00:01:22.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:41.000I'll try to sum this up all in about 30 seconds.
00:03:44.000So, you know, a long time ago, there were these two peoples that didn't like each other very much.
00:03:49.000And then you had several millennia of history occur.
00:03:53.000And so now what's going on is you've seen another outburst of violence.
00:03:56.000I think that the story here on what's going on in Israel is not so much the story that you're reading in the newspapers.
00:04:05.000The story you're reading in the newspapers is this issue of the Palestinian Arabs and the Israelis and an outburst of violence and a possible building of settlements and evicting people in East Jerusalem.
00:04:18.000The broader question is, what is going on in the Middle East, writ large?
00:04:23.000What we were told under the Obama administration, we were told by John Kerry when he was Secretary of State, is that you absolutely could not solve problems in the Middle East without first addressing the Palestinian issue.
00:04:34.000And he said, it's just not going to happen.
00:04:48.000Trump signs a record number of peace deals with Israel, things that would have been thought absolutely impossible even just a couple of years before.
00:04:59.000If I were a Palestinian Arab being evicted from East Jerusalem, I guess I would be pretty angry too.
00:05:05.000But then again, I probably wouldn't elect Hamas.
00:05:08.000And so obviously, you know, elections have consequences, as we like to say.
00:05:12.000And when you have people in Palestine, the images are seared into my mind.
00:05:17.000People in the Palestinian territories, it's not a state, it's not a country, but these Palestinian Arabs celebrating a 9-11 enchanting death to America.
00:05:26.000Well, then don't be surprised when the United States is not going to back your pleas to create a brand new nation state.
00:05:35.000Meanwhile, Israel has been, generally speaking, a very good ally of ours.
00:05:40.000And so I just don't see any reason to create another state that will be run by very nefarious organizations that are hostile to the United States.
00:05:48.000When we talk about an America-first foreign policy, by the way, you know, a lot of people think this means totally retreating from the world stage.
00:05:55.000I think what it really means is pursuing a diplomacy that is in the American interest.
00:06:01.000And I just don't see how it is in the American interest to back the creation of some new Palestinian nation state.
00:06:08.000Trump showed you you don't have to do it to solve other problems in the region.
00:06:11.000Well, I love where your head's at on this because it's actually a really, I think, confusing topic for a lot of people because they're saying, where does it start?
00:06:19.000Who sparked this most recent conflict?
00:06:22.000And I think the point you're making is that it doesn't really matter.
00:06:27.000And what we saw after the election of Joe Biden, much to all of our chagrin here, was a changing in the calculus on the part of the Palestinians.
00:06:37.000They understood that their leverage points had shifted.
00:06:39.000They understood that power in Washington had different affiliations, different strategies within the region.
00:06:45.000And they understood that just as John Kerry had always said, if you don't deal with this Palestinian, this two-state issue, right, that everybody's been pursuing, that we're not going to have peace.
00:06:55.000The Palestinians are seizing upon that.
00:06:57.000There's been, you know, a lot of the stories I was reading is that a lot of people keep asking, where did this renewed fervor in East Jerusalem come from?
00:07:04.000Because these protests have been going on for decades, and nobody paid attention.
00:07:07.000They were looked at as little neighborhood protests, and they were dotted all around Israel, you know, and they just didn't gain traction.
00:07:15.000All of a sudden, this protest in East Jerusalem gained sort of pan-Palestinian traction from Gaza to the West Bank, and it became a rallying cry, which is what sparked this most recent bout of violence.
00:07:29.000Now, it seems as though the Democrats have completely picked their side.
00:07:34.000You've got Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar, all the usual suspects accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing because of these evictions in East Jerusalem, which is a case that's been going on for decades, actually.
00:07:48.000But you have Andrew Yang conspicuously out on the fringe of his party running for mayor of New York City.
00:08:27.000So I'm glad that I guess he's on the right side of this issue, but he does not interest me as a sort of candidate that I would support.
00:08:34.000Whereas there are other Democrats who have made overtures to Republicans, people like Tulsi Gabbard, for instance, who I might say, actually, she's worth another look.
00:08:42.000Or Kirsten Cinema or Joe Manchin have held the line in the Senate.
00:08:50.000You're seeing just the two sides in this country taking two sides in foreign policy.
00:08:56.000So the Republicans were interested in using our relationship with Saudi Arabia to end our relationship with Israel to try to create peace in the Middle East and to oppose Iran.
00:09:07.000The Democrats, what do the Democrats want to do?
00:09:11.000I think that John Kerry and his wonderful friend Javad, the foreign minister in Iran, basically go on moonlit strolls when they're together in the middle of Tehran.
00:09:22.000So, you know, that was obviously their foreign policy.
00:09:26.000Trump comes in and kills their top general, Qassem Suleimani.
00:09:29.000Now we're back at it again, trying to resurrect some version of the Iran deal.
00:09:33.000And this creates reverberations throughout the Middle East, and then it becomes focused in this Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:09:41.000But the one thing I do know, and I think this is true of the vast majority of Americans, is we don't really care that much.
00:09:49.000I mean, I care as much as I care about justice and I want people to have good lives overseas.
00:09:55.000But I don't know the intricacies of Iranian politics and Saudi politics or Israeli politics for that matter.
00:10:01.000These are sovereign countries, and there is no way that an American liberal empire is going to run the world perfectly without compromising our American way of life at home.
00:10:11.000So I think what most Americans want is a foreign policy that is sensible, that protects the world order, but most importantly, protects our way of life.
00:10:21.000And it's why you're also seeing a big resistance right now against people like Liz Cheney or the neoconservatives in the Republican Party who are still trying to defend this Bush-era liberal imperialism that Americans at this point say, no, we've been in places like Afghanistan 20 years.
00:10:39.000Let's come home and let's start rebuilding cities in, I don't know, Detroit, start rebuilding a manufacturing base and infrastructure here in the United States.
00:10:49.000A gas station sells regular unleaded for $4 a gallon.
00:10:53.000The gas stations next door sell the exact same unleaded gas for $2 a gallon.
00:11:01.000So why are you still paying over-inflated rates for wireless with Verizon T-Mobile or ATT when you could be getting the exact same coverage as one of those big carriers with PeerTalk?
00:11:09.000Except get this, it costs you less than half.
00:11:11.000The average family is saving over $800 a year.
00:11:14.000Right now, get unlimited talk, text, and six gigs of data for just over $30 a month.
00:11:19.000And if you go over on data, they don't charge you for it.
00:11:52.000And it was actually very difficult to get to the bottom of what's happening here.
00:11:55.000I did a lot of research last night because this was the first time we've even talked about it on the show.
00:12:00.000And I haven't heard anybody, you know, in our emails or whatever be upset about that.
00:12:04.000But speaking of people who have had historical conflicts with the Jewish people, we now turn our sights to Germany and the German Catholics.
00:12:15.000We've had, especially between you and Charlie, we've had some great little back and forth about the Catholic-Protestant divide debate that's been raging for centuries.
00:13:19.000The Holy Father, Pope Francis, who has broadly been interpreted to be rather liberal, rather left-wing in his pontificate, just a bit, made a clear statement.
00:13:29.000The Vatican has been very clear on this.
00:13:31.000There is no such thing as same-sex marriage.
00:13:33.000Marriage involves sexual difference, and you can't do it, and there's just no way to redefine it.
00:13:39.000I believe the line from the Vatican is that God cannot bless sin.
00:13:43.000And these German bishops are very upset about this because they want a more liberal read heretical Christianity.
00:13:53.000And it's the German bishops and the American bishops have dealt with this.
00:13:56.000The one thing I will say, though, getting back to our little squabbles about Protestantism and Catholicism, is that the church has dealt with a whole lot of heresies over the years.
00:14:05.000We've had the Arian heresy, very famously when St. Nicholas Santa Claus punched Arius in the face at the Council of Nicaea.
00:14:16.000We have had heresy upon heresy upon heresy.
00:14:19.000And this is why it's very important for the Vatican to be clear in what she says.
00:14:24.000I was so pleased that in a very confusing pontificate, Pope Francis has been at least clear in this regard on the question of marriage.
00:14:32.000And if the German bishops don't want to get in line, then there must be consequences.
00:14:36.000Yeah, I think that's really interesting.
00:14:37.000It almost seems like with the Catholic Church, we're seeing the equivalent of what we've seen in the United States with like sanctuary cities defying federal law or states saying, you know, legalizing marijuana, even though it's still federally illegal.
00:14:51.000It's, you know, these outposts that have their own rules, it creates tensions within these big bureaucracies, which is another reason why I love being Protestant, because, you know, my local church just follows the Bible, and it's great.
00:15:58.000There's a story in the New York Times of Elizabeth Brunig.
00:16:03.000She had a baby at 25 years old living in D.C.
00:17:00.000But one of the parts I found really fascinating, and I'm sorry I had to cut you off, Michael, but she says, being young or young enough still not to know yourself entirely and then feeling the foundation of your nascent selfhood shift beneath you, perhaps that's exactly the sort of momentous change that makes the whole enterprise so daunting.
00:17:18.000With the exception of perhaps a few immutable characteristics, you are not something you discover one day through trial and error and interior spelunking.
00:17:26.000You are something that is constantly in the process of becoming.
00:17:30.000Now, the point that she's making is a lot of people put off having a child because it's daunting.
00:17:34.000They don't feel like they know themselves yet.
00:18:00.000I feel exhausted, and I've never felt better in my whole life.
00:18:02.000By an act of cosmic sadism or divine providence, my book, my upcoming book, Speechless, which is my first one with words, and my baby were both due into the world on the same day, and they both came on time.
00:18:16.000And I kid you not, I'm sitting in the delivery room.
00:19:44.000But I actually totally agree with you, by the way, as an aside.
00:19:47.000I think half the reason our young people are losing their darn minds is because they're not having kids early enough and they're just prolonged in their selfishness.
00:20:01.000Yes, my kid is more important than the book, but I'm not yet selling the kid unless you offer me a really good price.
00:20:08.000And then I guess we have a lot of businessmen here, okay?
00:20:11.000So the book is a history of political correctness for 100 years.
00:20:16.000And one thing I discovered while I was writing it is that I think we on the right like to pride ourselves on thinking we understand free speech and the American speech tradition way better than the left does, you know.
00:20:28.000Actually, the left understands it way better.
00:20:30.000That's why they're so successful in politics.
00:20:35.000And what they've done, this is so brilliant.
00:20:37.000They have laid a trap for conservatives in political correctness or wokeism or whatever you want to call it, which is either way that we respond to it, we lose.
00:20:46.000Either we can be a squish, you know, and just go along and call Caitlin a she and, you know, just accept their new ridiculous premises and their redefinitions.
00:20:53.000Obviously, that advances what they want.
00:20:55.000Or this is what a lot of other conservatives do.
00:20:58.000We say, hey, I'm a free speech absolutist.
00:22:03.000And frankly, it gives us a lot of encouragement and confidence to speak boldly about the issues that the mainstream news media doesn't want us to.