WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 10 July 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On scorn leaves Austrodia. This is the Reader Panalty Show. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.440 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panicky Show. I'm 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.120 Denika di Giorgio filling in Coming up tonight. A Chinese 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.759 spy group found to have infiltrated the public and private 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.400 sector has been named and shamed. The always brilliant Douglas 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.400 Murray weighs in on Joe Biden's ongoing cognitive spiral. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.880 France in crisis as the far left takes over. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.199 Ralph Scholhammer will join us all the latest celebrity in 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.320 Royal News with d D Dunlevy and of course Left 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.400 He's losing it featuring the masculinity Retreat when men pay 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:53.040 ten thousand dollars to float at a pool and cry 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:00.400 with Joe joinny me Now is Deputy Executive director of 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.080 the Institute of Public Affairs. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.479 Daniel Wilde, Daniel, good to see you. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.279 Let's start with the National Disability Insurance Scheme. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.559 We know it's in a mess. It's costing taxpayers a bomb. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.360 It already costs more than Medicare and will soon outstrip Defense. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.880 Now sex work services on the NDIS are back in 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.480 the spotlight. The Guardian is today asking is it a 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.240 real issue or just a red herring. So, Daniel, I'll 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.120 ask you, courtesy of the Guardian's journalism sex worker is 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.559 a real issue or a red herring when it comes 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.720 to the NDIS, Well, it is a real issue. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.480 We've seen a lot of routing behavior, inappropriate service provider 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.360 behavior that's been taking place, and I think that it's 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.680 good that they're addressed, or I know the government seeking 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.400 to address some of those issues. I think it gets 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.120 to a bigger issue, which is that, of course we 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.080 want the NDIS to work. We want Australians who have 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.880 a disability to be taken care of. But all too 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.160 often the NDIS seems to be serving the interest the 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.320 bureaucracy and of the service providers rather than those who 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.800 really need access to the services. And of course taxpayers 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.760 are being fleeced on the way through. The issue you've 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.679 got here, Deniker, is that the government has said, under 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.040 the best case scenario, they want to limit the growth 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.080 of the NDIS to eight percent per year. Well, the 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.080 economy is growing at four percent in nominal terms, so 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.280 you've got NDIS that's going to be at least growing 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.079 at double the raiders the entire economy, So we need 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.800 structural reform to make sure it's sustainable, not just tinkering 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:30.560 around the edges. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.480 Absolutely, and let's not forget the ndis a very important scheme, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.600 but it was only designed for the most severely disabled. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.160 Now you've got. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.079 Every man and their dog trying to get a slice 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.440 of the pie and it is simply not working. So 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.680 certainly these reforms are needed now. A Chinese cyber espionage group, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:52.920 which has already infiltrated public and private sector networks in Australia, has. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.040 Been named as APT forty. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.200 The Australian Signals Director and says the group has waged 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.400 a years long hacking campaign on behalf of China's Ministry 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.440 of State Security. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:05.560 Daniel, I've got to ask. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.640 Because, as you know, Australia just rolled out the red 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.160 carpet for the Chinese premiere Labor has today chosen to 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.120 name and. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:13.960 Shame this group. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.680 But I wonder did Albo even raise this with Premier 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:18.560 Lee last month? 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.680 Well, I wouldn't bank on it. And you know, here 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:21.320 we go again. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.640 This is not the first time this kind of behavior 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.239 has taken place. Of course, there's an important trading relationship 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.200 with China. We want that to be maintained, but we 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.320 also need to be aware that, you know, China has 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.200 a really the Chinese Communist Party, not so much the 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.440 Chinese people, but the Chinese Communist Party that run the 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.240 country have a pattern of repeated behavior. They have very 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.320 ambitious and expansionist geopolitical intentions. We know that with the 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.839 One Belt, One Road, the Made in China twenty twenty 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.360 five around advanced technology, and all you have to do 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.240 is look at policies like net zero. Net zero will 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.560 be a boon for China because they are the world's 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.800 main manufacturer of solar panels, wind turbines and processing of 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.080 the critical minerals, but its countries like Australia that lose out. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.720 So we need our political leaders to be aware that 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.800 China is seeking to reorientate the global economic supply chains 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.440 around it, and we see this sort of espionage behavior 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.000 as a part of a much broader agenda. We've also 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.320 seen it with the Confucian centers at Australian universities, which 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.240 were hugely concerning. So I'm not too sure whether our 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.600 leaders are taking this with the seriousness that it deserves, and. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.960 It certainly needs to be taken very seriously. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.680 Now I have a listen to this. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.320 Channel seven has confirmed a controversial change to its TV 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.159 news bulletins that will feature would you believe an astrology 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.479 report from astro Tash Now, this is a twenty second 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.080 astrology report after the weather on the six pm bulletin, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.360 along with a weekly comedy skit on Fridays by comedian 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.760 Mark Humphreys Daniel. Look, hopefully the astrology report will predict 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.840 how long seven has left before the lights go out 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.720 on these ridiculous segments. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.800 They need more stars at Channel seven. But I'm not 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.200 sure this is what viewers really had in mind. But 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.200 I'd say, look, this is the dumbing down of the 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.520 news and the dumbing down of mainstream media that we're 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.440 seeing across network television. For many years, you know, the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.080 six o'clock news, not necessarily just a Channel seven, but 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.599 across the board used to be mandatory viewing for Australians. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.200 It was informed and Australians are hungry for proper information, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.200 for debate, for serious content. We saw that with the 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.919 Voice to Parliament debate last year that Australians wanted to 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.360 be involved, They wanted to learn about it. So look, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.600 I just think this is an example of why many Australians, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.919 and indeed many people around the world, are starting to 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.640 get their news from other platforms, including on social media, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.080 because you know, if this is what you're getting from 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.880 the network television, then it's no wonder that people are 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.360 sort of reconsidering their options. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.440 Yeah, you can absolutely say why. I look forward to 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.599 seeing how this one goes. 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.000 Now, more than two three hundred people sought asylum in 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:03.040 Australia after arriving by from relatively stable countries. The Daily 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.400 Telegraph reports it's the highest of any month since the 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.080 Albanese government came to power. Daniel, I've got to say 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.400 the ghosts of the Rudd Gillard Rudd years are circling 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.279 this current labor government. It really feels like we're back 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:17.400 open for business again. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.680 It does, and I think since day one of this 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.360 government there's been a failure on our migration policy. We've 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.479 seen the criminal detainees, we've seen the boat arrivals and 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.479 so on, but also just the size of the legal 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.039 program and we've had over a million net arrivals over 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:40.040 the last two financial years, by far the biggest surge 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.279 to our population in our nation's history. There's been no 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.680 planning for this whatsoever. With schools, roads, hospitals, housing, there's 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.839 a housing shortage and crisis with rent and affordability of purchasing. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.799 We know that it's not working. Economically. Per capita growth 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.920 is going backwards. You know, we've had five consecutive cord 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.320 of negative per cape economic growth. That's the first time 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.440 that's happened on record, and those records go back to 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.640 the early nineteen seventies. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.440 Yeah, it's not working, and I think migration is now 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.640 an acute vote driving issue. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.240 Daniel Wilde, thank you so much for joining us, joining 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.600 me now. Is author of international best sellers, including The 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:24.080 Strange Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds, and his latest. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.600 Book, The War on the West. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:30.240 Douglas Murray Douglas, thanks for joining us. Let's start with 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.520 the situation with Joe Biden, whose mental incompetence has become 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.880 really the laughing stock of the world. Here is an 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.000 exchange between Fox News reporter Peter Doucey at White House 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.320 Press secretary at Karine Jean Pierre, where he asks a 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.640 legitimate question about how the president, who needs more sleep, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.400 can't do anything after eight PM would handle a national 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:53.560 security situation. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.280 He also said he sharp. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:01.960 Is before EPM that the Pentagon at some point picks 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:03.080 up an incoming nuke. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.600 It's eleven pm. Who do you com't the first lady? 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.120 He has a team that lets him know of any 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:11.520 of any. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.960 News that is pertinent and important to the American people. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.600 He has someone or that is decided obviously with his 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.360 National security council, and who gets to tell. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:21.920 Him that news? 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.040 Douglas, The best she could say is, well, we've got 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.320 a whole tame not we would wipe the president immediately in. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.840 The event of a nuke. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:35.160 Has this now gotten to the point where it's dangerous? 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.520 It's long past that point. I'm afraid because the question 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.679 that is on everybody's lips in America is who then 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.760 is running the country? Who exactly is running it? Who's 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.440 running it after four pm in the afternoon or whenever 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.760 it is that we're told that Biden starts to wind 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.679 down for the day. Are they confident about waking him 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.480 in the night? Clearly not. Queen Jean Pierre behaves. What 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.440 has ever, as if it's just impertinent to ask any 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.719 question of the Sun King and his court, and it's 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.040 very troubling. What the American public have seen growing for 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.440 a long time, in which the Democrat media have had 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.000 admit since the catastrophic debate with Trump the other week, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.240 is that that Biden is not on top of his game, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.880 to say the very least. And so where is the 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.000 direction of the country, where is the security of the country, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.800 And all we get to these sort of miffed and 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:37.600 peeved answers from the White House press spokeswoman, and really, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.800 you know that these are questions that should be asked, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.520 and that furthermore, there are questions should be answered. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:43.840 Well. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.200 Absolutely, And following the US presidential debate, it was interesting 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.520 because you wrote you said, you don't think an American 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.800 journalist meaning or would be sitting in a cell in 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.360 Moscow or American hostages in Gaza if the word world 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.440 feared America. Now the president of the free world is 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.440 clearly a bumbling mess. Makes no sense not being taken 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.400 seriously here. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.520 This is highly problematic. The world doesn't say the US 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:13.560 is a genuine threat. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.600 Well, I mean, you know, there's still plenty to be 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.600 said about the US and plenty of force in it. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.200 It's just that the direction of travel under this president 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.079 is so extraordinarily unclear. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.000 We've seen that. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.480 I know, we've all been told by the courtiers of 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.160 the Biden family for years that he's absolutely on top 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.040 of his game, that he absorbs things so fast, and 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.680 he asks such devastatingly pertinent questions of the people briefing him. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.079 But nobody believes that anymore. And if the average swing 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.440 voter finds that hard to believe and they're inclined to 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.600 sort of favor the president of the United States, imagine 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:59.000 what Vladimir Putin thinks, or the Mullers in Tehran who 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.720 are guiding Hamaz, or the regime in Katar which hosts 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.840 terrorists whilst pretending to play middleman. It's an extremely worrying situation. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.959 As I mentioned in that column in the New York Post. Yes, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.640 there are American hostages in Gaza in Moscow, and I 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.800 don't think that would be the situation if the world 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.920 recognized that the superpower America was something to be fearful of, you, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:30.319 that you cannot steal its citizens with impunity, and that 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.920 lesson you know, I mean, it was recently said, you 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.600 probably heard, it's been confirmed from other sources that on 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.560 the way out of the White House when Trump was 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.120 trying to negotiate the withdrawal from Afghanistan with the Taliban leaders. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.480 But apparently he said, you know, you're not going to 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.839 touch a single hair on an American service person's head 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.680 on the way out, or I'll kill you, And then 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.480 just for emphasis, showed the Taliban leader that he had 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.520 a photograph from the air of the Taliban leader's house. Now, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.800 I think that is is a suitable way for a 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.760 strong power to defend its citizens, for democracy to defend 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.760 its citizens. And you know, it's just night and day 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.400 difference set and I'm afraid that Americans and the rest 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.079 of the world are learning this. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.600 So just on that, then what should Trump do if 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.199 he's reelected? What message does he need to be sending. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.040 Oh, I think on the hostages, the message is extremely clear. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.160 It's you will release the hostages on the first day 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.880 of my presidency. You better keep them in the best 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.640 possible condition until then, because if you don't, and you 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.520 don't release them the day I come back into office, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.560 there isn't a tunnel or a bunker deep enough view 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.920 to escape from me. That would be the message. And 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.720 I think that I think that it would be heard. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:52.280 Yeah. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.480 Absolutely. Now, look just on Joe Biden. He spoke at 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.320 the NATO summit overnight. He started off with some strong 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.320 words on the Ukraine war. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.800 And we know Puton won't stop at Ukraine. Would make 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.959 no mistake, Ukraine can and will stop Putin. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.760 But then, true to form, he started stumbling. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.880 For five additionals to the DIGA defense system. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.600 I don't know what he said there, And then as 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.679 he started walking off stage, she clearly had no idea 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:43.840 where he was or who he was with. Douglas Sisters 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.280 goes to the point that you were making earlier that 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.840 he's not being taken seriously on the world stage. We're 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.400 talking an important global event, the NATO summit, where the 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.840 Ukraine War is being discussed, an important discussion, and get 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.559 the president doesn't know where he is. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:01.680 He's becoming a joke. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.720 Well, we've had this week the news that he usually 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.480 gets a briefing that includes I mean, this is horrible 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.800 to say, it's so cruel, but he apparently gets these 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.440 briefings where it shows photographs of how to get to 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.040 the stage, where the podium is, where to walk on, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.720 where to walk off. You can't really pretend that this 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.120 is a man at the height of his powers, or 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.400 even with any real powers. It's very sad, and I 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.920 think that, you know, the people who support the Democrats 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.360 in America or would like to vote against Trump should 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.960 just reflect on what their instinct is when they see 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.880 something like that. Do they think this guy has got 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.560 another four years in him or do they think as 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.560 many of us do. This is cruel of Jill Biden 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.000 and Hunter Biden and the rest of the family not 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.400 to be saying to him, step down now, Joe, allow 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.280 a new generation to come in, leave with some dignity, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.440 protect your legacy, and pass the baton on. It's cruel 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.560 that they're not saying that. And there's going to be 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.440 just more and more of this and just one other 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.600 quick thing. You know, the job of the President of 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.560 the United States is not just to occasionally read an 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.960 auto Q in front of allies. It is much much 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.120 more than that. It is directing policy, it is deciding policy. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:24.720 Uh. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.680 He he does these speeches where he gets sort of angry. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.160 He can whip himself up into an anger still sometimes 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.840 when reading the auto Q. But if if he meant 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.720 what he just said about Ukraine, then then why has 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.040 America not been providing Ukraine with all of the weaponry 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.240 it's been asking for in this period, Whether you agree 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.480 with it or not, Biden says, you know, we're gonna 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.280 we're gonna stop Vladimir Putin, but then then doesn't act 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.640 on it. I mean, I think there's these are the 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.720 sort of it feels like a late Empire problem, and 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.480 I hope it's not. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.360 Well, look, let's hope that it's not. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.640 And just just on that point, you know, he's got 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.200 these big photos of how you need to walk from 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.200 the stage to the podium. There's reports that White House 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.440 advisors for more than a year have had to aggressively 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:15.680 stage manage his schedule, his movements, his interactions. You know, Douglas, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.040 how long can the White House and Jill Biden, as 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.320 you mentioned, the Biden family, how long can they really 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.320 keep up this facade if he is to go another term. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:28.520 They can't. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.080 They can't. It's perfectly clear, and with every day they 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.400 just can't keep it up. I mean, they will for 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.000 a little time, but the longer they leave it, the 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.400 more humiliating it's going to be for everybody, not least 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.680 the America. The harder it'll be for the Democrats to 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:49.160 find a candidate or a running mate, and a candidate 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.320 who can be introduced to the American public in time 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.560 for the polls in November. You know, the longer the 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.120 Bidens leave this, the worst it is for the Bidens, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.840 the worst it is for America, and the worst it 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:04.080 is for their political party. You know, that's what makes 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.800 no sense, when when your political opponents are running rings 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:14.040 around you and ridiculing you, when your rivals on the 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:19.119 world stage are mocking you, when your own side is saying, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.240 in the name of God, go and you cling on, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.040 there's something cruel about that. There's something very unusual about it. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.880 Certainly, well, you just would want to say a loved 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.800 one in that position. It's just extraordinary that they're letting 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.840 this go on for so long. Look, let's move on now, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.520 because three Columbia University deans have been removed from their 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.960 positions and placed on indefinitely over text messages they sent 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.320 during a panel about Jewish life on campus that quote 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.960 disturbingly touched on ancient anti Semitic tropes. Now, Douglas, we 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.600 know this university has failed on many fronts. That let 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.639 pro Palestine protesters run rampant ad encampments. And now this 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.280 what does it say about the state of the university system. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.280 Well, it says nobody should send their kids to Columbia, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.719 nobody should give any money to Columbia. Columbia should not 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.639 have federal funding labor. Look, I mean, it's just a 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:21.800 total mess. There's no reason. Whatever students think about international affairs, 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.600 there is nothing that should allow them to shut down 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.360 the study of other students on campus, prevent students from 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.800 learning even as they're getting into significant personal debt. And 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.560 what's more, to get away with screaming at Jewish students 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:43.320 things like go back to Poland or saying these Jewish 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.119 students should be the next targets of Hamaz, both of 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.600 which were things that were screamed at Jewish students on 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.439 the Columbia campus. Then for them to be a hearing 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:57.119 about those sorts of racist slurs, and for these dems 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.399 to be actually engaging in more racism during it, you 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.400 just have to do the experiment any other way. If 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:09.480 there had been an anti black protest on campus at 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.000 Columbia for an hour, it would have been shut down. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.399 It would not have been allowed. If there was a 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.679 protest on Columbia's campus that went on for weeks and 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.879 weeks calling for the lynching of black people. I don't 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.480 think that it would be difficult for everyone in American 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.080 society and particularly the faculty, to condemn any students and 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.680 outside is engaging in that. And what's more, if there 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.320 was a hearing about that and there were racial slurs 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.119 being hurled around about black students by deans and employees 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.720 of the university, all hell would be let loose. In fact, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.600 I suspect that the campus would be over. I suspect 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.600 that Columbia's storied and rich history would come to an 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:54.240 end that day. But it wasn't black students, it was Jews. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.240 And this just shows one of the appalling standards of 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:04.800 our time. Columbia students have been let down by their authorities, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.840 but this is a spiral that that institution is in. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.119 These are always elite things when you're talking about sort 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.120 of Ivy League colleges, but this just shows how rotten 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.560 elite institutions can become. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.000 Absolutely, the double standards on display have just been astonishing, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.040 and not just at Columbia. We've seen it all around 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:26.480 the world, even here in Australia. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.280 It's just been terrible at these universities. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.000 Now New York City hotels housing migrants have brought in 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.960 would you believe, over a billion dollars in taxpayer funds 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.960 since converting their buildings into migrant shelters. That's according to 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.480 the New York Post Douglas, New York City is spending 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.720 an average of one hundred and fifty six US. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.920 Dollars per room per night on hotel rooms that house migrants, 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.280 some up to three hundred dollars. 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:56.880 Where do you draw the line here? This is out 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:57.520 of control. 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.080 The whole thing's been out of con for a long time. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:07.520 Sanctuary cities in the US, I'm afraid reaping what they sowed. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.560 They said, you know, these are places where illegal migrants 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.119 can come. And the illegal migrants came and there was 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.400 nowhere for them. And so the authorities in New York 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.119 have got into this racket. And by the way, it 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:26.280 is a racket. The huge spending on hotels, I mean, 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.440 it's apart from being preposterous, there are people who very 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:33.080 cynically benefit from that, who have got into the business 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:38.240 of this, and who are raking in the taxpayers' money 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:41.320 as they put up all of these people who shouldn't 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.480 be in the US. And I say that completely straightforward, 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:48.160 because you know, everywhere in the twenty first century, migration 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.800 is going to be an issue. Everywhere that is a 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.440 developed country is going to be under pressure. In this century, 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.000 the mass movement of people has never been easier. And 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:03.240 unfortunately that very time time, countries like America have decided 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.840 to punish people who go to the legal route and 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.080 a reward people who've gone the illegal route. And if 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:13.440 you're a legal worker in the United States, have gone 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.280 through all the right things, paid your lawyers, got your 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.920 papers in order, and all of that, you're the mug 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.760 because it turned out you could just walk over the 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.040 border and you could be put up in a three 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:26.880 hundred dollars a night hotel with a swimming pool, which 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.280 is not an exaggeration. In New York City, in the 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.720 heart of Manhattan. Nobody has a right to live in Manhattan. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.160 Nobody has a right to live in the most expensive 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.680 bit of real estate in the world. But why do 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.600