WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 20 March 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:06.040 This is the US Report with James Moroar. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.320 Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.400 up tonight. It's a race to the bottom as New 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.160 York and California rushed to run out of spending other 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.640 people's money. Plus that thing they claim doesn't happen, well 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.480 it keeps happening. A new report reveals illegal migrants are 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.080 voting again. And who knew that Saint Patrick's Day was 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.360 really about the struggle for Palestinian liberation. I thought it 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:39.080 was all about corn beef and guinness. Apparently not. But first, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.040 we are now coming up on the end of the 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.880 third week of the Operation Epic Fury campaign, the joint 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.040 US Israeli operation to make the world safe from the 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.720 terrorist theocracy of Tehran and hopefully bring about a free 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.800 and more democratic future for the people of Iran. Now 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.800 at the outset recall, US President Donald Trump warned that 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.240 this would be a four to five week operation, but 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.600 now only a little more than two and a half 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.240 weeks in. Plenty of people in the media are already 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:18.640 hoping he calls time early, saying he's already failed. And 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.679 I want to talk about one particular case that illustrates 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.760 just how when you see these headlines saying that the 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:29.440 war is a disaster or that Trump has lost key support, well, 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.480 you know what, you're not necessarily getting the whole story. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.160 Now here's an item that was big news this week. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.800 Headlines were made around the world when Joe Kent, who 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:46.760 had been Donald Trump's top counter terrorism advisor, spectacularly resigned. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.880 Now Kent posted a lengthy screed on x saying that quote, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.920 I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.800 He went on and said, Iran posed no imminent threat 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.920 to our nation, and it is clear that we started 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.240 this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:13.080 American lobby who what a very odd thing to say, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:17.440 considering all the evidence to the contrary. I mean, back 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.760 in twenty twenty four, Kent himself was very clear about 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.800 the threat that Iran posed. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.160 Most Americans aren't aren't aware of it. We've our troops 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.120 in Iraq and Syria have been attacked one hundred and 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.040 fifty plus times by Iranian proxies. And when we say 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.080 Iranian proxies, we've got to be clear on what that is. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.320 That's the Iraqi government that we pay because after the 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.080 Iraqi military we spent two trillion on surrendered to ISIS, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.320 we had to go back in there in very short 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.520 order and stand a military back up again. And guess 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.399 who filled the breach. The SA malicious controlled by Iran did, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.519 and the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.160 How curious. Kent also tweeted that same year that Iran 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:59.440 had been after Donald Trump personally since twenty twenty. So 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.000 which are the Ayatolas a threat? Or do they just 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.799 want to be left alone to study the Koran. It's 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.360 all very confusing, and it's all the weirder given that 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.560 Kit is claiming that none other than Charlie Kirk, the 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:20.000 conservative influencer assassinated last year, conveniently told him before he 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.960 died that he should try and stop Trump from attacking Iran. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.040 We knew each other, And last time I saw Charlie 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.600 Kirk on this earth was in June in the West 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.200 Wing in the stairway, and I said hi to him, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:36.520 and he looked me in the eye and he said 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.000 very loudly, and it's a small you've been in the 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.400 West Wing. It's it's small. It's a tight space. And 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.400 he said, Joe, stop us from getting into a. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:44.080 War with Iran. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.320 Really again, how convenient? I mean, sure, the very prominent 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.119 Kirk made this very important direction to a very tangential 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:58.200 player in this whole saga right before he died. Yeah, Joe, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.920 you know, I believe you billions wouldn't. And on that subject, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.480 here's actually what Charlie Kirk said last year after last 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.160 June's strikes on Iran. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.040 And you might say, Charlie, do you support or oppose this? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.320 I support President Trump, That's my answer. I know the man, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.479 he's the commander in chief, he's the man for the hour, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.240 and he's had the weight of the world on his shoulders. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.840 So in a situation like this, I support my friend 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.440 and he's had my back and I have his. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.719 So what could explain Joe Kent's sudden change of heart, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.880 this sudden resignation, seemingly out of the blue, this attack 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.040 on the Boss and his plans for Iran. Oh, hang on, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.560 We've got some breaking news from Laura Ingram at Fox News. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.400 So our sayser saying that Joe Kent, the former director 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.559 of the United States National Counter Terror Center. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.240 This is from Semaphore. He just resigned. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:05:00.160 He's now under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:06.679 and the investigation predates his departure. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.840 Well well, well Weirdly, this crucial data point has made 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.239 a lot less news in those outlets that trumpetd can's 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.760 not so quiet quitting, which is important to keep in 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.279 mind because when it comes to this war, there's a 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.120 lot of people who don't want to hear positive developments 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.320 such as the just signed joint statement from the UK, France, Germany, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.440 Italy and the Netherlands, as well as Japan saying that 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.599 yes they are ready to contribute to efforts to open 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.600 the Straits of Hormuz, or that far from being stalemated, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.400 the USS Tripoli, a flat deck amphibious assault craft loaded 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.880 with marines and helicopters, is heading to the neighborhood of 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.719 carg Island, which of course could change everything and open 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.119 up this vital oil choke point once and for all, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.080 and I mean once and for all, And that brings 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.080 me to my second point. Iran was always going to 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.440 be have to be dealt with at some point by 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.159 some administration Trump somebody in the future. Since nineteen seventy nine, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.120 this regime has been a cancer on the middle East 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:19.040 spreading terror and mayhemon becoming a close partner with China 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.920 and Russia. Eventually it was going to have to be 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.479 dealt with or it would be overwhelming to us all. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.640 And the idea that the US that the world is 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.159 now so brittle that it cannot endure even a few 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.200 weeks of energy disruption for a long term good of 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.000 making sure that oil coming out of Iran is not 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.400 going to be able to threaten the world's energy supplies 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.320 in perpetuity is preposterous. And to hope that this whole 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.440 project fails just because you don't like Trump is to 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.080 say you think Iran and China and Russia should be 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:05.360 given a veto over world affairs forever. Now, very quickly, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.520 I wanted to bring you up to speed on some 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.160 of the latest news with the Save Act, which we've 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.520 spoken about before on this program. It is, of course, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.400 the Republican led effort to make sure people who vote 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.520 in American elections are a eligible to vote and b 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.600 are who they say they are. Wild stuff, I know, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.000 and I've been watching the debate over this in the Senate, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.040 and my god, I have been struck by how the 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:36.760 Democrats have painted themselves into a rhetorical corner on this. Now, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.800 most Americans poll after Pol's show support these very reasonable 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:47.000 proposals to help keep the sanctity of American democracy sacred 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.920 on Capitol Hill. Though it's another story. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.360 The Save Act is not about protecting the vote. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.280 It's about making it harder to vote and easier to 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.160 steal an election. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.360 Sorry, what was that requiring ID to vote makes it 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:11.600 easier to steal an election? Explain that logic to me sometime. Meanwhile, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.280 Democrats said Senator Raphael Warnock tried another excuse to be 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.760 against the bill. He said that women and poor people. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.040 Now I think he wants to say black folks, but 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.360 he's clever enough not to fall into that trap. He's 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:25.960 saying they just can't get id. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.160 If you want to effectively disenfranchise women, disenfranchise poor people, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.800 working class people who have to struggle for the right 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.120 to vote, that is your prerogative. But be very clear, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.199 you are not on the side of the movement. You're 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.760 on the other side of that history. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.359 And then there was Democrat Janine Shaheen who said foreigners 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.960 aren't allowed to vote already, so hey, why do we 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:49.679 need the law? 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:57.480 That's the law only American citizens can vote in American elections. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.640 We're not true, nobody's trying to change that. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.640 I love her logic. And by the way, hey, it's 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.360 already illegal to speed on the highway, so why do 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.120 we need speed cameras and cops. Look, the Democrats have 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.920 really again, I say, box themselves into a corner here. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.720 Either they're saying that poor people and women in blacks 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.400 aren't able to get the same sort of idea they 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.200 need to fly on a plane or buy a pack 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.040 of smokes, or they actually do want people who are 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.079 not citizens to be able to cast a ballot for 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.960 whatever reason. Either way, Democrats, it's not a good look. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.840 All right. To kick things off tonight, let's bring in 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.480 Hudson Institute research fellow Zeneb Rabua. She's one of the 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.600 smartest analysts of everything going on between the US and 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.600 I ran right now, so let's get straight into it. Zeneb, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.120 Welcome to the program. This war has quickly spilled over 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.719 into the energy markets, and I can tell you we're 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.280 all already definitely feeling this here in Australia. But there 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.720 have been two major developments in recent hours. One, Iran 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.040 has struck LNG plants in Qatar, So I guess that 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.679 friendship is over between those two countries and two treasury 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.880 sectoris Scott Bessett is talking about lifting sanctions on Iranian 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.120 oil that's already at sea now. On the one hand, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.200 it feels like the Iranian regime is now lashing out 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.840 and signing its own death warrant. But on the other 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.040 I'm wondering how some people are going to interpret that 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.600 move on the sanctions. Walk us through these two and 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.400 what the economic strategy is around this, because this is 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.319 becoming an economic war in the markets as much as 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.360 it is on the battlefield. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.040 Thank you very much for having me and for your 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.680 kind words. Well, absolutely, I think it's I think that 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.880 the Iranians knew exactly what they were doing by hitting 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:56.520 oil infrastructure of Gulf countries and especially Qatar, which actually 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.559 played a big role in mediations and in making sure 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.160 that the messages from the Iranians were actually reaching the 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.160 White House, and that's a very important thing. And I 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.400 think that they fell into a strategic trap which it's 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.480 actually going to help the United States tackle the IERGC 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.600 even more since now golf countries on on the side 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.319 of making sure that the i ERGC gets punished. So 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.600 there is that on what Scott Beson is doing. And 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.520 I think that there's actually signals that lifting sanctions it's 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.840 a very difficult process actually to do UH, and it 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.640 means that they actually do have either intel or a 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.079 calculus that the IERGC is not going to be able 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.160 to benefit from those tankers, which we're also talking about 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.280 stranded tankers, which means that they were already purchased from China, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.040 which I think is the main which is the main 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.800 buyer of these uh. They're just making sure that the 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.520 oil is flowing UH. And I think that the elevating 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.599 the sanction, as I said, means that there's a calculus 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.920 that the Iranians are no longer going to be able 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.839 to benefit from it. But it also signals something else 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:13.480 that it's the United States that decides on one when 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.880 and which tankers are going to China, and I think 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.160 that's a very important signal. It also means that these 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:27.160 decades of China profiting and being the main UH being 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.679 the main buyer of Iranian oil with a steep discount, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.319 I think that era is just ending. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.520 Well, you know, it's not just in the Middle East 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.560 that Iran has had a really successful propaganda operation. I mean, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.480 it's been all over the West too, for people who've 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.360 been paying attention to it. And that brings me to 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.120 my next point, which is how the way the war 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.920 is being reported in the Western world, where to listen 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.640 to a lot of the press talk about it, they're 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.800 basically saying the thing has already lost, that Trump is 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.240 a stale might. That's a quagmire. Here in Australia, we 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.520 have the left wing ABC, the state broadcast of trying 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.800 to claim that Iran has the edge on the conflict 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.360 rather than the US. Added the US, You've got an 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.200 MS news anchor suggesting that Trump's attacks on Iran are 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.240 because of racism. Look at this, So the. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.840 Way they seem to create this image of the Iranians 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.040 and all of their proxies or allies, the sort of 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.240 imagery that they conjure up, and I think that it 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.120 takes a certain amount of arrogance. And I'm also going 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.600 to say it a bit of racism to constantly talk 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.840 about people like they are savages. That is a word 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.320 that we've heard hag seth Us. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.800 I mean, this is pretty nuts here, but give us 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.960 the straight scoop here, who is actually winning, who's got 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.520 the advantage in this conflict. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.959 Look, I will tell you very very openly, in the 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.240 United States and israel Is that are absolutely winning this. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.280 There's no doubt doubt about it. The military assessment simply 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.760 speak for themselves and the Gulf countries the way they react, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.280 and also that's for itself. But you know, that's just 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.200 how it always is American you know, media politics, it's 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:11.560 always about winning a political war. It's not about doing 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.760 any really strategic analysis. And in fact, I think that's 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.400 that's very important for people to keep to keep in mind. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.920 But also, you know, that's very interesting to say. You know, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.320 I wonder if that's something she would be comfortable saying 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.840 to the thousands of Syrians who had to leave their 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.160 homes while the iergy C and Islamic Republic were absolutely 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.000 destroying their country, and the same for Iraqis and the 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.280 and the Libanese. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:37.720 Uh. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.240 It's it's very arrogant, but that's just how it is. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.680 And I think that people really ought to study, particularly 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.760 I ran in the Lebanese Civil War to understand just 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.000 so much of what's at stake here for the West. Hey, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.000 I wanted to also just talk about the broader strategic 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.240 environment around the world we've had Trump. You know, this 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.480 is part of a much bigger game. It involves China, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.400 but it also involves Cuba, and it just to get 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.160 you sort of to talk about this a bit too, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:08.880 because in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba is now undergoing total blackouts. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.960 Now it sounds like across the entire island, but Cuba 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.440 is part of this broader Trump farm policy that I 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.120 ran in Venezuela fall into because there's a big Chinese 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.040 signal intelligence based on that ninety miles off the Florida coast. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.440 Tell us how all of this ties in Cuba. It's 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.000 a complicated game of chess because there's the Middle East, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.320 but then there's also against securing America around the world. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.200 Tell us about that. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.560 Yeah, I think that it's very important important to highlight that, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.680 you know, China's economic model really depends on exports on 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:47.520 cheap Iranian oil, on a network of partners. Venezuela and 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.200 Cuba are part of that, and it's very important for 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.640 them because it's about absorbing the surplus of production and 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.840 providing really strategic depth for chi Jin Pink Operation epic 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.680 theoria is already a destroying uh. The most important not 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:09.080 in net network being Iran, because it's also Chinese sanctions 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.120 really busting oil supplier. And I think that looking into 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.920 Cuba is very important, and I think that it's very 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.400 important for for different reasons, one being uh, that the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.160 United States had a big problem with the Kubans for 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.200 a very long time UH, and that there there are 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.840 a lot of I think factors that play into that. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.800 But also you know, it's it's very it's time for 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.040 the United States to look at its neighborhood and to 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.840 stop having to pay for better foreign policies that did 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.760 not work. The United States has a military dominance, has 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.840 a as an economy that is very attractive, innovation and 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.560 so on. Uh, and keeping basically Chinese outposts in the 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.160 neighborhood is not good for the United States. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.080 Absolutely right. So then thank you so much, and don't 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.680 believe the doomsayers out there really appreciate your time. Thanks 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.600 for joining me. Thank you all right now onto reports 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.520 tonight that the Pentagon has asked the White House to 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.520 approve a request to Congress for more than two hundred 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.000 billion that's billion with a B. Dollars to help fund 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.840 the war and Iran. This is almost certain to divide 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.720 Capitol Hill, where the war is quite contentious. Already joining 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.199 me now to discuss this and so much more is 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.760 former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor at 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:35.359 Bondi Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, great to see you. What 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.359 do you make of this? I think this just highlights 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.480 some of the actual practical problems with keeping this conflict going, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.120 especially when Congress decides. If Congress decids, say, you can't 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.840 have any more money for this, tell us how this 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:49.480 is all going to go. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.360 Yeah, James, there's a bunch of different moving pieces here. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.280 Number one, we hear now that they're spending about one 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.720 to two billion dollars a day on prosecuting war. So 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.960 if they're asking for two hundred billion dollars, that might 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.480 lead you to believe they think they're going to be 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.480 in this for another one hundred to two hundred days, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.639 which is a lot longer than I think anybody is 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.159 actually talking about now. I weigh that against the fact that, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.879 as the former budget director, I know that the Defense 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.800 Department always asks for more than they really need. So 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.600 if the real number is really one hundred billion dollars. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.439 That still means they're at someplace for the next fifty 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.680 to one hundred days. This is much longer than I 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.159 think people realize. And what's going to happen now is 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.480 this This is not going to be a blank check. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:29.840 It's not gonna be a rubber check. It's not going 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.239 to be sort of, oh yeah, here you could have 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.919 the money the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, the OMB director, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.560 maybe Russ Fode is going to have to go down 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.520 to Capitol Hill and explain what this money is for. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.960 So these are the hearings that so many people have 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.560 been asking about to talk about what the plan is 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.000 for the war, what's the strategy, what does victory look like? 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.200 Those conversations are getting ready to happen in public. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.880 And what does that victory look like. Because we've heard 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.720 different things out of the administration about whether it's just 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.160 about degrading. But then at the same time Trump has said, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.440 we don't want to have to go back there five 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.080 to ten years and sort this problem about out. How 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.399 does this conflict with the political drive that's going to 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.880 start to come when prices go up, when it costs 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.520 more to fill up your tank. This is already biting 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.280 hugely in Australia. I can tell you what are the 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:17.679 domestic politics looking like. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:19.560 So far? 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.600 So good for Trump. He's lost a good many of 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.320 the swing voters, which is what's giving the Republicans on 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.840 the hills such heartache right now. But the MAGA base, 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.960 the Republican Trump base, is nearly one hundred percent supportive 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.919 of him so far. I think he's probably got a 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.840 couple of months left at that. Unless he goes to 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.240 boots on the ground, we end up seeing heavier American casualties. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.800 But I think he can do this sort of standoff 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.480 sort of war, the Tomahawk War, the cruise missile war, 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.600 for a couple more months before the base really starts 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.320 to turn on them. They'll they'll tolerate high gas prices 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.359 for a short period of time, but not all the 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.719 way through to the midterm. So Trump has probably got 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.359 a month, maybe two, to make some real progress in 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.680 this war. You raise a really good point, James, what 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.520 does victory look like? I don't know, but I do 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.320 know this. The Americans cannot leave until the straits are open. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.359 Straits and Hoemos must be open for Trump to have 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.520 any claim to having anything close to victory. So if 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.239 that's a diplomatic resolution, that could take several weeks. If 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.720 it's a military solution, that could take several weeks. So 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.639 I think they're in this for a lot longer than 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:22.520 people are talking about. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.679 Well, how would boots on the ground go if it 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.200 was a limited venture. We have heard that the USS 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.760 Tripoli I spoke about this at the start of the program, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.199 which is an amphibious carrier, carries about sixteen hundred and 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.000 two thousand marines, a lot of helicopters, and a lot 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.840 of other toys. If that was to go in and 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.760 try and take that civilian infrastructure on KRG Island, would 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.760 that be pretty much checkmate for the regime? 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.639 Probably, I would think so. But I mean keep in mind, 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:52.480 that would be a huge win for the Americans, there's 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.320 no question. But there's a famous exchange you and I 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.640 may have talked about this last week between the Americans 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.360 the Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War, where 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.520 the American negotiators said, oh, by the way, we just 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.479 want to point out you never beat us on the field, 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.639 and the South the North Korean general said, yeah, so 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.159 what when you're fighting what the Iranians are fighting now 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.879 with the Vietnames, we're fighting a generation ago. It's a 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.960 war of survival. You don't have to beat the Americans. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.680 You just have to last longer than they can. So yes, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.640 I think it's a huge military victory for the Americans 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.280 to be able to be able to take carg Island, 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.640 and it is a huge choke point in the Straits. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.160 But I don't see how it ends the war because again, 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.119 all the Iranians have to do is survive, and if 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.800 they do survive, this regime will be even stronger than 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.000 it was going into the war. So again, they've got 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:40.479 a tiger by the tail here. If they can win 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.840 a bunch of battles, how they win the war still 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:45.840 looks a little murky to me. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.040 And it's a bit sort of a question who even 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.199 is there to offer up an instrument of surrender and 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:53.520 do a negotiation. But Nick, there's a lot of other 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.199 things going on here in the US, and I was 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.200 fascinated with this here story of the New York Post 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.399 where they uncoord shocking story of legal migrants from Africa 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:06.440 and Asia voting in US elections, and they reveal how 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.720 one immigrant from Mauritania was marked for deportation in two 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.439 thousand and two, but continued to live in the US 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.679 and registered as guess what, a Democrat, had voted in 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:20.360 every election since two thousand and eight until Fed's busted 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.320 him last week. Now, Mick, I know people will say 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:25.600 this is like a small thing. It's only one or 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:29.080 two cases, it's not a big deal. But it feels 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.000 to me like the thing that they keep saying, Oh, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.080 it doesn't happen, and we don't need any laws to 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:34.920 prevent it keeps happening. 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.959 Yeah, And to your point, James, it undermines the integrity 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.000 of the election, and that's the last thing we need 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.399 in this country. Don't need people wondering whether or not 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.160 illegal immigrants are voting and so forth. What we need 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.439 is some very clear laws as to who can vote 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.880 and who can't vote. That debate is going on right 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.040 now in the United States Senate. I don't think they're 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.680 going to pass any significant legislation, but this is one 0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:00.000 example of why it's so important to protect the integrity 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:00.760 of your elections. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.840 Well. Indeed, and you know this other issues with integrity too, 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.120 because this ties into another story here, And I want 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.639 to talk about a really important story where a federal 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.920 court has revoked the US citizenship of a man who 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:19.680 orchestrated a massive, nearly four million dollar COVID relief fraud scheme. Now, 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.760 it was ruled that he obtained naturalization while he was 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:27.520 actively committing fraud and scamming the government. This seems like 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.680 a massive precedent here, particularly when we're talking about those 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:37.000 other massive Medicare fraud stories in places like Minnesota and California. 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.400 Is this a big win for the administration being able 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.560 to boot people who you might have thought you were 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:43.040 stuck with. 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:45.480 It is, and this is the type of thing that 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.040 resonates with eighty five percent of the American public. Again, 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.679 we can talk about legal immigration. Some folks like it, 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:53.400 some folks don't. I happen to like it a lot. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.640 But illegal immigration that's an eighty five percent issue. Deporting 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.000 criminals that's an eighty five percent issue. Take citizenship away 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.760 from people who have stolen from the federal government is 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.000 an eighty five percent issue. So this is a huge 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.720 win for the administration. I hope you're writer. I hope 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.240 it is a precedent, and I hope that we're able 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:14.640 to sort of get the word out that this type 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:16.359 of thing is is on the table. I think it 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.919 will discourage a lot of a lot of fraud, not 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:20.879 all of it. We have to be vigilant, but this 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:22.320 is a move in the right direction. I think it's 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:23.679 a big win for the administration. 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.119 Yeah, and finally, Mick, before you go, and just to 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:28.159 talk a little bit more about immigration, we've got the 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:30.600 news that Greg Mavino, who is the face of the 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.639 immigration enforcement crackdown or one of them in the US, 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.639 is now leaving the job. Tell us about what you 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:41.760 think that his legacy will be, especially after of course 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.560 those incidents in Minneapolis where we saw two American citizens 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:49.159 killed in shall we say, murky confrontations with ICE agents. 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:53.320 Certainly it will follow him, There's no question, and I 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.680 suppose it should. I keep in mind, the man has 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:57.359 served the country I think for over a quarter of 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.320 a century. This is not some new name. This is 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:01.720 not somebody that Trump brought in after the election to 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.399 sort of run ICE. This is a career guy served 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:09.080 in various administrations and for various different presidents of both parties. 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.720 So is it going to be part of his history? 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:15.160 It absolutely is, but again that you know, the buck 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.919 has to stop someplace, and he was put in the organization, 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:21.160 so we'll see what happens. It's been fascinating to see 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.520 how immigration has gone to the back burner here in 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.280 this country in the last couple of weeks. Of course, 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.320 wars tend to do that. I would be curious to 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:31.080 see if immigration becomes an issue again before the midterms, 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:32.480 or if it's all going to be about the war 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:33.240 and the economy. 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:35.240 Yeah, Nick, I think you're right. I think we've got 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:37.960 bigger fish to fry than just Minneapolis. Now, thank you 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:39.680 so much for your time, as always great to chat. 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:42.000 Now stick around because in a moment we're gonna be 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:46.160 looking at which Democrat governor is more unhinged, California's Gavin 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:50.440 Newsom or New York's Kathy Hochel. The answer might surprise you. 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:53.560 But first you gotta love this one. Donald Trump has 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.280 just had the new Japanese Prime Minister today, Sakaichi are 0:25:57.280 --> 0:25:59.560 out of the White House and they had the whole 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:04.440 joint press conference thing. And check out how Trump responded 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:07.760 when a reporter tried to do in gotcha and asked 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:12.960 why he didn't tell Japan before he attacked Iran. Keep 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:16.280 your eye on the Japanese Prime Minister's reaction here. 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:20.080 We went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:23.240 about it because we wanted surprise. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:27.600 Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, why didn't 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:29.280 you tell me about Pearl Harbor? 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:30.200 Okay? 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:33.600 I don't know how she kept a straight face for that, 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.720 But that was the funniest thing I've seen since John 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:40.880 Cleese said, don't mention the war, don't go anywhere, stick 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:49.520 around because it's a West coast East coast showdown. After break, Hey, 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:52.359 welcome back to the program. Now Donald Trump is under fire. 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.680 What else is new for comments he made about California 0:26:55.760 --> 0:27:00.480 Governor Gavin Newsom's apparent learning difficulties. It all starts when 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:02.000 Newsom said this. 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:07.440 You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:09.840 read a speech, and. 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:12.680 That, of course, prompted Donald Trump to respond by saying this, 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:15.840 you know, because Gavin Newscomb has admitted that he is 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:18.240 a that he is learning disabilities. 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:22.600 Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:23.600 for my president. 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:25.240 I don't want I think a. 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:27.760 President should not have learning disabilities. 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:31.640 Okay, Yeah, fair enough. The National Center for Learning Disabilities, though, 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:35.800 says it was disturbed and condemned Trump's comments. But is 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:38.399 this all a lot about nothing? Joining me now to 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:41.320 discuss this and a lot more is White House reporter 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:45.560 at the Washington Examiner, Naomi Limb. Naomi, thanks for joining 0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:48.400 me here. What can you tell me about this constant 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:51.840 war of words between Trump and Newsom, or as Trump 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:55.359 likes to call them, new scum. 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:58.440 Honestly, these two because like an old married couple. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.760 And sometimes I mean I sometimes. 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:03.480 I think you know, Trump gives Newsome a lot of 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:06.560 attention and potentially it could be helping him, you know, 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:08.760 if he does run in twenty twenty eight, which we 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:12.400 think he will. The comments that you alluded to earlier 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.879 this week were because he's on a book tour campaign, 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:19.159 you know, sort of that very sort of wink to 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:21.919 a presidential run where he sort of talks about his 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:26.439 experience with dyslexia and things like that. And this is 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:28.920 the latest sort of war of words between the pair 0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:31.600 of them. Obviously, we saw Trump take a swing at 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:36.840 Newsom at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:40.280 now we're sort of seeing him go after the personal here. 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.640 But I think with Trump, you know, we've seen this 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:47.840 particularly you know after Biden, there's this heightened scrutiny of presidents, 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.760 and obviously Trump himself is very proud of his own 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:54.640 intelligence and his abilities and cognitive testing as well. So 0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:58.040 it's a whole a lot of hot air. But you know, 0:28:58.080 --> 0:28:59.360 what else is new between these two. 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:02.000 Do you think, I mean, just to throw you a 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.760 question without notice on this what you said there intrigues me. 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:07.360 This idea that Trump keeps building him up. Do you 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:11.480 think that Trump wants Newsom to be the nominee because 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:15.120 he sees California and Newsom's record there as a huge 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:17.440 target for whoever succeeds him. 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:20.520 Well, that's also a really interesting contention. I think that 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:23.360 there's this idea in thinking that, you know, Newsom might 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:26.680 be peaking too early. Obviously he's doing quite well in 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:29.320 those early sort of hypothetical polls, but a lot of 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:31.840 that is because of name recognition. You know, he's been 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:33.840 on the national stage for a long time. And then 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:36.120 as we were sort of talking about, he has Trump 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:39.000 helping sort of pump his his tires, and so I 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:41.480 think that that is you know a little bit because 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:46.240 We've seen also Newsom very carefully try to sort of 0:29:46.320 --> 0:29:49.000 roll back this idea of him being this really progressive, 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:52.080 it's really liberal governor. He's done this podcast where he 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:55.160 has a lot of conservative hosts on, and he's trying 0:29:55.160 --> 0:30:00.400 to modulate his positions, particularly on things like transgender rights, 0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:02.560 and so I think, you know, there's sort of a 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:04.600 bit of method to your madness there in terms of 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:06.240 what you're saying as well. 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.440 Indeed, indeed, Edie know. Meanwhile, you've got things happening on 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:12.480 the other side of the country here in the socialist 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:15.719 Republic of New York, and of course you've got mayors 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:17.720 there on Mom Donnie, who will talk about in a second, 0:30:17.760 --> 0:30:20.200 but I want to talk first about what's going on 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:25.320 with state Governor Kathy Hochel, who is now begging wealthy 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:29.880 New Yorkers not to flee as Mom Donnie pressures her 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:32.400 to hike their taxes. And of course, people who've got 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.760 money they want to take a hike, have a listen. 0:30:35.320 --> 0:30:38.880 I need people who are high net worth to support 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.360 the generous social programs that we want to have in 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:46.480 our state. There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:49.360 cut me the checks. I mean, just if you want 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:51.960 to be supportive, but maybe the first step should we 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.040 go down to Palm Beach and see who you can 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:54.800 bring back home. 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.160 This is so funny to me. It's almost like an 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.040 Iron Rand novel. Here everybody with money has left the 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:03.480 state and now they're begging them to come back to 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.360 write more checks so they could give them way to 0:31:06.440 --> 0:31:08.400 medicare fraud and gosh knows what else. 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:11.840 Well, what I think is funny about this is that 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:14.520 when she first ran, I think in twenty twenty, she 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:18.000 sort of, you know, you know, challenged people that didn't 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:20.800 really particularly like her politics to leave the state, and 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:24.640 so they did, and now they're sort of trying to 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:27.400 hatch up a really big hole in the state's budget. 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:31.840 Particularly you know, you were speaking about Danny's agenda in 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:34.120 New York, but Hokal her self is trying to push 0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:37.720 and expand childcare access because you know, affordability is obviously 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:39.160 a big issue in New York. 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:39.520 The state. 0:31:39.840 --> 0:31:42.640 And so now we're sort of seeing, you know, things 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:47.280 coming back to haunt different politicians, and obviously she's running 0:31:47.320 --> 0:31:49.560 for reelection herself in a couple of months, and so 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:52.080 this is all I think a you know, sort of 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:55.280 an appeal to those people that she probably shouldn't have 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:56.480 annoyed in the first place. 0:31:56.760 --> 0:31:59.480 Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But I mean, what Margaret Thatcher 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:02.240 said about problem with socialism is eventually you run out 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:05.120 of other people's money. But also, let's go into the 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:10.000 New York City politics itself, because they're Zoron Mam Donnie's wife, 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:15.600 Rama Duaji. Well, turns out she has celebrated Palestinian terrorists 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:18.080 in the past, in a flurry of reserve and social 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:21.000 media posts she made not just as a teenager, but 0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:25.200 also in her early twenties. According to posts, she used 0:32:25.240 --> 0:32:30.640 her Tumblr account to hail Palestinian plane hijacker Leyla Khalid 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:33.840 and other members of the terror group Popular Front for 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:38.000 the Liberation of Palestine. Now, Naobi, this is not the 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:41.720 first time this has happened, and every time Zoron has 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:45.640 defended her. And I mean, I get standing by your wife, but. 0:32:45.880 --> 0:32:50.120 Come on, I mean, was that saying in her behind 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:53.680 every successful man as a strongly opinionated woman, is that 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:54.320 what they say? 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:57.040 And I think this is this is an. 0:32:56.880 --> 0:33:00.520 Example of where you know, he's obviously sort of said, 0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:02.360 you know this his wife is not a member of 0:33:02.440 --> 0:33:05.440 his administration. She's not a member of his campaign, but 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:07.880 they were most sort of campaigned as a package deal. 0:33:07.920 --> 0:33:10.480 You know, she was an appeal to sort of younger 0:33:10.640 --> 0:33:14.920 women voters as well. And you know what's worse about 0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:17.280 the reporting that you kind of highlighted it was it's 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:20.120 a part of a trend. There was reporting earlier that 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:24.520 she had liked posts sort of celebrating the Hamas terrorist attack, 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:26.840 which you know, is troubling in itself, and now we're 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:29.160 sort of seeing you know, posts sort of a little 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:31.160 bit further back in time, sort of ten years ago. 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:35.880 But some of the stuff that she was amplifying, you know, 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.560 was was sort of is troubling even now in the 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:42.720 context of today, because she was sort of expressing support 0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:47.440 for terrorist organizations as well as this idea that you know, 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:50.400 white people are to blame for al Qaida, and then 0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:53.360 sort of, you know, recently sort of said that you know, 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.080 a Tel Aviv shouldn't shouldn't exist, which I think was 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:59.120 probably the most troubled troubling thing. So we'll see whether 0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:02.720 he can continue to defend her. This obviously takes place 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:06.240 after there was protests and counter protests outside their home 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:09.279 between sort of you know, white nationalists or people that 0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:12.640 were sort of islam phobes and people that you know, 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.000 were not. And so I think that this sort of 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:18.680 puts fire and already a very sort of tenuous situation, 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:21.160 particularly as the war in Iran is unfolding. 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:23.880 Absolutely. Hey, finally just wanted to talk a bit a 0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:26.680 bit of bit said or you know, news around the 0:34:26.719 --> 0:34:29.000 Trump White House with the announcement that Chief of Staff 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:32.840 Susie what Wilds has breast cancer apparently, but we'll fight 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:36.920 on in her rule while undergoing treatment. Great example I 0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:40.160 think to women to rise so high, but also just 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:42.960 you know here that she's going to try and keep 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:46.239 battling on with the position. Your thoughts, Yeah, I. 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:49.160 Mean when I first heard that news, I sort of 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:51.080 was sort of surprised that she wouldn't want to stay 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:52.920 on in that role. But I think we've seen with 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:55.960 this administration, you know, the likes of you know, Caroline Levett, 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.440 who will probably be in her post. She'll only sort 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:00.239 of take three weeks off or something like that when 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.200 she has her baby. So they're so committed around this 0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:06.359 president and the fact that she was diagnosed last week, 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:09.960 you know, there's there's hope that it was an early diagnosis, 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:12.680 and she's very confident about her prognosis, but obviously it's scary. 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:14.880 She's sixty eight and a lot of women have to 0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:16.600 contend with this, which is why I thought it was 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:19.000 really sort of meaningful in her post when she sort 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:21.239 of you know, reflected on not only her journey, but 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:23.640 also you know that this is something that a lot 0:35:23.680 --> 0:35:26.560 of women contend with, you know, not early in this country, 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:27.279 but around the. 0:35:27.200 --> 0:35:29.680 World of course, of course, and of course here at 0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:32.000 the Usport we pass on our well, which is to 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:35.000 Susie Wilds and hope she makes a speedy recovery. Nailmi, 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:38.640 thank you so much as always for joining us. Now, anyway, 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:40.480 let's move on because we've had a lot of other 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:43.080 fun stuff this week. These oscar as Saint Patrick's Day, 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:46.520 both by the way ruined by Lamb attempts to make 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:49.640 them all woke, but you know who's not buying into woke. 0:35:50.239 --> 0:35:53.520 Secretary of War Pete Hexith. Here was a little update 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:55.400 on the fight in the Persian Gulf. 0:35:56.280 --> 0:35:58.359 The last job anyone in the world wants right now 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:07.520 for the IRGC or besiege temp jobs, all of them 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.200 and to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:13.800 World War Two. We've decided to share the ocean with Iran. 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:17.040 We've given them the bottom half. 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:21.319 Indeed, well played, sir, well played, though still not as 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:24.000 funny as your boss. Anyway, to stick around, because from 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.080 the hot war of the culture war, it's all happening 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:37.120 in a tick. Welcome back to the program. Now, I 0:36:37.160 --> 0:36:40.680 want to go over to Texas to talk about this chucklehead, 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:45.920 James Tallerco. He's a Democrat pastor who emerged victorious in 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:49.480 the Democrat primaries to run for the Senate. He's a 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:53.040 guy who has said lots of incredibly normal things, like 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:57.040 comparing white people to a virus, saying God is non binary, 0:36:57.239 --> 0:37:00.479 and oh that the fate of the world rests on 0:37:00.680 --> 0:37:06.160 stopping people from eating meat. In Texas, we. 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:10.040 Have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare. 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.160 I think not just because it's the right thing to 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:14.399 do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:17.720 as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:21.160 It is now existential that we try to reduce our 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:22.160 meat consumption. 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:26.040 Yeah, I really see that message going down so well 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:29.160 in Texas. And to talk about this and other elections 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:31.200 that are going on up and down the US of A. 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:33.959 I'm joined by a man who knows the process very well, 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:38.640 former Republicans Senate nominee Rick made A. Rick, thanks so 0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:41.320 much for joining me here on the US Report. What 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:46.239 tell me are the Democrats thinking fielding candidates like this 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:47.279 tallar Ico guy. 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:51.520 Well, great to be back on with you, first of all, 0:37:51.520 --> 0:37:55.439 and let me tell you the Democrats have become the Republicans' 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:57.920 best friends when it comes to these mid terms. I mean, 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:00.680 a guy like James Talerico. If we've learned nothing from 0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:04.560 the last few elections, is that voters are looking for authenticity. 0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:08.080 And you're campaigning in a state of Texas telling people 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:11.560 to reduce their meat consumption when you literally have industries 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.399 built off of the meat industry. I mean, it's silly. Now, 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:17.799 look at James. He's going around saying that, you know, 0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:21.520 white people are a virus. Is that even authentic? 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:22.080 You know, you. 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:25.600 Can't disclaim and disown your own race and your own color. 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:27.800 And when the country is trying to move more neutral, 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:32.399 trying to become more race neutral, especially when people are 0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:36.239 literally just care about the price of the housing, the 0:38:36.320 --> 0:38:42.440 price of food. You know, it reeks of inauthenticity, and 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:45.480 that's exactly what people are going to be taking to 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:47.920 the voting polls come the mid terms. 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:50.520 Well, Rick, I'm seeing this trend a lot here with 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:55.000 the Democrats. They seem to be choosing candidates who are 0:38:55.320 --> 0:38:59.480 really wildly left wing, even if they claim to be moderates. 0:38:59.480 --> 0:39:01.200 And I feel like, you know, what we're seeing here 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:04.040 is a reverse of what's happened in Virginia where they 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:08.319 ran a supposedly moderate candidate who is incredibly radical now 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:12.879 the governor, Abigail Spaanberger. Are Americans going to see through 0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:15.480 this when the midterm elections come up? Or is there 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:18.120 a danger that, you know, if this war does not 0:39:18.280 --> 0:39:21.360 go well, if prices do not come down, and if gasoline, 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:25.160 if petrol is still really expensive, the Democrats could get 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:28.960 a slate of really hard left candidates up into Capitol Hill. 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:33.520 Yeah, that's definitely a concern. Right, It's always going to 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:37.440 be a balance between social issues and fiscal issues, right, 0:39:37.480 --> 0:39:39.560 and at the end of the day, most people just 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:42.319 want to live. And I think Reagan really said it best. 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:46.720 He said, you know, the government is the biggest problem 0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:49.759 with is not the government, but it's the government in 0:39:49.840 --> 0:39:53.200 your house and keeping that government out of your house, right. 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:56.600 And the problem is is that with candidates like Tall 0:39:56.800 --> 0:39:59.960 Rico who are not really campaigning on how to low 0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:04.680 lower prices, lower crime, fix our school systems. You know, 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:07.520 if Republicans can't get candidates that can step up and 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:10.760 create solutions to that, you're going to have a problem. 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:12.480 So we'll see it's going to be interesting when it 0:40:12.520 --> 0:40:14.320 comes down to the midterm elections. 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.840 Yeah. No, I think that's a great point because both 0:40:17.080 --> 0:40:19.520 sides have often fallen sort of that. You know, it's 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:22.479 the economy step. But as James Carville, a Democrat, once said, 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:25.399 but you know, this whole Democrat socialist thing, this hard 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:28.440 left thing, you know, this is epitomized I think by 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:31.880 Zoron Mundani in New York. Now again, this week was 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.760 Saint Patrick's Day, but he was asked about his thoughts 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:38.720 on Ireland and Saint Patrick Day and a unified Ireland, 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:41.640 and he managed to turn the whole thing into a 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:43.400 rant of a Palestine. 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:46.600 Have a look over the past few years, as we've 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.239 witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been 0:40:49.239 --> 0:40:52.080 deafening silence from so many for those who have long 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:54.600 cared about universal human rights and the extension of them 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:59.319 to Palestinians. Silence, however, is nothing new, Rick. 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:01.439 I mean, I don't think he's splitting the g down 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:04.799 there at the pub, our friend, Zoron Mamdani. But how 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:09.440 do you wind up managing to turn everything into Palestine? 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:12.280 And is this approach going to turn you know, people 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:13.239 off the Democrats? 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:17.239 Well yeah, I mean listen, I think when you and 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:19.839 I live in New Jersey, right, we've seen so much 0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:23.200 flight out of this area because of people like Zoron Mamdani. 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:27.399 We're just kind of sick of politicizing what should be 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:32.279 fun events, should be celebrating heritage and letting communities be communities. 0:41:32.760 --> 0:41:36.640 And Zoron has a unique, almost special ability to turn 0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:40.319 things that are normal into abnormal events, right, And you know, 0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:42.480 I don't know, maybe the guy just likes it when 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:44.560 you wear a he job over a kilt. I don't 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.440 really know, but it's really a slap in the face 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:51.320 of the communities that live here that are celebrating their faith, 0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:56.160 their their religion, their fun, and more most importantly, their values. 0:41:56.760 --> 0:41:59.440 And so unfortunately you have a mayor that's an activist 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:02.959 that really just has student politics energy. You know, he's 0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:06.360 always making a cause out of nothing, always lecturing in 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:09.600 a room, turning it into a seminar. You know, it's 0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:12.759 it's voters are already seeing through it where they're kind 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.960 of sick of it, both Democrats and Republicans. This is 0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:19.960 no longer about party politics. It's really just about keeping 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.960 some common sense and normalcy. And you know that's doro 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:24.919 on for you out here. 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:26.520 Yeah, you know, Rick, We've got a rule on this 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:29.160 program that pretty much anybody who's ever been involved with 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:34.000 student politics, that's almost disqualifies them from going into adult politics. 0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:35.880 But you know, let's go from New York to the 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.760 other coast here, let's go to California. I love this story. Here. 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:43.800 In twenty twenty two, Gavin Newsom, potential presidential candidate budos 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:47.320 could be next president, broke ground on the Wallace Annenberg 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:51.239 Wildlife crossing. It was an idea to get animals to 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:54.400 be able to cross a freeway in southern California. He 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.920 boasted that the state had committed fifty four million dollars 0:42:57.920 --> 0:43:01.000 it would complete the job with the other ten million. 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:04.719 Butt fast forward four years, it hasn't happened. It's now 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:07.120 over one hundred million dollars. But here's the crazy thing. 0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:12.400 That Wildlife Bridge would allow all sorts of animals like 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:16.319 wildcats and things like that to cross over into these suburbs. Rick, 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.160 if you were at California, I feel like this is 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:21.600 a metaphor for everything that's wrong with your state. 0:43:23.280 --> 0:43:25.919 Well, I gotta tell you, even the deer get better 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:30.600 infrastructure than the homeless, right they it's just streams. What 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:33.880 their priorities are. They care about people, they'll care about 0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:36.839 animal they care about social justice, they care about all 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:40.319 this textbook stuff that doesn't actually hit home right there. 0:43:40.960 --> 0:43:44.239 You're talking about like preaching to faculty lounges rather than 0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:47.319 the family kitchen table. And that's the problem. You know, 0:43:47.920 --> 0:43:51.160 guys like Gavin Newsom's door and mom Donnie, they're living 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:53.840 in their ivory towers. They don't know what it's like 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:57.160 when people are literally can't find the means to make 0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.440 ends meet. I mean, you know, and you're spending one 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:03.239 hundred million on infrastructure for animals, Like are you kidding me? 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:06.120 So you know what good? Like I said, these are 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:09.239 the guys that'll be Republicans' best friends. And again, it's 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:11.560 not about party politics. It's about who's going to bring 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:13.880 common sense to look at the issues that are facing 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:17.160 the voters, that are facing everyday families. You know, the 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:21.680 rising price of gas, food, electricity, that's a big problem 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:24.160 in my state right now. How are you going to 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:27.839 use that? And especially when you have you know, technology 0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:31.919 like AI coming, entry level jobs are becoming increasingly hard 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:36.560 to find. It's it's it's just laughable. It's laughable. 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:38.799 Yeah. And finally, Rick Is want to ask you very quickly. 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:42.400 We had the oscars this week here seventeen point nine 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:45.319 million people tuned in. This was the lowest is twenty 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:47.359 twenty two? Are people just sick of all the woe 0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:55.320 Hollywood nonsense? The what the woe hollywoods? Yeah exactly, Yeah. 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:59.680 No, like you know, que the tiny violin, No one 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:03.840 cares anymore. And the truth is it's become an echo chamber. 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:06.279 You go up there, you see these celebrities, they make 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:10.279 these woke jokes in woke movies. It's just not reality. 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:13.040 It's not what the everyday person is. And yeah, you know, 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:15.240 I think people have lost a lot of interest because 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:19.440 it's unrelatable. It's completely unrelatable because of this echo chamber 0:45:19.440 --> 0:45:20.080 they've created. 0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:20.840 Kelly. 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:23.640 Yes, it's a shame, Rick, the Hollywood dream is dead. 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:25.879 Thank you so much for your time. Okay, now stick 0:45:25.920 --> 0:45:28.319 around because Holy in America is coming up in a tick. 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:32.120 But first let's check in on former MSNBC or is 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:36.279 it ms now host Joy Read shall we here? She 0:45:36.440 --> 0:45:39.279 is running the old stick that America is just as 0:45:39.320 --> 0:45:42.400 bad for women in minorities as Iran. 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:47.319 We're kicking women out of the military, out of university. 0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:50.319 We're saying that DEI means women can't be hired for 0:45:50.440 --> 0:45:55.239 high positions in the sciences. So we're marginally better, and 0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:57.280 we're doing it for Christianity. They're doing it for Islam. 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:57.520 Right. 0:45:58.360 --> 0:46:01.160 Actually, you know, come to think about it, she may 0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:04.600 be right, because if the reports are true, Iran as 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:08.960 actually more woke than the US. After all, they just 0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:13.319 got their first gay Ayatola. Anyway, stick around, Only in 0:46:13.320 --> 0:46:23.840 America's next after the break. Welcome back to the program, 0:46:23.880 --> 0:46:25.799 and now it's time for a little segment we like 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:34.759 to call Only in America. Hey, so was Saint Patrick's 0:46:34.800 --> 0:46:37.879 Day earlier this week, and we've already seen how the 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:40.960 woke mob have tried to appropriate a good excuse for 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:43.560 a pub crawl and turn it into a dreary lecture 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:48.000 about Gazo. So to counter all of that, how about 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:50.520 a little blast from the pass back to nineteen eighty 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.360 seven when President Ronald Reagan was in the White House. 0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:56.480 He was a man who not only liked a good joke, 0:46:56.960 --> 0:47:00.000 but also had no time for that woke nonsense. 0:47:00.920 --> 0:47:03.680 It's an honor and a pleasure for me to be 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:06.160 here with you sharing the spirit and the festivities of 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:07.160 Saint Patrick's day. 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:09.360 The blessed Saint. 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:11.640 Patrick, we are told, and died on this day in 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:15.680 the year of our Lord four sixty one, and leave 0:47:15.719 --> 0:47:17.480 it to the Irish to be carrying on a wake 0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:19.040 for fifteen hundred years. 0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:21.960 Ah. 0:47:22.040 --> 0:47:24.120 Yes, very droll, mister President. And I tell you what, 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:27.160 I don't think Reagan would have liked what's going on 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:32.360 in Ireland too much these days, but that's another story. Anyway, 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:34.480 I'll see you next time here on the US Report 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:41.440 and bright early Sunday morning for outsiders. Bye bye.