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[00:00:00] Prince Andrew is apparently arrested on [00:00:03] charges that we will explore in just a [00:00:05] moment thanks to the revelations in some [00:00:07] of the Epstein files. We'll also get to [00:00:09] a litany of fake victims. Those fake [00:00:11] victims ranging from James Tallerico, [00:00:13] the Texas Democrat Senate candidate to [00:00:15] yes, Tucker Carlson. First, all week we [00:00:17] have been telling you episode 6 of the [00:00:19] Pen Dragon Cycle Rise of the Merlin is [00:00:21] the big one. And now it is here. [00:00:23] Honestly, if you haven't started the [00:00:24] series yet, you should start with this [00:00:26] episode. Everyone who has seen this [00:00:27] episode says it is their favorite. Even [00:00:29] Tom Sharp, the dude who plays Merlin, [00:00:31] called and said he would do whatever it [00:00:32] takes to make sure people watch this [00:00:33] episode. The fight scenes go toe-to-toe [00:00:35] with anything Hollywood makes. The love [00:00:37] story is going to own the group chat. [00:00:38] The ending launches us straight into the [00:00:40] finale in the most ridiculous epic way [00:00:42] possible. It is streaming right this [00:00:43] very moment only on Daily Wire Plus. One [00:00:45] rule you should find the biggest screen [00:00:47] you can find. Roku, Samsung, VO, Apple [00:00:49] TV, wherever. Get that Daily Wire Plus [00:00:51] app and get started today. Andrew [00:00:53] Mountbatten Windsor, Prince Andrew as he [00:00:55] is known in the UK, although he was [00:00:57] stripped of his formal title, has now [00:00:59] been arrested. He is being held in [00:01:01] custody on suspicion of misconduct in [00:01:03] public office. This is based on [00:01:05] apparently revelations in the release of [00:01:08] all of the Epstein papers, all the [00:01:09] Epstein files. Okay. Our standard when [00:01:11] it comes to literally any case should be [00:01:13] evidence. I know this has fallen out of [00:01:15] public favor because we have this thing [00:01:16] called X where people sort of just find [00:01:18] one page v thing and then take it out of [00:01:20] context or obscure certain data or [00:01:23] simply misinterpret and then that [00:01:24] becomes the story of the day. But actual [00:01:26] evidence is the standard when it comes [00:01:28] to making actual legal allegations about [00:01:30] people. And if we don't do that then we [00:01:31] got kind of a problem with regard to [00:01:34] both public information and also equal [00:01:36] rule of law. When it comes to the [00:01:39] evidence in this particular case we now [00:01:40] have 3.5 million pages that have been [00:01:42] released into the public. If you like an [00:01:44] individual human being were to try to [00:01:47] read those pages 247, no sleeping, no [00:01:51] eating, no breaks, and let's say that [00:01:54] you were reading it carefully. Let's say [00:01:56] you were doing like 25 pages per hour, [00:01:58] it would take you like 16 years to read [00:02:01] through that. So I understand that the [00:02:03] internet is sort of group sourcing this [00:02:04] thing, but that doesn't mean that [00:02:06] everybody is reading everything, nor [00:02:07] does it mean that the analysis is in any [00:02:09] way truly methodical. And again, that's [00:02:11] fine. The internet is what the internet [00:02:12] is. The only point that I'm making is [00:02:15] when you're talking about somebody who [00:02:16] actually gets arrested, it would [00:02:17] probably behoove us to find out for what [00:02:18] he was arrested and what the best [00:02:20] available evidence suggests about that [00:02:22] arrest. With that said, everyone who [00:02:25] committed a crime, every single person [00:02:27] obviously should be prosecuted to the [00:02:29] fullest extent of the law. And [00:02:31] prosecutions ought to be based, I know [00:02:32] this is controversial, prosecutions [00:02:34] ought not be based on speculation on X [00:02:37] rooted in non-evidentiary allegations. [00:02:39] They ought to be based on the evidence. [00:02:40] I know this is a very strong standard [00:02:42] that we ought to actually prosecute [00:02:44] Andrew for the crimes he committed, not [00:02:46] for the crimes you think he committed [00:02:47] based on the stuff that you read by some [00:02:49] rando anon account on X. [00:02:52] But that's actually how functional [00:02:54] civilizations are supposed to work. [00:02:56] She's been charged again with misconduct [00:02:57] in public office. That is a a relatively [00:03:01] vague and complex charge in Great [00:03:02] Britain. Dominic Casiani is the home and [00:03:05] legal correspondent for the BBC and he [00:03:08] says that essentially that charge boils [00:03:10] down to an allegation that someone who [00:03:12] was doing a job on behalf of the British [00:03:13] public did something seriously wrong [00:03:15] knowing it to be wrong. And there are [00:03:17] four elements that the police actually [00:03:18] have to fulfill in order to arrest [00:03:20] somebody. First, the police have to [00:03:22] establish whether the person they are [00:03:24] investigating was a public officer and [00:03:25] the incident in question was plausibly [00:03:27] part of those duties. And then if you [00:03:30] breached that duty, then you look for [00:03:32] evidence that the suspect willfully [00:03:34] neglected to perform the duty or [00:03:36] willfully misconducted themselves in [00:03:37] some other way. And then the question is [00:03:40] whether this amounts to an abuse of the [00:03:42] public trust. And finally, police need [00:03:44] to examine whether the person under [00:03:45] investigation acted without reasonable [00:03:48] excuse or justification. [00:03:51] So I think that a lot of the speculation [00:03:53] right now around Prince Andrew is that [00:03:54] he is being arrested based on his [00:03:57] activities, his nefarious activities [00:03:59] apparently with Virginia Geofrey, who is [00:04:01] one of the alleged victims in the [00:04:02] Epstein case. She of course is the most [00:04:04] famous of the alleged victims in the [00:04:06] Epstein case. She was not used by [00:04:08] prosecutors anywhere because she was an [00:04:10] unreliable witness and it turns out that [00:04:12] many of the details that she gave didn't [00:04:13] match actual timelines. That does not [00:04:15] mean that she wasn't victimized. You [00:04:17] know, obviously Prince Andrew paid her a [00:04:19] pretty sizable settlement in a civil [00:04:20] suit. It doesn't mean that she she [00:04:23] didn't have a horrible and terrible life [00:04:24] in which she was treated just [00:04:26] horrifically. And obviously she [00:04:27] committed suicide. It does mean that if [00:04:30] we are attempting to elicit information [00:04:31] on what exactly happened, you have to [00:04:33] base that on the most verifiable [00:04:35] possible evidence. generally speaking, [00:04:37] but with any case. In 2001, there's a [00:04:40] very famous photo of course of Virginia [00:04:42] Geffrey at Galain Maxwell's home in [00:04:44] London with Prince Andrew. [00:04:46] Andrew flew on Epstein's private planes. [00:04:48] We know this. Guffrey alleged abuse and [00:04:52] eventually she filed a civil suit [00:04:53] against then Prince Andrew. He settled [00:04:57] that with her in 2022 and he paid her [00:04:59] millions of dollars, possibly up to $16 [00:05:02] million to settle that lawsuit. [00:05:05] Andrew was photographed walking with [00:05:06] Epstein in December 2010. That was after [00:05:09] he plead guilty on that charge of sex [00:05:11] trafficking of a minor. He even offered [00:05:14] to have Epste to Buckingham Palace. [00:05:17] Now, Andrew has never been criminally [00:05:18] charged for the allegations with regard [00:05:21] to Virginia Geofrey. In October 2021, [00:05:25] London's Metro Police said they did not [00:05:26] have sufficient grounds to prosecute him [00:05:28] in the UK. When the DOJ investigated [00:05:31] Epstein back in the late as they didn't [00:05:34] end up charging Andrew. So what is he [00:05:37] being arrested based upon? If you had to [00:05:40] guess, and of course at this point we're [00:05:41] waiting for more information. If you had [00:05:43] to guess, it is very, very likely that [00:05:45] he is being prosecuted for the same [00:05:46] sorts of activities for which Peter [00:05:48] Mandelen, the former ambassador from [00:05:52] Britain to the United States, is now [00:05:54] being investigated. That is to say, he [00:05:55] was probably passing financial and [00:05:57] insider information to Jeffrey Epstein. [00:06:01] The police have not made clear yet [00:06:02] exactly what the specificity of the [00:06:04] charges is. [00:06:07] Their statement says, quote, "As part of [00:06:08] the investigation, we have arrested a [00:06:10] man in his 60s from Norfolk on suspicion [00:06:12] of misconduct in public office and are [00:06:14] carrying out searches at addresses in [00:06:15] Brookshire and Norfolk. The man remains [00:06:18] in police custody at this time. We will [00:06:21] not be naming the arrested man as per [00:06:22] national guidance. Please also remember [00:06:24] that this case is now active. So care [00:06:26] should be taken with any publication to [00:06:27] avoid being in contempt of court. So I [00:06:29] mean no details being provided at all. [00:06:32] What we do know however is that emails [00:06:36] that were revealed in in the [00:06:38] correspondence between Epstein and [00:06:40] Andrew in that latest trench of Epstein [00:06:43] files suggest that Prince Andrew shared [00:06:45] confidential UK trade reports and [00:06:47] official itineraries with Epstein while [00:06:49] he was Britain's special representative [00:06:51] for international trade. This, I would [00:06:53] guess, is the locust of these charges [00:06:55] because it fulfills the elements that [00:06:56] we're talking about. One, he was holding [00:06:58] an actual public office at the time. It [00:06:59] wasn't just a member of the royal [00:07:00] family. It was an actual public office. [00:07:03] Two, he was sharing confidential UK [00:07:05] information allegedly with Epstein. And [00:07:08] this is why I'm comparing it to the [00:07:09] Peter Mandelen scandal. Peter [00:07:11] Mandlesson, of course, was the British [00:07:13] ambassador to Washington. But years and [00:07:15] years and years ago, when he was working [00:07:18] in actual official facilities with the [00:07:21] UK government, he was apparently passing [00:07:23] inside information about UK government [00:07:25] decisions to Epstein, who then may have [00:07:29] traded on that information. And evidence [00:07:31] ought to be our standard whenever we [00:07:32] adjudicate these cases, either in the [00:07:34] court of public opinion or when it comes [00:07:36] to an actual court of law. [00:07:38] What we do know is that he was engaged [00:07:40] in high level financial impropriety. [00:07:42] That's the stuff where there really is a [00:07:43] fair bit of evidence that he was engaged [00:07:44] in financial impropriety. The New York [00:07:46] Times, as we've talked about at length [00:07:47] on the show, did a full-scale rundown of [00:07:50] what he did during his early years to [00:07:51] get rich. And the answer is some pretty [00:07:53] scurvy stuff. [00:07:55] He was builing billionaires out of their [00:07:57] money. He was conning them. He was [00:07:59] telling them and he was he was [00:08:00] uncovering funding while simultaneously [00:08:02] stealing money from them allegedly. [00:08:05] Right? That we know he was doing. [00:08:06] There's actually tons and tons of [00:08:07] evidence of financial impropriety and [00:08:09] financial lawbreaking with regard to [00:08:11] Jeffrey Epstein. And of course, there's [00:08:13] evidence that he was trafficking minors [00:08:15] to himself and that he was trafficking [00:08:18] an overage women to himself. [00:08:20] But the evidence that he was trafficking [00:08:22] minors to other people, that evidence is [00:08:24] in short supply at this point. That [00:08:26] doesn't mean that it won't ever emerge [00:08:28] or that people won't uncover it or [00:08:29] anything like that. I'm just giving you [00:08:30] the state of the evidence as it [00:08:31] currently stands. [00:08:34] And speculation is not a substitute for [00:08:36] evidence. [00:08:37] Well, some of this came to a head [00:08:38] yesterday when billionaire former [00:08:40] Victoria's Secret CEO Lex Wexner [00:08:42] testified before the House Oversight [00:08:44] Committee. He actually testified that he [00:08:46] was conned by Jeffrey Epste. He denied [00:08:48] wrongdoing. Wexner, of course, has been [00:08:50] under fire over his many appearances in [00:08:52] the DOJ records on Epstein. He denied [00:08:55] allegations that he was Epstein's [00:08:57] co-conspirator. There had been [00:08:58] allegations with regard to Wexner in [00:09:00] some of the documents that the FBI [00:09:02] considered him a secondary [00:09:03] co-conspirator with Epstein, but it was [00:09:05] never made clear in those documents why [00:09:07] they said that or what they meant by [00:09:08] that. Did they mean that he was funding [00:09:10] Epste's lifestyle? Did they mean that he [00:09:11] w he himself was trafficking? None of [00:09:13] that was evidenced in the actual papers [00:09:15] that have been released so far. [00:09:18] In his prepared statement, he told [00:09:20] lawmakers he never witnessed nor had any [00:09:21] knowledge of Epstein's criminal [00:09:23] activity. And in fact, he claimed [00:09:24] essentially that he was victimized by [00:09:26] Epstein to the tune of tens of millions [00:09:27] of dollars. Wexner in his prepared [00:09:30] statement said, "I have done nothing [00:09:31] wrong. I have nothing to hide. I [00:09:32] completely and irrevocably cut ties with [00:09:34] Epstein nearly 20 years ago when I [00:09:35] learned that he was an abuser, a crook, [00:09:37] and a liar. And let me be crystal clear, [00:09:38] I never witnessed nor had any knowledge [00:09:40] of Epstein's criminal activity." [00:09:44] A video and transcript apparently are [00:09:45] soon to be released. [00:09:48] Representative Robert Garcia of [00:09:50] California told reporters during a break [00:09:51] in the deposition that Wexter was trying [00:09:53] to downplay how close his relationship [00:09:55] with Epstein was. Garcia said there [00:09:57] would be no Epstein. There'd be no Epste [00:09:59] plane. There would be no money to [00:10:00] traffic women and girls. Mr. Epste would [00:10:02] not be the wealthy man he was without [00:10:03] the support of Lex Wexner. Again, what's [00:10:06] interesting about even that statement [00:10:07] from Garcia suggests that this is mostly [00:10:09] about the money passing from Wexner to [00:10:12] Epstein, not about specific evidenced [00:10:14] allegations of Wexner engaging in sexual [00:10:17] impropriy. Man, maybe he did, but the [00:10:20] evidence actually has to be presented at [00:10:22] a certain point. I know that we live in [00:10:24] a world in which asking for evidence for [00:10:26] propositions is considered P and that if [00:10:28] you even ask for evidence, then this [00:10:30] makes you a co-conspirator in in [00:10:33] whatever [00:10:34] gigantic theory people have constructed. [00:10:37] This is why, for example, Michael Tracy, [00:10:39] who's actually been doing granular work [00:10:41] going through these documents is now [00:10:43] being labeled speciously as somebody [00:10:45] being paid off by foreign powers or [00:10:47] something for the great sin of actually [00:10:48] looking at the evidence. And again, [00:10:49] Michael Tracy and I disagree on nearly [00:10:51] everything politically, but Michael [00:10:52] Tracy is actually looking at evidence. [00:10:55] And I think that when we are looking and [00:10:57] at very very large allegations, [00:11:00] groundbreaking allegations, allegations [00:11:02] that basically our entire society is run [00:11:04] on the back of satanic pedophile cults, [00:11:07] it behooves us when there's an outsized [00:11:09] allegation to find outsized reams of [00:11:11] evidence to support those allegations. [00:11:13] And then if the evidence shows that's [00:11:14] what's happening, then obviously that is [00:11:16] something not only worthy of note, but [00:11:17] worthy of panic. But this is why we [00:11:20] ought to have evidence because otherwise [00:11:22] you end up in a bizarre world in which [00:11:24] allegations are tantamount to actual [00:11:26] condemnation. Now in regard to Andrew [00:11:29] allegations are now tantamount to [00:11:30] criminal charges. And we'll have to see [00:11:32] the nature of those criminal charges [00:11:34] again based on the information we have [00:11:36] and the evidence the actual evidence in [00:11:38] the Epstein files with regard to Andrew [00:11:40] and the fact he was not prosecuted over [00:11:42] Juprey and the allegations there for [00:11:45] decades. [00:11:47] My strong suspicion is he's being [00:11:48] prosecuted over passing essentially [00:11:50] inside information when he was a trade [00:11:52] representative to Epstein. The reason I [00:11:54] focus in on this is because once you [00:11:56] have a a standard that basically any [00:11:58] allegation is tantamount to guilt, any [00:12:02] allegation, that's how you end up with [00:12:03] Representative Ted Lou, a complete [00:12:05] dunderheaded going out in [00:12:07] Congress and suggesting that Trump is [00:12:09] raping children. [00:12:12] I mean, again, he has just as much [00:12:13] evidence for this proposition as people [00:12:15] have of evidence of a gigantic [00:12:17] transnational conspiracy run by [00:12:19] intelligence agencies to traffic [00:12:20] underage people to prominent people and [00:12:24] then blackmail them, which is to say [00:12:26] none. Here, here is Ted Lou. [00:12:30] Why uh are Republicans so interested in [00:12:34] Bill Hillary Clinton? It's because [00:12:35] they're trying to distract from the fact [00:12:37] that Donald Trump is in the Epstein [00:12:39] files thousands and thousands of times. [00:12:43] In those files, there's highly [00:12:45] disturbing allegations of Donald Trump [00:12:48] raping children, of Donald Trump [00:12:51] threatening to kill children. [00:12:54] So, I encourage your press to go look at [00:12:56] these allegations. [00:13:00] So, again, this is ridiculous. And and [00:13:03] by the way, it is also ridiculous that [00:13:05] Roana did the same routine the other [00:13:07] day. So you'll recall that I said that [00:13:08] if Roana and Thomas Massie had actual [00:13:11] evidence [00:13:13] of men trafficking in underage girls [00:13:16] with Jeffrey Epstein, they and they said [00:13:18] that the names had been redacted and [00:13:19] been hidden. They should actually just [00:13:20] go and announce that on the floor of the [00:13:22] house because you actually do have [00:13:23] congressional privilege to be able to do [00:13:25] that sort of stuff without being sued. [00:13:27] And then Roana actually went and did it [00:13:29] and we played it on the show him naming [00:13:30] all of these guys. Well, it turns out [00:13:33] that there was only one problem. As it [00:13:35] turns out, these six people that he [00:13:36] named were not actually guilty of [00:13:40] anything like what he sort of suggested [00:13:42] they were guilty of. He admitted this in [00:13:44] a tweet. Quote, I appreciate reporting [00:13:46] confirming today that Salvatore Nuara, [00:13:48] Zurab Moladzi, Leonid Leonab, and Nicola [00:13:51] Caputo were just part of a photo lineup [00:13:53] and are not connected to Epstein's [00:13:55] crimes, but that was after he literally [00:13:56] went on the floor of Congress and read [00:13:58] their names into the congressional [00:14:00] record [00:14:01] in order to imply [00:14:04] that they were part of a sex trafficking [00:14:06] scheme. [00:14:07] And then he blamed the DOJ for redacting [00:14:09] their names. Well, I mean, maybe the [00:14:10] reason their names were redacted in the [00:14:12] first place is because there was no [00:14:13] evidence they'd done anything wrong. And [00:14:15] when you unredact the names, it turns [00:14:16] out that a bunch of people like, for [00:14:18] example, Roana are going to cynically [00:14:19] play on that in order to slander people. [00:14:23] And that there is something that is [00:14:24] peculiarly dangerous about the way that [00:14:27] we are now approaching the release of [00:14:29] the Epstein information. Not that the [00:14:30] information shouldn't be released, but [00:14:32] if the way that law enforcement now goes [00:14:34] about its business is they gather [00:14:36] millions of pages of documents on [00:14:38] alleged crimes [00:14:40] and instead of guarding the people who [00:14:43] they have no evidence of crimes being [00:14:45] committed by, instead of guarding those [00:14:48] people, instead of redacting that [00:14:49] information, instead of actually [00:14:50] protecting the victims, you just release [00:14:51] everything into the public sphere. I [00:14:53] wonder what you do about, you know, [00:14:56] anything like the basic right to privacy [00:14:58] for people who are not Jeffrey Epstein, [00:15:00] but whose names are in the files. Is [00:15:02] that a thing we even care about? Maybe [00:15:03] we don't care about that anymore. Okay, [00:15:05] fine. But at that point, we should [00:15:06] basically just make public all IRS [00:15:07] filings. Why not? What if we can just [00:15:10] pass a congressional act to force the [00:15:12] IRS to release tax returns? Is that a [00:15:15] thing also that we can do? [00:15:18] I understand that that we all want the [00:15:21] we all want the real evidence and all [00:15:22] the information. The way this has been [00:15:25] handled from soup to nuts, let us say [00:15:26] has not been a a general boon to [00:15:29] humanity. [00:15:30] It was retailed extraordinarily poorly [00:15:32] by the attorney general Pam Bondi. It [00:15:35] was retailed before that in terms of [00:15:38] broad outsized theories by people who [00:15:39] really didn't know very much. [00:15:42] The original sort of we'll release [00:15:44] nothing but a small press release, but [00:15:45] we won't explain what we're doing. [00:15:46] Release was a disaster area. The [00:15:49] gigantic release of millions of pages of [00:15:50] documents into the public sphere without [00:15:52] any real effort at fully redacting [00:15:55] people who are innocent or any [00:15:56] explanation of what was being released. [00:15:57] That turns out to be a disaster area. [00:15:59] Also, it's hard to spot a place here [00:16:01] where there has not been a pretty [00:16:02] significant misstep. All righty. [00:16:04] Meanwhile, we now have a spate of fake [00:16:06] victims. You know, victimhood is in [00:16:08] short supply in a in a free and [00:16:10] prosperous west. It really is. There are [00:16:12] people obviously who are victimized by [00:16:14] systems. But the number of prominent [00:16:16] people who claim to be victims of [00:16:17] systems, let's just say that the supply [00:16:20] is overwhelming and it is certainly it [00:16:24] it is basically a Gucci bag on the [00:16:26] streets of New York. It is fake [00:16:29] pretending to be real. 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Order the whole [00:18:35] health system supplements as a preferred [00:18:37] customer today. And let us point out one [00:18:39] team of victim, James Telerico. So James [00:18:41] Telerico, of course, has been making hay [00:18:43] over the allegation made by Steven [00:18:44] Colbear that basically he was banned [00:18:47] from CBS because the Trump [00:18:49] administration couldn't stand him being [00:18:50] out there in public. That that's really [00:18:52] ridiculous. It turns out that the FCC [00:18:55] gave an instruction to CBS that if James [00:18:57] Telerico appeared and was given a [00:18:58] softball interview by Steven Cobear, [00:19:00] Jasmine Crockett would similarly have to [00:19:02] be given a softball interview by Steven [00:19:04] Colbear under their equal times laws. [00:19:07] Now again, I think equal times laws are [00:19:08] stupid. We should do away with them. But [00:19:10] that is currently the law. [00:19:12] And CBS said instead of airing the [00:19:15] Terico interview and then that would [00:19:16] force us to sacrifice airtime on Jasmine [00:19:20] Crockett, the producers of the Late Show [00:19:22] with Coar said, "No, what we'll do [00:19:24] instead is we'll just release the Terico [00:19:26] interview on YouTube." Now, has that [00:19:28] been like a horrifyingly terrible thing [00:19:31] for James Terico? Far from it. Dude's [00:19:33] been raising money handover fist. [00:19:37] His interview has been viewed 7.4 4 [00:19:40] million times on YouTube, which for the [00:19:43] record is way more than it would have [00:19:45] been viewed on CBS. Way more. He has [00:19:48] apparently rad in $2.5 million in [00:19:50] fundraising in the aftermath of this [00:19:52] pseudo scandal. [00:19:54] Telerico croed in a statement, quote, [00:19:56] "This is a campaign of by and for the [00:19:57] people. So, I'm proud that neighbors [00:19:59] from all across our state and country [00:20:00] stood together to defend free speech. [00:20:03] He said, "This is the most dangerous [00:20:05] kind of cancel culture. The kind that [00:20:06] comes right from the top. a threat to [00:20:08] one of our first amendment rights is a [00:20:09] threat to all of our first amendment [00:20:10] rights. Well, none of us have a first [00:20:12] amendment right to appear on Stephen [00:20:14] Cobear's show. So, there there is that. [00:20:17] And also, it was the producers of the [00:20:19] Late Show who made that call. CBS has [00:20:22] flatly denied the Colar version of the [00:20:26] story. Jasmine Crockett, by the way, [00:20:29] said, quote, "The federal government did [00:20:30] not shut down the segment." She said, [00:20:32] "It's our understanding that either Co [00:20:34] Bear or CBS decided not to put the [00:20:36] Talico interview on TV because of a fear [00:20:38] that the FCC may say something to them [00:20:40] and that there have been there may have [00:20:41] been advice to just have me on and they [00:20:43] could clear the equal time issue." It [00:20:45] was my understanding, says Jasmine [00:20:47] Crockett, that someone somewhere decided [00:20:48] we don't want to do that. Instead, we're [00:20:50] just going to do it this way. So, in [00:20:50] other words, they wanted to have Talico [00:20:52] on but not Jasmine Crockett, [00:20:54] disadvantaging Jasmine Crockett. And [00:20:56] then they use that as a pseudo scandal [00:20:58] in order to fund raise for James Terico. [00:21:01] This has not stopped the media from [00:21:02] going whole hog against Trump. CNN's [00:21:05] Nico Parino slammed Trump over the [00:21:08] Torico controversy. [00:21:11] >> I do think that the administration has [00:21:13] come out for these late night talk show [00:21:15] host. We saw that with Jimmy Kimmel. Uh [00:21:17] Colbear his run I think ends in May and [00:21:20] Brendan Carr has his marching orders. He [00:21:23] attended government meetings with a pin [00:21:24] of Donald Trump's face on it, a gold [00:21:26] pin. And uh he President Trump [00:21:29] repeatedly truths out criticisms of [00:21:31] these hosts and they're these hosts are [00:21:34] perceived to be leftwing. I think they [00:21:35] probably are majority leftwing and so [00:21:37] that's why he's going after late night [00:21:39] and daytime talk shows and not [00:21:40] conservative talk radio. [00:21:43] >> Okay. So I I mean again I think there's [00:21:45] a strong case that we should get rid of [00:21:46] the equal time rules altogether. They [00:21:48] are a vestigial organ of free speech [00:21:51] regulation. But pretending that somehow [00:21:53] Talerico was the victim in all this is [00:21:55] really silly. This whole thing was [00:21:56] basically jinned up by the late show's [00:21:59] producers in order to benefit Taller [00:22:00] Rico. Precisely the opposite of what is [00:22:03] currently being claimed. Meanwhile, FCC [00:22:05] chair Brendan Carr, he is going after [00:22:08] Coar. I will say that the optics here [00:22:11] for Brendan Carr, I mean, I don't know [00:22:12] how many times Brendan Carr has to go [00:22:14] after late night hosts before he sort of [00:22:16] appears to be over his skis. I just I [00:22:19] don't I don't see the win here [00:22:20] particularly for Brendan Carr. But here [00:22:22] we go. He's had what he probably views [00:22:25] as a long and distinguished career in [00:22:27] the limelight. He sees that that [00:22:29] limelight is fading is coming to an end. [00:22:31] That's got to be a difficult time for [00:22:33] him. I get it. Um but that doesn't [00:22:34] change the facts of of what happened [00:22:36] here. [00:22:38] >> I mean, he is right about that. It does [00:22:39] not change the facts of what happened [00:22:40] here. Now, if you want to talk actual [00:22:41] cancel culture, how about the fact that [00:22:43] Barry Weiss was supposed to give a [00:22:44] lecture on the future of journalism at [00:22:46] UCLA and she actually was cancelled. [00:22:48] Like full scale canled. Not like it was [00:22:51] it happened and then it was broadcast to [00:22:52] YouTube to the tune of millions of [00:22:54] dollars raised. Nope. It was actually [00:22:55] cancelled amid student protests and [00:22:57] online criticism. The annual lecture is [00:23:00] held in remembrance of Daniel Pearl, [00:23:01] that is the Wall Street Journal [00:23:02] journalist who was beheaded by [00:23:04] terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. It [00:23:07] will be rescheduled for some unspecified [00:23:09] date. [00:23:12] A reason was not provided for the [00:23:13] cancellation. [00:23:15] Code Pink, which allegedly receives [00:23:18] foreign funding, organized a student [00:23:20] action to cancel the event back in [00:23:22] January. [00:23:24] So again, that the heckler's veto taking [00:23:26] shape. Meanwhile, other fake victims, [00:23:28] James Tarico, a fake victim. Other fake [00:23:31] victims, Democrats claiming that [00:23:34] President Trump is a racist because he [00:23:36] is apparently deploying help to clean up [00:23:38] the giant poop spill in the PTOIC. [00:23:42] The Washington Post reported [00:23:45] 3 days ago that federal authorities will [00:23:48] respond to a major sewage spill that [00:23:49] occurred four weeks ago in the Ptoic [00:23:51] River, which flows between Maryland, [00:23:52] Washington, and Virginia. In a post on [00:23:54] his social media network, Trump said [00:23:56] that the Federal Emergency Management [00:23:58] Agency would play a key role in a [00:23:59] response involving management direction, [00:24:01] and coordination to protect the PTOAC. [00:24:05] Trump blamed local Democrat leaders for [00:24:07] gross mismanagement. In his post, he [00:24:09] singled out Maryland Governor Wes Moore, [00:24:11] suggesting that he was incapable of [00:24:12] handling the situation. Trump said, "I [00:24:15] don't like the fact he did a horrible [00:24:16] job with the pipes. I'm going to have to [00:24:18] get the federal government involved in [00:24:19] getting it fixed because he can't fix [00:24:21] anything." [00:24:23] And then West Moore tried to claim that [00:24:25] it was actually the federal government's [00:24:27] fault, which is weird because it [00:24:28] actually is not under the federal [00:24:30] government's tr So Wesmore is now a [00:24:32] victim, too. Everybody is a victim. So, [00:24:34] here is Wes Moore trying to run for [00:24:35] president in 2028. I think that is a [00:24:37] quicksotic run by Wes Moore. I do not [00:24:39] think that he has it, whatever it is. [00:24:42] And he says he's a victim of President [00:24:43] Trump. Now, sure, it's it's his state [00:24:45] that is pumping raw sewage into the [00:24:47] rivers, but it is it is President Trump [00:24:50] who is the real exploer here. [00:24:54] >> I think the the the president just seems [00:24:56] to have a uh a very real issue with the [00:24:58] fact that uh I do not bow to him and I [00:25:02] will stand up to him because I will [00:25:03] always defend my people. But uh but you [00:25:06] know, the the fact that I'm the only [00:25:07] black governor in this country and the [00:25:09] fact that he seems to have a a real [00:25:11] issue with me, I I think that's that's [00:25:13] that's an issue he's got to take up. [00:25:17] >> Well, it's very sad. Well, what what a [00:25:19] victim Wesmore is. Also, by the way, Wes [00:25:21] Moore claims that that President Trump [00:25:22] may be a racist because he is quote [00:25:24] assaulting employment opportunities for [00:25:26] black women. This is the [00:25:29] this is ridiculous. I'm sorry. It's [00:25:30] ridiculous. the employment the [00:25:32] unemployment rate in the country right [00:25:33] now is 4.3%. [00:25:36] He is not undercutting black women. If [00:25:38] if the claim by Wes Moore is that [00:25:40] government employment has been cut in [00:25:42] certain areas and that demographically [00:25:44] this disproportionately affects black [00:25:46] women, that does not mean that Trump is [00:25:48] targeting black women in particular by [00:25:50] cutting federal jobs. But here is [00:25:52] Wesmore doing the the victimhood [00:25:53] routine. [00:25:55] >> Well, I mean, he also has spent the past [00:25:57] year making a direct assault on [00:25:58] scholarships for H.B.CU cus that the [00:26:01] past year we have seen the greatest [00:26:02] assault on unemployment for black women [00:26:04] that our country has ever seen. That [00:26:07] he's spending his time attacking history [00:26:10] and banning books. Um I I I you know I I [00:26:14] honestly think that uh you know it's [00:26:16] it's it's a question not just for the [00:26:17] president but frankly I think it's also [00:26:19] a question for white America if they are [00:26:21] looking at his actions and uh and I [00:26:23] think that's something that people need [00:26:24] to wrestle with. [00:26:28] >> Okay. Um, I'm sorry that claiming [00:26:30] victimhood on behalf of black women [00:26:32] everywhere because President Trump is [00:26:34] cutting federal jobs is is truly silly. [00:26:37] Especially the same day that President [00:26:39] Trump was celebrating Black History [00:26:40] Month over at the White House. Here was [00:26:42] our apparently incredibly racist [00:26:44] president yesterday. [00:26:48] >> Black Americans have stepped forward to [00:26:50] defend the flag and to defend our [00:26:52] country like few others really like few [00:26:56] others. And you've never really been [00:26:57] given the recognition that you should [00:26:59] get for that. You know that, Ben. They [00:27:01] never I don't think a lot of people have [00:27:03] given the kind of recognition, but [00:27:05] everyone knows all about the Tuskegee [00:27:07] Airmen. They were great and uh amazing. [00:27:11] The Buffalo Soldiers. Do you know the [00:27:12] Buffalo Soldiers? [00:27:14] >> Good stuff, right? Black leaders from [00:27:17] Frederick Douglas to Martin Luther King, [00:27:20] right? little relative over here have [00:27:24] made our country freer and really uh [00:27:27] what what they've really done is made [00:27:29] life more just. [00:27:34] What a racist. I mean truly that that is [00:27:35] egregiously KKK type racist stuff there. [00:27:38] So many victims here. One reporter took [00:27:41] the opportunity to ask about whether he [00:27:43] is a racist since he has been called [00:27:45] racist so many times. [00:27:48] Where or when does the president believe [00:27:51] he's been falsely called racist? [00:27:53] >> You're kidding, right? [laughter] [00:27:56] >> I will pull you plethora of examples. [00:27:58] I'm going to get my team in that room to [00:28:00] start uh going through the internet of [00:28:03] radical Democrats throughout the years, [00:28:05] Ed, who have accused this president [00:28:07] falsely of being a racist. And I'm sure [00:28:09] there's many people in this room and on [00:28:11] network television across the country [00:28:12] who have accused him of the same. In [00:28:14] fact, I know that because I've seen it [00:28:16] with my own eyes. [00:28:19] >> Yeah, that is Caroline Levit, of course, [00:28:20] being asked about Trump's supposed [00:28:22] racism. I mean, one DC resident gave a [00:28:26] very live speech at this at this event [00:28:28] at the White House. Her grandson was [00:28:30] killed in violence in Washington DC and [00:28:33] here she was raving about President [00:28:34] Trump. Again, so much racism just [00:28:35] pouring out of President Trump here. [00:28:38] >> And then WE NEED NATIONAL GUARD AND [00:28:41] WHICH WE DID YEARS AGO. [00:28:44] He brought it on. [00:28:48] >> I love him. I don't want to hear nothing [00:28:50] you got to say about that racist stuff. [00:28:52] And don't be looking at me ON THE NEWS [00:28:54] HATING ON ME BECAUSE I'M STANDING UP FOR [00:28:56] SOMEBODY THAT DESERVES TO BE STAND UP [00:28:58] FOR. GET OFF THE MAN'S BACK. LET HIM DO [00:29:01] HIS JOB. HE DOING THE RIGHT THING. BACK [00:29:03] UP OFF OF HIM. AND GRANDMA SAID IT. [00:29:13] I mean, look at that vicious racist [00:29:14] right there. There's so many victims. So [00:29:16] many victims. [00:29:18] Democrats also claiming, of course, [00:29:20] victimhood on behalf of trans people [00:29:21] everywhere. Primla Gyipol, the head of [00:29:25] the Congressional Progressive Caucus, [00:29:27] yesterday suggested that conservatives [00:29:28] are jealous of trans people, which is [00:29:30] that's a hell of a take [00:29:33] to trans people everywhere. [00:29:35] I also want you to know this. Those [00:29:38] people are threatened by your strength, [00:29:42] by your joy in being fully who you are. [00:29:46] Those who fight against trans people are [00:29:49] just jealous of the freedom that they [00:29:52] have taken to be fully who they are. And [00:29:56] so those people just want to destroy [00:29:59] that rather than imagine what it would [00:30:02] be like to be fully who they are. [00:30:07] Um, okay. [00:30:11] That's that's a take. It's not a good [00:30:13] take, but it's it's a take. [00:30:15] Conservatives are jealous of people who [00:30:18] are suffering from a DSM5 [00:30:21] delusional disorder in which people wish [00:30:23] to mutilate their own bodies. That that [00:30:25] is what because of freedom. [00:30:28] Okay, sure. Why not? But the litany of [00:30:32] fake victimhood goes on. YouTube has now [00:30:35] released a song in honor of all of the [00:30:38] fake victims. [00:30:40] They they've released an anti-ICSE song [00:30:42] which soared up the charts. We are now [00:30:44] going to get I guess this is the thing [00:30:45] now. I guess that every artist from the [00:30:47] 1980s and early 1990s is now going to be [00:30:50] releasing protest songs as though [00:30:52] they're like Bob Dylan. Okay, let's see. [00:30:55] Let's see it. You too. [00:30:58] [music] [00:31:00] Mother of three [00:31:04] bullets [music] for each child. You see [00:31:06] the color of her [00:31:13] descate. [00:31:24] >> This song is awful. My goodness. [00:31:29] I I'll admit I'm not a YouTube [00:31:30] afficionado. Is Is all their music is [00:31:32] bad or is this uniquely bad? [00:31:37] >> I legitimately don't. [00:31:43] I love you more than hate loves war. [00:31:45] What? This is This is trash. The real [00:31:48] victim here is my ears. That is the real [00:31:51] victim here. [00:31:53] My goodness. And in honor of the of the [00:31:56] fake victims of ICE and and here I'm [00:31:58] speaking about people who are here in [00:31:59] the country illegally who are now being [00:32:00] deported, Zorani has now appointed an [00:32:04] abolish ICE radical as the New York City [00:32:06] immigration chief. [00:32:08] How could it go wrong? [00:32:11] I I listen I will admit to a sick sort [00:32:13] of enjoyment in the fact that Democrats [00:32:15] voted for this and now they get it. [00:32:16] According to the Daily Wire, New York [00:32:18] City's Democratic Socialist Mayor Zoran [00:32:19] Mandani just tapped a new immigration [00:32:21] officer to his administration who [00:32:23] previously advocated to abolish ICE and [00:32:25] has cozied up to radical figures and [00:32:27] organizations. Mandani announced on [00:32:29] Tuesday he had appointed Faiza Ali as [00:32:32] commissioner of the mayor's office of [00:32:33] immigrant affairs. [00:32:36] She says that she is the proud daughter [00:32:37] of immigrant parents from Pakistan who [00:32:39] came to New York City with courage and [00:32:41] unshakable belief in possibility and the [00:32:43] deter determination to build a future [00:32:45] here. [00:32:46] Also, she called to abolish ICE in 2019 [00:32:49] and she was arrested during a protest in [00:32:51] 2018 where she also called for the end [00:32:53] of ICE. [00:32:55] So, she is now going to be a special [00:32:57] adviser on immigrants affairs. Man, New [00:33:01] York, you asked for it and you got it. [00:33:04] I'd be remiss here if I did not name [00:33:05] among the fake victims litany here [00:33:07] Tucker Carlson who decided to Greta [00:33:10] Tunberg himself, you know, claimed that [00:33:12] he was basically kidnapped by the [00:33:13] Israelis. So, so Tucker Carlson was [00:33:15] invited by the ambassador of the United [00:33:17] States to Israel, Mike Huckabe [00:33:20] to do an interview quasi debate. [00:33:23] Apparently, that's supposed to be [00:33:24] released sometime on Friday. And Tucker [00:33:27] Carlson then flew into Israel and did [00:33:30] not get off the tarmac. Basically, he [00:33:31] flew into Vangorian airport. He was [00:33:34] invited by a myriad of Christian groups [00:33:35] to come visit with them and hear the [00:33:37] actual experiences of Christians in [00:33:38] Israel. He didn't want to do that. [00:33:40] Instead, he imported an anti-Israel [00:33:42] activist to do an interview with him at [00:33:44] the airport. Apparently, apparently, he [00:33:46] never left the airport. He flew private [00:33:47] in he then was at the part of the [00:33:51] airport that is reserved for VIPs. [00:33:54] You can pay like an additional fee to be [00:33:56] processed, not through sort of the main [00:33:58] the main terminal at Bengorian airport. [00:34:02] And then he just stayed there for a few [00:34:03] hours, did the interview, and left. True [00:34:06] courage of his convictions. But you know [00:34:08] that that would be silly enough. What [00:34:10] was truly silly is that then he leaked [00:34:13] to a man who used to work for him a [00:34:15] completely false story. Just a complete [00:34:17] nonsense story. [00:34:20] So a reporter named Philip Nietto who [00:34:22] literally used to work for Carlson but [00:34:24] now works for the Daily Mail posted an [00:34:26] exclusive quote Tucker Carlson detained [00:34:29] in Israel. Journalist quote dragged into [00:34:31] interrogation room as explosive [00:34:33] interview sparks diplomatic firestorm. [00:34:36] Nothing of this is true. None of it. It [00:34:39] is just a lie. It is an absolute overt [00:34:42] lie because Tucker is looking for some [00:34:45] sense of victimhood from Israel because [00:34:47] of course he despises the state of [00:34:48] Israel. Like truly despises it clearly, [00:34:52] which is why he lies routinely about it. [00:34:54] In any case, [00:34:57] according to this piece, Carlson [00:35:00] exclusively told the Daily Mail, i.e. [00:35:01] his former employee that shortly after [00:35:03] the interview, Israeli officials [00:35:05] confiscated his passport, and hauled one [00:35:06] of his colleagues off to an [00:35:07] interrogation room. Men who identified [00:35:10] themselves as airport security, took our [00:35:11] passports, hauled our executive producer [00:35:13] into a side room, and then demanded to [00:35:14] know what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabe [00:35:16] about." Carlson told the Daily Mail, "It [00:35:17] was bizarre. We're now out of the [00:35:19] country." Oh man, the the serious [00:35:22] security ri I mean, he barely survived. [00:35:25] He Okay, so as somebody who flies into [00:35:27] and out of Israel pretty frequently, [00:35:29] here's how it works. Tucker was not even [00:35:31] in the main terminal. Tucker was in the [00:35:33] VIP terminal. In the VIP terminal where [00:35:35] you have basically all the perks and [00:35:38] amenities available. You have privacy. [00:35:40] There are rooms with actual like lie [00:35:41] down couches, coffee machines, [00:35:45] like actual layouts of food. [00:35:48] It's like a first class lounge and you [00:35:51] pay an extra fee to do it. [00:35:53] So that's where Tucker was. And when he [00:35:56] says that someone took his passport, [00:35:57] what they mean is you go to the counter [00:35:59] and then they take your passport to [00:36:00] check to make sure that it is in [00:36:02] compliance with all national [00:36:04] international law and then they return [00:36:05] your passport to you. That's what he [00:36:07] means. As for the detention, [00:36:11] what he means by detention is that [00:36:13] apparently one of his producers who may [00:36:15] or may not have been in the VIP section [00:36:17] was taken aside and asked a few [00:36:19] questions and then was let go. This [00:36:21] happens all the time. Anyone who has [00:36:24] flown ll knows this. He was flying [00:36:26] private. So my guess is that it was even [00:36:28] less than that. It has happened to me. [00:36:30] It has happened to my wife. It has [00:36:32] happened to our nanny. It has happened [00:36:34] to pretty much every producer on this [00:36:36] show. It is not a detention. It is not [00:36:37] an arrest. It is not a grilling. It is [00:36:39] not a third degree. No one's getting [00:36:40] beaten with hoses. It's just hor. But [00:36:43] Tucker is the Greta Tunberg of Israel [00:36:45] floating his flotilla of stupidity over [00:36:47] toward Israel to try and claim that what [00:36:49] the Isra You think the Israeli [00:36:50] government is going to detain Tucker [00:36:51] Carlson. You think they're that stupid? [00:36:54] Even if you think they're nefarious, [00:36:55] which they are not. You think that they [00:36:57] are attribute to them some modicum of [00:37:00] intelligence at the very least? You [00:37:01] think they would do that? It's just [00:37:02] ridiculous. [00:37:06] Apparently, Mike Huckabe then came out [00:37:08] with his own statement. [00:37:10] Quote, "Everyone who comes in and out of [00:37:12] Israel, every country for that matter, [00:37:13] has passports checked and routinely [00:37:14] asked security questions, even me going [00:37:17] in and out with diplomatic passport and [00:37:18] diplomatic visa." [00:37:20] because Tucker is a liar who lies a lot. [00:37:23] It is also worth noting here that by the [00:37:24] way, Israeli security when it comes to [00:37:26] airports is really high. I wonder why. [00:37:28] Could it be there's a history of [00:37:29] hijacking of Israeli airplanes? [00:37:32] In fact, one of the factors that is very [00:37:33] frequently used when passports are [00:37:35] checked is what countries you have been [00:37:37] to. If you have been to a wide variety [00:37:38] of, for example, [00:37:40] radical Muslim countries over the course [00:37:42] of the last year, that might be a reason [00:37:44] for them to check your passport. But [00:37:46] again, nothing that Tucker is saying [00:37:47] here is true. He He is the Jesse [00:37:49] Smilelette of airport security. [00:37:52] Apparently, two airport attendants from [00:37:54] L all came out and yelled, "This is BB [00:37:57] country." And then they hit him with [00:37:59] bleach as he ate his kosher subway [00:38:01] sandwich. [00:38:04] The fact that that people take this [00:38:05] person intellectually seriously remains [00:38:08] uh a um something beyond amusement. So, [00:38:12] not a gigantic shock here, but fake [00:38:14] victimhood is the order of the day. And [00:38:16] meanwhile [00:38:18] in the Middle East, obviously a lot of [00:38:20] talk about what's going on in Iran. The [00:38:22] United States has mobilized exorbitant [00:38:23] resources in the Middle East as Iran [00:38:25] continues to styy and stonewall on its [00:38:28] nuclear program, ballistic missile [00:38:29] program, and support for terrorism. [00:38:32] According to the Wall Street Journal, [00:38:34] Iran's leaders want to reach a nuclear [00:38:35] deal with the United States, but they [00:38:37] are also rushing to prepare for war in [00:38:38] case talks between the countries fail. [00:38:40] Thran is deploying its forces, [00:38:41] dispersing decision-making authority, [00:38:43] fortifying its nuclear sites, and [00:38:45] expanding its crackdown on domestic [00:38:46] descent. The moves reflect its leaders [00:38:48] believes the survival of the regime [00:38:49] itself is at stake. Domestically, the [00:38:52] Islamic Republic is more vulnerable than [00:38:53] it has been in decades. Its leaders are [00:38:55] facing widespread popular discontent [00:38:57] over worsening economic pictures and the [00:38:59] mass killing of protesters last month. [00:39:04] Apparently, according to Farzan Sabet, [00:39:06] an analyst at the Geneva Graduate [00:39:08] Institute in Switzerland, Iran is [00:39:10] preparing for strikes by putting its [00:39:11] security and political leadership on [00:39:12] high alert to prevent decapitation and [00:39:14] to protect its nuclear facilities. [00:39:17] Iranian officials are still again [00:39:21] stonewalling on their nuclear program. [00:39:23] They're not going to kill their nuclear [00:39:24] program. They're not going to kill their [00:39:25] ballistic missile program. They're not [00:39:26] going to kill their support for [00:39:27] terrorism. It is literally the only [00:39:29] thing that they can take back to their [00:39:31] military infrastructure. understand that [00:39:33] when it comes to repressive [00:39:34] authoritarian regimes, the number one [00:39:36] thing you have to do is please your [00:39:37] military apparatus. If you don't do [00:39:39] that, you're out in your ear. And so the [00:39:42] Ayatollas understand that money has to [00:39:45] keep pouring into the military apparatus [00:39:47] to keep bribing top level military men [00:39:51] to support the regime. And that means [00:39:52] supporting terrorism abroad. It means [00:39:54] supporting the development of these [00:39:56] weapons programs. [00:39:59] Iran's leaders are preparing for an [00:40:01] attack that could disrupt its chain of [00:40:02] command. [00:40:05] Naval units of the paramilitary [00:40:06] revolutionary guard were deployed this [00:40:08] week to the straight of Hormuz. By the [00:40:10] way, if the United States decided to [00:40:11] sink that fleet, that would take [00:40:12] approximately 3 minutes flat. [00:40:17] There is [00:40:19] strong evidence that Chinese are [00:40:21] actually providing some surveillance [00:40:22] apparatus to the Iranians. China, of [00:40:24] course, is a support system for the [00:40:27] Iranians. [00:40:29] A Russian warship also arrived at the [00:40:30] straight of Hormuz and docked at the [00:40:32] Iranian port town of Band Abbas ahead of [00:40:34] a military exercise planned for [00:40:36] Thursday. [00:40:37] And those exercises are supposed to be [00:40:39] taking place not far from the aircraft [00:40:41] carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sailing off [00:40:43] the coast of Oman. [00:40:46] Iran is also attempting to harden its [00:40:48] nuclear sites because they're afraid [00:40:50] that the United States will once again [00:40:51] bomb those nuclear sites. [00:40:55] According to CBS News and Jennifer [00:40:57] Jacobs reporting, top national security [00:40:59] officials have told Trump that the [00:41:01] military is ready for potential strikes [00:41:02] on Iran as soon as this weekend, but the [00:41:04] timeline for any action is likely to [00:41:05] extend beyond Saturday or Sunday, [00:41:07] according to sources. Trump has not yet [00:41:09] made a final decision. Over the next 3 [00:41:11] days, the Pentagon is moving some [00:41:12] personnel out of the Middle East region [00:41:14] ahead of potential action or [00:41:15] counterattacks by Iran. [00:41:18] That doesn't necessarily mean that [00:41:19] action is imminent. [00:41:22] Apparently, one source says that the [00:41:23] Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is [00:41:25] planning to visit Israel and meet with [00:41:27] Netanyahu in about two weeks for further [00:41:30] discussions. [00:41:31] The United States currently has the most [00:41:33] air power in the Middle East since the [00:41:34] 2003 invasion of Iraq. [00:41:37] US officials say that the firepower will [00:41:39] give the US the option of carrying out a [00:41:41] sustained weeksl long air war against [00:41:42] Iran instead of a one and done midnight [00:41:44] hammer type strike. [00:41:49] Unclear whether Trump is going to pull [00:41:50] the trigger here. [00:41:52] It it seems to me that just on a [00:41:54] geopolitical level for Trump not to pull [00:41:56] any trigger here would be an open sign [00:41:58] to America's enemies that it is time to [00:42:00] go. [00:42:03] This is the box that the president has [00:42:05] sort of created for himself [00:42:06] geopolitically. [00:42:08] The president came out and he said if [00:42:10] you shoot protesters in the streets [00:42:12] there will be serious consequences. Stay [00:42:14] in the streets. Help is on the way. If [00:42:16] help is not forthcoming and instead what [00:42:17] ends up coming out of this is some sort [00:42:19] of weak style Obama deal in which Iran [00:42:22] makes a bunch of pledges that are [00:42:23] unfulfillable [00:42:25] and that prevents and forstalls Israeli [00:42:28] air action against for example ballistic [00:42:30] missile development [00:42:32] then not only will that be a historic [00:42:34] foreign policy failure by the [00:42:35] administration but will also be a green [00:42:38] light to China to take Taiwan. [00:42:41] So, one of the things President Trump [00:42:42] frequently said is that the the pull [00:42:45] out, the disastrous pull out from [00:42:47] Afghanistan in the style that Joe Biden [00:42:50] did it led directly to the Russian [00:42:52] invasion of Ukraine. I think that is [00:42:53] obviously true. The timeline matches up. [00:42:56] It is clear that Vladimir Putin thought [00:42:58] Joe Biden was weak and so he made a move [00:42:59] on Ukraine. [00:43:00] Can you imagine what China and Russia [00:43:02] will do if they see that the United [00:43:05] States, the most powerful military force [00:43:07] on planet Earth, makes overt threats to [00:43:09] Iran, [00:43:12] tried to eradicate its nuclear program [00:43:13] back in June of last year and then backs [00:43:16] off after this gigantic military buildup [00:43:18] and the Iranians get off the hook here. [00:43:21] What will that say to Russia? What will [00:43:22] that say to China? Because China, [00:43:23] Russia, Iran, they're all in bed with [00:43:24] each other. What exactly will that mean [00:43:27] for geopolitics in the future? Because [00:43:29] let's be clear, [00:43:31] while Iran has a ballistic missile [00:43:33] arsenal that's capable of hitting US [00:43:35] bases in the region, [00:43:37] the suggestion that tens of thousands of [00:43:40] Americans will die or thousands of [00:43:41] Americans will die in Iranian counter [00:43:43] strikes is false. It is not true. [00:43:46] Iran does not have that sort of [00:43:48] overwhelming capacity. The United States [00:43:50] is already hardening its own defenses [00:43:52] against the possibility of counter [00:43:53] strike. Presumably any strike delivered [00:43:55] by the United States would be in the [00:43:57] first run delivered directly at the [00:43:59] ballistic missile program to take out as [00:44:00] many bases as humanly possible. [00:44:03] Iranian air defenses remain non-existent [00:44:06] at this point. You could essentially fly [00:44:08] a biplane over Iran and drop TNT from [00:44:11] your hands onto IRGC bases at this [00:44:15] point. The skies are naked above Iran. [00:44:18] And so in the face of that Iranian [00:44:20] weakness and the threats that the [00:44:21] president has already levied against the [00:44:23] Iranians, if this massive mobilization [00:44:26] of material, which is costing, I assume, [00:44:28] tens of billions of dollars, it cost a [00:44:29] lot of money to do what's being done [00:44:31] right now. If that ends up being [00:44:34] basically just a bluff and the Iranians [00:44:36] end up negotiating their way out of this [00:44:38] with a future for their nuclear program [00:44:39] and a continuation of ballistic missiles [00:44:41] and a continuation of terrorism and a [00:44:43] continuation of the murder of [00:44:44] protesters, if they are able to do that, [00:44:46] the chances that China makes a strong [00:44:48] move to blockade Taiwan inside the next [00:44:50] two years are extremely high. [00:44:54] Because would China believe that a [00:44:56] country that is unwilling to fulfill the [00:44:59] president's red line promises on Iran, [00:45:02] which is eminently weaker than China, is [00:45:04] willing to stand up to China over a [00:45:06] country that is all the way around the [00:45:08] globe in Taiwan and just a little ways [00:45:12] from the coast of China? [00:45:14] That's going to be the logic in Beijing. [00:45:17] The logic in Russia, by the way, is [00:45:19] going to be that the United States, if [00:45:21] pressed hard enough, will simply back [00:45:22] out of Ukraine and the Europeans don't [00:45:24] have the capacity to ramp up fast [00:45:25] enough. [00:45:27] I think you are looking at at this point [00:45:28] a serious conflration on multiple fronts [00:45:31] if the United States does not either [00:45:33] achieve some sort of signal deal by [00:45:35] which Iran surrenders pretty much all of [00:45:37] its forward capacity nuclear program and [00:45:39] starts to open up to the protesters or [00:45:42] you're going to end up with something [00:45:43] that is that is really dangerous a very [00:45:45] dangerous geopolitical situation and [00:45:48] again the signals that are being sent by [00:45:49] the administration are pretty mixed [00:45:50] because the reality is you have a mixed [00:45:52] administration when it comes to its [00:45:53] approach to things like China [00:45:56] So, for example, according to the Wall [00:45:57] Street Journal, a major US arm sale [00:45:59] package for Taiwan is in limbo following [00:46:01] pressure from Chinese leader Xihinping [00:46:03] and concerns among some in the Trump [00:46:05] administration that greenlighting the [00:46:06] weapons deal would derail President [00:46:08] Trump's coming visit to Beijing. In a [00:46:10] phone call earlier this month with [00:46:11] Trump, Xi urged caution on US arm sales [00:46:14] to Taiwan, [00:46:15] Trump wants to avoid antagonizing China [00:46:17] ahead of his visit. So, let's get real. [00:46:20] If in February, March, the United States [00:46:23] backs off arm sales to Taiwan and caves [00:46:25] to the Iranian regime, why in the world [00:46:28] would China not make a move on Taiwan? [00:46:30] What would be the compelling case? [00:46:33] Seriously, [00:46:36] it's geopolitics. It's a zero- sum game [00:46:39] in terms of power. When you create a [00:46:41] power vacuum, somebody bad tends to fill [00:46:43] the gap. That is the history of the [00:46:45] United States in foreign policy. [00:46:48] The same, by the way, I think will hold [00:46:49] true in Russia Ukraine. I think Russia [00:46:52] is likely to significantly ramp up [00:46:53] operations in Ukraine if nothing is done [00:46:56] in Iran. [00:46:58] Number one, it'll free up Iranian [00:47:00] resources to ship more Shahed drones [00:47:02] over to the Russians for use in Ukraine. [00:47:04] But second of all, if the administration [00:47:06] keeps claiming meaningful progress in [00:47:08] these Russia Ukraine negotiations, I I [00:47:10] would love to see some evidence for this [00:47:11] proposition. Here is Caroline Levit [00:47:13] yesterday at the White House. [00:47:15] I I think the president would respond to [00:47:17] that by saying he does not think it's [00:47:18] fair that thousands of Ukrainians are [00:47:20] losing their lives and Russians too in [00:47:23] this deadly war. And that's why the [00:47:25] president and his team have committed a [00:47:27] tremendous amount of time and energy in [00:47:29] bringing this war that is very far away [00:47:31] from the United States of America. But [00:47:32] nevertheless, this is a president of [00:47:34] peace and so he's committed a tremendous [00:47:36] amount of time and energy to bringing [00:47:38] this war to an end. Uh just yesterday [00:47:40] there was another round of trilateral [00:47:42] talks between the US, Russia and [00:47:44] Ukraine. Uh there was meaningful [00:47:45] progress made uh in both parties both [00:47:48] sides agreed to update their respective [00:47:50] leaders and to continue to work towards [00:47:52] a peace deal together. So there will be [00:47:53] another round of talks in the future. Uh [00:47:55] but I think the president views this [00:47:57] entire situation as very unfair. Not [00:48:00] just for Russians and Ukrainians who [00:48:02] have lost their lives, but also for the [00:48:04] American people uh and the American [00:48:05] taxpayer who were footing the bill for [00:48:07] this war effort before President Trump [00:48:09] put a stop to it. [00:48:12] >> So yeah, again, we will have to see if [00:48:14] any evidence emerges at all that the [00:48:16] Russians have shown flexibility with [00:48:18] regard to these negotiations. We've been [00:48:19] going for months, over a year on these [00:48:22] negotiations. The Russians so far have [00:48:24] shown zero flexibility. They are [00:48:26] waiting. They're biting their time. [00:48:27] They're waiting for a moment of weakness [00:48:29] clearly. [00:48:31] So high stakes happening in the Middle [00:48:33] East right now. Joining us on the line [00:48:35] is Mary Margaret Olahan. She of course [00:48:37] is our White House correspondent and [00:48:38] she's been all over everything happening [00:48:40] at the White House. There's a lot going [00:48:41] on. Mary Margaret, thanks for the time. [00:48:43] >> Hey Ben, it's great to be here. [00:48:46] So, you were in the White House press [00:48:48] room as you often are yesterday when [00:48:50] when Caroline Levit was asked about [00:48:52] President Trump and racism. I have to [00:48:55] say it was it was a little bit funny to [00:48:56] watch considering that he was [00:48:57] simultaneously holding an event paying [00:48:59] tribute to black Americans at which [00:49:00] black Americans were were praising him [00:49:02] and hugging him. Um, but what was the [00:49:04] room in the what was the what was the [00:49:05] press room like? [00:49:07] >> Well, Ben, first of all, I was sitting [00:49:09] in our seat because we now have a seat [00:49:11] in the White House briefing room, which [00:49:12] I'm very excited about. So, I'm sitting [00:49:15] there and I hear this reporter at the [00:49:16] front of the room from CBS ask Caroline [00:49:19] uh why why people would suggest that the [00:49:23] president has been called racist by [00:49:24] Democrats. And Caroline just looked him [00:49:26] in the eye and goes, "You're joking, [00:49:27] right?" And a number of reporters in the [00:49:30] room started laughing. And I don't think [00:49:31] they were all conservative. It was just [00:49:33] it was a humorous moment because we all [00:49:35] know, we've all heard uh the president [00:49:37] be called racist by in fact some of the [00:49:39] reporters who were in the room [00:49:40] yesterday. Uh, and so, you know, she she [00:49:43] came back at him and our social team I [00:49:45] saw did a fantastic job compiling a list [00:49:48] of these Democrats who have called the [00:49:50] president racist. I mean, Ben, you and I [00:49:52] have heard the president called racist [00:49:54] ever since he came down that escalator [00:49:56] to run for president in the first place. [00:49:58] It's just one of the most common insults [00:50:00] that he's received. Um, but of course, [00:50:02] in this instance, the the legacy media [00:50:05] would far prefer to suggest that that [00:50:07] never happened and to gaslight us about [00:50:09] that. And then I head into this Black [00:50:11] History Month event with the president [00:50:13] where I couldn't even see him because [00:50:15] the attendees were so excited to see the [00:50:17] president, to take photos of him, uh to [00:50:20] to to applaud their friends and their [00:50:22] family who were talking to him. Some of [00:50:24] the speakers were very emotional and [00:50:26] went up and praised the president. [00:50:29] Um thanked God for putting him in the [00:50:30] White House. So just a very emotional [00:50:33] and excited ceremony. And of course, it [00:50:35] was pretty ironic to be in such a great [00:50:37] place and to see all these people [00:50:39] applauding the president only a couple [00:50:41] hours after a reporter in the front row [00:50:43] of the White House press briefing room [00:50:45] goes, "Who's called the president [00:50:46] racist?" [00:50:49] So, meanwhile, obviously, the the [00:50:50] operations in Minneapolis from ICE have [00:50:52] been drawn down. That that began earlier [00:50:55] last week. It seems as though the [00:50:57] controversy around ICE is not going away [00:50:59] because Democrats continue to claim that [00:51:01] that basic enforcement of law is somehow [00:51:03] a violation of moral precepts. What is [00:51:05] what is the feeling around the White [00:51:07] House with regard to ICE and immigration [00:51:09] policy right now given the sort of chaos [00:51:11] of the last few weeks? [00:51:12] >> I think the feeling around the White [00:51:14] House is mostly that Tom Hman has [00:51:15] brought a sense of more calm, of more [00:51:18] peace to Minneapolis. Um people are [00:51:20] happy with the job that he's doing. uh [00:51:22] he himself has you know when you see him [00:51:24] in his press conferences which he's done [00:51:26] about once a week since he got there [00:51:27] he's very calm he's very serious uh he [00:51:30] talks about the importance of working [00:51:31] with local officials and also getting [00:51:32] the job done deescalating and then [00:51:35] meanwhile on the DHS front uh our [00:51:37] colleague Jenny Tara has done some [00:51:39] really good reporting showing kind of [00:51:40] the drama that's been going down over [00:51:42] there you have reports in a lot of [00:51:45] legacy outlets about concerns about [00:51:47] Christine Nolam and her relationship [00:51:49] with Corey Luenda all the different [00:51:51] things that are going on in this side, [00:51:52] this department. You have Trisha [00:51:54] Mclofflin, who we've worked with many [00:51:55] times, leaving DHS, uh going on to [00:51:58] another role. They're filling her role [00:52:00] uh with two other women who will be [00:52:02] taking on the role of the DHS spokesman [00:52:04] and assistant sear. We're excited to [00:52:07] work with them, hear what they have to [00:52:08] say. Uh and Trisha has not said where [00:52:11] she's going next. There's been rumors [00:52:13] floated that she could possibly uh fill [00:52:15] in for Caroline when Caroline goes on [00:52:17] maternity leave since Caroline will be [00:52:18] having a baby uh this early early summer [00:52:22] late spring. Uh so lots of different [00:52:24] movement shifting parts. Uh there's a [00:52:27] lot of speculation about where Christy [00:52:29] Noom stands with Trump. The president [00:52:30] met with her and with Cory Luwendowski [00:52:32] as all this drama was going on with [00:52:34] Homeman going to Minneapolis. So uh we [00:52:36] don't know her fate yet. Uh she seems to [00:52:39] be fine right now, but you never really [00:52:41] know how these things play out. The [00:52:42] legacy media wants that scalp. They want [00:52:44] her gone. Um but they also want a lot of [00:52:46] other Trump officials to leave the [00:52:48] administration and the president hasn't [00:52:51] really anyone yet in Trump 2.0. So we'll [00:52:54] have to see how that plays out, but [00:52:55] absolutely keeping an eye on Minneapolis [00:52:57] and happy that the the the unrest seems [00:53:00] to have died down a bit. [00:53:03] >> Meanwhile, obviously a lot of eyes on [00:53:05] Iran, on the Middle East right now. The [00:53:07] United States has deployed extraordinary [00:53:08] resources to the Middle East as [00:53:10] negotiations continue to go on between [00:53:13] Jared Kushner and Steve Wood and Abbasi, [00:53:16] the the foreign minister of Iran, sort [00:53:17] of through channels. What are you [00:53:18] hearing around the White House about the [00:53:20] the mood with regard to those [00:53:22] negotiations and where we stand with [00:53:23] Iran right now? [00:53:25] >> So, the White House is so incredibly [00:53:26] cautious about what they share with the [00:53:28] media about this move and you know, they [00:53:31] are a very transparent administration. [00:53:32] We're lucky for that. But when it comes [00:53:34] to this sort of thing, uh, they will not [00:53:36] only not share, but they will kind of [00:53:38] mock you for asking and assuming that [00:53:40] the president would share this type of [00:53:42] huge big deal situation with a mayor [00:53:45] reporter. Uh, you know, I I'm not so [00:53:47] unlucky [00:53:49] as to have thing that got me slapped on [00:53:51] national television, but I did kind of [00:53:53] venture a guest to her one time to [00:53:55] Caroline and she said, as she said to [00:53:57] many other reporters, basically, why [00:53:59] would we tell you that? And, you know, [00:54:01] it's a it's a good question. This is a [00:54:03] huge matter of national security uh of [00:54:06] of uh significance to the whole world. [00:54:08] So they're being very cautious. That [00:54:10] being said, I believe we we've deployed [00:54:13] more uh more ships to Iran than we have [00:54:17] ever seen since 2003. Um that is a [00:54:20] massive fighting force that is [00:54:21] assembling [00:54:24] near a lot of speculation about which [00:54:26] way the president will go on this. uh [00:54:28] you know some some White House officials [00:54:30] had talked about how when we saw in for [00:54:32] example with Muro this was a very quick [00:54:35] endeavor um they went in and out they [00:54:37] completed the mission in less than two [00:54:38] hours uh with the B2 strikes on Iran [00:54:41] that we detailed in our documentary last [00:54:43] year this was also a very quick mission [00:54:45] took place very quickly uh so the [00:54:48] president you know he he may be [00:54:49] considering a quick mission like this he [00:54:51] may also be considering something more [00:54:53] serious and we're hoping to get more [00:54:55] information from him on that I know he's [00:54:57] assembling his board of peace today and [00:55:00] he'll be having a a a [00:55:03] meeting with them to discuss a lot of [00:55:04] things going on and this obviously will [00:55:06] play into their discussions given the [00:55:08] massive implications for the region. Uh [00:55:11] so looking forward to hearing about that [00:55:12] as well. [00:55:14] >> Mayor Margaret, I also know that you are [00:55:16] headed over to the Smithsonian with the [00:55:17] first lady. Why don't you tell us about [00:55:18] that? [00:55:20] >> Yes, I'm [00:55:22] so excited, Ben. You know, maybe I could [00:55:25] call it a fun girly endeavor that I get [00:55:27] to go on tomorrow where uh the first [00:55:29] lady will be donating her inaugural gown [00:55:32] to the Smithsonian. So, this is actually [00:55:34] the second gown that she's donated to [00:55:35] the Smithsonian and uh they don't accept [00:55:38] all gowns from all first ladies. So, [00:55:39] it's a it's an honor for her. And it's [00:55:41] particularly interesting because since [00:55:44] she released her documentary earlier [00:55:46] this year, uh there's a whole bit in the [00:55:48] documentary about how she designed this [00:55:50] dress and the designer and who she was [00:55:51] working with and she tries it on and [00:55:53] they make alterations and it's a very [00:55:54] interesting little peak into the first [00:55:56] lady's uh her her interactions with her [00:55:59] designers and how much input she has on [00:56:01] the dress that she wears and why she [00:56:03] wants this color and that color. And you [00:56:04] know, we might think some of it is [00:56:06] trivial, but at the end of the day, it [00:56:07] it does lend itself to her image, uh, to [00:56:10] the aura, you might say, of the first [00:56:13] lady of the United States. And, um, so [00:56:15] she'll, I believe, be delivering remarks [00:56:17] there. And, um, excited to hear what she [00:56:20] has to say. [00:56:22] >> That's Mary Margaret Olean, our White [00:56:23] House correspondent. Mary Margaret, [00:56:25] great to talk to you. [00:56:27] >> Thanks so much, Ben. [00:56:28] >> All righty. Coming up, we'll get into [00:56:30] the Republicans midterm chance. [00:56:32] Apparently, a big behind closed doors [00:56:34] meeting got held and Republicans are [00:56:35] figuring out their strategy first. You [00:56:38] have to be a member. So, if you're not, [00:56:40] become a member right now. Use code [00:56:41] Shapiro at checkout for two months free [00:56:42] on all annual plans. Click that link in [00:56:44] the description and join us. [00:56:45] >> Okay. [00:57:00] No, not even close. Two. Three. [00:57:03] Whatever. You know what? Two. Three. [00:57:06] Four. [00:57:13] >> I cannot believe we're back here again. [00:57:14] Ben, [00:57:15] >> if the Ben Shapiro shows mom and Ben [00:57:17] after Dark is a cool mom [00:57:21] >> Jay, [00:57:23] >> you know, like irresponsible [music] [00:57:25] [laughter]