Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. Kamala Harris hits the road and it's too
Speaker 2: much for even our ABC mom Doddie Madness in New
Speaker 2: York City. But is there hope? The Radical socialist is
Speaker 2: going to go down in flames? And third term? What
Speaker 2: third term? Inside the greatest troll of the Trump presidency.
Speaker 2: But first I'm going to get to the latest on
Speaker 2: the government shutdown in a moment and how it is
Speaker 2: backfiring politically on Democrats. But first I want to talk
Speaker 2: about the ongoing civil war within the Democrat Party and
Speaker 2: how once fringe radicals are winning the battle for the
Speaker 2: soul of America's left, with huge implications for next year's
Speaker 2: midterm elections. Now as evidence of just how bonkers some
Speaker 2: on the left have got, have a look at this.
Speaker 2: This is a woman called Jennifer Welch. She's a left
Speaker 2: wing podcaster, very popular, and she is also now openly
Speaker 2: calling for violence against conservatives. Indeed, she thinks these threats
Speaker 2: are the solutions to the left woes. Have a look.
Speaker 3: Finally, if you think the Zorn thing is happening, just
Speaker 3: in New York. And you think people are waking up
Speaker 3: only in New York City, You're mistaken. Look at this
Speaker 3: clip of a wine mom at the No King's March.
Speaker 1: Play the clip.
Speaker 4: The word's name was Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: Maam, yeah, him is horrible, horrible. Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's not here.
Speaker 5: You're glad he's dead.
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Why would you say something like that matter?
Speaker 7: He was horrible on the campuses the college campus is
Speaker 7: horrible person.
Speaker 5: You know what I do the exact same thing. Would
Speaker 5: you be glad if I would die?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 4: You should be ashamed of yourself, ashamed of yourself. My
Speaker 4: friend just said she'd be happy if I died.
Speaker 3: So listen, at Democratic Establishment. You can either jump on
Speaker 3: board with this or we're coming after you in the
Speaker 3: same way that we come after Maga period.
Speaker 2: You know, I've often joked on this show about how
Speaker 2: the left wants the right dead, But you know what,
Speaker 2: I don't think they're kidding. And there was more advice
Speaker 2: from her for the Democrat political establishment.
Speaker 3: Kudos to Bernie, to aoc, to Zoron and that woman
Speaker 3: out in somewhere Middle America saying Charlie Kirk, he was
Speaker 3: a racist, he was a piece. There are so many
Speaker 3: more of us than there are of them.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, you can say, sure, fine, this is just
Speaker 2: one woman ranting into a podcast mic. She bought an
Speaker 2: office works. But guess what she shows us. She represents
Speaker 2: where that party is going, and it's causing a huge
Speaker 2: split within the Democrats. Now, I'll tell you about a
Speaker 2: fascinating report on a new website called Welcome Stack, which
Speaker 2: seems to be run by more centrist Democrats who are
Speaker 2: worried about where their party is going and whether it
Speaker 2: will ever be electable again. Here's a bit of a
Speaker 2: video they put up analyzing their plight.
Speaker 4: But as the influence of advocacy groups grew largely through
Speaker 4: social media, Democrats moved left fast. In Congress, support for
Speaker 4: progressive bills like the Green New Deal, Medicare for All,
Speaker 4: and student loan det cancelation more than doubled. Comparing the
Speaker 4: Democratic platform in twenty twelve to twenty twenty four reveals
Speaker 4: a sharp leftward shift and an abandonment of the working
Speaker 4: class focus that drove the party's success.
Speaker 2: Indeed, as far as that Democrat Party platform goes, well,
Speaker 2: they weren't kidding now in twenty twelve, these were the
Speaker 2: first sentences of the Democrat Party platform. Quote. Today our
Speaker 2: economy is ohing again, al kenda is weaker than at
Speaker 2: any points as nine to eleven, and our manufacturing sector
Speaker 2: is growing for the first time in more than a decade.
Speaker 2: But there is more we need to do, and so
Speaker 2: we come together to continue what we started. Now, that
Speaker 2: was the Democrats in twenty twelve sounds very normal, very
Speaker 2: Middle America, very dare I say electable, And indeed they
Speaker 2: were because that was the year that Barack Obama was reelected.
Speaker 2: But fast forward twelve years to twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 2: this report notes that the official Democrat Party platform, the
Speaker 2: one by the way that Joe Biden and then Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris ran on, opened like this quote the Democratic National Committee,
Speaker 2: which is to acknowledge that we gather together to state
Speaker 2: our values on lands that have been stewarded through many
Speaker 2: centuries by the ancestors and descendants of tribal nations who
Speaker 2: have been here since time immemorial. Unquote phew, And it
Speaker 2: took four full paragraphs of this turgent undergraduate nonsense to
Speaker 2: get to anything recognizable as a policy platform in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. And within that too, was a massive decline
Speaker 2: over that time in the frequency of words between the
Speaker 2: two platforms they used to describe things people cared about.
Speaker 2: According to this analysis, between those two platforms, references to
Speaker 2: jobs went down forty seven percent, mentions the economy went
Speaker 2: down forty eight percent, the middle class down seventy nine percent,
Speaker 2: the nation seventeen percent, in America down six percent. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the term father or fathers disappeared entirely from the platform,
Speaker 2: down one hundred percent. And guess what took their place?
Speaker 2: The bag Increases were seen in references to race, climate,
Speaker 2: gunsl GBTQY, plus the word hate, equity, and of course,
Speaker 2: my favorite, environmental justice. Not surprisingly, this took place over
Speaker 2: a period when there was a huge drop in patriotism
Speaker 2: amongst Democrats. Sets up blue lines the bottom of your
Speaker 2: screen where thirty six percent, just thirty six percent, one
Speaker 2: third say they are proud to be an American versus Republicans.
Speaker 2: That's the top red line ninety two percent. Now Andrew
Speaker 2: Cuomo he is the Democrat turned independent candidate for New
Speaker 2: York City Mayor. He built the cat on this problem
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago.
Speaker 8: The truth is there's a quiet civil war going on
Speaker 8: in the Democratic Party right now. You have an extreme left,
Speaker 8: radical left. Bernie Sanders AOC Mamdani is just the banner
Speaker 8: carrier for that movement versus the mainstream moderate Democrats. They
Speaker 8: now call me moderate. They used to call me liberal.
Speaker 8: Now I'm a moderate because the whole party shifted.
Speaker 2: Look guess what Andrew Cuomo is right, And if the
Speaker 2: Democrats continued down this radical path of hating America, not
Speaker 2: wanting to talk about the economy, obsessing over identity politics,
Speaker 2: still well, they may win in New York City, where
Speaker 2: that sort of thing is fashionable, but they've got no
Speaker 2: future nationally. And that's great news for Trump and MAGA
Speaker 2: and the Republicans. But maybe I'm just gonna put it
Speaker 2: out there. Maybe this actually is the real threat to
Speaker 2: democracy that they keep warning about, and that is not
Speaker 2: having an opposition worthy of the name. Now we'll start
Speaker 2: talking to some of our guests in a moment, But
Speaker 2: also we need to talk about this government shutdown which
Speaker 2: is dragging on and on and is seeing now air
Speaker 2: traffic controllers furloughed. That's bad and welfare benefits due to
Speaker 2: be cut off from the first of November. Democrats thought
Speaker 2: they were on to a winner with this strategy, withholding
Speaker 2: the votes needed in the Senate to pass a continuing
Speaker 2: resolution essentially supply in Australian terms. But guess what, not
Speaker 2: so much. It's not working out for them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you might think, given that the Republicans are in
Speaker 9: charge of both the House and the Senate, that a
Speaker 9: government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand, but in
Speaker 9: fact it hasn't.
Speaker 1: If anything, it's been.
Speaker 9: Helped a little bit. Take a look here the shift
Speaker 9: in net popularity versus pre shutdown among the g When
Speaker 9: we're looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand actually
Speaker 9: up two points. That's within the margin of verrap but
Speaker 9: clearly it hasn't dropped. Come over this side of the screen,
Speaker 9: look at the net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 9: It's actually up five points since pre shutdown. So what
Speaker 9: we're seeing here is the Republican brand in Congress has
Speaker 9: actually improved.
Speaker 2: Somewhat, and not even CNN's Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper is
Speaker 2: buying the Democrats' excuses.
Speaker 10: This is a choice by the White House.
Speaker 9: This is also and this is also a choice by
Speaker 9: Senate Democrats to not vote open the government.
Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: I understand why they're doing it.
Speaker 12: They're doing it because they want Medicaid funds restored.
Speaker 9: They're doing it because they want Obamacare premiums to be
Speaker 9: extended past the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I understand the reason.
Speaker 2: Tapper and Americans have woken up to the fact that
Speaker 2: Democrats are using the pain of ordinary Americans for political gain,
Speaker 2: and they're happy to see people on so called snap
Speaker 2: food benefits go hungry in the process.
Speaker 5: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Speaker 13: Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage, and although
Speaker 13: a very unpleasant tool to use.
Speaker 2: Their only leverage. Did you hear that letting people go
Speaker 2: hungry to apply political pressure to Republicans so they can
Speaker 2: get their wish list, which includes, by the way, giving
Speaker 2: taxpayer funded healthcare to illegal aliens. It's really unpleasant behavior, sure,
Speaker 2: but I think it's also for everybody else a real
Speaker 2: moment of clarity. Joining me now is Guy news Washington
Speaker 2: analyst Analyse Nielsen Annalys. Welcome to the program. Well, lots
Speaker 2: of news happening on the international front. President Trump met
Speaker 2: with his Chinese Counterpartjesian Ping yesterday in Busan, South Korea,
Speaker 2: and the pair announced a historic Well I know, if
Speaker 2: it's a trade deal or a trade agreement or a
Speaker 2: trade hey, let's not have this fight now, Annalise, what
Speaker 2: do we know about what has been agreed so far?
Speaker 14: Well, look, nothing in writing. And so I think what
Speaker 14: you said at the end there, let's not fight now,
Speaker 14: is pretty much where we're at. But that is a
Speaker 14: development of sorts because this has been looming over America
Speaker 14: for some time. We've already seen a lot of flow
Speaker 14: on effects, quite a few flow on effects, I should say,
Speaker 14: from the tariffs coming in earlier this year, and they
Speaker 14: were supposed to be more coming in November first. So
Speaker 14: this is at least a daytont It shows that they
Speaker 14: do want to work together, and it shows that Donald
Speaker 14: Trump really does just want to replicate what he did
Speaker 14: the first time around, and he's aware how significant it
Speaker 14: would be if things were cut off from China. More significantly,
Speaker 14: American consumers do rely on so much from China and
Speaker 14: it would be a real hit to their quality of
Speaker 14: life if it was taken away from them. There's a
Speaker 14: big chunk of the American population that says they're happy
Speaker 14: to do that because they want to support American made
Speaker 14: they want to support American jobs. But a lot of
Speaker 14: people will feel that hurt. And that's obviously something Donald
Speaker 14: Trump just doesn't want to put into play right now.
Speaker 14: And I think also with him just making that truth
Speaker 14: social post about saying that it's going to be the
Speaker 14: two gi meeting, that that's really elevating the US and
Speaker 14: China to being those two big superpowers, and so I
Speaker 14: think that was a message to the rest of the
Speaker 14: world as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with that completely. But one of
Speaker 2: the things that I thought was very interesting too is
Speaker 2: that there seems to be at the moment a one
Speaker 2: year time limit on this that Jijinping has said, Well,
Speaker 2: we're going to kick out any sort of restraints on
Speaker 2: rare earth minerals exports for a year. At the same time,
Speaker 2: you're going to have allowances for soybean farmers in the
Speaker 2: US to get that access to Chinese markets a year
Speaker 2: from now is the midterm elections? Is this about trying
Speaker 2: to delay any economic pain coming from a trade war
Speaker 2: with China until after those midterms? Because of course Donald
Speaker 2: Trump wants to hold the Congress, and if he doesn't,
Speaker 2: then his whole agenda could be crueled twelve months from now.
Speaker 14: Look, that would be very much front of mine. Donald
Speaker 14: Trump doesn't want to lose control of Congress. It's already
Speaker 14: they're having a hard enough time as it is with
Speaker 14: the government shut down continuing. But I think for those
Speaker 14: who watched the last time around, they've been saying, look,
Speaker 14: the deals they made last time fell apart within a
Speaker 14: matter of months at best, and so there is every
Speaker 14: chance that this could fall apart. I think with the
Speaker 14: critical minerals piece of it, the advantage is still there
Speaker 14: for China at this point in time. They own most
Speaker 14: of the critical minerals that we want in the world,
Speaker 14: and they own ninety percent of the processing. And even
Speaker 14: with all the money that we've now said is going
Speaker 14: to be put online for Australia to be processing and
Speaker 14: cultivating rare earth minerals selling to the US and the
Speaker 14: US buying from Australia, we still rely on Chinese processing.
Speaker 14: So I think this is just them keeping their own
Speaker 14: side of the Ledger in balance for the time being
Speaker 14: and saying we'll work with you, but they're still not
Speaker 14: giving away much yet. And the other thing we didn't
Speaker 14: hear about was what's happening with this TikTok sale. They've
Speaker 14: said that the Chinese have approved for the part to
Speaker 14: be spun off to be owned by the US. But
Speaker 14: that's a big deal here as well. We saw some
Speaker 14: really intense lobbying about that, and so there's a lot
Speaker 14: of goodwill, it seems like from this first meeting, but
Speaker 14: not a lot of detail yet.
Speaker 2: Well, it seems to me, you know, that for as
Speaker 2: much as there's rhetoric around decoupling the economies of these
Speaker 2: two nations, the two g superpowers, I guess you'd say,
Speaker 2: they seem to be getting more and more enmeshed, whether
Speaker 2: it's about who processes whose rare earth, who sells agricultural
Speaker 2: products to whom? Is commerce potentially the great sort of
Speaker 2: engine that could head off a hotter conflict between the
Speaker 2: US and China. I e. Neither nation can really afford
Speaker 2: to go to war with one another them because they
Speaker 2: need the other too much.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, And what we're looking at is when we've been
Speaker 14: talking about the rising tensions politically between the US and China,
Speaker 14: the thing we always talk about is especially in Australia.
Speaker 14: As China's ambitions to annex Taiwan. The only thing really
Speaker 14: stopping that is semiconductors, and the US knows that they've tried,
Speaker 14: and they don't know how to make the semiconductors the
Speaker 14: way the Taiwanese do. The Chinese know the same, and
Speaker 14: so that's very valuable in between. And that's of course
Speaker 14: also influenced by rare earth minerals. And I think there's
Speaker 14: also just this element from the US that they just
Speaker 14: don't want to be involved in overseas conflicts. We see
Speaker 14: Trump relish in stopping overseas conflicts. He says he's solved
Speaker 14: seven out of the eight wars on his watch, and
Speaker 14: he's got just Ukraine and Russia left. And so there
Speaker 14: would be zero appetite for the US to have to
Speaker 14: get involved if China wanted to annex Taiwan. I know,
Speaker 14: at a retail level in politics in America, no one
Speaker 14: would be very excited about that. And so I think
Speaker 14: they've all just realized what the cards that they have
Speaker 14: are on the table. And if Donald Trump is going
Speaker 14: to take a hit for the economy, you're right, he
Speaker 14: wouldn't want to do it. Before midterms. He'd probably want
Speaker 14: to do it on his way out, but he also
Speaker 14: wants to lay on a high this time. I think
Speaker 14: that's still smarting for him from last time around.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's right. He finally before I let
Speaker 2: you go, though, you know, for all the talk of
Speaker 2: peace and amity and doing business together, the President also
Speaker 2: announced before his meeting with Jijinping that the US Department
Speaker 2: of War is to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons on
Speaker 2: an equal basis with other nuclear powers. Now this seemed,
Speaker 2: you know, at first, made huge headlines. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be having you know, mushroom clouds in the
Speaker 2: desert again. Well not so much. But tell us about
Speaker 2: this and what the aim of this particular bit of
Speaker 2: I guess you'd call it saber rattling?
Speaker 15: Is here?
Speaker 2: Who is this targeting? Is it aimed at? Putin is
Speaker 2: named g What's what's the audience for this message?
Speaker 14: Well, it did seem to come right after the Russians
Speaker 14: announced that they conducted their own tests. They've developed nuclear
Speaker 14: missiles that can go underwater to target coastal towns. Where
Speaker 14: we are in Washington, DC isn't all that far away
Speaker 14: from the coast if we're going to start talking about nukes.
Speaker 14: So I think there was just that, well, if he's
Speaker 14: going to flex his muscles, I'm going to flex mine.
Speaker 14: It doesn't make a ton of sense if you're not
Speaker 14: actually testing new technology. And so without them saying we've
Speaker 14: developed something new we're going to try out, it really
Speaker 14: does seem like it's you show me mine, I'll show
Speaker 14: you yours kind of one upping. And this is the
Speaker 14: Trump approach. He says he has peace through strength and
Speaker 14: he doesn't want to look weak. That has worked before.
Speaker 14: But I don't know how popular it's going to be
Speaker 14: testing nukes. They haven't done it in the US in
Speaker 14: thirty years, and I was reading that apparently the only
Speaker 14: state where they can actually do it logistically is Nevada,
Speaker 14: which is something of a swing state. And so I
Speaker 14: don't know if Trump put into that too close to
Speaker 14: midterms either. It's really far out in the desert, but
Speaker 14: apparently it could shake some buildings in Las Vegas, So
Speaker 14: I don't know if that would be all that popular.
Speaker 16: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The old days, back in the fifties and sixties, you know,
Speaker 2: they used to have atomic parties at the Las Vegas casinos,
Speaker 2: and you could sit on the roof of the big
Speaker 2: hotels and watch the mushroom clouds. Go analyze, Niels. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have to leave with there. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time, Thank you well. Joining me now is
Speaker 2: former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor of
Speaker 2: Bondai Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, thanks for joining me. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the government shutdown in a moment,
Speaker 2: but before we do that, I do want to get
Speaker 2: your thoughts on this latest trip of Donald Trump through
Speaker 2: North Asia. You were, of course there on that famous
Speaker 2: delegation when Donald Trump met with Kim Jong un in
Speaker 2: North Korea. No such meeting this time. But what do
Speaker 2: you make of the deal that he cut he seems
Speaker 2: to have cut with Jijinping to avert a trade war.
Speaker 2: Is this piece in our time or is it more
Speaker 2: worryingly piece in our time?
Speaker 17: Yeah, James, And I gotta tell you, I was watching
Speaker 17: the watching the events this week, just expecting him to
Speaker 17: sort of magically show up at the DMZ again just
Speaker 17: like he did back in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: Team.
Speaker 17: Disappointingly, it didn't happen. I'm sort of looking at the deal.
Speaker 17: I guess if that's the word we can use for it.
Speaker 17: It's not really an agreement. It's certainly not a formal agreement.
Speaker 17: It's a daytant. Essentially, what's gonna happen is the Chinese
Speaker 17: have agreed not to put limitations on rarers for the
Speaker 17: next year. We've agreed to cut back on the terrafs
Speaker 17: for a period of time. It's sort of a day tan.
Speaker 17: This is I encourage people to look at this sort
Speaker 17: of similarly to the way we looked at the relationship
Speaker 17: we had with the Soviet Union back during the Cold War.
Speaker 17: This is more of a cold piece and there's now
Speaker 17: a Dayton and they'll end up, you know, trying to
Speaker 17: continue the conversation. And that's why I think there's tremendous
Speaker 17: value here. It's not peace in our time. It's not
Speaker 17: the end of the discussion, but at least it's the
Speaker 17: beginning of the discussion, and it sounds like things are
Speaker 17: moving in the right direction. It's always important, James, always
Speaker 17: important when you've got two leaders like this, that if
Speaker 17: one of them picks up the phone to call the
Speaker 17: other one, the other one answers the phone, and I
Speaker 17: think they reaffirmed here on this visit that that what
Speaker 17: happen that if Trump needs to talk to she or
Speaker 17: vice versa, the communications will continue. I think that's that's
Speaker 17: unambiguously a good thing.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely a good thing. That it's when there's not
Speaker 2: communication that real crises can occur. But you've got two
Speaker 2: very different systems here, and both want to be the
Speaker 2: dominant superpower. Is this pushing down the road some sort
Speaker 2: of eventual conflict or do you think it will just
Speaker 2: you know, I know it's a long way to sort
Speaker 2: of be projecting, but are we looking at decades of
Speaker 2: kind of hotter and colder cold war with China, just
Speaker 2: as we did in the twentieth century see that with
Speaker 2: the Soviet Union.
Speaker 17: You know, there's a school of thought here on the
Speaker 17: right especially that says or believes there, or at least
Speaker 17: argues that military confrontation with China is inevitable in the
Speaker 17: next ten, fifteen, twenty years.
Speaker 1: I don't buy it.
Speaker 17: One of the reasons I sort of like the Detante
Speaker 17: and I consider it to be a huge success is
Speaker 17: that it starts to buy the time to figure out
Speaker 17: a way to get along, to figure out a wa
Speaker 17: to sort of allow the Chinese to pursue their national interests,
Speaker 17: allow us to pursue ours without negatively impacting our friends
Speaker 17: in the larger say, global economy, global stability, et cetera.
Speaker 17: Keep in mind, China has become very very wealthy, very
Speaker 17: very fast. It is a communist nation, so it doesn't
Speaker 17: function the way that Australia and the US does. It's
Speaker 17: not in that first tier of nations. How often have
Speaker 17: we talked about this? Can you imagine what the world
Speaker 17: would have said if Australia had kept information about COVID
Speaker 17: so private like the Chinese did. It would never happen
Speaker 17: in a democracy, doesn't happen in first tier countries, and
Speaker 17: China is not there yet, but maybe this and other
Speaker 17: things over the course of the next years they can
Speaker 17: get there. So look, and anytime you can put off
Speaker 17: a trade war, it's a good thing. But anybody who
Speaker 17: can predict the future is probably just rolling the dice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I no trade wars as well as hot wars.
Speaker 2: Hey tell you also, who is not getting along right now?
Speaker 2: It's Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. I spoke at
Speaker 2: the start of the show about the government shutdown. Here
Speaker 2: sectors around the country are feeling the effects. But now
Speaker 2: we're seeing the air traffic controllers and other aviation workers
Speaker 2: apparently being fed by airlines after not receiving their paychecks.
Speaker 2: Tell us how the politics of this are playing out,
Speaker 2: because of course they need sixty votes in the Senate
Speaker 2: and the Democrat the Republicans do not have those to
Speaker 2: keep the money moving here. At what point are the
Speaker 2: Democrats going to say this is hurting us more than
Speaker 2: it's hurting the Republicans.
Speaker 17: That's the sixty four thousand dollars question, because right now
Speaker 17: both sides think they are winning, and that is a
Speaker 17: formula for a continued shut down.
Speaker 1: Just like the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 17: You're not going to get people to come to the
Speaker 17: table until they feel like they get a better deal
Speaker 17: at the table than they get in the field. Right now,
Speaker 17: both parties feel like they are getting a better deal
Speaker 17: in the field and they are winning the battle politically.
Speaker 1: I don't see it.
Speaker 17: Ending anytime soon. I think if you watch the pressure points,
Speaker 17: airlines is one of them.
Speaker 1: Air travel. We're coming up on our Thanksgiving.
Speaker 17: Holiday here three weeks, one of the heaviest travel periods
Speaker 17: of the entire year. Many of the airlines today came
Speaker 17: out verb vocally in support of a clean funding deal.
Speaker 17: Many of the airline unions, which tend to lean Democratic,
Speaker 17: came out in favor of opening the government along the
Speaker 17: lines that Republicans have suggested already. So those pressure points
Speaker 17: will continue to boil as pressure points on things like
Speaker 17: healthcare subsidies and premiums. There's pressure points on food stamps
Speaker 17: and so other nutrition assistance programs.
Speaker 1: A lot of different pressure.
Speaker 17: Points, but none of them have added up yet to
Speaker 17: convincing either of the parties to go to the table.
Speaker 17: So I guess as when you know I talk next week,
Speaker 17: the government may will still be closed.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's not great news there if that's the
Speaker 2: case here. But one of the things that I'm sort
Speaker 2: of interested in is the polls. The polls seem to
Speaker 2: be indicating that it's not hurting Republicans in the way
Speaker 2: that previous government shutdowns that you know, I've spoken about,
Speaker 2: we've spoken about, and that I've lived through and watched
Speaker 2: have in the past. Are Americans becoming a bit savvier
Speaker 2: to the way congressional systems work, and that just because
Speaker 2: you know, somebody like Gavin Newsom comes down and says, oh, well,
Speaker 2: they've got control. Well, it doesn't mean that they've got
Speaker 2: a parliamentary control in the same way, you know, than
Speaker 2: it might somewhere else.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think people just realize, you know, who's responsible
Speaker 17: for Obamacare. We tried to shut down the government and
Speaker 17: did shut down the gouver twenty thirteen because we didn't
Speaker 17: want to fund Obamacare, and people say, oh, h someone's
Speaker 17: not funding Obamacare.
Speaker 1: That's Republican.
Speaker 17: In twenty nineteen, we shut the government down over border security,
Speaker 17: and people are thinking, well, I know who's for border security.
Speaker 1: That's Republicans.
Speaker 17: And now we're shut down over wanting we spend more
Speaker 17: money on Obamacare, and everybody knows who wants to do that.
Speaker 1: That's the Democrats. So even if you.
Speaker 17: Don't follow politics very closely in this country, you sort
Speaker 17: of know who's on the side of spending more money
Speaker 17: on Obamacare, which is what's really at the heart of
Speaker 17: this particular shutdown. So yeah, I think people are sort
Speaker 17: of waking up. They understand, you know, a little bit
Speaker 17: about how said it works, not a lot. Filibuster is
Speaker 17: probably not something that the ordinary American understands, but they
Speaker 17: if you have some what party, you know, wants to
Speaker 17: spend money on healthcare.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the Democrats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Philip Buster has been like the infield fly
Speaker 2: rule of politics. Hey, speaking of Trump too. Also, we
Speaker 2: spoke a bit about this last week here about this
Speaker 2: idea of the third term. Well, he recently poured cold
Speaker 2: water on the idea. And this is what the president
Speaker 2: had to say.
Speaker 12: I have my highest ball numbers that I've ever had,
Speaker 12: and you know, based on what I read.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not allowed to run. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens.
Speaker 4: You're true wanting when you talk about a third term.
Speaker 15: Well, I don't leak.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think he said that. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'd used that term. But uh, it's a
Speaker 1: very interesting thing.
Speaker 12: I have the best numbers for any president in many years,
Speaker 12: any president, and I would say that if you read it,
Speaker 12: it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. Stupid, I
Speaker 12: miss stupid. But we have a lot of great people.
Speaker 2: It's fascinating to me, though, that he, even though he
Speaker 2: seems to pour cold water on it. Donald Trump just
Speaker 2: loves to try old people with the idea that oh
Speaker 2: I might go outside the law, and then does it
Speaker 2: end every single time. It seems like the left of
Speaker 2: the media and the Democrats jump right at the bait.
Speaker 17: It's catting it for them. They cannot turn it down,
Speaker 17: and he plays it to a t. My favorite sort
Speaker 17: of part of this subtext this conversation about a third
Speaker 17: term is when he called Schumer and he called Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 17: the Republican in the Senate, and the King Jefferies the
Speaker 17: leading excuse me, democrat in the Senate, and the King
Speaker 17: Jeffery's Democrat in the House into the Oval office to
Speaker 17: talk about the shutdown, and he had a Trump twenty
Speaker 17: twenty eight hat on the desk as they walked in.
Speaker 17: He does this on purpose and it works masterfully. So look,
Speaker 17: you know the name Mark Levin, he's a leading conservative
Speaker 17: voice in media here, and he went posted something on
Speaker 17: Twitter just the other day and said, look, the man's
Speaker 17: not running. He's telling you he's not running. Let's move
Speaker 17: on to the next topic. What's some good like Mark
Speaker 17: Levin is telling you that. It means that everybody pretty
Speaker 17: much has assumed on the right that he's not running
Speaker 17: again because he can't. And as you heard in that clip,
Speaker 17: even he knows that the constant too she prevents.
Speaker 1: That from happening.
Speaker 2: Absolutely right. Hey, finally, before I let you go, speaking
Speaker 2: of things that are and are not allowed, We've had
Speaker 2: a report into the autopen scandal here arguing that any
Speaker 2: executive action signed by autopen without written proof of Biden's
Speaker 2: approval should be avoided. And that's the House Oversight Committee
Speaker 2: saying that, and the House Traney General Pam Bondi has
Speaker 2: also announced that her offs is reviewing the use of
Speaker 2: the autopen. Look, we've spoken about this before. We don't
Speaker 2: really know who was running the show. There, Is there
Speaker 2: anything that's ever going to come of this? Or is
Speaker 2: this just going to be another big asterisk against the
Speaker 2: Biden presidency in the record books.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 17: As critical as I have been and will continue to
Speaker 17: be of Biden's presidency and also his mental ability, his
Speaker 17: capabilities while he was president, I don't think he should
Speaker 17: ever run for reelection.
Speaker 1: You and I've talked about that many many times.
Speaker 17: I don't think there's going to be much that the
Speaker 17: Republicans can do about.
Speaker 1: The auto pen.
Speaker 17: The president, I'm or President Biden didn't put out a
Speaker 17: statement this week. For example, it said that he approved
Speaker 17: the all of the pardons unless you have evidence otherwise,
Speaker 17: I'm not sure how you overcome that. And while the
Speaker 17: Republicans have circumstantial evidence that says, well, you know he did.
Speaker 17: Joe Biben didn't meet with his staff very often there,
Speaker 17: at least as often as other presidents, that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 17: So I don't know if the Republics are ever going
Speaker 17: to find the hard evidence that they need in order
Speaker 17: to establish it the use of the auto pen was
Speaker 17: unauthorized and therefore void ab initio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And you know, I think I'll always have
Speaker 2: my suspicions though about that, as you may well as.
Speaker 1: Well, games as you well should.
Speaker 2: And when we talk about Biden putting out a statement, yeah,
Speaker 2: we wonder how much time he actually spent crafting it.
Speaker 2: Bick Movady, thanks so much for your time. As always,
Speaker 2: stick around. We got to hit a short break. But
Speaker 2: when we get back, we're going to head to the
Speaker 2: Big Apple where there just maybe a chance I'm hoping
Speaker 2: that Zora mom Dommy is headed for a step defeat.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but we can only hope. In the meantime, though,
Speaker 2: remember those No King's protests against Donald Trump, Well, they
Speaker 2: didn't get the message in South Korea.
Speaker 13: You present this bull drops to.
Speaker 14: You on the joist occasion of your state visit to
Speaker 14: Kung Chu, because.
Speaker 16: The symbolizes the spirit of Shillah has.
Speaker 15: Brought piece of the Korean peninsula for.
Speaker 14: The first time, and there'll be the bolden age of
Speaker 14: the Korea US Alliance.
Speaker 2: That's right, they gave him an honest to God crown.
Speaker 2: I know he used to work with McDonald's, but batter
Speaker 2: the great troll of Trump started doing shifts at Burger
Speaker 2: King for this very reason. Anyway, buckle up off to
Speaker 2: New York after the break. Welcome back to the program. Well,
Speaker 2: it is coming down to the last few days of
Speaker 2: the most important election underway in the United States right now,
Speaker 2: and I speak, of course about the New York City
Speaker 2: mayoral election, where the Democrats socialist Zoroon mom Donnie is
Speaker 2: poised to take control of the most important city in America,
Speaker 2: promising hard left economics, free bus rides, rent freezes, and
Speaker 2: government run grocery stores. Joining me now for the final
Speaker 2: word ahead of New York's barrel race election is the
Speaker 2: New York Post City Hall Bureau Chief Craig McCarthy. Craig,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining me here on the US report. Now,
Speaker 2: a trio of polls your paper has reported show Zoron
Speaker 2: Mom Donnie with varying leads over ex Governor Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 2: here in the home stretch, ranging from ten to twenty
Speaker 2: five points. Craig, is there any chance of Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 2: staging a comeback, a fight back here in the last
Speaker 2: days of the election?
Speaker 5: No, I mean at this point.
Speaker 6: Listen, the last three polls that came out over the
Speaker 6: last twenty four hours showed Zoron Manzani with a commanding
Speaker 6: twelve to eighteen sixteen point lead in this race. You know,
Speaker 6: the question with polsters now isn't about whether Zoron will
Speaker 6: or not.
Speaker 5: It'll be you know, how.
Speaker 6: Much he wins by at this point, There's seemingly nothing
Speaker 6: that Andrew Cmo has been able to do over the
Speaker 6: last few months at this point to even cut into
Speaker 6: that lead. He's barely been able to break into thirty
Speaker 6: percent until Eric Adams, who.
Speaker 5: Is the sitting mayor who is running for.
Speaker 6: Reelection, until the abandon that bid dropped out of the
Speaker 6: race recently.
Speaker 2: Tell me what is the current feeling in New York
Speaker 2: City ahead of this election? I mean, are people hopeful
Speaker 2: or optimistic about what Mom Donnie is promising and what
Speaker 2: he's promising to bring, because an awful lot of people
Speaker 2: don't speak to are really really nervous about what he
Speaker 2: could do, especially people who lived through the pre Giuliani
Speaker 2: era in New York. To have a guy who talks
Speaker 2: about defunding the police and driving out the tax base
Speaker 2: seems like it's a potential disaster.
Speaker 5: Well, at this point, you know, voters are split.
Speaker 6: He hasn't been able to coalesce a majority of New
Speaker 6: Yorkers behind him. You know, a poll that came out
Speaker 6: the other day from the right leading Manhattan institute, you know, pointed.
Speaker 18: Out that a lot of his principles are a lot
Speaker 18: of his, a lot of his his proposals, the free buses,
Speaker 18: the city run food stores, the I mean, aside from
Speaker 18: universal child's care, most of these things don't pull well with.
Speaker 5: A majority of people.
Speaker 6: And the you know, the business community is obviously very
Speaker 6: nervous about this because he said he's proposed attacks on
Speaker 6: the on the wealthiest and the corporations, and you know,
Speaker 6: the real estate communities slightly is a lot worried about
Speaker 6: him because of his pledges to freeze the rent in
Speaker 6: something we have in New York City that are rent
Speaker 6: stabilized apartments.
Speaker 5: So there's a there's a little bit of a shift here.
Speaker 6: But you know, democrats are have been coalescing behind him,
Speaker 6: with the establishment coming out from people like Kathy Hochel
Speaker 6: or Keim Jefferys begrudgingly endorsing him over the last little bit.
Speaker 6: Who are some of the top democrats in the stainless
Speaker 6: of DC.
Speaker 2: And what about some of these cultural issues around him.
Speaker 2: I mean, your paper, I believe, reported that his mother's
Speaker 2: or on Mam Donnie's own mother, who herself is quite
Speaker 2: a prominent filmmaker, said that chief things her son as
Speaker 2: not an American at all her words and that quote
Speaker 2: he thinks to himself as a Ugandan and an Indian.
Speaker 2: And others have seized on his comments about nine to
Speaker 2: eleven and talking about his aunt who wasn't actually his aunt,
Speaker 2: who said she felt uncomfortable taking the train after nine
Speaker 2: to eleven because she wore a heat job. Well, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm glad he did find who the real victims of
Speaker 2: that terror attack was, But how was all this going down?
Speaker 5: I think what we're.
Speaker 6: Seeing right now in New York City when it comes
Speaker 6: at is a shift in the electorate and this shift
Speaker 6: of the Democrat and the base here. Right, So we're
Speaker 6: talking about somebody who is an immigrant who his mother
Speaker 6: said he didn't feel American at that time.
Speaker 5: This interview was twenty thirteen. He came to this country
Speaker 5: he was seven. He was became a US citizen in
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6: But there's been this shift and what you know, Andrew Como,
Speaker 6: the things you're bringing up about the ant and the things
Speaker 6: you're bringing about about nine to eleven. Obviously it being
Speaker 6: in New York City, a lot of these things have
Speaker 6: been shifting in the sense of those are a tacks
Speaker 6: he was trying to land on that which would traditionally
Speaker 6: in the same thing coming with anti sentism, right, So
Speaker 6: a lot of these things have come up with that
Speaker 6: and the.
Speaker 5: Shift of the base.
Speaker 6: The big blocks of voters in here are no longer
Speaker 6: the Jewish vote and the Black vote, and more of
Speaker 6: the of the the Indian and the Chinese vote in
Speaker 6: New York City. It's just a shifting demographic right now.
Speaker 6: And I think a lot of these things have been
Speaker 6: from a lot of you know, attacks and all these
Speaker 6: kind of political maneuvering that have tried to create some fear,
Speaker 6: you know, some bad negative press behind him to try
Speaker 6: to get support to Andrew Cromo.
Speaker 5: But as I was saying, none of it has really
Speaker 5: moved the needle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's fascinating what you're saying about the
Speaker 2: demographics there and the shifting ethnic demographics of political power
Speaker 2: in New York. Have the Cuomo people or the mam
Speaker 2: Donni foes I guess to put it another way, have
Speaker 2: they made a tactical error here in bringing up cultural
Speaker 2: attacks that would play well with people who wouldn't vote
Speaker 2: for mom Donni anyway, instead of focusing on you know,
Speaker 2: the real negative effects of defunding the police, which mom
Speaker 2: Donnie has had to run away from having said a
Speaker 2: million times in the past, from his economics which the
Speaker 2: middle and working class would pay the price for, and
Speaker 2: that sort of campaigning.
Speaker 6: Well, I think the problem that they've had with this
Speaker 6: campaign is, and this is from talking with tons of
Speaker 6: political experts and people who run campaigns, is, you know,
Speaker 6: regardless of what you agree with his policy from Zormandani,
Speaker 6: he has run a very hopeful campaign.
Speaker 19: Right.
Speaker 5: It's not dooming gloom of New York City. Everything is horrible.
Speaker 5: It's New York City is great.
Speaker 6: We want to make it better, and trying to run
Speaker 6: a negative campaign against aid Chipley just does not resonate
Speaker 6: with voters, especially somebody like Andrew Cuomo has been dogged
Speaker 6: about coming in as kind of you know, coming in
Speaker 6: from Westchester as a carpetbacker and coming in to try
Speaker 6: to run the city. Because trying to use this as
Speaker 6: an end to come in come back into political relevance.
Speaker 6: I think that's a big thing with this with this race,
Speaker 6: and again you can even see with Democratic voters. He
Speaker 6: was on a famous podcast this week, and Andrew Schultz's
Speaker 6: comedian even said he's like, I'm not a socialist.
Speaker 5: I don't agree with all.
Speaker 6: Of your policies, nearly any of them. However, you're coming
Speaker 6: in this with some ideas and some hope and not
Speaker 6: this doom and gloom. And that's why he was supporting him.
Speaker 6: So I think there's and again this what I was
Speaker 6: saying against the with.
Speaker 5: The polls across.
Speaker 6: The city of his ideals and his ideas and these
Speaker 6: policies is they don't have overwhelming support, but they Democrats,
Speaker 6: and in the era that we have with President Trump
Speaker 6: and the sparring with them. They're looking for somebody who's
Speaker 6: going to fight for them, and I think that it
Speaker 6: doesn't even matter a lot of times if they agree
Speaker 6: with all of the policies or even at all.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you mentioned Donald Trump there, because this
Speaker 2: brings me to my next question. Here has zoron Mom
Speaker 2: Donnie in a weird sort of way, hit on a
Speaker 2: very New York urban ethnic version of the Trump formula
Speaker 2: I positivity and huge, huge social media presence. I mean,
Speaker 2: are the Democrats starting to crack this ode here that's
Speaker 2: made Trump so successful?
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's I think looking at the historic
Speaker 6: perspective of this, right, like when Trump came into office,
Speaker 6: he tapped into Twitter, and he tapped into a lot
Speaker 6: of these things that Obama did during his initial campaign,
Speaker 6: which used Facebook, and now we're onto the next iteration
Speaker 6: of that, which is Instagram and TikTok and these these
Speaker 6: produced videos. Obviously him coming from a movie background with
Speaker 6: his mother and everything like that, obviously his benefit of
Speaker 6: knowing famous actors and celebrities and such. But yeah, I
Speaker 6: think that, like when you look at the group that
Speaker 6: he's a part of, the Democratic Socialists of America, are
Speaker 6: very similar in the sense that there they are very
Speaker 6: far left. They're very far left is as the president
Speaker 6: has has coalesced a big group of the country in
Speaker 6: the far right. And I remember in twenty sixteen that,
Speaker 6: you know, when Bernie Sanders was running and he's probably
Speaker 6: one of the better known DSA people next to AOC,
Speaker 6: when he was running for president against Hillary Clinton. Once
Speaker 6: that election ended, I remember one of my friends, who
Speaker 6: was a correction officer, coming to me and saying, I
Speaker 6: was a big Bernie supporter, but now I ended up
Speaker 6: and I'm voting for Trump. And this is like what
Speaker 6: we call pussics, the horseshoe theori. As you go so
Speaker 6: far left right, you end up kind of as the
Speaker 6: same kind of person, the same kind of party.
Speaker 2: Absolutely fascinating, Craig McCarthy, We're going to be reading your
Speaker 2: stuff in the New York Post dot com all week long,
Speaker 2: coming up to see how this selection goes and what
Speaker 2: happens afterwards. Thank you so much for your time. Well,
Speaker 2: alrighty then John Fund is up in a tick and
Speaker 2: he's always ready to fire up. But first let's have
Speaker 2: a little fun to get us in the mood. Check
Speaker 2: out the scene at this anti ice protest, when a
Speaker 2: trans Indigenous man comes to show his support for border
Speaker 2: agents kicking out invaders.
Speaker 16: I'm trans indigenous, transdigit are you? Are you sis American?
Speaker 16: I'm trans Indigenous for ice.
Speaker 19: We love ice, love.
Speaker 16: We love ice, we love ice.
Speaker 1: Support them all.
Speaker 16: You're all trespassers on our land. Well, trans Indigenous people
Speaker 16: are Indigenous people, and you're all trespassers on and we
Speaker 16: want Bovino to de pour all of you.
Speaker 15: Guys.
Speaker 16: We love ice. Trans Natives love ice. We love you ice.
Speaker 16: We love ice.
Speaker 2: I love ice too, particularly in the drink. John Fund
Speaker 2: up next, Welcome back to the program. Well, joining me
Speaker 2: now is a great friend of the friend of the program,
Speaker 2: political journalist John fund John, thanks for coming back on
Speaker 2: the West Report in case you missed it, because we've
Speaker 2: had a bit of news here in Australia. Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: showed up on Australian television this week ahead of a
Speaker 2: speaking tour and continued her run of fantastic media appearances.
Speaker 2: Here's just a little bit of her interview with the
Speaker 2: ABC's Sarah Ferguson.
Speaker 20: But wasn't Joe Biden then to put it on him
Speaker 20: wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason
Speaker 20: that you faced a nearly impossible task.
Speaker 10: I ran against Donald Trump for president, and Donald Trump
Speaker 10: ran on a platform that was, in a large part,
Speaker 10: I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people.
Speaker 20: I want to interrupt you, because that is a world
Speaker 20: class pivot. But it is not the question that I
Speaker 20: asked you. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president.
Speaker 10: In what regard? Please?
Speaker 20: Well, just in terms of that question, so you what.
Speaker 10: Exactly would you like to ask? Be more specific if
Speaker 10: you don't mind.
Speaker 2: John Absolutely fascinating here, not just that our Australian ABC
Speaker 2: had the temerity to pull Kamala Harris up on this,
Speaker 2: but also that you know she's still so unwilling to
Speaker 2: start this fight with the Biden camp over what just
Speaker 2: happened in that election.
Speaker 11: Well, this is what happens a lot with Kamala Harris
Speaker 11: when her talking points to run out and they leave
Speaker 11: her mouth and start running around the room, and she
Speaker 11: can't get them back, so she's in a pickle. Her
Speaker 11: book is full of disappointments about Joe Biden and concerns
Speaker 11: about his fitness for office and regrets that she didn't
Speaker 11: intervene more and that she's gotten a lot of flak
Speaker 11: for that. Obviously, she's being told by figures in the party,
Speaker 11: you're beating up on our guy, and this is going
Speaker 11: to hurt you should you want to run for president again.
Speaker 11: So she's trying to row all of that back in
Speaker 11: the late TV interviews. It's not going to work. It
Speaker 11: just makes her look confused.
Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, hey, speaking of interviews here too, I want
Speaker 2: to play another clip for you of Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 2: Pritzker talking to MSNBC's Nicole Wallace. How look at this.
Speaker 13: I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is hitler. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I don't think any Democrat has. I actually and I
Speaker 3: and I think it's a it's a smear that they
Speaker 3: project back on to critics.
Speaker 2: But here's a little bit of a long list of
Speaker 2: examples of Democrats doing exactly that.
Speaker 10: From John Kelly's words that Donald Trump is someone who
Speaker 10: I quote, certainly falls into the general definition of fascists.
Speaker 19: And where one side stands for freedom while the other
Speaker 19: meets the textbook definition of fascism, namely a far right
Speaker 19: dictatorial regime like Hitler's Germany.
Speaker 4: Or just to hear when you said, we do agree,
Speaker 4: President Biden believes that Donald.
Speaker 13: Trump is I mean yes, in the early days of
Speaker 13: the Nazi regime, they started slowly but surely taking away
Speaker 13: people's rights. And what we're seeing now is the very
Speaker 13: same thing.
Speaker 2: The Democrats really going to run on calling half the
Speaker 2: country Nazis again.
Speaker 11: You know, twenty five years ago, when the Internet was
Speaker 11: a baby, there was a professor named Godwin who said,
Speaker 11: the person who loses the argument is the one who
Speaker 11: brings up Hitler first in the argument. And that's what
Speaker 11: Democrats have done. And the problem is to use another analogy.
Speaker 11: They're descending even further, and they're practicing what Joseph Gebels
Speaker 11: called the big lie. And you can get away with
Speaker 11: that before the Internet. But as you can see, it
Speaker 11: was very easy for your producers and you to literally
Speaker 11: refute them within seconds on the air. I think they're trapped,
Speaker 11: and frankly, they sound as if they don't have any
Speaker 11: arguments other than name calling.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, no, I think that's right. We've seen an
Speaker 2: awful lot of that here. But speaking of name calling too,
Speaker 2: White House Press Secretary Carrie Jean Pierre remember her. She
Speaker 2: has been out with her own tell all memoir about
Speaker 2: her time with President Biden. But have a look at
Speaker 2: her response to a perfectly direct question from of all places, MSNBC.
Speaker 16: Do you have any regrets at all for anything that
Speaker 16: you said while you were speaking on behalf of this administration?
Speaker 5: I'm looking.
Speaker 19: It's a simply no, no, no, because you're asking for an answer,
Speaker 19: no question.
Speaker 5: I want to put some context to it too. I'm
Speaker 5: here every day.
Speaker 14: I woke up every day very proud to be the
Speaker 14: White House pre secretary.
Speaker 6: I woke up every days as a black woman who
Speaker 6: is queer, who had never no one had ever seen.
Speaker 5: Someone like me at that podium, standing behind that lectern.
Speaker 2: Well you got to love the identity politics hit there.
Speaker 2: But the fascinating thing about this book tour, which seems
Speaker 2: to be going even worse than Kabla Harris's, is that
Speaker 2: she's actually saying some of the stuff that should be
Speaker 2: unsaid about Joe Biden. How is this all going for her?
Speaker 2: Now that she seems to be being discarded by the Democrats.
Speaker 11: Every Democrat I know who watches Karine Jean Pierre interview
Speaker 11: immediately does this, it's a complete train wreck. I mean,
Speaker 11: you could walk through her deepest thoughts and not get
Speaker 11: your ankles wet. It's pathetic. And the fact is this
Speaker 11: is a perfect reason why we're deconstructing and getting rid
Speaker 11: of Dei, because the country has to run on merit.
Speaker 11: And despite whatever identities that she wants to project to
Speaker 11: the American people, she clearly was the worst press secretary
Speaker 11: in modern American history and we just have to learn
Speaker 11: lessons from that.
Speaker 2: Well, John, thank you so much for that analysis, because
Speaker 2: that is absolutely correct. When she was in the chair,
Speaker 2: this show almost wrote itself. John, Fun thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time. As always, Now stick around because
Speaker 2: Only in America is coming up next. But first, it's
Speaker 2: Halloween and we've barely given it its due. But over
Speaker 2: at the White House, they're having fun, especially in their
Speaker 2: social media department, and it looks like Oh hockeym Jeffries
Speaker 2: and Chuck Schumer have come over for a bit of
Speaker 2: trigger treating.
Speaker 15: He did the most tonight.
Speaker 2: I just cannot get enough of those sombreros and apparently
Speaker 2: not the can the guys of the White House stick
Speaker 2: around because Only in America is next. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the program, and now it's time for a little segment
Speaker 2: we like to call Only in America. Well, this week's
Speaker 2: Only in America comes to us from New York via Israel,
Speaker 2: where comedy program Eritz de Heterott has done a little
Speaker 2: video of mayoral candidate Zoron Mamdani reaching out to Jewish voters.
Speaker 7: This is a message from Zorin Mamdani to the Jewish
Speaker 7: community of New York City. Hi, I'm zor And Mamdani,
Speaker 7: candidate from New York of New York City. To my
Speaker 7: Jewish friends and neighbors, shalom. Let me start by wishing
Speaker 7: you all a happy new Year, or as you say
Speaker 7: in Hebrew, into fadatovat.
Speaker 10: It's shanatova you said.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Okay, let's do it again and action, Hey to
Speaker 7: all my Jewish New Yorkers. Tonight we celebrate Roshashana with
Speaker 7: a festive family dinner and dance joyfully to the beloved
Speaker 7: song Jihada matt gil jiha.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure it's hav On aguila.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 7: Of course, Action, I want to reassure you I embrace
Speaker 7: all cultures. I love bagels, and I also love hamas.
Speaker 15: Humus fu.
Speaker 2: Hummus, you big schlavel not hamas Oi get vault. What
Speaker 2: kind of fuck to campaign are you're running? Well, that's
Speaker 2: all the time we have for this week, and if
Speaker 2: you're watching in New York, good luck, you're gonna need it.
Speaker 2: Bye bye