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First of all, a nationwide freak

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out over campus protests, NYU

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going so far as to arrest their own

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faculty. We have those images for

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you. We also have the president and making some

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the Trump trial opening statements, plus a little

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Is that what we call it?

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David Packard?

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Let's go with anyway, National Inquired dude David

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Pecker, so interesting stuff to get into

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there. We also have new poll with some interesting

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data on RFK Junior and who he may

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help hurt, et cetera. This comes as

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he gains ballid access in a number

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of new states, So lots of updates

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for you there as well. We've got Biden sparking

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a genuine diplomatic crisis

1:20

over his fake cannibalism

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claims, so break that down for you. We've

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got a new poll showing how

1:27

young people feel about the country, about Joe,

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Biden, etc.

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With a lot of interesting numbers as well.

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A new report suggests that Israel had planned

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1:36

Is that true? Break that down for you.

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We also have new revelations

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horrifying of mass

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Okay, So let's talk about these campus protests

2:27

in particular. This is pro Palestine and

2:29

Procese fire protests which are broken down across

2:32

the country. Columbia University has

2:34

become a real focus for a variety

2:36

of reasons. They're present testifying last

2:38

week in front of that anti Semitism panel

2:40

on the Hill. Then following

2:43

that, she immediately called the NYPD

2:45

in to arrest one hundred students

2:48

kick the mouth of the university property. That

2:50

sparks a massive backlash. We talked about

2:52

that yesterday with prem Talker, and not

2:55

only a backlash at Columbia University, we

2:57

can go ahead and put this up on the screen, because these are some

2:59

scenes from Columbia University

3:01

where you have a huge number of

3:03

faculty joining the

3:06

students in solidarity

3:08

and in an attempt to protect them

3:10

from further arrests or other disciplinary

3:13

actions. But you can see that this

3:15

movement has not only spread at Columbia,

3:18

but really truly nationwide. We have a sampling

3:20

here of some of these schools.

3:22

You got University of Michigan, NYU, MIT,

3:25

Vanderbilt USC where they

3:27

have also started

3:29

not just protest movements, but specifically

3:31

these gaza solidarity encampments.

3:34

There are more.

3:35

Actually I kept seeing more and more reports of

3:37

additional schools in a University of Maryland here

3:39

here as planning one as well. This is a map

3:41

of where some of the actions

3:44

have sprung up, these specifically

3:46

or solidarity camps calling for their

3:49

schools to divest from anything

3:51

connected to Israel. Let's

3:53

put the next piece up on the screen. This

3:56

is a truly extraordinary scene. What you're looking

3:58

at here is the police

4:00

who were called in to arrest faculty

4:04

at New York University who

4:06

had come in in solidarity again

4:09

with their students and were standing

4:11

at a chain attempting to protect those students, So

4:14

NYU calling.

4:15

The cops on their own faculty.

4:18

In that video, by the way, courtesy of Katie Smith, you could

4:20

see that up there in the corner. I want to make sure to

4:22

give credit there wild

4:24

situation unfolding. Of course,

4:27

the claim is that these protests

4:29

are anti Semitic, that they're violent.

4:32

I would just reiterate something I said

4:34

yesterday, which is that the NYPD themselves,

4:37

when brought in to clear out the and

4:40

arrest the one hundred students that they did the other

4:42

day, even the NYPD said

4:44

it was one hundred percent nonviolent.

4:46

So that's the reality of what's going on. Joe

4:49

Biden was asked about this. Of course, the

4:51

White House was put out this statement condemning

4:53

these protests as anti Semitic. Let's

4:55

take a listen to what he had to say and

4:57

the anti submitted protests on College

5:00

capass.

5:01

I condemn that protests. That's

5:03

why I've set up a program to deal

5:05

with that. I also condemn those who

5:08

don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians

5:10

and they're how they're doing.

5:12

The Columbia University president resigned,

5:14

but I didn't know that.

5:16

I'll not have to find out more sign oh

5:19

sorry, which is not there. It says,

5:21

I condemn, you know, anything that's anti

5:24

Semitic.

5:25

That's why we've set up a program to do

5:27

with that. That's I don't know what that is about.

5:29

And then he says, I also condemn those who

5:31

don't understand what's going

5:34

on with the Palestinians and

5:36

how they've been and then he just.

5:38

Sort of trails off.

5:39

Some might call it a very fine people on

5:41

both sides moment, very

5:44

very I think it's amusing from Biden because

5:46

I don't even really know what he's trying to get

5:48

across.

5:49

Don't either.

5:50

It's like, okay, got

5:52

it. You know your White House put out a statement on this.

5:55

Out of that, I will reiterate what you said.

5:57

It also is incredibly difficult, and this was huge,

6:00

deep frustration with the media. You know. Somebody

6:02

texted me yesterday, go, hey, what are these protests about?

6:04

And I said, you know what, let me get back

6:06

to you because I wasn't one hundred percent sure

6:08

whether it was ceasefire or not. So I went

6:11

back and I traced the entire thing from

6:13

Columbia. Columbia University President is

6:15

before Congress on Wednesday. The

6:17

encampments start on Wednesday.

6:20

The encampment demand is a

6:22

BDS specifically divestment

6:25

of Columbia University endowment funds

6:27

that are linked to Israel. Same

6:29

now with many of these other encampments. So there

6:32

is a misconception going on as to what exactly

6:34

sparked this and what you know,

6:37

what this specific demand or whatever the

6:39

protesters was. From that point forward, NYPD

6:42

was called in. This is another key part. Columbia

6:45

University is a private property. The

6:47

NYPD has to be invited onto

6:49

campus by the university to

6:51

clear out the encampment. Columbia University

6:54

claimed that they were disrupting classes,

6:56

so they come in and they have NYPD arrest

6:58

some one hundred odd students. This sparks

7:01

a huge backlash not only of

7:03

hundreds now students and others

7:05

who have taken to the quad, that major

7:07

area in Columbia University, and now faculty

7:10

members that have also joined much of

7:12

that as well, which has spread out much of

7:14

this part of the BDS movement. So anyway,

7:17

what I wanted to say was it's important to

7:19

understand, as I have not been able to see.

7:21

If you just read the news quote unquote, you won't

7:23

actually see why any of this really

7:25

began in the first place, and it is a step

7:28

by step really of escalation.

7:30

Now, as I said as well previously,

7:33

what you noted are there quote

7:35

unquote anti Semitic incidents. There

7:37

have been videos certainly that have been

7:40

circulating. Again, I'm

7:42

not necessarily some leftist free

7:44

palace and cafia person. So I go

7:46

and I look, and from what I have been able to find,

7:48

the organizers and all themselves have been

7:51

doing something that many BLM people never

7:53

did, is they have been setting out lots

7:55

of ground rules, and they're like, we are not violent,

7:57

we are not participating in violence. We do not want any

7:59

of this anti semitism. If you're chanting things

8:02

like this making people feel and safe, don't

8:04

join us. There's a lot of internal enforcement

8:06

going on inside some of these protests,

8:08

at least from what I've been able to see so far,

8:11

I think that's a frankly, very wise

8:13

decision on their parts, since they already know that the

8:15

deck is generally stacked against them. But

8:18

none the less, Nonetheless,

8:20

it has invited now a massive

8:23

call for intervention

8:25

on these campuses, including calling

8:27

in the National Guard, far beyond

8:30

much of the NYPD. I mean you've seen

8:32

large Columbia donors. We're about to get to this basically

8:34

call for a massed expulsion of every single student

8:36

and faculty that's participated in this protest. Donors

8:39

are calling in, So I have

8:41

no expectations that Columbia will quote unquote

8:44

hold the line because these people it's

8:46

a business, okay. And when you've got

8:48

Robert Kraft, who's got his name on a building there,

8:51

and you've got all these billionaire donors NYU,

8:53

and also who do you think is paying those bills?

8:55

And those folks, they will stand for

8:57

a lot.

8:57

They will not stand for anything that has any crem

9:00

of Israel.

9:01

So, just to elaborate on

9:03

some of what you said there, Soger, because there

9:05

are a lot of things being conflated here.

9:08

Listen, guys, it's no revelation that

9:10

number one, anti Semitism is real.

9:12

It exists, It's abhorrent. There's no excuse

9:15

for it. You know, I'm not here

9:17

to deny the reality of anti Semitism.

9:20

That's number one.

9:21

Number two, is it a

9:23

surprise that there are some assholes

9:26

associated with a protest?

9:27

No, this is not a surprise.

9:28

Okay, if you were going to try to shut down

9:31

every single protest that had an asshole associated

9:33

with it, there would.

9:34

Be no protests.

9:35

Okay.

9:36

Number three, Many

9:38

of the incidents, purported

9:40

incidents that have gone viral

9:43

have not even happened on a college campus.

9:45

Specifically with regards to Colombia.

9:47

Actually used to live right by Columbia,

9:49

and Colombia's right in the middle of northern Manhattan,

9:52

and you know.

9:52

You step off the campus and you're.

9:54

In New York City, and so literally

9:57

every incident I've seen that could

9:59

be colorably described as anti

10:01

Semitic or you know, aggressive

10:04

or violent in any fashion has happened

10:06

off the campus. So to blame

10:08

the student protesters who are there peacefully and

10:11

crack down on them and smear them all as anti

10:13

Semites or as one of their professors did, We're

10:15

going to show you this in a minute, as terrorists.

10:18

It's outrageous. It's frankly outrageous, and

10:20

you know, it's it's a trick like we've seen

10:22

this with various protest movements in

10:24

the past.

10:25

It's an easy thing to do.

10:26

You find like the worst actor in the protest movement,

10:28

you hold them up, the video goes viral, and you use

10:30

that to try to delegitimize the entire

10:33

thing. That's what's going on here. And then the other thing

10:35

that's being conflated is the same discourse about

10:37

the rally chants and whether you

10:39

know, from the river to the sea means

10:41

genocide. And listen, I'm

10:44

not here to tell you what you should or

10:46

shouldn't be offended by. If you're offended

10:48

by that, okay, you can be offended by

10:50

that. Now, I think if you talk to these students, they'll

10:52

tell you, no, what we mean is equal

10:54

rights for all, for Palestinians

10:56

and Israelis. That's what our call is for.

10:59

But listen, if you're offended, that's

11:01

your right. But guess what free

11:04

speech is also about protecting.

11:06

In fact, it's primarily about protecting

11:09

speech that could be offensive

11:11

or uncomfortable. So you

11:14

know, the whole free speech crowd, all

11:16

the free speech bros out there, who were

11:18

you know, when it was the right and there was

11:20

speech that was offensive coming from the right,

11:23

they were all for it, and they were all against the

11:25

campus censorship, et cetera. Now

11:27

I can't tell you how many times I've

11:29

heard these words, I'm all for

11:32

free speech, but oh

11:35

well, the butt means you're not for

11:37

free speech. That's what that means.

11:40

So listen some of the rally chants, like

11:42

they wouldn't be what I would say, It wouldn't be what I would

11:44

choose. I can understand why

11:46

people may say, hey, I don't like that, but

11:48

guess what that is?

11:50

Free speech.

11:52

One more thing I'll say about this and then go on

11:54

to the next part of the just absolutely

11:56

unhinged reaction that is happening

11:59

right now, very intentionally so because

12:02

you know, the Israel no matter what side,

12:04

has like basically lost the debate if

12:07

you look at popular opinion, especially if you look

12:09

at the Democratic Party, especially if

12:11

you look at young people. So this is an

12:13

attempt not only to legitimized but also

12:15

to distract. But with regard

12:18

to Columbia University itself, it is a private university.

12:20

They can make whatever rules they want

12:22

to make. I'm not saying they can't do

12:24

it. It's a question of what they should

12:27

do. And the you

12:30

know, the claims about safety of Jewish

12:32

students, et cetera, are really belied by

12:34

the fact that there are you know, uncomfortably

12:36

for the people who want to smear this whole movement as

12:38

anti Semitism as anti Semitic. There

12:41

are many Jewish students

12:43

who are at the core of these protests, who

12:45

are organizing these protests, who are out there with

12:48

signs that say Jews for Palestine.

12:50

In fact, to one of the groups that was blanket

12:52

banned very quickly after

12:54

October seventh from Columbia University

12:57

was Jewish Voices for Peace.

13:00

So why are you shutting down Jewish

13:03

How is that not anti Semitic if we're going to

13:05

play that particular game. So let

13:08

me move on to some of the more

13:10

unhinged reaction. Characteristically,

13:12

you've got the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt

13:15

weigh and calling for the

13:17

National Guard to come

13:19

in and crack down on Colbia University

13:21

students.

13:22

Take a listen, Jewish.

13:23

Students don't feel safe on campus because

13:25

they are not I meaning President should

13:27

feet to do great things. Number

13:30

One, median NYPD

13:32

back on this campus or

13:34

bring in the national car. Number

13:37

two, no masks

13:39

on campus. This isn't Falujah,

13:42

this is Morningside Heights. And

13:45

number three, the students

13:47

who behave in this way to

13:49

be suspended immediately.

13:52

So by the way, many students have

13:55

been suspended. Many students

13:57

were arrested by the NYPD

13:59

and Sager. I mean, listen, the calls for the National

14:01

Guard are so deranged that I can't

14:03

even wrap my head around it.

14:05

They're peacefully protesting.

14:08

Okay.

14:09

Now you may talk about things happening off campus.

14:11

That's a different story, it's a little messier.

14:13

But in terms of the college campus

14:16

protests, you're talking about bringing

14:18

in the national What are you inviting another Kent

14:20

State.

14:20

It's insane.

14:22

Their allegation is this is some like Title nine

14:24

violation of the civil rights of many

14:26

of the Jewish students on campus. Now look

14:28

again, you actually said something important. Columbia

14:30

is a private university and they can do whatever they want.

14:32

I do think though, at a core of this, and

14:35

this is going to be difficult for those of

14:37

us who haven't ever seen elite circles. I

14:39

didn't go to an Ivy League school or anything. I know many

14:41

people who do. They have a religious

14:43

attachment to these places, which is difficult

14:45

for me to describe. And for them this

14:48

is personal because they're like, this is my space,

14:50

this is the place that I control, This

14:53

is the place where we have you know, I spent so

14:55

many of my fond memories and this is where Robert

14:57

Kraft has donated his thing, and there's a hill

14:59

else and we spent all this time on this. So

15:01

for them, it drives them nuts that

15:03

they don't have control over

15:06

campus discourse in a way that they

15:08

haven't now in quite a long time. And I actually

15:10

think the perfect example of this is a Columbia

15:12

University professor.

15:14

Who has gone very viral. I

15:16

guess it was. It's fair to say.

15:18

He's made himself a main character.

15:20

He has made himself a main character absolutely, Okay,

15:22

So how do we say this gentleman's name because he's upset?

15:24

Where are we going with Shihi Dividi? Shi

15:27

Dividi?

15:27

Okay?

15:28

So Shy Dividi is a Jewish Israeli

15:30

professor has been really

15:32

making himself a main character on campus

15:34

filming protests, calling them terrorists,

15:37

saying that they're anti Semitic. He joined in

15:39

Israeli news outlet I twenty four recently

15:42

specifically to say that the students themselves

15:44

are terrorists. Not terrorists, even supporters

15:46

as many people will say, but actual terrorists

15:49

themselves.

15:49

Let's take a listen.

15:50

This is an important topic. This is not

15:52

just about Columbia. This is every

15:55

US College. They have said that

15:57

they are going to bring down Columbia first

15:59

and as a domino effect, we'll have all

16:01

other universities. But I want

16:04

to make clear one thing before I talk about my own actions.

16:06

What we're seeing now at Columbia, and I don't

16:09

use this word lightly. We're not seeing

16:11

ideological war, We're not seeing

16:13

support for terrorism. We are

16:15

seeing terrorism. Last

16:17

night we had at Colombia a

16:20

protestant, one of the protesters in

16:22

the student mob, holding a sign pulling

16:24

the El Casam brigade, the Hamas

16:27

military wing who kill Jewish

16:29

students with a with

16:31

an arrow pointing at

16:33

the Jewish students that we're standing there right.

16:36

We are seeing Hamas on campus.

16:39

And this makes President Minushafik

16:42

a Hamas supporter every

16:44

minute, but she does not call let

16:46

in the NYPD because.

16:48

She's not letting them in.

16:49

That's why you see the NYPD outside and the

16:51

terrorists inside.

16:52

Well, Shai, I hate to break

16:54

it to you.

16:55

I know that in your country, Israel,

16:58

that signs may be considered

17:00

terrorism. In this country,

17:02

the United States, that is not considered

17:05

terrorism. That's actually free

17:07

speech and it does not ever cross into

17:10

the realm of violence. And this is

17:12

very difficult to say, you know, and remain

17:14

calm. But I cannot tell you how disgusting

17:16

it is to me personally to see this person

17:18

who is, as far as I know, not a US citizen,

17:21

and if he is, I know he calls himself a Jewish is realist.

17:23

So I'm just gonna say that come to here, then

17:26

try to police the speech of and

17:28

basically call in the National Guard, our

17:30

military to go after protesters

17:33

who he doesn't like. Again, that's perfectly

17:35

fine in your country, Israel. It

17:37

is not fine over here. It doesn't cross into

17:40

the line of violence. And this is part

17:42

of the other problem that I have with all of this is

17:44

that the escalation of rhetoric belies reality.

17:47

It's like, listen, we're not into what is

17:49

a July of twenty twenty. There is not

17:51

widespread looting and chaos in

17:53

the streets. Again in Columbia

17:56

University a private ivy league,

17:58

which that's part of the other thing.

18:00

That's the only reason this thing is getting so much attention.

18:01

It's because all these media elites and all these other people who

18:03

live in New York City and again to them,

18:05

and this is like hallowed special grounds.

18:08

So it really really bothers me, and

18:10

it drives me crazy to see some of the

18:12

ratcheting up of this and the wholesale embrace

18:14

of at least a segment of a lot of

18:17

the American right who are just you know, adopting

18:20

all of the safe space language. I

18:22

saw There's a woman named Campbell Brown. She used

18:25

to work over at CNN. Then

18:27

she was a Facebook executive and head of news partnerships

18:29

there, and she tweeted recently she said,

18:32

I'm heading with my two sons to Israel,

18:34

where they will be safer than

18:37

on the West side of New York. And

18:39

I'm like, it's like a meme.

18:41

It's like heading into an active war zone.

18:44

Because on a university campus, in

18:46

a contained protests zone or

18:48

whatever, some people are chanting things I

18:51

don't like and I could be five blocks away

18:53

and I wouldn't know anything about it.

18:54

Like, how stupid do you have to be to believe something

18:57

like that? It's ridiculous.

18:58

It is ridiculous. Words are

19:01

not literally violence. Yes, yeah,

19:04

part of becoming a grown up is dealing

19:06

with hearing things that you may

19:09

find to be apparent disgusting. Again,

19:12

that's your right, but to

19:14

pretend like and especially

19:17

I mean, this is part of why it's so disgusting, Like

19:19

you can't take it out of the context that

19:21

these students are protesting what they

19:23

and a majority of young people and a majority

19:25

of Biden voters, and the ICJ says is plausible,

19:28

and the US and YEN says there are reasonable grounds

19:30

say is a genocide.

19:33

Okay, look at the Gaza Strip.

19:35

Look at the devastation We're going to show

19:37

you here in a couple of minutes, mass grave

19:41

of hundreds of people, children

19:45

starving to death, under

19:47

a collective punishment and a siege.

19:50

Okay, you want to talk about safety

19:52

in higher education? Every

19:54

single university in the Gaza Strip

19:57

has been systematically demolished.

20:00

And I use that word very intentionally because at least

20:02

one of them they did a controlled

20:05

detonation. They went in, they set the charges.

20:07

It's not like this was in some battle with Hamas.

20:10

They intentionally set the charges

20:12

and blew up a university.

20:14

Okay.

20:15

So to put that up

20:17

against like I heard a rally chant that I

20:19

don't like get at, like, what are

20:22

we doing here? And that's why this conversation to

20:24

me just makes me so incredibly

20:27

insane.

20:28

Now with regard to shy.

20:32

Again, it's a free country.

20:34

He can say what he wants, right,

20:37

But somehow the standard he holds

20:39

of I don't want to hear a rally chant I don't like

20:42

because you know, then these people are terrorists

20:44

and they're violent, etcetera, et cetera, is

20:46

not applied to him. I mean, for

20:49

you to be a university professor, these

20:51

are your students. They're in some ways in your care

20:54

while they're there at that institution,

20:56

and you're smearing them as terrorists.

21:00

I saw somebody who tweeted out like, can

21:02

someone tell me what the body count is at Colombia?

21:04

How many people have died? How many casualties? And

21:07

it's a joke because obviously the answer is zero.

21:10

So you're rendering these words

21:13

utterly meaningless. You're

21:16

rendering the word anti Semitic utterly

21:18

meaningless. Now it just means like having a political

21:21

view that you don't like. You're rendering

21:23

the word now terrorist utterly

21:26

meaningless because again now it just applies

21:28

to as somebody has an ideology that I

21:30

don't like. And this man,

21:33

this grown man, pitched such a fit

21:35

when some of the actions that he has celebrated

21:38

and demanded more of, when applied to students

21:40

were also applied to him. He had his university

21:43

access to one part of campus revoked,

21:45

and people caught it on Cameron, I mean the fit that

21:47

he threw. He feels he

21:49

should even as he's calling students terrorists,

21:53

he feels he should be, you know, have full rights

21:55

to campus, but not the people

21:57

who he disagrees with. So it's

21:59

so incredibly selective and just

22:02

to show you also, and this to me is so

22:04

outrageous. So the official

22:07

Government of Israel Twitter

22:09

account picked up and reiterated

22:12

his charge that American students

22:15

at Columbia University and other places are

22:17

terrorists. Put this up on the screen. This is

22:20

outrageous. So he had tweeted out, this is

22:22

what's happening at Columbia right now. I know it's

22:24

confusing, so let me spell it out

22:26

for you. A. Terrorism is an ideology.

22:29

B they are openly supporting terror

22:31

C they are terrorists.

22:34

Terrorists have taken over Columbia

22:37

University. The government needs

22:39

to take over Colombia. Now think

22:42

about that in the context of the number of right wingers who

22:44

are celebrating a government takeover and

22:46

demanding a government takeover. National Guard to

22:48

come into censor students. Okay, put that aside. This

22:50

is important repost. If you agree, the

22:53

government of Israel takes him up on that repost.

22:55

If you agree, call and reiterates

22:58

his terrorism is an ideology. Either openly

23:00

supporting terror they are terrorists. The

23:02

government of Israel calling American

23:05

students protesting on campus, exercising

23:08

their First Amendment free speech rights, terrorists.

23:12

It is so despicable, It is so disgusting.

23:15

Yeah, and what it again illustrates

23:17

is that Israel a nation which

23:20

just the other day President Herzog, their

23:22

president, came out and said Americans

23:24

should stay out of Israeli politics. I was like, yeah,

23:26

I agree, I agree with you. That so why we shouldn't

23:28

pay you at all?

23:29

But why don't you say they got their hand down

23:31

That's what I mean, more weapons, more billions.

23:34

I'll take that trade any day you guys want, But

23:36

then you got to stay out of our politics.

23:38

Oh but on that one, it doesn't

23:40

really matter as much. It's like that is what

23:43

actually again just bugs the crap out

23:45

of me about this. I mean, what they the

23:47

problem to is what people never learn is

23:50

that if you're gonna, you know, try and put down

23:52

the boot or that you better go all out

23:54

because if you don't, you know what's going to happen, You're

23:56

going to have a widespread reaction. And sure

23:59

enough, it's already happening. Let's put this up there

24:01

on the screen. Just yesterday we

24:03

saw Yale University students who

24:06

were arrested at their protest again

24:08

over a BDS investment

24:10

in arms manufacturing. You've got multiple

24:13

other campuses now where you see

24:15

similar things that are beginning to break

24:18

out.

24:18

And I actually I will say this too.

24:20

I think it's a very smart strategy on part of these

24:22

students, because this is the other thing, you

24:24

know, these traffic people and all that.

24:26

We've had our debate.

24:27

I think it's idiotic, stupid, counterproductive,

24:30

and obviously they're also just going to get arrested in

24:32

the first place. But if you're on a university

24:34

squad, there is no actual plausible way

24:36

that you could say you're really like affecting

24:39

a lot of other people when you're on university

24:41

private Produm. Maybe public university is gonna be different because

24:44

then you're I think technically in terms of how

24:46

the law and all that. But it's for Columbia University,

24:48

for any of these other places, especially if you are

24:50

again an active student there and you have certain privileges

24:53

of what you're allowed and allowed not to exercise,

24:55

especially whenever it comes to First Amendment

24:58

rights, it's going to be a lot more difficult for people to

25:00

go after them. So anyways, I think it's I

25:02

think what we are going to see is there's a

25:05

couple of options, which is people could try

25:07

and quote unquote de escalate.

25:08

I don't really see that as possibility.

25:11

All of the money and

25:13

institutional pressure is one way, which is on

25:15

a crackdown. I think what is going to happen

25:18

is that Columbia no university

25:20

can withstand it's multi billionaire

25:23

donors and entire alumni base

25:25

freaking out at them on a consistent basis. Look

25:27

at how every single one of those Ivy League universities

25:30

you know, fired their presidents or whatever for

25:32

saying that the genocide against calling for the genocide

25:34

against the Jews is not a violation of the

25:37

student whatever harassment policy. They

25:39

all caved, right, they actually created more

25:42

speech codes on campus. So I

25:44

believe that in that effect is that there will be a epic

25:46

crackdown, and it's going to come soon.

25:48

I just don't see how it could possibly turn out

25:50

otherwise.

25:51

Well, and I think we've already seen the results

25:53

of the first waves of crackdowns.

25:56

I mean, we've now had arrest on multiple college

25:58

campuses, including a fact members

26:01

at NYU, and it has

26:03

only sparked a wider movement.

26:06

I mean, is poor gasoline on the fire

26:09

because other students who and

26:11

and by the way, sentiment on Columbia University

26:13

is also pulling the other day. It's

26:15

overwhelmingly in favor of what

26:18

these protesters support. Sure, so

26:22

the attempt to crack down, the arrest, the

26:24

media coverage, all of this has

26:27

only allowed

26:29

the movement to grow. So you

26:31

know, that's the other thing that's crazy to me,

26:33

is like they're acting like the Columbia University

26:35

president and is some great friend of these protesters,

26:38

and just like allowing them to run wild.

26:40

She suspended a whole bunch of them.

26:43

She called in the NYPD, who

26:45

again was like, these people are all one hundred percent

26:47

peaceful, But NYPD said that to

26:50

arrest one hundred of them, it's not

26:52

like there's been kid gloves here, okay.

26:55

So and what happened when she attempted

26:58

that, you know, hard fisted crackdown is a

27:00

huge backlash that just spawned even greater

27:02

protests, not only at Columbia, but even

27:05

further. I'm not going to claim that this isn't

27:07

going to have a negative impact on the

27:09

movement, because some people will see the clips

27:11

on a contest, they'll seep the media freak count, and

27:13

they'll be persuaded that, you know, some

27:16

number of these students or all of these students or.

27:18

Whatever are motivated by hatred.

27:21

Of Jews, in spite of the fact again that

27:23

there are so many Jewish students who

27:25

are involved with or actively organizing

27:27

these protests. It just makes me absolutely

27:30

crazy. But in terms of, you

27:32

know, the size of the protest movement, I think we're only seeing

27:34

it grow and expand the more that they try

27:36

to arrest, crackdown, suspend, etc.

27:42

Speaking of the media.

27:43

Piece, We've got a little compilation for you of

27:45

the way the media has bought into this the protests

27:47

or anti semitic line, hook

27:50

line and sinker. Let's take a listen

27:52

to a little bit of that.

27:53

By the way, they are both professors and

27:56

students within the university

27:58

who say things that I think

28:01

crossed the line, and there should

28:03

be accountability I believe

28:05

in free speech. Say whatever

28:07

you want, but pay the consequences

28:10

and don't have your face covered.

28:13

I don't think that should be allowed.

28:16

These are not protesters. These are violent

28:18

hate monitors.

28:19

The things that are coming out of the mouth burn down

28:21

Tel Aviv, tel Aviv genocide

28:24

October seventh. We did it once, We'll do it ten times.

28:26

We'll do one hundred times, We'll do it a thousand times, We'll do it

28:28

ten thousand times. This

28:31

is an atrocity. And I'm going to say

28:33

the quid put out loud. If there was any group

28:36

spewing hate and violence against

28:38

any other group Asians, Blacks, Hispanics,

28:42

gaze.

28:42

It would be shut down.

28:43

And this needs to be shut down immediately because and

28:45

once again those groups are back, those tenths

28:48

are back up, and this cannot go

28:50

unanswered.

28:51

It's very simple, and you know there's a continuum

28:54

of protesters.

28:55

There's a heinous, anti violent ones

28:57

that spewing hatreds, spewing death,

29:00

if you will, and then there's the less malignant

29:03

that say cease fire.

29:04

But even ceasefire doesn't

29:06

have the word piece in it.

29:08

Never do you hear the word piece because this

29:10

site doesn't want peace.

29:11

It wants a gihad.

29:12

And this is not propostinting, and this is anti

29:14

Israel, and anti Israel is a misnomer

29:17

because it's really anti jew.

29:19

And I'll even go further, it's not almost anti

29:21

Senmitism. It is anti Semitism.

29:24

And this is something that

29:26

is on display right now. But

29:28

the sort of roots

29:31

of this kind of devolving

29:34

from A to B go

29:36

back millennia. And this

29:39

is something the roots

29:41

of anti Semitism that pop up

29:44

in societies that frankly tend

29:47

to be a Canarian

29:49

the coal mine for a society

29:52

and democracy.

29:53

In this case that is in a lot of trouble.

29:55

Is I like to look

29:58

at this and replace Jews

30:00

with any other minority group here, and

30:03

what would the entire country be

30:05

doing?

30:05

They would be outraged, rightly.

30:07

So, So obviously, as you note, protest

30:09

is an important part of being an American. Free

30:12

speech is an important part of being an American.

30:15

Where is the line? For example, I've

30:17

seen video of somebody at the Gaza

30:19

Encampment at Columbia standing

30:21

up and talking about how great

30:24

October seventh Hamas attacks on Israel

30:26

was and calling the Hamas terrorists,

30:29

calling them freedom fighters. Is that hate

30:32

speech or is that protected free speech?

30:35

Where do you come down on that?

30:38

And that is believe it or not

30:41

as vile as it could be, because Hamas

30:43

should be destroyed from the

30:45

actions they did on October seventh and

30:47

other actions, But that does

30:50

not fall into a crime. If

30:52

someone makes a comment that

30:56

they want to join a terrorist organization,

30:58

that's going to come under investigation. But

31:01

the Commissioner of Legal

31:03

Matters at New York City Police Department is

31:05

going to really break this down

31:07

for New Yorkers.

31:09

Oh my god, there's a lot going on there

31:11

isn't there At least Eric Adams had

31:13

to inform Jake Taber like, yeah, that's

31:15

actually not illegal.

31:16

Well what did he say? May believe it, you

31:19

may not believe it.

31:20

But actually people can say things

31:22

even that are offensive, Like yeah, you're

31:25

a journalist, Jake Tapper, you don't know the

31:27

basics of the freaking First Amendment. Listen,

31:30

even if you say something incredibly

31:32

offensive, incredibly racist like

31:35

horrific. Know the clip he's talking about too,

31:37

which he mischaracterizes, but anyway, put

31:39

that aside. Even if it's as represented,

31:42

it's not even a borderline case.

31:44

It's not close. I

31:46

just listen, Donnie Deutschen there, His

31:49

was probably the worst.

31:50

It's in atrocity, a rally chant

31:52

that you don't like calling for ceasefire.

31:55

It's a atrocity, he says, because

31:58

it doesn't have the word peace in

32:00

it.

32:00

Are you I just?

32:03

And the erasure, the erasure

32:06

of all of the Jewish

32:08

students who are involved here

32:11

just makes me insane because

32:14

they keep conflating. They accuse these

32:16

protesters of doing it, but they're the ones doing it. Conflating

32:19

all Jewish people with the State

32:21

of Israel and the government of Israel and

32:24

their actions, that is

32:26

actually anti Semitic, okay, especially

32:29

when you have many, especially young

32:31

Jewish Americans, who are appalled

32:36

by the actions of this government and you

32:38

want to associate them with a government

32:40

that again is plausibly committing

32:43

a genocide in Gaza's strip. And

32:45

what impact do you think that's going to have If you force

32:47

every Jewish person to be conflated

32:50

with the State of Israel, that is not

32:52

condoning but predictably going to

32:54

lead to a rise in anti Semitism.

32:56

It's just makes me so insane.

32:58

And then Robert Kraft there at the beginning you

33:00

mentioned him before, Yeah, that's probably the

33:03

most consequential comments that we played.

33:05

Here's a billionaire donor, very.

33:07

Influential in Republican political circles

33:10

in particular, but political circles in general,

33:13

very influential at cub University because he's

33:15

given oodles of money, I don't know how much

33:17

to the school, saying he's pulling his

33:20

donations and he believes in

33:22

free.

33:22

Speech, but but not

33:25

when he disagrees with it, then he doesn't believe.

33:27

Part of what bugs me about a lot of this analysis

33:29

is it presumes that it's also okay. I

33:31

mean, look, maybe it's controversial, but you know, even

33:33

if white supremacists were on campus, as

33:35

long as it's not hurting anybody, it is free

33:37

speech.

33:40

To you, like the right like thing

33:42

being you know, being issued.

33:44

It was very controversial ACLU, and they sort of

33:46

like for each other apart. But that is

33:49

like, that is the foundations, even things

33:51

that are blatantly wrong, racist,

33:53

anti something like, even if they were, and that's

33:55

a mischaracterization of what's going on here. That's

33:58

when the First Amendment actually comes important.

34:01

When it's things that people agree, when they're comfortable

34:03

with them, you don't need it.

34:04

They're like, well, if they were saying the same thing about Jews

34:06

or a or about Asians or Blacks,

34:08

I'm like, well, you know, but I'm South Asian,

34:10

right or Indian? I guess the South Asian is a controversial

34:13

term. Here's a good example. If there

34:16

was a there's like seekh separatists who

34:18

are really big in America, and this drives

34:20

Indian people absolutely crazy, especially

34:22

the Indian government. And if there was

34:24

a seek protest whenever

34:26

I was going to college, you know.

34:28

What I would do. I would walk past and i would go

34:30

to the library and live.

34:31

My life because I'd be like, first of all, I'm born

34:33

here, I'm not from India. Second of all, I don't

34:35

give a shit about seek separatists.

34:38

But that's, you know, I guess more personal to me.

34:40

Let's like turn up the let's turn it up

34:42

even more. Let's say that there is a anti

34:45

what Like, there's a whole thing going on right now

34:47

with a title not nine or whatever with

34:50

the women's sports and trans and

34:52

all that, and there's even college athletes that

34:54

have been speaking out against that. If

34:56

there was a pro keep

34:58

women in women's sports rally on campus,

35:00

I'd be like, yeah, absolutely, you have to support

35:03

it, and I have no doubt also that all of these

35:05

other people would certainly also

35:08

they would call for a crackdown there, and they would think that that

35:10

is correct. So that's another thing where we have

35:13

to not buy Dana Bash and a lot

35:15

of the media framing here, which is they're like, imagine

35:17

if and RFK Junior said.

35:19

This too whenever he was here.

35:19

We were talking about the university presidents,

35:22

and he's like, imagine if they'd said that about blacks.

35:23

I'd be like, well, okay, I mean it's free country.

35:26

You know, I don't necessarily agree with it, but hey, like

35:28

you got to be allowed to be able to say whatever you want.

35:30

Let's not pretend like there aren't actual neo

35:32

Nazi protests that happen. They're like

35:35

sort of pathetic, you know, there was something that happened,

35:37

like in Florida. They're pathetic

35:40

and people find them disgusting, but the

35:42

White House isn't putting on a statement

35:44

on them. So I actually think it's all that should

35:46

either yea, No, I think it's

35:48

a polar opposite. Actually, I think there's much

35:51

more of a reaction to people,

35:53

you know, calling for divestment and

35:56

listen again, if you don't like the rally chance, that's fine.

35:59

You can be a friend of the rally chance, but you're

36:01

not. It's not violence, it's

36:03

not doesn't deserve the National Guard coming

36:05

in and a crack. It's non atrocity. You

36:07

want to see an atrocity, look at anything

36:10

coming out of the Gaza Strip every single day

36:12

if you want to know what an actual atrocity is.

36:15

So, since we aren't at

36:18

Columbia and neither are any

36:20

of those idiots that we just showed you opining

36:22

on what's happening there, thought we would bring you

36:25

a thread of someone who actually was

36:27

on the Columbia campus talking about what

36:29

they witnessed. So we can sort a little bit of fact

36:32

from fiction here on what's actually going on. Let's put

36:34

this up on the screen. So this is Alejandra

36:36

Ramos. She really works for the Today

36:39

Show. But she says, listen to my usual TVV is

36:41

food. But I'm also a current Columbia

36:43

student, and I'm so sad and so frustrated with

36:45

the way student protests on our campus are being reported.

36:48

This will be imperfect, but.

36:49

I can't watch things that are so contrary to

36:52

what I've actually seen and stay silent.

36:54

Go ahead to the next one.

36:55

I'm concerned by the reports broadcasting from outside

36:58

our campus gates with foot shot

37:00

almost entirely off campus. Look

37:02

closely at the videos. If there are

37:05

stores, subway stops, close gates

37:07

in the background, et cetera. This is not an

37:09

on campus protest. This context

37:12

matters. Continuing to the next one. Campus access

37:15

is limited to those of us with Columbia I d's. The

37:17

protesters on sidewalks, peaceful or otherwise,

37:19

are mostly those who are not allowed to enter.

37:22

Vile agitators screaming at students from

37:24

outside campus are not Columbia

37:26

students, and.

37:27

This must be made clear in reports.

37:29

Continue on reports that only show zoom

37:32

interviews with students sharing one perspective

37:34

feel irresponsible to me. How can you

37:36

report on protests without interviewing

37:38

a single protester? Why are

37:41

their voices being excluded when

37:43

there are so many of them willing

37:45

to speak? And of course we all know the answer

37:47

to that saga of why their voices are excluded by

37:49

the way, Emily and Ryan have an interview set for tomorrow

37:52

with one of the protest organizers at Columbia

37:55

who, apparently when Ryan

37:57

was in touch with her, she was busy buying the

38:01

items that they need for their passover

38:03

Sator dinner. So yeah, well know, there

38:06

you go, some real anti Sabitic stuff going on there,

38:08

that is it.

38:08

Yes, agreed, I think that we should hear it out.

38:10

I've done a lot of research, you know, I'm not necessarily

38:13

predisposed to be like loving these people. Everything

38:15

I have not found, you know, anything

38:17

I find like particularly all

38:19

that objectionable. And if you were to take a zoomed

38:22

out view of this, I would just say, like,

38:24

like you said, if you're offended by protest, chance,

38:26

that's fine, you know, grow up.

38:28

I don't know what to tell you.

38:29

I live in an area where I disagree with

38:31

like ninety five percent of my neighbors,

38:34

and it's annoying, you know, walking by those dumb ass

38:36

signs that are like in this house, we believe

38:38

racist, you know, whatever signs is real.

38:40

Et cetera.

38:41

I'm a bit bombarded with George Floyd's

38:43

face for the last four years, trans

38:45

flags and all this other nonsense.

38:47

Do I like it?

38:48

No?

38:48

But you know what, I just live. That's what you do.

38:50

That's like, That's why I don't understand why

38:53

it is so difficult to you know, live

38:55

in an area like that lady the Campbell Brown saying

38:57

that she literally thinks she's safer in Israel,

39:00

well then in the West Side. And you

39:02

know my other response, if you believe that, then

39:04

Leaf just leave, because honestly, if

39:06

you think that a country where you've evacuated

39:08

like two hundred thousand people of your population

39:10

from freaking rocket attacks and you're in the middle

39:12

of a war and you just had Iranian drones

39:15

come to your soil and where

39:17

they had to be shot down out of the sky by the US

39:19

military, if you think that is safer

39:22

than the United States of America, and you, honestly you

39:24

shouldn't be here.

39:25

That's my actual response to this.

39:26

I mean, it's so preposterous. Do you know I also

39:28

used to live on the Upper West Side. I lived in all

39:31

kinds of places in Manhattan. And do

39:34

you know how many like happy, successful

39:36

Jewish people there are. My daughter went to a JCC

39:38

preschool there.

39:39

Like it's just it's so delusional.

39:42

I don't even know what to say about it.

39:43

Like it's honestly, like the

39:46

desire to like this shy,

39:48

DIVIDI character, like the desire

39:52

to put himself in the center of this, the you

39:54

know, quest for this intense

39:56

victimhood. Again, you cannot like

39:58

what they're protesting, can you know, find

40:00

it? That's all fine, But you're.

40:02

A grown man like Deally.

40:05

You don't have anything else more important in your life

40:08

than not liking the rally chant

40:11

of these students who you're

40:13

there to teach.

40:13

I don't know, I don't know what to say about it.

40:15

Very stupid.

40:18

All right.

40:19

Let's move on to Donald Trump

40:21

the his trial opening statements.

40:23

All that stuff happened yesterday. Let's put this up on the

40:25

screen. We got a little bit of some of the synopsis.

40:28

Here is the New York Times opening

40:30

statements in Trump's criminal trial.

40:32

Five takeaways. Let me

40:34

read you a little bit of their report.

40:36

Remember there are no TV cameras a lot in the courtroom,

40:38

although they are releasing full transcripts

40:40

after the fact, which is appreciated anyway.

40:43

They write, the charges faced by mister Trump may sound

40:45

bland, falsifying business records doesn't

40:47

really set the heart racing, but the prosecution made clear

40:49

on Monday it plans on painting a much

40:51

broader picture. Matthew Colangelo,

40:54

prosecutor, laid down in his opening statement

40:56

a tale that touched on tabloid journalism, tawdry

40:58

affairs, covertly recorded phone

41:00

calls. Jurors will likely be told about

41:02

events inside fancy hotel rooms. Trump

41:04

towered even the Oval Office, and the stakes

41:07

the presidency. For the defense

41:09

side, mister Trump's lead lawyer, Todd Blanche,

41:12

used his opening statement to cast mister Trump's

41:14

actions leading to this case as run of the mill

41:16

business. Said, mister Trump is defending himself

41:18

at trial, just as any of us would do. He

41:21

argued the use of a non disclosure

41:23

agreement, the document that Stormy Daniels

41:25

signed after receiving the payment, was typical among

41:27

the wealthy and famous.

41:28

End quote nothing illegal.

41:30

He continued, there was nothing wrong with trying

41:32

to influence an election, adding it's called

41:34

democracy. He also in this was notable

41:37

and predicted, but aggressively

41:39

attacked mister Cohen. Michael Cohen, former

41:42

lawyer and fixer for mister Trump, said mister Cohen,

41:44

who pleaded guilty to federal campaign finance crimes

41:46

in twenty eighteen, was a criminal who can't be trusted.

41:49

At its Stormy Daniels was biased against

41:51

mister Trump and made a living off her story

41:53

about the sexual encounter and called the heart of

41:55

the prosecution case just thirty four

41:57

pieces of paper that don't involve

42:00

mister Trump. So you can see the you

42:02

know, they're both trying to tell his story right

42:05

in one story. This is an elaborate,

42:07

potentially election defining cover up,

42:10

you know, a criminal conspiracy where

42:13

there was a hush money payment that was made

42:15

in you know, under illicited circumstances. And the

42:17

crime they can get them on is these falsifying and business

42:19

records, basically lying about what the payments were for

42:22

in an attempt to hide from the American public. What

42:25

was going on the other side is saying,

42:27

listen, this is standard business. It was Yeah,

42:29

he was trying to win an election. That's not illegal, it's

42:31

not a crime. It's just what politicians do.

42:33

Nothing to see here, it's just you know, thirty

42:35

four business records.

42:37

No big deal. So and then also

42:39

the trying to undermine some of

42:41

the.

42:41

Key witnesses is going to be a key part of this

42:44

and Saga I mentioned this yesterday when

42:46

we talked about this. There's

42:48

an interaction in

42:50

particular between Michael Cohen and

42:53

Trump that Cohen claims occurred

42:56

in the White House and part of this is

42:58

you know, how much did Trump know?

42:59

How was he in all of this?

43:02

And that's a critical piece because

43:04

you know, if it's a he said, he said, and they can

43:06

really undermine the credibility of Michael Cohen.

43:09

You know, that's obviously going to be important

43:11

for their case. And obviously a lot of this also comes

43:13

down to the jurors and how unbiased they can

43:15

be and how they feel about Donald Trump and all of us.

43:17

Huge, Yeah, up to the jurors. Also up to

43:20

whether we believe Michael Cohen. We're going to get to mister

43:22

Cohen here in a little bit in terms of his own

43:24

credibility. And it also comes

43:26

to the felony interpretation, right about

43:28

how business records classify

43:31

under US law or under New York

43:33

law, and whether this was an intentional,

43:35

like vast criminal conspiracy in

43:38

addition to election interference.

43:40

We do have some video of Trump

43:43

who after the courtroom, where he spoke

43:45

to reporters. Let's take a listen.

43:47

But the point here is that the judge had no idea

43:51

what was happening. And this is the same judge

43:53

that two months ago made a ruling that

43:56

shook the world. It shook

43:59

the world everyone knows. Going to that

44:01

trail, I did nothing wrong, and over

44:03

here I did nothing wrong.

44:05

Also, this is a Biden witch

44:07

hunt to keep me off the

44:09

campaign trail.

44:11

Now, what are they going to look at comorans and what commerants

44:13

did, because that's bad stuff.

44:16

And what are they going to look at.

44:17

All the lies that Colin.

44:20

Did in the last trial.

44:21

He got caught lined in the last trial. So

44:24

he got caught lined, pure line.

44:27

And what are they going to look at that?

44:28

Okay, so that's what we've got. He's

44:31

going after Michael Cohen. But Crystal, Michael

44:33

Cole is not doing himself any favors. We're trying to

44:35

remain unbiased.

44:36

Is he not well?

44:37

Yesterday we reported on some.

44:41

Some liberal fans fiction.

44:45

About Trump's flatulence is

44:47

farting and passing out in court according to the

44:49

lips. Now, the sleeping part, I think is pretty well

44:52

sleeping big. That's real farting part unconfirmed,

44:55

we'll say so. Anyway, Cohen getting

44:57

in on the lib train with the

45:00

situation. Let's put this up on the screen. He

45:02

tweeted, Hey, von

45:05

shitz in pants, your attacks of me

45:07

stink of desperation. We are all

45:10

hoping that you take the stand in

45:12

your defense. So there you go, that's

45:14

the case.

45:15

Yeah, he's me.

45:15

And when you're trying to establish your creudit, I was gonna.

45:17

Say, you're trying to establish your

45:19

credibility and you are. Now you are a convicted

45:22

liar. This is the other thing that always tries to create

45:24

with Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen was one of the most craven

45:27

Trump sick of fans for years

45:30

until Trump screwed him and refused

45:33

to pay his legal bills. Right, and then he gets

45:35

convicted in court, okay, and then

45:37

he turns into some resistance liberal.

45:40

He met with Kanye West. I remember

45:42

at some point he's just been you know.

45:43

Writing books, just saw on the griff train ever

45:46

since he had to sign uh what ever,

45:48

since he served in federal prison. And now he the

45:51

reason he's acting this way is because his income

45:53

and his life depend on it, especially in the future

45:56

future MSNBC appearances. Just

45:58

so everybody knows, what's her name. Rachel matt was

46:00

actually in the court yesterday. I

46:03

mean, this is her superse This is literally her Super

46:05

Bowl.

46:06

Did you see the Michael Avenatti. Of course,

46:09

of course, now he's he's now he's back

46:11

on Trump's I mean it is. We

46:13

do have to comment though, on the cast of characters

46:16

that Donald Trump himself has surrounded

46:18

himself with, including Michael Cohen. So

46:22

okay, let's get to who they did actually

46:24

call. There was a very brief amount

46:27

of time. Apparently a juror had a medical issue

46:29

they had to deal with, so they called

46:31

the prosecution, called their first witness.

46:33

Put up what element is

46:36

that? The third one? Yeah, put

46:38

up this tear sheet from the Washington Post.

46:40

Who is David Packer, first witness and Trump

46:42

New York hush money case. This

46:45

is the guy who was the owner, is

46:47

the owner of the National Inquirer. And

46:50

he, you know, he's an interesting character.

46:53

Actually, just to hear what he has to say separate

46:55

and apart from this case is kind of kind

46:58

of interesting. He talked some of some

47:00

of the sort of trade secrets of the tabloid

47:03

business, talking about what he calls

47:05

checkbook journalism, meaning

47:07

you pay for stories, saying listen, anything over

47:10

ten k they had to get an official approval

47:12

from me, also saying listen, in this

47:14

business, I know that the only thing that matters

47:17

is the cover.

47:18

It's the front page. That's it.

47:20

That's the only thing that matters.

47:23

He testified for less than thirty minutes. But

47:25

you know this is a man. He's a former publisher

47:28

by the way of the National enquired just to get his title straight. He

47:31

has a lot to say about long time

47:33

interactions with Donald Trump, and this isn't

47:35

really disputed. They use this method

47:37

called quote unquote quote catch and kill,

47:40

where he would buy up a story that's

47:42

unflattering to Trump and then he would not run

47:44

it. So he did that in two instances that we know of.

47:47

One with the former Playboy models. Who's

47:49

Karen McDougall.

47:50

Who is that right?

47:51

And I got her name right right, No, that's right, Karen McDougal, who

47:54

claimed with some evidence that

47:57

she had an affair with Trump.

47:58

He bought that story, didn't run it.

48:00

And then this less credible

48:02

and I think not true story about a Dorman

48:04

and Trump Tower who claimed that someone

48:06

Trump had an affair with it was a mistress that had an abortion.

48:09

So both of those stories he killed.

48:11

The allegations are that they Stormy

48:14

Daniels came to him with this

48:16

story and she was asking too

48:18

much money. So rather than the National

48:21

Inquirer themselves doing

48:23

the catch and kill, they sent this alerted

48:25

Michael Cohen. He comes

48:28

into play arranging these payments, figuring out

48:30

how to do it in a way that's not going to be public.

48:33

And that's sort of the backstory

48:36

of this whole situation. So

48:38

in any case, David Pecker is

48:40

an interesting character and certainly has

48:42

some compelling information with regard to this case.

48:45

So it's not a huge.

48:46

Surprise that he would be the first individual

48:49

to take the stand on the prosecution's

48:51

behalf.

48:51

Yeah.

48:51

I mean it all comes back to the quote

48:54

unquote catch and kill scheme where

48:56

Pecker what is an American media

48:58

man.

48:58

I can't believe. I still even remember.

49:01

They go and they pay for the story, and they

49:03

keep it in their vault, and then it's a big question

49:06

about election interference. As you said, it's a question

49:08

also about whether this is legal, especially

49:11

to the extent about the way that Trump paid her paid

49:13

him. If Trump had just paid Michael

49:15

Cohen out of his own personal account, then none of

49:17

this would have been a story. But of course they

49:20

tried to write it off on some FEC thing

49:22

as an election expense. That then goes back

49:24

as to whether it was FEC fraud. That's eventually what

49:27

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to. Now, this

49:29

case goes to the question again of

49:31

falsifying business wrecords in New

49:34

York as a felony.

49:35

With the novel interpretation, the jurors

49:37

have to buy that to buy.

49:39

The felony falsification, they have

49:41

to buy the broader scheme that happened

49:43

as world trumpling.

49:44

The campaign finance piece in particular, I think,

49:46

is what's required.

49:47

For it to be a felony.

49:48

Right, So, and yeah, that is basically

49:51

Alvin Bragg is charging under

49:53

the theory that Trump committed a federal

49:56

felony crime, even though that

49:58

federal felony crime was never actually

50:00

prosecuted by the Feds. This is I believe,

50:03

and as we saw a little bit in the Trump defense, this

50:06

is going to also be a key part of creating

50:08

reasonable doubt.

50:09

As to why they should not vote to a quit.

50:11

And you know, the more I've been thinking about it, especially

50:13

with that one guy who said he admired Trump,

50:16

I think the likelihood of a hung jury in this is

50:18

a lot higher than people might have led on. Yeah,

50:20

just because of the novel interpretation that

50:22

you know the details, and you

50:24

really only got to convince one person that you're just going

50:26

a step too far, which is reasonable

50:29

enough in my opinion that you don't

50:31

get a conviction. So the more I've been looking and thinking

50:33

about it, I think Trump is a lot better shot here than people

50:35

might have given him a credible.

50:36

I think that's entirely possible.

50:38

You know, who knows what the jury is going

50:40

to find ultimately, but the campaign finance

50:43

piece is an important part of that, because what

50:46

the Trump team is likely to say is, like, listen,

50:48

this wasn't about hiding this from the American

50:50

public.

50:51

He didn't want his wife to know, right, you know, there were other

50:53

reasons.

50:54

Probably there are other reasons why he

50:56

didn't want this story to come to light, and it had

50:58

nothing to do with deceiving the American people. Now, you

51:00

know, is there are there conversations

51:03

that would test that would you know, be

51:05

a.

51:05

Testament to a different interpretation?

51:07

Are there, you know, conversations that he

51:09

had where he's directly saying like, we got

51:11

to keep this from the American people, And who cares what

51:14

Malania thinks? What sort of things

51:16

are going to come to light? We don't know, We don't know how

51:18

the jury's going to interpret any of this, so

51:21

we shall see. Let's put this last piece up on the screen.

51:23

One of the interesting things that David Packard

51:25

is very brief testimony

51:28

yes dreams expected to continue today, said

51:30

that he had two email accounts, one

51:33

for matters I didn't want my assistant

51:35

to see, which, again, is this kind of funny

51:37

insight into the way that he ran his

51:39

business.

51:40

And being a very interesting character at the heart

51:42

of this.

51:42

So there you go.

51:44

That's what we know thus far about the Trump

51:46

trial.

51:46

Keep everybody updated.

51:48

I know it can be boring, but it's one of those where

51:50

the details matter so much because of the implication

51:53

and who knows what.

51:54

Wild twists and turns, mister von Hitchens

51:58

that we will get out of it.

52:00

Yeah, nonetheless, we will at least get the diaper don

52:02

thing, which I was not aware of, and now I'm deeply

52:04

invested in in terms of conspiracy

52:07

theory. At

52:09

the same time, we don't want to take our eye off of RFK

52:12

Junior. There's been some major developments and a major

52:14

sign also that the Biden campaign certainly

52:17

sees him as a threat. They trotted

52:19

out all living Kennedy family

52:21

relatives who were willing to come

52:23

and endorse him.

52:24

Let's take a listen. My name is Joe Kennedy.

52:26

I'm Kerry Kennedy, Flory Kennedy, Kathin

52:28

Kennedy, Townsend.

52:29

Chris Kennedy, and I'm here to proudly endorse

52:32

Joe Biden.

52:33

Biden.

52:33

Joe Biden.

52:34

Our future is on the ballot in a way in

52:36

which we haven't seen in generations.

52:38

The only way to win this

52:40

selection is for everybody to go

52:42

out and vote for Joe Biden and come

52:45

alas.

52:46

What I think of modern politicians

52:48

in our country in this century. I

52:50

think Joe Biden is the RFK of

52:52

his generation.

52:53

Believes in democracy, believes

52:56

in human rights, believes in the

52:58

freedoms.

52:59

Is a president who embodies

53:02

the Kennedy legacy.

53:04

Oh my god, let me just say this.

53:06

He believes in the freedom scra Do you know how insulting

53:09

it is to RFK, the real

53:11

RFK, who is a great man and a great

53:13

politician, say that Joe Biden is.

53:16

The new RFK.

53:17

Whether his son is or not, that's up to him.

53:19

He still has to prove that. But RFK himself,

53:22

man, I think I used to at least have a

53:24

Yeah, there we go. Got Robert Kennedy in his Times. It's a

53:26

great book. I wish people would pick it up.

53:28

And that is just one of those which really bothers

53:30

me. But what is ironic about

53:33

this is that as the Biden campaign continues

53:35

to see RFK Junior as a threat,

53:37

there's actually a lot of polling now that has

53:40

come out to show that he may not necessarily

53:42

be just a problem for Joe Biden. Let's

53:45

put this up here on the screen. This is some new

53:47

data from NBC News.

53:49

They say how the race shifts in

53:51

a multi way field compared to a

53:53

binary choice. So what you guys can see

53:55

in front of you is that with the two named

53:58

candidates of Trump and Biden, that

54:00

you have Joe Biden at forty four, you have Trump

54:02

at forty six, and then you have ten percent who

54:04

are not sure, wouldn't vote and other

54:07

For five named candidates, you

54:09

have thirty nine percent for Biden, thirteen

54:12

percent for RFK Junior, thirty

54:14

seven percent for Trump. So obviously

54:16

that is a huge drop for

54:19

Trump from forty six to thirty seven.

54:22

Biden certainly does lose some, but

54:24

it appears that he's going to lose some of that four to

54:26

five percent Crystal, to Jill Stein and

54:28

to Cornell West and that RFK

54:30

Junior is actually pulling a

54:32

decent chunk of votes away from

54:34

the Trump campaign. It explains too why

54:36

Trump has been attacking RFK Junior recently.

54:39

But this is evidence I think that we you

54:42

know, this is the most evidence we've had so far

54:44

as a very high quality poll, just to demonstrate

54:46

that this very much could make

54:48

things a lot easier for Joe

54:51

Biden to win reelection. If

54:53

anything, we can think about it a little

54:55

bit. In the Ross perro Vane, you

54:58

know Bill Clinton, Yeah, he won

55:00

three hundred some electoral votes.

55:01

He only won forty two percent of the popular vote.

55:03

Okay, it was hw Bush and

55:06

Parrot that took the rest. Hw Bush

55:08

for the rest of his life basically refused

55:10

to say Ross Parrot's name. I think the closest

55:12

he came is he was like, He's like, I don't want

55:14

to like to say his name. I think it cost me the election.

55:16

And that was it.

55:17

I mean, he was bitter to the very very end,

55:20

and I mean maybe at a point I'm not really sure. But

55:22

my whole point is here is that just

55:24

with thirty nine percent for Joe Biden, If

55:27

RFK Junior is able to take away let's

55:29

say even within the margin of era, let's say ten percent

55:31

away from Trump, that's a disaster for

55:33

the Trump campaign.

55:34

So here's the breakdown of the numbers.

55:36

Specifically, if you take the Jill Stein and the

55:39

Cornell West effect out of the you know, instead

55:41

of the five gay ras, like, what happens with

55:43

just the RFK voters. So it's

55:46

fifteen percent of voters

55:48

who originally picked Trump when it's just Trump versus

55:50

Biden, fifteen percent

55:53

of them switched to Kennedy. When you

55:55

give them that option with Biden,

55:57

it's only seven percent who originally

55:59

picked Biden if it's just head to head Biden Trump

56:02

who switched to Kennedy. So fifteen percent

56:04

for Trump versus seven percent for

56:06

Biden. And then they

56:09

underscore something that I've been saying for a little

56:11

while here, which is that Republican voters

56:13

just have a much higher favorability

56:15

for RFK Junior than Democratic voters

56:17

do. So you've got among Republican

56:20

voters forty percent positive

56:23

and fifteen percent negative, so really

56:25

highly net positive for Kennedy among

56:27

Republican voters.

56:28

Democratic voters is.

56:30

Polar opposite only sixteen percent

56:32

have a positive rating of him versus

56:35

fifty three percent who have a negative

56:37

rating. Now, listen, other polls

56:40

have shown the opposite effect. So

56:42

I think it's very unclear at this point

56:44

because at the end of the day, he's

56:46

still a Kennedy. And also the other

56:48

dynamic is Trump supporters

56:51

tend to be more enthusiastic and more

56:53

locked in than Biden's supporters,

56:55

so there may be more disaffected

56:58

Biden voters for r K Junior to

57:00

pick up than Trump voters. But

57:02

it is I mean, this is something I originally

57:05

when RFK got in all of the theorizing

57:08

was like, no, he's definitely going to hurt Trump. Then it's sort

57:10

of switched to now it's definitely going to hurt Biden.

57:13

And I think it's unclear.

57:15

But if I had to say today, I think this is more of

57:17

a problem for Trump because you just can't

57:19

deny that there's this overwhelming negative

57:22

view of him among Democratic

57:25

voters.

57:26

And you also still have

57:29

think about the way our politics works.

57:31

I mean, everything is so centered around Trump and how you feel

57:33

about Trump and how Trump feels about you.

57:34

Et cetera. And he's gone after RFK Junior

57:36

a bit, but more on policy. The vibes

57:38

are like, I like him. I think it's better than Biden.

57:41

You said, So he's getting the friendly

57:43

treatment from Trump, he's getting the aggressively

57:46

negative treatment from the Democratic Party, and

57:48

I think that sends a signal to a lot of voters

57:50

of like which side he's more aligned

57:52

with. I mean, it shouldn't be that way, but that's just

57:54

the reality.

57:55

Good point negative polarization, Yeah, the biggest

57:57

driving forces in US politics exactly.

57:59

So in any case, it's interesting.

58:01

I think it's still unsettled, but I am

58:03

increasingly see There's a Wall Street Journal poll

58:05

that also showed RFK Junior taking

58:08

more from Trump than from Biden, which

58:10

begs an interesting question of why it is then that

58:12

the Biden campaign is like so much more freaked down

58:14

about him apparently than the Trump campaign.

58:16

Let's put this up there on the screen too.

58:18

For ballot access wise, we're seeing a big,

58:20

big development for RFK Junior. They

58:23

a campaign announced on Thursday

58:25

that they have gained ballot access in Michigan

58:28

for the twenty twenty four election. Obviously Michigan

58:31

key battleground state there both for Trump and for Biden.

58:33

Trump wanted by about ten thousand in

58:35

twenty sixteen. In twenty twenty,

58:37

Biden one, but not by actually an overwhelming

58:40

majority. There have been some issues there that

58:42

we cover, you know, thankfully we did in Rhage

58:44

and your focus group in Michigan, and we showed you that

58:46

there is some real support there on the ground.

58:49

Obviously, there's also a big Arab American contingent.

58:51

To voters that are in Michigan, are they

58:53

going to show up and are they going to vote for Biden?

58:56

All of these are completely unknown questions.

58:58

But the big picture is that he is

59:01

gaining ballot access slowly, but surely.

59:03

Let's go to the next one, please, because this also

59:06

demonstrates where because of some

59:09

of the money that they've got now, they're

59:11

able to at least contest some of these

59:13

challenges from the courts

59:15

to his ballot access. So, for example,

59:17

Hawaii's state Democratic Party, think

59:20

about that has sought to disqualify

59:23

We the People Party, which was formed

59:25

specifically to get RFK Junior

59:28

on the ballot. The state Democratic Party,

59:30

according to the order

59:33

from the Office of Elections late Friday in Hawaii,

59:35

said that the Democratic Party failed to meet

59:37

its burden of proof to boot the

59:39

Kennedy Party from the ballot.

59:42

So, as they say here too, while Hawaii's

59:44

four electoral votes are not likely to be consequential,

59:47

this is this victory, first victory

59:49

against challenges and assigns

59:52

to that keeping the independent off the ballot will

59:54

not be as easy as Democrats

59:57

have been thinking that it would be, and as

59:59

they plan to do this across

1:00:02

the entire nation. So this was a trial balloon.

1:00:04

But where they're really going to be gunning for him is

1:00:07

Michigan. If he does get Pennsylvania,

1:00:09

if he gets Georgia and California,

1:00:12

any of these places where he could either eat into the popular

1:00:14

vote or actually eat into the electoral college.

1:00:17

It's sort of.

1:00:17

Adorable the account of how this went down

1:00:20

because they didn't the

1:00:22

RFK junior team didn't actually have a

1:00:24

lawyer who was involved in these hearings. They

1:00:26

just had like whoever they're you

1:00:29

know, the like mom who's volunteering for their

1:00:31

campaign on the ground in Hawaii was

1:00:33

there. And in spite of the fact that you know,

1:00:35

the Democratic Party, they had their lawyers whoever,

1:00:37

you know, well paid, well trained, et cetera.

1:00:40

And she was still able to prevail in this

1:00:42

court in spite of the fact that Judge had to keep kind

1:00:44

of, you know, explaining how this works

1:00:46

and when she could speak in what sort

1:00:49

of objection she could make, et cetera, et cetera. But

1:00:51

ultimately they found there was really no merit to

1:00:53

the case that the Democratic Party was trying to

1:00:55

pursue against RFK Junior.

1:00:57

Again, I just find it.

1:00:58

I just find it really interesting that it's the Democrats

1:01:00

who are so panicked about the idea of having

1:01:04

RFK Junior in the race when it's really

1:01:06

unclear who he's going to take more from, and so

1:01:08

it's like, okay, well, rather than fixating on trying

1:01:11

to crush this person, kick

1:01:14

them off, the ballots offer voters any

1:01:16

sort of other choice. I feel like, you

1:01:18

know, in many ways, I don't really feel like RFK Junior

1:01:20

is a choice, because they were all the same on a number

1:01:22

of topics, but I won't put that aside for a moment. But rather

1:01:25

than actually appealing to voters, their instinct

1:01:27

is always just to like make

1:01:29

it so that people can't have any choice. There

1:01:32

was a really interesting I don't know if you guys saw

1:01:34

this on Twitter yesterday.

1:01:35

It was just so perfect. Did you see this.

1:01:37

Hillary Clinton tweet or this Nagan unto

1:01:39

your time, Oh was just too perfect. So she

1:01:41

tweeted out this chart. It was about climate

1:01:44

change, and it showed

1:01:46

under Trump the CO

1:01:49

two emissions, under Biden

1:01:52

the CO two emissions, and then what

1:01:54

the target level that Biden himself set, not even

1:01:56

like the bigger like European standards or whatever that

1:01:58

Biden himself set, And it showed Biden

1:02:01

wildly missing his own target that

1:02:03

he met, but being slightly better

1:02:06

than the Trump line. And she tweeted

1:02:08

that out and was like, here's what's on

1:02:10

the line.

1:02:11

This is why you got to vote Democrat.

1:02:12

And it's like this is just too perfect,

1:02:15

Like you tweeted out a chart showing that you're

1:02:17

honestly a little bit better than Trump, but

1:02:20

still not even coming.

1:02:21

Close to actually dealing with the issue. And

1:02:23

it's just it's such a perfect

1:02:25

encapsulation. Do you have what did she actually say?

1:02:28

I have it here in front of me yet, which she said, what's at stake

1:02:30

for our climate in this November's election?

1:02:31

Absolutely absolutely everything.

1:02:33

I'm blind the Biden line, the target.

1:02:34

Absolutely everything. But he's still not going to do enough

1:02:37

to actually like meet even the dumb

1:02:39

about this too is that modest target that

1:02:41

he himself said.

1:02:42

But here's the thing. There was also a pandemic.

1:02:44

You know, there was a massive drop in CO two

1:02:46

emissions and some of this is also so this

1:02:48

doesn't even reflective of policy.

1:02:50

It doesn't make it. This is what a stupid graphic

1:02:53

on so many levels. Yes, but isn't

1:02:55

it.

1:02:55

I just it's such a just pitch

1:02:58

perfect capsulation.

1:03:00

If you the climate, then yeah, that

1:03:02

makes sense.

1:03:03

Yeah, it's like, oh, okay, Biden's

1:03:05

going to be moderately better, but we're still going to all,

1:03:07

you know, die in the climate apocalypse because absolutely

1:03:10

everything is on the line.

1:03:11

Great, good to know, good to know if.

1:03:13

You accept that framing, Yes, I could see why

1:03:16

exactly that would be a problem. They're also let's

1:03:18

put this up there on the screen. Some news

1:03:21

from the Kennedy campaign. Nicole

1:03:23

Shanahan donated who is the

1:03:25

VP candidate for Urka Junior donated

1:03:27

two million dollars to

1:03:30

the campaign the day after that

1:03:32

she was named to the ticket. So on March

1:03:35

twenty seventh in the state of Nevada,

1:03:37

two million dollars literally just on

1:03:39

the day that she was named the VP. And

1:03:42

of course she's probably got hundreds of millions

1:03:44

of dollars at her disposal. This is going

1:03:46

to finance both ballot access to initiatives

1:03:48

and court challenges in the future

1:03:50

should they arise, and are is definitely

1:03:53

going to be a major asset

1:03:55

to the Kennedy campaign going forward. So I

1:03:57

think things are looking up for ourk Junior's campaign right

1:03:59

now in terms of the ballot access. I mean Michigan

1:04:02

alone, that's huge, just just as that

1:04:05

state have it right exactly, that state

1:04:07

could decide the entire election. If

1:04:09

he just gets Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania,

1:04:12

then that's it.

1:04:12

You know.

1:04:13

Now we're truly in the ballgame, and I think

1:04:15

some Democrats are starting to take notice. You know, we've been watching

1:04:17

some of the activists and others go after him.

1:04:19

But I'm very interested to see how it all

1:04:21

turns out. Let's

1:04:25

move on to the next part. This is the story been dying to

1:04:27

cover now for quite a long time, and now Joe Biden

1:04:29

is ignited an international incident after

1:04:32

President Biden has now been making

1:04:34

the rounds recently telling a terrible

1:04:37

tale. The tale is of his uncle,

1:04:39

and his uncle was on board a

1:04:41

US military aircraft. It was after

1:04:44

D Day his uncle went down

1:04:47

in Papua New Guinea while

1:04:49

fighting in the Pacific Campaign. His

1:04:51

plane crashed in this terrible incident,

1:04:54

and he was eventually eaten by

1:04:56

cannibals. This is the story according

1:04:58

to Biden, and then we'll tell you what actually happened.

1:05:01

And my uncle, they called

1:05:03

him Ambrose Brosie, they called him my

1:05:06

uncle Bosey. It's a hell of an athlete,

1:05:08

they tell me. When he was a kid, and

1:05:11

he became an Army Air Corps before

1:05:13

the Air Force came along. He's those

1:05:15

single engine planes as

1:05:17

reconnaissance over war

1:05:19

zones. He got shot down

1:05:22

in New Guinea and

1:05:24

they never found the body because there used to

1:05:26

be a lot of cannibals, for real,

1:05:29

in that part of New Guinea.

1:05:30

As President Biden saying he was shot

1:05:33

down, there's no evidence of that. And why

1:05:35

is he saying that his uncle was eaten by

1:05:37

cannibals. That is a bad way to go.

1:05:40

He lost his life.

1:05:41

It's not look, I'm not we should

1:05:43

not make jokes about it. I

1:05:47

mean your last line, it's

1:05:50

for a laugh. It's for a

1:05:52

funny, a funny statement. And he

1:05:55

takes us very seriously. His uncle, who served

1:05:58

and protected this country lost

1:06:00

his life serving and that should

1:06:02

matter.

1:06:03

Yeah, I agree, it should matter. And the details

1:06:05

of that should matter too. And let's

1:06:07

put this up there on the screen. It turns out

1:06:09

that basically none of that that Biden

1:06:12

said was true. President Biden,

1:06:14

it turns out was talking about

1:06:17

his uncle, Second Lieutenant Ambrose

1:06:19

J. Finnegan Junior now Finnigan,

1:06:22

who was the brother of Biden's mother,

1:06:25

according to Biden, got shot down over New

1:06:27

Guinea. However, the US government record

1:06:29

of the crash, says of the missing

1:06:32

service members, does not attribute Finnegan's

1:06:34

death to hostile actions or even

1:06:36

indicate Cannibal's were any factor.

1:06:39

According to US military records and

1:06:41

the Pentagon's MIA Accounting Agency,

1:06:44

he died on May fourteenth, nineteen

1:06:46

forty four, while he was a passenger on

1:06:48

an Army Air Force plane quote that for

1:06:51

unknown reasons, was forced

1:06:53

to ditch in the Pacific Ocean off

1:06:55

the northern coast of New Guinea.

1:06:57

Quote.

1:06:57

Both engines failed at low altitude aircraft

1:07:00

nos hit the water hard. Three men failed

1:07:02

to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in

1:07:04

the crash, according to a survivor

1:07:08

of the crash itself. The

1:07:10

agency also said Finnegan was a passenger

1:07:12

on that plane when it was lost. Quote, he

1:07:15

has not been associated with any remains

1:07:17

ever recovered from the area after the war and

1:07:20

is still accounted for. So again, he

1:07:22

didn't go over and he didn't go down

1:07:26

on New Guinea. He went down near New Guinea,

1:07:29

lost his life in a tragic accident. It appears

1:07:32

not due to hostile enemy

1:07:34

actions. Doesn't erase the man's service at all.

1:07:36

It took a lot of courage to fly on board

1:07:38

some of these aircraft in the Second World War. If

1:07:41

anybody wants to go watch Masters of the Air and see

1:07:43

exactly what it was like up there.

1:07:44

It was a total nightmare. So I'm not a racing his man's

1:07:46

service at all.

1:07:47

But I do think it's actually pretty despicable

1:07:50

that you would invent some horrible

1:07:52

death, you know, for political purposes

1:07:54

of your uncle who tragically

1:07:57

died in the Second World War.

1:07:59

And so this is either like a family tale

1:08:01

gone awry, very.

1:08:02

Possible, or just straight up Biden embellishment

1:08:05

for the sake of embellishment. And the

1:08:07

funny part is it has now caused international

1:08:10

incident. Let's put this up there on the screen.

1:08:12

The leader of Papua New Guinea quote

1:08:14

takes offense after Biden implies

1:08:17

that his uncle was eaten by cannibals.

1:08:19

The Prime Minister quote accused

1:08:21

Joe Biden of disparaging the island by

1:08:23

implying that the uncle was eaten by cannibals during

1:08:25

World War II. Biden's comments

1:08:27

now have offended a key strategic ally

1:08:30

in the South Pacific, and the

1:08:32

Prime Minister said in a statement that he appeared

1:08:35

to his imply his uncle was eaten by

1:08:37

cannibals, and his remarks may have been a slip of

1:08:39

the tongue. However, my country does not deserve to be

1:08:41

labeled as such. And you know what he's

1:08:43

right now, is true that they're cannibals

1:08:45

or whatever on Papua New Guinea. Yes, there have been

1:08:48

some documented instances and all that, but in this particular,

1:08:50

in this particular instance, Biden's straight

1:08:52

up wrong. According to the US government itself.

1:08:54

Yes, he goes on to say, perhaps

1:08:57

he says the remains of World War two like scattered

1:08:59

all over, including the plane that carried

1:09:01

President Biden's uncle. Perhaps, given President Biden's

1:09:03

comments and the strong reaction from

1:09:06

PNG and other parts of the world, it's time for the USA to

1:09:08

find as many remains of World War two and P and

1:09:10

G as possible, including those of servicemen

1:09:12

who lost their lives. Like Ambrose Finnegan,

1:09:14

The theaters of war in PNGG and Solomon

1:09:17

Islands are many and littered with the remains

1:09:19

of World War Two, including human remains, plane wrecked

1:09:21

shipwrecks, tunnels, and bombs. Are people daily

1:09:23

live with the fear of being killed

1:09:26

by detonated bombs of World War Two.

1:09:28

So he really touched a nerve

1:09:30

with these stupid, fake cannibal

1:09:33

comments. This is a corn

1:09:35

pop level Joe Biden's story, Like

1:09:38

it really has it all. You've got the like

1:09:41

you know, old man low key

1:09:43

or even high key racism, the

1:09:46

you know, just like why would you There's

1:09:48

so many stories that he makes up that you're like, why would

1:09:50

you even make that up? What

1:09:53

is going through your mind that you think that this somehow serves

1:09:55

you in this moment? And then the fact

1:09:57

that he just accidentally, through his

1:10:00

verbal cannibal diarrhea, stumbles

1:10:02

into some like international

1:10:05

diplomatic conflict. It's this is just

1:10:07

Joe Biden perfection, absolute

1:10:10

perfection. Here by the way, for what

1:10:13

it's worth, I looked into the whole cannibal situation

1:10:16

New Guinea at that time, and yes, you're

1:10:18

right, documented instances, but as

1:10:20

scholars immediately reacted, they're like, people

1:10:23

weren't just eating random guys

1:10:25

who fell from the sky.

1:10:26

There was as part of a funeral ritual.

1:10:29

There was some ritual. Can in that context,

1:10:32

It's not like everyone's just.

1:10:33

Going around eating people all the time. Just so people

1:10:36

out there know what the reality is of what was going

1:10:38

on.

1:10:38

Oh, thank you, Ristal.

1:10:39

Yeah, what is a Jared Diamond

1:10:41

is a great expert on Papua New Guinea. If you ever want

1:10:43

to go watch some of his videos on the

1:10:46

subject. There are some interesting there are some actually

1:10:48

interesting survival tales of World

1:10:51

War II planes that went down on Papua

1:10:53

New Guinea. But it is certainly not involving any

1:10:55

family members of Joseph Robin Ed Biden.

1:10:58

There you go, invidible.

1:10:59

Now, we would you remiss though, if we didn't at least tie

1:11:01

some politics into this. Let's put this up there on

1:11:03

the screen. What do we find that a

1:11:06

Harvard poll of young voters says

1:11:08

that Biden has a

1:11:11

lead with Trump, but just nine percent

1:11:13

of the country. Nine percent of these young voters

1:11:16

think that the country is moving in the

1:11:18

right direction. So despite the fact that

1:11:21

everything is going down, Biden does have that lead

1:11:23

over Donald Trump. This is according to registered voters,

1:11:25

with younger voters showing Biden pulling

1:11:28

a fifty percent support over thirty

1:11:30

years or younger compared to Trump's thirty seven percent,

1:11:32

But just nine percent say that the country is

1:11:34

quote generally headed in the wrong direction,

1:11:37

and a full sixty percent say that the country.

1:11:39

Is on the wrong track. There are some though

1:11:42

troubling findings though, Crystal inside the poll for

1:11:44

Biden on the topic of Israel.

1:11:46

Well, there's a number of interesting and difficult

1:11:48

findings in this poll for Biden, including

1:11:50

yes, he has a lead over Trump, but

1:11:53

it is not as large as his lead was

1:11:55

last time, so that matters. There's

1:11:57

also a tremendous gender gap. His

1:12:00

lead among young men is just six points.

1:12:02

Among young women, his lead is thirty three points.

1:12:04

There's some graphs you should take a look at that show

1:12:08

you know at the same time that young

1:12:10

men, in terms of their political preferences,

1:12:12

although not in terms of some of their issue support,

1:12:15

but are becoming more conservative.

1:12:16

Young women are becoming more liberal.

1:12:17

Something we've talked about before that shows

1:12:20

up in this poll, which is a very interesting

1:12:22

phenomenon. His lead overall

1:12:24

among eighteen to twenty four year old

1:12:27

So if you're looking at the youngest part of this

1:12:29

poll demographic is fourteen points,

1:12:31

and among the twenty five to twenty nine year old,

1:12:33

so the somewhat older ones, it's actually larger twenty

1:12:36

six points. So younger Americans,

1:12:38

the eighteen to twenty four are actually you know, I

1:12:40

mean, they're still favoring him by fourteen points, but

1:12:43

the gap is a little more and narrow, which is interesting as

1:12:45

well, in contrary to previous trends

1:12:48

and dynamics where young voters are getting like more and

1:12:50

more and more democratic, progressive, whatever,

1:12:53

huge gap in terms of college students

1:12:56

and college graduates versus the

1:12:58

races even among young people

1:13:01

who are not in college and who don't have a

1:13:03

four year degree. But you're right

1:13:05

to the point about Israel. I mean, there's

1:13:07

just like massive overwhelming support

1:13:10

for a ceasefire, including among every

1:13:12

demographic group that they test, including among young

1:13:15

Republicans. So it was across

1:13:17

the board, massive support for a ceasefire.

1:13:20

And then if you dig into his approval

1:13:22

rating by issue, the issue

1:13:24

on which he gets the lowest approval rating

1:13:27

of everything is what they

1:13:29

describe as the Israel Hamas.

1:13:30

War at just eighteen percent.

1:13:33

Wow, So a lot of warning signs

1:13:35

for him with regard to how

1:13:37

young voters are feeling about him, what direction

1:13:39

politically they're moving, what issues

1:13:41

they're prioritizing, and certainly how they're viewing

1:13:44

his unconditional support for Israel.

1:13:46

At this time.

1:13:47

Yeah, I think that it's a key point. We have talked

1:13:49

a lot about the gender divide and the

1:13:51

breakup. I mean, I think that's the barstool phenomenon.

1:13:54

I'm also very intrigued exactly by

1:13:56

what you pointed out about the tie between people who

1:13:58

didn't go to college. That is the education

1:14:01

phenomenon which is showing itself there.

1:14:03

So we continue to see where the I mean,

1:14:05

actually they're both bi directional, because whether

1:14:08

you are a woman or not is highly determinative

1:14:10

these days of whether you're going to college, as opposed

1:14:12

to if you're a man. They're a likelihood if you go into

1:14:14

college is a lot lower today than

1:14:16

it was in the past.

1:14:17

We're getting to a two to one.

1:14:19

Ratio very soon on some major college

1:14:21

campuses, so that will heavily inform our

1:14:23

politics and the economy, which.

1:14:24

We'll get to.

1:14:25

It's worth looking at the poll if you guys have time,

1:14:27

because there's some interesting questions they asked to to

1:14:29

try to get it, like how young people feel about

1:14:31

different gender dynamics. And they ask them questions

1:14:33

like, you know, do you agree with the statement

1:14:35

these days people are just too soft?

1:14:38

Or another one was

1:14:40

Another one was these days women

1:14:42

are too promiscuous.

1:14:45

Most people disagree.

1:14:46

I think too statist one tells

1:14:48

us that women are not that promiscuous anymore.

1:14:50

That's true according to.

1:14:51

Do Well, and most people disagree with that statement.

1:14:53

By the way, Republicans agreed with it the most.

1:14:56

On the too soft one, I think Republicans overwhelmingly

1:14:58

Young Republicans overwhelm agreed with that.

1:15:00

So anyway, they asked some interesting stuff that's worth

1:15:02

it.

1:15:03

I do agree people are too soft, but it's not it's

1:15:05

not a youth phenomenon. But that's a whole lot.

1:15:07

I think some of these people complaining about

1:15:09

college protesters are definitely too soft.

1:15:11

How about it.

1:15:12

I was going to say, that's exactly what I meant.

1:15:13

I think our elites are actually the ones who were softer

1:15:16

than anybody else.

1:15:17

Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and move

1:15:19

on to some very serious topics

1:15:21

with regard to Israel. Put this first report up on the

1:15:23

screen, and so we're still trying to figure out, you

1:15:25

know, what the hell happened with Iran,

1:15:28

what's likely to have in the future with Iran,

1:15:30

how this all unfolded.

1:15:31

New York Times has a report.

1:15:33

Take it with a grain of salt because it's frankly very

1:15:36

flattering to the Biden administration.

1:15:38

So good to keep that in mind.

1:15:39

But the headline here is Israel planned a

1:15:42

bigger attack on Iran, but scaled it back

1:15:44

to avoid war. The strike on Iran on Friday

1:15:46

was originally intended to be much broader in scope, but after

1:15:48

intense pressure from allies, Biden

1:15:50

being one of the key people that they talk about here,

1:15:53

Israeli leaders agreed to ratchet

1:15:55

it down. The story they tell for

1:15:58

what it's worth, and soagram interested to hear your read

1:16:00

on this is that basically, you know,

1:16:03

the Israelis are trying to sell this line

1:16:05

that they had no idea Ron would be so upset

1:16:07

over us bombing your embassy and

1:16:10

taking out your top military commanders.

1:16:12

That's bullshit.

1:16:12

There is no way, these people didn't know that

1:16:15

this was a big deal and a massive escalation.

1:16:17

Okay.

1:16:18

So then the Iranian retaliatory

1:16:21

attack, while it caused next to no damage

1:16:23

because all of the everything was

1:16:25

effectively shot down with very few things

1:16:28

that actually got through, it was

1:16:30

in its breadth much

1:16:32

larger than originally anticipated.

1:16:35

Again according to this article, and so

1:16:37

immediately afterwards, the war

1:16:39

cabinet had planned a much more aggressive

1:16:42

response and one that they

1:16:44

had planned to do like basically instantaneously.

1:16:47

And then the report says Bbe talked

1:16:50

to Biden and he was kind of talked down from

1:16:52

immediately doing that, put some time, and then did

1:16:54

the more limited strike which allowed

1:16:56

iron to save enough face to sort of it

1:16:58

appears back away from the conflict, although you

1:17:01

know, we're taking some of the fallout here because

1:17:03

our troops are now once again, our service members in

1:17:05

the region are now once again under fire

1:17:07

from you know, Irani and affiliated

1:17:10

proxy groups. So in any

1:17:12

case, this is the story that The New York Times has

1:17:14

to tell that President Biden was hero here and talked

1:17:17

Israel out of making the situation,

1:17:19

which was already incredibly dangerous, even

1:17:21

worse than it already is.

1:17:23

Yeah, what we can actually see also

1:17:25

is that they talked about this quote

1:17:27

huge offensive operation that

1:17:30

was going to be carried out again. Also

1:17:33

if the Iranian strike had materialized.

1:17:35

Initially, they actually believe somehow

1:17:38

that Iran had planned to attack with a swarm

1:17:40

of large drones up to ten ballistic

1:17:42

missiles. There Israeli and military

1:17:45

leaders that all agreed on a massive counter

1:17:47

strike. Some of this was eventually paired

1:17:50

back by the US. But I would note a couple

1:17:52

of things here. So it does turn out that we do have some influence

1:17:54

with these folks whenever we want to use it whenever

1:17:57

it comes to Iran. But second, also

1:18:00

under estimate the war mongering

1:18:03

like nature of a lot of the people inside

1:18:05

the military establishment inside

1:18:07

and political establishment inside of Israel. They

1:18:09

were ready basically to push the red button

1:18:12

and drag the entire world into a world

1:18:14

war. It's only because America tried

1:18:16

to push it back down a little bit and got them to do what

1:18:19

they want to do that we have somewhat of a release

1:18:21

vout. But don't be so sure that we'll be in control

1:18:23

there in the future. This is a very very dangerous

1:18:26

situation.

1:18:26

To me.

1:18:27

This lends credence to the report we brought you yesterday

1:18:29

that was from an Israeli TV

1:18:32

outlet that Biden was basically

1:18:35

like, all right, fine, you can do

1:18:37

your Rafa invasion if you

1:18:39

do a more limited attack on Iran.

1:18:42

If this report is true, I think it fits together

1:18:45

with like, so what did Biden say in that conversation

1:18:47

that.

1:18:47

Really persuaded babe? And

1:18:50

you know that was I guess the leverage

1:18:53

rather.

1:18:53

Than withholding weapons or doing ane of the things

1:18:55

we want him to do and study, He's like, how about I

1:18:57

sacrificed the Palestinians in Rafa, and

1:18:59

you know you feel good about that, and then you can do this more

1:19:01

limited strike.

1:19:03

So to me, that seems to be the picture

1:19:05

that's coming into focus.

1:19:07

So we covered yesterday there's already

1:19:09

been some strikes in Rafa, two

1:19:11

strikes that killed twenty two people eighteen

1:19:13

children, three women and

1:19:16

one man, including one of the women was pregnant.

1:19:18

They had to cut the baby from rebelly. Thank god

1:19:20

they were actually able to save this premature

1:19:23

infant. But that's the

1:19:25

picture of what's going on there. We also have some important

1:19:29

Israeli domestic political

1:19:31

news.

1:19:31

Let's put this up on the screen.

1:19:32

So the head of Israel's military intelligence

1:19:35

has actually resigned over

1:19:37

failures in anticipating and planning

1:19:39

for the October seventh attack, he

1:19:43

said. Major General Heron Haliva

1:19:45

said in his resignation letter that he took responsibility

1:19:48

for the military intelligence failings that preceded

1:19:50

Himas's attack, which is widely regardless of worst

1:19:52

security failure in the Jewish State's seventy six

1:19:54

year history. He also called for an

1:19:57

official investigation to be

1:19:59

carried And they say

1:20:01

that this departure is quote widely

1:20:03

expected to be followed by further resignations

1:20:06

among Israel's military intelligence leadership,

1:20:08

with several other senior officials having admitted

1:20:10

failings in the run up to Hamas's attack,

1:20:13

and it's also expected Sager to increase

1:20:15

some pressure on Netanyahu himself

1:20:18

to admit some mistakes

1:20:21

or launch this long anticipated

1:20:23

investigation into what the hell went wrong

1:20:25

in anticipated October seven because I don't

1:20:27

know if you guys remember these details, but multiple

1:20:31

confirmed reports at this point have come out saying,

1:20:33

yeah, they saw them planning, they

1:20:36

actually had the attack plans and were

1:20:38

just like, and they're not going to do it. We don't

1:20:40

think they're going to do anything. So and you

1:20:43

know, specifically with regard to BB and his coalition.

1:20:45

They had moved some of the IDF

1:20:48

units that were would have been in

1:20:50

that nearby the Gaza Strip part of Israel

1:20:54

to protect these you know, settler maniacs

1:20:56

in the West Bank to you know, Appeace

1:20:59

Ben Gavir and his people. And

1:21:01

so that's part of why not only they

1:21:04

fail to anticipate, but then the response

1:21:06

was horrible. It took hours and hours

1:21:09

for you know, many of these people

1:21:11

inno sence who were being slaughtered to have any

1:21:14

official help.

1:21:15

Yeah, it is especially ironic

1:21:17

because this means now that Bibi Netanyahu

1:21:20

is now the only member of these really military

1:21:22

establishment who was there on October seventh

1:21:24

who has not taken responsibility for them, and instead

1:21:27

he is actually sailing to re

1:21:29

establishing his power. I mean, you have

1:21:31

to in some ways just respect the cravenness

1:21:34

of the man and how good of a politician

1:21:36

he is. As you said, already polls are showing

1:21:38

some people are like, yeah, you know, it was definitely

1:21:40

bad, but he moved past it, and so you

1:21:43

know, we'll rescue him maybe. And the other

1:21:45

side they have few points, but

1:21:47

he's been working with them by and large

1:21:49

and so maybe we'll keep him. Actually, and that's exactly

1:21:52

what dragging yourself into a bigger

1:21:54

war despite a massive disaster was

1:21:56

meant to do in the first place,

1:21:59

which is, you know, pretty astounding.

1:22:01

And I do do think it is genuinely disgusting

1:22:04

that in their democratic society

1:22:06

and all that which they like to brag about all the time,

1:22:08

the person at the top who was genuinely

1:22:11

responsible at a very deep political level

1:22:13

and military level, has not had

1:22:15

any accountability, while the underlings,

1:22:18

who sure they definitely have some don't nearly

1:22:20

as much as he does have have been

1:22:22

allowed to take the fall.

1:22:23

It's not right.

1:22:24

The other thing is his whole thing

1:22:26

was mister security. His whole

1:22:28

thing was vote for me and I'll keep you safe.

1:22:31

Like your core thesis

1:22:33

about how to achieve that was completely

1:22:36

wrong, and you were sleep at the switch and you

1:22:38

are out there on the record multiple times

1:22:40

talking about how you need to support Hamas and

1:22:43

the you know, it's clear the ideology. We need

1:22:45

to make sure we have this talking point of there's no

1:22:47

partner for peace there. We can't possibly work with a mass.

1:22:49

We need to keep the West Bank and the Gaza Strip divided.

1:22:52

We can control the level of the flame quote unquote,

1:22:54

we can go in and quote unquote mow the grass from time

1:22:57

to time. That ideology

1:22:59

was a comp leet failure when it comes to his

1:23:02

core promise to the electorate being

1:23:05

a you know, a security

1:23:07

prime minister keeping them safe. That was

1:23:09

the core promise. And so the fact

1:23:12

that he's he keeps swishing it up, and that's

1:23:14

why the war for

1:23:16

him politically had to continue,

1:23:19

is because he's said,

1:23:21

listen, once this is over, then of course

1:23:24

we're going to ask all the hard questions. There's going to

1:23:26

be accountability, we're going to look into this, etc.

1:23:29

And so part of the motivation to keep

1:23:31

this thing going is because you postpone

1:23:33

indefinitely that reckoning.

1:23:36

Hope memories fade, Hope people feel different,

1:23:38

Hope you can bring them some sort of you know,

1:23:40

quote unquote victory that they find satisfactory,

1:23:43

that they forgive and forget the failures leading up

1:23:45

to October seventh. That's the game he's playing, and

1:23:47

so far, frankly, he's played it with regards

1:23:49

to his really domestic population very

1:23:52

well and also played Joe Biden

1:23:54

and the US political class like a

1:23:56

fiddle as well.

1:23:57

Very true.

1:23:58

All right, let's get into the very latest

1:24:00

atrocities discovered in the Gaza

1:24:02

Strip. So you'll recall there was an all

1:24:04

out assault on the city of Communis.

1:24:07

Now where people are finally returning to that city

1:24:10

and we're getting a sense of what the hell happened there.

1:24:12

The devastation, annihilation is just, I mean,

1:24:14

there are no words for it. And the latest discoveries

1:24:17

are some of the most horrifying I've seen. You put

1:24:19

this up on the screen. You've had multiple mass

1:24:21

graves now now uncovered by

1:24:23

the Gaza Civil Defense Agency in

1:24:26

Communis. They're

1:24:28

saying, and you know, mainstream media

1:24:30

outlets are by and large not able to get in the Gaza Strip,

1:24:32

but they're confirming the best way they can that you've

1:24:34

had somewhere around two hundred and eighty three

1:24:37

bodies, hundreds

1:24:40

of bodies discovered

1:24:42

decomposing in these mass

1:24:45

graves. One of them was

1:24:47

one of the large ones, was by NASA Hospital.

1:24:51

It's known that there was intense fighting,

1:24:54

shelling, bombing, all the rest in

1:24:56

and around that hospital.

1:25:00

We're seeing the horrors here. Reports

1:25:02

are.

1:25:02

This includes you know, not just men, but

1:25:05

women, the elderly, wounded, young people

1:25:07

with hospital tags still on their arms children.

1:25:11

Just an absolutely horrifying scene. CNN

1:25:14

had a report they had a stringer who

1:25:16

was able to visit the scene on Sunday. They

1:25:19

said that some people had buried their

1:25:21

family members around the grounds

1:25:23

of the hospital in January as a temporary

1:25:26

measure, and then when they returned

1:25:28

after the Israeli withdrawal, they found the bodies had

1:25:30

been exhumed, apparently because the IDF was using

1:25:32

DNA testing to determine whether any of the hostages

1:25:35

held and Gaza were among the dead, and then they

1:25:37

were dumped in these collective graves,

1:25:40

is what they're saying.

1:25:41

So just an absolute horror

1:25:43

here.

1:25:43

And you know, the other piece of this is

1:25:46

there's like a little bit of mainstream discussion

1:25:48

about this, but the New York

1:25:50

Times in particular, how many stories

1:25:53

did they do yesterday about like college protesters

1:25:55

and whatever.

1:25:56

This was nowhere

1:25:59

to be found.

1:26:00

I've got three in front of me right now, actually

1:26:02

on the front page page.

1:26:04

Ironically, Let's see what they just didn't

1:26:06

even cover, mass grave with hundreds

1:26:08

of bodies.

1:26:10

Not worthy of coverage.

1:26:11

Let's put the next one up there on the screen too, because this actually

1:26:13

highlights another important thing that you were talking about.

1:26:16

There was if we were all recall a

1:26:18

UN review

1:26:21

where they say Israel has yet

1:26:23

to provide evidence that the staffers

1:26:26

are actually terror group members. This

1:26:28

was important because this was why the US

1:26:30

and several other nations ended up pulling

1:26:33

funding from the organization, and

1:26:35

it significantly disrupted a lot of the aid

1:26:38

that was going into the Gaza strip. But Crystal

1:26:40

now several months later, you know, they

1:26:42

have not been able to provide any

1:26:44

evidence, both to the United States, to the UN,

1:26:47

and to any other large body with

1:26:49

evidence that they had initially claimed in

1:26:52

a so called dossiated news organizations

1:26:54

that have been able to actually.

1:26:55

Be backed up.

1:26:57

The UN oversight body that did look into

1:26:59

the allegations within their found you

1:27:01

know what was it like twelve instances or something

1:27:04

like that, but the vast majority of their staff were not

1:27:06

involved, and the Israelis have been able unable

1:27:08

to provide widespread evidence in the organization

1:27:11

itself.

1:27:12

To my knowledge, there was no confirmation

1:27:14

even if those twelve that was what the Israelis

1:27:17

had claimed. They still this is

1:27:19

months later, right, and this is after UNRA

1:27:21

was defunded by some sixteen different countries.

1:27:23

Now many of those have come back in but

1:27:26

the US has since passed legislation saying

1:27:28

UNRAS to be defunded at least until

1:27:30

twenty twenty five, the number one aid

1:27:32

organization on the ground, as we pretend

1:27:35

to care about Palestinians starving

1:27:38

in the Gaza strip. So no,

1:27:40

they haven't provided any evidence about

1:27:43

the twelve. They certainly didn't provide They made this much

1:27:45

broader claim of like, oh, there's hundreds of Hamas

1:27:47

affiliated people in UNRA.

1:27:50

They provided no evidence for any of this. The

1:27:52

unreinvestigation has been unable. And by

1:27:55

the way, this was led by a

1:27:57

former French foreign minister. Led

1:28:01

this what they call a neutrality

1:28:03

review after Israel alleged

1:28:05

that twelve UNRAS staff took part in October

1:28:08

seventh. So it wasn't like,

1:28:10

you know, an UNRESK staffer, which the Israeli

1:28:12

is a smirit As being like basically Hamas.

1:28:14

It was this attempt to bring in an independent.

1:28:17

Third party who could look at the allegations in a

1:28:19

serious way. And you'll recall

1:28:21

also so immediately fired

1:28:23

the twelve people just based on these allegations,

1:28:26

which frankly seems unfair at this point

1:28:28

given that there is a proof to back it up, and

1:28:31

the US immediately just

1:28:33

based on the allegation was with no proof,

1:28:36

and we saw the thing that was being shopped, the

1:28:39

dossier that was being shopped, and that mainstream

1:28:41

news antlets like the Wall Street Journal just you know,

1:28:43

printed like a press release effectively

1:28:46

with no evidence. So in

1:28:49

any case, that's we immediately

1:28:51

the US immediately. This was right after the ICJ

1:28:54

said it's plausible committing genocide. On that very

1:28:56

same day, we defund UNRA, helping to

1:28:58

further that plausible

1:29:00

genocide.

1:29:01

And now here we are.

1:29:03

Months later, this report will barely

1:29:05

be it won't even be remarked upon by

1:29:07

the most of the American media

1:29:09

or political class. It'll just like the

1:29:12

many other investigations that we're always

1:29:14

waiting for the results of, you know, this will

1:29:16

barely see the light of day.

1:29:17

So that's where we are.

1:29:19

I wanted to update you all on something that's

1:29:21

unfolding that I think could be very significant.

1:29:24

There is an AID flotilla that

1:29:27

is attempting to leave from Turkey

1:29:29

Medea. Benjamin of Code Pink is among the individuals

1:29:32

who is on that AID flotilla.

1:29:34

They're attempting to break the blockade

1:29:37

of Gaza. This isn't the first time that a

1:29:39

similar flotilla of aid has attempted to

1:29:42

reach the Gaza strip.

1:29:43

More on that in a moment.

1:29:44

Actually interviewed Medea before she

1:29:46

left over on Crystal Colin Friends

1:29:48

about their goals.

1:29:49

Let's take a listen to that.

1:29:51

I am going on a ship that we want to go to

1:29:53

Gaza. I don't know if we're going to mention.

1:29:55

That, well, I was on sure if it's public yet, well, yes,

1:29:58

we can.

1:29:58

Talk about that, which is part

1:30:00

of the Freedom Flotilla. And

1:30:03

this is a tradition that

1:30:05

in the beginning, when it first started, actually

1:30:08

a couple of times the boats landed

1:30:11

in Gaza. But then after that the Israelis

1:30:13

stopped the boats from going, and in twenty

1:30:15

ten they actually landed with by

1:30:20

air on the boat and killed ten

1:30:22

of the people on board.

1:30:23

I remember that the Lavi Marmara.

1:30:25

So this year very

1:30:28

soon, actually we will be leaving

1:30:31

very very soon, and there

1:30:34

are many hundreds of us, and we

1:30:36

represent people from thirty different countries

1:30:39

and we will be bringing many

1:30:41

many tons of humanitarian

1:30:43

goods to Gaza and

1:30:46

trying to make it by chip, and

1:30:49

of course we hope that we will make it. We are

1:30:51

prepared if we don't

1:30:53

make it. I mean, we were totally nonviolent. We

1:30:56

hope that the Israelis don't come on board

1:30:58

and start shooting people, but

1:31:00

we are determined to go because we

1:31:02

have to show that a

1:31:04

couple of things. One, the Israelis

1:31:07

are not letting in humanitarian aid. They

1:31:09

are and they should not be the ones

1:31:11

to inspect this AID. We've had other

1:31:14

inspectors and they will come and inspect

1:31:16

our boats, but not the Israelis because

1:31:19

they use any excuse to stop

1:31:21

the AID from going in, and they don't

1:31:23

have the legitimacy to be the ones

1:31:25

to inspect that AID. And we want to show

1:31:28

that Gaza should

1:31:31

have the ability to use

1:31:33

their ports, to use they

1:31:35

did have an airport, you know, until the Israelis

1:31:38

bombed it, and to be

1:31:40

able to come in and out by land. And that's why

1:31:42

there is a siege on Gaza. And there

1:31:44

was a sea John Gaza way before October

1:31:47

seventh, and so we think it's important

1:31:49

to try to break the siege of Gaza.

1:31:51

So she refers to the fact that in twenty

1:31:54

ten, the same group free to and Floatilla

1:31:56

is sort of a coalition of groups. They

1:31:58

attempted us similar you know, aid

1:32:01

mission with similar flotilla,

1:32:03

and the IDEA raided

1:32:06

the boat and killed ten people. Yeah,

1:32:08

that was massive, massive

1:32:10

diplomatic crisis. Let's put this up on the screen from

1:32:12

the Washington Post with a few details

1:32:14

here they say Gaza Aid flotilla plans to challenge

1:32:17

Israeli blockade.

1:32:18

The organizers say.

1:32:19

They say they're preparing to sail from Turkey in the coming

1:32:22

days on a mission aimed at breaching Israel's naval

1:32:24

blockade and highlighting the lack of aid reaching

1:32:26

Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

1:32:28

They go on to say the flotilla is well traveled route the

1:32:30

Mediterranean has gained new relevance during the current

1:32:32

conflict, as governments and relief organizations like

1:32:35

turn to sea deliveries to circumvent

1:32:37

what aid groups say is Israel's persistent

1:32:39

obstruction of deliveries to.

1:32:41

Gaza over land.

1:32:42

And Sagar I was able to get in touch with Medea

1:32:45

yesterday and she said, I can you know, share

1:32:47

this publicly because I was asking, you know, how are things

1:32:49

going, what's the update, how are things looking? And she says it

1:32:52

seems the US, Israel and Germany are

1:32:54

pressuring, pressuring Turkey's Artawan

1:32:57

not to allow the ships to leave Istanbul. We

1:32:59

hear the Deputy director for counter terrorism

1:33:02

from the State Department is here to talk about

1:33:04

this, but there's a lot of grassroots pressure in the

1:33:06

opposite direction, given that millions of people in

1:33:08

Turkey donated money for this mission. We'll see

1:33:10

what happens tomorrow, as we're supposed to leave

1:33:12

on Wednesdays. So this

1:33:15

could be potentially very significant because

1:33:17

it could really put the US if they're

1:33:19

allowed to leave Turkey, which apparently is an if,

1:33:22

could really put the US in a very difficult spot

1:33:24

here.

1:33:24

Yeah, that's why we're flagging into everybody, just because

1:33:26

we're aware of how crazy the last one

1:33:29

went and it caused a major stand up. I remember

1:33:31

that very vividly at the time. That was a huge news

1:33:33

story and it took over absolutely. It almost

1:33:35

broke diplomatic relations to turn into a

1:33:38

whole thing. So if this one is allowed to go through

1:33:40

or you know which air Towan, it certainly would be in

1:33:42

his political interest to do so. It's not as

1:33:44

if though the US wouldn't be trying to pressure it behind

1:33:47

the scenes to dr block it as well. But if

1:33:49

they find their way over there, everybody tune in because

1:33:52

that is going to be a standoff for you

1:33:54

know, for the ages.

1:33:55

I certainly believe, so yeah, absolutely,

1:34:00

let's move on.

1:34:01

Final thing, Crystal appeared on the

1:34:03

Piers what is it called Piers Morgan uncensored?

1:34:06

Is that what it is?

1:34:06

Okay, Beer's Moregan uncensored

1:34:08

And there were some fiery exchanges.

1:34:11

One gentleman in particular on the panel just wouldn't

1:34:14

shut up. But we did cut some of the highlight

1:34:16

reels to the extent that we were able to pull some. Let's

1:34:18

take a liston.

1:34:19

I mean, I can listen.

1:34:21

I believe fundamentally in the right to

1:34:24

free democratic protest. I mean it's

1:34:26

the bedrock of any free democratic

1:34:29

country, but I don't believe in

1:34:32

violent hate rhetoric. And if

1:34:34

you're a Jewish student at one of these colleges

1:34:37

hearing some of these chants, which we're all

1:34:39

hearing, it's pretty terrifying.

1:34:41

Isn't it.

1:34:43

Well here's what I would say.

1:34:44

First of all, I go wajahat and saying

1:34:46

I'm glad that both of our two co panelists

1:34:49

are okay, and I

1:34:51