like Social Security and Medicare, instead of foreign aid. I also talk about some of the reasons why foreign aid is a bad idea, and how we should focus on other areas of the federal government, like taxes, Social Security, and the defense budget, and not foreign aid, which is a good thing. I don't think you're going to get a better use for your money than that, and it's time to cut back on the amount of money wasted on foreign aid in order to make sure our allies are able to do what they need to do to keep us safe and secure, and that we have strong allies who eventually will be able to take care of themselves. I think you'll agree that this's a good idea, but I think there's a lot of people in the Republican Party who are taking the view that foreign aid should be left to the shoulders of the taxpayers, and I think that's wrongheaded and shortsighted, especially if you're a fiscal hawk like myself, who doesn't like spending money on things like welfare and other things that aren't going to help people get off their feet in the long-term, like social security and Medicare and Social Security. I think we're all going to have to start to get back on track with our spending on things that actually helps us get people off our feet and get them off their welfare and off our backs. Tweet me with your thoughts on this week's episode! to let me know what you think of it! and what you would like to see in the future of our foreign aid budget! Timestamps: Tim talks about foreign aid? and how much money we should we be spending on it or should we spend on it? and why you should be spending it on other things, and what it should be prioritized? Tim tries to explain why this should be better, not less of it. Thanks for listening, Tim breaks down the pros and cons of what we should and shouldn't be spent on it, and gives his thoughts on what we can do to make it less of a goodie bag of goodie bags in the first place Tweet us your thoughts about it and gives you the chance to help us all a chance to have a say in the next episode

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00:00:00.000 Being Speaker of the House with an extraordinarily slim majority is a really tough job.
00:00:05.000 What it means is that you have to cut deals because you literally have no other ability to get anything done.
00:00:11.000 Because given the fact that right now there is what is called a one-vote motion to vacate rule that is in place in the House of Representatives, that means any one member of the Republican caucus can challenge the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's job, at literally any given time.
00:00:26.000 It also means that if you have a bunch of headline-grabbing people in the Republican caucus who are more interested in going on TV than in actually governing or in maintaining a majority or in growing that majority to actually get big things done, well, that can hold up the works.
00:00:39.000 All this is coming to a head because Speaker Mike Johnson has now put forward a series of bills related to foreign aid.
00:00:46.000 Now, let me talk about foreign aid for just a second.
00:00:49.000 Foreign aid is not the United States being wildly charitable.
00:00:51.000 It is not the United States randomly deciding to drop goodie bags in poor parts of the world.
00:00:57.000 We're not talking about simply sending food to Somalia or something.
00:01:01.000 When it comes to foreign aid, there are always strings attached.
00:01:04.000 That's what makes it in America's interest to do these things in the same way that if you are attempting to sponsor a friend in order to accomplish a particular goal, you might lend that friend money or you might give that friend money just to get back on their feet.
00:01:19.000 In order to make sure that person remains a friend, an ally, is able to be strong, that is what American foreign aid does.
00:01:25.000 And this has historically been the role of American foreign aid.
00:01:27.000 Obviously, in the aftermath of World War II, the United States effectively single-handedly rebuilt Europe with the Marshall Plan.
00:01:33.000 Now, one of the things that's been said by a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle about foreign aid is that all foreign aid is somehow bad.
00:01:39.000 All foreign aid is somehow terrible and useless and worse than useless counterproductive because if we're not spending it at home, we shouldn't be spending it at all.
00:01:47.000 This is insanely short-sighted because there are two ways in reality that we spend our defense money.
00:01:53.000 One is on actual defense, meaning like creating F-35s and F-22s and creating aircraft carriers and submarines.
00:02:00.000 The other way that we provide for our national defense is by strengthening our allies.
00:02:04.000 And when our allies are not strong, we have to step in and we have to take the lead.
00:02:08.000 It turns out that is a lot more expensive.
00:02:10.000 Allies who are unable to defend themselves lead to enemies who are able to take advantage of that, thus threatening American interests and forcing American involvement.
00:02:18.000 This has happened over and over and over in American history.
00:02:21.000 When our allies are not strong enough, the United States ends up Taking a lead role in areas we have no interest in being.
00:02:27.000 This is why it is worthwhile for the United States to provide a pittance to many countries.
00:02:31.000 And when I say a pittance, I'm not talking in raw terms.
00:02:33.000 Yes, some of this is a lot of money in raw terms.
00:02:35.000 When you're talking about the federal budget of the United States, let us be clear, foreign aid represents well under 1% of the federal budget nearly every year.
00:02:44.000 One of the things that I've been noticing is a lot of the people who I see screaming to the heavens about the cost of foreign aid.
00:02:49.000 Oh my God, I can't believe how much this is costing.
00:02:52.000 I get the feeling that you have a different set of priorities for many of you.
00:02:55.000 There are some people who are consistent libertarians.
00:02:56.000 There are some people who say the government shouldn't be spending on social security, and the government shouldn't be spending on disability, and the government shouldn't be spending on welfare, and the government should not be spending on foreign aid.
00:03:05.000 That is at least a consistent position.
00:03:07.000 I think it's wrongheaded because again, I think that America's foreign policy interests require
00:03:11.000 that we have strong allies who eventually will be able to take care of themselves.
00:03:15.000 The goal of foreign aid, by the way, should be eventually to get other countries
00:03:18.000 off our foreign aid in the same way that the goal of welfare should presumably
00:03:21.000 to get people off welfare at a certain point.
00:03:24.000 I'm fully in favor of that sort of planning.
00:03:26.000 When it comes to emergency foreign aid, that is a bit of a different story.
00:03:28.000 However, there are a group of people in the Republican Party
00:03:32.000 who are basically taking the view that foreign aid is uniquely a bad spend,
00:03:37.000 that that is really where we're wasting taxpayer dollars.
00:03:40.000 I don't believe you that this is about fiscal responsibility.
00:03:43.000 I just don't.
00:03:44.000 When you continue to vote in favor of five, six, seven trillion dollar budgets every single year, but here is where you start to pinch the pennies, I start to get a little suspicious.
00:03:54.000 It's the equivalent of the husband who goes on a gambling spree, who takes all the money from the savings and blows it on random lotto tickets.
00:04:01.000 And then when the wife says, you know, honey, can we go out to dinner tonight?
00:04:04.000 The husband says, you know what?
00:04:05.000 We got to pinch pennies now.
00:04:06.000 And here's where we really got to cut back.
00:04:08.000 Well, maybe the reality is that we're spending too much money in many of the wrong places.
00:04:14.000 Again, if you're going to break down the federal budget, we currently spend about 22% of our federal budget every year on Social Security, which I've discussed before, is a giant Ponzi scheme.
00:04:23.000 It is a Ponzi scheme because it is a defined benefits plan, not a defined contribution plan.
00:04:28.000 What you pay in is not, in fact, what you get out.
00:04:30.000 For most people, you get out way more from Social Security than you ever paid in.
00:04:34.000 Healthcare, which is Medicare, Medicaid, that represents about 26% of the federal budget.
00:04:40.000 National defense represents only 13% of the federal budget.
00:04:43.000 Net interest on the debt alone, this is according to the Treasury Department, net interest on the debt, right, how much money we're just paying other countries or paying institutions that have bought bonds, represents 11% of our budget every single year.
00:04:55.000 So when you tell me that you are deeply worried about the less than 1% that we are talking about spending on foreign aid to allies in wartime, I think that maybe you have a different set of priorities.
00:05:05.000 And I've been struggling to figure out exactly what that set of priorities is.
00:05:08.000 What is the actual argument?
00:05:10.000 Because it seems to me, again, there are principled libertarians who take the no spending argument.
00:05:13.000 I get that.
00:05:14.000 But there are a lot of people who are perfectly fine with spending literally trillions of dollars on wasteful nonsense. 0.95
00:05:20.000 Borrowing on the backs of our children and grandchildren on wasteful, counterproductive, economically illiterate nonsense.
00:05:26.000 But suddenly, when it comes time to provide the aid necessary to, say, Ukraine so that it doesn't get completely overrun by Russia, Or provide the aid necessary to Israel so as to deter a world war in the Middle East.
00:05:37.000 Suddenly they get very shy.
00:05:38.000 And that suggests to me that there may be a set of ulterior motives that I don't fully understand.
00:05:42.000 I'll be honest with you.
00:05:43.000 I don't really understand what the motivation is for those who seem to suggest that Russia taking Ukraine is of zero interest to the United States.
00:05:51.000 Russia taking Ukraine would be of rather major interest to the United States, not only because Ukraine is the third largest producer of wheat on planet Earth, but also because Ukraine is strategically placed directly on the border between Russia and Europe, which is presumably the reason why Vladimir Putin wants it.
00:06:07.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:07:05.000 Here are a couple of maps from the Wall Street Journal, and it shows the danger, the additional danger to Eastern Europe, particularly the Baltic States, if, for example, Russia were to take Ukraine.
00:07:13.000 So this first map, is a map by Mitchell Belcher and Noel Mickelson and Thomas Bergeron and a bunch of other people from the Institute for the Study of War.
00:07:21.000 And what it shows, for those who can't see, is the placement, the forward placement, of units, Allied units, in places like Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and how those could be redeployed in the case of a Russian invasion along the border of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, From Belarus, from Russia itself.
00:07:40.000 And what you see is that because Ukraine's border is far from the borders of, for example, Lithuania and Latvia, it creates a massive problem for the Russian military.
00:07:51.000 They would have to worry very deeply about NATO forces being deployed against Russia via Ukraine.
00:07:59.000 They would, they would, it would free up American forces and NATO forces and in general allied forces to fight an invasion of NATO allies like Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
00:08:12.000 Now, here's what the map looks like if Russia actually takes Ukraine.
00:08:16.000 If Russia actually takes Ukraine, suddenly, in order to, for example, defend the borders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, you would have to basically lower the ability to defend places like Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.
00:08:30.000 In other words, Ukraine right now is in fact fighting NATO's war.
00:08:33.000 That is a reality.
00:08:35.000 Ukraine is in fact weakening the Russian military and providing a bulwark against NATO states being invaded.
00:08:42.000 That is the real politic looking at maps On the ground recognition of reality.
00:08:47.000 So how is it in America?
00:08:48.000 I still am waiting to hear an argument.
00:08:50.000 Why is it in America's interest for Russia to take Ukraine?
00:08:54.000 I understand the argument that it's in America's interest to be realistic about the end of war goals.
00:08:59.000 I've been making that case since basically two months into the war.
00:09:02.000 The Henry Kissinger case that is in the interest of the United States to provide enough materiel to Ukraine to realistically defend territory they currently hold And to look for an off-ramp.
00:09:12.000 But if that off-ramp is not available, you have to continue funding Ukraine because if there ain't no off-ramp, there ain't no off-ramp.
00:09:18.000 Vladimir Putin is recognizing that the West basically does not have the cojones to continue to even sign checks.
00:09:25.000 We are not talking about Vietnam levels of commitment of American troops.
00:09:28.000 We're talking about a place where America has lost zero troops.
00:09:31.000 Zero.
00:09:31.000 We don't even have troops on the ground in fighting position in Ukraine.
00:09:36.000 And yet somehow people have heartburn about the sending of the money because this is where they choose to cut.
00:09:42.000 By the way, I'm noticing a heavy crossover, again, between people who want to spend vast oodles of money on subsidies for various enterprises in the United States and people who are very shy about providing aid to Ukraine.
00:09:53.000 So this has all come to a head because, according to the Wall Street Journal, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he would plunge ahead with a high-stakes vote to move long-stalled funding for Ukraine, Israel, and other overseas allies, elbowing aside criticism from his conservative flank.
00:10:06.000 The move sets up an unpredictable weekend showdown that could determine both the fate of the foreign aid package and Johnson's political career.
00:10:12.000 Democrats will line up likely behind the aid effort.
00:10:16.000 So basically, Johnson's plan is he's going to bring each one of these subjects, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.
00:10:23.000 He's going to bring all of these and a TikTok ban.
00:10:25.000 He's going to bring all of these as separate bills, and then he's going to package all of them together because the reality is all of them are going to pass, by the way, with a majority of both parties voting in favor.
00:10:34.000 That is what's going to happen here.
00:10:36.000 Yes, Johnson will require Democratic support in order to pass that bill.
00:10:40.000 Also, a majority of Republicans in the House will vote for that bill.
00:10:44.000 Also, there is a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President, which means that if it is a priority, for example, for Ukraine not to simply fall by running out of ammo to the Russians, then you gotta make the deal that you can make.
00:10:57.000 This is the point that Johnson has been making.
00:11:01.000 He says, we're the greatest nation on earth.
00:11:02.000 It's time to act like this is basic Reagan Republicanism.
00:11:04.000 I know that Reagan has become a dirty word for some reason, despite the fact that Reagan won the Cold War and led to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in American history.
00:11:11.000 Somehow we're supposed to believe that a bunch of clowns riding the back seats of the House of Representatives who have not accomplished anything, literally anything in their entire political career.
00:11:21.000 Those people have some really mean words about Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. 0.63
00:11:24.000 In any case, here's Mike Johnson.
00:11:27.000 A strong America is good for the entire world.
00:11:30.000 Since World War II, really, really, the responsibility for the free world has been shifted onto our shoulders.
00:11:36.000 And we accept that role.
00:11:37.000 We're an exceptional nation.
00:11:39.000 We're the greatest nation on the planet, and we have to act like it.
00:11:41.000 And we have to project to Putin and Xi and Iran and North Korea and anybody else that we will defend freedom.
00:11:48.000 It doesn't mean boots on the ground.
00:11:49.000 We're not the world's policemen.
00:11:51.000 But we're going to do the right thing.
00:11:52.000 And I think the Congress is going to take an important stand here.
00:11:56.000 Now, is this going to be a perfect bill?
00:11:58.000 No. 0.99
00:11:58.000 There's going to be a bunch of crap in the bill that you don't like. 0.99
00:11:59.000 There's a bunch of crap in the bill I don't like. 0.99
00:12:01.000 That's true on the Ukraine aid bill. 0.98
00:12:03.000 That's true on the Israel aid bill, which includes $9 billion in American taxpayer dollars for the rebuilding of Gaza.
00:12:08.000 I have no idea how that's going to get parceled out, considering that the real problem in the Gaza Strip is not really that Hamas is like an ISIS outside party that has hijacked the mechanisms of government.
00:12:19.000 It is, in fact, a popular front in the Gaza Strip, and the civilian population largely supports terrorism.
00:12:25.000 That is a very different story.
00:12:26.000 The Ukraine aid bill has been changed somewhat to include about $10 billion in forgivable loans.
00:12:33.000 So Ukraine theoretically should have to pay back that money.
00:12:35.000 Will they?
00:12:35.000 Will they not?
00:12:36.000 Who knows?
00:12:38.000 But the bottom line is that the deal that's on the table is the deal that's on the table.
00:12:42.000 You're either up or you're down on it.
00:12:45.000 President Joe Biden has now suggested that he would back a package of bills along these lines.
00:12:51.000 Now, I know that for a lot of people on the right, that's enough to say no.
00:12:53.000 That anything Joe Biden says yes to, that's enough to say no.
00:12:57.000 But in reality, doing nothing can sometimes be a worse solution than doing the bipartisan thing.
00:13:03.000 There are a few people in politics more partisan than I, but the reality is that there are still commonalities of interest.
00:13:09.000 So, for example, When it came to banning the use of TikTok in the United States so long as ByteDance was not sold to an American company, a lot of Democrats supported that.
00:13:19.000 Just because Democrats supported that didn't mean that it was a bad bill.
00:13:21.000 It was, in fact, a good bill, and I am glad Republicans voted in favor of it.
00:13:25.000 Is this bill perfect?
00:13:26.000 No.
00:13:27.000 Does this bill have a lot of problems?
00:13:28.000 Yes.
00:13:30.000 Is this bill necessary in order to preserve, for example, the strength of America's allies?
00:13:36.000 Yes.
00:13:37.000 And that is why Johnson is right to move the bill again.
00:13:40.000 A majority of Republicans are going to vote for this.
00:13:43.000 In the swing districts, if you want Republicans to win a broader majority and then actually make the serious kinds of cuts to government that are necessary, you need to win Congress by more than like three votes.
00:13:52.000 In order for that to happen, you have to win purple districts.
00:13:54.000 You know what's relatively popular in purple districts?
00:13:57.000 This foreign aid bill by every available polling metric.
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00:15:04.000 Joe Biden put an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about all of this.
00:15:07.000 He says, And I have serious problems with these bills.
00:15:08.000 the House must pass urgent national security legislation for Ukraine and
00:15:12.000 Israel as well as desperately needed humanitarian aid for Palestinians in
00:15:15.000 Gaza. And I have serious problems with these bills. With that said, does Israel 1.00
00:15:20.000 need to rearm in the face of Hezbollah? Does Israel need to rearm in the face of 0.99
00:15:25.000 Iranian massive barrages of missiles and drones with Iran threatening more action?
00:15:30.000 Yes.
00:15:31.000 Does Ukraine need a baseline ammunition in order to claw back against the Russians? 0.96
00:15:37.000 Of course.
00:15:40.000 According to Biden, if Congress passes military aid for Ukraine and Israel, we won't write blank checks.
00:15:44.000 We'd send military equipment from our own stockpiles, then use money authorized by Congress to replenish those stockpiles by buying from American suppliers.
00:15:51.000 That includes Patriot missiles made in Arizona, Javelin missiles made in Alabama, artillery shells made in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas.
00:15:57.000 That, by the way, happens to be true.
00:15:58.000 When it comes to this foreign aid, it is not as though the United States simply signs a check to Ukraine or Israel and the money just disappears.
00:16:04.000 Usually, it is given in the form of a usable credit against America's defense industry.
00:16:09.000 It means that the United States tends to sell its older tech to these various countries and then replenish its stockpiles with newer tech.
00:16:16.000 That is the way this typically works.
00:16:18.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the editorial board, the need is urgent because Ukraine's position is deteriorating.
00:16:24.000 Ukrainian shortages in air defenses are letting the Russian military dominate the air for the first time in two years.
00:16:28.000 Ukraine's cities are at risk.
00:16:31.000 Ukraine has lowered the conscription age to 25 from 27.
00:16:34.000 Manpower is solely needed.
00:16:35.000 Even the Ukrainians will wonder about manning a front line if they lack the ammo to shoot back at the enemy.
00:16:41.000 So here's what I'm asking for.
00:16:42.000 What's the actual argument?
00:16:44.000 What's the actual argument against this?
00:16:46.000 Not against the supposed perfection of the bills.
00:16:49.000 Again, I can name half a dozen problems with each one of these aid bills.
00:16:54.000 Again, with regard to the Israel bill, the big problem, obviously, is slating out $9 billion for quote-unquote humanitarian aid in Gaza when billions of dollars in humanitarian aid have historically gone to build terror tunnels and rockets.
00:17:05.000 When it comes to the Ukraine bill, Making sure there is full transparency on the spending of that aid so that it doesn't go into some corrupt oligarch's pocket.
00:17:14.000 I'm not sure what kind of guarantees are in the bills.
00:17:17.000 There are serious problems with these bills.
00:17:19.000 But the argument against these bills has typically not been on the margins.
00:17:22.000 It hasn't been, let's make an amendment that actually ensures that these things don't happen. 0.96
00:17:26.000 It's been, I'm against all of it.
00:17:28.000 So I want to hear the argument.
00:17:29.000 What's the I'm against all of it argument?
00:17:31.000 The only argument that I've heard, the I'm against all of it, is either totally clownish, or as I say, the libertarian argument, which does not obtain for the vast majority of people in Congress who are voting for budget bills every single day.
00:17:45.000 For example, when you talk about the clownish, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she is one of the people, she's the one who launched this supposed motion to vacate, and I say supposed because it hasn't really materialized yet, this motion to vacate against Speaker Johnson.
00:17:58.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene put forward an amendment to the Ukraine aid bill.
00:18:04.000 When I say this is clowns who are attempting to gain attention, Marjorie Taylor Greene is like Exhibit A in this particular category.
00:18:11.000 The Congresswoman from Georgia proposed amendments to the foreign aid bills for Ukraine and Israel. 0.56
00:18:18.000 One of the amendments says that quote, any member of Congress who votes in favor of this act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military.
00:18:26.000 I'm sorry, this is dullard stuff. 1.00
00:18:28.000 This is low IQ idiocy. 1.00
00:18:30.000 Required to conscript in the Ukrainian military. 0.99
00:18:33.000 First of all, one of the arguments that I keep hearing that is just nonsensical is this idea that how can we sponsor Ukraine in conscripting people and sending them to the front lines as battle fodder?
00:18:45.000 I mean, Vladimir Putin is doing that right now with his own people and it turns out that Ukrainians are overwhelmingly in favor of defending their country by every available metric.
00:18:55.000 But Marjorie Taylor Greene doing this ridiculous, you have to join the Ukrainian military in order to want Ukraine to stand up to Russia. 0.98
00:19:00.000 It's just dumb stuff. 0.97
00:19:01.000 I'm sorry. 0.68
00:19:02.000 If this appeals to you, I don't know what to tell you. 0.99
00:19:04.000 It's a dumb argument. 0.99
00:19:05.000 It is not even an argument. 1.00
00:19:06.000 It's an emotional appeal of absolute stupidity. 0.98
00:19:09.000 By the way, Two other amendments introduced by agreeing to the Ukraine bill are to force Ukraine to close all of its bio-laboratories before it receives any more money. 0.98
00:19:18.000 Okay, there's been this myth that's going around that somehow Ukraine has a series of bio-laboratories that are creating bio-weapons for unleashing in Russia.
00:19:26.000 The evidence to this has been scanty at best.
00:19:29.000 And for a report to be carried out before any more funding is sent to prove that, quote, Christian churches in Ukraine are able to operate free from government interference.
00:19:36.000 Okay, this particular line of nonsense has been that because Ukraine has cracked down on the Russian Orthodox Church, which is a tool of the Russian state inside Ukraine, that somehow this amounts to cracking down on Christians more broadly.
00:19:50.000 Russia cracks down on Seventh-day Adventists.
00:19:52.000 They literally arrest them.
00:19:54.000 There's a bunch of specious arguments masquerading as a policy, and it's not a policy.
00:20:01.000 It's basically just oppositionality for cliques.
00:20:04.000 Here are some of the Republicans who said that they will not support the aid bills.
00:20:06.000 Again, some of the reasons may be good, like we spend too much money on everything, including this. 0.96
00:20:11.000 And some of the reasons are just garbage.
00:20:14.000 Bet for hours last night and proposed different paths for the speaker that would have avoided the abject surrender represented by his strategic choice here. 0.96
00:20:23.000 There's no other way to describe it.
00:20:25.000 It's surrender.
00:20:26.000 It's disappointing.
00:20:27.000 I won't support it.
00:20:28.000 It's disappointing.
00:20:30.000 It's completely detached from what our base wants, what our voters want.
00:20:34.000 The strategy is not to try.
00:20:37.000 I think the strategy is to fall on a sword.
00:20:41.000 Now, the reality is that what you hear one of those Congress people from Arizona saying, that the base doesn't like the Ukraine aid, that's true. 1.00
00:20:47.000 By polling statistics, Republicans right now, about 57% of Republicans, according to Gallup, say that the United States is doing too much for Ukraine.
00:20:55.000 However, that is because of the drumbeat that suggests that there will be no ill consequences if the United States does not actually provide additional aid to Ukraine.
00:21:05.000 That drumbeat is false.
00:21:07.000 There will be ill consequences if you actually provide no additional aid to Ukraine.
00:21:12.000 The actual question should be, how many Republicans are okay with Russia taking Kiev?
00:21:18.000 How many Republicans are fine with Russia being in charge of Ukraine, ingesting it? 0.95
00:21:24.000 That would be the actual question right there.
00:21:27.000 And that's the one that nobody will answer, including many of the people who currently oppose the aid to Ukraine.
00:21:32.000 I just want, like, what is their plan?
00:21:33.000 I just...
00:21:34.000 So much of the of the sort of no caucus in the Republican Party right now is about not having a plan.
00:21:40.000 It's about saying a thing and then having no plan whatsoever.
00:21:43.000 It's what they did when they got rid of McCarthy.
00:21:44.000 They got rid of McCarthy like, oh, what's what comes?
00:21:46.000 We have no idea what comes next.
00:21:48.000 We just didn't like him.
00:21:49.000 So he's gone.
00:21:50.000 So now we'll spend weeks and weeks and weeks going through every Republican until we get to Mike Johnson.
00:21:53.000 And now, they also have no plan.
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00:23:01.000 Their new no plan is, what if we get rid of Johnson in favor of literally no one?
00:23:05.000 So here is Thomas Massey, who has now joined this charge.
00:23:08.000 Here he was, trying to explain that Johnson should resign.
00:23:14.000 Now, let's be clear about this.
00:23:15.000 The Republicans currently hold, after all the retirements, 218 seats in the House, which means they have like a two-vote majority.
00:23:22.000 With that said, Johnson has the support of probably at least 200 members of the Republican caucus. 0.98
00:23:29.000 Maybe more, given the fact that nobody wants to do this crap again. 0.57
00:23:33.000 So, when he says that Johnson should resign, Thomas Massie has the support of him and Marjorie Taylor Greene. 0.92
00:23:39.000 And Johnson has the support of 200 plus members.
00:23:42.000 Why exactly should he resign in favor of a guy who has no support? 0.95
00:23:46.000 That's silly.
00:23:47.000 But Massey says that he should announce his resignation and that will give people time to find a replacement.
00:23:51.000 Or maybe he doesn't have to because you know what you're going to do the next time you don't like something that the Speaker does, which you will because your name is Thomas Massey and you oppose all these things.
00:23:58.000 Again, Thomas Massey, I will say this for Massey, Massey is a consistent libertarian.
00:24:04.000 He's like Ron Paul.
00:24:05.000 He just doesn't want any spending on anything.
00:24:07.000 Now, that doesn't mean that I think that all of his motives are pure.
00:24:13.000 He has tweeted out in the past, for example, that being pro-Israel is effectively being anti-American patriotism, which is insipid.
00:24:19.000 But he's at least consistent in his voting record.
00:24:22.000 That consistency, however, is the hobgoblin of a small mind when it comes to how the Speaker is supposed to govern.
00:24:28.000 The Speaker can't just say no to everything the way Thomas Massey would, which is why Thomas Massey is not Speaker.
00:24:34.000 And if he were Speaker, the Republicans would be in the majority for, oh, approximately however long until it is the next election.
00:24:40.000 Here is Massey saying Johnson should resign.
00:24:43.000 Well, yesterday in our GOP conference, I asked him to resign.
00:24:48.000 And I'll tell you why.
00:24:49.000 Number one, he's just not equipped for this job.
00:24:53.000 Every negotiation he's gone into with Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, he's received nothing in exchange.
00:25:00.000 He's either not good at negotiating or he's negotiating for their side.
00:25:06.000 He's done an omnibus that broke Nancy Pelosi's spending records.
00:25:10.000 He reauthorized FISA without warrants.
00:25:13.000 Now he's going for the trifecta to pass the Ukraine spending without doing anything to enforce our border.
00:25:22.000 That will be three strikes in addition to just the poor management of the House here, the House of Representatives.
00:25:29.000 Okay, the Republicans, by the way, it should be mentioned here, on the border security part of the foreign aid package, they had additional border security in a Senate bill.
00:25:36.000 Republicans decided it wasn't enough.
00:25:38.000 I thought it wasn't enough.
00:25:40.000 I thought it was a problem.
00:25:41.000 And so Republicans stripped that out, saying that Joe Biden already has the authority to take many of the actions necessary to secure the border.
00:25:48.000 You can't have it both ways.
00:25:49.000 You can't have it where I want more border security, but not like that.
00:25:53.000 No, no, no.
00:25:53.000 And then it gets stripped out.
00:25:55.000 Well, but there's no border security in this bill.
00:25:58.000 They've already passed H.R.
00:25:59.000 2.
00:25:59.000 You know where it's going?
00:26:00.000 Nowhere.
00:26:00.000 Democrats are not passing H.R.
00:26:02.000 2.
00:26:04.000 One of the signal errors that people make when it comes to politics is the assumption that people who oppose you have no agency.
00:26:10.000 That people on the other side of the aisle somehow don't exist.
00:26:13.000 It's a wild assumption when it comes to politics, both foreign and domestic.
00:26:17.000 On the foreign policy level, you'll see people when it comes to foreign policy, well, America didn't do that, then the other side wouldn't act like they are.
00:26:24.000 Maybe they would.
00:26:25.000 Maybe they have their own independent interests.
00:26:27.000 Maybe it turns out that Vladimir Putin had an interest in taking the Donbass and Crimea, regardless as to what sort of confusing things were being said about NATO.
00:26:38.000 Maybe it turns out, for example, that Iran wants to destroy Israel regardless as to whether Israel goes into Rafah or not. 0.77
00:26:44.000 Maybe it turns out that there are plenty of people on Earth who all have free will and all have their own interests, including Democrats, who are going to be on the other side of the table of a negotiation in which they hold the Senate and the presidency.
00:26:56.000 But, you know, it's fun to pretend that you're the only person on Earth, and especially when you're on an island like some of these legislators, meaning just doing what you want to do without any real impact on the world.
00:27:08.000 Well, I mean, I guess that's fun.
00:27:10.000 I guess that's interesting.
00:27:12.000 The problem is when you're holding up another 210 members of Congress out of some sort of peculiar ire against Mike Johnson, the most conservative Speaker of the House by every available metric in the history of the United States, somehow it just doesn't wash.
00:27:26.000 It just doesn't wash.
00:27:27.000 This is all unworkable. 0.99
00:27:28.000 It's all foolish. 0.97
00:27:29.000 All the incentive structures for Congress are off. 0.88
00:27:32.000 The only way to rectify this problem is for Mike Johnson to stop giving in to the people on the fringe, which is what he is doing by pushing forward these bills, all of which will pass with a majority of Republican support, including the Ukraine aid bill in the House.
00:27:46.000 My prediction is the Ukraine aid bill in the House will pass with a majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans.
00:27:51.000 The Israel aid bill will pass with a majority of Republicans and, I would think, a majority of Democrats.
00:27:57.000 The Taiwan aid bill will pass with a majority of both parties.
00:28:02.000 When you're talking about a bipartisan bill and it gets a majority of both parties, that's kind of the definition of the thing.
00:28:07.000 And again, I know bipartisanship has become a dirty word because anything the other side likes must be terrible.
00:28:11.000 That also happens to be the nature of any negotiated settlement.
00:28:14.000 Everyone walks away from the table unhappy.
00:28:17.000 That's just the way negotiations happen.
00:28:19.000 There's never been a negotiation that was successful in which both parties walk away happier than they were with their original positions.
00:28:27.000 That's not how it works.
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00:29:33.000 Again, this is all about making the House unworkable, which means, again, there are a lot of Republicans who like being in the minority.
00:29:37.000 They want Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker.
00:29:39.000 That's really what they want at this point.
00:29:40.000 I don't see any other logic to challenging Johnson. 1.00
00:29:43.000 Which is why, after these foreign aid bills are done, Johnson needs to nuke this idiotic rule. 0.99
00:29:47.000 I've been urging him to do it for weeks on the air. 1.00
00:29:50.000 He needs to nuke this idiotic rule that one member of Congress can hold up the entire works of government. 0.98
00:29:56.000 Out of some peculiar ire at the Speaker of the House. 0.99
00:29:59.000 Here is GOP Representative Kelly Armstrong correctly summing up who the hell wants this job.
00:30:05.000 Well, I'm standing with the Speaker because I actually consider him a friend, and I think he is trying to do the toughest job in politics, and I think, given all the circumstances, he's doing it very admirably.
00:30:16.000 My recommendation to any of my colleagues that are thinking about doing this is go back to October, where we have 13 weeks, where we go through all of this.
00:30:24.000 Now we're walking into an election cycle.
00:30:26.000 We have tremendous things that we can campaign on.
00:30:31.000 That is correct.
00:30:42.000 But maybe that's the idea.
00:30:43.000 No one wants the job.
00:30:45.000 Maybe the idea is only Democrats want the job.
00:30:46.000 So, if that's the case, pack up your bags and go home.
00:30:49.000 Because you screaming from the opposition benches does nothing to actually advance the agenda. 1.00
00:30:54.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to dotter around saying idiotic things. 0.99
00:30:59.000 So Iran is threatening more retaliation against Israel should Israel take action after it openly declared war on Israel. 0.99
00:31:05.000 Iran literally fired 350 drones, missiles against Israel, and Israel has not yet responded.
00:31:11.000 Not only that, over the course of the last 48 hours, Hezbollah, which is an Iranian proxy, fired a suicide drone into an area of Northern Israel, wounding 14 people and killing four.
00:31:22.000 That is an Iranian offensive action. 1.00
00:31:25.000 And Israel has responded in Lebanon.
00:31:27.000 They've not responded in Iran.
00:31:29.000 One of the reasons they've not done this is because it seems that there's been a deal with the United States to postpone any sort of strike against Iran directly, at the behest of the United States and the EU, so long as Israel gets to clean up in Rafah and finish the job in Rafah. 0.66
00:31:42.000 Now, Joe Biden is not going to say that out loud, because Joe Biden still wants to cater to the anti-Semites in his base, the pro-Hamasniks in his base.
00:31:49.000 So here was Joe Biden yesterday.
00:31:50.000 He is not with us.
00:31:51.000 This is an incredible clip.
00:31:52.000 So Joe Biden is talking about how he told Israel not to go into Rafah.
00:31:56.000 Okay, but he doesn't know anything.
00:31:58.000 So he literally says that Israel should not go into Haifa.
00:32:02.000 And now, for those who are not versed in the Middle East, Rafah is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt.
00:32:10.000 Haifa is an Israeli city on the coast of Israel.
00:32:14.000 So apparently he told Israel not to invade its own city.
00:32:18.000 Well, I mean, I think maybe they'll agree, actually.
00:32:20.000 The first time Israel has agreed with Joe Biden on anything for a while, I presume they also will not invade Haifa.
00:32:25.000 I'm so glad he stopped it.
00:32:28.000 And I made it clear to Israelis, don't move on Haifa. 1.00
00:32:33.000 It's just not, I mean, anyway, I just, look what we did recently when Israel was attacked. 0.99
00:32:45.000 He is so ridiculous. 0.98
00:32:47.000 He is not with us. 1.00
00:32:48.000 He is a weakling. 0.99
00:32:49.000 Everyone perceives him as a weakling.
00:32:51.000 Just another reason, by the way, why the United States should actually signal its support for its allies with things like foreign aid.
00:32:56.000 It's the only thing the legislature can do.
00:32:58.000 The president has plenary power over foreign policy, but the legislature does get to declare what its priorities are in terms of, say, funding American allies so that those allies are strong.
00:33:08.000 Here's the unspoken reality. 0.97
00:33:10.000 Once the aid goes through to Israel, Israel will have the wherewithal to take action independent of Joe Biden, which will be good for the United States because Joe Biden's foreign policy is trash. 0.99
00:33:19.000 It is absolute trash. 0.97
00:33:21.000 And the same thing is true in Ukraine, where Joe Biden slow walks the aid to Ukraine such that all of the battle lines got frozen. 0.98
00:33:27.000 One of the ways of ending around Joe Biden's foreign policy is by making sure that America's allies have weaponry so that they can act on their own.
00:33:34.000 Because Joe Biden is such a bad foreign policy president that it turns out that America's allies are doing a better job of assuring American interests than Joe Biden is.
00:33:42.000 That is the reality.
00:33:43.000 Okay, in just one second, we will get to the latest in progressive anti-Semitism.
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00:34:41.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:34:42.000 Progressive antisemitism continues apace.
00:34:44.000 Now, progressive antisemitism is built on a conspiracy theory, as all antisemitism is.
00:34:49.000 Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory about Jews.
00:34:52.000 It's different from other forms of racism because of the way in which it manifests.
00:34:56.000 So because Jews are both an ethnicity as well as a religion, antisemitism is a theory about those who hold the religion and people of Jewish ethnicity, depending on the manifestation.
00:35:07.000 And it basically says, unlike other forms of racism, which declare that a group of people is lesser, If you are racist against blacks, it's because you believe they are inferior.
00:35:15.000 Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory about Jews that they are coordinating in control of power in various industries and thus in charge of systems.
00:35:24.000 And because they're in charge of those systems, those systems are designed for their own benefit and they're harming other people.
00:35:28.000 It's why antisemitism is incredibly virulent because, as it turns out, people who are powerless very frequently hate the system.
00:35:35.000 And if they see a disproportionate number of Jews who are doing well in the system.
00:35:39.000 They then blame the Jews, and they claim that the Jews have rigged the system for their own benefit.
00:35:44.000 Also, it's really virulent because if you believe that people are actually controlling the system that harms you, that justifies violence against them.
00:35:51.000 Which is why anti-Semitism has tended to be incredibly violent over the long history of anti-Semitism.
00:35:57.000 So when it comes to progressive antisemitism, it does cross paths with the DEI mentality.
00:36:02.000 The DEI mentality is that if there is inequality in group outcome, it must be because of injustice in the system.
00:36:08.000 Therefore, groups that are disproportionately successful in the system are beneficiaries of the system and The designers of the system.
00:36:16.000 That is the case for progressive anti-Semitism. 0.93
00:36:18.000 And it's why you see people like Queers for Palestine, people who hate the system.
00:36:22.000 They don't like the patriarchy.
00:36:25.000 They don't like heteronormativism.
00:36:26.000 They don't like the system.
00:36:28.000 And similarly, you have people who are pro-Hamas.
00:36:30.000 They also don't like the system because they are disproportionately unsuccessful because they support terror and evil.
00:36:35.000 And they look at the system, all of them.
00:36:36.000 They say, I don't like that system.
00:36:37.000 That system is bad.
00:36:38.000 And you know who's in charge of that system?
00:36:40.000 See a lot of Jews there.
00:36:41.000 Must be the Jews. 1.00
00:36:42.000 That is where progressive antisemitism comes from. 0.94
00:36:45.000 It drinks from the same exact well as the sort of Marxist conspiracy theory about power, which is why Karl Marx was the world's most notorious example of a self-hating Jew. 0.81
00:36:54.000 He was ethnically Jewish, but really, really hated Jews, like a lot, and wrote full essays on it. 0.86
00:37:00.000 And so progressive antisemitism has come to the forefront.
00:37:04.000 A protest in New York City on April 15th, just a few days ago.
00:37:09.000 They're out of the closet now.
00:37:10.000 I mean, it used to be that they were pretending that it was about protecting Gazans, their opposition to Israel taking out Hamas.
00:37:16.000 They tried to pretend that for like a hot second.
00:37:19.000 There were a few problems with that.
00:37:20.000 Number one, it clearly was untrue.
00:37:22.000 They were protesting Israel between the October 7th attacks and Israel's retaliation against Hamas.
00:37:28.000 Second, they're going out to rallies now and just waving Hezbollah flags and Hamas flags and all the like.
00:37:33.000 Here we go.
00:37:41.000 That yellow flag is the flag of Hezbollah. 0.98
00:37:45.000 Hezbollah is a terror group.
00:37:48.000 It is a terrorist group, and they are waving the flag of Hez... First of all, how do you even obtain a flag of Hezbollah? 0.95
00:37:53.000 Can you get that on Amazon?
00:37:54.000 Like, where do you get that?
00:37:55.000 My guess is not from good people.
00:37:57.000 I don't feel like you're heading down to your local Salvation Army and picking up a Hezbollah flag.
00:38:01.000 Well, don't worry.
00:38:01.000 They were also wearing Hamas headbands at this rally.
00:38:04.000 So that was great.
00:38:06.000 Here is some footage of them wearing Hamas headbands, as you'll see in just a moment.
00:38:14.000 There we go.
00:38:15.000 So we're wearing a keffiyeh and a Hamas headband. 0.86
00:38:16.000 Again, I'm not sure where you get the shahada, which is the Hamas headband, which pledges martyrdom, or why you would be in the United States wearing it, but it seems to me that that's kind of a threat to the United States. 0.95
00:38:26.000 You are a terror supporter.
00:38:27.000 You like terrorism. 1.00
00:38:28.000 Hamas is a terror group.
00:38:30.000 Not just that.
00:38:31.000 Just in case you were worried that maybe it really isn't about America at all.
00:38:34.000 They burned American flags and chanted Death to America at this rally.
00:38:37.000 So, you know, they're being pretty obvious about this sort of stuff.
00:38:39.000 So what happened here is a pro-Israel student from Colombia brought an American flag.
00:38:46.000 The protesters grabbed the flag, stomped on it, and then tried to set it on fire.
00:38:51.000 So yeah, delightful group of people.
00:38:54.000 The good news is pro-Palestinian activists, they think that death to America is just like a normal phrase. 0.93
00:38:59.000 It's just a thing you say, right?
00:39:01.000 It's like how around the holiday season, you say Merry Christmas to people.
00:39:06.000 I mean, when people say death to America, apparently it's just like, you know, aloha in Hawaii or something.
00:39:13.000 What do you think about people chanting death to America as they did in one video clip?
00:39:17.000 I think that that's just a phrase maybe said by an individual.
00:39:20.000 Well no, the whole crowd began joining in.
00:39:22.000 I didn't see that.
00:39:23.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:39:24.000 So this guy said it and then the whole crowd began chanting it.
00:39:27.000 Would you condemn that?
00:39:29.000 I'm here to talk about the entire Israeli government.
00:39:31.000 You're here to answer my questions, actually.
00:39:33.000 Would you condemn what they were chanting, death to America? 0.91
00:39:36.000 I think we should condemn Palestinians actually being killed. 0.98
00:39:40.000 OK. 0.83
00:39:40.000 That's not the question I'm asking you. 0.83
00:39:42.000 So I will ask you about Gaza.
00:39:45.000 But on the question I asked you, would you condemn people in America chanting death to America?
00:39:50.000 What do you say?
00:39:51.000 I don't condemn how people choose to express their rage verbally.
00:39:55.000 I don't condemn that because at the end of the day, the reason they're saying that is because the US is sending the tax dollars and the weapons that are actually creating death to Gaza.
00:40:03.000 So do you support them chanting death to America?
00:40:06.000 I don't chant that myself, so I don't know why you're trying to trap me in this type of argument.
00:40:10.000 I'm asking you to condemn it, you don't want to.
00:40:15.000 Okay, well there's a reason she doesn't condemn it, because she's fine with it.
00:40:18.000 It's just a phrase people use, you know, because they're mad.
00:40:20.000 Because they like Hamas. 0.99
00:40:23.000 Meanwhile, by the way, that is an opinion that is also apparently held by progressive representatives.
00:40:26.000 Here's Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who's a member of the Hamas squad. 0.99
00:40:30.000 She was asked about the protesters chanting death to America, and she's like, oh, I didn't hear it.
00:40:33.000 Don't know anything about it.
00:40:34.000 Okay.
00:40:35.000 The queen of TikTok knows nothing about the TikTok pro-Hamasniks. 0.97
00:40:40.000 Does it sound like this is pro-Palestinian or anti-American if they're burning American flags and chanting death to America?
00:40:46.000 I'm not privy to... I haven't seen these reports.
00:40:51.000 I'd have to check for them myself.
00:40:52.000 Do you support burning the American flag and chanting death to America?
00:40:57.000 Anti-Israel protesters blocking the Brooklyn Bridge burned the American flag and chanted death to America.
00:41:03.000 Do you condemn this type of rhetoric?
00:41:06.000 We've got to get her on to her next event. 0.99
00:41:08.000 Are you okay with people burning the American flag?
00:41:10.000 We're in a big hurry, guys.
00:41:12.000 She's walking, no answer.
00:41:15.000 That is an unbelievable thing.
00:41:16.000 By the way, it should be in every Republican campaign ad against these people. 0.98
00:41:19.000 And if Republicans had their heads out of their asses and weren't too busy shooting each other, they might, you know, direct their fire at the progressives in the Democratic caucus who are well respected and treated with the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. 0.98
00:41:32.000 Who literally cannot condemn people burning the American flag. 0.99
00:41:35.000 It turns out the American people don't like that very much.
00:41:37.000 Meanwhile, the Columbia president was at a hearing on the Hill.
00:41:41.000 I know a lot of students at Columbia.
00:41:42.000 The anti-Semitism at Columbia has been extraordinary.
00:41:45.000 Huge levels of anti-Semitism, including against some professors who have been, in some cases, physically confronted.
00:41:53.000 But this Columbia president learned her lesson.
00:41:54.000 So you remember last time there was a congressional hearing with university presidents,
00:41:58.000 including Claudine Gay of Harvard, who's no longer the president.
00:42:01.000 They refused to suggest that from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:42:05.000 Genocidal calls for the destruction of Jewry were anti-Semitic.
00:42:08.000 The Columbia president learned her lesson, and she gave a little more ground.
00:42:11.000 Were you aware of those statements before the hiring?
00:42:14.000 I share with you your repugnance at those remarks.
00:42:20.000 I totally understand that.
00:42:22.000 On my watch, faculty who make remarks that cross the line in terms of anti-Semitism, there will be consequences for them.
00:42:30.000 What are the consequences in this case?
00:42:31.000 I have five cases at the moment who have either been either taken out of the classroom or dismissed.
00:42:37.000 And is he one of those?
00:42:39.000 He will never work at Columbia again.
00:42:44.000 Columbia has learned its lesson.
00:42:46.000 Okay, so the Columbia president is trying to wiggle out of the fact that Columbia has been extraordinarily tolerant toward anti-Semitism, but it seems like maybe the worm is beginning to turn a little bit here.
00:42:54.000 It turns out that even mainstream leftists are beginning to realize that the pro-Hamas people may be not their best political friends.
00:43:01.000 Maybe they're a problem. 1.00
00:43:03.000 So, I had urged yesterday Google to fire all of the idiot employees who occupied their offices. 1.00
00:43:08.000 And they did. 0.98
00:43:08.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has now fired 28 employees who protested this week against the tech giant's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. 0.98
00:43:15.000 In a company-wide email, Vice President for Global Security Chris Rackow said that Google dismissed the employees after an investigation found they were involved in the protests at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California.
00:43:25.000 The protests were unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened, Rackow said.
00:43:29.000 The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing.
00:43:31.000 If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.
00:43:36.000 Well, good for Google, because this is the way companies ought to work.
00:43:41.000 Maybe the worm is beginning to turn.
00:43:42.000 Maybe the radicals are starting to lose some of the steam.
00:43:44.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:44:45.000 Meanwhile, the Senate Democrats, people who really, really believe in the Constitution
00:44:49.000 and procedures and institutions, because Donald Trump is a threat to the Republican, all this.
00:44:54.000 So yesterday they did something that was actually unprecedented.
00:44:57.000 They simply just voted down impeachment charges.
00:45:00.000 So the House of Representatives impeached Alejandro Mayorkas very, very narrowly by like one vote the other day.
00:45:06.000 And Alejandro Mayorkas then had those charges moved over to the Senate for trial.
00:45:12.000 The Senate simply rejected the charges.
00:45:14.000 They said, we're not even going to consider this.
00:45:16.000 They said that we know that this doesn't meet the high standards for removal.
00:45:21.000 They have a 51-49 majority.
00:45:23.000 They said they had to quote, set a precedent that impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements, which is amazing.
00:45:29.000 The Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer, impeached Donald Trump twice basically for policy disagreements without alleging a crime.
00:45:38.000 And those impeachments were in fact heard in the Senate of the United States.
00:45:42.000 Here's the Senate voting down the impeachment articles without even hearing them.
00:45:45.000 A wild day on Capitol Hill today.
00:45:48.000 We're following breaking news in the Senate where the Senators are just wrapping up their vote to end the impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:46:00.000 Democrats voted against both measures and they are moving on to new business.
00:46:07.000 Okay, so they voted it down with only Democratic votes.
00:46:10.000 There were no Republicans who voted in favor of getting rid of the impeachment without even so much as a hearing.
00:46:16.000 Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, he said what he has said before about Democrats violating precedent, which is this is going to come back and bite you.
00:46:25.000 Madam President, we've set a very unfortunate precedent here.
00:46:28.000 This means that the Senate can ignore, in effect, the House's impeachment.
00:46:37.000 It doesn't make any difference whether our friends on the other side thought he should have been impeached or not.
00:46:44.000 He was.
00:46:45.000 And by doing what we just did, we have, in effect, ignored the directions of the House, which were to have a trial.
00:46:57.000 We had no evidence, no procedure.
00:47:02.000 This is a day that's not a proud day in the history of the Senate.
00:47:06.000 Okay, what it really means is that impeachment is no longer a tool.
00:47:09.000 That's what it really means.
00:47:09.000 As long as the party of the president and of the Senate majority are the same, every single impeachment that is brought by the opposition party in the House, for example, or brought even by a bipartisan majority in the House, will immediately be summarily rejected.
00:47:24.000 Without any necessity for actually hearing evidence or doing a trial or anything remotely like that.
00:47:29.000 So, once again, Democrats, they're taking the short-term win at the expense of what is going to be a long-term failure on their part.
00:47:36.000 If Donald Trump is elected again, Democrats will try to bring an impeachment forthwith, and he'll just get killed in the Senate, like, immediately.
00:47:42.000 Without any sort of serious consideration at all, no matter what Donald Trump does at this point.
00:47:47.000 That is the way impeachment is likely going to work from here on out.
00:47:49.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden focusing in on the issues that really matter.
00:47:53.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden has a habit of telling weird stories.
00:47:57.000 So here was a weird story that Joe Biden told.
00:47:59.000 This is one of his weirder stories.
00:48:00.000 I hadn't heard this one before.
00:48:01.000 And whenever we hear a weird Joe Biden story, I feel a necessity to put a spotlight on it because frankly, they're wildly entertaining.
00:48:06.000 It's like the most entertaining part of Joe Biden is that somehow he mixes up stories of his life with like Warner Brothers cartoons.
00:48:15.000 It's really great.
00:48:16.000 He'll be talking about, I remember one time I was hunting in the woods and I saw a wascally rabbit and I tried to hunt that wascally rabbit but suddenly the wascally rabbit was dressed as a very attractive female and I wanted to marry but it was all a trick.
00:48:36.000 And so he told a weird story about his uncle.
00:48:38.000 Ambrose Finnegan, we called him Uncle Bozy, he was shot down.
00:48:44.000 He was in the Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force.
00:48:48.000 He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea.
00:48:53.000 He volunteered because someone couldn't make it.
00:48:56.000 He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals. 1.00
00:49:03.000 So there he was, telling a story about his uncle getting eaten by cannibals or something.
00:49:09.000 So his uncle was Captain James Cook.
00:49:11.000 I'm alive.
00:49:12.000 So there he was, telling a story about his uncle getting eaten by cannibals or something.
00:49:17.000 So his uncle was Captain James Cook.
00:49:20.000 Good story, Pops.
00:49:23.000 By the way, how did he tie that into what's happening? 1.00
00:49:25.000 He then said, what I was thinking about when I was standing there was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris and he said there were a bunch of suckers and losers. 0.99
00:49:32.000 Okay, again, that is a completely unsubstantiated story from Democratic Party stenographer Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic. 0.96
00:49:38.000 But I love that he somehow is able always to tie it into a family story that is usually false.
00:49:44.000 Right, usually it's like somebody dies in a terrible incident in Afghanistan.
00:49:51.000 He's like, my son Bo died in Iraq.
00:49:52.000 It's like, no, he didn't.
00:49:54.000 That's not true.
00:49:56.000 Or he meets a gay couple.
00:49:56.000 He's like, that reminds me of that time when my dad said, Joey, it was 1957 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
00:50:02.000 And there were two men just going at it like jackhammers on the street.
00:50:06.000 And my dad said, that's what love looks like, Joey.
00:50:08.000 That never happened.
00:50:09.000 I got to tell you, I would listen to a Garrison Keillor-like show from Joe
00:50:14.000 Biden, where he just tells these bizarre stories. That's when Gordon Bob started rubbing my leg hair.
00:50:19.000 This person, yeah, yeah.
00:50:23.000 And meanwhile, Donald Trump is still very much alive and kicking.
00:50:26.000 So, Donald Trump is stuck to New York.
00:50:28.000 He has to be in New York for his trial.
00:50:30.000 And so, he ended up down at a bodega.
00:50:33.000 This is a thing that Donald Trump is very good at.
00:50:35.000 Many of his best moves, politically, lately, have been going to places and then just meeting with regular people, which is a thing that Joe Biden looks really awkward with because, like every other octogenarian who is losing it, he doesn't know where he is.
00:50:50.000 And he goes to eat ice cream and they're like, and he doesn't even know where he is or what's happening.
00:50:56.000 They have to usher him to a seat.
00:50:58.000 But here was Donald Trump at a bodega in New York.
00:51:01.000 David, you mentioned the trial.
00:51:03.000 Of course, the former president, unable to hit the campaign trail because of that trial, go to key battleground states, so he's using what's available right here in Manhattan.
00:51:14.000 Take a look at this video right here.
00:51:15.000 This is the moment Mr. Trump arrived tonight.
00:51:17.000 People lined up along 139th and Broadway, some of them cheering, others heckling the former president as he made his way inside the Hamilton Heights bodega to meet with Jose Alba.
00:51:28.000 Alba is the bodega worker who fatally stabbed the man in July of 2022 in a case of self-defense.
00:51:34.000 I think it's good for the community to see that he's showing up, you know, and I've never seen Trump come to like a community like this, so it shows a lot and I appreciate him doing that and showing the community that he's there to make things better.
00:51:49.000 He's only here for the campaign and everything else.
00:51:52.000 When the incident actually happened, he was nowhere to be found.
00:51:56.000 Like the rest of the politicians.
00:51:57.000 So why does he care now?
00:51:58.000 It's an election year.
00:52:00.000 Okay, well, yes, of course he's there because it's an election year.
00:52:03.000 Also, Democrats tried to prosecute the owner of the bodega.
00:52:06.000 It was a good political win for Donald Trump.
00:52:08.000 Joe Biden is stumbling around, not knowing where he is or how to speak English anymore.
00:52:12.000 So, that's a pretty strong contrast in imagery.
00:52:16.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's latest campaign, which he believes that WNBA players need to be paid more. 1.00
00:52:23.000 We'll get to it in a moment.
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