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Speaker 3: I'm Caroline de Russo coming up tonight, and Labour support
Speaker 3: continues to decline, with the latest polls painting a very
Speaker 3: grim picture for the party. We'll give you a breakdown
Speaker 3: in just a moment. Biological men have finally been banned
Speaker 3: from being held.
Speaker 2: In women's prisons in the US. Stephanie Bastian will be
Speaker 2: joining us with those details.
Speaker 3: And President Trump's first hundred hours in office has been praised.
Speaker 3: It's the start of a golden age. We'll speak to
Speaker 3: Alex Stein about that shortly. And of course Left is
Speaker 3: losing it.
Speaker 4: Let me make something absolutely clear, unless it wasn't already,
Speaker 4: if you got it for a Trump, you are.
Speaker 2: Not Alad in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Deputy executive director for the Institute
Speaker 3: of Public Affairs, Dan your Wild Dan. The latest news poll.
Speaker 3: It was released yesterday and despite Albow traveling around the
Speaker 3: country and handing out billions, his and Labor continue to slide.
Speaker 2: What's notable about this poll?
Speaker 5: It was a couple of things.
Speaker 6: I think it's not despite but it's because of Alberizi
Speaker 6: doing that because the more Australian sea of Anthony Alberizi,
Speaker 6: the less they support it. And we know he's a
Speaker 6: bad campaigner, so this is probably as good as it's
Speaker 6: going to get for Labor. We saw how bad he
Speaker 6: was during the Voice to Parliament, where the more he
Speaker 6: talked about it, the more support went backwards.
Speaker 5: Not forwards.
Speaker 6: And I think in terms of Peter Dutton, well, this
Speaker 6: is what happens when you show leadership on key issues,
Speaker 6: particularly cultural issues.
Speaker 5: That Australians care about.
Speaker 6: Whether it's Australia Day, whether it's calling out big business
Speaker 6: and sporting codes who seek to divide us, whether it's
Speaker 6: supporting racial equality by voting no to the Voice to Parliament.
Speaker 6: You know, when a political leader stands up for Australian values,
Speaker 6: mainstream Australians will back them and they will support them.
Speaker 6: So that's the number one reason why Peter Dutton has
Speaker 6: been surging in the polls because he has become a
Speaker 6: voice for mainstream values and mainstream aspirations.
Speaker 3: And you'll also recall during the last federal election, Labour's
Speaker 3: best week during the campaign was the week that Anthony
Speaker 3: Alberizi was in isolation with COVID, but the Coalition has
Speaker 3: released a video of Peter Dutton today.
Speaker 7: Here's a look as a minister. I learned that a
Speaker 7: strong economy and a safe community are central to everything.
Speaker 7: That you sometimes need to stand up to vested interests
Speaker 7: and always make decisions in our national interest. The right
Speaker 7: decisions aren't always popular, but I'm not interested in taking
Speaker 7: me as you pass because we lived in the best
Speaker 7: country in the world and I'm determined to get Australia
Speaker 7: back on track.
Speaker 3: Dan, the preferred prime minister numbers have moved substantially over
Speaker 3: the last twelve months, but do you think voters still
Speaker 3: need to get to know Peter a little better?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they do because most people aren't engaged in politics
Speaker 6: on a day to day basis, and you know, you
Speaker 6: can hardly blame them for that, you know, so over
Speaker 6: the next couple of weeks or the next couple of
Speaker 6: months will start to see people paying attention a little
Speaker 6: bit more. So I think there's a huge opportunity for
Speaker 6: Peter Dutton to explain himself to the electorate. And you know,
Speaker 6: anyone who's spent more than two minutes with Peter Dutton
Speaker 6: would know that he's somebody fairly down to earth and
Speaker 6: he's been out a Holy seat of Dixon, which is
Speaker 6: a marginal seat, and Labor always thinks it's going to
Speaker 6: win and they never do for something like seven or
Speaker 6: eight times in a row now, So if that could
Speaker 6: be replicated on a national level, I don't think you'll
Speaker 6: have any problem getting over the line. But what Australians
Speaker 6: also one, as I mentioned before, is a political standard
Speaker 6: bearer who will make the big calls on the economic
Speaker 6: social issues that can front our nation's problem. And ultimately,
Speaker 6: the Labor government has been very divisive. It's been governed
Speaker 6: by sectional interests rather than national interests as the ad suggests.
Speaker 6: So now we'll wait and see how it goes. But
Speaker 6: I think it's going to resonate with a lot of Australians.
Speaker 2: And on to Australia Day and the IPA.
Speaker 3: You guys regularly pole support for Australia Day. This year
Speaker 3: there has been a notable shift, but even some of
Speaker 3: the politicians are starting to change their narrative.
Speaker 2: What have you picked up?
Speaker 5: It's been a massive year.
Speaker 6: We've been doing this survey for about seven years now
Speaker 6: tracking the attitudes of Australians toward Australia Day, and this
Speaker 6: is the single biggest increase we've ever seen, from sixty
Speaker 6: three to sixty nine percent who support twenty sixth January
Speaker 6: as Australia Day, and that was driven by young Australians,
Speaker 6: the youngest cohort eighteen to twenty four year olds increasing
Speaker 6: from forty two to fifty two percent, and the debate
Speaker 6: has completely changed. We had record turnouts to Australia Day
Speaker 6: events across our nation, whether they were official events held
Speaker 6: by councils at local parks and community centers, or whether
Speaker 6: it was Australians going to the beach or other community
Speaker 6: areas to celebrate our National Day. At the same time
Speaker 6: as we had a record drop in those who were
Speaker 6: attending protests and so called Invasion Day rallies. So what
Speaker 6: we've seen is an enormous vibe shift over our National
Speaker 6: Day Australians. You know, the silent majority is no longer silent.
Speaker 6: And it's a beautiful thing to see because I think
Speaker 6: we were at risk at one point of losing our
Speaker 6: National Day, but it's certainly come roaring back and I
Speaker 6: don't think there's any turning back now.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think there is, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: particularly where the going gets tough, people do still realize
Speaker 3: how lucky we are to live in this country now.
Speaker 3: This week, Foreign Minister Penningwong and Attorney General Mark Dreyfus
Speaker 3: there in Poland for the eightieth anniversary commemorations.
Speaker 2: Of the Liberation of Auschwitz.
Speaker 3: The Prime Minister stood by his decision to send Wong,
Speaker 3: but he does seem a little rattled by the backlash.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on this decision and how it's
Speaker 3: been handled.
Speaker 6: Well, he probably didn't have any choice but to send
Speaker 6: Senator Wong given her position as Foreign Affairs Minister. I
Speaker 6: think it'd be odd to send anyone of a lower
Speaker 6: position within cabinet, so he probably had to go with her.
Speaker 6: You know, this goes to the problem and this is
Speaker 6: such a solemn anniversary, such a serious one, not only
Speaker 6: for the Jewish people, but for all of humankind in
Speaker 6: terms of what was experienced at Auschwitz all throughout World
Speaker 6: War Two. So it's important that humanity remembers what happened
Speaker 6: and what other people are capable and are still capable of.
Speaker 6: Just because it happened in the past doesn't mean it
Speaker 6: can't happen in the future, so we need to remember that,
Speaker 6: and that's the whole point of remembrance.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I think the issue here.
Speaker 6: Is the government lacks credibility because they already have lacked
Speaker 6: leadership on the domestic level since the October seven attacks,
Speaker 6: where they've always been on the back foot.
Speaker 5: They've been reluctant.
Speaker 6: It seems like they've often been dragged, kicking and screaming
Speaker 6: to make a statement and try to stamp out some
Speaker 6: of the behavior. And like I've said before, it has
Speaker 6: given a bit of a permission structure for domestic behavior
Speaker 6: that we've seen from protesters and agitators to continue. So,
Speaker 6: you know, the real problem is because they lack leadership
Speaker 6: on the domestic front, they've lacked credibility on the international stage.
Speaker 5: And that's exactly what we're seeing now.
Speaker 2: And on the issue of domestic leadership.
Speaker 3: In an interview with Andrew Clenell on this channel yesterday,
Speaker 3: albit Easy stood bys.
Speaker 2: To see to purchase a four point two.
Speaker 3: Million dollar holiday home while maintaining that no one will
Speaker 3: be left behind. Now, I'm not quite sure that hit
Speaker 3: the court with the court with Australians that he thinks
Speaker 3: it might Is this just more poor judgment from the
Speaker 3: Prime Minister.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think everyone says, you know, you have every right
Speaker 6: to buy a holiday home, whether you're a politician or not,
Speaker 6: and I don't have any problems with that, but it's
Speaker 6: incongruent with his political history and how he presents himself
Speaker 6: to the community as someone from a working class, battling
Speaker 6: background in a housing trust. And I don't doubt the
Speaker 6: way he's presented himself, but what I do doubt is
Speaker 6: whether he's authentic to that now and decisions he's taken,
Speaker 6: including a relation to his massive defined benefits that he
Speaker 6: will receive when he does leave Parliament, and the holiday
Speaker 6: home purchase, as I say, incongruent with how he's presented himself.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's all about you know, what kind
Speaker 6: of story are you telling the community and how does
Speaker 6: your behavior and actions then shape up to that, because
Speaker 6: people will judge you based upon what you have said
Speaker 6: and who you have said you are, and so this
Speaker 6: purchase is clearly inconsistent with the person who he has
Speaker 6: said he is. It's also taking the in place in
Speaker 6: the context of a housing shortage driven by this government's
Speaker 6: mass migration program. You know, they brought in over a
Speaker 6: million migrants on a net basis, which is driven Australians
Speaker 6: out of the housing market and really caused the rents
Speaker 6: to skyrocket, as you would know full well in Perth.
Speaker 6: You know, they've been dramatically increasing as they have across
Speaker 6: the country. So you know, not only is there an incongruency,
Speaker 6: but there's also people look at it and say, well,
Speaker 6: your own policy is causing problems for every day Australians.
Speaker 3: And it is causing problems for every day Australians. Dan,
Speaker 3: we do have an election coming up. This might be
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister can say what he likes, but are
Speaker 3: Australians listening.
Speaker 6: Well, they're probably starting to tune out. And I think
Speaker 6: this sort of happened with the Voice to Parliament, which
Speaker 6: was an inflection point where you know, you spent half
Speaker 6: a billion dollars on a referendum to divide Australians by race,
Speaker 6: which was sort of driven by the activist class, and
Speaker 6: Australians had a lot of good will towards that, and
Speaker 6: I think they were also had a lot of good
Speaker 6: will towards this government. You know, Albersi was very popular
Speaker 6: to start with for a number of months, and of
Speaker 6: course Scott Morrison, his predecessor, was very unpopular, so Australians
Speaker 6: were willing and open to a change after a decade
Speaker 6: of coalition government that often failed to deliver for people
Speaker 6: and was a massive failure during COVID both at the
Speaker 6: federal and state although it was labor at state level,
Speaker 6: but liberal oppositions didn't hold state governments to accounts, so
Speaker 6: Australians were rightly saying, well.
Speaker 5: Let's give something else a go.
Speaker 6: But I think ever since the Voice to Parliament when
Speaker 6: they heard from Alberanesi for a year and a half
Speaker 6: talking about well we need to have this policy to
Speaker 6: entrench racial division, while Australians were struggling with cost of
Speaker 6: living and were more concerned with other issues. So again
Speaker 6: he sort of brought himself a bit of time with
Speaker 6: the Stage three tax cut revamp that sort of saved
Speaker 6: him with the by election in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
Speaker 6: But you know it's really a question of well can
Speaker 6: he pull a rabbit out of the hat again, and
Speaker 6: I think the latest newsporpt would suggest that he's really
Speaker 6: struggling on that front.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And look just on the invasion day protest you
Speaker 3: alluded to a li bit earlier. They have become a
Speaker 3: recent Pox on Australia Day. As you said, numbers appear
Speaker 3: to have dropped off in Sydney, while those Invasion Day
Speaker 3: protests joined forces with the pro Palestine protests in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure the black Band view of the
Speaker 3: world is as popular as it once was, and I'm
Speaker 3: not quite sure if the recent.
Speaker 2: US election has had any impact on that. What's your view.
Speaker 6: I think the US election has had a massive impact.
Speaker 6: I mean, whatever happens the US reverberates around the world,
Speaker 6: especially in the Western world, whether you know you agree
Speaker 6: with it or not. And I think Trump has taken
Speaker 6: a culdgurl to Wokism. And like I said before, with
Speaker 6: the Voice to Parliament, let's not forget about that as well.
Speaker 6: I mean, that was really the first major defeat of
Speaker 6: identity politics with a national vote in the Western world,
Speaker 6: other than perhaps Brexit. Although there was a big economic
Speaker 6: dimension to Brexit that wasn't there with the Voice as much.
Speaker 6: So you know, there's a big component there with the protest.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's your typical Renter crowd, isn't it. As
Speaker 6: you said, not only the I guess the indigit activists,
Speaker 6: but the Palestine activist and anybody else in between, you know.
Speaker 6: So I don't think there's any grassroots support for this
Speaker 6: at all. As far as I could see, mainstream Australians
Speaker 6: were just having a good time with their families, whether
Speaker 6: it was at one of the local events for breakfast
Speaker 6: or lunch, or at the beach in the hotter parts
Speaker 6: of the country. So I think these protests are well
Speaker 6: and truly very much a fringe component now of our society,
Speaker 6: and so much the better, I reckon.
Speaker 3: And over the weekend, Peter Dutton handed down his refreshed
Speaker 3: Shadow Ministry and crowd favorite just Enter Price. She's been
Speaker 3: given the newly creative role of government efficiency spokesperson. I mean,
Speaker 3: look where small government people. So we're probably a bit biased,
Speaker 3: but do you think this was.
Speaker 2: A good move.
Speaker 6: It's a very good move, just to show that she's
Speaker 6: not only a community leader but also a national leader
Speaker 6: with the voice to Parliament debate. And you know she
Speaker 6: was going to lead that debate no matter what, whether
Speaker 6: the Liberals were yes or no or in between. She
Speaker 6: was always going to lead the No campaign one way
Speaker 6: or the other. And I think just Centerest demonstrated time
Speaker 6: again that she really can talk to mainstream Australians. I
Speaker 6: reckon that the speech that she gave at the National
Speaker 6: Press Club during the Voice to Parliament debate, which kind
Speaker 6: of went under the radar a little bit, but I
Speaker 6: think it's one of the most significant and important speeches
Speaker 6: delivered by a political leader in recent memory, and I
Speaker 6: encourage everybody to revisit that. And certainly her elevation to
Speaker 6: a critical nationwide role and an economic role of government
Speaker 6: efficiency will give her, I think, a broader set of
Speaker 6: responsibilities and I've got no doubt that she's going to
Speaker 6: play a very key role in the campaign and if
Speaker 6: the Coalition do form government.
Speaker 5: Look, there's a lot of red.
Speaker 6: Tape that needs to be cut, so it's a big
Speaker 6: job that she'll have ahead of her.
Speaker 3: Speaking of red tape and onto our friends at the ABC, well,
Speaker 3: they haven't bothered to send anyone to our Schwitz to
Speaker 3: cover the Holocaust Memorial commemoration. We note, of course that
Speaker 3: they sent thirty seven stuff at a cost of the
Speaker 3: tax payer of a hunt undred and fifty thousand for
Speaker 3: the four day Gama festival. The collective appears to still
Speaker 3: be running the show, Dan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 6: And this is a big issue for the ABC in
Speaker 6: for all Australians, because all Australians pay for the ABC,
Speaker 6: or at least all Australian tax payers pay for the ABC.
Speaker 5: And you know, over the years, really.
Speaker 6: Over i'd say the last decade or so, the ABC
Speaker 6: has stopped being an institution of cultural importance in a
Speaker 6: manner that it may have been in the past. It
Speaker 6: struggles to speak to mainstream values because it is largely
Speaker 6: captured by an inner city collective run out of Sydney
Speaker 6: and Melbourne. I've had you know, I've been on the
Speaker 6: ABC many times in the regions and I reckon they
Speaker 6: do a pretty good job on regional radio. They're fairly balanced,
Speaker 6: but when it comes to representing mainstream Australians in the
Speaker 6: suburbs and the outer suburbs, they time and time again
Speaker 6: show that they get it wrong. They're so focused on
Speaker 6: their niche issues that they just can't They're in a
Speaker 6: position now, I reckon, they just can't even understand what
Speaker 6: the typical on the street thinks. So this is why
Speaker 6: their ratings or their marquee programs are going down, and
Speaker 6: they're just going to continue to go down.
Speaker 5: If they behave in this manner, it.
Speaker 3: Won't surprise you that I am in furious agreement.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Daniel Wilt.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Women's Forum Australia's head of advocacy,
Speaker 3: Steph Bastian.
Speaker 2: Steph, Look, we seem to me making progress in the
Speaker 2: fight to return the.
Speaker 3: World to gender common sense. Obviously that progress is not linear.
Speaker 3: And then in the Albanezy government, Minister Catherine King has
Speaker 3: accused Donald Trump of sowing a division because he dared
Speaker 3: to back basic biology. We still have a little way
Speaker 3: to go in Australia, don't we.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we certainly do.
Speaker 10: Not only were hers and Jasina Allen's comments inappropriate, they
Speaker 10: were totally dismissive of the issues that are facing women
Speaker 10: because of our policies that prioritize gender ideology over women's
Speaker 10: sex base rights. I mean, we have women in prison
Speaker 10: who who are being housed with male offenders. We have
Speaker 10: little girls going to school and having to share bathrooms
Speaker 10: with male with male students, and parents are telling me
Speaker 10: that their girls are holding on all day rather than
Speaker 10: going out of embarrassment or for fear of their safety.
Speaker 10: We have women being injured in sport because of our
Speaker 10: inclusive policies that allow men to identifying to female team.
Speaker 10: Some of these are head injuries, stomach injuries, broken bones.
Speaker 10: It's absolutely horrendous. So these comments, I mean, not only
Speaker 10: are they being divisive, they are totally dismissing the issues
Speaker 10: that are being faced by women today as a result
Speaker 10: of bad government failure to address this issue. And quite frankly,
Speaker 10: the train left the station before Trump got elected. His
Speaker 10: policies are simply surcharging the demand for change in this country.
Speaker 3: And Steph, just a point. I mean, this issue was
Speaker 3: a real sacred cow. You know, even twelve eighteen months ago.
Speaker 3: Do you think we are making some progress here in
Speaker 3: Australia at least being able to more openly speak about it.
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I think more and more people are speaking up
Speaker 10: across the political spectrum. There was silence I think for
Speaker 10: a long time, particularly from people on the left who
Speaker 10: saw themselves as allies. But increasingly, particularly as other groups
Speaker 10: such as you know, lesbians and same sex people are
Speaker 10: being affected, they're realizing that this gender ideology is just
Speaker 10: taking over everywhere and that it's no longer about equal riotes,
Speaker 10: it's about submission, and it's just it's gone so far,
Speaker 10: and the harm is so great to.
Speaker 9: Women and to girls and to all the rest of it.
Speaker 10: More and more people are realizing that it's not based
Speaker 10: on common sense and it's.
Speaker 5: Got to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Now, some recent research conducted by Employment Service ZIMIA has
Speaker 3: shown that in the US, seventy five percent of DEI
Speaker 3: positions were held by white Americans, and ironically, blokes still
Speaker 3: seem to earn more than women despite preaching equality. Now
Speaker 3: I find this, you know, hysterically funny. Doesn't it just
Speaker 3: show how shallow and disingenuous this mantra.
Speaker 2: Has been from right at the very beginning.
Speaker 10: Oh absolutely, These sorts of roles were always about pr exercises,
Speaker 10: particularly by governments and woke corporations. I remember going to
Speaker 10: the Northern Territory when the Voice campaign just to bring
Speaker 10: it back home, and I met with community organizations who
Speaker 10: were working on the front line with women facing domestic
Speaker 10: violence or getting young offenders back on track after a
Speaker 10: stint in prison. And while you know, inner city elites
Speaker 10: were arguing about land rights and the Voice, they had
Speaker 10: government being stripped from the government, funding being stripped for them.
Speaker 9: And they are no longer able to deliver those services.
Speaker 10: I think that big corporations and government departments that want
Speaker 10: to do the right thing should be putting these three
Speaker 10: hundred thousand dollars salaries to better use, quite frankly, but
Speaker 10: there doesn't seem to be any initiative to do that,
Speaker 10: probably because there's little to be gained from a pr
Speaker 10: perspective out of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I've just.
Speaker 3: Thoroughly enjoyed light being shone down on this. It has
Speaker 3: been a very interesting week, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: And look, women's rights groups, and you raise this earlier,
Speaker 2: they've long fought to keep biological.
Speaker 3: Men out of women's prisons, and this is now the
Speaker 3: reality in the US.
Speaker 2: Can you tell us about the executive order?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a brilliant executive order. I'm so pleased that
Speaker 10: it's happened because women in prison are some of the
Speaker 10: most marginalized and the most vulnerable in society. They often
Speaker 10: come from backgrounds of abuse and trauma and neglect. They
Speaker 10: suffer greater mental health issues and often addiction problems as well.
Speaker 10: And the last thing that they want, the last thing
Speaker 10: that they need, is to have male offenders being placed
Speaker 10: in prisons with them. It's grossly unfair and I think
Speaker 10: what the Trump administration has done here is common sense
Speaker 10: and it's something that we need here in Australia too.
Speaker 10: We know that there are sex offenders and male perpetrates
Speaker 10: being housed in female prison self idea into female prisons.
Speaker 9: There was an example.
Speaker 10: Of this raised a couple of weeks ago by a
Speaker 10: Rodducks magazine where late last year a male offender he
Speaker 10: was arrested as a male, he was out on bail
Speaker 10: in male accommodation on pedophilia charges, then during sentencing housed
Speaker 10: and housed and placed into a female prison.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's just not good enough for the safety
Speaker 9: of women.
Speaker 10: Once again their rights are being trampled on by gender ideology,
Speaker 10: men who identify as women for their own.
Speaker 9: Intents and purposes.
Speaker 10: So brilliant policy, but I think we definitely need something
Speaker 10: here and probably at a federal level, because every state
Speaker 10: has different policies.
Speaker 9: We need an.
Speaker 10: Overarching, overarching policy that's going to improve things across.
Speaker 9: The board for these vulnerable women.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you would think that the feminists would be you know,
Speaker 3: you don't have plenty to say about this, and typically
Speaker 3: on this issue they are silent. Now last, and my
Speaker 3: favorite gender meltdown this week is from Awen Madawi writing
Speaker 3: for our friends at The Guardian. Now, her op ed
Speaker 3: proffers the question, after his executive order on sex, is
Speaker 3: Trump legally the first female president?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 3: Look, we've seen some drivel out of the garden over
Speaker 3: the years, but this article just makes me feel like
Speaker 3: the world is healing and the morons are outing themselves.
Speaker 2: You know, what was this all about?
Speaker 10: I was absolutely absurd to claim that. You know, scientists
Speaker 10: no longer agree that sex is binary, and I mean
Speaker 10: the reality is sex is actually determined from conception because
Speaker 10: the male sperm determined sex. The sex characteristics might take
Speaker 10: a little while to determine, but in most cases, in
Speaker 10: most normal.
Speaker 9: Cases, it's already there.
Speaker 10: I think this is just historyonics and the organizations like
Speaker 10: The Guardian and the Misinformation continue to publish this information,
Speaker 10: but people are switching off. I mean, more and more
Speaker 10: people are getting the news and information from social media,
Speaker 10: and there's a reason for that because they've lost credibility.
Speaker 10: So I think if these organizations, if they want to
Speaker 10: sustain themselves, they need to get back to factual reporting,
Speaker 10: telling the truth, and to stop misleading the public with
Speaker 10: this misinformation.
Speaker 3: And go back to posting on x so they can
Speaker 3: get some more feedback. Thank you so much, Steph Bashan
Speaker 3: for joining us. Still to come, Lefties losing it, Plus
Speaker 3: Alex Stone joins me to discuss Trump's first one hundred
Speaker 3: hours in office. Now it's time for Lefti's losing it
Speaker 3: and a week into the Trump presidency and Trumps derangement
Speaker 3: syndrome has well and.
Speaker 2: Truly hit its stride.
Speaker 3: So deranged in fact, that lefties appear to think that
Speaker 3: all Mexicans in the US are illegal because if you
Speaker 3: voted for Trump, now you can't eat Mexican food.
Speaker 1: Listen, if I pull up to the Mexican restaurant and
Speaker 1: I see a truck, because let's face that, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a truck with a Trump bumper sticker, you're
Speaker 1: getting keyed. I didn't want to see you at Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: The only thing you get to eat for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life is plain white bread and mayonnaise. And
Speaker 1: I know that you were gonna eat a lot of
Speaker 1: that anyway, but that's all you deserve. You deserve nothing
Speaker 1: that tastes good for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Or if you voted for Trump, you can't go to Mexico.
Speaker 4: And let me make something absolutely clear, unless there wasn't already,
Speaker 4: if you voted for Trump, you are not allowed in Mexico.
Speaker 8: You are not.
Speaker 4: Allowed at Gawos, Cancun, Perto, Wayata, Auascaliandez.
Speaker 2: None of that. Guess what, baby, that's all in Mexico.
Speaker 8: You don't like us, we don't like you.
Speaker 4: Don't go there, Stay in your country.
Speaker 8: Figure it out.
Speaker 3: The raging irony is that to travel between countries you
Speaker 3: usually need some form of identification and to enter at
Speaker 3: a formal port of entry.
Speaker 2: It's the people.
Speaker 3: Without idea who are jumping the fences that are the
Speaker 3: current cause for concern. How people can't or won't understand
Speaker 3: the differentference is beyond me. And while the threat of
Speaker 3: cancel culture is waning, this is true, it still rears
Speaker 3: its ugly head on occasion.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: The single juel she performed at rfk's Make America Healthy
Speaker 3: Again Ball.
Speaker 13: Which was met with such severe backlash that she had
Speaker 13: to issue an apology for causing pain.
Speaker 14: I'm so sorry that I caused pain, especially in my
Speaker 14: LGBTQA plus community. Because you guys are treasures. You make
Speaker 14: the world a better place.
Speaker 3: Never mind the pain that is caused by poor access
Speaker 3: to health care, poor therapeutic regulation, poor diet, and net's associated
Speaker 3: health complications, amongst many things. I'll never understand why Americans seem.
Speaker 2: To eat like health care areas free.
Speaker 3: Anyway, despite all that, an apology was apparently warranted because feelings.
Speaker 2: It's actually so perverse. I have no more words.
Speaker 3: And with much discussion, change of policy and ranker surrounding
Speaker 3: the deportation of illegal immigrants, one TikToker advise Americans to
Speaker 3: interfere with ICE agents.
Speaker 15: We should try to make it as much as uncomfortable for.
Speaker 8: The ICE eight as as possible.
Speaker 15: You see a group of I'm going to laudge dinner
Speaker 15: breakfast through a restaurant you're working at, and you happen
Speaker 15: to be Hispanic, and you happen to be in the kitchen,
Speaker 15: split out the food, do unhuman things to their food.
Speaker 2: Another claim, she was willing to land herself in.
Speaker 16: Jail if it comes into my school. I'm going to jail,
Speaker 16: full start. I'm going to jail. Don't go to go
Speaker 16: with me in jail. I mean because in no way
Speaker 16: retain the students.
Speaker 12: And then the ICE can now raid classrooms, and as
Speaker 12: a high school teacher, I just want to make one
Speaker 12: thing clear. If someone tries to come in my classroom
Speaker 12: and take one of my students, one of us isn't
Speaker 12: leaving the classroom play with me.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, the new US ladyship is having none of it.
Speaker 17: I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these
Speaker 17: refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that
Speaker 17: there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted,
Speaker 17: and then we're literally planning terrorist attacks in our country
Speaker 17: that happened during the campaign, if you may.
Speaker 8: Remember, these people are vetted, just like the guy.
Speaker 17: Who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago.
Speaker 17: He was allegedly properly vetted. I don't want my children
Speaker 17: to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.
Speaker 17: And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm
Speaker 17: not going to force any other American citizens' kids to
Speaker 17: do that either.
Speaker 5: No, and that was a very particular case.
Speaker 1: It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got
Speaker 1: here or while he was living.
Speaker 8: I don't really care, Margaret.
Speaker 17: I don't want that person in my country, and I
Speaker 17: think most Americans agree with me.
Speaker 2: I don't care a and anyway.
Speaker 3: That's today's snapshot of the total stupidity of the modern left.
Speaker 3: It's been a memorable week in US politics with the
Speaker 3: return of Donald Trump to the White House. Compared to
Speaker 3: the lethargy of the last four years, it feels like
Speaker 3: we've all of a.
Speaker 2: Sudden been plunged into a cold bath.
Speaker 3: Here is a video highlighting what Trump is called the
Speaker 3: most historic one hundred hours in office.
Speaker 18: The Golden Age of America begins right now. America's decline
Speaker 18: is over. We will be working to meet every crisis
Speaker 18: with dignity.
Speaker 8: And power and strength.
Speaker 18: We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity,
Speaker 18: safety and use for citizens of every race, religion, color,
Speaker 18: and create for American citizens. January twenty, twenty twenty five
Speaker 18: is Liberation Day, and everything we do my administration will
Speaker 18: be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelat
Speaker 18: doing success. America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest,
Speaker 18: most powerful, most respected nation or Earth.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is comedian and host of Prime Time
Speaker 3: with Alex Stein on Blaze TV. The man himself, Alex Stein,
Speaker 3: Alex Trump is organized and not wasting time this time round.
Speaker 19: No, Donald Trump is not wasting time. He's setting the
Speaker 19: tone of his presidency. You know right from the start
Speaker 19: that he means business. That he's done messing around letting
Speaker 19: other countries just walk to our country and become asylum seekers.
Speaker 19: He's done with that. He's realized that we have a
Speaker 19: serious issue at the border, and that's why he's putting
Speaker 19: troops there. He's helping all the January six ers get
Speaker 19: pardoned because the Department of Justice was weaponized against American citizens.
Speaker 19: So just the tone that he said this early, I
Speaker 19: think it's going to be a wild four years, especially
Speaker 19: for the liberals that are probably shaking in their boots
Speaker 19: right now, especially the illegal immigrants.
Speaker 8: Seeing you know that Donald Trump was not kidding.
Speaker 19: He is doing what he said that he was going
Speaker 19: to do on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3: And Trump has signed well, he signed a number of
Speaker 3: executive orders, but including one to release the JFK, RFK
Speaker 3: and Martin Luther King assassination files.
Speaker 2: What should we expect here, Well.
Speaker 19: You know, there's so many files I saw online that
Speaker 19: even though they gave us ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 19: files there's still so much to go through, and that
Speaker 19: the Martin Luther King family didn't want some of the
Speaker 19: information to come out because if you look at that information,
Speaker 19: there's some weird stuff that Martin Luther King maybe was
Speaker 19: doing some.
Speaker 8: Weird nefarious stuff.
Speaker 19: Now I think we're going to find out that a
Speaker 19: lot of people in America were doing nefarious stuff, and
Speaker 19: that's why they didn't want all this information to get out.
Speaker 8: But luckily, Donald Trump.
Speaker 19: In his four years when he was president got railroaded
Speaker 19: the whole entire time.
Speaker 8: So he's a waste one minute.
Speaker 19: Not accomplishing all the goals in tasks that he set
Speaker 19: forth during his campaign. So this is just another indication
Speaker 19: that he's going to give us governmental transparency that everybody
Speaker 19: in America is craving. So, you know, God bless America
Speaker 19: and God bless the future when it comes to Donald
Speaker 19: Trump as president.
Speaker 3: And he's definitely a lot more organized this time around.
Speaker 3: There were parts of his last term in presidency they
Speaker 3: were a bit chaotic. This time here he seems to
Speaker 3: have thought things very much better.
Speaker 19: Well, yeah, I mean, I think now looking back, it
Speaker 19: was terrible that he didn't win in twenty twenty, but really,
Speaker 19: this is probably the best thing that could have happened,
Speaker 19: because if it was the other way around and that
Speaker 19: he won, now he would be out of office right
Speaker 19: now and they would be opening up the border, so
Speaker 19: a total opposite situation potentially than what we're having now.
Speaker 19: So it was actually a blessing that he lost. Everybody
Speaker 19: got to see how the country was doing under the
Speaker 19: Biden regime and the Kamala Harris regime. So now they're
Speaker 19: going to appreciate Donald Trump that much more. And I'm
Speaker 19: ready for our gas prices to go down. I know
Speaker 19: that's next.
Speaker 8: So just wait.
Speaker 19: The cost of living is going to go down for
Speaker 19: your average American very soon.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people have obviously been very welcoming
Speaker 3: of a Trump return. But in the wake of that
Speaker 3: return and his visit to California, and obviously those wildfire
Speaker 3: fires in Los Angeles continue to rage, but there are
Speaker 3: moves a foot in California for California to secede from
Speaker 3: the United States. Now what's the process here and does
Speaker 3: it have a snowballs chance?
Speaker 19: Well, you know, I'm in Dallas, Texas, and a lot
Speaker 19: of Texans want to text it. They want us to secede.
Speaker 19: From America and now the Donald Trump's in power. I
Speaker 19: don't agree with that, But if California was to go California,
Speaker 19: see it later. I mean, they're doing all kinds of
Speaker 19: weird gender assignment surgeon for kids. They let biological males
Speaker 19: compete against biological females all because they put on a
Speaker 19: dress for a few periods during class. So, you know,
Speaker 19: California has gone so crazy and they're so woke that
Speaker 19: at this point, let them have their little crazy euphoria
Speaker 19: where nothing works and everything gets burned down and they
Speaker 19: can't even you know, fill.
Speaker 8: Up their water reserves stop of fire.
Speaker 19: So go ahead, if California wants to become his own country,
Speaker 19: I'll just let them basically destroy themselves from the inside out.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you missed though? If California goes.
Speaker 19: Well, of course, I mean California is a beautiful state.
Speaker 19: Don't get me wrong. California is an epic place. It
Speaker 19: used to be kind of the pinnacle of cool. Everybody
Speaker 19: used to like Hollywood until we realize that they're all
Speaker 19: best friends with Jeffrey Epstein and they're all best friends
Speaker 19: with Harvey Weinstein, and that Hollywood has lost a lot
Speaker 19: of it's luster that it once had.
Speaker 8: So California was once a great state. But I mean,
Speaker 8: just look at it burning down.
Speaker 19: San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the
Speaker 19: world's covered in you know, human excrement.
Speaker 8: I mean, so this is not a joke. This is
Speaker 8: a serious thing.
Speaker 19: That fire hydrants don't have water to put out fire.
Speaker 19: So California did this to themselves, and until they make
Speaker 19: some major changes, it's only gonna keep heading in the
Speaker 19: wrong direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has got that failed state whiff to it,
Speaker 3: doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Now under the Biden.
Speaker 3: Administration, they were to substantially increase the number of agents
Speaker 3: working for the IRS. Now, I understand the breaks have
Speaker 3: gone on, but what's Trump's plan for these new hires.
Speaker 8: He needs to get them the heck out of here.
Speaker 8: We don't need any.
Speaker 19: More IRS agents IRS. Nobody likes the IRS. Just the
Speaker 19: fact that the Biden administration hired that many, enough to
Speaker 19: fill up a football stadium shows you that the Biden
Speaker 19: administration does not care about American citizens and we get
Speaker 19: taxed out the wazoo. So I think Donald Trump realizes
Speaker 19: that these people have jobs. He you know, the previous
Speaker 19: administration gave them some sort of you know, promise that
Speaker 19: they're going to hire them. But I don't care about
Speaker 19: any of that. Donald Trump needs a fire every single
Speaker 19: one of them. We need less irs agents, not more
Speaker 19: to help in our quality of life here.
Speaker 3: Well, and that would definitely fit in, very tidally with
Speaker 3: having a smaller government, which is something that he has
Speaker 3: absolutely been championing. Now, when I woke up this morning
Speaker 3: here in Perth, Western Australia, I saw these rather eventful
Speaker 3: exchange between the US and Colombia over the repatriation of
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. What's happened and what's the latest on that?
Speaker 2: Where do things stand?
Speaker 8: Well, you saw the about facing the Colombian president. It's
Speaker 8: so great.
Speaker 19: Gustavo buckled under the pressure of Donald Trump.
Speaker 8: Just saying that he was going to raise terrorists.
Speaker 19: And what's so good about this is that we don't
Speaker 19: have to go to war with these foreign countries. All
Speaker 19: we can all we need to do is just put
Speaker 19: rules and regulations and tax them and then we can
Speaker 19: actually solve these problems. You look at all the money
Speaker 19: that's wasted in the Ukraine right now fighting that proxy
Speaker 19: war just all over the world. We can come to
Speaker 19: an agreement through negotiation and solve these problems. And you
Speaker 19: saw with Columbia that's a perfect example of what Donald
Speaker 19: Trump's going to do going forward. When other countries want
Speaker 19: to send us all their criminals, want to empty their jails,
Speaker 19: and when we try to bring them back to their country,
Speaker 19: they better accept them or else they're going to be
Speaker 19: there's going to be serious consequences when it comes to
Speaker 19: our geopolitical.
Speaker 3: And what has been the reaction from some of those
Speaker 3: other countries in relation to the repatriation of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think Mexico and you saw Columbia.
Speaker 19: At first they're a little hesitant, but now they're realizing
Speaker 19: that Donald Trump is not joking around and that they
Speaker 19: have to play ball with this new administration.
Speaker 8: So, you know, they might not like it. They might
Speaker 8: not want.
Speaker 19: A bunch of criminals coming back to their country that
Speaker 19: they excommunicated, but we don't want.
Speaker 8: Them here in America.
Speaker 19: And it's not and Donald Trump says it clearly, he's
Speaker 19: not anti immigration. We just need to vet the people
Speaker 19: that come into our country, and we're not doing that.
Speaker 8: We're letting in people that.
Speaker 19: Have serious criminal history, have done serious crimes, and that
Speaker 19: needs to be fixed, and under Donald Trump, these other countries,
Speaker 19: they're going to realize that America is not playing around
Speaker 19: when it comes to immigration happening and asylum happening. When
Speaker 19: you're a criminal, you're not going to be welcome in
Speaker 19: the United States any longer.
Speaker 8: And it's a beautiful sight to see.
Speaker 3: Now, Alexi, it came as no surprise to me, and
Speaker 3: I imagine it came as no surprise to you that
Speaker 3: the CIA has concluded that COVID nineteen likely originated from
Speaker 3: a China lab lake. Now, there are some people who
Speaker 3: should frankly be ashamed of themselves, and others who were
Speaker 3: no doubt going through their receipts. It's just another example
Speaker 3: of the level of rampant stupidity and censorship during COVID,
Speaker 3: isn't it?
Speaker 8: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 19: And I know you're being sarcastic when you asked me,
Speaker 19: but this is what makes me so sick about this
Speaker 19: whole entire thing, is that they knew that this was
Speaker 19: a virus that got leaked in China, and that we
Speaker 19: have had histories of sarros pneumonia, There's been lots of
Speaker 19: respiratory illnesses. But because they wanted to push out the vaccine,
Speaker 19: and it makes me sick. All the people, the people
Speaker 19: that I lost, the people that I love, that weren't
Speaker 19: able to get proper care because they said that the
Speaker 19: only remedy was a vaccine, and the only way to
Speaker 19: get a vaccine without one long term testing was to
Speaker 19: get it through an emergency use authorization, and you're only
Speaker 19: able to get that authorization if there's no other remedies.
Speaker 19: So they lied about the origins of the virus, they
Speaker 19: lied about fixing the virus, they lied about every single
Speaker 19: aspect of COVID nineteen, and they ruined a lot of
Speaker 19: people's lives. So these people should be held accountable. And
Speaker 19: I hope not trying to, you know, cheerlead for Putin,
Speaker 19: but I would love for doctor Fauci to get extradited
Speaker 19: to Russia and face a real trial because what they
Speaker 19: did to American people by not giving us any other
Speaker 19: remedies for pneumonia or the flu, it costs a lot
Speaker 19: of people and a lot of loved ones their lives,
Speaker 19: and it just makes me sick.
Speaker 3: And there were a lot of us during COVID who
Speaker 3: asked questions that those questions obviously were not appreciated but
Speaker 3: I do wonder, and I'd be interested in your view
Speaker 3: on this, if there was to be something similar which
Speaker 3: happened again, do you think, having.
Speaker 2: Gone through the experience we've all gone.
Speaker 3: On through, the same thing would occur or do you
Speaker 3: think people would be more likely to push back?
Speaker 19: Well, of course I think people would realize the first
Speaker 19: time shutting down during the pandemic was not the best
Speaker 19: choice for our country. And yes, if this happens again,
Speaker 19: which I'm sure it will, because there are viruses.
Speaker 8: You know, we've had this before. Like I said, SARS.
Speaker 19: Didn't just come around in twenty twenty, We've had other
Speaker 19: issues with sudn or cute respiratory syndrome. I mean, so, yes,
Speaker 19: it's going to happen again, And the next time it happens,
Speaker 19: they're not going to be able to bamboozle the people.
Speaker 8: They will be able to shut stuff down.
Speaker 19: They will be able to give people vaccines again, for sure,
Speaker 19: but we're going to be a lot more cognizant and
Speaker 19: ask the appropriate questions and hopefully get the appropriate answers
Speaker 19: and not let the same thing happen. I just really
Speaker 19: really find it hard to believe that they could do
Speaker 19: this to the extent that they did at the first
Speaker 19: time ever again.
Speaker 8: But will they do it again?
Speaker 19: Will there be other pandemics and you know, viral issues, Yes,
Speaker 19: but a lot of people woke up from this first one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because definitely here in Australia, you know, for the
Speaker 3: country that's renowned for its Alaricans. Oh my god, will
Speaker 3: be very very compliant and frankly it's a bit terrifying.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Lastly, there have been calls for Trump's face to be included.
Speaker 2: On Mount Rushmore. Should it happen or shouldn't we just
Speaker 2: wait and see first?
Speaker 8: No, it needs to happen.
Speaker 19: They need to put them one hundred dollars bill, They
Speaker 19: need to pump Trump up. And honestly, you know, I
Speaker 19: know this is kind of a comical thing to put
Speaker 19: them on Mount Rushmore, but honestly, I wouldn't I would
Speaker 19: love it. I wouldn't disapprove of it. I would approve
Speaker 19: of it wholeheartedly. Are they going to actually do it?
Speaker 8: I don't know. But Donald Trump.
Speaker 19: Deserves, especially after this four years, to be treated like
Speaker 19: the legend that he is.
Speaker 8: And in my opinion, I think he won three elections,
Speaker 8: not just two.
Speaker 19: I don't really believe a lot of the mail in
Speaker 19: ballots when it came into the twenty twenty elections. So
Speaker 19: he's one of the only presidents in my opinion, to
Speaker 19: win three elections. So he deserves to be on Mount
Speaker 19: Rushmore just because of that factor.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, Alex Stein. What
Speaker 2: a way to end. Now still to.
Speaker 3: Come, Kinsey Schofield joins me. We detail about Meghan Michael's.
Speaker 2: Alleged divorce book. You don't want to miss that. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to the show.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is celebrity and royal reporter Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey,
Speaker 3: the Vanity Fair piece on the Sussexes was absolutely brutal.
Speaker 3: What's the latest on Meghan's alleged post of horse book?
Speaker 2: Absolutely well.
Speaker 11: A Peach six spoke to a source that revealed even
Speaker 11: if Harry and Meghan wanted to split, they couldn't. The
Speaker 11: source said, they are just two narcissists that are worth
Speaker 11: more together that benefit, you know, with the brand that
Speaker 11: they built. But what's buried with.
Speaker 2: And I know you're going to think this this is
Speaker 2: actually really interesting.
Speaker 11: What's actually buried within this article is this is a
Speaker 11: publishing contact of page six is that reveals that that
Speaker 11: original twenty million dollar Penguin Random House book deal that
Speaker 11: the sussex Is signed back in twenty twenty one seems
Speaker 11: to have quietly dissipated. So is this another spotify where
Speaker 11: a huge corporation in the States is turning their back
Speaker 11: on the Sussexes because their work ethic is weak, the
Speaker 11: return on investments not there, they are difficult to collaborate with.
Speaker 11: I think we were all waiting for the Netflix ball
Speaker 11: to drop, but it looks like the Penguin Random House
Speaker 11: ball actually might be the next to drop, and that
Speaker 11: would be another embarrassing situation for the Sussexes.
Speaker 2: But Kinsey, where to now? Honestly? I mean, we have
Speaker 2: just watched tryin Reck after try and Wreck. They have
Speaker 2: to do something.
Speaker 3: They have to earn money a project, so one of
Speaker 3: the projects has to go from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: And what do they do?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 11: My Meghan Markle is like praying to God that her
Speaker 11: Netflix show sees the light of day on May fourth,
Speaker 11: first of all, actually sees the light of day, but
Speaker 11: that somebody will be complimentary about it. You are seeing
Speaker 11: this role push and pull between Harry and Meghan when
Speaker 11: it comes to his fight against the media because Meghan
Speaker 11: doesn't hate the media. She's desperate for their love and
Speaker 11: attention and affection because she knows the only way she
Speaker 11: will succeed commercially is if she gets those magazine covers
Speaker 11: and those positive profile pieces.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and Trump pretending to the White House. Questions are
Speaker 3: being raised again about Harry's admission to elicit drug use.
Speaker 2: Where's this going?
Speaker 11: I mean, yeah, that's right, this is the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 11: You and I've discussed this before.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 11: Gardner recently telling the Daily Beast that he will personally
Speaker 11: urge Donald Trump to deport Prince Harry. It's shown that
Speaker 11: he lied on his immigration application. But the associate editor
Speaker 11: of The Daily Telegraph, Kimilla Tomini, is asking if Prince
Speaker 11: Harry settled with Newsgroup newspapers because he didn't want to
Speaker 11: rattle the cage of President Trump. She makes some very
Speaker 11: clear and vario astute arguments that perhaps Prince Harry settled
Speaker 11: and didn't want to get on a plane to the
Speaker 11: UK because it's way too easy at this point for
Speaker 11: Donald Trump to not let him back into the country,
Speaker 11: And a lot of people reading that article saying, wait,
Speaker 11: maybe she has a point here, because remember Prince Harry
Speaker 11: said he would never settle this case. It was on principle,
Speaker 11: not on finances.
Speaker 3: And the thing we also have to remember is the
Speaker 3: royal family and the new president do have a very
Speaker 3: good relationship. So it would be very interesting to see what,
Speaker 3: if any influence that has on that other issue going forward.
Speaker 18: Now.
Speaker 3: During the inauguration, Kim Kardashian posted a photo of Milania Trump, who,
Speaker 3: on any measure, looked absolutely stunning. Apparently, Kim went on
Speaker 3: to lose one hundred and fifty thousand followers. So many
Speaker 3: words to describe this, Kinsey, But what are your thoughts?
Speaker 11: My thoughts are Everyone knows that Kim Kardashian is promiscuous politically.
Speaker 11: You know, she attended a Hillary Clinton fundraiser in August
Speaker 11: of twenty fifteen, but later was eager to work with
Speaker 11: President Trump on prison reform. She worked with Kamala in
Speaker 11: April twenty twenty four. But we've seen her out socially
Speaker 11: with Ivanka Trump. You know, if you are familiar with
Speaker 11: Kim Kardashian, you know that she's kind of everywhere.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it was a political statement.
Speaker 11: I think we'll see her dress as Malania Trump one
Speaker 11: day in a similar fashion to the way she dressed
Speaker 11: as Maryland. So I think it was just, hey, she
Speaker 11: looks great, and it wasn't a political statement.
Speaker 3: No, might not necessarily be a political statement. But it
Speaker 3: also says something about her followers, doesn't it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but we've all seen people that are glued to
Speaker 11: keeping up with the Kardashians.
Speaker 2: You know, we know, we know.
Speaker 3: Now the singer Joe she performed for RFKS Mike and
Speaker 3: America Healthy Again Bo. She has since apologized how savage.
Speaker 2: Was the backlash? I mean it was.
Speaker 11: She apologized because she felt like she caused pain, particularly
Speaker 11: to her LGBTQ IA plus fans, who she described as treasures.
Speaker 11: But she also stressed that her commitment to addressing the
Speaker 11: nation's mental health crisis transcends political divides. And this is
Speaker 11: another moment where you sit back and think, surely we
Speaker 11: should all rally around, you know, whatever administration is in charge,
Speaker 11: because the success of our country, the success of that president,
Speaker 11: is our success too. I mean it's the same with
Speaker 11: Kim Kardashian. Everything has become so polarizing.
Speaker 3: Now, speaking of polarizing, and Megan McCain, she's had a
Speaker 3: fair bit to say about a few things this week,
Speaker 3: including fueling rumors about a potential Obama divorce. Now, is
Speaker 3: this just scandalous and there is there anything to these?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 11: I think Megan McCain probably has better contacts than I do,
Speaker 11: and she was on her podcast she said, I have
Speaker 11: been hearing this rumor that the Obamas are getting a
Speaker 11: divorce by reputable people, very serious journalists, telling her that
Speaker 11: they're hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true.
Speaker 2: I think that.
Speaker 11: That is much more likely than Obama and Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I mean that I am surprised that this
Speaker 11: keeps coming up. Could Michelle Obama just be protesting any
Speaker 11: sort of association with the new administration. Perhaps, but there
Speaker 11: is talk that there is a divorce on the horizon
Speaker 11: around the United States.
Speaker 3: And look, to be honest, being involved in politics, and
Speaker 3: particular at that very senior level must be absolutely exhausting,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure out of over such a long period
Speaker 3: of time, Michelle's probably a little bit over it and
Speaker 3: would rather be.
Speaker 2: Doing other things now.
Speaker 3: One of the big I raising moments during the US
Speaker 3: presidential election campaign was when former Bernie Sanders voter Joe
Speaker 3: Rogan endorsed Trump. Now it's taken up many many column
Speaker 3: inches since, but a piece in Newsweek asks whether Rogan
Speaker 3: is a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaker 2: What's the answer given and what do you think?
Speaker 11: Yeah, he says, I'm neither. I'm an American. We do
Speaker 11: know that he was a Democrat. He talks a lot
Speaker 11: about how he was a Democrat that's kind of evolved.
Speaker 11: But he says he doesn't really feel strongly towards either
Speaker 11: of our political systems currently. He just wanted a strong
Speaker 11: leader in the White House, somebody that had the courage
Speaker 11: to go had to head with him because he invaded
Speaker 11: Kamala on his podcast and he was turned down. So,
Speaker 11: I you know, he just says, like, I support our country.
Speaker 11: I don't really identify as a member of either party.
Speaker 2: I just want us to win. And as JD.
Speaker 11: Vans and Trump Trump keep telling us, are you tired
Speaker 11: of winning? They've got plenty more winning to go.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure there's quite a few people in and
Speaker 3: around Hollywood who have similar sentiments, they just haven't come
Speaker 3: out and said them publicly yet. Now Blake Lively and
Speaker 3: the Justin Baldoni saga that continues that there has been absolutely.
Speaker 2: Extraordinary to watch.
Speaker 3: But separate allegations this week about a stolen script.
Speaker 2: What has happened? Oh my gosh, can you believe this?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 11: Brian Friedman, the man currently representing Justin Baldoni in his
Speaker 11: legal battle against Blake, filed a lawsuit back in twenty
Speaker 11: twenty one on behalf of a man named Travis Flores,
Speaker 11: claiming that Flores wrote a script from a movie called
Speaker 11: Three Feet Distance based on his own life, and Baldoni,
Speaker 11: who was working with Flores, stole this concept and created
Speaker 11: a move a very celebrated movie out of it. So basically,
Speaker 11: Justin Baldoni's current attorney at one point sued him.
Speaker 2: Justin settled that case.
Speaker 11: But Justin Baldoni's attorney knew exactly who he was working
Speaker 11: with when he accepted this case against Justin and Blake.
Speaker 11: So I think that Justin is a bit more of
Speaker 11: a fighter than we were aware of.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess the saga will continue, and no doubt
Speaker 3: it will continue to be as eventful as it has been.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Kinsey Schofield. And that's it from
Speaker 3: May up next his news not good night