WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.519 Good evening and welcome to another edition of The Cajun 2 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.439 Knight Live. I am your host, The Cajun Knight, Jacob Mook, 3 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.960 and thank you everybody for joining me on this evening. 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:16.719 I wanna go ahead and apologize now. My voice is 5 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.039 starting to crack a bit. I've got this throat thing 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:21.480 going on. It's a whole situation, but we're gonna push 7 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:23.679 through and we're gonna make this happen. A lot of 8 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.120 things that discussed tonight. We're gonna be talking a little 9 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.160 bit about Trump, a little bit about the situation, not 10 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.239 just with Epstein, but a lot of things that Trump 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.240 is doing in spite of and in lieu of the 12 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.640 Epstein conversation. We're gonna swap over to NATO and Turkey 13 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.799 and how both of these relate to bricks. Then we're 14 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.479 gonna swap over to what's going on in Israel right 15 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.119 now with them bombing the only Catholic church in Gaza. 16 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.840 I find that to be quite a flex that they 17 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.399 just took and killed the priest. If I'm not mistaken, 18 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:53.640 We're gonna read about it, don't worry. And then we're 19 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.000 gonna swap over to Southeast Asia. Cambodia has got some 20 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.159 wild things going on. They have for a while, and 21 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.280 I mean mr still in an open civil war. So 22 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.799 that whole area of what some might call Indo China 23 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.719 is got a lot going on. We're gonna talk about 24 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.200 it all for anybody who is joining us on the 25 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.719 audio version, you're listening on the Cult to Conspiracy. 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The Justice Department faces subpoena over Epstein files 37 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.480 by House Oversight Committee. So if anybody that hasn't heard 38 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.560 long story shorts I have, you've been living under a 39 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.799 rock for the past two weeks. All of the Trump 40 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.719 cabinet people and his administration who have said up and 41 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.400 down that we are gonna give full disclosure. There's ten 42 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.480 thousand hours of videos that are sitting on Pambondi's desk, 43 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.800 and she's gonna go through it. They have the list. 44 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.280 We remember just a few months ago and they had 45 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.800 all these quote unquote influencers. If I said their names, 46 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.159 you wouldn't know them, but they self style themselves as 47 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.039 influencers whatever. And they had this big photohop where they 48 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:25.199 had these giant three inch binders saying Epstein List Part one, 49 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.080 and they were all holding it up like it was 50 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.080 a big victory thing. Then when you could look at 51 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.520 the side view of these binders, they were completely empty 52 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:33.680 and it was in fact all a photoop. We even 53 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.319 talked about that on the Cult as a matter of fact. 54 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.560 But anyway, now with all of these things, and now 55 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.280 they had new video evidence to talk about, Oh, Epstein 56 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.840 clearly did kill himself, and it was this whole thing, 57 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.560 even though the video is clearly doctored, clearly edited, and 58 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.199 has a minute and six seconds missing from it. Then 59 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.120 this whole list, the list never existed. That was all 60 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.319 part of the ploy. It was all part of a plot, 61 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.879 and all this So story short, the Justice Department, who 62 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.080 is saying that there is nothing more to look into 63 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.759 at the Epstein conversation, is now about to face subpoena. 64 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.280 I believe they should. But let's learn a little bit 65 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.439 about this here. Matter of fact, there's a video we're 66 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.639 gonna play to kind of give the overarching view here. 67 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:15.159 Let's listen. 68 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.439 In this morning is the Jeffrey Epstein saga rages on. 69 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.439 Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who until recently was President 70 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.639 and Trump's personal lawyer, is preparing to meet with Epstein's 71 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.319 former companion, Glaine Maxwell, who is serving a twenty year 72 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.960 prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to traffic underage girls. 73 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:35.319 President and Trump. 74 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.560 Says talking with Maxwell wasn't his idea, but he's fine 75 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:38.840 with it. 76 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:39.280 Yeah. 77 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.199 I don't know about it, but I think it's something 78 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.360 that would be sounds appropriate to do you. 79 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.439 This comes as Maxwell has been appealing her case trying 80 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.240 to get out of prison. Trump used to socialize with 81 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.240 Epstein and Maxwell and was asked about her when she 82 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:53.800 was arrested in twenty twenty. 83 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.319 Do you feel that she's going to turn in powerful men? 84 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:57.759 How do you see that working out? 85 00:03:58.159 --> 00:03:58.639 I don't know. 86 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.400 I haven't really been following it to much. 87 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:01.520 I just wish her well. 88 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:02.000 Frankly. 89 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.280 In an interview with Axio shortly after that, he wished 90 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:06.280 her well yet again. 91 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.000 Mister prestct glean Nexwell has been arrested on allegations of 92 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:11.400 child sex trafficking. 93 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:13.879 Why would you wish such a person? 94 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.960 We don't know that, but I do know that she has. 95 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:17.319 She's been arrested for that. 96 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.759 Friend or boyfriend Epstein was either killed or committed suicide 97 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:22.240 in jail. 98 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:23.639 She's now in jail. 99 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:24.319 Uh huh, yeah. 100 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:24.959 I wish you well. 101 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:25.680 I'd wish you well. 102 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.000 I'd wish a lot of people well. 103 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:27.959 Good luck. 104 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.240 Trump and some of his top allies spent years stoking 105 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.879 shadowy conspiracy theories about Epstein, but now his administration has 106 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.240 backed off or promise to release the full FBI files 107 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:39.879 on Epstein. 108 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:45.240 The President's staff, administration, his own children, his Vice president 109 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.160 have promised that these files would come. 110 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.199 Out, and now we're being told it's a hoax. It 111 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:50.439 just doesn't wash. 112 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.879 The House Oversight Committee Tuesday voted to subpoena Maxwell to testify, 113 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.199 but Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a close ally 114 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.120 of the President announced Congress this is going into early 115 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.240 recess this summer, avoiding any more votes on the Epstein case. 116 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:10.319 The Trump administration is falsely claiming that Obama deliberately manufactured 117 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.920 and politicized intelligence reports about Russian interference in the twenty 118 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:19.800 sixteen election. In a rare rebuke, Obama fired back, his spokesman, 119 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.839 pointing to the quote widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked 120 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:27.680 to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election but did not 121 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:32.040 successfully manipulate any votes. Obama noted that those findings were 122 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:36.079 affirmed by Republicans in Congress at the time, including Trump's 123 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.800 now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Obama spokesman adding quote, 124 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.680 these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. 125 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.199 The Justice Department won't say when Deputy Attorney General Todd 126 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.000 Blanche will meet with Maxwell or where she's currently serving 127 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.360 her sentence in a federal prison in Florida. Maxwell's attorney 128 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.439 tells ABC News they are in discussions with the government, 129 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.240 saying in a statement, quote, Galaine will always testify truthfully. 130 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.319 Okay, I feel like that's a bit of a lie 131 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.839 just right off the rip, but Yeah, a lot of 132 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.279 things to unpacked. There a lot of things to unpack, 133 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.279 and some of them we already kind of talked about here, 134 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.000 not just Trump, not just his family, his whole cabinets 135 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.560 that we'd get full disclosure. Now they're saying there is 136 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.079 nothing to disclose. It was all a hoax, and now 137 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.399 Trump is pivoting from talking about what's going on here 138 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.199 to the twenty sixteen election was rigged and Obama was 139 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.839 a mastermind colluding with Russia. We're gonna talk about it 140 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.240 all here, let's read in A House Oversight subcommittee voted 141 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.920 Wednesday to subpoena the Department of Justice to release the 142 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:47.000 Jeff Epstein files. The motion passed by a vote of 143 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.759 eight to two. Notably, three GOP lawmakers were Representative Nancy Mace, 144 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.680 Scott Perry, and Brian Jack, joined with Democrats on the 145 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:01.360 subcommittee to approve the subpoena, defying Republican Leadership Oversight Committee 146 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.519 excuse click that one. The House Oversight Committee James Comer 147 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.199 might be I'm sorry, must sign the subpoena before it 148 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.600 has been officially issued. Per committee rules. Comber plans to 149 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.319 sign off on the subpoena a Republican committee source told 150 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.720 ABC News the top Democrat on the subcommittee, Republican Summer Lee, 151 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.639 a representative Summer Lee rather initially offered the motion here 152 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.199 we go. Republicans on the committee pushed back and amended 153 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.920 the subpoena to also include communications by Biden's administration officials 154 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:36.000 and the DOJ. These officials include Bill and Killery, Clinton, 155 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:42.000 James Comy, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller 156 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.720 or Mueller I'm not sure, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, and 157 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.800 Alberto Gonzalez. And if you recognize some of those names, 158 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.079 that's because they are some of the more prominent shitheads 159 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:52.879 that always seem to be in the mix when things 160 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:58.160 are going awry. Anyway, Oversight ranking member Representative Robert Garcia 161 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.120 said in a statement that the subcommittee's votes on Wednesday 162 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.319 was just the first step towards accountability and we will 163 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:08.120 continue pushing for the truth. Today, Oversight Democrats fought for 164 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.199 transparency and accountability on the Epstein files and one I 165 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.639 don't really classify this as a win just yet, but 166 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.600 we shall see. House Republicans didn't make it easy, but 167 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.360 the motion was finally passed to force the Department of 168 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:25.000 Justice to release the Epstein files. Garcia said the news 169 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:29.079 comes the same day House Oversight Committee Chairman Comber, which 170 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.039 Comber is a whole other one, on Wednesday issued a 171 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:35.519 subpoena to Glaine Maxwell Jizlaine Maxwell. I don't know how 172 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.960 to pronounce her name. There's too many consonants and too 173 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.200 many fowls. Whatever Maxwell, okay, the woman in question, the 174 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.960 convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, for a deposition to occur 175 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:51.080 at Federal Correction Institution Tallahassee on August eleventh. The fact 176 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:55.080 in circumstances surrounding both you and mister Epstein's cases have 177 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.200 received immense public interest and scrutiny, Comber wrote in a 178 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.840 statement Wednesday. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other 179 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.679 charges and sentenced to twenty years in prison in twenty 180 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.240 twenty two. What we're talking about here is someone who's 181 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.399 in federal prison on appeal. So our attorneys will have 182 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.399 to communicate with her attorneys to see if there are 183 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.960 terms if she wants, Comber said before the subpoena was issued. 184 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.440 If there are no terms, we'll roll in there quick. 185 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.600 The situation will be similar to Comber's efforts to interview 186 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:27.720 Jason Galanis, a former business partner of Hunter Biden and 187 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:31.440 Devon Archer. Yeah, Devin Archer, Devon Archer. I don't know. 188 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.320 During the GOP's impeachment inquiry of then President Joe Biden, 189 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.759 I did that with Jason Galanis, and the Democrats were 190 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.960 real offended that we would want to interview anyone in prison. 191 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.440 But now you know, they're all, they're all they want 192 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.600 to interview someone in prison. Comber said, Okay, I feel 193 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:53.480 like he kind of spoke that one. Weird, but all right, whatever. 194 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.399 The committee has shown a propensity to record video of 195 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.960 the interviews and release content after wards, as it did 196 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.679 with several former Biden officials who invoked their Fifth Amendment 197 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:08.279 rights earlier this summer. Shocker. That's another big thing. You know, 198 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:10.840 we talked about that last week. As a matter of fact, 199 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.279 Jill Biden's top associate, the White House doctor, all of 200 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.159 them when they were brought into question pretty much just 201 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.639 held up the number five. They're gonna call that Fifth Amendment. 202 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.200 They're gonna plead the fifth I mean to say fifth, 203 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:25.759 you know what I'm saying. That's just how it goes. 204 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.799 So it's possible there could be handout video from the deposition. Yeah, 205 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:34.559 we'll see separately. Attorney General Pam Bamdy said Monday that 206 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.799 Attorney or Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche will meet with Maxwell 207 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:43.240 sometime in the coming days. President Donald Trump last week 208 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.399 said on his social media platform that he had ordered 209 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.360 the Justice Department to release all grand jury testimony with 210 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.279 respect to Jeffrey Epstein's subject only to court approval. Comer 211 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.159 has said also, I'm sorry. Comber also has signaled that 212 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.039 the circumstances of a closed door deposition at a federal 213 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.279 prison could attract both Democrats and Republicans to attend the interview. Well, 214 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.200 I should hope so. Right this, you would think that 215 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:10.679 this would be a bipartisan issue. You would think that anybody, 216 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.320 regardless of what side of the isle they're on, would 217 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.480 want to see justice for what these monsters did to 218 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.200 these victims. Right However, I feel like that list has 219 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.639 a lot of people with very different letters by their names. 220 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.200 But you know, we'll see who shows up. I suppose 221 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.039 there will be so many members of Congress that it'll 222 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.080 want to be that will want to be in that prison. 223 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.720 Commerce said, I would assume that there will be a 224 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.440 lot of members of the oversight committee on both in 225 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.519 both parties. They'll want to be there. Yeah, well, we 226 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.399 should hope. A congressional subpoena is a formal legal order 227 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.200 issued by a congressional committee or individual compelling their testimony. 228 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.200 David Oscar Marcus, Appellit Council for Maxwell, said in a 229 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.000 statement to ABC News that Maxwell looks forward quote unquote 230 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.320 to meeting with Blanche and that the meeting will inform 231 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:06.039 how she proceeds with the subpoena. As for the congressional subpoena, 232 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.559 Miss Maxwell has taking this one step at a time. 233 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.960 She looks forward to her meeting with the Department of 234 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.720 Justice and that discussion will help inform how she proceeds. 235 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:17.679 Marcus also responded to comments from the House Speaker Mike 236 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.960 Johnson earlier Wednesday questioning Maxwell's credibility as a witness if 237 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.279 they see fit to bring the Jesu Laine Maxwell for testimony. 238 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.679 To bring in Islaine Maxwell for testimony. God, I'm having 239 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.879 issues reading this evening. That's fine, I won't note the 240 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.000 obvious concern the caveat that Chairman Comber and I and 241 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:39.159 everyone that has that could she be counted on to 242 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.960 tell the truth. Yeah, again, these people don't make sense 243 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.639 with their words. If she is a credible witness, okay, 244 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.720 and fair enough, they're basically saying, like, will she even 245 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.200 tell the truth if we were to subpoena her, Is 246 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.720 she even a credible witness at this point? I mean, 247 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.840 we could look at a character assassination of her pretty easily, 248 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.799 and I feel like a lot of people would probably 249 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.879 not take what she says to heart. However, I guess 250 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:08.120 it all depends on what she says and who she 251 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.039 implements and everything else. We understand Speaker Johnson's general concern 252 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.000 Congress should always vet the credibility of its witnesses, but 253 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.480 in this case those concerns are unfounded. If miss Maxwell 254 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.600 agrees to testify before Congress and not take the fifth 255 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.399 which could happen, and that remains a big If she 256 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:32.600 would testify truthfully as she always has said to, as 257 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:36.399 she always has said she would, and as she will 258 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.000 with mister Blanche, the truth should not be feared or 259 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:44.440 preemptively dismissed. Marcus said in a statement, Okay, so this 260 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.159 is kind of all coming to a head all at 261 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.879 the same time here, And with that being said, we 262 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.360 also have another article from USA today. This one is 263 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.919 rather interesting. Pam Bondy reportedly told Donald Trump in May 264 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:01.679 that he's named in the Epstein files. So she told 265 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.159 him this in May. However, if you were to look 266 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.919 on for any news group right now, they're reporting on 267 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.440 this today and by two day I mean within the 268 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.120 last six hours of time of recording. So if she 269 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:15.799 told him this in May, why are they just getting 270 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:19.600 this information now? I also find it interesting that Donald 271 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.440 Trump had his own section of the CIA go through 272 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.519 the entire Epstein logs and lists and all the files 273 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:30.320 and had them flag anytime his name was mentioned. Why 274 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.000 would you do that if you weren't worried that you 275 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.039 would be mentioned in the files. This is one of 276 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:41.279 those things. Right when RFK Junior, when they first had 277 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.080 any question about if he ever flew on the Lolita Express, 278 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.000 if you ever had any dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, he 279 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.279 got ahead of it. He said, you're gonna see my 280 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.159 name on the flight logs because I flew from point 281 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.440 A to point B and from point C to point 282 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.840 D two times. Here's the situation. Here's how it happened. 283 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.639 That was my entire dealings with the guy. I don't 284 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:02.080 know if that was a true statement or if that 285 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.039 was him just trying to perpetuate a story so that 286 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.679 it doesn't look as bad. But my point is, if 287 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.879 you know that you're gonna be on the list, at 288 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.279 least try to cook up a story, at least try 289 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.600 to have something. Or if you really are innocent of 290 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:19.120 any kind of real Malfeesians, you better have a freaking 291 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.559 alibi here. Instead, Trump hired goons from the CIA to 292 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:27.159 go through the entire file and then flag and remove 293 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.279 his name from any documentation. How did he know? Probably 294 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.480 because Pam Bondi told him this in May. Now again 295 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.799 a few weeks ago, she said that she had not 296 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.360 yet gone through the files. There was ten thousand things 297 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.679 on her desk, and she was gonna get to it immediately. 298 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.200 Yet somehow in May she went through it enough to 299 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.440 know that old Donnie T was on the list in 300 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.559 some way, shape or form. Now, also, did that mean 301 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.279 flight list? Did he borrow the plane from time to time? 302 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.600 Did it mean a business associate? We do know that 303 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.879 Epstein and Trump used to be very cordial, very friendly 304 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.440 in the nineties, in the early two thousands. There was 305 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.960 allegedly a big split between them, and I think it 306 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.759 was four. Does it mean that he was a part 307 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.279 of the client list, flight log list, roll of decks 308 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:20.399 of business associates lists. We don't know. We don't know, 309 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.679 but that's the question, right, So let's read in here. 310 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:27.240 The Attorney general reportedly told Donald Trump that in the 311 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:31.559 spring that he and many others were named in the 312 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.600 government's files on Jeffrey Epstein. This is from Washington Attorney 313 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.720 General Pamboma. He told President Donald Trump in May that 314 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.679 he was named multiple times in the government's files on 315 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.639 Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal 316 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:49.399 and CNN. Understand, yes, we must question the source. Shocker 317 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.120 that the Wall Street Journal and CNN would be running 318 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.120 with this if there was even a whiff of any 319 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.799 truth here. I'm not saying that makes it not credible. 320 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.879 But we also do know that these new whose agencies 321 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.559 lie more often than they tell the truth. I get that, 322 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.039 but let's keep going. A White House official did not 323 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.240 dispute Trump's name is mentioned in the Epstein files, telling 324 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.720 USA Today that briefing Binders BONDI prepared for the MAGA 325 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.920 influencers in February. Those would be the influencers I was 326 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.119 talking about. They'll quote unquote influencers with those big binders 327 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.720 that were empty. I might add, but neither here nor 328 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:26.119 there included the President's name. But the official rejected any 329 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.839 suggestion that Trump engaged in wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. 330 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.759 Bondi told the president that he and many other figures 331 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.160 were named in the documents. According to the reports from 332 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:38.400 the Journal and CNN, again test the source. The Journal 333 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:44.279 cited quote senior administration officials end quote, while CNN cited 334 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:50.319 quote sources familiar with the discussion end quote. Okay, once again, 335 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.839 we must make sure that we are testing the source 336 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.640 on this, but anyway, let's continue here. Being named in 337 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.079 such documents doesn't mean the person broke the law. The 338 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.759 fact that the the fact is that the President kicked 339 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.400 him out of his club for being a creep, said 340 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.240 White House communications director Stephen Chung, referring to Trump's Mar 341 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.079 A Lago club in Florida. Now, I'll have a little 342 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.599 bit of an issue with this, I do. I do. 343 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.119 So everybody's seen that video, especially right now, BART mean 344 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:23.279 where Trump invited Epstein to his penthouse suite, and I 345 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:24.759 think it was in New York. It was a part 346 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:29.319 of some you know, the Next Great Calendar Girl pageant 347 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.440 or something that he was hosting, right, And he invited 348 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.039 all of these young models. And when I say young, 349 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.480 I want to say the youngest person in attendance was 350 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:42.039 like sixteen or seventeen. But the majority, the vast majority 351 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.480 of them were around twenty two years old. So it 352 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.839 wasn't like it was a bunch of just teenagers running around. 353 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.960 But it also doesn't help that there was someone there 354 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.480 that was underage. And I don't know how many, but 355 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.039 he invited them to his hotel or his penthouse whatever 356 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.200 to meet with some wealthy people that could help help 357 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.599 them in their career. You know, if you're a young model, 358 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:05.880 you get in touch with some very wealthy individuals and 359 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.839 perhaps they know somebody in the media space, perhaps they 360 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.000 know somebody who does some publishing for a magazine, whatever 361 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.400 the case is. It's a networking gambit. And I get that, Okay, 362 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:20.920 nothing inherently wrong there until you realize that the only 363 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:26.680 rich person that was invited was Epstein. Oh, by the way, 364 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.079 he was the only person invited to this party. Not 365 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.640 even just the only rich person. It was literally Donald Trump, Epstein, 366 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:39.039 Maxwell is laying Maxwell and then all of these calendar girls. 367 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.240 That paints a different picture now that we have the 368 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:45.200 full context of the situation. That's all I'm gonna say. 369 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.519 So the fact that you kicked him out of his 370 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:51.599 club for being a creep homeboy, you knew he was 371 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:56.039 a creep for decades, I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, 372 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.039 this is nothing more than a continuation of the i 373 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.440 fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, 374 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.440 just like the Obama Russia Gate scandal, which President Trump 375 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:10.599 was right about, Chung said, which we will get to 376 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.079 the Russian Gate conversation. I'm not saying that that was incorrect. 377 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.920 I'm saying that most of us already knew that most 378 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.720 of us already knew that the Democrats were the ones 379 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:24.480 that were colluding with not just China, with Russia. During 380 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.000 the twenty sixteen election, there wasn't much question there. Putin 381 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:31.279 and Trump were on very good terms, They were very cordial. 382 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:34.440 They were both business minded individuals. So what would make 383 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.480 not Putin specifically, but what would make the Russian agencies 384 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:42.640 throw in their lot with the Democrats anyway? And we'll 385 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:44.720 get to all of it here in a bit. The 386 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.599 reports offer potential additional contexts for the Justice Department's decision 387 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.480 not to make the Epstein files public. In a memo 388 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.000 released July seventh, the Department said a review of the 389 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.119 documents failed to turn up any incriminating lists of clients 390 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.359 who may have been involved with Epstein in a sex 391 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.240 trafficking ring. Again, that's very counterintuitive to what they were 392 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.160 telling us for months and months and years now. The 393 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:13.880 same review found no evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent people 394 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.720 or that he was murdered while in custody. According to 395 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:20.200 the memo, New York's chief medical examiner ruled in twenty 396 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:23.240 nineteen that Epstein died of suicide, but Trump himself has 397 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:28.480 previously previously expressed suspicion about that conclusion, along with most 398 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.519 of the you know, thinking world. There's no way that 399 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:34.960 he would have gotten the fractures to his neck and 400 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.119 jaw that he had from hanging himself with paper thin 401 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.039 bed sheets. I'm sorry, even the manner in which he 402 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.200 hung himself off of a bedpost. You're not gonna snap 403 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.440 your neck, even if you were to drop all of 404 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:50.200 your weight from that distance that's that's not gonna be 405 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:52.880 enough to snap a neck. There's a reason if you 406 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.400 look at the old Western movies, right, there's a reason 407 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.720 why the news has to have thirteen knots in it, 408 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.880 or loops in the knot. I should say there's a 409 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:02.880 reason why there is a minimal drop distance because that 410 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.000 knot has to hit with so much force that it 411 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.640 snaps the neck. That's not going to happen with bedsheets 412 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:14.119 from a three foot sit down. So anyway, Yeah, most 413 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.640 human beings would question the statistics on his quote unquote 414 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.119 suicide anyway, certainly about the way Epstein died. It would 415 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.680 be interesting to find out what happened there because that 416 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:27.480 was a weird situation and the cameras didn't happen to 417 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:31.480 be working, et cetera. Trump said on Fox and Friends 418 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.839 Weekend on June third of last year. Now, Trump faces 419 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:40.440 backlash over the Epstein files decision. This revelation comes as 420 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.680 the Trump administration has faced an intense backlash over the 421 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:47.200 Justice Department's decision not to disclose the Epstein files. Earlier 422 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:50.559 this year, Bondi made public statements that the build up 423 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:54.599 in I sorry, that build up intrigue about the Epstein files. 424 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:57.319 It's a new day, it's a new administration, and everything's 425 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:59.720 going to come out to the public, Bondie told Fox 426 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.759 News hos Sean Hannity in the March interview. Amid the scrutiny, 427 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.480 Trump has tried to shift attention to other red meat 428 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:13.119 topics that resonate with the magabase, including unsubstantiated allegations that 429 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.319 former President Barack Obama committed quote unquote treason during the 430 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.440 twenty sixteen election when intelligence agencies found Russia was attempting 431 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.799 to influence the election in Trump's favor. It's time for 432 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:31.359 they were trying to influence the election in Trump's favor. Okay, 433 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:39.079 President Obama, old Brack Hussin committed treason when intelligence agencies 434 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:42.759 found Russia was attempting to influence the election in Trump's favor. 435 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.720 If that doesn't make sense to you out loud, good, 436 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.519 it shouldn't, right. But anyway, it's time to go after people, 437 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.279 Trump's said on July twenty second. Trump on July fifteenth, 438 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.720 alleged that his political enemies made up the Epstein files. 439 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:03.319 When a reporter asked whether Bondi told the President that 440 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.920 his name is in the files, No, no, Trump said, 441 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.279 she's given us just a very quick briefing, and in 442 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:13.519 terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen, 443 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:15.799 I would say that these files are made up by 444 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.960 Comy Obama. They were made up by Biden, and we 445 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:23.640 went through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax. 446 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:28.000 Oh my god. Okay. Trump has said BONDI should release 447 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:31.559 all credible information from the Epstein files, even though what 448 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.279 we're hearing right now is that there is no information 449 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.680 in the Epstein files. Apparently Epstein and Maxwell just kind 450 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:40.880 of did these things all by themselves. There's over a 451 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:45.359 thousand victims confirmed, so apparently that was just Epstein and 452 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:49.720 Maxwell by their day mnself. There's no other parties according 453 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:53.519 to what we're hearing now. But anyway, last week, Trump 454 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:56.440 said that he directed BONDI to ask a federal court 455 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.960 to produce a all pertinent grand jury testimony from federal 456 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.839 cases brought against Epstein and his associates convicted sex traffickurgisline Maxwell. 457 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.839 A federal judge and Florida rejected one of the administration's 458 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.920 requests on July twenty third. Two other requests are still 459 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.440 pending in a Manhattan Federal Court. 460 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:16.759 Wow. 461 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:20.119 Okay, so I wonder how long this video is? President 462 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:23.799 Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship over the years explained. 463 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.799 Let's see. 464 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.279 Long before Donald Trump was president and Jeffrey Epstein died 465 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:31.400 by suicide in a jail cell, they were poster boys 466 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.680 for the New York City party scene in the nineties. 467 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.319 The pair reportedly met in nineteen ninety after Epstein bought 468 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.880 a mansion in Palm Beach, just a few miles from 469 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:42.319 mar A Lago. As Epstein was climbing the ranks of 470 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.599 high society, Trump appeared to be in his social circle. 471 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.559 In nineteen ninety two, Trump and Epstein were spotted by 472 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:51.839 NBC cameras at a mar Lago party, laughing and dancing 473 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:54.519 to the hit song Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap. 474 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.119 In nineteen ninety five, Epstein moved into a Manhattan townhouse 475 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:01.319 one mile away from Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower. Trump 476 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:04.440 flew on Epstein's private jet between New York and Florida, 477 00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.160 and in two thousand and two, the president famously told 478 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.160 New York Magazine that Epstein was a terrific guy. Trump 479 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.839 told the magazine he has a lot of fun. 480 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:13.160 To be with. 481 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:16.000 It is even said that he likes beautiful women as 482 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:18.279 much as I do, and many of them are on 483 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.160 the younger side. In two thousand and four, Epstein and 484 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.720 Trump had a falling out when Trump outbid him on 485 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:24.279 a mansion. 486 00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:25.240 He later flipped. 487 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:28.559 Trump and Epstein reportedly did not speak for fifteen years 488 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:31.640 before his death. Epstein was convicted of paying teenage girls 489 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:34.119 for sex in two thousand and eight. In twenty nineteen, 490 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:38.000 federal prosecutors accused Epstein of a sex trafficking scheme, but 491 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:40.559 he died before the case went to trial. The president 492 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:43.640 has not been accused of any wrongdoing in the Epstein case, 493 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:47.680 but Trump's name is among the dozens of celebrities, politicians, 494 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:51.200 and business moguls connected to the billionaire. Though Epstein has 495 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.960 been dead for almost six years, his name has come 496 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.480 up again and again since the White House tried to 497 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:59.000 close the book on the case during Trump's second term, 498 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:02.279 even as Trump's pushed for the Justice Department to release 499 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:05.640 more evidence. Trump claims to be baffled by the attention. 500 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:07.519 He's dead for a long time. 501 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.400 He was never a big factor in terms of life. 502 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:14.200 I don't understand what the. 503 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.079 Interest or what the fascination is. 504 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.920 I really don't. 505 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:24.200 You don't understand what the interest or fascination is. This 506 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.480 is kind of a clear sign to me personally, just 507 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.480 Jacob speaking on behalf of Jacob here. He has completely 508 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:35.240 lost contact with what his base actually cares about. He's 509 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:39.160 completely detached at this point. This is one of the 510 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:43.720 biggest campaign promises that people actually wanted and voted him 511 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:47.039 into office to do. Yeah, the border policy, Yeah, the 512 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:51.240 economics and all these things. Yes, agreed, but you ran 513 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.839 with this being a very big sticking point for most 514 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:57.400 of the people that voted for you. The mag of movement, 515 00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:01.119 the Epstein files were connected to the MAGA movement. There 516 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.119 was no separating the TUIs. Matter of fact, now he's 517 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:08.880 gone on and said that, you know, the MAGA supporters 518 00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:14.519 that are believing this Epstein hoax are idiots. These are 519 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:17.359 his words. He's calling them stupid now, and it's like 520 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.039 you are fracturing the very basis that put you in 521 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.799 that office At this point. I'm sad to say this. 522 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.519 Trump is literally just another politician. Everybody hoped that he 523 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.319 wouldn't be this way because well, he's not a politician, 524 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.279 he's a businessman. We've set for decades, we need a 525 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:38.680 businessman to run the country. We'd see how great it 526 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.000 would be in all these things. And his first turn 527 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:42.759 went off very well. Yes there was a lot of 528 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:45.240 scandals and all this, but it wasn't involving with this. 529 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.720 The scandals were mostly perpetuated by the left that was 530 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.240 trying to impeach him. They wanted to see him in 531 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:54.200 a jumpsuit, they wanted to see a mug shot. They 532 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.440 tried twice to impeach him and both fell flat. So 533 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:01.960 with that being said, at this point, with this run 534 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.279 in DC, Trump is showing that Yeah, No, at this 535 00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:08.079 point he's been he's been compromised as far as this 536 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:12.759 whole situation goes. He's just another shthead politician in DC, 537 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:16.599 just like the rest of them. Anyway. The Epstein files 538 00:29:16.599 --> 00:29:20.160 contain a large volumes of images from of Epstein and 539 00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.160 victims who were miners or appear to be minors, the 540 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:25.680 Justice Apartment and FBI said, as well as more than 541 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:28.799 ten thousand videos and images of illegal child sex abuse 542 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:33.039 material and other pornography. The agency's July seventh memos said 543 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.799 federal authorities found no basis to revisit the disclosure of 544 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:40.319 those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography. Okay, 545 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:43.640 no one wants to see that. No one wants to 546 00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:47.759 see the video evidence in question. That's not what the 547 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.160 people are asking for the release. And that's the other thing. 548 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.400 The Justice Apartment is like, we will not release those 549 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.279 videos nude. No one is asking for the videos. We're 550 00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.440 asking for the guilty parties in the videos, and we're 551 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:01.759 at what we're We're not asking to see them, we're 552 00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:07.039 asking for their names. That's it. It's it's ridiculous, but 553 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.599 that is the current situation with this whole shebang before 554 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:13.559 we go to the next one here, I'm gonna go 555 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:15.720 ahead and read the comments because we're about to get 556 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:20.400 into the whole the shift in the the blaming of 557 00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:23.799 other parties and all these things. Here, let's go. This 558 00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:27.279 article was weirdly written. Yeah, I agree, thank you, Raven. 559 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.319 I think it was very strangely written. And for the 560 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.119 ones that were like direct quotes if the person was 561 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:35.559 speaking and kind of misspoke and then they typed it 562 00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:38.880 out as it was said, I get that, but that 563 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:40.920 was kind of weird. I know, I'm having an off night. 564 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:43.920 My voice is a little a little shitty right now, 565 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.319 But that was that was extra random. RFK got the 566 00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:52.759 COVID shot out of the kid's list of injections yesterday. Oh, 567 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.680 very good. Okay, so RFK made to where kids cannot 568 00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:00.359 get the COVID shot. Very good. I'm hoping, hoping that 569 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.000 RFK Junior can do what he set out to do. 570 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:05.160 He's been one of the biggest health nuts. And I 571 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.680 don't mean that in like a disparaging way. I mean 572 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.759 not just the vaccines, and not just the diet, not 573 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.559 just the water supply. It's kind of the all encompassing. 574 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:16.240 I really hope he stays the course and Trump just 575 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:18.400 pretty much lets him do it, you know what I mean. 576 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.200 Let the man cook. All right, let's keep going here 577 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.440 to do. Hey, y'all, Anthony, happy to see you here 578 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:31.920 with his brother. Let's see fourteen more good God Almighty, y'all. Okay, 579 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.559 there's a lot of internal conversations with the chat. All right, 580 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.079 good things, good things. I'm glad that this community with 581 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.799 the Cajun Knight is as cordial with each other as 582 00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:43.119 they are. I really do enjoy this, all right. Next, 583 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:48.720 this is from the BBC. Gabbert says, declassified report exposes 584 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:53.880 the Obama administration. Now, before I read this, I want 585 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:57.799 to let this be known. Now. I haven't always liked 586 00:31:58.039 --> 00:32:03.039 Tulsi Gabbard for her political leanings and things like that. However, 587 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:08.400 I respect her immensely. Lieutenant Colonel Gabbard, it's their current 588 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.039 rank anyway, is a solid woman. I don't know how 589 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.400 she is going to do in DC after this administration 590 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.279 wraps up. I don't know if she has higher aspirations 591 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.400 or what the deal is, but as of this particular moment, 592 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:24.640 I do have an immense amount of respect for her. 593 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.400 I hope that things do not come out and transpire 594 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.920 to make me lose that respect. You know, she ran 595 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:35.319 as a hardcore Democrat for a long time because apparently 596 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.359 in Hawaii that's just how it is. Then she shifted 597 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:41.079 to the Independent Party whenever the left went to the 598 00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:44.680 far psycho left and she couldn't be she couldn't really 599 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.759 associate herself with that. They didn't hold true to her 600 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.240 ideals that she believed in. Now she is a Republican, 601 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:55.480 but it's more of this new age Republican right. It's 602 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:58.000 like a lot of people in the Trump administration, including 603 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:03.079 Trump himself, we're all registered Democrats like twenty years ago. Now, 604 00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:06.319 all of a sudden, there this new type of Republican 605 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.440 which is more of a centrist look, but it's like 606 00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:13.079 just barely right of center, or it's like it's not 607 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:17.160 necessarily Rhino, but it's like a second tier Rhino, second 608 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.960 tier centrist, barely Republican leaning. And I mean again, you 609 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.119 don't have to agree with every single thing that a 610 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:28.079 person believes in to respect them. So before I read this, 611 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.680 I do want to give that out. I respect Lieutenant 612 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:34.160 Colonel Gabbert. I mentally, let's move on. US Director of 613 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:38.200 National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbart has released a previously classified report 614 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:42.119 which says, she points uh. She says, points to a 615 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:47.000 treasonous conspiracy to undermine the results of the twenty sixteen 616 00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:51.359 presidential election. The House Intelligence Committee document takes issue with 617 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:55.359 the conclusion reached by numerous intelligence reports, including one by 618 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.480 the CIA, that Russia saw to help Donald Trump in 619 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.200 that election. Gabbart pere at the White House on Wednesday 620 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:07.759 and said the report reveals egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence. Well, 621 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:11.280 that's kind of how that goes, right. The current person 622 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:14.320 in charge of the Executive Branch runs the CIA because 623 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.440 they are within the department of the Executive Branch. So 624 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:20.079 that's kind of how that goes. If Obama's in charge, 625 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.840 he's gonna sick his intelligence goons to dig up dirt 626 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:26.199 or find whenever they can find, and Trump is currently 627 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:30.159 doing the exact same thing, so I okay. Anyway, Democrats 628 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:32.639 said that the White House is trying to distract from 629 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.719 the ongoing controversy surrounding his decision to not publish the 630 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.159 files or related to Jeffrey Epstein. It seems as though 631 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:42.159 the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything 632 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:47.159 except the Epstein files, Democrat Senator Mark Warner said, adding 633 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.159 that a bipartisan Senate report had backed the CIA's conclusion 634 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.800 about Russia, favoring Trump. Now I'll find that interesting. The report, 635 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:58.679 gabber dclassified, was prepared by Republicans on the House Intelligence 636 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:01.920 Committee and is dated to the eighteenth of September twenty twenty. 637 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:05.800 It was declassified on Wednesday, a day after President Trump 638 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:10.119 accused former President Barack Hussein Obama of leading an effort 639 00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:13.239 to falsely tie him to Russia and undermine his twenty 640 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:18.599 sixteen election campaign. Direct quote here, These bizarre allegations are ridiculous. 641 00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:21.800 In a week attempt at distraction, that would be Obama 642 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.559 speaking on it right now. Right last week, Gabbert threatened 643 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.079 to refer Obama's administration officials to the Justice Department for 644 00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:33.079 prosecution for their actions in twenty sixteen, but offered little 645 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:37.519 detail on any alleged crimes. The declassified report says the 646 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:41.639 CIA did not adhere to the tenets of analytic standards 647 00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:46.480 and used one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a 648 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:51.079 sentence from one of the standard reports, okay, to conclude 649 00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:55.199 that Russias Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win. I mean again, 650 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.920 that doesn't sound crazy out loud. Putin likes Trump, Trump 651 00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.719 liked Putin. I don't know how they favor each other. 652 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:03.599 Right now, we're going to talk about some of that 653 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:07.800 here in a minute. Apparently America just sent a bunch 654 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.760 of Patriot missile systems to Ukraine and Putin's not happy 655 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.480 about it. But in his first term, Putin and Trump 656 00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.880 got along very well, as a matter of fact, and 657 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.199 that's why they always said that, you know, the Kofefe 658 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:21.440 tweet or whatever it was, went back when it was 659 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:25.000 Twitter that was clearly a call sign for some Russian collusion. 660 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.079 In reality, it was like a fat fingered thing. But 661 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:31.840 I don't know. We'll see anyway. There is little evidence 662 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:34.760 in the document, however, that challenges the prevailing view in 663 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.920 the US intelligence that Russia saw to influence the vote 664 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.320 in favor of Trump. Among the key authors of the 665 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:43.880 report was Cash Pttel, who is now Trump's FBI director, 666 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:46.559 and a surprise appearance at the White House Press briefing 667 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:51.639 alongside President Press Secretary Caroline leave it, leave it or 668 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:55.280 leave it, I don't know. On Wednesday, Gabbert said the document, 669 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:59.719 along with another document released on Friday, presented irrefutable evidence 670 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:03.159 that Obama and other officials directed the creation of an 671 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:07.519 intelligence community assessment they knew was false. They knew it 672 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.719 would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 673 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.840 twenty sixteen election to help President Trump. She said. Democrats 674 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:18.320 have condemned the allegations, with many suggesting Trump is seeking 675 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.239 to divert attention away from the Mountain calls to release 676 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.599 the Epstein files, who die of suicide, blah blah blah. 677 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:27.519 I think they do not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein, 678 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:32.199 Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly told reporters they fed into 679 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:34.519 this conspiracy theory and now they want to run away 680 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:38.320 from it. Yeah, well, I guess there's reasons for that 681 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:41.199 in there. Gabbart has filed a criminal referral on the 682 00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:44.960 case to the Justice Department, directly implicating Obama over what 683 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:48.920 she has described as a year's long coup and treason 684 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:53.400 is conspiracy theory or conspiracy against the American people. In 685 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:56.559 response to a question about Epstein on Tuesday, Trump responded 686 00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:58.599 that the which hunt you should be talking about is 687 00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:03.239 that they caught President Obama absolutely cold. Is it's there. 688 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:08.199 He's guilty. This was treason, he said. Okay, again, I'm 689 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:12.880 not saying that's incorrect, but every president who has ever 690 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:17.280 used the CIA to further their own personal agenda could 691 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:22.400 therefore be arguably guilty of treason. And I'm not against that. Fine. 692 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:26.480 If you're gonna fry them, fry them all, including you know, 693 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:33.280 Donnie t himself. Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for former President Obama, 694 00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:36.679 said in a statement earlier this week that no released 695 00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:40.400 information undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to 696 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.559 influence the twenty sixteen election, but did not successfully manipulate 697 00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:48.159 any votes. The US intelligence community published an assessment in 698 00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:52.119 January twenty seventeen concluding that Russia had sought to damage 699 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:56.440 Clinton's campaign and boost Trump in the vote. Three months earlier. 700 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.559 US officials found this effort had included Russia's bought on 701 00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:04.880 social media and hacking of Democratic emails, but they ultimately 702 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:08.280 concluded the impact was probably limited and did not actually 703 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:12.079 change the election results. A twenty twenty bipartisan report by 704 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:14.639 the Senate Intelligence Committee also found that Russia had tried 705 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:18.239 to help Trump's twenty sixteen campaign. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 706 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:20.559 who was the senator at the time, was among the 707 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:25.639 Republicans who co signed that report. So also it's worth 708 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:30.840 mentioning here the Russian bot farms that were used to 709 00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:35.039 boost up Trump's situation and all these things that they're 710 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:40.239 talking about here, the hacking of Democrat emails. That wasn't Russia, 711 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.079 that was Killery herself, that went through and wiped all 712 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.519 of those emails. We remember this, right, We remember the 713 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:49.840 Stele dossier. We remember all the emails that she wiped, 714 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.719 and everybody was pissed that she was using her personal 715 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:55.199 or she was using her work email and her work 716 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:59.960 computer for her personal communications, which inherently I don't ness 717 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.079 necessarily have a problem with. Yes, it's unprofessional, but I 718 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.360 have worked in a few professions where you have a 719 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:08.159 work email and a work computer and although you should 720 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.039 never use those for your personal means, sure it happens. Fine, 721 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:14.639 that's a slap on the wrist in any other context, 722 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.199 except that it was thirty thousand emails that she had erased, 723 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.760 and there was printouts of those that were made by 724 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.159 your boy, John McAfee of the McAfee anti virus software company. 725 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:32.159 He donated a bunch of laptops to the Democratic National 726 00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:35.400 Convention that were later used in the Hillary Clinton campaign. 727 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.559 And what he did basically to assure that they would 728 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:41.760 pay because they were already kind of witch hunting him 729 00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:45.320 for other things. He installed a little bit of spyware 730 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:48.880 and all of the emails that were deleted he had 731 00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:53.639 copies of. They basically implemented that killery was among the 732 00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:57.440 worst of humanity, which again that's to the shock of 733 00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:02.639 literally no one. The the Drenochrome situation, the Frazzle Jip 734 00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:07.400 Drip conversation, Belizian Grove. It's like the female version of 735 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:11.800 Bohemian Grove, the Satanic cult that she's a part of 736 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:14.320 all of these things. That sounds like Alex Jones is 737 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:17.840 going on a whole rant. Here were basically confirmed and 738 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.360 identified with what McAfee found in the emails that were 739 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:25.559 later deleted. So as far as the Russian spying on 740 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:30.880 the Killery campaign, it wasn't Russians. It was an American dude. 741 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.639 But anyway, I digress. All right, let us move on 742 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:44.239 to this next article from NBC News. The Supreme Court 743 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:49.119 allows Trump to fire members of product safety agencies. Now, 744 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:53.360 there's a lot of controversy surrounding the Supreme Court basically 745 00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.000 giving Donnie t the ability to reshape the government as 746 00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.280 he sees fit, especially with what's going on now with 747 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:03.880 the files and the shifting and the pivoting and all 748 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:06.760 these things. But that doesn't negate the fact that they 749 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:10.559 absolutely just gave him that privilege. A judge has restrained 750 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:13.760 three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal 751 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:18.119 agency Congress set up to be independent of political pressure. 752 00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:20.400 Let's read in on this now. The Supreme Court on 753 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.000 Wednesday allow President Trump to fire members of the Consumer 754 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:26.800 Product Safety Commission, a federal agency congress set up to 755 00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:31.760 be independent of political pressures. The justices, granting an emergency 756 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:35.119 request filed by the Trump administration, blocked a Maryland based 757 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:42.039 federal judges ruling that reinstated Mary Boyle, Alexander Hone, Sarik, 758 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:46.840 and Richard trum Trumpka Junior, all of whom were appointed 759 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.159 by President Joe Biden. Without the three members, the five 760 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:54.719 member commission would for now lack the necessary quorum to 761 00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:59.639 fulfill its obligations to protect consumers from defective products. Under 762 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:03.880 EXISTE laws, the members can be removed only for neglect 763 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.079 for duty or I'm sorry, neglect of duty or malfeasans. 764 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:10.440 But Trump went ahead and fired them anyway as he does, 765 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.400 or as he has done to other agencies with similar restrictions, 766 00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:18.119 as part of his aggressive efforts to reshape the federal government. 767 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.880 The Supreme Court may allowed him to fire members of 768 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:25.000 the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit System Protection Board, 769 00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:29.440 casting aside precedent dating to nineteen thirty five that upheild 770 00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:33.960 removal protections. The unsigned order Wednesday said that the latest 771 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:37.280 case was squarely controlled by what the High Court decided then, 772 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.239 as in the previous case, the three liberal judges on 773 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:45.159 the conservative majority court dissented. Once again, the Court uses 774 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:48.960 its emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent 775 00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:53.760 agency as established by Congress. This is justin, Elena Kagan wrote. 776 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:56.559 The Court has ruled in favor of Trump's administration on 777 00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.159 a wide variety of issues in cases that reached the 778 00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.800 Court on an emergent and see basis, with decisions made quickly, 779 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.639 with little explanation, and without extensive briefing or oral arguments. 780 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:10.480 Most recently, the Court on July fourteenth allowed the administration 781 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:14.880 to move ahead with the mass layoffs at the Education Department, which, 782 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.400 for the record, is anybody mad about? Is anybody actually 783 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:21.920 mad that the federal government is getting out of our 784 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:25.800 education system? I'm happy about that. I believe that that 785 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:28.800 should be handled at the smallest and most local level. 786 00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:32.320 Your state should have some influence over what is taught 787 00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:35.360 in the state. Your local county or parish in my 788 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:39.000 state should have say in what gets taught in the classrooms. 789 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:42.599 What does Washington, DC have anything to do with what's 790 00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:47.880 getting taught in bf Nebraska. That sounds ridiculous to me 791 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.360 out loud, But then again, I'm somebody who really really 792 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.400 wants the federal government to have as little interference and 793 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.920 as little hands on our daily lives as possible. I 794 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.760 know a lot of Democrats disagree with me. Anyway, Raven, 795 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:02.199 go ahead. 796 00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:08.559 I think that we should remove state testing, release limited 797 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.400 how much testing that these children are doing, because like 798 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:16.639 a lot of the parishes and counties just want to promote, 799 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.840 they're testing scores and they aren't actually caring about what 800 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.079 the children are learning. And if they're learning, that's a 801 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.400 big thing too. They're not really learning like we should 802 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.519 be adopting styles from overseas. Clearly they know what they're 803 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.159 doing compare to us. That's just me. 804 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:37.480 No, I fully agree with that. It's they're teaching the children, 805 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.920 that is true. They're teaching them how to be really 806 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.800 good test takers. That's all it is. They are basically 807 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:49.719 preparing them to pass the standardized test. Because if this 808 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:54.039 school has scores that are higher than the parish average 809 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:57.039 or county average, higher than the state average, higher than 810 00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:01.039 the country average, they get more federal funding. I don't 811 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:03.880 want that. If anything, that should be an incentive to 812 00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:09.599 remove federal funding and federal bureaucracy from the Education Department, 813 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.039 so that we can get away from this system where 814 00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:14.719 we're teaching children how to pass a test. Instead we 815 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:19.119 should be teaching children the curriculum itself. But I know 816 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:21.559 there's a lot of people that have their own discerning 817 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.440 opinions on this, But yes, Rave and I agree with 818 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.480 you one hundred percent. We have a video that's just 819 00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:28.639 under a minute long. Let's go ahead and listen in 820 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.840 I let you go. I want to get to another issue. 821 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:33.880 Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted a Trump administration request to 822 00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:37.079 allow the president to fire members of independent agencies. But 823 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.840 the court said that doesn't apply to the Federal Reserve. 824 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:41.920 Why that exception? 825 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:44.519 So, the Federal Reserve has this long history in this 826 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:49.199 country of theoretically being not political, being quasi independent, being 827 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.440 quasi private, in the tradition of like the first and 828 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.400 second historic banks of this country. 829 00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:57.360 And it's because the Federal Reserve is supposed to set 830 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.360 long term monetary policy, take care of our long term 831 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.239 nations monetary health, and not be subject to kind of 832 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.079 the political back and forth of a different administration. But 833 00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:08.800 we did have a discent here, for example, from Justice Kaigan, 834 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.599 who said, no, that doesn't make any sense. Because the 835 00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:14.760 Federal Reserve Chair is the same as the FDC, the SEC, 836 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:17.239 et cetera. So it's certainly controversial. 837 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.440 It's an issue people we're talking about with President Trump 838 00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:21.880 talking about whether or not Jerome Powell should stick around 839 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:23.840 as they debate all these issues over inflation. 840 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.559 All right, Okay, Moving in here, It says in ruling 841 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:31.360 against Trump on the independent agency firings, lower Court judges 842 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:34.199 relied on the nineteen thirty five president a case called 843 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:40.840 Humphrey's execut Yeah, Humphrey's executor versus executor. Excuse me, Humphrey's 844 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:44.000 executor versus the United States, which is Supreme Court has 845 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.719 not overturned, but has signaled it will in due course. 846 00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:51.320 The Court has in recent rulings undermined the nineteen thirty 847 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.960 five president by saying similar restrictions on presidential powers involving 848 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:59.559 other Yeah, other agencies are unconstitutional because they infringe on 849 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:02.920 the core constitutional powers of the president. And twenty twenty, 850 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.679 the Court ruled on those grounds in a case involving 851 00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:09.719 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director and followed that up 852 00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:12.599 with a similar ruling a year later concerning the Federal 853 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:17.440 Housing Finance Agency. Okay, Trump and May moved to fire 854 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.480 three Consumer Products Safety Commissioner members. A month later, the 855 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:25.199 US District Court Judge Matthew Maddox ordered that they be reinstated, 856 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:29.599 and they returned to their jobs. While litigation continued. The Richmond, 857 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:32.880 Virginia based Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to 858 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:36.159 put maddocks against ruling on hold. The commission, set up 859 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.199 for or set up in nineteen seventy two rather by Congress, 860 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.960 oversees a wide variety of consumer products issued, including safety 861 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:48.599 standards and research into injury prevention. Senator Amy Klobacker clobe 862 00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:53.199 Booker Klaubaker, I don't know. A Democrat from Minnesota, a 863 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.000 member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, criticized the 864 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:03.519 Supreme Court decision. Wait a minute, the Commerce, Science and 865 00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:08.679 Transportation Committee. Now is she a member of three separate committees? 866 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.119 Or is she is that one committee? Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 867 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.960 How are all three of those lumped in together? I 868 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:18.960 thought the Transportation Committee was its own thing, the Commerce 869 00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.840 was its own thing. Maybe I'm just maybe it's three 870 00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:23.840 separate committees and I'm just looking at it different. I 871 00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.679 don't know anyway, this is her old Clobuoker Clowbacker whatever. 872 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.400 By firing the three Democratic commissioners, the President has undermined 873 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.800 the independent structure of the Commission and its critical work. 874 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:41.400 The Supreme Court is letting it happen. To insinuate the 875 00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:46.119 Commission from politics, Congress gave the members staggered seven year terms, 876 00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:49.400 stipulated that only three could represent the same political party, 877 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.360 and said the President could not fire them at will. 878 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.039 All five members who are appointed by the President and 879 00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.320 confirmed by the Senate are expected to have expertise in 880 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:03.920 consumer product safety issue, right of course, because that's that's 881 00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:08.559 how presidential appointees work. They they're seen to have expertise 882 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:11.719 in the field at which they've been appointed, because that's 883 00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:19.760 that's traditionally how that's gone down. UH Solicitor General Solicitor General, Wow, 884 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:24.159 that's a title. Solicitor General d John Sower said in 885 00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.159 court papers that Maddox's ruling has quote sown chaos and 886 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:33.440 dysfunction at the agency. Wow. With the rest reinstated members 887 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:36.920 moving to undoe actions the Commission took after they were 888 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:42.000 initially fired. Cara Rollings UH Litigation's council for the nonprofit 889 00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:45.360 legal group New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is not directly 890 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.760 involved in the case, but is engaged in other legal 891 00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:50.519 battles against The Commission said in a statement that the 892 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:54.159 High Court's order quote puts an end to the chaos 893 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:58.639 that followed Maddox's ruling. Lawyers for the commission members wrote 894 00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:01.039 in their own filing that the court would be adding 895 00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:03.559 to the disruption if it allowed their clients to be 896 00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:07.000 removed from office a second time. In some cases, three 897 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:11.880 commissioners have been undoing actions that the CPSC unlawfully took 898 00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:16.320 during the time they were prevented from working. The lawyers added, Okay, 899 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:19.599 so again, a lot of things are being shook up 900 00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:23.760 in DC right now, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, 901 00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:27.599 but it's not also necessarily a good thing, especially with 902 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.840 Trump not really acknowledging that the Epstein files are as 903 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:36.480 important as they are and being so detached from the 904 00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:39.239 voter base and from his constituents and from the American 905 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.239 people that he's calling them all a bunch of you know, 906 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:46.239 gullible idiots. I can't believe you fell for this hoax, 907 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:49.079 this thing that the Democrats put on. It's like, bro, 908 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:53.360 wait a minute, that's not accurate. That's not at all 909 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:57.199 what people are thinking here then too, you know, hard 910 00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:02.800 pivot to a treasonous hack by Barack, which again, his 911 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:06.360 entire presidency was treason. This I'm pretty sure that's also 912 00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:08.960 like Kat's out of the bag here. He wasn't born 913 00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:12.119 in America. He should have never been allowed to be 914 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:16.480 the president. That's a thing. His birth certificate. If you 915 00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:18.679 look it up right now on the White House file 916 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:22.079 or the White House website, you can take that and 917 00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.599 upload it into Adobe and undo the photo shops that 918 00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:29.400 have been done on it. And it's very poorly done. 919 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.239 You would think that they would at least cover their 920 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:35.079 tracks a little bit. They didn't. They pretty much left 921 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.960 it able to be edited when they uploaded it to 922 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.320 the White House website. And so you could take that 923 00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:43.639 and put it into Adobe yourself right now, anybody listening 924 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.079 to this, and you could just hit the undo button 925 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:49.639 a bunch of times and see that it's fake, like 926 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:54.320 embarrassingly fake. So yeah, it's his entire presidency was treason. 927 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:57.679 Is everything he did. It was fraud with controversy and 928 00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:02.320 scandal beginning to end. But yes, this is the thing. 929 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:06.360 Now we're gonna indict him for election fraud in an 930 00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:10.639 election that he wasn't even a part of I'm just 931 00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:14.480 saying anyway. Anyway, moving on, all right, So this article 932 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.960 from Financial Express the US EU is headed towards the 933 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.880 trade deal with fifteen percent baseline tariff, says report. White 934 00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:25.559 House calls it speculation. Here we go. The EU would 935 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:31.039 continue to continue preparations for a possible ninety three billion 936 00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:34.679 euro package over taliatory tariffs set at it up to 937 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.360 thirty percent if a deal could not be struck by 938 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.760 the end of this month. Let's talk about it the EU. 939 00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:42.719 I've just read that one. The White House issued a 940 00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:46.800 rebuttal on Wednesday after reports broached the possibility of a 941 00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:49.320 trade deal with the European Union ahead of the August 942 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:52.719 first deadline. The US President Donald Trump has previously threatened 943 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:55.440 to impose higher tariffs against the BLOCK from next month. 944 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:59.000 The updates came even as the Block continued preparations for 945 00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:01.760 the one hundred and nine billion dollar package of retal 946 00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:06.280 towards tariffs. Discussions about any possibil possible deals with the 947 00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:09.880 United States should be considered speculation unless they are announced 948 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:14.920 by President Trump. Reports quoted White House spokesperson Cush Desig 949 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:18.800 as saying the POTUS confirmed later on Wednesday that the 950 00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:21.679 United States was in the process of completing a trade 951 00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:24.800 deal with China and plan to set straight tariffs for 952 00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:27.400 most of the rest of the world. Trump also said 953 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.519 that Washington was in serious trade talks with the European 954 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:33.880 Union and would set lower tariffs for the Block if 955 00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:37.159 it opened itself up to US business. The EU headed 956 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:41.199 towards this trade deal with Washington now. The clarification came 957 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:44.679 hours after The Financial Times quoted to EU diplomats to 958 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.480 reveal that the Block was headed towards the deal with Washington. 959 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:51.000 The yet to be confirmed agreement would impose fifteen percent 960 00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:55.360 tariffs on European imports, with Brussels matching the reciprocal levels 961 00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:58.599 or levies. Rather, officials told the publication that the EU 962 00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.239 would continue preparation for a possible ninety three billion euro 963 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.440 package of retaliatory tariffs if a deal cannot be struck 964 00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:07.960 by the end of this month. According to the Financial Time, 965 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:10.679 support both sides are in talks to wave tariffs on 966 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.519 some products, including aircraft, spirits, medical devices, things of this nature. 967 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:18.760 Exporters from the Block have been paying an additional ten 968 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:21.039 percent leve on goods sent to the US since Trump 969 00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:27.159 announced sweeping reciprocal, yeah, reciprocal tariffs in April in addition 970 00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:32.239 to pre existing duties averaging four point eight percent. The 971 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:35.880 fifteen percent tariff deal would essentially cement a status quo 972 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:39.000 ahead of the August first deadline. The rate could also 973 00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:43.079 extend to cars, would mirror the framework agreement the United 974 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:46.400 States has struck with Japan. Yeah, we did just recently 975 00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.280 strike a tariff deal with Japan in especially with it 976 00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.800 comes to automobiles. Because I don't know about y'all. I 977 00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:56.760 like my toyotas, I like Macniss signs. I like these 978 00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:59.920 Japanese made cars. I know, people talk a lot of 979 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:03.000 noise about them. They're good vehicles, man, I'm just saying, 980 00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:05.320 and uh yeah, I would like for those to not 981 00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:08.079 go up in price because of some tariff war. Some 982 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:10.000 of these things that could be exceptions to the rules. 983 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.800 We shall see. But yeah, anyway, moving on with that now, 984 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.760 as we were talking about international things here, we were 985 00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.000 talking about you know, international money, economy, tariffs and all 986 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:25.079 these things. And now we're still conversating about the EU 987 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:27.360 here and now we're gonna swap over to NATO a 988 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:31.199 little bit here. Turkey still wants to join BRICKS while 989 00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.440 pretending to be a NATO ally. This is from the 990 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:40.440 Foundation for Defense of Democracies, So little backstory here for 991 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:44.159 anybody who doesn't know. Turkey is seen as the resident 992 00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:48.320 bad boy of NATO. No one actually likes them, but 993 00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:51.519 everybody's happy that they're a part of it. But nobody 994 00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.679 really is happy that they're a part of it. They're 995 00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.079 like the redheaded step child, if you will, right, and 996 00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.239 it's a part of it. Turkey is seen as a 997 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.480 necessary evil by a lot of people, and they come 998 00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:06.320 in clutching situations, but they're always there to stir the pot. 999 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.280 That's just what they do. And as of this moment, 1000 00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:13.079 Turkey is wanting to join BRICKS, which is literally set 1001 00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:17.199 out to break the US dollars dominance as the world 1002 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:21.119 economic power. Okay, so let's just talk about all of 1003 00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:25.280 this now. Last year, Turkey took observers by surprise by 1004 00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:28.480 the twenty twenty four Bricks Summit in Russia when it 1005 00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:32.000 applied for full membership in an organization that seeks to 1006 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.480 challenge the Western led liberal international order and is an 1007 00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:41.000 adversarial alternative to NATO. At the time, Turkey was turned 1008 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:44.719 down due to concerns over its NATO membership. Member states 1009 00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:49.679 China and Russia have had reservations over admitting a US 1010 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:54.280 ally and aspiring member of the European Union. This hesitance 1011 00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.719 resulted in the Bricks Block offering Ankara the option of 1012 00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:02.679 being a partner cunt as an alternative, something which Turkish 1013 00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:08.239 President Erdogan I think I pronounced that right. Urdigan is 1014 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:12.440 still considering. At the organization's twenty twenty five Brazil summit, 1015 00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:16.280 which recently concluded, Turkey renewed its interest in joining the 1016 00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:19.239 Block of Anti Western countries, only to be rebuffed again, 1017 00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:24.519 although Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fadan Fetan, who attended to 1018 00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.639 represent his country at the summit, underscored that Turkey is 1019 00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:33.400 very interested in Bricks. India reportedly issued a hard objection 1020 00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:38.119 to greenlighting Turkish membership owing to Turkey's diplomatic and military 1021 00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:41.239 support of Pakistan in the recent skirmish between India and 1022 00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:44.679 Pakistan over Kashmir. Yeah, that was also kind of a 1023 00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:49.079 cool thing. India is one of those countries that, depending 1024 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:52.039 on the timeframe at which you're talking about them, they 1025 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:54.559 might be a super good ally of America. They might 1026 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:57.760 be siding with our enemies. India's doing India shit right. 1027 00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:00.719 They're looking out for their own interests, which makes sense. 1028 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:04.119 I have no issue with that. That being said, when 1029 00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.320 it came to Turkey possibly joining BRICKS, India was one 1030 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.800 of the only ones to throw that black ball in 1031 00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:13.360 the ring real quick and say no, way, absolutely not. 1032 00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:16.639 We are not even not entertaining this conversation. Now. I 1033 00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:18.960 don't know the inner workings of BRICKS. I don't know 1034 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:21.159 if it has to be a unanimous decision or whatever 1035 00:59:21.159 --> 00:59:24.320 the case is. But overall they were still rebuffed because 1036 00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:28.400 they are NATO and EU member, and BRICKS literally is 1037 00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:32.280 going against NATO in the EU and America and Western 1038 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:35.719 powers in general. So yeah, I know it's kind of 1039 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:37.480 seen as a turd in the punch bowl that way, 1040 00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:41.840 but Turkey is still very interested in this. The eagerness 1041 00:59:41.920 --> 00:59:46.119 of Ankara's contra continued bid to join a club that 1042 00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:49.760 seeks to undermine the foundations of the Western world order 1043 00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:54.159 should be concerning to the decision makers in Washington and Brussels. However, 1044 00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:57.360 as one observer recently noted, the US used Turkey as 1045 00:59:57.400 --> 01:00:01.760 a necessary partner against Moscow in Europe. Oscillates between criticism 1046 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:05.719 and cooperation, further emboldening Turkey. As I said, it kind 1047 01:00:05.719 --> 01:00:08.000 of goes back and forth. It ebbs and flows, honestly, 1048 01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:11.159 week to week. It seems. The reality that Western leaders 1049 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:14.559 consistently ignore, however, is that Turkey is a persistent and 1050 01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:19.440 growing danger to vital security interests. Turkey acquired and holds 1051 01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:23.440 s four hundred Russian missile defense systems, which at present 1052 01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:28.679 are present rather a security threat to NATO's alliance, not 1053 01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:31.840 necessarily if they're a NATO member, though you would think. 1054 01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:35.960 But at the same time, Ankara has renewed its interest 1055 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:39.320 in purchasing forty F thirty five stell fighter jets and 1056 01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.519 forty F sixteens from the US, a desire that the 1057 01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:47.159 Trump administration appears keen to help realize. Turkey is simultaneously 1058 01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:50.559 developing nuclear power capability with Russia through the construction of 1059 01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:54.000 the Akuu Power Plant god I hope I pronounce that right, 1060 01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:58.079 which is expected to become operational this year. Ankara is seeking, 1061 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:01.719 as I'm sorry, is also seeking to develop its independent 1062 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.559 nuclear fueling capabilities, which opens the potential for the development 1063 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:08.840 of a nuclear weapons program, a prospect for which Erdigan 1064 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:14.000 has previously expressed interest well that makes sense. While pursuing 1065 01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:18.039 all these goals, Turkey maintains a military threatening posture towards 1066 01:01:18.079 --> 01:01:22.960 European and Greece I'm sorry, towards European allies Greece and 1067 01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:27.000 Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean by challenging their sovereign maritime 1068 01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:31.280 territory under its Blue Homeland doctrine. In the Middle East, 1069 01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:34.760 Israel continues to monitor and raise concerns over a continued 1070 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:39.159 Turkish military build up inside Syria, fearing that Ankara Harbor's 1071 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:42.800 intentions of becoming the next regional power like Iran. The 1072 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.920 Ertigan regime is also a premier champion of the Muslim 1073 01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:53.440 Brotherhood affiliated and US designated terrorist organization Hamas to the 1074 01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:57.760 actual shock of nobody here, taking a decisive stance against 1075 01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.119 Ankara's actions that seek to undermine the security and economic 1076 01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:03.840 interests of the United States and its partners and allies 1077 01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.920 is a hard one for one very simple reason. Turkey 1078 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:11.000 is a NATO country, and it is difficult to perceive 1079 01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:15.840 a fellow member state acting against the interests of the collective. However, 1080 01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:18.880 one only needs to connect the dots of Urgon's long 1081 01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:21.920 and ongoing list of transgressions against the interests of NATO, 1082 01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:25.519 the US, and Europe. That's the thing. If there was 1083 01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:29.480 going to be a NATO country to go against the collective, 1084 01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:33.360 it would be Turkey. Like that's that's not even a question. 1085 01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:36.719 That's absolutely how that would go down. The Trump administration 1086 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:41.119 just declared its intent to levy additional tariffs against future 1087 01:02:41.159 --> 01:02:45.440 Bricks members quote. Any country aligning themselves with the anti 1088 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:48.800 American policies of bricks will be charged an additional ten 1089 01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:52.239 percent tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy. 1090 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.599 Trump wrote on truth Social Turkey more than qualifiers for 1091 01:02:55.639 --> 01:02:59.199 such a measure, and then some Turkey's aspirations on joining 1092 01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:01.239 bricks is only the tip of the iceberg of the 1093 01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:06.000 Urdigans as adversarial behavior. It is way past time to 1094 01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:09.320 realize that the Turkish president is continuously taking steps to 1095 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:13.400 undermine Western security interests. The United States and Europe should 1096 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:18.639 stop coddling him. So I find this interesting, right, there 1097 01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:20.920 are people that are very much in support of bricks. 1098 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.400 They think that it is the next great thing. They 1099 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:26.079 think it is absolutely going to topple the US dollar. 1100 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:29.480 And that would be great if the majority of the 1101 01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:33.719 big players in bricks weren't in open revolt or in 1102 01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:38.000 open conflict or dealing with some other political crisis. It's like, 1103 01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.679 how could I put this? It's too many chiefs all 1104 01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:47.639 trying to take the lead and have one common goal, 1105 01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:51.480 when none of them can agree on their own common goals, 1106 01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:55.159 let alone some joint venture. I'm not saying that there's 1107 01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:59.119 never gonna be a monetary system to replace the US dollar. 1108 01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:01.760 I absolutely that that is going to come with time. 1109 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:05.199 I just really have a hard time believing that it's bricks. 1110 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:08.280 I don't know. There's a conversation to say that maybe 1111 01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:10.119 crypto is gonna be the thing to take over and 1112 01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.079 do that. I don't know. But with that being said, 1113 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:17.719 they're talking about throwing tariffs on any country that supports bricks, 1114 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:24.719 and it's aggression, economic aggression against the US dollar. Now 1115 01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:27.440 we're gonna swap over to this article here NATO Chief 1116 01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:32.440 warns India, Brazil, and China over Russia trade ties. Now 1117 01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:35.800 this is kind of a catch twenty two before I 1118 01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:40.599 read this here, India, Brazil, and China are all members 1119 01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:45.000 of BRICKS. Russia is a member of BRICKS. These countries 1120 01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:49.079 have trade agreements, they have economic agreements. Now NATO Chief 1121 01:04:49.199 --> 01:04:52.840 is warning three of the big countries in Bricks that 1122 01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:55.800 if it continues to trade with Russia, they will get 1123 01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:59.280 slapped with so many economic sanctions that they will literally 1124 01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.920 go into bankruptcy. Will that actually happen, I don't think so. 1125 01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:04.880 I don't think the math math's enough for that. But 1126 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:07.840 let's talk about it here. Mark Root urged the three 1127 01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:12.679 Bricks countries to maintain the phone call to President Vladimir 1128 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.480 Putin to stop the war in Ukraine or face secondary 1129 01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:20.400 sanctions from the US. NATO Secretary General has called on China, Brazil, 1130 01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:23.559 and India to pressure Russia or to be hit by 1131 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:27.159 US sanctions. President Donald Trump has said he would impose 1132 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:31.079 very severe terriffs against Russia if no deal was reached 1133 01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:33.519 at the end to in the war in Ukraine in 1134 01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:37.599 fifty days. Trump also threatened secondary tariffs of one hundred 1135 01:05:37.599 --> 01:05:42.760 percent on any country that buys Russian exports. So the 1136 01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:47.320 export in question is oil, that's it. That's the big 1137 01:05:47.719 --> 01:05:52.440 concern here basically, And I mean they've been using middlemen, 1138 01:05:52.840 --> 01:05:57.840 right That's why you have out of nowhere, nobody can 1139 01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:02.519 buy Russian oil, but people can buy oil through Uzbekistan 1140 01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:05.679 right now. That's the thing that's going down. I don't 1141 01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:08.920 know if anybody knows this. Uzbekistan does not have a 1142 01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:12.760 big thriving oil industry. I'm sure they have a couple 1143 01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:16.280 of wells, but it's not anywhere where they're able to 1144 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:19.119 produce enough to ship out the amount of oil they've 1145 01:06:19.119 --> 01:06:22.280 been shipping out. They're basically taking Russian oil, throwing on 1146 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:25.719 their label onto it, and selling it. That's how fencing works, right, 1147 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.039 So basically that's the big conversation. If you are caught 1148 01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:34.039 buying Russian oil, Trump is threatening to hit that country 1149 01:06:34.039 --> 01:06:36.639 with a one hundred percent tariff on top of whatever 1150 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:40.239 tariffs there already are on the said country. So what 1151 01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:44.159 did Roots say about India, Brazil, and China? While meeting 1152 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:47.239 senators in the US, Roots said he was sure that 1153 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:50.960 these countries, especially China, would be very helpful in putting 1154 01:06:50.960 --> 01:06:54.840 pressure on Russia. Yeah, they would if they had a 1155 01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:58.440 vested interest in ending the war in Ukraine. Sure they 1156 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.639 could put pressure on Russia and maybe they will get 1157 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:04.519 a response. But they have no interests in that. So 1158 01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:06.800 this is why Trump's trying to make them have an interest. 1159 01:07:07.119 --> 01:07:09.360 This is a direct quote here. My encouragement to these 1160 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:13.679 three countries particularly is if you live now in Beijing 1161 01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:18.239 or Delhi, or you are the president of Brazil, you 1162 01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:20.400 might want to take a look into this because this 1163 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:23.960 might hit you very hard, he told reporters. So please 1164 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.159 make the phone called to Vladimir Putin and tell him 1165 01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:28.599 that he has to get serious about peace talks, because 1166 01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:32.039 otherwise this will slam back on Brazil, on India, on 1167 01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:35.920 China in a massive way. So why India, Brazil, and China. 1168 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:40.559 The three countries account for the vast majority of Moscow's 1169 01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:43.599 energy trade, and together with South Africa, they are the 1170 01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:47.039 coordinations of the Bricks Alliance. Well, yeah, that's why their 1171 01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:50.199 names are in the acronym. Trump had already vowed higher 1172 01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:52.920 tarrifs on bricks countries that align with the Blocks plan 1173 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:57.280 to challenge the US hedgemony, even before Trump's announcement of 1174 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.679 secondary terriffs earlier this week, US lawmakers have been working 1175 01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:04.880 on a bipartisan bill for even tougher sanctions. The legislation 1176 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:09.679 seeks a five hundred percent tariff on goods imported from 1177 01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:13.519 countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and uranium 1178 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:17.399 and other exports. Yeah, so that's something that they're absolutely 1179 01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:19.800 pushing for. We'll see if it actually comes through. Tony, 1180 01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:21.439 I saw your hand raised, brother, what you got? 1181 01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:25.520 Yeah, I was wondering how much trade still exists between 1182 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:29.319 the US and Russia, and surprisingly there actually is still 1183 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:32.520 a little bit. It's down from thirty six billion dollars 1184 01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:35.960 a year before the Ukraine War. Do about three billion 1185 01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:41.159 dollars a year, and it's about half of that is fertilizer. 1186 01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:45.479 The rest is non ferrous metals, including uranium. 1187 01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:46.479 That we've. 1188 01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:51.680 Okay, some stuff I kind of forget. I was just 1189 01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:56.520 reading about it. But yeah, it's dotting off that last 1190 01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.039 three billion dollars a trade. I don't think it's going 1191 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:02.439 to hurt him that much. And I predict India and 1192 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:06.039 China they're not shut down any trade with Russia at all. 1193 01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:07.600 They're buying lots of oil from them. 1194 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:08.199 Right. 1195 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.560 Only about fifteen percent of China's exports are to the 1196 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.359 United States. And I thank you. 1197 01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:21.359 I mean I agree with that, but those fifteen percent, 1198 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:22.279 that is kind. 1199 01:09:22.199 --> 01:09:25.800 Of hurt us. You cut out, Go ahead, Oh sorry 1200 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:29.520 if I'm cutting out, But yeah, I don't think we 1201 01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:33.000 can force other countries to stop trading with Rush. 1202 01:09:33.399 --> 01:09:36.520 We can't force them to stop trade. But they're threatening 1203 01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:39.640 to hit them with a five hundred percent tariff, which 1204 01:09:39.680 --> 01:09:43.680 is that's that's out of the box. High, don't get 1205 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:45.399 me wrong, And I'm not even saying that that's going 1206 01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.399 to actually get the response that you're wanting. If anything, 1207 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:50.520 that would just force them to do more business with 1208 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:54.199 other countries rather than US. I don't know, right, I mean, yeah, 1209 01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:57.600 fifteen percent of China's goods come to us. That does 1210 01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:00.520 make us buy the numbers their largest buyer. But it's 1211 01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.439 not like we're they're only yer. Most of Europe buys 1212 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:06.479 things from China, most most of everywhere on Earth buys 1213 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:09.600 things from China. We just have more consumers per capita 1214 01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:12.319 in America than most other countries do, so I get it. 1215 01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:16.000 But yeah, I'm with you on that. You can't force 1216 01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:18.039 a country to do what you want, but you can 1217 01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:22.199 try to incentivize them to do so. It's uh, we 1218 01:10:22.279 --> 01:10:25.359 will see how it shakes out. I don't know. Russia 1219 01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:27.760 keeps going back and forth whether they want to come 1220 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:32.079 to the peace negotiations or not. Zelenski, I haven't heard 1221 01:10:32.159 --> 01:10:34.520 anything from him about the peace talks. I think he 1222 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:38.720 wants peace, but I don't think there's terms that he 1223 01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:42.359 would agree to and I don't honestly know if Putin 1224 01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:45.199 is actually suing for peace anytime soon. What have you heard? 1225 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.479 Right? I don't think he is. And even though a 1226 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:51.600 lot of the recent news about Ukraine has focused on 1227 01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:55.960 some protests against against Zelenski, I don't think the protests 1228 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:59.840 are going to go anywhere. But Russia has taken more territory. 1229 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:04.119 They're advancing on a place called Pa Kruffsk right now. Yeah, 1230 01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:08.279 And they're just taking a few square miles every day basically, 1231 01:11:08.359 --> 01:11:11.640 And Russia is gonna keep doing that. That's their strategy. 1232 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:15.520 They're really happy with it. Times on their side, and yeah, 1233 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:18.319 Russia does not want peace right now. 1234 01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:20.119 Now you're still saying this is gonna be wrapped up 1235 01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:21.159 by March up next year. 1236 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.039 Well, yeah, I'm still gonna bet on that. 1237 01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:29.560 Okay, Okay, Now when you say it's gonna be wrapped up, 1238 01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:32.000 do you think it's gonna like do you think that 1239 01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:34.239 Russia will take all of Ukraine at that point? Or 1240 01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:36.600 they'll pretty much call that the stopping point and whatever 1241 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:39.159 they've got at that point, they'll call it good because 1242 01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:41.239 correct me if I'm wrong here. The springtime is when 1243 01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:44.840 the you know, that's when campaign season typically starts once 1244 01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:48.560 the frost wears off and once the muddy slop kind 1245 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:52.359 of dries out, it becomes more of a spring offensive 1246 01:11:52.399 --> 01:11:55.079 time frame. You're saying that there won't as of your 1247 01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:57.680 beliefs as of this moment, you don't believe that there 1248 01:11:57.720 --> 01:11:59.880 will be a spring offensive in twenty twenty six. 1249 01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:04.760 I'm not sure when it'll be, but I think they're 1250 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:06.960 not gonna take all of Ukraine. I think they're going 1251 01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:09.680 to take something like fifty percent more than what they 1252 01:12:09.680 --> 01:12:15.600 already have have taken since twenty twenty two. So I 1253 01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:21.560 think that they're gonna get something like nearly all of Zapparosia, 1254 01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:27.319 don Yetsk and everything Zaporosia. I think includes some parts 1255 01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.479 of the north or the left, I mean right bank 1256 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:33.640 of the Nyeppa River. I think Russia might get all 1257 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:36.920 the way up to the river, and maybe maybe that's it, 1258 01:12:37.359 --> 01:12:40.000 but they'll get more territory than they have now, and 1259 01:12:40.039 --> 01:12:41.960 then the border will be drawn there and it'll be 1260 01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:46.359 like nineteen forty five forty six where it gets kind 1261 01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:51.960 of finalized and then with the new border everyone kind 1262 01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:55.319 of moves on. That's kind of the end scenario. I 1263 01:12:55.319 --> 01:12:57.720 imagine it's going to happen, gotcha. 1264 01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:01.319 I mean, we will see how it shakes out. Now 1265 01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:04.920 that we have there's new patriots systems that have just 1266 01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:07.239 got sent to Ukraine, and I'm not saying that's gonna 1267 01:13:07.239 --> 01:13:09.079 be the thing to change the tide of the war 1268 01:13:09.159 --> 01:13:13.640 by any means. I'm also not not saying that it's 1269 01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:17.279 We'll see how it shakes out. Both sides are making 1270 01:13:17.319 --> 01:13:21.840 this the slowest, grindingest war of attrition that we have seen, 1271 01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:26.560 definitely in this millennia. But it's been quite a few 1272 01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:29.439 decades since we've seen a war that goes down like this, 1273 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:32.439 So I honestly don't know what to make of it. 1274 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:35.840 I just recently saw, actually to this morning. I saw 1275 01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:40.800 it was a live combat footage a Russian for lack 1276 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.000 of better words, let's call them. I don't know what 1277 01:13:43.079 --> 01:13:46.600 their special forces are called anymore. I know they used 1278 01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:48.439 to be called the Spesnas. I don't know if that's 1279 01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:52.239 still a thing anymore or what. But they were deep 1280 01:13:52.359 --> 01:13:57.560 inside Ukrainian territory and ambushed a truck and they lit 1281 01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:00.800 into this truck. It was just a single guy driving it, 1282 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:03.520 but it was trying to get to a spot to 1283 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:06.000 extract some soldiers or bring them from pointing to point 1284 01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:08.640 B or whatever the case was. Yeah, he did not 1285 01:14:08.680 --> 01:14:11.079 get to his destination. So I mean there is still 1286 01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.319 very brutal fighting going on in and around this area, 1287 01:14:14.439 --> 01:14:18.399 so we shall see how it shakes out. Anyway, Now 1288 01:14:18.479 --> 01:14:22.840 let's move on. As we were talking about international things, 1289 01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:27.560 Let's go to the Jerusalem Post Hamas claims that groups 1290 01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:33.880 submitted ceasefire response anti Drew's anti Semitic hate speech online rises. 1291 01:14:34.600 --> 01:14:36.880 Now with this, we keep hearing a lot of things 1292 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:40.680 about the Drews. Now, for anybody who doesn't know what 1293 01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:43.960 the Drews are, I got a little quick short video 1294 01:14:44.520 --> 01:14:48.000 that's gonna do a little background into the Drus population 1295 01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:50.319 because that gets brought up a lot, especially when it 1296 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:54.600 comes to the Israel conflict. So who are the Drews. 1297 01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:57.840 Wondering who the Drews are? They have a long history 1298 01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:01.520 deeply connected with Israel, but they are Jewish. Check this out. 1299 01:15:02.079 --> 01:15:04.399 The Jrews are an Arab religious group that have a 1300 01:15:04.600 --> 01:15:08.479 very secretive religion. What we do know, however, is very intriguing. 1301 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:12.079 Like Christians, Muslims, and Jews, they believe in the singularity 1302 01:15:12.119 --> 01:15:15.800 of God. However, like Hindus, they also believe in reincarnation, 1303 01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:18.960 but their reincarnation follows a different set of rules. The 1304 01:15:19.079 --> 01:15:22.439 Jrews hold shu Ab as their most revered prophet. It 1305 01:15:22.479 --> 01:15:25.520 is commonly understood that Schueb is none other than Jethro 1306 01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:28.680 from the Bible, Moses's father in law. Because of this 1307 01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:32.720 positive ancient relationship, the Drews generally align themselves with Israel, 1308 01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:35.680 but the Sixty War of nineteen sixty seven had devastating 1309 01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:39.119 consequences for the Drewz community in the Golan Heights. After 1310 01:15:39.119 --> 01:15:41.159 the war, the Purple Line was created as the de 1311 01:15:41.279 --> 01:15:44.840 facto border between Syria and Israel. This Purple Line effectively 1312 01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:48.800 split the Golani Jruis community into two. Surprisingly, in nineteen 1313 01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:51.479 eighty one, when Israel offered citizenship to the residents in 1314 01:15:51.479 --> 01:15:54.479 the Golan Heights, only ten percent of the Drews accepted 1315 01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:57.359 this offer. This split was so charged that it threatened 1316 01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.319 to tear the community apart. Many speculate that this was 1317 01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:02.479 because at the time, many thought Syria was going to 1318 01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.279 reoccupy the Goal Line at some point. Being a minority, 1319 01:16:05.319 --> 01:16:08.239 the Jews need to walk a very delicate political line. 1320 01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:11.840 They accepted Israeli citizenship, then they would have opened themselves 1321 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.640 up to attacks from Syrians, but this sentiment has gradually 1322 01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.199 been shifting, especially since the civil war in Syria that 1323 01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:22.039 started in twenty eleven. Also, Hamas's brutal attack of October 1324 01:16:22.079 --> 01:16:25.079 seventh in Theslow rocket that struck a soccer field in 1325 01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:28.319 mans Del Sham's killing twelve Drews children has further brought 1326 01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:32.359 the Israeli and Golani Drews community together. Requests four Israeli 1327 01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:35.840 citizenship from the Jews are now at record heights. Israel's 1328 01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:38.880 considering allowing Drews from Syria into Israel for work, and 1329 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.880 the IDEF is recently committed to protecting the Drews town 1330 01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:45.720 just outside of Damascus. The recent fall of Asad al 1331 01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:49.239 Bashar is once again greatly changing the dynamics of the 1332 01:16:49.319 --> 01:16:50.239 Jews community. 1333 01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:53.920 One okay, so I thought that was a good little 1334 01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:57.079 background into who the Drews are, where they operate these 1335 01:16:57.159 --> 01:16:59.920 kinds of things. So now Hamas claims that the group's 1336 01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:04.199 submitted ceasefire response anti Drews, an anti Semitic hate speech 1337 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:08.880 online has risen Canada calls for an immediate un AID resumption. 1338 01:17:09.079 --> 01:17:13.239 Rubio discusses Syrian ceasefire Gaza strip West Bank security situation 1339 01:17:13.359 --> 01:17:17.520 with Jordanian counterpart. Let's get into it. The surge into 1340 01:17:17.600 --> 01:17:21.680 an anti Drus hate speech linked to Syria unrest and 1341 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:26.399 the Cyberwell reports. According to the watchdog, the incitement includes 1342 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:31.079 explicit anti Semitic language and conspiracy theories portraying Syrian Drews 1343 01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.439 as collaborators with Israel amid recent violent unrest in the 1344 01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:39.159 southern Syria's Sueda province. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. 1345 01:17:39.399 --> 01:17:42.439 A new report by the watchdog group Cyberwell has revealed 1346 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:46.600 a surge in online incitement targeting the country's Drus minority, 1347 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:50.399 with over forty five million views recorded on inciting posts 1348 01:17:50.439 --> 01:17:53.840 on the social media platform x in just one week. 1349 01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:57.720 According to the report published this week, the incitement includes 1350 01:17:57.800 --> 01:18:01.600 explicit anti Semitic language and conspiracy theories could portraying Sirian 1351 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:06.479 Drews as collaborators with Israel. Now Hamas claims terror group 1352 01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:11.359 submitted Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators. Now here's the report. 1353 01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:15.560 This follows a tense meeting when the mediators made clear 1354 01:18:15.560 --> 01:18:18.640 to Hamas that the leaders that if you don't return 1355 01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:21.560 with a serious response, your problem will be with US 1356 01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:25.760 the mediators, wow Hamas claims that the terror group handed 1357 01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.760 its response to the Israeli ceesfire proposal to mediators. Hamas's 1358 01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:35.439 official news agency, SAFA, reported on Thursday morning. This follows 1359 01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:38.680 an Israeli official telling The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that 1360 01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:41.640 Hamas has yet to deliver an official response to the 1361 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:45.000 Israeli proposal that was submitted a week ago, and is 1362 01:18:45.079 --> 01:18:47.760 now raising new demands on issues that had already been 1363 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:51.960 resolved the hostage ceasefire deal. Mediators refused to relay Hamas's 1364 01:18:52.079 --> 01:18:55.399 response to israel proposed deal on Tuesday, saying it was 1365 01:18:55.399 --> 01:18:58.520 not a serious answer to people's familiar with the matter 1366 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:02.359 told the Post, I really don't care if we could 1367 01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:06.079 read this one about Canada calling for an immediate resumption 1368 01:19:06.239 --> 01:19:08.960 of you in led aiding Gaza. I don't really care 1369 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:11.600 about that one, but yeah, I did want to bring 1370 01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:15.960 this up anyway, that the anti Drew's sentiment is becoming 1371 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:19.000 more prevalent here because they have aligned themselves with Israel. 1372 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:22.439 Now that being said, a lot of Drews do live 1373 01:19:22.479 --> 01:19:26.439 in Syria, but the current for lack of better words, 1374 01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:31.239 warlord that is running Syria has historically he was a 1375 01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:33.840 former al Qaeda member, so he's not very fond of 1376 01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:38.439 the Drews. However, he has lightened up on them a 1377 01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:42.079 good bit. So I don't know if the Syrian Drews 1378 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:48.199 are seeing as much, you know, the persecution as they 1379 01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:52.439 once did. I'm not saying that they are or not, honestly, 1380 01:19:52.560 --> 01:19:55.319 but we do know that Hamas is you know, and 1381 01:19:55.479 --> 01:19:58.239 the online anti drew sentiment is at an all time 1382 01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:01.359 high right now. I thought it was interesting talk about. Now, 1383 01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:03.680 with all of that being said, let's continue on the 1384 01:20:03.720 --> 01:20:07.039 conversation of what's going on in Israel. Now. This is 1385 01:20:07.079 --> 01:20:11.840 an update. This is from CNA, the Catholic News Agency. 1386 01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:16.079 There's an update. Latin Patriarch confirms the Holy Family Church 1387 01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:20.520 in Gaza was hit. Three deaths reported. For anybody who 1388 01:20:20.520 --> 01:20:25.079 does not know the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces as 1389 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:29.000 they were attacking in Gaza, there's a whole war going 1390 01:20:29.079 --> 01:20:32.960 on there, they probably have heard about they hit the 1391 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:37.760 only Catholic church in Gaza. They say that it was 1392 01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:42.000 an accident. It was a misfire. It was a straight round. 1393 01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:44.720 A piece of shrapnel from a bomb that went off 1394 01:20:44.760 --> 01:20:47.079 of a different building went into the Catholic church, and 1395 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:50.640 it's very horrible how this happened. It killed three and 1396 01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:56.159 it hurt ten. It killed the priest. So I'm just 1397 01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:00.560 saying this is, this is how crusades have started. I'm 1398 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:02.560 not saying that we need to make that happen right now, 1399 01:21:02.600 --> 01:21:05.840 but like historically speaking, that is not a good move, 1400 01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:09.560 especially with the pope in charge right now being as 1401 01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:13.000 pro Israel as he is. This is let's talk about 1402 01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:15.520 it here. The Holy Family Church in Goadzawa was struck 1403 01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:19.119 by an Israeli attack on Thursday, with the strike resulting 1404 01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:23.319 in casualties and injuries among civilians present at the historic church. 1405 01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:28.760 The pastor of the parish, father Gabriel Ramanelli, was also injured. Okay, 1406 01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:31.399 so I heard one report saying that he was killed. 1407 01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:34.039 I heard one report saying that he was injured. This 1408 01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:37.439 is from July seventeenth, so it's a few days old. 1409 01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:39.520 I'm not sure if he's succumbed to his wounds by 1410 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:42.000 this point. It depends on the source you read, so 1411 01:21:42.399 --> 01:21:45.520 we always got to consider the source. The direct strike 1412 01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:50.000 killed three people. I'm not going to try to pronounce 1413 01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:53.439 their names out of respect for them, and I'm really 1414 01:21:53.479 --> 01:21:55.720 not trying to make a joke here, like these people 1415 01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:57.640 have passed and I'm not trying to make light of it, 1416 01:21:58.079 --> 01:22:02.159 but yeah, there we are, these people, confirmed by the 1417 01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:05.520 Latin Patriarch of the Jerusalem or of Jerusalem. A few 1418 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:09.239 hours after the attack, a third person succumbed to her injuries. 1419 01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:12.560 A few hours later, the patriarch stressed that it was 1420 01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:14.960 praying for the repose of the souls of the dead 1421 01:22:15.439 --> 01:22:18.880 and for an end to what it called this barbaric war. 1422 01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:22.960 According to the press report, several other civilians sustained moderate 1423 01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:26.640 to severe injuries, while the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli, 1424 01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:30.720 was wounded by shrapnel in his leg. His continue or 1425 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:33.800 His condition was described as mild, and he later returned 1426 01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:36.119 to check on the wounded. According to the church sources 1427 01:22:36.119 --> 01:22:39.760 in Gaza, fourteen people were injured in the attack. In 1428 01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:43.199 its initial statement earlier the day, the patriarch said the 1429 01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:46.720 church was attacked this morning, causing injuries among those inside, 1430 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:50.159 including the parish priest. In Rome, the Vatican issued a 1431 01:22:50.239 --> 01:22:54.880 statement signed by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Perilyn 1432 01:22:55.439 --> 01:22:59.800 Sure express Pope Leo the fourteenth profound sorrow upon learning 1433 01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:02.760 that the lives were lost and others injured. The Holy 1434 01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:07.640 Father conveyed his spiritual closeness to Romanelli and the parish community, 1435 01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:10.439 renewing his call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza 1436 01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:14.760 Strip and expressing his desire for dialogue, reconciliation and lasting 1437 01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:19.800 peace in the region. So the priest himself, for anybody 1438 01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:24.239 who doesn't know, he was actually rather close with Pope Francis. 1439 01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:29.600 They spoke via FaceTime at least once a week up 1440 01:23:29.720 --> 01:23:34.960 until the former Pope's death. So, this particular Catholic church 1441 01:23:35.800 --> 01:23:38.720 in Gaza, the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, 1442 01:23:39.479 --> 01:23:44.399 it's very special to Rome itself, it is very important 1443 01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:48.119 to the Holy See itself. So for this to be 1444 01:23:48.319 --> 01:23:53.960 hit by the IDF, that is that's quite a move. 1445 01:23:54.039 --> 01:23:58.640 I'm not even say it's a flex that's that's that's 1446 01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:02.000 that's a situation. They messed up. They messed up bad. 1447 01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:05.279 While the IDEF said they were investigating the incident, the 1448 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:10.920 spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry or in Marmurnstein Marmerstein, 1449 01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:16.279 Jesus Okay express his country's deep regret over the damage 1450 01:24:16.279 --> 01:24:19.199 to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and over 1451 01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:22.880 any civilian casualties. I am so sure because you know 1452 01:24:22.920 --> 01:24:27.159 how Israel has always been so welcoming of the Catholics. Right. 1453 01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:30.840 He added that the circumstances of the incident remain unclear 1454 01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:34.359 and that the results of the investigation would be published transparently. 1455 01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:38.439 The Holy Family Church is considered the last Christian refuge 1456 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:41.279 in Gaza, where dozens of families have been sheltered since 1457 01:24:41.319 --> 01:24:43.880 the outbreak of the war in October twenty twenty three. 1458 01:24:44.319 --> 01:24:47.199 The church also suffered partial damage in July of twenty 1459 01:24:47.239 --> 01:24:50.640 twenty four when its surroundings were shelled, an incident that 1460 01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.079 at the time drew condemnation from the church leaders in 1461 01:24:54.159 --> 01:24:54.880 the Holy Land. 1462 01:24:55.319 --> 01:24:55.720 Wow. 1463 01:24:56.520 --> 01:25:00.520 Okay, So with that being said, let's watch this. This 1464 01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:03.800 is from CBS. I understand, can question the source all 1465 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:07.680 the things, but Netta Yahoo calls Pope Leo after deadly 1466 01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:11.600 Israeli strike on Catholic church in Gaza. Let's listen in. 1467 01:25:11.920 --> 01:25:14.560 Prime Minister Benjamin Netnat, who has called Pope Leo the 1468 01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:17.039 fourteenth this morning, a day after an Israeli strike on 1469 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:21.600 Gaza's only Catholic church killed three people and injured several others. Earlier, 1470 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:24.720 my colleague Errol Barnet spoke with facin Nation host Marcat 1471 01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:28.000 Brennan about this attack and the state of ceasefire negotiations 1472 01:25:28.039 --> 01:25:28.720 in the enclave. 1473 01:25:29.359 --> 01:25:32.560 We know from the White House podium they made clear 1474 01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:36.560 President Trump did not like this at all, and in 1475 01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:39.640 fact had called the Israeli Prime minister about it. The 1476 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:43.159 Israeli Prime Minister claimed it was a quote unquote mistake 1477 01:25:44.479 --> 01:25:50.359 that the IDF accidentally fired on this church where some people, 1478 01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:53.479 including those who are handicapped, have long sheltered. But when 1479 01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:57.159 it comes to that Palestinian territory in Gaza and the 1480 01:25:57.199 --> 01:26:00.680 efforts to broker a deal, I am told that there's 1481 01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:03.199 reason to hope at this moment. In fact, we know 1482 01:26:03.319 --> 01:26:08.880 that Israel submitted a new map suggesting other areas that 1483 01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:13.319 they could withdraw to within Gaza, and that the mediators 1484 01:26:13.399 --> 01:26:15.920 who are pressing Hamas to accept it think there is 1485 01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:17.560 a good shot this time. 1486 01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:21.239 All right, For more in the situation in Gaza, I'm 1487 01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:24.640 joined by CBS News correspondent Courtney Keely. Good to see you, 1488 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.800 Great to see you. All right, So this is potentially 1489 01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:30.960 getting closer to a ceasefire deal, but what are some 1490 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:32.159 of the major sticking points? 1491 01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:35.439 Major sticking points really are where will the IDF go, 1492 01:26:36.640 --> 01:26:40.119 Because this is seen by the Palestinians, especially Hamas, as 1493 01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:45.479 occupying forces in their land. That's how it's viewed. So 1494 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:47.159 where are they going to deploy to and what are 1495 01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:48.720 they going to do with the Palestinians. Are they going 1496 01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:50.960 to herd them into these areas that we've heard from 1497 01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:53.920 this proposal and it seems like that, you know, a 1498 01:26:53.920 --> 01:26:56.800 lot of people are very critical of that, saying it's 1499 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:59.479 it's not what they've been moved and moved and moved. 1500 01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:01.920 They need aid that's supposed to come through. They want 1501 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:05.920 to release twenty Israeli hostages that are still alive after 1502 01:27:06.039 --> 01:27:09.640 all this time, and they want the Palestinians who are 1503 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:12.239 malnourished and starving to get the aid they need. But 1504 01:27:12.319 --> 01:27:15.439 we haven't seen the aid delivery work. We haven't seen 1505 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:19.520 this displacement in any way give shelter or food or aid. 1506 01:27:19.800 --> 01:27:23.119 And what we're seeing is continued bombardment, even on that 1507 01:27:23.199 --> 01:27:27.760 Catholic church where disabled and elderly people sheltered. Where the 1508 01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:32.479 videos when we saw the Pope talking about his benevolence, 1509 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:35.079 it was these calls to Gaza every night, And now 1510 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:38.279 we're seeing this church, it's not good. But Hamas has 1511 01:27:38.279 --> 01:27:40.159 always said that they want an end to the war. 1512 01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:43.319 And the problem is that Another sticking point is is 1513 01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:47.479 Prime Minister Benjamin Netie, who's power with his coalition, and 1514 01:27:47.479 --> 01:27:50.960 it not disintegrating on him to agree to this deal 1515 01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:54.600 because often people like the Defense Minister Israel cass does 1516 01:27:54.640 --> 01:27:57.239 not want an end to the war to get to 1517 01:27:57.279 --> 01:28:00.079 that point or to say that they agree to that. 1518 01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:02.680 And Courtiny, does it feel to you and in talking 1519 01:28:02.720 --> 01:28:06.239 to your sources that the Trump administration is growing frustrated 1520 01:28:06.279 --> 01:28:08.439 with Bibi Netyahu and his coalition. 1521 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:10.760 Yeah, absolutely, And like let's zoom out a little bit, 1522 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:13.479 as we always do, and move on to Syria, and 1523 01:28:13.560 --> 01:28:15.800 let's listen to what the State Department had to say 1524 01:28:15.800 --> 01:28:17.720 about the Israeli strikes in Syria. 1525 01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:22.399 Okay, the United States did not support recent Israeli strikes. 1526 01:28:22.600 --> 01:28:26.079 We are engaging diplomatically with Israel and Syria at the 1527 01:28:26.119 --> 01:28:30.039 highest levels, both to address the present crisis and reach 1528 01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:34.960 a lasting agreement between the two sovereign states. 1529 01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:42.920 Sovereign states, sovereign sovereign states, emphasis on sovereign. Syria is 1530 01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:45.359 a sovereign state, It's a Nassan state. Coming out of 1531 01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:49.039 fourteen years of civil war, brutal dictatorships of the outside 1532 01:28:49.039 --> 01:28:53.039 family for decades, but it is supported by the Gulf countries. 1533 01:28:53.199 --> 01:28:57.039 And the US President did release and take away those 1534 01:28:57.079 --> 01:29:01.119 American sanctions. So there was actarian We use that word 1535 01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:03.000 a lot, but it was the Druze, which is its 1536 01:29:03.159 --> 01:29:07.760 own sect of offshoot of Islam and Bedouins that are 1537 01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:11.319 fighting and it's gotten bloody, and it's in southeast Syria, 1538 01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.039 and that's it's been a bloody, almost tribal Not to 1539 01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:17.439 be disrespectful, but that's kind of what it looks like. 1540 01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:21.600 What Israel did was the minute the Syrian forces moved 1541 01:29:21.640 --> 01:29:26.319 close to southeast Israel bombed Damascus, bombed, the military headquarter, 1542 01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:31.039 bombed near the presidential Palace. So they've got to allow 1543 01:29:31.119 --> 01:29:35.920 the Syrian forces to control their own land without interfering 1544 01:29:35.960 --> 01:29:38.239 and saying that they're doing it to protect the DRUS 1545 01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:41.520 because that goes across borders, and these borders should be 1546 01:29:41.720 --> 01:29:47.680 hard and fast. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netniaho clearly distruss Thisria, 1547 01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:50.399 these new Syrian forces and does not want him near 1548 01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:51.640 the Israeli border. 1549 01:29:52.159 --> 01:29:54.479 All right, Corney Kiely, always great to have you here 1550 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:55.680 you make it okay. 1551 01:29:56.039 --> 01:29:58.560 So there's a lot of things going on as far 1552 01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:01.560 as Israel's concerned right now now. To be completely honest 1553 01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:06.319 with you, it's it's absolutely insane. And the bombing of 1554 01:30:06.359 --> 01:30:10.199 the Catholic Church. So for anybody who doesn't know, Yeah, 1555 01:30:10.239 --> 01:30:13.199 the Cajun Knight might be a moniker that I've put 1556 01:30:13.239 --> 01:30:15.760 on as far as the content creation side of this goes, 1557 01:30:16.279 --> 01:30:20.520 and that's kind of a two part conversation. So I 1558 01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:22.880 have in the past done booheart fighting, and I would 1559 01:30:22.880 --> 01:30:25.960 like to get more more heavily involved with it. I've 1560 01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:27.359 had to take a step back from him for the 1561 01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:30.479 past few years because life be life. And but aside 1562 01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:33.159 from that type of night fighting that I do, the 1563 01:30:33.359 --> 01:30:37.479 organization that I am a part of also has representation 1564 01:30:37.680 --> 01:30:40.880 in Jerusalem in the Holy Land, and our main objective 1565 01:30:40.920 --> 01:30:43.920 is to keep a Christian presence in the Holy Land 1566 01:30:43.960 --> 01:30:47.399 and to protect Christians there and you know, Christians at 1567 01:30:47.439 --> 01:30:51.680 risk around the world. That being said, I personally know 1568 01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:56.239 people from that church. I actually just was speaking to 1569 01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:58.600 some of them a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix, 1570 01:30:59.399 --> 01:31:03.399 and I haven't heard from anybody that I talked to 1571 01:31:03.399 --> 01:31:06.600 to my knowledge everybody that I met is safe. But 1572 01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:10.279 this is a bit of a situation. This is this 1573 01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:12.119 something that actually kind of hits close to home. I'm 1574 01:31:12.159 --> 01:31:14.520 not a Catholic, but I was, you raised Catholic until 1575 01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:16.920 I was about thirteen. I have respect for the Catholic faith. 1576 01:31:17.319 --> 01:31:19.560 I may not agree with a lot of the things 1577 01:31:19.560 --> 01:31:23.920 about their dogma, but I can respect them and give 1578 01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:28.359 them their flowers where they're due. This is a bit 1579 01:31:28.399 --> 01:31:32.760 of an issue for me personally. Okay. So the Christians 1580 01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:38.479 are discriminated against in Israel and in Gaza, and ever 1581 01:31:38.520 --> 01:31:41.079 since this whole conflict has kicked off, they have been 1582 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:46.159 doubly persecuted and discriminated against because the Jews are not 1583 01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:50.800 giving them any kind of safety or support. The Muslims 1584 01:31:50.880 --> 01:31:53.039 are not giving them any kind of safety or support. 1585 01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:55.560 They are kind of left to fit for themselves. And 1586 01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:58.239 this is a population that is less than two percent 1587 01:31:58.399 --> 01:32:01.199 in this region, so it's a very tight knit community, 1588 01:32:01.760 --> 01:32:04.399 and both sides pretty much just lead them to their 1589 01:32:04.399 --> 01:32:08.840 own devices. And when something happens to the Christians, no 1590 01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:11.039 one's really putting them at the top of the priority 1591 01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:13.920 list to come help them. So when you hear that 1592 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:16.720 the only Catholic church in Gaza just got bombed by 1593 01:32:16.760 --> 01:32:20.199 the IDF. And I'm not saying that it was purposely done. 1594 01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:23.560 I'm not saying that either. I don't know. I'm sure 1595 01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:27.359 there's gonna be a internal investigation, and it was a yeah, 1596 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:29.680 I'm sorry. I don't really believe all of that. I 1597 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:33.239 don't know if it was intentional or not. Either way 1598 01:32:33.279 --> 01:32:37.760 this goes. It is not good optics, especially if Israel relies. 1599 01:32:37.840 --> 01:32:40.640 And by Israel relying on the outside forces, what I 1600 01:32:40.680 --> 01:32:44.520 mean is American help. Right. Israel has always relied on 1601 01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:46.319 us for a lot of things. They do not need 1602 01:32:46.359 --> 01:32:49.439 our help, but they also really like our help. You know, 1603 01:32:49.560 --> 01:32:53.399 pissing off the evangelicals in America by hitting a church 1604 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:58.079 is probably not the smartest move. I don't know, Tony, go. 1605 01:32:58.039 --> 01:33:02.199 Ahead, Yeah, I've seen a lot of discussion of this. 1606 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.359 My overall impression of Israel has not changed much as 1607 01:33:06.359 --> 01:33:08.680 a result of this. This is just the kind of 1608 01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:10.199 thing that happens in war. I don't want to make 1609 01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:12.760 too much excuses for them. I certainly don't think this 1610 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:19.279 was approved at a high level or authorized, but there's 1611 01:33:19.319 --> 01:33:23.960 a lot of lower commanders and infantry who can exercise 1612 01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:29.119 their own individual initiative in a war. So I think 1613 01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:32.319 that's the kind of that's the root of an attack 1614 01:33:32.479 --> 01:33:37.840 like this. It just kind of happened. They've been negligent. Also, 1615 01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:43.520 the Christian population of Israel. I've found it from people 1616 01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:46.640 who defend Israel. Of course, the Christian population of Israel 1617 01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:50.000 has increased over the last forty or fifty years, but 1618 01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:52.800 they've been a pretty constant, like one and a half 1619 01:33:52.840 --> 01:33:56.319 percent of Israel's population. They used to the Christians used 1620 01:33:56.359 --> 01:34:00.359 to be a higher percentage of the Palestinian population, maybe 1621 01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.800 ten percent, and now they're down to two percent there too, 1622 01:34:02.960 --> 01:34:05.279 And I think it's because Christians get it have an 1623 01:34:05.279 --> 01:34:10.960 easier time emigrating. So there's large Christian Palestinian communities and 1624 01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:14.880 places like Chile where you wouldn't expect him, and Los 1625 01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:20.000 Angeles and Sirhan. Sirhan, it was a Palestinian Christian. He's 1626 01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:22.000 still alive, by the way. In San Quentin. He was 1627 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:26.760 the he alleged assassin of Robert Kennedy, although I believe 1628 01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:31.520 it was probably Kennedy's bodyguards. And you know, both of 1629 01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:35.720 those guys, Sirhan and thing Eugene Caesar, were mob linked 1630 01:34:35.720 --> 01:34:39.439 and it was probably a double assassin job there. But 1631 01:34:39.560 --> 01:34:43.279 that's a tangent here. One thing I was a little 1632 01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:45.680 surprised to see. I was surprised this got so much 1633 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:50.800 attention because when Israel bound the Church of Saint Porphyrius, 1634 01:34:51.079 --> 01:34:54.399 that was like a few weeks after October seventh, and 1635 01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:57.560 it killed a lot more people, but including some of 1636 01:34:57.720 --> 01:35:01.199 Justin Amasha's relatives. But I think everybody the time thought 1637 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:04.760 that it was so close to October seventh that you 1638 01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:07.000 just have to expect stuff like this to happen. 1639 01:35:07.399 --> 01:35:10.520 It was the fog of war, Yeah, I remember that. 1640 01:35:10.760 --> 01:35:14.920 Yeah, Israel's also attacked some smaller churches in Syria and 1641 01:35:15.119 --> 01:35:17.840 this isn't authorized by the government. These are just guys 1642 01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:21.600 on the ground doing their own thing. But yeah, it's 1643 01:35:21.640 --> 01:35:24.520 never gotten as much attention as this one particular Catholic 1644 01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:26.760 church in Gaza. And the last thing I want to 1645 01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:30.039 bring up is uh, I think there's a There was 1646 01:35:30.079 --> 01:35:35.439 a big split between Catholics and Protestants on Twitter this week, 1647 01:35:35.800 --> 01:35:39.720 especially because the battle on Beat. Editor Joel Barry made 1648 01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:42.159 a couple of posts about this, and one of them, 1649 01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:45.680 the most incendiary one, was that look, there's there are 1650 01:35:45.960 --> 01:35:50.359 all of those Catholics in Gaza are Hamas supporters, because 1651 01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:53.319 if they weren't, they would have lapsed by now. And 1652 01:35:53.720 --> 01:35:56.920 there used to be probably a thousand Catholics in Gaza 1653 01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:01.079 and there's only about two hundred left now. And he actually, 1654 01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:04.479 I'm not saying I fully agree with this argument, but 1655 01:36:04.520 --> 01:36:06.800 he does kind of have a point that the ones 1656 01:36:07.159 --> 01:36:11.920 who are the least favorable to Hamas have already left, 1657 01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:15.640 and the ones who are left are the ones who 1658 01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:21.439 are favorable to Hamas in some regard as, if not 1659 01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:23.359 at least being a political about it. 1660 01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:26.199 I see the argument, dude, but I also feel like 1661 01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:27.800 the ones that are left are the ones that probably 1662 01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:30.079 don't have the financial means to pick up and move 1663 01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:33.640 to another place like it went. There's only two hundred 1664 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:36.720 of them in Gaza City. Those two hundred are probably 1665 01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:40.560 like the impoverished dregs that happen to be members of 1666 01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:43.000 that parish. I could be so wrong here and come 1667 01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:46.680 to find out they are. They're absolutely helping support Hamas. 1668 01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:49.439 I just I have a hard time believing that, especially 1669 01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:53.479 with Hamas being an internationally recognized terrorist organization and this 1670 01:36:53.560 --> 01:36:56.680 particular parish being so closely linked to the Vatican. I 1671 01:36:56.920 --> 01:36:59.159 don't know. I just that's a hard sale for me. 1672 01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:03.000 Well, anyway, those were some of the arguments that were made, 1673 01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:06.920 and yeah, a lot of people were fighting on Twitter 1674 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:11.680 about that. I definitely think I disagree with Joel Barry 1675 01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:14.840 on the whole from that, and I think within the 1676 01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:21.960 evangelical community there's certain there's a debate opening up about dispensationalism, 1677 01:37:22.680 --> 01:37:27.359 where US evangelicals for the last I don't know fifty 1678 01:37:27.439 --> 01:37:32.760 plus years, have mostly agreed with the notion that Israel 1679 01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:36.399 is God's chosen people today and this refers to their 1680 01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:41.279 genetic lineage Jewish people who have been moving there, and 1681 01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:46.439 that's why we need to support Israel. And the younger generation, 1682 01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:51.600 even of Protestant Evangelicals, doesn't really believe this as much, 1683 01:37:51.640 --> 01:37:56.159 and they're really tealing away. It's a pretty major redefinition 1684 01:37:56.319 --> 01:38:00.159 of evangelical belief in the United States, I think going 1685 01:38:00.199 --> 01:38:00.840 on right now. 1686 01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:06.199 Yeah, that's the veil has been lifted as far as 1687 01:38:06.239 --> 01:38:10.279 that goes. For the longest time, evangelicals as a whole 1688 01:38:10.840 --> 01:38:14.600 thought it was our religious duty to support the nation 1689 01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:19.079 of Israel, win lose, draw, doesn't matter whatever Israel is doing. 1690 01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:21.359 We need to support them. I mean, hell, I was 1691 01:38:21.399 --> 01:38:23.319 even a part of that for a good long while here. 1692 01:38:24.119 --> 01:38:27.920 But I gotta say I'm not a big supporter of 1693 01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:31.479 Net and Yahoo. I support the nation of Israel. Yes, 1694 01:38:31.560 --> 01:38:34.520 I believe that that country should exist, There should be 1695 01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:37.920 a Jewish nation in this area. I have no problems 1696 01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:41.479 with that. By definition, that turns me into a Zionist. However, 1697 01:38:41.800 --> 01:38:47.880 what we are seeing these days is more of a Zionist. 1698 01:38:49.239 --> 01:38:54.640 How could I put this Zionist supremacist movement that is 1699 01:38:54.680 --> 01:38:57.800 currently going on right now, And it's not just happening 1700 01:38:57.800 --> 01:39:01.640 from Israel, It's happening in a America where people are 1701 01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:06.319 just inherently they're happy with anything that Israel does, and 1702 01:39:06.319 --> 01:39:09.520 they're not talking about Zionists as in they believe Israel 1703 01:39:09.520 --> 01:39:13.439 should exist. It's like the Zionist extremists that are going 1704 01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:16.520 on this kind of tangent and going about it this way, 1705 01:39:17.319 --> 01:39:19.840 and it's it's become a thing where you can't be 1706 01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:22.600 critical of net and Yahoo without being seen as an 1707 01:39:22.640 --> 01:39:26.199 anti Semite, and you should be allowed to do that. 1708 01:39:26.319 --> 01:39:29.199 You can you can support Israel as a nation and 1709 01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:32.479 think they're being led by shitheads like that. The two 1710 01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:36.000 can be true at the same time. God forget which 1711 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:38.239 comedian it was. I just heard speak on this. He's 1712 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:41.399 a libertarian talking head. He just went on Charlie Kirk 1713 01:39:41.399 --> 01:39:44.800 and said this, and I agreed with him. Basically, Israel 1714 01:39:44.960 --> 01:39:47.640 is like that guy that's a part of your clique. 1715 01:39:48.399 --> 01:39:50.960 He's your buddy, and every time you go out to 1716 01:39:51.000 --> 01:39:53.399 the bar with him, y'all get in a fistfight that 1717 01:39:53.479 --> 01:39:56.960 he starts and then you get your ass beat over it? Right, Like, 1718 01:39:57.359 --> 01:39:59.800 how many times do you do this before you just 1719 01:39:59.880 --> 01:40:02.960 know no longer start going out with this guy. It 1720 01:40:03.439 --> 01:40:08.760 seems like that is turning into the Israel America friendship. 1721 01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:11.960 And I'm not saying that America's been drug into wars 1722 01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:15.079 because of them. Yeah, we bombed Iran, cool, all right. 1723 01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:17.039 I personally don't have a problem with it. I'm not 1724 01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.199 a big fan of the iatola. It is what it is. 1725 01:40:19.239 --> 01:40:20.960 How the people in his country were happy that we 1726 01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:22.920 did it, it depends on the source. I understand that. 1727 01:40:23.000 --> 01:40:26.520 My point is we haven't been drug into a war 1728 01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:30.119 because of Israel in quite some time. However, a lot 1729 01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:33.159 of evangelicals are starting to think more critically and they're 1730 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:35.920 not just going along with whatever. Mister Pastorman says, they're 1731 01:40:35.960 --> 01:40:39.319 thinking for themselves, which is beautiful in my opinion, and 1732 01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:42.479 they're being more critical of the Israeli government and what 1733 01:40:42.560 --> 01:40:44.960 they're doing, and they're looking at the ties between the 1734 01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:48.800 Israeli government and the American government a little more skeptically, 1735 01:40:49.079 --> 01:40:53.520 which again I am in favor of. So with that 1736 01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:56.199 being said, them bombing this Catholic church, and you're right, 1737 01:40:56.239 --> 01:40:59.079 this is not the only Christian group to be hit 1738 01:40:59.279 --> 01:41:03.079 by the idea, especially in this whole conflict. But this 1739 01:41:03.359 --> 01:41:05.720 is getting a lot more eyes on it now. I 1740 01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:08.239 don't know if that's because we just got a new pope. 1741 01:41:08.640 --> 01:41:11.520 I don't know if it's because it's so close to 1742 01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:14.640 home as far as the Gaza area and this is 1743 01:41:14.680 --> 01:41:18.239 the only Catholic church in Gaza. I don't know why 1744 01:41:18.279 --> 01:41:20.560 this is getting more optics than any of the other 1745 01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:24.279 attacks that have happened. But it's also kind of bringing 1746 01:41:24.319 --> 01:41:26.960 to light the situation for the Christians on the ground 1747 01:41:27.119 --> 01:41:30.079 in this area of the world, which I, for my 1748 01:41:30.159 --> 01:41:34.439 own reasons, am in very high support of the Christian world. 1749 01:41:34.560 --> 01:41:39.600 Forget the denominations for two seconds, right, Catholic, Protestant, Methodists, 1750 01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:44.640 I don't care. Christians should care about what other Christians 1751 01:41:44.680 --> 01:41:47.479 have going on in their area. If you have a 1752 01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:50.760 group that is being executed right now because they're Christians, 1753 01:41:51.000 --> 01:41:54.479 regardless of what denomination they claim, that shouldn't matter to you. 1754 01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:57.399 If you are a Christian to hear that the only 1755 01:41:57.439 --> 01:42:00.720 Catholic church in Gaza just got hit, that matters to 1756 01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:03.079 me personally. Now I understand that that's my own thing. 1757 01:42:03.079 --> 01:42:04.960 And there's people that are not Christians that don't care. 1758 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:08.279 It's just another a stroke of the pin in the 1759 01:42:08.399 --> 01:42:12.199 overarching theme of the war. I get that, but this 1760 01:42:12.279 --> 01:42:14.600 one's getting a lot more optics to your point, for sure. 1761 01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:18.880 Yeah, And you know, agrievement I think drives a lot 1762 01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:23.960 of the violence in the world throughout history. And you know, 1763 01:42:24.239 --> 01:42:27.319 the most obvious example would be the Versailles Treaty that 1764 01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:32.039 made Germans feel aggrieved. But aggrievement and it can only 1765 01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:36.279 make other people sympathize with you to a point. And 1766 01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:40.960 I think Israel's main aggrievement story is obviously the Holocaust, 1767 01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:44.520 which happened in the early to mid forties, right, and 1768 01:42:44.560 --> 01:42:48.319 they founded, they established their country and got it recognized 1769 01:42:48.319 --> 01:42:53.239 by the UN largely on a kind of a social 1770 01:42:53.319 --> 01:42:57.119 capital or reputational capital or agrievement capital, whatever you want 1771 01:42:57.119 --> 01:43:01.039 to call it, based on that, and that capital I 1772 01:43:01.079 --> 01:43:03.520 think is running out based on just how old the 1773 01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:06.720 people of that generation are getting. But I think October 1774 01:43:06.760 --> 01:43:10.239 seventh gave them a lot more of this agrievement capital 1775 01:43:10.279 --> 01:43:13.960 in this understanding or license that Okay, you're going to 1776 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:15.880 go to war with Gaza, You're going to kill a 1777 01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:20.880 few thousand people. But that agrievement capital still runs out 1778 01:43:20.920 --> 01:43:24.039 in people's minds. So when you know, a church gets 1779 01:43:24.039 --> 01:43:28.079 fomed in October twenty twenty three, it seems to most 1780 01:43:28.079 --> 01:43:30.039 people that are, well, yeah, what do you expect? But 1781 01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:34.079 if years and years go by, eventually most of the 1782 01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:36.680 rest of the world figures, Okay, your time's up, your 1783 01:43:37.079 --> 01:43:39.399 your agrievement capital is spent. When are you going to 1784 01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:41.319 wrap this up? Or are you just going to use 1785 01:43:41.359 --> 01:43:44.520 this as an excuse to seize the land and kill 1786 01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:47.000 everybody on it if they if they don't move out. 1787 01:43:47.479 --> 01:43:49.920 And it's really looking like the latter, So I think 1788 01:43:50.119 --> 01:43:55.960 international pressure and their reputation is going down. It's they're 1789 01:43:55.960 --> 01:43:57.439 being told they got to wrap this up. 1790 01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:00.880 And I'm absolutely right, And as a matter of fact, 1791 01:44:01.239 --> 01:44:03.000 I was gonna read this article here but it kind 1792 01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:04.840 of reiterates everything we're talking about here. It's from the 1793 01:44:04.920 --> 01:44:09.920 Vatican News. Cardinal Pieza Bala. Wow, Pizza Bala. 1794 01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:13.720 Yeah, he was being conserved to be pope. But he's 1795 01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:15.119 right where he needs to be right now. 1796 01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:17.560 I think I agree, But I mean that's also a 1797 01:44:17.560 --> 01:44:21.760 badass name. Cardinal Pizza Bala. All right, dope. The Church 1798 01:44:21.800 --> 01:44:24.600 will never abandon afflicted people in Gaza. And it goes 1799 01:44:24.640 --> 01:44:28.239 into talking about this, and again I support it. I'm 1800 01:44:28.319 --> 01:44:29.800 sure it's going to be a great article. But to 1801 01:44:29.880 --> 01:44:33.199 your point about pushing people out this as we're still 1802 01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:36.359 talking about the Israeli conversation. This is from Al Jazeera, 1803 01:44:36.680 --> 01:44:39.880 so again consider the source. I understand that. But Israeli 1804 01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:46.239 parliament approved symbolic motion on West Bank annexation. Yeah, dude, Nasceette. 1805 01:44:46.279 --> 01:44:49.640 Lawmakers vote seventy one to thirteen in favor of annexation, 1806 01:44:50.199 --> 01:44:54.600 raising questions about the future of a Palestinian state. Israeli's 1807 01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:56.640 parliament has approved it. We just talked about that. The 1808 01:44:56.720 --> 01:44:59.199 lawmakers seventy one to thirteen in favor of the motion 1809 01:44:59.279 --> 01:45:03.199 on Wednesday, a non binding vote which calls for applying 1810 01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:09.359 Israeli sovereignty to Jujeia, excuse me sovereignty to Judea, Samaria 1811 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:14.520 and the Jordan Valley. The Israeli terms are for the area. 1812 01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:18.279 It's said that annexing the West Bank will strengthen the 1813 01:45:18.279 --> 01:45:21.720 State of israel It's security and prevent any questioning of 1814 01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:24.760 the fundamental right of the Jewish people to peace and 1815 01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:28.359 security in their homeland. The motion, advanced by Prime Minister 1816 01:45:28.439 --> 01:45:32.920 net Yahoo's coalition, is declarative and has no direct legal implications, 1817 01:45:33.239 --> 01:45:35.800 though it could place the issue of annexation on the 1818 01:45:35.840 --> 01:45:39.000 agenda for future debates in the Parliament. The idea was 1819 01:45:39.039 --> 01:45:42.199 initially brought forward last year by Israel's far right Finance 1820 01:45:42.279 --> 01:45:49.880 minister Bizell Smocktrik sure smatrich smash. I don't know, Royce, 1821 01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:51.720 how do you pronounce that last name? Brother? Do you 1822 01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:54.000 throw on that ch or is it an ick? What 1823 01:45:54.159 --> 01:45:54.399 is that? 1824 01:45:56.039 --> 01:45:56.239 Oh? 1825 01:45:56.399 --> 01:45:59.359 Hold, let me see Azaliel. 1826 01:46:00.479 --> 01:46:04.119 I hear him referred to as bes smow Trich smow Trich, 1827 01:46:04.239 --> 01:46:06.079 who also may not know how to pronounce it, but 1828 01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:07.359 that's how I hete it. 1829 01:46:07.439 --> 01:46:09.720 Help me out. You're a resident Jewish correspondent, How do 1830 01:46:09.800 --> 01:46:11.319 you how do you jewify that name? 1831 01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:12.840 Give it? 1832 01:46:12.880 --> 01:46:14.840 Give it to me, Hebert, I'll tell you English. I 1833 01:46:14.840 --> 01:46:16.279 could not tell you whatsoever. 1834 01:46:17.079 --> 01:46:19.159 It might be Polish for all we know. Yeah, ye, 1835 01:46:20.199 --> 01:46:20.840 smo trich. 1836 01:46:21.960 --> 01:46:26.640 Yeah, you're right, he might be a Polish matra may. 1837 01:46:28.079 --> 01:46:30.520 I don't know it could be. But smow trich is 1838 01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:32.560 how I hear most people pronounce it. I have heard 1839 01:46:32.600 --> 01:46:34.720 it pronounced in American media a lot. 1840 01:46:35.039 --> 01:46:38.479 Okay, fair enough that homeboy, who himself lives in an 1841 01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:42.720 illegal Israeli settlement and holds a position within Israel's Ministry 1842 01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:45.920 of Defense where he oversees the administration of the West 1843 01:46:45.960 --> 01:46:48.399 Bank and its settlements. The West Bank, along with the 1844 01:46:48.439 --> 01:46:52.479 Gaza Strip and Eastern Jerusalem, has been under Israeli occupation 1845 01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:56.800 since nineteen sixty seven. Since then, Israeli settlements have expanded 1846 01:46:56.840 --> 01:47:00.520 despite being illegal under international law and in the case 1847 01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:04.199 of the settlement outposts, Israeli law. Wow, okay, you know, 1848 01:47:04.319 --> 01:47:06.920 let's watch this little video. It's only almost three minutes long. 1849 01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:07.560 We'll see. 1850 01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:12.760 To get groceries at each Jabbari has to cross at 1851 01:47:12.880 --> 01:47:17.760 least three Israeli military checkpoints and four barriers, and to 1852 01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:20.880 protect her family from harm, she's had to turn her 1853 01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:27.840 home into it looks like a prison. Metal barriers cover 1854 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:30.920 all the windows of the house, even the ones inside 1855 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:36.439 her bedroom. Still at each says it's impossible to feel safe. 1856 01:47:37.479 --> 01:47:39.920 This is life in the old city of Hebron, south 1857 01:47:39.960 --> 01:47:44.760 of the occupied West Bank, where's really Settlers often attack Palestinians. 1858 01:47:46.520 --> 01:47:47.199 This is just. 1859 01:47:47.279 --> 01:47:51.720 Temporary barbed Why it can't prevent all settlers rocks. It 1860 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:55.479 can't save us from bullets or tear gas often fired 1861 01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:58.760 by Israeli forces towards us, and. 1862 01:47:58.840 --> 01:48:03.039 Each often documents settler attacks, but that comes. 1863 01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:03.279 With a risk. 1864 01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:09.159 Israeli soldiers raided the house, broke the windows with the 1865 01:48:09.279 --> 01:48:13.960 rifle butts. They seized my camera and confiscated the memory 1866 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:17.279 card and told me not to film. They often yell 1867 01:48:17.319 --> 01:48:20.079 at me if I open the windows, so I try 1868 01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:21.760 to record discreetly. 1869 01:48:25.520 --> 01:48:28.359 Every time he puts a lock on their door, Israeli 1870 01:48:28.399 --> 01:48:37.359 forces destroy. 1871 01:48:33.319 --> 01:48:35.960 I keep this winding black here and secure it like 1872 01:48:36.039 --> 01:48:42.560 this to try and block settlers from entering. But sometimes 1873 01:48:42.800 --> 01:48:47.439 they still break through anyway. Settlers jump inside, climb the 1874 01:48:47.479 --> 01:48:51.680 stairs to the rooftops. They cause destruction and terrorize the children. 1875 01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:54.600 Okay, so you know what we will see if this 1876 01:48:54.640 --> 01:48:59.119 annexation does get pushed through, and if so what's gonna 1877 01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:00.960 happen to the people that are currently living in the 1878 01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:04.960 West Bank. I don't see it going necessarily good. But 1879 01:49:05.119 --> 01:49:08.520 again it's the situation is getting more and more tense 1880 01:49:08.560 --> 01:49:11.399 over there. They're keep there is constantly a conversation of 1881 01:49:11.439 --> 01:49:14.560 a ceasefire agreement that's about to be reached. Yet here 1882 01:49:14.560 --> 01:49:16.800 we are and nothing has been reached. It's very similar 1883 01:49:16.800 --> 01:49:19.720 to what's going on with Russia and Ukraine. We keep hearing, 1884 01:49:19.760 --> 01:49:23.239 we keep hearing in the West anyway, that a ceasefire 1885 01:49:23.359 --> 01:49:26.840 is just around the corner, yet there's actually no signs 1886 01:49:26.880 --> 01:49:30.039 of this taking place. I don't know, I don't know 1887 01:49:30.079 --> 01:49:32.119 what to make of it, but that is what we 1888 01:49:32.199 --> 01:49:34.079 do here. We talk about these things, you know. 1889 01:49:34.840 --> 01:49:37.479 Yeah, I gotta think this West Bank's way harder to 1890 01:49:37.600 --> 01:49:41.399 take than Gaza. They got way more foreign relations and 1891 01:49:41.680 --> 01:49:44.439 they got six million people instead of only two million. 1892 01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:46.600 Yeah, and uh. 1893 01:49:46.560 --> 01:49:49.840 Yeah, this talk of annexting has been going on for 1894 01:49:49.840 --> 01:49:53.239 a while and they got these settlements, of course, but 1895 01:49:54.159 --> 01:49:57.279 it's way harder. And this, uh this, who were we 1896 01:49:57.319 --> 01:49:59.960 talking about? Smo Trich? Yeah, yeah, he's got a reputation 1897 01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:03.439 and he's been talking about he's been quoted as saying 1898 01:50:03.520 --> 01:50:06.960 it might be moral and justified to starve everyone in Gaza. 1899 01:50:07.039 --> 01:50:09.840 And he's also on the record saying that he thinks 1900 01:50:09.880 --> 01:50:12.920 Israel's border should extend all the way to Damascus, which 1901 01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:16.479 would include Souweyta and the Druze area we were talking 1902 01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:20.199 about today and last week. So he's got a reputation 1903 01:50:20.319 --> 01:50:24.640 as being very, very expansionist, even for an Israeli. I 1904 01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:27.680 wanted to bring up one last thing. Mike Huckabee is 1905 01:50:27.720 --> 01:50:31.199 the US Ambassador to Israel, and he's on record in 1906 01:50:31.239 --> 01:50:34.319 the past. I've seen footage of him saying when people 1907 01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:37.680 talk to him about Palestine or the West Bank, he 1908 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:41.279 will immediately say, stop right there, it's not the West Bank, 1909 01:50:41.520 --> 01:50:45.880 it's Judea and Samaria. So he refuses to call it 1910 01:50:45.920 --> 01:50:47.920 West Bank. He says, it's you got to refer to 1911 01:50:47.960 --> 01:50:51.359 it by the name that Israel chooses to give it, 1912 01:50:51.479 --> 01:50:54.960 which is the name that they've given it historically. And 1913 01:50:55.399 --> 01:50:59.960 very recently, after that Catholic church attack or accidental hit, 1914 01:51:00.119 --> 01:51:05.640 whatever it is, he started actually shifting his rhetoric quite 1915 01:51:05.640 --> 01:51:10.119 a lot on Israel because Israel started to deny some 1916 01:51:10.279 --> 01:51:16.840 tourist visas to American Protestants and Mike Cuckabee of all people, 1917 01:51:17.279 --> 01:51:20.199 started saying, well, this is very serious and they really 1918 01:51:20.239 --> 01:51:23.600 got to change what they're doing here. And it surprised 1919 01:51:23.640 --> 01:51:29.560 me because it really went against his reputation in his 1920 01:51:29.560 --> 01:51:34.239 history of being unqualified pro Lekud pro Israel. So if 1921 01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:38.960 they've lost Mike Cukabee and Michael Knowles and a number 1922 01:51:38.960 --> 01:51:41.439 of people like that, yeah, things are changing pretty fast. 1923 01:51:42.039 --> 01:51:45.319 They really are, and it sucks. So the group that 1924 01:51:45.359 --> 01:51:48.119 I belonged to, they were trying to make a pilgrimage 1925 01:51:48.159 --> 01:51:51.600 happen this spring as a matter of fact, and the 1926 01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:54.039 guys that came from Israel to the big talk that 1927 01:51:54.079 --> 01:51:56.720 we had, the big convention, they said that, yeah, there 1928 01:51:56.800 --> 01:51:58.960 is fighting going on, but it's way over here and 1929 01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:01.319 it's way over there, not in the areas that we're 1930 01:52:01.359 --> 01:52:05.079 talking about. It's completely safe and because of the conflict, 1931 01:52:05.239 --> 01:52:08.199 like all the Holy sites are pretty much empty. You 1932 01:52:08.319 --> 01:52:11.239 should come, it's gonna be great. And then we see 1933 01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:14.720 the Catholic churches got bombed and it's like, ooh, sorry, homie, 1934 01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:17.520 I'm you're gonna have to catch me after y'all settle 1935 01:52:17.600 --> 01:52:20.319 down over there. I'm not I'm not gonna get caught 1936 01:52:20.359 --> 01:52:23.359 in some straight round because I wanted to go see 1937 01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:27.239 the sites that Jesus walks like one of these days, yes, 1938 01:52:27.359 --> 01:52:29.920 like it's on my bucket list. I would love to 1939 01:52:29.960 --> 01:52:32.800 be baptized in the Jordan River. I would love to 1940 01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:36.600 see the Old Temple, right, I would love to see 1941 01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:39.960 all of these places. I just there's no way I'm 1942 01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:43.560 going anytime soon. Absolutely no, especially because I can't carry 1943 01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:47.760 a weapon there, Like, you know, that's ridiculous. And I 1944 01:52:47.800 --> 01:52:50.800 know it's anybody listening right now from another country that 1945 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:53.439 might seem crazy to y'all that an American just like 1946 01:52:53.680 --> 01:52:56.960 wants to carry a weapon at all times, But yeah, 1947 01:52:57.359 --> 01:52:59.640 that's that's how we roll. And I'm not going to 1948 01:52:59.640 --> 01:53:02.960 an act of warzone with hopes and dreams that I'm 1949 01:53:02.960 --> 01:53:05.720 not gonna become a hostage or something like. There's no way, 1950 01:53:06.039 --> 01:53:10.079 absolutely no way. So yeah, it's uh, the relations are 1951 01:53:10.079 --> 01:53:14.720 definitely souring. The American public's opinion is shifting more and 1952 01:53:14.800 --> 01:53:17.479 more by the day, and I don't think that this, 1953 01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:21.359 even if it was completely accidental, I don't think this 1954 01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:24.039 is gonna go over well. To try to strengthen the 1955 01:53:24.079 --> 01:53:27.239 relations and the public opinion of what's going down there 1956 01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:32.000 with the American people. But yeah, no, anyway, all right, 1957 01:53:32.079 --> 01:53:36.119 let's move on to the next conversation. Thailand recalls the 1958 01:53:36.199 --> 01:53:40.319 ambassador to Cambodia amid border tensions. This is another Al 1959 01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:44.039 Jazeera article. Governing party says that it has downgraded ties 1960 01:53:44.079 --> 01:53:48.720 with Cambodia after a landmine incident that injured a Thaie soldier. 1961 01:53:48.880 --> 01:53:52.319 Now a land mine going off in the Indo China 1962 01:53:52.439 --> 01:53:56.800 region isn't exactly a monolith by any means. This area 1963 01:53:56.920 --> 01:53:59.800 is riddled with land mines. We just did an episode 1964 01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.840 on the Cult of Conspiracy about this with the stone 1965 01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:09.000 jars that are currently in Laos and why they have 1966 01:54:09.079 --> 01:54:12.960 two hundred and sixty two million cluster bombs that were 1967 01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:17.199 dropped on them during Operation Barrel Roll. That's just one example. 1968 01:54:17.279 --> 01:54:20.359 Cambodia also has a lot of these things. Thailand has 1969 01:54:20.359 --> 01:54:23.439 had all kinds of conflict. Just to the left, ershas 1970 01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:26.119 the west of them. You have me and mar that's 1971 01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:29.760 an open revolt. So it's not crazy, but this could 1972 01:54:29.840 --> 01:54:32.399 be the catalyst for something a lot larger in this 1973 01:54:32.479 --> 01:54:36.000 region of the world. Now, like it said, Thailand has 1974 01:54:36.000 --> 01:54:39.840 recalled its ambassador for Cambodia, and we'll expel Cambodia's ambassador 1975 01:54:40.119 --> 01:54:44.079 the governing Few Thai Party Foe Tai. I don't know, 1976 01:54:44.079 --> 01:54:46.880 I'm probably mispronouncing it followed a land mine incident that 1977 01:54:47.000 --> 01:54:49.720 injured a TIE soldier along the disputed border between the 1978 01:54:49.720 --> 01:54:52.560 two countries. The Taime Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged 1979 01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:55.279 a formal protest with Cambodia, saying the land mines found 1980 01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:58.199 in the area were newly deployed and had not been 1981 01:54:58.319 --> 01:55:01.800 encountered during previous patrols, the party said on social media 1982 01:55:01.800 --> 01:55:06.199 on Wednesday. So Thailand has downgraded diplomatic relations with Cambodia, 1983 01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:09.760 it said. Thailand's Foreign Ministry has said it has yet 1984 01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:12.880 to be informed of the decision to recall the envoy 1985 01:55:12.920 --> 01:55:16.359 and the plan to expel Cambodia's ambassador. The government has 1986 01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:19.279 also ordered the closure of all border checkpoints under the 1987 01:55:19.359 --> 01:55:24.920 jurisdiction of the Thailand's second Army. The Foe Thai Party 1988 01:55:25.199 --> 01:55:27.840 I'm not sure that's Foe or Fu or how they 1989 01:55:27.880 --> 01:55:31.560 pronounced that, but my bad tourists are strictly prohibited from 1990 01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:35.119 entering these border areas, it said, along running territorial row 1991 01:55:35.239 --> 01:55:38.800 in an area known as the Emerald Triangle, where the 1992 01:55:38.800 --> 01:55:42.279 borders of both countries and Laos meet boiled over into 1993 01:55:42.359 --> 01:55:46.199 military clashes in May that left one Cambodian soldier dead. 1994 01:55:46.640 --> 01:55:49.520 Since then, the two sides have traded barbs and tip 1995 01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:53.560 for tat retaliatory measures. In the landmine incident on Wednesday, 1996 01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:56.520 the Thai soldiers sustained injuries and lost his right leg, 1997 01:55:56.720 --> 01:56:00.279 the party said. Earlier, Thailand accused Cambodia of place lacing 1998 01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:02.680 land mines on the Tai side of the disputed border 1999 01:56:02.720 --> 01:56:08.680 area after three soldiers were injured by Penn denied, but 2000 01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:12.600 Phenam Penn declined excuse Me denied the claim and said 2001 01:56:12.640 --> 01:56:16.039 the soldiers had veered off the agreed routes and triggered 2002 01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:20.359 a mine left behind from decades of war. Tai authorities 2003 01:56:20.359 --> 01:56:22.680 said the soldiers were injured, with one losing a foot 2004 01:56:22.680 --> 01:56:25.880 by a land mine while on patrol on July sixteenth 2005 01:56:25.920 --> 01:56:28.920 and the Taie side of the disputed border area between 2006 01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:37.680 Ubon Ratchathani Yeah and Cambodia's pre Vehar Province. Cambodia's foreign 2007 01:56:37.720 --> 01:56:40.600 minister denied that the new mines had been planted, and 2008 01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:42.920 said in a statement on Monday that the Thai soldiers 2009 01:56:42.920 --> 01:56:47.079 deviated from agreed patrol routes into Cambodian territory and into 2010 01:56:47.199 --> 01:56:51.520 areas that can contain unexploded land mines. The country is 2011 01:56:51.600 --> 01:56:54.319 littered with land mines laid during decades of war, which 2012 01:56:54.359 --> 01:56:57.760 is a very true statement. That's fair. The continuing border 2013 01:56:57.800 --> 01:57:00.960 dispute has soured relations between the two countries, prompting the 2014 01:57:01.760 --> 01:57:06.479 closure of border crossings and Cambodia blocking imports a fuel 2015 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:09.359 and gas, as well as fruits and vegetables from Thailand. 2016 01:57:09.680 --> 01:57:13.079 It also triggered a domestic political crisis in Thailand, where 2017 01:57:13.119 --> 01:57:16.399 Prime Minister God I'm not going to pronounce that anyway, 2018 01:57:16.439 --> 01:57:19.800 The Thailand Prime Minister has been suspended from office pending 2019 01:57:19.880 --> 01:57:23.800 in ethics probe over her conduct during this During the row, 2020 01:57:24.640 --> 01:57:28.680 a diplomatic call between the Pentagon and Hun Sen, Cambodia's 2021 01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:32.479 former longtime ruler and father of the Cambodian Prime minister, 2022 01:57:33.039 --> 01:57:37.199 was leaked from the Cambodian side, prompting a judicial investigation. 2023 01:57:37.800 --> 01:57:41.159 Last week, the Prime minister announced that Cambodia would start 2024 01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:46.680 conscripting civilians next year, activating a long dormant mandatory draft law. 2025 01:57:47.119 --> 01:57:50.279 He said the tensons with thailand miant conscription was needed, 2026 01:57:50.760 --> 01:57:55.800 and the defense budget may also be increased. Now, with 2027 01:57:55.880 --> 01:57:57.880 all of that being said, I know I'm listing a 2028 01:57:57.880 --> 01:58:00.399 lot of names of countries that people may not be 2029 01:58:00.479 --> 01:58:03.640 that familiar with. So I got this guy here Geography Now, 2030 01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:05.199 if anybody will like to go check him out. I 2031 01:58:05.279 --> 01:58:07.800 absolutely love his content and he is going to explain 2032 01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:10.159 this region in about three minutes, and he does a 2033 01:58:10.199 --> 01:58:12.119 beautiful job of doing So let's listen. 2034 01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:14.640 In Southeast Asian Peninsula summarized. First off, I'm not gonna 2035 01:58:14.640 --> 01:58:17.319 include the CROs Isthmus, which includes parts of Malayia and Singapore, 2036 01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:19.039 because that's kind of like a separate thing. And also 2037 01:58:19.039 --> 01:58:20.560 if I include Malaysia, then I'm gonna have to hop 2038 01:58:20.560 --> 01:58:22.279 over to Borneo, which has the other part of Malaysa. 2039 01:58:22.279 --> 01:58:23.680 Then I'm gonna have to talk about ru Nai and 2040 01:58:23.680 --> 01:58:25.640 then Indonesian and then we're gonna get off topic. So 2041 01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:27.920 just the main peninsula. First of all, they're all members 2042 01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:30.279 of OSION, which is the largest political and economic block 2043 01:58:30.279 --> 01:58:32.319 in the region. First, let's talk about who's related to 2044 01:58:32.399 --> 01:58:34.760 Starting with Thailand and Laos. These two are basically siblings. 2045 01:58:34.800 --> 01:58:36.800 They can even understand each other mostly when they talk 2046 01:58:36.840 --> 01:58:38.279 to each other. The only difference is that they had 2047 01:58:38.279 --> 01:58:40.359 a little bit of different upbringings, but they get each other. 2048 01:58:40.479 --> 01:58:43.960 Vietnam and Cambodia are very distant cousins. It's just Vietnam 2049 01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:46.680 they had very different upbringings. Vietnam got more Chinese influenced, 2050 01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:49.159 Cambodia got more Indosphere influenced. They've had a lot of 2051 01:58:49.159 --> 01:58:51.600 fighting with each other in the past, but technically they're 2052 01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:54.479 long distant cousins, whereas the people of Myanmar are very 2053 01:58:54.520 --> 01:58:56.760 distant cousins of the Tibetan people found in the Tibetan 2054 01:58:56.760 --> 01:58:58.560 Plateau of what is now China. These are the vast 2055 01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:01.920 Buddhist majority countries, mostly under the Theravada branch, Whereas Vietnam 2056 01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:04.039 and Laos, although they do have Buddhism, their cultures are 2057 01:59:04.039 --> 01:59:06.520 more focused on folk religious elements, and it's not uncommon 2058 01:59:06.520 --> 01:59:08.840 to see syncredism. Back in the day, Thailand and Myanmar 2059 01:59:08.920 --> 01:59:11.079 were called Siam and Burma. You've probably heard of those 2060 01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:14.039 words like Siamese cats and Burmese pythons. Yeah, that's where 2061 01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:16.199 they get their names from. And they were the biggest rivals. 2062 01:59:16.199 --> 01:59:17.800 They were always fighting each other. They had so many 2063 01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:19.880 wars and they were always riding the elephants in the wars, 2064 01:59:19.920 --> 01:59:22.239 which is honestly kind of badass, but that's besides the point. 2065 01:59:22.239 --> 01:59:24.760 Whereas the Vietnamese and Cambodians have always had conflicts over 2066 01:59:24.760 --> 01:59:26.960 the southern areas by the Mekong Delta, and of course 2067 01:59:26.960 --> 01:59:29.520 they also used the battle elephants. Later on, these three 2068 01:59:29.520 --> 01:59:32.359 countries fell under French colonial rule as French Indo China, 2069 01:59:32.359 --> 01:59:33.720 which by the way, that word is kind of stupid 2070 01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:35.640 because it's just lazy. It's like, well, it's not India, 2071 01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:37.680 it's not China. Let's just call it Indo China, which 2072 01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:39.039 is why today you can still see some of the 2073 01:59:39.039 --> 01:59:41.720 French influence in certain areas, like French signs in public 2074 01:59:41.720 --> 01:59:44.720 and Vietnam has those Bunme sandwiches which uses French baguettes 2075 01:59:44.720 --> 01:59:46.439 and they're so good. I love them. They're so cheap 2076 01:59:46.439 --> 01:59:49.159 on the streets of Vietnam. Whereas Burma or mean Mar 2077 01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:51.560 fell under British rule. Originally it was under British India, 2078 01:59:51.560 --> 01:59:53.239 and then eventually it just got its own like British 2079 01:59:53.279 --> 01:59:55.760 Burma status. It even included the Andaman Islands, which were 2080 01:59:55.800 --> 01:59:57.960 later given to India, even though it's closer to meon 2081 01:59:58.039 --> 02:00:00.680 mar whereas Thailand was sitting pretty as a buffer state 2082 02:00:00.720 --> 02:00:02.119 that neither side would call an eye so that they 2083 02:00:02.119 --> 02:00:04.279 could stay away from each other, which made Laos feel 2084 02:00:04.319 --> 02:00:07.279 like bro hell and then for a brief period of time, 2085 02:00:07.319 --> 02:00:10.560 imperialist japantic over everything. Vietnam has some current drama with 2086 02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:13.079 China over the nine dash line because China claims all 2087 02:00:13.119 --> 02:00:15.560 of that, and there's the Parcel islands that Vietnam claims, 2088 02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:17.680 but China built a military base on one of them. Anyway, 2089 02:00:17.720 --> 02:00:19.479 There's also so much other stuff going on, but that's 2090 02:00:19.520 --> 02:00:20.319 kind of like just the. 2091 02:00:20.199 --> 02:00:23.840 Basics you need to know, Okay. Like I said, I 2092 02:00:23.840 --> 02:00:26.159 do love his content. He does that with like random 2093 02:00:26.239 --> 02:00:31.000 regions around the world. It's great. It's entertaining as hell anyway, 2094 02:00:31.239 --> 02:00:33.960 all right, So, as we get ready to wrap this up, 2095 02:00:34.000 --> 02:00:36.520 if anybody has any saved rounds or anything they would 2096 02:00:36.520 --> 02:00:38.960 like to add into the conversation, please do so. We 2097 02:00:39.039 --> 02:00:41.119 covered a lot on this episode. We talked a lot 2098 02:00:41.159 --> 02:00:45.279 about American politics, a lot of a lot of controversy 2099 02:00:45.359 --> 02:00:48.960 surrounding old Donnie t As of this moment. We will 2100 02:00:49.000 --> 02:00:51.359 see how this shakes out. I don't have a lot 2101 02:00:51.359 --> 02:00:53.560 of high hopes as of this very moment in time. 2102 02:00:54.479 --> 02:00:57.600 Talking about the situation in Israel, we briefly touched on 2103 02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:00.720 the whole Bricks conversation, and yes, that does involve the 2104 02:01:00.760 --> 02:01:03.760 trade routes with Russia and how Trump is trying to 2105 02:01:03.800 --> 02:01:06.680 put on a five hundred percent tariff for anybody who 2106 02:01:06.680 --> 02:01:10.560 buys Russian oil. Good luck. And then the bricks, of course, 2107 02:01:10.560 --> 02:01:13.039 are trying to take out the USD. Will they succeed 2108 02:01:13.239 --> 02:01:15.399 As of this moment, I can't envision a world where 2109 02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:18.640 they do. Maybe some other currency can do it, maybe 2110 02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:20.560 crypto will be the thing to finally do it, But 2111 02:01:20.600 --> 02:01:23.760 as of time of recording, I just it's not it 2112 02:01:23.800 --> 02:01:26.479 doesn't really hold a candle to it. That being said, 2113 02:01:26.880 --> 02:01:29.560 shifted over to Israel, talked a little bit about the 2114 02:01:29.880 --> 02:01:32.560 wild things that are going on right there, and then 2115 02:01:32.800 --> 02:01:34.159 I thought it was nice to kind of wrap it 2116 02:01:34.239 --> 02:01:37.159 up in Southeast Asia. Yes, there is some controversy going 2117 02:01:37.199 --> 02:01:41.680 on with Cambodia and Thailand. However, the region is not 2118 02:01:42.680 --> 02:01:45.039 This isn't like a monolith. This region has had all 2119 02:01:45.159 --> 02:01:48.479 kinds of conflicts for a very long time. They're going 2120 02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:51.640 to continue to have issues for a very long time. 2121 02:01:52.479 --> 02:01:55.439 But anyway, all right, let me check the chat real 2122 02:01:55.520 --> 02:01:57.960 quick before we leave and make sure I didn't leave 2123 02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:02.119 anything out. No, I think we're good. All right, excellent. 2124 02:02:02.840 --> 02:02:05.039 Once again, everybody, I want to thank all of you 2125 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:08.159 for joining me on this episode of The Cajun Night Live. 2126 02:02:08.239 --> 02:02:10.239 For anybody listening that would like to be a part 2127 02:02:10.279 --> 02:02:13.039 of this conversation next week, please go to the link 2128 02:02:13.079 --> 02:02:15.640 in the description below. Come check out The Cajun Night 2129 02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:19.000 on Patreon, only one tier for entry. We do this 2130 02:02:19.039 --> 02:02:21.840 every Wednesday night at nine pm Central, and it's always 2131 02:02:21.840 --> 02:02:23.720 a great time. We learn a little bit, we talk 2132 02:02:23.760 --> 02:02:27.560 a little things, we grow as a community, and I 2133 02:02:27.600 --> 02:02:31.319 thoroughly enjoy our Wednesday Night conversations. Once again, everybody, I 2134 02:02:31.359 --> 02:02:49.359 am the Cajun Night and as always, God bless