Speaker 1: On scorn Lous Australia. This is the reader Panahe Show.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahe Show.
Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, The PM's lavish beach house raises eyebrows.
Speaker 2: And questions about his political judgment.
Speaker 3: Another renewable project in doubt as companies abandoned their construction plans.
Speaker 2: I'll speak to Professor in Pimer about that.
Speaker 3: A leading international security expert joins me with a warning
Speaker 3: about the biggest danger facing the West today.
Speaker 2: Also on the program tonight, Josh Hammer.
Speaker 3: Would be latest from the US, including a plagiarism scandal
Speaker 3: for Kamala Harris and talking about Left He's losing it.
Speaker 3: A bumper star studded edition tonight featuring a bold face
Speaker 3: liar here actress Jennifer Garner.
Speaker 4: Guy, is there anything sexier than a man who's like
Speaker 4: Mentra Kamala Who.
Speaker 2: Start with news from the Herald Sun.
Speaker 3: Thousands of Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety staff
Speaker 3: are being forced to undertake taxpay funded white privileged training
Speaker 3: in preparation for a government treaty with the state's aboriginal population.
Speaker 3: The divisive and highly questionable material has caused an understandable
Speaker 3: backlash amongst some staff. Opposition Justice spokesman Brad Batton has.
Speaker 2: Called for the removal of.
Speaker 3: The white Privileged module from the state funded training program.
Speaker 3: He told the Herald Son workplace safety is essential and
Speaker 3: to have training that discriminates on race just to deliver
Speaker 3: on a WOK agenda is disgraceful. They must withdraw this
Speaker 3: module as a matter of urgency. But Premier Center Alan
Speaker 3: has expressed her support for the training. Well, of course
Speaker 3: she has. That's no surprises. They're joining me now for
Speaker 3: more on This is News Corps senior writer and columnist
Speaker 3: Patrick Carlin and Patrick as a why privilege heterosexual sismle,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're entitled to have an opinion
Speaker 3: on this, but please try to offer one.
Speaker 5: Well, I can understand why a lot of people do
Speaker 5: have an opinion on it. Look at divides people. It
Speaker 5: basically divides people by race. It says that you have
Speaker 5: white people and you have non white people. And look,
Speaker 5: it's activism dressed up as workplace reform, isn't it. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's one thing for an activist to talk about white
Speaker 5: privilege or structural racism and so on, but this is
Speaker 5: actually in a training module. It is basically imposing an
Speaker 5: abstraction as a fact, and a lot of people don't
Speaker 5: like that. They might not understand what it actually implies,
Speaker 5: but they know to be suspicious of it, don't they.
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And it is activism that becomes normalized in the workplace,
Speaker 3: and then it just becomes something that you can't even
Speaker 3: question because then you're the one who will be targeted.
Speaker 3: The inclusion and tolerance does not stretch to mainstream opinions
Speaker 3: like we're all the same, should all be treated the same?
Speaker 5: That's right. Look, I think it's a divide more than unite.
Speaker 5: Oh it doesn't. Actually, it won't do what it sets
Speaker 5: out to do. It actually pushes back.
Speaker 3: Well, none of these DEI diversity, equity inclusion policies are
Speaker 3: really what they claim to be because they do divide
Speaker 3: us rather than unite. Now let's go to the act.
Speaker 3: A Greens candidate is under fire after he made some
Speaker 3: ridiculous remarks posted to social media that he thinks we
Speaker 3: should f in kill politicians, send them to the Hague
Speaker 3: and hang them in the street. Another post read f
Speaker 3: Israel and their genocide or regime.
Speaker 2: I don't give an.
Speaker 3: Shiit how many of their occupying forces die.
Speaker 2: This is an addition to another.
Speaker 3: Controversy Cruise was embroiled in where he was forced to
Speaker 3: clarify a separate post on x where he purportedly suggested
Speaker 3: that Hezbullah shouldn't be listed.
Speaker 2: As a terrorist organization.
Speaker 3: These posts are well, they're astonishing and they're not because
Speaker 3: we expect this sort of stuff from the Greens these days.
Speaker 2: Could he have been hacked? Is there an explanation for
Speaker 2: this that's innocent?
Speaker 5: It doesn't sound like it look it sounds like the
Speaker 5: perfect Greens candidate, as you were saying. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: stoking anti semitism, he's hateful, and he's very undergraduate. Even
Speaker 5: the language. It sounds like a year nine after having
Speaker 5: two beers or something and getting angry about trying to
Speaker 5: save the world. It's ludicrous this stuff and the fact
Speaker 5: he hasn't been disendorsed. Is it real worry? In the
Speaker 5: Act where the Greens actually share power, they've got three
Speaker 5: cabinet ministers.
Speaker 3: Well, the Act is a different world, and I think
Speaker 3: the referendum showed us that the entire country said no
Speaker 3: and said it pretty strongly.
Speaker 2: The Act different parallel universe.
Speaker 3: They were all for it very strongly. Now Anthony Albernizi
Speaker 3: has just bought a four point three million dollar beach
Speaker 3: front holiday home in Copah Kabana, New South Welt, Central Coast.
Speaker 3: I like sound of that Copa Kabana sounds like it's
Speaker 3: in South America. This is a move that I don't
Speaker 3: think is going to sit well with a lot of Australians. Patrick,
Speaker 3: the cost of living crisis, housing crisis. Really is this
Speaker 3: a smart move for a prime minister to be making
Speaker 3: right now leading up to an election, especially because it's
Speaker 3: a holiday home. Certainly as prime minister, he's not going
Speaker 3: to be able to live there.
Speaker 5: No, that's right, and look at to what you've been
Speaker 5: described today as Albanese's Hawaii moment. The timing is terrible.
Speaker 5: You're going to cost him living crisis, as you were saying,
Speaker 5: he hasn't always. It makes him an easy target too
Speaker 5: for the opposition to say, well, are you about to
Speaker 5: check out? There are times when you look like you've
Speaker 5: checked out during being prime minister? Is this actually a
Speaker 5: sign that you're not fully invested? And it suggests that
Speaker 5: he's totally out of touch with average people who cannot
Speaker 5: pay the mortgage, who cannot pay the rent, who aren't
Speaker 5: sure where they're going to be living in three months time.
Speaker 3: There's certainly not spending four point three million on a
Speaker 3: beach house or which is going to be used occasionally,
Speaker 3: unless he's I don't know, hiding from us, that is
Speaker 3: stepping down and hide to the beach.
Speaker 5: What I don't understand he's paid four point three million
Speaker 5: dollars for beach house and it doesn't even have a
Speaker 5: swimming pool.
Speaker 2: What's outrageous? Well, your speech is right there.
Speaker 3: And also for a politician who's just traded so much
Speaker 3: on his history as growing up in public housing and
Speaker 3: that's just been a big part of his brand. Again,
Speaker 3: you can see why this seems to be but it's
Speaker 3: just a lack of political nous. Absolutely, wait until after.
Speaker 2: The election to do it. I mean, it's just a
Speaker 2: remarkable decision to be making. Now.
Speaker 3: Now I want to ask you about a top fund
Speaker 3: manager warning that labours proposed tax on superbalances of more
Speaker 3: than three million could decimate self managed superfunder industry. The
Speaker 3: entire industry would be in peril, according to Wilson Asset
Speaker 3: Management chief Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 2: He says that these taxes.
Speaker 3: Would remove any benefit to invest your money into a
Speaker 3: super fun and you'd be better off putting it into
Speaker 3: a savings account instead. This is an area that I'm
Speaker 3: surprised the alb and Easy government of venturing down because
Speaker 3: it costs. Bill Shorten had a lot to do with
Speaker 3: Bill Shorten losing the unlosable election. You would think they
Speaker 3: would leave this industry alone for now.
Speaker 5: And there's any to be dabbling with negative gearing and looks.
Speaker 2: In their DNA they can't help themselves.
Speaker 5: No, that's right, And look it sounds like a bad
Speaker 5: sort of law for a number of reasons. The unintended
Speaker 5: consequences that the fund managers are talking about. You're going
Speaker 5: to draw all this money, You're going to dry out
Speaker 5: all this money that goes into investment. It's going to
Speaker 5: hurt productivity, it's going to economic growth. Australians are trained
Speaker 5: from day one to avoid tax and if they're going
Speaker 5: to get close to three million dollars, and it's a
Speaker 5: threshold that isn't even indexed for the future. So three
Speaker 5: million dollars today might sound like a lot, but in
Speaker 5: five years time, or ten years time or twenty years time,
Speaker 5: it's not so much. It's not even index and it's
Speaker 5: going to have effects that we're not intended.
Speaker 3: We invest that money with the current laws and rules
Speaker 3: and then they're changed on you. I think that's also
Speaker 3: what most people would.
Speaker 2: See as unfair.
Speaker 3: And it seems like we keep attacking people who are
Speaker 3: trying to be self sufficient, whether it's through property investment
Speaker 3: or self managed super fun who are sacrificing so they
Speaker 3: don't go on the pension that can take care of themselves.
Speaker 3: I just think that's just so shortsighted.
Speaker 5: It really is anti aspirational.
Speaker 3: Anti aspirational exactly. Patrick Carline, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: your time this evening.
Speaker 2: Thanks very joining.
Speaker 3: Me now is a steam geologist and author, Professor Ian Plymer, Professor.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Chris Bowen.
Speaker 3: His green dreams have been dealt another blow after a
Speaker 3: world leading offshore wind developer officially abandoned plans to build
Speaker 3: a proposed offshore wind farm in the Illawarra wind zone,
Speaker 3: and when asked about this, Chris Bowen's office has refused
Speaker 3: to confirm whether there are other companies with any interest
Speaker 3: in stepping in to fill this void. Will the taxpayers
Speaker 3: have to step in here and heavily subsidize this plan
Speaker 3: or provide even more incentives for companies to bid for
Speaker 3: the project.
Speaker 7: Well, these plans are already very heavily subsidized, and we
Speaker 7: also pay very highly to keep them going. Now we
Speaker 7: find in the UK that they had tenders for these
Speaker 7: offshore wind monstrosities and one tender wasn't They had no
Speaker 7: one bidding for it. Were found the same in Canada.
Speaker 7: We found the same in Europe. The costs are too high,
Speaker 7: the money's not there, and people are not prepared to
Speaker 7: pay the risk.
Speaker 1: But wait for it.
Speaker 7: I've got a great idea. Instead of putting such wind
Speaker 7: turbines on the Illawarra coast, why don't we put them
Speaker 7: on the Central coast, just offshore from mister albany four
Speaker 7: point three million dollar holiday home. If he was a
Speaker 7: man of principle, he would love to see offshore Coca
Speaker 7: Cabana covered in these wind turbines. And the best way
Speaker 7: to fund it would be for me siperhind superannuation of politicians.
Speaker 7: That would be the ideal principles that mister Albanese could
Speaker 7: demonstrate to us. Now he would have a view of
Speaker 7: the turbines. It would be the only scheme he'd which
Speaker 7: had been successful after all the voice had and everything
Speaker 7: else he touches falls apart. So I think this is
Speaker 7: the way to do it. Forget all the coal underneath,
Speaker 7: forget the fact that there's coal fired and coal minifted
Speaker 7: not north of him, cover the central coast with these
Speaker 7: and then when you've done that, through green seats and
Speaker 7: teal seats, with wind turbites. They're non economic, the tax
Speaker 7: payers funding them, the electricity consumers funding them. And if
Speaker 7: people who are skinning us alive can't see that's it
Speaker 7: quid to be made, then there has to be a
Speaker 7: problem with them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Chris Bowen is still focusing on the coalition's energy policy
Speaker 3: is continuing to attack the opposition's nuclear policy. He posted
Speaker 3: this on x He said, experts have told us that
Speaker 3: Peter Dutton's nuclear scheme could cost six hundred billion, take
Speaker 3: twenty years, only secure four percent of the energy greed
Speaker 3: and push up your power bills hundreds of dollars. And
Speaker 3: if this is the case for a uranium rich country
Speaker 3: like US, why are so many other First World nations,
Speaker 3: from Sweden to Japan to the US investing so heavily
Speaker 3: in nuclear energy?
Speaker 7: Because these numbers are wrong. Because look at Finland, their
Speaker 7: electricity costs went down enormously by putting in big reactors.
Speaker 7: The same happened in Sweden. We have a large amount
Speaker 7: of electricity. More than seventy percent of the electricity from
Speaker 7: France comes from nuclear reactors. They have the cheapest power
Speaker 7: in Europe. These numbers are demonstrably wrong. And if he's
Speaker 7: going to jump up and down about the opposition's numbers,
Speaker 7: I want to see the numbers that he's suggesting for
Speaker 7: these thousands of kilometers of high voltage wires that have
Speaker 7: to cover farmlands from distal power stations, from these wind
Speaker 7: turbines out in the middle of nowhere. He hasn't costed anything.
Speaker 7: So once he starts costing his own projects, then he
Speaker 7: can start worrying about costing of other projects. But this
Speaker 7: doesn't pass the pub test. We know that in the
Speaker 7: country's nuclear is reliable and it's cheap. And the last
Speaker 7: point is he hasn't costed in how unreliable energy affects
Speaker 7: the economy. If you have a power failure, if you
Speaker 7: have a power outage and you're pouring metal in a foundry,
Speaker 7: that metal freezis that costs a large amount of money.
Speaker 7: So if you've got nuclear or coal or gas twenty
Speaker 7: four to seven three sixty five, you can have cheap,
Speaker 7: reliable energy.
Speaker 3: Now, finally, I want to get your thoughts on space
Speaker 3: X pulling off a massive feet in aerospace engineering with
Speaker 3: these mechanical arms on the launch tower of its flagship
Speaker 3: rocket called Starship, catching the rocket's boost a module after
Speaker 3: it self detached following takeoff. The footage is just mind
Speaker 3: blowing that they manage this spectacular achievement in I'm interested
Speaker 3: in your thoughts because I'm not. This is an area
Speaker 3: that doesn't normally interest me, but even I've watched this
Speaker 3: footage over and over again in.
Speaker 7: Awe, I think it's just absolutely fabulous. What engineers can
Speaker 7: do is to solve problems and solve problems which we
Speaker 7: thought were impossible. Now they can also do that with
Speaker 7: their power for it. They can also do it with energy.
Speaker 7: It's done every day in minds, it's done on farms.
Speaker 7: So it is the engineers, not the ideological politicians, that
Speaker 7: actually solved problems. And some of them like this. It
Speaker 7: looks impossible, but it happened. So all I say is
Speaker 7: we should glorify our engineers who can give us the
Speaker 7: modern world.
Speaker 3: And it just shows you what could happen in the
Speaker 3: private sector. You see all the money that's gone to
Speaker 3: NASA in recent years, and they didn't pull this off.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and space extit.
Speaker 7: Yes, and there were no government committees trying to solve
Speaker 7: these problems. And my experience has been the government committees
Speaker 7: don't solve problems. They create income from people who are
Speaker 7: eminently unemployable, and it's endless. At the end of a
Speaker 7: committee session, they have another problem to solve. So I
Speaker 7: just think this is a marvel of engineering, supported by capitalism,
Speaker 7: supported by private enterprise, and we really should let governments
Speaker 7: get out of the way, reduce the number of people
Speaker 7: in the public service, and actually start building things like
Speaker 7: a nation.
Speaker 3: Halla, Lujah, Provacy and Plyma, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: your time this evening. Now it's time for lefties losing
Speaker 3: as we've got a celebrity extravaganza coming up.
Speaker 2: But first to Gwen Woles, the wife of Tim Woles.
Speaker 2: You'll remember her, Bye bye, Donald Trump. She's terrifying. Well
Speaker 2: listen to her.
Speaker 3: Here order people to take three friends with them to
Speaker 3: the polling booth and need you to take yourself and
Speaker 3: three friends to the ballot box and make your voice heard.
Speaker 2: You have to vote. I'm going to repeat that again.
Speaker 8: You and three of your friends have to make your
Speaker 8: voices heard by voting.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just grateful that she's stopped turning the page
Speaker 3: and stop singing.
Speaker 9: We were all stand a bench to the other.
Speaker 2: Team will never yield and we will bergget. We're here,
Speaker 2: we were faith for a victory. Weird, just weird.
Speaker 3: And if you want to know just how weird this
Speaker 3: couple is on this Columbus stay, Let's take a look
Speaker 3: at what Governor Ti Walls said back in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: when far left activists tore down a statue of Columbus.
Speaker 3: Let's look at the destruction first. This is how Governor
Speaker 3: Walls reacted. Not condemnation, not even mild criticism, but he
Speaker 3: defended the leftist extremists destroying monuments.
Speaker 2: He said that had legitimate concerns about a genocidal monument.
Speaker 8: It was an act of civil disobedience that we need
Speaker 8: to make sure people feel that there is a proper
Speaker 8: outlet to address what are legitimate concerns around what they
Speaker 8: view as a generalcidal monument that they have to walk
Speaker 8: to in their democracy.
Speaker 2: You want this character anywhere near the White House? Are
Speaker 2: you in nuts? Now?
Speaker 3: Yesterday we mocked him Wall's attempts to play the macho
Speaker 3: man gun enthusiast.
Speaker 2: That whole thing was frankly beyond parody.
Speaker 3: But Kamala's antics are being parodied on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Here she is playing family feud.
Speaker 10: Okay, one hundred people surveying, top six answers on the board. Nay,
Speaker 10: have something that you're keeping your glove compartment? Help, BP,
Speaker 10: Harris Steve Look, I was raised in a middle class family.
Speaker 10: All right, Oh here we go.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 11: My mother raised my sister and me, all right, she
Speaker 11: worked hard and saved up.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 2: And we had a second mother too, Okay.
Speaker 10: Did that mother have a glove compartment?
Speaker 2: A small business owner named miss Shelton?
Speaker 10: Okay, we got that something that you keep in your
Speaker 10: global apartment.
Speaker 2: Oh we're gluck stee if a big old glove.
Speaker 3: Now, you know the Democrats are getting desperate when they
Speaker 3: pull out the celebrity card. Last week we brought you
Speaker 3: vision of Bruce Springsteen embarrassing himself with her publicly airing
Speaker 3: his tedious symptoms trumped arrangement syndrome symptoms. It was unedifying,
Speaker 3: and I regret to inform you that John bon Jovi
Speaker 3: is also similarly afflicted, and even worse. He has written
Speaker 3: a song about it all. He tweeted that he is
Speaker 3: voting for Harrison Walls and this is the aforementioned song,
Speaker 3: Brace Yourself.
Speaker 2: The cringe is extreme.
Speaker 12: These allus.
Speaker 3: Let's say what other A listas are embarrassing themselves in
Speaker 3: recent days? And uh, we've got Jennifer Ghana, actress, Jennifer Gannah.
Speaker 2: She must be a.
Speaker 3: Very good actress, indeed, because she set this outrageous lie
Speaker 3: without laughing out loud.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at these beautiful faces, these women and these
Speaker 4: strong men. Guy, is there anything sexier than a man
Speaker 4: who's like men for Kamala?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: You are the front line of this battle for lack
Speaker 4: of a better word.
Speaker 2: Is there anything sexier than men for Kamala? Yes? Everything,
Speaker 2: Everything is sexier than dudes for Kamala? Are you kidding me? Now?
Speaker 3: Let's get more daft celebrity endorsements delivered in cringe fact.
Speaker 3: Here is Kerry Washington along with John Legend and his
Speaker 3: wife Chrissy Teagan that's the model who was exposed for
Speaker 3: sending the most vile trolling comments to teenagers, including telling
Speaker 3: one to kill herself. Happily, those episodes are well behind her.
Speaker 3: Now she's producing content.
Speaker 13: Like this, I honestly, genuinely, fully when a hundred percent
Speaker 13: sincerely believe that this is going to change people's lives.
Speaker 3: And what is Michigan Governor direcchen Wigmer up to these days? Okay,
Speaker 3: at least she wasn't saying anything unhinged in that clip.
Speaker 2: Trump came all the.
Speaker 11: Way to Michigan to beat down and insult the people
Speaker 11: of Detroit.
Speaker 1: So keep Detroit out.
Speaker 11: Of your mouth, Donald Trump, and the words of Arica.
Speaker 1: Sure Detroit is a little respect.
Speaker 2: Keep Detroit out of your mouth, Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: D me.
Speaker 3: Now, this is a master cause in how to handle
Speaker 3: the Democrats propaganda on the leftist losing it activists.
Speaker 2: In the media. Here is JD. VADs on Abasa.
Speaker 11: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment conflux
Speaker 11: apartment complexes, and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers
Speaker 11: have acted on those concerns a handful of problems.
Speaker 9: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?
Speaker 6: Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken
Speaker 6: over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem
Speaker 6: and not Kamala Harris's open border. Americans are so fed
Speaker 6: up with what's going on, and they have every right
Speaker 6: to be. And I really find this exchange, Martha's sort
Speaker 6: of interesting because you seem to be more focused with
Speaker 6: nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging
Speaker 6: that apartment complexes in the United States of America are
Speaker 6: being taken over by violence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a few apartment complex There's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3: And here is JD Vance with New York Times reporter
Speaker 3: Lulu Garcia Navarro who claims that you can't deport all
Speaker 3: these illegal immigrants because they work in construction and we
Speaker 3: need more houses than ever. I wonder if she was
Speaker 3: against abolishing slavery too. Jd Vance treated her questions with
Speaker 3: the disdain they deserve.
Speaker 14: I don't think that many people who look into this
Speaker 14: agree with you. But about a third of the construction
Speaker 14: workforce in this country is Hispanic. Of those, a large
Speaker 14: proportion are undocumented. So how do you propose to build
Speaker 14: all the housing necessary that we need in this country
Speaker 14: by removing all the people who are working in construction.
Speaker 13: Well, I think it's a fair question because we know
Speaker 13: that back in the nineteen sixties, when we had very
Speaker 13: low levels of legal immigration, Americans didn't buy houses, didn't
Speaker 13: build houses. But of course they did. And I'm being sarcastic,
Speaker 13: of course, in service of a point. Again, this is
Speaker 13: one of the really deranged things that I think a
Speaker 13: legal immigration does to our society. Is it gets us
Speaker 13: in a mindset of saying we can only build houses
Speaker 13: with the legal immigrants. When we have seven million just men,
Speaker 13: not even women, just men who have completely dropped out
Speaker 13: of the labor force. People say, well, Americans won't do
Speaker 13: those jobs. Americans won't do those jobs for below the
Speaker 13: table wages still to come.
Speaker 3: Josh Hammer with the latest from the US, including a
Speaker 3: plagiarism scandal for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Joining me now is Newsweek Senior editor at Large,
Speaker 2: Josh Hammer.
Speaker 3: Josh, let's have a listen to the Harris campaign's latest strategy,
Speaker 3: and it's out there. Apparently the Republicans are hiding Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 15: Here's the thing. It makes you wonder. It makes you wonder,
Speaker 15: why does his staff.
Speaker 2: Want him to hide away.
Speaker 3: One last question, one last question.
Speaker 15: Are they afraid that people will see that he is
Speaker 15: too weak and unstable?
Speaker 3: Yes, one must wonder, josh one must one die?
Speaker 2: Such a bizarre line.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to work with the
Speaker 3: undecided voters, but it's hard to think of a candidate
Speaker 3: that's more out there than Donald Trump. He's everywhere, He's
Speaker 3: on podcast, is doing every interviewed, He's doing press conferences
Speaker 3: at take away shops like he's just questioned and talking
Speaker 3: every day.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I believe that this is what psychiatrists call projection.
Speaker 12: You know, I didn't study psychiatry in law school or
Speaker 12: in grad school or whatever, but I mean, this is
Speaker 12: a clear and obvious case of psychiatric or psychological projection,
Speaker 12: is not. Tamala Harris is the one who only recently
Speaker 12: started to change her media strategy a little bit. But
Speaker 12: by the way, don't call it a media blitz because
Speaker 12: she's just doing left wing echo chamber interviews.
Speaker 9: Although I'll be at this week she's changing in a
Speaker 9: little bit.
Speaker 12: She actually she actually just now she's doing a sit
Speaker 12: down interview with Brett Bayer of Fox News. Apparently the
Speaker 12: latest scuttle butt is that she's also considering a potentially
Speaker 12: three hour long sit down with Joe Rogan, the very
Speaker 12: popular Austin, Texas based podcaster. I can't imagine how bad
Speaker 12: her internal polling is. That she's agreeing to a sit
Speaker 12: down interview with Brett bay Or of Fox News and
Speaker 12: potentially three hours. God help us if we actually sit
Speaker 12: through those full three hours with Joe Rogan.
Speaker 9: Kamala Harris is not in good shape.
Speaker 12: I mean, this has all of the indications of a
Speaker 12: campaign that is currently going down the toilet. She is
Speaker 12: losing momentum at the exact worst time possible. All of
Speaker 12: the polling is shifting Donald Trump's way right now. She
Speaker 12: peeked a little bit too early. They had that bump
Speaker 12: after the coup of Joe Biden leading up to the
Speaker 12: DNC in Chicago. But by the time I'm August turned
Speaker 12: through September, she had the debate when fine, I guess,
Speaker 12: but by mid to late September at the latest, it
Speaker 12: was basically over for her. And I don't want to
Speaker 12: prematurely call it. I'm not saying the elections over, but
Speaker 12: she had reached her peak. She had reached her peak
Speaker 12: in polling at this point. Now she's just flailing. So
Speaker 12: she was in Eerie Pennsylvania. I think that clickly just offten.
Speaker 12: I was thinking it was an eerie Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is
Speaker 12: the number one battleground tad this cycle. Bob Casey, who
Speaker 12: was the vulnerable senator running for reelection in Pennsylvania, did
Speaker 12: not even appear with Kamala Harris at that rally in
Speaker 12: Erie Pennsylvania because he knows that she's political poison in
Speaker 12: that state.
Speaker 2: That is not a good sign. And I would be
Speaker 2: shocked if she does Rogan.
Speaker 3: And if she does Rogan, you're right, her internal polling
Speaker 3: must be absolutely circling the drain, because that is dangerous
Speaker 3: for her to sit down with someone like him who
Speaker 3: is not going to be just giving her softball questions.
Speaker 3: He's going to actually hold her to account. That could
Speaker 3: be an appste train wreck. Donald Trump has already I think,
Speaker 3: indicated he's going.
Speaker 2: To be doing Rogan.
Speaker 3: But if she ends up doing it, wow, grab the popcorn.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a fun one. But she also
Speaker 3: had to go with Donald Trump for refusing to sit
Speaker 3: down and talk to sixty minutes.
Speaker 15: His staff won't let him do a sixty minutes interview
Speaker 15: every president for the last half century has done on
Speaker 15: anyone who's running for president.
Speaker 3: Now, put to one side the fact that sixty minutes
Speaker 3: audience is nowhere near what it used to be, I
Speaker 3: can think of two very good reasons why Donald Trump should,
Speaker 3: out of principle, not speak to sixty minutes again.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts.
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see if your reasons are the same
Speaker 3: as mine.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Rita.
Speaker 12: Here in the US, CBS News has recently exposed itself
Speaker 12: as maybe the most blatantly corrupt of all of the
Speaker 12: various corporate media networks. And that is saying a lot
Speaker 12: what I just said, because there is a lot there.
Speaker 12: There are a lot of options to choose run CBS News.
Speaker 12: I mean, let's just run down the list and quick succession. First,
Speaker 12: they hosted that vice presidential debate between JD. Vans and
Speaker 12: Tim Walls, where JD Vans absolutely clobber Tim Walls. Not
Speaker 12: stand the fact that the two CBS moderators were fact
Speaker 12: checking JD.
Speaker 9: Vans in real time.
Speaker 12: Not stand the fact that they had given him their
Speaker 12: exact word that they would not do that before the debate.
Speaker 12: That's number one. Number two we had a Maoist struggle
Speaker 12: session in real time at CBS News when the morning
Speaker 12: anchor Tony Dokapil started to ask very reasonable basic questions
Speaker 12: to left wing charlottean tana HEAs Coades he was on
Speaker 12: to promote his deeply anti Semitic book The Message. Tony
Speaker 12: docopol was asking very basic questions, why didn't you talk
Speaker 12: about Hasbala the second Intofada? And apparently the big wigs
Speaker 12: the c suite at CBS News was so upset that
Speaker 12: their anchor had the temerity, had the hood spot to
Speaker 12: ask basic questions to Tony easy coats, that they had
Speaker 12: a company wide struggle session the next day whereby Tony Docapila,
Speaker 12: the anchor actually broke down in tears.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry, Tod hes codes.
Speaker 12: And then it came out in the aftermath of that
Speaker 12: that there's standards in practice division at CBS News. Actually,
Speaker 12: in a closely related point, they instructed all of the
Speaker 12: anchors and journalists of the network to not refer to
Speaker 12: Jerusalem as being in Israel. So this has all the
Speaker 12: signs of a network. And by the way, I forgot
Speaker 12: to mention the last part. They actually, as as we
Speaker 12: all now know they actually edited Kamala Harris's own Sixty
Speaker 12: Minutes interview. She gave this word salad of all word
Speaker 12: salads when it came to US's relations and primus rental.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 3: That was one of my two reasons, Josh that because
Speaker 3: that was just so deeply dishonest to deceptively edit her answer.
Speaker 3: And the answer they put wasn't even part of the
Speaker 3: original answer. It wasn't that they cut it short. They
Speaker 3: just switched things around to make her look strong and
Speaker 3: decisive instead of absolutely incoherent and weak, which was what
Speaker 3: her actual answer indicated. And the second reason and was
Speaker 3: Donald Trump sat down with sixty Minutes last time around,
Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty and they claimed that Hunter Biden's
Speaker 3: laptop was Russian disinformation, that it wasn't real, and they've
Speaker 3: never apologized for that. And I think that is just
Speaker 3: another reason why Donald Trump should go tell them to jump.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Just moving on today is Columbus stay, but the Democrats
Speaker 3: call it something else.
Speaker 2: Nowadays, Let's have Kamala Harris explain.
Speaker 15: That we celebrate Indigenous People's Day as we speak truth
Speaker 15: about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four, every October,
Speaker 15: the United States has recognized the voyage of the European
Speaker 15: explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.
Speaker 15: But that is not the whole story. That has never
Speaker 15: been the whole story. Those explore your ushered in a
Speaker 15: wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land,
Speaker 15: and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this
Speaker 15: shameful past.
Speaker 2: Goodness, major's shameful past.
Speaker 3: European explorers ushering in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, disease,
Speaker 3: spreading disease. I mean, really, is this, uh how they
Speaker 3: see America?
Speaker 2: That's how they see Columbus Day? What do you make
Speaker 2: of all that?
Speaker 12: Rita, one of my oldest friends in the world, texted
Speaker 12: me that clip earlier today and he said, you have
Speaker 12: to watch this, And I actually watched it twice because
Speaker 12: I actually couldnt believe what I had just seen. I mean,
Speaker 12: this is right out of like a Babylon be headline.
Speaker 12: This is right out of just a total parody satires
Speaker 12: to get It's right out of Saturday Night Live. The
Speaker 12: fact that the person who was the vice president of
Speaker 12: United States, who is seeking a promotion to the leader
Speaker 12: of the Free World, but get there and to say
Speaker 12: the most clearly, clearly platitudinous lines that a left wing
Speaker 12: woaster could ever issue about how all of the Americas
Speaker 12: were conquered by white colonizers and settlers and this and that. Well,
Speaker 12: I mean, I have a very basic question, miss Harris,
Speaker 12: why are you running to be leader of the free world?
Speaker 12: If you think that the free World, at least the
Speaker 12: entire Western Hemisphere portion of it, was inherently founded and
Speaker 12: settled in sin, that this is all a mistake. I mean,
Speaker 12: should you know? You know her parents are immigrants. Her
Speaker 12: parents came here from Jamaica and India. If it's continent
Speaker 12: North America and the United States is so bad, why
Speaker 12: didn't they just stay in India and Jamaica. Why are
Speaker 12: you running for office in the first place?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 12: If this land was founded in such disgrace and ignominy,
Speaker 12: I mean.
Speaker 9: It's just thoroughly contemptible. It's so hypocritical. And you know what.
Speaker 12: Ultimately, my conclusion when I saw this video was Tamala
Speaker 12: Harris goes down in flames in three weeks time, which
Speaker 12: I do predict that she will. I think that clips
Speaker 12: like this are going to have a lot to do
Speaker 12: with it, because she cannot get out of her own
Speaker 12: left wing echo chamber, just like that stupid Call Your
Speaker 12: Daddy whatever podcast when we're talking about slut shaming and
Speaker 12: all these sexual acts. She can't get out of her
Speaker 12: own bubble. And that's what you see. They're on that
Speaker 12: clip right there as well.
Speaker 3: Now, I would be very interested to see if she
Speaker 3: says something similar to that now now that she's running
Speaker 3: for president, because she'd said that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: But surely she hasn't changed her values dramatically from twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one.
Speaker 2: She was hardly young and naive.
Speaker 3: She was vice president, and that's what she thought of
Speaker 3: the country that.
Speaker 2: She lives in that her parents emigrated to.
Speaker 3: Now to a rather interesting development, Kamala Harris. Supporters of
Speaker 3: referred to this books she wrote back in two thousand
Speaker 3: and nine called Smart on Crime. This is when she
Speaker 3: was a serving as a district attorney. They say this
Speaker 3: is evidence that she's not soft on crime. She gets it.
Speaker 3: But it's been revealed that numerous sections from that book
Speaker 3: appear to have been plagiarized. Chris Ruffo, The Man who
Speaker 3: exposed the plagiarism scandal at Harvard president Claudine Gayazer since
Speaker 3: a stepped down, Well, he's published the allegations on x
Speaker 3: following an investigation by Austrian plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber. The
Speaker 3: cited passages, I've got to say, Josh, from the book,
Speaker 3: it's remarkable some of them closely resemble or perfectly match
Speaker 3: wording from other sources, including Wikipedia. Have a look at
Speaker 3: this example. She's copied the source almost exactly. There's the
Speaker 3: word additional has been added there. That's about it. How
Speaker 3: long before the lift is media covered this scandal, because
Speaker 3: this is a genuine story, and I think a lot
Speaker 3: of them are scared to even approach it. Some of
Speaker 3: them are covering it as far as the Republicans reacting
Speaker 3: to this story as opposed to the story itself.
Speaker 12: So, first of all, credit to my friend Chris Rufo,
Speaker 12: who I've known for years and he is one of
Speaker 12: by far the most effective conservative activists that we have
Speaker 12: here in America. He basically almost single handedly took down
Speaker 12: Clauding Gay when she was president of Harvard for her
Speaker 12: own plagiarism scandals, and he's trying to do it again
Speaker 12: here with Kamala Harris. So fantastic work by Chris. Look,
Speaker 12: if there is any justice in the world, this would
Speaker 12: be a gargantuan story because the evidence, as we just
Speaker 12: saw on the screen for all the viewers is absolutely overwhelming.
Speaker 12: And you know, some people say, oh, she was a
Speaker 12: public figure. She probably just had a ghostwriter.
Speaker 9: Guess what.
Speaker 12: I also ghost wrote a book for Senator Ted Cruz
Speaker 12: in twenty twenty. Ghost writer is overstanding it. We worked
Speaker 12: very closely on it. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
Speaker 12: who is helping you on it. It matters who actually
Speaker 12: publishes it under their own line. The bucks stops with
Speaker 12: the person right there. And Kamala Harris is a plagiarizer.
Speaker 12: Kamala Harris, by the way, just like Joe Biden, who
Speaker 12: himself subsequently admitted to plagiarizing back when he was in
Speaker 12: law school, which he did, Kamala Harras has plagiarized large
Speaker 12: swaths here from no less a source than Wikipedia itself. Look,
Speaker 12: I remember when I was in high school and they
Speaker 12: would literally tell me in research class in high school,
Speaker 12: do not cite Wikipedia. It is non authoritative source. Wants
Speaker 12: to be leader of the free world, and she is
Speaker 12: going ahead and sloppily signing it, in many cases actually
Speaker 12: misquoting the statistics from Wikipedia.
Speaker 9: There. It is a gargantuan story.
Speaker 12: It cuts to the very core of the Republican case
Speaker 12: against Kamala Harris, namely that she is a dim witted
Speaker 12: moron who is not fit to be local dogcatcher, let
Speaker 12: alone to be commander in chief of the greatest military
Speaker 12: the world has ever seen. So I think it's a
Speaker 12: terrible story for her. Your question, of course, is the
Speaker 12: valid one. The media will do everything they can to
Speaker 12: sweep this under the rug. I'm not sure it's going
Speaker 12: to be the positive difference in this election, but it
Speaker 12: should make at least an impact. I think that Donald
Speaker 12: Trump is already winning this election, so certainly he's already
Speaker 12: in better shape because of this.
Speaker 2: Josh Hammer, always a pleasure, Thanks for your time.
Speaker 9: Thank you, reader.
Speaker 3: Coming up, a leading international security expert joins me with
Speaker 3: a warning about the biggest danger facing the West.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is author, academic and international security expert
Speaker 3: doctor Max Abrams. Max, your field of expertise includes terrorism,
Speaker 3: foreign policy.
Speaker 2: And in particular the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Right now, what do you see as the biggest threat
Speaker 3: to the West, and are we in a uniquely vulnerable period.
Speaker 1: This is a very interesting and interest time. We're basically
Speaker 1: waiting for Israel to carry out its absolutely necessary attack
Speaker 1: against Iran. Very recently, just a week or two go,
Speaker 1: carried out the largest ballistic missile attack ever, and so
Speaker 1: of course Israel is going to respond. Personally, I would
Speaker 1: like to see Israel try to take out or at
Speaker 1: least substantially degrade the Iranian nuclear facilities. My understanding, based
Speaker 1: on public reports, is that that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: That the Biden White House is trying to rain Israel
Speaker 1: in in order to limit its attack. But consider the
Speaker 1: possibility of Iran having a nuclear weapon, and Iran is
Speaker 1: basically on the threshold of that happening. It is often said,
Speaker 1: but it is absolutely true that Iran is the number
Speaker 1: one state sponsor in the world. Iran sponsors the WHU
Speaker 1: thies Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has Bellah Iranian militia or
Speaker 1: militia based in Iraq, and Iran has terrorist operatives all
Speaker 1: over the world, in North America, in South America, in Europe.
Speaker 1: So I see that as a very dangerous situation. I
Speaker 1: think that a stronger response against rob and make the
Speaker 1: world safer. But what's going to happen is that the
Speaker 1: Israeli response is going to be somewhat rained in because
Speaker 1: of pressure from the Biden White House. Then Iran is
Speaker 1: going to respond, and depending on that the size of
Speaker 1: that response that will dictate what Israel does next. If
Speaker 1: the Iranian response is very large, if its mass casualty
Speaker 1: attacks against Israeli civilians, then it's possible the Israelis would
Speaker 1: ignore the Biden White House and go for the nuclear facility.
Speaker 1: So this is a multiple iteration game and it's going
Speaker 1: to play out over the next few weeks. But we're
Speaker 1: at a very critical time period right now with respect
Speaker 1: to whether the world is going to continue this Iranian threat.
Speaker 3: Now, we've also had revelations from US intelligence officials of
Speaker 3: a suspected Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump. Joe Biden
Speaker 3: has responded to this. He is told the Iranian regime
Speaker 3: that an assassination attempt against Donald Trump would be seen
Speaker 3: as an act of war.
Speaker 2: How seriously do you think.
Speaker 3: The Iranian regime takes Joe Biden's words and why is
Speaker 3: Iran so hell bent on preventing a second Trump term.
Speaker 1: There's a very clear of friends moving forward in terms
Speaker 1: of US policy toward Iran. Kamala Harris is basically seen
Speaker 1: as an appeaser. She's much more pro Iran, and so
Speaker 1: it's not that surprising really that Iran would take out
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Trump was very hardline against Iran last time
Speaker 1: he was president. He slapped on those those maximum pressure
Speaker 1: economic sanctions against Iran towards the end of his administration.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of his term, he authorized taking out
Speaker 1: the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guardcore Soulamani, and so
Speaker 1: ever since then, Iran has been a legitimate threat of
Speaker 1: targeting not just Trump but also his administration. And so
Speaker 1: I think that this is a very interesting development that
Speaker 1: it's publicly disclosed that Iran, you know, is buying the
Speaker 1: possibility or at least wants to take out Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: But I also want American citizens to ask themselves the
Speaker 1: question why is it that Iran so much favors Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that when you ask that question,
Speaker 1: it's indicative of a solid foreign policy, because Iran, of
Speaker 1: course is a US adversary. It's not just a US adversary,
Speaker 1: but it's an adversary throughout the region. And I think
Speaker 1: that if Trump were to win the presidency, he would
Speaker 1: push the Abraham Accords, which are essentially a means of
Speaker 1: containing Iran, and I think that Trump would have more
Speaker 1: success in that than he's often given credit. Or I
Speaker 1: would like to see thud Arabia join that coalition in
Speaker 1: order to contain the Runnian threat. By contrast, I do
Speaker 1: not see Kamala Harris as pushing the Abraham accurts at all,
Speaker 1: and I see kind of a similar policy as we
Speaker 1: saw under the Obama administration, which was a failure.
Speaker 3: Well, that was my next question. You mentioned Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: as an apesa. What would US foreign policy look like
Speaker 3: under a Harris Walls administration, not just in the Middle East,
Speaker 3: but in terms of China and other threats to the West.
Speaker 1: Or the Trump administration is about the rise of China.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was very recently asked about the main US
Speaker 1: adversaries around the world, and she didn't even mention China.
Speaker 1: There's a Elbridge Corby is widely believed to be potentially
Speaker 1: a Defense secretary choice of Trump, And if you listen
Speaker 1: to him, he is very much focused on the rise
Speaker 1: of China, defending Taiwan, making sure that China doesn't aggrandize
Speaker 1: the Pacific, as well as strengthening India in order to
Speaker 1: act as a hedge against Chinese expansion in the Indo Pacific.
Speaker 1: So that's another area where I think that Trump is
Speaker 1: stronger than Kamala Harris. I think that Kamala, because of
Speaker 1: the demographics and her constituency at home, would invest a
Speaker 1: lot of energy in trying to work with Hamas and
Speaker 1: trying to rekindle a peace process that isn't going to
Speaker 1: work there. So Americans do have a real foreign policy choice.
Speaker 1: I think that there would also be differences with respect
Speaker 1: to the war in Ukraine. I think that the Biden
Speaker 1: administration and Kamala Harris want to continue to perpetuate that war,
Speaker 1: whereas I think that Donald Trump is much more interested
Speaker 1: in ending it, even if it requires Ukraine making some
Speaker 1: concessions to Russia. So there are a lot of different,
Speaker 1: you know, balls in the air, and some very clear
Speaker 1: differences between the two main candidates.
Speaker 3: Now, just finally, as a university professor, you would have
Speaker 3: a great interest and insight into the leftist activism that
Speaker 3: we see on university campuses across the West, not just
Speaker 3: in the US. There is this anti Israeli protests, encampments,
Speaker 3: just hostility towards what they call Zionists. What does that
Speaker 3: mean for America and the West. It is the biggest
Speaker 3: threat to us from within.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, and I think that the answer
Speaker 1: is yes. Remember throughout the Donald Trump presidency, the left
Speaker 1: was always talking about how he's this right wing extremist
Speaker 1: and how he, you know, is an anti Semite and
Speaker 1: has dinner with an anti Semite, Nick Fuentes. And then
Speaker 1: what happened right after Donald Trump during the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: We've seen an unprecedented spike in anti Semitism under this
Speaker 1: current president, and to a large extent, this manifests itself
Speaker 1: in American cities, but most vividly on American campuses. And
Speaker 1: make no mistake, it's not just you know, anti Israel position.
Speaker 1: It's much worse than that. It is very much directed
Speaker 1: against the Jewish students. And so they're targeting the hill Els,
Speaker 1: you know, which is where the Jewish students go and
Speaker 1: have Shabbat and celebrate you know, their religious Jewish holidays.
Speaker 1: This is all part of the dominance of the far
Speaker 1: left agenda in higher education. Higher ed is not just
Speaker 1: anti jew, it's anti Hindu, it's anti way. You need
Speaker 1: to be part of a very limited preferred group in
Speaker 1: order to gain privilege. And if you don't have privilege
Speaker 1: the university, you know, the administration, the faculty as well
Speaker 1: as the students, they're going to punish you for it.
Speaker 1: And I would certainly hope and expect that under a
Speaker 1: Trump administration we wouldn't see that kind of left wing
Speaker 1: extremism which has been such a big feature of the
Speaker 1: Biden administration.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, let's hope that is climed down on because I've
Speaker 3: just been surprised by the permissive attitude so many university
Speaker 3: administrators have had to this anti semitism. There's this ugliness
Speaker 3: that they've allowed to infect their campuses. It's been a
Speaker 3: worrying trender. Dr Max Abrams, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: your time this evening, and that's it from May. I'll
Speaker 3: see you at eleven tomorrow. Up next is Newsnight.