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Indeed we do. There was a hell of a lot happening

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this weekend. Your tax dollars

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We've got thoughts on and we've

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The President issuing a statement, Eric Adams

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Yes, of course that is the most important

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So if you want to go ahead and sign up, we would welcome

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you to do so. But as we teased everybody on

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Thursday, a big vote was happening

2:23

in the House of Representatives after

2:25

Speaker Mike Johnson stabbed his own party

2:28

in the back and decided to pass aid

2:30

for Ukraine and for Israel,

2:33

using an unprecedented parliamentary

2:35

maneuver which basically allowed Democrats

2:37

to vote for the Ukraine aid Republicans

2:40

to vote for.

2:40

The Israeli aid package.

2:42

It all together and create the greatest uniparty

2:45

war funding that Washington has ever

2:47

seen. And they did not disappoint in

2:49

their display of dual loyalty.

2:51

Let's go and put this up.

2:52

There on the screen as the

2:54

votes passed through the House of Representatives

2:57

that officially got the

2:59

bill. Across the aisle, you

3:01

see Ukraine flags that

3:03

are all across chantings

3:06

Slava Ukraine. You've got

3:08

non American flag in site there by the way, on the

3:10

flag of the House Representatives. And don't worry,

3:12

there Israel flags on the other side too, so don't

3:14

act like they didn't exist there.

3:16

They're being passed out. What some representatives

3:19

Crystal were.

3:19

Actually facetiming Ukrainian soldiers

3:22

who are on the front line, just to say you're

3:24

welcome.

3:24

We finally have accomplished it for

3:27

you.

3:27

And I guess the main takeaway that we can have from

3:29

this is just the absolute level

3:32

of dedication that these people have to

3:34

moving heaven and earth to spend hundreds

3:36

of billions for foreign nations

3:39

so that they can conduct war. They've never

3:41

done it once for the rest of us, but

3:44

for this, of course, we can break precedent.

3:46

Screw you know. There's no talk of filibuster

3:48

or any of that other stuff. Yeh, whenever it comes

3:50

to this, sixty some billion dollars from Ukraine,

3:53

twenty six billion dollars for Israel, the vast

3:55

majority of that being fed entirely to the military

3:57

industrial complex and to these nations with it

3:59

comple leet blank check that's given to them.

4:01

Which is something they weirdly are like bragging about,

4:03

like that's a selling point, Like, don't worry, this

4:05

is a lot of this money is going to go to the military industrial

4:08

complex. Don't you feel great about that?

4:10

Now?

4:10

Listen, when it comes to you getting

4:12

healthcare, you're getting higher wages.

4:14

When it comes to you know, making sure seniors

4:17

can live on Social Security, your people

4:19

can afford childcare. You've got universal

4:21

access to preschool, or people can even just

4:23

take paid leave if they, you know, are

4:25

having a baby. None of that.

4:28

We can't get that done. We don't have the money, et

4:30

cetera, et cetera. It's too difficult, it's too hard.

4:32

But they will move heaven and earth to

4:35

make sure that we continue funding

4:37

wars, whether it is Listen,

4:39

with regard to Ukraine, I'm incredibly

4:42

sympathetic to the Ukrainians. I think it was

4:44

wrong and illegal, the Russian invasion,

4:46

But we have to be real about the fact at this point

4:49

that number one, we're the ones

4:51

who have dragged them to continue

4:53

this war by thwarting diplomatic negotiations.

4:57

Number Two, there is no

4:59

end in sight. There's not even a fig

5:01

leaf of hey, once we give them this money, then victories

5:04

around the corner. There's none of that. And

5:06

number three, their own

5:08

people at this point, the

5:11

military age men of their own population

5:13

do not want to fight. So we know the

5:15

reports about people who are disabled,

5:18

who are too old, who have

5:21

mental disabilities, being

5:23

pulled off the street and sent to the front lines,

5:26

and we're celebrating putting the guns in

5:28

their hands. We're celebrating with regard

5:30

to Israel. Look at what has happened

5:33

here. I mean, according to Euromag,

5:35

human rights min are over forty thousand Palestinian

5:37

scaled. There was just we're going to cover this later. A strike

5:40

on two strikes on Rafa killed twenty two people,

5:42

eighteen of them children. The

5:44

entire Gaza strip is annihilated, aid

5:47

workers slaughtered, and we're still

5:49

shipping them weapons as if

5:51

none of this has happened. It's

5:54

outrageous. I mean, they're really I'm not surprised

5:56

by it. I knew at some point

5:58

they would figure out how to get this done.

6:01

But you know, if you want a glimpse into

6:03

why, politicians like Mike

6:05

Johnson. He's always been fervently

6:08

Zionis. I mean, the first thing he did when he became speaker

6:10

members call met and Yahoo and passed some anti

6:12

Semitism resolution. That

6:14

one's not surprising. But he did a one eighty on

6:17

Ukraine and put this next piece up on

6:19

the screen. You wonder why, because this is the media

6:21

treatment you get by passing

6:23

Ukraine aid. Johnson became

6:26

an unlikely church Hill. There

6:30

is nothing but plaudits from the

6:32

media for funding wars

6:35

over and over and over again.

6:37

Remember how Joe Biden one good thing Joe

6:39

Biden did withdrawing from Afghanistan. Relentlessly

6:42

trash for that, even though it was overwhelmingly

6:44

what the American people wanted.

6:47

Here Johnson going against,

6:49

especially on Israel. I'll show you the pulling and a

6:52

little bit what the American people wanting,

6:54

and suddenly all their vaunted concern for democracy

6:56

evaporates when it comes to sending

6:59

your hard on tax dollars into these

7:02

conflicts to slaughter for children.

7:03

Yeah, I will be honest, this is the blackest pill

7:05

that I've had in a really long time. After all

7:07

the work that we've done here on the show,

7:10

that the media and others. Even they

7:12

have been forced to admit the failure of

7:14

the cause in Ukraine, they still

7:16

decide to do sixty billion dollars.

7:19

What so that and this is the worst

7:21

park Crystal. This sixty billion dollars will

7:23

have a single objective. It will prolong this war

7:25

for about one more year. According

7:27

to the funding statistics that have come out, this will buy

7:29

them approximately half of their failed counter

7:32

offensive. The net result of this is going

7:34

to be probably a bunch of fifty

7:36

to seventy year old Ukrainian men

7:38

who are going to lose limbs. Now,

7:41

after that period dries up, and they

7:43

continue to fail on the front line and

7:45

continue to have a five to one artillery

7:48

disadvantage against the Russians, and the Russians continue

7:50

to recoup all of the losses

7:53

that they've already had in their military ravevamp

7:55

their military industrial complex, have their

7:58

economy grow according to the if

8:00

a nonpartisan source, more

8:02

than the entire European Union. After

8:04

all of that is now clear, a year from now, what

8:07

do you think is going to happen? Sixty billion

8:09

will pale to what they are going to ask

8:11

for now to rebuild Ukraine.

8:13

Somebody's got to pay for all those limbs, and

8:15

for all those dead guys, and for pensions

8:18

and forever whatever survives,

8:21

whatever rump of the Ukrainian state

8:23

does eventually make it out of here, we will then

8:25

be on the hook for that.

8:26

It never ends. This has no

8:29

purpose.

8:29

Now, if they were using this for defensive purposes,

8:32

maybe, okay, maybe it would have some

8:34

sort of justification. But Zelenski

8:36

does not commit to defense. Instead, he says,

8:38

this will enable us for victory. How

8:41

many times do we have to hear these fake cries

8:43

of victory. They failed in the counter offensive.

8:45

They have one of the most tactically inefficient

8:48

and incompetent armies in the

8:50

world. They have not able to use NATO

8:52

tactics. Their weapons have made no difference

8:54

whenever they were flushed. Their lead

8:56

general, the head that they replaced, their

8:59

military commander with.

9:00

His nickname is the Butcher.

9:02

Not by the Russians, the people you would want him nickname,

9:04

the Butcher, by his own people. That's what they call

9:06

him the Butcher, because his entire strategy

9:08

is to just throw as many people into this as

9:11

possible on Israel as well, I mean even

9:13

zoom out.

9:13

Just from Israel's own actions.

9:15

What have they done to make America

9:17

more safe, nothing invite more

9:19

attacks on American service members

9:22

World War III. Multiple are dead now

9:24

as a result of our posture

9:26

in the Middle East in retaliation for Israel's

9:28

actions, tens of

9:31

billions of dollars that has been

9:33

spent deploying US military

9:35

and naval assets. The defense against

9:37

the Iranian attack alone costs the United States

9:39

one point three billion dollars in missile interceptors

9:42

and including missiles that cost some twenty

9:45

four million dollars each deployed

9:47

by the US to shoot down Iranian

9:49

ballistic missiles, only to then invite

9:51

in Israeli strike out on Iran with God

9:53

knows what the hell is going to happen in retaliation.

9:56

So now what you know, where.

9:57

Are we Why are we

9:59

all paying for this to continue

10:02

whenever we clearly could put an end

10:04

to it if we wanted. So in both cases, you

10:06

have wars that are making America less safe,

10:08

that are bad for the populations I would.

10:10

Say, both of Israel and for the population

10:13

of Gaza. Yeah, which I could easily make that

10:15

case.

10:15

The only people who are benefiting are the war manufacturers

10:18

and the religion of the dual loyalty

10:21

leadership class in this country, and I'm going to continue

10:23

to use.

10:23

That really triple loyalty a vice.

10:26

What I would say is this is that this is

10:29

you know Trump. I always go back.

10:30

I went back to read about seven years ago. He gave

10:32

a speech which clearly didn't believe, but it was

10:34

a good speech done the last It was his first foreign policy

10:37

speech, and he has a line in there which has always stuck

10:39

with me is that we will not worship no longer

10:41

at the false song of globalism. And

10:44

that's when I see Ukrainian

10:46

and Israeli flags being waived

10:49

on the floor of the United States House of Representatives,

10:51

When I see our Speaker of the House with

10:53

two flags on his lapel, hell not a

10:56

lapel, neither of which are the

10:58

United States flag, but are two nations which he

11:00

just broke parliamentary procedure to spend

11:02

hundreds of billions of dollars to. I can say

11:05

nothing else than these people are loyal to a foreign

11:07

government and not to our own. Now, Speaker

11:09

Johnson actually loyal to even higher

11:12

authority than any nation. Gave a justification

11:15

in particular for some of this, Israel aid on Newsmax.

11:17

Let's take a lesson.

11:18

Israel is a critical ally of ours, and I

11:20

think most people understand the necessity of

11:22

this funding. They're fighting for their very existence.

11:24

They're the only stable democracy in the Middle East.

11:27

I mean, of course, for those of us who are

11:29

believers, it's a biblical admonition to stand with Israel.

11:31

We will and they will prevail as

11:33

long as they're there with them. And this is an important,

11:36

very important symbolic gesture

11:38

and a very important replenishment of their stockpiles,

11:40

for example of the Iron Dome. The reason they shot

11:42

down all those drones and missiles in the

11:44

last attack by Iran is because we

11:46

assisted with that. I think the American people understand

11:48

the importance of that.

11:49

Did you guys hear that line?

11:50

For those of us who are believers, it is a biblical

11:53

admonition to stand with Israel.

11:55

It's like, well, if it's in the Bible, I guess there

11:57

ain't getting around that.

11:59

This is this is literally out of his mouth

12:02

the speaker of the House of Representatives,

12:04

the third in line for the American presidency,

12:07

who believes that he is like what some

12:09

hand of God?

12:10

And don't let's not let this go either.

12:12

John Hagey, who is the pastor

12:15

who leads the ten million Christian group

12:17

you know for Israel, was here in Washington

12:20

just two days before and met with Speaker

12:22

Johnson, probably to give him the language

12:25

that he needs. And all of the reporting that

12:27

we've gotten since Crystal is that the way that

12:29

Johnson arrived at this is that he

12:31

prayed on him. And listen, you know, I'm not going to

12:33

put down people who are religious and who pray.

12:36

I think that's fine, But I would

12:38

just simply ask that in the United States

12:40

of America, a country with a separation

12:42

of church and state, that we arrive at policy

12:45

decisions through reason, intellect,

12:47

and you know, possible debate, rather

12:50

than from biblical admonition.

12:53

My simple request, Well, what this

12:55

means is that it actually does

12:57

not matter to Speaker Johnson

13:00

what Israel does doesn't matter. Doesn't

13:02

matter whether it is truly

13:04

a genocide, doesn't matter, whether there are

13:07

war crimes, doesn't matter, whether

13:09

it's good for America's interest or not.

13:12

It doesn't matter because for him

13:14

it's a quote biblical admonition.

13:18

You can't argue. I mean, there's no debate

13:20

with that. That's just like no, my

13:23

fervent, ideological, unshakable

13:25

belief is that God requires

13:28

me to support Israel, no

13:30

matter the cost or consequence for Palestinians,

13:33

no matter the cost or consequence for Americans.

13:35

And this is one of the most powerful

13:38

people in the country, if

13:41

not the world, who

13:43

is making policy decisions this way, Like,

13:46

what can you even say about that? And you see

13:48

how motivating this is among a certain

13:51

segment of the Republican base as why I keep

13:53

talking about this, but I think it's so extraordinarily revealing.

13:56

When there was polling asking by religious

13:58

demographic group, how do you feel

14:01

about the net Nyahu government? Not even about

14:03

Israel or you know what's happening in Gaza, but

14:05

just the net Nyahu government. The

14:07

religious group that gave him the highest approval

14:09

ratings was not Jewish people. It

14:12

was by a mile white Evangelical

14:14

Christians. So that's,

14:17

you know, that's what's motivating him with regard

14:19

to Israel. I think that's an important part of

14:21

how he ended up flipping on a dime

14:24

with regard to Ukraine as well, because

14:26

he realized, in order to fulfill

14:28

his biblical admonition to

14:30

support Israel no matter what, he was also going

14:32

to have to play ball with Democrats on the Ukraine Bill.

14:35

Let's not forget the way he also flipped on a dime

14:37

with regard to making sure Americans can continue

14:39

to be surveilled. And you know the other

14:42

piece of this saga is that he talks about,

14:44

in addition to his religious

14:46

faith, he also talks about

14:48

how the Intel Committee,

14:50

how the Intelligence Agency, how

14:52

they really you know, they really got to him, what they

14:54

had to say to him. And we've seen this a

14:57

lot of times. You saw this with Trump as well. It's

14:59

so easy to roll these people. It's so easy

15:01

to scare them and manipulate them,

15:03

saying we saw the same thing with Obama too, by

15:05

the way, when he was Prisident of the United States. Especially

15:07

when you have someone who was inexperienced, who

15:09

hasn't been around the block, who hasn't seen

15:11

these tactics which are rolled out by

15:14

yes, the deep state over and over and over

15:16

again, they get rolled so easily,

15:20

especially when his religious

15:22

belief also leads him in the direction

15:25

of wanting to pass both the

15:28

Israel Aid and the Ukrainian AID in

15:30

order to make sure that Israel is getting their dollars

15:32

to keep bombing babies.

15:34

If you guys want an

15:36

inside of you into this. There's a book called Obama's

15:38

Wars by Bob Woodward. It was written back

15:40

in twenty ten. It's specifically about

15:43

the decision that Obama was forced

15:45

into to do the surge in Afghanistan,

15:47

the way that David Petraeus, Stan McCrystal,

15:51

Mike mullen, and the Joint chiefs of Staff, the

15:53

US Intelligence Community of the CIA

15:55

basically set Obama up for complete

15:57

failure. If he didn't then

16:00

I promise to a surge, and we

16:02

had a chance at that time to actually pull

16:04

out of the country, and instead we escalated

16:06

for that. I highly recommend people read that because

16:09

that is mechanically the exact way

16:11

that you, even as the president, can get set

16:13

up by these people. And tuckers some

16:15

thoughts on that too, by the way, which we'll get a

16:17

little bit in the show, but we

16:19

would be remiss if we didn't highlight a

16:21

little bit of how again, we came to this decision.

16:24

Let's put this police up there on the screen from

16:26

CNN. They confirm it. Quote he was torn

16:29

between having to save his job and do the right thing.

16:31

Congressman Mike McCall said, quote, he

16:33

prayed over it. Prayer

16:36

apparently the way that Speaker Johnson

16:38

arrived at this. Now, let's take a look at the poll,

16:40

shall we, you know, in the ostensible way

16:43

that we live in a democracy. Let's go and put

16:45

this up there on the screen. Here's what we've got

16:47

on Israel. This is April twelfth, twenty twenty

16:49

four. Should more weapons and supplies

16:52

to Israel? Should we send more? Should or

16:54

should not? All should?

16:56

Forty sixty should not?

16:58

Democrats thirty two percent should,

17:00

Sixty eight percent say should not. Independence

17:03

thirty eight percent say should, sixty four

17:05

percent say not.

17:06

Republicans No, not that much difference at all.

17:09

Republicans fifty five percent say should,

17:11

forty five percent say they should not. And

17:13

what's also important to keep in mind

17:16

for that plus ten is that even

17:18

nearly half of the Republicans are saying

17:20

there we shouldn't send more weapons to Israel. Now,

17:23

in terms of the look

17:25

at the vote, where we actually have the

17:27

amount of military that's being sent to Israel, you

17:30

have some plus sixty

17:32

four members who actually

17:34

end up voting then four the

17:37

actual military eight to Israel in

17:39

no way representative of their

17:41

base. And the exact same thing holds

17:43

true for Ukraine. Let's go and put this up there

17:45

on the screen, and what do we find. This

17:48

is just from the latest poll that happened

17:50

on Ukraine, where we see,

17:52

amongst US adults, only

17:54

twenty seven percent say that we are

17:57

doing too little for Ukraine. Thirty

17:59

three percent say, quote about the right amount, and

18:01

that was prior to the package, and too much

18:03

is now the majoritarian position at thirty

18:05

seven Only Democrats forty four

18:07

percent say we're doing too little. Amongst

18:10

Republicans, fourteen percent say we're

18:12

doing too little, twenty nine percent say about the

18:14

right right about right, and fifty

18:16

five percent say that we are doing too much.

18:18

So, as we can all see very

18:21

clearly, the Republicans were a majority

18:23

of the Republicans in the House of Representatives voted

18:25

against Ukraine aid, were rolled by

18:27

their speaker to work with Democrats, and basically

18:29

here Democrats just are much

18:31

more willing I guess to ignore some of their base on

18:34

that question, but then work also

18:36

with Republicans who overwhelmingly voted

18:38

for the Israeli. So you have two

18:41

parties basically behold into two foreign

18:43

nations. Loyalty, try

18:45

loyalty, I guess across all of

18:47

this and work in tandem

18:50

to make this push to the United States Senate,

18:52

where tomorrow on Tuesday, it's

18:54

almost certainly going to become the law of

18:56

the land. And they're already salivating

18:59

at the Pentagon over shipping

19:01

long range weapons to Ukraine,

19:03

long range weapons in US stockpiles,

19:06

long range weapons which will be used to strike

19:08

inside of Russian territory or the crimean

19:11

grid bridge.

19:11

And who do you think is going to bear the cost of that?

19:14

It's the United States of America if Ukraine

19:16

gets itself in a bigger conflagration.

19:18

So let me ask you a question, Sager, because

19:20

I am a little conflicted about how to

19:22

think about this. So, as you just pointed

19:24

out, you know, the Democratic base is first

19:27

of all, they've been overwhelmingly in favor of a ceasefire.

19:29

A majority of Joe Biden voters say yes, this is

19:31

a genocide, and they are overwhelmingly

19:34

opposed to shipping more military

19:36

aid to Israel. Certainly,

19:38

the numbers of Democrats in the House that

19:41

voted against this Israel aid package

19:44

do not reflect the sentiment of

19:46

the base. So that's on the one hand.

19:48

On the other hand, compared

19:50

to previous aid military

19:53

aid to Israel, thirty seven

19:56

voting. Thirty seven Democrats specifically

19:58

voting against it is a significantly

20:01

higher number than previously.

20:03

I think the last time there was a question about like replenishing

20:05

Iron Dome, sending a billion dollars for that, I was like nine

20:08

Democrats who voted against it. So

20:11

how do you look at that? And especially when

20:13

there were you know, it wasn't just like AOC

20:15

and ilhan Omar. You had a number

20:17

of longtime members who are

20:20

in leadership positions who even voted

20:22

against that. So how do you think about that?

20:24

I think exactly what I do in Ukraine doesn't

20:26

matter.

20:27

The majority of Republicans, the party in power

20:29

in House of Representatives voted against

20:31

A to Ukraine.

20:33

Didn't matter. The speaker wanted it,

20:35

so do the Democrats. It doesn't

20:37

like our We could have a.

20:38

Majority Democrats who are going to oppose

20:40

Israel and they would still find a way to make it pass.

20:43

That's what you should take away from this is like party

20:45

politics does not matter when the uniparty actually

20:47

wants something. It only matters whenever we're talking

20:49

about mortgage rates or housing assistants

20:52

or basically anything that would actually

20:54

help any of us. If they wanted to

20:56

get it done. They will get it done. The

20:59

majority of the American public thinks we're doing too much

21:01

for Ukraine, and that was before the sixty

21:03

billion dollars that we just shipped over there.

21:06

The vast majority of Republicans

21:08

say and oppose this military

21:10

aid for Ukraine.

21:12

It doesn't matter, you know. Trump can bamboozle

21:14

them. Danglo will stop the steal in.

21:16

Front of their eyes, and they'll forget whenever

21:18

it comes to election day. Aside for

21:20

some young people, most people are going to vote on abortion,

21:22

and most people are not going to are going to remember that, are

21:24

not going to remember this whenever it comes time to the

21:27

ballot box. I already saw a clip of AOC I think

21:30

with Mehdi Hassen and he was like, what do you say to

21:32

somebody who is not going to vote for Biden? Yeah,

21:34

And she's like, well, I am on the side of democracy,

21:36

you know, not only here but across the world.

21:38

I'm like, okay, all right, cool, I mean, there's just

21:41

nothing that will ever happen where you're not going to

21:43

vote against the Republicans. Most Republicans

21:45

vote exactly the same way on the margins.

21:47

There may be some but at the end of the day, they

21:49

can stablish. They don't even stablish in the back, they stablish

21:51

in the front, and they twist the knife and then they they

21:54

give the you know, the knife over to us, and

21:56

then they accuse you of being the one who's

21:58

in the wrong, and they're like, why are you committing

22:01

violence when all this is happening, Yeah,

22:03

which is why you have to go and vote in order to bandit yourself

22:05

up.

22:05

I do think there's a bit of a warning sign here though, for

22:08

Israel on the other hand, because you

22:10

know, there used to be this

22:13

total lockstep uniformity

22:16

that no one broke from, and

22:18

that you know, anyone who did knew

22:21

that was going to be the end of their political career.

22:24

And even with a pack that Israel

22:26

lobby threatening to spend one hundred million

22:28

dollars in primaries against

22:30

anyone who even thinks of dissenting,

22:33

even with that kind of firepower

22:36

trained at now you know, all thirty seven of

22:38

these individuals who voted against this funding,

22:41

they still were willing to do it and still

22:43

feel like they'll be able to hold onto their seats and

22:45

that you know that it was worth paying that price, or

22:47

that there's enough energy on the other side

22:49

to make up for the fact that they could

22:51

have that money spent against them. So I

22:54

do think as disheartening

22:57

and depressing as this is, there is a bit of a

22:59

warning sign here for Israel and

23:01

that they just don't have quite the lockstep

23:04

control that they once did.

23:05

I don't disagree.

23:06

I think twenty five thirty years from now, you're

23:08

right. Yeah again, I just point to Ukraine.

23:11

You can lose the public and they'll

23:13

still get it done for you. So in the near term,

23:15

folks, sign up, because if

23:17

it's up to these people, we would die for

23:19

foreign countries before we would ever die,

23:22

you know, for any of our own interests. And that

23:24

is the clearest takeaway that we have. I

23:28

would be remiss if I didn't leave

23:31

out President Donald Trump's role

23:33

in making sure that this Ukraine aid

23:35

actually happened. There's been a lot of you

23:38

know, papering over by the magabase

23:41

as to how exactly Trump went from

23:43

a guy who spoke again a four

23:45

Ukrainian peace, remember in the famous

23:48

CNN moment on the town hall when he said,

23:50

I'm for you know, stopping the dying.

23:52

I want to find peace.

23:53

I would have peace there in a second, the

23:56

democratic liberal media is like, oh,

23:58

well he would pull money away from Ukraine

24:00

on day one. Well, you know, he also was the one who shipped

24:02

a lot of lethle aid to Ukraine back in twenty

24:04

fifteen. But Mike Johnson and others

24:07

and Lindsey Graham basically convinced Trump

24:09

to endorse some bs lend lease

24:11

loan program to the most corrupt and poor

24:13

nation.

24:14

In all of Europe.

24:15

And let's not forget Lindsey

24:17

Graham here now saying that it was Trump.

24:20

Trump himself is the one responsible

24:22

for getting this through the House. Let's take a lisson.

24:24

So, with all due respect to Senator

24:26

Events, he's wrong. We

24:28

were told within four days Key

24:31

would fall.

24:31

But is he wrong about the math? Yea. Is

24:34

he wrong about the production?

24:35

Yeah, he's wrong the whole concept

24:38

that we can't deal with multiple

24:40

problems. In World War Two, we fought

24:43

the Germans and the Japanese. We

24:45

have an industrial base that needs to be retooled.

24:48

But the Ukrainian military,

24:50

with our help, has killed about

24:53

fifty percent of the combat power of the Russians.

24:55

If you pull the plug on Ukraine, Coach, you

24:57

don't have enough capability. There goes

25:00

Taiwan. Ukrainians are fighting

25:02

like tigers. This aid package has

25:04

a loan component to it. This would

25:06

not have passed without Donald Trump. I

25:09

want to thank the House Speaker and the King

25:11

Jeffrey's working together in a bipartisan

25:13

fashion to give weapons to Ukraine

25:16

to buy to fight that matters to us and prosident

25:18

Trump has created a loan component

25:21

to this package. It gives us leverage down the

25:23

road. So this idea that we can't help

25:25

U Traine, Israel and Taiwan

25:27

at the same time, I reject

25:29

that.

25:30

I want to thank President Trump for

25:32

making this to go through it now. Listen,

25:34

According to MAGA Defenders, Crystal, Trump

25:37

has been bamboos.

25:38

Trump can Trump cannot fail. It can only

25:40

be failing.

25:40

And so if Lindsey Graham went down and

25:42

look, Trump is an idiot, like, let's be honest on policy,

25:45

just doesn't care, it doesn't care about He cares about basically

25:47

one thing, trade and I may be immigration on

25:49

depending on the day. And so when Lindsay

25:51

Graham goes down there and he's.

25:52

Like it be alone, it wouldn't be giving it to them.

25:55

Trump's like, wow, alone, Well, that's

25:57

great as a businessman, and

25:59

so what do they do. They write in some bullshit

26:01

loan into the text, and then they

26:03

don't tell you that Biden is the president after

26:05

he signs it.

26:06

Oh, and he can just forgive the entire loan.

26:07

Oh and by the way, the loan is interest free and it has

26:10

an indefinite period on when you supposedly

26:12

get paid back. And so is it alone

26:14

if there's no enforcement terms and there's

26:16

no interest, or is it a gift. It's a

26:18

gift, that's what's happening here. And so

26:21

it's a complete fake out. And so Trump

26:23

is there's two options. Trump is either too dumb

26:25

to know the difference between a fake loan and

26:27

a real loan and then allow himself to get

26:29

bamboozled, or he supports

26:32

shipping weapons to Ukraine.

26:34

Either has the same net effect to me. So

26:36

I don't care. So it's Trump's fault that this is

26:39

all went through.

26:39

Yeah, And of course Republican voters they're like

26:42

freaking sheep, you know, they're just gonna sit there

26:44

and eat the grab bo, like, oh, it's so terrible with

26:46

the liberal media is saying about mister

26:48

Trump here, It's like, no, this is on Trump.

26:50

Lindsey Graham ate the rhino. Trump

26:53

is the one who decided to let it pass. So let's

26:55

all just be real clear why it's gonna happen. If Trump gets

26:57

reelected, who does he actually listen to

27:00

And is he still you know, so dumb to

27:02

be able to allow himself to be fooled. And if you are fine

27:04

with that, cool, but just be real honest

27:06

about what your voting.

27:07

Yeah, the hope. Consistently,

27:10

whenever Trump goes against

27:12

what, you know, what he promised the base,

27:15

it's always, oh, it's not his fault and the versisioner's

27:17

fault. It's this person that's a deep state, it says,

27:19

it's that like, this is an adult

27:22

man who was president of the United

27:24

States at some point he

27:26

has to be responsible for his own actions.

27:28

And you know, so Marjorie Taylor Green,

27:31

she was against all of this, and she's been

27:33

very you know, unspoken, et cetera, et cetera,

27:35

and on this I'm actually, you know, on the same

27:37

side of her, But she

27:40

never points the finger at

27:42

Donald Trump and his culpability here. That's

27:45

somehow left out of her analysis.

27:47

When yeah, you got Lindsey Graham there on TV

27:49

saying listen, I want to thank Mike Johnson, Hakeem

27:52

Jefferies, and Donald

27:54

Trump. Wouldn't happened without Trump, And

27:56

somehow that gets left out of

27:59

the critique hear from those on the Republican

28:01

side who are making.

28:01

A critiqus genius.

28:02

And again we have the evidence that

28:05

Trump endorsed it, because he literally

28:07

went to Mike Johnson, went down to Marlago,

28:09

did a joint press conference with Donald Trump

28:12

where Trump endorses on tape the

28:14

so called loan idea.

28:15

Let's take a lesson.

28:16

They're talking about it, and we're thinking about

28:18

making it in the form of a loan instead of just a

28:20

gift. We keep handing out gifts of billions

28:23

and billions of dollars, and we'll take a look at

28:25

it. But much more importantly to me is

28:27

the fact that Europe has to step up and they have to give

28:29

money. They have to equalize. If they

28:31

don't equalize, I'm very upset about it

28:33

because they're affected much more than we are. The

28:35

Ukraine situation would have never happened if ice

28:38

president would have never ever happened.

28:40

And everybody says that, including Democrats,

28:43

that it happened to such an outrage people,

28:45

millions of people are dead right now, both

28:47

sides. Millions of people are dead.

28:49

People keep pointing to that as if it's some evidence

28:51

for why he's changed his position. No, okay,

28:54

I agree with him on Europe. It doesn't matter. That's

28:57

not what you said. What matters is that you endorse

28:59

the loan. Now, for example, Matt Gates and others

29:01

were trying to claim that what we're about

29:03

to show you was a Trump saying he was

29:05

against the bill. Let's put this up there on the screen.

29:08

He says, why is in Europe giving more money to help Ukraine?

29:10

Why is it the United States is over one hundred million dollars

29:12

into the war and we have an ocean between us in a

29:14

separation. Why can't Europe equalize? Blah blah

29:16

blah blah blah. As everyone

29:18

agrees, Ukrainian survival

29:20

and strength should be much more important to

29:23

Europe than us, but it is also important

29:25

to us.

29:25

Oh, it is also important

29:27

to us. Now.

29:28

The only thing that he's even slightly critical of

29:30

is when he says, I am the only one who speaks for me,

29:33

and while it's a total mess caused by crooked

29:35

Joe Biden, blah blah blah, if I were president of this war

29:37

would have never started. That was because Mike Johnson

29:39

was going all over Washington saying, hey, if

29:41

you don't support this bill, then you're against President

29:44

Trump.

29:44

But he didn't come out against the bill. So

29:47

look, let's be very clear.

29:48

Trump came out very clear, very

29:50

very clearly against the Border aid

29:53

the border deal previously, and he

29:55

killed it, right, So he also came out

29:57

against Faiza, and he killed that.

29:59

Whenever you killed the vote. He had the.

30:02

Full capacity to kill this bill if he

30:04

wanted to, and he didn't, which means

30:06

he's responsible for letting this pass. He

30:08

endorsed it, and now he should bear

30:10

the consequences, just like Joe Biden does

30:13

whenever and whenever he's president to we

30:15

should not expect anything else from him.

30:17

Yeah, and please spare me the whole Like Donald Trump

30:19

is the anti war candidate, bullshit, There is

30:22

no anti war candidate in terms

30:24

of Biden and Trump or in terms of

30:26

RFK Junior. You could look at Jill Stein Cornell

30:28

West, but you know, likelihood

30:31

is that they're going to have a relatively minimal

30:33

impact, you know, with regards

30:36

to the comments about Europe. Also Michael

30:39

Tracy, who shout out to him, He's always

30:41

does a great job actually reading through these bills

30:43

and pulling out the important pieces and you

30:45

know, outlining some of these key bipartisan

30:48

dynamics. But you know, calling for

30:50

Europe to spend more on NATO or

30:52

calling for Europe to spend more on Ukraine

30:55

isn't a position in favor

30:57

of, you know, stepping away from NATO or step

31:00

away from Ukraine and trying to bring that war

31:02

to a close. It's a position in favor

31:04

of more funding. So he's not

31:06

saying we don't we shouldn't fund it, we should move

31:08

forward. He's saying, we obviously

31:10

we're going to continue funding it. We just want the

31:12

Europeans to also fund it additional

31:15

amounts. So, you know,

31:17

being hard on Europe is actually not consistent

31:21

with a position in favor

31:23

of we need to be looking for an

31:25

offer, if we need to be looking for some sort of a diplomatic

31:27

conclusion to this. And you know, I

31:30

will with regard to Ukraine, I'll just I'll

31:32

never be over the fact that we

31:34

undercut those original diplomatic

31:37

negotiations because now it

31:39

is in nowheresville. You

31:42

know, now the deal that they would get would be far

31:44

inferior. You know, now there is no real

31:47

negotiating leverage for Putin

31:49

and the Russia. At that point, they were on the back foot.

31:51

Things hadn't gone the way that they planned.

31:53

It didn't look good, so it would

31:55

have been a much stronger negotiating position. Now

31:58

it's just an endless mess.

32:01

And that's the approach they're taking to it is, let's just

32:03

continue to fund this. We don't need

32:05

a plan to conclude it. We're just going to

32:07

continue sending an entire you know, multiple

32:10

generations of Ukrainian men to the slaughter.

32:12

And then obviously, you know, with regard to Israel,

32:15

it's just a horror. It's just a horror. It's

32:17

an indefensible horror. The

32:19

last thing I want to make sure to mention, which it's

32:21

incredible, This isn't even really in the show

32:23

today, but you know, this whole escalation

32:26

with a run, which I think was very intentionally

32:28

timed as well, is part

32:30

of how the Israel Aid was able

32:32

to sail through as well, because

32:34

guess what, you know, suddenly, because

32:37

Israel starts this provocation by assassinating

32:40

top Iranian commanders at

32:43

their consulate building, which

32:45

is you know, a dramatic contravention

32:47

of the Vienna Convention, international law,

32:49

et cetera. They do that Irat and

32:51

response Israel's responding. Nothing

32:54

gets the bipartisan consensus

32:56

going more quickly than one

32:58

of the official bad guys nations, you

33:01

know, going after our big ally

33:03

in the Middle East. So when

33:05

we're talking about that, we're not talking about the suffering

33:07

and gods, we're not talking about the World Central Kitchen

33:09

Aid workers who were just massacred. We're

33:11

not talking about the apparently imminent

33:14

ground invasion of Rafa, which we'll get

33:16

to in just a bit. And so that's also

33:19

part of the cover that was provided

33:21

that allows this aid to sail through as well.

33:23

Yes, very well said.

33:26

So let's move on to some updates out of Israel.

33:29

So the US has

33:31

claimed, especially under Joe

33:33

Biden, that we support a two

33:36

state solution ultimately to

33:38

the Israel Palestine conflict.

33:41

So you might think that they would be in

33:43

favor of a UN Security

33:45

Council vote for Palestinian

33:47

statehood.

33:48

You would be wrong.

33:50

The US vetoed Palestinian

33:52

statehood recognition in the Security Council.

33:54

Let's seek a listen to how the State Department spins

33:57

these two very contradictory, apparently

34:00

positions.

34:00

How are you guys going to vote

34:03

so, Matt. Since October

34:06

seventh, we have been pretty clear that

34:08

sustainable peace in the region can only

34:11

be achieved through a two state

34:13

solution with Israel's

34:15

security guaranteed, and it remains

34:18

our view that the most expeditious path

34:20

towards statehood for

34:23

the Palestinian people is through direct

34:25

negotiations between Israel and

34:27

the Palestinian authority, with the support

34:29

of the United States and other partners

34:31

who share this goal. We believe

34:34

this approach cantangibly advanced Palestinian

34:36

goals in a meaningful and enduring way. We

34:38

also have been very clear consistently

34:41

that premature actions in New York, even

34:43

with the best intentions, will

34:45

not achieve statehood for the Palestinian

34:47

people. Additionally, as

34:50

reflected in the report of

34:52

the Admission Committee, there was not unimidity

34:55

among the committee members as to whether

34:58

the applicant met the criteria

35:00

of membership set forth in Article

35:03

four of the UN Charter. Specifically, there

35:05

are unresolved questions as to whether the

35:07

applicants can meet criteria to be considered

35:10

as a state, and Matt, as you

35:12

also know, We've long called on the Palestine

35:14

authority to undertake necessary reforms

35:17

to establish the

35:19

attributes of readiness for statehood. And

35:21

note that Hamas, which is, as

35:23

you all know, a terrorist organization, is currently

35:26

exerting power and influence in Gaza,

35:28

which would be an integral part of

35:30

the envisioned state in this resolution,

35:33

and for that reason, the United States is

35:35

voting no on this proposed

35:37

Security Council revolution. As an expert

35:40

of the UN, I will also I will

35:42

also just so note that,

35:45

due to statutory requirements, such

35:48

an admission of statehood would also require

35:50

the United States to cease its funding

35:53

to the United Nations.

35:54

So you gotta love that mon who says I just googled

35:56

expeditions how many years since Oslow.

36:00

It's just such a farce at this point and

36:03

the way this went down,

36:05

so we vetoed this resolution. There

36:07

were twelve who voted in favor. The US

36:10

was opposed alone by the way,

36:12

and there were two abstentions, UK and

36:14

Switzerland. Notably US allies,

36:17

France, Japan, and South Korea all supported

36:19

the resolution. Ken Klippenstein

36:22

and Daniel bogoslaw Over at the Intercept had some

36:24

good reporting about some of the diplomatic

36:26

pressure that was being applied in advance

36:29

of this vote. Can put this up on the screen.

36:32

By the way, though it doesn't appear that this diplomatic

36:34

pressure was very successful, since there were

36:36

no other votes against, only

36:39

two abstentions and a number of US allies

36:41

that actually voted in favor of Palestinian

36:44

statehood. The headline here leaked cables

36:46

show White House opposes Palestinian

36:48

statehood despite Button's pledges supported two state

36:51

solution. Cables argued that Palestine should not

36:53

be granted UN member

36:55

status. They put

36:57

pressure in particular on Ecuador, which

37:00

is the rotating member

37:02

on the UN Security Council,

37:05

and they said in language very

37:07

similar to what you heard there from the State Department.

37:09

Goal.

37:10

It remains the US view that the most expeditious

37:13

path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian

37:15

people is in the context of a normalization agreement

37:17

between Israel and its neighbors. We believe

37:19

this approach can tangibly advanced Palestining

37:21

goals in a meaningful and enduring way.

37:24

So expeditious approach, in

37:26

spite of the fact that this quote unquote

37:28

expeditious approach has been attempted

37:31

for decades at this point

37:33

with no conclusion.

37:34

So there you go.

37:35

Okay, all right, very interesting,

37:37

and this is part of why the entire thing

37:40

is ridiculous and why Matt Lee really

37:42

just underscored it. Where what is our policy

37:45

for this war and for this goverment. We keep

37:47

saying that the end result of this war has to

37:49

be a two state solution. It's like, well,

37:52

okay, which one West Bank

37:54

is going to have a like the Palestinian authority,

37:56

which barely has any authority, They're

37:59

going to be the one who have representation

38:01

in the United Nations. These people if

38:04

we are to give them a nation or to recognize

38:06

a nation, to recognize a false

38:08

nation with a false government that has no actual

38:10

public support, in my opinion, would be ten times

38:13

worse. Like, if we're going to do this, then

38:15

we actually have to do it, and it's obviously going

38:17

to have to include Gaza as well, and we

38:19

will have to ensure actual security

38:21

conditions and some sort of public expression.

38:24

Otherwise this entire.

38:25

Thing is completely meaningless and it will

38:27

fall apart and we will have somewhat one

38:29

Guido situation. Yeah, in Venezuela,

38:32

with nonsense that the United Nations.

38:35

Always puts the burden and the problems

38:37

on the Palestinian side when you have

38:39

BB out there on the regular like,

38:41

I will make sure that we thwart

38:44

ever having a two state solution that

38:46

somehow never gets mentioned in any

38:49

of this as the obstacles

38:51

to peace in the situation. We

38:53

got some more news on the State

38:55

Department. Let's put this up on the screen. The US is going

38:58

to sanction one specific IDF

39:00

unit for human rights violations

39:03

in the West Bank. This is pursuant

39:05

to that we covered this last week, this pro public

39:08

report that Tony Blincoln had been

39:10

sitting with a report from the

39:12

State Department panel that

39:15

is meant to look into human rights abuses that

39:17

found a number of IDF

39:19

units and Israeli police units that

39:22

had engaged in horrific human

39:24

rights violations torture, rape, other

39:27

abuses. And so I guess, under

39:29

pressure, they've decided to do this

39:31

sort of really truly symbolic sanctioning

39:33

of this one unit. I'll read this to you. It says US Secretary

39:36

of State Tony Blincoln expected to within

39:38

days announce sanctions against the IDF's

39:40

Netsa Yehuda battalion for

39:43

human rights violations in the occupied West Bank.

39:45

Why it matters, it would be the first time the US imposed

39:47

sanctions on Israeli military unit. They

39:49

will ban the battalion's members from receiving any

39:51

kind of US military assistance or training.

39:54

And this particular battalion, they say, was formed

39:56

as a special unit for ultra orthodox soldiers.

39:59

All of its members are men, and

40:01

it's kind of known for having a lot of

40:03

radicals involved. You've had a lot of

40:05

the quote unquote hilltop youth. These

40:07

are these young, radical, right wing, often

40:10

violent settlers who weren't accepted

40:12

into any other combat unit in the IDF.

40:15

They're in this battalion. One specific

40:17

incident that's been documented was the death of

40:19

an eighty year old Palestinian American

40:21

Omar Asad, in January twenty

40:23

twenty two. He was arrested by

40:25

Netsa Yehudah soldiers at a checkpoint

40:28

in his village in the West Bank late at night. He refused

40:30

to be checked, so soldiers handcuffed

40:32

and gagged him, an eighty year old, and

40:35

left him on the ground in the cold, and predictably

40:38

he died. So, you

40:40

know, my read is that these sanctions

40:43

are totally meaningless. It's similar to the you

40:45

know four Israeli settlers who were sanctioned

40:47

previously by the Biden Administration's attempt

40:49

to sort of like pretend like they're serious about

40:52

violence against Palestinians. But what kind

40:54

of checks are in places? We're shipping billions of dollars

40:56

to Israel to make sure this battalion

40:58

doesn't benefit from any of it. Nevertheless,

41:01

there's an all of government freak out

41:03

on the Israeli side about this tiniest

41:06

of sanctions for documented human rights

41:08

abuses. Let's put this up on the screen from Phoebe,

41:11

he says, And this is the Google

41:13

Translate version, by the way, So if there's

41:15

any like slate mistranslations, that's why

41:17

sanctions must not be imposed

41:20

on the IDF. In recent weeks, I've been working

41:22

against the imposition of sanctions on Israeli citizens,

41:24

including in my conversations with senior American government

41:26

officials. At a time when our soldiers

41:28

are fighting the monsters of terror,

41:31

the intention to impose a sanction on a unit

41:33

in the IDF is the height of absurdity and

41:35

a moral low. The government, headed

41:37

by me will act by all means

41:39

against these moves. There was

41:41

also a statement from Benny Gantz. Lest

41:44

you think that they're not on the same page on many

41:46

things, they mostly are. So what

41:48

do you make of all that? Sager?

41:49

Yeah, I mean I just think the entire thing is ridiculous

41:51

because we're trying to single out some unit

41:53

in the IDF based on or in

41:56

the West Bank, which is right, this is all.

41:57

The other problem is that we try and split apart.

42:00

GE's what I was talking about West Bank from Gaza

42:02

as if it's not the same military that's involved in all

42:04

this, and it's not all part of the same policy,

42:06

So what is the question, what are we going to do?

42:08

Do we actually And at the same

42:10

time, I would almost rather not

42:12

do something like this because then it just heightens

42:15

the contradiction of sending billions

42:17

of dollars to the IDEF and through the Israeli military.

42:19

If they're going to only continue to fund

42:22

said IDF unit and there's no enforcement

42:24

mechanism, then what is the point of

42:26

this entire thing?

42:27

It just views it. It makes it even more impotent

42:30

than previously.

42:31

If you give somebody money when you acknowledge that they're

42:33

a criminal, it's almost worse than just lying

42:35

to everybody.

42:36

Well, yeah, it's a perfect

42:38

way to pretend like

42:40

the problem is in a whole of government

42:43

policy, that it's a few

42:45

bad apples, it's a few violent settlers,

42:48

it's this one particular

42:50

battalion that has a lot of hilltop use, rather

42:53

than I mean, we saw the first of all,

42:55

you see the utter annihilation in Gaza. You

42:57

see the Where's Daddy software program

43:00

looking to target families, children,

43:03

women, waiting for militants to go

43:05

home before you target

43:07

them. We see the AI algorithmic

43:10

generation. Overall, we see

43:12

the announcement of a complete siege,

43:15

starving a population of millions,

43:17

in some cases to death. Okay,

43:20

And then we pretend like, oh, it's these few bad

43:22

apples and we're very concerned about it, and we're going to sanction

43:24

them. So it serves the Biden administration's

43:27

interest. Frankly, I think it also serves Bebe's

43:29

interests. I just we didn't just didn't make it in the poll because

43:31

there's so much other stuff to cover. But apparently

43:34

Bibe's political standing in Israel in

43:36

the context of post October seventh was number

43:38

was stronger. Poll numbers are coming up. You

43:41

know, he's basically neck and neck

43:43

now with his primary opponent as previously he

43:45

was losing in a landslide, and I think

43:47

that these little, you know, pretend

43:50

fights between him, just

43:52

theatrical fights between him and Biden,

43:54

where he gets to stand tough and

43:56

effectively humiliate Joe Biden by the

43:58

way, over and over and over again. I

44:01

think those have served his domestic political

44:03

standing. So congratulations everyone, Your little

44:05

Kaboki theater here is working out perfectly for the nt

44:07

YAHOO government.

44:08

I think that bb and Zelenski are similar.

44:10

Their only authority to

44:12

the eyes of the public is their ability to builk

44:14

the United States for billions. So as long

44:17

as they are able to continue

44:19

to have the US security establishment

44:21

at fund your war, then your position

44:24

as like the grifter in charge is

44:27

cemented. Now, if he genuinely

44:29

was failing in that regard, then yeah,

44:31

you know, people would be able to come against him. But he's

44:34

able very masterfully to play against

44:36

America and also keep the handout and take

44:38

the dollars.

44:39

That's a very difficult balancing.

44:40

Act, one which he is on tape admitting

44:42

he's very good at saying what America

44:44

is very easy I know to who.

44:46

Can deny it?

44:47

He says it?

44:47

Who can deny it? Yeah? No,

44:49

that's right.

44:50

He can.

44:51

On the one hand, you know, act all outraged

44:53

on Twitter about this like totally meaningless

44:56

sanction reportedly being issued by

44:58

the State Department on the They're going to do whatever

45:00

the hell he wants, bomb American

45:03

and American aid worker, bomb

45:06

is bomb Iran when we begged

45:09

him reportedly not to hospitals.

45:12

Whatever. He can do whatever he wants,

45:14

and there's still you know, a

45:16

whole of government effort here to make sure that he

45:19

gets his billions in whatever he wants moving

45:21

forward. Yes, so yeah, he's

45:24

playing his hand masterfully. And

45:27

the Biden policy bear

45:29

of bear hugging BBNT,

45:31

Yahoo has been such an object

45:34

failure it is hard to wrap your head

45:36

around on every level. Every

45:39

time they set out like well, we don't want Israel to

45:41

do this, Israel does it, and then there's

45:43

no accountability and American

45:45

lives are put more at risk and more Gazan's

45:48

house, that means of Gaza are completely slaughtered.

45:51

So just an utter and complete

45:53

failure from the Biden administration.

45:56

It all just plays right into Bibi's

45:58

hands. There was an interesting report

46:00

though that I wanted to share with you guys.

46:02

Make of it what you will, So put this up on the screen.

46:05

This is a report from Times of Israel

46:08

that the Prime Minister's Office PMO

46:11

had held an emergency debate

46:14

amid fears that the ICC that's

46:16

the International Criminal Court at the Hague, could

46:18

issue arrest warrants for the

46:20

Prime Minister and others over

46:22

alleged crimes in Gaza. This is

46:24

based on a report on Israeli

46:27

Channel twelve, so it says they're increasingly

46:29

worried about this. Three

46:31

ministers and several government legal experts

46:33

heard this emergency discussion on how they

46:35

could potentially fend off the

46:38

feared imminent issuing of such arrest

46:40

warrants. They are

46:42

pointing to some of the countries that have been very

46:44

critical of Israeli atrocities

46:47

in Gaza's strip are sort of leading the push

46:49

here. Jerusalem is also try

46:51

to apply pressure, whatever diplomatic pressure

46:53

they can, you know, under the radar, to

46:55

try to avoid this eventuality.

46:58

And not only did they and this was no worthy

47:00

to meet again, according to this Israeli TV

47:02

report, Make of it what you will. Apparently,

47:05

he also raised this concern in

47:07

his meetings last week with Britain's

47:09

Foreign Secretary David Cameron in Germany's

47:11

foreign minister and Aleeda bare

47:14

Baka. Is that how you say that we'll go let's go

47:16

with it. Yeah, we'll go with that. So it

47:18

was a significant enough concern reportedly

47:21

that he's raising it with them. Now what does this mean.

47:23

Listen, It's not like the ICC can come to Israel

47:25

and arrest him, throw them and you know

47:28

it and being a dock in the Hague. But

47:31

you know, it's another step on the global

47:33

parias status. It

47:36

could be very influential in terms

47:38

of global opinion, makes

47:40

them more difficult for you know, the US enablers

47:43

to support the things that he's doing. And

47:45

also it really constrains your freedom because

47:47

now you can't go to one of the countries in the

47:49

world where they, you know, do

47:51

support the ICC actions because

47:53

you could actually get arrested if you set foot in

47:55

one of those countries.

47:56

Yeah, I mean no, that's the actually the biggest I mean, there's

47:59

there's a couple of ways, and look at this is one is

48:01

like, do I think he's actually gonna get arrested.

48:02

No, but does it at least put

48:04

pressure on the government. Yes.

48:07

The other option is that we will just see the ICC,

48:09

you know, signatory fall apart because you would

48:11

travel to a party nation and they won't comply

48:14

with it.

48:14

We'll see, you know exactly how that all

48:16

plays out.

48:17

But regardless, again, this is just a

48:19

core theme of like all of our discussion, is

48:21

that in the interim, things are going in

48:23

Israel's way, but in the long term,

48:25

twenty thirty years from now, there certainly

48:28

are not.

48:28

And this is another example. Don't

48:30

even take my word for it.

48:32

You've all knowah Harari, who I've got some issues

48:34

with, but he wrote the famous book Sapiens.

48:36

He's the Israeli not really a scientist.

48:38

Whatever we can it's a separate conversation. He

48:41

wrote an excellent piece. I recommend everybody

48:43

go and read in Heartz where he makes this exact

48:45

same point, because he himself is kind of a

48:47

chief arch globalist.

48:48

And he's like, we have a real problem.

48:50

We have delegitimized ourselves in the eyes of the

48:52

entire world, and for decades now we will

48:54

have problems both diplomatically for our citizens

48:57

as they continue and think about living abroad.

48:59

And you know, any idea of legitimacy

49:02

in the eyes of the world has significantly gone

49:04

down.

49:04

And that's just not something that you really move

49:06

away from.

49:07

And I think this is just like tip of the iceberg on that

49:09

broader problem. Regardless of whether it's enforcement

49:11

or not, it almost doesn't matter, you know, for the future

49:14

of what future treat future free trade agreements

49:16

look like, reciprocal tourism, willingness

49:18

to do business, willingness to receive a

49:20

prime minister, and popularly those things

49:22

honestly matter even more to a certain extent

49:25

for the future of Israel and for the nation.

49:27

Look at the way young generations of America.

49:29

Yes, that's right, I've changed everything.

49:30

Yeah, it's going to it's not going

49:32

back, right, Millennials,

49:34

gen z, they're not going to view this the same

49:37

way that boomers and silent gen did.

49:39

It's done. I mean that's we're covering the

49:41

freak out over these Columbia protests and what the hell's

49:43

going on there. The real story on those protests

49:45

is just how overwhelming the sentiment

49:48

among young people is against arming

49:50

Israel, against you know, their their view and

49:52

mind. And the ICJ finds

49:54

it plausible that they're committing genocide with

49:57

our tax dollars, by the way, helping

49:59

to fund the weapons that are, you

50:01

know, two thousand pound bombs being dropped on refugee

50:04

camps, etc. People

50:06

don't forget this is a formative political

50:08

experience for really millions

50:10

of young Americans. So in terms

50:13

of future generations, I don't think there's

50:15

any put in that toothpaste back in the tube. But unfortunately

50:18

that takes a long time to come to fruition.

50:20

In the meantime, you can see from the numbers

50:23

in the house how slowly things actually change.

50:28

At the same time, we really have our eyes on Rafa,

50:32

the threatened ground invasion there. It

50:34

seems like there are some indications this may

50:36

be more imminent, including a strike

50:39

multiple strikes there. Let's put this up on the screen.

50:42

That happened just a day or so ago. Israeli

50:44

strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafa killed

50:46

twenty two, mostly children. As they

50:48

add US advances AID package. I think

50:50

that's noteworthy that they include that in the

50:53

headline and important they include that in the headline.

50:55

So out of these twenty two people

50:57

who were killed by the IDF in

51:00

Rava, eighteen children,

51:03

three women, one man.

51:06

Eighteen children, three women and one

51:09

man. One of the women who

51:11

was killed was pregnant.

51:14

She was killed. They were able to open

51:18

her up and save the baby,

51:20

thank god, who is now orphaned

51:22

at birth. Horrifying

51:25

situation. And Bibi

51:28

has been sort of promising that

51:30

this Rapha invasion is imminent. He said,

51:32

cryptically, quote in the coming days, we will

51:34

increase the political and military pressure on Hamas

51:37

because this is the only way to bring back our hostages

51:39

and a chief victory. Of course, the only way they've actually

51:41

brought back hostages was through ceasefire agreement.

51:44

But never you mind that. He goes on to say

51:46

we will land more and painful blows

51:48

on Hamas soon, but

51:50

did not give further details about what

51:53

that meant. And that's noteworthy, of course, saw because

51:56

he's been saying, oh, in order to finish the job

51:58

with Hamas, they're all down in Rafa now, so we

52:01

have to we have to do this ground invasion

52:03

of raf Warri of over a million Palestinian sheltering

52:05

right now, including obviously many women

52:08

and children, because that's where Hamas

52:10

is. So when he says we will land more

52:12

and painful blows on Hamas soon, it seems

52:14

to be a reference to an imminent ground invasion

52:17

in Rafa.

52:17

It's very possible, and something that you brought

52:19

up, but I want to spend a lot of time on here

52:22

is this corrupt bargain being reported

52:24

by the Israeli press. Let's go and put this up there on

52:26

the screen, please, where the Times

52:28

of Israel reports very out

52:30

in the open that the US has agreed to

52:33

Israel's plan for Rafa in return

52:35

for not carrying out a large Iran

52:38

strike.

52:39

So what they basically have bargained

52:41

with US.

52:42

Is, hey, we won't have a huge

52:44

retalia historic retaliatory strike

52:46

on Iran which would draw you in if

52:48

you green light at least tacitly

52:51

our Israeli invasion of Rossa. Now, the way

52:53

that we know this is from Egyptian officials

52:55

who are telling news outlets to the quote

52:58

the US has accepted that plan for

53:00

an operation in southern Gaza in return

53:02

for not carrying out that larger strike.

53:04

Now, the reason why this is so important is

53:06

we are watching the weaponization

53:09

here again of the US political system

53:11

and it's rapid desire to go to war for

53:13

Israel, where they are like, hey, we

53:15

won't drag us into a broader war

53:18

over here if you let us do whatever

53:20

we want over here. And I don't think that

53:22

these air strikes are an accident,

53:24

and it actually very elegantly solves

53:27

a problem for beeB to be able to get

53:29

around that. But think again about

53:31

what the blackmail is is that what they

53:33

have on their side is always,

53:36

at any moment, at any time of our

53:38

choosing, we can glow blow up an embassy

53:40

wherever we want, ratchet things up

53:43

over here, which will require you to defend

53:45

us as long as we continue to get to

53:47

do whatever we want over here in Gaza.

53:49

And that belies the fact that whatever happens

53:51

here in Gaza has bleed on effects over

53:54

here, as we have already watched the resumption of

53:56

Iranian proxy strikes on US

53:58

military basis that have happened now after

54:00

that.

54:00

So again American troops.

54:01

Are the ones who pay the cost, as well as of course

54:04

Palestinian civilians.

54:05

Yeah, that's right. I mean, this was Palestinian

54:07

civilians being held hostage and being sacrificed

54:09

in the end to reportedly

54:12

keep Israel from doing a larger strike

54:14

on Iran. And again, according

54:17

to reports, the Biden people begged

54:19

bebe not to do any response to Iran. You

54:21

know, they were saying, listen, take the win. We shut down all

54:23

their stuff nothing really happened with regard

54:25

to their retaliatory attacks here,

54:27

so just take that win and let's move

54:29

on. So they weren't

54:32

able to succeed with that, they're

54:34

obviously not willing to use actual

54:36

leverage to change Israeli behavior,

54:39

So according to this report, they've

54:41

decided to sacrifice the Palestinians

54:43

in Rafa in spite of the fact that this has been

54:45

a long time. You know, Biden

54:48

even used at one point the red line

54:50

with regard to Rafa, but doesn't

54:53

seem to be a red line any longer. And

54:55

I don't think any of us should be surprised if we see this

54:58

attack move forward relatively swiftly.

55:01

Just to give you another sense of how

55:04

untenable the US position

55:06

here is and all of the Biden administration's

55:09

supposed concerns for human rights.

55:11

Pretty remarkable exchange here where

55:14

a State Department spokesperson really

55:16

doesn't want to answer a question about

55:19

whether the Geneva Conventions apply

55:21

to Israel, does his darnedest

55:24

to try to avoid giving a direct

55:26

answer to what should be a very

55:28

simple question that he was asked with seamlessness.

55:31

You're a med monitor. Human Rights monitor

55:33

reports that Israel

55:36

is using drones to

55:39

lure residents and

55:41

then shoot them. They explain

55:44

the sounds of women screaming in babies

55:46

crying were heard late at night on both Sunday

55:48

and Monday. When some of the residents went out

55:51

to investigate and tried to help,

55:53

they were shot at by Israeli

55:55

quadruple quad

55:58

copter drones. The sounds that they heard were

56:00

in fact recordings played by

56:02

the Israeli drones with the intent

56:04

of forcing the camp residents out into the

56:06

streets where they could be easily targeted

56:08

by snipers.

56:11

I've not seen that report, Sam, so I'm

56:13

not gonna comment on it, but broadly

56:16

not relating to this particular circumstance at

56:19

all, because again I haven't seen the report

56:21

and I'm not sure if it's accurate or

56:23

verifiable. At every conversation

56:25

that we have with our partners in Israel, we continue

56:28

to stress the moral and strategic comparative that

56:30

they have to work

56:32

on deconfliction mechanisms and to ensure

56:35

that civilian harm is

56:37

minimized in every which way possible, and

56:39

we'll continue to stress that every way

56:41

we can.

56:41

Will you look at this report, I'm.

56:44

Sure we'll look at this report, Sam, I don't have any

56:46

comment for it on it?

56:47

Right now?

56:47

Do you recognize the Geneva Conventions

56:49

as apply.

56:50

I've answer your questions.

56:51

Now you have evaded it and

56:54

your colleague deceitfully

56:58

responded to it. Could go to Geneva

57:01

Conventions. It's a simple question. Do

57:03

you recognize the Geneva Conventions of applying

57:05

to Gaza?

57:06

When you interrupt me, that's not it's

57:08

not no matter of you. I'm not going to simple

57:10

take additional questions a simple

57:12

question.

57:13

Show ahead.

57:13

You got two questions.

57:14

I totally contra No, I didn't get to.

57:16

You, did you?

57:17

You?

57:17

You asked a question about your report and you asked

57:19

to follow up.

57:20

Please go ahead, and you're refusing

57:22

to answer it.

57:23

Go ahead to do the Geneva Conventions apply

57:25

to Gaza or not everywhere

57:27

on the planet except for the Palestinians.

57:29

Isn't that right? Me?

57:31

I continue to stress everywhere

57:33

and everywhere that international

57:35

and humanitarian law needs to be abided

57:37

by and respected going.

57:38

The Geneva Conventions apply.

57:40

You are now interrupting your colleague.

57:42

Go ahead.

57:42

I'm interrupting you. I'm not interrupting you.

57:44

I'm insisting on an answer to a critical

57:46

question.

57:47

Go ahead doesn't want to answer the question. It's

57:49

very very testy there in

57:52

reply. And yeah, and also with regard

57:54

to the original report, which is disgusting if you

57:56

think about it, like playing sounds of crying

57:58

babies and and when people rush

58:01

out to try to help this, you

58:03

know what they think is a struggling child or infant.

58:05

Then you know, using that to lure them out

58:07

and kill them is like, that's horrifying.

58:11

The last thing we wanted to share with you is that

58:13

some of the tenor of the discourse in

58:16

our in the Gray, our

58:18

great Israeli allies, the way that the

58:20

their assault on Gaza is being discussed.

58:22

I don't know if you guys saw this. There was a picture of Palestinians

58:25

on the beach in Gaza that created

58:27

this whole freak out on

58:30

the Israeli right. There was a discussion

58:32

about this on Israeli television

58:34

and quite a reaction to it. Let's

58:37

take a look at this, and I'll read over the subtitles

58:39

here since this is in Hebrew, gut and put

58:41

it up on the screen, and I say, these people there deserve

58:43

death, a hard death and agonizing death,

58:45

and instead we see them enjoying on the beach, having

58:48

fun. He goes on these

58:50

people. There are no innocent people there in

58:52

the gaza strip none. They voted for hamas,

58:55

they want Hamas, they celebrated, They hand it out

58:57

candies, some of them spat at the body, some

58:59

of them took selfies with our abductees. There are

59:01

no innocence there. And the fact they're now enjoying

59:03

the beach instead of starving, instead of being jerked

59:05

around, instead of

59:07

being severely tormented, instead

59:10

of hiding from shelling, they are enjoying

59:12

the beach. We should have seen a lot more

59:14

revenge, a lot more rivers

59:16

of Gossen's blood. That

59:19

is the commentary on Israeli

59:21

television, right, but please, let's let's talk more

59:23

about a student protester. What a nineteen

59:26

year old might have or might not have said

59:28

at a college protest.

59:29

Yeah.

59:29

At the same time, Trump's trial kicks off today,

59:31

and there were some very dramatic occurrings.

59:35

I guess that happened on Friday when a man

59:37

actually self immolated outside

59:39

of the courthouse.

59:41

It was actually caught live.

59:42

We're not going to show you images of the self immolation

59:44

itself, but there are were some reporters on the scene,

59:47

and this is what it was described like by them.

59:49

Let's take a listen.

59:50

What do you say. We also are seeing active

59:52

shooter and active shooters in the park outside

59:55

of the court. We have seen an arm that has

59:57

been visible that has been engulfed in total

59:59

flames.

1:00:00

There is chaos that is happening.

1:00:01

People are wondering right now if people are

1:00:04

in danger.

1:00:04

I'm looking across the court.

1:00:06

Across the courtyard there is a man racing

1:00:08

to his aid. There's codes coming off to try

1:00:10

to put out the fire. We have members

1:00:12

of security details. NYPD is

1:00:14

rushing to the scene. They are trying to come

1:00:16

now. Officers are on the scene. A fire

1:00:19

extinguisher is right now present being put

1:00:21

on this man to try to put out. People

1:00:23

are climbing over barricade to try to

1:00:25

separate the public to put out the flame

1:00:27

on this man.

1:00:28

He had let himself out in fire.

1:00:29

That was the initial reaction. Obviously it was not an

1:00:32

active shooter. It was a protester.

1:00:35

Appears he's put out a manifesto,

1:00:38

et cetera. It appears to be a sad

1:00:40

and horrible case of mental illness. And

1:00:43

it's often people you know schizophrenia

1:00:46

and others attracted to certain scenarios

1:00:48

like this, he wanted to start quote unquote a

1:00:50

revolution and decided to self emilate

1:00:52

himself outside of the trial. But anything you want

1:00:54

to say on that, Crystal before we move.

1:00:55

On, Yeah, I mean, I just he

1:00:58

did ultimately succumb to

1:01:00

his wounds from self emilation. That reporting

1:01:03

on him is that he had

1:01:06

been prone to some sort of fringe

1:01:08

or conspiratorial beliefs, and then

1:01:10

his mother passed, and according to the people who

1:01:12

are around him, that was really sort of a breaking point.

1:01:15

So there was, you know, immediate

1:01:17

speculation always this about he's

1:01:20

protesting Trump's you know,

1:01:22

legal issues or whatever. It appears

1:01:24

to have had nothing to do with

1:01:27

Trump, Peter Thiel, Crypto,

1:01:29

Jeffrey Epstein, a lot of things were mentioned

1:01:32

in the sub stack, but Trump was not central

1:01:34

to it. So it appears to have been an incredibly

1:01:37

tragic instance of mental

1:01:39

illness.

1:01:39

Yes, it's tragic, trying to get attention, et cetera.

1:01:42

But of course that does not obscure

1:01:44

the fact that there is that trial that is happening today

1:01:46

significant and let's actually go through some

1:01:49

of it. We now, the entire jury has been

1:01:51

seated for the trial. Let's go and put this up there

1:01:53

on the screen. New York Times says, will a

1:01:55

mountain of evidence be enough to convict Trump?

1:01:57

We're going to have the opening statements today in

1:01:59

the people of the State of New York versus Donald

1:02:02

J. Trump, and the case quote seems strong,

1:02:04

but a conviction is far

1:02:06

from assured. Some of the witnesses are

1:02:08

actually very important here. One of them is

1:02:10

David Pecker, who some of you might remember from

1:02:13

the Stormy Daniels days. David Pecker

1:02:15

was the quote tabloid publisher who

1:02:17

had buried the damaging stories about Trump,

1:02:20

the so called pay for play scheme

1:02:22

where catch and kill, where they would buy

1:02:25

incriminating stories on behalf of

1:02:27

Trump and then keep them in the vault under

1:02:29

an NBA before then reporting

1:02:31

it. Other witnesses in the case will include

1:02:34

Hope Hicks, the spokesperson who

1:02:36

tried to spin around this, a witness again

1:02:38

for the prosecution, and then of course

1:02:41

Michael Cohen, who has already pled guilty

1:02:43

and actually served time in prison specifically

1:02:46

around this charge, but on the federal charge

1:02:48

which Trump was never indicted for. So

1:02:50

three of those witnesses very likely to back

1:02:53

up the state's case in

1:02:55

terms of will it be enough to convict

1:02:57

him. Conviction is going to go on

1:03:00

whether they agree with this novel interpretation

1:03:02

of the case and in terms of the law, in

1:03:05

terms of statute of limitations, but

1:03:07

also in terms of how

1:03:09

they view the central

1:03:12

charge around whether it's campaign finance

1:03:14

fraud or whether it was a personal

1:03:16

one or not. And this is, of course, Crystal

1:03:18

been the very beginning from the beginning around

1:03:20

this case. Why eventually

1:03:22

the FEDS decided not to charge Trump,

1:03:25

which said charge around this

1:03:27

because they thought they could plausibly not

1:03:30

argue, at least in a jury to

1:03:32

convict Trump on the campaign finance

1:03:34

fees in particular, which amounts to accounting

1:03:36

fraud in terms of why the state is involved.

1:03:38

Yeah, So just as a reminder, there won't be

1:03:40

cameras in the courtroom, so this all be you know,

1:03:43

after the day's events are concluded, we'll kind

1:03:45

of get a synopsis of whatever was said,

1:03:47

who testified, what happened, what was that in the opening

1:03:49

arguments, etc. It

1:03:52

is noteworthy that you got David Pecker

1:03:54

and Hope Hicks who are testifying,

1:03:56

so they won't have to wholly rely on the testimony

1:03:59

of Michael Cohen, who was you know, convicted

1:04:01

liars. He is not the most reliable

1:04:03

witness, and that is one of the things that the

1:04:06

Trump team are certainly going to you

1:04:09

know, pursue and talk about. Is there's

1:04:11

this one key moment where

1:04:14

Cohen claims that he

1:04:16

and Trump were in dialogue in the White House

1:04:18

and Trump was talking about these payments.

1:04:20

Because this is one of the things that they'll try to claim

1:04:22

is like basically he had no idea that any of this

1:04:24

was going on. So it'll be interesting

1:04:27

not only to see how that you know, that

1:04:29

direct like he said, he said, peace plays now,

1:04:32

but what additional information picks

1:04:35

who was you know, for those of you who don't

1:04:37

recall, who was omnipresent, who was in

1:04:39

a lot of key meetings, who had a lot of time

1:04:42

with Trump and also a long history with him even pre

1:04:44

dating you know, her time

1:04:46

in the White House. And David Packard

1:04:48

now Packer who was the tabloid

1:04:51

publisher National Choir and also had a

1:04:53

long history with Trump. He is able

1:04:55

to testify not just to this

1:04:57

Stormy Daniel's hush money situation,

1:05:00

but to a couple other stories

1:05:03

that he helped Trump to quote

1:05:05

unquote catch and kill, so the idea

1:05:08

being there was another this playboy model

1:05:10

Susan McDougall, who claims she had an affair with Trump.

1:05:12

He purchased her story and then didn't run

1:05:15

it. The other one was this doorman

1:05:17

at the Trump Tower building who claimed this

1:05:20

is apparently not true, but who had claimed that Trump

1:05:22

had a mistress and had the mistress

1:05:24

that had an abortion. Pecker had also

1:05:27

purchased and buried that story

1:05:29

as well. Now with Doormy Daniels, he

1:05:32

didn't do that because she was asking for too much

1:05:34

money. But then he works this is

1:05:36

all the allegations right, and the Trump's team,

1:05:38

they'll have their say. But he works with Michael

1:05:40

Cohen to figure out this workaround to

1:05:42

get this story hushed up, even

1:05:45

though the price was too steep for him

1:05:47

to be able to do with the national enquir So that's

1:05:49

sort of like the heart of this, you

1:05:51

know. On the one hand, in terms of the jury, it's

1:05:54

Manhattan. Not a lot of Trump love in Manhattan.

1:05:56

On the other hand, you had a couple of these jurors who

1:05:58

were ultimately selected, who said at least a few

1:06:00

sort of like more or less favorable

1:06:02

things about Trump, who weren't just out and out Trump Peters,

1:06:05

and you know he only

1:06:07

has to get one person one

1:06:10

right on his side to prevail

1:06:12

here in what would be a very very

1:06:14

significant win. So those are kind

1:06:17

of the contoences.

1:06:17

In the case. I can say, or can you imagine

1:06:20

if it's a hung jury or if you win.

1:06:21

I think that's I think that's very possible.

1:06:23

I think too.

1:06:24

But the media freak

1:06:26

out on that is going to be unbelievable.

1:06:29

Let's go and put this up there on the screen. Because there

1:06:31

was some discussion previously about the jurors. Two

1:06:34

jurors were actually dismissed in a

1:06:36

trial before they eventually all

1:06:38

twelve were seated. It appears

1:06:40

that some of the jurors were

1:06:43

dismissed prospective jurors because of critical

1:06:45

social media posts about Trump. But

1:06:48

the eighteen people who have selected have decided

1:06:50

and have said that they will decide the case

1:06:52

based quote, purely.

1:06:53

On the facts.

1:06:55

Some of them two of them actually expressed

1:06:57

positive feelings about the former press

1:07:00

that are on the jury. Two of those

1:07:02

who were dismissed one There was a

1:07:04

lot of attention around this which we previously had

1:07:07

where a juror with profile

1:07:09

was described by Fox News and by

1:07:11

other media outlets, and she was approached

1:07:13

and she was like, people were asking whether

1:07:16

it was her who was on the jury, and she asked

1:07:18

to be taken off. And other jurors as well

1:07:20

had expressed some feelings around that. It was

1:07:22

just funny, though, Crystal, because Fox and

1:07:25

Jesse Waters in particular was getting to blame.

1:07:27

But if you went and you looked like you could basically

1:07:29

if you know these people, you could guess it. Because

1:07:32

ABC, the New York Times and others had written

1:07:34

similar write ups.

1:07:35

Of all of the jurors who were involved.

1:07:37

I will say I don't know how I feel about that in terms

1:07:39

of recording another because I'm like, Okay, well if

1:07:41

the entire if we're not going to release their names.

1:07:44

But just like for me, it's like, well, an Indian guy who

1:07:46

wears glasses, who those are? YouTube? Oh,

1:07:48

I wonder who it is? Former White House correspondent.

1:07:51

You know, It's it's like either keep it secret

1:07:53

or don't, but don't try and play this weird

1:07:55

mid gram middle ground where we are right now.

1:07:57

That's true. Yeah, I think you could have lease

1:08:00

like they had in there what their news preferences

1:08:03

were, which I thought was interesting the comments

1:08:05

they made about Trump and how they felt

1:08:07

about him. That was interesting. But yeah,

1:08:09

you probably didn't need like the they're a

1:08:11

nurse, How is that really? I don't blame maybe

1:08:13

even like the toplight like okay it's

1:08:16

a female, fine, but drilling

1:08:19

down into a lot of those details.

1:08:20

I will say this, I don't blame the media.

1:08:22

I think that if the law is going to

1:08:24

allow all of this to be published,

1:08:26

then fine.

1:08:27

I don't actually blame them at all.

1:08:29

At the end of the day, it's up to the court to keep

1:08:31

whatever it's people safe or not. But

1:08:34

if the court is going to have rules like

1:08:36

secrecy and all that, then they should at least write them

1:08:38

in a way that makes sense. I will never blame

1:08:40

reporters or journalists from putting out fullsome

1:08:42

amount of information because I figure that I think

1:08:45

that's what they should do.

1:08:45

I will say, in the instance of Jesse Waters

1:08:48

and there was a whole right wing conspiracy

1:08:50

that these were like intentional, like lib

1:08:52

activists were sneaking onto the

1:08:55

jury, which I think there is no

1:08:57

evidence to support that in particular,

1:08:59

but I I feel

1:09:01

bad for these jurors, like whether they're

1:09:04

public now or not, Like

1:09:06

it's very likely to come out who

1:09:09

these individuals are. They're going to

1:09:11

be the center of a firestorm the likes of which

1:09:13

they probably can't even imagine. That few

1:09:15

people really could imagine. It's

1:09:17

going to be an absolute circus. And yeah,

1:09:20

we'll see how, we'll see how it all unfolds.

1:09:22

Uh. With one more piece that I'll let you coo

1:09:24

up. But I just do want to say on the political note,

1:09:26

Yeah, I know we're so used to thinking that nothing matters for Trump.

1:09:29

These are old allocations. As you say, it's all

1:09:31

baked in, and I think those are all like totally

1:09:33

fair and legitimate points. But you

1:09:36

do see his poll numbers right now slipping

1:09:38

a bit. You see Biden now and a lot of national

1:09:41

averages has claimed like a one point

1:09:43

leads. Approval ratings stick up

1:09:45

a little tiny bit. How people are

1:09:48

saying they feel about him on the issues versus

1:09:50

Trump, He's doing a little bit better.

1:09:52

And I do think part of what is dragging Trump

1:09:55

down right now is just him being in the media

1:09:57

now and it being in the context of legal

1:09:59

tr such as this case.

1:10:02

And we also should remember when the first details

1:10:04

of this emerged, like people really

1:10:07

found it pretty gross even

1:10:09

ones who said it may not be illegal,

1:10:11

but it's certainly wrong. So

1:10:14

having those details day after day

1:10:17

in the news, I think that there's

1:10:19

some cope on the Trump right of saying, like,

1:10:21

oh, this persecution is going to guarantee

1:10:23

him the elections. I think that's crazy. Like

1:10:26

bost of the country does not view these things

1:10:28

the way that the Republican base does. I don't think

1:10:30

there's any doubt that the criminal

1:10:33

prosecutions helped him in the context of a

1:10:35

Republican primary. In the context

1:10:37

of a general election, it's a whole different ballgame.

1:10:39

So maybe it's a net neutral,

1:10:42

maybe it doesn't change anything. But

1:10:44

I do not think that this is

1:10:46

going to be a net win for Donald Trump the

1:10:48

way that some of his supporters claim that it will be.

1:10:51

Yeah, I don't think it will be. Oh, I think it would

1:10:53

be a win for him amongst his base.

1:10:55

I think any prosecution on

1:10:57

terms of the public I think this one basically

1:11:00

out and I think the others could be a lot more

1:11:02

significant.

1:11:02

Nonetheless, you know.

1:11:03

Why it's most important is because the judglar is threatening

1:11:05

the throne in jail if he's not there, you know, in

1:11:08

person. But we'll see whether any of that

1:11:10

even materializes. We would be remiss if

1:11:12

we didn't play some liberal fan

1:11:14

fiction which has been making the rounds

1:11:17

about what is it diaper don?

1:11:19

Is that the conspiracy right?

1:11:21

That's what they're claiming, so me might

1:11:23

as touch, which was that it's that liberal

1:11:25

organization that put out all those clips of Joe

1:11:28

Rogan. They have reporters, sources,

1:11:30

according to them, who are inside the courtroom

1:11:33

who claim that Trump's flatulence

1:11:35

is out of control inside

1:11:38

the court according to their well

1:11:40

placed individuals.

1:11:41

Let's take a listen, and I'm hearing from credible

1:11:44

sources who know what's

1:11:46

going on in the courtroom. And what

1:11:48

I'm hearing is is that take

1:11:51

it for what it's worth, but that Donald Trump

1:11:54

is actually farting in the courtroom, and that it's

1:11:56

very stinky around him, it's future

1:11:58

and odor in the courtroom, and that Trump's

1:12:01

lawyers are

1:12:03

like repulsed by the scent and the

1:12:05

smell. And I'm not I'm not just saying

1:12:07

that to be like, oh funny, funny. I'm

1:12:09

actually, you know, we have good sources

1:12:11

there and I'm hearing it from

1:12:14

actual credible people that as

1:12:16

he's kind of falling asleep, he

1:12:18

is actually passing gas and

1:12:21

that his lawyers are really struggling

1:12:24

with the smell.

1:12:25

His lawyers are really struggling with

1:12:28

the smell he's got. These are

1:12:30

credible, credible reports.

1:12:32

I love the sources personally.

1:12:34

Yeah, so this is the

1:12:36

This is also and look we're not chair

1:12:38

picking that clip when I saw

1:12:41

had somewhere around nine million views

1:12:43

on Twitter and had been retweeted some eleven

1:12:45

to twelve thousand times, and of course

1:12:48

like made the rounds across what does

1:12:50

these like occupy Republicans or

1:12:52

you know, all these things like Facebook

1:12:54

boomer pages. So the boomers are

1:12:57

eating this one up. They are really enjoying

1:12:59

the idea of flat or diaper god.

1:13:01

Yeah, so I support this resistance lib

1:13:03

conspiracy personally.

1:13:04

I mean, it is relatively harmless. It

1:13:07

is amusing, I'll tell you that.

1:13:08

But yeah, this is what is capturing the minds, and

1:13:10

there will only be even more of this type of fan

1:13:12

fiction that make the rounds some more that

1:13:14

he finds.

1:13:15

We don't know, it's not true.

1:13:16

That's true, it's not true. It's

1:13:18

got in credible.

1:13:19

Sources, and we might just that.

1:13:25

Let's turn to some slightly more significant news

1:13:27

here. We had a huge victory

1:13:30

for the United Auto Workers specifically, but

1:13:32

the labor movement in general. Coming out

1:13:34

of this Volkswagon plant in Tennessee. So

1:13:36

this was the third time that

1:13:39

workers at this plant had attempted to unionize,

1:13:42

this time with the landscape

1:13:44

quite a bit different and quite a bit more

1:13:46

pro union, the workers prevailed

1:13:49

in historic fashion. Let's

1:13:51

start off by taking a listen to what some

1:13:53

of the workers had to say in their own words courtesy

1:13:56

of more Perfect Union.

1:14:08

Ye so now

1:14:12

I was made the count.

1:14:13

Are you out?

1:14:14

Yea yea yea yea

1:14:18

yes.

1:14:20

You know, many of the talking heads

1:14:22

and abundits have said to

1:14:24

me repeatedly before

1:14:26

we announced this campaign, you

1:14:29

can't win in the South, said,

1:14:35

Southern workers aren't ready for it. They

1:14:40

said, no, you auto Workers didn't.

1:14:42

Have it hit up.

1:14:45

But you all said watch that.

1:14:51

That last person you're listening to there Sean Fame,

1:14:53

the new president of the United

1:14:55

Auto Workers, who has made an aggressive

1:14:58

push non lean Ta Campbell stance,

1:15:00

going out on strike with regard to the Big

1:15:02

Three contract negotiations. But in the wake

1:15:04

of that victory, saying

1:15:07

listen, we're going to organize the South. We're going to

1:15:09

go after foreign automakers. This is basically

1:15:12

not happened successfully before in American

1:15:14

history, and so far it's looking

1:15:16

pretty good for them. Let's go and put the next piece up

1:15:18

on the screen. Was not even

1:15:21

close. Seventy

1:15:23

three percent voted yes,

1:15:25

twenty seven percent voted no. And

1:15:28

again keep in mind, this is a

1:15:30

plant that had voted twice before in twenty seventeen,

1:15:32

I believe, in twenty nineteen, and had

1:15:34

rejected unionization. Now,

1:15:37

with the wins that you saw,

1:15:40

you know, Starbucks, Teamsters,

1:15:42

UAW with a more

1:15:45

favorable climate amongst the public

1:15:47

in favor of unions, with a more favorable National

1:15:49

Labor Relations Board, this time the result

1:15:51

is totally different. And the next

1:15:54

up, they have a vote in mid May down

1:15:56

in Alabama at a Mercedes plant that

1:15:58

apparently they feel good about too. So

1:16:01

it's astonishing, Sager, not just that.

1:16:02

So not only do they have seventy three percent who cast

1:16:05

in favor, but they had eighty four percent voter

1:16:07

participations of the eighty four

1:16:09

percent of the forty three hundred eligible

1:16:11

workers in the plant actually participated.

1:16:14

This is the first vote in the

1:16:16

South, they're saying, the first time a Southern

1:16:18

auto plant outside the three Detroit automakers

1:16:21

has ever been organized by UAW.

1:16:23

This of course makes sense because we have Volkswagen,

1:16:26

BMW, Toyota and all this with a blanketed

1:16:28

across the American South with a lot of manufacturing

1:16:31

jobs and cars that have been

1:16:34

strategically placed there because of right to work laws.

1:16:36

Now, the question is about how that's going to

1:16:38

change from this point forward.

1:16:41

What they the Wall Street Journal even talks here

1:16:43

about that there's less

1:16:45

than four hundred thousand workers last year

1:16:47

who are inside UAW. That is seventy

1:16:49

five percent less than where they were

1:16:52

in the nineteen seventies. So for

1:16:54

them to have wins like this that grow

1:16:56

for the future actually sets up

1:16:58

that we're probably at the low point of

1:17:01

US union membership than ever

1:17:03

before and likely to go up. And

1:17:05

one of the reasons is fun at least to cover this

1:17:07

story. This might be the only rare piece of good news in

1:17:09

our entire show, So we absolutely wanted

1:17:12

to include it.

1:17:13

Yeah, no, no doubt about it. And yeah,

1:17:15

you can see the way the historic winds have changed,

1:17:18

Like there's a huge backlash now against

1:17:21

you know, we saw in COVID how these companies

1:17:23

were screw workers over, they were risking their

1:17:25

lives, they were making money hand over fist. They continue

1:17:27

to make record breaking profits and not pass

1:17:29

it on to consumers, let alone their workers

1:17:32

continue to you know, corporate price gouging, et

1:17:34

cetera. And people are through with it to

1:17:36

the extent that even on a state

1:17:39

like Tennessee where the politician, the political

1:17:41

class there was overwhelmingly hostile

1:17:43

to unions, you had a bunch of Southern governors

1:17:46

come out against this union drive. They've

1:17:48

been threatened with all, they're going to close the plant, et cetera, et cetera.

1:17:51

Those things just don't matter. And then

1:17:53

you know, you also just have this momentum.

1:17:56

Now that's so important because

1:17:58

previously when workers saw

1:18:01

just you know, concessionary contract, union

1:18:03

loss after union loss, and the

1:18:05

union based shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, it

1:18:08

wasn't very compelling to join. And you know, when

1:18:10

you see what the big three workers are getting there,

1:18:12

like I do this same job, why the hell shouldn't

1:18:15

I be getting the same type of pay,

1:18:17

the same type of benefits, and have that

1:18:19

similar type of life. So

1:18:22

we'll see what happens in Alabama next. And

1:18:24

speaking to that, you know, that momentum

1:18:26

and this sense of solidarity across not

1:18:28

just the auto industry, but a bunch of

1:18:31

different you know, variety

1:18:33

of industries, white collar, blue collar, service

1:18:35

sector, et cetera. One worker

1:18:38

said he was actually inspired by the writer's

1:18:40

strike, which we thought was kind of interesting. Let's take a listen to

1:18:42

that.

1:18:42

We like when all the labor strikes first,

1:18:44

you know, like the like the writers and stuff

1:18:46

like that.

1:18:47

Like I was a communications.

1:18:48

Major in college, and so seeing the

1:18:50

writers go on strike and standing after their

1:18:52

rights, that was I

1:18:54

was so excited about that. And then seeing there's

1:18:57

a part of us that when we be talking about this

1:19:00

just secretly in the back of our minders, like man, I

1:19:03

wonder if I wonder if auto

1:19:05

workers, if we're going to start seeing

1:19:07

something like that.

1:19:08

Here you can see the way these things have a

1:19:10

momentum of their own, and I think it's, you

1:19:12

know, the horses out of the bar. And I think you're right, Saga,

1:19:15

that we've seen now the low point in terms

1:19:17

of population union

1:19:19

density, and it really matters because

1:19:21

having workers have a little bit of say in their workplace,

1:19:24

it's good not only for those particular workers,

1:19:26

but it helps to set the standards across

1:19:29

industries, across the entire

1:19:31

liborpool. In the US. So very heartening

1:19:33

to see this. Congratulations to these workers who

1:19:36

risk a lot, by the way to organize

1:19:38

here and stuck their neck out and now they get to have a say

1:19:41

in their workplace.

1:19:41

Yeah, the big change, the big question is going to be obviously

1:19:44

the spread whether this will go to Toyota, apparently,

1:19:46

Honda, Hyundai, and other foreign car manufacturers

1:19:49

all across the American style. So this is

1:19:51

one But this obviously is like a signal

1:19:54

that goes out across that And but we also

1:19:56

shouldn't forget, as we covered previously, it's

1:19:58

not like the state governments aren't going to fight back. Oh

1:20:00

yeah, this Alabama, Tennessee,

1:20:02

all these other places. They're going to use everything in their

1:20:04

disposal to try and

1:20:06

to try and to quash any

1:20:08

of these future votes.

1:20:09

Yeah. The last thing I'll mention here is Volkswagen.

1:20:13

They are used to dealing with unions in

1:20:15

their European locations,

1:20:18

and so the reports are they were

1:20:20

less hostile to unionization

1:20:22

efforts than other automakers

1:20:25

like Tesla, for example. Maybe,

1:20:27

so that could be a key factor here as well.

1:20:30

But the fact that this victory was so resounding,

1:20:33

the fact that this same planet had lost two

1:20:35

separate votes and now votes

1:20:38

seventy three percent for a union really

1:20:40

does show you that we're living in a different

1:20:42

era now. Things have decidedly changed.

1:20:44

Absolutely.

1:20:45

All right, let's move on to Tucker Carlson

1:20:47

on the Joe Rogan Experience. There were wild

1:20:49

conspiracies flying when the episode

1:20:52

itself was posted. Why doesn't

1:20:54

it have enough views? What's going on there? Well, it's

1:20:56

got several million views now, so everybody can relax.

1:20:58

In general, just who don't have YouTube channels.

1:21:01

In the first twenty four hours, it will

1:21:03

often be much less publicly

1:21:05

than what it actually is on the back end.

1:21:08

I'm not really sure why they do that, but just

1:21:10

so people understand that's what it is. After

1:21:12

around twenty four hours or so, you can go and

1:21:14

check and you will see the actual

1:21:16

number. But that belies what's actually

1:21:18

important. There were some ideological disagreements

1:21:22

that were made on the show, where Tucker

1:21:24

in particular echoed some of the things that he talked

1:21:26

about previously whenever I interviewed him before

1:21:28

about free speech hypocrites in

1:21:31

the alternative media space.

1:21:33

He names in shames.

1:21:34

Barry Weiss and then also heavily implies

1:21:37

Ben Shapiro as well let's take a listen.

1:21:39

If you hear someone talk that's saying

1:21:42

something that's kind of horseshit, it

1:21:45

resonates with you that that's what you've seen.

1:21:47

You had a moment with Barry Weiss on your show

1:21:50

that when everywhere I saw

1:21:52

a clip of it. I never saw the show itself,

1:21:54

but she was going on about she

1:21:57

was posing as one thing, and then you pressed you, you like,

1:21:59

well, hold on a second, what do you mean by that? You just attack

1:22:01

somebody? And she had no idea what she was talking about.

1:22:04

And it became really clear to me watching that. I completely

1:22:06

changed my view of Barry Weiss forever. I was like, oh,

1:22:08

this she's a fraud. Actually, this

1:22:11

person's not honest at all. Like she has

1:22:13

a very specific agenda, that's

1:22:15

all she cares about. The rest

1:22:17

of this stuff is just a is

1:22:20

a kind of sleight of hand maneuver.

1:22:21

You're talking about the thing with Tulta Gabbart, that's correct.

1:22:24

Yeah, she called her a toady and she didn't know what that

1:22:26

meant.

1:22:26

Well, but she had no idea like Telsea Gabbard

1:22:28

had straight outside the lines on some Syria

1:22:31

or something. Oh huh.

1:22:33

And Barry Weiss

1:22:36

was, you know, going through the files in her head,

1:22:38

like what does she have to believe? And

1:22:41

she was aware that, you know, Tulsi Gabbart

1:22:43

had somehow violated that in a way that no one's willing

1:22:45

to say, like in detail to her

1:22:48

fully articulately, what did Tulsi Gabbert do wrong? No one will

1:22:50

tell you.

1:22:50

She's just bad. But it's important

1:22:52

to be honest about what your agenda.

1:22:54

She is honest. I think she is honest,

1:22:56

and I really like her.

1:22:57

Yeah, I like that.

1:22:58

I'm not she's very into well, not against

1:23:00

her personally.

1:23:01

I just think that was a mistake, and

1:23:03

I think you're allowed to do that and hopefully

1:23:05

learn from that.

1:23:06

If your agenda is

1:23:09

neo kun politics, which is her agenda, just

1:23:11

say so. Don't pretend to

1:23:14

be a defender of free speech as a principle,

1:23:16

which is what she does.

1:23:17

How is she a defender of neokon politics?

1:23:19

Very wise?

1:23:20

Yeah, like what specifically, Well,

1:23:23

anyone including me and Tulca Gabbard,

1:23:25

who thinks that America shouldn't

1:23:27

be funding worse that don't help America, she

1:23:30

will attack.

1:23:31

Yeah, I mean that's empirically true. I'm on Barry's

1:23:33

feed literally, right, and listen, I have nothing personal

1:23:35

against Barry Wise. You've only ever been cordial.

1:23:38

This is purely a professional disagreement.

1:23:40

Has put all that out there. But I'm on

1:23:43

Barry's feed and everything is about

1:23:45

individual students getting attacked at

1:23:48

Yeah, for example, headline at the Free Press,

1:23:50

I was stabbed in the Yale because

1:23:53

I am a Jew. And then I continue

1:23:55

to scroll past, and I see multiple

1:23:58

retweets of like a panic going

1:24:00

on anti free speech that's happening

1:24:03

at Columbia University. If I continue

1:24:05

to scroll and look at the Free Press, I see

1:24:07

articles that are justifying more

1:24:09

aid to Ukraine, more aid to Israel.

1:24:11

But really what gave away the game to me? And this is actually

1:24:14

just pure, one hundred percent proof, is it. Verry

1:24:16

did an event in Israel with a guy

1:24:18

named Natan Sharansky. Now most

1:24:21

of you probably don't know who that is. Sharansky

1:24:23

is an israel Israeli politician and

1:24:25

a father of neo conservative ideology.

1:24:28

He his book was chiefly

1:24:30

responsible for George W. Bush's

1:24:32

second inaugural address and the

1:24:34

Freedom Agenda about spreading

1:24:36

democracy to Iraq. So if

1:24:39

you are doing an event with the father

1:24:42

of the Freedom Agenda from

1:24:44

Iraq, you are a neocon one

1:24:46

hundred percent. And she did that unironically

1:24:49

in Israel. And then also

1:24:51

while there was posting videos like.

1:24:52

This is what it's like to be under attack, you know, while.

1:24:55

We're in Israel, people were like, yeah, what about a couple miles

1:24:57

away over there in God's Like, I'm not justifying

1:24:59

the attack, but I'm just come on, you know, like, let's

1:25:01

chill here a little bit on the propaganda.

1:25:04

So look, with all due respect to our

1:25:06

friend Joe Rogan, I do think

1:25:08

Barry is an absolutely unreconstructed

1:25:10

neo conservative, a hypocrite whenever

1:25:13

it comes to free speech, as Tucker correctly

1:25:15

was calling out there, and he wasn't just talking about her, he was

1:25:17

also talking about Ben Shapiro because

1:25:19

both of those individuals raised

1:25:22

and let's be honest, you know, monetarily

1:25:24

became multi millionaires speaking

1:25:27

out against free speech,

1:25:29

hypocrisy and all that. And it's very easy, you

1:25:31

know, to attack the left world, do it here anytime

1:25:33

if we see hypocrisy as well. But you know, whenever

1:25:36

it comes to an issue there where they have a deep

1:25:38

emotional and religious attachment, then

1:25:40

all of a sudden, all that stuff gets thrown right out the

1:25:42

window.

1:25:43

Listen part of Joe's charms

1:25:45

that he sees the best in them. Yeah, that's we're sitting across

1:25:47

from him, and that includes Barry Weiss, so we'll

1:25:49

put him aside. In terms of the commentary.

1:25:52

You know, the free speech part with Barry,

1:25:54

it's so blatant because you

1:25:57

know, when she was a college student, she

1:25:59

was engaged aged in some of these activist efforts

1:26:02

to get Muslim professors

1:26:05

who she found to be saying things she didn't like

1:26:07

canceled. Now she claimed once she entered

1:26:09

her quote unquote free speech era that oh, I was a

1:26:11

college student and people gave her a pass. Okay, find

1:26:13

your college student. People, you know, make mistakes and

1:26:15

they change and they grow, et cetera, et cetera. But

1:26:18

the minute it came to Israel, suddenly

1:26:20

she is the biggest cancel

1:26:23

culture proponent that you could possibly

1:26:25

am. I mean, that is what her entire Twitter

1:26:27

feed is at this point. And

1:26:30

it's not surprising that

1:26:32

this tactic is being used to

1:26:34

smear an entire protest movement

1:26:37

and an entire cause because

1:26:40

we see this plan on through throughout history.

1:26:42

It's easier to you know,

1:26:44

find the asshole in the movement,

1:26:47

use that person to smear the entire

1:26:49

movement, and then use that smearing

1:26:51

of the movement to delegitimize the cause.

1:26:54

And at this point, if you're an Israel supporter, that

1:26:56

is a lot easier than actually out

1:26:58

and out justifying what Israel

1:27:00

is doing in Palestine day after day. It

1:27:02

was a lot easier than out and out trying to

1:27:04

argue that US continuing to support them

1:27:07

as they were sending the

1:27:09

world catastrophically in World War three

1:27:11

is somehow an American interest. So

1:27:13

it's you know, it's a cheap and easy playbook that we see

1:27:15

throughout history. And yeah, she was happy to ditch

1:27:17

the free speech language the minute that it was became

1:27:19

inconvenient for her, after she built an entire

1:27:22

your media empire off

1:27:24

of it. So, I mean, that's just the reality.

1:27:26

You believe what you want, Okay, it's free country.

1:27:28

If you want to be rapidly pro Israel, cool,

1:27:30

you want to cancel people who are Palestinian

1:27:33

activists while you're in college and then

1:27:36

apologize.

1:27:36

For it, which is what she did. Objectively. She came

1:27:39

out and said that she.

1:27:41

Regretted her passing that I'll

1:27:43

take you at your word, but then if you're immediately

1:27:46

going to regress back to that same

1:27:48

behavior, then I'm not going to take you

1:27:50

out your word.

1:27:51

I'm going to say that you are a giant hypocrite.

1:27:53

And that's the same problem I have with Ben

1:27:55

Shapiro, again, a pan who I have only

1:27:57

ever had good personal interaction with. But

1:28:00

this is a professional and a principal

1:28:03

disagreement about what we view as

1:28:05

important and what we view as actually

1:28:08

whether you're standing up for what you said you believe

1:28:11

in or not. And I think it was I'm glad that Tucker

1:28:13

said that. I would hope, you know that Joe

1:28:15

would maybe be take a look at some other

1:28:17

free press articles that are

1:28:19

out there, because I do think it's very important.

1:28:21

There were also some allegations that Tucker

1:28:24

made about blackmail and members

1:28:26

of Congress, according to him, that he's

1:28:28

seen from the intelligence community.

1:28:29

Let's take a listen, by.

1:28:31

The way, you know, whatever,

1:28:33

that's all I'll say, By the way,

1:28:36

no, I mean, you know, people don't say that because they're worried

1:28:38

abut getting punished. They're worried about someone putting kitty

1:28:40

porn on their computer. Members of Congress

1:28:42

are terrified of the Intel agencies

1:28:44

I'm not guessing at that. They've told me that,

1:28:47

including people on the Intel Committee, including

1:28:49

people who run the Intel Committee, the people

1:28:51

whose job it is to oversee

1:28:53

and keep in line these enormous

1:28:56

secretive agencies whose budgets

1:28:58

we can't even know their black budget. It's there.

1:29:02

The parents, the agencies are the

1:29:04

children. They're afraid

1:29:07

of the agencies. That's not

1:29:10

compatible with democracy.

1:29:11

Interesting alleging there

1:29:14

that they'll put Katie porn on your I mean, listen,

1:29:16

it's certainly possible. The broader thing,

1:29:18

I definitely one hundred percent agree with. Glenn

1:29:20

always loves to put play that clip

1:29:23

of Chuck Schumer from twenty seventeen

1:29:25

whenever he's like, Trump shouldn't mess with the Intel

1:29:27

agencies and the CIA because they

1:29:30

can really make life hard for you. And

1:29:32

You're like, wait, what is your job

1:29:34

is to is to.

1:29:35

Oversee the CIA?

1:29:36

Are you saying that there's the opposite,

1:29:38

And I mean, considering what happened with Mike Johnson,

1:29:41

where you have a guy who voted

1:29:43

against Ukraine AID, spoke out against Ukraine AID,

1:29:45

became president and then literally said because

1:29:48

of the Intel that he decided to flip and

1:29:50

become Winston Churchill and he prayed on

1:29:52

on all that.

1:29:53

I am not going to rule out blackmel Cristal. In terms

1:29:55

of this, Mike john.

1:29:55

Remember the Russian space Nuka

1:29:58

just say situation when they're just yes with them

1:30:00

through Listen the

1:30:03

kitty porn thing. Extraordinary claims require

1:30:05

extraordinary evidence, no evidence

1:30:07

presented. In addition, like this does

1:30:09

kind of give a past to how any member

1:30:11

of Congress in the future ends up with kitty porn on

1:30:13

their laptop, to be like, it wasn't me, it was the

1:30:15

Intel committees. It's just because I'm such a like,

1:30:18

you know, warrior for truth that they're coming after

1:30:20

me. Whatever. Look at what Tucker had to say

1:30:22

about it. It's all out there in the open, soide don't love those comments

1:30:25

certainly in terms the thing

1:30:27

is that many of these conspiracies are out in the open.

1:30:29

Like we were discussing before, we know the way

1:30:31

that they rolled Obama. We know,

1:30:34

you know, Trump was easily manipulated.

1:30:36

Mike Johnson publicly admitted

1:30:39

that he was emotionally manipulated

1:30:42

by them into completely changing

1:30:44

his previously held multiple positions.

1:30:47

So I mean that part of it is

1:30:49

just like it's not a conspiracy, that's just

1:30:51

an undeniable fact about the way that they

1:30:53

operate, and they can threaten to leak to the press,

1:30:55

and there's any number of stenographers out there or print

1:30:58

whatever they want to print, and they can ruin you,

1:31:00

and these politicians know they can ruin you.

1:31:02

You add to that, then you know the amount of

1:31:04

money coming in not only through the Israel lobby,

1:31:07

but also critically across every

1:31:09

issue from the military industrial

1:31:11

complex, these defense The defense industry

1:31:14

is one of the largest funders

1:31:16

of political campaigns. And you see how

1:31:19

you end up with the results that we have,

1:31:21

which are directly contrary to actual

1:31:24

democracy and actual will of the people,

1:31:26

which is why over and over and over again,

1:31:28

you see these things only go in one direction.

1:31:30

Yeah, absolutely, all right, let's okay, second part

1:31:32

here, and this requires an entire

1:31:35

discussion on its own.

1:31:36

Talker and I do share a fascination.

1:31:39

With UFO's UAPs whatever you

1:31:41

would like to call it. But he seems to believe

1:31:44

that the phenomenon as

1:31:46

it exists involves something

1:31:48

supernatural but of this

1:31:50

world, and something that is not

1:31:53

alien or extraterrestrial. Here's

1:31:55

the case that he laid out on Joe Rogan.

1:31:57

Well, when you say spiritual, like what makes

1:32:00

you draw that conclusion that their spiritual?

1:32:02

What's the obvious I mean spiritual maybe the wrong words supernatural?

1:32:05

You know, they're beyond nature as we understand

1:32:07

it. I mean, obviously they are. I mean, just

1:32:10

chart their physical behavior. It doesn't you

1:32:12

know, it goes outside of what we understand

1:32:14

about physics. So if you have a

1:32:16

craft, any object underwater

1:32:19

that's traveling at five hundred knots as

1:32:21

measured by sonar right there, you're challenging

1:32:23

understanding physics, like what is that? How can that

1:32:25

be?

1:32:26

So they've they've tracked that, they've

1:32:28

tracked things going five hundred knots under

1:32:31

the sea.

1:32:32

Yeah really, yeah, much much faster

1:32:35

than any object could can actually go under

1:32:37

under Oh for sure.

1:32:40

Oh yeah.

1:32:41

There's a lot of stuff going on underwater

1:32:44

and a lot

1:32:46

and there's video of these things coming

1:32:49

out of the sky into the

1:32:51

water and also emerging from the water.

1:32:53

Right.

1:32:53

But then there's a deeper level, which is like, Okay,

1:32:56

what's your relationship with these things?

1:32:59

What is the US government's relationship

1:33:01

with these things? And there's evidence

1:33:03

that there is a relationship and that

1:33:05

it's a longstanding and that

1:33:08

raises like a lot of questions about intent,

1:33:11

and.

1:33:13

So like what is that?

1:33:14

And I just personally decided, you

1:33:18

know, and people have been hurt by these things. You

1:33:20

know, that's a fact. That's a fact. It's

1:33:22

a noble fact, it's a provable fact.

1:33:25

And killed.

1:33:26

And I'm not saying millions of people have been killed

1:33:28

by whatever these things are, but people have been killed,

1:33:30

and it's known because it's working its way through

1:33:32

the courts out of the VA. So I

1:33:36

don't know an object that is

1:33:39

by definition supernatural, it's above

1:33:42

the laws of nature as we understand them, and

1:33:44

that has resulted in the deaths of

1:33:47

people. We

1:33:49

don't spend enough time thinking about like what that adds up to,

1:33:52

like not good? Actually not good.

1:33:54

So he's implying kind of the same stuff that he'd

1:33:56

previously talks about here, Crystal. I mean, he seems

1:33:58

to believe that uap ufo

1:34:00

whatever you would like to call it, of beer in here for

1:34:03

hundreds of years, which definitely

1:34:05

there is evidence for that, but that

1:34:08

they are like some sort of biblical

1:34:10

angels and demons as

1:34:12

opposed to extraterrestrials.

1:34:14

So I'll let you weigh in before I give some of my

1:34:17

thoughts.

1:34:17

Well, this k yeah, this the context before

1:34:19

of his interview with Putin, We're asked

1:34:21

Putin something about this, and Putin's like, noe,

1:34:24

yeah,

1:34:26

I don't know. I feel like I have to get you to decode

1:34:28

this for me, because I was asking you previously, how

1:34:32

large of a percentage of the like UFO

1:34:35

interest community shares

1:34:37

this like Christian spiritual

1:34:41

angel demons view of whatever

1:34:43

the hell is going on?

1:34:44

This is more of like a nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties

1:34:46

UFO phenomenal. Really yeah, oh yeah, people

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