WEBVTT - The Nikki Haley Smackdown 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.840 Mr garbatsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.279 us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.040 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.840 are satisfied with Trump is not going to be president 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.240 of the United States, take it to the bank. Together, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:35.279 we will make America great again. It's what you've been 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.560 waiting for all day. Buck Sexton, with America now joined 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.080 the conversation called buck toll free at eight four four 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.440 nine hundred buck. That's eight four four, nine hundred to 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.680 eight to five the future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.920 Remember this day in which it was singled out for 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.080 attack in the General Assembly for the very act of 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.720 exercising our right as a sovereign nation. We will remember 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.080 it when we are called upon to once again make 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.360 the world's largest contribution to the United Nations. And we 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.039 will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.040 as they so often do, to pay even more and 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.160 to use our influence for their benefit. America will put 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.240 our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.360 want us to do, and it is the right thing 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.080 to do. No vote in the United Nations will make 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.280 any difference on that but this vote will make a 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.520 difference on how Americans look at the u N and 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.840 on how we look at countries who disrespect us in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.960 the u N box. Sex in here Team, Great to 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.040 have you with me in the Freedom Hut. That was 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.640 US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Hailey laying a 0:01:54.800 --> 0:02:00.240 SmackDown on the United Nations General Assembly today. I have 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.040 to say it was quite a good day for the 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:08.400 ambassador and a day of clarity for many of the 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.640 rest of us. We're not surprised to find out that 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.000 the United Nations has quite an anti Israeli and in 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.040 fact anti Semitic streak. That's not news. And we're not 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:24.280 surprised that a bunch of countries all over the world 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:29.079 that pretend to be courageous in moments like this where 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.200 there's a vote that means nothing but they want to 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.200 get on the record anyway. We won't be surprised when 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.359 they come asking for our help later on. But this 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.040 is where we see the difference, isn't it between this 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.679 administration and the previous one. The Obama administration was all 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.240 about trying to just fit in with the pack of 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.480 the international community, trying to be a part of all 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.000 the different nations out there and really no different and 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.840 in so many ways, no better than all the other countries. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:08.280 And that's just nonsense. It's not true. Clap track. We 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.480 are better than almost all countries in every sense, and 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.519 we are the best country in a general sense. So 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:21.560 it's nice to have some top down reaffirmation of that 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.680 at the United Nations. The world sleep soundly at night 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.560 despite the fact that our military could crush anybody. The 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.600 world is in fact a much better place each and 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:39.480 every day because of America and the fact that Israel 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:45.440 in such a short span of time has created a 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.640 rule of law based democracy in the heart of the 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.360 Middle East, where people have rights and a high standard 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:58.040 of living and are coming up with new vaccines and 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.080 computer technologies and on cutting edge of so many different industries. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:04.880 And then you look around in the neighborhood and you're like, well, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:10.160 what's going on outside of Israeli borders. People feel very 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.520 insecure about it. I guess you could say other nations, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.120 whether it's Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Egypt or 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.000 name a country, they see what's happened in Israel, and 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.239 they have to tell themselves lies about what's really happened 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.040 because they can't accept the truth. And then is that 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:37.280 autocracy and theocracy more specifically in the case of the 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:43.679 Saudias and many other Muslim states, is a path to misery. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.680 And the Israelis have something else. They have rule of law. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.520 They have a decent country and society that is the 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.720 envy of the rest of the region. And that is 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.000 why it is so hated by the rest of the region. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.080 And we have America, close friend and ally of the 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:07.080 Israeli state, that under this president, with this US Ambassador 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.159 to the United Nations, will actually say, you know what, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:16.760 enough of enough of the garbage, enough of the crap 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.560 that we have to deal with from all of you here. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.000 You should be so thankful that the current global hedgemon 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.400 is as benevolent and decent to powers of the the United States. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.880 You know, I see these polls that are out there, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.880 and there was one that was out pretty recently about 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.080 which country is the one that is viewed as the 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.760 greatest threat to peace instability, And in a lot of 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.159 the world, it's America. It's a shocking number of countries 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.960 they say it's America. The only real exceptions are in 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:53.400 countries where there's an imminent national security challenger next door, right, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.880 So in India it's Pakistan and Pakistan it's India. You know, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.279 in South Korea it's North Korea and North Koda. But 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.440 if you look at a lot of polling, it will 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.400 show you that around the world they view America as 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:10.280 the biggest threat. And it's just a reminder that there's 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.200 really no gratitude for the greatness of this country from 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.720 a lot of the world, not from all of it. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.760 There are countless tens of millions that want to come here. Really, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.880 probably hundreds of millions that would love to come to 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.600 America if they really were given the option, because they 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.960 understand at this place is the best. There's nothing jingoistic 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:36.000 or strange about professing that America is number one because 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.520 we are, and that's okay. It doesn't mean that every 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.360 American is better than or worth more than people from 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.880 every other country. It just means, as as a nation state, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.799 as these things go, we are in fact the best, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.320 and we want others to live in happiness and prosperity 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.600 and liberty and security. And they should be happy that 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.560 that's the case, because it hasn't always been so. Oh, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.719 it's not always the reality of whatever the global hedgemon 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.200 or the regional hedgemon. Maybe at any point in time. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 The great empires of the past were built on slavery 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.720 in one form or another and conquest. We are the 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.360 first to take at least the mantle of British leadership, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.880 although now we're talking about colonial period and create a 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:30.040 better world. Uh and the United Nations is a reflection 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.640 I think of the disconnect that so many other countries 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.200 have when it comes to what is the truth, what 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.040 is the reality of America, and it is that they 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.600 should be very thankful. I'm not expecting everyone all of 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.320 the world to pray to America every day, but I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.120 also don't think that they should be slapping us in 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.200 the face or that their leadership should be without consequence. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.720 Given that this is none of their concern. They can 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.880 pretend it is, but where America puts its embassy is 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.400 the business of America. America and the host country that's it. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.640 This is not up for discussion or debate from other countries. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.520 This is our call, you know. This is like all 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.320 the other countries of the world coming over to our 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.800 house and saying, you know what you're gonna you're gonna 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.520 put the kitchen here, no facts. Actually we'll decide where 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.880 we put the kitchen. Not not up to you. It's 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.160 our house. Thanks a lot. They should be embarrassed, all 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.720 these countries that did this today. But it is a 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.960 moment in time, and we can see that the Trump 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:37.040 administration is oh so different from its predecessor. No bowing, No, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.680 oh gosh, what have we done so badly all over 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.880 the world. Maybe US foreign policy is the cause of 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.600 so many of these ills that we see happening. Maybe 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.839 the global war on terrorism is just one big, long, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.080 extended blowback to US foreign policy. These are beliefs on 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.559 the left that have infused themselves in the Democratic Party. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.720 They've taken this stuff on, and at the very top 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.920 level there is at least some level of adherence to it. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:11.040 There's some acceptance of these ideas all the way up 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.280 to the commander in chief in the previous administration obombed 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.280 himself and America was the cause of problems in the world, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:25.000 that America should be humbling itself before other powers. And 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.920 the difference is quite a contrast, isn't it right now? 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.119 And you see it on display the United Nations instead 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.640 of being thankful for what we do all over the 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.120 world takes its first chance here to say that they 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.280 condemn our actions. It doesn't really mean anything. But then 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.240 we have to start to think, well the symbolism, do 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.600 symbolism have meaning or not? The United Nations is honestly 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.600 more symbolic than anything else. A lot of bureaucrats, I know, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.760 some people who have worked at the U n say 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.280 that you've got some nice, you know, benefits, but nothing 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:07.360 really happens in any meaningful sense, doesn't stop genocides from occurring, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.280 doesn't end civil wars, and creates forums for discussion that 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.920 are largely unnecessary, and as we will talk about just 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.120 a little bit, focus way too much on Israel, as 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.120 though this small country in the Middle East, surrounded by 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:30.400 generally hostile powers, is the great threat to international stability. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.319 It's just a constant reminder of the inadequacy of the various, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:42.400 particularly Arab Muslim regimes that currently exist. That's that's why Israelists, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.200 at least one of the major reasons why it is 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.680 so bothersome to them. Why are these really so much 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.920 more prosperous and militarily more powerful than we are. It's 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.400 it's an it's a worthwhile question for them to actually 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.080 look at honestly, but they won't. Instead, they'll just spread 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:04.840 anti anti Semitic wise and defamation and wine and use 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.280 the Palestinians as a as a pawn, try and escape 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:15.640 accountability for the failures of Islamic leadership. That's just what's happening, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.040 that's the truth. But they won't want to see it 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.319 that way. So today was It was a good day, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.640 and Nicki Haley did an excellent job. I must say 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.000 I've often wondered why, in the face of such hostility, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.440 Israel has chosen to remain a member of this body. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.760 And then I remember that Israel has chosen to remain 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.280 in this institution because it's important to stand up for yourself. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.480 Israel must stand up for its own survival as a nation, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.600 but it also stands up for the ideals of freedom 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.120 and human dignity that the United Nations is supposed to 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:58.120 be about. Would you would you rather be? And you 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.800 can do this thought experiment in so many different ways. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.400 You know, would you rather be taken on the battlefield 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:09.640 as an enemy in in Israel, or in Syria or 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.839 in Saudi Arabia. Look at what the Saudis are doing 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:18.480 to the Yemen's right now, Yemen is a humanitarian disaster. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.520 Saudis are writing incredibly wealthy Saudis are right next door 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.880 and just letting the place burn and and involved in 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:32.000 a vicious air campaign as well. So you can, you 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.160 can have the thought experiments so many different ways. But 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:40.080 the Israelis represent twenty one century civilization in a region 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.199 that could use quite a bit more of that these days. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.720 And that's just the truth. We will take a bunch 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.920 of calls if you want today. I'd love to talk 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.240 to you about the tax bill. It looks like a 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.760 continuing resolution has been passed at least by the House. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.000 Is that the latest that there's not going to be 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.000 a shutdown? Right? That's all you did? There will be 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.000 no shutdown? Yeah, okay, we got we got away for 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.160 the Senate stuff. So the House is passed it. We'll 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.360 see what happens with the Senate. There's not enough of 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.000 a there's not enough attention on them to do a 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.559 shutdown over the Christmas holiday. Plus the government's kind of 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.319 shut down of the holiday anyway, it's like, oh gosh, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.240 what will happen? The government shuts down and pretty much 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.079 shuts down Saturday and Sunday every week, and we all survive. Everybody, 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.840 it's okay. You know what's what's really gonna kill us, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.040 all his net neutrality. That's where we're all gonna die. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.800 Eight four or four n eight to five, eight four 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:36.000 four nine hundred buck second to last show of twenty seventeen. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.520 I can't say it out loud too many times where 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.240 I might get a little teary eyed here and get 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.720 little weepy. It's amazing how fast fast time flies, Team Buck, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.960 you're all grown up now. Oh gosh, nationwide over a 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.719 hundred twenty stations, Oh gosh, eight four four nine to 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.040 eight to five. I'll be right back. Of these nations 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.240 that take our money and then they vote against us 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.800 at the Security Council when they vote against potentially at 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.440 the Assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.839 even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.640 we're watching those votes. Let him vote against us will 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.679 save a lot. We don't care. But this isn't like 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.480 it used to be, where they could vote against you 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.440 and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.840 and nobody knows what they're doing. So, Nikki, that was 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.640 the right message that you and I agreed to be 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.440 sent yesterday, and I've had a lot of good comment 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.920 on it. Believing people are tired of the United States. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.280 The people that live here are great citizens that love 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.240 this country. They're tired of this country being taken advantage of, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.960 and we're not going to be taken advantage of any longer. Amen, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:44.960 How is that controversial? You get all these stuffy, hissy 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.280 foreign policy types were like, oh, how could he? The 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.040 United Nations? Really, why do we have to give the 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.040 most money the U N. I got even better question 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.800 as a New Yorker why they have to have the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.560 U n headquarters here? Put it somewhere else where they 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.360 don't cause so much congestion and traffic and where there 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.440 aren't so many great restaurants and ways for these countries 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.920 to have their bureaucrats spending their taxpayers dollars. You know, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.120 I'm sure there's like a like an island somewhere. Send 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.760 them to. I don't know, some other place the Falklands 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.320 that's a little out of the way, But I'm just saying, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.320 you gotta find somewhere else to put them all right, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.480 everybody wants to talk taxes, we give be that. I'm 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.320 gonna have our friend dovid Iffun from the Alga Minor 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.440 talk to us about you went vote today with Nicki Haley. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.120 But let's take We got lines lit up all over 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.680 the place. I know I'm gonna miss you all too. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.400 I know I gotta get a lot of calls today tomorrow, Becau, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.800 I'm gonna not get to talk to you guys for 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.520 a few days. Gonna make me. It's gonna give me 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.360 the sadness. I'm gonna be sad. Um. Let's get Anne 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:52.720 in Virginia. What's up an? Yeah, me too, but I'll 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.280 be back. It's gonna be a funen here in the hut. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:05.160 Okay um, okay. Gave employees a crossboard raise today and 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:14.720 Christmas bonuses because the tax bill passed exactly. Yeah, it's 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.800 good stuff. And yet is there a more democratically endorsed uh? 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.040 You know them? No Democrats care about the middle class 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.960 until someone does something from the middle class, and then 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.000 they go kind of radio silent on or they lie 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.720 about it and say it's bad. All right, and we're 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.440 kind of losing here, so we're gonna roll and thank 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.280 you and shields. I have a merry Christmas to you. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.560 I couldn't really hear what you were saying, Uh, Wayne 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.760 in Florida. Hey, Wayne, Hey, I just wanted to remind 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.520 you it's not really a whole home continuing resolution in 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.800 the in the Senate. Since they passed the tax bill 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.920 and it did away with the individual mandate, the Lamar 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.440 Alexander and Patty Murraam and McConnell is going to slap 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.640 on the you can tinuing resolution and sneaking in there 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.360 as an insurance company bailout. So remind everybody to call 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.359 the Wayne you're you're you're an are you die? Fellow? 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:13.399 What does that mean? Well, it means that they're gonna 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.879 end up giving millions to the insurance kudability and whatever 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.040 to the insurance companies saying well, since you're losing all 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.560 these customers, we've got to do something that, you know, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.440 make up the loss you're gonna take when all these 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.080 customers drop off voluntarily. And so we want to make 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.120 sure that people tell their senators no on the amendment. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.840 But see, I don't understand why would they bail out 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.560 the whole purpose of repealing the individual mandate as I 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.119 see it is to show everybody that the moment you 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.560 have free choice in these exchanges, they collapse because people 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.320 don't want to buy this stuff. Because a lot of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.159 people get a bad deal. Why why would they want 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.840 to bail them out? I agree we should not. I 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.359 assume it's a McConnell deal, or somebody's getting some money 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.240 from the insurance companies, some kickback, some finance, some Okay, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.680 you're our big donors. We need to do something orious. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.280 They didn't just pull that out of a Yeah. Hey, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.879 I give Shields tie Wayne, thank you for calling. And 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.520 Merry Christmas. I give a Trish Reagan over at Fox 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.480 Business a lot of credit. She's she's pounding the drum 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.440 on the Carrie interest loophole, which is a straight up 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.600 giveaway to private equity and hedge fund guys. And for 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.280 those of you who don't have too much familiarity with 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.480 those businesses, they make a lot of money, and the 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.679 difference between what they pay in taxes on their large 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:36.280 incomes with the carried interest loophole and without it is like, uh, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.200 you know, paying half, it's big. It is a big difference. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.160 And yeah, that was just that was the donor class. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.520 Don't forget it. The donor class is not just alive 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.879 and well but still got a lot of power inside 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.920 the GOP. And this tax cut. Yes, Trump allowed this 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.159 to happen. Without Trump, this doesn't happen. Trump allowed this 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.400 to happen because without him, we don't win the White House. Right, 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.800 But this is a very mainstream, mainline GOP thing. This 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.680 is not a radical tax bill. This is what the GOP. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.200 The look at Paul Ryan, right, he couldn't be any happier. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.680 He's like a kid on Christmas a few days before Christmas. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.760 So just remember this. It's good, but there's some stuff 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.200 in there that's a little annoying, and we shouldn't forget that. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.119 There's got to be a lot more done. I'm not 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.720 even gonna talk about I'm not gonna be the grinch 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.080 today talks about the debt. But it's a problem. Well, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.160 we'll talk about that some other day. I got your 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.200 calls screens lit. Let's take David in just a moment 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.840 here that he's out of the vote. He's as follows 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:51.879 in favor against nine abstentions Draft Resolution A slash E 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.439 s nash ten slash L twenty two, he's an update. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:05.320 So the u N General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.399 condemn the United States decision to move a United States 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:14.879 facility within a sovereign nation and member of the United Nations. Well, 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.520 what are we to make of all this? Really, We've 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.000 got David I Fune online now he's the editor in 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.120 chief of the Alga. Minor David gred to have you back, 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.879 always a pleasant book, I guess today it was not surprising, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.199 but I think it's at some level still disappointing. David 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.960 in some level, yes, but but in another level not so. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.280 And I think for two reasons. The festival, you know, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.240 at the u N to begin with, is deeply problematic, 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.680 and that's very very well known, the sense that it's 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.679 you know, there are automatic majorities of the organization of 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.560 Islamic corporation, the lonline movement, that are against Western interests, 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.880 whatever they are. But I think we have seen some 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.960 some movement in the opposite direction here. If you combine 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:05.879 the abstentions together with countries that didn't show up, together 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.520 with those countries that voted against, you have about sixty 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.440 one date that refused to play along with this latent 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:17.520 and engregious degradation of of the u N cause and 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.399 what the UN is supposed to stand for. Um So, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.560 in that sense, I would say pigeon steps forward. But 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.280 I think the bigger progress is actually on the U 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.359 S front and the US approach to the u N. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.159 I mean, under the Abama administration, we saw a White 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.399 House that kind of was easier, was eager to curry 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.320 favor with the u N and and seek the approval 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.840 of the international community for various policies. And here you 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.720 have a White House which I think is taking the 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.879 right approach, and that is listen, you know, we we 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.720 know what's right. We're doing the right thing, and we're 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.080 keeping track of those of those other countries that are 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.400 joining us. And by the way, they'll be repercussions because 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:59.679 everybody needs something from America. What are the reasons for 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:04.000 so many of these countries, David, that are are far 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:09.920 away from from Israel, from the territories of Gaza and 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:13.720 the West Bank. Why do have European countries, for example, 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:18.359 that are voting to condemn this. Well, I think you know, 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.520 there's all kinds of different reasons, but I think you 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.360 know that the European countries, by the way I would say, 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:29.080 have have the least excuse some of the other countries. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.200 You know, they might say, well, we need the support 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.360 of of Russia, we need the support of the Arab States. 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.760 We need we need to you know, we need to 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:41.280 kind of be included in these these UN groupings in 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.679 order to have our voice heard at all, because you know, 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.399 we're just a small country, etcetera. So there are there 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.639 are those types of explanations. Certainly, you know, there's the 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:56.000 ideological explanation, which is the position of the Arab States 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.600 who view Israel as uh the worst thing that ever 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:02.240 happened uh on the planet, and that's how they act. 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.000 But it's also a distraction from from their own regimes 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:08.080 and their own behaviors. And they feel if they can 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.200 point the finger at israelis as the world's worst actor 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:16.040 than they that's gonna distract from their own terrible activities. 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:20.400 And uh, you know, we're talking about authoritarian and and 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:25.560 and theysposic regime set. Uh. The Europeans you mentioned specifically 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:28.080 really have no excuse. And I think it's just this 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:33.240 sort of moral preening which is frankly pathetic. And we're 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:38.040 starting to see segments of Europe, particularly in Europe. Uh, 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.840 take a step back. You had today the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.680 Poland all abstained, which I would say is a good 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:49.640 step in terms of a breakaway from European tradition, hopefully 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.600 one that will continue and grow. David I fun Is 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.240 the editor in chief of the Alga Minor, David, does 0:23:56.240 --> 0:24:00.679 this set the stage in your mind for an actual 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:04.359 rejuvenation of the peace process or a restart of the 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:06.800 peace process in the future. I mean, what what does 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.040 this most likely lead to in terms of the US 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:14.000 relationship in brokering some kind of a deal in twenty 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:17.840 eight team between Israel and the Palestinians. But I think 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:19.920 the vote itself at the u N today is is 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.920 mostly irrelevant in visa vita peace process. It's what the 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.040 vote was about that is more relevant. Now. I mean 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:30.520 moving the embassy right in terms of moving the embassy right, 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.200 So I think that actually is quite relevant and it's 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:36.240 it's my personal view that it will do more to 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.480 move the cause of peace forward. You know, this administration 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:43.160 has has has shown time again and made very clear 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.440 that they're determined to do things differently and that they're 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:49.840 not going to keep implementing the same policies and then 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:52.480