WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 1 May 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.080 This is the US Report with James Morrow. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.520 Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.680 up tonight. The King's been in town and Trump delivers 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.560 a stirring defense of British American values. Plus Australia's got 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.880 a new mega maga US ambassador. Is this Trump's payback 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.760 for having to deal with Kevin Rudd and Jimmy Kimmel 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.520 doubles down on the assassination gangs? But isn't bad taste 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.519 still covered by free speech? But first, let's have a 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.360 quick word about King Charles's visit to the White House, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.560 which I think has to be called a real triumph 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.000 for both sides, with Trump looking funny and magnanimous and 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.800 his Majesty engaging in some pretty spectacular diplomacy that went 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.360 a long way towards patching up the rift that had 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.160 opened up between the White House and the effeckless, incompetent 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:02.720 and generally unhelpful UK government of Keir Starmer, including this 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.399 masterclass in how it's done. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.920 There was one particular Orchus predecessor, launched from a UK 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:16.479 shipyard in nineteen forty four, that served for the majority 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:22.080 of her life attached to the fourth Submarine Squadron in Australia. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:29.560 Her name HMS Trump. So tonight, mister President, I am 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.640 delighted to present to you, as a. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:32.880 Personal gift. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.959 The original bell which hung on the conning tower of 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.319 your valiant namesake. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.600 How good. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:44.959 And then there was this. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.680 Quip and should you ever need to get hold of 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.320 us or just give us a ring? 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.040 This was the bell, by the way, and I reckon 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.320 it'll look pretty good in the Oval office. Now there 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.760 was a lot more from both sides. They both made 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.480 quips about who would otherwise be speaking German versus who'd 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.680 otherwise be speaking French, And it was all very good natured. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.480 Trump never forget is a massive anglophile, even if he 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.440 quite reasonably deplores what has happened in the UK over 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.000 the past several years. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:18.960 But I think the. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.119 President may have also laid out the most important point 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.680 about the US UK relationship, and indeed the relationship between 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.760 the UK and all nations which descend from her, including 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.600 I might suggest, Australia. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.120 The first Americans saw themselves as free men, carrying the 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:44.480 forward and central liberties and ancient rights of the Anglo 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.520 Saxons into this new and beautiful world in the eyes 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.400 of America's founders. Our war of Independence was fought not 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.280 to reject this heritage, but to reclaim it and perfect it. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.639 That's a really important point. The American Revolution didn't end 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.600 in disaster because it wasn't so much trying to create 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.080 a utopian earth. They left that to the French, and 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.040 of course we know that didn't end well. But instead 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.920 they wanted to extend and build on the rights they 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.160 were entitled to from their English heritage and extend them 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.880 to the world. If only Australia had leaders who were 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.280 as across the powers their government's English inheritance had bestowed 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.760 on them as well, rather than trying to throw away 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.560 individual rights, free speech and so much else. Out with 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:47.480 yesterday's trash. Okay, now this story I'm going to tell 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.720 you about this is big, folks. The White House has 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.600 just had a win that could prove to be very 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.560 very important. In a six' to three, vote The Supreme 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.800 court has struck down the practice of states drawing electoral 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:08.200 maps and creating electoral districts based on. Race, Now louisiana 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.080 had once used twenty twenty census data to draw a 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.880 bizarre map of congressional districts lines all over the place 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.240 to create majority black and therefore the theory goes Majority 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.559 democrat congressional. Seats, now though The Supreme court has said, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.960 no and this seems to be pretty sensible to. Me 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:34.080 they've said you cannot group people together by race to 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.760 create new. CONSTITUENCIES i, mean if you think about, it 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.680 this is just about as Un american as it can. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.680 Get and once, more this decision has huge implications for 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.680 any elections coming, up including This november's. Midterms according to 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.200 one analysis shown, Here democrats currently hold twenty four seats 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:00.680 across The Southeastern american states thanks simply to these racially, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.599 drawn racially gerrymannered. Maps but if you look on the, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.560 right if those maps were changed to play by the 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.640 rules and not by, race Well republicans might pick up 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.280 as many as twelve. Seats this move by The Supreme 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.040 court is massive and well, overdue and already the map 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.240 is changing and things are going down In. Louisiana they've 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.240 now going to A republican governor and he's suspending congressional 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.919 primaries until they can redraw the map in keeping with 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.960 the law set down by The Supreme. Court this is. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.160 Great and you know what, Else democrats are furious. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.520 Today we're ramping up our. Efforts we see the need for. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.760 It just today and Today's Supreme court, decision which is 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.480 a despicable decision that is a return To Jim crow 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.720 taking decades of hard, work, sweat blood and, tears and 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.159 even people dying for the right to. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:10.240 Vote can you believe? This Chuck schumer is saying that 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:16.159 racial equality means grouping people together by. Race, yeah, sure 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.839 make it make. Sense, Meanwhile illinois governor and presidential HOPEFUL. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.799 Jb pritzker posted this on X he, wrote we must 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.960 call this for what it, is voters suppression that will 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.560 silence black and brown. Voters the magnitude of this decision 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.520 cannot be. Understated it guts The Voting Rights act and 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.240 it's very purpose of protecting all. Voices Every american deserves 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:44.360 an equal. Vote now keep in mind Here pritsker literally 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.800 drew this map his administration in That look at all 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.719 those weird shapes and. Fingers tell, me you tell me 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.440 that that's a resulting in an equal. Vote of course it's. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.919 Not but while this is a big win For, republicans 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.520 The democrats aren't going to take this line. Down just 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.840 have a look at, this and when you watch, this 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.320 think back to all the times That democrats have Accused 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:13.600 trump or The republicans of being lawless and ignoring The Supreme. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.320 Court in the New, congress we're going to have to 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.880 do something about This Supreme. Court and let me be very, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:23.720 clear everything is on the, table everything to deal with 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.240 this CORRUPT maga. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:26.320 Majority. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.920 Yep so that Was House Binardi Leader Hakim. Jeffries and 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.680 you gotta ask what does this? Mean, well to, me that. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:35.280 Sounded like a. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.480 Threat sounded even, like let's say that phrase they, use 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.760 a threat to, democracy to? Norms, well MAYBE i, mean 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.200 are they just going to not accept the results of 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.200 The Supreme court or just try some other shenanigans at the? 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.800 Polls If democrats win The White house and have The, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.400 congress they may go for even bigger. Change i'm talking 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.880 about granting statehood To, washington D. C And Puerto, rico 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.200 thus all but guaranteeing four More senate, seats open, borders 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.400 and legal immunity to law, breakers all to permanently tilt 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.600 the electoral system their. Way and if that, happens, well 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:25.600 bye Bye. America, okay let's bring in our first guest this, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.120 evening RETIRED Us Army infantry colonel and Author Kurt. Schlichter, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.520 Kurt welcome to the. Program. NOW i just spoke about 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.880 this really fascinating AND i think really important decision from 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.199 The Supreme court on racial. Jerrymandering i'd love to get 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.360 your take on what this means more broadly, here what 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.959 will The republicans have to do to ensure that they 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.200 can make this make some difference for the, Midterms and 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.520 just paint a picture of what An american legislature In 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.120 American congress might look like if you got rid of 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.080 these sorts of racially jerrymannered seats mean a less Partisan. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:07.440 Congress No congress is going to remain. Partisan it should be. Partisan, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:15.400 jerrymandering which is dividing up representative districts for political, advantage 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.120 is as old As america, itself and in, fact it 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.760 is the ultimate political. Act you should jerry. Mander you 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.800 should seek to use your political power for. ADVANTAGE i 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.400 don't resent people doing. IT i resent people doing it 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.280 and then telling Me i'm wrong for my side wanting 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:33.520 to do. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.960 It one thing you can't do when. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.320 Jerrymandering is you are not allowed to do it on 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.480 the basis of, race. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.720 Which The democrats have been doing for. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.559 Years there were a bunch of districts which were designed 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:53.320 to guarantee black voters elected a black representative who was 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:59.280 inevitably A, democrat so is effectively A Democrat. Jerrymander that's 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.320 all gone now and The republicans are just they're just 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.560 going to clean. House they're gonna get about twelve new. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.160 Seats, yeah, Yeah, well it's really really fascinating heading into the. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.440 Midterms and AS i said, EARLIER i think this is 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.839 one of the most Important Supreme court decisions. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.839 To come down in a long. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.240 Time But, KURT i want to move on also and 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.280 just have a little bit of a. Chat it's been 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.559 several days now since that assassination attempt at The White. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.520 House correspondence did it the number, three the third one 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.600 that we know about in the last two. Years but 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.200 one of the Things i've been struck by now Is Cole, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.520 allen the alleged, assassin and how he now seems to 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.600 be with some of these documents that The justice problem 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.040 has dropped like a complete creation of this lefty online 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.960 propaganda bubble right down to his taking a selfie before 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.600 the alleged attack in the, mirror and the way he 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.760 kind of wrote this manifesto that was allegedly very you, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.840 know this sort of very online kind of, speak and, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.640 hey you know, guys so you, know so, Sorry i'm 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.440 about to do, this but, hey here's got to go 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:59.800 do this thing, here you, know and all of. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.600 This, well, look this guy is a loser who's tried 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.800 to make himself the hero of the young adult. Novel 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.040 it is his. Life AND i know these people very. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.720 Well the town Of, torrents where he comes, from is 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:12.720 right next to. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.160 Me he lived within four or five. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.240 Miles from WHERE i am right, now AND i know 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.439 the kind they have substitute. Faith family in The flag 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.120 have got rid of that and they fill it up 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.080 with this. Well as Comic norm MacDonald correctly called it commy, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:35.600 GOBBLEDEGOOK i, mean this guy's ramblings are indistinguishable from the 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.440 nonsense you would hear ON msnbc or any of the 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.960 other left wing. Stations the problem is he has, now 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.640 for the sake of this action packed, selfie essentially given 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.680 up his. Life he's going to go to prison for forty, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:55.320 years as he should if The Secret service knew how to, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.600 shoot we wouldn't have this problem at. All But Secret 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.960 service needs To he needs some in depth. Reform but 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.640 what's really happening is there are a lot you, know when 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:12.000 you Call Donald trump a, fascist, nazi racist, monster is 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.359 gonna turn us into a. Dictatorship are you really surprised 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.319 that stupid people without a lot going on in their 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.920 lives are gonna take you seriously and try and be 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.440 the hero by murdering. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.280 Him, well not only, that, though you, know it's this 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.640 sort of broader thing on the left that seems to 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.240 be celebrating. Violence AND i was struck by a survey 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.800 this week that came out that showed that if you've 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.240 been to graduate, school you were much more likely to 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.319 not only be left, wing but also support political. Violence 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.840 and we've seen this, guy we've Seen Luigi mangoni with 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:46.880 the HEALTHCARE. Ceo the leftloads to preach peace and love 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.839 and mung beans and all, that but there's a real 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.200 violent dunderbelly there isn't? 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.040 There there? 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.800 Is AND i find it interesting Because america's graduate students 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.440 are the people least likely to be able to effectively deploy. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.160 Violence they don't typically own. Guns they typically aren't trained 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.439 by the. MILITARY a lot of us. ARE i, MEAN 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.640 i am literally sitting within more range of more guns 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.840 in my house than are probably in the entire city Of. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.960 Sydney and that's just one. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:23.079 House the you, know And i'm writing about this at 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.480 town hall Next. Monday you, know it's kind of a 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.000 bad idea when you push to extremes and you're not 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.960 exactly prepared to go. There america functions because we accept 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.600 the legitimacy of our. Government this is one of those 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.520 few governments in history where you don't obey because you're 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.520 afraid somebody's going to come knock on your door and 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.440 haul you. Away you obey because you think the system's. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.679 Legitimate and sometimes you win and sometimes you'll, lose but 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.480 it's fair and you've had a chance and you've been, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.160 heard and people decide the other, way and, Okay i'll 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.400 get my chance the next. Time the problem with these 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.880 leftists is they don't want it to be a next. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.480 Time they consider any exercise of power by anyone else 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.680 to be inherently, illegitimate and they plan to seize power 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:07.600 and keep. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.920 It you hear. It with the court packing, scheme you 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:10.920 hear it with The i'm going to. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.439 Arrest a bunch Of trump officials when, no you, know 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:18.520 when't we take power? Again this nonsense is extremely dangerous 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.200 because if you get rid of the, legitimacy you're left with, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:27.000 force and they are the people who are least will 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.760 be least effectively able to wield. Force in the, end 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.800 it's it's a bad idea for. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.600 Them, yeah but this leads into something ELSE i want 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.880 to talk to you, about which is the kind of 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.240 this atmosphere which is created by people Like james Call, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.360 me the FORMER fbi director who has again surrendered to 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.880 authorities following allegations that that image he shared on social, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.640 media the eighty six forty seven image they're posed a 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.360 threat To Donald trump's life and it contained a photo 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.120 of seashells arranged to read that eighty six being of, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 course a slang term for to get rid of or 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:08.880 throw out, prosecutors alleged, says suggests violence Against. Trump, kobe of, 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.760 course denies wrong. Doing have a look at, this, well. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.840 They're, back this time about a picture of seashells on 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.680 A North carolina beach a year. Ago and this won't 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.600 be the end of. It but nothing has changed with. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.680 Me i'm still. Innocent i'm still not. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.880 Afraid brave talked there From, Kobe but here's What trump had. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.640 Say people Like kobe have created a tremendous, DANGER i 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:40.080 think for politicians and. Others you, Know comy is a dirty. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.520 Cop he's a very dirty. Cop he cheated on the. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.560 Elections he tried to Help Hillary. Clinton as you, know 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.200 he dismissed a lot of things that he should have proceeded. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.440 WITH i wasn't, involved but he should have proceeded. With, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.640 no he's a dirty. Cop he's a crooked. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.920 Man dirty, cop crooked. Man but do you think he 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:01.840 was actually encouraging violence Against? 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.840 Trump, well, look he's an absolute. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.760 Disgrace and IF i was his, lawyer AND i was 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.280 a lawyer for thirty, YEARS. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.080 I THINK i. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.680 COULD i THINK i could make a coherent case that 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.560 he was. Not but you, Know i'm not his, lawyer 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:21.440 and it's not my. Problem he would gladly prosecute me 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.120 or anybody else on the right for the same. Thing 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.760 so if he wants somebody to go out and defend, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.680 him keep. Looking, Dude i'm not there for. You because 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.760 you made your. Rules now you get to go to 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.760 the eastern district Of North, carolina which is a very conservative, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.840 area and you get to explain to twelve people who 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.760 decided they would perform their jury service that, no you 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.280 weren't threatening the. President and ignore all those winks and. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.520 Nods we knew what he was. Doing he knew what 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.560 he was. Doing it's his. PROBLEM i wish we weren't 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.520 at this. POINT i wish we weren't at the point 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.440 where a guy who once headed THE fbi is playing 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:08.520 these childish. Games but we saw what happened this. Weekend 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.240 we had a guy who believes everything That James comy 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.040 believes try and murder The president and a bunch of other. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.000 PEOPLE i don't think it's Funny, comy AND i think 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:18.480 it's your. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:19.840 Problem good, Luck. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.040 Schlicker thank you so, much love your perspective as, always 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:24.400 thanks for. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.280 Joining, Us thanks for having. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.800 Me all right, NOW i want to come back to 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.439 the story of The White House correspondence dinner In, WASHINGTON 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.399 dc last, week which ended with an alleged assassin in 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.600 handcuffs and concerns yet again for The president's. Life, well 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.680 there was a fascinating opinion piece in The New York 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.760 post connecting this shooting and the suspect To china's influence 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.800 on social media in THE. Us Cole, allen the alleged, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.240 shooter was an enthusiastic user of the left wing social 0:17:55.320 --> 0:18:00.919 media Platform Blue, sky where accounts Promoting beijing are. Loose 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.520 let's bring the author of this fantastic, Piece brandon de 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.399 vine coluornist with The New York. Post, brander thanks so 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.359 much for coming. On. NOW i want to ask you 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.080 about what happened there on the night a little, bit 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.120 but first talk me through this and what's been going 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.399 on On Blue, sky WHICH i CONFESS i have no 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.200 visibility on what's going on over, there and what's the 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.359 connection to Call, allen the alleged attempted. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:30.480 Assassin great to be with, You, James, YEAH i mean 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.240 you wouldn't Know Blue, sky nor DO i, really because 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.679 it is this kind of ghetto for the worst left 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.440 wing liberal. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.560 Thinkers if you can call them. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.719 That these are people who evacuated from x After Elon 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:51.159 musk bought, it but particularly there was a massive exodus 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.000 after the twenty twenty four election When Donald trump won 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.800 because they cannot stand to be in the same room 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.280 with anybody who might not think exactly like. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.080 Them so That's Blue. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.880 Sky it's just a ghetto for. Lefties and of course 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:11.880 we had This Cole, allen strangely named after someone we 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:19.040 know At Cole allen was a devote Of Blue sky 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.920 and he FOLLOWED i, mean he's such a classic liberal mid. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.320 Wit there's nothing original. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.000 Or interesting about the. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:33.520 Guy he's just espouses every stupid kind of left wing 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.280 criticism Of Donald. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.439 Trump and you, KNOW i guess he thought he was 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:39.440 a hero for doing. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.280 That but that's all the people that he followed On 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.960 Blue sky are All trump, deranged absolute, nuts you, know 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:53.119 at the mainstream kind of academics and. Commentators but there 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.679 was one THAT i thought was, interesting which if you 0:19:55.840 --> 0:20:02.679 rank his favorite, accounts was someone Called James, palmer who's 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:07.840 a deputy foreign editor At Foreign, policy. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.080 Which is kind of a neo con, outfit but. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.760 He's Their china hand and HE i, mean the Pro 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.800 beijing rubbish that that guy has spouted for a decade 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.840 has to be seen to be. Believed one of them 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.399 was SOMETHING i can't remember the exact, headline but it 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:28.920 was something along the lines, of you. 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.520 Know gay and lesbians are much better off. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.119 In china than they are In. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.479 America you, know it's such a free paradise over there In. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.600 China so he's totally drunk the cool lady if he's, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.120 not you, know some sort of an. Agent and he 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:50.080 was very much favorited and liked By Cole. Allen SO 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.240 i thought that was interesting because it was a little 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.800 bit curious in sort of you look at his normal 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.280 curated group. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.239 Of people that he, loves left his he. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:04.480 Loves there is a lefty who Loves, china so clearly 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:09.199 he Loves china, Too and it just got me, THINKING i, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.760 mean there's a lot of we know That china has 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:18.199 been involved in sort of pushing narratives on social media 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.600 that are deeply divisive In. America whether or not it invents, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:27.800 them it certainly is all about exacerbating social, division racial, 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:32.160 division political. Division it's done so on, TikTok and clearly 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.080 you Know china will be seeding those. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.919 Narratives And, randy you were there on the night at the, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.439 correspondens just tell us very quickly what it was like 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.280 from your. Perspective AND i saw there was a lot 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.560 of journo's pictures of them making off with balls of. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:49.640 Wine did you get it into thing for the home. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:55.600 Seller sadly, no BECAUSE i had only one sip of 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.160 my red wine before everyone around. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.879 Me all The americans are very you to duck and. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:01.719 COVER i. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.760 WASN'T i was sitting like a lemming in my, seat 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.840 just wondering why everyone was down underneath the. 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.240 Table and eventually it. 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.840 Dawned on me that, perhaps you, know there was something. 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.760 Wrong SO i also got down a little. Bit and 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.520 THEN i was sitting next To Scott, bessett The Treasury, 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.560 secretary and, yeah he very gallantly said to, me would 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.600 you like to come with? Me SO i followed him. 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:30.400 Out we raced out with his secret service, detail had 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:34.600 a rails run out of, there you, know all the sirens, 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.120 blazing and we ended up drinking red wine at his beautiful. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.240 House SO i THINK i had a bit better time 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.800 than some of my colleagues who were stuck for two 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:44.399 hours in the. 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.960 Ballroom that does what a, Gentleman Scott besson Is, HEY 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.400 i want to ask you. Too rand got about this 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.520 shocking story About Anthony, fauci the guy who was in 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.359 charge of advising the US's response to the code. Pandemic, 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:59.320 well one of his senior aides this guy Called David 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:03.720 morenz has been charged with conspiring to evade requests FOR 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:07.720 covid related. Records tell us about, This, brandon because this 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:11.159 seems to suspect or suggest the cover up that you 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.359 AND i have suspected for a long long. 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:20.840 Time, absolutely and it really should Be fauci facing. Indictment 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:25.159 it's his right hand, man his, factotum who is not 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:30.640 a very genius, spy because he actually wrote in an 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:36.119 email to his colleagues, That, hey thea lady has told 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.960 me the secret about how not to have our emails 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:45.639 discovered by freedom of Information Nosey parker journalists and oversight 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:48.040 people In, congress and that, is. 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.000 You, know his secret way of doing it on encrypted, apps. 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:54.520 Etc so that was pretty, incriminating and that's what he's 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.720