The question that arises in the wake of Memorial Day is: Will the West ever win another war again? Why hasn t the West won a war since the Korean War, and why hasn t it won since the end of World War II? What s the reason? Why can't the West win anymore? And why does the West not seem to be interested in winning any more wars? This episode explores the root cause of this lack of Western success in war, and offers a solution to the problem of why the West has not been able to win a war for so long. It begins with understanding why we don t win anymore, and the three conditions that are necessary to do so, and how to win again. And it's not because we don't want to go to war anymore. It's because we just don't have the money to pay for it anymore, or the political will to do it. In this episode, we explore why we can't seem to win anymore and why it's time to go back to being a part of the community that s long-standing tradition of winning at least once a century. We'll talk about why this is a problem, and what can be done to make sure we re not losing anymore, at least not to repeat the same mistakes we ve made in the future. (1) 2) 3) Why the West is no longer interested in war 4) 5) What is the real reason for not winning anymore 6) Why we have not won wars 7) What are the last few wars we ve not won And so on and what s the real problem we re fighting for and why we should be fighting for? 8) Why do we need to have a better understanding of the nature of war 9) What are we fighting for and what is the best way to win Is there a better way to be a better country? 10) Why are we losing more of a country to win more? 11) What's the point of victory? 12) What do we really need to win? 13) Why is the West fighting for the sake of winning? 14) What s better than a better America? 15) Why does the U.S. need to be more involved in a better future 16) What does it mean to be better than the other countries? 17)
00:00:00.000Well, folks, there's a big question that arises in the aftermath of Memorial Day, which, of course, is a day when we pay tribute to the Americans who have fallen on behalf of America, on behalf of our defense, on behalf of freedom.
00:00:12.000And that question is, is America, is the West more generally geared toward winning wars anymore?
00:00:21.000When it comes to military conflict, The chief goal, in fact the only thing that justifies an evil as great as war, is victory.
00:00:29.000If you fight a war and you lose, then all of the sacrifices that are made on behalf of that war are treated as disposable and dispensable.
00:00:38.000If you fight a war and you fight a war not to win, then you have spent blood, you have spent treasure, you have made human beings sacrifice their lives for a thing that has not actually been effectuated.
00:02:04.000And we have not really defined our goals in any war that we have entered other than generalized victory without specifying what exactly that victory looks like and what we seek to achieve in attaining that victory.
00:02:16.000The sole war that you could say that we sort of won since the Korean War was the Gulf War, the first Gulf War, because the end goal there was push Iraq out of Kuwait.
00:02:25.000The problem there, of course, is that there were sort of bifurcated goals because half the government wanted to simply go on and depose Saddam Hussein and end the threat from Saddam Hussein at the time.
00:02:33.000But you can at least say that that was a victorious war in the sense that its original goal was attained.
00:02:49.000Sometimes, for example, the United States military is stretched too thin.
00:02:53.000Virtually all Western militaries have spent an extraordinary amount of time and money in the past Post-Cold War era, really, in trying to shrink the size of the military, light footprint militaries.
00:03:05.000And that means sometimes your military ability is not up to what is necessary in order to achieve the end goal.
00:03:11.000But the biggest obstacle to winning a war that currently exists for the West is not lack of end goals or even lack of military ability to achieve the end goals.
00:03:21.000The real failing is the political willingness to take the measures necessary to obtain the end goal.
00:03:28.000Again, as we've said, there are some military means that a country is unwilling to undertake in favor of victory.
00:03:33.000So, for example, you're not going to just drop a nuke on a country to get them to decrease oil prices, for example.
00:03:39.000But the real problem here is that the West is no longer in favor of victory because political leadership and public support for victory in war is totally and utterly lacking.
00:03:48.000By the way, even in places where the West isn't directly involved, meaning America and Europe aren't directly involved, where we're just funding other people to fight wars, Public support can no longer be maintained, even for the most anodyne political issues.
00:04:03.000That's a result of the public, first, not understanding why we fight particular wars, and second, not understanding the nature of war itself.
00:04:12.000When it comes to not understanding why we fight particular wars, that's because we've emptied the rhetorical barrel over and over and over again without actually explaining America's interests in particular conflicts.
00:04:22.000Politicians cite bumper stickers like democracy or our way of life.
00:04:26.000We'll get to more on that in just one moment.
00:04:28.000In America, we are incredibly fortunate to have brave men and women who volunteer to serve in our military.
00:04:32.000They dedicate their lives to protecting our freedom and ensuring our nation's security.
00:04:36.000These men and women voluntarily lay their lives on the line for us, but when their service ends, transitioning to civilian life can be rough, especially given the current economic climate.
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00:05:48.000That is why it was so overwhelmingly damaging to American foreign policy when the originally expressed motivation for the Iraq war, which was to end the threat of WMD in Iraq, at least one of the main motivations, when that turned out to be false.
00:06:00.000It totally undercut Americans' sense of why we are there in the first place.
00:06:04.000And when we say things like we are fighting for democracy, the problem is that obviously the United States, when we say we're fighting for democracy, it can mean that in a couple of senses.
00:06:12.000One, we can mean that America's interest as the world's largest and oldest democracy That America's interest is in preserving itself and our interests.
00:06:21.000But the way that we generally use it is that we're supporting quote-unquote democracies against dictatorships.
00:06:26.000But the problem is that's inconsistent because we, the United States, uphold a lot of dictatorships.
00:06:30.000For example, we actually don't want the vote in Saudi Arabia because it turns out the population of Saudi Arabia would likely vote for a terrorist government as the Palestinian population did in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.
00:06:42.000It's very easy for critics to point out that many of the flaws that we sense in other countries are also present in watered-down form here at home.
00:06:49.000So when we say democracy, it's democracy against dictatorship.
00:06:51.000You'll hear critics on both the far right and the far left say, yes, but those things exist in the United States also.
00:06:58.000They're comparing, for example, the gulagging of opponents.
00:07:01.000To political prosecution of Donald Trump, for example.
00:07:05.000That's really bad what's happening here at home.
00:07:07.000That is not the same as somebody being forcibly jailed and gulagged and then dying in mysterious circumstances in Russia.
00:07:13.000But that is an argument that is brought to bear when you use empty bumper sticker slogans like democracy or our way of life without filling in the gaps.
00:07:20.000When it comes to our way of life, that's too vague.
00:07:23.000America is uniquely placed in the world, which means that very typically, overall threat to our way of life is pretty distant.
00:07:30.000As people pointed out, even in the aftermath of 9-11, our way of life in any real sense was not threatened.
00:07:36.000Nobody was worried that America was going to become a sharia law dictatorship.
00:07:39.000Nobody was truly worried that the United States was going to start mandating that everyone go to mosque.
00:07:47.000But America's quote-unquote way of life was not truly threatened in that way.
00:07:51.000Which means that if you wish to uphold public support for a war, then real American interests must be defended and explained.
00:07:59.000Yes, you have to have an ideological interest in any sort of conflict.
00:08:02.000But those interests can't be purely ideological.
00:08:05.000They are, in fact, material and practical.
00:08:07.000They involve things that require explanation, like supply chains, freedom of the seas, spheres of influence, resource allocation.
00:08:14.000These things are complex, and they require people to explain them to the American public.
00:08:19.000They involve free markets and powerful allies to protect those free markets.
00:08:23.000There's a really good book out by Dale Copeland of Princeton titled, A World Made Safe for Commerce, in which he makes the case that American foreign policy, while we constantly talk about values this and values that, that really American foreign policy has always been geared toward ensuring our economic and financial interests abroad.
00:08:37.000He says that's true for every single state.
00:08:39.000Countries have, quote, a natural predisposition to expand the size of their economic power spheres and to protect their trade routes with naval power.
00:08:49.000And the reality is that in America, that is very powerful, particularly when it comes to freedom of the seas, freedom of trade and all that makes the world a better place.
00:08:57.000But in order to defend American interests in a muscular world, we actually have to defend America's place in the world.
00:09:03.000And that means that we have to understand that America is an awesome place that ought to be defended.
00:09:08.000We used to understand on a general level that America's place in the world was not only morally defensible, it was good, particularly in the context of the Cold War binary between the Soviet Union, which was in fact a truly evil empire, and the United States and its allies.
00:09:21.000That was an easy case to make in the post-Cold War era that has been radically undermined by several generations now of indoctrination from a Marxist-laden educational system to believe that America is actually a nefarious force in the world.
00:09:34.000So if, again, there are a couple of factors that are necessary in order to maintain public support for a victorious war, one would be understanding why we fight a particular war.
00:09:44.000Then we're missing the elements of why we fight a particular war.
00:09:47.000One, no explanation as to why we do it.
00:09:48.000And two, a belief that America is actually fundamentally good and that our interests are worth preserving.
00:09:52.000And then there's the second question, which is not understanding war itself.
00:09:56.000We in the United States, we are the luckiest people in history.
00:09:59.000Virtually none of us have served in the military of the United States.
00:10:03.000The percentage of Americans who currently serve in the military in the United States is vanishingly small, which means the vast majority of Americans don't know people currently serving in the American military.
00:10:12.000And even the vast majority of people in the military have not fought in a major combat operation.
00:10:18.000Only about 15% of people who are actually members of the military have been in active combat.
00:10:23.000All of which means that for the American public, our vision of war is typically like World War II movies or video games in which there are no costs.
00:10:31.000Plus, for Americans, because we're so powerful, because we are so overwhelmingly hegemonic, there's very little cost to Americans in losing wars.
00:10:40.000That's also true on a personal level, because it turns out that if your friends or family members are serving in the line of duty, if it turns out that you have friends or family members who've been killed in a war, Most people are very much invested in winning that war then.
00:10:54.000But most Americans haven't sunk costs into a war other than money.
00:10:58.000So it's much easier to say, get out of a war.
00:10:59.000It's also easier to say, by the way, get into a war when no one you know has actually spilled blood on behalf of that war.
00:11:06.000You add to that our legacy media, which are hell bent on that left-wing perspective that our enemies are justified.
00:11:12.000And then they add to that broadcasting the nature of war.
00:11:15.000And now we're geared to lose wars, truly geared to lose wars.
00:11:18.000So if you look at how media in the West cover wars, they always start off as justified quest for democracy.
00:11:25.000And then within months, within months, the entire media have swiveled, and now they start talking about Vietnam like quagmires, in which the truly morally righteous are the anti-war left, who are seeking to pull the West out of the death spiral of war.
00:11:40.000So basically they keep replaying the Vietnam narrative, but instead of stretching it out over like 12 years, they stretch it out over maybe 12 months.
00:11:47.000So, when Ukraine defends itself, that is democracy defending itself.
00:11:50.000And then, within months, this is a quagmire, the West needs an exit plan, how do we get out of this?
00:11:55.000And then, the media start pumping out images of war, which are always hideous, because war is truly hideous.
00:12:00.000Again, this is why the first priority in war is winning.
00:12:03.000Because literally nothing else on Earth could justify the evil of war.
00:12:08.000So the media start doing is then they start pumping out images of war.
00:12:11.000And it turns out that wars are always ugly.
00:12:14.000And then the public support collapses because we don't like ugly pictures on our TV.
00:12:18.000So the result of that for America and for the West more generally is bloody little wars that stay under the radar.
00:12:48.000And at that point, the West cuts and runs, leaving billions in equipment to our enemies.
00:12:52.000There's great irony to the fact that the United States did not surrender to the Taliban when the Taliban was actually at its most powerful.
00:12:58.000And when they were doing the most damage to American troops.
00:13:01.000The United States surrendered to the Taliban when we were losing zero soldiers a year.
00:13:40.000And that's not because of the members of our military.
00:13:43.000The members of our military are amazing and heroic and they kick ass at their jobs.
00:13:46.000They are the finest fighting force in the history of humanity.
00:13:49.000You literally would not pick another fighting force in the history of humanity and put them up against the members of the U.S.
00:13:55.000military with the technology and with the support that they have.
00:13:59.000Which means that we're not losing wars because of those guys.
00:14:01.000We are losing wars because of our politicians, and because of a media that hates the country, and because of our educational system, which also is training people to hate the country, and in the end, because we, the American public, don't have the stomach for this stuff.
00:14:15.000We don't like the idea of losing wars, but apparently we like the idea of winning ugly wars even less.
00:14:23.000But this actually has even further problems because our inability to win a war at home is symptomatic of something even more serious at home.
00:14:30.000If we can't win a war, that says something about what we think of ourselves.
00:14:36.000We are unable to justify ourselves at home.
00:14:39.000The real reason America can't win a war is because America, in its bones, does not think that we should win a war.
00:14:45.000Because to win a war would mean that we're imperialistic.
00:15:06.000Once you start believing that you as a country are so corrupt, you are so vile, that you are a negative force on the world stage, it is a really short road.
00:15:12.000In fact, it's not even a road, it just exists.
00:15:15.000The feeling inside the United States that the United States itself is the problem.
00:15:19.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
00:15:21.000First, June 6th marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, more commonly known as D-Day.
00:15:26.000Our good friends at Black Rifle Coffee are doing something special to commemorate the incredible men who stormed those beaches by land, air, and sea 80 years ago.
00:15:34.000Evan Hafer and his team will make a series of parachute jumps into Normandy from June 4th to June 6th, fully decked out in World War II-era uniforms.
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00:16:15.000I bring up all of this because you can see this happening in real time.
00:16:20.000The fight inside the Democratic Party between the far left and the sort of moderate liberals continues apace.
00:16:26.000And that is a fight that has been characterizing the Democratic Party really since the era of Barack Obama when Barack Obama was feeding the alligator.
00:16:33.000Pretending that he was actually the alligator while he was actually a member of the elite coterie at the top echelon of the Democratic Party.
00:16:40.000Yet the boomer Democrats who basically believe that they can channel the revolutionary rage of a younger generation they have bred to hate the country into gradualistic change to America's systems where they still get to hold the reins of power.
00:16:53.000It's a battle between them and the revolutionaries who sit beneath them.
00:16:58.000But one thing that you never hear is a defense, a muscular defense, of what America is, its role abroad, and what our real interests are and why those are good.
00:17:08.000Instead, even when members of the Biden administration are paying homage on Memorial Day, it becomes much more about the suffering of the soldiers than about what they died to protect.
00:17:22.000And that seems to me a fundamental betrayal of what Memorial Day is.
00:17:25.000Because if the soldiers who spent their lives at Normandy had died in service of a bad cause or a useless cause, that is a disservice to them.
00:17:37.000And yet that seems to be sort of the take.
00:17:40.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was speaking on Memorial Day, and he brought up his son Beau.
00:17:47.000Now, his son Beau served in the military.
00:17:49.000His son Beau served in Iraq, actually.
00:17:51.000Instead of talking about the cause for which he served, Joe Biden talked about his suffering.
00:17:58.000Now again, Memorial Day, we're paying homage to people who fell.
00:18:01.000But the reality is that any eulogy of somebody who sacrificed their life for something, it's the sacrifice that matters.
00:18:10.000What makes Memorial Day such an astonishing event, such an incredible This week marks nine years since I lost my son, Beau.
00:19:18.000And a huge percentage of the speech, he did play, he did do the sort of platitudinous stuff that he likes to do about democracy and freedom that no one takes seriously from Joe Biden.
00:19:26.000But a huge percentage of the speech was about him attempting to put himself in sort of the coterie of people who have lost people in battle.
00:19:36.000It helps explain, you know, this sort of hesitancy to explain why America is a muscular force for the good.
00:19:42.000Helps explain why the Democratic Party is utterly unable to dissociate from its most radical base.
00:19:49.000And that radical base really does not like the country very much.
00:19:53.000They also don't know much about the country.
00:19:54.000So yesterday, both Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush were members of the anti-American Hamas squad in Congress.
00:20:00.000Both of them had to delete Memorial Day tweets.
00:20:31.000And that is because these people truly do not believe that America is a good force in the world, that the West is a good force in the world.
00:20:38.000They believe that America is inherently corrupt.
00:20:39.000Cori Bush believes America is a white supremacist system built on the backs of black people that is consistently keeping minorities under the boot heel of an evil We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:20:52.000Omar believes that, except even worse, she believes it internationally.
00:20:56.000And yet the Democratic Party cannot dissociate from these people.
00:20:59.000Again, symptomatic of an America that can't win wars is an America that can't even defend itself
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00:22:12.000Rashida Tlaib over the weekend spoke at a Detroit conference that was tied to a terror group, the People's Conference for Palestine.
00:22:20.000And here she was ripping on Joe Biden as an enabler.
00:22:23.000Again, this kind of weird dance that is being done between the elites and the Democratic Party and the revolutionary base.
00:22:28.000It's ugly and it is demonstrative of exactly what this party has become, which is a party that is warm toward anti-Americanism and is incapable of winning wars.
00:22:39.000It should be noted here that literally the logo for the People's Conference for Palestine shows the entire land of Israel green.
00:22:46.000So for those who are claiming that this is just about an independent Palestinian state, it is literally about the complete destruction of the state of Israel.
00:22:54.000Attacking the authority of the International Criminal Court and interfering in the legal process is nothing more, nothing more than an attempt to prevent the genocidal maniac Netanyahu and his senior Israeli officials from being held accountable for those crimes against humanity.
00:23:15.000This particular conference happened to be linked with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, like an actual Marxist terror group.
00:23:25.000Also, the conference was funded by a multi-millionaire Marxist named Neville Roy Singham, who was born and became wealthy in America, according to the Free Press, but now lives in Shanghai, where he funds a number of propaganda sites boosting the Chinese Communist Party.
00:23:38.000These are the kinds of people who literally sit in the Congress of the United States.
00:23:47.000Meanwhile, over the weekend, we also saw a person now named Fatima Mohammed in New York calling for the increase, the escalation of the intifada inside the United States.
00:23:58.000And if you don't fight the wars out there, it's not that it's just that people come and fight the wars interior to the United States.
00:24:03.000It's a country that is unable to justify itself to itself, is likely to allow the brain worms to eat it.
00:25:45.000is currently arguing against an effort by Britain and France to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency's Member State Board in early June, according to diplomats.
00:26:06.000officials say they fear Iran could be more volatile as the country moves toward election for a new leader after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash earlier this month.
00:26:14.000The Biden administration has long said it is seeking a diplomatic solution on Iran's nuclear program.
00:26:18.000European diplomats have warned that failure to take action would undermine the authority of the IAEA, which polices non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
00:26:25.000They say it also weakens the credibility of Western pressure on Iran.
00:26:28.000And they are frustrated over what they see as U.S.
00:27:20.000And so now the United States in conflicts all over the world is extraordinarily hesitant to even lend the patina of support to allies that are fighting against American enemies.
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00:28:39.000So, for example, in Ukraine, Joe Biden has been slow-walking aid to Ukraine the entire time.
00:28:43.000While Ukraine is undergoing missile attacks from Russian territory, the United States has placed a ban on Ukrainian ability to use weaponry in order to target Russian missile sites in Russia in retaliation.
00:28:55.000That is not a recipe for victory or even for stalemate.
00:28:59.000When it comes to the Gaza Strip, the Biden administration has been far worse.
00:29:03.000At least Joe Biden He gives the platitudinous homages to the Ukrainians.
00:29:09.000He sends his Secretary of State over to play Rockin' in the Free World in Kiev.
00:29:14.000But when it comes to Israel attempting to extirpate an honest-to-God full-scale genocidal terror group, the United States, while providing aid to Israel in a military sense, is also providing aid to the other side.
00:29:29.000So for example, remember that time that the Biden administration decided it'd be an amazing idea to spend 320 million of your American dollars to build a floating pier in the Mediterranean to bring in aid to Gaza?
00:29:41.000And then it turns out that all the aid was being stolen.
00:29:43.000Literally none of it reached the Gazans.
00:29:46.000None of it reached the civilians in Gaza because Hamas stole all of it.
00:29:48.000Well, now it turns out that the Biden pier is sinking.
00:30:09.000landing craft is now stuck on Ashdod Beach, they've finally been able to get a rope out to the Matamoros.
00:30:18.000And they've got these two smaller vessels here.
00:30:22.000So this dumb idea of bringing American soldiers directly in the line of fire from Hamas has resulted in pieces of this stupid pier washing up on beaches miles north of where the pier is supposed to be.
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00:31:11.000Meanwhile, there is a thing that is going on with America's major political parties, which is basically they've atrophied into bizarre versions of themselves.
00:31:19.000I would say that right now, the robustness of all parties seems to be at all-time lows.
00:31:24.000I mean, really serious, significant problems inside virtually every American political party.
00:31:30.000Actually, the problems inside the Republican Party are the least of the concerns.
00:31:33.000There seems to be at least some unity around President Trump.
00:31:36.000There seems to be some unity around an agenda inside the Republican Party, even if it is a milder agenda than one that I would like.
00:31:42.000The Democratic Party, meanwhile, is torn in half by the radicals and the incompetent liberals at the very top of the heap.
00:31:49.000And then there's the Libertarian Party.
00:31:50.000Never in human history, I have to say, has a third-party opportunity been blown as strongly as the Libertarian Party is currently blowing its third party opportunity.
00:31:59.000You have two wildly unpopular lead candidates for the two major parties.
00:32:04.000And the Libertarian Party is just a clown show.
00:32:06.000It is just every four years, it is an absolute ridiculous clown show.
00:32:11.000And the best meme that I saw over the weekend was how it started for the Libertarian Party.
00:32:14.000It's a picture of Mel Gibson from the Patriot.
00:32:16.000How it ends for the Libertarian Party.
00:32:18.000It's like shirtless morons dancing around with rainbow tattoos on one arm And Iron Cross is on the other.
00:32:27.000The Libertarian Party is a mockery of itself, which means that basically it's a scam party.
00:32:31.000It exists in order to raise money for its leadership every four years, because they certainly have no intention of ever winning anything.
00:32:37.000With that said, this is a very close election, and so that meant...
00:32:40.000The Libertarian Party invited the three major candidates who are out there, Trump, Biden, and RFK Jr.
00:32:47.000to go and speak at the Libertarian Party Convention.
00:33:01.000And the Libertarians, because, again, it is a complete circus over there filled with clowns, they decided they were going to loudly boo Trump.
00:33:08.000Which, of course, the left-wing media then turned into, Trump booed by Libertarians.
00:33:12.000Okay, name a thing Libertarians won't boo.
00:33:13.000They're like Philadelphia Phillies fans booing Santa Claus.
00:35:41.000This is the person Libertarians decide upon, which means that something fishy is happening with the Libertarian Party.
00:35:46.000Libertarians out there, stop giving your money and your time to a party that does not care about any of your principles and that is raising money to pay its own bills every four years.
00:35:56.000All they do is put useless candidates on the ballot every four years.
00:35:59.000The last even relatively interesting Libertarian candidate was Gary Johnson.
00:36:14.000Even the Libertarians, like, it's the greatest opportunity any third party has ever been given.
00:36:19.000There's such an open race right now that RFK Jr., who until just recently was considered a pretty fringe political figure, is pulling 15 to 20% in many polls at this point.
00:36:27.000And the Libertarians, who have ballot access in virtually all states, are nominating a dude who isn't gonna win even 2% of the vote.
00:36:35.000Genius-level, mind-exploding thoughts from the Libertarian Party and the insane clown posse of politics.
00:37:40.000PragerU.com today to stand for truth right now.
00:37:43.000Meanwhile, President Trump, I thought, was fine at the Libertarian Party Convention because, frankly, people who look like refugees from a Mardi Gras parade forming a party, I'm not sure how much respect they deserve from a guy who's very likely to win another presidential term.
00:37:58.000But that doesn't mean that Trump had himself a perfect weekend.
00:38:01.000So the closing arguments in Trump's trial are supposed to happen coming up this week.
00:38:06.000And there are a bunch of possible outcomes in that Trump trial.
00:38:08.000He could theoretically be convicted on all of the counts.
00:38:11.000In order to do that, according to Politico, they have to find beyond a reasonable doubt not only that Trump falsified or caused the falsification of business records with intent to defraud, but also that he did so with the intent to commit or conceal another crime.
00:38:22.000It's that second element, the intent to commit or conceal another crime, that elevates the charges to felonies.
00:38:28.000But what's weird is that they've never really alleged what that other crime was.
00:38:33.000They've suggested a tax crime, maybe, or violation of state or federal election.
00:39:01.000So, most plausible outcome, he's convicted on some, he's not convicted on others.
00:39:04.000That's the most likely outcome at this point.
00:39:06.000It's not gonna make any difference in this election, which is why the Democrats are in a state of absolute, sheer, panicked meltdown.
00:39:12.000According to Politico, the Democratic Party is starting to sink in that their candidate stinks.
00:39:18.000Their top headline today, Dems in full-blown freakout over Biden.
00:39:22.000A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over presidential Biden's reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump.
00:39:32.000All year, Democrats have been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the 2024 election.
00:39:37.000But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives.
00:39:43.000The gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print and what they will text their friends has only grown as worries have surged about Biden's prospects.
00:39:50.000You don't want to be that bad guy who's on the record saying we're doomed or the campaign's bad or Biden's making mistakes.
00:39:54.000Nobody wants to be that guy, according to an anonymous Democratic operative.
00:40:00.000But Biden's stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election are, quote, creating the freakout.
00:40:05.000This isn't, oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.
00:40:56.000She didn't know when the so-called event took place, sometime in the 1990s, never filed a police report, didn't have to produce the dress that she threatened me with, and it showed negative, and sung my praises in the first half of her CNN interview with Alison Cooper, but changed her tune in the second half.