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0:18

election. It's an unfortunate

0:20

truth for the incumbent president. A

0:23

series of swing state polls now

0:25

out from Redfield-Wilton and the Telegraph

0:27

show that Donald Trump is now

0:30

in the lead in Pennsylvania by

0:32

two, Georgia by five, Michigan by

0:34

one, Arizona by two, North Carolina

0:36

by three, Florida by six. Meanwhile,

0:39

a new poll from the Des Moines Register

0:41

and Seltzer, who is the best pollster in

0:43

the country, she, of course, has to get

0:46

it right because the Iowa caucuses are a

0:48

very important jumping point for every presidential race.

0:51

She's an A plus pollster. I mean, she

0:53

pretty much knows everyone personally in Iowa. She

0:55

currently has Donald Trump up 18 points

0:58

on Joe Biden, 50 to 32. Biden's

1:01

not approval. Is it negative 39 in Iowa? Why

1:05

does that matter? I mean, Trump won Iowa walking

1:07

away last time. He won it by eight, not

1:10

by 18, by eight. So

1:13

there are huge numbers that Trump is racking up

1:15

in places like Iowa. Not just that. A new

1:17

Washington Post study of the so-called

1:19

the deciders. These would be people

1:21

who turn out who turn out to vote sporadically

1:23

or who have switched their vote between Republican and

1:26

Democrat. When it comes to the swing state, about

1:29

61 percent of people

1:31

declare themselves deciders. Those

1:34

would be people who voted

1:36

only one of the last couple presidential elections or

1:38

are between the ages of 18 and 25 or

1:41

registered to vote since 2022 or who did not definitely

1:43

plan to vote for either Biden or Trump this year

1:45

or switch their support between 2016 and 2020. Well,

1:50

among the non-deciders in the swing states, Donald

1:52

Trump is in a very slight lead

1:54

over Joe Biden. 17 percent

1:56

say that they will definitely vote for

1:58

Trump. 15 percent. will definitely vote for

2:00

Biden. That's out of a total of 39% among the

2:02

non-deciders. Among

2:05

the deciders, these are people who are sporadic

2:08

voters or uncommitted voters. If you

2:10

look at the uncommitted voters, probably Trump beats

2:12

probably Biden by a couple of percentage points.

2:15

These are all very close states. And what that means

2:17

that if Donald Trump is leading among

2:19

both the deciders and also the

2:21

non-deciders, then he's just leading overall.

2:25

And right now, if you look at this Washington

2:27

post-polling data, what you see is among all key

2:29

state voters, 31%

2:32

say they would definitely vote for Donald Trump, compared to

2:34

26% who say they would definitely vote for Joe Biden.

2:36

Another 17% say they would probably vote

2:39

for Donald Trump, compared to 15% for Joe Biden. Most

2:43

importantly, in terms of who

2:45

people would definitely not vote for or probably not

2:48

vote for, 55% of voters

2:50

in the key states say they will either

2:52

definitely not or probably not vote for Joe

2:55

Biden, compared to only 49% for Donald Trump.

2:59

This means that right now Donald Trump is pretty

3:01

obviously winning, which again is one of

3:03

the reasons why the Economist, which does a forecast

3:05

on who they believe is going to win, currently

3:07

has Donald Trump's chances of winning the election at

3:09

72%, which is extraordinary. Now,

3:13

again, you'll recall that back in 2016, it

3:16

was thought that Hillary Clinton had 99% chance of

3:18

winning the election and of course, she then lost.

3:20

But the bottom line is if you

3:22

had to put your money on the election today, you would

3:24

be betting on Donald Trump. CNN's

3:26

Harry Enten was stunned yesterday looking at the

3:29

polling data and seeing what percentage of black

3:31

voters, for example, are now examining the possibility

3:33

of voting for President Trump. Here is Harry

3:35

Enten yesterday. Look at black

3:37

voters age 50 and older and

3:39

you'll see look Joe Biden was leading amongst this group

3:41

at this point by 83 points back in 2020.

3:44

Now, it's 74 points. So

3:46

yeah, a slight decline in that margin, but

3:48

nothing out of this world. Look at black

3:50

voters under the age of 50. Holy

3:53

cow folks. Holy cow. Look at this. Joe Biden

3:55

was up by 80 points among this

3:57

group back at this point in 2020. where

4:00

that margin has careened down towards. It's

4:02

now just, get this, 37 points. That

4:06

lead has dropped by more than

4:08

half Mr. Berman. Home, I just

4:11

never seen anything like this. I'm like

4:13

speechless because you always look at history

4:15

and you go, okay, this is a

4:17

historic moment. If this polling is anywhere

4:19

near correct, we are looking at a

4:21

historic moment right now where black voters

4:23

under the age of 50, which have

4:25

historically been such a big part of

4:27

the democratic coalition are leaving it in

4:29

droves. Okay, what that

4:31

means is that the gap for Donald

4:33

Trump is down from 90-10 to about

4:35

70-30. That's

4:38

what that actually shows among young black voters. And Joe Biden is

4:40

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4:42

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And again, that is due to, as I've said, over and over

5:56

the fact that he's a very bad president, and also due to

5:58

the fact that, particularly for young voters, They look at Joe Biden

6:00

and he does not seem like he is with it. And

6:03

the Biden campaign is trying to walk their way past it.

6:06

Basically, they're now telling you that your

6:08

eyes are lying to you. Here's

6:11

the problem. Your eyes are not lying to you. Just

6:13

in the last 24 hours, we have

6:15

tape of babbling Joe

6:18

at a fundraiser from Los Angeles with Barack Obama.

6:20

This is the same fundraiser we had to be

6:22

led off the stage by the hand by Barack

6:25

Obama. And we have Joe Biden just

6:27

randomly babbling into the microphone. You want to

6:29

know why the Department of Justice will not turn

6:31

over the tape of Joe Biden talking to

6:33

special prosecutor Robert Herr. Because hours

6:35

and hours of Joe Biden mumbling into a microphone

6:37

like a demented old man is not going to

6:39

look good for him in a presidential race. That

6:42

is the only reason they won't release the tape.

6:44

We already have the transcript. It

6:46

probably sounds a lot like this. Here is

6:48

Joe Biden babbling when asked about jobs at

6:50

this fundraiser. Guess what?

6:52

It's growing. The economy is growing. People

6:54

are doing better. We have the highest

6:57

unemployment rate, the highest and lowest unemployment

6:59

rate in 50 years. We

7:01

have more people. We've had over

7:03

15 million people randomly hiring work

7:05

for us. You know,

7:08

my my son says, you

7:10

know, we all have various

7:13

short term descriptions for

7:16

your jobs. What would

7:18

you accomplish? You should say

7:20

Joe Jobs. Oh,

7:22

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then there

7:24

was yesterday when Joe Biden was at

7:27

some sort of event at the White House

7:30

and the press started yelling questions to him.

7:32

And so he decided to just yell random

7:34

things back at them. And I don't know

7:36

what's going on here. And

7:44

then he starts grinning like the

7:46

Joker. What in the world was that?

7:49

What was that? Imagine

7:53

that coming at 3 a.m. We've

7:55

been told by the media, of course, that

7:57

there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden. In

8:00

fact, yesterday, the Biden campaign co-chair decided

8:02

to go on national television and suggest

8:04

that no one should be questioning Joe

8:06

Biden's mental acuity. I

8:08

think Donald Trump is a joke. I

8:10

mean, when this guy, when his lips

8:12

are moving, he's lying. And then when

8:14

he tries to confuse, when he tries

8:16

to accuse somebody else of speaking improperly,

8:18

he can't keep two thoughts in his

8:20

mind. I would encourage Americans to go

8:22

listen to Donald Trump's full speeches and

8:24

try to put that word, spaghetti, together.

8:26

And I wonder why anybody is questioning

8:28

Joe Biden's mental acuity. Donald Trump can't string

8:31

two sentences together. I mean, it's the biggest joke in

8:33

the world. You're

8:35

wondering why people are questioning Joe

8:37

Biden's mental acuity. Really,

8:39

are we questioning this? Here

8:41

is a short montage of Joe Biden simply

8:44

getting lost, okay, and having to be

8:46

guided by people. We could have done probably

8:48

an hour of this, but this is the short version. Here

8:53

he is being guided. He has

8:56

to actually be told where to go. This

8:58

is where he lives. It's the White House.

9:00

Here is Barack Obama guiding him by the

9:02

hand like a visiting angel and then guiding

9:04

him by the back as he totters off

9:06

the stage. Here is a secret

9:08

service agent directing Joe Biden to make a right

9:11

turn. But Joe Biden apparently does not understand how

9:13

hand signals work. And so he just sort of

9:15

glides on past into the grass following the secret

9:17

service agent who has no idea Joe Biden

9:19

is following him. Here is another event having

9:21

to be directed toward a specific spot on

9:23

the floor so he can stand next to

9:25

a TV. Here he is

9:27

trying to follow a small child, but then

9:29

having to be told that's not exactly where he

9:31

is actually going. He doesn't know where he's going.

9:33

Try to go here. Sure. I

9:35

suppose although there. Here he was talking to a parish. He

9:38

just doesn't even know he's talking to him. And

9:40

George Maloney, Prime Minister of Italy, having to redirect

9:42

him back into a picture where he looks confusedly.

9:44

Here's the Easter Bunny directing Joe Biden. You remember

9:46

this one. Joe Biden is talking to the press.

9:48

Easter Bunny doesn't want Joe Biden talking to the

9:50

press. Here's Kamala Harris trying

9:52

to redirect the old man so

9:55

that she can't get him to move away. Here

9:57

is Joe Biden simply walking through a group of people.

10:00

I don't know exactly where he's supposed to go. The

10:02

Secret Service points him in the other direction. This

10:05

is the problem. There's tons of

10:07

tape. Your eyes and your ears are not

10:09

deceiving you. The President of the United States

10:11

is in a state of serious decline and

10:14

everybody knows it. But the

10:16

administration doesn't have a solution for this. The campaign doesn't

10:18

have a solution for this because the problem is it's

10:20

true. And so they've decided to try

10:22

it out. Their newest narrative, their newest narrative is

10:24

something they are calling cheap fakes. Get

10:27

it, get it? Because it rhymes with

10:29

deep fakes. These branding geniuses over here,

10:31

the same people behind Bidenomics, which has

10:33

been jabooned for the Biden campaign. So

10:35

now calling them cheap fakes. So Karina

10:37

Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary. Yesterday,

10:41

she got very, very angry because

10:43

it turns out that people have been

10:45

distributing clips of Joe Biden looking mentally incompetent.

10:47

She says that they're not true. They're all

10:49

taken out of context. Now here's the thing.

10:51

We've played the full tapes and we've explained

10:53

exactly what he is doing. So for example,

10:56

the claim by Democrats was that the tape

10:58

of Joe Biden talking to the parachutist was

11:01

somehow edited to make him look worse. Except

11:03

for the fact that we showed you the

11:05

tape, including the parachutist, who doesn't seem to

11:08

understand that Joe Biden, the president of the

11:10

United States is talking to him. We showed

11:12

you the full tape of Joe Biden waving

11:14

to the crowd before he randomly freezes on

11:16

stage and has to be led by the

11:18

hand, like a small five-year-old child by the

11:20

former president of the United States, Barack Obama.

11:22

We've shown you everything, but apparently it's now

11:24

cheap fakes and deep fakes, according to Corinne

11:26

Jean-Pierre. There seems to

11:28

be a sort of rash of videos

11:31

that have been edited to make the

11:33

president appear especially frail or mentally confused.

11:36

I'm wondering if the White House is especially

11:38

worried about the fact that this appears to

11:40

be a pattern that we're seeing more of.

11:42

Yeah, and I think you all have called

11:44

this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly

11:47

what they are. They are cheap fakes video.

11:49

They are done in bad faith. And

11:52

some of your news organization have

11:56

been very clear, have stressed, that these right-wing,

11:59

the right-wing, critics of the president have

12:01

a credibility problem because of

12:03

the fact checkers have repeatedly caught

12:05

them pushing misinformation, disinformation. It's not

12:07

misinformation. It's not disinformation. We see

12:09

this and this is something coming

12:11

from from your your part of

12:13

the world calling them cheap fakes

12:15

and misinformation. It's not

12:18

misinformation. It's literally a clip of the

12:20

president of the United States doing things.

12:22

It is not disinformation. It's not Russian propaganda. But

12:24

you can see this narrative being laundered in real

12:26

time. Here's Nicole Wallace on MSNBC doing her job

12:28

as a spokesperson for the White House. There's

12:31

a growing and insidious trend in

12:34

right wing media, broadcast, print and

12:36

social media. It is

12:38

to take highly misleading and

12:40

selectively edited videos of President

12:42

Biden directly from Republican National

12:44

Committee social media accounts and

12:47

then use those videos to

12:49

spread messages virally to cast doubt on

12:51

President Biden's fitness for office. Here is

12:54

this headline from the New York Post

12:56

quote. Biden appears to freeze up, has

12:58

to be led off stage by Obama

13:00

at Mega Bucks L.A. fundraiser. The

13:03

full video posted by Biden finance

13:05

chair on Twitter shows something entirely

13:08

different. Biden reacting to applause

13:10

and then walking off stage with

13:12

former President Obama. It comes

13:14

less than one week after the New

13:16

York Post made a cover out of

13:18

another piece of deceptively edited tape calling

13:21

him meander in chief due to what

13:23

they claim was Biden walking away during

13:25

a skydiving demonstration during the G7 summit

13:27

last week. The only problem is that

13:30

the full video, which emerged almost instantly,

13:32

shows Biden was going over to congratulate

13:34

one of the skydivers who's cropped out

13:36

of the video entirely. Both

13:38

the articles are based on cheap fakes, videos of

13:41

real events that are potentially manipulating. This is so

13:43

ridiculous. Okay. Can I first point out that the

13:45

original video from the fundraiser where Barack Obama has

13:47

to lead him off by the hand was not

13:49

from the RNC. It was from a reporter at

13:52

the Hollywood reporter who subsequently was obviously called by

13:54

the White House and then wrote a follow up

13:56

piece about how everybody was being mean to Joe

13:58

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If the White House's attempt right now is to

15:04

say that the American people cannot believe their own

15:06

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15:09

believe their brains, they can't believe their wallets, they

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If you look at Joe Biden and you see

15:19

an incompetent elderly person who should not be in

15:21

the White House, that is because you are being

15:24

lied to via misinformation, disinformation and cheap fakes. If

15:26

you look at the world situation and see a

15:28

world that is on fire and potentially is going

15:30

to grow more on fire as time goes on,

15:32

then that is simply because you don't understand the

15:34

brilliant 4D chess that

15:37

Joe Biden is playing. None of

15:39

this is going to play, by the way. None of this is

15:41

going to play. And so what the Democrats are now doing is

15:43

they are prepping the groundwork for

15:45

saving democracy, saving democracy. Now, the

15:48

word democracy is used by Democrats

15:50

in a way that does not

15:52

mean democracy. Democracy is popular rule.

15:54

When it is used colloquially, it

15:56

can encompass terms like, for example,

15:58

a Democratic Republic. meaning that

16:00

there are checks and balances in the system and

16:02

it's not direct democracy. Typically democracy technically

16:04

means that if we're all in a room together

16:06

and we wanna make a decision, we all vote

16:08

on that specific decision. A republic means

16:10

you have representatives, which means you don't vote

16:13

directly on many of the decisions that are

16:15

being made. You instead delegate the power to

16:17

vote on those decisions to a representative government.

16:20

And typically that representative government has a series

16:22

of checks and balances. So the United States

16:24

is a republic. It is not in fact

16:26

a direct democracy. It's a democracy

16:28

in the broadest sense, which is that we

16:30

vote, but it's not a democracy in the

16:33

technical sense in which you vote on every

16:35

issue or in which a pure majoritarian popular

16:37

will gets to decide every single issue. In

16:39

fact, the founders decried exactly such system. They

16:42

saw that as what they would call a

16:44

mobocracy. That would be

16:46

a problem for them. They would not want everyone

16:48

voting on every single, they wouldn't want just a

16:50

series of referenda on every single issue that go

16:52

to the popular vote, which is why you have

16:54

all of these intervening institutions in the government. It's

16:57

why the Congress is represented on a popular level,

16:59

but the Senate was originally supposed to be represented

17:02

at the state level by the state legislature.

17:04

State legislatures were originally supposed to pick their senators.

17:06

It's why the Senate itself is not proportional. It's

17:08

why Montana has the same number of senators with

17:11

seven people and a cow as California with 45

17:14

million people or whatever it is. It is

17:16

why you have a series of checks and balances

17:18

between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and

17:21

the judiciary. It is why you have an

17:24

electoral college. There are all sorts of institutions

17:26

in our republic that are designed to check

17:28

excesses of the mob. And if

17:30

you read the Federalist Papers, that was very

17:32

much forefront of the founders' concerns. Why

17:35

is that important? Because there was a shift

17:38

in the way that people thought of democracy in the United

17:40

States. And it started in the early 20th century, late 19th

17:42

century. It

17:45

was a takeaway from German progressivism.

17:48

So weirdly enough, much of modern American

17:50

government are structured, particularly the administrative state,

17:52

are drawn from the

17:54

Bismarckian social compact in Germany. One

17:56

of the big admirers of that

17:58

system Woodrow Wilson,

18:01

who was a pointy headed

18:03

professor, obviously he was

18:05

the Dean of Princeton University before

18:07

he ran for President of the United States.

18:10

So Woodrow Wilson wrote extensively about German

18:12

Progressivism and what he saw as his

18:14

vision for what democracy should look like.

18:17

What he believed is that the Constitution of

18:19

the United States had outlived its sell by

18:21

date. Now the Constitution, all these checks and

18:23

balances were useless. He wanted something that was

18:25

more democratic and also less democratic, more democratic

18:28

in the sense that he wanted a popular

18:30

vote for one guy and that one big

18:32

man would get to make all the decisions

18:34

with the help of a bunch of administrative

18:36

bureaucrats who were experts on the issues. In

18:38

other words, he wanted a government of expertise

18:40

and he believed that all the checks and

18:43

balances thwarted that government. So

18:45

for example, in 1908, he famously

18:47

wrote, quote, the president is at liberty, both in

18:49

law and conscience, to be as big a man

18:52

as he can. His capacity will set the limit.

18:54

And if Congress be over born by him, it

18:56

will be no fault to the makers of the

18:58

Constitution. It will be from no lack of constitutional

19:00

powers on his part, but only because the president

19:02

has the nation behind him and Congress has not.

19:05

In other words, Congress has all these checks and

19:07

balances. There's this weird sausage making in the background,

19:09

but the president is elected by the public effectively

19:11

speaking. And that means that he should have as

19:13

much power as humanly possible. Why was that important

19:16

to Woodrow Wilson? Because he believed in the setup

19:18

of an administrative state, an entire branch of the

19:20

government that was effectively independent of the popular will.

19:22

So in 1887, again, Biggenmeyer of what?

19:27

Otto von Bismarck had done in Germany

19:30

with social welfare systems and with a

19:32

government from the top of bureaucrats. He

19:34

wrote, quote, administration lies outside the proper

19:36

sphere of politics. Administrative questions are not

19:39

political questions. Although politics sets the tasks

19:41

for administration, it should not be suffered

19:43

to manipulate its offices. Let

19:45

me say large powers and unhampered discretion

19:48

seem to me the indispensable conditions of

19:50

responsibility. Public attention must be easily

19:52

directed in each case of good or bad administration to

19:54

just the man deserving of praise or blame. There

19:57

is no danger in power. If only it be not irresponsible.

20:00

If it'd be divided, dealt out in shares too

20:02

many, it is obscured. And if it'd be obscured,

20:04

it is made irresponsible. So, to put that in

20:06

simpler language, what he is saying is that there

20:08

should be a series of effectively unaccountable,

20:10

non-elected bureaucrats who are experts, and you can yell

20:13

at them, but you can't get rid of them.

20:15

And they should be given wide discretionary power to

20:17

set how policy is done because they are the

20:19

experts. So when Democrats say democracy,

20:21

this is what they typically mean. They

20:24

do not mean that they respect the institutions

20:26

of the republic. They don't, for example, respect

20:29

the Supreme Court of the United States except

20:31

when it is giving them precisely what they

20:33

want. This is why you have seen this

20:35

bizarre attempt to uphold the Supreme

20:37

Court of the United States by the left at

20:39

the same time as undermining it. So,

20:41

for example, Jill Biden yesterday, she came out and she said,

20:43

Joe and I respect the courts. She said

20:45

this with respect to the conviction of Donald Trump in New

20:48

York, and also purportedly with respect to the conviction of Hunter

20:50

Biden in Delaware, although, again, I think that that sentence is

20:52

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22:00

Biden declaring her respect for the courts. Your

22:02

husband, the president has said he wouldn't pardon

22:04

your son. He wouldn't commute his sentence. That's

22:06

correct. As a mother, though, you must

22:08

want to see this burden lifted off your son. Do

22:11

you wish he could do that? Well, Joe

22:13

and I both respect the judicial

22:15

system, and that's the bottom line. Well,

22:18

I mean, they don't, because here's Joe Biden over the weekend

22:20

ripping into the Supreme Court, which is at the apex of

22:22

the American judicial system. The next

22:25

president is likely to have two

22:27

new Supreme Court nominees. Two

22:29

more, two more. He's

22:32

already appointed to that are been very

22:34

negative in terms of the rights of

22:36

individuals. The idea that

22:38

if he's reelected, he's going to

22:41

appoint two more flying flags upside

22:43

down is really, I really

22:46

mean it. Could this

22:48

be the scariest part of all of it? Well,

22:50

I think it is one of the scariest parts

22:52

of it. Look, the Supreme Court

22:54

has never been as out of kilter as

22:57

it is today. I mean, never. I

23:00

taught constitutional law for nine years. This

23:02

guy knows more about it than most. Look,

23:05

in fact, he doesn't. This

23:07

has never been a court that's been this far out of

23:09

step. That is obviously untrue.

23:11

So undermining the court at the same time

23:13

that he's upholding the court's system supposedly. Again,

23:16

the pitch here for Democrats, they like to

23:18

say the word democracy because they want to

23:20

portray Donald Trump as an incipient fascist. And

23:23

so CNN did a big report yesterday

23:26

setting up what will be the terms

23:28

of the debate next week. The

23:30

terms of that debate are going to be very simple. They're

23:33

going to say that Donald Trump is undermining democracy

23:35

while Joe Biden is upholding it. But

23:37

as we're about to discuss, it's actually Joe

23:40

Biden who is hell bent on undermining the

23:42

actual Democratic Republic. So CNN went

23:44

out and they interviewed a bunch of Trump supporters

23:46

and they asked about Donald Trump undermining democracy. And

23:48

the Trump supporters correctly said we don't live in

23:50

a democracy. We live in a republic, which as

23:52

I've explained is technically true. We do live in

23:55

a representative democracy with a series of checks and

23:57

balances that thwart the popular will on a

24:00

regular basis. But here is CNN explaining

24:02

it's very bad to say that we live in a

24:04

republic, not a democracy. These

24:06

words were used in different ways in the

24:08

18th century. And it's true, the founders

24:11

didn't want direct democracy by which they

24:13

meant people gathering on the town square.

24:15

They wanted representative democracy. But I think

24:17

the reason why this conversation about language

24:19

has risen now is because there is

24:22

a part of the Republican Party that

24:24

would like to rule as a minority

24:26

and they need an excuse for why

24:28

that's okay. And so they have begun

24:30

to say we're not a democracy, we're

24:33

a republic. And it's not 100 percent

24:35

clear what that means, but I think they mean

24:38

we want Donald Trump to be able to do whatever he wants.

24:41

OK, this is so Orwellian. The reason this

24:43

is Orwellian is because it's total projection. The

24:46

people who want the president of the United

24:48

States to do whatever he wants, that any

24:50

checks and balances are typically Democrats. It's literally

24:52

the program of Woodrow Wilson going back to

24:55

the early 20th century. Not only that, the

24:57

setup of the administrative state allows Democrats to

24:59

overrule both the democracy at large,

25:02

as well as the institutions of the republic,

25:04

because they are unelected bureaucrats who sit there

25:06

for years on end and literally thwart the

25:08

elected branches of government. And that is exactly

25:10

what Joe Biden is planning. So Democrats are

25:12

looking down the barrel of this 2024 election.

25:15

It does not look good for them. And so they are

25:18

already preparing to do what they want to do if Trump

25:20

were to win. What is that? They

25:23

wish to subvert the institutions of the

25:25

republic. I don't mean that

25:27

in a soft sense. I mean that in a

25:29

very hard, real sense. They are looking to subvert

25:31

the Democratic institutions of the republic. They're

25:34

they're looking to subvert the legislature. They're looking

25:36

to subvert the presidency. They're looking to subvert

25:38

the courts. It is one of the reasons

25:40

why, for example, they are hellbent on ensuring

25:42

that the Supreme Court does not overrule what's

25:45

called Chevron deference, which says that administrative

25:47

agencies are basically unanswerable to other parts

25:50

of the government, including the courts. There's

25:53

an article in The New York Times that

25:55

went largely unmentioned yesterday, but it is unbelievably

25:57

shocking because it is just Democrats saying the

25:59

quiet out loud, quote, the resistance to a

26:01

new Trump administration has already started. Now,

26:04

this is quite insane because it turns

26:06

out that in the United States, there is

26:09

in fact an executive branch. There is no fourth

26:11

branch of American government. Woodrow Wilson

26:13

wanted one, but there isn't one. All of the

26:15

executive agencies work for the president of the United

26:17

States in our constitutional structure. And Donald

26:19

Trump has come into office threatening to

26:22

retitle and reclassify a bunch of federal employees so

26:24

he can fire them, which you should be able

26:26

to do anyway, since they technically work for the

26:28

executive branch, which if he is president again, he

26:31

will be leading. So what are

26:33

Democrats doing? They are looking to subvert all of

26:35

this. Quote, opponents of Donald Trump are

26:37

drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in

26:39

November and carries out mass deportations as he has

26:41

vowed. One group

26:43

has hired a new auditor to withstand any

26:45

attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash

26:47

the IRS against them. Democratic run state governments

26:49

are even stockpiling abortion medication. A

26:52

sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog

26:54

groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps

26:56

to prepare for potential second Trump presidency drawn

26:58

together by fear that Trump's return to power

27:00

would pose a grave threat, not just to

27:03

their agenda, but to American democracy itself. And

27:05

again, understand how a world or well in

27:07

that is he gets elected president. He's

27:10

going to deal with Congress. That's what he did last time. And

27:12

they are saying that they need to do a

27:14

bunch of non-democratic things in order to save democracy.

27:16

They need to burn down the village in order

27:18

to save the village. So

27:21

apparently one of the things that they are going to do

27:23

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27:25

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about their plans revealed a combination of acute

27:48

exhaustion and acute anxiety. Activist groups

27:51

that spent the four years of Mr. Trump's

27:53

presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges,

27:55

ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters

27:57

to oust him from power in 2020 are

27:59

now realizing. with great dread, they

28:01

may have to resist him all over again. The

28:04

Biden administration pushed through a flurry of regulations in

28:06

the spring, meeting a deadline to ensure those rules

28:08

could not be summarily overturned next year under

28:10

a 1996 law if Trump wins the election

28:12

and Republicans take total control of Congress. So

28:17

you have various officials inside the

28:19

Biden administration who are attempting to

28:21

enshrine in law and via regulation an

28:24

inability for Trump to change course once

28:26

he's president of the United States. That

28:30

is a thwarting of democracy. That is what that is. And

28:34

it is hilarious to watch all the same people who

28:36

are shouting to the rafters about the evils of Donald

28:38

Trump and his attacks on democracy now attempting all the

28:40

same measures that they say Republicans should never attempt. It's

28:44

an amazing thing to watch. And it

28:47

is all due to the fact that they believe

28:49

that they do in fact rule a quote unquote

28:51

deep state. That there are people who are career

28:53

appointees who must never be touched under any circumstances.

28:57

Those are the people who make most of the policy you see and you say

29:00

to yourself, what the hell is that? So,

29:02

for example, it is the deep state. It is

29:04

career appointees. And,

29:06

for example, the

29:09

Office of the Director of National Intelligence who are doing

29:11

things like celebrating

29:14

Pride Month by inviting agents to have the

29:16

transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in

29:18

a Pride Ally challenge and learn from a

29:20

non-binary Philip Hinks activist who

29:23

has taught children about her non-binary identity, according

29:25

to the Daily Wire. A

29:28

document that was distributed by the

29:30

intelligence agency, which

29:33

oversees the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and

29:35

intelligence components, this

29:37

document says quote, for nail painting, we'll have our

29:39

very, our pro team of FV artists ready

29:42

to decorate you for

29:44

Pride Month with the option of celebrating Pride or trans

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flag colors. If you don't normally paint your nails or

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to show your allyship to the community? Right?

29:55

It's this sort of stuff that exists in the deep state. I

29:57

mean, and this is the more. I

30:00

would say the less nefarious stuff in the deep

30:02

state. The more nefarious stuff is for example, militarizing

30:04

the FBI against the current president of the United

30:06

States when Donald Trump was president of the United

30:08

States. The

30:10

fact that you have administrative agencies

30:12

that are themselves designing a

30:14

defense mechanism against their boss is

30:17

truly amazing. But you have to understand, this is how the

30:19

left thinks of its institutions. The

30:21

way that the left thinks of its

30:23

institutions is we own these institutions, any

30:25

outside threat to these institutions, including the

30:28

future boss of the institution, must be

30:30

destroyed. So Donald

30:32

Trump coming back in, their idea is

30:34

that he must be thwarted in his presidency.

30:37

Again, when you talk about thwarting democracy, this is what

30:39

we're talking about. We talk about stealing democracy. This is

30:41

what we're talking about. Not just quote unquote stealing elections,

30:44

but actively setting up

30:47

structures that prevent the fundamental working order

30:49

of the government so long as a

30:51

Republican is the person who's running the

30:53

government. But again, it's not just

30:55

relegated to the government. One of the

30:58

most amazing stories that I've ever seen in media is

31:00

happening right now to

31:02

the Washington Post. So the Washington Post has turned into

31:04

Al Jazeera West. It is

31:07

a wildly left-wing publication that repeats

31:10

dumb talking points from Islamists and

31:12

radicals at every possible turn. They

31:16

really are an awful organization. And

31:18

they've been just losing money hand over fist, just

31:20

bleeding money. They have a gusher. And

31:23

so Jeff Bezos has decided to

31:25

replace the editor-in-chief with somebody else.

31:29

The person who is going to be

31:31

replacing that editor-in-chief is

31:34

the supposed new editor, Robert

31:37

Winnet, deputy editor of The Telegraph in

31:39

the UK. So what

31:41

did the Washington Post's current management do in the

31:43

interim before he takes over? They

31:45

went and they got a person who

31:47

was just fired from the

31:49

Washington Post to come back in and lead

31:51

an investigation into the new guy. So

31:55

the career employees at The Washington Post

31:57

are now effectively attempting to get the

31:59

job done. a color revolution against the

32:01

Washington Post to stop Jeff

32:03

Bezos from resetting the agenda there. Because again,

32:05

according to the left, once they have captured

32:08

an institution or remains captured forever, so

32:10

they've released this big investigation titled

32:13

Incoming Post Editor tied to self-described thief

32:15

who claimed role in his reporting on

32:17

published book drafts and other documents raised

32:19

questions about Robert Winnits journalistic record just

32:21

months before he is to assume a

32:23

top newsroom role. Again, this is unprecedented.

32:25

Think about this. Jeff Bezos

32:27

owns the Washington Post. He

32:30

hires a new top editor. And before the

32:32

new top editor can take the helm, a

32:35

bunch of reporters, including the people who are going to

32:37

be ousted, write a series of

32:39

reports ripping into the new top editor and attempt

32:41

to forestall him from taking over the newspaper. It's

32:44

an amazing thing, but it is a window

32:46

into how the left thinks about institutions they

32:48

have captured. It is why it is so

32:51

difficult to take back those institutions and why

32:53

it is so much easier to simply destroy

32:55

those institutions from the outside. Now,

32:58

again, the reality

33:01

here is that the Washington Post, I think is

33:03

unfixable at this point, given the fact that the

33:05

rock goes so deep. But

33:08

it is quite indicative, again, of

33:11

how the left approaches issues that

33:14

they are so all fired, certain

33:16

that their move needs to be to stop

33:18

the Washington Post from moderating even just a

33:20

little bit. And that's, again, the perspective of

33:22

Democrats inside the federal government. This is why

33:24

when they shout democracy, I just look at Joe

33:26

Biden's record where he attempted to use the Occupational

33:28

Safety and Hazard Administration to

33:32

mandate 80 million Americans vaccinate a

33:35

move that was only stopped in part by the Daily Wire

33:37

suing the federal government. I

33:40

just think of Joe Biden, unconstitutionally

33:42

alleviating student loans.

33:45

I think of Joe Biden unconstitutionally holding up

33:47

aid that had already been allocated by Congress.

33:49

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33:51

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33:53

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misuse and abuse of the democratic

34:37

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34:39

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34:41

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34:43

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34:48

way to think of the, quote unquote, threat to

34:50

democracy question when it comes to

34:52

Trump versus Joe Biden, a lot of people point

34:54

out Trump's activities between November and January, 2020 to

34:56

2021. That

34:59

too is a threat to democracy. Okay, now

35:01

the reality is that Donald Trump said a bunch of

35:03

things that I disagree with, a bunch of things I

35:05

think are dumb and unverified by evidence, between November and

35:07

January of 2021. I made that absolutely clear

35:10

on the show at the time, and I continue to maintain that. However,

35:12

all of that was filtered out by the

35:14

same institutions that he didn't end up threatening.

35:16

They were filtered out by the Senate of

35:19

the United States, for example, and the Electoral

35:21

College, for example, and the state-certifying bodies, for

35:23

example. The way to

35:25

think about Donald Trump's, quote unquote, threats to

35:27

the Republic, if the institutions act as a

35:29

sort of sifter, as sort of

35:31

a colander sifting out the bad attempts

35:34

to thwart the working order

35:36

of the Republic, Donald

35:38

Trump's kind of myriad sillinesses

35:41

amount to giant rocks that immediately get

35:43

sifted out by the sifter or the colander.

35:46

So you got a bunch of great material from

35:48

President Trump and a bunch of stones. Okay,

35:51

the bunch of great material goes right through the

35:53

sifter and ends up as policy. The bunch of

35:55

stones get filtered out by the constitutional system, which

35:57

continues to maintain its working order. Joe

35:59

Biden. Biden is a different story. Joe Biden is a toxic

36:02

brew. He carves

36:04

up his constitutional threats so fine that they

36:06

just go right through the constitutional sifter, right

36:09

through the calendar, and end up as policy. He

36:13

is much more adept at thwarting the Constitution

36:16

and overturning the measures of a Republican government in

36:18

order to get what he wants. So he's doing

36:20

that now with illegal immigration. According to the

36:22

Wall Street Journal, President Biden is

36:24

expected to announce a new immigration program on Tuesday that

36:26

provide a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of

36:28

immigrants in the country illegally, who are married to U.S.

36:30

citizens, according to lawmakers and others familiar with the matter.

36:32

Now, I know what you're saying to yourself. Wait, where

36:34

does he get the power to do that? The

36:37

answer is he doesn't have the power to do that. He's going to

36:39

do it anyway. And then he's going to hope that the Supreme Court

36:41

somehow looks the other way on this thing. Biden

36:43

plans to make the announcement at the White

36:45

House alongside members of Congress, immigration advocates, and

36:47

U.S. citizens, who because of arcane immigration rules

36:49

haven't been able to sponsor their spouses for

36:52

green cards. I love how the immigration rules

36:54

become arcane when they are an obstacle to

36:56

illegal immigrants becoming legal. That's

36:58

when they become arcane, according to the Wall Street

37:00

Journal. Again, remember the Wall Street Journal editorial

37:02

page conservative, the Wall Street Journal news page to the left

37:05

of The New York Times. The program has the

37:07

potential to benefit immigrants who have been living in the country at

37:09

least a decade, offering them work permits,

37:11

deportation protections and a route for them to

37:13

apply for green cards, a pathway to citizenship.

37:15

The application process is expected to open by

37:17

the end of the summer, an administration official

37:19

said. This would make it one

37:21

of the largest immigration initiatives started in recent decades,

37:24

rivaled only by DACA. Now, again, it's not

37:26

a shocker that in an election year, Joe Biden thinks

37:28

he's going to buy Latino votes by doing this sort

37:30

of thing. The problem he has is that it turns

37:33

out that the vast majority of Latinos are not in

37:35

favor of this. There's a new poll out that showed

37:37

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37:39

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again, Joe Biden attempting to split the baby. He's absolutely.

38:00

He was just a couple of weeks ago. which

38:02

he didn't. And now he's announcing he's gonna legalize

38:04

illegal immigrants, which he will. So

38:07

he's doing all that through the administrative state, through executive

38:09

order. Does any of

38:11

that, any of that pass constitutional

38:13

muster? He doesn't care. Because

38:16

the Democratic Republicans have no interest in it. For Democrats,

38:18

all of this stuff is just a tool to get

38:20

what you want. And meanwhile, I

38:22

am always amused to see the

38:24

level of dispensation politically the

38:29

Democrats receive in the public eye. So

38:32

on Sunday night, the Tonys happened. The Tonys used to

38:34

be an award show that some people watched when they,

38:37

you know, did musicals that people watched on Broadway. Now

38:39

it's basically just a series of

38:41

people doing numbers from rent, punctuated by

38:44

various Democrats showing up for a round of applause. Hillary Clinton

38:46

showed up at the Tonys and she got a standing ovation.

38:48

I only point this out to point out that I don't

38:50

know what you have to do to be cast out of

38:52

the circle of grace in the Democratic Party. It

38:55

is amazing to me that Hillary Clinton is still championed by Democrats as

38:57

some sort of great heroine. She

39:00

lost to Donald Trump, you dullards. I

39:03

mean, it would seem to me that if she lost to Donald Trump, you

39:05

might want to be mad at her. All she

39:07

had to do was visit Michigan, visit like

39:09

Wisconsin and Michigan like once. And she didn't.

39:13

But here she was receiving a standing ovation while wearing a Moo Moo

39:15

at the Tonys. I have

39:17

stood on a lot of stages, but this is

39:19

very special. And

39:22

I know a little bit about

39:24

how hard it is to make change. So

39:28

I'm extremely proud of

39:31

this original American

39:33

musical by Shana

39:36

Taub. Now two-time Tony

39:38

winner. And

39:43

of course it is about some

39:47

American originals. The

39:49

suffragists who fought

39:51

so valiantly for so long

39:53

to give women in our

39:55

country the right to vote.

39:58

It's almost impossible to make change. to

40:00

think about what a challenge that was.

40:03

But now it's an election year and we

40:05

need to be reminded about how important it

40:08

is to vote. Again,

40:12

I will never get over the fact they continue to lionize this

40:14

person. The worst candidate in the

40:16

history of the United States. Yeah, but she's

40:18

just one of the Democrats who's being lionized

40:20

by the media. So, Cori Bush, the BLM

40:22

Congresswoman from Ferguson, Missouri. Horrible

40:25

Congressperson, doesn't know anything, says dumb things

40:27

all the time. It

40:29

turns out that a few years ago, she wrote in a book

40:32

that she had faith healed tumors, which

40:34

I mean, if she did, she's definitely in the

40:36

wrong line of work. And

40:39

think of all the people with cancer who could be cured by Cori Bush.

40:42

Here she was being questioned about this. Look at the

40:44

level of journalistic dispensation

40:46

she's been giving here by PBS for talking

40:48

about the insane proposition that she can literally

40:50

heal people's tumors by putting her hands on

40:53

them. I, along

40:55

with a group of friends,

40:58

we would go out on the street and

41:00

just meet with people and pray with people

41:03

and offer them food. And this lady came

41:05

to us and she had these tumors. I

41:07

mean, she wanted us to like, feel them.

41:10

And I just remember I put my hand on

41:12

her and my hand

41:15

just began to move and the

41:19

lumps that were there were no longer there.

41:21

And she was so happy. And she like

41:25

went on about her day. And I

41:27

never saw her again. So you think the

41:29

tumors disappeared? I do, I do. And this

41:31

woman was unhoused. She's someone who, you know,

41:34

had been sleeping in the shelters and sleeping

41:36

on the street. I

41:38

think we just solved our national healthcare problem, guys. All

41:40

we need is Cori Bush putting her hands on

41:43

randos, which of course was Bill Clinton's

41:45

strategy too, but he didn't heal so many tumors. So

41:47

well done for our mainstream media,

41:49

as always. They're doing just an

41:52

extraordinarily good job. Meanwhile, speaking of

41:54

foreign policy, it turns out that

41:56

the Russians have no intention of

41:58

turning over Wall Street Journal reporter Evan- who's

42:01

been held for pretty much the entirety of the

42:03

Biden administration. The Biden administration

42:05

has done pretty much nothing to secure his release. Obviously,

42:08

listen, we did trade the Lord

42:10

of War, right? We traded like

42:12

an actual arms dealer for

42:15

a WNBA player. So

42:17

that, I mean, that was a great deal. The

42:19

only time a WNBA trade has ever been in

42:21

the news. It's still a bad

42:24

trade, by the way. Well, now,

42:26

apparently, the Russians are going to try

42:28

Evan Gershkovich. He, of course, is

42:30

the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia for over

42:32

a year. That judicial proceeding

42:34

would be held in secret there, accusing him of

42:36

being a spy. He

42:38

was detained by Russia's Federal Security Service while on a reporting

42:41

trip for the journal in March of last year. And those

42:44

officials have designated Gershkovich as wrongfully detained and

42:46

have been working to secure his release. The

42:50

Wall Street Journal said Monday the latest development means

42:52

a sham trial is imminent. He's

42:55

being held in Moscow's Lefortovo prison. Russia

42:58

and the United States have been discussing a possible

43:00

prisoner exchange that could bring his release. Again,

43:03

amazing work by the Biden administration and this reporter. Remember,

43:06

these are the great defenders of the press

43:08

doing an amazing, amazing job, as always.

43:11

Evan Gershkovich remains under

43:13

the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin.

43:16

Now, again, speaking of foreign policy, the

43:19

absolute delusional nature of the Biden administration is

43:22

being made absolutely clear every single day in

43:24

the Middle East. It's truly amazing. So a

43:26

report came out yesterday that finally the Biden

43:28

administration has decided that after Hamas rejected the

43:30

latest ceasefire proposal in the war between Israel

43:32

and Hamas initiated when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis

43:35

and kidnapped 250 of them and is still

43:37

holding hostages. And only now

43:39

is the Biden administration willing to remove

43:41

its embargo on arms against Israel, which

43:44

shows that they were lying a couple of weeks ago

43:46

when they said that they weren't slow walking the arms

43:48

that are already been allocated to Israel by Congress. All

43:51

of this is happening in the midst of a continuously

43:54

astonished media who

43:56

are always shocked to realize that the

43:58

Palestinian population is radical. has been

44:01

radicalized and that in fact, Palestinian

44:03

identity is formed in opposition to

44:05

Israel's existence. This is

44:07

one of the things to recognize here. There

44:09

are Arabs who lived in British mandate

44:11

Palestine. They did not see themselves as

44:13

a cohesive ethnic or

44:16

historical group until Israel

44:18

was established in 1948. They

44:21

literally did not exist as a group. Many

44:23

considered themselves Turkish or Egyptian. Many

44:26

considered themselves Sunni

44:29

or Shia. But

44:32

no one considered themselves a member of a political

44:34

Palestinian nation as a cohesive entity that only forms

44:36

in the aftermath of the establishment of the state

44:38

of Israel in 4748.

44:41

So it is no surprise then that an identity

44:43

that is rooted solely in hatred of Israel

44:45

and willingness to exterminate it culminates

44:47

in a population that hates Israel and wants to

44:49

exterminate it. Which is why every poll

44:51

ever taken ever in the history

44:54

of this conflict has shown a vast majority

44:56

of Palestinians want to obliterate the Jewish state

44:58

and will not accept any solution in which

45:00

a Jewish state remains in the Middle East.

45:03

So why exactly would anyone be shocked then by the

45:05

Wall Street Journal report that

45:08

a 73 year old doctor named Ahmad Al Jamal

45:10

and his son

45:12

who worked with Al Jazeera were

45:15

holding actual Israelis hostage. These

45:17

are these are the so-called innocent civilians. According to

45:19

the Wall Street Journal, the 73 year old general

45:21

practitioner Ahmed Al Jamal was a fixture of his

45:23

community. He worked mornings at a public clinic in

45:25

the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Nuserat. Another thing

45:28

to understand Nuserat is not a refugee camp. When

45:30

you think of a refugee camp, you're thinking of

45:32

a bunch of FEMA trailers and tents.

45:34

That is not what Nuserat is. It's a city. The

45:37

international community calls it a refugee camp so they can

45:39

pretend that the people who live there are going to

45:41

be granted citizenship in the Jewish

45:43

state, which is not going to happen because

45:46

it would obliterate the existence of the Jewish state. It's

45:48

an absurdity anyway. None of them ever asked

45:50

for Palestinian citizenship in

45:53

an independent Palestinian state. They don't want it.

45:56

In any case, when he finished

45:58

his duty every day, He would return home to the

46:00

apartment he shared with his son, his daughter-in-law and their

46:03

children, and the three Israeli hostages they were hiding there

46:05

for Hamas. It was common knowledge

46:07

in Nusayrat, the Al-Jamaal family who's close

46:09

to Hamas. They said few people

46:11

in an densely populated area of central Gaza knew of

46:13

the secret locked in the small darkened room of the

46:15

family's apartment that is sa- Bull.

46:18

Bull. Few people knew.

46:20

Yeah, I'm sure. You're just hiding

46:22

four Israelis in like a three-block radius, and

46:24

no one knows. Mm-hmm. Sure.

46:30

A few blocks away from the Al-Jamaal home, another family

46:32

with Hamas links called the Abu Nara was holding Noah

46:34

Arghamani. The Abu Nara

46:36

family was also killed in their building, destroyed local residents,

46:38

and said they were less

46:41

prominent in the neighborhood than the Al-Jamaals,

46:43

according to residents. Again,

46:46

the-the-the raid that Israel performed

46:48

to free the hostages is

46:50

just another- is

46:53

just another indicator that everything

46:55

that the West believes about this conflict tends

46:57

to be a lie. It's actually a very

46:59

simple moral conflict. The

47:02

incredible unwillingness to acknowledge

47:04

that reality is

47:06

insane. I mean,

47:08

but by the way, speaking of lies, the entire

47:10

Gaza famine, the idea that people are starving to

47:12

death in Gaza is not true. Israel's been shipping

47:14

in thousands of calories per person per day into

47:16

the Gaza Strip. It

47:19

is not even remotely true. They

47:21

undercounted the number of food trucks going into

47:23

Gaza to deliberately lie to the public. So,

47:28

again, the only reason this matters is because the West that

47:30

lies to itself is likely to be victimized by

47:33

people who are perfectly willing to take advantage of the

47:35

West's stupidity. The reason

47:37

why the Israel-Khamas conflict is important is because if you

47:39

get this one wrong, it is very likely you're going

47:41

to get your own civilization wrong. In

47:43

America, that refuses to get this one right, they

47:45

can't see the moral difference or see this as

47:47

a cycle of violence or has sympathy for the

47:50

group that takes hostages and murders women and children

47:52

and participates in mass rape and civilians

47:54

sheared on, is

47:56

a civilization that is likely to open

47:58

itself wide to terror and violence. infiltration

48:01

and a serious undermining of its of its actual

48:03

principles. All right, folks, coming up, we'll jump into

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