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00:02:29.000It's beyond sad that for a second time this year, a second time in basically two months, I have to discuss an assassination attempt at my father's life.
00:02:42.000I have to have that conversation for a second time with my five young children in America in 2024.
00:02:52.000I'm having to have those conversations far too often, far more often than anyone should ever have them in the civilized world or anywhere else about radical leftists trying to kill their grandfather.
00:03:03.000No person should ever have to do this in America, anywhere else, and again, certainly not in the civilized world.
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00:06:20.000Yesterday, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, A place where my kids play often, and they often play with their grandfather.
00:06:28.000A Ukraine-obsessed left-wing lunatic named Ryan Routh set up a sniper's nest to try to kill my father.
00:06:38.000He was reportedly camped in or around the golf course for as long as 12 hours.
00:06:44.000Fortunately, the Secret Service spotted this lunatic, engaged him with gunfire, and stopped him.
00:06:51.000But how was he able to get as close as he did, just 60 days or so after another left-wing lunatic tried to assassinate my father in Butler, Pennsylvania?
00:07:03.000This is the second attempted assassination in just two months!
00:07:07.000The assassin, again, is a deranged Democrat.
00:07:11.000He has a Biden bumper sticker on his car.
00:07:24.000Democracy is on the ballot by the people who've been trying to censor and jail their political opponents for the last few years, the Democratic Party.
00:08:31.000Apparently he wasn't legally allowed to purchase a firearm and apparently the serial numbers were scratched off Who did he communicate with?
00:08:39.000There's still a lot of unanswered questions.
00:08:43.000The media, of course, has had a disgusting reaction.
00:08:48.000Not a shocking reaction, not if you've been watching these scumbags for the last few years.
00:08:52.000And I take this one a little bit personally, you know, it's the second time they tried to kill my father in two months because of their rhetoric.
00:08:59.000So, you know, forgive me if I come off a little aggressive right now, but there is no other response.
00:09:07.000Gladly, many other Americans feel the same way.
00:09:09.000Hopefully, they'll say enough is enough and stop listening to the mainstream media.
00:09:14.000Some of them are even refusing to call it an assassination attempt.
00:09:30.000I have a feeling we only got that information because thankfully Governor DeSantis of Florida opened up a parallel investigation, is not releasing the suspect to the feds, where he'd probably disappear like, you know, Epstein himself, so to speak.
00:10:57.000The big story of the day is Spotlight on Cycling Safety.
00:11:01.000While USA Today's front page blared, Hope in America.
00:11:06.000While the assassination attempt was covered in small font with this headline, Trump safe after shots fired in his vicinity.
00:11:16.000Seriously, they ran this headline, Hope in America.
00:11:19.000The day after an attempted assassination on a former president of the United States, the leading candidate, the nominee for the Republican Party, these outlets are truly the enemy of the people.
00:11:33.000You know, even when my father said that years ago, and I was in the midst of the Russia, Russia, Russia lies and everything that they perpetrated, I was like, you know what?
00:13:39.000House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took aim at extreme MAGA Republicans on social media only 30 minutes, 30 minutes after the assassination attempt.
00:13:48.000I mean, the gun barrels are still warm and he's telling fellow leftists to quote, we must stop them.
00:13:57.000I wonder where it's coming from, folks.
00:14:00.000It must be the MAGA rhetoric, not the endless quotes.
00:14:04.000If you look at my ex-feed, I posted, you know, the Trump campaign put up very prominent Democrats and all of the things that they've said, and you wonder.
00:14:54.000The media and the political left must immediately stop their dangerous rhetoric of blaming President Trump for the assassination attempt on his own life.
00:15:14.000That's why some of these morons and lowlifes get radicalized.
00:15:18.000They think it's their permission slip to go and kill someone who's literally worse than Hitler.
00:15:24.000Someone who's the greatest threat to democracy ever.
00:15:28.000Someone who's gonna stay in power forever even though he left last time.
00:15:32.000I mean, you know, minor details like that.
00:15:34.000And the regime media and Democrats, especially Kamala Harris, must cease their inflammatory rhetoric that was directly mimicked by yesterday's would-be assassin.
00:15:45.000And these are the same people lecturing us about civility.
00:16:18.000When we have common sense conversation, when we talk about policies that are good for the American people and hard-working blue-collar Americans everywhere, they go low.
00:16:30.000And they destroy our country, our republic, and our children's future.
00:16:36.000There is no place for violence of any kind in politics.
00:16:39.000And that extends to dangerous commentary from the media and their political left allies as well.
00:16:48.000This past week has been a story about how the failing media is destroying this nation.
00:16:53.000They never cared to get answers about what's actually happening in, say, Springfield, Ohio.
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00:22:37.000And guys, with that, joining me now, City Journal writer and author of America's Cultural Revolution, Chris Ruffo.
00:22:54.000I'm getting a little too accustomed to, you know, again, having to have conversations with my children about their grandfather getting shot at.
00:23:00.000I'm, you know, as a son, I don't handle that all that well myself either, though, again, I guess I'm getting used to it.
00:23:05.000It's becoming like an average Saturday for me now.
00:23:08.000But before we, you know, get into talking about your Ohio investigation, you know, what's been your reaction to the media's disgusting coverage of the attempted assassination on Sunday?
00:23:24.000You've seen it from all quarters of the establishment media.
00:23:27.000They're trying to blame your father, President Trump, for the people who are attempting to assassinate him.
00:23:34.000They're trying to lay responsibility on him.
00:23:36.000Supposedly his rhetoric has caused people to fire shots at him.
00:23:42.000Look, this only goes one way, because they're not also saying that the media's rhetoric against President Trump caused the shooting.
00:23:50.000And so it is a circular logic that always goes in one direction.
00:23:56.000It goes against the political opponents of this establishment media.
00:24:00.000They will blame the victim as long as the victim is marked as the enemy.
00:24:04.000And at this point, like you've said, It shouldn't surprise us, but it should still disgust us.
00:24:11.000Because this is just so far beyond the pale, it's hard to imagine.
00:24:15.000Yeah, I mean, I'm watching some of the, you know, the mental gymnastics, trying to blame the rhetoric on basically any conservative.
00:24:21.000If you, you know, if you, you know, if you're upset that your cat's getting eaten, that makes you a racist and you're terrible and you deserve it.
00:24:28.000You know, they're not really eating cats, but if they are, it's totally fine.
00:24:33.000You know, that's usually a week before, like, if you don't agree with them eating your pets, you're also a terrible human and a racist.
00:24:39.000You know, what's driving the media's coverage to endlessly demonize literally half of the country.
00:24:45.000I mean, the right, uh, even when they want to, you know, constantly lecture you about civility and discourse, uh, you know, it's such a tongue-in-cheek comment.
00:24:54.000It's so hypocritical because they're doing the exact opposite.
00:24:57.000I mean, you've experienced a lot of this yourself.
00:25:00.000Yeah, look, I'm interested in the truth.
00:25:03.000And how it works is that sometimes the truth is uncomfortable for people in power.
00:25:08.000And so we have this media, left-wing media used to be, their identity was they speak truth to power.
00:25:17.000But they've totally flipped because their ideas are now in power.
00:25:20.000And so what they try to do is suppress the truth.
00:25:22.000And what that means is suppress reality.
00:25:25.000And so you have every technique in the book From simple denial, obfuscation, selective coverage, word games where they kind of take a fine-toothed comb and pick through words and try to manipulate specific words to invert their meanings.
00:25:44.000Whatever technique it takes, the idea is that they have to suppress it because they know that, for example, on immigration, Donald Trump is strong.
00:26:57.000I think, you know, at this point, uh, you know, perhaps no one other than, you know, RFK, uh, you know, understands more than my family about what exactly they'll do to you, but it doesn't mean we're actually wrong.
00:27:07.000All, you know, whether it's the things that we got criticized that were, you know, conspiracy theories that all proved to be a hundred percent right.
00:27:16.000Cause I mean, when you're going into election, you know, you say, Hey, It's not our ideas versus their ideas.
00:27:21.000It's our ideas censored, suppressed, smothered, while their ideas, whether right, wrong, or indifferent, are, you know, boosted, artificially put out there, treated as though it's the gospel.
00:27:33.000What is it that regular people can do to help make sure that everyone actually understands what's really going on there, or at least see both sides and you can formulate your own opinion?
00:27:42.000I mean, I think we're at a disadvantage for some of the reasons you lay out, but I think out there actually is a huge opportunity right now.
00:27:49.000Elon Musk has created this platform with X that allows a wide range of opinions.
00:27:56.000You don't have to feel like you're going to be censored or banished.
00:28:00.000You can actually reach a large audience through the platform.
00:28:04.000There are independent journalists that I'm seeing really for the first time in the last stretch, the last coming months, that are really hitting the field.
00:28:53.000We know now, through experience, that all of those things were false, they were deliberate lies.
00:28:58.000And I think the American people are starting to get wise to this, and they're starting to see through it.
00:29:03.000And I think we just have to have faith.
00:29:05.000You have to fight hard, you have to fight with the facts, you have to fight honorably, and hope that people are smart enough, and I think they are, to see through the lies.
00:29:16.000Listen, you've obviously broken some pretty big stories that definitely went against what the narrative would have been.
00:29:22.000What was your own personal experience in terms of what's the worst thing you've seen them try to do to you?
00:29:50.000you know, half the piece, they had to amend it, they had to issue a major correction,
00:29:54.000basically saying that in fact they were making up all of these allegations from whole cloth.
00:30:00.000But the idea is that they have the institutions and the instruments of power,
00:30:04.000and that they're going to use them to try to hurt you, to hurt your reputation,
00:30:10.000and damage your ability to reach people.
00:30:12.000And that's why you have to be smarter, more agile, more intelligent, and more savvy than your opponents.
00:30:18.000And you can get them into the ring, and then you can outfox them and outsmart them.
00:30:22.000But, you know, even with this story that I broke just this week, we tracked down evidence that migrants from Africa were barbecuing cats in Dayton, Ohio, just down the road from Springfield.
00:30:37.000We had an eyewitness account, firsthand testimony, background research, corroborating witness accounts that set the stage.
00:31:04.000Plenty of things happen that are illegal, that nobody filed a police report.
00:31:09.000Just because it doesn't say, there's not a piece of paper sitting in the police station saying something happened, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
00:31:32.000But it's very interesting because they'll say, well, we talked to the mayor, we talked to this person.
00:31:37.000It's like, oh yeah, you talked to a democratic politician whose interest is to deny the story, has no evidence, conducted no investigation, doesn't offer an argument, in no way refutes the facts of the matter.
00:32:18.000You present the evidence in the most persuasive way you can.
00:32:22.000And then I think the truth, provided that it's given enough heft, it's given enough muscle, it's given enough push, will reach people and persuade them.
00:32:32.000Because look, the country is in tough shape.
00:32:34.000There's a lot of issues in the country right now.
00:32:38.000And they would like to silence people, of course, their speech.
00:32:41.000They would like to silence people by actually killing them.
00:32:45.000We are hurtling towards a very precarious moment in our country's history, and we have to all stick together.
00:32:51.000We have to all, you know, maintain ourselves, have the courage, and I think that the coming months will be decisive.
00:33:00.000Yeah, I mean, it sort of reminds me of a small-scale version of what went on in the Ohio.
00:33:33.000I mean, people do have to dig much deeper than, oh, well, here are the FBI's crime stats put out by, you know, Joe Biden's DOJ, making it look like everything's rosy when in fact things have gotten a lot worse across the country.
00:33:45.000Yeah, and look, you asked earlier, what can people do in their daily lives on these issues?
00:33:51.000The first thing is to trust your own intuition.
00:34:30.000Use the sense of the world that you see all around you.
00:34:33.000Is it getting better or is it getting worse?
00:34:35.000Are things better or worse for your family, your own private situation?
00:34:40.000And I think that if people have a gut check and they ask how they're actually feeling, what are they actually seeing, what are the facts that come through their senses, I think they'll make the right decision.
00:34:53.000And that's really all that we can do and what I hope people do moving forward.
00:34:58.000So I'd like to, you know, Chris, talk a little bit about, you know, obviously your investigation surrounding the Haitian immigrants eating pets, but like, where do you start?
00:35:06.000Where would other people in these communities start?
00:35:11.000Because, you know, again, I don't think we can rely You know, on, you know, local, you know, owned by NBC, you know, to actually do this work.
00:35:20.000You know, how does, you know, an independent, you know, journalist do this?
00:35:23.000How does a independent citizen start going up, you know, backing up the claims so that we can all sort of collectively fight?
00:35:30.000When this stuff's going on in your backyard, I imagine people are incentivized to get involved, to try to counter that if there is no, you know, sort of Media apparatus willing to do the real work, how do they backfill that and make that happen in a way that's credible, that will withstand the inevitable scrutiny that they will get?
00:35:50.000Even if, you know, you say the sky is blue, you know, the mainstream media is going to tell you it's not if it's against their narrative.
00:35:58.000Well, you have to just go back to the very basics of reporting and investigative work.
00:36:03.000You know, you have to get on the ground, you have to talk to people, you have to develop sources, you have to receive tips, you have to learn how to analyze evidence.
00:36:11.000And what you really always want to do is have cross-check the evidence from a number of different points of confirmation.
00:36:25.000Can we make sure that this story has been consistent over time?
00:36:28.000All of those techniques that you could, you know, read about in a Journalism 101 book that have been abandoned by many in the establishment who
00:36:36.000just want to push a kind of propaganda line.
00:36:38.000Those are actually kind of secret weapons for conservative journalists, conservative reporters
00:36:44.000who can go in and make records requests, conduct interviews, verify and do the forensic analysis of video footage and
00:36:53.000But really, what I think it comes down to is building those relationships, figuring out who you can trust, and then, of course, always verifying the information before you go to print.
00:37:06.000I have a program that I'm running, trying to train journalists in some of these techniques so that when they get in the fight, when they feel the heat, they can be confident in their reporting.
00:37:16.000It's something that we all have to do.
00:37:17.000And for a friendly little in-house criticism of those of us on the right, it's something that we have to do better.
00:37:45.000I literally, I open up my show, you know, every day saying, hey, with what we're up against, with, you know, the bias that's out there, we have to be, you know, better, smarter, you know, more, do more diligence, you know, each and every day as we do this.
00:37:59.000And that's just, that applies across the board.
00:38:01.000So I'd love for people just to know where they can do that.
00:38:03.000If people are interested in it, if there's aspiring journalists and they're, you know, concerned about, you know, not being just a left-wing shill, I imagine that'd be really helpful to people.
00:39:17.000I mean, you know, obviously, the Claudine Gaye was a big thing, you know, taking out the president of Harvard who plagiarized everything throughout the wazoo.
00:39:23.000I mean, you know, the Frankly, the reaction to, uh, you know, you're just fact-driven, uh, you know, something that would have gotten anyone else fired in about .2 seconds, uh, you know, it was sort of amazing, I mean, but it shows you how far the other side has gone, but, you know, you did do the big piece, uh, in the City Journal on Aurora, Colorado, uh, which has sort of a lot of parallels to this.
00:39:46.000That's obviously about the migrants that took over, you know, literally housing buildings in, in the United States, and it's like, nothing to see here, folks.
00:39:55.000First, we dispatched a field reporter to actually go to the apartment complexes, talk to residents, talk to people who are running the complexes, talk to city officials to actually get a sense and a feel for what was happening, conduct interviews, collect information.
00:40:09.000We got exclusive video from an insider inside the actually management company of those properties.
00:40:16.000And then we also had a researcher working on looking at documents.
00:40:20.000Non-profits have to publish their financials every year.
00:40:24.000Cities and the federal government published budgetary statements and what we found was quite amazing.
00:40:29.000There was a flow of funds, millions of dollars, from the Biden-Harris administration to city and state governments in Colorado to these unaccountable NGOs that were passing through millions of dollars.
00:40:42.000And then these people were bringing in and signing rental agreements, lease agreements, for hundreds of Venezuelan migrants in the town of Aurora, Colorado, some of whom had connections with the violent gang members from Tren de Aragua.
00:40:57.000And so you had this really kind of interesting story where it's like, it's not just about the Venezuelan takeover of this apartment building.
00:41:06.000The story that we uncovered that I think is so important is like, it was all done with Biden-Harris cash.
00:41:13.000The federal taxpayers were subsidizing the takeover of these places by migrants, many of whom were illegal, and some of whom were connected with violent organized crime.
00:41:25.000I mean, that's the situation we're in, and we also know that the NGO operators We're dramatically bumping up their salary, bumping up the budgets for their organizations.
00:41:37.000And so everyone is profiting, except for the actual citizens and taxpayers that this kind of arrangement affects.
00:41:45.000Yeah, I mean, I always sort of say there's no money in peace, but it seems for a lot of these NGOs, there's also no money in a secure border.
00:41:53.000You know, talk about how much of these, like, so-called non-profits, you know, talk about the numbers, because they are making profits like you wouldn't believe on the border invasion, again, paid for by the U.S.
00:42:04.000taxpayer to the detriment of the American citizen in many cases.
00:42:09.000That doesn't mean there's not some nice people that come across the border, but when we're letting, you know, Well-known gang members come across, drug traffickers, human sex traffickers.
00:42:18.000I mean, it's just totally indiscriminate and they don't care.
00:42:21.000I guess it's just another dollar, you know, or whatever dollars may be per person that comes across.
00:42:27.000Yeah, I mean, you look at the budgets for some of these organizations.
00:42:30.000They'll go from, you know, a $500,000 budget to a $20 million budget in one year, totally subsidized by the taxpayer.
00:42:38.000And so they're pulling in big money to manage the flow of the migrant crisis.
00:42:44.000They get actually paid more, and we've seen this.
00:42:46.000One of our Logos reporters did a great story showing that the worse the migrant crisis gets, The more money that these NGOs get, and then the higher the salaries that the executives give themselves.
00:42:58.000And so they have this perverse incentive.
00:43:00.000When the migrant crisis gets worse, it's very, very good for their business.
00:43:03.000That lesson holds across many different domains.
00:43:06.000But there's another important component about this.
00:43:09.000Why doesn't the government just do these programs itself?
00:43:12.000Why doesn't the government just directly manage it?
00:43:15.000Because the government is accountable to the people through things like FOIA requests.
00:43:20.000Department of Homeland Security, I can request almost any document they're required by law to give it to me.
00:43:25.000So I can see what the government is doing, and journalists can monitor the government's actions, the government's communications, but not with non-profit organizations and NGOs.
00:43:35.000They can be fully funded by the government.
00:43:37.000They could be fulfilling the requirements of a government contract.
00:43:41.000They could be moving thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens across the country.
00:43:48.000But I, as a journalist and as an American citizen, don't have the right to actually inspect their books in a comprehensive way, don't have the right to inspect their communications, and don't have a right to really request any information at all.
00:44:00.000And so we've seen them through all of these various NGOs, shell companies, and real estate schemes.
00:44:08.000The federal government is just pumping this entire ecosystem full of money.
00:44:13.000It's totally unaccountable, and the incentives are totally at odds with the best interests of the American people.
00:44:18.000I mean, tell the people watching a little bit exactly what an NGO is.
00:44:23.000It does seem like it's clearly the vehicle designed to circumvent those laws so that you can spend billions of your taxpayer dollars without any accountability to the people.
00:44:31.000But they are getting an endless flow of tax dollars every fiscal year.
00:44:35.000Can we stop that in a second Trump administration?
00:45:13.000A second Trump administration would know how to do that.
00:45:15.000The second thing is to work with Congress to say, you know what?
00:45:19.000We have to cut off the flow of funds to these NGOs.
00:45:22.000A lot of these NGOs were spun up or significantly expanded only in the last few years.
00:45:27.000They could be cut off from funds tomorrow.
00:45:29.000The second thing that I think is really important that we should absolutely do and consider is if you take federal funds over, let's say, $10 million a year, every nonprofit organization, 501c3 in the tax code, also called an NGO or non-governmental organization, You should be subject to federal FOIA laws.
00:45:47.000And so if, let's say, Catholic Charities is getting hundreds of millions of dollars, for example, throughout its various components to facilitate the flow of migrants over the southern border, Americans should say, well, we now have a right, because we're paying for this operation, to request information from you.
00:46:05.000And so I think those, you know, Three methods.
00:46:09.000Stop the flow of new migrants over the border, stop the flow of funds to these corrupt NGOs, and then any NGO that is running large-scale government contracts require that they be subjected to FOIA.
00:46:27.000I love all of those things, and if we have, I'm going to make sure to the best of my ability that something like that happens.
00:46:32.000But why doesn't the legacy media want to tell these stories?
00:46:35.000I mean, I would think that if you're an investigative journalist and legacy media, and you could show hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer waste going against the will of the people, Dissolving, uh, you know, so many, uh, creating so many problems.
00:46:53.000Why are they so okay with hiding it, not reporting about it, talking about it, and or pretending that these people are doing yeoman's work as opposed to exactly the opposite?
00:47:02.000Yeah, we could talk for hours on just this topic.
00:47:14.000If you were working at one of the left-wing magazines, newspapers, TV shows, and you proposed a story on this, Um, you know, your colleagues would raise their eyebrows, and I think your career chances would be, uh, hampered.
00:47:29.000You know, I talk with reporters from a lot of these left-wing newspapers.
00:47:32.000I have good, friendly personal relations with them.
00:47:34.000Uh, and it's very clear, you know, there is an ideological line at these publications.
00:47:39.000And if you crossed it, you're basically, uh, you know, kind of marginalizing your own chance of rising through the organization and getting its rewards.
00:47:47.000Uh, but the second, the bigger picture reason for this is that these are partisan entities.
00:47:54.000This is actually pretty normal in American politics.
00:47:57.000Newspapers were almost always partisan in nature from before the American founding
00:48:03.000up through, let's say, the World War II period.
00:48:05.000It changed as it consolidated into the big three television networks
00:48:11.000that had to have kind of wide range of general advertising.
00:48:14.000And now it's fragmenting again into partisan orientation.
00:48:17.000And so I'm not optimistic that we're gonna be able to change that.
00:48:21.000And I'm not frankly convinced that it would be better if we went back
00:48:26.000to let's say the model of the big three networks in say, you know, 1961.
00:48:33.000But what I think it requires is those of us on the right to really do an analysis and then to get smart about how we use the funds that we do have in the most effective way possible.
00:48:44.000What kind of news organizations do we need to build?
00:48:46.000What kind of reporting techniques do we need to master?
00:48:49.000And then what kind of story should we really be telling to drive counter narratives to the establishment narrative?
00:48:57.000For the last two weeks, we're talking about Aurora, we're talking about Springfield.
00:49:01.000Of course, horrifically, we're talking about this second assassination attempt.
00:49:06.000We have the ability to get dominance in this discourse, in the kind of narrative flow of the country.
00:49:14.000And so while we're at a disadvantage on size, we're not in a disadvantage on what's right, and we're not in a disadvantage if we can be very tactically sound in how we approach these issues.
00:49:27.000And so this is the moment where we have to rise to the occasion and we have to build something that can counter what is, of course, a hostile and partisan establishment.
00:49:39.000Yeah, I mean, can you talk about that a little bit more?
00:49:41.000I mean, even going back to the sort of the concept of like open society after the Cold War.
00:49:45.000I mean, the regime's media behavior today, we can actually trace back decades.
00:49:51.000You know, can you sort of give us some historical context to how we got where we are?
00:50:14.000Whether we would like that to be or not, that's the fact on the ground.
00:50:17.000Part of it is just the composition of who actually works at the New York Times, who are the reporters for the New York Times.
00:50:22.000If you go back to, say, 1970, a lot of the people in the New York Times newsroom would be, you know, blue collar, come from the middle class, maybe a state school education, maybe a high school education even.
00:50:36.000And they'd be going to drink after work and be like the ink-stained wretches of the New York Times.
00:50:44.000And you said this at newspapers all over the place.
00:50:58.000It's people with elite family backgrounds, people that come from money,
00:51:01.000people that are kind of highly educated in these institutions.
00:51:07.000But what it brings with it is a totally different cultural sense.
00:51:10.000And so you see a totally different cultural sense over time.
00:51:13.000I've talked with reporters at the New York Times about this, especially older reporters.
00:51:17.000And then the ideologies that emerged first in those institutions
00:51:21.000become the default ideologies of the paper.
00:51:24.000You actually saw this play out between 2020 and 2024 at the New York Times.
00:51:28.000You had young reporters that were going all-in on George Floyd, all-in on trans, all-in on every fashionable kind of cause from, you know, Barnard College.
00:51:37.000And then you had the older reporters thinking, oh man, I'm going to get canceled.
00:51:41.000I'm going to get taken into a struggle session.
00:51:43.000We have to figure out how to manage the ideology at the paper.
00:51:47.000And so you have an ideological conquest that is also synonymous with a kind of class conquest.
00:51:53.000A new class of people populates these institutions.
00:51:56.000That's bad for obvious reasons, but it's also bad for a reason related to immigration, let's say, surprisingly.
00:52:03.000Look, people who go to work at the New York Times, go to work at NPR, go to work at related publications, they don't come from places like a kind of tough, rundown town in the Rust Belt or in Ohio.
00:52:19.000They don't live next to Haitian migrants that have caused these kind of cultural conflicts in these outer suburbs, exurbs, or flyover countries, they would say.
00:52:31.000And so they're insulated from the consequences.
00:52:35.000I mean, if it's not happening in Manhattan or Brooklyn, it might as well not be happening.
00:52:41.000Because for them, it's just an ideological symbol.
00:52:43.000Haitian migrants are a symbol of diversity, a symbol of tolerance, a symbol of multiculturalism.
00:52:49.000Anyone who opposes it is just a racist.
00:52:52.000But they don't actually have to deal with the more complex reality on the ground because they're insulated from it.
00:52:58.000I think it's a tremendous disservice and I think that the media's blind spots is really because of those reasons.
00:53:07.000Yeah, I think there's a reason it's also why they hate like someone like a JD Vance who actually came from those things who understands those people who can talk to them And they can't even fathom You know, those are the basket of deplorables.
00:53:51.000And they hate, too, that they have lost the connection with working people.
00:53:54.000Look, the left for 150 years, since Marx, the idea was that they would have the working class, the union household, the factory worker, the agricultural worker.
00:54:04.000They would rise up and overthrow the elites.
00:54:07.000What happened with the left is now it's inverted.
00:54:09.000The left controls all of the elite institutions and they're declaring a revolution against the working-class people.
00:54:15.000That's precisely who Donald Trump and J.D.
00:54:17.000Vance are representing in this election.
00:54:19.000They're trying to actually stop a revolution of the elites against the American middle class.
00:54:25.000And so they are not only, you know, seen as kind of class traitors or kind of gauche, outsiders.
00:54:34.000You know, your father from Queens, J.D.
00:54:36.000Vance, You know, from a rough and tumble background in Ohio.
00:54:41.000But they actually threaten to beat those people at their own game.
00:54:45.000I think that's what they hate the most.
00:54:47.000And that's what I like most about the Trump Vance ticket.
00:54:50.000It's like, you know, a true kind of counter-revolutionary movement to say, you know what, we actually love this country.
00:54:58.000This country is not fundamentally evil.
00:55:02.000And we're going to make sure that the people have their voice heard in these institutions.
00:55:06.000Yeah, I mean, I think with, you know, also, you know, newspaper subscriptions are way down.
00:55:10.000There's less of that traditional, you know, Sunday paper that everyone kind of used to read.
00:55:15.000So instead of trying to sell you an entire paper, they're trying to sell you on every link, every click, every little headline, every piece of clickbait.
00:55:24.000You know, it's a fundamental structural flaw.
00:55:27.000To the news business, probably, these days, because everything sort of has to be sensationalized, and everything has to be done in 140 characters or less with no nuance and no nothing, and it's just, you know, sort of outrage cycle after outrage cycle.
00:56:17.000Yes, these should be setting off alarm bells for Americans.
00:56:21.000But we have to orient them always towards then solving the problem and making things better.
00:56:25.000And so, if we can connect these stories that have real resonance in the country, With a positive vision for actually solving the underlying problems and then using them to put forth some good policies.
00:56:59.000I mean, so I guess given all that, Chris, you know, what are the biggest stories right now that aren't being covered?
00:57:04.000Do you see any of these things sort of popping up?
00:57:07.000Obviously, it's going to be a crazy, what is it, you know, 50 days to the election, 49 days till the election, or, you know, are some big investigations that you can preview right now that you're already working on?
00:57:19.000We're working, of course, on this series of migration stories.
00:57:23.000We want to expose this corrupt migrant NGO scam to show exactly how the Biden-Harris administration is essentially laundering money through these NGOs to facilitate this huge flow of migration.
00:57:36.000But look, I think there's, and this is a horrible thing and I hope to be wrong, But I think that there's a chance of civil conflict.
00:57:46.000I know that the groups on the left, for example, are ratcheting up the pressure.
00:57:50.000We saw that last time, of course, in 2020, horrifically.
00:57:53.000And so I think that we all have to be ready.
00:57:56.000And of course, you know, we have to be very careful.
00:58:00.000We have to, obviously, you know, we're committed to civil discourse.
00:58:03.000We're committed to resolving problems through dialogue, through voting, through normal processes.
00:58:08.000But we should also be prepared to show exactly, in my case, how the left is organizing its kind of street protest movements.
00:58:19.000I have some analysts that are working on this.
00:58:21.000They're already seeing movement from some of these violent left-wing networks.
00:58:25.000I think we want to expose them before there is any violence to prevent violence.
00:58:31.000We shouldn't even be having to talk about these things.
00:58:34.000But given the assassination attempts, given what happened with the last election, rather the last cycle from 2020 with George Floyd onward, you know, we have to do the best we can to prevent and disrupt any kind of civil conflict.
00:58:50.000Yeah, no, I think that's so important.
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