As Russia prepares another 200,000 troops for battle, the Ukrainian government asks for F-16s. The possibility of war with China looms on the horizon, and media members continue to blame racism and all cops for the Tyree Nichols killing. I m Ben Shapiro, host of The Ben Shapiro Show on NBC Radio and the host of the Ben Shapiro Podcast. I think if he had told anybody this conflict would still be going on one year from the date of inception, people would have thought he was nuts. That is specifically the result of Ukrainian resistance and NATO armaments pouring into Ukraine at an unprecedented rate. Meanwhile, Germany has been warning against an arms race as Ukraine is pushing for more missiles and fighter jets. So far, the U.S. has not shared any plans to send warplanes to Ukraine at all, but it's possible that the United States has been cutting some sort of deal towards this at this time, which would make it a good time for Poland to get some resupplied as well. I think it's quite possible that Poland has been helping to fund the Ukraine armaments program, so it's very possible that they will be helping to resupply Ukraine at a time when it needs the most of its resources. I don't know, but I guess we'll see what we can do right now, won't we? - Ben Shapiro and much more. - The Benny Shapiro Show, featuring John Rocha, Sriram Churavdov, Jr., the host and editor-in-chief of the New York Times, and the editor of The Daily Beast's Peter Berkovitch, and more! Subscribe to the show on PodCast, wherever he's listening to the latest breaking news and breaking the breaking news you get his thoughts on the most important things happening in the breaking it's going to be the most authentic and most authentic, right across the internet, and you can find it on the rest of the things you get it online, right on it's tips and fact checking it's up on the internet? , and more like it's not much more than that, right here on the whole thing, right down to it, right there on the , right here and truly, really, truly, it's that's it, really is it really is that sieged, right is it s truly that s truly, truly is it, and so it s really that s really, really siege
00:00:00.000As Russia prepares another 200,000 troops for battle, the Ukrainian government asks for F-16s.
00:00:05.000The possibility of war with China looms on the horizon, and media members continue to blame racism and all cops for the Tyree Nichols killing.
00:00:23.000Sun, Russia is now massing at least 200,000 soldiers for a massive new assault on Ukraine, according to NATO's top official, that'd be NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
00:00:31.000He grimly said there is no sign that Vladimir Putin is preparing for peace.
00:00:34.000He warned that Russia is preparing for more war ahead of the conflict's first anniversary at the end of February.
00:00:39.000I think if he had told anybody this conflict would still be going on one year from the date of inception, people would have thought that you were nuts.
00:00:45.000That is specifically the result of Ukrainian resistance and NATO armaments pouring into Ukraine at an unprecedented rate.
00:00:51.000All of this comes amid intelligence reports that Putin may be readying for a massive new offensive.
00:00:55.000It has been reported that he could launch a new Blitzkrieg style onslaught and attempt to win the war by taking Kiev.
00:01:00.000Ukraine fears the assault could coincide with February 24th, the first anniversary of Putin's invasion.
00:01:05.000Stoltenberg did not give any details, but reiterated the need for the West to continue arming Ukraine.
00:01:09.000He warned the world to prepare for the long haul.
00:01:11.000He said it is extremely important that Putin does not win.
00:01:14.000Meanwhile, Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, he is arguing that Ukraine not only needs more weapons, they need better weapons.
00:01:21.000This would include, presumably, F-16s.
00:01:23.000According to Reuters, Ukraine needs new weapons and faster deliveries to confront a, quote, very tough situation of constant attacks by Russian forces in the eastern Donetsk region.
00:01:32.000According to Zelensky, he said the situation is very tough.
00:01:35.000Bakhmut, Bolidar, other sectors in the Donetsk region, these are constant Russian attacks.
00:01:40.000These are constant attempts to break through our defenses.
00:01:42.000He said Russia wants the war to drag on and exhaust our forces, so we have to make time, our weapon, we have to speed up events, speed up supplies, open up new weapons options for Ukraine.
00:01:50.000The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said earlier on Sunday its forces repelled an attack near Blahodatny, which is in the eastern part of the Netsk region, while Russia's Wagner private military group said it took control of the village.
00:02:01.000Zelensky issued his latest appeal for increased weapons shipment days after Germany and the United States led a list of countries agreeing to supply modern tanks.
00:02:09.000He is saying the Ukraine needs the U.S.
00:02:10.000made ATACMS missiles with a range of about 300 kilometers.
00:02:14.000So far, Washington has declined to supply this.
00:02:17.000The West's general perspective on Ukraine has been, we don't want offensive operations to move inside Russian borders.
00:02:24.000Because once that happens, then you don't know what Russia is going to do.
00:02:27.000In his latest remarks, Zelensky's Ukraine command was committed to ensuring that our pressure is greater than the occupier's capacity to attack.
00:02:32.000And that meant, quote, maintaining the defense support from our partners.
00:02:36.000Meanwhile, Germany has been warning against an arms race as Ukraine is pushing for more missiles and more jets.
00:02:42.000German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is warning against that race.
00:02:45.000He engineered a breakthrough with Joe Biden to send modern tanks to Ukraine earlier this month.
00:02:48.000He has said that fighter jets is a nonstarter.
00:02:50.000He said, I can only advise against entering into a constant competition to outbid each other when it comes to weapon systems.
00:02:56.000Germany has insisted the country will not be equipping Ukraine with warplanes.
00:03:00.000Scholes said the question of combat aircraft does not arise at all.
00:03:04.000has not shared any plans to send warplanes.
00:03:06.000Apparently, NBC News reported a little bit earlier this month that Biden got angry with the Ukrainian president on a call when Zelensky responded to the latest U.S.
00:03:14.000announcement of billions in aid by piling on additional requests.
00:03:17.000Biden apparently has said no to the United States sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, as according to Arab News, he said on Monday he will not be sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
00:03:29.000Western nations, of course, have been sending upgraded tanks to Ukraine at this time.
00:03:33.000It is worthwhile noting that Poland may in fact be cutting some sort of deal with Ukraine to send F-16s to Ukraine and then sort of through back channels, those jets would be resupplied to Poland.
00:03:43.000So it's quite possible that the United States will indirectly be helping to fund the sending of F-16s to Ukraine.
00:03:51.000This would not be the first time this sort of armaments reshipment has happened.
00:03:54.000Poland has been very friendly towards shipping in more weaponry toward Ukraine because Poland, of course, is under direct Russian threat and has been for centuries at this point.
00:04:01.000According to TheDrive.com, Ukraine says it has received positive signals from Poland that indicate that the NATO country is willing to supply Kiev with the F-16 fighter jets it's long been campaigning to get.
00:04:09.000Meanwhile, Polish officials have confirmed they could send some of their F-16s to Ukraine, although it would have to be done as part of a coordinated effort with other NATO allies.
00:04:16.000Moreover, the advanced capabilities of these jets in particular and Poland's own need for them appear to make such a transfer at least questionable.
00:04:22.000Andrei Yermak is the head of the office of the president of Ukraine and he put a statement on telegram saying work on obtaining F-16 fighters continues.
00:04:28.000We have positive signals from Poland which is ready to pass them on to us in coordination with NATO.
00:04:33.000He says tanks, fighter jets, a great combination for turning Russian enemies into fertilizer.
00:04:38.000Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a press conference we will act in full coordination here presumably with the rest of NATO.
00:04:45.000The Polish Prime Minister said the country would be open to providing Ukraine with F-16s, provided a more comprehensive framework deal was set up and then approved, which would presumably amount to the West resupplying Poland.
00:04:54.000I don't know how that is any better, by the way.
00:04:57.000In situations like this, trust is at a low ebb, but there is one situation where you do need to trust someone, and that is with your internet data.
00:05:03.000Now, you can't trust your ISP with your internet data.
00:06:11.000So for folks who are not familiar with game theory, game theory is basically a way of trying to decipher how two parties are going to act when they are in conflict.
00:06:20.000And there's a very famous sort of mental exercise called the prisoner's dilemma that really applies here.
00:06:25.000The prisoner's dilemma is taken from a situation in which two people are arrested for a crime.
00:06:32.000You know that they are in cahoots with one another.
00:06:33.000And the idea is how do we get one of them to confess or both of them to confess?
00:06:37.000So you put them in separate rooms and then you offer them a deal.
00:06:42.000You say to each one of them, if you guys both stay silent, then you will get one year in jail.
00:06:48.000If you, the person in front of me, if you confess and the other guy does not confess, and you will get no jail time and the other guy will get all the jail time right?
00:06:57.000You rat on your buddy, you go free, your buddy is the one who gets blamed, he's the one who ends up with three years of jail time.
00:07:03.000If both of you betray one another, then you are both going to end up with two years of jail time because you're both guilty of the crime, right?
00:07:09.000So if neither of you say anything, then you both get what would be your second best outcome.
00:07:17.000If you trust your buddy in crime, then you're both going to stay silent.
00:07:21.000If you betray your friend, but your friend says nothing.
00:07:24.000Then you take a free ride on your friend.
00:07:26.000Basically, your friend goes to jail for three years and you go free.
00:07:28.000And if both of you defect, then you end up both serving a couple of years.
00:07:33.000So in the prisoner's dilemma, there's something called the Nash equilibrium.
00:07:36.000The Nash equilibrium is essentially where we assume that the result is going to end up, because all of the interests are aligned in favor of that result.
00:07:43.000In this particular situation, you're going to end up both serving two years.
00:07:48.000Because you don't want to be the guy who gets jobbed.
00:07:50.000You do not want to be the person who ends up staying silent while your friend confesses.
00:07:54.000If you stay silent while your friend confesses, he goes free, and you end up going to jail for three years.
00:08:01.000So to avoid your worst outcome, you end up confessing, your friend does the same thing, he ends up confessing also, and you both end up going to jail for two years.
00:08:08.000Whereas if both of you had stayed silent, presumably both of you would have gone to jail for one year.
00:08:11.000Okay, the reason that this applies is think about Russia-Ukraine.
00:08:15.000So instead of a situation in which we're talking about confessing or staying silent, we're talking about a situation in which you negotiate a diplomatic solution or you continue to maintain the war.
00:08:23.000So the worst situation for Ukraine is that you start to make concessions to Russia.
00:08:28.000Russia continues to press forward with its gains.
00:08:31.000And so Russia gets everything and you get nothing.
00:08:36.000If Russia makes diplomatic noises and starts to make concessions, and Ukraine continues to push forward, then Russia ends up in its worst available position.
00:08:44.000If both of them were to negotiate, then presumably both of them avoid the worst available situation.
00:08:48.000But you have a serious lack of trust, right?
00:08:50.000If both of them were actually able to negotiate some sort of solution here, in which Russia, for example, keeps control of Crimea and small areas of Donetsk-Luhansk, which has always been the assumption, I think, in diplomatic circles.
00:09:02.000If that were to be the solution, that would be the second best solution for both of them, right?
00:09:05.000Because the worst solution for Kiev is that Russia wins the war, and the worst solution for Russia is that Kiev wins the war.
00:09:11.000So, but there's lack of trust, and so they're not going to end up negotiating a diplomatic solution.
00:09:16.000Instead, all of the interests are aligned for both of them to continue the war.
00:09:20.000Because the worst thing that Moscow can do at this point is negotiate while Ukraine continues to push forward on all of Russia's borders.
00:09:28.000And the worst thing for Russia, and the worst thing for Kiev, rather, is that they negotiate while Russia continues to pour 200,000 men into the region.
00:09:36.000So what you have is an interest in a prolonged war.
00:09:39.000So the question becomes, how do you escape the prisoner's dilemma?
00:09:42.000How do you stop this from being the interest matrix here?
00:09:46.000Because right now, again, all interests are aligned for a long war.
00:09:49.000If you're Ukraine, you'd rather have a long war, a harsh war, than you would essentially surrender.
00:10:38.000He ratcheted up military operations, and he forced the Viet Cong to the table, and you ended up with a peace treaty that was then undermined by Congress.
00:10:46.000But that was how you got an intransigent enemy to the tables.
00:10:47.000You bombed the living crap out of them.
00:10:49.000And people whined about it, and people cried about it, and people suggested it was human rights predations.
00:10:52.000Of course, in the aftermath of the United States pulling completely out of Vietnam, you got a million people murdered in Cambodia.
00:10:57.000So for all the talk about how terrible it was for the United States to be secretly bombing It turns out it was significantly worse when the United States withdrew from the entire region.
00:11:07.000You had hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fleeing to boats in the middle of the sea.
00:11:11.000And you got Cambodia taken over by Pol Pot, who then slaughtered at least a million people.
00:11:15.000But put that aside, the basic Nixonian strategy was you ratchet up the pressure so strongly and so suddenly that the other side is forced to the table.
00:11:23.000The problem, of course, is that in this particular case, what everybody is afraid of is that if you ratchet up the pressure that strong, this is what Biden's afraid of.
00:11:29.000This is what pretty much everybody in NATO is afraid of.
00:11:32.000If you ratchet up the pressure that strongly, you might end up with Vladimir Putin panicking and firing off, say, a tactical battlefield nuclear weapon.
00:11:39.000Or you might see Vladimir Putin mobilize not 200,000 men, but a million men.
00:11:42.000Or maybe actually try to distract by firing off a couple missiles into an actual NATO ally.
00:11:49.000Prompting not a massive retaliatory response from NATO, but NATO being slowly dragged into a conflict that it doesn't want.
00:11:57.000The risk with regard to the Viet Cong was fairly low.
00:12:00.000You ratchet up the military operations, you weren't really afraid that Russia or China was going to directly join that war.
00:12:07.000That would be more like the Korean War.
00:12:09.000In the Korean War, there was a lot of worry that if the United States ratcheted up All of its military power and went directly after China, which is exactly what General Douglas MacArthur was suggesting.
00:12:17.000And if that had happened, then you drag China into the war and Russia into the war, and now you have World War Three.
00:12:23.000So that's kind of what the situation looks like right now.
00:12:26.000So the best that Ukraine can sort of hope for here is to hold the line, which is why Henry Kissinger has suggested, and I think this is probably correct, that Ukraine at this point should apply for NATO membership, gain NATO membership, and then lines should be drawn and that's it.
00:12:39.000If Putin is unwilling to come to the table, if he continues to pour men into the region, then one thing that Putin actually does not want is a direct conflict with NATO.
00:12:46.000Because if you think that he's losing to Ukraine, wait until direct NATO armaments are flying over parts of Russia.
00:12:54.000But it's almost impossible at this point to avoid brinksmanship if you actually want this thing to come to the end.
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00:14:08.000I know that there are a lot of people out there who are sort of suggesting the best thing is for the United States to completely defund Ukraine.
00:14:14.000The best thing is for the United States to get out of this business entirely.
00:14:17.000And the reality is the United States does have an interest in preventing Moscow from keeping this thing long enough that you end up with a full Vietnam situation in which the Russians just swamp the border and end up taking Kiev after a year of fighting.
00:14:29.000Which, by the way, is still quite possible.
00:14:30.000I mean, Russia has not lost full military capacity.
00:14:32.000The United States is looking for a solution to this conflict in the here and now that stops this thing.
00:14:37.000The reason for that is the longer it drags on, the greater the possibility that something goes wrong.
00:14:42.000We've seen miscalculations in war lead to far greater miscalculations in war.
00:14:46.000The longer it lasts, the greater chance that you have a missile.
00:14:49.000This almost happened just a couple of months ago.
00:14:51.000You have a missile fly from soil in one nation to a NATO nation.
00:14:55.000We saw an actual Russian-made missile fired from Ukraine go awry and hit Poland, for example.
00:15:01.000Now, what if that had come from Russian soil?
00:15:03.000Then you would have had a serious international problem, obviously.
00:15:06.000So, everybody has an interest in this thing coming to an end, except for the parties who are directly involved in the conflict.
00:15:11.000So the question becomes, how do you actually end the conflict?
00:15:15.000What Kissinger has suggested, and I think this is probably correct, is that the thing that you need to do right now is say to the Ukrainians, OK, guys, you're not going to get all your territorial ambitions, but you are going to be admitted to NATO.
00:15:25.000And once you're admitted to NATO, Russia is going to stop this, because what Russia does now actually want to do is go to war with full NATO.
00:15:31.000I mean, if you think that Russia is getting crushed by military tech right now, and that's really the problem.
00:15:35.000The material that Russia is bringing to the front in this war is decrepit 1980s, sometimes 1940s equipment is being dragged to the front by the Russian military.
00:15:45.000It is of no comparison to the Ukraine's.
00:15:47.000All the talk about Ukraine being overwhelmed militarily, that's true in sort of certain raw manpower terms.
00:15:53.000But the fact is that Russia's military tech is really degraded.
00:15:57.000Russia does not have the sophisticated military tech that we have been providing Ukraine.
00:16:00.000They don't have the sophisticated microchips.
00:16:02.000And so they are being essentially destroyed by precision armaments by Ukraine.
00:16:07.000If you want this thing to end, in other words, what you actually do need to do, presumably, is you need to label Ukraine a NATO nation.
00:16:14.000And now you say to the Russians, OK, guys, this war is over.
00:16:20.000And what you get in return if you're Ukraine is NATO membership, meaning that the Russians are not going to walk over that border anymore.
00:16:27.000That's not going to make Vladimir Putin happy, but it's also not going to make Vladimir Zelensky particularly happy because he's going to have to give up a bunch of areas that he right now thinks he's capable of gaining back.
00:16:35.000The other alternatives that are being discussed, by the way, are way riskier.
00:16:38.000Some of the alternatives that are being discussed right now.
00:16:41.000In actual foreign policy circles is maybe giving Ukraine the power to take Crimea, giving them enough weaponry that they can go into Crimea, which means more war, which means significantly more Russian troops, which means the possibility of a tactical battlefield nuclear weapon because Russia doesn't actually want to lose Crimea.
00:16:57.000Crimea provides access to a warm water port.
00:17:00.000So all of this is to say that something on the ground is going to have to change or this war is going to continue interminably.
00:17:05.000If you wish to maintain the gains that Ukraine has seen against Russia, but you also wish to prevent World War Three, you have an interest in this thing ending as fast as possible.
00:17:12.000That means the incentive structure has to change.
00:17:14.000That prisoner's dilemma has to change.
00:17:16.000Russia knows right now that if it keeps pressing and keeps pressing its foot to the metal, That eventually, maybe the West caves.
00:17:22.000If, however, Ukraine, as Kissinger suggests, joins NATO, then this thing may, in fact, be a fait accompli.
00:17:32.000I think that suggestion is probably right.
00:17:34.000This is particularly true because the truth is that the United States and its allies right now, they need to be looking away from Russia, which is a militarily degraded nation.
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00:19:01.000Now the reality is that China is facing circumstances that may force a conflict in the very near future.
00:19:08.000The United States and its allies presumably have a reason to happy talk its way through the possibility of this conflict, but all of the stars are now aligned for China to make some sort of move on Taiwan.
00:19:18.000Because if they wait, the United States may rebuild its Navy.
00:19:21.000If they wait, they fall further behind in the microchip wars.
00:19:24.000If they wait, their demographics are sinking their economy.
00:19:27.000If they wait, they have right now a surplus of several million men over women because of the one-child policy, the evil, fascistic policy imposed by the Chinese government that led to the forced abortion and or sterilization of hundreds of millions of people.
00:19:40.000Well, John Kirby is trying to happy talk his way through this over at the National Security Wing of the Biden White House.
00:19:46.000Here he was saying, there's no reason for U.S.-China bilateral relations to erupt into conflict.
00:19:50.000Well, that may not be up to you, my friend.
00:20:09.000And we need to make sure that in every sphere of government we can meet that challenge head-on.
00:20:14.000The President believes that we should be in a competition with China and that it should not devolve into conflict.
00:20:20.000And there's no reason for it to, Wolf.
00:20:22.000There's no reason for the bilateral relationship, the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, to sort of erupt into some kind of conflict.
00:20:29.000Okay, I mean, that's happy talking your way through what is actually happening on the ground.
00:20:33.000ground according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
00:20:35.000Quote, honesty is not the default policy in Washington these days, so the political and media classes were jolted this weekend by the leak of a private warning by a US general telling his troops to prepare for a possible war with China over Taiwan in two years.
00:20:45.000Imagine a warrior telling his troops to be ready for war.
00:20:48.000In an internal memo leaked to NBC News, General Michael Minahan told his troops, quote, I hope I'm wrong.
00:20:52.000My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.
00:20:54.000The general runs the Air Mobility Command, the Air Force's tank refueling operation.
00:20:58.000He says in his memo he wants his force to be ready to fight and win in the first island chain off the eastern coast of continental Asia.
00:21:03.000He called for taking more calculated risks in training.
00:21:06.000The general's document won't be remembered for subtlety.
00:21:08.000One of his suggestions is that airmen with weapons qualifications start doing target practice with unrepentant lethality.
00:21:14.000Another tells airmen to get their affairs in order.
00:21:16.000This candor seems to have alarmed the higher-ups at the Pentagon.
00:21:18.000NBC quoted an unidentified defense official as saying the general's, quote, comments are not representative of the department's view on China.
00:21:25.000While General Minahan's words may be blunt, his concern is broadly shared or ought to be.
00:21:29.000Navy Admiral Phil Davidson told Congress in 2021 he worried China was, quote, accelerating their ambitions to supplant the United States and could strike Taiwan before 2027.
00:21:37.000General Minahan came to his post after a tour as deputy of Indo-Pacific Command.
00:21:41.000He, like many others, suggested 2025 may be a right moment for Xi Jinping to move.
00:21:45.000Taiwan and the United States both have presidential elections in 2024.
00:21:51.000No less than Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last year Beijing was determined to pursue reunification with Taiwan on a much faster timeline than it had previously contemplated.
00:21:59.000Former Naval Officer Seth Cropsey explained on these pages last week, America isn't investing in the ships and weapons stockpiles that would be required to support a long war in the Western Pacific.
00:22:08.000preparedness make a decision by Beijing to invade or blockade the democratic island significantly more likely.
00:22:12.000Preventing a war for Taiwan requires showing Beijing the United States has the means and the will to fight and repel an invasion.
00:22:17.000This of course means forming alliances It also means doing something that actually the United States should be doing.
00:22:22.000So credit to the Biden White House where it is due.
00:22:24.000The United States is trying to pursue an agreement to open as many as four U.S.
00:22:27.000military sites at Philippine bases in Washington's latest push to expand its strategic footprint across the region to counter threats from China.
00:22:34.000Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is meeting later this week with recently elected Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
00:22:39.000in Manila in hopes to secure the deal, which would rotate groups of U.S.
00:22:42.000forces to sites in the country, according to U.S.
00:22:44.000Again, another reason for us to lock down the situation in Taiwan so we can redirect our resources to what appears to be a looming conflict over Taiwan.
00:22:52.000And again, Taiwan is the single greatest supplier of sophisticated microchips on planet Earth.
00:22:57.000It is unlikely that there is a full-scale invasion of Taiwan.
00:22:59.000A blockade of Taiwan is significantly more likely in an attempt to force the microchip manufacturers in Taiwan to create sophisticated microchips for the use of China's military, which would dramatically upgrade their military.
00:23:11.000The major advantage the United States has over China is of course not size.
00:23:15.000It is our technical sophistication in terms of military weaponry.
00:23:18.000And meanwhile, on the domestic front, The Tyree Nichols case continues apace.
00:23:23.000The Wall Street Journal reports that three Memphis, Tennessee emergency medical technicians were fired on Monday.
00:23:28.000Two additional police officers have been relieved from duty as officials continue investigations into the death of Tyree Nichols.
00:23:33.000The three EMTs were let go after an internal investigation into their actions at the scene of Nichols' January 7th encounter with police following a traffic stop, according to the Memphis Fire Department.
00:23:41.000The review showed they failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of Mr. Nichols.
00:23:46.000The Memphis Police Department said that Officer Preston Hemphill and a second unnamed officer were relieved from duty.
00:23:50.000The two officers' actions and inaction continue to be the subject of an internal investigation.
00:23:55.000Police said that Hemphill and the unnamed officer were relieved from duty at the beginning of the investigation.
00:24:00.000The people who have now been, who have now been fired from the force are, two of them are black, one of them is white, because race is the only concern for our media, apparently.
00:24:09.000Officer Hemphill, who participated in the initial traffic stop and the use of a taser, will remain on administrative leave, depending on the outcome of the investigation.
00:24:17.000The use of the taser, by the way, is not obviously the problem with regard to the Tyree Nichols situation.
00:24:22.000We watched the tape yesterday on the show, and we talked about the fact that Tyree Nichols fled on foot as he was leaving.
00:24:29.000So, again, this is more reaction, legal reaction, to what appears to be an egregious situation.
00:24:36.000The Memphis Fire Department said on Monday its investigation showed that the three fired EMTs found Nichols handcuffed on the ground and leaning against a police vehicle.
00:24:44.000Apparently the department said that they violated numerous MFD protocols and policies.
00:24:49.000Unclear exactly what they were supposed to do at that point, or what medical action would have been necessary in order to save Nichols, or whether that would have actually materialized in any sort of health change for Nichols.
00:25:00.000He did die at the hospital of internal injuries, is my understanding.
00:25:04.000In any case, the media continue on their dual narratives of one, the police are bad, and two, this is all about race.
00:25:11.000So Sarah Haines, the view is just a repository of all the lowest IQ humans on the planet, apparently.
00:25:16.000So Sarah Haines said that we can talk about racism because the race of the officers does not matter.
00:25:21.000All the officers in this particular case, of course, were black.
00:25:23.000It is only the race of the victim that matters.
00:25:26.000Which is quite bizarre, since if you're going to claim white supremacy, typically white people are supposed to be involved in a claim of white supremacy, but apparently only the victim matters.
00:25:34.000You can still claim white supremacy so long as the victim is black.
00:26:38.000And meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg, she of the genius sort of sage presence on The View, she's like, I'm not saying that maybe white people need to get beaten up for police reform to happen, but maybe white people need to get beaten up for police reform to happen.
00:26:51.000So first of all, this is unbelievably stupid.
00:26:53.000We've seen many, many cases of police brutality against white people.
00:26:56.000In fact, some of those cases are significantly worse than what we saw with Tyree Nichols.
00:27:00.000That one case that I mentioned the other day of a white man killed by the police in a hotel.
00:27:26.000But here is Whoopi Goldberg because, again, everything for Whoopi, just a reminder.
00:27:30.000Whoopi Goldberg believes that everything in life is racist except Hitler.
00:27:35.000That is an actual thing that Whoopi Goldberg has said, because she believes that when Hitler went after the Jews, the Jews are white, so it was white-on-white crime, so it wasn't racism.
00:27:45.000When will the brutality finally lead to some police reform from the ground up?
00:27:51.000Because clearly, it doesn't matter if it's a white policeman or a black policeman, it is a problem in the police, in the policing itself.
00:28:02.000You know, seems things don't seem to make sense to people unless it's somebody they can feel or they can recognize.
00:28:09.000But how many times do we have to, do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?
00:28:15.000Again, white people get beaten pretty regularly by the cops.
00:28:19.000The rate of white People being shot by the officers unarmed.
00:28:24.000The number of white people shot by officers unarmed is significantly higher than the number of black people shot by officers unarmed every year.
00:28:30.000So, I'm not sure what the hell she's talking about, except that everything is always racism, always and forever.
00:28:35.000Ana Navarro, just to complete our round trip of the view, Ana Navarro says people would have done more to help a dog than of Nichols.
00:28:44.000Again, presumably the idea is because he's black, which is weird since two of the EMTs who have been fired are black.
00:28:50.000The people that came to treat him and didn't treat him.
00:28:52.000The level of inhumanity in watching this play out and some of these war reforms.
00:28:57.000That's the part that makes me feel- People would have done more to help a dog out than they did to help Tyree Nichols out.
00:29:20.000The kind of virtue signaling that you see on TV with all these people shedding what I imagine are TV tears is rather egregious.
00:29:29.000Meanwhile, again, there are two narratives that have emerged from the media from this.
00:29:32.000One is that all the cops are bad, and so we have to stop policing.
00:29:34.000And two is that racism is the real problem.
00:29:36.000So we begin with the first argument, which is that all policing is bad.
00:29:40.000Professor Alexis Hogue-Fordjour of the Brooklyn School of Law, she said, you know, maybe a solution here is that police don't actually need to administer stops in basic traffic violations.
00:29:52.000In fact, one of the reasons why the Scorpion unit existed in Memphis is because they were pulling people over for reckless driving.
00:29:58.000The reason they were pulling people over for reckless driving is apparently there was a high correlation between reckless driving and other criminal activity.
00:30:03.000It's very much akin to James Q. Wilson's broken windows theory in New York City, which became the way that New York brought down its crime rate in the 1990s.
00:30:09.000The basic idea was turnstile jumpers very often are people who also commit other crimes.
00:30:15.000I'm confused as to why you believe that if basic traffic stops are not done, suddenly the crime rate will go down.
00:30:19.000It is worthwhile noting, by the way, Memphis has one of the highest violent crime rates in America.
00:30:24.000Memphis' Scorpion Unit was founded by the current police chief who just disbanded it because of the problem of violent crime in Memphis.
00:30:30.000In fact, according to Neighborhood Scout, You have a 1 in 12 chance if you live in Memphis of being the victim of either a violent or a property crime.
00:30:37.000That's how bad crime is in the city of Memphis.
00:30:39.000And so the solution from this Ivy League professor at Brooklyn Law School, this ivory tower person, is that what if the police just don't police anymore?
00:30:50.000My really strong sentiment is that to decrease violence between law enforcement officials and the public is to decrease the contact and intervention that police have with the public.
00:31:30.000If you want to avoid a bad interaction with a cop, the best way to avoid a bad interaction with a cop is not to, number one, commit a crime, and number two, not to disobey the police officer when he tells you what to do.
00:31:39.000Now, again, that does not excuse police brutality.
00:31:41.000It does not mean these officers shouldn't go to jail.
00:31:44.000But if you want to actually reduce the number of interactions between one population group and the cops, one of the things you're going to need to do is reduce the crime rate among this population group so they don't have the interactions with the cops.
00:31:58.000And yet the solution, apparently, is that we stop the policing, which of course results in precisely the opposite of what you seek to achieve.
00:32:03.000You get fewer interactions with the cops, that's for sure.
00:32:05.000You do get many more interactions with criminals.
00:32:06.000This is why you have genius Mehdi Hassan on MSNBC claiming that it's time to abolish the police.
00:32:10.000Why is it so radical, says Mehdi Hassan, to abolish the police from his security-protected studio over at MSNBC?
00:32:18.000The issue here, as plenty of people have pointed out, is not black versus white.
00:32:25.000Which is why this whole reform nonsense from Democrats is so tiring and so dishonest.
00:32:30.000You can't reform this stuff with body cameras or diversifying the police as we just saw in Memphis.
00:32:37.000That doesn't solve the problem either.
00:32:38.000The Memphis Police Department's response to all this controversy and camera footage on Saturday was to announce that it was disbanding the specialized police unit whose officers inflicted that brutal assault on Tyree Nichols, the so-called Scorpion Unit.
00:33:44.000I think that I understand what the Chief was saying, and I think she really handled this situation in a very professional way.
00:33:52.000She moved swiftly, she ensured that those officers were removed from the department, she took all the necessary steps.
00:33:58.000But I think race is still on the table.
00:34:01.000When a culture of policing historically has treated those from different groups differently, even when the individuals are from that same group, 58% of the Memphis Police Department is black.
00:35:06.000It's about the systemic racism that is embedded in this country's history and its institutions, like the police.
00:35:11.000Why is that such a difficult distinction for so many people to make?
00:35:16.000Well, frankly, Mehdi, this is precisely the question that critical race theorists have been asking since the 70s.
00:35:24.000It shouldn't be a surprise to people that individual black people can actually do anti-black things.
00:35:32.000Anyone who knows the history of enslavement, anyone who knows the history of policing knows that black people can do anti-black things.
00:35:42.000So if you are a police officer who is black, apparently this is akin to being a black person who is complicit in the institution of slavery, according to Kimberly Crenshaw.
00:36:03.000Again, it's all part and parcel of a left-wing push that suggests that white supremacy is always to blame for everything, and it must be taught in schools, and it must be taught to your children, and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:38:09.000Hey, so speaking of left-wing policy choices and the nimbyism that that involves, it is amazing the disconnect between the elite members of the Democratic Party and the people who are affected by the policies of the Democratic Party continues to grow.
00:38:21.000The latest symptom of this comes courtesy of Steph and Ayesha Curry.
00:38:25.000Not the first time that we have seen people who are very much proponents of left-wing social policy hating it as soon as it arrives literally on their doorstep.
00:38:32.000According to the New York Post, famed NBA marksman Steph Curry appears more comfortable with three-point daggers than three-story developments.
00:38:38.000Along with his influencer wife, Ayesha, Curry has objected to the establishment of multi-family housing on a property next to his sprawling California mansion, according to reports.
00:38:45.000In an email, the couple told officials in Atherton, one of the nation's most exclusive enclaves, that the three-story townhouses would encroach on their privacy.
00:38:53.000Routinely vocal on matters of social justice, the Bay Area power couple indicated that joining the well-heeled chorus of objection made them uneasy.
00:38:59.000They literally wrote in their letter this quote, we hesitate to add to the not in our backyard literally rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting.
00:39:07.000Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose to live in Atherton. Home to tech moguls, athletes and international business titans, Atherton officials will reluctantly submit a plan to the state this week outlining their efforts to increase housing density.
00:39:21.000The parcel in question, which abuts the Curry residence, is set to be rezoned in order to accommodate several multi-family units sought by the owner.
00:39:27.000In their email-read quote with the density being proposed for 23 Oakwood, there are major concerns in terms of both privacy and safety with three-story townhomes looming directly behind us.
00:39:36.000The couple noted the development would not add to low-income housing to the area, only increase the density.
00:39:40.000If their municipal buzzer beater falls short, the Currys asked the town to erect considerably taller fencing and landscaping to block sight lines onto our family's property.
00:39:48.000They currently bought that spread for about $30 million.
00:39:52.000So, if you are a Red Winger and you say, I don't want affordable housing being built next door, this means that you hate the poor.
00:39:57.000If you're Steph Curry and Aisha and you do it, then presumably you're still one of the good people.
00:40:04.000Speaking of left-wing social causes, I have to say, if you want to prove that you're not vindictive jackasses, it seems that the worst way of doing that would be to continue going after a single cake shop owner in Colorado.
00:40:15.000And yet this is what the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign happy face emoji, sad face emoji, cry emoji, trans flag emoji, hashtag ampersand crowd.
00:40:27.000According to the Daily Caller, a Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips Thursday after he appealed an earlier court decision requiring him to bake a cake for an individual's gender transition.
00:40:37.000Phillips already won a previous case at the Supreme Court in 2018 after he declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
00:40:42.000He was sued again in March 2021 after a trans individual wanted Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cake Shop, to make a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside.
00:40:52.000Alliance for Defending Freedom announced in a press release on Thursday the Colorado Court of Appeals had ruled against Phillips.
00:40:57.000They said a plan to appeal was already in motion.
00:41:00.000The court determined that Phillips' right to religious freedom did not fall under First Amendment protection.
00:41:04.000The court said, quote, So apparently, doing that means nothing.
00:41:06.000constitutional issues presented, the division concluded the act of baking a pink cake with blue frosting does not constitute protected speech under the First Amendment.
00:41:12.000So apparently doing that means nothing. It's not actually a speech element which defies reason because otherwise why would this trans person want it from Jack Phillips?
00:41:21.000That is literally the reason this person is doing it.
00:41:24.000The court says, additionally, the division concludes that the CADA's prohibition against discrimination based on a person's trans status does not violate a proprietor's right to freely exercise or express their religion.
00:41:36.000Autumn Scardina, who is a dude, attempted to order a cake for a gender transition party on the same day the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips' case regarding his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gay wedding, according to the ADF press release, and harassing individuals who do not agree with your nonsense that you're a member of the opposite sex.
00:41:52.000Apparently, that is, uh, That is apparently...
00:41:57.000I don't know, some sort of politeness?
00:42:01.000Meanwhile, the trans agenda in Scotland is completely falling apart.
00:42:04.000Hilarious story, because the Scots have basically decided to engage in all of the insanity of the trans ideology.
00:42:10.000Well now, according to the UK Spectator, Scottish prison service rules allowing male-born transgender offenders to be housed in women's prisons have been suspended.
00:42:19.000The women who raised concerns about this issue for several years have thus been vindicated.
00:42:22.000Their persistence and determination in raising these concerns should be noted and acclaimed.
00:42:26.000The Scottish development follows cases that have grimly caught the public eye across the UK.
00:42:30.000Last week's conviction of a double rapist known as Isla Bryson was followed by reports that the violent sex offender Tiffany Scott born Andrew Burns was heading for a female jail.
00:42:39.000Solely because he says he identifies as female.
00:42:41.000These miserable stories and the torture language used to report them, including phrases such as, her penis, are precisely what a number of women have been warning of.
00:42:48.000And while trans sex offenders transfer to the female estates, those are now on hold.
00:42:53.000There have already been too many reports of women in that estate being intimidated and worse by other male-born criminals who say that they are female.
00:42:59.000The fact that it has taken such vivid cases for those warnings to be accepted and acted on is revealing now.
00:43:05.000Rowling has been ripped up and down for pointing all of this out.
00:43:09.000All of the women who have said, hey, it turns out that women are women and men are men, they are now being vindicated by the fact that in Scottish prisons, they're now saying that, hey, men shouldn't be housed with women.
00:43:18.000The fact that this even has to be argued is absolutely insane.
00:43:20.000But it just shows the aggressiveness of the movement.
00:43:23.000The aggressiveness of the trans movement is such that they were literally insisting that men who had raped women and now say they are women should be included with women in jails.
00:43:31.000Speaking of aggressiveness, Quick story out of New York, apparently the left is now enraged that the New York Rangers botched their Pride Night promotion.
00:43:40.000Because the rule, by the way now, is that LGBTQ pride involves everybody being forced to wear your flag.
00:43:48.000According to the New York Daily News, it wasn't a proud moment for the New York Rangers, whose botched Pride Night promotion ended up being ripped as a, quote, slap in the face to the LGBT community.
00:43:55.000The Rangers had promised to wear Pride-themed jerseys and use rainbow-colored stick tape during warm-ups, but that didn't happen.
00:44:01.000They wore regular game jerseys and normal stick tape.
00:44:12.000How can the United States stand such bigotry?
00:44:15.000Pride promotions are common in the NHL.
00:44:16.000Friday was the Rangers' seventh Pride Night.
00:44:18.000All players wore Pride-themed jerseys in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
00:44:22.000After the games, the gear was auctioned off for charity.
00:44:24.000The Rangers didn't address the matter on Saturday in a statement.
00:44:27.000The NHL did not return requests for comment.
00:44:29.000David Kilmanick, the president of the Queens-based LGBT Network, said, quote, if the Rangers are saying they're going to be celebrating Pride Night, everyone needs to come out and celebrate.