Iran’s Dangerous Game, Trump’s Midterm Challenge, and Letitia James’ War on Trump

0:00Latita James was told by people in her office. This was a ridiculous suit. And she campaigned on cheap, but she said, I'm gonna get Donald Trump. We've never seen the pollution of the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the White House to go out and destroy a candidate. Forget what you think about Donald Trump. They were willing to destroy the law, break the law, break tradition protocol, and just to destroy him. What's the point of the law? What's the point of the law? What's the point of the law? What's the point of the law? What's the point of the law? Well, hello, ladies and hello gentlemen, and welcome to Victor Davis Hanson, in his own words on the daily signal network. I'm Jack Fowler. I'm the lucky man I get to ask Victor questions. Victor is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow with the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

1:00His website, The Blade of Persia is found at VictorHanson.com. Go there. It's a blade of persia. Do subscribe. $65 a year. Or if you just want test drive at $650 a month, and when you do go there, you'll be able to read the exclusive articles and see the exclusive videos Victor does for the site. I'm wearing a, I've never wear hat here, but I'm wearing a daily signal hat because on a last episode, Victor, I didn't, I implied I didn't get any Chachki from Rob Bluey, but that's not true. He gave me a hat, so I don't wear it like you. I mean, you have a head made for hats, mind us. I don't have a head. I have a sweetie square head, and I wear like a seven and seven eights head. Oh wow. When I played high school football, they had to get a special helmet for me. They called me football head in high school, by the way. Well, that's just because your brain is so big, my friend. No, Swedes are Danes with the brains blown out as I was told.

2:02Is that so? Well, you're on the end of the bell curve. We are recording on the last day of August, the 31st, and this particular episode is up on Thursday, September 3rd, which is a famous day for the temptations. This is the day that was the 3rd of September. Papa was a rolling stone. Go out and listen to that great song today, folks. Okay. What are we going to talk about today, Victor? Well, you want to give a little bit of an update from our last episode, or your long comments about Canada, also about Iran. I know there was some military action against Iran last night for the first time in a couple of weeks. And then we have some stories about the Tisha James wanting to go after Donald Trump again, and Trump related friends and advisors. We have some election day polling that doesn't look all that great for Republicans, Mandami, crying, maybe not literally, but about a prisoner who died at Rikers Island,

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5:12Good. I am. I'm trying to hide red. I've had a head cold or something. Me too. Yeah. I'll urge you. Yeah. You beat me with all the ailments. So I'm not I'm not even going to complete. Oh, wait, wait, I'm one other thing to mention. You're wearing a lovely shirt sent to us by our dear friend, Shraga. So thank you for that Shraga. And who also sent me some Macro today. And I love it. And I got some beautiful birthday cards. Some are listeners. I just wish, as I've said before, I could answer everyone, but the number of them in the request and everything. I can't do it. But I deeply appreciate it. Well, you can make people happy who've done that or not by telling us your thoughts, your updated thoughts about where do you want to start? Iran or Canada? You pay. I'll start with Canada. We mentioned it a little bit. You know, Trump is taking a beating in the Wall Street Journal and in the polls. And of course, in the new, the liberal media.

6:15And they say, why did he start a fight with our friends? And they are our friends. But we had a bigger problem with Mexico on remittances and illegal immigration and cartels and Chinese fentanyl and a $200 billion. And he has more or less solved those. So he has worn the cartels. They're not going to get, they're not coming across the border. He's deporting. He's deported. I thought it was an interesting article in the Washington Post was claiming that of the 500,000, they claimed that 40% which 200 of them were not criminals. And I thought to myself, do these people have any self awareness? So they're basically saying that we arrested 500,000 people, all of whom broke the law

7:17and are here residing in legally. Many of them with false IDs or earning cash off the books with this illegal, if you don't report it, and they don't. And they're saying that 60% of them are criminals and they're decrying the fact that 40% had not yet got a criminal record yet, even though they were here illegally. So my point is that we're making progress with Mexico, but Canada, we like Canada. But the problem with Canada is not us. The problem originates with the fact that they have the largest area of any nation, I think, except for Russia. And they have a small population of 41 million. It's comparable in its left-wing ideology to the left-wing Gavin Newsom, California, but Gavin Newsom lives in the United States. So there's only so much damage he can do. So we have a $4.3 trillion economy, and therefore,

8:2041 million people only have half of that. And they have been struggling to make a meg or 2% investment in GDP on defense, and they keep saying they're going to do it, do it, do it, do it. But maybe last year they did it, maybe not. They have a creative bookkeeping, but they really fought that. And then in addition, they run a $50 to $70 billion surplus, depending on how you calculate it in which particular year. And so if you're Donald Trump, you want to rectify that, and make sure they pay their NATO contributions, make sure they don't let illegal immigrations in the country, make sure that we have roughly a trade parody, and our economies are integrated, and make sure that the Chinese are not using Canada the way they use Mexico. That is to send things without tariffs below the cost of production, and have them assembled, and then under the guise of it being a Mexican product,

9:21send it in tariff free or near tariff free. And so that wasn't an unreasonable request, especially since we haven't had any retaliatory tariffs by others, except Karni has been going over to Europe and elsewhere, and saying that he is no longer a friend of the United States. He can't trust us. He's asked everybody to look toward China, maybe, as an alternate, which is crazy. And so what's the problem? The problem, as I said, is they've got this huge country, and it's got about the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas and oil. As I said, it has all these rich minerals, and its GDP of all Western industrialized economy was the lowest, at Per Capita, and it only grew at 1%, the last 10 years.

10:22And then it has, I think, 26% or 27% of its population was not born in Canada, and you another 7 or 8% were not born of parents that were Canadians. There were second generation immigrants, and then there's a couple million visa, and you get up to about 45% of the population is either immigrant or parents are immigrant. Well, that's fine, but the problem is that to acculturate, assimilate, and integrate, you have to have a melting pot philosophy, not a salad bowl, multiculturalism, and you need people who can come with skills and capital, not dependent on the state, and you put it all together, and you add these cultural practices, such as Euthanasia, claiming 7% of all the deaths per year in Canada. And it's becoming essentially a EU-like country, Germany or France or the Netherlands, right on our border, which is fine.

11:24But the way they react to that is, we want to have a socialist open borders, left wing, don't use our resources country, but we're right next to this galaia, but we want you to subsidize it in certain ways. In certain ways. And then when we find we get a president and says, we're going to be 50-50, no surpluses, you're going to pay your whole NATO, you're going to put tolob, then people get outraged. But we want Canada to be strong. I do. I want them to be very successful. But then it's very sad because then, you know, Ford and everybody in Alberta say, well, we're going to cut off all of your oil. And you think, well, you know, we're the biggest oil producer in history. We'll have some dislocations, but we just politely want to warn you that your heavy oil, sulfur, or smoky oil were set up to refine it. And you can send it to British Columbia or you can send it to your Atlantic coast provinces,

12:28but they won't let you. In fact, if you want to have natural gas or things like propane stuff sent to Montreal, you have to go through us. So if you cut us off, obviously we're not going to allow you, once you cut us off, you're not going to have a product in our chain that goes into Montreal because we do what you want. We are a sovereign nation that allows one province to have a pipeline with another province, but you don't allow that yourself. So you use us to route around it. And then you don't think and you start to say you're going to do this and you don't realize it's going to hurt you. This is going to hurt them a lot more than it is us. But when you have... So it's a very good friend of ours. We want to get great relations with them back again. Donald Trump has said things that are provocative. We all understand that. But the central issue is one of their most richly and largely endowed in largest countries

13:32in the world will not for a variety of reasons have a sensible immigration policy, a sensible defense policy, and a sensible use of their natural wealth. And that means... And then on top of that, they have a command socialist economy. That means if you're an entrepreneur and you want to set up 10 X-ray locations and you know how to do it better, you have to get the permission of the government. If you're a small little farmer and you want to break in, you've got to get the permission. And that means that you're not going to grow. And then you get angry and you add as a forced multiplier, a person with three passports who's a Euro-Technocrat who was... His nurse milk was anti-Americanism. And it's not going to work. Well, this is not Stephen Harper who knows those problems or Maruni who knew those problems, who were staunch Canadian nationalists. And we respected that. So, and that's the problem.

14:33Yeah, can I just add to that? Yeah. A couple of things quickly. There's no... The idea of meritocracy, which we still like to believe, Americans believe in, just from the medical program in Canada. We don't care that you... We want you all to have exactly the same. You can't buy your way. You can't get better unless you come to America and get better care. But so they'd rather everyone have poor health care than people have alternatives. And there's also, I think, a little bit of an ignorance on our part in America. You know, we're so culturally in the past. And I think a lot of people think, oh, Canada, you know, we play hockey against some baseball, the movie Strange Brew still looms very large for a lot of people. And it's not reflective of what you've just described. This is really a multicultural nation, a multi-ethnic nation. It is. And what's even stranger is, what's happening is the European, Western, British tradition

15:38that founded this country, whether you like it or not, is being undermined at its cradle. It's under attack in Britain. It's under attack in the Commonwealth countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. And then the larger European cultural civilization is under attack in Europe. Where it's being most hotly defended is in the United States. So we're in this ironic position of former colonist of Britain who we bailed successfully, who are the best representation of what Britain used to be, more than the countries that are statutorily aligned with the Commonwealth. Yeah. And that's a problem. But it's not that Americans don't like Canadians. We love Canadians. I've always liked them. And then the other thing is, it's very clear that they staged, whether it was a batter

16:41good deal, they could have worked this out, but they staged the walk out because they're having a provincial election in Alberta about autonomy and one in Quebec. And this makes Karni, who is not all that popular as Mr. Canadian, United Nationalist Zalette. And then when you have Gavin Newsom and other people in the Democratic Party cutting videos about how they sympathize with Canada, and it doesn't, it looks very politically constructed as we head in eight and a half weeks to the midterms. And then you add into all of this that, you know, Barack Obama has plans to meet with Karni if he hasn't already met with him. He plans to go to the UK. It's John Kerry in Paris all over again. Democratic politicians, we had John Kerry doing it. That was the mother's milk of Jimmy Carter's career.

17:46It was every time we have a conservative or Republican president, we get an ex-president or an ex-secretary of state who goes around the world and say, that's not who we are. So don't cooperate with these people. They will be over soon. They'll be out of here. That's basically what Obama is doing now and what Gavin Newsom is doing as governor. Well, Victor, before you talk about Iran, I have to want to convey to our listeners and our viewers that if you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern nation still lose their way overnight. They drift through debt and division into one day you realize the foundations, you thought were permanent, were never permanent at all. Today America is spending at levels once reserved for war time and we've normalized deficits that would have stunned earlier generations. And policymakers now debate whether the only path forward is more intervention, more printing, more distortion. But here's the historical truth. Every society that pushed its currency beyond discipline eventually paid a price.

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21:02A lot of us, I think we said on this podcast, we expect an October. I didn't quite expect a September surprise, but Iran has to do something because it has been squeezed economically, culturally, medically, politically, militarily. And it has, its economy is ruined and we, I don't know. The only thing I'm troubled is, I understand that we did a lot of damage for the first 38 days. But I don't understand since we were six months from the midterms, why we didn't spend as we said on this podcast, another 22 weeks, three weeks, four weeks, and obliterate Pike Mountain with B1s coming back again, maybe three or four missions, just hit it, hit it, hit it. Maybe I didn't know I'm not aware of the inventory status of our bunker busters, but I didn't know why we didn't take out some of their dual use bridges, their TV communications to crater their

22:02airport and really do a lot of damage early and then start what we're doing right now in April. In other words, complete economic sanctions, blockades, shut down their access to foreign exchange, everything, secondary sanctions against those who trade with them. And I don't think we'd, I think they would have been, could put by now. Yeah. Not that they won't be, but, well, do you think it has something to do with Donald Trump's belief and his talent for being a negotiator? Do you think that is something to do with that? I do. I think the difference is you can, the Chinese have a sense of their own self-interest. The Russians have a sense of their own self-interest. We learned that, I mean, they were the biggest, those two countries where the biggest mass murders in history really Stalin and Mao. But I'm not sure Iran does.

23:03I think they are, I know everybody's rational supposedly, and I know that these people who say that they're waiting for 72 virgins and paradise seem to be pretty savvy investors when it's stealing money from the people and buying townhouses in the choice locations of Paris or London. That said, I just don't think that you can believe what they say. I don't think you can believe anything they agree to. They have a different vision. Their vision is that this is a corrupt world. The Western colonial experience harmed them. It was an insult. There were great days of the past when there was a caliphate. And then the Ottomans, at least, even though they suffered the Iranians and the Arabs suffered terribly, mostly the Arabs under the Ottoman Empire. The point they have is they want to create a sharia radical Islamic night century,

24:07kind of like the Taliban only in Shia terms, with a headquarters in Tehran run by a bunch of theocrats with nuclear weapons and using the oil and making the Gulf Arab states subservient in the way that Hamas and the Houthis are and using the combined oil of their own and the Arabs to really shake down and destroy the West. They hate the West. Everybody said, I've heard this so often. Well, Victor, there's a million Wagers that are Muslims. The Chinese treat them as slaves. Yes, but they don't hate the Chinese. Well, Victor Putin in the Third Chechenian War, he leveled Grozny, he just wiped out thousands of Muslims. Yes, he did. He doesn't hate Islam. They don't hate Putin like they hate us. They hate us because we're successful, we're wealthy, we dominate the culture of the world.

25:11And they know that it's an narcotic. The best example of that is on the eve of September 11th, the 19 murders, where were they that week on the eve of what they were going to, when they were going to commit mass murder and be such Puritans, they were in Vegas partying up. And what was bin Laden doing before we got him, he was thumping through his porn collection. So they are, they are, they are so repressed that they're, they hate the titillation and the seduction of what they think is the corrupt West. So they're never going to listen to Trump. Never, never, never. They're only going to listen if they have no choice. So if he continues to squeeze them, squeeze them, squeeze them, one of two things will happen. Either they will come begging him to stop and I doubt that's going to happen, or there will be a popular uprising at some point, or they will starve if we continue to do it,

26:13or something will stop Donald Trump. And what would that stumping? Because here we're getting to the, to the meat of the, of the argument. They really do believe that the democratic socialists of the left, the Islamist voice and America, the Ilyan Omar, the Rashida to leave, the Zoran Mondamis, the Hassan Pikers, the Abdul al-Sahid, they really believe that they're on their side. When al-Sahid said I have to be careful about criticizing the death of the celebrity, of bin's celebratory and tone about the death of the Supreme Leader, he was on the hot mic, he said on the hot mic, be careful that wouldn't go down to well my constituents. So they really believe that they're winning demographically and politically and that there are forces in the United States and this new democratic socialist, dash, Democrat, dash, Islamist coalition that will stop Trump once they win the midterms,

27:14in either cutoff funds which they won't do, or in some strange way have resolutions. Who knows? They have something, I'll just finish this rant, they have some evidence for this because I mentioned that when you have ex-presidents visiting at heightened tensions, like Obama planning to mention to go Karni, are you have, as John Kerry was negotiating in Paris, basically privately, why we were getting out of the Iran deal, are you have the left really cheering on our enemies or calling this Trump's war, you can make the argument that they have confident, there's reason for their confidence that you can call off the United States, that there's people on the left that agree with them and want to stop Trump by any means necessary. And so they would rather see the United States hurt if that involved the destruction of Trump.

28:20By all means, they want to destroy Trump, that's the issue. And if they can do it with collateral damage to the United States, that doesn't bother them at all. When he says he's going to have record natural gas and oil production or he's bragging that he closed the borders, so there's zero illegal immigration, they facto, are they sent back 300,000 criminals, or we have more space launches suddenly under his tenure than the whole world combined, not even close, or that our AI companies now are nine out of the top 10, our software companies are nine out of the top 10 worldwide, we're racing ahead on AI, they don't care, that doesn't matter at all. And if you sit down with Aleftus and you say we went up to, we had 5% inflation for four years and we had cumulative 22% inflation. And the first year we had 1.9 of Trump, we don't know what

29:22it's going to be, but it won't be 5%. They don't care, they'll say the on affordability that we caused is your fault. So it's an irrational hate, that's one reason I wrote the book about Trump, the counter revolution, because I don't think that even he sometimes realizes that you can't negotiate with the Iranians, but you also can't ever, ever, be, don't expect any credit from the left, this isn't the Democratic Party, this isn't even Bill Clinton's kind of left-wing version of it, this is even Barack Obama's left left left revolutionary wing, this is different, this is a neilist young millennial, I don't know what you want to call him, but they, they detest him to such a degree that they want him and everybody with him to fail. I can see it just by writing good things about him when I get classisists, because I still keep

30:25up in class, I try to write an article a year, I'll have people who I knew very well, but just the fact that I wrote a book about Trump, they'll write and say he was a terrible classist, he sold his sold a Trump, and they're so full of hatred and they're not empirical, and some of our best friends that we used to know, when Robert Kagan writes an article that the Iran war is lost, when Iran has no functional military and it's on the edge of bankruptcy, and OPEC is splintering apart, and Israel is stronger than ever, and the Gulf states collectively have much more clout than they've ever had, and he says that Iran is winning, that can only reflect the deductive hatred of Trump, to such a degree he's willing to risk his reputation by not being empirical. Well, we're going to look at the forthcoming elections in a second, Victor,

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33:38the 31st. Excuse me, Senate races, Republicans are down two points in Alaska, 7.5 in Georgia, 2.3 in Maine, 1.8 in Michigan, 2.6 in Ohio, 2 points in New Hampshire, 8 points in North Carolina, 1.9 points in Texas all down, according to the latest real clear politics polling aggregate data of the Senate races. Victor, any thoughts about this? Yeah, some. I mean, most of those polls, not all, are done by left wing pollsters, and it's not that they should be totally discredited, although they had L-Sahead, what, 10 points off, and they had that crazy candidate in Wisconsin hung with a sizable win, and she lost. They had Venman winning in Florida, I think by five, and he lost with a wipeout. And so they don't have a good record, but what they usually do is we should pay attention to them a week before the election, because what they traditionally do is the

34:45left. They run these polls, the Emerson Poll, Harvard Harris Poll, got all of them. The name doesn't matter, it's who they hire. They hire people right out of college or people who are left wing. And what they try to do is they try to give an extra four or five points to leftist candidates to do two things, to help them raise money and to get the vote out by supposedly sewing surging momentum. And then, and then, at about four or five days, the more savvy of them, then they get accurate, because they don't want to be totally disgraced, and they only cheat by about one or two. So I don't really believe that Susan Collins is behind in Maine. I think Texas will vote for Tallerico. I don't think they're going to vote for Said. They have a man with Paxton or with Tallerico in Texas. Yeah, I don't think Tallerico is going to win. I think Paxton's got to get out

35:54there. I haven't heard anything from him. He's almost a stealth candidate. He needs to get out there. Maybe they're waiting to the traditional kickoff, which is Labor Day for November elections, but they got to get moving. There were a Jewish, I think there was a Jewish democratic caucus last week in Michigan. And I don't think very many people showed up. I just can't see that if you're one of the 200,000 Jews in Michigan and given his embrace of House on Piker, who basically said that it's not going to be good for Jews from now on, I don't think how I don't see how you even Debbie Wasserman shelt. Shelt basically said that the other day. I don't see how that's going to help him. There has to be a lot of people in the Islamic community that are business people that would not want to vote for Socialists. So we'll see. There's so many known unknowns as we keep saying. We don't know. We have nine and a half weeks. You can think of a lot of scenarios. They're not

36:57likely scenarios. I'm not just trying to. I think it's clear that the Democrats have the advantage as they would have no matter what was happening given the midterm history of the end party. But if you just game it out, if in three weeks, there's a million people on the street of Iran and that government falls, the Democrats will lose the midterms. I believe that because they won't be able to say a thing. If the oil price collapses and you see in eight weeks, cheap gas, it'll make a big difference. If you take the $400 million in packed money that don't control and you see it wisely to these key Senate and house races, that'll make a big difference. If they know how to run the ads and show people that this Democratic effort, which is, have you noticed what's going on?

37:58They're sending out James Carville, Rob, Emmanuel, the old Clinton team, and then the Pelosi's and they're saying the following. Yes, they're Democratic Socialists, but they have nothing to do with us. They're not part of the party. If that were to be true, why do so many in the Democratic party endorse them when they run and why do so many Democrats vote for them or we wouldn't even be discussing it? Why do they run as basically Democrats in Democratic primaries? If they're not Democrats, you know what I'm saying? They need to make that distinction that these people are revolutionaries. They do not like the United States, at least as it's currently formulated, they want to tear it down and there's a strong Islamist element in it. If they can do all of that, I think it'll be a close election. If they get a few breaks in a new cycle, I think, as I've said before, if I had to give any advice to Trump, I would have a tragic tone

39:03and not a bullying tone. I would say, I don't want to get in a fight with our neighbors. The last thing I want to... I love the Canadian people, but we can't go on like this subsidizing their surplus is with us and subsidizing their defense and trying to offer here in North America a model that is pro open society, pro freedom, pro free market economy and not the EU model with having our Canadian brothers adopt the socialist EU open borders, new green deal type of socialism, and then when it doesn't perform, we're all wanting us to subsidize it. And say, I regret even saying that. I don't like it, but I think he would win more that way than he would, you know, saying we're going to change the name of Lake Ontario. Well, if it took me four, we take a break, and after the break, we have two New Yorkie kind of stories. One is Mondami and this murderer

40:08and the other is Latisha James New Gehud against Trump and Trump World. You did write a column the new WWE Women's Wrestling Entertainment, which is your way, I think, of repranging the WNBA, Women's Professional Basketball. Would you like to tell us a little bit about that column? Well, I mean, the world wrestling entertainment is WWE. It works as an entertainment. It doesn't say that it's, you know, it's not, it's a show. It's really, I mean, there, and I don't mean that to deprecate the athletes because when you're 280 pounds and you're solid muscle and you're picking up somebody, it's 300 pounds and you're throwing them off the ring, that is as difficult as any sport in the world. So it is a sport, but it's kind of predetermined in most cases. So what I'm getting at is it's a show. And when I look at the the WNBA, it's now a show. And everybody knows that you

41:19can't have a league where owners, co-owners get from their boxes, go down in the stands and start yelling at fans because they support Sophie Cunningham. You can't, and they're just fans. They're not, you can't have a, this is a league where they take Haas on Piker and they say your anti-trans get out of here. You can't have a league where every time Caitlin Clark is roughed up, it seems not every time. I would say every, it seems like the referee misses it or that he, they have decided the refs. If we call every single time she's pushed or slapped or scratched or tripped or butted, that's all we would do because they were trying to hurt her. So what we have now and the women's, and let me be clear, they have one billion dollars in revenue. Their individual franchises just before in the pre-Catlin

42:22Clark and this is not to disparage the athletes. They're good athletes in many cases but they were worth about 20 or 30 million dollars to buy a franchise. They're worth about four or five hundred million now. And the reason is that she's infused a billion dollars, many economists believe, a billion and added media endorsements for everybody and added media attention and added attendance, etc., and media contracts and television and radio and streaming. It's a whole new. And the strange thing about it is they have two types I think of people who tune in. One are people that don't like Caitlin Clark because she disturbed, she and Sophie Cunningham, the notion that the WNBA was sort of a, often a tide pool from the NBA and it was 70%, 65% black,

43:2350% gay, 25% white, and it had particular constituencies, not very many and it was going broke and it was subsidized. And those people watch and they like the idea that Cunningham and Caitlin Clark beat up. And then there's another constituency and a huge constituency that goes there and follows the Indiana fever. And they are champion Caitlin Clark because she's a natural, not because she's white just because she's shaken up the entire league and she has a style of play that is finesse. And every time she is confronted with people stronger and bigger, she manages to dribble behind her back, pass behind her back, shoot a three and clutch. And so each person is watching what's going to happen to her. Half, I'd say a quarter one hurt or be hurt and don't like her

44:24because of her race or her sexual orientation or her success. I know that sounds weird. Why would they hate Victor? Someone who we used to fly, stand in line and fly economy and now we have a Gulf Stream that takes us to the because they don't like the person who gave you that large ass or the old maximum, they hate Stefan. What have you done lately? What have you done lately for them that would make you want to hate you? My neighbor used to say that. I said, that guy's kind of really mean. He goes, well, what is you nice to him the other day? He must go back and and that's how they look and the other half are watching because fairly or not. And I think it's kind of unfairly. They are representations of an old type of basketball or play by the rules. Don't brag. Don't be ostentatious. Use finesse. Don't knock people over as much unless you want to have to create deterrence. And they're coming to watch them. But in today's polarized America, if what I just said is more

45:32white than black, that's racist. Even though you could say that most of the fans, let's say that watch the WNBA were black. But now if you've got white fans or you've got Asian, whatever group is watching a particular iconic player of their tribe, then they feel that's racist. A lot of people do. But it's an inner it's becoming entertainment. It's very dangerous at some point. The commissioner, the owners, the rafts, the coaches are going to have to have a big meeting and say, basket, we've never seen something like this before. We saw something like it with Michael Jordan or Wilk Chamberlain or Larry Bird when you have a marquee athlete that is so good and so dominant, they help everybody. And we want to make sure that we don't let people beat up on them to intimidate them out either out of jealousy or to distract from their effectiveness.

46:35They have to be treated like anybody else, no special treatment, but we're not going to let them be targeted. And they haven't done that. They keep trying to hurt her. They show these pictures of our arms. They're just full of scratches after it. And so I don't I just think it's an entertainment league and they're making money and they're saying and they would say to me, well, why would we do that? Victor, we weren't making any money. Don't you understand? You admitted it yourself. We're the we're the world's wrestling entertainment. We're women's women's wrestling entertainment. Women's wrestling, WW and we're making more money than we ever dreamed of. And we're making more money because we're not doing what you suggest. We're letting it be a lucha liberate. We're millions of people tune in every every single to see whether Angela Reese is not going to close line Stephanie or Caitlin. That's what we want to see. And you want to take that away from us and

47:36put it back to where no, we're not going to do that. I'm watching hockey because I want to see a fight. You know, that's kind of along those. Well, they don't want they don't want to see a fight. They want to see an ambush. Yeah. Someday we'll have Linda McMahon on Victor and we'll talk about the real double UW and we I mean, I'm not saying yeah, I think it's fascinating to watch. Yeah. Well, we you're not discussed before as we move off the politics and the policy here just to say as young boys, we were we both in our way up beyond the East Coast. You were the best coast. We are. I look at locally. But I got I got I came home off the bus in third grade and I got on my little bicycle. No one he was home at home. I rode down to the house. I'm living my grandparents were my grandfather was on the ranch. I was about nine and I turned on the TV to watch Luce Libre with Pepper Gomez versus Ray Stevens. And what's up with the sleeper hole,

48:38Pepper? And so I loved it. Me too. In New York, it was channel 47, UHF's channel and Vince McMahon was just just founding it. I would come home from work on the vegetable truck as a delivery boy on Saturdays and it was Chief J Strongbow and Andre the giant. Did you guys they never came to our West, but was classy Freddie Bellassie in the East Coast. Freddie Bellassie was became a manager and he would he would always call Victor Vince McMahon and others, you pencil neck geek. That was his insult for certain wrestlers. I even like the guy. What was his name? The chic later. Yeah, the iron chic with the the camel clutch was his famous famous old. So all right anyway Victor, we're going to take a little break and then we come back. We're going to talk about Mondami and Latisha James. We'll do that after these important messages. Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell the American story, but not every site is telling that story

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50:46the fallen rise of doubt. Can I ask you one last question? Did you ever have Mitsu Awakawa as a wrestling? No, I guess it's because we were west. So there were two Japanese tag team villains. Oh yeah. One was Mitsu. I really liked him. He's a nice guy, but they would have little samurai swords and they would wave and then they would they would give interviews and they would say things like, we shot a one Pearl Harbor and then everybody would get everybody would get enraged and then when they come to Fresno, then the liberal Fresno to their credit would run an interview and they were like really nice guys. You know what I mean? But they would get enraged. Everybody would get enraged. There was a there was a Japanese tag team. I forget who they were, but there was a prominent guy, Teru Tanaka, who was the Japanese America, who would mouth that kind of anti-aggressive. I'm trying to remember the sleeper hold. His name was Mark Lane or Mark Something and he had to be

51:46really careful because he could put you out with a special hold and you'd go into a coma for like three minutes and then they'd have a doctor with always be at ringside. You were talking about the we're not we're not mocking this now and we'll get onto these other subjects on the second, but the physicality of this that moving. Oh my god. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I don't yeah. That was great. I mean, I really I don't know how they did it. I mean, you would I know that it takes a technique to pick up a 300 pound person without throwing out of your back or how do you I never understood how they got to the top of the ring and then they would put that knee and they jump all the way down like eight feet and put there so they'd land with their knee on the guys neck or his throat and it doesn't break up break open his atoms. But it they were very they were very good athletes all of them. I have a friend and his name as a wrestler was Robbie Parliament and and he was a lawyer

52:47and a CPA he used to take the train and he lived in New York and we were I was asked about his career and then I said, what'd you do before that? What'd you do before that? What'd you do before that? He said, I was a professional wrestler like, why are you kidding me? He's a big guy and he he was one of those guys they tended to get beaten up but there was a famous wrestler Kamala the Ugandan giant who was about 400 pounds and he would jump off the turnbuckle and and and and and the set is the life friends I set said my position was to be on the canvas on my back but I was on my stomach and and that put him out for the first time. Wow I know that Tyrus you know that on gut sure yeah he always has wrestlers come on when he's guest hosting and and they're all very bright like Ty whatever people think about Tyrus I think he was called the Tyrusaurus or something when he fought he's one of the brightest guys on tell of it he's really a stupe and he's got a great sense of humor and he's got a natural wit to him and every time I've seen one of these guys when

53:54they talk they they're very intelligent and so that's part of the allure I think I went to Tyrus's standup or you actually sat down I didn't know that. He does see does comp performances he was in New Haven and they were the place was packed and there's no cheap tickets to anything anymore but he was really good very funny very smart as you say he's really smart and I think we're saying Victor listening to two people just spiel he has he has so much profound common sense and wisdom it's I think he's a gem all right well let's let's wrap this up let's combine these two since at both New York and they're unrelated except I'm sure from a Victor we'll find a way the first has to do with a story out to the other day with Mondami he's essentially crying about the death of this knife wielding killer who was in Rikers Island New York's prison and he put out a so he died in prison and Mondami put out on X this post I'm deeply saddened by the death

55:01of a New Yorker and city custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning my thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss we do not blah blah blah blah well why was he in Rikers Island because he went into a laundromat and he butchered this guy who we didn't know to death stabbed him to the guy bled out at the at the laundromat so Mondami shows no love or no compassion for the family of the murder but he cares for the murderer and then the other thing Victor and dear listeners I made a shut up here in a second Latisha James is a story oh Miranda Miranda divides column today in the New York Post AG Latisha James evil eye on Trump and blind eye to New York crime so here in a bridge burning email to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m. on Friday this is just the other day assistant attorney general Daniel Wyzenfeld who works for James claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor quote to find and pursue crimes committed by specific

56:07individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump the best part of having blank you money F you I'm not gonna say that is being able to tell the truth without fear of consequences so here we go again his email began etc etc so she's on the attack and we have Mondami proving once again that the Democrat party is the party of the criminal well Latina James was told by people in her office that this was a ridiculous suit that and she she campaigned on cheap campaign years clips over I urge you all to go look them up where she said I'm gonna get Donald Trump in other words it was you know it was a Soviet to show me a Beret Lavendee Beret show me the person and I'll find the crime and she did and it was ridiculous how in the world when he takes along from the Doish bank

57:07and he pays it ahead of time with full interest does she say there's fraud when there's no injured parter that she can identify the Doish bank said no we'd lend it again and then she said well he undervalued the Marlago estate at 17 million and that's what it was assessed at the time and and people said we don't care what it was assessed it has waterfronts on both sides it's priceless it's probably worth two or three hundred million dollars maybe more than that now and so and then they and her attitude was I don't really care it's Donald Trump the left wants me to do this I'll be a pop hero and I'm gonna get a Manhattan jury and convicted and she did and the same thing with Alvin Bragg the federal person said do not file this thing it's a federal offense it's not a campaign violation if it was we'd have everybody in jail a Barack Obama just paid the largest fine and history with not reporting foreign donations but we didn't go after him

58:10criminally we could have but we didn't he'll we broke the law had to pay substantial money back in 2016 she hired a foreign national Christopher steel which is illegal but he didn't care he just said well he signed a non disclosure with stormy Daniels not to protect his family but but to protect his campaign and therefore it was a campaign donation and I'm gonna put him in jail for that and that was crazy and I could go through the same thing with Fanny Willis they all have one thing in common they all were themselves shady people jack smith was spying on us senators their textual and phone records not the actual content probably but the actual data he rushed that thing ahead in a way that no special prosecutor would it has certain schedule he wanted to get it before the 2024 election to embarrass Trump he had all this idea about insurrections and all of this

59:12and he had to drop all of those Fanny Willis was a total crook and she hired her boyfriend who then took the money and he got I don't know he was paid way more than he'd ever been paid he had no experience whatsoever he was a total incompetent and then he took her on these junkets with state money and she was supposed to pay him back I mean state money visa his what he earned and then she had no records and then she said it was racist and black people spin cash which is a complete lie black people are like white people like Asians they do not when they go on trips they have credit cards so they were trying that was itself and then she refused freedom of information she was fine I don't know $20,000 finally the judge had a takeer off the case I could go on with all of them at the whole point well that was sort of what the first third of the book that I have coming out we've never seen that before Jack we've never seen the pollution of the FBI the CIA the IRS the

1:00:19White House to go out and destroy a candidate forget what you think about Donald Trump they were willing to destroy the law break the law break tradition protocol just to destroy him and that's what it was that's what Blutita James said she was going to do Alvin Bragg said she they were going to do it and they did it they tried it and they were successful they're not in destroying them but getting a conviction in Alvin Bragg's case and then just imagine that you're Donald Trump just imagine that you're you and they do a Donald Trump on you so Jack goes in and says I want to buy a car wash and they say fine and you say here's my house it's worth 500,000 and I use that money to buy the car wash and I pay the loan back on time and then they say hey Jack you overvalued that house it's really worth 350 and you say no it's not I said yes it is we've got a guy that

1:01:23says it's worth 350 and but you say well Bank of America didn't think it was worth 350 they wouldn't give me the loan it doesn't matter I paid the loan and off they want to loan me another one for another car wash it doesn't matter this person's been running to get me get me doesn't matter that's what it was was it was surreal and so Latita James they all have one thing in common is they all themselves broke the wall Fanny Willis did Jack Smith did Alvin Bragg shoehorned a federal offense it wasn't even no federal attorney would have touched that none did and Latita James herself was had a sorted history of remember her apartments that she that she claimed was her she didn't have a residence in New York that was required by statute so they all had their own problems and if she lied about a loan application it was in a primary residence yeah so

1:02:24well um montami the criminal lover yeah and yeah well that's all right that sweet the Mondamis like Else you always have to realize that the first reaction is the real person and then the clarification apology is meaningless so when Mondami the first thing out of his mind is I don't care what this person did I want to shut down prisons and this is ammunition for me to say that he died in rikers I don't know the circumstances but it's useful for me to demagogue this issue same thing with Else eat I can say that when I hear a Jewish uh synagogue or a Jewish center is attacked by someone of the of an Islamic Arab immigrant the first thing I'll say is hurt people take a deep breath hurt people hurt people and then that's thrown back in his face and then we get the clarification that

1:03:29I that that doesn't mean anything so what is the commonality they believe in a world is a binary and on one side are all the people that are victims they oppressed and it got to remember that the oppressed and the victims cannot be oppressors are are victimizers they just can't it's impossible it's impossible so if you're if you and what is the dividing line if you are white if you are heterosexual if you are Christian or or your male I don't know the exact number of tribes you have to belong to to firmly ensure that you're in the victimizers but usually white is enough male Christian heterosexual will be forced multiply and then on the other side is if you are non Christian like Muslim if you are non white and that can be almost anybody it doesn't

1:04:31really matter what your skin color or your superficial appearances it's just the labeling about and you can label that by if your name is is Elizabeth Warren you can say you have high cheekbones and you're now 0.001 you can you can put if you know a guy named Sam if you know a guy named Charlton Garcia and he's one quarter Hispanic and now he's you know Charlotain Garcia you put an accent and he is a victim it's very arbitrary but once you're on that victim side you're incapable of doing any wrong so if you and who else isn't the homeless people the homeless people so if you know that rats are spreading lepros sparrowsis in Los Angeles and they do it from lies and and vermin and they're on blankets that people are defecating urine on injecting,

1:05:32communicating in the homeless community along the sidewalk or you have typhus they are victim so that means the victimizer class cannot go over there to that sidewalk and say look we have an outbreak of typhus that's a medieval disease we want to clean up this and you're going to have to go into a hygienic setting we have a camp each person has a tent there's a commute there's showers every five tents we have medical people come it's safe it's secure but you've got to get off of here because you're endangering and the attitude is you're endangering home the victimizer class no no no you can't touch this homeless person no no no no no no no no this you know sunny sunny hosting on the view can spout out racist thing as wippy racist things as wippy go but they are victimizers victimized so as she says something outrageous about the holocaust in Jews you can't say a word and the same thing yeah mayor jr.

1:06:35the woman who was on MSNBC what a read joy read yeah I mean she she all she did was spout racist hatred al-sharp then you know get your yarmox come over here so mayor johnson he's just basically flat outside I'm only going to hire black people and law his predecessor mayor said I'm only going to talk to black journalist and that so you can be just too small it and you can pull off the most outrageous crazy physically chemistry impossible thing in the world and divide the laws of physics that you toe bleach and it doesn't you know freeze and you because you're a victimizer and so we were we don't have the time to talk yeah that Karen out to you from the Washington post to us was was fired after her reckless comments about Charlie Kirk last year she's a black woman well she's been ordered to have her job back and she said outrageous things and and if anybody else

1:07:40had said that from the victimizer class they're all through and you know and so the same thing Donald Trump you got about two emails are you going to talk this week about Donald Trump changing lake Ontario or Donald Trump the Gulf of America well yeah I don't think you should have changed the lake Ontario I think it'll be changed back by the next left wing but I didn't think they should change boat hall are there Earl Warren legal institution or the address where I work uh father who nipio Sarah Plaza but the left does it all the time and they they establish the precedence I think people should realize that if you think that Donald Trump is overarching and democracy dies in darkness or he's no kings or he's an autocrat and you want to carry that argument now I'd be happy to debate you because anything that you accuse him of he only took the prompt from

1:08:43the left I don't know if that was so he's got his own law here is a attorney general well so far Todd Blanchett didn't say hey everybody I'm Trump's wingman like Eric Colder or he's not rfk working for his brother JFK from the Department of Justice or if we're we're Trump is waging law fair I haven't seen any major political figure I haven't seen buddha jig called in or new sum and faced with a $500 million fine so I didn't see terror read brought in during the campaign who had a much more plausible case of being sexually harassed than E. Jean Carroll did and I didn't see a hundred million dollars or whatever they put up to broadcaster case and then go and get a train you know terror read shows up in Utah or Wyoming and a federal court to say that

1:09:46Joe Biden raped her right and does it right before the 2020 election they didn't that didn't happen but it did with Trump so they they destroyed all of these they destroyed the FBI they destroyed the CIA they all politicized them you know when you have Peter Strock saying don't worry and Andy will take care of it he he will not win we have an insurance policy that that we haven't seen that and so I don't understand Tucker the other day why I understand him but he said that Trump Trump said that he was he mentioned nuclear weapons so he should be removed from office I don't know what he meant I didn't see the exact quote I just read about it but Tucker has been calling for all of these removals from office but he I didn't there's so much more egregious things you could do I mean he'll be Clinton had communication devices subpoena under FBI subpoena and she

1:10:51told her assistant to destroy them and then when she asked them about did they bleach them or do they oh you mean they pour bleach on them or you know it was there was just lawlessness and no one said a word no one said a word when Obama he surveilled the associate press reporters he went after James Rosen's calls to his grandmother I could go on and on for hours and so the it's very whatever they're bitching about they are doing that's what they do with their projection I have a whole chapter in this new book about the projection is whatever they accuse somebody of doing they they are very articulate about the accusation because they have done it themselves well Victor I have to apologize for cutting you off you know it's fine although it's because I'm collapsing but I have to read one question that came in thanks everyone who writes you know we read them I read them I know Sammy reads comments on YouTube and other things and this is an email that came in from Andy

1:11:55and Andy and his wife and they came on a lot of national or you cruises and I think they went on some of your trips to Europe Victor and he writes hijacked just a little resonant moment I thought you might enjoy rewatch the superb china town recently said as you know in 1930s Los Angeles and one scene the jack nixon's and character trespasses into a peach orchard looking for evidence of precious water being nefariously re-rooted he gets into a scuffle with hard hands during which he enrages and rages one guy by calling him a dumb oaky how it can how it can temporary audience understand that insult if at all they would if they knew the grapes of wrath or followed Victor so anyway yeah and I just watched my wife and I watched yesterday we were tired so we watched ride the high country oh yeah it was on tcm list it was and it was great because at that final to go these so-called white you said you pecker blank blank wood and it was Sam peckin

1:13:04Sam peckin Paul growing up about 25 miles from where I'm speaking right and the prejudice of that period that I grew up he was a little older than I was about the Oklahoma diaspora you know the poor whites that came in dirt poor during the Oklahoma diaspora and they were called white trash oaky's all sorts of words and they project that back into the old west you know about right that was a great movie anyway I have to believe that would be a badge of honor at some point so anyway Victor crackers I don't know crackers white I know that when I was I'll just finish by saying I went to a school two miles from here I would say there was 400 students in 1960 63 to 66 or six it was June and what was three grades of 4 to 6 and I would say there was 25

1:14:10people of that 400 who were not Mexican American 20 24 and I we had a really nice Mexican American teacher kind of a trailblazing guy we had a guy who's a really sweet guy and he had a German name and his name was dice he was one of the most wonderful person but just the eggia money would call him DEIS and he would call him Diaz you know and then I like a stupid I went up to him I said Mr. F his name was a Spanish name it was an app I said we shouldn't do that to Donald his name is Diaz he said we hear it all the time you guys you guys do it to to us and I thought wow I'm 10 years old and I have no idea what he's talking about but the times I were I would hear oaky and cracker and white trash I heard it all the time and yeah and there was I heard the N word all the time

1:15:12and it was never by the oaky trash so it was it was a raw racial tribal group and I was if from first grade to third grade I went to Jefferson school and it was even more it's on the west side of my little town it's 99% Hispanic now and I went fourth to sixth grade and it was 85% and that was because I was on the dividing line and my parents said all our neighbors are going to the country school where all the farmers go and those were mostly white Armenian white Armenian Portuguese and Asian a lot of Japanese farmers but she said you guys need to get away from farmers and meet different people and so that's where we went all of us and I think my twin brother and I were attacked and like I would say in six years I got in six or seven fights

1:16:20I never started one of them and I lost half of them that's why you have that helmet behind you yes hey Victor that reminds me you know the famous scene in the godfather where Tommy the lawyer goes out to meet the movie Jack whatever is named the producer of the movie yeah and the and the cause of you daygo guinea wap gree scuse boobat he says so I'm German Irish okay my crowd-mick friend you know they're saying he flipped it in that oh second is insulting so I know this one thing and just in finish I'll say one last thing yes you and I have been talking about watching these old shows like vertigo and others where you see Los Angeles or our San Francisco and even Chinatown I mean even to make the scenes even it was retro but I was watching the other night a oh a Dana Andrews show you had two movies and well and they were scenes from Zalora

1:17:21yes a guild and another one okay okay yeah and then and I was watching some of them I kind of watching I'm very curious about the landscape or the physical structure and I understand a Hollywood there's ghettos always and but you couldn't film any of those today unless you went sent an advanced crew to clean up you know what I mean union square and you couldn't do it and then when you see the way people are dressed you couldn't find I mean they have picture those pictures of New York you know in the 40s and 50s yeah but people of all races were walking down the sidewalk with ties on hats on a macchety dressed shops it's just you know what a great a great where the city is part of the a character is what you're saying in part and so it is to me one of them is DOA the where the oh my gosh Edmond O'Brien yeah uh is poisoned and San Francisco is the backdrop

1:18:24and it's it's just it really is like bullet San Francisco's part of it and I always thought we always look back we up until around 2010 we look back at the crazy 70s when the 60s had ruined things and and we had you know death wish Charles Bronson where there was crime and then we and then we thought we were over that with Giuliani and we had the reaction and we had Reagan and we had um 12 years of Reagan and Bush and then two terms of George W and everything was we thought we're back and killed her now it's worse than the 70s yeah and I don't think the 70s I can't remember watching almost every night in L.A. a intersection taken over and people like stealing cars and then you know just racing in circles and riot or people going into a jewelry store or a sneaker store or clothing store and just ripping off everything with impunity

1:19:28you were talking about the homeless and in Los Angeles and I can't remember the author but in recently in city journal and in city journal the magazine is tremendous and the website is tremendous too but the author explains why he left the left and and he was a volunteer at in the L.A. homeless shelter and he says what has happened it turned into okay is it the tents and the showers and whatever but they were also open air thevery markets so they would go out and steal bring the things back and then people come by and they engage in commerce of stolen stolen property so the the help the homeless programs were underwriting a thevery in and I have I have I have an article coming out tomorrow in American greatness Tuesday and it's called the modern medievalism and the medieval world you had plagues sewage in the street right the city walls

1:20:29gates were locked up at middust so nobody could come in because of crime all the elite had to castles and walls but the same time you had that you had chaucer and Dante and st. Thomas Aquinas and people discovering eyeglasses and so it's kind of like we're in the modern medieval period we have we've never had more sophisticated technology we've never had more sophisticated health care we've had space exploration now with AI and people have never had nicer homes and more occurrences but at the same time we are medieval we have a mid-mid-eval plagues on the street we have filthy we've lost all concept of sanitation I'll just leave everybody with a a jarring contrast that I wrote we in our society will get somebody with a lot of letters after his name masters degree PhD and environmental safety or something like that he will go to a sewage

1:21:33plant and he will try to find and thank god we have them one billionth of a toxic metal or a toxic substance to show that our our check our water supply as he does and that treated water is let out into the bay often from 30 in the San Francisco Bay 36 so we do we have reached the pinnacle of sanitation science no other period in history are we more careful about ensuring that we can deal with our affluvia at the same time we're doing that I've seen this twice now in San Francisco where if you get up early in the morning people have those high-mat suits on and they have a high pressure water truck and they're going in the morning you can smell bleach is mixed in it and they are just hosing off sidewalks full of feces and detritus that's going into the storm drain and that storm drain is going out there and so what it it's the same thing with health

1:22:38we have now the ability to save a young baby at 23 months premature 23 weeks excuse me that's that that's incredible advancement and yet with the same society will kill a baby as it looks out at life from the birth canal as it's it's and it's medieval but it's medievalism juxtaposed to a whole different sophisticated society technologically and consumer wise and it makes god weep all the more it does at least the medieval society would say hey victor we don't know about bacteria we don't know what to do when everybody craps on the street we don't know new where you know when it rains and we don't know what to do with all the urine and feces and all that stuff we don't know about lice and rats we don't know they we don't know anything about bacteria or viral but are

1:23:39what's our excuse we know everything about it but we don't do anything about it yeah because of this binary we're talking about these there's a whole there's like a wall in our society and if you're on this victimized wall then you're exempt because you're you've been suffering in your victim and you have reparatory complaints against the majority that allow you to get exempted in various ways yeah and you're virtuous because your thoughts are belonging to whatever nonprofit results in some guy walking around the streets of full of delfias is zombie he was drug drugged up yeah somehow rather that's a plum well you're in your cap you know you go to a firm bar and say what are you doing hey what do you do well I work for a nonprofit that is trying to help the homeless and I you know I make eighty five thousand dollars is beginning oh do you are you trying to protect the public from you from plague and typhus oh no no no I don't worry

1:24:40about them I worry about the people who are whose environments are breeding the rats not what the rats do to other people there's no virtue signaling performance are there it's only helping the people and place placing be on the safe side of the binary mm-hmm handing out needles yeah yeah all right well okay before I collapse you've been terrific Victor and an early happy birthday to you and thank you in a couple of days you'll turn some magical number 70 73 day look it's god bless you're you're gonna be here at 83 I don't know I'm working for 70 I'm gonna be here in 20s my goal is 27 me 22 one day tomorrow yeah one day at a time yeah well thanks for everything thanks to our our bosses at the daily signal and thank you folks who subscribe to civil thoughts that's what I do the free weekly email news that it comes out

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