Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar - 7/22/25: NELK Boys Meltdown After Bibi Interview, Trump Loses Patience With Israel, Hunter Biden Pops Off On Dems

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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There's only a couple thousand of these. These are valuable. Better get them now. What do we have today, Ryan? What are we going to talk about? Come up on me. This is the toughest part of the job here. We're going to talk about Israel.

We've got Bibi Netanyahu on the Nelk Boys podcast. They've released it after sitting on it for nearly a week. I think it's pretty fair to say it's been a total disaster for them. So we're going to get into the fallout. It's actually a lot to say about it, both in terms of their handling of the interview and then the immediate kind of freak out even amongst their own cohort of the online right and others. They brought on a variety of streamers to react to their interview, universal in their condemnation. We're going to talk as well just about the conduct of these really government right now in Gaza and some of the more recent developments as well as the fallout in Syria, which apparently

allegedly is putting some distance between the Trump White House and themselves. Then we've got Hunter Biden. Andrew Callahan, who's been on the show before and is a Breaking Points fan, actually interviewed Hunter Biden for some three hours. And there's just some amazing clips going around inside of that. It gives us a deep view into the psychology and psychopathy of the Biden family.

We're also gonna talk about the Democrats. I'm really excited about to talk about this with you, Ryan, which is the democratic autopsy in which the DNC, when you lose an election, the DNC and the RNC, they commissioned something called an autopsy We're like here are all the things that went wrong and they've decided to ignore Biden's age Kamala's decision to run Biden's decision Biden's decision to run Kamala's decision on what to run on Kamala's is so What's in the report?

Was getting paid to me in this and of course, we're also going to talk about Andrew Cuomo Finally, we're in the Democratic part. I want AOC. I was gonna say, we're also gonna talk in the Democratic part, finally, about AOC refusing to, what is it, refusing to join Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment to cut off military aid for Israel.

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as well as some of the other conduct of the Trump administration, but the cover-up does certainly continue, don't you worry. And then I'm very excited for this. People will recall me shitting all over Maha's latest thing to get cane sugar coke back and steak and shake and and others so lane Norton Professor Lane or dr. Lane Norton. I apologize friend of mine who is a very popular health He's a health nutritionist guidance. Whatever. He's got over a million followers on Instagram

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You know, we've got the girl show, the bro show, and all of that. And that's where you guys help us out. We need flexibility when everybody falls sick with the plague. So with that, let's go ahead and get started with Israel and let's take a listen to some of the clips that came out of the Nelk Boys interview with Bibi Netany. And let's take a listen to some of the clips that came out

of the Nelk Boys interview with Bibi Netanyahu. Let's see. Why do you think you're like so hated worldwide? Well, a lot of propaganda. The question you have to ask is not why do they hate me or President Trump, is why don't they see reality? Why don't they see what's good for them? And the answer is most of them do

if you tell them the facts. But how do you tell them the facts over? Why do they say Israel's like starving the people of Gaza? Well, because we're trying to get the food in and we let food trucks in and guess what happens when we let them in? Hamas steals the food, takes the good chunk for itself. Then they jack up the prices and then they sell the food to its population, to its hungry population. Even in New York City, right? So a lot of people have been taken in by this nonsense.

I mean, what, you want to defund the police? You want to have people go into stores and rob them and be free? You think that really creates a good society? You want to crush all enterprise? you want to tax people to death. You know, sometimes you have to get mugged by reality to understand how stupid that is. So that's silly.

But, you know, sometimes folly overtakes human affairs for a while, but not for long. I'm less concerned with it, because I think if we can speak the truth to the young people of America, you know, they wise up pretty quickly. You like Burger King over McDonald's? That's your worst take. Absolutely. That's a crazy take.

That last part, the Burger King McDonald's, that was the only pushback actually that Netanyahu got in his interview. And so this is a very interesting, you know, question around the decision of the Netanyahu government to invite the Nelk Boys on to, to invite the Nelk Boys onto, or invite the Nelk Boys to the Blair House, the official guest residence of the White House for a foreign leader. And Netanyahu's own admission is he was like,

I'm here to reach young people. And you have Stiney and Kyle here of the Nelk Boys. I can't believe I'm saying this. Like some Walter Crock guy. And help us out. Contextualize the Nelk Boys within the podcast universe. These are just like frat D-gens, right? These are guys who, literally, before you even

get to listen to the podcast, you get to listen to Kyle talking about firing on prize picks, just so everybody understands. They sell like Happy Dads, it's a prank YouTube channel. This is an OG, kind of, you know, the Jake Paul, I guess, kind of transition from YouTube pranks and everything moves on and now you're political and they've been right wing and now they're a podcast that features the most controversial people in the world.

But at the end of the day, these guys are idiots by their own admission. I mean, they even say they're like, we're so unqualified to do this. And that's basically what came out is, and this is, I think shows the useful idiot nature of the way that a lot of these guys are Allowing themselves to be used but I would put this in the most extreme category because you have not only one of the most controversial figures in the world but more importantly if somebody actively involved in the war and The best that you can muster is being like hey, why are there kids who are starving? Yeah, he's like oh, that's a hundred percent on Hamas. It's like dude like you don't even have like a

Minus it's not again. It you don't even have a minis. Again, it's not about pushback. You should ask yourself, why is Netanyahu going on the Nelk Boys? Why does he do interviews with Brett Baer and other American journalists and refuse to do interviews with people who are in his own country who are journalists? You know why?

Because they would be like, hey, why are you corrupt and take money from Qatar and then come to our country and accuse other people of taking that? You put your corruption trial on pause. Netanyahu, what's going on with your political coalition? They might ask him some actually difficult questions. Even pro-Israel, like pro-Israeli journalists, would still be like, hey, hold on a second here.

You're doing a lot of shady stuff in our country, not to mention the war in Gaza. And so I think that's what kind of took everybody back, just the sheer way that they just let him spout off like this. I mean, it's not a surprise. It was obvious that this was gonna go this way in the beginning,

but what I have found more interesting is actually the, I would say, universal condemnation of the way that they handled it. Again, Ryan, you and I would die for the opportunity to have Bibi Netanyahu. This is not a platforming debate at all, okay? I would love nothing more to sit down with the guy and be like, okay, let's go, bro.

Let's go, it would be fun. I would do it with anybody, Kim Jong, any dictator, Putin, any of these people. It's about the way that you conduct yourself during that, and specifically also to recognize, especially when the guy is saying openly, I'm doing this to reach young people. And then you can see, not just in the comments section, but I really would say in the condemnation and the polling around Israel, around the issue, you have to try and represent that. To the extent that you have a duty, let's put journalistic ethics and all that aside, I always look at it as a duty to the audience.

And like for our audience, obviously 18 to 35 year olds, people who are interested in politics, it's obvious it's an issue they care deeply about, and let's get into the details. And I think that's really where they failed on this. And I have an idea for people out there. So if you are watching this and you're a podcaster who has millions of followers,

but you know you're not equipped for an interview like this. And we actually have, like a lot of those podcasters watch this program, which is something I'm proud of. Yeah, it is. And don't share this with the PR people. This is just between us and the audience. These requests are going to keep coming from people like Netanyahu, and specifically probably Netanyahu himself.

The next time you get one of those requests, reach out to Sagar, me, Emily, Crystal, any of us. I've done this, by the way. I'm not going to reveal my sources, but many people who have interviewed Trump or other political leaders often will call me and ask for advice. I'll be like, well, here's the way I would frame this question, and I would say this and this. I do it all the time for free.

I'm not charging anybody. Exactly. We will not tell anybody. Yeah, exactly. And you can find my number. If you're the kind of person who's getting this request from somebody like Anet and Yahoo, you probably have my number or Sagar's number,

or somebody in your circle has my number or Sagar's number. Reach out. Do not do this alone. Yeah, that's right. Because you will become the number one. And this is how you will end up, exactly. And you'll find yourself basically the butt of a joke. And really what's funny is Nelk almost immediately

recognizes, they're like, oh man, we screwed this up bad. And the first clip that we have to show people, Ryan, is the one that you flagged where they're like, yeah, I guess it is like interviewing Hitler. Let's take a listen. Having Ned and Yahoo on is like having modern day Hitler. No, I saw that. Which is, honestly guys, I'll be honest,

I'm here to, it's a good point. It's a good point, not exactly. Chugging the wine. Chugging his wine. That was not a sip. Why are you drinking wine, not happy dad, bro? You're supposed to be on message. He's breaking character

Yeah, yeah, but you know I mean as you put it up so aptly not the post-interview commentary Netanyahu was looking for you know again What's funny is I went back and I was looking I go okay Who are these American journalists who interviewed Hitler because there are some actually and prior to Hitler's rise to power Hitler did several interviews actually with American journalists Do you know what he did he did them with William Randolph Hearst newspaper reporters who were pro-fascist? And so the analogy is very apt and when more critical Journalists people like William Shire and other you know more critical journalists from the West were wanting to interview Hitler and challenge him

The Nazis would not allow them to do it because they knew that it would be kind of a PR problem for him, so look, what's new is just as old, it goes around as old as time, but it is, this gets to the platforming thing. Neither of us are against platforming. In the 1930s, if you're William Shire, if you're an American journalist in Nazi Germany,

you're an idiot if you're not trying to get an interview with Hitler. That's not what it's about. What it's about is being able to sit down and to actually talk with them, and not, again, not challenge per se in the way that people are like, oh, I don't wanna see that.

But what you want is to actually get beneath the propaganda. And that was the issue broadly with the interview. This was actually broken down quite well by a number of streamers, I will note, left and right, who the NELT guys invited on their podcast. People like Hassan Piker, Nick Fuentes, Nico, all of these other, our younger folks, know who all of these people are.

And here's a little taste of the lecture that they gave to the NELT guys in their post-interview stream. Let's take a listen. I'm doing a podcast. It's just a podcast, but you don't realize that there's like a gravity there. They're powerful people wanting access to your fucking platform that have an agenda. It's just like what I was asking you about, like Zuckerberg, right?

He like his stock plummets when he's like doing the censorship around COVID and then everyone's like, you're anti-free speech Democrat. And then, and then he puts a chain against muscles and then his stock goes back up. He's going on podcasts now because it's a stock price. It's it's an advantage for them. And they're using you guys. They're using you guys to look good. I don't understand what's happening in the world. Like, and you guys don't have to, because like people love you for prank and lifestyle content. But Benjamin In y'all is not promoting a book dog. He's promoting a genocide There's a difference though. I am I'm well equipped to have a conversation with Benjamin any hour because when he says something like that

I can turn around and be like well the world food program has said that you know There is no evidence to suggest that Hamas is stealing aid Whereas you don't have that follow up in that situation. And Benjamin and now he knows that and his team knows that which is precisely why he went on the Nelk Boys podcast and he didn't go on, you know, my stream or something. There's 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza 2.1 million. And basically their goal since 2023, which was articulated in official government documents was they want to get

all of the Palestinians out. They want them to move to Libya, Ethiopia, Morocco, these other countries. And they're, they're framing it like, well, we're going to let them leave voluntarily. But what they're doing on the other side is they're starving them, dehydrating them, blowing up their homes so that basically they have no choice. So they say to the Palestinians, do you want to stay here in hell where you have no home to return to? It's all rubble. There's no food and water. Or you want to go move to Libya. And that's really their goal. They told me that they had 20 people in the room while they were doing the podcast. I'm like, Stiney, that was Mossad. He's like, no, they were just HR people. I'm like, no, that was the CIA and the Mossad

watching you interview. So I think Hassan actually puts it quite well. By the way, there was similar pushback from Nick Fuentes, from Sneco, from all of these other guys who they brought on in terms of their reaction. And I thought Adam Friedland actually put it quite well. He was like, dog, they're not promoting a book. You know what I'm saying? It's about the conduct of the war and just being... Because that was in response to them saying,

look, we had OJ, we had, I forget what other terrible... Bro, you only had OJ in 2020? Okay, that's not in the middle of the trial, by the way. Oh, did OJ do anything with the trial? Does anyone want to tell me? No, actually, just so you're aware. And OJ killed two people. Yeah, that's right.

It's so preposterous. And this is where the, this is the logical endpoint of we'll have anybody on and we'll just talk. And this is the, and actually I'm quite heartened by the fact that there was this left and right kind of pushback and recognition by NELC almost immediately but they're like, oh man, we really messed this up.

And I actually, the stupidest thing they did is in the very beginning, aside from promoting sports gambling, was being like, oh, we're so unprepared. And also what, we don't know how to fix our collars? Gentlemen, come on, you know, what are we doing here? The point is just when you have no facts and you're also, the guy admits to using you on your show,

you should feel pretty embarrassed by that. Like again, it's not a platforming argument and that is just where they just humiliated themselves. But I actually think it was an interesting turning point for the internet. Let's put A4 up there on the screen, just to give people an example, right? And we should all be asking what these types of things mean and what are they a consequence

of. For those of you who don't speak French, let me just translate. The Agence France-Presse, AFP, says that its journalists are, quote, in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has, quote, never happened since the agency was founded and never has any of its journalists ever been starved to death. And so since I have an expert on that, Ryan, A5, can we put that on the screen?

Why don't you explain to us in detail how this starvation is a direct consequence of Israeli policy? And I should also add United States policy. Yeah, and so this is a report from yesterday by Abdelkader at Trier Field, Abdelkader at DropSite News, Abdelkader reporting from Gaza, from Dar al-Bali. He said to us, everyone here is collapsing. Like, we just cannot stand up. So I would encourage everybody to go and read that story if they can at DropSite News. But this morning, the Ministry of Health put out its new numbers.

In the last 24 hours another 15 people died of starvation. That brings a total over 100 who have died of starvation. It is, you have to be very, very, very, very, very, very far down the road of malnutrition to die of starvation. That should be obvious to everybody watching. This is not just a fast of a couple days. You have to be way down the road. It takes like 70 days or something like that. So on March, and this is right around the time

that international humanitarian aid groups were warning that we would hit this point. So the forecasts have been pretty close. March 2nd is when Israel announced that it was going to let no more food into Gaza. Now over the last several weeks, six to eight weeks, you've seen these squid games firing squads run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in which you're seeing dozens of aid seekers killed on a daily basis because the way that they operate these aid distribution sites there They're keeping them far away from anywhere where there is Hamas, which means they're

oftentimes 10 15 kilometers away from where people live so if so the so and Internet is very spotty and they will announce Okay, 6 a.m. is when it's opening. And often the aid distribution lasts about 15, 20 minutes. So you've got to be right there at 6 a.m. if you're going to have a shot at getting any food. Oh, and by the way, you might get gunned down by the time you're actually doing it. Right. And so what multiple documented instances.

So what people do is they walk all night and they crouch on the other side of the dune And by the way, you might get gunned down by the time you're actually doing it. Right. And so what? In multiple documented instances. So what people do is they walk all night and they crouch on the other side of the dune waiting for the sign. And sometimes they'll just cancel it while people are walking. And then in order to... So now you have crowd problems. In order to disperse the crowd and keep the crowd under control, They use live fire, not just from assault weapons, but they have admitted they've used it from naval warships.

They shell these crowds from their naval warships. The IDF has acknowledged this. And they also use tank fire. And they will shoot tank shells towards the people. And so they will kill dozens every single day. And inside the rations that people, if they are able to get it, are not what aid organizations are used to sending out. Like these, you know, they've got these like nutrition-dense biscuits and other things that

the UN that has been doing this for decades puts in these rations so that if you do get that, OK, now you're not happy, but you're going to be good for another 24 hours or so. They're giving them pasta and bags of flour. Cooking the flour, you need water, you need fuel. Oil. You need more than just a bag of flour.

And so the result is people actually dying of starvation and emaciated bodies stumbling around Gaza. Yeah. We're not making this stuff up, okay? You can go on the internet and you can watch it. I mean, you know, I think Crystal put a photo of a dead child. This is happening, you know, before all of our eyes. It's just a question of like, okay, you know, that would be another thing

where when BB gave an answer to that in the show, he's like, oh, that is entirely on Hamas. They're stealing the food or whatever. It's like in these documents, this is literally in the possession of these American and Israeli contractors who are putting this out. Also, they didn't even ask about

why are you shooting the people who are trying to come and get food. Again, look, guys, this is all out there. And I know that they're gonna say, oh it's a blood libel to suggest, it's all on Hamas. They're barely even saying that at this point. You're right, at this point they just let it happen because look, what are they gonna do?

The US ambassador to Israel's main beef is what? Oh, the Christian Zionists can't get into the country. That's his number one critique right now. Which by the way, they've resolved that. So great boomers from Alabama can continue their church visits to the Holy Church in Jerusalem. So all of our problems are solved. And then they bombed a church in Gaza and they attacked a Christian town in West Bank. So Huckabee was upset about that. Yeah. So as long as they stop that and they just slaughter all the Muslims, whatever.

Okay. Oh, it's all good. Yeah. So that's really the conduct of this government and that just demonstrates, I think, some of the problems here with the NELC interview. And again, why I think it's an important turning point for the internet. People might say, oh, you're being too online or any of that. No, I mean, the internet is real life for young people. That's how they get all their news. So to the extent then that we can see the fallout from this and just kind of the way that their audience and a lot of others feel about the issue, you can see it clearly, especially

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There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News. It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.

And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal. The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. America history is full of wise people. Well, women said something like, you know, 99.99 percent of war is diarrhea and one

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Part two here. Let's put this up there on the screen. Just yesterday, Trump is now in his Biden era where he is trying to maintain some limited distance from the most belligerent Israeli action. So the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, yesterday said, quote, President Trump was caught off guard by the Israeli bombings in Syria and on the church in Gaza. He spoke to Netanyahu in both cases and acted to rectify things. And so how did he rectify things?

He apologized. He said there'd be a full investigation. It was just a stray tank armor, of course, that killed these three people inside of this church, right? That's all, but that's the rectification. At the end of the day, just today, this morning, the United States withdrew from some UN body, I forget, that accused Israel of starving people to protect it

because of accusations of anti-Semitism. So they're not gonna do anything about it. And let's put A7, please, up on the screen. This is what they're leaking from the inside. They say, quote, he's a madman, BB. He bombs everything all the time. One White House official said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname, this could undermine what Trump is trying to do.

Yeah, tell it to your boss. I mean, nobody wants to hear. You're talking about Syria there. Yeah, they're talking about Syria. If you're just listening. Nobody wants to hear this Yeah, tell it to your boss. I mean, nobody wants to hear. They're talking about Syria there. Yeah, they're talking about Syria. If you're just listening. Nobody wants to hear this nonsense, all right? Either do something about it or don't. And by the way, they're not doing anything about it.

The ceasefires have all collapsed inside of Syria. Israeli strikes are basically on and off. The Israeli Druze, or the Druze who are allied with Israel, this one particular commander, refuses to basically sign anything with the government despite pressure, even in their own community. They're currently at it with these Bedouins and now with the Syrian government.

And that's where the rhetoric around all of this is just preposterous. And I don't wanna sound like an apologist or whatever for the Al-Qaeda Syrian government, but let's look at the facts. You had, what was it, the Bedouins and the Druze got into it, they started killing each other. And so then the Syrian government of Al-Qaeda was like,

oh, we need to go and restore order. And then the Druze kidnapped much of these soldiers and killed them. And then the government was like, hey, look Israel, we gave you the Golan, we allowed you to use our airspace, we let you bomb us with impunity, but, you know, we need to have some limited sovereignty over our country that you have recognized, that the American government has now recognized, removed sanctions of, and so we're going to move security forces into that area.

That immediately, then, is met with the bombing of the presidential palace. This entire thing is about the Greater Israel Project, about making sure, again, it's not a, they don't care one iota about the Druze at all, okay? They're doing it to make sure that they have this quote, indefinite presence in Syria to push their border out further and to basically act like a colonial empire in the region. Don't believe me, they're the ones who said quote, we will have an indefinite presence in Gaza, Lebanon, and in Syria. They said that. They're the ones who said quote. We will have an indefinite presence in Gaza, Lebanon and in Syria They said that they took credit for it There's even a great tweet from Mark Levin who recently is like I'm seeing these heartbreaking images of the Druze where he said

Assad has fallen. Thank you Israel. They did you know, it's out in the open They helped install this al-qaeda backed leader They got the United States and said oh This is actually a good thing for the stability of the region, and now people are slaughtering each other, and they're the ones who are now saying, oh, we gotta take out this new leader of Assad. This is like the Egyptian, oh, when Mubarak fell

and the Muslim Brotherhood, they're like, oh, well, we didn't mean that. They're like, we can't have that. We gotta go back. And there's a real contradiction at work here in that immediately after the Syrian uprising throws over Assad and takes power, and you get the al-Qaeda guy in charge,

Israel immediately completely destroys all of Syria's remaining military infrastructure. Tanks, trucks, airplanes, they said they were going after chemical weapons. The new Syrian government said, hey, if you find chemical weapons, take the chemical weapons. We don't want the chemical weapons. That's not... Now, look, hey, not saying you need to trust Al-Qaeda, but as Reagan said, you trust but verify.

Instead, they go in and just completely annihilate the Syrian military, which is destroying the capacity of Syria to create a central government coming out of this revolution. Then when there's this sectarian conflict, this chaos in southern Syria, Israel says, why is the Syrian central government not doing a better job of expressing its power, exerting

its power in southern Syria? You destroyed the Syrian government because they're not serious about wanting a strong central government in Syria. They have very specifically said they want five or six little statelets within Syria. So it's a broken state, and it can just kind of be controlled and bombed at will rather than forming an actual power block that then has to, that contests geopolitical power in the region and could be allied with Turkey. And so these Bedouins who are Sunni Muslim are associated with this kind of Syrian government,

but they're not remotely controlled. They're much more remotely controlled by Turkey than they are the actual Syrian government. But they have their own power base. And the majority of the Druze are supportive and want to integrate with the Syrian government. About a third of the Druze are run by the spiritual leader that you're talking about who has refused to disarm and wants to create their own little statelet that then becomes

kind of a protectorate of Israel. And so, for instance, when the central, when the Syrian government withdrew under the terms of ceasefire, those Druze immediately killed about 50 Bedouins, just massacred 50 Bedouin civilians. Now, Bedouins have been massacring Druze civilians as well. The footage, and the algorithm knows that it's going to feed it to you,

the footage coming out of there is just absolutely horrifying. It's horrible. It's some of the worst. Now, you can go deep into the dregs of the internet and find this kind of thing elsewhere, but this is some of the worst. Yeah, it's a level level. I haven't seen some of this in a long time. Again, you have to seek this out.

I don't recommend it. Don't look. Please spare yourself. But the people getting thrown off the buildings and shot as they're getting thrown off the buildings, just absolutely excruciating stuff. But the Syrian central government has a strong interest in quelling this violence. Israel has an interest in inciting this violence. And so we're going to see a lot more of this violence.

Of course they do. And like I said, it only makes sense in the context of the greater Israel colonial project where to destabilize the regime to create a power vacuum, it's good for them because it means what? That you get this push out. It's only good for them in the sense as long as the global empire continues to have your back. Let's go ahead and put A8 please up on the screen because this is amazing. This is how things are trending and shows you how out of step the United States is now

currently. 25 Western nations have now issued a joint call for the end of the war in Gaza, quote, slamming dangerous aid distribution mechanism. This aid issue, by the way, I have seen turn more people than anything else because I just think it's so undeniable. There's no but Hamas. There's no human shields. It's just literally starving people trying to get food and then gunning them down with

wanton impunity. Now, you and I know who have been covering this war for two years. They've been doing that from day one. But I mean, listen. This is worse. Yeah. We're welcome to have you, I guess, for the people who are just coming around. But you can watch here how Australia, Canada, France, Italy, multiple members of NATO, huge

members of the European Union, large economies and others who are signing the statement calling for an immediate end to the war. But it's the United States which continues to be out of step with the rest. Like I mentioned earlier, just today the United States withdrew from some international body accusing them of anti-Semitism specifically for bringing up the starvation issue. That is what, not just our tax dollars, but the full weight of our diplomatic prowess is being used for. Let's go and put the next one up on the screen.

Belgian police have actually questioned two Israelis over war crimes accusations. For those who are wondering about IDF soldiers and all of that, please go read Haaretz. Just go to the Israeli press. You have IDF soldiers on the record telling them we're committing war crimes in Gaza. They admit, they say it out loud. Yeah, and in this case- They don't even deny it. Yeah.

In this case, the Hind Rajab Foundation, which is its sole purpose basically is to create dossiers of specific IDF soldiers who have carried out specific war crimes. And they're creating this absolutely massive database, all of it for the most part, produced by evidence that the IDF soldiers themselves posted to their own social media. So this is not based on Palestinians who did investigations or filmed them.

This is, hey, I served in the IDF. I just burned this building. I just blew this out. I just shot this civilian. They have been announcing their crimes on TikTok and on Instagram. What they also announce on Instagram is when they're going on vacation and where. And the IDF has encouraged, discouraged soldiers from doing that. They've said, stop.

When you go on leave, stop posting that you're gonna do it because they're looking for you. People can't stop posting. So clearly these two soldiers posted that they were gonna go to this Tomorrowland concert in Belgium. Hind Rajab Foundation reached out to Belgium.

And to Belgium's credit, they said, we do indeed have jurisdiction over this issue. There had been a Gavade Brigade flag flying at this concert, which is like, what are you doing? You're carrying out a genocide. You're flying the flag of this brigade that is notorious for war crimes in Saigaza. And so these two soldiers are then found by Belgian authorities who detain them. It's not fair to call them arrested.

They were in custody, getting questioned about war crimes. They haven't been charged, but they were in custody. They were interrogated and they were released. And the Belgians say that there is an investigation that is ongoing. So they're going to look at the videos and if they find that what they did is outside the lines of international law, they'll charge them. Well, and this is the irony, as you and I know,

if something like that ever happens, what's America gonna do? Invade Belgium. Yeah, they're gonna invade Belgium rather than allow two Beltside soldiers to be detained. Just wait, I can guarantee you, to IDF soldiers to be detained. Just wait, I can guarantee you, a US ambassador is gonna summon, or the Americans are gonna summon

the Belgian ambassador or something, withdraw their ambassador for the temerity to do this to two foreigners, I would add. Although, who knows if they're even foreigners. Half of these people in the IDF are American citizens, apparently, which is amazing. You got one more thing Let's do it quickly because yeah, we got him gonna move through this

The IDF is carrying out an attack on Darrell Bala And which is the basically the only remaining civilian infrastructure left in Gaza this town is actually the town where Abu Bakr Abed is from and they ordered an evacuation of the area in which almost all of the international aid organizations inside Gaza have their headquarters. So none of them see it as a coincidence that they're, on the one hand, militarizing this aid

through this GHF. And then also now they're trying to drive all of the aid organizations out of their headquarters and telling them to go into tents down by the Mawasi, quote unquote, safe corridor, which constantly gets bombed. The UN announced, no, we're not leaving. So it's setting up a genuine confrontation between the IDF, which is coming in, and the UN, which says it's not leaving. So we can roll a little bit of this from the UN yesterday. Colleagues on the ground are more than dedicated in staying in the front lines, staying in

safe houses that are being attacked, trying to deliver aid. As one of our colleagues mentioned, sitting in, I think Carl Scow mentioned, sitting sometimes in cars for 16 to 18 hours waiting for a green light. We are currently staying. And as we've been saying from the beginning, when it comes to the protection of civilians, the protection of humanitarian workers, Israel has a responsibility to protect them. Gaza is not a very large place. Der al-Bala is our hub, is our humanitarian hub, right?

From there, staff is dispatched to different parts of Gaza. That's where our equipment is. This is where our, currently, our headquarters are. We will, of course, follow and try to deliver humanitarian aid where the people are. And we've continued to do that. So UN showing a little spine, they're not gonna move. I mean, they can say, again, the problem is,

they're not moving, but as you know, Ryan, without the, they don't care about murdering UN personnel. They have killed over 200 UN personnel and families. Exactly, but they're all Hamas, according to the secret record. So that's where we are, guys. It's just, it's crazy. It's absolutely crazy.

On a humanitarian level, on a national interest level, the way that our country is obsessed with this foreign country, the diplomatic cover that we provide, not just for their crimes, but for even mentioning it. As you and I know, we would be called, this would be labeled as a blood libel, you know, to even mention.

Used to be, now it's like. No, but it is though, and this is why it's important. Maybe on the left you guys are immune from it, and all of that, people are still afraid, man. I mean, there's a reason why they could only talk about the Catholic thing, because that's one of them, right? So in that, it's totally undeniable. But the rest of it, you can't talk about the killing of aid,

or any of that, you're like. Oh, that's UN international propaganda. We're not there yet at all. It'll still be branded a blood libel if you're even mentioning it. I don't care anymore, but for the rest of it, and I don't think that people care either, but it's disgusting. It's just disgusting what's happening over there. Discover the exciting action of Ben MGM Casino. Check out a wide variety of table games with a live dealer

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and left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News. It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.

The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

American history is full of wise people. Well women said something like no 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is glory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF and they love to cut each other down. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a

dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said, it would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American history hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's get to Hunter Biden, shall we? Here we have some great highlights from Hunter Biden from his interview with Andrew Callahan. We're gonna start with my personal favorite clip.

Hunter reminiscing about the joys of crack cocaine, describing in detail how easy it is to cook, and also how it's actually safer than alcohol, because when you make it, you cook off all of the impurities. Let's take a listen. There's only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate and water and heat, literally.

That's it? That's it. Anyway, I don't wanna tell people how to make crack cocaine, but it literally is a managed jar of cocaine and baking soda. How different is the experience? It's vastly, vastly different. I'm saying I don't want to have the experience of some euphoric recall.

That's how powerful crack cocaine is. Does crack cocaine make you act any differently? No. Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. People think of crack as being dirty. It's the exact opposite. When you make crack, what you're doing is you're burning off

all the impurities so that it combines with the sodium bicarbonate, which makes it smokable. That's all. You know, all of these actors and, you know, people in the past that talked about, they had a problem with cocaine and free-basing. They were smoking crack. About time somebody stood up for crack.

They were smoking crack, yeah. You know, it's funny, it would make sense if you had not ever seen a crackhead. Like, have you, anyone ever actually seen people who were addicted to crack? They don't look all that healthy to me, all right? I mean, I'm not saying alcoholics look all that healthy, but they only look a little bit bloated.

They're not usually missing all of their teeth. To give him his point, he's saying the drug itself compared to the dirty powder cocaine that you're gonna get on the street. Because you're snorting that, everything you buy, you're snorting that up, and there's all kinds of junk in there. Does cooking crack cook the fentanyl off? Can anybody, see I don't know enough about that.

Maybe it does, actually. I guarantee you're gonna have some crack heads down in the comments who are gonna be like, yes, absolutely, Zagre, that's why it's safer than everything, okay, all right Zagre. That's why it's safer than everything. Okay, all right. But more importantly for our purposes, and to the extent that this thing is newsworthy at all,

is what? This is how Hunter and the Biden family see the 2024 election. The Democratic party and the Democratic voters were not slavishly dedicated enough to his father and the cult of personality kicked him off the ticket. He blames Kamala for the loss and Democratic elites and that Biden himself did nothing wrong.

He was sharp as a tack. Let's take a listen to how he had to speak about George Clooney and others. He flew around the world basically the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. Yeah. He's 81 years old. He's tired as shit. Give him ambient to be able to sleep.

He gets up on the stage and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights. Fuck him. Fuck him, fuck him and everybody around him. George Clooney is not a fucking actor. He is a fucking, like, I don't know what he is. He's a brand. And fuck you.

What do you have to do with fucking anything? Why do I have to fucking listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his fucking life to the service of this country and James Carville, who hasn't run a race in 40 fucking years and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life. And that was Barack Obama. And that was because of Barack Obama, not because of fucking David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys in the Pod Save America guys who were junior fucking speech writers in

Barack Obama's Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years making millions of dollars. The Anita Duns of the world who's made 40, 50 million dollars off the Democratic Party. They're all going to insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president in history, how to have a better midterm election than anybody in history, and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever won, and they're going to replace their judgment for his. Who's Jake Tapper's audience?

Jake Tapper? My mom or something? I don't know. Well, I don't know. For real though. I don't even think it's your mom anymore. No, no, no. By the numbers, what influence does Jake Tapper have over anything?

He has the smallest audience on cable news. The intelligentsia of the Democratic Party with 2020 hindsight believes that Joe Biden should have considered not running again because of their perception that he was too old. The Pod Save America saviors of the Democratic Party, with what, four white millionaires that are dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago, living in Beverly fucking Hills, telling the rest of the world what black voters in South Carolina really want, or what the women in the waitress living outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin really believes.

I mean, what the fuck? I mean, I can't believe that we do this over and over again. Yeah. Or I hear Rahm Emanuel is gonna run for president. What a fucking, like, David Axelrod's gonna run his campaign for him. That's like, oh boy, there's the answer. There's the fucking answer.

Genius is all. You know, my, okay, so first of all, there's some news there. He said it's ambient. Now, Emily, so first of all, there's some news there. He said it's ambient. Now, Emily, Crystal and I were on Emily's after party show. Right, but Emily, Crystal and I were on after party last night, and Emily brought up a great point. Is Biden, as you'll famously recall,

was cloistered at Camp David ahead of the debate and had been back in the United States for multiple days. So why were they giving him Ambien? And he would only been on a seven hour time difference from multiple days ago. So you need Ambien for multiple days to get over, that's not a good look for an old man. And also, you know, first of all that's the news

is now that they're blaming it on Ambien. It's like when, who was it, Rick Perry? Remember he couldn't forget the third department he wanted to cut and later on he was like, guys, I had back surgery and I was high on Percocet. And you're like, what? He was like, that's not a very good excuse, actually. But broadly, look at the bitterness,

look at the bitterness towards the Democratic elites. And it's pretty ironic. Look, I'm not some Pod Save fanboy, but they had a job and they made their name by being attached to a winning campaign, the Obama campaign. You are the president's son. You have grifted millions of dollars off being his son.

They frankly are way more accomplished than you. And I'm not some big James Carville defender or any of that, but you're not exactly the right messenger to be talking about nepotism and grifting off of other people's names, are you Hunter? So this is the view, Ryan, the Biden family, this is what they believe, is fuck you. That's basically their answer.

And what was fun about the whole interview, but also this analysis is that I'm with him like 95% of the way. Like almost all of the things that he's saying, I'm like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. That's great. But it's like, A, who are you to say it? And then B, when you finish with, and therefore Joe Biden should have been the nominee

again in 2024, it's like, no, I'm sorry. Okay, yeah, he had a good midterm. He beat Trump in 2020. There's an argument that there was a segment of white working class voters that peeled off from Trump to Biden in 2024, and that made the difference. Okay, maybe all that's true. Doesn't mean he wasn't a dead man walking in 2024. He wasn't going to win because he was almost dead.

Literally. Sorry. Even Hunter is like, yeah, he's 81 years old. He's old, he aged before our eyes. You're like, yeah. Yeah, that's the whole point, man. That's the point. Yeah, and it's like also if a single ambient

can take you out from the night before, that's not a very good look for you. It's one of those, look, there was so much alternative history there. There's also some great political messaging here from Hunter. Here's him on immigration, Let's take a listen. The people are really upset about illegal immigration. Fuck you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How

do you think you got food on your fucking table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your fucking garden? Who do you think is here by the fucking sheer fucking just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance? And he's somehow convinced all of us that these people are the fucking criminals. White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit a fucking violent crime than an immigrant.

And the media says, well, you got David Axelrod and, you know, Rahm fucking Emanuel, so fucking smart Rahm Emanuel. And so we got to understand that these people are really mad. And we got to appeal to these white voters. Rahm, the only people that fucking appealed to those fucking white voters was Joe Biden, 81 years old, and he got 81 million votes. And he did because not because he appeased their fucking Trumpian sense, but because he challenged it.

But these guys think that we need to run away from all values in order for us to lead. I say, fuck you, how are we getting those people back from fucking El Salvador? Yes, fuck you, Ryan, for being concerned about illegal immigration. It's so funny, too, because even the most open borders, left-wing people would be like,

look, these are human beings, we need to reform the system to make it so that they're not illegal anymore and we don't support the chaos of what is going on there. But Hunter just flips, I mean, look, he's like Donald Trump almost, in a certain way. He also said he would invade El Salvador to get back the sea.

Well, I guess they're not there anymore. The Venezuelans, they've been sent back to Venezuela. But he said he would be willing to invade El Salvador on behalf of the, I just, my take with Hunter broadly, again, to the extent that it matters at all, is that is the view of the Biden family. And I think that's very important for the, because there's a lot of Democrats who watch the show. That's what they think of you. And that's also what they think of the Biden family. And I think that's very important for the, cause there's some, a lot of Democrats who

watch this show, that's what they think of you. And that's also what they think of the voters is screw you, you didn't have enough fealty to my dad. We don't care about the democratic process. We don't care about, you know, he blames, uh, Nancy Pelosi and all these others for kicking his dad out of the race. He genuinely believes his dad is some messianic figure who had this unique political talent. It's like, yeah, maybe in 2020, but by the end, bro,

all of the Democrats are like, please don't run. You remember on our show, we covered for years, 70, 80% of Democrats, he's too old. Get him out of there, he's too old, right? And also, he stunk in 2020. Yes, he beat Trump in the general election. He lost- Not that well. He lost that primary- 30,000 votes away from losing. Until the like basically handed it to him. He got finished

fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, lost two to one to Bernie in Nevada, and then the entire party establishment including CNN, New York Times, MSNBC, which is what really mattered, everybody telling him, okay, it's Biden or fascism or communism. And so you have the biggest swing in polling history. And then COVID hits and he doesn't have to campaign for the rest of the campaign. Literally, that's how he won.

So let's not let Mr. Biden Jr. there rewrite it. It's just so ridiculous. It's eerie how much he sounds like it. It is crazy, it is crazy. And we'll all just remember yesterday was the one year anniversary. Let's put that up on there on the screen. I've lived 1,000 lifetimes since this moment,

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