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The Media REALLY Wants Pope Leo to Hate JD Vance (Ep.207) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. The media
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  Speaker 1: falsely claims that Pope Leo snubbed Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Leavitt corrects the record on the gifted Qatari jet.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna finally address Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, stating
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  Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. I'm seeing some
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  Speaker 1: of you talk about it in the chat, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to finally address it today after some reflection. The
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  Speaker 1: DOJ launches an investigation into the Chicago mayor for race-based hiring,
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  Speaker 1: and a pro-Palestine UCLA student is rushed to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: after starving herself and then blaming the university for it.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina.
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  Speaker 3: Report, early edition. Pope Leo spurned J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance on Sunday, offering him a quick greeting after his
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  Speaker 1: inaugural Mass while holding extensive private meetings with other world leaders.
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  Speaker 1: That is from the Daily Beast. It's what they wrote
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  Speaker 1: in an article yesterday in reaction to J.D. Vance and
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  Speaker 1: his wife Usha attending the Pope's inaugural Mass. The headline
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  Speaker 1: states J.D. Vance was snubbed. He was snubbed by the Pope.
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  Speaker 1: I guess according to the Daily Beast, spurned and snubbed
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  Speaker 1: is the same as a private meeting and tour with
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  Speaker 1: the Pope. Yeah, that's right, because Pope Leo actually met
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  Speaker 1: in private with our vice president, as he did with
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  Speaker 1: other world leaders.
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  Speaker 3: The Pope did not spurn or snub J.D. Vance and
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  Speaker 3: Usha Vance.
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  Speaker 1: This is a ridiculous assertion meant to create a narrative
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  Speaker 1: that Pope Leo hates J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 3: Pope Leo hates the Trump admin.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a reoccurring theme during the
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  Speaker 1: Trump years and this papacy.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really starting to piss me off. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in this country, and probably many liberal bishops in
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, are going to try painting a narrative
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  Speaker 1: that the Pope hates J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance and the rest of the Trump admin.
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  Speaker 1: We've discussed on this show that while Pope Leo has
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  Speaker 1: indeed expressed some concerns about over certain Trump admin immigration practices.
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  Speaker 1: He's also said that mass immigration is a problem. The
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  Speaker 1: Pope's on video saying that. A problem that has to
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  Speaker 1: be dealt with humanely, which I think all of us
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  Speaker 1: as Christians can agree with, humanely. Now, do I think
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  Speaker 1: that you're entitled to extensive due process as an illegal
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  Speaker 1: migrant gang member who has terrorized American citizens and committed
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  Speaker 1: heinous crimes across this country?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the process is pretty clear cut. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to get deported. You're going to get identified as
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  Speaker 1: illegal and taken out of this country. But this idea
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  Speaker 1: that Pope Leo hates J.D. Vance, the Trump admin, there's
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  Speaker 1: really no evidence for it.
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  Speaker 5: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance and the Pope have actually a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot in common, a lot more in common than, say,
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  Speaker 1: the Pope has with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo for all of the appropriating that's being done on
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  Speaker 1: the left right now, that this is our Pope, he's
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  Speaker 1: Pope Francis 2.0.
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  Speaker 3: For all of this rhetoric, Pope Leo is not a leftist.
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  Speaker 6: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance and the Pope share in their Catholic faith, in
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  Speaker 1: a commitment to traditional social values, both pro-life, pro-traditional marriage.
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  Speaker 1: This is just a reminder to recognize that the left
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  Speaker 1: is going to be protecting their political ideologies, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: projecting their political ideologies onto this pontiff. And you just
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  Speaker 1: have to ignore them. Because like I said, he's traditional
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  Speaker 1: on marriage, on family, on the liturgy, basically everything that matters.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little squabble when it comes to immigration policy.
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  Speaker 1: And at the same time, the Pope still recognizes that
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  Speaker 1: mass immigration is a problem, which Democrats will not do.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate to get so political with this Pope,
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  Speaker 1: like trying to, I almost feel like I'm projecting like
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  Speaker 1: what I think politically onto him. And I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that because He's the leader of the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: He can't be put into a box of Republican and
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  Speaker 1: Democrat like we have here in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, he's a free thinker. He's going to be coming
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  Speaker 3: at things from.
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  Speaker 1: The perspective of the leader of the Catholic Church, from
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church's perspective, which can't be neatly fit into
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  Speaker 1: a box, although it is very traditional. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to immediately, right off the bat, just refute this narrative
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  Speaker 1: that Pope Leo hates J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance, that he hates the Trump admin. There is zero
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  Speaker 3: evidence for this.
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  Speaker 1: And this is going to be, again, a reoccurring theme
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  Speaker 1: under this admin and pontiff. I really have actually a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hope that it can be really amazing, an
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  Speaker 1: amazing relationship between Rome and the Trump admin. Yesterday, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump actually announced on Truth Social that he is interested
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  Speaker 1: in the Vatican helping to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, two Christian countries. So Trump wrote this.
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  Speaker 1: Just completed my two-hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will
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  Speaker 1: immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire and.
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  Speaker 3: More importantly, an end to the war.
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  Speaker 1: The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties,
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  Speaker 1: as it can only be because they know details of
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  Speaker 1: negotiations that nobody else would be aware of. The tone
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  Speaker 1: and spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: I would say so now rather than later. The Vatican,
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  Speaker 1: as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would
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  Speaker 1: be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope that happens. I really hope that Russia, Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump take up Pope Leo on this offer. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people have forgotten that the Vatican
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  Speaker 1: has a longstanding tradition of neutrality and moral authority in
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  Speaker 1: global diplomacy. Historically, popes have really played a crucial role
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  Speaker 1: in mediating peace agreements. Pope John XXIII, intervened during the
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  Speaker 1: Cuban Missile Crisis. There's a real rich history dating back centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention, again, that both Ukraine and Russia are
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  Speaker 1: predominantly Christian countries. Frankly, the fact that Ukraine and Russia
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  Speaker 1: are both predominantly Christian nations makes this war so much
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  Speaker 1: more tragic. In my opinion, two peoples who share deep
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  Speaker 1: religious and cultural bonds, a shared faith that teaches love, forgiveness, unity,
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  Speaker 1: And yet this war has shattered families, destroyed churches, turned
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  Speaker 1: neighbors into enemies, cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 1: but that aside.
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  Speaker 3: I think just to me, such.
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  Speaker 1: A heartbreaking layer of this war that I think we
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes forget is the shared Christian faith between the two sides.
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  Speaker 1: And it needs to come to an end. And Trump
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  Speaker 1: is like a dog with a bone. He is trying
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  Speaker 1: to do the impossible here and get an immediate ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: to bring peace finally to this region. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: that the Pope can play a role in this because
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  Speaker 1: I think he'd be a wonderful neutral ground. Also, just
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  Speaker 1: to mention that predominantly Ukraine and.
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  Speaker 3: Russia are Orthodox Christians.
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  Speaker 1: The Pope has expressed an interest in bringing unity and
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  Speaker 1: healing that schism between the Orthodox Christians and the Catholic Church,
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  Speaker 1: which would be historic, monumental.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope that that also happens.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing I want to mention about the Rome,
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  Speaker 1: about Vatican before we move on from it. I know
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  Speaker 1: some of you guys aren't Catholic. You hate when I
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  Speaker 1: bring it up.
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  Speaker 3: Your girl's Catholic. I want to talk about Rome. I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about the Pope, especially with what's happening
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: So something really interesting was noticed on social media when
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  Speaker 1: the queens of Europe, the princesses and queens of Europe
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  Speaker 1: met the Pope during his inaugural mass. People began to
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  Speaker 1: notice that some of the women were actually wearing white. Now, traditionally,
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  Speaker 1: when women meet the Pope, they are expected to wear
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  Speaker 1: a very modest black dress with a black chapel veil.
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  Speaker 1: Usha Vance famously was wearing this when she met the
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  Speaker 1: Pope just a few days ago. And so I thought
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  Speaker 1: this was really interesting that several women who met the
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  Speaker 1: Pope were not in black, not in a black chapel veil,
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  Speaker 1: but were all in white. And this is because certain
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  Speaker 1: Catholic queens and princesses are given the privileges, are given
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  Speaker 1: the privileges of the white by the Pope. So those
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  Speaker 1: currently allowed to wear white in front of the Pope
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  Speaker 1: include the Queen of Belgium, the Queen of Spain, the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, the Princess of Naples, and the
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  Speaker 1: Princess of Monaco. Heresy or a non-sacramental marriage means that
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  Speaker 1: you would lose that privilege as a princess or a queen.
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  Speaker 1: So Protestant Queen Consort Camilla in the UK, she's not allowed.
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  Speaker 3: Princess Kate, she's not allowed.
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  Speaker 1: Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, who is Catholic but is
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  Speaker 1: married to Protestant King Willem-Alexander, not allowed.
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  Speaker 3: Why does this matter? Why am I bringing this up?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I think it's interesting, but also the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of the white underscores this idea that the church
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  Speaker 1: and monarchies are intertwined in this shared mission to uphold spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: moral values across Christendom. And I think it's something really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to consider because As Americans, because it's such a
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  Speaker 1: stark contrast from our liberal obsession with the separation of
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  Speaker 1: church and state, to the Catholic Church, Catholic monarchies are
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  Speaker 1: seen as stewards of both faith and state. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's worth considering the benefit of having leaders who
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  Speaker 1: are beholden to a higher power. Purely secular governments throughout
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  Speaker 1: history have been responsible for some of the most horrific
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  Speaker 1: atrocities known to man, not Germany, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Stalin's purges,
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  Speaker 1: all driven by ideological extremism unrestrained by any kind of
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  Speaker 1: moral absolutes.
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  Speaker 3: Even the secular U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Empire, with its wars and interventions, has inflicted mass suffering
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  Speaker 1: and on the world. And I love America. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're an exceptional country. I think we've done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good in the world. But we have to, I think,
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  Speaker 1: recognize that when you have leaders who aren't guided by
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  Speaker 1: any kind of morals, who don't have any sort of
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  Speaker 1: affinity toward a religious institution, it opens the door for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of horrors because people need to be guided
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  Speaker 1: by faith if they're going to make moral decisions. There's
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  Speaker 1: this narrative that religious wars in the Middle Ages were
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  Speaker 1: so horrific and so unprecedented. And the truth is actually
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  Speaker 1: that they were nothing compared to modern secular regimes.
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  Speaker 3: So just something to think about. So have you all
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  Speaker 3: heard the incredible news?
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  Speaker 1: The incredible news that all of conservative media and the
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  Speaker 1: Trump admin and President Trump himself, they've all been bought
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  Speaker 1: out by Qatar. So this is so funny, guys, because
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  Speaker 1: apparently anyone who doesn't take the traditional neocon pro-war with
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  Speaker 1: Iran stance on foreign policy is bought out by Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: The argument goes that because the U.S. Air Force accepted
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  Speaker 1: a Qatari plane, therefore President Trump is being bought out
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  Speaker 1: by the Qatar government. Here is Carolyn Levitt with an
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  Speaker 1: excellent response.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought up this question because I was
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  Speaker 7: watching the American press spew a lot of misinformation about
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  Speaker 7: the plane donation last week when we were abroad. Let's
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  Speaker 7: be very clear. The government of Qatar, the Qatari family,
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  Speaker 7: has offered to donate this plane to the United States
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  Speaker 7: Air Force, where that donation will be accepted immediately. According
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  Speaker 7: to all legal and ethical obligations, it will be retrofitted
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  Speaker 7: to the highest of standards by the Department of Defense
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  Speaker 7: and the United States Air Force. This plane is not
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  Speaker 7: a personal donation or a gift to the President of
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  Speaker 7: the United States. And everyone who wrote that last week
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  Speaker 7: should go and correct their stories because this is a
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  Speaker 7: donation to our country and to the United States Air Force.
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  Speaker 7: As for a timeline, because it is the United States
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  Speaker 7: Air Force that is accepting the plane, I would defer
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  Speaker 7: you to them. for specifics because the president, frankly, has
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  Speaker 7: nothing to do with it. It's the Air Force's project
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  Speaker 7: to take on.
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  Speaker 1: So for all of the fear mongering, oh, Trump, he's
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  Speaker 1: being gifted this plane. He's being bought out by Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Carol Leavitt over the top saying, this is a gift.
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  Speaker 1: It's from the Qatari royal family to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Government.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to talk about it with anybody, go
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  Speaker 1: to the Air Force. They're the ones who are accepting
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  Speaker 1: this gift. And it's been happening for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that America as an entity has accepted gifts
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  Speaker 1: from foreign countries. Look at the Statue of Liberty. This
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  Speaker 1: was an excellent point that was made by Scott Besson recently.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Jake. The French gave us the Statue
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  Speaker 6: of Liberty. The British gave us the Resolute Desk. I'm
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  Speaker 6: not sure they asked for anything in advance. And the
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  Speaker 6: more important airplane deal was there's 100 billion of orders
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  Speaker 6: from Qatari Airlines to Boeing. Kelly Ortberg, the CEO of Boeing,
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  Speaker 6: was with Qatari. With us in the Middle East, this
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  Speaker 6: is the biggest order in the company's history. So, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think that that plane deal is much more important than.
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  Speaker 8: This other one.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody commented, it's not necessary to point out the media's
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  Speaker 1: stupidity all the time.
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  Speaker 3: We figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: And, oh, I totally get that. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you guys are very smart. You're able to figure
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  Speaker 1: these things out right away. Sometimes these lies.
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  Speaker 3: Can be perpetuated in conservative media.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's important for me to just fact check
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  Speaker 1: and bring it up to you guys so we're all
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. Because I'm seeing even a lot
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  Speaker 1: of right wingers repeat this rhetoric that, oh, Trump's being
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  Speaker 1: bought out by Qatar.
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  Speaker 3: He's not.
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  Speaker 1: And clearly, Scott Bessett and Carolyn Levin are doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job of correcting the record. But it's important that
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  Speaker 1: we refute these lies when they come up, even if
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  Speaker 1: it might seem over the top.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a lot of you already get it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you don't, because it's even being perpetuated on
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  Speaker 1: the political right. So by the way, Bessett is right.
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  Speaker 1: Boeing secured a deal with Qatar for up to 210
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  Speaker 1: jets worth $ 96 billion.
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  Speaker 8: So this is.
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  Speaker 3: Huge for the United States.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to dig a little deeper into these
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  Speaker 1: Qatar allegations because I'm always skeptical when somebody is accusing
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  Speaker 1: someone else of foreign influence. We just talked about yesterday
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  Speaker 1: how Romania annulled the election victory of right-wing populist Georgescu
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  Speaker 1: for supposed Russian influence in the results. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he can't win. The Russians were involved. And
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  Speaker 1: they just literally annulled the election in Romania. And again,
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  Speaker 1: for all of the fear-mongering about attacks on democracy from
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  Speaker 1: Western governments, including leftists in this country, no one cared
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  Speaker 1: about what happened in Romania.
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  Speaker 3: No one.
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  Speaker 1: Because again, it was a right-wing populist who was literally
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  Speaker 1: had his victory annulled.
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  Speaker 3: And we've seen this in our country.
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  Speaker 1: They said that the Russians stole the 2016 election away
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  Speaker 1: from Hillary Clinton. They accused Trump of being a Russian stooge.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was a Russian stooge for interviewing Putin. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's a Qatari stooge because he interviewed the Qatari prime minister.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should be wary of these kind of allegations.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Wyckoff, who was President Trump's special envoy to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, a Jewish man, who just secured the release
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  Speaker 1: of an Israeli-American has been smeared as well as a
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  Speaker 1: Qatar asset. Literally anyone that seemingly the left and neocon-aligned,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, uniparty don't like, they'll smear as a Qatar asset.
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  Speaker 1: This whole idea that anyone who questions the pro-war agenda
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  Speaker 1: or advocates for a more measured foreign policy approach in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East is automatically labeled a Qatar asset is
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  Speaker 1: absurd and.
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  Speaker 3: It's dishonest, clearly.
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  Speaker 1: People are capable of opposing endless conflicts and prioritizing American
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  Speaker 1: interests without being puppets for foreign governments, specifically the Qatari government, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, not a great place. Nobody's saying Qatar
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  Speaker 1: is a wonderful country that is super moral and just,
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  Speaker 1: essentially built on slave labor. But just because you oppose
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  Speaker 1: more foreign meddling in the Middle East, more endless wars
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  Speaker 1: and money and lives lost, doesn't mean that you love Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: And it's this kind of baseless accusation that serves only
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  Speaker 1: to stifle legitimate debate and paint any kind of dissent
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  Speaker 1: as treasonous, shutting down critical discussions on what is best
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  Speaker 1: for the United States of America. When I advocate for
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  Speaker 1: peace and strategic diplomacy, it's because I care about American sovereignty,
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  Speaker 1: American strength, moral leadership, not some secret allegiance to Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: I think the eagerness to label dissent as foreign interference
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  Speaker 1: is a tactic to discredit opposing viewpoints rather than to
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  Speaker 1: engage with them on their merits. I think President Trump
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  Speaker 1: articulated really well in his Riyadh speech that it's not
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  Speaker 1: the job of American leaders to judge foreign leaders or
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  Speaker 1: impose Western notions of governance through interventionism, but rather to
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  Speaker 1: defend America's interests and promote stability and prosperity and peace abroad.
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  Speaker 3: That should be the priority.
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  Speaker 1: Here was President Trump, just a little reminder of how
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  Speaker 1: articulate he was in this Riyadh speech, and I think
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  Speaker 1: lays out really what is the Trump doctrine on this.
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  Speaker 9: In recent years, far too many American presidents have been
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  Speaker 9: afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look
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  Speaker 9: into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy
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  Speaker 9: to dispense justice. for their sins. They loved using our
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  Speaker 9: very powerful military. And now it's really the most powerful
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  Speaker 9: it's ever been. We just are getting a budget approved,
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  Speaker 9: $ 1 trillion, highest budget we've ever had in history for military,
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  Speaker 9: $ 1 trillion. And we're getting the greatest missiles, the greatest weapons. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, I hate to do it, but you have
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  Speaker 9: to do it because we believe in peace through strength.
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  Speaker 9: You have to have the strength. Otherwise, bad things could happen.
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  Speaker 9: But hopefully we'll never have to use any of those weapons.
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  Speaker 9: Seems to be an awfully big waste of money if
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  Speaker 9: you're never going to use them. But hopefully we'll never
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  Speaker 9: have to use them because the destructive power of some
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  Speaker 9: of those weapons are like nobody's seen before. I believe
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: it is God's job to sit in judgment, my job
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: to defend America and to promote the fundamental interest of stability, prosperity,
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: and peace. That's what I really want to do.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's excellent.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: This is exactly why people voted for Trump, not just
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in this last election, but in 2016. It was Trump
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: who stood up on stage and said, what were we
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: doing in Iraq? Like, they lied to us about weapons
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: of mass destruction. And he said, you know, the priority
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of the president should be promoting the prosperity of the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: American people instead of nation-building abroad. which, by the way,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: creates immigration crises that then spread all over the West,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: including the United States of America, destabilize this country. The
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: world is better off when countries across the world, on
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the other side of the world, are thriving. We can
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: trade with them. We can work with them. We can
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: have a mutually beneficial relationship. There's nothing to benefit from
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: if the countries on the other side of the world
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: are in rubble. Sovereign nations should pursue their own destinies
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: without the heavy hand of neocon-driven wars that lead to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: destruction rather than any kind of development. I think this
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: is really, again, the Trump doctrine, the whole ethos of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the new right. prioritizing American strength and security, not entangling
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the nation in endless conflicts. By the way, comedian Tim
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Dillon decided to respond to this everyone is bought by
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Qatar panic. And I want you to just note, if
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you're listening, that he is saying this while dressed like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a Qatari prince.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: The Free Press just put out an article how Qatar
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: bought america if that were true there would be signs
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: that's completely untrue i have not been bought does this
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: look like a man who's been bought by qatar.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: And anyone that has accused me of getting money.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: Or becoming some type of Emirati or a Qatari. I'm
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: the same person. I've always been. I happen to like gold.
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: Sue me.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Sue me.
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: Literally sue me.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: By the way, he played that Nazi Kanye song. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: do not support Nazism.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: He's obviously making a joke that as he's dressed as
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a Qatari prince, like, oh, I'm not bought out by Qatar.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Don't worry. Hilarious. Dead.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And again, I'm against war with Iran.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I just am.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'll just say it. So this is not sponsored by Qatar,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: by the way. We're sponsored by some great people.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Not Qatar, though. Maybe if I was sponsored.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: By Qatar, we could have some gold jewelry, put on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: some nicer, I don't even have any earrings on, nicer earrings.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: This fake gold necklace would actually be real gold. I
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: start wearing an abaya, like a flowing silk, beautiful abaya.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Have my makeup professionally done. Michael and I can start live.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Streaming from an ocean view mansion. We have maids everywhere.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: What do they say? What do they say in Islam, Michael?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Or I think I wrote it down. Assalamu alaikum. What
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: do they say? Assalamu alaikum. Yeah, I don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I just started greeting you like I'm a Muslim. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: maybe then you guys will get a hint that I'm
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: bought out by Qatar. And again, like you guys will
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: type in the chat, like, did you guys sell out
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to Qatar?
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: And Michael will be like, yes, in Arab. But You
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: all know what that means.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Again, this is just such a ridiculous allegation that everybody
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: is bought out by Qatar. Everybody who disagrees on just
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: neocon foreign policy is somehow on the payroll of the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Qatar royal family. And maybe one day if I'm just like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Qatar is a great place. Maybe we should all start
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: loving Qatar. Then you guys can be in on the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: secret that I'm bought out by Qatar. But so far,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm bought out by Blackout Coffee and Burna. But I wonder,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the guitars, they probably pay a lot better. But, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you guys know I don't have any nice gold jewelry.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, we aren't all bought out by guitar
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: because we opposed forever wars in the Middle East.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: It's a ridiculous assertion.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: All right, I want to cover something that I did
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: not cover yesterday because I needed some time to think,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to gather my thoughts. Dan Bongino, who we love, and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Kash Patel asserted over the weekend that Jeffrey Epstein is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: did not kill himself. And for those of you who
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: haven't already seen it, here's a little reminder of what
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: took place over the weekend.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don't believe it. Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion,
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: but as someone who has worked as a public defender,
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing,
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: you know a suicide when you see one, and that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: what that was.
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: He killed himself.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Again, you want me to?
• 23:52
  Speaker 12: I've seen the whole file.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: He killed himself. I know it's hard work.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, so a couple things right off the bat. Do
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I think that Dan Bongino is compromised? Is Dan Bongino
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: bought up by the Guattari royal family?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: No, no. I don't think he's bought up by anybody.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Do I think that he sold us out? No, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: do not.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Everybody can just calm the F down. Dan Bongino is
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the same guy that I know, that you know, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I still trust Dan Bongino. I don't know Kash Patel
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: in any kind of personal capacity, but I know people
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: who know Kash Patel, and they say he's an amazing guy,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a trustworthy guy. So I'm going to trust the people
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that I know who do know him and speak highly
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of his character. Simultaneously, this is a really hard pill
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for a lot of us to swallow, myself included. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to lay out what we know about
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein story.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Suicide.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein died in a high-security federal prison. One day
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: before his death, his cellmate is removed and no replacement
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is assigned. Screams from his cell were ignored. It was
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a low drop hanging from a bunk bed in a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: cramped cell that makes his unusual neck fractures a Baden,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a renowned forensic pathologist hired by Epstein's brother, ruled in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: his autopsy, different from the state's autopsy, that Epstein's neck
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: fractures were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than a suicidal hanging.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yet Epstein's death was never, for some reason, officially investigated
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as a homicide. By the way, the father of the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: attorney general at the time, William Barr, so William Barr's father,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: gave Jeffrey Epstein his first job. Weird, strange connection there.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Back to the suicide, we also know that the cameras
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: outside his cell just happened to not be working for
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: some reason that day. And the guards on duty, they
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: fell asleep. And before I say this, I want to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: cover jurisdiction because the power to release all the Epstein-related documents,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: they primarily fall under the jurisdiction of Pam Bondi, Kash Patel,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard, ultimately, really, the final say is with the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: president of the United States. Deputy FBI Dan Bongino, he
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: does not have any kind of power in releasing information
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to us. So with that note, I want to cover
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: what Glenn Beck wrote on X in response to the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: soundbite from Kash and Dan yesterday, because I think it's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: very good. He said that he trusts Kash and he
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: trusts Dan.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: We do, too.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But he needs the FBI to produce the following, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: this is what Glenn Beck wrote. The surveillance footage or
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: sworn testimony from neutral parties confirming no foul play went down.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: The entire timeline of that camera, the video leading up
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to when it went out, the exact moment it turned off,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: why it broke, and why the most high-profile prisoner in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: America was removed from suicide watch just days before. And
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: most of all, what changed Patel and Bongino's minds. Beck
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: went on to write that, I tend to believe Patel
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and Bongino. I don't believe there's some sort of conspiracy
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: inside MAGA. But I also believe that Epstein didn't kill
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: himself with a paper sheet. So show us the facts.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: We must restore trust. And I think that that is
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a very fair take. Just release the information.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Give us full disclosure. The American people want to be
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: in the loop. If he didn't kill himself, okay.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Show us what you've seen. So we can start to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: rebuild trust. We can see what you've seen and be
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: on the same page. But just saying, trust me, that's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: not going to be enough for me. It's not going
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to be enough for any of you who are listening.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And again, the release of this information is essential for
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: rebuilding trust and having a country again. And again, I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: want to reiterate, it's not Dan Bongino's call. Dan Bongino
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: does not have the power.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: To release this information.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Now, probably he can pressure them, and I'm sure behind
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the scenes he is, although I don't know that for
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a fact. I'm just saying, I know Dan, I have
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to assume that he's asking for disclosure, but ultimately that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: call is not with him. It's probably, it's with Cash,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it's with Pam Bondi, it's with Tulsi Gabbard. Ultimately, like
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: at the top, it's with the president of the United States.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And for some reason, we still haven't gotten that information.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: There seems to be a narrative. Carol Levitt did a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: recent question and answer in the press briefing room where
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: she said that Pam Bondi is working on it. So
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it would seem that the White House is saying Pam
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Bondi is the one dragging her feet on this, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that she's going to get to it eventually. It's really
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: kind of unclear what the holdup is. Not Dan's call, though.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But I think what Glenn Beck is asking for is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: really reasonable, and frankly, what the American people were not
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: only promised by President Trump, but owed, especially when you
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: consider the implications, because Jeffrey Epstein was not just some
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: guy trafficking girls to the most powerful.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Men in the West.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: First of all, he was primarily a financial criminal, not
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: just a trafficker, and second, All available information suggests that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was a U.S. Israeli intelligence asset who used
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: sexual blackmail to control powerful people.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: That's huge.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, speaking of foreign influence meddling, we're talking about Qatar.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Certainly something the American people deserve disclosure on is who
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was controlling Jeffrey Epstein, what role did the CIA and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: did Israeli intelligence play in the work that Jeffrey Epstein
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was doing? It wasn't just a hobby. He wasn't doing
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it for fun. There were financial backers. There is an
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: intelligence aspect to the story. We want to know what
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the government knows on this man because the evidence is
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: suggesting that our leaders, are potentially compromised by our own
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: CIA and a foreign government's intelligence agency. That we are,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: as Epstein researcher Whitney Webb says, a nation under blackmail.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And that's a disturbing thought. And it's, again, why we
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: need full disclosure. And maybe he did commit suicide.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I trust Dan, and I trust.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That he sincerely believes that, and he wouldn't say that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: if it weren't something that he truly believed. We just
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: need to be on the same page.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Just show us what you know. All right, some good
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: news out of the DOJ.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: The DOJ Civil Rights Division has launched an investigation into
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the employment practices of the city of Chicago because a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: couple days ago, Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested that he has
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: made hiring decisions based solely on race.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Some detractors that will push back on me and say,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: you know, the only thing that the mayor talks about
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: is the hiring of black people. No, what I'm saying
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: is when you hire our people, we always look out
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: for everybody else. We are the most generous people on
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the planet. I don't know too many cultures that have
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: play cousins. That's how generous we are. We just make
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: somebody a family member, right? This is how we are.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And so business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: is a black woman. Department of planning and development is
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: a black woman. Infrastructure deputy mayor is a black woman.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Chief operations officer is a black man. Budget director It's
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: a black woman. Senior advisor is a black man. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I'm laying that out because when you ask, how do
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: we ensure that our people get a chance to grow
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: their business?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, so what did he just say in that video?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: That blacks are more generous than any other race, which, okay,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: kind of a weird thing to say, but that because
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of that trait, he is only hiring blacks to run
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the city of Chicago. Just like straight up race-based discrimination
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in the city. So Assistant Attorney General for the Civil
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, wrote in a letter to Johnson
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that a probe was opened to investigate potential violations of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dhillon
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: wrote in her letter that our investigation is based on
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: information suggesting that you have made hiring decisions based solely
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on On race, in your remarks made yesterday at the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Apostolic Church of God in Woodland, you said that you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: were laying these positions out to ensure that our people
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: get a chance to grow their business. And considering these remarks,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: they have authorized an investigation to determine whether the city
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of Chicago is engaged in a pattern or practice of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: discrimination as set forth above. if these kind of hiring
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: then it begs the question whether such decisions are also
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: being made for lower-level positions.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And you guys know what this is. It's racism against
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: white people.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: That's essentially what he said in that video, because we're
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: prioritizing black people, which means that we're not hiring white
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: people because we're prioritizing black people. And it's coming from
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: this narrative on the left that Racism against white people
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: somehow doesn't exist, because according to race Marxists like Brandon Johnson,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: it's impossible to.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Be racist against white people.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: But this idea that discrimination is acceptable when directed towards
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: any racial group, including whites, is fundamentally flawed, and it
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: contradicts the principles of equality and justice at their cores.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: No form of prejudice should be justified... regardless of the target.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yet there is a growing narrative on the left that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: punching up, meaning like punching whites, is permissible if it
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: aligns with perceived historical imbalances. It's race Marxism, the belief
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that society is inherently structured on power dynamics between oppressors
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and the oppressed, and that reverse discrimination is justified as
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a means of.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Correcting past wrongs.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: But fighting discrimination with more discrimination is not the path
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to justice or any kind of unity. And believe me,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: this stuff escalates because all last week we talked about
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: South Africa and the way that political leaders are permitting
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: white land to be stolen and even condoning the murder
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of white people in the name of equity.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: It's dangerous stuff.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And so I hope that Brandon Johnson is sincerely prosecuted
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: because this is effed up. All right, I want to
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: get to what is going on at UCLA. A pro-Palestine
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: activist at UCLA went on a hunger strike on her own.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm just not going to eat any food
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: at all. I guess she was drinking water during this time.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And this was to protest UCLA somehow contributing to the genocide,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the genocide in Palestine. This girl is actually pretty famous
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: on TikTok. Her name is Maya Ayuni. Here she is
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: explaining why she's on her hunger strike. And note that
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: now she has been hospitalized.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Hi, my name is Maya and I'm on day six
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: of my hunger strike. Although there has been no response
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: from UCLA about my hunger strike, I have been made
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: aware that they know about the strike and they are
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: monitoring it. UCLA claims to care deeply about the health
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: and safety of its students, yet has failed to directly
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: speak to me about.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: My hunger strike.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Many people do not know just how involved UCLA and
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: other universities across the country are in the Palestinian genocide.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Universities and institutions of learning are run like for-profit businesses.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: They hold billions of dollars in investments and private equity funds.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: This means the people who run this university directly profit
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: from the slaughter of Palestinian children. I'm going to read
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: from Unmasking UCLA, which is a white paper made by
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: diligent activists at our school who have been researching and
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: talking about divestment far before I've been here. It is
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: estimated that UC investments indirectly hold $ 12. 3 billion worth of
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: publicly traded companies with documented ties to apartheid and genocide.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Of the 12.3 billion, 1.6 billion is in weapons manufacturers, 8.7
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: billion is in information technology companies that have Israeli government contracts,
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: and 268 million is in the surveillance and cyber warfare industry.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: These numbers are more than likely an underestimation of just
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: how much money they are investing into Israel. I am
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: asking UCLA to hold a public meeting with me to
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: reopen the negotiations to stop investing in companies supporting the
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Palestinian genocide.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, so a few things.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: She's actually right that the universities are essentially massive for-profit
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: investment funds with these huge endowments, massive administrations, And they
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: really only teach on the side, and poorly, I might add. Anyway,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Maya made it to day nine of her self-inflicted hunger strike.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And then I guess she passed out and had to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: be rushed to the hospital. Here she is being carted off.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: This is what happens when UCLA ignores their students. She's
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: going to the hospital. She just passed out. UCLA, please
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: hear her. She's literally being hospitalized because of you.
• 37:02
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I just, I can't. Michael, we're done with this. This
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: is so dumb. Like this is so.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: This is on you, UCLA.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: We're good, Michael. This is incredibly dumb.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Starving yourself and then blaming the university is cray cray.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Like it's just.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't even help people in Palestine. Like, I'm sorry,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: can someone explain to me what this girl starving herself is?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: And she's not starving herself. She's just refusing to eat.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: She's a very healthy Western girl. Like she's not anywhere
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: near starvation, but she is hospitalizing herself because she's refusing
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to take basic care of herself. And somehow this is
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: going to help the people of Palestine. And I have
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: no idea how this is supposed to do that. Like
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'm genuinely confused. What is this doing for people in Palestine, Maya?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, UCLA and universities like it are
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to blame for this culture of pointless political stunts. They've
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: nurtured it, encouraged it, even demanded it. These schools have
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: become factories for activists not truth-seeking. The role has shifted
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: from institutions of learning to breeding grounds for political mobilization,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: where the end goal is not intellectual rigor but political power.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: If you want proof of.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: How far things have drifted from reason, Listen to these
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: students mock the absurdity of thesis titles at major universities.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: And it's satire.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, these are fake titles, but it's also kind
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of not satire because it's a real reflection.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Of what is happening at these institutions. Take a listen.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Liberal arts thesis titles be like, Wimpy Realized, Diary of
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: a Wimpy Kid, In the Eyes of the Colonial Other.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Cut.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: The little engine that could.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: Thomas the Tank Engine and the Prison Industrial Complex.
• 38:51
  Speaker 13: Windows.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: In general.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: Unpacking the NecroState. Angry Birds is a metaphor for European spacemaking.
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: Reimagining Nova Pop.
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: A new take on minor relationships.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, so, oh, yeah, so, I mean, it's just craziness,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: like this self-referential jargon nonsense. that politicized his ideology over
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: any kind of inquiry. It's a spot on parody of academia.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: And it's so crazy that I have to tell you guys.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: It's real.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: This is actually emblematic of the kind of writing and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: research that's being done at our institutions that, by the way,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the American people are subsidizing.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: This is a deep rot.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Universities are no longer places of any kind of genuine
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: debate or search for truth. They are, as Maya rightfully
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: pointed out, hedge funds masquerading as schools. And then you
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have these idiot students flipping out and going on performative
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: hunger strikes because they were taught at school to be
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: militant Marxist activists. Meanwhile, none of them are caring about
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: things that are actually happening here at home. Here in
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the United States of America, they could care less, but
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: they're so preoccupied with what's happening on the other side
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of the world. And the universities, for their part, are
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: total con artists, pretending like they are beacons of free
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: speech and they're fighting the Trump admin, but they've never
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: cared about free speech. They've never cared about any kind
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: of real intellectual... diversity on campus. They actively discriminate against
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: conservative students. At the same time, ignoring people like Maya
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: for acting like victims of the encampments that they instigated
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: because they're the ones who turned the students into militant
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: leftists in the first place. By the way, the pro-Palestine
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: activists and the Trump admin are both right that the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: universities are for-profit institutions that act more like hedge funds
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: than any kind of learning institution. And frankly, America should
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: divest from the universities. Like there's the universities that divest
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: from Israel. No, America needs to divest from the universities
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: because they suck so much. I don't want a single
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: tax dollar of mine going to any of these schools anymore.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Maya is dumb, but I also
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: kind of feel bad for her because the university system
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: is the real bad guy here. I want you to
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: listen to this young woman discussing her fear of growing anti-intellectualism.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: And mind you, this rhetoric is coming directly from the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: university system.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: And there are countless TikToks just like this one. Take
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: a listen.
• 41:19
  Speaker 14: I'm going to be so for real with y'all. If
• 41:20
  Speaker 14: we want any fighting chance at combating and eliminating the
• 41:24
  Speaker 14: anti-intellectualism crisis and the literacy crisis, we need to be
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: strongly and publicly asserting as often as possible that there
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: are things not up for debate. Facts are not up
• 41:33
  Speaker 14: for debate. Part of the problem is that we have
• 41:35
  Speaker 14: been treating things as if they are on equal playing field.
• 41:38
  Speaker 14: I am not going to debate with you about facts
• 41:41
  Speaker 14: when you are talking to me about opinions. we need
• 41:43
  Speaker 14: to stop acting like they hold the same merit. It's
• 41:45
  Speaker 14: one of the reasons why we saw such a fall
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: in depth of expertise in the last 10, 15 years,
• 41:50
  Speaker 14: because the second people don't know and they come online
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: and say something, the first thing out of somebody's mouth
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: is use Google, Google it. If you don't know it,
• 41:57
  Speaker 14: Google it, trying to offset the labor of education, which
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: implies we're on even playing field that people don't know
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: things just because they haven't hit the right results on
• 42:05
  Speaker 14: a search engine. That's not how it works.
• 42:07
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: So what she's saying is some things aren't up for debate.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: And the answer is actually no, literally everything is always
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: up for debate. Like imagine if we had taken that
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: line during COVID and we just accepted everything that they
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: were saying about masks and the COVID vax, which turned
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: out to not work at all. Michael was bringing something
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: up about math. Like you think, oh, adding, is adding
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: up for debate? And actually, yes, it is.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: That's the whole point of math. Michael, do you have
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: your mic?
• 42:36
  Speaker 13: Yes, I do.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: All right, explain this to the chat.
• 42:39
  Speaker 13: So basically, in math, when you do a proof-based class,
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: you don't get to assume anything. You have to prove adding, subtraction, multiplication, division.
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: So, okay, Michael's a math major. Obviously, I had to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: do this in high school, but I haven't done it recently.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: But it's true. Proofs is the whole point of math.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: You always have to be proving everything that you're doing
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and you're talking about. And it's tedious and it's obnoxious,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and math majors hate it at the same time.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: You have to do this.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: This is the point of learning, of education, of truth-seeking,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: that you're constantly having everything that you believe called into question.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: And there's this idea coming from the intelligentsia all of
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: a sudden that some things.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: Are not up for debate.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: And it's actually that really these are institutions not interested
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: in debate or truth-seeking. They view themselves, their role in
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the world, as information gatekeepers, as the arbiters of truth,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: for an elite class that constantly lies. So what we
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: really have is a broken cancerous system. Universities that masquerade
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: as beacons of free speech and free inquiry, but shut
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: down dissenting voices, activists who are more performance than purpose,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: and an entire generation being taught not to think. Maya
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: is a symptom, not the disease. And the real problem
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: is the university system itself.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: And yes, Mikey.
• 44:04
  Speaker 13: The chat wants you to know it's a good point
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: that I made, but math is racist, so it doesn't count. Oh, right.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Math is racist now, right?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: The whole thing has gotten completely whack and out of hand.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And that's what happens when you inject Marxism into STEM. Really,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: you have people saying math is racist now. I think, again,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the real problem is the university system itself. And frankly,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: America should divest from the university system. Because they suck
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: so much. I don't want a single tax dollar of
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: mine going to Harvard or Yale or Columbia.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Maya is dumb. I hope she gets better.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Stop starving herself like an idiot. But the university system
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: is the real bad guy here.
• 44:48
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