Zoran Momdani is running for mayor of New York City, and the question on everyone s mind is, will he do it? Will he win? Is it possible for a third-worlder to become mayor of the most important city in the world?
00:00:06.000By the way, I'll be on CNN's live stream tonight talking about it as it all unfolds with Isabel Brown, with Anna Kasparian, with a wide variety of others.
00:00:14.000Charlemagne the God should be interesting.
00:02:15.000It is not worth whatever points you think you are scoring by not voting for Andrew Cuomo.
00:02:22.000Listen, I don't like Andrew Cuomo either.
00:02:23.000I think Andrew Cuomo is a terrible governor of New York.
00:02:26.000I don't understand for the life of me why the mayoralty of New York came down to the guy who killed all the old people and grabbed gas and ran out of old people and an outright third worlder.
00:02:37.000When I say third worlder, I mean like as a philosophy.
00:02:40.000Like Zoran Mamdani is a third worldist, meaning he believes that all the poor places on earth are the fault of Western civilization.
00:02:47.000He believes that the only reason that there are failing parts of planet Earth is because of colonialism and because of Western imperialism and capitalism and all that kind of nonsense.
00:02:57.000So those are your two choices, but I but voting for Curtis Lewa ain't going to fix that.
00:03:04.000By the way, you know who has said this, quite correctly, the president of the United States.
00:03:08.000He put out a statement on Truth Social last night, quote, if communist candidate Zoran Mamdani wins the election for mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely I will be contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required to my beloved first home because of the fact that as a communist, this once great city has zero chance of success or even survival.
00:03:26.000It can only get worse with a communist at the helm.
00:03:28.000And I don't want to send as president good money after bad.
00:03:31.000It is my obligation to run the nation and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a complete and total economic and social disaster should Mamdani win.
00:03:38.000His principles have been tested for over a thousand years and never once have they been successful.
00:03:43.000I would much rather see a Democrat who has had a record of success win than a communist with no experience and a record of complete and total failure.
00:03:50.000He was nothing as an assemblyman, ranked at the bottom of his class, and is mayor of potentially, again, the greatest city in the world.
00:03:55.000He has no chance to bring it back to its former glory.
00:03:58.000We must also remember this: a vote for Curtis Sleewup, who looks much better without the beret, is a vote for Mamdani.
00:04:04.000You gotta love the aside from President Trump.
00:04:15.000The president of the United States hits the nail on the head.
00:04:18.000And in fact, chaos is very likely to reign in New York City if indeed Zorn Mamdani wins.
00:04:23.000According to the New York Post, brand new poll from Jail Partners: about 9% of New Yorkers say they will definitely leave the city entirely if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor.
00:05:03.000Now, one of the things that has happened with Zorin Mamdani over the course of his candidacy, there's been an attempt to remake and remold Zorin Mamdani.
00:05:10.000That, you know, all those videos, those old videos of him being super radical, that's not the new smiley Zorin Mamdani.
00:05:16.000That's the old megative Nelly Zorin Mamdani.
00:05:19.000You know, the one who's so relentlessly pessimistic about America.
00:05:22.000The new smiley Zorin Mamdani is totally, totally different.
00:05:25.000Now, here's the thing: Zorn Mamdani is an actor.
00:05:32.000I don't even think he's a very good actor.
00:05:34.000I mean, he slaps on that smarmy grin, and it has about as much authenticity as a $3 bill, which, by the way, I'm sure he will be attempting to create in lieu of actual tax revenue.
00:05:47.000Zorin Mamdani is the kind of person who thought he was going to be a rap star after enjoying all the fruits of the best American education has to offer and turn himself into this.
00:08:08.000Like, I don't think that all things that all cultures do are equally anti-germ.
00:08:16.000But I also don't believe he does this.
00:08:18.000I don't think Zorn Mamdani is sitting at home with his wife and there's a pot of rice and he just takes his hand and he scoops it in and just starts shoving it in his face.
00:08:24.000I don't think that this is a dude who eats a burrito with a fork and a knife.
00:09:45.000The only thing that Zoran Mamdani has changed is his affect.
00:09:48.000It's literally the only thing that he changed.
00:09:50.000All righty, folks, we'll get to more on Zoran Mamdani, this fake, this fraud, but a very genuine pro-Marxist and pro-jihadist candidate, obviously.
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00:12:27.000Here, for example, is old Zoran Mamdani a few years ago telling a story about 9-11 and Islamophobia.
00:12:35.000I think of on 9-11 when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class, rather, a classmate of mine and myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what had just happened.
00:12:46.000And we didn't understand what had happened.
00:12:48.000And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as that because most Muslim students did not have that.
00:12:54.000And yet, what I really remember from that interaction was the understanding that now I was distinct.
00:12:59.000There was something about me that was different from my classmates.
00:13:03.000And it's a lesson that I was made to learn again and again.
00:13:06.000Because a few years later, when I returned to New York City after a trip with my family abroad, I was taken aside at JFK and put in a double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I had just come from attending a terrorist training camp and if I had intentions on attacking this country and what my thoughts were on the government.
00:13:23.000And I was 15 years old and I was terrified.
00:13:27.000You know, the real victim of 9-11 was Zor Mamdani.
00:13:29.000But don't worry, he's changed because a few years pass and he grew up and you realize that the real victims of 9-11-the real victims, you know, the people who really were like were people like his aunt, who somebody supposedly gave a weird eye to on the subway one time.
00:13:46.000I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
00:15:38.000You know, back in his rapping days when he wasn't wearing a shirt, but was wearing an apron in a food truck, which again, I don't know what it is about Zara Mamdani and his food habits.
00:15:45.000Guys, like, please, if you're going to be like cooking at a food truck, please wear a shirt.
00:16:33.000There's been four months of protesting and genocide.
00:16:36.000It has become harder and harder to wake up every morning and see more and more Palestinians massacred with our tax dollars.
00:16:44.000And if that wasn't enough for you, he also defended the Columbia University so-called protesters, many of whom are trespassing or committing acts of violence.
00:16:54.000I think these students have actually forced many of us to reckon with what's happening there, because for too many Americans, this has been something that is actually getting out of view.
00:17:03.000An example is that when students renamed the hall in Colombia from Hamilton Hall to Hind Hall, they were honoring a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in her car watching as her parents had been killed by the Israeli military prior.
00:17:17.000And for so many Americans, that was a name that they hadn't heard until these students made it one.
00:17:24.000That's when he was a state representative.
00:17:25.000You know, he's like old Zor Mamdani would say that, for example, the New York City Police Department is basically the IDF, that they're the same.
00:17:38.000We have to make clear that when the hoop of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
00:17:46.000We are in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.
00:18:02.000So like the old Zor Mamdani was like an anti-Semite, right?
00:18:05.000Who would just randomly link the policies of the NYPD to the IDF somehow and then blame the Jews for NYPD policy.
00:18:11.000The new Zoramdani, by contrast, is also a radical anti-Semite who, you know, during this campaign literally said that globalize the intifada, which is a call for violence.
00:18:29.000He says it actually just means equality and struggle, as one would if one, you know, was not fond of Jews.
00:18:36.000I know people for whom those things mean very different things.
00:18:40.000And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and for rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.
00:18:52.000And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle.
00:19:07.000And as a Muslim man who grew up post-9-11, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning.
00:19:40.000So what is your response to what Hamas is doing now?
00:19:44.000I think those are bodies and remains that should absolutely be returned.
00:19:47.000And I think that I have no issue with critiquing Hamas or the Israeli government because my critiques all come from a place of universal human rights.
00:19:55.000And my focus, however, is right here in New York City and transforming the most expensive city in America into one that's affordable for each and every New Yorker.
00:20:01.000But okay, and I want to get to that, absolutely.
00:20:04.000But do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons and leave the leadership in Gaza?
00:20:09.000I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that's affordable for all.
00:20:14.000And as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace.
00:20:18.000And that is the future that we have to fight for.
00:20:20.000But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza.
00:20:24.000I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law.
00:20:32.000And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about.
00:20:37.000I mean, he shockingly has no opinions, but he found an opinion about arresting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has very strong opinions about, getting the terrorist group to disarm.
00:21:32.000I've said that I believe that we should uphold arrest warrants by the National Criminal Court and that we should do so only in abiding with all of the laws in front of us.
00:21:40.000I'm not going to make a new law to ensure that we can actually do this.
00:21:43.000Do you think that Commissioner Tish would allow you to arrest Netanyahu in New York City?
00:21:46.000I've appreciated Commissioner Tish's leadership of the NYPD, and I think that she's done a good job at lowering crime across the city.
00:21:52.000We will get to his feelings about the police in a moment.
00:21:56.000But suffice it to say, I don't believe him there either.
00:22:00.000So just to get the record straight, we're supposed to believe he underwent an evolution in the course of the last 2.7 milliseconds.
00:22:07.000From, you know, thinking the real victims of 9-11 were family members of his, Muslims who people treated poorly, supposedly, to now he's probably fine on that issue.
00:22:18.000Or, you know, he used to support radical Islamic jihadism, but now he only kind of does support radical Islamic jihadism.
00:22:33.000He really still doesn't really like the police.
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00:25:01.000Old Mom Donnie, Old Mom Donnie really hated the cops, like really hated the cops.
00:25:05.000And by the way, again, this is Old Mom Donnie from like two years ago saying that he was for defunding the police.
00:25:11.000And we see so many situations where encounters with police, the police arrive, and all of a sudden the tension rises even astronomically to what it was prior.
00:25:22.000And I think that we need to say and ask ourselves, you know, look at how policing is done in the suburbs in wealthier, whiter America.
00:25:32.000When people make mistakes, the answer is not to throw them in jail.
00:25:36.000The answer is not to, you know, put them in a cage and throw away the key.
00:25:40.000The answer is to try and find a non-carceral solution.
00:25:44.000Community service, something where they learn from their mistakes, there's a sense of accountability and growth, all these kinds of things, which for many people in this country, especially black people, are not offered the same opportunity.
00:26:22.000You said in the past, I almost don't need to go through it.
00:26:25.000It's been said many times, but that you called the police force racist, said they were a major threat to public safety, called them wicked and corrupt.
00:26:34.000And now they report that you apologize to two dozen members of the NYPD.
00:26:39.000I apologized for the language that I used and I spoke to them about the fact that I want to work with them to deliver public safety because what we're seeing in the city right now is we're asking officers to do nearly everything we can think of.
00:26:50.000We used to ask officers to focus on serious crimes.
00:26:53.000Now we're asking them to focus also on the mental health crisis, to focus also on homelessness.
00:26:58.000In one year alone, the NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls.
00:27:04.000Police officers that I spoke to, they don't want a behind closed doors apology.
00:27:08.000They want a broad public apology for the things that you suggested about them.
00:27:20.000And I apologize because of the fact that I'm looking to work with these officers and I know that these officers, these men and women who serve in the NYPD, they put their lives on the line every single day.
00:27:35.000Now, I mean, to be fair, he also does want to decriminalize prostitution because he's afraid that it's going to hurt black and brown ladies, presumably because the police are, you know, a bunch of racists.
00:27:46.000And to follow the advice of district attorneys that we have here in New York City, the current Manhattan DA, the former Manhattan DA, the current Brooklyn DA, the former Manhattan DA having said that prosecuting women for prostitution is something that actually leads to less safety.
00:28:01.000And what we need to do is provide an economic.
00:28:04.000Just a quick, just a quick clarification.
00:28:07.000So no legalization about decriminalization.
00:28:11.000I do not think that we should be prosecuting women who are struggling, who are currently being thrown in jail and then being offered job opportunities.
00:28:19.000I think we should be actually providing those kinds of opportunities at the first point of interaction.
00:28:48.000It's one that I've supported because of the vast dragnet has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of whether they go out late, photos they put on social media, so much of the facts of life of being a young New Yorker.
00:29:11.000And yet it then becomes a mark of suspicion.
00:29:14.000And it is a concern of mine that we do not live up to, of all people, Eric Adams' words in 2021, who said that New Yorkers need not choose between safety and justice.
00:29:28.000There's no question that we have to take gangs extremely seriously.
00:29:33.000And yet I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that doesn't actually do exactly that.
00:29:42.000So I'm just wondering, like, does he still do who raise your hand in New York if you believe that Zor Mamdani is going to bring down the crime rates?
00:30:10.000People need to have actual houses to live in.
00:30:11.000People need to have actual schools that they can go to.
00:30:13.000And I think it's so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey and understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and in this world.
00:30:41.000No, I have many critiques of capitalism.
00:30:43.000And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.
00:30:51.000He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.
00:30:54.000There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
00:30:58.000And that's what I'm focused on is dignity and taking on income inequality.
00:31:02.000And for too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability.
00:31:07.000We're actually actors and we have the choice to exacerbate it like Mayor Adams has done or to respond to it and resolve it like I'm planning to do.
00:31:54.000But for your own sake, for your own sake, because I have many friends who live in New York City, because I love New York City in many ways.
00:32:01.000They just have a love-hate relationship with New York City, to be fair.
00:32:15.000Meanwhile, Democrats even are uncomfortable with all of this.
00:32:18.000Hakeem Jeffries, for example, was asked yesterday whether the future of the Democratic Party was Zora Mamdani.
00:32:24.000And even Hakeem Jeffries was like, I don't know if I want to say that.
00:32:29.000What I indicated is that if we truly believe, as many of us do, that Donald Trump represents an existential threat to everything, that in order for us to get from where we are to where we need to go and end the national nightmare, then House Democrats are going to have to be successful in taking back control of the House of Representatives.
00:32:52.000What about the slow embrace of the audience?
00:32:54.000I issued a statement on the eve of early voting, and the statement speaks for itself.
00:32:59.000Well, again, you know, I think that he is uncomfortable.
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00:35:40.000Okay, meanwhile, there are two other major races happening today.
00:35:45.000Race number one is the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and that race is shockingly close.
00:35:51.000That is a race between Republican Jack Chitterelli and Democrat Mickey Sherrill.
00:35:57.000According to ABC News Washington Bureau Chief, Rick Klein, this is by all accounts the tightest race happening this election day.
00:36:02.000The gubernatorial race is likely to be a nail biter, which is pretty incredible because remember, New Jersey is deep blue.
00:36:26.000Atlas Intel says that essentially there's like a slight advantage at this point for Mickey Sherrill.
00:36:38.000The worst case scenario for the Democratic Party in some ways, actually, believe it or not, is that Zorin Mamdani wins in New York City and Mickey Sherrill loses in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger loses in Virginia.
00:36:49.000If that were to happen, the Democrats are going to have a real tough time holding off the progressive left because a lot of Democrats are going to take away the idea that somehow the victorious message is the insane pro-jihadi, pro-Marxist viewpoint of Zorin Mamdani and that moderate Democrats will lose even in blue states like Virginia, like New Jersey.
00:37:11.000Chitterelli is a traditional Republican.
00:37:14.000According to Politico, he wants to slash 30% of state spending or about $17 billion of the state's $58.7 billion budget.
00:37:21.000He says he would essentially eliminate the so-called millionaires tax, lower business taxes, and keep the state's sales tax steady.
00:37:29.000He also wants to increase spending in certain areas like public employee pensions and state aid for special education.
00:37:37.000That's essentially a sort of Reaganomics approach.
00:37:39.000That if you lower the tax rate, you'll end up increasing economic growth, which means that your tax receipts will actually go up.
00:37:46.000Chitterelli recently said, if we are very good at streamlining the state government, downsizing it, we can afford these tax cuts.
00:37:51.000But mark my words, if these reforms work to grow our economy, we're going to have more tax revenue than we know what to do with.
00:37:58.000It'll be fascinating to see if New Jerseyans decide that they want Chitterelli.
00:38:02.000Chitterelli came very, very close to beating Governor Phil Murphy in the last gubernatorial race.
00:38:08.000This time, if you are listening to the sound of my voice in New Jersey, Jack Chitterelli is the pick.
00:38:12.000Meanwhile, in Virginia, the Virginia gubernatorial election, this appears to be the least close of the races at this point.
00:38:20.000According to the latest polling, Abigail Spanberger, who's considered a sort of what would now be called the Blue Dog Democrat, she isn't really.
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00:38:34.000She's leading anywhere between 10 and 7 points, according to a slew of polls.
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00:38:59.000Meanwhile, Winsom Earl Sears, who's the current lieutenant governor, is stuck between 40 and 45% in all of the polls.
00:39:08.000If that race remains close, there's a good shot that the Democrats' Attorney General nominee Jay Jones is going to lose.
00:39:14.000He, of course, is the guy who said he wanted to kill the Speaker of the House of Delegates in Virginia and criticized that person's children as little fascists.
00:39:21.000If somehow Spanberger wins by a very, very broad margin in Virginia, she might carry Jones over the line.
00:39:31.000But the bottom line is this: the Democratic Party is about to face a serious reckoning today.
00:39:35.000It'll be fascinating to see how it all plays out.
00:39:39.000Meanwhile, Democrats on the national level remain extremely confused about what to do next.
00:39:46.000They seem to think that if they just keep upping the language against President Trump, somehow this will redound to their benefit.
00:39:51.000So, for example, the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries yesterday accused President Trump and the GOP of running what he called a pedoprotection program.
00:39:59.000They're still doing this Jeffrey Epstein thing: the fact that Republicans have canceled votes now for six consecutive weeks, missing in action, taxpayer-funded vacation, running the pedophile protection program while doing nothing to make life better for the American people.
00:40:22.000Okay, um, I'm really like you're still on Epstein.
00:40:26.000This is the Democrats they think they're going to win because they think that Donald Trump is covering up for Jeffrey Epstein.
00:40:33.000Maybe, maybe if you just drag Nancy Pelosi out of the crypt to go nuclear on President Trump, she, by the way, announced yesterday that she would not be seeking her 127th term in Congress.
00:40:43.000So I assume that means that someone similarly crazily left will be taking over her seat.
00:40:48.000But, you know, in one of her final interviews here, she went nuclear on President Trump.
00:41:33.000Meanwhile, speaking of President Trump victories, I love this.
00:41:35.000President Trump has been targeting the government of Nigeria for its willingness to tolerate Islamist terrorist groups attacking and murdering Christians by the thousands in Nigeria.
00:41:47.000There's been an ongoing actual human rights crisis targeting Christians in Nigeria.
00:41:52.000And President Trump put out a statement saying that if the Nigerian government continues to look the other way as Christians are slaughtered, then the United States might have to intervene to do something about it.
00:42:00.000Now, again, I trust that President Trump is not, in fact, a radical interventionist who wants to put hundreds of thousands of American troops on the ground in Nigeria or anything like that.
00:42:09.000But if a little bit of pressure can be put to the Nigerian government, or if a minimum of necessary force can be used in Nigeria in order to protect Christians in Nigeria, that seems to me well worthwhile.
00:42:25.000They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria.
00:42:30.000And they have other countries very bad also.
00:42:33.000You know that part of the world is very bad.
00:42:35.000They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers.
00:42:39.000I'm not going to allow that to happen.
00:42:41.000Now, the truth is that in Nigeria, the violence is not only Christians.
00:42:44.000There's tremendous violence in Nigeria.
00:42:48.000The problem in Nigeria, of course, has been going on for legitimately decades at this point.
00:42:55.000According to CNN, both Christians and Muslims have been victims of attacks by radical Muslims in Nigeria.
00:43:01.000Over the weekend, there was a mass slaughter of Christians by Islamist insurgents, according to President Trump.
00:43:06.000The Nigerian government rejects claims it is not doing enough to protect Christians from violence.
00:43:10.000The Nigerian presidential spokesperson, Bayo Ananuga, told CNN: We are shocked that President Trump is mulling an invasion of our country.
00:43:17.000President Trump also threatened to stop all U.S. aid to Nigeria if its government fails to take steps to stop the killing of Christians.
00:43:23.000He warned the proposed intervention would be fast and vicious, aimed at eliminating the Islamist terrorists he said were responsible for these atrocities.
00:43:32.000Nigeria is split about half and half between Christians and Muslims.
00:43:36.000The northern region is predominantly Muslim.
00:43:38.000The southern region is largely Christian.
00:43:40.000Boko Haram, which is a radical Islamist group that you will remember back from the Obama days for kidnapping a wide bevy of schoolgirls.
00:43:46.000And you remember the entire Obama administration holding up dumb signs saying, Bring back our girls that did not achieve the bringing back of the girls.
00:43:54.000Well, in 2012, they issued an ultimatum ordering Christians in the northern region to leave while calling on Muslims in the South to come back north.
00:44:02.000There is certainly systematic killing of Christians in the north, for sure, including mass slaughter.
00:44:09.000And the Nigerian government certainly has not been doing enough to stop it.
00:44:17.000Trump on Saturday doubled down on his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
00:44:22.000He put on truth socialist statement: quote: If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now-disgraced country, guns are blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
00:44:37.000That threat came after President Trump designated Nigeria as a country of particular concern.
00:44:41.000That is a formal U.S. declaration of countries it says are failing to act over religious freedom violations.
00:44:49.000Nigeria continues to deny that Christians are being persecuted.
00:44:54.000With that said, the government is certainly not doing enough to protect Christians in the northern regions for sure.
00:45:01.000Okay, well, bizarrely enough, Tucker Carlson found a way to somehow link this to the Jews.
00:45:09.000Tucker Carlson, a day goes by, it ends in a why, and Tucker Carlson has comment on Israelis somewhere, Jews somewhere.
00:45:16.000Quote: How come Mark Levin would label Donald Trump an anti-Jewish racist if he made the exact same statement about Israel?
00:45:26.000Well, I mean, Israel isn't persecuting Christians, so there's that.
00:45:30.000Israel is not allowing the mass killing of Christians, so there is that.
00:45:34.000In fact, it is the areas where Israel has pulled out where Christians have been severely persecuted, like in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip.
00:45:42.000Everywhere where Israel's boots are not, the Christian population has radically declined across the Middle East.
00:45:48.000Somehow, Tucker Carlson is trying to link Islamist terror groups and tacit support from the Nigerian government to Israel, somehow, in his newsletter.
00:45:58.000Quote, this may be hard for Mark Levin and his ethno-narcissist caucus to accept, but criticism of their beloved country has nothing to do with Judaism.
00:46:05.000Just like Trump's statement in Nigeria is not an attack on blacks, it's about putting America first.
00:46:09.000What in the actual hell is he talking about?
00:46:12.000Well, I mean, the bottom line is: no matter what, no matter what, Tucker seems to be able to find a way to swivel everything into a story about Israel or Mark Levin or Jews in some form or fashion, which, of course, is part and parcel of the fact that he decided to have on the Nazi supporter, Nick Fuentes, last week, and then gloss him.
00:46:37.000That glossy interview with Nick Fuentes then allowed Nick Fuentes yesterday to take a victory lap over the vice president, J.D. Vance, because Nick Fuentes believes that since J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson are personally close, and since Tucker Carlson was able to have on Nick Fuentes and massage him without comment from the vice president of the United States, that this means that he now has J.D. Vance's candidacy by the shorthairs.
00:47:03.000Here's Nick Fuentes saying just that he's getting squeezed because the Groipers are on the one hand saying, hey, listen, fat boy, we want America first.
00:48:37.000And what they're really looking for, I realize, is not to know how I'm doing the mentalist tricks because that's what this is, entertainment.
00:48:46.000I tell people this over and over and over.
00:48:48.000This is a learnable skill where I've spent about three decades learning how people think.
00:48:53.000And so what I kind of figured out is to distill what is it that made me successful as a mentalist?
00:48:59.000And what are those same attributes, skills, and habits that I can teach to you to achieve success in whatever you do?
00:49:05.000Now, that could be in your personal life, at work, in your relationships.
00:49:08.000Reading people more effectively is the ultimate cheap code in life.
00:49:13.000Everyone achieves success by other people helping them as well.
00:49:16.000Well, I mean, I think this is, it's such a brilliant point because when people go to a show like yours, it actually is disheartening if you figure out how the trick is done.
00:49:25.000It's not as though people actually want to know how the trick is done.
00:49:26.000What they want to know is that it's a skill that's been cultivated over the course of many, many years.
00:49:31.000And so you offering people a window into doing that, I think is really an incredible thing.
00:49:35.000So I had heard that you actually wanted to do something on the show.
00:50:08.000So the two big things that the book kicks off with is how to overcome fear of rejection, which I think sinks more dreams than anything else.
00:50:15.000It's the fear of failure that doesn't allow you to actually go for your goals.
00:50:19.000And the second one is how to supercharge your confidence.
00:51:02.000And if I did my job well, people are leaving Amazon reviews in 10 years saying I'm still using the things Oz showed me.
00:51:08.000And when you talk about these things that you have to cultivate, how long should it take you to be able to cultivate this if you're starting as an adult?
00:51:14.000I mean, I know for me, obviously in the job that I have, I started speaking at a very, very young age.
00:51:18.000So, sort of naturally, if you do things from the time you're young, you end up accruing tens of thousands of hours doing the thing.
00:51:23.000But if you're starting this as an adult, you're reading your book, how long should it take to start actually seeing the results of some of the things you're teaching?
00:51:29.000So, I think that results have to happen instantly.
00:51:32.000And I think for routines to ingrain themselves, typically the first two weeks are the hardest.
00:51:36.000When you start a diet, when you start a fitness regimen, that's when people crumble.
00:51:40.000Between the two and three-week mark is when you get muscle memory and it starts to become self-fulfilling because you see the rewards, so you keep doing it because you're already getting the rewards.
00:51:49.000The first two or three weeks are the hardest, and that's where the book guides you on how to overcome that initial resistance because those are the pain points where people quit.
00:52:00.000So, I've studied what made me successful, what made things work, how do you kind of train your mind in such a way that when you hit those speed bumps, you do not talk yourself out of it, but instead talk yourself into it.
00:52:13.000You know, one of the things you mentioned there was overcoming rejection.
00:52:15.000It really isn't just the rejection itself that you have to overcome.
00:53:34.000If you can find a way in your brain, and I show you how to do it, to put a piece of plexiglass in the middle where all the salt only gets poured into one side, then the other side remains fresh water.
00:53:45.000You're going to do that with your own psyche so that you don't take that pain and hurt and rejection and feel it.
00:54:06.000You know, when you first started doing this, obviously you started doing this as a kid.
00:54:10.000I think the thing that people mistake about very successful people, and you obviously are top of your industry, is how long people have to sort of work in obscurity in order to get there.
00:54:22.000People see you and they're like, oh, you must have instantly been a success.
00:54:25.000But it's always, always an instant success 10, 15, 20 years in the making.
00:54:30.000So when was sort of your first break where you realized that you were now a huge success at what you did?
00:54:36.000Well, I mean, this past week has been wild.
00:54:38.000My book is number three on all of Amazon, which is beyond surreal.
00:54:42.000And I'm such a competitive SOB that I'm trying to gun for number one still, even though Diary of a Wimpy Kid is beating me.
00:54:48.000And I bought the book for my kids, so I stabbed myself in the back.
00:54:51.000But shout out to Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
00:55:41.000I will keep taking one step forward, two steps back, but eventually I will get there.
00:55:46.000And so my mind creates the opportunities because once you've decided to give up and you have a no mentality, you don't search for the moments that you can, you know, there's always those little moments.
00:56:07.000I'm sure people have helped you where they've given you knowledge, they've given you opportunities.
00:56:11.000And there's ways to win people over and have relationships that are give and take, not just take, take, take.
00:56:17.000I've learned that I want to give people much, much more so that the moment when I want to ask them for a favor, they're already willing to help me.
00:57:52.000Is there anybody in the world that would know this or any way I could have found this out online or sleuthing or private investigators or all these crazy theories?
00:59:28.000I'm not going to teach you to guess Ben Shapiro's pin code, but I will show you how to get inside the heads of people around you to achieve success because that is the ultimate hack in life is knowing what people are thinking and getting inside your own head.
00:59:51.000Proven habits for success from the world's greatest mentalist.
00:59:53.000I mean, hard to argue that he's not the world's greatest, that he's, you know, that he's not the world's greatest mentalist after watching that.