WEBVTT - Iranian Regime on the Brink 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.520 I'm Josh Hammer and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.239 Hope you had a great weekend, and welcome back to 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.960 what is surely going to be yet another chaotic news week, 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:14.480 Because if there's any other option in these days, is 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.840 if there is any alternative to adjust a totally helter 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.439 skelter news cycle, and if item on repeat on any 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.880 given day ending and why certainly Monday, January twelfth, this 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:27.720 is no exception to that. The big story that we 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:29.480 are tracking, and there are numerous of them, We're s 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.360 certainly still paying attention to the fallout of the fatal 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.360 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. When it 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.159 comes to these anti ice uprisings now that are happening 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.800 not just any twin cities, but out in the nexus 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.159 and ground zero of the Antifa movement that is Portland, Oregon. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.640 Perhaps come into a city near you, we shall see. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.960 We're keeping our eyes on that and other stories. But 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.560 the number one story today is all of the protests, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.200 all of the uprisings, all of the general uproar over 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.119 in Iran to wit. To be clear, this is among 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.280 the most serious uprisings by the Iranian people since this 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.400 horrific theocratic Islamist regime came into power four and a 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.040 half plus decades ago. It is at least at least 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.000 the biggest uprising since two thousand and nine, the so 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.440 called Green Revolution. The thing about the Iranian people is 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.000 there's there's so much to say about it, but this 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.080 terrible regime in Iran, and they are the number of 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.280 the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, which you've 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.840 probably heard many times, and it happens to be true. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.200 They sponsored terrorist oranizations all throughout the world, not just 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.040 in the Middle East when it comes to Hasbolah, the 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.520 Huthis and all these various other Shiites and times even 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.840 Sunni islam proxies. They also fund jihad all across the world. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.200 Iran was behind the bombing in Buenos Aires and the 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.520 mid nineteen nineties at the Jewish enter that killed nearly 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.440 one hundred people. They tried to pull up the Saudi 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.600 ambassador to the United States and Washington, d C. In 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.240 twenty twelve. They are behind one hundreds and hundred of 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.840 US armed service members debts via ied roadside bombs back 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.640 during the Iran or the Iraq counter insurgency. So it 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.240 is a horrific, horrific regime. But one of the things 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.280 that has always let off the page, being one of 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.440 the most important details here when it comes to the 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.080 debates and controversy over the Iranian future, is that this 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.480 regime is a terrible, terrible fit for the Iranian people. Iran, 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.440 prior to the Islamist takeover in nineteen seventy nine was 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.160 a generally secular state. Now it is the spiritual home 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.720 of Shiite Islam, which is a minority sect of Islam 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.760 when you look at global Islam, Sunni Islam being spiritually 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.800 based there in Saudi Arabia. But Iran prior to nineteen 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.360 seventy nine was not exactly a Jeffersonian democracy, was not 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:52.000 exactly a Montescovian tripartite separation of powers. You know, federalist papers, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.560 James Madison Federals fifty one, ambition must be made to 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.760 counter emission. No, no, no, no, I mean, that's not what 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.000 was happening. It was very much pretty authoritarian and pretty 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.000 jack Boots like, but it was still generally Western Ish 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.440 aligned at the time. The pre Islamist Iranian Shah government 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.720 had generally sound relations with Israel, with the United States 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.000 and with large parts of the West. So in the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.880 past four and a half decades, every swapten you have 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.640 an uprising, whether it's whether it's over economic conditions, that's 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.400 actually what sparks this current uprising. Sometimes you have an 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.520 uprising when it comes to the insane Islamist dress code, 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.839 in other words, the he job in the burka. That's 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.120 what we saw a few years ago in the summer 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.680 turned into autumn of twenty twenty two, where there were 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.520 national protests and lots of women burning their he job, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.240 burning their burkas, some of them and up being tragically 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.280 incarcerated and indeed outright executed by the regime for the 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.560 defiance of the Islamist dress code. It seemingly is a 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.120 different thing all the time. And when you listen to 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.320 the chants of the running people, the number one thing 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.320 that you hear throughout all these videos, all these images, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.680 you hear a lot of them say, care about us, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.240 care about your people, the Iranian people, Stop spending money 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.200 on all these terrorist proxies overseas. Stop shipping money to 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.640 Hesbala or Tobashar al san Syria back before he was 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.720 dethroned by al Shara. In the current Sunni government there 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.000 in Damascus, focus on the Iranian people. There's a tremendous 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.680 water shortage in Iran. It's been a massive drought. The 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.360 currency is inflating to the point where it is now 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.320 approaching near hyperinflation levels. Oil petroleum, which is the number 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.599 one industry there, or at least in theory it should be, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.000 is being heavily sanctioned due to all of their support 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.040 for terrorism. The Iranian people deserve better than this government, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.800 and fundamentally is in the United States of America's interest 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.800 that this regime go the way of the Dodo Bird. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.839 As we've explained many times that that does not mean 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.359 that it is the role of the United States to 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.320 send in the hundred first Airborne and in Team America 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:06.480 world police style start to liberate Tehran, to liberate all 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.440 of Iran in the name of the Rainbow flag or 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.960 Globo Homo or any of these other things, or frankly 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:17.520 even deliberated in the name of Jeffersonian Madisonian democracy. No, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.560 that's not our role, but is absolutely our role. It 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.599 is absolutely our role to support the Iranian people. Now, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.800 President Trump, very very interestingly, just this past weekend started 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.320 to admit that his previous announced red line when it 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.160 comes to the Iranian regime cracking down and indeed annihilating 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.839 and just massacring dissidents, he started to renounce to this 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.479 read his red line either it's getting really close to 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.239 being crossed or has actually been crossed. Now, the numbers 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.160 are very very difficult to get a firm, reliable estmen 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.080 of because last week is what Iran does when they 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.240 start cracking down and shooting people. They turned off all 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.240 the phone lines, They turned off all the internet in 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.640 the entire country. So very very difficult to start to 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.880 get reliable numbers. We know from a US based group 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.560 called the Human Rights Activists in Iran, they estimate that 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.120 at least four hundred ninety six protesters have been killed. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.680 I've seen some images of mass body bags outside the 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.880 hospitals there. At least one Eyewinness reporter was able to 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.120 get through an anonymous source. Again, you can't give your name 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.359 or else you will be executed, so that when she 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.200 had to go to the hospital because of her injuries 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.760 there that said, you just saw piles and piles and 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.240 piles of dead bodies, body bags. The estimates that I've 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.880 seen so the unofficial ones that I've seen some others 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.239 report as well, including Mike Duran of the Hudson Institute, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.320 who was very well versed in will source in these matters. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.680 The estimate that that I've been getting is upwards potentially 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.480 two thousand upwards are potentially two thousand running distance will 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:54.040 been slaughtered. Thus far, at least forty eight Iranian security 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.159 ier GC or regime jack boots. They have been killed 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.480 as well, at at least ten six hundred people have 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:06.400 been arrested. It's just chaos. It's absolute chaos. Iran International 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.480 which is an international TV organization that essentially tried to 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.760 speak on behalf of the Iranian diaspora of those who 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.160 oppose this terrible Islamist regime. Roan International reporting that despite 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.400 the blackout inside of Roan, it can confirm that just 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.480 last night that just on Sunday evening, Iranians in more 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.960 than twenty provinces went to the streets. This is all 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.280 in response to the calls to action from the exiled 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.720 Crown Prince. So prior to the Islamist theocracy taking over 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.880 for nineteen seventy nine, it was ruled by the shot 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.880 and it is the exiled Crown Prince raised a Palafi 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.480 who has been living in Maryland in the United States 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.840 for most of his adult life. There he has really 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.320 been egging on a lot of this from Afar, calling 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.080 for Iranians to take to the streets. The most important 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.600 thing that you must understand about this is the following 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.880 when the Iranian people go to the streets. And I've 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.960 seen estimates that a million to two million different Iranians 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.240 have taken to the streets over the course of these 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.040 past now two and a half veering on three weeks. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.080 They are a million to two million Iranians, many of 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.040 whom have actually engaged in firefights with the Iranian security forces. Folks, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.480 not to put too fine a point on it, but 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.520 the men who signed the Declaration Independence in seventeen seventy six, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.640 I'm not comparing a run to the United States in anyway. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.000 I'm just saying that the men back then when they 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.760 signed that declaration, they knew that they were putting it 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.040 all on the line. They offered their lives, their fortune, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.120 and their sacred honor to use the precise verbiage of 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.280 Jefferson's declaration in seventeen seventy six, they knew that if 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.760 the Red Coats, if King George the Third, then if 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.439 they were to find them, they would be dead. Bringing 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.400 out the gallows, they will be dead. That's the exact 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.840 same situation for the Iranan people. They are putting it 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.240 all in the line, all in the line. So there's 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.240 been a lot of folks on the hard isolationists left 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.839 and right who've been trying to say this is all 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.600 WHI in dupisteria. It's a neocn syop. It's a masad 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:10.600 Zionas syop, to which I say, screw you, screw you 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.679 and the horse that you came in on the runing. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:19.120 People are literally risking their lives to try to end 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.040 this cancer that is afflicted not just the Middle East 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.400 but the entire world for four and a half decades. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.120 And you have the hutzpa to call this a syop. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.320 What is wrong with you? 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:32.680 Now? 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.600 What exactly? Again, American voment looks like there. Well, Donald 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.520 Trump did issue something of a red line, and he's 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.200 starting to acknowledge here that this red line might have 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.800 been crossed. Again, I'm not saying I personally would not 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.720 have advised him to actually make the red line threat. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.880 By the way, in my aview stationmships should be carried 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.440 out more secretly, clandestinely. But he did offer something of 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.400 a red line for what it's worth there. So in 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.880 any event, here was Donald Tromp on Air Force One 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.560 over the weekend speaking on situation in Iran. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.840 This seemed to be some people killed that aren't supposed 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.559 to be kill. These are violent, if you call them leaders, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.040 I don't know if their leaders are just they ruled 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.600 through violence. But we're looking at it very seriously. The 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.200 military is looking at it, and we're looking at some 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.040 very strong options. We'll make a determination. But some of 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.840 the protesters were killed through the stampeding. I mean, you know, 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.960 there's so many of them, and so we're shot. Are 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.520 we getting a full report? I'm getting an hourly report, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.479 and we're going to make a determination. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.760 So Trump was indeed briefed on possible military options over 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.680 the weekend. Apparently he is being briefed again tomorrow. That 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.319 will be Tuesday the thirteenth. Again. Iran International who reported 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.679 earlier that these uprightings are happening at least twenty proncs 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.079 throughout the country. They also are the ones who are 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.719 corroborating the more than two thousand people indeed have been 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.400 killed amidst the crackdown. Mike Duran of Hudson Institute, the 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.280 think tanker, who is very well sourced from a running 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.280 distance there. I mentioned him earlier. He was tweeting over 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.360 the weekend. He said that telegram channels are circulating horrific 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.599 videos from Iran showing rows of bodies and makeshift and 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.640 more facilities. Again, folks, this is a slaughter. It is 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.880 an absolute slaughter. What's happening in Ron. I would not 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.280 recommend that Donald Trump make the red line threat, but 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.160 he did. He said numerous times that if the regime 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.360 starts massacring as people, then the United States will get involved. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.400 I hate to say, if that's exactly what's happening, something's 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.600 going to have to happen. This is why you should 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.760 be cautious about making redline threats, because when you do 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.120 it and then they actually call your bluff, you can't 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.000 let them bluff. You have to act. What exactly that 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.959 looks like in practice? Well, we will have some thoughts 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.559 for you on the other side of this commercial break. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.000 Josh Hammer hosting here the Josh Hammer Show on Salem 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.240 News Channel. On Newsweek's YouTube page. You neverwhere that you 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.240 get your podcasts. Hope you had a great weekend, folks. Again, 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.080 there's so much to get to in the news. On 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.040 the other side of this break, we'll talk about possible 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.640 options for Donald Trump in Iran and lots of other 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.599 stories to get to. I'm Josh or Stable us of 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:08.079 the break. We'll be right back. Welcome back. So if 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.040 you believe any sense of the numbers that we're getting here, 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.640 it seems that Donald Trump does have to act again. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.320 We can have the date over whether or not it's 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.400 good to issue redline threats in the first place. I'm 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.439 pretty skeptical of them for this very reason. But if 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.679 they call your bluff, you gotta act. So what does 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.880 that look like? At a bare minimum, At a bare minimum, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.640 some serious cyber attacks seem to be a very good idea. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.480 As our guest Rich Goldberg was talking about this past week, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.240 tried to get at the Iranian Central Bank think about 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:43.199 the stucksnet virus. This virus to make some of the 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.840 Iran and nuclear reactors basically have a mini meltown of sorts. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.880 It was largely viewed as being done by Israel. During 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 the aubamministration about fifteen years ago, give her a take. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.640 And also at this point, again, since you've offered the 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.359 redline already, you probably ought to strongly consider additional military 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.280 action as well, whether it's against Iran's and nuclear facilities, 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.360 against their ballistic missile programs. There at this point, if 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:13.079 the Ayatola can be reliably found, and that's very difficult 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.360 to use and done, but if you can get a 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.800 clean shot of the Ayatola come iny while the regime 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.800 is on the brink like this, you probably take that shot. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:27.400 At this point. That's not something that I say lightly. Again, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.640 when it comes to toppling a regime, whether it's from 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.200 the Iranian people or potentially with assistance from Donald Trump 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.880 given his red line, you never know what's going to 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.760 happen next. This is why America has a very sordid 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.040 history when it comes to regime change, including in the 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.760 Middle East, but Iranie it really is in many ways 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.440 fundamentally different. Given this infamous mismatch between the Islamist regime 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.280 and the historically more Western minded Iranian people. It's an 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.840 America's interest that this horrific, horrific regime fall, and at 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.320 this point, Donald Trump's I'm sorry to be the bearer 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.280 of bad news. His hands to an extent definitely are tied. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.600 We'll see exactly what it looks like, but definitely we're 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.319 paying attention to this on an hour by hour basis. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.240 Donald Trump will be briefed tomorrow again on the latest 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.200 in case he has not already acted by them. Meanwhile, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:20.320 any Semitism tragically continues just to be a genuine scourge, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.720 a genuine scourge all across the American political spectrum, in 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.920 all across American life. There were a couple of events 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.600 over the past few days that we probably ought to discuss. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.320 The first episode happened in Queens, in Queens, New York, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.160 the home borough of President Donald J. Trump, And this 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.240 happens this past Thursday evening. Now, the notion that there 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.720 was going to be a protest outside of a yeshiva, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.120 which is a religious Jewish education in Queens. The notion 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.880 that there's going to be a protest outside this synagogue 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.240 yeshiva was actually telegraphed. It was known very well in 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.080 advance that there was going to be this horrific protest 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.120 from a lot of rabid Hama supporting freaks. And sure enough, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.320 that's actually exactly what happened. A group called Palestinian Assembly 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.960 for Liberation organized this rally outside Young Israel, which is 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.680 a fairly prominent Orthodox synagogue. They're in the Borough of Creems, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.720 and these so called protesters gathered and among other things 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.360 that they started chanting, they said, we support Hamas here, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.600 we support Tamas here. Hmm. Maybe, just maybe, if you 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.840 are going to a synagogue where there are Jews and 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.280 you are trying to prevent their entrance into the house 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.080 of worship in clear defiance of the Face Act, the 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.760 Clinton era statute from nine ninety four that criminalized at 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.960 a federal level, efforts to do exactly that the bidodminstruation 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.080 weaponize a statue to prosecute pro life grannies praying outside 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.800 abortion clinics. What it actually meant, the Face Acts was 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.760 to prevent this. We saw a very similar thing, by 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.880 the way, in Los Angeles in the summer of twenty 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.840 twenty four, where he had quote unquote Palastinian protesters aka 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.440 pro g Ghati kafia clad freaks preventing Jews from going 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.280 into house worship. Literally, why the Face Act was written. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.960 So they're here in Queens this this past Thursday and 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.920 Zormamdanni took about twenty four hours to respond and then 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.520 finally finally press for comby Plitigo on Frea f Nune says, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.200 that was the word wrong choice. I saw some headline 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.560 that New York City Jewish leaders are now concerned by Zormandanni. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.280 Oh yeah, now that the guy who literally couldn't condemn 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:41.760 globalizing defodiph for his life. Now you're concerned, Really, what 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.360 is wrong with you? 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:43.520 You know? 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.720 I did an event in New York, speaking of New 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.720 York a couple of years ago, with Michael moynihan, a 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.520 very funny libertarian of the Fifth Column podcast, and a 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.480 not particularly funny woman by the name of Katherine Rample. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.400 Katherine Rampole is kind of the worst stereotype of what 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:04.919 a liberal Jewish political commentator might might think like and 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.480 what she how she might approach the world. So Kathy 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:13.200 Rample was on ms now, the rebranded MSNBC, and had 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.640 a very on point, steritable comments. Here was Kathy Rample 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:17.240 on ms now. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.000 We don't know what the motive is, we should say, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.960 I mean, I know what it looks like certainly, and 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.640 as a Jewish person myself, you know, I can use 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.920 my imagination for what might have gone on here. I 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.160 think one of the scariest things is that, like if 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.720 this was a hate crime, as it certainly looks to be, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.280 we don't necessarily know which side the hate crime came from. 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.280 Which is a new thing. Right, you know, we're as 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.960 Jews you're used to in this country fielding some hatred 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.679 from the far right, but we're seeing some of it 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.280 from the far left as well, and it can feel 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.119 very lonely, like you don't really have a lot of 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:56.360 allies who who care about keeping you safe. So it's upsetting. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.040 Okay, So rample there. And I'm as now talking about 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.119 the other of two terrible antisemitic incidents that's happened in 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.080 the Nine States in recent days. I actually just learned 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.720 about this other one on a Sunday apparently in the early, 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.920 very early pre dawn hours on Saturday morning aka Shabat 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.040 the Jewish Sabbath in Jackson, Mississippi, the capitol and largest 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.919 city in Mississippi in the Magnolia States, the largest synagogue 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.200 of the entire state, Beth Israel, which has which has 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.359 a bit of a history actually of these sort of things. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.159 In fact, in nineteen sixty seven, the synagogue was also 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.960 torched in an act of arson by the ku Klux Klan, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.960 given the rabbi's outspoken support of civil rights at the time. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.520 So yet again there was there was a horrific arsen 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.119 attack in Jack's, Mississippi at the largest synagogue in the 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.840 entire state. Many holy books, tourist scrolls, so the Jews 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.040 Holy Book, the Torah, the Bible, many of them tragically burned, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.920 although interestingly, there was one tourist scroll that actually survived 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.240 the Holocaust, that was actually in a glass safe that 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.200 managed to survive unscathed. Make of that what you will, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.920 but multiple, multiple terrible acts of anti Semitism happening in 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.240 the United States over over the past few days. Now, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.040 Zoria and Mam Donnie, Zora and Mamdanni for what it's worth, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.879 as I mentioned, kind of sort of condemned what happened 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.600 in Queen's own backyard. Took it too him a very 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.159 long time to do. So lets let's go ahead and 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.080 watch this. This here was Zormam Donnie. This could be brought 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.160 to us courtesy of art. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.840 What do you think of those protests? What do you 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.160 think of those protesters that said we support hamas here 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:26.560 in Queen. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.720 I think that that language is wrong. I think that 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.399 language has no place in New York City. Okay, so 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.359 again your words mean nothing, mister mayor like literally nothing. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.400 Like dude literally spent half of his first day as 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.240 mayor on New Year's Day, after getting sworn in, you know, 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.000 after that whole bone chilling or wheeling in the frigidity 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.399 of individualism and the warmth of collectivism, after that horrific speech, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.400 he signed his slew of executive orders, multiple of them 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.920 literally multiple targeted at the Jewish community when it comes 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.439 to trying to strip additional anti antisemitism protections there. So 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.720 I mean, Zormam, Donnie, you can you can take your 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.480 faux concern. You can shove it where the sun don't shine, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.920 because you are full of some of the largest crap 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.840 in this entire Western hemisphere. But it actually was not 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.000 just Zoram, Memdannie. Interestingly, over the weekend, it's not lost 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.320 many of us that tons of prominent Democrats Tiss James, Alexandroo, 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.960 Cosio Cortez, Chuck Schumer, Kathy Hockel, Kristen gillibrand Ma'm donnie. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.639 As I mentioned there, centator Jackie Roseen and many others 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.280 had deeply clearly coordinated messaging when it comes to condemning 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:35.040 the Hamas so called protests in Queens. Alexandro Cosio Chords has, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.360 for instance, the girl who literally in her first year 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.159 as Congress back in twenty nineteen, had the hutzba to 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:45.720 compare ice detention centers to concentration camps. Yeah, that girl, 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.960 the girl who has literally no selftwares whatsoever when it 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.480 comes to Jewish related issues. She said this quote. Hey, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.439 so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.640 a chance saying we support Hamas is a disgusting ninety 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:04.879 sement to do. Pretty basic. So what is this? I mean, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.239 what are the Democrats doing here? Again? This is so 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.840 clearly coronated Tiss James Hamasa terrorist organization. We do not 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.720 support terrorists, Chuck Schumer. Let's be clear, Hamas terrorist organization 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.840 committed to the destruction of Jews. Blah blah blah blah. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.760 Obviously that's correct, But what is the motive? What are 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.439 Democrats getting out here? Why are they now only now 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.040 season on what happens at the Queen's synagogue this past 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.920 week in New York City. What is the goal? Well, 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:34.879 I think I have a pretty idea of what they're getting 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.720 out here. I'll explain on the other side of this break. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:38.840 I'm Josh Hammer. Stay with us, we'll be right back. 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.399 Welcome back. So before the break, you're talking about this 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:49.840 clearly coronated messaging by prominent elected Democrats of the weekend 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.280 where they're all condemning, condemning to the nines, condemning as 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.280 loud as you can possibly shout these horrific pro hamas 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.480 protesters trying to disrupt Jews in violation of the Face 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.560 Act potentially of ninet ninety four of actually entering a 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.399 house of warship. By the way, the event was apparently 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.920 not even a religious event. It was an event about 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:14.440 possibly buying real estate in Israel. I'm pretty sure that 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.320