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00:01:09.160 A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.

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00:02:00.160 Democrat Socialists of America, they put out their platform agenda and it's radical. Well, now the

00:02:05.660 Democratic Party has put out some of their new mandates and it includes abolishing ICE. Are they

00:02:13.260 competing for who's more extreme? We explain that as well. And finally, a new national security

00:02:18.780 concern that involves Hassan Piker and his brother. So what has he said to put him on a

00:02:24.620 concern list? We have that for you as well. It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.

00:02:31.420 Democrats are used to the media just being their cheerleaders and press agents,

00:02:36.680 and so any criticism they don't know how to handle. All right, so you've heard the stunning

00:02:40.860 news about the conference he's speaking at alongside this radical calling for pedophilia

00:02:46.020 of your young family members. You've heard the stunning news that he was responsible for killing

00:02:50.300 over 4,000 dogs and cats and puppies and kittens. Surely there can't be more. And as the old movie

00:02:57.160 Airplane says, yes, there can, and don't call me Shirley. I want you to take a moment and acquaint

00:03:04.120 yourself with Abdul Al-Sayed's sister. Now, Abdul's own record is of being a Marxist,

00:03:14.220 islamist america hater i gotta say as bad as he is his sister is something really special

00:03:22.020 she's a professor at the university of chicago and and unfortunately so many of our professors 0.98

00:03:27.420 are radical she's a full-on communist she's a marxist she's a rabid islamist she is a naked 0.94

00:03:35.440 jew hater and she hates america i'm going to back all this up these are not empty charges all right 0.97

00:03:40.920 October 7th, October 7th, when Hamas massacred over 1,200 innocents in Israel, when they 0.98

00:03:50.180 raped little girls and women in the streets.

00:03:54.340 That morning, Abdul's sister, Emin Abdel Hadi, tweeted the following, this is the entirety

00:04:03.420 of her tweet, mourning freedom with a Palestinian flag.

00:04:09.360 Wow. 0.92

00:04:09.460 That was her tweet celebrating.

00:04:12.600 That was at 5.51 a.m. on October 7th, 2023.

00:04:16.800 That's while people, while women and girls are still being raped, she's celebrating.

00:04:20.840 And you might say, well, maybe she didn't know the facts.

00:04:24.520 Well, then let's go till later in the day on October 7th.

00:04:29.300 So Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders, his own record attacking Israel and welcoming anti-Semitism is unfortunate.

00:04:37.320 but here's what bernie sanders said on october 7th i absolutely condemn the horrifying attack 0.74

00:04:43.880 on israel by hamas and islamic jihad there is no justification for this violence and innocent

00:04:50.420 people on both sides will suffer hugely because of it it must end now so that's what bernie sanders

00:04:55.960 said the morning october 7th here's what abdul's sister said at 11 0 7 a.m on october 7th

00:05:02.540 retweeting or quote tweeting bernie sanders what a disappointment if you can't stand with

00:05:10.520 the people that have been held in an open prison for 16 years finally fighting their oppressors

00:05:16.800 how can you claim to stand for justice so understand her complaint is bernie sanders

00:05:23.940 was not pro hamas enough she needed him to be even more pro hamas that's how radical she is

00:05:31.620 that's how much she hates israel that's how much she hates jews and and and and and by the way

00:05:38.160 she's also a communist so listen to her this is her own voice talking about what she thinks about

00:05:45.560 capitalism capitalism is at the root of pretty much all of our social ills and has some way that

00:05:53.580 it plays a lot into all the oppressions that we face. So for me, I don't see issues of sexuality

00:06:03.000 or race or gender as separate from issues of economic justice. Capitalism has done a really

00:06:11.040 good job of dividing us and has done a really good job of objectifying our bodies and just

00:06:19.000 basically stealing from generation after generation of people who aren't at the top.

00:06:25.220 So socialism really affects every type of political activity that I'm in.

00:06:30.280 There's no separation for me between all of these things.

00:06:34.940 Senator, you listened to how well thought out her answer was.

00:06:41.040 This is a core belief.

00:06:43.140 I think it's pretty clear that you have core beliefs in this family.

00:06:47.300 and this is the radicalization of a family one of them has to dial it back a little bit even though

00:06:53.960 he didn't dial it back for years let's also be clear about that and al-said and so it's like

00:06:59.640 okay i guess we can pull it back just a little bit while i'm trying to you know become an elected

00:07:04.180 official yeah look and and and al-said has talked about how he hates thanksgiving it turns out his

00:07:11.040 sister does too here's what she's tweeted on on thanksgiving and july 4th quote we can't have

00:07:17.720 nice things under settler colonialism may all the empires fall and then on july 4th quote excuse me

00:07:27.220 if i don't celebrate the transfer of stolen land from one colonizer to another hashtag july 4th

00:07:35.180 and then amazingly enough so she didn't think bernie sanders was woke enough or israel hating

00:07:40.060 enough or america hating enough she also didn't think the university of michigan was so the

00:07:44.900 university of michigan in this on december 8th 2023 tweeted out in the context of the national

00:07:52.340 discourse the university of michigan unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of jews or any

00:08:00.460 other peoples as this is antithetical to our values so okay fairly mild tweet saying that

00:08:07.380 university of michigan is against the genocide of jews what what what was abdul's sister's reaction

00:08:12.600 to this quote the students you have been arresting and disciplining have not been calling for a

00:08:19.940 genocide of jews they have been calling for an end to the current actual ongoing genocide of

00:08:25.780 Palestinian people. I am ashamed to be a Michigan Wolverine. Wow. That was in response

00:08:35.980 to Michigan saying they opposed the genocide of Jews. That made her ashamed to be a Michigan

00:08:43.200 Wolverine. And final thing I want you to hear about her. Surely she's proud to be a professor

00:08:48.360 at the University of Chicago. I mean, after all, that's her employer. That's where she teaches.

00:08:52.480 She teaches right now. She poisons the minds of young students right now at the University of Chicago. 1.00

00:08:57.780 Obviously, she's proud of that. Well, turns out she's not.

00:09:00.820 Give a listen to what she has to say about the University of Chicago, where she is a professor right now. 0.99

00:09:05.900 F*** the University of Chicago. It's evil. Like, you know, it's a colonial landlord. 1.00

00:09:11.260 Like, why would I why would I put any of my political energy into this space?

00:09:15.440 And I kind of had a little bit of disdain for for for like people who spent a lot of time doing that.

00:09:21.680 and the genocide really collapsed that and made me realize that two things one is that well my

00:09:30.000 students needed me um so it was like oh I actually have to organize here to take care of my students

00:09:35.320 who I do care about um but I also realized and I think this is a lesson this is a painful lesson

00:09:42.140 that a lot of us in the Palestine solidarity movement have been learning is that we don't

00:09:47.060 have power. We can shift the moral authority all we want. We've won the moral question. That was

00:09:53.360 the imperative that we've had. Done. Check. Put Palestine in the national consciousness. We did

00:09:59.260 it. Make people sympathetic to Palestine. Teach the history. We did it. Now you have white boys

00:10:05.240 on the north side of Chicago being like, hey man, free Palestine. I'm like, okay. Did not see it 0.76

00:10:10.900 coming glad it's here um but what we don't have is power and i think for me the question of base

00:10:18.280 building is about i think the question that i i'm asking myself and i'm asking you to ask yourself

00:10:23.240 is where can i actually build power turns out i work at one of the biggest employers in the city

00:10:29.580 of chicago i work at a place that is a landlord a health care provider um a police force that

00:10:36.780 but they are right and um a place where i have access to thousands of people that i could

00:10:43.200 potentially organize and you know what it's not fun organizing academics next time you're in your

00:10:48.620 organizing meeting being frustrated please think of me please think about me trying to organize

00:10:55.580 like academics like it's brutal i never saw this coming however but i'm just like actually this is

00:11:02.720 where i need to build power right like this is my best possible structural leverage and so i do i do

00:11:10.720 one-on-ones with my liberal colleagues who are like well i don't know but you know i just think

00:11:15.140 we should live the life of the mind here in high park where we go it's like yeah you know i hear

00:11:20.300 you totally yeah unbelievable like that this is and and by the way this is when you and i've

00:11:27.180 warned for a long time you need to pay attention where you send your kids to school and who's 1.00

00:11:32.460 indoctrinating them because this is a woman who is indoctrinating children or young adults in

00:11:38.820 college each and every day so what she says is f the university of chicago it's evil but where 0.83

00:11:48.660 can i build power i have access to thousands of people i can potentially organize so the students 0.95

00:11:57.020 the young people she is trying to proselytize them and turn them into islamists and communists

00:12:03.680 and what she says explicitly is this is where i need to build power well let me just ask you

00:12:11.940 something where do you think abdul el-sayed thinks he needs to build power this is a family

00:12:19.680 raised on hate and this is a family devoted to hate that's how radical the democrats nominees

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00:13:07.300 A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.

00:13:13.380 Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter.

00:13:16.300 Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the memory?

00:13:19.280 A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha,

00:13:22.120 tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried.

00:13:26.100 How can you not know there were women and children in there?

00:13:28.840 Are you going to tell us here that you don't know what happened that day?

00:13:31.660 Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents

00:13:35.300 and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video,

00:13:39.280 the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told.

00:13:44.680 If you've got five players, and one of them is guilty of murder at least, and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth.

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00:14:07.480 Now on to story number two.

00:14:09.380 and by the way if you thought it was just uh the democratic socialists of america that were

00:14:14.840 that are really getting their mojo uh i guess now the dnc is trying to say no no we're just

00:14:21.800 as radical as you are uh with a new stance that the democratic national committee just when you

00:14:27.880 thought they might try to like dial it down a little bit the crazy they have now changed their

00:14:32.980 platform to say hold on we're all in on abolishing ice making sure they don't exist anymore well and

00:14:41.280 and there's some democrat politicians who pretend oh this is an extreme view it's only by the

00:14:45.660 radicals the dsa the communists and socialists in our party although they won't admit they're

00:14:49.400 communists and socialists in their party it's not the rest of us normal democrats well this past

00:14:55.780 week the dnc was meeting in austin texas sadly sadly in our home state and the dnc adopted a

00:15:04.780 resolution urging congressional democrats to abolish ice and the abolition measure it was

00:15:13.300 known as resolution 27 it cleared the dnc's resolution committee in a 25 to 12 vote with

00:15:22.000 one abstention it headed to the full membership it was bundled into a larger package and it was

00:15:30.180 approved by the full membership what do you think the vote was well i i'm assuming knowing the

00:15:35.040 democratic party and radical as they are it was probably a very high success rate unanimous there

00:15:41.020 you go every single person voting voted yes the vote's non-binding it doesn't formally change the

00:15:47.300 party's platform for 2028 but the dnc has now voted for a resolution um saying abolish ice and

00:15:55.700 understand what abolish ice means ice is is the immigration and customs enforcement agency it is

00:16:02.300 the agency that tracks down illegal immigrants inside the interior of the united states it

00:16:07.560 tracks down gangbangers it tracks down ms13 and trender aragua it it tracks down murderers and

00:16:14.760 child rapists and human traffickers and the position now adopted unanimously by the dnc

00:16:21.480 is the democrats want to abolish it if you abolish ice it means you you are no longer willing to

00:16:28.680 enforce our immigration laws it means you want the illegal immigrants in america to stay here by the

00:16:33.680 way with no ice nobody gets deported like once you get in you stay here forever with no ice with no 0.92

00:16:39.700 twice that the criminal gangbangers who are illegals they're not prosecuted they're not

00:16:45.540 arrested by the way the over 300,000 children that the Biden administration had in federal

00:16:51.900 custody that they handed over to adults and then lost and many of those adults were not family

00:16:56.840 members they don't know where they are the Trump administration one of the most important things

00:17:00.720 they've done is they've gone and tracked down thousands upon thousands of those kids and gotten

00:17:04.880 amount of situations where they're facing the potential for abuse sexual abuse physical abuse

00:17:09.860 the position of the democrats is to heck with those kids leave them where they are we're not

00:17:14.440 going to enforce we're not going to investigate we're not going to do anything because look

00:17:19.580 abolish ICE is the immigration version of abolish the police and we've talked a lot on this pod

00:17:28.060 about how radicalized the democrats have gotten this is no longer the fringe this is the unanimously

00:17:34.560 adopted resolution position of the entire democrat national committee that means even

00:17:41.280 the most supposedly moderate democrat their party's position is get rid of ice altogether

00:17:48.240 and senator final question on this you look at the the the pushing here by the left to force

00:17:56.600 I think it's pretty darn clear that the Democratic Party to just become more and more and more extreme.

00:18:06.140 Will there be pushback or is this them just admitting, hey, stick with us.

00:18:11.700 We're going to where you are in the Democratic Socialists.

00:18:14.320 Or do you believe that voters are going to say Democratic Party, you've gone too far? 0.93

00:18:20.780 Well, look, I hope so. That's what the midterms are going to determine, at least as an initial push.

00:18:26.600 I hope the voters say, listen, I don't want unlimited illegal immigrants in our country. 0.99

00:18:31.880 I don't want criminals released. I don't want ICE abolished. I don't want the police abolished. 1.00

00:18:35.680 I want to lock up criminals and bad guys.

00:18:38.380 Here's what the White House said.

00:18:39.940 A White House spokeswoman, Lauren Biss, said the following this weekend, quote,

00:18:44.820 extreme radical Democrats want to abolish ICE and defund the police.

00:18:49.100 Instead of trying to abolish ICE, Democrats should be thanking ICE law enforcement officers

00:18:53.500 for putting their lives on the line to arrest and remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles,

00:18:59.260 and gang members from American communities.

00:19:01.560 Many of these criminals were released from jails by Democrat radical politicians.

00:19:06.400 President Trump's effort to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities

00:19:10.140 is already delivering results, including the lowest murder rate in 125 years.

00:19:19.180 that's a profound record of success but look elections are about making the case to the

00:19:25.040 american people so i hope all of the republicans on the ballot make the case that that producing

00:19:31.260 extraordinary results in immigration seeing illegal border crossings drop 99 producing

00:19:37.360 20 drops in the murder rates and 20 drops in the deaths from drug overdoses

00:19:42.420 that is saving the lives of literally thousands of americans that's a record of success and the

00:19:47.840 Democrats are saying, don't just go back to Joe Biden era. Listen, when Biden was president,

00:19:52.640 we had ICE. We had not abolished the police, although Democrats in cities had slashed the

00:19:59.100 funding of a number of police departments. The Democrat position now is go further than Biden.

00:20:05.640 They don't just want open borders. They want to release violent criminals. And I got to say,

00:20:10.900 i don't think that's where most americans are i i think if you talk to your average american

00:20:18.100 citizen a republican yes but also an independent or even most democrats and ask them do you want

00:20:24.120 to release murderers and rapists into your community it is only the extreme zealots who

00:20:30.260 would say yes that used to be a position that was a bipartisan like obvious duh position

00:20:35.680 today the democrats are being driven by their zealots and and the rest of the party is terrified

00:20:41.840 of those zealots and so between now and election day we need to make the case to the voters and

00:20:47.880 and i hope every candidate does so i can tell you on this podcast we're certainly going to lay out

00:20:51.720 the facts and make the case that we should be protecting american citizens and not uh releasing

00:20:58.600 violent criminal illegal aliens into the united states i think that's basic common sense i think

00:21:03.000 that's where most Americans are. As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation

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00:21:42.700 A shocking crime

00:21:45.260 and a cover up at the highest

00:21:47.200 levels of the United States Marine Corps

00:21:49.440 Someone opened the door

00:21:51.280 and was the primary shooter

00:21:52.800 Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the memory?

00:21:55.300 A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried.

00:22:02.600 How can you not know there were women and children in there?

00:22:05.340 Are you going to tell us here that you don't know what happened that day?

00:22:08.160 Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video,

00:22:15.760 the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told.

00:22:21.160 If you've got five players, and one of them is guilty of murder at least, and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth.

00:22:29.680 Because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your killer.

00:22:33.300 Listen to Faultline Haditha on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:22:43.880 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:22:48.500 All right, Senator, I want to get into this national security issue, the media not talking

00:22:53.020 about it, but Hassan Piker's got a wingman brother.

00:22:56.520 He is a space engineer with security clearance.

00:22:59.880 Now, that on its face, not a big deal.

00:23:02.500 What's a big deal is the details behind the brother.

00:23:05.540 Well, let's start with Hassan Piker.

00:23:06.900 Hassan Piker is a radical.

00:23:09.000 This entire show, we've been talking about the radicals who sadly are becoming more and

00:23:14.280 more commonplace on the left, more and more commonplace in the Democrat Party.

00:23:17.480 And Hassan Piker is a great example of he's an influencer who the Democrats have embraced.

00:23:22.780 He is a communist. 0.96

00:23:24.320 He is an Islamist. 0.99

00:23:25.740 He hates America. 1.00

00:23:27.020 He routinely rails. 1.00

00:23:28.760 He hates African-Americans. 1.00

00:23:30.260 He hates white Americans. 1.00

00:23:31.520 He hates the United States of America. 0.98

00:23:33.460 He has said, and this is a quote, America deserved 9-11. 0.58

00:23:39.260 This is, and by the way, Abdul Al-Sad and other Democrats campaign with him, embrace him.

00:23:45.080 look by when they stand next to him and and both figuratively and literally embrace him that they're

00:23:51.380 saying they support his ideas well turns out hassan piker has a brother and his brother is in a

00:23:57.980 position that if he believes the same thing hassan does he's in a position to do real damage here

00:24:02.720 here's a story from the from the washington free beacon hassan piker's younger brother is an

00:24:07.400 aerospace engineer with security clearances who spent years working on u.s military projects for

00:24:13.360 Boeing, projects that include Air Force One and the top secret, quote, doomsday plane designed

00:24:20.820 for nuclear war. Now, let's see, is this guy, maybe the brother, he doesn't have anything to do with

00:24:26.260 Hassan Piker, he doesn't agree with his views, maybe they're estranged, that might be a different

00:24:30.180 circumstance. Well, turns out that is not the case. Let me continue reading. Murat Piker, an engineer

00:24:36.040 who spent more than a decade at Boeing, regularly appears on his older brother's controversial social

00:24:42.880 media channel and has also accompanied him to events. Hassan has declared that, quote,

00:24:50.800 America deserved 9-11, bragged about his support for Hamas, spoken in favor of Iran's right to

00:24:55.500 defend itself, and blamed Iran's death to America and great Satan rhetoric on the United States, 0.65

00:25:00.540 quote, messing around in the Middle East. Well, his kid brother, Murat, worked as a full-time

00:25:07.340 employee at Boeing for more than a decade and left on his own, of his own volition, earlier this year.

00:25:14.980 He said, quote, my background includes significant experience at Boeing Space and Defense, where I

00:25:20.520 led mechanical design and integration for next generation satellite structures, managed high

00:25:26.240 pressure anomaly investigations, and defined structural interfaces across subsystems. That's

00:25:31.520 what he, that's what Murat says on his LinkedIn page. Murat and Hassan Piker were both born in

00:25:38.800 New Jersey, but they did their primary and their secondary schooling in Turkey. Murat worked on

00:25:46.180 Air Force One, and you just, you have to ask, I don't know if Murat shares his brother's hatred

00:25:54.480 for America, his brother's embrace of radical Islam. But given that they have done Hassan 0.97

00:26:03.700 Piker's show repeatedly together, gone to events together, that is a reasonable inference and it's

00:26:07.960 a reasonable question. And it raises the question, listen, if this is someone that hates America and

00:26:13.680 wants to do damage to America, what harm could he do with security clearances working for Boeing

00:26:19.180 and for the military on very very sensitive projects yeah very sensitive projects and and

00:26:25.220 you know when you look at this it's being exposed i'm glad by the way for the work the washington

00:26:30.720 free beacon has done yet again another example senator of a major story that has national

00:26:37.040 security implications and the mainstream media just completely looks the other way well they do

00:26:45.640 because they don't want to cover this.

00:26:47.600 They don't want to cover the fact.

00:26:49.380 And understand that when Chuck Schumer,

00:26:53.080 when Abdul El-Sayed have been asked

00:26:55.700 do they distance themselves from Hassan Piker,

00:27:00.860 they consistently say no, that they want these radicals.

00:27:04.720 Here, give a listen to Ro Khanna,

00:27:06.740 who is the Democrat congressman being asked

00:27:09.660 if Democrats should distance themselves

00:27:12.080 from radical Hassan Piker.

00:27:14.260 You stuck your neck out for progressives like Abdullah Saeed. You also supported Plattner before the allegations came out. You've also stuck your neck out for Hassan Piker. And you've seen that Hassan Piker is now being attacked 24-7 on Fox. Here's Haley Stevens going on Fox and saying, well, the first thing, you know, how El Saeed could moderate to voters is to get rid of the Piker affiliation.

00:27:35.960 You've seen Neera Tanden retweet Laura Loomer's attack on Hassan Piker.

00:27:41.620 Your comment on Hassan Piker, what should the Democrats do with him?

00:27:46.120 Should they abandon him?

00:27:47.580 Do you renounce your support of him? 0.61

00:27:49.960 You tell me, Roe.

00:27:50.940 Give it to me straight.

00:27:52.200 It's absurd.

00:27:53.320 I mean, these are the same people who were at one point criticizing Democrats for going on Joe Rogan.

00:27:59.880 I mean, remember when Bernie ran on Joe Rogan?

00:28:01.860 The people who said, oh, you can't go on Joe Rogan.

00:28:04.440 These are the same folks who criticized me when I went on Ben Shapiro.

00:28:08.680 Should I not go on Ben Shapiro's podcast because I disagree with him?

00:28:12.880 We had an oral argument on the minimum wage.

00:28:15.420 Just because someone is engaging with Hassan Piker, who has strong viewpoints on these issues,

00:28:23.220 doesn't mean that you're endorsing every single one of Hassan Piker's positions.

00:28:27.760 And if you're going to argue that we should exclude left-wing commentators, and frankly, some of these people were arguing that we should be canceling and excluding right-wing commentators, you're left with a party that is basically a status quo party.

00:28:45.760 That's why we lost two elections.

00:28:48.220 By the way, I love how he's sitting there.

00:28:50.660 He's like, oh, it's no different than me going on Ben Shapiro's show.

00:28:53.440 So Ben Shapiro is not a radical in the way that you would have to defend Hassan Piker.

00:28:59.920 And yet to compare that, you're going, oh, I just take a risk on these guys because, you know, I'm not going to agree with everything they say.

00:29:05.420 Look at what you're endorsing.

00:29:07.260 It is radical, extreme and crazy.

00:29:10.420 Well, and look, Ro Khanna was someone who got elected to Congress from Silicon Valley.

00:29:16.100 He was someone who got elected with the support of the tech bros.

00:29:19.040 And his initial brand was kind of a moderate common-sense Democrat.

00:29:23.720 And then he looked around the Democrat Party and said, wait a second, nobody wants moderate

00:29:27.140 common-sense Democrats.

00:29:28.400 And so he's decided to go hard, hard left.

00:29:32.040 As the beginning of that interview showed, he went up to Maine and embraced Graham Plattner 0.63

00:29:35.820 and said, hey, this is great, you know, a Nazi communist, my kind of guy. 0.51

00:29:40.040 And so, you know, you listen to what Connors said there. 0.77

00:29:43.500 He said, well, just because they're engaging, that was the verb he used, engaging with a

00:29:49.020 Let's be clear. Al-Sayed is not engaging with Hassan Piker. He's not saying, you know, Hassan, I actually think you're wrong when you say America deserved 9-11. I don't think we deserve to be attacked by Islamist terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 people. They're not engaging. They're embracing. They're celebrating. They're adopting. It is who they are.

00:30:09.120 And I will say, you know, there's the old line that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

00:30:17.060 Ro Khanna is rich as hell.

00:30:21.260 And the latest news story said he traded $165 million in trades.

00:30:28.720 He made over 5,000 trades last year.

00:30:32.400 I don't think members of Congress should be buying and selling stock and getting rich. 0.99

00:30:36.920 And this is a great example of the hypocrisy, which is that they embrace Marxism while living as complete and utter hypocrites. 0.94

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