1 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: So the war of words and the war of actions, 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: this Mexican standoff, if you will, between Donald Trump and 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: the federal government more generally speaking, as well as Tim 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: Walls and the insurrectionist anarchist Democrat bastions across the country. 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: That continues to be the story that is shaping the 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: national conversation. So there have been mixed reports over the 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,319 Speaker 1: extent to which Trump instorration is backing down since the 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: video that went viral. This latest video of this shooting 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: of Alex Pretty, the nurse as has been widely reported, 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: the nurse at the VA Hospital in Minnesota, who brought 12 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: his armed weapon to this protest, although it wasn't really 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: much of a protest, it was actually the obstruction of 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: an active law enforcement operation. Just reiterate my stance on 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: that before we go any further. Look, you're not going 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: to find any stauncher supporter of the Second Amendment than me. 17 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: I can still carry every single day of my life. 18 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: But there is a big difference between taking your carry 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: weapon to the local supermarket or restaurant, or in my case, 20 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: when I go to pray at synagogue or you go 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: to church. A big difference between that and taking it 22 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: to again, not standing on the sidewalk where you can 23 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: hold your dumb soros front and sign and say your 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: first men protective speech. No, that's not what Alex Pretty 25 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: was doing. Alex Pretty went there for the purpose of 26 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: obstructing an active law enforcement operation. Okay, so let's just 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: stipulate that there's been a lot of conversation about how 28 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: do we balance the Second Amendment concern, how do we 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: balance the First Amendment free speech concern? How do we 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: balance this just the more general rule of law concern here, 31 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: And to me it's actually fairly simple. You can take 32 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: your firearm, perhaps you should to a peaceful protest, if 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: you were actually peacefully protesting, if you're going to get 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: in the middle and gain the faces of law enforcement officers, 35 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: whether they're local cops or federal agents, just maybe have 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: a modicum of common sense and leave that piece, that 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: fire on piece in the car at home or whatever. 38 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: So that's my quick word on that. Nonetheless, as we've 39 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: conceded here on the show, the video is not great. 40 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: The video of Alex Pretty is. It's not entirely clear 41 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: exactly what happened, but it doesn't look great. We've been very, 42 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: very reluctant to jump to inclusions here. I am firmly 43 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: of the opinion that we learned more information over the 44 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: course of days, perhaps even weeks. For instance, after the 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: Renee Good shooting a few weeks ago Minneapolis, we didn't 46 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: know right away that Jonathan Ross, the agents who was 47 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: rammed by Renee Good, we didn't actually know that he 48 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: had internal bleeding and a severely damaged hip and had 49 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: to go to the hospital from which he was subsequent discharged. 50 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: So you learn a lot in the hours, day, you 51 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: sometimes weeks in the aftermath of these sorts of things there, 52 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: which is one of the many reasons that we don't 53 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: jump to conclusions and started to pin the blame immediately 54 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: on the agents there. But nonetheless, there's not just the substance. 55 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: There also is the politics of this, and the politics 56 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: of this have been have been so much murky now. Admittedly, 57 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: there is definitely an information operation going from the media 58 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: to all the way to Democrat officials there that are 59 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: pushing this unified line that Trump's immigration agenda is wildly 60 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: unpopular and they say these horrific things where we'll get 61 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: to that at in few minutes. Here they meet these 62 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: constant absurd comparisons to outrageous offensive comparisons to the Nazi 63 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: regime and all of that there, it's outrageous stuff. On 64 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: the one hand, there was a reputable poll from the 65 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: New York Times c on the College, one of the 66 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: top poles in the country, showing that Donald Trump's immigration 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: agenda pulls favorably by a narrow fifty to forty seven marchin. 68 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: On the other hand are Pal Harrient and the chief 69 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: data analytics pulling Guru over on air Sea and then 70 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: had a poll that he was analyzing the other evening 71 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: showing that the specific approval of Donald Trump's ice enforcement 72 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: so ice only, is twenty eight points underwater. So your 73 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: miiolage may vary when it comes to when it comes 74 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: to the politics of it, but the key thing to 75 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: me is that there are some things that you kind 76 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: of just have to do because you kind of just 77 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: have to do it. Okay, not everything in politics can 78 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: or should be about licking your finger and seeing which 79 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: way the wind is blown. Immigration law is a solemn 80 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: part of this nation's laws. Immigration is the one issue 81 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: that affects everything. It affects the ecomedy, It affects the 82 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: labor market, supply and demand for wages for labor. It 83 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: affects crime, It affects national security, It affects the most 84 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: foundational questions and politics of all being who are we 85 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: the people? Going back to the most basic, rudimentary questions 86 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: as to what is a people? What is a nation state? 87 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: So you gotta know who's in the country, and you 88 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: gotta know who is not in the country. Now, this 89 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: back and forth over the past few days, Tom Homan, 90 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: who I just love, I mean, I can't get enough 91 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: of Tom Homan. Tom Holman is it has been sent 92 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: into Minneapolis there he had this meeting with Governor Tim 93 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: Waltz yesterday, tom Homan saying that this meant with Tim 94 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: Walls apparently went well. I guess they are at least 95 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: on the same page when it comes to criminal aliens. 96 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: Tom Holman saying that there's some missing information here when 97 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: it comes to whether they're on the same page when 98 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: it comes to just all illegal aliens. That's our stance 99 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: here on the Josh Hammersher By the way, we are 100 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: of the opinion that if you cross this border illegally 101 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: you have already commit a sufficient crime to justify deportation. 102 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: That would have been a policy that it would have 103 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: been unanimally supported all across the American political spectrum as 104 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: recently as the Bill Clinton era. In fact, Bill Clinton 105 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: essentially saying as much during his nine ninety five State 106 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: of the Union address, this notion that if you are 107 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: here illegally, that is enough sufficient evidence to get you 108 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: the heck out of here. But anyway, in that event, 109 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: Tom Holman saying that he and Tim Walls don't agree 110 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: on that. Dald Trump also saying that he had this 111 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: wonderful phone call with Tim Walls a couple days ago, 112 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: and my two stents to Homan and Trump and the 113 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: whole ministration is essentially this, which is, I wouldn't believe 114 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: these guys for a second. I mean, why would you 115 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: believe Tim Walls? Why would you believe this administration that 116 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: they're assisting you or that they share your concern And 117 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: this notion that Minnesota and Jacob Fry, the mayor of 118 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: Minneapolis a thought that the local localities, the city's this 119 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: notion that they are assisting the feds when it comes 120 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: to immigration here is nuts. It's absolutely nuts. So the 121 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: situation of Minnesota is essentially as falls when they're when 122 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: an illegal alien is is convicted of a crime and 123 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: he sets me released from prison. It's true that the 124 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: state or local authorities in Minnesota, if I understand correctly, 125 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: are indeed notifying ICE Bass saying hey, we're gonna let 126 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: this guy go. Guess what they're not doing. They're not 127 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: honoring the detainer requests. So if ICE sends requests to 128 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: detain an illegal alien until they get there pick him 129 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: off from a state or local penitentiary, they're not doing that. 130 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: So what is this notion that Tim Wallson, Jacob Fryan 131 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: and the Democrat leadership Minnesota, what was his notion that 132 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: they actually are assisting the Feds. I'm not buying that 133 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: for a second. I'm not sure exactly why there is 134 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: this notion that we're gonna believe these people when they 135 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: say they're resisting there when it seems to me that 136 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: they very clearly are not. So that's the very first 137 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: thing to say. But the most important thing is this, 138 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: which is, mister President, you have to see this mission through. 139 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: There are any number of reasons why this mission must 140 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: be seen through. On the one hand, there's this notion 141 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: that we've been explaining for weeks now that these so 142 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: called sanctuary jurisdictions are simply the rise of a new 143 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: Confederate sentiment, this notion that you can so called nullify 144 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: federal law and just deem this a no federal law 145 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: apply zone. Take your dumb city, take your dumb town, 146 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: your dumb state, and say that you fed your law 147 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: does not apply here. That is a recipe for anarchy. 148 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: That is a recipe for secessionism. It's there in the Constitution, 149 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: Article six. It says, federal law supreme. We fought a 150 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: bloody civil war. Six hundred thousand plus men gave their 151 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: lives to establish the proposition that federal law is supreme. 152 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: A century of Jim Crow only furthered that same notion, 153 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: culminating in the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four. 154 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: I'm sick and tired of playing footsie with these neo Confederates. 155 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: These the neo Confederates, by the way, who continue to 156 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: say the most outrageous things imaginable about this nation's ice 157 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: agents and law enforcement are generally For instance, here is 158 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: the Soros funded hack dish attorney Larry Krasner. This absolute 159 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: lunatic speaking in Philadelphia yesterday on International Holocaust Remembrance Today, 160 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: watched this one. 161 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: This is a small bunch of wanna be Nazis, that's 162 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 2: what they are. In our country of three hundred and 163 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 2: fifty million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt 164 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, 165 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 2: we will find your identities, we will find you, we will. 166 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 1: Achieve justice, all right. So just disgusting, just absolutely positively 167 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: appalling stuff there from Larry Krasner, a man who, in 168 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: theory I believe he's Jewish, probably should not be going 169 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: around on International Holocaust Remembers Day comparing Ice to Nazis 170 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: as if he gives a hoot. Just unbelievable discuss stuff. Meanwhile, 171 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: it's not the innocent victims of illegal alien crime that 172 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: the Democrats are rushing to defend. No, it's not them 173 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: at all. That there was a story just earlier this 174 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: week of an illegal alien who was here, came over 175 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: during the bid ministration of my name of Kenneth Guzmann, 176 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: who held a twelve and ten year old. These siblings 177 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: held them a nine point after invain the home, raped 178 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: the twelve year old you don't see whole lot Democrats 179 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: some of these stories, do you. On the contrary, it's 180 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: the Democrats themselves who have abetted this illegal alien nightmare 181 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 1: in this country, including the Minnesota Democrat leadership themselves, who 182 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: are now playing the victim. For instance, here is elean 183 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: Omar yesterday out of press cards. I'm not sure I'm 184 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: buying this one, but you can make your own mind. 185 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: Go ahead and watch this clue. 186 00:09:46,440 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 3: And DHS Secretary Christinome must resign or face impeachment. I 187 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 3: don't know. 188 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's pray. 189 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:19,479 Speaker 4: No, we will no, no, no. 190 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: We will continue this all right. So Elinomar a doing 191 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: some press conference there where you have someone in like 192 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth row who rushes and sprays with 193 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: a syringe, to which eleanomr responder says, I'm the victim here. 194 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: This is all about me. I'm the victim here. Yeah, 195 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: I mean the woman who was worth basically a penny 196 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: and now is magically worth in the tens and tens 197 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Oh yeah, yeah, she's a big victim, 198 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: a big victim on right. Unbelievable. I'm not really buying that, honestly. 199 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: I mean your mileage may vary. I'm gonna go ahead 200 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: and call BS frankly on that one. That seems to 201 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: me like a very stage protest. If I had to 202 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: go ahead and guess, I think by doing that presumain 203 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: points that is literally how low of an esteem I 204 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: hold ilan omar in. But the point is this. The 205 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: point is that the victims of an illegal alien invasion 206 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: and infestation in this country, the victims are myriad. You 207 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: don't necessarily see them every day. The media does not 208 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: necessarily cover their stories day in and day out. But 209 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:19,359 Speaker 1: they are there, and they are ubiquitous. There are countless 210 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: episodes of people whose lives are made worse by illegal aliens. 211 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden led in, by some estimates, over eight million 212 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: illegal aliens into this country. We don't even know. That's 213 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: some estimates. The Trudministration is fundamentally trying to clean up 214 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: the act. If you don't like what Ice is doing, 215 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: maybe maybe you should have objected to the Biden open 216 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: borders idiots, Secretary Major Gas and all those band of goons. 217 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: Maybe you should have objected to them letting these people 218 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: into the interier in the first place. Maybe then you 219 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't have these door to door raids that they're so 220 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: scared about. Maybe now you wouldn't have people prote hasking 221 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: illin Omar. Maybe just maybe that's come inhale differently, but 222 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: it wasn't and now it won't be. That's the answer statement. 223 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: This is the great folks. We will be right back 224 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: the other time book a back. So again, the media, 225 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: this entire news cycle has been up in arms over 226 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: this ilan Omar syringe quote unquote attack, which again I'm 227 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: pretty skeptical of. I mean, maybe I'm too cynical, but frankly, 228 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: when it comes to illan Omar, the woman who said 229 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: that some people did something on nine to eleven and 230 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: some people akame Muslims now pay the price of it. 231 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: The woman who said that I who said so many 232 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: insane things wouldn't even know where to count. I mean, 233 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: clients really not necessarily believe what I see in this 234 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: particular case. But also, you know, the same folks who 235 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: have been crying, crying about illan Omar getting someone interface there. 236 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: And to be clear, let's let's stipulate if this actually 237 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: was a real attacker, let's do a thorough investigation, press charges, 238 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, it's obviously unacceptable if that was 239 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: a real thing that happened there. I'm just skeptical, and 240 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: certainly there is hypocrisy on the face of those as 241 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: well who are now pretending this is the biggest deal 242 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: under the sun, and were either am I A or 243 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: potentially even cheering on the disgusting, outrageous political violence against 244 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: conservatives for years now, I mean, the multiple assassination attempts 245 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: against Donald Trump, the traged assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk. 246 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 1: Where are you then, Oh yeah, in some cases you 247 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: actually were cheering it on, So you know, frankly, you know, 248 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: go to hell. In other news, Donald Trump cracked down 249 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: as well when it comes to Los Angeles and California, 250 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: and this actually does relate back to the situation in 251 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: Minnesota with Ice, and I want to just connect the 252 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: dots there, just just momentarily so so. Donald Trump also 253 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: announcing just yesterday on Tuesday, January twenty six seven, that 254 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: he's signed executive order that will move the permitting authority 255 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: from California and Los Angeles from the states and localities 256 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: to the federal government as they try to rebuild from 257 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: the devastating Pacific Palisades fire that really continues just to 258 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: leave a massive gazing eyesore. I was actually just there 259 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles a little over a week ago. I 260 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: was chatting with a bunch of locals as to what 261 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: is happening in Pacific Palaces where now. They said, you 262 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: basically won't see a whole lot. You'll drive up and 263 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: down the main road. You'll see some houses that match 264 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: to stay up there, but the town is still reeling. 265 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: And the objection, the objection from the Trump minstration is 266 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: that the permitting process when it comes to the County 267 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the cities of Los Angeles, Malibu, and Pasadena, 268 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: as well as to say of California, that they simply 269 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: have not been anywhere close to efficient enuff when it 270 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: comes to actually getting those permits out there to actually 271 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: really rebuild these homes, churches, I mean, just the basic 272 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: buildings that necessary for day to day life there in California. 273 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: So according to actual California statistics publicly available, they claim 274 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: that roughly twenty nine hundred permits have been issued by 275 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, and and and and the cities combined, 276 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: there's about twenty six hundred that remain under under review. Uh, 277 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: the the executive order that Donald Trump signed really just 278 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: puts Gavenusom and Karen Bass, who was the mayor of 279 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, just directly in his crosshairs. Donald Trump saying 280 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: this is one of the greatest failures of elected political 281 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: leadership in American history, from enabling the wildfires to failing 282 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: to manage them, and it continues with the with the 283 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: abject failure to rebuild. Donald Trump saying that that that 284 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: the FEDS needs release, not take over local permit approval speed. 285 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: The main obstacle is communities not having the money to rebuild. 286 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: So there's just there's there's there's a real tension here 287 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: when it when when it comes to Donald Trump and 288 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: Gaven Newsom pint the avenues. In part of this plays 289 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: into his clear insistence on being the front rider in 290 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, for which he probably is at this time. 291 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little bit on tomorrow show, 292 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: probably with our guest tomorrow Kirch Schlichter, who's a local 293 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: California and has lots of thoughts on that particular part 294 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: of the puzzle. But the broader point that I want 295 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: to make is this dal Trum signed this executive order 296 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: saying that he is now going to try to take 297 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: over as much as possible when it comes to local 298 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: and state permitting out there for the rebuilding process, whether 299 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: it is that, whether it's a situation in Minnesota. You 300 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: see here that the federal government sometimes has to step 301 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: in where there is ranking competence and or obstructionism rising 302 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: to the point of de facto anarchy or lawlessness. That 303 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: is fundamentally the common theme. You know, we're big, We're big. 304 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: Constitution rule of lag eyes here on the show. I've 305 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: been talking a lot recently about Article six of the Constitution, 306 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: and an article the probably are not familiar with. It 307 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: talks about the supremacy Clause. The supremacy clause essougses the 308 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: notion much the chagrin of both John C. Calhoun a 309 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: century and a half ago and Tim Walls day. The 310 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: supremacy clause dous is the notion that federal law is supreme. Well, 311 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: there is a somewhat similar provision buried bury an Article 312 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: four of the Constitution that is known sometimes as the 313 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: Guarantee Clause, sometimes as the Republican form of Government's Clause, 314 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: and the provision reads it says the United States shall 315 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 1: guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form 316 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion 317 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: in an application of the legislature or of the executive 318 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: when the legislature cannot be convened against domestic violence. Essential, 319 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: you're saying that it is the prerogative of the federal 320 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: governments to guarantee a republican form of government to the states. 321 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: What that means is that when there was a state 322 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: of anarchy or uprising or lawlessness, the federal government has 323 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: an obligation to step in. Now we can debate exactly 324 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: what that threshold is, but this long grain debate that 325 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: don true kind of in publicly amusing about invoking the 326 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, this eighteen oh seven Thomas Jefferson era statute. 327 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: Whether you invoke that to try to send in armed 328 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: military to try to enforce law, you could argue it's 329 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: actually constitutionally guaranteed, it's required. The statute is actually a 330 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: logical follow on of the Republican former government clause. They 331 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: are an article for the Constitution. Now, I'm not saying 332 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: that the bureaucratic red tape in the nation's quintintential. Democrats 333 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: state California must say necessarily that that is a failure 334 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: to have a republican form of government there. Bind it 335 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: tests saying federal intervention. What I am saying is that 336 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: there is a common denominator here when it comes to 337 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: the utter and complete fecklessness when it comes to rebuilding 338 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: people's basic homes and livelihoods in southern California, to the 339 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: obstructionism and anarchy in Minneapolis too, frankly, all sorts of 340 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: other blue cities and blue states all across the country 341 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: as well. Look at chicag Go. Chicago under now multiple 342 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: multiple mayors in a row has been an utterly, utterly 343 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: failed city, whether it was mayor Lori Lightfoot, mayor Brandon Johnson, 344 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: some who makes Lorid Lightfoot look somewhat sane by comparison, 345 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: These are failed jurisdictions. And there are still to this 346 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: day some on the right who think so aggressively in 347 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: terms of states rights and federalism that they they get 348 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: really uneasy with this notion that the federal government could 349 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: be going in to maybe trying to subsume or overtake 350 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: local and state level enforcement prerogatives. And there is truth 351 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: the notion that what's good for the goose is good 352 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: for the gander. I understand that you don't always necessarily 353 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: want to set the precedent that could be abused by 354 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: a subsequent let's call it a Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris, 355 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: God forbid presidential administration. There is pressed into for that. 356 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: But one order and the rule of law have to 357 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: be enforced. And look they're getting it really hard. The 358 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: administration is in at this point probably the PR fight 359 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: of the of its young tenure here in the second term. 360 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein files that back and forth was definitely a 361 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: PR mess. It was not the two administration's finest hour, 362 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: for sure, no doubt about that. But this is a real, 363 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: real PR challenge for the administration. Just yesterday there was 364 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: another shooting actually out in Arizona involving a border patrol. 365 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: There was a man by the name of Patrick Gary 366 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: Schlegel who has previously served time for transportation of legal 367 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: aliens some other gun charge. There shots were fired back 368 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: and forth between him and the agents. Now you have 369 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: Illin Omar with his video of Minnesota playing the victim, 370 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: and now you have Minnesota's in general who were playing 371 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 1: the victims. Two so called protesters aka anarchist obstructionists have died. 372 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: This is a real PR challenge, but fundamentally the law 373 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: must be enforced. It actually, really, ultimately is that simple. 374 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: You know. I think about it in some ways as 375 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: an analogy to the pro life cause. You know, it's 376 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: very easy to let some of these feminists or abortion 377 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: apologists try to bully you and say that you're a misogynist, 378 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: you hate women. If you want to protect unbornness in life, 379 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: you know why, because you can't see the unborn child 380 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: there in the womb. You can't see it, but you 381 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: know it's there, and that's what we're advocating for. It's 382 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: similar here. You can't necessarily see the victims of illegal 383 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: alien crime, the people that, for instance, earlier this week, 384 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: Kenneth Guzmann, an illegal alien who came under the bymestration, raped, 385 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: He raped the twelve year old. You won't see that 386 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: twelve year old with your own eyes. You will see 387 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: these obstructions in Minnesota, the pink Hared weirdos with those 388 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: stupid signs. You will see them, but doesn't mean that 389 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: it's right to stand with them. Sometimes it's correct to 390 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: stand with those whom you can't see. In fact, we 391 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: know from history that those are often times situations that 392 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: you need to speak out. Actually the very most. We 393 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: will be right back with much more content here on 394 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: the other side of the break. Welcome back once quits curious. 395 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: Now talk about an issue that we really have not 396 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: talked a whole lot on this show for a very 397 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: long time because, frankly, it hasn't been the news for 398 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: a long time. And the reason that this issue, same 399 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: sex marriage has not been in the news is because 400 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: it's been removed from the people. You see, we the 401 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: people no longer have the ability to debate, to formulate, 402 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: and to legislate on what we prefer marriage policy to 403 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: look like, at least at the highest level when it 404 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: comes to the most foundational question in marriage policy, namely, 405 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: what is a marriage? What is the definition of marriage? 406 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: Is it one man, one woman? Is it two individuals 407 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 1: of any sex? Is it three, four or five and 408 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: one hundred people? What is a marriage? Well, we haven't 409 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: really been able to debate that, have we, at least 410 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen. In twenty fifteen, the Supreme Court decided 411 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,959 Speaker 1: the a Bergafel case a Bergafel versus Hodges. It was 412 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: at least the fourth in a series of cases at 413 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court which we might refer to as 414 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: the gay Cases, the homosexual cases, starting with a case 415 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties out of Colorado called Romer versus Evans, 416 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: going then to Texas in two thousand and three of 417 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: the case called Lawrence versus Texas, and then the two 418 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: marriage cases themselves. In twenty thirteen, the Uspreme Court, in 419 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: a case called Windsor struck Down, nullified a bill Clinton 420 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 1: era statutes called DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Acts. By 421 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: that time, the Barack Obama ministration which campaigned in two 422 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: thousand and eight Obama Biden campaigned in two thousand and 423 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: eight as defenders of traditional one man, one one marriage. 424 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: Manyone who has ever played poker knew that Barack Obama 425 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: was lying through his teeth. Barack Obama, back when he 426 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: was a legislator in Illinois, spoke favorably of the then 427 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: extremely extremely fringe idea of same sex marriage. He changes 428 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: tune a little bit two thous and the eight to 429 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: try to get elected. Everyone knew he was lying, and 430 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: sure enough, by twenty thirteen, when the Clinton era Defensive 431 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: Marriage Acted law, that bill Clinton signed into law defining 432 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: for purpose of federal law, one man, one woman. When 433 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 1: that statue came before the court, Barack Obama instructed his 434 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: doj to not defend it, and ultimately that statute was 435 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: unfortunately struck down by a bare five to four court. 436 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: In the Windsor case, the court said that we're going 437 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: to leave this to the states just for federal purposes. 438 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: We're not going to get our hands dirty when it 439 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: comes to defining marriage, which is a dumb, dumb rationale, 440 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: but it's what they said. Two years later, they changed 441 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: course yet again, and the Oberger fel Okay so Berg 442 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: versus Hodges, the Court decided in arguably the single worst 443 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: digital opinion I've ever read in my entire life. I've 444 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 1: read a lot of digital stink bombs in my life. 445 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: The Anthony Kennedy majority opinion No. Bergerfell. Is a mess. 446 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: It is faux philosophical gobbledygook. There is no clear or 447 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: compelling legal rationale provided in this entire opinion as to why, 448 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: under the fourteenth Amendments of the United States there must 449 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: be a certain redefinition of marriage. There is absolutely absolutely 450 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: no rationale given it's basically you sprinkle little equo protection 451 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: clause here, a little bit of the due process clause here, 452 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: and therefore therefore marriage has been redefined. It's nuts stuff. 453 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: Anthony Scalia, in his dissenting opinion there in Oberger Fell 454 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, the late grit and Antoniscalia fundamentally got 455 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: it right. He said, Hubris is sometimes defined as overweening pride, 456 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: and pride we know go with Befo for a fall. 457 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: The judiciary is the least dangerous of the federal branches 458 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: because it has neither force nor will, but merely judgments, 459 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive 460 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: arm in the States even for the efficacy of its 461 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: own judgments. With each decision of ours that takes the 462 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: people a question properly left to them, With each decision 463 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 464 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: reasoned judgment of a bare majority of this court, we 465 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: move one step closer to being reminded of our own impotence. 466 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: He's basically calling on Congress to reign in the courts, 467 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: to remind the courts of their own impotence, a call 468 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: that we have been echoing here on this show for 469 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: this past year of judicial insurrection against tr administration. So 470 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: all that is to say that there is a brand 471 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: new campaign launching today called the Greater Than Campaign. You 472 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: can check out the campaign at Greater Than campaign dot com. 473 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: It's being spearheaded by Katie Faust. Katie is a conservative 474 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: activist who have had the pleasure of knowing for some 475 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: years now. She is very outspoken when it comes to 476 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: social and cultural issues, especially when it comes to surrogacy. 477 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: Is really one of her biggest issues when it comes 478 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: to questioning the ethics of surrogacy, getting into weeds sometimes 479 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: of how exactly IVF make sure they're doing that in 480 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: a properly ethical fashion. As well, they're certainly on the 481 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: abortion issue, and now Katie is leading this campaign when 482 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: it comes to trying to galvanize, to galvanize lawmakers, judges, 483 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: and our culture to overturn o Bergefel, and to bring 484 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: marriage policy back to the States into the Congress, ideally 485 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: so that we all, we all can debate among our CVEs, 486 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: what is the definition properly speaking of marriage? Well as 487 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 1: the case may be, I was in this launch video today. 488 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: I'm proud to be part of this campaign. Here's a 489 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: snippet of the Greater Than campaign's launch video. 490 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 4: There's two legitimate ways to unite a child to adults. 491 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 4: The first one is biology. If you made the baby, 492 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 4: that baby has a. 493 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: Claim to you. 494 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 4: The second pathway is adoption. Where a child has suffered 495 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 4: loss and ajust, society responds by placing them with parents 496 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 4: who have undergone screening and vetting and background checks to 497 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 4: as much as possible replicate the kind of protectiveness that 498 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 4: a biological mother and father would offer the child. 499 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: That's not what's happening today. Marriage policies should be about 500 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: the children. It's not about bestowing public policy legitimacy and 501 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: conferring economic benefits when it comes to adults who have 502 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: their own idiosyncratic, romantic designers. That's not the purpose of marriage. 503 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 4: Polsy redefining marriage robs children of the natural right to 504 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 4: their mother and. 505 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: Father, and it puts adult desires over children's needs. 506 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: It has to stop. Children. 507 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 3: Children are greater, children are greater, children are greater than equal, 508 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: and it's time we fought for their rights, all right. 509 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: So you see some other social concertive leaders there in 510 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: that video that again I was very proud to be 511 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: a part of. You saw life rows of live action 512 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: and Alibatstucky. A Blaze TV is in the video. Steve 513 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: Das also a Blaze TV is a big part of 514 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: this campaign, many others as well. Focus in the Family 515 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: is heavily involved there, folks. The basic argument is this. 516 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,479 Speaker 1: The basic argument is that marriage is fundamentally not about 517 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: adult romantic desires. It's just not You might have whatever 518 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: desires you have. That is not the reason to justify 519 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: state intervention and trying to incentivize and induce people to 520 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: live lives together. Okay, The reason that the state gets 521 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: involved is to provide for the children. It is a 522 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: simple biological fact that every time a child is born, 523 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: a mother is present. That's biological fact. It is the 524 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: role of marriage policy and lawmakers and juris to best 525 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: incentivize a societal structure and a cultural milu more generally, 526 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: such that it's not just a woman who is pres 527 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: twenty a child is born, but a man is present 528 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: as well. That's the purpose of marriage policy. Now, interestingly, 529 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: the polling on this has actually got in pretty interesting. 530 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: So there was an econmas Yugov poll just a few 531 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: months ago in October twenty twenty five that did indeed 532 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: have a considerable nets pro same Sis marriage stands. So 533 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: fifty four percent said yes, thirty three percent said no, 534 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: thirty percent unsure to the question as to whether Saints's 535 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: marriage should be legal. But that actually was a big 536 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: drop from a twenty twenty one Gallup poll, But at 537 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: that time found seventy percent of American supports Saints as marriage, 538 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: So it's dropped by at least fifteen to twenty percent 539 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: just over the past few years now. The percentage of 540 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: Republicans themselves who support Sames as a marriage has actually 541 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: been dropping precipitously. So that same year that Gallup recorded 542 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: seventy percent national support in twenty twenty one, you had 543 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: roughly fifty five fifty fifty six percents of Republicans who 544 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: supported same Siz's marriage. That is now down to forty 545 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: one percent per Gallup poll from this past year in 546 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: May of twenty twenty five. So Republicans seem to be 547 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: getting more conservative on this issue. Maybe it's because you 548 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: have a lot of gen z folks, a lot of 549 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: Zoomers who are now picking up their Bible going to church. 550 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: Part of this kind of Charlie Kirk turning point USA 551 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: inspired church revival. There again, you can be a religious 552 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: person or you cannot be a religious person, and you 553 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: can do with your private life what you want. What 554 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: you want to do is only so much that your 555 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: full citizens and the government can do to try to 556 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: steer you one way or the other. The key thing 557 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: again is this, a society is only as good as 558 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: its children. It is only as good as its next 559 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: generation the generation after that. You want children to grow 560 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: up in as loving, warm, and yes, as natural a 561 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: family setting as is reasonably possible. Will there be alternate 562 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: family structures? Presumably, I'm sure that will happen essentially till 563 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: the end of time. But when it comes to the 564 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: role of the states, when you're trying to incentivize you 565 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: really want to try to get as many children as 566 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: possible to be there with their biological parents. That should 567 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: be controversial. It wasn't for thousands of years. The fact 568 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: that that's a controversial statement today says a lot more 569 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: about where we are today, frankly than anything else. Again, 570 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: check out the whole campaign folks at greater than campaign 571 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: dot com. Stay with us with the break. We'll be 572 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: right back on the other side. The quick commercial break. 573 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: Welcome back, so especially Gears a little bit. We were 574 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: just talking about the Greater Than campaign and the newfound 575 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: resurgent fight to overturn Obergefell and therefore to return marriage 576 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: really to the people, which is fundamentally where it belongs. 577 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: I wish this campaign nothing but the best, and I 578 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: hope that Obergafel one day is overturned and then we 579 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: the people once again bring back the ability to even 580 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: engage in a good faith conversation. Because much like ro 581 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: Versus weighed for decades and decades, for forty nine grisly 582 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: bloody years, rovers Wade deprived we the people of the 583 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: ability to have a conversation about abortion in this country, 584 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: so too has a Bergafel now for almost eleven years, 585 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: deprived we the people of the ability to have a 586 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: conversation about marriage policy in this country. And has past 587 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: time for it to be overruled, and hopefully, God willing, 588 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: may it come speedily in our days. Well, something that 589 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: did not come super speedily, but now finally has happened. 590 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: The final hostage, the final Israeli hostage from Gaza, has 591 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: been returned. He was not alive, of course, sadly, so 592 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: Ronkavilli may his blood be avenged. That's what we say 593 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: in Judaism for someone who has been slain for the 594 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: fact that he was Jewish, you say it, may his 595 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: blood be avenged. He was one of many Israelis who 596 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,239 Speaker 1: was murdered on October seventh, twenty twenty three. So he 597 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: was a police officer who was stationed at at a 598 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: kabbut set at a small communal village and outpost essentially 599 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: there in southern Israel, not terribly far from Gaza. He 600 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: actually just had a shoulder injury he was covering from 601 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: a brutal soul shouldered intruy. Nonetheless, he heard the sirens, 602 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: he heard what happened when it came out the invasion. 603 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 1: He grabbed his firearm and tried to hold off the 604 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 1: Hamas invasion the best he could, and ultimately he paid 605 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: for it with his life. His body was then taken 606 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: his dead body was taken into Gaza along with at 607 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: least two to fifty other Israelis and many other not Israelis, 608 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: many Americans and various other nationalities as well, and he 609 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: ends up being the final, the final hostage, dead or 610 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: alive to make it out of Gaza. So for a 611 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: long time now for months and months. We've had this 612 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: back and forth as to whether or not Israel's going 613 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: to be able to get back Ron Gavili, where they're 614 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: going to be able to find his body there. Hamas 615 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: was obstructing this. Hamas was saying that they didn't know 616 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: where it was. Hamas was saying that this actually fell 617 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: on Palestini Islamic Jihad, which is the rival jihadist group 618 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: to Hamas and Gaza. They were saying, this is actually 619 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: that these other guys, they basically like they know where 620 00:34:58,640 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: where the body is, We don't know where it is there. 621 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: Hamas playing all these dumb, dumb games that no one 622 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: should ever believe them for a second in terms of 623 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: what they were trying to do there. But but there's 624 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: a happy ish ending to this terrible story, which is 625 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 1: that finally, finally, a few days ago, earlier this week, 626 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: they brought their final hostage, shunk So rong Gavilli. After 627 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty three days, rong Gavilli, the final hostage, 628 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: has been returned to Israel. There's an amazing video. There's 629 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: a square in Tel Aviv called Hostage Square. I was there, 630 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:36,360 Speaker 1: I believe once and immediately after October seven, the hostage 631 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: family set up this square and they were there twenty 632 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: four to seven. It was really remarkable. I was there 633 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,359 Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty four. I believe it was so 634 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: shortly after the pigram. They had a very very very 635 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: long table in the middle where there were chairs and 636 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 1: plates set as if they were going to do a 637 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: Shabbati Sabbath meal for the hostage, empty plates, empty silverware, 638 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: people singing and dancing, selling merchandise, and behalf the hostages there. 639 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: And they had a clock that a clock where they 640 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: were counting down the days, hours, mins and seconds until 641 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: the final hostage was returned. And this week the clock 642 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: went black. It's done after eight hundred and forty three days, 643 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 1: because the final hostage has been brought home. Go ahead 644 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: and watch this clib. 645 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 4: Ii haha. 646 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: Pre remarkable stuff, and it's a very solemn occasion. Obviously, 647 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,879 Speaker 1: Rongavili is deceased, and he has now been formally laid 648 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: to rest in Israel, so his body is now not 649 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 1: in Gaza but back in Israel. But nonetheless, as tragic 650 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 1: as this whole, whole, horrible, horrible ordeal has been, it 651 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 1: is nonetheless the end of an era, and for the 652 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 1: first time in over a decade, actually there's not currently 653 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 1: any Israeli hostages actually in Gaza. So there was at 654 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,320 Speaker 1: least at least a few people that were taking hostage 655 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: back in twenty fourteen. That was part of the predecessor 656 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: to the last Big Humas War back in twenty fourteen. 657 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 1: So for the first time in at least twelve years, 658 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: there are no Israeli hostages actually currently in Gaza, which 659 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: itself is a pretty remarkable thing. Now we're gonna bring 660 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: on this Friday on the show Rabbi Pincos Taylor, former 661 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 1: guests on The Josh Hammers Show. Rabbi Taylor lives not 662 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: far from me here in South Florida. He is one 663 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 1: of the things. He's a bridge builder, a huge proponent, 664 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: and a huge activist when it comes to Jewish, Christian, Ecumenical, 665 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,239 Speaker 1: biblical bridge building. He's hosted Christian activists at his home 666 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 1: for Shabbats. We'll get into all that with Rabbie Taylor 667 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: this Friday, but I thought of him a little there 668 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 1: because we will talk a little bit about this week's 669 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: tour portion with Rebby Tailor in Friday. I want to 670 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,359 Speaker 1: give you just a very brief, brief preview. So we're 671 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: currently here, and then I promised that this will relate 672 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: back to the host situation. We're current in the first 673 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,880 Speaker 1: half of the book of Exodus, and we're actually now 674 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,440 Speaker 1: basically at the climax. So again more on this and 675 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,839 Speaker 1: Friday with Rabbi Taylor, but we're basically now at the 676 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 1: climax of the Exodus. So just last week we finished 677 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,760 Speaker 1: the portion of with the ten Plagues, and Pharaoh basically 678 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: says to Moses, Okay, like you just killed our firstborn sons. 679 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: You've done a lot, get out. Leave. And this week's 680 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: tour aportion Partia Beschelach is the splitting of the sea itself, 681 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,880 Speaker 1: one of the most iconic images really in all the 682 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. I say all that 683 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,800 Speaker 1: because it's the third verse of this week's tour, a portion, 684 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,240 Speaker 1: the very third verse. So we're in Exodus, chapter thirteen, 685 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 1: verse nineteen. Listen to this. Moses took Joseph's bones with him, 686 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,360 Speaker 1: for Joseph had adjured the sons of Israel, saying God 687 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: will surely remember you, and you shall bring up my 688 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 1: bones from here with you. I mean, I literally just 689 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 1: got chills down my spine or reading that, I mean, 690 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: is that not exactly what happened this week to Ron Gavilli. 691 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: The bones God will surely remember you and you shall 692 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,360 Speaker 1: bring up my bones from here with you. That's literally 693 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: to a t what just happens in real life, just 694 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: just remarkable, remarkable timing. Again, we'll against this a little 695 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 1: bit more, probably with Rabbi Tailor this Friday. For present purposes, 696 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: I want to just talk a little about where the 697 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: situation in Gaza goes from here. You know, currently all 698 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: eyes Middle East are on the Iran situation. There's been 699 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 1: more rumors flying over the past twenty four hours as 700 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 1: to whether or not US action against Iran, against the 701 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 1: Iatola commenty, against the Islamac Revolutionary Guardcore, about whether this 702 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 1: action really is imminence. Seems to me like it more 703 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: likely is coming sooner rather than later, if I had 704 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: to guess. But there's this whole situation in Gaza too, 705 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,759 Speaker 1: and it is a big, big situation. So the trum 706 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: mainstration has transitioned to what it calls phase two in 707 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 1: the Gaza strip. Phase two is where Donald's Trump's whole 708 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: Board of Peace Projects comes in. Here, the board of 709 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,000 Speaker 1: piece includes a general executive board chaired by Trump himself 710 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,840 Speaker 1: with seven members. Then there's an executive board for the 711 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,640 Speaker 1: Gaza strip with eleven members, including representatives from Egypt, Katar, Turkey, 712 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,400 Speaker 1: the UAE, and others. This is where next Yaho and 713 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: Trump have a big difference of opinion. Next Ya, who 714 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: is adamant that Katar and Turkey, who are pro Hamas, 715 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,280 Speaker 1: pro Muslim brotherhood states Next, how was adamant that Turkey 716 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 1: and Katar cannot have anything to do with the situation 717 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: in Gaza. So we'll see exactly how that plays out there. 718 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,439 Speaker 1: But currently there's his tension in the background between Trump 719 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,640 Speaker 1: and Ziya who on at least that particular front. But 720 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: one of the parts of Phase two, and Trump is 721 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 1: great credit is now saying is overno again. He's saying 722 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: Hamas has to disarm. You need the demilitarization of Gaza. 723 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,520 Speaker 1: But all this talk from Trump and Wikoff and Kushner 724 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: about developing Gaza, you're going to have the four seasons 725 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 1: of Communists, the rich Carlton Gaza City. I'm kind of joking, 726 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: but there's definitely been a little bit of that kind 727 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,640 Speaker 1: of talk. And the question to me is okay, sounds great. 728 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,600 Speaker 1: What exactly is the plan between now and then? I mean, 729 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 1: are you gonna build the four seasons of communists like 730 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: over a bunch of Hamas terror tunnels? Are you gonna 731 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: have Hamas armories and rocket facilities underneath the Riz Carlton 732 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: on the beach? No? I mean you have to extirpate this. 733 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 1: We have to actually eliminate the militarization of this narrow 734 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: strip of land that Hamas has turned into their little 735 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,920 Speaker 1: Jie Hottis launching pad for the past now nearly nineteen years. 736 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 1: The easier said than done. And again this is where 737 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,799 Speaker 1: rock me to a hard place. I don't know how 738 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: that happens. I genuinely don't. I would love my sketicism 739 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,600 Speaker 1: to be proven wrong. I would really love that, really, 740 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,440 Speaker 1: I would earnestly, honest to God. The people of Gaza 741 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: deserve a future. Gaza is a beautiful piece of property. 742 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,000 Speaker 1: They call this Singapore and the Mediterranean years ago. It 743 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 1: should have a future. But you'll radicalized population of people 744 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: holding Nazi esque views against Jews, Christians and other so 745 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 1: called infidels. What do you can do about that? I 746 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,359 Speaker 1: just I am not sure. I frankly see it there. 747 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: I wish the administration nothing with the best, but they 748 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: have a big, big fight ahead them. My goodness, gracious, 749 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,319 Speaker 1: all the best blocks for only to you. Guys. Have 750 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,359 Speaker 1: a great rest of evening, folks who have enjoyed today's 751 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,960 Speaker 1: episode of The Josh Hammer Show. We will be right 752 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:23,840 Speaker 1: back tomorrow