0:00

Last night, Israel finally struck back against

0:02

Iran. Of course, earlier this week, over

0:04

the weekend, Iran had struck Israel with

0:06

some 350 drones, missiles, and

0:10

Israel was expecting that it was going

0:12

to have to fire back against Iran

0:14

in some form or fashion. There were

0:16

a few different options that had been

0:18

tabled, that had been considered. One was

0:20

a full-scale attack on Iran's nuclear facilities,

0:22

for example, completely degrading their nuclear program.

0:24

Another option would have been to do

0:26

virtually nothing, which is what Joe Biden

0:28

wanted to do. Israel last night decided

0:30

on a third option. That would be

0:32

a targeted strike, limited in nature, inside

0:34

Iran, mainly to show the Iranians as

0:36

a warning. Okay, guys, if you decide

0:38

that you're going to escalate this thing, we

0:41

are going to get to you much more

0:43

than you are going to get to us.

0:45

And that is what Israel pursued last night,

0:47

which is, in fact, a useful means of

0:49

deterrence. It is probably the best available scenario

0:51

for both America and for America's allies in

0:53

the region. If Israel had gone really heavy,

0:55

there was always the possibility of serious escalation

0:57

via Hezbollah in Israel's north that could have

0:59

turned into a larger, full-blown war. Now,

1:02

would it have been more in Israel's interest

1:04

to completely destroy Iran's nuclear facility? Sure, it

1:06

also would have been a lot riskier. Right

1:08

now, the United States and Israel have been

1:10

in this very fraught negotiation over what the

1:13

United States will allow Israel to do. And

1:15

so, the Israeli government took a sort of

1:17

conciliatory middle road by

1:20

issuing this targeted strike against Iran. And

1:22

the goal, of course, was deterrence of

1:24

Iran itself directly, saying, listen, you guys

1:27

fired 350 drones, missiles, we

1:29

knocked nearly all of that down. We

1:31

basically can hit you anytime, anywhere we want.

1:33

So you guys better stand down. That

1:36

was the goal of the Israelis. And it also

1:38

offered, because it was so limited in nature, the

1:40

Iranians in off-ramp. The Iranian off-ramp would be to

1:42

deny that any of this ever happened, which, of

1:44

course, is exactly what Iran did. Iran had been

1:46

mouthing off a lot about the idea that if

1:49

Israel launched a serious strike into Iranian territory, then

1:51

Iran would up the ante with a broader retaliatory

1:53

strike, and then you would have an escalating conflict.

1:55

Israel issued a strike limited in

1:57

nature so as to allow the Iranian

1:59

government The possibility of basically denying

2:01

that anything had ever happened, and that's basically what

2:03

happened last night. Again, Israel is playing a different

2:06

game than Joe Biden is used to. Israel is

2:08

playing in an area, the Middle East, where what

2:10

you do matters a hell of a lot more

2:12

than what you say. Joe Biden has spent his

2:14

entire career in places where what you say matters

2:16

a hell of a lot more than what you

2:18

do. And he is completely unfamiliar with

2:21

the foreign policy realm where what you

2:23

do matters an awful, awful lot, which

2:25

is why reality keeps clocking Joe Biden

2:27

directly in the face. Forget

2:29

about Israel and Iran for a second. Think about the

2:31

Saudi Arabian government. When Joe Biden was a candidate for

2:33

presidency of the United States, Joe

2:36

Biden was extraordinarily critical of Mohammed bin Salman,

2:38

who was the heir apparent over in Saudi

2:40

Arabia and the de facto ruler of the

2:42

country. He was suggesting that he was

2:44

a mass human rights violator, that he had

2:46

killed Hashagi, Jamal Hashagi, who

2:48

was a pseudojournalist member of the Muslim

2:51

Brotherhood who had written for various American

2:53

outlets. And this meant that the

2:55

United States has to take a very harsh tactical

2:57

look at our alliance with Saudi Arabia up to

2:59

and including giving the green light to the Houthis

3:01

in Yemen and Iranian proxy group by delisting them

3:04

as a terror group. And then

3:06

it turns out that reality intervenes. And

3:08

the Houthis, as it turns out, hate the United States more than they

3:10

hate the Saudis. It turns out

3:12

that the Saudis have control over oil supply, and

3:14

Joe Biden had to go on bended need to

3:17

Mohammed bin Salman and do the thing because what

3:19

you say in the Middle East does not matter

3:21

nearly as much as what you do. And so

3:23

Israel, without making a big statement, we are going

3:25

to knock you guys back to the Stone Age.

3:27

Israel simply did the thing, and they let Iran

3:30

know that if, in fact, Iran decides to escalate,

3:32

it will do significantly more damage to

3:34

the Islamic Republic of Iran than it

3:36

will do to Israel. All of this,

3:38

again, was prefaced by the UN Security

3:40

Council being a completely useless and garbage

3:42

institution. So of course, Israel did what

3:44

it had to do because the UN Security

3:46

Council could not even bring itself to condemn

3:48

Iran for a full-scale attack on another nation.

3:52

Remember, it's an act of war definitionally when you fire

3:54

350 drones and missiles at another sovereign country. The

3:57

UN Security Council not only did not even take the time to do that, but also

3:59

took the time to do that. a resolution condemning Iran

4:01

for that attack last weekend. They

4:03

allowed Iran to then lecture Israel,

4:05

suggesting that, quote, Israel must

4:08

be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against

4:10

our interests. That is what Iran told the UN

4:12

Security Council. The absolute

4:14

unmitigated sheer gall of that is astonishing,

4:16

considering that it's Iranian military adventurism that

4:18

has led to the entire conflagration in

4:21

the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria

4:23

to Lebanon to the Gaza Strip to

4:25

the West Bank to Yemen. That

4:27

is Iranian military adventurism that has led to all that,

4:30

and the UN Security Council, because again, the

4:32

United Nations is effectively the most wisely of

4:34

international politics, so Richard Hyve of Scum and

4:36

Villany, because of that, the

4:39

UN Security Council was

4:41

never even going to take up the

4:44

possibility of condemning Iran. They did, however,

4:46

take up the possibility in the last

4:48

48 hours of a resolution to unilaterally

4:50

declare Palestinian statehood, which would be an

4:52

incredibly audacious and stupid move considering there

4:54

is no actual government for a

4:56

Palestinian state. The Gaza Strip is

4:58

currently governed by Hamas, a terror group that

5:00

is in an existential war with the state

5:03

of Israel. The Palestinian Authority has so little

5:05

control over the West Bank that there is

5:07

open warfare between Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and

5:09

the Palestinian Authority. You

5:11

may as well simply declare a state of

5:14

unicorn land in a random part of the

5:16

earth that has no government as

5:19

declared a Palestinian state, and if unicorn land presumably

5:21

would not necessarily turn into a terror state, whereas

5:23

a Palestinian state already has turned into a terror

5:25

state and remains as such. In any case, Israel

5:27

decided that it was going to do what it

5:29

had to do and restore the status quo ante

5:31

before October 7, and that is really what we

5:33

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expressvpn.com/ben. Remember, October 7th

6:37

was launched specifically with the

6:39

green light of Iran in order to

6:42

scuttle the burgeoning Israeli-Saudi peace deal. That

6:44

is what was happening. Israel

6:46

and Saudi Arabia were establishing a regional

6:49

alliance in terms of defense to deter

6:51

Iran and its proxies in the region.

6:54

And that alliance to facto included Egypt, it

6:56

included Jordan, it also included a bunch of

6:59

the Saudi sponsored states like UAE and Bahrain.

7:01

A variety of these

7:03

states had basically formed up an alliance and

7:05

it was just really

7:07

a matter of toppling that last domino in Saudi Arabia

7:09

for the alliance to go full scale. And if Donald

7:11

Trump had been elected, there's no doubt in my mind,

7:13

and by the way, in the mind of the Israelis

7:15

or the Saudis, that that deal would have gotten done.

7:17

Even with Joe Biden as president though, it appeared as

7:19

though that deal was very close on the horizon. Not

7:22

because Joe Biden is great at this, but because

7:24

he sucks at this. And because Joe Biden had

7:26

been so conciliatory toward the Iranians, the Saudis had

7:28

basically gone to the Israelis and said, listen, we

7:30

need to make a deal with you now because

7:33

you don't trust the Americans. We don't trust that

7:35

Joe Biden is going to come to our defense

7:37

if in fact Iran attacks us. So let's form

7:39

up a regional alliance against Iran. And that was

7:41

really, really close to happening. In fact,

7:43

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, had spoken

7:45

openly about it at the United Nations. Iran

7:48

saw that. Iran activated Hamas to

7:50

go into Israel and kill 1,200 people and take 250 hostages

7:53

back to the Gaza Strip. And

7:55

the hope is that this would start a conflagration

7:57

that would burn down the possibility of a Sunni-Israeli

8:01

Well, it appears that the status quo ante is

8:03

now being reinforced.

8:05

Why? Because Israel has actually preserved

8:07

its own ability to deter and

8:09

militarily destroy its enemies. The whole

8:11

reason for a Saudi peace deal

8:13

with the Israelis is not because

8:16

Israel and Saudi Arabia see eye to eye on

8:18

matters of religion. Obviously, they do not. The

8:20

reason for that is because Saudi looks at Israel

8:22

and they say Israel is capable of deterring Iran.

8:26

Israel is capable of destroying its enemies

8:28

on the battlefront. Israel is an extraordinarily

8:30

powerful and innovative military machine. And

8:32

we want to be allied with that. And so

8:34

what Hamas did by striking at Israel was to

8:36

dent that perception in the Saudis. Israel

8:39

has reinforced the perception, the

8:41

prior perception, in the aftermath

8:44

by its successful military action in the Gaza Strip, which is

8:46

why they are now going to go in and finish off

8:48

Rafa in the south of the Gaza Strip. And

8:51

the last two weeks have shown that Israel

8:53

not only is capable with the allies of

8:55

repelling a mass Iranian attack, but also

8:57

that Israel can strike pretty much where it

8:59

wants to in Iran. And

9:02

so Iran had better not escalate because it will be worse

9:04

for Iran than it will be for Israel. And Saudi, of

9:06

course, wants to sign on to that. That

9:08

is the math. In other words, what

9:11

Israel just did in Iran is actually

9:13

de-escalatory. If Israel wanted to escalate

9:15

with Iran, certainly they could have. They

9:17

could have done that mass attack on their nuclear

9:19

facilities, for example. Or they could

9:21

have tried to kill members of the regime in Tehran

9:23

because they can hit anywhere in Iran,

9:25

apparently. They didn't do that,

9:28

which is why it's so amazing to watch as the

9:30

media continue to know nothing about the Middle East

9:32

and yet report on it as though they do. So,

9:34

for example, NBC News reporter Matt Bradley

9:37

suggested Israel's strike against Iran may have

9:39

been destabilizing. It's the opposite. If Israel

9:41

had not actually retaliated against a mass

9:43

missile and drone attack against its own

9:45

territory, that would have been radically destabilizing

9:48

because then Iran would have sensed weakness

9:50

and would have gone forward with, for example,

9:52

activating Hezbollah in Israel's north. But

9:55

here are your typical journalistic

9:57

idiots completely missing the point. This

10:01

could be a deeply, deeply destabilizing move

10:03

by the Israelis, and again, not just

10:05

for the Iranians, but for the entire

10:07

region. And it could even draw in

10:09

the United States. The United States has

10:11

said that they are committed to defending

10:13

Israel's security. Well, I spoke with the

10:15

deputy chief of Hezbollah just today. He

10:18

said that they are committed to

10:20

defending against Israeli attacks against Hamas

10:23

and the Gaza Strip and against

10:25

civilians there. So they are ready

10:28

and willing to fight. We're hearing a

10:30

lot of bellicose language from a lot of different

10:32

groups. So this is a very,

10:34

very dangerous situation. Wait,

10:36

you mean everybody is bellicose in their language in the Middle East?

10:38

This goes back to my point. Everyone

10:40

is always bellicose in their language in the Middle East. If

10:43

you ever go to a shuk, like a

10:45

market, any market in the Middle East, Arab

10:47

country, Jewish country, doesn't matter. The shuk is

10:50

what the Middle East is. And there's

10:52

people yelling at each other very loudly in

10:54

order to quietly negotiate a price on a

10:56

pack of dates. That's

10:59

effectively what the Middle East is in a

11:01

nutshell. And when it comes

11:03

to what they are willing to do, it's a very different

11:05

story. There's a reason Hezbollah has not gone all out against

11:07

the state of Israel. They could at any time. And they

11:09

have 200,000 rockets pointed at Israel, including 50,000 rockets

11:12

sophisticated enough to hit actual targets. The

11:15

reason they're not going all out is because the

11:17

minute they do, Israel will unleash its F-16s as

11:19

well as its F-35s, and there will be no

11:21

Hezbollah in southern Lebanon anymore because

11:24

that actually will be an existential battle

11:26

for Israel involving the possibility of tens of thousands

11:28

of Israeli deaths. And Israel is not going to

11:30

go quite as nice as they have in the

11:32

Gaza Strip. And yes, they've been going

11:35

pretty nice in the Gaza Strip considering that they've sent

11:37

about 300 of their own soldiers into position to

11:39

die going house to house to preserve civilian life in

11:41

the Gaza Strip. That will not be the case when

11:44

you're talking about the necessity

11:46

for a fast takeout of vast

11:48

rocket capacity in southern Lebanon. In

11:51

any case, the United States is

11:53

starting to get the picture. Tony Blinken, of course, is

11:55

a smarter person than Joe Biden, but who isn't? Tony

11:57

Blinken at least has three functioning neurons as opposed to...

12:00

Joe Biden, who has two. He is declining

12:02

to say whether the United States had received advance warning of

12:04

Israel's strike. Clearly the United States did. There's

12:06

good information that the United States knew 24 to 48 hours in advance of

12:08

this attack. In

12:10

fact, there's pretty good evidence that the Iranians

12:12

knew something was coming because they had pulled

12:15

apparently some of their IRGC activists out of

12:17

Syria and out of Lebanon in anticipation of

12:19

Israeli attacks. Also, they had shelved a

12:21

few of their naval assets because they were afraid that

12:23

Israel was going to hit their navy, their

12:26

rinky dink navy. Anthony Belingin said, I'm

12:28

not going to speak to that except to say the United States has

12:30

not been involved in any offensive operations. He

12:33

said, all I can say is that for our part

12:35

and for the entire G7, our focus has been on

12:37

de-escalation and avoiding the larger conflict. Okay, well

12:39

now, because reality is setting in, even

12:42

the United States is starting to act under Joe Biden

12:44

like a more rational actor because

12:47

here is what has actually happened here. Israel

12:50

will, in the next six weeks, take out

12:52

the last vestiges of Hamas's military organization in

12:54

Rafah. It's not going to end Hamas's threat

12:56

in the Gaza Strip. Obviously, the biggest problem

12:58

in the Gaza Strip is

13:00

that any sort of de-notification policy that takes

13:02

place in the Gaza Strip is going to

13:05

have some pretty steep obstacles

13:07

to it considering the level

13:09

of love of the

13:11

population for Hamas. And this is not

13:13

an ISIS situation in which you have a terror group that simply

13:16

sees the control of the territory. This was an elected group. Hamas

13:19

is, by polling it, is still the most popular group of all

13:21

the groups in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West

13:23

Bank. With that said,

13:25

Israel will establish effective military control

13:28

of the Gaza Strip, which means there will

13:30

be no more offensive threat to the state of Israel from the Gaza

13:32

Strip. Israel will

13:35

have negated Iran's direct attack willingness,

13:38

which is what last night was all about. And

13:41

eventually, after Israel signed some sort of deal with

13:43

the Saudis, then there will be a move on

13:45

Hezbollah in the north unless Hezbollah pulls back. We'll

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to 100 bucks. Joe Biden is

14:52

finally signing into the chat on this. Now

14:54

again, all of this could have happened literally the day after he took

14:56

office. All Joe Biden had to do. This is why he's such a

14:59

fool. All the presidents of the United States

15:01

had to do when he took office was this. Go to

15:03

the Saudis. Say, listen, we want you

15:05

to enter the Abraham Accords. All

15:07

that requires of you is to make a

15:09

mutual defense pact in some form or fashion

15:11

with the state of Israel and normalize it,

15:13

and we will help subsidize that and sponsor

15:15

that, and it will create a really solid

15:17

ring of fire around Iran. That

15:20

could have been done day one. That's what Donald

15:22

Trump would have done. He's openly said that. Joe

15:25

Biden didn't do that. Instead, he decided to

15:27

orient himself against the Saudis and orient himself

15:29

like Barack Obama before him in favor of

15:31

Iran as a regional power, which

15:33

is totally insane. Well now again,

15:35

reality is setting in. So according to the Wall

15:38

Street Journal, the Biden administration is considering more than

15:40

a billion dollars in new weapons deals for Israel,

15:42

including tank, ammo, military vehicles, and mortar rounds at

15:44

a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of

15:46

American-made weapons in the war in Gaza. But let's

15:48

be real about this. If you want less death

15:51

in this particular region of the world, Israel needs

15:53

to win and win quickly. Prolonged wars in the Middle

15:55

East cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

15:58

Short wars in the Middle East kill fewer people. And

16:00

usually the right side ends up winning in quick wars in the Middle East.

16:04

The proposed weapons transfers would be among the

16:06

largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in

16:08

response to the Hamas October 7 attack. The

16:10

sales would also be the first since Iran launched an

16:12

unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on Israel just last

16:15

weekend in retaliation for the killing of a top Iranian

16:17

general in Syria. That top Iranian general

16:19

in Syria, of course, was the organizer, one

16:21

of them, of the October 7 attack in Israel.

16:25

So what is happening here? The United

16:27

States is recognizing reality, which

16:29

is that Iran is the head of the octopus

16:32

in the Middle East, that their terror proxies have been

16:34

spreading violence and

16:36

evil throughout the region, and

16:39

that Israel and Sunni allies should team up together. So

16:41

Joe Biden is facilitating that now, which is what he

16:43

should have been doing all along. It just took him

16:45

too long to get here, which

16:47

is why – like, this is an amazing story. So

16:50

according to The Wall Street Journal, the White House is making

16:53

a fresh push for a historic deal to forge Saudi-Israeli ties. Now,

16:55

the part about this that is truly amazing

16:57

is that, again, this should not be a

16:59

hard push. The Saudis want to make a peace deal.

17:02

How bad do the Saudis want to make a peace deal? They

17:04

want a deal with Israel worse than

17:06

the Biden administration does. How

17:09

do I know? The Biden administration, because they

17:11

cannot let go of the

17:13

absolutely asinine, imbecilic idea that

17:15

the central conflict in the

17:17

Middle East is Israel versus

17:19

the Palestinians. They cannot let go of

17:22

it. And because they can't let go

17:24

of it, the United States is trying

17:26

to cram down on the Saudis a demand for

17:28

a Palestinian state. You know what

17:30

the Saudis don't give two good gosh darns about?

17:32

That. They don't care about it at

17:34

all, like zero. In

17:37

fact, the Saudis don't want a Palestinian state. You know why

17:39

they don't want it? Because it will be a terrorist state,

17:41

as everyone with half a brain knows. You know

17:43

who else doesn't want a Palestinian state, by the way? The

17:45

Hashemite dynasty of Jordan. They

17:47

try out Queen Rania, who is ethnically Palestinian,

17:50

to talk about the horrors that the

17:52

Israelis are unleashing upon the Palestinians. There's

17:55

only one problem. She's a member of the

17:57

Hashemite dynasty, 70 percent of the world. of

18:00

the population of Jordan is Palestinian. You know, it

18:02

doesn't want a Palestinian state, the Jordanian government. Because

18:05

were there to be a Palestinian state, you

18:07

know what would happen next? It would turn into a

18:09

giant terror state. And Queen Rania's head, as

18:11

well as those of the rest of her families, would be on the top

18:14

of pikes. Everyone knows this in

18:16

the Middle East. This is not some sort

18:18

of speculative game. In

18:20

any case, this is – it's so incredible. The Saudis

18:22

are more willing to make a deal with the Israelis

18:25

than the Biden administration is. Here's

18:27

the Wall Street Journal. Quote, the Biden administration is pushing

18:29

for a long-shot diplomatic deal in coming months. It's

18:31

not a long-shot diplomatic deal. I know the press

18:33

is going to try and play this up so

18:35

if it occurs, then it'll be like, wow, Biden

18:37

pulled the rabbit out of the hat. This rabbit

18:39

was in the hat from day one of the administration.

18:41

Donald Trump would have pulled it out the first day. The

18:44

Biden administration is pushing for a long-shot diplomatic

18:46

deal in coming months that presses Israeli Prime

18:48

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a new commitment

18:50

to Palestinian statehood in exchange for diplomatic recognition

18:52

by Riyadh, U.S. and Saudi officials said. As

18:56

inducements to recognize Israel, the White House is

18:58

offering Riyadh a more formal defense relationship with

19:00

Washington, assistance in acquiring civil nuclear power, and

19:02

a renewed push for a Palestinian state, a

19:05

package the U.S. officials say they are in the final stages of

19:07

negotiating. U.S.

19:10

officials say the successful multi-country effort to shoot down

19:12

Iranian missiles and drones on Saturday should make it

19:14

clear to Israel its security against threats from Tehran

19:16

can be enhanced through closer integration with Saudi Arabia.

19:20

So first of all, Israel mows that, which is why they've been

19:22

covertly working with the Saudis for legitimately probably a couple of

19:24

decades at this point. For

19:26

President Biden, the gambit offers the chance of

19:28

a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the middle of

19:31

a presidential campaign year, one that would

19:33

expand the Abraham Accords, his Republican opponent Donald Trump sealed

19:35

when he was in office. Now, here's

19:37

the best part of this article. So you notice those

19:39

conditions, right? The conditions were that the United

19:41

States would help subsidize more of a defense

19:43

relationship with the Saudis. They

19:46

would push for civil nuclear power, which again

19:48

is the predicate to a Saudi nuclear program

19:50

in all likelihood, and

19:53

Palestinian statehood. And Palestinian statehood is the sort

19:55

of breaking point for the Israeli government. Why?

19:57

Because no one in Israel wants a president.

20:00

But here's the thing, neither do the Saudis.

20:02

The only people in this entire equation pushing

20:04

a Palestinian state are, wait for it, Joe

20:06

Biden and his dollars. How

20:09

do I know that? Because buried deep

20:11

in this article, buried

20:13

deep in this article is the following paragraph. It's

20:15

an amazing paragraph. Ready? Here we go. Saudi

20:17

Arabia's leaders have said for decades that a Palestinian

20:20

state is a priority. And its top

20:22

diplomats have said creating a path to a two-state solution is part

20:24

of their price for normalization. Now,

20:26

Saudi officials have privately indicated to the

20:28

US they might accept verbal assurances from

20:30

Israel that it would engage in new

20:33

talks on Palestinian statehood to secure the

20:35

other parts of the deal of more

20:37

interest to Riyadh, Saudi officials said. Okay,

20:39

so that's diplomatic speak for we don't give too sh**

20:41

about the Palestinian state. That

20:45

is what that means. You know how

20:47

I know that? Let me read that sentence again

20:49

because it's amazing. They say,

20:51

oh man, this is such an important priority

20:53

that we need a Palestinian state. Quote, Saudi

20:55

officials have privately indicated they might accept verbal

20:57

assurances from Israel that it would engage in

20:59

new talks on Palestinian statehood to

21:01

secure the other parts of the deal they care

21:03

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of the Saudis until nuclear power know breast.

22:03

That they will accept. A. Handshake,

22:05

verbal deal, To. Have

22:07

a future discussion. About

22:09

a Palestinian state. In

22:12

return for that, Now

22:14

I have a question. At.

22:16

You've signed contracts. We've all sign contract.

22:18

When. You sign a really important contract

22:21

with a super important contract. Have

22:24

you ever said the most important part of the seal?

22:27

Is. The stuff to be on couldn't agreement. Hundred.

22:29

On that. Is. So you'd better lawyer.

22:32

Because. That's not how this stuff works. If

22:34

our negotiate an agreement with you. And

22:37

that agreement where to include an incredibly important term

22:39

like the most important from something I'm in talking

22:41

about for decades. And then the last minute our

22:43

said you listen. Honey we need you already

22:45

have actually do to. Say. Out Loud.

22:48

The. You want to engage in discussions about

22:50

this thing two years from now? I'm

22:53

a very serious about that particular term. The.

22:56

Answer is no. As. Always the

22:58

Saudis do not care about of house in his eighty don't

23:00

want palestinian set by the way you know well as one

23:03

housing estate. The. Egyptians. Literally, no one

23:05

wants a Palestinian state in this region

23:07

except for Iran and the. Absolute.

23:10

Again, I'm running out of synonyms for for more

23:12

on, but. Anyone who is low I q

23:14

enough to believe. That. A Palestinian state

23:16

solve the problems in the Middle East

23:18

rather than creating a vast new Problems in.

23:20

the Middle East knows literally nothing about the

23:23

Palestinian population, the history of the region.

23:25

what else any of those Literally every state

23:27

they have moved to including Lebanon would used

23:29

to be a christian marinate state. Beirut

23:31

was the. Was. The paris of the

23:33

Middle East when christians were running. it's. And

23:36

then it turns out the Palestinian Liberation

23:38

Organization moved there after Black September and

23:40

completely wrecked the place. Know

23:43

what? You wanna? know? why his hips is now

23:45

allowing in Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip as

23:47

they don't want them there? I

23:50

know everybody pretend that the Palestinians are it's it's

23:52

only the Israelis all my guys. Only three. In.

23:55

The aftermath of the Gulf War. And I can anyone

23:57

who wait. And. something like two hundred to

23:59

three The United States has a very good deal with the

24:01

United States. They've been in the

24:04

United States for over 300,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait. They

24:07

all sided with Saddam Hussein, and you know what Kuwait did? They

24:10

forced them out. You

24:12

know who doesn't want a Palestinian state? Anyone with half a brain

24:15

in the region because a Palestinian state will be an Iranian

24:17

terror proxy. Everyone

24:20

knows this, except for the Biden administration apparently. They're going

24:22

to be from the Gaza Strip, according to the Saudis.

24:26

Several potential Arab contributors said they wouldn't consider

24:28

participating without public moves by Israel toward establishment

24:30

of a Palestinian state. Okay, that's nonsense.

24:32

Israel is going to say some words, and

24:35

then everybody is going to shake hands, and that's how it's going to go.

24:38

All this requires is for the Biden administration to get

24:41

out of the way. That is all. And

24:44

then you could have strong allies like the

24:46

Saudis and the Egyptians and the

24:48

Israelis as a bulwark against Iranian

24:52

revanchism. That would be

24:54

a very, very good thing. In

24:56

fact, foreign policy is

24:58

turning out to be – the alignment

25:01

of interest in foreign policy right now is

25:03

actually quite fortuitous for the United States, not

25:05

just because Iranian aggression in the Middle East

25:07

has created the possibility of a Middle East

25:09

peaceful breakout, but also because all

25:12

over the world, America's enemies who are on

25:14

the march are forcing other countries into making

25:16

a decision between whether they wish to march

25:18

with America's enemies or march with America, which

25:20

is why over the last 48 hours,

25:23

my favorite world leader and

25:25

recent interview subject Javier Mille has

25:27

repeatedly said that he now wants to become

25:30

a global partner in NATO, which

25:32

is good. Having more

25:35

open, overt Western-aligned powers in

25:37

the world like Argentina would

25:40

be a very good thing. Latin America used to

25:42

be a bulwark of Westernism. That's

25:44

what the Monroe Doctrine was. It was basically the European

25:46

powers don't get to be involved in South America. That

25:48

obviously has not been true for a while. The Russians

25:50

are very much involved in sort of the Chinese in

25:52

South America. And so now South

25:54

Latin America is split between

25:57

a group of libertarian minorities.

26:00

They blinded fixers like

26:02

Javier Mille in Argentina or

26:06

Bukele in El Salvador and

26:09

between actual radical Marxists

26:12

like Maduro in Venezuela. And

26:14

the question is which way Latin America is going to go. The

26:17

more allies the United States has, the better. That

26:20

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26:22

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26:24

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26:26

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So with all of this happening, you got

27:35

the Biden administration, which is totally incapable of

27:37

world leadership. And meanwhile, you have a Congress

27:39

that is busy farting around. I mean that

27:41

absolutely literally. Let me explain.

27:45

There is a thing that has now been declared.

27:47

I am not kidding you about this. The

27:51

Freedom Caucus, which is

27:53

sort of the more extreme right-wing

27:55

caucus in the Republican Party, includes a bunch of

27:58

people I like and some people I like. who

28:00

I think are frankly clowns, the

28:03

Freedom Caucus is trying to uphold the stupid

28:05

rule that I've been wailing against for weeks

28:07

at this point that

28:09

requires that the Speaker of the House

28:12

be allowed to be essentially

28:14

ousted after the call of

28:16

a vote by a single member of the Republican

28:18

Party. So there

28:20

can be a motion to vacate the chair

28:22

by any member of the Republican Party. This is

28:25

the game that Marjorie Taylor Greene is playing. It's

28:27

the game that Matt Gaetz played against Kevin

28:29

McCarthy and all the rest. Well,

28:32

now Mike Johnson is looking at the possibility of

28:34

fixing that so that you can't have three members

28:36

of the Republican Caucus who oust the Speaker of

28:38

the House as opposed to the

28:40

other 215 Republicans who don't want to do it.

28:44

So the Freedom Caucus has decided that they

28:46

are going to stand up for their right,

28:48

apparently, to continue to hold the

28:50

Speaker of the House hostage in some

28:52

form or fashion. They

28:55

have now created what they call the

28:57

Freedom Caucus Floor Action Response Team. The

29:01

shorthand is FART. I'm

29:03

not kidding you. I mean, genius

29:06

level stuff here, guys, like just branding

29:08

genius. So I'm

29:10

glad that you created the Freedom Caucus FART.

29:16

Their job is to guard against an unannounced request

29:18

to pass resolutions that would stealthily limit their leverage

29:20

against leadership according to two Republicans with direct knowledge

29:22

who are granted anonymity to speak candidly. Members

29:25

don't want to be caught flat-footed if a

29:27

GOP college tries to seek unanimous consent or

29:29

a voice vote for resolution that would change

29:31

the House's structure. So

29:34

if Mike Johnson tries to call a vote that

29:37

gets rid of this dumb motion to vacate

29:39

rule, then the FART team will jump into

29:41

action. The

29:44

FART team will explode into action.

29:48

The FART team will let loose with the stink

29:50

of truth. This is all so deeply stupid, and all of this is

29:52

because, again, there's a group of Republicans who actually want to be who

30:00

want to prevent governance, who have

30:02

an interest apparently in a Republican minority. Some

30:05

of this battle broke out into

30:07

the open yesterday during a

30:09

apparently rather colorful

30:11

conversation between a Wisconsin

30:13

freshman named Representative Derek Van Orton,

30:16

who confronted Florida Republican

30:18

Matt Gaetz and called him Tubby. Things

30:22

are going great. The confrontation occurred

30:24

as a group of GOP hardliners, according to the

30:26

Journal Sentinel, including Gaetz, Representative Lauren Boebert, and the

30:28

Republican Senator. Representative Lauren Boebert, who loves

30:30

Beetlejuice and getting felt up at

30:32

Beetlejuice, and Tennessee Representative Tim Burkhart

30:35

huddled around Mike Johnson, who voiced their displeasure with

30:37

his plans to put a $95 billion package of

30:39

foreign aid bills to a vote this weekend. Now

30:42

remember, what Mike Johnson is doing is he's putting up

30:44

each of these bills as a separate piece of legislation.

30:47

If they garner majority support, they will then be packaged

30:49

back together and sent on to the Senate. A

30:52

majority of Republicans will likely vote in favor of each one

30:54

of these bills, but this makes Matt

30:56

Gaetz very, very mad. And

30:59

so he apparently was going

31:01

after Mike Johnson on the floor, and

31:03

Van Orton said, fine, you want to ask the speaker to do it? Like,

31:05

you keep threatening to do it, do it. He

31:08

said they've been trying to blackmail the Republican conference now for a

31:10

long time. Just do it. Show the American people who you

31:12

really are. The American people can't see

31:14

really what takes place all the time. What

31:16

they can see is a motion to vacate. It'll show their

31:18

true colors. They're not here to legislate. They're not serious legislators. Gaetz

31:22

then called Van Orton a squish, so

31:24

Van Orton called Matt Gaetz a tubby. Things

31:28

are going well. Van

31:32

Orton, who's the retired Navy SEAL, said, I said people have not

31:34

been to combat and been shot at. We're not holding one of

31:36

their friends' hands if they die. They probably shouldn't be calling other

31:38

people squishes. And then he did it again, and I

31:41

said something along the lines of, stow it, tubby. Okay,

31:46

and here is Matt Gaetz then, sounding off to the

31:48

media as he loves to do Lauren Boebert in his

31:50

wake. I think a

31:52

motion to vacate is something

31:55

that could put the conference in peril,

31:57

and Ms. Boebert and I were working

31:59

to avoid that. our goal is to

32:01

avoid emotion of a case but we're

32:03

not going to surrender that accountability tool

32:05

particularly in a time when we're seeing

32:08

america's interest subjugated to foreign interests abroad

32:10

explain what was going on with mister van order he

32:13

kept demanding that we file a motion of a

32:15

key and demanding that we do it a privileged

32:17

way and what does that mean i mean that

32:19

is it doesn't surprise you in this climate that

32:21

people might be saying that we heard this from

32:23

mister massie we've heard this from this room i'd

32:26

be working i gleaned from it is that mister van

32:28

orton is not a particularly intelligent individual what did

32:31

you spoke to the speaker what was that

32:33

conversation like since because

32:36

we don't want to pass this bill we do not

32:38

look the only way that with the only way and

32:40

we've gotten house representatives blocking the senate supplemental and so

32:43

if he's ready to throw in the towel on that

32:46

what we do in here what

32:48

are you doing here i mean the answer is the challenge

32:50

one speaker for no apparent reason kevin mccarthy and

32:52

now you're holding the motion to vacate over

32:54

johnson's head so as to what

32:57

hold up a vote that a majority of republicans are going to

32:59

vote for and i'm

33:01

a point out of the yesterday when it comes

33:03

to this foreign aid package it's

33:05

too big a bunch of i don't like it also

33:08

it is worth noting at this point that

33:10

that foreign aid package is

33:12

in fact necessary israel is in

33:14

the middle of an existential war with a variety of

33:17

opponents in the middle east all sponsored by iran

33:19

ukraine is in the middle of an existential war

33:21

with russia and

33:23

donald trump put out a statement yesterday suggesting that european allies

33:26

need to give more money to help you claim to why

33:28

isn't europe giving more money to help you claim why

33:30

is it the united states over a hundred billion dollars

33:32

into the Ukraine war more than europe we have an

33:34

ocean between us as separation i can't

33:36

europe equalizer national money put in by the united

33:38

states in order to help a country in desperate

33:40

need now as i pointed

33:42

out i'm supporting president trump this happens to be factually wrong

33:45

the fact is that european union and

33:47

their twenty seven member states have

33:49

agreed to commit at least fifty four

33:51

billion more dollars on one february twenty

33:53

twenty four as part of

33:56

their new Ukraine facility their commitments to date are

33:58

over a hundred and fifty five $155

34:00

billion. The United States has not

34:02

given $155 billion. This

34:08

includes, by the way, over

34:10

$51 billion in financial and budgetary support

34:12

and in humanitarian and emergency assistance. It

34:14

includes $36 billion in military assistance and increasing,

34:17

ranging from ammo to air defense systems. That

34:21

includes $11.5 billion from the European

34:23

Peace Facility in addition to $25 billion in

34:25

bilateral contributions from member states. It

34:29

also includes $18 billion from the EU budget to

34:32

support Ukrainian refugees who have fled into Europe. So

34:36

again, the basic idea, which is that the EU has not been

34:38

stepping up, that's not true. Donald

34:40

Trump successfully forced the EU countries to step

34:42

up with regard to their defense commitments with

34:44

regards to NATO. And the EU has, in

34:46

fact, been stepping up with regard to the

34:48

amount of aid provided to Ukraine. The

34:52

real question, as I keep asking for Mac Eights

34:54

and for Lauren Boebert and for Thomas

34:56

Massey and for everyone else, is how is

34:59

it in America's interest for Russia to stroll

35:01

into Kiev? And if it is not,

35:03

what level of support do you think would be necessary in

35:05

order to prevent that? Because the answer is not

35:07

zero. The same thing

35:09

holds true in the Middle East. How is it in America's

35:11

interest for Iran to continue to gain regional power? This

35:15

is the point that Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, was making yesterday.

35:17

Here he goes. Why

35:19

are you willing to risk losing

35:21

your job over the supreme

35:23

funding? Listen, my

35:25

philosophy is you do the right thing and you let

35:28

the chips fall where they may. Look, history judges us

35:30

for what we do. This is a critical time right

35:32

now, a critical time in the world state. He

35:34

is not wrong about all of that. And

35:37

again, posturing ain't going to do it, guys. It ain't

35:39

going to do it. If you want to do what,

35:41

for example, Chip Roy has done in the past and

35:43

issue a list of specific debts that you want from

35:46

Mike Johnson, and then we can see why those are

35:48

debts that are debtable. That's something

35:50

that's useful. But if you're just going to rail against the

35:52

wind and then just randomly shout motion to

35:54

vacate, those rules need to change,

35:56

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about women being in sort of the sporting world.

37:20

I remember there were a lot of conferences about

37:22

women's locker room and this sort of stuff. How

37:25

did any of that impact you? What

37:27

it did for me was

37:29

it made me better. Because

37:32

when you're in the media scrum,

37:34

and it's an NFL media Wednesday and

37:36

you've got 20

37:39

reporters gathering around Shannon

37:41

Sharp or Ray Lewis or whoever it

37:43

was and Warren Sapp,

37:45

difficult people like Warren Sapp and you have to

37:47

like, you're in there, you try

37:49

to get your mic in and it's all these

37:52

big fat smelly male reporters. And I was like,

37:54

okay, that's helpful. Number one, but

37:56

number two, because it was all male voices,

37:59

I knew that when I... folks, it would fall into front

38:01

and it would maybe stop some people. And so what

38:03

came out of my mouth better be damn good. Remember

38:12

that episode drops this Sunday. You're not going

38:14

to want to miss it. Meanwhile, it turns

38:16

out that the apple does not fall far

38:19

from the anti-American, anti-Jewish tree. Ilhan Omar's daughter

38:21

has apparently now been suspended from Barnard

38:23

College for her involvement in Prokamos protests,

38:26

according to the New York Post. Her

38:28

daughter, Isra Hersey, revealed Thursday she has

38:30

been suspended from Barnard College over her

38:32

involvement in disruptive anti-Israel protests on Columbia

38:34

University's Morningside campus, at which scores of

38:37

demonstrators were arrested. They had set

38:39

up a bunch of tents basically in the

38:41

middle of the Columbia campus, sort of like

38:43

Occupy Columbia, in order to say

38:45

that they hate Israel. The

38:47

21-year-old wrote, I just received notice. I am

38:49

one of three students suspended for standing in

38:51

solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide. Well,

38:55

I doubt that that's really what it was about since

38:57

most Columbia students are fired to the left on this.

38:59

Hersey was one of more than 100 protesters all the

39:01

way in cuffs by the NYPD Thursday afternoon after they

39:03

erected a tent city on the campus of the $90,000

39:05

per year Ivy League school. By

39:09

late Thursday afternoon, the protests had dispersed. Cleaning

39:11

crews were brought in to disassemble and remove

39:13

dozens of tents that littered the campus. Hersey

39:16

has spent much of her life attending demonstrations. Apparently,

39:18

she attended her first protest at the age of

39:21

six. At 12, she joined a

39:23

Black Lives Matter protest forcing the Mall of America to

39:25

shut down. And then

39:27

they received she and two other students,

39:29

notice of their suspension, from the Barnard

39:31

Dean. Apparently,

39:33

the Dean's statement said the decision is

39:36

based on information related to the Columbia

39:38

University public safety. You've been involved in

39:40

an unauthorized encampment on the Columbia University

39:42

campus. You've not seized participation in this

39:44

unauthorized encampment. Well, that

39:46

of course is correct. She

39:50

is just as anti-American

39:53

and anti-Israel as her mom is.

39:56

But it's good to see campuses actually starting to demonstrate at

39:58

least a little bit of fealty to you. That

40:02

would be good. A shout-out to

40:04

actual – a rare shout-out to a legacy media

40:06

figure today. Jake Tapper over at CNN actually did

40:08

something good on his show a couple of days

40:10

ago. So there's

40:13

been a lot of coverage of a

40:16

terrorist named Walid Daka who had died in Israeli prison.

40:20

And he was portrayed by the media as some sort of a victim of

40:23

Israeli aggression. Jake Tapper fully

40:25

dismissed that and that of course is good

40:27

for him. The

40:30

International had called for Daka who was in

40:32

his 60s to be released on humanitarian grounds

40:34

after he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer

40:37

in 2022. Amnesty issued

40:39

a statement saying, quote, death in

40:41

custody of Walid Daka is

40:43

a cruel reminder of Israel's disregard

40:46

for Palestinians' right to life. It's

40:49

an interesting term – turn

40:51

a phrase there – a disregard for Palestinians' right

40:53

to life. Much of the

40:55

news media coverage of Walid

40:57

Daka's death after his 38 years in

41:00

prison was along these lines. Many

41:02

stories barely, if at all, even

41:04

mentioned why Walid Daka

41:06

was in the Israeli prison to

41:09

begin with. He was in prison

41:11

because he was part of a

41:14

militant group that killed this 19-year-old,

41:17

Moshe Tamam. It

41:19

is heart-wrenching that Walid Daka

41:21

has died in Israeli custody,

41:23

said Amnesty International. Heart-wrenching? I

41:27

ask this sincerely. Does it wrench

41:29

the heart of anyone at Amnesty

41:31

International that 19-year-old Moshe

41:33

Tamam was murdered? Anyone?

41:37

By the way, Moshe Tamam wasn't just murdered. He

41:39

was mutilated before his murder by Walid Daka. But

41:41

that again is how the media have treated the

41:43

Middle East historically, good for Jake Tapper for disabusing

41:46

people of that notion. Meanwhile, Joe Biden

41:48

continues to stumble around aimlessly. So

41:50

we played yesterday a clip of Joe Biden explaining that

41:52

his uncle was once eaten by cannibals, which

41:55

was a thing he actually said because

41:57

our president is no longer with us and has not

41:59

been murdered. Yesterday the

42:01

White House was forced to admit that actually,

42:03

in fact, Joe Biden's uncle was

42:05

not eaten by cannibals. It

42:08

was a little bit awkward. We

42:10

just had a cannibal tab in your

42:12

book. There's a cannibal tab? What are

42:14

you talking about? Is

42:18

that what you're asking me about?

42:20

Can you finish it? Yes.

42:22

Look, I'll just, and I think we shared

42:25

this with some of you, so I'm just going

42:27

to kind of repeat. Look, you saw the president,

42:29

he was incredibly proud of his uncle's service in

42:31

uniform. He saw him at the war memorial. It

42:33

was incredibly emotional and important to him. He

42:36

saw him respond to all of you when

42:38

asked about the moment yesterday, and

42:41

his uncle lost his life when the military

42:43

aircraft he was on crashed in

42:45

the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea.

42:48

The president highlighted his uncle's story as

42:50

he made the case for honoring our

42:52

sacred commitment to equip those

42:54

we send to war and to take care of

42:57

them and their families when they come home. And

43:00

as he reiterated that the last thing American veterans

43:02

are suckers or losers, and he

43:04

wanted to make that clear. He wanted to make a strange

43:07

story. I mean, look, I don't have anything

43:09

beyond about what I just laid out, but it

43:11

was a really proud moment for him. It

43:14

was a proud moment when his uncle was

43:16

eaten by cannibals. That was

43:19

a proud moment that didn't happen. I

43:22

just love that Joe Biden's stories are, as I've

43:24

said before, one of my favorite things. That's when

43:26

my uncle, Uncle, he was

43:28

either we used to call him Uncle when he was in

43:30

the fly in World War II, and

43:34

his plane went down. And suddenly a

43:36

bunch of native savages jumped out of

43:38

the bushes, and he started

43:40

chomping on his legs. And he

43:42

said, whoa, whoa there, bucko.

43:48

You know, things are going well when the Biden campaign has

43:50

to run an ad. They literally did this. They ran an

43:52

ad saying that he is not mentally unfit. Joe

43:55

Biden, not mentally unfit 2024. Even

43:59

CNN was like, Like, guys, this is not

44:01

good. I just

44:03

want you and our viewers to see a

44:05

brand new ad from the Biden campaign, and

44:08

the name of the ad is Sharp. Love

44:12

to tell the story about meeting President Biden

44:14

because when you meet him, this guy is

44:16

as sharp as the knife. They have nothing

44:18

else to attack because they can't attack the

44:21

things that he's doing that are so good

44:23

for this country. Joe Biden gets things done.

44:26

That's just who he is. I

44:29

mean, that says it all again. That is

44:31

from the Biden campaign, and the name of

44:34

the ad is Sharp. Yeah,

44:37

man. This campaign

44:39

is not going well for Joseph

44:41

Robinette Biden. Things are bad.

44:44

Well, meanwhile, when Joe Biden isn't telling weird

44:46

stories about how his uncle was eaten by

44:48

cannibals or weird stories about how his dad

44:51

once informed him about homosexual

44:53

rights on the streets of Scranton,

44:55

Pennsylvania, in like 1956 while watching

44:57

Two Men Kissing, when Joe Biden

45:00

isn't telling weird stories like that, he's now

45:02

attacking RFK Jr. So when

45:04

you are the candidate who's issuing ads

45:06

saying, I'm not senile, Biden 2024. When

45:09

you are the candidate who's attacking the third-party candidate,

45:11

you got a problem. If you're so

45:13

weak that your campaign is now dependent

45:15

on people not voting for the third-party candidate, this

45:18

is not a good sign for your campaign, which

45:20

right now Joe Biden's campaign is in a lot

45:22

of trouble. New Fox News poll has Donald Trump

45:24

leading Joe Biden in Michigan. So

45:27

despite Joe Biden's best attempts to

45:29

appease the Pro-Kamos crowd in Michigan, it

45:31

isn't working, unfortunately, for him. Well,

45:34

now Joe Biden in an attempt to,

45:36

again, cudgel Robert

45:39

F. Kennedy Jr. supporters into supporting

45:41

him has dragged out the entire

45:43

Kennedy family to endorse him. Here's the

45:45

problem. No one knows who any of these people are. I'm

45:48

sorry, unless you are like deeply, deeply ensconced

45:50

in politics and Democratic

45:52

Party politics in specific, name

45:55

three members of the Kennedy family. Seriously,

45:58

like three, go. Ain't

46:00

got nobody? That's what I thought. So Joe

46:02

Biden brings forth, he's like, and here

46:04

are random people named Kennedy, who

46:06

are related to JFK and RFK, but

46:08

are not RFK Jr. They support me,

46:11

shouldn't you? Here is

46:13

Kathleen Kennedy, the maker of

46:15

the new Star Wars series. She

46:18

supports me, shouldn't you? Okay,

46:20

so here was Kerry Kennedy, who was

46:22

RFK Jr.'s sister. Who

46:24

cares what Kerry Kennedy has to say? Like, what? Who

46:26

are the voters who are like, well, now that Kerry Kennedy

46:28

has endorsed Joe Biden, I guess I'm back on the Biden

46:30

frame here. Here's Kerry Kennedy. What

46:34

we need in the United States is

46:36

not division. What we

46:38

need in the United States is not

46:40

hatred. What we need

46:43

in the United States is not

46:45

violence or lawlessness, but

46:47

love and wisdom and

46:50

compassion toward one another

46:52

and a feeling of justice towards

46:54

those who still suffer

46:56

in this country, whether they be

46:58

black or they be white. Joe

47:02

Biden's every decision is

47:05

informed by his love, his

47:09

wisdom, and his compassion

47:11

towards those who suffer. That

47:14

is why we are so

47:17

happy today to pledge our

47:19

unwavering support to President Joe

47:21

Biden and President Kamala Harris.

47:24

God bless all of you.

47:26

God bless America, and please

47:28

welcome President Joe Biden. Okay,

47:32

if you are deeply dependent on Kerry Kennedy

47:34

to save your campaign, you got a problem,

47:37

and Joe Biden has himself a

47:39

very, very large-scale problem for certain.

47:42

And meanwhile, Alejandro Mayorkas was led off the hook by

47:44

the Senate of the United States. Democrats in the Senate

47:46

decided they weren't even going to hear the impeachment charges

47:48

against him. They just dismissed them right away. However,

47:52

according to Breitbart, President Biden's

47:54

Department of Homeland Security approved a work permit

47:57

for Jose Antonio Ibarra of Venezuela, who's accused

47:59

of being a criminal. He was murdering 22-year-old

48:01

Lake and Riley even after discovering he had

48:03

a prior criminal history, according to federal documents

48:06

detailed by Senator Josh Howley. America

48:08

was thrilled about that yesterday by Howley on

48:11

the Hill. Here is the exchange. Senator,

48:14

I will not speak to the particulars of the

48:16

case given the pending criminal

48:18

prosecution. I'm sure. Well, you certainly, of

48:20

course you don't want to because it

48:22

is an absolutely damning indictment of

48:25

your policies. Let's just review Jose Barrera and

48:27

how Ibarra rather and how he came to

48:29

be here on September the 8th, 2022. He

48:32

was encountered by United States Border Patrol

48:34

in El Paso, Texas and was paroled

48:37

into the United States due to lack

48:39

of detention capacity. A

48:41

provision, a proviso, a rule that is not permitted

48:43

under the statute. You and I both know you

48:45

know this. You knew it

48:47

when you were talking to Congressman Bishop. You knew

48:49

it when you were testifying to Senator Britt and

48:51

you know it today. You just

48:54

never wanted to cop to it because

48:56

the statute doesn't permit it. And so you lied to

48:58

Congressman Bishop and you lied to Senator Britt. And

49:00

now you are hiding behind the ongoing

49:03

prosecution excuse because it's the last one

49:05

left to you because you

49:07

testified falsely under oath. Well,

49:11

Josh Howley hasn't been dead to rise on that one. I mean, the fact

49:13

of the matter remains. It is Joe

49:15

Biden's immigration policy that has in fact gotten

49:17

American citizens killed. Meanwhile, Alhans and Marrakis continues

49:19

to claim that the Southern border is as

49:21

secure as we can make it. Here he

49:23

was yesterday. Why

49:25

did you say the border was secure? Was that a lie? What

49:27

do you mean by that? Senator

49:29

Romney, allow me to assure you that

49:33

I have honored the oath of

49:35

office that I have taken more

49:37

than five times in my 22-plus

49:39

years of federal service. Let

49:41

me go back to the question. That's as

49:43

accurate as it is irrelevant, which is

49:47

my question is, you said that the border

49:49

was secure. What did you mean when you

49:51

said the border was secure? Is that not

49:53

a lie? Senator, you've

49:56

asked me now if that is a lie and

49:58

I have assured you. that I have

50:00

honored the oath of office. In

50:03

what way was it not a lie then,

50:05

Senator? With the resources and authorities that we have,

50:07

it is as secure as it can be.

50:10

Sure, sure. It's just as secure as it can be. There's only

50:12

one problem as Rand Paul points out. You already have the powers

50:15

you need to shut down the border. What

50:17

exactly are you waiting for? All

50:19

of the laws that existed under the Trump

50:21

administration still exist under the Biden administration. You

50:24

have all the powers that you need. The

50:26

laws on accepting migrants to

50:29

this country say the

50:31

executive may admit migrants.

50:34

Doesn't say the executive branch shall admit migrants.

50:36

You could simply say we're full up. We've

50:38

got too many criminals and we've got the

50:40

horrendous thing that happened to Lake and Raleigh

50:43

and to others. And we're just

50:45

full and we're just, we're going to stop taking migrants

50:47

for a while until we can sort out the mess

50:49

we have at the border. You have every power to

50:51

do that now. You don't utilize

50:53

those powers. But it isn't about

50:55

really being good at utilizing the power. We just think you're

50:57

not obeying the law. He

51:00

happens to be correct about all of that.

51:02

Meanwhile folks, we've been discussing the chaos in

51:04

the Republican House. We are joined online by

51:06

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. So on

51:08

Friday morning, the House voted on debate rules

51:10

that advance a series of foreign aid bills

51:12

to the full House for final passage on

51:15

Saturday. Broad bipartisan support for these bills 316

51:17

to 94. But

51:19

there are people as usual screaming and crying about it. Speaker

51:21

Johnson, thanks so much for joining the show. Great to talk

51:24

to you. Ben, great to be

51:26

with you. Thanks for all you do. So

51:28

why don't we start by talking about what's actually in these

51:30

bills. These bills, as always, are not perfect. It turns out

51:32

there are these things and they're called Democrats and they exist

51:34

in the House and they also exist in the majority in

51:36

the Senate. And also one of them is sitting in the

51:39

White House able to veto things. So what is in these

51:41

bills that is good? What is in them that's bad? Why

51:43

are you advancing these bills to the floor? Well,

51:45

we're at a point of pivotal

51:47

decision. I mean, this is a dangerous time on

51:50

the world stage, as you and I know, when

51:52

Israel is in great jeopardy fighting for their existence.

51:55

Ukraine is close to being overrun and they're estimated to

51:57

be out of ammo by the end of literally,

52:01

which would allow Vladimir Putin to roll through the

52:03

country, take Kiev and set up on the borders

52:05

of NATO countries. Of course,

52:07

Iran and its aggression of Israel

52:09

has continued, and Xi is watching

52:11

this from China and all of the

52:13

Axis of Evil is empowered. So what are we to

52:15

do? We're in the midst of this dynamic

52:18

where we have divided government. And as you

52:20

noted, the Democrats control the White House and

52:22

the Senate. So we in the House here,

52:24

with the smallest majority for the Republican

52:26

Party, smallest majority in U.S. history, one to

52:28

two vote margin on any given day, we

52:31

have to address these matters. We have to

52:33

meet the moment. And so the House is

52:36

fixing the Senate supplemental bill, the foreign aid

52:38

bill that was sent to us a few

52:40

months ago, with better policy and

52:42

better process. And so what we've done is

52:44

we've taken, for example, the Ukraine funding elements

52:46

that are controversial, of course, on

52:49

our side. We've added a lone

52:51

instrument. We have added the repo act,

52:53

which is the use of corrupt Russian

52:55

oligarchs seized assets to support the

52:57

effort there. We've added oversight, accountability, and a

53:00

strategy shift to force the White House to

53:02

give us the information and the endgame and

53:04

all the rest. We have an

53:06

amendment process so we can address each of

53:08

these measures on their own merit and four

53:11

separate bills instead of having them sandwiched together.

53:13

And everybody can vote their own will and their own

53:15

conscience and their own constituents. That's the way this place

53:17

is supposed to work. And we

53:20

included tough measures on Russia, China, and Iran,

53:22

including sanctions and some other

53:24

innovations. So a very important change

53:26

in both the process and the

53:29

policy. And if we had not done

53:31

this, Ben, and this is very important, we would

53:33

have had to eat the Senate supplemental. If

53:36

we had not taken this step, there would have

53:38

been a discharge petition. And that means that a

53:40

handful of Republicans would have crossed over and gotten

53:43

on board with the Democrats to force it out

53:45

of my hands and make us take the Senate

53:47

supplemental as is. That was

53:49

not an acceptable outcome. And this is the best possible outcome that

53:51

we can achieve. You know, Speaker, that

53:53

last phrase, the best possible outcome that we can

53:55

achieve, that's the one that so many members

53:57

of sort of the House Freedom Caucus is right,

53:59

have been. have been focusing in on, they suggest

54:02

that there is a better deal that can be

54:04

made. If only there was the will, then suddenly

54:06

Democrats would collapse on a bunch of these issues,

54:08

or suddenly there would be an Israel-only aid bill

54:11

that would go forward without any sort of humanitarian

54:13

aid to Gaza, or maybe the Ukraine bill could

54:15

be pared down much smaller than it currently

54:17

is. But you're the one who's actually in the

54:19

negotiating room. Is there a

54:22

lot of wiggle room here with Democrats that's been left?

54:26

There's not. And part of the reason for

54:28

that, Ben, is that they know that our

54:30

House Republican Conference is not sticking

54:32

together right now. There's a lot of division

54:35

and difference of opinion. And that's part of

54:37

the process. Democracy is messy. But when you're

54:39

in a negotiation and you literally have the

54:42

smallest margin in the history of the United

54:44

States Congress, the other side obviously

54:46

knows that. And they're watching the dissension

54:48

among our ranks, and that takes away

54:50

our negotiation ability. Look, on

54:52

the Ukraine piece, this is really important to point

54:55

out. There's a lot of angst about, quote

54:57

unquote, sending more money to Ukraine. But 80%

55:01

of the funds that are in this package for Ukraine

55:03

are literally to replenish American weapons

55:05

and stocks and facilities. This is

55:07

America's defense industrial base. This is

55:09

building weapons here at home and

55:12

refilling our stockpiles. Really, really important

55:14

thing for us to do. Ukraine

55:16

is in a position where

55:18

they very likely would fall.

55:20

And so this is going to allow

55:22

them to at least hold the line.

55:25

And I believe, Ben, that President Donald Trump

55:27

is going to have another term. And early

55:29

next year, if this is continuing to that

55:31

point, I think he's the one that has

55:33

the strength to go in and negotiate a

55:35

peace in this. But

55:38

not if Russia rolls through the country. I

55:40

mean, this is really important. As I said

55:42

in a press gaggle here the other day,

55:44

to be blunt, I would rather send bullets

55:46

to Ukraine than boys, American soldiers. We don't

55:48

want boots on the ground. We're not the

55:50

world's policemen. If we can invest this small

55:52

amount right now and achieve a desired outcome,

55:54

that is better for us in the long

55:56

run. And it saves us a lot of

55:58

money and, of course, blood and blood. And

56:01

Speaker Johnson, it sounds to bewildering to me

56:03

why there are so many people in the

56:05

Republican Party who don't seem to understand or

56:07

want to understand that strong American allies forestalls

56:10

direct American action. That's the history of America's

56:12

foreign policy. When we have weak allies who

56:14

are unable to take care of themselves, very

56:16

often we end up sending our own troops,

56:18

sending our own resources in much greater numbers

56:20

than would have been the case if we

56:22

had simply supported our allies from the outset

56:25

so that they were strong enough to actually

56:27

withhold America's enemies. But I'm hearing

56:29

– I've yet to hear any Republican

56:31

actually explain what the alternative to, for example,

56:33

aid to Ukraine would be. I've heard

56:35

some people in the Republican caucus call them principled libertarians

56:38

who just say that we should spend no money

56:40

at all. Okay, that's consistent, although I think that it

56:42

does not have the virtue of wisdom. But

56:44

that's not a lot of members of the Republican

56:46

caucus. Many of the people who are sounding out

56:49

in the Republican caucus and in the commentary about

56:51

aid to Ukraine can't seem to express why exactly

56:53

it would be in America's interest for Russia to

56:55

actually overrun Kiev, which would

56:57

be the predictable result if in fact no

56:59

aid gets moved to Ukraine in the middle of this. I

57:03

think you stated that very well, and you're

57:05

right. They don't have an answer because there

57:07

isn't one. And I'll point out,

57:09

too, to my real frustration. I mean,

57:11

some of my colleagues who are the most adamantly

57:13

opposed to this and who have

57:15

in some sense mocked the arguments of

57:18

why this is so important have

57:20

not availed themselves of the defense briefings that

57:23

are available here. They've not gone to talk

57:25

to the generals. They've not gone into the

57:28

confidential classified briefing on exactly what

57:30

the status is on the ground.

57:32

And they're making monumental decisions with

57:34

global implications not completely

57:37

informed about the facts. And I think that's a

57:39

dereliction of duty. And I've said it as much,

57:41

and I'm not naming anyone, but there are some

57:44

people that have just refused to go on this

57:46

gift. And

57:48

I think it's a dangerous thing. Look,

57:50

you and I are children of the

57:53

Reagan era. I was. I grew up. I'm older

57:55

than you. But look, I believe in peace through

57:58

strength. I believe in what Ronald Reagan did. said,

58:00

it does not mean that we're the world's policemen.

58:02

It does not mean that American troops should have

58:04

boots on the ground everywhere. That's not what we're

58:06

for. But to your point, Ben, and you've said

58:08

it well, a strong America is

58:10

good for stability around the globe. What does

58:12

that mean? It means the perception of

58:15

a strong America. We're the last great

58:17

superpower. We're the greatest nation in the

58:19

history of the world. It's not even

58:21

close. We're the most free, most benevolent,

58:23

the strongest, the most powerful. And if

58:25

we don't act like it, then terrorist

58:27

and tyrants take over. The reason that

58:29

Iran and China and North Korea and

58:31

Russia right now are acting so provocatively

58:33

is because we're projecting weakness on the

58:35

world stage. Joe Biden's foreign policy has

58:38

been an absolute disaster, and that's what's

58:40

got us in this situation. And if

58:42

we do this little bit of investment

58:44

here, we can stem the tide,

58:46

hold them off, hopefully, until we get a

58:48

new president. And that day cannot happen soon enough. Speaker

58:51

Johnson, one of the things that has come

58:54

up in this context, obviously, is the ridiculous

58:56

motion to vacate. Obviously, you inherited a set

58:58

of rules that were originally negotiated by Speaker

59:00

Kevin McCarthy, who then had his speakership vacated

59:02

by some members of the Republican caucus, who

59:05

never really specified why McCarthy was doing such

59:07

a terrible job, but they just decided that

59:09

he had to go. And then he couldn't

59:11

actually get enough Democrats to

59:13

vote with him to preserve his speakership, or he

59:16

couldn't get enough Republicans to vote with him to

59:18

preserve his speakership, and he ended up ousted and

59:20

then leaving Congress. Now you have a similar group

59:22

of people, smaller, it seems, who are

59:24

attempting to challenge your speakership. They keep threatening a motion

59:26

to vacate. I noticed they haven't actually brought one formally

59:28

yet, because I think that they are afraid they're not

59:31

going to get nearly as many votes as they keep

59:33

trumpeting with regard to the media. These

59:35

are unworkable rules. I mean, right now, the situation,

59:37

as you mentioned, in the House of Representatives, is

59:39

that you are presiding over the slimmest majority for

59:42

the Republicans in modern history, and

59:44

that majority could theoretically be thrown

59:46

into complete chaos by a couple

59:48

of attention seekers at any time.

59:51

Those rules I've been pushing for you to try

59:53

to change those rules, is that coming?

59:55

Is there going to be a move to go back

59:57

to what was a sense of normalcy, You

1:00:00

needed a significant percentage of the caucus to

1:00:02

actually challenge a speaker in order to oust

1:00:04

a speaker and then go back to what

1:00:06

is the way the Republicans used to govern,

1:00:08

which was the Hastert rule, which says that

1:00:10

you don't bring forward a bill unless a

1:00:12

majority of the caucus supports it. By the

1:00:15

way, again, worth noting, a majority of the

1:00:17

Republican caucus supports these foreign aid bills. They

1:00:19

do. The rules package that just went forth

1:00:21

was voted by Republicans 151 to 55, the

1:00:23

notion that a minority of Republicans ought to

1:00:25

run the House of Representatives seems

1:00:27

bizarre to me. It

1:00:30

is bizarre, and it's not workable. It

1:00:32

really undermines the way the institution is designed to

1:00:35

work by the founders, and it's

1:00:37

become a problem. Look, we're in the age

1:00:39

of the modern Congress. Newt Gingrich famously said

1:00:41

a few days ago that being speaker is

1:00:43

now impossible. I challenged

1:00:45

him on it. He's a prim, but what

1:00:47

Newt was suggesting there is that we

1:00:49

now live in the age of the

1:00:52

24-hour news cycle and social media, and

1:00:54

so every member of Congress has their

1:00:56

own media outlet and platform. And

1:00:59

they can go online and tell the American public every

1:01:01

five minutes what they're disgruntled about and why they don't

1:01:03

get 100 percent of what they want. It makes a

1:01:05

real challenge to get things done when the

1:01:07

margin is as small as ours is. But

1:01:10

look, on the motion to vacate, it's

1:01:12

not something I walk around being concerned about.

1:01:14

I can't. We need to unify this

1:01:16

conference, and we have to do our jobs. And

1:01:18

we cannot send the House in the chaos in

1:01:21

the middle of an election season. I mean,

1:01:23

obviously, these are commonsensical notions. You

1:01:25

can't show to the country that we

1:01:27

can't keep ourselves together and then expect

1:01:30

them to vote for us

1:01:32

to keep and grow this majority. And let

1:01:34

me point out why that's so important for

1:01:36

the obvious that anyone has a question about

1:01:38

that. If we don't have a majority in

1:01:40

January in the next Congress and Donald Trump

1:01:43

wins for president, which I believe he will,

1:01:46

the Democrats will impeach him in the first week of

1:01:48

his office. They will try

1:01:50

to investigate everyone who even thinks about serving

1:01:52

in the Cabinet. Bill subpoena, every visitor to the

1:01:54

White House. Everybody in the president's

1:01:56

orbit will need their own army of

1:01:58

lawyers. That's where we are in the

1:02:00

country. And we can't allow that to

1:02:02

turn this disastrous policy around, foreign policy,

1:02:05

domestic policy, every metric that's a disaster

1:02:07

under Joe Biden. We

1:02:09

have to have the majority in both chambers, the Senate and the

1:02:11

House, and we have to have the White House. Then

1:02:13

I think we're on track to do that, but we can

1:02:15

shoot ourselves in the foot and take

1:02:18

the victory away from ourselves if we're not careful here. Yeah,

1:02:21

Speaker Johnson, that is, I think, the main point, is

1:02:23

that if Republicans wish to govern and actually make the

1:02:25

sort of major changes that are necessary, they are going

1:02:28

to have to run all three elected branches of government.

1:02:30

They're going to have to run the Senate. Republicans have

1:02:32

a good shot of winning back the Senate, given the

1:02:34

map this year. They're going to have to have a

1:02:36

much larger majority in the House. Right now, frankly, none

1:02:38

of this would be a problem if Republicans had additional

1:02:40

15 seats in the House. The

1:02:43

truth is that the entire House would have been run differently if

1:02:45

Republicans had additional 15 seats in the House. And

1:02:48

if Donald Trump is the President, the reality is that

1:02:50

in a presidential race, you know what he's not going

1:02:52

to want to have to deal with? A completely dysfunctional

1:02:54

Congress that Democrats are going to be running against, including

1:02:56

President Joe Biden. So the idea

1:02:58

that the Republican conference should actually do

1:03:01

their jobs, as opposed to grandstanding for the

1:03:03

cameras, in the name of a purity that

1:03:05

they never seem to achieve, that

1:03:07

is absolute foolishness. So, Speaker Johnson, I'm

1:03:10

glad that you're doing what you're doing. I appreciate

1:03:12

it. I think it's good

1:03:14

for the country, and thanks so much for standing strong in

1:03:16

favor of an actual strong America on the foreign policy stage.

1:03:19

Thank you, Ben. Appreciate it. Great to hear your voice,

1:03:21

and glad for all your work. Appreciate you. Thanks,

1:03:24

Speaker Johnson. Really appreciate it. Alrighty, guys. The

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