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  • Ceasefire.
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  • We got the ceasefire
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  • And the president has fired off a stream of truce socials.
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  • We could probably just start rotating through some of these
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  • Of the fact that the strait has been open.
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  • Even iran's spokespeople are confirming
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  • That the strait is in fact open.
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  • So to supply context for this, do it, do it.
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  • We announced the cease fire all a while ago,
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  • But then
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  • There was some friction because they wanted it to apply
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  • To lebanon.
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  • We said it didn't apply to lebanon,
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  • So they said it really wasn't fully open.
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  • So then we began blockading the strait.
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  • So what was announced late last night was
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  • There is a ten day ceasefire between, israel and hezbollah
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  • In southern lebanon that was agreed
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  • Through negotiations here in washington.
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  • And because that ceasefire has been achieved, iran
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  • Now says they're ready to leave the strait open.
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  • But president trump does say that the blockade will continue
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  • Until we can reach a final agreement with iran. yep.
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  • And i think
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  • This is a really telling clip because as soon as listen,
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  • You may not like this conflict, you may have
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  • Skepticism, hesitancy as i did.
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  • But president trump's on to something with this blockade
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  • And the blockade sort of exposed.
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  • So, you know, first of all, you got the strikes.
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  • They take out the missile capabilities.
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  • That's all well and good you've got,
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  • I don't know, 10 to 15 u.s.
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  • Destroyers in the area, vessels
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  • That can actually shoot down missiles,
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  • Whatever they have left in their stockpile.
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  • So now the strait was their big point of leverage.
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  • So if you block the strait, you're cutting off their money.
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  • That's really a big deal to iran and the future prospects
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  • Of the iranian regime, what's left of it.
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  • And i think this, this, this word that president
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  • Trump uses with cnn is really, really important.
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  • Let's go ahead and play.
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  • Sot eight
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  • Think we're now in week seven entering into week seven.
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  • Do you think this is it?
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  • This is the beginning of the end of this war?
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  • I do i think
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  • The straits of hormuz showed us the achilles heel for iran.
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  • I mean, i'm a business guy.
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  • I know that when revenues start to dry
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  • Up, that all of a sudden you start to scramble.
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  • I think the iranian regime
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  • Realized that their cash flow was going to take a big hit,
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  • When all of a sudden ships can't move in
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  • And out of the straits of hormuz.
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  • And so i think president trump
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  • Did a brilliant job of taking that position.
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  • I mean, it was, you know,
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  • It seemed risky to everybody, but really
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  • It was the one that i think put the, put them
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  • On their heels and said, look, we have to have that cash.
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  • We've got to find a deal.
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  • It'll be interesting, i think at the end
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  • Who we're actually really dealing with.
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  • I know president trump knows that.
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  • The achilles heel of the iranian regime
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  • Is that strait of hormuz.
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  • That's where all their money comes from.
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  • That's where all the oil flows out.
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  • And it's not just oil, by the way.
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  • It's petrochemicals.
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  • It's all kinds of different products.
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  • So if you block that strait and you cut off
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  • Iran's ability to get revenue from their energy,
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  • You basically strangle the economy of iran.
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  • And the iranian leaders understand that.
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  • So when you find the achilles heel of your enemy
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  • Or your opponent in this case, now this is straight,
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  • You can really exact a really massive toll, a price.
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  • And what is the price president trump is going to ensure?
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  • At least this is what we're hearing,
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  • That he's going to get
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  • All of the nuclear components, the nuclear dust.
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  • Yes. he says iranian dust.
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  • Let's just we should read some of these stories.
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  • Yeah. he says. so he opened just two hours ago.
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  • He said,
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  • The strait of hormuz is completely open
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  • And ready for business and full passage,
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  • But the naval blockade will remain in force and in effect
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  • As it pertains to iran, only until such time
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  • As our transaction with iran is 100% complete.
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  • This process should go
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  • Very quickly
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  • And that most of the points are already negotiated.
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  • Thank you for your attention.
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  • And then he continued, right after,
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  • Without all caps this time the usa will get all nuclear
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  • Dust created by our great b-2 bombers.
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  • No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form.
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  • We know he was very critical
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  • Of the obama nuclear deal, which gave iran a lot of money.
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  • He says this deal is in no way subject to lebanon,
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  • But the usa will separately work with lebanon and deal
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  • With the hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner.
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  • Israel will not be bombing lebanon any longer.
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  • They are prohibited from doing so by the usa.
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  • Enough is enough.
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  • That's a very interesting statement.
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  • Can i pause on this one really quick?
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  • The so i was talking with a,
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  • Somebody that is looking at the numbers,
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  • Look at the polling for midterms yesterday.
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  • And i said, well, what can we what can we do?
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  • What would be your advice?
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  • And the advice was really clear.
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  • It said president trump has to assert his independence
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  • From israel immediately.
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  • Now, i don't know if this person is speaking to the admin
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  • About this specifically, but this tweet stood out to me
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  • Because this truth, because he's saying
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  • We're in charge, they're not in charge.
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  • We're mandating the terms of this.
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  • We're telling them to knock it off again.
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  • Remember that moment after midnight hammer, where
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  • There was still some missiles going back and forth
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  • Between israel and iran, and he was not happy.
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  • Remember that
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  • Where he's walking out to the, i think on the south
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  • Lawn of the white house and he's like, i'm not happy.
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  • It's not going out, you know?
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  • And that was a really important moment,
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  • I think, for the president
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  • In that time, fast forward to today.
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  • He's sort of doing this via truth, saying,
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  • Here's the terms.
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  • Lebanon's not going to scuttle the deal.
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  • I'm not going to allow israel's fight with hezbollah,
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  • Whatever you may think of that,
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  • To scuttle the deal, because we had a larger thing
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  • That we're doing here.
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  • And frankly, it's too important to america
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  • To get the deal done and over the finish line.
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  • And this is my big my big message.
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  • And my hope is that this is really and truly
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  • The culmination, the finish, the end of this
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  • Conflict in iran.
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  • Let's wrap it up. let's declare victory.
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  • Let's get the uranium dust.
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  • Let's put our people in there.
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  • Let's establish and normalize relations with iran.
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  • If he can do that in the next,
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  • If we can wrap this puppy up in 2 or 3 weeks,
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  • That is a huge, huge, huge, huge, i would i would call it
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  • A win, a definitive win for president trump.
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  • Now the political fallout is still a thing.
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  • It's going to take some time
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  • To shake this off, especially with younger voters.
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  • I've told you guys on the show a number of times
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  • That young people don't like the iranian war.
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  • They don't.
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  • They don't like it.
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  • Okay, now you might like it out there.
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  • You might trust trump. you might see
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  • That the geopolitical ramifications of this.
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  • But that doesn't mean that normies out there
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  • That aren't consuming the news every day
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  • Understand the ramifications geopolitically,
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  • What this does to china, what this does potentially
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  • To end conflicts for a long time in the middle east.
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  • And i've said it again,
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  • I've said it before, and i'll say it again,
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  • That this could have been the absolutely right
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  • Geopolitical national security move,
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  • But it will have a political cost.
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  • So the point in politics is
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  • Where do you want to spend your political capital?
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  • We want to get through this, and we want to spend
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  • Our political capital right here at home.
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  • We want a nation build right here at home.
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  • I think it's pretty. it's as you say.
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  • I think it's pretty clear, as we said,
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  • This had a political hit to the president.
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  • But we said if he can resolve it
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  • Successfully, pivot domestically,
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  • And if he has something, he can point to it
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  • That this is our last war, that this was a successful war.
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  • They will get over it.
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  • And i think he's excellently set the ground for that.
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  • And now he just has to land the plane. yep.
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  • Exit over the finish line.
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  • If you can get uranium in a little bit,
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  • He'll have done something no other president has done.
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  • Not by a long shot.
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  • Not by a long shot.
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  • Welcoming now to the show
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  • Is alex marlow, editor in chief of breitbart news.
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  • Great publication.
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  • Check it every day and host the tomorrow show.
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  • Alex, thanks for joining us today.
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  • There's actually so much news to get into and i
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  • But i was inspired
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  • By my conversation with vice president j.d.
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  • Vance yesterday at the university of georgia,
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  • And he started lauding his the administration's
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  • Achievements on legal immigration.
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  • I love the way this whole thing became a story.
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  • It started with a gentleman named david bier,
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  • From the cato institute that published
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  • The collapse of immigration report that he was warning
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  • The world, you don't know how bad it is.
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  • President trump and the trump administration
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  • Has cut legal immigration,
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  • And you guys need to be aware of it.
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  • And i think a lot of people in our audience were like,
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  • You know, slow clapping like, wow, okay.
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  • You know, this is this is what we voted for.
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  • Alex.
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  • I'll get into the,
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  • You know, specifics of the report in just a second.
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  • But what is
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  • Your impression of cato's report on legal immigration?
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  • Yeah. first of all, it's okay.
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  • There's a libertarian economic thinktank,
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  • And they're very well-funded, very well capitalized,
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  • And they're pointing this out as a warning.
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  • They're very pro open borders, legal immigration.
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  • They think that america basically
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  • Is nothing without importing much of the whole third world
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  • And first world,
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  • Second world,
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  • However many people we can get in here,
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  • That's their general philosophy.
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  • And i think they tell you that to their face, to your face.
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  • So this is a warning, and i think that this is essential.
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  • I think vice president vance's
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  • Narrative and his rise and why, you know,
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  • We of breitbart
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  • Were very interested in the stuff
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  • He did say back when he was a mere author
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  • And not even a senator. yet.
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  • This is part of the general appeal,
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  • Is understanding that when you're importing
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  • A bunch of people from around the world,
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  • It doesn't necessarily make life better for americans.
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  • And america's government is obliged to be america first,
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  • But should think of americans first.
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  • And importing the entire planet we can't take care of
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  • The whole planet is just not realistic.
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  • Maybe some pie in the sky appeal to
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  • Whatever is in your heart on,
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  • It maybe you would want to help
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  • As many people as you can, but we can't have them all here.
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  • It's not realistic. it's never going to work.
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  • It also is really negative on our culture.
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  • We do have a culture. we have a homeland.
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  • We are a people.
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  • We have things that are worth preserving.
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  • You can't do that when you import
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  • Too many people recklessly.
  • 00:09:42.909 --> 00:09:44.411
  • And that has been the policy
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  • Of every republican and democrat administration
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  • This century, aside from donald trump's
  • 00:09:48.281 --> 00:09:50.216
  • And so now we're seeing legal asylum entries down 99.9%,
  • 00:09:50.216 --> 00:09:54.587
  • Refugee admissions down 90%.
  • 00:09:55.188 --> 00:09:57.290
  • We're seeing k visas, which is, fiance and spouse visas
  • 00:09:57.290 --> 00:10:00.827
  • Down 65%, student visas down 40%.
  • 00:10:00.827 --> 00:10:04.664
  • And h-1b visas sharply reduced.
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  • All this is due to the huge
  • 00:10:06.766 --> 00:10:08.535
  • Fee to be able to get some of these things.
  • 00:10:08.535 --> 00:10:10.203
  • This is amazing news for americans.
  • 00:10:10.203 --> 00:10:12.005
  • It's going to raise our wages.
  • 00:10:12.005 --> 00:10:13.273
  • It's going to drive down
  • 00:10:13.273 --> 00:10:14.174
  • The price of housing is a big positive
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  • And hopefully the best is yet to come here.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:10:18.278 --> 00:10:18.945
  • Well listen to that h1-b line.
  • 00:10:18.945 --> 00:10:21.915
  • It really caught got, the internet by surprise,
  • 00:10:21.915 --> 00:10:25.418
  • I would say,
  • 00:10:25.418 --> 00:10:26.286
  • Because there's been so much chatter,
  • 00:10:26.286 --> 00:10:27.320
  • Especially with our students at, turning point
  • 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.489
  • All across the country.
  • 00:10:29.489 --> 00:10:30.390
  • You ask them what they're worried about.
  • 00:10:30.390 --> 00:10:31.691
  • They're worried about foreigners taking their jobs.
  • 00:10:31.691 --> 00:10:33.259
  • They hate h-1b.
  • 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:34.761
  • So the trump administration slaps up $100,000
  • 00:10:34.761 --> 00:10:37.831
  • Tax on any new h-1b.
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  • New, h-1b visa issuances,
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  • Down 90%, 90% 98.
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  • Amazing. huge, huge win.
  • 00:10:48.341 --> 00:10:50.477
  • And you mentioned some of the other ones, though
  • 00:10:50.477 --> 00:10:51.711
  • Students from 40 countries are now outright banned
  • 00:10:51.711 --> 00:10:54.514
  • From studying in the united states.
  • 00:10:54.514 --> 00:10:55.749
  • That should have happened a long time ago.
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  • Visa for international students down 40%. why?
  • 00:10:57.450 --> 00:11:00.653
  • That's a huge deal, by the way, that funds directly
  • 00:11:00.653 --> 00:11:04.157
  • A lot of the woke universities
  • 00:11:04.157 --> 00:11:05.725
  • In this country that pays their bills.
  • 00:11:05.725 --> 00:11:07.694
  • That's why we have so many foreigners,
  • 00:11:07.694 --> 00:11:09.262
  • Because they they pay full freight.
  • 00:11:09.262 --> 00:11:10.930
  • You are starving the leviathan
  • 00:11:10.930 --> 00:11:13.800
  • As we as we sit here today, it's happening in real time.
  • 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:17.137
  • Huge, huge.
  • 00:11:17.137 --> 00:11:18.304
  • I know you're passionate about this. i want to get it.
  • 00:11:18.304 --> 00:11:20.406
  • But this was like music to our ears.
  • 00:11:20.406 --> 00:11:23.143
  • Go ahead.
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  • Yeah. no, i mean, it's incredible.
  • 00:11:24.277 --> 00:11:25.478
  • And i think about not even just the direct measures, it's
  • 00:11:25.478 --> 00:11:28.948
  • That you can see.
  • 00:11:28.948 --> 00:11:30.416
  • It's like we talk about the vibe shift
  • 00:11:30.416 --> 00:11:31.818
  • In america against it,
  • 00:11:31.818 --> 00:11:32.786
  • But you're actually driving a vibe shift
  • 00:11:32.786 --> 00:11:34.220
  • In other countries, and this matters a lot.
  • 00:11:34.220 --> 00:11:36.489
  • For example, it was actually easy to claim
  • 00:11:36.489 --> 00:11:38.925
  • Asylum at the border for quite a long time.
  • 00:11:38.925 --> 00:11:41.895
  • But what really mattered is when biden came in office
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  • And when tiktok became popular, it's like the word instantly
  • 00:11:44.764 --> 00:11:48.401
  • Spread around the world.
  • 00:11:48.401 --> 00:11:49.602
  • If you show up and you do x, y, z thing, you will get in.
  • 00:11:49.602 --> 00:11:53.072
  • And it just started a giant engine of itself where we went.
  • 00:11:53.072 --> 00:11:56.342
  • I remember one of the countries,
  • 00:11:56.342 --> 00:11:57.477
  • Mauritania, the country where slavery is still legal.
  • 00:11:57.477 --> 00:12:00.680
  • Basically, they had
  • 00:12:00.680 --> 00:12:02.115
  • They went from 10,000 of them in the us to 50,000 in
  • 00:12:02.115 --> 00:12:05.652
  • About two years.
  • 00:12:05.652 --> 00:12:06.586
  • And they were all going to a town in ohio
  • 00:12:06.586 --> 00:12:08.054
  • Because there's just a guy on tiktok
  • 00:12:08.054 --> 00:12:09.589
  • Now we're seeing the reversal of that.
  • 00:12:09.589 --> 00:12:11.257
  • The word is getting out.
  • 00:12:11.257 --> 00:12:12.826
  • America is tough to get into.
  • 00:12:12.826 --> 00:12:14.794
  • They're rejecting everything.
  • 00:12:14.794 --> 00:12:16.696
  • It's really hard.
  • 00:12:16.696 --> 00:12:17.831
  • And we're going to see people turn to other places.
  • 00:12:17.831 --> 00:12:20.700
  • They're going to turn to other parts.
  • 00:12:20.700 --> 00:12:22.368
  • So like even these measures of the actual number of people
  • 00:12:22.368 --> 00:12:25.605
  • Is not capturing that, that we're
  • 00:12:25.605 --> 00:12:27.240
  • We're getting the message out, don't come to america.
  • 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.009
  • The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
  • 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:31.377
  • Oh, i love this too. alex, check this out.
  • 00:12:31.377 --> 00:12:33.112
  • Throw this tweet up from, david j.
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  • Beer from cato.
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  • He goes
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  • And he was responding to a clip from our event last night.
  • 00:12:37.584 --> 00:12:40.220
  • Where, you know,
  • 00:12:40.620 --> 00:12:42.188
  • Vice president vance is quoting some of this cato research.
  • 00:12:42.188 --> 00:12:44.591
  • He goes, he clearly read my research.
  • 00:12:44.591 --> 00:12:46.826
  • Trump and vance are bragging about
  • 00:12:46.826 --> 00:12:48.394
  • How anti-illegal immigration they are.
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  • Embarrassing.
  • 00:12:50.363 --> 00:12:51.364
  • Very few americans agree and gives
  • 00:12:51.364 --> 00:12:53.967
  • Lie to their whole agenda.
  • 00:12:53.967 --> 00:12:55.902
  • No no no no, we agree and we like it.
  • 00:12:55.902 --> 00:12:59.572
  • We are totally all on board.
  • 00:12:59.572 --> 00:13:01.307
  • And i keep saying this to anybody who will listen.
  • 00:13:01.307 --> 00:13:03.376
  • Alex, this is a midterm election 2026.
  • 00:13:03.376 --> 00:13:06.479
  • What is a midterm election?
  • 00:13:06.479 --> 00:13:07.780
  • It's a turnout election.
  • 00:13:07.780 --> 00:13:09.515
  • You will not get your base to turn out for you
  • 00:13:09.515 --> 00:13:12.051
  • If you don't give them stuff that they really want.
  • 00:13:12.051 --> 00:13:13.953
  • What does our base really want?
  • 00:13:13.953 --> 00:13:15.255
  • We want mass deportations,
  • 00:13:15.255 --> 00:13:16.890
  • And we want the end of the legal invasion of our country.
  • 00:13:16.890 --> 00:13:20.326
  • When we pull this stuff at our events,
  • 00:13:20.326 --> 00:13:22.495
  • Immigration moratorium, it's one of the most popular things
  • 00:13:22.495 --> 00:13:25.965
  • You can pull amongst base.
  • 00:13:25.965 --> 00:13:28.167
  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:28.401 --> 00:13:28.968
  • It's great. you guys.
  • 00:13:28.968 --> 00:13:29.769
  • I love that you guys are on this
  • 00:13:29.769 --> 00:13:30.703
  • Because it's so big for so many reasons.
  • 00:13:30.703 --> 00:13:32.138
  • First of all, start with the universities. it's huge.
  • 00:13:32.138 --> 00:13:34.040
  • And even if you're a person
  • 00:13:34.040 --> 00:13:35.108
  • Who wants to go to an expensive university,
  • 00:13:35.108 --> 00:13:37.510
  • Part of the reason it's so expensive
  • 00:13:37.510 --> 00:13:38.945
  • Is because there's
  • 00:13:38.945 --> 00:13:39.946
  • So many foreigners who can pay full freight,
  • 00:13:39.946 --> 00:13:41.981
  • And some of them might be chinese.
  • 00:13:41.981 --> 00:13:43.583
  • It might take to know how back to their country
  • 00:13:43.583 --> 00:13:45.885
  • And just use it against us in the long run.
  • 00:13:45.885 --> 00:13:48.621
  • Others might just, basically waste a bunch of time
  • 00:13:48.621 --> 00:13:51.958
  • For everyone and drive up your wages. it.
  • 00:13:51.958 --> 00:13:54.761
  • But why?
  • 00:13:54.761 --> 00:13:55.628
  • We think of it in terms of my children.
  • 00:13:55.628 --> 00:13:56.963
  • Andrew, you got a bunch of children at blake.
  • 00:13:56.963 --> 00:13:58.264
  • Hopefully one day you'll have a bunch of children.
  • 00:13:58.264 --> 00:13:59.599
  • He's going to have the idea.
  • 00:13:59.599 --> 00:14:01.334
  • Yeah, the idea that i'm going to pay,
  • 00:14:01.334 --> 00:14:04.070
  • You know,
  • 00:14:04.070 --> 00:14:05.238
  • Six figures a year in taxes in the system for decades.
  • 00:14:05.238 --> 00:14:07.373
  • And then my kids are going to get educated,
  • 00:14:07.373 --> 00:14:09.442
  • And then they're going to get into the working world.
  • 00:14:09.442 --> 00:14:11.244
  • And then someone who has never been here,
  • 00:14:11.244 --> 00:14:12.946
  • Who has no roots here,
  • 00:14:12.946 --> 00:14:13.980
  • Who's not part of american culture,
  • 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:15.415
  • Is not part of american heritage.
  • 00:14:15.415 --> 00:14:16.849
  • It's just going to take a job from one of my kids
  • 00:14:16.849 --> 00:14:19.452
  • Because they're willing to do it for
  • 00:14:19.452 --> 00:14:21.154
  • 11% less is so insane to me as a parent.
  • 00:14:21.154 --> 00:14:25.224
  • And yet this is exactly
  • 00:14:25.224 --> 00:14:26.559
  • How we've run our country for the last several decades.
  • 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.661
  • And i think people need to understand
  • 00:14:28.661 --> 00:14:29.963
  • That that's not acceptable.
  • 00:14:29.963 --> 00:14:31.998
  • I'm going to show these images as well, said alex.
  • 00:14:31.998 --> 00:14:34.233
  • These are from our, am fest straw poll.
  • 00:14:34.233 --> 00:14:38.638
  • If you show them it was, would you support a net zero
  • 00:14:38.638 --> 00:14:41.874
  • Immigration moratorium? 90%? yes.
  • 00:14:41.874 --> 00:14:44.744
  • 11%. no.
  • 00:14:44.744 --> 00:14:45.945
  • All right.
  • 00:14:45.945 --> 00:14:47.046
  • And, would you you know, and then we did it again.
  • 00:14:47.046 --> 00:14:49.749
  • Would you support
  • 00:14:49.749 --> 00:14:50.850
  • An immigration moratorium into the united states?
  • 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:53.553
  • And again, 90%, yes, slightly ticked up, 0.5%.
  • 00:14:53.553 --> 00:14:57.290
  • So this is something that's held for a long time
  • 00:14:57.290 --> 00:15:00.960
  • Now, you know, so it's it shouldn't be surprising.
  • 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.763
  • And i do one last thing.
  • 00:15:03.763 --> 00:15:05.198
  • And then we're going to take a quick break
  • 00:15:05.198 --> 00:15:06.366
  • More with alex marla on the other side of it.
  • 00:15:06.366 --> 00:15:08.167
  • But a news story out of the dhs, confirmed this
  • 00:15:08.167 --> 00:15:11.971
  • This morning.
  • 00:15:11.971 --> 00:15:12.972
  • Dhs employee murdered while walking her dog
  • 00:15:12.972 --> 00:15:16.309
  • By a criminal immigrant who was naturalized under joe biden.
  • 00:15:16.309 --> 00:15:20.480
  • And this is a gentleman that, is actually a british
  • 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.584
  • National who is naturalized under joe biden.
  • 00:15:24.584 --> 00:15:27.186
  • It doesn't look like the british man.
  • 00:15:27.186 --> 00:15:28.755
  • Our father's new, but his name was all ola.
  • 00:15:28.755 --> 00:15:32.959
  • Luke. kitten. adam, abel.
  • 00:15:32.959 --> 00:15:36.796
  • Yeah, i remember
  • 00:15:37.196 --> 00:15:38.598
  • That name signing the magna carta star wars name.
  • 00:15:38.598 --> 00:15:40.633
  • So that that is a tragedy.
  • 00:15:40.633 --> 00:15:42.368
  • Another unnecessary american death
  • 00:15:42.368 --> 00:15:45.104
  • That, unfortunately, we have to live through
  • 00:15:45.104 --> 00:15:47.540
  • Because joe biden just opened the borders.
  • 00:15:47.540 --> 00:15:52.007
  • Because joe biden just opened the borders.
  • 00:15:52.007 --> 00:15:58.118
  • All right.
  • 00:15:58.419 --> 00:15:59.253
  • We're going to talk about something
  • 00:15:59.253 --> 00:16:00.087
  • That i think is
  • 00:16:00.087 --> 00:16:00.921
  • I think it's important to talk about
  • 00:16:00.921 --> 00:16:02.122
  • Because i think some people in this audience maybe aren't.
  • 00:16:02.122 --> 00:16:05.025
  • I mean, they're aware of it broadly, but maybe not
  • 00:16:05.025 --> 00:16:08.462
  • As intimately as we are working with students on campus.
  • 00:16:08.462 --> 00:16:11.165
  • And that is support for israel.
  • 00:16:11.165 --> 00:16:13.200
  • Harry enten from cnn did a whole rundown of
  • 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.204
  • Just how the numbers have collapsed.
  • 00:16:17.204 --> 00:16:19.306
  • Really, since 2022.
  • 00:16:19.306 --> 00:16:20.741
  • Right?
  • 00:16:20.741 --> 00:16:21.575
  • Remember we had october 7th, 2023,
  • 00:16:21.575 --> 00:16:23.644
  • And it's off a cliff, alex.
  • 00:16:23.644 --> 00:16:26.113
  • So let's play the clip
  • 00:16:26.113 --> 00:16:27.147
  • And we'll get your reaction on the other side.
  • 00:16:27.147 --> 00:16:28.715
  • Sot 16 israel's us popularity problem
  • 00:16:28.715 --> 00:16:32.119
  • Israel is losing support here in the united states
  • 00:16:32.119 --> 00:16:34.922
  • Even amongst republicans.
  • 00:16:34.922 --> 00:16:36.523
  • Take a look at this data.
  • 00:16:36.523 --> 00:16:37.858
  • Take a look at this data among young republicans.
  • 00:16:37.858 --> 00:16:40.294
  • Look at this massive shift that we have had over
  • 00:16:40.294 --> 00:16:43.197
  • Just the last four years, the net favorability
  • 00:16:43.197 --> 00:16:45.132
  • Of israel among republicans under the age of 50.
  • 00:16:45.132 --> 00:16:47.668
  • You know, you go back to 2022, two thumbs
  • 00:16:47.668 --> 00:16:50.337
  • Up, two thumbs up for israel amongst young republicans.
  • 00:16:50.337 --> 00:16:53.307
  • But by 2025, look at this already a 30 point shift away.
  • 00:16:53.307 --> 00:16:57.044
  • Their net favorable down to minus two today.
  • 00:16:57.044 --> 00:17:00.147
  • Look at this.
  • 00:17:00.147 --> 00:17:00.747
  • -16 points.
  • 00:17:00.747 --> 00:17:02.483
  • That's an over 40 point shift in just one, two,
  • 00:17:02.483 --> 00:17:07.287
  • Three, four years time away from israel
  • 00:17:07.287 --> 00:17:10.457
  • Amongst young republicans.
  • 00:17:10.457 --> 00:17:11.859
  • And he continues on.
  • 00:17:11.859 --> 00:17:12.960
  • It's about a 4 or 5 minute clip,
  • 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.428
  • But he kind of
  • 00:17:14.428 --> 00:17:15.562
  • Goes through every age cohort and he goes through the
  • 00:17:15.562 --> 00:17:17.931
  • Different party affiliations, and it's down across the board.
  • 00:17:17.931 --> 00:17:20.701
  • I think collapse is a fair word here.
  • 00:17:20.701 --> 00:17:23.270
  • What do you what do you ascribe as the reason here,
  • 00:17:23.270 --> 00:17:27.441
  • But also what are the political ramifications?
  • 00:17:27.441 --> 00:17:30.210
  • Yeah, it's interesting.
  • 00:17:30.210 --> 00:17:31.011
  • It's a big political realignment
  • 00:17:31.011 --> 00:17:32.412
  • That's taking place.
  • 00:17:32.412 --> 00:17:33.714
  • And i think a lot of this
  • 00:17:33.714 --> 00:17:34.948
  • Has to do with just terrible pr for israel.
  • 00:17:34.948 --> 00:17:37.784
  • Israel is really almost no major spokespeople,
  • 00:17:37.784 --> 00:17:40.621
  • I think, who are particularly reaching younger people
  • 00:17:40.621 --> 00:17:43.023
  • Who are pro-israel,
  • 00:17:43.023 --> 00:17:44.224
  • Who are making a convincing case that israel is a unique
  • 00:17:44.224 --> 00:17:47.594
  • Beacon of hope in a region full of islamist insanity,
  • 00:17:47.594 --> 00:17:50.430
  • Which is how i regard it.
  • 00:17:50.430 --> 00:17:51.632
  • But there's very few people speaking to younger people
  • 00:17:51.632 --> 00:17:53.767
  • About that.
  • 00:17:53.767 --> 00:17:54.835
  • I know this was one of charlie's critiques of israel.
  • 00:17:54.835 --> 00:17:56.937
  • I think maybe his main critique of israel is
  • 00:17:56.937 --> 00:17:59.173
  • He found himself having to defend positions
  • 00:17:59.173 --> 00:18:01.642
  • That israel held that weren't ones you
  • 00:18:01.642 --> 00:18:04.211
  • Necessarily agreed with, because they weren't
  • 00:18:04.211 --> 00:18:05.579
  • Really doing a capable job of defending themselves.
  • 00:18:05.579 --> 00:18:08.248
  • And i think there's a lot of people
  • 00:18:08.248 --> 00:18:09.883
  • Who are messaging the younger people in the podcasting space,
  • 00:18:09.883 --> 00:18:12.686
  • In the online space, who are very much pro-israel.
  • 00:18:12.686 --> 00:18:15.689
  • I very much anti-israel to various degrees,
  • 00:18:15.689 --> 00:18:18.592
  • And i don't really know what alternative
  • 00:18:18.592 --> 00:18:20.327
  • Is being presented to these younger people.
  • 00:18:20.327 --> 00:18:22.362
  • And for people who are older, i think a lot of people
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  • Feel as though israel
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  • Maybe is a good country in the scheme of countries,
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  • But they don't really want to see
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  • American blood and treasure spilled on israel's behalf.
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  • And that's a deep concern
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  • That if a world war breaks out, a lot of people
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  • Assume that israel is going to be a part of the discussion.
  • 00:18:36.743 --> 00:18:39.179
  • So i'm a pro-israel person,
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  • I like israel,
  • 00:18:40.581 --> 00:18:41.415
  • I don't love seeing these numbers,
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  • But i completely understand it, given that media layout.
  • 00:18:42.549 --> 00:18:45.185
  • As you said, we talked a lot with charlie about this.
  • 00:18:45.185 --> 00:18:47.754
  • This is a big concern of his
  • 00:18:47.754 --> 00:18:48.922
  • Trying to get the synthesis that he knew
  • 00:18:48.922 --> 00:18:51.625
  • There was skepticism rising, but you want to be able to
  • 00:18:51.625 --> 00:18:55.662
  • Understand where it's coming from without letting it spiral
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  • Off into the bad dark alleys that it often goes into.
  • 00:18:58.465 --> 00:19:02.769
  • And i remember us discussing ways that it could be fixed.
  • 00:19:02.769 --> 00:19:06.139
  • And what i will admit to having trouble with is
  • 00:19:06.139 --> 00:19:09.810
  • It seems much harder to fix now than it even was
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  • Two months ago.
  • 00:19:12.446 --> 00:19:13.513
  • I think there was a lot of skepticism,
  • 00:19:13.513 --> 00:19:14.915
  • But that number you saw at 2025, it was about neutral
  • 00:19:14.915 --> 00:19:18.518
  • And then it's really bad just this spring.
  • 00:19:18.518 --> 00:19:21.388
  • Let's be frank, it's the iran conflict
  • 00:19:21.388 --> 00:19:23.991
  • Has really driven young people in a negative direction.
  • 00:19:23.991 --> 00:19:27.127
  • And so it's gone in a bad direction.
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  • How do we arrest that decline?
  • 00:19:29.930 --> 00:19:32.599
  • Because we don't want the right to be this insane anti-semite
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  • Conspiracy theory party,
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  • Which there are people who would love
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  • To take it in that direction.
  • 00:19:39.406 --> 00:19:41.208
  • Yeah, a short term and long term.
  • 00:19:41.208 --> 00:19:43.043
  • I think the short term things is, first of all,
  • 00:19:43.043 --> 00:19:45.078
  • Trump has a decisively win the iran war, move on
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  • And then also sell to the american people.
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  • Why he fought it to begin with,
  • 00:19:51.018 --> 00:19:52.519
  • Which i think is becoming very clear.
  • 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.321
  • Vice president barnes was crystal
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  • With you guys yesterday at the event.
  • 00:19:55.822 --> 00:19:57.457
  • It's about nuclear weapons,
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  • And it really kind of took people about seven weeks
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  • To figure out.
  • 00:20:01.261 --> 00:20:02.162
  • It really was always just about nukes.
  • 00:20:02.162 --> 00:20:03.764
  • Trump had drawn a red line over a year ago.
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  • They were not going to pursue nuclear weapons
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  • Or else he was going to bomb them.
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  • It's really crystal clear looking
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  • Back, hindsight
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  • Being 2020 as it is, that trump was always going to bomb
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  • Iran so long as they kept pursuing nuclear weapons,
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  • People should know that.
  • 00:20:16.543 --> 00:20:17.778
  • And if we can get this boom, that could potentially happen
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  • From ships
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  • Going to get oil
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  • From the united states of america
  • 00:20:22.716 --> 00:20:23.950
  • Instead of being hooked on iranian oil,
  • 00:20:23.950 --> 00:20:25.786
  • He could have a really major victory here.
  • 00:20:25.786 --> 00:20:27.554
  • And if he can tell that story,
  • 00:20:27.554 --> 00:20:28.922
  • I do think that actually helps the cause of israel,
  • 00:20:28.922 --> 00:20:31.224
  • Because as of now, people feel like that.
  • 00:20:31.224 --> 00:20:33.360
  • There's this perception that israel
  • 00:20:33.360 --> 00:20:34.695
  • Dragged us into a stupid war,
  • 00:20:34.695 --> 00:20:36.363
  • And that is very hard to push back against at the moment.
  • 00:20:36.363 --> 00:20:40.300
  • I think that can change.
  • 00:20:40.300 --> 00:20:41.501
  • I think also a lot of the most fervent anti-israel voices out
  • 00:20:41.501 --> 00:20:45.072
  • There are gradually losing their credibility
  • 00:20:45.072 --> 00:20:48.775
  • With certain audiences.
  • 00:20:48.775 --> 00:20:50.277
  • I don't know about younger audiences,
  • 00:20:50.277 --> 00:20:51.712
  • Maybe not there, but maybe so there.
  • 00:20:51.712 --> 00:20:54.081
  • And i think that that's important
  • 00:20:54.081 --> 00:20:55.282
  • Is a lot of the biggest anti-israel spokespeople
  • 00:20:55.282 --> 00:20:58.151
  • Are lighting themselves on fire in a public way lately.
  • 00:20:58.151 --> 00:21:01.154
  • I think over time that's going to make a difference as well.
  • 00:21:01.154 --> 00:21:04.091
  • But israelis are to figure out how to message in a way
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  • That doesn't alienate huge groups of people.
  • 00:21:06.727 --> 00:21:08.462
  • And i say,
  • 00:21:08.462 --> 00:21:09.529
  • This is someone who would like to see israel succeed,
  • 00:21:09.529 --> 00:21:11.198
  • And they're doing really bad job at that,
  • 00:21:11.198 --> 00:21:12.799
  • And that probably should change if they want
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  • A better approval in america.
  • 00:21:14.634 --> 00:21:16.269
  • You know what's interesting, alex?
  • 00:21:17.037 --> 00:21:18.238
  • I had a conversation
  • 00:21:18.238 --> 00:21:19.439
  • With somebody this morning that's like a very for fervent
  • 00:21:19.439 --> 00:21:23.009
  • Supporter of his or at least historically.
  • 00:21:23.009 --> 00:21:25.178
  • And he made a comment to me that kind of took me a back.
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  • He said, you know, even i'm getting a little like
  • 00:21:27.948 --> 00:21:31.651
  • On edge about it because, you know, there is this perception
  • 00:21:31.651 --> 00:21:36.056
  • That, you know, it's like we like them, but
  • 00:21:36.056 --> 00:21:38.992
  • We like america more.
  • 00:21:38.992 --> 00:21:40.360
  • And we we want to make sure that our interests
  • 00:21:40.360 --> 00:21:43.530
  • Are being put in front of our own.
  • 00:21:43.530 --> 00:21:44.931
  • And he was like, you know,
  • 00:21:44.931 --> 00:21:46.633
  • I can only help you so much here.
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  • Israel.
  • 00:21:49.469 --> 00:21:50.404
  • Like, you know, if you don't help yourself
  • 00:21:50.404 --> 00:21:51.605
  • And you got to stop bombing hezbollah, you got to stop.
  • 00:21:51.605 --> 00:21:53.807
  • You got to stop the iran stuff.
  • 00:21:53.807 --> 00:21:55.075
  • You got to just like, this has to be behind us,
  • 00:21:55.075 --> 00:21:57.244
  • Or this is only going to get worse.
  • 00:21:57.244 --> 00:21:58.578
  • And he was even at
  • 00:21:58.578 --> 00:21:59.813
  • He was tired, tired of trying to defend.
  • 00:21:59.813 --> 00:22:02.315
  • And i was surprised because he's been so fervent.
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  • I, i think i was really telling.
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  • Yeah, i think it is.
  • 00:22:06.186 --> 00:22:07.187
  • And the lebanon example is a perfect example.
  • 00:22:07.187 --> 00:22:09.022
  • If you want to go deep in the history,
  • 00:22:09.022 --> 00:22:10.524
  • This is an age old territorial beef.
  • 00:22:10.524 --> 00:22:12.626
  • Israel has got claims to regions of lebanon
  • 00:22:12.626 --> 00:22:15.562
  • That are unrealized.
  • 00:22:15.562 --> 00:22:16.797
  • And hezbollah,
  • 00:22:16.797 --> 00:22:17.931
  • Which is an iran funded terror proxy, is in the region.
  • 00:22:17.931 --> 00:22:20.567
  • And it strategically places a lot of their resources,
  • 00:22:20.567 --> 00:22:23.270
  • Their personnel, their terror weaponry in civilian areas,
  • 00:22:23.270 --> 00:22:26.640
  • Specifically because if israel tax them, they can
  • 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.476
  • Then manipulate
  • 00:22:29.476 --> 00:22:30.644
  • The news cycle as they do, and they do it effectively.
  • 00:22:30.644 --> 00:22:33.079
  • But who cares?
  • 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:34.681
  • Israel should not be bombing lebanon right now.
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  • It's terrible for israel's own cause
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  • Because you're killing christians.
  • 00:22:38.718 --> 00:22:40.153
  • They're killing people who are very sympathetic,
  • 00:22:40.153 --> 00:22:41.988
  • In the world media and them choosing to do that right now
  • 00:22:41.988 --> 00:22:45.358
  • When we're trying to get a cease fire in the region,
  • 00:22:45.358 --> 00:22:46.927
  • I think only hurt them long term.
  • 00:22:46.927 --> 00:22:48.562
  • They would say, we're just getting it now
  • 00:22:48.562 --> 00:22:49.996
  • Because we hate them. they're terrorists. fine.
  • 00:22:49.996 --> 00:22:52.666
  • But the optics are horrible
  • 00:22:52.666 --> 00:22:54.167
  • And they should recognize that if they want support.
  • 00:22:54.167 --> 00:22:56.002
  • There are rational explanations for this, but optically,
  • 00:22:56.002 --> 00:22:59.473
  • It just seems like there's
  • 00:22:59.473 --> 00:23:00.474
  • Been a lack of appreciation of what this is,
  • 00:23:00.474 --> 00:23:03.243
  • What the appearance is in america across the west.
  • 00:23:03.243 --> 00:23:06.213
  • And i think it's been really
  • 00:23:06.213 --> 00:23:07.347
  • Destructive overall, unfortunately.
  • 00:23:07.347 --> 00:23:09.149
  • But i'm told we're on the precipice of breakthrough here.
  • 00:23:09.149 --> 00:23:12.652
  • Let's hope in the next ten days we get this all wrapped up.
  • 00:23:12.652 --> 00:23:14.988
  • It's time to get out of the middle east.
  • 00:23:14.988 --> 00:23:16.957
  • It's time to get this done. and behind us.
  • 00:23:16.957 --> 00:23:19.359
  • Let's pray it happens sooner than than not.
  • 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:21.328
  • Alex marlow, thank you so much. excellent.
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  • As always yet.
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