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00:00:13.600Today on the Matt Walsh show, airports across the country have become dysfunctional hellscapes
00:00:19.800with TSA wait times in excess of three hours in some cases. All of that is bad enough on its own,
00:00:24.760but it's even worse when you consider the reason. Democrats are once again making American citizens
00:00:29.040suffer for the sake of protecting foreign invaders. Also, a man in Seattle shoots a
00:00:33.340pregnant woman at a traffic light, killing her and her baby. He's just been found not guilty
00:00:38.000by reason of insanity. It's a time to actually abolish the insanity defense once and for all.
00:00:42.820And some good news out of Hollywood for a change as a wholesome family film, Project Hail Mary, becomes one of the most successful movies in recent years.
00:00:50.380I saw the film with my family over the weekend. I'll give you my review. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:01:12.360Well, if you've been in an airport at any point over the past few weeks, then you know that they are a disaster zone right now, even more than they usually are.
00:01:28.940Over the weekend, the chaos has descended to the point that some airports were reporting four or five hour wait times at security.
00:01:37.020And this is all being blamed on the government shutdown, of course.
00:01:39.600But if you look back at all previous government shutdowns in American history, you're not going to find anything like the breakdown that's currently taking place in Congress, which is now resulting in those five-hour TSA lines at major airports all over the country.
00:01:53.860Now, to give you just one example of how bad it's gotten, a reporter at Reason Magazine in New Orleans wrote, quote,
00:02:00.840I arrived at the airport three hours and 40 minutes before my flight. I ran up to the gate,
00:02:05.800no exaggeration, as they were about to give my seat away on the last flight out.
00:02:10.700The highest call-out rates among TSA agents this weekend were at the following airports.
00:02:16.220Houston Hobby Airport, where 47% of TSA agents didn't show up for work. George Bush Intercontinental
00:02:22.940Airport, also in Houston, 42% call-out rate. New Orleans International, 34% call-out rate. Atlanta,
00:02:30.30033%, JFK 33%, Baltimore 29%, Chicago Midway 29%, Pittsburgh 23%, Philadelphia 31%, and LaGuardia
00:02:40.92017%. Because TSA officers aren't allowed to be furloughed, all of those absences were unauthorized.
00:02:48.120Most of these TSA agents are simply pretending to be sick. Now, you can draw your own conclusion
00:02:53.500as to why the TSA officers living in the biggest urban centers in the country are more likely to
00:02:59.280abandon their posts than everybody else. But whatever the case, the result has obviously been
00:03:05.500disastrous for millions of Americans. And it's a unique situation in many ways.
00:03:11.660This shutdown is not simply the result of a bog standard funding dispute or opposition to a major
00:03:17.820new direction in American policy like Obamacare. Instead, it's about undermining the existing
00:03:23.220authority of the executive branch and punishing American citizens, all in the name of foreigners
00:03:30.300who have become the primary constituency of the Democrat Party. Now, the way Democrats see it,
00:03:36.580Americans should suffer and our airport should fall into total dysfunction in service of their
00:03:43.400open borders agenda. That's what this is all about. Put another way, the TSA catastrophe is
00:03:48.700the Democrat Party in a nutshell. This is their foreigners' first ideology, perfectly illustrated.
00:03:55.880Now, you may have heard that this shutdown is about preventing abuses by ICE or something along
00:04:01.860those lines, but that is not remotely true. First of all, when Democrats talk about abuses by ICE,
00:04:07.900they're referring to left-wing agitators like Renee Good, who got shot when they try to run
00:04:13.720over federal agents with their SUV or otherwise violently interfere with law enforcement
00:04:19.120operations. Or they're talking about debunked stories like ICE used a child as bait when in
00:04:25.160reality the child's father abandoned him on the side of the road. So the entire narrative is a
00:04:30.020fabrication. But more importantly, even if ICE agents were going around terrorizing American
00:04:35.120citizens, which they aren't, this shutdown wouldn't do anything to stop them. Thanks to the
00:04:41.120Big Beautiful Bill, which passed last summer, ICE, along with Customs and Border Protection,
00:04:45.720has already been funded to the tune of $75 billion, which won't run out for several years.
00:04:51.440And therefore, the best Democrats can hope for is that if they shut down TSA long enough,
00:04:57.020which is what they're doing now, and make it impossible for Americans to board a plane,
00:05:01.780then the White House might offer some concessions on how ICE goes about its day-to-day operations.
00:05:06.660In particular, Democrats are demanding that ICE agents take off their masks so that they can be doxed, stay away from schools and hospitals, and restrict immigration enforcement to foreigners who have committed multiple serious crimes in addition to illegally entering the country, which Democrats obviously don't see as a crime at all.
00:05:28.880Democrats also demand that ICE obtain a judicial warrant from a federal judge every time they
00:05:34.620want to arrest an illegal alien inside a residence instead of an administrative warrant, which
00:05:38.700is approved within the executive branch.
00:05:41.340So in other words, Democrats believe that illegal aliens are entitled to the same constitutional
00:05:46.060protections as American citizens, and they don't want to have that fight in court because
00:05:52.900So instead, they're holding American citizens hostage. They're turning our airports into a dysfunctional hellscape in order to get the Trump administration to concede on the point.
00:06:07.260So that's the 20,000 foot view of the current debate. You've probably heard some version of it from one outlet or another, but the reality of what's going on here is very different.
00:06:17.760And if you listen to Democrats talk long enough, they'll explain what they're really after.
00:06:23.680This is not, in fact, a shutdown that's intended to stop abuses by ICE, whatever those abuses may be.
00:06:30.260The point of the shutdown is to terrorize Americans into another round of amnesty for the tens of millions of illegal aliens who currently reside in the U.S.
00:06:40.160Here's Peter Wells, the senator for Vermont, making that point explicit.
00:06:47.760And if we were able to open up the rest of the government and focus on the ICE issue, it may allow us then to have, I think, a discussion that's overdue.
00:07:03.060There's the consensus that we should deport criminals.
00:07:06.460But there is a lot of concern in the country from Republicans and Democrats about what you had of a mass roundup,
00:07:14.540where we were going to construction sites, we were going to farms, we were going after people who don't have legal status,
00:07:21.840but who came here sometimes as kids, have no criminal record, and are contributing members of the community.
00:07:27.640So I think it's ripe for us to have a sensible discussion about a reasonable immigration plan in a reasonable way to deal with some folks who don't have legal status.
00:07:42.340If we were able to open up the rest of the government and focus on the ICE issue, it may allow us to then have, I think, a discussion that's overdue.
00:07:49.800The border is secure now. It's ripe for us to have a sensible discussion about a reasonable immigration plan in a reasonable way to deal with some folks who don't have legal status.
00:07:57.640he says. And that's the part that Democrats, for the most part, haven't actually been saying out
00:08:04.160loud. This is not actually about ICE at all. It's about protecting the criminal foreign nationals
00:08:10.120they've allowed into this country so that they and their children can vote for Democrats.
00:08:16.200Same reason Democrats oppose the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship before
00:08:20.640someone can vote, which 85% of Americans support. The whole point of the shutdown
00:08:25.120is to lock in Democrat votes from illegal aliens.
00:08:50.840Completely and totally out of control group of people.
00:08:53.400The reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now, because Republicans have refused to agree to the type of bold, transformative, meaningful and dramatic reforms we are demanding in order for the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to move forward.
00:09:12.080And I won't go through all of the demands, much of which we've talked about repeatedly in the public.
00:09:17.300But one of those demands is keep ICE out of sensitive locations.
00:09:23.500And we've defined that as schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and polling sites.
00:09:31.280We want an explicit prohibition that ICE can go nowhere near any polling sites in the United States of America.
00:09:39.760It's one of our demands. We're not going to bend on it.
00:09:41.520Huh. So out of the 10,000 demands that Democrats have, strangely enough, Hakeem Jeffries is really
00:09:51.280keen on this one very specific demand. He doesn't choose to highlight his demand that ICE agents
00:09:58.940take off their masks or that ICE agents obtain judicial warrants or any of that. Instead, he
00:10:05.060makes it clear that he desperately wants ICE to stay away from polling stations in particular.
00:10:25.240Who would choose to stay at home in hiding rather than, you know, go vote if they knew that ICE was going to be there?
00:10:34.260Well, Jeffries is simply too dumb to realize how transparent he's being here.
00:10:38.140his overriding concern and the concern of his party is ensuring that tens of millions of illegal aliens
00:10:43.620can vote in the next election. And so if you have to wait five hours in line to get on a plane
00:10:49.660for that purpose, that's well worth the sacrifice as far as Hakeem Jeffries is concerned.
00:10:55.700And that's what the shutdown is about. None of these people care about Alex Preddy or Renee
00:11:01.640Good or whatever. They're not even hiding it anymore. The only rational conclusion you could
00:11:06.580draw is that illegal aliens are even more important to the Democrats than we previously
00:11:11.160realized. This is where a lot of their votes are coming from, and they're willing to take down the
00:11:17.020airports in this country and make your life worse in every way in order to help these criminals cast
00:11:22.340a vote in the midterms. That's what this is all about. And by the way, it's not just TSA that's
00:11:28.040been affected by the shutdown. While ICE and Customs and Border Protection have funding,
00:11:32.500Many other agencies within DHS are impacted. Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, is also defunded at the moment. They handle investigations and do child sex trafficking and terrorism. The Secret Service, FEMA, the Coast Guard are all impacted.
00:11:49.340And ever since, at a moment when we're at war with Iran, Democrats are not simply making life less convenient.
00:11:56.620They're also making life a lot more dangerous for American citizens.
00:12:01.380I mean, we've had, what, four terror attacks in the past month?
00:12:06.500And guess what happens when you have a five-hour TSA line at every major airport?
00:12:11.440You create a large, obvious target for a mass shooter.
00:12:15.080hundreds of people are lined up like sitting ducks for days on end and this is before you
00:12:23.740get through security so nothing is stopping a terrorist from walking into the airport um
00:12:29.240you're inviting a terrorist attack that's what democrats are doing for the benefit of foreign
00:12:34.900invaders and they don't care but if you ask democrats they won't even mention this instead
00:12:40.860they'll claim that ICE agents, who the Trump administration is going to deploy to airports,
00:12:45.500has already done to assist with operations during the shutdown. They'll claim that they
00:12:50.640are actually murderous psychopaths who are going to mow down American citizens when they try to
00:12:55.280carry more than, you know, 3.4 ounces of liquid onto the plane or something. Watch.
00:13:01.780There are three things that have been true since Donald Trump and Republicans came back into power
00:13:06.620last January. Life is more expensive, life is more chaotic, and life is more extreme.
00:13:12.880The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed
00:13:17.840at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them.
00:13:23.560We've already seen how ICE conducts itself. These are untrained individuals when it comes
00:13:29.060to doing the current job that they have for the most part, let alone deploying them in close
00:13:35.340exposure in highly sensitive situations at airports across the country.
00:13:42.180Yes, ICE is going to kill Americans in line at the security. I was just in the airport last week
00:13:48.120and I had a water bottle in my bag, my carry-on bag that I forgot about. And they pulled me aside
00:13:55.980and they took the water bottle out and it was fine. I went about my day, but thank God it wasn't
00:14:01.180an ICE agent doing that because if they saw the water bottle, they'd pull the water bottle out
00:14:04.920and say, you forgot about this water bottle. And I would say, oh, sorry. And then they just shoot
00:14:08.500me in the head. And that would be it. Like, that's what's going to happen now. So he repeats the lie
00:14:14.740that ICE agents are untrained, which is not true. But even if it were true, so what? I mean, how
00:14:20.520much training do you think people need in order to fill in for a TSA agent? Exactly. All you got
00:14:26.940to do is tell people to put their stuff in the bin, be really surly about it and impatient,
00:14:32.160get mad at people for not following the rules even though the rules change day to day depending
00:14:37.600on which TSA line you happen to be in pat them down if the machine tells you to
00:14:42.600if you see a gun on the x-ray machine make sure you grab the gun and actually you don't even need
00:14:49.020to do that a few years ago the inspector general at DHS found that roughly 70 to 80 percent
00:14:55.080of weapons managed to get through TSA checkpoints. TSA has a failure rate of 70 to 80 percent.
00:15:06.940These highly trained agents who no one could possibly fill in for. Well, they sent undercover
00:15:13.000agents in and only around a third of them were stopped when they tested this. And that was
00:15:17.580considered an improvement because in previous years, 90 percent of the guns got through the
00:15:22.580checkpoint. So if you replaced every TSA agent with an untrained, random person off the street,
00:15:29.700you'd almost certainly get better results than we're getting now.
00:15:33.380But Democrats who have created a universe in which ICE agents randomly kill people for no
00:15:38.020reason all the time, they're intent on pushing the narrative. Here's Senator Richard Blumenthal
00:15:44.000of Connecticut, for example, quote, ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays in lines,
00:15:48.340disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens,
00:15:54.380brutalizing families, shooting and even killing. It's just going to be a total bloodbath in line
00:16:00.820at TSA now. Now, again, if you read between the lines here, it's not hard to see what they're
00:16:06.720actually worried about because they know that if ICE is manning the TSA stations, they're very
00:16:12.320likely to come across illegal aliens. It's especially true if the ICE agents are checking
00:16:16.900ids uh tom holman the border czar has suggested that that is going to happen watch no ice can
00:16:24.800check identification before people enter the screening area right and that that we're trying
00:16:29.400to release tsa resources to get to uh positions that they really need expertise and like the like
00:16:36.220the x-ray screening so it's just we're going to be a force multiplier with respect if you're doing
00:16:41.040this in 24 hours, how well thought out could it possibly be? Again, ICE has been at airports
00:16:48.160across the country for a long time. It's just expanding those things. Look, how much of a plan
00:16:54.140does it mean to guard an exit to make sure no one comes through that exit? I mean, we're talking
00:16:59.360about security options, and these officers are well-trained in security, and they're well-trained
00:17:04.640in identification, and look, we're going to do what we can to help TSA move those people to the
00:17:10.040So what's going on here, in case it's not obvious, is that Democrats in the corporate press are convinced that they're being far more subtle than they actually are.
00:17:22.160You simply cannot convince any American with a functioning brain that it would be difficult to replace all of these famously highly trained TSA agents.
00:17:32.280You can't convince any sane person with an IQ above room temperature that we need a plan
00:17:36.940developed over many days before we can possibly replace the brilliance of the typical TSA employee.
00:18:34.440So let me ask you about that, because you are the whole reason, as you just laid out, that DHS is not funded right now is because you're trying to push the administration to enact some policy changes on how Border Patrol and ICE act when they're out looking for illegal immigrants.
00:18:55.320And now what you're saying is that you're okay with funding TSA, which has been, I think, the biggest point of leverage that you possibly had in order to get what you want on ICE, because ICE already has its money.
00:19:11.420So what was the point of this shutdown if you're okay with funding TSA?
00:19:16.780Well, we never approach these things that are in front of us with respect to government funding in the context of leverage.
00:19:24.840Our approach is, what is the appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
00:19:31.920So Democrats, according to Jeffries, would never dream of using the American people as leverage to enact their open borders agenda.
00:19:39.760Never even crosses their mind, he says.
00:19:42.460But Representative Catherine Clark of Massachusetts, the number two Democrat in the House, said something very different in an interview with Fox just back in October.
00:19:51.460I mean, shutdowns are terrible. And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.
00:20:11.040So in case you missed that, she said, of course, there will be families that are going to suffer, but it's one of the few leveraged times we have.
00:20:17.640It's hard to think of a more on-the-nose quote
00:20:20.820If you want to summarize the objectives of the Democrat Party
00:20:24.460And it's coming directly from the Democratic whip of the U.S. House of Representatives
00:20:27.600Their goal is to terrorize you and your family
00:21:17.440This is why Democrats exist as a political party at this point.
00:21:21.120If they actually wanted to improve the lives of American citizens,
00:21:24.220they'd be talking about abolishing TSA entirely right now.
00:21:28.360I mean, they'd point out that there are around 20 airports in this country
00:21:30.840with private security arrangements, including San Francisco International,
00:21:34.040and all of them are operating smoothly right now.
00:21:37.900They'd tell you that TSA operates like a gigantic scam
00:21:40.680using taxpayer money to purchase extremely expensive body scanners
00:21:44.020that are sold by companies with high-level political connections, but Democrats don't
00:21:49.140want to tell you any of that because right now, the TSA is one of the most effective
00:21:52.880weapons in their arsenal. They're using the TSA to disable American infrastructure in
00:21:58.040service of their open borders agenda. That's the same reason they don't want to privatize
00:22:03.260air traffic control, by the way. And speaking of which, late last night, there was a catastrophic
00:22:08.000collision on the runway of LaGuardia Airport, you may have heard about, involving a fire
00:22:11.800truck and a passenger plane. Here's the image there. Really awful. ATC is not affected by
00:22:19.120the current shutdown, but if you remember just a few months ago, they were. Democrats have no
00:22:24.060problem leveraging these public agencies to terrorize the public. The only way to solve
00:22:29.860that problem is to privatize these agencies immediately, which we should. What you need
00:22:36.120to understand is that while TSA is the issue right now, they have no intention of stopping
00:22:41.080with TSA. At every opportunity, Democrats will sabotage and endanger your life if it
00:22:47.580means protecting foreigners. That's their voter base. Their future as a political party
00:22:53.480depends on it. And everybody else, right now the traveling public, is just collateral
00:22:59.180damage. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:23:57.860Go to hillsdale.edu slash Walsh. All right, we'll start with this story. Honestly, I don't even know
00:24:03.640what to say about this kind of madness anymore. We've been covering these stories for years.
00:24:08.640We've called it out a million times. It keeps happening. And this is maybe the worst example
00:24:14.260yet, but here's the story from the New York Post. The man charged in a 2023 shooting that
00:24:19.440killed a pregnant Seattle woman and her unborn baby has been found not guilty by reason of
00:24:25.200insanity. Cordell Goosby was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree attempted
00:24:29.700murder in the death of 34-year-old Ina Kwan and the shooting of her husband Sung Kwan,
00:24:35.080who was also injured. Ina Kwan and her husband were on their way to work at their Japanese
00:24:39.960restaurant. When they were stopped at a red light at an intersection around 11.15 a.m.,
00:24:47.220Goosby allegedly sprinted toward the driver's side of the window of their white Tesla with a
00:24:51.500gun raised. In a short span of time, he fired a gun. After firing all the bolts he had into the
00:24:57.740victim's car, he turned and ran from the scene. So this is someone who was driving. It was in
00:25:05.700their car. In the middle, it's 11.15 a.m. You're just stopped at an intersection. In your car,
00:25:12.380door is locked, right? And not even safe doing that. So this is a brutal murder in broad daylight.
00:25:20.900Pregnant woman is killed along with her unborn child, and the killer is not guilty by reason of insanity, which means that he can be and likely will be, it says in the article, can be released.
00:25:33.840Last line of the article says, Goosby's future release would depend on approval from multiple state and court entities, the station added.
00:25:40.220So he could be released, and he will be eventually, and then he'll do it again.
00:25:47.280I mean, we know how this movie ends, or that's not even the end. We know how it goes, how it continues. The fact that he is too delusional to know, allegedly, that he shouldn't murder innocent women means that he will be released back to the public to murder more innocent women, which he will almost certainly do.
00:26:08.380Now, like I said, we've talked about this lunacy many times. It just keeps happening. I've made the case against the insanity plea on several occasions in the past. I think the plea should not exist. And just to summarize again, because it's important, the insanity defense should not exist in the law.
00:26:30.120It has been, I think there are a lot of conceptual problems with it, a lot of problems in principle.
00:26:38.600But even if you think that in principle it makes sense or you can make an argument for it, the fact is that it has been abused.
00:26:47.860At a minimum, we can say it has been abused horrifically for decades.
00:26:53.900And a lot of people have died because of it.
00:26:56.780And so it just should not exist anymore.
00:26:59.120I mean, first of all, not guilty by reason of insanity? What does that even mean? I mean, you are guilty, right? The guy in this case, he definitely did it. He admitted to it. They went to arrest him, and he said, and I quote, I did it, I did it.
00:27:46.280And, you know, for as long as courts have existed, not guilty has always meant that the person accused of doing something didn't do it, or at least it was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they did it.
00:29:50.300Did you know that no one can define what the word crazy means?
00:29:54.360There's no real agreed upon definition.
00:30:00.460Like, where do you draw the line in crazy?
00:30:02.140There's all kinds of people out there all the time doing things that I would judge as crazy, doing things that are irrational, self-destructive. Are they all crazy? It's entirely subjective. And the idea is that, well, he's crazy because he didn't understand what he was doing while he did it. Well, that's impossible to prove. Impossible.
00:30:25.500and the facts on the ground indicate otherwise he ran away he ran away if he didn't know that
00:30:35.420what he was doing was wrong why did he run away and this almost always happens with these insanity
00:30:42.720cases by the way that you've got someone who does something terrible tries to run away and then is
00:30:49.980caught and then we're supposed to believe they didn't know that what they did was wrong well
00:30:54.960then why did they run? Running away is a universal sign that is a universal form of communication
00:31:02.120saying, I did something bad. Now, if we're making judgments about a person's mental state,
00:31:11.740as I've argued a million times, every person who's ever committed a heinous crime
00:31:17.060has at the time of the crime been in a state of mind that could not be considered normal or
00:31:24.000healthy by definition. I mean, how do you distinguish every sane killer in history
00:31:30.100from this guy? You can't. It's totally arbitrary. Because murdering somebody is not something that
00:31:36.860you do if you're a well-adjusted, clear-thinking, normal person. And that's true of a lot of other
00:31:44.160crimes. Armed robbery. Normal people don't commit armed robbery. Normal, healthy people don't do
00:31:50.580that. The mental state of every murderer, armed robber, et cetera, is automatically by definition
00:32:00.660impaired compared to you or me, right? I mean, you take anyone who's a murderer and if that person
00:32:11.040had my mental state or your mental state, they wouldn't have done that
00:32:41.640States can abolish the insanity defense.
00:32:44.460Four states have already done it. Idaho, Kansas, Utah, Montana, I believe are the four states without an insanity defense. And there was a Supreme Court decision on this relatively recently back in 2020. This went to the Supreme Court.
00:33:02.080The question of whether or not states can abolish the insanity defense, or is it like a constitutional right that people have to plead insanity, and so states can't abolish it.
00:33:12.720The Supreme Court found that states can abolish it, but you're not actually entitled to be able to plead insanity.
00:33:22.840And so this is something that certainly every red state at a minimum should do this.
00:33:28.920And if they won't do it, then they should have to explain why.
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00:34:41.640A new statue of Christopher Columbus went up on the White House grounds Sunday that was built using pieces from a monument to the Italian explorer the protesters destroyed six years ago.
00:34:50.080The 13-foot, one-ton replica of a Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore in 2020 was commissioned by the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian-American Organizations, and it's part of White House's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
00:35:04.360The statue has been placed outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, and that statue just went up, which is great. I'm a huge fan of this move, as you would expect.
00:35:15.500And it's important. One of the most important things we can do for the culture is to build and rebuild statues and monuments to our heroes, our real heroes. And Columbus is a real hero. He deserves to be recognized, admired, remembered, along with many of the other historical figures who've had their statues torn down.
00:35:37.520You know, I've said before that when you think about Columbus in particular, he was operating at a time during the, you know, what we call the age of discovery or the age of exploration, where, and this is a time where some of the most impressive human beings who have ever lived on the planet were alive.
00:36:02.320and they were ship captains. Ship captains during the Age of Discovery were some of the most
00:36:06.720impressive humans who've ever lived. I think that we have trouble appreciating, especially these
00:36:14.260days, we have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. We actually
00:36:23.200just can't fathom it. We have no frame of reference. I mean, you or I have never been
00:36:31.480in a position to do anything like what these guys did, take on the responsibility that they
00:36:38.780took on. If you were a ship captain in the year 1500 or 1600 or 1700, then you had to play the
00:36:49.720role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge,
00:40:07.860that's why our latest episode of Real History,
00:40:10.220which comes out today on Daily Wire, deals with precisely this issue. It's debuting today on
00:40:15.480Daily Wire. It's the real history of the Civil War. And we're going to tell you the truth about
00:40:19.400the Civil War. We're going to give you an objective, balanced summary of it, something
00:40:24.220you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere, because we know that in the schools and from media and
00:40:29.400Hollywood, we get the one where the version where the Confederates are these evil villains.
00:40:36.860and the South, you know, has all the moral complexity of serial killers, as I said,
00:40:42.280cartoon villains. And then on the other side, you do have this kind of a pendular response,
00:40:48.160which is to make the North into the villains and the South into the heroes. And to say that,
00:40:54.460you know, well, they were fighting for reasons that had nothing to do with slavery whatsoever.
00:40:59.360But what we do in this episode is we try to give you the actual truth, something objective,
00:41:03.940which is to say a version of history where actually neither side are villains.
00:41:10.100In fact, the motivations on both sides are coherent and comprehensible and understandable.
00:41:17.600And there were great men on both sides, men of great dignity and courage.
00:41:24.340I mean, you can't say that of every conflict that's ever been fought, but you can in this case.
00:41:29.560and all of this will be focused around not solely focused on but it'll be organized around
00:41:35.220Robert E. Lee and he's kind of our case study so here's a clip of that watch
00:41:39.560Robert E. Lee witnessed the 1860 election results from a U.S. Army post in San Antonio Texas
00:41:48.800as the fervor over secession began to boil over Lee wrote his father-in-law quote
00:41:54.140if the union is dissolved which God in his mercy forbid I shall return to you
00:41:58.920According to historian Alan Guelzo, as the states of the Deep South left the Union, Lee complained that the behavior of the cotton states was wholly beyond any justification, and he was worried that their selfish and dictatorial bearing would make life for Virginia miserable should she determine to coalesce with them.
00:42:18.480In a letter to one of his cousins, he wrote,
00:48:30.060He reads about these losers and thinks, wow, that's just like me.
00:48:34.560and uh then he's inspired he's inspired to go off and you know continue losing so that's great
00:48:43.160and look i hate to be the killjoy here but for cnn but this is not going to work um this is not
00:48:49.900going to revive cnn's ratings and in fact they're just making their situation worse
00:48:53.540they're trying to compete with podcasts by resembling podcasts which just means more
00:48:59.320informal, more casual, more opinion-based. But what they should do is go in the opposite
00:49:05.800direction. Not to help CNN at all, okay? Not that they would take my advice anyway.
00:49:12.560But what you should do is go in the opposite direction. But this is how unimaginative people
00:49:19.360are these days, especially in media. It's also why marketing departments are worthless.
00:49:23.740I guarantee this is an idea dreamed up by someone in marketing at CNN where they, they looked at popular podcasts and then they called a meeting and they said, Hey guys, we got it. We know what to do. You see this thing over here? That's popular. We should do that. This thing that's popular. Let's do the thing that is popular rather than the thing that is not.
00:49:48.840that's what a marketing department is and everybody everybody you know is listening and
00:49:54.680they're just blown away by the brilliance of the strategy everyone applauds they're wiping tears
00:50:01.840away they were so inspired but you know another strategy is to see the trend see what everybody
00:50:08.780is doing and actually go the opposite way present a real alternative now there's nothing wrong with
00:50:15.320the podcast vibe. Okay. I mean, you know, look around me. I understand the podcast vibe, but I
00:50:21.820have a podcast. Uh, so I'm a podcaster. God help me. Lord, forgive me. I am a podcaster. And so
00:50:27.700that's why, you know, things look the way they do. If you're a news channel, be a news channel.
00:50:35.920Like it's okay. Not everything has to be informal and casual. I know that that's ironic coming from
00:50:41.740me, but still not everything has to be informal and casual. I mean, we were just talking about
00:50:50.200this the other day with the, it was a CBS report and the guy was looking into fraud,
00:50:54.280to Medicare fraud or something. And he's like in a t-shirt sweating, doing a selfie video,
00:51:01.480giving this report. It's like, put on a suit, be a news channel, be a news, be a, be a journalist,
00:51:08.720Be a professional. Not everything has to be like this. I mean, and just because it works in this
00:51:15.980context, just because you could see something that works in a certain context, doesn't mean
00:51:19.620it'll work in your context. And just because people are going to podcasts looking for a
00:51:24.400certain thing, it doesn't mean that's the only thing they want. So give people an alternative.
00:51:31.600You know, the market is saturated with one kind of thing. Give them a different kind of thing.
00:51:36.420just doing what everybody else is doing is unimaginative. It's also not going to work.
00:51:44.240So if I was running a news channel, I'd go the opposite way. I would say we're going to make
00:51:47.760things more, even more formal. You're going to sit at the desk and you have your suit on
00:51:50.960and people are going to be professional. They're going to be adults. We don't need to see your
00:51:55.640stupid selfie videos. We don't need any of that. We don't need to see the background.
00:51:59.280I think there's important stuff going on in the news. Why are you wasting time on air