Ep. 2451 - Tucker Carlson Publicly Quits the Republican Party

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The latest honor on and a federal judge stepping into save Minnesota governor Tim Walls from any consequences at all from structing ICE. This is the Ben Shapiro show. So, a lot of people have noticed that I've been very critical of the vice president and the way that he is negotiating with Iran. And we'll get to that much later in the show, but recently who is on Megan Kelly's show in order to trot out his defense of the Iran deal. And he said something that was kind of interesting, the vice president. He said that even if you disagree with the administration, you should stay in the coalition, even if you disagree, because it should vote Republican and not Democrat because the alternative is to put the Democrats in power. And he was kind of right. Here's what the vice president had to say. You disagree with the president on this particular policy. That doesn't mean you can give up on the entire enterprise. And the reason why Neocons are so much more effective in politics than the people on the other side of our coalition is because they play the game. They get disappointed. They make their criticisms and they go back and they live to fight another day. Right now, right now, we need everybody who recognizes that this is a good deal for the American people and that we don't want, like John Paulto Ritz is saying, hundreds of thousands of ground troops in Iran make your voice heard. This is where you've got to participate in the process. Disagree when you disagree, agree when you agree, but I don't like this idea of the president did something I like. I like. So I'm out. I think it's a very immature way to approach the political process. And it's the way to ensure that your enemies always win. I have been saying the same because a lot of people have been saying that they feel blackpelled by the whole experience. You know, like I'm just out and I have been trying to make the point that you can't do that. Right? You got to state. Well, I mean, she kind of did say that recently that you wanted to leave. Okay, but put aside all of the nonsense that the vice president is peddling there about how we really need a bunch of people who love the Iran deal to stay in because otherwise the Neocons are going to win and all the rest of it. Here's the thing. I strenuously disagree with the administration's policy on Iran right now. I'm not leaving because the alternative would be for the Democrats to win, but the whole point of what so many people on the horse shoe right are doing, the woke right, what they are doing right now is they are basically attempting to destroy the Republican party from within to throw their support to somebody else in order to get the Republican party to run after them, to run after them screaming. Well, you know, I'm okay with people who are rapidly anti-American leaving the party. I don't think we need them here. I think that if you came into the Republican party because you're a refugee from your home party or from your home ideology and we brought you in here as a kindness and then you proceeded to take advantage of our system. You proceeded to believe that we were going to change all of our principles for you. You came in illegally. It's time for you to self-deport. Well, Tucker Carlson is now self-deporting from the Republican party. He's very upset with the administration because the administration is not pro-Russia or pro-Aran enough for him. And so yesterday he announced on the can't be censored pod again. I have to admit, I'm I find it somewhat hilarious that there are podcasts that claim that they are what I'm being censored while having, you know, sizable audiences. People not liking your podcast doesn't mean you're being censored. In any case, Tucker Carlson said that he no longer supports the Republican party. He can't because it's just too immoral, a moral Republican party. What have cited with Chizbollah, with Iran and with the Russians? He just can't be part of it anymore. Well, don't let the door hit you on the way out, Tucker. I would not support the Republican party. There's no chance I would support the Republican party. Not gonna support the Democratic party. I don't know what I'm gonna do. But at this point, how could you support, how could I or any American voters support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like, that's not possible to vote for people like that. And I'm not going to. And I think I voted Republican my entire life. I worked at Fox News. I've CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because it's immoral. And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party and a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not doing that. So no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out. So I mean, first of all, Tucker says he's been a Republican for 35 years. That's weird, because he was a registered Democrat from 2006 to 2020. He said he did that so he could vote for the Democrats in primaries and manipulate the system, except that Washington, DC, which is where he was living, has a closed primary system. So I don't know. I don't know, man. I have some questions. And as Michael Knowles, who is celebrating his 2000th episode, basically today, by the way, you should go listen to his show. Michael Knowles is making this point on his show. The Republican party has gotten more conservative in wide variety, ways in more big government in a wide variety of other ways actually over time. And when it comes to America's foreign policy, America has grown less interventionist over time. So it's kind of strange that now is the moment that Tucker picks, but I guess that speaks to his principles and not really to the Republican party. Listen, if the Republican party will not support Vladimir Putin's aspirations in Ukraine, and if the Republican party will not sing the glories of Russian bread and Russian subways and Russian hamburgers, if the Republican party will not bend over for Qatar completely, if the Republican party refuses to just cheer on the Iranians as they foster terrorism throughout the region. What are we even doing here? Again, I'm perfectly fine with illegal immigrant Republican self-deporting. This is good. I mean, I'm the same podcast. Tucker Carlson was literally saying that Charlie Kirk was murdered by the Jews. That is what he was saying. Hey, here we go. Even TPUSA, which again, TPUSA has been very warm to Tucker. TPUSA has invited them him very prominently to a wide variety of their months. They had him host alongside JD Vance. Charlie Kirk's show the week after Charlie's death. Here was Tucker trying to get the actual alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk off the hook so that he can rip on Israel or the Jews or something. Charlie Kirk was murdered. Yeah. And he was not murdered for his opinions on transgenderism, obviously. He was, I believe, and most people who knew him well as I did and was friends with him as I was, believe he was most likely murdered for his evolving views on Israel. So I get it. And a lot's at stake. The world is at stake. But from my perspective, I have a duty to say what I think is true. I'm often wrong. And I always say that because it's a fact I have been wrong a lot. And I may be wrong now. But I am sincere. I'm saying what I believe is true. And I'm gonna continue doing that no matter what. No matter, no matter, no matter what comes, you will say crazy things. By the way, like enough over at TPUSA points out that that's not true. And that the people who are closest with Charlie full on believe that Charlie was murdered by the trans loving gay man because that's what all the evidence points to. But Tucker's out and so is Marjorie Taylor. Oh no. She's out. Well, Tucker is not the only one who's done supporting the Republican party. There are a lot of us. There is a lot of us. I shouldn't correct her grammar. There is a lot of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either, but we are done with the America last Republican party. So I would just like to point out if the Republicans don't do well in the midterms, it might have something to do with all of these first-wile pseudo Republicans who are leaving. Maybe it has to do with that. And again, Megan Kelly telling shady vans how she's never believed that she should just leave because she's upset over what the Republicans are doing. Literally two weeks ago, she was with Sean Ryan talking about forming a horse shoe coalition with Anna Kasperian, a lady who literally tweeted this week in support of terrorism. The line between left and right is merging. There's something rising out of the middle. - That'll be for you. - That is. - You're talking about the anti-Casparian. - Yeah, I love her. - It's awesome. - I love her. - Should I do it too? - Well, you know. - She's awesome. - People think of me as a Republican, but I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years. I was a registered Democrat when I was fresh out of school. And then I was a registered Republican for a few years when I was like, right around when I joined Fox News. And then I quickly realized like, I don't wanna wear either of these teen jerseys. I'm against both of these guys. Oh, she's against both of these guys. She's against both of these guys. Now again, far be it for me to suggest that party should Trump principle. It shouldn't, but the point is that the Republican party has certain principles. If you do not accord with those centralizing principles, like for example, peace through strength, then probably you shouldn't be here. That's okay. You can leave, but perhaps you also should not be the load star of a new Republican party. 'Cause building around the people who are gonna leave over the fact that the administration bombed Iran and are so unhappy that even when JD Vans, a man who many of them are deeply, personally and politically allied with is running the show with regard to Iran policy. And they're still leaving. I mean, okay, I suppose you can do that. I'm just gonna point out that self deportation is in fact a fine policy when it comes to people who joined up for the wrong reasons in the first place. All right, coming up. There are some people who don't like America so much and then there are the people who love America we'll get into some unique stories on that front. And the moment first, every generation of Americans inherits something precious. The freedoms we enjoy, the opportunities we pursue, those things were preserved by people willing to sacrifice on behalf of others. Men and women who put on a uniform and answer the call when their country needed them. As America approaches its 250th birthday, that's worth remembering. It's also why Puritalk is partnering with America's Warrior Partnership to raise $250,000 for veterans by the end of July. 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Patriotism isn't just something you feel on the 4th of July. It's how you choose to support the people who've served this country when they come home. You can help out by joining Puritalk. Well, to understand what's happening there, there are a bunch of people who are very pro-America, but they seem to be coming from abroad. More often these days, I'll explain in a second with Lyndon Blake. She's our investigative reporter here at the Daily Wire with our phone, a friend segment sponsored by our friends over at Puritalk. Make sure to go to Puritalk.com/apero to make the switch to Puritalk again, Puritalk.com/apero to switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Puritalk. Lyndon, thanks so much for taking the time. Appreciate it. Of course, look, my shirt says happy here in America. What a concept. I know, right, very, very difficult stuff, but apparently it is difficult for some people. A lot of people very upset with the United States these days, but here, for example, we had a Daily Wire video that we did that showed that Americans are much more down on the USA than the Europeans who are visiting America, who it turns out really, really like it here. So I wanted to get your reaction to this video. ♪ I die every now and then I fall apart ♪ ♪ And I need you now tonight ♪ ♪ And I need you more than ever ♪ ♪ And if you only hope we die ♪ ♪ We'll be holding up forever ♪ ♪ And we'll love ♪ So, literally reminds me of what I was like. When I was like 15 years old, I went to Europe for the first time, and I remember I was thinking, "Get me back to America," where I can get an O Charlie's yeast roll with some hot butter and some silverware and ice in my water. It was just the simple things in life. And that's what we see with these World Cup fans coming over to America, they're enjoying the simple things in life like Waffle House. When's the last time you went to Waffle House and ordered the All-Star Special and thought about how lucky you were to be sitting there cutting open that nice warm waffle, not a Belgian waffle that can sometimes not be, as savory as a Waffle House waffle. I love that video, the social team nailed it at the daily wire, and it makes you laugh out loud because it's true. It's true. - It absolutely is true. You've seen all of these Europeans who are coming over here and a lot of them will go on viral, going around the United States just shocked at, for example, the fact that we have houses here, like not just apartments, like really, really nice houses, in places like, you know, romantic places like Tallahassee. Seriously, you're seeing videos of people driving through Tallahassee, like look at this amazing place, Tallahassee, and all of us over here are like, yeah, I mean, it's Tallahassee, so like cool and everything I say post. But that's the thing, like America? We don't even appreciate what we have. If you ever visit Europe during the summer, there's a reason that every single summer, tens of thousands of people die in heat waves in Europe because they don't use air conditioning, a huge percentage of their housing is built without air conditioning. Here, you're arguing with your spouse about whether the air conditioning should be at 70 or 68 because America is amazing. Yeah, my husband and I, we go 67 during the summer, just so you know, so we go way low here. We couldn't do Europe. But yeah, to your point, Ben, I mean, you had Freddie, who I think at this point, he's the most viral tourist right now, got the invite to the White House. He's on his way to Boston right now to watch Germany play. And he started his trip off in my neck of the woods, down in Georgia and Alabama, went to my alma mater, Auburn, and he was just freaking out about the Chattahoochi River, like what Alan Jackson thinks about. And I'm like, yeah, I got to down the Chattahoochi, big whoop. And he's like, this is the best thing ever. He went to Bucky's and I get annoyed because my family's a, we must stop at Bucky's family. And I'm like, can we just get there? But now, Mike, you know what? No, I'm gonna always go and Bucky's and enjoy it because they don't have that anywhere else, but America and Freddie loved it. He's just done the things that we get to do every day and he's taken so much pride in it. And to your point, I was out in California last week in Santa Barbara looking around at the mountains and the beach and the cliffs and all that. And I was like, wow, this feels like we're in a different country. Not for the reasons we joke about with the daily wire, but just like the scenic reasons, like it looks so different than Tennessee. And how lucky are we to have a country this big with so much landmarks and diversity, you can go to the beach, the mountains, the Grand Canyon. I mean, it is such a beautiful country. We're so blessed to live here coming up on 250 years. And this has been the biggest wake up call to the American haters. Like, yeah, we joke all the time, oh, if you hate us so bad, then leave. LOL, eat your words because all these places you wanna go, they wanna live here and be here with us. - So apparently there was controversy, the broke out over American style half time shows that are now being implemented in the middle of the World Cup, which again, like this is great. America putting our stamp on the World Cup by basically being like, we're just gonna have a musical act in the middle of the soccer match. It's pretty wonderful, but what's the controversy? - Okay, I mean, it's Madonna, Shakira and it's BTS. So you have Madonna representing America. You have Shakira, which I mean, I'm gonna defend the half time show and Shakira, not that I'm even a Shakira fan. I don't think I've listened to her since like, now that's what I call music five, maybe. But you can't have a World Cup concert and not invite Shakira. I mean, to me, she's a walking soccer ball in my mind. So of course, she's included. I think people are upset and I'm pretty sure there's some countries not airing the half time show because they wanna keep it very traditional, the soccer, the football, and they want to analyze the game. But of course, we have the Super Bowl, Super Bowl half time show is what it's supposed to be, the biggest honor, so it's to be family friendly, sometimes it's not, but it's supposed to be this big celebration and they're trying to put their little spin on it and then you have BTS, which is K-pop. Ben, are you a K-pop fan? - I mean, I'm sure that you're going to be shocked to learn. I am not. - I'm sure you're gonna be shocked to learn that I'm not either. But they're like the big thing, I have to get on my younger cousins and they're 20s, to tell me about it. But yeah, that's the controversy, but I think what they're doing, they're having different cultures come in, they're having the K-pop, that side of it, of course, Shakira and Madonna, you know what? Go watch someone's analytics on X during the half time show if you wanna see that soccer stuff. I mean, I probably will be doing that because that's how I feel like I know what I'm talking about when I cheer for America and at like I've been watching Team USA Play Soccer every single day for the last four years. - Well, I do think that President Trump should definitely authorize a Blue Angels and B2 fly over of every single World Cup game just to remind everybody that we could theoretically hit them at pretty much any time that America not only do your buildings bigger and better here, but also our military is just the best. Well, Lyndon Blake really appreciate the time and the insight. And you know, the pick me up because there's so many things to be down about these days. Everybody's very upset about it. but it's good to remind people that actually America is kind of awesome. The reflecting pool thing is, oh my gosh. Uber driver in California, I'm never, you may have to set this. I've never ridden with a new driver that came off as high as this guy. I was like, oh my gosh, the only thing he cared about was the reflecting pool. And we're like, wow, wow, it's made it out this far. And this is the one thing you care about, sir, that says a lot. As I've been saying, that is the best, I think, the best evidence that America is amazing is that random Uber drivers are very, very worried about a pool they will never visit a thousand or 2000 miles away. That is, if that's the chief issue in life, that means you have no real other problems in your life because I mean, really come on. Well, Lyndon Blake, thanks so much for taking the time. I appreciate it. See you later, Ben. Well, folks, in a second, we will get to the reflecting pool, which I've been told is the scariest, most horrifying swamp that has ever swamped, ever. We got to all of the consternation and upset over all of that, all of the hardburn. But here's the thing, you don't need to suffer from health problems. You don't. But if you spend five minutes online looking for nutrition advice, you will find approximately five million different opinions. Eat this, don't eat that. More protein, less protein, cut the carbs, add the carbs. At a certain point, most people aren't suffering from lack of information. You're just suffering from lack of time because the reality is that even when you know what you should be doing, life gets pretty busy. That's one of the reasons I like balance of nature. 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All these people saying, well, we won't vote Republican, but we also won't vote Democrat and all the rest of it. Just understand that what you're doing, obviously, quite obviously, is you are fostering the hopes of the Democratic Party here. That is, listen, I'm not going to pretend that there are no circumstances in which you can't say a box on all your houses. I'm just a little bewildered that the box on all their houses is based on stuff that President Trump said for literally 40 years. And that they're not even reversing themselves when it turns out that JD Vance is doing things that I don't like. I'm not talking about not voting Republican in the fall. You may have noticed that. Hey, but I suppose that the alternatives to let the Democrats run things and they're doing a great job. So this brings us to the dumb controversy of the day. Yeah, the dumb controversy of the day. Okay, so are you deeply worried about a still body of water in Washington DC? I didn't think so. Is this something that occupies your thoughts in your dreams? The fact that there is a gigantic reflecting pool in Washington DC and that it has algae in the water. It has algae in it. Apparently this is the biggest issue in the country. Put aside what's going on in the Middle East. Put aside the economy. The biggest thing right now is that there is a pool that either was refaced well or refaced poorly. And now there are people on the left who are literally defacing that reflecting pool. This is how stupid things have gotten. This is how dumb things are. According to the BBC, the reflecting pool in Washington DC is set to be drained as President Trump again blamed Vandals. For Breitgring, algae and peeling pains that has appeared just weeks after a multi-million dollar renovation. President Trump said the pool has been given a 300 foot long gash and accused someone of putting fertilizer in the water. When pressed by CBS News for evidence of the slit, the president said that proof would be provided in court. Five people have been arrested for vandalism in connection with the reflecting pool. Five others were issued federal citations according to the US park police. So the lips are super happy about this. So we should point out that there was algae in the reflecting pool before the refacing. And now there's algae afterward. And there's disputes over exactly how that happened, whether people are defacing it. But some lips showed up with Greene and hair to celebrate the algae. They're loving the algae. They hate Trump so much that the algae must be celebrated. Expect to see Tucker out there any second. Joining with his other algae friends because he's such a fun guy. Get out of these fun. Anyway, here are some of the footage. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah, I'm cheering. I'm cheering the algae. Yes. Yeah, they got their cheering literally fun guy. That's what they're cheering now. They're cheering single sold organisms. This is what we have been reduced to. Great job. Meanwhile Debbie Dingell, Democrat from Michigan, she says that the reflecting pool is literally all her constituents care about. By the way, I gotta say, what an amazing country. Truly what an incredible country we have where you're chief Lori. You're living in Michigan. And you're not worried about your job. You're not worried about your life. You're not worried about feeding your kids or anything. You're not worried about your future prospects or success. The thing that you care the most about is a body of water in a city. A thousand miles away. I mean, good for you. Really great job, America. That's the real celebration of America 250. If you care deeply about the reflecting pool, you know, or they don't care about reflecting pools. Literally any other place on earth because they have real problems in their lives. Here's representative Debbie Dingell. Oh, die. Oh, gee. That's all anybody talked about at home this weekend. I'll see you. It's a real problem. And it isn't Michigan. It isn't the Great Lakes. So maybe people will study it and understand what he did to the reflecting pool, which is part of the beauty of Washington. I don't like that. It's there. I'm more worried about it when it's in our waters. Yeah, you said you were home this weekend and everyone wasn't talking about it. I mean, what were people saying to you about the reflecting pool? I mean, they were like outweighed. They were laughing. How did it happen? How do you do in no bid contract? It's discussing. What are they doing? What are they doing? What are they doing? It's just it's man. What a tragedy. There's algae in the reflecting pool. Everybody, CNN, go out there and report. There's nothing important happening on planet earth right now. We need you sampling the reflecting pool. Go. Go to the reflecting pool, CNN. CNN independently took the sample of water and consulted with a pool store that regularly test water to help read the results. It showed phosphate levels far higher than what is recommended to keep algae at bay based on estimates for a pool that holds 6.5 million gallons of water. If there's already some phosphorythal hydrolysis there, they're reflecting pool. That's really opportunistic, especially for the blue green algae that can fix nitrogen. So they are having a field day out here probably. The Department of Interior says they believe some of the initial problem was residual algae that had accumulated in pipes and it's this the filtration system called the Ozone Nano-Bubbler is working. Do you think, come on, just get like a bunch of those little robots that go out to bottom of your pool. We all have pools over here in Florida. We're not a clean pool. Come on. CBS did a full report last week. Again, the most important story in the country is a reflecting pool. I don't care. If you care, I have to say there's something wrong with you. If you deeply, deeply care about the reflecting pool, again, you are either very worried about the reflection pool. Again, you are either very rich or very bored or very stupid. Like, really, the reflecting pool, it'll get fixed, or maybe it won't. Whatever, man, I understand the president wanted to beautify the reflecting pool because he said it was kind of ugly. And it will get fixed because eventually they'll just fix it. They'll re-face it again or whatever. If you've never had a home situation in which something gets fixed, and then five seconds later you're fixing it again, you've never had a home. Come on. Here's CBS doing a full report on the stupid reflecting pool. It's just a. there you can see it. Look, a piece of that reflecting pool is floating in the water. Wow. You can see that, wow, that's the liner. Wow. Huge news. We could also watch the grass grow if you guys would like to do that. Wow, this is. We can actually watch the algae grow. Really, really exciting stuff happening over the reflecting pool. That is really. wow. You know what? We should do the really American thing here. Honestly, we should pave the thing and put up a buckies. It's the only way. We need a big Walmart right there. In true American fashion. Okay, in any case, the president then put out a statement saying that the reflecting pool was vandalized. Apparently, there's some evidence for this as well. He's not just saying it. He said, quote, "Of the many statues and fountains that we rebuilt renovated clean fix, the only one that was vandalized was the reflecting pool, which is being taken care of ASAP. It's been given a 300-foot-long gash. Chemicals have been illegally placed in the water. And the beautiful new grass fields has been destroyed with the gigantic 8,647, and chemically carved into it. Probably inspired by Dirty Cop James Comey. Please remember there's a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction, or even attempted destruction of such things, which will be fully enforced. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump. And by the way, I mean, we should point out at this point that there actually is some footage of people screwing around with the reflecting pool. Like there was a woman who was busted after dipping her hand into the Lincoln Memorial Pool. You can see here she's doing something, and apparently playing closed cops were caught by TMZ, policing. I would glad the crime problem has been solved in DCs so we can focus on the unbigger crimes. That's like like screwing with the reflecting pool. Here's this lady, she's talking to them, he's saying like what, what is in your hand? What are you putting in the water? What's going on? Nash is being questioned by the cops. We've got members of the National Guard all around her. Oh, they won't get away with this. Not in America. Yeah. Things are too stupid. I thought it would, it, God made a mistake. As I said yesterday, he filled the world with dumb people. Meanwhile, the TMZ was calling the Lincoln Memorial, the arresting pool. Okay, fair enough. All right. Why do you do it? I was yelling at the, that's a homestay troopers. Why? I was yelling at them. I know, but why were you yelling at them? Because they're here. You're, but, oh, homestay troopers. I know, but why would you be yelling at them? Just because they're here. I'm just trying to have a better understanding. I can't do it. If you want, if you want the moon, Lincoln. What? Is he yelling at Oklahoma State troopers for no reason? Things have gotten a little bit too, too crazy. But, you know, the real tragedy here, the true tragedy, apparently, according to MSNBC Guest Cornell Belcher, is that the kids can't play in the, in the reflecting pool. I can't believe that the kids cannot play in the reflecting pool. Just going to point out, kids could never play in the reflecting pool because it was for reflecting. It's not a waiting pool. There's not a bunch of kids peeing in the reflecting pool because that's what would happen. Just going to tell you, that's in toddlers. That's how it goes. I'm sorry for these National Guards who should be home with their families and their friends and they're still here as a part of Trump's political game that he's playing because, because they don't need to be here. But we're seeing this decriminalization and the slippery slope to authoritarianism. But this is what it looks like. All of a sudden, something that you played in, something that when I came to visit Washington, I also played, splash around in. All of a sudden, that's a crime. So we're going to have a kid who's splashing around in a pool in Washington, D.C. Like thousands of kids do all the time. We're going to put them in handcuffs. That's, to me, is the ultimate symbol of how these countries fall and into disrepair in authoritarianism. >> It is. And nothing says authoritarianism, like not allowing thousands of children to play in the reflecting pool. By the way, it's been illegal since 1923 when it was built to actually play in the reflecting pool. You're not allowed to. It's a fine up to five grand for individuals and six months in federal prison if you do that. So great job, MSNBC. That's the real tragedy. The sign of incipient authoritarianism is that we can't have the children playing in the algae-ridden, infected reflecting pool. Oh no. By the way, one Olympian has now been charged in the reflecting pool vandalism. Well, the person was trying to swim or it was a canoeist, canoeist, David Hurn. We should have brought us canoe, clearly. And my goodness. Records show, according to Fox News, former Olympic canoeist, David Hurn, which by the way, that just goes on your resume for the rest of your life, right? That you're an Olympic canoeist. Most people don't even know it's a sport. Is that even a thing? Is that like what you drop on your first date? Yes. I was in the Olympics for canoeing. Anyway, Olympic canoeist David Hurn was charged in the weekend vandalism of the reflecting pool and has ties to a major left-wing fundraising network. As protesters descended on the National Mall and racked up multiple criminal charges, he's 67. So I guess he was Olympic canoeist back in 1823. He donated to Democratic fundraising apparatus Act Blue 10 times. He was charged with a misdemeanor for destruction of government property, after he reached into the water and allegedly grabbed a hose being used by a National Park Service worker. He said he's a curious citizen to see what it felt like. He said it felt very rubbery as a hose might, but curiosity, curiosity satisfied, well done. By the way, he was also arrested by Park Police in 1996 after he ignored an emergency closure of the Potomac during severe rainstorm and launched a canoe onto the river as one would do if one were an Olympic canoeist. So he had to feel the hose, which in this case, feeling the hose is spelled H-O-S-E. That's awesome. Things are going well for the radical. As America celebrates, 250 years of innovation and opportunity Comcast is investing in the connections that help communities big and small thrive today and for generations to come. Over the past five years, Comcast has invested nearly $200 billion to expand fast, reliable and secure broadband support jobs and strengthen communities nationwide. From the sports and entertainment people love to new theme park experiences, we're investing in connection and in the economic growth of our country. Learn more at ComcastCorporation.com/investment. Look at tomorrow on the set of moment. 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And I think by the way, many of these people understand precisely what they're helping out. We're in a hurry with people like Zora and Mom Donnie. Zora and Mom Donnie and Tucker Carlson are indistinguishable at this point in their foreign policy views. Totally indistinguishable. What do you say to those who are concerned that the language you used is dangerous? I want to be very clear. We're talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Weshaha was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about A-PAC, I'm speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine, but frankly through much of the region. And it is a status quo for immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions as we are seeing right now in New York 13. Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money. All dark money is by the way, is an actual 501c4 donating money. That's all it is. And by the way, he has involved in a number of dark money organizations himself. Zarmamzani, the supposed journalists that he is mentioning there, a person named Ahmed Weshaha was a sniper for Hamas, of course. Because it turns out that Zarmamzani is perfectly fine with terrorism. There is a video of the journalist for Al Jazeera who was killed. Check this out. Epic levels of journalism. He's firing a rifle in the air by the way, for those who don't understand. Really wearing a Hamas outfit and walking backwards while firing into the air. As one would. As a journalist would. There is a sniper rifle. So much journalism. Solid stuff. But this is the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is now in large part in total solidarity with terrorism. Which, again, I mean, I can see why there are people who want to horseshoe around and meet them there. New York City, which is going to be quite unsafe for anyone with actual, any connection to Judaism for a long time to come because of Zarmamzani and his friends. A New York City coffee shop has now decided that it is going to ban representative Dan Goldman. Dan Goldman is the Democrat. For some reason, they're saying he's wildly pro-Israel. He absolutely is not. But apparently even just not being pro-terrorist is too much. So they banned him. Now the Justice Department Civil Rights Division announced in a statement on Monday that it launched a probe into this coffee shop called poetic up and will bring an enforcement action if warranted. So it's hilarious because the chain has an evoud ethos of treating people with unconditional dignity. And it turns out the unconditional dignity ends precisely where the not supporting terrorism begins. The Democratic Party is fully in throw to the Zarmamzani wing of the party, the Graham Platner wing of the party. Fascinating piece about the kinds of people who are staffing up the Democratic Party at this point in the Wall Street Journal about a person named Dan Moroff. A progressive up and comeer and Graham Platner's top strategist. Now you remember Graham Platner. He's the. [inaudible] A man from the day he's 20% in Maine, you know, and you know, you got that guy. You remember him. Well, in any case, not these tattooed guy for those who don't recall. According to Moraf, Moraf said that criticism of his management was coming from party insiders to quote, smear the people resisting their control over a party in dire need of change. It's a bunch of weirdos who are running the Democratic party at this point. Here's one element of the weirdness. You ready? Moraf's fiance, Leanne Fan, according to those who have worked with the couple a time, tries to smooth over tensions between Moraf and staff. Her engagement ring opens up to a tiny comb that she has used to brush Moraf's beard. And on sale, I like, "My goals are what? Like, why does your ring have a beard comb in it?" And so, like, is it the world's tiniest comb? What are we talking about? And so, it's very strange, but I guess not that strange for a guy who is backing, it can't do it, who apparently told a girlfriend that he wanted to rape home invaders, but not in a gay way. Grand Planner, by the way, has a lot of weird words with regard to his sexual fantasies in history. He says that he used to go to plan parenthood to get tested for STDs, as one would as a good upstanding citizen. Part of it, as many of you know, is that I firmly believe in the universal healthcare system. I believe in it because I have in many ways received it with my VA benefits. But I will also say that many of my female friends and my wife throughout their lives have received some form of that same kind of support from plan parenthood. I have friends who even today get primary care through plan parenthood. I myself, at a younger age, received pre, what's the word? I get STI checks. At the Portland Planned Parenthood. And it's not an embarrassing thing. It's a smart thing to do, especially when you're younger. Like it's funny because he's a total piece of trash. I used to do on plan parenthood to make sure I'd have herpes from banging Thai lady boys. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Grand Planner, this is who you're running. Even MS now is laughing at the campaign strategist for a planner saying that he talks about his past more than any other candidate. Chris Katz is another one of these absolute ridiculous dorks working on behalf of the far left Democratic Party. Talking about how Grand Planner talks about his past incessantly. There's a fundamental issue here of trust. And mayners now know Grand Planner and they trust Grand Planner and Susan Collins, I think, with that vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the screen court with that vote to end of Rela's land has broken that trust in the way that cannot be rebuilt. But they're not going to be more women coming forward with similar unflattering allegations against Grand Planner. That might be because he has a lot of problems. They're literally laughing at him and also that to know there will definitely be more women coming out to talk about Grand Planner. But the good news is that he has the Islamist on his side. Here she was, praising Grand Planner. Nothing changes in history. History is just a series of repeats. And it turns out that the people with Nazi tattoos and the radical Islamists, they're kind of an alliance. I've obviously followed all the controversies with him. He has had multiple controversies as, you know, including most recently with women who have come forward around what they call unsettling behavior. I think for me, Graham is worth the chance of that skepticism. Absolutely. So that's kind of where I'm at with this. I think that there is something about him. I've been in personal space with him. There's something a bit authentic about him from my perspective. I feel like I'm from Brooklyn. I feel like I could feel it. I could see kind of if somebody's like, you know, beessing me. I feel like he's very genuine with his kind of apologies. I do agree that it would mean a lot for him to come out and be like next week. I already won the nomination. Now I got some time. I'm about to go remove this tattoo, right? Like I agree with you on that one. Mm. Mm. Well, the Democrats are not going to moderate in any way. And the good news is that they have members of the federal judiciary who are ready to protect them. According to Politico, a federal judge is now thrown out a DOJ, grand jury subpoena aimed at Minnesota governor Tim Walson as allies, calling them an abusive and retaliatory process to punish Walsh based on his refusal to assist the president's immigration crackdown. The assistant judge Patrick Schultz said there was no doubt the subpoenas were issued to damage Walsh. Now remember, the original criminal investigation was into the Minnesota government for helping to facilitate resistance to ICE. That's what this was all about. Tim Walsh, of course, trying to proclaim himself a constitutional hero. He put out a statement suggesting today's ruling is a victory for the rule of law and artemocracy. In independent judiciary, he says is a pillar of our democracy. It's one reason why the US has been that shining city on the hill. We're nearly 250 years. It's always fun to me when Democrats who are routinely fighting against rule of law then go hide behind the flag as soon as they are called on it. Minnesota, by the way, filled with all sorts of governmental malfeasance. The Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was asked a question about massive fraud in Minnesota and he objects. No, no, there's no fraud. Everything's fine. You look at if you ask the newspapers for a forensic accounting, the number you mentioned is tightly identified with people of a very unique political persuasion aligned with the Trump administration. So I'm done talking to you. No, I just wanted you to clear up the number. I'm not quoting several reports. I get it. It's wrong. And if you're a real reporter, you should know. I will report that you're saying it's wrong. Getting very, very offended by questions about fraud that definitely definitely exists over in Minnesota. Meanwhile next door over in Illinois, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he is declaring a trans-femiside state of emergency. I don't even know what that means. A trans-femiside state of emergency, which I guess is that transgender people are being murdered, which in some sort of violent outbreak, again, the statistics do not support this. Trans-femiside. We're just making up words now. So that's cool. A mayoral working group, according to the Chicago Sun Times, focused on anti-trans-violence, released its first report on Tuesday with recommendations for city agencies to create a long-term strategy for structural barriers for trans people. Not like fences or what? Structural barriers. Apparently, they want a number of policy changes, of course, of course, of course. Harmie Dylan over at the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, she's like, what the hell are you talking about? What is happening right now? She said, reminder that all Chicagoans are entitled to the equal protection of the laws. If Chicago uses this inco-ate gibberish theory to preference government's boils to trans-identifying people or subordinate women's rights, civil rights will investigate and take action if appropriate, which of course is exactly correct. But listen, in the end, what this is really about is that the left increasingly just does not like America's terrible, it's horrible, it's no good, it's very bad, it's mean, it's cruel and all the rest. A son-piker is the id of the Democratic Party at this point, which is why he went, went asked why so many people are trying to go home to the United States? His answer is because we destroyed their countries, which is what one would do, right? If someone destroyed the United States, I would immediately attempt to immigrate to the place that destroyed the United States. That, you know, right now we are in conflict with Iran. I see that so many Americans right now, believing that America's losing are trying to immigrate to Iran. That's how this works. If you are stupid, there's always a healthy flow of migrant workers that will come to the United States of America that will work for pennies on the dollar to, you know, make ends meet to work in like slave-like conditions because they're desperate. Why are they desperate? Because we've destroyed their countries. We've manipulated with their finances. We've destroyed their economy. We've extracted their natural resources. We've kept them down and underdeveloped by design to also create this chaos, to manufacture these chaos in their countries. And then they're desperate enough to come here. And we don't actually allow them to get the proper clearance and the proper paperwork, even though we know that they're coming in, we're letting them come in so that our bosses, our capital owners can justify paying them nothing. So his theory is that in order to generate cheap labor, we wreck places around the world and then we allow them to illegally immigrate. We don't allow them to legally immigrate here. We allow them to illegally immigrate here in order to accomplish lower wages. Oh boy. I mean, the number of absolute logical fails right here is pretty insane. I'm going to need an explainer on how the United States is responsible for say, the destruction of Mexico. Why is there widespread Mexican immigration into the United States? Well what was the United States is exact? I want to know. Like what was our exact move that led to the vast Venezuelan immigrant population coming to the United States? Did we back Hugo Chavez? Was that us? Not. Or Cuba. Were we big backers of the Castro regime? It's all unbelievably stupid. Okay. Well, the reason I point out. all of this out is of course because the left is egregiously bad in egregious the bad is a good reminder because as bad as the trump administration gets particularly when it comes to a run policy it is true that the other side of the coin remains worse now when it comes to the iran policy as i said i'm highly critical of the ron policy i think it is disaster area frankly i think the president is being fed information about these negotiations that is not true and either that he doesn't understand it or he's fibbing about it because the stuff that the president right now is saying about the iran deal is not accurate it is not accurate hey so that the president yesterday suggested that as long as ron respects us were going to be fine well i have some bad news i have some unfortunate news on the score as long as they respect us were going to be fine they don't respect us things would be good but they have a lot of respect don't forget we had presidents that should have done this for forty seven years nobody did obama obama gave them a road to a nuclear weapon i gave them a wall against the new okay well i have some bad news as long as they respect us they they they don't so mhamed halibov the ronian parliament leader and irgy c stands in he said quote you very first clause of the m o u states there should be no threats or coercion today your president has spoken for asking coercion no that we will never during a time of threat and coercion negotiate we ended the negotiation walked out of the meeting last friday crowds in taeran were chanting death to america again i don't know i'm not feeling the respect so much i i'm i'm just not horky morning yola temu tehede that by the rulers of the u_s_ their partners in the Zionist regime east of the raki russians one of the mullahs say a la akbar so you have giant crowd saying that and guess what comes next and i believe it some any is the leader death to those who oppose the rule of the jurisprudence death to america that's a england not sure the england had to have been but okay death to the hypocrites in the infidel's death to israel i guess is what you do for fun over in ron i don't know that's not much fun but that is so much respect being had so the trump administration is retailing a deal that is literally the opposite of what the iranian regime is retailing so somebody is not telling the truth now you can say the iranians are not telling the truth that's fine i believe the liars i believe they cheat on pretty much every deal they've ever done that they routinely hide the fall which is why we should be very harsh with them i also think that the administration said that a bunch of things that were not in the m o u turned out to be in the m o u and that's a problem and it seems that every single thing that the administration is currently saying about what is in the m o u or what is in the current understanding or in the current deal or in the negotiations the iranians are openly denied so that's not a great way to do it in a negotiation if you and i are negotiating over your salary and i say hey you and i came to an agreement it's signed in the back room over here i'm going to pay you a hundred thousand dollars a year and you say no it's not true i never signs an agreement well then what i would normally do is pull out the agreement and show it to you but that's not happening instead the united states just keeps making claims which turn out to be debunked by subsequent events so yesterday the president put out a statement saying that iran would agree to have major weapons inspections again this is one of the things that jd vance vice president chief negotiator did not do himself any great service in switzerland was saying president from said everyone is fully aware that iran will agree to have major weapons inspections in order to ensure nuclear honesty long into the future well you know who is not agreeing to that actually the iranian foreign minister according to the ministry quote our cooperation with the i_e_a_ will continue in accordance with our commitments under the safeguard act and the decisions of our parliament hey so what does that mean precisely commitments under the decisions of the parliament the parliament has not improved they've not approved any of this in fact iranian foreign ministry spokesperson sm_a_a_a_ he said quote we never had any meeting with the director general of the i_e_a_ nor do we have any plans to allow i_e_a_ inspections of iranian nuclear facilities that suffered damage resulting from the military military aggression of the united states in the zine's regime fundamentally no protocol or guideline exists in this regard so the vice president says regarding the inspectors were going to see what iran actually does well okay so again why does that matter because one of the things that vance has said over and over and over is no performance no money there is only one problem money's already going it's already going to the iranians the vice president whether good faith or bad faith you can't trust anybody's words you have to trust what they actually do letting in the inspectors is a big deal but again we're to see what they actually let the inspectors do once they're in the country that's going to continually be a part of our negotiation so my point is not that i trust or distrust anybody my point is that i trust actions and what the president has asked us to do is verify what they're doing focus less on what they're saying okay well on them then where's the verification what they're doing where's the verification again he says this is why matters and you want to go say you want to talk jubber jabber fine but what the vice president has said over and over and over and over all of last week all of this week is that money is not unfrozen unless we see progress this is the vice president sir you know it's been pretty right these pros and cons um. it's about american so it's an example and that was raised yesterday that they've already agreed to the run into already agree to that yeah that was something that came up yesterday and we actually ask the guitar is to help us set up the mechanism so that we can ensure that the money goes where we wanted to go and they agreed to do that we have a good relationship obviously with them and a good operational oversight mechanism in place but even with that said even with the caveat that's going to benefit american farmers and obviously benefit the people of a ryan we we want both but fundamentally that money is not going to be unfrozen less we continue to see progress that obviously be a big part of the negotiation the days to come well i'm here is the treasury department issuing a waiver on ronion crude oil until august of twenty twenty six quote transactions authorized by this general license include the importation into the united states of crude oil petrochemical products and petroleum products of ronion origin any payment of funds owed to a man for the purchase of crude oil may be made in u_s_ dollar denominated funds why is that important again this is the treasury department the treasure department is giving the life of the idea that we are not freeing up a bunch of money for the ronions the new york post reports the u_s government on monday formally waived oil sanctions on a run for two months allowing for up to ten billion dollars in revenue as nuclear talks continued with ronion officials in switzerland the treasury department waiver last through august twenty first giving around the ability to sell its oil for the first time since the nineteen nineties meaning it will pocket new profits by charging market rate the waiver follows president trump last week lifting the two month u_s_ naval blockade on ronion ports as part of an mo you it could allow ron's taken an estimated sixty billion dollars annually without having to be paid under the table it gets worse according to the wall's return the former treasury department waiver monday ads that are on can be paid in dollars a boon for the regime which is desperate need of foreign exchange in means ronion banks can receive payments directly from abroad allowing the regime to more easily repatriate its oil revenues the move goes well beyond a temporary waiver issued by the treasury march that allowed a ron's sell oil already at sea but maintain sanctions on dollar transactions this waiver suspends decades of crippling restrictions that led to ron's rely on a shadow network of aging oil tankers to export its crude most of which went to refineries run by Beijing now terror on can legitimately sell oil from sanctioned vessels effectively legalizing its shadow fleet mhamed haalibov says that under article eleven twelve billion dollars would be freed up and allowed to go to a ron foundation for defense of democracies scholar mead mulecki says this iran oil sell authorization general license x explicitly covers entity sanctioned under the global terrorism sanctions regulations the authority of which under o-fact designated the central bank of a ron ministry of petroleum for financing the ir gc and his beloved so in other words this money is going directly into ir gc coffers and likely will be funneled to the terrorist group chesbalah they so we've also heard from the administration we're only on freezing money and it's only going to go apparently to american farmers here's what the president said about this yesterday one of the things that we are doing also came up last night is uh. money that's being unfrozen is going to be used to buy food and the food's going to be bought exclusively through the united states from our farmers and corn so it means all of the things they need to be bought from our farmers so our farmers are very happy and a lot of calls they were very happy about that okay so a few things that we should point out about this one there's a conflation that's happening between two separate things one is the freeing up of a ron to sell more oil that is totally unrestricted they can use it to support anything they want to is this idea that there's an escrow account that the united states is putting unfrozen money into and then it will be used to buy food from american farmers first off i'm just going to point out it's kind of weird that the same people who are screaming and shouting about american aid to israel to buy american weapons are apparently totally fine with american american money but it's frozen us unfreezing money so ronions can buy american our enemies can buy american food second of all if you believe that the ironians are then going to you to use that food to feed their starving people. They are neglecting the fact this regime shot 42,000 of its own people in one weekend. What do you think is more likely to happen that they're going to just hand out that food for free and alleviate the hunger or are they going to use that food to sell to their people like Commostid with the aid and then take that money and funnel it back to the IRGC. You know who used to know this, the Vice President. The Vice President tweeted on October 7th there's a direct quote from the Vice President and it is still applicable because it is an internal principle. As we watch this horrible situation in Israel on full, Americans must face their stark truth. Our tax dollars funded this. Money is fungible. Many of the dollars we sent to Iran are being used to now kill innocent people. This must stop. Israel has every right to defend itself. I wish our friends well. But most of all, I wish they weren't fighting against weapons bought with our money. Well, it turns out that's still true. That is still true. By the way, the Iranians are neglecting, they say this isn't even true with the Iranians. So a senior advisor to the Iranian negotiating team put out a tweet literally saying that there would be neither IAE inspectors coming to Iran or a plan to purchase US agricultural goods. Okay, so at the very least though, we should have an open straight-of-form moves. All of this is just a giant bribe to get them to reopen the straight-of-form moves. I mean, that's essentially what this is. And the President yesterday said we have an oil gusher on our hands. Here's the President. As respect to the armoured straight, we took in more oil yesterday than we've ever then has ever gone through the straight. We probably see that. We have an oil gusher. The straight is totally open. You know that. And we're negotiating. We'll see how that all goes. But we have two things. We have an open straight. And we have a country that will never have a nuclear weapon. We'll never ever have a nuclear weapon. Okay, so I'm just going to point out at this point that the Iranian parliament speaker and the chief negotiator Muhammad Kha'labauf, he says, no, the straight is ours. Quote, while complying with all international laws, we'll be under Iranian arrangements, which in fact have been outlined in clause five. Iran and Oman are meeting today to solidify their control of the straight-of-form moves. Farr's news agency, which again is an Iranian news outlet, says that according to coordination with the IRGC Navy, only a limited number of vessels are allowed to pass through the straight-of-form moves daily. So they are going to be bottlenecking whenever they feel like it. The president points out that 19 million barrels of oil flowed out of farm moves yesterday. He says that's the most ever. I mean, that's not true. The average number of barrels flowing out of the straight before the war was 20 million. That was the average. And the only point here is that if you're going to make a good deal, it ought to look like a good deal. Meanwhile, the Iranians are putting pressure on the United States on every front to pressure the Israelis not to stop his blah. The Israelis have located essentially a giant mountain-based for his blah and are on the verge of destroying it. So naturally, the Iranians are stepping in and threatening that if the Israelis were to destroy that, then they would shut the straight-of-form moves again. It is worth noting at this point. It is not just the Israelis who do not like his blah. It is the Christians living in Lebanon, the leader of the Kataib party, a Christian party in Lebanon is begging President Trump to stop allowing Iran to save his blah. The head of the Lebanese forces party wrote a letter to JD Vance literally saying, "In this context, we believe the greatest contribution the United States of America can offer Lebanon at this delicate stage lies in supporting the Lebanese state and its legitimate institutions as the sole national reference. Supporting the current Lebanese state and extending its full authority over all its territories confining arms to the hands of legitimate institutions alone, ending the military and security presence of Chisbalah constitutes, in our view, the greatest contribution that can be made to the Christians of Lebanon and to all Lebanese people." Nonetheless, President Trump was asked yesterday about the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that Israel will not withdraw from Lebanon given the fact that Chisbalah still controls Southern Lebanon in the absence of the IDF and he says, "Well, he's a problem solver." "He's another beauty, what's his point?" Well, earlier today, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces are not leaving Lebanon. That is a sticking point in those conversations. He said it publicly in Israel. "Well, what would you do to make sure that he doesn't "send a constant deal?" "Well, I'm not a conscious idea what I'm going to do, "but it's solved. "I'm a problem solver. "I get problem solver real fast, including with BB." Okay, now again, the basic idea put forward thereby at Henry, the reporter, is that it sinks the deal if Israel is not stopped from destroying Chisbalah. If that's the deal, it's a terrible deal. So we'll see where the negotiations go from here. Obviously, I hope that the United States get to all of its back foot and start holding a Ron accountable. So far, not a lot of indicators that that is what is happening. Artifokes, the show continues for our members right now. They'll take some questions from you, the people. But first, you have to be a member. 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