‘MAGA Cult Is OVER!’ AIPAC Michigan Defeat & Tucker’s New Party + Nick Shirley & Rand Paul
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Just looking at what has happened last night,
it really is difficult to overstate how significant that is.
What we're seeing right now is a cataclysmic shift
in American politics altogether, in American political discourse.
It feels like we are coming out of an abusive relationship.
That's just how I feel.
But I think someone like Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massey,
Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
those are the people that we're leaning towards.
I know that the MAGA media movement is going to work overtime
to try to make this representative of every single Democrat
in the country right now, which is super unfair,
but it's just going to be what it is.
That's why Thanksgiving resonates.
Because if you want to cancel Thanksgiving,
I can't trust you on anything else.
That's why these things matter.
A Democratic primary in Michigan
wouldn't ordinarily make international news.
But there's nothing ordinary about the victory of Abdul El-Sayed.
The progressive candidate for the U.S. Senate
overcame $30 million AIPAC onslaught,
and a wall of opposition from his supposed Democrat leaders.
In this apparent battle for the future of the Democrats,
the anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-Israel wing
looks like it's currently winning big.
For Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
Thomas Massey, and Joe Kent are betting
they can do the same thing on the right,
as Joe Kent told me on Monday.
But while the progressive base wants El-Sayed's victory
to be a David and Goliath story,
trans-Republicans say it will not have a happy ending.
I think it's crazy because they're going to ruin our country.
They want to, I don't know if they want to.
I think either they're very naive
or they actually want to ruin the country.
No matter where you look,
go back a thousand years with different names,
anybody doing what they're doing
and what they're espousing,
everything turns out to ashes and junk and filth.
You know, one thing I said the other day
for the first time ever, never thought of it,
but you go to these cities that are taken over
by the socialists and the communists,
they're always filthy dirty, they're disgusting,
they're always dirty, and you know, I'm a clean person,
and people I know are clean, and you are,
I know you very well, you're very clean.
But aside from crime, aside from all of the other problems,
no jobs, no anything, no money,
they're always filthy, disgusting, dirty,
and that's what you'll get.
Well, hygienic or not, the Republicans are stuck
with the least popular war in US history
and all of its associated impact on American wallets.
Their response so far. has been to play the greatest hits all at the same time. cancel Thanksgiving, they want to cancel Christmas.
Look, these communists hate America.
They hate capitalism.
Al-Sayed is also an Islamist, as is Mondami.
And look, you see the green-red convergence
where the communists and the Islamists,
they want Sharia law, they hate Jews, they hate Christians,
they hate capitalism, they hate America.
All of this is coming together in a way that is really a toxic,
toxic stew.
Well, that's the line, and they're sticking to it.
The influential think tank boss, Mark Dubowitz,
said today that Islamists and communists have found common cause.
Israel will survive, our republic may not.
Congressman Brandon Gill warned of civilizational suicide.
Democrats tried and failed to stoke a frenzy about fascism
in the last presidential election.
Running on save our country from communism
feels like the same thing.
Well, defending a status quo that people are unhappy with
by warning that. could get even worse, is rarely a winning formula.
We saw that in the UK with Brexit.
The U.S. saw it twice with President Trump.
And unless something big changes soon,
he's about to be defeated by his own game.
Well, in a moment, we'll debate all this with my panel,
but first, the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee has confirmed
it will vote this week on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci
in contempt of Congress.
Its chair, Senator Rand Paul, joins me now.
Senator Paul, welcome back to Uncensored.
- Thanks for having me.
- I got into a ferocious debate about Anthony Fauci
and you at a dinner party the other night.
And it was with people who were incensed about what they saw
as the witch hunt against him.
And I got to say, I found myself putting up kind of a fight,
but not a full fight for you.
Because I said, "Look, whatever you think of Anthony Fauci,
"the reality is, him sitting there, grim-faced,
"pleading the Fifth over 100 times in questions
"about a public health emergency, the COVID pandemic,
"was a terrible look.
"If you were of the view that he has something to hide,
"I think, notwithstanding his constitutional rights
"to plead the Fifth, you would have felt
"that your concerns were justified
"by his refusal to be transparent."
Tell me what your view was about what he did that day.
- I think that the problem for so many people,
maybe the people at the dinner party,
is that they can't be beyond this sort of partisan divide.
Democrats decided that they respect authority and experts
and the science.
And if you question that, that you're making. So it all became about that instead of what are the facts
that we're discussing here.
The number one fact is this.
Is it a good idea to fund research,
gain-of-function research, in foreign countries
or even here at home?
And what does that debate involve?
I didn't realize this until I got started on this,
but the debate begins back in, like, 2009.
So Anthony Fauci chose to fund research in the Netherlands,
where they took the bird flu,
and they, through eight-point mutations,
made it more transmissible through the air
from mammal to mammal.
The one thing that saves the world from bird flu,
right now,
is that animal viruses tend to only rarely infect humans,
but then they don't go human-to-human very well.
So designing or adapting a bird flu
to make it easily transmissible human-to-human
is a death wish for the world,
because it has about a 50% mortality.
It'd be like taking Ebola in the lab and doing it.
So there's a real debate here.
It's a serious debate.
It should have nothing really to do with partisanship
over whether we should fund this dangerous research.
And really, the beginning of the debate,
had no partisanship in it.
It was partisan in the sense that there was division,
but it wasn't based on party.
So there's a Stanford researcher
who's one of the most esteemed in the world
named David Relman.
He's been in this field for 20 years.
He has written about that research
that Anthony Fauci approved in 2010,
and he said the research should have never been funded,
and he said it should have never even been published,
because it became a roadmap
for the development of biological weapons.
There's so many people who know how to do this in the world,
that it's dangerous just putting this out.
But it's a mistake that Anthony Fauci made,
not in the heat of the battle,
10 years before the battle even ensued on the pandemic.
Anthony Fauci also said that even if a scientist
should be bitten during one of these experiments
and a pandemic should occur,
that the knowledge is worth the risk.
Well, I think that should be open to debate.
A million Americans died from COVID.
Some say 15 million people died worldwide.
It should be a debate.
Should governments be funding research?
Is the knowledge worth the risk?
I really don't think it is.
I think in the end, the deaths,
the overwhelming amount of deaths,
and on the side of the ledger saying,
"Did this help mankind?"
There's been no vaccine developed
from gain-of-function research.
There's been no pharmaceutical developed from it.
And in some ways, it's a curiosity run amok,
but a curiosity that hasn't led to any cures,
but in this case, led to a pandemic.
In terms of Anthony Fauci taking the fifth,
a lot of his supporters have said,
"Look, he's perfectly entitled to.
"It's his constitutional right.
"Yes, he had a pardon from President Biden,
"which took him up to the day Biden left office,
"but clearly his legal team were concerned,"
you imagine,
"that he may be tripped
"into potentially incriminating himself in some way,
"and they weren't prepared to take that risk
"because they believed it was a hostile environment
"where people were going to try
"and deliberately do that to him."
That's the argument for the defence.
You know, in terms of your strategy here,
would it have been in America's better national interest
if you had given him full immunity,
if you said, "Look, let's park the possibility
"you plead the fifth.
"You were the figurehead
"for the biggest public health crisis of our lifetime.
"We're going to give you complete immunity.
"Just come and tell the absolute truth."
Would that, with hindsight,
have been a better strategy?
Typically, when people are offered immunity,
the people that have aided and abetted a crime
at a lower level are offered immunity
to tell the truth about people who were giving the orders.
So I think in this case, there are some people
that should be offered immunity, or could be.
David Morenz was prolific about how he could transfer records.
He was a 20-year assistant to Anthony Fauci,
a confidant,
involved in a lot of the top echelon works.
he told people explicitly and repeatedly how to destroy records, how to avoid FOIA. He said the
FOIA lady told him that if you replaced the S in people's names with dollar signs, that you could
foil the FOIA request because it is a literal request. It won't pull up misspellings. So he
did all this to evade. He said, if there are messages you need to get to Tony, I can take
these messages. I can take them verbally. I can take them handwritten. I can take them by carrier
pigeon. Okay. I made that part up, but he said he could take messages around the government
channels to evade the rules of government. I think he's somebody who, uh, if he were willing
to testify that Anthony Fauci instructed him on these matters would be something that I think
somebody ought to consider granting him immunity because he could get further to the truth.
I would have, uh, uh, I guess a softer opinion of Anthony Fauci. If he would come forward and say,
I am sorry, I made some mistakes. I made a mistake, particularly
on gain of function research in a closed system, not known for openness, a totalitarian government.
See when he was asked whether or not he had ever visited the labs in China or whether they'd ever
been inspected, he, he, he knew of no oversight of the labs. And to my knowledge, the labs have
never been inspected for safety, but many, many scientists came forward and said, this shouldn't
have been done in a BSL two. The ranking goes from one to four with four being the safest.
Some of these experiments were done in a,
two and he knew they were going on from his diary of January of 2020. He says, we know they're doing
gain of function, sir, uh, research. My scientists say the virus looks manipulated. All of this is
adding up to a really scary situation where we think this has been pre-adapted for humans.
But then to the public, he said, nothing to see here privately. He said, it doesn't look like it
came from the wet market. The earliest sick people had no association with the wet market. He knew this
in January of 2020, but he was on at least two dozen national programs saying it's the wet market.
It's a wet market. We have a video compilation of how many times he said it was the wet market.
So that, that level of dishonesty doesn't deserve a reward. It deserves the truth. I don't think he's
capable of telling the truth, but I think if you offered immunity to some of the people who work
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Obviously, the most fascinating new revelation came in the form of his own diaries,
which you managed to get into the public domain. Just first of all,
on that, a lot of people, Bill Maher and others, have been very critical of you exposing Anthony
Fauci's private diaries. What do you say specifically to that criticism?
You know, if you want a diary to be private, I'd put it under your pillow.
I wouldn't write it on a government computer. You remember Bill, I think it was Bill Packwood
or Bob Packwood. He was a senator who got accused of problems with ladies. And he wrote a big long
diary, and they used the diary to write a book. And he wrote a big long diary, and they used the
diary against him. And they went to court, and they said, well, can you use this? And they said,
well, he wrote it on his Senate computer. So if you use government electronics and computers to
write stuff, it becomes fair game. My understanding, this was on a government server, and it was gotten
through email requests. Everything we did was through court order, through subpoena. He didn't
give anything voluntarily. And so, yes, this was given up. But it really shows the level of
hypocrisy and dishonesty of how he would say one thing, and then he would say the other thing.
He would say one thing privately, and then he would say something different, completely the
opposite, public. And people say, oh, give him the credit of the doubt. It's just a judgment call.
Well, you're not an honest broker of the truth if you have a conflict of interest.
His conflict was that if there's two possibilities, it came from the lab or it came from nature.
But if it came from the lab and he funded the lab, some responsibility attaches to him.
So he has an incentive to say, not the lab, nothing to see here, came from nature.
And most people in the media who lauded him, they never acknowledged that he had a conflict of interest.
Yeah, look, I'm one of the people who lauded him at the time because I believed what I saw was what he was.
I have to say, when I read the diaries, what came over was a guy with a massive ego, probably not helpful in the public health arena.
I mean, bordering on outright narcissism, clearly loved celebrity status and fame.
There's no question of that.
I was particularly disturbed, actually, by the fact that it revealed that he sort of pressurized members of his staff to put him forward for awards, which carried enormous financial benefit over seven figures, a million dollars in one case.
And he kept the money.
You know, I was trying to think that back in the UK, if one of our public health officials in the pandemic had been caught doing just that, I think there would have been massive public outrage.
So this idea that.
Fauci somehow is above all reproach, I think, is absurd.
But notwithstanding that, the argument, again, that I had with people the other night was centered around, did I really believe that Anthony Fauci was a criminal?
In other words, did he deliberately do things that crossed the line with the law?
Or was he somebody who spent 50 years in public health, is clearly a bona fide, a world class scientist.
We worked on many things, AIDS and others very successfully, who in a fast moving pandemic tried to do the best he could.
And let's put aside the gain of function issue.
I think you have a completely valid point on that.
But in relation to the other advice, for example, the wearing of masks, the efficacy of wearing of masks, the lockdowns, the particularly in my case, I would say one that I berate myself for was when they announced that you couldn't transmit the virus if you had the vaccine.
And I was very censorious then about people who didn't take it because I felt they were imperiling the lives of other people.
Then they changed that advice months later and said, actually, it makes no difference whether in terms of the transmission, whether you've had the jab or not, and then made people like me look completely ridiculous for believing them.
But again, putting aside my personal regret over that, which is sincere, this this overall thing, Senator Paul, of whether you believe he's actually a.
Sort of premeditated criminal with these kind of actions or whether he made a series of mistakes, which always happen in a fast moving public health emergency.
If you're asking whether he's good or evil, that's sort of a different question, and I don't know that I attribute evil intentions to him, but lying to Congress is a felony and destroying records is a felony.
Those are the two main avenues now, whether or not.
Like I think the debate is good about all of these different things to try to prevent illness and what are the mitigations what should we wear a mask, should we be six feet apart and they're important debates, but there's even a more fundamental debate what is good public health.
And I guess to my mind, if I had been the public health doctor, I would try to persuade you to do things I wouldn't force you to do things I would say you're an adult and you get to decide what you put in your body and you make these choices.
But I think that's a very important debate.
And I think that's a very important debate.
And so they have created this
out by not allowing nuance, not allowing individual decision, but public health should
be about persuasion. On the masks, here's what I would have told people with the mask, and it
probably took me a while to get exactly there, but this is what I would say if we had to do it over
again. Cloth masks, cut up parts of your t-shirt, don't work and you shouldn't use them. So any
cloth masks are of no demonstrable benefit for influenza and COVID. For respiratory viruses,
they don't work. The only studies we have with cloth masks actually show that they did worse
than placebo. Now, the reason why that's important, and I wouldn't mandate that you do or don't wear
them, but that's what I would tell you is advice because what Anthony Fauci did is he'd wear two
or three masks. He'd have a Washington Nationals emblem on there, which I guess would help to ward
off the disease as well. But he didn't wear a mask. He didn't wear a mask. He would then say to people, this is good for your protection. But if you're 75 years old and
you're overweight and you have diabetes and your wife has the same problems and she's got COVID
and you're going to go in to help her and to feed her, if you wear a cloth mask, you're now engaging
in risky behavior with the wrong advice. Now, what I would say about N95 is I think N95 worn
for short periods of time where you take them off and wash your hands immediately and you're not
exposed for a long period of time, like taking care of a sick,
a relative or spouse. I'd wear the N95. I'd probably wear gloves. I'd do like the doctors
do, like I do. You'd come out of the room, you'd take it off, you'd wash your hands.
And if you can afford it, you'd get a new mask the next time too. But wearing it on the Appalachian
Trail is not an evidence of science. It's an evidence of delusion. And so you got all these
people that were out riding around in their car by themselves with masks on. It led to this mask
delusion, but it wasn't science. It was bad advice. So those of us who saw that,
as complete insanity and stupidity, then we begin to doubt all the things that the other side says.
So it led to worse and worse problems. And I would be the first to say that if you disagreed with me
and you wanted to wear N95 all the time, so be it. That is your business. I would just give the
best advice that I think I have. And it would be to persuade people and be a little bit of a calming
influence too. All the people who got it, I would have celebrated. A lot of these people who worked
in the meat processing factory have a high school degree and they don't have the ability to parse
the science. But we told them to wear more masks after they had gotten recovered. We should have
been saying, hallelujah, you're not going to infect your family. You got to work every day.
You got a tough job, but hallelujah, you survived COVID and you are not going to die from it. Could
you get it again? Maybe in six months or a year, you might get it again, but you're not going to
die from it because you already have a significant amount of immunity to the base sequences of the
virus.
I know four people who died from COVID. One was the husband of a work colleague of mine on a
morning TV show in the UK and he died a terrible death over a three, four year period after being
in a coma for most of it. And I got COVID pretty badly after I'd had the vaccine, but I do believe
the vaccine, I personally believe it helped probably save me. I was about the same age as
this guy who died, who sadly, he got infected before the vaccines came out.
So look, there's obviously a lot of debate to be had here, but you wouldn't dispute just finally
that these vaccines save lives. I mean, a lot of people on the sort of very suspicious side of this
try and say, well, they didn't save any lives. They were completely pointless.
You're not in that position, I presume. I think people in the risk category, they did save lives.
And in order to determine whether they still do, this is a question I have. So the virus in 2020
was very dangerous, still pretty dangerous in 2021. Gradually, the virus has become less potent
and the immunity that we all have has risen from vaccine and from natural infection. But the
question I have now, and this is a question that I think puts science before profit, is that if you
want me to take a booster or you want somebody to take a booster, I need to know the booster
because it doesn't prevent transmission. The main endpoint that they say it,
it lowers hospitalization and death. I think that was accurate in 2020, 2021, but I'm not so sure you
can prove it anymore because almost nobody's going to the hospital and dying now. So if you want to
prove that a vaccine actually reduces hospitalization and death, it's going to be very difficult. You're
going to have to have enormous numbers to power the equation to prove something that is very, very
rare to begin with. But it gets to a public policy. Our public policy, our government is to take a
booster if it's true. And the science community is telling you if it's true, I'm fine with the truth,
but no one has studied it again. So I would say we should study now once again whether or not the
booster helps you. If it is, by all means, take it. Probably the best advice I would give for a
booster is if you are at risk, if you have significant risk factors, take the booster.
I also think it makes a difference if you've been vaccinated and gotten it naturally,
because you can have more extensive immunity from the natural infection. I'm
not encouraging that everybody needed to get it naturally. But when you do get it naturally,
you are immune to more receptors on the exterior of the virus as it infects the cell, but also as
the cell ruptures, there are nuclear contents that come out that you also develop immune reaction. So
you have a more extensive, broad immune response when you've had it. That's not an argument for
everybody just to get it. But the thing is, is whether we wanted to get it or not, we all did. And the whole world
probably has had this infection. And then at some point, we have to transition to what
happened. In 1887, a coronavirus came, caused a bad pandemic, and it's now one of the four common
colds. COVID in all likelihood is very close, if not there. And at some point, someone just needs
to study it and start giving people advice. And then maybe we don't have to waste time on taking
a vaccine anymore for it. But if it works, I'm all for saying it works too. But nobody,
nobody knows now because the question has not been studied for the booster, whether the booster
still reduces hospitalization and death.
Yeah, I agree with all that. Senator Rand Paul, you know, another part of my dinner party argument was that you are some kind of weird obsessive about Fauci. And that's what's driving this. I have to say I've been watching you for a long time on this. I think you've been asking completely pertinent and important questions. And we all deserve answers because the next time there's a public health crisis or a pandemic, we've got to have trust in public health.
And the only way you get that is to examine in the way that you've been very rigorously doing
exactly what happened with the COVID-19 pandemic. So personally, I'm very grateful for the work that
you've done. Thank you very much for joining me. Thank you.
Well, turning now to my panel, Clay Travis, the founder of Outkick, Mike Nellis,
democratic strategist and host of Endless Urgency, Carrie Prejean Boller, the conservative commentator,
and Omar Badr, the Palestinian American commentator. Well, welcome to all of you.
Just want to get quickly a reaction, Clay Travis, to that interview with Senator Rand Paul,
because it is an incredibly inflammatory story. The COVID pandemic and Anthony Fauci
as the front man for it in the United States. Is the public interest going to be served
by continuing to go after Fauci, who has obviously a pardon from Biden, whether people like it or not,
and ultimately trying to put this guy in prison? Or can we accept that maybe he made a number of
mistakes in a fast moving pandemic? And actually, that's the lesson from this, which is we need to
be more careful. I mean, we could do an entire show on this. I thought your interview with Rand
Paul was good, Pierce. I think Senator Paul has been heroic in his pursuit of the truth as it
is. I think he's done a great job. I think
he believed that he was going to be the hero of COVID. That's what drove him to keep that diary.
That's why he obsessively was keeping track of all the celebrities who were impressed by him.
And I think the ultimate result is that he's going to be the villain of COVID, because there were so
many things, particularly the fact that he was going to be the villain of COVID. And I think
there were so many things, particularly in 2021 with Joe Biden that were utterly indefensible that
he defended. And I do think he belongs in prison for the rest of his life, because I think he
clearly committed perjury, lied under oath. I think all of this was directly connected to the
fact that he knew that he had helped to create that virus through American tax dollars and the
gain of function research that had occurred in China. And everything was about trying to make it a
clear that this had been a virus that naturally arose through animals. And I think if you want to
go back in time and rewrite this, which I think is very important, because one day we may have
another pandemic. And I think the American public will not trust anything anyone in a position of
power tells them, even if it's a far more dangerous virus. I think what really began to puncture all
of this, Piers, and I'm sure you remember this, I bet you talked about it back in the day, was
actually when John Stewart, who was the president of the United States, was the president of the
United States. And he was the president of the United States. And he was the president of the United
the house of cards collapsing around dr fauci i do think for a historical purpose i'm a history major
i think the story of covid uh is important to tell i think a lot of people are embarrassed by
the fact that they were telling us pierce hey you have to have a mask on to walk into a restaurant
but as soon as you sit down you can take it off and eat the fact that we had flight attendants
walking around telling people they couldn't drink for too long or chew for too long i think a lot of
people who supported all of that pierce in new york city you were supposed to sit in a circle
outdoors in a park if you walked onto an elevator you were supposed to stand in the corner and face
the wall a lot of people were mindless and they did everything that people in positions of power
told them um and uh and i think the experts were wrong about virtually everything certainly uh
from about may and june of 2020 on and i do think that we need to have a historical
reckoning here okay mike nellis welcome back to uncensored i mean look anthony fauci as i said to
rand paul is completely entitled constitutionally to plead the fifth you know donald trump has done
it many times as well uh many many public figures have done it okay but mike nellis you you said
this after the senate hearing fauci's right to plead the fifth the entire hearing is a sham
republicans have spent years obsessing over him he leaked his journal entries
a few days ago and they've been promising to
find a reason to throw him in prison because they've lost their goddamn minds
this whole thing is a joke and should not be treated with any seriousness now
i would take issue with that um because i don't think it is a joke i do think it's
something that's very serious i think there is a clear link between anthony fauci
and the gain of function research in the wuhan institute of virology that is now
established it's beyond any argument and i think he has important questions to answer i also think
this is a very important question and i think it's very important to talk about it as as we just
heard from clay there were a number of suppositions put out by the experts during the pandemic which i
to my regret actually went along with as a journalist when i should have been i think more
rigorous because they kept changing their position on things like the efficacy of masks or transmission
if you have the jab and so on and so on so it taught me a lesson as a journalist to be more
skeptical in the moment of these things and to those who were who i was being censorious to
i've apologized and will continue to do so um but the reason i mean take the journals for example
fauci wrote this on a government computer that's how they got the permission from the courts to
put it in the public domain and no one can persuade me that the contents of fauci's journal
which contained directly contradictory statements to stuff he was saying in the public domain
at the same time is not in the public interest why would you think that none of this is
important well it's not that i don't think that it's important pierce i agree with you and i agree
with what clay said a few moments ago there were a lot of mistakes that were made in the pandemics
there were a lot of things that we were told to do that were really stupid and i will never forget
washing my groceries feeling really stupid after having them delivered and in hindsight i feel
even dumber than i ever did that and i think there's a lot of things that we need to do and
a public reckoning would be good here however i do think that what rand paul here has done
and what the mega movement has done makes this entire thing a sham when you spend five
or six years claiming that you're going to throw somebody in prison when you spend years spreading
disinformation about the covid vaccine and what anthony fauci did or didn't do of course he's
going to plead the fifth they essentially promised that it was going to be a perjury trap they created
the conditions where he isn't going to show up and do anything else other than protect himself
you asked him a very good question which is why not just give anthony fauci immunity because the
actual thing that needs to happen here is we should learn how we can make sure that this
never happens again it was a massive massive unprecedented
crisis there were a million mistakes made by dr fauci by everybody else up to it including donald
trump who at one point told his own supporters to drink bleach to make sure that they don't get the
pandemic which was ridiculous and i believe one guy died doing it like the next day or a couple
days later so there's a whole public reckoning that we should have but at the end of the day
rand paul and a lot of other people have decided to make this political because they want to fire
up the mega base in the middle of an election season we're doing this less than a hundred days
out from the election at a time when the republicans are desperate to talk about literally
anything other than the economy the stupid war in iran that donald trump doesn't know how to win
everything else that's going on the massive corruption i would like to see rand paul have
that same energy that he brought to a sham hearing with dr fauci for where the hell mitch mcconnell is
his his partner in kentucky he doesn't know where he is doesn't seem to care doesn't seem to care
about max miller doesn't seem to care about the epstein files doesn't care about anything else
that actually has the minds of the american people right now that's looking forward so people are
tired of this i would love a real conversation about this but nothing about this is real it's
just all politics
okay look i i don't want to spend uh any more time on covid uh for the purposes of this of this panel
because we've only got about 25 minutes left so let me just talk to you omar if i may about this
extraordinary win by abdul el saeed um in michigan which is a clear as you've put in your post a
defeat for aipac you said the billionaire special interest class that casually buys elections in
america got together and spent a lot of money buying elections in america you said the billionaire
spent an unprecedented 62 million dollars to smear el saeed outspending him 10 to 1 and mobilized the
entire democratic party establishment to sink him and he still won and and that is indisputable that
is what happened um do you think he can actually become senator though because the sort of big
picture view here is that you're getting a real rise of this progressive hard left one of a better
phrase uh socialist progressive hard left
but that it can't be a an electoral winner on the national stage and that actually the democrats
may be pushing themselves into a trap here which suits the republicans uh come a general election
do you share that concern
you know peers just looking at what has happened last night it really is difficult to overstate how
significant that is what we're seeing right now is a cataclysmic shift in american politics
altogether and american political
discourse that you have it is standard that the billionaire class and aipac and others essentially
bully people and get election outcomes that they choose it is very common that the billionaire class
and superpacs and so on can actually if they decide to put a target on somebody's back make
sure that they end their political career and get their outcome and the fact that they have
come together in a way that is so overwhelmingly concentrated i mean they wanted to make sure that
they went all out in this case to defeat abdullah say it and they were not able
to that is very very significant it's a sign that voters are fed up with politics as usual
it is a sign that people are now awake they don't want to put up any more with their money being
spent on a genocide instead of serving them because that is effectively what abdul's message
was all along it wasn't anything particularly radical you know when you hear about left or
whatever it is really basic common sense policies that he was advocating for he wants health care
for people in michigan he wants better access to education better services for people and doesn't
want american money to be spent on a stupid war abroad in iran and supporting a genocide against
the people of gaza that's basic elementary common sense and people are not going to put up with the
fact that this is what american policy has been for a long time now when you think about the
general election against a republican essentially what you have is a campaign of substance by abdul
sayed and you have on the other hand essentially a campaign of smears by mike rogers so i don't
know what the ultimate is go you know outcome is going to be nobody knows obviously but that is
effectively what we have you have mike rogers recently at an interview being asked about his
position on the iran war says his constituents have not raised it so he doesn't really know
where he stands on it asked about tariffs it's the same thing asked about trump's corrupt slush fund
where trump wants to give american taxpayers money to the people who rioted on january 6 to overturn
a legitimate election in which trump has been defeated and also mike rogers doesn't know what
his position is on that so you have somebody who's completely lacking in substance and all he goes
back to is that he's not really accusing abdul sayed of being a communist it's a smear it is
utterly baseless it doesn't mean anything and what we're going to find out come the general election
is whether a general campaign of smears is going to work or whether the people of michigan are
going to be focused on substance we are going to find out together in a couple of months
okay uh carrie prudine baller welcome back to uncensored at the same time that you've got this
real split in the democratic uh party uh the democrat but you also have the same thing happening
on the sort of maga conservative right and you know tonight tucker carlson uh has teased he's
going to reveal his plans for what is a at the very least a new movement and uh could even
potentially be a new party where joe kent on my show on monday uh who was part of his picture with
uh marjorie taylor green and and thomas massey and others
where it looks like they are creating something new anyway we don't know quite
what that will look like um you posted on 3rd of august maga was a scam the billionaire pretending
to care about the forgotten man and woman trump has become a slave to a foreign terrorist state
who hates christ he chose epstein over america so would you be tempted to join
i mean say tucker announces a new party do you think the mood is right now for a new
party do you think that as many people see it that trump's betrayal of the maggie ethos has led to the
miss inevitable split on the conservative right and there is an opportunity for somebody very
charismatic a lot of followers like tucker
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Yeah, you know, for far too long,
I think we've been told, us MAGA conservatives,
that we've been in a cult.
And I sort of feel like I am leaving this cult
because as soon as you think for yourself
and have common sense and question the narrative,
you're ostracized.
Look at Tucker Carlson.
Look at Thomas Massey.
Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Look at Candace Owens.
Look at myself.
You know, as soon as you go against the cult leader,
which I think Trump is the cult leader,
then you all of a sudden are ostracized from the party.
And so I think we as MAGA conservatives,
we still are conservatives.
We still hold firm to our principles,
but we are no longer a part of this cult
where, you know, it just feels that way.
And so we are skeptical, I think.
You know, it feels like we are coming out
of an abusive relationship.
And so we are skeptical on jumping into
a new relationship with someone new.
But I think someone like Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massey,
Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Those are the people that we're leaning towards. Those are the
people that we are seeing. Oh, you guys were cancelled. You guys were barred. So sign me up.
I'm willing to support that. OK, Clay Travis, when Tucker left Fox News, you posted Tucker Carlson
is a stud talent. He has a ton of incredible options. It will be fascinating to see which
he takes. Now, if he starts a third party and runs against President Trump, for example,
or whoever the Republican candidate is in twenty twenty eight, would you still see him as a stud
talent? Yeah, I think he is a unique, strong media talent. I think you, Tucker, I think there are a
lot of people you can point Megan Kelly who have proven that you don't have to be a member of a
big organization to have a tremendous impact. I mean, the way that I always described it is
I think we've moved from an era where the name on the front of the jersey matters far less than the
name on the back of the jersey. And certainly I like to think without kick and potentially what
I'm going to do going forward, there's a lot of opportunities out there in the new media marketplace.
Look, if Tucker decides to run for president or Thomas Massey runs for president or Marjorie
Taylor Greene runs for president, I think it's going to be very difficult to get past Jamie
Vance or Marco Rubio or whatever the overall Ron DeSantis. I think there are a lot of people out
there, Ted Cruz, that are going to toss their hat in for the twenty twenty eight race. And I think
that's good. Look, I'm a marketplace of ideas guy. Make your case. Put your ideas out there.
People thought when Donald Trump came down the escalator in twenty fifteen that he was that he
was an insane man and that he had absolutely.
No future at all in the Republican Party. And he has remade it in many ways. We'll see to what extent
the Trump imprimatur is continuing to have a major impact going into twenty twenty eight. But I think
everybody who believes they have the right vision for America on the Democrat Republican side, on
the independent side, I think they should all toss their hats in the ring. Let's have a big, fertile
debate without any incumbent president in office. And let's see who the best man or
best woman is. So I think Tucker, like I said, super talent. I think he's got made. I would argue,
I don't know. I don't see his finances, but I think he certainly hasn't been canceled. I mean,
he's probably making more money now. I would think that he was making when he was doing his Fox News
show. And I know your business is thriving. I think there's a lot of new media opportunities
out there. And if that translates into the political universe for him, more power to him.
Can I just jump in here real quick? I think there's one thing that will,
you know, have a great impact on how this goes. It's just that Donald Trump himself still carries
very significant weight within the MAGA movement. Obviously, when you look at even something as
unpopular as the Iran war, there's a significant portion of MAGA that still is behind the
president. I think the real question on how all this turns out is when Trump is done, when the
cover up of the Epstein files, if that continues to be a scandal into the next election and if the
war on Iran ends up being the absolutely catastrophic disaster, it's looking like it's going to be right
now. Does that diminish Trump's appeal and influence over the Republican Party? And I think
that is going to be an absolutely deciding factor in whether the wing that is anti-Trump right now
emerging within the Republican Party actually gets somewhere or whether Trump is going to continue
carrying significant weight and bury anybody who opposes him in the Republican Party.
I think that's a really interesting point. The latest polymarket on Republican presidential
nominee has J.D. Vance, his vice president, 46 percent. Marco Rubio, 27.8 percent. Ron DeSantis,
3 percent.
Tucker Carlson, 2.4 percent. But I think you're right, Omar. I've said from the start of the
Iran war, this could be an absolute legacy changer for Trump and for Trumpism in a bad way. And the
longer it's going on, the more, unfortunately, I feel that may be the case for him.
Let me mention something here, Pierce, on the Tucker front, sorry, that I should have mentioned.
His relationship with J.D. Vance has been incredibly strong. J.D. Vance got the VP nod
largely because Tucker advocated for him.
I do think the interpersonal relationship between the two of those guys plays a great,
a significant role in what Tucker may decide to do going forward, because I still think his
relationship with J.D. is very strong. Sorry to interject there, but I do think that plays.
No, no, I think that's a good point. No, I agree.
How this will go forward.
I completely agree with you.
What makes you think that their relationship is still strong?
Look, I'm analyzing anyone's relationship that you're
not involved in, I think is always a challenge, right, as we've all seen with marriages and
everything else. From everything that I have seen, I believe that Tucker's son is one of J.D.
Vance's top advisors still in the White House.
He's no longer with them.
No, he's not there.
No, you're wrong, you're wrong.
Okay, well, I apologize for not being entirely on top of the staff. If you believe that they
don't like each other and they're not getting along, that would be different than what I believe
to be true. But maybe you're right. I don't, I'm obviously not.
No, I was just asking what evidence.
You have. I was just asking what evidence you have that they have.
Well, let's see. You know what I don't think the truth is, I don't think we we don't really know.
So the last I heard was that they're still very, very cordial with each other. We shall see whether
that cordiality extends past Tucker's announcement tonight, because obviously you're very difficult
for J.D. Vance to still remain publicly very cordial with somebody if he's running a rival
party to the Republicans. We shall see. Mike Nellis, coming back to the Democrat split here.
The Democratic Socialists, the problem with them is that a lot of them sound completely nuts
to, I would say, the mainstream American electorate. I'll give an example
of the Democratic Socialist and former Wisconsin Francesca Hong. Now, on Monday, she defended
a social media post urging the country to cancel Thanksgiving when she appeared on CNN with
Caitlin Collins. Take a look.
I'm a chef. And one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was six,
16, was a Thanksgiving meal. Now, I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant
for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build
community is always a good thing. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many
people in our communities. And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that
there are multiple views, but views can evolve. Now, Mike Nellis, you know, I had Brianna
Taylor-Joy on the other day, who finally, after I had to batter her down into giving me an answer
after about six minutes, finally admitted she wants to abolish the Pentagon, prisons and the
police. And the problem with this stuff is that I think the average American looks at that clip,
they listen to Brianna Taylor-Joy, they look at these things and they think these people are crazy.
And we're going to come at the end to the whole issue of trans women in sport again and the Sophie
Cunningham debacle and so on. They look at this stuff and they say these people aren't in the real
world. You know, we don't want to cancel Thanksgiving. We don't want to get rid of
prisons, the police and the Pentagon boom overnight because it was obviously caused
total chaos and anarchy and so on. And we do think actually it's wrong that biological men are
competing in women's sport. Now, notwithstanding your own views about any of those things,
do you understand the problem here that as you have the democratic social
ists rise, which is indisputable, whether it's Mamdani or whether it's
Al-Said or whatever, you look at it and the wider public, I think, are going to be very reticent
about voting for these types of candidates on a national stage, which could come back,
therefore, and really haunt and damage the Democrat chances of national victory.
Yeah, I don't think you're wrong about that. I actually think you did a favor to Francesca by not
asking the question that Caitlin Collins asked because she was specifically just like, do you
believe that we should cancel Thanksgiving? And the answer should just be no. It should just be
a really simple thing you should be able to say. And at a bare minimum, you should be able to pivot
of everything is to put food on the table for thanksgiving which is what somebody who is savvy
at this like zora mamdani would have done to explain something he may have tweeted five or
six years ago francesca hong has not been able to do that and i think that's going to hurt her
now i would say she's different in the sense that abdul sayed and mamdani and many others some of
whom are dsa some of whom aren't have been able to kind of walk away from the wackier that dsa
wants to do which would be like abolishing jail i don't think i've ever met a single regular human
being who thinks we probably shouldn't have a prison for people like murderers and rapists
and stuff like that so it's crazy i i would encourage you know my brothers and sisters
in dsa who i think make a lot of good points on economic populism and the way that the system is
overrun by corporate super pac spending to get away from some of that weird stuff because it
does hurt the rest of us at the same time i know that the mega media movement is going to work
overtime to try to make this representative of every single democrat in the country right now
which is super unfair but it's just going to be what it is they've spent the
last couple of weeks trying to make this representative of every single democrat in the country right now which is super unfair but it's just going to be what it is they've spent the last two decades calling everybody a
communist jihadist i think everybody remembers that clip of
john mccain talking to that older woman during the 2008 presidential
where she says that obama is a terrible person he's like no ma'am he's a good
human being but the only reason that she believed
that barack obama was a communist jihadist was because sarah palin had been
flying around the country on behalf of john mccain saying that he was
so republicans have been doing this for decades now they're kind of like the boy
who cried wolf i don't think people are going to
believe them it also then presents an opportunity for
democratic candidates to distance themselves particularly in battleground
states and on these issues like it shouldn't be
hard for you to say i don't want to cancel thanksgiving i don't want to
abolish the police i don't want to abolish prisons
to be able to say that really easy then get back to the issues to that point
there's been a lot of talk of like abdul sayyed and whether or not he's too
progressive to win in michigan now that he's won this primary i think he's going
to do okay and he's going to beat mike rogers
and a big part of the reason he will is because he's got a very simple tagline
that summarizes his entire campaign which is money out of politics
money in your pocket it's a very simple basic thing that people understand he
knows what he's against and he knows what he's for same thing we saw with
mondani i think he's going to do okay francesca hong she's got work to do to
figure out what she's going to do in a general election all of that is right
but i also think that there is a bit of an evenness though in the way we talk
about this and in our discourse is that of course
some people on the left say silly things canceling thanksgiving or whatever else
but by contrast the stuff that republicans get away with and the
policies the real concrete corruption that trump is putting on full display
day in and day out
the fact that this does not get a fraction of the attention that some
silly comment about thanksgiving gets i i think is really a
disservice in a way that we have a media discourse that is obsessed
with gotcha moments and and silly moments and things that seem like they
might be appealing and infuriate people's feelings
that is the republican agenda is effectively to focus on meaningful stuff
that doesn't really mean that doesn't actually reflect yeah but
your trouble is
right but but the problem with that with that is that actually i
know because i worked at cnn for four years
i know you could fire a harpoon around the newsrooms
of most mainstream newsrooms and not hit a conservative voter
all right this remains one of the big problems i think with mainstream media
and why so many young people in particular have basically given up on it
right the average age of cable news watchers in america is now
over 70. there's a real disconnect here because
i think almost everything trump does gets enormous attention in mainstream
media they're obsessed with him because it drives ratings and
most of them don't like him um so i take issue with that premise that somehow the
republicans get away with it most of the coverage on
cable news is remains trump bashing um and you know
it's interesting
well well hang on hang on i want to ask you a specific question because
the one thing you didn't mention in the things that would be easy
to just say no to right uh or agree with um you know in in the
in this big sophie cunningham story for example she writes a
espn feature saying she doesn't agree with allowing transgender
girls and women to compete in women's sport and all hell
breaks loose with this and i don't understand
why and perhaps you can explain to me what is wrong with what she said because
she's right okay i i'll answer that but i want to
address the previous point here because one of these things about even
candidates like trump like trump vladimir bryant
like trump vexes the republican party establishment now he is the republican
party establishment but vex them at the time he vexes the democratic party
establishment so does dsa a big part of the reason that these
candidates are rising and doing better is because the system isn't working for
people so they're willing to take bigger risks
like a system that will elect donald trump who i don't believe on any level
is qualified to be president of the united states who
has already proven himself to be so corrupt even before his second term
is a system that's crying out for help so the establishment in both political
parties need to start offering and being able to deliver real solutions otherwise
they're going to keep getting their asses handed to them in these primaries they just
keep looking around they choose to blame the voters they choose to blame everybody else
instead of looking in the mirror and figuring out what they're doing now on the sophie cunningham
stuff i haven't read the op-ed that she put out i'll tell you the same thing i've told you a
thousand times about how i feel about this issue i think it should be up to local school districts
it should be up to local communities to figure out what's best for them i simply do not believe
the federal government should be telling people who should or shouldn't be playing women's
volleyball i just don't think that's the role what do you think i'm holding up i see i see the
two conservatives on the panel who are shaking their heads i'm old enough to remember when they didn't
believe in big government when they thought that local communities should be making those
decisions now you guys are like well no no no no but hang on wait wait wait wait wait a second
wait a second hang on wait wait wait wait everybody everybody wait a minute let me ask
mike a very simple let me ask mike a very simple question do you personally believe it is fair for
transgender women to compete in women's sport yes or no i don't i don't care same thing i've told
you before i simply don't care and i i want communities to figure it out and what i do
let me let me answer the goddamn question before you guys jump in either i mean slavery is not the
same thing as transgender athletes you look like a when you say okay but you're acting like
a coward you're acting like a cow i'm not acting like a coward i'm telling you i don't care about
do you have a daughter do you have a dog i have a seven-year-old son and i haven't i have a niece
yeah okay okay do you want i don't need i don't need a daughter to have an opinion on the issue
wait wait wait a second do you want your niece competing against my son
my son will dominate your niece do you want that
yes or no i don't care yes or no you don't care you don't care why don't you care mike
i don't care why don't you care out of interest no you're sorry because here's what i care about
because i care about whether or not kids are safe i care about what i know let me let me
ask you hang on let me ask mike a question mike another simple question mike did you care when
athletes were caught cheating with drugs that gave them performance enhancement
did you care about that uh like in the olympics like yeah sure
yeah in the olympics you did care okay so you do care so just to be like yeah so just to be clear
hang on so hang on hang on so you do care when athletes have an unfair advantage you care
here's the thing pierce yeah sure but i i want to point this out you open this segment by talking
about how republicans are going to go back to the well and talk about you either care or you
don't about unfair another one of those things that they do or it becomes a culture war issue
that they can distract because they don't want to talk about it because they don't want to talk about
the economy it's a very simple question they want to talk about this
no the truth wait a minute please the truth is mike
what you've revealed is i'm afraid total hypocrisy you care about an unfair advantage in the olympics
or barry bonds or whoever it may be you know lance armstrong you care about that unfair advantage
but you don't care when a biological male who has indisputable physical advantages over a biological
female is allowed to compete it's incredibly different when we're talking about major league
baseball we're talking about intramural volleyball for you know like teenagers same thing same
principle this is not this is not the same principle every single time come on no no but you
only care but you own but you only care when it's drugs you don't care when it's the transition
because you dare not speak i don't care when it's the transition because you dare not speak
i mean your mind about that because you know it's unfair because you don't believe in unfair
advantage clay travis let me bring you in this because you you posted um an open challenge to
the wmba so i want to have a boys high school team versus the wmba las vegas aces i'll put 10 million
dollars on the line the boys are going to win we're going to put it on pay-per-view now obviously
you're right right we know this because the women's soccer team national women's soccer
team mega rapinoe who wants to pack the women's team with uh
trans women uh only after she retired i noticed she said that um but they got beaten by a dallas
i think under 15's team about 7-1 or something right obviously now i don't say that because
i want to diminish women's sport i just think you've got to keep them apart for that reason
men are bigger they're stronger they're faster they have bigger lung capacity
that is why in the olympics mike they separate the sexes right and if they didn't that's fine
i'm talking about the role of the federal government what the government should be doing
yeah but you know you think it's fine you think it's fine you're telling people who can or cannot
play women's volleyball i think that's weird and i think it's a waste of time okay okay let me just
hang on hang on i'm just making the point that is why we separate the sexes to prevent you won't
answer his questions you do care about most of the time the question is trans women clay travis
clay travis i do think mike's problem over this is indicative of the general problem
right they just can't say what is a basic fact yes
100%. And Pierce, I'm going to have to jump out, so I don't want people to think I'm dodging this debate, because I would love to do it. My radio show starts in like three minutes. But here is the reality. Mike won't say it, and he's actually emblematic of many people on the left, because if they say that men are not women, the entire trans house of cards collapses. There's a difference. When we all grew up, people dressed up as drag shows.
They didn't argue that they were actually women. If you want to dress up as a man and pretend to be a woman, or you want to dress up as a woman and pretend to be a man, that's fine. That's your life.
As soon as you enter into sport, you're requiring me to lie. And here is why this matters. They won't just say, let's end it, right?
If you're playing 12U and a 16-year-old shows up, every parent knows that's unfair. I've coached every sport, my boys.
If anybody shows up who's out of age, you would end it. This is table stakes. I think it also ties in here in a big way.
Once you lie to me about this, I can't trust you on anything else, right? I can't trust you on tax policy. I can't trust you on Mideast, because you've already lied to me about a basic biological fact in peers.
That's why I think it resonates. That's why Thanksgiving resonates, because if you want to cancel Thanksgiving, I can't trust you on anything else.
That's why these things matter, just on a baseline level. They cut through the noise. That's why I put $10 million on the table, peers.
All these high school boys teams are reaching out to play. The WNBA won't respond. The Aces won't respond, because they would get smoked.
And this all started because WNBA coaches said they would welcome men identifying as women into the WNBA. I said, I want my own WNBA franchise, peers.
We're going to call it the Nashville Ballroom.
Our slogan, one love, two balls, greatest sports dynasty of all time, only trans players, men identifying as women. It would make the Jordan-era dynasty look like it would be even.
I think Mike should put $10 million on the women. I've got a show starting right now. Pears, love the show.
We're going to leave the whole debate there. Thank you, Clay. Thank you to all of us on my panel.
Guys, very quickly.
Yeah, just one final thought before we end this, if I'm even still on right now.
It's just I hope that everybody understands that what the conservatives are doing is using this as a wedge issue so they don't have to talk about the economy of the war.
That's what they want. Same shit they did in 2024.
You know what, Mike? This is the problem, though. All you have to do when people say, should we get rid of Thanksgiving, is no.
When they say, should we get rid of the Pentagon, police and prisons, you say no.
When they say, should we let biological men compete in women's sport, you just say no.
And when you don't say no to that.
When you don't say no to that, everyone thinks you're nuts.
I've got to leave you there.
The government shouldn't be telling the leagues what to do.
The government should tell the WNBA who can play women's basketball.
Like, that's ridiculous.
Do you think men should be competing against women, yes or no?
Not in the WNBA.
I've got to leave you there, guys. Thank you all very much.
You're a coward.
Thank you very much.
OK.
Well, finally, investigative journalist and YouTuber Nick Shirley traveled to Ceuta to document the border crisis where an unprecedented 60,000 migrants surged from Morocco into the tiny Spanish exclave.
However, his trip quickly turned dangerous.
Look, now we've got people throwing clothes.
I then headed to the center of the town with the citizen vigilante, Manzia.
However, within minutes, we were chased out.
So now people here to feel safe, they're walking around with their dogs because Muslims do not like dogs.
Watch out, watch out, watch out.
Now we've got people throwing stuff at us.
Well, Nick Shirley joins me now.
Nick Shirley, welcome to Uncensored.
You traveled to Ceuta, which most people talking about this haven't done.
What do you think was really going on here?
Well, I think right there you had a time when a lot of people felt like the border.
It was open and they literally just ran right through that border.
And the people I spoke to, the Moroccan migrants even said the Moroccan authorities let them go through.
And then from that point, somehow the Spain military, like if you watch the videos, they quite literally opened up that border, some of those gates and people just flooded into the country.
You said in a recent interview, you were asked why you thought so many working age men wanted to get into Europe.
You said they want Islam to be.
You said they want Islam to be everywhere.
That's why they're coming to our country.
There's no assimilation.
They don't learn their language.
This has been happening for years and years in Europe.
This is a religious war.
Would you categorize what you saw down in Ceuta as an example of that?
Yeah, I would say there's definitely, it's interesting.
I've heard a lot of people talk about, well, when a man comes and he flees a country, he brings his family.
When he goes alone, he's going to war.
And a lot of those individuals, they're 21 to 28 years old.
They don't bring their wives.
They don't bring a woman with them.
And when I asked them why not, they said because Islam says they stay at home.
That's what they told me.
Right.
I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean that the 60,000 people that poured over that border are going for reasons connected to their religion.
It may explain why some of them left family members at home.
But isn't it more likely, Nick Shirley, that actually the vast majority just want a better economic life?
That is certainly the case with most people, for example, who come into the UK illegally, as it turns out, most of them are young men who want a better life for themselves.
It's not really driven by any particular ideology, including Islam.
Well, the key word you give there is illegally.
They're breaking the law.
They come here illegally.
And then what happens?
They usually get put on our welfare systems.
And that takes money from the people who are living.
And that's a problem.
You know, I completely agree with that.
I'm just saying that the categorization that you've laid down, that you think that it's all about Islam, that these people want to come in, they don't want to assimilate, they don't want to learn the language, they want to basically, I guess, take over with their own form of culture and religion.
I'm just not sure that this is what we're seeing here with this situation in Ceuta.
You know, you posted on Instagram.
As well, thousands of kids left completely stranded at the Spain-Morocco border.
Do you think politicians realize when they open the borders, thousands of kids will get raped, trafficked and never see their parents again?
The kids and teenagers all love Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for opening the border.
But where will they go now?
Now, you know, on that, a lot of people will say, God, that's outrageous, appalling.
Yeah, of course, it's disgraceful.
But according to local data, a report about Daily Telegraph, there are between 826 and 862 unaccompanied migrants.
Children currently stranded in Ceuta.
Now, that's a lot of kids.
Don't get me wrong.
But it's not thousands and thousands, as you said.
So is there a danger that we exaggerate this when there is a real problem that needs to be addressed, but it isn't as bad as people are making out?
No, it's bad.
Like the video footage I showed you, there's thousands of kids.
And that's just in one part of that small little town.
So there is quite literally thousands of kids that came across that border.
As well with the adults.
And it's very sad, like the open borders, like it's actually very inhumane because, like I said, right there, a lot of kids will get raped, they'll get trafficked, they'll never see their parents again.
And that's due to these politicians who open up these borders.
And it's just a sad reality that takes place.
A lot of people will get kidnapped.
Essentially, they'll never see their parents again.
Who knows what happens when they get inside those trafficking networks, what will happen to them?
Almost all of the 60,000 migrants who came in in this huge surge.
From Morocco into Saudi Arabia, they've all been returned.
So what do you feel the situation is on the ground now?
Well, I was just there about two days ago and there are still thousands of people there.
And it was very interesting just to be driving around that town.
You would you look up in the mountain and then all of a sudden you'd see a pack of people up there.
You'd be interviewing, I'd be interviewing a lady and all of a sudden two people would come out from the mountain.
And so there's like thousands upon thousands of people.
I don't have a clicker to count each and every one of them.
Every single person, yet there's still thousands of people.
I don't know what it's like today because I'm not there right now, but I'd imagine there's still a few thousand there.
And a lot of people had the mission to get into mainland Europe.
So it'll be interesting to see how many of them actually make it into mainland.
But I think the fact that just in one day, around 60,000 people were able to storm a border and come into a country like that should be very concerning for Spain to think that in one day that is possible.
And they show that.
It's possible because it happened.
Yeah.
You know what?
It's completely outrageous.
I couldn't quite believe what I was watching.
And you've got people like Elon Musk, who I think do exaggerate the situation in Europe.
Certainly he does about England, I think.
But when you look at scenes like that, it's hard not to argue with language like invasion.
60,000 people did invade that border.
There's no question.
Now, the fact most of them got returned pretty quickly is good.
But it doesn't change.
The fact it happened in the first place.
And I do think border control around Europe, around the world, actually, is a.
very, very big deal right now. And it's got to be taken more seriously. Nick Shelley,
I appreciate you joining me. Thank you very much. Thank you, Piers.
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FanDuel is now available nationwide in the U.S., allowing access to sports betting regardless of location.
A significant political shift is occurring, marked by the unexpected victory of progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate primary, defeating a $30 million AIPAC-backed campaign.
The growing influence of progressive and anti-establishment figures like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Joe Kent signals a potential realignment on both the Democratic and Republican sides of American politics.
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FanDuel is now available across the entire United States, enabling users to engage in sports betting from any location. This expansion underscores a broader political realignment, highlighted by the unexpected win of progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate primary. El-Sayed defeated a massive, well-funded opposition campaign backed by AIPAC and the Democratic establishment, signaling a major shift in American political dynamics.
This victory reflects widespread voter fatigue with traditional political elites and a growing appetite for progressive policies—such as affordable healthcare, education reform, and ending foreign military interventions—over entrenched, billionaire-driven campaigns. On the right, figures like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Joe Kent are emerging as leaders of a new anti-traditional conservative movement, suggesting a potential split within the Republican Party. Critics argue these shifts are driven by a desire for authenticity and accountability, not radicalism.
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