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Trump Outsmarts Criminal Activist Judge (Ep.161) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report, early edition. I
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Speaker 1: Houthis in Yemen reportedly launch missiles at U.S. military aircraft.
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Speaker 1: President Trump epically deports violent illegals. A second foreign student
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Speaker 2: Hold up. Hold up.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake,
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Speaker 3: all right?
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Speaker 4: We spent $ 2 trillion, thousands of lives. We don't even
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Speaker 4: have it. Iran is taking over Iraq with the second
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Speaker 4: largest oil reserves in the world. Obviously, it was a mistake.
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Speaker 4: We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized
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Speaker 4: the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: They lied.
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Speaker 4: They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none,
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Speaker 4: and they knew there were none. There were no weapons
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Speaker 4: of mass destruction.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people my age take for
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Speaker 1: granted just how radical that was for President Trump to say.
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Speaker 1: We just don't even understand it because we didn't experience
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Speaker 1: the political landscape before that time. Somebody who's my age,
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Speaker 1: I'm 25, sort of came into political adulthood in the
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Speaker 1: Trump years. That's all I've really known. And so it's
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Speaker 1: hard to imagine what it was like before President Trump.
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Speaker 1: But he called out the war machine, the endless scam
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Speaker 1: conflicts that did nothing for America or the middle East
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Speaker 1: for that matter. And that's what makes president Trump so
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Speaker 1: different from George W. Bush, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Nikki Haley,
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Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw, Mitch McConnell, all those guys, all those guys
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Speaker 1: that we're not too big fans of. This is what
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Speaker 1: makes Trump distinct from them. That clip that I just
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Speaker 1: played that clip Trump's America first agenda radically rebranded the
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Speaker 1: Republican party as the party of peace. It created a large,
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Speaker 1: unique coalition of Americans abandoned by the now pro-war Democrat
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Speaker 1: Party and the old guard Republican Party. It just created
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Speaker 1: this brand new thing. And yeah, we're technically Republicans, but
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Speaker 1: we all know, we all feel that this is new,
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Speaker 1: this is different, that this is special. And Trump's attempting
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Speaker 1: to live up to that agenda again by pushing for
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Speaker 1: a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. He is continuing the negotiations.
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Speaker 1: We're still in the process of it. But again, this
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Speaker 1: is part of that America first pro-peace agenda that Trump
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Speaker 1: has always been about. But Congressman Thomas Massey gave a
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Speaker 1: really important warning last week. He wrote this. The military
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Speaker 1: industrial complex demands about $ 50 billion per year in war.
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Speaker 1: As soon as we quit spending $ 50 billion per year
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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, we start spending $ 50 billion per year in Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Watch where the next $ 50 billion per year goes when
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Speaker 1: we stop sending it to Ukraine. The military-industrial complex is
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Speaker 1: always hungry. All right, put a pin in that. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to come back to it in just a second.
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Speaker 1: Because for over a year, Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen
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Speaker 1: have been attacking Israeli and U.S. ships in the Red
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Speaker 1: Sea in solidarity apparently with Palestinians, but also sort of
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Speaker 1: a broader aggression toward Western influence and just an opposition
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Speaker 1: to America and Israel in general. But they're saying it's
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Speaker 1: in solidarity with the Palestinians. The Houthis suspended their attacks
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Speaker 1: back in January after the Gaza ceasefire was reached. But
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Speaker 1: since then, both Israel and Hamas have been accused of
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Speaker 1: violating the ceasefire. Hamas refuses to release the hostages. Israel
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Speaker 1: has placed a blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza. So
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Speaker 1: now the Houthis have resumed attacks on the U.S. and
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Speaker 1: Israel because of Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid. And on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: President Trump then in response ordered a large-scale U.S. airstrike, U.S. airstrikes,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, on Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen. and apparently killed
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Speaker 1: at least 53 people, including women and children, wounding 98 others.
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Speaker 1: But this is according to Houthi-run media. So of course,
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Speaker 1: Houthi-run media, not the most reliable source, but that's the
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Speaker 1: information that we have available. Presumably a lot of people died. Now,
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Speaker 1: since then, the Supreme Leader of Yemen declared that all
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Speaker 1: of American ships are now banned from the Red Sea.
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Speaker 1: And the Houthis have reportedly launched missiles at U.S. military aircraft.
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Speaker 1: So let's come back to Massey's, Massey for a second,
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Speaker 1: and Massey's warnings. because he followed up with that tweet
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Speaker 1: from last week in response to this news with this tweet.
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Speaker 1: He said, So is this just about the Houthis, or
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Speaker 1: is it about something else? Trump's national security advisor, Mike Walsh,
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Speaker 1: is saying the U.S. should start hitting Iranian targets in Yemen.
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Speaker 1: So is this really about protecting shipping routes? Or is
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Speaker 1: it about justifying a broader conflict with Iran? You know,
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Speaker 1: President Trump himself actually slammed President Biden last year for
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Speaker 1: bombing Yemen.
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Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: I look at your policies.
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Speaker 2: I see secure the borders, bring jobs back. I look
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Speaker 2: at the Democrats and many Republicans and it's foreign war
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Speaker 2: and foreign expansion.
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Speaker 3: What is that? I think it's just a failed mentality.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy. You can you can sell problems over a
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Speaker 3: telephone and said they start dropping bombs. I see recently
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Speaker 3: they're dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don't have to
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Speaker 3: do that. You can talk in such a way where
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Speaker 3: they respect you and they listen to you. Victor Orban
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Speaker 3: of Hungary, you know, the leader, they call him a
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Speaker 3: strong man. Who cares if he's a strong man or
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Speaker 3: not a strong man? He's a very powerful guy. He
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Speaker 3: said the problem the world has is that Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: is no longer president. When he was president, China didn't
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Speaker 3: play around. Russia didn't play around. Nobody played around. And
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Speaker 3: we had no problems. Today, the whole world is on fire.
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Speaker 6: I heard that.
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Speaker 1: You guys, I'm seeing some of you in the chat.
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Speaker 1: I get the argument. from people who are supportive of
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Speaker 1: this escalating conflict with the Houthis. The Houthis are firing
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Speaker 1: missiles and drones at U.S. military vessels. They're blocking our
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Speaker 1: ships from freely navigating the Red Sea. And people are justifying,
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Speaker 1: and the administration is justifying, these strikes as necessary retaliation.
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Speaker 1: But my warning, it's the same as Massey's and President
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Speaker 1: Trump's own warning. We have to put this country first.
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Speaker 1: Because the number one benefactor of America going to war
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Speaker 1: against the Houthis isn't America. You know who it is?
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Speaker 1: Because Massey asked Grok, X's AI model, to give him
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Speaker 1: a list of which countries benefit the most from U.S.
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Speaker 1: military action against the Houthis. And the top five were five,
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Speaker 1: South Korea, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia. Number one, China. Number
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Speaker 1: one is China. America didn't even make the top five list.
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Speaker 1: And Massey pointed out that this shipping route's biggest economic
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Speaker 1: value to the U.S. is importing oil. But we control
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Speaker 1: our own oil. We should be, right? This is part
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Speaker 1: of Trump's agenda. So why don't we? More importantly, if
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Speaker 1: we have the resources to be engaging in direct conflict
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Speaker 1: with the Houthis, why aren't we doing the same thing
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Speaker 1: with the Mexican drug cartels? And maybe we are. I
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Speaker 1: haven't heard a lot about it. But that's a far
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Speaker 1: more serious and immediate threat to this country than whatever's
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Speaker 1: happening in the Red Sea. It's not good, but we
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Speaker 1: have to prioritize American interests. What's the most important thing here?
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Speaker 1: I'd say the drug cartels are much more important in
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Speaker 1: this moment have a much more immediate, direct, negative effect
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Speaker 1: on this country. And again, you guys, I always have
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Speaker 1: to do this when I talk about these subjects. Let's
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Speaker 1: be clear. Are the Houthis good guys? No, they are not.
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Speaker 1: But regime change and war always carry unknown consequences. And
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Speaker 1: history shows that the results have never been good for
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Speaker 1: America or the countries that we meddle in. But don't
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Speaker 1: take my word for it. Here is again, President Trump himself.
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Speaker 7: You also recently said that the Middle East would be
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Speaker 7: better off with Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein and Assad in power.
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Speaker 5: How does.
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Speaker 4: I didn't say Assad, but we certainly have not gained
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Speaker 4: anything with Qaddafi. And you look at what happened.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at Libya.
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Speaker 4: Look at Iraq. Iraq used to be no terrorists. He
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Speaker 4: would kill the terrorists immediately. It was like now it's
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Speaker 4: the Harvard of terrorism.
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Speaker 2: Iraq.
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Speaker 1: Iraq.
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Speaker 4: If you look at Iraq from years ago, I'm not
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Speaker 4: saying he was a nice guy. He was a horrible guy.
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Speaker 4: But it was a lot better than it is right now.
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Speaker 4: Right now, Iraq is a training ground for terrorists. Right now, Libya,
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Speaker 4: nobody even knows Libya. Frankly, there is no Iraq and
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Speaker 4: there is no Libya. It's all broken up.
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Speaker 8: They have no control.
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Speaker 4: Nobody knows what's going on.
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Speaker 1: The world would be better off with Saddam Hussein.
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Speaker 2: And Qaddafi in power?
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Speaker 1: 100%.
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Speaker 4: Now, as far as Assad is concerned, let's talk about it.
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Speaker 2: What about the human rights abuses?
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.
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Speaker 4: Well, you don't think they're happening now? They're worse now
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Speaker 4: than they ever were. People are getting their heads chopped off.
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Speaker 4: They're being drowned. Right now, they're far worse than they
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Speaker 4: were ever under Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi.
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Speaker 8: I mean, look what happened.
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Speaker 4: Libya's a catastrophe. You look at our ambassador as an example, okay?
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Speaker 4: Libya's disaster. Iraq is a disaster. Syria is a disaster.
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Speaker 7: The whole Middle East.
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Speaker 4: And it all blew up around Hillary Clinton and around
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Speaker 4: Barack Obama. It all blew up.
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Speaker 1: It's a really brave thing to say. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: you guys, this rhetoric from President Trump, revolutionary. He was
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Speaker 1: so wise and so brave for saying the truth about
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Speaker 1: American foreign meddling. Is conflict with the Houthis and all
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Speaker 1: our Middle East entanglements going to put this country first?
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Speaker 1: That is the question we always need to be asking.
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Speaker 1: Why not perhaps focus our efforts on making sure that
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Speaker 1: the terms of the ceasefire are being met by all
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Speaker 1: parties before squaring up with the Houthis? Because they did
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Speaker 1: suspend their attacks in January. Or is this conflict with
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Speaker 1: the Houthis not even about protecting shipping routes that don't
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Speaker 1: benefit America as much as it does China or Saudi
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Speaker 1: Arabia or Germany? Is it about justifying a broader conflict
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Speaker 1: with Iran? Mike Wall seems to suggest so. How have
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Speaker 1: other conflicts in the Middle East gone for us? President
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Speaker 1: Trump just demonstrated, not very well. The war machine has
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Speaker 1: an insatiable hunger. Thomas Massey is so right about that.
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Speaker 1: We have to pay attention to where the $ 50 billion
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Speaker 1: will inevitably go. All right, let's take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: When I come back, I have some more positive news.
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Speaker 1: America winning. We are getting the illegal Tren de Aragua
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Speaker 1: violent criminals out of this country, and we're also outsmarting
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Speaker 1: really criminal activist judges while we're at it. Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Somebody commented, uh-oh, no green on St. Patrick's Day. With
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Speaker 1: a name like Duffy, somebody pincher. You guys, there's a
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Speaker 1: reason that I'm not wearing green today. It's a special reason.
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Speaker 1: It's called this monitor back here. And whenever I wear green,
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Speaker 1: for some reason, there's a huge problem. Mikey, what is
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Speaker 1: the point? What is the cause of that? It's a
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Speaker 1: temperature thing. I have my green, my green, yeah, see,
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Speaker 1: this is rumble. This is bright green. If you guys
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Speaker 1: look at it, it's dark. It's like black. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: show up on screen. So this is what it would
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Speaker 1: look like. I promise you guys, this is a bright
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Speaker 1: green rumble block. And it doesn't show up. So if
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Speaker 1: I wore green with this screen in the background, I
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Speaker 1: would be in trouble. When I get into the new studio,
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Speaker 1: which will happen next week, for sure next week, then
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Speaker 1: I can wear green. But for right now, guys, you're
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Speaker 1: stuck with me in blue. So I apologize. Virtually pinch
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Speaker 1: me all you want. I'm not wearing green, but we
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Speaker 1: are going to cover St. Patrick's Day at the end
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Speaker 1: of the show. And I have a really special segment
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Speaker 1: on St. Patrick. So you guys don't miss out on that.
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Speaker 1: But I have some positive news to cover with you guys.
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of
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Speaker 1: 1798 in an effort to detain and deport all members
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Speaker 1: of the Tren de Aragua gang who are in the
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Speaker 1: United States, of course, illegally. And this comes after the
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Speaker 1: gang has been able to take root. in a number
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Speaker 1: of U.S. states. It's basically just a criminal network of
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Speaker 1: Tren de Aragua. And you'll remember how this gang just
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Speaker 1: illegally took over an entire apartment complex last year in
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Speaker 1: Colorado and started charging rent to people. It was unreal.
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Speaker 1: It felt like we were in a third world country.
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Speaker 1: And Trump's like, that's it. You guys are gone. You're
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Speaker 1: out of here. The rap sheets of these guys being
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Speaker 1: removed include kidnapping, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated assault, prostitution, robbery,
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Speaker 1: aggravated assault of a police officer. These are serious crimes.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, Democrats want them to stay in this country.
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Speaker 1: Unclear why. I don't clear how that's a winning issue
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Speaker 1: for them, but that is the argument from the political left.
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Speaker 1: Senator Marco Rubio, Secretary, I'm sorry, of State Marco Rubio,
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Speaker 1: wrote yesterday, really powerfully, we have sent two dangerous top
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Speaker 1: MS-13 leaders, plus 21 of its most wanted, back to
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Speaker 1: face justice in El Salvador. Also, as promised by POTUS,
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Speaker 1: we sent over 250 alien enemies of Tren de Aragua,
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Speaker 1: which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very
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Speaker 1: good jails at a fair price that will also save
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Speaker 1: our taxpayer dollars. President Bukele is not only the strongest
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Speaker 1: security leader in our region, he also is a great
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Speaker 1: friend of the US. Thank you. That really is allyship.
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Speaker 1: Bukele is like, charge me a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: price for it and I'll take in all your criminals
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Speaker 1: and we're working together on this. And there was some
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Speaker 1: drama yesterday surrounding this entire deportation of violent criminals. Again, guys,
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Speaker 1: the left. They just want these people in the country,
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Speaker 1: I guess. So U.S. District Judge James Boesberg ordered an
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Speaker 1: immediate stop to Trump's efforts to deport these alleged gang
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Speaker 1: members so he could have more time to consider if
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Speaker 1: Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal. So
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Speaker 1: he said, don't deport them. I have to be able
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Speaker 1: to decide whether this is breaking the law somehow. But
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Speaker 1: According to the Trump admin, the planes carrying the migrants
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Speaker 1: were already outside the U.S. airspace when the federal judge
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Speaker 1: ordered the planes to return. And according to Axios, Deputy
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Speaker 1: Chief of Staff Stephen Miller secretly orchestrated this entire thing.
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Speaker 1: He orchestrated the Venezuelan gang members' flights to El Salvador
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Speaker 1: to get the criminals out of this country before this
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Speaker 1: activist judge could take action. So based Stephen Miller, per usual,
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Speaker 1: the guy is a Chad. He's awesome. But basically what
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Speaker 1: happened was this judge tried to unlawfully usurp the president's
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Speaker 1: constitutional authority to deport hostile foreign enemies of this country.
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Speaker 1: And just to be clear, Judge Boesberg made sure Russia
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Speaker 1: hoaxer Igor Danchenko, a key source for the discredited Steele dossier,
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Speaker 1: never spent time behind bars. Remember I said, I didn't
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Speaker 1: say he was an activist judge for no reason. He's
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Speaker 1: a Russia hoaxer. He made sure that Russia hoaxers did
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Speaker 1: not go to prison. He's also responsible for imprisoning countless
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Speaker 1: innocent January Sixers. So this guy is not just a
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Speaker 1: regular judge who's looking at the law objectively. He is
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Speaker 1: an activist. And as Federalist CEO Sean Davis writes, this
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Speaker 1: isn't just a constitutional abomination. It is an attempt by
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Speaker 1: an inferior and unelected judge to corruptly seize the powers
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Speaker 1: of the presidency from the commander-in-chief on behalf of a
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Speaker 1: hostile foreign invading force. For this reason, Boesberg needs to
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Speaker 1: be placed under criminal investigation. Any security clearances currently granted
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Speaker 1: to him must be revoked. All his communications must be
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Speaker 1: seized and reviewed. And he must be removed from the
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Speaker 1: bench until the criminal investigation into his activities is concluded.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's exactly how we need to start
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Speaker 1: dealing with these activist criminal judges. They're not acting within
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Speaker 1: the law or on the behalf of the law, clearly.
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Speaker 1: And Darrell Cooper, who's the host of the Martyr Made podcast,
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Speaker 1: he made a really interesting point on X yesterday that
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Speaker 1: I think is worth considering. He said, I like how
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Speaker 1: no court would ever dream of blocking the president from
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Speaker 1: bombing a country, even launching a whole war, without consulting
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Speaker 1: anyone but his donors, but is at the ready to
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Speaker 1: stop him from deporting members of a designated terrorist org
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Speaker 1: who are in the U.S. illegally. Isn't that interesting, you guys?
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Speaker 1: The priorities here are fascinating. President Trump is inflaming conflicts
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East, arguably declaring war on the Houthis
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Speaker 1: while escalating tensions with Iran, and no one cares. And
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Speaker 1: we can have different opinions on that. But the point
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Speaker 1: is that Congress still needs to approve a declaration of war.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why we just stopped doing that over
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Speaker 1: the years. Just like, nope, we're just going to let
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Speaker 1: the executive declare war now. That designated role of Congress
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Speaker 1: is now going to be the role of the president.
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Speaker 1: And Trump or anyone, I just don't think that that's
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Speaker 1: a cool thing. I think that role was designated to
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Speaker 1: Congress for a reason and it should stay with Congress.
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Speaker 1: But nobody cares about that. Nobody has a problem with that.
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Speaker 1: But oh no, the president tries deporting a network of
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Speaker 1: illegal gang members and watch as the left-wing judges jump
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Speaker 1: in to unconstitutionally put an end to it. Why is
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Speaker 1: it easier for the US government and people in our
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Speaker 1: government to fund weapons of proxy wars than it is
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Speaker 1: to secure the southern border? Why does deporting violent criminals
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Speaker 1: get immediate judicial pushback while launching airstrikes against another Middle
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Speaker 1: Eastern country barely registers? It really makes you wonder about
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Speaker 1: the priorities here. All right, switching gears. Tren de Aragog
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Speaker 1: gang members aren't the only foreigners this admin is booting out.
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Speaker 1: A second foreign student in the U.S. to study on
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Speaker 1: a student visa has reportedly been arrested by agents with
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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security. The student's name is Lekha Kordia, who,
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Speaker 1: like Mahmoud Khalil, who we talked about last week, Kordia
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Speaker 1: was involved in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year.
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Speaker 1: Kordia is, of course, not a U.S. citizen. She's a
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Speaker 1: Palestinian from the West Bank, and she had allegedly overstayed
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Speaker 1: her visa in in the United States, and she was
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Speaker 1: also arrested in April 2024 for taking part in one
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Speaker 1: of the protests on campus. And just a reminder, guys,
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Speaker 1: here is what those protests that this young woman was
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Speaker 1: involved in looked like last year. So you're seeing them
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Speaker 1: breaking the glass of a university building doorway. They are
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Speaker 1: just like swarming inside these buildings, this building. They're carrying
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Speaker 1: furniture and other objects because, of course, they were going
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Speaker 1: to create a blockade literally inside this building. And now
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Speaker 1: we're seeing images of inside the building that they took over.
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Speaker 1: They've trashed the place. Like, just completely no respect whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: Took over this building that doesn't belong to them. Prevented
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Speaker 1: freedom of movement on campus. I mean, it's really just despicable.
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Speaker 1: We're good with that, Mikey. Honestly, I think it's savagery.
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Speaker 1: I think it's savagery. They blockaded themselves in a university
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Speaker 1: building for days, trashed the place. And this case to
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Speaker 1: me with this young woman who was arrested, pretty cut
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Speaker 1: and dry. She overstayed her visa. Not to mention that
20:22
Speaker 1: on top of it, she likely participated in those violent
20:25
Speaker 1: demonstrations given her arrest. She has zero right to be here.
20:29
Speaker 1: I don't know why this is an argument from people.
20:32
Speaker 1: This woman overstayed her visa and was involved in violent
20:35
Speaker 1: protests on campus. Done deal.
20:37
Speaker 3: Gone.
20:38
Speaker 1: You don't have a right to be here. If you
20:39
Speaker 1: are not a US citizen, you do not have a
20:41
Speaker 1: right to be here. This is really unclear to me
20:43
Speaker 1: why so many people are confused. You're not a citizen.
20:49
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be here. You broke our laws. She's here illegally.
20:52
Speaker 1: Get out. Now, Mahmoud Khalil, however, is a little more complicated.
20:59
Speaker 1: His pregnant wife is a US citizen. He was here
21:03
Speaker 1: legally on a green card, which is a lot more
21:05
Speaker 1: permanent than a student visa. We still have no evidence
21:09
Speaker 1: that he carried out terror acts, let alone monetarily or
21:12
Speaker 1: even verbally supported Hamas terrorists. He doesn't have a right
21:19
Speaker 1: to be here, in my opinion. He isn't a U.S. citizen.
21:21
Speaker 1: It's not like he has just like a stated constitutional
21:27
Speaker 1: right of permanency in the United States because he's a
21:30
Speaker 1: green card holder. He is not a U.S. citizen. But
21:36
Speaker 1: Are these good grounds and just grounds to deport Khalil,
21:39
Speaker 1: the ones that are being presented by the Trump administration?
21:44
Speaker 1: And we have to think about this objectively because I
21:46
Speaker 1: think that Khalil's case and this young woman's case are distinct.
21:51
Speaker 1: And I want to look at them separately. And by
21:53
Speaker 1: the way, you guys, I hated those campus demonstrations. They
21:56
Speaker 1: were orchestrated by Marxist college students. I really hated them.
21:59
Speaker 1: They were rooted in a cancerous ideology. They were conducting
22:03
Speaker 1: themselves like little Marxists violently. You don't get to prevent
22:08
Speaker 1: freedom of movement on a campus or blockade yourselves in
22:10
Speaker 1: a university building. That's not free speech. That's criminal behavior.
22:13
Speaker 1: So I hated those demonstrations, you guys. I promise you.
22:17
Speaker 1: But again, we need to think about this case holistically, objectively.
22:20
Speaker 1: Here's Glenn Greenwald, who believes that this is a very
22:23
Speaker 1: grave speech issue and Khalil needs to be released. I
22:27
Speaker 1: want you to take a listen to his take here.
22:28
Speaker 2: As you said, he's actually not here on a student
22:31
Speaker 2: visa in the United States. He's a green card holder,
22:34
Speaker 2: which is a path To citizenship, it's considered a permanent residence.
22:38
Speaker 2: When American citizens marry foreign nationals, as Donald Trump, for example,
22:42
Speaker 2: did twice, as Khalil's wife, who's an American citizen, did
22:46
Speaker 2: as well, they get put on this path to permanent residence.
22:49
Speaker 2: And the Supreme Court has said for 200 years that
22:52
Speaker 2: green card holders, permanent residents, people in the United States
22:55
Speaker 2: legally have the protection of the Bill of Rights, which
22:58
Speaker 2: obviously includes free speech. The other issue I really want
23:01
Speaker 2: to take issue with, Hallie, is that you had said
23:04
Speaker 2: several times in the intro, as did others, that he's
23:07
Speaker 2: a pro-Hamas agitator. He's actually a graduate student at Columbia.
23:12
Speaker 2: There's no evidence at all that he's a supporter of Hamas.
23:16
Speaker 2: These protest movements at Columbia and elsewhere were filled with
23:19
Speaker 2: Jewish students. That protest movement at Trump Tower that you
23:22
Speaker 2: referenced was a group of Jewish students who opposed the
23:25
Speaker 2: Israeli war in Gaza. There is no evidence that he
23:28
Speaker 2: is anti-Semitic, that he supports Hamas, that he's in favor
23:31
Speaker 2: of violence. There obviously are some people who are part
23:34
Speaker 2: of that protest who do and others who don't. But
23:36
Speaker 2: the important thing here is he's been in the United States.
23:39
Speaker 2: He's never even been arrested, let alone charged with and
23:42
Speaker 2: convicted of a crime. And if we're going to deport
23:44
Speaker 2: green card holders, I think that should be the standard.
23:48
Speaker 1: There's clearly a difference between Khalil and Cordia. Cordia has
23:52
Speaker 1: zero right to be here. She's an illegal. She's breaking
23:54
Speaker 1: our laws by overstaying her visa. No one should have
23:57
Speaker 1: any problem with deporting this woman. Khalil, as Greenwald explained, however,
24:02
Speaker 1: is a little more complicated.
24:03
Speaker 4: He.
24:05
Speaker 1: also made a really good point about guilt by association.
24:08
Speaker 1: How many January Sixers who were peaceful, who were smeared
24:11
Speaker 1: by the media, politicians, the DOJ as violent insurrectionists, because
24:15
Speaker 1: there were a handful of rioters who actually were violent.
24:21
Speaker 1: How many innocent Jay Sixers were smeared because of the
24:23
Speaker 1: actions of a very small number of Jay Six rioters?
24:28
Speaker 1: That was a lot of people. That was a really
24:31
Speaker 1: wrong thing to do. Each case needed to be taken
24:36
Speaker 1: objectively on a case-by-case basis, instead of just a blanket
24:40
Speaker 1: smear on everyone as an insurrectionist. That was a ridiculous,
24:43
Speaker 1: absurd thing for the government, for the media, for our
24:46
Speaker 1: politicians to assert. It was obscene. And if Khalil supports Hamas,
24:53
Speaker 1: let the evidence speak for itself. Because by the way,
24:56
Speaker 1: the federal law says, you don't just have to be
24:58
Speaker 1: a terrorist yourself or a monetary supporter of a terrorist organization.
25:02
Speaker 1: If you're not a legal citizen, if you're not here
25:05
Speaker 1: as a U.S. citizen, you can be deported just for
25:07
Speaker 1: being sympathetic to a terrorist organization. So if that's the
25:12
Speaker 1: case with Khalil, then the admin has full ability to
25:15
Speaker 1: get rid of him, kick him out of the country.
25:19
Speaker 1: But there hasn't been any evidence yet that Khalil supports
25:23
Speaker 1: Hamas explicitly. And we need to let the evidence speak
25:26
Speaker 1: for itself. It hasn't yet. Again, you guys, people have
25:30
Speaker 1: a right to due process. We have to know that
25:33
Speaker 1: there are facts backing up his deportation. And instead of
25:36
Speaker 1: learning that Khalil is a supporter of Hamas, we actually
25:39
Speaker 1: learned this.
25:40
Speaker 2: Khalil, according to the Wall Street Journal this morning, was
25:45
Speaker 2: chosen as a mediator between the two sides because he
25:47
Speaker 2: was trusted by every group. He protected Jewish students. He
25:50
Speaker 2: denounced anti-Semitism. He attended Sabbath dinners that were held in
25:54
Speaker 2: the encampment. So I think we have to be careful
25:56
Speaker 2: to focus on the individual and not just sweeping generalizations
26:00
Speaker 2: about what we think Arabs are or Muslims are or
26:03
Speaker 2: protesters are.
26:06
Speaker 1: Remember how I said that there are broader implications than
26:08
Speaker 1: just deporting non-citizens? And look, we can look at this
26:15
Speaker 1: as an individual case. He doesn't seem to be a
26:17
Speaker 1: supporter of Hamas. If he was being invited to Jewish
26:21
Speaker 1: celebrations and was considered a mediator between the two groups
26:24
Speaker 1: because he was respected by all parties, that's something to consider.
26:29
Speaker 1: But we also have to consider what it means for
26:31
Speaker 1: American citizens, because ultimately, I don't really care that much
26:34
Speaker 1: what happens to a random green card holder. I care
26:36
Speaker 1: what happens to American citizens here in this country. And
26:40
Speaker 1: that's why I want to bring up this. The admin
26:43
Speaker 1: is potentially mandating speech codes at Columbia University in the
26:48
Speaker 1: wake of all of this. So take a listen to
26:50
Speaker 1: what Greg Greenwald says. He actually lays this out really clearly.
26:54
Speaker 5: And the Trump administration, as you undoubtedly know, has pulled
26:57
Speaker 5: $ 400 million from Columbia University and now says, well, that
27:02
Speaker 5: might be restored. And by the way, they say they're
27:05
Speaker 5: going to try to deport other people in Khalil's situation.
27:07
Speaker 5: It might be restored if the university where I went
27:11
Speaker 5: to journalism school takes such steps as formalizing the definition
27:16
Speaker 5: of anti-Semitism and banning masks intended for concealment. Does that
27:21
Speaker 5: trouble you?
27:23
Speaker 2: It troubles me a huge amount. That letter is incredibly chilling.
27:26
Speaker 2: And I think that's the key point is this goes
27:28
Speaker 2: way beyond the Khalil case. The Trump administration is telling
27:30
Speaker 2: Columbia that they have to take their Middle East Studies program.
27:33
Speaker 2: This is a private Ivy League university and put it
27:36
Speaker 2: into a receivership and report to the government on what
27:39
Speaker 2: they're teaching. They have to adopt this definition of anti-Semitism
27:43
Speaker 2: that's extremely controversial. It includes all sorts of common criticism
27:47
Speaker 2: of Israel that would then become controversial. against the rules
27:50
Speaker 2: at Columbia to express. And so when does the federal
27:52
Speaker 2: government have the power to run private universities to tell
27:56
Speaker 2: them what they can and can't teach? This is a
27:58
Speaker 2: huge violation and a threat to academic freedom, which is
28:02
Speaker 2: crucial to allow at colleges, the idea that we allow
28:04
Speaker 2: all free discourse, all taboos to be questioned. And the
28:07
Speaker 2: Trump administration is threatening that in the name of protecting
28:10
Speaker 2: Israel from criticism.
28:12
Speaker 1: I told you guys last week that Harvard was now
28:15
Speaker 1: officially states that it's anti-Semitic to say that the existence
28:18
Speaker 1: of the state of Israel was a racist endeavor. You
28:22
Speaker 1: can't say that Israel, the beginning of Israel was a
28:26
Speaker 1: racist endeavor, which by the way, I did not believe.
28:29
Speaker 1: And I think the Jewish people wanted a Jewish homeland.
28:32
Speaker 1: That was the purpose of the state of Israel, not
28:35
Speaker 1: a racist endeavor. But apparently to say as much could
28:38
Speaker 1: violate Harvard's university non-discrimination anti-bullying policies. So you could be
28:42
Speaker 1: in trouble for bullying. if you say that Israel was
28:46
Speaker 1: created as a racist endeavor. Now, why is this interesting? Well,
28:48
Speaker 1: it's not against the school rules to say that America
28:51
Speaker 1: was started as a racist endeavor, a racist country. And
28:54
Speaker 1: in fact, universities say this all the time. It's taught
28:56
Speaker 1: in the classroom. There are no rules against saying that
28:59
Speaker 1: about the United States of America, but you can't say
29:01
Speaker 1: it about Israel. And again, I don't believe that about Israel,
29:04
Speaker 1: but why are we having special rules to protect the
29:06
Speaker 1: state of Israel, but not the United States of America?
29:11
Speaker 1: And if Hartford wants to radically limit free expression, whatever.
29:14
Speaker 1: They've been doing it for years. What's not whatever is
29:18
Speaker 1: when the federal government is essentially mandating Columbia to ban
29:21
Speaker 1: criticisms of a foreign country among its students. The government
29:24
Speaker 1: is mandating thought crimes at universities. That's different from a
29:32
Speaker 1: private institution. It's not good when a private institution that
29:35
Speaker 1: receives federal funding limits free expression on campus, but it's
29:39
Speaker 1: worse when when the federal government does it. It's a
29:41
Speaker 1: total violation of the First Amendment, just a black and
29:43
Speaker 1: white issue. And you may think those Marxist students on
29:46
Speaker 1: campus are wrong. I certainly do. Believe me, I am
29:50
Speaker 1: on the side of the frat bros who restored the
29:52
Speaker 1: American flag at UChicago after the students replaced it with
29:55
Speaker 1: a Palestinian one last year. I hated that. But that
29:58
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we should start banning speech and deporting people
30:01
Speaker 1: with no known terror ties simply for thought crimes. Again, guys,
30:06
Speaker 1: I hated those campus protests. Hated them. But I've been
30:09
Speaker 1: on the receiving end of this. Students called for me
30:13
Speaker 1: to be expelled when I was in college back in 2020.
30:18
Speaker 1: They said they'd stop me from voting. They called me
30:20
Speaker 1: a xenophobe and a racist. One classmate even threatened my
30:23
Speaker 1: life on account of simply my public opposition to socialism
30:27
Speaker 1: on campus. That's it. Can you imagine if I was
30:31
Speaker 1: disciplined by the university on account of my thought crimes?
30:34
Speaker 1: Charged with hate speech because the government mandated it? I'm
30:39
Speaker 1: not interested in speech codes, particularly government mandated ones. I
30:44
Speaker 1: know the consequences. I think better than most. And speaking
30:49
Speaker 1: of things, I know a thing or two about COVID tyranny,
30:53
Speaker 1: which was egregious in Chicago, where I was living at
30:56
Speaker 1: the time of the height of COVID tyranny. And you
30:59
Speaker 1: know what gets me about all the COVID reflections that
31:01
Speaker 1: we're having five years after the initial lockdowns? It's the
31:04
Speaker 1: lack of ownership, the deflecting and excuses and scapegoats. Yesterday,
31:09
Speaker 1: the New York Times, they ran an op-ed acknowledging not
31:12
Speaker 1: only that COVID, the COVID virus likely originated in a lab,
31:15
Speaker 1: but that government officials and scientists conspire to keep The
31:20
Speaker 1: Substantiating Evidence Secret. The article is titled, We Were Badly
31:24
Speaker 1: Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives. But really,
31:31
Speaker 1: it should say, We Badly Misled You About the Event
31:35
Speaker 1: That Changed Our Lives. But that's not the headline. No, no, no.
31:38
Speaker 1: We were badly misled. There are victims too. The New
31:40
Speaker 1: York Times is a victim. That's the purpose of this article,
31:42
Speaker 1: you guys. It's really incredible. The piece condemns Francis Collins,
31:47
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, the authors of the proximal origin paper,
31:50
Speaker 1: eco health lines for publishing deceptive studies, labeling the lab
31:53
Speaker 1: leak theory, a conspiracy, just all the usual actors. They're
31:56
Speaker 1: all labeled. Yes, this was published yesterday. You guys, they
32:01
Speaker 1: are five years late for this take. And not only
32:04
Speaker 1: are they five years late, but they don't take any
32:06
Speaker 1: responsibility whatsoever. Zero accountability. The article reads, it's not hard
32:11
Speaker 1: to imagine how the attempt to squelch legitimate debate might
32:14
Speaker 1: have started. Some of the loudest proponents of the lab
32:17
Speaker 1: leak theory weren't just earnestly making inquiries, they were acting
32:20
Speaker 1: in terrible faith, using the debate over pandemic origins to
32:23
Speaker 1: attack legitimate, beneficial science, to inflame public opinion, to get attention.
32:28
Speaker 1: For scientists and public health officials, circling the wagons and
32:31
Speaker 1: vilifying anyone who dared to dissent might have seemed like
32:34
Speaker 1: a reasonable defense strategy. So two things here. She still
32:39
Speaker 1: smears the people who were telling the truth about COVID
32:41
Speaker 1: as bad actors or bad actors or anti-science. And then
32:48
Speaker 1: notice who is to blame for the lying. Scientists and
32:53
Speaker 1: public health officials. Scientists and public health officials vilified anyone
32:58
Speaker 1: who dared to dissent from the COVID narrative. Not us,
33:02
Speaker 1: not the corporate media.
33:03
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
33:03
Speaker 1: Scientists and public health officials. The New York Times, just
33:07
Speaker 1: like the entire corporate media apparatus, accused people of misinformation
33:12
Speaker 1: for supporting the lab leak theory or condemning masks or
33:15
Speaker 1: vaccines or lockdowns. And then big tech companies would unperson
33:20
Speaker 1: you if you spread whatever was deemed misinformation by the
33:25
Speaker 1: New York Times. But now the New York Times is
33:27
Speaker 1: pretending that they had no part in any of that.
33:31
Speaker 1: And I just have to say, give me a break.
33:33
Speaker 1: This is historical revisionism. The media wants to fearmonger about
33:38
Speaker 1: vaccine hesitancy right now and general public distrust in science
33:42
Speaker 1: and health, but they refuse to acknowledge, let alone apologize,
33:46
Speaker 1: for their role in the cover-up. Their role in eroding
33:51
Speaker 1: public trust. And it's absurd. And I reject this false
33:54
Speaker 1: narrative omitting the sins of the propaganda press. They need
33:58
Speaker 1: to take accountability for their actions. All right, a little
34:02
Speaker 1: fun story I want to share with you guys. Usually
34:05
Speaker 1: history artifacts, they rot away, right? This is just the
34:09
Speaker 1: nature of life. The elements, the earth, the environment will
34:14
Speaker 1: make things basically disintegrate, rot away. But ice can act
34:19
Speaker 1: like a time capsule. And the Daily Mail did a
34:22
Speaker 1: really interesting piece, I love it as a history nerd,
34:25
Speaker 1: where they sort of recap some of the most interesting
34:27
Speaker 1: remnants of the past frozen in time and European glaciers
34:32
Speaker 1: that have now been discovered. So we have a bearskin
34:35
Speaker 1: hat that once belonged to a Copper Age hunter, a
34:38
Speaker 1: goat and sheep leather coat, trousers and special winter shoes
34:42
Speaker 1: with bearskin soles for extra grip on the ice. Really interesting.
34:48
Speaker 1: A Roman-style sandal, which bears a strong resemblance to shoes
34:51
Speaker 1: found at Roman forts in the UK. A snowshoe for horses,
34:56
Speaker 1: which date to the 3rd century A.D., a Viking sword
35:00
Speaker 1: made of iron. Men always love Vikings. They always say,
35:03
Speaker 1: we don't talk about Vikings enough, so we're going to
35:05
Speaker 1: talk about Vikings a little bit.
35:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is.
35:06
Speaker 1: I think it is one of the coolest ones that
35:08
Speaker 1: they found. We have also a preserved body of a
35:10
Speaker 1: World War I soldier who died while fighting in the
35:14
Speaker 1: White War between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian troops. And I
35:19
Speaker 1: bring this up for a reason, you guys. I thought
35:22
Speaker 1: it was cool, but it's not just because I thought
35:24
Speaker 1: that the story was really cool, but also reminded me
35:27
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite Camille Paglia quotes. Camille Paglia
35:30
Speaker 1: is a feminist scholar. She is kind of a leftist,
35:35
Speaker 1: but a leftist that I respect. I think she's very interesting.
35:38
Speaker 1: And she said, the earth is littered with the ruins
35:42
Speaker 1: of empires that believed they were eternal. I think Camille
35:47
Speaker 1: Paglia's words echo across history as a warning. Civilizations rise,
35:53
Speaker 1: convinced of their permanence only to find themselves eroded, not
35:56
Speaker 1: always by external conquest, but often by the slow decay
36:00
Speaker 1: of their own will to survive. The most dangerous threat
36:04
Speaker 1: to a people is not always invasion. Sometimes it's forgetfulness.
36:09
Speaker 1: Today is St. Patrick's Day. You guys know why I'm
36:12
Speaker 1: not wearing green. It's because it doesn't work. But it's
36:14
Speaker 1: a celebration not just of Irish heritage, but also a
36:19
Speaker 1: celebration of a saint and a nation's, Ireland's, spiritual transformation.
36:25
Speaker 3: St.
36:25
Speaker 1: Patrick was a Romanized Briton kidnapped and enslaved in Ireland,
36:29
Speaker 1: who later escaped, became a bishop, and chose to return
36:33
Speaker 1: to the land of his captivity, not for revenge, but
36:37
Speaker 1: for conversion. He brought Christianity to the Irish, not as
36:41
Speaker 1: a foreign imposition, but as a fulfillment of their deepest longings.
36:45
Speaker 1: It's really beautiful. He didn't seek to erase their identity
36:48
Speaker 1: as Irish people, but to elevate them, to infuse their
36:54
Speaker 1: Irish culture with eternal meaning. And I wonder how St.
37:01
Speaker 1: Patrick would feel about the most popular baby name in Galway, Ireland,
37:05
Speaker 1: being Muhammad. Some may say there's a tension here. A foreigner, St. Patrick,
37:13
Speaker 1: once brought faith to Ireland and became a symbol of
37:15
Speaker 1: its Christian identity. But today, the foreign influence reshaping Ireland
37:20
Speaker 1: does not come in the form of spiritual renewal. It
37:22
Speaker 1: comes in the form of demographic transformation, one that increasingly
37:28
Speaker 1: displaces the very Christianity that St. Patrick fought to instill.
37:34
Speaker 1: Cultural exchange, when rooted in Christian conversion and mutual enrichment,
37:38
Speaker 1: is profoundly good. True evangelization elevates a people. It strengthens them.
37:44
Speaker 1: It refines them. It draws out the best in them
37:48
Speaker 1: while directing them toward ultimate truth. But when cultural exchange
37:53
Speaker 1: turns into mass demographic or ideological replacement, it ceases to
37:57
Speaker 1: be an exchange at all. It becomes something else entirely,
38:01
Speaker 1: a severing of a people from their historical and spiritual roots.
38:04
Speaker 1: It's not adaptation. It is a disillusion. Is mass immigration
38:09
Speaker 1: in Ireland an organic integration, or is it the slow
38:13
Speaker 1: erasure of Ireland's Christian identity? Daryl Cooper, Martyr Made podcast,
38:19
Speaker 1: he explored this very question on Joe Rogan's show recently.
38:23
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
38:24
Speaker 6: It's a place like Ireland. Ireland is They didn't colonize anybody.
38:27
Speaker 6: You know, Ireland was a colony. They suffered terribly under
38:31
Speaker 6: the British for a long time. And yet it's very
38:34
Speaker 6: interesting that, you know, they were willing to be brutalized,
38:38
Speaker 6: be occupied, be starved, you know, all of these things
38:41
Speaker 6: for centuries to defend their little slice of the world
38:45
Speaker 6: where their people could work out their destiny among themselves,
38:49
Speaker 6: you know, endured so much for that. And then You
38:55
Speaker 6: get up to about the 1960s, 1970s, and you can
39:00
Speaker 6: look it up. This isn't like a conspiracy theory. It's
39:03
Speaker 6: the first things that come up on Google if you
39:05
Speaker 6: look it up that Ireland is on track to be
39:08
Speaker 6: minority Irish by like 2070 or something like that. It's
39:12
Speaker 6: like I don't like that. People think of diversity as
39:16
Speaker 6: like every place on the planet. should look like Jackson
39:20
Speaker 6: Heights in New York and like then we're diverse. But that's,
39:23
Speaker 6: to me, that's not diversity at all. Diversity is I
39:25
Speaker 6: go to Ireland and it's Irish.
39:27
Speaker 1: Thank you, Cultural Exchange. uplifts and refines. It does not
39:33
Speaker 1: dissolve the soul of a nation. And sometimes it requires
39:36
Speaker 1: squashing out evil practices. And I'm not saying that it
39:39
Speaker 1: all has to be kumbaya when you're evangelizing a people.
39:42
Speaker 1: I think what the Spanish did by destroying the Aztec
39:47
Speaker 1: practice of human sacrifice was necessary. There's nothing redeemable about
39:52
Speaker 1: cutting out people's hearts and sacrificing them to the god
39:56
Speaker 1: of rain.
39:57
Speaker 4: No.
39:59
Speaker 1: Sometimes there needs to be sincere and dramatic cultural change.
40:04
Speaker 1: I think St. Patrick really fought the pagans in Ireland.
40:09
Speaker 1: But at the same time, ultimately, what he did was
40:14
Speaker 1: uplift and refined. He brought the soul of the nation
40:16
Speaker 1: into fruition. Ireland as Daryl Cooper pointed out, has fought
40:21
Speaker 1: for its heritage for centuries. Against pagan warlords, against English rule,
40:26
Speaker 1: against famine and persecution. And yet after all that, what
40:29
Speaker 1: if the final battle is not against an external force,
40:32
Speaker 1: but against their own unwillingness to preserve themselves? They are
40:36
Speaker 1: dying from within. It is not a conquest, but a surrender.
40:39
Speaker 1: It's not murder, but suicide. And this matters not just
40:43
Speaker 1: for the Irish, but for us as well. Here's J.D.
40:46
Speaker 2: Vance.
40:47
Speaker 8: I really believe that we have a great deal in
40:50
Speaker 8: common with Europe. And I'm not, you know, yes, the
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Speaker 8: Europeans annoy me sometimes, and yes, I disagree with them
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Speaker 8: on certain issues, but we have to remember that is
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Speaker 8: the cradle of Western civilization. The entire idea of Christian
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Speaker 8: civilization that led to the founding of the United States
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Speaker 8: of America, that was formed in Europe. The cultural bonds,
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Speaker 8: the religious bonds, these things are going to last beyond
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Speaker 8: political disagreements, but I think that Europe is And frankly,
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Speaker 8: I would have said this about America a year ago,
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Speaker 8: but Europe is at risk, I think, of engaging in
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Speaker 8: civilizational suicide. They are unable to or unwilling, too many countries,
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Speaker 8: to control their borders. You see them starting to push
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Speaker 8: back against that, and good, that's a good thing. You
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Speaker 8: see them starting to limit the free speech of their
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Speaker 8: own citizens, even as those citizens are protesting against things
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Speaker 8: like the border invasion that got Donald Trump and a
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Speaker 8: number of European leaders elected. So, look, I want Europe
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Speaker 8: to thrive. I want them to be an important ally.
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Speaker 8: Part of that is going to be Europe respecting its
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Speaker 8: own people, respecting its own sovereignty, and America can't do
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Speaker 8: that job for them. If you have a country like Germany,
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Speaker 8: where you have another few million immigrants come in from
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Speaker 8: countries that are totally isolated, culturally incompatible with Germany, then
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Speaker 8: it doesn't matter what I think about Europe. Germany will
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Speaker 8: have killed itself, and I hope they don't do that
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Speaker 8: because I love Germany and I want Germany to thrive.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to see Europe die by suicide. I
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Speaker 1: think that was a really good point from JD Vance.
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Speaker 1: We can oppose what Europe is doing and we can
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Speaker 1: act really strong, but we want to be their allies.
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Speaker 1: We don't want them to die. It's like a drug-addicted parent,
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Speaker 1: and then you can't prevent them from self-destructing. It's horrible.
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Speaker 1: We don't like it. And history leaves its warnings, clearly.
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Speaker 1: Artifacts frozen in ice, pieces of lives once lived, civilizations
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Speaker 1: once dominant, resurface as if to remind us they were here.
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Speaker 1: And they thought that they would last forever. A Viking sword,
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Speaker 1: a Roman sandal, a soldier's frozen body, all relics of
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Speaker 1: men who walked the earth, fought for their nations, believed
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Speaker 1: in their futures, and yet their worlds are gone. preserved
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Speaker 1: only in fragments, waiting for us to remember. The ice,
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Speaker 1: indifferent and unchanging, has kept these remnants intact while the
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Speaker 1: people who made them have vanished. And all were not
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Speaker 1: simply conquered by an enemy. Some faded, eroded by time,
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Speaker 1: by apathy, by a slow drift away from what was
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Speaker 1: once defining them. Others it was hubris. unnecessary wars that bankrupt, confuse,
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Speaker 1: and demoralize the people. And I suppose the question I'm
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Speaker 1: asking is, are we going to be remembered only in relics? Ireland,
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Speaker 1: for instance, destined to be nothing but monasteries and churches
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Speaker 1: left as ruins, its faith, a historical footnote, its people
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Speaker 1: completely replaced. The past is resurfacing and the question is,
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Speaker 1: will we learn from it or will we become the
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Speaker 1: next civilization whose ruins are left to be discovered by
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Speaker 1: those who come after? And that's all I have for
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