1 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump a heterodox man and a heterodox politician, certainly 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: heterodox when it comes to the realm of statesmanship and 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: a foreign policy. Oftentimes that is a very good thing. 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: The question that is being raised yet again in the 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: aftermath of Donald Trump's barn burner of speech this morning 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: over at the globalist boondoggle, the Forum of the Davosi 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Elites happening every year at the World Economic Forum in 9 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: the hoity toity Swiss Alpine town of Davos, that question 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: is being raised yet again, is Donald Trump's approach this 11 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: particular case when it comes to Europe and the historical 12 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: European powers? Is this what Donald Trump should be doing? 13 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: But we've been defending this administration's approach towards Europe pretty 14 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: much for the entirety of this new administration. Think back 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: to last February. Was Vice President JD. Vance who was 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: dispatched to the Munich security for him, and this was 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: really the first high profile instance of the Trump Vance 18 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: administration really tearing into the European elites. At that particular address, 19 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: Vance looked into the eyes, looked into the eyes of 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: various European national elites, indeed some transnational eleads, some of 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: the Brussels Eurocrats, and said, you guys are failing. You 22 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: guys are failing when it comes to immigration, You are 23 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: forfeiting your civilization. You guys are failing when it comes 24 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: to free speech, when it comes to big tech censorship, 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: and lots of other things as well. Donald Trump earlier 26 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: today at Davos repeating a lot of these same themes 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: that this administration has been pushing very much in recent months. 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: A lot of potential highlights to show you. I was 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: a huge, huge fan of this one line where Donald 30 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: Trump basically says that worry not for us in the 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: United States. You guys here in the European confidence you'd 32 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: be speaking German with maybe a little bit of Japanese too. 33 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: Go ahead and watch this one. 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: And then after the war, which we won, we won 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: it big without us, right now, you'd all be speaking 36 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: German and little Japanese perhaps. 37 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: Okay, so you can, like, basically I watched this speech, 38 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: you can essentially hear a pindruff because these holier than 39 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: now super silly as European elites. I mean, I mean, 40 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: let's not forget that the European political class in general 41 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: takes something of a dim view of the proverbial American 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: cowboy right, of this swashbuckling American notion. I mean, think 43 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: about the Bush era foreign policy in particular. There, European 44 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: is kind of think of themselves a little more old school, 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: a little more sophisticated there. So they take a somewhat 46 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: dim view often of the United States, especially in the 47 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: post Berlin Wall era, of the United States emerging as 48 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: the great global superpower that is so certainly early today. 49 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: At Davos, this was not particularly well received. The point 50 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: that I would like to make is that this is 51 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: a feature, this is not a buck because the broader point, 52 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 1: the broader points going back again to jdvas barn Burger 53 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: at the Munich Security Forum earlier this year, right up 54 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: until Donald Trump's speech today where he tore into the 55 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: European powers again and again and again, the point is 56 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: this is Europe still as important as important to the 57 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: United States in the year twenty twenty six as it 58 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: was historically. Let's think about our working definition of what 59 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: it means to be an ally here on the Josh 60 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: Hammer Show, our definition of an ally A very quick 61 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: and dirty test. 62 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: It's not comprehensive. 63 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: They're going to be any number of other tests, but 64 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: as a basic heuristic, as a basic, very simple heuristic 65 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: test for trying to discern whether or not a different country, or, 66 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: in the case of the European Union, a transnational group 67 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: of countries. The way to test whether or not a 68 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: country or group of countries is an ally is the following. 69 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: You ask, when that country or block of countries acts 70 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: in its own national interest, does my country, that is 71 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: to say, the United States, does my country benefit as 72 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: a secondary or tertiary effect. Sometimes that is clearly the case. 73 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: You think of the Middle East. Typically, when Israel, for instance, 74 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: accidents national interests, the United States benefits is a secondary 75 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: terrestiary effect. 76 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: Think about the Indo Pacific. 77 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: Typically when Japan accident its own national interest, America's national 78 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: interest is benefited as a secondary or terrestiary effect. We 79 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: can go ahead and play this game for most regions 80 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: of the world, but for the European elite countries today, 81 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: when we're talking here about Germany, France, and increasingly the UK, 82 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was just ripping into the UK for giving 83 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: up their presidence at Diego Garcia. A crucial, historically joint 84 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: US UK military base in the Indian Ocean highly high 85 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: strategic when it comes not just to the Persian Gulf 86 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: but to the Indo Pacific region. More generally, do these 87 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: key historical European countries Germany, France and UK do they 88 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: still meet our working definition of an ally when they 89 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: act in their own national entry? Is America's national interest 90 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: buttressed bolstered? Sometimes certainly the answer is yes. Other times 91 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: I submit the answer is no. Energy would be one 92 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: particularly good example. Germany, more than any other country in Europe, 93 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: has been utterly addicted to Russian gas for a very 94 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: very long time. Germany has been one of the leaders. 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: For the past four years since Pudin invaded Ukraine. Germany 96 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: has been one of the European leaders decrying, decrying Russia 97 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 1: and demanding that the European powers in the United States 98 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: and Canada and all the g seven that they go 99 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: all in for Zelensky and the Ukrainian costs. But in reality, 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: the German political elites have some thinking to do. They 101 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: should think whether or not they inadvertently powered Vladmir Putin's 102 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: war machine by being addicted hopelessly to Russian oil and 103 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: natural gas for years and years and years. Forsaking is 104 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: the case, may be sources of potential domestic energy production, 105 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: things like nuclear energy, which mostly of the European powers 106 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: are totally scared of. So yes, Sometimes when the European 107 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: powers act, they act in a way that redounce the 108 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: American national interests. Sometimes, frankly, they don't. Another way that 109 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: the European powers are not currently acting in a way 110 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: that renounced the American national interest comes in Donald Trump's 111 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: repeated strong interest in acquiring Greenland. And Donald Trump was 112 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: definitely not letting off the Greenland beach. Earlier today, in 113 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, go 114 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: ahead and watch this, club Donald Trump talking about how 115 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: only the United States can protect Greenland against foreign hostile 116 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: forces like Russian and China. 117 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 3: Go ahead and watch this. 118 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory 119 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia, 120 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 2: and China. That's exactly where it is, right smack in 121 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: the middle. Was it important nearly when we gave it back, 122 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: you know, when we gave it back, wasn't the same 123 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 2: as it is now. It's not important for any other reason. 124 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: You know, everyone talks about the manuals. There's so many 125 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: there's so rare earth. No such thing as rare earth, 126 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: there's rare processing, but there's so much rare earth and this. 127 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: To get to this rare earth, you got to go 128 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 2: through hundreds of feet of ice. That's not the reason 129 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 2: we need it. We need it for strategic national security 130 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 2: and international security. This enormous, unsecured island is actually part 131 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: of North America, on the northern frontier of the Western hemisphere. 132 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 2: That's our territory. 133 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: And he's right, He's not right as a literal djore 134 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: legal matter that Greenland is our territory. It is currently 135 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: a territory of Denmark. But his broader notion of hemispheric dominance. 136 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,559 Speaker 1: This is Donald Trump's term two foreign policy. We mentioned 137 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: the outset that his foreign policy can at times be 138 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: a little heterodox, but frankly, the emphasis on western hemispheric 139 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: dominance is as lower case o. 140 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: Orthodox as it gets. This is the. 141 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: Og American foreign policy. This is the foreign policy really 142 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: of the American founders. When George Washington famously warns against 143 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: beware of foreign entanglements. In his farewell address, he's really 144 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: talking about foreign entanglements with you guessed it. The European powers, 145 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: the same European powers that the Trump Vance administration is 146 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: basically saying, take a hike, guys, and perhaps try acting 147 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: in a way that benefits us, that does not just 148 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: benefits you. The foreign policy of the American founders is 149 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: encapsuled by things like the Monroe Doctrine, this notion that 150 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: America will act above all to protect and preserve its 151 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: own national interests in its own hemisphere, in the Western Hemisphere. 152 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: That's what Greenland is part of. Greenland fits neatly into 153 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. It's part of our hemisphere. Donald Trump 154 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 1: has every right to express very strong interests in it. 155 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: Now Again, the European powers don't like to hear this. 156 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: Seen a lot of folks on Twitter over the past 157 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: couple of days is totally clutching their pearls when it 158 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: comes to this letter that Donald Trump sent to the 159 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Norway on Monday, where he ties in 160 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: his frustration and not having received the Nobel Peace Prize 161 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: along with his interest in Greenland. I've seen some folks, frankly, 162 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: some of whom I actually respect, who are now saying 163 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: this is an impeachable offense or twenty fifth Amendment. Time, guys, 164 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: what are you doing here? The year is twenty twenty six. 165 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: Donald Trump came down like Gilbert Escalator a Trump Tower 166 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: over a decade ago. If you don't understand at this 167 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: point that this guy is a little heterodox and how 168 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: he approaches some things, and also I was just noted 169 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: a little surprisingly perhaps ironically orthodox in some things as well. 170 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: If you don't get that, and I don't really know 171 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: what you're smoking, where have you been? The United States 172 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: has every possible possible justification in pushing to acquire Greenland. 173 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: The European powers do not particularly care about Greenland. They're 174 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: putting on a show. This is old school in European chauvinism. 175 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: It's a vestige of the feudal glory days of Europe, 176 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 1: of the colonial nineteenth century days where they are carving 177 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: up Africa and various other confidents there. It's his pride 178 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: that has been dented and wounded, especially now in this 179 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 1: post Berlin Wall globalist environment where the globalist deletes gathernan Davos, 180 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: especially those of the European powers, are now looking, and 181 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: they've bent the knee at times to Brussels and at 182 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: times to the Trump Vans administration. The administration should continuous 183 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: pressure campaign to acquire Greenland. Let Donald Trump cook on 184 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: this one. You might think his his ways are a 185 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: little crude, or a little cress or a little that. 186 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you maybe maybe not. What 187 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: I know is that I don't particularly care. What I 188 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: know is that I don't think Donald Trump particularly cares. 189 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: Greenland does sit in a highly strategic part of the world. 190 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: It is well known that China Russia are developing expanding 191 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: maritime iceberger technology trying to get into northern Canada Greenland, 192 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: that whole part of the world. The United States would 193 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: do a better job of protecting Western hemispheric interests than Denmark, 194 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: for instance, would do on that island there, mister President, 195 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: to keep it up. I love your approach to the 196 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: European powers, and frankly, the fact that all the European 197 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: elites are clutching their pearls yet again at this morning 198 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: in Davos to me, is a feature, not a buck. 199 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: Stay with us through the break, folks, We'll be right back. 200 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: Welcome back, lots LSEGF two on today show both on 201 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: the foreign front and on the domestic front. 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I was down in Los Angeles yesterday. 234 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: I was getting a speech for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, 235 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: where I am now a Shilman Fellow. And then I 236 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: actually stopped by for a whole hour and studio with 237 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: our colleague at Salem Media and Sale News Channel the 238 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: Great Stage of South Central himself, Larry Elder, and Larry 239 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: and I had a long, free flowing conversation. Among the 240 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: things that Larry asked me was what Donald Trump should 241 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: do right now when it comes to Iran. I said, 242 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: Larry look, I explained my stanse to Larry and his 243 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: audience that my stance has been consistently here on our show, 244 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: which is this. I am not a big fan of 245 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: red lines. I am very much a Teddy Roosevelt speaks 246 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: softly and carry a big stick kind of guy. But 247 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: the point is that Donald Trump has drawn red lines 248 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: when it comes to the moles. He has drawn red 249 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: lines when it comes to the current slaughter in Iran. 250 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: On January second, he took the Truth Social when the 251 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: Iran protests were at that point about a week old 252 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: or so. He took the Truth Social and he said, 253 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: if this continues, if the regime continues to slaughter these 254 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: distance these civilians, then America is going to get involved. 255 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: It's impossible to have rerival numbers. By the time that 256 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: he said, then, we estimated that about five hundred to 257 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: six hundred Randians have been killed. Again, very rough estment. 258 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: He chimed in again about a week and a half 259 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: two weeks later and said, Iranians keep on fighting to 260 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: take back your institutions. Help is on the way, Miga 261 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: make Iran great again, which can only be interpreted as 262 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: a message to the irradiance to get out there and 263 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: risk your life, because every time you get out there 264 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: against this regime. 265 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: You're risking your life. 266 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: They could easily just maxx execute you, publicly, hang you, 267 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: mass shootings. And sure enough, after Donald Trump's January Second 268 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: Truth social post, which is a red line if there. 269 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 3: Ever was red. 270 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: Line, the estimated death count from the regime has gone 271 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: up from the roughly five to six hundred range to 272 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: what is now estimated to be potentially as high as 273 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five thousand, possibly higher, but that's what 274 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: a lot of folks are estimating. Even the moles themselves 275 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: are now conceding, perhaps even openly bragging, that they've murdered 276 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: at least two to three thousand, and that's the regime estimate. 277 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: So again, in all likelihood, it's at least twenty to 278 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand, folks, This red line has been trampled. 279 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: It's been absolutely, absolutely trampled over. Now, President Trump, for 280 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: what it's worth, is personally still making the threat of 281 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: potential action at this point. So for instance, he was 282 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: recently joining Katie Pavlich on Kate Palvich's new primetime news 283 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: Nation show, and Katie asked President Trump what his response 284 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: would be to Iran's latest threats, because the multive actually 285 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: been doubling down and making threats. Not only they traveled 286 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: the red the Line, they're making threats against land Trump. 287 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: So Katie Pavlich asked President Trump what he makes of this, 288 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: and here's how President Trump responded. 289 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 4: There are reports that they're still burning thousands of protesters alive. 290 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 4: They also issued an assassination threat against you over the weekend. 291 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 4: I know that you can't talk about what's on the table, 292 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 4: but what is your response to Iran's leadership in the 293 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 4: regime continuing to taunt you, threaten you, especially given over 294 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 4: the weekend you said it's time for new leadership in Iran. 295 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 5: Well, they shouldn't be doing it. But I've left notification. 296 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 5: Anything ever happens, we're going to blow the help. The 297 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 5: whole country is going to get blown up. So we've 298 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 5: you know, originally Biden should have said something, you know, 299 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 5: when they made a statement, we always said why doesn't 300 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 5: Biden saying anything? Because he didn't. But a president has 301 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 5: to defend a president, like if I were here and 302 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 5: they were making that threat to somebody, even not even 303 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 5: a president, but somebody like they did with me. I 304 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 5: would absolutely hit them so hard, but I have very 305 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 5: firm instructions. Anything happens, they're going to wipe them off 306 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 5: the face of this earth. 307 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: Okay, So again the President not mincing words to Katie 308 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: Pavlich Fordsworth, the US Master to the Nine Nations, Mike Waaltz, 309 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: making very similar comments just this past week around Thursday. 310 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: Mike Waltz, by the way, doing an absolute bang up job. 311 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: He had an op ed in The New York Post 312 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: this past week and explaining how, for I think the 313 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 1: very first time the entire history of the United Nations 314 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: that the US has led an effort to actually cut bureaucracy, 315 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: to cut UN bureaucrats, to eliminate duplicative or unnecessary, superfluous jobs. Frankly, 316 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: they're all superfluous because the UN totally sucks and should 317 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: not have any distance at all. But Mike Walls is 318 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: talking about for the first time, the US has led 319 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: an effort to actually fire UN bureaucrats and actually trim 320 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,479 Speaker 1: a lot of fat. Again, it's all fat, but at 321 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: least some fat from the UN budgets. Mike Wall's absolutely 322 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: killing it. So Donald Trump issuing a very clear threat. 323 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: You heard there to Katie Pavlich when it comes to 324 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: Iran and making these threats, iron basically saying that, oh, yeah, 325 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: we were forced to kill these people because of the 326 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: United States and Trump and Israel and Netiniacu there. I mean, 327 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: it's obviously patently insane. This is a theocratic islamis tyranny, 328 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: and they're killing their own people because their own people 329 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: have the temerity to ask the regime to focus on 330 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: them and their economic livelihood as opposed to funding foreign 331 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: terrorist proxies from Hesball and Lebanon to who he's in 332 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: Yemen and on and on and on. It's it's so 333 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: utterly insane there. The problem is that this perspective is 334 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: not necessarily shared by everyone in the Trump administration. Again, 335 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: Trump speaking very clearly to Katie Pavlich when it comes 336 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: to reiterating this threat, that he still understands he made 337 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: a red line and that there is still going to 338 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 1: be potential hell to pay for the alls. Mike Walst, 339 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: the US ambassador, un very similar comments. Someone who has 340 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: not necessarily made similar comments, we must note, is Steve Wikoff, 341 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: the longtime personal friend of the President's from very upscale 342 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: New York real estate world he's kind of the it's 343 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: kind of the utility man, so to speak, for Donald 344 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: Trump's foreign policy, the special envoy when it comes to 345 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: the Gaza hostages, special envoy when it comes to Rushi Ukraam, 346 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: special envoy for a lot of stuff. Steve Witkoff kind 347 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: of going off script in comments just over the past 348 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: twenty four hours or so over at Davos, so he said, 349 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: among other things, in an interview on I'm what appears 350 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: to be Bloomberg, Steve Wikoff said that, yes, Iran needs 351 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: to change his ways. 352 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 3: They need to do that. 353 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: But if they do that, if Iron indicates that they're 354 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: willing to do that, I think we can diplomatically settle this, 355 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: what steveha Koff saying further, I expected to meet the 356 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: Iranian foreign minister in Davos because I think we must 357 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: build this communication channel. We are heading towards a path 358 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: that allows these talks if the Iranians want. I'm sorry, 359 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: there was a red line. That red line was crossed. 360 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: They're now making death threats against the president. Who the 361 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: heck is Steve Whitcoff to go so far off script 362 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: to undermine his own boss. He's now under bonding President 363 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: Trump himself. What I just read for you from Witcoff 364 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: is not what Donald Trump said. Trump is reiterating the threat. 365 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: Whitcoff is basically saying diplomacy biting me as necessary. 366 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 3: What what I. 367 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: Mean is this Barack Obama John Kerry foreign policy that 368 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: seems to be in many ways, is what Steve Whitcoff represents. 369 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump's voters did not vote for Barack 370 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Obama's foreign policy. They voted for Donald Trump's foreign policy, 371 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: which is a really, really, really effective in many ways 372 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: foreign policy. Do we have some quibble. Perhaps overall, it's 373 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: the best of my lifetime, that's for sure. But more 374 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: generally speaking, mister President, we again appeal and say, you 375 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: cannot let this red line simply go by simply saying diplomacy, diplomacy, 376 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: diplomacy is not going to cut it. American deterrens in 377 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: American credibility is on the line, mister president. It's a 378 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: really really big deal. It matters a lot. Do not 379 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: make the same mistake that Barack Obama made with Bashar 380 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: Alsan the chemical weapons. Really, the importance is of that magnitude. 381 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: Stay weathers for the break, folks. I'm Josh hammeron will 382 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back. Jos Shapiro, a name that 383 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: you probably do not spot to come up on today's show, 384 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: but he's in the news, the pretty popular moderate Ish 385 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: Ish governor of Pennsylvania. 386 00:21:59,080 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 3: He's the news again. 387 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: Last we heard from Joshapiro, he was in contention for 388 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: the Kamala Harris deep Steaks so after the bloodless coup 389 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, the senile Dotterer adults from Delaware. After 390 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: the bloodless coup last July, Kamala Harris comes in for 391 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: her one hundred day race to the finish line Sprint 392 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: to the Finish to try to take the election away 393 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: from Donald Trump, and one of the earliest big questions 394 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: she faced was who would be her running mate, and 395 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: Tim Wallas Minnesota was one of the final less He 396 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: ends up getting the nomination, which again leads us to 397 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: one of our big questions here, which is what did 398 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's vetting team know and when did they know? 399 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: And when it comes to Tim Wallas's complicity in the 400 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: outrageous multi billion dollars smality fraud scandal scandal now tearing 401 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: asunder his state of Minnesota, and one of the other 402 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: leading contenders for the Kamala Harris vice presidential slot he 403 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: didn't get it was jos Shapiro, again, the moderate ish 404 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: governor of Pennsylvania. Now, a lot of folks thought that 405 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: this would be the obvious pick, Pennsylvania of all these 406 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: seven swing states. So you have those three key blue 407 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: Wall rust belt states, the Pennsylvania was constin Michigan, and 408 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: then those four Sun Belt states of Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, 409 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: North Carolina. Pennsylvania is the biggest electoral college prize of 410 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: them all. Pennsylvania has emerged over the past decade as 411 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: the nation's number one political battleground. You know, when I 412 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: was growing up, it was Florida and Ohio were probably 413 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: the two biggest battle grounds. Florida and Ohio are now 414 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: both red states. Really it's Pennsylvania really above all. So 415 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: the conventional wisdom, I would say, was that Joshapiro, this 416 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: overall pretty popular governor of the nation's single most important 417 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: electoral college swing state prize. People said that he was 418 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: the obvious pick, except for oh yeah, the name that, 419 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: the fact that his name is Josh Shapiro. Does it 420 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: get a julier than josh Shapiro. And there was a 421 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: story that came out about how Joshapiro, when he was 422 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: like a college kid in his teen's early twenties, spent 423 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: a few months by volunteering over in Israel and maybe 424 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: even at an army base, maybe, and all the usual 425 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: anti Semites on the left lost their minds. But what 426 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: they didn't tell you is that it wasn't just the 427 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 1: Kafia clad campus crazies at Columbian Harvard that lost their 428 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: mind because, according to Joshapiro's forthcoming memoir, an excerpt of 429 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: which was scooped by The New York Times, apparently it 430 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: was actually Kamala Harris's vice presidential vetting team that had 431 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: a lot of these same concerns as well. So in 432 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: his fourth coming memoir, Where We Keep the Lights, which 433 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: is coming out later this month on January twenty seventh, 434 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: Joshapiro writes that he was asked at the very last 435 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: minutes by somebody the name of Dana Remus was a 436 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: member of Kamala Harris's vice presidential vetting team. Shapiro writes 437 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: that he was asked if he had ever been a 438 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: foreign agent, a foreign agent for the Israeli government, to 439 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: which he says that he replied with some level of indignation. 440 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: He said, quote, I wondered whether these questions were being 441 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: posed to just me, the only Jewish guy in the running, 442 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: or if everyone who had not held a federal office 443 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: was being grilled about Israel in the same way. And 444 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: it turns out of the quarantine Joshapiro's telling of the 445 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: narrative again to opinions, truth typically somewhere in the middle, 446 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: but whatever it's worth. His stance seems to be that 447 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: this is this whole angst and animus, this whole tension 448 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: really is one of the reasons why he did not 449 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: get the vice presidential nod from Kamala Harris' vetting team. 450 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 3: There are other similar issues well, by the way. 451 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: At one point, Joshapiro criticized the Hamas Kapia flat freaks 452 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: at the Ivy League campus in the state's University Pennsylvania. 453 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: He criticized them for harassing and intimidating Jewish or pro 454 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: Israel students. Apparently, Kamala Harris vetting team said jos Shapiro, 455 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: we want you to retract your condemnation of these students, 456 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: and Joshapiro correctly. 457 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 3: Said no, I won't do it again. 458 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: I guess I guess that makes you moderate today, right, 459 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: is these sorts of things there quote unquote moderate. Anyway, 460 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: Shapiro may or may not be a quote unquote moderate, 461 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: but certainly this tale raises all sorts of howarding questions 462 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: as to Kamala Harris's vice president presidential vetting team, which 463 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 1: even according to Deborah Lipstat, the Biden era anti semitism 464 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 1: envoy in herself a total liberal. Even Deborah Lipstadt was 465 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: looking at this and was saying, Wow, this is actually 466 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: some classic anty semitism. Is this is totally crazy stuff, 467 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: totally crazy stuff. By the way, it's not just it's 468 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: not just Jos Shapiro in Virginia. It's getting out of 469 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: hands really really quickly. You know, Virginia not a swing state, 470 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: but a very light blue state. Glenn Youngkin just ended 471 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: his gunatorial run. The state legislature is, or at least 472 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: was until very recently, basically a coin flip. The old Dominion, 473 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: which was once a solid Republican state, started turning purple 474 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: ish around the time of the two thousand and eight 475 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: Brockabon election, and now it's light blue. Unfortunately, trending in 476 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: a harder blue direction. Now, Abbi Al Spamberger, who just 477 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: won the gubatory election there by a pretty solid double 478 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: digit margin. 479 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 3: Law folks didn't really see the coming. 480 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: She campaigned as something of a moderate ish but in 481 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: her first few days in office, because she's just been 482 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: sworn in, she's now governing as anything other than that. 483 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: So Democrats now control the gunatorial mansion, the Lieutenant governor office, 484 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: the Attorney general office. That's Jay Jones, the guy who 485 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: said that he want to kill his political opponents. That's 486 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: all happening in Virginia. Democrats have also retaken the state 487 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: legislature there in verge Genia, and boy is this starting 488 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: to get out of hands really really quickly. 489 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 3: They are in the old Dominion. 490 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: So Spamberger is signing a slew of executive orders in 491 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 1: her first day or two in office, including an executive 492 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: order that directed local law enforcement to not cooperate with Ice. 493 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 1: So amidst all of the insurrection there, I mean, you 494 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: think that if if someone is a moderate Democrat, the 495 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: least you can do, the least you can do is 496 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 1: to tell local law enforcement to not actively obstruct the fetes, 497 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 1: especially in a state like Virginia. I mean, wee, We've 498 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: made this one on the show repeatedly that this is 499 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: this is a neo Confederate sentiment. Is the ghost of 500 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: John C. Calhoun. The Tenth Amendment cites Rotts. We don't 501 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: care what the federal government says in Virginia. Really, So Spamberger, 502 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: the so called moderate, is now doing what Democrats did 503 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: before the Civil War, which is basically just ignore federal law. 504 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: In this case when it comes to immigration. She said, quote, 505 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: this executive order rescinds the previous executive order state and 506 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: local law enforcement should not be required to divert the 507 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: resource is to enforce federal civil immigration laws. I'm gon 508 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: get that out of here. It's actually even worse than that. 509 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: So Democrats, who have now again retaken the Virginia legislature, 510 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: get this. They've introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum 511 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession 512 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonis. 513 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: If this bill passes, according to Christian Hines on X, 514 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: judges will be able to impose no prison time at 515 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: all if they're convicted of any of these crimes. Again, 516 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: they won't be required to, but there's not going to 517 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: be a mandatory minimum, so they'll be able to get 518 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: away with no time. Essentially, you look at Joshapiro's harrowing 519 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: tale of Commons vetting team. You look at what's happening 520 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: in the early days here in Virginia when it comes 521 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: to Spamburger, when it comes to her allies in the legislature, 522 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: and you really have to ask, in the year twenty 523 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: twenty six, is there such thing as a moderate Democrat? 524 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 3: I mean, really, take your pick. 525 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: Is Joshua Puro a moderate Democrat because he's literally not 526 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: willing to play footsie with anti Semites? Is John Fetterman 527 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: a moderate Democrat because he still seems to be vaguely 528 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: patriotic and vaguely loves re at least likes his country 529 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: in a way that you definitely cannot say the same 530 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: of for an illin Omar or an AOC or some 531 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: clown like that. I mean, what does it mean to 532 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: be a moderate Democrat? It's at least none of these 533 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: folks support restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion. None of 534 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: them support any restrictions whatsoever on chemical castration or general 535 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:54,959 Speaker 1: mutilation for teenagers. This whole party is as just totally 536 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: jumped the shark, and this is what could ultimately be 537 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: Republicans saving grace this November. Currently, Republicans face something of 538 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: an uphill battle. The economy is doing a lot better 539 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: than people think it is, but still the subjective feeling 540 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: is that people are struggling out there. But if Republicans 541 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: are going to prevail this November, it's going to be 542 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: because of quote unquote moderates like Abdel Spamberg and her 543 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: allies in Virginia. They could cause their party to lose. 544 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: Surely they don't want that. But the American people, I 545 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: think would be very, very happy and benefit a lot 546 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: if they take the throwing party down the ship this fall. 547 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: Stay with us through the break, folks, We'll be right back. 548 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: Welcome back. So, as I mentioned earlier, I was on 549 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: a red eye flight back home to Florida, where I 550 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: lived last night, from Los Angeles. In reality, it's actually 551 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: not just Los Angeles that I'd been to over the 552 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: past few days. I've been crisscrossing the country actually for 553 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: the past few days. So after the Jewish Sabbath ended 554 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: on Saturday evening, I went straight to the airport to 555 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: fly to New York City. The flight was slightly delayed 556 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: because of the snowfall in New York City. Got in 557 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,239 Speaker 1: pretty late, gotment hotel just about one am or so, 558 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: and I spoke at a conference on Sunday. I did 559 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: two small events at this conference for a Tikva fund. 560 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: The Tippa Fun is a Jewish conservative organization involved in 561 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: educational outreach, involved in teaching. They run a magazine online 562 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: called Mosaic Magazine, a combination of activism and think tank. 563 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't really know how else to better describe it. There. 564 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: I've done some events for them on and off over 565 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: the years. I did one panel with Cassie Akiva formerly 566 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: Cassie Dylan now Kassie Kiva, long time hand over at 567 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: the Daily Wire of No Cassie for a very long time. 568 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: And then later in the afternoon I actually interviewed Ami Kozak, 569 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: the musician and comedy and former guests who are on 570 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: the Josh Hammer Show, the very talented Ammi Kozak who 571 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: does a lot of these impersonations. I interviewed Ami Kozak 572 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: for this college to an audience a bunch of college 573 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: June leaders. I interviewed Ami while he was in character 574 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: as both Tucker Carlson and as President Trump, and that 575 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: was just that was a lot of fun, very hard, 576 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: frankly to keep a straight face during that there. The 577 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: video hopefully will come up sooner than later. I look 578 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: forward to sharing it with you. So that was all 579 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: happening on Sunday. Then I was supposed to fly back 580 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: Sunday nights. The flight was massively delayed by over four hours. 581 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: Ended up landing in South Florida where I live, around 582 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: two twenty two thirty in the morning on Monday morning, 583 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: and then I woke up and I had a normal ish, 584 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: I guess day here in Florida, but literally fromly like 585 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: eight hours before I pap it back again and then headed 586 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: to the airport to fly out to Los Angeles, where 587 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: the flight was you guessed it delayed again. This time 588 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: was delayed by two hours. I have no idea what's 589 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: going on with all these flight delays, but that flight 590 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: was delayed by about two hours. So I got to 591 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: LA later than expected on Monday evening, and then yesterday, 592 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, I spent the whole day in LA I 593 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: was primarily there to give a lunch talk, a lunch 594 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: talk for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which is the 595 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 1: battle tank less so a think tank really more a 596 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: battle tank was the phrase that the late great David 597 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: Horwitz used to describe it. They run a handful of publications, 598 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: including Front Page magazine. They do a lot of conferences, 599 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: various other activists outreach type of program in there again. 600 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: I'm now a fellow there, I'm mis Schelmanfel. It's a 601 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: fairly new thing. I'm very proud, certainly to be affiliated 602 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 1: with this wonderful organization. So they brought me in to 603 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: give a keynote lunch talk for their Wednesday Morning Club, 604 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: a group. It's kind of funny. So that was on Tuesday. 605 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: It's called but it's called the Wednesday Morning Club, don't ask. 606 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: So I gave a talk nonetheless about one of the 607 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: themes of my book, the book Behind Me, Israel and Civilization, 608 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: the fate of the Jewish nation and the destiny of 609 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: the West, talking about how the comprehensive broader biblical inheritance 610 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: Hebrew Bible slash Old Testament and New Testament alike, how 611 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: this really is the defining the defining themes, the defining 612 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,879 Speaker 1: core of Western civilization as we conceive it and live 613 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: it out day to day, whether we realized or not. 614 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,879 Speaker 1: And I expanded and talked a lot about why that 615 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: core is so currently under attack from forces on the 616 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: left and indeed by forces on the quote unquote right. 617 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: And then later on that day I actually went to 618 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 1: sit down, as I mentioned earlier, with our Salem colleague, 619 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,359 Speaker 1: Larry Elder the Great Stage of South Central. I sat 620 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: in for a whole hour with Larry on his nationally 621 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: syndicated Salem radio show, also his Salem News Channel show 622 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: six to nine Eastern three to six specific time. You know, Larry, 623 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: I think only tended to do maybe two segments to 624 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: be but we were kind of just hitting off so 625 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 1: well that we decided to do the whole hour together, 626 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: so I'm very grateful for that. Then they actually got 627 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: dinner as well, before hanging back home with another Salem personality, 628 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: actually with Kurt Schlichter, who you've probably seen over at 629 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: town Hall where he's been in commerce for a long time. 630 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: Kurt's been a a friend for many years. I think 631 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: he probably will join us in the show this coming week, 632 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. Then I got then I 633 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: took a Redie flight from La Land dated this morning. 634 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: I can't sleep on planes. I don't know about you, guys, 635 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 1: I cannot sleep on planes for the life of me. There, 636 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: so I've gotten zero sleep, and you know, you added 637 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: the past three nights and I've really not gone a 638 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,959 Speaker 1: lot of sleep at all the past three arguably even 639 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: four nights there. So I'm really running on fumes right now. 640 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 1: And I apologize if you can see the bags on 641 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,520 Speaker 1: my eyes or anything there. But I say all that 642 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: not to kind of complain about about my travel schedule, 643 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: self imposed as it is. I say all that because 644 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: I do want to talk about what I saw in 645 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: these two conferences that I was speaking at. So in 646 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: New York City again, I'm speaking at this collegiate leadership summit, 647 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: so the tip of Fun. This Jewish conserva orization has 648 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: student chapters or where they identify student leaders. And there 649 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: were I think about one hundred and fifty Ish students there, 650 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 1: maybe two hundred and something among those lines there, representing 651 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 1: a bunch of schools, so young people, I mean eighteen 652 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 1: to twenty two by definition of being a bunch of 653 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: college some grad students, but mostly undergraduate. But by contrast 654 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,439 Speaker 1: the lunch event that I did for the David Horror 655 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: Stroom Center in Los Angeles yesterday, much older crowd. I 656 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: didn't have the exact demographics, but I shook a lot 657 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,759 Speaker 1: of hands, I signed some book copies afterwards. Definitely an 658 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,839 Speaker 1: older crowd overall. The interesting striking thing to me was 659 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: the following The conversation was very similar. You know, there's 660 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 1: been this whole emphasis maybe there's a generational divide happening 661 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 1: on the rights when it comes to this issue or 662 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: that issue, maybe when it comes to the Jews, when 663 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: it comes to Israel, when it comes to this or 664 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,480 Speaker 1: that or that there. But I really saw this big 665 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 1: demographic contrast between this very young audience on Sunday and 666 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 1: this older audience two days later, and the questions that 667 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: I got it both we're basically the same, which is 668 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 1: some variation of what the heck is happening out there? 669 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: What the heck is happening not just when it comes 670 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: to the left, which we know is crazy. Okay, we 671 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: know the Left has lost their everlasting marbles. They've lost 672 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 1: it for a very very very long time. And guess what, 673 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: they're not coming back again to go back to our 674 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:29,879 Speaker 1: last segments. When you have lunatics like Abigail Spamberger doing 675 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: what they're now doing while they formally campaign as being 676 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: quote unquote moderates, we know that party is gone. It's 677 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 1: out of here. Sayonara, it ain't come back. But the 678 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: question that I got at these two conferences on Sunday 679 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: and Tuesday was what's. 680 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 3: Going on the right. 681 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,919 Speaker 1: Are not just Jews, but Christian Zionists, Christians who believe 682 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 1: in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the 683 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:01,319 Speaker 1: evangelical base. I mean, what's going on out there? And 684 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: I kept on saying, Look, this is indeed an inflection point. 685 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: It's very chaotic, and there's there have been very few 686 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: shows that have been more outspoken about the chaos than 687 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: the one that you're watching right now. 688 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 3: We call like we see it. We don't pull punches. 689 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: And the reason that we don't pull punches, I explained 690 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,120 Speaker 1: to these audiences is because the stakes are really, really high. 691 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: The stakes are really high for the following reason. Western 692 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 1: civilization is the crowning achievement of mankind to date. Western 693 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: civilization is the outgrowth of the Biblical inheritance. Western civilization 694 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 1: has surpassed any other civilization in the history of mankind, 695 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 1: when it comes to material progress, when it comes to 696 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 1: standards of living, when it comes to subjective self assessment, 697 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: rates of happiness, I mean anyway, I mean gene peper capital, 698 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: I mean a you can measure a civilizational health. Western 699 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,880 Speaker 1: civilization has gotten in there. There's only one country that 700 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,399 Speaker 1: can save Western civilization. It's not the Euros. We cover 701 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: them earlier. It's not gonna be the guys. We're sending 702 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: a perfunctory symbolic group of ten Vikings to Greenland to 703 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: try to save Greenland from the Yanks. 704 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 3: From America. 705 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,799 Speaker 1: They're not gonna save the West. It's gonna have to 706 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: come from America. So then you ask yourself, how is 707 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,360 Speaker 1: America going to be saved? Well, it's not gonna have 708 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,640 Speaker 1: from the left. The left is not gonna save the 709 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 1: United States. On the contrary, they're working to destroy it. 710 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 1: So America, which itself is the only thing that can 711 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: save the West. America itself can only be saved by 712 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: the right. And once you kind of do that and 713 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,359 Speaker 1: you realize that logic, you realize, oh my god, the 714 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: fate of the right really matters. The right must stand 715 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 1: for our civilizational national inheritance. The right cannot stand for 716 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:05,880 Speaker 1: fifth malcontent, bad actors who are trying to tear this coalition, 717 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,280 Speaker 1: this country asunder and throw it to the wolves in Moscow, 718 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 1: Beijing and so forth. This stuff matters a lot. We 719 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,399 Speaker 1: fight every day for it on this show. I hope 720 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,000 Speaker 1: you respect that, and then you enjoy that because we're 721 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: not gonna stop anytime soon. The stakes could not be higher. 722 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,400 Speaker 1: Get in this fight, folks. We certainly are in it 723 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,399 Speaker 1: on a data basis as well. Hope you enjoy today's show, folks, 724 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,360 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer. Have a good evening. We'll see you 725 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 1: again tomorrow. The Josh Hammer Show is a member of 726 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 1: the Trust Project.