Speaker 1: I want to get you up to date on what's
Speaker 1: happening with Canada right now. And there's something very weird, odd, strange, unique,
Speaker 1: and honestly, not surprising, all at the same time happening.
Speaker 1: And that is, it looks like Liberal Democrats are now
Speaker 1: working with Canada to undermine President Donald Trump. Now, the
Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister Carney appointed a longtime Democrat political operative.
Speaker 1: to a newly created senior position in his government. The
Speaker 1: latest action in a long history between prominent Democrats colluding
Speaker 1: with the country's leaders to oppose the Trump administration. The
Speaker 1: two countries are now embroiled in a tense back and forth,
Speaker 1: years in the making that threatens American interests on trade
Speaker 1: as well as national security. Now, in mid-July, Carney appointed
Speaker 1: Johnson as chief operating officer of the prime minister's office.
Speaker 1: The position is the equivalent of the White House chief
Speaker 1: of staff, and she is the first person to hold
Speaker 1: the title in the Canadian government. Johnson also concurrently serves
Speaker 1: as senior special advisor for, quote, United States stakeholder strategy,
Speaker 1: a post she was hired in February of this year
Speaker 1: to have as well. Now, what makes this arrangement unusual
Speaker 1: is as an American citizen, Johnson, yes, you heard that right,
Speaker 1: as an American citizen, Democrat operative, Johnson is forbidden from
Speaker 1: top secret security clearance. As Carney's top deputy, it's unclear
Speaker 1: what access Johnson receives to classified or secure materials. Now,
Speaker 1: there was also no official announcement of the hire on
Speaker 1: the prime minister's official website, which makes this even more
Speaker 1: interesting because normally you would publicize something like this unless
Speaker 1: you're trying to downplay it on purpose. Now, Johnson's professional
Speaker 1: history is lined with connections to Democrats in America. Remember,
Speaker 1: this is an American citizen. In 2016, for example, she
Speaker 1: was listed as director of scheduling. for the failed Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton presidential campaign in 2020. She also worked for Michael
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's now-defunct hawkish political consulting firm. and provided, quote unquote,
Speaker 1: strategic consulting services to the Biden campaign from August through
Speaker 1: December of 2020. Now, when I say this is a
Speaker 1: top level American citizen, Democratic operative who's now the chief
Speaker 1: of staff in Canada for the prime minister. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: should all be saying what in the world's going on? Now,
Speaker 1: that's not all she's done. Now, before I get to that,
Speaker 1: I also want to talk to you about the International
Speaker 1: Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the rising anti-Semitism that's
Speaker 1: happening not only in the U.S., but around the world
Speaker 1: every day. And the Jewish people continue to pay the
Speaker 1: price from growing threats against Jewish communities to acts of violence,
Speaker 1: harassment and intimidation. Many Jewish families are living with fear
Speaker 1: simply because they are Jewish. Synagogues, schools, and community centers
Speaker 1: continue strengthening security as hatred spreads far.
Speaker 2: Beyond the headlines.
Speaker 1: And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Speaker 1: is working every day in Israel and around the world,
Speaker 1: providing security, emergency assistance, food, and critical care for vulnerable
Speaker 1: Jewish communities. For more than 40 years, the fellowship has
Speaker 1: stood alongside the Jewish people, delivering practical support when it
Speaker 1: is needed the most. Hatred, it continues to spread, but
Speaker 1: compassion and action can make a world of difference. So
Speaker 1: I want you to join the International Fellowship of Christians
Speaker 1: and Jews and me in doing one simple thing. Praying
Speaker 1: for the safety of the Jewish people, for peace in Israel,
Speaker 1: and for an end to anti-Semitism. Together, we can remind
Speaker 1: God's people that they are not alone. If you want
Speaker 1: to know what to pray for, you can stand with
Speaker 1: Israel in prayer today by visiting PrayIFCJ.org.
Speaker 2: That is PrayIFCJ.org. All right.
Speaker 1: So now let's get back to Johnson again, chief of
Speaker 1: staff to the prime minister in Canada, an American citizen
Speaker 1: who is now working against the United States of America
Speaker 1: and also work for the Biden campaign, Hillary Clinton's campaign,
Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg's campaign, you know, our consulting firm, I should say.
Speaker 1: And let me also just tell you, she also took
Speaker 1: a position with Bloomberg LP. It's unclear if she worked
Speaker 1: for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2024, and the FEC records
Speaker 1: do not show expenditures connected to her. She did, though,
Speaker 1: contribute to the campaign via the radical organization ActBlue. Am
Speaker 1: I painting a good enough picture for you now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty damning, right? Now, Johnson's ties to Bloomberg serve
Speaker 1: as the thorough way to Carney and the web of
Speaker 1: the Democrats to enjoy access to the prime minister in
Speaker 1: Canada as UN special envoy on climate action and finance.
Speaker 1: Carney focused on developing tools, guidance and products for investors
Speaker 1: that will combine positive social and environmental outcomes with strong
Speaker 1: risk adjusted returns, quote unquote. That, according to a biography
Speaker 1: from the World Bank. Now, Carney served in the position
Speaker 1: beginning in 19, following stints as governor of the Bank
Speaker 1: of England and the Bank of Canada.
Speaker 2: Now, in his U.N.
Speaker 1: Role, Carney co-chaired the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
Speaker 2: And guess what?
Speaker 1: The American, who's now the chief of staff in Canada,
Speaker 1: provided him with research and support. Yeah, all of this,
Speaker 1: you get my point. Now you know just how bad
Speaker 1: it is. Now, when the American citizen Johnson joined the
Speaker 1: Canadian government, her portfolio focused on U.S.
Speaker 2: Stakeholder strategy. And Canadian-U.S. relations.
Speaker 1: Carney and Canada's Liberal Party has hosted a number of
Speaker 1: establishment Democrats, and this is where it gets really interesting.
Speaker 1: A great example of the radicals they host in Canada,
Speaker 1: Alex Soros, has also made visits to Canada twice just
Speaker 1: this year. while former President Barack Obama gave a speech
Speaker 1: at the Canada 2020 Gala in Toronto, showing Carney's success,
Speaker 1: bringing them to Canada to strategize against President Donald Trump. Now,
Speaker 1: another connection between Washington Democrats and Carney. is Gerald Butts,
Speaker 1: the former political advisor and strategist to the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau. Now, he is well known in Canada as
Speaker 1: the architect of liberals' climate and net zero policies, you know,
Speaker 1: the Green New Deal, making him a natural ally, yet again,
Speaker 1: for Carney.
Speaker 2: Now, this isn't the only big connections.
Speaker 1: We also now have learned that Carney and Butts also
Speaker 1: hold significant ties to John Podesta. You'll remember that name
Speaker 1: because he's the longtime Democratic power broker, dating all the
Speaker 1: way back to the Clinton administration, where he served as
Speaker 1: White House chief of staff. Podesta chaired the Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: campaign in 2016 and would later serve in multiple climate
Speaker 1: related roles in the Biden administration. You know, when Solyndra
Speaker 1: and all those things were going on, where they wasted
Speaker 1: your tax dollars by the billions and billions of.
Speaker 2: Dollars, you know, during that time.
Speaker 1: Now, Hillary Clinton was a featured speaker at a Canada
Speaker 1: 2020 conference and also in 2014, an event that also
Speaker 1: served as a fundraiser. for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Speaker 1: In 17, even a former speechwriter for Conservative Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Stephen Harper told the New York Post in 2015, quote,
Speaker 1: Podesta and Butts clearly know each other, but Carney's campaign
Speaker 1: has been very careful not to tie him to anyone
Speaker 1: too specifically. Podesta reportedly helped facilitate a private meeting involving Carney,
Speaker 1: Obama and Soros at the former president's May 2016 speech
Speaker 1: in Toronto. This was followed several weeks later by another
Speaker 1: private gathering in Nova Scotia. And that meeting included federal
Speaker 1: industry ministers, as well as Soros' wife, Uma Abedin, a
Speaker 1: longtime Hillary Clinton loyalist, and Frank McKenna, who currently serves
Speaker 1: as the deputy chair of TD Bank Group and chair
Speaker 1: of the Brooksfield Asset Management. Now, I tell you about
Speaker 1: all this so you understand just how heavy the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is deep inside of Canada.
Speaker 2: And what are they doing?
Speaker 1: Doing everything they can right now to undermine the president
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Even Stephen Moore, talking
Speaker 1: about the tariffs on Fox Business Channel, had this to say.
Speaker 3: But I do want to point out to the viewers
Speaker 3: that China has, I mean, Canada has been cheating. They
Speaker 3: are imposing very high tariffs on American farm goods, our
Speaker 3: manufacturing goods, our technology products. And so they have been
Speaker 3: imposing pretty high tariffs.
Speaker 4: On the U.S.
Speaker 3: And what Trump wants to do is force Canada to
Speaker 3: bring those down.
Speaker 2: I think it's a wise strategy.
Speaker 1: So the big question is this. If Canada has been cheating,
Speaker 1: the question is for how long? And how long has
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party been enabling Canada to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the United States of America? This is, by the way,
Speaker 1: why President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on roughly 20 billion
Speaker 1: worth of Canadian goods that took effect on August the
Speaker 1: 22nd on Saturday. Well, he did it after those negotiations
Speaker 1: between us and Canada collapsed. And he understands what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you now. There are bad actors in Canada who
Speaker 1: represent America that are somehow working on the side of
Speaker 1: Canada to undermine Donald Trump. You think about how much
Speaker 1: liberals hate America. They're willing to go work for the
Speaker 1: other team to hurt Donald Trump. And that means they're
Speaker 1: hurting all of us. By the way, the White House
Speaker 1: says Canada is discriminating against American commerce. Where's the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party and why aren't they standing up for American commerce?
Speaker 1: And if you look at dairy and alcohol and automobiles, well,
Speaker 1: you look at just how big of an advantage Canada has.
Speaker 1: You got to ask yourself this question. Why would Democrats
Speaker 1: ever agree to supporting Canada knowing what they're doing? when
Speaker 1: it comes to the double standard in trade. Trump has
Speaker 1: now threatened another major escalation, doubling tariffs on Canadian cars,
Speaker 1: trucks and auto parts from 25% to 50% beginning January 1.
Speaker 1: And that would be especially significant because the U.S. and
Speaker 1: Canadian auto industries have deeply integrated supply chains. What's clear
Speaker 1: is the president of the United States of America, even
Speaker 1: if he is having to fight Canada right now, well,
Speaker 1: he's not afraid apparently to fight the liberals, to fight
Speaker 1: the Democrats in this country who are now working to
Speaker 1: undermine America on behalf of the Canadian prime minister. U.S.
Speaker 1: immigration officers, we now are being told, have been reassigned
Speaker 1: to screen South African refugees and find unlawful voters. This
Speaker 1: is big breaking news as all U.S. immigration officers working
Speaker 1: for a key anti-fraud unit have been reassigned by the
Speaker 1: Trump administration to focus on screening South African refugees and
Speaker 1: alleged unlawful voters. The Fraud Detection and National Security Directive
Speaker 1: immigration officers have been shifted full-time onto two high-priority initiatives,
Speaker 1: that according to the internal correspondence seen by The Guardian.
Speaker 2: Leaving U.S.
Speaker 1: Citizenship and Immigration Services, known as the USCIS, unable to
Speaker 1: provide officers to train asylum officers in the near future.
Speaker 1: But this is designed on purpose to make sure that
Speaker 1: America stays safe. The USCIS is inside the Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security, which has led Donald Trump's immigration crackdown during
Speaker 1: his second term. The processing of asylum claims has largely
Speaker 1: ground to a halt during Trump's administration. leaving many seeking
Speaker 1: asylum in limbo. And why is that happening? Because of
Speaker 1: the countless number of legal immigrants that the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: allowed to come across our southern border. So if you're
Speaker 1: angry about this chaos and limbo, if you're a liberal
Speaker 1: out there, just know this could have all been avoided
Speaker 1: if you didn't have wide open southern borders for countless years.
Speaker 1: The immigration officers have been reassigned, we're being told, full
Speaker 1: time to these high priority initiatives. South Africa refugee screening
Speaker 1: and then unlawful voter screening as well. The message sent
Speaker 1: on Monday said because of this, we will not have
Speaker 1: the ability to assign immigration officers to the training portfolio
Speaker 1: for the near future. Now contacted for comment, the USCIS
Speaker 1: spokesman said the directorate works on different vetting portfolios to
Speaker 1: combat fraud, maintain the integrity of the immigration system, which
Speaker 1: clearly we had completely lost in the Biden administration, and
Speaker 1: then also detect national security and public safety threats, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: this mission set includes a number of those priorities, including
Speaker 1: election integrity, and refugee screening. Now, the FDNS is the
Speaker 1: USCIS unit responsible for detecting fraud and national security concerns
Speaker 1: in immigration benefits applications, including asylum claims. Its officers work
Speaker 1: with asylum offices to identify cases requiring what they describe
Speaker 1: as further investigation. refer matters to law enforcement, and help
Speaker 1: asylum officers identify potential fraud and other red flags. Now,
Speaker 1: the reassignment marks a significant diversion of FDNS personnel. The
Speaker 1: message addresses only the agency's ability to provide officers for
Speaker 1: asylum officer training. It does not say whether routine FDNS
Speaker 1: screening of pending asylum applications is has also slowed or
Speaker 1: stopped altogether. Now, a disruption to training would limit specialized
Speaker 1: instruction for asylum officers, and a broader slowdown in casework
Speaker 1: screening would have more direct consequences, they say, for pending applications.
Speaker 1: But here's the part that's really important. The refugee screening
Speaker 1: priority is part of the Trump administration's bid. They say
Speaker 1: to sharply curtail U.S. refugee resettlement. while also prioritizing admissions
Speaker 1: of South Africans, primarily from an area where U.S. officials
Speaker 1: say they face racial discrimination and quote unquote white genocide,
Speaker 1: which the South African government has, quote, rejected as unfounded
Speaker 1: and politically motivated. Now the most recent refugee report from
Speaker 1: the U.S. State Department detailed that of the 10,258 refugees
Speaker 1: admitted to the U.S. between October 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026,
Speaker 1: 1,255 were from South Africa. The remaining three were Afghans
Speaker 1: that were admitted in November. Now, the second priority identified
Speaker 1: in this clear message, the screening for, quote, unlawful voters,
Speaker 1: that appears to be part of the broader administration's effort
Speaker 1: to identify non-citizens alleged to have registered to vote in U.S.
Speaker 2: Elections.
Speaker 1: Now, experts have expressed a lot of concern. Now, President
Speaker 1: Trump has expressed a lot of concern about this being
Speaker 1: a significant problem. And that's part of the reason why
Speaker 1: clearly the resources are being moved to deal with our
Speaker 1: midterm elections that are coming up. Now, the USCIS has
Speaker 1: already moved to bar naturalization for green card holders who
Speaker 1: voted or registered to vote, showing that if you skip
Speaker 1: out on the system or abuse the system and you
Speaker 1: think you're going to become an American citizen under this administration,
Speaker 1: you are dead wrong. Now, I want to get to
Speaker 1: you more of the story of what President Trump's trying
Speaker 1: to do, and I'm going to do that for you
Speaker 1: in a moment. But before we get to that, right now,
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Speaker 1: That's Compassion.com. So let me get back to the president's
Speaker 1: agenda on this issue for a second. DHS Secretary, for example,
Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen, said in July that the department has
Speaker 1: identified over 250,000 potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in California,
Speaker 1: in Nevada, in New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a shocking number. And the point is, the president has
Speaker 1: made it clear what his agenda items are. He wants
Speaker 1: to make sure that our elections are secure. He wants
Speaker 1: to make sure that if you're in this country taking
Speaker 1: advantage of this country, especially on a green card, that
Speaker 1: you will be held accountable for your abusing the system.
Speaker 1: And he wants to make sure that if you do
Speaker 1: ever vote in an election illegally and you are a
Speaker 1: green card holder or trying to become an American citizen,
Speaker 1: that you will never receive that incredible gift. Now, if
Speaker 1: you just go back to the very basics here, one
Speaker 1: thing is very clear. This president is saying he is
Speaker 1: going to trust but verify when it comes to our
Speaker 1: election system. He's making sure that there are actually checks
Speaker 1: and balances, not just a bunch of people looking the
Speaker 1: other way. And one thing's for sure. You cannot trust
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party with these elections at all. They will
Speaker 1: lie to your face and tell you that the border
Speaker 1: is secure while millions of Americans are coming across the
Speaker 1: border illegally. They will also tell you that our election
Speaker 1: system is secure, even while you know that there are
Speaker 1: actually documented cases of illegal immigrants who have registered to
Speaker 1: vote and have voted in our prior elections. So this
Speaker 1: will be a very important moment, a moment where the
Speaker 1: president of the United States of America is saying, I
Speaker 1: am going to make sure that whatever happened before doesn't
Speaker 1: happen again. And if there is cheating, we're going to
Speaker 1: find it and we'll hold those accountable for it. And
Speaker 1: if there's no cheating, great. Then we're doing our job
Speaker 1: exactly the way that we should be. So here's the
Speaker 1: president letting those bad actors know less than 70 days
Speaker 1: out from the midterms that we are paying attention to
Speaker 1: our elections like never before. Yet again, there's another political
Speaker 1: controversy that is exploding right now around Hassan Piker. Now,
Speaker 1: Hassan Piker is one of the most influential left wing
Speaker 1: streamers online in America. He has now made yet again
Speaker 1: another offensive comment about American Jews. And now it is
Speaker 1: forcing Democrats to condemn exactly what he has said. They're
Speaker 1: now having to admit that, OK, maybe he actually is, well, anti-Semitic.
Speaker 1: And this story matters for a reason beyond one Internet
Speaker 1: personality saying something outrageous that happens all the time. Hassan
Speaker 1: Piker has millions of followers. He has become a extremely
Speaker 1: influential voice among young progressives and Democratic politicians have appeared
Speaker 1: with him, courted his audience and in some cases campaigned
Speaker 1: alongside him. Now, finally, some Democrats are scrambling to put
Speaker 1: distance between themselves and Piker after his latest comments. During
Speaker 1: a live stream last week, and that has now gone viral,
Speaker 1: Piker was discussing American Jews, Israel, and anti-Semitism when he
Speaker 1: warned that if Jews in America continue presenting themselves as
Speaker 1: heavily invested in Israel, quote, eventually someone's going to come
Speaker 1: around and take action. Not against Israel, he said, but
Speaker 1: against American Jews. He went on to argue that Jews
Speaker 1: who tie their identity to Israel are making anti-Semitism worse.
Speaker 1: So in other words, if you're Jewish, shut up about it.
Speaker 1: And if you don't, someone's going to take you out.
Speaker 1: And if you like Israel and you're Jewish, then you're
Speaker 1: just making anti-Semitism worse. So therefore, it's your fault that
Speaker 1: you like Israel and you shouldn't do that. All of
Speaker 1: the implications of this argument are massively anti-Semitic, and even
Speaker 1: worse than that, they're calling for violence against anyone that
Speaker 1: is Jewish in America. You already have a massive problem
Speaker 1: with anti-Semitism and threats against Jewish institutions. They become an
Speaker 1: enormous concern. And so now Piker's like, hey, let's double
Speaker 1: down on that, right? Let's actually point at the Jews
Speaker 1: and say they're the ones responsible. Instead of being the victims,
Speaker 1: we're going to say it's your fault that this has
Speaker 1: happened to you. Now, Piker, of course, is disputing these
Speaker 1: interpretations as so many are angry. He says he wasn't, quote,
Speaker 1: advocating for violence. He says he was warning Jews about
Speaker 1: what he believes could happen because of political identification with Israel.
Speaker 1: He has called the outrage over his comments, quote unquote,
Speaker 1: a smear. Again, this coming from AP News dot com.
Speaker 1: But prominent Democrats are not buying that defense because they
Speaker 1: know it is absurd, ludicrous and you can't defend this.
Speaker 1: The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has been forced to
Speaker 1: issue a statement saying, The malicious claims that American Jews
Speaker 1: are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and anti-Semitic. Jeffries
Speaker 1: added that there is zero justification for threats against Jewish Americans.
Speaker 1: Scholten of Michigan went even further, saying she condemned Piker's
Speaker 1: talks of violence against American Jews, particularly because his live
Speaker 1: stream displayed a photograph of the Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss,
Speaker 1: who is Jewish. She also called the rhetoric unacceptable and
Speaker 1: said it had no place in Michigan or even in America.
Speaker 1: And Moss himself also fired back, saying he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be lectured by Hassan Piker. about what Michigan's Jewish
Speaker 1: community should believe in what Jews, and that Jews would
Speaker 1: not be gaslit, quote unquote, into believing they are responsible
Speaker 1: for anti-Semitic harm directed at them. But now comes the
Speaker 1: political problem. The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate nominee, you know
Speaker 1: him as El Saeed. He has appeared with Piker over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. They're basically best friends. He
Speaker 1: uses Piker's online audience to reach young progressive voters. El
Speaker 1: Saeed is now having to distance himself for the very
Speaker 1: first time from a guy that said that America basically
Speaker 1: deserved 9-11.
Speaker 2: Now, Al-Said said this.
Speaker 1: Nobody speaks for him and emphasize his opposition to, quote, anti-Semitism.
Speaker 1: His Republican opponent, by the way, former Congressman Mike Rogers,
Speaker 1: says that's nowhere near enough. And he's demanding a much
Speaker 1: clearer break with Hassan Piker. Even Democratic strategists are warning
Speaker 1: that Piker could become a serious general election liability. The
Speaker 1: Washington Post writing that this morning. And here's why this
Speaker 1: controversy isn't occurring in a vacuum. As I mentioned, Hassan
Speaker 1: Piker has a remarkable history of inflammatory statements. Perhaps the
Speaker 1: most infamous came in 2019 when he was talking about
Speaker 1: American foreign policy in September 11th and Piker said America
Speaker 1: deserved 9-11. Now, he went further at the time saying
Speaker 1: America had, quote, brought it on ourselves. Sounds an awful
Speaker 1: lot like what he's saying now about anti-Semitism and saying, well,
Speaker 1: the Jews are bringing it on themselves, right? What's interesting
Speaker 1: now is even Joel Rubin, Bernie's 2020 campaign staffer, said
Speaker 1: this on TV about the controversy.
Speaker 4: And that's where Hassan Piker needs to go in the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party. We need to shame this man, get him
Speaker 4: out of our party, get him out of campaigning with candidates,
Speaker 4: and make sure that the American people understand that we
Speaker 4: have no tolerance for this kind of language.
Speaker 5: So, Joel, does it concern you when you see some
Speaker 5: of your leadership within the party or party elders say,
Speaker 5: This is all a big tent. You know, I look at,
Speaker 5: there's some on the right. There's some on the right
Speaker 5: that want to be a part of the right. But
Speaker 5: I don't want to be a part of their tent.
Speaker 5: I won't vote for them. I won't campaign with them.
Speaker 5: I won't appear on stage with them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lawrence, I don't want to be in the tent
Speaker 4: with the guys trying to kill me. You know, I
Speaker 4: am just not interested in that. And there are many
Speaker 4: very strongly pro-peace, pro-Palestinian people who belong in that tent.
Speaker 1: Now, this is not going to end the controversy, even
Speaker 1: if they get rid of him, because there's still too
Speaker 1: many Democrats that have stood right beside Piker and have
Speaker 1: made it clear they like him. He has also said,
Speaker 1: referring to Piker, that he would choose Hamas, a terrorist organization,
Speaker 1: over Israel every single time. He's also described Hamas as a, quote,
Speaker 1: thousand times better than Israel. Now, remember what Hamas did
Speaker 1: on October the 7th.
Speaker 2: Americans were murdered. Israelis were murdered. They were slaughtered.
Speaker 1: Civilians were not only kidnapped, they were taken hostage and
Speaker 1: they were brutally beaten, killed and raped. And yet you
Speaker 1: have a top Democratic influencer who has publicly compared Hamas
Speaker 1: favorably with Israel, who Democrats are still willing to defend
Speaker 1: and stand next to.
Speaker 2: It is a massive problem.
Speaker 1: He also not only generate outrage over his treatment of
Speaker 1: the atrocities of October the 7th, But CNN even aired
Speaker 1: a clip in which Piker argued that whether rapes occurred
Speaker 1: on October 7th did not change his broader political analysis,
Speaker 1: adding that the Palestinian resistance is not perfect. Mike Rogers,
Speaker 1: who's running for that Senate campaign as a Republican, had
Speaker 1: this to say last night at an event.
Speaker 2: Al-Said wants to represent Palestine. I want to represent Michigan.
Speaker 1: El-Sayed wants to represent Palestine. I want to represent Michigan.
Speaker 1: That is the difference in this race. And if you
Speaker 1: put all of this together. America deserves 9-11, that coming
Speaker 1: from the Democrats. Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel,
Speaker 1: that again coming from the Democrats. Derogatory rhetoric about Orthodox Jews,
Speaker 1: again coming from the Democrats. And now telling American Jews
Speaker 1: that identifying themselves too closely with Israel is making anti-Semitism worse.
Speaker 1: That's the definition of victim shaming. and warning that eventually
Speaker 1: someone could take action, meaning kill you, against American Jews.
Speaker 2: That is the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: The record explains why this latest controversy, well, isn't that
Speaker 1: big of a deal compared to the other ones. This
Speaker 1: is par for the course, but it now is a
Speaker 1: Democratic Party problem because Piker isn't some anonymous person with
Speaker 1: 200 followers yelling into the Internet. He's been treated as
Speaker 1: a legitimate political influencer. Some would even argue a kingmaker
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. Politicians understand exactly what he offers them.
Speaker 1: Millions of young viewers who are often difficult to reach
Speaker 1: through traditional television, radio or newspaper ads. And what creates
Speaker 1: a very uncomfortable question for Democratic politicians who have embraced
Speaker 1: his platform. Where exactly is the line? If a conservative
Speaker 1: media personality said American Jews were making anti-Semitism worse and
Speaker 1: warned that somebody might eventually take action against them, Democrats
Speaker 1: would almost certainly demand that Republican candidate disassociate themselves from
Speaker 1: the party. So why is it that Democratic politicians are
Speaker 1: looking the other way? It's because they benefited from this
Speaker 1: type of radical rhetoric. They have benefited from Piker's audience,
Speaker 1: and they are willing to overlook this if it means
Speaker 1: they keep their power. To be clear, Jeffries didn't simply
Speaker 1: say he disagreed with Piker. He called the underlying idea
Speaker 1: dangerous and anti-Semitic. He had no choice if he wanted
Speaker 1: to keep his donors, and many of them are Jewish.
Speaker 1: But this controversy, it is going to move forward into
Speaker 1: the midterm elections. As Joel Rubin said, Al-Said's buddy, Hassan Piker,
Speaker 1: we need to shame this man, get him out of
Speaker 1: our party, get him out of campaigning with candidates.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think there's far too many radicals on the left
Speaker 1: that love Piker and want him to stay exactly where
Speaker 1: he is. Don't forget to share this podcast, by the way,
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Speaker 2: And I'll talk to you again tomorrow.