B (58:24)
Well, I guess the. The thing that I would. I guess, kind of disagree with here is that. And look, it's not. He's. He is broadly right in his comments here, and Van Jones gets a thing. A thing or two. Right. Every now and then. But there is a. I mean, he gets a lot more wrong. But there is something, particularly for a Democrat Kamala Harris supporter, there is something like going like, well, you know, the Trump cult couldn't even go far. And you're like, okay, but actually, what you're seeing is evidence that it's not a cult. Like, it's a little bit of a. You know, I've always kind of. Yeah, it's like the. It's. It's like the defense where they go, like, see, even you had to admit that was right. It's like, no, in other words, he admitted it was right. Like, oh, you're such a cult. But actually, I got to say, there's always been this accusation that Trump supporters are a cult. And look, it is true to some degree. And me and you have talked about this quite a bit. I mean, there are Trump supporters who, like, no matter how much you have them on the argument, no matter how much they agree with your argument. They'll still defend, you know, Donald Trump for whatever, just because that's their guy and they're going to ride with him. But, like, Van Jones is so much more in a cult than any Trump supporter has ever been for Donald Trump. All those guys, those guys would literally sit there and tell you. And, you know, obviously we've discussed this before on the show, but I always find it interesting to see a Democrat on CNN talking about a cult. And you're like, guys, you literally said the sitting senile president was sharp as attack. And everyone on your side repeated after you, sharp as attack, sharp as attack. And then you went, he's so senile. He needs to drop out of the race. And they went, drop out of the race. He's got to drop out of the race. And then you went, kamala Harris is joy and inspiration. And they went, yes, joy and inspiration. She's like, like, who are you to call anyone else a cult? You know, say what you will about Donald Trump's side. We've at least seen, like, there are things he could say that they'll be like, no, we don't agree with that. And this does seem to be one of them. Now, what Van Jones does have right there, and this is why I compared it to the. The thing at the beginning. Although, to be fair, Van Jones is admitting it. He's not denying it. But it's like what Van Jones gets right here is what the Obama speechwriter lady and Mark Levin and all of them get completely wrong. You know, I. I had a moment on the trigonometry podcast where they were asking me why the young leftists are. Are so against what Israel did to Gaza. And they start theorizing and they're like, you know, I forget exactly what they said. It's, you know, it was a long conversation. But there's something like, they start theorizing about, like, Qatari money or kind of like the leftist worldview of oppressor versus oppressed. And they see the Israelis as the whites and they see the Palestinians as the dispossessed brown people or something like that. And then at a certain point, I just went, yeah, and they've probably seen a lot of videos of Palestinian babies being tortured to death. There's just like this weird pause like, yeah, that might have had something to do with it, too. Like, yeah, maybe that's it. It's like people going like, why are people so up in arms? Well, there's the obvious. There's the obvious. I mean, it's like, I Don't know. It's like you come home and you find your wife in bed with another man and you're furious. And then people are going, you think he's furious because like he had a bad day at work, maybe he didn't get good sleep the morning before you go. I'm pretty sure it's the thing he just walked in on that seems much more reasonable. And so like, why is it it that supporting Israel has cost Donald Trump so much and cost Joe Biden so much and cost Kamala Harris so much? Why is it that Donald Trump covering up the Epstein files is cost him so much politically? Well, like, what do you need? What do we need to lay down on the couch and bring in a psychoanalyst to go over our childhood memories or something like that? It's because, look, it's too indefensible on the face of it. Yes, as Van Jones said, a gigantic conspiracy to cover up pedophilia. Do you need more than that, by the way? There is more than that if you need, but like, do you need more than that? I think that's, that's more than enough and that is not going away. And then I guess the other thing is that, you know, which, like, as we've mentioned before, is that it almost at this point, I don't see any way that this story goes away. I don't see like the best case scenario for the regime is that they deliver now some documents and there's nothing in there that gives us any more information or connects the dots. That's the best case scenario for the regime and for the people who are trying to suppress this story if that happens. I mean, I think precisely zero percent. And I don't even mean like there's a rounding error there. And statistically it's zero percent. I mean zero. I do not think there is one person in the world who is suspicious about this Jeffrey Epstein story, who if the government were to now release information that said there's nothing there, would go, well, I guess there was a nothing burger. It looked pretty good, but it was, you know, like there's just no way. And look, I mean the, the, this White House has already, not just this White House, but very specifically, Rob, this Justice Department has already completely discredited themselves on this issue by having a big event where they said we were releasing the Epstein file, calling in like right wing influencers, giving them a bunch of binders claiming they were the Epstein files. Like they claimed that we were about to get basically like they were doing almost it Seemed like they were trying to like, imitate what Elon Musk did with the Twitter files, where he gave it to Barry Weiss and, and, and what's his name? I'm sorry, Blanking on his Rolling Stone. Matt Taibbi. I apologize to Matt Taibi and, and said, okay, now you guys can like, report on this as you go. Dig through the documents. They did that, except it turned out none of them were new files. They had just given them stuff that was already a part of the public record. So now. And then they turned around and pretended non. And the story's dead. So now if they put it like, it's still. It's just not going to satisfy anyone. No one trusts them at all anymore. And so the only way that, like, the only conceivable way that I could see them putting this story to bed would be like, if Cash Patel himself or like Donald Trump himself, like, got out a blackboard and went through the entire history of Jeffrey Epstein and went, here's actually the answer for every one of these things. Like, how did he get into this elite school, Dalton, without any background or degree and become a teacher there? Okay, well, here's actually the answer for that. Like, why was it Bill Barr's father who hired him at Dalton? That's pretty weird. Okay, well, here's actually the answer for that. How did he rise up the ranks at Bear Stearns so quickly? Okay, here's actually the answer for that. How. How did he become friends with Ehud Barack? Like, how did he. You know what I'm saying? Like, how did he have. Like, you'd have to go through this entire thing and have a really compelling answer for all of these crazy. Which there's no way they're going to do. None. None of them are capable of doing that. And so, I don't know, you just go. Essentially, the way you look at it, either we're going to. Either we're going to get some information out of this that's more damning, or we're all going to stay exactly where we are right now. And correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just trying to be reasonable here, and I don't think it's unreasonable after, with this administration's track record and just the government's track record in general to go, whatever you put out now, if there's nothing there, we're just going to think you're full of shit because you've lied to us about the last 30 crises or so. Final word to you, Rob, and then we'll wrap up.