1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: We're back from the holiday weekend and there is no 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: shortage of stuff going on in the news of Somali 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: fraud scandal in Minnesota has absolutely exploded. Shocky new footage 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: from YouTuber Nick Shirley has rocked the Land of ten 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: Thousand Lakes. Meanwhile, Donald Trump with a Christmas special whacking 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: ices in Nigeria, while at the same time Tucker Carlson 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: going really soft on Islam. Also Vlai mer Zelenski at 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: mar A Lago, Bibi Nitznyaku at mar A Lago. Today, 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff happening on today's episode of 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: The Josh Hammer Show. Welcome back everyone, Hope you had 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 1: a very merry Christmas. Wishing you a happy early New 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: Year as well. Smally fraud in Minnesota. We've been covering 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: this story for months to us here on The Josh 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: Hammer Show. The ongoing smally fraud in Minnesota, combined with 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: all of the recent shenanigans and histrionics in dearborn Michigan, 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: to say nothing of the recent moves by governors of 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: Santas and Governor Abbott in Florida and Texas, respectfully, this 18 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: is all part and parcel of the broader pitch that 19 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: Islam is increasingly making inroads in the United States, and 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: it's not just those five to six am calls to 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: prayer from the minarets of the mosque. No, this is 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: an actual, genuine cultural, constitutional, legal, and civilizational incompatibility. Really 23 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: ground zero of this conversation has moved, i would say, 24 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: possibly away from Deerbrow, Michigan, all the way to Minneapolis, Minnesota, 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: where this fraud scandal, which was initially brought to its 26 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,919 Speaker 1: current status as the focal points national conversations, was initially 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: brought there by Chris Rufo of City Journal and the 28 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: Manhattan Stitude. Chris doing amazing work as always, this thing's 29 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: really exploded. Now we know that Secretary Scott Present of 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: the Treasury Department is involved currently in all sorts of 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: financial investigations trying to discern who, including but not limited 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: to public officials, left officials, who knew what and when 33 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: did they know it, What possible statutes were violated when 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: it comes to just brazen, out right defrauding of the 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: United States taxpayer, let alone siphoning and taking some of 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,399 Speaker 1: this money and shipping it overseas to cross subsidize Al 37 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: Shabab the former Al Qaeda offs you, which is now 38 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: an independent pseudoni jihadist organization there in Somalia. Turns out 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: the Minnesota taxpayer the number one funder of al Shabab. Insane, 40 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: utterly insane stuff. Well, the reason that we were revisiting 41 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: the story is because it actually escalated just over the 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: past a few days while we were taking a bit 43 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: of a break here on the Josh Hammers Show, and 44 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: while you were hopefully enjoying some wonderful time with your family. 45 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: So YouTuber Nick Sureley, we'll get to him in just 46 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: a minute here doing phenomenal work his views on the ground, 47 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: generating about one hundred million views on YouTube, just trying 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: to get there and to show you with his own camera, 49 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: with the flesh, you can actually see what this fraud 50 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: looks like there in ground zero, so to speak, in 51 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: Minneapolis and practice. But some of this was escalated as 52 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 1: well by just another element to this fraud scandal, and 53 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: it was actually Cash Battel, the embattled FBI director, who 54 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: nonetheless is doing a very competent job, at least by 55 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: my estimation, he is getting a lot of flag including 56 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: from some people on the right. When it comes to 57 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: the Epstein Finals. We've generally been defenders of Director Pattel, 58 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: and unless we've given reason for not being defenders of him, 59 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,119 Speaker 1: we're going to continue to defend him. And sure enough, 60 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: he issued a very interesting and notable update when it 61 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: comes to the Somali fraud scandal over the weekend cash 62 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: PTEL on Saturday, putting on x in relevant part quote, 63 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: the FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, 64 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: even before the public conversation escalate online, the FBI had 65 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large 66 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. Fraud that steals from 67 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: taxpayers and rob's vulnerable children will remain a top FBI 68 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: priority in Minnesota and nationwide. To date, the FBI dismantled 69 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud scheme two 70 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen million dollar fronts that stole federal food 71 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: aid meant for vulnerable children during COVID. The investigation exposed 72 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: sham vendors, shell companies, and large scale money laundering tied 73 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: to the Feeding Our Future network. The case led to 74 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: seventy eight indictments. Fifty seven convictions. The FBI believes this 75 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: is just the tip of a very large iceberg. We'll 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: continue to follow the money and protect children. This investigation 77 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: very much remains ongoing. I saw someone actually a Twitter wag, 78 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: if you will, a bit of a social media troll, 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: just a remarkable, remarkable side by side comparison according to 80 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: some estimates based what we've seen thus far, including not 81 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: limited to that quarter of a billion dollar healthcare childcare 82 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: fraud number that I just read to you, including the 83 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: al Shabab transfers, all of what we've learned recently. When 84 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: it comes to the extent of Somali fraud in Minnesota, 85 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: it arguably, based on some math, they've now stolen more 86 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars then what Lehman Brothers, the former Bolsbracken Investment Bank, 87 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: what they lost in two thousand and eight. So, if 88 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: you feed your mind packed two thousand and eight, it 89 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: was really Lehman Brothers and bear Stearns. It was the 90 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: collapse of these those two particular banks that cause the 91 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: Great Recession, the great financial crisis of two thousand and seven, 92 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. There So I saw someone X 93 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: post this article from September tenth, two thousand and eight, 94 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: the investment bank Lehman Brothers announced that it was expecting 95 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: a loss of three point nine billion dollars after a 96 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: five point six billion dollars in write down. So, look, 97 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: the math can get a little dice depending on how 98 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: you cut it. On some estimates, Somalis have defrauded the 99 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: American tax payer by more dollars than the Lehman Brothers 100 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: literally lost, which arguably was the final factor for the 101 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: full blown financial crisis that engulfed the final year or 102 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: so of the Bush presidency and the first year or 103 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: so of the Obama presidency. So just absolutely wild stuff there, 104 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: and there's a lot to unpack about this there. But 105 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: without further ado, let's go ahead and actually take a 106 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: look at what YouTuber Nick Shirley has been doing. This 107 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: stuff is absolutely blowing up on my social media feed. 108 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: I presume that is blowing up on your social media 109 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: feed as well. I'd actually never heard of the guy. 110 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: I never heard of Nick Shirley. I salute you, sir, 111 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: you are doing some really fantastic work. Let's go ahead 112 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: and just watch a very short snippet of this on 113 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: the ground reporting in Minneapolis. 114 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 2: Are there local reporters like that in your area? And 115 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: why do you think they weren't doing the work that 116 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 2: you did? 117 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 3: I don't know. 118 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 4: I'm like they're scared of being called nowadays because it's 119 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 4: some aliums that are committing this product. People are scared of 120 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 4: be calling Islamophobic, racist, in which has nothing to do 121 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 4: with what's going on. Because fraud is fraud. It doesn't 122 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 4: matter if it's a black person, white person. Agent Verson Mexican. 123 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 4: Fraud is fraud, and we work too hard simply just 124 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 4: to be paying taxes in enabling fraud to be happening. 125 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: So this is the relevant question, right is who is 126 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: covering the story and who is not covering the story. Unfortunately, 127 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: based on my quick surveying of the media landscape, the 128 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: ducks are lining up in the row exactly as you 129 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: would expect. So Newsweek, which hosts our show, to newswek's 130 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: great credit. We are covering this story on Newsweek. The 131 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: same cannot be said of many other broader speaking, wider 132 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: distribution mainstream media publications, most of whom are deliberately choosing 133 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: to turn a blind eye to this particular story. But 134 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: why should it turn upon an independent YouTuber like Nick Shirley, 135 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: and by the way, he was right there on Fox News. 136 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: You ought to go ahead and actually check out his 137 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: YouTube fee because you will just see some stuff that 138 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: will make you want to gouge your freaking eyes out there. 139 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: Why should it fall on Nick Shirley to get there 140 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: on the ground and actually start exposing some of the 141 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: sheer level of fraud that is coming from the Somali 142 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: community that the officials are certainly starting to make this 143 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: a broader point of the national conversation as well. One 144 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: of the things that I've been saying for a while 145 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: is when did these leading Minnesota politicians get word of this? 146 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: And when did they know it? What did Tim Walls, 147 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: Keith Ellison, elan Omar, all these other end of ten 148 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: thousand Lakes ingrits. What did they know? When did they 149 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: know it? These use some of the questions that I 150 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: hope Scott has sent that Treasury is able to uncover 151 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: in the course of his financial investigation. Frankly, we could 152 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: use some more Chris Rufo style investigated journalists trying to 153 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: figure that out as well. Congressman Tom Emmer of the 154 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: state of Minnesota had this to say, as well about 155 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: what is going on with Minnesota's own elected officials and 156 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: their complicity in this whole fraud scandal in Minnesota. 157 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 5: This has been going on four years. I told you, 158 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 5: we've known about the daycare fraud for the past decade. 159 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 5: We've been trying to sound the alarm on the rest 160 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 5: of the fraud for the last three years. And it 161 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 5: wasn't until President Trump, who I'm very grateful for him, 162 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 5: actually saying something about it, made this a national story 163 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 5: that people started paying attention. And here's the difference Minnesota. 164 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 5: It's apparently a business. Whistleblowers are coming forward and if 165 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 5: they are real, Mike, and if what they're saying can 166 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 5: be documented, and what they're saying is they told Tim Walls, 167 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 5: they told Keith Ellison about the fraud when it was happening, 168 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 5: and they not only didn't do anything, they retaliated against them, Mike. 169 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 5: If that's true, if that can be documented, these guys 170 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: need to be prosecuted, held accountable, and prosecuted to the 171 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 5: full extent of a lot. 172 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: You know, I was looking at my social media feed 173 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: before we started to record our show's day and I 174 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: saw RNC Research, which is a very nifty social media 175 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: feed that produces a lot of good video content. They 176 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: have this clip that I hadn't seen previously of Tim 177 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: Walls saying, quote, we should have been keeping Minnesota's more 178 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: up to speed on what was happening. You think, like, 179 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? What was happening? What a euphemism? 180 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: What was happening while your own people, while little Mogadishu 181 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: in the state capital of Saint Paul and the Joint 182 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: Any of Minneapolis, while they were defrauding your own people, 183 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: your own public treasury and sending money, not merely diverting 184 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: it from lawful use, from public use for the common wheel, 185 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: for the common good when it comes to road and 186 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: bridges in construction, all the basic things of good governance, 187 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: not just that take the money and also taking it 188 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: and then shipping it overseas. I mean, what was happening. 189 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: What was happening, Tim Walls, is that you presided over 190 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: the single largest fraud scandal the entire history of the 191 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: United States, and given the al Shabab connection, also the 192 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: single largest foreign terrorist organization funding scandal since the largest 193 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: terror financing scandal in the history of the United States, 194 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: which came back in two thousand and seven in the 195 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: form of the Holy Land Foundation trial in North Texas. 196 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: The Holy Land Foundation, which was based in the Dallas suburbs, 197 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,439 Speaker 1: was found to be a direct American plant of Hamas 198 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: and the Most Brotherhood, and they were busted by the way, 199 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: CARE of the Council of Americans long relations was found to 200 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: be an unindicted co conspirator by the federal judge in 201 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: the course of the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial. 202 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 1: So put that on the back burner for now when 203 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: it comes to CARE and their long standing connections to 204 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. But the relevant question that 205 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: Tom Memmer is asking is what do these public officials 206 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: know and when did they know. It's the question that 207 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: we are going to continue to beat the drama of 208 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: very much here on our show. 209 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: Center. 210 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, by the way, very much echoing 211 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: Commerce and EMRA, go ahead and watch this well. 212 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 3: First of all, we need to put all kinds of 213 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 3: pressure on the state agencies to give us their records. 214 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 3: Now I'm chairming the permanent subcominge investigations. This will be 215 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 3: a primary folks of ours. We're already reaching out to 216 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 3: Nick Shirley and David and other people who can provide 217 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 3: testimony for this, but we also need documents. So you know, 218 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 3: these agency heads who finally the federal money to the 219 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 3: state agencies, they have to demand that the state agencies 220 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: are transparent, and unfortunately, particularly in Democrat controlled states, they're not. 221 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 3: They're refusing term of those records. I've got subpoena power. 222 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 3: I will use that subpoena power to obtain these records 223 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: because we have to get to the bottom of this. Understand 224 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 3: Somali's just been this country a few years. They're amateurs 225 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 3: when it comes to fleecing the federal government. And let's 226 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 3: face it, thement I'd have gotten this is probably the 227 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 3: easiest consumer, the easiest payer to fleece, and states do 228 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 3: it time and time again. So this is just tip 229 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 3: to the iceberg. 230 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: You know, I saw this clip on Friday. It was 231 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: a day after Christmas. I'm sure many of you are offline. Heck, 232 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: God was mostly offline as well. But I saw this 233 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: clip of the Lieutenant governor of Minnesota, whose name is 234 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: Peggy Flanagan, and Peggy Flanagan actually goes ahead and puts 235 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: on this hija and she's standing there with representatives of 236 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: the smaller community, talking about how small these built this state. 237 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: I mean, what is wrong with some of you people? Like, 238 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: what is actually wrong with some of you people that 239 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: you're just sitting there and letting this different culture that 240 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: is not only a different culture when it comes to 241 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: polite mannerisms, but apparently, as far as we can tell, 242 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: also has part of its culture endemic to its culture, 243 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: perhaps the brazen defrauding of their fellow citizens in this case, 244 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: they're fellow Americans and of the taxpayer. More broadly, is 245 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: Minnesota iss gonna let their are there elected officials just 246 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: gonna stand back and let Minneapolis become the next Brussels Belgier, 247 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,079 Speaker 1: or the next Paris or London. Maybe it is already. 248 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: He guy was there on the airport in Minneapolis with 249 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: the first time back in August. I looked around. I 250 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: couldn't believe what I saw. You do not feel like 251 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: you're in the United States. And this really kind of 252 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: cuts to the broader points here. Yes, I want to 253 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: know what Keith Ellison knew. I want to know what 254 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: Tim Walls knew. I want to know what Illino Marnu. 255 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: I want to know what all of them knew and 256 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: their complicity, their offuscation at best and at worst, their 257 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: willful complicity in this horrific fraud scandal. But the broader point, 258 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: beyond these specific details of this fraud scandal, the broader 259 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: point is this, is this a culture? Is this a 260 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: way of life that is compatible with American republicanism, American 261 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: self governance, and American constitutionalism? And unless you are hiding 262 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: under a rock, unless you have two or three brain 263 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: cells operating between the years, the answer should be should 264 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: be obvious. The answer is no. Now, what are we 265 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: going to do about it? That's a broader conversation that 266 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: we will table for now. But it suffice to say 267 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: that all options when it comes to deporting non citizens, 268 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: folks who are aliens here, who have lied on their paperwork, 269 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: folks who have who lied as far as they support 270 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: foreign terrorist organizations, they are folks who have committed fraud, 271 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: who have committed crimes. There all of them should be deported. 272 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: And frankly, we are not at all opposed. We're actually 273 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: very supportive on the show of the notion of initiating 274 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: denaturalization proceedings for those who have been initiated into the 275 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: United States clizenship there But either lied on their application 276 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: form or continue to have to have other foreign allegiances 277 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: that directly undermine their support for the good old US 278 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: of A. By the way, Somalia not the not the only, 279 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: not the old, only radical islam tide country that was 280 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: in the news over the long holiday weekends, So there 281 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: was actually a Christmas special, a Christmas special from President 282 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: Donald J. 283 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 4: Trump. 284 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: This horrific situation Nigeria has been building up for months now, 285 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: are arguably for years. Boko Haram, which is the radical 286 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: Islamic offshoot in Nigeria, has been on a rampage for many, 287 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: many years now, but this started to pick up in 288 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: recent months and terrible, terrible headlines emerging out of the 289 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: very religiously divided country of Nigeria, country that has split 290 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: roughly down the middle between Christians and Muslims, has been 291 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: it's been an ongoing Christian genocide, and yes, as far 292 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: as I can tell it, it absolutely is a genocide 293 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: because these are individuals who horrifically and tragically are being 294 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: deliberately targeted and persecuted simply because of their faith, simply 295 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: because of their religion. Donald Trump released a video maybe 296 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago about a month ago, give or take, 297 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: saying in no uncertain terms to the Nigerian government and 298 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: to BOCO harm the radical terroristorization, their community of ttrostes 299 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: saying stop this or else we're going to do something. 300 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: And apparently Trump in his inner circle reached a conclusion 301 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve last Wednesday, that they were actually going 302 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: to do something, and they apparently delayed that decision until 303 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: Christmas Day for something of a symbolic show. And that's 304 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: exactly what happened there. So, the US engaging in strikes 305 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: on ISIS and BOCO Harama and radical Islamic militants there 306 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: in the state of Nigeria, specifically in the state of Sokoto, 307 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: which is on the border of some of the neighboring 308 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: countries there, all these groups are kind of connected there. 309 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: There's al Qaeda in the Western Sahara, there's ISIS, there's 310 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: Boko Haram. All these radical Sunni Islamus groups end up 311 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: being closely supported to one another there. I think they 312 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: were all In question from our perspective is what does 313 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: this say about Donald Trump's foreign policy? Now, don Trump's 314 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: foreign policy is largely predicated on the American national interest, 315 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: is largely predicated on what is best from a somewhat 316 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: narrow view of a dancing America's strategic interests overseas is 317 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: not necessarily the moralistic foreign policy of the Bush administration 318 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: from a neo conservad perspective, or the moralistic foreign policy 319 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: of the Bush or of the Obama administration when it 320 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: comes to a humanitarian interventionist perspective. That's how we got 321 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: to the Batch intervention in Libya, to ask Momar Kadafi 322 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: back in twenty eleven. There So, the Nigeria intervention is 323 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: it is somewhat counter to this very narrow strategic interest there. 324 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 1: Certainly Nigeria is a somewhat valuable country there. I'm not 325 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: sure it has the strategic importance of other countries around 326 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: the world there, but Nigeria is considered to be one 327 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: of the better to do, one of the more advanced 328 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: countries in that particular part of the world, which as 329 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: of right now is not actually saying a whole lot, 330 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: but it still is one of the more advanced countries there. 331 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: So it's definitely not a not important country, but it 332 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: doesn't really have the strategic importance of a Saudi Arabia, 333 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: to say nothing of a Japan or a country like that. Right, 334 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: So as that say, well, I think what it says 335 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump is at his core, instinctually, viscerally, 336 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: is he is a defender of Christendom and of Western civilization. 337 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump might not be someone who's going to be 338 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: able to theorize and philosophize. He's not writing forty page treatises. 339 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: He's not writing six hundred page you know, PhD dissertations 340 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: on the meaning of Western civilization. You know, you know, 341 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: leave that to the public intellectuals, the scholars, the eggheads, 342 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: people like that. But in his gut, in his heart, 343 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump gets what Western civilization is. He gets the 344 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: Western civilization is the Biblical inheritance. He happens to love 345 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: the Jewish people. I saw it in person for myself, 346 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: was originally two weeks a when I was there for 347 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: the Honka celebrations. He has a visceral love for the 348 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: original people of the book, the Jewish people. And he 349 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: totally understands, as a Christian himself, that it is Christian 350 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: Dad and he is Christendom that spread the principles of 351 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: the Bible to billions, literally billions and billions of people. Therefore, 352 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: establishing the modern predic gate for what we'd say called 353 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: Western civilization. And this might be somewhat of an aberration 354 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: when it comes to his somewhat narrow America First national's 355 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: view of foreign policy, but I think viewed from that 356 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: somewhat different, albeit closely related perspective, whereas he also sees 357 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: himself as a champion of Western civilization. There, I think 358 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: that this is really the better way probably to understand 359 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: this particular limited humanitarian intervention in Nigeria. The somewhat rebuttal 360 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: to that would be, okay, what if we get sucked 361 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: into a broader conflict in Nigeria? And then the response 362 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: to that rebuttal is very simple, just don't do it, okay, 363 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: I mean, just toe to it, the same way that 364 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: we didn't get sucked into a broader war in Iran 365 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: after the B two bombers struck back in June. Just 366 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: because you have some level of intervention, some level of precision, 367 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: strike and get the heck out, that doesn't mean that 368 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: you were immediately going to get involved. When it comes 369 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: to boots on the grounds and all the horrible memories 370 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 1: of rock Aghanstan. You know a lot of the neoists 371 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: they like to present this total false choice, whereas on 372 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: the one hand we are George W. Bush swashbuckling democracy, 373 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: promoting neoconservatism, or on the other hand, just don't get involved. 374 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: But what I've been saying for years, years and years 375 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 1: and years is that most Americans, most common sense people, 376 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: most people who give an iota a modicum a critical 377 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: thought to these matters, understands that John McCain and Ron 378 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: Paul are not the only two options for foreign policy. 379 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: There is like ninety eight percent of the middle holding 380 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: aside the extreme one percent. Now, reasonal folks can disagree 381 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: on a given action, and reasonable folks certainly can disagree 382 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: here when it comes to the wisdom of intervening in 383 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: limited fashion in Nigeria. But viewed from the perspective of 384 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: defending be leaguered, besieged Christians against radical Islam, Donald Trump 385 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: is positioning himself, I think, straightforwardly and forthrightly as a champion, 386 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: as a defender of Western civilization and the biblical inheritance 387 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: that defines Western civilization. That's maybe not how Donald Trump 388 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: would say it if you were asked in an interview, 389 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: but I think that in his guts, in his guts. 390 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: That really is what he is thinking now speaking of 391 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: this threat of this conflict between radical Islam and Christianity. 392 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: And by the way, there's so much dumb, dumb, dumb 393 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: misinformation on this topic. There are a lot of folks 394 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: out there saying, oh, my God, the only reason the 395 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: Muslims hey Christians is because of the State of Israel 396 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: of nineteen forty eight. How short of a memory do 397 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: you guys have? How many history books have you read 398 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: or lack thereof? Have you heard of that thing called 399 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: the Crusades, the various wars between Christianity and Islam about 400 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: a thousand years ago? Have you heard about the Siege 401 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: of Vienna where the Ottoman Empire was finally termed back. 402 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: I'm getting all the way into the heart of the 403 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 1: Austro Hungarian Empire in the mid seventeenth century. Christian Europe 404 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: fought back at that point, finally repelled the Aman Turks. 405 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: Have you heard about the First and Second Barbary Wars 406 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: here in the United States in the early nineteenth century. 407 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: Those wars fought between the then fledgling US Navy and 408 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,479 Speaker 1: the Barbary Pirates, the houthy rebels of their day. These 409 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: Muslim pirates off the coast in Northern Africa. The literal 410 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: reason that we still have a Navy and Marine Corps 411 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: and so forth to this day. I mean, I'm familiar 412 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: with the military fights on to the shores of Tripoli. 413 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: I'm not going to sing here because my voice is terrible. 414 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: It's the onliar reference to the Barbary Wars the shores 415 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: of Tripoli. I just people are just so stupid. Nonetheless, 416 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: there are a lot of folks, obviously on the left, 417 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: increasly on the adel Brains, hyper conspiratoril rights, that are 418 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: making this out to be that radical Islam, and more 419 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: generally Islam is not in a state of tension. They're 420 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: not literally care about the West. They don't really care 421 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: about Christians, they don't really care about Christom. It's just 422 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: the Jews, It's just Israel. Far too predictably, the latest, 423 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: the latest adult to articulate this in some of the 424 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: clearest fashion possible was Tucker Carlson. So, Tucker Carlson just 425 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: this past Friday went on a podcast hosted by Tach 426 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: The American Conservative, a publication that ironically is neither American 427 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: nor conservative in any meaningful sense of the term they 428 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: are shills for foreign interest when it comes to interests 429 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: that militate against the American national interests. So no surprise 430 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: that Tuck Carlson is on the board of advisors of 431 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: this magazine, that he went on one of their podcasts, 432 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: and this is what Tucker had to say. 433 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 2: I believe in measuring reality a little more empirically. And 434 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: you know, I don't know anyone in the United States 435 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 2: in the last twenty four years has been killed by 436 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 2: radical Islam. You know, I know a lot of people 437 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 2: who have killed themselves a lot. I know people have 438 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,239 Speaker 2: died at drug abuse. More than a few people can 439 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 2: get jobs. None of none of the boys in my 440 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: daughter's class that can get jobs. None of those white 441 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: boys can get jobs. They're being destroyed, you know, by 442 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: after all in video games important like I see millions 443 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 2: of Americans being destroyed at none of it. Is it 444 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,360 Speaker 2: the hands of radical Islam. Is radical is longer danger 445 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 2: than only fans. It's not even close turning some huge 446 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: percentage for America women into prostitutes. That's got Radical Islam 447 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 2: doing that. 448 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: Actually, Okay, I don't want to both the rest of 449 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: our shows this which we easily could do. But for now, 450 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: I will make a couple of simple points. One is 451 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. Is he drunk? Is he drunk? Is he 452 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: on drugs? I mean, like, what is actually happening between 453 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: his ears that he is saying and spouting out such 454 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: demonstrable insane falsehoods. What is happening between the years, What 455 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: is happening in the neurons in his body? How much 456 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: Katari money is flowing into his bank account? What is 457 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: happening that is resulting in him saying these out of 458 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: control insane things. Radical Islam has open responsible for any 459 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: deaths in the past twenty four years. Do you remember 460 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: the fort Hood massacre of two thousand and nine, the 461 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, the Houston lone wolf Jihati 462 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: who went to gun down or to mow over and 463 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: in a vehicular homicide act. At least fifteen is in 464 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: Biastanders on Bourbon Street in the wee hours of last 465 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: New Year's Day. I mean, there's more examples, like a 466 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 1: possibly count there was the Bernardino, California mass shooting a 467 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: decade ago. How many more innocent people must die at 468 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: the hands of Radical Islam for Islam's apologists here in 469 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 1: the United States left or quote unquote right alike to 470 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: get the message. I mean the Boston marathon bombing. There 471 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: were so many obvious examples here. This is obfuscation, will 472 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: flu stupidity, indeed, all but all but a shirley corruption. 473 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: Given the fact that he's flying to Doha, do these 474 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: interviews with the Amir Kaktar tam of buying a house there. 475 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 2: We don't. 476 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: We don't necessarily quite have the goods, but we have 477 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: a lot of secondary goods to suggest that Tucker is 478 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: has far too close ties, to put it mildly, to 479 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: put it, perhaps far too charitably, with the Katari regime 480 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: there in Doha. It's not good. And the other point 481 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: to make here is this, this same guy who hosted 482 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: Nick Flints, Charlie Kirk's lifelong arch nemesis, and hosts him 483 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: for a total fluff interview to ansk a single challenging 484 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: question a month and a half after Charlie's assassination. What 485 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: was the one issue that Charlie Kirk was pushing harder 486 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: than anything in the final year of his life. It 487 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: was a notion that is Islam is not compatible with 488 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: Western civilization. And with American constitutionalism. 489 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 2: How do I know? 490 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: Well one? He said up publicly too. We discussed it 491 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: privately all the time in the somewhat infamous Hampton's Retreat, 492 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: infamous only because of Candice and other conspiracy idiots. But 493 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: this retreat that was in early August, I was there 494 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: thirty five to forty people. It was a Save the 495 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: West Strazi chess and featuring Charlie Kirk and Bill Lackman 496 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: and the rest of us. The very first session of 497 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: that retreat was on the individual of Mamdani and Charlie 498 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: Starr that whole retreat by asking me a very provocative question, 499 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: what is an American? And in the context he meant, 500 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: is Zormamdani an American? Could he ever become an American? 501 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: The point that he was ultimately getting at was this 502 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: incompatibility point between Islam and Western civilization. He warrant all 503 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 1: the time that Islam is taking over not just Western Europe, 504 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: not just Canada, not just Australia, but increasingly of the 505 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: United States as well. He warnant over and over and 506 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: over again that immigration without assimilation is an invasion. And 507 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: he was really, really, really angry, in particular about radical Islam. 508 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: By the way, the attendees of Charlie's own organization in 509 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: Turning One USA at the Anfest conference last weekend, they 510 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: also listed radical Islam as the number one threat to 511 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: the United States. That's what Tucker was as responding to 512 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: in that clip. He's disagreeing with the vast majority of 513 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: the Turning Point conference's own attendees. Tuckery, you can take 514 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: your Islam apology and shove it where the sun don't shine. 515 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: Take it to Al Jazeera, take it to Chank Wigger 516 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: and the young Turks, take it to ms NOW whatever 517 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: they're calling that adult brain network. Take it and get 518 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: it away from the right of center ecosystem because conservatives 519 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: had no tolerance for islam apology. They see what's happening 520 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, they see what's happening in Dearborn, they see 521 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: what's happening with all too great and increased frequency. They 522 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: see what's happening throughout these United States from sea to 523 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: shine sea, and they don't like it one bit. It's disgusting, 524 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: it's absolutely appalling, and frankly, just what an absolutely horrific, 525 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: horrific quote unquote friend yet again, talker Carlson has proved 526 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: to be to Charlie Kirk, who was emphatically correct about 527 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: the question of Islam and Western civilization and American constitutionalism. 528 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: In other international related news, there are a couple of 529 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: big meetings that Donald Trump has had at mar A Lago. 530 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: He just yesterday met with Vladimir Lensky and some other 531 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: leaders of the Ukrainian delegation. They're at mar A Lago. 532 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: Tough to say exactly what the result was. We don't 533 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: really know exactly which parts they agreed to, which parts 534 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: they do not agree to. For what it's worth, both 535 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 1: parties seem to be saying more or less the same thing, 536 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: which is that they are in ninety percent agreement. That 537 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: is basically the that I have seen flowed out is 538 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,959 Speaker 1: that they're basically in ninety percent agreement there that there 539 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: is some sliver of information that is not being specified yeat, 540 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: that they are in disagreements over. And this is more 541 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: or less where we've been for some months now. The 542 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: problem is not for lack of trying. By the way, Trump, Kushner, Witcoff, 543 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: the whole team deserves tremendous credit, not just a little 544 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: tremendous credit for trying this hard. When it comes to 545 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: trying to get this Rush Ukraine peace deal, there's a 546 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: pro peace negotiating team. They have gotten peace deals when 547 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: it comes to Thailand and Cambodia, at least initially. Then 548 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: the ceasefire broke. Then they had another seasfire recently in Tiling, Cambodia, 549 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: just over the past week. So they got telling Cambodia seasfire. 550 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: They got an India Pakistan cease fire, these two nuclear 551 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: powers that could have been utterly disastrous. They got Armenia Azerbaijan. 552 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: One that really really really caught me off guard as 553 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: someone who was just in Yerevan, just in Armenia two 554 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: and a half years ago, I saw the conflict up 555 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: close and personal. The fact that it's over in the 556 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: link of an eye, sniber fingers, that is crazy, crazy, 557 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: crazy stuff. All sorts of other peace deals as well, Rwanda, Congo, 558 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: the Israel Iran ceasefire that happened for now at least 559 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: after the B two bombers. They are back in June, 560 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: so they're trying really really hard. They Trump food Alaska 561 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: to meet with Putin back in augusts on a Friday, 562 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: to had the military flyover this demonstration of strength with 563 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: the B two bombers. Then the following Monday, went back 564 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: to the White House to me with Georgia Maloney and 565 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: Emmanuel la Crown, a cure starmer, and various other European elites. 566 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: He's trying really, really really hard. Sometimes the ard of 567 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: the deal is just really really hard to do. And 568 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: it's not for lack of trying there. They're trying just 569 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: really really hard. I did see one thing from this 570 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: joint Trump Zelensky presser on Sunday that caught me a 571 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: little off guard. So let's go ahead and watch this 572 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: clip of President Trump talking about of Latimer Pudin's interest 573 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: in seeing Ukraine being made great. 574 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 6: Russia's gonna be helping Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. 575 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 6: It sounds a little strange, but I was explaining to 576 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 6: the president. President was very generous in this failing towards 577 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 6: Ukraine succeeding, including a supplying energy, electricity and other things 578 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 6: at very low prices. So a lot of good things 579 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 6: came out of that call today. But they were in 580 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 6: the works for two weeks with Steve and with Jared 581 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 6: and Marco and everybody. 582 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: Okay, so look I mean the president doesn't necessarily speak 583 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: in hyper specifics when he talks about these things. There 584 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: maybe there's also translation a little bit. When Putin speaks 585 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: of Ukraine being made great again in success in Ukraine, 586 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: is that success, as Lamar Pun defines him, because last 587 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: I checked, success in Ukraine for Lamar Putin meant the 588 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,719 Speaker 1: restoration of Ukraine to the Greater Russia, of the Mother 589 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: Russia project, the neo Soviet project that he's been more 590 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: or less engaged in for decades now, at least since 591 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: at least since the invasion of Georgia the Republic of 592 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: Georgia in the late Bush Minstration is going on at 593 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: least twenty years now. Pun of course, an old ex 594 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: KGB guy very much has this this Soviet nostalgia when 595 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: it comes to the broader Greater Russia project and all 596 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: the various Soviet satellite states that that once entailed. Look 597 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: Putin at this point is the larger aggressor the larger 598 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: aggressor when it comes to trying to to hinder Russia 599 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: Ukraine piece. Zelenski does still have some work to do, 600 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: he seems, based on what I can tell the tea 601 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: leaves that I can read he seems to have shelved 602 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: for now the idea of Ukraine ascending to the European 603 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: Union and or NATO, or at least putting on the 604 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: back burner. And that is well and good and as 605 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: it should be, because that's not going to happen. My 606 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: working three for years is that NATO went far too 607 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: far and expanding as far east as it did to 608 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: the Baltic states, Latfia, Lithuania. I mean, what are we 609 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: doing here, guys? You know, you know why exactly was 610 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: NATO expanding so far eastward decades after the collapse of 611 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union. It genuinely just didn't make a whole 612 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: lot of sense to me. I'm not blaming NATO for 613 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: the Russia invasion of Ukraine. The person who bears cability 614 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: for that is indeed Laron Putin and the Russians. I'm 615 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: just saying that it's not crazy to consider the fact 616 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 1: that NATO getting ever ever further eastward probably was not 617 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: super helpful, not super conducive towards peace, and frankly was 618 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: somewhat superfluous. And besides the point, so Zelenski's gonna have 619 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: to make some sort of peace when it comes to 620 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 1: territorial concessions in the Dombasque region of East Ukraine. If 621 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 1: I had to guess, that's probably the final area of 622 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: substantive major disagreements between Trump and Zelenski. At least, that 623 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 1: would be my guest. 624 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 2: There. 625 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants something of some sort of international inspection, 626 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 1: some free enterprise zone, similar to his idea for making 627 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: the Gaza Strip great again. There Again, I'm not entirely 628 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: sure that that's feasible, but certainly doesn't seem to be 629 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: what Zelenski wants there. But to be sure, the greater 630 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: obstacle to peace at this time is not necessarily Zelenski. 631 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: It is indeed put him. He's gonna have to reconnize 632 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: once and for all, as he has never done over 633 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 1: the entire course of this war, that Ukraine is going 634 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: to be an independent country. Okay, he has not recognized that, 635 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: and a lesson. Until he does, unfortunately, is going to 636 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: just keep on dragging and dragging and dragging and dragging on. 637 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: Speaking of dragging on, bim Net Miyahu is meeting with 638 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: Donald Trump at mar Lago Day or miracular. He actually 639 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,320 Speaker 1: met with Donald Trump already earlier today. And let's not 640 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: to say that that situation in Gaza necessarily drags on, 641 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: which it does to extend there, but more generally speaking, 642 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 1: the Arab Muslim war of aggression against the State of 643 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: Israel and by extension, against all of ustern civilization. This 644 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: has been going on for a very very long time. 645 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,760 Speaker 1: And again, contrary to the historical revisionists from the Illinomar 646 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: left to the tug Carlson quote unquote right, this has 647 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: very little, if anything whatsoever to do with the founding 648 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,919 Speaker 1: of the modern state of Israel in nineteen forty eight. Rather, 649 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 1: it has to do with the fact that Islam is 650 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: just not in a situation where it exists very comfortably 651 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: with non Islamist forces. There is a reason that the 652 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,760 Speaker 1: flag of Saudi Arabia to this day has a sword 653 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: in the flag there, which is that Mohammed the Prophet 654 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 1: lived and died by the sword. It's just a very 655 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: very different worldview in that respect than Christianity and Judaism 656 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: for that matter as well. So next Yahu is meeting 657 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump at Mara Lagwoz day, what exactly is he 658 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: trying to do? Well, he's updating the Trump as far 659 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: as his perspective goes on the current status of the 660 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: Iranian threats to recall. Back in June during Operation Midnight Hammer, 661 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 1: so the Israelis took out a lot of the initial 662 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 1: infrastructure when it comes to ballistic missiles, when it comes 663 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,399 Speaker 1: to aerial support from the Iranian Air Force, when comes 664 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: to taking out hiring in generals. In the very early 665 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: hours of that war back in June, the Israelis established 666 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: air superiority in shockingly quick time. It was a remarkable 667 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 1: demonstration actually of intelligence and military prowess. And then the 668 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: US comes in essentially for the coup de gras, for 669 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 1: the kill shot. At the end. With this thirty seven 670 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: hour mission, these B two bombers fly from Missouri to Iran, 671 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: then fly back to Missouri, and then the ceasefire was 672 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: negotiated very shortly thereafter. So Ever, since then, the big 673 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 1: question has been what exactly is the status of the 674 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: Iranian Balista missile program and the Iranian nuclear program, And 675 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: we do not know the exact answer that question. What 676 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,759 Speaker 1: we certainly do know is that when Donald Trump likes 677 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: to say again, Donald Trump likes to speak in euphemisms, 678 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: not always the most precise when it comes to his language. 679 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: So when he says that the Iranian NUCO program was 680 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: utterly destroyed. That's classic Trumpian bragadocio. That is classic Trump 681 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: hyperbole that folks who've been following the New York tabloids 682 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: have heard Donald Trump been saying for forty fifty years now. 683 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: It's not really accurate. It was set back a lot, 684 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,360 Speaker 1: certainly for down a Ton's. These various somewhat infamous Iranian 685 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:59,240 Speaker 1: nuclear and ritrion facilities were dealt a truly, truly lethal blow. 686 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: It was never really disputed that there was other ficile material, 687 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,440 Speaker 1: other amiture uranium that remains iron. Footsworth had a sprawling 688 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: set of nuclear sites. The United States primarily targeted the 689 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: three largest and most well known ones. Above all this 690 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,360 Speaker 1: this infants facility of Forda, which is built into a 691 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,879 Speaker 1: mountain side. So nets Yahuo is in mar Lago's day, 692 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: basically updating Trump as to what Israeli intelligence indicates is 693 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: the current status of Iran's bullist missile and nuclear program. Now, 694 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: now the million dollar question is what is the ask? 695 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: What exactly is nets Yakhu there there to lobby? This 696 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,400 Speaker 1: whole meeting is now happening in the broader context of 697 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: this conversation. If you want to be charitable, that's happening 698 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: not just in the left but also increasingly on the 699 00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: rights about the nature of the US Israel alliance. My 700 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: onn solicit advice to nets Nyahu would be that if 701 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 1: you have a problem that you assessed to be an 702 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 1: existential threat to your country, as the israelities typically understands 703 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: to be there, act to the best of your abilities, 704 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: as any nation state would, to defend your existence in 705 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,080 Speaker 1: your way of life. Do not necessarily come to make 706 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 1: gratuitous asks and of another country, even your closest ally. 707 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: Once upon a time, maybe that sort of thing would 708 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: have been viewed okay, And certainly back in June it 709 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: was a little different. There was increasingly obvious intelligence that 710 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:23,880 Speaker 1: Ron was on the precipice and the brink of a 711 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,120 Speaker 1: nuclear breakout. Okay, but now again I have no idea, 712 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,879 Speaker 1: ask drop like literally no idea. But to the extent 713 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: that it entails asking for direct military support, I'm not 714 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 1: entirely sure that that is reading the room, reading the 715 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 1: moment at this time, to the extent that is asking 716 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,560 Speaker 1: for anything less than that when it comes to diplomatic support, 717 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: when it comes to certain arms military whatever. Okay, that's 718 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,799 Speaker 1: I think a much much more reasonable and palatable conversation. Again, 719 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: I'm just talking here necessarily about what is right or 720 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: just just trying to read the room as any real 721 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,439 Speaker 1: politique realist person to try to do. Here it comes 722 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,920 Speaker 1: to what is currently happening not just on the American 723 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: left but increasingly on the American right as well. Now 724 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,719 Speaker 1: having said that, the key point is this, the specifics 725 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,360 Speaker 1: we can kind of quibble about, you know, is actual 726 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,320 Speaker 1: US military aircraft to the XYZ things required. Again, I 727 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: literally have no idea what they're discussing. I'm just kind 728 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: of making stuff up. But the more important point in 729 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: the broader point is this, there is so much misinformation 730 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: about this particular bilateral relationship between the United States and Israel. 731 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 1: You really do not have to overthink this, guys. It 732 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: actually really is this simple. The United States is number 733 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,760 Speaker 1: one interest in the Middle East is subduing and containing 734 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 1: the metastasis of the cancer that is radical Islam. The 735 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: easiest way to do that in greatest bang for your 736 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: buck fashion, so as to prevent the United States from 737 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: betting sucked into to more moralistic nation building a rock 738 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,800 Speaker 1: afghanst and style of boondoggles. The easiest way to do 739 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: that is to embolden your allies to do your dirty 740 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 1: work for you. By the way, guess understands that point, 741 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 1: President Trump. That's why mister Maga, mister America First, is 742 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 1: such a staunch supporter of this relationship. I don't, like 743 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,840 Speaker 1: me understand whether there are more people who call themselves 744 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,279 Speaker 1: America First, call them sells Maga don't understand that very 745 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,720 Speaker 1: very very simple point. So, no matter what is discussing 746 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 1: Marolaga to day, I think that is the broader conceptual 747 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 1: point to be made there. Again, we will see what 748 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: happens when it comes to the actual X y Z, 749 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,400 Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts there, and we will assess it 750 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: certainly on the other side. But for now, hope you 751 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: Enjoysday's episode of The Josh Hammer Show. Make sure to 752 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,480 Speaker 1: go ahead and like subscribe to our show, watch the 753 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: video version if you just listen to the show on Apple, Spotify, 754 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,759 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts via the Salem Podcast Network. 755 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,200 Speaker 1: If you're just listening, go ahead and check out the 756 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,680 Speaker 1: video version of our show. It's on YouTube at Newsweek's 757 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,320 Speaker 1: YouTube page. Also available online anytime via the Salem News channel. 758 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,759 Speaker 1: But for now Josh Hammer is signing off. We'll see 759 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:05,800 Speaker 1: you again tomorrow. The Josh Hamber Show is a member 760 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: of the Trust Project.