Ep. 2394 - THANKS, DEMOCRATS! Unsafe Airports, Unsafe Streets

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When you get to the airport next week and 171 million of us

will get on a plane this spring, a new record, will you be safe?

When you look at the southern border or when you read about

Shard and Gorman, 18 years old shot in the head

while going out for a walk with friends to see the Northern lights,

do you feel safe?

We're going to spend today's show answering that question.

I want to take you through the evidence of the way a prosecutor would

because there is an answer and it is worse than what they are telling you on CNN.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Now, you may be listening to or watching this show right now

at an airport waiting in line, probably for hours.

If you are, that is because Democrats

decided to shut down funding for the Department of Homeland Security

in order to punish immigration and customs enforcement

ICE, which is a part of DHS, for enforcing the law.

Doesn't matter that ICE's legal authority has not changed for decades.

It doesn't matter that under President Trump,

they're just doing their job for the first time in decades.

DHS must be closed down because ICE is doing their job.

See, that's the thing.

Democrats don't want to enforce the border.

If they get the chance, they'll return to Biden era open borders

as soon as possible.

Let's start with this horrible story about Shard and Gorman,

an 18-year-old student at Loyola University in Chicago.

She was murdered by a masked man while she was walking in Rogers Park

last Thursday.

According to CBS News, quote,

these shooting happened early last Thursday as Gorman,

who was 18, your's old was walking with her friends near the pier

at Toby Prince Beach to see the Northern Lights.

Prosecutors said as Gorman and her friends were talking toward

the lighthouse shortly after 1am,

Gorman told her friends she saw someone hiding behind the lighthouse.

When Medina came out from behind the lighthouse,

Gorman and her friends ran away

and then Medina shot Gorman in the back.

Hey, so terrible story.

The police quickly arrested a suspect on Jose Medina.

As it turns out, the alleged murderer was a Venezuelan national

in the United States illegally.

According to The New York Times,

the Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday

that Mr. Medina was released into the country

under the Biden administration in May 2023

after coming into contact with border patrol agents.

I know, gigantic shock, right?

Federal official said Mr. Medina was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting

in Chicago about one month later in June 2023

and then released.

So you should be asking yourself,

if you get arrested for shoplifting

and you are an illegal immigrant, why are you still here?

The answer, of course, is that Chicago is a sanctuary city.

That means that the city and state of Illinois

prevent local officials from cooperating

with federal law enforcement.

That is why Medina was free to allegedly commit a cold-blooded murder.

You see, if local law enforcement had notified ICE

that they had arrested an illegal immigrant

and then held him until ICE arrived,

Gorman would probably still be alive.

Republicans up to and including the president

have pointed out the simple facts and her Ted Cruz

correctly pointed out, quote,

shard and Gorman's killer was an illegal alien

who should never have been in our country.

Joe Biden's open border policies

and governor Pritzker's refusal to accept

that President Trump's help

are the reasons why she is not with us today.

Hey, well, that's right.

And here is President Trump being questioned

by daily wires at Marguerite Olehan

about the situation.

It's devastating.

These people were let in by Biden.

We're getting them out.

We're getting them out fast.

That's why ICE is so important

to doing such a good job.

This animal, I saw the whole thing last night

they gave me a briefing, came in through Joe Biden

with this open-door policy

and his borders are a Kamala who never saw the border.

Democrats, however, are still making excuses.

Here was a Chicago alderman in Maria Haddon

saying that actually it might have been Gorman's fault.

You see, when you get shot in the back of the head

by an illegal immigrant who was hiding

while you were out seeing the Northern Lights,

it's possible that it's your fault for startling

that illegal immigrant.

It's sort of like walking into an endangered species

arena at the zoo or something.

It's your fault if something bad happens to you.

And they go out on the pier, they walk around

so that the kids were out doing normal things

people do in the neighborhood.

And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place,

wrong time running into a person who had a gun.

They might have startled this person

at the end of the pier unintentionally.

Other Democrats, of course, are claiming

that this is all happening because we incarcerate

too many criminals.

This is the big democratic move.

It's been true for decades.

The idea is that criminality happens

because too many criminals are in jail.

Sort of like the argument that if you kill too many terrorists,

you're just creating new terrorists,

which is weird because when you kill terrorists,

then they're dead.

And the same thing is true of people who are in jail.

When they're in jail, you know what they're not doing.

They are not on the streets shooting people.

And yet this is the typical democratic take in his idiotic.

Here was Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson back in November, 2025.

We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.

We've already tried that.

And we've ended up with the largest prison population

in the world without solving the problems

of crime and violence.

The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country,

we have moved past that.

It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy,

and it's not the way to drive violence down.

Well, I feel like it's a great way actually

to drive violence down again.

Keeping criminals in jail is a great way

for them not to commit crimes against people on the streets

because they're in jail.

That particular theory of crime,

that we have to stop crime by freeing criminals,

has cost the city of Chicago both lives and cash.

The free press reports this morning, Illinois has already paid

some $1 billion to ex-gang members

who stop crime in Chicago.

Spoiler alert, it doesn't work all that great.

Here is the free press quote.

While the mayor is supportive of community violence

intervention, a key member of his public safety team

said that CVI is a revolving door for gang members.

Some of these guys who are collecting money

through CVI are still committing crimes.

The public safety team employee said it's a huge problem.

Governor JB Prisker, who has been losing weight

in expectation I assume of a presidential run,

which again is misbegotten in the extreme.

His office issued a statement quote,

our thoughts are with the family, friends,

and Loyola University community

grieving the senseless murder of Sheridan Gorman.

Violent crime has no place in our streets.

We expect the alleged purpose writer to be held accountable

to the fullest extent of the law.

The Trump administration needs to stop politicizing

heinous tragedies and instead focus on real solutions

like reinstating federal funds to prevent violence

that support our public safety efforts.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

Policizing heinous tragedies instead of focusing

on real solutions, it is not politicization

to point to the specific policy

that could have stopped this murder in the first place.

In fact, it is playing politics to ignore that policy

for political reasons.

But Democrats are addicted to playing politics

on illegal immigration.

They've decided that illegal immigrants

are the finest among us and deserve our undying sympathy

and that we ought to defund the agency that houses ICE

in order to facilitate illegal immigration.

Representative Eric Swalwell, who is running for governor

of California, I don't know why,

I mean, man, Eric Swalwell, here he was yesterday

saying he wants to abolish ICE,

just running far to the left.

Here we go.

ICE get lost and if Democrats take control of the house,

I hope we strip out your funding from the root to the STEM

because can't speak for us, Michael, ICE,

but I want to abolish ICE.

Okay, the reason that he's saying he wants to abolish ICE

is not because he actually wants to abolish ICE.

It's because he wishes to win a Democratic primary

in the state of California.

He wishes to become the Democratic nominee

and he feels like the more radical he is,

the more he can bold himself to the top of the pile.

In just one second, I'm gonna get into

our cultural arbiters playing offense

on behalf of illegal immigrants, you know, like Miss Rachel.

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Savvy, what are they saying?

The people.

The people have spoken.

Paul wants to know how we're Clinton, Bush, Obama.

So successful with deportations.

Is it purely partisan politics,

slowing things down?

So they weren't, the answer is

that when it came to Bill Clinton,

there was an enormous amount of illegal immigration.

George W. Bush, serious illegal immigration

and the biggest, of course, was Obama.

There was serious illegal immigration under Barack Obama.

It really exploded under Joe Biden.

The counts that you are seeing,

when it says that, for example,

Obama deported more people than Trump,

that's because they are counting turnaways of the border.

There are almost no turnaways of the border these days

because President Trump has made it clear

that if you show up at the border,

you will be turned away.

So those numbers are kind of wildly inflated

from past presidents.

And yes, of course, things are more partisan now.

Nobody on the Democratic side of the aisle

in the 90s was saying that we needed to abolish ICE.

That was just not a thing that was being said.

If you go back and you watch 1992,

Bill Clinton's acceptance speech at the DNC,

he was a moderate on illegal immigration

by today's standards.

So back to our cultural arbiters,

they have been playing off and on behalf

of illegal immigration, Miss Rachel.

That is the radically political children's toast

who spends her days playing an overgrown child

and also standing her terrorist groups like Hamas.

While she is now sounded off on ICE's supposed evils,

she headed down to an ICE facility in Texas

to lecture Americans on why we must allow

illegal immigration to run unchecked across the country,

you know, for the kids.

Do you really miss your school and your friends?

Very much.

Oh.

Going to be there to be happy is all of them.

If you're gonna open to live this,

you want to stay here anymore?

I don't want to be here anymore.

You miss good yet.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

A lot of people want to try to help.

I wouldn't let her go to the snowing in the air.

You have a real gift for spelling.

You're so smart.

When I just look from here, my stomach is tired.

That is Miss Rachel programming

to your five-year-old child.

Yes, as long as she cosplays as a little girl

as an adult, you know, can blues clues style,

then it's fine for her to be as politically

left-wing as she wants to be.

Popular TV shows too are pulling out all the stops.

The pit, an HBO medical drama that I actually enjoy

with my wife because she's a doctor

so she likes to analyze it.

It recently featured this particular scene

which ice raids in ER.

Hold on, she needs to sleep.

It's only take a minute.

We're leaving.

Hey, man, you're hurting her.

No!

Jesus Christ, what's going on now?

Robbie, no!

No!

You can't kill this!

We have children!

What are you doing?

Are you driving to take away another immigrant?

And then nurse tries to obstruct the arrest of the nurse.

I know, I'm just going to need no help.

No, no!

We got to go.

No!

Don't say anything.

You don't have to say anything to the camera.

Make you say anything.

We'll get you an attorney.

And that is the lead doctor telling the nurse

not to talk to ice, and I promise we'll get you out.

Because this is how it goes.

Just people being randomly arrested in ERs

and obstructing the working of ERs.

Because ice, of course, is totally evil.

That is the key.

Ice is a bunch of monsters.

They're even arresting ER nurses.

Not like the ER nurses who are out in the streets.

You know, actively obstructing things.

Like ER nurses in the ER, mostly just to be particularly cruel.

Democrats must be high on their own supply at this point.

They are just drinking from this cultural wealth.

They think that shutting down

the Department of Homeland Security is good politics.

At least House Minority Leader Hakim Jaffrey seems to think so.

He is saying that it's good to shut down the DHS funding

because, of course, the GOP wants agreed to keep ice away

from polling sites.

Now, I have a question.

Why are illegal immigrants at polling sites?

I mean, if ice is there, like if ice shows up

at a polling site and ice shows up at a polling site,

I'm not worried about ice because I am not

any illegal immigrants.

It seems to me that actually making sure illegal immigrants

do not show up at polling sites

is not a horrible use of ice, actually.

Anyway, here is House Minority Leader Hakim Jaffrey's saying

we must withdraw taxpayer funding from the DHS.

But one of those demands is keep ice out of sensitive locations.

And we've defined that as schools, houses of worship,

hospitals, and polling sites.

We want an explicit prohibition that ice can go nowhere near any

polling sites in the United States of America.

Why?

And just why?

I don't even understand that one.

I sort of get schools because the idea is that you have a lot

of kids, illegal immigrants, are going to schools

and so you don't want them to have to worry about mom and dad

getting pulled out of line and then thrown out of the country.

I kind of get it, like on a humanitarian level.

The polling sites I really don't get.

In any case, the partial DHS shutdown has had the effect

not just of defunding ice, but defunding, of course, the TSA,

Transportation Security Administration.

This has led to these gigantic lines around the country

at airports in response.

The administration has said that they will deploy ice officers

to man the TSA lines because you see ice actually has

some leftover funding from the last round of funding.

Here is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

explaining on Sunday.

Democrats want to see long lines at airports

as leverage, President Trump is trying to take that leverage

away and not make the American people suffer.

So TSA agents are law enforcement.

They know how to pat people down.

They know how to run the X-ray machines

because they are, again, under Homeland Security with TSA.

So if we can bring in other assets and tools to assist TSA

to get rid of these lines, yeah, I think that makes a lot

of sense and the president is looking around every corner

to make sure the American people don't suffer

during the shutdown.

Now, the Democrats are saying that deploying ice

to help out and again, it's not going to be ice

that's actually scanning your items that go through the machine.

It's ice that's facilitating the movement of the lines.

You know how when you go to the airport,

there are members of TSA who are directing you

which way to go.

Ice can do that too and they won't be masked at the time.

Democrats say this is not going to help the wait times

or as Cory Booker being as manipulative as he could possibly be

as far as usual arrangement.

He's taking that agency that is recklessly out of control

and bringing it to our air case.

Under the line, it's somehow this is going to help deal

with the long lines that you created in the first place.

Well, I mean, they will help because as it turns out,

even CNN is saying that ice is helping with TSA wait times.

Finally, we can take a deep breath here.

The numbers have dropped off.

The lines are getting shorter.

I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes.

So if you have a flight to catch today,

it's a good time to come to Hartfield Jacks International.

Okay, so it turns out actually that it's kind of working.

Well, meanwhile, some Republicans tried to construct a work

around for this whole situation yesterday.

Senators John Kennedy of Louisiana and Ted Cruz of Texas

tried to push a partial government refunding for TSA alone.

Their plan was to pass that funding for TSA

and then stack the rest of DHS funding

in a reconciliation package.

Reconciliation doesn't require democratic votes.

You can do it without having to pass the filibuster limit

in the Senate.

President Trump didn't want that.

He would love for Democrats to continue to own the shutdown.

Here is Senator Kennedy explaining the situation.

Senator Cruz and I came up with a plan.

We said, look, it's a two-step process.

The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ice.

Ted and I said, okay, let's accept their offer.

And then at the same time, we would offer a bill

for reconciliation where we don't need any democratic votes

to do whatever we wanted to do with ice.

And that way we're out of the shutdown

and DHS is back open.

We submitted that.

Senator Cruz submitted that to President Trump.

As is his right, he said no.

No deals with the Democrats.

Now again, I assume here that President Trump

doesn't want to deal with the Democrats

because he believes that they basically own the shutdown.

Which is probably true.

According to Punchball, President Trump threatened.

He would slam Republicans

that they left the town for recess coming up.

According to Punchball, quote,

the President wants Republicans to stay in DC

and keep fighting with Democrats over DHS funding

and the Save America Act, the GOP's voter ID

and proof of citizenship bill.

So this begs the question of whether President Trump

is right on the politics.

There's a new CBS news, you gov poll, it shows.

Only 31% of Americans believe Democrats

are right to cause the partial government shutdown.

36% believe the democratic position is not worth it.

So President Trump isn't totally wrong

to brow-be Democrats with their own peculiar shutdown position.

Meanwhile, in better news, DHS does have a new secretary.

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So we're checking in with the facts fam

for more questions.

What are they asking?

So Antonio asks,

the Cato Institute is arguing against

Massey Portations based on analysis

that illegal immigrants cost less

than they contribute to the economy.

Daniel D. Martino and Manhattan Institute

have released a study showing the opposite.

So what methodologies lead to these findings?

How do we accurately estimate

the cost of illegal immigration?

Right, so very often institutes like Cato Institute

will not take into account the cost

of, for example, children of illegal immigrants.

So let's say that you're an illegal immigrant,

you come here and you have a couple of kids.

And now your kids are going to be going to public school.

They're not illegal immigrants themselves.

Or maybe they are, maybe they're dreamers.

Right, meaning they came here as minors

through new faults of their own,

but they're illegal immigrants.

And now we have to pay for their schooling

and their healthcare and all the rest.

So it depends how holistically you actually measure

taxpayer costs.

If you holistically measure taxpayer costs

then overall illegal immigration

does cost Americans more than they receive

from whatever taxes people are paying into the system.

And that there's also been suggested

by the Center for Immigration Studies and Mercricoriom.

Artifocus speaking of our airports,

scary footage out of LaGuardia on Sunday night

according to the Associated Press,

an air candidate jet carrying more than 70 passengers

collided with a fire truck while landing

at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday,

killing the pilot and co-pilot,

injuring several other people according to officials.

The impact severed the cockpit,

hurled a flight attendant who's still secured to her seat

far from the crash site according to her daughter.

The flight attendant actually survived.

The fire truck was crossing the tarmac just before midnight

after being given permission to check on another plane

that had aborted its own take off

before the collision you can hear an air traffic controller

on airport communications telling the fire truck to stop.

Here's the CCTV footage, scary stuff here.

So you can see the plane it has landed

and then here comes the fire truck

and the plane just plows directly into the fire truck.

Terrible stuff right there.

Oh yeah, yeah, that's really, really bad.

And here you'll hear the audio of the air traffic controller

who admits that he messed up.

Frontier 4195, just stop there, please.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Stop, truck, one, stop.

Stop, truck, one, stop.

Whoa!

No exit, no exit, no exit.

Go around, runway anti-2,000.

Got six, four, six.

Got six, four, six, six.

A sea collider with vehicle exit hole position.

Night only camp moved.

vehicle service line T now.

Vehicle 98.

Vehicle 98, please go at this time.

time on a 4-3-2-6-6.

From there, 4-195, I got the word that we're going to be close for a little while.

If you want prepared to return to the ramp, let me know.

Yeah, we got stuff that brought us up for that, man. That wasn't good to watch.

Yeah, I know, I was here. I tried to reach out to my stop.

And we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I'm not stuck.

Ooh, ooh, terrible.

The plane was essentially totaled, at least the front of the plane was totaled.

You can see that basically the cockpit is gone, both pilots were apparently killed.

Listen, our air traffic control requires upgrades, radical upgrades.

This has been a priority for a long time. Transportation Secretary Duffy suggested this a while ago.

Many of you have reported that we need more money for air traffic control.

We are modernizing our system, but we can't fully modernize it until the Congress gives us additional money.

It's not a partisan issue. Both Democrats and Republicans agree, but they have to have the will to finish the funding.

I'm not saying that this crash would have been prevented if we had all the equipment deployed.

So, yeah, again, he is right about this, but there is an alternative priority here.

What if we privatize both TSA and air traffic control?

There are a lot of other countries that actually do this, including ones that are to our left.

Canada, the UK and part, Australia, Germany, Switzerland.

That would be a smart move. It would cost us a lot less money.

You would have the airlines to actually pay for TSA essentially.

You would have them control their own security into their airlines.

It would also prevent the government from being able to shut down air travel whenever politicians fight.

And by the way, it would create massive incentive for better service and more reliable service from the airlines.

If the airlines want you to be able to move more quickly in and out, then they will facilitate that it would also separate the FAA from service providers.

So, if you have regulatory oversight of private agencies that is better than the same people who are making the rules also implementing those rules.

It would create incentive for people to actually follow the law because instead of people working for the FAA creating the regulations and then failing and then the liability lies with the agency that created the regulation, meaning the taxpayer, it lies with the airlines.

That would make a lot more sense. But again, one of the biggest problems, the big government is that it is sclerotic, it is inefficient.

And if you take that back to the TSA and to DHS, it ends up with the American public significantly less safe.

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Yes, from nurse Debbie. We love nurse Debbie.

She wants to know all the illegal aliens that crossed in the Biden administration.

They can't possibly all be deported by the Trump admin.

So how do we speed up the deportations and avoid a PR nightmare?

I mean, that is the biggest question.

And I think that the reality is the American people by polling data are much more focused on people with a criminal record than they are on sort of people who are down at the home depot looking to do some gardening.

And so this is always the delicate balance.

One of the things that has happened is an enormous amount of self deportation.

So a lot of people who see that the administration is not going to allow them to overstate their reason of simply leaving and going home.

And I think that will solve part of the problem.

But the idea of us mass deporting 15 to 20 million people, which is probably the number of illegal immigrants in the country.

That I think is a non-starter in just realistic political terms.

And so we need to tranche this.

We need to make priorities.

And then sort of like tier one is criminals, tier two are people who are net draws on the welfare system.

And then you get to tier three, tier four, tier five.

All right.

Meanwhile, speaking of people who truly wish to undermine America's interests at home and abroad,

he's so called Nuestra America Convoy has ended.

I know it's sad.

Nuestra America, that's a group associated with code pink,

which of course is a radical left wing partially foreign funded group that brought rich and famous left wingers to Cuba to yell about how terrible America is

while enjoying drinks on the beach and some unearned feelings of moral superiority.

Now, as we've talked about Cuba is a communist hellhole. It has been for decades.

There's an average annual salary there of 156 dollars, not per day, not per month, per year, 156 dollars.

But Nuestra America didn't come to call for the liberation of the island nation.

They came to cover how terrible it is their employment on America and to cry America's evil.

And of course, do a little bit of poverty tourism here where some communist friends enjoying a nice outing amongst the proletariat.

You can see them on one of these little buses here.

And they're singing and having a good time.

And then they're going to go take pictures of some of the poor people.

Exciting stuff.

They're all wearing half of them are wearing masks, by the way.

Because you have to make sure you're masked up.

Good people.

Don't worry. Good little communists. The best kind of communists are the ones who don't have to live in the communist countries.

Genius level stuff here.

Ah yes, poverty tourism.

Well, according to Fox News, the far left group code pink sponsored flights to the communist led island.

And the group was joined by Isra Hersey, the daughter of representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and left winged Twitch streamer Hassan Piker,

an ally of democratic socialist in New York City mayor Zoran Mamdani.

Well, here's how it went.

So Isra Hersey, that would be representative Ilhan Omar's kid.

She goes to Barnard showed up there.

She engaged in some light poverty tourism and stayed at a ritzy five star hotel.

Her group then joined a concert led by kneecap.

That's the Irish man.

Most famous for screaming about the evils of Israel.

Here's some footage of that magical concert.

Again, people just starving just off camera.

Well, I'm glad they're having a good time.

That's the important thing is the rich people flying in from abroad to celebrate amidst the dire poverty.

Meanwhile, Cuba is in a state of rolling blackouts.

The poverty tourist hotel.

It is lit everywhere else.

Ain't no power.

This is Cuba.

And there is no electricity anywhere because there's no oil.

There's no energy.

And this is what it looks like.

Except that hotel because the five star hotel.

That's it.

Well, at least the communist, you know, from abroad or having a good time.

Well, defending herself, Hersey tweeted, quote,

Yes, I am in Cuba.

People are here from across the globe to express solidarity with the Cuban people.

People who are standing against the oppressive blockade exacerbated by the Trump administration.

I'm honored to be here.

I'm honored to make history and I'd move Iraq to all.

Yes, she's making so much history.

People, generations from now will remember the spoiled brat child of the luckiest immigrants in history.

Going to communist nations to decry the nation that took them in.

So to get this straight, this person is the daughter of an immigrant from one of the most impoverished and terrible parts of planet Earth.

Her mother was elected to Congress.

She goes to one of the most prestigious and expensive colleges in America.

Tuition plus room and board over at Barnard is $90,000 per year per year.

I mean, just to do some brief like mental math right there.

It would take a lot of years of Cuban salary to pay for that $90,000 per year.

Like a lot, like a lot, like 70 years or something.

She stays at five star hotels in Cuba.

And according to Isra Hersey, America is the bad guy.

Like mother-like daughter, of course.

El Han Omar is one of America's greatest attractors.

She is a seething cauldron of sneering vocal grind, who sympathizes with terrorists and commies all over the globe.

She put out a statement, quote,

I am incredibly proud of Isra.

I can't really do her voice.

It's like down here.

And everyone who made the trip to Cuba, they took tons of aid to make sure the people of Cuba knew

that there are so many people across the world who stand in solidarity with them.

Cuba has always sent aides to country, has sent, always sent aid to countries in need,

and has trained thousands of physicians across the world, including my childhood physician.

In reality, Cuba tried to export revolutions during the 1960s and 1970s to large swaths of Africa

and joined with some of the worst most repressive regimes on planet earth in doing so.

El Han Omar says, Isra Hersey is more than just my daughter.

She is a brilliant young leader who has always worked hard to advocate for a more just world.

She inspires me and so many people with her leadership and dedication.

I am forever fortunate to have her as my daughter,

but I am even more fortunate to know her as the unflinching justice warrior for justice she is.

While joining Hersey was NEPO baby socialist and dog zapping fascinista Hassan Piker,

that is a man whose love for communism is matched only by his taste for Cartier jewellery.

One day soon, perhaps he'll finally get his life stream and end up in a thrupple with Mojdav Khmeri,

but this week he was in Cuba where he was explaining that he had to stay in a five star hotel guys by law.

But here's the thing.

The island people is out there. They love having no power.

They love having no power.

So while he was relegated to the air conditioned hotel, they out there they were fine.

Everything was going great.

I mean, there's like rolling blackouts of take place throughout the day every day all around the country, right?

11 million people, but today is a beautiful day out here.

It's like 75 degrees sunny.

People are partying.

People are partying in the streets.

People are partying.

In the, in the, in the ethnic streets, they're having such a great time, you know, like not having anything to eat.

According to us on Piker, revolution or a new medical cures are being withheld because of our sanctions on Cuba.

Piker knows this because he plays a doctor on TV or one time he watched an actor playing a doctor on TV

or he just put on his smart people, $1,500 glasses.

That's it. Yes. He's wearing $1,500 glasses.

It's made me so damn mad.

Americans would rather die than admit a foreign enemy has any benefit.

Exactly. Like they do not want.

They do not want a comprehend.

Like real shit.

They just, if it goes against their priors, if it goes against their priors, they just go, no.

That's not real. I don't believe it.

I don't want to believe it.

It's unbelievable.

It's a lie. It's an experience that I think every American should have.

It will change you when Ben Rhodes told me before I went to Cuba that I was going to be very sad.

He was somewhat right.

I, uh, I landed and I could not believe how beautiful this island was.

I could not believe how beautiful the people were.

That was my first reaction. I was like, wow, I'm not a big nature guy, but this is one of the coolest places I've ever been to in my life.

And then there's an emotional roller coaster turned into deep sadness.

You know, you arrive in Havana and you start seeing the trash.

It can't be collected because there's not enough oil and gas.

There's not enough oil to, to operate the trash trucks.

Communism. It's doing great.

But he's blaming America. I love that he is hanging out with Ben Rhodes.

Again, remember Hassan Piker, who is one of the worst people in the commentary.

A person who routinely sympathizes with terrorists like all over the world.

That guy is hanging out with Zoran Mamdani and he's doing interviews with all the Democratic politicians.

It's pretty incredible.

Now, by the way, you heard him mention right there a cure, right?

It's supposedly it is a, and Alzheimer's working solution.

Well, not really. It's actually an ongoing trial in Canada.

It is not being blocked because of US embargo.

The original study itself actually says more research is necessary.

But here's the important thing.

The important thing is that Hassan Piker believes he is doing something virtuous.

And so do the rest of these clowns.

And so they perform sensual massages on the planet's worst dictators,

from Cuba to Iran to terrorist groups, all in the name of their magical principles.

And then they say their critics are the problem.

If you ever want to hear somebody self-pitying beyond all belief, listen to this one.

Here we go.

Liberals get mad, right wingers get mad.

It's like a lightning rod for some of the most like deeply unwell people.

It's very, very frustrating. It's very strange.

But in any case, one of the things that I'm going to say is that

I think a lot of people just simply don't do things, right?

So when they see someone doing things,

it triggers something in their minds where they go,

well, I'm not doing anything.

And that makes me feel somewhat, like maybe a little immoral that I'm not doing anything.

So I have to find a way to disparage people who are trying to do their best.

You know, Hassan Piker is doing things.

He's doing things by taking a flight over to Cuba,

taking pictures of all the poor people,

and then proclaiming that he is virtuous.

Is there any way that we can just, you know,

give him a one-way flight to Cuba?

And he just, you know, stay there.

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Well, speaking of America's enemies, the war in Iran continues.

It appears that Saudi Arabia and UAE may be getting closer to direct involvement

against Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Quote, US allies in the Persian Gulf are inching toward joining the fight against Iran,

getting tougher, following persistent attacks that have disrupted their economies

and risk giving Tehran a long-term leverage over the straight up Hormuz.

Now, all that makes perfect sense because our Gulf allies do not really want an Iran that survives

and continues to prey on the oil industry in the Persian Gulf.

That is not something they're interested in.

And in early withdrawal, or Iran still being in dominant position in the straight up Hormuz,

means they can cut off oil supply at any given moment.

Now, President Trump for his part seems to be pursuing a dual track.

Negotiations with the possibility of even harsher action.

Yesterday, President Trump suggested that there were, in fact, negotiations with Iran

happening he then detailed his Iran's yield terms.

We're looking for all of the things that we've been talking about.

We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapon, not even close to it,

low key in the missiles.

We want to see peace in the Middle East.

We want the nuclear dust.

We're going to want that.

And I think we're going to get that.

We've agreed to that.

Yeah, we're going to.

We've agreed to that.

Well, we will see what Iran actually agrees to.

He says that Iran actually reached out to him because they are worried about what's about to happen.

Here's President Trump yesterday.

If this happens and I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to, my life is a deal.

That's all I do is deals.

My whole life, I think this is something that's going to happen.

And why wouldn't it happen?

So tomorrow, morning, sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants

that cost over $10 billion to build.

It's a very good one.

There was no dearth of money.

And one shot, it's gone.

It collapses.

Why would they want that?

They called.

I didn't call.

They called.

They want to make a deal.

Now, President Trump has not said who it is that we are talking to over there.

Some contemporaneous reports do suggest that back channels are open.

President Trump will not disclose who Steve Whitkopf, our negotiator, is actually talking with on the other side.

We wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three.

But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader.

You know, it's a little tough.

They've wiped out everybody.

Is that the supreme leader?

No, not the supreme leader.

Well, nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second supreme leader, the son.

The party's correct.

Nobody, we have not heard from the son.

Everyone said, well, you'll see a statement made, but we have not.

We don't know if he's living.

But the people that seem to be running it, and they seem that based on really fact,

because things they've said have taken place.

Mr. President, I don't need to point this.

I don't want them to be killed.

Okay.

I don't want them to be killed.

So, who is it that Trump could be talking to, considering that the current titular leader

is probably either dead or in a coma?

Well, according to the Jerusalem Post, the answer is that it is a person who is the parliament

speaker and a long time IRGC higher up in Muhammad Bakhir Khalibaf.

Khalibaf is a hardliner, of course.

Not a lot of not hardliners at the top of the Iranian government as per usual arrangement.

As political reports, quoting one Ali Vyas senior Iran analyst at the International

Crisis Group, quote, Khalibaf is a quintessential insider, ambitious and pragmatic.

It fundamentally committed to the preservation of Iran's Islamist order.

It makes him an unlikely candidate to offer Washington any meaningful concessions.

Even if he were inclined to test the boundaries, Iran's military establishment and the broader security elite

would almost certainly constrain him.

For his part, Khalibaf is denying any contact.

He put out a tweet saying, our people demand the complete and humiliating punishment of the aggressors.

All official stand firmly behind their leader and people until the school is achieved.

No negotiations with America have taken place.

Fake news is intended to manipulate financial and oil markets and to escape the quagmire

in which America and Israel are trapped.

And, of course, on Sunday, Khalibaf also threatened the United States on exit.

In addition to military bases, those financial institutions that fund the US military budget

are considered legitimate targets.

Those treasury bonds are tainted with the blood of Iranians.

If you proceed to purchase them, you are, in fact, attacking your own assets in primary headquarters.

We are monitoring your investment court folios.

The Iranian Foreign Minister is denying outright any negotiations,

so President Trump laughed at them yesterday.

Telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations, Daniel,

well, they're going to have to get themselves better public relations people.

We have had very, very strong talks.

We'll see where they lead.

We have points of major points of agreement.

I would say almost all points of agreement.

Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed.

Communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces.

They're unable to talk to each other.

So, what's really going on?

Well, three things.

First, negotiations probably are taking place.

After all, it does make some sense to keep the phone line open in case Iran decides to give up the ghost

and to a Delci Rodriguez situation over in Iran, like Venezuela.

Second, even the possibility of an off ramp talks down the oil prices.

So yesterday, oil prices fell by over 13%.

Brent crude futures had fallen around 17 bucks or 15%.

Down below $100.

U.S.-Western media Texas had fallen 13 bucks about 13.5%.

Third, this all does by time for some more resources to reach the region.

The Wall Street Journal reported last night, quote,

thousands of U.S. Marines are slated to arrive in the Middle East on Friday,

according to two U.S. officials.

The day President Trump has set as the deadline for Iran to reopen the straight-up for moves.

The Japan-based amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli,

the amphibious landing dock USS New Orleans,

and roughly 2200 Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

will cross into U.S. Central Command,

which is responsible for U.S. forces in the Middle East.

On Friday, the officials said,

it would take another few days for the unit to get to the straight-up for moves.

The Pentagon has also ordered another Marine unit to sent-com.

The California-based 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit,

aboard the USS Boxer amphibious ready group.

The unit will depart in a few weeks.

It won't arrive in sent-com for a few weeks after that.

So, you may recall that President Trump negotiated with Iran for weeks.

Well, American aircraft carriers made their way to the Middle East just a few weeks ago.

So, this could be a similar situation.

Meanwhile, the grievance party, having a very rough time of it,

Senator Chuck Schumer, who has constantly decried the evils of the Iranian regime,

he is having a very tough time answering whether it is good or not

that President Trump went after Iran.

And he just cannot answer the question on Morning Joe.

Is it a good thing that Iran,

and I think you would agree with me,

at the center of terrorism in the world since 1979,

is it good that their military infrastructure is being degraded?

No, no.

You know, it is, yes or no.

It's, you can't, because it's a premature question.

What is going to happen in the next several months?

No, no, I can ask that question.

Well, I said that right.

No, no, no, no.

I can't.

So, you have a military side of that, but I can show you my chart.

But I think I threw it away.

You have a military side, you have the political side.

I'm simply asking on the military side, is it good?

Regardless of whether we agree with going in or not,

is it good that Iran's military infrastructure has been...

And again, I have to tell you, Joe.

First, you can't, what's going to happen three months from now?

Is it worth it?

What's going to happen?

Will the world economy collapse?

Will something happen even worse?

It's incredible that he's unable to just say the obvious,

which is yes, it is good,

that we have destroyed an enormous amount of Iran's military arsenal.

And what happens next, we don't know, but that at least is good.

Meanwhile, Joe Kent, who you remember,

is the former National Director for the Counterterrorism Center,

the one who quit amidst a full-scale federal investigation

into leaking, he is still making the rounds,

and he's pretending to be a principled critic of the administration.

President Trump smacked him down yesterday.

He was a man that I met at Dover.

He came in his wife with his skill.

He remarried fairly quickly.

His wife was killed, and I felt badly for him.

He ran for Congress, he lost.

He ran for Congress again, and he lost.

I said, you know, he's a guy, nice guy.

Seems like a very nice guy.

I bet him he was pretty heartbroken, pretty.

But I said, you know, it's a shame.

He ran for Congress twice.

Call him up, give him a job in the White House.

Smart.

They gave a job in the White House.

And this is what he does to me, you know?

Well, it turns out President Trump probably should not be

quite as sympathetic to people who beg him for a job.

Turns out that Kent was almost certainly using his slot

as director of National Center for Counterterrorism

to leak information about Charlie Crook's murder to Candace Owens.

When Candace said she had a source inside the federal intelligence apparatus,

I think it would be hard to believe it was not Joe Kent.

So Andrew Colvitt made clear over at TPSA.

So Andrew is a high ranking member over at TPSA,

very close friends with Charlie, obviously,

after Charlie was killed, there's a lot of speculation

about foreign involvement driven largely by Candace.

And Andrew Colvitt actually gave texts that he had had

with Charlie Crook that were texts that ended up in Candace Owens' hands.

And what he says is that he had sent those texts to Joe Kent,

and then magically they ended up in the hands of Candace Owens.

Well, that's weird.

I'm not sure why we want the National Center for Counterterrorism

head to be on a first text basis with a person

who is acting in totally psychotic ways, but all right.

Behind the scenes, we have given everything we know to give,

every single piece of information.

This was one of them.

I was told I could trust Joe Kent.

I provided the screen grabs to Joe Kent.

And I don't know what happened to them at that point.

OK, I just want to make that very clear.

Eventually, Joe did message me and suggest

that I make those screen grabs public.

I declined because those were shared privately.

I didn't want to be reckless with them in the public.

There could be innocent people on that group chat

that would then be harmed, so I declined.

But then, fast forward another week or two,

and they were made public.

So that's what I know.

Is that Joe suggested that they be made public.

I declined, then they were made public.

Well, then sound like he is innocent of being a leaker.

Mark Levin had tense on to ask about the alleged leaks,

and it didn't go amazing for Joe Kent.

He gave you text messages, confidentially.

Hold on, man, let me just get the question out.

You can dispute it.

Text messages to anybody.

But I have to explain it to the public if you would.

If you would.

Hold on.

Why don't you want to answer this?

You only want to let me set up the question.

He said that he gave you text messages from Charlie Kirk,

all this discussion about the Israelis and donors and so forth,

that you called him and you said, make it public.

He said, no, I'm not comfortable doing that.

And then the next thing he knows, Candace Owens has it,

and she makes it public.

And she's off to the races just like you and Tucker

in the red.

Did that happen or not?

Did you give it to Candace Owens?

Yes or no?

I did not give anything to Candace Owens, no.

Well, this is good to know.

See, you've never leaked.

You didn't give anything to Candace Owens.

I have a much higher regard for you now.

That's the truth.

I do not believe Joe Kent.

And we'll see what the results of the investigation are.

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