1 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,120 You. Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with Molly 2 00:00:18,199 --> 00:00:21,120 Hemingway and David Harsani. Just a reminder, if you'd like to email the 3 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,760 show, please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. We love 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,719 to hear from you. Molly, Happy well, Platonic. Happy Valentine's Day 5 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,320 to you, and also is it happy ash Wednesday or just just I mean 6 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:40,600 you say blessed ash Wednesday. It's the beginning of Blent for Christians, and 7 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:44,039 Happy Saint Valentine's Day to you too. Did you do anything to celebrate? 8 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,000 Yeah, my wife and I have made a tradition of going out the day 9 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:52,439 before so we don't have to worry about the crowds at the restaurants we like 10 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,520 and stuff like that, which seems like a shortcut. But yeah, so 11 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,640 we had fun. How about you, anything big planned? No? But 12 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,000 I was at church this morning and I was sitting next to this awesome little 13 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,760 girl by the way, little girl whose mom is pregnant with her third and 14 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,680 she came up with the name Sarah Tortalini for the baby's name, and I 15 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,719 think it's kind of catchy. The three year old came up with the name. 16 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,239 But She was also asking me why my ASH cross was so big, 17 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,760 and I'm looking at it here as we're talking, and it's absolutely ginormous. 18 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,560 You have you ever seen that meme that goes around where it gives like different 19 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:34,680 it gives names for different types of crosses that you get on Ash Wednesday, 20 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:40,079 So like if it's a really faint one, it's called toner refill, like 21 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,879 you need to refill the toner. But I always seem to get, you 22 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,840 know, priests revenge, Pastor's revenge with first in line, First in line 23 00:01:48,879 --> 00:01:52,640 is always like, really it's a cross, like you can tell it's a 24 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,799 cross, it's well done. And then the priest's revenge seems like they're a 25 00:01:56,799 --> 00:01:59,640 little angry when they're doing it. So I think I have one of those 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:01,560 look like you're about to head out on a crusade. We'll just put it 27 00:02:01,599 --> 00:02:06,879 that way. You're You're you're marked. That's good. The bigger the cross, 28 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:08,319 the more you know, the more you care about God. I think 29 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,439 I told the little girl that it meant I was a bigger sinner. See 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,479 see what she thinks of that. Well, whatever you do, have a 31 00:02:16,479 --> 00:02:23,919 good day doing it. Let's jump in. There's so much news past week. 32 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:32,360 So let's start with Tucker Carlson heading over to Moscow to interview Russian President 33 00:02:32,479 --> 00:02:38,360 Vladimir Putin. I'd say that a lot of people immediately started calling Tucker, 34 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:46,120 you know, a trader or or you know, just how dare you interview 35 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:50,360 one of the world's most important men? Right? What do you think journalism 36 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,840 is, sir? Now? It depends, right. I mean, if 37 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,599 you go over there and you don't ask the guy any tough questions, it's 38 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,719 not journalism either, you know, if you're just sort of setting up with 39 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:05,479 softballs, and I don't think that's what he necessarily did. I don't know 40 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,919 what were you how did what were your full disclosure? I've been traveling so 41 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,360 much. I did watch forty minutes and was completely riveted by the first forty 42 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,439 minutes. And I'd heard, you know, some of our colleagues were like, 43 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:22,360 there's too much history from vlad Putin, and the history was inaccurate in 44 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,000 parts, but like, still very interesting to hear what the Russian biased history 45 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,719 perspective is. And it was also the same night that Biden came out and 46 00:03:31,759 --> 00:03:38,560 gave his angry press conference asserting that he was totally mentally competent before confusing Mexico 47 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:44,719 and Egypt. So to watch like forty minutes of Vlad Putin giving a history 48 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:50,400 lecture with dates and names and nuance and like perspective and then having our president 49 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,120 kind of stumble out and yell at people, it was an embarrassing comparison. 50 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:00,759 Yeah, I thought it was some I thought it was pretty warring. Frankly, 51 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,599 I wasn't really that riveted. But I will say this, I think 52 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:10,280 that that interview shows you that many Europeans, good one, you know, 53 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,080 the good guys and the bad guys, they care about history a lot more 54 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,600 than Americans care about history. Or what I mean is that these when we 55 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,000 go over the ocean and save someone, we're just like, we're saving democracy, 56 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:23,879 right, But they're thinking about thousands of years back often or a thousand 57 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:28,160 years back, and they're thinking, you know that the Ukrainian Russian problem is 58 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:30,879 not something that just began the other day. You know, there's a there's 59 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,800 a lot of history there. Whoever's right or wrong, it matters, and 60 00:04:33,879 --> 00:04:39,639 obviously Putin knows his history on that Wait, did you do you remember the 61 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:43,160 part where Tucker's like, so, where are you know he's giving this detailed 62 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,639 lecture going back to, you know, explaining religious differences and how they evolved 63 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,639 over time and what the borders were at different places, and Tucker's like, 64 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:56,079 where are we right now? Like I'm totally lost, and Putin's like, 65 00:04:56,519 --> 00:05:00,560 we're in thirteen hundred just like this. I don't know. Well, I 66 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,600 thought it was really compelling to watch. He didn't answer questions, a lot 67 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:11,160 of filibustering. Yeah, sorry, Just one other thing I want to say. 68 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:15,240 When Russia invaded Ukraine, one of the talking points that our intelligence community 69 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:23,759 put out there and had regurgitated by political pundits all over was that Blad Putin 70 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,079 had done this because he was crazy. He was near death, He had 71 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,360 Parkinson's. His cancer treatments had made him crazy, and so he was about 72 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,639 to die and we were dealing with a mad man and we might have to 73 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:41,160 do like really crazy stuff to deal with this mad man. So that was 74 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:45,439 the talking point that our intelligence community put out there. And so two years 75 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,160 later, to watch this interview from someone who does not appear to be unhealthy 76 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,680 in any way. You know, he might be wrong, but he's not 77 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:58,759 unhealthy. Certainly isn't dying from any of the things that our intelligence community claimed 78 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:04,360 he was doing. At the same time, that same intelligence community saying Joe 79 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:08,959 Biden is as sharp as could be. He's a super sharp guy. He's 80 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:13,079 got a total focus and handle on everything. And I just I just have 81 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,199 to say, like that was a really jarring thing to watch him be so 82 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,319 sentient when we were told that he was near death. Yeah, and we're 83 00:06:23,319 --> 00:06:26,319 going to get a bit into into the Biden part of the part of that 84 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,720 comment soon. I just want to talk a little bit more about putin in 85 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,040 that I don't know that we learned anything from the interview that's very important to 86 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:41,319 geopolitical what's going on right now. We don't know really when what his I 87 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:44,319 mean, I know what his goals are. We don't know when the Ukrainian 88 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:46,199 War is going to end. We don't I don't know that we learned anything 89 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,240 that important. But I don't really think Tucker was the fault of that. 90 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:54,040 It's just it's very hard to pin down world leaders. They're not going to 91 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:57,000 answer your questions, they're not going to give away stuff. David, Yeah, 92 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:00,680 you understand this might have been boring for you, oh, because you 93 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,240 actually have fun reading about Russia. In your spare time, you are sitting 94 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:09,560 in front of a wall of books, many of them history related to different 95 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,879 wars in Europe, Like you know this stuff. This thing got millions of 96 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,319 views from people who have been told that there was no reason whatsoever for vlad 97 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:26,759 Putin to do anything in Ukraine. So all of that was like brand new 98 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,920 for a lot of people. And I know that's true because I was just 99 00:07:28,959 --> 00:07:32,639 hearing people like casually talking about it. I was in Florida on Friday and 100 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,759 Saturday, and just like the normies that I was talking to, like the 101 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:42,519 lady blowing out my hair, the uber driver, the coffee maker, like 102 00:07:42,519 --> 00:07:46,759 they were all talking about it. I don't think those people not to be 103 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,439 stereotyping or anything. They don't seem like people who are reading Sleepwalkers in their 104 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:58,000 spare time. My dad gave me a two volume Ukrainian introduction history from like 105 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,879 the seventies. It's amazing, it's right here. Yeah, I think that 106 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:07,439 what we if we're building up two books, like two thick books, one 107 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,839 with a yellow cover, one with the blue to look like the Ukraine flag. 108 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:15,399 What makes me laugh is that it's just an introduction to history. It's 109 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:20,120 not even the history. Yeah, my dad read a lot of history books. 110 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,680 So I think that when you boil down the entire Putin argument, it's 111 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,920 that he doesn't actually think Ukrainian people are a people themselves and distinct people. 112 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,000 He thinks they have a different dialect than they're just Russian. So but in 113 00:08:31,039 --> 00:08:33,600 any event, I just quickly wanted to say, but I don't think there's 114 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:37,399 anything wrong with going and interviewing these people. One of my favorite and I'm 115 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:41,399 not comparing Tucker to Oriana Falacci, but she was the greatest at these interviews. 116 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:45,879 She interviewed calminy R like she would interview anyone, and she would give 117 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:50,679 him a really tough time demand answers. I think, you know, Tucker 118 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,440 did a commendable enough job. I don't you know, he wasn't you know, 119 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,399 I think he's not like he's not a particularly tenacious interviewer. Yeah, 120 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:01,440 so I was actually agreed when when it came out that he was going to 121 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,279 be interviewing him, I'm like, oh, no, is this going to 122 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:05,759 be like a puffy thing, because like, also, he's been doing so 123 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:09,639 many really, I mean, I find them interesting, but it seems like 124 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,120 the theme of his interview show is like people you're not supposed to interview and 125 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,679 just letting them talk, and there is value in that. But when it's 126 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,600 a guy who's, you know, causing major unrest throughout the world, you 127 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,559 want someone asking tough questions. And I thought, you know, from what 128 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,240 I heard, because I only got the first forty minutes, which was the 129 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:31,120 history Lesson, that he did ask some tough questions. I think it was 130 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,279 fine. You know, I don't. I don't think he I don't. 131 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,440 Yeah, I think it was fine. I think he did a fine job. 132 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,000 It's you know, Houton is a very competent person. If you like 133 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,360 him, you know, or not. I hope not. But he's competent. 134 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,480 And I don't mean you, I mean you out there listener, but 135 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:48,840 uh, any good any world leader, it's going to be hard to pin 136 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:52,320 them down on major questions anyway, you know. So he filibustered a lot 137 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,879 of the time. It's I guess the history you're saying was interesting to some 138 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:58,320 people. I think he went on a bit too long. It was like 139 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,039 a castro of speech, you know, one of those like five hour deals. 140 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:03,879 That's what I felt like listening to him. I don't know, I 141 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,879 just kind of I feel like having that length of time enabled you to just 142 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:15,200 kind of get a sense for his persona too, seeing the way he handled 143 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,240 each you know, handled the questions or where he wanted to take the interview. 144 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:22,759 Also, he hands a binder of information to Tucker. Did you see 145 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:26,159 that part? He's like, this is information from our archives and I wanted 146 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,879 you to have it, And I'm like, what's in there? I'm super 147 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:33,000 curious what's in there. The funny thing was, you know, everyone who 148 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:35,960 you know, was calling Tucker a trader and all of that, and a 149 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:41,080 Putin stooge. I don't think why listening to Putin in a I believe, 150 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:46,720 uncut, uncensored, you know, interview is a problem. He wrote, 151 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:48,879 He's written Putin has written op eds for the New York Times. I mean 152 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,840 he used to be interviewed by the West quite often. So any event, 153 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:56,639 it was funny when he when Tucker's like, he was, no one in 154 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:00,679 the West will interview him, and then honestly a lot of people are trying 155 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:07,600 to interview him and can't. But anyway, then I Tucker went off to 156 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:13,960 some conference of like plutocrats and theocrats in Dubai where he said that Moscow was 157 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,519 nicer than any city in the United States, a wonderful place to live. 158 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,480 And then I got a lot of blowback already for disagreeing with him in a 159 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,279 column, And you're telling me that I'm wrong. This is what I heard 160 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,679 from you this morning. So I was just looking up to make sure that 161 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,919 he had said it was nicer than any city. It was so much nicer 162 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,639 than any city in the United States. That's a direct quote. Okay, 163 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,399 well, I won't disagree with So you wrote a piece saying how wrong Tucker 164 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:52,879 was for saying this, And I'm more broadly how there's this trend of kind 165 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:58,320 of like diminishing what we are and comparing us to other people in ways I 166 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,480 think are misleading. In general, I do believe there are nice cities in 167 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,840 the United States, but I have been to Moscow, and I have been 168 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:11,000 to many cities in the United States that are nowhere near as nice as Moscow 169 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,639 in terms of just it being a you know, part of this is that 170 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:18,639 Moscow's an old city, and old cities kind of build up organically in ways 171 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:24,159 that are pleasant, you know, that are more based around walking than driving 172 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,039 or whatnot. Moscow's also a massive city, So there are a lot of 173 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:31,519 parts to it, right, Like there's the there's the historic area. There 174 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,759 are historic areas, but there's also a lot of like old Soviet buildings that 175 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,559 are ugly. You know, there's there's a wide variety of stuff. But 176 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,000 just like as far as a city that's nice to be in, it's definitely 177 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:48,919 nicer than like New York or Boston or Chicago. Definitely San Francisco, Definitely 178 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:52,639 Portland, Definitely La You know, there are a lot of bad cities in 179 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:56,879 the United States. But I do think Tucker's hyperbolic. But I think there 180 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,759 is this issue that our cities are kind of failing, and they're failing because 181 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:09,200 of Democrat policies that have embraced crime, that subsidize and an advance homelessness, 182 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:18,919 Like there's a whole homeless industrial complex. Does our border have turnstiles and velvet 183 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,159 ropes? Watched out on Wall Street Podcast with Chris Markowski. Every Day Chris 184 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,159 helps unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. 185 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,600 Some Republicans are chouting a bill with a limit of five thousand migrants per 186 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,159 day. That's still one point eight million per year, an amusement park doesn't 187 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,639 let more people in when it hits capacity. Whether it's happening in DC or 188 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,600 down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. Be informed. Check out 189 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:46,399 the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify or wherever 190 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:52,759 you get your podcast. So even you go to a place like you know, 191 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:56,799 is Stanbul, which has twenty five billion, I mean twenty five million 192 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:03,159 people or whatever, and it has some things about it that are nicer than 193 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,080 some cities in America. We have bad policies in our cities, It's true. 194 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,840 And they're describing cities do people. I read a book about this. 195 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:16,840 I'm just going to say, let's talk about Budapest for a second, which 196 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,840 is one of the most beautiful central you know, in their central one of 197 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:26,320 the most beautiful cities I think in Europe. People sit there, you know, 198 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:30,120 these new conservatives, they sit there on the Danube. They look around. 199 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,960 It's beautiful. They want us to be like them. In Moscow, 200 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,759 and I haven't been to Moscow, I'm gonna just say that I don't know, 201 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:37,960 but from what I've read and what I've heard from people, there is, 202 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,840 of course a nice section it is an old city. Most people live 203 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:46,399 in those Soviet blocks of apartments that you're talking about. They don't get to 204 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,039 live where Tucker hangs out when he's there as a tourist, or where people 205 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:58,440 go for tourism. Let's just compare the tourist Francisco and New York is beautiful. 206 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,080 Have you walked around Central Park? You don't think that's beautiful for people 207 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,559 to go to New York once a month, and I even enjoy it. 208 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:11,720 I'm just saying it's kind of not great in many most people. I like 209 00:15:11,799 --> 00:15:13,080 Central Park, and I like various parts of New York, but it's not 210 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:20,200 an aggressive homeless population. It's got massive drug problems. I've seen people defecate 211 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,559 in the street in both La well actually in La Las Vegas and New York. 212 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:30,919 I saw someone just take a dump in the middle of the street. 213 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:37,200 Everyone's high by nine am with that really skunky weed. Like it's not it's 214 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:43,399 not great, David, And there's a real problem. And also I think 215 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,240 that when you look at where the vibrant cities are in the world, they're 216 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,159 kind of not in the US or Russia. You know, like it's a 217 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:54,200 lot of stuff happening in the global South where you're seeing growth and excitement and 218 00:15:54,399 --> 00:15:58,879 entrepreneurship, and I think we should be really worried about it, because this 219 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,399 is like our claim to fame, and we should reclaim it. There is 220 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,840 no country well, first of all, American, many Americans. Most Americans 221 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,240 live in suburbs and live in the middle of city centers, which are for 222 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:11,759 the rich and poor basically. But I'd say this as well, there is 223 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,559 no country that has come close to the innovation of the United States, no 224 00:16:15,759 --> 00:16:19,440 Asian country, no one. Russia innovates nothing. Incidentally, there's no innovation 225 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:25,159 there at all. Capita GDPs like twelve thousand dollars. Everyone is poor in 226 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,720 Russia compared to the United States, but the claim that we don't innovate compared 227 00:16:29,759 --> 00:16:32,759 to these other China is the only one who even comes close, and they're 228 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:36,360 not really that close. So I don't know. I guess I just feel 229 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:45,440 there's a larger, broader anger about the United States that it makes people lose 230 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,039 perspective of how good many things are here. For instance, Russia. You 231 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,639 say the drugs here, it's true, I know, but Russia has a 232 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:59,279 massive alcoholism problem, like massive people seem to embrace death like they're just kind 233 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,960 of like death is one with them. This I mean, they have a 234 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,559 massive suicide problem. They're always near the top. Though. I think it's 235 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,720 been getting better, do you know. I was. I learned this yesterday. 236 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:14,240 That and whatever, the divorce rate in Russia seventy four percent, it's 237 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:18,200 the highest in the world. It is not you know, and also not 238 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:22,680 Moscow is probably one of the nicer cities at maybe Saint Petersburg's nice. Peters 239 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:27,119 Yeah, you don't live in Ufa or Yakatirenberg or one of these industrial places. 240 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,759 Trusts me, no one wants to live there. You'd much rather live 241 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:37,279 in a Phoenix, David. It'd be so pollyanna ish about higher the situation 242 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,480 is in this country. Like, that's what I'm talking about. The strength 243 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,160 that we have had over the decades. It's because we've had a strong rule 244 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,079 of law, which is by the way, being attacked beyond belief right now, 245 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,440 even in things like these ridiculous judgments against people who say wrong things or 246 00:17:53,440 --> 00:18:00,200 whatever. It is a strong free market economy that gave people the opportunity to 247 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:07,400 thrive, which is being squashed through decades of regulation and a bureaucracy and an 248 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,759 administrative state that would rival Soviet unions. You know, there are. It's 249 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:19,599 also like through a strong religious culture that is clearly waning right now, and 250 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,759 we shouldn't just be like, oh, we're the best, We're always the 251 00:18:22,799 --> 00:18:25,839 best, We're always going to be the best. We have serious problems and 252 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:27,759 we should take them very seriously. I never said we're the best. I 253 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:32,200 said we suck the least. There's a difference, but I just want to 254 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,160 say that we are more religious than Russians by so much and all that, 255 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,599 and it's just quickly going to say, you at the rule of law. 256 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,640 You know, from the seventies or even the sixties to the nineties mid nineties, 257 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,119 at least, the rule of law was terrible in these cities. Cities 258 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,400 are better now than they used to be, not worse. They're going backwards 259 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,200 unfortunately. Anyway, My only point was that I think he's being pollyannish about 260 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,720 these places because he only sees the nice things. He doesn't see like when 261 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:57,920 people go to Paris, they're like, oh my gosh, Paris is so 262 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,920 beautiful. I'd love to live here. But they if you travel ten minutes 263 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,359 out into one of these basically ghettos of immigrants who live where there's anarchy and 264 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,599 lawlessness. Then it's not as nice and we only I would yeah, I 265 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:14,640 would put Paris as like a declining city too, and even like again in 266 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,039 the United States, it is so interesting to be down in Florida, which 267 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:26,920 under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, became the cultural center I feel like of 268 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,799 the country during COVID because people could go there and live freely, and so 269 00:19:30,839 --> 00:19:36,440 you feel this excitement and people are being interesting in the arts and politics, 270 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,720 and they're being more entrepreneurial down there. You also see this in certain parts 271 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:44,680 of Texas, which is a freer state, and you see it less like 272 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:48,440 I feel like Paris was a great artistic center and now it's like a little 273 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,160 yeah that might. That's my point is that, of course, if you're 274 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,640 wealthy, any city is going to be nice for you, but if you're 275 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,559 not, is a big difference how you can live in America and how you 276 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:03,599 can live in a lot of these countries anyway, So thank you for that 277 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:08,440 disagreement. Let's talk about yeah, oh sorry, go on, no, 278 00:20:08,519 --> 00:20:11,759 no, please, what do you want to talk say? Let's talk about 279 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:14,440 Joe Biden. You know, we talked a little bit about how the same 280 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:18,200 night that blad Putin's interview came out, we had Joe Biden come out, 281 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,039 and that was because a Special Council report had come out earlier in the day 282 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:27,079 which said, yes, obviously Joe Biden grossly mishandled classified documents, but he's 283 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,400 a Democrat, so he's going to get away with it. And the way 284 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,119 we're going to let him get away with it, though, was kind of 285 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,680 mean, and I actually don't think it was okay for the Special Council to 286 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,920 do this, but he did it. He said, the guy is too 287 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,400 incompetent. We think like if we charged him, a jury would find him 288 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,440 to be incompetent essentially, and so we're just going to let him get away 289 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,559 with it, like we always let democrats get away with it, even while 290 00:20:51,559 --> 00:20:56,960 we also at the same time prosecute our political opponents for doing things that aren't 291 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,839 bad. There's so much unpack here, So I want to get to you. 292 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,960 I saw you elsewhere saying that you didn't think it was all right how 293 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,640 the report was written. But a lot of people compared this to what Comy 294 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,839 did to Hillary on the left, it's true both of them should have been 295 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,640 charged or recommendations should have been made to charge them, because Hillary clearly broke 296 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,720 the law and Joe Biden clearly broke the law. If the precedent is what's 297 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:23,039 going on with Donald Trump? Though I don't know if you saw. Richard 298 00:21:23,079 --> 00:21:29,359 Hurr in the report says that Trump is worse because he didn't hand back the 299 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,400 documents, which I don't really understand, because you're allowed if you disagree about 300 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,119 something, you're allowed to get a lawyer. Basically, he's pronouncing him guilty 301 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,799 before you know there's even been a trial. I just want to also say, 302 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,279 yeah, Joe Biden was accused and credibly accused and found like guilty in 303 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:52,160 a report of mishandling classified documents from a period in his political career where he 304 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,480 did not have the right to have those documents. Whereas what they're going after 305 00:21:56,559 --> 00:22:03,799 Trump for is having documents that he obtained while holding declassification authority as president. 306 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,119 It's insane that you would go after Trump, who was the one who does 307 00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:12,960 you know, letting Hillary Clinton slide she didn't have declassification authority, letting Joe 308 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,839 Biden slide, he didn't have declassification authority when he took these documents and then 309 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,319 going after Trump, it's just and by the way, going after Trump when 310 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,440 you've also done coup attempts against him and gotten exposed and shown no humility and 311 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:32,759 taken no responsibility. Well yeah, well I just wanted to say so. 312 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:36,240 Obviously there's people are going to see this as a double standard. It doesn't 313 00:22:36,279 --> 00:22:38,720 matter what they say. But there was this misconception or this lie basically that 314 00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:44,000 Joe Biden cooperated. He was forting documents from the seventies in the Senate days 315 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:48,400 right, and he never cooperated. A lawyer ran across the box with this. 316 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,799 The FBI was going to get a search warned if he didn't let them 317 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:55,799 into the house. This is like committing a crime, like you know, 318 00:22:56,079 --> 00:22:57,839 stealing something and then after your caught saying yeah, I stole it. Here 319 00:22:57,839 --> 00:23:02,599 it is back. That's not operation. That's getting caught. And there's really 320 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,119 no reason why Biden should slide here unless he is a feeble minded old man 321 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,200 who can't be prosecuted because he can't stand up for himself. Though many lawyers 322 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,759 have pointed out that that is not an excuse for criminality. That is a 323 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,720 that's for the sentencing phase where you talk about whether someone is dementia and can't 324 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,000 really serve their time, not that they having committed the crimes which Biden did 325 00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:29,559 before supposedly he had dementia. I never you know, it's never exactly been 326 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,559 His mental acuity has never been anything to write home about, right, So 327 00:23:33,759 --> 00:23:40,880 you never been the brightest bulb of the intellectual chandelier. So here's my argument 328 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:48,160 with you. I guess I don't see how her doesn't take this route, 329 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:52,440 because if he doesn't take this route, now, either Biden is an elderly 330 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,799 man who can't stand, you know, up to these charges, or he 331 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,960 needs to recommend that Biden be charged for criminality because he said as in the 332 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:03,440 report, I forget the exact language, but I believe he says that he 333 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:08,480 committed a serious felony. So how is he supposed to go about it? 334 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:14,079 Charge him but not? You know, I don't understand how what else he 335 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,799 could have done here. I feel like my answer to this is kind of 336 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:19,599 what I think about when I think about Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, 337 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:26,039 like my problem with the Russian invasion with Ukraine. You have to start back, 338 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,240 like thirty years prior and how we handled the entire dissolution of the Soviet 339 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:34,279 Union, which I think was handled really well, except that Ukraine was always 340 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,279 going to be kind of a problem, and one side said it had to 341 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:40,799 be a buffer state, and the other side said, no, let's use 342 00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:42,720 it as a vassal of our country and kind of use it to poke and 343 00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:47,599 prod and push our agenda. And then the people who said you got to 344 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,079 keep it as a buffer said someday Russia might invade Ukraine if you go along 345 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:53,720 this path, and then it did. And so when it happens and people 346 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,119 are like, which side are you on? And I want to be like, 347 00:24:56,759 --> 00:25:03,960 I'm on on people's side from thirty years ago that we should not have 348 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,279 done things the way we did it. And that's what I would say about 349 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:12,799 this situation. This I actually get. I completely get why the Department of 350 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:18,960 Justice did not want to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her obvious mishandling of classified information 351 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:23,720 and lying about it. I can get why they didn't even charge anyone associated 352 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,160 with her for it, because like, you don't want to get involved in 353 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:33,759 presidential politics, but then to run the Russia collusion line where you're spying on 354 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:41,319 the Trump campaign trying to unseat him maliciously lying and leaking about him. Is 355 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,480 like, well, what happened here? I thought we were kind of trying 356 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:52,599 to be prudent about not prosecuting politicians. And then I could understand, you 357 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,759 know, if like in a vacuum, why you wouldn't go after Joe Biden. 358 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,640 But I don't understand smearing him as in competent, Like it's basically a 359 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:07,519 jury of one. It's it's Robert Hurr just kind of deciding that he sees 360 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:11,279 what everybody else sees, that this guy's incompetent, and then at the same 361 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,119 time they're going after at the same time they're going after Trump. Well, 362 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,960 it is kind of a smear to do it without like, who's he to 363 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:22,480 say? Prosecutors make these kind of judgments all the time, and there's no 364 00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:26,799 other way to do it. I mean, he sat down for a five 365 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,279 hour interview with the president, who didn't know the years he was vice president, 366 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:33,160 who did know when his son died, and he and probably didn't know 367 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,079 a bunch of other stuff. I'd love to see the transcripts, And then 368 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,880 he made a decision what other reason could he have for not recommending charges. 369 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,119 I don't even know what other reason exists, Well, like they should Basically 370 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,640 my answer is they should not have rated Mara Lago. They should not have 371 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,519 gone with raised Democrat activists at NARA who were trying to like put their political 372 00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:56,640 opponent in prison, because if they hadn't done that, then they could have, 373 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,880 like let they wouldn't even had to start special Council on Joe Biden. 374 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:07,720 But because they keep being deranged with madness over their hatred of one man and 375 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:11,240 his supporters for making their lives like not as cushy in the bureaucracy as they 376 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:15,599 are under everybody else, they're destroying the entire country. Like the whole thing 377 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:21,680 is a joke. It is an absolute, unbelievable joke that Joe Biden, 378 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:27,079 as Senator and as Vice president took documents so he could like make money writing 379 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,720 books, you know, and shared them with his and shared them inappropriately with 380 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:38,920 his ghostwriter and is not being charged with it when every single other person in 381 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:45,880 that circumstance who's not a president would be prosecuted. And then they take the 382 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:52,880 one guy who is a president and they raid his house and they like are 383 00:27:52,920 --> 00:28:00,160 trying to get him imprisoned before election, And you had Joe Biden leaking to 384 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:07,359 Axios that he's super angry at Merrick Garland for not doing the political prosecution of 385 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,519 his top of their shared top political opponent in a timelier fashion, and how 386 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:17,279 he's going to punish Merrick Garland for not getting it done in a timelier fashion 387 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,880 by firing him in the second term should he be reelected, and like he 388 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,480 this is not the first time he's talked to the Department of Justice about what 389 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:30,559 he wants them to do in terms of imprisoning his political opponent. That he 390 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:38,039 does this like through the press when when Donald Trump said of the lie that 391 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:45,759 was fueled and created by the Deep State that he was a Russian who had 392 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:48,640 colluded with Russia to steal the twenty sixteen election, when he said that was 393 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:53,039 a lie, they added like eighteen months to the Special Council and tried to 394 00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:57,799 go after him for obstruction of justice. And we have a president right now 395 00:28:59,079 --> 00:29:03,359 who's going to Axios and saying like, I'm really angry that Merrek Garland hasn't 396 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,880 gotten you know, well, no one rid me of this meddlesome Trump. 397 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:08,400 And everyone's like, oh, huh. I'm no big deal. It's not 398 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:15,079 a violation of norms. It's insane, you know. Speaking of the leak, 399 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,240 there were more. There was more than one leak from the White House 400 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:25,200 that talks about how mad Bien is and he's like cursing about Neta Yahu and 401 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,519 he's mad at this when of he's angry, and I think they think that 402 00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:33,279 this shows that he's you know, youthful and exuberant and you know, involved. 403 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,160 But actually people with who have dementia often get angry a lot and lash 404 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,400 out at people, and they often do the things that Biden does almost every 405 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:48,519 day, so for instance, confusing memories and getting days wrong and conflating memories 406 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:52,319 and things like that. But it makes me laugh that who said it. 407 00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:56,000 Someone said this was an isolated you know, just because of these isolated incidents 408 00:29:56,039 --> 00:30:00,480 during this interview, doesn't mean that by an overall aside. So the Washington 409 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,039 Post ran out, I think it was the Washington Post ran out and got 410 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:07,640 a bunch of neurologists to say that the report is wrong and you can't make 411 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:14,039 ascertain these things and so on. We have a four year a four year 412 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,079 history of Biden doing this stuff. I mean he falls, he can't walk. 413 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:22,119 I mean he's an eighty what is he eighty two? An eighty two 414 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,000 year old man. This is normal for an eighty two year old man, 415 00:30:25,119 --> 00:30:27,960 right or not normal? But many eighty two year olds lose. I'm loose. 416 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,920 I can't remember things as well as I used to, and I shouldn't 417 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:37,599 be president. David. Yes, there was. Oh, I know, 418 00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:41,279 probably you don't like John Stewart and I don't really either. But he's back 419 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:45,119 with his Daily show and he was doing this thing about how both Trump and 420 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,240 Biden are too old to be president or whatever. But the stuff on Trump 421 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:53,599 kind of didn't land, didn't really stick, but his stuff on Biden was 422 00:30:55,519 --> 00:31:00,480 actually kind of funny. So he's talking about how he shows some image of 423 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:04,400 Biden being decrepit, and then he and then he shows clips of all of 424 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:10,000 his praetorian guard out on the Sunday shows, saying, actually, he's very 425 00:31:10,039 --> 00:31:14,160 focused and vibrant, and he handles things better than any of us combined. 426 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,039 And they're all kind of saying the same thing. So it sounds like that 427 00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:21,400 was orchestrated talking points, and it comes back to John Stewart and he was, 428 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,759 like, you didn't buy any chance get any of that on video. 429 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,720 Did you like of him acting focused and competent. He's like, because we 430 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:33,279 got a lot of video of the bad stuff, but it would be kind 431 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:36,400 of like, to make your point, it would be good if any of 432 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,720 that were captured on video. And it was just like, it made me 433 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,880 feel badly for Democrats that they every single day they're going to be verbal flubs, 434 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,559 trips, anger And yes, you're actually one hundred percent right. Anyone 435 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:55,480 who has family members who've had dementia, we know that anger is a dementia 436 00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:57,680 thing. Like you could have the sweetest, most amazing person in the world 437 00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:01,599 who during the dementia actually gets quite testy and angry. So when they're like, 438 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:06,200 he's super mad about stuff, it's like, yeah, that's kind of 439 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,640 what we would assume for someone with dementia. Yeah, I mean the campaign 440 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,480 to make to pretend that he's this super lucid, super competent guy is going 441 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:17,920 to backfire because he has to get out there this time. Someone wrote a 442 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,680 column for us. I'm not sure if we ran it yet or not, 443 00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:23,759 but they talk about how you cannot have another basement campaign. Now this blows 444 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:28,640 that up because people are going to want to see him. Listen, a 445 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,880 bunch of Democrats are going to I mean, people are going to vote from 446 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,119 anyway. They're going to care. Oh, this is what I want to 447 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:36,599 say as well. Yeah, Trump, I think has slowed down, right, 448 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,640 But when you see both of them, it's clear that Trump isn't a 449 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:44,920 lot better mental. You know, he's like he basically always was, whereas 450 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:52,720 Biden is rapidly declining rapidly. I think, aren't you just politics aside? 451 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,559 I feel kind of bad that his family allows this to happen, frankly, 452 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,680 but more for the country that what if he wins four more years of him. 453 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,359 I just don't see how he's going to be able to survive that, 454 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,319 Frankly, Is that a mean thing to say? Uh No, I mean 455 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:10,079 he might survive, like literally survive, But the thing is, it's not 456 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,039 really him running things anyway. Well, Okay, I've got so many thoughts. 457 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:20,039 One is I completely agree when I feel anger about the situation that the 458 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,680 national security threats posed by having a dangerously incompetent president. I don't get mad 459 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:30,920 at Joe Biden. I do get mad at every single person who's not taking 460 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,640 care of the situation to get him out of there. That could be his 461 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,640 own family, it could be his top advisors, it could just be even 462 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,319 prominent democrats. It's definitely the corporate media who have just lied for years about 463 00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:45,640 his Oh no, he's great, you know, and they ask such gentle 464 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,480 questions sir, what kind of ice cream? Oh? You got the good 465 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,920 chocolate chip ice cream? And you know, versus how they were with Trump, 466 00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:59,440 like why do you sleep with prostitutes in Russia? You know that kind 467 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,799 of thing. Remember when they used to ask George W. Bush, who 468 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:07,279 like the Undersecretarary of thy Tye like commerce was you know, if you didn't 469 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:08,800 know, they were like, he's not prepared. And now this guy forgot 470 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,880 Hamas the name of Hamas during a press conference about Hamas the other day, 471 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,639 and that's fine for everyone. Sorry, he said, every innocent life in 472 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:22,639 Gaza is a tragedy. He confused Mexico and Egypt. By the way, 473 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,360 what is wrong with our White House press corps? I don't answer. That 474 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,440 is so many things. But like he comes out and they should have just 475 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,079 said, you know, who's the Prime Minister of the UK. Remember when 476 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,000 he at the end of a speech, he's he yelled out God, God 477 00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:39,920 saved the queen after the queen was dead. I mean, that's not a 478 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,119 normal thing to do, and no one's like, well, that's kind of 479 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,639 weird. I mean, he forgot Winston Churchill's name. But when we was 480 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,440 speaking to the British Prime Minister, I was going back to try to like 481 00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:52,559 put a list together, and it's so huge that it's not you know, 482 00:34:52,800 --> 00:35:00,440 I don't even think it's worth doing. Sorry. Another thing, suppose this 483 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:05,360 was the initial excuse that he was stressed out because this interview happened right after 484 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,519 the Israeli the attack by Hamas Israel. Because President totally unless he's stressed, 485 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,480 when he's stressed, when the world is in a dangerous place, that's when 486 00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:22,039 he struggles. So don't worry. It's only when World War three is about 487 00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:24,320 to break out that things get bad. So so color me skeptical that he 488 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,239 was that upset that day. I'm sorry, I know that sounds awful. 489 00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:31,480 Another one thing her said that I didn't like was that he was a well 490 00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:36,199 meaning, elderly, feeble minded man, well meaning. I don't think he's 491 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:37,519 well meaning. I don't think he has any principles. I think he's a 492 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:43,239 bad guy that he said the jury. He said he felt like the jury 493 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,880 would consider him a well meaning man. Well he is. I mean, 494 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:51,199 first of all, now they're attacking him as a clandestine political operative, Like 495 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,119 didn't Garland put him on this when Trump says things like that it's the end 496 00:35:55,159 --> 00:36:00,280 of democracy, and now the White House itself is leading those attacks and all 497 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,199 the you know, the Morning Joes of the world or whatever are leading that 498 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,920 attack. It's literally the thing they say is bringing Nazi Germany to us. 499 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:15,639 If I pointed out failures by Bob Robert Moehler over the course of his career, 500 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,079 I got so many people angry at me, and I was like strongly 501 00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:23,559 discouraged from saying anything publicly. And I was so gentle about it, like, 502 00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:29,320 hey, that anthrax investigation or whatever that wasn't so hot. But yeah, 503 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,599 now you can say Robert Hurr is a partisan activist who's trying to destroy 504 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,199 America, and everyone's like, yeah, that sounds that checks out the guy 505 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:45,119 who let you off with no charges. They did the same thing with Komy, 506 00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:49,639 but forget like he was enemy number one. Paul Carterman wrote a column 507 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,960 with any that said the election was rigged because Comy let Hillary go. I 508 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,639 don't Again, I don't know what he was supposed to do in that instance 509 00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:04,280 either. Really, I think there's an argument that what Komi did was really 510 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,000 uncool on both fronts. He should have just charged and not defamed her. 511 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:13,519 He did the not charging but kind of defaming her. That's fine by me, 512 00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:16,320 Yeah, but he can't. What they want is they wanted to be 513 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:21,760 put under the rug and not investigated. They don't want Biden basically investigating basically 514 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,679 wasn't. On that note, did you see that Tony Bobolinski, a guy 515 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:29,559 who unlike the Russia collusion hoax, where you'd have made up people saying made 516 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,599 up things and you'd have twenty four to seven news coverage of it, you 517 00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:38,760 had Tony Bobolinski who came out on Fox News with his name with emails with 518 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:44,039 evidence saying, of course, Joe Biden was involved in the Biden family business. 519 00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:46,920 And I know because I met with him and I was super involved in 520 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,320 the Biden family business. And this week he comes out and says, yeah, 521 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,000 the FBI, Department of Justice never asked me like anything about it, 522 00:37:54,280 --> 00:38:00,920 and I was totally available. Who's the slight difference in how they treat Trump 523 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,239 versus Biden. Who's the Democrat who wore the head band. I think he 524 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,679 had maybe he had cancer or something. Jamie Raskin, Yeah, so, 525 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,760 Jamie Raskin the other day. I didn't know Bobolinsky was going to be, 526 00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:15,880 uh, you know, in front of Congress. He's just smearing the guy. 527 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:21,079 And I'm like, everything he said so far has been true, has 528 00:38:21,159 --> 00:38:23,559 all checked out. He put his name out there, he was willing to 529 00:38:23,599 --> 00:38:29,360 testify, unlike like you say, virtually anyone in the Russia clusion stuff, 530 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,400 and they just smear him in the media. I don't even think they like 531 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,000 even mention him, you know, other than Fox maybe so so. And 532 00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:37,719 I will say, like in the when the Tony Bobolinski thing came out, 533 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,559 there were some names associated with that, like business names that I saw, 534 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:45,119 and I called these people up and said, like, can you tell me 535 00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,000 what you think about this guy? And they all said the eyes like a 536 00:38:47,519 --> 00:38:52,280 stand up, like you know, did business with him. He did what 537 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,039 he said he was going to do kind of thing. So unlike the crazy 538 00:38:57,039 --> 00:39:00,880 people that they used for the Russia clusion line. So, speaking of Russia 539 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,199 collusion collusion, there's this story, and I think we have a piece today 540 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:14,440 at the Federalist about how the CIA essentially asked foreign you know, foreign spooks 541 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:21,840 basically to look into the Trump campaign as well, which seems it seems weird. 542 00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:24,599 Well, it seems weird, actually, I Margo Cleveland wrote a piece 543 00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:28,760 for US Today that looks into this, and in part what she points out 544 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,559 is this is what I was always saying, that the story that was told 545 00:39:31,679 --> 00:39:37,000 by the FBI never really made sense. You know, there was this dossier, 546 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:43,000 dossier that Hillary Clinton's campaign had paid for, and it clearly seemed to 547 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,000 launch the Russia collusion hoax, and the FBI said, no, no, 548 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,400 no, no, no, we had nothing to do with that, just 549 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,599 like completely. Surprisingly, one day, an Australian tip came in through the 550 00:39:53,719 --> 00:40:00,960 UK of a Trump official saying something, and we decided this spring up a 551 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,360 whole, big, massive investigation spying on the Trump campaign and trying to allege 552 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,840 that he was a Russian stooge. And what this reporting from Michael Schallenberger and 553 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:16,239 Matt Tayebi and one other guy says is that basically our government asked the Five 554 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:21,639 Eyes, which are the you know, we were part of a intelligence cooperation 555 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,679 you know, intelligence gathering cooperation agreement that they put the word out to the 556 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,800 Five Eyes, which would include like Australia and the UK, that they were 557 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:36,599 looking for info on these twenty six different Trump officials. And so what happens 558 00:40:36,639 --> 00:40:39,880 then is that their intel people just try to bump into, as they call 559 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:46,360 it, these different Trump related officials. And so that explains why Stefan Halper 560 00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:52,320 was getting involved with different Trump officials and reaching out to them, and how 561 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,960 Carter Page gets invited into places where then the UK can kind of like get 562 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,119 involved in the intelligence gathering. Why this Australian guy says that he had a 563 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:07,039 chat with George Papadop and that it was like disconcerting even though there was nothing 564 00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:09,960 really disconcerting about it, and it springs up this whole investigation. It's a 565 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:19,440 pretty horrifying thing. It's massive news. Our intel community tried to take down 566 00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,800 tried to keep Donald Trump from winning the presidency, and then when they failed 567 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,079 to do that, they tried to destroy him as president. And they are 568 00:41:25,079 --> 00:41:31,880 still going. It is such republic threatening behavior. It's insane. It's insane 569 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:37,159 what the left's hatred of one man has resulted. In and then when they 570 00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:40,199 come, you know, when they gain power, they bring people like Rob 571 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:45,400 Malley into the administration, a bunch of people who have promised to help Iran 572 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:52,119 with their efforts, and literally no major news organization even talks about it. 573 00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:53,960 I still don't know why Rob Malley is not working for the government. No 574 00:41:54,000 --> 00:42:00,440 one will tell us. Where's that investigation. Yeah, let's talk now about 575 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:06,239 So last week we were going off on the alleged border bill, the so 576 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,119 called border bill, which had Ukrainian, Israeli, Palestinian funding in it and 577 00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:15,440 some other stuff. It fell apart. So obviously what you do then is 578 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,960 not move forward with a border bill, but move forward with the Ukrainian funding 579 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,559 bill in the Israel you know there's Israeli funding in there as well, and 580 00:42:22,599 --> 00:42:28,559 stuff in Palestinian EID. I think it's bad, Setting aside everything else, 581 00:42:28,599 --> 00:42:31,920 I just think it's really bad politics. It's people do not understand. The 582 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:37,320 Republicans obviously do not understand their voters now agree with them or not. It 583 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,400 looks terrible that what's going on at the border you ignore, and then you're 584 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:44,159 just sending money to Ukraine like it's not like a zero something like a lot 585 00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:45,960 of people like to frame it like if we're giving money here or not here, 586 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,440 but it is for the normal voter, it seems like a zero sum 587 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:55,440 proposition. And then Romney's out there and a bunch of others basically just I 588 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,840 don't know what to say, smearing their voters as people who don't care about 589 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,559 read him in democracy when they were the ones ignoring the border. It is 590 00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:08,239 just terrible politics at the very least. Yeah, So, Mitch McConnell says 591 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,840 the most important policy priority of Republican voters is endless funding of the war in 592 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:19,239 Ukraine. I think he's wrong given polls and logic, but he cares a 593 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,400 lot about it. He had this idea that if he pretended to care about 594 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:27,239 the border, that he could get a border slash Ukraine funding bill through And 595 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:34,280 it was a one hundred and eighteen billion dollar bill that gave green card amnesty 596 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:40,639 to tens of or just millions of illegal border crossers, and which is not 597 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,800 border security. It's kind of the opposite of that. And all sorts of 598 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:49,039 other bad provisions that had nothing to do with border security were basically like in 599 00:43:50,039 --> 00:43:57,159 Fleeing the Doors Open immigration bill and then sixty billion dollars for Ukraine. So 600 00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,960 more than half of his bill idea was Ukraine, and he worked really hard 601 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,400 on it, and everyone was like, are you kidding me? This is 602 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,039 ridiculous, and so he's like, oh, I guess we can't do border, 603 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,079 but we can do my number one policy priority, which is funding the 604 00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:14,800 war in Ukraine, so that the people who I actually represent, who are 605 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,800 not Republican voters, we're not Americans, who are not Kentuckians, they are 606 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,800 the military industrial complex, like they're going to be happy, and we needed 607 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,039 this to like war to just continue. We don't care how many hundreds of 608 00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:30,559 thousands of Ukrainians are killed, how much property is destroyed. Our real goal 609 00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:35,559 here is to avoid a negotiated settlement and keep the funding going for years. 610 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,719 And so Mitch McConnell and other like really old decrepit anti statesmen, they're like 611 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:49,199 the opposite of statesmen. They're fools and idiots. They pushed through this order, 612 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:54,119 this Ukraine funding, and now the only thing keeping anything from happening is 613 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,880 the House, which has a majority of like two Republicans. And everyone's worried 614 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,960 because even the House leadership is pretty brittle. I would say so, but 615 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:09,400 we'll see, but it was it was seemed like, sorry, just that 616 00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:14,480 was a really long thing, and I'm sorry, but Tom Tillis said voters 617 00:45:14,519 --> 00:45:17,320 are too stupid to understand what he knows. And Mitch McConnell said, you 618 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,480 know, people who oppose endless wars that that don't have a plan for strategy 619 00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:27,079 are dim and apparently Romney said something about it too. I talked with a 620 00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:30,119 senator who was saying, you know, the first thing they tell you when 621 00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:35,719 you become a senator is that Russia is the only country that could destroy America 622 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,440 in a matter of minutes, so like you have to take them seriously. 623 00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:45,280 And he was like, so, what's their strategy for winning the war against 624 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:50,719 you know, what's the strategy if Russia can destroy us, what's the strategy 625 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,199 for how we're going to win this war for Ukraine? And he said that 626 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:58,079 when he asked people, don't people do not have an answer, Like they're 627 00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:01,280 they're like, what you're asking about? Strategy for success? That's weird. 628 00:46:01,639 --> 00:46:07,119 And then the North Dakota senator, I forget his name, comes out today 629 00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:12,320 and attacks Eric Schmidt because Eric Smitt was like, guys, sorry, you 630 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,199 know we did every cause there were a bunch of really good senators who tried 631 00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:19,559 to stop this from happening against the American people, and they failed, but 632 00:46:19,599 --> 00:46:22,159 they tried really, really hard. And so he was like fifteen of the 633 00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:28,920 seventeen people elected in the last few years fought to end this, to stop 634 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,079 this endless funding. He's like, change is happening, It's just not happening 635 00:46:32,159 --> 00:46:37,639 soon enough. And then this guy, what is it, Kevin Kramer from 636 00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:40,480 North Dakota, a state that really should be sending a much higher caliber of 637 00:46:40,519 --> 00:46:52,360 Republican said basically like you're a Russian or something. Well, I can I 638 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,639 say this. I mean, I don't agree with what you're saying completely. 639 00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:57,800 You know, in the way that you're framing things to sort of put that 640 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,199 out there, you know that this is against the American people. So and 641 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,239 I think plain people think that funding Ukraine's a good idea thirty something percent of 642 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:10,119 Republicans probably or something like that. But if you have a stalemate right now 643 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:15,840 and you want to send funding there, we're basically in a proxy war there. 644 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,480 I wouldn't be against it if we were also pushing to end it somehow. 645 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,920 But it seems to me this is just an endless, an endless cycle 646 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:28,280 there of violence, ID even use that term, But what is the endgame? 647 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,920 We never hear about that, We never talk about it. And there's 648 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,400 a stalemate pretty much there now, which is a big, huge victory for 649 00:47:34,559 --> 00:47:37,519 Ukrainians in my opinion. I think, you know, they could have been 650 00:47:37,519 --> 00:47:39,760 overpowered pretty easily. Initially everyone thought that would be the case. So why 651 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,320 continue this forever? What is the point? What is going to happen here? 652 00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:46,199 I never get a straight argument on that, and that bothers me, 653 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,679 even as someone who thinks that Ukrainian like everyone says, oh, like McConnell 654 00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:53,159 wants Ukrainians to keep dying in this, But Ukrainians make that choice for themselves. 655 00:47:53,199 --> 00:47:57,519 We're not forcing them to fight this war just because we're giving them weapons. 656 00:47:57,559 --> 00:47:59,960 We're allowing them to defend themselves. I think that that's a fair thing 657 00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:01,840 for a nation to do. I just don't know that we should what the 658 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:07,440 American of you know, how this helps American foreign policy to keep this going 659 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,679 on and on forever. This reminds me that I was top talking to, 660 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,079 like a top foreign policy analyst who is saying very like, just matter of 661 00:48:15,119 --> 00:48:19,599 fact, did you know that the corruption in Ukraine is kind of worse now 662 00:48:19,639 --> 00:48:22,000 than it was a couple of years ago. I was like, gosh, 663 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:30,159 how weird After we have sent tens of billions of dollars to an already corrupt 664 00:48:30,159 --> 00:48:35,559 country, you're telling me that that flow of money has led to more corruption 665 00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:38,920 in Ukraine? Like what will they tell you next? How weird is that? 666 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:45,320 Anyway? I want to just complain about one more Republican senator do so. 667 00:48:45,519 --> 00:48:50,400 Ken Paxton is the Attorney General of Texas and the George W. Bush 668 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,880 Carl Rove team tried to take him out by impeaching him, and it was 669 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,679 always kind of like a weird case. And he ends up like totally winning 670 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:02,559 that impeachment battle, and he goes after John Cornyn, who is a border 671 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:08,639 state senator from a very red state, Texas, who had worked so hard 672 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:14,320 not to secure the border, but to secure Ukraine's borders. And so Paxton 673 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,320 goes after him like unbelievable that John corn would stay up all night to defend 674 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:23,880 other countries' borders but not America. And Cornyn responds by basically doing that thing. 675 00:49:25,119 --> 00:49:30,360 Who was it was it Schumer who said I can't remember with Schumer or 676 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,519 Brennan, who right before Trump was inaugurated and he started like questioning the intelligence 677 00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:38,400 community, like not nearly enough, it turns out, but he started questioning 678 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,719 it, and then he says like, oh, yeah, I think it 679 00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:46,079 was Schumer. The intel community has six ways from Sunday of responding to your 680 00:49:46,119 --> 00:49:50,199 compliance. You know, I remember that. Yeah. So Cornyn does that 681 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,440 to Paxson. He's like, hey, buddy, why don't you care more 682 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:59,199 about the law fair we're planning against you than critiquing me for my inane policy 683 00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,599 decisions. It's unbelievable. Like he's like, yeah, your criminal defense lawyers 684 00:50:02,639 --> 00:50:07,320 are calling to suggest oh yeah, it was even worse. Your criminal defense 685 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:13,719 lawyers are calling to suggest you spend less time pushing Russian propaganda and more time 686 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,920 defending long standing felony charges against you in Houston, as well as ongoing federal 687 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,400 grand jury proceedings in San Antonio that will probably result in further criminal charges. 688 00:50:22,639 --> 00:50:27,000 It's like, oh, yeah, you're buying into the lawfair that they're doing 689 00:50:27,039 --> 00:50:31,559 against any effective Republican and you're saying that if you care about America's borders, 690 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:38,000 you're pushing Russian propaganda. Like these people hate you. They hate your country, 691 00:50:38,199 --> 00:50:44,159 they hate the idea of borders and sovereignty, And I really want to 692 00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:51,679 know what in God's name Texas Republicans are doing allowing this, Like why are 693 00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:55,599 they rewarding this man for his hatred of their country? Like do they hate 694 00:50:55,599 --> 00:51:02,280 their country? Why are North Dakota and permitting Kevin Kramer to be the person 695 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:07,559 that they send to the Senate? Like what's wrong with you people? I've 696 00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:14,400 always noticed that Texas Republicans aren't as often aren't as conservatives as you think or 697 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,440 as they're portrayed as a state. There are plenty of like rhino type conservatives 698 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:22,400 there. I hate to use that word too, but you know I've noticed 699 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,840 that. But whatever, I mean, the border thing just is perplexing to 700 00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,599 me. Even if you're a big immigration person, you should want to shut 701 00:51:28,639 --> 00:51:30,639 it down and control who's coming across. I just don't even understand why this 702 00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:37,320 is a major debate even but it is so anyway, things are going poorly. 703 00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:38,800 I would say for the Republicans, you know, this kind of thing 704 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:45,519 just depresses I think enthusiasm on the right. So there's a lot of enthusiasm 705 00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:52,559 as primary voters and corps voters for Trump but there isn't a corresponding like excitement 706 00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:54,760 about Republicans at all, you know, and it's because of stuff like this. 707 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,039 But it's also it just seems like Trump's a party on to himself in 708 00:51:59,079 --> 00:52:01,400 a weird way. So no, it's not. I mean, he's like 709 00:52:01,519 --> 00:52:06,679 a party unto himself along with the majority of Republican voters. But yes, 710 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,039 the establishment's like, gosh, what do we have to do to get rid 711 00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:13,639 of this stranglehold that Trump has on the party. And it's like, I 712 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:19,719 think it's not really this. It's just people in the Republican Party care about 713 00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,639 certain things, and almost nobody in the Republican Party at a high level also 714 00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:30,039 cares about those things. So problem the big issue is the establishment, like 715 00:52:30,119 --> 00:52:34,039 the the sort of like decaying decrepit. See now, part of the establishment 716 00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:38,719 either needs to die or just move on or accept that like they can no 717 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:47,039 longer continue the game playing they're doing on things like war and borders. Yeah, 718 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,840 people today I was on Twitter and people got mad at me. I 719 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,679 think there's there are other problems here too. You have to create this party 720 00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:58,119 where you win national election, and you need to bring in people who aren't 721 00:52:58,199 --> 00:53:01,880 necessarily that excited about Trump. But the choice that you get is the McConnell 722 00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:06,920 wing or the Trump wing. So for a lot of people, that sucks. 723 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:08,480 That keeps you know, I mean, you know, I don't like 724 00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:14,440 either very much. And I don't know where this goes. Republicans lost in 725 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:15,840 election New York. I don't know how much it says the other. You 726 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:21,480 know, yesterday for George Santos's seat, just remind people there's a George Santos 727 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,559 in the in the White House right now, and you know, throwing him 728 00:53:24,559 --> 00:53:27,559 out was nuts. If you're not going to throw out Adam Shift, if 729 00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:30,559 you're not going to throw out other liars and other people. They lost the 730 00:53:30,599 --> 00:53:31,960 seat, and I don't know that they're going to get that seat back. 731 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,280 I'm from that area, you know, and it's going to be a tough. 732 00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:37,920 It's going to be tough. So I don't know. There's a snowstorm. 733 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,760 It's an off you know, it's an off season. You know, 734 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,599 it's an off year election. All that. I get it, but I 735 00:53:43,639 --> 00:53:49,400 don't think it bodes well for Republicans in general. I feel like we're always 736 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,840 right before culture. I'm always like beat down right for our card. I'm 737 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,679 always like, oh, let's just talk about movies. It's the worst, 738 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,119 but you know, it's a lot going on. How'd you do on culture 739 00:54:01,159 --> 00:54:05,960 this week? I was just thinking when you were talking about going out with 740 00:54:06,119 --> 00:54:09,320 your wife for Valentine's Day dinner. I like Valentine's Day, but I don't 741 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,159 like it as a romantic holiday. I don't know how to explain that my 742 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,639 mom always gave us each cards and I still have them, Like, I 743 00:54:16,679 --> 00:54:21,000 love all the cards she gave me. I guess she and my dad, 744 00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:24,000 but you know it was her. And so I did put together like little 745 00:54:24,039 --> 00:54:28,639 things for the children, and I enjoyed it and they seemed very happy. 746 00:54:30,599 --> 00:54:35,199 But I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day romantically. And then I was also thinking 747 00:54:35,199 --> 00:54:38,119 about how I was talking to my mom and I told her I made jumbalaya 748 00:54:38,199 --> 00:54:43,639 on Sunday for the Super Bowl, and she asked if anybody was coming over, 749 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,519 and I was like no, And like, my really close friend moved 750 00:54:47,639 --> 00:54:54,039 away with her family a few months ago, and she's my mom's like ever 751 00:54:54,079 --> 00:55:00,159 since they moved away, it seems like you don't have any friends. Well, 752 00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:05,239 every thanks mom. Longtime listeners of this show know that I don't have 753 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:09,480 any friends about trying to make friends, but so I think it's underrated. 754 00:55:10,079 --> 00:55:15,119 But uh yeah, it's the Super Bowl. Super Bowl was exciting, Huh. 755 00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:16,039 I liked it. I thought it was a great game. I like 756 00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:21,960 both teams. I like both quarterbacks. I couldn't believe San Francisco's child quarterback. 757 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,000 I forget his name, but he looked like he was twelve, and 758 00:55:23,039 --> 00:55:29,559 he was so good and I loved like, I just it was a fun, 759 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,320 fun game to watch, and I was happy. I only watched one 760 00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:37,199 professional football game a year at best. People. Uh, I was watching 761 00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:38,920 online, you know, on Twitter, and people thought it said it you 762 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,960 know, it was a ring game and all that. I'm like, do 763 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,960 you know how hard it would be to rig a tie game in the Super 764 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,280 bo Bowl. That would take a lot of work and a lot of people 765 00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,719 would be involved in that. So I do worry about the corruption that comes 766 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:57,400 from gambling. And it does seem weird how much gambling has become a part 767 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,239 of professional sports and the amount of money that must be on that. You 768 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,679 know, because there are lots of ways to quote unquote rig. It could 769 00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,000 be about the number of tackles that are allowed, or you know things like 770 00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:12,000 that, and so I don't think. I mean, there's so much betting 771 00:56:12,039 --> 00:56:15,000 going on on both sides of all issues. It's almost like hedging stocks, 772 00:56:15,079 --> 00:56:17,519 you know, in a way that like, you know, you'd have to 773 00:56:17,559 --> 00:56:21,960 really be some kind of mastermind to pull it off. I'm not that upset 774 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,400 about the gambling stuff, though, it is incredibly weird. In the middle 775 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:28,360 of games. I'm a big hockey fan, they'll give like the announcers will 776 00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,000 give you the odds on the game, and You're like, this is really 777 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,519 weird. I grew up gambling was like illegal, and now it's just becom 778 00:56:34,679 --> 00:56:37,079 ingrained in sports so much so I don't know, we'll see what the long 779 00:56:37,159 --> 00:56:42,440 term implications of that are. But she who will be not named the pop 780 00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,400 star that everyone talks about in relation to football, and I'm happy that that's 781 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:52,000 over for now for a little bit. But so anyway, what'd you do 782 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,039 you watch anything? I did? I watched I watched a movie. It 783 00:56:55,119 --> 00:57:00,519 was called American Fiction. Did you see that? Oh? Is that the 784 00:57:00,519 --> 00:57:02,840 one with uh I forget his name, but about the African American author and 785 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:07,480 all that his name is Jeffrey or something. Yeah, right, right, 786 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:15,280 Yeah, it was you know, I can give it like a slight recommendation. 787 00:57:15,559 --> 00:57:19,320 It had so many problems, Like in the one hand, it's like 788 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,079 kind of a mess, but it has a lot of redeeming qualities too, 789 00:57:22,639 --> 00:57:24,840 and he's very good in it. I just wish that maybe they would have 790 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:29,800 put like other people on the project to clean it up a little bit. 791 00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:36,679 It was which way so like just the story just like, for example, 792 00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,039 you're supposed to think that the original family from which the author is from is 793 00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:44,679 like a complete mess, but it's never really explained why or how or why 794 00:57:44,719 --> 00:57:52,280 it's so traumatic for them. It's really question. Yes, so it seems 795 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,880 like this is sort of a contrarian movie in a weird way against sort of 796 00:57:54,920 --> 00:58:00,000 the cultural forces of like identitarian race and all of that stuff. Right, 797 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,639 does it really lean into that or is it kind of a fake? So 798 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,880 I think the way to look at it is it's a very strong critique against 799 00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:15,719 white liberals and their embrace of identitarianism. And in order to do that, 800 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:21,079 it has to do a lot of stupid stuff to enable white liberals to watch 801 00:58:21,119 --> 00:58:25,280 it without being angry. And so like one sister is an abortionist and then 802 00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:31,960 one brother is super gay and you know, it's like to me at Red, 803 00:58:32,119 --> 00:58:37,599 like, don't get mad at us for critiquing you for your awful ideas. 804 00:58:37,679 --> 00:58:44,559 But then on the aspect of identity, for like how people try to 805 00:58:44,679 --> 00:58:49,280 boil down black identity into like something very simple and stupid. I liked that, 806 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,920 I liked how I liked how it explored that, and even how it 807 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:54,719 resolved in the end. But the end is a bit of a cop out. 808 00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:58,440 There's like a I won't give it away, but there's like kind of 809 00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:05,000 a big cop out at the end. And I don't know probably, but 810 00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:08,639 I would say again, the performance by Jeffrey Wright I thought was very good 811 00:59:08,719 --> 00:59:13,280 and believable, and he's a very talented actor, so I think he's up 812 00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,679 for an Oscar and I would not be totally shocked for him to get it. 813 00:59:15,719 --> 00:59:19,119 Was it something you saw in the theater or was this a streaming I'm 814 00:59:19,159 --> 00:59:21,760 not going to ask you which streaming service, but was it on your TV? 815 00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,719 It was on TV okay, because my husband and I don't leave our 816 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:30,679 house, so we did have to pay like full price. You know, 817 00:59:30,719 --> 00:59:31,960 it was like a twenty dollars got it, got it, got it? 818 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:37,159 So it was a movie. Yeah, all right, anything else? Yeah, 819 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:39,079 I'm waiting for you to tell us what we're going to flip. Okay. 820 00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:45,639 I watched a movie called Self Reliance. Have you heard of this? 821 00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:51,079 No? It is on Hulu and it's directed and stars Jake Johnson from The 822 00:59:51,119 --> 00:59:54,639 New Girl. Do you know that actor? No? Oh? Wait, 823 00:59:54,719 --> 00:59:57,199 I do? I do know who he is? I think? Yeah, 824 00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,239 yeah, I like him. I like him. Yeah, he was funny. 825 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:06,079 And Anna Kendrick like her too. She's in it. And it is 826 01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:10,199 a movie about Oh yeah, it's like a game show and like you're running 827 01:00:10,239 --> 01:00:14,440 through the dark where yeah, people are going to try to kill you unless 828 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:19,719 you're with someone else. It was it was okay. I didn't hate it. 829 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,039 I didn't particularly love it, like we're a first outing as a director. 830 01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:27,840 I thought it was interesting enough and I like him enough to watch it, 831 01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,159 and so I would give it a soft recommend, as you did with 832 01:00:31,239 --> 01:00:36,239 American Fiction, which is an Oscar nominated movie. This will not be Oscar 833 01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:42,000 name nominated. Okay, do you want me to go on or do you 834 01:00:42,039 --> 01:00:44,480 have something? I don't have anything else, So that's it. Okay. 835 01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,320 I'm reading or I almost finished reading a book this week about a new Oh, 836 01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:51,760 I don't have it in front of me. Kubrick Stanley Kubrick biography that 837 01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,480 came out. So because that came out because I was reading it, and 838 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:59,400 because I had watched his early movies earlier this year recommended them. I watched 839 01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,639 two thousand Want a Space Odyssey, which I hadn't seen in years, and 840 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:08,000 I would say that for modern viewers it's probably a little boring to watch. 841 01:01:08,199 --> 01:01:10,480 But when you think about it in the context of when he made it, 842 01:01:10,519 --> 01:01:15,079 I think he began making it in nineteen sixty five and finished maybe sixty eight. 843 01:01:15,079 --> 01:01:19,760 I forget exactly the years. It is an incredible technical achievement. It 844 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:24,079 is basically the template for like all good science fiction moving forward, and if 845 01:01:24,119 --> 01:01:29,840 you watch it with that in mind, I think that it's something that it's 846 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:34,039 quite enjoyable. And it deals with AI as well, which is just you 847 01:01:34,039 --> 01:01:37,679 know, topical. I mean, hal is basically AI gone nuts, So 848 01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,760 that's an amazing thing. Then I was watching on HBO. I had never 849 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,559 watched the full You ever have a series where you give it like a shot, 850 01:01:45,559 --> 01:01:49,320 like numerous times, but never takes you know, it's like your two 851 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,079 episodes, and so Boardwalk Empire is one of these shows for me. Terrence 852 01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:55,920 Winter, I think, is the writer and creator and he was with soprano. 853 01:01:57,039 --> 01:02:00,320 So I'm pushing through and it's beautiful. It's really cool to look at. 854 01:02:01,039 --> 01:02:05,599 Though they make Warren Harding a bad guy in this show, so I'm 855 01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:07,840 a little bit put off by that, but so I'm pushing through with that. 856 01:02:08,239 --> 01:02:13,039 And the last thing I wanted to say that I'm watching some episodes cleaning 857 01:02:13,119 --> 01:02:15,000 up the show is Colombo, which is I think the greatest show ever made. 858 01:02:15,559 --> 01:02:20,320 And I actually started writing an appreciation. It's already like three thousand words 859 01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,400 that will probably run in the Federalist at some point. Great, you wait 860 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:27,840 for that. You know that I'm always right on that edge, to the 861 01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:35,280 edge of culture, and everyone's talking about I'll be piling up on that one. 862 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,079 I don't know. I think people should more people should watch it. 863 01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:43,280 It is just so innovative and amazing. I'm going to explain why I think 864 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:49,440 that's true. That is all I have. So I think that's all we 865 01:02:49,519 --> 01:02:52,679 have. Okay, Great, So kind of quickly ask you one thing, 866 01:02:52,719 --> 01:02:55,480 So you don't do anything on Valentine's Day? Is that what you said before? 867 01:02:57,079 --> 01:03:00,039 You don't celebrate at all? I put things together for the do you 868 01:03:00,039 --> 01:03:05,280 do nothing with your with your husband? Mark Hemingway. Though Mark and I 869 01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:09,559 have an amazingly happy and healthy marriage, I have to preficit with excuses. 870 01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:16,239 I'm just askings not he doesn't really like give things or he looks. I 871 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:20,920 did write him a card today and he's looked kind of confused. When I 872 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,639 gave it to him, he was like, what is this? It's like 873 01:03:23,679 --> 01:03:29,159 my wife, right, So I learned over so this is our thirtieth Valentine's 874 01:03:29,199 --> 01:03:34,719 Day together dating included. Yeah. So I learned probably twenty five years in 875 01:03:35,079 --> 01:03:37,559 that I should occasionally write down if she says she like wants something or like 876 01:03:37,599 --> 01:03:40,679 something, so I'll write it down. But then I noticed if I buy 877 01:03:40,719 --> 01:03:44,199 it, she's like, why are you spending so much money on this thing? 878 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,400 You know? Just because I mentioned it doesn't you know. So I 879 01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,119 don't know what to do. I feel like there's nothing I can do to 880 01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:54,440 win, so I just try to be nice to her all Day's a lesson 881 01:03:54,440 --> 01:04:00,119 for the kids. Lesson for the kids. Yeah, okay, well, 882 01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,000 nice speaking to you, Molly. I hope everyone enjoyed the show. We'll 883 01:04:03,039 --> 01:04:05,960 be back next week. Until them be Lovers of freedom and anxious for the 884 01:04:06,039 --> 01:04:10,639 fright. Well, I'm glad I'm not in Russia. That's a terrible place 885 01:04:10,639 --> 01:04:14,320 to be. I'm glad I'm not in Russia, and Russia's not in me. 886 01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,079 The people were in Russia, they just ain't free. I ain't going 887 01:04:18,119 --> 01:04:20,320 to Russia. Russia,