C (3:37)

It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. In my opinion. If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.

A (3:46)

President Trump's point there is that energy is national security, both because the countries that have reliable energy have more national security, but also because of situations like Russia and Ukraine where European countries cannibalized all of their own fossil fuels, forcing them to buy energy from Russia, which has then supported Russia's war in Ukraine. President Trump made that point very, very thoroughly in his remarks, but he also talked about immigration in these European countries.

C (4:17)

Europe is in serious trouble. They've been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens are poor pouring into Europe.

A (4:28)

President Trump spent considerable time on that issue of mass migration in European countries where crime has risen in large part due to unchecked immigration. In some of these larger cities, there are horrific stories, whether it's from London, Paris, anywhere else, about the problems that have come with this. But. But a counter to President Trump's remarks specifically on energy came from UN Secretary General. Fossil fuels are a losing bet. We must focus on two urgent priorities, cutting emissions and achieving climate justice. Now, I don't want to show too much of Gutierrez because I think everything he says is actually a little bit dumb. But let's begin with some of the points that he made about fossil fuels being a losing bet. Now, what President Trump just outlined about how fossil fuels and bad fossil fuel policy due to climate change hysteria is what is driving the, the worst conflict in the world right now, which is in Russia and Ukraine. Bad climate policies defanged Europe's ability to actually fight back against Putin and put them in a position of funding his war machine. But Gutierrez also talks about climate justice, which is a really absurd, cartoonish phrase. It doesn't actually mean anything because when you consider that so many of these climate change policies that are getting rid of reliable energy are leading to things like people in France dying from heat exhaustion cause they can't use their air conditioner because they're worried about their ESG that are being overseen and virtue signaled from groups like the UN but also, as you hear Gutierrez talk about climate change, he's not talking about any actual change to the climate. He talks about victory in terms of amounts of investment, how much they've been able to guilt developed countries like the United States and European countries into giving to the UN to then try and push climate agenda nonsense around the world. They have stopped focusing on actual outcomes in terms of changing the climate and simply on amassing as much capital as possible to try and enforce their political agenda. There were two other things that President Trump said that really turned heads. First, he was asked what NATO countries should do if Russian aircrafts enter their airspace. Here's that clip.

B (6:36)

Do you think that NATO countries should.

A (6:38)

Shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?

C (6:42)

Yes, I do.

A (6:43)

My other favorite part is France, Canada, the United Kingdom, a bunch of other countries decided that that they wanted to recognize a Palestinian state, which President Trump and a number of other leaders have pointed out is essentially giving Hamas and the terrorists what they want. While President Trump was sitting right next to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, he was asked that specific question, and here's what he said.

C (7:06)

Well, I think it honors Hamas. And you can't do that because of October 7th. October 7th was one of the most savage days in the history of the world. There's never been anything like that. We're talking about babies being sliced in half. You're talking about young children having their heads chopped off.

A (7:26)

In case you were unaware, it's Climate Week. Happy Climate Week, everybody. And to celebrate Climate Week, I want to talk about a story from the New York Post. $2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money, never lived up to its promises. Imagine that. In 2011, the United States Department of Energy under President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project. And the Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, hailed it as an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy. Fast forward 12 years, and this solar project, like so many others, is actually a perfect example of why throwing tens or Hundreds of billions of dollars at green projects that often enrich Democrat donors and is a bad idea. As President Trump talked about at the UN Climate alarmism has become one of the most effective money laundering schemes we have seen in modern history. Happy climate week. The Hill first reported on Gen Z voter data. Democratic registration among young white men fell from 49% to 29%. Now we know President Trump, along with great voices like Charlie Kirk, put a ton of emphasis into activating the these younger Gen Z voters. And so that is a large part of what we're seeing here. But we're also seeing across the board. Voters generally are not impressed with what they're seeing from Democrats. Here's Reuters Ipsos which party has a better plan on crime, Republicans have a 20 point advantage. On immigration, Republicans have an 18 point advantage. On foreign conflicts, a 12 point advantage. On the economy. It's the economy stupid. Republicans have a 10 point advantage on corruption, Republicans have a six point advantage on on gun control, a four point advantage. And on political extremism, a four point advantage. So again, normally at this time in a presidency, voters across the board are beginning to say we're a little antsy. We're kind of looking at the other party at this moment. But because Republicans have advantages on so many of these core issues, particularly the economy, again we are looking at a very different midterm cycle than what President Trump experienced in his first term and and so many other presidents. As we've talked about before on 10 minute drill, the issue of men and women's sports, men and women's bathrooms, men and women's locker rooms has become an animating issue in the November gubernatorial race. Again here in Virginia, an incident that happened on Wednesday at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County. Now again, Fairfax county is so often ground zero for all of these cases. A 14 year old girl entered the girls locker room to change into gym clothes for pe. A male with facial hair stood inside the locker room watching girls change. The 14 year old girl told a teacher. The teacher said there was nothing she could do. The daughter called her mother who called school administrators. She told them the problem and was told that she would get a call back. She never did. They stopped taking her calls. Other parents of young girls began calling, concerned about their own daughter's well being. School administrators suggested first that if girls were uncomfortable, they could use a different facility like a unisex bathroom. Administrators told parents there was nothing they would do to stop the boy from being in the girls locker rooms. Eventually, the school shortened the time for girls to get ready for PE so that the boy could be in there. Days later, administrators noted that there was nothing they could do because that male identified as a female. You'll note that there was never an effort to accommodate the concerns of these women. All efforts were made to accommodate this male. Now, this male was photographed in the bathroom just standing in there like a pervert watching them change. And the administrators continued to say there was nothing they would do to protect these girls. Now this has become an animating issue that Abby Spanberger, the Democrat candidate in Virginia, has tried to avoid like the plague. Here is reporter Nick Minock trying to get an answer from her on these policies. Do you support biological males who say they're women using women's locker rooms and bathrooms and competing in women's sports?

B (11:33)

Well, the circumstance, as this legal case plays out, is really one of we've had court cases settled or judged here.

A (11:42)

In Virginia that sounded a little bit like a classic Kamala Harris word salad. But Nick Minock tried again to get an answer from her Congresswoman, do you support these bathroom and locker room. Why can't you answer these questions directly now when staff are working that hard to prevent a reporter from asking a question which should be the most predictable question in this election cycle. You know that the Democrats have an issue on their hands. On Tuesday, we had the great joy of previewing for you some of our favorite early excerpts from of Kamala Harris new book. 107 days this week began her media tour where she is answering questions about the book and doing just as well as I think we all would have expected. First, here is her on Rachel Maddow getting asked what we all would have expected to be the first question any reporter would ask, which was specifically about her acknowledgement or her suggestion that Mayor Pete was too gay to serve on her presidential ticket. To say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay is hard to hear.

B (12:46)

No, no, no, that's not what I said.

A (12:48)

As with many of the interview moments when Kamala Harris is presented with excerpts of her own writing in a book that she just published this week, it sounds a little bit like she hasn't read it. No, I think that there's more to it. She's got more to explain than that. But the deer in the headlights there is very shocking. Let's go back to that.

B (13:07)

Pete is a phenomenal, phenomenal public servant, and I think America is and would be ready for that. Also the fact that it might have been a risk.

A (13:24)

So that's a tough scene. What Kamala is trying to say there is it's not her that thought that Pete was too gay to be on her presidential ticket. It's the voters that she thinks would think that Pete is too gay. I think what we all really recognize here is that Kamala was consistently worried about anyone else's star power or anyone else's identity politics outshining her own. But another thing was picked up by Jesse Waters, which was specifically her defense of why she lost a president of.

B (13:54)

The United States running for reelection. Current sitting president is running for reelection. Running for reelection.

A (14:02)

So what Jesse identified here is the fact that like every appearance from theater kid Kamala Harris, there's a script and there's an answer that she wanted to get out there. Let's see a little bit more of that.

B (14:13)

With 107 days to go. With 107 days. With 107 days to go. And it ended up being the closest presidential election in the 21st century.

A (14:25)

Now, again, I want to highlight that 107 days point. Even the title of this book, 107 Days, is in itself an excuse. So as you're asking, why is she doing this? As every Democrat who's watching her do this and picking off scabs and sort of reopening wounds that they're trying to move past why she's out there doing this, it is one large, gigantic excuse. But here's Harry Antin on what people actually think of her in this entire exercise. She is not well liked at this particular point. The American people, they don't want this.

C (14:57)

They don't.

A (14:57)

They don't want her. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 minute drill. Please, like, subscribe, review, leave us. Review, Tell your friends, have a great day.