The Megyn Kelly Show - February 26, 2026


Tucker Carlson on Epstein, Iran, and the Gender Divide, Plus Woke Journalists Badger Team USA, with Evita Duffy-Alfonso and Amala Ekpunobi | Ep. 1261


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1 hour and 44 minutes

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193.7263

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20,267

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462

Misogynist Sentences

42

Hate Speech Sentences

86


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00:00:57.220 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111, every weekday at New East.
00:01:09.780 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:01:11.360 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:01:12.680 We've got a huge program for you today.
00:01:14.740 Evita and Amala will be here a little later with the latest on cultural news, including
00:01:19.060 a major update on that shocking footage of New York City police officers being pelted with
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00:01:24.260 Mayor Mondomini could not be any worse.
00:01:27.360 He could not be handling this more poorly.
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00:01:33.080 But first, someone who was spotted at the White House earlier this week, our pal Tucker Carlson
00:01:37.380 is here.
00:01:38.400 The left and media meltdown continues over President Trump's mild locker room joke to the men's
00:01:43.740 U.S. Olympic hockey team.
00:01:45.420 We'll talk with Tucker about that.
00:01:46.860 As the women's and the men's players are getting asked about it nonstop.
00:01:50.400 It is ridiculous.
00:01:52.180 What is wrong with sports journalists?
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00:02:01.540 And it's all men, by the way.
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00:02:03.820 I mean, there's something very strange about a woke man and a journalist too.
00:02:07.540 I mean, it's just like, what happened?
00:02:08.660 What happened to your balls?
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00:02:10.660 We need to talk about it.
00:02:12.260 As we speak, the U.S. and Iran are having discussions about the country's nuclear program,
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00:02:23.320 is not afraid to take military action if he deems it necessary.
00:02:26.400 All these are headlines in the news this morning.
00:02:28.740 Tucker, of course, has been one of the leading voices adamantly arguing against a war with Iran.
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00:03:42.040 Tucker, great to see you.
00:03:43.040 How are you?
00:03:43.600 Oh, I couldn't be better.
00:03:44.760 Thank you, Megan.
00:03:45.980 Awesome.
00:03:46.880 So, yeah, we'll get to Iran in one second.
00:03:50.220 Sadly, we seem to be marching in a different direction right now, but it's precarious.
00:03:53.980 I want to start with Hillary because she's getting deposed right now in Chappaqua, New York,
00:03:58.760 where she lives on an amazing estate.
00:04:01.440 We think with Bill, eh.
00:04:04.060 And both of them are getting deposed in connection with their Epstein friendships and Ghislaine Maxwell
00:04:11.500 for her.
00:04:12.900 Bill was definitely friends with Jeffrey Epstein and spent a lot of time with him right after
00:04:17.380 his presidency.
00:04:17.980 And Hillary had Ghislaine at Chelsea's wedding.
00:04:22.520 She honored her at one of the Clinton Global Foundation events.
00:04:27.840 Now she comes out today.
00:04:29.320 She's going today and Bill's going tomorrow.
00:04:30.860 And her opening statement, we just got our hands on it, basically says,
00:04:34.200 I know nothing.
00:04:35.560 I never knew Epstein.
00:04:37.520 I basically didn't know Ghislaine.
00:04:39.600 I don't know anything about their crimes.
00:04:41.580 This is a witch hunt.
00:04:43.200 Poor me.
00:04:44.400 I don't know what I'm doing here.
00:04:45.840 So how do you like the fact that the two top Clintons are going under oath this week on Epstein?
00:04:51.020 It's so great.
00:04:52.280 I actually saw Hillary Clinton the other day, maybe two weeks ago, at an event.
00:04:56.800 I just almost walked directly into her.
00:04:58.840 And I was amazed by how small she seemed and just how diminished.
00:05:04.640 And it's just a reminder that all of us are, you know, aging and someone who seems like ferocious
00:05:09.360 and terrifying at one portion of his or her life becomes kind of pathetic and an object
00:05:14.380 of pity at another point in her life.
00:05:16.460 So like Hillary's time has passed, she's going to have to live with her crimes, you know,
00:05:20.980 killing people, bragging about killing people, her friendship with Epstein, all of this.
00:05:26.360 So I just want to say I don't wish her personally any ill will, really.
00:05:29.020 I feel sad for her.
00:05:29.900 It must be terrifying to be her.
00:05:31.620 But I do think it's important for the Trump administration to not run away from the Epstein
00:05:38.220 files.
00:05:38.660 They're already out, three million of them.
00:05:40.180 And there's like no getting away from it, but to embrace it and to bring, to the extent
00:05:43.700 we can, years later, justice.
00:05:46.420 And that begins by asking relevant figures questions under oath, like, what was this?
00:05:51.500 And I do think we need to bring in Epstein's urologist right away and ask him about his
00:05:55.580 pizza and grape soda recommendation to his patient, et cetera, et cetera.
00:05:58.480 There are a lot of people who need to be composed over and over, but don't be afraid of it.
00:06:03.960 And I think there is this, I think the president was convinced that this was a trap set for
00:06:08.260 him.
00:06:08.620 I mean, he said it out loud many times.
00:06:10.200 This is like Russiagate.
00:06:11.260 They're trying to, you know, implicate me.
00:06:14.820 And I just personally don't think that's a true concern.
00:06:17.760 I get his fears, but the only way that this gets better is through justice.
00:06:23.560 And so I'm just grateful to see this.
00:06:25.180 And I hope there are many more like this.
00:06:28.060 So I think the real fireworks are going to come tomorrow.
00:06:30.940 There's no question that Hillary knew Ghislaine.
00:06:33.040 Uh, but there's zero question that Bill and Jeffrey palled around quite a bit and he's
00:06:39.900 going to have to answer for his pictures in Epstein's hot tub with a bunch of women whose
00:06:45.580 faces have been censored.
00:06:46.980 We don't know how old they were, how many there were, or what they were doing with Bill
00:06:50.800 Clinton in a hot tub at Jeffrey Epstein's estate someplace.
00:06:54.000 He's trying to diminish the amount of time they spent together for obvious reasons.
00:06:58.120 But there's no question that Bill was not shamed at all after the Monica Lewinsky scandal
00:07:05.160 out of his hound dog behavior, to put it mildly.
00:07:09.520 And I'm going to show you something, Tucker, that I have permission to show.
00:07:13.260 And this is my own piece of evidence that he wasn't shamed at all, where a friend of
00:07:20.120 mine and her friend at the time, this is 1999, were in a bar and Bill Clinton was there.
00:07:27.040 And would you look at the, can you see this picture?
00:07:29.460 Yes.
00:07:29.740 He is looking down the chest of my friend, Meg Florence.
00:07:34.460 And that's my other friend in the foreground, Abby Rittman.
00:07:37.100 He's basically got his hand on her side boob.
00:07:40.520 And here's the crazy, you probably know this place.
00:07:43.180 They were from, uh, actually just asked them where was this?
00:07:46.420 The Bombay club in DC.
00:07:48.800 Yep.
00:07:49.040 1999, he was there with his wife and daughter and went over to their table.
00:07:55.960 They were there with a bunch of guys too.
00:07:57.520 Introduced himself.
00:07:58.560 Before you know it, he wanted pictures.
00:08:00.800 Yeah.
00:08:01.420 And look at it.
00:08:02.460 He's like in the middle of the restaurant, looking down my one friend's blouse with his
00:08:07.320 other friend, creepily high on the side of Abby Rittman.
00:08:11.720 This is, they were like 20.
00:08:13.200 They were just graduating college.
00:08:15.040 He was still president.
00:08:16.700 It was 1999, right?
00:08:18.840 I'm not saying this is a crime.
00:08:20.220 I'm just saying not chastised at all as a result of Lewinsky.
00:08:25.140 No, not chastised, but instead controlled.
00:08:27.980 And so obviously Clinton's creepy.
00:08:29.900 I know a number of people who've slept with Clinton, like everyone knows people who've slept
00:08:32.740 with Clinton.
00:08:33.380 That's who he is.
00:08:34.600 That is his fundamental weakness.
00:08:36.240 And it's the means by which he is controlled by others.
00:08:40.280 And that's kind of the story.
00:08:41.860 I mean, we know that his phone sex with Monica Lewinsky on Air Force One was taped by a foreign
00:08:46.400 government and used as blackmail against him during bilateral negotiations, you know?
00:08:53.160 And so to what extent was Epstein a problem for the United States?
00:08:57.820 You know, he's got problems that he'll have to answer for someday.
00:09:00.180 It's already wrecked his marriage and his life, right?
00:09:02.560 He has paid.
00:09:03.780 I mean, imagine being Bill Clinton, again, not a happy thing.
00:09:06.080 So he's paying a price.
00:09:07.140 But what about the rest of us who watched our foreign policy hijacked by others using
00:09:13.520 his sexual compulsion as the means of control?
00:09:17.660 Like, that's the question.
00:09:19.220 Those are those are the questions that I'm fascinated by.
00:09:21.420 Like, how did Epstein short the global financial crisis?
00:09:24.800 How do you know Gaddafi was about to be killed?
00:09:27.100 What's his secret 9-11 commission that he was recruiting people to join?
00:09:31.160 Like, what is that?
00:09:32.740 What is all of this?
00:09:34.120 And to what extent do American voters actually control their own country?
00:09:38.260 I mean, those are like pressing modern day issues that I would like.
00:09:42.880 I mean, we know that most men are creepy.
00:09:45.780 Some men are super creepy.
00:09:47.920 Bill Clinton, for example.
00:09:49.800 But it's their creepiness being used against them for what end?
00:09:54.720 And that's kind of the question I'm mesmerizing, maybe because I'm a man and I just look at
00:09:58.520 Bill Clinton.
00:09:58.900 I'm like, yeah, I knew he was like that.
00:10:01.400 I know other people like that, like we all do.
00:10:04.920 But what when you have leaders like that, what does it mean for us?
00:10:08.380 Yeah, but you look at like Bill Gates today.
00:10:08.880 Yeah.
00:10:09.840 You look at Bill Gates today, right?
00:10:11.120 Like admitting in this town hall before his staff that, well, you know, yes, Jeffrey Epstein
00:10:15.900 and I went many, many places together.
00:10:18.200 It was only ever dinner, but I did see him here and there and there.
00:10:21.920 It was like five countries that they spent time together in.
00:10:25.060 And then he admitted to having an affair, two affairs with two Russian hookers.
00:10:29.940 My word, not his.
00:10:31.120 Women, he said, while he was married to Melinda.
00:10:34.380 So he's copping to two affairs.
00:10:36.220 I'm sure it's much like, you know, the alcoholic who gets asked by the doctor, how many drinks
00:10:41.560 do you have per night?
00:10:43.060 Yeah, copped to two.
00:10:45.460 Okay.
00:10:45.940 Um, but we saw in the Epstein files that draft email Epstein sent to himself and it seemed
00:10:54.460 to read like a blackmail note that he was writing on behalf of a Bill Gates staffer, basically
00:10:58.940 saying, do you want me to tell Melinda that you gave her an STD and you asked me to get
00:11:04.380 antibiotics that you could slip into her food or her drink without her knowing?
00:11:09.040 Now, Gates is denying that, but it does give you a feel if it's true for possibly how Epstein
00:11:14.280 operated and how this blackmail material could work if in his hands.
00:11:18.480 Of course, because what do we know about every man?
00:11:21.520 You know, that sex is a huge driver of male behavior.
00:11:24.300 It's the great temptation for most men.
00:11:26.740 And almost every married man fears above all disappointing and angering his wife.
00:11:32.140 So, I mean, just we know this about people.
00:11:34.420 And so, if you want to take like the world's richest and most powerful men and control them,
00:11:39.880 this is the fastest way to do it.
00:11:41.600 I mean, the sex drive short circuits the male brain.
00:11:44.920 And, you know, if you have dinner with just men, they'll joke about it.
00:11:48.320 And every woman, every woman knows this also.
00:11:51.760 Everyone knows this.
00:11:52.960 And so, of course, that's what this is.
00:11:55.740 It lowers your defenses.
00:11:57.960 It creates camaraderie between, you know, people who know the secret.
00:12:02.700 And it weakens you.
00:12:04.440 And so, by definition, we're looking at a blackmail operation.
00:12:08.520 The question is to what end and on whose behalf.
00:12:10.920 And I don't think it's really clear.
00:12:13.000 I mean, the picture that I see emerging is not of like one country, Israel or the UK or France
00:12:18.820 or some other country trying to control us.
00:12:20.660 They were all involved.
00:12:21.900 But I see people who do not represent countries but represent themselves in loose alliance with each other.
00:12:28.720 I see the most powerful people in the world making the biggest decisions on behalf of the United States without the input of American voters or even really the consent of American politicians.
00:12:40.360 And that's – man, that's the most interesting thing to me.
00:12:44.140 It's like who runs the world actually?
00:12:46.180 And you don't get the answer from the Epstein files so far, but you get tantalizing hints.
00:12:51.640 And again, it's not voters.
00:12:52.760 It's not even presidents.
00:12:53.700 You think Bill Clinton is in control at this point?
00:12:55.800 Of course not.
00:12:57.460 Right?
00:12:58.340 That's the amazing thing to me.
00:13:00.160 Right.
00:13:00.260 Rounding back, who did Hillary Clinton kill?
00:13:05.040 Well, she killed Gaddafi.
00:13:06.600 I mean, let's just start there.
00:13:09.360 But yeah, Muammar Gaddafi.
00:13:11.200 And as noted, Jeffrey Epstein knew that was coming and was discussing in this now famous email exchange, like how do we profit from the collapse of Libya?
00:13:21.720 And the collapse of Libya, which all the rest of us, including me, sort of ignored and Barack Obama was out there.
00:13:27.140 We just want to return Libya to its people.
00:13:29.060 They yearn to be free.
00:13:31.520 This was after Gaddafi was cooperating with the U.S. government, by the way.
00:13:35.660 He was an intel asset for the U.S. government, and he was doing what we told him to do, and Hillary Clinton acting on behalf of obviously others, but helped kill him.
00:13:46.620 Like what was that and why?
00:13:49.020 And when you say others, do you mean Israel?
00:13:52.040 I don't necessarily mean Israel.
00:13:53.640 No, I don't know that.
00:13:54.760 But she was – well, others, literally others because she was secretary of state serving the president, Barack Obama.
00:14:00.700 But whose interests were served by taking this country run by a kind of crazy person, Gaddafi?
00:14:08.320 I'm not defending Gaddafi, right?
00:14:09.840 But it was still a coherent country with borders and a military and some systems that kind of were recognizable to a wasteland, a chaotic wasteland with open slavery.
00:14:23.120 Like why would you want that?
00:14:24.680 Who benefited from that?
00:14:25.800 That's a big deal, and I think because we're so far away we don't see that, but taking a country – this is relevant now on the eve of regime change in Iran – what does it mean to just like eliminate a government and leave chaos behind?
00:14:39.220 Well, it means millions of people will suffer and die, but it also means that some benefit from that.
00:14:45.300 And that strikes me as the most wicked thing you could do, literally the most wicked thing you could do.
00:14:50.580 If you are seeking to profit from either in terms of money or power, the death and suffering of millions of people, you are by definition evil, more evil than the average person can even understand.
00:15:03.000 And yet we know from the Epstein files and we know from watching America right now that there are people who think that way, and they're the threat.
00:15:09.820 And it's not – like we focus our attention on people, oh, you're bad.
00:15:13.660 You know, Bill Clinton's looking at her boobs.
00:15:14.820 I agree, bad, totally bad, recognizably bad.
00:15:17.660 But people who want to profit from the murder and suffering of millions of their fellow human beings, like that's the highest – I think we can say that's the highest level of bad, I think.
00:15:30.000 Well, that's – I mean that's – one of the things I wanted to ask you about the Epstein files is like, okay, because it's – it feels a little Me Too-ish, a little Salem-y, right?
00:15:41.980 Like – and he's guilty and he – like his name is mentioned and therefore he must be a –
00:15:46.160 Totally agree.
00:15:46.840 Right?
00:15:47.260 So that guy's got to be a pedophile too and like – it's like – I don't know.
00:15:51.380 It feels – it's a little uncomfortable just to have anybody who is an acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein, like made into Jeffrey Epstein.
00:15:58.160 Dude, I am with you 100%.
00:16:00.220 Right?
00:16:01.660 But so – but when you zoom out like 30,000 feet, is that where the story is for you?
00:16:06.300 Not – it's not really exactly about the men who were dogs.
00:16:09.980 It's about how he used them and he used his Russian mail order brides to compromise them in order to what?
00:16:18.980 Get information.
00:16:20.240 In order to build his fortune.
00:16:22.160 In order to help governments with whom he was friendly.
00:16:24.700 Like how do you see it?
00:16:25.520 The overall like sort of the headline about this story.
00:16:27.180 Well, let me just say it to your first really wise and humane point.
00:16:30.720 I totally agree with that.
00:16:32.300 And I just want to say – be totally blunt and say I was invited to dinner at Epstein's house years ago.
00:16:37.860 Not that long before he got – I mean I knew someone who knew someone.
00:16:40.860 He said, you should come to dinner at Epstein's house.
00:16:42.340 Ehud Barak is there because he was living there, the former prime minister of Israel.
00:16:45.320 And I was like, well, that sounds interesting.
00:16:46.720 Yeah.
00:16:46.960 And I probably – you know, honestly, I was telling my wife this.
00:16:51.800 I don't remember why I didn't go.
00:16:53.420 I literally have no memory.
00:16:54.660 But it didn't seem crazy because just because I've interviewed all kinds of bad people.
00:16:59.060 And just because someone is a horrible person doesn't mean that I won't talk to them, obviously, right?
00:17:04.120 I just want to learn.
00:17:05.280 That's my job.
00:17:06.020 So I didn't go.
00:17:07.620 But if I had gone, I would have spent the last six months trying to explain that I'm not a pedophile.
00:17:11.540 So I agree.
00:17:12.920 And I also don't like witch hunts in general because they give the worst people in the world an excuse to tell you how great they are.
00:17:18.780 I'm not him.
00:17:19.700 And this is like the famous scene in the New Testament where, you know, the guy is praying and he's like, thank you, God.
00:17:24.620 I'm not as bad as the guy next to me.
00:17:26.340 And that's like true soul corruption.
00:17:28.140 So we should never be self-righteous.
00:17:30.020 We want to be righteous but not self-righteous.
00:17:31.400 So I totally agree.
00:17:32.720 As for Epstein, Epstein's an idiot, okay?
00:17:35.060 If you read the Epstein emails cold, what's the first thing you notice?
00:17:38.940 The guy's illiterate.
00:17:39.720 He's a badly educated guy from Staten Island.
00:17:42.740 He can't spell and he can't really kind of articulate what he's saying.
00:17:46.080 And his intelligence is purely feral.
00:17:48.880 He's intelligent like a dog is intelligent when the dog reads your fear or hate or whatever.
00:17:56.280 The dog can smell you.
00:17:57.740 The dog can't, strictly speaking, understand you.
00:18:00.400 That's Epstein's variety of intelligence.
00:18:02.200 But he's hardly a genius.
00:18:04.060 He's hardly like some evil, brilliant puppet master.
00:18:07.300 He himself is a tool of what?
00:18:09.980 Where did his money come from?
00:18:11.320 No one has answered that question.
00:18:12.560 How did he get all this money?
00:18:14.000 Doing accounting services for Leon Black and Les Wexner?
00:18:16.940 Come on now.
00:18:17.780 I've got an accountant.
00:18:18.900 I'm not paying him.
00:18:19.780 Like, that's just stupid.
00:18:20.920 So what is the answer?
00:18:22.180 No.
00:18:22.620 What was he being paid to do?
00:18:24.120 He was an employee, not a boss.
00:18:26.820 That's very obvious.
00:18:28.340 He was a connector, but he's acting on behalf of others.
00:18:31.020 Who?
00:18:31.520 And my concern, well now, my certainty,
00:18:34.080 is that the wrong people will be punished as they always are.
00:18:37.120 And I watched this with Harvey Weinstein.
00:18:39.020 I worked for Harvey Weinstein, so I, briefly,
00:18:41.540 so I knew Harvey Weinstein was a pig.
00:18:43.600 Obviously, he smoked in the elevator.
00:18:45.280 Like, the guy's a pig.
00:18:46.100 He didn't care about other people's opinions or feelings.
00:18:49.120 I knew that.
00:18:49.980 I remember it really well.
00:18:51.740 So I wasn't surprised when he went down.
00:18:52.860 It's a good benchmark.
00:18:53.180 But I also knew, having worked in television for like 30 years,
00:18:56.940 that, you know, some of the worst people never went down.
00:19:00.400 And some of the people who did go down were bad,
00:19:02.840 but they weren't even in the same realm as the people who didn't go down.
00:19:06.080 So there is a sense in which these stories,
00:19:08.140 these witch hunts, are a cover for the truly guilty.
00:19:11.400 And as someone who cares about justice,
00:19:12.780 that drives me kind of insane.
00:19:14.680 And it's like, right?
00:19:16.820 We should be making an effort to get to the root of it.
00:19:18.880 It would be the same as if we executed every drug dealer
00:19:21.720 standing on the corner in Flatbush,
00:19:24.080 but we never made any effort to find out
00:19:26.640 where they got the fentanyl they were selling.
00:19:28.740 You'd be like, ah, you know,
00:19:30.120 I'm not against executing drug dealers, I guess,
00:19:32.000 but like, where are the suppliers?
00:19:34.320 Well, I give you more credit than I deserve myself
00:19:37.160 when it comes to Harvey,
00:19:38.060 because Doug and I met him years ago at one of the,
00:19:41.820 it was like a Met Gala or something like that.
00:19:43.500 He was so nice.
00:19:44.880 He was so charming.
00:19:46.100 He loved Doug.
00:19:47.260 And he wound up offering Doug, my husband,
00:19:52.320 a job writing for his movie studio.
00:19:55.380 He knew Doug was an author.
00:19:56.580 And I'm like, Doug, that's so cool.
00:19:58.360 You should totally do that.
00:19:59.420 And he was like, Meg, he's a bad guy.
00:20:01.560 I'm like, what do you mean?
00:20:02.800 He seems so nice.
00:20:03.520 He's so super, super successful.
00:20:06.000 And he's like, honey.
00:20:07.560 He's like, it's a no, hard no.
00:20:10.180 Do not want to have any association with Harvey Weinstein.
00:20:12.440 He foresaw it all, Tucker.
00:20:14.520 I love Doug.
00:20:15.080 I mean, he has very good radar for bad people.
00:20:16.860 He does.
00:20:17.320 That's why he's a great writer,
00:20:18.620 because he has those instincts.
00:20:19.880 I love that.
00:20:20.700 He's totally right.
00:20:21.960 Yes.
00:20:22.800 But I'm not sure Harvey was the worst.
00:20:23.940 I feel like we journalists are more like the St. Bernards,
00:20:26.620 who are just like running over to everybody,
00:20:28.180 like, yeah, you're interested too.
00:20:29.440 Yeah.
00:20:29.780 Exactly.
00:20:30.760 Well, that's right.
00:20:31.940 If you're driving motive is curiosity,
00:20:35.560 and if you're in this business,
00:20:36.660 I hope that's what your driving motive is,
00:20:38.700 and many motives, but that's one of them,
00:20:40.460 then you're always going to wind up talking to people
00:20:43.180 who are not the people you'd make godparents of your children.
00:20:46.580 Like, you're just always going to.
00:20:47.960 I've met Kim Jong-un,
00:20:49.600 and I've met all kinds of bad people.
00:20:51.620 I don't endorse their programs,
00:20:52.860 but I do want to know more about them.
00:20:54.660 That seems like what we're paid to do.
00:20:56.960 Yes.
00:20:57.880 Just because they're bad
00:20:59.000 doesn't mean they're uninteresting.
00:21:00.660 To the contrary,
00:21:01.160 it usually means they are fairly interesting.
00:21:02.660 To the contrary, exactly.
00:21:03.580 I mean, only recently have we gotten to the,
00:21:06.740 you're not allowed to talk to that person, you know?
00:21:08.520 I mean, when I, the world crumbled around me
00:21:10.780 when I interviewed Alex Jones in NBC,
00:21:14.620 all these other people that interviewed him,
00:21:16.220 it was like, wait, why is it like so bad?
00:21:18.280 I'm like, need I remind you that 60 Minutes interviewed
00:21:22.580 the Grand Wizard of the KKK in his hat.
00:21:27.100 He was wearing his hat.
00:21:29.540 It's pretty funny.
00:21:30.440 We used to do that.
00:21:31.640 Diane Sawyer interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer.
00:21:34.460 I'm like, I don't think Alex Jones has eaten anybody.
00:21:36.880 Eddie, calm down.
00:21:38.520 You know, it's just only recently
00:21:40.040 have we gone absolutely nuts with like,
00:21:41.900 you're just not allowed to speak with him.
00:21:43.300 All right, speaking of absolutely nuts,
00:21:44.980 before we get to a round,
00:21:46.340 can I ask you about the fallout for the men's hockey team?
00:21:49.240 It is ridiculous what these sports journalists
00:21:53.140 are doing to this whole story.
00:21:55.120 They keep pumping it every time they get
00:21:56.600 one of the women's team members in front of them.
00:21:59.300 They're like, what about the terrible men and Trump
00:22:01.700 who made a sexist joke and the guys laughed
00:22:04.180 without pointing out that those guys were like,
00:22:05.640 yeah, bring them.
00:22:06.880 Absolutely, two for two, right?
00:22:09.020 And Trump made a joke.
00:22:10.000 It was a joke.
00:22:11.200 In any event, it's the sports writers
00:22:12.800 who continue to push this.
00:22:14.140 But also there are now some of the women's team
00:22:17.900 taking the bait.
00:22:20.360 Here is the women's hockey captain, Hillary Knight,
00:22:24.720 who does not seem to be a big Trump fan.
00:22:29.320 Let's see.
00:22:30.960 Here it is, thought 16.
00:22:32.360 She's getting lots of snaps for this one, Tucker.
00:22:33.980 No, I just thought the joke was distasteful
00:22:37.560 and unfortunate.
00:22:40.360 And I think just the way women are represented,
00:22:43.600 it's a great teaching point
00:22:45.060 to really shine light on how women
00:22:48.120 should be championed for their amazing feats.
00:22:51.320 And now I have to sort of sit,
00:22:53.220 and anybody has to sit in front of you
00:22:54.680 and explain someone else's behavior.
00:22:56.320 It's not my responsibility.
00:22:57.620 So, but what is, is shifting the focus
00:23:05.300 and shifting the narrative of this amazing accomplishment
00:23:08.160 that we all did together.
00:23:09.660 And granted, the men's and the women's team
00:23:11.540 did it together, and that is super special.
00:23:14.000 It's never been done in our program's history.
00:23:15.680 It's something we're extremely proud about.
00:23:18.280 Your thoughts?
00:23:18.960 Well, I feel sorry for that girl being used
00:23:21.860 to divide the country.
00:23:23.820 And that's obviously what this is.
00:23:25.600 And that's what sports journalism is, really.
00:23:28.380 If you want to weaken a country,
00:23:30.120 you divide it against itself.
00:23:31.440 You weaken the people.
00:23:32.720 You weaken their pride in their nation,
00:23:35.580 in themselves, in their ancestors,
00:23:37.260 of course, in the virtues.
00:23:40.420 And sports is the fastest way to the heart
00:23:44.260 of like a plurality of American men.
00:23:47.720 And so if you politicize games
00:23:51.280 and use the spectacle in order to force feed
00:23:54.920 the audience propaganda
00:23:56.920 about how their country is bad,
00:23:59.080 their culture is bad,
00:24:00.280 their ancestors were bad,
00:24:01.520 their skin color is bad,
00:24:03.060 they're bad,
00:24:03.940 and they have to be ashamed of themselves
00:24:05.900 and their testosterone,
00:24:08.540 then you've done a lot to weaken the country
00:24:10.720 so you can dominate and control it.
00:24:12.200 I mean, it's the long game.
00:24:14.380 It's been going on a long time.
00:24:15.920 We spend a lot of time talking about
00:24:18.760 the effective education on our children,
00:24:20.560 and all of a sudden they have these views.
00:24:22.120 You're like, where did you get that?
00:24:23.120 And it's a process of brainwashing people
00:24:26.100 over generations.
00:24:26.940 We spend very little time acknowledging
00:24:28.720 the very same thing has happened
00:24:30.220 with professional sports,
00:24:31.780 the coverage of professional sports.
00:24:33.780 And you know, I mean,
00:24:35.000 there are a million ways that you can see this,
00:24:37.380 but the hatred of men's hockey
00:24:39.800 tells you everything.
00:24:42.940 It's like the last holdout.
00:24:44.580 We got them,
00:24:45.160 which men's hockey is like overwhelmingly white
00:24:47.440 from rural, cold places.
00:24:50.880 They're not obedient.
00:24:52.380 They don't live near some urban center.
00:24:55.220 They haven't been fully brainwashed.
00:24:56.860 There's a kind of weird freedom there.
00:24:58.360 By the way, they fight.
00:24:59.420 They throw off their gloves and fight.
00:25:01.340 Yeah.
00:25:01.680 And so we have to emasculate these.
00:25:05.040 Of course they're patriotic, right?
00:25:06.620 They're from like rural Minnesota,
00:25:08.020 not the Twin Cities.
00:25:09.240 They're from Maine.
00:25:10.320 They're from the best parts of Canada,
00:25:11.700 which are still great.
00:25:13.320 And they're from Scandinavia and Russia.
00:25:16.020 And those people are a massive threat.
00:25:18.120 Their spirit is a threat to the country.
00:25:20.500 And so we have to bring them down.
00:25:23.260 And what is all of this?
00:25:25.420 If you are governing your country
00:25:27.620 in a way that the population hates,
00:25:29.660 if you're doing things
00:25:30.420 the population doesn't want at a certain point,
00:25:32.520 you fear that they're going to,
00:25:34.540 you know, take back control of their country,
00:25:36.360 maybe even physically.
00:25:37.620 And so you have to make sure
00:25:39.420 that the country is weak,
00:25:41.940 riven by division and self-doubt,
00:25:43.640 that the sexes hate each other,
00:25:44.840 that the people who could rise up against you
00:25:47.180 are incapacitated by obesity and marijuana
00:25:50.500 and all kinds of other drugs.
00:25:52.400 Like you really have to work hard
00:25:54.880 to make sure you neutralize that threat.
00:25:57.540 And I think it's very obvious now.
00:25:59.800 I've felt this for a long time,
00:26:01.120 but now we're at a place where
00:26:02.580 almost nothing the federal government does,
00:26:05.800 the public wants,
00:26:07.520 the disconnect between
00:26:08.840 like what they say they're going to do,
00:26:10.880 what they actually do,
00:26:11.780 what people want,
00:26:12.820 and what the government spends their money
00:26:15.080 trying to affect.
00:26:15.960 It's just too wide.
00:26:17.320 It's like,
00:26:17.700 it's pre-revolutionary at this point.
00:26:19.500 And so then you sort of look back
00:26:21.300 and you're like,
00:26:21.820 oh, maybe that's why
00:26:23.360 there was a concerted effort
00:26:24.640 to make men,
00:26:26.240 young men,
00:26:27.460 weak, disorganized,
00:26:28.660 and self-hating.
00:26:29.460 And maybe the fastest way to do that
00:26:31.280 would be getting people to,
00:26:32.960 you know,
00:26:33.860 show disrespect to the national flag
00:26:36.340 during football games.
00:26:37.480 Like maybe that wasn't accidental
00:26:38.880 because it wasn't,
00:26:40.180 honestly.
00:26:42.100 I said on the air
00:26:43.840 after,
00:26:45.200 I don't know,
00:26:45.420 it was Monday or Tuesday,
00:26:46.280 that it was bound to happen,
00:26:48.520 this turn on these guys.
00:26:50.700 It's really not about
00:26:51.500 the Trump phone call
00:26:52.280 or Kash Patel being in the locker room.
00:26:54.120 It's about the fact
00:26:55.060 that there are white men
00:26:57.240 who are unapologetically patriotic
00:26:59.840 and aggressive,
00:27:02.140 full of testosterone.
00:27:03.700 Like you said,
00:27:04.320 they fight,
00:27:04.820 they go out on the ice,
00:27:05.920 they're like unapologetically bold
00:27:07.740 in their testosterone,
00:27:09.520 which is a massive turnoff
00:27:11.380 to a certain sector
00:27:12.840 of the country,
00:27:14.880 especially these far left women.
00:27:17.020 And no sooner had I said it
00:27:18.240 than later that day,
00:27:20.000 this hit,
00:27:20.560 it's just one video,
00:27:21.400 but man,
00:27:22.100 you know,
00:27:22.640 she calls it out outright.
00:27:24.380 Watch,
00:27:24.660 look at this woman.
00:27:25.740 I do love that we all love
00:27:27.160 teated rivalry.
00:27:28.440 I do think it did a little bit
00:27:29.760 of damage
00:27:30.280 because I think that we all
00:27:31.860 kind of like maybe
00:27:32.820 collectively forgot
00:27:33.680 that like hockey
00:27:34.900 is one of the most,
00:27:36.940 if not the most,
00:27:38.600 conservative sports
00:27:39.680 with the most conservative fan base.
00:27:41.440 Like this isn't anything new.
00:27:43.360 I would say it's comparable
00:27:44.180 to golf or lacrosse,
00:27:45.900 but like here's the thing.
00:27:47.640 Okay,
00:27:48.320 hockey,
00:27:48.960 I don't know if you guys have seen
00:27:50.000 like the USA national team.
00:27:52.420 Everybody's white.
00:27:53.540 Everybody on the team is white.
00:27:54.820 Everybody affiliated
00:27:55.500 with the team is white.
00:27:56.240 All the coaches are white.
00:27:57.020 Like there is not
00:27:58.420 a lot of people of color
00:27:59.260 in that space.
00:28:00.620 And like a huge draw
00:28:01.620 to hockey is
00:28:02.620 it's violent.
00:28:03.840 Like you
00:28:04.760 are encouraged
00:28:06.180 to be violent.
00:28:06.960 Like the fans
00:28:07.640 love to watch the violence.
00:28:08.840 The players love
00:28:09.360 to enact violence.
00:28:10.160 Like what type of ideology
00:28:11.780 do you think
00:28:12.280 a white man
00:28:13.920 that comes from
00:28:14.980 insane amounts of wealth
00:28:16.460 for his entire life
00:28:17.760 that like has
00:28:18.960 these violent tendencies.
00:28:20.300 What type of ideology
00:28:21.000 do you think
00:28:21.500 that they lean towards?
00:28:22.580 Like,
00:28:23.100 like obviously
00:28:24.140 they were on the phone
00:28:24.760 with Trump
00:28:25.160 making fun of the women's team
00:28:26.800 because that's what
00:28:27.560 violent rich white men do.
00:28:29.580 Like that's
00:28:30.380 what their favorite
00:28:31.620 thing to do is
00:28:32.380 is to like make fun of women
00:28:33.560 and shit on women
00:28:34.660 that are doing the same thing
00:28:36.220 if not better
00:28:37.200 than they are.
00:28:38.140 and they were all
00:28:39.900 creaming in their
00:28:40.560 fucking pants
00:28:41.140 because they were
00:28:41.660 on the phone
00:28:42.020 with their dad.
00:28:42.680 Like it's so
00:28:43.980 like I don't know.
00:28:46.680 I appreciate her
00:28:47.720 saying it out loud.
00:28:48.640 Yeah.
00:28:49.180 It's so sad.
00:28:50.040 You look at that girl
00:28:50.680 with the tattoos
00:28:51.400 on her hands
00:28:52.340 and the I hate myself
00:28:53.380 haircut
00:28:53.760 and you just see
00:28:54.700 such a tragically
00:28:56.400 broken person
00:28:57.220 but you also see
00:28:58.300 in miniature
00:28:58.980 the state of the country
00:29:00.580 the breakdown
00:29:02.740 of relations
00:29:03.560 between young men
00:29:04.580 and young women
00:29:05.420 is the worst thing
00:29:06.780 that has ever happened
00:29:07.700 to the United States
00:29:08.460 worse than anything
00:29:09.580 any war we've ever had.
00:29:10.920 It's the worst thing
00:29:11.720 and its products
00:29:13.080 its effects
00:29:13.680 are low birth rate
00:29:15.600 like people are not
00:29:16.240 coming together
00:29:16.640 and having children
00:29:17.400 marriage rate
00:29:18.780 in full collapse
00:29:19.760 and the radicalization
00:29:21.460 of both young men
00:29:22.680 and young women.
00:29:23.640 The young men
00:29:24.220 are becoming
00:29:24.760 terrifyingly right wing.
00:29:26.400 I agree with them
00:29:27.260 basically
00:29:27.720 but still
00:29:29.040 they're very
00:29:29.860 very intensely
00:29:30.860 politically aware.
00:29:32.120 I meet them
00:29:32.980 all the time
00:29:33.360 in airports.
00:29:34.240 You know
00:29:34.360 they're like
00:29:34.620 calling for an ethnostate
00:29:35.640 like they're mad
00:29:36.360 and the women
00:29:37.980 are their
00:29:38.740 polar opposite.
00:29:40.580 They are
00:29:40.960 like the woman
00:29:41.660 the young woman
00:29:42.300 you just showed.
00:29:43.800 They're angry
00:29:44.860 but in reverse
00:29:47.040 they're like
00:29:47.940 they've embraced
00:29:49.060 the most nihilistic
00:29:50.740 atheistic
00:29:51.700 left wing politics
00:29:53.520 imaginable
00:29:54.440 and they're pro-violence.
00:29:55.640 They're the ones
00:29:56.000 who cheered
00:29:56.560 Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:29:58.400 So like
00:29:58.960 that is
00:30:01.160 the building block
00:30:02.140 of civilization
00:30:02.800 is young man
00:30:03.920 young woman
00:30:04.480 come together
00:30:05.260 form an alliance
00:30:06.300 enduring lifelong
00:30:07.640 with each other
00:30:08.580 out of which
00:30:09.360 flows the next generation
00:30:11.600 of your citizens.
00:30:12.900 It's like
00:30:13.460 that's the whole thing
00:30:14.980 is marriage
00:30:15.400 is the whole thing.
00:30:16.340 It's not just
00:30:16.740 like some social issue
00:30:18.380 that you know
00:30:18.920 no no
00:30:19.200 that is civilization
00:30:20.540 and when that breaks down
00:30:22.160 so does your civilization
00:30:23.580 and it's
00:30:24.420 boy
00:30:25.100 it's just the saddest thing
00:30:26.100 I can
00:30:26.440 I can imagine.
00:30:28.340 Yeah
00:30:28.800 I mean
00:30:29.260 there's
00:30:29.820 an unhealthy dose
00:30:31.540 of crazy there.
00:30:32.480 It used to be
00:30:33.160 like back
00:30:33.820 like when I went to school
00:30:35.140 if you had a
00:30:36.740 Jack Hughes
00:30:38.020 the hero
00:30:38.920 one of them
00:30:39.640 of the men's hockey team
00:30:40.780 all over your TV screen
00:30:42.360 with the American flag
00:30:43.300 draped around him
00:30:44.080 and new
00:30:44.920 you know
00:30:45.480 three teeth
00:30:46.000 now missing
00:30:46.600 or sliced
00:30:47.360 smiling
00:30:48.640 and talking about
00:30:49.160 how much he loved America
00:30:50.040 virtually every young girl
00:30:51.920 in America
00:30:52.260 would fall in love with him.
00:30:53.560 I mean
00:30:53.800 he's a good looking kid too
00:30:54.900 so it's like
00:30:55.440 virtually every
00:30:56.760 18 to 24 year old girl
00:30:58.520 will be saying
00:30:59.080 is he single?
00:30:59.900 How do I meet
00:31:01.320 Jack Hughes?
00:31:02.580 Only today
00:31:03.360 do we have
00:31:04.140 probably a majority
00:31:05.460 of these crazy loons
00:31:07.400 being like
00:31:07.920 I hate him
00:31:08.780 I hate his white skin
00:31:10.320 I hate his hockey
00:31:11.620 I hate his patriotism
00:31:12.860 and lying
00:31:13.860 that he and the others
00:31:15.140 come from some
00:31:15.720 massively wealthy background
00:31:17.060 Jack's parents
00:31:18.900 are all into hockey
00:31:20.280 the whole family's
00:31:20.920 into the hockey business
00:31:21.800 they're not making
00:31:22.480 huge tons of dough
00:31:23.540 the mom's like a consultant
00:31:24.900 to the women's hockey team
00:31:26.360 the dad worked
00:31:27.700 at a university
00:31:28.340 for a time
00:31:28.920 my dad worked
00:31:29.660 at a university
00:31:30.200 we were not rich
00:31:31.160 trust me
00:31:31.680 it's a lie
00:31:33.340 a lot of them
00:31:34.060 tend to be
00:31:34.420 most of them
00:31:34.820 tend to be
00:31:35.140 working class heroes
00:31:36.240 but you wonder
00:31:37.540 if it's about hockey
00:31:38.540 I mean
00:31:38.820 if you were to ask
00:31:39.840 that young woman
00:31:40.420 I hope you can
00:31:40.920 interview her
00:31:41.600 maybe
00:31:41.980 does she know
00:31:43.760 what hockey is?
00:31:44.860 I don't think
00:31:45.140 she's a fan
00:31:45.740 how many touchdowns
00:31:46.920 in hockey
00:31:47.200 until you win?
00:31:48.160 like she doesn't know
00:31:49.020 she doesn't know
00:31:49.340 anything about it
00:31:49.840 she's not mad at hockey
00:31:51.020 she's mad at her dad
00:31:52.420 and she's mad at the boys
00:31:54.620 who she had failed
00:31:55.560 relationships with
00:31:56.500 and she's mad at society
00:31:57.900 because it's made it impossible
00:31:59.120 for her to do the thing
00:32:01.000 that every person
00:32:01.880 deep down wants
00:32:02.660 more than anything
00:32:03.260 which is to procreate
00:32:04.580 and to love
00:32:05.720 your own children
00:32:06.580 and like she kind of knows
00:32:07.660 that's not going to happen
00:32:08.400 for her
00:32:08.780 a lot of young people
00:32:10.160 know that
00:32:10.660 and they're
00:32:11.380 really distressed by it
00:32:13.720 and why wouldn't they be?
00:32:15.140 so if you fix that
00:32:16.280 by the way
00:32:16.780 have you ever met
00:32:17.940 a happily married woman
00:32:19.240 in your life
00:32:20.040 happily married woman
00:32:21.220 who has those politics?
00:32:22.960 I've never met one
00:32:24.240 I mean maybe there are
00:32:25.440 I don't think they exist
00:32:27.080 no
00:32:27.300 right
00:32:27.980 no
00:32:29.040 I mean
00:32:29.940 honestly
00:32:30.920 if you have a positive relationship
00:32:32.040 with your dad
00:32:33.360 you'll wind up picking
00:32:34.420 a positive relationship
00:32:36.180 exactly
00:32:36.800 in a marriage
00:32:37.500 exactly
00:32:38.140 you will pick a guy
00:32:39.040 who will treat you respectfully
00:32:40.020 love you
00:32:40.840 and you know
00:32:42.040 have a great healthy life
00:32:43.400 in every way
00:32:44.140 and then you won't run around
00:32:46.020 hating men
00:32:46.660 like your interactions
00:32:47.960 with men are positive
00:32:48.820 exactly
00:32:49.540 you'll raise strong boys
00:32:50.840 like all of it
00:32:51.780 is self-fulfilling
00:32:52.620 but meanwhile
00:32:53.440 now we have this
00:32:54.240 so they decline
00:32:56.140 the women decline
00:32:57.020 to go to the White House
00:32:58.100 for
00:32:58.880 or sorry
00:32:59.320 to go to the
00:32:59.820 Washington
00:33:00.380 for the State of the Union
00:33:01.200 and they had
00:33:01.980 good reasons for that
00:33:03.520 that were stated
00:33:04.100 but now we're starting
00:33:04.860 to see some of these women
00:33:05.720 come out
00:33:06.100 in these interviews
00:33:06.620 baited by the press
00:33:07.500 owning
00:33:08.500 the fact that
00:33:09.700 they clearly don't like Trump
00:33:10.580 no one's shocked
00:33:11.840 they're in the right demo
00:33:12.920 to hate Trump
00:33:13.560 it seems like
00:33:15.480 the sort of
00:33:16.240 overwhelming patriotism
00:33:17.760 of the men's team
00:33:18.420 didn't necessarily
00:33:19.200 translate over to the women's team
00:33:20.540 though
00:33:20.720 that may be unfair
00:33:21.760 they may be patriotic
00:33:22.800 they may just hate Trump
00:33:23.820 but they are starting
00:33:24.820 to say negative things
00:33:25.480 about Trump
00:33:25.940 it's like okay
00:33:26.500 now's not the time
00:33:28.000 like just
00:33:28.540 just say
00:33:29.560 oh it was a joke
00:33:30.780 lighten up
00:33:31.300 that's all you should say
00:33:32.680 because by participating
00:33:34.160 what the press is doing
00:33:35.160 you know
00:33:35.620 they're also crapping
00:33:36.520 on their own moment
00:33:37.260 and they're crapping
00:33:38.060 on the guys moment
00:33:38.820 and the guys were in there
00:33:39.560 defending them
00:33:40.180 the guys were not
00:33:40.880 they didn't come up
00:33:41.580 with that joke
00:33:42.140 and the joke was so mild
00:33:43.780 like hockey players
00:33:44.960 are tougher than this
00:33:45.780 they're just pretending
00:33:46.440 not to be
00:33:47.040 but now you have the team
00:33:49.660 apparently getting ready
00:33:51.000 to go out to Vegas
00:33:51.820 to party with Flava Flav
00:33:53.480 who as it turns out
00:33:56.260 is not a paragon of virtue
00:33:57.620 when it comes to his relations
00:33:59.020 with women
00:33:59.680 his criminal record
00:34:01.100 suggests strongly
00:34:02.200 he really enjoys beating them
00:34:04.360 so I'm just not sure
00:34:06.240 that the guy with the
00:34:07.220 like slightly off color joke
00:34:10.040 in the locker room
00:34:10.940 is less preferable
00:34:12.440 than Flava Flav
00:34:14.020 who likes to punch women
00:34:15.420 in the face
00:34:16.080 but here is
00:34:17.340 the team
00:34:18.780 Team USA's
00:34:19.760 Alex Carpenter
00:34:20.520 on Wednesday
00:34:22.820 after a game
00:34:24.180 she just played
00:34:24.740 South 13
00:34:25.260 back in season now
00:34:26.600 but are you planning
00:34:27.220 to go to Vegas
00:34:27.880 and hang out
00:34:28.500 with Flava Flav
00:34:29.300 what's
00:34:30.140 what was that invitation
00:34:32.760 like to receive that
00:34:33.920 yeah I've been messaging
00:34:37.520 him a little bit here
00:34:38.440 he's probably my most
00:34:41.940 texted person right now
00:34:43.280 but yeah I think
00:34:45.020 it was definitely
00:34:45.620 super special
00:34:46.560 you know after
00:34:47.480 you know everything
00:34:48.560 that's been going around
00:34:49.720 online to be able to
00:34:51.300 you know have someone
00:34:52.420 step up like that
00:34:53.440 and really go to bat
00:34:54.240 for us
00:34:54.660 and I think
00:34:55.180 you know obviously
00:34:56.500 finish our seasons
00:34:57.440 up here
00:34:58.040 and then I think
00:34:58.740 we're fully going to
00:34:59.720 take advantage of that
00:35:00.900 and go have some fun
00:35:02.240 and celebrate
00:35:02.740 like we deserve to
00:35:04.120 amen
00:35:05.240 just FYI Tucker
00:35:08.620 2021
00:35:09.220 Flav
00:35:10.520 arrested for
00:35:11.300 misdemeanor
00:35:11.620 domestic battery
00:35:12.360 later dismissed
00:35:13.220 after he pleaded
00:35:14.000 guilty to a lesser
00:35:14.660 charge of misdemeanor
00:35:15.460 coercion
00:35:16.080 via People magazine
00:35:17.300 he allegedly grabbed
00:35:18.140 a woman
00:35:18.400 poked his finger
00:35:18.980 in her nose
00:35:19.400 and face
00:35:19.720 grabbed her
00:35:20.080 and threw her
00:35:20.380 to the ground
00:35:20.780 allegedly grabbed
00:35:21.420 a phone out of her
00:35:21.960 hand
00:35:22.220 2012
00:35:22.980 arrested for felony
00:35:23.960 assault with a deadly
00:35:24.720 weapon and misdemeanor
00:35:25.540 domestic violence
00:35:26.380 for allegedly
00:35:26.980 chasing and threatening
00:35:28.040 his fiance's
00:35:28.860 17 year old son
00:35:29.740 with a knife
00:35:30.260 in 2014
00:35:30.920 pleaded guilty
00:35:31.580 to reduce charges
00:35:32.300 of misdemeanor
00:35:32.780 attempted battery
00:35:33.500 93 served
00:35:34.820 90 days in prison
00:35:35.640 for shooting
00:35:36.060 at a neighbor
00:35:36.560 93 fired
00:35:38.200 an unlicensed
00:35:39.060 handgun
00:35:39.380 at a neighbor
00:35:39.760 in front of
00:35:40.060 the Bronx home
00:35:40.880 1991 served
00:35:42.160 30 days in jail
00:35:42.880 after pleading
00:35:43.340 guilty to assaulting
00:35:44.160 his girlfriend
00:35:44.700 we could go on
00:35:45.740 I'm just thinking
00:35:46.580 the mild joke
00:35:48.160 in the locker room
00:35:49.080 versus this
00:35:49.960 you know
00:35:50.840 it's an individual
00:35:51.760 choice I guess
00:35:52.500 yeah I mean
00:35:53.400 you know
00:35:54.160 you know
00:35:55.480 like I don't want
00:35:56.400 to be too blunt
00:35:57.020 but I don't think
00:35:57.800 Flava Flav
00:35:58.420 is making these
00:35:59.060 decisions
00:35:59.480 he's the Epstein
00:36:00.180 of this
00:36:00.560 of this scenario
00:36:01.540 here
00:36:01.940 I mean
00:36:02.300 this is
00:36:02.800 of course
00:36:03.400 an op
00:36:04.020 obviously
00:36:04.980 to divide
00:36:06.360 the country
00:36:07.020 men from women
00:36:08.160 to weaken
00:36:09.060 right
00:36:09.480 to weaken
00:36:10.280 this is the story
00:36:11.520 of the entire
00:36:11.940 country
00:36:12.400 for the last
00:36:12.780 60 years
00:36:13.640 ever
00:36:13.860 you know
00:36:14.380 at least
00:36:15.140 so
00:36:15.980 yeah
00:36:17.000 Flava
00:36:17.520 I mean
00:36:17.880 and these
00:36:18.340 poor girls
00:36:19.040 like I don't
00:36:19.580 think they have
00:36:20.020 any idea
00:36:20.780 right
00:36:21.420 they're pawns
00:36:22.200 too
00:36:22.480 everyone you're
00:36:23.160 watching on
00:36:23.960 television
00:36:24.480 is just
00:36:25.460 another creature
00:36:26.720 crawling around
00:36:27.280 the ant farm
00:36:27.880 totally unaware
00:36:28.760 that they're
00:36:29.960 you know
00:36:30.280 pawns in the
00:36:31.120 hands of others
00:36:31.960 toward a greater
00:36:32.580 purpose
00:36:33.080 and the greater
00:36:33.980 purpose is to
00:36:34.780 divide the country
00:36:35.400 from within
00:36:35.980 so it can be
00:36:36.980 controlled
00:36:37.400 obvious
00:36:38.340 it's so obvious
00:36:39.320 to me
00:36:39.680 and I
00:36:39.960 can I say
00:36:40.660 I get
00:36:41.180 I only understood
00:36:42.540 this when I spent
00:36:43.320 more time abroad
00:36:44.140 and watched
00:36:45.080 the way things work
00:36:46.460 in other countries
00:36:47.420 where they're less
00:36:48.040 sophisticated
00:36:48.460 and they don't have
00:36:49.220 a media infrastructure
00:36:50.060 that's as good
00:36:50.580 at lying as ours
00:36:51.800 things are way
00:36:52.620 more out in the open
00:36:53.820 because human nature
00:36:54.660 doesn't change
00:36:55.420 country to country
00:36:56.620 people are just
00:36:57.200 fundamentally the same
00:36:58.140 because they're all
00:36:58.580 created by God
00:36:59.140 and you see this
00:37:00.180 in every country
00:37:00.880 around the world
00:37:01.340 divide the population
00:37:02.840 so you can control it
00:37:03.940 and then you come back
00:37:05.140 to this country
00:37:05.500 like oh that's what's
00:37:06.340 going that's what's
00:37:07.260 going on
00:37:08.000 no wonder we're
00:37:08.580 telling people to be
00:37:09.520 fat that it's
00:37:10.560 beautiful to have
00:37:11.920 type 2 diabetes
00:37:12.800 or whatever
00:37:13.380 because you're trying
00:37:13.840 to weaken them
00:37:14.400 of course
00:37:15.000 but who is doing it
00:37:17.340 well I think
00:37:18.940 you know
00:37:19.400 the most powerful
00:37:20.180 people in the world
00:37:21.180 obviously are the
00:37:22.400 richest
00:37:22.700 so the biggest
00:37:23.340 companies have
00:37:24.160 the greatest
00:37:24.840 incentive
00:37:26.000 to take control
00:37:28.440 they're the biggest
00:37:29.240 shareholders
00:37:29.700 if you think
00:37:30.200 of the United States
00:37:30.860 or the West
00:37:31.660 or the world
00:37:32.060 itself as a company
00:37:33.200 which is not a crazy
00:37:34.180 way to think of it
00:37:34.800 a publicly traded
00:37:36.200 company
00:37:36.680 as in any publicly
00:37:38.280 traded company
00:37:38.840 the people with the
00:37:39.420 biggest say
00:37:39.800 are the biggest
00:37:40.160 shareholders
00:37:40.600 so if you
00:37:41.880 own the most stock
00:37:43.300 you have the most
00:37:44.480 votes
00:37:44.900 and so I think
00:37:46.880 of it that way
00:37:47.560 so COVID for example
00:37:48.780 who won during COVID
00:37:50.080 well the biggest
00:37:50.820 companies Amazon
00:37:51.500 won the big box
00:37:52.900 retailers
00:37:53.420 where for some
00:37:54.460 reason it was
00:37:54.940 impossible to
00:37:55.560 transmit COVID
00:37:56.220 indoors but only
00:37:57.100 in a big box
00:37:57.660 retailer
00:37:58.060 but in a mom
00:37:58.880 and pop store
00:37:59.420 it was incredibly
00:38:00.020 dangerous
00:38:00.440 like what's that
00:38:01.340 and they became
00:38:03.260 stronger more
00:38:03.960 powerful the online
00:38:04.960 retailers became
00:38:05.820 the strongest
00:38:06.880 and the most
00:38:07.380 powerful but
00:38:08.100 more powerful
00:38:08.760 even than
00:38:09.940 they were
00:38:10.800 the digital
00:38:11.880 media companies
00:38:12.800 Amazon
00:38:13.280 Facebook
00:38:13.980 etc
00:38:14.560 they became
00:38:15.320 the most
00:38:15.780 powerful because
00:38:16.320 that's the only
00:38:16.660 way people can
00:38:17.020 communicate
00:38:17.400 and they were
00:38:18.940 simultaneously
00:38:19.460 the same
00:38:20.160 people enforcing
00:38:21.980 the COVID
00:38:23.400 restrictions
00:38:24.220 that they
00:38:25.200 benefited from
00:38:26.060 so that's
00:38:26.860 just and I'm
00:38:27.260 only bringing
00:38:27.600 up COVID
00:38:27.980 because it
00:38:28.480 was the most
00:38:28.800 obvious example
00:38:29.700 of this
00:38:30.260 so if you
00:38:31.580 break apart
00:38:32.320 families and
00:38:33.200 you destroy
00:38:33.660 the loyalty
00:38:34.940 between husband
00:38:35.780 and wife
00:38:36.220 which they've
00:38:36.600 definitely done
00:38:37.320 what do you
00:38:37.760 get
00:38:38.120 well you get
00:38:38.960 employees who
00:38:40.520 are much
00:38:41.400 more flexible
00:38:42.160 much more
00:38:42.960 willing to
00:38:43.740 give more
00:38:44.400 of themselves
00:38:44.920 to the company
00:38:45.760 you get more
00:38:46.280 obedience
00:38:46.700 is what you
00:38:47.240 actually get
00:38:47.980 women in the
00:38:48.840 workforce
00:38:49.100 the greatest
00:38:49.600 thing that ever
00:38:50.160 happened to
00:38:50.740 American companies
00:38:51.460 ever ever
00:38:52.480 because women
00:38:52.880 are amazing
00:38:53.440 employees
00:38:54.020 because they
00:38:54.720 are in general
00:38:55.520 I can say
00:38:55.960 as an employer
00:38:56.420 of many women
00:38:56.940 they're more
00:38:57.600 loyal they will
00:38:58.920 actually do what
00:38:59.700 you ask them
00:39:00.240 to do they
00:39:00.880 won't like
00:39:01.320 freelance or
00:39:01.900 space out or
00:39:02.520 go to a strip
00:39:02.980 bar for lunch
00:39:03.600 like they're
00:39:03.940 amazing employees
00:39:05.000 and in order
00:39:07.400 to get them
00:39:08.140 you have to
00:39:08.720 convince them
00:39:09.500 that working
00:39:10.160 for some bank
00:39:11.240 is more important
00:39:12.120 than having like
00:39:13.200 a real marriage
00:39:14.080 and raising kids
00:39:15.260 that's a hard
00:39:15.920 sell so you
00:39:17.240 have to break
00:39:18.040 the relationship
00:39:18.820 between the
00:39:20.660 husband and the
00:39:21.400 wife you have
00:39:21.900 to destroy
00:39:22.200 the family
00:39:22.620 in order to
00:39:23.100 do that
00:39:23.440 in order to
00:39:23.920 get cheap
00:39:25.220 reliable labor
00:39:26.100 and it's
00:39:27.680 so obvious
00:39:28.600 to me
00:39:29.080 that that's
00:39:29.800 what happened
00:39:30.520 so so obvious
00:39:31.340 in any scenario
00:39:32.640 just ask yourself
00:39:33.320 the obvious
00:39:33.620 question
00:39:33.900 this happened
00:39:35.080 it didn't
00:39:36.100 happen naturally
00:39:36.860 it happened
00:39:37.260 because people
00:39:37.720 wanted it to
00:39:38.300 happen in any
00:39:38.920 scenario
00:39:39.360 who benefited
00:39:40.340 that's not a
00:39:41.120 crazy thing to
00:39:41.780 ask that's the
00:39:42.580 first thing the
00:39:43.080 police ask
00:39:43.740 trust me
00:39:44.380 I was a police
00:39:45.240 reporter for a
00:39:46.000 year I
00:39:46.700 followed cops
00:39:47.660 around to watch
00:39:48.220 them investigate
00:39:48.700 crimes the first
00:39:49.620 question they ask
00:39:50.520 is who benefited
00:39:51.200 because that's
00:39:52.780 the most telling
00:39:53.660 question right
00:39:55.180 and so I think
00:39:56.440 it's fair to ask
00:39:57.040 that
00:39:57.220 it solves
00:39:57.540 90% of all
00:39:59.240 crimes
00:39:59.560 who benefits
00:40:01.420 who benefits
00:40:02.880 if we
00:40:03.400 bomb Iran
00:40:04.820 this is scary
00:40:06.320 okay
00:40:06.860 here's the
00:40:07.480 latest
00:40:07.840 we have
00:40:09.540 the largest
00:40:10.460 force
00:40:12.120 amassed
00:40:12.740 in the Middle
00:40:13.460 East since
00:40:13.860 2003
00:40:14.460 the deployment
00:40:15.680 is unlike
00:40:16.020 anything the
00:40:16.480 U.S. has
00:40:16.800 done since
00:40:17.220 2003 when it
00:40:18.400 amassed the
00:40:18.780 forces behind
00:40:19.220 the invasion of
00:40:19.760 Iraq
00:40:20.060 we've shifted
00:40:20.900 more than
00:40:21.240 150 aircraft
00:40:22.440 to bases in
00:40:23.440 Europe and
00:40:23.720 the Middle
00:40:23.940 East
00:40:24.220 I don't know
00:40:28.020 how you pronounce
00:40:28.420 it but there's
00:40:29.120 an air base we
00:40:29.660 have in Jordan
00:40:30.160 that's been a
00:40:30.860 key destination
00:40:31.460 for U.S. air
00:40:32.200 assets streaming
00:40:33.060 into the region
00:40:33.580 more than 60
00:40:34.220 warplanes were
00:40:34.840 visible in
00:40:35.580 satellite imagery
00:40:36.240 taken Friday
00:40:36.820 more than a
00:40:37.780 dozen F-35
00:40:38.560 fighter jets
00:40:39.200 lined up on
00:40:39.880 a tarmac
00:40:40.380 roughly a
00:40:40.960 third of
00:40:41.980 all active
00:40:42.540 U.S.
00:40:42.960 ships are
00:40:43.400 now in the
00:40:43.900 region
00:40:44.160 warships in
00:40:44.820 the area
00:40:45.120 also equipped
00:40:45.780 with hundreds
00:40:46.260 of Tomahawk
00:40:46.840 missiles
00:40:47.260 aircraft carriers
00:40:48.480 accompanied by
00:40:49.100 guided missile
00:40:49.820 destroyers
00:40:50.540 and various
00:40:51.600 aircraft and
00:40:52.420 helicopters
00:40:53.000 USS Abraham
00:40:54.180 Lincoln
00:40:54.660 USS Gerald
00:40:57.720 R.
00:40:58.000 Ford
00:40:58.180 the Lincoln
00:40:58.520 has not
00:40:58.820 publicly
00:40:59.100 broadcast its
00:40:59.740 location for
00:41:00.260 more than a
00:41:00.620 week but it's
00:41:01.020 believed to be
00:41:01.520 operating somewhere
00:41:02.140 near Oman
00:41:02.760 Gerald R.
00:41:04.000 Ford spotted
00:41:04.520 off the
00:41:04.780 Greek island
00:41:05.140 of Crete
00:41:05.560 on Monday
00:41:06.100 and I
00:41:07.480 could go
00:41:08.040 on
00:41:08.380 somewhere
00:41:09.700 Lindsey Graham
00:41:11.480 just got a
00:41:11.860 chill down his
00:41:12.340 spine and that
00:41:12.960 special little
00:41:13.480 feeling just at
00:41:14.560 the list of
00:41:15.440 that military
00:41:16.580 buildup
00:41:17.000 Tucker
00:41:17.260 you're having
00:41:18.040 a different
00:41:18.320 feeling
00:41:18.620 so am I
00:41:19.260 I don't get
00:41:21.480 it I gotta be
00:41:22.060 honest I don't
00:41:22.500 get it
00:41:22.960 because we were
00:41:24.480 just told by the
00:41:25.140 president in July
00:41:26.160 I covered it at
00:41:27.300 length you didn't
00:41:28.440 want him to go
00:41:28.940 into Iran with
00:41:30.120 those bombs
00:41:30.620 in July
00:41:31.740 we did
00:41:32.760 I was fine
00:41:34.320 with it
00:41:34.640 that I was
00:41:35.460 like whatever
00:41:35.900 okay fine let's
00:41:36.540 take out the
00:41:37.040 military facility
00:41:37.960 or the nuclear
00:41:38.520 facility and then
00:41:39.260 when they said
00:41:39.680 they destroyed
00:41:40.160 it I didn't
00:41:41.560 know I saw
00:41:41.940 the conflicting
00:41:43.300 reporting on
00:41:43.860 whether we did
00:41:44.280 or we didn't
00:41:44.780 but the president
00:41:45.360 certainly said we
00:41:45.980 did and now
00:41:47.100 here we are
00:41:47.580 six months later
00:41:48.220 saying we have
00:41:48.780 to go back in
00:41:49.240 to stop the
00:41:49.620 nuclear program
00:41:50.240 the one that we
00:41:51.160 just allegedly
00:41:51.700 bombed and
00:41:52.200 destroyed a few
00:41:53.400 months ago
00:41:53.920 right
00:41:54.300 I watched a
00:41:55.700 debate on
00:41:56.040 Piers Morgan
00:41:56.480 today with two
00:41:57.120 pro-Israel folks
00:41:58.120 and two anti
00:41:58.780 and the pro-Israel
00:42:00.320 woman was saying
00:42:00.860 yeah Israel
00:42:01.460 benefits
00:42:01.860 it's this is
00:42:02.680 this is definitely
00:42:03.560 good for Israel
00:42:04.120 of course we want
00:42:04.780 this
00:42:05.060 right
00:42:05.520 I accept that
00:42:06.380 I've heard you
00:42:06.760 say on your show
00:42:07.360 great no problem
00:42:08.600 but what do we
00:42:10.400 get out of it
00:42:10.920 like that's fine
00:42:12.160 for them to want
00:42:12.720 it and advocate
00:42:13.200 what do we get
00:42:14.100 at it why is
00:42:14.860 President Trump
00:42:15.440 considering this
00:42:16.300 I don't think the
00:42:17.880 president wants to
00:42:18.460 do it I think he's
00:42:19.180 been really clear
00:42:19.800 about that
00:42:20.420 I spoke to him
00:42:22.240 the other day
00:42:22.860 he didn't say
00:42:23.380 anything to me
00:42:23.920 that he doesn't
00:42:24.340 say in public
00:42:25.100 all the time
00:42:25.700 Trump is amazingly
00:42:27.080 transparent in that
00:42:28.080 way I've spoken to
00:42:29.240 him a lot I speak
00:42:29.740 to him regularly a
00:42:30.520 lot and he never
00:42:31.820 says anything that
00:42:32.780 he wouldn't say
00:42:33.840 in the middle of a
00:42:34.500 speech you know
00:42:35.440 there's no like
00:42:36.360 there's no secret
00:42:37.360 agenda that I've
00:42:38.400 ever detected
00:42:39.040 and he said I
00:42:40.400 don't want to do
00:42:40.860 this I want a
00:42:41.440 diplomatic solution
00:42:42.220 I don't want to
00:42:42.780 go to war I
00:42:43.300 ran against going
00:42:44.020 to war I don't
00:42:44.760 want Iran to have
00:42:45.340 a nuclear weapon
00:42:45.960 that's what he
00:42:46.800 says in public
00:42:47.880 and in private
00:42:48.640 on the phone
00:42:49.240 and in person
00:42:49.900 and on stage
00:42:50.540 and so I
00:42:51.680 believe it
00:42:52.160 Iran doesn't
00:42:53.780 have a nuclear
00:42:54.240 weapon it
00:42:54.840 doesn't have the
00:42:55.340 means to get
00:42:56.040 a nuclear weapon
00:42:56.740 if it had a
00:42:57.360 nuclear weapon
00:42:57.780 to the United
00:42:58.300 States Mark
00:42:59.400 Levin said
00:43:00.120 three days ago
00:43:00.760 in his podcast
00:43:01.380 they've got
00:43:01.780 nuclear tipped
00:43:02.300 ICBMs that's
00:43:03.140 a lie he should
00:43:04.000 be removed from
00:43:04.500 his job for
00:43:04.980 saying that because
00:43:05.600 it's untrue and
00:43:06.160 he knows it's
00:43:06.560 untrue this is not
00:43:07.960 about protecting
00:43:08.600 the United States
00:43:09.060 among many
00:43:09.780 other reasons
00:43:10.580 well that's right
00:43:11.420 but but you
00:43:12.320 this is incredibly
00:43:13.400 high stakes I
00:43:14.200 mean I could go
00:43:14.680 on for an hour
00:43:15.300 about what could
00:43:16.140 go wrong in
00:43:17.680 this war if it
00:43:18.840 takes place I
00:43:19.560 think it's likely
00:43:20.100 to take place but
00:43:21.440 it's not assured
00:43:22.080 the president
00:43:22.620 decides and he
00:43:23.720 has not made
00:43:24.600 that decision but
00:43:25.380 all things being
00:43:26.020 equal it will
00:43:26.560 happen and you
00:43:27.880 could see massive
00:43:28.640 disruption to the
00:43:29.520 US economy you
00:43:30.200 could see a lot
00:43:30.700 of Americans die
00:43:31.420 there are tens of
00:43:31.980 thousands in the
00:43:32.600 region both military
00:43:33.980 and non-military and
00:43:35.120 you could see some of
00:43:36.100 our closest allies in
00:43:36.980 the world the Gulf
00:43:37.840 States who supply
00:43:39.120 the energy for
00:43:39.980 civilization around
00:43:40.940 the world you
00:43:41.500 could see them
00:43:42.160 disabled by this
00:43:43.500 and then you
00:43:44.500 could see massive
00:43:46.160 refugee crises
00:43:47.520 around the world
00:43:48.600 because the plan is
00:43:49.960 to take out the
00:43:50.700 leadership of Iran
00:43:51.620 but there's no plan
00:43:52.940 after that so it
00:43:54.440 would be an open
00:43:55.120 wound 92 million
00:43:56.640 people on a huge
00:43:57.960 landmass and that
00:44:00.820 would continue the
00:44:02.600 invasion of Europe
00:44:03.520 by immigrants the
00:44:05.440 lot of them would
00:44:05.920 wind up in the
00:44:06.780 Gulf states directly
00:44:07.720 across the Persian
00:44:08.500 Gulf and a lot of
00:44:09.380 them would wind up
00:44:09.880 here in the United
00:44:10.540 States so there's
00:44:11.900 kind of no upside
00:44:12.700 but here's the way
00:44:13.440 to think about it
00:44:14.020 we're looking at it
00:44:15.160 through the wrong
00:44:15.700 frame this is not
00:44:16.460 about protecting the
00:44:17.340 United States
00:44:17.980 obviously it's not
00:44:19.600 about even protecting
00:44:20.400 Israel if you're
00:44:21.500 Israel and your main
00:44:22.620 goal is not to get
00:44:23.720 hit and to keep your
00:44:25.020 city safe the last
00:44:25.960 thing you're gonna do
00:44:26.400 is try to provoke Iran
00:44:27.580 into lobbing ballistic
00:44:28.600 missiles into your
00:44:29.340 country you would
00:44:29.920 never do that no
00:44:31.440 this is about sweeping
00:44:34.280 away any opposition
00:44:35.700 to Israel's regional
00:44:37.260 hegemony Israel
00:44:38.800 believes as the only
00:44:40.040 nuclear armed power
00:44:40.900 in the Middle East
00:44:41.620 that it should have
00:44:42.300 control over the
00:44:43.420 region and by the
00:44:44.100 way I'm not attacking
00:44:44.900 them every nuclear
00:44:46.280 armed power feels
00:44:47.020 that way we feel
00:44:47.660 that way what's
00:44:48.800 going on in South
00:44:49.440 America we we have
00:44:50.440 a right to to weigh
00:44:51.460 in on that because
00:44:52.140 we're the big dog
00:44:53.060 they feel that way
00:44:54.100 and what stands in
00:44:55.520 their way well Iran
00:44:56.600 primarily also Turkey
00:44:58.160 and then the six
00:44:59.700 Gulf energy producing
00:45:01.660 monarchies primarily
00:45:03.840 Qatar because they're
00:45:05.680 disobedient they don't
00:45:06.840 follow Israel's lead
00:45:08.860 on a lot of different
00:45:09.580 things and this war
00:45:11.620 and of course the
00:45:12.400 United States because
00:45:13.040 the United States is
00:45:13.520 constantly telling
00:45:14.440 Israel you know you
00:45:15.140 can do this you can't
00:45:15.820 do that Trump's like no
00:45:16.540 you can't take over the
00:45:17.820 entire West Bank and
00:45:18.980 kick all the Christians
00:45:20.580 out or whatever he you
00:45:21.800 know the United States is
00:45:22.520 a constraint on Israel so
00:45:23.820 they want the US out of
00:45:25.160 the region why wouldn't
00:45:26.620 they and they're of
00:45:27.940 course pivoting to India
00:45:29.200 Israel is has decided it
00:45:31.420 needs a superpower to
00:45:32.540 exist it's only 9 million
00:45:33.640 people it's a really
00:45:34.320 small country so they
00:45:35.540 have to be an alliance
00:45:36.460 with a larger nuclear
00:45:37.340 armed power they have
00:45:38.400 to or they won't exist
00:45:39.420 and they've picked
00:45:40.500 India Prime Minister
00:45:41.640 Modi was in the
00:45:42.820 Knesset yesterday and
00:45:44.420 meeting with Netanyahu
00:45:45.260 yesterday and that is
00:45:46.120 the plan Israel will
00:45:47.500 pivot from the United
00:45:48.260 States to India and I
00:45:52.020 don't think anyone's
00:45:52.660 even pretending that's
00:45:53.480 not happening because
00:45:54.320 support for Israel
00:45:55.120 United States is going
00:45:55.960 down so this is the
00:45:56.720 last opportunity for
00:45:58.660 Israel to use the US
00:45:59.940 military to sweep away
00:46:02.340 one of the few remaining
00:46:04.960 speed bumps on the way
00:46:06.540 to controlling the
00:46:07.360 entire Middle East and
00:46:08.060 having hegemony and
00:46:08.960 what does that mean well
00:46:09.780 Israel would like to
00:46:10.440 expand its borders through
00:46:12.000 the Levant into Syria
00:46:13.740 they were taking land
00:46:14.540 there and into Lebanon
00:46:15.500 same thing and maybe
00:46:17.340 even extending farther
00:46:18.220 north from that but
00:46:19.240 Israel wants to be
00:46:20.260 physically larger every
00:46:22.180 country does we do this
00:46:24.140 is just a feature of
00:46:25.140 human nature but they
00:46:26.360 want to be larger and
00:46:27.040 they can't because Iran's
00:46:28.860 in the way Qatar's in
00:46:29.860 the way the US is in
00:46:30.860 the way and Turkey's in
00:46:31.800 the way so one by one
00:46:32.820 they're diminishing
00:46:33.820 them does anyone think
00:46:34.500 America will be stronger
00:46:35.520 after this war of course
00:46:36.600 not America will be
00:46:37.700 weaker we can't afford
00:46:38.660 it we have no money
00:46:39.220 don't know how long it
00:46:40.140 will last all the
00:46:41.520 reports in the news are
00:46:42.600 that even Dan Raisin
00:46:44.160 Cain the chairman of the
00:46:44.900 Joint Chiefs has been
00:46:45.740 saying this could easily
00:46:47.380 spin into a very
00:46:48.460 prolonged quagmire
00:46:49.920 President Trump truth
00:46:51.260 doubt that's not true
00:46:52.120 he'll do whatever I ask
00:46:53.300 him to he he's ready to
00:46:54.560 go he all he knows how
00:46:55.400 to do is win but I
00:46:56.700 mean it's been reported
00:46:57.540 in multiple papers now
00:46:58.840 that Cain is saying
00:47:00.320 this this is fraught
00:47:01.660 this could be I don't
00:47:03.020 know anyone and just
00:47:04.180 doesn't feel that way
00:47:05.160 no one in the Pentagon
00:47:05.800 I've talked to a bunch
00:47:06.420 of people in the
00:47:06.920 Pentagon we don't have
00:47:07.920 the munitions for this
00:47:09.060 okay just to be and
00:47:10.100 this is again been
00:47:10.840 reported publicly this is
00:47:11.800 not secret it is a fact
00:47:13.600 and this is the analysis
00:47:14.680 of the Pentagon that if
00:47:16.700 this war goes two weeks
00:47:18.320 three weeks a month the
00:47:20.840 United States will not
00:47:21.960 have enough munitions to
00:47:24.240 wage a major war for 10
00:47:25.980 years okay no war with a
00:47:28.800 peer or near peer nation
00:47:30.100 for 10 years because we
00:47:31.260 don't the industrial
00:47:31.800 capacity to replace those
00:47:33.540 munitions we've already
00:47:34.380 expended so many of them
00:47:35.720 in defense of Israel in the
00:47:37.000 last 12 months Ukraine and
00:47:38.820 and in Ukraine so it's
00:47:40.260 like there's no way that
00:47:43.120 this helps United States
00:47:43.880 we're not in a place to do
00:47:45.420 it I strongly think the
00:47:46.880 president understands that
00:47:48.560 certainly there's no one
00:47:49.800 that I'm let me just be
00:47:50.660 blunt there's no one I'm
00:47:51.840 aware of in this
00:47:52.720 administration who is
00:47:54.100 aggressively pushing for
00:47:55.280 this war all of the
00:47:57.000 pressure is coming from
00:47:58.120 Netanyahu it's why he went
00:47:59.200 to the White House seven
00:47:59.880 times in one year it
00:48:01.240 wasn't to be nice it was
00:48:02.400 to push for regime change
00:48:03.640 in Iran I'm not attacking
00:48:05.140 him that's not anti-semitic
00:48:06.820 it's not even anti-Israel
00:48:08.040 it's an acknowledgement of
00:48:09.340 the truth and no matter
00:48:10.520 what you slander people
00:48:12.920 with in the end the truth
00:48:14.500 remains true sorry and so
00:48:16.780 they want this the only
00:48:18.220 reason we would do it
00:48:19.220 but not just him not just
00:48:20.320 him his his rabidly neocon
00:48:22.520 friends here like Mark
00:48:24.020 Levin like Lindsey Graham
00:48:25.800 I mean there really is a
00:48:27.020 bloodlust by some here
00:48:29.060 domestically who do have
00:48:30.180 the ear of the president
00:48:31.000 to to take out this
00:48:32.860 regime as though it's
00:48:34.020 going to be as easy as
00:48:34.880 the Maduro raid well but
00:48:37.040 everyone look it this is
00:48:38.620 again a country of 92
00:48:40.400 million people that has
00:48:42.160 been under sanction since
00:48:43.260 1979 it is an enormous
00:48:45.920 country it's the oldest
00:48:46.800 civilization in the world
00:48:47.900 and they have a huge
00:48:49.140 non-nuclear arsenal of
00:48:52.000 ballistic missiles huge
00:48:53.160 it's probably you know
00:48:53.780 the estimates are publicly
00:48:54.920 available you could bore
00:48:55.980 yourself all day reading
00:48:56.700 about it this is a very
00:48:58.600 serious thing when we
00:49:00.100 invaded Iraq in 2003
00:49:02.140 almost exactly 33 years
00:49:04.620 ago that country had 25
00:49:06.980 million people and it was
00:49:08.520 one-sixth the size of Iran
00:49:10.880 and we were there for 20
00:49:11.920 years and we never fully
00:49:12.840 pacified it this is a
00:49:14.540 country of 92 million
00:49:16.580 people and like reality
00:49:17.940 matters actually like the
00:49:19.460 number of people who live
00:49:20.160 in your country the
00:49:20.880 armaments they possess it's
00:49:22.520 landmass these are
00:49:23.560 relevant facts for people
00:49:24.740 who plan wars and they
00:49:25.740 help determine the
00:49:26.340 outcomes of those wars and
00:49:27.960 occupations so this is pure
00:49:30.060 insanity and what people
00:49:32.360 like Levin whom I'm not
00:49:33.660 attacking I feel sorry for
00:49:34.820 because he's clearly living
00:49:35.640 in hell but what they're
00:49:36.440 trying to do is a species
00:49:38.640 of witchcraft and it's
00:49:40.400 really simple you repeat
00:49:41.940 something until it becomes
00:49:43.700 true community must die we're
00:49:45.840 going into war we're going
00:49:46.640 to knock off the
00:49:47.260 government this is good
00:49:48.420 for us anyone who's
00:49:49.200 against it is an anti-saman
00:49:50.300 a nazi should be expelled
00:49:51.560 benedict arnold not allowed
00:49:52.680 in the white house you keep
00:49:53.980 repeating things that are
00:49:55.120 untrue until they become
00:49:58.160 true you speak you create
00:50:02.080 truth by speaking in the
00:50:03.780 beginning was the word right
00:50:05.400 there is a there's a holy
00:50:07.180 power there's a supernatural
00:50:08.300 power in words describing
00:50:10.140 things is different from
00:50:11.880 simply doing them and if you
00:50:13.200 you can talk reality into
00:50:15.460 being this is what an
00:50:16.940 incantation is that's what a
00:50:18.200 spell is it's not like
00:50:19.160 spooky like crazy stuff it's
00:50:21.960 the lived reality of every
00:50:23.760 person say it and it becomes
00:50:25.640 true and that's exactly what
00:50:27.800 they're trying to do and
00:50:29.180 nobody is making the case for
00:50:30.960 how how does this help the
00:50:32.080 united states how does this
00:50:33.500 make us richer safer happier
00:50:35.540 zero and my concern is if this
00:50:38.600 actually happens and it's
00:50:39.700 likely to what then there will
00:50:42.480 be no defense like the we
00:50:44.720 wage the iraq war for israel
00:50:46.600 it's obvious now the people
00:50:48.020 who planned it say that out
00:50:49.360 loud there was there were no
00:50:50.720 wmd the israelis told us there
00:50:53.020 were wmd there weren't we know
00:50:54.660 that now they're telling us
00:50:55.420 their wmd in iran also untrue
00:50:57.480 but it took 20 years to figure
00:50:59.560 that out if we go in maybe at
00:51:02.140 the end of this week or
00:51:02.860 whenever every american will
00:51:05.100 know this wasn't done for us it
00:51:06.520 was done for a country of nine
00:51:07.660 million people where are we
00:51:09.940 then then it's clear we have
00:51:11.460 no sovereignty it's clear who
00:51:13.540 did this to us our leaders our
00:51:16.440 leaders did this to us at the
00:51:17.660 behest of foreigners and you
00:51:19.740 sort of feel like at that
00:51:20.600 point i i don't know how the
00:51:22.080 system works at that point i'm
00:51:23.220 really worried about not just
00:51:24.440 no but the long-term effects on
00:51:26.240 our country we've done enough
00:51:27.420 for israel we're we're allies
00:51:29.320 with israel we've done a lot for
00:51:30.820 israel i i'm firmly in the
00:51:32.340 camp of we don't need to do
00:51:33.300 this too and by the way we
00:51:34.800 already we already did this we
00:51:36.160 already took out their nuclear
00:51:37.020 facilities or so we were told
00:51:38.720 by the president and his team
00:51:40.740 i'd like to take them at their
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00:53:47.320 um so while we were in the break
00:53:50.480 your your pal mike pompeo posted on x
00:53:55.140 the following as the u.s enters a new
00:53:58.040 round of negotiations with iran because
00:54:00.500 by the way folks that's those are
00:54:01.580 happening today jared kushner and
00:54:03.680 steve wikoff are doing this both
00:54:05.360 directly and indirectly um trying to
00:54:08.000 avoid this thing remember the only
00:54:10.400 outcome worth having is the verifiable
00:54:12.360 destruction of the regime's nuclear and
00:54:15.240 ballistic missile programs and an end
00:54:17.560 to its support for global terrorism
00:54:19.120 unfortunately the odds are slim to
00:54:22.440 none so what do you make of pompeo's
00:54:26.860 framing of the issue here mike pompeo is
00:54:29.640 a criminal who should be arrested for
00:54:31.580 plotting the murder of julian assange
00:54:33.080 when he had no right to do that
00:54:34.260 assange had never been charged with
00:54:35.760 anything in the united states and
00:54:37.080 pompeo plotted his murder so he should
00:54:38.880 be arrested i've said that to him and
00:54:41.440 i mean it so with that out of the way
00:54:42.820 let me say we're not doing this because
00:54:46.060 iran poses an existential threat to us
00:54:48.340 or to israel we are being pushed into
00:54:50.940 war by benjamin netanyahu because
00:54:53.140 benjamin netanyahu wants regional
00:54:55.960 hegemony in the middle east it's really
00:54:57.720 simple and i wish people just say that
00:54:59.620 and by the way if israel wants to
00:55:01.580 overthrow the government of iran
00:55:02.640 government of iran and deal with the
00:55:04.020 consequences it can it can do they can
00:55:05.720 do whatever it wants it's got nuclear
00:55:06.880 weapons but stop lying to me and telling
00:55:10.360 me that there's some peace deal you
00:55:13.040 want where iran has to you know give up
00:55:15.980 any sovereignty at all but they don't
00:55:17.940 get sanctions relief they can have no
00:55:19.760 weapons of any kind it's not about the
00:55:21.900 weapons it's about iran standing in the
00:55:24.420 way of israel's regional territorial
00:55:27.680 aims obviously that's not embarrassing
00:55:30.380 by the way every country feels this way
00:55:33.300 every big nuclear armed power feels like i
00:55:35.480 should get to control the area i live in
00:55:37.560 i mean just i they feel that way it's
00:55:39.460 okay but stop lying it's the americans
00:55:42.560 who never stop lying shills like pompeo
00:55:44.940 who're getting paid from who knows how
00:55:47.020 many different groups to lie to you and
00:55:49.480 coming across as some sort of moral voice
00:55:51.300 or people poor mike huckabee guys like
00:55:53.280 that who are just like under some spell
00:55:54.960 let's just be honest about what this is
00:55:57.300 it's not about iran's weapons it's about
00:56:00.000 israel's ambitions and iran stands and
00:56:03.040 now by the way in case you haven't
00:56:04.480 noticed they're making bellicose noises
00:56:06.940 about turkey oh the next war is against
00:56:09.620 turkey i have no feelings about turkey
00:56:11.560 or erdogan one way or the other i mean
00:56:12.960 there's nothing farther from my life
00:56:14.340 than that it's where men go for hair
00:56:15.700 transplants that's what i know about
00:56:17.080 i like bodrum okay it's like it's
00:56:19.660 pretty that's where you get on the boat
00:56:21.180 it's fine it's all fine but now we have
00:56:23.960 to hate turkey why because they are the
00:56:26.120 last remaining nation in the region that
00:56:29.540 could stand in the way of israel
00:56:30.800 controlling the whole region this is about
00:56:32.660 territory bb sees his country as a
00:56:35.440 great global power himself as a great
00:56:36.960 global leader i get it not attacking him
00:56:38.900 doesn't make me an anti-semi it's just i'm
00:56:40.660 noticing this and they want what every
00:56:44.480 leader like that wants which is to be the
00:56:46.540 caesar of his realm okay but they're just
00:56:49.060 lying to us and telling us they've got
00:56:51.180 nuclear tipped icbms coming for new york
00:56:53.580 stop you liar you're lying and you want
00:56:56.900 my military been lying for a long time
00:56:59.080 it's insane they've been lying for a lot
00:57:00.660 this i saw you did this on your show this
00:57:02.940 soundbite which we're going to play but
00:57:04.100 it when when this first started again like
00:57:06.620 the build-up to what we did in july with
00:57:09.420 bb like they're this close to having the
00:57:11.280 nuclear bomb like i it was one of the aha
00:57:14.380 moments that i've had over the past year
00:57:16.140 when it came to israel because i was there i
00:57:18.920 was at fox news for each of those un addresses
00:57:22.960 by bb and the one that i remember in
00:57:25.240 particular where he had the picture of the
00:57:27.160 bomb and it looked like the round bomb
00:57:29.040 that like they do in the cartoons and said
00:57:31.980 that they're within months and i was a naive
00:57:34.680 young journalist at fox who really didn't
00:57:36.900 do a lot of foreign policy coverage like oh
00:57:38.420 wow that sounds dire god that's bad we
00:57:40.060 better pay attention if that's true i i think
00:57:42.200 iran hates us that's what they say and they
00:57:43.820 hate israel so wow and here we were 14
00:57:47.160 years removed from that speech with him
00:57:49.600 saying the same thing and truly it's just
00:57:52.420 like over time if you paid any attention
00:57:55.360 you realize he's been lying every every
00:57:58.540 time he has an agenda they weren't he's
00:58:02.020 said it for years if they were within months
00:58:04.220 of getting the bomb back then that was i
00:58:05.500 think 2012 why are we now at 2026 and they
00:58:08.240 don't have it um and you ran a similar clip
00:58:11.260 on your show i think it was last night
00:58:13.140 from dating back to the mid 90s yes we're
00:58:16.380 going to show it in part here watch the most
00:58:18.660 dangerous of these regimes is iran that
00:58:21.720 has wed a cruel despotism to a fanatic
00:58:24.940 militancy only the united states can lead
00:58:27.540 this vital international effort to stop the
00:58:30.460 nuclearization of terrorist states but the
00:58:33.440 deadline for attaining this goal is getting
00:58:36.040 extremely extremely close the two nations
00:58:39.400 that are vying competing with each other who
00:58:41.420 will be the first to achieve nuclear weapons
00:58:43.060 is iraq and iran and iran by the way is also
00:58:47.140 outpacing iraq in the development of ballistic
00:58:50.220 missile systems they're very close they're six
00:58:52.400 months away from being about 90 percent of
00:58:54.560 having the enriched uranium for an atom bomb
00:58:56.700 they're rushing forward with their enrichment program
00:58:59.720 by next spring at most by next summer 2012 with the current enrichment rates
00:59:04.840 they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final
00:59:11.460 stage from there it's only a few months possibly a few weeks before they get
00:59:18.040 enough enriched uranium weeks for the first bomb you don't want this iran to
00:59:23.340 have neither nuclear weapons or the capability to make nuclear weapons to
00:59:28.520 enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb in short order in a few weeks or a few months
00:59:33.000 they could do that unless that's changed with this massive capacity iran could make
00:59:38.200 the fuel for an entire nuclear arsenal and this in a matter of weeks once it
00:59:43.080 makes that decision 2015 by the way that was our montage
00:59:46.980 um i know you didn't do it but debbie murphy's correcting me that we put that one
00:59:50.320 together ourselves but he's been saying the same thing for years tucker trying
00:59:53.900 to bait us into this and now you know thanks to pompeo and
00:59:58.520 levin and guys like that they have a president who's at least
01:00:01.780 considering it i just feel like trump he hates war why would he do this
01:00:07.020 bb also got more hair every year over 30 years which is amazing
01:00:11.340 kind of like defying nature um i'm sorry that was so catty i'm sorry i said
01:00:16.820 that uh but it's true but no it's not and again like bb's doing
01:00:21.360 bb has contempt for the united states and for american leaders he expresses it all
01:00:25.420 the time no wonder because they do his bidding and
01:00:28.940 they swallow his obvious lies and you can't help but have contempt for people
01:00:32.780 you can manipulate and they very much have contempt for us like and they they
01:00:36.040 show it ask anyone any american diplomat other than huckabee who deals
01:00:39.420 with the israelis and they just exude contempt and it's deserved they should
01:00:44.460 have contempt for us because our leaders swallow this stuff and do their bidding
01:00:48.780 unthinkingly and betray the american people in the process so again it's not
01:00:53.140 a matter of being mad at israel much less anti-semitic it's a matter of feeling
01:00:57.440 betrayed by our own leaders in the case of our current president he doesn't want to
01:01:02.720 do this he may not have a choice actually because
01:01:07.080 israel has said if you don't join us we're going to do it anyway move
01:01:11.380 unilaterally possibly with nuclear weapons which they have and they've
01:01:14.480 threatened that before and everyone pretends that's not true it is true they
01:01:17.800 threatened it in 1973 i believe they threatened it subsequently
01:01:20.940 if you don't backstop us if you don't defend us help us send us armaments send
01:01:25.660 your aircraft carriers to the region give us missile defense we'll have no
01:01:29.220 choice but to use nukes against our enemies and nobody wants that because it
01:01:32.880 could set off a third world war a nuclear third world war so that is their
01:01:37.980 trump card they've played it before i believe they are at least implying it
01:01:41.820 now they are playing it in effect now and so it leaves the administration with
01:01:46.120 like how many choices if they say they're going to do it then the best you can do
01:01:51.340 i guess is to try to constrain them by by shaping what they're doing okay we'll
01:01:56.900 participate but we're going to set some of the of the boundaries here i mean i do
01:02:00.280 think that's the thinking that is my impression no one's told me that explicitly but
01:02:04.840 it's pretty obvious but i would just say there is another option that no one in
01:02:08.600 washington ever seems to consider which is constraining our client state and
01:02:12.360 saying look for our sake and by the way also for yours no if you allow people who
01:02:18.600 are dependent on you to treat you like this it doesn't end well if you allow your
01:02:23.300 children to scream the f-word in your face at dinner it's bad for you but it's
01:02:27.240 also bad for them because they're out of control you are not you are not living up to
01:02:32.360 your role as a parent as a guardian as the person in charge as the guy paying for
01:02:36.980 all this as the country of 350 million would naturally relate to a country of
01:02:41.620 9 million it's our fault we've let israel get
01:02:44.360 completely out of control they're they're fighting a seven front war
01:02:47.840 right now who fights a seven front war like if you're fighting a war i heard
01:02:52.660 you discussing it but it's like obviously insane a seven front war we don't want
01:02:57.480 in on that we do not want in on any seven front war you're not managing your life correctly because
01:03:02.560 you talked to mike huckabee about that desire within israel amongst its leaders anyway for
01:03:08.460 hegemony for for growing power within the middle east and he made an admission of course he's our
01:03:14.340 ambassador to israel he made an admission that caused an international scandal all these middle
01:03:20.340 eastern countries responded very angry at what he said here's the clip god gave that land
01:03:25.380 to his people the jews or he didn't you're saying he did what does that mean does israel have the
01:03:33.100 right to that land because you're appealing to genesis yeah you're saying that's the original
01:03:38.620 deed it would be fine if they took it all but i don't think that's what we're talking about here
01:03:45.160 today i think it would be fine if the state of israel took over all i don't want to take it over
01:03:48.820 you're explaining what christian zionism is and your theological beliefs
01:03:52.300 and you think you just said it would be fine with you if the state of israel took all of all of
01:03:58.380 syria all of lebanon they're not trying to take over jordan they're not trying to take over syria
01:04:03.420 they're not trying to take over iraq or anywhere else but they do want to protect their people
01:04:09.480 cnn pointing out that suggesting even nominal support for israeli sovereignty over much of the
01:04:15.580 middle east is an unprecedented departure from american foreign policy uh it also goes well beyond
01:04:21.300 what much of israel's far right is willing to call for publicly nearly every middle eastern
01:04:26.120 country aside from israel condemned huckabee's comments in a joint statement on sunday led by
01:04:32.340 the uae backed by saudi arabia egypt jordan qatar and others denounced his comments as dangerous and
01:04:39.240 inflammatory and even muslim majority countries outside the region like turkey indonesia and pakistan
01:04:44.580 also signed on to the denunciation so what do you did he just have a moment where he let his guard
01:04:51.820 down because he was trying to be so careful in that whole interview tucker what what happened there
01:04:56.040 it went on like this for two and a half hours he should be recalled he doesn't represent the united
01:05:00.140 states this was a true humiliation to our country this is our u.s ambassador i'm the son of an ambassador
01:05:04.940 i sort of know how this works you're supposed to represent the president and the nation and he's
01:05:09.200 representing the country he's living in which is a foreign nation so it's a humiliation it's also sad
01:05:14.000 for him that's not christian theology it's not even close to christian theology he's gonna have to deal
01:05:18.400 with that at some point but as a practical matter he couldn't explain the most obvious questions i asked
01:05:26.600 he said as people often do does israel have a right to this land and i said where does that right
01:05:33.900 come from and do other countries have similar rights and he said two things no no other country
01:05:38.880 has a right no other people has a right to its land only the israelis have a right to their land
01:05:43.260 that's it the irish don't have a right to ireland the english don't have a right to england the french
01:05:47.840 don't have a right to france only the israelis have a right to israel and that right comes from
01:05:51.400 god and so i said being familiar with the verse that's from genesis 15 and here's the promise that
01:05:56.240 god made to abram before he became abraham to abram in genesis 15 and it's the land between the
01:06:02.260 ephrates and that's the whole middle east and that's the basis upon which you're making this
01:06:06.220 claim so you're saying israel has a right to this land this is his own framework not mine i i'm a
01:06:12.980 christian but i believe in also secular diplomacy like these are the boundaries this is what the
01:06:18.460 treaty specifies like i live in reality i don't think that the blueprint for international relations
01:06:23.300 is genesis 15 i just don't think that call me a bad christian i don't think that but he does
01:06:28.620 and so since he does i said okay do they have the right to all of this and he said now famously they
01:06:33.180 can take it he's saying that not simply as some sort of i guess sort of christian preacher i guess
01:06:39.680 he's saying there's the u.s ambassador to what everyone calls our closest ally boy you can't talk that way
01:06:46.680 if you're a diplomat representing my country and my president so i think it's an outrage leaving
01:06:54.480 aside all the other stuff so rather than explain it he just goes on this rant that i should be banned
01:06:59.280 from the white house that i'm a nazi i'm an anti-semit which i'm not as everyone knows me knows
01:07:04.540 i'm not i've said it a thousand times i'm totally opposed to anti-semitism but he he denounces me
01:07:10.300 when you got more critical of israel they started calling you an anti-semit over and over and over and
01:07:14.800 i do think it's a means of undermining your critique of israeli policy of course and getting
01:07:20.380 me killed i get it they're trying to otherize you yeah but i'm not gonna you know i'm too old to put
01:07:25.520 up with this and and i would say just to be blunt people are very intimidated by that they're
01:07:31.060 intimidated because they don't want their reputation destroyed they also want to be killed people sense
01:07:34.320 a physical threat from that kind of language and they should those are fighting words those are words
01:07:38.360 meant to inspire violence israel is an incredibly violent country it brags about its violence many books
01:07:43.280 have been written about its assassination campaigns which have been ongoing since the end of the second
01:07:48.960 world war when they assassinated committed acts of terrorism against the british when they blew up
01:07:53.220 the king david hotel etc etc people know this is a very violent country the most violent country on
01:07:58.680 planet earth and when you criticize it you can get physically hurt or you can get de-platformed
01:08:03.720 debanked lose your job these are not hollow threats and because those threats are real hey random
01:08:09.840 influencers all over the internet by the tweet to try to destroy your reputation and say that you're a
01:08:16.600 neo-nazi anti-semite it's 100 right whether your name is tucker carlson or megan kelly for that matter
01:08:22.380 i mean and but why i never even talk about israel and i've experienced some of this backlash it's
01:08:26.920 ridiculous well you came out and said i love israel i'm a friend of israel i couldn't be more pro-jewish i
01:08:31.900 don't have an anti-semitic bone in my body and i by the way really like israel for the fifth time and
01:08:35.960 they still called you a nazi so why why and i even talked to some of the people doing it i was like
01:08:40.920 megan kelly really if megan kelly's an anti-semite i mean i don't even know where we are here and but
01:08:47.480 now we're seeing why and the reason was to prevent criticism of policy goals israel wants they're saying
01:08:55.080 it out loud they want to use the u.s military and the u.s treasury to sweep aside the last remaining
01:09:00.760 obstacle to regional hegemony in the middle east which is iran and they don't want to be criticized
01:09:06.600 or to be asked like what's the plan here because they don't have an answer and so they have taken
01:09:11.560 offline preemptively critics by being so violent rhetorically and maybe physically that everyone's
01:09:19.640 like i don't want to get involved i don't want to deal with this the cost is too high exactly it that
01:09:23.160 is exactly what they've done and i've just decided at 56 i don't care and i'm just gonna do this because
01:09:29.400 i believe that my motives are pure i'm just an american and i think it's important to say this but
01:09:34.040 there are a lot of other people who feel it who won't say it because it's like i've got kids i
01:09:38.200 don't want to deal with this that is true that's a fact i know i'm sure you get i'm i'm sure you get
01:09:42.840 what i mean i'm only new to this being called an anti-semite game you know on the top of being a
01:09:47.400 racist and a transphobe and a pedophile lover and all the things that you know we've probably both
01:09:52.680 been called over the years now the latest is anti-semite neo-nazi um but i get texts all the time
01:09:59.080 from people who are like i agree with what you're saying i just can't say it publicly i'm sure you get
01:10:03.000 that times 100 like people they are scared they're scared that this very loud lobby of online so-called
01:10:11.480 influencers whatever i mean the vicious online x crowd is going to come for them and i understand
01:10:18.680 it because tucker you have a huge show we have a big show too it's going to be really hard to destroy
01:10:24.680 you and thankfully i think it's going to be really hard to destroy us too and so we're in a little bit
01:10:30.520 more of a steady place than a lot of these people who agree with us but are you know probably wisely
01:10:36.120 not being that out loud about it because that could be their head in a basket next no there's
01:10:42.440 that's right and they go after members of your family they've certainly done that to me very
01:10:46.120 aggressively but really the cost here is not is not that the cost here is hate so you see some of
01:10:54.120 these people and i would say levin is one of them loomer is another who are not making an argument
01:10:59.720 they're trying to evoke hate in you they are trying to make you hate them now why would they do that
01:11:06.760 because that's the nature of this is supernatural just saying this is spiritual battle as well as a
01:11:11.480 temporal battle and and the answer is really simple because hate feeds on evil or evil feeds on hate
01:11:18.120 rather so to the extent that they can inspire hate in their opponents they become stronger it's just a
01:11:24.280 fact and the opposite of course are the people trying to inspire love and bring unity and stop
01:11:30.120 division and make people understand each other and invoke empathy in others like those are signs of god
01:11:35.480 and goodness but signs of evil are always the same chaos and hate and chaos and hate are the things
01:11:41.960 that they're calling for and it's very easy to get sucked into that if you spend your life on the phone
01:11:46.440 reading thing you know reading attacks not just on yourself but on other reading attacks on you
01:11:51.480 was actually driving me completely i never read about myself but i'd read these attacks megan kelly's a
01:11:56.600 nazi or whatever and i'm like i can't believe you're saying that it's so it's such a lie it's irrational
01:12:01.880 irrational by the way is is another feature of their rhetoric it doesn't make sense that's designed
01:12:07.480 to bewilder you and again to inspire hate in you so i really think the trick for the rest of us is
01:12:13.320 don't play along i'm not going to be hateful i don't hate you i'm never going to hate you because
01:12:17.960 i don't want to feed the evil through hate no i consider a massive blessing that all of my best
01:12:23.640 friends actually do happen to be jewish like it's a massive blessing you know because this kind of
01:12:28.680 like non-stop harassment can actually drive you to like drink like what what the hell this is
01:12:33.240 crazy no i totally agree has ever done to either one of us they are way worse way worse and so it's like
01:12:40.200 like you have to be reminded every day that no no no they don't speak for american jewish people
01:12:45.240 well they certainly don't have all sorts of varying views on israel on netanyahu and on war with iran
01:12:53.160 and have no problem with people being critical of those things this is like an online sect that is in
01:13:00.120 large part paid to push an agenda that includes you know cutting people out like you and me like a
01:13:06.120 canary in the coal mines like this will happen to you anybody who comes if i can do this to tucker
01:13:09.840 if i can do this to megan i can do it to all of you and i will do it relentlessly try to ruin you
01:13:14.520 smear you make it so that you can't even go on x totally right i refuse to leave there and they
01:13:19.800 want to give the impression that they completely control the administration that they they alone
01:13:24.680 decide who goes into the white house and i've gone to see donald they're literally pushing for
01:13:28.600 you never to be allowed back into the white house right now i've gone three times in the last month
01:13:33.100 now why have i done that i have no real interest in going to washington i don't live there anymore
01:13:36.780 i'm from there but i don't go there because i don't want to but i have gone first because i
01:13:41.340 really like trump and i've known trump longer than laura loomer's been alive probably and i've always
01:13:45.980 liked him i've always gotten along with him and donald trump ran on the things that i believe okay so
01:13:52.540 and i campaigned for him these people did not i did so i have a relationship with trump that is very
01:13:58.780 affectionate and honest and i'm just going to say that out loud and i thought i just want to make
01:14:04.540 the point that no i like trump and trump certainly doesn't agree with me on everything and certainly
01:14:09.180 doesn't follow my instruction unfortunately on all kinds of things at all but i'm an american who knows
01:14:16.060 him and really likes him and has for many years and i have a right to go there so i'm just going to
01:14:19.900 make that point no you don't control the white house i'm sorry part of this is illusion they're
01:14:25.340 trying they have a tiny minority position in the united states mark levin represents what five
01:14:30.460 ten percent of the american population agrees less agrees with mark levin but they're creating this
01:14:35.740 kind of movie set where they're speaking for the majority they've got an american flag in the
01:14:41.820 background if you're a true patriot then you want to send your son to go die for a foreign country
01:14:47.740 and get poorer in the process like it's all insane but they're creating this illusion that it's real
01:14:53.260 and my job i feel like is to to the extent i can help break that illusion no i'm going to walk into
01:14:58.380 the white house which i've been visiting since i was a child this is my country i'm very familiar
01:15:03.900 with this city i'm very familiar with this building and i'm very familiar with the guy who
01:15:07.340 occupies the oval office right now and i really like him and i just want to say that because that
01:15:12.140 alone might help shatter the illusion that they totally control trump they do not totally control
01:15:17.260 trump that is not true i've talked to trump five times in the past month they do not totally
01:15:22.620 control trump he listens to them he listens to others he listens to bb he also listens to mbs and
01:15:28.700 mbz and he listens to a lot of people they're not totally in control sorry and i just want to remind
01:15:34.140 people of that well i mean the last time i went to the white house i was reminded of the fact that
01:15:39.900 you do need an invitation to get in like you i love that they're making it sound like you just
01:15:44.940 stormed the gates and like i insist on speaking with the president you go to the white house by
01:15:49.820 invitation uh it's very clear that the president does want varying points of view and mark levin i
01:15:56.540 saw him at the white house he was there not long ago he has his say but he doesn't want you to have
01:16:00.940 your say and you represent a very large faction of americans not just republicans there's a very
01:16:06.540 large swath of democrats that doesn't want to see war with iran either and the president should have
01:16:11.420 access to you and your ideas which are very well thought out you spend a lot of time thinking about
01:16:14.780 this and interviewing people on it it just mark levin doesn't it's his ideas or no one's that's
01:16:20.220 really where he is which is just completely bonkers and trump is not standing for it well he's trying to
01:16:25.900 create the illusion that his ideas are the only ideas and that he represents some kind of consensus
01:16:31.580 and i you know i would be willing to bet i represent the views of more americans than mark
01:16:35.420 levin does i'd be willing to bet my life actually but it's not even about that it's
01:16:39.500 mark 70 percent do not want war with iran well mark levin wants you to believe that he controls trump
01:16:44.780 and bb wants you to believe that he controls trump bb runs around the middle east telling
01:16:48.380 all the other leaders you can't talk to trump directly i control trump he's told i mean i know
01:16:52.700 that because i've talked to those leaders who told me that that's a fact okay i control trump that's what
01:16:57.740 bb tells everyone in the region you want to deal with him you deal with me and i'll bring the message
01:17:03.180 mark levin is taking the same message to the american public i control trump he's with trump at some event
01:17:07.900 a few months ago he puts his arm around he's like a little short man puts his arm around the president
01:17:12.700 united states and like pulls him in like that who does that trump doesn't like that who would like
01:17:17.820 that would try to emasculate trump exactly his message is i control trump and as someone who
01:17:24.460 knows trump very well and loves trump and always has loved trump despite getting annoyed at certain
01:17:29.180 points i you know spent a lot of time with trump that offends me you do not control trump he is an
01:17:35.020 autonomous man he's the president united states elected by the nation not by you and your irrelevant
01:17:41.020 little podcast nobody listens to or bb who's not even an american no he represents all americans all
01:17:46.940 americans of all religions stop trying to divide this country stop trying to tell me all muslims are
01:17:51.740 evil how is that better than all jews are evil it's not better it's exactly the same the message that
01:17:57.420 americans yearn for and the only path back to american strength is american unity where citizenship is the
01:18:04.060 thing that brings us together we may disagree on things but we're all in this together it's like a
01:18:08.060 marriage i may be mad at my spouse but we're still married and it's people like mark levin who are
01:18:13.100 trying to divide this country break it into its component parts so they can control it do not allow
01:18:19.100 that and the first step from my perspective is making the point that they do not mark levin and bb and
01:18:26.700 the rest of these ghouls do not control donald trump he is a free man who answers to god and the public
01:18:32.940 and i just wanted to shatter the illusion and i hope that it helped they really hate me for doing it
01:18:37.100 but sorry i'm going back because i love trump and i like going there to see him and it's interesting
01:18:41.820 and he's fun he's funny as hell and i'm an american and i'm going to continue to do that
01:18:46.860 they can't stand your influence which is kind of fun to watch and you know listen there's a reason god
01:18:53.180 put you in this position like built you up to the point where you could take on this battle tucker
01:18:57.400 and the slings and arrows coming your way which are substantial i mean truly like we've both been
01:19:02.080 through the cable news gauntlet and it really is a snake pit and and what's happening now on this
01:19:07.340 front these people are way worse than dude that was nothing compared to this media matters ever
01:19:12.880 through this we used to complain about irena briganti or whatever at fox like oh she's so bad right that
01:19:18.480 was nothing compared to what these people are like yeah whoa but last i checked i you know we look at
01:19:27.680 the podcast charts on apple all the time uh which is our biggest platform and we're you and i are
01:19:33.800 always up there we're like one and two uh one way or the other every week uh when it comes to power
01:19:38.760 house podcasts and the only one we ever really trail behind is the new york times the daily uh
01:19:43.680 sometimes what one of those other left-wingers will get in front of us but it's we're doing great
01:19:47.900 so it's not working is my point and that drives them even more crazy so just speaking truth that's
01:19:54.000 that's what gets you there amen i love talking to you my friend let's do it again soon you're the
01:19:57.900 best megan thank you very much lots of love you as well it's so good to talk to i just feel like
01:20:05.460 what's happening to tucker is unfair and um you know i hate the word unfair it's like not a healthy
01:20:11.420 word when you spend too much time thinking about how your life is unfair you become bitter but i will
01:20:17.140 just say for as a factual matter what's happening to him is unfair if you listen to tucker's show and i do
01:20:21.000 listen to his show he is very critical of israel he does not like how they try to exercise control
01:20:24.840 over us and to pull us into wars and that drives a certain segment crazy but he is not somebody out
01:20:30.180 there criticizing jews okay that's what the left not all the left just the crazy you know like and
01:20:36.860 it's not the light it's not just this is the right mark levin is on the right but it's the sort
01:20:40.320 of the very very ardently pro-israel crowd would have you believe he's he's got a problem with jews
01:20:44.960 and he doesn't he just doesn't there's just no evidence of that and there's zero evidence when it
01:20:51.180 comes to me like it's my friendship with tucker that's gotten me canceled by some segments and had
01:20:55.800 some people saying like i'm an anti-semit including mark levin calling me a neo-nazi it's ridiculous
01:21:00.040 in any event i hate talking about it makes you not want to talk about israel at all because it's like
01:21:04.360 there's no there's no upside you know this fucking crazed lunatic online crowd will come for you
01:21:09.820 because that's all they care about they don't give a shit about the united states they are israel
01:21:14.940 first so it's like you don't want to touch it like i don't want to deal with these absolute vile
01:21:19.540 bullies um but we may be going to a war with iran because they're pushing trump into it so we must
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01:22:07.180 or with whom i've had disagreements in the past to show you can get past it you know like who would
01:22:12.040 ever have expected my friendship with steve bannon right i was like it's crazy who would have thought
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01:22:24.380 have to exist in this world and i live in an ecosystem where if you can't do that you'll have
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01:26:45.460 turning now to some other headlines mayor zoran mamdani is back at the white house
01:26:54.400 as we learn more about the assault on nypd officers in his city you know by so-called kids
01:27:00.560 and another olympic men's hockey team member is getting grilled by the absolute worst woke sports
01:27:08.380 writers of america joining me now to break it all down is independent journalist evita duffy alfonso
01:27:13.740 and podcaster uh amala epinobi host of the amala epinobi podcast evita amala welcome back great to have
01:27:20.720 you thanks for having us okay let's start with um brady kachuk who is american but plays up in
01:27:27.400 canada and just got it cross-examined by some woke canadian female sportscaster i heard kk talking about
01:27:34.160 you abby murphy but you understand how they could feel pretty put down by that moment i mean i yeah i
01:27:40.660 mean i i get it i think um yeah i mean i don't really of course we're i have no really other comments
01:27:47.380 other than you know for the things that we can control and that was you know we supported them
01:27:51.780 they support us can't control about you know what other people say by far the best team um in that
01:27:57.680 tournament it was just fun um hanging out with them after you know picking their brains they're
01:28:01.980 they're picking our brains and um it was just fun to be around them why would you laugh when they
01:28:06.500 got invited i mean i i i don't really have an answer honestly um it was just a whirlwind of a moment
01:28:15.000 that like you can't really control what somebody says and and um it just i guess caught off guard
01:28:23.800 a little bit but uh i know you're talking to the president i am so sick of this shit um a lot this
01:28:31.140 is stomach turning when will it end oh my gosh who knows i'm so tired of the pc police but i think
01:28:36.420 what happens here is they represent the worst nightmare for the left here like a group of white
01:28:41.120 men who are triumphant on behalf of the u.s are being called by donald trump it was a recipe for
01:28:46.860 disaster from the start here and i think we gotta talk about the joke that donald trump made about
01:28:52.200 the women's team and use it to talk about the accomplishment of the men's team here without
01:28:57.780 setting aside that the women did really great at the olympics these men have been like in a 40 year
01:29:03.540 metal drought when it comes to hockey 46 years in fact and they broke that the men's team gets more
01:29:09.300 viewers they have more supporters this should be an amazing time to unite as americans and just
01:29:14.500 celebrate something that was awesome and of course they're gonna laugh they're in a high they're in a
01:29:19.280 moment where they've accomplished something really great and for their country and we should be able
01:29:23.760 to set aside a little joke that may or may not have been in poor taste and allow them to celebrate this
01:29:29.000 moment it's ridiculous here's the joke again for people who haven't heard it trump with the guys in the
01:29:35.020 locker room post-win what would really be cool and we'll do the white house the next day we'll just
01:29:39.840 have some fun we have medals for you guys and we have to i must tell you we're gonna have to bring
01:29:44.860 the woman's team you do know that i do believe i probably would be impeached okay
01:29:54.060 a lot of the guys said amazing said two for two two for two evita they had no problem with it and
01:30:02.420 and then he followed up with or i'd be impeached and they gave him some polite chuckles and for this
01:30:06.700 the media is ruining both the men's and the women's celebration of their gold medals i mean a lot of the
01:30:12.220 men in that room seem to be celebrating the women's victory as well like the the assumption that it's
01:30:17.600 it's it's negative and sexist is is of course intentional because they want to make everything
01:30:22.880 as amala said a victory for white men somehow a negative awful thing um and i'd like to ask just every
01:30:29.420 single person who's offended by this all the journalists all the the female athletes who are
01:30:35.160 left-wing do you guys support trans identifying men in women's sports i mean if we can have if you
01:30:41.120 guys can come to the table on that one then we can have a conversation about whether president trump
01:30:44.840 is sexist when he calls the team in the locker room to congratulate them but otherwise i just don't
01:30:49.600 want to have a conversation about it it's kind of ridiculous it's not just that canadian journalist
01:30:54.980 abby whatever her name is the canadian journalists are of course terrible because canada's so woke and
01:31:00.300 annoying um there's a guy named damian cox who writes for the toronto star wrote an op-ed there
01:31:07.660 and um he took issue with one of our players named austin matthews who plays for the toronto maple leafs
01:31:14.120 he's been playing for them for 10 years and he's very very upset that um this guy austin matthews
01:31:20.720 acted happy to win his gold medal even though he plays for a canadian team in the nhl i mean it's
01:31:29.500 ridiculous he's the op-ed is full of a long lecture for austin about how he's got two c's on his jersey
01:31:36.220 one's for canada one's for captain and that clearly he proved by going to the white house so he didn't
01:31:41.820 go to the state union he went to the white house and had the burgers with the president shook his hand
01:31:45.280 that the one c captain means more to him than the other c canada and uh had a lecture for him about
01:31:52.760 how he was allowed to celebrate it was fine for him to go to miami according to this writer but at
01:31:58.020 that point after that was all done he could have said sorry boys but i've got to go back to work
01:32:02.760 he talks about how the maple leafs really needed him and they're in serious danger of missing the
01:32:06.240 playoffs instead the arizona born pivot uh chose to jump on a plane for washington dc to accept an
01:32:12.460 invitation to visit trump he went to a luncheon posed for pictures with trump then skipped the
01:32:18.320 dog and pony state of the union address he says apparently he's blissfully unaware many athletes
01:32:23.860 and teams have declined invitations from the trump administration the entire women's hockey team
01:32:27.460 possibly insulted by the fact that trump made this joke said thanks but no thanks he preferred to
01:32:33.580 exchange his immediate return to the leafs for the opportunity to shake trump's hand when asked about
01:32:39.680 his lack of sensitivity toward canada matthews took the athletes easy way out quote i don't like to get
01:32:46.520 political or get that get into that kind of stuff he said we get it you're a proud american but not a
01:32:53.380 proud torontonian not even verbally supportive of the country that has given you the privilege of
01:32:59.640 living and working here as a non-citizen for a decade he's outraged this guy i can't i'm like
01:33:06.600 like these are for sooner or later our boys are going to have to telling you start telling everyone
01:33:11.260 to fuck off oh yeah i mean at this point and have you seen them play a game of hockey have you seen
01:33:15.760 how rough and masculine that game can be and here we are being offended by people going to visit the
01:33:20.400 president and i think we should look a little bit further into his statement not only did he say
01:33:24.580 i don't like to get political but he sort of alludes to the idea that really anybody would take up
01:33:29.760 this invitation and go to meet the president regardless of who the president is and i think what we're
01:33:34.580 falling for here is people who just like to go after trump they have tds syndrome if this was
01:33:39.960 another president under another administration we wouldn't be hearing about any of this the joke
01:33:44.700 the invitations the state of the union but because it's donald trump it sort of taints everything that
01:33:50.520 happens surrounding our sports surrounding the celebration of the u.s surrounding being a u.s
01:33:55.260 citizen this guy did nothing wrong and obviously so and now you have the american journalist just as
01:34:02.060 bad avida just as bad the new cbs completely revamped now right they're going to be more in
01:34:06.760 fair and balanced now under the new leadership you tell me here's thought 19 on their morning show
01:34:12.200 uh thursday see today cbs morning okay moving on to the members of the u.s hockey team they're
01:34:18.420 talking now about president trump's joke that did not land well for some the men's team visited the
01:34:24.120 white house tuesday after an invite from the president in a phone call to the u.s locker room after
01:34:28.920 sunday's final game the president seemed to put down the u.s women's team which had also won gold
01:34:35.580 all right so the men are taking some heat for laughing along with the president at that uh joke
01:34:41.360 the expense of the women's hockey team jack hughes says people are making something out of nothing
01:34:45.900 and both teams support each other uh the majority of the u.s men's team of course attended the state
01:34:50.320 of the union uh earlier this week the women were invited they declined they're being celebrated
01:34:55.060 why the women are being i could see why they're offended by it oh of course gail king would like
01:35:01.220 you to know they have every right evita you know at one point i so i believe that there's a lot of
01:35:05.620 tds happening right now but i think there's just an overwhelming sense of hatred of america i just saw
01:35:13.180 a gallup poll it's 92 percent of republicans are proud to be american only 38 percent of democrats i mean
01:35:19.400 that that the the disconnect that we have as a country politically it's not just that they don't
01:35:25.380 like this president it seems like they hate our country um and we have it you know from our from
01:35:30.800 outside our country too obviously with with canada and other and other you know foreign entities who
01:35:35.360 don't love america but when you have it in your own house it starts to become kind of pathological
01:35:40.100 you start to realize we have a real sickness and this is coming from all of our institutions this is
01:35:44.300 why the trump administration is constantly trying to create reforms and it's in our education system
01:35:48.700 uh in in corporate media i mean we we it's it's it's become a massive massive cancer in our society
01:35:56.020 yes it's really there's a rot and that's why they see racism in everything they see bigotry in
01:36:02.940 everything just quickly here's representative maxine dexter she's a democrat from oregon on the latest
01:36:08.820 finding of racism where it doesn't exist sat 58 please ask for the science-based regimens not
01:36:18.500 whatever rfk jr is getting kickbacks on or you know whatever whole milk um white supremacy
01:36:25.900 dog whistling that's happening right now um i'm getting a little too political but um
01:36:32.700 um pretty sure she said whole milk is white supremacy ava who knew
01:36:39.620 i i i didn't know i've been drinking whole milk i haven't uh i haven't become a white supremacist
01:36:46.380 yet i guess that's part of the problem it's just so crazy i mean we've heard the left say before
01:36:51.340 that things like working out and going to the gym regularly are uh extensions of white supremacy
01:36:56.980 we saw the smithsonian on time yes being on time saying being polite uh you know believing in any
01:37:03.280 sort of time schedule having a nuclear family these things are white supremacy you could go through a
01:37:08.580 list of just about anything throw it at a leftist and i think they would find some way to make it
01:37:13.000 racist to make it something that is indicative of you being a member of the kkk and they'll ignore
01:37:17.960 the glaring issues that exist in our society our childhood obesity rate the fact that kids are
01:37:22.860 lacking in like vitamins and nutrients that they can get from whole milk can we focus on the issue
01:37:27.400 or do we have to make everything about white supremacy and truly like pay attention we've redone
01:37:33.180 the food pyramid we are not looking at saturated fat the way we used to just do a little reading madam
01:37:37.740 um we've got to talk about zoran mamdani his absurd behavior in response to just a snowball fight
01:37:43.600 it was just a snowball fight in the park by kids which is such a lie there were it was all grown men
01:37:50.640 and some women pelting cops with ice balls with snowballs and with snowballs that had rocks in them
01:37:57.740 too i later found out um and so zoran mamdani refuses to just acknowledge what we all saw with our own
01:38:06.820 eyes and now he's doubling down on it um here's a little bit more well he was pressed on wednesday
01:38:12.080 about like some cops went to the hospital like they were bleeding they had lacerations on their face
01:38:16.880 like you're really dismissing this too too easily and too lightly and here's that and sought 56
01:38:22.220 if the nypd investigates and the da decides it's criminal are you going to seek to intervene
01:38:27.020 i've said that what i saw was a snowball fight it should be treated accordingly it was one that got out
01:38:31.500 of hand but that's what it was so mr mayor are you willing to revise your statement regarding the
01:38:36.960 snowball fight given that this was not exactly a friendly back and forth snowball fight the police
01:38:42.320 that were there were not throwing any snowballs they were getting pelted themselves and number two
01:38:48.460 have you considered or would you consider uh banning these crowdsourcing events because they can
01:38:56.140 and sometimes do get out of hand so i'm not going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball
01:39:03.340 fights uh i've i've shared my my thoughts with new yorkers he doesn't seem to care what happened to
01:39:12.420 these cops evita well it gives me a lot of ptsd from when i lived in chicago um during blm the summer
01:39:18.820 of rage 2020 and you saw the cops just continuously harassed continuously treated like absolute dirt
01:39:26.900 not supported by mayor lori lightfoot who was in charge at the time and they quit in mass and when
01:39:32.320 they quit in mass the entire city became far less safe it became a hellscape i had classmates of mine
01:39:38.720 at the university of chicago literally die they were shot on public transit uh kids pistol whipped on
01:39:44.900 their way to and from class robbed i mean it was it was horrific so what you're asking for is a deeply
01:39:52.380 unsafe new york city when you demoralize cops in the way mom donnie mom donnie is he's telling them
01:39:58.200 i'm not on your side i don't have your back when he does does nothing as they're being brazenly attacked
01:40:03.680 by radical leftists and i feel like there's something really i think overall demoralizing about a mom
01:40:09.480 donnie new york about a left-wing new york i mean we take down statues of teddy roosevelt we erect
01:40:14.420 12 foot statues of you know overweight black women in time square we had trash on the street everything
01:40:19.820 smells like weed everything smells like urine it feels intentional it feels purposely uh humiliating
01:40:25.280 and demoralizing and here is take a look at the man who just did get arrested for this because the
01:40:30.780 cops are not listening to zoran mamdani they are arresting uh the people who did this and they found
01:40:35.320 this guy uh guzmain kolabali 27 for assault and look at the size of this person this is a grown-ass man
01:40:43.460 this is not a quote kid zoran and somebody ought to throw one of these things at him see how he
01:40:49.200 likes it if he doesn't consider it an assault just kidding they shouldn't do that but i just
01:40:52.440 it's like easy for him to say oh it's just kids throwing snowballs and these guys are in the er
01:40:56.680 getting their wounds treated okay we've got to talk about fresno california which has jumped the shark
01:41:02.560 running for um city council out there someone by the name of renee campos no relation who is a
01:41:14.040 registered sex offender listen to this that's 61 i believe fresno deserves leaders that are honest
01:41:21.020 from the very beginning not the end so going into this i'm putting my life out there i've been giving
01:41:27.440 the chance to rehabilitate through the courts and back into the system let's choose somebody outside
01:41:31.980 the box somebody who knows the system from inside out because me i've experienced the laws that we
01:41:39.980 are trying to reform right now he's outside the box all right amala yeah i think we can go in other
01:41:47.200 directions if we're looking for outside the box city council members i would not uh be voting or
01:41:52.240 supporting in in this direction it's kind of outlandish but we're having a lot of uh conversations
01:41:57.440 right now about maps minor attracted persons and calling things like pedophilia disorder rather than
01:42:04.100 a crime so i'm not at all surprised that a place like fresno california would have an individual like
01:42:08.960 this trying to vie for a position in city council at the very least i guess at least they're being open
01:42:16.060 about their registry on the sex offender list so that we can avoid i mean he he he was charged with
01:42:23.160 being in possession of child sex abuse material in 2018 evita i mean this is a few years ago he was
01:42:30.040 looking at child pornography well i i did this is i mean the left does this all the time i there was a
01:42:34.900 while ago that vice did a documentary on sex offenders and they one the journalist who actually was
01:42:41.200 trying to say oh look they're not so bad they're just minor attracted persons she ended up actually
01:42:45.620 being harassed by one of these sex offenders who sent her a nude photo so i mean this is just this
01:42:51.660 is this is classic left-wing behavior and it's very dumb and i hope that they elect him because then
01:42:56.000 they'll see what it's like oh my god i'd like to think that even in the people's republic of california
01:43:01.860 they're going to say no to a registered sex offender um i mean good luck like you elevate somebody like
01:43:07.540 this and then before you know it they use that position because let's face it you don't outgrow
01:43:11.080 your desire to look at child sex abuse material so that guy's there's zero point in putting him
01:43:17.340 in a position of power i think it's a him to be honest not entirely clear couldn't say amla evita
01:43:22.040 thank you both so much great to see you and we'll we'll see you again soon i hope thanks thanks all
01:43:26.920 right we're back tomorrow with mike benz for the first time on this show thanks for listening to
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