The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1788 - Join Now! $50k To Round Up Mexicans For ICE


Summary

ICE is offering $50,000 for every illegal immigrant it deports within 7 days, and up to $200 for each immigrant being deported within seven days. Is this a scam? Or is this a real plan to get more people out of the country?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.
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00:00:07.920 about their problems, opportunities, challenges, or when they simply need advice.
00:00:12.700 How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility?
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00:00:20.540 as we hopefully help people navigate their lives.
00:00:24.080 Everyone has their own destiny. Everyone.
00:00:30.000 When I was young, when I was young and planning my career,
00:00:35.420 I got some great advice.
00:00:37.220 Find something you love to do and then figure out how to get paid for it.
00:00:42.620 Would you love to deport 11 to 16 million illegal aliens from this country?
00:00:48.300 I certainly would.
00:00:49.780 If the popular vote last November is any indication,
00:00:52.940 most Americans would love to do that too.
00:00:56.300 What if I told you that you could today,
00:00:59.000 get a $50,000 signing bonus,
00:01:03.200 a decent salary,
00:01:05.400 possible performance-based bonuses,
00:01:07.700 we'll get to that in a moment,
00:01:08.960 and even student loan repayment,
00:01:11.260 if you have student loans at all
00:01:12.880 because you don't even need a college degree,
00:01:15.780 all
00:01:16.320 to deport
00:01:18.140 a bunch of illegals,
00:01:20.100 which is something that most of us would probably do for free.
00:01:24.620 If you don't see me behind this desk tomorrow,
00:01:27.220 you will know why.
00:01:28.780 Because that is the current offer on the table from the Trump administration.
00:01:32.840 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:33.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:34.300 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:54.280 Do you remember Jim Acosta?
00:01:56.180 Jim Acosta was the real-life Ron Burgundy from CNN during the first Trump administration.
00:02:01.100 So, Acosta is no longer with CNN,
00:02:05.060 and still not helping CNN's ratings all that much,
00:02:07.220 but he's out,
00:02:08.100 he's doing his own show now,
00:02:09.780 and he decided to interview a dead teenager.
00:02:15.520 How did he do that?
00:02:16.800 Why did he do that?
00:02:17.800 We will get to that momentarily.
00:02:19.300 One of the weirdest,
00:02:21.760 most disturbing showings from mainstream media journalists,
00:02:25.100 which is saying a lot.
00:02:27.420 First, though,
00:02:29.300 I'm not joking.
00:02:30.920 I know it sounds like kind of a joke.
00:02:32.060 Hey, do you want a new job?
00:02:33.360 Well, go round up illegals.
00:02:34.580 I'm not joking.
00:02:36.120 It's funny.
00:02:36.960 It's delightful.
00:02:38.120 I'm entertained by it.
00:02:39.780 But this is a great job offer.
00:02:43.140 The Trump administration
00:02:44.100 is currently offering people
00:02:46.580 who maybe they have a college degree,
00:02:48.860 maybe you don't have a college degree,
00:02:50.900 a job with a pretty good salary.
00:02:53.160 I think the average salary for an ICE officer
00:02:56.320 is like 90 grand a year.
00:02:57.760 It starts off much lower,
00:02:59.620 but you can keep moving up,
00:03:01.200 and I think it goes all the way up to like 110, 120.
00:03:04.900 It's a pretty good salary,
00:03:07.100 plus very good benefits,
00:03:09.360 plus apparently a $50,000 signing bonus,
00:03:12.460 plus, here's the controversial part,
00:03:15.060 performance-based bonuses,
00:03:17.920 meaning,
00:03:18.740 I'm just making up a number here,
00:03:20.380 but, you know, 500 bucks for every illegal
00:03:23.180 you throw out of the country.
00:03:24.820 So you say, all right, let's go.
00:03:26.220 I'm working on commissions.
00:03:27.400 Come here, Jose.
00:03:28.680 Get over here.
00:03:29.620 He starts twirling the lasso.
00:03:31.740 This was reported in the New York Times.
00:03:34.720 So take it with a grain of salt,
00:03:35.760 but I think it actually did happen.
00:03:37.160 Tuesday morning,
00:03:38.960 ICE announced in an internal email
00:03:41.460 that it would offer cash bonuses
00:03:44.060 to agents for deporting people quickly.
00:03:47.840 So, you know, the job is to deport people.
00:03:51.300 The deportations are not going fast enough
00:03:53.400 for most of our liking.
00:03:54.520 So he's saying, look,
00:03:55.340 we'll give you cash bonuses
00:03:56.960 for every illegal head
00:03:59.240 that you toss out of the country.
00:04:00.780 Not just that you arrest,
00:04:02.640 but that you actually get deported
00:04:04.300 on the other side of the border.
00:04:06.160 So that was the internal email,
00:04:07.400 according to the New York Times.
00:04:09.260 Four hours later,
00:04:11.280 an official in the ICE field operations division,
00:04:14.320 Liana J. Castano,
00:04:15.360 wrote an email, said, please disregard.
00:04:19.040 So forget about the cash bonuses.
00:04:21.700 Forget about that for now.
00:04:23.400 Now, the $50,000 signing bonus,
00:04:25.400 that's still good.
00:04:26.160 The agency has made, apparently,
00:04:28.920 over 1,000 tentative job offers
00:04:31.520 already on these grounds.
00:04:34.160 The big, beautiful bill
00:04:35.600 that Trump just passed,
00:04:36.620 his signature legislation for this year,
00:04:39.100 has just increased ICE's annual budget
00:04:43.240 by many multiples.
00:04:44.500 It's going from $8 billion a year
00:04:46.800 to $28 billion a year.
00:04:48.760 I think that makes it
00:04:49.840 the second best funded
00:04:52.500 law enforcement agency in the country.
00:04:54.720 But here's the key paragraph.
00:04:57.260 Here's the key for this report.
00:05:00.180 The bonus program that ended on Tuesday
00:05:02.440 almost as quickly as it began
00:05:03.640 had been described as a 30-day pilot.
00:05:06.600 According to documents reviewed by the Times,
00:05:08.920 under its terms,
00:05:09.720 ICE would hand out $200 cash.
00:05:11.580 Okay, not $500, $200.
00:05:12.780 This is a fiscally responsible administration.
00:05:15.840 $200 bonuses for each immigrant deported
00:05:18.400 within seven days of being arrested
00:05:19.940 and $100 for those deported within two weeks,
00:05:23.560 according to an initial memo
00:05:25.140 signed by Ms. Castano
00:05:27.200 that was sent to the directors
00:05:28.700 and deputy directors of ICE's field offices
00:05:30.780 across the country.
00:05:32.320 What's the takeaway here?
00:05:33.560 The takeaway is
00:05:35.960 the Trump administration
00:05:37.940 clearly wants to ramp up the deportations.
00:05:42.680 Now, Trump's cynical critics,
00:05:45.920 some on the left,
00:05:47.200 who are just looking for any excuse
00:05:48.660 to attack Trump,
00:05:49.660 but also Trump's critics on the right.
00:05:51.880 There are some people on the right
00:05:52.860 who seem to exist only to be saboteurs
00:05:54.800 to the Trump administration
00:05:55.860 who are either positioning themselves
00:05:58.100 as more moderate than Trump
00:05:59.440 or even sometimes more to the right of Trump.
00:06:01.560 But all they ever seem to do
00:06:03.140 is criticize Trump
00:06:04.000 and try to gum up the works
00:06:05.460 in the most right-wing administration
00:06:07.360 that we've had
00:06:07.840 that happened to be elected
00:06:08.560 with the popular vote.
00:06:09.480 And they're very sus people.
00:06:11.440 In any case,
00:06:12.460 Trump has gotten uniform criticism
00:06:15.320 from all of them,
00:06:16.540 which is that
00:06:17.380 you promised that you'd have
00:06:18.960 mass deportations
00:06:20.040 and you lied.
00:06:20.860 We don't have mass deportations.
00:06:23.460 You,
00:06:23.720 where are the mass deportations?
00:06:25.760 In some cases,
00:06:26.660 it looks like Obama
00:06:27.580 deported people fasting,
00:06:28.800 whatever.
00:06:29.040 It's true.
00:06:32.040 The deportations
00:06:32.920 have been relatively slow
00:06:34.520 compared to the 11 to 16 million
00:06:36.520 conservatively
00:06:37.200 that we have in the country.
00:06:38.980 But is that because,
00:06:41.000 this is an open question,
00:06:41.980 is it because
00:06:42.580 the Trump administration
00:06:43.340 doesn't really seriously
00:06:44.980 want to deport these people?
00:06:46.100 Or is it because
00:06:47.060 it's very, very difficult
00:06:48.460 and there are all sorts of
00:06:50.100 opponents and bad actors
00:06:51.680 who are gumming up
00:06:52.340 the works along the way
00:06:53.180 and it's just tough job
00:06:54.340 a job to begin with
00:06:55.260 because of the policies
00:06:57.360 of Biden and Obama
00:06:59.420 that let these people
00:07:00.280 into the country
00:07:00.780 in the first place?
00:07:02.260 Seems to me,
00:07:03.120 clearly,
00:07:04.380 it's that it's a tough job
00:07:05.720 and there are all sorts
00:07:06.300 of impediments.
00:07:07.420 A lot of judges,
00:07:08.500 a lot of these random
00:07:09.160 two-bit district judges,
00:07:10.940 a lot of sanctuary city mayors
00:07:13.120 and politicians
00:07:14.040 who make it very difficult
00:07:15.500 for ICE to do its job.
00:07:16.940 But you look at
00:07:17.780 these kinds of programs,
00:07:19.580 how can you tell me
00:07:20.480 Trump doesn't want
00:07:21.040 to deport these people?
00:07:21.780 When you're increasing
00:07:24.000 the budget
00:07:24.640 three, fourfold,
00:07:28.040 when you are offering
00:07:29.880 $50,000 sign-up bonuses,
00:07:32.220 when you're offering,
00:07:33.160 and this is a great
00:07:33.860 pilot program,
00:07:34.660 and this is, I guess,
00:07:35.400 my final point on this,
00:07:37.800 $100 to $200 bounties
00:07:39.700 per head of every illegal,
00:07:41.120 that's the only way
00:07:41.860 you're going to get
00:07:42.260 this stuff done.
00:07:43.020 You need to use every incentive
00:07:44.240 you have on the table.
00:07:45.900 The most effective part
00:07:47.140 of Trump's deportation policies
00:07:48.380 thus far
00:07:48.900 has been self-deportation.
00:07:50.760 Don't forget,
00:07:51.860 there was a Center
00:07:52.820 for Immigration Studies
00:07:53.560 survey that came out
00:07:54.680 about a month ago
00:07:55.480 looking at the labor force
00:07:58.300 over the course of this year.
00:07:59.400 It found that a million
00:08:00.320 illegal aliens
00:08:00.980 had self-deported.
00:08:02.360 They had taken themselves
00:08:03.160 out of the labor force.
00:08:04.400 They'd gone back
00:08:04.900 to their countries.
00:08:05.980 Trump had been trying
00:08:06.720 to impel this
00:08:07.340 with that ICE app
00:08:08.520 that gives illegal aliens
00:08:10.180 a cash bonus
00:08:10.780 if they geolocate
00:08:12.520 in their country of origin
00:08:13.780 and prove they're not
00:08:14.480 in the U.S. anymore.
00:08:16.100 That's been by far
00:08:17.060 the most effective part of it.
00:08:18.120 And of course,
00:08:18.620 it's the cheapest,
00:08:19.620 it's the most efficient.
00:08:20.260 Sure, that's great.
00:08:21.420 But we got to use
00:08:22.400 every incentive available to us.
00:08:23.800 So I don't know
00:08:25.060 why this reported program ended,
00:08:27.680 why I said please disregard.
00:08:28.780 I think it's great.
00:08:30.520 My only criticism
00:08:31.500 of this program,
00:08:32.680 the bounties aren't high enough.
00:08:34.240 Right now,
00:08:34.580 it's 1 to 200.
00:08:35.540 Let's make it 3 to 400.
00:08:37.080 But let's ramp it up.
00:08:38.900 Trump wants to do it,
00:08:40.020 clearly.
00:08:40.780 The American people
00:08:41.740 want Trump to do it,
00:08:43.400 clearly.
00:08:44.500 Let's get it going.
00:08:45.460 OK, now,
00:08:46.780 last point on ICE.
00:08:49.580 Not only are they
00:08:50.840 spending money
00:08:51.520 hand over fist
00:08:52.180 to get the illegals
00:08:52.860 out of the country,
00:08:54.340 they are even
00:08:55.880 enlisting
00:08:57.320 Superman.
00:08:58.240 Hey, everybody.
00:09:00.640 Dean Cain here.
00:09:01.580 And for those who don't know,
00:09:03.160 I am a sworn
00:09:04.260 law enforcement officer
00:09:05.720 as well as being
00:09:06.980 a filmmaker.
00:09:08.000 I felt it was important
00:09:09.120 to join with our
00:09:09.880 first responders
00:09:10.640 to help secure
00:09:12.540 the safety
00:09:13.160 of all Americans,
00:09:14.800 not just talk about it.
00:09:15.920 So I joined up.
00:09:17.060 And here's your opportunity
00:09:18.640 to join ICE.
00:09:21.100 You can earn
00:09:21.740 lots of great benefits
00:09:23.180 and pay.
00:09:24.120 Since President Trump
00:09:25.760 took office,
00:09:26.620 ICE has arrested
00:09:27.820 hundreds of thousands
00:09:29.660 of criminals,
00:09:30.840 including terrorists,
00:09:32.240 rapists,
00:09:32.860 murderers,
00:09:33.640 pedophiles,
00:09:34.320 MS-13 gang members,
00:09:36.240 drug traffickers,
00:09:37.740 you name it.
00:09:38.400 Very dangerous people
00:09:40.160 who are no longer
00:09:41.300 on the streets.
00:09:42.540 You can defend
00:09:43.500 your homeland
00:09:44.440 and get great benefits
00:09:45.920 like a $50,000
00:09:47.660 signing bonus.
00:09:48.940 Think about that.
00:09:49.680 Student loan
00:09:50.560 repayment legally.
00:09:52.020 Enhanced
00:09:54.480 retirement benefits
00:09:56.080 and special pay
00:09:57.420 for those in the field
00:09:58.580 operations
00:09:59.160 and law enforcement roles.
00:10:02.320 This job is so good
00:10:03.960 that even Superman
00:10:05.040 is taking it.
00:10:05.800 That's very impressive.
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00:11:34.320 The Dean Cain
00:11:35.420 enlistment in ICE
00:11:36.920 is about one thing
00:11:38.260 and one thing only.
00:11:39.920 Some people are thinking,
00:11:40.660 oh, well,
00:11:40.940 Dean Cain is one of the few
00:11:41.800 conservative actors.
00:11:42.960 It's him.
00:11:43.520 It's John Voight.
00:11:44.520 There are a handful
00:11:44.880 of other people
00:11:45.660 who are Hollywood stars
00:11:48.260 who are reliable Republicans.
00:11:50.860 It's not about that.
00:11:53.360 Dean Cain's been a Republican
00:11:54.580 for a long time.
00:11:55.480 The reason that Dean Cain
00:11:57.080 is being enlisted
00:11:57.660 by the administration
00:11:58.280 right now
00:11:59.040 for this specific issue
00:12:01.920 in this specific agency
00:12:04.560 is because of James Gunn.
00:12:07.700 It's because of James Gunn
00:12:09.000 and that horrible
00:12:10.120 new Superman movie.
00:12:11.200 I'm just going to read
00:12:12.420 the variety reporting here.
00:12:14.320 Remember when Superman
00:12:15.020 came out?
00:12:15.400 This was a month ago,
00:12:16.860 less than a month ago.
00:12:18.200 James Gunn says
00:12:19.580 Superman is about
00:12:21.420 an immigrant
00:12:21.900 that came from other places
00:12:23.640 and how we've lost
00:12:25.380 the value
00:12:26.500 of basic human kindness.
00:12:29.060 Yes,
00:12:29.600 it's about politics.
00:12:32.960 Now,
00:12:33.520 that isn't true.
00:12:34.420 By the way,
00:12:34.800 that's not what Superman
00:12:35.580 is about.
00:12:36.040 Superman is a Christ
00:12:37.540 allegory.
00:12:39.520 It's a story.
00:12:41.680 It's a modern myth
00:12:43.200 and legend
00:12:43.780 about a Christ figure.
00:12:47.520 The father
00:12:48.400 sends the son
00:12:49.780 to earth
00:12:51.100 to protect
00:12:52.820 all of mankind,
00:12:54.160 to save mankind
00:12:55.100 from all of these evils
00:12:56.260 that they cannot
00:12:56.780 stop themselves.
00:12:57.560 That's obviously
00:12:57.920 what it's about.
00:12:58.380 It's not about
00:12:58.980 Paco crossing
00:13:00.660 the Rio Grande
00:13:01.460 with the help of MS-13
00:13:02.960 to go traffic
00:13:03.720 little girls or something.
00:13:04.620 That's not what
00:13:05.080 Superman's about,
00:13:05.760 believe it or not.
00:13:06.240 But the political activists,
00:13:10.200 especially on the left,
00:13:11.040 they want to make
00:13:11.500 everything about
00:13:12.220 their ideological
00:13:13.720 hobby horses.
00:13:14.480 So James Gunn says,
00:13:15.600 yeah,
00:13:15.740 the new Superman movie,
00:13:17.020 it's all about
00:13:17.700 how great illegal
00:13:18.440 immigration is.
00:13:19.680 So Trump says,
00:13:20.800 okay,
00:13:21.180 hey,
00:13:21.540 Dean,
00:13:22.160 I don't know that he
00:13:23.540 actually picked up the phone,
00:13:24.480 but this is how I'm imagining it.
00:13:25.680 Hey,
00:13:25.980 Dean,
00:13:26.780 you need to join ICE.
00:13:28.380 Yeah,
00:13:28.660 I'll give you the $50,000
00:13:29.640 sign-up bonus.
00:13:30.300 Yeah,
00:13:30.440 yeah,
00:13:30.560 yeah,
00:13:30.720 you'll get the $100
00:13:31.280 to $200 bounties per head.
00:13:32.420 But you need to counter this.
00:13:35.680 Not only are you going to disagree
00:13:38.340 with the director
00:13:40.580 of the latest
00:13:41.260 terrible Superman movie,
00:13:43.740 but you're going to go
00:13:44.880 help us round up illegals.
00:13:46.280 That's great.
00:13:46.780 That's great stuff.
00:13:48.580 The administration
00:13:49.180 has its finger
00:13:50.220 on the pulse of the culture.
00:13:51.380 That's what happens
00:13:52.060 when the president
00:13:52.720 is one of the biggest
00:13:53.660 pop culture stars
00:13:54.620 of our lifetimes,
00:13:56.260 of the last,
00:13:57.060 what,
00:13:57.220 40 years.
00:13:58.420 It's great stuff.
00:13:59.280 Now,
00:14:00.980 immigration is not
00:14:02.360 a good place
00:14:02.860 for the left
00:14:03.300 to hit the Trump administration
00:14:04.820 because it's a very
00:14:07.100 popular issue.
00:14:08.000 The deportations
00:14:08.640 are a very,
00:14:09.320 very popular issue.
00:14:10.700 It was right toward
00:14:11.860 the top of priorities
00:14:12.980 for voters in 2024
00:14:14.280 and the popular vote
00:14:16.360 goes to Trump.
00:14:16.940 So,
00:14:17.820 I think they know
00:14:18.380 they're going to lose
00:14:18.820 on that front.
00:14:19.520 They're trying out
00:14:20.120 all sorts of other issues.
00:14:23.760 Trump is,
00:14:24.600 he's going to mess up
00:14:25.720 the war in Ukraine
00:14:27.220 or in Gaza.
00:14:28.360 Ooh,
00:14:28.600 he's going to,
00:14:29.680 his trade policy
00:14:31.160 is going to be,
00:14:31.780 they're trying anything
00:14:32.620 to attack him.
00:14:33.520 Hasn't really worked thus far.
00:14:35.320 So,
00:14:35.700 one way they're going
00:14:36.240 to try to hit him now
00:14:37.060 is over
00:14:38.700 Washington,
00:14:40.580 D.C.,
00:14:40.920 the local government
00:14:42.240 of Washington,
00:14:43.120 D.C.
00:14:43.360 I know it's not
00:14:44.540 a big issue,
00:14:45.280 but they're going
00:14:45.800 to try to hit him
00:14:46.480 and prove
00:14:47.360 that he's a dictator,
00:14:48.600 an authoritarian,
00:14:49.320 a fascist
00:14:49.980 because
00:14:50.700 he doesn't want
00:14:53.640 people to be mugged
00:14:54.760 and raped
00:14:55.140 and murdered
00:14:55.620 in Washington,
00:14:56.460 D.C.
00:14:56.820 This all started
00:14:58.040 because of
00:14:59.940 Big Balls.
00:15:01.780 You know Big Balls?
00:15:02.980 Big Balls was
00:15:03.720 the Doge staffer,
00:15:06.100 the 19 or 20
00:15:07.060 young guy
00:15:07.800 who was helping
00:15:09.080 to streamline
00:15:09.760 the executive branch
00:15:10.680 of the federal government.
00:15:12.800 Big Balls
00:15:13.640 has left
00:15:14.500 the White House
00:15:15.240 and
00:15:16.220 he was apparently
00:15:17.660 just
00:15:18.100 seriously
00:15:19.400 mauled
00:15:20.200 during a D.C.
00:15:21.500 carjacking attempt
00:15:22.520 by 10
00:15:23.620 vibrant youth
00:15:24.740 who were
00:15:25.920 going out,
00:15:26.800 they were trying
00:15:27.200 to carjack someone.
00:15:29.400 I guess Big Balls
00:15:30.740 intervened
00:15:31.540 to try to help
00:15:32.200 the person
00:15:32.640 and ended up
00:15:33.620 quite bloodied
00:15:34.240 for his troubles.
00:15:35.780 Trump tweets out
00:15:36.540 about this
00:15:36.860 or posts on Truth Social.
00:15:37.860 He says,
00:15:38.320 crime in Washington,
00:15:40.080 D.C.
00:15:40.500 is totally out of control.
00:15:41.820 Local youths
00:15:42.600 and gang members,
00:15:44.200 some only 14,
00:15:45.240 15,
00:15:45.600 16 years old,
00:15:46.500 are randomly attacking,
00:15:47.700 mugging,
00:15:48.040 maiming,
00:15:48.260 and shooting
00:15:48.580 innocent citizens
00:15:49.360 at the same time
00:15:50.300 knowing that
00:15:50.860 they will
00:15:51.280 be almost
00:15:52.080 immediately released.
00:15:53.680 They are not
00:15:54.060 afraid of law enforcement
00:15:54.940 because they know
00:15:55.620 nothing ever happens
00:15:56.420 to them.
00:15:56.920 Fact check true.
00:15:57.860 But it's going
00:15:58.940 to happen now.
00:15:59.840 The law in D.C.
00:16:00.640 must be changed
00:16:01.520 to prosecute
00:16:02.500 these minors
00:16:03.100 as adults,
00:16:03.920 yes,
00:16:04.400 and lock them up
00:16:05.160 for a long time,
00:16:06.040 yes,
00:16:06.460 starting at age 14,
00:16:07.880 yes.
00:16:08.500 Harsh but fair.
00:16:09.620 I don't know
00:16:09.860 what else you're
00:16:11.020 going to do.
00:16:11.960 These people
00:16:13.580 begin their careers
00:16:14.880 in crime
00:16:15.600 at these ages,
00:16:17.260 especially when
00:16:17.780 they join gangs.
00:16:18.320 The most recent
00:16:19.260 victim was beaten
00:16:20.820 mercilessly by local
00:16:21.860 thugs.
00:16:23.040 Washington, D.C.
00:16:23.660 must be safe,
00:16:24.440 clean,
00:16:24.620 and beautiful
00:16:24.920 for all Americans
00:16:25.580 and importantly
00:16:26.280 for the world
00:16:26.800 to see if D.C.
00:16:27.760 doesn't get
00:16:28.260 its act together
00:16:28.900 and quickly
00:16:29.640 we will have
00:16:30.180 no choice
00:16:30.900 but to take
00:16:31.700 federal control
00:16:32.340 of the city
00:16:32.880 and run
00:16:34.580 this city
00:16:35.340 how it should
00:16:35.940 be run
00:16:36.360 and put criminals
00:16:36.920 on notice
00:16:37.280 that they're not
00:16:37.660 going to get
00:16:37.900 away with it
00:16:38.280 anymore.
00:16:39.200 Perhaps
00:16:39.560 it should be done,
00:16:41.120 should have been
00:16:41.520 done a long time
00:16:42.060 ago,
00:16:42.320 then this incredible
00:16:42.880 young man
00:16:43.360 and so many others
00:16:44.040 would not have had
00:16:44.940 to go through
00:16:45.360 the horrors of
00:16:45.840 violent crime.
00:16:46.360 If this continues,
00:16:46.920 I'm going to exert
00:16:47.520 my powers
00:16:47.940 and federalize
00:16:49.280 this city
00:16:49.800 and make America
00:16:50.860 great again.
00:16:51.300 So the New York
00:16:51.700 Times freaking
00:16:52.380 out about this.
00:16:54.060 Trump threatens
00:16:55.300 federal takeover
00:16:56.880 of Washington
00:16:57.680 after a member
00:16:58.900 of Doge
00:16:59.360 is assaulted.
00:17:02.000 Federal takeover.
00:17:03.340 That headline
00:17:04.060 is false.
00:17:05.240 That is fake news.
00:17:06.380 That's a lie.
00:17:07.800 Trump cannot
00:17:09.400 issue a federal
00:17:11.600 takeover
00:17:12.080 of Washington
00:17:12.700 because Washington,
00:17:14.860 D.C.
00:17:15.240 already belongs
00:17:16.360 to the federal
00:17:16.840 government.
00:17:19.100 Let me repeat
00:17:19.880 that.
00:17:20.640 Many liberals
00:17:21.300 don't seem to
00:17:21.820 understand it.
00:17:22.520 They think
00:17:22.860 Washington, D.C.
00:17:23.600 is a city
00:17:24.040 like any other
00:17:24.640 city in the
00:17:25.040 country,
00:17:25.400 like New York,
00:17:26.200 Chicago, L.A.
00:17:26.820 It is not.
00:17:27.860 It is not.
00:17:28.800 It's not a normal
00:17:29.440 city.
00:17:29.820 It's not a part
00:17:30.600 of a state.
00:17:31.180 It is part of
00:17:31.900 the federal
00:17:32.340 district,
00:17:32.960 and the federal
00:17:33.920 government owns
00:17:34.960 it.
00:17:35.600 That is federal
00:17:36.420 property,
00:17:37.000 which means it
00:17:37.580 belongs to all
00:17:38.140 of us.
00:17:38.600 Washington, D.C.
00:17:39.120 does not belong
00:17:40.000 to the local
00:17:41.500 residents of
00:17:42.040 Washington, D.C.
00:17:42.920 They don't have
00:17:45.480 any particular
00:17:46.220 right to
00:17:46.680 Washington, D.C.
00:17:47.820 If they want to
00:17:48.400 have a particular
00:17:48.960 right to their
00:17:49.480 city, go move
00:17:50.340 somewhere else.
00:17:51.080 That is not
00:17:51.720 their city.
00:17:52.300 That has never
00:17:52.900 been their city.
00:17:53.740 They don't deserve
00:17:54.520 representation in our
00:17:55.500 government.
00:17:56.080 That is our city,
00:17:57.200 city, and that's
00:17:58.160 been true all the
00:17:59.240 way back to the
00:17:59.820 framing of the
00:18:00.380 Constitution.
00:18:01.260 The Constitution,
00:18:02.640 Article 1, Section
00:18:04.440 7, I think it's,
00:18:05.920 what is it, Section
00:18:06.380 7, maybe Section
00:18:07.240 18, I don't know,
00:18:07.980 don't quote me in
00:18:08.420 the exact section,
00:18:09.360 says that Congress
00:18:11.280 runs Washington, D.C.
00:18:13.160 in all cases
00:18:14.300 whatsoever.
00:18:15.980 In all cases
00:18:17.420 whatsoever.
00:18:19.480 How did we get to
00:18:20.360 this point of
00:18:20.800 confusion where local
00:18:23.160 D.C.
00:18:23.980 residents thought
00:18:24.960 that this was their
00:18:25.720 city, that they
00:18:26.840 could do with as
00:18:27.440 they pleased and
00:18:27.940 turned into a
00:18:28.380 garbage heap if
00:18:28.980 they wanted to.
00:18:29.740 The way we got to
00:18:30.400 this confusion, it's
00:18:32.700 1973.
00:18:35.020 1973, Congress
00:18:36.920 gives D.C.
00:18:37.840 home rule.
00:18:39.200 This was a big
00:18:39.980 mistake.
00:18:40.580 You know I love
00:18:41.120 Richard Nixon.
00:18:41.980 I think he's a
00:18:43.280 highly underestimated
00:18:44.660 president.
00:18:45.200 I think he's one of
00:18:45.780 the great political
00:18:46.620 thinkers of the
00:18:47.220 20th century.
00:18:48.360 This was one little
00:18:49.100 bit of a mistake, I
00:18:50.280 think.
00:18:50.480 In retrospect, it was
00:18:51.240 a little bit of a
00:18:51.760 mistake.
00:18:52.600 D.C.
00:18:52.860 should not have
00:18:53.340 gotten home rule.
00:18:55.080 Per the Constitution,
00:18:56.300 Congress runs
00:18:56.820 D.C.
00:18:58.280 Practically speaking,
00:18:59.980 Congress had
00:19:00.920 implemented all
00:19:01.760 sorts of government
00:19:04.540 rules and
00:19:05.380 apparatchiks and
00:19:06.100 agencies over the
00:19:07.180 course of those
00:19:07.720 centuries to run
00:19:08.520 Washington, D.C.
00:19:09.940 And this is what
00:19:11.940 relates to President
00:19:13.340 Trump threatening to
00:19:14.240 take over D.C.
00:19:15.460 The president also
00:19:16.680 had a role here.
00:19:17.600 Because the
00:19:18.240 president, for over
00:19:19.100 100 years before
00:19:20.020 D.C.
00:19:20.360 home rule, the
00:19:21.120 president would
00:19:21.780 appoint a mayor or a
00:19:23.100 governor of
00:19:23.480 Washington, D.C.
00:19:24.240 So there would be a
00:19:25.400 person whose job it
00:19:26.320 was to run D.C.
00:19:28.040 But this person was
00:19:29.200 not elected by
00:19:30.340 radical leftists who
00:19:31.860 lived in D.C.
00:19:32.820 It wasn't going to be
00:19:33.520 Mayor Bowser.
00:19:35.540 It was going to be a
00:19:38.060 representative of the
00:19:38.900 federal government, as it
00:19:39.920 should be.
00:19:41.280 Now, the other thing
00:19:42.000 you're going to hear
00:19:42.280 leftists say is, well,
00:19:43.940 crime in D.C.
00:19:44.800 has come down
00:19:45.460 recently.
00:19:46.940 Not really.
00:19:47.880 Yeah.
00:19:48.260 Crime in D.C.
00:19:49.080 is down a little bit
00:19:50.080 from where it was in
00:19:50.760 2023.
00:19:52.040 But there was a huge
00:19:53.560 spike leading up to
00:19:54.520 2023.
00:19:55.300 Huge spike in crime.
00:19:56.700 And it's not just
00:19:58.120 big balls, okay?
00:19:59.440 It's also Henry
00:20:00.920 Queller.
00:20:01.380 Henry Queller is a
00:20:02.420 Democrat member of
00:20:03.400 Congress.
00:20:03.920 He was carjacked at
00:20:04.720 gunpoint by Capitol
00:20:05.680 Hill.
00:20:06.520 For those of you not
00:20:07.460 familiar with the
00:20:08.380 geography of
00:20:09.000 Washington, D.C., I'm
00:20:09.920 quite familiar with the
00:20:10.620 geography of Washington,
00:20:11.580 D.C., you have nicer
00:20:13.780 areas and less nice
00:20:14.940 areas.
00:20:15.500 See, some of the
00:20:16.140 ritziest areas would
00:20:17.140 be like Georgetown,
00:20:18.340 over here on the
00:20:19.040 west side of things.
00:20:20.220 Then, pretty nice
00:20:21.060 area by the White
00:20:21.820 House.
00:20:22.520 Capitol Hill is a
00:20:23.140 little less nice in
00:20:23.800 those areas.
00:20:24.380 But still, it's
00:20:24.920 Capitol Hill.
00:20:25.420 You have a lot of
00:20:25.820 lawmakers there.
00:20:26.520 It should be kind of
00:20:27.600 nice.
00:20:27.880 A lot of staffers.
00:20:28.660 There were some
00:20:29.260 bougie bars.
00:20:31.100 A member of
00:20:31.780 Congress is carjacked
00:20:33.100 at gunpoint at
00:20:33.780 Capitol Hill.
00:20:35.240 Northeast D.C.
00:20:36.080 is a war zone.
00:20:37.240 But even by
00:20:38.480 Capitol Hill, around
00:20:40.500 the same time that
00:20:41.180 that happened, this
00:20:42.000 was within the last
00:20:42.460 couple of years,
00:20:43.820 Naomi Biden, the
00:20:45.320 granddaughter of
00:20:46.160 the then-president of
00:20:47.520 the United States,
00:20:48.340 was carjacked in
00:20:51.520 Georgetown.
00:20:52.940 Georgetown is like
00:20:53.820 the nicest part of
00:20:54.700 Washington, D.C.
00:20:56.300 Was carjacked in
00:20:57.260 Georgetown.
00:20:57.840 It was a Secret
00:20:58.600 Service vehicle.
00:21:00.000 The guy opened up
00:21:01.880 the Secret Service
00:21:02.400 vehicle.
00:21:03.100 A Secret Service
00:21:04.180 agent reportedly
00:21:05.360 fired shots at this
00:21:07.000 guy.
00:21:07.480 Didn't get him.
00:21:08.520 The guy gets away
00:21:09.400 with it.
00:21:09.640 Eventually, I think he
00:21:10.200 was arrested.
00:21:10.960 But the guy gets
00:21:11.860 away with it.
00:21:12.420 In the immediate
00:21:13.460 aftermath, this is the
00:21:14.840 granddaughter of the
00:21:15.500 president in a Secret
00:21:16.440 Service vehicle in
00:21:17.280 Georgetown.
00:21:18.500 Obviously, something's
00:21:19.500 going wrong in D.C.
00:21:21.700 The question is, if
00:21:23.420 you're President Trump,
00:21:24.420 are you just going to
00:21:25.040 let that happen?
00:21:26.640 Are you going to
00:21:27.820 ignore the letter and
00:21:29.540 spirit, but also
00:21:30.460 letter of the
00:21:31.140 Constitution?
00:21:32.020 Are you going to
00:21:32.780 ignore the fact that
00:21:34.800 Washington is the
00:21:35.720 national capital and
00:21:36.880 that the people of the
00:21:37.980 United States, all of
00:21:38.980 the United States, have a
00:21:40.060 right to it, and the
00:21:43.120 politicians who work in
00:21:44.320 D.C. need to have a
00:21:45.460 safe city?
00:21:46.240 Are you going to do
00:21:47.040 that, or are you
00:21:48.360 going to embrace some
00:21:51.020 false notion of
00:21:52.540 democracy?
00:21:53.540 Are you going to
00:21:54.060 contradict the
00:21:54.680 Constitution, and are
00:21:55.940 you going to be on
00:21:57.860 the side of the
00:21:58.320 gangsters?
00:21:58.940 That's it.
00:21:59.540 Are you on the side
00:22:00.180 of the innocent
00:22:00.600 people?
00:22:01.240 Are you on the side
00:22:01.700 of the victims?
00:22:02.280 Are you on the side
00:22:02.700 of the Constitution?
00:22:04.420 Or are you on the
00:22:05.160 side of D.C.
00:22:07.140 thug, gun-wielding,
00:22:08.760 carjacking
00:22:10.300 gangsters?
00:22:11.920 Which is it?
00:22:12.860 Democrats have
00:22:13.540 picked a side.
00:22:15.680 As usual, they're on
00:22:17.640 the side of the
00:22:18.680 criminals and the
00:22:20.300 violent people, and
00:22:22.960 they're against the
00:22:23.940 Constitution.
00:22:25.200 What Trump is doing
00:22:25.940 here?
00:22:26.480 This shouldn't even be
00:22:27.140 a headline.
00:22:28.840 Trump threatens to
00:22:30.220 do the thing that the
00:22:31.420 Constitution tells him
00:22:32.780 to do.
00:22:35.700 Trump threatens to
00:22:37.240 act in the
00:22:40.760 politics of D.C.
00:22:41.840 as the political
00:22:42.640 order is actually
00:22:43.460 set.
00:22:43.820 Okay.
00:22:45.000 Okay, yeah, he is.
00:22:46.660 I think that will be
00:22:47.720 pretty popular, actually.
00:22:48.940 Now, speaking of
00:22:50.440 Trump improving
00:22:51.340 Washington, D.C.,
00:22:53.060 this is a little bit
00:22:54.560 late.
00:22:55.380 It's about a day late
00:22:56.180 here, but it's a very
00:22:56.860 important story, because
00:22:57.960 Trump just hopped up on
00:22:58.920 the roof of the White
00:22:59.560 House and gave an
00:23:00.380 impromptu press
00:23:01.100 conference while he was
00:23:02.000 surveying the land.
00:23:03.060 We'll get to what that
00:23:03.660 was about in a second.
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00:24:41.720 walking around on the
00:24:43.360 roof of the White
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00:24:45.380 Here are his answers.
00:24:46.920 Thank goodness for AI
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00:24:51.860 what he's saying.
00:24:53.480 Be good, Peter.
00:24:55.400 Are you going to
00:24:56.300 build up higher?
00:25:00.680 What does that mean?
00:25:02.860 What do you mean?
00:25:04.000 There's more ways to
00:25:05.040 spend my money.
00:25:06.480 Can you give us another
00:25:07.440 thing?
00:25:09.080 I will let those go.
00:25:10.540 It's just another way to
00:25:11.940 spend my money for the
00:25:13.100 country.
00:25:13.860 Okay, so Trump, they're
00:25:17.440 walking on the roof of
00:25:19.060 the White House.
00:25:19.960 You can hear reporters
00:25:21.620 yelling at him.
00:25:22.360 He's yelling at
00:25:22.780 reporters.
00:25:23.240 He refers to Peter, Peter
00:25:24.420 Ducey.
00:25:24.960 I think you hear Mary
00:25:25.660 Margaret Olihan there,
00:25:26.940 Daily Wire's own Mary
00:25:27.740 Margaret, and he's just
00:25:29.840 responding.
00:25:30.440 He said, huh, what?
00:25:31.700 I'm just out here for a
00:25:33.520 stroll.
00:25:34.720 But then he says, I'm
00:25:35.760 looking at other ways to
00:25:37.480 spend my money for the
00:25:40.120 country.
00:25:42.800 What does he mean by
00:25:43.680 that?
00:25:43.860 I'll tell you what he's
00:25:44.380 doing.
00:25:45.400 He's looking at all of
00:25:48.160 the improvements he's
00:25:48.880 making to the White
00:25:49.460 House.
00:25:50.200 Namely, he built a nice
00:25:53.660 big flagpole on the
00:25:56.940 North and South
00:25:57.440 lawns.
00:25:58.640 He built, he fixed the
00:26:01.300 Rose Garden, which was
00:26:02.860 getting very muddy and
00:26:03.880 hard to walk through.
00:26:05.300 He put a nice little
00:26:06.580 terrace on there.
00:26:07.560 And he's building a new
00:26:09.080 ballroom where the East
00:26:11.920 Wing of the White House
00:26:12.680 had been, it had been
00:26:13.580 built, basically, as
00:26:14.440 cover for a bomb shelter,
00:26:15.540 actually, initially by
00:26:16.420 FDR.
00:26:17.360 And then it was, then
00:26:18.680 Jimmy Carter's wife turned
00:26:19.820 it into her offices, and
00:26:20.900 he says, no, we need a
00:26:21.680 real nice big ballroom.
00:26:23.520 So he's building a
00:26:24.960 ballroom, and he's
00:26:25.920 doing it, apparently,
00:26:28.000 with his own money and
00:26:29.020 with some money that he's
00:26:29.760 going to raise from
00:26:30.200 private donors, so it's
00:26:31.000 not going to cost the
00:26:31.540 taxpayers anything.
00:26:32.920 And so he's joking.
00:26:33.620 He said, what am I
00:26:34.060 doing?
00:26:34.280 I'm doing the same thing
00:26:34.860 I've been doing for
00:26:35.360 months now.
00:26:35.880 I'm spending my own
00:26:36.500 money to improve this
00:26:37.380 place as a gift to
00:26:38.140 America.
00:26:39.520 And he's not even just
00:26:41.260 signing the check.
00:26:42.120 What I love about this
00:26:43.140 is he's getting up there
00:26:45.020 like a general
00:26:45.780 contractor.
00:26:46.560 You know, he's getting
00:26:47.240 up there like a New
00:26:48.280 York real estate guy with
00:26:49.880 very particular tastes.
00:26:51.380 And as a New Yorker
00:26:52.540 with very particular
00:26:53.300 tastes, I truly can
00:26:54.460 appreciate that.
00:26:55.160 He's getting up there
00:26:55.980 and he's like, yeah,
00:26:56.940 okay, we're going to
00:26:57.540 need a little bit.
00:26:58.840 It's going to have to
00:26:59.340 be, it's going to
00:26:59.920 neoclassical.
00:27:00.940 We're going to need,
00:27:01.780 okay, can't go higher
00:27:02.800 than this.
00:27:03.360 We've got to make sure
00:27:04.180 we don't want it to look
00:27:05.900 discordant with that
00:27:06.960 building over there.
00:27:07.920 And hold on, and I
00:27:08.600 want it to be this
00:27:09.240 material.
00:27:10.440 And this is a man in
00:27:13.480 his element.
00:27:15.420 This is a man in his
00:27:16.560 element.
00:27:16.820 I don't know that Trump
00:27:19.780 is sitting, pouring
00:27:21.280 over the philosophy of
00:27:23.200 Donoso Cortez and
00:27:24.480 Josef de Mestre.
00:27:26.000 I don't know that
00:27:27.220 President Trump gets
00:27:28.300 into the weeds on every
00:27:29.520 wonky little part of
00:27:30.880 every, every regulation
00:27:33.240 or bill that comes out
00:27:34.140 of Congress.
00:27:35.000 I don't, but this is a
00:27:37.380 man in his element.
00:27:39.100 We're going to make this,
00:27:40.260 this property, this
00:27:41.760 iconic property in
00:27:42.940 America, look beautiful
00:27:44.160 again.
00:27:44.480 And it's going to look
00:27:45.620 beautiful and proper.
00:27:46.840 And that's going to set
00:27:47.420 the tone for the rest
00:27:49.380 of Washington, which
00:27:50.180 we're also going to help
00:27:51.240 to rebuild and make
00:27:52.080 beautiful again, going
00:27:53.260 back to the executive
00:27:54.060 order from the first
00:27:54.740 administration, make
00:27:56.040 federal buildings
00:27:57.100 beautiful again, act.
00:27:58.280 And we're going to, I'm
00:28:01.100 going to show you
00:28:01.500 exactly how to do it.
00:28:03.320 This is a guy that I
00:28:05.420 would trust to renovate
00:28:06.820 my house.
00:28:07.820 I would not, I'm very
00:28:08.860 anti-renovation.
00:28:09.880 I'm very anti-putting
00:28:10.960 additions onto homes
00:28:11.860 because if the home
00:28:13.280 starts out with
00:28:13.860 beautiful architecture,
00:28:14.480 and I'm very sensitive
00:28:15.520 to this, I hate
00:28:16.400 modern architecture.
00:28:17.820 Even when they try to
00:28:18.780 make it nice, they use
00:28:19.520 cheap materials and
00:28:20.300 they cut corners and
00:28:21.040 they just cater to the
00:28:22.400 most basic, quasi-
00:28:26.180 bourgeois, comfort-seeking
00:28:28.760 bad taste.
00:28:31.360 I just don't like it,
00:28:32.500 okay?
00:28:32.860 I would much rather live
00:28:34.120 in a beautiful,
00:28:34.880 tasteful hovel than
00:28:36.100 one of these giant
00:28:37.240 McMansion, you know,
00:28:39.120 vomit-inducing
00:28:40.260 monstrosities.
00:28:41.620 Can I, am I putting
00:28:42.760 too fine a point on it?
00:28:43.580 I don't think I have.
00:28:45.280 And so I'm very
00:28:46.720 anti, oh yeah,
00:28:49.060 put an addition here,
00:28:50.140 fix this root wall
00:28:51.220 to change out the
00:28:52.180 doors.
00:28:52.520 Because all the new
00:28:53.260 stuff is uglier than
00:28:54.120 the old stuff.
00:28:54.740 That's the problem.
00:28:56.380 Every so often you say,
00:28:57.300 okay, I would trust that
00:28:57.960 guy.
00:28:59.420 Okay, I would trust,
00:29:00.000 and that's how I feel
00:29:00.940 about Trump.
00:29:01.680 And it gets to a
00:29:02.960 broader political point.
00:29:03.640 It's not just about
00:29:04.120 buildings and flagpoles.
00:29:04.920 When it comes to
00:29:06.920 Trump, yes, he's a
00:29:09.220 human being.
00:29:10.200 Sometimes he gets
00:29:10.820 things wrong.
00:29:11.340 I say he's got a
00:29:12.000 99.4% accuracy rate.
00:29:15.240 But there were some
00:29:16.160 initiatives from the
00:29:16.760 first term that I
00:29:18.160 felt, ah, that wasn't
00:29:19.060 great.
00:29:19.520 Even a little bit,
00:29:21.120 sometimes there's a
00:29:21.960 personnel pick.
00:29:22.560 I say, is that, I
00:29:23.140 don't know, is that the
00:29:23.580 best choice?
00:29:24.540 Yeah, that's going to
00:29:25.360 happen.
00:29:26.880 But the reason that I
00:29:28.160 don't freak out every
00:29:30.420 time some new initiative
00:29:31.800 is announced, every time
00:29:32.900 there's some new, Trump
00:29:34.680 says something that
00:29:35.300 seems to contradict a
00:29:36.220 position that either I
00:29:37.560 hold or that he's
00:29:38.940 campaigned on or
00:29:39.580 whatever.
00:29:39.920 The reason I don't
00:29:40.520 freak out, lose my
00:29:41.440 mind, and start crying
00:29:42.200 and whining and
00:29:42.900 screaming like so many
00:29:44.900 people do on the
00:29:46.080 right is because when
00:29:48.640 everything shakes out,
00:29:50.920 his judgment's been
00:29:51.680 pretty good.
00:29:52.780 It's been better than
00:29:53.700 pretty good, actually.
00:29:54.820 And so I just think,
00:29:55.520 that's why I'm a
00:29:56.200 plan truster, okay?
00:29:57.120 I am a board-certified,
00:29:59.880 official, licensed
00:30:00.980 plan truster.
00:30:02.900 Yes, you got to make
00:30:04.600 criticisms when they're
00:30:05.560 due, yes, sometimes
00:30:07.560 things can go wrong and
00:30:08.520 you got to try to guide
00:30:09.860 things in the right
00:30:10.320 direction, but broadly
00:30:11.240 speaking, I would let
00:30:12.820 that guy renovate my
00:30:13.640 house, and we are
00:30:15.940 letting him renovate the
00:30:16.740 people's house, and we're
00:30:17.400 letting him renovate what
00:30:18.560 the people's house
00:30:19.020 represents.
00:30:19.920 Now, what does that
00:30:21.300 look like?
00:30:22.900 Even all this trade war
00:30:24.640 stuff, we were
00:30:26.120 wondering, okay, is it
00:30:27.300 about getting better
00:30:27.960 trade deals?
00:30:28.940 Is it about bringing
00:30:30.400 jobs back to America?
00:30:31.540 Is it about, I don't
00:30:33.840 know, raising revenue
00:30:34.960 from the tariffs?
00:30:37.440 What's it about?
00:30:38.020 What's he doing?
00:30:38.700 Is he going to destroy
00:30:39.380 the bond market?
00:30:40.380 Is he going to destroy
00:30:41.180 the global economy?
00:30:42.280 Is he going to, all
00:30:42.840 these people, whine,
00:30:44.120 whine, whine.
00:30:45.580 And I said, I don't
00:30:46.560 know.
00:30:47.180 I said, I don't know.
00:30:48.120 Good luck.
00:30:48.480 I'm not pretending that
00:30:49.540 I can read his mind.
00:30:51.060 I think it's probably
00:30:52.060 about getting better
00:30:52.720 trade deals, but I
00:30:54.500 don't know.
00:30:54.920 It's unpredictable.
00:30:55.920 He's difficult to read.
00:30:57.440 And I'm sure that's
00:30:58.440 what foreign leaders are
00:30:59.840 saying as well.
00:31:00.500 Well, we're getting
00:31:01.240 a clearer view of
00:31:02.000 things.
00:31:03.160 We're getting a clearer
00:31:03.960 view.
00:31:05.000 It seems to me that all
00:31:06.480 the trade war stuff is
00:31:07.400 about getting better
00:31:08.220 trade deals.
00:31:09.180 It's about bringing in
00:31:10.080 a little bit of
00:31:10.500 revenue.
00:31:11.860 It's about getting
00:31:12.720 better trade deals.
00:31:13.940 You remember just the
00:31:14.740 other day, he said, I
00:31:15.360 don't know if I can make
00:31:15.840 a trade deal with
00:31:16.400 Canada because they're
00:31:17.060 going to recognize
00:31:17.500 Palestine.
00:31:18.460 And yet all these, the
00:31:19.500 panic hands, all these
00:31:20.680 people whining and
00:31:21.440 screaming saying, Trump's
00:31:22.220 being led around by
00:31:22.940 Israel.
00:31:23.420 He's prioritizing
00:31:24.100 Israeli interests before
00:31:24.980 American interests.
00:31:25.780 I said, you people are
00:31:26.780 like a broken record.
00:31:27.960 When you're a hammer,
00:31:28.680 everything looks like a
00:31:29.340 nail.
00:31:29.740 Not everything is about
00:31:30.600 the state of Israel.
00:31:32.260 So the way you know
00:31:33.120 that Trump's trade deal
00:31:34.360 with Canada has really
00:31:36.240 nothing to do with
00:31:37.160 Israel, that that's just
00:31:38.820 a negotiating tactic and
00:31:40.140 an excuse, is that Trump
00:31:41.680 just signed trade deals
00:31:42.640 with England and with the
00:31:44.820 European Union after
00:31:46.300 England and Macron in
00:31:48.420 France both said they
00:31:49.840 were going to recognize
00:31:50.420 a Palestinian state.
00:31:51.300 Both said that they were
00:31:51.980 going to do exactly the
00:31:52.800 same thing that Canada
00:31:53.460 says it's going to do.
00:31:54.400 Trump's side's a trade
00:31:55.120 deal with those guys, no
00:31:55.960 problem.
00:31:57.120 Now he's saying it's a
00:31:57.880 problem with Canada.
00:31:58.800 It's obviously not.
00:31:59.700 He's just trying to get a
00:32:00.380 better deal.
00:32:01.520 Doesn't take a genius,
00:32:02.640 doesn't take a rocket
00:32:03.300 scientist to see that.
00:32:04.940 If you are a fanatic
00:32:06.320 ideologue where everything
00:32:07.880 is monocausal and it all
00:32:09.140 has to come back to
00:32:09.880 whatever your hobby horse
00:32:10.880 is, be it Israel or
00:32:11.760 something else, then you
00:32:13.400 get confused and you
00:32:14.420 start crying and you
00:32:15.220 want.
00:32:15.600 But that's obviously not
00:32:16.980 what's going on here.
00:32:18.080 Trump wants a good deal
00:32:19.120 for America.
00:32:19.720 Trump wants to raise
00:32:23.180 money.
00:32:23.760 Trump wants America to
00:32:26.080 get ours.
00:32:26.760 That's what he means by
00:32:27.560 putting America's
00:32:28.080 interests first.
00:32:28.980 So this then raises one
00:32:30.240 question.
00:32:31.720 Okay, how is he going to
00:32:32.780 make good on bringing
00:32:33.940 jobs back to America?
00:32:35.320 Because if all the trade
00:32:36.800 war stuff is just about
00:32:38.540 getting a better deal,
00:32:39.720 maybe raising a little
00:32:40.480 bit of money on the
00:32:42.040 tariffs, maybe just about
00:32:43.520 reducing trade barriers
00:32:44.740 to other countries, well
00:32:46.360 then how are we going to
00:32:47.100 bring the jobs back?
00:32:47.880 Because that's the third
00:32:48.840 potential objective of
00:32:50.100 the tariffs and that only
00:32:51.940 works if, that only really
00:32:53.960 works in a big way if you
00:32:56.040 don't get the better trade
00:32:57.580 deals because that means
00:32:58.640 that we're just going to
00:32:59.900 have to manufacture more
00:33:00.760 in America and it's going
00:33:01.400 to cost a little bit more
00:33:02.100 but that's how it goes.
00:33:03.320 That only really works if
00:33:04.780 you don't raise a lot of
00:33:05.900 money from the tariffs
00:33:06.700 because if you're raising
00:33:08.160 a lot of money from the
00:33:08.760 tariffs, it means you're
00:33:09.260 still importing all those
00:33:10.060 goods.
00:33:10.720 It means those goods aren't
00:33:11.940 necessarily being made in
00:33:12.860 America.
00:33:13.420 So what about that?
00:33:14.220 Is Trump abandoning his
00:33:17.500 campaign promise to try to
00:33:18.780 bring jobs back for
00:33:19.660 American manufacturing
00:33:20.780 workers?
00:33:22.200 No, not in my read of
00:33:24.760 things, but the way that he
00:33:26.420 is going to achieve that
00:33:27.280 objective is not through the
00:33:28.960 tariffs directly.
00:33:29.960 The way he's going to
00:33:30.720 achieve that objective is by
00:33:32.460 bullying companies into
00:33:34.300 investing in America as he
00:33:35.700 did yesterday with Apple,
00:33:37.260 one of the great American
00:33:37.940 companies, one of the
00:33:38.560 biggest companies ever on
00:33:39.640 the face of the earth.
00:33:40.560 He did this with Tim Cook
00:33:42.640 in the White House,
00:33:43.420 ultimately in the Oval
00:33:44.080 Office.
00:33:44.380 Today, Apple is announcing
00:33:47.100 that it will invest 600
00:33:49.640 billion dollars, that's
00:33:51.200 with a B, in the United
00:33:53.400 States over the next four
00:33:54.600 years.
00:33:55.060 That's 100 billion dollars
00:33:57.140 more than they were
00:33:58.180 originally going to invest.
00:34:01.180 And this is the largest
00:34:02.080 investment Apple has ever
00:34:03.540 made in America and anywhere
00:34:06.240 else.
00:34:06.920 And it's just an honor to
00:34:08.400 have you.
00:34:08.840 As you know, Apple's been an
00:34:10.100 investor in other countries a
00:34:11.400 little bit.
00:34:11.720 I won't say which ones, but
00:34:13.000 a couple.
00:34:14.480 And they're coming, they're
00:34:16.860 coming home.
00:34:18.280 Six hundred billion dollars.
00:34:19.840 It's the biggest there is.
00:34:22.380 The company is also unveiling
00:34:23.740 its ambitious new American
00:34:25.100 manufacturing program, which
00:34:26.720 will bring factories and
00:34:28.000 assembly lines across our
00:34:29.440 country, all roaring to
00:34:31.340 life.
00:34:32.180 There it is.
00:34:33.140 There you have it.
00:34:33.720 We are going to get six
00:34:38.000 hundred billion dollars in
00:34:39.940 the U.S.
00:34:40.620 over the next four years.
00:34:43.360 Talk about talk about the man
00:34:44.360 and his element.
00:34:45.020 This is it.
00:34:46.560 This is what Trump is
00:34:48.300 interested in.
00:34:50.080 Trump is interested in
00:34:52.360 getting all the best stuff
00:34:55.280 for America.
00:34:57.480 That's it.
00:34:58.440 And that sounds like really
00:34:59.600 low level analysis, but
00:35:01.520 there's more to it than it
00:35:02.860 sounds.
00:35:04.540 Because a lot of people who
00:35:06.200 think purely ideologically
00:35:07.480 think, well, Trump wants to
00:35:09.940 get this good thing for
00:35:11.420 America, but not necessarily
00:35:12.780 this other good thing, because
00:35:13.780 that actually contradicts the
00:35:15.240 ideological principle and
00:35:16.740 axiom that is undergirding the
00:35:17.980 first good thing.
00:35:18.740 So, you know, we're not
00:35:20.120 going to, we're going to just
00:35:22.520 pursue the ideology of
00:35:23.600 libertarianism.
00:35:24.620 We're going to pursue the
00:35:25.320 ideology of nationalism.
00:35:26.680 We're going to pursue the
00:35:27.760 ideology of globalism or
00:35:29.020 neoconservatism or this and
00:35:29.980 that.
00:35:30.080 That's not how Trump
00:35:31.760 thinks.
00:35:33.940 And he is not a slave to
00:35:35.960 some egghead ideology on a
00:35:38.000 sheet of paper.
00:35:39.720 So, he says, yeah, we're
00:35:41.520 going to be nationalists when
00:35:43.140 it comes to enforcing our
00:35:44.080 borders.
00:35:44.980 We're going to be imperialists
00:35:46.360 when it comes to taking
00:35:47.380 Greenland and maybe Canada.
00:35:50.420 Yeah, we're going to be
00:35:52.100 protectionists when it comes
00:35:54.160 to protecting American
00:35:55.140 manufacturing.
00:35:55.820 But we're going to be free
00:35:56.960 traders when it comes to
00:35:58.360 getting our goods that we
00:35:59.620 manufacture into other
00:36:00.700 markets.
00:36:02.620 Yeah, we're going to be,
00:36:04.340 we're going to be free
00:36:06.160 marketeers when it comes to
00:36:08.460 holding China responsible
00:36:10.440 for illegally propping up
00:36:12.000 some of its industry.
00:36:14.180 But we are going to, we're
00:36:16.880 going to get involved in
00:36:17.820 making sure that American
00:36:18.740 industry does things that are
00:36:19.680 good for America.
00:36:22.360 We're going to do what is
00:36:24.500 best for America.
00:36:26.000 Not outside the bounds of
00:36:27.100 morality, not controversial,
00:36:28.460 but, but yes, outside the
00:36:30.700 bounds of cheap, weak, lame,
00:36:35.560 egghead, modernist,
00:36:37.380 rationalist, political
00:36:38.860 ideologies.
00:36:39.740 Yeah.
00:36:40.620 Trump is not an ideologue.
00:36:42.060 That, that's the man in his
00:36:43.220 element.
00:36:45.240 It seems to me the man would
00:36:46.660 much rather be on the roof of
00:36:47.920 the White House surveying what
00:36:49.340 kind of material they're going
00:36:51.280 to be using to build the
00:36:52.320 ballroom and how beautiful the
00:36:54.000 ballroom is going to be.
00:36:55.100 He would much rather be doing
00:36:56.300 that than, you know, all cozy
00:36:59.180 by the fireplace reading the
00:37:00.860 political liberalism of John
00:37:02.240 Rawls.
00:37:03.280 Okay.
00:37:03.920 And good.
00:37:04.360 I'm glad for that.
00:37:05.220 I'm really glad for that.
00:37:06.940 That's the kind of stuff we
00:37:07.940 need.
00:37:09.180 But what is the ideological
00:37:10.560 basis for getting Apple to
00:37:12.580 invest more in this country?
00:37:13.560 There was a scene where Tim
00:37:14.400 Cook in the Oval Office says,
00:37:16.260 Mr.
00:37:16.540 President, we're, we're
00:37:18.000 presenting you with this plaque.
00:37:21.300 I don't know.
00:37:21.500 It was like a glass plaque.
00:37:22.460 It's a Trump and it was on a
00:37:23.800 solid gold base.
00:37:25.500 24 karat gold is very nice
00:37:26.740 gold base.
00:37:27.420 And people were making fun of
00:37:28.600 Tim Cook.
00:37:28.920 They said this man, he looks
00:37:30.060 so obsequious.
00:37:31.080 He looks like he's paying
00:37:32.640 tribute to the King Donald
00:37:34.080 Trump.
00:37:34.480 And this is unseemly.
00:37:35.560 And this is.
00:37:35.880 I think we could use a little
00:37:39.780 more of that because you know
00:37:40.980 what's been happening in recent
00:37:42.080 decades.
00:37:43.480 All of the American
00:37:44.960 corporations have been bending
00:37:48.080 over backwards, trying to
00:37:49.740 flatter and impress and buy off
00:37:52.980 the leaders of other countries.
00:37:57.020 It's not that all of a sudden
00:37:58.680 now they're, they're giving
00:38:00.020 gifts and great shows of respect
00:38:01.980 and reverence to a world leader.
00:38:03.660 And that's a big, horrible
00:38:04.420 change.
00:38:04.800 No, no, they've just been
00:38:05.560 doing it to Xi Jinping.
00:38:07.560 I would like them to do it to
00:38:09.300 the United States.
00:38:10.520 I would like them to be more
00:38:12.320 interested in currying favor with
00:38:13.560 the United States through the
00:38:15.480 person of not, not for the
00:38:17.100 personal benefit of, but through
00:38:18.400 the person of Donald Trump, who
00:38:21.120 is in this instance acting not as
00:38:24.080 a private citizen, but as the
00:38:25.060 representative of the American
00:38:26.100 people, most of whom wanted him
00:38:28.800 to be president and express that
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00:39:15.480 My favorite comment yesterday is
00:39:16.980 from DePap93.
00:39:18.780 It says, I'm a Guatemalan in
00:39:20.660 Guatemala.
00:39:21.560 Please just keep her for yourselves.
00:39:23.300 I think you're referring to that
00:39:27.720 awful woman.
00:39:28.400 I don't even remember her name, and
00:39:29.580 I don't want to remember her name,
00:39:31.080 that awful woman, the Democrat
00:39:33.880 Congress lady who was in Mexico
00:39:35.620 City for the Pan-American
00:39:36.620 Conference, and she said, I am, she
00:39:39.000 said it in Spanish, she said, I am a
00:39:40.820 Guatemalan before I am an American.
00:39:44.260 I said, get her back to Guatemala.
00:39:45.460 No.
00:39:45.760 Well, the Guatemalans who listen to
00:39:47.160 this show, they say, please don't.
00:39:48.900 Leave her in America.
00:39:50.200 Also, I have to make a correction.
00:39:51.720 I just said that Trump is right
00:39:53.520 99.7% of the time.
00:39:55.120 I like to flatter myself and say
00:39:57.340 that I have a similar accuracy
00:39:58.660 rate, but I did get something
00:40:00.840 wrong yesterday.
00:40:01.580 Elisa pointed this out.
00:40:03.360 I was referring to the Democrat
00:40:06.720 Congress lady, Katie Porter, who I
00:40:09.460 guess is interested in running for
00:40:10.920 governor of California, and I said,
00:40:13.380 you know, she's the one that got
00:40:14.200 caught up in that freaky sex
00:40:15.460 scandal.
00:40:16.820 I got my California Democrat lady
00:40:21.500 congressman mixed up.
00:40:23.100 I meant to refer to Katie Hill.
00:40:25.420 I think that's her name, Katie Hill,
00:40:26.940 the one who, she kind of defended
00:40:28.840 Matt Gaetz sometimes, and she was
00:40:30.460 doing weird, like, threesome stuff.
00:40:32.440 It was all public.
00:40:33.020 I'm not revealing private sins.
00:40:34.680 And, but Katie Porter, she is,
00:40:37.880 there are a lot of problems with
00:40:38.580 Katie Porter.
00:40:39.060 She ain't that.
00:40:40.340 She's, I don't, one does not imagine
00:40:42.640 her engaging in that kind of stuff.
00:40:43.900 So anyway, my apologies to Katie
00:40:46.480 Porter.
00:40:46.760 She's awful for totally different
00:40:48.380 reasons, but she's not, she's not
00:40:51.460 the sex freak Democrat, California
00:40:53.860 Congress lady.
00:40:54.680 She's, she's the other one.
00:40:56.160 Okay.
00:40:59.640 Now we have to get to a truly
00:41:01.800 disturbing story.
00:41:03.300 You remember Jim Acosta.
00:41:05.700 Jim Acosta was the real life Ron
00:41:08.540 Burgundy from the first Trump term.
00:41:10.220 He worked for CNN.
00:41:11.620 He actually came up to college to
00:41:13.500 interview me one time when I was an
00:41:15.220 undergraduate many moons ago.
00:41:16.540 It was the first time I met Jim
00:41:17.380 Acosta.
00:41:18.380 It's kind of funny.
00:41:19.060 That's, that's a little lore that
00:41:20.220 exists out there on YouTube or
00:41:21.820 something, but he, he was a true,
00:41:24.340 I'm a newsman.
00:41:25.740 I'm an establishment legacy media
00:41:27.760 newsman.
00:41:29.160 I have my perfectly coiffed hair.
00:41:31.960 I state my liberal opinions in a way
00:41:34.640 that is laconic and seems to be
00:41:36.780 objective, but it's not.
00:41:39.280 And he finally got canned.
00:41:40.660 He just, he just made himself the
00:41:41.860 story one too many times in the
00:41:43.180 Trump admin.
00:41:43.680 It was embarrassing for CNN.
00:41:46.540 So he's doing his own show now,
00:41:48.500 the Jim Acosta show.
00:41:49.720 And he decided for a viral interview,
00:41:54.760 he was going to interview a kid who
00:41:56.860 was, who was shot in a school
00:41:58.460 shooting, but he wasn't going to
00:42:01.280 interview one of the kids who
00:42:02.140 survived.
00:42:02.860 He was going to interview a dead kid.
00:42:05.340 How does one do that?
00:42:06.780 Well, it's not possible, but the way
00:42:09.240 that we can pretend to do that now
00:42:10.720 thanks to new technology, because of
00:42:15.680 new technology, we can blame new
00:42:17.140 technology, is through AI.
00:42:19.580 And so Jim Acosta purported to
00:42:23.840 interview a dead kid by interviewing
00:42:27.500 an AI model kind of based on him.
00:42:31.900 I'll just play a little snippet because
00:42:33.480 it's too disturbing to play much
00:42:34.540 more.
00:42:35.760 Joaquin, I would like to know what
00:42:37.920 your solution would be for gun
00:42:40.600 violence.
00:42:42.300 Great question.
00:42:43.260 I believe in a mix of stronger gun
00:42:44.940 control laws, mental health support,
00:42:46.840 and community engagement.
00:42:48.100 We need to create safe spaces for
00:42:50.080 conversations and connections, making
00:42:51.980 sure everyone feels seen and heard.
00:42:54.080 It's about building a culture of
00:42:55.660 kindness and understanding.
00:42:56.900 What do you think about that?
00:42:58.260 I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
00:42:59.940 We definitely need more of that.
00:43:02.560 Oh, man.
00:43:03.500 Oh, man.
00:43:04.360 You know, we have accused Democrats
00:43:06.000 for a long time of propping up the
00:43:08.480 bodies of dead kids to push their
00:43:12.040 usually totally disconnected anti-gun,
00:43:15.880 anti-constitutional laws.
00:43:18.900 Now they're not even propping up their
00:43:22.320 bodies.
00:43:22.900 They're propping up supposedly their
00:43:24.720 souls.
00:43:25.960 They're trying to reanimate them.
00:43:28.000 They're trying to bring them back to
00:43:29.060 life to do it.
00:43:29.940 To spread their propaganda.
00:43:31.340 Not the kids' own words, but the
00:43:33.520 propaganda of the pro-gun control
00:43:35.280 people.
00:43:38.760 Horrifying.
00:43:39.600 This interview goes on for a long
00:43:40.940 time.
00:43:41.020 Yes, Joaquin, I'm pretending that he's
00:43:42.380 talking to this kid.
00:43:44.380 And the AI, happily for now at least,
00:43:47.000 is still in that uncanny valley where
00:43:48.600 you say, like, that's not the kid.
00:43:50.300 That is some sick, grotesque, zombie
00:43:55.720 simulation of the kid.
00:43:58.840 Horrifying.
00:43:59.240 Now this kid, Joaquin Oliver, died at
00:44:01.880 age 17, very sadly, in the Parkland
00:44:03.760 school shooting.
00:44:04.260 That was now seven years ago.
00:44:07.920 Someone makes an AI model.
00:44:09.460 Who makes the AI model?
00:44:10.580 This is actually the sadder part of the
00:44:12.300 story.
00:44:12.560 And this is what gets to a broader
00:44:15.040 takeaway than just Jim Acosta is a
00:44:19.640 creepy journalist or the establishment
00:44:21.580 media have no credibility.
00:44:23.560 The bigger takeaway comes from who made
00:44:25.840 this AI model.
00:44:27.220 It was made by the late kid's parents.
00:44:29.640 This is the most sorrowful aspect of the
00:44:34.440 story as far as I'm concerned.
00:44:38.160 This is not the place.
00:44:41.600 Computers and zeros and ones are not the
00:44:44.500 place to put your hope for the
00:44:47.040 resurrection.
00:44:48.300 That's not how you're, that's not going
00:44:50.000 to bring your kid back to life.
00:44:51.340 That's not your kid.
00:44:52.520 That's not your kid.
00:44:55.080 And it's not, and you could say, I know
00:44:57.360 it's not my kid, but it makes me feel
00:44:59.460 better.
00:44:59.700 It's not going to make you feel
00:45:00.560 better.
00:45:01.060 Well, it reminds me of him.
00:45:02.220 That's not him.
00:45:03.280 Look at a picture, pray, but that's not
00:45:06.000 him.
00:45:08.480 The death is when the soul and the body
00:45:11.560 separate.
00:45:12.520 The soul is not just some kind of
00:45:14.680 mystical concept that gullible people
00:45:17.520 believed in the dark ages that now we
00:45:19.720 know doesn't exist.
00:45:20.500 The soul is recognizable merely from
00:45:24.380 human reason.
00:45:25.120 And it's actually undeniable because the
00:45:26.680 soul is the principle of life.
00:45:28.280 The soul is what distinguishes animate
00:45:31.320 objects from inanimate objects.
00:45:33.800 We have this word anima, anima for the
00:45:35.920 soul.
00:45:36.400 That's the principle of life.
00:45:37.960 Do you deny that there is a principle
00:45:39.000 of life?
00:45:40.380 Speaking to you, general public, I'm not
00:45:42.020 speaking to you, Jim Acosta or the
00:45:44.140 parents of this poor kid or any, do you,
00:45:46.740 you understand this, right?
00:45:47.760 You broad skeptics, you broad
00:45:49.360 rationalists.
00:45:50.100 There's a, there's a difference between
00:45:51.520 life and not life.
00:45:53.140 There's a difference between me and my
00:45:54.280 leftist years tumbler.
00:45:55.200 That would be the soul.
00:45:57.660 What is the soul?
00:45:58.620 The soul is the substantial form of the
00:46:00.700 body.
00:46:01.580 My body is made up of all sorts of atoms
00:46:03.820 and chemicals and molecules and tissue.
00:46:06.560 And, and those things could exist on
00:46:08.200 their own.
00:46:08.600 If you chop my hand off, you throw my
00:46:10.000 hand over there, it's, it would be
00:46:11.680 chemically identical to my hand on my
00:46:13.460 wrist, but it would not be part of my
00:46:16.200 body.
00:46:16.740 It would not be after a short period of
00:46:19.340 time, it would not be alive.
00:46:20.260 It would just be matter, but the
00:46:24.500 substantial form of the body that gives
00:46:25.840 coherence to my body, not as just
00:46:27.920 individual atoms, but as a, a, a unified
00:46:30.620 thing with integrity, it gives Michael, is
00:46:34.300 my soul.
00:46:36.260 The soul and the body separate at, at the
00:46:38.620 moment of death.
00:46:40.700 You're not going to bring your, the soul
00:46:42.320 back by making robots.
00:46:45.040 You're not, there is a way to honor your
00:46:50.920 loved ones who have died.
00:46:52.060 There is in fact a way to see them
00:46:54.800 again, or there is in fact a way to have
00:46:57.820 eternal life.
00:46:58.440 I should put it in a, in a more precise
00:46:59.800 way.
00:47:00.120 There is a way to have eternal life.
00:47:01.580 It is not through uploading your
00:47:03.520 consciousness, which is not possible to a
00:47:06.580 robot.
00:47:07.280 It's not, it's not, do you know what this
00:47:09.640 is?
00:47:09.900 Do you know what this is?
00:47:10.540 It's actually talked about in the Bible.
00:47:12.240 This is making dumb idols.
00:47:13.760 They said, don't worship dumb idols or
00:47:16.760 you're going to become like dumb idols.
00:47:18.120 That's in the Psalms, I believe.
00:47:20.860 This is making dumb idols.
00:47:22.740 It's making us all dumb and it's making
00:47:24.060 us all miserable and it's making Jim
00:47:25.920 Acosta look even more ridiculous than he
00:47:27.640 did before.
00:47:28.480 And it's not, it's not going to give you
00:47:31.620 any hope.
00:47:32.540 That is, that is an expression of despair.
00:47:35.360 Don't fall into it.
00:47:37.240 There is plenty of cause for hope.
00:47:39.040 It's not going to be found by, it's not
00:47:42.280 going to be found by doing what people do
00:47:44.240 when they make these AI models, which is
00:47:45.560 trying to make yourself God, trying to
00:47:46.820 remake a person, trying to bring a person
00:47:48.460 back from the dead.
00:47:49.260 It is possible.
00:47:50.300 Resurrection is possible.
00:47:51.680 You're not the one who does it.
00:47:53.780 You're not the one who was, was laying the
00:47:57.280 foundations of the earth.
00:47:58.460 You're not.
00:48:01.180 And he who was, is, is here to help you,
00:48:04.820 but you know, you got to cooperate with him.
00:48:07.200 Okay.
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