00:02:31.620You know, this story is great because I guarantee many people have been in a very similar situation.
00:02:36.680So Kyle, an Illinois resident, was walking his young daughter home from a play date just down the street from their house
00:02:42.600when he noticed two unleashed pit bulls running down an alley, aggressively charging right at them.
00:02:48.560He quickly lifted his daughter over a fence of a yard to put her in a safe place and drew the Berna SD that he was actually carrying on him.
00:02:55.860And using a combination of kinetic and our max for gestiles, Kyle fired five rounds of the two pit bulls, striking both the ground in front of them, but also the dogs themselves.
00:03:07.400The rounds had an immediate effect and both dogs quickly ran the other way.
00:03:11.940The entire incident was also captured on home surveillance video, allowing everyone to watch exactly how Berna kept Kyle and his daughter out of harm's way.
00:03:20.800Now, look, obviously the Berna were great in this case, but why wouldn't someone choose to use a gun in this case instead of a Berna?
00:03:27.480So many people ask me that type of question.
00:04:44.140Trump's been in office a total of four years and nine and a half months.
00:04:47.420But somehow they're saying Donald Trump is the king.
00:04:50.540When you look at the numbers there, and that's like some bipartisan numbers, it's pretty darn funny.
00:04:54.820Well, it is, and there was this little minor detail of an election that occurred in November in which the American people overwhelmingly voted to re-elect Donald Trump.
00:05:05.620Very quickly, look, you're trying to engage in reason, Ben.
00:05:09.280Reason is not welcome on the radical left anymore.
00:05:21.180And by the way, this is also voters bad.
00:05:23.960You know, the irony of no kings, that they're suggesting that they're somehow fans of democracy.
00:05:28.820Understand, these are the same radical left-wing Democrats that indicted Donald Trump, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times, in an effort to stop the voters from re-electing him.
00:05:41.900These are the same left-wing radicals who then went to left-wing judges, and in multiple jurisdictions, including Colorado, Illinois, Maine, their left-wing radicals ruled they would remove Donald Trump's name from the ballot.
00:05:56.660Because nothing says you are a defender of democracy like making it impossible for the voters to vote for your opponent.
00:06:03.620Now, thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court came in unanimously, 9-0, and said, no, no, no, sorry, you don't get to rig an election by removing your opponent, the Republican nominee for president, from the ballot.
00:06:17.420And wonder of wonders, with Trump on the ballot, the voters voted for him.
00:06:22.260This is actually, you know, in some ways, the left had some truth in advertising.
00:06:33.040What they really want to protest is the king's rally.
00:06:35.840Look, when Joe Biden was president, they wanted him to have unlimited power.
00:06:40.340And, by the way, once they realized that Joe Biden had been legally dead for three years and that he was not going to be a formidable candidate in November, they promptly defenestrated him, threw him out a window, grabbed Kamala Harris, said, congratulations, you're the Democrat nominee.
00:06:54.600And you know what detail they skipped?
00:06:57.820Like, the Democrat primary voters didn't get to vote at all.
00:07:00.700They basically tried to make her a queen.
00:07:02.860You know, when you coronate someone, when you put a crown on someone and say, don't bother with the little voting stuff, we've decided you get to run, that is kind of right at the heart of monarchy.
00:07:14.520So this, their messaging is incoherent.
00:07:18.320But at the end of the day, there is no messaging other than a primal scream, they hate Trump.
00:07:26.160And look, it's a good thing they did these rallies.
00:07:28.400Because, you know, prior to Saturday, I didn't know they hated Trump.
00:07:31.420I really, I had missed that the last 10 months.
00:07:35.140And so it really took seeing a bunch of 75-year-old white liberal women screaming outside and dyeing their hair pink.
00:07:44.320You know, without that, we would have had no idea that the far left did not like President Trump.
00:07:50.100You know, one thing that was interesting about these rallies is the way that the media covered it.
00:07:54.860It was before the rallies happened, they were already making these things a success.
00:08:00.460And say, oh, yeah, we're expecting millions to gather across the country.
00:08:06.220Then, as it was happening, I was flipping the channels in between watching what's really important.
00:08:10.700And that was college football over the weekend.
00:08:13.040During a couple moments, I checked over to see how they were covering it.
00:08:50.520But, look, you can gain solace because even though Ole Miss lost to Georgia, an Ole Miss royalty prevailed because Arch Manning and the Longhorns won,
00:09:02.940although I've got to admit it was an ugly game.
00:09:48.320And Arkansas came within inches of beating the Aggies, and my phone would have lit up the grief he would have given me.
00:09:56.300And to be fair, Arkansas almost did beat the Aggies.
00:09:58.720I mean, it, you know, the A&M-Arkansas game reminded me a little bit of the A&M-Notre Dame game where neither side bothered to bring defense.
00:10:06.360They just scored like crazy, and whoever had the ball last won.
00:10:28.860If I go out and buy a bunch of ads this weekend to play for whatever my thing is, you know, that I want to advocate for, does that mean there's actual authentic momentum behind it?
00:10:38.020Or does that just mean that I paid for something?
00:10:41.080Like, this, to me, is pay-to-play politics.
00:10:43.360I'm not concerned about, quote, momentum.
00:10:45.920I do think, however, those that were organizing and paying for this No Kings rally are holding America hostage with the government shutdown.
00:10:53.760If there's any takeaway for me, it's that, that Democrats could not open the government back up until after the No Kings rally took place.
00:11:01.380Now, this week, they may actually be able to do their damn job.
00:11:03.820Well, and this past week, I went on Fox News and said there's clear evidence that George Soros and his network is paying for these No Kings rallies.
00:11:13.020And I have to say, lefty activists on Twitter went crazy and said, there's no evidence of that.
00:11:23.760And, in fact, if you want to read it, Fox News has a story entitled, quote, Soros Foundation's Helping Fund Anti-Trump No Kings Protest Nationwide.
00:12:05.800It is, quote, managing data and communication with participants, i.e. AstroTurf, for the No Kings protest that will be taking place in Washington and across the country.
00:12:16.380According to the Open Society Foundation's website, George Soros has given away.
00:12:25.560How much do you think George Soros has given to the Open Society Foundations?
00:12:43.940And if you look at that, they in turn are funding Indivisible, and Indivisible is organizing or helping organize the No Kings Foundations.
00:12:58.640By the way, the left has these interwoven, dark money organizations.
00:13:05.020So, for example, in 2017, Indivisible received a $350,000 grant from Tides Advocacy, which is a group affiliated with the Tides Network.
00:13:16.320The Tides Foundation, which is also affiliated with the Tides Network, has been funding anti-Israel campus riots.
00:13:25.320The grant report for 2024 for the Open Society Foundation was not available, but Soros' foundation have awarded grants to Indivisible every single year since Indivisible was created in 2017.
00:13:41.940In total, the Open Society Foundations have awarded $7.61 million in grants to the group behind the No Kings protest.
00:13:56.400So, if you're surprised there's a lot of organizing, well, it turns out that deranged, Trump-hating, America-hating, radical socialist, Marxist, anarchist, police-abolishing, nutcase billionaires can fund what looks like an awful lot of action.
00:14:16.180And I've got to say, given all that cash, what is striking to me, Ben, is how lame the result was.
00:14:23.360Like, I've got to say, to be honest, I didn't spend a whole lot of time watching footage of it.
00:14:28.020But the footage I saw, you know what was missing?
00:14:41.040Look, look, every video I saw, it was a bunch of old white liberals.
00:14:45.680It was like, you know, it was like a Patagonia convention with lots of prune juice.
00:14:53.860I mean, it was really, the numbers were underwhelming.
00:15:00.240You knew the numbers were underwhelming when you started to see, on Twitter, people sending fake videos of protests in prior years and claiming, oh, this is the No Kings turnout.
00:15:11.840Yeah, that did happen a lot, by the way.
00:15:15.340I saw quite a few of those, and it just made you laugh.
00:15:17.740Yeah, there's a video of a big protest in Boston years ago that has been tweeted around like crazy, and they say, oh, this was No Kings in Boston.
00:15:27.660Well, why are you sending around a fake video?
00:15:30.700Because even when you have millions of dollars from George Soros, apparently the people motivated...
00:15:35.160By the way, this is very much the same pattern as, you know, they did a dry run for this with the protests in D.C. against President Trump sending in the National Guard.
00:15:44.620And again, those protests were a bunch of white liberals.
00:15:49.860There were very few, in the video I saw, very few African Americans who, and the high crime areas in D.C. are predominantly African American.
00:16:02.000You see these sort of wealthy liberal, many of them are government bureaucrats, who are saying, no, no, get the National Guard out of D.C.
00:16:09.080And then if camera crews that would go in to high crime areas in D.C., you'd look at the people living there, predominantly African American, facing gangbangers and drive-by shootings and facing being afraid to go out at night.
00:16:23.040And there's interview after interview with D.C. residents who are like, okay, I feel a lot safer.
00:16:28.040By the way, your hometown of Memphis, you've got the same interviews where people are saying, you know, for the first time in a long time, I feel safe to go outside.
00:16:38.020I'm not afraid of my kids getting shot or attacked or abducted.
00:16:41.120Well, even Bill Street, which is the famous street in Memphis, you know, where you can go listen to live music and it's downtown by the FedEx Forum.
00:16:47.360I know people that have not gone down there five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years.
00:16:50.580They're now going down there because it's been so unsafe and the National Guard's there.
00:16:55.440And now citizens of Memphis are actually getting to go enjoy their own city again, which is exactly what we've seen in Washington, D.C.
00:17:02.000Yeah, and it's amazing that the position of the Democrat Party is they are against law and order.
00:17:08.560Apparently, having law and order means you have a king, that they are against criminals being arrested.
00:17:13.900Apparently, that's the act of a king, that they are against violent criminals being incarcerated, taken off the streets, and they are against our families being protected.
00:17:24.920You know, I got to say, people who are not political radicals find all of that common sense.
00:17:30.820Yes, that's not a particularly right-wing proposition, that violent criminals – you know, I'll tell a story, Ben.
00:17:38.980When I was a brand-new baby lawyer back in, I think, 1997, I'd just finished clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist.
00:17:48.340I'd just started practicing law at a little law firm in D.C.
00:17:51.080And there was a show on PBS that was called Debates, Debates, and it was a three-on-three debate for an hour.
00:18:02.160And they would take a particular topic and then get three conservatives, three liberals, and you debate for an hour.
00:18:07.600And it was produced by a guy named Warren Stiebel, who was also the producer of Firing Line with Bill Buckley.
00:18:13.160And I got a call from someone – from a friend of mine who said, hey, they're looking for someone to go on this show.
00:18:21.560And it ended up being the first TV show I ever went on, you know, right at the start of my legal career.
00:18:26.820And the topic was, should we release – should we grant amnesty to, quote, America's political prisoners?
00:18:36.600And by that, they meant cop killers and other radical left-wingers who were incarcerated, but they claimed they were political prisoners because they had an ideology.
00:18:46.980And they were having a hard time finding conservatives to debate the conservative side of it.
00:18:50.660And I remember I was – I got the phone call to ask if I would do it, and I started laughing, and I said, okay, so let me get this straight.
00:18:57.540You want me to defend the proposition that violent criminals should be punished?
00:19:07.400I'm quite comfortable with that proposition.
00:19:09.420Man, way to load the deck against me, right?
00:19:12.320You know, and look, to be clear, I don't care if they're left-wing or right-wing or they don't have any wings at all.
00:19:17.500If you commit acts of violence, you should be arrested, you should be prosecuted, you should go to jail.
00:19:23.080And listen, the question we asked at the start of this show about following the money, regular listeners of the pod will know that is something that I'm pressing both Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice and Kash Patel and the FBI to do.
00:19:35.600Not just the money behind the No Kings rallies, but also the money behind the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses, the money behind the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots all over the country, the money behind the open border riots in Los Angeles and other cities earlier this year.
00:19:51.180I think it is likely all the same money, it is the same collection of radicals who are a combination of extreme leftists, Marxists, jihadists, anarchists, and I think George Soros is the granddaddy of them all.
00:20:07.760But I've introduced legislation, and the legislation is called the Stop Funders Act.
00:20:14.300And what the Stop Funders Act would do is very simple.
00:20:17.340It simply adds rioting to the list of predicate acts under RICO.
00:20:24.340RICO is the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act.
00:20:27.780And it is a tool that prosecutors use to go after organized crime.
00:20:33.740It is a very powerful prosecutorial tool.
00:20:37.020And the value of RICO is that what you can do is under RICO you can prove an organization.
00:20:42.760This is used often for something like the mafia or, say, a drug cartel where you prove the existence of an organization and that you're part of the organization.
00:20:51.420And then you have to prove that you committed predicate acts and you can be prosecuted under RICO and serve long jail time.
00:20:58.980Well, the way the left right now is funding rioting is they do it through multiple different organizations that are deliberately ignorant of what each other is doing.
00:21:10.760And I think they're doing it to avoid accountability and liability.
00:21:13.640The Stop Funders Act, by adding rioting to the list of predicate acts for RICO, would give prosecutors a heck of a tool that if you're cutting the check that is going to funding the rioting and rioters are engaged in acts of violence,
00:21:29.200rioters are on campus assaulting Jewish students in a public street, looting a store, firebombing a police car, murdering someone, assaulting someone, that you, the person who wrote the check and funded the entire effort,
00:21:45.000you, the one who, say, on the college campuses, paid for all of the tents that look exactly the same, they all match,
00:21:51.700you would face liability just like you would if you were the one writing the check and funding the mafia family or funding the drug cartel.
00:22:02.380And so I'm urging Congress, take up my Stop Funders Act, pass it, and DOJ needs to go after the money.
00:22:09.060If we cut off the money with no checks, there would be no no-king's protest.
00:22:13.600Not because people are prevented from speaking, but because this sort of demonstration is not real and organic.
00:22:23.020It is driven by a handful of left-wing billionaires who are using their money to buy the appearance of something much broader.
00:23:08.900We need at least seven Democrats to reopen the government.
00:23:11.900And right now the Democrats are just no, no, hell no to everything.
00:23:15.640So I think it is entirely possible and maybe even likely that if we bring it up for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee,
00:23:23.720that every Senate Democrat would vote no on the committee.
00:23:27.280Now, if that happens, it would still be voted out of committee because if the Republicans all voted together, we have a majority on the committee.
00:23:33.560And so if we voted out of committee, it would go to the floor.
00:23:36.220And what I'm urging Republican leadership to do is put it up for a vote on the floor.
00:23:40.560And listen, if the Democrats all want to vote no, they can.
00:23:46.640But I've got to say, that is a terrible vote.
00:23:49.000If you are voting against liability for violent rioting, that is not a vote that any Democrat running in a purple state wants to defend his or her constituents.
00:24:03.320And so I think either we take it up and they decide to support it and we pass it or we take it up and they vote party line against it,
00:24:10.940in which case those are terrible votes and you campaign against them.
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00:24:44.920And I want to move now, Senator, to something that you've been spearheading and leading on.
00:24:49.940It's certainly not getting attention to the media.
00:24:51.740But you're wanting to hold Nigeria accountable for the 50,000, let me say that number again, 50,000 Christians that have been killed there.
00:25:03.440Explain why this story is so important and what you're trying to do.
00:25:07.640And also, why is no one covering this as it's been described to me?