The Young Turks - Major Fauci Ouchie - July 28, 2026

Episode Date: July 29, 2026

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Has just been, you know, not good. I'm so upset. Oh my god. But guys. Thank you, Granite Kasparian with you guys. Good to be back. So huge day ahead for you guys. So we've got interesting developments in the Dr. Fauci story. I know a little bit random, but I was surprised by some of the things we found out.

We'll get to that in a little bit. I think one of the most important elections is right around the corner. And that's Abdul al-Said versus Haley Stevens in Michigan. That's for the Senate seat. Who will win that Senate seat, Israel or America? That's on the line, obviously. And then we've got updates on the U.S. disaster unfolding inside the Democratic Party.

So a lot to get to. And then after the show, Operation Joy, I went to the Galapagos Islands, which I considered to be sacred ground. And I'm going to show you some of the pictures and some of the mating rituals. So stay around for that at 8 o'clock Eastern. And then, of course, tonight for the members, we have old school. animals be having fun with their mating adventures. They do, they do.

They have these intricate dances and we caught it on tape and it's awesome. So all right, so we have a lot to, we have a lot to get to. Okay, so but of course, most importantly, war. So let's start here. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The pair are expected to discuss the war in Iran and the next steps forward in this conflict. We know the New York Post reports that Netanyahu will share intelligence with the president about Pickax Mountain next to the Natanz's nuclear facility.

Well, I don't need BB to tell me that. BB's telling me that because he wants me to stay involved. I mean, I don't necessarily. We have the finest because of space force. We have the greatest cameras in the world focused on. We know exactly what's going on. Fascinating developments. Both Benjamin Nanyahu and Zelensky are in town.

They're both arguing for more war and now potentially emerged war. Ukraine war and the Iran war coming together in an unexpected way. And of course if BB's in town, you're always gonna get arguments for more and more war. Trump seems a little bitter about it. Is it real? Well, let's find out, Anna. Well, look, let's begin with Trump's meeting with Netanyahu in the White House. This is now the eighth meeting that Trump has had with Netanyahu.

And as you saw in that video, Trump does seem irritated by the constant pressure. that is placed on him by the Israelis, by Netanyahu to continue being involved in a war that has turned into a quackmire. Of course, this is the war against Iran. And I think it is worth listening to what Trump had to say in fuller context. Now, take it with a great assault because Trump is a liar, but sometimes he has these moments of clarity, sometimes he's a little candid. And I do think he sounds genuinely annoyed with Netanyahu in this clip.

Take a look. There are reports now that Netanyahu's going to talk to you about ongoing excavation at Pickax Mountain, construction vehicles entering and exiting tunnels, paving new access roads, satellite imagery and intel indicates that Iran is actively constructing and fortifying pickax mountain. How will we respond? Well, I don't need Beebe to tell me that. Beebe is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved. I mean, I don't necessarily. We have the finest because of the space force. We have the greatest cameras in the world focused on.

We know exactly what's going on. But now I heard BB announce that. I said, why do you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world? I know exactly what's going on at pickax. It's not a big problem. We took out there nuclear sites and we'll have to take out pickax if we don't make a deal. We don't make a deal.

We'll take it out very easily. Now, as I shared with you all this week, the Trump administration has listened to some of the advisors within the White House who have been urging Trump to put a pause on the bombings because of the fact that the United States is running low on interceptor missiles. So what's interesting here is that, you know, some might think is this really an end to the war, at least the kinetic action that's taking place? I personally don't think that is what is something that we can look forward to. I think the war will continue.

In fact, Trump told Axios, he is still considering resuming a large scale military campaign if negotiations fail, such a move would likely include a joint military campaign with Israel, similar to Operation Epic Fury, at the outset of the war. However, Netanyahu's visit does come several days after Trump paused U.S. strikes on Iran and announced that his envoys are trying again to negotiate some sort of peace deal or a new MOU potentially. Only late Friday did Israel learn that Trump had decided to hold fire. the Israelis are bitter about that. And Trump also said something about Israel on Fox News that is sure to get under the Israeli

skin. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's what I mean. Now, when I took out General Soleimani, my first term, that set them back because I think they would have fought in a different manner. I'll tell you what, if he were around, maybe he would have had the nuclear. We stopped the nuclear with the B2, and I stopped it also. And I ended when I terminated that horrible deal made by Obama, they called the Iran nuclear deal.

It was the worst, dumbest deal. It was a road to a nuclear weapon. And if they had a nuclear weapon, you wouldn't have Israel around. Frankly, if I weren't president of the United States, Israel today would not exist. If Trump weren't the president of the United States, Israel today would not exist. And you know, like Israel is happy to take our money. is happy to watch our soldiers die in their wars. But Israel loves to pretend as if they could totally be self-sufficient, self-reliant, without

any help from the United States. They are a country that exists, they're able to exist independently, except they're not. So whenever a politician, like Trump, for instance, says Israel wouldn't exist without the United States, they get really spicy about that. Yeah, okay, well, go around your own country then. You're a grown-up country. Ukraine's a grown-up country, but no, no, they look, why are they in? They're in town for Lindsey Graham's funeral, right?

So even Lindsey Graham's funeral is causing more wars. So they're taking as an opportunity to both of them do a pincere move and going, give me more, give me more war, more money, more military help. Well guys, if you love war so much and you're so independent and wonderful, et cetera, why don't you go fight your own wars? I know, outrageous. In Washington, that is an outrageous thought to have that these countries would fight for themselves instead of making us die for them.

So at least Ukraine doesn't ask us to die, they just ask for our money. So look, Anna, I'm done trying to guess as to whether Trump means it or doesn't mean it about his anger towards Netanyahu. Look, there's things we know and things we don't know, and then I throw my hands up on everything else, right? So the things we know is, of course, Zelensky and Netanyahu want endless war, endless, endless, They want us to finance it and Israel wants us to fight it. That's clear, they're never gonna stop pushing for war. Israel's gonna try several different ways to get to war, persuasion, media pressure, you know,

and that's why Netanyahu leaked to the New York Post. That's why Trump is annoyed at him. He said, if you got an issue with their nuclear programs or you have intelligence, I don't want you to tell me, what are you telling the whole world for? And what he's pointing out is that Netanyahu is trying to create pressure on Trump to go back into the war and Rupert Murdoch is the most lunatic radical Zionists probably in the world. And so he always, the Israelis always use his publications, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News to push for more war.

They get Trump on there like, aren't you gonna do more war, more war, otherwise you're weak and you're coward and all that stuff. So we've seen this movie a thousand times. We also know that we're running out of interceptor missiles. Ben Shapiro the other day was livid about that making. it into the news, he's like, shut up. The American people are not to know that their military is in danger and their troops are in danger. Otherwise, they might not have them die for Israel.

Oh my God, it's so good to have you back. You have no idea. That post on X by Ben Shapiro was so loathsome and disgusting. He was more angry about the fact that the media is reporting about the reality of our depleted missile interceptors than he was about the fact. that our soldiers are getting killed fighting a war on behalf of Israel. Come on, guys. It's amazing to me. It's amazing.

So look, we know, of course, anybody that's conscious understands that guys like Ben Shapiro and Mark live in care about Israel a billion times more than they care about America. I don't think they care about America at all, actually. Just think that they view us as like a dumb mule to whip every once in a while to do Israel's, you know, duties and wars, et cetera. Come on, everybody knows that. If you're denying that, you're on a different planet. It's not worth talking to people who aren't being honest, right?

So that doesn't mean that applies to everyone who's in favor of Israel, it's certainly, or anyone who's, well, if you're in favor of this war, you're either the dumbest guy in the country or you're for Israel, right? But you're not for America, nobody in America wants this war. And then we keep having this nonsense conversations about their nuclear program. I'm so tired of going over it. You know, he's again, Trump in one of those Fox News appearances talking about how Obama made a terrible Like he, Obama had stopped their nuclear program.

The only reason we got out of that deal was so that there could be a nuclear program to use as an excuse to go in a war. But now we're at the same loggerheads we've been at for months, which is if we keep going further, especially with the low interceptor missiles, we're in grave danger. Now you see more and more casualties mounting, right? No matter how much they try to hide it. And we're, and for a second there, the market was like, oh wow, oh yeah, right, we're in the middle of a war that involves oil and it started dipping, right?

Now the schmucks are here from Trump, oh no, don't worry about it. We pause fighting. No, we didn't, we bombed them again yesterday. So then the markets go back up. So look, it's gonna be economic and military and human disaster for us if we continue. It's been the case for a long time. But there's no force more powerful on earth, honestly, than the Israeli lobby. So it's all of America versus the Israeli lobby.

And by the way, miraculously, I have it at a tie now, which be in the past, the Israeli lobby would easily mull every American voter, would win in a landslide. But this war is so disastrous, it's gotten to about a tie. And Americans are awake, and that's the one thing that's been giving me hope. So there is a monkey wrench that is worth mentioning here, and that has to do with Zelensky, who was also here for Lindsey Graham's funeral, but also let's keep it real. an excuse to meet with Donald Trump, and that's exactly what he did. So let's talk about that meeting

a little bit. So Ukrainian president of Lodomir Zelensky met with President Trump at the White House today. Zelensky was in town for Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral. Now, Trump appears to have significantly warmed to Zelensky, and it's not an accident. As I shared with you all yesterday, Zelensky had carried out a strike against an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea and argued that it was a justified strike because he alleged that Iran was sending Shahid missiles to Russia, which Russia uses against Ukraine. Now, Iran says that they were shipping steel to Russia. There's no way of me confirming who's telling the truth. But nonetheless, this is obviously an escalation involving Ukraine, kind of getting themselves involved in this war, even as they have their hands full,

attempting to fight off Russia and the ongoing invasion that Russia carried out beginning in 2022. Now, the Ukrainian president has tried to charm Trump quite a bit, and it's part of this concerted campaign by European leaders to improve Trump's relationship with Zelensky, so he will be more willing to help supply weaponry to Ukraine to fight Russia. But more importantly, Trump has come to admire Ukraine's drone industry, especially its ability to defend against the same drones. The US faces in the Iran war. Trump, a senior administration official said, likes winners.

And Zelensky in the US president's estimation is increasingly looking like one. And look, that is a huge change, a complete 180 from what we saw with Trump and Zelensky in that Oval Office meeting just last year, where Trump essentially called Zelensky a dictator. You had J.D. Vance essentially telling Zelensky that he needs to be grateful. It was a very tense and awkward moment. Trump had even paused all weapons and intelligence sharing with Ukraine following that meeting. Now things are different. Republicans on Capitol Hill, including Senator Graham, worked overtime to basically patch things

up between Trump and Zelensky, and it seems like he made quite a bit of progress doing that. Trump was impressed by, there was a heavyweight Ukrainian boxer who visited him in the White House, the Oval Office specifically. This was last month before the ultimate fighting championship cage match at the White House. So Alexander Ussick is his name. Usik told Trump that Ukrainians are fighters and winners, you know, just basically using the kind of rhetoric that tends to appeal to Trump. And apparently he made a good impression on him, especially after he gave Trump a signed boxing glove. The two men bonded over their love for the late Muhammad Ali. And so at that point, you know, Trump was starting to warm up to supporting Ukraine more in their fight against Russia.

Trump now sees Putin in a less favorable light. According to two people familiar with his views, Trump's desire to improve U.S. drone warfare, though, is really what has a lot to do with this. Okay, like, yeah, you can butter Trump up, but he likes cookies. So what kind of cookies can you give us? And believe it or not, despite the fact that we're spending already over truly, billion dollars a year on our military, the United States is shockingly behind when it comes to when it comes to drone technology. And so Trump is seeking to learn and to get some of that

technology for our own purposes. Trump announced at the NATO summit as well that the US would consider granting Kyiv a license to produce US Patriot missile interceptors. And he expressed interest in joining with Ukraine on drone production. And yeah, look, there's a lot more to share with you. Like, for instance, the Ukrainians have been defending against Iranian-made Shahid suicide drones, fending off the types of attacks that apparently the U.S. military is dealing with as well in the Middle East. Over the course of the war, Ukraine has transformed into a military drone a powerhouse. It went from producing around 5,000 drones a year in 2022 to millions a year in 26, according to data from Ukraine's government. And yeah, that's... I want to tell you about a new

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He wants something out of this relationship and he sees this as a potentially beneficial relationship. And that's, I guess, fine. But what I'm more worried about, Jank, is this war against Iran snoburn snobes. No bawling into something much greater, something much bigger that puts the lives of Ukrainian civilians at even more risk and more danger. Because the fact of the matter, guys, and I've said this on the show before, I'll say it again, we are low on interceptors, we are unable to supply Ukraine with the interceptors.

They take years to make. So even if Trump gives them the license to build their own, it will take years to make. This is a huge gamble by Zelensky, and it does appear like he's trying to merge the war. Yeah. What do you think? Yeah, so I'm kind of burying the lead here because I think there's two huge things here. Number one, I'm done officially with supporting the Ukrainians war. So it's been a long time now.

I don't know, they seem like they've been at war for about 18 years now. So the reason I was in favor of it, because Russia attacked them. It was definitely Russian aggression. Yes, there were reasons and excuses, et cetera. Bottom line is you attack someone like Israel attacks Lebanon. It's for Israel's fault. Russia attacks Ukraine, it's Russia's fault. So number two, we had promised the Ukrainian's defense when we had them give up their nuclear weapons.

Okay, but now we've supported you for about 87 years in a row in this war. There's a limit to how long we can go. What if the war goes for two centuries? Do we still owe you, right? So now the second issue is that Ukraine has now become basically Israel. Now, why do I say that? We're a rare show that talks about this phenomenon. It's really important.

Remember, Russia was helping Iran and Syria. Israel needed Russia distracted so they could topple Bashar al-Assad. Oh wait, that happened, didn't it? It did, yeah. During the Ukraine-Russia war, and that Iran couldn't be helped when Iran was attacked. Oh, right, that also happened during the Ukraine-Russia war. So Ukraine and Israel working together to keep Russia busy so that Israel can attack its neighbors and take more territory.

So before that was apparent to people who were paying attention, now it's more than apparent. It's obvious because Ukraine is literally joining the war and attacking Iran, right? Yes, and in fact, Jank, just to provide some receipts to bolster what you're saying here, you guys all need to read the 2018 paper that was put out by the RAND Corporation called Overextending Russia. It's basically the anti-Russia version of the anti-Palestinian clean break memo. But it's even more overt, it's even more candid about what the game plan is. You get what I'm saying?

So Russia invading was wrong, but I think that it's a mistake to think that Russia invaded for no reason at all and that there was no provocation in the lead up to that, especially as it pertains to, you know, the very overt discussions that were taking place at these international conferences about Ukraine joining NATO. Yeah, so look, I hope to God that Trump is done within Yahoo and I just told you, I think it's 50-50, right? And that we try to get out of this war memorandum of understanding all that, right? But remember, even if that's true, there's still a 50% chance that this war continues

and actually increases escalates, right? That's a 50% chance at World War III. That's the lead that we're burning and everybody's burning. Why do I say it? Now, I never said World War III before. A lot of people said World War III in many different instances, and I thought it was hyperbolic, okay? But wait a minute now. So now we have Iran and Israel and America war, but also Lebanon and the Palestinians, kind of, although they have no weapons.

They're just there to get slaughtered. And then the Houthis join in with Iran and now Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. And remember, Iran attacked the Gulf countries. So now, you know, Kuwait and even Georgia. and let alone the Gulf countries like UAE, etc, are involved, Bahrain. So now there's already a gigantic war, and then Ukraine comes in and hits Iran. So now Ukraine is on the side of Israel and theoretically America, or at least the American president, and now Russia's on the side of Iran.

But wait, it gets worse because Lindsey Graham's last act was demanding that we do sanctions against China and India for doing trade with Russia. So they're now putting China and India on the other side of the war, potentially, right? They haven't taken any physical action yet, Connecticut action yet. But now we're financially putting them on the other side of that. This is not, this is not anywhere near an exaggeration to say, yeah, this is what a world war looks like. In fact, now that it appears the United States is increasingly overextended, North Korea is openly talking about making moves to reconnect with South Korea.

Oh, super interesting. Yeah, that's in the news as well. Maybe I'll do a deeper story on that tomorrow. But yeah, I am worried because this war against Iran has already snowballed. And what's even more concerning is the various individuals involved in promoting. supporting support toward Ukraine. And one of those people happens to be Laura Lumer, who recently did a complete 180 on Ukraine. And I want to show you a little of what she had to say during her meeting with Zelensky

and what she felt after her visit. Take a look. I've received messages all day from different people in media and politics and people just who follow me online who said, wow, I didn't realize how much we've been lying to. Wow, you really opened my eyes or wow, that I had no idea that they had tougher anti-Semitism laws in Ukraine than they have in the United States, right? And people really honestly believe in the United States that this is a country run by Nazis and that this country is full of Nazis. That's what people believe. And I mean, I was shocked, too. I had no idea.

I came here and I had to learn all this information myself, but I was consuming media that was propaganda. So during her trip to Ukraine, Laura Lumer toured the Skyfall drone facility, which Senator Lindsey Graham has had visited shortly before he died. And the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump and Lumer have talked on the phone several times since her trip. She explained her change of heart by saying she was tricked by Russian propaganda and praised Zelensky as a wartime leader and an essential ally. And political playbook, by the way, reported something today that I think is, is extremely concerning because Laura Lumer already has a lot of influence over the Trump

administration and it looks like she's seeking more. They write that Lindsey Graham's death has left Washington debating who might take on his mantle as the influential and effective war hawk in President Donald Trump's ear because apparently there aren't enough. Laura Lumer apparently raises her hand, has a name in mind. Lumer told Politico, maybe that person has to be me. I I'm not saying I'm going to run for Senate, but I would like to serve as an envoy for President Trump. Yeah, so here's my sense of what's happened, because Laurel Luma is such an interesting wildcard.

So when you see Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin talking, they almost always have the exact Israeli talking point that Nanyahu is trying to put out that Rupert Murdoch's media organizations put out. And by the way, U.S. congressmen and senators put out, you can see it and we track it, and it's identical. I believe those people are directly coordinating with the Israeli government. Now on the other hand, you have people who are loosely just love Israel, but I don't think are coordinating with the Israeli government like Jake Tapper, Dan Abash, et cetera. Their gut instinct is always, Israel is right, Muslims are the enemy, et cetera.

And so they help, but just because of, I think, their natural inclinations, etc. Then Lauren Loomer is an interesting one because you think like, wait, she's like more Israel first than anyone, right? Not exactly. So before, She hated India, she hated Ukraine, right? And then all of a sudden during the campaign, if you remember, 2024 campaign, Trump and Luma started hanging out a lot. And then there's the pictures of Trump holding Lumer, et cetera. Next to you know, Trump wins and Laura Lumer keeps going to the White House and firing people.

That's an extraordinary amount of power for a dingbat to have, let alone one that really has no audience. I don't even know what she does. Does she do a podcast? I don't even know, right? So she has like out of nowhere, one of the most radical people, social media influencer, I guess in the country, but with almost no followers. Yeah, she does a show on Rumble, I think.

Yeah, okay, I guess, okay. And she gets to go to the White House, she's like, I want that guy fired, that guy fired. But how does she even know who to fire? At that point, I believe she starts coordinating with the Israelis. Now this is my guess, we'll have to, if we ever get an honest American president, all this should be deeply investigated with no preconceived notions, but have the evidence, you know, dictate where it goes. And maybe, maybe I'm not right, right? But what I see with my eyes is all of a sudden she gains extraordinary power. Then she flips on India, goes to India and goes,

oh, India, we love you now. All of a sudden you love India. Why, Israel's trying to infiltrate India, right? I mean, they're open about it, yeah. Yeah, and they sent a whole bunch of influencers to India. Remember, you hate Muslims, hate Muslims, help us in destroying and murdering Muslims, right? So then she now extraordinary, I mean, she was so against Ukraine in that war. And maybe like in terms of being fervent and strident, maybe one of the most strident against Ukraine in that war. Now she flips on that total 180. And she's like, I'm hearing, I mean, I have concluded on my own that Israel's on Ukraine side.

So all of a sudden, we love Ukraine. There are no Nazis in Ukraine. Remember how I was telling you there was Nazis in Ukraine? No, no, no, no, no, no, there's only Israelis. I mean, our interest, American interests, wink. So I don't know what happened between Laura Lumer and Donald Trump. I don't know if that's affected anything else. But she right there is kind of admitting, look, Israelis always need a warmonger in Trump's ear at a bare minimum, right?

So now that our beloved Lindsey Graham has passed, and Lindsay, good job, you made it to the end without us releasing the tapes. Okay, now we need someone else to step in and be that asset, right? And here she's literally raising her hand now say, I'll be the Israeli asset. Oh, now we're friendly with India, now we love Ukraine and the war? Great, now we love the Ukraine war. Why? Because now Israel, not now. She now realizes Israel loves Ukraine.

And by the way, this is a funny, a little bit ironic compliment to Laura Lumer that she wasn't always in the tank for Israel. Like she... Are you sure? I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, no, no, because if she was getting the same coordinated orders that appears Shapiro and Levin and the others are getting... No, Shapiro's a real believer.

He doesn't need orders. Like... I know, but he has the same exact talking points. No, okay, that's fair. Right? Yeah. But before Lumer didn't seem to have the talking points because she was against Ukraine and she was against India, right?

Lumber's a mental patient. Like, I don't... And my guess is that she was, that the Israelis didn't use her, even though she loved Israel because she's an escape mental patient, right? Yeah. But once she became so close to Trump, they realized that's a useful person. Yeah. Okay?

And Laura Luma also cares deeply about money. And so that's another thing that should be looked into at some point if, if we ever have an honest American president again. Right. Well, when we come back from the break, we're gonna switch gears entirely and talk a little bit about whether or not those strikes on those fishermen boats in the Caribbean had any impact on the drug trade here in the United States. Spoiler alert, it didn't. So let's go to our members on t.yat.com. I'm reading these blind. Asimov prophes

nothing Trump says means anything, only what he does. Oh, no true words have been spoken. No wonder you're a prophet. George James 2965 says, Jenkin Anna, my dog Samantha is hashtag super happy you're both back. She missed hearing both your voices. Well, oh, indeed. Hey Samantha. Lou B says using Ravid as a legitimate news source requires clearly expressed grain of salt. Yes, well, yes, Barack Ravid definitely has his issue. Stranks. Janks Tricep Fury says, Israel, go fend for yourself or give us our $300 billion back. Or both, that would be great.

Of course, it's anti-Semitic to ask for your money back. Michael Napin says, Israel, non-existing without Trump, is clearly Netanyahu sucking up to Trump. I don't even think Netanyahu could get those words out of his mouth, to be honest, right? So I think that's just Trump being Trump. He probably thinks the world couldn't exist without him. I mean, every time I think Biden caught up to him a narcissism back in the day, Trump says something, I'm like, no, all right, I got it. Biden will always be number two.

Netanyahu says after the meeting with Trump, I have just finished an excellent meeting with President Trump. When I say excellent, it's not just lip service. A conversation with full partnership, with mutual support, one of the best conversations I've ever had. Okay, yeah, we're doomed. And if the stock market had any sense at all, it would dive tomorrow. But we'll see what happens.

Boomer Dragon Cat, but it won't. They have no sense. Boomer Dragon Cat says, I wish I could carry Bart around in my pocket to put the background music to my life. I just love you. Man, that is a heavy compliment. That is awesome. Thank you for that on behalf of Bart.

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but really interesting developments. So it's been a month since the US Canada out of strike against a lot of the US Canada against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. But did the operation southern spear have any impact? Or is the cocaine traffic still very vibrant in the United States? Well, we have definitive answers with data and receipts. So I bring you in.

Yes. Well, the DEA has provided some commentary on this matter. And before we get to what the results really were, let's just talk about what the United States carried out and how many people died as a result. So for the past 11 months, Operation Southern Spear targeted narco-terrorists allegedly trying to traffic cocaine to the United States. Now, this campaign began September of 2025, and we struck 67 vessels destroying them, and at least 221 people have been killed. And you'll be shocked to find that killing these men, most of whom were very likely just fishermen, did nothing to stem the flow of cocaine coming into the United States. It had no impact at all. And in fact, when you get into the details,

you'll realize how outrageous this whole situation really is. So look, according to a report from the Washington Post, they did this investigative exclusive report, and here's what they found. DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire. Traffickers are also relying on aircraft, which has been the case for a while now, which take off from clandestine airstrips along the Colombian-Venezuelan border and head east to Guyana and Suriname to basically avoid U.S. forces, and that's according to what the DEA put out in their assessment.

So in a closed-door meeting with Pentagon officials and lawmakers last month, it was actually revealed that these strikes didn't even have an effect on the purity of cocaine. Because think about it, if these strikes were actually effective, if they were actually hitting drug traffickers, which by the way, you don't just slaughter suspected drug traffic. Okay, like that's not what we do. It's not what you should do. It's wrong to just kill people without any due process whatsoever. But what they noticed was, yeah, this cocaine, this cocaine, it's still real pure, which means that our operations haven't really limited the supply of cocaine coming into the United States.

So that's not good news, that's pretty bad news. And smugglers have adapted to the intensified pressure. price and availability have not been noticeably affected, according to the DA analyst report. But the Trump administration also claimed that they were attacking these boats for fentanyl, even though there was overwhelming evidence that fentanyl wasn't coming in from Venezuela. We all know where the fentanyl is coming from. The active ingredient for fentanyl comes from China, and then it is processed in Mexico and smuggled across the border. That's where fentanyl comes from.

However, based on what they found in this DEA report was based on pricing, there might in fact now be, I'm sorry, let's go back to cocaine. There might, in fact, now be more cocaine circulating in the United States. In Florida, cocaine is selling for $13,000 to $15,000 per kilogram, a senior DEA official said a drop of roughly 50% over the last five years. So it's actually become cheaper, meaning more cocaine is flooding into the country. And when it comes to fentanyl deaths, well, that was a real focus. But apparently they moved off of fentanyl after they realized that, oh yeah, it doesn't really

make sense to claim that fentanyl's coming from Venezuela when it's not. But fentanyl should have been the focus of trying to end drug trafficking into the country because cocaine was responsible for 20,000 overdose deaths last year in 2025. Sentinel killed more than 38,000 people. Meanwhile, the strikes have made investigating drug trafficking a lot more challenging, according to the DEA. Investigators typically rely on low level informants to provide intelligence on routes and meeting points to build cases against higher ranking managers and bosses.

Now those sources are being pulled back from the field, the current official said, to protect them from being killed in US attacks. And this is a story that was also. covered by drop site news and they wanted to delve a little deeper into the 221 people who were killed and what the administration is doing about the fact that they very likely killed innocent people. We'll get to that in just a minute, but I want to pause for comment from Yeah.

So look, there's one piece here that you should know that it gives a lot of this analysis a lot of credibility. So the DA found that once they started doing the strikes, in the first two months, actually the supply did go down and the price did go up, okay? But the drug traffickers immediately figured out different routes. And then as they're tracking this throughout, then the DAA sees, in the end, it didn't work at all. As Anna pointed out, the supply and we know that through seizures that we do is not only back

to where it was, but passed where it was. We'll give you some data on that in a second. And then the prices again back to where it was, but actually lower than it was. That means there's a higher supply than before. And the purity is still totally fine. So it's the same DA analyst that in the beginning we're like, hey, it's working. Then they're like, swang, wang, wang, it's not working. And my whole life, I've heard this nonsense about, oh, we're gonna get the supply and we're

gonna end the supply. And we haven't ended in 40, 50, 60 years, because that's not the way to deal with this problem. You really, I mean, come on, are we still having this conversation? so uneducated on this issue that they don't know, you can't stop the supply, it never works, we've done huge attacks. Colombia's government, Mexico's government, et cetera, has done huge attacks against the drug cartels. And for a minute, oh my God, we seized all these drugs, we burned all these drugs, we killed

all these cartel leaders. And by the way, in this round, we got, we kidnapped Nicholas Moduro, we hit the ships, we killed one of the largest cartel leaders in the world. And no result, nothing, right? It's never going to work. And the point isn't to actually get to win the drug war or to end the deaths in America from overdoses. The point is militarism.

The point is authoritarianism. That was a real point of these strikes. It wasn't really about doing something about drug trafficking. If the Trump administration or quite frankly any administration were actually serious about doing something about the overdose epidemic in the country, then you have to really consider why so many people are dying, you know, deaths of despair. That's really what drug overdose deaths are. I mean, in some cases, because of the flood of fentanyl into the country, fentanyl was being cut into other street drugs. And unfortunately, people ended up overdosing on fentanyl, not

knowing that they were taking fentanyl by using other drugs. And that's been absolutely devastating. But there is such high demand for these illegal drugs in the United States because people are looking to escape. So you as the president of the United States should ask yourself, why are people in the country that I lead so deeply miserable that they are risking overdose deaths in order to numb themselves from reality? That's what's really going on here. Because the cartels and the drug traffickers, they will find a way to get that, you know, to get the substance into the country. They're making a ton of money off of it. And I think what was really great about how honest that DEA report was, was that they were clear about that.

They're going to find a workaround. They're going to find a way to get the drugs into the country, and they have been. Yeah. So look, I said authoritarianism on top of militarism. Why that? Because now they're not drug dealers anymore, they're narco-terrorists. And now Stephen Miller and others in the Trump administration are saying, you know what? Now some activists in the left wing are also terrorists.

Of course. They're domestic terrorists. So we're expanding the definition of terrorism so that any crime, but also maybe any protest, is now terrorism, so that the central government has even more power. Now there's a great irony here because the right wing is theoretically and sometimes in reality worried about big government power, right? We certainly already have big government power. And what this does is says, no, no, no, no, no.

Even though this is totally useless and has never worked, no matter what, Democratic or Republican president, no, we need to give the government more power to do more deadly strikes without any judicial review, without any other review, and call everyone a terrorist, because big government is the answer. So this is how you get led into authoritarian military rule. That being said, I don't want anyone to mistake the way we're talking about this for us providing cover for actual drug traffickers who are trafficking drugs within the borders of the United States.

I think those people should be prosecuted. Like I think people who are addicted need help, they should not be criminalized, I think that they should be helped. But you got someone trafficking large volumes of fentanylux. or any illegal substance that's getting our people killed, they should be prosecuted. But to me, that's, of course. I know it's of course to you, but a lot of them hadn't weren't being prosecuted and that was a problem. Not enough.

Not enough, okay, but so look, that to me has more to do with justice than ending the war on drugs, right? You know the fentanyl can kill people, you sell it to local kids or local people. No, that's an issue of justice for the victims and the victims' families, right? That's why we prosecute in those cases. But in terms of winning the war on drugs, that's not going to do it either. We have to attack it from the demand. There's no other way to win that war. Totally agree.

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I was a big believer in Dr. Anthony Fauci and now I'm beginning to wonder. So I don't think it means that everything he said was wrong at all, but we now know that he did lie on some very important matters and that he apparently had a giant ego and was obsessed with how he was perceived in the media. The release of his diaries have proved a little bit devastating. We've got the receipts for you now with Anna. Let me just begin this by saying that the one thing that I think the conservative Americans were correct about, especially as it pertained to the pandemic, was questioning authority

and questioning our institutions. When the pandemic began, I had too much trust in our institutions. I have now switched over to having zero trust in our institutions. And when you have zero trust in our institutions, you're more likely to land at the accurate information, okay? This information that we now have thanks to details of Fauci's diary being released is beyond infuriating and in fact I think he should be prosecuted for it. Okay, I don't know that I'd go that far, but I will tell you this.

So we're gonna give you the details, but as you go through this, keep in mind and there's one important detail I really want to highlight here, the difference between scientists and the government. Fauci here was acting more in the role of the government rather than the scientists. In fact, he buried scientific findings. What it actually makes me the angriest about what Fauci did is how he accidentally, I guess, smeared scientists. Prosecuted, Jank, prosecuted. Let me just explain something.

When we talk about gain of function research, when scientists in these bio labs that are sprinkled across the globe that we fund, what do you think we are, funding that research for? Do you think we're funding gain of function research? Because we want to make sure we keep the global population safe from viruses? No, they're developing biological weapons. That's what they're doing. That's what that is.

We are funding that. And there was a lab leak that Anthony Fauci knew about and he buried it. Yeah. Okay, prosecuted. Yeah. Look, I don't know that it's just for biological weapons. I think that no, no, the scientists involved, I'm sure some of them earnestly believe, hey, we've got to develop some sort of defenses for these viruses when they come.

But gain of function research is very dangerous and very questionable. So let's give you the facts on what happened, then we'll discuss more. So this is all due to Senator Rand Paul publishing 1,100 pages from Dr. Fauci's diary, which let's just pause, diary, diary. Okay, you're a girl man, you got a diary where you incriminated yourself, but fantastic. Just real quick on that, if you're wondering, why do we even care about his diary? Why are we concerned? He was keeping notes so that he could publish a book and et cetera, et cetera.

Good job. Yeah, good job. And that's more self-aggrandizement, wealth, etc. Yes. So anyway, 1,100 pages of his diary were released by Senator Rand Paul. Fauci is going to testify before Congress tomorrow. And so Rand Paul puts this out ahead of that testimony. Fauci was the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

And the pages basically cover his thoughts and what was happening internally from December of 2019. So at the very beginning of the virus, COVID-19 pandemic, through his retirement three years later in December of 2022. Now, one of the most damning revelations, if you ask me, had to do with the origins of the virus. The prevailing theory that we heard over and over again was that COVID developed naturally in animals before making the jump to humans through a Chinese wet market. We all remember that. Well, that was a lie and Fauci knew it. So on February 1st, 2020, his diary record records a meeting with a dozen prominent

virologists in which only two were willing to credit the natural origins theory. The rest suspected the virus might have been created artificially, not least because a leading scientist in Wuhan, Xi Zhangli, was known to engage in the sort of gain of function research that could produce such a result. So, Jake, let's just pause for a second. If this is the type of virus that would not develop naturally, why would you want humans to artificially create it, I mean, unless you're looking to create biological weapons. Yeah, so two things in that.

One is, I agree with you on the substance of it, meaning that even if it's true that the science is working on it or maybe even the government official that ordered it, a care to create a defense against viruses, artificially creating a virus to try to find a defense to it is not a good idea. No, it doesn't make sense. Okay, so it doesn't make sense. So no, I get some of the logic of it, but it is taking extraordinary risk and it's creating risk that you didn't have before to maybe deal with a risk you might or might not

have later. So if I just look at it from a logical basis, I would not take that kind of risk, even if you meant well, okay? So that is a very controversial thing to do, and we never discuss it, we never have a debate about it, the government just orders it and says, yeah, go, go and it. Go ahead, take that wild risk. And that wild risk cost the economy an enormous amount. So many people died!

And not just that their economy, but my God, across the world, millions of people died because of that risk. So that is not a small thing, it's a giant thing. Number two, the quote that Anna read you is the one I'm referring to. The scientists actually say, no, we don't think that it was natural, we think it was manmade. And Foucho, you go, shut up, scientists. Yeah. I am the chief scientist.

Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, have me on, which by the way, he was, well, I'll talk about later. He was huge buddies with the media, and they have him on and they pretend he's speaking for all the scientists. I know, I totally felt. When in reality, he squashed what the scientist said and said the opposite. Yes. And take took two, and only two out of dozens of scientists who said, yeah, I guess it could have been, you know, a wet market.

You know, naturally, that he came about naturally. Guys, it was right next to the Wuhan virus lab. What kind of schmug things? Oh yeah, it naturally came about right next to the Wuhan virus lab. In fact, that's the first thing that we broke on. Which as we were covering it, we're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, this one doesn't make sense. So okay, look, question everything, okay? Question literally everything.

Because get a load of this. So only two of the scientists were willing to entertain the theory. that it was a naturally occurring virus, naturally developed virus that jumped from animal to human. Okay, Fauci is pushing the wet market theory, aggressively, openly, and in public. What was he writing about privately? I take you to his journal entry, January 26th, 2020. January 26th, 2020, that early on in the pandemic, the diary suggests that by January 26th, 2020, Dr. Fauci believed the virus had not originated in the Wuhan wet market, often identified as the source by natural origin advocates.

This didn't stop him and allies from painting skeptics of the natural origin theory as politicized cranks and conspiracy theorists. So two things about that. Number one, I'm so done with the phrase conspiracy theory. I looked back to see when it became popularized and it became popularized. popularized right after the JFK assassination, that anyone who questioned the official government story would be called crazy by insinuating their conspiracy theorists. I give every conspiracy theorist to listen.

I listen, I mean, it doesn't mean I'm gonna believe everything they say, but I'm not gonna just automatically dismiss them anymore. No, because we have an entire government, an entire media infrastructure that is now saying that if you ever question the government, you're a conspiracy theorist and a wacko. Okay, so then that's it. I'm done with that line of thinking. And look at Fauci abusing it. And look, if we're on Fauci side as we were, okay, I want you to think about it this way. Millions of people died in that virus. Imagine that it wasn't a guy that we were told was on our side. It was a Trump appointment, right? Some lackey that he picked that was in the same

position as Fauci. And then a virus breaks out of the lab through incompetence, kills millions of people and that same guy then buries the news, even though he knows that he came out of that virus, you would say, wait, why did he bury the news? Why wasn't he honest about this? What was it that he did and our government did that he wanted to cover up by pretending that it didn't come from that virology lab, right? You would be very, very skeptical about a Trump appointee who caused these millions of deaths, or covered up the real cause of these millions of deaths, you'd be like, why?

Why did he do that? And if you're not on Trump's side and you're on the other side or whichever side you're on, you should always question why did they do that? Beyond the side of truth, I think the biggest mistake I made personally, so I'll take responsibility for it. When you're so partisan-brained and you're, you've convinced yourself that one side is always wrong and one side is always right, you're gonna make mistakes because either side is never 100% right or 100% wrong.

So honestly, and look, part of the problem was also the fact that when the virus broke out, the president of the United States was Trump and the way that he was communicating about the virus did not inspire much confidence. You get what I'm saying? Of course. So it was a crazy time, everyone's panicking, no one knows what's going on. But let me get to more of what Fauci wrote about in his journal. So he loved to go after his critics.

And in fact, in his journal, like almost, like, boasted about how aggressively he'd go after his critics. On July 14th, 2020, he tried to squash a skeptical memo about his policies by journal contributor Stephen Moore. I told White House aide Alyssa Farah that the White House, either Meadows or the president of the United States, need to shut up Stephen Moore and stop his publication of Dr. Wrong paper. If he does not, the entire academic community will dump all over the president of the United States. See, that's a threat. And so why does he have the power to speak for the entire scientific community? I'll say the mistake that I made was not about partisanship, but it was thinking that Fauci spoke for all the scientists and the doctors. Right?

Because I love scientists and doctors. If they agree to something collectively, it doesn't mean that they're going to be right 100% of the time. but they are far more likely to be right than Bob on Facebook, okay? But I should have been more skeptical that this government official is somehow the avatar for all the scientists and the doctors in the world when he has his own interests, including the interest of covering up some of the things he did and ordered inside the government. Yes. And then so now you see that he was lying when he was saying that he was speaking in favor of the scientists. And that's got me enraged. Yeah, he's actually at war with the scientists internally behind the scenes.

And then like the ego, the self-enggrandizement. Like, I mean, so embarrassingly, Fauci said of himself, about himself in May of 2020, the situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. Who talks about themselves this way? He continues, it is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country. and one of the most recognizable people in the world. Congratulations? I mean, that's because of a pandemic where millions of people are dying.

And this guy's like, but look at how famous I am. Ro, that's not the main lesson. That's the takeaway here. It gets worse. Believe it or not, it gets worse. So he even attempted to distance himself from the infamous lockdown policies saying that he had no input on local policy. at all. So during a meeting in 2024 with members of the House Oversight subcommittee,

that's what he said, right? Like he tried to distance himself. But in private, well, he told a completely different story on March 15th, 2020. He wrote that then New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to close city schools based on a conversation they had and Fauci's public remarks. I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in New York City. He said that he would base this on my recommendation. Okay, and by the way, if you're wondering about the efficacy of the lockdowns, that has been called into question. I mean, it's just every, we were lied about everything. We were lied to about everything.

A 2024 study published in scientific reports found that the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns resulted in worse than development of social cognition skills in early childhood, particularly for students of lower socioeconomic status. Jake, I remember way later into the pandemic, you and I had a conversation about this, not on air. We were just having a casual conversation about it, and you were really harping on this issue. And we are still suffering the consequences of that. We are still suffering the consequences of the lockdowns, the mental health problems that

have arose as a result of the lockdowns. Businesses were destroyed, people's lives were destroyed. I am so furious and I am happy that Rand Paul didn't let this go. I'm happy that the diary was released. I'm happy that we now know the truth. The real question now though is what are we gonna do about it? Not just in relation to Fauci and his conduct, but when it comes to funding and supporting gain of function research in countries like freaking China?

Yeah, that is so weird. Why are we working with them on gain of function research? Okay, so on Rand Paul, I thought he was being unfair in the beginning, but in the midst of some of the hearings, when he started talking about the gain of function research, I was like, hmm, wait, that's an interesting point, right? Because as I explained earlier, that's a very dangerous road to go down, even if you're being earnest, right? So now on the lockdowns, look, I was, I'm still torn on it because if you have a pandemic and it spreads like wildfire, if it does, and this one did in a lot of ways, right? Not as bad as we thought, but certainly plenty bad enough that he killed about a million people inside America. So then you're in a conundrum.

But you need to balance that because the balance is, yes, but the lockdowns also cause massive health problems for Americans. Mental health issues, actual like physical health issues. Domestic violence issues. Right, and as human beings, we're not meant to be isolated. That's not the kind of animal that we are. And in fact, that's a huge part of the reason why crime spiked. between 2019 and 2022.

So, 2023. And so that wasn't the only reason, but that was a big part of the reason. So you gotta weigh those options, but we didn't weigh them. Instead we had, shut up, okay, we're doing this. For example, the kids, that we were torn on that because the danger was not to the kids as much

as the teachers, right? So I was worried about the teachers. On the other hand, we were clear, we said, no, the kids going to school is not much of a problem at all. It barely affects the kids, right? So you've gotta be honest, about it and then you've got a balance of interest.

You can't just go, oh, I'm gonna go to one side or I'm gonna go on the other side. These are difficult issues. But that's if you care about the general public and American citizens. If you care about yourself and being the most famous person on earth or writing a book or protecting yourself from people finding out about what you authorized earlier, then you're not gonna make the best decisions and have the best balancing act. You're gonna be skewed in that direction. And so, and then finally I get to his relationship with the media.

So in his diary, he talks about how much Jake Tapper and him coordinated and went to, he went to their house for dinner, they came to his house for dinner, and Dan Abash and Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell, and the coordination, and that you remember that threat we just talked about where he was like, if Trump does this, I'm gonna have the entire scientific community, whether they really mean it or he just speaks for them, right? Through the media bash Trump. And then the media's like, well, yes, tell us what you need us to do to effectuate this. Wait, now look, if some people say that they're lean in a certain direction, at least that's

honest, no problem here, I'll give you an example. I really like Roe-Connor. And I've had my disagreements with him, but I'm super out front with you guys, I think he's one of the best politicians we have. So I don't hide that from you, right? But it's a different thing when Jake Tapper, et cetera, tell us that they're objective. And they don't tell us that they're actually having friendly dinners and correspondence and coordinating messaging with someone they're having on the air and pretending that,

oh, golly, gee, this is just a guy who happened to come on my show. And I happen to, you know, push out his agenda. But I'm gonna leave out there that we coordinated earlier, right? So no, that's a different problem. And when I see anyone using the media to intimidate and bully the rest of us into compliance. That is a giant red flag. So I think that there's a lot more to investigate here in terms of what Fauci's role was. And what I really want to know is, what did we authorize in that gain of function research? Seriously. And why did we authorize it?

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Let's get it done. Back to the young tourist, Jake Hugar, Anna Kasparian, with you guys. We've got a lot more stories. So let's get to the next one. Last night, Dr. Abdul-El-Said and Haley Stevens had a debate. It was a fiery one. The media characterized it an interesting. way, which we'll get to in a second. But this appears to be a race really between Israel and America.

Who's going to win that Michigan Senate seat? So let's find out. Anna's got the facts. Well, look, I want to provide evidence for why you framed it that way, Jank. So why don't we immediately, right off the bat, before we even get into the debate itself, give you a little taste of who Haley Stevens is. Take a look. In the United States, I will continue those existence. Israel comes to me in my dreams. I see Israel's future and I continue to exist. Israel comes to you in your dreams?

I'd be a little concerned about that. Let's go to the final graphic here, graphic nine. Wow, she's taken quite a bit of money from the Israel lobby, pro-Israel Pax, $30, almost $30.5 million. No, it's actually much bigger than that. How is it much bigger than that? No, because when before this race, she'd already taken $20 million. Remember how she, she's the one who defeated Andy Levin.

Andy Levin is a Zionist actually, but said, hey, I think the Palestinians should also get a state. And A-PAC was furious. Is Israel not coming to his dreams? Apparently didn't, and he loves Israel, but he's like, but I love the Palestinians too. They should have a state. And A-PAC was furious, how dare you treat Palestinians as humans? So they gave Haley Stevens a ton of money to defeat a Jewish-American Congress. who dared to say that the Palestinians should be treated equally.

So then in this race, the APAC has put in 30 million that is trackable, and there's another 30 million that is not trackable that is almost certainly the Israeli lobby. So that's 60 million in this race, she had 20 million earlier. She might have gotten an astounding, record breaking $80 million from the Israeli lobby. To be fair, if somebody gave me $80 million, they might come to me in my dreams to be. There is no amount of money I could ever get from the Israel lobby to get me to support Israel, literally. I could be destitute, I wouldn't take the money.

I just couldn't. Anyway, let's get back to the story, the topic at hand. So now the debate just took place between Dr. Abdul al-Assad and Haley Stevens. This is the Democratic primary for Michigan Senate seat. And according to the audience, it looks like El-Said hammered Stevens. So according to local media to Detroit, which hosted the debate and then pulled their audience after, who won the debate? Only 5% said that Haley Stevens did, 95% said that El-Said did.

And so this is what's amazing. Look, this is a part of the story here, because without the media's help, Haley Stevens would have a 0% chance of winning. But I read the New York Times description of the debate, and you could tell from even their description that it was like begrudgingly that clear that Abdullah al-Said had crushed her. But instead of saying that, they said that Abdul al-Said was a smooth talker. Oh, smooth operator. Okay, so you take his strength of being excellent at debating and being right about the issues,

and you turned into an insult, a smooth talker. And they said that he attacked not Israel, but the Jewish state. Come on. Framing it as like, oh, here's a smooth talker, anti-Semite attacking poor Haley Stevens, who's only gotten $30 to $80 million from the Israeli lobby. I mean, so the bias of national media is astounding and over the top. I mean, in this case, it's local media. No, local media has a winning, when they actually ask their readers,

95 to 5, but when you read the New York Times. Got it, got it, got it. You're juxtaposing the coverage, got it. Okay, fair enough. Okay, so with that in mind, let's actually get into the substance of the debate. And since it was carried on local news, we are unable to show you, We're just gonna have to give you summaries. And they're worthy of talking about.

So we'll summarize their pitch to Michigan voters with one brief quote from their opening statements. So El-Sayed, what did he say? The race is about you deserving a politics that's not bought off by the same corporations picking your pocket at every single turn. I'm looking forward to the conversation about how we get money out of politics. Teach it. Put money in your pockets. Preach it. And pass Medicare for all.

You're here. So Stevens had a bit of a different opening statement. She said Michigan deserves a senator who can win and who can deliver. I am the only one on this stage who has flipped a Republican seat. And I was named Michigan's most effective Democratic lawmaker in Congress because my only focus is you. So there's no specified policy proposal there. nothing about her values. It's more of the same corporate Democrat nonsense about like, you have to vote for me because

I'm the only one who can win. Yeah, just like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. How many times have we heard this garbage when a populace is much more likely to win that race than an establishment clown who takes nothing but corporate PAC money and foreign government money. And she's like, oh, and other Democratic lawmakers in Congress like me more. Well, of course they do because they're nearly as corrupt as you. I mean, to be fair, you're probably the most corrupt in Congress.

That's probably why you won the award. So Stevens also resorted to personal attacks on El-Said while claiming that she's the most electable candidate. Now look, I'm biased because I'm known to maybe do personal attacks here and there. Yes, you know, but there's also substance to my arguments. I don't just like use ad hominims and that's it, you know, but something. Sometimes you gotta call a moron a moron. But in this case, no substance, just personal attack.

So she says, Abdul is running for celebrity. Republicans are propping up his campaign. What? Yeah, totally. I mean, there are Republicans lined up around the block to share their talking points about how much they want Abdul Al-Sayed to win the Democratic primary for the Michigan Senate seat. If that was true, he wouldn't get $60 million in funding instead of you. Second of all, if you mean Republican voters are propping him up, well, that means he's more likely to win the general election.

Fair. So which one is it? So she says, this isn't about the DC or New York influencer crowd. This is about putting Michigan first, and I've got the receipts to do that, which is why Governor Whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, and so many others are joining my campaign to win in November. No, they're joining your campaign because they also got money from the Israeli lobby. Remember when Gretchen Whitmer visited Trump in the White House soon after he got elected for his second term? and she was so terrified of being photographed in the meeting and like literally did this with a binder. Yeah. Yeah, that's who Gretchen Whitmer is. So I don't know if it's really- By the way, throughout this campaign, she was doing this until the Israeli lobby was like, hey, we need you to get out from- and she's like, I love Israel.

Give me another 10 mil. I'll vote for Haley-Sebis. All right, so she also says, my opponent is on these big podcasts. He's running a podcast himself. These folks are making fun of the way I sound, but yet I sound like the people who need help. Well, that's true, you do need help. You do sound like it. We're talking to me about what they need done.

Sounds like she's a little jelly jelly about the podcast crowd. Can I, it's just real quick there again. So she's trying to take every advantage that he hasn't turned into a negative, just like the New York Times did. He's great at making a case for his voters, he's a smooth talker. In her case, she's like, oh, he does all these podcasts. Why does he do the podcast so he can actually convince people to vote for the Democratic Party to vote for him to win them over, right?

She doesn't do any podcast or interviews because she can't defend her positions. The minute they ask her, wait, it looks like you're totally bribed by a foreign government, she has no answer, so she hides in a cave and she's like, oh yeah, he's doing all these podcast and he's like a celebrity. No, he's answering people's questions and you aren't. Does that mean that he'd have a better chance at winning a Senate seat? Exactly. You know what? If you do a ton of interviews, that's called free media. That is worth millions of dollars. It's much better than the ads because you're inside the content. But Haley-Stivas can't defend a single position she has. That's why she never does any interviews.

Instead, she gets money from the Israeli lobby and runs all those ads. She says, I know it's great. to host rallies and have these people. Yeah, and have these fun events. But everywhere I have gone in Michigan, I have taken the time to visit a minority owned people. No, yeah. So, okay, if you didn't see our earlier coverage of this, A-PAC doesn't run ads saying, if you love Israel, vote for Haley Stevens, because then she'd get like 2% of the vote, right?

Instead, they run ads saying, Abdulah, say, it is, fill in the blank, sex is, racist, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? And one of the main ads that they're running is Barack Obama from eight years ago on some random issue saying, hey, Haley Stevens did a good job on that, whether she did or did it. It's so funny. Right. So, and they're running that in completely, in heavily black districts. Obama's on Haley Stevens side. Obama's on Haley Stevens side. And you know what? I secretly, I mean, we have no proof of this and you can't see me in public, but I'm secretly meeting with minority-owned businesses. Okay, if you say so, but all of that is to say, please, black people be tricked into voting

for me. I feel like she is real envious of how popular he is. Like, you're giving him grief over hosting rallies during a political campaign. Are you supposed to do that? You're supposed to do that, right? You're supposed to interact with the people, you're supposed to tell them what your positions are, and she's somehow trying to make it a negative. Look, if the money was reversed, he's now being out spent, it was 20 to 1, now it's closer to 40 to 1.

Okay, imagine if that was reversed, this would be, this election would be 90, 10, it wouldn't even be close. So, by the way, Stevens did keep bringing up the fact that she was endorsed by Gretchen Whitmer throughout the debate. And at one point, she did concede that El-Sayed is a great guy and a great father. But about two sentences later, she tried to insinuate that he has a record of, it's the favorite for the corporate Democrats attacking women. It's a 100% lie. The A-PAC ran an ad like that, four different points. Each one of them utterly debunked, but they don't care if it's true. Because politics isn't about what's true.

Why do you think money in politics matter so much? Because it creates the ads that lie to the voters to try to get them to vote for the wrong person on people. purpose. And here's this person, and she like is pretending to be aggrieved because Abdul al-Said called Federman an ogre. Way to go, brother, totally right. Based? Yeah. What, are we supposed to say as a supermodel? Right, no, no, no. And he's referring to his policies, et cetera. But I don't care either way. Yeah, she then pretends that he's calling her an ogre. And she says, oh, I'm taking so much offense if he's attacks, they're personal attacks. And then she's like, he's a sexist, he's a racist,

he's a podcaster, he's a celebrity. Everything's a personal attack. What's wrong with his positions? Tell us why we need to go die for Israel in this war. Tell us why we need to give Israel another $300 billion. Tell us why we need to have the drug companies be so powerful that we can't even negotiate drug prices, that we killed off the free markets to help your donors. Well, you can't make any of those cases. So that's why you pretend to be aggrieved, but you actually do the personal attacks. And she knows that the New York Times and Aldenash and Jake Tapper, and this is literal, every time Abdul goes on CNN, they viciously attacking with nothing but smears. She knows the national media is going to be 100% on our side, and they're going to pick up the

ball and run with that same exact talking voice. They are going to do that. And so, My question is, when the Democratic establishment inevitably does to El-Said what they did to Grant Platner, is everyone just going to believe it with no evidence? Yeah, so it's gonna happen. No, no, but it's- Look, they're- It's gonna happen. So are you just gonna believe it and immediately be worried about self-preservation and be

I'm sorry, okay, okay, he's, I mean, what happened to Platner was disgusting? So look, there's two different things, there's getting targeted, and then there's, did you do something wrong or not. Could they, if they dug enough, could you find something? A lot of people now believe that Platner did do something, that they dug enough to find something that he wrong that he did. Whether you believe that or you don't believe that, at this point is he material because he's out of the race, right?

But the part that's important is if you're Haley Stevens, the national media never digs in. They don't even scratch the surface, they don't even say, oh, by the way, she's taking $80 million from a foreign government's lobby, that should be a note of concern. Right. They never add it should be a note of concern, right? So not even scratching the surface, but with Abdul, they're digging and digging and digging. But the good news is they found nothing. And then Apex's running the ads anyway.

Well, but that's the thing, Jenk, what's going to stop? They found nothing. Okay, but what's going to stop them from just making things up? Yeah, well, they did. What's going to stop them from just making things up, hitting up a political reporter, who in a very misleading way writes about a story about like, that gives the reader the impression that a rape victim reached out to her therapist at the time that she was allegedly raped. That's the way that it was written.

It gave you that false impression. No, no, no matter what you think of Graham Platner and what he might or might not have done, that was a hatchet job because they, the political reporter literally hid the text that he had saying that was she asked them for a butt massage. Okay, and you could have any opinion you want about that, right? Like saying like, oh, who cares, right? But the reporter hiding that shows you the reporter is not objective. The point of that article, no article before that where the New York Times talked to 12 different

girlfriends only found one that had done anything that was complaining and she was a GOP operative. Again, it's not to go back into that issue, is to show you there is no question that if you oppose Israel or corporate owners, mainstream media will try to eliminate you. They'll try to assassinate your character. And people like Haley Stevens depend on that. Yes. Because if you're talking about the issues, there's no chance Haley Stevens or Susan Collins is gonna win.

The only way they could win is if they have tens of millions of dollars from the lobbies, whether it's A-PAC or Big Pharma, et cetera, and have the entire national media on their side. Right. Okay, so let's get to what El-Sai had to do. to say during the context of this debate, he said, you know, just this past week, our friend here voted to send $3.3 billion of your tax dollars to a foreign government. That is the pro status quo, I guess, pro quo.

No, no, pro quo. That comes with a quid of $30 million spent by APEC, meaning that's your quid pro quo. Yeah, that's exactly, and by the way, that's exactly right. And by the way, again, this is why I get so frustrated. This is such an excellent case of the national media being preposterous liars and covering for Israel and every donor, but particularly Israel in this case. You're telling me that the Israeli lobby spent at a minimum $30 million in this race for the benefit of Americans, Norwegians, or healthcare.

No, they spent that money to buy the seat for Israel. If any person with any common sense knows that, you're telling me, All of the national media reporters couldn't piece that together. I wonder why the Israeli lobby is spending all this money. I can't quite figure it out. Is it for knitting? Is it for race car driving? I can't tell, I can't tell, because I'm a reporter, and I'm the biggest idiot in the country.

They're doing it to buy the seat for Israel. Super obvious, literally the most obvious thing in the world, yet not one national media reporter figured it out, come on. He says, if you really want to beat Mike Rogers, find the candidate who is electable without having to ask for a $60 million crutch to do it. Damn. I like that line. I like that line a lot.

Yeah. So Stevens did dodge numerous questions. When confronted about previous votes and statements in support of ICE, she declined to give any substantive answer. I should note El-Sayed wants to abolish ICE. And I don't know how Michigan voters feel about that, but juxtaposing the two on that issue, obviously they're very different. Haley Stevens also refused to give a straight answer when asked about voters' concerns regarding

the huge volume of outside spending in this race. And when it comes to the Middle East, Stevens really didn't get specific. She loves to give vague answers and only said that she wants lasting peace in a two-state solution, So it's going full well that Israel is 100% against a two state solution. They do not believe in Palestinian statehood. And in fact, Naftali Bennett, who's running against Netanyahu to be the next prime minister of Israel, just gave an interview where he said, I'm not giving up any territory. I do not believe in a Palestinian state.

So that is Israel, that is their culture, that is what they believe. She is funded by pro-Israel interests. So this whole like, I believe in a two state solution thing that we hear from corporate Democrats. They love to regurgitate that. They don't actually mean it. It's important for you to know that. I can actually prove it empirically and definitively for you.

She was literally picked by APEC to defeat the idea of a two state solution, which Representative Andy Levin had suggested. Amazing. So like the whole point of her existence in Congress is to make sure a two state solution doesn't happen. Okay, so that is, her lies are record breaking. And one last thing about the media, when I ran for Congress, most of the Congress, most of the Most of my all my money was small dollar donors, right?

Didn't take any pack money at all and people sending you sending it five, ten, 20 bucks from across the country, but a lot of people did, right? The national media wrote about that is outside money. Now a lot of it is coming in from outside of California and they wrote article after article about that here and it was nowhere near this amount, right? Right. Here's $60 million coming from outside Michigan to buy this election, they're like, I don't see it. I can't see it at all. What am I a reporter? No, I don't

see the money. It's absurd. It's preposterous. So by the way, we're asking you guys, because after all this, $60 million in the entire national media versus a great candidate who's standing up for the people, it's a close election. It's 50-50. We don't know who's going to win, okay? So we're asking you guys on t.com, who do you think is going to win the Michigan Senate race, A, Israel, B, America. Okay, so there is no question that Haley Stevens is the candidate for Israel and Abdul El-Said is the candidate for America. So, but we don't know who's going to win right now. Yeah, no idea. Anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, we're not done with the Democratic Party yet because the DNC is broke. They are in debt. They're falling for fishing

scams. I mean, it is a mess of epic proportions. And I want to give you the deeds. Don't miss it. All right, we're also on X these days, so I'm gonna read a couple of comments from there. Abedijor the Oba wrote in, Good Day, my divine feminine goddess, Anna, worship my manpower. Okay. All right. By the way, everyone's got the divine feminine within them. Divine feminine doesn't mean that you're feminine. It just means that there's a certain type of power that you wield.

Okay, God bless. Okay, I'm in favor of that power. Okay, BCDP says Israel's destroying our country in the world by using our country and president, a lot of our military because they have videos of Trump with children. And I soften that one up. All right, let's go to Super Chat. James Kelly says, did you guys see the walkway interview with Stevens? I just wanted to shout out to the guy that said he wanted to vote for human rights.

It's funny that Stevens donors are trying to get the African American vote while treating Palestinians like African Americans during the reconstruction era. James, that is a brilliant point. That is exactly right. And whenever the Palestinians say we're being abused, just like during reconstruction, racist said to black people, we don't believe you. When do you shut up, right? That's exactly what our disgustingly racist media says the Palestinians. We don't believe you, you don't count, why don't you shut up?

Genome exploits says the graphene continues to replicate in the body today into one's organs. I'm reading these blind, five gram and eight gram towers that were put up during lockdowns was deliberate. Okay, I'm not sure I know what that means. All right, back on TYT. So first of all guys, as we've told you many times before, because it's so true, we are besieged here at TYT. So if you can help either by becoming a member and you do get a couple of months off if you join through tyt.com slash join for annual membership.

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So here comes the Democrats to the rescue. They have somehow found a way to be as unpopular as the Republicans. And this story we're about to tell you about the DNC shows you some of the reasons why. I think it's actually complicated. I'm going to show you both sides of this story. But first, let's look at the incompetence. Boo, don't both sides it. Boo!

Okay, all right, I'm kidding. It's good. Fairness is good. The Dems are a nightmare. And I'm just talking about the establishment under the leadership. under the leadership of a specific person who seems to be struggling to say the least. So as Dems stare down what should be a very easy victory in the 26 midterms, there have been some major questions about the party's leadership.

So the party has hemorrhaged so much money that the Democratic National Committee put its physical headquarters up for collateral last year in order to obtain a $15 million line of credit to help invest in off year elections, and that's according to DC deed records not previously reported. A majority of this criticism lands at the feet of the DNC chair, Ken Martin. In fact, confidence in Martin's leadership has been shaky ever since it was reported that he literally cried on a private Zoom call with David Hogg who suggested that the DNC primary, the do nothing Democrats, God forbid. Now, later, according to According to the New York Times, trust in Martin among donors and party officials was sapped

by his handling of a long promised autopsy of the 2024 election. We all remember that, right? So late last year, he said he would not release the document, but as criticism mounted, he relented in May and released an incomplete draft that featured searing annotations from the DNC that undermined the report. And then after a disastrous appearance on Pod Save America to discuss the autopsy itself, Martin has basically been keeping a low profile, which is true. Like I haven't really noticed much reporting about Ken Martin until very recently when we learned

about how much debt the DNC is in and how he has lost support. People don't really feel much confidence in his leadership. So according to sources close to the Democratic National Committee, he has grown increasingly paranoid that he might be ousted from his current position, which is a very much. he was elected to hold all the way through 2029. Now earlier this month, Martin hit a breaking point and threw a phone at a junior aid. No, not at the aid, at the table by the aid. Okay, so look, you and I are both known to be hot blooded, okay?

And I don't apologize for that, okay? I'm a passionate woman. However, however, I would never, it wouldn't even cross my mind to grab any object and throw it anywhere in a professional setting, in a place of work. Like, can these people please stop doing this? Whether it's Amy Klova-Charles? Like, don't throw your phone. No, this is one of my defenses of him.

There are people, and overall, he has not been good. So don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to buck-mama. I'm just trying to be honest with you guys. That place is leaking like a sieve. Every potential slightly negative thing about him immediately gets into the papers. They're clearly opponents inside the DNC. By the way, they're not progressives, they're establishment people, okay?

They want someone even more pro-corporate, more establishment, and they're trying to get every piece of dirt to the press, and the press is eating it up, okay? So keep that in mind, it doesn't mean he's doing a good job, we'll tell you all the things he's doing actually wrong in a second. But when I can, when I read a story, it becomes obvious that there's an attempt at getting a guy. So later in the story they clarify, he didn't throw the phone at the guy. He threw the phone down and then it got painted as throwing a phone in a general direction. So when I see that, I go, oh wait a minute, we got a bias here, right?

So- Okay, fair. I mean- I just ignore the phone thing, I think it's totally BS. Okay, fair, look, I have in my notes that it has been disputed how aggressively that whole situation played out. I don't even care, you're right, I don't care, but if- I just think, I just think, I think it's a bad idea to grab any object and manipulate it in an aggressive fashion when you're in the middle of a conflict, okay? If that's what happened.

If that's what happened, okay. So moving off of that, because I think the, I mean, brazen mishandling of the funds the DNC had is telling. So in expressing his concerns to staff and basically bemoaning the sheer amount of leaks that are coming out from his office, Martin said, quote, my success is, is your success. So the weaker I am, the weaker all of you are. But donors are concerned, and those concerns are not just limited to Martin's behavior. So now we get into the finances of the Democratic Party. Total disaster. These people, I mean, it's just like it feels like

politics has increasingly become a money laundering scheme. But- Oh, definitely. Right? Yes. Okay. So let me give you the details on this. The Democratic Party and its allies are far behind Republicans when it comes to money. Trump, controls a $400 million super pack and the Republican National Committee is sitting on nearly $130 million. Martin's DNC is $2 million in debt. In debt. So let me just remind you all that in the last presidential election, Kamala Harris outraged Trump by a lot.

Okay, so she had raised $1.5 billion, which I mean, it's hard to even fathom the amount of money. But she ended her campaign in debt. So she wasn't even able to provide leftover funds to the Democratic National Committee. I think she was, her campaign was $20 million in debt. Anyway, fast forward to today and you're dealing with the Democratic National Committee that's $2 million in debt, whereas the Republicans have obviously raised a lot more money. Now I give you that example of Kamala Harris outraising Trump, because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that like, well yeah, of course, Republicans have a much easier

time raising money because they're greedy and corporations love them and they fund them. No, no, corporate interest fund both parties. They want both parties to be their cattle, okay, to serve them as opposed to the people. So I mean, Democrats haven't had a hard time raising money. It's just that they spend money on consultants that give them really bad advice so they can lose elections, okay? Yeah, see, there's so much nuance in this story, because the Democrats are not having as much trouble raising for their congressional arms, the House re-election committees and the

Senate re-election committees. And why is that? It gets to the core of the problem with the DNC, which is they haven't made up their mind. Are they grassroots or are they corporate, right? Like they've been acting corporate all throughout, but they apparently like the big super packs, et cetera, and the corporate packs are still a little displeased because they're not exactly sure which way the DNC is going to go, whereas they are giving a lot to Akeem General. and Chuck Schumer because they know that those guys are going to serve them.

100%. So it's an ironic kind of complaint against the DNC that the PACs aren't giving them as much money because they're not as sure that the DNC is corrupt, whereas they can take Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer's corruption to the bank. 100%. And in fact, you saw Hakeem Jeffries just found just enough votes to get Israel, the vote that they needed on the National Defense Authorization Act, and the emerging of our military technologies.

Yeah, six Democrats voted in favor of merging our military with the IDF. So that was in the House vote. Yeah, and they needed that number, otherwise that vote would have lost. The Democrats would have won and Democrats. But the Democratic leadership is so corrupt, they make sure that they lose each one of those votes. So this article should be written about them and how incompetent they, not incompetent, honestly, on the other side.

They're not even Democrats. They're lying to you. They're corrupt, absolutely. Also, new financial reports released this week revealed the depth of the DNC's financial hole. The party is $2 million in debt while the, oh, sorry, I read that already, my bad. So, no, I didn't read that. $2 million in debt while the Republican National Committee has $128.5 million in cash on hand,

the party that holds the White House almost always raises more money into its coffer. But this year's chasm is extraordinarily large. At least that was how the New York Times framed it. Now, DNC financing is not just for the midterms, but are also used to kind of lay the foundation for the 2028 presidential election. And in a panicked meeting with Senator Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries from the House of Representatives, of course, to combat the dwindling financing, basically this is what happened. Inside the room, Martin described a proposal in which much of the cash raised through this

mega committee, which would include state parties nationwide, would be routed first through his committee before being distributed to the congressional party arms. I hate all of this, and Jankle decode it all for us in just a second, okay? At least some involved saw the move as a bid to inflate the fundraising figures of Martin's struggling committee and to take credit for cash transfers, he could not otherwise afford. So how did the DNC even get into this devastating position to begin with? Why are they in debt? What's going on here? Well, the answer actually lies in the overall mishandling of the 2024 election. As a New York Times points out, some of the problems are a hangover from 2024.

While Vice President Kamala Harris raised record sums that year, her loss left many big Democratic donors disillusioned with the party. Her campaign has also had millions in debt that the DNC spent much of last year paying off with Harris's help. That was $20 million in debt, by the way. And the single biggest expense in the Martin era was $7.3 million to buy the remnants of Harris's campaign list from her failed 2024 bid. Harris's political action committee used the money to cover additional remaining debts. $7.3 million for a list. Yeah, so they raised off that list.

And so maybe you could make your money back off of the money, like off of a giant list like that. So I know how the mechanics of that works. But guys, so this was a surprisingly balanced story out of the New York Times. So let me give you the things they explained that were in favor of Ken Martin. Then I want to get to my main criticism of them, okay? So number one, they explained, they actually, they've actually raised more than they did in 2018. So wait, what's the whole point of this article then?

Well, they say, well, we're not sure where the money went. Well, no, you explain where the money went. It went to Kamala Harris's old campaign. And so that was certainly a huge part of it. And so should they have done that? I don't know, maybe they shouldn't have. And they probably put a lot of pressure on him. Maybe that was Kamala Harris's problem and not the current Democratic voters problem, right?

So it's not, the fundraising is less of a problem than the expenses, apparently according to that fact, but there are other facts in Ken Martin's direction. When he was the head of the Democrats in Minnesota, they did not lose a statewide election for 14 years, and the New York Times explains all this, okay? So that's a pretty impressive record. He has been empowering the state parties, and as progressives, we wanted state parties to be empowered, including red states. So he's not giving up on the red states.

In fact, in Mississippi, the Republicans had a super majority, but Ken Martin put money in to try to change that, and it worked. And now the Republicans don't have a super majority in the Mississippi state legislature anymore. So he has done some positive things that should be noted if we're being honest about this conversation. Not on the main criticisms. There's little smaller things like, yeah, they're combining the parties fundraising accounting to make it look like they raise more money, that's kind of cheesy.

It's a relatively small thing, but still cheesy. But he's got to make up his mind. Brother, are you going to raise from the grassroots? And if you do that, by the way, Bernie has raised, what, over $250 million in two different presidential elections. It's not like you can't do that. AOC is a fundraising machine. You just have to have a message.

And you have to actually believe it and you have to fight for it. Or are you going to be a weaker corporate PAC entity than the Democratic, you know, Democrats in the House and the Senate? In which case you're not going to raise that much money. He's half jumping off a cliff, and that's a terrible idea. And honestly, he's being super weak. He's constantly worried about like, oh, are they have to get me? Who's going to get me? What am I going to do?

How do I appease that? How do I appease that? Right, both sides. Brother, you can appease both sides. You've got to make a decision, and you've got to act strong. And if you go try to inch over to the corporate PAC side, they're just going to crush you. And they're going to write articles generally framed as you're in. incompetent, et cetera.

And if you're not raising enough money and you haven't gone grassroots, they're gonna have a case. And then eventually they'll replace you and they'll bring in a guy he's even more establishment, more in favor of corporate packs and corruption. More obsessed with losing, really. Yeah, so if I'm counseling him, which I'm not, but if I was, I tell him, look man, buck up, let's go, make a decision. And if you're gonna be a corporate stooge, just be a corporate stooge.

It's not gonna, it's not gonna break our heart, it's the DNC. It's been run by corporate stooges my whole life, right? And then we'll done with you and but the corporate packs will give you more money and that's a decision that you, a direction you can go or lean into the people and have the kohannis to fight against the Chuck Schumers and the Keem Jeffries and the rest of the corrupt Democrats and go, no, we're gonna support our voters and not only are we're gonna raise more money that way, but on top of that, we're actually gonna give people something to vote for and to be excited about.

Can you imagine having a DNC that's honest and on our side? I actually can't. I know, I was gonna say it's actually unimaginable. I've never experienced it. But if you went in that direction, even if they eliminated you, you would have done something heroic and instead of this waffling, wishy-washy nonsense, that's getting you hammered anyway. Yeah, it's total beta energy.

We don't want that. Anyway, we gotta take a break when we come back, a shocking story involving a declaration by Alex Jones of all people, the story just broke. I really wanna share it with you also come right back. Back on TYT, so many stories to comments to get to. Ecclectic writes in on our member section on t.com. Whatever you think about whether or not we should continue militarily to support Ukraine, which I have conflicted feelings about,

I think we can all agree that them attacking Iran does absolutely no good and only risks to wind the war. I agree. I'm right there with you. Yeah, it's a great way of putting in. Wang John said never ever underestimate the creative problem-solving skills of South American drug traffickers. I mean, honestly, that tracks, yes. Yes.

So I'm reading this one blind, let's see what happens. Biohazard dragon says, and I'm a microbiologist and a researcher. Some scientists work for weapons developers or their sciences used for weapons against their will. But the majority do gain of function research for multiple reasons. Viruses mutate quickly and we need to know the product in order to create a vaccine slash treatment. The products can be used therapeutically. The virus can be used to infect cells and produce medicinal products.

Having said that, that specific lab should be shut down. Yes. And if investigations find it was on purpose, they should be incarcerated. Thank you for that context. I do appreciate it. And I appreciate your fairness and nuance in giving me that information. Thank you, I appreciate it. All right.

Mr. Guapo writes in, gee, interesting pharma fire drill, Dr. Fauci. That was a large test group. Yes, we passed after all. Okay, Karen Nola says, Haley Steven constantly grinned, like the green back grab her, she's always been, Go Abdul. That's the first time I've heard of greenback grab her. What does that mean? Grab the money, I think. Oh, I like that.

Haley Steven goes through a taco truck. I visited a minority owned business. I like tacos. All right, we'll be back. Back on TYJ and Anna, we gotta get to another story. Otherwise, I would have loved to, all right, I'll read one comment in Operation Joy because it was so smart for one of our members. All right, Anna, what's the next story?

This is pretty big, Jank. Let's get to it. So Alex Jones has just announced that he believes President Donald Trump should be impeached over the Iran war. Now this was a lengthy rant that he posted on X. This just broke, so we didn't have enough time to grab the video, but I'm going to read exactly what he said in it. So this is something he put out to his nearly four million followers, and he accused Trump of trying

to bring back the national draft ahead of a full scale ground invasion into Iran. He went on to say that Trump will use total war to take our freedoms, nationalize everything, and push us aside with artificial intelligence, total liability, immunity, and protection. Now I'm gonna read you verbatim what he said in making the argument or the case in favor of impeaching Donald Trump. And so I'm calling for it right now, 25th Amendment, impeachment, whatever needs to happen to get this front and center to get control of our country. It's impeachable alone that the presidents supporting the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization

Act, which of course includes that provision merging the U.S. military with the terrorist IDF. I agree with Tucker Carlson and all of the people who voted against this, the mergers of the foreign military. It actually says it in section 219, clear as day, need to be Nuremberg style trials. I mean, this is unbelievable. You know, I gotta say, there's more. I'm gonna read it in just a second, but Alex Jones has been like looking better, if that makes any sense, like looking a little healthier. And I don't, I don't know, I just feel like he's been saying a few things lately. I don't agree with everything he says. Please don't. Please, please, please don't. But let me

To be fair to him, he has been saying a few things, especially as it pertains to the surveillance state, as it pertains to our conflicts abroad, the wars that we've been engaging in for endless support of Israel. He has been speaking out against that pretty consistently. So I'm gonna know two things here. First, this is kind of amazing because we just have the 10 year anniversary of our fight, me and Alex Jones. But remember what that fight was about.

It was at the R&C, it was the night that Donald Trump was giving his acceptance speech. When Alex Jones had come onto our assent to make a case that Trump was amazing and great, and we were totally wrong about Trump, right? And then we got into that kerfuffle, let's say, okay. Now 10 years later, I nearly wore my 25th Amendment t-shirt today. He's talking about the 25th Amendment. We didn't go to his position, he came to our position. Well, he realized that Trump is a fraud.

Yeah, so now I'll give him credit. This isn't like a ha-ha, okay, we won. You lost, we were right, you were wrong. No, for a minute there in this term, Alex Jones was still trying to defend the war and Israel and all this stuff. And he was looking like a total hypocrite and utterly fraudulent. And we were pointing it out with a little bit of glee, like what happened, Mr. You know, the government. All in the deep state, etc.

I'll take my shirt off, right? But here he is actually going back to whatever his principles are. And you could disagree with his facts and why God have we in the past? And we will continue to, right? And when it's called upon. But he did return to principles and that is something that you have to give credit for. Saying no, I am against big government.

I am against the surveillance state. I am for America and not for other countries. Anybody who does that, I say, all right, credit where credit is due. He also said, and if you think it's crazy now, imagine what's coming with this. They want us in a total war so they can censor and take our freedoms, nationalize everything, and push us aside with AI, total liability, immunity, and protection. This is a disaster. We are facing tyranny, but the public's awakening.

We've got to come together and transcend left and right, and we have to say no to an expanded war that will definitely destroy the economy and kill a bunch of our troops. They're preparing a massive ground invasion, it's all confirmed. This is going down right now. Rex, I'm guessing that's his co-host, I don't know, Rex, what do you think we should do to spotlight this? I'll tell listeners, we're live right now, share this live feed, we're gonna cut all this up, you know, breaking.

Alex Jones calls for impeachment of President Trump for attempting to re-implement the national draft and launch a total ground invasion of Iran. Americans left and right must come together now and demand Congress, invoke the war powers and end this war now. So why is he saying this now? Like he's been turning on Trump for all these reasons, it's not just overnight, right? And we've covered that as well. But apparently we had a straw that broke the camels back.

And so remember earlier in the show we reported also breaking news that Netanyahu came out of his meeting with Trump, his seventh or eighth one, and said that this was their best meeting ever, and he's ecstatic about how things have gone. Trump has been saying publicly, oh, we've got a big attack we can do and we're thinking about doing, right? If Netanyahu is ecstatic, then that probably means that that attack is coming. And so, and about the ground invasion, is that just conspiratorial talk? Because it's not like Alex Jones is incapable of that, he's very capable of that, or does

he have access to information? Well, he is on the right and he does have more sources on the right. So it's not inconceivable that that are, it's actually coming from sources. And within the context that we can see with our own eyes, it seems to match the fact pattern of, uh-oh, there is a massive attack and ground invasion coming. And that is what's causing Alex Jones to go, no, that said, I'm totally done with him, and he should be impeached. So this is my speculation, take it with a grain of salt, but I have to get this out.

I've been noticing that Pierce Morgan has been repeatedly kind of like excoriating Trump because he is certain that we're going to go back to war against Iran. I mean, we're still at war with Iran, but we stop the bombing. He seems to think there's going to be a major escalation, and he keeps repeating that. And remember, he can't stop himself from talking about how he and Trump talk on the phone. And our friends. And our friends. So I'm wondering if Pierce Morgan might know something that we don't know.

I have no idea. Because I'm like, why do you think that there's 100% definitely going to be a huge escalation in this war? Where are you getting that info from? Yeah, so we don't have access to that information. So we can't tell you either way. But it is concerning that people who might have access to that information are all waving giant red flags. Watch out, a huge, a bigger escalation of the war is coming.

And remember, we told you Ukraine attacked Iran, expanding the war. Lindsay Graham's last act was sanctions against China and India because they're buying from Russia. So that expands the war even more. The Houthis and the Saudis are involved. And you know what? I'm actually going to read a quote from one of our members because it's so irrelevant to this. No Math Dragon on Twitch said, I'm still trying to figure out how Ukraine found out about an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea. Ukraine is several hundred miles from the Caspian Sea.

That was some great shooting. That's such a smart point. Because how in the world did they get that intelligence? They got it from Israel, right? So Israel is expanding the war, Netanyahu's ecstatic, and even Trump's biggest allies, people who are literally willing to fight me physically over supporting Trump, are now saying impeach him. Yeah. So this is an amazing turn of events.

It is, and I'm glad that when it comes to these types of issues, Alex Jones has decided to go back to his principles. These are the right principles to have. And by the way, the surveillance state is real, and it is coming for us. All right, Operation Joy is next. We're gonna talk about the Galapagos. That's what we're gonna do. Don't miss it. Are a snake.

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