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00:02:22.000They don't want to answer for anything that they do.
00:02:24.000They have more control over our lives, over our information, our news, than anybody in human history.
00:02:31.000And yet they themselves don't want to be accountable for anything.
00:02:33.000So I just tried to get him to express some accountability.
00:02:38.000I mean, to get to own up to what he's done.
00:02:40.000And finally, I just said to him, you know, do you want to say something to all of these families?
00:02:44.000Because we had so many families in the room, Charlie, who have lost kids, not just kids who've been hurt or harmed by exploitation online, sex exploitation, childborn, but actually who have committed suicide.
00:03:13.000I mean, it was kind of awkward, but in some ways admirable.
00:03:16.000I just, it was as if, look, I, he has, it seems as if everything in his life goes through a formula and you kind of broke the internal matrix of, you know, the quasi-cyborg way that Zuckerberg views.
00:03:29.000He was like, what does my operating program tell me to do?
00:03:32.000And he kind of stood up and awkwardly faced them.
00:03:40.000And I think it was finally some acknowledgement.
00:03:42.000I mean, maybe it broke through a little bit that these are real people behind him.
00:03:45.000These aren't, this isn't just a formula.
00:03:47.000These people behind him, they're not an algorithm.
00:03:49.000You know, it's not just about the revenue numbers.
00:03:52.000These are actual people who his platform has hurt.
00:03:54.000And Charlie, I'll just say this about Zuckerberg and the others.
00:03:57.000They've got all the time and all the money in the world to censor conservatives left, right, and center.
00:04:01.000You know, let's not forget Facebook willingly cooperated with the Biden White House to censor posts about COVID, about the vaccine, about election integrity, about Hunter Biden, you name it.
00:04:11.000And yet they're telling us, oh, but we can't do anything, nothing meaningful about child sex material online.
00:04:23.000And this was one of the more objectionable elements of his testimony on 36.
00:04:29.000This is the equivalent of Pfizer coming out and saying that there's nothing wrong with the vaccine, or the equivalent of even more, let's just say, agreeable to the audience, would be big tobacco coming out and saying, oh, there's nothing wrong with smoking.
00:04:50.000And I want you to riff on this and to challenge it and to deconstruct Zuckerberg's lie here, play cut 36.
00:04:59.000With so much of our lives spent on mobile devices and social media, it's important to look into the effects on teen mental health and well-being.
00:05:08.000Mental health is a complex issue, and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes.
00:05:24.000He has done a study, Facebook and Instagram have done into comprehensive studies, year-long, multi-year studies internally about the effect of their platforms on teen mental health.
00:05:34.000And what they found, and we know this because whistleblowers have come forward and leaked the information, what they found is their platforms make teens' mental health worse, much worse, especially young girls.
00:05:44.00030 plus percent of young girls say, those are like 13 to 17 on their platforms, say that their lives are made materially worse the longer they spend time on the platforms.
00:06:18.000And we have some charts here to support that.
00:06:20.000I mean, as soon as we had the advent of the proliferation of iPhones, especially young ladies' suicidal ideation, their image of self, anxiety, depression skyrocketed.
00:06:34.000Mental health outcomes were actually stable and plateauing, and then it skyrockets.
00:06:39.000And so I'm open for anybody to tell me why all of a sudden in 2013, 14, when we put a supercomputer in young ladies' front pocket, where they become very obsessed with what other people say about them and what they say about other people, why that changed.
00:06:55.000Senator, so what were some of the takeaways here?
00:06:58.000I admittedly only caught your parts and you were excellent.
00:07:12.000I mean, it's good that Zuckerberg finally admitted to the world that, you know, oops, maybe Facebook has actually exploited people and gotten rich off of it.
00:07:21.000But now Congress needs to do something, Charlie, because the truth is, if you are a victim or you're the parent of a victim right now, you don't have any recourse.
00:07:28.000You can't go to court and sue these guys, unlike every other company in America, because they're protected by the federal government.
00:07:51.000Is there government issued liability protection or is it a little opaque?
00:07:55.000Is that I know there's section 230, but I mean, for example, if there's a clear-cut case of self-harm or an individual or a teenager that engages in suicide via something the tech company's fit on, is there really no way to sue the tech companies?
00:08:17.000Get this: the courts are letting them get by with it.
00:08:19.000The courts are throwing out these cases and saying, sorry, you know, even though Facebook pushed this content at you, this content on how to commit suicide, even though Instagram exposed you to pedophiles and then they knew that they're pedophiles and they did it anyway, you can't sue them because the federal government has said no liability.
00:08:36.000No other company in America gets that kind of protection.
00:08:40.000I mean, vaccine companies, and again, this is only vaccine companies get that kind of protection.
00:08:45.000And by the way, we have learned that that type of protection might be well intended.
00:08:51.000However, it results in an oligarchy or an oligopoly.
00:08:57.000Because the criticism that some people that are purchased by the tech companies that work for these DC think tanks that are just so awful and nakedly corrupt, they'll write these op-eds that are read by nine Capitol Hill staffers and it's job justification.
00:09:09.000They'll say, Senator Hawley's not free market.
00:10:25.000They should have their day in court and they should be held accountable.
00:10:27.000But the multi-trillion dollar tech companies get to glide on by when 13-year-olds are killing themselves because of content that wasn't policed on there.
00:11:55.000They didn't smash a window, but they have been charged federally for trespassing and called insurrectionists for the rest of their life.
00:12:03.000Even though many of them were invited in and the doors were open and the police just stood there, they were going to have to navigate the job market, the corporate market, family relations, neighborly relations, and public humiliation being called an insurrectionist in what is a major humiliation trial.
00:12:19.000But to be fair, they did something wrong.
00:12:24.000They could have done things a lot differently.
00:12:26.000You see, the problem is that the MAGA Patriots on January 6th, when they went into, for example, the Senate where the Senate votes, or they went into some of the hearing rooms, they should have stripped naked and filmed themselves having gay sex.
00:12:47.000That would have solved all the problems.
00:13:07.000Well, don't worry, federal law enforcement is on the scene, everybody.
00:13:11.000An announcement today: quote, after consulting with federal and local prosecutors, as well as doing a comprehensive investigation and review of possible charges, it was determined that despite a likely violation of congressional policy, there is currently no evidence that a crime was committed.
00:14:24.000Remember his statement when this happened?
00:14:25.000He comes out and he says, I am a victim.
00:14:29.000All these people that are coming after me.
00:14:32.000And I said then, and I'll say it again: this individual who filmed himself having gay sex in a Senate hearing room did something far worse and put not just filmed himself, but also put it on the internet.
00:14:45.000Let me just be very clear, as a desecration of our legislative space, as a desecration of the legislative branch.
00:14:52.000Did something worse than 99% of the people on January 6th.
00:14:55.000And he, of course, won't be held accountable.
00:14:56.000No criminal charges, no perp walk, no federal prison time.
00:15:01.000And the regime is sending you a very clear message.
00:15:04.000If you are Owen Schweier, who did not even enter the Capitol, but you said things that we don't like, solitary confinement and federal prison.
00:15:12.000But if you go into the Senate hearing room and you do your best effort to recreate Sodom and Gomorrah, you're perfectly fine.
00:15:22.000These January 6th protesters, they should know better.
00:15:26.000If you really want to get away with trespassing, 90 plus percent of them never did anything violent.
00:15:31.000They've had their lives completely ruined.
00:15:36.000And this individual was a congressional staffer who had such contempt for the Senate, such contempt for the legislative branch, that he invited his hinged date into the Senate hearing room and filmed in a disgusting, grotesque way.
00:15:54.000And that is a picture of where we are as a country.
00:15:56.000That we will terrorize and penalize the patriot who expresses their First Amendment rights and they just walk right in and they do nothing violent, nothing.
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00:18:20.000Yeah, this was by an Iran-backed group.
00:18:23.000The one that took credit for it was called the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, also associated with Khatib Hezbollah, which is one of many umbrella groups that's supported and financed by Iran for sure.
00:18:36.000They're literally all over the region.
00:18:39.000They have been attacking us substantially throughout the region since I think the 17th of October, which they expressly say is tied to our support of Israel and their battle against the Palestinian people, the way they view it.
00:18:53.000And so they have been launching over 160 attacks since that time.
00:18:57.000One finally got through, and there is still remaining some uncertainty as to exactly how it evaded our defense systems, even though it came in apparently when one of our drones was there, but it found its way into the living quarters.
00:19:10.000And most of those troops probably never even knew they got hit.
00:19:13.000They probably were killed in their sleep.
00:19:15.000And now then, of course, and I've been warning about this for literally months, actually years, arguing that our troops in Iraq and Syria do nothing to defend America.
00:19:25.000They are not providing a valid anti-ISIS mission, which the administration claims ad nauseum incorrectly.
00:19:32.000And so because they're there, now then it makes it easy for these Iran-backed groups to actually attack the United States.
00:19:38.000Otherwise, we wouldn't even have been attacked.
00:19:41.000So now then, though, troops have been killed.
00:19:43.000And so the president has to respond because that's the requirement for both the 1973 War Powers Act and the Constitution and the Office of the President.
00:19:53.000But it authorizes them to go after who did it.
00:19:55.000And that's whether it's Khatib Hezbollah or the Islamic resistance of Iraq.
00:20:16.000But then we should withdraw our troops and get them out of that harm's way, reposition them elsewhere in the region so that they can be protected and they're still useful for our security in the region.
00:20:46.000Yeah, they were on the Jordanian side of the Syrian border, literally just right across the border, where they were basically a logistics hub for our Al-Tanf base in Syria.
00:21:23.000And if Khatib Hezbollah used it, if it was the Islamic resistance of Iraq who took credit for it, that's the one that needs to pay the price.
00:21:30.000If it turns out that those who did this go all the way back to Tehran, would it be prudent to strike the homeland of Iran?
00:21:39.000Well, see, it gets dicey at that point because our objective, the strategic objective of the United States needs to be what we need to do to protect our country the best, protect our troops.
00:21:50.000And that does not equal going into a war with Iran.
00:21:53.000Sometimes we have to say we're not going to do what we want to do if doing so would worsen our position.
00:22:00.000Now, there's lots of ways non-kinetic that you can respond to Iran.
00:22:03.000If these things turn out to be the case, there's lots of things that we can do that we aren't doing yet.
00:22:09.000But if we strike militarily into Iran and then they retaliate and more Americans gets killed, clearly that's not in America's natural interest.
00:22:16.000And we've got to do something different.
00:22:18.000Yeah, so if so then your recommendation to avoid a quagmire here is to ask the question, why do we have so many troops scattered across this in the Middle East?
00:22:30.000Where do we have troops currently in the Middle East?
00:22:32.000I mean, I was a little shocked to realize that we have 3,000 troops in the Jordanian-Syrian border.
00:22:40.000I wish we had 3,000 troops on our southern border.
00:23:04.000There's no telling how many are really there.
00:23:06.000It's a lot of Americans that are there, though.
00:23:08.000And there is no valid reason for them to be there.
00:23:11.000They should have left in 2019 after we dismantled the ISIS infrastructure and where they had holdings in both Iraq and Syria, which succeeded under President Trump.
00:23:24.000Now all they are is a target for these guys to hit them.
00:23:27.000And I'll tell you, whatever Biden is going to do, whether it's tonight or tomorrow, whenever that turns out to be, if we don't do anything to get the rest of those troops out of there, it's just a matter of time until they get hit too.
00:23:37.000I can assure you, this will not deter those groups from attacking.
00:23:59.000They're using generalities that we reserve the right to do whatever we want to do, however we want to do it.
00:24:05.000What are your sources telling you specifically of how the United States military plans to respond?
00:24:10.000Because as to this moment, there has been no response to the tragic death of these three patriots.
00:24:15.000Yeah, you know, these things take time, and I'm actually okay with them taking a little bit of time to make sure that they are, you know, thoroughly vet their intelligence sources, make sure that we know what we're doing, that we don't go in half-baked just to have an emotionally satisfying shot here, you know, which could actually backfire or maybe even not actually hit the people that did it.
00:24:35.000I'm also okay with them being a little opaque.
00:24:37.000I don't want them to signal what they're doing so that the bad guys have a chance to defend themselves.
00:24:41.000But what I expect that they'll probably do is to have a series of attacks, not just one-off, because that's been one of the big problems and why we haven't deterred all these groups up to this point.
00:24:51.000Even though there's been 165 attacks on our people, there's only been 15 responses, which means most of the time we do nothing, which only encourages them to do more.
00:25:00.000This time, it has to be heavy against the people who did this and not just some empty buildings.
00:26:09.000That's completely counterduitive to what did happen, which is, look, we had a whole salvo of missions on an American base in al-Assad in Iraq that just crushed all kinds of our facilities, wounded 100 men.
00:26:21.000And according to an analysis that was done a year later, it was sheer luck that many of them were not killed, which would have put pressure on Trump to do something more.
00:26:30.000As it was, we did nothing more after that.
00:26:32.000But from that time until October 17th, there were at least 80 attacks on our troops throughout the region.
00:26:53.000Do you have faith and confidence that Biden will be able to thread this needle without starting a new regional massive war that involves American troops?
00:27:01.000I hope he does because I want our country to succeed.
00:27:06.000But I have very low confidence because the actions they've taken so far do not allow me to have that kind of confidence.
00:27:12.000But I'll just tell you, if part of their actions do not include withdrawing our troops from these vulnerable positions to consolidate them in positions where they can be better defended, this is going to continue on no matter how many targets we take out.
00:27:27.000Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, check out his program and your show.
00:27:53.000I don't think there's an easy answer to it.
00:27:55.000And then, of course, 100% Biden is factoring politics into his response.
00:28:00.000And apparently, now reporting is that Iran is surprised by this too, because it turns out their proxies just do their own thing, allegedly.
00:28:20.000Before we barrel into war, I know that's kind of a thought crime, but are we really supposed to believe Iran went and killed three Americans?
00:28:28.000And they just, the only argument to that is they think we're so weak we wouldn't respond.
00:28:32.000I want to play, I want to play around with that.
00:30:21.000A large mob of illegal aliens, trespassers, invaders, brutally attacked two New York Police Department officers on Saturday near Times Square.
00:30:32.000Brutally attacked them, just terribly.
00:30:35.000They all have been released without bail.
00:30:37.000And I want to show this picture or this video, I think we have it, of one of the illegals being released, and he just flicks off the camera.
00:30:45.000First, here is some of the illegals that are just jumping on him.
00:30:49.000Hey, diversity is our strength, everybody.
00:31:22.000They might be, hey, they might be a future member of Congress.
00:31:25.000By the way, this is happening all across the country on smaller levels.
00:31:29.000You know, there's a major Venezuelan and Chilean break-in ring going across the country, and they're breaking into homes and they're stealing stuff.
00:31:39.000And they just get, you know, without bail the next day.
00:31:43.000And by the way, you know what's amazing?
00:31:44.000If you look at the ring cameras, you look at next door, you look at all these people that are posting it, they don't care if they get caught.
00:32:12.000They beat up two New York police department officers.
00:32:15.000And what a great picture of what the open borders give you.
00:32:18.000Foreigners coming into the country attacking native-born Americans.
00:32:22.000Not only is this how many millions of the Biden-era illegals feel about America, it's how the U.S. government feels about you.
00:32:29.000If you were born and raised here, if your children and grandchildren were born here, if you pay taxes and follow the rules, they are flipping the bird right into your face.
00:32:38.000Oh, it's a Spanish and, oh, so it's potentially Catalan.
00:34:18.000Your new rulers are people of the third world that hate you, hate your values, came here illegally, did not follow our customs or a process, beat up our police officers, and then flip you off.
00:34:29.000But again, how is that picture any different than what Republicans and Democrats do to us on a daily basis?
00:34:35.000It just so happens in vivid detail, this foreigner shows us how he feels about us.