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[00:00:43] While the Trump administration seems to
[00:00:45] be consiliating its views with regard to
[00:00:48] ISIS use in Minneapolis. President Trump
[00:00:50] is making some pretty strong PR moves in
[00:00:53] order to regain political capital that
[00:00:56] has been lost in the aftermath of a
[00:00:57] couple of very controversial and
[00:00:59] disputed circumstances. Shootings in
[00:01:01] Minneapolis by ICE and Border Patrol of
[00:01:03] American citizens who are out
[00:01:05] obstructing federal law enforcement.
[00:01:07] Democrats, by contrast, seem to be
[00:01:09] consolidating their position and not
[00:01:11] only that going absolutely extreme,
[00:01:14] which seems to be the pattern. The
[00:01:15] minute that one political side believes
[00:01:17] that it has the upper hand, it proceeds
[00:01:18] to put the pedal to the metal and then
[00:01:20] alienate the American population. That
[00:01:22] seems to be what Democrats are intent on
[00:01:24] doing right now. So, President Trump
[00:01:26] recognizes that the polls right now
[00:01:28] don't look good for him with regard to
[00:01:29] ICE operations. Now, that's not true
[00:01:31] with regard to overall
[00:01:34] views on what ICE should be doing.
[00:01:36] Americans do support the mass
[00:01:38] deportation of particularly criminal
[00:01:39] illegal immigrants. And there's been no
[00:01:41] controversy whatsoever in the vast
[00:01:43] majority of jurisdictions across the
[00:01:45] United States wherein ICE has been
[00:01:47] working with local state authorities in
[00:01:50] order to go into jails and get people
[00:01:52] who are arrested for crimes and then
[00:01:54] deporting those people. It is only in
[00:01:56] places like Minneapolis where there has
[00:01:58] been resistance to this sort of activity
[00:02:00] that ICE is then forced to go in with
[00:02:02] boots on the ground into areas that are
[00:02:04] not, for example, jails. And presumably
[00:02:07] in order to increase deportation
[00:02:08] numbers, there's been talk by, for
[00:02:10] example, Steven Miller over at the White
[00:02:11] House about looking for broader swaths
[00:02:14] of illegal immigrants to deport. That
[00:02:16] means the percentage of illegal
[00:02:18] immigrants who have committed a separate
[00:02:19] criminal offense or who are alleged to
[00:02:21] have committed a separate criminal
[00:02:23] offense and are therefore in jail being
[00:02:25] deported as a percentage of all illegal
[00:02:27] immigrants being deported has dropped
[00:02:29] pretty precipitously from January until
[00:02:32] now. And that on a PR level is a
[00:02:35] problem. President Trump recognizes
[00:02:36] that's a problem. He also recognizes
[00:02:38] that it is a problem when the lead
[00:02:40] spokespeople on behalf of these policies
[00:02:43] seem to make terrible public relations
[00:02:46] blunders on a regular basis, which is
[00:02:48] why he effectively demoted Gregory
[00:02:50] Bavino, who was the Border Patrol
[00:02:52] officer, who is essentially heading up
[00:02:55] operations in the Minneapolis area on
[00:02:57] behalf of Border Patrol. Bavino, of
[00:02:58] course, had suggested in the aftermath
[00:03:00] of the killing of Alex Prey that Prey
[00:03:03] was attempting to massacre law
[00:03:04] enforcement. The evidence is very scanty
[00:03:06] that that was true and President Trump
[00:03:08] knows that. So yesterday the president
[00:03:10] announced that they're going to
[00:03:10] deescalate a little bit. Here he was on
[00:03:13] Fox News.
[00:03:14] >> So they had good crime numbers, believe
[00:03:16] it or not. And that's all working out.
[00:03:19] You know, we have Tom Hman there now. We
[00:03:20] put him in there. He's great. And they
[00:03:22] met with the governor, the mayor,
[00:03:24] everybody else. And we'll we're going to
[00:03:26] deescalate a little bit.
[00:03:27] >> He's sending Tom H. woman, who is a
[00:03:28] significantly more professional person
[00:03:30] into this area in an attempt to
[00:03:33] negotiate out what happens next. Trump
[00:03:35] also advocated for an honest
[00:03:37] investigation into what happened with
[00:03:38] regard to Renee Good and Alex Prey.
[00:03:42] But, you know, we're doing a big
[00:03:43] investigation. I want to see the
[00:03:45] investigation. I'm going to be watching
[00:03:47] over it. I want a very honorable and
[00:03:50] honest investigation. I have to see it
[00:03:52] myself. Now, Trump was asked
[00:03:54] specifically about Alex Prey and the
[00:03:56] description of Prey as a domestic
[00:03:58] terrorist or an assassin. And here was
[00:04:00] President Trump's response.
[00:04:03] >> Certainly, he shouldn't have been
[00:04:04] carrying a gun. But all of Hey, look,
[00:04:06] bottom line, everybody in this room, we
[00:04:08] view that as a very unfortunate
[00:04:10] incident. Okay, everyone, unless you're
[00:04:13] you're a stupid person, uh, very very
[00:04:15] unfortunate incident. I don't like that
[00:04:17] he had a gun. I don't like that he had
[00:04:19] two fully loaded magazines. That's a lot
[00:04:21] of bad stuff. And despite that, I say
[00:04:23] that's a very unfortunate.
[00:04:26] >> And again, he's not criticizing people
[00:04:28] who are protesting with a gun. He's
[00:04:29] criticizing people who obstruct law
[00:04:32] enforcement while carrying weapons,
[00:04:33] which of course raises the risk of
[00:04:35] deadly violence in a pretty significant
[00:04:36] way. And as it turns out, Alex Prey has
[00:04:39] a history of physical confrontations
[00:04:42] with federal law enforcement. According
[00:04:44] to CNN, federal immigration officers
[00:04:46] have been collecting personal
[00:04:47] information about protesters and
[00:04:49] agitators in Minneapolis, sources told
[00:04:51] CNN. and they had documented details
[00:04:53] about Prey before he was shot to death
[00:04:55] on Saturday. Apparently, sources told
[00:04:57] CNN about a week before his death, he
[00:04:59] suffered a broken rib when a group of
[00:05:01] federal officers tackled him while he
[00:05:03] was protesting their attempt to detain
[00:05:05] other individuals. And again, these
[00:05:06] protests are not spontaneous protests.
[00:05:08] Some of them are not protests at all.
[00:05:10] Some of them are actual obstruction of
[00:05:11] federal law enforcement. If you're Renee
[00:05:13] Good and you take your car and you
[00:05:15] obstruct federal law enforcement
[00:05:16] vehicles from being able to move down
[00:05:18] the road, that is not a protest. That is
[00:05:20] obstruction of federal law. If you are
[00:05:22] Alex Prey and you're getting in the way
[00:05:23] of ICE being able to do its job, that is
[00:05:25] not a protest. That is an obstruction of
[00:05:27] federal law. Obviously, the Department
[00:05:29] of Homeland Security says that DHS law
[00:05:31] enforcement has no record of that
[00:05:33] incident. With that said, if it turns
[00:05:35] out that that PR is a person was a
[00:05:38] person who was repeatedly getting into
[00:05:40] confrontations with law enforcement,
[00:05:42] that does change a little bit the sort
[00:05:45] of circumstances surrounding his death.
[00:05:47] Regardless, President Trump again
[00:05:50] understands he has a he has a an
[00:05:52] excellent weather vein for where the
[00:05:54] American people are. And that means that
[00:05:56] if somebody is not representing him
[00:05:57] well, he is very likely to put them
[00:06:00] aside. That's exactly what happened, as
[00:06:01] I say, with Gregory Bavino. Here he was
[00:06:04] yesterday blaming Bavino and and
[00:06:06] essentially suggesting that Beavino's
[00:06:07] characterization of events was not
[00:06:09] right.
[00:06:10] >> I don't think it's a pullback. It's a
[00:06:12] little bit of a change. Everybody in
[00:06:13] this room that has a business, you know,
[00:06:15] you make little changes, you know,
[00:06:17] Bevino is very good, but he's a pretty
[00:06:19] out there kind of a guy and in some
[00:06:20] cases that's good. Maybe it wasn't good
[00:06:22] here. Now, he he is out there still
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[00:09:03] Security. She's come under extraordinary
[00:09:05] fire and frankly I think a lot of it is
[00:09:07] justified. I think that she has not done
[00:09:09] a good job of representing the president
[00:09:10] publicly. The president however is still
[00:09:13] defending Christy Gnome who has become
[00:09:15] the center of this firestorm.
[00:09:19] >> With the shift in Minneapolis and Tom
[00:09:21] Hman going to Minnesota. Do you still
[00:09:23] have confidence in DHS Secretary Christy
[00:09:25] Gnome? You brought up the success of
[00:09:27] you. She was there with the border. Who
[00:09:30] closed up the border? She did with Tom
[00:09:32] Holman, with the whole group. I mean,
[00:09:34] they closed up the border. The border is
[00:09:36] a tremendous success. One of the most
[00:09:38] secure borders in in the entire world.
[00:09:40] We had a great first term. This term
[00:09:43] seems to be blowing it away. I mean, the
[00:09:45] only thing we have is a Minnesota
[00:09:47] situation, and that is, I believe,
[00:09:50] easily resolved. Now, when it comes to
[00:09:52] Christy Gnome and the characterization
[00:09:54] of events, perhaps one of the reasons
[00:09:56] that the president is defending Gnome
[00:09:58] where he wasn't defending Bavino is
[00:09:59] because Noom is saying that she got
[00:10:01] instruction apparently from Steven
[00:10:03] Miller, a close adviser to the
[00:10:04] president. According to mediaite, Nome
[00:10:07] is chalking up her actions in office to
[00:10:08] the direction of President Trump and
[00:10:10] Homeland Security Adviser Steven Miller.
[00:10:13] So immediately upon PR's death, Miller
[00:10:15] had gone on Twitter and he had put out a
[00:10:17] statement, quote, "An assassin tried to
[00:10:18] murder federal agents and this is your
[00:10:20] response." That was in response to Chris
[00:10:22] Murphy suggesting that ICE has to leave
[00:10:24] Minneapolis.
[00:10:26] And of course, Miller is very close to
[00:10:28] the president. There's been a lot of
[00:10:30] talk about whether Miller and Gnome are
[00:10:32] are splitting, whether there's been some
[00:10:34] sort of problems between the two of
[00:10:37] them. But White House press secretary
[00:10:39] Caroline Levit called Miller one of the
[00:10:40] president's closest aids. quote,
[00:10:42] "Stephen Miller is one of President
[00:10:43] Trump's most trusted and longest serving
[00:10:44] aids. The president loves Steven." Noom
[00:10:47] apparently said to somebody who then
[00:10:49] related to Axios, which means that she
[00:10:50] leaked it out. You would imagine that
[00:10:51] might be Cory Luendowski. Quote,
[00:10:53] "Everything I've done, I've done at the
[00:10:54] direction of the president and Steven.
[00:10:55] So maybe the idea here is that the
[00:10:57] president is being told by Christine
[00:10:59] Nome that if I go under the bus, I'm
[00:11:00] taking you with me." That that is quite
[00:11:02] possibly a a sort of linkage that is
[00:11:05] that is forcing the president or his
[00:11:07] adviserss to defend Gnome where they
[00:11:09] weren't willing to defend Bavino. Bottom
[00:11:11] line, however, is that I have yet to see
[00:11:13] a headline emerging specifically
[00:11:15] regarding Christine that has been a
[00:11:16] positive for the administration thus
[00:11:18] far. Now, President Trump, as part of
[00:11:20] his reorientation toward ICE operations
[00:11:22] in Minneapolis, he's been talking with
[00:11:24] Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota,
[00:11:26] who again has been a nefarious character
[00:11:28] in all of this. He has fermented the
[00:11:29] chaos in Minnesota. He has created
[00:11:31] incentive structures for that chaos. He
[00:11:33] has praised the people for participating
[00:11:35] in that chaos. Nonetheless, the
[00:11:37] president reached out to walls, and this
[00:11:39] is sort of the president's personal
[00:11:40] style. Obviously, President Trump likes
[00:11:42] to reach out to people he perceives to
[00:11:43] be political enemies, maybe make friends
[00:11:45] with them, treat them with good grace.
[00:11:48] He obviously did this to Zorman Donnie
[00:11:50] in New York. Now, apparently, he's doing
[00:11:51] with Tim Walls. He explained a recent
[00:11:53] phone call that he had with Tim Walls to
[00:11:55] Will Kane over on Fox News.
[00:11:58] >> It couldn't have been a nicer
[00:11:59] conversation. And in fact, I said to my
[00:12:01] people, I said, "It's hard to believe
[00:12:03] that's the same guy I watch on
[00:12:04] television or I watch in the debate not
[00:12:07] doing so well or cuz we had a very
[00:12:09] reasonable conversation, very good
[00:12:11] conversation. Uh, if you believe the
[00:12:13] conversation, he'd like to get this
[00:12:15] thing over with."
[00:12:17] >> And so again, he seems to be optimistic
[00:12:19] about what he can get Tim Walls to do.
[00:12:20] Now, Tim Walls seems to have a different
[00:12:22] viewpoint, and this is where things can
[00:12:24] shift pretty easily for Democrats. So,
[00:12:26] right now, Democrats believe that they
[00:12:27] have the upper hand. Democrats believe
[00:12:28] that they have gotten President Trump to
[00:12:30] cave on policy. Now, realistically,
[00:12:31] they've not. Nothing has actually
[00:12:33] changed in terms of the operations that
[00:12:35] ICE is slated to perform in Minneapolis.
[00:12:38] The president has shifted around some
[00:12:40] faces. He's brought in people who are
[00:12:42] probably calmer personages
[00:12:45] in order to implement his policy
[00:12:46] preferences. Tom Hman is extraordinarily
[00:12:48] professional. Again, from the very
[00:12:50] beginning when Renee Good was shot, Tom
[00:12:51] Hman said there will be a full
[00:12:52] investigation. Law enforcement has to do
[00:12:54] its job. That is the proper response
[00:12:56] when there is a disputed shooting. And
[00:12:59] he said the same thing about Alex Prey.
[00:13:00] He was not out front making
[00:13:03] absurdly overreaching statements about
[00:13:06] what happened in these cases where there
[00:13:07] was full scale video available. So Tom
[00:13:10] Hman being there makes a big difference.
[00:13:12] Democrats however seem to believe that
[00:13:14] now there is a bit of political blood in
[00:13:16] the water and they can go all the way.
[00:13:18] So Tim Walls is using this as an
[00:13:20] opportunity. Again, remember Tim Walls
[00:13:21] was so disgraced 6 weeks ago that he had
[00:13:24] to drop out of his gubernatorial race.
[00:13:26] He was running again for governor, a
[00:13:27] third term in many in Minnesota, and he
[00:13:29] had to drop it specifically because of
[00:13:31] all the fraud allegations swirling
[00:13:33] around his administration.
[00:13:35] Politically, there is no one happier
[00:13:37] than Tim Walls about what's going on in
[00:13:39] Minnesota, which is presumably why he is
[00:13:40] helping to fment all of the problems in
[00:13:43] Minnesota, talking about how ICE agents
[00:13:45] are Gestapo like, and how you need to go
[00:13:47] out there and cause good trouble and how
[00:13:49] non-violent resistance, wink wink, is
[00:13:51] the way.
[00:13:53] Tim Walls has been an instigator in this
[00:13:55] entire process. So has the Minneapolis
[00:13:56] mayor, Jacob Fry. Well, now Tim Walls
[00:13:58] believes that he's won some sort of
[00:14:00] cheap political victory here. is using
[00:14:02] the opportunity to slam various members
[00:14:04] of the Trump administration even after
[00:14:06] Trump reached out to him. Here he was
[00:14:07] yesterday slamming the vice president JD
[00:14:09] Vance.
[00:14:10] >> I would beat the out of him now if
[00:14:12] I could and I would call that out. I
[00:14:14] mean that's just different in verbally
[00:14:16] going at it. My argument is much better
[00:14:18] making the case that housing prices are
[00:14:20] up because of immigration and that we
[00:14:22] should build on federal lands. It was
[00:14:24] such a crazy thing. But then when I
[00:14:26] watched him I got sucked into that. If
[00:14:29] you remember, this was right in that
[00:14:30] moment of eating dogs and cats. I took
[00:14:33] that bait and thought that that was the
[00:14:34] argument of how outrageous it was. That
[00:14:36] was not the argument.
[00:14:38] >> And he said that your cops are liars. He
[00:14:40] said that the the agents aren't
[00:14:43] >> They all did. That's exactly right. That
[00:14:45] this is the problem with them. And well,
[00:14:46] the president said it that we told them
[00:14:48] to stand down. Do you think they would
[00:14:50] do that? Do you think that that police
[00:14:51] would not protect citizens? No matter if
[00:14:54] I'm like, "Oh, don't do this." What it?
[00:14:56] Yes. I Well, this is the whole paradox
[00:14:58] with these guys. They don't back the
[00:15:00] blue. They don't back police. January
[00:15:02] 6th proved that. Fenon and the rest of
[00:15:04] those guys will tell you that.
[00:15:06] >> Okay. Again, the idea that Democrats
[00:15:08] have backed the blue is insane. The fact
[00:15:09] that the idea that Tim Walls has backed
[00:15:11] the blue is crazy. One of the big
[00:15:12] problems you have in major blue city
[00:15:14] police departments is that the political
[00:15:16] leadership of the police departments
[00:15:18] have to work handin glove with the state
[00:15:20] officials, people like Tim Walls or if
[00:15:22] you're in California, you have to work
[00:15:23] with the mayor. If you're in Los Angeles
[00:15:25] or with the governor and what that tends
[00:15:27] to mean is that the people who are
[00:15:29] actually on the ground holding the line
[00:15:31] have pretty significant disagreements
[00:15:33] with the people who are the heads of
[00:15:34] their departments. which is why you have
[00:15:36] seen in major police forces across the
[00:15:39] United States, real trouble recruiting
[00:15:40] and retaining police officers. Tim Walls
[00:15:43] went out of his way to slam Christine
[00:15:44] Gnome as well.
[00:15:47] >> It's very disheartening to me to see uh
[00:15:49] the president say Christine Nome's doing
[00:15:51] a great job. I I'm not sure there's been
[00:15:52] anybody more incompetent or cruel that's
[00:15:55] ever served in a cabinet position than
[00:15:56] her and this is on her.
[00:15:59] >> So again, this is going to be thetick.
[00:16:01] Now, this is going to culminate an
[00:16:03] attempt to totally undermine law
[00:16:05] enforcement. So, Jacob Fry, now remember
[00:16:07] the president reached out to Fry and had
[00:16:09] a conversation with him and then put out
[00:16:10] a statement on Truth Social about how
[00:16:12] well the conversation went. Well, Fry is
[00:16:14] now digging in saying that he is not
[00:16:16] going to facilitate the performance of
[00:16:19] immigration law. Quote, "Today, Chief
[00:16:20] O'Hara and I met with Borders Homman and
[00:16:23] had a productive conversation. I
[00:16:25] reiterated that my main ask is for
[00:16:26] Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly
[00:16:28] as possible. Public safety works best
[00:16:30] when it's built on community trust, not
[00:16:32] tactics that create fear or division. I
[00:16:34] shared with Mr. Hman the serious
[00:16:35] negative impacts this operation has had
[00:16:37] on Minneapolis and surrounding
[00:16:38] communities, as well as the strain it
[00:16:40] has placed on our local police officers.
[00:16:42] I also made it clear that Minneapolis
[00:16:43] does not and will not enforce federal
[00:16:45] immigration laws and that we will remain
[00:16:47] focused on keeping our neighbors and
[00:16:48] streets safe. City leaders will continue
[00:16:50] to stay in conversation with Mr. Hman
[00:16:51] and his team. So, in other words, he is
[00:16:53] not going to change one iota of what he
[00:16:55] has been doing. He is going to demand
[00:16:57] that the federal government stop
[00:16:58] performing federal immigration law. And
[00:17:01] when he says that he wants to keep
[00:17:02] people safe, but they're not going to
[00:17:03] perform federal immigration law,
[00:17:04] understand what that means. What he
[00:17:06] means when he says that is that if there
[00:17:09] are local law enforcement agencies, if
[00:17:11] Minneapolis PD picks up a person for and
[00:17:14] that person goes to jail and they know
[00:17:17] that person is an illegal immigrant and
[00:17:19] that person makes bail, for example,
[00:17:21] that will never be reported to ICE. That
[00:17:24] is what they mean.
[00:17:25] That is what they mean. They mean that
[00:17:28] you will require a full-scale conviction
[00:17:30] and prison term for the person. At the
[00:17:32] other end, maybe state department of
[00:17:34] corrections hands that person over to
[00:17:36] ICE. But at at first encounter,
[00:17:39] criminals will not be interfacing with
[00:17:42] ICE. That is what he means. Which means
[00:17:44] the continual undermining of federal
[00:17:46] law, obviously. Meanwhile, Keith
[00:17:48] Ellison, the terrible attorney general
[00:17:51] of the state of Minnesota, he's out
[00:17:53] there suggesting that perhaps he is
[00:17:55] going to prosecute ICE officers.
[00:17:58] >> Our hope is that the order will continue
[00:18:01] to preserve, protect, prohibit altering
[00:18:04] and gain access so that we can
[00:18:06] investigate this case ourselves. As you
[00:18:08] know in your audience, I want them to
[00:18:11] know that there is no legal bar to the
[00:18:13] state prosecuting anyone who commits a
[00:18:15] crime in our state, including a federal
[00:18:18] official. There are certain uh qualified
[00:18:21] immunities that apply, but uh we believe
[00:18:24] that they can be overcome. Okay.
[00:18:27] Meanwhile, Governor Josh Shapiro in
[00:18:29] Pennsylvania, who of course would like
[00:18:31] to run for president. It is now
[00:18:32] becoming, it's amazing how quickly the
[00:18:34] Democratic Party higher echelons are
[00:18:36] captured by the radicals in their base,
[00:18:38] believing they need them in order to win
[00:18:39] presidential primary. Shapiro wants to
[00:18:41] run for president of the United States.
[00:18:44] And he is out there saying ISIS mission
[00:18:46] needs to be terminated. Again,
[00:18:47] terminating ISIS mission without
[00:18:50] explaining how you're going to
[00:18:51] effectuate immigration law being
[00:18:53] enforced means nullification of federal
[00:18:55] law on behalf of local and state
[00:18:57] concerns, which has a very bad history
[00:18:59] in the United States.
[00:19:02] >> To me, it is very clear that the mission
[00:19:05] the president and Christine Gnome and
[00:19:07] Steven Miller and JD Vance and all of
[00:19:09] them sent these federal officials on is
[00:19:12] a mission to violate people's
[00:19:14] constitutional rights. And it is clear
[00:19:16] that the mission needs to be terminated
[00:19:19] immediately. Period. Hard stop. And
[00:19:22] while police want to have tools in their
[00:19:25] hands to be able to do their good work
[00:19:27] in the community, the most important
[00:19:28] tool they need is to have trust with the
[00:19:31] community. And the other thing that this
[00:19:33] administration has done is violated that
[00:19:36] trust with the American people and law
[00:19:38] enforcement. And collectively, all of
[00:19:40] that makes us less safe. The mission
[00:19:42] needs to be terminated. It needs to end
[00:19:44] right now.
[00:19:46] >> Okay. Now, again, this has become the
[00:19:48] going talking point for Democratic
[00:19:50] candidates and apparently for Democratic
[00:19:53] law enforcement officers around the
[00:19:54] country. Philadelphia's awful district
[00:19:57] attorney Larry Kraner, who's done just a
[00:19:59] terrible job of ensuring that the law is
[00:20:00] enforced in his city. He is vowing to
[00:20:03] utilize law enforcement resources to
[00:20:04] hunt down ICE agents.
[00:20:07] If we have to hunt you down
[00:20:10] the way they hunted down Nazis for
[00:20:13] decades,
[00:20:14] we will find your identities, we will
[00:20:17] find you. We will achieve justice.
[00:20:21] Okay, again, this is this is kind of
[00:20:23] insane stuff and it culminates in what
[00:20:25] Democrats are now declaring they want on
[00:20:27] the federal level. So, according to Bill
[00:20:29] Mugan reporting for Fox, Democrats are
[00:20:31] now demanding judicial warrants for all
[00:20:33] ICE arrests. What does that mean? What
[00:20:36] does that mean? Well, as he says, that
[00:20:39] will take a massive number of targets
[00:20:41] off the board for ICE. They would only
[00:20:42] be able to go after illegal immigrants
[00:20:44] who have committed a new federal crime
[00:20:46] after entering the United States
[00:20:47] illegally. State and local crimes would
[00:20:50] not apply because the feds don't enforce
[00:20:52] state and local crimes. Remember, if ICE
[00:20:55] comes and arrests somebody, detains
[00:20:57] somebody based on a state level, they
[00:21:00] are not prosecuting that person. They're
[00:21:02] looking to deport that person.
[00:21:04] It's the state that is supposed to
[00:21:06] prosecute on the basis. So if you
[00:21:07] require a judicial warrant on the
[00:21:09] federal level, that judicial warrant
[00:21:12] presumably has to be for a separate
[00:21:14] crime. On the federal level, that would
[00:21:15] have to be a federal crime. For example,
[00:21:17] says Bill Malugan. If an illegal
[00:21:18] immigrant gets arrested in Minnesota for
[00:21:20] a DUI crash causing great bodily injury,
[00:21:22] a state crime, and then bonds out of
[00:21:24] jail, ICE would not be able to target
[00:21:26] him for arrest because there would be no
[00:21:28] judicial warrant. It's not a federal
[00:21:30] crime. ICE would not be able to target
[00:21:31] anyone for just being in the US
[00:21:33] illegally. They would have to wait for a
[00:21:35] federal crime to be committed. Then a
[00:21:36] federal judge would have to sign off on
[00:21:38] probable cause for arrest. It would
[00:21:39] any hopes of mass deportations
[00:21:41] or widespread immigration enforcement.
[00:21:43] Warrants are not required for ICE
[00:21:45] arrests under US law. Right now, they
[00:21:47] simply need probable cause that the
[00:21:48] target is detainable and deportable on
[00:21:50] immigration grounds. And then they use
[00:21:52] an I200 and I 205 civil administrative
[00:21:54] warrant. The most common judicial
[00:21:57] warrant ICE uses to target aliens right
[00:21:59] now is for illegal re-entry, a federal
[00:22:01] felony when a deported alien has
[00:22:02] re-entered the United States after
[00:22:04] deportation. But that's a limited
[00:22:06] population because a huge number of
[00:22:07] illegal immigrants, most of them
[00:22:09] actually, have not been repeat deportes.
[00:22:12] ICE does need a judicial warrant to
[00:22:14] enter homes. That's a different
[00:22:15] question. We had this conversation
[00:22:17] earlier this week. The administration is
[00:22:19] trying to claim that an administrative
[00:22:21] warrant plus probable cause means they
[00:22:22] can bust into a home. that is hotly
[00:22:24] contested in the courts of law. But for
[00:22:27] an arrest, you don't need a judicial
[00:22:29] warrant, an administrative warrant for
[00:22:31] illegal immigration is enough to
[00:22:33] effectuate a deportation based on an
[00:22:35] arrest.
[00:22:37] One ICE contact in a sanctuary city told
[00:22:40] Mugan, quote, "If we need a judicial
[00:22:41] warrant for every arrest, we would have
[00:22:42] maybe 15 arrests in a year in his city."
[00:22:46] Apparently, this is what Democrats are
[00:22:47] pushing for.
[00:22:49] Meredith Lee Hill, congressional
[00:22:51] reporter for Politico, says the
[00:22:52] Democrats are coalesing around a number
[00:22:54] of DHS bill changes, including requiring
[00:22:57] judicial warrants for immigration
[00:22:59] arrests,
[00:23:00] mandating the federal agents identify
[00:23:02] themselves, requiring DHS to cooperate
[00:23:04] with state and local investigations, and
[00:23:06] limiting the mission creep of federal
[00:23:08] agencies.
[00:23:10] Also, end roving patrols and profiling
[00:23:12] and end arrest quotas.
[00:23:14] So, basically hamstring federal law.
[00:23:18] make sure that illegal immigration can
[00:23:20] never be stopped. That is the Democrat
[00:23:21] goal and that is a massive overreach
[00:23:23] because here's what Americans want.
[00:23:25] Americans would like as a first step.
[00:23:28] They wanted the border closed. Trump did
[00:23:29] that. They want criminal illegal
[00:23:31] immigrants deported. The Trump
[00:23:33] administration has been doing that very
[00:23:35] successfully in virtually all
[00:23:36] jurisdictions outside of places like
[00:23:38] Minneapolis, places where you have
[00:23:41] Democratic officials and law enforcement
[00:23:43] attempting to jin up chaos.
[00:23:47] And Democrats, on the other hand,
[00:23:48] apparently would like for none of that
[00:23:50] to happen. Apparently, they're pushing
[00:23:52] for processes that make even the arrest
[00:23:55] of criminal illegal immigrants, people
[00:23:57] arrested for state level crimes, nearly
[00:23:59] impossible.
[00:24:01] Well, if that's their goal, then they're
[00:24:03] going to snatch political defeat from
[00:24:04] the jaws of victory. If they believe,
[00:24:06] like right now, they should simply claim
[00:24:07] victory on a political level. They
[00:24:09] should say, "We got the Trump
[00:24:10] administration to moderate. We've gotten
[00:24:13] Greg Bavino out. Tom Hman is a more
[00:24:15] responsible actor. We thank the Trump
[00:24:16] administration for replacing a an
[00:24:19] incompetent person with a more competent
[00:24:21] person. We're looking forward to working
[00:24:22] with Tom Hman. Everything calms down.
[00:24:24] Everything goes back to status quo anti.
[00:24:25] They they claim a victory. That's what
[00:24:28] they should do. Instead, again, the
[00:24:31] minute right now that either party
[00:24:32] senses momentum, they put pedal to the
[00:24:34] metal and then they proceed to overreach
[00:24:36] so dramatically that the American people
[00:24:39] are repulsed and react and discuss to
[00:24:41] that agenda.
[00:24:43] Now listen, the Democratic politicians,
[00:24:45] I get it. Some of them are being driven
[00:24:47] by a media and celebrity culture that
[00:24:49] has decided that this is the new
[00:24:51] gigantic outrage of the day and everyone
[00:24:53] must speak out. This is our new civil
[00:24:55] rights movement. As we've discussed
[00:24:56] before, the Democratic base is
[00:24:59] constantly in search of an animating
[00:25:01] principle. And that animating principle
[00:25:03] is supposed to be a pale mockoff of the
[00:25:05] civil rights movement of the 60s. And so
[00:25:07] we've had that with regard to gay
[00:25:08] rights. And then we had that with regard
[00:25:09] to transgenderism. And now we're getting
[00:25:11] that with regard to illegal immigration.
[00:25:14] The jack booted thugs, they're enforcing
[00:25:16] laws that are discriminating against
[00:25:18] wide classes of people. They're always
[00:25:20] looking for their moment to do a Selma
[00:25:23] bridge. Well, the problem is that those
[00:25:27] moments are rare because thank God in
[00:25:30] America that sort of stuff, that sort of
[00:25:32] policy has been rather ultra for, you
[00:25:35] know, half a century. meaning that just
[00:25:39] in terms of generic public policy, every
[00:25:41] country has to enforce its border and
[00:25:43] every country has to make sure that
[00:25:44] illegal immigrants are deported. There's
[00:25:47] nothing new about that. But Democrats
[00:25:49] and particularly radical activist class
[00:25:51] Democrats are looking always for their
[00:25:54] new moment to be involved in a civil
[00:25:57] rights mo movement. And what that means
[00:25:59] that they push very hard. The minute
[00:26:00] that they see anything that even
[00:26:01] remotely resembles that thing, they go
[00:26:03] for it whole scale. And this is how you
[00:26:06] end up with, for example, Scott Galloway
[00:26:08] suggesting that Democrats should conduct
[00:26:10] Nermberg trials against law enforcement,
[00:26:13] federal law enforcement.
[00:26:15] The difference between being right and
[00:26:17] being effective and we're angry and I
[00:26:19] get it. Protesting is powerful.
[00:26:21] >> Uh promising them that there will be an
[00:26:23] accountability and I've said this, I
[00:26:25] think there should be something
[00:26:26] equivalent to the Nermberg trials after
[00:26:28] this is all over.
[00:26:29] >> I agree.
[00:26:29] >> And to make it clear that once we're
[00:26:31] back in power, which we will be, this is
[00:26:33] going to happen. And the statute of
[00:26:35] limitations on murder is
[00:26:37] >> zero.
[00:26:37] >> Never.
[00:26:38] >> Okay. So, yeah. Again, this sort of
[00:26:40] language is unhelpful. I actually think
[00:26:43] Scott Galloway has a lot of interesting
[00:26:44] things to say. This is not one of them.
[00:26:46] Cara Swisser on the same podcast
[00:26:48] suggested that Steven Miller has blood
[00:26:49] on his hands and should be put in jail.
[00:26:52] >> Um, and I would last like to call out
[00:26:55] Steven Miller who is in the center of
[00:26:57] this. We always focus on Trump as we
[00:26:59] often focus on the top people. But
[00:27:02] Steven Miller uh like a man named
[00:27:04] Benetson, he was the one who created the
[00:27:06] internment cancer Japanese Hinrich
[00:27:08] Himmler in the in the in the Nazi
[00:27:10] regime. This is what he is. And he he of
[00:27:15] course Trump gets most of the blame
[00:27:17] being the top at the top. But people
[00:27:19] like Steven Miller uh will go down in
[00:27:21] history as evil. um had blood on his
[00:27:25] hands um and should be jailed at the
[00:27:28] very end of this and you're absolutely
[00:27:29] right.
[00:27:30] >> Okay. Again, comparing Steven Miller to
[00:27:32] Hinrich Himmler is a pretty astonishing
[00:27:35] leap. It's a pretty astonishing leap
[00:27:37] from from Caris Wisher. And you have the
[00:27:39] entire celebrity class who of course
[00:27:41] have now been reanimated. They found
[00:27:42] their new cause. Year ago, it was
[00:27:44] wearing the Hamas pins at the Oscars.
[00:27:47] This year, presumably, it will all be
[00:27:49] about ICE. Katy Perry, who is now dating
[00:27:52] Justin Trudeau, the handsome Bernie
[00:27:55] Sanders of the North. Katy Perry, who's
[00:27:58] out there commenting on ICE,
[00:28:01] she said, "Call your senator." She put
[00:28:02] this up on Instagram. "We have until
[00:28:04] Friday, January 30th to block 10 billion
[00:28:06] dollars from going through to ICE."
[00:28:10] Right? This is her Instagram. And then
[00:28:12] she put up a phone number and all the
[00:28:13] rest of it because it's time to turn
[00:28:15] anger into action. Okay. And meanwhile,
[00:28:16] Natalie Portman,
[00:28:19] again, I'm not sure why we should treat
[00:28:21] the musings of actors as particularly
[00:28:23] important, but but they clearly do.
[00:28:25] Natalie Portman suggested that that
[00:28:26] she's never been sadder to be an
[00:28:28] American. Now, last I checked, I'm not
[00:28:30] even sure that Natalie Portman chiefly
[00:28:32] resides in the United States.
[00:28:35] I'm I could not be prouder to be
[00:28:38] American right now by the way the
[00:28:40] Americans are acting and I could not be
[00:28:42] sadder to be American right now with the
[00:28:44] way the government is behaving.
[00:28:47] >> Now again the musings of actors mean
[00:28:51] very little but they do mean a lot in
[00:28:52] sort of democratic upper echelon
[00:28:54] circles. By the way, Natalie Portman
[00:28:55] does primarily reside in France not in
[00:28:58] the United States. Olivia Wild was doing
[00:28:59] the same routine here. There she was
[00:29:01] suggesting that ICE is a criminal
[00:29:02] organization.
[00:29:05] >> We can't go another day just sort of
[00:29:07] accepting this as our new norm. It's
[00:29:09] it's outrageous. People are being
[00:29:10] murdered and I I I don't want to
[00:29:13] normalize seeing people being murdered
[00:29:15] on the internet on film. It it it's it's
[00:29:17] hideous. And so if we can do anything
[00:29:20] out here to support um the movement to
[00:29:24] cast ICE out to delegitimize this
[00:29:27] unbelievably
[00:29:29] um criminal organization
[00:29:32] um then that's what we should be doing.
[00:29:35] >> The the celebrity class doesn't mean a
[00:29:36] lot, but when they speak with one voice,
[00:29:38] the people who tend to hear that are the
[00:29:40] people they go to cocktail parties with,
[00:29:41] and that would be the Democratic front
[00:29:42] runners. That'd be people like Wes Moore
[00:29:44] in Maryland or people like Josh Shapiro
[00:29:46] in Pennsylvania or people like Gavin
[00:29:47] Newsome in California. Ethan Hawk who is
[00:29:50] currently nominated for best actor for a
[00:29:53] movie called Blue Moon. He says there's
[00:29:54] fear in the air. I I I do. Again, I'm
[00:29:58] sorry there isn't. There just isn't.
[00:30:00] There's this notion that there is an
[00:30:01] eancent fear in the air that that you're
[00:30:04] just walking around and you can feel the
[00:30:06] I promise you Ethan Hawk is not walking
[00:30:08] around in fear. He isn't.
[00:30:10] I never felt scared about what I was
[00:30:13] going to say until the last couple years
[00:30:17] where you have feel like, oh, I have to
[00:30:18] be careful or or what. I don't know. But
[00:30:22] there's a kind of fear in the air that
[00:30:24] I've never felt before. And it's not
[00:30:27] America to get to be an artist in a free
[00:30:29] country. That's I'm I've had enough of
[00:30:33] an education to know what a privilege
[00:30:34] that is. And um and I don't feel that
[00:30:37] way anymore. Uh, yes you do. Yes, you
[00:30:41] do. You're out there making movies every
[00:30:42] day.
[00:30:45] My My favorite thing about modern
[00:30:46] America is where people who have all the
[00:30:48] rights and privileges of being a modern
[00:30:49] American suggest that they are living in
[00:30:51] deep fear when they clearly clearly are
[00:30:53] not. He's speaking into a microphone on
[00:30:55] camera. You know what? People in
[00:30:56] totalitarian regimes don't do that thing
[00:30:59] because they know what comes next and it
[00:31:00] ain't good. Democrats are meanwhile
[00:31:02] attempting to obstruct federal attempts
[00:31:04] to look into Minnesota state voter
[00:31:06] roles. Now, I've never understood the
[00:31:08] controversy over transparency when it
[00:31:10] comes to voter roles. Obviously, we all
[00:31:12] have a very strong interest in ensuring
[00:31:14] that people who are not registered to
[00:31:15] vote should not be on voter roles, that
[00:31:17] we don't have duplications on voter
[00:31:19] roles, that we don't have people who are
[00:31:20] capable even of voting more than once.
[00:31:23] And so, the push back has never made any
[00:31:25] sense to me at all. According to the New
[00:31:27] York Times, after federal immigration
[00:31:29] agents shot and killed an American
[00:31:31] citizen in Minneapolis for the second
[00:31:32] time this month, Attorney General Pam
[00:31:33] Bondi sent a letter to Governor Tim
[00:31:35] Walls in Minnesota that outlined what
[00:31:37] she described as three simple steps to
[00:31:38] bring back law and order. The third step
[00:31:41] there was to allow the civil rights
[00:31:42] division of the Department of Justice to
[00:31:44] access voter roles to confirm that
[00:31:46] Minnesota's voter registration practices
[00:31:47] comply with federal law. Minnesota's
[00:31:50] Secretary of State Steve Simon, a
[00:31:52] Democrat, swiftly rejected the demand,
[00:31:53] calling it an outrageous attempt to
[00:31:55] coers Minnesota into giving the federal
[00:31:57] government private data on millions of
[00:31:58] US citizens in violation of state and
[00:32:00] federal law. Now, I'm not sure why
[00:32:03] presumably that is violation of state
[00:32:05] and federal law. I mean, there are
[00:32:08] addresses, those addresses are publicly
[00:32:10] available virtually all over the United
[00:32:13] States.
[00:32:14] The complete unredacted voter files
[00:32:16] include personal identifying information
[00:32:17] like driver's license numbers and social
[00:32:19] security numbers.
[00:32:22] The Justice Department presumably wants
[00:32:24] those files because they are attempting
[00:32:26] to clean up the voter roles.
[00:32:28] At least 11 states have already complied
[00:32:31] on all this. Democrats are rejecting
[00:32:32] this. Many of them are are suggesting
[00:32:35] that they are worried about the laws
[00:32:38] preventing the transfer of private
[00:32:40] information. By the way, I will note at
[00:32:42] this point that these same Democrats
[00:32:43] have no problem at all with the idea of
[00:32:45] a gigantic gun registry in which every
[00:32:47] gun that you buy goes on a gun registry.
[00:32:49] No matter if you buy it from a friend or
[00:32:51] buy it from a private seller or
[00:32:53] anything, they're perfectly happy to
[00:32:54] register everyone's private information
[00:32:56] federally in terms of your gun ownership
[00:32:58] in violation of the Second Amendment in
[00:32:59] all likelihood. But when it comes to
[00:33:01] voting, this is where they are going to
[00:33:03] draw the line.
[00:33:05] So, do states have a right to withhold
[00:33:07] the data? totally unclear at this point,
[00:33:10] but they are very upset about it. Tim
[00:33:12] Walls, for his part, is saying that he's
[00:33:13] not going to comply.
[00:33:16] >> And one of the things we're we're always
[00:33:18] uh very proud of, we're either first or
[00:33:20] second in the country for voter turnout.
[00:33:22] Um and uh we have the safest, most
[00:33:25] secure, most well-attended elections uh
[00:33:27] in the country. And and we like to talk
[00:33:29] about that. And what I can assure
[00:33:31] everyone in this country is we will
[00:33:33] break that record in November at this
[00:33:35] midterm. Again, he is suggesting that
[00:33:38] this is all going to turn into a big
[00:33:40] vote for Democrats. Obviously, Ilhan
[00:33:42] Omar, for her part, representative from
[00:33:44] Minnesota, put out a statement, quote,
[00:33:45] "ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand
[00:33:47] over your voter roles, tells you
[00:33:48] everything you need to know. This was
[00:33:49] never about immigration or fraud. It was
[00:33:51] always about rigging elections. I have a
[00:33:52] question. How precisely what
[00:33:55] transparency in the voter roles allow
[00:33:56] for the rigging of elections? I'm going
[00:33:58] to need like an explainer.
[00:34:01] like how how do you get from point A
[00:34:05] voter roles to point B rigging
[00:34:08] elections? The answer is you don't. It's
[00:34:11] all political nonsense.
[00:34:13] Ilhan Omar, however, has been in a fair
[00:34:15] bit of political trouble because of
[00:34:16] course there are a bunch of
[00:34:17] investigations facing Ilhan Omar.
[00:34:21] According to the Wall Street Journal,
[00:34:22] President Trump suggested in a social
[00:34:24] media post on Monday that Omar profited
[00:34:26] from the state's massive welfare fraud
[00:34:28] scandal and said that the Justice
[00:34:29] Department is currently scrutinizing
[00:34:30] her. Representative James Comr of
[00:34:32] Kentucky, chairman of the House
[00:34:34] Oversight Committee, has also suggested
[00:34:36] that he might subpoena Omar's husband
[00:34:37] after the pair disclosed a significant
[00:34:39] increase in financial assets.
[00:34:43] So, Ilhan Omar obviously, you know,
[00:34:45] listen, she she's got a bunch of sketchy
[00:34:47] sketchy circumstances surrounding her.
[00:34:51] Omar's most recent financial disclosure
[00:34:53] for May 2025 showed that she and her
[00:34:55] husband have assets between 6 and $30
[00:34:58] million,
[00:35:00] which are up from one year earlier when
[00:35:02] they reported between 37,000 and
[00:35:04] $28,000.
[00:35:07] Um, what now? What I mean that that's
[00:35:10] NBA starle pay for Ilhan Omar and her
[00:35:14] husband.
[00:35:16] Omar's husband, the political consultant
[00:35:18] Tim Minet, is involved with a variety of
[00:35:20] businesses including a venture capital
[00:35:21] management firm in Washington DC and a
[00:35:23] winery in Santa Rosa, California. Well,
[00:35:25] unless that is the most successful
[00:35:26] winery in history. I'm having a hard
[00:35:28] time seeing this.
[00:35:30] It was the significant increase in the
[00:35:32] valuation of the capital management firm
[00:35:33] and winery that were the drivers of the
[00:35:35] couple's jump in assets.
[00:35:38] Jacqueline Rogers, an Omar spokeswoman,
[00:35:40] said, quote, "She does not have millions
[00:35:41] in the bank. The value range listed for
[00:35:43] the assets reflects the full cost
[00:35:44] assessment of the businesses in which
[00:35:46] her husband is one of several partners
[00:35:47] and does not reflect her husband's
[00:35:49] individual share."
[00:35:51] Well, obviously, Ilhan Omar has been
[00:35:54] involved again in a wide variety of
[00:35:56] suspicious circumstances regarding her
[00:35:59] district.
[00:36:01] The Washington Free Beacon, by the way,
[00:36:04] reports that the House Ethics Committee
[00:36:06] requires reporting only her husband's
[00:36:08] stake, not the full value of the LLC.
[00:36:10] So, that appears not to be true.
[00:36:13] At the same time, apparently,
[00:36:16] there are more investigations coming.
[00:36:17] According to Fox News's Elizabeth
[00:36:20] McDonald,
[00:36:21] it would be reasonable for the media to
[00:36:23] ask what is going on with Ilhan Omar's
[00:36:25] husband's winery. Omar valued it at up
[00:36:27] to $5 million on her 2025 financial
[00:36:29] disclosures. All we can find is that EST
[00:36:32] CRU LLC was registered as an LLC in
[00:36:35] Santa Rosa, California. We can't find a
[00:36:36] physical winery. It had promoted wine
[00:36:39] products, but there's little evidence of
[00:36:40] a functioning winery today. The
[00:36:42] business's website for purchasing wine
[00:36:43] doesn't work. The listed phone number is
[00:36:45] disconnected. Its social media has been
[00:36:46] inactive since early 2023. The winery
[00:36:50] has al also been tied to at least one
[00:36:52] investor lawsuit against her husband,
[00:36:53] his partner, and the winery. alleging
[00:36:55] misrepresentation of the business as a
[00:36:57] legitimate company and that was
[00:36:58] reportedly settled. One investor named
[00:37:00] Naim Mode alleged they persuaded him to
[00:37:02] invest 300 grand in the winery based on
[00:37:05] promises and money would be tripled
[00:37:06] within 18 months with 10% monthly
[00:37:08] interest if it wasn't paid back on time.
[00:37:12] Apparently, the $300,000 investment was
[00:37:14] returned about a month late. None of the
[00:37:15] promised profits were delivered. His
[00:37:17] complaint saw at least $780,000
[00:37:20] in damages.
[00:37:22] That is a that is a massive jump in
[00:37:24] valuation. So something is going on
[00:37:27] pretty clearly. Now obviously Ilhan Omar
[00:37:30] is one of the more controversial
[00:37:31] political figures in the country and for
[00:37:33] good reason given her statements in
[00:37:35] support of a wide variety of enemies of
[00:37:38] the United States up to and including an
[00:37:41] attempt before she was in Congress to
[00:37:42] write a letter a sympathetic letter to a
[00:37:44] person on behalf of a person who tries
[00:37:46] to join ISIS. Well, yesterday there is a
[00:37:50] terrible circumstance at a town hall in
[00:37:53] Minneapolis where a man apparently got
[00:37:55] up. This person appears to be a
[00:37:58] right-winger who obviously is um shall
[00:38:03] we say less than hinged and he got up
[00:38:05] and he sprayed a substance at her. Now,
[00:38:06] this stuff is really, really dangerous.
[00:38:08] Again, doesn't matter whether it's right
[00:38:09] or whether it's left. Physical
[00:38:10] altercations with people on the basis of
[00:38:12] politics is not an American thing. It is
[00:38:15] not. Do not do this. Okay? And frankly,
[00:38:18] we're we're quite lucky as a country
[00:38:20] that this person was spraying a
[00:38:22] substance and not bullets. The fact that
[00:38:25] we have politicians who are in close
[00:38:26] proximity with the population on a on a
[00:38:28] widespread level means that there is the
[00:38:31] opportunity in many open circumstances
[00:38:33] like this to do physical violence. And
[00:38:34] this is a reminder of that. It's
[00:38:36] dangerous stuff. Here's some of the
[00:38:37] video.
[00:38:39] >> And DHS Secretary Christy Nome must
[00:38:42] resign or face impeachment.
[00:38:46] He must be
[00:38:53] >> security tackled this person apparently
[00:38:55] who was sitting up near the front.
[00:38:57] >> For those who can't see,
[00:38:59] >> he sprayed something on her and then and
[00:39:01] he was tackled.
[00:39:02] >> He got in very close proximity to her.
[00:39:05] There's another angle and he appears to
[00:39:07] be spraying her and then he starts
[00:39:08] yelling at her.
[00:39:12] I mean,
[00:39:14] >> by the way, piss poor job by security
[00:39:15] there. Really, really bad job by
[00:39:17] security. They only they only get him
[00:39:18] afterward. As soon as the man gets up
[00:39:19] and starts walking toward Ilhan Omar,
[00:39:21] they need to tackle him. That is a bad
[00:39:22] job by the security team right there.
[00:39:24] But again, we're living in a very fraugh
[00:39:26] time. A lot of dangerous people out
[00:39:28] there. The suspect here sprayed
[00:39:30] something. We don't know what that was,
[00:39:31] but again, we live in a world where it
[00:39:33] could have been asset. It could have
[00:39:34] been a gun. I mean, this is this is
[00:39:35] dangerous stuff. It needs to stop. It
[00:39:37] needs to stop. I don't care about the
[00:39:38] politics. It needs to stop.
[00:39:40] It really does. This is why we have
[00:39:42] voting in this country. This is why we
[00:39:43] have checks and balances in this
[00:39:45] country. This is why we have a free
[00:39:46] press in this country.
[00:39:48] That is that is and and we've had too
[00:39:51] many circumstances over the course of
[00:39:53] the past 15 years in which what was
[00:39:56] sprayed was not in fact a substance, a
[00:39:58] chemical substance or something, but was
[00:40:00] bullets. Whether it is the congressional
[00:40:02] baseball shooting, which again has come
[00:40:04] a kind of memory hold, or whether it is
[00:40:06] the murder of Charlie Kirk, this stuff
[00:40:08] is unbelievably dangerous.
[00:40:10] Okay. Meanwhile, the president of the
[00:40:12] United States is signaling the
[00:40:13] possibility of action in Iran given the
[00:40:15] fact that Iran appears to have mowed
[00:40:17] down some tens of thousands of
[00:40:19] protesters by a w they're kind of widely
[00:40:21] varying estimates as to how many people
[00:40:23] the Iranian regime killed over the
[00:40:24] course of a couple of days amidst those
[00:40:26] gigantic protests across the country.
[00:40:28] The low-end estimates put it in the
[00:40:30] thousands. The high-end estimates are
[00:40:32] putting it well over 30,000. There is
[00:40:35] footage of gigantic rooms of body bags.
[00:40:38] There are reports that are coming out
[00:40:39] that are really ugly. Obviously, full
[00:40:41] information is not available because
[00:40:42] Iran is a dictatorship and because
[00:40:44] they've shut down the internet for the
[00:40:46] past several weeks and plan on shutting
[00:40:48] it down for the next couple of months
[00:40:50] minimum. Well, President Trump put up a
[00:40:52] post on Truth Social yesterday warning
[00:40:54] Iran that they were playing with fire.
[00:40:57] Quote, "A massive armada is heading to
[00:40:58] Iran. It is moving quickly with great
[00:41:00] power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a
[00:41:02] larger fleet headed by the great
[00:41:03] aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln than
[00:41:05] that sent to Venezuela. Like with
[00:41:07] Venezuela, it is ready, willing, and
[00:41:08] able to rapidly fulfill its mission with
[00:41:10] speed and violence if necessary.
[00:41:11] Hopefully, Iran will quickly come to the
[00:41:13] table and negotiate a fair and equitable
[00:41:15] deal. No nuclear weapons that is good
[00:41:17] for all parties. Time is running out.
[00:41:19] It's truly of the essence. As I told
[00:41:20] Iran once before, make a deal. They
[00:41:21] didn't. And there is Operation Midnight
[00:41:23] Hammer. A major destruction of Iran. The
[00:41:24] next attack will be far worse. Don't
[00:41:26] make that happen again. Thank you for
[00:41:27] your attention to this matter, President
[00:41:29] Donald J. Trump. Now, there are some
[00:41:32] people out there who are suggesting this
[00:41:33] is quoteunquote wag the dog. That the
[00:41:35] president is having domestic troubles
[00:41:36] and therefore he's attempting to launch
[00:41:38] a war action against that's stupid. I'm
[00:41:41] sorry. That's dumb. He literally drew
[00:41:44] He drew a red line. The red line was
[00:41:46] don't kill protesters. They proceeded to
[00:41:48] mow down protesters in the streets. He
[00:41:50] said stay in the streets. Help is on the
[00:41:52] way. That happened before the shootings
[00:41:54] in Minneapolis. No, this is not a wag
[00:41:56] the dog scenario. This is the president
[00:41:58] paying off the promise that he made to
[00:42:01] the Iranian people if he decides to act
[00:42:03] in any coherent and cohesive way here.
[00:42:06] As for the call for negotiations,
[00:42:09] frankly, I I think that that is going to
[00:42:11] be unsuccessful. The Iranians have
[00:42:12] demonstrated time and again they have no
[00:42:14] intention of giving up their nuclear
[00:42:15] program, which is the thing that they
[00:42:16] need to do. And and by the way, even
[00:42:18] giving up their nuclear program wouldn't
[00:42:20] solve the problem. But you just mowed
[00:42:21] down tens of thousands of your own
[00:42:23] citizens. those people aren't going to
[00:42:24] become alive again after the president
[00:42:26] promised them that help was on the way.
[00:42:29] So, it seems that action in Iran could
[00:42:32] quite possibly be imminent. Again,
[00:42:34] you're going to hear the usual
[00:42:35] catwalling from the usual suspects about
[00:42:37] how America is about to be drawn into an
[00:42:39] Iraqi war. No, that's not going to
[00:42:41] happen. Please stop with the horseshit.
[00:42:43] Truthfully, it is it is an amazing thing
[00:42:45] to watch critics on the isolationist
[00:42:47] right keep characterizing Donald J.
[00:42:49] Trump as George W. Bush circa 2003. It's
[00:42:52] nonsense. It's just stupid. You were
[00:42:55] wrong about the first Iran strike last
[00:42:57] year. You were wrong about the killing
[00:42:59] of Kasmmani, the Iranian terror master.
[00:43:02] You were wrong about the taking of
[00:43:03] Nicholas Maduro. In fact, I'm hardressed
[00:43:06] to see where you have been right about
[00:43:07] President Trump's foreign policy a
[00:43:09] single time.
[00:43:10] So yeah, I'm going to take it with a bit
[00:43:12] of a grain of salt when you guys suggest
[00:43:14] that if the president chooses to deploy
[00:43:16] air power in order to do serious harm to
[00:43:19] the top levels of the regime, this is
[00:43:20] somehow going to descend the United
[00:43:21] States into hundreds of thousands of
[00:43:24] American troops standing around in
[00:43:25] Thran.
[00:43:27] Obviously, Iran is attempting to
[00:43:29] reconstitute some sort of regional
[00:43:32] power.
[00:43:33] President Trump on Truth Social warned
[00:43:36] Iraq against the reinstallation
[00:43:39] of their former prime minister who was
[00:43:41] effectively an Iranian catpaw.
[00:43:44] Obviously, Iraq is a very fractured
[00:43:46] country. The Iraqi population is
[00:43:48] majority Shia just like Iran. It's about
[00:43:51] 60 to 65% of the population. So, Iran is
[00:43:54] closely aligned with Iraq. That was one
[00:43:57] of the problems with the de deposing of
[00:43:59] Saddam Hussein and the non-replacement
[00:44:00] of that regime by some sort of
[00:44:03] functioning government in the short term
[00:44:04] is the the Shia uprising.
[00:44:07] That was a huge problem. Well, the
[00:44:09] president put out a statement the other
[00:44:10] day. I'm hearing that the great country
[00:44:11] of Iraq might make a very bad choice by
[00:44:13] reinstalling Nuri Aliki as prime
[00:44:15] minister. Last time Maliki was in power,
[00:44:17] the country descended into poverty and
[00:44:18] total chaos. That should not be allowed
[00:44:19] to happen again because of his insane
[00:44:21] policies and ideologies. If elected, the
[00:44:23] United States of America will no longer
[00:44:24] help Iraq. And if we are not there to
[00:44:26] help Iraq has zero chance of success,
[00:44:27] prosperity or freedom, make Iraq great
[00:44:30] again. And again, that seems to be, you
[00:44:33] know, a well-calibrated shot across the
[00:44:35] bow with regard to Iraq. Not that we are
[00:44:37] going to take military action in Iraq,
[00:44:38] but that if Iraq is reliant on American
[00:44:41] resources or defense, them allying with
[00:44:43] Iran is a bad idea. Now, all of this is
[00:44:45] part of a Middle Eastwide recalibration
[00:44:47] that has happened in the aftermath of
[00:44:49] the 12-day war and the utter destruction
[00:44:51] of Iran's terror arms across the Middle
[00:44:54] East. Muhammad bin Salman and the Saudi
[00:44:56] regime seem to be completely realigning
[00:44:58] away actually from the Abraham Accords,
[00:45:01] away from UAE, away from many of the
[00:45:03] interests of the United States and
[00:45:04] toward a new sort of Sunni triangle that
[00:45:09] would essentially be Turkey, Pakistan,
[00:45:11] and Saudi Arabia.
[00:45:14] In other words, the reason that Saudi
[00:45:15] was approaching Israel about the Abraham
[00:45:17] Accords a couple of years ago is because
[00:45:18] they were afraid of Iran. Then Israel
[00:45:20] proceeded to wreck Iran and make clear
[00:45:21] that it was a paper tiger. And now
[00:45:23] apparently what the Saudis are most
[00:45:24] afraid of, what they are most afraid of
[00:45:26] is actual regime change in Iran, which
[00:45:28] is astonishing. What they would prefer
[00:45:30] is a failed state in Iran led by a
[00:45:33] weakened that is incapable of
[00:45:35] threatening Saudi Arabia, but also is
[00:45:38] not a threat to become a functioning
[00:45:39] country. That seems to be what the
[00:45:40] Saudis want. What they are deeply afraid
[00:45:42] of is a secularist pro-American,
[00:45:45] pro-Israel regime in Iran, or at least
[00:45:47] Israel friendly regime in Iran. That
[00:45:49] would recalibrate the math in the Middle
[00:45:50] East and make Saudi a secondary power
[00:45:52] because Iran of course has massive oil
[00:45:54] and natural gas resources. Iran has a
[00:45:58] young population, a fairly secularized
[00:46:01] population, and if it had a different
[00:46:03] leadership, a real chance at being a
[00:46:06] regional heavyweight. Saudi doesn't like
[00:46:07] that. So Saudi didn't like that Iran was
[00:46:09] a threat to it on the military level and
[00:46:12] so they liked it when the United States
[00:46:13] and Israel struck at Iran. But now that
[00:46:16] Iran has been laid flat, what they would
[00:46:18] really prefer is for Iran to remain
[00:46:20] there rather than being able to recover
[00:46:22] as a functioning solidified state. And
[00:46:25] so Saudi instead seems to be making time
[00:46:27] with the Turks. The Turkish government
[00:46:29] by the way again one of the major
[00:46:30] blunders I believe of the Trump
[00:46:32] administration and Tom Bareric the US
[00:46:34] ambassador to Turkey is the attempt to
[00:46:36] treat Turkey as an urswile ally of the
[00:46:38] United States they absolutely 100% are
[00:46:40] not there is no evidence that the
[00:46:41] Islamist government oft Erdogan who
[00:46:44] again has supported kamas terrorists in
[00:46:47] thoroughgoing fashion that they have the
[00:46:49] best interest of the west at heart. The
[00:46:51] fact is that Turkey never should have
[00:46:52] been brought alongside NATO. The only
[00:46:54] reason it was is a counterweight to
[00:46:55] Russia. And it is for that reason with
[00:46:57] regard to Saudi Arabia that yesterday
[00:46:59] Muhammad bin Salman actually told Iran
[00:47:01] he will not allow the use of Saudi
[00:47:03] airspace for any strike against Iran.
[00:47:05] Well, I mean, let's be real about this.
[00:47:06] He ain't stopping no one. Okay? Muhammad
[00:47:08] bin Salman may have to say that for
[00:47:10] public relations purposes. If the United
[00:47:11] States chooses to use Saudi airspace,
[00:47:13] the Saudis ain't exactly going to be
[00:47:14] trying to shoot down American F-16s.
[00:47:17] That's silly talk. But and he's trying
[00:47:20] to counter signal. is trying to signal
[00:47:22] at his young and and very very
[00:47:25] unemployed population that he is not
[00:47:27] taking sides with the United States
[00:47:29] against the malocracy. That that is what
[00:47:31] is happening with regard to Saudi
[00:47:32] Arabia. It's kind of tragic because
[00:47:33] Saudi I thought had a shot at
[00:47:35] modernization. But the more they draw
[00:47:37] into the orbit of of Turkey, the more
[00:47:40] they alienate the West, the more they
[00:47:42] try to
[00:47:44] stop the burgeoning peace that could be
[00:47:46] happening in the Middle East, the worse
[00:47:47] things are going to get for the Saudi
[00:47:48] regime in the short term and in the
[00:47:50] midterm. Meanwhile, on the economic
[00:47:52] front, the big news of the day is that
[00:47:54] Amazon is prepared to lay off around
[00:47:56] 16,000 corporate employees.
[00:47:59] According to the Wall Street Journal,
[00:48:01] the first round of cuts in October led
[00:48:02] to around 14,000 white collar employees
[00:48:04] receiving paying slips. At the time,
[00:48:06] people familiar with Amazon's plans said
[00:48:08] the company was targeting around 30,000
[00:48:10] job cuts. That's 10% of the corporate
[00:48:12] workforce.
[00:48:14] One of the reasons for this is the
[00:48:15] effectiveness of AI.
[00:48:17] On Tuesday, Amazon said it was shutting
[00:48:19] down its freshand go grocery stores
[00:48:21] after deciding to expand its focus on
[00:48:23] whole foods and same day deliveries of
[00:48:25] fresh food from warehouses.
[00:48:27] So everybody who was working for the
[00:48:28] freshand go businesses will be laid off.
[00:48:32] There was sort of a recalibration of how
[00:48:34] the company was working during the
[00:48:35] pandemic when there was rapid expansion
[00:48:36] and everybody was ordering to their
[00:48:38] house and now obviously the market has
[00:48:40] changed again.
[00:48:42] But AI obviously means that a lot of
[00:48:44] employees become expendable and this is
[00:48:46] one of the temporary hiccups that is
[00:48:49] going to emerge from AI. AI will make
[00:48:52] the economy significantly more
[00:48:53] productive. productivity is going to go
[00:48:54] up radically, but you're going to
[00:48:56] require fewer employees to do the same
[00:48:58] work and it's going to take a little
[00:49:00] while for the job market to adjust to
[00:49:02] all of that. Which presumably is one
[00:49:04] reason why there is a piece today in the
[00:49:07] Wall Street Journal by David Malpass.
[00:49:10] Malpass is the he was the under
[00:49:12] secretary of the Treasury under
[00:49:13] President Trump and presidents of the
[00:49:15] World Bank. And Malpass points out that
[00:49:19] the Federal Reserve should really have
[00:49:21] one mandate and one mandate only. The
[00:49:23] Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to
[00:49:24] keep unemployment low and to keep
[00:49:25] inflation low. I have been arguing for
[00:49:27] literally years that this is stupid.
[00:49:29] Those two mandates are very often in
[00:49:31] conflict with one another because
[00:49:33] sometimes in order to keep the inflation
[00:49:36] low, you actually have to worry less
[00:49:40] about job creation.
[00:49:42] You have to worry more about, you know,
[00:49:43] monetary policy. Malpass says in his
[00:49:46] Davos speech last week, President Trump
[00:49:48] asked why the interest rate is so much
[00:49:49] higher on US Treasury debt than on bonds
[00:49:51] of weaker countries. Good question. US
[00:49:53] economy is strong. The default risk is
[00:49:55] low. So why the higher yield? For 10ear
[00:49:57] debt, we are paying 4.2%. Japan pays
[00:49:59] 2.3%. One reason for the high long-term
[00:50:02] rates is the still high short-term
[00:50:03] interest rate. The Federal Reserve sets
[00:50:05] the short-term rate, but its models use
[00:50:07] backward-looking inflation data and
[00:50:08] treat growth as inflationary, leaving
[00:50:09] rates too high. But cutting short-term
[00:50:11] rates without reforming the Fed's
[00:50:13] economic models risks higher long-term
[00:50:15] rates and a selloff in the dollar. After
[00:50:17] the Fed cut rates by half a percentage
[00:50:18] point in September 2024, long-term
[00:50:21] yields went up by 0.5 points, not down.
[00:50:24] Markets were gassed at the political
[00:50:26] timing of the rate cut.
[00:50:29] Sweeping reforms in the Fed's economic
[00:50:30] models to defend the dollar offer a
[00:50:32] straightforward path to lower interest
[00:50:33] rates across the yield curve, short-term
[00:50:35] and long-term. The Fed's models ignore
[00:50:38] the effects of dollar weakness on
[00:50:39] inflation and interest rates and treat
[00:50:40] faster growth as a cause of inflation,
[00:50:42] says Malpass. Already many at the Fed
[00:50:44] argue US growth is too fast and
[00:50:45] unemployment too low for the Fed to cut
[00:50:47] rates. In Davos, the president trashed
[00:50:50] this illogic. If a country is doing
[00:50:51] well, why is it bad news for financial
[00:50:53] markets? And why does the Fed set its
[00:50:55] rate higher, not lower? Sound money and
[00:50:58] a stable dollar are at the core of the
[00:50:59] supply side model of booming economic
[00:51:01] growth.
[00:51:03] While the Fed wants to focus attention
[00:51:04] on its independence, the problem is the
[00:51:06] Fed's anti-growth models undercut the
[00:51:08] dollar and keep interest rates and bond
[00:51:09] yields high.
[00:51:12] So essentially the basic idea here
[00:51:14] should be monetary stability, not
[00:51:18] worries about job markets heating up or
[00:51:20] cooling down. Defend the dollar in other
[00:51:22] words.
[00:51:24] So he makes the case that the Fed's
[00:51:27] monetary policy, backward-looking
[00:51:29] inflation targeting, non-acelerating
[00:51:31] rate of unemployment, limits to growth,
[00:51:33] they take direct aim at supply side
[00:51:35] policies to boost energy production, cut
[00:51:36] tax rates, and improve regulation. The
[00:51:39] model set a ceiling on the growth rate
[00:51:40] and a floor on the unemployment rate.
[00:51:42] And this is exactly right. This is
[00:51:43] exactly right because those two things
[00:51:45] are not always connected.
[00:51:48] The the idea that economic growth is
[00:51:49] inherently connected to job growth,
[00:51:51] that's true kind of over the long term,
[00:51:54] but they are not necessarily connected
[00:51:55] in the short term. So defending the
[00:51:58] dollar is a good thing. It is a
[00:52:00] necessary thing.
[00:52:02] So he says US bond yields and mortgage
[00:52:04] rates could be substantially lower if US
[00:52:06] policy defended the dollar and
[00:52:07] strengthen market confidence and trust.
[00:52:10] The path is easily available to Mr.
[00:52:12] Trump by stating his administration
[00:52:13] wants the dollar to be stable, not weak.
[00:52:15] That would cause more global investment
[00:52:17] in dollar denominated assets, including
[00:52:19] stable coins, an economic home run. It
[00:52:21] would also reverse the Biden
[00:52:22] administration's weakness, a political
[00:52:23] home run. And it would allow markets to
[00:52:25] help the Fed decide to lower the
[00:52:26] short-term rate. That's right. Because
[00:52:28] what what the Fed is worried about right
[00:52:29] now is dollar instability. The dollar is
[00:52:32] worth less on the open market, and they
[00:52:33] don't want to inflate the dollar.
[00:52:36] So again, that that seems to be the
[00:52:38] right answer on all of this. We will see
[00:52:41] whether the Trump administration follows
[00:52:43] suit. Well, today we also have a couple
[00:52:45] of maha updates for you. The Make
[00:52:47] America Healthy Again updates for you
[00:52:49] brought to you by our friends over at
[00:52:51] Balance of Nature. Well, there are a
[00:52:53] couple of them. One is that apparently
[00:52:55] the Trump administration has decided not
[00:52:57] to increase Medicare reimbursement rates
[00:53:01] to the insurers. It'll be interesting to
[00:53:02] see how this plays in terms of coverage
[00:53:04] for, you know, older people who are
[00:53:06] reliant on Medicare. One of the biggest
[00:53:09] problems obviously is that when you
[00:53:10] subsidize Medicare and you keep
[00:53:11] increasing the reimbursement rates that
[00:53:13] cost the taxpayers. On the other hand,
[00:53:15] when you don't increase those rates,
[00:53:17] then the insurers are unable to absorb
[00:53:18] the cost because turns out that people
[00:53:20] who are older require a lot of
[00:53:22] medication and a lot of care. And so you
[00:53:25] may see some menu options drop off of
[00:53:27] Medicare because of the lower
[00:53:29] reimbursement rates. This is presumably
[00:53:31] also why you saw shares drop for United
[00:53:33] Health Group and also Humanana and CVS
[00:53:35] Health. apparent $96 billion in market
[00:53:38] capitalization was wiped out on Tuesday.
[00:53:41] According to the Wall Street Journal,
[00:53:42] the proposal dealt a blow to insurance
[00:53:44] companies that have been pushing to turn
[00:53:45] around a business that's central to
[00:53:47] their finances and hopes for growth.
[00:53:48] Medicare Advantage, that is the private
[00:53:50] insurer version of the federal program
[00:53:52] for older and disabled Americans,
[00:53:54] generated an estimated $500 billion in
[00:53:56] revenue for the industry as a whole last
[00:53:58] year. Such revenue was a long key driver
[00:54:02] of growth and profits until the fact
[00:54:04] that the Medicare reimbursement rates
[00:54:07] went down. So the industry is likely to
[00:54:09] go to a playbook where they pull back
[00:54:11] some offerings, trim extra benefits like
[00:54:13] cash cards used for health expenses and
[00:54:16] offer plan designs with more cost
[00:54:18] controls.
[00:54:21] So again, fascinating to to see how the
[00:54:24] administration is trying to bend the
[00:54:25] cost curve. One of the realities of a
[00:54:28] government-run system, which is what
[00:54:29] Medicare effectively is, is that you can
[00:54:31] choose between a few things. You can
[00:54:33] choose between quality, you can choose
[00:54:35] between universality, you can choose
[00:54:36] between cost. You can't have all three
[00:54:38] of those things. You can have low low
[00:54:40] cost, universality, and quality. It
[00:54:43] doesn't work that way. In the free
[00:54:44] market, by the way, you can have near
[00:54:47] universality, low cost, and high
[00:54:48] quality. That is the guarantee of the
[00:54:50] free market. In the non-free market, you
[00:54:52] end up with universality but typically
[00:54:54] higher cost and also poorer quality.
[00:54:58] That is the typical and it seems that
[00:55:00] Medicare is moving in that direction.
[00:55:03] The notion that insurance companies, by
[00:55:05] the way, are simply ripping off the
[00:55:07] federal government with regard to
[00:55:08] Medicare, that is generally untrue. The
[00:55:11] profit margins for these insurance
[00:55:12] companies is not all of that high. Well,
[00:55:14] in other maha news,
[00:55:17] apparently Barry Weiss over at CBS News
[00:55:19] is planning to bring on board Andrew
[00:55:21] Huberman, who has a huge health podcast,
[00:55:23] which is really listenable. This, of
[00:55:25] course, is driving some people
[00:55:26] absolutely up a wall. Weiss apparently
[00:55:30] is going to announce a host of new
[00:55:31] contributors to the network. That
[00:55:35] includes Andrew Huberman, who currently
[00:55:36] has 7.3 million subscribers on YouTube.
[00:55:40] He pushes high protein consumption among
[00:55:41] other things and elevated cortisol
[00:55:43] levels in the mornings. He obviously has
[00:55:44] this entire schedule where you get up in
[00:55:46] the morning, you go out and you spend 15
[00:55:47] minutes in the sun and all the rest.
[00:55:50] Naturally, there are some people who are
[00:55:52] upset with Huberman because anytime you
[00:55:54] popularize science, you are very
[00:55:56] frequently going to make a mistake or
[00:55:57] you're going to simplify beyond the
[00:55:59] actual studies.
[00:56:01] However, what Barry is attempting to do
[00:56:03] by bringing on board people who actually
[00:56:06] have some level of talent and
[00:56:08] followership
[00:56:11] is smart. It is smart what she is
[00:56:13] attempting to do. And I know a lot of
[00:56:14] people are angry that Barry is even
[00:56:16] there. And that is clearly evident from
[00:56:18] the coverage. How dare she upend all of
[00:56:21] the amazing systems at CBS News. Well, I
[00:56:24] mean, you could hardly have done worse
[00:56:26] at CBS News. And Barry seems to be
[00:56:27] shaking things up in some pretty
[00:56:28] interesting ways this New Year's. By the
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[00:56:55] What was it like, Merlin, to be alone
[00:56:58] with God?
[00:57:01] [screaming]
[00:57:04] >> Is that who you think I was alone with?
[00:57:10] >> Madin, I knew your father. I am yet
[00:57:13] convinced that he was not of this world.
[00:57:18] >> All men know of the great Talasin.
[00:57:21] >> Who are my father? The gods should war
[00:57:24] for my soul.
[00:57:25] >> Princess Garis, savior of our people.
[00:57:31] >> I know what the bull god offered you.
[00:57:34] >> I was offered the same.
[00:57:36] >> And
[00:57:37] there is a new power at work in the
[00:57:38] world. I've seen it.
[00:57:41] A god who sacrifices what he loves for
[00:57:43] us.
[00:57:44] >> We are each given only one life. Singer.
[00:57:47] >> No, we're given another.
[00:57:52] I learned of Yazu the Christ.
[00:57:54] >> And I have become his follower.
[00:57:56] >> He's waiting on a miracle. And I think
[00:57:58] you can give him one.
[00:57:59] >> Trust in Yazu. He is the only hope for
[00:58:02] men like us.
[00:58:03] >> Fate of Britain [music] never rests in
[00:58:05] the hands of the great light.
[00:58:07] >> Great light, great darkness. Such things
[00:58:10] mattered to me then.
[00:58:12] >> What matters to you now, mistress of
[00:58:13] lies?
[00:58:15] >> You, nephew.
[00:58:20] The sword of a high king.
[00:58:24] >> How many lives must be lost before you
[00:58:27] accept the power you were born to wield?
[00:58:32] >> So cling to the promises of a god who
[00:58:34] has abandoned you. [music]
[00:58:35] >> I cannot take up that sword again.
[00:58:38] >> You know what you must do.
[00:58:42] >> Great light, forgive me.
[00:58:51] The time has come to be reborn.
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