The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3658 - Primaries Roundup; Republican Plan to Backdoor Israel Aid w/ Ben Freeman

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

It's Hump Day on The Majority Report On today's program: Progressive candidate Dr. Adam Hamawy wins the Democratic primary in New Jersey's deep-blue 12th congressional district in an otherwise muted primary day for leftist candidates. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed gives a perfect response to an MS NOW reporter asking him what he would say to Jewish Americans who are anxious about his critiques of AIPAC and Israel. Ben Freeman, author and director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, joins the show for a conversation about his piece in Responsible Statecraft on congress trying to quietly intertwine U.S. and Israeli militaries. Congress is voting on this tomorrow so call your Congresspeople to tell them to In the Fun Half: Fox News posts Wisconsin's DSA-backed candidate for Governor Francesca Hong's platform in attempt to fearmonger but it backfires because her platform is common sense and pro-worker. At a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) showcases just how big of a sycophant Marco Rubio is by playing videos of Trump falling asleep during Cabinet meetings, only for Rubio to flatly deny that the president is asleep in the footage. Dan Goldman gives a horrible performance in his debate against Brad Lander. Goldman tries to attack Lander on his record on Israel when the day before Goldman had marched alongside Israeli terrorist Bezalel Smotrich in the Israel Day Parade. George Santos is under investigation by the DOJ for insider trading in the least surprising news story in history. We continue our weeklong reflection upon Dave Rubin's surrounded. All that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: RITUAL: Get 25% off during your first month. Visit ritual.com/MAJORITY. WILD GRAIN:  Get up to 40% off @Ridge with code MAJORITYREPORT at https://www.Ridge.com/MAJORITYREPORT SUNSET LAKE CBD: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.

You are listening to a free version of the Majority Report. Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Wednesday, June 3rd, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Ben Freeman, author and director of the democratizing foreign policy program at the Quincy Institute,

on the congressional attempt to hide aid to Israel in the future to try and take it off of the political stage. But first, muted primary day for progressives. Elections across the country, to the extent that we know the results. California is going to take a while. Also on the program today, Iran fires missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation to U.S. bombing. Meanwhile, Iran is letting friendly ships through the Strait of Hormuz. DHS as Secretary believes that following court orders apparently is optional. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court okays Alabama's use of a congressional map

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but the Trump family will still get immunity from cheating on their taxes. The wake of naming the completely unqualified Bill Pulte, director of national intelligence, the Pentagon hires a 25-year-old January 6thar to a key counterterrorism position. The youth is our future. All this more, although what could there be on today's majority report, welcome ladies and gentlemen it is hump day

Emma Viglin out today nevertheless we've licensed the phrase hump day from her you weren't here when she coined that phrase no but it's nice that she's getting paid on her day off exactly that's the whole key folks passive income

uh Henry wants to nominate yesterday's fun half for the best of we went pretty deep into the Dave Rubin stuff. I forgot about that. I put that out of my head. We will probably,

you know, revisit Dave Rubin. Maybe not today. But I think in the coming days, I feel like we owe it to ourselves. I should say, The Daily Beast has an article. I haven't read it yet.

But it says like something to the effect of perhaps the dumbest man on the internet, talking about Dave Rubin. People are making a big deal of the fact that when he was asked by name a single metric, by which Donald Trump is, the economy is doing better than it did under Joe Biden. Dave Rubin, I think they're starting to, they're investigating this, I believe, had a stroke.

Well, you're clearly a foreign asset because we don't use the metric system in America. Exactly. Exactly. Here is Maga host mocked after failing to name any of Trump's achievements. Ruined Rubin. Yeah. And now that Rubin gets wrecked on Trump economy. Is that actually from the Dave Rubin show? Did he actually title it by himself or no? Oh, yeah. Sorry. I think that's from Daily Beast editorializing. All right. Let's.

Let's get into what happened across the country last night. Again, California, we only have some results in, and to the extent that we do, not necessarily stuff that we're going to be super psyched about. Again, at the end of the day, the most important thing in my estimation is that the Democrats take the House and the Senate. And progressives did fair last night, I would say. Fair to not so fair. But there wasn't necessarily huge races. Like we're not talking the difference between a platinum in a Mills. We're not talking the difference between a Haley Stevens and an Abdul al-Said.

That's not what we're talking about. Congressional races come and go, although this one is pretty exciting. um... doctor adam uh... uh... who was on o we homoey uh... who was on the program last week uh... amma interviewed him

uh... pulled out a uh... an impressive win in uh... new jersey uh... and uh... here is his acceptance speech and you understand this a very blue uh... district so he's gonna win uh... this district As a doctor, I see my patients struggling in the richest country in the history of the world just to be able to afford their health care. I met people every day drowning in medical debt because the billionaires and the insurance

companies decided that we need to make profits over taking care of the sick. I became a doctor to take care of people and to save people. lives, but I end up spending half my time just fighting the insurance companies to be able to provide care. I knew that the system was broken, rigged, and that it was serving only a few and not the many. And when I came back from Gaza, I went to the halls of Congress to share what I saw. But what I found is many doors that were closed in my face, people didn't even want to listen. And I realized that these doors weren't just close to me. They were close to everyone, for everything.

Unless you were one of the oligarch lobbyists with a check in your hand. So six months ago, we launched this campaign. Almost no one thought that we were viable. No one thought we had a shock. even those who called themselves progressives laughed us out of the room and they said that we didn't ask permission to run so there it is um Mawi in the New Jersey's 12th district wins that's going to be that's a 60 essentially a 60 to 35, 37 district, Harris over Trump. So very likely, barring some bizarre catastrophe, he will be a sitting congressman increasing, I don't know if we still say the word squad anymore,

but we'll certainly be of that ilk in the House, to the left of even the, progressive caucus. And that's good. And that's a district, again, locked in blue district. And so this is not a seat that will flip to Republicans anytime soon. And also in New Jersey, the other race,

I think that folks were keeping, an eye on from a progressive standpoint. I don't know how close it was ever, but in New Jersey 7th, Rebecca Bennett won. She is a more the establishment candidate, I would say there. This is an important district. It was a 50-48 Trump district, so essentially even, and in this environment, very likely to flip to Democrats. And if you add to that context,

the Congressman Tom Keene, Kane, who has been representing this district, a son of the former governor there, has been AWOL for three months. The only contact anybody's had with him was he got on a phone call with a reporter and said, pray for me. I don't know what to say. He's apparently, though, he was trading.

He was doing some day trading. Is that what we're praying for? He may have been like, I should have never gone short on Navidia or something. Yeah, for China to land that Boeing deal. Exactly. So that's a potential pickup in New Jersey. The, I mean, there's a couple of districts. New Jersey. New Jersey's nine was a one-point victory for Trump. So there's a very good shot

there that the Democrat will win. It is, I guess, yeah, this is, I guess it was a former representative from New Jersey's ninth district, I believe. And that district just swung to Trump last election and it's very likely going to go back to the Democrats. Moving from New Jersey, West, I guess it would be Iowa, is next. I'm just trying to organize. There's a lot of stuff here. Turek, Josh Turek, who was the establishment pick.

As we talked to Daniel Nican yesterday, the difference in Turek, Josh Turek, Josh Turrick and Zach Walls politics, not dramatically different. They're both pretty progressive. I think Walls, the difference would be Israel, frankly. I think Walls is more willing to call out Israel. Schumer never got explicitly involved in this, though it was clear that this. This is that Turrick was his choice. Turek got $10 million from vote vets, which is, I don't want to say, a cutout for the establishment Democrats, but certainly is aligned with them.

This is an open seat. and there's some thinking that there's a chance in Iowa that we may see in Iowa like the Democrat may win for governor there. And there's this chance that perhaps the Senate is in play. Joni Ernst has left the Senate. And you should all remember, she was someone who got into the Senate by shooting a pig, if I'm not, or wrestling a pig in her ads and then firing off an air 15 maybe. I can't remember exactly. Sounds about right.

Yeah. So that's what's happening in Iowa. So Zach Wallace will have a future. I don't know what to tell you. Things got too weird for the senator who literally talked about wrestling a pig to get into the Senate. With the Republican Party just sort of, she didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left her. If you keep going west from there, I don't know, Montana, New Mexico.

the establishment there was an attempt by some conservative Democrats in New Mexico to return you'll recall that David that Nicanian had told us about and they lost

so there's no resurgence of conservatism there was a success by establishment candidates but again, they have a lot more money. In Montana, we had talked about this weird dynamic where John Tester was promoting an independent and was supporting quietly a Democrat in the race

who is expected to maybe drop out to clear the field for this independent, very similar to what we see in Nebraska. And that Democrat won. So that's a Democrat. encouraging. Really, I mean, I don't know if a Democrat's going to win in Montana, or I should say an independent who would caucus with a Democrat in Montana, with the Democrats in Montana. However, if there's a better chance than not, which in this instance it is, because that Democrat

registered may drop out, or at least be low-key enough that it'll help boost the independent, that means that the Republicans need to deploy money and resources there. So even in these states, I mean, this is the whole point of the 50 state strategy. Even in these states where Democrats can't win or we think Democrats can't win, and we really have no sense of what the sort of like trend is going to be six months from now based upon what could be oil shocks and inflation and et cetera, the more the chance, has increased, even if it goes from 20% chance to a 40% chance, that means that Republicans have to deploy their resources there. And that helps in other areas where there is maybe a 45% chance

or a 42% chance. So that's all good news. South Dakota, I didn't even look. Toby Dodin, I believe, beat Dusty Johnson for the Republican. You're not making that up either. No, I'm not. In California, just wrapping up here. You're not. Nancy Pelosi's seat and Seikot Chakrabati, Barti was on this program months and months ago.

He's coming in third as far as I can tell. Now, again, you know, California results aren't in, but this is the California 11th. It looks like it's going to be Scott Weiner. The giraffe. The giraffe. I'm not familiar with that. And Connie Chan, who, I think Chan actually got,

Pelosi's endorsement. So, a progressive shut out there. But again, you know, part of this is about Israel and frankly, like,

this, the public opinion about Israel is going in one direction. And I don't think it's going to change. In California's 22nd, where Democrats have a very good shot of picking up flipping a Trump seat.

It looks like Randy Vegas is ahead. Randy was also on this program. So it would be he against the Republican David Valadado

or Dow, I can't pronounce his name. He has 45 percent, the sitting Republican Republican congressman. Remember, this is an open primary. Vierrez has a 30 to 26 edge against Jasmine Baines. That may have changed. I haven't seen the most recent numbers.

That's with only 56% of the vote in, so that, again, that can change. But the point being that you really get a sense, there's 56% for the Democrat and 45% for the Republican. As right now, Vegas is 29.8% to 25.7 for jasmine. Okay. So, I mean, that's, yeah, more or less there. Jimmy Gomez in California's 34th, breezed into the general election. Everything else is sort of up in the air. In the governor's race, it is not settled, but it looks most likely that it's going to be,

Bacera versus the formerly British, I mean the immigrant, I guess Steve Hilton, the Fox News or one American, I don't know where he comes from. In the mayor's race, it looks like it's going to be Karen Bass against Spencer Pratt, who is the former reality TV star. I'm not familiar with him either. Come on, California. Well, this is no different. Schwarzenegger was the governor. And Reagan. And Reagan.

Right. So that's basically where we are at this point. That's, you know, those are the big takeaways from this race. From this. So progressives got a couple, it looks like. Vegas in California. Hamoui in a New Jersey. Mejahaw won her primary as well.

I think that was sort of a foregone conclusion. And now on to next week is, what's that state? Maine. We will get to that in a moment. Is he in? No? Oh, coming at 9.30. 1230.

Sorry. Well, we should. Let's see, do we have time for one? Let's, yeah, let's just watch this with, I mean, we're starting to see this. There's a new poll that came out yesterday that showing Abdul Al-Said is pulling away. McMorrow is dropping like a lead balloon. And Haley Stevens is sort of hanging in there. And it's becoming clear and clear that Saeed has the inside track.

in this Michigan Democratic primary. And you also, I think, I feel like there's over the past couple of weeks, there has been, he has become more general election ready. Not necessarily by attacking to the middle, but there's just a level of polish. on his campaigning that seems to have, he's up this game a little bit. He's confident. Here he is on MS now.

Or is this MS now or is this? Yeah. Katie Turr. I didn't know if she was still on MS now. On MS now, Katie Turr. Obviously, it's hard to look, people aren't responsible for their spouse's work. Um, but also it's not like you're not influenced by your spouse.

And, uh, Katie Terry's, uh, husband is Tony Duke, uh, dukepless. I can't remember. I don't know how to press. Uh, do copal. And, um, now, Joe Coppaul's, uh, former, uh, wife, um, moved to Israel with the kids. Um, um, true and he you know his conversion to Judaism and his circumcision or the second circumcision he took that he wrote he wrote out but and there is no zeal like that of

the convert but here's katy turr asking a question of abdul assid and I first heard him say this and I may have been saying it on the on the trail I think during the maybe a debate, but this is a great answer. Jewish population in Michigan, and a lot of them, you know, feel uncomfortable in this moment about anti-Semitism, about the way that campaigns sometimes speak about what is anti-Semitism and what is not. What do you say to the Jewish community who you're going to want to vote for you about your positions on Israel, on APAC funding, et cetera, and how they shouldn't feel alienated,

by a candidate like a positive i just i just i want to hear him answer this but i mean just if you think like if you spend some time uh you know and maybe it's the third fourth time i've heard this question now it really occurs to me jewish jewish what do you think about israel and apak i would love to see the polling of jews and their relationship to apak like i did not grow up with some affinity, my parents at Passover would talk about A-PAC, as if like this is in any way, this is a Jewish thing. It's just absurd. Good. By a candidate like you. Okay, I'd say this. Nobody understands what it's like to be discriminated against for how you pray,

like someone who gets discriminated against for how we pray. And most of the time, we don't ask how we pray. Most people are asking what do you pray for? And I pray for peace and dignity and basic goodness for all of our kids, whether they're Jewish kids who are neighboring a couple of houses down from me or my kids who are Muslim. And I'll tell you that it's really important for us to be able to differentiate between Judaism, the Jewish people, Jewish culture, Jewish contributions to this country, which are vast, and APAC and Israel. Those are two different things. I, when I'm elected, will be the chief opposition to what the Egyptian government does. Now, my family immigrated from Egypt. That doesn't make me anti-Egyptian. That just means that I want my tax dollars to be spent here

rather than sent over there to cement the chokehold of a military dictatorship on its own people. And I apply the same exact principles to Israel. I don't want my tax dollars being spent to backstop apartheid and genocide when they could be used to provide things like glasses or health care or schools for our own kids. And I worry that a lot of times people want to use the word anti-Semitism to spread to defend a foreign government. And I think it's just really important for us. us to differentiate between those two because I don't want to be held accountable to what another government does simply because I share ethnicity with the people who live there, and I know the same for my Jewish sisters and brothers.

You've got support of Bernie Sanders and a lot of other progressives in the caucus. My favorite Jewish uncle. There are more moderates in the Democratic Party who are worried that if primary voters elect you in Michigan, they're going to lose that seat. I guess how will you feel if you are elected, the general election happens, and it goes to Mike Rogers. Well, we're going to do everything we can. I mean, I can't even dignity.

I dignify that with the response. First off, his answer there, by talking about critiquing Egypt, I think is brilliant. I think it's just brilliant. That is a 10 of 10 answer. How are you going to feel if you lose, knowing that there are some people who think that you're going to lose? You imagine that question having been asked of like Barack Obama

when he was running for president? Isn't that what a race is? I don't understand the question. Also, moderates don't have exactly a stellar record on a particular state level politics over the past 15 years. Exactly. My God.

You just never hear that in any other context. Asking Wembe, if you guys lose the final. No, but I'm saying, in politics. No, I know, but just it's just absurd. It's a stupid question. It is, it's like a push poll. All right. In a moment, we're going to be talking to Ben Freeman, author and director of the democratizing foreign policy program at the Quincy Institute about new provision snuck into

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of the democratizing foreign policy program at the quincy institute um and uh ben you have a piece up as of just a couple of days ago about Congress's attempt to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries as a way of essentially sidestepping aid. This is based upon a report that I know that you help work on by a colleague of yours at the Quincy Institute, Steve Simon, that he wrote a couple of days. earlier entitled the disappearing aid check. Let's start with like what what is the nature of the aid that we give Israel today? Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Sam. And thanks for having me back. Always great to talk with you. The nature of the Israel aid package today, it falls under what's

called a memorandum of understanding where we basically agree to send Israel almost $4 billion of military assistance every year. Now, a big chunk of that's a lot of. A lot of that comes right back to the U.S., you know, they're required to buy stuff from U.S. defense contractors. But besides, which is hundreds of millions of dollars stays in Israel and helps to, it is effectively a subsidy for their defense industry there. Now, the key to the aid model is there's congressional oversight of it. Every year, you know, there's a vote on this aid package. Members of Congress upset with Israel can potentially hold it up or can potentially attempt

to block all of it. And we should just add to that. I mean, so necessarily it's also, there's not a direct public control over it, but it is transparent enough so that we have a say, at least in that public opinions against Israel, that's going to impact the behavior of our Congress people. That's exactly right. And critically, the public can get involved. They can yell at their member of Congress to block the aid package to hold it up because

they're upset, and they can do it before the aid goes out. under this new model that we just learned a couple hours ago, breaking news on this, is that Netanyahu himself came up with this initiative. There's a resolution that was just introduced in the house. That says it gives Netanyahu himself credit for initiating this. What this does is it takes all of that, the openness of it, and it puts it into this defense integration model, which would effectively try and merge to a very significant,

extent the Israeli military industrial complex within the U.S. military industrial complex. And what that means for transparency is, you know, all that stuff about calling your member of Congress, they won't work anymore. You know, Congress is not going to have a say in this. This is going to be within the Department of Defense, the Pentagon bureaucracy, is going to handle all of this merger with the Israeli military. Okay. So walk us through how this happens because Congress doesn't have a, a line item veto of the the Pentagon's budget, right? Like they get the way that they vote on national defense is through one big NDAA, essentially,

which is like authorizes, it's a budget for the military, but it's so vast that you can stick a bunch of stuff in there. and it's tough if you vote against it. I mean, it's not that tough, but it's tough for, it's designed in a way to essentially almost like blackmail. It may be a strong word, but congressional leaders, because inevitably there's something coming to their district

from that bill, or they're going to be attacked as being, you know, you want our troops to have. no guns or something like that. So how do they integrate it? I mean, they're not literally integrating the militaries, but they're integrating the whole procurement process, the funding process. What is it?

Yeah, yeah, it's exactly right. And the bill we're talking about here, it is the National Defense Authorization Act, but it's the defense policy bill. You know, this is must-pass legislation every year. It's over 500 pages this year. And what we're talking about, what was snuck in here for Israel,

It's just four pages of this. But what this does, it's very much a Trojan horse. And it proposes co-production, licensing agreements. It proposes effectively merging the Israeli military sector, their military industrial sector with the U.S. military sector. And it does it across several domains. Basically every battlefield of the future you can think of. AI, cyber, energy weapons. you name it, drones, missile defense, and on and on, it proposes that across all these different

fields that we start working with Israel directly. U.S. defense firms start working with Israeli firms directly. And it also has two key phrases that I think are particularly troubling. There's our network integration and data fusion. And now talking to cybersecurity experts about this, they have told me that that effectively means we are going to embed our our military's data with Israel's data. And that's just a process you can't unwind. You can't just say it's like, oh, okay, you know, our data's are connected now. And, you know, if Israel does something bad, we're going to turn the switch off and do it.

You know, according to cybersecurity experts, you know, that's just impossible in some cases or it could take years in other cases. And so how do they get the money? So these things are integrated. if we is the idea if like we give money for Boeing to develop a fighter jet or something Israel's defense industry is also has part of that contract. I mean, how would it work in practice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've kind of laid out at least one of the cases there where we would see.

You'd see, you know, we have a historic level of defense department funding. already. You know, my colleague Bill Hartzog and I just wrote the trillion-dollar war machine, and now Trump's asking for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. You know, so there's an enormous piggy bank there. What this would do is allow Israel to get direct access to all of those Pentagon contracting dollars. And so they would work with the Bowings of the world. They'd work with the Raytheons, the RTXs, a lot of defense tech startups. And so really, it's another big distinction with the aid model. The aid model was. cap at that, you know, 3.8, 3.9 billion figure, this model would be limits. You know,

in the past few years, we've had a majority of the Pentagon budget, hundreds of billions of dollars going to defense contractors. This would allow Israel to get a huge chunk of that pie. So it's not clear exactly how much we're talking here, but I think it's fair to say would be significantly more U.S. taxpayer dollars going to Israel and Israeli firms under this new model than under the military assistance mob. So would it be something like, okay, Boeing's getting this $10 billion, I don't know, it's probably more, a $10 billion contract to build this helicopter, attack helicopter, or drone or so.

And but they're subcontracting out the radar aspect of it or the weapon aspect of it. and they'll go to an Israeli company, they'll develop it, and it'll be sort of like jointly owned, I guess, the technology. And then it's just a question of Israel. We'll take five of those that. And we've got the money has come through this company that is partly Israeli owned by the government, even conceivably. I mean, is that essentially it? Like, we're just going to be, it's crazy. It's crazy, and it's really at every level of the system, too.

You know, the bill specifies, you know, all the way down to, you know, the research and design phase of process. R&D, they want our defense industrial complex collaborating with theirs all the way up to kind of the end case you're talking about where we've worked together to create some new fantastic weapon together and we're jointly co-producing that. it's called. So the bill doesn't pull any punches. It says at every point in this process, this bill wants us working directly with Israel's military industrial complex. Is there anything, any relationship that we have that's even analogous to this? Because I mean, just, it's hard for me to imagine wanting to do this with such, without any type of limiting principle, which there doesn't seem to be one in this. from a national security standpoint, I wouldn't want to necessarily do this with anybody. I mean, aside from like the issues of the genocide, the apartheid, the problematic nature of Israel,

I don't know if I'd want to even do this necessarily with Canada because it's just a national security question. You can't control the back door of this. You don't have any way of policing, even where that technology goes after it gets shared. Right, right. I mean, if you take the word Israel out of this conversation and you just say, would you want to merge the U.S. military with any foreign military, would you want to give them the keys to the Pentagon? I think everybody says no.

You know, you know, that's not something we want to do. And to your question, Sam, of what's analogous to this? You know, there are some parts of our cooperation with other countries, you know, NATO, our Ocas relationship with the UK and Australia that contain parts of this. But I think arguably, there is nothing that would rise to the level of the integration that we're proposing with Israel, because it includes everything, intelligence, again, data fusion. You're talking about integrating networks together. We just don't do that with anybody else, even our most trusted partners. And so why would we do that with Israel right now when we just learned that the president of the United

States called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyat Yahoo effing crazy on a call this week. And yet we're going to get more entwined with Israel than we ever have. I'm a little skeptical. I should just say I'm a little skeptical of stories like that after hearing them from the Biden administration because all we know, it could have been like, you're effing crazy in the way that somebody would talk about last night. I can't believe this guy was dancing on the bar and it's fantastic. That's why I love you, brother. But, but so, okay, do we know how these four pages got in? This is the 2027 NDAA. A, when does that come up for a vote? Do we know how those four pages got in there and do we know

how those four pages can get out? Yeah, I mean, a couple ways they got in, you know, this is from the chairman's mark, not to get too nerdy, but this is the chairman's mark of the NDA. So this is basically the chairman of that committee, Rogers. He puts this out. And then tomorrow, you know, our timing is impeccable with this conversation. On Thursday, there's a markup of this bill. So we're going to get to vote. Members of the House Orn Services Committee are going to get to vote on amendments to this.

And we've already heard directly from Roe Connie's publicly announced this on social media that he's going to introduce an amendment to strip this out of the NDAA. And now if that gets knocked out, if that doesn't succeed, Thomas Massey has already publicly said, he's going to introduce an amendment in the full House when it comes there to strip it out of there. And we're going to have folks on the Senate side. This is going to come up in the Senate too. So we're going to have one battle after another here. But the big, big fight, first fight at least, is going to be in the House Armed Services Committee tomorrow. So, you know, call your members of Congress.

If they're on half, please tell them, you know, to support Cona's amendment. let's get this stripped out of there before it starts um and this this feels like a provision that is just going to keep coming back and coming back each year until they can figure out a way of getting it through but i would imagine today in this version um and this is something they're planning for what like september vote and and uh is that where they're aiming for um in terms of like when this would actually get to the floor uh likely likely september they have more We're ambitious plans than that to get it done this summer. But realistically, Congress makes plans and then goes on vacation.

So, you know, September is probably a more realistic timeline for finalization of all this. I got to imagine that right now is the best shot they have to pass something like this because it definitely feels like in both parties, the trend is away from this type of cooperation in support of Israel. I mean, it's indicative of that fact, though, isn't it? Like, the reason why you bury it in this way, as opposed to due aid, is so that you don't have to actually make it a political question anymore. Right. I think that's exactly right. This is a strategic move from Netanyahu in the Israel lobby. You know, they know, they're reading the tea leaf. They're reading the polls and seeing this unprecedented level of public distrust in

Netanyahu's government. And so they know that this aid is going to be under more pressure than it ever has been before. So they're doing what a lot of folks do in Washington. If you can't win the public fight, take it privately. You know, use your lobbyists, use your special interest to try to sneak this through. And I think that's why it's important right now for the public to really jump up and tell them how concern they are about U.S. Israel and military cooperation and tell your member of Congress not to vote for this. All right. Well, will Brian, will put a list of Congress people, Republican and Democrat, because I think even in the Republican Party, they're starting to get some pressure, at least from younger voters, about this.

And we'll put it in the podcast and YouTube description, a list of those people and maybe the general hotline to Congress so that people can just voices. because they don't i would imagine they don't get a lot of feedback at this at this point when things are going into markup uh in the armed services committee uh and so every little bit helps the the israel lobby is really upset that we've made us think of this so uh let's irritate him a little more yeah i was going to say i don't think you guys are probably on their uh their their list of favorite people uh ben freeman uh the book is the trillion dollar war machine, how runaway military spending drives America

into foreign wars and bankrupts us at home. And the peace is the U.S. and Israeli militaries Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries. We'll put a link to that and the Steve Simon

brief as well. And again, we'll put a list of the members of the Armed Service Committee. Call your Congress people there. And then just call your Congress people and tell them to support an amendment to strip this out if it actually makes it out of committee. Ben Freeman, again, thanks so much for your time today. I really appreciate it.

Always a pleasure, Sam. Thank you. All right, folks. That does it for us today, at least in the free part of the program. We've got a lot of stuff to get to in the fun half today. Can you ask Ben where he got his bookshelf? Great interview, by the way, says Popax. Galactic nurse boogers. You're effing crazy.

I can't believe you killed hundreds of thousands of people, including medical professionals, press, women, and children, and targeted strikes. That's why I love you, brother. Trump to Net Yahoo. This is an update on the Montana Senate bankhead saying she has no intention of dropping out. You may want to give it a day or two. Let's see. She might not.

And also, it could be a negotiation point. But that she is the one that tester supported. So presumably he knows something. Maybe he thinks that she wouldn't siphon votes off of the independent. Maybe she runs on the Republican platform. Who knows? Reese from Tacoma says, if you could confirm there was more Dave Rubin clowning in the fun half,

I bet you get 300 new subscribers. subscribers. Maybe what we'll do is we will have a subscriber drive. Like if we get, I don't know. Every new 100 Twitch subs, we do five minutes of Dave Rubin. Oh, my God. I would do five minutes of Dave Rubin for 50 new Twitch subs. Now we're at 1-27-198, 127,198. Well, that's followers. That's followers. I wish we had that many paid subs. Like a son or something. Oh, yeah, where do you see that? Flying jet packs around. I don't know, we'll keep an eye on it, though, but... Mr. Fun,

today is my grandmother's 90th birthday. Can she get a Master Yoda orgasm? Coming right up. The show has gone so downhill. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, grandma. You feel just like Al Roker. It's your, I actually got my uncle, Saul, who Saul was named after, on his 104th birthday, or 100th birthday on Al Roker.

Are you serious? Yep. You're going to live forever, aren't you? Me? I don't know if I will. Get some good genes. We're going to do a couple of guests on this, but before I go, like, in the past, like, two weeks, There has been incredible medical breakthroughs on cancer, largely MRNA.

I'm assuming in other countries this research? No, no. I mean, oddly enough. Fauci trying to save me from cancer. Oddly enough. I'm not exactly sure, but like major, major cancer breakthroughs, breakthroughs in arterial disease, is that what you call it? like to lower your

glp i don't uh not your uh to lower your end there's new glp ones that are coming out that are supposedly um also like very helpful in terms of longevity and whatnot just in the past uh week now of course all of those people are probably like leaving the united states or it'll be a really expensive subscription service

by a private company that Yeah, one of them is for type 1 diabetes. We got to get somebody on to talk about this because we're literally living in an era where we have to argue about medicine being good. Well, you know my conspiracy theory about the anti-vaxxers was like they were, some of them maybe even wouldn't lead secretly knowing that they were helping protect that as a private asset for companies even though it was publicly developed, things like MRNA. even though we should keep those types of things in a more public sphere. When you create this sort of like insanity that says actually they want to kill us and make us die earlier and suddenly by... It's that much harder for the government to, I mean... To argue that we should be taking a stewardship role in this and be spreading it and making it available to people.

I will say that the argument was like the real question. when that when the vaccine was rolled out was like hey wait a second why isn't this free yep or why why didn't we retain the patent like why don't we have a why couldn't we go in and say to a company like um you know the one that paired with uh Pfizer from Germany on the on their COVID vaccine I can't remember the name they're a smaller company they they They, no, I can't remember. But they, they partner with Pfizer because Pfizer has all the cash. But you know who else has the cash?

We have the cash. And so why can't we go out and contract a pharmaceutical company to develop stuff for us? Yeah, it was bio-intech. and they're German company, but I'm saying I'm sure we have analogous ones in this country. Why get the U.S. government going and go like, oh, you need $3 billion to develop this very quickly? Here's $3 billion. In fact, here's $3.2. You keep the two.

Use the $3 billion. The two is your profit. Use the $3 billion to develop it. And then guess what? We own it. And then the cost of it is zero or two bucks a person because we got to pay for the refrigeration or whatever it is. That conversation went away very quickly when it was like, it's dangerous.

It's not effective. It's not doing anything. And then, of course, it just creates like the entire, frankly, conservative movement, right? 25 years ago, they're like, oh, we're going to use the racism. We're going to use the conspiracy. But that's for the rubs. That just gives us control. And then 20 years later, it's like, oh, you guys, you guys are gone now.

You guys are dinosaurs. The whole party's become what you created because you created Frankenstein. And now Frankenstein is chasing the doctor around. you know. Frankenstein has the pitchfork. I mean, it's just interesting how a guy like Jay Betacharya, who is the anti-Vaxor's favorite at the

Brownstone Institute, goes on all these podcasts to talk about how bad lockdowns were. And now is CDC and NIH director? I mean, what do we think he's doing there? He's making America healthy again. CDC had to ask for volunteers to go do

the Ebola screening. At the start of COVID, Jay Betichari. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. He wrote a thing about it. You probably only two or three days training to make sure that you don't spread Ebola. Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it. But the case against Medicare for All is what he wrote in the 2020.

But it was nice to see a bunch of leftists, anti-vacc idiots, platform him. And now he's running the CDC and NIH. Great job, guys. Oh, yeah, we've got a good clip of Dr. Oz, figuring out what insurance is. It's like crudeate? Folks, it's your support that makes a show possible. You can become a member at Join the Major Report.com. When you do, you only get the free show free of commercially.

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Had him on Left Reckoning talk about New York politics. David Griscom and I also talked about Norman Finkelstein upside and a lot of the red brown type Tucker Carlson fluffers. Oh, yeah, we should play that clip. Yeah. It's been requested by Emma for me to save it for tomorrow. Are you serious? Maybe we save it for Friday.

You guys can both get the clip. She did that surreptitiously. That's why I wasn't on the list yesterday. No, that was just my fault. That was purely just skipped over it on accident. I like how she asked you. Sounds like Brian's falling on his story. She asked you.

She asked you when I wasn't around. I truly did skip it yesterday on accident. Patreon.com says left record. The eternal politics of majority report. Sound shit. Quick break. Fun half. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months.

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