WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 3 October 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.000 This is the US Report with James Moroar. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.960 Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.160 up tonight. Secretary of War Pete Hegsas takes the war 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.560 on woke to the military, but will it help win 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.599 wars in the real world? Plus Mom Danni the Kami 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.360 goes on the View and could be taking over America's 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:25.120 biggest city. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.560 And Karama why. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.680 The Mariachi has become the White House's new favorite meme? 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.720 But first, well, you know the old expression, if a 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.440 Republicans in the White House, the Democrats are going to 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.720 have a tantrum and shut down the government. Okay, all right, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.400 I just made that up, but it is a pattern 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:52.160 that absolutely holds. And here we are again. But there's 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.280 something going on different this time. The usual playbook where 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.040 the Democrats wind up blaming the Republicans and making them 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.200 look like being mees who want to ruin everyone's good 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.280 time at the National Park. Well, they've played that card before, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.039 but this time it's not going so well. Instead, the 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.640 US government is being held hostage, and contrary to what 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.760 some reports have suggested, it is in fact the Democrats 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.280 who are holding the gun. In short, the Federal bureaucracy 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.920 is on hold because Democrats. Yes, that's right, Democrats did 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.320 not want to vote for a continuing resolution to let 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.039 the keep government keep on working. Now, this is the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.119 first time since twenty nineteen there has been a really 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.959 serious government shutdown in the US, and let me tell you, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.840 the blame game and the gas lighting is off the charts. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.600 At the heart of the matter is a fight over 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.720 something that left clave simply is not happening. A fight 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.400 over whether or not what are politely known as undocumented 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:01.880 migrants illegal aliens should get free healthcare courtesy of the taxpayer. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:03.360 Now, there are. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.000 Examples of this gas lighting all over the place, and 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.160 you have probably seen versions of it in your local 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:14.000 media seeking to blame Team Trump for the mess. Take, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.280 for example, the Washington Post, which has tried to frame 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.760 this as a question of Democrats simply wanting to extend 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.840 the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. As the Post put it, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:32.120 quote Republicans falsely claimed Democrats wanted to give undocumented immigrants 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.200 full health benefits. Or have a look at New York 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.000 Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the man many 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.200 blame for what is leading and being called in Washington. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:48.359 The Schumer shutdown, He tweeted, quote, let me be perfectly clear, 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:53.320 undocumented people cannot and will not receive ACA premium tax 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.600 credits by law period. Well, Senator, not so fast, because 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.040 guess what with US support, we've got some receipts. First 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.240 of all, Chuck Schumer is playing a semantic game. And 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.320 as many others have pointed out, Joe Biden, when he 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:16.320 was president, granted parole and asylum to millions of illegal aliens, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:22.760 thus unlocking legal status and access to healthcare benefits, including 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.000 ACA tax credits. As commentator Matt Margolis points out, a 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.040 number of Democrat states as well, heavily subsidized by the 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:38.320 federal government, also subsidized undocumented migrants aka illegal. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.440 Aliens and their healthcare. So let's be real clear here. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.640 What they claim is not happening is in fact already happening. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.520 And secondly, and here's what's really amazing, the Democrats have, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.840 for a number of years, in fact made this idea 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:02.400 of healthcare for the undocumented illegal librant population a key 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.520 pillar of their platform. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.400 It's true. Just go back and listen to them. Remember this. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.760 This was the twenty nineteen Democrat primary here's what they 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.120 said at their debate. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.120 Raise your handed government, if your government plan would provide 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:30.440 coverage for undocumented immigrants. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.800 And oh how they cheered. Did you hear that? 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.120 Look, this idea that providing healthcare for people don't belong 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:38.200 in the country, it's not controversial to Democrats. It is 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.680 something that these days they are proud of and in fact, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.359 in their unguarded moments, despite what the headlines say, they say, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:52.760 this is what's going on. Here's Democrat California Congressman Rowe Kahana. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.839 In terms of healthcare. The reality is they're just not 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:57.800 being honest. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.960 The amount of money that actually is going towards that 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.000 people who are undocumented is such a small portion of 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.280 the Medicaid cuts or the Affordable Care Act, if at all, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.080 And so we can argue that point. But the reality 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.720 that even the Vice President would acknowledge, that anyone who 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.440 looks at the numbers will acknowledge, is ninety to ninety 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.360 five percent of the funding we're talking about is talking 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.320 about funding for American citizens. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.039 So five to ten percent of funding is actually going 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.039 to this population. I thought it wasn't happening, or at 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.719 least that's what Chuck Schumer said, and check out what 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.800 happened when this journalist got another California Democrat, Maxine Waters, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.680 to admit that, yes, they were giving health care to everyone, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.080 legal and illegal alike. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.440 Are Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens? 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:57.960 That's right, Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody. We want 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:03.919 to save lives, make sure that healthcare is available to 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:10.360 those who would die, but having the help of their government. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.760 So you're good with the government shutdown even if it 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.440 means giving health care to people who aren't Americans. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.920 That well, you keep that's what you're pushing on. What 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.400 you're trying to do is you're standing here and you're 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.640 trying to make me say that somehow we're going to 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.360 put non citizens over Americans. Quit it, stop it. This 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.240 is the kind of journalism we don't need. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.240 Do you have advice it Ooh. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.240 Not happy, jan Now, this is absolutely fascinating to me 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.320 because you know, if you watch this program, you know 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.679 that we love to do a little bit of history here, 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.919 and once upon a time, Democrats, even the likes of 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.600 Barack O Baba, love to actually talk tough about illegal migrants, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.719 to the point where even Barack Obaba once sounded a 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:58.240 little bit. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.840 Dare I say, Mega. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.719 The Bush administration has done nothing to control the problem 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.880 that we had. We've had five million undocumented workers come 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.520 over the borders since George Bush took office. It has 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:19.120 become an extraordinary problem. And the reason the American people 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.120 are concerned is because they are seeing their own economic 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.160 position slip away. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.760 That was what's Democrat mainstream talk. Can you believe it? 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.560 And when he was president, well, Barack Obama said this. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.840 If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.320 to enter the US illegally, your chances of getting caught 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:46.200 and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.040 are not only lawful, there are the kinds of actions 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.720 taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.920 president for the past half century. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.720 Yeah, so I don't think back then the Democrats were 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:03.400 all that keen on giving illegal immigrants healthcare, and they 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.880 certainly would not have shut down the government to make 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:12.920 that happen. Meanwhile, remember our old friend Chuck Schumer. Well, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.360 here he is, the good Senator arguing back in the 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.240 nineteen nineties for measures to crack down on fraud buy 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.160 undocumented migrants, illegal immigrants, whatever, you wanted to call them 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:30.600 and decrying those who opposed fixing the problem. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.800 This is an anti fraud amendment. All over where we go, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.679 people say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.320 others from coming here? And the number one answer we 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.079 give our constituencies when they come here, they can get jobs, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.360 get benefits against the. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:50.720 Law because of fraud. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.800 And here the gentleman from Florida has put together the 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.160 most effective anti fraud measure we can find without it 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.560 changing the app actions of the government one bit, and 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.080 we find all this opposition. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.960 But that was then and this is now. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.640 And Schumer, yes, the same Schumer just voted to shut 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.560 down the federal government again because Democrats refused to budge 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.440 on this issue of free healthcare and other benefits to 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:26.960 the quote unquote undocumented So what has changed along the way? Well, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.360 as I showed before, by twenty nineteen, undocumented migrants were 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.520 the heroes of the Democrats story, and today one in 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.000 a bit terms of Donald Trump. Later with that little 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.160 unfortunate Joe Biden lunacy in the middle, the left is 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.560 now completely around the twist and willing to shut down 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.840 the government over yet another one of those issues like 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.200 to fund the police, or boys and Girls chance rooms, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.320 any of those eighty twenty issues we talked about. But 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.080 here's the thing, with the midterms little more than a 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.240 year away, this is a mistake that the Democrats cannot 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:10.079 afford to keep on making. All right, let's bring you 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.200 my first guest here, Fox News contributor Joe Concient. Joe, 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.200 thanks so much for joining me on the US report 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.320 that government there is still shutdown, and that shutdown looks 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.000 like it's going to remain in place for a while 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.720 as lawmakers shift the blame for who is responsible. Now, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.400 neither side seems to be wanting back down here. So 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.679 what happens next? And is anybody still buying the Democrats 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.320 spin that no, no, no, we don't really want to 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.880 provide healthcare for undocumented migrants and that's why this is 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.080 such a crisis. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.720 Right except they do, and it's in their proposal. So yeah, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.480 losing that argument at this point, James. But overall, I 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.880 think that many Americans, if you just drive around our 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.520 streets today or you talk to some folks, no one 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.480 would know the government is shut down because nothing is 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.960 being impacted. In other words, our garbage year. I'm in 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.400 New Jersey is still being picked up, Recycling still being 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.440 picked up, now still being delivered, police still on the job. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.480 Our military nationally is still ready and able to do 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:12.280 whatever they have to. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.880 I could go on and on, but overall, I. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.920 Don't think many people care about this government shut down 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.120 because again, it's not something that they feel and unless 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.439 the American people feel something like this, and therefore they're 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.600 going to look at it and say, Okay, I guess 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.920 this is just Republicans and Democrats fighting again and not 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.760 getting anything done. But overall, Democrats are to blame here 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.080 because Republicans passed a clean bill in the House and 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.400 then send it to the Senate and then Democrats decided 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.440 we're going to vote against it. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.880 So this is on them. I think the American people 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:43.160 know it. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.480 Yeah, no, I think they do know if that's my 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.800 sense of it. Has the Democrats tactic then here blown up? 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.840 Because normally what the Democrats try and do is create 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.760 a crisis and then say, oh, we're the ones who 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.000 are trying to defend all your services, your national parks, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.360 or you're this or you or your social Security. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.640 That does not seem to have worked this time. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.360 No, it is not James because again, the Democratic Party 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.480 they're approval rating right now in the United States, according 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:17.679 to Quinnipeic University, is nineteen percent. Nineteen percent. Gas station 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.560 sushi here in the States is more popular than the 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.360 Democratic Party right now, and I had some today. Don't 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.199 get me wrong, I'm not against the I'm one of 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.920 those nineteen percent, I suppose. But the bottom line is 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:34.080 that again, when Democrats talk about that Republicans are destroying 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:39.079 democracy and Donald Trump is authoritarian and a fascist and hitler, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.199 I'm sorry. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.640 When you've been saying this for ten years. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.120 After a while, it's a boy who Cried Wolf kind 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.200 of situation where no one's really listening anymore. And this 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.520 appears to be a party that whinds and complains a 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.680 lot the Democrats, but actually never offers up any sort 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.440 of solution outside of Donald Trump is bad. We're here 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.920 to save democracy and vote for us. I'm sorry. That's 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.400 not a message. You have to give people positive, optimistic 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.760 solutions around the things that they think are a problem 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.160 for the country today, and this Democratic Party simply is 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:08.640 not doing that. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.320 James, Well, at nineteen percent, there, that proves what I 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.120 was just saying a little while ago. In the program 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.480 that this is another eighty twenty issue that they're on 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 the wrong side of. Now, beyond the gas station sushi, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.520 there's other brave people, our war fighters, a Defense Department, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.400 people war Department, now people War Secretary Pete Haiksith had 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.920 an address this week to top US generals and admirals. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.679 Here's a little of what he had to say. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:39.360 We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.040 also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.760 the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.760 and kill the enemies of our country. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.760 Joe I thought this was very important, and I think 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.199 much of the media missed the point when they talked 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.240 about him fat shaving officers in generals for not passing 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.679 their PT certifications. But this point here that the Department 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.720 of War, that the Pentagon is about fighting and winning wars. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.920 This is a real breath of fresh air. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.319 Oh and pizza. Friend. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.600 So I may be a little biased here, of course, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.480 having been with him many years on Fox and Friends 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.480 Weekend and other places, But let me just take that 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.960 aside for a second. Yeah, let's fat shame all the 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.120 generals that have become overweight and are not great examples 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.960 for their troops. I mean, I'll just make it personal 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.040 here for a second, if you don't mind, my football 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.400 coach in high school, Fred Keel, former Marine. This guy 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.440 looked like Popeye and he was in his fifties. And 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.280 when he asked you to sprint one hundred yards and 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.360 then sprint one hundred yards back, you did it because 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.000 he looked like he was in shape. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.920 He looked like somebody who was not being hypocritical. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.680 And when Pete Hegseth calls out these generals for being 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.080 out of shape and they should probably go through the 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.120 same training that. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.840 They ask their very troops to do. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:01.320 I don't know. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.720 Again, eighty twenty I think eighty percent of Americans say, yeah, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.600 that should be the case. So good for Pete and 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.840 these generals here that have been, you know, eating a 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.440 little bit too much and not training enough. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:13.800 Maybe this will wake them up. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.040 But I thought this was so refreshing to hear somebody 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.520 who's the secretary of war say we all need to 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.360 be on the same page and be held to the 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.640 same standards. That's again, that's something that most people would 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:25.000 agree on. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.280 And I'd love to know how many chin ups General 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:29.000 Millie could do. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.040 I don't know. He might get have been a white rage. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.960 He might get have been a white rage if you 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.880 asked him to do some of that thing. But hey, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.840 there was a bit of fun this week also with 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.640 the White House doing up memes of House Minority Leader 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.200 Hakeem Jeffries, or as some people call him, the TMU 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.200 Obama in a sombrero. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.680 Now here's one of them. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.600 It's a disgusting video. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.600 And we're going to continue to make clear. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.400 Bigotry will get you. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.480 Nowhere, we are fighting. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.600 To protect the healthcare of the americ Change people in 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.760 the face of an unprecedented. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.400 Republican Now you got to laugh here. They've even been 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.160 looping this in the White House Press briefing room. But 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.440 the Democrats are melting down and crying racism. Have they 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.240 lost this sense of humor or what? 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:15.080 Oh? 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.360 I think it's weird, James, because the old days, old 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.440 days being like the two thousand's or you know, the nineties, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.000 where Republicans were seen as white, old, stuffy, boring rich guys. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.960 Now they're like the Coal Party right because of Trump, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.479 because of advance, and because of memes like this, While Democrats 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.640 are just insufferable in terms of their complaining. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.280 They're whining over this stuff when let's put it this way. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.240 If the bar is if you call somebody Hitler an 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:48.520 authoritarian a fascist, that apparently is okay, But god forbid 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.120 you put a fourth a meme of a sombrero wearing 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.200 jakeem Jeffries playing the Mexican music in the background, which 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.120 Trump playing the guitar. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.400 That's somehow offensive. I'm sorry. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.239 I'm pretty sure Hitler outweighs sombrero in this situation. So 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.520 they have no moral high ground here. And again they 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.480 just look, I don't know, petulant. That's the only way 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.439 that comes to mind, James. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:15.480 Petulant and humorless too is one I would add there too. Hey, also, Joe, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.920 you know I had never heard of this fellow called 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.320 Bad Bunny before, and I know that everybody at home 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.880 is laughing and saying, oh, Marrow, you're so square, you're 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.480 so unhip there. But you've ritten a great piece in 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.000 the Washington Examiner about the NFL, which has decided to 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.320 have Bad Bunny come in as the next year's Super 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.879 Bowl halftime show act. Well, he's apparently a big anti 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.359 ice guy who is this guy and tell us why 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.360 is the NFL doing this again? What is with all 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:51.159 these woke sports organizations here just going down this path again? 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.440 Haven't they learned anything from Black Lives. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.639 Matter precisely, or from I don't know, target, or from 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.480 Bud White, Like, don't hire somebody who may piss off 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.119 half the country if you hire him to do a 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.120 super Bowl halftime show where one hundred and twenty five 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.680 million people are watching live and god knows how many 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.760 on social media eclips afterwards. Bad Bunny is a real leftist, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.000 and look, I don't care if you're a leftist or 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.960 a rightist. Quite frankly, why not just hire somebody who 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.240 doesn't really engage in political theater like Bad Bunny does 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.440 for your super Bowl halftime show? 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.040 Metallica, I'm a fan. I have to admit. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.240 They're from San Francisco, that area, that's where the super 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:35.360 Bowl is being played this year. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.000 Why not hire them to do the White House? 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.480 I'm sorry the super Bowl halftime show because again, we 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.399 have not had a rock band since The Who play 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.240 the Super Bowl half that show, right, and that was 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.080 sixteen years ago. The Who of all people like, wow, 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.560 they're around then, I couldn't believe it. The bottom line 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.280 is that you hire somebody like this and you're only 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.840 going to invite trouble. And the fact that Bad Bunny 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.879 a big problem with ice being outside of his concerts, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.920 well yeah, outside of one of his concerts, they arrested 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:11.120 somebody who committed homicide, was a rapist and abused young children. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.399 So if you're against that, then you're against I don't know, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.040 curing cancer. And that's where Bad Bunny stands, and that's 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.920 why so many Americans are angry that the NFL, which 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.440 gets great ratings and does so well as far as 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.400 being a product, just stepped in again as far as 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.480 hiring this this clown to be their a halftime show. 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.440 Bad Bunny, bad choice. Jill Conchre, We're gonna have to 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.240 leave with there. Thank you so much for your time. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:35.320 Thank you, James, every good one. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.359 All right, let's move over to the Middle East and 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.399 Middle East and American geopolitics here with Hudson Institute Senior 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.160 fellow and former US National Security Council Director Michael Dori. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.080 And Michael, thanks so much for joining me here on 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.879 the US Report. Now we're only a few days removed 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.000 from President Trump and Benjamin netnya who's announcement of a 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.080 twenty point plan to end the war in Gaza before 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.560 we dive into the details, and it's potent your success. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:01.600 What did you make of it? 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.320 Well, first of all, great to be here, Thank you, James. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.640 It was a big win for Prime Minister Natanyahu because 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.760 he got the three things that he most needed, and 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.480 that was support by Donald Trump to return the hostages, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:25.280 defeat Hamas as a military organization, and defeat Hamas as 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:30.479 a political organization. Donald Trump put the American policy behind 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.000 the idea that Hamas will not be the ruling organization, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.440 and he didn't force Prime Minister Natanillo in the process 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.520 to accept a two state solution and to bring back 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.280 the Palestinian authority, which no Israeli believes in. So I think, 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.399 bottom line, big win for Nata Yahu. We now have 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.960 a clear joint American Israeli vision of what the Gaza 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.480 strip should look like after the defeat of or at 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.960 least what shouldn't be there Amas. There's still a lot 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.640 of room though, a lot that isn't clear about how 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.439 we're actually going to get to that point. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:11.560 Yeah. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.280 No, I mean, obviously the waters are fairly muddy on 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.960 this as a well finar of that part of the world. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.000 But one thing that did strike me is that Hamas 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.400 doesn't seem to have any friends left here, I mean, Katar, Egypt, 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.680 Turkey seemed to be suggesting that Hamas ought to go 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:31.240 for this. And meanwhile, at the same time, the Economist magazine, 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.840 which I've never known to be a big fan of 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.720 Donald Trump in either of his terms in office, seems 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.359 to have also suggested, well, you know, this is not 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.200 a bad idea, and the White House actually deserves praise 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:43.600 for this. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.159 Well, I think what the White House gave the world 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.040 and gave Prime Minister Natanyahu was a clear vision of 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.800 what should come after the war, one that doesn't include Israel, 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:02.159 that doesn't include Israel occupying Gaza indefinitely. That was always 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:07.119 kind of missing during the Biden administration. The Biden team 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.919 was trying to put a lot of obstacles in the 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.480 way of Benjamin Natanya, who they were trying to really 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:18.000 basically put political pressure on his government that would bring 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.400 it down. So they were always demanding that he come 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:23.159 up with an a. 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:25.720 With a day after plan. 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.800 But their day after plan was always the Palestinian authority 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.920 takes over. That's something that was politically unacceptable for Netanyahu, 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.320 for indeed for the vast majority of Israelis, and also 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:42.399 unrealizable in a practical sense. So he couldn't accept that. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.840 He also couldn't accept the Biden vision. He had no 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.520 inclination to do so. But he also couldn't do it 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.879 for domestic political reasons. He didn't want to come up 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.840