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00:00:00.000Well, folks, we will bring you the state of the race momentarily.
00:00:02.000First, a reminder, we are now 41 days away from the most pivotal election of our lifetime.
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00:00:17.000Well, again, again, this race is tight as a tick.
00:00:24.000It turns out that despite all of the media's attempts to pretend that this race is somehow a blowout for Kamala Harris, there is literally zero evidence that that is the case.
00:00:33.000Today, Politico has a piece that must be somewhat devastating for Kamala Harris, suggesting she really didn't get any sort of balance out of that much ballyhooed debate with Donald Trump.
00:00:41.000Now, as I said at the time, I didn't expect That I thought she was going to get a big bounce out of it.
00:00:44.000I thought it was a blown opportunity for Donald Trump because there are only so many times in this campaign where Kamala Harris will be forced to actually answer questions about her own positions, about the things she has done as Vice President of the United States, about her belief system, and Trump didn't effectively press that attack.
00:01:00.000But that did not fundamentally change the race.
00:01:54.000Plus, of course, North Carolina, which has turned into a real dogfight for Donald Trump.
00:01:58.000So this election could spin on very, very small numbers.
00:02:03.000And there are a couple of lagging indicators for Kamala Harris that are not particularly good.
00:02:07.000So yesterday, for example, CNN's Harry Enten pointed out that this New York Times poll that showed that Donald Trump was winning in North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia showed that she's actually lagging in terms of support from black and Hispanic voters, which is a disaster area for her.
00:02:43.000Kamala Harris, again, leading here by a significant margin, right?
00:02:45.000She's getting 83% of that vote, but that is significantly short of Joe Biden's 92%.
00:02:51.000So the bottom line is, in the Sun Belt, which is much more diverse than the northern battleground states up in the Great Lakes, Kamala Harris is struggling among voters of color.
00:03:03.000There are a couple of unspoken problems for the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:03:07.000The democratic matrix that has been built, the sort of logical electoral matrix that has been built since 2012, which is drive out minority votes and then count on suburban white ladies to bring you over the finish line.
00:03:18.000Kamala Harris is trying to do that, but she's trying to do so without mentioning her race.
00:03:39.000The Teamsters do a poll in pretty much every swing state, and every single swing state shows that Joe Biden, who is leading Donald Trump by 20 points, Among the Teamsters.
00:03:50.000Now that Kamala Harris has replaced Joe Biden, she is trailing Donald Trump by 10 to 20 points among the Teamsters, which means there is, I think, a quiet male rebellion against Kamala Harris's candidacy.
00:04:01.000I think it's not so quiet in some places, but I think there are a lot of men who look at Kamala Harris's campaign and the way that she has degraded men into some sort of beta male Tim Walz, Doug Emhoff subservience.
00:04:14.000And so I think there are a lot of men out there who are saying that they are undecided on this election, who actually have decided that they are voting in favor of Donald Trump.
00:04:20.000So when you see polls that show Kamala Harris winning women by a huge margin, but Donald Trump only winning men by sort of a mid margin, I don't think that's right.
00:04:28.000I think Trump is going to do much better among men than the polls are currently showing.
00:04:32.000And because Kamala Harris is attempting not to alienate blue collar white men, again, she wants to hold some of Joe Biden's base, particularly in those swing states.
00:04:41.000This election, like pretty much all the others, is going to come down once again to the blue wall states.
00:04:45.000It's going to be about Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
00:04:51.000Pennsylvania is basically a dead heat at this point, which we'll get to in just a minute, because now they're pulling out all the stops in, I think, the most egregious way I think maybe I've ever seen in a campaign.
00:05:00.000It really is kind of astonishing what they did yesterday.
00:05:28.000Race relations in America were on an upward trajectory until about 2012, 2013, and then they immediately plummet when Barack Obama opens that can of worms in an attempt to get himself reelected.
00:05:37.000So I'm glad Kamala Harris isn't talking about race very much on the campaign trail, but it is true that And because she's not talking about race, she's not earning as much black support or apparently Latino support as she otherwise might be.
00:05:50.000Kamala Harris, folks, is not running a very good campaign, but if she were the president, the economic situation that would follow would be significantly worse.
00:05:58.000We're looking at a proposed top income tax rate of nearly 40%, a 7% hike in corporate taxes, and she has said she wants a capital gains tax on unrealized gains, which just means pretty much every business in America is in serious trouble.
00:07:53.000We were supposed to believe that Citizens United was a right-wing decision by the Supreme Court that allowed outside groups to manipulate American politics.
00:08:00.000Remember, Democrats have been complaining for years that it's these outside Republican-funded super PACs that are deciding politics in America.
00:08:08.000Unions have been spending billions of dollars for Democrats for as long as I've been alive.
00:08:11.000Democratic super PACs spend a ton of money.
00:08:14.000In fact, again, they are currently spending $1.1 billion to outside groups in this election, compared to about $915 million for Republicans.
00:08:23.000In total, Democrats have spent in this election cycle $1.8 billion.
00:08:27.000Republicans are stuck at $1.3 billion.
00:08:31.000And most of the spending is, of course, concentrated in the swing states.
00:08:34.000So maybe the Democrats are hoping to outspend.
00:08:37.000And one thing that's fascinating is that Democratic super PACs are not focusing on Trump anymore.
00:08:41.000They've decided, they've squeezed all the blood they can from that particular stone.
00:08:45.000That everyone who's voting in favor of Kamala because they hate Trump, all those people are God.
00:08:49.000So what they're instead focusing enormous amounts of energy on is trying to create a phenomenon around Kamala Harris.
00:08:56.000And this is where, again, they have a problem.
00:09:01.000She's always been a giant nothing burger.
00:09:04.000She moves where the prevailing winds of Democratic Party opinion move.
00:09:08.000She tries to read the tides and then ride those tides.
00:09:11.000So in 2019-2020, when the Democratic Party was moving in a very Bernie Sanders Black Lives Matter direction, she campaigned as left of Bernie Sanders and left of Black Lives Matter.
00:09:19.000And then, when there was a backlash, she suddenly turned into Queen Moderate, who actually was an aggressive prosecutor.
00:09:28.000According to Politico, Democratic super PACs are taking an unusual approach in this year's presidential race.
00:09:32.000They're not focusing on former President Donald Trump.
00:09:36.000And the significant majority of this cycle's spending by pro-democratic outside groups, which typically function as attack dogs, is going to add to aiming to drive positive perceptions of Kamala Harris.
00:09:46.000That stark contrast reflects a challenging reality.
00:09:48.000Harris began her abbreviated campaign, comparatively unknown to many voters, setting off a frenzy to define her in the final weeks of the election.
00:09:54.000That's particularly pronounced because this is Trump's third presidential run in a row.
00:09:58.000There may be little Democrats can do to persuade most voters about Trump.
00:10:01.000Instead, since Harris's elevation, according to Politico, Democrats have bet that their dollars are better spent reintroducing voters to the vice president.
00:10:09.000Which of course means, as I've been saying, the Trump campaign has to be focused laser-like on characterizing Kamala Harris.
00:10:16.000This campaign must be made about Kamala Harris.
00:10:18.000The same math that was always true holds true now.
00:10:20.000If this election is a referendum on Trump, he's going to lose.
00:10:23.000If this election is a referendum on Kamala Harris, she is going to lose.
00:10:28.000It is up to the Trump campaign, outside super PACs, conservatives, to make this election about what Kamala Harris is and what she will be.
00:10:38.000That is the entire, that's the entire ball of wax right now.
00:10:42.000Well, you can tell that the Democrats are in a bit of a state of panic at this point, which is quite amazing because really they should be riding high.
00:10:49.000They've had nothing but glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris since they swapped out one candidate for another in the most shocking presidential move of my lifetime.
00:10:57.000And everybody just pretended that it was totally fine.
00:11:06.000Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, was deemed too senile to be the candidate, but yet not senile enough to be ousted from the presidency.
00:11:17.000You would imagine under those circumstances, under the circumstances in which the Democrat media human centipede continues to operate unmitigated, That she'd be leading by 5-10 points and that she'd be running away with the race in the swing states.
00:11:42.000I've never seen anything quite like it, actually.
00:11:44.000Apparently, according to the Associated Press, under tight security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country's fight to fend off Russian ground forces.
00:12:00.000Representative Matt Cartwright, a Democrat, who was among those who met with Zelensky at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, said the President had a simple message, thank you, and we need more.
00:13:10.000You talk about foreign election interference.
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00:13:24.000And then they said, oh, it was the Russians on Facebook, the Russians on Facebook.
00:13:27.000They were putting up all sorts of memes.
00:13:29.000And it turned out that the amount of engagement earned by the Russians on Facebook was less than my own personal Facebook page during that election cycle earned in one month.
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00:15:05.000Flying in a foreign leader to literally campaign in a battleground state is unheard of.
00:15:10.000I don't know why it's a good move for Zelensky, by the way.
00:15:12.000It seems to me an awful move for Zelensky.
00:15:15.000Any foreign leader at least has to maintain the patina of attempting to reach out to both sides of the aisle.
00:15:22.000It is a foolhardy endeavor to attempt to cultivate only one side of the aisle.
00:15:25.000Even Benjamin Netanyahu has been totally rejected by the Democratic Party.
00:15:28.000So much so that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer literally went on the floor of the Senate and called for his ouster as the Prime Minister of Israel, elected.
00:15:38.000Even Bibi Netanyahu tries to make calls to Joe Biden, tries to meet with senior Democratic leaders.
00:15:44.000If they reject him, that's their problem.
00:15:47.000But Vladimir Zelensky flying in at the behest of the White House to Scranton, Pennsylvania to tour munitions factories is one of the single worst decisions I've ever seen a foreign leader reliant on American bipartisan support bank.
00:16:17.000He is literally going to an arms munitions factory in a swing state and being given a tour by Josh Shapiro.
00:16:26.000This is the equivalent of Donald Trump, in the latter days of an election, using the White House to personally fly Benjamin Netanyahu, for example, to the United States, to campaign in Florida for him, to send him to like Michigan, To meet with Jews living in the Detroit suburbs and thank them for their support.
00:17:00.000Kamala Harris made this apparent during that debate with Donald Trump.
00:17:05.000She randomly sort of name-checked Polish-Americans in Pennsylvania.
00:17:09.000It was the weirdest call-out I've ever seen, I think.
00:17:12.000I mean, it was like, I've never seen such a specific political call-out in the middle of a debate before.
00:17:18.000There are about 800,000 Polish-Americans who live in Pennsylvania.
00:17:23.000She specifically called them out in an attempt to say that they had to be in favor of her because Donald Trump is not sufficiently in favor of the Ukraine war, for example.
00:17:36.000It was a perfectly obvious thing that she's doing.
00:17:38.000So we know what she's doing right now.
00:17:39.000She's bringing in Zelensky to go campaign in favor of the votes of Eastern Europeans who have historically lived under the thumb of the Russians.
00:18:59.000And the New Yorker said, Vance has come out with a more precise plan, he said, to give up our territories.
00:19:03.000He said, his message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice.
00:19:06.000This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it.
00:19:08.000The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine's expense is unacceptable, but I do not consider this concept of his a plan in any formal sense.
00:19:14.000This would be an awful idea if a person were actually going to carry it out to make Ukraine shoulder the cost of stopping the war by giving up its territories.
00:19:21.000But there's certainly no way this could ever happen.
00:19:24.000This kind of scenario would have no basis in international norms and UN statute and justice, and it wouldn't necessarily end the war either.
00:19:36.000It's a particularly weird move for Zelensky, because he's gonna need Republican support if he wants more arms flowing his way.
00:19:42.000It was a Republican House of Representatives that passed a massive aid package that included aid to Israel and Taiwan, yes, but mostly to Ukraine.
00:19:51.000Many Republican leaders still believe that Ukraine should be funded sufficient to withstand a Russian assault on Kiev, for example.
00:19:59.000So him openly campaigning in favor of the Harris campaign is wild.
00:20:08.000According to the Associated Press, the 155mm shells made in the Scranton plant are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns with long barrels that can fire at various angles.
00:20:18.000With the war now into its third year, Zelensky has been pushing for the U.S.
00:20:21.000to give permission to use longer-range missile systems to fire deeper into Russia.
00:20:40.000Like when you literally have the leader of a foreign country coming to the United States at the behest of the White House in order to campaign.
00:20:49.000Does that count as election interference?
00:20:50.000And again, this is coming from somebody who's in favor of continuing to fund Ukraine, sufficient to pressure Russia into a deal.
00:20:57.000Because I don't see how any other deal is going to get done.
00:21:00.000If you stop funding Ukraine, for example, then Russia is going to increase its aggressive activities in Ukraine, prolonging the war and making it worse.
00:21:08.000Even for me, I'm like, what the hell is Zelensky doing?
00:21:12.000And more than that, how untoward for the Biden-Harris administration to ship him to Pennsylvania That is so openly political, it's insane.
00:21:21.000But it shows the desperation of the Biden-Harris campaign.
00:21:23.000It shows that they think this whole thing's gonna come down to Pennsylvania, and maybe, maybe, maybe, they can jog, they think, the Polish-American vote.
00:21:30.000Which, by the way, is likely going to go for Donald Trump.
00:21:32.000Polish-Americans have historically, in the state of Pennsylvania, been blue-collar workers who are in industries like fracking.
00:21:38.000They tend to be Catholic, which means culturally conservative.
00:21:42.000So Harris is trying to make inroads by using Ukraine as the lever.
00:21:46.000Well, this election is keeping a lot of people up at night, but it's not just the election.
00:21:49.000It is also the stuff that you have on your bed, okay?
00:21:52.000You've got a bunch of uncomfortable bedding.
00:21:54.000I know it was cheap, but that's not what you should have on your bed.
00:21:57.000I've taken out my entire bed with bowl and branch.
00:21:59.000Now, I'm not usually one for changing with the seasons.
00:23:01.000Now, meanwhile, the business community is bizarrely trying to talk itself into Kamala Harris, which makes no sense at all.
00:23:08.000So Kamala Harris has apparently been making an undercover push to win over corporate America.
00:23:12.000Now, I talk with corporate leaders all the time.
00:23:14.000I talk with tech leaders all the time.
00:23:16.000There is a gap emerging in CEO world against Kamala Harris.
00:23:20.000They realize that Kamala Harris is basically a cutout for the Bernie Sanders ideology.
00:23:25.000They look at the fact that, for example, The Biden administration put in charge one of the most anti-capitalist people in America, Lena Kahn, in order to basically stymie capitalist mergers.
00:23:37.000Here is the chairwoman of the FTC, Lena Kahn, yesterday claiming that it was corporate consolidation that was responsible for inflation, which, by the way, is nuts.
00:23:48.000She says much of the blame for the exorbitant prices on everything from food to concert tickets is widespread corporate consolidation.
00:23:58.000The FTC's mission is breaking illegal monopolies, blocking mergers that stifle competition, and protecting consumers from a system Lena Kahn says is rigged against them.
00:24:10.000Too often, fewer and fewer companies are controlling more and more of the market.
00:24:16.000And what that means is companies can start ripping you off, hiking prices, stealing from you.
00:24:26.000Everybody in the business community, by the way, knows she's awful.
00:24:28.000Everybody in tech world knows she's awful.
00:24:29.000She has become a byword in CEO land for somebody who wishes to stop the mechanisms of the free market from working.
00:24:35.000And by the way, when you prevent corporate consolidation, which very often means greater efficiency, what you are doing is actually increasing prices.
00:24:43.000But the Biden administration put her in place.
00:24:45.000And you can see CEOs desperately trying to talk themselves into the lie that somehow the alligator that is Biden-Harris-Sanders is going to eat them last.
00:24:54.000One of the people who's doing this is Texas billionaire Mark Cuban.
00:24:56.000Cuban, of course, has become a big Kamala Harris supporter.
00:24:58.000His proposition seems to be never hold her accountable for anything she's going to say or tie her to the Biden administration in any way, shape, or form.
00:25:06.000I know Mark Cuban a little bit, seems like a very nice guy, but he's wrong on this.
00:25:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Texas billionaire Mark Cuban only occasionally spoke with President Biden or his aides.
00:25:17.000But when he thought over the summer that drug industry middlemen were hiking up the cost of medicines to drive independent pharmacies out of business, he found an eager-sounding board in Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.
00:25:26.000Cuban, a celebrity entrepreneur who dabbles in politics, has spent hours in recent weeks on phone calls, texts, and email chains talking with the Harris campaign about the pharmacy problem, an issue he is familiar with because of an online pharmacy he co-founded, and taxes, Wall Street, and the deficit too.
00:25:40.000By the way, normally we would call this corporate cronyism.
00:25:43.000When CEOs talk with Democrats, that's just good old-fashioned business.
00:25:47.000When CEOs say to Republicans, will you leave us alone?
00:25:49.000That's corporate cronyism, according to the legacy media.
00:25:52.000And remember, when I cite the Wall Street Journal, and I'm not reporting from their opinion pages, the Wall Street Journal's news page is actually to the left of the New York Times' news page.
00:26:01.000But according to the Wall Street Journal, like past Democratic candidates, Harris has made taking on wrongdoing by American corporations a central part of her pitch to voters.
00:26:08.000But in private at least, she's making a quiet play for corporate America's support, seeking out advice from leaders across sectors.
00:26:14.000She's offered few policy specifics, but many executives say they view her openness to their feedback as enough for now.
00:26:19.000They're just talking their way right past this graveyard.
00:26:23.000She's hosting dinners of eight to 10 chief executives at the VP's Naval Observatory residence, according to attendees.
00:26:28.000And many of these CEOs are desperately attempting to talk themselves into fetch.
00:26:33.000They're trying to pretend that Harris is actually not anti-capitalism, that she is going to be a friend to business.
00:27:05.000American CEOs, let's say founders, people who build businesses, they have this pathetic belief system that if they just, all they really want is just a little more of my money.
00:27:12.000If I'm just a little more self-sacrificial, they'll leave me alone.
00:27:31.000Again, the single most important political quotation of my lifetime with regard to corporate and business policy comes from Barack Obama circa 2007, open debate.
00:27:40.000He has asked, if you increase the capital gains tax rate and it lowers government revenues because the economy shrinks, will you still do it?
00:27:47.000And he says, yes, for purposes of fairness.
00:28:02.000Again, just because you're good at business does not mean that you understand politics in any way, shape, or form.
00:28:07.000In fact, very often there's a reverse correlation.
00:28:09.000Here's Bill Gates suggesting, well, yeah, I think the wealthy should pay more in taxes, but Bernie would say you can't become a billionaire.
00:28:15.000It's not about the wealthy paying more in taxes.
00:28:17.000The wealthy could have literally all of their property confiscated tomorrow, and it would pay for approximately six months of federal government funding.
00:28:41.000He would basically say that you can never be a billionaire, that at that point the government's going to take away 100%.
00:28:51.000Okay, pathetically showing your neck to people who want to destroy you does not save you.
00:28:56.000All of Bill Gates' efforts for the last 30 years to try and buy his way back into the polite societies of the left wing have not earned him much with the left wing.
00:29:05.000AOC still sees Bill Gates as a villain and always will because he built a business.
00:30:39.000Also, by the way, you may have noticed that our educational system is becoming trash.
00:30:44.000All the campuses are coming back right now, get ready for some awful protests.
00:30:47.000Well, Grand Canyon University is a place you won't see that.
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00:32:20.000By fair, he means that he should be able to seize all the privately created wealth he can and use it for his various purposes.
00:32:27.000And maybe he'll take a medieval indulgence from people like Bill Gates in order to buy off support for a moment.
00:32:34.000But that's just corporatism, not actual free markets.
00:32:38.000The business community trying to talk themselves into Harris is truly an astonishing thing.
00:32:42.000So, by the way, is the American population that is trying to talk themselves into the idea that she's not radical in some way, shape, or form.
00:32:50.000Here is footage of Kamala Harris in 2018, literally protesting deportation of illegal immigrants with, wait for it, Jussie Smollett!
00:32:58.000He's the guy who pretended that he was attacked on the mean streets of Chicago by MAGA-headed white supremacists with a rope, and they threw bleach on him.
00:33:50.000Because back then, she said she would use executive order to offer a pathway to citizenship to 2 million DREAMers and then shield another 6 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.
00:34:01.000The campaign spokesperson just refused to answer, quote, So they just reject any sort of answer on the positions.
00:34:06.000This is the essence of the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:34:07.000Hide what she's about, pretend she is something that she is not, and then apparently ship Volodymyr Zelensky to Pennsylvania to go campaign for you.
00:34:13.000reject any sort of answer on the positions.
00:34:16.000This is the essence of the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:34:20.000Hide what she's about, pretend she is something that she is not.
00:34:23.000And then apparently ship Vladimir Zelensky to Pennsylvania to go campaign for you.
00:34:28.000Now, meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration continues to be utter garbage in terms of actual policy.
00:34:36.000There's a major war in the Middle East right now.
00:34:38.000Israel has finally responded to a year of 10,000 rockets being fired into its sovereign territory by another sovereign nation, the nation of Lebanon.
00:34:47.000That nation has, as part of its governing coalition, Hezbollah, a terrorist group.
00:34:51.000That terrorist group is an Iranian proxy, and they've been firing 10,000 rockets into northern Israel, depopulating the entirety of northern Israel.
00:34:59.000There are no civilians there because all the civilians are living in hotels in the middle of central Israel right now.
00:35:05.000That started in coordination with the Hamas attacks of October 7th.
00:35:08.000So finally, Israel, having completed most of its major military operations in Gaza, turned north and said, guys, you better back it up.
00:35:15.000You better stop the rocket fire and back it up so we can have people, you know, live in their homes on our side of the border.
00:36:22.000They sent out 80,000 phone calls to citizens of Lebanon telling them, get out of your house if you have Hezbollah ordinance underneath your house.
00:36:30.000Hezbollah, by the way, has an active program.
00:36:33.000The evils of Hamas and Hezbollah are unbelievable.
00:36:48.000OK, so here's I mean, this is a cruise missile in somebody's house.
00:36:52.000In Lebanon, Israel released these pictures to show what they're hitting.
00:36:55.000So they're blowing up all the ordnance.
00:36:57.000By the way, you can see that Israel is right, because in virtually all of the videos, you'll see an Israeli piece of ordnance hit an apartment building, and then you will see a bunch, a bunch of secondary explosions.
00:37:08.000That's all of the missiles and the rockets that are hidden inside those supposedly civilian residences.
00:37:13.000So unless they're storing up fireworks for July 4th, it turns out they got a bunch of rockets and explosives inside these private apartment buildings.
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00:40:10.000Seriously, the IDF is doing bang-up work in Lebanon.
00:40:13.000They are attempting to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that, as always, terrorist groups legitimately hide their weaponry in civilian areas.
00:40:22.000They know that left-wingers are morons, and that if they do that, and then a sovereign nation has to defend itself against terrorists, civilians will die, and then they blame the sovereign nation for defending itself.
00:40:31.000That is the entire game terrorists know the game.
00:40:33.000It's been their entire strategy all along.
00:40:35.000It didn't work in Gaza because the Israelis didn't stop, and now they've devastated Hamas's war-making capacity, and Hamas has lost command and control status in the Gaza Strip.
00:40:45.000This is why there's been speculation that Sinwar is dead, because he's so isolated at this point, the head of Hamas, that he can't even communicate with his top leaders.
00:40:51.000In fact, it's not even clear who the hell the Americans think they're negotiating with at this point.
00:40:55.000It might be Khabib, the third-rate Hamas fighter, who's actually a 17-year-old guy with an AK.
00:41:00.000That's how bad the command and control structure is in Gaza because of the devastating effectiveness of the Israeli defense forces in Gaza.
00:41:08.000In Lebanon, it's significantly more upgraded than that.
00:41:11.000The intelligence did not have a window into Hamasistan in the Gaza Strip for Israel.
00:41:16.000They have great intel on the ground in Lebanon apparently, like amazing intel.
00:41:20.000Every day they're taking out top Hezbollah commanders.
00:41:24.000In the hopes that this will prompt Hezbollah to say, OK, guys, we cry uncle, we're pulling north.
00:41:28.000We don't want any more of this or we just won't exist anymore.
00:41:31.000And if Israel has to, Israel will, in fact, send ground troops over the border in order to clear that area and ensure that it cannot be used as a base for operations against Israelis again.
00:41:41.000So what is the Biden administration, what they should be saying?
00:41:43.000The obvious answer is Israel's got to do what it's got to do.
00:41:46.000Sorry, guys, you're the ones who decided to let your country, which was once a nice country, Lebanon at one point, Was considered a nice country.
00:41:52.000Beirut was considered a Paris of the Middle East.
00:41:54.000It was a Christian country, by the way.
00:41:56.000It was run by the Christian Maronites.
00:41:58.000And then the PLO arrived and promptly sent that country spiraling into hellhole status.
00:42:03.000And then the Iranians moved in and sent it further into hellhole status.
00:42:10.000Instead of just saying, you know, our allies have to do what they have to do in order to protect themselves.
00:42:15.000Instead, he says, we're working to de-escalate.
00:42:18.000You've done some solid work in the de-escalation category, you know, all the way through here, Joe Biden, by saying words out of your face hole.
00:42:25.000And what's his plan for de-escalation, by the way?
00:43:42.000Ben Rhodes is one of the most dunder-headed, wrong-headed fools in the history of American foreign policy.
00:43:48.000This dude was writing bad short stories in his Brooklyn apartment, and then he was dragged by the Obama administration into a position of prominence, knowing literally zero things about anything, and somehow here he is talking about foreign policy now.
00:44:01.000The challenge for the administration is that Israel is the prime actor here.
00:44:25.000By the way, Ben Rhodes' nickname, I'm not even kidding, his nickname, the person who was just talking, in the Obama White House, his nickname was, wait for it, Hamas.
00:44:37.000So again, Kamala Harris, the only way she gets elected is simply by avoiding talk of any of this.
00:44:42.000Now, in another piece of astonishing news yesterday, and this really is an amazing piece of news, apparently the DOJ has now released a letter that was on the, that was, it was a handwritten letter from the suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt.
00:45:00.000It was placed in a box containing tools and building materials left at the home of an unnamed associate.
00:45:05.000And they released the letter publicly.
00:46:28.000Crime rates in urban areas are not, in fact, down.
00:46:32.000A new finding released this month by the National Crime Victimization Survey found that crime rates have not been falling and urban crime is far worse than it was in the pre-George Floyd era.
00:46:42.000That new NCVS report for 2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping in America.
00:46:50.000Excluding simple assault, the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony, the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019.
00:46:57.000That is the last year before the BLM riots.
00:47:03.000America's recent crime spike has been concentrated in urban areas, which, shock shock, are governed largely by Democrats.
00:47:10.000The urban violent crime rate increased 40% from 2019 to 2023.
00:47:15.000Excluding simple assault, the urban violent crime rate rose 54% over that span.
00:47:22.000Even murder stats are being skewed because there are a bunch of major cities that don't actually report their murder stats to the FBI.
00:47:28.000So just remember, the governance of the Biden-Harris administration has been awful, which presumably is why they are now relegated to unleashing the Ukrainian president on Pennsylvania as a campaign gambit.