Deterrence is the idea that you can prevent action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction, and a belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits. In other words, you do not attack me because I am threatening you. If you attack me, I will clock you into next week. This is the concept of deterrence, and it is the single most important concept of the post-war era. But when Joe Biden over and over again keeps saying, "Don't," and then other parties do, and the United States does not respond, and not only does the U.S. not respond but it slow walks aid to America s allies, so even America's allies cannot respond. And the party that is deterred is not the opponents, the enemies of the United Sates, but the UnitedS. herself. And when the suggestion is suggested that the United US should be deterred by the presence of the Soviet Union, or by the possibility that Vladimir Putin is going to unleash nuclear weapons, which of course is not credible threat, the party is not deterred. The United States is the deterred party. And that s a sign that you are the weaker party in any conflict because, of course, the stronger party typically does not deter. And yet, if you're on the playground, it's not the bully who is being deterred, it is not by the weakling, but by the bully. And so why is it so difficult to get the smaller powers to do more than they can do more? Why does the less powerful ones seem to be more likely to be the most effective in a conflict? and why does it become a point of no return? Why does this happen? And why does the smaller power become more insufficiency of American materiel ? in the face of a lack of American might and lack of ability to defend themselves? and so much more? And what is the answer? why does this become a problem for other powers? The answer is that the answer is not the answer might not be more American might, not more American power or more resources and less And why is this not a problem a better country is not a better than China and Iran and China which does not have nuclear weapons and Iran has a ballistic missile system China has nuclear missiles so much better than the US does
00:00:23.000All of which means that Joe Biden is not a credible player on the world stage.
00:00:28.000Now, there is something in foreign policy called deterrence.
00:00:30.000It's the single most important concept of the post-war era.
00:00:33.000Deterrence is the idea, according to the Defense Department, that you can prevent action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and or a belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits.
00:00:44.000In other words, You do not attack me because I am threatening you.
00:00:48.000If you attack me, I will clock you into next week.
00:00:51.000You know who is an expert at deterrence, oddly enough?
00:01:03.000It's sort of a madman theory of foreign policy.
00:01:04.000You never knew when he meant it, and you never knew when he didn't.
00:01:07.000It didn't matter whether you understood it.
00:01:08.000It only mattered whether he understood it.
00:01:10.000He could push you off the ball simply by saying, if you cross that line, you don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to be a really bad big league bat.
00:01:18.000And other nations took that seriously.
00:01:28.000But when Joe Biden over and over and over again keeps saying don't, And then, other parties do.
00:01:34.000And the United States does not respond.
00:01:36.000And not only does the United States not respond, it slow walks aid to America's allies, so even America's allies cannot respond.
00:01:42.000The United States intervenes to tell America's allies not to do too much.
00:01:46.000Then it turns out that the party that is deterred is not, in fact, the opponents, the enemies of the United States.
00:01:52.000The party that is deterred is the United States herself.
00:01:56.000Now it is one thing to suggest that the United States should be deterred from forward action by the presence of, say, the Soviet Union.
00:02:02.000But to suggest that the United States should be deterred from providing full aid to Ukraine, for example, such that Ukraine is not overrun, And that we should be deterred by the possibility that Vladimir Putin is going to unleash nuclear weapons, which of course is not a credible threat when it comes to simply maintaining the current battle lines in Ukraine.
00:02:22.000When the suggestion is that the United States should be deterred by Iran, and that's what's happening right now, Iran is saying, We fired 300-odd missiles, drones at Israel.
00:02:32.000Most of those got knocked down, virtually all of them got knocked down, but don't go further or we are going to go further.
00:02:38.000And Iran is openly saying that right now.
00:02:39.000Iran is saying if Israel were to counter-attack, then they would unleash 1,500 cruise missiles, for example, and ballistic missiles.
00:02:47.000And the United States is then putting pressure on Israel.
00:02:49.000The United States is the deterred party.
00:02:52.000Being deterred is a sign that you are the weaker party in any conflict.
00:02:55.000Because, of course, the stronger party typically is not deterred.
00:02:57.000Typically, again, it is the weaker party who is worried that the cost of action will outweigh the perceived benefit.
00:03:05.000Typically, if you're on the playground, it is not the bully who's being deterred by the weakling, it's the weakling who's being deterred by the bully.
00:03:12.000When it comes to foreign policy, the United States has the world's largest and most powerful military presence, spanning the globe, in terms of technology far more advanced than anything, on the table.
00:03:25.000And yet it is the United States that is over and over being deterred by significantly smaller powers, which of course is why smaller powers are feeling their oats right now.
00:03:34.000Why exactly has it become sort of rote point of course for other smaller parties to deter the United States?
00:03:42.000The answer obviously is not insufficiency of American materiel.
00:03:46.000The answer obviously is not insufficiency of America's military might.
00:03:50.000America is so far beyond, for example, the Chinese military in terms of advancement, that the idea that China would go to full-scale war with the United States, that'd be the biggest mistake China ever made.
00:04:01.000And if that's true of China, which has nuclear weapons, think about Iran, which does not have nuclear weapons and whose ballistic missile system is so bad that half of the rockets it just fired at Israel fell in its own territory or the territory of other countries before they even hit Israeli airspace.
00:04:17.000And the answer is simple moral cowardice.
00:04:20.000The United States under Joe Biden has become a morally cowardly force.
00:04:25.000The United States under Joe Biden has basically decided that any engagement in the world's fear is some sort of act of aggression.
00:04:33.000And even so much as funding our allies so those allies can defend themselves with forward action to deter, for example, Iran from doing this again.
00:04:40.000That would be some sort of American aggression that would escalate things.
00:04:44.000The reality is that when it comes to the Middle East, every single conflict is a game of chicken.
00:04:51.000The Game of Chicken, as we all know, is a game wherein two sides both drive toward a cliff, and whoever stops closest to the cliff without driving over, wins the Game of Chicken.
00:05:01.000The worst case scenario is you're the one who goes off the cliff.
00:05:06.000But, when it comes to the United States versus other countries, we have both the best gas and the best brakes.
00:05:13.000The reality is that if there were to be a cliff, and if we were to hit that cliff, the significant impact would be on Iran and not on the United States.
00:05:22.000The United States is already engaged in wartime activity against Iran.
00:05:25.000It was American forces striking down drones directly from Iranian territory.
00:05:30.000And yet again, it is Joe Biden who is acting the weakling, not just with regard to Iran directly, but with regard to Hezbollah, with regard to Hamas, which is a basically defunct terror group at this point.
00:05:42.000The only reason that is happening is because Joe Biden does not have the courage of American convictions.
00:05:46.000This is not an argument for America to be involved in war.
00:05:48.000This is an argument that American deterrence relies on credible threat of force.
00:05:54.000And that in a world where America's deterrence is gone, everybody gets a lot more aggressive.
00:06:40.000And yet that is not what the Biden administration is pursuing, and that is a moral shortcoming.
00:06:44.000That is a question of will, and it is a question of common sense.
00:06:47.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:07:52.000So, the Biden administration continues to put pressure on Israel not to actually take any sort of aggressive action against Iran, believing that this will lead to some sort of escalation.
00:08:00.000Now, it seems to me that when you fire, again, 300 drones and missiles at a sovereign state, that is the escalation.
00:08:06.000And the big problem for Israel is if they don't do anything with regard to Iran going forward, well then Iran is going to feel like they got away with something.
00:08:13.000Yes, they failed this time militarily.
00:08:15.000But what happens when they have a nuclear weapon?
00:08:17.000Right now, the United States is being deterred in Ukraine by a nuclear Russia.
00:08:20.000If you're Iran, aren't you moving forward as fast as possible with a nuclear weapon?
00:08:24.000Because that way, if the United States starts attempting to strike down cruise missiles on the way to Israel next time, Iran will say, well, we have nukes and we will use those on you.
00:08:36.000In other words, you deter and you hamstring your enemies now before they become more powerful because otherwise they are simply going to continue to flex their muscles and push the envelope.
00:08:46.000And yet again, the Biden administration is seeking de-escalation.
00:08:49.000There's only one reason that they are seeking de-escalation.
00:08:51.000Because again, you know how this de-escalates?
00:09:41.000As former State Department spokesperson Valley Nasser said, Iran has actually achieved deterrence against both Israel and the United States because of the U.S.' 's cowardice.
00:09:52.000Well, it did create a dilemma for Iran.
00:09:54.000Iran could not just roll over and be seen by its own population and in the region to essentially taking such a provocative escalation from Israel without responding.
00:10:07.000On the other hand, they did not want to throw Prime Minister Netanyahu a lifeline of basically shifting the attention from Gaza to Iran and Syria and even drawing the United States into a war with Iran.
00:10:18.000So they had to react, but they had to react in a way where the emphasis was not really on retaliation, but on deterrence.
00:10:26.000And I think the deterrence was achieved not just by the military act they carried out yesterday, but essentially by the very effective psychological campaign that they managed through this escalation, both in Israel and also in Western capital.
00:10:40.000So the real question is, why is the West being intimidated by a third-rate power like Iran?
00:10:47.000And the answer, of course, is because Joe Biden is beholden to his left-wing base and he is scared of them.
00:10:52.000This is why John Kirby, national security spokesperson yesterday, suggested that it is in the chief interest of the United States to stop Israel from taking the sort of action that would stop Iran from taking future action.
00:11:03.000That de-escalation is top of the priority list.
00:11:08.000Again, that's a decision that only Prime Minister Netanyahu in the War Cabinet can make.
00:11:12.000I mean, again, we respect their sovereign decision-making process.
00:11:16.000What we want to see is de-escalation of the tensions.
00:11:21.000And everything the President's been doing, including putting U.S.
00:11:24.000forces in the fight Saturday night to defend Israel, which I think is the first time it's ever been done, has been to de-escalate, to take the tensions down, to put resources in the region, to send a strong signal to anybody who might Okay, but it's not de-escalating if you're wearing a bulletproof vest and someone fires a gun at you and it happens to hit the bulletproof vest.
00:11:47.000The de-escalation comes when you then clock that person directly in the face and take their gun away from them.
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00:13:50.000Israel was able to knock down 99% of those along with Jordan, the UK, France, and the United States.
00:13:57.000Protesters have decided now is an opportune moment to protest Israel.
00:14:00.000So remember, Israel hasn't struck back yet.
00:14:02.000This is very reminiscent of right after October 7th, when immediately the pro-Hamas protesters took to the street in a bizarre attempt to assault Israel for having committed the great crime of not allowing themselves to be slaughtered wholesale.
00:14:14.000Here were anti-Israel protesters blocking roads near O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
00:14:22.000They're literally just blocking the road.
00:15:01.000Just drag them off and put them in the back of the car and put them in jail for a fairly lengthy period of time and all this crap stops immediately.
00:15:09.000And by the way, if they don't, something terrible is going to happen.
00:15:11.000Because it turns out that if you allow radical jack**** to shut down traffic, sooner or later somebody is going to go nuts and do something truly terrible to one of these protesters.
00:15:19.000Meanwhile, anti-Israel protesters actively cheered the news of the Iranian missile attack over the weekend.
00:15:51.000These are the people that Joe Biden wants the votes of.
00:15:53.000That's why he is doing this right now.
00:15:55.000He needs a de-escalation right now to make sure that there aren't protests by these pieces of debris over at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in a couple of months.
00:16:05.000As the New York Times points out, support for Palestinians, a cause once largely championed on college campuses and in communities with ties to the region, has transformed into a defining issue of the Democratic left, galvanizing a broad swath of groups into the most significant protest movement of the Biden era.
00:16:20.000Labor activists are calling for a ceasefire.
00:16:21.000Black clergy leaders have appealed directly to the White House.
00:16:23.000Young Americans are using online tools to mobilize voters and send millions of missives to Congress.
00:16:28.000An emerging coalition of advocacy groups is discussing how to press its case at the DNC this summer.
00:16:33.000And that is who Joe Biden is afraid of.
00:16:43.000That's an open question at this point.
00:16:45.000Yesterday, Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman said that Israel will make the decisions necessary to protect the country, which is what you would expect from any sovereign state.
00:16:52.000Again, if the United States were hit with 300 drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles, the country that fired those things at the United States literally would not exist the next day.
00:17:01.000But if you're Israel, then the United States tells you to, that you're being, you guys, you're getting a little bit uppity with your whole self-defense thing.
00:17:09.000I can't stress the nature of the relationship, of the friendship, of the shared values that we have with the American people and with the administration.
00:17:18.000And we thank the administration for everything that they've done for us and continue to do for us.
00:17:24.000But at the same time, we will have to, as a sovereign state, make the decisions to defend our country in the best possible way.
00:17:33.000Now, in the beginning of the war, we were told, don't rush into Gaza.
00:17:38.000So, it is still unclear exactly what Israel is going to do.
00:17:50.000Israel obviously wants to retain the friendship of the United States.
00:17:53.000They still have to work with Joe Biden and they still have to finish the job in the Gaza Strip.
00:17:58.000According to the Times of Israel, the War Cabinet Monday afternoon, Wrapped up a discussion on Israel's response to Iran's massive missile and drone barrage amid calls for Jerusalem to exercise caution so as not to spark a regional war, reports that a retaliatory move could come as soon as Monday.
00:18:13.000According to Channel 12, which is the biggest news station in Israel, they claim the war cabinet decided to hit back clearly and forcefully against Iran with a response designed to send the message that Israel, quote, will not allow an act of that magnitude against it to pass without reaction.
00:18:28.000The response would also be designed to make plain that Israel will not allow the Iranians to establish the equation they have sought to assert in recent days.
00:18:33.000This was an apparent reference to Iran's warning that future Israeli strikes on Iranian territory will henceforth again be met by Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel.
00:18:42.000However, Israel wants to coordinate its actions with the United States.
00:18:46.000Again, what this means, in all likelihood, is that Israel is first going to move forward with the finishing of Rafa, which is exactly what needs to happen.
00:18:53.000The reality is that Israel has plenty of time to strike back against Iran, just on a tactical and strategic level.
00:18:59.000Israel should wait until a more surprising moment to strike back against Iran.
00:19:03.000The history of Israel's military action suggests that when Israel launches surprise attacks, as in 56, or 1967, or in Tebiraid, they're very successful.
00:19:12.000When they telegraph their punches, as they have been doing for the last 30 years, most of my lifetime, then they are significantly less successful.
00:19:18.000Because the world starts to get on their back before the thing is even done.
00:19:24.000Well, the defense minister in Israel, Galant, he has suggested that they are already making efforts to evacuate Rafa before they go in, of course, that is in coordination with the United States again.
00:19:37.000He held an assessment on the necessary civilian operations that need to be taken ahead of the IDF offensive in Rafa.
00:19:43.000Meanwhile, John Kirby is starting to make more conciliatory signs toward the Israelis on finishing off Rafa.
00:19:48.000Here he was saying that Israel has been increasing the humanitarian aid and is now doing more of what the United States would like to see in the Gaza Strip.
00:19:56.000The aid has increased, and quite dramatically.
00:20:00.000In just the last few days, more than 2,000 trucks have been able to get in.
00:20:04.000I think I might be wrong on this number, but I think it's nearly 100 or so over the last 24 hours alone.
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00:21:36.000Meanwhile in the House, the House Republicans are pushing forward a series of measures designed to target Iran.
00:21:41.000One of those would be additional sanctions against Iran.
00:21:44.000Furthermore, the House Speaker is now planning to separate out Israel aid in order to pass that separately from Ukraine.
00:21:50.000Right now the whole thing is being held up because a lot of Republicans are not fond of the The Ukraine aid.
00:21:54.000A lot of Democrats are not fond of the Israel aid.
00:21:56.000Either one separately would pass in the House of Representatives.
00:21:59.000Both together would pass in the House of Representatives.
00:22:01.000But the Speaker doesn't want to bring up both at the same time.
00:22:04.000He's afraid, presumably, that if they pass as a package group, then Marjorie Taylor Greene will launch her idiotic motion to vacate and suddenly his job will be on the line.
00:22:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Johnson plans to bring separate bills funding Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to the House floor in a maneuver aimed at breaking a month-long deadlock Over a $95 billion foreign aid package the Senate passed earlier this year.
00:22:25.000President Biden and Senate Democrats have been urging Johnson to take up the Senate bill.
00:22:29.000Instead, Johnson is splitting the aid up in an effort to work around that large bloc of Republicans who are opposing sending more aid to Ukraine.
00:22:37.000Speaking to reporters late on Monday, Johnson said his phone melted over the weekend with calls from GOP members about how to proceed.
00:22:42.000He said it was the will of my colleagues to vote on these measures independently and not have them all sandwiched together as the Senate had done.
00:22:48.000He says that he hopes to finish the votes on them this week.
00:22:51.000This could presumably complicate efforts to get the aid packages to Biden's desk by forcing new action by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
00:22:58.000The question is whether Joe Biden is literally going to veto aid to Israel in the middle of a war against Iran simply in order to get the Ukraine aid.
00:23:11.000Now, again, the reality is that the United States should pass some level of Ukraine aid.
00:23:17.000What that Ukraine aid is to look like?
00:23:19.000I can countenance arguments about anti-corruption, about the amount that's being sent, and all the rest.
00:23:25.000But the reality is that it's in nobody's interest, particularly that of the United States, for Russia to simply overcome Ukraine's military capacity and walk into Kiev.
00:23:35.000With that said, separating this out does put pressure on the Democrats to simply pass the aid for Israel in the moment.
00:23:41.000Meanwhile, America's enemies continue to be on the move.
00:24:07.000The United States is now acting as a sort of bizarre lawyer for China as well.
00:24:12.000So Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, who is truly terrible at her job, she has some meetings with the Chinese and she says that China heard our concerns about their support for Russia.
00:24:23.000The question is, are they going to stop supporting Russia?
00:24:25.000Because given your level of lack of deterrence, I have doubts.
00:24:30.000Well, we've been extremely clear and I was clear at the highest levels in my meetings that the United States will not tolerate violations of our sanctions by Chinese banks or firms that are aiding Russia in its war against Ukraine and that if that's done that there will be consequences.
00:25:31.000China, by the way, is in fact ratcheting up its building of nuclear weapons.
00:25:37.000They continue to increase their military spending.
00:25:41.000According to the New York Times, the Pentagon says Beijing is on track to double the number of its nuclear warheads by the decade's end to 1,000 from 500, a development senior U.S.
00:25:49.000officials have publicly called unprecedented and breathtaking.
00:25:52.000China has drastically expanded its nuclear testing facility and continued work on three new missile fields in the country's north, where more than 300 intercontinental ballistic missile silos have recently been constructed.
00:26:05.000China's transformation from a small nuclear power into an exponentially large one is a historic shift, upending the delicate two-peer balance of the world's nuclear weapons for the entirety of the atomic age.
00:26:14.000So now there are three major nuclear players out there, and of course Taiwan remains a flashpoint.
00:26:21.000Hennigan, a columnist for the New York Times, he says that in February, China openly invited the United States and other nuclear powers to negotiate a treaty in which all sides would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first against one another.
00:26:33.000I mean, that's a completely useless agreement.
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00:28:12.000Meanwhile, by the way, China continues to pour money into American research facilities.
00:28:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal, American universities signed contracts around the world to sell their research and training expertise.
00:28:22.000Some of their most lucrative agreements have been with companies based in China.
00:28:27.000colleges and universities held contracts with Chinese businesses valued at $2.32 billion between 2012 and 2014, according to a review of the Wall Street Journal.
00:28:42.000According to Daniel Kirill, a Trump administration educational department official, By the way, when it comes to countries pouring money into the U.S.
00:28:47.000universities, they're getting a capability they can't get anywhere else.
00:28:50.000The big question is what contracts should be legal?
00:29:27.000I think there should be a basic rule that unless a country is an open ally of the United States, it should not be funding American research institutions, specifically in order to garner the results of that research.
00:29:39.000Meanwhile, China continues to be incredibly militant.
00:29:42.000According to The Sun, China is now bragging about its merciless execution of an alleged U.S.
00:29:47.000spy in an unprecedentedly detailed admission.
00:29:50.000The man's death sentence and execution were disclosed in a chilling propaganda documentary by the country's top counterespionage agency, the Ministry of State Security.
00:29:58.000Monday marked the first time China indicated that a man named Kuan Yew, executed for spying in 2016, had sold secrets to the United States.
00:30:06.000So now China is bragging about executing a person that they call a United States spy.
00:30:12.000And America's enemies are on the move there.
00:30:13.000On the move because Joe Biden is a weakling.
00:30:15.000And the more weakness Joe Biden shows, the more those enemies are going to be on the move.
00:30:19.000More than that, America's allies are going to quickly begin to triangulate.
00:30:22.000Under Joe Biden, it is very dangerous to be an American ally.
00:30:25.000Whether you are our Afghan allies in Afghanistan, who of course ended up under the tender mercy of the Taliban.
00:30:32.000Whether it's the people of Hong Kong, who have really done poorly.
00:30:39.000The list goes on and on of American allies who have been abandoned over the past several decades.
00:30:44.000Joe Biden has been particularly bad in this respect.
00:30:47.000And meanwhile, the other big news of the day, of course, is that Donald Trump was in court yesterday.
00:30:52.000This is all part and parcel of a broader attempt to finish Trump off.
00:30:56.000Because after all, Democrats perceive Donald Trump as the chief threat to the Republic.
00:31:00.000Joe Biden is such a bad president, the only way to keep him as president is to label Joe Biden's opponent the worst thing that could possibly ever happen to the United States of America, despite the fact that we know precisely what a Trump presidency would look like since we already did it.
00:31:13.000We'll get to all that in just one second.
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00:31:30.000Matt Walsh isn't just playing a judge.
00:31:32.000He's donning the robe and wielding the gavel as a bona fide judge, resolving real disputes from real litigants.
00:31:36.000And yes, his rulings are indeed enforceable.
00:31:38.000This isn't your run-of-the-mill court TV.
00:31:40.000This is really petty court at its finest with Judge Walsh presiding, determining the fate of all who dare to stand before him.
00:31:45.000Episode 3 of Judge by Matt Walsh premieres tonight, 8 p.m.
00:31:59.000Because Joe Biden has set the world completely on fire, both domestically and mostly internationally, this means that Democrats have to come up with a narrative.
00:32:06.000The narrative, of course, as you know it would be, is that Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the Republic ever.
00:32:10.000Now, the problem with that particular narrative is that is going to create real unease among the half of the American population that is very likely to vote for Donald Trump.
00:32:18.000If you wish people to believe that the election is going to be legitimate, you cannot say things like, we are justified in doing whatever we have to do to stop the other guy from winning.
00:32:28.000That provides you with the motive for doing things that are untoward.
00:32:31.000Like, for example, dragging the ex-president of the United States into court on a bunch of bullcrap charges with regard to him stooping a former porn star and then paying her money.
00:32:40.000That was determined by the federal authorities, not to a violated campaign finance law on the federal level.
00:32:46.000In any case, here is NBC's Jon Meacham.
00:32:48.000I gotta say, the left-wing historians, they need to take a chill pill.
00:32:51.000They have been completely untethered from reality.
00:32:53.000Here's Jon Meacham suggesting that Donald Trump is a tyrant and America will fall if he wins.
00:33:00.000In one of his first public speeches, Abraham Lincoln said that if the American Republic were ever to fall, it would not fall to a foreign foe.
00:33:07.000It would fall to a tyrant who rose among us.
00:33:12.000And I think that's essentially where we are.
00:33:17.000What's unfolding in Manhattan today is part of a larger story about Donald Trump, his behavior, His view of whether or not American democracy exists for the good of the country or for the good of Donald Trump.
00:33:34.000Well, I mean, he's obviously the threat to democracy is Donald Trump.
00:33:37.000I mean, he was the president already, and this would be his last term in office, legally speaking.
00:33:43.000But probably he'll be a tyrant or something.
00:33:45.000Meanwhile, the president of the United States, the current one, who has run roughshod over the law, who openly brags about defying the Supreme Court of the United States on things like student loans, who intends to use his occupational safety and health administration to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans.
00:34:01.000That guy, he is the true democracy defender.
00:34:05.000MSNBC's Michael Beschloss, another one of our bizarrely high historians.
00:34:10.000I mean, honestly, I don't know where they're getting these historians these days, but they need a better class of historians.
00:34:14.000Here he was, suggesting our founders would be appalled by Donald Trump.
00:34:17.000Oh, you mean as opposed to the great centralizer of power in the executive branch, Joe Biden?
00:34:24.000Like, seriously, name the things that Joe Biden and the founders agreed on.
00:34:31.000So, Michael, first to you, what do you see at stake, in terms of history, in the way this trial is conducted and the way it turns out?
00:34:44.000Well, let's have a very brief, and I promise, brief visit to our founders in 1787, writing the Constitution.
00:34:52.000I think they felt that they had created a political system that would choose people as presidents who were not too likely to have been to be accused of criminal conduct.
00:35:13.000I mean, honestly, I think if they came back in 2024, Donald Trump would be the least of their of their squabbles.
00:35:19.000Honestly, they might look at the fact that pretty much everything they rebelled against the British Empire with regard to like, for example, taxation without representation, they might look at the administrative branch of the American government and go, uh, what is this?
00:35:32.000We didn't put like, what is all of this?
00:35:34.000Like this giant executive power that you've created?
00:35:37.000What is this enormous federal government?
00:35:40.000That we literally wrote a constitution in order to subvert.
00:36:02.000Remember, this is a case where he's being charged with 34 counts Those 34 counts are felony counts related to the fact that he wrote some 34 separate checks to Michael Cohen to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for having paid off Stormy Daniels to keep her yap shut about the fact that she shtooped the president many moons ago.
00:36:26.000Now you ask yourself, wait a second, if that's a federal campaign finance violation, why isn't he being tried on the federal level?
00:36:31.000And the answer is, he was never tried on the federal level.
00:36:34.000The federal prosecutors decided that the case wasn't worth their time, that there was not a violation of law sufficient to justify a prosecution.
00:36:43.000Alvin Bragg, who then decided that he was going to somehow jerry-rig this thing into a felony trial.
00:36:51.000That he was going to suggest that Donald Trump had committed financial fraud by somehow labeling the payments to Michael Cohen as non-campaign related expenses.
00:38:01.000That means that the jury is almost certain to be stacked against President Trump.
00:38:05.000The judge in this case, Judge Merchant, made a couple of rulings yesterday in court.
00:38:10.000One was that prosecutors cannot elicit testimony to the effect that Donald Trump's wife, Melania, was pregnant when another playboy model was stripping President Trump, allegedly.
00:38:28.000That is because they're trying to set the precedent that Donald Trump was trying to shut up all the women he had stooped during the 2016 election.
00:38:34.000They're trying to set a predicate for the idea that what Donald Trump was doing in paying hush money was not an attempt to shield his wife from the bad news.
00:38:41.000It was instead an attempt to shield the American public from the bad news in advance of the election.
00:38:47.000With that said, prosecutors will not be able to play the infamous Access Hollywood tape for jurors, but the judge said the prosecutors will be able to present internal campaign emails that Assistant District Attorney Steinglass said contained powerful evidence of the campaign's reaction to the incendiary language contained in the Access Hollywood video.
00:39:02.000And they're trying to draw out the relationship between Donald Trump and the National Enquirer, which Donald Trump was allegedly using as a cutout in order to pay to kill stories.
00:40:18.000There have been other moments in other trials, like the Agent Carroll trial, which was around the corner in January, where he appeared very still and seemed as if he might be sleeping, but then he would move.
00:40:29.000This time, he didn't pay attention to a note that his lawyer, Todd Blanche, passed him.
00:40:33.000His jaw kept falling on his chest, and his mouth kept going slack.
00:40:37.000Now, sometimes people do fall asleep during court proceedings, but it's notable, given Okay, or maybe Donald Trump is just like, whatever.
00:40:49.000I mean, that would certainly fit the personality.
00:40:53.000With all of that said, prosecutors are now trying to push for Donald Trump to be held in contempt.
00:40:59.000According to Mediaite, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who's inside the New York courthouse, tweeted, quote, while arguing for the admission of tweets and social media posts evocative of Trump's pressure campaign on witnesses, the DA's office drops this, shortly, we'll be asking an order to show cause why defendants should not be held in contempt for violating a gag order on him.
00:41:17.000Again, the more the courts crack down on Trump on idiocy like this, I think the less it's going to hurt him.
00:41:23.000And again, what it does set the predicate for, and this is all very dangerous stuff, because what it sets the predicate for, again, is the fact that if Donald Trump does not win the election in November, Republicans are rightly going to look at the processes that have been used, and they're going to ask a lot of questions.
00:41:38.000One of the questions they might ask, for example, is why Democrats have been so stringent in attempting to fight, say, voter ID.
00:41:44.000This is a very commonsensical idea, that you should have to show ID before you vote.
00:41:49.000And yet here was the MSNBC panel over the weekend suggesting that that was just a terrible, no good, very bad thing.
00:41:55.000Now, apparently, House Republicans are going to pursue legislation requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
00:42:02.000My question is, so we're going to show proof to Ms.
00:42:21.000Even the 18 that sit in districts that Joe Biden won in 2020?
00:42:24.000What strikes me is this is the long tail of a long time Republican effort to make it harder to vote because they know that some of those requirements, you know, having to show a license, they disproportionately impact communities of color.
00:42:38.000And they just what's interesting to me is they also disproportionately impact older Americans.
00:43:24.000And the answer that many people come to is maybe you're in favor of not having voter ID because you kind of like the idea of the voting being a little bit squirrely.
00:43:33.000Okay, meanwhile, NPR continues to just be a complete and utter crap show.
00:43:40.000That brand new head is a person named Catherine Marr.
00:43:43.000So Chris Rufo, who just is the best in the business at finding receipts, he has now gone through the receipts of Catherine Meyer's Twitter.
00:43:52.000And what he finds is that, of course, NPR's new head is a wild, insane person of the left.
00:44:00.000Quote, I know that hysteric white woman voice.
00:44:06.000While I don't ever recall using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it's not impossible.
00:45:32.000This is the person who had to be the head of it.
00:45:35.000By the way, this person was also the head of Wikimedia.
00:45:37.000So if you ever worry about the politics on Wikipedia, that would be the reason why.
00:45:43.000Truly amazing stuff from the brand new head of NPR.
00:45:45.000This is directly in the aftermath of a free press piece that we talked about last week in which a high-ranking former member of NPR staff pointed out that NPR has basically just become a propaganda outlet on behalf of the wild left.
00:45:57.000So, great way of rebutting that accusation by hiring a person who appears to be directly from the fever dreams of Bernie Sanders.
00:47:38.000But second of all, like, that's awesome.
00:47:42.000The world would be a better place if more people read Ludwig von Mises.
00:47:45.000At some point, I'm gonna have to explain who Ludwig von Mises is.
00:47:49.000Suffice it to say, the Austrian School of Economics, those are the founders of what is called the Marginal Revolution in Economics.
00:47:56.000The Marginal Revolution in Economics, to give you a very brief exposition.
00:48:01.000So, their key discovery and their key finding is that there was a basic idea in classical economics that was then picked up by Karl Marx, that value in any good product or service is to be found in labor.
00:48:15.000That the amount of labor, capital, and Land, for example, that go into the making of a product, create the price of the product.
00:48:23.000That's where the value of a product comes from that.
00:48:27.000There are a bunch of problems with that particular theory, the labor theory of value.
00:48:30.000The biggest problem with the labor theory of value is that it's obviously not true.
00:48:35.000If I'm walking along on the beach and I find a pearl, that pearl is more valuable than something that I worked a lot on.
00:48:42.000And the answer comes courtesy of the Austrian School of Economics and Ludwig von Mises.
00:48:47.000And that answer is that the value of an object is in what you are willing to pay for it.
00:48:54.000So it is not that you actually calculate the price of an object, a good or a service, with reference to how much is labor inherently worth, or land inherently worth, or capital inherently worth, or a combination thereof.
00:49:05.000That's not how you've bought any product in your entire life.
00:49:06.000The way that you buy a product is you go to the store and you decide, what is it worth to me?
00:50:24.000Now you don't care about the diamond, you care about the glass of water.
00:50:26.000In other words, value is in the eye of the beholder.
00:50:28.000That is a very crucial finding in economics.
00:50:32.000Because once you understand the subjective theory of value, you can no longer say that there is such a thing as an exploitative profit margin.
00:50:40.000That there's the real value of the thing, and then there's an exploitative profit that's put on top, right?
00:50:44.000This is the basic theory of Marxism, is that workers create a certain baseline level of value, and then the evil capitalist comes along and creates profit and makes them work extra.
00:50:55.000The way that labor is actually valued is by the person who's purchasing the labor.
00:50:59.000And then profit is the additional value that is placed on the final product as produced by the capitalists who had to invest in the machinery and the marketing and the organization and all the rest.
00:51:10.000Okay, so there is a quick disposition on the Marginal School of Economics, the Austrian School of Economics and the Marginal Revolution.
00:51:16.000And thanks to our friend over at the UFC for citing Ludwig von Mises because I never get an opportunity to talk about that kind of stuff.