00:00:10.000What is going wrong in the Democrat Party?
00:00:12.000We talk a lot about what's wrong in the Republican Party, but hey, this is a good moment to reflect on how the Democrat Party might just be facing an existential dilemma.
00:00:22.000We also talk about abortion, sticky topic, important topic.
00:00:25.000And then we bring on Rabbi Michael Barclay out of Westlake Village to give us an update on the tragic death of 69-year-old Jewish man Paul Kessler and why we need to just hold back, hold back.
00:00:38.000We can trust the people working on this.
00:00:40.000And then he gives us an update: what it's like to be a rabbi in this day and age when there's so much pro-Hamas garbage circulating everywhere.
00:00:49.000This is an important, powerful episode.
00:01:15.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:53.000That looks like I'm so unkempt they might take me for a professor.
00:01:57.000Yeah, I was going to say, you'd probably be lecturing a 200-large UCLA course today.
00:02:03.000Why don't we just throw you in, see if it'll work?
00:02:05.000Hey, Kurt, we spend so much of our time complaining and complaining and complaining about the Republican Party, about the neocons, the neoliberals.
00:02:16.000You have a new piece in Town Hall that I thought was a great palate cleanser.
00:02:22.000You said to think the GOP has problems, meet the Democrats.
00:02:26.000And actually, I pulled some of this Gavin Newsome tape that I hinted at last hour, and I might get into it with you as a fellow Californian living in occupied territory.
00:02:36.000Break down the divide because it really is a chasm in the current Democrat Party.
00:03:53.000And speaking of California, yesterday at the Holocaust Museum, they were showing footage of the Hamas atrocities and a bunch of Jewish Americans on an American street were attacked by a bunch of scumbag Palestinian supporters.
00:04:10.000In our country, Jewish people aren't safe to walk the street.
00:04:26.000You have Joe Biden who's trying to balance these two elements of the party, and one party's saying, no ceasefire, and the other is saying, yes, he's fire and get murdered.
00:04:37.000And, you know, so he's not calling for a ceasefire right.
00:04:40.000He's calling for a pause, which involves Israel ceasing firing.
00:04:46.000So I'm not sure how that's actually different.
00:04:50.000As I say in the piece, it's hard to walk a tightrope for a guy who's has trouble walking on a sidewalk.
00:04:58.000No, and Kurt, what's interesting about this, and I think why your piece has real merit, is because we saw recently that Joe Biden's poll numbers amongst Democrats are down 11% since October 7th, since the terrible massacre of Jewish civilians inside Israel.
00:05:21.000When you're talking about a race that might come down to a couple thousand votes in Cook County, might come down to a couple thousand votes in Maricopa County.
00:05:31.000This is why you have David Axelrod going out front saying, hey, we might need to pull the ripcord here.
00:05:36.000This is why you have Vivek on the debate stage, like begging them to pull Joe Biden, which I actually take umbrage with because, no, we want Joe Biden to be the guy right now.
00:06:12.000That coalition within Joe Biden's party is a very, very shaky ground between the progressives, the far left, and yeah, like these blue dog, moderate Democrats that are still hanging around.
00:06:25.000What is, if you are a Democrat consultant right now and you're talking to Joe Biden, you're in that room, what do you tell him to do?
00:06:33.000Well, first thing I do is tell them, you know, calm down.
00:06:36.000We will get you to your Matlock rerun.
00:08:56.000I think a lot of people, I think a lot of people get frustrated with Vivek for some of those reasons.
00:09:00.000I think that's why that, you know, chat GPT line kind of hit.
00:09:06.000I will say, though, that, you know, I obviously, you know, we're Team Trump on this show, but I do think Vivek has contributed something really powerful to the movement.
00:09:17.000And he has mainstreamed the rebellion against the sort of establishment entrenched corruption that we all rail against.
00:09:25.000I mean, I will tell you, Andrew, I was mainstreaming that rebellion 15 years ago.
00:09:37.000And it's like a party, Vivek, but you didn't throw it.
00:09:43.000And you don't get to sit there with a clipboard at the velvet rope saying who gets in and out, Vivek.
00:09:49.000Look, I look at Vivek and I think that there are very few people on earth who I think would have benefited more by a tour in the Marines as a young officer than Vivek, because I think Vivek desperately needs somebody to say, I'm your butt down and put your nose there grindstone.
00:10:29.000We can make a difference standing for life by giving free ultrasounds with our friends at pre-born.
00:10:34.000In a Dobbs world, states decide about abortion, and so many liberal states are taking extreme stands, even allowing abortion up to literally the second before a baby is born.
00:10:46.000And in California, the demand for abortions has increased 400% in part because the state is inviting women and girls to come to California for the sole purpose of aborting their baby.
00:11:30.000Now, we talked about the first segment.
00:11:33.000We just talked about the first segment about the problems in the Democrat Party, which there are many, and it really is going to be an existential crisis going into 2024.
00:12:26.000And promptly, a bunch of Republicans said, okay, now let's have a federal law that does XYZ.
00:12:32.000And Tim Scott went on at length about that last night, how he thinks it's a great idea.
00:12:38.000And I found myself, and, you know, except for pizza and cheeseburgers, I never agree with Chris Christie about anything.
00:12:46.000Chris Christie said, wait a minute, we've been saying X for 50 years.
00:12:50.000And then as soon as we get in a position to deliver it, we switch it out for Y. Look, I think the best Republicans are going to do, because this is an issue that really, really animates a lot of Democrats for reasons that are unclear to me, but they don't have to get my permission to care about what they care about.
00:13:58.000And you have to be very clear with them.
00:14:01.000And if your position is, you know, 15 weeks, exceptions for life of the mother, rape and incest, then you need to say that over and over again.
00:14:09.000And frankly, if I was a candidate being bombarded with, you know, Kurt's never going to, Kurt's going to force your child to bear her rapist children, I would be a candidate.
00:14:19.000I would sit there with that ad playing on a TV.
00:14:21.000I turn the TV off and go, that is a lie.
00:15:09.000So why is the RNC not doing the exact same thing and putting counter initiatives that read the right way, that don't evoke the same panic within the abortion-loving left or the independents that just kind of want that the oh crap clause in life?
00:15:26.000Why are we not being way more upfront as a party on this?
00:15:31.000Because Rona McDaniel is grossly incompetent.
00:15:34.000She's gone seven cycles of total failure.
00:15:38.000Look, the big hit on Donald Trump is personnel decisions.
00:15:41.000Donald Trump put her in as chair and he kept her in last January.
00:15:47.000And I know that because I watched his chief of staff with my eyes right here, not hearsay, out lobbying for Rona McDaniel.
00:16:02.000I hope she's only incompetent because you literally, statistically speaking, in seven cycles in the seven years, she's never had a good cycle.
00:16:12.000Statistically, you would think you would have one if only by accident.
00:16:16.000Yeah, I think we're in complete agreement here and we're calling for Donald Trump removed.
00:18:46.000They are men of integrity, and they are making sure that justice will happen in the right way.
00:18:52.000What happened is there for the last few weeks, there have been on a large intersection, there have been pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
00:18:58.000And Paul Kessler, Blessed Memory, went to go counter-protest on Sunday, and he died on Monday.
00:19:07.000That's what we can say and what we know for sure.
00:19:10.000There are conflicting reports, and that's part of the challenge.
00:19:14.000The reports range from he tripped and fell after a verbal altercation to that he was having a verbal altercation that became physical and was hit and then landed on the concrete.
00:19:25.000And in either event, it was actually the fall of concrete that killed him.
00:19:30.000He was conscious when the police were able to interview him.
00:19:49.000And the challenge is because there's conflicting witness reports.
00:19:54.000What we don't want to have happen is a charge is made on a suspect that can't be backed up, and the suspect is either acquitted or convicted.
00:20:04.000And either way, a riot happens because it wasn't really clear.
00:20:07.000So they're doing their job, and they're really, really good at it, Andrew.
00:20:11.000And I mean, Chief of Police, Chief Police Jeremy, is actually coming to an event we're doing tonight that we planned two weeks ago in honor of today.
00:20:20.000I don't know if you know, today is actually the anniversary, the 85th anniversary of the Start of the Holocaust with a night called Kristaldah.
00:20:28.000They're really, really good guys, and we need to support them and give them a little space.
00:20:33.000They're going to do the right thing, and they're going to make sure it's done right because we don't want this to become a spark that becomes an inferno both here and then across the country.
00:20:42.000I appreciate you're being cautious there.
00:20:45.000I think it's an important skill, a discipline that we all need to exercise as much as possible.
00:20:51.000Now, I hear what you're saying, and I do trust local authorities.
00:20:57.000I do believe that they are going to do the right thing here.
00:20:59.000But we do know this much, right, Rabbi?
00:21:02.000That it was a blow to the mouth with a megaphone, correct?
00:21:06.000During these competing protests, or do we not even know that much?
00:21:10.000What we know is that there was blood force to the side of his head and blood force to the back of his head that came from him landing on concrete, and that that blow to the back of the head is what ultimately killed him and determined, you know, became a brain injury and killed him.
00:22:15.000Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it's yeah, and I and again, I appreciate the, I mean, because there's reports even by very reputable sites right now.
00:22:25.000Free Beacon has a report on the alleged assailant.
00:22:28.000I'll leave that out of respect for how you're trying to guide the way we all approach this story.
00:22:34.000But I want to turn our attention to another Southern California story.
00:22:39.000This is fights erupt outside of the Museum of Tolerance.
00:22:43.000I'm sure you know that location well after a screaming or screening of a film on Hamas.
00:22:48.000Now, this was the GoPro footage that the IDF obtained, and then they, because there was so much chatter online, really conspiracy theories that different atrocities did not in fact happen, that the Israeli government was lying to the press.
00:23:04.000So they actually provided this to the press.
00:23:09.000She screens it at the Museum of Tolerance.
00:23:11.000This is actually footage from last night of this fight breaking out, again, between competing, I guess, protest groups, pro-Israel, pro-Hamas, or pro-Palestine groups, however they want to describe themselves.
00:23:25.000Rabbi, you have to be watching this in horror at the way that the world has in so many pockets in Los Angeles and Southern California across the Ivy Leagues, how they have coalesced this anger and this energy into outright Jew hatred in so many respects.
00:23:44.000What is it like being a rabbi right here in Southern California and watching that footage?
00:23:50.000Probably very similar to the way it is being a rabbi anywhere in the world.
00:23:55.000And I think we need to take back the narrative and start getting honest.
00:24:14.000The Palestine people understand it was invented by a company called George Anderson was the publicist.
00:24:20.000He was a partner of a public relations company in the early 60s.
00:24:24.000The first time we really have Palestine is with the PLO, which is established in 1964.
00:24:31.000And in 1967, after the Six-Day War, you have Gaza and the West Bank, and they say they're one country, Palestine.
00:24:39.000That is an absolute fallacy and a myth.
00:24:43.000The great-grandfathers of the people in Gaza called themselves Egyptians.
00:24:46.000The great-grandfathers of the people in West Bank called themselves Jordanians.
00:24:52.000They, by saying we're one country, one side being on the east, one side being on the west, now they've defined that everything in between is occupied.
00:25:01.000It is a, they were brilliant at it, they were shrewd at it, and it's horrific, and we've got to take back the narrative.
00:26:14.000Whereas Israel exports hope and faith and joy and makes everything better, Palestine instead has exported war death and want to look behind as opposed to looking to the future.
00:26:25.000And we need to be really honest about that.
00:26:27.000We need to educate people about that because most of these people that are at these demonstrations are useful idiots.
00:26:34.000They have no idea what Palestine really is.
00:26:37.000They have no idea that Gaza and West Bank are actually not related.
00:26:41.000And they have no idea what's in the Hamas Charter.
00:26:45.000And they don't understand that in the Hamas Charter, in that covenant of 1988, it also says, I think, in Article 11 or 13, it also says that if you're not a devout Muslim, because they claim to be part of the Islamic, the Muslim Brotherhood in their preface, if you're not a devout Muslim committed to jihad, then you're of no value either.
00:27:03.000And that's why they use these people, their own people, as human shields.
00:27:09.000This is, it really causes me a lot of pain.
00:27:12.000But what Hamas did on October 7th is they emulated Amalek of the Bible, who attacked the weak, the wicked, the children, the sick, the old.
00:27:22.000And that Amalek is the only character that God says I will always be at war with, that we are to destroy and blot off the face of the earth.
00:27:32.000So much so that King Saul loses his kingship because he doesn't destroy all the Amalekites.
00:27:39.000And the reason is once you've decided that it's not even collateral damage, you're going after the children after the week.
00:29:00.000Hamas came after and murdered innocent women and children, and they want to do it again.
00:29:05.000I cannot express, Rabbi, how infuriating it makes me when I see people defending the barbarism that we saw and framing it in this oppressor versus oppressed lens.
00:29:16.000I mean, we often talk about on this show how reality for many of these people is incapable of breaking through.
00:29:24.000The facts do not matter because their brains are so washed in ideology.
00:29:28.000Now, they might think that about us, but when you've got a terrorist group that goes across a boundary line to go murder 1,400, might be 1,500 when it's all said and done, I'm told.
00:29:38.000Innocent civilians, you better believe there's retaliation coming.
00:29:42.000Now, but I do want to put this, I want to put this to you, Rabbi.
00:29:46.000There's a lot of discussion about ceasefires and all this stuff.
00:29:50.000Joe Biden has come out and said the possibility of a ceasefire is not going to happen.
00:29:53.000Now, we might get these little four-hour windows.
00:30:07.000Now, there are innocent people there, but I don't buy for a second that they're all innocent.
00:30:12.000I think that a lot of them actually aid and abed these terrorists, whether that's, you know, helping hide them, stockpiling their ammunitions.
00:30:20.000I've heard thousands of stories like this.
00:30:23.000How should we think about the Gaza civilian question?
00:30:31.000No other armed forces in the universe, in the history of the world, do everything they can to try and protect the innocent.
00:30:39.000It takes five Israeli soldiers to clear a house.
00:30:43.000It takes a platoon to clear a building, realizing that there probably is not even one person in that house or building who wouldn't kill the Israeli if he had the chance.
00:30:53.000But there will be some, and there are some innocents.
00:30:56.000And, you know, there's a midrash that King Saul, when he doesn't kill all the Amalekites, Samuel, you know, he makes an excuse to the prophet Samuel, and he says that why should the innocent die with the guilty?
00:31:08.000And it's for that reason he loses his kingship.
00:31:13.000We're not going out to try and kill innocents.
00:32:46.000So apparently, with the backing of the U.S., Qatar, which is where all these billionaire leaders of Hamas actually live, is attempting to broker a deal for a one to two day ceasefire in exchange for 10 to 15 prisoners.