00:00:57.000There were rumors yesterday that the Daily Wire is working with the formal Marvel action star, Jonathan Majors, to make a brand new action movie.
00:01:06.000Those rumors are true, and we are ecstatic about this.
00:01:09.000Jonathan Majors is unbelievably talented.
00:01:12.000Now, there are a bunch of people on Twitter, particularly on the left, who are very upset about this.
00:01:16.000And let's be clear, they are not upset because Jonathan Majors was canceled back in 2023 over what was, at best, a pretty empty conviction.
00:03:38.000And this isn't the first time that we have worked to uncancel someone who is improperly canceled.
00:03:44.000Obviously, Gina Carano being an obvious example after she was canceled by Disney for the great crime of tweeting something that they didn't like.
00:03:50.000And now, obviously, Disney has had to back off of that position and said that they will work with Gina again.
00:03:55.000Again, Gina's about to do a fight on Netflix.
00:06:09.000According to the Hollywood Reporter, in a stunning twist, Netflix is declining to raise its bid for Warner Brothers, positioning David Ellison's Paramount as the winner in the battle for the Fabled studio.
00:06:19.000Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters released a statement Thursday outlining their decision, saying the deal is no longer financially attractive and that it was always nice to have at the right price, but not a must-have at any price.
00:06:30.000Netflix's stock actually went up in the aftermath of them announcing that they were dropping their bid.
00:06:35.000Obviously, what had originally happened is that Warner Brothers had accepted Netflix's bid and turned down Paramount's bid, and then Paramount kept upping its bid to the point where finally, there is no way for Warner Brothers to refuse the bid.
00:06:48.000Apparently, they're leveraging up in order to execute this bid.
00:06:52.000The price that they are seeking is extraordinary.
00:06:54.000I mean, this is a very, very high price.
00:06:57.000Paramount's latest proposal was for $31 per share, which is unbelievable.
00:07:03.000It had a number of other sweeteners, including a ticking fee payable to shareholders equal to 25 cents per quarter beginning after September 30th, 2027, as well as a $7 billion regulatory termination if the transaction doesn't close.
00:07:16.000So that means that they're going to shell out $7 billion if this thing somehow falls apart.
00:07:21.000Paramount even agreed to pay the $2.8 billion termination fee that Warner Brothers would be required to pay to Netflix to terminate the existing merger agreement.
00:07:30.000Now, there are people on the left who are very upset about this too, because the way that it works, apparently on the left, is that they must have total cultural dominance in every sphere or they get very upset for the same reason.
00:07:41.000The left is not upset that we are working with Jonathan Majors because they're very upset at Jonathan Majors.
00:07:50.000They're very upset because if Hollywood had said, listen, Jonathan Majors did what he was supposed to do, he did his court-ordered counseling and all the rest, and now we're bringing him back as Kang the Conqueror in Marvel.
00:08:01.000Everybody would have gone, oh, that's nice, that's good.
00:08:03.000But because it's us, that's the thing they're upset about.
00:08:06.000They don't want people who are not radically of the left playing in their spaces.
00:08:11.000They don't like it at all, which is precisely why we are doing it.
00:08:15.000You can see the same sentiment now being applied to the Ellisons picking up Warner Brothers.
00:08:22.000So, Jim Acosta, who, ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta, loves Jim Acosta, the former CNN reporter, he put out a statement, quote, as I've been warning, America now has state-compromised media.
00:08:33.000When 60 Minutes or CNN is in trouble, we're all in trouble.
00:08:36.000Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press.
00:08:39.000MAGA corporations must not control the news, support independent media.
00:08:44.000And so, first of all, let me just point out that the very cozy hand-in-glove relationship between the government and various news outlets was very, very, very cozy during Joe Biden, so much so that they basically covered up the fact that he was no longer functional in the brain.
00:08:59.000The relationship between Barack Obama and press outlets like CNN at the time was unbelievably warm.
00:09:35.000Barry is not some sort of radical right-wing voice.
00:09:39.000The attempt to turn her into one is a reactionary response to the fact that the left has had complete monopolistic dominance in these spaces for a super long time.
00:10:38.000But the actual resistance to the thing, the reason people are angry, once again, has nothing to do, nothing to do with the sort of idea that entertainment is somehow going to be made worse by all of this.
00:10:50.000They're just angry that someone that they disagree with politically made a move.
00:10:56.000Well, speaking of people making moves, apparently in California, it has now been decided that it is worthwhile for a registered sex offender to run for city council.
00:11:15.000I guess the end of the road for Democratic politicians is to normalize sex offenses as some sort of resistance against the paternalistic state.
00:11:27.000Rene Campos, a Fresno native, requires you to register as a sex offender, has now announced plans to run for District 7 seat on the Fresno City Council.
00:11:36.000He was charged in 2018 with possession of child sex abuse material.
00:13:11.000I know it's a lot to ask in our crazy social media era and in the era when the nuttiest people control the primaries, but like seriously, some normality, like just a little.
00:13:21.000Here's Gavin Newsom explaining that he runs a genocide state or something.
00:13:26.000I begin the book talking about looking out over the American River where Eureka, Eureka was yelled and yellow gold and how we were born of genocide in California.
00:13:39.000I try to paint a picture that is about California.
00:14:45.000And international and internationality doesn't mean that if you kill my child and I then kill seven criminals, that I've been disproportionate.
00:14:53.000I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think the but I understand that tendency on the basis of trying to reconcile the proportionate nature of how the war was ultimately conducted.
00:15:07.000Why do you feel the need to create a permission structure for that sort of stuff?
00:15:37.000I will say that Gavin Newsom is better than the other Democrats who are running because he's more Clintonian than anything else.
00:15:42.000He's super, he's super squirrely on pretty much every issue, which I will admit is better than the ideological rigor that is usually demanded inside the Democratic Party.
00:16:34.000So, again, this is the heart of the Democratic Party.
00:16:38.000We're finding that out anew over in Texas, where Jasmine Crockett is running against James Tallarico.
00:16:42.000So, James Tallarico was supposed to be the new Beto O'Rourke.
00:16:46.000He was going to be the hot new Democrat running in Texas, who's going to defeat the Republicans and walk away with the Senate seat.
00:16:53.000And a lot of elite coastal money was pouring into James Tallarico.
00:16:56.000He was appearing on late night television.
00:16:59.000He was sort of a straight Pete Buddijej.
00:17:03.000And it turns out that actually in the Democratic primaries in Texas, the person leading is certifiable nutjob Jasmine Crockett, who has spent her career cosplaying as a sort of low-rent demagogic politician, switching her accent, speaking differently, using extraordinarily evocative language.
00:17:25.000Well, right now, according to a brand new poll, the Texas Tribune Reporting, Crockett has garnered the support of 56% of voters.
00:18:00.000There will likely be a runoff because the way that it works in Texas is that if nobody hits 50%, there's a runoff between the top two candidates.
00:18:08.000Jasmine Crockett, man, Democrats are so, this is so crazy.
00:18:14.000I mean, seriously, better for Republicans if Jasmine Crockett's the nominee.
00:18:17.000So I guess I'm not complaining, but I am a little complaining because I would like for both major parties to stop nominating and electing nut jobs to high office.
00:18:46.000And if you want somebody that's going to fight for your right, if you want somebody to fight for your community, if you want somebody that's going to go up there and represent you and represent your issues, please vote for my sister, Jasmine Crockett.
00:19:00.000Because one thing about it, she's going to fight her best.
00:19:03.000She's going to fight whoever she has to.
00:19:05.000So your voice and your problems could be heard.
00:20:20.000Well, over at the Oval Office, it seems to me that the president should not be normalizing people on the left who are, in fact, radicals.
00:20:28.000And yet the president did precisely that yesterday in New York City, taking happy pictures with Zorhan Mamdani, our Marxist, stealth jihadist supporting mayor of New York.
00:20:39.000Momdani keeps visiting, and as long as he is nice to Trump, Trump is nice to him.
00:20:43.000This is the very basic rule of President Trump.
00:20:45.000I do not think it is a good rule, but it happens to be the reality.
00:20:58.000He brought him a fake newspaper that said, I'm not even kidding you.
00:21:03.000He brought him a fake newspaper, juxtaposed to a real one.
00:21:06.000So there was a newspaper, the New York Daily News, back during the Ford era, the Gerald Ford era, there was a headline that said Ford to City dropped dead.
00:21:16.000That's when he rejected aid to New York.
00:21:19.000So now Momdani brought a fake New York Daily News headline that said, Trump to City, let's build.
00:21:41.000It's ridiculous because it's not just that Momdani is now announcing that President Trump will provide $21 billion in federal grants for a long-stalled project that would involve building 12,000 affordable apartments in an entirely new neighborhood on top of sunnyside yards in Queens.
00:21:57.000It's not just that he pitched Trump on that.
00:21:59.000So your federal taxpayer dollars now go to subsidize Zorhan Mamdani's agenda in New York City, which I do not think is a good idea.
00:22:05.000I don't understand why my, I'm paying a lot of taxes to the federal government.
00:22:08.000I don't know why I'm paying for Zorhan Mamdani's affordable housing proposals in New York City.
00:23:18.000By the way, New York is still being run like trash.
00:23:22.000Yesterday, Manhattan DA dropped a charge against a New Yorker who was assaulting police officers by throwing snowballs at them.
00:23:34.000Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolence Association, told reporters that the purported snowball fight was an attack on the uniform these police officers wear every day.
00:24:28.000And meanwhile, I've spoken about the craziness of the left quite a lot.
00:24:32.000The craziness of the right is no less bothersome to me.
00:24:36.000I want to give some credit to our own Matt Walsh, who yesterday went after Candace Owens.
00:24:41.000Candace Owens, of course, has been spreading complete poppycock nonsense trash about Erica Kirk since shortly after Erica Kirk's husband was murdered in front of all of us.
00:24:52.000I've been calling it out extensively for months.
00:24:54.000Matt Walsh did an entire episode yesterday that is totally worth the listen, in which he broke down Candace's bizarro world conspiracy theories about Erica Kirk.
00:25:09.000There isn't enough evidence to justify dragging her into a police precinct, much less charging her with a crime, much less convicting her.
00:25:17.000There isn't any evidence, actual positive evidence that Erica has committed any crime or covered up any crime or had any involvement in any crime, to include especially the crime of murdering her husband.
00:25:29.000And that's why, although the innuendos about Erica may be compelling fodder for YouTube videos, they would not be compelling to a grand jury or a prosecutor or a judge.
00:25:39.000If you took everything that's been said about Erica or implied and tried to present it as evidence in a court of law, you would be laughed out of the room.
00:26:35.000Defaming anybody with untrue accusations is very bad, but defaming a widow, the grieving wife of a man that we all say we loved and admired, is unspeakably, horrifically bad.
00:26:47.000And then, as Matt pointed out, and as I have been pointing out for months and months and months at this point, the fact is that we know who killed Charlie Kirk, and the entire right has been misdirected from talking about, for example, trans act of violence because of the rabbit hole stupidity of a conspiratorial right that is eating itself alive.
00:27:10.000Even if you don't like how she acts, the pants she wears, her facial expressions, anything else, you have no actual evidence-based reason to think that she is guilty of committing any crime.
00:27:25.000And if she isn't guilty of a crime, then all you're doing is nitpicking a widow, which is every bit like critiquing the color of somebody's nail polish while you watch them drown in the ocean and make no attempt to help.
00:27:40.000Yes, maybe she made an odd choice of nail polish that day.
00:27:47.000And that would seem to be the more salient fact.
00:27:50.000And it's interesting to me to note that Tyler Robinson is not subjected to even a fraction of the public scrutiny, even though all of the evidence, literally all of the evidence points to him.
00:28:04.000There is no evidence connecting Erica to the crime.
00:29:20.000That was, by the way, the shortlist of things that the United States should have been asking for.
00:29:25.000Apparently, the negotiations did not include negotiations over ballistic missile development, did not include negotiations over the treatment of protesters, which by the way, you will recall, that is the thing that led this off again.
00:29:37.000One of the most hysterical things that I'm seeing right now are commentators, many on the right, many on the left as well, who are doing this routine where they're saying that somehow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is talking Donald Trump into a war.
00:29:50.000Okay, let us be clear about the timeline here.
00:29:53.000Last year, Israel unilaterally went after Iran, completely destroyed its air defense resources, and did tremendous damage to IRGC facilities and leadership capacity in Iran.
00:30:06.000And then the United States, at the last minute, in Operation Midnight Hammer, authorized by President Trump, flew a single B-2 sortie over a nuclear facility and blew it up in Fordo.
00:30:19.000So what led off this round, you may recall, if you have a memory longer than that of a goldfish, that what actually led this off is that just a few weeks ago, there were massive protests inside Iran against the government.
00:30:30.000Not a lot of Jews in those protests, not a lot of Israelis in those protests, just gigantic millions of people protesting against the Iranian regime.
00:30:38.000And you might recall the president of the United States making a public statement that people should stay out in the streets.
00:30:47.000And then you may recall that the Iranian government shot to death some 32,000 people in the streets.
00:30:54.000And that put the president of the United States in a little bit of a box, because if you say help is on the way and you encourage people to go into the streets to protest a regime, and then those people get blown away, well, it might make you look a little weak if you don't do anything about that.
00:31:08.000And President Trump does not like to look weak.
00:31:10.000The president of the United States would much prefer that the United States be strong on the world stage, that people respect our power and our power of deterrence.
00:31:19.000And the president historically has understood this.
00:31:22.000And so the president began mobilizing military resources into the Middle East.
00:31:27.000And in fact, he considered a straightaway strike on the Iranians.
00:31:31.000And according to contemporaneous reports, the Israeli government told the United States: don't just do a pinprick strike that doesn't mean anything, because all that does is draw a return fire for no apparent gain.
00:31:45.000That was the advice, which seems to me given by anyone to be good advice, because hitting a camel in the ass with a tomahawk doesn't do anything.
00:31:51.000We watched Barack Obama do it during his administration, and it achieved literally nothing.
00:31:56.000In some cases, it was counterproductive.
00:31:58.000So the United States military was deployed at scale to the region.
00:32:03.000And President Trump simultaneously deployed negotiators, his top negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, to the Middle East to try to negotiate in Geneva, actually, with the Iranians.
00:32:13.000And he promised over and over and over to the Iranians that a deal was forthcoming, a deal was awaiting.
00:32:34.000If they give up their nuclear aspirations and their support of terror proxy groups all over the region, they might have to focus for half a second on helping their people, but they don't want to help their people.
00:32:45.000The most extraordinary and astounding thing about the Iranian regime is that at any literally any moment, like right now, as we speak, the Iranian regime could say publicly, we're shipping all the nuclear material out of the country.
00:32:58.000We're shutting down our nuclear facilities.
00:32:59.000We're stopping our support of terrorism.
00:33:01.000Let us re-enter the world economy and build up our economy and give people the freedom to live their lives to a certain extent necessary to economically prosper.
00:33:11.000And you could still be an Islamic state hellhole, but you would be integrated into the family of nations, so to speak, because there are countries that are very much like that.
00:33:23.000So you absolutely could do something like that if you're, but they don't want to do that because that would require them to actually run the country even half-decently.
00:33:54.000The Iranian real is trading to the U.S. dollar at 0.00 United States dollars rounded.
00:34:04.000Literally, it has no value, none, zero value.
00:34:10.000It would take, I kid you not, 1 million Iranian reals, 1 million Iranian reals, now equal 76 cents.
00:34:22.000That's how worthless their currency is.
00:34:25.000The Iranian government has been incapable of procuring water for Tehran.
00:34:29.000Before this latest round of protests, they were talking about shifting the capital of their entire country out of Tehran because they could not get water to Tehran.
00:34:39.000So, this whole notion that President Trump is being pressured by Israel into going to war for Israel, it was President Trump who made the decision to call out the Iranian regime.
00:34:48.000President Trump has been perfectly consistent for his entire political life that not only should the Iranian government not have weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear facilities, but also that the Iranian government should not be supporting terrorism.
00:35:01.000And by the way, it would be a boon for the world for the Iranian regime to go away.
00:35:04.000And the people who seem to be standing somehow for the Iranian regime.
00:35:07.000Do you really think that Donald Trump is going to get us involved in a land war in Iran for hundreds of thousands of troops are sitting on the ground?
00:35:16.000Do you really think that's a thing that President Trump is going to do?
00:35:55.000The president will make whatever decision he makes.
00:35:56.000I may agree with it, I may disagree with it, but it's the president who's going to be making that decision, not anybody else.
00:36:03.000In any case, this weekend may be a timeline for action.
00:36:07.000As the New York Times is reporting, the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has told its workers they may leave Israel and warned them that if they want to, it's vital they do so immediately.
00:36:17.000Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, put out a statement to the staffers saying that those wishing to leave should do so today.
00:36:26.000I assume that's because airspace may be closed, because maybe difficult to get in and out of the airport.
00:36:33.000He said in the email that the embassy's move will likely result in high demand for airline seats.
00:36:38.000Focus on getting a seat to any place from which you can then continue to travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of the country.
00:36:46.000KLM, the Dutch airline, has already suspended service to Israel.
00:36:50.000The reason being, not that Israel is going to launch the first strike, they may, they may not, but because if the United States does strike inside Iran, Iran may activate all of its missiles and fire a barrage toward Israel, toward Saudi, try to basically do as much damage as possible on the way out.
00:37:10.000That's what the Iranians have been threatening as well.
00:37:12.000Of course, they threatened the same thing during the 12-day war last year, and that didn't end up being much of anything at all in terms of its retaliatory capacity.
00:37:21.000So obviously, we'll have to see how all of this plays out.
00:37:26.000What I would say about people who, again, keep making the case that somehow Donald Trump is being manipulated by outside forces is why do you have such a lack of basic respect for the decision-making capacity of the president?
00:37:37.000Again, I may disagree with the president or I may agree with the president, but he's the guy making the calls.
00:37:42.000And you guys are just too cowardly to say that you disagree with the president.
00:37:45.000And so instead, you throw it on somebody else, which is really sad sack crap, honestly.
00:37:50.000Well, one of the oddities of our modern American politics and really Western politics is that certain things happen and you don't know who did them.
00:37:56.000Like normally, when a political crime occurs, it's pretty obvious who the culprit is, right?
00:38:00.000If somebody spray paints a statue of George Washington with genocidal maniac, you know it's somebody on the left, typically speaking.
00:38:08.000But there are certain things that happen in politics where the horseshoe is so strong between the right and the left that you literally don't know who did it.
00:38:15.000I give you as an example what's happening in Britain right now.
00:38:17.000So there's a very famous statue of Winston Churchill in Britain, and it was spray painted with the words, stop the genocide, a Zionist war criminal, free Palestine.
00:38:39.000The reason that I mock when I say I don't know who did this, obviously it's some sort of pro-Hamas protester, and that's who did it.
00:38:47.000But, I mean, we have been told by people on the right that Winston Churchill is the actual villain of World War II and that he was a Zionist genocidal maniac by people purportedly on the right.
00:38:59.000When you come to hate the history of the West, whether you pretend to be on the right or whether you are actually on the left, it doesn't matter.
00:39:06.000It doesn't matter because it's bad for your civilization.
00:39:19.000Also, Winston Churchill happened to be an ardent opponent of Bolshevism going back to his earliest days in parliament.
00:39:26.000He actually attempted to mobilize Western military response to the rise of the Reds in Russia.
00:39:32.000Denigrating Winston Churchill, which has become a habit on the left, but also is becoming increasingly a habit on the right, is just another example of how the brain rot that has set in across our politics.
00:39:46.000And I don't care how you label people.
00:39:48.000If somebody is talking to you and they start jabbering to you about how Winston Churchill was the bad guy and is a Zionist war criminal, I don't care if they pretend that they are quote unquote conservative or if they actually are on the left.
00:40:10.000A civilization that denigrates its own heroes on behalf of third worldist foreign ideologies is a civilization doomed to failure.
00:40:20.000And the fact, again, that you have people on the horseshoe right and the left holding hands on this sort of stuff is an indicator of just how far our civilization is falling and falling right quickly.
00:40:31.000Meanwhile, people who spend an awful lot of time criticizing the Trump administration without ever mentioning Trump.
00:40:36.000They always said he's being manipulated from the outside.
00:40:39.000How could advisors, how could outside for they ignore the actual things the Trump administration is doing.
00:40:44.000You know, the people who work for President Trump joining me on the line right now is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the DOJ, Harmee Dillon.
00:40:51.000The Trump administration has announced that they're going after the University of California for hostile work environment based on violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as applied to Jewish students.
00:41:09.000So why don't you explain for those who missed it, number one, what the Civil Rights Act of 64 says with regard to hostile work environment.
00:41:16.000And number two, what exactly University of California did to earn the ire of the Justice Department?
00:41:22.000Well, there's an 80-page complaint, and I, you know, it's linked to our press release.
00:41:28.000It's just a litany of terrible acts that have occurred over a space of years.
00:41:33.000And basically, we're talking about employment discrimination here.
00:41:37.000And University of California at Los Angeles, and in my opinion, some of the other UC campuses as well, but we're specifically focused on UCLA over a period of years has allowed anti-Semitic harassment by employees, by staff, and without really punishing that.
00:41:56.000And so faculty, employees of the university have had to labor under these conditions where there's swastikas that are painted on their stuff and anti-Semitic slurs and the lack of discipline is something that creates a hostile work environment under Title VII.
00:42:15.000And so that's what we're going after here in this case.
00:42:19.000And no employee should have to suffer from the types of harassment that existed here.
00:42:26.000And this law protects people on the basis of race, on the basis of sex, on the basis of national origin, veteran status, and other criteria.
00:42:35.000But religious discrimination is one of the big aspects of that.
00:42:38.000And so we're just applying well-established law here.
00:42:41.000And I don't think there's any question that UCLA failed in its duties.
00:42:47.000You know, Harme, one of the things that kind of is astonishing is how inconsistent the various sides of the political aisle are on these questions.
00:42:55.000On the left, they will claim that if there is anti-black harassment on campus, then the Civil Rights Act should obviously be enforced.
00:43:01.000That is not allowed under the Civil Rights Act.
00:43:03.000However, the minute that it's Jews who are sort of in question, then all of the enforcement mechanisms magically go away and get shoved under some other rubric.
00:43:12.000Is that what the University of California is doing here?
00:43:16.000They were equivocating and making excuses.
00:43:18.000And basically, I think if you really were to psychoanalyze what's going on here, there has been an elevation of the sort of protected status of people who are hostile to Jews and kind of lionizing them as if they, because they champion a political cause that's in vogue, it gives them a free pass.
00:43:41.000And so, you know, the university administrators, I'm not saying they were necessarily themselves anti-Semitic.
00:43:46.000They were just cowed and afraid to go after a sort of protected category.
00:43:54.000And, you know, you make a very good point, Ben.
00:43:56.000When you're a favored class in our culture, the mere microaggressions and the use of language that most of us would find pretty normal.
00:44:09.000But if you're looking for offense, that's protected in the workplace and employees are required to go through this indoctrination.
00:44:17.000And we have to sit through these videos.
00:44:18.000I had to do it here at the Department of Justice about using the correct language and not offending your coworkers.
00:44:25.000And yet, this is a big blind spot that occurred here, a total lack of enforcement on the religious front.
00:44:32.000And so we won't stand for it at the DOJ.
00:44:34.000And I think that we're putting schools on notice that this is not going to be tolerated.
00:44:38.000This is a very lengthy investigation that we have been going through for years.
00:44:42.000And I also want to add that before we've filed this complaint, we had a lot of criticism in the press.
00:44:51.000I think the LA Times did a hit piece on us and said that we were trying to concoct a case where there wasn't one.
00:44:56.000I think you can read the complaint and see that this is an extremely strong case.
00:45:01.000So, Harmie, meanwhile, on other fronts, the administration has announced that they're going to be cracking down in significant ways on things like Medicaid and Medicare fraud, public welfare fraud.
00:45:11.000The vice president is leading that effort.
00:45:14.000I assume that he's working hand in glove with the DOJ in order to track down people who are actually participating in this.
00:45:19.000What sort of efforts is the DOJ expending at cracking down on fraud?
00:45:37.000But even before that, in the major cities, particularly where we have a lot of this type of fraud, my friend Bill Asale in Los Angeles, who's the first assistant United States attorney there, who was the president's nominee for that position, he's been focused on this and has gone on to bust and bring some significant prosecutions with respect to theft of these government resources.
00:46:00.000And this happens wherever you have a lot of billions of dollars of money sloshing around and poor controls, you're seeing this.
00:46:08.000You're seeing it in D.C. You're seeing it.
00:46:11.000I'm sure you're going to see it in all the major cities in the United States.
00:46:14.000We've had years of lax enforcement in this regard.
00:46:17.000And again, sort of the pet projects of the left and the sort of preferred classes are running these homeless projects, these food projects, these after-school projects, these school projects.
00:46:32.000And that's where the money is being looted from.
00:46:34.000These medical Medicaid, I mean, there's just the fraud is myriad.
00:46:39.000And I'm glad to see such a coordinated effort here in this building to root it out.
00:46:46.000Well, that is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
00:46:49.000Harmee Dylan, Harmony, thanks so much for your hard work and appreciate the time.
00:46:55.000Well, as every good lawyer, like Harmy Dylan knows, the first rule of lawyering: don't ask questions to which you do not know the answers.
00:47:01.000And this is why, in my opinion, as I suggested a couple of days ago, it was a stupid idea to invite Secretary of State, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over Jeffrey Epstein.
00:47:14.000Because if you don't have her dead to rights, if you don't have the capacity to ask questions that are likely to elicit serious information, what you will end up doing is boosting her.
00:47:23.000What you will end up doing is be clowning yourself.
00:47:26.000And what you will end up doing is opening the door to when Democrats take Congress in November, as is highly likely to happen according to the polls.
00:47:34.000If that were to happen, I guarantee you, Howard Lupnick will be sitting in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings.
00:47:40.000I promise you, Donald Trump will be called.
00:47:49.000Don't ask dumb questions if you don't know the answers to the question.
00:47:52.000So Hillary had her prepared testimony and she said, The committee justified its subpoena to me based on its assumptions that I have information regarding the investigations into the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Glene Maxwell.
00:48:17.000Like every decent person, I've been horrified by what we have learned about their crimes.
00:48:21.000It's unfathomable that Mr. Epstein initially got a slap on the wrist in 2008, which allowed him to continue his predatory practices for another decade.
00:48:28.000Mr. Chairman, your investigation is supposed to be assessing the federal government's handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes.
00:48:35.000You subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials, all of whom ran the DOJ or directed the FBI when Epstein's crimes were investigated and prosecuted.
00:48:42.000Of those eight, only one appeared before the committee.
00:48:44.000Five of the six former AGs were allowed to submit brief statements saying they had no information to provide.
00:48:49.000You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.
00:49:08.000But you know who did know Jeffrey Epstein?
00:49:10.000Because we know that he knew Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump.
00:49:13.000But you know, he wasn't guilty of malign activity with Jeffrey Epstein, also Donald Trump.
00:49:17.000This is why having a nice common standard for everybody seems to me the best way to solve these sorts of issues.
00:49:22.000Like if there's evidence for things, then we should pursue them.
00:49:25.000And if there's not evidence for things, then we probably should not.
00:49:28.000And if you're going to do house subpoenas of people because they are famous and because you don't like them, then you shouldn't be surprised when it swings around like a boomerang and clocks you on the other side of the head, which is what is going to happen here.
00:50:14.000I think she's one of the worst politicians in modern American history.
00:50:17.000Don't do clownish things if you don't want clownish answers.
00:50:22.000It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me.
00:50:50.000Meanwhile, as you can see, Democrats are very excited about this, actually.
00:50:55.000So a Democratic representative then got up and explained that the Oversight Committee now has the ability to call Trump.
00:51:02.000I want to also add that this committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents.
00:51:12.000And we're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of oversight Republicans and Democrats.