The Megyn Kelly Show - Another 60 Minutes Editing Controversy, NYC Terror Attack, and Obama and Kamala Politicize Funeral, with Stu Burguiere ｜ Ep. 1268

00:00:00.600 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:12.320 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:15.360 We have got a whole lot of news to bring to you today.

00:00:18.160 I'm in a remote location again because my kids are on spring break, but I am not.

00:00:23.840 There's a lot happening in this world, and so we decided to keep the plugs into our system

00:00:29.540 and keep the news being brought to you guys.

00:00:32.700 Oil has surged over $100 a barrel amid the fallout from this Iranian war.

00:00:37.920 We're going to tell you what that could mean for you.

00:00:40.480 It's not good.

00:00:41.940 President Trump doesn't seem concerned about it.

00:00:45.120 I'm sure he is watching it, but he thinks, you know, short term we're going to be able to deal with this,

00:00:50.400 which sounds somewhat reassuring, but, you know, it's tough because gas prices have already gone up

00:00:55.620 and over $100 a barrel is no bueno.

00:00:57.680 You know, an improvised explosive device thrown at a protest.

00:01:01.580 Did you see this near the mayor's home in New York City?

00:01:03.900 And how he is restyling this into something about white supremacy is very bizarre.

00:01:09.800 This is, as his own police commissioner is investigating this, as an act of terrorism.

00:01:14.480 The guy was yelling Allahu Akbar as he threw an IED at cops, but somehow this is an act of white supremacy

00:01:24.200 because the protesters there were saying they didn't want Islam taking over New York,

00:01:29.160 but they weren't the ones who threw the bomb.

00:01:32.180 You see, the bomb was being thrown at them and at cops,

00:01:35.360 something the mayor weirdly omitted from his tweet, which took over 24 hours, responding to the incident.

00:01:42.640 This is what we're dealing with in New York now.

00:01:44.840 But we have got to begin this hour with what happened on 60 Minutes last night,

00:01:50.180 who just cannot seem to help themselves making deceptive edits.

00:01:55.260 All right?

00:01:55.800 Yesterday, 60 Minutes aired Major Garrett, my old pal from Fox News.

00:02:01.100 This does not appear to have been his sin, though I don't know whether he signed off on this or not.

00:02:06.740 This would have been an editorial call by the network, but they aired his interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

00:02:14.080 about what's happening in Iran.

00:02:16.320 Here is part, okay, about, this is what actually aired, right?

00:02:21.180 About Israel possibly dragging the United States into war.

00:02:27.280 This is what was presented to the CBS audience.

00:02:30.220 Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him,

00:02:35.300 suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war that,

00:02:41.040 to their minds, did not put American interests first.

00:02:44.980 Do you want to address that criticism?

00:02:46.740 All I know is I'm in the room every day and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first,

00:02:51.960 and it's America, Americans, and American interests.

00:02:54.240 Okay, so there you see Pete Hegseth defending Bibi Netanyahu charges about Israel's interference in the war.

00:03:04.260 Well, thanks to President Trump's complaint about 60 Minutes edits of Kamala Harris's interview and how deceptive they were,

00:03:10.900 CBS now posts the unedited interviews of newsmakers as well.

00:03:15.320 And let me tell you, the question asked was very different.

00:03:18.460 That was not the question that Major Garrett asked.

00:03:20.700 He did not ask anything about Bibi Netanyahu or Israel, nor did then Pete go on to rehabilitate anything in response to Israel.

00:03:29.900 All right, we took a look at the Hegseth interview in full.

00:03:32.200 It's notable how the Q&A you saw never mentioned Israel at all.

00:03:37.800 Only someone at CBS tried to go back and change the question to make it about Israel,

00:03:44.920 such that the answer would then rehabilitate Israel, which isn't what actually happened.

00:03:51.720 Look at this.

00:03:52.540 This is the actual Q&A as it unfolded.

00:03:55.320 You mentioned America First.

00:03:57.520 Some who identify with that movement, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene,

00:04:03.400 have said from their perspective this isn't an America First campaign.

00:04:07.180 Do you want to address that criticism?

00:04:08.800 All I know is I'm in the room every day, and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first,

00:04:14.160 and it's America, Americans, and American interests at every level.

00:04:17.800 How long should our bases be tolerating thousands of short-range ballistic missiles

00:04:21.080 and one-way attack drones pointing at our bases and our people?

00:04:23.920 After 47 years of Americans being targeted and killed,

00:04:27.660 the men I served with in combat in Iraq coming home with no arms and no legs,

00:04:32.940 targeted by Iranian EFPs, thousands of Americans killed.

00:04:37.020 Beirut, you want to go back? We can go back to how long.

00:04:39.740 I mean, the regime itself is premised on death to America.

00:04:43.360 So 47 years, thousands of missiles, and an unrelenting pursuit of nuclear ambitions.

00:04:48.680 I mean, President Trump's right.

00:04:49.760 When he says we obliterated their nuclear program, he's right. 1.00

00:04:52.200 We did.

00:04:52.620 We dropped those bombs exactly where they needed to be and set them back.

00:04:56.180 But that doesn't mean they've stopped their pursuit.

00:04:59.100 It doesn't mean in the back of their mind they're thinking,

00:05:00.560 well, maybe we'll wait it out and keep...

00:05:02.200 They've miscalculated the resolve of President Trump.

00:05:06.580 Ask Nicholas Maduro about that.

00:05:09.380 Ask, you know, the Houthis about that.

00:05:11.780 Look at the southern border.

00:05:13.160 Look at the cartels and drug boats.

00:05:15.200 When President Trump says he'll take care of something, he's going to take care of it.

00:05:18.380 There was nothing, nothing about Netanyahu and nothing about Israel in the Q or the A.

00:05:26.420 Only CBS decided to style it in that fashion.

00:05:29.660 But you know what?

00:05:30.900 Here's the thing. 0.98

00:05:32.200 They do not give a shit about misleading you over at CBS. 0.98

00:05:36.400 The old CBS or the new CBS, which has a brand new agenda. 0.99

00:05:40.300 The left will tell you that it's pro-MAGA.

00:05:42.160 It's not pro-MAGA.

00:05:43.460 Trust me.

00:05:44.180 Watch two minutes of the evening news or the morning news.

00:05:47.100 It is not pro-MAGA at all, but it is pro-Israel.

00:05:51.480 Barry Weiss has finally achieved her dream of running a news network that will be entirely

00:05:56.200 pro-Israel.

00:05:57.200 This is not just me saying this.

00:05:58.740 Everybody all over the internet who's been watching CBS is noting how unfair their coverage

00:06:03.720 is on this.

00:06:04.200 It is not fair and balanced at all.

00:06:07.660 So not only did CBS reframe the whole thing unfairly to be about Bibi Netanyahu, which was

00:06:15.400 not in Major's question and was not in Pete's answer.

00:06:18.460 He was not answering a question about Israel.

00:06:20.320 But they also then jumped two and a half minutes in the interview after Hegseth's answer to

00:06:26.940 then a question about Netanyahu providing intel to the U.S. in the war.

00:06:31.180 But that moment, an example of inserting Israel into a Q&A that never mentioned it in the first

00:06:37.220 place.

00:06:37.940 Okay.

00:06:38.180 So here again, they are trying to shove Israel into the debate and Israel's in the debate, 0.80

00:06:43.760 but you can't make a question that wasn't about it, about it later with an anchor track.

00:06:50.600 That's what they did.

00:06:51.560 They took Major's question out and they relayed an anchor track to make it about Netanyahu

00:06:58.600 and Israel so that Pete's answer would be rehabilitative of that. 1.00

00:07:02.780 What kind of fucking bullshit is this? 1.00

00:07:05.620 Honestly, like forget, obviously, we've got a lot of questions about this war. 1.00

00:07:09.520 As I made clear last week, we're still supporters of President Trump entirely.

00:07:14.480 Doesn't mean you have to agree with every decision the man makes.

00:07:16.560 And we support our troops and we support success in this mission now that it has been started.

00:07:22.380 But we have a lot of questions about this war.

00:07:25.740 Some are about Israel's role, obviously.

00:07:28.260 Some are about gas prices, as we mentioned a minute ago.

00:07:30.760 Many are about whether this is good for the American people.

00:07:33.700 Whether, as we mentioned on this show, and we voiced our objections last Monday,

00:07:37.440 we're now subjecting the homeland to more potential terrorism attacks.

00:07:40.740 Remember, that was one of the main things I said, that I was very worried,

00:07:44.920 having been at Fox News for 20 years in the war on terror,

00:07:48.140 that we were now going to start to see more domestic terror attacks,

00:07:50.980 which we had tamped down, which we'd been doing rather well on.

00:07:54.280 That was one of my main things.

00:07:55.840 MTG was on the show.

00:07:57.400 Here is what she said her concerns were, okay?

00:08:01.380 Among other things, she mentioned Israel, so did I.

00:08:04.420 But here is her list of what she was concerned about in SOT 2.

00:08:08.880 Most Americans are completely against this war because, like you said,

00:08:14.260 the president has made no case for it.

00:08:16.800 We live our ordinary lives, and we don't feel threatened by Iran. 1.00

00:08:20.900 We don't walk around thinking that in any moment an Iranian ballistic missile

00:08:25.260 is going to land on our head.

00:08:26.900 We don't.

00:08:27.640 Here's what Americans, and I want to read off this list.

00:08:30.120 This is what Americans are focused on.

00:08:32.640 72% of Americans can't afford health insurance.

00:08:36.100 58% of Americans can't afford car insurance.

00:08:40.000 67% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

00:08:43.760 31% of Americans can't afford their back taxes.

00:08:47.620 50% of Americans are in credit card debt, massive credit card debt.

00:08:53.640 That's where we are in America.

00:08:55.960 Okay, so Major Garrett, who is a good reporter,

00:08:59.500 took criticisms like mine, like hers, and others,

00:09:02.900 and asked the question,

00:09:03.960 you mentioned America First.

00:09:05.740 Some who identify with that movement,

00:09:07.620 Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Kenneth Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene,

00:09:10.040 have said from their perspective,

00:09:11.840 this isn't an American First campaign.

00:09:15.180 America First campaign.

00:09:16.400 Do you want to address that criticism?

00:09:19.520 Fair question.

00:09:20.260 Totally fair question.

00:09:22.220 Major does his homework.

00:09:23.440 Trust me.

00:09:24.100 I know him very well.

00:09:25.320 We officed together for two years

00:09:27.520 and have been through a lot together.

00:09:29.480 And they changed that question with a voiceover

00:09:34.320 to there are varying versions of how and why the war started when it did.

00:09:39.640 Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him,

00:09:43.320 suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war

00:09:47.740 that to their minds did not put American interests first.

00:09:51.080 That is a different question.

00:09:52.840 I also believe that,

00:09:55.040 as do I think the other people on your list.

00:09:57.100 But that is a very different question

00:09:59.360 than why do we think this war is not America First?

00:10:04.420 And CBS manipulated the Q&A

00:10:07.360 in order to rehabilitate Netanyahu

00:10:10.220 in a way that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

00:10:13.260 was not doing in that answer.

00:10:15.700 Do you understand? 0.98

00:10:16.620 This is ridiculous. 0.95

00:10:18.340 It's welcome to the news, CBS. 0.96

00:10:20.260 Same as the old CBS.

00:10:22.120 Deceptive editing,

00:10:23.920 deceptive manipulations

00:10:25.240 meant to push their own agenda.

00:10:28.280 There's a lot to go over today.

00:10:30.580 This New York City terror attack being reframed as white supremacy is yet another.

00:10:35.320 What happened now?

00:10:36.360 Jesse Jackson's son

00:10:37.520 is lashing out

00:10:39.480 at the top Democrats,

00:10:41.000 President Obama,

00:10:42.100 President Bill Clinton,

00:10:42.840 President Biden,

00:10:43.760 for using his dad's memorial

00:10:45.640 to try to rip on Trump.

00:10:48.820 Jesse Jackson's son is pissed.

00:10:50.480 Who could blame him?

00:10:51.460 If you guys remember on AM Update after the Reverend Jackson died,

00:10:55.000 I made a personal comment on there

00:10:56.880 about how he was always very good to yours truly.

00:10:59.920 We saw him plenty of times over the Fox News room,

00:11:03.440 you know, tenure.

00:11:04.900 And he was always so cordial,

00:11:06.860 so kind.

00:11:07.840 He knew he was at Fox.

00:11:09.160 He knew I was with Fox.

00:11:10.380 Never anything but kind,

00:11:13.140 supportive,

00:11:14.380 inquiring about me,

00:11:15.680 my family,

00:11:16.100 my wellness,

00:11:16.580 all that.

00:11:17.640 And I believe the son when he says

00:11:19.120 they did not want to make his funeral a partisan thing.

00:11:22.240 In any event,

00:11:22.720 we'll get to all of that.

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00:12:42.460 Stu, welcome back.

00:12:43.720 Who's Dave?

00:12:44.780 Ah, Dave Landau.

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00:12:53.940 Awesome.

00:12:55.060 Okay. 0.99

00:12:55.780 Can you believe this 60 minutes bullshit? 1.00

00:12:58.380 You get it, right? 1.00

00:12:59.780 I had to work extra hard at it,

00:13:01.280 but you get the sin, yes?

00:13:02.280 Yes, I follow it along as I think.

00:13:05.720 You know, it's interesting

00:13:06.680 because I think the question asked,

00:13:09.760 obviously one of your criticisms might be that,

00:13:11.940 but it's also they grouped you with people

00:13:14.000 who have, I would say,

00:13:15.140 a very wide array of complaints,

00:13:17.980 some of them smart,

00:13:19.460 some of them not so smart.

00:13:20.940 And it's funny, like they just,

00:13:22.800 that's an interesting way to ask that question,

00:13:26.240 especially when you could have asked it directly, right?

00:13:28.840 Those are interesting conversations.

00:13:30.720 People have opinions on them.

00:13:31.880 I think a lot of people

00:13:33.000 are very focused on that right now.

00:13:34.580 And for you to be able to,

00:13:36.740 for someone like Pete to be able to answer that,

00:13:39.200 I mean, I think the tone of it is true, right?

00:13:42.100 Like at the end of the day,

00:13:43.640 we have a commander in chief

00:13:44.700 and he makes the decisions.

00:13:45.980 Donald Trump, not exactly shy on his opinions.

00:13:48.560 I don't think he gets bullied around all that much.

00:13:52.280 But to try to hide that in some separate question

00:13:57.280 where it could have easily been just asked directly.

00:14:01.120 I will say one of the things we're finding out about this

00:14:03.860 and one of the, I think the efforts

00:14:05.980 that Donald Trump was trying to achieve

00:14:07.660 when he went after CBS the first time

00:14:09.700 is for us to be able to know this.

00:14:12.020 I mean, this is a new development, Megan.

00:14:13.500 Like, you know, up until recently,

00:14:15.480 you would have just been guessing, right?

00:14:16.960 You would have saying, what was that question?

00:14:18.180 What would we have known?

00:14:19.280 And we not would have had that information at all.

00:14:21.400 So at least we've stepped forward

00:14:22.720 a little bit in that front.

00:14:23.660 We can now look at the full interviews.

00:14:26.380 I think that's a positive,

00:14:28.700 but I don't understand the approach.

00:14:30.320 I mean, just ask the question directly

00:14:32.240 and let people judge for themselves.

00:14:35.260 I mean, America first is many things.

00:14:37.860 It's many things, but I mean,

00:14:39.620 MTG is basically saying she's America only.

00:14:42.600 That's how she would phrase her ideology.

00:14:45.200 And the original question by Major got it

00:14:47.240 and understood it and captured

00:14:49.920 that it was a broader thing, I think,

00:14:51.260 by sticking to this isn't America first principles,

00:14:53.640 nothing about Netanyahu.

00:14:54.840 That's also on the table.

00:14:55.820 It's a separate question

00:14:56.840 and it would be a separate answer.

00:14:59.460 That's not how they presented it.

00:15:01.400 They presented the Secretary of War's defense

00:15:05.080 to the question, which by the way, was so shortened.

00:15:08.100 I realize in 60 Minutes and every network news,

00:15:10.760 they shorten an answer,

00:15:11.880 but his longer answer was a very good answer.

00:15:14.300 You know, you may find it persuasive

00:15:15.340 as a justification for the war or you may not,

00:15:17.940 but it at least was honest about the reasons were there.

00:15:21.140 You know, he mentioned for 47 years,

00:15:22.540 they've been bombing us.

00:15:23.300 He mentioned guys who've lost limbs in the Iraq war

00:15:26.340 thanks to Iranian IEDs. 1.00

00:15:29.220 Like, okay, that's fine.

00:15:30.780 That actually has persuaded millions of Americans

00:15:33.560 and the majority of Republicans

00:15:34.720 that what we're doing over there right now

00:15:36.820 is just and supported and warranted.

00:15:41.460 But that's not what the question was.

00:15:44.760 That's the problem.

00:15:45.480 You cannot take a question that wasn't asked

00:15:49.560 about Bibi Netanyahu

00:15:51.320 and insert an answer that was responsive

00:15:54.520 to America First principles. 0.99

00:15:56.520 It's fucking unethical. 0.99

00:15:58.840 Major knows that. 0.99

00:16:00.100 CBS knows that.

00:16:01.540 Barry Weiss knows that.

00:16:03.440 So what that leads me to conclude

00:16:05.740 is she's pushing an agenda.

00:16:08.320 And we do know she's heavily involved

00:16:09.920 in these 60 Minutes review sessions.

00:16:11.960 We learned that when she spiked the report on Seacott 0.97

00:16:15.460 and there was a meltdown within 60.

00:16:17.800 This is not cool.

00:16:19.440 And they ought to correct the record

00:16:20.740 because that is not what he responded to.

00:16:24.260 It's infuriating because right now,

00:16:26.500 I don't know about you, Stu,

00:16:27.840 but like the media is impossible at the moment.

00:16:31.740 You've got the pro-Trump outlets

00:16:33.440 that are like Fox

00:16:35.060 that are completely running cover

00:16:36.360 on everything around this war,

00:16:37.800 cheerleading it entirely.

00:16:38.860 Then you've got like the New York Times

00:16:41.660 and other outlets that hate Trump,

00:16:43.640 that see everything in the least favorable light

00:16:46.080 to the president.

00:16:47.260 And even I, as a critic of the war,

00:16:50.020 I'm not so critical

00:16:51.460 that I would rely on the New York Times, right?

00:16:53.440 Like I'll look at them,

00:16:55.260 I'll look at everybody,

00:16:56.240 but it's very hard to find information

00:16:58.640 that you really can trust, right?

00:17:00.740 Because our president definitely tries

00:17:03.040 to manipulate the media

00:17:04.040 like every other president we've had.

00:17:06.240 And the media is trying to manipulate its audiences

00:17:10.720 like a full bore right now on all fronts.

00:17:13.620 So it's been a challenge getting information.

00:17:17.140 Yeah, the media is in a really difficult position right now.

00:17:20.080 I mean, they've been talking to us

00:17:21.440 for a very long time

00:17:22.900 about how we have to be more involved

00:17:24.840 in something like Ukraine, for example.

00:17:28.660 And now, because President Trump

00:17:31.340 wants to be involved with Iran,

00:17:33.540 they kind of have to take the opposite position

00:17:35.540 and say we shouldn't be involved in these conflicts.

00:17:38.520 I mean, it is a complicated world.

00:17:40.920 Have some sympathy for them, Megan.

00:17:42.440 This is really hard to figure out on a day-to-day basis.

00:17:45.640 You know, you have to oppose Trump,

00:17:47.400 but you have to, I mean,

00:17:48.380 this is just what they're in the middle of.

00:17:50.620 And I think, you know, President Trump,

00:17:52.000 like I think you hit on something there,

00:17:54.620 which is the debate.

00:17:55.840 And I think it's an interesting question here

00:18:00.000 because it's much broader than, you know,

00:18:01.620 how you feel about Israel.

00:18:03.140 You know, like you might think Israel

00:18:04.320 is the greatest country on earth

00:18:05.260 and they're totally justified.

00:18:06.280 I think, you know, if I was living in Israel

00:18:08.560 and I was an Israeli talk show host,

00:18:10.440 I would be pretty convinced

00:18:11.760 that Iran was a real threat to me. 1.00

00:18:13.560 And taking out someone like the Ayatollah 1.00

00:18:15.840 would, I think, be pretty justified.

00:18:18.060 We certainly, I think, have an argument

00:18:20.080 as Pete was making there as well.

00:18:22.720 But, you know, the line here,

00:18:23.980 and this is something that

00:18:24.660 I don't think I would have,

00:18:26.640 I don't think it's a place

00:18:27.280 I would have been 20 or 30 years ago

00:18:28.900 because, you know,

00:18:31.700 going through the Iraq situation

00:18:33.360 had me rethinking things

00:18:36.040 a little bit on this front

00:18:37.080 and sort of trying to set out

00:18:39.260 that dynamic of justification

00:18:41.700 versus necessity, right?

00:18:43.720 Like, I think we have a really good argument

00:18:46.160 that taking on Iran is justified. 1.00

00:18:51.220 You know, what Pete's saying was true.

00:18:52.880 Like, they really, outside of our direct conflict.

00:18:55.040 There's scores to be settled.

00:18:57.120 There are.

00:18:57.780 I mean, there's heavy reporting

00:18:59.980 on, you know, the potential

00:19:01.560 of them trying to take out

00:19:03.400 multiple officials here in the United States,

00:19:05.060 including Donald Trump and John Bolton,

00:19:06.660 two people who can't stand each other these days.

00:19:09.080 You go back and you look at, of course,

00:19:11.540 I mean, I did deep research.

00:19:12.760 I want you to know,

00:19:13.440 I went back and watched Argo

00:19:14.600 with Ben Affleck, Megan.

00:19:17.420 Yes, I did.

00:19:19.040 And in that movie,

00:19:19.880 that Hollywood wanted you

00:19:20.720 to make sure you understood

00:19:21.700 that Iran was bad, 1.00

00:19:23.920 so they were on that side.

00:19:24.860 I don't know.

00:19:25.260 I go back and forth on this.

00:19:26.400 By the way, freaking great movie.

00:19:28.200 It's a great movie.

00:19:28.980 It is a great movie.

00:19:29.620 No matter what.

00:19:30.220 It is a great movie.

00:19:31.440 Ben Affleck is incredibly irritating,

00:19:32.800 but that was a great movie.

00:19:34.100 It really is.

00:19:35.340 But you remember,

00:19:36.160 this is a,

00:19:36.760 there's a long history.

00:19:37.940 And what's interesting

00:19:39.000 about that history, 1979,

00:19:41.000 I mean, Donald Trump's,

00:19:42.060 I think, 33 years old

00:19:43.480 when this all goes down

00:19:44.560 somewhere in that area.

00:19:46.260 Like this is,

00:19:46.960 as he's becoming an adult

00:19:49.280 and building his business empire,

00:19:50.980 we're kind of just starting

00:19:52.240 to become aware of him

00:19:53.720 as a national figure.

00:19:56.220 This is the story, right?

00:19:58.440 This is the story at that time.

00:20:00.640 And Iran has a long history 0.94

00:20:02.580 of murdering Americans. 0.70

00:20:04.200 This is not just a thing.

00:20:05.440 This is not like,

00:20:06.160 oh gosh, this is some country.

00:20:07.940 This is a country that,

00:20:09.040 outside of our direct wars

00:20:10.780 that we've been in,

00:20:11.800 has killed more Americans 0.87

00:20:12.900 than any other nation,

00:20:14.300 any other nation state.

00:20:15.800 They did this during your war.

00:20:16.240 They're always on the other side.

00:20:17.780 Always.

00:20:18.200 Yes, exactly.

00:20:18.860 This is a,

00:20:19.360 so, you know,

00:20:19.880 we have real justification,

00:20:21.460 I think,

00:20:21.800 to have a massive problem

00:20:22.900 with this country.

00:20:23.640 The question though,

00:20:24.600 and I think this is where

00:20:25.520 I got with Iraq 1.00

00:20:26.240 when we were in Iraq initially.

00:20:28.680 I mean, they,

00:20:29.280 people forget,

00:20:29.920 they were firing at our jets

00:20:31.820 on like a daily basis

00:20:33.180 before that war started.

00:20:35.500 And that is a justification,

00:20:37.520 absolutely,

00:20:38.320 for us to be able

00:20:39.320 to go to war.

00:20:40.420 The question though,

00:20:41.180 is it a necessity

00:20:42.060 at that time?

00:20:43.260 Can you find,

00:20:45.660 I think it was an opportunity.

00:20:47.000 The question was,

00:20:47.820 is it a necessity with Iran? 0.83

00:20:49.620 And an opportunity,

00:20:50.660 I have no love

00:20:51.280 for the Iranian regime.

00:20:52.200 I am happy the Ayatollah

00:20:53.160 is not there anymore.

00:20:54.140 I really hope this turns out

00:20:55.380 really well.

00:20:56.480 But if we go to

00:20:58.340 an expanded situation

00:21:00.100 where this lasts

00:21:01.000 for a long time,

00:21:02.740 you know,

00:21:03.000 questions wind up being,

00:21:04.940 becoming problems quickly.

00:21:06.340 And it's hard

00:21:07.320 to back out of that stuff.

00:21:08.500 And that is the sort of thing,

00:21:10.240 I think a lot of Trump supporters

00:21:11.620 believe we wouldn't

00:21:13.100 get involved in.

00:21:14.540 And perhaps we're not,

00:21:15.500 you know,

00:21:15.720 we're only a week or so

00:21:16.960 into this.

00:21:17.560 Perhaps this is gonna,

00:21:18.760 you know,

00:21:19.040 he's got a more limited

00:21:20.000 effort in mind.

00:21:21.360 But it's hard to know.

00:21:23.160 And I think that's part

00:21:23.920 of your criticism,

00:21:25.320 some that I would have

00:21:26.120 of the president's approach

00:21:27.000 to this is,

00:21:27.440 I would love to know

00:21:28.040 a little bit more.

00:21:28.620 I'd love to have a little bit

00:21:29.420 more explanation wise.

00:21:30.520 I know he can't lay out

00:21:31.380 the entire battle plan,

00:21:32.920 but it is important

00:21:33.680 for the American people

00:21:34.360 to understand

00:21:35.280 if this is an important,

00:21:36.680 if it is a necessity

00:21:37.500 and not just a justified conflict.

00:21:40.980 I'd like to be,

00:21:41.800 you know,

00:21:42.080 a little more information

00:21:42.920 to push us over that line.

00:21:44.500 Well, I mean,

00:21:44.780 you look back at what happened

00:21:45.640 before the Iraq war

00:21:46.540 and we had months

00:21:47.240 of debate on it.

00:21:48.160 We had tons of debate

00:21:49.340 on that,

00:21:50.100 on whether we should go

00:21:50.920 in Afghanistan too.

00:21:52.740 And the people

00:21:54.380 at least got a fair vetting.

00:21:55.600 It wound up having

00:21:56.820 majority support

00:21:57.700 in the U.S. Congress,

00:21:59.300 the Iraq war.

00:21:59.960 The Iraq war did, 0.97

00:22:01.860 which is kind of crazy

00:22:02.740 to think back on,

00:22:03.940 which was very wrong

00:22:04.840 and we should not

00:22:05.460 have done the Iraq war.

00:22:06.340 I mean,

00:22:06.780 I think virtually everyone

00:22:08.300 understands that now.

00:22:09.800 WMD was a lie.

00:22:10.980 They did not exist.

00:22:12.260 Whatever.

00:22:12.620 It was an intel failure

00:22:13.520 at a minimum.

00:22:15.500 And so,

00:22:16.520 but we did debate it

00:22:17.760 and there were two sides

00:22:19.160 and they're actually the 0.99

00:22:20.340 this is bullshit side 0.99

00:22:21.520 was there. 1.00

00:22:22.220 They were represented.

00:22:22.960 They were overruled.

00:22:23.720 They weren't considered persuasive.

00:22:25.240 But on this,

00:22:25.900 we just haven't had

00:22:26.600 the debate at all

00:22:27.360 and now we've launched

00:22:29.300 something that

00:22:29.840 I don't know

00:22:31.060 where it's going.

00:22:31.840 I mean,

00:22:32.140 many people think

00:22:33.340 this is the beginning

00:22:33.860 of World War III.

00:22:34.960 I'm not there yet.

00:22:35.780 But I see terror warnings

00:22:37.980 coming across the transom

00:22:39.060 just as we went to air.

00:22:40.720 This just hits, Stu.

00:22:42.400 This is via ABC News.

00:22:45.220 Stand by.

00:22:47.700 Okay.

00:22:48.260 The headline is,

00:22:49.080 The U.S. has intercepted

00:22:50.840 encrypted communications

00:22:52.100 believed to have originated

00:22:53.280 in Iran

00:22:54.000 that may serve

00:22:55.120 as an operational trigger,

00:22:56.960 that's in quotes,

00:22:58.260 for, quote,

00:22:58.840 sleeper assets

00:22:59.740 outside of Iran,

00:23:01.140 according to a federal

00:23:01.840 government alert

00:23:02.820 sent to law enforcement

00:23:04.280 agencies.

00:23:04.820 It goes on to say,

00:23:06.020 The intercepted transmission

00:23:07.540 was encoded

00:23:08.260 and appeared to be destined

00:23:09.720 for, quote,

00:23:10.300 clandestine recipients

00:23:11.660 who possess

00:23:12.700 the encryption key,

00:23:13.780 the kind of message

00:23:14.400 intended to impart

00:23:15.180 instructions to covert

00:23:16.220 operatives or sleeper assets

00:23:17.620 without the use

00:23:18.660 of the internet

00:23:19.120 or cellular networks.

00:23:21.180 It's possible

00:23:21.940 the transmissions

00:23:22.520 could be intended

00:23:23.160 to activate

00:23:23.760 or provide instructions

00:23:25.000 to pre-positioned

00:23:26.080 sleeper assets

00:23:26.660 operating outside

00:23:27.520 of the originating country,

00:23:28.700 said the alert.

00:23:30.980 We were not going

00:23:31.960 to get that.

00:23:32.620 That was not happening

00:23:33.720 nine days ago.

00:23:35.460 That is obviously

00:23:36.520 a response

00:23:37.320 to what we've done

00:23:39.040 with Israel

00:23:40.200 in Iran.

00:23:41.860 And I realize

00:23:42.440 many people think

00:23:43.000 worth it,

00:23:43.480 worth it,

00:23:43.780 worth it.

00:23:44.020 I don't happen

00:23:44.380 to be one of them.

00:23:45.120 I don't want

00:23:45.880 to have to deal

00:23:46.360 with the United States

00:23:47.820 becoming Israel 0.85

00:23:48.800 where we have to worry

00:23:50.180 about getting blown up

00:23:51.180 at your random cafe

00:23:52.660 or our kids have to worry

00:23:54.040 about walking

00:23:54.520 to school safely.

00:23:55.400 That wasn't us

00:23:56.480 10 days ago.

00:23:57.960 And this isn't

00:23:58.740 the only one.

00:23:59.360 You know,

00:23:59.520 we saw that shooting

00:24:00.180 down in Austin, Texas

00:24:01.140 by that guy 0.84

00:24:02.260 who seemed like a loon

00:24:03.260 but he was wearing 0.51

00:24:03.960 the Allah sweatshirt

00:24:07.740 and the Iranian flag

00:24:09.020 on his person.

00:24:09.700 Now this weekend

00:24:11.820 we see this protest

00:24:14.040 outside of Mamdani's mansion,

00:24:16.020 the mayor's mansion

00:24:16.680 in New York

00:24:17.240 with two people

00:24:18.740 whose parents

00:24:20.000 are naturalized

00:24:20.680 U.S. citizens

00:24:21.280 throwing an IED

00:24:22.320 at cops

00:24:24.260 because the protesters

00:24:25.880 there were protesting

00:24:27.000 against New York

00:24:28.080 becoming more radically Muslim

00:24:29.920 and these obviously

00:24:31.280 were people sympathetic

00:24:32.180 toward the other side

00:24:33.320 which was also represented

00:24:34.340 at the counter protest.

00:24:35.300 In any event,

00:24:36.360 you and I both see

00:24:37.720 what's happening here.

00:24:38.460 There is a powder keg

00:24:40.480 that has been placed,

00:24:42.480 it's been sort of drizzled

00:24:44.420 all over certain pockets

00:24:46.040 of the United States

00:24:46.740 in the wake

00:24:47.160 of our military action

00:24:49.300 in Iran

00:24:50.080 and I'm just totally against it.

00:24:52.440 I am not in favor

00:24:53.600 of using the military

00:24:54.560 in a way that's not defensive.

00:24:55.920 This didn't feel defensive

00:24:56.820 to me

00:24:57.180 but the point is simply

00:24:58.780 now we're going to have

00:24:59.840 to deal with it

00:25:00.460 and now we're going to see

00:25:01.880 more and more

00:25:02.520 of these homegrown

00:25:03.720 domestic terror attacks

00:25:05.120 and yet we're still

00:25:06.400 being told by some

00:25:07.200 that to even discuss it

00:25:08.080 is considered unpatriotic.

00:25:10.960 Yeah, I mean it is

00:25:11.940 it's something

00:25:12.480 you have to factor in

00:25:13.560 and you know,

00:25:14.720 look, if the president

00:25:15.640 wasn't doing that

00:25:16.500 he's not doing his job, right?

00:25:17.680 He has to be able to do that

00:25:18.900 and I'm sure he's taken

00:25:19.880 this into consideration.

00:25:21.300 He's, you know,

00:25:22.300 in his public speaking

00:25:23.640 he's talked about

00:25:24.440 the possibility

00:25:25.400 of casualties.

00:25:26.480 This is not

00:25:26.960 this is not some game

00:25:28.100 like, right?

00:25:28.740 It's not some jokey thing.

00:25:30.440 It's not just some easy thing.

00:25:31.980 This is a country

00:25:33.180 that has, you know,

00:25:34.500 built up military.

00:25:36.100 It has been decimated

00:25:37.820 to some degree.

00:25:39.740 I do think

00:25:40.160 they have been weakened.

00:25:41.320 They do have

00:25:41.920 these affiliates

00:25:42.600 around the world

00:25:43.280 that have been weakened

00:25:44.720 especially around

00:25:45.540 the Middle East

00:25:46.120 leading up to this

00:25:46.900 and I think that's why

00:25:47.920 Israel as well

00:25:49.500 as the United States

00:25:50.060 saw an opportunity here

00:25:51.760 maybe a point of weakness.

00:25:53.800 I would love to see

00:25:55.240 the Iranian people

00:25:56.260 rise up

00:25:56.880 and do what

00:25:57.640 President Trump

00:25:58.120 has asked of them

00:25:58.840 to take this over

00:26:00.620 and turn the country

00:26:01.840 into, you know,

00:26:03.800 not only something

00:26:04.680 that I think

00:26:05.400 is not a negative influence

00:26:06.540 on the rest of the world

00:26:07.440 but also not a negative

00:26:08.440 influence on their people.

00:26:09.580 I would love to see them

00:26:10.220 have the freedom

00:26:11.240 that they want.

00:26:11.800 I would love that too

00:26:12.400 but how can they do it?

00:26:13.380 Like people are criticizing

00:26:14.320 them right now

00:26:14.880 for not, you know,

00:26:16.060 going to the streets

00:26:16.760 and doing what they did

00:26:17.640 in mid-January.

00:26:18.580 It's like, well,

00:26:18.980 we're bombing their cities.

00:26:20.720 You know, I mean, 0.98

00:26:21.100 we're bombing the hell 0.96

00:26:22.020 out of them. 0.99

00:26:22.760 They can't go out

00:26:24.120 in the streets

00:26:24.580 and we've told them

00:26:25.640 not to

00:26:26.140 but how as a practical matter

00:26:29.060 can they

00:26:29.640 with the IRGC

00:26:30.780 running that country

00:26:31.700 with its guns?

00:26:32.520 I mean,

00:26:33.380 there are thousands,

00:26:35.080 tens of thousands

00:26:35.600 of IRGC,

00:26:36.620 Iranian guard

00:26:37.780 and the Iranians 0.89

00:26:39.760 don't have guns

00:26:40.360 unlike Americans. 0.97

00:26:41.620 They don't have guns.

00:26:42.200 So like,

00:26:43.080 as a practical matter,

00:26:44.020 how does it happen?

00:26:45.740 First of all,

00:26:46.360 I would like to note

00:26:47.180 your argument

00:26:47.820 for the Second Amendment

00:26:48.780 which is, of course,

00:26:49.700 why it exists.

00:26:50.920 I'm in favor

00:26:51.580 of the Second Amendment.

00:26:52.220 really, really important

00:26:54.340 part of this

00:26:55.000 because this is the type

00:26:56.500 of stuff that would be

00:26:57.680 difficult to,

00:26:58.960 you know,

00:26:59.320 that regime

00:26:59.920 is very difficult

00:27:00.760 to implement

00:27:01.260 in a place like

00:27:01.940 the United States.

00:27:02.660 It's not just some,

00:27:03.780 you know,

00:27:04.280 I think the human condition

00:27:05.900 is tilted

00:27:07.280 towards tyranny,

00:27:09.440 right?

00:27:09.660 It's been the entire

00:27:10.420 history of the world.

00:27:11.500 That's another piece

00:27:12.320 of the weaponry

00:27:13.280 against an oppressive government.

00:27:15.960 Massively crucial.

00:27:16.900 And the reason why

00:27:17.440 you don't give your people

00:27:18.420 a Second Amendment

00:27:19.080 like almost every country

00:27:20.060 on Earth has not

00:27:20.920 is so that

00:27:21.920 if you're in this situation,

00:27:23.320 they can't rise up.

00:27:24.180 So it is really,

00:27:25.180 really difficult

00:27:25.600 and probably is going to be

00:27:26.820 a massive loss of life

00:27:28.880 if they do it.

00:27:30.340 Of course,

00:27:31.040 that is up to them.

00:27:32.640 Many people in that country

00:27:33.920 are brave enough

00:27:34.880 and may very well do it.

00:27:36.500 I wouldn't be shocked

00:27:37.280 if they do.

00:27:39.080 And I think,

00:27:39.660 you know,

00:27:39.840 President Trump

00:27:40.460 has outlined this

00:27:41.200 as well as many officials

00:27:42.180 of like,

00:27:43.140 hey,

00:27:43.320 you're right,

00:27:44.160 this isn't the time.

00:27:45.000 You might want to wait

00:27:45.620 a little while

00:27:46.140 until the bombs

00:27:46.800 start dropping,

00:27:47.760 stop dropping.

00:27:48.420 And that's what's been

00:27:48.900 interesting about Trump's

00:27:50.560 continued,

00:27:52.400 you know,

00:27:52.840 again,

00:27:53.160 I'm critical of his

00:27:54.660 communication here

00:27:55.340 because I'm citing

00:27:56.040 some things he's saying

00:27:56.840 and he said some things

00:27:57.520 that are kind of disagreeing

00:27:58.700 with this.

00:27:59.500 But this idea of it being,

00:28:00.920 you know,

00:28:01.600 several weeks,

00:28:02.560 not several years,

00:28:04.180 it's impossible to project

00:28:05.920 that with any level

00:28:07.120 of specificity.

00:28:08.340 And that's,

00:28:09.020 I think,

00:28:09.280 one of the parts

00:28:10.040 that makes me very nervous

00:28:11.180 about this effort,

00:28:12.400 right?

00:28:12.660 Like,

00:28:12.880 I'm nervous

00:28:14.040 that we're going

00:28:14.460 to be able

00:28:14.780 to stick to that.

00:28:16.820 But-

00:28:17.120 We didn't go into Iraq

00:28:18.020 thinking it was going

00:28:18.680 to be several years.

00:28:19.720 We have it on tape.

00:28:20.760 Everybody promising

00:28:21.440 it was going to be days,

00:28:22.980 weeks,

00:28:23.760 possibly,

00:28:24.280 said Cheney.

00:28:25.240 It wound up being

00:28:26.180 almost nine years,

00:28:27.560 eight years

00:28:28.020 and eight months.

00:28:29.960 This is why you try

00:28:31.140 to stay out of war,

00:28:31.820 right?

00:28:32.020 Because it is very difficult

00:28:33.320 even though you could come up

00:28:34.600 with all the justifications.

00:28:35.980 Necessary.

00:28:36.640 That's the good word.

00:28:38.420 Yeah,

00:28:38.660 yeah.

00:28:38.860 And that's a huge,

00:28:40.140 I think,

00:28:40.660 determining factor here.

00:28:42.660 When you look at this

00:28:43.700 and you kind of,

00:28:44.400 you step back,

00:28:46.300 there's so many considerations,

00:28:47.900 right?

00:28:48.160 You heard Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:28:49.500 outlined a bunch of them,

00:28:50.500 right?

00:28:50.620 There's a lot of things

00:28:51.340 that the president

00:28:51.840 has to deal with.

00:28:53.000 And like,

00:28:53.800 you know,

00:28:53.980 we are months away

00:28:55.340 from an election.

00:28:56.740 I can tell you

00:28:57.380 $120 a barrel oil

00:28:59.720 is going to be significant

00:29:01.440 in that election.

00:29:03.220 If it sticks around there,

00:29:05.320 yeah,

00:29:05.580 and we can all say,

00:29:06.460 yeah,

00:29:06.640 well,

00:29:06.880 it'll come down soon

00:29:08.320 and maybe it will,

00:29:09.200 you know.

00:29:09.920 But you're taking

00:29:11.480 a lot of unknowns

00:29:12.600 and you're inserting them

00:29:13.660 into an already

00:29:14.480 difficult situation.

00:29:16.320 And the only time

00:29:17.540 you ever want to do that

00:29:18.440 is when you absolutely

00:29:19.500 have to.

00:29:20.560 And that is,

00:29:21.520 I think,

00:29:21.940 the legitimate criticism

00:29:23.160 here is,

00:29:24.560 you know,

00:29:24.840 while there was opportunity

00:29:25.940 and while I think

00:29:26.600 there was justification,

00:29:28.220 the necessity

00:29:28.940 is the question there.

00:29:30.020 And I think

00:29:30.320 if you can't tick off

00:29:31.400 all three of those boxes,

00:29:32.640 you try to stay

00:29:33.900 out of the conflict

00:29:34.840 because of all the unknowns

00:29:36.140 you're bringing up.

00:29:36.760 Yeah.

00:29:37.160 You don't want to quagmire

00:29:38.340 and you don't want to

00:29:39.320 jeopardize American 0.72

00:29:40.120 service personnel's lives.

00:29:41.420 We lost yet another

00:29:42.860 American service personnel,

00:29:45.240 a seventh now,

00:29:46.100 that's seven American dead

00:29:47.480 as a result of this war.

00:29:50.000 And you don't want to

00:29:51.300 jeopardize the safety

00:29:52.460 of Americans here at home.

00:29:54.900 Kids and others

00:29:56.520 who,

00:29:57.740 you know,

00:29:58.120 that's,

00:29:58.960 they come for the soft targets.

00:30:01.480 I lived this.

00:30:02.620 I,

00:30:02.800 I'm not a spring chicken.

00:30:04.540 I lived this from,

00:30:06.340 I started at Fox News

00:30:07.300 in 2004.

00:30:08.940 I started in news

00:30:10.080 in 2003,

00:30:10.900 but I was at Fox

00:30:12.420 the entire time

00:30:14.200 during the war on terror.

00:30:16.160 And I,

00:30:17.480 we did all the things

00:30:19.140 that people want you to do

00:30:20.400 as a Republican,

00:30:21.380 you know,

00:30:21.720 to support the war,

00:30:23.300 support the president,

00:30:24.560 put the casualties

00:30:25.600 in context,

00:30:27.240 you know,

00:30:27.780 give the president

00:30:28.840 the benefit of the doubt

00:30:30.040 when,

00:30:30.600 and his emissaries,

00:30:31.220 when they say things like

00:30:31.980 they're a WMD,

00:30:32.880 we,

00:30:33.100 I did it all.

00:30:33.780 I did it personally.

00:30:35.440 And I'm just not prepared

00:30:36.480 to do that again.

00:30:37.100 I have an enormous dose

00:30:38.220 of skepticism

00:30:38.880 around all war messaging

00:30:40.380 and around all war,

00:30:42.240 around all war

00:30:42.960 in a way that I did not before

00:30:44.140 because I lived it

00:30:45.000 and I watched Americans

00:30:46.140 have to deal with it

00:30:46.780 on the homeland

00:30:47.360 time and time again.

00:30:49.360 No one thinks

00:30:49.940 that our,

00:30:50.280 our armed forces

00:30:51.480 cannot defeat Iran's. 0.99

00:30:53.400 Of course,

00:30:54.160 obviously,

00:30:54.620 we have the greatest,

00:30:55.800 bravest,

00:30:56.020 bravest,

00:30:56.640 and best military

00:30:57.320 in the world,

00:30:58.660 bar none.

00:30:59.600 It's a question

00:31:00.340 of what they will do

00:31:01.720 in response,

00:31:03.620 like attack our adversaries

00:31:05.020 and effectively turn them,

00:31:06.980 yes,

00:31:07.260 against Iran.

00:31:07.820 Of course,

00:31:08.060 they're already against Iran

00:31:08.980 in the Middle East,

00:31:09.580 but also against us

00:31:10.560 for not defending them adequately,

00:31:12.100 for not getting enough interceptors

00:31:13.560 over there to protect them

00:31:14.980 against the missiles,

00:31:15.620 but we don't have enough.

00:31:16.840 That's why President Trump

00:31:17.780 was meeting with the

00:31:18.600 defense contractors

00:31:19.700 at the White House on Friday,

00:31:20.880 but they can't,

00:31:21.480 they don't turn around fast.

00:31:23.080 It's not easy

00:31:23.580 to make these things

00:31:24.240 and it's also

00:31:24.800 extremely expensive.

00:31:25.620 And their ability

00:31:28.580 is like that

00:31:29.740 of ISIS

00:31:30.980 and Al-Qaeda.

00:31:32.220 It's homegrown terror attacks.

00:31:34.000 It's things like that

00:31:34.640 ABC News report,

00:31:35.740 which,

00:31:36.580 you know,

00:31:36.840 we do need to worry about,

00:31:37.960 but we'll get to that

00:31:38.700 in a second 0.78

00:31:39.000 because there's more warnings

00:31:40.660 on the domestic terror front.

00:31:43.080 You said it's not a game

00:31:44.200 and I agree with you

00:31:44.820 and I don't think

00:31:45.400 President Trump

00:31:45.880 sees it as a game

00:31:46.660 at all.

00:31:47.540 I think he's taking it

00:31:48.240 very seriously.

00:31:49.340 However,

00:31:50.200 one of the main people

00:31:50.980 in his ear

00:31:51.700 seems to think

00:31:53.200 it's like a game

00:31:54.220 and that is Lindsey Graham,

00:31:56.140 who is a villain

00:31:57.540 in this whole thing,

00:31:58.600 a villain.

00:31:59.860 Listen to him

00:32:00.840 over the weekend.

00:32:02.820 He is frothing

00:32:03.720 at the mouth

00:32:04.680 on Fox Business Sunday.

00:32:07.520 I think it's

00:32:08.300 three or four,

00:32:09.340 Deb,

00:32:09.500 you play the right one.

00:32:11.200 Israel and the United States,

00:32:12.800 you just wait

00:32:13.540 to see what comes

00:32:14.620 in the next two weeks.

00:32:16.180 The next two weeks

00:32:17.360 meaning what?

00:32:19.660 We're going to blow

00:32:20.620 the hell out 1.00

00:32:21.280 of these people.

00:32:21.900 Okay.

00:32:24.940 He's jubilant.

00:32:26.900 I would be remiss

00:32:27.760 if I did not mention

00:32:28.600 the Jesse Kelly

00:32:29.340 response to this

00:32:30.680 on X,

00:32:31.480 which was,

00:32:32.360 calm down.

00:32:33.860 He might not,

00:32:35.000 he might,

00:32:35.400 he might not be talking

00:32:37.120 about weapons.

00:32:41.400 Okay,

00:32:41.860 that was funny.

00:32:42.460 You have to laugh

00:32:43.060 where you can.

00:32:43.920 But then he followed up

00:32:45.400 with this

00:32:45.900 in Sot 4.

00:32:48.740 If we get in a fight,

00:32:49.880 I want to win it.

00:32:50.600 I want to win it quick.

00:32:51.480 I'm in Miami.

00:32:52.660 You see this hat?

00:32:54.220 Free Cuba.

00:32:55.160 Stay tuned.

00:32:56.140 The liberation of Cuba

00:32:57.240 is upon us.

00:32:58.720 We're marching

00:32:59.300 through the world.

00:33:00.340 We're cleaning out

00:33:01.060 the bad guys.

00:33:02.340 Iran is going down 0.99

00:33:03.620 and Cuba is next.

00:33:05.560 We're marching

00:33:06.640 through the world

00:33:07.800 and cleaning out

00:33:09.160 the bad guys?

00:33:10.980 No,

00:33:11.320 what the,

00:33:11.840 who voted for that? 0.57

00:33:13.500 No one voted for that.

00:33:15.400 Trump ran

00:33:16.240 on keeping us

00:33:17.020 out of war,

00:33:18.080 especially out

00:33:18.840 of a Middle East war.

00:33:19.880 And now you've got 0.99

00:33:20.840 this lunatic 1.00

00:33:21.820 saying we're marching 1.00

00:33:22.840 through the world

00:33:23.900 and taking down

00:33:25.120 all the bad guys?

00:33:26.400 No,

00:33:26.640 no one elected you

00:33:27.620 to do that.

00:33:28.400 And no one elected

00:33:29.460 President Trump

00:33:30.060 to do that either.

00:33:30.880 And I actually don't think

00:33:31.740 that's on President Trump's agenda.

00:33:33.620 I think on Iran,

00:33:34.680 he was manipulated

00:33:35.400 by people like Lindsey Graham.

00:33:37.260 And I know that

00:33:38.080 thanks to the Wall Street Journal

00:33:39.160 that did a deep dive 0.99

00:33:40.100 on it being Lindsey Graham,

00:33:42.720 General Jack Keene,

00:33:43.920 and my old pal,

00:33:44.860 Mark Thiessen,

00:33:45.800 from Fox News,

00:33:46.680 who were primarily

00:33:48.140 in his ear pushing,

00:33:50.080 in addition to Bibi Netanyahu,

00:33:51.860 pushing for this war.

00:33:52.960 But your thoughts

00:33:53.500 on Lindsey Graham

00:33:54.480 and his messaging there, Stu?

00:33:57.240 Well,

00:33:57.740 we'll make it.

00:33:58.260 It's been known

00:33:59.340 for a while 1.00

00:33:59.800 that Lindsey Graham sucks 1.00

00:34:00.960 in every way imaginable. 0.99

00:34:02.900 I can't,

00:34:03.980 I'm not a fan of him.

00:34:05.500 And I,

00:34:05.840 you know,

00:34:05.960 one of the worst parts

00:34:07.320 about Lindsey Graham

00:34:08.380 is he's not the senator

00:34:10.200 from Vermont

00:34:11.780 or Maine

00:34:12.740 or Massachusetts.

00:34:13.720 Like,

00:34:14.480 we could actually

00:34:15.320 have a good

00:34:15.980 Republican senator

00:34:17.160 from South Carolina.

00:34:18.320 We could get one elected.

00:34:19.860 You know,

00:34:20.060 we've done it before.

00:34:21.180 Could do it again.

00:34:22.120 I don't understand

00:34:22.960 the whole Lindsey Graham thing.

00:34:24.440 He seems to be

00:34:25.120 a one-issue guy,

00:34:26.300 which is continually

00:34:27.400 pushing for

00:34:28.340 this sort of

00:34:29.400 international involvement

00:34:31.240 in every way possible.

00:34:33.740 Yeah,

00:34:33.980 it's constant

00:34:35.180 with him.

00:34:36.720 And,

00:34:36.960 you know,

00:34:37.220 look,

00:34:38.560 he is who he is.

00:34:40.620 He's been pretty

00:34:41.180 consistent on this.

00:34:42.060 I mean,

00:34:42.180 he ran for president

00:34:43.000 as a one-issue candidate,

00:34:44.900 right,

00:34:45.200 to push the United States

00:34:46.640 towards these types

00:34:47.820 of arguments.

00:34:48.820 So,

00:34:49.180 you know,

00:34:49.580 I guess I'll give him

00:34:50.320 points for consistency.

00:34:51.780 But that's not where

00:34:52.420 Donald Trump has been.

00:34:53.760 Trump has been,

00:34:54.660 you know,

00:34:55.260 fighting against this

00:34:56.260 for the entire time.

00:34:57.640 I mean,

00:34:57.920 this has been,

00:34:58.600 you know,

00:34:58.800 he has not,

00:34:59.680 he's been,

00:35:00.460 you know,

00:35:00.620 he hasn't been anti-war.

00:35:01.960 I don't think that's fair to say.

00:35:03.420 I think he doesn't like war.

00:35:04.820 He doesn't like

00:35:05.100 that sort of involvement.

00:35:06.560 But he is interested

00:35:08.900 in having the United States

00:35:11.760 have an influence

00:35:12.520 on the world.

00:35:13.500 You know,

00:35:13.920 I've been workshopping this

00:35:15.360 and why not roll it out

00:35:16.940 on one of the biggest shows

00:35:17.840 in the world?

00:35:18.820 But tell me if you think,

00:35:21.580 if I have anything here,

00:35:23.580 one of the arguments

00:35:24.220 against U.S. involvement

00:35:25.740 around the world,

00:35:26.440 kind of from a more

00:35:27.400 libertarian perspective

00:35:28.380 over the years,

00:35:28.960 has been this idea

00:35:29.740 that we don't want to be

00:35:30.800 the world's policemen.

00:35:32.460 And that is like something

00:35:33.940 I think is an inaccurate

00:35:36.060 way of phrasing

00:35:38.260 what they were criticizing,

00:35:39.380 which was really like

00:35:41.620 more like the Iraq war

00:35:42.920 and more like getting involved

00:35:44.100 in everything,

00:35:45.100 everywhere and,

00:35:45.880 you know,

00:35:47.400 putting up shop

00:35:48.180 for 10,

00:35:48.860 20 years in a country

00:35:49.920 and trying to nation build.

00:35:51.340 And, you know,

00:35:51.980 the world's policeman

00:35:53.080 got summarized to that.

00:35:54.620 In a way,

00:35:55.540 it feels like Trump

00:35:56.460 in a way

00:35:56.980 has actually embraced

00:35:57.900 a more specific example

00:35:59.960 of being the world's policeman.

00:36:03.020 He does seem to want

00:36:04.500 to get involved

00:36:05.260 in a lot of these things,

00:36:06.360 but quickly,

00:36:07.460 like a police officer

00:36:08.280 doesn't come in

00:36:09.060 and set up shop

00:36:10.100 in the hallway

00:36:10.640 of an apartment building

00:36:11.480 for 10 years, right?

00:36:12.780 Moves in with you.

00:36:13.940 Yeah, they come in,

00:36:15.360 they deal with the issue

00:36:16.560 going on

00:36:17.140 and they get out

00:36:18.060 and give you a chance

00:36:19.600 to live your life.

00:36:20.800 I mean,

00:36:21.280 you know,

00:36:21.440 what happened in Venezuela

00:36:22.260 is really an interesting

00:36:23.340 example of that, right?

00:36:24.920 Maduro was, again,

00:36:26.360 very justified

00:36:27.100 that we would have

00:36:29.180 a problem with him

00:36:30.000 and be involved

00:36:30.560 in that situation.

00:36:31.700 He saw an opportunity

00:36:32.700 and went in there,

00:36:33.860 took him out.

00:36:34.460 And, you know,

00:36:35.320 like I would much more

00:36:36.560 prefer a different leader

00:36:38.600 there than Delsi,

00:36:39.600 who I think is terrible

00:36:40.880 and likely the second

00:36:42.040 Trump's out of office

00:36:42.920 is going to be back

00:36:43.580 to exactly who Maduro was.

00:36:45.780 But, you know,

00:36:46.480 he seems to be okay

00:36:48.000 with taking care of an issue

00:36:49.980 and then stepping back.

00:36:50.920 And that gives you

00:36:51.560 maybe some hope

00:36:52.640 for what we are going

00:36:53.900 to see here in Iran.

00:36:55.800 The problem with this,

00:36:56.720 of course-

00:36:57.240 You know as well as I do

00:36:58.140 that they just elected

00:36:59.040 the Supreme Leader's son

00:37:00.800 to be the next Supreme Leader

00:37:02.720 who is more of a hardliner

00:37:04.220 than the dead Ayatollah, 0.72

00:37:06.280 who's more radical

00:37:07.400 and more hardline,

00:37:09.000 more anti-American,

00:37:10.040 more anti-Israel,

00:37:11.240 and more pro-nuclear.

00:37:13.180 I like,

00:37:14.100 that's the problem

00:37:15.780 with getting rid 0.98

00:37:16.500 of these evil leaders 0.98

00:37:18.120 in foreign countries.

00:37:19.840 You never know

00:37:20.500 what you're going to get.

00:37:21.280 Now Trump's answer

00:37:21.940 is to say,

00:37:23.000 he didn't specify

00:37:23.720 about this guy,

00:37:24.360 but he basically said, 0.97

00:37:25.100 we're going to kill anybody 0.99

00:37:25.960 who we don't agree to 1.00

00:37:27.560 as Iran's next leader.

00:37:29.740 I mean,

00:37:30.160 that's quite a promise.

00:37:31.620 Maybe the president

00:37:33.840 will live up to it,

00:37:34.620 but I also worry

00:37:35.500 about the Trump administration.

00:37:37.100 I worry about the Trump family.

00:37:38.300 I worry about the next president 0.92

00:37:39.280 because assassinating

00:37:41.120 a foreign country's leader

00:37:42.180 has consequences

00:37:43.500 that will last generations.

00:37:45.260 I mean,

00:37:45.420 we really have no idea

00:37:46.580 how long

00:37:48.340 that will be in the head

00:37:49.660 of our enemies

00:37:51.040 and how badly

00:37:52.880 they will seek retribution

00:37:53.960 for it.

00:37:54.780 But I mean,

00:37:55.020 if we just continue

00:37:55.900 assassinating leader 0.94

00:37:57.900 after leader in Iran

00:37:59.080 to pretend that's not

00:37:59.860 going to have any consequences

00:38:00.740 is folly.

00:38:02.740 Yeah,

00:38:02.980 I mean,

00:38:03.720 Iran's learning that 1.00

00:38:04.540 in a way,

00:38:04.960 right?

00:38:05.160 Like they wanted to take out

00:38:06.680 President Trump

00:38:07.340 and they're finding out

00:38:08.820 that that's not,

00:38:09.520 maybe that wasn't a good idea.

00:38:11.220 And I think it is,

00:38:12.900 it makes you very nervous,

00:38:14.140 right?

00:38:14.360 And that's the problem here.

00:38:15.340 I mean,

00:38:15.520 when I say like,

00:38:16.500 I hope President Trump's

00:38:18.300 approach

00:38:18.700 and his kind of

00:38:19.900 outward position

00:38:21.460 of this being limited

00:38:22.520 is the direction we go.

00:38:24.420 We have to acknowledge

00:38:25.260 that he's not the only one

00:38:26.440 with a voice in that,

00:38:27.620 right?

00:38:27.800 The new leader of Iran

00:38:29.360 has a voice in that as well.

00:38:31.000 And he might not want it to end.

00:38:32.680 He might not want it to be

00:38:33.560 a four or five week operation.

00:38:35.180 He might consider

00:38:36.180 putting terror cells

00:38:37.420 in the United States

00:38:38.140 for years and years

00:38:38.800 and years to come.

00:38:39.640 Now,

00:38:39.980 luckily,

00:38:40.260 we have a little bit

00:38:41.260 better control

00:38:41.980 of our border

00:38:43.020 than we did

00:38:43.700 in previous times.

00:38:45.060 But it's impossible

00:38:46.540 to stop all of this.

00:38:48.240 We know-

00:38:48.620 They're already here, Stu.

00:38:49.840 They're already here.

00:38:50.720 They were already here

00:38:51.620 for years.

00:38:52.260 As we were complaining

00:38:53.180 about years and years

00:38:53.940 and years ago, Megan,

00:38:54.740 you go back to the post-9-11 days,

00:38:57.540 one of the big concerns we had

00:38:58.800 was how many people

00:38:59.840 from areas like Iran

00:39:01.220 were crossing the border

00:39:02.620 and coming into this country.

00:39:05.000 There's plenty of people

00:39:06.080 here from Iran

00:39:06.780 that are not involved in that,

00:39:08.320 but there have been people

00:39:09.360 who are illegally here 0.99

00:39:10.620 who are likely

00:39:12.700 to be sleeper cells.

00:39:13.560 We've had many reports

00:39:14.660 over the years

00:39:15.240 that intelligence shows

00:39:17.160 there are people here.

00:39:19.220 So we don't know

00:39:20.400 how this blows up, right?

00:39:21.720 And, you know,

00:39:23.000 like most people,

00:39:24.200 if this regime

00:39:25.240 is able to stay in power,

00:39:26.620 meaning the sun sticks around

00:39:28.120 or there's some

00:39:28.780 Islamic extremist regime

00:39:30.160 that sticks around,

00:39:30.980 they're not likely

00:39:31.680 to forget this

00:39:32.580 and just say,

00:39:33.200 ah, well, you know,

00:39:35.160 pragmatically,

00:39:36.080 we're in trouble here.

00:39:37.080 I guess we should do

00:39:37.760 whatever Donald Trump says.

00:39:39.080 Like, this is

00:39:39.680 a much more ideological regime.

00:39:41.460 And look at how the Secret Service

00:39:41.880 has had enough trouble

00:39:43.080 protecting President Trump.

00:39:45.620 You know,

00:39:45.900 there was a very near miss

00:39:48.540 at Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:39:50.460 Multiple.

00:39:50.720 What happened at his golf course

00:39:52.820 was not reassuring.

00:39:54.560 Yes, they found the guy

00:39:55.380 with the rifle,

00:39:55.980 but many of us still wonder

00:39:56.880 how the guy with the rifle

00:39:58.360 got so close to the president

00:40:00.160 and was sitting lying in wait

00:40:01.540 for hours and hours

00:40:02.280 on his property

00:40:03.020 with a gun sticking

00:40:03.720 between the fence.

00:40:04.780 And then Secret Service

00:40:06.800 shot at him

00:40:07.320 and missed repeatedly.

00:40:08.460 He got away.

00:40:09.560 They tracked him down after.

00:40:10.580 But I mean,

00:40:10.880 I'm just saying,

00:40:12.340 like,

00:40:13.120 I don't think we should,

00:40:14.260 it would be much better

00:40:15.140 in any security guard

00:40:16.060 protecting you

00:40:16.740 as a public official

00:40:17.720 or even figure

00:40:19.200 will tell you

00:40:19.800 that the main goal

00:40:21.620 is to protect you

00:40:22.660 long before the bad guy

00:40:24.520 ever gets within your radius.

00:40:26.100 Right?

00:40:26.280 It's monitoring

00:40:27.160 the online threats,

00:40:28.680 making sure

00:40:29.180 the security perimeter

00:40:30.180 around you

00:40:30.980 is fortified

00:40:31.760 and all that.

00:40:32.700 And while,

00:40:33.720 you know,

00:40:33.940 we haven't been great,

00:40:34.580 we have not been great

00:40:35.340 about doing that for Trump.

00:40:37.380 Hopefully,

00:40:37.840 we're getting better.

00:40:38.400 But Trump has got

00:40:39.340 a very big family.

00:40:40.420 Trump has got grandkids.

00:40:41.340 He's got kids.

00:40:41.940 He's got,

00:40:42.300 you know,

00:40:42.980 it's just,

00:40:43.840 we're playing with fire here.

00:40:45.600 And so,

00:40:46.140 to your point,

00:40:47.360 I want to be better convinced

00:40:48.900 that this was a need.

00:40:50.640 It was a must do.

00:40:52.460 And I am not convinced

00:40:53.700 of that at all.

00:40:54.760 I don't see myself

00:40:55.460 getting convinced of that,

00:40:56.460 though I continue

00:40:56.960 to talk to supporters

00:40:58.520 of the war

00:40:58.980 because I want to know

00:40:59.760 both arguments

00:41:00.360 and I want my audience

00:41:01.920 to hear both arguments

00:41:03.520 fleshed out

00:41:04.000 and not just my opinion.

00:41:05.920 But Lindsey Graham, 0.76

00:41:06.820 he's got to go.

00:41:08.000 By the way,

00:41:08.340 an interesting question.

00:41:09.400 So Lindsey Graham 0.99

00:41:09.920 at least is disclosing

00:41:10.980 to his credit

00:41:11.620 the amount of times

00:41:12.900 like he lobbied

00:41:13.680 the president

00:41:14.120 and went to Netanyahu

00:41:15.440 and I'll get to that.

00:41:16.620 I do wonder

00:41:17.440 whether it's been disclosed

00:41:18.340 that these other

00:41:18.840 Fox News contributors

00:41:19.660 were in the president's ear

00:41:21.700 and actually making the case

00:41:23.000 to him over and over

00:41:23.980 because we spent

00:41:25.200 a lot of time

00:41:25.620 on this show

00:41:26.100 ripping on people

00:41:28.260 over on MSNBC

00:41:29.380 like the historian,

00:41:31.180 what's his name,

00:41:31.860 John Meacham,

00:41:33.280 for writing

00:41:34.380 President Biden's speech

00:41:35.660 for him

00:41:36.200 and then going on MSNBC

00:41:37.720 and praising the speech.

00:41:39.080 So if you were

00:41:39.840 a key advisor

00:41:40.420 to President Trump

00:41:42.180 pushing him

00:41:42.740 to get into this war,

00:41:43.800 you cannot go out

00:41:44.820 on the airwaves of Fox

00:41:45.780 and just act

00:41:46.780 like a random pundit

00:41:47.720 supporting it.

00:41:49.200 You have to disclose

00:41:50.100 and maybe they did

00:41:51.120 but you do have to disclose

00:41:52.700 that you were,

00:41:54.080 you have a horse in the race.

00:41:55.800 You know,

00:41:55.980 you helped make it happen.

00:41:57.260 That's an important thing

00:41:58.260 to disclose.

00:41:59.420 But here's Lindsey Graham,

00:42:01.280 the Wall Street Journal.

00:42:02.120 He gave an interview

00:42:02.640 to the Journal

00:42:03.160 so this is not

00:42:03.740 their secret reporting.

00:42:05.020 This is him.

00:42:06.280 To help make the case

00:42:07.200 on Iran,

00:42:08.140 Graham traveled

00:42:09.380 several times

00:42:10.120 to Israel

00:42:10.660 in recent weeks

00:42:11.560 meeting with

00:42:12.160 members of the country's

00:42:13.520 intelligence agency.

00:42:14.660 Quote,

00:42:15.240 they'll tell me things

00:42:16.460 our own government

00:42:17.500 won't tell me.

00:42:18.720 He spoke with Israeli

00:42:19.700 Prime Minister

00:42:20.220 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:42:21.180 coaching him

00:42:22.620 on how to lobby

00:42:24.080 President Trump

00:42:24.980 for action.

00:42:26.500 Netanyahu showed

00:42:27.280 the president

00:42:27.700 intelligence

00:42:28.400 that persuaded Trump

00:42:29.980 to go ahead,

00:42:31.620 said Graham.

00:42:32.180 We continue to be called

00:42:35.620 anti-Semitic

00:42:36.400 if you say

00:42:36.880 that we're doing this

00:42:37.900 because of Israel.

00:42:39.220 We are 100%

00:42:40.440 doing this

00:42:40.800 because of Israel.

00:42:41.500 If you used

00:42:42.100 a but-for cause,

00:42:42.980 would we be doing this

00:42:43.900 if Israel

00:42:45.000 were not involved?

00:42:46.080 The answer is no,

00:42:47.220 we wouldn't.

00:42:47.740 We've heard that

00:42:48.120 from Marco Rubio.

00:42:49.120 Now we hear that

00:42:49.660 from Lindsey Graham

00:42:50.240 directly.

00:42:52.040 It's been reported

00:42:52.920 by left and right-wing

00:42:54.140 outlets alike.

00:42:55.520 Iran was, 0.93

00:42:56.480 sorry,

00:42:56.840 Israel was the one 1.00

00:42:57.680 pushing for this war

00:42:58.880 and Lindsey Graham

00:43:01.020 helped

00:43:01.320 and so did

00:43:01.780 some Fox News

00:43:02.340 contributors

00:43:02.720 and so did

00:43:03.260 many others

00:43:03.840 who were Israel

00:43:04.340 firsters like

00:43:05.120 Mark Levin.

00:43:06.580 He goes on to say

00:43:07.520 Graham talked

00:43:08.300 to the Saudi

00:43:08.840 Crown Prince

00:43:09.660 Mohammed bin Salman

00:43:10.460 as well

00:43:10.780 to make sure

00:43:11.280 he was aware.

00:43:12.240 I went to MBS

00:43:13.040 to say,

00:43:13.540 okay,

00:43:13.940 I think this is

00:43:14.600 going down.

00:43:15.900 Talk about

00:43:16.440 the Fox News

00:43:17.200 contributors

00:43:17.680 who took turns

00:43:19.360 calling the president

00:43:20.240 and compared notes,

00:43:22.480 Graham said.

00:43:23.060 There were not

00:43:24.380 a lot of other voices

00:43:25.600 advancing the argument

00:43:27.240 for action.

00:43:27.820 Just,

00:43:28.100 I will pause here

00:43:28.740 to say I don't

00:43:30.580 begrudge them

00:43:31.200 that they thought

00:43:31.780 this was a good idea.

00:43:32.640 I happen to love

00:43:33.440 Mark Thiessen

00:43:33.960 and I have nothing

00:43:34.680 but respect

00:43:35.100 for General Keene.

00:43:35.840 I deeply admire

00:43:36.860 both of them.

00:43:38.360 I'm talking about

00:43:39.840 what Fox is

00:43:40.620 or is not

00:43:41.080 requiring of them

00:43:41.900 in terms of

00:43:42.340 disclosures.

00:43:42.940 But I,

00:43:43.280 and look,

00:43:44.320 the president,

00:43:45.060 I love the president

00:43:45.760 and clearly he's

00:43:46.580 in support of the war.

00:43:47.400 I,

00:43:47.980 unlike so many

00:43:48.760 of my critics,

00:43:49.740 can hold in my head

00:43:50.580 two things at one time.

00:43:51.940 We disagree vehemently

00:43:53.180 on policy,

00:43:53.860 but you're not

00:43:54.240 a bad person.

00:43:55.360 Okay,

00:43:55.580 like that's,

00:43:56.680 to me that's a leftist 0.99

00:43:57.760 fucking thing 0.99

00:43:58.280 to do that 1.00

00:43:58.840 and these people

00:43:59.560 who want to cut

00:44:00.120 people out of

00:44:00.600 conservative movement

00:44:01.280 because they're

00:44:01.680 anti-Israel,

00:44:02.320 they're anti-war 0.98

00:44:02.940 is sick. 1.00

00:44:04.000 It's sick and deranged. 0.85

00:44:05.020 I'm not one of them.

00:44:06.520 Here's another.

00:44:08.000 Trump called Graham

00:44:08.960 this week

00:44:09.400 to praise his

00:44:10.340 television appearances.

00:44:11.740 Oh my God.

00:44:13.440 Graham saw an opportunity.

00:44:15.380 The senator said

00:44:16.240 he pitched Trump

00:44:17.360 on bombing

00:44:18.600 Iranian

00:44:19.680 and Hezbollah

00:44:20.560 elements

00:44:21.020 inside Lebanon.

00:44:23.160 Trump said

00:44:23.540 he'd think about it.

00:44:24.940 Graham recalled,

00:44:25.740 quote,

00:44:25.920 I just think

00:44:26.540 he has seen

00:44:27.080 the capability

00:44:27.700 of our military.

00:44:29.160 Graham goes on,

00:44:29.760 what I don't understand

00:44:30.520 is why more people

00:44:31.320 don't do it.

00:44:32.400 Try to shape

00:44:33.000 these events.

00:44:33.880 This is a moment

00:44:34.540 of world history here.

00:44:35.940 Just jump in the deep

00:44:37.100 end of the pool.

00:44:39.020 This guy 1.00

00:44:39.800 is a homicidal maniac 1.00

00:44:42.000 with a bloodlust 1.00

00:44:43.700 that is insatiable.

00:44:45.520 He wants us,

00:44:46.280 he got us into

00:44:47.020 the Iranian war,

00:44:47.860 Lindsey Graham.

00:44:48.440 Now he wants us

00:44:49.140 to get involved

00:44:49.680 in a Lebanese war,

00:44:51.200 which Israel's already 0.83

00:44:52.360 starting or involved in.

00:44:54.740 And he wants us

00:44:55.620 to go into Cuba

00:44:56.480 from the sound of it.

00:44:57.840 Possibly,

00:44:58.480 is that a boots

00:44:59.220 on the ground situation?

00:45:00.260 I don't know.

00:45:01.200 But this guy

00:45:01.780 should be nowhere near

00:45:03.460 President Trump.

00:45:04.760 He should not be allowed

00:45:05.980 within 20 feet

00:45:06.780 of the president's orbit.

00:45:08.180 And the president

00:45:08.740 should make the decision

00:45:09.620 to keep this guy

00:45:10.980 the hell away from him

00:45:12.480 or at least

00:45:13.440 in his own mind

00:45:14.280 shut down

00:45:15.020 his influence.

00:45:16.360 This is not a force

00:45:17.380 for good

00:45:17.740 in the United States

00:45:18.580 of America,

00:45:19.120 Lindsey Graham.

00:45:20.520 It's funny

00:45:21.180 because I think

00:45:21.880 making the argument

00:45:23.680 passionately

00:45:24.380 for a conflict

00:45:25.420 with Iran

00:45:26.060 is an argument

00:45:27.400 you can make.

00:45:28.020 A lot of people

00:45:28.520 are highly convinced

00:45:30.820 of this.

00:45:31.340 And I don't think

00:45:31.920 that's the problem.

00:45:32.820 I think the problem

00:45:34.380 here is,

00:45:35.940 and the thing

00:45:36.540 that I guess

00:45:36.960 shocks me

00:45:37.520 that Trump

00:45:38.000 keeps him

00:45:38.520 in his orbit

00:45:39.020 at all,

00:45:40.020 is because he keeps

00:45:40.760 admitting this stuff.

00:45:42.140 That he's attempting

00:45:43.820 to manipulate

00:45:46.220 the president

00:45:47.020 of the United States.

00:45:48.220 I would think

00:45:48.940 Trump would hate that

00:45:50.160 and hate anyone

00:45:51.220 who would ever

00:45:51.800 admit that.

00:45:53.380 Because,

00:45:54.080 for example,

00:45:55.060 Megan,

00:45:55.520 you're passionate

00:45:56.040 about a lot of things.

00:45:56.720 I'm passionate

00:45:57.060 about a lot of things.

00:45:58.360 If you went to

00:45:59.480 President Trump

00:46:00.040 and you talked

00:46:00.480 to him about

00:46:01.060 an issue about

00:46:02.780 men playing

00:46:04.000 in women's sports

00:46:04.800 and you were able

00:46:05.560 to convince him

00:46:06.380 to influence him

00:46:08.140 in some way

00:46:08.580 to pass a bill

00:46:09.400 that brought

00:46:10.560 some sanity

00:46:11.200 into that world,

00:46:12.700 there'd be no problem

00:46:13.960 with you doing that.

00:46:14.980 There's no problem

00:46:15.780 with you doing that.

00:46:16.460 There's no problem

00:46:17.020 with Lindsey Graham

00:46:17.700 in theory

00:46:18.100 making an argument

00:46:18.940 about what he thinks

00:46:19.780 is right.

00:46:21.460 I don't have

00:46:22.720 that issue.

00:46:23.620 I think that's okay.

00:46:25.660 And at the end

00:46:26.120 of the day,

00:46:26.640 it comes down to

00:46:27.420 it is the president's

00:46:28.540 responsibility

00:46:29.080 to listen to all

00:46:30.440 these voices,

00:46:31.160 the team of rivals,

00:46:32.180 listen to all of them.

00:46:32.640 And he listened

00:46:33.080 to Tucker Carlson too.

00:46:34.240 To his credit,

00:46:34.920 Tucker made the hard case

00:46:35.880 against the war

00:46:36.440 and the president

00:46:36.960 listened to him

00:46:37.680 and ultimately

00:46:38.620 overruled him

00:46:39.460 as is his right.

00:46:41.220 He's the president,

00:46:42.180 not Tucker,

00:46:42.740 not Lindsey.

00:46:44.040 Exactly.

00:46:44.620 And a lot of those people

00:46:45.560 who,

00:46:46.300 the same people

00:46:47.060 who are making

00:46:47.600 the argument for Iran 0.91

00:46:49.120 and maybe won

00:46:50.000 the day

00:46:51.000 on that particular issue

00:46:51.960 were making

00:46:52.700 the same argument

00:46:53.420 about Ukraine

00:46:54.060 and maybe didn't

00:46:54.920 win that one.

00:46:55.640 And I think

00:46:55.940 President Trump

00:46:56.480 is taking these

00:46:57.220 things individually

00:46:57.920 and trying

00:46:58.480 to judge them

00:47:01.200 on the merits

00:47:02.200 of the situation.

00:47:03.960 I'm very risk-averse

00:47:05.720 on this stuff though,

00:47:06.680 right?

00:47:07.040 And someone

00:47:08.380 like Lindsey Graham

00:47:09.060 isn't.

00:47:10.060 He is,

00:47:11.120 get out there,

00:47:11.960 mix it up,

00:47:12.660 and let all the chips

00:47:13.580 fall all over the place.

00:47:14.660 Sometimes they fall

00:47:16.040 on American citizens

00:47:16.940 and that makes me

00:47:18.500 very, very nervous.

00:47:20.260 And to come back

00:47:21.060 a little bit

00:47:21.480 to the political side

00:47:22.460 of this,

00:47:23.300 this should be

00:47:23.960 the central focus

00:47:25.260 of the American

00:47:26.740 conservative movement

00:47:27.960 when you're talking

00:47:28.860 about just political

00:47:29.620 strategy.

00:47:30.820 We have a bunch

00:47:32.300 of these senators

00:47:33.240 and House members

00:47:34.560 who are in very

00:47:35.720 conservative districts

00:47:36.680 that we can do

00:47:37.740 better than.

00:47:38.860 We can improve

00:47:39.900 those situations

00:47:40.600 without losing the seats.

00:47:41.740 Settle for more.

00:47:42.840 Oh, yes,

00:47:43.420 thank you.

00:47:43.920 A lot of times

00:47:44.780 we seem to do

00:47:45.380 this thing

00:47:45.740 where we're like,

00:47:46.300 well,

00:47:46.800 we have a moderate

00:47:47.700 in a place

00:47:49.340 like Delaware

00:47:50.160 and we're like,

00:47:51.100 oh,

00:47:51.260 we got to make sure

00:47:51.900 we take out

00:47:52.340 that moderate

00:47:52.840 in Delaware.

00:47:53.460 Look,

00:47:53.700 I would like everyone

00:47:54.520 to be as conservative

00:47:55.260 as possible.

00:47:56.360 But you want

00:47:56.640 the most conservative

00:47:57.440 person in an area

00:47:58.340 that is able to win.

00:48:01.020 And look,

00:48:02.280 that is not because

00:48:03.400 I care about winning

00:48:04.380 per se.

00:48:04.960 It's about because

00:48:05.440 I care about the policies

00:48:06.460 behind that winning.

00:48:08.320 And we keep sitting here.

00:48:09.800 John Cornyn's

00:48:10.500 another one here in Texas.

00:48:11.420 We have really good

00:48:12.860 senators in red states.

00:48:14.300 We should be able

00:48:15.280 to put them in,

00:48:16.700 go after these primaries

00:48:17.880 in sensible ways,

00:48:19.380 win them with conservative

00:48:20.580 candidates,

00:48:21.220 and then bring those

00:48:21.900 candidates into the forefront

00:48:23.340 in the states

00:48:24.400 where they can easily win.

00:48:25.840 A lot of times

00:48:26.300 we just wind up getting off,

00:48:27.780 we're like,

00:48:28.320 oh, well,

00:48:28.720 this guy's been there forever,

00:48:29.860 so let's just keep him there.

00:48:31.660 We should try to be

00:48:32.420 improving the situation.

00:48:33.280 What are people in South Carolina

00:48:34.060 doing with Lindsey Graham?

00:48:35.200 Honestly,

00:48:35.580 this man,

00:48:36.820 he has undermined

00:48:38.300 the safety of the United States

00:48:40.220 long enough.

00:48:40.740 He's undermined

00:48:41.320 the president's

00:48:42.360 valuable inputs

00:48:43.800 long enough.

00:48:44.820 And he's making

00:48:45.840 this whole thing

00:48:46.680 into a national

00:48:47.420 laughing stock.

00:48:48.920 Oh,

00:48:49.240 we are the police

00:48:50.860 in the world.

00:48:51.340 That's what he said.

00:48:51.920 There are bad guys

00:48:52.360 all over the world.

00:48:53.040 We're on the march

00:48:53.620 against them.

00:48:54.440 Whoa,

00:48:54.740 whoa,

00:48:55.020 whoa. 1.00

00:48:55.400 You have no fucking kids 1.00

00:48:57.180 and no fucking clue. 1.00

00:48:59.400 Those of us 0.99

00:49:00.000 who have children,

00:49:01.040 especially the moms I know

00:49:02.580 who have kids

00:49:03.080 who are in the armed forces,

00:49:04.640 don't have the same bloodlust

00:49:06.740 that you have,

00:49:07.760 childless,

00:49:08.600 weird man. 0.67

00:49:09.680 It's really upsetting to me

00:49:11.480 that because Lindsey Graham

00:49:13.100 decided in his

00:49:14.480 dark corner basement

00:49:15.900 that he wanted

00:49:17.120 to get off again

00:49:18.160 watching bombs blow up,

00:49:20.680 seven service personnel

00:49:21.800 are now dead.

00:49:22.820 I'm just,

00:49:23.200 I'm sorry,

00:49:24.020 but I just feel like 0.98

00:49:24.660 he has no fucking compassion 0.99

00:49:27.060 for human life. 0.99

00:49:29.040 All he wants to do

00:49:29.760 is see bombs go off.

00:49:31.420 And President Trump

00:49:32.500 needs to understand

00:49:33.280 that he is undermining

00:49:34.620 everything President Trump

00:49:36.040 is doing.

00:49:36.880 Pete Hegseth

00:49:37.320 is taking a lot of heat

00:49:38.340 for sounding

00:49:40.020 very bellicose

00:49:41.940 and kind of threatening

00:49:43.600 and unapologetic

00:49:45.000 about the power

00:49:45.660 of the American military.

00:49:47.020 I understand that criticism

00:49:48.680 because normally

00:49:49.540 when we talk about ourselves

00:49:50.800 as the American military,

00:49:51.860 we use humility

00:49:53.360 because we know

00:49:54.260 we're the strongest.

00:49:55.340 So it doesn't,

00:49:56.160 it doesn't make us look good

00:49:58.300 to talk about

00:49:58.780 how strong we are

00:49:59.560 and how we can crush anybody.

00:50:00.700 But I forgive Pete Hegseth

00:50:02.260 because he's in the middle

00:50:03.620 of commanding a war.

00:50:05.340 President Trump too

00:50:06.160 is in the middle of,

00:50:07.040 he's the ultimate commander.

00:50:08.320 But President Trump is,

00:50:09.140 I mean,

00:50:09.460 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

00:50:11.260 is running this military operation

00:50:13.080 at the top

00:50:13.600 with the chairman

00:50:14.480 of the Joint Chiefs.

00:50:15.260 And of course,

00:50:16.660 he's in a certain mindset

00:50:17.820 right now

00:50:18.440 and he needs also

00:50:19.500 to worry about comms,

00:50:20.780 communications.

00:50:21.540 And so that's where

00:50:22.760 he's coming at it from.

00:50:23.760 Lindsey Graham

00:50:24.360 is inexcusable

00:50:25.400 and should not be allowed

00:50:26.500 back on television.

00:50:27.620 Period.

00:50:28.140 Never mind in office.

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00:52:05.680 I look forward to watching them

00:52:06.760 both, Stu.

00:52:07.500 So just one final note

00:52:10.740 on Lindsey Graham.

00:52:11.600 I do find it interesting

00:52:12.380 because after all the guff

00:52:13.780 he's been getting from,

00:52:15.800 I mean,

00:52:16.040 it's all over the right wing.

00:52:17.520 It's not just the people

00:52:18.900 who have questions

00:52:19.360 about this war.

00:52:20.280 It's like he's been

00:52:21.280 being universally panned

00:52:22.420 as a deep problem

00:52:23.640 when it comes to

00:52:24.780 becoming a face

00:52:26.160 of the administration.

00:52:27.100 My God,

00:52:28.120 Trump is too smart for that.

00:52:30.320 But there is now a report

00:52:32.240 that in the wake of him

00:52:33.860 getting criticized

00:52:34.440 for his bloodlust,

00:52:35.800 he pushed back slightly

00:52:37.440 on what Israel

00:52:39.340 is doing in Iran.

00:52:41.320 Namely,

00:52:43.500 he's,

00:52:44.480 they're targeting

00:52:45.260 the oil depots.

00:52:47.380 And doing that,

00:52:48.800 the fuel depots,

00:52:49.600 has led to

00:52:50.560 black oil rain

00:52:52.940 coming down on Tehran

00:52:55.120 on the faces of babies

00:52:56.580 and children

00:52:57.400 and civilians

00:52:58.500 who are complaining

00:52:59.520 about their lips

00:53:01.440 sore,

00:53:02.100 raw,

00:53:02.720 they feel like burns,

00:53:04.200 feels like diluted

00:53:04.840 tear gas in the air,

00:53:06.340 eyes irritated,

00:53:07.460 headaches.

00:53:08.420 I mean,

00:53:08.620 God only knows

00:53:09.180 what the toxic fallout

00:53:10.160 of this is going to be

00:53:11.320 for the Iranian people

00:53:12.960 whom we are trying to help.

00:53:14.280 Let's not forget,

00:53:15.180 we're trying to help

00:53:15.900 the Iranian people.

00:53:16.660 It's the regime

00:53:17.140 with whom we have a problem.

00:53:18.740 And finally,

00:53:19.300 Lindsey Graham comes out 0.99

00:53:20.060 and says,

00:53:20.480 this was all Israel,

00:53:22.600 saying,

00:53:23.260 our allies in Israel

00:53:24.040 have shown amazing capability

00:53:25.560 when it comes to collapsing

00:53:26.600 the murderous regime

00:53:27.960 in Iran.

00:53:28.620 America is most appreciative.

00:53:30.540 This is Graham on X.

00:53:31.920 However,

00:53:32.240 there will be a day soon

00:53:33.200 that the Iranian people

00:53:34.020 will be in charge

00:53:34.660 of their own fate,

00:53:35.360 not the murderous

00:53:35.980 Ayatollah's regime.

00:53:36.840 In that regard,

00:53:37.780 please be cautious

00:53:38.380 about what targets you select.

00:53:40.360 Our goal is to liberate

00:53:41.380 the Iranian people

00:53:42.140 in a fashion

00:53:42.600 that does not cripple 1.00

00:53:43.380 their chance

00:53:43.820 to start a new

00:53:44.380 and better life

00:53:44.960 when this regime collapses.

00:53:46.500 The oil economy of Iran

00:53:47.940 will be essential

00:53:48.700 to that endeavor.

00:53:50.820 Yashara Ali,

00:53:51.500 who's an Iranian-American,

00:53:52.760 writes,

00:53:53.100 you know how badly

00:53:53.880 you have to mess up

00:53:54.640 to get Lindsey Graham,

00:53:56.080 who gets his preferred

00:53:57.120 pornographic material

00:53:58.140 from drone strike footage

00:53:59.280 instead of OnlyFans

00:54:00.300 to say you should be

00:54:01.560 more careful,

00:54:02.960 making the point

00:54:03.620 that the Israelis

00:54:04.400 have gone too far.

00:54:06.280 They've gone too far.

00:54:07.100 There was a report

00:54:07.660 that a desalinization plant

00:54:10.260 had been hit,

00:54:11.380 which is deeply problematic,

00:54:13.240 if true,

00:54:13.660 because now you're talking

00:54:14.340 about the water supply

00:54:15.260 to the people,

00:54:16.040 and that's an absolute must

00:54:17.620 for life,

00:54:19.400 never mind for wellness.

00:54:20.620 There's no question

00:54:23.480 that the United States

00:54:24.220 is trying to be careful,

00:54:25.180 and I assume Israel

00:54:26.040 is trying to be careful too,

00:54:27.260 but that's a massive mess up

00:54:29.460 to cause that situation

00:54:31.220 in Tehran

00:54:32.020 to the point where

00:54:32.800 babies are getting showered

00:54:34.900 in oil

00:54:35.800 and toxic gas fumes.

00:54:37.280 That's not okay.

00:54:38.840 And then there's the matter

00:54:39.780 of the girls' school,

00:54:40.780 Stu,

00:54:41.020 which has been bombed,

00:54:42.340 170 dead,

00:54:44.560 and,

00:54:45.040 I mean,

00:54:45.880 that is just heartbreaking,

00:54:47.560 the pictures of the children

00:54:48.780 killed in this school.

00:54:50.820 It was on the first day

00:54:51.700 of the bombings.

00:54:52.720 Now the Wall Street Journal

00:54:53.640 is reporting that

00:54:54.820 they believe

00:54:56.180 that the intel suggests

00:54:57.340 it was the United States.

00:55:00.160 Pete Hegseth has said,

00:55:01.380 we are investigating,

00:55:02.740 and President Trump

00:55:03.520 in an interview said

00:55:04.600 he doesn't believe it was us.

00:55:07.660 Laura Ingram of Fox News,

00:55:09.540 among others,

00:55:10.040 saying if this was us,

00:55:11.300 we need to own it,

00:55:12.340 and we need to apologize.

00:55:13.760 There is zero chance

00:55:15.080 the United States

00:55:15.740 would ever intentionally hit

00:55:18.320 a school of children.

00:55:20.080 Zero.

00:55:21.020 We do not do

00:55:22.220 that kind of thing.

00:55:23.260 But there is a possibility

00:55:24.660 that we did it inadvertently

00:55:26.180 as the Wall Street Journal

00:55:27.060 appears to be reporting.

00:55:28.960 The point is

00:55:29.780 there's fallout to war

00:55:31.780 and it's ugly

00:55:33.140 and it's heartbreaking

00:55:34.160 and leads me back

00:55:35.520 to the same place,

00:55:36.260 which is

00:55:36.620 let's declare this a win

00:55:38.740 and get out. 0.83

00:55:40.400 The Ayatollah's dead.

00:55:41.920 Many in the top

00:55:42.580 of the regime are dead.

00:55:44.340 We've given Iran 1.00

00:55:45.100 a fighting chance

00:55:45.940 to fight for its future.

00:55:47.260 We're, you know,

00:55:48.620 I don't know.

00:55:50.800 Somebody's going to have

00:55:51.400 to help them with guns

00:55:52.200 because the IRGC

00:55:53.180 is not just going to roll over

00:55:54.140 at this point

00:55:54.600 from the look of it.

00:55:55.660 Maybe it's not us.

00:55:56.360 Maybe it's somebody else,

00:55:57.140 ideally,

00:55:57.560 but some bad things

00:55:59.380 are happening.

00:55:59.900 Okay, let's get to

00:56:00.460 what's happening in New York.

00:56:02.200 So now in the wake

00:56:03.060 of all this,

00:56:05.400 you have,

00:56:06.640 I want to spell out

00:56:07.560 what happened.

00:56:08.580 This group goes

00:56:09.680 to Gracie Mansion

00:56:10.920 in New York City,

00:56:12.060 outside of Gracie Mansion,

00:56:13.300 which is where Mom Donnie 0.92

00:56:14.280 is living

00:56:15.560 and where all

00:56:16.320 New York mayors live

00:56:17.240 and they started

00:56:20.820 a protest.

00:56:21.660 Hold on,

00:56:21.900 I'm trying to look

00:56:22.380 for the name of it.

00:56:22.960 Here it is.

00:56:23.880 The Stop the Islamic 1.00

00:56:25.120 Takeover of New York City

00:56:26.980 protest

00:56:28.300 and Stop New York City

00:56:29.780 Public Muslim Prayer.

00:56:32.480 20 people showed up.

00:56:34.160 Okay,

00:56:34.380 so it's a small thing.

00:56:35.800 There's a group of people

00:56:36.520 who they don't like

00:56:37.420 the Muslim takeover 1.00

00:56:38.160 in New York

00:56:38.640 as they see it

00:56:39.720 and they're out

00:56:40.420 there protesting.

00:56:41.960 Jake Lang

00:56:43.040 was one of the participants.

00:56:44.280 He was front and center

00:56:45.320 during the Minneapolis

00:56:46.040 protest too.

00:56:46.900 He was arrested

00:56:47.980 for J6 prior to that.

00:56:51.260 The New York Post,

00:56:52.540 which is not biased

00:56:53.700 against conservatives,

00:56:54.580 writes that he is

00:56:55.440 a conservative

00:56:56.140 right-wing influencer.

00:56:57.860 That's how they describe him.

00:57:00.820 And he was definitely there

00:57:02.360 and part of that group.

00:57:03.200 Then the counter-protesters

00:57:04.300 showed up.

00:57:05.220 They called their group

00:57:06.220 Run the Nazis

00:57:07.980 out of New York City

00:57:09.420 stand against hate.

00:57:11.880 I think the Nazis 0.96

00:57:13.060 are the first group

00:57:14.620 in their view

00:57:15.740 who are opposed to,

00:57:18.060 you know,

00:57:18.620 the Muslim call to prayer

00:57:19.640 being broadcast

00:57:20.380 five times a day

00:57:21.140 in New York.

00:57:22.140 And they had about

00:57:23.280 125 protesters.

00:57:24.840 So they had way more,

00:57:26.220 five times as many

00:57:27.060 or so

00:57:28.720 than the other side.

00:57:31.280 What happened?

00:57:32.520 Two protesters

00:57:33.260 from the counter-protest

00:57:34.820 from the Stop the Nazis

00:57:36.700 rally

00:57:37.360 shouted

00:57:39.880 Allahu Akbar

00:57:40.980 and tossed

00:57:42.020 two,

00:57:42.500 count them,

00:57:42.880 two homemade devices

00:57:43.980 into a crowd.

00:57:45.280 An IED

00:57:45.940 filled with nails

00:57:47.380 that failed to go off.

00:57:49.740 And now we're getting

00:57:50.780 the police commissioner,

00:57:52.200 Jessica Tisch.

00:57:53.080 Is this cut, Deb?

00:57:54.820 Commenting on it

00:57:55.880 in particular.

00:57:56.540 Yeah, I think we have this.

00:57:57.800 And let's listen

00:57:58.820 to the police commissioner

00:57:59.600 describe

00:58:00.400 what they've discovered

00:58:01.840 so far.

00:58:02.320 I can confirm

00:58:04.120 this morning

00:58:04.660 that this is being

00:58:05.840 investigated

00:58:06.520 as an act

00:58:07.460 of ISIS-inspired

00:58:09.460 terrorism.

00:58:10.700 I can also provide

00:58:11.940 some additional

00:58:12.560 information

00:58:13.180 building on my remarks

00:58:14.360 from Saturday evening.

00:58:15.980 At that time,

00:58:16.840 we were beginning

00:58:17.720 to conduct

00:58:18.260 preliminary analysis

00:58:19.460 of two devices

00:58:20.360 that were ignited

00:58:21.620 and deployed

00:58:22.540 earlier that day.

00:58:23.720 Preliminary test results

00:58:25.340 determined that these

00:58:26.400 were not hoax devices

00:58:28.320 nor smoke bombs.

00:58:29.580 They were improvised

00:58:31.120 explosive devices

00:58:32.000 that could have caused 0.71

00:58:33.000 serious injury

00:58:34.340 or death.

00:58:35.120 Part of our initial

00:58:35.960 investigation

00:58:36.920 was to determine

00:58:38.560 what energetic

00:58:39.680 substance,

00:58:40.620 if any,

00:58:41.620 was used

00:58:42.240 in the two devices.

00:58:43.380 And our analysis

00:58:44.260 showed that

00:58:45.380 one of the devices

00:58:46.340 deployed by the subjects

00:58:47.900 contained the substance

00:58:49.720 triacetone,

00:58:50.880 triperoxide,

00:58:52.260 known as TATP.

00:58:54.620 Now, TATP

00:58:55.580 is a dangerous

00:58:56.240 and highly volatile

00:58:57.780 homemade explosive

00:58:58.880 that has been used

00:59:00.280 in IED attacks

00:59:01.540 around the world.

00:59:04.420 So both devices

00:59:05.740 were IEDs

00:59:07.220 in an act of ISIS-inspired

00:59:09.660 terrorism

00:59:10.580 right here

00:59:11.480 on the homeland

00:59:12.240 in New York City.

00:59:14.020 And this,

00:59:14.680 for the listening audience,

00:59:15.980 Zoram Mamdani

00:59:16.580 was standing right next to her

00:59:17.540 as she made those comments.

00:59:19.080 So he's heard it all.

00:59:20.320 But what we've heard

00:59:21.000 from the mayor so far

00:59:22.020 amounts to the following

00:59:23.260 post on X,

00:59:25.520 which was

00:59:26.140 a day after the attacks.

00:59:27.800 The attacks happened

00:59:28.700 on Saturday.

00:59:29.760 Thank God, by the way,

00:59:30.420 they did not detonate

00:59:31.280 and nobody was hurt.

00:59:32.240 Thank God.

00:59:33.860 But they could have,

00:59:34.740 easily could have.

00:59:35.360 I mean,

00:59:35.660 it's basically a nail bomb.

00:59:37.560 And a day passes

00:59:39.400 and he posts

00:59:40.000 the following on Sunday.

00:59:41.440 I'm going to read it in full

00:59:42.240 because it's so outrageous.

00:59:44.760 Yesterday, 0.98

00:59:46.160 white supremacist

00:59:47.400 Jake Lang

00:59:48.160 organized a protest

00:59:50.440 outside Gracie Mansion

00:59:52.020 rooted in bigotry

00:59:53.620 and racism.

00:59:54.520 Such hate

00:59:55.740 has no place

00:59:56.460 in New York City.

00:59:57.600 It is an affront

00:59:58.440 to our city's values

00:59:59.400 and the unity

00:59:59.920 that defines who we are.

01:00:01.840 Okay,

01:00:02.120 so first of all,

01:00:02.760 he's begun with

01:00:03.700 white supremacy,

01:00:05.080 alleged white supremacy. 0.84

01:00:06.700 He's literally

01:00:08.300 just seen police

01:00:09.400 who are

01:00:09.880 on the receiving end

01:00:11.140 of that bomb throw

01:00:12.020 attacked

01:00:13.620 with an IED.

01:00:15.300 And his lead is,

01:00:16.920 there's someone

01:00:17.240 I consider to be

01:00:17.900 a white supremacist

01:00:18.740 outside of Gracie Mansion

01:00:19.720 and that's bigotry

01:00:21.200 and racism

01:00:21.660 and has no place

01:00:22.380 in New York City.

01:00:22.840 Then he gets to

01:00:24.340 the second piece,

01:00:25.300 which is obviously

01:00:25.900 the most important

01:00:26.780 and completely whiffs

01:00:29.520 on who did what

01:00:31.720 to whom

01:00:32.320 and who said what

01:00:33.840 as they did it.

01:00:35.220 Like Allahu Akbar.

01:00:37.100 All right,

01:00:37.340 he writes,

01:00:38.840 violence at a protest.

01:00:39.760 This is,

01:00:40.120 he goes right from,

01:00:41.660 okay,

01:00:41.980 it's an affront

01:00:43.120 to our city's values

01:00:43.780 and the unity

01:00:44.180 that defines who we are.

01:00:45.160 What followed

01:00:45.920 was even more disturbing,

01:00:48.340 but he doesn't say it,

01:00:49.480 like who did it

01:00:50.060 and what they yelled.

01:00:51.220 Violence at a protest.

01:00:52.840 Is never acceptable.

01:00:54.720 The attempt to use

01:00:55.680 an explosive device

01:00:56.680 and hurt others

01:00:57.420 is not only criminal,

01:00:58.860 it's reprehensible

01:00:59.500 and the antithesis

01:01:00.820 of who we are.

01:01:02.120 I want to thank

01:01:02.680 the brave men and women

01:01:03.500 of the NYPD

01:01:04.460 who acted quickly

01:01:05.340 to help keep New Yorkers safe.

01:01:06.880 Where is the part

01:01:08.200 about ISIS-inspired terrorists

01:01:11.280 shouting Allahu Akbar,

01:01:14.000 throwing an IED

01:01:15.800 at cops?

01:01:17.620 We have video

01:01:18.520 of one of the devices

01:01:19.780 and of the moment.

01:01:21.560 Let's watch it.

01:01:23.000 Sat 6.

01:01:23.780 It's right there

01:01:35.900 on camera.

01:01:37.340 You can see the guy

01:01:38.000 run,

01:01:38.780 throw the bomb 1.00

01:01:39.740 and shout 0.99

01:01:40.420 Allahu Akbar.

01:01:41.460 There's another video

01:01:42.340 that's similar

01:01:43.580 and

01:01:44.920 yeah,

01:01:48.000 wait a minute,

01:01:48.660 is that,

01:01:49.100 here he is?

01:01:49.580 Oh my God,

01:01:50.000 I'm sorry, Stu.

01:01:51.940 Mamdani did speak

01:01:53.360 this morning

01:01:54.040 next to Tish

01:01:55.900 and let's check in

01:01:58.020 to see if he got

01:01:59.840 to Allahu Akbar,

01:02:02.000 ISIS-inspired,

01:02:03.500 IED,

01:02:04.960 thrown at cops.

01:02:06.780 On Saturday,

01:02:08.140 a protest was held

01:02:09.380 outside Gracie Mansion

01:02:10.560 where I live

01:02:11.600 with my wife, Rama.

01:02:13.280 Neither of us

01:02:14.120 were home at the time.

01:02:16.400 This was a vile protest

01:02:18.240 rooted in white supremacy 0.53

01:02:19.340 entitled 0.90

01:02:19.860 Stop the Islamic Takeover 1.00

01:02:21.400 of New York City.

01:02:23.340 I'm the first Muslim mayor

01:02:24.760 of our city. 0.89

01:02:26.600 Anti-Muslim bigotry

01:02:27.540 is nothing new to me

01:02:29.080 nor is it anything new

01:02:30.080 for the one million

01:02:30.860 or so Muslim New Yorkers

01:02:32.760 who know this city

01:02:33.400 as our home.

01:02:34.760 While I found

01:02:35.640 this protest appalling,

01:02:37.420 I will not waver

01:02:38.220 in my belief

01:02:38.820 that it should be

01:02:39.380 allowed to happen.

01:02:41.140 Oh my God.

01:02:42.500 And then,

01:02:42.960 then he went on

01:02:43.860 to say the following.

01:02:45.180 Many of the

01:02:45.900 counter-protesters

01:02:46.960 met this display

01:02:48.920 of bigotry

01:02:49.760 peacefully

01:02:50.480 with a vision

01:02:51.580 of a city

01:02:52.040 that is welcoming

01:02:52.680 to all.

01:02:53.660 But a few did not.

01:02:55.460 Two men,

01:02:56.120 Amir Balot

01:02:56.820 and Ibrahim Kalumni,

01:03:00.300 Kailumi,

01:03:01.920 traveled from Pennsylvania

01:03:03.340 and attempted

01:03:03.860 to bring violence

01:03:04.720 to New York City.

01:03:05.900 They are suspected

01:03:06.680 of coming here

01:03:07.260 to commit an act

01:03:08.220 of terrorism.

01:03:09.460 There is video

01:03:10.040 of these two individuals

01:03:11.120 throwing two devices

01:03:12.560 toward the protest.

01:03:14.240 No,

01:03:14.820 nothing about an IED.

01:03:15.900 nothing about

01:03:17.420 Allahu Akbar

01:03:18.960 and nothing about

01:03:20.260 the cops being

01:03:20.940 on the receiving end

01:03:21.840 of those devices.

01:03:23.320 He can't bring himself

01:03:24.820 to say it still

01:03:26.780 and to deny

01:03:28.780 what that was

01:03:29.560 actually about

01:03:30.360 is to endanger

01:03:31.640 everyone in New York City.

01:03:35.500 Yeah,

01:03:36.120 I mean,

01:03:36.420 I don't know about you,

01:03:37.500 Megan,

01:03:37.620 I'm very concerned

01:03:38.360 if there's someone

01:03:38.880 throwing devices

01:03:39.620 into crowds.

01:03:40.540 Are people getting

01:03:41.120 a hit in the head

01:03:41.620 with iPads?

01:03:42.440 Like,

01:03:42.580 I don't know

01:03:43.240 thank you so much

01:03:45.720 for your specificity there.

01:03:48.020 It's funny too,

01:03:48.960 I mean,

01:03:49.600 I don't know anything

01:03:50.280 about the group

01:03:50.840 that was protesting

01:03:52.040 there initially.

01:03:53.180 I mean,

01:03:53.400 you see how the media

01:03:55.100 is treating them

01:03:56.020 and I have no idea

01:03:57.420 who they are

01:03:58.040 or what they believe.

01:03:59.580 But the speech part

01:04:00.820 of it is the part

01:04:01.460 that we defend,

01:04:02.460 not the other side

01:04:03.900 of it,

01:04:04.280 not the side

01:04:04.880 of people

01:04:06.160 who are throwing

01:04:07.020 bombs

01:04:07.840 into a crowd. 0.75

01:04:09.000 And I'm,

01:04:10.140 I mean,

01:04:10.760 I will say

01:04:11.460 it's understandable

01:04:12.380 to be confused

01:04:13.300 in a moment like this.

01:04:14.540 You have,

01:04:15.220 apparently,

01:04:16.020 the side 0.78

01:04:17.300 that hates Jews 0.99

01:04:18.480 and is being violent 0.99

01:04:19.740 is the Stop the Nazi

01:04:21.740 Movement.

01:04:23.920 That's,

01:04:24.680 we're supposed to believe

01:04:26.200 the people throwing

01:04:26.980 bombs into the crowds

01:04:28.060 of the Stop the Nazi

01:04:29.580 Movement.

01:04:30.760 It makes you really,

01:04:32.120 like,

01:04:32.320 what side am I on?

01:04:33.860 Like,

01:04:34.360 it's very confusing.

01:04:37.240 Like,

01:04:37.520 he,

01:04:37.780 you know,

01:04:38.020 it's funny because

01:04:38.640 he just can't,

01:04:40.400 this is a core tenet

01:04:41.780 of who Mamdani is,

01:04:43.000 right?

01:04:43.260 Mamdani has a lot

01:04:44.580 more in common

01:04:45.280 as we've seen

01:04:46.580 many,

01:04:47.240 many,

01:04:47.480 many times

01:04:48.060 with the people

01:04:48.800 who were protesting

01:04:51.020 the protesters,

01:04:52.140 shall we say.

01:04:53.140 He's not mentioning

01:04:54.100 Allahu Akbar

01:04:54.740 because those are

01:04:55.320 his favorite words.

01:04:56.900 Yeah,

01:04:57.060 right.

01:04:57.580 Yeah,

01:04:58.060 he didn't mention

01:04:58.900 the names initially

01:04:59.880 as well

01:05:00.960 because,

01:05:01.900 you know,

01:05:02.200 the idea is,

01:05:03.300 oh gosh,

01:05:03.820 well,

01:05:04.580 there's a bunch

01:05:05.540 of Nazis 0.83

01:05:06.040 in the street

01:05:07.260 and,

01:05:08.200 you know,

01:05:08.380 for a long time

01:05:09.280 and this is a sentiment

01:05:10.480 that Mamdani himself

01:05:11.880 on social media

01:05:12.960 has sort of shown

01:05:14.440 against both,

01:05:16.000 you know,

01:05:17.060 people he sees

01:05:18.300 as Nazis 0.76

01:05:19.060 but also even

01:05:19.860 police officers

01:05:20.820 back in the day

01:05:21.460 that it's kind of like,

01:05:22.520 okay,

01:05:22.720 when bad things happen

01:05:23.660 to them.

01:05:24.160 If we see an officer

01:05:25.060 crying in his car

01:05:26.100 after God,

01:05:26.700 maybe his partner

01:05:27.620 was killed,

01:05:28.740 oh,

01:05:29.060 well,

01:05:29.400 you know,

01:05:29.560 there's good things

01:05:30.220 going on in the world.

01:05:31.820 This is kind of the guy

01:05:32.840 he is.

01:05:33.360 Now he is,

01:05:34.520 and I think,

01:05:35.040 you know,

01:05:35.280 you've probably seen

01:05:35.960 this as well,

01:05:36.560 Megan,

01:05:36.960 you know,

01:05:37.180 being in New York,

01:05:39.740 if you're there at all,

01:05:41.200 I was there last week.

01:05:42.500 The dude is everywhere.

01:05:43.940 He's on every billboard.

01:05:45.260 He's in every cab

01:05:46.140 constantly talking to you 1.00

01:05:47.400 with that stupid smile 1.00

01:05:48.580 of his. 1.00

01:05:49.180 He makes Christy Noe

01:05:50.360 look shy.

01:05:55.300 Wow.

01:05:56.040 Because that,

01:05:56.760 that takes some doing.

01:05:58.380 And you're right.

01:05:59.100 He's everywhere.

01:06:00.120 And this is a strategy

01:06:01.220 for him,

01:06:01.920 is to take a guy

01:06:02.840 with beliefs

01:06:04.280 that are way out

01:06:05.640 of the mainstream. 0.61

01:06:06.580 Even for insane New Yorkers, 0.85

01:06:08.200 I can say this, 0.95

01:06:08.900 I was bored in New York. 0.97

01:06:10.100 Even for insane New Yorkers, 0.88

01:06:11.400 he's way out of the mainstream 0.94

01:06:12.420 of that group.

01:06:13.640 And he thinks he can

01:06:14.800 kind of paper over that

01:06:16.060 with a nice big smile.

01:06:17.720 As long as he smiles enough

01:06:18.920 and is like,

01:06:19.460 you know,

01:06:19.780 hanging out with kids

01:06:20.700 and laughing at what they say

01:06:21.920 at the kindergartners,

01:06:23.020 people will go along

01:06:23.840 with what he believes.

01:06:25.420 The core of him is dark.

01:06:26.960 I mean,

01:06:27.160 this is a guy

01:06:28.560 who believes

01:06:29.020 these really terrible things.

01:06:31.040 People around him

01:06:32.360 might even be worse.

01:06:34.160 He's choosing them 0.90

01:06:35.280 with an incredible amount

01:06:36.460 of frequency.

01:06:36.900 There's no question

01:06:37.680 he is surrounded

01:06:38.340 by anti-Semites.

01:06:39.680 There's just,

01:06:40.380 there's no question,

01:06:41.420 long proven anti-Semites.

01:06:43.960 It's like,

01:06:45.240 and that,

01:06:46.180 of course,

01:06:46.720 is one of the reasons

01:06:47.620 why he won't point out

01:06:49.100 what this was,

01:06:50.160 that this is radical 0.99

01:06:51.200 Muslim terrorism. 0.99

01:06:53.680 That's what this was. 1.00

01:06:54.460 This is a radical 0.85

01:06:55.880 Islamic terrorist attack 0.67

01:06:58.760 on the people

01:07:00.320 of New York City.

01:07:01.140 That's what this was,

01:07:02.260 including cops.

01:07:03.480 And he will be aided

01:07:05.080 and is being aided

01:07:06.060 currently in that

01:07:06.820 by the media,

01:07:07.500 as you point out.

01:07:08.100 There's New York Times.

01:07:08.820 Here's the headline.

01:07:10.100 U.S. authorities

01:07:10.740 are investigating

01:07:11.720 device thrown

01:07:13.080 near Gracie Mansion.

01:07:15.340 Well,

01:07:15.660 now that omits

01:07:16.440 some key details,

01:07:17.520 doesn't it,

01:07:17.860 New York Times?

01:07:18.600 Here's NBC,

01:07:20.080 local.

01:07:21.040 Mayor Mamdani

01:07:21.740 was not at home

01:07:22.780 when protesters

01:07:23.940 lit device

01:07:25.180 outside Gracie Mansion.

01:07:26.680 I mean,

01:07:27.580 to your point,

01:07:28.220 they could have

01:07:28.540 set an iPad on fire.

01:07:29.700 I wouldn't know

01:07:30.580 any different

01:07:31.100 from that headline.

01:07:32.080 And then there's

01:07:32.620 GB News.

01:07:33.620 That's our friends

01:07:34.680 across the pond

01:07:35.320 who are more

01:07:35.700 fair and balanced.

01:07:37.180 They're a relatively

01:07:38.520 new cable outlet

01:07:39.240 over there.

01:07:40.300 They managed

01:07:40.940 to get it right.

01:07:41.840 How'd they get it right?

01:07:42.840 They're not even American. 1.00

01:07:44.160 How did they get

01:07:44.940 a better headline

01:07:45.500 than the New York Times

01:07:46.640 has happened

01:07:47.120 in New York City?

01:07:47.940 Here's the GB News

01:07:48.920 headline.

01:07:50.320 Terror probe

01:07:51.020 launched

01:07:51.480 after ISIS fanatics

01:07:52.960 hurled bomb

01:07:53.900 near New York City

01:07:54.860 mayor's home.

01:07:55.760 Boom.

01:07:56.240 There it is.

01:07:56.860 It's not that hard,

01:07:57.840 NBC and New York Times.

01:08:00.280 Yeah.

01:08:01.260 One thing you can do

01:08:02.380 is tell the story.

01:08:03.640 This is supposed to be

01:08:04.400 a very basic part

01:08:05.420 of journalism.

01:08:06.200 You just tell the story

01:08:07.220 and you let people know

01:08:09.220 what the facts are.

01:08:10.780 And you don't,

01:08:11.640 you know,

01:08:12.080 it's not your responsibility

01:08:13.260 as a journalist

01:08:14.360 to win for your side,

01:08:16.520 right?

01:08:16.780 Like,

01:08:17.000 this has been

01:08:17.360 the temptation

01:08:17.880 of journalists

01:08:18.660 for a very long time

01:08:19.820 in that,

01:08:20.240 like,

01:08:20.540 you know,

01:08:20.700 they don't tell you

01:08:21.200 the Hunter Biden story

01:08:22.060 because it might

01:08:23.240 allow people

01:08:24.340 to vote

01:08:25.520 for this guy

01:08:26.460 that we don't,

01:08:27.240 we all don't want,

01:08:28.440 right?

01:08:28.600 We all understand

01:08:29.680 that would be bad

01:08:30.560 for the country.

01:08:31.080 We have to be protected

01:08:31.140 from our bad instincts.

01:08:33.040 Exactly.

01:08:33.640 We have to protect

01:08:34.360 the American people.

01:08:35.640 This is a very

01:08:36.060 progressive instinct,

01:08:37.520 right?

01:08:37.740 When you're a progressive,

01:08:38.600 you go back

01:08:38.940 to the early 20th century

01:08:40.700 progressives,

01:08:41.500 this is kind of

01:08:42.000 their staple,

01:08:43.060 right?

01:08:43.280 It was that the American 1.00

01:08:44.180 people are too dumb. 1.00

01:08:45.680 They need to be led. 1.00

01:08:46.800 We need to be

01:08:47.640 the herders of sheep.

01:08:49.340 They're not going

01:08:49.680 to be able

01:08:50.040 to understand

01:08:50.680 and do the right thing,

01:08:51.860 even if they might

01:08:52.480 have the best intentions.

01:08:54.000 They're overtaken

01:08:57.040 by their hatred,

01:08:58.200 by their bigotry.

01:08:59.860 You know,

01:08:59.980 this is a sentiment

01:09:00.760 that Barack Obama

01:09:01.920 in 2008,

01:09:04.240 you know,

01:09:04.720 clearly tried

01:09:06.020 to get across.

01:09:06.760 You know,

01:09:06.840 people were,

01:09:07.600 they've got the,

01:09:08.280 you know,

01:09:08.520 their scary belief

01:09:09.340 in guns and immigrants 0.96

01:09:10.560 that are bad

01:09:11.400 and all these terrible things

01:09:12.500 and we can't trust them.

01:09:13.800 We have to help them

01:09:14.540 get over that thing

01:09:16.560 that they have

01:09:17.460 as if it's some sort

01:09:18.320 of ailment.

01:09:19.520 You know,

01:09:20.020 people believe

01:09:20.880 what they believe.

01:09:21.660 It's not your job

01:09:22.360 as a journalist

01:09:22.960 to try to direct them

01:09:25.840 toward a particular way

01:09:27.100 of viewing facts.

01:09:28.340 It's your job

01:09:28.820 to bring them the facts.

01:09:30.660 It's amazing to me

01:09:31.460 because the New York Times

01:09:33.200 now,

01:09:33.600 like most Democrats,

01:09:34.680 is very anti-Israel.

01:09:36.880 So they will print,

01:09:38.280 you know,

01:09:39.180 all the bad things

01:09:40.020 about Israel

01:09:40.580 in connection

01:09:41.180 with this war,

01:09:42.260 for example.

01:09:43.280 But two minutes

01:09:44.960 spent looking at

01:09:46.060 clearly ISIS-inspired terror

01:09:48.540 in its own hometown

01:09:50.120 and it's a mystery.

01:09:52.100 It's a,

01:09:52.340 I mean,

01:09:52.480 what they posted

01:09:52.980 over the weekend,

01:09:53.540 their headline

01:09:53.820 over the weekend

01:09:54.340 after it happened,

01:09:55.620 after,

01:09:56.400 after it was determined

01:09:57.260 that these were bombs

01:09:58.020 by the,

01:09:58.640 by the New York Times,

01:09:59.920 or by the NYPD.

01:10:02.300 And by the way,

01:10:03.000 like Tish,

01:10:04.620 the police commissioner,

01:10:06.900 she didn't make 0.71

01:10:07.300 any bones about it.

01:10:08.200 Like she talked about how,

01:10:09.520 trying to find the,

01:10:10.140 the concoction,

01:10:11.760 she said,

01:10:12.060 yeah, 0.98

01:10:12.320 this mother of Satan 0.96

01:10:14.180 is what the New York Post 0.71

01:10:16.040 reported,

01:10:16.960 she described it.

01:10:17.760 She said,

01:10:18.060 sports drink bottles

01:10:18.960 filled with

01:10:19.880 triacetone triperoxide

01:10:23.080 or TATP,

01:10:24.120 you heard her reference it there

01:10:24.980 in today's conference,

01:10:26.080 a substance favored by terrorists

01:10:27.400 and known as mother of Satan,

01:10:28.980 which is so volatile

01:10:30.120 that it typically

01:10:30.760 does not require a fuse

01:10:31.820 to go off.

01:10:32.500 That was already known,

01:10:33.820 was already being reported

01:10:34.840 that these were bombs

01:10:36.140 and this is what

01:10:37.060 the New York Times

01:10:37.520 originally went with.

01:10:39.080 Smoking jars of metal

01:10:40.160 and fuses

01:10:40.720 thrown at protests

01:10:42.140 near Mayer's house.

01:10:43.100 What would be another word

01:10:45.080 for smoking jars

01:10:46.660 of metal and fuses

01:10:48.760 with a bunch of

01:10:49.860 self-igniting 0.99

01:10:51.040 mother of Satan

01:10:52.300 chemicals inside,

01:10:53.540 Stu?

01:10:53.760 I'm just trying to think.

01:10:56.180 Can you think of anything?

01:10:57.480 The likes they will

01:10:58.960 go to.

01:11:00.220 I mean,

01:11:00.520 it's just absolutely

01:11:02.580 incredible.

01:11:03.660 It's like,

01:11:03.940 we have a circular

01:11:04.660 piece of dough

01:11:05.560 with tomato sauce

01:11:06.560 and cheese

01:11:07.100 on top of it.

01:11:08.100 What's another term

01:11:09.260 for it?

01:11:10.820 They got a bunch

01:11:11.800 of pizzas.

01:11:13.360 I don't know

01:11:15.260 that this fools people.

01:11:16.840 I think there might

01:11:17.940 be a part of this

01:11:19.300 that allows

01:11:20.280 their audience

01:11:21.880 to get over

01:11:23.600 the hump

01:11:24.180 that their side

01:11:25.200 is doing things

01:11:26.240 that are terrible,

01:11:26.900 right?

01:11:29.040 It's easy to call

01:11:30.000 anyone related

01:11:30.580 to Donald Trump 0.80

01:11:31.160 a white supremacist 0.98

01:11:32.100 without any thought 0.88

01:11:33.120 because they

01:11:34.000 are against affirmative

01:11:35.440 action or something. 0.93

01:11:36.460 They're a white supremacist. 0.90

01:11:38.020 And their audience 0.72

01:11:38.820 never really questioned that.

01:11:40.360 Obviously,

01:11:40.740 if you don't agree

01:11:41.280 with us on these issues,

01:11:42.240 you're bad. 1.00

01:11:42.960 You're a Nazi. 1.00

01:11:43.600 You're a white supremacist. 1.00

01:11:45.320 With their side, 0.96

01:11:46.160 when there's things

01:11:46.920 like the word bomb

01:11:48.300 is really hard

01:11:49.260 to be on the right

01:11:50.100 side of it,

01:11:50.880 right?

01:11:51.060 And especially

01:11:52.820 in a domestic context,

01:11:55.620 right?

01:11:55.840 If you're talking

01:11:56.500 about throwing a bomb

01:11:57.660 into a crowd,

01:11:59.540 there's almost no way

01:12:01.020 to present that

01:12:02.380 as the right activity.

01:12:03.640 So they just try

01:12:04.240 to dismantle it.

01:12:05.120 I mean,

01:12:05.520 really dismantle

01:12:06.720 what occurred.

01:12:08.040 Make it seem like

01:12:09.280 it's either an iPad

01:12:10.600 or a jar with fuses

01:12:12.040 and maybe it doesn't

01:12:13.940 sound as offensive.

01:12:16.240 I don't know.

01:12:16.960 They know their audience

01:12:17.620 better than I do,

01:12:18.400 I guess,

01:12:18.700 because to me,

01:12:19.960 that wouldn't help

01:12:20.880 at all.

01:12:21.380 I would see right

01:12:22.180 through that immediately

01:12:22.920 and I would see

01:12:23.420 through it on our side.

01:12:24.640 They're on the,

01:12:25.420 the New York Times

01:12:26.220 is on the side

01:12:27.420 of the ISIS

01:12:29.580 throwing device,

01:12:31.420 the ISIS device 0.92

01:12:32.460 throwing people.

01:12:33.400 I just think

01:12:34.040 they're at some level,

01:12:35.660 they've always been

01:12:36.120 more sympathetic to them

01:12:37.040 in recent history anyway,

01:12:38.260 once, you know,

01:12:38.960 they're not in favor

01:12:39.960 of Israel.

01:12:40.760 So they're like,

01:12:41.600 okay,

01:12:41.820 and they're certainly

01:12:42.180 not in favor

01:12:42.740 of white supremacists.

01:12:43.680 So they're like,

01:12:44.340 okay, yeah,

01:12:45.360 these are bad people.

01:12:46.880 And we're on

01:12:48.680 the side

01:12:48.940 of the counter-protests

01:12:50.020 and because it was

01:12:50.960 two of the so-called

01:12:51.680 counter-protesters,

01:12:53.120 aka terrorists here,

01:12:55.180 they're confused

01:12:56.720 on what to do.

01:12:57.840 It's like,

01:12:58.240 wait a minute,

01:13:00.860 we're kind of

01:13:02.040 more sympathetic

01:13:02.480 to their side,

01:13:03.360 but they threw bombs,

01:13:05.020 so that's bad.

01:13:05.840 Maybe we can downplay

01:13:06.640 the bomb right

01:13:07.520 into being not a bomb

01:13:08.620 and this not being

01:13:09.780 about Allahu Akbar

01:13:10.700 or ISIS.

01:13:11.640 I mean,

01:13:11.820 that's why,

01:13:13.520 like,

01:13:13.720 back to my point,

01:13:14.440 you're going to have

01:13:14.920 to buckle up

01:13:16.120 until this whole

01:13:17.720 Iran thing is over 0.99

01:13:18.460 because the media,

01:13:20.080 they don't know

01:13:20.660 what to do,

01:13:21.640 right?

01:13:21.920 Like,

01:13:22.580 they're all over

01:13:24.440 the place.

01:13:25.360 They're against Israel, 0.90

01:13:26.880 so now they're

01:13:27.580 pro-domestic terror

01:13:29.240 attacks?

01:13:30.100 Like,

01:13:30.840 not it,

01:13:32.580 New York Times.

01:13:33.620 Try again.

01:13:34.720 You can have questions

01:13:35.480 about the war

01:13:36.060 and still say terror

01:13:37.620 at home is bad.

01:13:38.860 Work on it.

01:13:39.540 Work on it.

01:13:39.980 Try a little harder.

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01:15:55.600 Hey everyone,

01:16:00.640 it's me,

01:16:01.060 Megan Kelly.

01:16:01.720 I've got some exciting news.

01:16:03.920 I now have my very own channel

01:16:05.520 on Sirius XM.

01:16:07.100 It's called

01:16:07.400 the Megan Kelly Channel

01:16:08.320 and it is where

01:16:08.980 you will hear the truth

01:16:10.040 unfiltered,

01:16:10.880 with no agenda

01:16:11.700 and no apologies.

01:16:13.240 Along with

01:16:13.640 the Megan Kelly Show,

01:16:14.400 you're going to hear

01:16:14.780 from people like

01:16:15.480 Mark Halperin,

01:16:16.580 Link Lauren,

01:16:17.440 Maureen Callahan,

01:16:18.480 Emily Jashinsky,

01:16:19.260 Jesse Kelly,

01:16:20.080 Real Clear Politics

01:16:20.940 and many more.

01:16:22.580 It's bold,

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01:16:24.520 Only on the Megan Kelly Channel,

01:16:26.540 Sirius XM 111

01:16:27.800 and on the Sirius XM app.

01:16:29.240 There was an interesting exchange

01:16:35.300 on Bill Maher

01:16:36.520 over the weekend.

01:16:37.980 He had

01:16:38.360 Shifty Shift,

01:16:40.020 Adam Schiff,

01:16:40.740 Senator now,

01:16:41.740 on his show

01:16:42.660 and

01:16:43.360 Maher,

01:16:44.440 I guess Adam Schiff

01:16:45.160 didn't really listen

01:16:45.840 to Maher's monologue

01:16:46.780 because Maher is in favor

01:16:47.880 of the war.

01:16:48.860 He's not in favor

01:16:49.660 of ground troops there,

01:16:50.620 which Trump continues

01:16:51.540 to leave open

01:16:52.600 as a possibility.

01:16:54.580 Please don't do that,

01:16:55.620 President Trump.

01:16:56.200 Please don't put

01:16:56.920 American boots

01:16:57.520 on the ground in Iran,

01:16:58.400 but in any event,

01:16:59.060 okay,

01:16:59.280 he's not in favor

01:16:59.900 of that,

01:17:00.640 but he is in favor

01:17:01.860 of the conflict

01:17:02.520 of the war

01:17:03.060 and he set up

01:17:06.060 a trap,

01:17:07.720 Maher did,

01:17:08.460 for Senator Schiff,

01:17:09.720 which was very interesting.

01:17:11.220 Watch this.

01:17:12.380 This statement

01:17:12.900 from the administration,

01:17:13.840 the president

01:17:14.340 had the constitutional

01:17:15.500 authority to direct

01:17:16.640 the use of military force

01:17:17.980 because he could

01:17:18.640 reasonably determine

01:17:19.720 that such use of force

01:17:21.340 was in the national interest.

01:17:22.860 That's too vague for you?

01:17:24.520 Totally vague.

01:17:25.940 Okay,

01:17:26.160 because that's from Obama.

01:17:30.220 How good is that?

01:17:32.220 I mean,

01:17:32.800 when the shoe was

01:17:33.640 on the other foot,

01:17:34.280 right,

01:17:34.500 it's all these Democrats

01:17:35.240 were defending

01:17:35.900 President Obama

01:17:37.380 and his use of the military,

01:17:38.760 his use of drones.

01:17:39.700 They had no problem.

01:17:40.320 Only now.

01:17:41.380 I'm like,

01:17:41.640 I have no patience

01:17:42.620 for the whole

01:17:43.220 this is illegal

01:17:44.660 and Trump can't do it

01:17:45.520 argument. 1.00

01:17:45.960 That's bullshit. 1.00

01:17:46.540 Where were you 1.00

01:17:46.940 when Obama was droning

01:17:48.280 American citizens?

01:17:49.820 Just take a seat,

01:17:50.720 right?

01:17:51.040 But like,

01:17:52.460 what the Democrats

01:17:53.440 are doing to the president

01:17:54.300 here is nakedly political

01:17:55.620 and I don't believe

01:17:56.900 out of deep concern

01:17:58.480 for what's best

01:17:59.380 for the country.

01:18:01.640 It's so transparent.

01:18:03.580 I mean,

01:18:03.860 it's difficult.

01:18:05.640 It really is a confusing

01:18:06.600 world out there.

01:18:07.480 You know,

01:18:07.580 I grew up my entire life

01:18:09.040 thinking of Democrats

01:18:11.500 as the ones

01:18:12.260 who had their prominent

01:18:13.080 politicians go

01:18:14.180 on their honeymoons

01:18:15.640 to the Soviet Union

01:18:16.880 and then all of a sudden

01:18:17.780 now I'm supposed

01:18:18.420 to understand

01:18:18.960 that they really

01:18:19.620 don't like Russia

01:18:20.540 and anyone

01:18:21.400 who agrees

01:18:22.440 with Russia

01:18:22.920 are the bad guys.

01:18:24.620 This stuff flips

01:18:25.520 on a seemingly

01:18:26.960 daily basis

01:18:27.980 these days

01:18:28.700 and they can't

01:18:30.240 keep track of it

01:18:31.240 because there's

01:18:32.280 no principle

01:18:32.780 behind it,

01:18:33.380 right?

01:18:33.620 Like it's so much.

01:18:35.080 It's great to watch

01:18:35.800 somebody like Bill Maher

01:18:36.520 catch one of them.

01:18:38.260 Oh,

01:18:38.540 that's so satisfying

01:18:40.880 because

01:18:41.340 they didn't have

01:18:43.160 any of these feelings.

01:18:43.980 They just had none

01:18:44.520 of this stuff

01:18:45.100 back then.

01:18:45.860 It's like,

01:18:46.860 this is why

01:18:47.320 I don't,

01:18:48.280 you know,

01:18:48.440 part of the reason

01:18:49.220 why I started

01:18:49.640 the Predictable Show,

01:18:51.080 you mentioned it earlier

01:18:51.780 to predictableshow.com

01:18:52.900 is it does

01:18:54.380 deals with these

01:18:54.960 prediction markets

01:18:55.560 that are kind of

01:18:56.100 a new thing

01:18:56.580 and one of the things

01:18:57.240 I really love about them

01:18:58.300 is they have a way

01:18:59.620 of cutting through

01:19:00.560 all this nonsense,

01:19:02.080 right?

01:19:02.660 Because people

01:19:03.380 are putting their money,

01:19:04.420 they're putting their money

01:19:05.600 where their mouth is

01:19:06.360 and most people

01:19:07.300 won't put their money

01:19:08.200 for something

01:19:09.040 that they don't

01:19:09.580 actually believe.

01:19:10.900 Yet we put people

01:19:11.640 on television constantly

01:19:13.000 that are just

01:19:14.100 tossing things out there

01:19:15.620 that are totally at odds

01:19:17.240 with what they said

01:19:17.820 on TV,

01:19:18.440 three weeks before that.

01:19:20.000 I just,

01:19:21.080 it drives me

01:19:21.840 absolutely nuts

01:19:22.920 and I think

01:19:23.980 that's a real problem

01:19:25.580 that we have.

01:19:26.360 Like,

01:19:26.540 they have made a decision,

01:19:27.740 they do have a principle

01:19:28.840 in the media,

01:19:29.380 which is they don't

01:19:29.860 like Donald Trump.

01:19:30.860 That principle,

01:19:32.020 we sometimes describe it

01:19:33.120 as TDS,

01:19:34.480 allows them to

01:19:35.480 constantly be at odds

01:19:36.880 with him,

01:19:37.320 even when I'm critical

01:19:38.460 of Donald Trump

01:19:39.000 for changing his argument.

01:19:41.180 He might make two arguments

01:19:42.380 and I say,

01:19:42.820 wait a minute,

01:19:43.220 you said this last week

01:19:44.120 and you said this this week,

01:19:44.960 they somehow are disagreeing

01:19:46.340 with him both times.

01:19:47.380 See,

01:19:48.020 this is why I like Rand Paul

01:19:50.040 so much.

01:19:50.700 I really like him.

01:19:51.880 He's one of the few lawmakers

01:19:54.100 who I really actually respect.

01:19:56.120 It's not that I agree

01:19:56.860 with all of his politics

01:19:57.820 at all.

01:19:58.420 I don't.

01:19:59.540 Some of them,

01:20:00.140 yes,

01:20:00.360 and some of them,

01:20:00.860 no,

01:20:01.020 but he knows who he is

01:20:02.580 and he votes accordingly.

01:20:03.720 He votes according

01:20:04.540 to his conscience

01:20:05.840 and the policies

01:20:07.460 that he thinks,

01:20:08.260 like his dad,

01:20:09.180 that he thinks

01:20:09.920 are actually important

01:20:10.720 for America.

01:20:11.300 And he,

01:20:12.500 you know,

01:20:12.680 President Trump can't stand

01:20:13.680 that he can't be pummeled

01:20:14.700 into submission

01:20:15.260 and I get it

01:20:15.980 and he's frustrated

01:20:16.660 a lot of Republicans

01:20:17.400 being the holdout,

01:20:18.580 but I respect it.

01:20:20.500 As an independent myself,

01:20:21.520 I respect that he's like,

01:20:23.060 this is what I stand for,

01:20:24.740 you know,

01:20:25.060 like,

01:20:25.700 and I got elected

01:20:26.560 because I have these principles

01:20:28.500 so I'm going to stand by them.

01:20:29.580 It's very rare,

01:20:30.620 much more common

01:20:31.400 is the Adam Shifty Schiff,

01:20:33.900 you know,

01:20:34.340 I mean,

01:20:34.740 playing right up to his name

01:20:36.000 in that position still,

01:20:38.300 like playing right to his name.

01:20:40.640 Very Shifty,

01:20:41.380 depending on who's doing

01:20:42.820 the absolutely terrible thing

01:20:44.300 that he can't stand.

01:20:46.020 For the listening audience,

01:20:47.100 sitting on the set

01:20:47.700 with Shifty Schiff

01:20:48.820 was Shifty Don Lamont,

01:20:51.400 who was there

01:20:52.220 to be lionized by Bill Maher.

01:20:54.060 This is the love-hate

01:20:54.800 we have with Bill,

01:20:56.160 where he completely gives Lemon

01:20:59.380 a pass on his behavior

01:21:01.060 inside that church

01:21:02.060 and I think we have

01:21:03.500 a little bit of that.

01:21:04.400 Let's watch.

01:21:05.560 There's things going on

01:21:06.700 in this country.

01:21:07.540 I'm just,

01:21:07.840 I try to keep up

01:21:09.100 with the news

01:21:09.540 and I just,

01:21:10.580 and they said

01:21:12.960 you stood in close proximity

01:21:14.860 to the pastor

01:21:15.760 in an attempt to oppress

01:21:17.060 and intimidate him. 1.00

01:21:19.180 That's some powerful bullshit 1.00

01:21:20.560 there, isn't it, Don? 1.00

01:21:21.740 I mean,

01:21:23.360 I'm glad you see it.

01:21:24.300 You can see it from the world.

01:21:24.980 No, I, I, I mean.

01:21:27.360 No, it's not, 0.99

01:21:28.400 it's not some powerful bullshit. 0.99

01:21:29.540 It's 100% true. 0.99

01:21:30.520 We had the pastor

01:21:31.060 on the show last week

01:21:32.400 talking about

01:21:33.600 the way he felt

01:21:34.420 when Don Lemon

01:21:34.980 was obviously in his space

01:21:36.580 and was clearly trying

01:21:37.600 to set up the pastor

01:21:38.860 for something dark

01:21:42.120 by saying like,

01:21:43.620 don't, don't touch me.

01:21:44.640 Lemon was like,

01:21:45.420 take your hands off me. 1.00

01:21:46.220 Don't push me.

01:21:46.920 Meanwhile, Lemon was the one

01:21:47.720 who appeared to have hands

01:21:48.480 on the pastor.

01:21:49.580 And Bill Maher,

01:21:50.580 as is so often the case

01:21:51.700 when it risks

01:21:52.320 embarrassing a Democrat,

01:21:53.500 did not do his homework

01:21:54.420 here still.

01:21:56.460 Yeah, it's funny.

01:21:57.260 I mean, Bill Maher

01:21:57.980 is an interesting guy.

01:21:59.860 He's somewhat similar

01:22:01.320 to Rand Paul in some ways

01:22:02.860 in that like he has

01:22:03.940 a well-developed ideology

01:22:05.840 that he's believed

01:22:06.560 for a long time.

01:22:07.920 And I think is arguably

01:22:09.620 pretty consistent with it

01:22:11.160 in this particular case.

01:22:12.840 And I think honestly,

01:22:13.900 the same thing

01:22:14.960 with the Middle East

01:22:15.720 is just Bill Maher

01:22:17.660 can't stand religion. 0.84

01:22:19.100 Like just generally

01:22:20.040 does not like religion.

01:22:21.420 He's written books about it.

01:22:22.960 And whenever anyone does,

01:22:24.540 right, yeah.

01:22:25.380 Yeah, that's right.

01:22:26.720 Religulous or something like that.

01:22:27.920 Religulous. 0.99

01:22:28.040 Yes, yeah, yeah.

01:22:29.980 Whenever someone

01:22:31.080 is doing something

01:22:32.080 based on religion,

01:22:33.280 he generally speaking

01:22:34.480 is always against

01:22:35.480 what they're doing.

01:22:36.640 Yes.

01:22:36.920 Which is, you know,

01:22:37.860 again, a take.

01:22:39.500 I generally speaking

01:22:41.220 agree in that

01:22:42.020 like I, a lot of people,

01:22:44.240 and there's I think

01:22:44.860 a kind of a movement

01:22:45.920 a little bit on the right.

01:22:46.900 I have friends

01:22:47.460 who are critical

01:22:48.420 of the word ideology

01:22:50.480 as a negative term.

01:22:52.420 And ideology can be

01:22:53.760 a negative term,

01:22:54.500 especially if you're applying it

01:22:55.680 without any pragmatism

01:22:57.600 or real world thinking.

01:22:59.760 You can't just be ideological.

01:23:01.920 But like,

01:23:02.620 can we save a little love

01:23:04.020 for ideology

01:23:04.840 just from the perspective

01:23:06.320 of it's a collection

01:23:07.420 of beliefs

01:23:08.320 that make sense

01:23:09.120 with each other?

01:23:10.100 Right?

01:23:10.260 Like we've abandoned this idea.

01:23:12.080 Now it's just like,

01:23:12.760 oh, just take any section

01:23:14.080 of beliefs,

01:23:14.580 anything you want

01:23:15.260 from around the world,

01:23:16.100 anything that gets you

01:23:17.460 through the day.

01:23:18.540 Say what you have to do

01:23:19.760 on TV,

01:23:20.880 on the Senate floor

01:23:21.980 that gets you

01:23:22.960 through that moment.

01:23:23.880 And the second you need

01:23:24.840 to reverse it,

01:23:25.540 you get to reverse it.

01:23:26.480 I can't stand that world.

01:23:28.700 Like, that doesn't

01:23:29.900 help me at all.

01:23:30.940 It doesn't help me

01:23:31.620 as a viewer.

01:23:32.240 It doesn't help me

01:23:32.580 as a listener to a podcast.

01:23:33.760 It doesn't help me

01:23:34.380 certainly as an American citizen

01:23:35.640 that has to watch

01:23:36.240 these politicians

01:23:36.880 do it constantly.

01:23:38.440 So I'm with you on that.

01:23:40.160 I like the people,

01:23:41.480 you know,

01:23:42.340 more like Rand Paul

01:23:44.280 or Bill Maher,

01:23:45.140 who, you know,

01:23:45.660 even though I totally disagree

01:23:47.120 with Bill Maher

01:23:48.100 on the issue of religion,

01:23:50.320 I can still watch his show

01:23:51.620 and get something out of it.

01:23:52.700 I know where he's coming from.

01:23:54.420 I don't watch his show,

01:23:55.280 but I watch the clips.

01:23:56.580 I watch the clips.

01:23:57.240 Yes, me too.

01:23:57.900 His monologues are very funny.

01:23:59.640 I'm not much for the guests

01:24:01.100 that he has on the show,

01:24:01.980 to be honest,

01:24:02.440 but depends, you know,

01:24:05.160 hit or miss.

01:24:06.200 But it's not something

01:24:06.900 I would like subscribe to

01:24:07.840 or make sure

01:24:08.480 it was appointment viewing.

01:24:09.320 But I like him overall,

01:24:10.780 even though we disagree

01:24:11.420 on so many things.

01:24:12.380 I like him.

01:24:13.200 I think he's very clever

01:24:14.380 and I think he plays

01:24:14.960 a very important role

01:24:15.920 in our national dialogue.

01:24:17.940 And he,

01:24:18.860 but he doesn't bat a thousand.

01:24:19.900 That's clear

01:24:20.440 because Don Lemon

01:24:22.160 did cross a line.

01:24:23.900 And I feel that Bill

01:24:24.560 would see it very differently

01:24:25.580 if that had been

01:24:27.280 Megyn Kelly

01:24:27.800 barging into an abortion clinic

01:24:29.700 and saying to the terrified women

01:24:31.680 as they fled,

01:24:32.720 trauma's all part of it.

01:24:34.120 Trauma's a part of my protest,

01:24:36.280 right?

01:24:36.580 That's as American as apple pie.

01:24:38.820 He would see very clearly

01:24:40.080 how that was very wrong

01:24:41.560 and that is not me

01:24:42.440 acting as a,

01:24:43.860 as an independent journalist

01:24:44.780 or a journalist at all.

01:24:45.660 Okay, let's keep going.

01:24:46.980 I mentioned at the top,

01:24:47.920 the Jesse Jackson funeral happened.

01:24:50.500 Honestly, I had,

01:24:51.300 as I said,

01:24:51.820 very positive experiences

01:24:52.840 with Jesse Jackson

01:24:53.600 during my years at Fox.

01:24:54.600 He was not one of those crazy, 0.97

01:24:56.300 crazy leftist, 0.98

01:24:57.640 you know, 0.99

01:24:58.760 race essentialism guys.

01:25:00.440 You know,

01:25:00.560 he had the Rainbow Push Coalition

01:25:02.020 and he made a lot of difference

01:25:03.080 in the lives of many people,

01:25:04.440 a lot of African Americans.

01:25:05.740 But he wasn't some crazy.

01:25:08.020 He wasn't like,

01:25:09.020 he wasn't Al Sharpton territory.

01:25:10.980 He certainly wasn't

01:25:11.840 an Ibram X. Kendi type.

01:25:14.120 And he was very open-minded

01:25:15.520 to talking to Republicans

01:25:16.660 about the issues

01:25:17.440 that were important to him.

01:25:19.020 That was my own take on it.

01:25:20.480 And I think that was

01:25:20.940 Roger Ailes' take on him too.

01:25:22.660 So all these dignitaries

01:25:24.940 show up at his funeral

01:25:27.400 and reportedly,

01:25:28.800 they were asked

01:25:30.120 not to get political

01:25:32.320 given the way that

01:25:33.820 Jesse Jackson was in life.

01:25:35.820 Please don't get political.

01:25:37.380 Well, they couldn't

01:25:38.140 contain themselves.

01:25:39.480 And while I said at the top,

01:25:40.920 it was President Clinton,

01:25:42.140 President Obama,

01:25:42.780 and President Biden

01:25:43.900 who came under

01:25:45.220 Jesse Jackson Jr.'s attack,

01:25:46.960 I inserted Clinton

01:25:48.640 in there wrongly

01:25:49.340 because what he said

01:25:49.980 was three presidents

01:25:51.040 came to this event

01:25:52.480 and like basically wrongfully

01:25:54.640 didn't do what I asked them to do.

01:25:56.760 And I think he was confused

01:25:57.800 because actually Bill Clinton

01:25:58.800 did not make it political.

01:26:00.040 But you know who did?

01:26:00.840 Kamala Harris.

01:26:01.880 Like from word one.

01:26:03.660 So I think his reference

01:26:04.360 to three presidents,

01:26:05.380 you know,

01:26:05.660 kind of included her

01:26:06.380 as a vice president.

01:26:07.620 But Jesse Jackson Jr.

01:26:08.860 was not happy.

01:26:10.540 and who could blame him?

01:26:13.340 I'm going to give you

01:26:14.100 a little sampling

01:26:16.460 of how it sounded.

01:26:18.840 Here's Harris

01:26:19.340 who starts with like,

01:26:21.360 hey, nice to be here.

01:26:22.780 We're here for a funeral.

01:26:23.560 And then boom,

01:26:24.180 immediately gets political

01:26:25.080 in this outwatch.

01:26:26.760 And to the entire Jackson family,

01:26:30.820 on behalf of Doug

01:26:32.340 and my family,

01:26:33.500 we pray with you

01:26:36.060 as we did

01:26:37.040 a couple weeks ago

01:26:38.500 in your home.

01:26:40.180 And we thank you.

01:26:41.860 I thank you.

01:26:42.500 You know,

01:26:45.580 so let me just say,

01:26:47.520 I predicted a lot

01:26:49.300 about what's happening

01:26:50.120 right now.

01:26:57.620 I'm not into saying

01:26:58.980 I told you so,

01:27:00.200 but we did see it coming.

01:27:04.640 And she kept going.

01:27:06.560 It wasn't just her.

01:27:07.520 I mean, 0.56

01:27:07.660 she's so insufferable, 0.54

01:27:09.060 Stu,

01:27:09.240 is she not?

01:27:10.080 I mean,

01:27:10.240 it's like,

01:27:10.560 if we could just take

01:27:13.100 a moment, Megan,

01:27:13.860 to just appreciate

01:27:14.740 the fact that

01:27:15.520 when Jesse Jackson Jr.

01:27:16.720 says three presidents,

01:27:18.200 he was incorrect

01:27:19.020 that she was one of them.

01:27:20.400 Thank God.

01:27:21.400 Thank God.

01:27:22.720 Thank God.

01:27:23.700 We don't have to deal

01:27:24.500 with that nonsense

01:27:25.440 and hopefully never will.

01:27:28.060 It's just absolutely, 0.95

01:27:29.520 she's terrible. 0.82

01:27:31.440 I mean,

01:27:31.580 the reason she lost

01:27:32.480 is she's just terrible

01:27:34.320 at this.

01:27:34.720 She really is.

01:27:35.500 And for some reason,

01:27:36.300 Democrats see this

01:27:37.060 as constantly

01:27:38.620 like their big chance

01:27:40.140 to make a political speech

01:27:41.720 when there's someone,

01:27:43.220 you know,

01:27:43.580 who had just passed away.

01:27:45.480 Yeah,

01:27:45.740 someone who died.

01:27:47.040 What?

01:27:47.360 How is that your great chance?

01:27:48.740 By the way,

01:27:49.280 he wasn't a politician.

01:27:50.440 You know,

01:27:50.600 he was a thought leader,

01:27:51.580 but he wasn't a politician.

01:27:53.160 I want to give you

01:27:53.840 a little bit more

01:27:54.500 of Kamala Harris,

01:27:55.320 who,

01:27:55.520 again,

01:27:56.360 she just gave a soundbite 1.00

01:27:57.700 like a week ago,

01:27:59.060 not even,

01:27:59.700 maybe,

01:28:00.380 or just over,

01:28:01.140 about 10 days ago,

01:28:02.920 opening the door,

01:28:03.820 once again,

01:28:04.340 probably wider than she has

01:28:05.520 to a presidential run.

01:28:06.900 She's going to do it.

01:28:07.740 This woman's running 1.00

01:28:08.640 and this is what

01:28:10.020 we're going to be subjected to.

01:28:11.100 She hasn't even brushed up

01:28:13.680 on new phrases for her act. 1.00

01:28:16.320 She's recycling all the old shit. 0.99

01:28:18.720 Listen to Sot 13. 1.00

01:28:20.700 To understand,

01:28:21.780 as has been said,

01:28:22.920 the beauty that comes

01:28:24.420 after the storm,

01:28:25.840 when we see what is possible

01:28:28.220 and what can be unburdened

01:28:30.360 by what has been.

01:28:31.980 That was a Jesse Jackson pin

01:28:33.980 from those days.

01:28:35.920 And just a beautiful example

01:28:39.460 of his determination,

01:28:42.540 his sense of humor,

01:28:43.720 but his ability to see

01:28:45.020 what can be unburdened

01:28:47.260 by what has been.

01:28:48.740 Okay.

01:28:52.620 Twice in the same speech.

01:28:55.200 You know,

01:28:55.520 it's the duality of it.

01:28:56.960 It is.

01:28:57.980 If you were to take out

01:28:58.700 the Venn diagram, Stu.

01:29:00.340 Right.

01:29:00.880 She has no new lines.

01:29:02.120 That's unbelievable.

01:29:06.440 Especially because that

01:29:07.620 in particular was something

01:29:08.960 that everyone criticized.

01:29:10.180 Everyone made fun of her.

01:29:11.380 That criticism had to have

01:29:12.780 gotten to her at some point,

01:29:13.760 I would assume.

01:29:15.460 And here she is still

01:29:16.060 trotting this stuff out.

01:29:17.000 And this is because

01:29:17.700 she doesn't have thoughts.

01:29:22.320 She doesn't have

01:29:23.380 original thoughts.

01:29:24.620 She's like a person

01:29:27.300 who's just kind of existing

01:29:29.340 and sees herself

01:29:31.500 as this sort of machine

01:29:33.380 that just pumps out things

01:29:35.480 that people are supposed

01:29:36.400 to like her, right?

01:29:37.120 And I guess that's how

01:29:37.800 her life went up until that day.

01:29:38.540 She is unburdened by thoughts

01:29:40.560 and used to getting ahead 0.62

01:29:43.560 on the fact that she is Black

01:29:45.660 and she is a woman.

01:29:46.740 And in the Democrat Party,

01:29:48.220 that is typically enough.

01:29:49.640 It was enough to make her

01:29:50.600 the nominee.

01:29:51.280 And we'll see whether they

01:29:52.180 proceed with that kind of folly

01:29:53.500 the next time as well.

01:29:55.660 Let's keep going

01:29:56.540 because here's Biden.

01:29:57.940 He also got political.

01:29:59.400 I mean, again,

01:30:00.280 he'd been asked

01:30:01.000 not to do this

01:30:02.580 by the family

01:30:03.580 of the deceased.

01:30:04.880 And yet,

01:30:05.700 take a listen.

01:30:07.140 We're in a tough spot, folks.

01:30:09.980 We got an administration

01:30:11.220 that doesn't share

01:30:13.440 any of the values

01:30:14.120 that we have.

01:30:15.680 I don't think I'm exaggerating

01:30:17.000 a little bit.

01:30:19.320 No one can understand

01:30:20.340 a word you're saying, sir.

01:30:21.600 Go back to your basement

01:30:22.680 and your pudding.

01:30:24.160 Stand by.

01:30:24.840 Here's Barack Obama.

01:30:26.520 Same thing.

01:30:28.140 Disrespecting the wishes

01:30:28.920 of the family.

01:30:30.280 We are living

01:30:31.280 in a time

01:30:34.100 when it can be hard to hope.

01:30:41.740 Each day we wake up

01:30:43.660 to some new assault

01:30:45.940 on our democratic institutions.

01:30:48.920 another setback

01:30:53.760 to the idea

01:30:54.580 of the rule of law.

01:30:57.120 Everywhere we see greed

01:30:58.600 and bigotry

01:30:59.420 being celebrated

01:31:01.000 and bullying

01:31:02.140 and mockery

01:31:04.520 masquerading as strength.

01:31:07.000 It may be tempting

01:31:07.980 for some to compromise

01:31:10.760 with power

01:31:11.660 and grab what you can

01:31:15.140 and grab what you can

01:31:15.160 or

01:31:16.860 even for good people

01:31:18.740 to maybe just

01:31:20.060 put your head down

01:31:21.200 and wait for the storm

01:31:22.000 to pass.

01:31:23.140 But this man

01:31:24.140 Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson

01:31:28.100 inspires us

01:31:30.280 to take a harder path.

01:31:33.220 So what is that?

01:31:34.480 Is that just hubris

01:31:35.400 of these three

01:31:36.340 to overrule

01:31:37.240 the grieving family

01:31:38.080 on what they wanted?

01:31:38.960 I mean

01:31:41.880 of the three

01:31:43.240 I mean

01:31:43.420 I give Biden

01:31:44.040 a little bit

01:31:44.680 of a break there

01:31:45.440 in that he

01:31:46.140 looks like

01:31:47.120 he just climbed

01:31:47.760 out of a casket

01:31:48.580 to make the speech.

01:31:49.780 I have no idea

01:31:50.480 if he has any idea

01:31:51.320 what's going on

01:31:52.220 at this point.

01:31:53.020 He's clearly just reading

01:31:53.780 whatever his team

01:31:54.600 wrote for him.

01:31:55.880 Yeah

01:31:56.280 I mean it's just

01:31:56.980 you know

01:31:57.320 that's not a positive

01:31:58.580 situation

01:31:59.060 for a million

01:31:59.640 different reasons.

01:32:00.980 Wait wait

01:32:01.380 before we move on

01:32:02.520 from Biden though

01:32:03.100 because

01:32:03.400 I do need to add

01:32:04.940 this addendum

01:32:05.520 of his remarks here

01:32:06.500 to your point

01:32:07.760 12.

01:32:10.680 If I told you all

01:32:11.740 earlier

01:32:12.280 when I was a kid

01:32:13.120 I had a cleft palate

01:32:14.220 or club foot

01:32:16.020 none of you would have laughed

01:32:16.940 but it's okay

01:32:18.840 to laugh at stuttering.

01:32:21.020 I'm not being critical

01:32:21.760 of you

01:32:22.020 but think about it.

01:32:23.620 It's the one place

01:32:24.460 where people 1.00

01:32:24.840 think you're stupid. 1.00

01:32:27.180 Oh really? 1.00

01:32:28.780 I'm a hell of a lot

01:32:29.400 smarter than most of you.

01:32:32.400 Well kidding aside.

01:32:34.360 He tried to ad-lib

01:32:35.440 he wound up calling 1.00

01:32:37.300 the black crowd dumb 1.00

01:32:38.580 and also said 1.00

01:32:40.180 that they were making

01:32:40.720 fun of his stutter

01:32:41.380 which is not right

01:32:43.520 and embarrassed himself

01:32:45.660 once again

01:32:46.080 like

01:32:46.560 when he ad-libbed Stu

01:32:48.720 he was back

01:32:49.620 to his normal self

01:32:50.380 and that's not a good thing.

01:32:52.360 No

01:32:52.820 no

01:32:53.180 not at all

01:32:54.340 and I have

01:32:54.960 you know

01:32:55.880 this strange thing

01:32:57.300 about politics

01:32:58.060 I mean

01:32:58.280 I'm going to go back

01:32:58.880 to the Paul Wellstone

01:32:59.820 this is a million years ago

01:33:00.860 but you know

01:33:01.420 the Democrats

01:33:02.420 lost a major election

01:33:04.160 a big Senate election

01:33:05.180 kind of by doing

01:33:06.340 the same thing

01:33:07.300 back in the day

01:33:08.360 where they came out

01:33:09.020 and kind of used it

01:33:09.580 as a party

01:33:10.080 in a political rally

01:33:11.160 at a funeral

01:33:13.000 separate from even

01:33:14.800 the use of politics here

01:33:15.960 can we at least agree

01:33:17.500 that when you're

01:33:18.340 at a funeral

01:33:19.000 it's not about you

01:33:20.260 like

01:33:21.000 it's about the person

01:33:22.620 who died

01:33:23.440 and

01:33:23.900 like

01:33:24.540 that should be clear

01:33:26.880 right

01:33:27.960 this is supposed

01:33:29.460 to be a celebration

01:33:30.180 of their lives

01:33:32.100 not supposed

01:33:32.960 a remembrance

01:33:33.580 of their lives

01:33:34.380 not supposed

01:33:35.020 to be something

01:33:35.540 where you come out

01:33:36.140 and talk about

01:33:36.740 your stutter

01:33:37.460 like that's just

01:33:38.120 making their life

01:33:39.660 about you

01:33:40.460 just have a little bit

01:33:42.560 of

01:33:42.800 just be humble

01:33:44.100 a little bit

01:33:44.760 and maybe

01:33:45.200 talk about the things

01:33:46.340 you admired

01:33:47.520 about them

01:33:48.720 solely

01:33:49.920 and you might say

01:33:50.760 well wait a minute

01:33:51.500 where's the time

01:33:52.540 where I get to talk

01:33:53.380 about my cleft palate

01:33:54.600 potential back in the day

01:33:56.460 this isn't it

01:33:57.440 like there's just

01:33:58.160 not an opening for it

01:33:59.400 that's an age old

01:34:00.900 question

01:34:01.240 but when going

01:34:01.880 to a funeral

01:34:02.520 and making remarks

01:34:03.680 where

01:34:05.240 do I get to talk

01:34:06.980 about my cleft palate

01:34:08.320 in Kavla Harris' case

01:34:12.520 clearly this is like

01:34:13.440 the 2028 kickoff

01:34:14.980 she's like yeah

01:34:15.580 if you could drop

01:34:16.420 some confetti

01:34:17.040 after I finish

01:34:18.620 that'd be terrific

01:34:19.540 some balloon drop

01:34:21.040 perhaps

01:34:21.760 that would really

01:34:22.360 help me out

01:34:23.220 here was

01:34:23.780 Jesse Jackson Jr.

01:34:25.680 reacting

01:34:26.160 to the naked

01:34:28.120 self-promotion

01:34:29.340 of these three

01:34:30.280 yesterday

01:34:31.620 I listened

01:34:33.080 for several

01:34:34.440 hours

01:34:35.160 of three

01:34:35.920 United States

01:34:38.560 presidents

01:34:39.200 who do not

01:34:41.820 know Jesse Jackson

01:34:42.840 he maintained

01:34:44.560 a tense

01:34:45.160 relationship

01:34:46.100 with the

01:34:48.540 political order

01:34:49.400 not because

01:34:50.420 the presidents

01:34:52.200 were white

01:34:52.980 or black

01:34:53.800 but the demands

01:34:56.120 of our message

01:34:56.960 the demands

01:34:59.060 of speaking

01:34:59.580 for the least

01:35:00.180 of these

01:35:00.760 those who were

01:35:01.500 disinherited 0.96

01:35:02.320 the damned 0.98

01:35:03.060 the dispossessed 1.00

01:35:05.380 the disrespected

01:35:06.680 demanded

01:35:09.280 not democratic

01:35:10.320 or republican

01:35:11.440 solutions

01:35:12.220 but demanded

01:35:13.260 a consistent

01:35:15.440 prophetic

01:35:17.920 voice

01:35:19.620 that at no point

01:35:21.960 in time

01:35:22.740 ever sold us

01:35:24.040 out

01:35:24.440 as a people

01:35:25.400 and it

01:35:28.380 speaks volumes

01:35:29.260 about who

01:35:30.240 the reverend

01:35:30.920 Jesse Jackson

01:35:31.700 was

01:35:33.860 wow

01:35:35.640 I mean

01:35:36.820 that's

01:35:37.100 pretty bold

01:35:38.240 they all

01:35:38.780 showed up

01:35:39.240 and they all

01:35:39.640 spoke at

01:35:40.520 the funeral

01:35:41.640 and yet

01:35:42.180 the son

01:35:42.600 was not

01:35:43.240 having it

01:35:43.920 still

01:35:44.200 yeah

01:35:45.800 I mean

01:35:46.080 I love

01:35:46.420 the comments

01:35:47.020 and of course

01:35:47.680 I don't know

01:35:48.780 I've been to

01:35:49.580 funerals

01:35:50.140 there

01:35:50.460 I've never

01:35:51.320 been to one

01:35:51.920 that's anything

01:35:52.500 like what

01:35:53.060 democratic

01:35:53.500 politicians

01:35:54.060 always do

01:35:55.100 so I don't

01:35:55.660 understand

01:35:56.220 how any

01:35:57.140 of this

01:35:57.380 works

01:35:57.700 I mean

01:35:58.120 I don't

01:35:58.320 even

01:35:58.460 understand

01:35:58.760 like why

01:35:59.340 why are

01:36:00.160 they even

01:36:00.480 speaking

01:36:00.840 why

01:36:01.360 I mean

01:36:02.020 I assume

01:36:02.520 Barack Obama

01:36:03.020 did just

01:36:03.280 walk up on

01:36:03.940 stage and

01:36:04.320 take the

01:36:04.800 mic

01:36:05.020 like what's

01:36:05.500 the process

01:36:06.020 that he's

01:36:06.440 even getting

01:36:07.040 the gig

01:36:07.960 because I

01:36:09.240 you know

01:36:09.800 I guess

01:36:10.100 there is

01:36:10.380 some like

01:36:10.900 weird thing

01:36:11.760 that we do

01:36:12.180 as human

01:36:12.540 beings

01:36:13.040 to try

01:36:14.100 to make

01:36:14.580 ourselves

01:36:15.100 in our

01:36:16.000 you know

01:36:16.280 as we

01:36:16.700 remember

01:36:17.160 someone's

01:36:17.660 life

01:36:17.840 we try

01:36:18.100 to make

01:36:18.500 ourselves

01:36:19.080 important

01:36:20.060 by highlighting

01:36:21.200 the people

01:36:21.700 that we

01:36:22.040 knew

01:36:22.240 around

01:36:22.640 them

01:36:22.820 I don't

01:36:23.160 know

01:36:23.360 maybe

01:36:23.620 that's

01:36:23.900 what

01:36:24.040 they're

01:36:24.200 doing

01:36:24.580 hey

01:36:25.200 he knew

01:36:25.760 all these

01:36:26.100 presidents

01:36:26.520 and they'll

01:36:26.980 speak

01:36:27.240 nicely

01:36:27.640 of him

01:36:28.120 so

01:36:28.360 that will

01:36:29.340 I guess

01:36:30.200 improve

01:36:30.520 his standing

01:36:30.980 I mean

01:36:31.200 I would

01:36:31.400 assume

01:36:31.660 as a

01:36:32.000 reverend

01:36:32.980 that's

01:36:33.200 probably

01:36:33.520 not how

01:36:33.860 he looked

01:36:34.240 at the

01:36:34.480 world

01:36:34.660 or at

01:36:34.940 least

01:36:35.060 not how

01:36:35.360 he tried

01:36:35.740 to look

01:36:36.020 at the

01:36:36.240 world

01:36:36.480 you know

01:36:37.520 I didn't

01:36:37.760 know

01:36:42.540 guy

01:36:42.820 and a

01:36:43.220 guy

01:36:43.460 who

01:36:44.580 was

01:36:44.880 positive

01:36:45.780 to deal

01:36:46.220 with

01:36:46.480 and you

01:36:47.500 know

01:36:47.580 I wouldn't

01:36:48.100 have

01:36:48.280 enjoyed

01:36:48.720 him

01:36:48.860 I don't

01:36:49.060 think

01:36:49.220 as president

01:36:49.680 of the

01:36:49.920 United

01:36:50.120 States

01:36:50.560 but you

01:36:51.240 know

01:36:51.340 that's

01:36:51.640 neither

01:36:52.660 here nor

01:36:53.080 there

01:36:53.320 I would

01:36:53.580 assume

01:36:53.840 he would

01:36:54.920 aim

01:36:55.480 to be

01:36:55.840 known

01:36:56.080 for

01:36:56.280 things

01:36:56.540 bigger

01:36:57.020 than

01:36:57.360 that

01:36:57.740 and yet

01:36:58.420 every

01:36:58.880 democratic

01:36:59.560 politician

01:37:00.120 who died

01:37:00.760 has this

01:37:01.260 same

01:37:01.580 moment

01:37:01.940 and every

01:37:02.520 time

01:37:02.780 people

01:37:03.240 are

01:37:03.400 critical

01:37:03.700 of it

01:37:04.020 even

01:37:04.220 people

01:37:04.580 who are

01:37:05.100 members

01:37:05.340 of the

01:37:05.600 family

01:37:05.980 and over

01:37:06.640 and over

01:37:06.900 again

01:37:07.200 they make

01:37:07.920 it about

01:37:08.440 them

01:37:09.080 and the

01:37:09.580 things

01:37:12.540 it's so

01:37:14.580 selfish

01:37:15.240 and just 1.00

01:37:15.780 ugly 0.98

01:37:16.120 it's so 0.98

01:37:17.200 disrespectful

01:37:18.120 there was

01:37:20.120 also

01:37:20.540 some

01:37:22.080 there were

01:37:22.700 some famous

01:37:23.140 people there

01:37:23.680 including

01:37:23.980 former NBA

01:37:24.780 player

01:37:25.180 Isaiah

01:37:25.680 Thomas

01:37:26.120 this is

01:37:27.060 what he

01:37:27.300 had to

01:37:27.540 say

01:37:27.720 I also

01:37:29.500 like to

01:37:30.180 honor the

01:37:33.360 five

01:37:33.680 presidents

01:37:34.340 who are

01:37:38.000 sitting here

01:37:38.560 today

01:37:38.960 President

01:37:46.100 Harris

01:37:46.720 President

01:37:49.680 Clinton

01:37:50.220 President

01:37:52.820 Bill

01:37:53.280 Clinton

01:37:53.700 First

01:37:55.320 Lady

01:37:55.620 Jill

01:37:55.980 Biden

01:37:56.400 President

01:37:58.760 Biden

01:37:59.320 and

01:38:01.160 Chicago's

01:38:01.740 own

01:38:01.980 South

01:38:02.320 Side

01:38:02.760 President

01:38:03.700 Barack

01:38:04.140 Obama

01:38:04.540 OK

01:38:08.000 so he

01:38:08.860 included

01:38:09.360 Hillary 0.96

01:38:10.280 and Kamala

01:38:11.440 in there

01:38:12.420 Hillary Clinton

01:38:13.060 laughed it

01:38:13.720 off

01:38:13.980 she knew

01:38:14.360 it was

01:38:14.500 a joke

01:38:14.820 Kamala

01:38:15.260 Harris

01:38:15.540 is reacting

01:38:16.420 like she

01:38:16.780 actually

01:38:17.020 was

01:38:17.260 president

01:38:17.680 finally

01:38:19.120 I've

01:38:20.080 been

01:38:20.220 acknowledged

01:38:20.760 amazing

01:38:22.640 to me

01:38:23.020 right

01:38:23.220 like

01:38:23.480 first of

01:38:24.340 all that

01:38:24.560 really is

01:38:24.960 an

01:38:25.080 inappropriate

01:38:25.440 thing

01:38:25.720 to do

01:38:26.020 for him

01:38:26.500 like

01:38:26.740 you know

01:38:27.580 full well

01:38:28.140 that two

01:38:28.640 of those

01:38:28.880 were not

01:38:29.340 president

01:38:29.700 of the

01:38:30.000 United

01:38:30.180 States

01:38:30.480 it's

01:38:30.680 not a

01:38:30.920 label

01:38:31.120 you can

01:38:31.340 just

01:38:31.480 throw

01:38:31.680 around

01:38:32.120 loosey

01:38:32.840 goosey

01:38:33.260 and for

01:38:34.100 Kamala

01:38:34.360 Harris

01:38:34.620 to do

01:38:34.860 anything

01:38:35.160 other

01:38:35.380 than

01:38:35.580 laugh

01:38:35.860 hysterically

01:38:36.480 is again

01:38:37.380 just shows

01:38:37.820 how fragile

01:38:38.340 her ego

01:38:38.820 is still

01:38:39.340 yeah

01:38:41.220 no

01:38:41.600 it's

01:38:41.840 it's

01:38:42.140 it's

01:38:42.420 true

01:38:42.680 but this

01:38:43.320 is the

01:38:43.740 sort of

01:38:44.180 fantasy

01:38:44.840 world

01:38:45.300 they dream

01:38:45.840 of

01:38:46.120 right

01:38:46.320 this is

01:38:46.760 the

01:38:47.000 this is

01:38:47.440 what

01:38:47.600 they

01:38:47.880 believed

01:38:48.420 was

01:38:50.120 was

01:38:50.360 accurate

01:38:50.740 I mean

01:38:51.060 I think

01:38:51.500 when you

01:38:52.220 look back

01:38:52.760 at a

01:38:53.520 lot of

01:38:53.880 their

01:38:54.000 commentary

01:38:54.360 at the

01:38:54.840 time

01:38:55.200 speaking

01:38:56.100 of people

01:38:56.560 on the

01:38:57.140 left

01:38:57.360 they

01:38:57.640 were

01:38:57.940 saying

01:38:58.360 elections

01:38:59.320 had been

01:38:59.940 stolen

01:39:00.520 and taken

01:39:01.160 away

01:39:01.640 from

01:39:02.780 those who

01:39:03.300 rightfully

01:39:03.760 held

01:39:05.000 those

01:39:05.360 offices

01:39:05.840 and won

01:39:06.560 those

01:39:06.820 elections

01:39:07.240 that is

01:39:08.300 the kind

01:39:08.640 of fantasy

01:39:08.940 world

01:39:09.140 they live

01:39:09.420 in

01:39:09.500 they think

01:39:09.900 that this

01:39:10.260 is real

01:39:10.860 and they

01:39:11.340 think

01:39:11.620 anything

01:39:11.900 to do

01:39:12.760 with

01:39:12.880 Donald

01:39:13.140 Trump

01:39:13.340 is

01:39:13.480 illegitimate

01:39:14.100 Hillary Clinton

01:39:15.220 herself

01:39:15.660 has used

01:39:16.040 the word

01:39:16.280 illegitimate

01:39:16.820 how many

01:39:17.320 times

01:39:17.780 Bill

01:39:19.220 tried to

01:39:19.720 tell me

01:39:19.940 wasn't

01:39:20.220 true

01:39:20.460 and

01:39:20.800 it

01:39:21.120 was

01:39:21.380 true

01:39:21.680 and

01:39:21.940 he

01:39:22.020 learned

01:39:22.200 about

01:39:22.440 it

01:39:22.560 on the

01:39:22.740 Megyn Kelly

01:39:23.120 show

01:39:23.400 because

01:39:23.760 you know

01:39:24.680 yeah

01:39:24.980 to your

01:39:25.280 point

01:39:25.460 some

01:39:25.700 live in

01:39:26.500 this

01:39:26.660 bubble

01:39:26.940 I only

01:39:27.760 have

01:39:28.000 a short

01:39:28.540 time

01:39:28.720 left

01:39:28.880 but I

01:39:29.080 wanted

01:39:29.220 to get

01:39:29.440 this

01:39:29.620 in

01:39:29.740 before

01:39:29.920 we

01:39:30.080 go

01:39:30.280 speaking

01:39:31.060 of

01:39:31.260 petty

01:39:31.540 and

01:39:31.780 inappropriate

01:39:32.220 President 0.60

01:39:33.140 Obama

01:39:33.540 has

01:39:33.880 announced

01:39:34.140 the

01:39:34.340 date

01:39:34.580 for

01:39:34.840 the

01:39:35.040 opening

01:39:35.360 of

01:39:35.580 his

01:39:35.800 absolutely 0.98

01:39:36.940 ugly 0.98

01:39:37.840 awful 1.00

01:39:38.520 presidential 0.97

01:39:39.180 center

01:39:39.600 his

01:39:39.800 library

01:39:40.240 this is

01:39:41.560 MSNOW

01:39:42.000 on

01:39:42.160 Saturday

01:39:42.540 listen

01:39:43.240 to

01:39:43.880 this

01:39:44.240 it's

01:39:44.540 Valerie

01:39:44.840 Jarrett

01:39:45.260 who

01:39:45.460 is

01:39:45.600 his

01:39:45.740 top

01:39:45.940 emissary

01:39:46.380 and

01:39:46.520 remains

01:39:46.820 so

01:39:47.120 and

01:39:48.720 so

01:39:48.920 I'm

01:39:49.180 just

01:39:49.400 wondering

01:39:50.720 Valerie

01:39:51.840 is

01:39:54.120 President

01:39:54.560 Trump

01:39:54.900 invited

01:39:55.400 well as

01:39:56.740 I said

01:39:57.100 this is

01:39:57.460 really

01:39:57.680 a chance

01:39:58.140 for us

01:39:58.460 to

01:39:58.660 celebrate

01:39:59.040 with

01:39:59.840 the

01:39:59.960 people

01:40:00.160 who

01:40:00.340 joined

01:40:00.700 President

01:40:01.040 Obama

01:40:01.380 on

01:40:01.740 this

01:40:01.940 journey

01:40:02.240 the

01:40:02.840 ordinary

01:40:03.160 people

01:40:03.560 who

01:40:03.760 did

01:40:03.920 the

01:40:04.060 extraordinary

01:40:04.500 things

01:40:05.100 so

01:40:05.700 no

01:40:06.000 but I

01:40:06.320 will

01:40:06.480 say

01:40:06.760 that

01:40:07.580 after

01:40:07.900 we

01:40:08.060 open

01:40:08.240 to

01:40:08.400 the

01:40:08.540 public

01:40:08.940 should

01:40:09.520 President

01:40:09.860 Trump

01:40:10.140 want

01:40:10.380 to

01:40:10.480 come

01:40:10.720 and

01:40:10.880 tour

01:40:11.040 the

01:40:11.240 center

01:40:11.500 President

01:40:12.080 Obama

01:40:12.400 would

01:40:12.600 be

01:40:12.740 delighted

01:40:13.180 for

01:40:13.420 him

01:40:13.560 to

01:40:13.680 do

01:40:13.840 so

01:40:14.120 that

01:40:15.260 was

01:40:15.360 a

01:40:15.440 very

01:40:15.580 heavy

01:40:15.820 no

01:40:16.120 Valerie

01:40:16.680 okay

01:40:18.880 so

01:40:19.220 petty

01:40:19.820 to the

01:40:20.600 end

01:40:20.920 even

01:40:21.620 well

01:40:21.980 out

01:40:22.160 of

01:40:22.280 office

01:40:22.720 opening

01:40:23.420 his

01:40:23.600 presidential

01:40:24.000 library

01:40:24.440 the goal

01:40:24.760 is always

01:40:25.080 to have

01:40:25.380 former

01:40:25.660 presidents

01:40:26.040 or current

01:40:26.420 presidents

01:40:26.840 presidents

01:40:27.400 who

01:40:27.540 followed

01:40:27.840 you

01:40:28.080 come

01:40:28.880 to

01:40:29.060 the

01:40:29.200 opening

01:40:29.420 of

01:40:29.540 your

01:40:29.640 library

01:40:30.060 it's

01:40:30.340 like

01:40:30.460 when

01:40:30.540 you

01:40:30.620 throw

01:40:30.740 a

01:40:30.860 book

01:40:31.000 party

01:40:31.300 trying

01:40:31.860 to

01:40:31.940 get

01:40:32.080 names

01:40:32.440 there

01:40:32.700 so

01:40:32.900 you

01:40:32.940 can

01:40:33.040 call

01:40:33.180 attention

01:40:33.600 to

01:40:34.240 your

01:40:34.360 new

01:40:34.500 thing

01:40:34.720 his

01:40:41.500 recycling

01:40:42.780 receptacle

01:40:44.400 with the

01:40:45.020 weird

01:40:45.160 words

01:40:45.420 on the

01:40:45.680 side

01:40:45.880 of

01:40:46.000 it

01:40:46.180 and

01:40:46.960 literally

01:40:48.160 nobody

01:40:48.660 will

01:40:48.920 look at

01:40:49.140 this

01:40:49.280 thing

01:40:49.420 which

01:40:49.560 is

01:40:49.680 supposed

01:40:49.840 to

01:40:49.960 be

01:40:50.060 like

01:40:50.220 300

01:40:50.580 million

01:40:50.920 and

01:40:51.120 wound

01:40:51.300 up

01:40:51.460 being

01:40:51.640 almost

01:40:52.040 a

01:40:52.180 billion

01:40:52.380 dollars

01:40:52.740 it

01:40:52.900 was

01:40:53.000 like

01:40:53.120 in

01:40:53.220 the

01:40:53.320 800

01:40:53.680 million

01:40:54.060 range

01:40:54.540 nobody

01:40:55.900 would

01:40:56.120 look

01:40:56.280 at

01:40:56.380 this

01:40:56.560 and

01:40:56.700 say

01:40:56.880 this

01:40:57.100 is

01:40:57.220 attractive

01:40:57.640 or

01:40:58.020 should

01:40:58.380 stand

01:40:59.720 as

01:40:59.940 a

01:41:00.560 fed

01:41:01.060 contribution

01:41:02.640 to

01:41:03.000 American

01:41:03.320 architecture

01:41:03.820 unless

01:41:05.300 you're

01:41:05.500 trying

01:41:05.700 to

01:41:05.880 incinerate 0.65

01:41:06.340 trash 0.84

01:41:06.680 in 1.00

01:41:06.900 North

01:41:07.120 Korea 0.61

01:41:07.500 I

01:41:07.920 think

01:41:08.100 most

01:41:08.300 people

01:41:08.500 agree

01:41:08.720 with

01:41:08.880 you

01:41:09.040 I

01:41:10.600 mean

01:41:10.720 President

01:41:10.960 Trump

01:41:11.160 is

01:41:11.240 going

01:41:11.320 to

01:41:11.340 be

01:41:11.440 thrilled

01:41:11.680 he's

01:41:11.840 not

01:41:11.980 invited

01:41:12.300 he

01:41:12.700 wouldn't

01:41:13.180 have

01:41:13.280 gone

01:41:13.480 anyway

01:41:13.800 but

01:41:13.980 just

01:41:14.120 like

01:41:14.360 the

01:41:14.880 absence

01:41:15.420 of

01:41:15.640 ceremony

01:41:15.960 right

01:41:16.280 like 1.00

01:41:16.580 fuck 1.00

01:41:16.960 you 1.00

01:41:17.180 you're

01:41:17.520 not

01:41:17.700 coming

01:41:18.080 get

01:41:19.040 out

01:41:19.340 I

01:41:19.500 mean

01:41:19.600 that's

01:41:19.820 the

01:41:20.120 same

01:41:20.300 reason

01:41:20.580 Barack

01:41:21.000 Obama

01:41:21.320 attacked

01:41:21.820 him

01:41:22.020 he

01:41:22.180 is

01:41:22.360 partisan

01:41:23.240 to

01:41:23.940 his

01:41:24.120 core

01:41:24.800 and

01:41:25.420 why

01:41:25.600 it's

01:41:25.760 so

01:41:25.900 galling

01:41:26.280 for

01:41:26.420 some

01:41:26.640 of

01:41:26.760 us

01:41:26.880 to

01:41:27.000 hear

01:41:27.140 him

01:41:27.300 described

01:41:27.800 as

01:41:28.180 not

01:41:28.680 by

01:41:29.280 his

01:41:29.700 supporters

01:41:38.100 and

01:41:38.400 I

01:41:38.500 don't

01:41:38.600 know

01:41:38.840 not

01:41:39.880 all

01:41:40.040 that

01:41:40.160 impressed

01:41:40.500 by

01:41:40.780 it

01:41:40.960 he

01:41:41.900 just

01:41:42.780 tried

01:41:43.380 to

01:41:43.560 hide

01:41:43.780 it

01:41:43.960 we

01:41:44.260 talked

01:41:44.460 about

01:41:44.660 mom

01:41:44.860 Donnie

01:41:45.160 earlier

01:41:45.520 a

01:41:45.820 very

01:41:46.400 similar

01:41:46.800 thing

01:41:47.100 is

01:41:47.240 happening

01:41:47.640 there

01:41:48.460 where

01:41:48.880 if

01:41:49.500 you

01:41:49.580 try

01:41:50.000 to

01:41:50.140 hide

01:41:50.360 it

01:41:50.500 and

01:41:50.640 you

01:41:50.760 act

01:41:51.260 like

01:41:51.540 you're

01:41:51.680 above

01:41:51.880 it

01:41:52.020 and

01:41:52.200 say

01:41:52.480 we

01:41:52.740 don't

01:41:52.960 go

01:41:53.140 low

01:41:53.380 we

01:41:53.560 go

01:41:53.740 high

01:41:54.080 over

01:41:54.340 and

01:41:54.480 over

01:41:54.640 and

01:41:54.780 over

01:41:54.920 again

01:41:55.140 eventually

01:41:55.500 people

01:41:55.800 start

01:41:56.060 to

01:41:56.220 believe

01:41:56.500 it

01:41:56.700 that

01:41:57.660 was

01:41:57.960 more

01:41:58.300 of

01:41:58.460 a

01:41:58.800 core

01:41:59.360 tenant

01:41:59.740 of

01:42:00.060 the

01:42:00.240 entire

01:42:01.180 operation

01:42:01.800 during

01:42:02.180 the

01:42:02.300 Obama

01:42:02.560 years

01:42:02.860 and

01:42:03.020 I

01:42:03.140 think

01:42:03.260 it's

01:42:03.420 continuing

01:42:03.760 with

01:42:03.980 a lot

01:42:04.220 of

01:42:04.300 Democrats

01:42:04.640 on

01:42:04.800 the

01:42:04.880 left

01:42:05.040 just

01:42:05.240 some

01:42:05.500 of

01:42:05.600 them

01:42:05.740 blurted

01:42:06.160 out

01:42:06.320 a little

01:42:06.540 bit

01:42:06.680 more

01:42:06.860 often

01:42:07.180 than

01:42:07.760 Barack

01:42:08.060 Obama

01:42:08.340 does

01:42:08.620 well

01:42:09.080 President

01:42:09.620 Trump

01:42:09.860 won't

01:42:10.040 be

01:42:10.220 able

01:42:10.540 to

01:42:10.700 attend

01:42:11.060 because

01:42:11.560 he's

01:42:12.160 having

01:42:12.360 the

01:42:12.540 opening

01:42:12.800 on

01:42:13.100 Juneteenth

01:42:13.700 which

01:42:14.340 is

01:42:14.680 a

01:42:15.060 alleged

01:42:15.700 holiday

01:42:16.380 that

01:42:16.780 most

01:42:16.980 of

01:42:17.080 us

01:42:17.200 don't

01:42:17.420 celebrate

01:42:17.780 because

01:42:18.080 it's

01:42:18.300 made

01:42:18.480 up

01:42:18.700 and

01:42:18.900 it's 0.95

01:42:19.080 ridiculous 0.97

01:42:19.440 so 0.99

01:42:20.480 I

01:42:20.760 don't

01:42:20.960 think

01:42:21.780 President

01:42:22.240 Trump

01:42:22.400 is

01:42:22.520 the

01:42:22.620 time

01:42:22.800 for

01:42:22.920 this

01:42:23.100 in

01:42:23.240 any

01:42:23.380 event

01:42:23.660 Stu

01:42:24.460 Bergeer

01:42:24.840 you

01:42:25.200 don't

01:42:25.400 have

01:42:25.520 the

01:42:25.600 time

01:42:25.780 either

01:42:26.100 now

01:42:26.460 with

01:42:26.680 not

01:42:26.840 one

01:42:27.080 but

01:42:27.260 two

01:42:27.500 podcasts

01:42:28.200 predictable

01:42:29.120 and

01:42:29.680 Stu

01:42:30.060 and

01:42:30.240 Dave

01:42:30.660 do

01:42:31.080 America

01:42:31.440 and

01:42:31.640 we

01:42:31.740 look

01:42:31.880 forward

01:42:32.180 to

01:42:32.420 listening

01:42:32.680 to

01:42:32.880 you

01:42:33.080 at

01:42:33.620 both

01:42:33.960 thanks

01:42:34.320 for

01:42:34.440 coming

01:42:34.700 on

01:42:35.000 Megan

01:42:35.560 thanks

01:42:35.760 so

01:42:35.900 much

01:42:36.060 appreciate

01:42:36.300 it

01:42:36.620 okay

01:42:37.840 we

01:42:38.340 will

01:42:38.480 be

01:42:38.620 back

01:42:38.800 tomorrow

01:42:39.140 we'll

01:42:39.300 see

01:42:39.400 you

01:42:39.500 all

01:42:39.600 then

01:42:39.780 thanks

01:42:41.100 for

01:42:41.240 listening

01:42:41.500 to

01:42:41.700 the

01:42:41.800 Megan

01:42:42.000 Kelly

01:42:42.240 show

01:42:42.620 no

01:42:43.060 BS

01:42:43.480 no

01:42:43.860 agenda

01:42:44.260 and

01:42:44.920 no

01:42:45.120 fear

01:43:11.100 towel

01:43:11.420 you

01:43:12.860 were

01:43:13.020 made

01:43:13.220 to

01:43:13.420 take

01:43:13.600 the

01:43:13.760 easy

01:43:14.180 route

01:43:14.500 we

01:43:15.180 were

01:43:15.340 made

01:43:15.560 to

01:43:15.940 easily

01:43:16.340 package

01:43:16.740 your

01:43:16.940 trip

01:43:17.240 Expedia

01:43:18.240 made

01:43:18.920 to

01:43:19.140 travel

The Megyn Kelly Show - March 09, 2026

Another 60 Minutes Editing Controversy, NYC Terror Attack, and Obama and Kamala Politicize Funeral, with Stu Burguiere ｜ Ep. 1268

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